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LOUISIANA ^ '-1^ ? J -1 M ' 't^. Pickaninny Jaz* Orchestra in New Orleans. iPrfrnrwl hv Vat: nal Geographic Society V? .1- ! intt -ii L?. C.I ? Vk'Xl' S rvicf. Louisiana tins dedicated her new domeles* capitol building, a gigantic pile of limestone which rises 33 stories ahore the streets of Baton Itouge. Louisiana boasts many modern buildings in her bustling cities, but j t!ie fume of tlie state is not confined to architectural It is more widely known f??r its equitable climate, its tranquil scenic beauty, and a hospi lality which makes the manifold claims of her citizens as to the state's point of excellence seem a bare re cital of obvious facts. !t is one of America's leading fur proiludng regions, and the source of staggering quantities of shrimps and Strawberries, oysters and orutigcs. sugar and salt, terrapins and fiery tabasco, rice anil red snappers. figs and frog's legs, waterfowl and musk rats, timber and turpentine, cucum hers and cattle, sulphur and Span Ish moss. Oil and gas flow from its seemingly inexhaustible subterranean chambers. It boasts the second largest port ir the I'nitcd States ? New Orleans ? through which pass vast cargoes ,?t foreign commodities, including 23.000. OliO bunches of bananas each year, cof fee for every third cup consumed In the United States, and mahogany and Sisal, to our markets; while ail the varied products of farm and factory originating in the lower Mississippi valley begin their sea Journey from the city's docks. Romance of New Orleans. Many writers agree that New Or leans is one of only three great "story cities" of America. And New Orleans is part and parcel of Loulsi ana. < ?ne needs only to go back to the adventurous times of those dar ing French pioneers, l?a Salle, Bien ville and Iberville; to the days of those picturesque and honored pi rales. i he l^'ititte Brothers and Dom inique You ; to quadroon balls, voo doo rites, suicide and dueling oaks, or even to t lie fantastic revels rtf this year's Mardi Gras, to find romance here. Today in Louisiana the visitor en counters romance as readily in any one of the half score l"?-to-20- story office buildings of New Orleans ns he did formerly in the city's "haunted houses." absinthe bars, or charming patios rich in association with the names of Lafayette, Louis Philippe. Adelina Patti, Jenny Lind. Audubon. Paul Morphy and Lafcadio (learn. For decades Louisiana's great mi gar mills, set down in the midst of billows of green cane extending to the horizon had unfailingly ground out wealth #o the state's sugar barons. Three hundred thousand tons of su gar was not an unusual year's yield from the fecund black soli. But the major romance of Louisiana Is to be found not In its cane fields. The pro genitor of those fields, and of the entire state, is the Father o. Waters. With its long, tenuous fingers of silt thrust far out into the Gulf of Mexico, thf "bird s-foot" delta of the Mississippi is unlike that of any oth er major river on the globe. Between Its Angers or claws are shallow, open bays, and the banks confining the great streams into which the river divides at Head of Passes. 05 miles below New Orleans, are in some places only a few feet In width. In colonial times, when 10 or 12 feet of water provided ample depth for all caravfls of commerce, navl gafion of the main passes o. the Mis sissippi presented no difficulties, but with the Increase In the tonnage a;.t. draft of vessels the shallow finger channels were a bar to progress and prosperity. Making the Delta Navigable. Ninety years ago the federal gov ernment made the first appropriation for deepening these natural channels, and In the course of the next 40 years It succeeded, by means of crude dredging processes, in increasing the depth to from 12 to 20 feet But when it Is recalled that Id time of Hood the Mississippi brings dow n .or deposit at Its mouth more than 2. <r hi.000 tons of sand a day. one can realize that this was a costly and disheartening battle. I!v 1870 vessels had so Increaseil In size and draft that a deeper elian nel becalm a crjini! necessity. A hoard eminent engineer* appoint ed to tlnd a solution <?? the problem made exhaustive studies of many ini p.. mint harbor entrances. Including 1 1,0 mouths of the Danube, which had Ill-ell successfully Improved by means i : contracting Jetties similar to those now in use on the Mississippi river The hoard finally reported that the use of Je'ties would be too costly for the improvement of the mouths nf the Mississippi and recommended the construction of n ship canal from l ort St. Philip (opposite Kort Jack son) to till* <iulf. At Ibis juncture there appeared be (ore congress an engineering genius who persuaded that body to defel for the time being the digging of (lie ship canal and permit him, on a ba sis ot "no cure, no pay." to attempt to provide and maintain a deep-water el anuel In his own way. r.ut whet congress finally accepted this "cant loose" proposition of .lames II. Ends, who had last com pleted the world-famous steel-arch bridge over the Mississippi at St. I .(itiis. the engineer was not permit ted to use the Southwest Pass for his experiment, as be had specified This was the best of the three main passes, and the government was tak Ing no chances with Mr. Kads and his chimerical proposition! If he wanted to lose his own money, he could ilnk it In South Pass without endangering the then best channel. The Ends contract called not only for a channel 20 feet deep and 200 ft et wide at the bottom, hut for main taiulng that depth for 211 years. With tremendous energy and rare organizing ability, the engineer set to work, and in Itss than five years his Jetties and his dredges had done the work. And. furthermore, lie main talned the depth for 20 years, that period expiring in 11*11. The main responsibility of the engineers today, so far as t tie mouths of the Missis sippi are concerned, is to prevent the river from creallrg new passes. Furs From the Marsnlands. It is not only the Mississippi which makes Louisiana "water-minded." The state Is threaded and meshed with bayous, lakes anil streams, giv ii v it more than 4.700 miles of navi gable waters? a total which exceeds by two for one Its nearest competl tor In the Cuion, Arkansas. Naturally, much of (he bordering land in the vast delta region Is marsh area; but let no casual observer he deceived into Imagining that "marsh" In Louisiana means waste or unpr.v dnctive land. It is these tens of thousands of grass covered acres which hnve given the state the unique distinction of being the largest fur producing commonwealth In the Union. As a matter of fact, not only does Uiulsiana lead all other states both In the value of Its fur crop und In the number of pells marketed, but last year, and for Severn I years past, it has produced more pelts than the entire Dominion of Canada, generally recognized as one of the world's most Important fur-producing countries. The musk rat is the fur citizen main stay of the state's pelt wealth. More than .'i.OOO.OOO of him were taken dur Ing the open season from November 20 to February 5. 1928-29. What with muskrats. opossums, raccoons, minks, skunks, otters, wild cats and foxes, (he trappers' sales last year aggre gated S8,.-|00,000. Journeying by a series of autobus stages from New Orleans to Lake Charles. In the- southwest corner of the state, one passes through a sec tion of Louisiana which Is redolent of romance. Here lies the Evangeline country, with Us many pleasing, if seldom substantiated, stories Identi fying particular spots with various episodes in the Longfellow epic. HOOVER OFFERS NEW ARMAMENT CUT PLAN Would Save Many Billions in Next Ten Years. Washington. ? President Hoover dra matically turned his attack on the de pression once more Inlo the interna tional field, proposing to the powers conferring at Geneva a program call ins for the most drastic reduction of land, air and naval armaments ever formally advanced. Striving anew to reduce the ?'over whelming burden of armament which , now lies upon the toilers of the world," the President sent Inst rue- ' tions to Hugh Gibson, ambassador to i P.elgium and head of the American ! delegation attending the Geneva arms conference, to propose a plan which would cut world armaments down by nearly one third. The President estimated that the program would save the peoples of the world $10,000,000,000 to $15,000. .mmhmm) in armaments costs in the next fen years. The savings to the United States. ?t was calculated, would amount to $2,000,000,000 in that period. Immediately, cabled advices, official and unofficial, flowed into Washington describing the reaction ;o the plan at Geneva and in various Kuropean cap itals. advance copies having been fur nished to the heads of the powers* delegations by Mr. Gibson, These re ports ranged from accounts- of an ap parently hostile attitude on the part of the French, through a cool recep tion by the ttritish, to ready acqnfefr cense on the part of Italy and Ger many, At tfie same time the Presi dent's plan won a general expression of approval among members of con gress. Ilis five fold program embraces: Abolishment of tanks, chemical war fare and large mobile guns. A cut of one third in the strength of all land armies over and above "the so-called police component.'* Abolition, of bombing planes and "total prohibition of all bombardment from the air." Reduction of one-third in the treaty number and tonnage of all battle ships. A cut in the treaty tonnage of air craft carriers, cruisers and destroyers of one-fourth and of submarines one third, with all nations limited to not more than 35,000 tons of submersibles each. Southern Pine Is O. K. for Making Paper Pulp Savannah, Ga. ? One of the greatest ccminercial opportunities ever opened in the South? discovery that white pa per can he made from virtually all its pine forests ? was announced here. White paper chemical pulp, made for the first time from long leaf and loblolly pines, 80 percent of the Smith's pine forests, was prepared for exhibition to a meeting of the Georgia Forest r> association at Kome. The discovery, heretofore a closely guarded secret, was made within the Inst month at Georgia's experimental paper mill here. The mill is support ed hy grants from the state legislature and operated hy the research division of the Georgia department of forestry and geological development. The new method of making paper was announced by th^ director of research. Dr. Charles II. Hertj of New York, former president of the Ameri can Chemical society. The process Is a development of his discovery two years ago that, contrary to a fiO- year old belief of both scientists and paper experts, white paper and newsprint can be made from slash pine. Ex-Chief of Police Is Held in Extortion Plot Wilmington, N. C. ? Authorities seek ing a possible link with the kidnap murder of the Lindbergh infant inves tigated a plot to extort from Mrs. Jesse Kenan Wise, wealthy clety woman of Wilmington, and Northampton, Mass. Former I'olice Chief John J. Fur long. Sr., was arrested and placed un der $r>,(KX) bond when implicated by six negroes who received a package supposedly containing the money. One of the extortion notes contained an al lusion to the fate of the Lindbergh baby, police said. Detroit Chiefs End Cruise; Rum Seized! Detroit. ? Seventy-two quarts of whisky were seize i from between 35 and 40 members of the Detroit hoard Qf commerce as they returned from their annual lake cruise, customs offi cials reported. Customs men boarded the boat at the dock and carefully Inspected the baggage of each returning memher. All liquor seized was thrown into the Detroit river. No one was held. The usual $5 a quart penalty was not in voked. SENATOR BORAH ? : 1 I t Ir Senator W. E. Borah of Idaho an nounced in the senate that he would not support President Hoover in the campaign because of the Republican platform, especially the prohibition plank. TWO RICH SISTERS MURDERED IN IOWA Shot to Death and Their Home Set Afire. Knoxvllle. Iowa.? The charred bod ies of Misses Let it la and Jennie Keefer. elderly spinsters, who were reputed :o he wealthy, were discov ers! in their farm house near Knox ville. Four empty rifle shells near the bodies indicated that the women, who were between sixty and seventy years old, had been shot to death. The killer or killers, in the opinion of in vestigators. set fire to the house after the shooting. The flames partly consumed the bodies and burned a hole in the floor of the dining room. One of the bodies had dropped into the basement. Knunet Hollingshead, a neighbor, who had been told to go to the spin sters' place to work, discovered the bodies when lie arrived soon after daylight. L'nnble to get a reply to his call at the door, he broke into the house. Sheriff Ira Ward, summoned by Hoi llngshead, questioned other neighbors and learned of the report that the Keefer sisters had kept a large sum of money hidden on the farm, lie ex pressed the opinion that robbery was the motive for the double murder. The fire did no damage to other parts of Ihe house and this led to a theory that Ihe bodies and the dining room flour had heen soaked with kero sene or gasoline before being touched off. The only suspect so far are two negroes, who were seen on the right of way of the Rock Island railroad, which passes through the sisters' farm Extortionists Confess Flogging Their Victim Pontiac. Mich.? Three men and a woman are under arrest accused :>f whipping liny S. Myers, thirty-nine, of Keego Harbor, Mich., while he was strapped to a post in the woman's home. The four. Daniel Marsh, his wife. Edna, and two brothers, Dell and Lloyd Monroe, have confessed, accord ing to the police. Myers reported the whipping, police said, after he was released on prom ises to pay $-1,000 to the Marshes. He said the woman and three men took ttirns with the whip. Physicians re ported his back showed marks of a severe beating. Autoist Drowns in Flood ; Others in His Car Saved Trenton, Neb. ? One man drowned and merchandise, crops and live stock suffered thousands of dollars damage In a flood caused by a cloudburst, which struck Trenton. Frank NVyss, thirty-five, drowned when he attempt ed to swim from his marooned car to a nearby farmhouse. The other occn pants of the car, for whom Wyss at tempted to seek aid, clambered on the machine's top and waited until the water subsided. Canadian Vessel and Rum Cargo Freed by U. S. Court New London, Conn.? The British registered vessel Cadet of Weymouth. Nova Scotia, seized by the coast guard last January, left for St Pierre with Its cargo at 1,100 sacks of liquor. The vessel was freed by a federal court order contending that the government failed to show the Cadet was seized within the 12-mlle limit. DAIRV r/xn s PROFIT FROM USE^^ OF BETTER BULLS Also From Elimination of Unprofitable Cows. (Colorado College Exten-u-n Service) Colorado dairymen are ri .v reeelr ins an added income of an nually as the result of :in average in creased production of :jn pounds of butterfat per cow over five y. irs ajjo. This increase is the direct and in direct result of iinpro% . l dairy prac tices. and dairy herd-improveiiKst work by farmers and d.iirymen throughout the state. Only persistent effort in furthering better dairy prac tices through cow-testing associations and the selection of hulls for herd sires from cows of known high production could accomplish these results. Not more dairy cattle, but the elimi nation of unprofitable cows, and z further increase in butterfat produc tion per cow should be the immediate objectives of Colorado dairymen. This Increase in production can be traced in large measure to the co-op. erative efforts of members of In nl im provement associations in culling out low-producing cows, in making avail able registered bulls from tested dams and sires, and to better feeding methods used in a Iar:re number of herds. The widesptead use of better halls has probably had more iulluenct on this increased production tier cow than any other factor, Ity tareful ?select ion of herd sires Colorado dairy men can do much toward inercasinjs this production which shoul 1 he murh higher to assure a profit to 'he aver age dairyman in the stale. It is ;lie herd that produces more than the a\ erage that shows a profit. For the dairyman who intends to continue milking cows, it w?'l pay to invest in a good bull calf for his fu ture herd s!re now while urices are exceptionally low. Alfalfa Hay and Silage Keep Down Dairy Costs Plenty of alfalfa hay and good sil age gives ample feed dtisura lice to tbe dairy farmer. Even without irraln he can keep down dairy costs with these two feeds. Numerous tests show this to be true. Many cows have kept but terfat production above the pouml-a day mark on this ration in carefully conducted experiments. Of course ad ding concentrates will give a slightly higher production and perhaps a bit less costly one. But a well-filled silo and the high-up mow of good alfalfa keep worry from the farmer even if his grain bins go empty ? he can go on producing milk anld keep his cows fit lust the same. The reason so many farmers do not have these Inexpensive but nutritious feeds to carry them over the lean spots before grass is ready in spring and also during the di spells of summer, is because they have failed to plan far enough ahead. And this Is the time of year that such planning must be done. First of all, plenty of corn and alfalfa must be grown to provide this feed insurance ?Nebraska Farmer. Test for Abortion The way to determine whether a herd of cows Is infected with abortion (thing disease) is to have them t<*sted hy a competent veterinarian. Where a row retains the afterbirth after calv ing, she should he regarded as suspi cious. The greatest spreader <?f tliis ?lisease is the aborting cow, at the time off and for a short period following the abortion, states Dr. Itobert (?ra* ham. University off Illinois veteri narian. Infected cows at the time of normal calving are also dangerous as spreaders of the Infection. As with tuberculosis, healthy herds are more profitable than infected herds and own ers who have reason to believe that such infection may exist In the hpr<' should have them tested. ? Prairie Farmer. Vitamins in Milks Comparisons of Jersey and Friesian milks with goat milk made In the rail ed States showed that in nutritive properties. Including vitamin content, no one milk showed marked superior ity over the other two. Jersey milk was found to contain somewhat more vitamin A and goat milk contained more of vitamins B and C. The vita min C content of alj three milks, pro duced In both winter and summer, was found to be low. The vltantfn D eon tent off alt three milks was approxi mately the same. Goat and Frlesfan milks were found to be somewhat' simi lar In content off protein, ffat and to tal ndtrlents, and Jersey milk wai higher than either In these constitu ents.
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