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t ? PAGE SIX PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL THURSDAY. MARCH 26. 1921. Bank Robbers Killed in Town in Kansas Dentist Picks Them Off With a Shot gun as They Attempt to Flee With Their Loot. Edna, Kas. Two bandits were shot and killed here as they fled after robbing the First National bank of Edna. A dentist with offices across the street from the bank opened fire on them with a shotgun as they started to get in their automobile with Sl, 000 in cash taken from the bank. One bandit died instantly. The other lived but a few minutes. A note book was found In the pocket of one of the bandits. It con tained a number of addresses. Sheriff W. C. Miller of Labette county was checking the addresses in an effort to identify the dead men. Sheriff Miller said the gunfire of Dr. A. T. Hyde, the dentist, killed both the bandits, previously it was reported that a barber also fired up on them. The two bandits drove into Edna during the noon hour. The main street was practically deserted. W. L. Conoway. president, and D. F. Horton, a vice president, were the only persons in the bank. Parking their car in front of the bank, the two bandits stroMcd leisurely into the building and cov ered Conoway and Horton with a revolver. The two officials were forced to hand over to the bandits approxi mately $1,000 in cash. The bandits shoved Conoway and Horton into the vault and shoved the dcor shut but did not lock it. Then they turned and I he building and started The one bandit that lived a few minutes after being shot was un conscious thruout the brief inter val before his death. Sheriff Miller described one of the bandits as five feet, nine inches tall, weighing about 165 pounds, with sandy hair and from thirty to thirty five years of age. The other man was about five feet seven inches tall, weighed from 135 to 140 pounds and appeared to be about twenty years old. He had brown hair. Their automobile was a Model A Ford roadster with motor number filed off and without license tags. State Journal. Hyde Discounts Effect of Farm Board Decision Policy Change Has Little Bearing cn Prices, in His Opinion Relief Plans Discussed. Washington The effect upon the market of the farm board's decision to abandon wheat stabilization oper ations on this year's crop was dis counted by Secretary Hyde. In a formal statement, the secretary of agriculture said the Chicago market was only slightly lower at the close Tuesday than on Saturday and open commitments increased nearly 3.000. 000 bushels to a total of 48.6S9.000 bushels. Meanwhile, various farm relief proposals were discussed on Capitol hill, with Chairman Fess. of the re publican national committee, frown ing up on the equalization and ex port debenture plans which have ran from , been urged anew to aid agriculture, to enter I "While I am not expressing more which would inevitably aggravate the problem." McNary Must Be Shown. Chairman McNary of the senate agricultural committee said while he felt in the past the fee plan was the most sound way of dealing with the surplus problem, he must be shown "that we have markets abroad which will take our surplus of wheat before I undertake again legislation of that kind." Senator Dickinson, chairman of the agriculture committee of four set up by the republican national committee to disseminate proadmin- istration farm information In the wheat and corn belts, discounted arguments that the .federal wheat holdings constituted a menace to the market. He said the 20,000,000 bushels were merely in the hands of a board agency, whereas before, the surplus had been held by speculators and no more wheat was facing the market than normally. Senator Nye, contended the board should have continued its stabiliza tion operations. State Journal. BANK ROBBERY SUIT QUASHED their car. j than an individual opinion," Fess Dr. Hyde had seen from his win- isaid. "I cannot subscribe to the equal (iow that a robbery was in progress ization fee or the debenture plan or and shot the men down as they start- iany other that looks to increasing i! to enter their car, the sheriff said, jthe surplus rather than reduction. Lincoln. March 24. The suit of the Naponee State bank to collect $7,500 for Liberty bonds stolen from the Lincoln National bank in the $1,000,000 robbery last Sept. 17 struck a legal snag Tuesday when District Judge Lincoln Frost, with out a hearing, sustained the demur rer filed by the Lincoln bank. The suit was the only civil litigation fil ed as a result of the robbery. Judge Frost sustained the demur rer on the point that there was a de fect in the naming of the parties brinpinp the raft. The court held that it was apparent that the bonds on which the Naponee bank seeks to collect were held in escrow by it for another party. The real owner. Judge Frost ruled, should have been named as a party to the action. The Naponee bank charged the Lincoln bank failed to provide for the insurance and safeguarding of the bonds. Bryan Orders Payment of Bank Assessment Mails Demand to 582 Nebraska State Banks; $3,000,000 to Be Brought In. e-Easter Sale ' 4 OF BETTER FOR Friday and Saturday Just in Time for Easter Dresses for Every Occasion Sunday-Nite Frocks Afternoon Frocks Jacket Frocks Frocks for Business Redingote Frocks Regular $12.95 to $15 Values Soft Crepes Chiffons Laces Prints Plaids Stripes Solid Colors Misses Sizes, 14 to 20 Ladies Sizes, 38 to 44 Your Choice for i $9 95 (Lincoln, Afarch 24. Governor Charles W. Bryan Tuesday announc ed that letters had been mailed to 582 Nebraska state banks calling up on them tor payment of their guar anty fund assessments due for 192S, 1929 and 1930. Payments of these assessments was withheld by the banks pending a final decision of iho United States supreme court in the bank litigation. The high court Monday refued to review its recent dceision sustaining the valadity of the old Nebraska bank guaranty law. Bryan said approximately $3,000. 000 was withheld by the banks pend ing the final decision in the case brought by the Abie and other state banks challenging the validity of the law. The governor's announcement fol lowed a conference between the chief executive, officials of the state de partment of trade and commerce and Attorney General C. A. Sorensen. The governor said that upon each of the banks still in business sight drafts would be issued for the amount of each individual obligation. First That the entire sum due the guaranty fund from the bank be charged against its surplus and un divided profits and these items ac cordingly reduced. Second That if the surplus and undivided profits account is insufti cient to provide payment of the amount due. the bank might deduct one-third of the payment from its surplus and undivided profit account. Under this plan the directors and stockholders of the bank would be re quired to give their secured notes to the bank for the remaining two- thirds of the amount due. Bryan said no additional time would be granted the banks in which to settle their accounts with the bank guaranty fund. Under one plan of payment pro posed, the debt could be paid by the bank from its current cash after the secured notes are made. Anothei one-third of the amount due would be charged out of surplus and profits on March IS. 1932, and the final third on March IS. 1933, by allowing the directors and stockholders to take out their notes at the time in dicated. "These payments by the banks to the guaranty fund should have a splendid psychological effect throughout the state." Governor Bryan said. "It will do much to stabilize business over the state to have this $3, 000,000 made available for the partial payment of depositors. "I do not feel that there will be any delay on the part of the banks in accepting the drafts , which we are making upon them." Under the plan of paying deposit ors as provided for in the banking law of 1929, those who have not yet received 25 per cent of t he- amounts due them will be paid first After that any surplus will be ap plied to equalize payments above 25 per cent. For the present action is being ! taken to collect the first assessment I for the "final statement" fund made as of Jan. 2. 1931, which most banks have not yet paid. The governor said this would re ceive attention as soon as the guar anty fund cleanup is out of the way. Leonard A. Flansburg, Lincoln at torney who acted as counsel for the Abie State bank and other Nebraska state banks in the litigation. Tues day night said as far as the banks are concerned the case is closed. There is a possibility of individual bank action on whether the law is confiscatory, Mr. Flansburg indicat ed. Me naa discussed tne supreme court's decision with Abie bank offi cials Tuesday, Mr. Flansburg said, but there had been no collective meet ing of state bankers, and to his knowledge there would be none per taining to the banks' case. Omaha Bee-News. PUT THOMPSON ON FARM BOARD j Also a Special Group of Silk Dresses at . . $495 j Pease Style Shop BE3 Washington. March 19. President Hoover has appointed Sam H. Thomp son of Chicago to the farm board. Thompson has long been conect- ed with agricultural organizations. At present he is serving his second term as president of the American Farm Bureau federation. He was born in Adams county, Illinois. He was appointed to fill the va cancy created by the resignation of Chairman Alexander Legge and the elevation of James C. Stone to the chairmanship. Directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago Thurs day accepted the resignation of Thompson and eflected Edward A. O'Nell of Montgomery, Ala., to fill the unexpired term. Charles E. Hearst of Des Moines was elected vice president to fill O'Neal's place. Both terms ended Nov. '0. 1931. In accepting Thompson's resigna tion, the directors said they felt that "in yielding to President Hoovter, the organization is taking a step which will immeasureably further the principles for which it has so long battled. Thompson said "it is as a repre sentative of organized agriculture that I have agreed to serve on the federal farm board," terminating five years service as president. Legend is growing up around Charlie Chaplin. Critics recognize at TWO ARE 3ADLY WOUNDED New York Two more men wen shot ard serious'v wounded In the streets in what police believed was a war between racketeers and long shoremen. The trouble flared ap Monday night with the killing of two men and their suspected slayer. A detective accounted for the third man. The killings were among nine in thirty-six hours. Tuesday night Patrick St. Join;, thirty-three, n power among long shoremen, was called from his bed and shot. A few minutes later Tom Kooney, thirty-five, was she in the head and abdomen as he waited for a bus downtown near the East river. His assailants escaped. Rooney Bald he was a guitrd for trucks at the pier. The men slain Monday night, were Morris Cragan, thirty-eight, and John Walsh, forty-five. Later Ed ward Shearen. twenty-nine, was fa tally wounded by Detective Carnev in a cafe near the piers. Balistic tests showed the bullets which kille l Cragan and Walsh were fired from Shearen's pistol. Rail Commission in Council of De fense on Rates and beyond tint a charge of five rente a hundred. Wholesalers owni ii: ,iii! operating their own trucks in tl;.' mile clis'rict will be allowed fix. cei ; a hundred pounds on their chars DEFENDANT MAKES DENIAL Hugh LaMastci- Named on Commit tee to Resist Further Fight on Grain Botes LARGE SUITS ARE FILED Detroit Fic suits for damages against Ralph Snoddy, Los Angeles speed boat pilot, the claims aggre gating $100,000, were being heard simultaneously in the circuit court of Judge Harry J. Dingemau. Snood was grooming his boat. Miss Loa An geles, at Algonac for the Harmsworth races of 192S when his automobile collided with r.nother while en route to Algonac with boat parts. Fred Froelick, of Detroit, driver of the other car, is seeking $25,000 dam ages for injuries while four other-: occupants of the car, are asking sums totaling $75,000. There is no slack boaness period for the merchant who advertises his goods the year 'round. The Nebraska railway commission has joined with a number of other western state commissions in nam ing a council ot defen.se to resist the expected concentrated effort of the carriers to set aside the recently adopted grain schedules, containing desired reductions, and this coun cil or committee will prepare for and stand in readiness to defend the rates before the interstate commerce commission if and when they are at tacked. This committee is made up ot Paul A. Walker, chairman of te Okla homa corporation commission, Hw LaMaster. council for he Nebraska body, and Charles W. Sterer, attor ney for the Kansas public service commission. Mr. LaMaster lias been a veteran in rate litigation, ard bin selection is'regarded as an honor both to him and to he Nebraska commis sion. The state commissioners are much interested in announcement from St. Louis that eleven southwestern rail roads are planning to make contracts with truckments within their terri tory. The Burlington, Missouri Paci fic and Rock K'and, three Nebraska roacis, .-'re included In the list, but the commission is informed thct the Burlington will not at the present time undertake this service in this section. The ac that east of the Mississippi no steps have been taken along th's list complicates the sit uation, flic new plans proposes free delivery with:'! three hundred mi!es Hillshoro. Ore. Miss Inns Loui I . denied, in he:- murder trial that either she or Nelson ('. Bowles. ,- defendant, kiii-d Mrs. Leone Bowie . Portland society matron, who died in Miss Loucks' apartment with knife blade in her heart last Novem ber. ".Miss LoUCkS. clid you kill )lrs Bowles?" asked Wallace If cC ant, defense attorney. In the sam'- montone use in ev. one of her replies, the twenty-eight year old defendant answered: "1 did not." "Did Mr. Bowles kill her?" The g'rl made an Inaudible reply and the prosecutor (U-r. Mowry stormed to his feet with an obi. . But before he could explain his tention. Miss loucks answered more loudly "No." TEAMSTER BOSS ON TRIAL Beaumont. Texas. Testimony i; expected to b,-gin Wednesday in the trial of A. B. Jonnson. teamster bt charged with the murder of Ottis ! Adams, twenty-two year old Port Arthur refinery ambulance driver, last January. Selec tion of a jury w completed Tuesday. Johnson hai never explained why he shot Adam, except to say "I clid it because I considered bird responsible for my daughter's death." The daught i EJlizabeth Jo' iihoii, seventeen, w. -found dead Dec. 17. 1930. in a mot r car in front of First Hethodfsl church, south, of Port Arthur, where she had gone with her estranged fi ance, Robert L. Williams, eighteen The Journal wfli appreciate your telephoning news items to No. 6. 8 V "And Such Fine Quality" ORANGES Sunkist Seedless SMALL, per Dozen 17y2C LARGE, per Dozen 29c EXTRA LARGE. 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