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MEWS OF FARMS See Agricultural Page In Want Ad Section See State Fair Car Bargains in ths Want Ads 1 ff" DM MOINES TR1BUNB SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1932. SECTION SIX IOWA SECTION BUM MB urn Polk County Holiday Men and Milk Producers Fail to AvreeM DESIGNED fdpp PDPniT iiniPTOnnim I i rvrvrv y-x i -ri mi Trx Tfc IU I I1LL U11LUII MAitnti rersons uut tor Fairs Thrill Day Despite nam cnu ctatpq mi iiia iiaiiiii i I Ull UinlLU PLAN5 UoUAL See Terrific Smashup of Rail Engines Will Release Share of Billion to Aid Home Owner. DELIVERY HERE STEER OWNED BY SIGOURNEY BOY, 15, WINS 1 i 3 Pickets on Highway Attendance 63 Say They Will Halt Trucks. Failure of the Farm Holiday as- Pes Moines has been chosen aa the site for one of the 12 banks which will be operated under ths federal home loan bank board, it was announced Saturday night in Washington, D. C.

Other banks will be located in Cambridge, Newark, N. Pittsburgh, Winston-Salem, N. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, iocation and the Des Moines Co 1932 1931 Wednesday 5.729 7,094 Thursday 8.439 12,057 Friday 55,734 69,286 Saturday 45.256 84.952 1932 1981 operative Dairy Marketing associ-alion to reach an agreement Evanston, Little Rock, Takes Championship at Fair's Baby Beef Show. By J. S.

Russell. (The ReauUrn Tirm Editor Billy Yates, 15, of Sigourney won the grand championship of the 1932 Iowa state fair baby beef permitting milk to be hauled into Des Moines brought the first day Topeka, Portland, Total to date 115,158 and Los Angeles, Cal. of peaceful picueung in roiK County to a close Saturday. Fortv-five thousand visitors to Although J. H.

Mason, manager of the milk producers, said fol the Iowa state fair got the thrill they were seeking Saturday after show with his Hereford steer, lowing the conference aaiuraay that no plan had been agreed upon to insure delivery of milk noon when two locomotives, trav. "Chubby." The reserve championship went to Dale Weatphalen of Atlantic, winner of the 1931 championship, eling at a high rata of speed to the city, members of the co crashed into flaming, twisted operative board of directors said late Saturday that truck drivers on his Shorthorn steer. had been ordered to make the masses. Two spectators were injured when pieces of wood and metal were hurled into the air as a re deliveries as usual this morning Weighs 1,020 Pounds. The grand champion Hereford 1'lan of Pickets.

mil. ii i-in ii it -lir sult of the explosion of a boiler on one of the engines. Pickets on Highway No. 63 said Aid For Home Owner. The banks will serve as working machinery for the recently passed home loan law, which is designed to release approximately $1,800,000,000 to loosen credit involving home loan mortgage paper.

In announcing the selection of the sites the home loan board said it felt it to be Its duty to locate the banks in states whose institutions were legally authorized to purchase stock. Books to Be Opened. The board also said that with the sites chosen, its next active ity would be to make arrangements for opening subscription books for stock. This it plans to do, in the immediate future. ''As a second policy," the statement said, "the board felt that there were a sufficient number of eligible and available cities steer weighed 1,020 pounds and was exactly a year old when he left home to enter the competition here.

He was heavier and carrying that at midnight they would be gin to turn back all milk trucks Woman Injured. Mrs. Kenneth Myers, Alexander, who was seeing the fair as snd trucks bearing farm produce r-" lit ttmmm 1, more finish than either the Short The dairy association itself, op horn shown by the Atlantic boy cr the champion Angus, shown by (rated by farmers, is one of the largest distributors of milk in the part of her honeymoon trip, suffered a severe scalp wound when struck by a piece of wood. Jack Daniels of Adair. city and has contracts with She was able to walk to the hos treat number of milk producers in Hereford Strong.

The Herefords figured strong in the county. Four directors of the pital, where her wound was association were in conference dressed. Mrs. Myers was stand the winning Saturday. Five steers with representatives of the holi of that breed from Marshall coun ing 150 feet from the crash when injured.

Photo br Merton McParlmd, Resnter ttatf photogmpber. ment the two huge engines crashed. Note the pieces of iron and wood in the air. Steam and smoke blanketed the scene after the crash. day group from 10 a.

m. until This picture of the train wreck staged Saturday afternoon before the grandstand at the Iowa state fair as the climax of the "Thrill Day" program was taken at the mo- ty won the grand championship in county groups. 6.30 p. m. outside of the federal reserve and At 8 p.

m. Saturday, the mar Police Bark I'p Crowd. Marvin Frincham, 2628 Raccoon The reserve championship went federal land bank cities to en ketine association directors and to Johnson county on its Short the holiday association held meet horn group. Budget Cuts able It to carry out a further distribution and decentralization of the major financial instrumen JURY TO START Ings of their own during which Summary Somewhat less spectacular but none the less spirited was the fi the situation was discussed, 400 Picket. st, Des Moines, suffered slight cuts on his nose and one arm when hit by a piece of flying metal.

He was 'given first aid at the Red Cross hospital and released. Frln-dham was 300 feet away from the collision. nal selection of champions in the 4-H club lamb show. George At the Fair With Phil Stong PICKET PROBE Ease Drain on Iowa Pockets talities set up by the government." Iowa's Secend Agency. Awarding of the home loan bank The number of pickets guard Brown of Grinnell won the grand Ing the roads reached 400 during the afternoon.

They took their posts early Saturday. Rain drove championship on a Shropshire ram lamb. For more than an hour police Robbery Charges Seen to Des Moines gives Iowa its second administration credit worked frantically to push back The reserve championship was them to cover and as night fell the thrill-seeking crowd about the at Council Bluffs. won by Wendell Weidlcin of Web tracks, and it was nearly p. Millions of dollars will be saved for Iowa taxpayers as a result of an economy movement which has ster tv on hra champion ewe pickets dropped away to return to their farms for the evening work, and by midnight about 60 before the event could be staged The Pottawattamie county grand lamb, a Hampshire.

Jury Tuesday will take up investi A feature of the selection of without running undue chances. Vast Turnout. were on the roads. spread to nearly every county eation of picketing in Pottawat Officials of the Des Moines Co grand champion, of the baby beef show was the fact that two lads city and school district in the state in the drafting of 1933 tamie county, County Attorney operative Dairy Marketing asso who previously had shown grand ciation, which supplies 80 per The vast turnout was there to see th collision. An all-morning's rain had dampened the clothing Bert L.

Dickason said Saturday Council Bluffs. champions at a state fair baby beef show were in the ring striv cent of the milk supply of the city of Des Moines, denied any connection with the farm holiday budgets. While no accurate figures will be available for weeks, in some but not the spirits of fair visitors Information as to the identity of ing to repeat. It was announced recently that the Agricultural Regional Credit Corp. would establish a bank In Sioux City, la.

Selection of Des Moines as tha home of one of the 12 banks followed a spirited campaign launched several weeks ago by De Moines business and civic organizations. In Eighth District. The home loan bank will serve the eighth district in the 12 established under terms of the law. The district includes Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Missouri. The facts that Des Moines is Fair officials declared that all attendance records would have movement after their night meet pickets and their acts is being collected by Sheriff Percy Lain- sources a $3,000,000 slash in the Two-Time Winner.

Dale Westphalen of Atlantic Ing. Present Contract. been broken except for the inclem ent weather. total of Iowa's 99 county budgets son and the county attorney, they Cass county 4-H boy who won the Phil Stonq, author of ''State Fair" and former Register reporter, is, in hit own words, "haung a u-nnie of a fime" in Ioua aiding a tound picture crew from Hollywood, in getting background "shots" for the film version of his novel. When he worked on The Register he wrote a column of comment during the state fair.

It was while thtis occupied that he got the material and tn.i;)ira-fion for his best selling story. Purely for the enjoyment it affords him, he has agreed to write a series of columns for The Register during the fair. This is the first. Others will appear during the week. Stong's novel is running in The Sunday Register magazine section.

By Phil Stong. is estimated as a conservative figure. President Arthur G. Davis of Developments In the farm holiday movement Saturday were: J. The De Moines Co-operative Dairy Marketing association, through its president, Arthur Davis, disclaimed responsibility for picketing or withholding milk from the Des Moines market, 2.

Farmers holiday pickets who began Saturday with 400 had dropped to about 80 Saturday night. S. Grand Jury investigation of pickets, of whom only 100 remained aftfr rain Saturday, was planned by Pottawattamie county authorities In Council Bluffs. 4. Milk (rucks were allowed to enter Sioux City aa the result of signing of a new contract between producers and distributors.

Blockade maintained on other products. 5. Omaha planned conference to raise milk embargo. 6. WaltnUI, farmers voted Friday night to lift ban on marketing of cream, butter, eggs and other farm produce.

7. Governor Green of South Dakota Invited governors of 15 states to meet for discussion of situation with a view to Inflation of farm prices. Governor Turner said he was willing to attend. purple ribbon here last year, was said. Hoover, Roosevelt.

Valley Junction called attention trying to repeat and set a record as a two-time winner. He showed to the fart that under the pres 9 Million Drop Seen. Add to this the thousands which Specific Charges. 'We will attempt to obtain in One engine which participated in the spectacle, hauling tender and passenger coach, started from the champion Shorthorn this year. ent contract which his associaion has with distributors the producer dictments of some pickets on his victory last year having been attained on a calf of the same the west end of the grounds and receives $1.90 per hundred for have been cut from school, city and town budgets, and the saving to taxpayers may ultimately ap charges of robbery with aggrava breed.

steadily gathering speed, crashed headon with a similarly equipped tion and petty and grand Robert Stanley of Earlham centrally located in the district, and that it is first among the major cities in the United States train descending a hill from the County Attorney Dickason de proach the $9,563,715 drop which taxes took in Iowa from 1931 to 1932. who showed an Angus calf to the (Continued on Page 4.) HIRTH AGAINST east. clared. "in connection with the grand championship two years The eastbound train was lettered in home ownership, are thought to have been contributing factors in its selection. confiscation of produce from farm Only in rare instances do 1933 ago, was back again this year with another black steer.

He had "Roosevelt" and the westbound era seeking: to pass through the budgets show an increase and in such cases the increases "in the Selection of quarters for ths picket lines." to be content with a reserve cham A bad penny always turns up HOLIDAY PLAN 'Hoover." Leap to Safety. The "Hoover" train was manned The Iowa code, the county at bank here has not been made, nor it was in 1924 I last covered main are due to the necessity of adding to poor funds, coupled with has any of the personnel been torney pointed out, makes; it a special duty of the grand Jury to pionship in the breed competition, however, the Angus championship having been awarded to an entry by Arthur Daniels of Adair. obligations falling due which must be met. by Engineer Mike Veres of Aurora, 111., and W. E.

Boemen of Des Inquire into obstruction of high Missouri Farm Leader To Aid Rediscounting. The campaign to locate the bank ways." Moines, fireman. Operating the Urges Use of Ballot. Complaint. Bilty Vates a Victor.

The Hereford championship and Teachers' Pay Cut. The desire for economy in gov Roosevelt" were E. L. Bias of Des here, sponsored first by the Des Moines, engineer, and J. T.

Rix 'I have received approximately COLUMBIA, MO. William reserve championship went to entries from southeastern Iowa. Moines Real Estate board, was backed strongly by the Chamber of Des Moines, fireman. the state fair for The Register, with a series of stupid little notes about people and things along the midway, and a magnificent series of articles on the horse show. I attribute the classic character of the horse show articles to Harry Youngerman, brother of Rose Youngerman, who explained to me which was the stern and which the bow of a horse and supplied me with a list of adjectives which ernmental affairs, that the individual taxpayer may obtain at Hirth, president of the Missouri 50 telephone calls," Sheriff Lam-son said Saturday, "from persons Tying down throttles and whis rnrmers association, which oper- least some relief in his assess of Commerce and the Greater Dei Moines committee.

FORMALDEHYDE tles, the four daring trainmen complaining of treatment accorded 'e elevators and exchanges in them by pickets who are stopping ment, has led to a general reduction in teachers' salaries that will The bank here, along with oth 4ft0 Missouri towns, issued a state leaped to safety after the engines had gathered momentum. Billy Yates of Sigourney showed the champion whitcface while reserve championship went to Ernest Hanna of Batavia. The reserve champion Shorthorn was shown bv Clair Halter of Hills, and searching automobiles. hient to the press Saturday night approximate nearly 10 per cent in While picketing was continued USED IN HOLDUP ers in the group, will afford ths building and loan associations and other agencies making home loans expressing doubt that the farm the state as a whole. Saturday at' Council Bluffs, the Crowd Gasps.

The crowd gasped with anticipa holiday movement will succeed. could fittingly be applied to horse This salary slash has spread to place where they can get home tion as the two 225.000-pound blockade was not so tighUy drawn and a cold rain drove many pickets to cover. Not more than 100 were performance. county employes, city employes and laborers. mortgage paper rediscounted.

Bandit Breaks Bottle masses of iron and steel sped to ne said, however, that if he ''It the movement had a fair thanee to achieve iU objective by Peaceful means, he would gladly ward one another. believed to be keeping up the vigill in Drug Store. Benefit to Depositors. Among other' benefits the banks At the top of their speed, the: Ax Takes Broad Swipe. Governmental officials, urged on on the roads leading to the Coun The adjectives have since slipped my memory but it is a matter of pride with me that I can take a single glance at a horse, point with absolute certainty, and say.

A bottle of formaldehyde aided will make it possible for building Johnson county. The champion individual and group were selected by Clete Jor-don of Ottumwa and Prof. H. Kildee of Iowa State college. Otto V.

Battles of Yakima, but formerly of Jackson county, Iowa, was Angus Judge, Prof. R. 8. Stephenson of Ames, placed the Shorthorns and B. M.

Anderson of Kansas City, the Herefords "er the movement his utmost encouragement. As an alternative, lie suggests use of the ballot box by citizens tax committees and bandits in robbing Archie Nutt's and loan associations to pay out cil Bluffs and Omaha market. Considerable produce and livestock was passing through. civic organizations, have wielded drug store at 1554 E. Walnut st.

engines crashed with a roar. The boiler on the "Hoover" blew up, hurling out metal for yards, while the cab on the "Roosevelt" was crushed like an eggshell as the funds to depositors. "That is the front of the horse!" and escaping Saturday night with the economy ax in many sections Briefly, it will provide a reserve 'n November. Farm Belt Chairman. of the state.

Harry was a good teacher and a all the money and checks in the agency where building and loan as- Disregards Pact. The Atlantic Dairy Co. of Oma cash register. Road construction funds have good horse show manager. (Continued on Page 7.) (Continued on Page 7.) Mr.

Hirth, who claims his asso Nutt, a clerk and a customer. ha, through Attorney Henry Mon- been cut, court cost estimates lowered, supply purchase monev cur Johnson county won two group Clarence Johnson, 1540 Capitol ciation is the strongest co-operate in any state, la chairman of ky, tossed a bombshell into Mayor tailed and in some places positions One of the most amazing things about the midway, and about every midway and circus, is the horrid Grand Champion Baby Beef were in the store when the bahdits entered. One of the L. Metcalfe's Omaha peace conference between producers and dispensed with. strangers grabbed a bottle of for ne Lorn Belt committee and has "Mi associated In several farm ttermcnt movements with Milo o.

president of the National 'jam Holiday movement, Hlrth's poster art. Anyone cah tell a Goya from a Rosa Bonheur, or a John Held drawing from a Ding SKAMaMMMHH 1 1 saf'y S'-fTTf Avoid "Red." Many governmental units are be maldehyde from the shelf and broke it on the floor. distributors by announcing Saturday afternoon it would disregard an agreement to pay the producers $2 instead of $1.45 a hundred ing forced to inaugurate their cartoon. But for generation after generation, hundreds, and perhaps Slugs Druggist. While the fumes filled the store.

i 1 1 championships with a first on both Shorthorn and mixed groups. Shelby county placed first in the Angus and Marshall the Hereford group. Hotel Bondholders Group to Be Formed DAVENPORT, IA. An attempt to form a committee representing holders of first mortgage 6 per cent sinking fund gold bonds of the Blackhawk Hotels weight for milk. economy programs Immediately in order to approach the next fiscal year without finding their funds follows: If the so-called 'farmers strike' 'hich has gripped certain Iowa thousands, of artists, have used The agreement, Monsky said, one of the men slugged Nutt while another, with his fists, knocked 'in the red." The slogan for nearly every during recent days, "1 which threatens to spread to "'her states, had a fair chance to would result in an increase of from 8 to 9 cents a quart for bottled milk.

The changes are to become effective at once. The Ncbraska- the same line and color to show the dog-headed boy and the sword-swallower. This might be merely imitation down Johnson and the clerk and dragged them behind a counter, according ta- police. Iowa county seems to be "slash the budget" and supervisors, school boards and councils have eve its objective by peaceable Nutt did not know how much lowa Co-operative Milk associa "eans, i would gladly offer this in the handling of standard sub tion, through Attorney Jess P. money had been taken after the bandits walked out.

(Continued on Page 6.) my utmost encourage- jects, but when one sees a poster Corp. was announced Saturday In a letter sent to bondholders byj (Continued oo Page 4.) for God knows that in this on "Television," a wholly modern hou; the George M. Bechtel in when farm commodities will 9-Foot Ivory Tusk (Continued on Page 7.) which it was stated that the cor poratlon will be unable to pay FARM MISHAP waiy pay transportation costs to terminal markets the farmer's Position has become utterly desperate, and therefore be has Just the bond interest due Sept. 1. Found in Gravel Pit The Rtittter'i lows Newi Serrlct DENISON, IA.

Workmen tak njui io sixiKc as inaus- FATAL TO BOY trial The robbery was one of four holdups in which at least $84 was taken. Three of them were drug store robberies. Robbed of $50. O. Devine, clerk at the Arrow drug store at 3506 University was robbed of $50 in the store.

F. S. Paxton was robbed of $16 In his drug store at 1401 E. Ninth -t. Ed Stanley, 1201 Windsor reported that a bandit Jumped on his car and robbed him of $18.

i workers would have in simi- lar tircumstan, ing gravel from the state pit west of the corporate limits of Dcni-son unearthed a nine-foot ivory tusk Friday. Kills Self in Hospital. CTfw Io Newt Servlot DAVENPORT, IA. Herman Stahl, 77, father of Hugo Stahl, vice president of the Home Savings bank here, committed suicide by hanging Saturday at Mercy U. S.

Salaries The Sunday Register today prints a list of United States treasury department employe in Iowa and the salaries they receive. This list will be found on page 8 of the Want Ad section. 'In thi connection, the picture hich has confronted our nation BOONE. IA. Harold Siglin.

When they discovered the huge 1, son of Joshua Siglin, well the last "stoimdir; two years is a one -m the one tusk it was all in one piece but was so soft that it broke In known farmer near here, was fatally injured Saturday hen he fell Billy Yates of Sigourney, with his grand champion baby beef. The Hereford steer answers to the name of Chubby, weighs 1,020 pounds and Is a jear old. hospital where he had been since pieces when bandied. (Continued on Page 4.) Wednesday. beneath manure spreader..

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