MONEAY, OCT. 24, 1932
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he IPlattsmouth Journal
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Another sign of business revival
is that people have started worrying
about their debts again.
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Well, well! Prosperity is return
ing, and soon they'll be selling five
cent cigars two for a quarter.
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Knowledge the people are now ac
quiring in relation to holding com
panies has been paid for in advance.
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The president's scheme in a nut
shell appears to Le to get the wnvat
to China and the dough to our farm
er?. :o:
Imagine our desperate rage if Ger
many had won and taxed us 20 cents
on each dollar, as our public serv
ants do.
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One bright thing we democrats
have to look forward to is the blos
soming in Washington next spring of
the plum-trees.
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Two million gallons fo medicinal
whisky will be made next year. There
mu.-t be quite a dignified number ol
diseases for which whisky is a speci
fic. :o:
Vice-President Curtis is featured
as an Indian and Speaker Garner as
a cowboy. Unless a lot of dime novel
stories are false, what is going to
happen to "Undo Charlie" is just
too bad.
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The reason the Hallowe'en observ
ance in mcst neighborhoods grows
in Intensity from now cn cut is that
after October 31 the goblins have
to begin their good behavior cam
paign which reaches its climax at
Christmas time.
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A htfn'dj blacfc "and ' blue,"' cut nnd
swollen, the result of shaking hands
with several thousand people in an
official ceremony in Washington, is
only one of the more trivial discom
fitures that the President has to en
dure, but it is an unnecessary one
and the suggestion that Mr. Hoover
declare a moratorium on handshak
ing should be carried out.
(Political Advertls ng
CONGRESSMAN
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Candidate for Re-Election
He gave good service to the state as Governor, and he is
giving faithful service to the First Congressional District of
Nebraska. When a public servant is giving good service,
it is well to keep him on the job.-
Your Vote Nov 8th will be Appreciated
What the country needs is a poem
lovely as a tree, to confute a large
number of radio singers.
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To be historically accurate, most
big men were born in little homes,
and most little men were born in
big homes.
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Would a reference to certain de
flated investments as "public futil
ity" stocks be a case of adding In
sull to injury?
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This is a bad year to inaugurate
an anli-noire campaign, as what most
of us regard as noise is music to- the
candidate's ear?.
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A Boy Scout leader says whistling
is a good cure for the pipe-smoking
habit, and that's a good rule that
works both ways.
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It u?ed to be the biggest task to
get the coal from the shed to the
house, but the main jcb now is ta
get it in the ched.
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Reports of heavy financial losses
among the erstwhile wealthy abori
gines of the Southwest indicate that
the noble red man is now blue.
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As we understand, a bargain sale
is one at which a feminine economist
ruins a 20-dollar street dress to grab
herself a house dre.is for 9S cents.
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Another very usual sight out west,
we hear, is the old-timer reminiscing
over the days when Republicans
roamed the plains in countless multi
tudes. :o:
Five popular professors and an old
Yale quarterback are up for office in
Connecticut. Never has the loyalty
of the raccoon coat vote" been so
sorely tried.
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We were rather in hope that the
day of the hard-boiled football coach
was over, but we read that a coach
in an Ohio college works his players
up to a high pitch against the en
emy of the ensuing Saturday by mak
ing them eat spinach each day.
(Political Advertising)
'She was one of the cleanest
brides I ever saw," a friend tells
the Belleville (Kansas) Telescope.
"Her friends gave her more than a
dozen showers."
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Towns and villages appear and dis
appear so rapidly in the United
States that the federal government is
obliged to issue a brand new official
map of the country every two weeks.
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Tha man who calls his wife "Old
Woman" may lack the finest sense
of gallantry, but, Ewing Heroert
philosophizes in the Hiawatha World,
he rarely elopes with another. wom
an. :o:
Thinness of the corn husks in Ne
braska indicates a mild winter and
the fact that squirrels are busier than
usual storing v. alnuts indicates a
hard winter. In any case, it is likely
to be cold.
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"It isn't much for looks, and it
won't pull hills any more," said a
local man. a 19"4 model coupe stand
ing in his back yard, "but it has a
great sentimental value. We mar
ried ofT three daughters with it."
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A violinist was cheked to death
by a piece of steak he was frying
to eat in Vermont this week, notes
the Pittsburgh Headlight. Why can
not things be set right in this coun
try again? There are two or three
kinds of musicians who really should
be choked ahead of a violinist.
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CRIME COSTS MORE
THAN SCHOOLS
It costs $300 a year to keep a
man in prison and less than 5100 a
year to keep a child in school, ac
cording to an extensive study of
crime in its relation to education,
just completed by the National Edu
cation Association. It is even more
expensive to care for juvenile delin
quents than for adult criminals. The
offending minors in cpecial schools
and reformatories average about $400
a year.
The total annual bill of the na
tion for preventing and punishing
murderers, highwaymen, robbers and
other law violators is 1 g billion dol
lars. This is a billion dollars short
of the expenditure for education.
However, there are more than 25 mil
lion children in the schools, while
the number of criminals is arlous
ly estimated from V to a full mil
lion. Every time $2 is spent on ele
mentary and secondary education
$1.50 is spent to control crime.
Since a great part of delinquency
is due to maladjustment of the in
dividual in school, home and com
munity, the conclusions of the re
port suggest the lack of financial
prudence exhibited by some local
governments in subtracting from edu
cation and public welfare budgets
sums which will have to be added a
short time later to the budget for
the control of crime. While such
juggling of the public account books
may lull the fears of the taxpaying
public for the moment, it can save
no money and encourages the waste
of the nation's human resources.
Persons who urge reckless re
trenchment in public expenditures
for education should be informed as
to the expenditures and losses due
to crime. Such discussion of facts
does not necessarily mean that the
billions paid in crime should be dras
tically rruuctd, but the question may
be raised: Can a nation that spends
lrfe billion dollars annually for crime
afford to pay less than 2 billion
for education? From a Bulletin of
the National Education Association.
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LEST WE FORGET
Since Governor Roosevelt's tariff
address here,-the Tribune has been
flooded with propaganda from var
ious Grundylzed sources. All of it is
designed to break Roosevelt's argu
ments. Presumably other newspaper of
fices and thousands of individuals
throughout the territory have receiv
ed the same propaganda. It is only
logical that the high tariff boys
should sow their poison where the
governor has planted the seeds of
truth.
Before permitting themselves to
be influenced by this counter argu
ment, farmers and business men of
this territory should pause and re
member just one significant fact,
and that significant fact is this:
Everything the farmer buys
costs 9 per cent more than it
did before the world war. That
is the average figures. What
the farmer sells now brings 43
per cent less than it did before
the war. i
It is not necessary to go behind
that one single fact to determine
whether the Hawley-Smoot law has
been good for the American farmer.
Nor doe3 the western business man
need to look further to understand
one of the underlying causes of his
own distress. Sioux City Tribune.
EUSINESS HAND
MAID OF PEACE
Wars ana disputes often are said
to arise between nations because of
economic rivalries and disputes.
There is a good deal of validity in
the explanation. But it is not a com
plete explanation. In some detentes
trade rivalry exists only in a second
ary degree, as in the case of France
and Germany, where the trouble is
mainly one of mental attitudes.
In the economic sphere the rela
tions between France and Germany
are at bottom complementary. Ger
many is a highly developed indus
trial nation; France rests solidly up
on an agrarian economy, on top of
which has been built small indus
tries and specialized crafts. The tie
has not been damaged to any great
extent even by the loss to France
under the peace treaties of German
coal and iron. In business, then,
3hould be the basis of understand
ing, once the fears that underlie the
problem have melted in mutual trust
and confidence. In fact, the drawirg
together of the two countries in
some kind of accord may be a means
;f dispelling those fears.
In this belief, at any rate, far
seeing men on both sides of the
Rhine have been working quietly to
knit the two peoples in economic
rapprochement. They are not the
statesmen whose movements are re
corded so faithfully by the news
papers. They are the lesser officials
jn whom devolves the "donkey work"
;n international intercourse, and the
businesss men.
On September 27 last year the
:tatesmcn of the two countries pro
vided these peacemakers with some
thing on which to train their real.
Premier Pierre Laval and Foreign
Minister Aiistide Briand went to
Berlin, and brought into existence a
Franco-German economic committee.
At the time it was regarded as a sop
to cover up a fruitless mission. If it
were net so regarded by its authors,
It certainly had all the appearance
of an absent-minded creation, for it
promptly faded from newspaper at
tention. For six weeks nothing was
visibly done to make it function.
Then on November 13 the first meet-,
ir.g was held inParis. But the com
mittee still remained shrouded in ob
scurity. Nevertheless, the seed of economic
reason thus absent-mindedly plant
ed has been growing, apace. A sub
committee on commercial policy canfe
to an agreement with what Ur. Jo
seph Schumpeter, the well-known
German economist, calls "astonish
ing rapidity." The Germans dropped
their continual protests against the
tariff safeguarding of French indus
tries, while the French agreed to re
sort to the limitation of German im
ports only in exceptional cases and
after careful consideration. This lat
ter may not mean much, but it was
followed ty a proviso that in the
event of French industries applying
for more protection, the French gov
ernment would advise them first to
trv to come to an interindustrial un
derstanding with their German com
petitors, and this may mean a great
deal.
In fact, it has meant a great deal.
Agreements have been reached be
tween the porcelain, nitrogen and
electrical engineering industries of
both countries. The electrical has
gone further and established a joint,
office to facilitate the carrying out
of the compact. Dozens of other
cases are under consideration, the
most important of which would in
volve understandings over railway
material, cement, airways and ship
ping, while a subcommittee has
actually been formed to study co-operation
in foreign, especially over
seas, markets.
Another crisis similar to the one
created last year by the Anschluss
proposal has again disturbed Franco
German relations. It will naturally
interfere very gre-atly with the work
of the economic committee. Politics
obtrudes its head even in a sphere
where the real interest of both na
tions to clearly points to an economic
rapprochement. But the committee is
still in existence; it has laid a use
ful foundation of useful collabor
ation; and, consequently, it will con
tinue to provide a rallying ground
for true reconciliation.
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"Eggs this fall will be creamy
white, with yolks of a pale yellow
tint," acocrding to the president of
the Egg Men's Association. This, of
course, with the consent and co-operation
of the hens, which we pre
sume the egg men have already ar
ranged for.
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The most beautiful type of wom
an, according to an artist, is the one
whose head is shaped like ah egg.
This standard of beauty dates far
back into ancient Greece, indicating
that beauty and a certain amount
of dumbness have been considered
inseparable for a great many years.
A MODEST QUESTION
FOE HOOVER LEAGUE
We note the organization of the
Hoover Business Men's league. Ordi
narily, that would be that. We have
never heard of a political campaign
in which there was no business men's
league. And we have never heard of
a business men's league in these
parts, organized by either party, in
which certain names were not as cer
tain to appear as the names of, say,
"Bob" Ennis and Galen Tait in the
regular political news. Nevertheless,
it is possible that business men's
leagues have been underestimated.
It is possible that business men's
league's have indepent views on
business, as it is affected by govern
ment and politics. Hence, one may
bring certain facts to the attention
of the Hoover Business Men's league
and ask a question or two.
On October 19, 1926, tha bank
ers' manifesto was issued, signed by
leading financiers of the great na
tions. Among the American signers
were J. P. Morgan, Gates W. McGar
rah and A. H. Wiggin. And, in part,
the manifesto which these gentle
men signed read as follows:
"It is difficult to view without
dismay the extent to which tariff
barriers, special licenses and prohi
bitions since the war have been al
lowed to interfere with international
trade, and to prevent it from flowing
in its natural channels. At no period
in recent history has freedom from
such restrictions been more needed
to enable traders to adapt them
selves to new and difficult condi
tions. And at no period have imped
iments been more perilously multi
plied without a true appreciation of
the economic consequences involved."
At the time that warning was is
sued by Messrs. Morgan, McGarrah,
Wiggin et al, the United States hafl
in the Fordney-McCumber tariff law
the highest rates ever imposed in any
permanent measure. And Europe was
a network of similar restrictions.
Within two years the question ct
higher tariff rates had been raised
in this country by Mr. Hoover. And,
after a protracted battle in congress.
Mr. Hoover signed on June 17, 1930,
the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which
raised the American rates to an un
precedented height. Immediately Can
ada struck back with a reprisal tar
iff, and in the intervening two years
virtually all the other nations of the
world followed her lead. And in reply
to all of that, Mr. Hoover champions
in Des Moines his tariff walls and
speaks favorably of still higher ones.
With this statement of facts, let
us get to the question one would
like Daniel Willard, Albert Towers,
Bladen Lowndes, Austin McLanahan
and other lights of the Hoover Busi
ness Men's league to answer. The
question is this: Is the common
man's understanding that there is a
grave difference of opinion on tar
iffs between the master mind of Wall
street and the master mind of Wash
ington accurate? And if so, are we
plain people to understand from the
luminaries of the Hoover Business
Men's league that J. Pierpont "Mor
gan is a dumb-bell? Baltimore
Sun.
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FAILURE OF G. 0. P.
CAMPAIGN STRATEGY
Republican leaders were rather
downcast today as they surveyed the
results of two of their choicest pieces
of campaign strategy. Privately
some pt them lamented that "noth
ing seems to work." One of these
strategic moves had consisted in pub
licly taunting the democrats with
having "muzzled'' Speaker Garner,
the vice-presidential nominee. They
kept it up for days, from the stump
and leaving the implication that
Garner's "radical" and "unsound"
views on government finance would
alienate millions of votes if he were
allowed to utter them.
What was the result? Garner, who
is personally adverse to taking the
stump, was goaded into the radio last
night. Garner knows government
finanevs inside out. I doubt if there
is a m: n in either house of congress
who k iows as much about taxes. And
why Fhouldn't he, when he has par
ticipated in the drafting of every
federal tax bill for the last 20 years?
He was able to show rather con
clusively, it seemed to many Wash
ington observers, that the failure of
congress to "balance the budgte"
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TROY L. DAVIS
Weeping Water, Nebraska
Republican Candidate
FOR
State Senator
2nd District
CASS - SARPY - OTOE
COUNTIES
IIAVF. livf.I in NVlrp.ka my
life. My !( irJ in the 1 Kislaf u:
invcs that I liav always toml
fur strict rcoimmy ami lb lowest
possible (axs e-onsi-tt'Tit with f
l'.ciVnt iroerniMiit ;hh1 maintain
ing Mi business struciur- of our
sta,' on a souml basis. If fleets
to the Senate 1 shall continue this
policy.
I shall greatly appreciate your
Consideration and Support
cn November 8th.
Lumber Sawing
Commercial sawing from
your own logs lumber cut
to your specifications.
We have ready cut dimen
sion lumber and sheeting for
sale at low prices.
NEBRASKA BASKET FACTORY
was a direct result of the treasury's
inability or failure acurately to es
timate revenues and expenditures.
Those parts of his speech dealing
with economy and tax reduction
might very well have been composed
by Coolidge. Nor is that surprising
to those who know Garner. The idea
of John Garner, a banker and a mil
lionaire, being "radical" about any
thing affecting money, is amusing.
In the writer's opinion, he is more
conservative than either Roosevelt
or Hoover. Paul Y. Anderson in St,
Louis' Post-Dispatch.
locaOws
From Thursday's Paily
Mrs. A. E. Lake of Murdock was
in the city for a short time Wed
nesday, looking after some matters of
business at the court house.
George Lamphere of Havelock ar
rived in the city today to ppend a
short time visiting here with the
relatives and old time friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fickle and
two children, of Lincoln, rre here to
day to spend a few hours attending
to some matters of business and visit
ing with the friends.
Eugene Nutzman, county com
mander of the American Legion and
Walter Wunderlich, Nehawka bank
er, were here Wednesday for a short
time looking; after some matters of
businesr,.
Frm Friday'8 Ini1y
Mrs. Georgia Creamer from south
west cf Murray was here today and
attending to some matters of busi
ness in the county court.
Attorney T. F. Wiles of Omaha
was here today for a few hours look
ing after some matters in the county
court in which he appeared as at
torney.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Notice on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
To all persons Interested in the es
tate of William G. Rauth, dereased:
On reading the petition of Theiesa
Rauth. Administratrix, praying a
final settlement and allowance of he,r
account filed in thi3 Court on the
13th day of October. 1932. and for
assignment of the residue of said es
tate: determination of heirship, and
for her discharge as Administratrix
thereof;
It is hereby ordered that you and
all persons interested in said matter
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 12th day of November,
A. D". 1932, at ten o'clock a. m.. to
show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not
be granted, and that notice of the
pendency of said petition and the
hearing thereof be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by pub
lishing a copy of this order in the
Piattsmouth Journal, a semi-weekly
newspaper printed In said county, for
three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and the seal of said
Court this 13th day of October, A.
D. 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) ol7-3w County Judge.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
State of Xebraska, County of Cass,
ss.
In the County Court.
Fee Book 9, at pare 31!.
In the matter of the estate of John
Wynn, deceased.
To the creditors of Paid estate:
Yen are hereby notified, that I will
sit at the County Court room in
Piattsmouth. in said county, on the
11th day of November. A. D. 1932,
and on the 13th day of February. A.
I). 1933. at ten o'tlock in the fore
noon of each day. to examine all
claims against said estate, with a
view to tneir adjustment and allow
ance. The time limited for the pre
sentation ct claims againet tald es
tate Is three months from the 11th
day of November, A. D. 1932. and the
time limited for payment of debts is
one year from said 11th day of No
vember, 1932.
"Witness my hand and the peal of
said County Court this 14th day cf
October. 1932.
A. H. nrXDl'RY.
(Seal) ol7-Sw County Judge.
NOTICK TO CREDITORS
State of Nebiacka. County of Cob?,
rs.
In the County Court.
Fee Book 9. pase 320.
In the matter of the estate of David
Murray, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You a:e hereby notified that I will
sit at the County Court room in
Piattsmouth. In said county, on the
11th day of November. A. I. 1932.
and on the 13th day of February. A.
D. 1933, at ten o'clock In the fore
noon cf each day to examine all
claims against said estate, with a
view to their adjustment and allow
ance. The time limited for the pre
sentation of claims against said es
tate is three months from the 11th
day of November. A. D. 1932. and the
time limited for payment of debts is
one year from eaid 11th day of
November, 1932.
AVitness my hand and the seal of
said County Court this 14th day of
October, 1932.
A. H. DUXBURY.
(Seal) ol7-3w County Judge.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Estate of Peter J. Becker, deceased,
in the County Court of Cass county,
Nebraska.
The State of Nebraska, To all per
sons interested In said estate, cred
itors and heirs take notice, that
Louietta Martin and Charles L. Mar
tin, have filed their petition alleging
that I'cter J. Becker died intestate
in Cass County, Nebraska, on or
about March 27th, 1875. being a resi
dent and inhabitant of Cass County,
Nebraska, and died seized of the fol
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
The west half (V) or the
northeast quarter (NEVi) of
section six (6), townebip eleven
(11), north range fourteen
(14). east of tbe.Ctb P. in
Cass County, Nebraska
leaving as his sole and only heirs at
law the following named persons, to
wit: Livona Becker, widow, and
the following named children:
Mary Allison, formerly Becker,
George Becker, Jacob Becker,
Abe Becker, Peter Becker, and
Thaddeus S. Becker.
That the IntereFla of the petition
ers herein in the above described real
estate is that of subsequent purchas
ers, and praying for a determination
of the time of the death of paid Peter
J. Becker and of his heirs, the degree
of kindship and the right of descent
of the real property belonging to
the said deceased, in the State of
Nebraska.
It Is ordered that the same stand
for hearing the 4th day of November.
A. D. 1922. before the court at the
hour of 10 o'clock a. m.
Datod at Piattsmouth, Nebraska,
till 10th day of October. A. D. 1922.
A. II. DUXBURY.
(Seal) ol0-3w County Xudge.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
In the District Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
In the matter cf the Application
of N. D. Talcott, Administrator of the
Estate of William D. Coleman. Deceas
ed, for License to Sell Real Estate to
Pay Debts.
Now. cn this 13th day of October.
1932, came N. D. Talcott. Adminis
trator cf the estate of William 1).
Coleman, deceased, and prcsentB his
p?tition for license to sell the real
estate of the deceased party in order
to pay the claims filed and allowed
against said estate, and the expenses
of administering said estate. It ap
pearing from said petition that there
is an insufficient amount of personal
property In the hands of the Admin
istrator to pay the claims presented
and allowed by the County Court and
the expenses of the administration of
said estate: and that It is necessary
to sell the whole of the real estate of
the deceased in order to pay the
aforesaid claims and the costs .of ad
ministration It i3 hterefore Considered, Ordered
and Adjudged that alt persons lnter-
CT.ted in the estate of William D. Cole
man, deceased, appear before me.
James T. Begley, Judge of the Dis
trict Court, at the District Court room
in the court house in the City of
Piattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska,
on the 29th day of November, 1932,
at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the
forenoon, and show cause. If any
there be, why such license should
not be granted to N. D. Talcott. Ad
ministrator of the estat of William
I). Coleman, deceased, to sell all of
the real estate of said deceased, so
as to pay claims presented and al
lowed with the costs of administra
tion and of this proceedings.
It is further Considered, Ordered
and Adjudged, that notice be given
to all persons interested by publica
tion of this Order to Show Cause for
four successive weeks In the Piatts
mouth Journal, a legal newspaper
published and of general circulation
in the County of Cass, Nebraska.
By the Court.
JAMES T. BEGLEY.
ol7-4w District Judge.