TELLS HOW TO
FIGHT HOPPERS
Nebraska Agricultural Ex
pert Gives Results of His
Study of Problem
Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — Sev
rral days of cold drenching rains
in May and June will kill many
young grasshoppers, but othei
weather conditions can not be de
pended upon to do them much
harm, Prof. M. H. Swenk of the
University of Nebraska college ol
agriculture says in his weekly grass
hopper report.
Heavy rains killed off myriads
of young Rocky Mountain grass
hoppers during the spring and early
summer, after they had covered the
state and eaten up the crops the
previous season, back in the '70s.
Research work ha^Shown that thi
young grasshoppers will survive 0
24-hour exposure to a temperatun
ol about 19 degrees fahrenheit. They
riso can live through warm tem
peratures of 113 to 116 degrees
fahrenheit. It Is not likely that eith
er these cold or hot extremes oi
temperature will occur In Nebraska
during the growth period of the
hoppers. Professor Swenk believes.
other studies of the habits or
grasshoppers have brought out the
tact that the hoppers start fred
jng in the morning when the tem
perature reaches about 60 degrees.
This is usually about G o'clock in
l he morning during June. They will
continue feeding until the tempera
ture rises to about 90 degrees, when
they crawl up on the plants to rest
where it la not so hot. This habit
makes poisoning most effective if
poison L» scattered early in the
morning.
Under normal conditions the eggs
of the destructive type of grasshop
pers will begin hatching about the
middle of May and continue hatch
ing rapidly until the middle of June.
They do not hatch in February or
March as many believe. More ran
be done to destroy the grasshoppers
immediately after they have hatched
than later In the season. Contrary
to common belief, poisoning of
young hoppers Is much more effec
tive than poisoning of the adults.
Poisoning should be started before
the little fellows have spread from
the hatching grounds to cultivated
crops.
HAVE SUCCESS
IN IE' EVISION
Two West Point, Neb.,
Boys Build Their Own
Instruments
West Point, Nc.b. — (Special) —
John nnd Joseph, twin sons of
Frank Rczac, have rigged up a tele
vision receiver and are now receiv
ing picture programs from station.?
in New York, Maryland and New
Jersey.
Joseph is the one interested in
television. John’s interest is in op
erating his own short wave broad
casting station. Two years ago they
•were given a one-tube radio out
fit. They secured some old radios
and with the old parts built and
rebuilt various radio sets.
Joseph put his television appara
tus together from parts he ordered
separately from a radio catalogue.
The alternating current with which
lie operates the apparatus is not
steady and causes much interfer
ence. Static, local interference nnd
the great distance from broadcast
ing stations are the most serious
htnder.mces. On some nights how
ever he has received programs clear
ly.
Recently he reported to a New
York station that he received part
of a program and was credited with
being the most distant receiver from
that station. Singing, talking, danc
ing lessons, piano lessons and other
things have been brought in. Sound
does not come in simultaneously
with the picture, but could easily be
made to do so. A11 that he receives
is the picture of the person talking
or singing as in the silent movies.
FOOD PRICES SHOW
MARKED DECLINE
Lincoln, Neb. — Food prices com
pared with a year ago show a de
cided decline, bids received by the
state board of control on supplies
for state institutions show'.
A year ago the board paid $4 20
for 100 pounds of beans. Now the
price is $2.30. Rice was $3.75 and
now is $3.05 a hundred. Sugar n year
ago was $4.94 and now is $4.51. Ba
con. which was $15.30 a hundred, is
$6.70, or less than half. Beef fell
from $7.7G to $6.86 a hundred.
Flour and grain also declined.
Oatmeal rose from $1.94 a hundred
to $2.05.
Contracts for supplying butter
have been divided between two com
panies, each offering a price of a
cent off the market price on the day
orders are supplied. The Battle
Creek co-operative creamery of Bat
tle Creek, will supply the Norfolk
state hospital. All other institutions
will buy from the Blue Bell dairy at
Kearney.
PLAN TO IMPROVE
BLOOMFIELD ROAD
Bloomfield, Neb. — tSpccial) —
Perry Cole, highway engineer has
been in Bloomfield this week mak
ing surveys for improving the road
between Bloomfield and Center.
When this highway, is completed,
along with highway between Hart
ington and Bloomfield this spring,
the two county seats will be con
nected by a good road. The highway
west of Ponca also has been im
proved for several miles. Eventually
the three county seats will be con
nected by the trt-county road.
TUITION FUNDS FALL
SHORT 3(J FEB CENT
Norfolk, Nob.—(Special)—For the
first time the free high school tui
tion fund, gathered by a tax over
property not Included in a high
school district in the county was
insufficient to pay the claims of
the town high schools for tuition
for rural pupils, it is announced by
County Superintendent Alice Hall.
Three hundred nineteen qualified
rural students requested high school
tuition through their parents last
summer, and the county commis
sioners levied a tax sufficient to pay
the legal sum of $106 each. Then
311 enrolled in the schools. The
fund paid in by March 1, however,
was only 70 per cent of the amount
of the claims. Orders have been
given to the county superintendent
for this percentage the unpaid sum
to be paid when there is money in
the treasury.
REPORTS GAME
BIRDS DO WELL
Field Man for Nebraska
Board Says Prairie Chick
ens Numerous
Norfolk, Neb. — (Special) — G.
H. Nichols, was here from the Cher
ry county game country with op
timistic reports as to the condition
of game birds and fish in that ter
ritory. He is field man for the
game, forestation and park commis
sion.
Game birds, particularly prairie
chickens and grouse, increased re
markably during the two mild win
ters and this winter are seen in
larger flocks than for many years,
Mr. Nichols says. On a trip through
Cherry and Brown counties he said
he saw about 200 prairie chickens
Ranchers are taking an interest in
the flocks and are feeding them
The birds line up at. a distance
when feed is being thrown out and
move in as soon as the coast is
clear.
Farmers, he says, are opposed to
opening the season this year on
prairie chickens, believing that if
shooting is prohibited a year or two
longer the birds will continue to
increase rapidly.
Fish in Cherry county lakes have
come through the winter without
abnormal loss, Nichols says. During
the warm weather of two or three
weekf ago the Ice on the lakes
opened up, freshening the water.
The lakes freze over again when the
temperature dropped. Mr. Nichols
docs not expect any serious loss oi
fish.
AT OM AH A CUT
Nearly Two Millie i Dollars
Paid Off by City
in 1931
Omaha, Neb.— (UP'—Cost ox op
erating and maintaining the general
departments of the city government
of Omaha for the year 1930 was
$6,801,369. or $31.71 per capita, ac
cording to a federal report.
The total payments for city de
partments, for public service enter
prises and outlays, including schools
and public utilities districts for the
year 1930 were $11,947,535.
1 Total revenue receipts for the city
during the same year were $13,793,
262, or $64.30 per capita. This sum
was $1,845,727 more than the total
payments, including those for per
manent improvements. The excess
of revenue receipts was reflected in
reduction of the city debt.
Per capita indebtedness at the end
of 1930 was $138.53 on a net indebt
edness of $29,714,802. This com
pared with a per capita indebted
ness of $147 02 in 1929. The debt in
1917 was $102.21 per capita.
Assessed valuation of property in
Omaha, subject to ad valorem taxes
lor the city corporation in 1930 was
$392,828,210. The levy for all pur
poses was $11,211,088, of which sum
$4,457,240, or 39.8 per cent, was lev
ied for the city corporation; $4,252,
472, or 37.9 per cent, for schools;
$917,060. or 8 2 per cent for the state,
and $1,584,316, or 14.1 per cent, iOr
the county.
The total per capital tax levy for
city, state, school and county pur
poses was $52.27 in 1930, $51.78 in
1929 and $29.28 in 1917.
SISTERS TO BUILD
AT HARTINGTON, NKB.
Hartington, Neb.— (UP) — Con
struction will start here as soon as
warm weather sets In on a new $20,
000 convent and chapel building at
Mount St. Joseph, home of the
Ursuline ststers.
The convent here is a branch of
the mother order located at York,
Neb.
The new building, which is to be
50x30 feet and two stories high will
be ready for occupancy in the fall.
The present structure will be re
modeled and built into the new wing
addition.
An entire floor of the new and
remodeled structure will be used for
student dormitories. One floor of
the addition will be devoted to liv
ing quarters for nuns.
PONCA SCHOOL COSTS
CUT 18 PER CENT
Ponca, Neb. — (Special) — The
Ponca school board has arranged a
slash of 18 per cent in the pay of
instructors for the following school
year. All teachers except two have
been re-elected. Two high school
instructors lutve been dropped due
to a cut in the course of study,
home economics and commercial
being dropped.
Always Right.
"1 wonder what would happen if
you agreed with anything 1 said”
•I would be wrons.”
WHArS IN FASHIONS?
Smarten the Easter Outfit
Gloves and Handbags Combine to
New York—In your own hands lies the ability to make your Easter
costume a thrilling success. For—correctly gloved and clasping the right
handbag—they add just the right decorative accent.
So they're working together—
these Easter gloves and handbags.
The hand that holds the smooth
calf bag can be gloved in smooth
kid. While the suede bag is fash
ionably clasped by suede gloved
fingers.
Capeskin gloves go with the new
capeskin bags. There's pigskin for
both, too. Even the suede-like fabric
that makes those practical, smart
gloves, is making equally smart
handbags
Anil Colors Can Mitch
Often it’s clever to match their
colors, especially when gloves and
bag are chosen in light or bright
shades to accent a dark costume.
Or in dark colors to accent a light
costume.
For example, you’ll see beige coat
sleeves ending over dark brown
gloves that clasp a dark brown bag.
And you'll notice how beige gloves
and bag make a pleasant accent on
navy blue costumes.
These Easter gloves are smart
est when slip-ons. Or, to pull over
a close-fitting suit sleeve, a demi
mousquetair . . . the glove with
the slight flare above the wrist.
Plain or Decorated
And while perfectly plain gloves
are still most fashionable, a bit of
decoration on the glove is not out
of place with the very plain cos
tume.
Just a simple insert or a con
trasting lining to turn down as a
cuff, or a flared band like a cuff,
or contrasting stitching. . . the
gloves in the illustration show the
type.
Smart bags are simple, too. With
metal locks, initials, chains or
frames. Or ornaments in a color
that ties up with some other accent
color in the costume.
Self-color stitching is a fine trim
ming. And if the bag you choose is
a bit unusual in shape, so much the
better
Tomorrow: Head about the coats
you’ll see in the Easter parade.
More Young Blood.
From Chicago Journal of Commerce.
Industry, politics, philanthropy
and education are being crowded
with new, young faces these days.
There seems to be a desire on the
part of stockholders, voters and
trustees to get new stamina for the
affairs involved in the long depres
sion pull.
Where musty seniority-made pro
fessors were once the rule in acad
emic chairs and presidencies of uni
versities there are lusty young men
now--witness Dr. Robert M. Hutch
ins, president of the University of
Chicago. Recently it was noted in
these columns that Mr. James A.
Farrell had stepped down in the
United States Steel Corporation in
favor of a younger man yet to be
named. Mr. Harvey S. Firestone did
the same thing in his rubber com
Sany and Mr. C. W. Nash in Nash
totors. The trend war made evi
dent in President Hoover's appoint
ment of Mr. Mills in the place of
Mr. Mellon as secretary of the
treasury and of Mr. James H.
Douglas, Jr., of Chicago as first as
sistant secretary.
Outside politics and business, we
In Chicago have the opportunity to
watch the effective philanthropy of
Mr. Edward L. Ryerson, Jr., and
Mr. Samuel Insull, Jr., in relieving
unemployment. Mr. James Simpson,
Jr., son' of the head of Marshall
Field and Company, is campaign
ing against Mr. Jerome Farrell, son
of Dr. P. J. H. Farrell, for the 10th
Illinois district seat in Congress.
Mr. Frank S. Sims, son of Mr. Ed
win W. Sims, former United States
attorney, is running for a represen
tative toga in the Illinois house, and
Mr. Allan Healy, not yet 30, is can
didate in the primary for trustee of
the sanitary district. The new crop
of representatives who recently went
to Congress were much younger on
the average than used to be the
case. Even the Senate is losing some
of its traditional palsiness.
All these young fellow's are cap
able. It is a salutary sign. It means
that firmer hands are on the throt
tle of business, with the Nestorian
wisdom of the older heads nearby
to advise. It has long been the cus
tom in the political families of
Britain literally to rear their sons
to the purple. That is one reason
why Britain's farflung colonies for
the most part are so effectively
governed.
CHOCOLATE CARAMELS
2 tablespoons butter.
cup condensed milk.
I1,4 cups sugar.
1 teaspoon vanilla.
4 tablespoons corn syrup.
3 squares chocolate.
Combine milk, sugar, corn syrup
find chocolate. Cook until brittle
when dropped into cold water. Add
butter and vanilla. Pour into a but
tered pan. When cool, cut into
squares.
Total area of the Hawaiian Is
lands is a/,03 rsuave miles.
Women No Better Jurors.
From the Miami Herald.
When equal suffrage became ei
fective a decade ago It was predict
ed that government and politics
would be placed upon a higher mor
al plane. This desired end has not
been achieved, and the same hind
of politicians are being elected as
ever.
Women, too. are now named as
jurors, and in this field they Jo dif
fer from men, and not always in a
favorable light. Either they are
more careless and get caught when
engaged In questionable practice or
else they have less regard for the
proper ethics.
Two Detroit women recently on a
jury prevented the conviction of a
banker. Within a short time after
the trial they were found in the
rooms of the man they had freed.
The latest incident is that of a
Minneapolis woman sentenced to six
months in jail and fined $1,000 for
contempt of court by perjury. She
deadlocked a jury trying a pro
moter for mail fraud. She had de
nied having been employed for
years. It was revealed that she had
worked for the man whose case she
heard as a juror.
Possibly women offenders attrac.
more attention because they arc
rare but these cases would indicate
there is little to choose between men
and women when it comes to pro*
bity and honor.
SOME CONSOLATION.
The measure of man they say Is
How much can the fellow stand?
In parlance coarse, but not less
true,
How full in his craw of sand?
When trouble comes he need no say,
“Adversity is sweet.”
He's shown his worth if he has
His head and eke his feet.
Though your lot be tougher than all
'the rest.
This consolation’s yours:
He's the greatest man, and proven
such.
Who the hardest blows endures.
—Sam Page.
i The ear’iest record of a practical
1 clock is dated 996 A. D.
bi tter scotch
2 cups brown sugar.
>i cup butter.
4 tablespoons corn syrup.
2 tablespoons water.
2 tablespoons vinegar.
Boil all together until a drop
hardens when dropped into cole
water. Pour into buttered pan. Whet
cool, cut into squares with a sharp
pointed knife.
The world's largest canal lock,
1,312 feet long and 164 feet wide,
capable of raising the largest ship
afloat, has hecn set up in Holland.
EXPERIMENT FARM BIG
AID TO NEBRASKANS
Alliance, Neb.—< UP)—Growth ol
the potato and gram growing indus
tries of northwestern Nebraska dur
ing the last three years has been
aided by experiments carried on at
the Box Butte experiment station
six miles northwest of here.
Through the experiments at the
station, which is maintained oy the
state and at which John Pospisil is
superintendent, fanners have been
able to determine the varieties of
potatoes and grains which thrive
best in this section.
One of the principal lines of work
being carried out is an extensive
crop-rotation experiment, planned
for the purpose of determining the
rotation best suited to the produc
tion of maximum crops of clean po
tatoes. Rotations of various lengths
are included, with potatoes follow
ing all the various crops produced
in this region.
One important problem is wheth
er the virus that causes diseases in
potatoes is native in this region
and if not when it will leave.
The experiment farm was pro
vided at the 1928-29 session of state
legislature, and was established in
this county through the board of
commissioners. The farm contains
160 acres of land and four build
ings owned by the county and leased
to the agricultural experiment sta
tion.
RECEIVE BIDS
ON ROAD WORK
Several Projects in North*
east Nebraska to Be
Let April 1
Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—Bids for re
urfacing nearly 600 miles of the
state’s graveled highways and foi
incidental repairs to bridges and cul
verts, will be received by the state
department of public works, April
1.
Included in the list of projects on
which contracts are to be let are
70 units of maintenance and re
pair. The cost of the work and ma
terials to be used has not been es
timated.
Approximately two weeks follow
ing the first letting, second list ol
projects will be opened for bids. In
cluded in the second letting will be
approximately 600 miles additional
gravel resurfacing.
Among the projects to be let
April 1 are the following:
Resurfacing 20.4 miles. Fremont
West Point; resurfacing 13.1 miles.
Fremont-Hooper; regraveling 30 2
miles, Gretna-Louisville and Fort
Crook-Chalco; resurfacing 8.2 miles,
Fremont-Arlington; reconditioning
30.9 miles, Norfolk-Neligh; resurfac
ing 14.1 miles, Humphrey-Norfolk;
reconditioning 16 miles, Norfolk
Pilger; resurfacing 14.1 miles, Wis
ner-Stanton; resurfacing 25.4 miles,
Norfolk-Wausa; regraveling 20.5
miles, Tekamah-Lyons and Oakland
West Point; regraveling 11.2 miles,
Oakland-West Point; resurfacing 15
miles, Blair-Oakland and Tekamah
Decatur; reconditioning 15.3 miles,
Oakland-Walthill; resurfacing 14.1
miles, Rosalie-Homer; resurfacing
13.8 miles, Winnebago-Dakota City.
NEBRASKA D. A. R. OPENS
ANNUAL CONVENTION
North Platte, Neb.—(UP)—Dele
gates to the 30th annual state con
ference of the Nebraska Daughters
of the American Revolution vere
assembled here Tuesday for the
state meeting. The conference was
to open formally Tuesday night,
with an address by Mrs. R. H. Kirk
patrick of Omaha, national chair
man for Americanism for the Amer
ican Legion. Colonial dress will fea
ture the evening sessions Tuesday
night and Wednesday, commemorat
ing the bicentennial anniversary of
the birth of George Washington.
Delegates participated in planting
a tree in memory of George Wash
ington at Memorial Park, Tuesday
afternoon.
OMAHAN SHOOTS MAN
WHO WAS BEATING HER
Omaha, Neb.—(AP)—Mrs. Myrtle
Choate, proprietress of a small lo
cal hotel, her son and Ruth Fox of
Des Moines were held Tuesday for
the fatal shooting Monday night of
Verne Roberts, 32, of Des Moines.
Mrs. Choate who told police the
shooting was accidental, having re
sulted when she seized a gun in an
effort to stop Roberts beating her.
“I didn’t mean to shoot him,”
she declared, “it snapped accident
allp.” Roberts was struck in the
right side of the head.
She said Roberts and the Fox girl
registered at her hotel Sunday night
and that the former became enraged
when the girl danced with her son.
He began to beat her, she claimed
and she seized the gun in self de
fense.
ROBBERS FAIL TO
OPEN THURSTON SAFI
Thurston, Neb.—(Special)—Rob
bers entered the office of the Mose
man Lumber company, Saturday
night, and attempted to force open
the safe. The handle and dial were
knocked off but the robbers were
unable to open the door. Nothing
was taken from other parts of the
building. It is thought by officers to
be the work of local talent.
NEWCASTLE PHONE COMPANY
OPERATED AT PROFIT
Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — The
annual report of the Farmers Tele
phone company of Newcastle whien
has been filed with the state rail
way commission show’s total assets
of $23,129; common stock outstand
ing, $15,550; total revenues, $4,378
.63; total expenses, $3,957.53. The
company had 255 stations at the
tnd of the year, an increase of six
over the previoi^f year. A. M. Lueb
ben is president of the company; R
V. Sweet, secretary and treasurer,
and C. A. Luc'oben. manager.
BRITISH PLAN
SMUGGLER WAR
London — (UP) — The coast
guard defense against smugglers is
to be strengthened around Britain’*
5.000 miles of sea coast.
Following recent inquiries, it ha*
been decided to bring the coast
guard units up to full strength.
The present coast guard staff of
1.000 men Is likely to be added to
by the appointment of senior offi
cers, many of whom will be former
officers of the navy, or officers on
half pay.
Modern methods of transportation
and communication have made the
work of the coast watchers a much
easier task than it was a few year*
ago. In the old days, when inland
revenue cutters were under sail, the
coast guards had little chance of
catching smugglers.
Today, speedy motor-launches
at sea are able to maintain contact
with the shore stations by wireless.
They also are able to overhaul any
suspicious vessel and demand an
explanation of her movements.
On land, the coast guard now
rides motorcycles and can, if nec
essary. travel at over 70 miles an
hour.
In New York
A STROLL THROUGH THR
WORLD'S RICHEST A HIE A
Manhattan’s Millionaires
New York — During a stroll that
takes no more than 20 minutes
it’s possible to pass through the
richest district in the world.
Not even those hardy prospecting
gents of the gold rush days and the
oil booms could dig up as much
money as might be found in a rela
tively small area bounded by 60th
to 85th streets and Fifth avenue
to the East river in Manhattan.
Just start to walk in any direc
tion through New York’s million
aire zone, and at almost any given
point you can look up at the house
that plenty of Jack built.
King’s Mansions
There’s the famous Frick man
sion, with its museum and tiny,
alluring square of green garden
space; there’s the mansion of
Thomas Lamont and of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., the home of the
George Bakers and most of tha
other kings of the financial world.
But in this walk, particularly if
you wander in a leisurely fashion,
don’t be surprised if suspicious
eyed plain clothesmen stroll not
far away for more than a hundred
very special detectives can ba
found in this zone.
Dining Room Yodels
Remember those good old lunch
counter and dining room yodels:
“Adam and Eve on a raft”.
“Two steaks in a marathon" . .
Four pairs, sunny side up and two
in the dark . . . .?
All those cryptic-sounding, mirth
provoking shouts that echoed
through the kitchens!
Well, if you can stand it, mos
sieurs and mesdames, they’re being
crooned in the larger New York
spots today. You heard me— they’re
being crooned and only the ear*
ov the waitress can get them.
Recently, for instance, th* New
Yorker Hotel put in a microphone
system, a la broadcast fashion, so
that the chef can mute his voice
and in Valleesque tones inform the
waitress outside — “Ready on
Irish turkey .... take ’em away
.two on the double hots up
.... take 'em away” .... so goes
the chant in tremuloso.
A Challenge to the Palace
For the first time In many a year,
the Palace Theater—the theat
rical Everest that vaudevilliani
seek to climb—is being chal
lenged and it’s one of the tid-bit*
of chatter about the big street.
The Palace, as all theatrical folk
know, has been the traditional ace
spot of the variety world. But
vaudeiYle threatened to slip, even
in New York, and the moguls
called for help.
Masters of ceremony came Tan
ning up with crews of headliners.
Then, one week, a certain Lou
Holtz came up dragging behind
him a feature bill that ran and
ran and ran and broke all records.
Now it’s Mons. Holtz, quite as
sured of his prowess as a variety
producer, who steps out with his
own playhouse — the Hollywood,
which was, until recently, a movie
house. And now they're all wait
ing to see what happens.
Sophie Tucker's Real Name
SHORTER NOTES—Lilyan Tash
man's first hubby, A1 Lee once
teamed In vaudeville with Eddie
Cantor and now is manager for
George White, the movie revue
gent.Sophie Tucker’ real
name was Sonia Abuza.Her
first husband was a gent named
Tuck and hence the "Tucker.”
Her father, newly arrived from Po
land, ran a little retaurant in
Hartford, Conn.Stage people
came there.And that's how
Sophie got her start.
CEMETERY SHOOTS RIGHTS
Stanford-le-hope„ Essex, Eng. —
(UP)—'The parish council has
granted shooting rights in the local
cemetery to James Kittle as a means
of keeping down a plague of rabbits.
BOBBY REQUIREMENTS RAISED
London — (UP) — A new order
raises the minimum height of met
ropolitan police to 5 feet It) inches,
and reduces the age limit from 20
to 25, as compared with 5 feet, C
inches, and an age limit of 20 tc 27
hitherto.
Newly-Crowned.
From Tit-Bits.
'•What!" grumbled the waiter,
no Up? Why, the champion miser
of, this towui always gives me &
quarter."
"Oh, does he," said the surly
diner. ‘‘Well. Gaze uoon the new
champion.”