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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1930.
Military Forces
Holding Control
of Peru Affairs
Lima Fat Under Martial Law After
President Leguia Forced Out
Much Damage Caused
Lima. Peru, Aug. 25. The Peru
vian cruiser Amirante Grau steamed
Into the Pacific ocean today, carry
ing into obscurity President Augusto
B. Leguia. The 67-year-old man
who seized the Peruvian government
by a coup d'etat in 1919, and since
had ruled the country as a dictator,
resigned before dawn this morning
in compliance with the demands of
a military junta.
Thereupon the junta immediately
established a new government head
ed by General Manuel Ponce, and
announced that its policy under the
existing constitution would be one of
"progress, concord and moral sani
totion." Martial law wns decreed
this afternoon by the provisional
government.
Then the government guaranteed
safe conduct out of "the country to
the former president and the jour
ney to Callao, port of Lima, began.
At 5:15 o'clock this morning, ac
companied by his son John, his son-in-aw,
Alfredo Larranaga, and the
remainer of his family, Leguia went
to the dock and walked aboard the
Almirante Grau, which immediately
steamed out. The cruiser was sche
duled to connect with the British
steamer Orduna, which is due in
Panama August 29, at sea.
Revolt Last Week. .
The dramatic events which un
seated one of the strongest rulers
of South America began only a few
days ago. Late last week the garri
son at Areauipa revolted under the
leadership cf Lieutenant Colonel
Sanchez C'Erro, and the revolt soon
spread to ocher districts in the
southern part of the republic. (
Nothing occurred in Lima but the
city had a restless air yesterday.
The ministers were reported to have
become dissatisfied at a meeting Fri
day when some of them suggested
that Sanchez Cerro be given com
mand of the army. Leguia refused.
Meanwhie students began demon
strations during the morning, shout
ing. "Down with the dictator! Long
live liberty." They were not disturb
ed by the poice unti one group was
dispersed, at the door of the govern
ment house.
In the face of this the president,
who has a large raoing stud, followed
his usual Sunday custom of going to
St. Beatriz race track. There he re
ceived an ovation from a little group
of friends in the official grandstand,
the last for him on Peruvian soil.
He left the track about 6 p. m.
and his motor car, escorted by po
lice, was followed by students who
shouted against the dictatorship.
The cries were taken up by great
crowds. The party reached the
presidential palace without incident.
Balked by Military.
Leguia then conferred for half an
hour with his military staff and an
nounced that the resigned cabinet
would be replaced with a minister
under General Pedro Pablo Martinez.
On hearing this news a group of
officers informed the president they
would not accept Martinez, so the
president designated General Fern
ando Sarmiento to head the new gov
ernment. At midnight President Leguia
went to the government building to
swear in the new cabinet. When all
had been sworn in a dramatic in
terruption came with a military com
mittee, which said that no cabinet
headed by either Sarmiento or Mar
tinez would be satisfactory to the
military forces.
The resignation was written out
soon afterward.
All of this made a great day for
the popuace of Lima. As early as
4 o'clock this morning the central
thoroughfares were filled with ex
cited crowds shouting "Long live li
berty " "Long live the army!" "Long
live the navy!" No one sept .appar
ently. Most of the demonstrators were
joyous and good natured, but some
groups attacked the buildings of El
Tiempo and La Prenso, newspapers
which were regarded as Leguia or
gans. La Prenso was stoned, some
of the doors and windows being
broken.
Prepares to
Inspect Water
ways Projects
Hurley and Chief of Army Engineers
to Head Trip Down Mississippi
Outlines Program.
FAMINE KILLS THOUSANDS
Brussels The death of 40.000 na
tives from a famine in Ruanda prov
ince of Belgian Congo was reported
Friday by Bishop Claes, chief mis
sionary of Belgian's great African
possession. The famine was caused
by a severe drouth. Ruanda prov
ince was formerly a part of German
East Africa. The bishop stated that
thousands of natives had emigrated
to the British territory of Uganda.
DIES WHEN TRUCK UPSETS
Rulo Mary Louise Behme, six
year old Rulo girl, was fatally injur
ed Monday when an ice truck into
which she had climbed rolled down a
hill and overturned. The driver had
stopped the truck in front of her
home and soon after she had en
tered it the brakes gave way and
the machine sped down the hill.
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Washington, Aug. 25. Secretary
Hurley prepared tonight for an im
mediate inspection of all Mississippi
waterway, river and harbor and flood
control works from Minneapolis to
New Orleans, while army engineers
were gathering data with a view to
speeding up river work to relieve unemployment.
Major General Lytle Brown, chief
of army engineers, and Thomas Q.
Ashburn, chairman of the Inland Wa
terways corporation, have been se
lected by the secretary to accompany
him. The trip down the river will be
made by boat and Mr. Hurley plana
to survey projects away from the
stream by airplane. The war secre
tary will begin his tour about Sep
tember 1.
The work of the engineers to de
termine which projects can be exped
ited to relieve unemployment is be
ing done as a result of the conference
over the week-end between President
Hoover, Secretary Hurley and army
engineers at the president's Rapidan
camp.
Localities where unemployment is
most serious will be given the bene
fits, so far as possible, of the residue
of the 35 million dollars available
during the fiscal year for flood con
trol work, the secretary said.
In discussing the general subject
of waterways Mr. Hurley said it was
the purpose of the president's so-
called five-year program to place traf
fic from the great lakes to the sea by
the Mississippi within a period of
five years. It is very probable, how
ever, he said, that there will be con
tinuous work on the Mississippi and
its tributaries for a century, during
which time new streams, now con
sidered non navigable, would be
opened to traffic.
With regard to a proposal to in
crease the annual appropriation for
flood control from 35 million dollars
to 70 million dollars, the secretary
said it was necessary to rely on the
engineers as to the amount of money
which could be economically expend
ed and that the war department'
would not anticipate recommenda
tions for the engineers. World-Herald.
WOMAN DRIVER IS DEAD
Omaha Lydia M. Hutchinson,
"Whistlin' Lyd," Hutchinson, one of
the most celebrated woman dog
team drivers in the United States
and Canada, died from pneumonia
at Ashton, Ida., Monday, according
to information received at Union
Pacific headquarters here.
"Whistlin' Lyd 'had participated
in the annual Ashton race for more
than ten years. Fortune never fav
ored her team of Alaskan mushers
but she persisted and in the last two
derbies she finished "in the money."
She also had participated in Ca
nadian derbies and was widely known
to mushers because of her habit of
coaxing her dogs to superhuman ef
forts by whistling at them.
INCREASE IN FARM
PRODUCTS VALUE SEEN
Ottumwa, la., Aug. 25. Belief
that the value of farm products will
increase was seen Monday by L. A.
Andrew, state superintendent of
banking, as the basis for better busi
ness conditions in Iowa this fall.
Addressing the Ottumwa Rotary
club, he urged a "fighting optimism"
and said he believes Iowa will be the
first middle western state to recover
from the deflation period.
BANKER CLAIMS HE WAS DUPED
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Seward, Aug. 25. W. H. Kirch
man, former cashier of the State Sav
ings bank of Wahoo, went to trial
In district court here Monday on
charges of appropriating a customer's
mortgage for his own use.
Kirchman is being tried on two
counts. Using his bank with an in
tent to injure and defraud Edith and
Olive Lasure, and using his bank to
defraud the First National bank of
Lincoln.
Attorney Eugene O'Sullivan of
Omaha, counsel for the defense, ad
mitted that the mortgage was sold
and assigned to the Lincoln bank,
but said W. H. Kirchman had signed
the paper when asked to by F. J.
Kirchman, not knowing what was
in It, and having no Intent to de
fraud.
FACES FORGERY CHARGE
Falls City, John Davis, twenty,
confessed Monday, Falls City author
ities said ,to having forged $90 worth
of checks near Boone, la. The youth,
who lives near Rula, was taken to
Iowa to face charges.
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Watered Lands
of Kansas Find
Drought Relief
Arkansas and Kaw Valley Dis
tricts Win Through Irri
gation Scheme.
Topeka, Kan. The continued dry
weather with the resulting injury to
farm crops ha3 served to direct at
tention to irrigation as a means of
insuring crops against the effects of
drought. During a previous sequence
of dry years, irrigation received a
great deal of attention in Kansas, but
because the last two years have been
unusually favorable for crop produc
tion as far as rainfall was concerned,
we have heard much less of irriga
tion. With the occurrence of the present
dry spell, a survey was made to de
termine the extent to which pumping
plants installed during previous years
were now being usd for the protec
tion of crops, and the results show
that practically every pumping plant
in the State is now being used to its
full capacity. Where such crops as
corn are being properly watered they
the continuing to make rapid growth
and are suffering no ill effects what
ever from the drought or heat.
"Kansas has about 5,000,000 acres
of land on which, or under or near
which, sufficient water can be ob
tained for profitable irrigation," de
clares George S. Knapp, chief engi
neer of the water resources division
of the Kansas State Board of Agri
culture. "Where such water is avail
able, experience has shown that
pumping plans can be put in at a
cost which will more than Justify
the installation, and their use will do
much to stabilize crop production on
such land."
Until a few years ago but little Ir
rigating was done east of Garden
City. In 1924 a few farmers in the
Arkansas valley and in the Kaw val
ley and its tributaries installed irri
gation pumping plants for the pur
pose of getting first-hand informa
tion on the value of irrigation. Re
sults obtained were so satisfactory
that even chamber of commerce in
different parts of the State began to
establish irrigating demonstration
farms in their respective commun
ities for the purpose of bringing to
the attention of the farmer the value
of irrigation.
Mr. Knapp saps that it is as crop
insurance that irrigation can fill a
place of economic importance in the
State's agriculture. It i3 not to de
velop irrigation, often expensive irri
gation, to reclaim cheap land and
make rural homes, but to develop
cheap irrigation for high-priced lands
and thus bring crop production in
line with the cost of owning and op
erating such lands that irrigation
performs its proper function.
In the Arkansas Valley in Kansas
today, electrically driven pumping
plants are being constructed at costs
ranging from $10 to $15 per acre for
the number of acres the plant is ca
pable of serving. To illustrate these
costs in another way: The pumping
plan for ,a farm of 40 to 80 acres
should have a capacity of 750 to
1000 gallons per minute .It will cost
between $800 and $1000 to construct
it. For larger, farms, I. e., 80 to 120
acres, the plant should have a ca
pacity of about 1500 gallons per min
ute, and should cost about $1800. If
the farm Is larger than 120 acres, a
supply of not less than 2000 gallons
per minute should be developed, and
the cost will run in the neighborhood
of $1.25 to $1.50 per gallon per min
ute of capacity.
The irrigation pumping plant, if
properly constructed, can remain un
used for long periods. of time without
falling into such a state of dispair
that it cannot, when needed, be put
in service with but little more than
an hour's notice. When idle it re
quires little or no maintenance. The
chief item of cost in the operation
of the pumping plant is the actual
cost of pumping, but this expense is
incurred only when the farmer is
actually using water.
Hyde Makes
Tour of the
Drouth Regions
And Returns Much Encouraged by
Rains and Efforts of Farmers;
Pastures Green.
LANCASTER JAIL CONDITION HIT
Lincoln, Aug. 25. J. H. Strlef,
federal inspector of prisons, paused
in Lincoln Monday long enough to
tell Sheriff Claude Hensel that the
Lancaster county Jail is none too
good. He pointed cut the lack of
hospital facilities and proper wards
for women, children and men, and
said also that prisoners have no
proper places to receive visitors.
At the same time. County Attor
ney Max Towle said he had been
asked by the commissioners to de
cide whether it would be legal to
spend $100,000 from the county gen
eral fund for a new lockup.
BURNS FATAL TO TOT
WHO UPSET GASOLINE
Fremont James Heller, infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Heller of
Fremont, died Monday, the result of
burns suffered Thursday when a can
of gasoline which he had upset near
a stove exploded. Mrs. Heller, severe
ly burned in trying to rescue her
babe, is still in a serious condition.
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Washington, Aug. 25. Improve
ment in farm conditions in five states
affected by the drouth was reported
to President Hoover today by Secre
tary Hyde upon the latter's return
from an automobile tour of the re
gions with experts of the agriculture
department.
"I feel much better about the situ
ation," the secretary said on leaving
the White house. "While the loss is
there, pastures are not permanently
injured."
The agriculture 6ecretary, with Dr.
Harry N. Vinall, specialist on the
southern pastures in the bureau of
plant industry, and John B. Shep
ard, bureau of crop estimates, made
a four day trip through Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky, southern
Indiana and southern Ohio.
"I think probably the worst affect
ed area in the drouth stricken sec
tions we visited waB the Shenandoah
valley in Virginia," Mr. Hyde said,
adding: "In a general way the loss of
the corn crop is at least as great as
estimated, but the hopeful thing is
that the rains are bringing back the
pastures.
"Even in the areas in Kentucky
which we were doubtful about and
thought would be ruined are begin
ning to get green. They are turn
ing cattle on them.
"I think the adaptability of the
average American citizen, including
the farm, is perfectly amazing. They
are adjusting themselves to condi
tions and are showing a much more
hopeful attitude. Our problem is
about what the experience of Presi
dent Hoover indicated it would be
an individual problem." .World-Herald.
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