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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1938)
Flies Atlantic in Second-Hand ‘Crate’ Around the World in 91 Hours—Czech Huddle Douglas P. Corrigan, young American aviator who flew the Atlantic ocean in a second-hand, nine-year-old single-motor monoplane which he bought for $900. Previously making a non-stop transcontinental flight from California to New York, Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett field and landed at Baldonnel, Ireland, 28 hours and 13 minutes later. Refused government permission for the flight, he left the field saying Los Angeles was his destination. On landing he said he had made a mistake in his direction. President Inspects Shipyard President Roosevelt makes a brief inspection of Mare Island Navy Yard, near Vallejo, Calif., before he proceeds over the Golden Gate bridge to San Francisco and thence to the Treasure island site of the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition. Here the Chief Executive is snapped as he greeted Commandant David Worth Bagley. HELPS HIS PUTTS There is nothing orthodox about Leo Diegel’s style of golf play as witness his “standing-sitting” putt ing style, demonstrated at the re cent Professional Golf association’s meet at Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa. Diegel says his stance is the “most accurate method in the world. It isn’t pretty to look at, I’ll admit, but it’s sound.’’ INSULL PASSES Memories of the titanic days when he was the utility king of America were recalled in the recent death of Samuel Insull in Paris. The famous Chicagoan passed away at the age of seventy-eight. The utility com pany empire he erected in his hey day crashed after the 1929 stock market panic, causing the loss of billions to investors. Insull, who came to America as a poor young man, rose rapidly to success. He was secretary to Thomas A. Edison for a number of years before he entered business in Chicago. Astor Kin Sells Golf Balls Francis Ormond French, impecunious father-in-law of John Jacob Astor, III, who was refused unemployment relief and a WPA job re cently, is shown selling a customer a pail of golf balls for a quarter at a golf driving practice range at Brighton, Mass., where he secured a job. French is paid $5 a day and 50 per cent commission on all golf balls be actually sells. Cruiser Is President’s Vacation Home The cruiser (J. S. S. Houston, which President Roosevelt has used for his South American vacation. Th« ^ President reviewed the navy’s massed fleet in San Francisco harbor before starting. . 1—The big twin-engined monoplane in which Howard Hughes, millionaire pilot, made the fastest trip ever recorded around the world. Only 3 days, 19 hours and 17 minutes after he took off from New York with a crew of four Hughes returned to his starting place. 2—Dr. Eduard Benes, left, president of Chechoslovakia, talks over European conditions with ,Dr. Milan Hodza, prime minister. 3—Howard Hughes, sensational young aviator who headed record-breaking world flight. CHAMPIONSHIP FORM The ball seems to be hitting Don Budge in the forehead in this pic ture, but actually he is making a fast return to his opponent, Bunny Austin of Great Britain, in the championship matches at Wimble don, England, recently. Budge de feated Austin decisively. Freckle Champ and Chief Rival Paul Brown, eleven-year-old youngster of Harrisburg, Pa., who won the National Freckle championship during Children’s week at Atlantic City, N. J., recently, poses while Marie Malone, ten, of Washington, | D. C., gives him the once-over. Marie was runner-up In the contest. Palestine Disorders Incited by Hanging gg . ."iwrr. unr t— — Watched by his companions, this demonstrator injured in a skirmish with the police at Tel Aviv, Pales tine, holds his head as he attempts to rise. The demonstration which took place in the Jewish quarter near Haifa, followed the hanging of a Jewish youth who was sentenced to death by a military court for firing on an Arab bus. Duce Defends Italy’s Wheat Crop Standing bare-chested on top of a threshing machine, Premier Benita Mussolini angrily brands as the “dregs of all nations" those who have spread reports of Italy’s wheat shortage. Speaking at the little town of Aprillia which has been built on the reclaimed Pontine marshes, he admitted that the crop was smaller than last year’s but insisted thai the quality was better. ACE PLANE BUILDER ■hi—ir I' u rn— Milton Huguelct, sixteen, of Chi cago, who was awarded the grand championship of the National Model Airplane meet in Detroit, Mich., re cently, from among 700 entrants. He also won the Bloomingdale trophy for the best time made in the light cabin model. Farm Topics [| YOUNG BIRDS NEED GROWING QUARTERS Ample Space for Pullets Is Best Summer Plan. By Dr. W. C. Thompson, Poultry Hus bandman, Rutgers University. WNU Service. Much of the success of next year’s table-egg producing flock depends upon the way in which the young pullets are being grown this sum mer. Future layers must be pro tected against adverse conditions during the warm summer months. A much too common fault among poultrymen is to crowd the pullets. Constant and too close contacts tend to injure the health of developing pullets and increase the risks of disease. It is recommended that pullets be divided into colonies or flocks for handling on summer ranges or fields. Sixty pullets make a desirable unit and is the number which can be taken care of economically and efficiently in one standardized col lapsible summer shelter. These shelters are light in weight and can be easily moved from place to place over the range. This means that each colony of pullets can be given not only ample space or area over which to roam, but also fresh, clean ground throughout the season. Each colony should be handled as a separate unit and supplied with its own water troughs or fountains and its own mash and grain hop pers. Five such units can be ef ficiently managed on each acre of range, particularly if the range is covered with some green, growing • crop, such as grass or alfalfa. In this way, each acre of range will accommodate 300 grown pullets to advantage. Such an arrangement will obviate overcrowding and mini mize disease problems. It may seem, during the early summer season, that the shelters could easily accommodate more than 60 pullets, but as the weeks advance the fast growing pullets will soon use the available space and prove the wisdom of having allowed that amount. Dip for Sheep Scab Is Cure for the Disease Sheep scab, a parasitic disease of the skin caused by tiny mites, can be cleared up by dipping the animals in a solution of lime and sul phuv, coal tar disinfectant or 40 i per cent nicotine sulphate. The solution should be made up at the rate recommended on the dip con tainer, advises Wallaces' Farmer. For best results, the dip should be about 105 to 110 degrees in tem perature. Keep each animal in the dipping vat for two full minutes. Keep badly infested sheep in for three minutes. Follow with a second dipping 10 ta 12 days later. Failure to make a follow-up dip at exactly the end of this interval will not forestall re infestation with a new brood of mites. Along with treatment of the live animals, clean up and disinfect the sheds. Keep the dipped sheep out of these sheds for at least 30 days. In fact, following dipping, it is ad visable to turn the sheep onto ground where they have not been running for a period of at least several months. Best Breed of Poultry A study of ten-year records indi cates that choice of breed is not de pendent upon the breed itself, writes Cora Cooke, extension poultry spe cialist, University farm, St. Paul, but rather on management and lo cal conditions. In six of the 10 years, light breeds led in labor in come (the amount left to pay for labor after expenses are deducted) but for the whole period there was a difference of only 3 cents per hen, in favor of light breeds. The dual-purpose flocks had the advan tage of a larger income from meat, but the light breed had an advan tage of more eggs and a smaller feed requirement However, the cost of feed of dual-purpose flocks was no higher than that of the light breeds. In flocks of more than one breed, the labor income, each year, was below that in the flocks con sisting of a single light or dual purpose breed. Raw Potatoes for Cows Raw potatoes may be fed to milk ing cows though best results will be obtained when they are limited in amounts to not over 20 pounds per cow per day, says an authority in the Montreal Herald. Potatoes have a tendency to produce a white, tallowy butter when fed in larger quantities. In general, about four pounds of potatoes will be equivalent to one pound of hay in feeding value. Lespedeza in Shade Lespedeza is not a pasture possi bility in dense woods, but the crop promises to stand more shade in wood lots than will bluegrass, ac cording to K. E. Beeson of the ag ronomy department, Purdue univer sity. While the plant will grow on thin, acid soil, rich sweet soil ren ders a marked increase in growth.