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ft) trMIAMIOKLA TUESDAY AUGUST 5 1930 iRiorc 1 Survey of 'Affected Local MISSOURI BALLOTING 4 "i to WEATHER ORECAST pm ire Set by Lightning Rate Question Linked to Conferences at Southampton pm pTYL Saw Out of Cell Block Over power Jailer Take $51 and lee to Highway arm Relief Is Issue in Kansas Where Governor ship Race Is Bitter UTILITIES SEEN AS 1932 ISSUE Railroads Measures to ing Bring Relief toSome Sections WASHgW: ifc1 no stone would be left untUrmsSj the government in its effort to as sist in relieving distress caused by the unprecedented drouth The seriousness of the situation in a wide area east of the Mississ ippi and in the Middle West has beep the subject of conferences be tween Mr Hoover and Secretary Hyde The result was to order a detailed survey made by the De partment of Agriculture which will have a report next Monday President Hoover said: drouth situation has been the subject of several conferences between Secretary Hyde Chairman Legge and myself The Department of Agriculture has undertaken a detailed survey of the situation They will report next Monday upon the condition in each area in the country The information so far in dicates great variation in the effect of the drouth both as be tween states between counties in those states and even between farms in the same counties 'can be no doubt as to its most serious character in many lo calities and that unless relieved there will be real suffering The maximum intensity seems to lie ina belt roughly following the Po tomac the Ohio and the Mississip pi rivers measures of assistance that the farm board and the other agen cies of the federal government can and should undertake are being de termined is evident already that large measures of feed movement to livestock in the drouth areas or movement of animals out of the worst areas will need be undertak en later in the fall It is too qarly to determine the precise character of relief much depends upon the future spread of the drouth but no stone will be left unturned by the federal government in giving assistance to local authorities I have asked the railways to investi gate the situation from a transpor tation point of WE ESCAPE JAIL IN VINITA 5 4 AUTHOR DIES PALO ALTO Cal Aug Iff) Isabella Alden 88 year old author of more than 120 books and known to her public as died here today She had been ill for sofiie time Here Is Light Effectkfly Down pours Soak Parts of Nebraska and Iowa OKLAHOMA CITY Aug UP) Hall president of Hall Briscoe Inc Chickasha and Okla homa City oil operators today an nounced the sale of his and Mrs 50 percent interest in the holdings to the Kess ler Oil company for $1000000 Powell Briscoe secretary treas urer of the company and Mrs Briscoe who own the other 50 per cent of the stock are not selling their interest Announcement of the sale created much surprise in local oil circles as the Hall Briscoe partnership had become as proverbial af Damon and Pythias The two swooped down on Oklaho ma City in an airplane an hour or two after the big discovery well in the South City field was brought in Dec 4 1928 and obtained a good foothold The company organised at Chickasha in 1924 when the two families each put $50000 into the pot for the $100000 capital Their first operations were the drilling of several gas wells which later were sold to the Lone Star Gas companyof for $800000 4 Otta af 1M7 a Stnat Nmhtut' TAX SCHEME DEBATED Speaking in Tulsc Denies His Plan Would Burden Industry 5 LEWISTON Ida Aug Iff) An army of fire fighters was held ready for action today in the forest areas in northern Idaho where at least 36 fires were set by lightning yesterday' With telephone lines down and trails destroyed by heavy wind storms accompanying the light ning fordst officials depended mostly upon long distance observa tion to scout the blazes Three fires were put out but others were said to be spreading k'' Information from the largest fire in the area the Coolwater blaze in the Selway Rational for est was lacking because of dis rupted communication but it was feared wind had fanned the 2 Of 0 acre conflagration beyond control lines Conimunists Wound Ameri can Sailor and Three They Are Silenced A SHANGHAI (M Sto ries of torture ahd other violence involving women missionaries Cli jnaxed today's reports from the areas infested with communists and bandits British consular authorities at oochow reported desperadoes had chopped a finger from the hand of a British woman missionary at Kienyang norther ukien province and sent the severed digit to pro vincial officials at Yepming along with a demand for $50000 ransom for the missionary and her com panion both of whom had been held captive for more than a month The message from the despera does said the other fing ers would be chopped off and sent as evidence of the seriousness of the ransom demand unless payment were forthcoming immediately Captured While leeing The captives are Misg Edith Net tleton and Miss Edith Harrison of the British Church Missionary so ciety withheadquarters in London They were seized while traveling from Chungan toward Yenping in an attempt to escape from the dan ger area One American and three British sailors were wounded when com munists attacked foreign gunboats on the Siahg river near Changsha belated dispatches from the Hu nan province capital disclosed The i American bluejacket was shot through the chbst yesterday when machine gunners sprayed' the sides of the United States gunboat Paloswith lead for the second time in a week The Pa los quickly silenced the' communist fire dispatches said Details of the wounding of the British sailors were lacking but it was known they were members of the crew: of the British gunboat Teal ive sailors on the Palos were wounded last? Wednesday when communists "fifed1 aCllie gunboat asit approached 'Charigsha to ob serve 'conditions after had looted and burned mhny sections of that wealthy city ifty bandits were killed and many wounded as the Palos replied with machine guns and three inch rifles Dispatches said the latest com munist attacks upon foreign gun boats involved Japanese and Ital ian vessels as well as the Palos and Teal Eleven Warships at Scene Eleven warships including two American were concentrated today at the tri cities of Hankow Wu chang and Hanyang to protect for eigners against threatened incursions Hankow was virtually under martial law Chinese soldiers searched everyone on the streets and a volunteer defense corps was Organized by the rench communi ty lor emergency Other foreign quarters were: barricaded and guarded do prevent a duplication of scenes last week at Chagsha when foreign property valued at millions of dollars was destroyed by com munists Changsha Recaptured NANKING China Aug 5 Xff) is officially announced that Nationalist troops this morning re entered Changsha 'which recently was captured by communists Threaten to Shoot Women LONDON Aug Officialquarters in London today received a report that bandits had threaten ed: to shoot Miss Edith Nettleton English missionary or Miss Harrison unless a ransom of $50 000 was paid This news was con tained in a letter written in Chi nese signed by Miss Harrison stating that Miss fin ger had been cut off and was be ing sent in a letter demanding the ransom Whether'the finger was sent to the Chinese government or to the missionaries was not stated The British 1 consular authorities today were making efforts to have the Chinese authorities take in stant steps for the' release of the two women PAWHUSKA Okla Aug Iff) with murdering his brother Joe Montoe 20 ymirs old by running over him with Ai auto mobile red Monroe was held in the Osage county jail today awaiting a preliminary hear ing nekt week Three other youths Edgar Pep per and Joe Mendoka Indians and Raymond Smith were being held to face accessory charges in the kill ing and perjury charges growing out' of their testimony at a coro inquest The three are alleg ed to have helped Monroe place his body on railroad tracks near here The body of Joe Monroe sever ed by a train was found by the tracks July 11 A jury re turned a verdict of accidental death James Divine county attor ney said further investigation brought information that the brothers had quarreled on an auto mobile ride the night of July 10 and that red Monroe ran down his brother after the latter had left the car Light Vote in Congression al Races Is orecast Virginians Go to Polls (By the Associated Press) arm relief party regularity and prohibition were issues inter twined with primaries today in Kan sas Mssouri Virginia and West Virginia but for the most part the questions and candidates concern ed only voters within thd states Out in Kansas plagued by the drouth and low wheat prices Sen ator Henry Allen strong ad ministration supporter was seek ing the Republican nomination The contest for governor however in the state and out drew more at tention Gov Clyde Reed who thinks the ederal arm acreage reduction campaign foolish was opposed by rank Haucke legis lator legionnaire and farmer Haucke has charged the governor with attempting to undermine the affairs of the government He did not take direct issue with Reed on the wheat reduction matter Replies to Snyder Allen A Reed appointee is run ning for the remainder of Vice President unexpired term Ralph Snyder who thinks like Reed on wheat reduction has tried to make this an issue The senator replied he regretted that Chairman Legge of the farm board has failed to deal directly with the wheat emergency Senator Arthur Capper Republi can had no opposition for the nom ination for a third term Neither did Jonathan Davis Democratic senatorial candidate In Virginia where the fact that some Democrats did not support Alfred Smith Democratic nomi nee has not been forgotten Sena tor Carter Glass had no opposition for the Democratic senatorial nom ination The liquor question and rumb lings from the presidential cam paign were in contests for the house In the ifth district Rep Joseph Whitehead has been accused bjrlnsbpponeht Thomas Burch of giving Smith lackadaisi cal support ive Democrats were seeking the seat vacated by Rep Walton Moore in the Eighth district Only one State Senator rank Ball has been characterized by the Anti Saloon league as Light Missouri Vote Seen All 16 of Missouri's representa tives were asking to be sent back to Washington our Democrats who were swept off the political mountain by the Hoover avalanche also wanted their old seats in the House There was mare interest in the drouth than thefmect ion and an extremely light vote was expected ive candidates were seeking the Republican senatorial nomination in West Virginia They jumped into the race after Senator Goff de cided to retire The winner will op pose a former senator Neely in the November eection Senator Hatfield Republican had a hard time beating Neely in 1928? Prohibition only slightly tinged the contest although Benjamin Rosenbloom former representative favors modification of the Volstead act PRIMARY VOTE HELD TODAY IN OUR ST ATES Ottawa County Population38737 COMMERCE Aug 5 (Special) A lightning bolt from Monday thunderstorm struck the Oliver Jones hay barn south of town setting it ablaze and caus ing' a loss of about $1500 part of which was covered by insurance The barn confined 100 tons of baled hay and 200 bushels of oats in addition to small quantities of other feeds and some farm para phernalia No stock was lost The Picher fire department aided in preventing the fire from spread ing to other farm buildings nearby endangered by the strong south wind Mr Jones said the bolt apparent ly struck the barn in the middle and ignited hay all the way to the barn floor causing the blaze to break out in several places at once St Louisans Within 200 Hours of Record WASHINGTON Aug Maj Gen Douglas' McArthur tu day waS appointed chief of the army by President Hoovhr suc ceeding Gen? Charles Summerall The President also appointed Brig Gen Ben uller command ant of 'the marine corp succeeding the late Gen Wendell Neville President Hoover said it gave him great pleasure to promote' so brilliant a soldier to the position upon the retirement of General Summerall chief executidk actedupon the" recommendation' of Secretary Hurley in promoting? General Mc Arthur over other major generals who outrank him General McArthur was recently ordered? to command the Ninth corps area with headquarters 'at San rancisco He had been in command of the Phillipine depart ment He will assume his new duties upon the retirement of Gen eral Summerall No 20 the newhief'of staff is seventh on the list of major gen erals eligible for the post he is the ranking officer who can spend the entire four years in the position without having to retire for age He iwill not retire until 1944 He was bom in Little Rock Ark Jah 26? 1880 appointed to West Point from Wisconsin graduating at the" head of his class' He entered the engineer corps or fiveyeays he served in engineering work and later as aid to the presi dent rom 1908 to 1917 he was as signed to various instruction duties and was assistant to the engineer officer in 1914" rom the outbreak of the World war rise in rank was rapid In 1917 became a colonel of infantry and a year later a brig adier general He commanded the eighty fourth infantry brigade of the forty second division at St Mi hiel and in the Meuse Argonne of fensives He was twice wounded General uller became acting marine corps commandant on the death of General Neville His ex perience rank and his familiarity with the duties of the office were considered' factors in his selection At one time General uller was secretary of state police war in terior and navy for Santo Domin go He is 60 years of age and a na tive of Mjchigan Assailant Disarmed By Nevada Governor VINITA Aug (Special) Three men two of whom have tyng criminal records sawed their way from a cell block in the county jail overpowered the jailer and escaped at 5:30 this morn ing The trio was last seen head ed for the highway southeast of Vinita which leads to Afton and Miami Roberts John Brown and John Wells were the three men in the cell block which was sawed open Each block has places for eight men but the three happened to be alone After op ening their steel cage the three desperadoes crawled on top of it and waited for jailer John Law rence to make his rounds As Lawrence walked along the tier of cell blocks the three men seized him from above and be hind took his keys and locked him in the fourth floor jail enclosure so that he could not spread the alarm Lawrence did not carry a weapon and his attackers did not harm him The three 'fugitives then looted the jail office of $51 in cash and walked from the courthouse throw ing the jail keys in a hallway as they lrffc xr()ne whs barefooted reported 'Sheriff 'Harry Campbell said today that Roberts who is 23 years old and Brown who is 25 years old had escaped from the Texas penitentiary at Houston and were wanted at Vinita for burglary and by federal authorities Wells was in jail for chicken stealing Sheriff Campbell arrived at the courthouse 10 minutes after the break nad released the jailer Officers in all surrounding towns were notified of the escape Indian Accused of Slaying Brother SOUTHAMPTON Aug 5 (A) Political observers today professed to see the possibility of public utility rates as a national is sue in 1932 as the result of a con ference among Gov ranklin Roosevelt and Democratic party leaders here Despite repeated assurance from participants that their sessions were of no consequence whatever the politically minded insisted more than ever today on attaching great importance to them As they regarded yesterday the midnight pow wow between rank lin Roosevelt Alfred Smith and John Raskob as having in teresting possibilities in connection with the 1932 presidential cam paign they were today interpreting in a national light the espousal of the cause of the small consumer in connection with possi ble reductions in utilities rates They discussed with interest the possibility of a Democratic nation al plane in 1932 based on some such slogan as Mr Average Citizen to Keep His Expenses Governor Roosevelt discussed at some length yesterday his letter to Milo Maltbie chairman of the Public Service commission in which he pointed out that the 60 cent meter charge proposed by the New York Edison company along with a cjjt from 7 to 5 cents per kilowatt hour might mean an in crease instead of a decrease in the cost to the small consumer But while he discussed the cost of electric light freely Governor Roosevelt just talking about politics at all made up my mind last he said I going to talk politics until Sept 29 and I am standing by the Sept 29 is the day before the Democratic state convention is convene in Albany Lightning Sets 36 Idaho orest ires Prehistoric Earp of Corn ound Intact In Oklahoma Cave CITY Aug Discovery of ears of corn probably 2000 years 'old but with grains intact in the Clm arroh county Oklahoma basket makers caves was reported to day by Thoburn curator of the Oklahoma Historical' so ciety and leader of an archeo logical expedition in 'the ear with the grains in perfect condition has been found concealed' in the sand which seemingly served as a'floor during the period of the ancient human' occupan Thobum notified state his torical society officials Other recent finds include a small rawhide bag filled with pumpkin seeds and? a buffalo hide moccasin for the right foot lined on the inside with fur (By the Asociated Press What the second stage of Oklahoma campaign lacked 'in lengtn it appeared Tuesday to oe making up in warmth Opening their drives for nomina tion for governor in the Aug 12 run off in widely separated comers" of the state rank Buttram and Murray tore vigorously into issues Monday night and for th? first time Buttranj indulged in per sonal thrusts at his rival for Demo cratic honors Buttram appeared at Altus home town of A Shaw state audi tor and eliminated candidate mthp gubernatorial race Murray spoke at Tulsa home of Howard' former congressman and another eliminated candidate who is seek ing to throw his strength to ther Tishomingo man Gore Also Speaks in Tulsa Thomas Gore ex senator wfids is contesting with Wright man of Tulsa for the Democratic senatorial nomination also Chose' home city for 'the first objective of his second offen sive Senator Pine Republic can incumbent although renomi nated in the first primary and hav? ing no opponent to single out like wise chose Tulsa for the his first campaign activities speak ing there Monday night Wrights man had not yet taken the field "i Murray defended the gross in come tax plank of his platform in his Tulsa speech asserting its ef fect has been misrepresented the charge that I would over tax merchants and particularly is dependent merchants I reply that my very purpose in my tax plan opponents are trying to tie me to a gross sales tax but a gross sales tax is not the same as a gross income tax Gross Income Defined income is the total amount for wh(ch the sale is made less the cost arid carriage of the goods If the owner sells for Jess than the cost rice he has no tax at all Under the gross income plan man agement clerk hire and overhead expenses would not be permitted to be deducted in the calculation of the income In a net income these things are deducted In that the gross income tax is in favor of the little merchant who does his own clerical Calling Murray Bill Buttram declared he was a "fakir and an opportunist who is trying to ride through to the of fice on the shoulders of hot weath er and crop Tax Proposal Attacked Buttram attacked gross income tax proposal asserting it the farmer and the con The tax only is economical ly unworkable but will result intaxation too great for the business and industries of the state to Buttram said they (indus tries are unable to buy farm pro ducts then the farmer is the great est sufferer of Gore injected no personalities into his speech declaring he went through the first campaign out uttering one unkind word" con cerning any rival candidate His talk was an outline of his platform Senator Pine emphasized the re cent increase in Oklahoma patron age enumerating the various im portant government positions held by Oklahomans as compared td sev eral years ago Johnston Out for Murray ormer Gov Henry Johnston eliminated from the lists of Demo cratic Senate candidates in last primary who has swung to active support of Murray in statement to the Associated Press Monday night wanted voters to as sure themselves of the loyaltytof the candidates for lieutenant gov MISSIONARIES HELDINCH1NA US 4l 1r Captors' Cut Off inger of Englishwoman and Send' It With Ransom Demand GUNBOATSUNDER IRE Hoover Pledges ederal Help in Drouth Regions Survey of Affected Local ities Begun by Depart KCMIS 1R DBOtS mentsof Agriculture and Douglas MacArthur "CHIEKO STA President Appoints War Cofhmahder to Sue' ceed Summerall Metal Market YORK Lend steady spot New York 540 East 'St' Louis 540: East St Louls spot and future 440 455 LONDON Aug Lerf snbt aid future £11 '58 Zinc spbK iv future iza eu 100 Cancels Tour Df Canadian 1 Cities OTTAWA 'Canda' Aug (By the Canadian" The? three trips of Canadian cities'which were contemplated for the 10Qhave been' canceled Desbatats de puty minister of national defense announced today and invitations issued for the flights have been re called 'The dirigible will make one flight carrying only its krew and a few technical officers the Depart mert of I is lX' Aug In perfect weather riggers mending the damaged stabilizing fin of the British dirigible 100 made rapid progress today and expected to ernor toward the policies of who pfe ever is elected governor Charging that Holloway who succeeded to the governorla? chair after removal by1 the Senate court of last year was by special': Afe interests to be held as a sword Jof Damocles over my Johnstpn said that "no man should be Bnp ported for lieutenant govempr who is not wholly divested of sw scheme to seize the fice in behalf of special interests Johnston said he did not particularly either t0 Robert Burns of Seminole or James Berry of Still water the Democratic run off ean didates for the Lieutenant iSv? nomination He said would indorse any candidate who fulfill ed his specifications 'Of loyalty rjjK'V Buttram will speak Chickasha and Murrayit a bus routis cover' 45000 miles four times that of Jts rail ways 107 2 ams? 78 I JZ7R 82 A 8 am 84 79 J'jO am 88 77 Noon 'T 91 aS4 LAS VEGAS Nev Aug 5 Gov Balzar told 'police today that Gordon Smith had aimed a revolver at him in the course of a heated discussion' last night the chief executive disarm ing him before he could shoot The account of the incident was verified by James Cashman county commissioner who was at the Smith home The had come hero from Carsdn City to discuss with Smith letters of criticism he had received from the Las Vegas Board of Trade He said he found there was no organization such as Smith described iri jetters h6 had signed as secretary'criticising the governor for investing in Las Vegas real estate The governor and Cashman said Smith the chief Executive a liar Balzar for years sheriff of Mineral seized him by the collar Smith then drew a revolver the governor 'and Cashman Isaid whereupon the chief executive dis armed him a Oklahoma and Part ly cloudy and at un settled tonight and: Wednesday Little change in temperature Kansas Part ly cloudy and somewhat threat Wednferaajr notUite so wariri in central tonight' MIA EM PE ATURBTemperatures Miami from 2 o'clock Monday until noon today: 4 pm108 4 am 6 pm 81 6 am 8 10 Midniht MrA'ivf I 1 Index to Commercial the Great 1 Eixion' MOTORtcOBltter litJused cars for less I Excursion' to Columbus? IRST Start fe next vacation fund nowJ SOUTHWESTRRNBELL'TELE PHONE our long il distance 'telephone COLEMAN THEATRE I jy tonight on Cj PENNEY Krlnkle bed spreads98c and $149 GLORYB Billie Dove in "Sweethearts and (Wives COLEMAN HUTTS Enjoy 'otir 'cooling fountain service: OTTAWA MOTOR Saving money by economies in operation 1 Notice to voters Houses forsale or 'rent Monarch town site CROWN DRUG CO Our every day prices are best 1 MARR BRIDGER GROCER Mid week grocery specials NATIONAL ADVERTISERS Country Club: risco 1 lit Lucky Tiger Pink OLDSOLTAKEg HIN US lit MibwMlem i Drouth orcing of Wheat Surplus as eed Iii CROPS BALANCE I Grairi' Dealers See Nature as'jSuccessful Where I Warm Board aUedk CHICAGO' AugS ffU farm i ers throughout the grains belt have I begun' to feed their wheats to the I hogs and to cut it for hay" reports I to the grain trade here Jndica ted today and LaSalle street thenews as indication Old Sol is having his turn Yit produc ing some farm "relief 7To the of I fices ot the goxerhriierit sponsdred I National Grain corpora I tion came a Report' that' iif sections I of Montana wheat fields were be I ing bought up to be cutnfor hay I where the hay fields and pastures have been burned out 1 pThe loss of the com 'crop from I drouth during JfulyJias been eti I tn'ated here by grain brokers at about 400000000 bushels I Arthur of the grain I firm of Jackson Brothers Boesel heresaid he was informed by a I miller in Lafayette' Indi? that 1 load I after load of wheat is bing haul i ed to' the millby farmers to be I ground into hog fee and taken I back home in seems (to be settling the farm relief problem'" said Bernard I Snow former assistant United of? agriculture how amember of the grain firm of Bartlett razier Company rhefe tremendous loss of the I corn crops 'during he said I loss wjuch is 'still continuing I likely to prove a blessing" in dis rguise" Pointing out that the and drouth were accomplishing 1 (a reduction of the crop surplus as I Jwas proposed by the ederal arm Snow said that looks Jas tho'ugh' the losses in cbm will I accomplish the needed reAdjust ment between' supply' and demand of 5 products 'and incidentally 'etnphasize'the fact that acreage is the? only factor to'be reckoned withJn determining volurffe of 'j from Ohio" put' the to ptaltrtiWrtedylboalL farm fcrops in that' state from Pie drouth 'at 'Jarouhd? $200600000 or 'half (Ohio farmers' 'annpal income fromctopsr 't The upturn of the wheat markethere yesterday was ascribed large ltly to "the growing demand for wheat 'as a feeding substitute for "The prospective shortage in I jeorn rind shift in price relation has already turned manufac turers of feed 'products and feed tersaswell to the use of com sub said 1 oats rye and barley are being psbought in heavy volume for feed Jng purposes The short hay crop i and the destruction of pastures Ijfurtheitrforces the substitution of I small' grains Readjustment Extensive I farm feeding demand bids Mair: to absorb a large bulk of the I burdensome old wheat carry over thereby accomplish what gov I emmental farm relief has found it (impossible to effect It is likely jtogo even further and bring about' complete readjustment of the Janh' situation am convinced that the loss ot large part of ourcom crop willdefinitely improve the situation ofagriculture as well as stimulate a jeturn to general business activ Hyde oresees Balance CITY rfhuf tM? Hyde 'secretary of agri Jtore here tor address the Mid JWest Retail Merchants association Continued on Page Two OKLAHOMA CITY Auf tff and cooling winds last night and early today swept across the northern half of Oklahoma offer ing some slight relief to crops and more to human sufferers but skip ped southwestern and southeastern sections where crops are burning hopelessly under a raging run The parched northern and west ern sections dry for a month re ceived rain this morning airview and Alva which had 114 and 113 degree temperatures respectively in the last 2 days reported showers and Woodward had a little rainfall but skies later were clearing Al most unbearable moisture laden heat preceded the rain in the north and west and Alva last night had a mercury reading of 110 degrees Rainfall of 04 inch was register ed in the state capital overnight breaking a heat wave which mount ed to 106 degrees at its height Sun day and 103 degrees yesterday Heavy rains fell over some north eastern and eastern counties late yesterday and last night driving temperatures from well over 100 degrees down to the Tulsa Claremore Bartlesville and Mus kogee had the first benefit of rain and high winds The forecast was for slightly cooler and partly cloudy eather Rain in Nebraska and Iowa CHICAGO Aug Rain had old man heat groggy and hanging onto the ropes today Showers brought at least tem porary relief to many of the drouth stricken sections of Middle West and Southwest states The weather man promised showers for New England at the Atlantic sea board states or the rest of the seared area the report was: showers possible and not quite so Nebraska and Iowa where corn has been fired for days had their prayers for rain answered early today Deluge alls in Nebraska The Tekamah Neb region de vastated by cloudbursts and cy clonic winds last May was cover ed with another downpour ive inches of rain fell between Teka mah and Craig filling creeks to flood stages Showers were gen eral over the state and came none too soon for the heat yesterday was terrific Beatrice had an all time record breaking reading of 112 Lincoln had 103 In Omaha where the thermom eter rose to 102 yesterday rains last night and early today broke the scorching spell remont had an inch and a half of rain Norfolk an inch and a quarter Rain fell early today over an ex tended area in Iowa and was hard est in the Sioux City and Mason City areas '200 miles apart Other scattered showers were reported In Atlantic the temperature re mained at 107 for the second straight day yesterday The state reported two suicides from the heat and one death by prostration armers greeted the downpour as a crop saver The summer scourge had seared the silks and tassels of the com precluding the pollenization essential to the for mation of the ears Showers were also sporadic in southeastern Kansas and Missouri In Kansas yesterday the heat reached its peak Hutchinson re ported 111 and Coffeyville 110 Emporia had 114 an all time rec ord The cooling breeze and a few drops of rain provided only tem porary relief for Chickasha where the low temperature for the night was 76 degrees At 10 this morning the mercury already had climbed back up to the 100 degree mark Grady County Crops Burn Grady county crops are burning badly and rain is needed within the next 10 days to stave off heavy (Continued on Page Two) Couple Sell Their Oil Holdings for Million PRICE MBBBAYWITHAKEB' LABEL Says Seeks' tci5 Capitalize on Drouth 4 and Depression ST LOUIS Aug Dale Jackson and today had less than 200 hours to go to better the record for re fueling endurance flying set last month at Chicago by the Hunter brothers with a sustained flight of approximately 554 hours At 8:11 a today Jackson and had been up 361 hours in their monoplane Greater Louis and were still going strong BABElHITS NO 41 NEW YORK Aug Babe Ruth hit his forty first home run of the season a tremendous drive that 450 feet into the center field bleachers at the Yank ee stadium today where the Yanks were engaging the Washington Senators in the first game o(f header hit was made off Bump Hadley in the sixth inn Miami andSubtfftaDr9 MiU 1930 CenspsIncIudirig Picher VOT XXVTTT PublnUd Er Entn (Except Simnlay) nd Bundiy 7 Moraine by Miami Neara Rword Pobliihlne Co (Im) Gloria Swansdn andHusband Live Apart LOS ANGELES Aug Gloria Swanson motion picture ac tress announced today she and her titled "husband the Marquis Henri De La alaise had 'decided to live apart JThe' marquis returned to Hollywood last Saturday from Paris I have decided to continue living son said? we have lived Tor the last year ahd a half?" '4 "He plans rto remain at a 'hotel during: his stay here and I shall continue fb live at the beach We have found it possible to maintain separate and still be the best of 'The couple was inderstocd to nave spent most of yesterday ferring on their future plans Re ports of a separation had been cur rent in Hollywood several months hut thev nraviniuJv had heen da Santa 666 have the repairs completed by dusk niod' 4 ii I.