THURSDAY, JAN. 14, 1932.
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riATTSIIOTJTII SCni-WEEKLY J0UILI7AX
LEGION BLDQ., PLATTSKSOUTH
Saturday ntaht
Walt Stohlman's 'Ganff'
1 You Know This Orchestra
Dancers, S0 Spectators, 23
Ladies FREE
union heps.
E. R. Frans of south of Nehawka
was a visitor in Union on last Tues
day and was as well looking after
some business matters.
A. W. Propst of Nebraska City was
a business caller in Union on last
Tuesday, and w&3 looking after busi
ness matters as wtll as visiting wan
friends fcere.
Reuben E. Foster was shelling
corn on ihe li tr eighty and deliv
ering it at Lis home where he is to
use it for the feeding of his very nna
herd of cattle which he has in the
lots at this time.
Jay Austin was a visitor in Platts-
mouth on Tuesday of this week, and
where he was meeting with the board
of county commissioners, Mr. Austin
being road overseer and was making
a report of the work whi chhe has
been looking after.
County Commissioner E. B. Chap
man was a visitor in Plattsmouth on
Tuesday of this week where the board
was endeavoring to select a sheriff
in the place of Bert Reed who died
but a short time since. The selection
will be- only until the next general
election and or.til some one is elected
and has been sworn into office.
Received Severe Injury.
With the heavy snow fall, a prob
lem has come to the railroad as well
as to the motorists and the farmers
and indeed everyone. The railroads
found that at crossings of public
highways they had to' keep the rails
clean and the snow from along the
side of the rails, and in so doing they
dug it Out while they left the other
portions of the roadway, which made
a very rough and bumpy road for the
antos passing over the tracks. Last
Saturday a car coming along ur aware
of the condition threw a passenger
against the top of the car, cuttipg
him across the forehead so severe
that he was taken to Nehawka where
he was given attention by Dr. Han
sen, after which he was taken to his
home in Council Bluffs. Mr. Faul
Hefy was riding in the rear seat and
was unaware of the rough roadway
which thew him against the roof of
the car.
Forming Cribbage Club.
A number of the cribbage i-layers
of Union have . made arrangements
for forming an organization and will
devote some time to the fascinating
.game and when they shall have be
come proficient they will issue a chal
lenge to the cribbage club of the
county seat, which has as one of the
principal players. Judge Charles L.
Graves. Just when the first game Is
to be staged is not as yet learned.
Thecbold Rihn Answers Call.
Theobold Rihn, father of Phillip
F. Rihn of this city, was born in
Alsace Lorraine, on March 20th,
1851, and came to America when
seventeen, years of age, in 1868
While living there he was married.
He came to Plattsmouth in the lat
ter eighties and then went on to
Sidney, Nebraska, where they resided
for a time. There Mr. Phillip F. Rihn
was born. The wife passed on there,
and Mr. Rihn then returned to High
land, Illinois, where he had lived be
fore and there later he was again
married.
They live in Plattsmouth later and
there Mr. Rihn also lived for a
while when he was a boy, but they
went to Highland. Illinois, to make
their home where the elder Ribn and
wife made their home for near twenty-five
years.
Mr. Rihn was a cooper, a miller
and salesman by turns. Since mak
ing his home at Highland, 111., the
last time he was much interested in
orchards, the growing of them as
well as th selling of nursery stock.
During the past few years Theobold
Rhin was not in the very best of
health and his health began to fail
he was about six weeks since taken
to the hospital where it was thought
he might have better care. However,
he continued to grow weaker until
on January 2nd he passed away. ;
When he became weak the son was
called and hastening to the bedside
of the father seeking to do all pos
sible for the parent. He was not able
to reach the bedside until nearly two
hours after life had fled. The funeral
services were held Tuesday morning
at 9:30 with the interment at the
Highland cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. P.
F. Rihn have the sympathy of their
host of friends in this their hour of
sorrow.
Just finished with a year which
saw the thirteenth day of the month
fall on Friday in February. March
and November it is inspiring to
note that the combination occurs only
once during 1932, in May.
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Gc:b Tells The Story
With the beginning of November, the
merchants have adopted the Cash
system, and as a result we are to sell
goods at a greater saving of money.
i ' Some Sample Price
T-Done Stesk, per lb.. . .-:lGc
Sirloin Steak, per lb. . 18c
Round Steak, per lb 19c
Pork Roast, per lb 15c
TLB. COTTIE
Speculation on
Vho to Succeed
Justice Holme
Senators Indicate Their Interest on
Man President Will Appoint
Several Names Suggested
Washington As It wondered
Tuesday who Oliver Wendell Holmes'
successor on the supreme court
would be the senate recalled vividly
the tense struseles over two of
President Hoover's appointees to that
tribunal. Justice Holmes resigned
Tuesday. Republican Independents
who feel that men of Holmes' type
should be on the bench, joined with
the democrats to defeat confirmation
of Justice John J. Parker of North
Carolina in 1930. Chief Justice
Hughes was confirmed by approxi
mately two to one, but not before
the charge used against Parker
that he favored property rights at
the expense of individual rights
was flung at him also.
Those who fought the chief justice
and Parker frequently praised Hol
mes, whose views thru the years have
often clashed with the more conser
vative majority. The democrats have
gained strength since those contests
snd the republican Independents have
their group intact. There will be
careful scrutiny of any name Presi
dent Hoover sends the senate.
Leaders of both parties and all
factions joined Tuesday In lauding
the aged maker of laws who retired,
saying simply that his health was
such that he could not go on.
List of Available Men.
Many names were heard in the
senate speculation, including those
of Attorney General Mitchell, New
ton D. Baker of Ohio, Chief Justice
Benjamin N. Cardozo of the New
York state court of appeals: Federal
Judge William S. Kenyon cf Iowa.
The first three are democrats.
Whether the president will give any
heed to party lines is problematical.
Three of the nine members cf the
bench now are democrats.
Talk of Mitchell lessened after it
was recalled that Justice Butler of
the court ccmes from the same party
and state at Mitchell, Minnesota, and
both were members of the same law
firm.
Chairman Norris of the senate judi
ciary committee, who opposed Hughes
and Parker, expressed the hope that
the president would pick as a suc
cessor to Holmes a man "holding his
same economic and social views."
Senators Watson of Indiana and
Robinson of Arkansas, the republi
can and democratic leaders joined In
praising Holmes.
Senator Borah, said: "Justice
Holmes will now take his place in
history as one of the truly great
jurists."
Senator Walsh, Montana: "He
quits the bench with the admiration,
the gratitude and the affection of
the American people." Borah and
Walsh opposed Hughes and Parker.
Health of Holmes Fails.
The distinguished jurist, bent
with age. had fought valiantly but
unsuccessfully to remain in active
service until he celebrated his ninety
first birthday March 8. Feebleness
which approached gently in the last
term of court made havoc during the
summer recess. The military bearing,
alert step and amazing vigor had dis
appeared when he returned to Wash
ington last fall. Early in the pres
ent term he missed three days from
the bench, due to a slight cold and
the precaution of his physician. But
with that exception .he has been
punctual in hi3 attendance at the
sessions.
Mr. Hoover gravely announced the
resignation shortly after correspond
ents confronted him as he stood at
his desk for the regular Tues lay noon
press conference. His face lighted
as he praised the aged justice. He
quoted from a letter he had written
telling Mr. Holmes of the gratitude
of the American people for his whole
life" of wonderful public service,
from the time you were an officer
in the Cival war to this day."
Some of his associates on the
bench, whom Justice Holmes loved
to call "brethern," were solicitous of
his health and have been urging that
he take a long vacation. Those who
have closely followed the proceedings
of the court have been aware that
he , was daily experiencing greater
difficulty physically in reaching and
leaving the bench.
Justic Brandeis, most closely as
sociated with him, for several days
extended aid in getting him to his
chair on the bench. Monday, in the
absence of Mr. Brandeis, Chief Jus
tice Hughes performed the service in
going on and leaving the bench. Aft
er court closed for the day. Justice
Holmes, recognizing that he had
reached the end. stated he would not
attend the sessions of the court Tues
day. So far as can be learned, how
ever, his impending resignation was
not known to his associates.
Two Senators Suggested.
The name, of Senator Walsh, Mon
tana, als6 bobbed up in the capital
speculation over a successor to the
jurist. Walsh, considered one of the
ablest lawyers in the senate, comes
from a section of the country which
many believe will be looked to for a
successor to Holmes. In this connec
tion the name of Senator Bratton,
New Mexico, also was heard. Bratton
is a former member of the New Mexi
co supreme . court.
Massachusetts, home state of
Holmes, is represented on the bench
also by Justice Brandeis. Justice
Stone comes from New England.
Chief - Justiee .Hughes is from New
York and Justice Roberts from Penn
sylvania.: This gave rise to the be
lief the president will go to the west
for a successor' to Holmes. State
Journal.
Business will Improve only
wo contribute to it Improvement
dy. exerolslng- our purehaslng
power.
Dig Candy Carnival
Saturday HtIit
10-Boxes of Candy-20
Come Bring Your Qirl
PtaCCcuicuta
Oollc? Rin!x
Hunt Printing
Plant Making
Bogus Stock
Six More Men, Mormer "Lupe the
Wolf" Aides, Held Forge Five
Million Dollars
New York After striking a new
blow at a ring described as an off
shoot of Lupo the Wolf's notorious
counterfeiting gang of a decade ago.
police and Wall street's crack sleuths
concentrated today on a hunt for a
printing plant they said flooded the
country with five million dollars in
bogus stock.
The arrest of six additional men
on forgery cnarges was announced
by police, bringing the total to eight.
But authorities want the presses,
plates and tools with which the cer
tificates were manufactured so clever
ly that only a microscope betrayed
their worthlessness. Officials were de
termined to take no chance that any
members of the gang still free should
start operations again.
Police Posed as Brokers.
Trapped by policemen who posed
as shady brokers and spent large
sums making the bait alluring, all
eight men are alleged to have signed
confessions. The accused men listed
their occupations respectively as a
broker, publisher, stevedore, sales
man, restaurateur, tailor, head wait
er and bootlegger.
Although the stock, much of it
simulating General Motors securities,
appeared in brokers' ofiiees all over
the country, the men are accused
specifically of negotiating a loan for
50 thousand dollars from Cusick
Kent & Co., lower Broadway brokers,
on 80 thousand dollars in bogus
stock.
Linked v. th Morello.
Among the spurious certificates
distributed was counterfeit Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit company stock.
Police revealed that Walter Pruzon.
50. a Fifth avenue broker who com
mitted suicide January 4, had been
arrested a short time before on charge
of passing one hundred forged shares
of his concern's stock.
Salvatore Giordano, 46 who said
he was a restaurateur, was described
as a veteran counterfeiter and the
kingpin of the plot. Hidden in the
home of Phillipo Marpullu. one of the
prisoners, police found 4S5 shares
of the General Motors forgeries.
Charles T. Morgan. Arthur New
ton Plummer, Carmine Ucci, Sal
vatore Rinaldi, Carlo Pelcggio cm!
Salvatore Amello are the others
under arrest. Some of them were
linked several years ago authorities
declared with the counterfeiting
band headed by Louis Morello known
as Lupo the Wolf.
DAWES AND PERSHING MEET
Chicago Wartime reminiscences
of two veterans delayed a directors
meeting at once of the city's largest
banks Tuesday. When the private
chat ended. General Dawes and Gen
eral Pershing walked out arm in
arm and the former announced in
characteristic style: "We had a good
talk purely personal in nature."
General Pershing said he was in
Chicago for an "indefinite stay" and
had dropped in to-pay a friendly call
to the ambassador to Great Britain,
who recently announced he would
resign. The two ate luncheon in
General Dawes effice and in the
Central Republic bank and visited to
gether for nearly an hour, despite a
directors' meeting and other bank
business.
LOST DOGS
Two female hound dogs, near Dis
trict Xo. 97, southwest of Cullom.
Finder please phone 4821, Union,
Nebr.
R1TZ
Friday and Saturday
Hoot Gibson in
Tfco Ilard E3cmbre
An epic of a "Two-Fisted Cowboy."
Our Gang Comedy, Serial and News.
Three Shows Saturday Night
Adults, ZOt Children, 10
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
Charlotte Greenwood and Bert Lahr
The funniest film in years. Also "Boy
Friend" Comedy, Fables and News.
Sunday Patinee at 2:20
Matinee Prices Evening Prices
Wedscsdsy - Thundxy
Lnpe Veles &rd Lawrence Tibbett in
TCo Ccinn Lovo
FRE12' GLASSWARE TO LADIES
Adults, 3: Children, 10
Conditions of
Today Lead Many
Back to Farm
Val Knska, Colonization Agent
Burlington Writes of Gen
eral Conditions
of
Unemployment and business fail
ures in cities have precipitated a
movement back to the farm which
we of the Burlington interpret as a
sign of returning confidence in agri
culture a faith not unwarranted if
we but listen to true reports of con
ditions. For instance:
John Field, president of the Fed
eral Land Bank of Wichita, says the
average decline of seventy index
stocks during 1929-1931 was 70,
while the decline in value of all land
was only 7.8. In his district (Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mex
ico) the decline was only 5.6. Of
the 31,000 borrowers using $101,-
000. 000 thru his bank 28.000 show
not once cent past due. On January
1, 1931 delinquencies amounted to
only 43c for each $100 of net loans
outstanding. The Federal Land Bank
of Omaha approaches this record in
spite of almost total crop failures in
South Dakota, Northeastern Nebras
ka, and parts of Iowa; of their 30,
000 borrowers using $160,000,000
the delinquencies number about 4,
000. As further evidence, a large insur
ance company which had been lend
ing money on farm lands for forty
years reported (1920) not one dollar
of loss. Even "last year one of the
largest investors in farm loans in
the United States, with $225,000,000
in farm loans and farm real estatp,
reported 9S' of their loans in
good standing, and over 99 as still
good loans. Of all interest due De
cember 31. 1930 there remained on
July 1. 1931 just a little over one
half of 1 unpaid.
In spite of these facts, we are con
stantly hearing such remarks as:
"All the farmers are losing their
farms thru foreclosure." "The sher
ig is selling them out wholesale."
"Farmers are just throwing up their
hands and letting the loans take their
farms." "In a short time insurance
companies, loan companies,-and banks
will own all the farms." "Farm loans
are the worst investment a person
can make." The truth of the matter
is that nearly two-thirds of tre farms
in the United States are free of mort
gage indebtedness, and if 2 to 10
of the mortgaged farms should be de
linquent, our farm loan troubles
would involve only about two per
cent of the total number of farms.
Yet we seemed content to let that
small percentage influence the total
farm investment.
Now, however, a charged attitude
is gradually becoming apparent and
we lock for a sizeable movement of
industrial workers back to the land.
To assist them in finding locations,
also those now on farms but looking
for regions of lower rents and prices,
we again make survey of the farm
land situation in our territory. Your
cooperation in other years is appre
ciated and wcask you to help us this
year by filling out and returning en
closed blank at your earliest conven
ience. Yours very truly
VAL KUSKA.
Colonization Agent.
HOLDOUT WAR IS ON IN
EARNEST; TERRY 'STRIKES'
New York, Jan. 11. The New
York Giants displayed the mailed
fist Monday in dealing with Memphis
Bill Terry, a star first basemen and
first of the club's players to become a
holdout for 1932.
Terry, saying he was "thoroughly
disgusted" with a proffered contract
that called for a 40 per cent reduc
tion from last year, shipped the docu
ment back with the request that he
be traded or sold.
Within four hours. President
Charles A. Stoneham of the Giants,
notified the slugger from Memphis to
sign at what the Giants considered
fair terms or remain out of organ
ized baseball.
Coming on top of the announce
ment that the St. Louis Cardinals had
chopped Hack Wilson's stipend from
$33,000 to a mere $7,500 and had
exhibited an alarming indifference
whether he signed. Monday's sharp
exchange was fraught with signi
ficance. Evidently, major league mongul3
meant what they said out at Chi
cago last month. The returns al
ready indicate salaries are being
slashed right and left. Also, they in
dicate the club owners are not in a
mood for argument.
"It will be necessary for
Terry to sign with the New
York club on fair terms, or what
the Giants believe to be fair
terms." President Stoneham de
clared. "He will not be traded
or sold."
Although the exact figure was not
made public, Terry was believed to
have received $22,000 for his services
last year, when he finished in a vir
tual tie with Jim Bottomley and
Chick Hafey of the Cardinals for the
National league batting crown. A
reduction of 40 per cent woulyd put
his 1932 contract at about $13,000.
WOMAN SEEKS BACKING
FOB PROPOSED FLIGHT
Milwaukee A non-stop flight from
Milwaukee to Warsaw, Poland, is the
ambition of Mrs. Susan Budny. moth
er of two children, who is seeking
the backing of Milwaukee residents
of Polish, extradltio. ; Assisted by a
local ' airport 'concern, Mrs. Budny:
has selected' aj plane. She plana to
hop off in May and refuel in the air
at New York City and Paris.
The idea that the world owes
everybody a living was originated
by ' a man who dislocated his jaw
vhile yawninp
CHICAGO BOBBER CAUGHT
Chicago Frank Wilson, thirty,
paroled from the Wapon, Wis., peni
tentiary Dec. 2, 1930, was arrested
and confessed, police said, to obtain
ing $50,000 in 100 robberies here in
the last six months.
Victims of twenty-five robberies
identified Wilson as connected with
two holdups of a large oil company,
in which $2,800 was obtained, the
robbery of a large life insurance
company, four trips to offices of one
public utility corporation for $2,057
and holdup of another firm for $1,
800. One victim described the rob
ber to Police Captain Mikes as hav
ing a cast over one eye. Mikes
thought of Wilson, formerly a boy in
his neighborhood, found he had been
naroled from the prison, and then
showed his picture to many robbery
victims. Wilson refused to name his
accomplice.
Report Poison
Cause in Demise
of Nebr. Nurse
South Dakota Chemists Tell Finding
in the Case of Woman Stricken
at Grand Island.
Grand Island A report by South
Dakota state chemists that poison
caused the death here Dec. 17 of Miss
Lydia Ehrmann, twenty-three-year-
old nurse, was received Monday by
A. L. Joseph, Hall county attorney.
The examination of Dr. J. C. Ohl-
macher, director of the South Dakota
health laboratories, and Guy G.
Frary, South Dakota state chemist,
was made after Miss Ehrmann's body
had been sent to Leola, S. D., for
burial. Joseph said, however, that
"we have nothing whatever to sub
stantiate a theory either of suicide
or murder.
The death of Miss Ehrmann was
attributed at first to heart disease,
and Joseph said she might have taken
the poison as a stimulant.
Paul Kretschmar, county attorney
of McPherson county, C. D., who
handed the rtports to Joseph, had no
comment on the case and planned to
leave for home at Eureka, S. D. Tues
day after attending a hearing for
the administration of Miss Ehrmann's
estate, at which he will represent
South Dakota heirs.
Joseph said he had taken numer
ous statements from other nurses at
the hospital where Miss Ehrmann
was employed and where she died.
He said he had no clues.
The physician's report stated that
poison was present in the brain, liver
and spleen of Miss Ehrmann. "Since
the poison is not a normal constitu
ent of any of these viscera," it stated,
"the finding of it justifies the conclu
sion that death in this case was caus
ed by poisoning." State Journal.
SNOW TO COMPILE
LEGISLATIVE RECORDS
Lincoln, Jan. 11. George C. Snow,
Chadrou editor and secretary of the
Senate, has been retained temporar
ily by Secretary of State Frank Marsh
to compile and file an accumulation
of legislative records in new files in
an attic addition to the secretary's
office.
The work will require more than
a month, Mr. Marsh said. The salary
"will be, anyhow, $100 a month," he
added.
Mr. Snow announced during the
last legislature he might file as a
republican candidate for state land
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The improved 30 acres located on Paved
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SEAM. S. BAUIS, Administrator
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