Ames Daily Tribune-Times (Newspaper) - October 17, 1933, Ames, Iowa Sign Up With NRA dm NOW If Ames Tribune STORY DAILY Partly clotty night n in T day If VOLUME Official mnt County IOWA TUESDAY OCTOBER 17 1933 Prm no n IN ROAD CONTRACTS ARE LET LIQUOR CONTROL PARLEYS PLANNED IN IA DISTRICTS Scries of Meetings To Discuss Proposed Legislation DBS MOINES parleys on proposed plans for Iowa liquor control will be held in each of Iowas nine districts before convening of the special ses sion November 6 it vras revealed Tuesday The Iowa Repeal for Prosperity committee joint organization head ing repeal forces which managed the repeal campaign prior to Io was referendum on repeal of the eighteenth amendment has sched uled a series of meetings to which have been invited state senators and representatives members oof the liquor and others interested in framing a liquor con trol plan to be placed in effect aft er repeal becomes effective nation first meeting will be held Thursday at Clinton and Lieut Gov N G Kraschel probably will attend Unification of liquor control laws will be discussed here Oct 26 at a meeting of midwestern gover nors according to plans announced Tuesday by GOT Clyde L Herring Herring said he expected gover nors or their representatives from Illinois Indiana Michigan Ken tucky Minnesota Wisconsin Ne braska and South Dakota to attend Gov Guy B Parks of Missouri invited to attend has indicated Missouri will not be represented because a recently appointed li commission already has made its report making discussion with other states unnecessary Gov Herring also announced his suggestion for a midwestern guber conference on farm relief bad been approved by GOT Albert Schmedeman of Wisconsin and Gov Floyd B Olson of Minnesota date for the conference Aas Legislators of 41 States Confer CHICAGO who will play a large part in the framing of legislation in 41 states during the next year here on liquor control taxation and re lief measures As members of the American Leg association they will aid in the drafting of bills and in gath ering information for the guidance of members of state legislatures Members of the association are employes of state reference librar ies for the most part The meet ing is being held in conjunction with the national convention of the American Library association The depression Harry Miller Ly denberg told the 3000 delegates has brought a new prob lem to librarians Millions of on Page See Recognition Of Russia Brake On War in East MOSCOW flIE The United States might prevent a Russian Japanese war by recognizing Rus sia during the present Manchurian crisis Russian political observers held Tuesday Increasingly alarmed at the Jap anese attitude over the Chinese Eastern railway and the arrest of Russian railway officials the gov had begun an important intensification of Its far eastern defenses it was learned Men airplanes and supplies have been sent to the danger zone and it was even reported that partial mobilization of red army reserves in the area had been ordered The dangerous situation in the has made the question of establishment of diplomatic relations one of espec ial urgency for Russia Soviet officials are convinced re cognition would be an effective brake on the Japanese military fac tions which In their view are man Japan into antisoviet adventures Retired Banker Gets Yearly for Life WASHINGTON Chase National bank was revealed Tues day by senate stock market inves to be paying a salary of a year for life to Albert H Wiggin as retired head of the bank and its securities affiliates lie retired as chairman last Jan uary and later as a director and member of the executive commit tee Wiggin was retired at half pay He testified his salary before re was annually and that in some previous years employes of the bank had received bonuses Investigators announced Tues day they had ordered of half a dozen of the larger New York brokerage houses whose rec ords the stock exchange refused to obtain for the committee The names of the firms were not made public Test Your Knowledge Can you answer seven of these test questions Turn to page four for the answers 1 What is the religion of the major population of Spain 2 Who is Sir Harry Lauder 3 Name the second largest city in Ohio J Where is the Volga river the two former names Leningrad Russia filey H Lock 7 Who was Sir o Cinque ports Whal Is a the Ken Refuse to Consider Objection Mayor H Schleiter and City Clerk A B Maxwell Monday night signed the contracts awarded to ow bidders for construction of the Thirteenth street storm sewer and for the addition to the sewage dis posal plant both projects to cost approximately The council in regular session voted to request a transfer of the full amount of the contracts from the electric department funds to cover the cost of these two pro When the federal grant of is received it either will be placed n the electric department fund or idd the general against further possible withdrawals from department funds sact Will Deplete Fund This transfer will bring ric department surplus down to he lowest figure In several years The fund now totals about For the past two years it has con substantial sums to the citys general and bond funds and also provided cash for final pay ment on the citys latest fire truck City Manager J H Ames told the council that the electric fund would be substantially recuperated during the coming winter as the winter season Is the period of greatest electric consumption in Ames Formal objections were to be re by the council Monday night on both construction projects There were no written objections and only one verbal protest to the Thirteenth street sewer job The council passed a motion to over rule all protests and following this resolutions approving contracts were passed Dr Rice Protests Dr T LRice Ames dentist and former mayor appeared before the council to protest the storm sewer project He said he believed that unemployment relief measures should be undertaken only by the county supervisors and that the cost of the sewer was unwarranted during the present depression Mayor Schleiter replied to Dr Rice that the federal government had asked all municipal and other governmental bodies to create as much employment possible thru public works and that Ames was attempting to do its share Dr Rice said that as long as the city was willing to spend its money the government will continue to ask it He said the 30 per cent grant from the government would be paid back by the taxpayers on Page WHEAT EMBARGO ANNOUNCED BY DES MOINES Iowa state cornhusking contest will be held on the C F Carlson farm seven miles east of Audubon on Nov 3 W E Drips manager an Tuesday Twentyfive county or sectional champions tne largest field ever to participate in the classic farm contest will be in the starting lineup The corn rows in the champion ship field are 120 rods long and the field Is uniform Yield Drips said should run about 80 bushels per acre and the corn is clean and dry There were 17 starters last year and the title of states best corn went to Orville Wicks of Wright county Judges of the state contest will be L C Burnett Iowa State col lege H D Hughes head of the Iowa State college farm crops de and Joe Robinson secre tary of the Iowa Grain Growers association Takes Drastic Action To Force U S Hand BISMARCK N D William Langer North Dakotas two fisted executive Tuesday clamped down an unprecedented embargo impounding the states 60000000 bushels of wheat within Its borders in a dramatic effort to force immediate federal action to help the farmer As prices crashed down ward in fear rising war talk Langer called upon his fellow executives of agricultural states of the west to enact simi lar embargoes and force the fed eral government to act The governor had no hope that by halting grain shipments out of North Dakota he would immediately raise the price of wheat He launched the move in hope he could spur federal authorities to act quickly to re lieve the economic distress of the farmer The governor took his bold step on a day that saw grain prices continue the fall which started last week and was halted on the Chicago board of trade only by the automatic action of the pegged minimum prices es after last Julys disas trous breaks Prices have been demoralized for several days as a result of uncertainty over the administra tions dollar stabilization plans and the tense European situa tion to the general failure of agricultural prices to upward trend of retail commodities an then as the rep of the state which has cradled many a startling eco nomic theory Issued his mation He promised full military ac tion to enforce the decree but this would be necessary I do not anticipate that tak ing this wheat off the domestic market will force prices up said Langer However it will be a dramatic and forceful way of calling attention to the plight oi wheat farmers He immediately dispatched tel to Governor Tom Berry of South Dakota and Frank Cooney of Montana calling upon them to take similar action Ini tial response of the Continued on Page Five Plane Hits Wilmington Home After MidAir Crash While thousands of spectators in the heart of Wilmington Del looked on a plane piloted by Roy Hunt Oklahoma City stunt flyer struck a plane piloted by Lenn of Boston plunged onto the roofs of two houses exploded and caused the damage pictured above While Hunt landed unhurt with his parachute on an adjoining 10 persons including three police men were injured in the explosion and fire following the crash plane landed safely five miles away The fliers were advertising a nearby air circus when the crash occurred TWO NAZIS SENTENCED BERLIN who attacked Roland Volz American at a week 030 were sent Tuesday to six months im Report Germany Ready to Return To By STEWART U P Staff Correspondent Copyright 1933 by United Press GENEVA is pre pared to start negotiations lor a return to the League of Nations and the disarmament conference German quarters indicated Tues day decision to leave the league and the conference was reached three days before it was announced and hence before the events supposed to have motivat ed it it was said authoritatively here The news increased materially the gravity of the disarmament deadlock in that it revealed the German decision was reached after mature deliberation over a long series of events which convinced the Hitler government there was more to gain outside formal inter national council than in At the same time it pointed clearly to one apparent path from the present carefully nurtured rapprochement with Ger mans that will offer them some hope if they show good will of seeing Europes gigantic war ma chine reduced in size Information here was that the German cabinet reached its with decision last Wednesday This was before the allied nations made their no German rearma ment declaration and before the German government knew anything of the plan to introduce into the conference the new Simon plan calling for an eight year disarma ment program that was loosely phrased to allow for bargaining with Germany Delegates left Geneva Tuesday and will reassemble Oct 26 They adjourned for 10 days after a one hour meeting Monday Asylum Chief to Seek a Hearing SIOUX FALLS S D K R superintendent of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton said Tuesday he would seek a hearing on his dismissal by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes Dr Hummer issued a statement contending he holds hia position by civil service appointment nnd that IH authority to dia He has been of tho JILL BUY WESTERN MEAT Allocated for Butter WASHINGTON gov Tuesday to carry out its charity so that adequate relief will for the destitute this winter Administrator Hopkins an a substantial quantity of range cattle of the canner and cutter grade would be purchased to give beef to those who other wise would go hungry The cattle will be purchased in the far west Simultaneously the agricultural adjustment administration reveal ed it would remove from the mar ket 9000000 pounds of surplus but ter a turn it over to Hopkins distribution The treasury allocated from relief and processing tax funds to buy the butter t Hopkins said both purchase plans had been worked out with care to dovetail efforts to assist farmers and supply food to the unemployed The butter purchase was aimed at reducing a surplus of 70000000 pounds which has depressed prices The needy Hopkins said have been denied meat and butter while cattle dairy and hog men have suf from poor markets The average price of beef cattle dropped frosi a hundred pounds in July to in Septem ber largely because of the burden on the market of low grade western cattle Meanwhile Hopkins organization formulated plans for buying coal clothing and shoes The quantities have not yet been determined Distribution of relief funds for rents also was considered War Scare Sends Austrian Troops to Guard Frontiers Speech Acclaimed By Deputies PARIS a stinging if il direct reply to Chancellor Adolph Hitlers broadcast message of last Saturday Premier Erouard Dalad ier Tuesday declared that France is assured of her defenses of ter and liberty The premiers speech received with wild enthusiasm by the cham ber of deputies brought a test vote of confidence in the cabinet by an overwhelming majority of 470 to 120 France is not isolated today he declared with a note of triumph On the contrary France never be fore had so many friends the world France he said is determined to give the an example raised by de parture from the league because she is assured of her defenses The premier added that Ger manys departure from Geneva makes more than ever necessary our duty to balance tbo budget Daladier called his cabinet Into consultation Tuesday morning for a final review of his plans Foreign Minister Joseph Paul Boncour arrived from Geneva just before the cabinet conference Ho was unexcited nnd said The situation may be reviewed calmly so long as thora is agree ment by France Great Britain and Hif United States Ho he would return to Ge neva October f when disarm Hearing committee In the grip of a war scare because of withdrawal from the league of nations and disarmament conference Austria fear ing a repetition of 1914 is hurriedly strengthening her frontier defenses by stringing barbed wire along the frontier and sending soldiers to exposed outlets In this picture Austrian guards are shown questioning a traveler on the frontier Series of Articles on Newspaper Business Will Begin on Wed The Ames Daily cordially invites its readers to fol low the series of short articles which will start in Wednesdays paper endeavoring to present a rather comprehensive view of the daily newspaper in operation The series will be under the general subject The Newspaper and Its Place In the Community As previously stated these ar ticles were planned originally as sales talks for workers in the circulation sion campaign now under way But they will be of general interest be cause the daily newspaper is an in of public importance and commands the attention of thou sands of persons every day What the will at tempt to do in presenting this series will be to acquaint its read ers with the real purposes and functions of any daily newspaper and also to relate some of the de tails and responsibilities incident to the editing and production of the newspaper every 24 hours Every effort will be made to keep these sketches of newspaper life interesting informative and free from technical phraseology They will be readable by any layman and it is hoped altogether interest ing enough to merit the attention of every reader The invites all its readers to watch for these articles and follow them from day to day It is planned to publish one article each day following a sequence of thot and a logical order as they relate to the newspapers produc tion The first article will appear in the Wednesday un der the subject The Newspaper As a Business Institution What Is Your Occupation or Profession I dont care what it is I know you have been told more than once that So and so failed in the same kind of business Or there are already too many businesses of the same kind and that you were foolish toeven try There are folks who mean well but go around unconsciously discouraging others hanging crepe by such remarks I am grateful to know that the Creator would not have endowed us with a judg ment of our own if He had not intended for us to use it Nor does fate mock us with an opportunity with giving us the power to grasp it Grasp it there fore while its yours DAILY INCOME MANAGER See Page 3 Relief Buying Boosts Prices Of All Grains CHICAGO closed five cents higher on the Chicago board of trade Tuesday after a hec tic session that saw rallies give way to selling waves i dizzying succession Announcement that the government was purchasing one million bushels of to feed the needy was the stimulating fac tor After a rally at the start quotes in all pits sank to a new low for the year before liquidation ceased and the government and commis sion house buying set in All deliveries of wheat closed five cents higher than Monday and December closed nearly seven cents its low of the day and the Other grains followed to the maximum permitted by trading restrictions Corn was up four cents and oats three cents EIGHT COUNTIES TO 32 MILES OF AIDES CALLED OUTLAWS Charged With Murder Malfeasance HAVANA President Gerardo Machado two of his prin cipal cabinet officers and 24 of his aides were proclaimed outlaws Tuesday then faced formal charges of malfeasance Property valued at 25000000 the government to be held in Cuba by the 27 defendants was ordered seized as bond for their civil responsibility for acts charged against them The order was tantamount to con of their entire fortunes unless they returned to face charges Announcement of the charges was made after they had been filed Morales Del Castillo is In Montreal others CHANCE IN THREE STATES Next Repeal Polls On November 7 By UNITED PRESS Copyright 1933 by United Press Drys have an excel lent chance of winning one of the six staler that will vote on repeal Nov 7 and may win a second a United Press survey oi sentiment in the six states Tuesday The however assured of the three states they need to eliminate the 18th amend ment from the constitution Thirty three states have voted so far All have favored repeal Thirtysix are needed to ratify the 21st repeal amendment The six states voting Nov 7 are North and South Carolina Utah Kentucky and Ohio South Carolina Dry sentiment strong Thq drys have staged an ex tensive campaign while the wets haye made little effort beyond at tempts to get out the vote Every county and town has its diy organ ization Sergeant Alvin C York is making 18 speeches fos the dry cause and Dr Charles E Burt dry leader predicts state will be over against master General James A Farley who will speak a few days before the election is the only scheduled repeal speaker Repeal leaders claim victory Utah Result doubtful Drys well organized under leadership of the Mormon church and fighting Re Continued on Page Two r More than 50 new members have teen signed up in the Junior Cham ber of Commerce membership drive which is to close Tuesday at midnight Chairman D D La Grange stated Tuesday The Hawkeyes and Cyclones are working hard during the final day o push their teams over the top The losing team is to provide a stag dinner for the winners next week The junior chamber hopes to add at least 75 new members to its roll in the present drive Many projects to be launched during the coming winter require the support of a strong membership and every effort is being made to enroll rs many young men as possible in the organization Insane Youth Slays Five of Family TAMPA Fla Tues day found Victor Licata 21 calmly smoking a in a tered room where lay f his family hacked to death Ho wao known to have been insane it wan srd but the slain had refused to place In tion 201 Miles Graveling Bridges Culverts Included J f Awards of contracts for highway work in Iowa totaling were announced at the state way commission headquarters day morning Bids on these were opened at a special ti ig held Friday f The contracts let are for 32351 miles of paving in eight counties totaling 201 miles of gravel and crushed stone surfacing in 15 counties totaling f 13072262 one grading project in a county gravel pit repair and culvert construction totaling Ben Cole and Son of Ames one contract for culverts and bridge repair in Calhoun coun ty for 1 Paving Contract f The following paving contracts were awarded Boone county 293 miles U S 1 No 30 in Boone to John P Abramf son Des Moines Calhoun county 10802 miles TJl S No 20 from Rockwell City east to J S McLaughlin and Sons comI pany Des Moines i Lyon county 5524 miles U S j from Rock Rapids south to J Booth and Olson incorporated Sioux City j Madison county 603 miles No 2 in Winterset to Fred Carl son company Decorah Marshall county 496 miles U S No 30 in Marshalltown to Carl son Construction company Mar 4885 miles No 17 and No 10 from Poca hontas north to J S McLaughlin and Sons company Des Sad county 9749 miles roads No and Niv 71 from Eady east to Sac City to J S lin and Sons company Des Moines 22523341 Taylor i county Short strip road No 3 in Bedford to Wright Con struction company Des Moines 490 Gravel Surfacing Contracts for gravel surfacing were as follows counties 73 miles U road No 55 from road No 117 south to Baker and Pat ton Carlisle gravel Delaware Dubuque counties 8301 miles road from Coles burg to Luxemburg crushed stone to Hnegg Construction company Cedar Rapids Dubuque county 83 miles IT S No 55 from Jackson county line northeast to U S second course crushed stone to Construction company Cedar Rap ids counties 108 miles road No 60 from road No 10 north Paul Construction company Fort Dodge Jackson county 295 miles road No 117 between Maquoketa ana Sabula gravel to M Iowa Falls Jackson county miles TJ S No 55 from road No 117 north to the Maquoketa to Baker and Patton Carlisle 13184 Jackson county 81 miles U S road No 55 from the Maquoketa river north to Bellevue gravel to Clarence C Putman Bellevue 99168 Jackson county 122 miles TJ S roaSi No 55 from Bellevue north west to Dubuque county line gra vel to Clarence C Putman Belle vue Lee county 156 miles road No 103 from Fort Madison northwest to U S No 161 crushed stone to J B Hannahs Keokuk Mills county 125 miles road No 4 from Pottawattamie county line south to U S No 34 and road No 244 gravel from state pit to Har vey Sand and Gravel company Har vey Mills county 547 miles road No 166 from Hastings north to U S So 34 gravel from state pit to Harvey Sand and Gravel company Harvey Mitchell county 2 miles road No Continued on Page Three AUNT LINDY SAYS A lot of children wont go hungry this winter be cause mother took as her motto right on
