PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUENAL PAGE FIVE MONDAY. JULY 13, 1931 The Journal Job Department is equipped to turn out anything from calling cards to sale catalogs. 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Adult Admission, IOC Including TWO Tickets one good for choice of any ride on the grounds Really costs you nothing i Fall Plowing Time is Here We Have or Sale 3 Used Fordson Tractors 2 Used Tractor Plows Also Some Good Used Cars and Trucks THE PRICES ARE RIGHT Plattsmouth Plattsmouth, Nebr. JUDGE CONFIRMS SALE; ENDS LONG LITIGATION Falls City. District Judge Raper Thursday confirmed the second sherriff's sale of the Warren C. Miles half interest in the 1,776 acre Miles ranch near Dawson closing years of litigation. John C. Mullen, Falls City, and Bruce Dcrland. Hum boldt, two creditors, bought the half interest for $40,000. Previous to that Borland had bought the interest for $40,500. but the sale was set j aside on the ground that too great a levy was made. A dozen other cre- Uora DOM liens approximating oo, 000. The bids are sufficient to in sure collection of the Mullen-Dor-land judgments and several others. ROCK THROWN IN WINDOW Cologne. Germany. A small crowd of communists led by a woman hurled a rock thru a window of the Amer ican consulate. Shouts of "Down with America! Free the negroes," came from the crowd. Similar dem onstrations against the death sen tence given eight negroes in Scotts boro. Ala., already have taken place at Dresden and Berlin. Eight negroes, found guilty of at tacking two white girls, are awaiting execution in Alabama. Bates Book and Gift Shop is ex clusive Dennison decorative supplies dealer in this vicinity. Avenue ocoso Motor Co Continue Cut in Armaments, Premier Urges British House of Commons Leaders in General Agreement With Government Policy London Remarkable unamity among all parties was displayed in the House of Commons when, at the request of the Conservatives, the question of next year's disarmament conference was discussed. Ramsay MacDonald. Prime Minis ter, opened the proceedings with a closely argued statement of the Brit ish policy which, he said, is to con tinue to lead the way in reducing armaments up to the utmost extent compatible with national safety, but with the rservation that such action cannot go on indefinitely upon a un ilareral basis. He was followed by Stanley Bald win for the Conservatives and Sir Herbert Samuel for the Liberals, who boih pledged their parties to support this attitude. Mr. MacDonald began with a de tailed analysis of the relative strengths of all the great powers up on sea. upon land and in the air, firstly, immediately before the great war, in 1924. and thirdly, now. His purpose, he said, was to show that whether the comparison made was according to ships and other material strength, or as represented by monetary expenditure, or by num ber of personnel maintained. Britain had been making enormous reduc tion, whereas this had been so far from being the case with any of the ether powers that it had become necessary to call a halt although he looked forwa'rd hopefully to such a state of things arising from next year-s conference as would render re sumption of the cutting down pro cess by Britain possible. Mr. MacDonald dwelt upon the sancity of undertakings entered into by all the powers alike under the treaties of Versailles. Locarno and Paris, to reduce armaments, but de clared that all must act together. Re welcomed the fact that at the coming conference the United States and Russia would be represented as well as member states of the League of Nations. He also spoke enthusiasti cally of the paricying influence upon Europe of President Hoover's recent war debts proposals which, he said, showed insight into and conception of sentiments calc ulated to move the world to a better understanding of the situation. It might have been an oversight, he also said, that while the Pact of Paris eliminated war it did not seem to have done the same with arma ments. Nevertheless Britain could not shut its eyes to this oversight. Mr. MacDonald drew attention to the need for understanding the difficul ties which France had to overcome as regards to disarmament owing to all that it had suffered thrice in the past century in seeing its fields and vineyards overrun, its towns reduced to ruins and the flower of its man hood destroyed. Smoke-Belching Engine is Going, Rail Men Advise New Methods Are Discussed at Pre vention Parley Held in Grand Rapids. Mich.. Recently Grand Rapids. Mich. Smoke belching locomotives scooting around the yards of terminals will be as jrare as the "dodo bird" in the near future, railroad men told delegates ; attending the twenty-fifth annual I convention of the Smoke Prevention j Association of the United tSates here j recently. The rail experts declared the long j spiral of block smoke heralding the j approach of a train across the prairie soon will be as extinct as the buffalo which once roamed the plains, and that locomotives will slide into city and village stations with no more than a wisp of smoke. L. G. Plant of Chicago told how the abatement of smoke in city termi nals had been accomplished through direct steaming. The steam is fur nished to engines in the roundhouse from a central power plant. This plant in the city does away with the old method of eac h engine being fired before ready to go on duty. Mechanical firing, manually con trolled, is the method for reduction of smoke on the road, according to Frank P. Roesch of Chicago, Mechan ical control of the amount of fuel will be the next advance, he remark ed, but the fireman and engineer al ways will be the men responsible for the actual control and abatement of smoke on the road. Although a special committee planned a draft of an amended model anti-smoke ordinance. prohibiting emission of solids and vases in smoke, it did not reach the floor. The pres ent smake regulations refer onlv to 'smoke density. It is probable it will j be acted upon next year, it was said. The 1932 convention will be held in Toronto, Canada. PLANNING TO SHOOT A ROCKET TO MOON Tripoli, North Africa Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, New York professor and interterrestrial rocket enthusiast, left here for the plain of Misolia. in the African desert, where he will at tempt to shoot an experimental roc ket to the moon sometime near the end at this month. DEATH OF OLD RESIDENT Mrs. Katherine Dorothea Borne meier, sixty-nine, who for a period of some fifty-seven years has been a resident of the vicinity of Elm wood and Manley. died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed Rosenow, five miles east of Eagle Wednesday night. Mrs. Bornemeier was the wi dow of Simon Bornemeier, one of the prominent farmers of the cen tral part of the county, he preced ing her in death some ten years ago. The deceased lady is survived by four sons and three daughters, Ed ward and Emil, Elmwood: Albert, Wabash; Dan. Naperville. Illinois; Mrs. Ed Rosenow. Eagle; Mrs. Anna Richer t. Wabash; Mrs. Martha Kis singer, Glenville; a brother, Peter Reuter, Annheim. California, and a sister, Mrs. Margreth Bornemeier, of Elmwood. German Loan is Blocked by the French French Political Demands of Luther Halt Negotiations ; Banker Returns to Berlin Paris, July 10. Bearing what in effect is France's politico-financial ultimatum to Germany. Dr. Hans Lu ther, president of the Reichsbank, wlli arrive in Berlin aSturday to lay before Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtius the condi tions under which Paris is willing to join Great Britain and American in extending financial aid to totter ing Germany. These political conditions, which the world has know ti for many months, are: 1. Abandonment of the Austro German union project: 2. Definite armament restrictions for Germany on land, sea and in the air; and 3. Assurances that Berlin will not join other powers in opposing the French armaments program. Following a prolonged conference with Governor Clement Moret of the Bank of France, Dr. Luther rushed direct to the ministry of finance, where he conferred with Minister of Finance Fladin. Meanwhile, developments in Ger many reached such an alarming stage that Dr. Luther definitely aban doned his proposed trip to Brussels in favor of the earliest possible re turn to his own capital to take up the French response with political leaders there. What is to be expected of Berlin no one ventures to predict. Dr. Luther found he could not dis cuss matters with the French with out entering the political phase. It is made plain that Germany cannot eypect the help of the Bank of France unless Paris receives poli tical compensation. It is doubtful if New York and London will supply the requisite fi nancial aid for Germany as long as Paris persists in its attitude. Bee News. UNEMPLOYMENT RIOT IN POLAND FATAL Chelmno, Poland. A mob of un employed which stormed the town hall demanding relief refused to re treat when police used gas bombs and rifles. One man was killed. So many policemen were injured by stones that help was summoned from a near by town. When the reinforcements arrived order was restored. Unem ployment riots also took place Fri day in various towns in Polish Si lesia. GAME WARDEN FOUND DEAD .Richman. 111. State and county authorities joined in investigating the supposed murder of Charles W. Eldrege. the wealthy game warden, whose bullet marked body was found Saturday in his private forty acre game preserve nearby. He had been shot by the same gun, with which his brother Earl, also a game warden, was killed twenty-four years ago. Captain Carr of Aurora, assistant state police chief and Sergeant Nofs. have been detailed to work with Sher iff Edinger and State's Attorney Lumley of McHenry county on the case. The state's attorney said he was convinced that Eldredge's death was not suicidal, but he said the shooting might have been accidental. AWARD $5,250 IN DEATH OF WOMAN IN EXPLOSION Lincoln, July 9. A state compen sation award of $5,250 was made Thursday by Commissioner Cecil Matthews for Mrs. Carrie Perry of Superior, employe of a fruit com pany, burned fatally there last No vember in a gasoline explosion. She will also receive a $150 burial bene fit. MEMBERS OF MISSOURI SYNOD NUMBER 1,137.000 Ottawa, July 9. The Missouri sy nod of the Lutheran church now has 1,13 7,000 members. During the past ar there was an increase of 15, 000 baptized members, 12.M00 oom municants and 2,540 voting mem bers, it was reported at the conven tion. NATIONAL TOUR AVIATOR HURT IN PLANE CRASH Yorkville. Ohio, July S. Charies Suges, contestant in the national air tour, was seriously injured Wednes day in the crash of his ship againsi a hill bordering the airport of York ville, overnight stop of the air tourists. Bonded Debts Being Reduced Cities. Counties, Villages and School Districts Pay $336,993 Thir teen Times New Issues Cities, villages, counties, school districts, and other units of local government in Nebraska paid off and cancelled during June an amount of bonded incumbrances equal to thir teen times what was issued in the same month as new certificates of indebtedness. This remarkable showing apepars in the monthly summary compiled by Bond Examiner Ralph C. Lawrence, who has charge of security registra tions in the office of State Auditor G. W. Marsh. It is a record that has never been dupiicated, or even ap proached, in any other month during the past decade, if ever in the his tory of Nebraska. The total amount of bonds ap proved and registered last month was $227,850, but $202,000 of this was represented by the refunding of old indebtedness, which did not increase the outstanding liabilities of the issuing subdivisions. This left only $25,850 of new obligations that came into existence. On the other side of the account, Examiner Lawrence reports $336,99 3 of bonds retired by the municipali ties, counties and districts that owed them. The city of Alma reported $45,000 paid. Included in this is a $20,000 issue of district and intersection pav ing bonds dated May 1, 1929, which is met in full. Norfolk school district paid off $22,000. The city of Seward paid a balance of $20,000 which cleaned up an issue of refunding bonds issued June 1, 1931. Kearney redemmed a total of $19,650; Keya Paha county paid $15,000 bridge bonds; Greeley county took up $11,000 court house and jail bonds: DeWitt paid $11,000 which cleaned up an issue of re funding bonds doted December 15, 19242; Hershey paid $1S.50, which paid in full an electric transmission line issue dated Nov. 1. 1921 and leaves the town free from bonded debt; Hastings paid $13,000. of! which $8,000 discharged in full an issue of paving bonds dated March 7, 1928. Ansley paid $3,000, finishing an issue of light bonds issued October 1, 1919; Arnold paid the last $4,000 of a batch of water bonds dated July 15, 1916; Anselmo school district paid the last $1,000 of a school re funding issue dated March 16, 1927; and Humphrey paid the last $8,000 of a refunding issue dated December 15, 1924. The following list will show the municipalities and sub-divisions pay ing bonds during the month of June and the amount retired by each: Ashton $ 2.000 Alma 46,000 Ashland 500 Allen, S. D. 4.000 Anslev 3,000 Arnold 4,000 Anselmo, S. D. 1,000 Alliance, S. D. 8.000 Auburn 5.000 Bloomfield. S. D. 2.000 Belgrade, S. D. 4,000 Bloomington. S. D. 500 Ceresco, S. D. 1.000 Columbus 5.000 Custer county rural school 1.300 Central irrig. dist. S. B. Co. 2,000 Dixon rural school tit Danbury 1,000 DeWitt 11.000 Emerson. S. D. 1.500 Exeter 1.000 Elk Creek 1,000 Elmwood 1.000 Farmers' irrig. dist. S. B. Co. 500 Fremont. S. D. 4,000 Fillmore countv rural school 500 Fairbury 3.000 Greeley county 11.000 Gandy, S. D. 1.000 Hayes county high school 3,000 Haves county rural dist. 1.3 50 Hastings 13,000 Hershev 18,500 Humphrey 8,000 Imperial 1,000 Keith county rural school 600 Kimball. S. D. 1,000 Kearney 19.650 Keya Paha county 15.000 Lindsav 3.000 Louisville, S. D. 000 Logan county high school 3.000 Louisville Drecinct. Cass Co. 1.000 Morsebluff. S. D. Mil ford Minden Minden, S. D. Miniatare drainage, dist.. S. B. Co. Monroe, S. D. North Platte Norfolk. S. D. Nuckolls county rural school Newcastle, S. D. Overton, S. D. Pierce county rural school Plymouth, S. D. Pilger Plainview Pender Plattsmouth Peru drain dist. Nemaha Co. Ruskin, S. D. Rosalie Rockville, S. D. Snyder Sherman county rural school Bterline, S. D. 1.000 3.000 1,000 3,000 1,000 500 fi.200 22.000 500 2.000 2.000 2,000 2.000 2,500 2,200 7,000 3,000 1.468 1.000 1,000 2,000 1.300 2.200 4,000 Seward 20.000 Stanton Tecumseh. S.'D. Thurston Co. rural school Upland Wilcox Weeping Water Winnebago. S. D. Wahoo, S. D. Wayne Washington Co. rural school Yutan 1,000 5,000 500 500 1,000 4,000 5,000 5,000 4,000 1.000 2,000 Totals $336 993 , v . Legal ana commercial printing of all kinds at the Journal office. BRYAN REQUISITIONS RETURN OF BERGE Lincoln. July 9. Governor Bryan Thursday issued requisition papers for the return to Nebraska of L. A. Berge, former cashier of Walton bank, now in Franeitas. Tx. W. M. Byrkit, Lincoln, special rep resentative of the attorney general, was quoted during the senate session to the egect that Bryan had declined to issue the papers. In the presence of the governor Thursday Byrkit de nied that was the case. .The complaint charges the man with forging two notes. Gas7 and Income Taxes are Raised in Wisconsin Legislature Adjourns After Filibus ter Against La Follette Bills Block $2,500,000 Bill Mtdison, Wis. Approval by Gov. Philip F. La Follette of a bill in creasing levies on all incomes over $3000 wrote finis to a tax legisla tion problem which had seen only partial realization when the Wiscon son Legislature adjourned in the midst of a filbuster. The filbuster. directed by Con servatives, blocked several revenue measures which had the support of LaFollette Progressives. Included among them was a bill to raise $2. 500,000 for unemployment relief by means of a general surtax on in comes. A bill increasing the normal taxes on all incomes exceeding $3 000 on a graduated scale from one-fourth of 1 per cent to 1 per cent, and a bill increasing the gasoline tax from 2 to 4 cents a gallon, were the only ma jor administration measures to re ceive legislative approval. The administration's attempts to obtain enactment of measures taxing all dividends, however acquired, and estimated to raise in excess of $3, 000,000 annually and to secure re peal of the reciprocal inheritance tax law, exempting estates of non-resident property owners, were defeated. On the basis of unofficial tabula tions made following adjournment of the Legislature, the session re sulted in enactment of tax measures increasing revenues by approximate ly $11,000,000, while repealing meas ures which hitherto raised about $4,510,000 annually. However, a bill passed earlier in the session transferring $8,000,000 of a $10, 000,000 cash reserve into the state general fund, more than offsets the total increase in revenue enactments. The principal taxation bills enact ed included the 4-cent gasoline tax, the income tax bill, an Increase of one-fourth of 1 per cent in the taxes on domestic Insurance companies, a ton-mile tax on motor transporta tion trucks, graduated from one eighth of 1 mill to 1 mill, and a bill taxing telephone companies on an ad valorem basis. The Legislature repealed the per sonal property tax on automobiles, amounting to $3,500,000 annually, the personal property tax on farm animals and vehicles, accounting for $725,000, and the forestry mill tax of $285,000. KILLED IN MILK PRICE WAR Birmingham. Ala. An unidenti fied negro youth was killed and two other persons probably fatally injur ed when a bomb was tossed from an automobile into the plant of the Pure Milk company in the business section here. Windows were shat tered for almost the entire length of the block, and scores of persons were treated for minor cuts caused by fly ing glass. The bombing was believed to have been the result of a milk price war here. Two previous at tempts were made to bomb trucks bringing milk into Birmingham from central Alabama. The negro killed and those injured were walking by the milk plant when the bomb u tossed. AIR TOURISTS AT MEMPHIS Memphis The nine remaining planes in the national air tour reached Memphis on their s wing thru the south. One hour and twen ty minutes after taking off from Sky Harbor, near Nashville, James H. Smith of Pine Bluff, Ark.,' landed his tri-motored plane at the munici pal airport to lead the field in the final flight of the day. Smart arrived at 3:25 p. m. Harry Russell of Dearborn. Mich., so far the leading point maker, slipped in three minutes later. Lowell R. Bayles of Springfield. Mass.. was two minutes behind Bussell. Fourth to land was Jack B. Story. Kansas City, Mo., next in order came Eddie Stinson of Dear born: George Dickson of Pittsburgh: Joe Meehan. Marysville. Mich., and Lee Gehlbach of Detroit. William N. Lancaster, New York, the last to land, came in at 4:04 p. m. BOMBS IN A PRISON CELL Marquette. Mich. An attempted prison break was frustrated Thurs day when Eddie Weinman. Detroit, and Steve Madja. Bay City, were caught trying to escape from the de tention cell of the Michigan branch prison here. Prison officials found two improvised guns and four home made guns in their possession. The bombs were loaded with nails and small scraps of metal. Officers said the men apparently had used matches la improvising the eyplosives. Madja is serving a double life sen tence for murder. Weisman is serv- 1inS a 15"25 vear sentence for rob- i bery. Both were characterized by : pnson officials as "bad mn." Each rafj made two previo-.is attempts to J escape. Soviets Make Conditions Hard for Priesthood 'Smash Religious Organizations' De clared to Be Objective by Rus sian Periodical Moscow The number of Ortho dox priests in Russia is steadily dim inishing. This is a natural and prob ably inevitable result of the continu ous drive against religion. ac om pn.iied by the closing of many churches and of the social and MS nomic deprivations which are inflict ed upon priests and their familie- The priest receives no fond ard, and consequently, unless he is sup ported by gifts in kind from his con gregation, he is only able to buy food and manufactured goods at greatly enhanced prices which do not corre spond with his usually meager in come. His children, for the Russian priests are usually married, are ex cluded from higher schools and given only the rougher and less skilled kinds of work unless they break off all relations with their father and renounce him. Under these circumstances it is natural that only those priests whose religious convictions are strongest remain at their post, and that many formally renounce their calling. In the Soviet Republic of Georgia, in the Caucasus, it is estimated that the number of priests has diminish ed by B0 per cent since 1921. Another factor in bringing about this reduction is that only a very few institutes of religious instruc tion have ever been permitted to exist in the Soviet Union and that most of these have been closed, ao that there is practically no provision for the training of young men for the priestly calling. The problem of what treatment should be meted out to ex-priests has recently been raised in the Soviet anti-religious press. There is no dis position to welcome them into the fold of Soviet citizenship immediate ly. A period of five years' proba tion, which may be shortened in in dividual cases, is prescribed before full citizenship rights can be grant ed. At the same time there is a tend ency to encourage apostasy by giv ing ex-priests some alleviation of their lot. So it is considered possible to give them some kinds of techni cal and physical labor, although there are definite rulings prohibiting the employment of ex-priests in military service, in teaching, or in anti-religious work. The sort of distinction that is made in this connection is illustrat ed by the fact that an ex-priest may work SB an accoantant in a state farm, but may not be received into a collective farm until the expira tion of his prebationary period. The distinction here is based on the con sideration that in a state farm the ex-priest's position would be purely technical and he would have Utile opportunity to influence other work ers and employees. In a collective farm, on the other hand, where the members would probably be his former parishioners. the ex-priest might exert a kind of influence which the Communists ould regard as undesirable. Ae re cent article In the Soviet magazine in regard to ex-priests as follows: "We must welcome the fad that priests renounce their calling. Vet we must not forget that such re nunciation does not necessarily w an that a man ceases to become a priest at heart, or that he has become a loyal Soviet citizen. He may have been attracted by sordid material considerations. Therefore we must be vigilant in regard to such people. And we must not go to the other ex treme of placing them in an impos sible position, so that life is render ed unbearable for them . "Our policy is to smash religion organizations, to make useful citi zens out of ex-priests, to extend them certain facilities, provided that all the necessary precautions are taken against giving them an opportunity for exercising clerical influence." TWO LINERS IN COLLISION New York The Radio Mat ne cor- poration reported Tuesday t Italian steamer Carmia collid the French liner France ne brose Light at 12:30 a. m. d heavy fog. 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