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PAGE WO tVKKKI Y JOURNAL MONDAY, NOV. 30. 1931. PLATTSHOUTII SE1H- Facts on Expenses to be Given Senators First Hand Information on Stabili zation to Be Presented Two Men Are to Appear Washington Two men who di rected the expenditure of farm board millions in wheat and cotton pur chases will tell the senate agricul tural committee Friday how it was clone. These officials George S. Mil r.cr, general manager of the Grain Stabilization corporation, and E. F. t'reekmore, general manager of the Cotton Stabilization corporation had full charge of buying 329,000. 000 bushels of wheat and 1.319,000 bales of cotton to maintain sinking prices. The committee seeking new ideas cn aiding the American farmer wants to know whether the farm board is cn the right trail and, if not, what should be done about it. Already it has heard the board's treasury has been lightened by "paper losses" at current prices of $177,000,000 and possibly $25,000,000 more on cotton co-operative loans. Milnor and Creekmore also will be questioned closely about the opera tions of the Farmers National Grain corporation and the American Cotton Co-operative association. These cen tral sales agencies for hundreds of local co-operatives have received mil lions of dollars in loans from the board. Pressure is Renewed. ' National farm organizations early served notice on the committee of renewed pressure in congress for th'e rquilization fee and debenture plant, echoed and re-echoed in legislative balls since 1930. They ask that the farm board be retained and equipped with these additional weapons to bring the farmer on a par with in dustry. The answer of Senator Nor ris is: "Don't try to convert us. Con vert the white house." President Hoover is opposed to the debenture and President Coolidge twice vetoed the fee. When the com mittee concludes its hearings, it will decide whether to sponsor a search ing congressional investigation of every farm board activity. The farm organizations have urged one to "clear the air," confident the board . Unfile MUMALW i z m lain W III !I-F.rr. Tony will be stronger than ever. On the other hand, its opponents, including the American Cotton Shippers asso ciation, contend such an Inquiry would justify its assertion the board is dangerous and is defying every natural economic law. In view of the unified stand of organized agriculture, nowever, few believe the board's life at this time is in jeopardy, especially with a closely divided congress and a presi dential election in the offing. State Journal. STATE BUILDS NEW LAKE Work on the state lake under de velopment near Verdon, Richardson county, is well begun with a dike for a twenty acre lake nearing (Com pletion. The work is being done by the Monarch Engineering company of Falls City. Several springs of good flow will keep the lake supplied with water during all times of the year and dur ing the coming summer, pan fish of several kinds will be planted by the game commission. Secretary O'Con nell said. The lake will range in depth from one to ten feet. Located on a fifty acre, partly tim bered tract, the new state lake is ad jacent to state highway No. 4, grav eled. It is likely that a concession to rent boats to fishermen and picnic parties will be let by the commission. GIEL PBIS0NEB RELEASED Philadelphia Mary Mazmaniar., eighteen, sentenced to six months in the county prison for an automobile accident, will spend Thanksgiving day at home. She was released fol lowing upon protest by friends and a number of prominent citizens against 'her imprisonment. There were tears in the girl's eyes and those of her parents when Judge Crane, who sentenced her, announc ed he would release Mary on proba tion on condition that she pay $1S0 damages and a $10 doctor bill in curred in the accident. She left the court room under a year's probation after having 'served twenty-one days of the sentence. WESTERN UNION ASKS TELETYPE BATE APPROVAL Lincoln, Nov. 25. The Western Union Telegraph Co. Wednesday ap plied to the railway commission for approval of its rates on teletype com munication service recently inaugu rated. G, rUESS vou think there's a "catch" to it somewhere, but you're wrong. He isn't for sale. You couldn't buy Bimbo for love or money. When we say "Free," we mean free ... Listen, Children! Poll-Parrot Shoes are the finest shoes you can wear. ' They're beautifully styled. They fit perfectly and they are made of good, solid leather, which causes them to hold their shape better and wear much longer. They're so good that you'd think they're high priced, but they're not. They're the same high quality shoes, the same ' fine value, and into every pair of Poll-Parrots is built the same good olid leather quality as is always found in Star Brand Shoes for' Mother and Dad. i Now, here's what you do you come to our store and join the Poll- Parrot Pony Club. We'll give you a button to wear to show that you are a member. Then you write ns a letter of not more than thirty-five words why every boy and girl should wear Poll-Parrot All Leather Shoes. If you write the best letter, youll win Bimbo, the Shetland Pony, with saddle and bridle, and he won't cost you one red cent. RUII8 OP 1 1 is open to curry boy and girl of Mem yean of ace and i member of this start nor any member of to participate. Time Judges wilt decide decisions must be accepted as final i Will Ot i Oet buny, boys and Klrls. The contest closes at mid night SATIRn.tV. DKCKXHKR Itlk, and name of winner will be announced and pony awarded at our store on Christmas eve. Who will it be? We're an xious to know, aren't you? Again we say, GUT Bt'SY. The Largest Store in More Strength for Farm Board Plea of Leotbrs Tell Senate Group Sitting in Judg ment What They Think la Needed. Washington- With another presi dential election in the offing, farm leaders united Wednesday in a de mand upon congress for legislation to increase the effectiveness by the federal farm board. Old remedies mingled with new as the leading farm organizations forgot their, dif ferences and joined in urging that the agricultural marketing act be strengthened by adding the deben ture, the equalization fee, or some other means. The demands were laid before the senate agricultural committee, which is sitting in judgment on the farm board's two year experiment. They were presented by Louis J. Taber, master of the national grange; Ed ward A. O'Neal, president of the Farmers' Union. A fourth witness, J. W. Garrow, of the American Cot ton Shippers' association, bitterly at tacked the farm board's stabilization operations and demanded a congres sional investigation. Chairman McNary read an esti mate by Chairman Stone of the farm board that the board's paper losses from its wheat stabilization oper ations amount to 102 millions. He figured losses on cotton at 75 mil lions. This information was request ed by Chairman McNary. Committee Iitself Divided. A dozen senators, some members of the committee, and others not, listened to the demands of the farm leaders and questioned them closely on their programs. The committee is sharply divided itself on the various relief plans. Testimony covered a wide field, in cluding farm credit, money problems, unemployment relief and Muscle Shcals. Taber urged the committee to adopt the export debenture plan which President Hoover vigorously opposed two years ago, but pleaded for some legislation to strengthen the law in regard to the disposition of surplus crops, regardless of the name it carried. O'Neal advanced the federation's pet plan, the equalization fee that President Coolidge twice vetoed. He CONTIST No bis or her family will bit on the best lethr, and i In tkt mm of He, duptkm Ces County S sad his organization -was ready to "merge its position" with other proper plans. The board's two year record has revealed that the present law is not adequate, O'Neal said. He testified, however, that the stabilis ation activities were "an earnest en deavcr to do something tor the farm er" and added that "if any . money was lost it was lost for a good cause." State Journal. WARNER DEFENDS HIMSELF Norfolk Col. Frank A. Warner of Norfolk Wednesday night branded as "political" the' action of Attorney General Sorensen in seeking to have him disbarred. Warner was one of the six Ne braska attorneys against whom dis barment proceedings were filed by the attorney general with the state supreme court. "I believe the action is political as there are various circumstances in this connection," Warner said. War ner said that he bad been urged to run for attorney general of the state at the last election and had also been urged to enter the race this year. Warner, a democrat, also said that he was chairman of an American Le gion committee at the Grand Island convention several years .ago, at which several remarks were made about the military record of Attor ney General Sorensen. AMBULANCE IS IN WRECK Chicago A speeding fire depart ment ambulance, rushing four injur ed persons to a hospital, was wreck ed when it figured in a triple collis ion with two private automobiles, both of which, police said, were go ing at high speed. Eight persons be sides the passengers in the ambul ance were injured. The collision oc curred when automobiles driven by Oliver Westcott and Joseph Loble sideswiped each ' other when the drivers tried to avoid a collision and one of the cars was thrown into the path of the ambulance. All three cars were wrecked and Lobie and Westcott were taken into custody. MOVIE OPERATORS END STRIKE IN KANSAS CIT7 Kansas City, Nov. 25. Settlement of the motion picture operator! strike, in effect here since Oct. 1, was announced Tuesday night after a conference of union representatives and theater owners with H. F. Mc Elroy, city manager. l -vr: Federal Help for Railway is Requested President Told Short Lines in Bad Way Hoover Is Host to Head of B. & 0. Washington A warning that ade quate railroad service without gov ernmental assistance is "clearly im possible," was placed on President Hoover's'desk with a four point pro gram or relief. It cane from a dele gation cf twenty-two members of the American Short Line Railroad asso ciation, asking particular aid for the 542 carriers of that class. Two hours earlier, the president had talked of ether railroad problems across his breakfast table with Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio. Willard arrived at the white house before 8 o'clock. For more than an hour, over their coffee cups, he and Mr. Hoover spoke of subjects not dis cussed but guessed at . Speculation centered particularly upon the wage controversy. Willard had just re turned from a New York conference of eastern railroad presidents r.t which a virtual ultimatum was agreed upon calling for a voluntary reduction of union wages or forcible action by the rosds to effect such a cut. Asserting the short lines were "suffering more acutely than the larger roads from automobile com petition," the program presented to Mr. Hoover proposed the following: 1. The establishment by congress, as an emergency measure, of a re volving fund from which loins could be made to small roads. 2. Repeal cf the recapture clause of the interstate commerce act, under which half of all profits above 6 per cent must be turned back to the gov ernment. 3. Interstate commerce commission regulation of truck and bus transpor tation. 4. The placing of the inland water ways corporation and all other inter state water transportation under the commission. Bird M. Robinson, president of the association, said the chief ex ecutive appeared sympathetic and had asked several questions indicat ing a thoro knowledge of the situa tion. He said the relief had been ask ed as a part of "any plan he may have for rehabilitating the credit of the railroads." TARIFF CHANGE WANTED Nashington Representative Knut son of Minnesota, will ask congress to approve a change in the present tar iff on butter so it may be increased and decreased to coincide with fluc tuations in exchange. At present, he said, the Canadian dollar is worth about: 5 cfertls in thS- raited TStates, that in turn actually reducing the 14 tent per pound duty on butterfat to 8.9 cents. "Minnesota farmers have been getting a maximum of 34 to 35 cents a pound for butter this year," he said. "With the cost of production running from 18 to 35 cents, you can see there are some dairy farmers who aren't making a cent. Then, to top that off, the Canadian exchange fluctuates and now is so low that a farmer in that country ships into the United Staets what is to him a dol lar and fifteen cents back." Since the present law permits no changes to offset exchange differ ences, he said he would ask the Min nesota delegation to meet shortly, approve a remedial tariff act amend ment and work for its adoption by congress. TRUE BILL IS REPORTED Chicago The grand jury invest! gating the affairs of the twelve south side community banks headed by John Bain, which failed last June 19 with $13,000,000 deposits, was reported have voted a true bill nam ing Bain and his son-in-law, W Merle Fisher, for allegedly with drawing assets from a trust fund held by one of the banks. State's Attorney Swanson, who ap peared before the body personally. said the true bill would not be re ported in court for several days and that the charge it contains provides for a prison term upon conviction Bain, South Park commissioner closely allied politically with former Senator Deneen, his attorney in the bank investigation, is the second of his immediate family reported named by the grand jury in true bills. A son, John H. Bain, was named a fortnight ago in true bills charging him and two bank officials with oper ating a confience game and receiving money under false pretenses for al legedly substituting valueless secur ities for good ones entrusted to them by customers of the banks. NORTH PLATTE WILL BE HOST TO LEGIONNAIRES North Platte An annual district convention of the American Legion will be held here next Tuesday. Lloyd Katn, or Lexington, district com mander, announced that 250 dele gates and visitors are expected. Among state officers to attend will be Robert Flory, Albion, state command er: H. K. Dudley, Lincoln, adjutant: Sam Reynolds, Omaha, national com mitteeman; Mrs. Lottie Rosen crans. Plattsmouth, state president of the auxiliary. Mrs. Nellie Dickey, of North Platte, will preside over the auxiliary meeting. TEAS OAS SCATTERS DETROIT UNEMPLOYED Detroit, Nov. 25. Tear gas was tiled to dUperu 500 persons who at tempted as unemployed demonstra tion In Grand Circus park and at the city nail Wednesday la defiance of Mayor Frank Murphy's orders. Killed Sister's Suitor to Keep Deathbed Pledge Promise Made to Dying Mother Actuated, at Least in Part, Philadelphia Society Man in Slaying of Vould-Bo Brother-in.Law. ' ' - rv V f " . ' '' ' " i . ECWARD H-B. ALLEH :Wliil Edward H. B. AlUn, brother of Roso Allan, charged in Phila delphia with the murder of her suitor, Francis A. Donaldson, 3d, i adamant as to what actuated him in the crime, except that he admits that ho promised his mother on her deathbed that ho would do all in bis power to prevent the marriage of the young couple, his father, Horace) Allen, has declared the real reason for the fatal shooting is that Donaldson betrayed 18-year-old Rose. The elder Allen, in trying to help bis son with a strong motive, bared the experience. of his daughter with the lover which has boon taken from her. Donaldson, repeatedly ordered to stay away from the girl and her family, was lain whan ho visited Allen and his son in an effort to allay their antipathy for him. Philadelphia. Nov. 21. Did the fact that he was actuated by filial de votion to keep, at any cost, the pledge made to his mother on her death-bed Justify Edward H. B. Allen in snuf fing out the life of a fellow man? That is the question which a Phil adelphia jury will have to answer when the young man, who killed for the sake of sister's well-being (as he saw it), stands before a court to fight for his life. Allen, the 23-year-old son of a wealthy retired woolen manufactur er, shot and killed Francis A. Donald son, socially prominent clubman, of Wynnwood, Pa., afterthe latter had persisted in paying his attentions to Allen's debutante sister, Rose, against the expressed wishes of the girl's family. The slaying occurred in the Allen apartment at Trdmore, a suburb of Philadelphia, after a quarrel be tween young Allen and his sister's unwelcome suitor. Donaldson had come to the Allen home to arbitrate with the family in an endeavor to overcome their objections to his suit. Words led to blows, and blows led to the fatal shooting of Donaldson and the arrest of Allen on a murder charge. Adamant in their objection to him as a fit suitor for 18-year-old Rose, Horace Allen, father of the accused youth and the pretty girl robbed of her lover, has finally declared that Donaldson betrayed his daughter, according to both of the young lov ers' confessions. The young woman apparently was in love with the for bidden suitor and defended him against her family's objections. In fact, she had left home on his ac count on the very night of the fatal quarrel after an argument with her brother during which he told her that she could not meet her lover in the Allen home. Arrested and formally charged with the slaying, Edward Allen re fused to make any statement to the police, beyond the fact that when his mother was dying last April she ex acted a promise from him that he would do all in his power to prevent Donaldson marrying his sister. That the mother ever intended her son to go to lengths that have put him in the shadow of the electric chair, is, of course, unbelievable, but she must have had some powerful motive, real or fanciful, for her anti BASKETBALL TO START SOON The passing of King Football from the scene of activities brings on the very popular mid-winter sport of basketball, which has in recent years led all other sports in high school circles for general interest, altho In the colleges, football is by far the most popular. In this city basketball has always proved the most popular sport and the local high school has had many very strong teams in the recent years. The basketball nractice at the Plattsmouth high school will open Monday night when the tryouts will be started tor tne season. In addition to the high school ac tivities in the basketball season, there is probable the organization of at Hast one and possibly two teams In the city. One of the teams pro posed is suggested of former grad Franci? A Douaidsou pathy to the young man when she made him the subject of her last conversation on earth. Both the Aliens and the Donald sons ere-'prominent in Philadelphia society and move about, in, the same stratum. But acquaintances of the families are of the opinion that pos sibly the Aliens' objections to Don aldson dated back to his father's marriage to the former Martha Oelb mann. Mrs. Allen, they say, regard ed Mrs. Donaldson as a social infer- ior and feared a "loss of caste" if Hose Allen should marry into the Donaldson family. However, the law looks very cold ly on questions of cast as an exten uation for crime. It is one thing so cially to ostracize a man, it is an other thing to shoot him. However, due to the elder Allen's declaration that his daughter was betrayed by the youthful scion of u prominent "blue-blooded" family, the motive for the fatal shooting Is con siderably clarified. With a broader explanation of what actuated Edward Allen to take it upon himself to "avenge" his sister, it is probable that the defense will seize upon this motive in its effort to prove exten uating circumstances. Thus, one young man is dead, an other is in the shadow of the chair, a girl's life is quite probably ruined and all over two families divided by love. Aside from the alleged be trayal of Uose Allen by young Don aldson, the question of caste appar ently entered into the strange case. Even though the slain man wished to marry the girl of his affections his own father would not permit it. And so Death stepped in to set tle the matter. "Thus far," he added, "the prob lem of crime for the most part has been approached from the stand point of police activities, of the op eration of legal machinery ly law yers and judges, and from the standpoint of penologists and psy chiatrists. "Vet, in spite of the utmost ef forts of honest and able public offi cials, of honest and able judges and lawyers, the problem of mercenary crime seeni3 as far from solution as ever." Mercenary crime, he explained, is a term used only recently to refer to such crimes as are committed for pecuniary profit. uates of the high school in recent years, John Galloway. Merle Mc Crary, Garland McCIeary, diet Wiles of the 1931 class as well as Roy. Turner," '30, who was one of the outstanding players of his team, as well as Francis Velick, Warren Farmer and others who might be se cured for this team. The other team suggested is that of players of earlier years at the high school as well as players from other schools who may now be residing here which would form a very form- able town team. Select - Christmas cards with in- djyjdualistic charm that yon can have printed as remembrances to the friends; Bates Book A Gift Chop his them in a large assortment Journal Want Ada get rasalta, V