Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1932)
r FAME TWO PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL THURSDAY, MARCH 31. 1932. Surplus in Eng land as Fiscal Year at End Iacome Tax Called ths Kero of Bud get Balancing; One of Few Count: ics with Surplus. London, March 29. Great I3rit ti.i, by the aid of economics and txes, will end it-i fiscal year Thurs day with a rmall surplus in its treas ury. Thus Diitain will be one of the fi vv countries in the woild that has raid its way in the past year. Hut all is not unalloyed satisfac tion. The Daily Herald, organ of the labor opposition to the national gov c::ir.!er.t of Prime Minister Ramsay MaHo:ja'.!. puts the surplaa at be tween 40 million and 50 million i ;und; (nominally about 200 mil lion 2o0 million dollars) and says it v ill probably endanger the unity of the cabinet because demands r.re go ivs to come from ail cides for some ti" the money . The hero cf the budget balanc ing is the income tax, which was p:i.l up promptly. The taxpayer's Lr.crifU'e saved the situation. Since Dtceniber 31 British income taxpayers have pr.rted with more tUan 200 million pounds. The sur irx payable by persons with incomes exceeding two thousand pounds is expected to yield more than the esti mate of 73 million pounds. It has been predicted that the government will taLo sixpence off the income tax. making it 22'. pe' cent instead of 24 per cent. World- VOTE A TAX OS COSMETICS Washington. The house Tuesday voted a 10 percent tax on cosmetics after assurances from one of its six women members that her sex wouldn't mind. When the levy wa3 offered by Acting Chairman Crisp of th ways and mean committee, Representative Flcrcr.ce Kahn, Cali fornia, raid: "Speaking for the v.-on en cf the country, there will be i:o opposition on their part." Journal Want-ACs cost only a few cents and get real results! BV. I !. ALL THE FACTS ABOUT THE f;TGF IN FOR COMPLETE DETAILS CF THIS GREAT NEW CAR THAT GIVES YOU EVERYTHING YOU CAN WANT IN AN AUTOMOBILE Prices of the 14 Bcdy Types f. o. b. Detroit Heads! 3r - - - - $460 Do Luxo Couce - - $575 Friaeto.i - - - - - 435 Sport Coupe ... 535 De Luxe Roadster - 600 Cabriolet - - - - 610 Dc Luxe Phaeton - - 545 Fordcp Sedan ... 590 Tudor Sedan ... 609 Victoria - - - - 600 Ce Luxe Tudor Sedan 550 Do Luxo Fordor Sedan 645 Coupe ..... 490 Convertible Sedan - . 650 Any of the 14 bsdy types is also available with an Im proved 4-cy!inder enoir.e at $50 less than quoted above! (SIS?) mm Plattsmouth, Nebr. SOLDIERS KEEP THE PEACE Belfast, March 27. Strong bodies cf aimed police kept peace thruout northern Ireland, where many repub lican demonstrations were held in commemoration of Dublin's Easter re bellion of 1916. "Owing to the pres ence of armed soldiers of England, there will be no oration here," said Malachi Quinn. Ulster republican, to 300 persons who assembled in St. .'Mary's graveyard at Newry, county Down. All roads leading to Newry were patrolled by armed police. A large force of the police also assembled at the cross in the center of the ceme tery. At the foot of the cross, Mr. Quinn placed a wreath in memory of these who fell in the 1916 uprising and read their names. The crowd knelt and recited the rosary. The ceremony lasted a bare ten minutes. The police from midnight on thru cut the day occupied the cemetery in the city of Londonderry, where a num ber cf republicans are buried. Five hundred republicans gathered, how ever, at the rear of a Catholic church. There a republican leader spoke and prayers were said for the dead. As scon as the ceremony was o-er a strcng contingent of police rushed up and remained on duty for several hours. A crowd of 1,000 gathered outside Milltown, Belfast's great Catholic cemetery. Its gates were locked and guarded by the police, the crowd knelt in the roadway and recited the rcsary in Irish for the republican dead. PARLEY MAY COME HERE New York. James A. Farley, democratic state chairman and un official manager of the campaign to nominate Governor Roosevelt for president at the democratic national convention, was cn route Monday to Iowa to confer with party leaders and attend the Iowa democratic state convention in Des Moines Tuesday. Farley v.as to arrive in Des Moines late Monday. While there he will also confer with democratic leaders from other nearby states. He will go to Wisconsin Tuesday night and will speak at a dinner to be attend ed by Wisconsin democratic leaders in Milwaukee Wednesday night. He may later visit Nebraska, it was sraid. Phone the news to No. 6. w Motor 0, Efforts at Economy Meet ing Opposition Projected Plans for Economy by Dem ocratic House Faces Strenu ous Objection. Washington. Projected plans of the democratic house to effect econ omics in governmental expenditures thru salary reductions and reorgan ization are meeting strenuous ob jection from quarters in and outside of congress. Meanwhile the demand for full cash payment of the soldiers' bonu sis gaining strength. The spe cial house economy committee, on which the democrats are depending to make a record, has become in volved in a bitter wrangle over how general salary reduction may be car ried thru. Opposition from senators and representatives, government em ployes and labor organizations has been registered by witnesses, along with floods of telegrams and letters. Altb.o the committe tentatively agreed by a five to two vote on a plan to exempt the first $1,000 and impose a flat 11 percent cut on the remainder of all government salaries, it reconsidered the action and has been unable to reach a definite agree ment. About 67 millions would be saved thru the proposal. Laying aside the salary cutting controversy temporarily, the com mittee began a study of proposi tions to reduce departmental appro priations and to eliminate bureaus. Chairman Byrns said nearly every move in this direction has met with strong opposition from department heads, depite President Hoover's de sire fo rreorgani?ation for economy purposes. Nevertheless, the commit tee expects to bring out some bills that will h3 given legislative right of way as soon as the revenue bill is disposed cf by the house. Several proposals for full cash payment of the soldier bonus have been put forward. They are to be considered by the ways and means committee as the first order of busi ness in April. The bill by Repre sentative Patnian to issue 52,200, 000.009 in currency and a proposi tion to replace the certificates with rediscountabl3 bonds to mature in 1345 and slated for the firt yooasisl- eration. ' r3?3 '. ..!' Patman said there ' Is 'sufficient gold held by the federal re3erve to back the currency and based hi3 proposition on the same principle of the Glass-Stcagall bill, which per mits the federal reserve to accept government obligations for retns count purposes. State Journal. COUNTING COST OF TORNADO Birmingham, Ala. The Red Cross, the American Legion and state relief agencies worked overtime Saturday in efforts to rehabilitate approxi mately 10,000 persons left homeless by Monday night's tornado in Ala bama, Georgia and Tennessee. In Alabama alone there are more than S.000 persons whose domiciles were blown to the four winds. Two hun dred and seventy-five residences were destroyed in Georgia, aside from 200 others that were damaged, and the loss was large in Tennessee. No one lias attempted to estimate the exact nroncrtv damage, but relief work ers say it ran into the millions of dollars. The death list in Alabama includes about 300 names and 2,500 are known to have been injured. Forty were killed in Georgia, scores were injured and 400 families suffered losses to laree or small extent, ten- nessee's death toll was twenty with many injured. SEEDS & POTATOES Car Red River Early Oh ics and Cobblers. "Hoople" District $1. Ru., Sweet Clever Choice $3. Fancy $3.50. Alsyke $10.73, Timothy $2.50, Clovt-r $7.50, Rye .75, IJarley .75, Alfalfa $8, Grimm $12, Sudan $2.25 Cwt., Filver Mine, St. Charles white and Reid';j Yellow Dent graded $1.50. New Red Globe Onion Seed $1.50, Sweet Corn .15, Peas .25, Beans .23. Johnson Bros., Neb. City. EARTH SHOCKS IN ALASKA Seward, Alaska. New 'activity of Katman, one of Alaska'3 greatest volcanoes, was held responsible Sat urday afternoon for severe earth shocks felt in Seward the last twenty-four hours. Following the shocks, which started at 1:30 Friday after noon, and continued until 10:58 Fri day night, a report was received from Carl Armstrong, at Katmai baach, that black smoke was pouring from Katmai's crater. Journal Want-Ads get results! JAPS BOMB INSURGENTS Changchun, Manchuria. Japan eso military aviator3 bombed Chi nese insurgent concentrations north of Nungan and the aviators, return ing ;hcre, reported they believed the Chinese casualties were heavy. They said they saw a small Japanese force with a contingent of Hsi Hsia's Kirin provincial troops facing an insur gent advance in the Nungan district and they considered it a serious ni3nace to Changchun, the capital, it self. A portion of Gen. Jirb Tamon's Japanese division at Harbin prepared immediately to proceed to Uungan. Japanese ' military ' intelligence re ports indicated the rebal force num bered 7,000, including several units of Hsi Hsia's troops Which have gone over to the enemy. Simmons IS Proposed as Key note Speaker Republican Committee Is Reported Negotiating for Orator to De liver "Keynote" Address. In its search for a keynoter and temporary chairman of the repub lican state convention a subcommit tee chosen by the executive com mittee is reported to have written Congressman Simmons to sound him out on his availability for that im portant service. Some have express ed doubt as to whether Congressman Simmons would be able to leave Washington and congress to deliver a republican keynote address in his home state May 5. Others have ex pressed doubt concerning whether Simmons being a candidate for re election would tare to place himself in the position of a keynoter in the year 1932.. Many contend he is just the man for the task and they have suggested his name in the commit tee. . ,-r Others suggested .for the position are H. E. Sackett of Beatrice, C. Tc-trus i'etercon of Lincoln .also the three republican, forjner governors, S. R. McKelvie, Adam McMullen and Arthur J. Weaver. . Robert W. Davoe of Lincoln has aUso been mentioned aa one who ha? had previous exper ience in delivering, keynotes in days when the oiusjt) Lch, followed,; was what was termed popular music. White the committee is negoti- ating' for a' keynoter the candidates for governor in both parties are tour ing the ctate and the primary cam paign is warming up to a w hite heat. Governor Bryan is now out on what may be nearly three weeks of steady campaigning and his opponent, Wil liam Ritchie, has been and is busy on the stump, the two opponents having the., time of their lives mak ing charges and counter charges and answers, replies and rejoinders. The two democratic candidates are at tracting more attention and are more talked about than any other candi dates in the field. Predictions are that the democrats may cast more votes than the republicans at the primaries. Wherry, Griswold and Williams, contesting republican can didates for governor, are making a lively three-cornered fight, each con fident of nomination. Some repub licans are reported to have gone over into the democratic registration col umns in eleven registration cities, cither to'vote for Ritchie or Bryan. CUTTING OPPOSES HOOVER Fanta Fc, N. M.,-Mr.rc:i 27. Sena tor IJronscn Cutting; avowedly oppos ed to the rcnomination of President Hoover, is the new republican ration al committeeman from New Mexico, lie was elected unanimously late Sat urday night at the state republican convention after tailing the delegates he honed the national convention will nominate for president a man who will take into consideration "the in terests cf New Mexico and the na tion." . . Senator Cutting paid that "while 1 do not favor' fhe rt nomination of President Hoover, ,as against some other administration which would be more effective in this part of the world, I shall continue to support the interests of the republican party so long es I conscientiously can do so." A resolution to Instruct the New Mexico delegation for Hoover was de feated by the resolutions committee of the convention. h,y a vote cf 24 to 3. The committee adopted a resolu tion endorsing the Hoover adminis tration but felt that the New Mexico delegation should be "free to meet whatever conditions present them selves before the national convention in Chicago." The archives of he League of Na tions now contain 1.042 Internation al agreements. One or two of which have been -kept. Danes Help Own New York Idle in Unusual Manner Quick Action Taken by Emergency Relief Committee Neat Garb Aids Work Seekers. New York. How needs arising within a racial group because of un employment may be met efficiently, quickly and humanely, is being ex emplified among the Danes of Great er New York. This relief work is carried out by the emergency relief committee on unemployment, which works under the central committee of the United States Danish Societies of New York. There are 27 organ izations in this affiliation, with Mr. Frank Nielsen as president. Two members of the relief com mittee visit immediately any person or family reported to be in financial need. Upon confirmation of the need, they give money to help, then and there. They have authority to act immediately, on their own judgment. This has proved perhaps the most useful element of the plan, for often cases of need are not known until the necessity for assistance is im perative. The money is not given as a dole, but as a loan. There are no strings tied to this loan, eo that while it can be accepted with no sense of being 'an object of charity, it need not be repaid until the time comes when the money may bo returned without again causing distress. The chairman of this emergency committee is Mr. H. J. P. Enemark, traveling passenger agent of the Scandinavian-American v Lin?. Mr. Enemark says that the plan of im mediate relief han proved so work able that there has never been a lack of funds to carry it on. "We never have had to beg for money," he went on. "Often we have found that a man may merely need to be helped to make himself pre sentable with a new suit of clothes in order to get work. This happened just the other day when we heard of an exnert waiter who was prevented from applying for a position because his outfit was too shabby. The com mittee acted at once and he got the job. In other casw? workmen of vari ous trades have had to let, their tools go in order to buy food. Supplied with tools, they became Celf-support-ing again. IOWA TEED TO ROOSEVELT Davenport, la. The state demo cratic convention late Tuesday in structed its twenty-six delegates to the national convention for Gover nor Roosevelt. The action was taken on a separate resolution brought in by the resolutions committee, pledg ing the national delegation to "use all honorable means" to bring about the nomination of the New Yorker for president. It also instructed the delegates to vote as a unit on all questions. Adoption of the resolution came in a stormy session in which state convention members opposed to pledging of the delegates hurled cries of "railroading." Ed McManu? of Keokuk said he regarded Hoose velt as one of the most available candidate, but demanded to know by what authority the convention could "tie the hands and bind the consciences of its delegates." K. II. Pollard of Fort Madison raised a point if order on the power of the convention to instruct .He was ruled out of order and Informed that the stnto convent Ion has final authority ti H inti:.t ratify the selections of the district raucii:v,sj. The national delegation nl.'o was In.Mt fueled to work for the nomin ation -f (l.Mi. M. A. Tlngley of Coun cil 111 ii IT for vice president. ESCAPE IN CAR OF MAYOR Ed.lyville, Ky. Two prisoners at the Kentucky state penitentiary here overpowered and assaulted n guard, took his pistol and escaped in an automobile late Monday after noon. They were Irn Newton and Dick Morgan, both uerving five year sentences for the attempted holdup a year ago of the Calvert City bank in Marshall county! The guard, Earl Chilton, was severely injured. The prisoners , after washing Mayor TanneY's -automobile Inside the prison walls, took it outside to test it out, with Chilton accompany ing them. Half a mile out they stop ped the car on pretense of examin ing it and a3 the guard got out they struck him down with an iron bar, beat him and cut him with a knife. The prisoners then escaped In the automobile whic hwas found aban doned near Dulaney. 'See it before you Buy it." ORGANIZE NEW LEAGUE The Tri-County basseball league which was in existence several years ago has again been revived. A meet ing at Omaha decided on the organ ization of the league and which will include teams from Weeping Water, Fort Crook, Papillion, Millard and two teams from Omaha, represent ing Cass, Sarpy and Douglas coun ties. This should make a live wire cir cuit as Papillion, Fort Crcok. Mil lard and Weeping Water have had excellent team3 the last season and with the laige number of good play ers that are available for the Omaha teams they should have a "hot" sea son. The league is seeking two addi tional teams to make an eight club circi-it and in considering teams, that of Murray should not be over looked, they having one of the best teams in this part of the state in the 1931 season. Democrats May Have a Contest Over Keynoter Roosevelt Opponents Backing Jouett Shouse as Against Sen ator Barkley. Washington. A dispute over the selection of a temporary chairman and keynote speaker for the demo cratic national convention was fore seen in the decision of supporters of Governor Roosevelt to advance Sena tor Barkley of Kentucky for the dual assignment at Chicago. Leaders of the "stop Roosevelt" movement are backing Jouett Shouse, chairman of the party's national executive com mittee on arrangements has been called to consider the question of Chicago next Monday. Advocates of Governor Roosevelt for the nomination are believed to be in a majority on the arrange ments committee, altho the Shouse supporters my put up a fight. Bark ley, who recently came out for Roose velt after eliminating himself as a favorite son candidate, should be ac ceptable to the committee, Roosevelt chieftains argue, because ho man aged the 1928 campaign for Alfred E. Smith in the, blue grass state and sec onded Smith's nomination at Hous ton. On the other hand, there have ben evidences that Shouse would be pushed for the job with the backing of Chairman Raskob. In reply to claims that his advocacy of unin- structed delegations to the national convention was primarily to block Roosevclt'c nomination. Shouse has insisted he is neither for nor against any candidate, but wishes the con vention to have a free hand in se lecting a standard bearer. It is possible to carry a keynoter contest to the convention floor, al tho such instances are rare. Sup porters of William J. Bryan tried to prevent the selection of Norman E. Mack of New York in this man ner in the 1912 convention, but lost. Excluding the twenty-six dele gates from Iowa and twelve from Main?, Governor Roosevelt now has fifty-seven pledged delegates out of the 136 named and assurances of twenty-eight more from Georgia to be chosen April C. making a total of eighty-five. Former Senator James A. Reed of Missouri is next in the running for the nomination with his state's thirty-six. while Governor Murray has twenty-three and the remaining twenty, from Louisiana, arc unin st meted and in doubt. Of the 116 republican delegates chosen President Hoover has 105 FUKNITUK1 worth coming many miles to Purchase Among the twenty Dressers that just came in are two genuine Birds Eye Maple. Also have 21 Dining Room Tables at from $3.50 to $5; Kitchen Ranges, $7.59 to $45; twenty Oil Stoves and Pressure Gas Ranges from $4.50 to $15; ten exceptionally good Gas Ranges from $12.50 to $20. Hand Washers, Electric Washers, Power Washers, $5 and up. Beds, Mattresses and Springs. Kitchen Cabinets, Cupboards, Wardrobes, Commodes, $1 to $5. Axminster Rugs and Congoleums, $3 to $6.95. All the Above Listed Goods Being Sold at a Great Sacrifice : EuffQctt Ut!0E?DuQtiU0CG 2. Phone 645 PLATTSMOUTH So. 6th St (Political Advertising-) 'Hi . ' -iv',v?,v:- , mm m FULTON HARRIS Son of Former Commissioner Candidate on Republican Ticket for County Surveyor University Education and Practic al Experience in Surveying and Platting Records YOUR SUPPORT will be appreci ated at the Primaries on April 12. t i pledged and claimed for him. Meantime development in the cast apparently foreshadowed increasing tension between supporters of Al fred E. Smith and Roosevelt. A divi sion of Connecticut votes between Smith and Roosevelt at the Chicago convention in June was advocated by Governor Cross a3 a mcan3 of pre venting factional strife. He sent the message to group.? supporting both leaders. Only the day before James Roosevelt, son of the New York gov ernor, safd at a Roosevelt rally in Boston that neither his father nor his close friends could understand the "failure of Governor Smith to support his candidacy." State Jour nal. LOAN INQUIRY WELCOMED . Washington..: The administration welcomed an inquiry into the 12t 800, ('G loan to the Missouri Paciiic by the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration an dSenator Couz?ns re plied he would tell the renate Wed nesday of his investigation or it. Couzens, chairman of tho interstate commerce committee, conferred with tome members of the interstate com merce commioFion which raid it ap proved .the loan with "reluctance." ,"l have enougli facts, I think." ob3ervcd the senator to newspaper men. "So far'ts l am conernd no investigation is needed. I wJLIl state the case to'tlfe senate tomorrow." Senator Borah, who tol dthe Fen ate Monday that pressure was used on the commission to obtain its ap proval for the loans, said he would discuss the question Wednesday also. Earlier in the day Secretary Mills told newspapermen the Recon struction Finance corporation would "welcome" an Inquiry and arserted there was "no undue pressure in the confirmation of this loan." EXTENSION CLUB MEETS The Home Extension club held a very pleasant meeting Tuesday even ing at the home of Miss Mary 3wa tck on west Main street and with a large number of the members In at tendance. Mrs. Clarence C. Cotner assisted Mis Swatek in entertaining. The theme of the meeting was that of "Planning a Home Garden" and was followed with a great deal of interest by all of the members of the club. The s-ubject of the next meeting will he that of "Making Lamp Shades and Modernizing Old Lamp:;." The ladies also enjoyed reveral games and in these Mrs. Robert Hill and Mrs. Herman Tickottcr, Jr., were the prize winners. At the close of the evening a dainty luncheon was served that added to the pleasures of the even ing.