MONDAY. APRIL 1931. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TERES Cbc piattsmoutb journal PTJBLiSBD SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered Postoffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBJRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 60 nik-s, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $35i per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Sweden will spend $20,000,000 in railway electrilcation. :o: Some people can best make their presence felt by their absence. :o: Farm surplus: overlooking the don't eat. The sad result of fact that tractors :o: The departing congress will live in history as the most "doleful" in Am erican experience. :o: There will be fewer motor car ac cidents when drivers of cars lose that get-there-first mania. , :o: Men who are trying to learn all about the universe will not be out of employment for a long time. :o: A professional reformer is a per son who thinks of more laws for an irresponsible citizenry to ignore. :o: All of us seem to forget that con gress merely is ourselves trying to solve problems that can't be solved. :o: The man who traded his lawn mower for a snow shovel last fall is probably still lamenting his lack of foresight. Lawbreaking will continue to be our greatest issue so long as they;breast The Union League keep on making laws that are diffi cult to obey. :o: Milwaukee received rurther en-1 Bandits are said to have a strangle dence of ,its inclusion in Chicagoland I nold on china. The country is in when another of its resort owners is'tne grjp of gangsters. Reallv. we "put on the spot." must do something about it. :o: We suppose an earthquake in the Balkans serves well enough when no body down there has money or credit enough to start a war. :o: Wealthy New York broker fainted when given a two-year sentence in Sing Sing for grand larceny. A ver dict of guilty was returned. :o: This investigation of the sleeping habits of the young child, we fear will mean time wasted. Our exper ience is that he hasn't any. :o: The new designs of evening gowns being shown in the show windows along Main street indicates that the designers are very aboriginal. :o: Frequently it develops that you can win a friend by losing an argu ment. Arguments lost at home, how ever, are not counted in the grand total. -:o- We understand that when his pres ent engagement is over Mr. George W. Wickersham will swear off acting on government fact finding commis sions. -:o: A Canadian paper reports that the father of 25 children captured a stork in his back yard recently. And we'll bet he slaughtered the bird out of hand. :o: One tning can be said in behalf of depression. It has doubled the con versational equipment of persons who previously could talk about nothing but prohibition. :o: A dentist says that champagne ruins the teeth. But there might be greater popular interest manifested had he expressed an opinion on the effect of home brew. :o: And now comes Senator Borah with the suggestion that the United States government has 250.000,000 bushels of wheat ground into flour and donated to the starving at home. 0000000000000000000 lOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPOOOOOOOOOC ar BRINK HATCHERY Baby Chicks - Custom Hatching Started Chicks Let us book your order for Baby Chicks ahead of the coming price raise. 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We Handle a Full Line of Feed, Peat Moss and Brooders Brink Hatchery 18th and Granite Streets Telephone 631-W Plattsmouth, Nebraska fcpOpOOOOPOPOPOPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPOOPOOOPOOOOOOOOPO favor of add other liquors prohibited by law. : Q : The hard pait of solving national problems is to get people to agree on the right answer. : a : One man not to be envied is the musical director who has to select a soloist out of a dozen singers. :o: Americanism: A firm belief in the sacred principle of majority rule, un til the other side lias a majority. : o: After all, that submarine trip by Sir Hubert Wilkins to the North Pole may get at the .bottom of things. : o: Congress "laid aside bickering for a time to honor Washington" which would be a good way to do him honor continuously. :o: Some cooks we have encountered could teach Mr. Edison's chemists how to make synthetic rubber- with out half trying. :o: If man's next great war is with insect pests, we want fust shot at the one who never quite closes the door as ho goes out. -:o: Hope springs eternal in human club of New York bar in its we read, is to provide new clubhouse. : o : a An association of years is show ing its effect upon Mis. Coolidge. Asked by reporters to say something, she responded: "Greet'ngs!" :o: that a The news that a nebula h;;s been discovered speeding through space at 11,000 miles a second must make Capt. Campbell feel pretty small. :o: The folks who know so much bet ter how things should be run in their home town, are usually unable to take hold and run them that way. :o: Will Rogers refuses to have a tele phone in his home at Beverly Hill-;. What does he do when company comes and the ginger ale runs out 7 :o: That Boy of the poem who stood on the burning deck whence all hut him had fled, may have been strong in faith but woefully tive. :o:- weak in i:i it la- Booth Tarkington. a popular Am erican author whose works are dis tinctly American, lives up to his be lief that the American people are optimistic and the happiest in the world. -:o: A thirsty person reaching for drink of liquor is not guilty of And now we are in ing pot liquor to the crime, according to the Alabama of seamen who deserted their ships, court of appeals. Mebbe not guilty The Court decided that this proced of a crime but not to often guilty lure can be taken under the iminigra of bad judgment. jtion act of 1924. -o: This illegal form of entry into the The Bishop of London is concern- country, according to the Secretary, ed over the "insidious doctrine of ;has been since Uie qllota limit awfl companionate marriage creeping in!went into effect, a prolific source of from the United States." What a out j immigration-law violations. In six history. Bishop? Take a look at the story about King Henry the Eighth. :o: "So long as I remain in dot ST, said Prime Minister Stanning in ' ip enhagen. Denmark, recently, "G; en- land will not be 'opened up.' I no reason to start experimer. see ing with these kind-hearted, true ing, aboriginal people. The KsMmo thrives under our present syste i." AMERICA AND CUSTOMS UNION The recenlty announced Austro German customs union proposals are the first real sign of a recession from the high-water mark of post-war pro tectionism, and may well be the start of a general movement toward freer trade relations. In general, the union seems to agect American i titers ts only in the larger sense in which the whole European economic and poli tical scene affects us. In one wav, however, this union iif. likely to raiso immediately an im portant point in connection with our commercial policy. We have com mercial treaties with Germany and Austria, as well as with many other countries, providing for uncondition al most-fayored-nation treatment. In the case of Germany, for example, this means that American goods are . . I. .. : . . , . . i. ; . 1 . iV. . lO llf Ull 111 1 I It'll ill lUlfM HO Ulft'l"! llltlll those levied on similar goods from any third country, no matter what concession this third country may have made to Germany in order to obtain those low rates. We have a similar obligation in regard to Ger man goods. A strict interpretation Of these treaties would require that as soon as this customs union goes into effect American goods he admit ted duty free into Germany and Aus tria. That either of these countries will consent to this is most unlikely. Even the United States, which since 1922, has been the leading exponent of the unconditional form of the most-favored-nation treaty, has insisted on the right to charge discriminatory rates on certain products, and to grant con cessions to imports from Cuba. Doubt less Germany and Austria will plead that special conditions warrant their granting of mutual concessions that are denied to other tout tries. There are powerful arguments in favor of unconditional most-favored-nation treaties. They eliminate the constant dickerings ever tarift rates, which are likely to occur in the ab sence of commercial treaties or with conditional niost-favorod-nation trea ties. The assurance of access to mar kets on a nequality with other na tions is a stabilizer of world trade. But lately European countries have, at least unofficially, intimated that for many of their products uniform rates under our tariff -mean exclusion. There is much to be sail for this Eu ropean complaint, since equal treat ment to the products of all nations, which under a system of low tariffs si the living spirit of free trade, is no more than its walking ghosi when uniform rates are made prohibitive. There is a slumbering resentment in Europe against our insistence, under such conditions, upon conditional most -favored-nation t reatment . Whether our State Department gracefully accepts the Austro-German customs union or whether it attempts to insist on a strict interpretation of our commercial treaties with those countries, the whole situation raises significant issues and brings again to the force the question of Amer ica's tariff policy. : o: TO BE EXPELLED Labor Commissioner Doak has is sued orders for immigration officers to begin tho deportation of nearly 100,000 alien seamen residing ille gally in the United States. The Su preme Court just has handed down a decision holding such deportation to be legal. The Labor Secretary as- ajserts that this army of men consists years 100,000 seamen have desrt?d shins in United States ports. Most of these men are stfll in the country They have taken employment here, thereby depriving citizens and lawful resident aliens of jobs. It is confidently expected by De partment of Labor officials that it will now be possible co expel many who have thus evaded arrest for years and believe themselves to be safe. To this extent the unemploy ment situation can and will be bet lered, they say. Senator Harris, of Georgia, declares it is his intention to propose a ninety-per-cent reduc tion of immigration at the next ses sion of Congress to relieve unem ployment more rapidiy as the busi ness cycle swings upward. While so dratic a reduction may be question ed, the main point is that the work ing men and women of this country should be protected and their inter ests conserved. This is the end which both Commissioner Doak and Senator Harris have in view; and it is the end which the lawful labor interests of the country desire to see attained. :o: A high court nas held that voice . 1 1 di I-1 ub nut. a naue. iosi cji i ne neighbors call it a mistake. RUM AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS It is unfortunate, President Hoover says that we ever acquired the Vir gin Islands. He adds that when we paid Denmark $25,000,000 for them we bought a "poorhouse." The Pres ident will find few persons to disagree with his statements. They are borne out by other visitors there and by statistics of the economy of the Vir gin Islands. But the President neg lects a most important aspect of the decline of the islands one that merits close attention from ('(ingress. The Virgin Islands were not al ways a poornouse. in the days wnen the West Indies were far more weal thy than the 13 American colonies, these Danish possessions shared with Jamaica, Guadeloupe. Martinique an .extraordinarily profitable tiade in molasses and rum, with lesser to bacco and sugar Industries. The French posses-ions in the West Indies, small islands not unlike the Virgin Islands, even today are thriving. They contrast sharply with our own possessions in this re spect. While the American tariff, unsuited to small areas dependent largely on foreign trade, is a de terring factor, the advent of prohibi tion goes much farther to explain the poverty of American territories. When this unwelcome law was im posed on all American territories ex cept the Philippines, without the sanction of the population, the Am erican Congress not only set up an artificial sumptuary law alien to those foreign peoples, hut struck a death blow at the one prosperous industry of many tropical commun ities under the American flag. It must be recognized, then, that even if we did make a mistake in buying a "poorhouse" for $2.000.000 we need not have .increased its poverty by thoughtless legislation. :o: MORE OR LESS TRUE Off hand, our guess is that it would bt' easier to live with a woman who was trying to reduce her weight than with one wh owas trying to reduce her husband's expenses. Only the dumbest bachelor would believe that the reason women do less bawling than they used to is be cause husbands have impioved so much there is less to cry about. One of the first things many a modern groom learns is that dolling up a kitchen in rainbow colors doesn't make a cook out of a cu'.ie. Most of tho advice wives give is hard common sense, and what hap pens to the husband who doesn't listen to this is pretty apt to be what happens to the motorist who turns a deaf ear to the warning whistle of a locomotive. The world was better when dads were doing their part to keep the shoe manufacturers out of the poor house and not doing so much to make it possible for the gas station owners to live on Easy Street. n a lot of homes radio programs are just something else to start fam ily arguments. A lucky wife is one whose husband doesn't go out and try to be as bad as she says he is to save her from being a liar. Anyway, when father gets a set of false teeth he knows it is one thing none of the family will think they have prior rights on. The world will get a whale of a big laugh if the time ever comes when material for the male clothes also will come in those big, gaudy flow ered patterns. We are getting back to those days when a girl riidn't think it necessary to have a new pair of costly silk stockings when she was going to have her picture taken. . :o: PROGRESS AGAINST CRIME A nation-wide organization has been formed at Chicago by the Prose cutors of the country in thei- effort to unite all legal resources to war against crime. Among the interesting proposals made at the meeting of the Prose cutors is that suggesting that a na tional clearing house of information on criminals be established at Wash ington and to establish state bureaus identifical in purpose. The name of the new organization will be the National Prosecuting At torneys' Association. State's Attor neys in every district in the country will be enlisted in this fight against the criminal elements of the Nation. These anti-social elements have adopted and taken advantage of every modern method, and their organiza tions have kept pace with modern business, their operations extend from coast to coast, penetrate into every walk of life, are financed with a lav ishness that holds a sinister portent 25 ounces for 25c KC BAKING POWDER It's double acting Use K C For fine texture and large volume in your bakings. for the law-abiding ia every com munity. A significant fact brought out at the meeting was that in localities where police are not obligated to en force the prohibition laws and are, therefore, able to devote their entire time and attention to crime, the dockets are cluttered up with pro hibition cases and the Courts are un impeded in their administration of criminal justice. All such steps as this are steps in the right direction; they focus the attention of the country upon facts which have an intimate bearing on the general good of the public. It is up to the Legislatures of the country and the Congress of the Nation to give Judges and Prosecutors and po lice officers the assistance of which they stand in dire need. In the com pelling of this public service the new organisation should be no mean fac tor if it proceeds with diligence and a faithful regard for the best inter ests of the people. :o: Dodging the prohibition issue will not be limited to the Democratic party in the next Presidential cam paign. Tho Illinois State Senate, a Republican body, has passed a bill repealing the stato prohibtion law. thus leaving the whole job of pro hibition enforcement in tho hands of the Eederal Government. Tiie measure was jammed through by Chi cago interests. NOTICE OF SALE In the matter of the estate of Mag gie Palling, deceased: Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of Hon. James T. P.cgloy, Judge of the District Court of Cass county. Nebraska, made on the 2Sth day of March, 1031. for the sale of the real estate hereinafter described, there will be sold at the Pailing homestead adja cent to the Village of Greenwood, Nebraska,' in said county, on the 23rd day of April. 1931. at 2 o'clock p. m.. at public vendue to the high est bidder for cash: 15 of the bid to be paid in cash at the time of sale and the balance of the bid to be paid on or before confirmation and deliv ery of deed, the following described real estate to-wit: The north half of Hie south east quarter Sec. 32, Two. 12, North Range 9, and the north east quarter of the southwest quarter of See. 20, Tivp. 12, North Range 9. east of the Vth P. .1., in Cass county, Nebraska. Said sale will be open one hour. N. D. TALCOTT. Administrator of the Estate of Maggie Pailing, Deceased. m30-3w LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska Daniel G. Golding, Plaintiff vs. Cornelius NOTICE Mahoney et al. Defendants To the defendants: Cornelius Ma honey and wife Mary Mahoney; the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives ami all other persons having an interest in the estate of Cornelius Mahoney, deceased, and Mary Mahoney, deceased, real names unknown; John Doe, real name un known, and wife Mary Doe, real name unknown, and all persons hav ing or claiming any interest in Lot 3, in Block 50, in the City of Platts mouth, Nebraska, real names un known: You are hereby notified that on the 20Ui day of February, 1931. the plaintiff filed his suit in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, the object and purpose of which is to foreclose lien of a tax sale certificate on Lot 3, in Block 50, in the City of Plattsmouth. Cass county, Nebraska, and equitable relief. You are hereby required to answer said petition on or before Monday, May 11. 1931, and failing so to do. your default will be entered and judgment taken upon plaintiff's peti tion. This notice is given pursuant to an order of this Court. DANrEL G. GOLDING, By Plaintiff. A. L. TIDD, His Attorney. m30-4w LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska Daniel G. Golding. Plaintiff vs. Sarah Catherine Higley, et al, Defendants NOTICE To the Defendants: Sarah Cather ine Higley, widow; Mattie Campbell and Campbell, real name un known; James W. Higley: Helen Hig ley, Gladys Harris and Eetelle Har ris, non-residents: You are hereby notified that on the 20th day of February, 1931. the plaintiff filed his petition in the Dis trict Court of Cass county, Nebraska, the object and purpose of which is to foreclose lien of a tax sale certificate 'in the north 140 feet of Lot 11, in the northwest quarter or the northwesl quarter of Section 19, Township 12, Range 14, East of the 6th P. M.. in the City of Plattsmouth, in Cass coun ty. Nebraska, and for equitable re lief. YOU are hereby required to answer said petition on or before Monday, May 11. 1931. and failing so to do. your default will be entered and judgment taken upon plaintiff's peti tion. This notice is given pursuant to an order of this Court. DANIEL O. GOLDING, By Plaintiff. A. L. TIDD, His Attorney. m30-4w ORDER OF HEARING and Notice on Petition for Set tlement of Account In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. State of Nebraska. Cass county, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Mary E. Dull, deceased: On reading the petition of O. A. Davis praying a final settlement and allowance of his account filed in this Court on "the 23rd day of March, 1931, and for discharge of himself as Executor; It is hereby ordered that you and all persons interested in said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said coun ty, on the 17th day of April, A. D. 1931 at 1" o'clock a. m., to show i ause, if any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen d ncy of said petition and the hear ing thereof be given to all persons in terested in said matter by publishing a copy of this order in the Platts mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news paper printed in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and the seal of said court, this 23rd day of March, A. D. 1931. A. II. DUXBURY. (Seal) m23-3w County Judge. NOTICE OF HEARING on Petition for Determination of Heirship Estate of George F. McNurlin, de ceased, in the County Court of Cass county, Nebraska. The State of Nebraska, To all per sons interested in said estate, credi tors and heirs take notice, that Jen nie Barrett has filed her petition al leging that George F. McNurlin died intestate on or about February 9th. 1928, being a resident and inhabitant of Cass county, Nebraska, and died seized of the following described real estate, to-wit: South half (S) of southeast quarter (SE34) of Section tour (4), Township eleven (11), Range twelve (12), tn Cass county, Ne braska leaving as his sole and only heirs at law the following named persons, to wit: Dora McNurlin and Jennie Bar rett, and praying for a determination of the time of the death of said George F. McNurlin and of his heirs, the de gree of kinship and the right of de scent of the real property belonging to the said deceased, in the State of Nebraska. It is ordered that the same stand for hearing the 17th day of April, A. D. 1931. before the court at the hour of 10:00 o'clock a. m., in the Court House in Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska. Dated at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, this 19th dav of March, A. D. 1931. A. H. DUXBURY, (Seal) m23-3w County Judge. ORDER OF HEARING AND NO TICE OF PROBATE OF WILL In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. Starke of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Alexander Jardine, deceas ed: On reading the petition of Matilda Jardine praying that the instrument filed in this court on the 20th day of March. 1931, and purporting to be the" last will and testament of the said deceased, may be proved and al lowed, and recorded as the last will and testament of Alexander Jardine, deceased; that said instrument be admitted to probate, and the admin istration of said estate be granted to Matilda Jardine, as Executrix It is hereby ordered that you, and all persons interested in said matter may, and do, appear at the County Court to be held in and for said county, on the 17th day of April, A. D. 1931, at ten o'clock a. m., to show cause. If any there be, why the pray er of the petitioner should not be granted, and that notice of the pen dency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be given to all per sons interested in said matter by pub lishing a copy of this order in the Plattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly newspaper printed in said ccunty for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing. Witness my hand, and seal of said court, this 20th day of March, A. D. 1931. A. H. DirXSCRY, (Seal) m23-3w Coun Judge. NOTICE OF REFEREE'S SALE Dora Raney, Plaintiff vs, Ina M. Gidley et al. Defendants App. Dock. I Page 133 Notice is hereby given that by vir tue of an Order entered on March 25th, 1931, in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, in the fore going entitled cause, I. the under signed. C. A. Rawls, Referee, appoint ed by order of said Court, will, on tho 4th day of May, 1931, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at tho south door of the court house, in IMattsmouth, Cass county. Nebraska, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate: Lots one (1) and two (2), Block ten (10), in Carter' a Addi tion to Weening Water, Cass county, Nebraska. Said offer of sale will remain open for bids for one hour. Date: March 2fith, 1931. C. A. RAWLS. Referee. J. M. LEYDA, m30-5w. Attorney. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION In the County Court of Cass coun ty, Nebraska. In the matter of the estate of Dora .McNurlin, deceased. Notice of Administration. All persons interested in said es tate are hereby notified that a peti tion has been filed in said Court al leging that said deceased died leav ing no last will and testament and praying for administration upon her estate and for such other and further orders and proceedings in the prem ises as may be requited by the stat utes in such cases made and provided to the end that said estate and all things pertaining thereto may be finally settled and determined, and that a hearing will be had on said petition before said court, on the 17th day of April, A. D. 1931, and that if they fail to appear at said court on said 17th day of April. A. D. 1931, at 10:00 o'clock a. m. to contest the said petition, the Court may grant the same and grant administration of said estate to Jennie Barrett or some other suitable person and proceed to a settlement thereof. A. H. DtrXBI'RY, (Seal) m23-3w County Judge. LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska Carl S. Foster, Receiver of the First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, Plaintiff NOTICE vs. William C. West and Emily S. West, Defendants To the Defendants, William C. West and Emily S. West: You, and each of you are hereby notified that on the 3rd day of March, 1931, the plaintiff filed his suit in the District Court of Cass county, Nebraska, the object and prayer of which was to recover on two promissory notes aggregating $3,359.83 with interest at the rate of 8 from May 20, 126 to August 1, 1926, and 10 interest thereafter, and costs of suit. That affidavits were filed for attachment and gar nishment, and on the 4th day of March. 1931, service of attachment and garnishment was served upon Henry A. Schneider and the Platts mouth State Bank, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, to recover funds in the possession of said Schneider ana said bank belonging to you. You are hereby required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the ISth day of May, 1931. and fail ing so to do, your default will be entered and judgment will be taken upon the plaintiff's petition. This not me is given pursuant to an order of this Court. CARL S. FOSTER. Receiver of the First National Bank of Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Plaintiff. By A. L. TIDD, His Attorney. a6-4w LEGAL NOTICE In the District Court of Cass County, Nebraska Daniel G. Golding, Plaintiff vs. Mrs. B. R. Gwinn, real name unknown, et al, Defendants NOTICE To the defendants: Mrs. B. R. Gwinn. real name unknown; Gwinn, real name unknown; the heirs, devisees, legatees, personal rep resentatives and all other persons having an interest in the estate of Mrs. B. R. Gwinn, deceased, real name unknown, real names un known; John Doe, real name un known, and wife Mary Doe, real name unknown, and all persons having or claiming an interest in the east half of Lot 10, Block 15, in the Village of Elmwood, Nebraska, real names unknown: You are hereby notified that on the 20th day of February, 1931, the plaintiff filed his petition in the Dis trict Court of Cass county, Nebraska, the object and purpose of which is to foreclose lien of a tax sale certifi cate on the east half of Lot 10. Block 15, in the Village of Elmwood. Cass county, Nebraska, and for equitable relief. You are hereby required to answer said petition on or before Monday, May 11, 1931, and failing so to do, your default will be entered and judgment taken upon plaintiff's peti tion. This notice is given pursuant to an order of this Court. DANIEL G. GOLDING, By Plaintiff. A. L. TIDD. His Attorney. m30-4w