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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930. PAGE SIX Bridge Opening Dance! Pat KrolT presents Sunny's MARIMBAPHONIANS Legion Building, Plattsmouth Friday Night, May 16th A fine Ultra-Modern Dance Band. Seven artists, featuring two Marimba phones. Something new! Something different! Direct from a record-making tour of the South. Dancers, $1, Spectators, 35c. One Hundred in Prison for Taking Life Murder and Sex Crimes Cover One Third of Number at Nebraska State Penitentiary Crimes of violence, murder in its various degrees, are responsible for more inmates of the state peniten tary being confined behind the bars than any single class of felonies, it was revealed Saturday in a survey completed by Probation Officer N. T. Harmon. Sixty men are serving sentences for first degree murder, fifty-six for second degree murder, and seven for mansalughter a total of 123 men paying the penalty for taking human life. Of this number seventy-three face the gloomy prospect of remaining within the prison walls for the rest of their lives. The others are "doing time" ranging from fifty years on down to the indeterminate sentence of one to ten year3 for manslaughter. In addition, eight men are serving sentences for shooting with intent to kill, six for shooting to wound, one for stabbing with intent to kill, six for felonious assault, and six for ordinary assault. Primitive passions, murder and sex crimes, account for the impris onment of one third of the 731 in mates of the state penitentiary. 103 Serving For Forgery. Robbery, burglary, breaking and entering, automobile theft, and the stealing of livestock account for 45 per cent of the inmates while 103 are serving sentences for forgery. No single law violation exceeds for gery in the list of specific crimes on the prison records. Embezzlement and violations of the state banking laws account for ten more. Automobile theft and forgery lead the list of crimes for which ycuth3 are imprisoned in the men's refor matory, according to the survey. Of the 386 inmates in that institution, 73 are in for forgery and 76 for automobile theft. Followng is the compilation of Trobation Officer Harmon: Penitentiary. Arson " Assault to injure 4 Assault to rape 16 Assault to wound 2 Attempt to rob 4 Attempt to defraud 1 Automobile theft 32 Bank robbery 13 Blackmail 1 Breaking and entering 71 Burglary 52 Burglary with explosives 1 Cattle stealing 14 Concealing Mariiauna 1 Carrying concealed weapons 1 Debauching youth . 2 Destroying property 2 Embezzlement 7 Escaping custody 11 False pretense 4 Felonious assault 6 Forgery 103 Grand larceny 21 Habitual criminal 5 Highway robbery 3 Hog stealing 6 Horse stealing 2 Illegal operation 1 Incest 16 Kidnaping 4 Larceny as Bailee 2 Larceny 10 Manslaughter 7 Mayhem 1 Murder, first degree 60 Murder, second degree 54 No Fund checks 4 Non support of children 1 Pandering .- 1 Rape 20 Receiving stolen property 5 Robbery 90 Removing mortgaged property 3 Shooting to kill S Shooting to wound 6 Welcome Visitors! We Welcome You All to Plattsmouth for dedication services of East and West's Connecting Link The New Missouri River Bridge Come Early Stay Late Come Often You're "One of the Folks" when you visit Plattsmouth 15 1 3 S 3 Total Men's Reformatory. Arson Assault Assault to kill Automobile theft Blackmail Breaking and entering Burglary Cattle stealing Chicken stealing Child theft Carrying concealed weapons . Embezzlement Escaping ciu-tody Felonious assault Forgery Grand larceny Highway robbery Hog stealing 2 2 5 67 1 53 3S 13 13 2 1 3 1 1 73 26 10 5 11 1 4 1 o 1 1 5 1 1 32 o 1 1 1 7 1 1 Incest Larceny Larceny as bailee Larceny from person Manslaughter No fund checks Falco pretenses Perjury Rape Receiving stolen property Removing mortgaged property Robbery Selling mortgaged property Seduction Statutory rape Sodomy Receiving stolen automobiles Wife and child desertion Wife desertion Total 3S6 Reformatory for Women. Assault and battery 1 Automobile theft 3 Delinquency and disease 11 Disorderly conduct 1 Forgery 1 Grand larceny 2 Narcotic act 7 Intoxication 3 Maintaining disorderly house 1 Prostitution 1 Violation Immigration law 1 Violation of liquor laws 2 White slavery 1 1 Total 46 FRUIT FLY WAR FAVORED Washington A decision to recom mend an appropriation of $1,740,000 to permit the agriculture department to continue its Mediterranean fruit fly control work in Florida was reach ed Monday by the special house ap propriations subcommittee. An emer gency fund of $1,500,000 to be used only at the request of the president in event infection breaks out again in Florida also is to be proposed. The action came as Senator Tram- mell, of Florida, introduced a bill to provide $10,000,000 to pay farmers in Florida for losses sustained on account of the fruit fly work in the past year. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen introduced a bill to authorize the secretary of agriculture to ap praise the losses to Florida growers and the secretary of the treasury to reimburse them. Phone your newt to No. 6. Dr. Heinemann ANNOUNCES The Removal of His Dental Office from Riley Hotel Build ing to 621 Main street across the street from the Parmele Theatre. Statutory rape Stabbing with intent to kill . Sodomy Receiving stolen automobiles . Violation banking laws Violation liquor laws Wife desertion Chicago Pays Taxes, but, Oh, What a Jolt! Where to Get the Cash Is the Wail of the Average Householder Chicago The first real estate taxes to be collected normally in Cook County in more than two years have been paid and with this anx iously awaited event Chicago dis cards the novel attempt to run gov ernment without cash. . Ancient adages about the centainty of taxes have been smashed to pieces here. For much more than a year nothing has been so uncertain in Chicago, not excepting the weather, as taxes. It was presumed that some day there would be taxes again but when? Of this, you could be surer that the new comet was a planet, or vice versa. If some 40,00 public employees had not complained in urgent bitterness that they were not getting their pay checks for weeks on weeks, the ex periment would have been altogether delightful. Though taxpayers here about have recently made a great clamor for the right to pay their taxes, they are really no keener to do so that taxpayers anywhere. When the taxpaying time of last year came and went without a nickel paid on real estate in the whole city of Chi cago and County of Cook, it was an exhilarating experience. No taxes to pay! So father and Johnny got new suits and mother got r.n electric washing machine she had been wanting a long time. The sun shone brightly, and no one thought that father was paying for his suit and mother for her washer out of the salaries of school teachers and fire men and policemen. The firemen and policemen didn't know it then either, but they found it out later when the city treasury ran dry. Multiply this little family by the thousands and you have a picture of Chicago's new tax problem from the fireside, or mere properly here, the radiator side. Thousands of homes have spent the money they laid up for last year's taxes. Now they face the possibility of paying two years' taxes in one. There is after all an unfortunate certainty about taxes even here. They may be delayed beyond the imagina tion. It may take the implorations of a host of distraught city and county employees, backed by the adjurations of the Governor of the State, which itself was feeling the pinch, to get them collected even a year late. But collected they will be some time. So the new question arises: When shall Chicago collect the taxes nor mally due this month? No one has an answer to this latest question- Maybe this fall, maybe not till next year. To make it easier to meet the tax that was tkipped, it may be divided up into a number of payments, and col lected on the installment plan. The taxing machinery, which was stopped by politicians in a'n unavail ing effort to resist a reform, has, however, not quite caught up with Chicago even at this date. The Init ial payment of real estate taxes be gan in one of the suburbs. Chicago will get its tax bills, it is stated, at the county treasurer's office in 10 days or two weeks. The deadline for payment has been set for July 1. MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION The ministers of the Cass County Ministerial Association assembled in the First M. E. church at Platts mouth to conduct their regular mon thly meeting. Altho the weather was somewhat inclement, yet the pastors from the various parts of the coun ty were well represented and were well repaid for their time, effort and sacrifice. At 12:30 p. m., those pres ent congregated about the table to satisfy the inner yearning of the phy sical man. The meal and hour of mu tual, fraternal fellowship which fol lowed were greatly enjoyed by all. Promptly at 2:00 p. m., Rev. H. E. Sortor, the regular chairman, called the meeting to order and each pastor present offered an ardent and fervent prayer for the growth and prosper ity of the church, God's Kingdom and righteousness. It was truly an hour of rare blessing and spiritual encouragement. A motion prevailed that we hold our next meeting at Louisville in the First M. E. church, on Wednes day, June 4th, at 11:45 a. m. and have a fellowship luncheon and an hour of mutual, fraternal fellowship precede the regular meeting. A motion prevailed that we dele gate Rev. C. Snyder of Weeping Water to write an essay on some phase of Missionary conditions, prob lems on work in China. Rev. C. F. Snyder is well qualified to do this as he has spent many years as a missionary in that great country. A motion prevailed that we con duct a Union Gospel Service at Louis ville on Sunday, June the 1st, at 2:30 p. m.. Rev. C. Lewien of Elmwood. and Rev. II. E. Sortor of Plattsmouth selected as the principal speakers and that each be allotted fifteen min utes. Rev. R. PInkham of Weeping Water was chosen to act as chairman of Bald meeting. Preliminary arrangements were also made to conduct a Union Gospel service at Union, on Sunday Junt 15th, at 2:30 p. m. Program to be formulated at our next regular meet ing. II. R. KNOSP, Secretary. WANTED A man to sell a well known line of Household Products In Cass coun ty. Salary and bonus paid. A good car Is required. Interested parties write age, qualifications, and three references to Ira Johns. 2726 Wash ington St., Lincoln, Nebraska. ral2-2tw. New streamline bodies. Choice of attractive colors. Adjustable front seats in most bodied. Fully enclosed, silent four-wheel Iirahes. Four lloinlaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers. Bright, enduring Rustless Sleel for many exterior metal parts. Chrome silicon alloy valves. Aluminum pistons. Chrome alloy transmission ears and shafts. Torque-tube drive. Three-quarter floating rear axle. Exteiihivti use of fine steel forgings and electric welding. More than twenty ball aud roller bearings. Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield. Five steel-spoke wheels. IS to 63 miles an hour. Quick acceleration. Ease of control. Low first cost. Economy of operation. Reliability and long life. Good dealer service. " ilfli - - - W - Roadster Phaeton . $433 Coupe . . . . . $440 Tudor Sedan Sport Coupe . $330 Heifers Prove Profitable in State of Iowa Chances of Losses Are Small, Experi ments Show; Four Dairy Breeds Are Used That raising dairy heifers from the best cows in the herd should prove profitable in the corn belt and that the chance of loss is small at present prices is indicated by feeding experiments with G8 heifers of four dairy breeds that have just been announced by the Iowa experi ment station. All of the heifers were well fed and the report is made on 68 that freshened before they were three years old. They include 10 Ayrshires, 17 Guernseys, 16 Jerseys and 25 Holsteins. First Year Higher Anal3'sis of the feed costs show that the first year was more expens ive than the second year and that the total cost in freshening by breeds was $118.26 for the Ayrshires, $117, 66 for the Guernseys. $107.28 for the Jerseys and $122.42 for the Hol steins. At that time the Ayrshires weighed 1,003 pounds, the Guern seys 953 pounds, the Jerseys 837 pounds and the Holsteins 1,383 pounds. Any good 'purebred dairy heifer is worth at freshening $150 for milk production but if it were necessary to cull her for beef, she would bring at 10 cents a pound, respectively, a total of $100.30 for the Ayrshires, $95.30 for the Guernseys, $83.70 for the Jerseys and $138.50 for the Hol steins. Profit Is $16.08. With just ordinary animals, this would show an actual profit for the Holsteins of $16.08 per head and a loss for the other breeds of between $17 and $25. However, by selecting the heifers to be raised from only the best cows, very few would have to be culled and. due to their better dams, should raise the herd average and become profitable milk produc crs. Labor costs are comparatively light with young stock and the valu able manure soved would pay these charges. The original cost of the heifers would be covered by the first calves produced and these young cows would be flush with milk and ready for a year's production. PASTURE FOR CATTLE Wanted 15 or 20 head of cattle to pasture good pasture, running wa ter, good fences. Call phone 3022. m8-2tw. r-.5 r v .1 mxr- y -. -twt-'- . Is S. ji I .?"--.. : :-v.v. : E XV i S- .i.iiihh-i , .-:'-r! THE NEW FORD TUDOR SEDAN $300 $300 All pricvaf. o. h. Detroit IFms Motok Company MELLON ASKING FOR BIDS Washington Secretary" Mellon Sunday invited bids for $100,000,00 of non-interest bearing treireury bills which will mature on Aug. 18. 1930. The bills, dated May 19, will be sold on a discount basis to the highest bid ders. Upon maturity the face amount will be paid without interest. Tend ers will be received at federal re serve banks or branches up to 2 p. m. e. s. t., on next Thursday. 'Beau Bandit' Brings Old West to Talking Screen Thrilling Outdoor Adventure - Ro mance Features Rod La Rocque and Doris Kenyon. Radio Pictures' "Beau Bandit," the thrilling outdoor adventure-romance which features Rod La Rocque and Doris Kenyon will be shown at the Ritz theatre Friday and Saturday. Few all-talking "westerns" have as many elements of entertainment as the Wallace Smith film of Montero, the Killer, and his colorful operations on the deserts of the southwest. Mitchell Lewis, Walter Long, George Duryea, Charles B. Middleton and Jim Donlon are seen and heard in rugged supporting roles. Twelve world-champion cowboys, trick ropers, bull-doggers and bronco riders comprise the personnel of the "sheriff's posse," a group that fur nishes much of the color and humor of the photoplay. Rod La Rocque again demonstrates his Latin-American dialetic ability, while Doris Kenyon rides, and sings and plays "Just a Little Kiss," writ ten especially for her by Harry Tler- ney, RKO composer. Exterior scenes were photographed and recorded in the story's natural locale the Mojave desert. Lambert Hillyer, the director, with a troupe of 100, spent several weks in "desert encampment during production. USE 'CHUTE FOR ENDURANCE HOP Mow Vork. Mav 11. Changing pilots by means of a rope ladder and a parachute, an enori win ue uwuc May 28 at Roosevelt field to break onHiirsnM record held by the St. Louis Robin of 420 hours, Seth Low, president of Roosevelt neia, saiu Sunday. , As the first pilot jumps off In a n,ri,..( thfi relief Pilot will get aboard by means of the ladder, keep Hminna elevation and doing away with the gruelling one or two man practice. De Luxe Coupe . . $330 Convertible Cabriolet $643 Three-window Fordor Sedan $623 De Luxe Sedan $630 Town Sedan $670 plus freight and delivery. BISHOP'S MAINTAIN POWER Dallas, Tex. The episcopal form of government in the Methodist Epis copal church. South, triumphed Tues day when the quadrennial confer ence, in session here, voted down by a decisive majority the proposed new constitution. The document, repre senting four years of labor by a com mission, and twenty-eight years of agitation in the church for a writ ten body of laws, would have required a twothirds majority for adoption. The vote was 1SS for and 205 against. Altho presaged by the large num ber of amendments which had been tacked on the bill representing the opposed views of many factions in the church, defeat of the constitution was immediately preceded by the declarations that the paper would radically change church law from an episcopal to a congregational form of government. This charge was based on amend ments curtailing the power of bis hops and changing their term of of fice from life to a fixed number of years. Dr. F. J. Trettyman of Balti more declared: "When you adopt the practice of electing your bishops you To celebrate the formal opening of the new bridge on FRIDAY, May 16, we are offer ing a wonderful value in Men's Tan Ox fords for summer. A number of good styles in high grade ox fords from some of the best lines in Amer ica and priced especially for Friday and Saturday at So Home of Quality Footwear Mew IFWbid make of them not bishops, conse crated to a life of godly service, but merely presidents of a conference." Josephus Daniels, member of the North Carolina delegation was pre paring charges Tuesday against Bis hop James Cannon, jr., for engaging in stock market activities, Daniels announced. FOR SALE 1 Thoroughbred Registered Guern sey Bull just past two years old; S Guernsey Bull calves; 1 Ayrshire Thoroughbred Bull two years old. Likewise & Pollock, Phone 3103. Murray, Nebr. 2tw Read the Journal Want Ads. X Ulil Lilt? iJUVOl iUl LUIS f State Farmers Insurance Co. J. 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