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MONDAY, FEER. 22. 1932. PLATTS2IOUTH SHI - WEEKLY JOTJUITAI PAGE SEVEN 51 P.. SI Mi ,s impliclty Fai-Appimd far) LADIES TOGGERY Shop cf Personal Service TEXAS G0VERE0R ENJOINED 1 ' j says the opinion, "or a combination ! cf the three uses, and involves no Tyler, Tex. Federal Judge Bry-j ether use. for the reasons expressed ant announced late Thursday the in the cas?s cited v.e are not concern granting of a permanent injunction.! ed as to whether it be strictly n against Governor Sterling and Brig- j public charity or a rrivate charity adier General Wolters to prevent the j in the technical sense cf thoe term?, enforcement of martial - law- in the i So, too, we are committed to the east Texas oil field. The decision ) doctrine that in determining wheth was on a case heard before a three j er or net property falls within a tax judge federal court at Houston, af-1 exemption provision the primarv or ter a temporary in junction Lad been granted against the defendants. Gen eral Wolters is head of the national guard unit assigned to the east Texas field. m Select ycur first Spring Dress from our newljr arrived stocks . . . knowing that whether it be Canton Grepe, Rough Crepe, a Print Combination or light Woolen, it is exceptional in Style, Quality and Individuality ... the kind you'd find in the smartest shops. i CO-OPERATIVE SPECIAL Ladies Siik Hosiery Full Fashioned, Pure Silk, Ssrvicc and Chiffon Weights All Sizes, at 42c i i I CO-OPERATIVE SPECIAL CORSETS Broken Sizes in Discontinued Numbers Values to $5 To Close Out i i LA1DBE r Use Deteimines if Property to be in Tax-Free List Supreme Ccuit in Believing Masons Says That Facts in Each Case Govern. Holding that the property of the Scottish Rite Masons at ISth and L streets, Lincoln, is devoted to such uses as bring it within the tax ex emption clauses of the constitution, the supreme court Friday entered an order reversing the action of the countv hnnrrl in tilncinc it on the tax 5 mor . . rolls since 1926 at a vajuaticn oft $110,000 and remands the case with directions that this decree be en- forced, The court' has had the case under ccnsideratioii for a year. Justice I Eberly, who wrote the decision from which none dissented, says that it is not the character of the owner but the nature of the use to which property is put that must in each in dividual case furnish the test for determining whether it comes within I the constitutional provisions exempt ing from taxation property devoted to charitable, religious and educa tional uses. In each case it must clearly appear that such use brings it within cuch classification. It is a precedent only for cases where the I facts are the same. "If that use be truly and exclu sively religious or exclusively edu cational or exclusive!- charitable," dominant use and not an incidental cno controls." The court que tea approvingly the doctrine that while the public bur den is not for the relief cf aged and I I ... . That will ha seen in Smart places need not be expensive I I I CO-OPERATIVE SPECIAL ChHc&e&'s Hosiery Children's First Quality Fine Ribbed Hosiery Sizes 81 to 11 i I CD-OPERATIVE SPECIAL Ladies, Misses Coats Sizes IS to 38, only Fur Trimmed Collars Your choice for I i i j i f I The Shop of Personal Service t Phltimouth, Nebr. . . . indigent Masons as such, the public is not relieved from the burden be cause they are Masons, and any in stitution which serves no selfish in terest but discharges in whole or in part any such duty is a public charity. To constitute a publiciabry be exempted in the future. charity the benefits must not be con ferred on certain and defined indi viduals but must be conferred on indefinite persons composing some part of the public, but this class may be of either sex or the inhab itants of a particular city, town or count- or members cf a particular religious or secular organization. The title to the temple is held in trust by the Scottish Rite Building company fcr the benefit and sole use i of the vallev of Lincoln. No part is used for commercial purposes. As an instrumentality of the temple is' a J welfare association with $60,000 at its disposal the sole object and pur pose of which is to assist worthy students in the completion of their .education. A relief organization with j fir., 000 at its command takes care of i relief of members and their families, jln addition there is' a system of. vol- f nri iintriKiitintii Vizi V d r 1 tl t a ff i -oil n ra wj t vai? vi in tv ant TkATi ship. The ccurt says the evidence es tablished that Masonry is a system cf morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols and teaches ar, a foundation principle faith in God and immortality of the soul. It is not sectarian in its religious teaching, and the ecurt says it need net come -within the definition ot 'religious, " since the constitution guarantees to the citizen the right . i - i , x - : . . j iu v.uisiujj as lie jiitaH's. -Neitiiei iuc profession of e creed nor formal ded ication cf the property to promote any faith "in an essential element of religious use. In its leaching of in itiates and members it ccmes within the definition of educational use. The decision is regarded by State Tax Commissioner W. H. Smith as virtually exempting- all Nebtaska fraternal prcp-rty property. This type cfied lo be the "shadowing" services in Nebraska is estimated Lat . ?4. 300,000, . The hearing of the state board of equalization on fra ternal property in Omaha, will prob ably be cancelled. In Douglas coun- ty this type of property has a value 0 r i of $1,300,000 and in Lancaster coun ty $750,000. In Tlattsmouth' the amount of real estate taxes on the fraternal properties amounts to $1,377.92, which tinder the decision will prob- GETS POSITION AT WASHINGTON, D. C. L. F. Langliorst left on Monday fcr Washington, D. C, where he has been appointed assistant postmaster of the house of representatives. Mrs. Langhorst and daughter Ethel, are moving from Holstiue, Nebr., where the family had been located for some time. They will occupy the Frank Gustin property in the north part cf tewn. Elmwood Leader-Echo. Says 'Shadow ed on Dates; Sues Frank Marsh Lincoln Man Charges That He was Deprived cf Ccmpacy cf Girl; Sues for 325.030. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. IS. Herbert R. Bcrgens. 24, musician and grad uate of the Lincoln -.High school, started suit for 25 thousand dollars damages here today against Frank Marsh, secretary cf elate, charging the official had deprived him of the society cf a young woman employed in Marsh's office. Bcrgens claims Marsh intimidated him. imperscnated a ; federal officer and disgraced him in the eyes of his friends and "by schemes and sinister influences" deprived him cf the com panionship of the unnamed girl. It is further alleged that Marsh hired R. M. Waxhara. Lincoln pri vate detective, to shadow .Borgene and. the girl on their, 'dates" last September and October, This is claim- for which Waxham later sued 3arsh fcr two hundred dollars and attain ed judgment for $ST. . ilarsh employed a. detective agency. Eorgens said, to VsnacUiw oppress, entangle and enibaxfflss -the plain tiff." getting plaintiff ,. to make double-dates with the sHl and two op eratives of the detective agency. The petition also Asserts Laash paid the expense af Ke dats a.ad that he and employes of theflejc tive agency selected-thr-rnaces-where Eorgens and the yoiini?rwi?i&n were turpc?ed to so where--Marsh could hide in a thicke; or recret '-himself and watch them.' ' f' "" Waxham is a candidate "Tor Sec retary of state in opposition to Marsh. ' ' A mcfifh' ego. 'Waxlfrrm reported to "police that his efhed'harf' been looted-and his papers in. connection, with- his investigation for MaTsh stolen. y tiJarsh was not in Lincoln today. Ilis office reported he expected ta be . in Broken Bow and Hastings some time today on business. Marsh had Borgrer.s brought to the office of the detective agency by -a deputy sheriff, the petition said and Marsh was introduced to Bor gpas as a Mr. Jones and stated he was a federal prohibition officer. The plaintiff claims he-was hel3 and questioned for four hours against his will. He asserts that Marsh later ad-mittc-d that the woman was in hid ing where she could hear the ques tioning. '; Calls It "Frane Up." ' Mrs. Marsh, at her residence here told The World-Herald she was con vinced the suit against her husband was a frame up "by that detective whp was angry with, hint-V Mrs. Marsh caid she'was well ac quainted with the ycoing woman re ferred to in the suit, that she, had been out" in parties with ner and that J on several occasions f he-had invited her into the Marsh home- "I am very sorry alnt this whole affair but it looks to me as though they were taking advantage of my husband's absence from town," she said. World-IIerald. HAB.0LD BAND DIES . IN OMAHA HOSPITAL Harold Rand, son o the late Frank Rand, of Louisville, died Saturday in an Omaha hospital after a long illness. Kis funeral occurred Monday with interment at West Lawn ceme tery in Omaha. He was 2S years old. He was a taxi driver. .. His mother was ' formerly Lulu Page, a niece of C. Jf. Seybert and a cousin of Charles Reichart. He is survived by his widow, Beat rice; two daughtersi Donna and Elaine; his mother,' Mrs. Lulu Rand and one sister, Mrs. F. G. Mack, all The-Louisville friends extend sym pathy to the family in their bereave ment, Louisville Courier. Kg Offensive is Launched by the Japanese Drive Is Started as Ultimatum Is Scorned by the Defenders Planes Active. Shanghai, Feb. 20. The great ar ray of military strength Japan has been massing here during the last few weeks was flung against the Chi nese positions along a 16-mile front from Shanghai to Woosung this morning in the greatest military ac tion since the world war. The purpose of the Japanese as sault was to smash the strong Chi nese positions near Kiangwan, two milea north of Ilongkew park in the international settlement, and from that vantage point to deal with the troops holding the ends of the line a Chapei and Woosung. Japanese assault lines cf infan trymen advanced with fixed bayonets behind a barrage of world war pro portions laid down on the Chinese strongholds at Kiangwan. Mean while numerous big bombers har rassed the entrenched Chinese. It was reliably reported that the Kiangwan positions had been taken over by the Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth divisions of General Chiang Kai-shek's crack troops. Viewed as Important. This was looked upon as a devel opment of the utmost importance, as hitherto the Nineteenth Chinese route army has done all the fighting in Shanghai. The Japanese have en deavored to stress the local nature of their activities by saying their pur pose was to chastise the Nineteenth. General Chiang is China's chief mili tary commander, and participation by his troops in the action put it on a -national rather than a local scale. The big push started at 8:50 a. m. The signal for it was a thunder ing volley f rem the Japanese big guns stationed in Hongkew park. The Japanese ultimatum, demanding that the Chinese forces be withdrawn 12 miles from Shanghai, had ex pired at 7 a. m. Three hours after the hostilities started the Woosung end of the line hurst Into action. The Chinese had brought in additional artillery there. .andithtV rained projectiles int"the Japanese rrencnes. some oi meir guns 'were trained on the Japanese cruiser Yubari, lying off the Woo sung water, front. Japanese naval headquarters an nounced that shells were dropping all about the cruiser, but the Chinese gunners had not succeeded in scoring a'hit. World-Herald. RATE CASE TO BE STUDIED New York. Railroad executives anade plans Thursday for a detailed study, of recommendations contained in the report of the interstate com merce commission on the railroads application fcr increased freight rates. The decision to make the study was reached at a meeting of the ad visory committee of the Association of Railway Executives. The step was tahen. it was announced, with a view to obtaining all possible bene fit from the commission's suggos tions. A study, also will be made of the recommendations of Director of Ser vice Bartel of the commission, that the right of shippers to specify, routes over which their freight travels be rescinded and that pur chases by railroads be made under a system of competitive bidding. These suggestions will be studied with a view to filing exceptions to Barters report before the expiration of the time limit on April 11. A committee to confer on behalf cf the railroads with the railroad brotherhoods over a uniform pen sion plans was appointed, under the chairmanship of V. Whitney of the board of pensions of the New York Central railroad. DAUGHTER ATTACKS WILL OF M0THEE Lincoln,' Feb. 19. Attacking two wills signed by Mrs. Metilda C. Gale, both, naming the Bryan Memorial hospital as a beneficiary, Wreatha Gale Blodgett, a daughter, filed a petition in county court here . Fri day for administration of the estate without. probate of either testament. The first will gave the hospital all of the principal, after the daugh ter had used the income during her life. The second provided that the daughter receive the net income for life and that the Bryan Memorial hospital. the Nebraska Methodist Episcopal hospital ' and Deaconess home at Omaha "share the "income afterwards." " ' - Phone' thehews to "UoV 6. - -1 CAPFE2 CALLS FOE DATA. l Washington. A resolution to di rect the secretary cf agriculture to repcrt the amount of profits and losses sustained by various clashes of traders in wheat futures eince July, 1929, including short selling transactions, was introduced by Sen ator Capper. The report, which would be due by the next session of congress, would chow profits and losses of large traders separately i'rem these cf small traders and "the amounts of such profits and losses that resulted from the short selling of wheat during the drastic decline in prices since July 1, 1929." Questioning the Justification for the pieseut system of future trad ing in agricultural commodities, the resolution said it is claimed that 95 percent of the trading in wheat is Fpeculative and that millions of dol lars change hands annually as a re sult of it. Asks U. S. to Guarantee Bank Deposits Rep. Shallenberger Pre poses Law to Insuie Funds in National Banks Fiom Loss. Washington, Feb. IS. Insurance of national bank deposits to restore public confidence in the nation's fi nancial institution was proposed in the House Thursday by Representa tive Shallengerger, Nebraska Demo crat. "Something more substantial than a proclamation against hcarding is required to bring' hidden money back inlo hanks and turn it again into the chan nels of trade," he said in an ap peal! for early actfon by the banking committee. "Several bills are before Con gress to advance government lunds to banks after they failed and to improve our methods cf liquidation and administration of bank receiverships. "What is" needed is legisla tion that will restore pub'lic con fidence in our financial institu tions, stop directors' losses and . , keep our banks open, rather ' "than laws that eeek .to infuse life into corporations already dead or dying." Shallenberger recalled that a de positors' insurance provision was in the federal reserve bill as it passed the Senate in 1913, but was removed before becoming law. He said 90 per cent of bank fail ures result from lav violations by the managing officers. 4 "A depositors' insurance fund can be established from the profits made from the use of the money of the insured and should be deposited in the reserve banks and administered by the federal reserve board," he continued. "Ninety per cent oi the na tion's business is transacted with bank checks aud drafts. A sound depositors insurance law would give these instruments cf commerce a standing and se curity cn!y second to that of the federal reserve note itself.' Omaha Bee-News. TO DBAW OUT THE DOLLARS Washington As part of the ad ministration's effort to draw hoard ed dollars back into circulation. Sec retary Mills announced a special is sue of treasury certificates would be offered to the public March 7 in de nominations of $50. $100 and $300. The interest rate, will be announced later, he said, and will be at least 1 i percent. It is planned that the certificates mature at the end of a year and be redeemable upon sixty days' notice. The total of the issue was not announced. The move is tae product of -a suggestion by Col. Frank Knox, head cf President Hoover's anti-hoarding organization that government secur ities in low denominations would draw many dollars from their pres ent hiding places. "The certificates will be available to purchasers thru the banks," Mills said. "The banks, in turn, can, if they so desire, obtain the certificates thru the socalled 'war loan deposit account with the federal reserve banks." How about 1932 business? The merchant who goes after it thru the medium of newspaper adver tising will have no cause to com plain. Two complete illustrated: cut services and technical assist ance in laying out your campaign! are available at the Journal office. For 15c a week you can have'thcq Daily Journal delivered to your Store. - Says Consoli dation is Salva tion of Carriers Prcfesscr Cites Plan. Claiming That Five Hundred Millions May Be Saved. Philadelphia, I'a.. Fth. IS. Con solidation would Have America's railroads not less than 500 million dollars a year. Dr. Edward S. Mead, prolessor of corporation finance at the University of Pennsylvania told the annual Wharton Alumni Insti tute of Business today. Thomas W. Woodlock. former mem ber of th? interstate commerce com mission, and F. J. Lisman of the Lisman corporation. New Yojk. also informed the institute that huge sav ings could be made by consolidation and co-operation aud urged action to that end. Dr. Mead presented results of a research of Dr. Julius Grodinski of the department of corporation fi nance and investment of the Whar ton school, which suggests the de sirability the eventual regional con solidation if the railroads are to continue as a cornerstone of the fi nancial system. The research lists specifically 2S4 million dollars possible annual sav inis. and estimates other savings not now susceptible to accurate state ments sufficient to bring the total to 500 million dollars aud probably more. Dr. Mead raid the railroad struc ture hod been buTlt on the thesis that it was a transportation mon opoly. In the face of the automobile, truck, waterway, airplane, and pipe line competiticn, the railroads are not a monopoly and stand to lose still more business to these new com petitors if steps are not taken to cut costs incurred through inter-railroad competition and duplication. Foster ing of railrcad competition. Dr. Mead said, has probably been made obso lete by these other industries. World-Herald. Garner is Said to Have Wide- Backi i;:,,,.sm'eaa anq Both the Wets cxd Drye Are in Favcr cf Texan as Nom inee, Is Claim. Washington. The endorsement rf l-cth "wets a::d dry" wis claimed in the house lor Speaker Gainer, a derocratH presidential pob.iibility. During a discussion of law suits in volving Bishop Caanon, RrpreFenta tive Planton. an ardent prohibition ist, predicted Garner would sweep the country because "the people be lieve there is something here "beside the liquor question." The Texas democrat r.pcke in re ply to remarks made Thursday by Representative Tinkham, challenge ing Bishop Cannon to an cpen court trial cf the $500,000 libel suit tbe churchman has filed against him. Garner was brought into the discus sion by Representative Schafer, anti prohibitionist. He said that tho Gar ner voted against the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act, he voted for "the notorious five and ten" law. "We can realize why the father of the eighteenth amendment. Sen ator Sheppard, and the htepfather, William G. McAdoo, came out fcr him." Sclmfer ssiid. "Mv frisnd will find that the man 1 nominated will get every vote iu the gentleman's district except one, because every progressive he represents i3 going to vcte for him," Blanton replied. Schafter retorted that Garner, "who has been concemuing the delay in the reorganization of the execu tive departments also voted for 24 million dollars to be given the execu tive, without restriction, for the pur pose of dry law enforcement." "I want to call the attention of the country to this," Blantcn said, "that William Randolph Hearst, a notorious wet, endor:es the man 1 nominated this morning cne of the great drys in the United States, Wil liam G. McAdoo, endorsed him. So you see he has the endorsement of the wets and the drys. It is an eco nomic question." State Journal. THE0D0EE ROOSEVELT ARSIYES AT T0KI0 . Tckio,. Feb. 19. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, new governor of the Phil ippines, with Mrs. Roosevelt and his daughter, Grace, arrived here Friday Bight by automobile and were guests at Ambassador W. Cameron Forbc3 at the United States embassy. "See it before you Duy it."