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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1929)
WEDlvCSDAY, JAN. 23, 1929. THE PLATTSMOUTH E VESTING JOUMTAL FACIE THP.1 MMaMMMMMBnMMaMMMMMMMBMMaBMBOBBMjMMjggjUllj llULMJJLJlgnT M r""MTTMil Br it i n i t n. -r t iriif u wiimM--rwnnirrTl mmmmmm i-immmmm. " " J ' ' Z ' PAWNEE FRANCHISE SOLD 4' n . n Charges Censor- on Recent Good Will Tour ship Senator Harrison of Missisippi Claims News of Trip of President elect Censored. Pawnee City, Neb., Jan. 22. Franchise to operate and the elec tric distributing lines supplying Pawnee City patrons of the municipal light plant, were sold by the city council Monday night to the Iowa Nebraska Light & Power company for $123,000. Plant and equipment were leased to the corporation .for twenty-five years at $1,000 a year, and a schedule of rates was adopted by the council on submission from the new 'harces of distributors, which carries a number t Hoover's of reductions from the former muni- Iowa Solons Offer Bank an School Bills Washington, Jan. 22 'h V " -5 "1 "I; ' cipal rates ,,,-.m lour oi ooui. .""'"7- Two years ago a proposal of sale I brought to the attention o he sen-1 umler decisivoly wnen ; ate today by Senator Hai nson of hmtted the rompany'.s bid for Mississippi, in a discussion of what j he d-scribed as the president-elect-s ating company h(?re ; o nsored "goodwill trip Senator j compietion of its Darn-1 Harrison said that George Barr Bak- eston.HuniboMt transmission lines.- California "7"" and the local lines will draw cm-i former chairman of publicity for the sources. j r.imblican national party, was the censor. He submitted a story of the j censorship charges appearing in a ie-r.-nt edition of the Editor and Pub- , liher. He said that Mr. Baker had been j mentioned for the cabinet, but in, view of the request for two white huue secretaries it was possible that , ili-r- should be some "confusion" as to whether George Akerson or Mr. j Baker "was to get this particular) place." Akerson now is one of Mr. jwo Important Measures Introduced Hoover's secretaries. ! Legislature Gets Down I Everybody knows that this cen-, & tj 'ae ! sorship was imposed." the Mississip-, to Business, pian declared. The senator did not: x go ir.to details, but was given per-J Des Maoines, Jan. 22- The Iowa mission to have the article placed general assembly got down to "brass in the record. tacks" Tuesday after a week-end holi- Askt-d by Senator Caraway, a day following the inaugural, democrat. Arkansas, if the "censor" Two important features of legis was the same George Barr Baker ation one in the house and one in mentioned in connection with oiTi- the senate were introduced follow cial documents recently disclosed as jn5: the naming of standing commit stolen from the American embassy tees by President Arch W. MacFar iii Mexico. Harrison replied: "That's lane and Speaker J. H. Johnson, the same George Barr Baker." Senator C. A. Benson of Allamakee The testimony before the senate offered a measure completely reor-c.rmittet- was that Baker was in- ganizing machinery regulating state stiumeiital in conveying the docu- banks. nunt to the state department after Representative O. J. Keimers of they reached this country. Lyon county presented a bill provid- Hefei ring to newspaper articles jng drastic changes in the education discussing possible cabinet appoin- ai requirements of teachers in rural t,-s Senator Harrison declared that schools. ' William J. Donovan, the assistant to! New "Rank Board. ill would supplant hnnlciriGr hri:irrl of He said that Donovan was connected six members bv a boar1 of n mem with the government's prosecution hp f . ; h (,istrirt nf thp 1 lilt! lil M . 1"I11UU1I. .-. v.n. v v- . iCW JJCtlJ the attorney general, had been men- Tne Benson bil titmed for the attorney generalship. tne preent state of Senator Wheeler, democrat. Mon- ,... Rtt d.,i,pk flnri.ntinn and tana, after a committee headed by ff)Ur members-at-large. all to be ap-l Senator Borah republican. Idaho. poinUd bv the governor for a term! naa unanimously aieeii uiui nine Qj pjx was nothing in the charges against Senator Wheeler. State Journal. years. I To the board is delegated the duty Jof naming the state banking superin tendent, who is now chosen by the v Aim a nit a tt AJNU governor with confirmation by the BETTER SERVICE senate. The board would receive a per The American Telephone and Tele- diem of $10 and expenses. Provision graph cmpany announces that ef- is made for biparty representation, feetive February 1. there will be aj The salary of the superintendent reduction in day rates for toll and, would be fixed by the board and the long distance calls in the Bell sys-whole expense of the banking de tem representing an annual saving to nartment defrayed by examination the public of more than $5,000,000. ! f ees paid by the state banks. This reduction in long distance; Cha-ntr TViHpc Practically every duty of the exe is id UTt -T The Present eight-dav and 12 sistent with financial safetv. ,. ,.;, " , . . . . , weeks normal training requidements "Earimngs more than sufficient to'f,. ..,, . , . . t r 1 . . ., 7 - .,, , for rural school teachers are wiped provide such service will, under ouri, . . , v ,. !.i i c .v. out by the Keimers bill.' policv. either be spent for the en- it,;j , , , T , ' , . .. Instead, the member from Lyon larpement and improvement of the I ,,,. - rates is the thinl that the Bell sys- tem has made ,n two years and fourcut,ve counci, , d fc k months and is in keeping with the ffa, repealed by the bill an system s policy of providing "the best , t h d service furnished or the rates charged , and 12 weeks' normal training un- ... . v. . . , -. . . : . . i. . i t , the president of the American Tele- rhone and Telegraph company. "Both I" al" ' ' . "u' things have happened, the rates have "f7' a"d. folow been reduced and the service improv- 71,, tn L VTX US ?ddl--m tion to high school. After Julv 1. fd. GASOLINE. CIGARETTE AND i.j, tne nigh school training must be sunDlemented bv ?.R wipI-' nnr HORSES'S TAIL BRING DISASTER ! mal training. I The bill is said to have the ap we nave neard many tales of the i proval of Miss Agnes Samuelson serious consequences wrought thru the near proximity of gasoline and lighted cigarettes, but when a horse's tail enters the train of incidents, the effect apparently is overwhelming, judging from the story received from Evanston, 111. There, a milk truck driver, smok ing a cigarette, parked in the dairy yard to refill the gasoline tank. Fuel overflowed on the ground at the mo ment he flicked ashes from his cig arette. Instantly, the gasoline flared up and ignited his coat, which, in hastily removing, he threw on the tail of one of 12 horses in a nearby barn. This annoyed the animal so that he switched his burning tail, tossing the flaming coat onto a pile cf hay. Result: A policeman managed to lead out the frightened horses but the fire loss included the barn, five trucks and some wagons; damage, $10,000. The National Board of Fire Underwriters estimates that careless use of matches and smoking caus ed fire losses of over $29,000,000 in 1927, while petroleum and Its products resulted in losses of more than $12,500,000. It is well to treat these products with due care. 'HOME SWEET HOME' WAS WELCOME, SAYS KELLY S Nassau, Bahamas, Jan. 22. The state superintendent of public in st ruction. Omaha Bee-News. WINNING CANDIDATE CLAIMS OPPONENT WON'T LEAVE Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 17. An ori ginal action was .started in the su preme court today in a county com missioner election dispute from Sher idan county, in which Bruce H. He- wett, complains that though he was eiecteii to the office, John T. Bar ton, who was a candidate for re election, has refused to give up the wi IT, i - iicnt-u nas; asKeu tne su preme court to oust Barton from the omce. SUES FOR DAMAGES in'atn ot Herman Schneider farmer who had lived near Water loo, will not end his suit for five thousand dollars damages because of alleged personal assault, ninct Clyde W. Drew, Omaha Insurance man, nis attorney, John McKenzie said Tuesday. Mrs. Schneider, who is administrator of the estate, will file an amended petition soon and carry tnrough the suit, he said. Schneider alleged that Drew struck u mi wnen asKeu to pay cash for ponies he was takine from h most humorous incident aboard the Schneider pasture, nearly a vear aen . and iIr- Schneider died in November. Ftranded vessel, according to Mr, Mrs. Tom Kelly of Omaha, Neb., who were aboard the President Garfield which ran onto a reef, was when the ship's orchestra played "Home Sweet Home" during luncheon. The Kellys said the guests applauded en thusiastically after the piece was played. Ring Lardner, a passenger on Pan America, the rescue ship which car ried the passengers to Nassau, re marked on landing that "a chauffeur that can't miss a reef in the Atlantic ocean ought to try driving a taxicab on Fourth street." AMERICAN LEGIOM n a m r F ii Mr. Drew is well known in this cii wnere ne spent his boyhood days inu uas oeen a frequent visitor in me past year since removing to "nana where he has been very suc cessful in his business affairs nnrt has in the last few years with his sons, largely engaged in handling iue uisposai or stocks purchased from stores over the state that were closing their business. SLAYER IDENTIFIED IN POLICE "SHOW-UP" Chicago, Jan. 20. 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