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Show ! - Friday, July MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA, UTAH jrida RENEW FIGHT AGAINST DROUGHT aver that NITIOVAL Leaguers waa the Gehringer heat American circuit perfarmer la affair with Us Gehrig the rank tag a very close lecem, . . . Eddit Stuart, beet et all lacraaae goallea when be operated in front f the Meant Weahington and Crescent A. C. nets, baa moved from Westchester to n better business All-St- ar Government Seeks Methods of Alleviating Drought Raages in Future Years Through Water Conservation. proposition in Beaton . . . Watch Southern California next fall. The dope in that Howbehind-the-acen- By WILLIAM C. UTLEY HILE a blazing sun beats relentlessly on the parched fields the Northwest and South, man grapples anew with the efmonster. Drought, in an effort to minimize its destructive one fects, and to devise ways of mitigating future ravages. No can predict a drought, and no one can prevent one, but much can be done to lessen their effects. The drought period through which the country has been passing since 1930 has caused the of adoption of methods which will enable us to make better use the available water in even the driest years. To meet the immediate emergency government agencies ture and the hotter the winds, the greater will be evaporation. The excessive high temperatures and hot winds of this summer have added immeasurably to the seriousness of the situation. For ex- ample a small pond may lose more water through evaporation than livestock actually drink. If it dries up and the farmer Is forced to water his stock out of wells he reduces the ground-wate- r supply, the level sinks, and presently the water situhave devised a three-fol- d ation becomes acute. Multiply this program q, which consists of supplying 55.000 by hundreds of thousands of such ConservaSoil the cuted by largely WPA jobs in the Dust Bowl and instances and it Is easy to underof of the tion service Department 20,000 In the South; of making Restand the stories of want and sufto Grass is planted settlement administration loans to at Agriculture. that have come out of the prevent erosion and to encourage fering least 50,000 persons, and of purchasWest during the summer. of furrowing. the proper type The solution of this problem In ing a million head of cattle with e Shelter Belt Development The dollar fund In the hands future is aimple, according to the of service is in charge of the Department of Agriculture. Forestry Water is a this. It Is designed to be 100 miles government experts. reIn the Whole country 336 counties contend, natural Half-mil-e resource, they miles long. wide and 1,090 bad been listed up to July 15 where inexhaustible. not but placeable tracts, euch a few feet thick, the crops are considered a total to be sure of having have already been planted along The only way dewill efforts be and where loss, it in dry times is to save It In wet million two than Mure voted to saving livestock and al- the front is based the govdollars for a project estimated to times. Upon this leviating human distress. The De- cost seventy five millions have been ernments four-folpermanent propartment of Agriculture is buying to gram. refused has spent, and congress The first move is to slow down up some of the stock and the rail- make further funds available. roads are offering reduced freight of snow-wat3. Reclamation. Irrigation and and lessen the loss rates to ship the animals to fresh either by methods and carried are dam being projects of cultivation which retain the wapasture, to be returned later when on by the Department of the In- ter in the conditions have improved. ground, or by Impoundterior in the western states. Under may ,s Desolate Picture. the Taylor act to preserve grass ing water in dams. The latterenterThe drought area presents a sad the department is also improving range from huge engineering prises like Norris or Boulder dam picture today. The major portion range operations. 4. Resettlement. The Resettle- to the simple dam which may be of the spring wheat area has been burned to a crisp. Dakota and ment administration is buying up constructed by a farmer.. Whether the object is to prevent Montana farms present an aspect 1,282.522 acres, returning them to floods, reduce erosion, or prepare water against drouth, . ground storage (methods are the same. Trees are . planted on the steeper and less fertile slopes, medium Elopes are covered with cover crops such as alfalfa or with sod, and land with marked slopes Is plowed at right angles to the slopes, sometimes with strips of sod at InterV; ij X.' vals between the furrows. es ard Jones again has assembled ana , the nation's best football teams , It's tough preparing fo, an Olympic Invasion. A recent letter fron Berlin confides that officials have been working nvertime storking. ap sixteen different brands of chewing gum for the athletes. Unless he takes a salary cut Jimmy Wilson may be looking for a new job next year. Now that the once great catcher no longer is very active on the playing field his boss seems to feel that a $17,000 annual salary is too much for a mere Phillie manager . . . Van Mungo is not surprised at i.e unjustified rumors that he misbehaved before the game. When he checked in at his hotel on Monday morning he was assigned to Room 313 and when he aid for his breakfast he receivco a $2 bill in change. After that he was prewired for anything in the way of hard luck. , ad . '( Ktw Tork Pwit. rle. WSU Fans Last Ovation to Humphreys Best Memory to Retain BAD ken leaning forward one of (he padded leath- er chain In a corner of the Garden boxing office. Fell hat carefully balanced on one knee, bo bad been listening eagerly to the brisk gossip, watching Margo dispose of too HE seekers presumptuous free-iickwhat hrraiMtig-- , again the breath bad been life to him for almost fifty years. Then the crowd aad drifted sway. 1 looked at him again. old After all, times change, .Vben n friends drop off quickly. man who has been out 'of close touch so long Is shoved again Into the spotlight be must wonder If It will be the same. lie 1 thought that I noted one gnarled hand trembling slightly. We fel to talking, not about the illness that came three years ago, but about other , All-St- at e bout and his ribs black end blue In the midst o( the excitement. About how Sullivan named Joehim the 9tiui,H a title punched - -- Joe Humphreys which be much preferred to the Bowery Demosthenes w which sou) paper guy tagged p himjears later. There was the proud oas that, for years, he had been able to smoke a cigarette, chew gum and announce n fight at the eame time. How did he come to get into this racket? Well, he wa a newsboy .when he was ten years old and folks who used to listen to turn on the old Produce Exchange corner used to admire the power of his voice even then. After the' there was a lot ol distinction to be achieved as master of ceremonies at balls and parties. . Call for Beaut Starteil Famed Announcer's Career Then one night, when Chock Connors waa meeting Billy Welsh at Malscha Little Casino down on Bowery nrsr Pearl, the .egular announcer did not appear. A spectator stood ap and demauJei1 that Joe the Beau. be given he job. Joe got it. Whether the Mayor ef Chinatown, that was Connors, beat the Little John L., that waa Welsh, en this occasion is something he eould not remember. But wae one ke did remember that f the happiest nights f bis life thong h. The very happiest? No, those were swell times when he and Sam Farris and Terry McGovern were in the fight business. Best fighter that ever lived, that Terry. Secret of success? Wei, what you had to have to handle a crowd was a voice, personality and color. It ought to be a deep, bass voice with lots of vibrations. You shouldn't ought to antagonize the crowd either. What you shoulc do was use good judgment and try to keep them friendly. What? Well, yeah, maybe he was sometimes misquoted. But what of It. Suppose he did stand up Id the old Garden that bust night there and demand silence eo he could pronounce n apostrop'ie to the famed jdatue of Diana. The point about that was that he'd announced fights In this state under three boxing laws since 1399. Besides, what if some people did laugh at that crack. It made them happy and so kept them satisfied didnt it? Well, that was the real job of an announcer and if tome of those birds who The ebb and flow of a boxing evening had brought the crowd back into the little office again. Jimmy Johnston waS Waiting to go downstairs with his old friend. I rose and shook a hand that no longer trembled. So long, he said. Ill be bey, I tell you what. Youre always uspictures on tuose ing old-tisports pages of yours. WbT dont yon come ent some dayf ve get a lot of them snd we could sit around some mere Along with so many others I am going to miss .Joe Humphreys. l snd, d Pie Traynor Convinced Diz Would Make Pirates rain-wate- Fie Traynor will tell yea that If the Pirates had Dissy Dean they would win the pen-Al-ant easily ... F though they do not deny that the big boy may do it, the smarter and more honest boxing people feel that Joe Leaia will need more than the extra foot of bsndage permitted him by the ever - obliging New York boxing k1 brighter days. There were stories about boyhood moments on Oliver street when he used to play marbles with the a gentleman who is Governor, known more familiarly to most others as A1 Smith. About how Murphy, who seldom went to fights, once sat beside him I n commission kt makes s comeback . before t . . Rab- bit Warstler, obtained frrm the As recently, should bo of real help He is one ef the to the Bees. best defensive infielders in the business snd when be is hsppy, bits .306 in the clotch. His Philadelphia trouble was that be did not like the way Connie Mack treated him . . . Incidentally Mr. Mack would be something less than n poputa favorite in Boston even i he returned sit that dough ke has been taking out of the town since he located the Yawkey bakery. The fans are tore because be was in a town on a Sunday for a regularly scheduled contest but would not wait over for the affair two days la-tAll-St- , v; Once a comfortable farm home now surrqunded by expanse of shifting sand and dust. of desolation that veteran farmers ay it without precedent This didon even extends Into Minnesota, Fields that were green with grain nd where lush pastures grew a appear today as only year blackened expanse. The range country is burned so dry that it can-hi- s con-fan- s, 8. ; not support either, sheep or cattle. e Millions of grasshoppers are ery where. Even the smaU spots that have escaped the ravages of the drought have been desolated by tbia plague. When they complete their work in one field they Jly to another. . It is not uncommon, cording .to travelers, to see some automobile stopped so that the battered bodie of thousands of these pests may be scraped from the radiator and windshield. Hundreds of farmers whose lives have been spent on these farms are today loading their few Possessions In autos, trucks and wagons and tarting out for some other section of the country, where they will attempt to start life over again. To- -' day, their work of years is completely gone and they have become discouraged with the struggle to obtain a living for their families in the stricken area. , , Rudd Hoyle. triple- threat star at Hun school in Prince- In ton, is an unreasonable lad. spite of tempting offers from two colleges nearer home the youngster, who is tabbed as "surefire varsity. plans to enter Harvard this fall. The best minor league buy right now ia Cliff Melton, who once had a tryout with the Yankees. He Is a big, young, limber and not too smart Southerner possessed ef a very good fast ball and a sharp breaking cnive. Baltimore is asking $$0,066 for him and will take 20 G's less Don Lash, who possibly la the best Olympic distance star ever developed In the U. S did his first running as a barefooted boy of thirteen. That was in the row pasture back of the little red school In his home hamlet of Auburn, Ind. Could It be that Penn, the team which may end Princeton's football winning ev-th- d streak early In October, already has started practice? The New York slate athletic commission has dug up an old rule which decrees that all prize fight contracts must be signed at the commission! office. This, naturally, will not improve tie very messy boxing situation but should give the matchmaking state officials some swell extra chances to get their pictures In the .papers A Boston restaurant features a Bill Terry hot plate on its Celebrity menu. The dish is "Freshly made corned beet bash w,ih l, dropped egg. . . , Jimmy who came back from the World war to continue his career as one of the great jockeys, now is a patrol judge. Jersey City hopes to get the Toronto, International league, franchise next jrst. Mayor Hague's new stadium, which will se 35,000 for baseball and 65,000 for fights, being the reason for revived sports interest across the river , . . Even though the Giants are slipping there ia na danger of Eddie Bran-nic- k losing his title as the best dresaed secretary In baseball. On ... But-wel- e theuCiw,iSu.i U? --I m er Another hot Boston blast is directed at .the National league. The who esteem Wally Berger so highly that the Bees were afraid to make several very promising deals for him this, spring, cannot understandjshy he was kept on the bench during the' dream game in . Larry Benton. home park . great pitcher when he served Braves and Giants, soon n. will be released by the Baltimore club r, brightly striped and dot-ted neckties . . Aside from winning prise fights lightweight 'contender Leonatd Del Genie Ukea nothing' better than to read Charles Dick Offer Loral Relief. To help these unfortunate folk, the Resettlement administration r has declared a moratorium on rural rehabilitation loans on between 25.000 and 30,000 farms In the drought-strickecounties throughout the nation. At the same time the Works Progress administration has started a program to provide Jobs, digging wells, building farm to market roads, and ter- -' racing land. About $18,000,000 will be available for crop loans and feed, and the RA will spend $1,700,-00- 0 monthly on $20 doles to suffering farmers. It i estimated that between and 5,000.000 farm dwellers have been seriously affected by the drought A total of 204,000 families has been listed as dependent on re-- lief. Ct op losses are estimated as high as $300,000,000. In the opinion of many, including President Roosevelt unless something Is done to check the drop in the water table, the now fertile regions of Nebraska, Iowa and Kan-- 1 sas will be drawn Into the great Dust BowL The consequences of this can hardly be Imagined. Our entire national economy would be displaced. Long Range Program. j Expert say' that this can be stopped by a program of permanent works. In accordance with their findings the government has announced a permanent antidrought program divided under the following heads: L Soil Conservation. This ia exe- one-yea- n I i long-rang- e s Sahara-lik- e pasture and resettling families at an average cost of $4,500 each. Drought Swings East. , In contrasting the 1936 drought with that of 1934, one of the conspicuous differences is that the dry center has swung further east and southeast, while the extreme Southwest, hard hit two years ago, is in This relatively good condition. spring, as the drought area began to take form, it stretched in a broad band from a little west of the center of Montana to Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina. As the season advanced the arid belt spread northward and northeastward, even reaching into the New England states. Heavy rains during the first part of July brought some relief to Tennessee, Kentucky and some parts of Virginia, although not enough to permanently Methods Prove Effective There is little question but that these methods are effective, and that if they were aufficiently widespread they would tend to equalize the flow of streams, would feed ponds and springs further into the summer, and would maintain the level of water In wells. These practices have been demonstrated by the Soil Conservation service; in the work of the CCC; In the conservation operations of TVA; and by other federal and state agencies. When water does not have time to run off it saturates the ground, which becomes a monster reservoir. If plants have their roots well down by the time the drouth begins they are better prepared to withstand a long siege of dry weather. To with this program of ground water conservation Is the plan Tor storage of water behind immense dams. The great dams now completed or In construction on the Tennessee, in the upper Missouri system, on the Columbia and on the Colorado will furnish a larger flow of water during dry seasons. Boulder dam can hold two relieve the situation. By the beginning of July two great islands of extreme drought had developed. One lay like a great blot through the middle 'South from the Mississippi to and beyond the Appalachians, while the other crossing the Canadian boundary, ranged from Minnesota to western Montana and south through Wyoming and Nebraska. In these areas crops this year are less than 35 per cent Of normal. Between typica-l- field with crop less these two ections crops ranged than from 35 to 65 per cent of normal. Just how this crop damage will yecrs normal flow of the Colorado compare with 1934 cannot fully be river as a margin of safety for the determined as yet, but the follow- irrigated lands downstream. By ing table showy'That in at least holding back the water of the eleven ef the affected states the Clinch river, a tributary of the Tennessee, the Norris dam reduced drought is more severe: the flood crest of the main river at Pnrrn?ar of Chattanooga by' three feet last Nonnal Hairfalt March. When the river shrank to 8tt 1934. Nort .. 32 unprecedentedly low levels under outh lukftft .. 4 the blast of the drought in June, the Montana .. 63 71 WmntfHota .. 69 ( gates were opened, and Miftsonrl .. 37 It announced that they hadengineers Arkannaa .. 40 ' enough Kentucky 74 water to maintain navigable , ,,, .. li ff n depths in the lower Ohio .. 44 Tennessee even i; IruJ ana . 44 an extreme drought period. Illinois .. 43 ii through Just .what part each system These figures by themselves, should play in the conservation of however,ive onTyr partial pic- ivater is a point of controversy ture of conditions. Much depends among engineers. A number of enupon when tha-aifalls and how gineers contend that more hat-hig- h. 2 much of it iFPOftlned in the ground, pools, ponds and other reservoirs. Evaporation Heavy, Agricultural experts point out that during a few weeks of the early growing season, vegetation may thrive on the accumulation of soil water which extends to about the depth of the growing plant roots but after this period from seven to eight inches of favorably distributed precipitation is the minimum requirement for the production of average yields urJess temperatures are abnormal. The latter-pl- ay an Important part, for the higher the tempera- - emphasis should be placed on smaller dams to control the water run-of- f at the source. A conference on this phase of the work is to be held in Washington in September, immediately following the World Power conference. Despite tremendous crop losses in the dry regions, the Agriculture department has assured the coun-tr- y that there enough food on hand to feed the nation for the next 12 months, although supplies of many staple commodities are ,, -- be-To- ot man, food. stuffs mil be higher because of the norma-pri- drought Adventurers Club Too Much Courage By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Honier. boy and girls, lo have c. SOMETIMES it a fine thing, copper-plate- d nervous systems that ; get all in a jitter the minute something happens. Steeplejacks have them and so have structural infers who spend most of their working day twenty atories h iron beam, playing t the street, balanced on a with red hot rivets. Iv always sort of envied birds like t! their courage. And again, at times, Ive been glad I dont havo aeir like theirs. After all, our nerves are about the best i: big signals we have and you know what usually kapp to the gny who doesnt pay any attention to the signs. Take the case of Bill Woods, for instance William H. Wool Brooklyn, N. Y. Bill isnt an ironworker, but hes got an iron, a burning building, and my guesj fa ers nerve. Put him he wouldn begin to get excited about it until the fire actuaUr Im Judging him now from tin gan creeping up his he acted in that restaurant in Brooklyn on April 30, 1931 This Adventure Start With a Cup of Coffee. Its quite a story, boys and girls a story that starts out walking tour through the streets of Brooklyn. Bill and bis frt Charley Young, had been taking an evening stroll, and & oclock found them at Boro Hall park. Charley suggested that drop into a cafeteria for a cup of coffee before they hit ti k Bill agreed, and they crossed the street. They went into the cafeteria, took their checks froa 0 i machine at the door and went over to the long eoute, They ordered coffee, and the counterman turned to get L But no sooner had he turned than he swung hack tmwt the door and said: "Whats the matter over there? Thats the first intimation Bill and Charley had that injt, was wrong. They looked in the direction In which the counters was staring. Several men were scuffling over near the door, ft suddenly from the center of that milling group came the sound -- ten-inc- coat-tail- s. J - 1- suth cog screti as 1 Sel ar Shap io pr is tl a shot! Bedlam Breaks Loose in Cafeteria Following Shots "In the moment that immediately followed, says stirred. Everyone in the place had stopped eating snd ill p were turned toward the door. That moment of indecision i. t ' ' iOB ep The Man FeU Over Backwards and Was StiiL iters last long, however, for suddenly another shot rang out, load deafening in that enclosed space. No one knew what had happe but you couldnt mistake that sound. At that second shot, bedlam broke loose In tbo tste teria. Women streamed. Men Jumped up from their mk Tables were overturned. Everyone thought ef Just one tUst snd that was getting under cover. Everyone was rnmiil about in frantie haste to get a door between them and ltd revolver everyone, that is, but BUI Woods. In aU the he alone kept his head. And it nearly cost hln tt hflD-balo-o lifen isitic Jest i ate jus' ophj . an life. Bill looked around for Charley. He was gone evidently crowd of people who had run toward the back of ft o teria and were trying to crowd into the washrooms. Tbo werent there were crawling on their hands and knees, try- -, get under a table. Bill noticed that and decided to get under cc himself. There was a radiator with a screened grill in front 4 and he dropped down behind that. There followed e brief L punctuated only by the sounds of struggling men, then another ( reverberated through the room. That was when Bills curiostf his nerve got the better of his common sense. He stood up b a look. Bill Made a Fine Target for the Man With the Gui Over by the door, a man, gun in hand,' was standing, against the cashiers counter, while half a dozen younger B to wrestle the gun away from him. "One of the younger m Bill, "picked up a heavy sugar container and hit the older mm r the head. I saw the glass break and the sugar scatter over to but the man with the gun seemed invincible. They couldnt b down. They were too many for him in the end, though, snd t he fell behind the cashiers desk. And then, thinking all danf " past, 1 walked) over to the counter." Bill walked over until he was within tea feet of the man when, to hla amazement, the man started to The gun, slin In his hand, rose until It pointed strafe BiUs midriff. Too late, BUI began to wish hed bees osi those nervous individuals who had taken refuge washroom. He stood petrified afraid to move. He drew in e deep F and waited to feel the bullet bite into his flesh. At that distant, man on the floor couldnt miss. Timely Arrival of Copper Saves Bills Life, Then, the only thing that could save BUI lile'Wf Through tho restaurant door came a police sergeant with pistol. He got the situation at e glance, took deliberate man with the gun, and shot him through the stomach. Tb end. The man fell over backwards and was still. A red t1 blood slowly widened beneath him. , More policemen came. They began asking que" The cashier of the restaurant had been creased ovtf ear by a bullet, and one young man, shot ttiafA shoulder, was leaning against the counter, trying tot the flow of blood. , They told the story. The man with the gun, they drunk. He had walked over to a table and accused anotn laughing at him. An argument started end the drunk ore That was when Old Lady Adventure stepped in end started up thrill cocktails one for everybody in the house, k one for the man with the gun. " P I Pi to C 4 .J w WNU Sarrl Cause nf aTfl War The Spit W The Usjo of slavery was the The Spits dog. named direct causa of the Civil war. The tie islands of Spltbr , question of statea-rig- hta or the scendant of the part-0of state to secede from ot chows and moyed right the federation was the fundamensleds to ths it tal cause. Thl had been e vexed Thepulled breed later hecanw question from the beginnings of the Europe. Various hep6V government, until it was brenght and the schipperk to a head by the slavery issue. anlan, were developed 0 A he |