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PAGE TWO PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTJBNAL MONDAY, SEPT. 24, 1928. Saloon Owners Give Testimony Philadelphia Police Officers Are Ac cused of Accepting Weekly Wages' A SPIRITED SALE Philadelphia An envelope con taining $5,100 in $100 bills was in the possession of District Attorney Monaghan today as representing but a small portion of the $2,000,000 which he declares has been paid to police in a year by bootleggers and rum rings. Introduction of the money intc trial of Police Captain William C Knoell came in dramatic fashion yes terday after the grand jury, which is investigating possible collusion be tween police and bootleggers and gang murderers, had obtained infor mation tending to show the aceep tance of protection money by certain police officials. A short time after the district at torney hal caused the arrest of Cap tain Knoell and Detectives John Sellr and Herbert Layre on charges . of bribery, extortion and conspiracy they were held by Judge Edwin O. Lewis in heavy bail for further hear ing. Fourteen Testify. Fourteen saloon, keepers confront ed Knoell and the detectives from the witness stand and testified that they had been paying $25 a week fcr" police protection. One of them John Engleman, said he ;Jiad de livered the pooled contribution weekly to Sells who worked in Cap tain Knoell's district. Sells testified that he had collect ed $500 a week, the sum represent ing $25 from each of twenty saloon keepers, over a period of six months ending three weeks ago, kept $60 a week himself and took the rest in an envelope to a station house and nut it . in a bureau drawer in Knoell's bedroom. Assistant District Attorney Hermes walked to the bench. "In this envelope," he said, hold ing it before Judge Lewis, "there is $5,100 in $100 bills and a bank de posit book which shows that Cap tain Knoell has made many sub stantial deposits. We have just at tained the envelope from a j'ounp woman. She received it from an other young woman to whom Cap tain Knoell had given it this morn ing. Obviously we cannot reveal the names of the women, but we sub mit the envelope and its contents in evidence." Ask Return Badges. After the hearing C. J. Brintoi assistant superintendent of police demanded the trio's badges and keys informing them that they were sus pended. Mayor Mackey revealed today that he had warned saloon-keepers last May that if they were paying foi protection they were "throwing their money away." At a church fair In Ishpeming, Michigan, the Ladies Aid society sold an old cabinet which bad belonged to a late representative In congress. Miss Mabel Hawes paid T5 cents for it and when she got It home found in a locked drawer two and a half quarts of 30-year-old Haig and Haig whiskey. Of course the Ladies Aid society did not know there was any liquor in the cabinet when they sold it. Game May Decide Flag Possessor in the Senior League New York Clan Facing Tougher Week Than McKechine's Crew Fitzsimmons to Pitch New York, Sept. 21. Saturday's game, the third of the series between the Giants and the Cardinals, may turn out to be the deciding encounter of the National league pennant race If it does not, the final game of the season, September 30, is likely t carry the flag with it. By breaking even in the first double-header Thursday, the Giants maintained their place two game; behind the league leaders, but with only nine games left on the sched ule the split is believed to have given St. Louis a considerable ad vantage. Cardinals Have Edge. New York now must win Satur day's game to stay In the running A loss would put them three ful? games behind with eight tough en- counters left on the schedule, while ' the last game would be the only hard one for the Cards. And the Giant: would have to win all eight to tie if St. Louis merely broke even. The Cardinals go to Brooklyn for a four-game series, then play three at Boston before they return to New York, while the Giants must enter tain the tough Cincinnati Reds three times and battle the third place Cube four -times in the same period. St Louis figures to make a better show ing during the week than New York and without a Giant victory Satur day would return with an insur mountable lead. Mitchell and Fitzsimmons. Clarence Mitchell, veteran left hand spitball pitcher, is the probable choice of Bill McKechnie for the cru cial game. Mitchell has had a good season against the Giants although he lost the last time he faced them in ;.6t Louis and seems to have the best chance of turning in a victory .'Vi-n his ace, Larry Benton, .un-, available. John - McGraw "probably will use Fred Fitzsimmons, with Joe Genewich as second choice. World-Herald. Single Tax Plan Offered as Help in Farm Problem Henry George Congress Takes Stand Against Artifical Aids to Agriculture Chicago Artifical methods of increasing the prices of farm prod ucts will not meet the need of agri culture, the Henry George Memoria' Congress declared here in resolutions adopted at its third annual meeting Tariff changes to ;tssist the farmers wre advocated although it was held tliat nothing short of tax reforir al.iiig the line of the single tax pro gram would bring genuine prosperity to rural America. "The difficulties with which the farmers ate confronted are three." it was stated, "all of them connected with our system of taxationT First the tax system is a penalty on effi ciency and thrift. The more the farmer improves his farm with build in ns.out houses, fertilization or other wise, the more he is taxed. "Second, our tax system rests with peculiar severity on the farmer whose remote situation already handicaps him in relation to his fellows who are located on the high roads of commerce, since it usually makes no distinction between im provement values due to the presence and develapment of the community "Third, our system of taxation by failing to make this distinction and by thus leaving bare land rent high and land speculation untouched, ha.c been the chief cause which has made ownership difficult, has increased tenancy in place of ownership by many cultivators, and has made dif fusion of ownership possible only through the assumption of mortgage indebtedness, and thus has been the fruitful cause of those bankruptcies and foreclosures of which there has ben so much complaint." The International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade formed two years ago at Copenhagen will meet next summer in Edin burgh, on July 30 to Aug. 2, it wax s.nr.ounced. This conerence wiU tva fifHoth !innlvprsarv nf flip IHclIIV l" - ' - I . . r rf 1 Inn rv c( r T- r- o ' n ' I i-r pil OlllallU" - j v. v;. G .j a grcss and Poverty." Mrs. Anna George DeMill of New York, a daughter of Henry eCorge attended the congress. We have a full stock of rough Cy rfess Cribbing, 6 and 12-inch, and Cedar Poles. If you are going to liaild a uew crib cr repair the old ... 11 ra? jc to tit vz. We tliWr" anywhere.- CJwJt Lunbsr & Coal Co., Plattsmouth, Nebr. 0bregonismo Has Faded Out of Mexico Now Federal Congress is Cleaning House Voluntarily Gil to be Presi dent Next 15 Months. -I-I-I-I-H-I-H-I-I-H"!-!-! j Return limit of November 12th, good on mese iicKeis, wiin siop-overs LEGION NEWS! J. permitted at all points on the return A column appearing in- the Daily Journal on Saturdays! trip. If any of our members are L planning on going, please let the ad JL jutant know in plenty of time, as the JL VT-fr?"MIIII-II''I'II"Ir 4 curf d from state headquarters and that takes several days. j The new stage and orchestra plat form is surely a dandy and reflects great credit on the handiwork of the Legionnaires erecting it. A few finishing touches remain to be applied In the way of another coat of gilding on the overhead canopy, and these will be added before the opening anniversary dance on next Tuesday night. Bank Officials Under Arrest in Beemer Case False Entries Charge Made Against Cashier and Assistant Reward Offered for Paul Wupper County Commander Holly, who de signed the stage and painted it, has furnished us with a list of the names of those comrades who helped erect West Point, Neb., Sept. 21. Two it and'we are glad to pay them spec- other officials of the closed Beemer ial mention in this connection. Here State bank were put under arrest to they are: LeRoy Stewart, Frank day, facing complaints of making Rice, James Doyle, Clarence Ledg- false entries on the books of th way, Leo Boynton, HarTey Johnson, bank. Leslie Niel and Maldon Brown. John Those held are J. F. Severn, eash Hadraba was the chief carpenter and ier, and A. H. LalTman, assistant the finesse of the job shows him to cashier. They were employed in the now bank of which Paul Wupper, missing, was president. Arrests were made at Beemer at 6 p. m. and the formal charges filed less than ' two hours later at West Point by County Attorney Robert Moodie. I Taken before Countv Judse Homer The trustees have provided all the McDonald, they made pleas of not be a finished workman in that line. In addition to the stage, the walls of the entranceway have been paint ed a beautiful steel gray that gives them lustre and a greatly changed appearance. Friday the countr board of Cum ing, county offered a reward of twe hundred dollars for Wupper, the miss ing banker. This, an official reward is for "arrest and conviction" of Wupper. Additional offers are likely it was stated here tonight. The sheriff today notified federa officials and the state department to guard against issuance of a pass port on which Wupper might leave the country. In the belief that Wupper maj have contemplated flight to Germany, whence he came as a young man and where he has relatives, seaport? have been notified to watch outgoing, boats. j The Morse Bluffs bank in whicJ i Wupper was interested will open with ' new capital subscribed by stockhold-1 ers, according to a reported agree ment today. Its loss through alleged forged notes Is reported to be 27 thousand dollars. UNCLAIMED MAIL The following is a list of letters uncalled for at the Plattsmouth, Ne braska, post office for the week end ing September 22nd. 1928: Mrs. John Miller Mrs. C. Bennett. The foregoing dead letters will be sent to the dead letter office October 8th, 1928, unless claimed before that time. In calling for any of the above please state "Advertised." J. W. HOLMES, Postmaster. regular coal dealers of the city with guilty and were released on property written DroDosals for the furnishing bonds of five thousand dollars each. of coal for the coming season, the They were ordered to appear for hear- here visitin minimum requirement being twelve inS on the morning of October 1. and Mrs. E. tons and the maximum twenty tons. ' In accordance with the decision at the last meeting, it has been decided to use Franklin county (Illinois) No. 1 nut coal, as this was found very sat isfactory last year. Miss Helen Wescott, who is attend ing Wesleyan university, came I last evening to spend a short time with her. parents, Mr. j H. Wescott. -Furniture Specials!- Read the list of some of the real Specials we have to offer on purchases made during Furniture Market Week. Values You Can't Duplicate Two-piece Taupe and Rose Kthiir Living Room Suite of very high quality for only $99.50 Two-piece Jacquard Living Room Suite 77.50 One Davenport in two f":ie Jacqnard 49.50 Two Coxwell Chairs, each $24.50 and 29.50 Two Occasional Chairs, each $8.50 and 19.50 One 3-piece Sunroom Suite for 49.50 One 8 -piece Walnut Dining Room Suite 88.00 Three-piece Bed Room Suites at $45.00 to 95.00 Simmons Beds, full or twin sizes $5.95 to 19.50 MATTRESS SPECIALS Finest roll edge Mattresses. Every one guaranteed to be 100 rr new material throughout. Prices that will sa re you money! 55.95 - $6.95 - $8.95 - $11.95 - $19.50 Ghrist Furniture Co. 118-122 South 6th Street Telephone 645 Plattsmouth The Journal does Law Brief print- The Journal appreciates your in ing. Tell your lawyer you would terest in phoning us the news. Call Hike your brief printed at home. No. 6 any time. c Our October meeting on Wednesday evening, October 3rd, should be at tended by every member. In addition, we will have as our guests members of the other posts in the county, to wit: Louisville, Greenwood, Elmwood and Kehawka. It will be a great get together of Cass county ex-service men. Rental applications for our build ing should be made to.M.D. Brown, chairman of the trustees. The build ing can be rented for any sort of en tertainment, supper, banquet, dances, political speaking or what not, the only limitation being against dances coming the same week as our mid week feature dances. The datings on these up to time of holding the in door Harvest Festival, November 10 to 17, are: Sept. 26, Burnham's big recording orchestra; Oct. 10th, Royal Knights, of Sioux City: Oct. 24th, Simoneich's orchestra, of Dodge, Nebraska. Mexico City, Sept. 21. With the senate and chamber of deputies of the Mexican congress committed to selecting next Monday or Tuesday, Emilio Portes Gil as the ad interim president of Mexico, a difficult sit uation which confronted the repub lic, appears to be satisfactorily solv ed, for the time, at least. Gil will hold office until January 31. 1930, the Mexican congress agree ing that the election of the next reg ular president shall occur on the second Sunday of next November. Agreement on the selection of Gil for the presidency marks a definite end to what has come to be known in Mexican politics as "Obregonismo." This term was used to indicate the sway of Obregon in Mexico as "Fas- cismo" indicates the sway of Fascism in Italy. Congress Housecleaning With the assassination of Obregon many of his former supporters have been swept from power. This house cleaning started as a move of self- criticism within the chamber's own ranks when Deputy Legoreta, in a trank and open speech, expressed a doubt as to the capacity for holding tne onices to which they were elect ed of 95 per cent of the members of the chamber. UDregonism" is no longer the force in Mexican politics it formerly was. The very fact that many of the staunchcFt friends of the late president-elect have gone by the board, makes "Obregonismo" a term that designates something that is no more. Want Calles in Cabinet It is realized by many leaders in the congress that President Calles is of too great value to be permitted to leave the political arena entirely. It is the intention of the leaders to ask him to serve in the cabinet of the new president. What Calles' own view may be is still uncertain, but it has been suggested that he be asked to assume the post of secretary of fi nance. Omaha Bee-News. Nowhere will you find a more loyal bunch of workers than in the Platts mouth post of the American Legion. Ordinarily, when men work as dilli- gently as have our members, they are urged to activity by personal gain but this is not the case here. Every penny of proCt realized on our build ing goes to pay off indebtedness and lay up a fund for its completion. In their enterprise they have been nobly aided by Plattsmouth business men and citizens generally and have also given liberally themselves in finan cial contributions as well as plenty of hard work. All that is behind this, is the de sire to give Plattsmouth a commun ity building such as it is entitled to and such as our completed building will be. Similar activity by the band in West Point, dating from back in 1911, when they erected a magnifi cent building at a cost of $25,000 has put the structure clear of debt and made it not only available for public gatherings at nominal cost based on overhead operating expense but given the town a building that is the pride of its people and attracts the atten tion of strangers who visit the thriv ing litle city. So, if you can't or haven't aided the project financially, you can be a booster for the enterprise and utter words of commendation for the work the Legion i3 doing to make this pos-; sible in Plattsmouth. CHAMPION TRUCK GROWER In this connection it is interesting to note that besides adding numer ous ' costly Improvements, the first year of operation has netted a sum sufficient to pay taxes, insurance, in terest on borrowed capital and re tire $1,100 of the indebtedness. Let's : all co-operate to make the second year' even more successful and then in a few years erection of the balance of the structure can be contracted for. It takes time and lots of work to do these things, but the goal is never; iosi signt or ana win oe constantly, aimea at until success crowns our every effort. We have received advance dope on the itinerary of the "Cornhusker" special to the national convention at San Antonio, Texas, October 8 to 12, inclusive. The train will leave Om aha at 11:45 p. m., October 5th and arrive at Kansas City at 7:25 the next morning, over the Burlington. It leaves there at 10:00 a. m. that clay over the Frisco lines and arrives in Dallas at 1:'0 a. m., October 7th, leaving there at 2:00 a. m. over the Southern Pacific and arriving at San Antonio at 10:00 a. m. Pullmans will be ready for occupancy in Omaha (or Lincoln) at 10 p. m. the night of October 5th. The rail fare (obtainable only on A. 13. Finnefrock of this city had reduced fare certificates that may be' the finest display of garden truck 'secured of the post adjutant) from' at the Cass county fair this year Omaha will be $35.10 for the round' Out of thirteen exhibits he won trip. From Lincoln the fare is $34.82. : seven firsts, one second and two Lower berth from Omaha. $12 and third premiss. His "mamouth upoer, $9.60i Drawing room. $42. puuipUs v.as tte Uret at. the. ior rrem ' Uacolu. $11.23 for lover, $9 and.v,-on a prize of a fine nev garden for upper and $40.50 for drawing plow. " rqom. TTlla Lasts of this Master Merchandising: Event. Take ad vantage of these MESSAGE OF ECONOMY prices on new Fall Clothing by Saturday night, Sept. 29th. WE BRIEFLY SKETCH HERE 30 IMPORTANT ITEMS IN NEW FALL GOODS -, 1 Men's new Fall Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits, all sizes . $31.75 2 Men's pure all wool fast color blue serge Suits, ex. good . $13-75 3 Men's fast color full cut Dress Shirts, collar attached . . , . 69 Coat style, fancy or plain white A great Bargain. 4 Men's Fall Dress Hats, strictly new, up-to-date, at only . . $2.85 Black, Gray, Tan ajid Brown Felt 5 Men's Athletic Union Suits, good quality nainsook 43p Sizes 38 to 4S at the above Economy Price. 6 Haynes Union Suits, Fall weight, long legs, half sleeves .- 95 ' ' ' ' Pearl buttons Silk trim. 7 Boys' Processed Long Pant Suits, wool, ages 13-16 $4.95 A dandy fine Suit for school wear. 8 Men's Dress Trousers, mostly Dutchess make, wool .... $3.95 All sizes, some from suits. 9 Men's fine Dress Caps, not old stock, but new up-to-date . $2.45 These are silk lined and a very fine value. 10 Boys' Dress Caps in mixed wool suiting cloths, only 50 Nobby shapes that any boy will like 1 1 Men's fast color 220 blue bib Overalls, triple seam, 32-44 . 95 12 Men's Flannel Shirts, mostly army style, 2 pockets $1.29 Colors kiki or gray 13 Boys' Oliver Twist Fall Suits, long sleees, ages 2 to 5. . . .980 Colors blue, brown and plaid. 14 Men's Silk Hose in solid colors, double sole,' pair 490 Reinforced heel and toe for long wear. 15 Boys' Chinchilla Overcoats, ages 2 to 6, only. ....... .$5.45 In navy blue with scarlet wool lining 16 Boys' Knicker Suits, dark colors, sizes 10 to 12, only . . . .$2.95 All wool and wool mixed 17 Men' s new Fall Topcoats, latest models and colors. . .$19.85 Silk piped Very attractive 18 Boys' odd Knickers, all wool and wool mix, lined, snap at . 250 Sizes from 11 to 16. 19 Boys' wool faced Sweaters, coat style, shawl collar. . . .$2.65 20 Men's cotton Work Pants, good heavy, dark color $1.95 Canvas pockets Well made 21 Men's Leather Vests leather is high, these are low at. . .$9.95 Genuine horsehide 30 inches long. 22 Men's Sheep Lined Coats, full 36 in. long, fur collar .... $7.45 XXX Moleskin A long nap pelt. 23 Boys' Sheep Lined Coats, made just like Dad's. Only. . .$5.95 Just what the boy wants for cold weather 24 Boys' Flannel Shirts, a good wool mixed flannel, only $1 Well made Sizes 13 to UVZ 25 Men's cotton Sweaters, good and heavy, coat style $1.29 Big collar Color gray. 26 Child's Sweater Suits, jacket, pants and cap, all wool. . $1.95 Bright colors Ages 3 to 6 years 27 Men's Corduroy Pants, fine rib English cord, all sizes . . . $3.95 28 Men's odd Dress Coats, well lined, new goods, reg. sizes . $6.95 Colors brown and gray Extra sizes, $7.95 29 Men's Bath Robes, all bran new goods, all sizes at $4.95 Genuine Beacon cloth Silk cord. 30 Men's Work Suits, in wool mix goods, 3 piece suit. . - . .$13.95 8 I Plaitsmouth Neb. Plattsmouth Neb.