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THURSDAY, MARCH. 17, 1932.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURHAL
PAGE FIVE
Test of the Wet
Strength to be
Shown in House
Members Called Today to Record
Themselves on Eighteenth
Amendment.
Washington. For the first time
since prohibition's advent members
of the house who do not prefer ab
sence Monday must answer a roll
call striking directly at the eight
eenth amendment. Culminating long
years of agitation, a showdown will
be had on whether a majority of the
house wants to consider a consti
tutional amendment for state liquor
control. The issue was forced by or
ganized wets, who secured 145 sig
natures on a petition to get the bal
lot.
Proponents of the Beek-Linthicum
resolution claimed as high as 180
vctes, counting heavily on doubtful
representatives wearing frowns of
political worry. Prohibitionists
equally ware confident of victory.
tho conceding the largest wet poll in
a decade. Representative Rainey, the
democratic leader, estimated the
maximum strength on the ballot at
155 to 160, figures which include his
own support.
"If as many vote for the resolu
tion as the wets claim," Rainey said,
it will be enough for a majority and
the house may be forced to drop the
tax bill temporarily and proceed im
mediately on the amendment. How
ever, my guess is nearer 160, and I
don't think that number will prove
sufficient for a majority." This es
timate wa3 based upon the aver
age votes cast in recent roll calls.
In a last hour drive for support,
the wet bloc leaders were seeking
votes of the Rainey type. The Illi
nois leader is "as dry as ever," but
will pursue his policy of thirty years
in congress and vote in the direction
that would give the people an oppor
tunity to pass on a controversial pub
lic policy.
Representative Britten, Illinois,
one of the amendment advocates,
Eaid that "any member of congress
who Monday by his vote refuses to
allow his constituents and mine to
vote on an amendment to the eight
eenth, amendment which would give
the states of the union the right to
regulate their own beer and alco
holic traffic within their own bor
ders will 'certainly Btand in a sorry
light when he appears before his
people in the November elections."
In other quarters, prospects of a
liquor tax to supplant huge levies
proposed in the billion dollars rev
enue bill were offered as an incen
tive to support the home rule plan.
Should a majority of members
voting support that resolution for
Fubmission it would be a mandate to
:orce its consideration in the house.
However, a two-thirds majority
vould be needed to send the resolu
t:on to the senate. State Journal.
Having waded through three in
As a veteran police reporter, we
::nit we have encountered police
n who knew about as little as the
:ice who answer the press ques
ns in the Lindbergh case, but we
er knew any of them to confess
v. ith such frankness.
Another year like the last and we
ca i list the income-tax collectors
v. h the army of Federal employees
x? get paid for doing nothing.
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Lincoln, March 11. The state de
partment of trade and commerce Fri
day announced payment of initial
dividends of more than .$80,000 to
depositors of three failed Btate" banks,
The largest payment, 15 per cent,
or $36,913, went to the Weston bank
at Weston. A check for $25,836
went. to the State bank of Ord as a
20 per cent payment, and the third
dividend of $20,326, or 15 per cent,
went to the American State bank of
Springteld.
in eacn case the payment was
made possible through the liquida
tion of bank assets, the department
said.
New Proposal
to Get Lindy's
Baby Studied
Conference Is Held at Home; Ten
nessee Clew Is Futile; Ros
ner Is Busy.
Hopewell, X. J., March 13. A new
campaign to obtain the release of
the kidnaped Lindbergh baby was
discussed this afternoon at a major
conference held in the Lindbergh
home. High police officials, under
world go-betweens and family ad
visers met with Colonel Lindbergh
and the entire police search was gone
over in detail.
The private negotiations of Colo
nel Lindbergh were canvassed in a
second meeting in which it was re
ported no police were in attendance.
Morris Rosner, who is playing an
increasingly important role in the
personal activities of the Lindbergh
family, was believed to have remain
in Xew York City today. Early this
morning the automobile that Ros
ner has been using called at the
Lindbergh home, remained an hour
and sped back to Manhattan.
It was believed the Rosner chauf
feur had brought a reassuring mes
sage to the Lindbergh home and that
the contents of tnis message were
responsible for the new campaign
plans. Colonel Lindbergh, it was
reported, appeared more at ease to
day than he has in the last week
He was out for an early morning
hike across the fields. Mrs. Lind
bergh was said to be recovering from
her severe cold.
Anne Appears Composed.
Family friends revealed she ap
peared composed and was spending
a large part of her time downstairs.
There were a number of callers at
the house on the..second Sunday and
thirteenth day since the kidnaping,
but the calls, it was said, werenot
of a social nature.
There was not as much travel on
the roads in the vicinity of the Lind
bergh home as on the last week-end,
but there were more sight-seeing
planes in the air than on any day
this week. The air was gusty and
bumpy and some of the planes con
siderably travel worn, but nobody
appeared to be thinking of danger
and some were heard to express a
desire for a forced landing in the
clearing beside the white stone house.
World-Herald.
LACK PEACE IN MANCHURIA
Changchufy Manchuria.Revolts
against the new federated state of
Manchuria, believed to be connected
with the uprising in Taheiho, were
reported at Manchuli on the Man-churain-Siberian
border and within
inner Mongolia. Prince Chai, who
has been attending the inaugural
celebration for Henry Pu-Yi, is ex
pected to leave shortly for his do
main to attempt to quell the dis
turbance, but it will require many
days of travel. General Ma Chan
Shan has dispatched a detachment
of cavalry from Mailun to put down
the Taheiho rebellion. Prince Chai's
chief lieutenant reported, that 500
bandit3 or rebels had occupied and
looted the walled town of Erlutun
and that similar bands had raided
two other towns in the district west
of Taonan.
OPPOSES A MOURNING WEEK
London. A call for a week ot
mourning to end pessimistic thought,
made by the Canadian minister ot
trade, H. H. Stevens, recently, call
ed forth skeptical comment in the
Manchester Guardian.
"After a week of breast beating,"
the paper said, "the country might
get itself into such a nose dive of
depression that it might never em
erge, but descend, still croaking, in
to irredeemable depths. A week is a
long time for the mourners to go
about the streets. - When the time
comes for them to rejoice, they may
hard forgotten what the bright side
of things look like."
Journal WanUAds get results!
Cardozo Takes
Seat on High
Bench Today
New Supreme Court Justice Has
Work Cut Out Immediately
for Consideration.
Washington. Unlike the average
man taking a new job, the latest
member of the supreme court, Ben
jamin N. Cardozo. will begin in
tensive work Monday almost immed
lately after taking the oath. There
will be a brief interim while the
the court delivers opinions. After
that is over, however, three suits
are set for hearing in which Car
dozo's opinion could easily be the
deciding factor. All have been ar
gued previously, but the court in
asking that they be heard again, in
dicated there was a .pronounced dif
ference of opinion. The resignation
some weeks ago of Oliver Wendell
Holmes left only eight justices on
the bench.
One suit is the claim that the
Texas election law gives the demo
cratic party in the state authority
to prevent negroes from voting in
party primaries. Another is wheth
er Georgia and other states may. tax
receipts from copyrights and wheth
er the government may tax income
from oil and gas leases on school
lands in Oklahoma. . -.
Cardozo will also participate in a
decision which may mean the end of
a suit, in and out of the court for
more than ten years. It is whether
a lower court had the power to modi
fy the decree under which four big
packing firms agreed to handle only
meat and related products. The
modification if the highest court
upholds it will allow them to han
dle other foods as well. The succes
sor to Holmes also arrives in time
to help in solving a new question
growing out of reapportionment.
State Journal.
STEAMER GOES ON A REEF
Hamilton, Bermuda. The Can
adian national steamship Prince
David, out of Boston with eighty
four passengers for Bermuda, struck
a reef twelve miles off Hamilton Sun
day and began sinking. All her pas
sengers and crew -were transferred
to the .Canadian national steamer
Lady Soniers. All were saved. The
accident was blamed on poor visi
bility in a blinding rain storm, and
occurred just before the Prince Da
vid picked up her pilot. The Lady
Somers. which also was bound for
Bermuda, picked - up everybody on
the distressed craft and took them
to St. George's.
The Prince David was sinking
slowly late in the day, with her decks
awash, and it was feared she would
be a total loss.
DECLARES REVIVAL IS DUE
Chicago. Dr. Phillips E. Osgood,
Episcopal clergyman of Minneapolis,
told a Chicago church club meeting
that the time has come for a great
religious awakening over the world.
This is a day of starvation for
the Christian message," Dr. Osgood
said, "and if history means anything
we are on the threshold Of a new
apostolic age. There is an uncanny
resemblance between our present eco
nomic and moral situation and that
when Christianity broke upon the
western world. I refer particularly
to the period of the early Roman em
pire when a thousand cults were op
erating and political intrigue and
corruption were rampant.
"Such conditions have brought
the world to the threshold of a new
religious age. It is a day of star
vation for the Christian message."
TRIALS BY JURY GRANTED
Chicago. Twenty-one persons
charged with disorderly conduct and
rioting in connection with a radical
demonstration on Michigan boule
vard last Saturday were granted
Jury trials Monday. Stev.e Chuck,
charged with shooting six persons in
the clash, was held to the grand jury
on three charges of assault with in
tent to murder and a charge of riot
ing. Four others arrested in the case
were released. Jury trials for the
twenty-one defendants were set for
March 22. Bonds of $400 for each
disorderly conduct charge and $1,
000 for rioting and resisting arrest
charges, were set by Judge Brooks.
HEADS TOAST LIST
Lincoln, Xebr. Edgar S. Wescott
of Plattsmouth headed the toast list
at the "Dorg Feast" of Beta Theta
Pi Saturday night. John R. Day of
Weeping Water was initiated. Sen
ator Kenneth S. Wherry of Pawnee
City, republican candidate for gov
ernor, was the guest of honor.
DEFEW ARREST EXPECTED
Kansas City. James R . Page,
Jackson county prosecutor, said he
expected within three days the ar
rest of Martin Depew, charged with
the kidnaping of Mrs. Nell Donnelly,
wealthy Kansas City garment manu
facturer, and mentioned as possibly
connected with the kidnaping of the
Lindbergh baby. The prosecutor's
assertion was made in an address
before- a business men's association
"I am thoroly convinced," he said,
"that Depew or members of his gang
had a hand in the kidnaping of the
Lindbergh baby, I know that cer
tain men from that section of the
country were here and took part in
the 1 kidnaping of Mrs. Donnelly
... I expect to have Depew with
in three days."
Eastman, the
Kodak King, Kills
Self by Shot
Benefactions at Time of His Death
Had Passed Seventy-Five
Millions.
Rochester, . Y., March 14.
George Eastman, 77, founder and
chairman of the board of the East
man Kodak company, internationally
known philanthropist and inventor,
killed himself in his palatial East
avenue home shortly after noon to
day. He had been in ill health for
several years.
As methodically as he had lived
his 79 years, he penned a brief note,
carefully put out his cigaret, placed
the cap back on his fountain pen
and removed his glasses before firing
shot through his heart.
The simple note read:
"To my friends: My work is done.
Why v.aitT G. E."
Equally methodically, Mr. East
man had added a codicil'to his will.
laughing and joking with attorneys
and witnesses whom he had asked to
his home.
A moment before his final act to
day the manufacturer was chatting
with his personal physician, Dr
Audley W. Stewart, and his nurses.
Suddenly asking them to leave, he
said:
"I have a note to write."
Heard the Shot.
Dr. Stewart and the nurses with
drew, leaving the philanthropist
alone. A moment later they heard a
shot. Rushing into the room they
found Mr. Eastman dead, the note
at his side.
News of Mr. Eastman's death not
only shocked the city of Rochester
but other centers throughout the
world. Not only had the industry
he founded penetrated into the re
motest parts of the earth', but his
philanthropies, placed at over 15
million dollars, had been scattered
abroad as well as in his native coun
try. At the time of the founder's death,
Dr. Harvey W. Burkhart, head of
the famous Eastman dental clinic
here, was on his way to Europe to
confer with officials of similar clin
ics established in London and Rome.
Others are under construction fh
Stockholm, Paris and Brussels.
Mr. Eastman was a bachelor and
there are ho immediate relatives sur
viving him. His nearest relative is
a niece, Mrs. George Dryden, of
Evanston. 111. Mr. Dryden, a Chi
cago manufacturer and Mrs. Dryden
were in Rochester at the Eastman
home yesterday. At the time Mr.
Eastman appeared to be in good
spirits, according to Mr. Drydren.
HUNTS JOB, FINDS JEWELS
Omaha. I. S. Morrison, New
York, couldn't believe his ears when
Pat Ratigen of Omaha, started talk
ing Monday night.
Mr. Morrison had Just offered Mr.
Ratigen a $200 reward in exchange
for some diamonds valued at approx
imately $1,000 and lost by Mr. Mor
rison while he was stolling about
the city early Monday. Mr. Ratigen
pricked up his ears at the mention
of $200 but after a moments hesi
tation shook his head and informed
Morrison that "$10 reward was a
great plenty."
Argument failed to move him but
Mr. Morrison finally prevailed on
Mr. Ratigen to accept a reward of
120. Mr. Ratigen Monday night said
that he was without a job and had
been seeking one at the stockyards
for several weeks. He Bald he found
the jewels in the street while he was
searching for work.
The results obtained to date by
Messrs. Spitale and Bitz may be con
sidered, in absence- of evidence to
the contrary, almost negligible, and
perhaps those gentlemen whose of
fice is to deal with the kidnapers
don't care to meet that sort of people.
Smith Permits
a Free Hand to
the Delegates
Can Vote for Whom They Wish
When Once He Is Elim
ated from Race.
Cambridge, Mass. Alfred E.
Smith, in a letter received here Mon
day, said a Smith pledged Massa
chusetts delegation to the democratic
national convention would be free
to vote for any candidate it selects
should Smith become eliminated from
consideration. He was not yet pre
pared to say which candidate he
would favor if he were eliminated.
The statements were made in a
letter to Mrs. Jessie W, Sayre, daugh
ter of the late President Wilson.
Smith also said he did not consider
the League of Nations a political is
sue, and that the attitude of the
United States on this question would
be determined by the rank and file of
the people. When the majority of
the rank and file became convinced
the league was the way to world
peace that majority would make it
self known, he said.
Smith answered a letter from Mrs.
Sayre containing questions which
Mrs. Sayre said were asked "to clar
ify the situation for myself and
many others here in Mannachusetts."
In answer to the question relative
to binding the votes of the Massa
chusetts delegation to the conven
tion. Smith answered simply: "The
Massachusetts delegates are entirely
free and the matter is up to them."
Asked in the event his name should
be withdrawn at the convention.
whether he would favor the nomin
ation of Franklin D. Roosevelt or
some other candidate. Smith said:
"I have already statrd that I am
neither for nor against any of the
men so far mentioned and I gave as
my reason for that, as leader of the
party by virtue of my nomination in
192S, I should not take sides, but
should rather leave the whole ques
tion to the democratic national con
vention." State Journal.
MAYOR H0AN VIRTUALLY
SURE OF REN0MLNATI0N
Milwaukee, Wis., March 15.
Daniel W. . Hoan, Milwaukee social
ist mayor, and other incumbents of
principal offices in the municipal
government were virFnally assured
of renomination tonight on the basis
of returns from the primary elec
tion. In 150 of the city's 388 precincts
Hoan polled 24,934 against 12,204
for Joseph P. Carney and 6,74a Tor
Philip C. Westfahl, his nearest com
petitors. Carney, an alderman, and
Westfahl, register of deeds, are non
partisans. Hoarded money will not help
business conditions to improve.
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Bombay, India. A woman poet
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the all-India national congress and
thus became the leader of the Ma
hatma Gandhi's civil disobedience in
India. She is Mme. Sarojini Naidu.
This will not be Mme. Naidu's first
initiation into leadership of the In
dian philosopher's forces against
British rule as she was appointed to
a similar post late in 1930. Mme.
Naidu succeeds Abulkalam Azad as
congress president. Azad was ar
rested Saturday. This Hindu poet
ess, long noted for her great beauty
and charm, gave further evidence
of her originality recently while in
Poena, where is the now famous Yer
oda jail. At that time she obtained
an introduction to Major Bandare,
superintendent of the jail. "I regard
Major Bandare," Bhe explained, "as
my prospective host. I, too, am like
ly to be imprisoned soon."
State's Un
employed Total
19,070 in 1931
And Nebraska Spent $329,656
Eelief the First Quarter of
Last Tear Alone.
in
Washington, March 14. With
19,070 unemployed, Nebraska ex
pended $329, 6S6 for their relief in
the first quarter of last year alone,
Secretary of Commerce Lamont told
Senator Hiram Bingham in the first
detailed federal figures on relief ex
penditures. In a letter to Bingham, made pub
lic by the latter, Lamont gave out
for the first time an extensive tabu
lation of unemployment in relation
to state aid. The figures were of
special importance at this time in
view of discussion in Nebraska as to
assistance for the remainder of this
winter.
Lamont said that all classes of un
employed enumerated by the census
bureau showed that 19,070 persons
were out of work in Nebraska the
first quarter of 1931, and that they
constituted 3.8 per cent of the gain
ful workers in the state.
Since Nebraska expenditures in
this period for relief work totaled
$329, 6S6, the average was $17.29
for each unemployed person in the
state. This compares with an aver
age of expenditures of $53.49 per un
employed person in South Dakota,
$30.03 in Iowa and $19.48 in Mis
souri. Nebraska, with its population of
1.377,963, spent 24 cents for each
person in the state in caring for the
unemployed, whereas South Dakota
average 35 cents for each person and
Iowa 3S cents. World-Herald.
Bucky Harris says the career of
the Detroit baseball club depends
this year almost solely on Charlie
Gehringer, but even if the worst
happens, some pretty good visiting
clubs will appear in Detroit from
time to time.
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on Presidency
Herr Hitler Determined to Fight It
Out with President Hinden
burg in Germany.
Berlin. President von Hinden
burg, still first in the hearts of the
reich, agreed Monday to the formal
ity of running again for re-election,
and the opposition parties began
dickering for advantage on the sec
ond vote April 10. Awakened to
hear the result, the former field mar
shal expressed edep satisfaction over
the seven million ""vote margin he
rolled up in Sunday's election over
Adolf Hitler, his nearest competitor,
and informed a delegation he would
continue to stand as a candidate in
the compulsory run-off.
While his re-election is considered
certain .the maneuvering of political
leaders indicated that he would fight
his major battle with Hitler, head of
the national socialists (fascists), who
already has announced he would run
again in an effort to increase his
eleven million votes. Hitler issued
a fervent appeal to his followers from
Munich to "resume the fight in the
fiercest form. We can no longer
show indulgence. I expect the party
to the last man. to increase its ef
forts without hesitation. I will take
the lead myself."
The communist board of strategy
was silent as to whether to place
Ernst Thaelmann in the lists again.
He run a poor third with nearly five
million votes and proved a great dis
appointment to his supporters. Dr.
Alfred Hugenberg. leader of the na
tionalists, admitting the certainty
of President von Hindtnburg's vic
tory, proposed that the nation be
spared the expense of a rerond bal
lot thru the reiehstag voting to con
tinue the president in office by a
two-thirds majority. But as the
price for ris support he demanded
that Chancellor Bruening, the real
issue of the election, dissolve the
reichstag at once and set May 8 as
the date on which new members
would be chosen, together with the
Prussia, Bavaria and Wuerttemberg
diet elections. These conditions
merely provoked mirth in feovern
nient circles.
If Hitler had not decided to try
his strength once more, the reich
stag probably would have met to de
clare President von Hindenburg re
elected for another seven years and
the expense and agitation of another
campaign would have been averted.
State Journal.
KILLED BY RACING CAR
Montevideo, Uruguay. The Ar
gentine racing pilot, Ernest Bossolo,
lost control of his car during the
running of the Carrasco Beach cir
cuit contest Sunday, and it plunged
into a group of spectators, killing
four and injuring many others. Bos
solo himself was among the Injured.
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