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GREENWOOD
' Rex Peters and wife were over to
Omaha on last Tuesday looking after
Eome business matters for a short
time.
Phil L. Hall -was called to Central
City the latter portion of last week
to look after some business matters
connected with the bank.
Mrs. Martha Breitel of Hastings
was a visitor for a few days in Green
wood last week and was guest ol
her friend, Mrs. Fred Etheredge.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Etherege were
over to Omaha one day last week
where they were visiting with the
three eons of Mrs. Etherege who make
their home in maha.
E. A. Landon and wife were visit
ing for a few days early last week at
Riverton, Franklin and Hastings,
driving out in their auto and enjoy
ing a few days with friends.
John Armstrong who has been so
seriously ill for some time past still
remains at his home confined to his
bed, and while every care si being
given he still remains very poorly.
His two daughters, one from Chicago
and one from Lincoln are here to
render all assistance in the matter
of his care and nursing, possible.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Deavens of Fair
bury accompanied by their two
daughters, were guests for over the
week end at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred W. Etheredge where they en
Joyed a very pleasant visit. The com
ing week Mr. and Mrs. Etheredge will
go to Fairbury where they will spend
a week celebrating their first wedding
anniversary.
Preparing for Spring.
The Frederick Seed company re
ceived a shipment of a car load of
seed sweet corn which they have been
milling, grading and sacking for the
coming planting season. They have
on hand now a large stock of excel
lent seed in this line as well as many
others as well. The grading, sack
Ing and preparing of this seed for
delivery when the time comes for
planting, has furnished a great deal
of employment which would other
wise not have been had here and in
this way is a very great asset to the
town.
Was Buried Sunday.
Mrs. . Caroline Fi ndley, . widow ol
the late Wm. Findley, and mother of
A. D. Finley of near Emerald and
Clvde Findley of Omaha, a former
resident of this city and vicinity, but
who had been making her home with
her son, Clyde, in Omaha, passed away
on last Fiiday at the age of eighty
years, full of good works and kind
ness to all who chanced to know her.
The remains were brought to Green
wood and last Sunday the -last rites
celebrated at the funeral at the
Methodist church, of which she was
a member. The funeral discourse was
delivered by the Rev. Bruse Gideon,
pastor of the church at Greenwood.
The interment was made at the
beautiful Greenwood cemetery.
Are Asfrftig for Bids.
The eovernment of the United
States through its postal department
is asking for bids for the carrying of
the mails from the postoffice at
Greenwood, to the Burlington station.
The position ia now occupied by John
M. Mefford at a compensation of
S 47.50. The time of service each day
extends over approximately 12 hours,
the first mail in the morning being
at about 5 o'clock, while the last one
in the evening is about the same time
There are nine mails incoming, seven
regular and two parcel post, while
the outgoing mails are seven with
five regular and two parcel post. The
application can be received this week
until near the latter portion of the
week.
Will Close for Present.
The Miller Cereal Iiris of Omaha,
which has been running twenty-four
hours per day and seven days in the
week, the firm which has so large
amount of corn stored both In
Greenwood and Alvo, Ixave decided
to close their mills for the present
as they are at a loss about the work
ings of the processing tax which is
to be placed on corn. They have a
large amount of corn at this time
and which marketed would show
them a profit, as it was purchased
at about twelve cents per bushel. But
to pay the processing tax is the moot
ed question.
Mr. E. A. Miller of the company,
was a visitor in Greenwood on last
Saturday and was conferring with
Rex Peters who was purchasing agent
for the company a year ago and made
the declaration that the mills would
close for the present and indefinitely.
Mr. Peters will again purchase grain
for the company, it being designed to
buy lands at Greenwood, .Waverly
and Ashland and construct permanent
cribs for the storage of the crop.
PROSECUTOR ASKS GUARDS
Glenwood, la. County Attorney
Gilliland of Mills county said he had
appealed to Lieutenant Governor
Kraschel that national guard units be
ordere dto "stand by," to prevent a
recurrence of such a clash as occur
red at the Plattsmouth, Neb., bridge
when antifarm holiday men and holi
day pickets met in a brief free for all
fight. Gilliland said he called Kras
chel after receiving reports that
large forces of pickets were en route
to take up stations at the bridge.
Kraschel, he said, assured him that
the guard units would be available
if needed. No pickets had appeared
at the bridge by 9 p. m. however,
and Gilliland said he did not expect
any trouble, pointing out that Fri
day night is always a light night for
trucking.
Kendrick Dead;
Veteran Senator
from Wyoming
Cowboy Executive" was a Tireless
Worker for His State
Illness Brief.
Sheridan, Wye, Nov. 3. John B.
Kendrick, senior United States sen
ator for Wyoming, died in a hospital
late today. He was in his seventy-
seventh year.
The cowboy-senator only recently
returned from Washington, where he
labored throughout the summer in
behalf of the huge Casper-Alcova re
clamation project in Wyoming.
He was stricken at his desk Wed
nesday night. Doctors said his ill
ness was uremic coma. He was a
democrat in politics, a cowboy for the
love of it and a millionaire in lands
and cattle.
The oldest man in the senate, Sen
ator Kendrick observed his seventy
sixth birthday anniversary September
So great was his following that
there was talk in recent months of
putting him in tho senate by accla
mation for his next term.
Called a cowboy prototype of Abra
ham Lincoln, he had been in public
life in Wyoming since 1910, when he
was elected to the state senate and
served two terms. He was elected
governor in 1913. and filled that
position until 1917. Then he went
to the senate, where he had served
continuously since. In his last joust
at the polls, in 1928, he was re
elected by a huge majority to serve
until January, 1935.
Under a law passed by a special
legislature in 1929, Governor Miller
must call a special election to fill the
vacancy.
PETE WENDELL, SWIM
TEACHER, BILLS SELF
Omaha. G. Peter Wendell, 41,
secretary-treasurer of the mid-west
ern association of the Amateur Ath
letic union, shot and killed himself
late Thursday in a small dressing
room Just off the swimming pool at
the hospital where he conducted his
swimming classes.
Wendell, a nationally known swim
mmg instructor, nad just nnisnea
conducting a class for girls. He tele
phoned his wife at her dress shop
downtown and a few minutes later
shot himself. Mrs. Wendell said he
had complained of not feeling well.
Wendell, known thruout the coun
try as "Fete," naa taugnt more man
12,000 persons to swim and had de
veloped more than 100 champions,
among tnem six national A. a. v
champions. He had been swimming
instructor at the Nicholas Senn hos
pital since 1919.
He helped formulate the national
Red Cross swimming tests and was
the first man to teach Red Cross life
savins methods. He originated the
master swimmer's degree," now
sponsored by the National Swimming
Instructors association.
In 1922 Wendell organized the mid
western association of the A. A. U.
Since then he had served as secre
tary-treasurer. He was a member of
the Olympic selection committee in
1924.
Surviving are the widow and one
son, Raymond, who holds several mid
west Junior A. A. U. swimming titles,
Wendell was a native of Fonda, la.
FOTJB SEE OGDEN BROTHERS
Falls City, Neb. Four more per
sons Friday viewed Norman and Ches
ter Ogden, Rulo brothers held here
as susrects In the robbery of the
Home State bank of Humboldt, and
did not identify them as members of
the trio which took 11,796 from the
bank Wednesday.
Still other witnesses of the holdup
will view the men before they are re
leased. Sheriff Lewis Davies said. The
suspects were arrested in Topeka
Kas., Wednesday night and brought
here Thursday.
$7,500,000 is
Allowed for Platte
Valley Project
Sutherland Project Granted Fund;
Plan Diversion Dam, Canal,
Reservoir and Power.
The public works administration
Friday allotted $750,500,444 to the
t-iatie vaiiey isutneriand) power
and irrigating project. This is the
largest allotment so far made to Ne
braska, and exceeds In amount all
other approved Nebraska projects put
together.
The loan and grant to the Platte
Valley Public Power and Irrigation
district, successors to the Platte Val
ley Reservoir association, is for the
construction of a diversion dam, sup
ply canal, storage reservoir, regula
tory reservoir, intermediate and dis-
cnarge canals, nydro-electnc power
plant, transmission lines and station.
The project has a dual purpose:
1. To store water south of the
'South Platte in a reservoir so it can
be sent back into the Platte at times
when it will supply existing irriga
tion ditches, especially in Dawson,
Buffalo and Hall counties.
2'. To create electric power in
plant east of North Platte, where the
water is discharged from the reservoir
back into the Platte. -
In order to accomplish this pur
pose, a diversion dam is to be con
structed across the North Platte river
west of the city of North Platte. Wa
ter will be moved south in a canal,
and taken under the South Platte
river by a syphon. Another dam will
be built across a valley which drains
into the South Platte, and the North
Platte waters taken by canal will be
stired in the reservoir so created.
From this main reservoir the wa
ter will be carried east in other canals
to serve the hydro-electric plant and
also to refill the Platte river with
water at seasons when it frequently
runs dry and so replenish the irriga
tion ditches further eastward.
LINKED TO BUSTLER GANG
Chicago. Seven men, whose ac
tivities resulted in their arrest in
connection with cattle rustling in
Illinois and their removal to a hide
away in Wisconsin, were linked to a
similar gang which preyed on Wis
consin farmers. Charles Pizzo of Chi
cago, one of the men held here, was
identified as one of three men held
on $10,000 bail last August in Mil
waukee in a similar case.
The others held here pending a
further investigation are: Stockton
Darneilli, George Constantine, Arn
old Roth, Stanley Zorek, and Joseph
Mazur, all of Chicago; and Charles
Horica, of North Riverside, 111. Ser
geant Kehoe of the Chicago police,
who made the arrests, said the Illi
nois gang had hijacked at least twen
ty trucks loaded with cattle as they
were being moved to market.
DEBT TALES WILL CONTINUE
Washington. A continuation of
negotiations on the British war debt
was decided on at a white house con
ference in which the chief American
and British spokesmen talked with
President Roosevelt. The discussions,
in progress nearly a month, have fail
ed to produce any definite achieve
ments and it had been intimated that
the British thought of bringing them
to a conclusion.
The situation was laid before the
president at a meeting and at its
conclusion the white house said:
This was a conference on the sub
ject of the debt settlement a con
tinuation of the discussion. The dis
cussions will be continued. There was
nothing at all final. So far as gold
purchases in England are concerned
that subject was not brought up in
the discussions at all."
GANG BELIEVED SHATTERED
Falls City, Neb. Richardson coun
ty authorities Wednesday night said
they believed a band of thieves who
have been operating in Iowa, Mis
souri, Kansas nad Nebraska was
shattered badly when Ivan Foster,
Charles Dishong, Elmer Noland and
Jess Kerns of Falls City, pleaded
guilty in district court to breaking
and entering the Missouri Pacific
railroad toolhouse at Verdon.
Foster and Dishong were sentenced
by Judge Raper to one to two year&
in the state reformatory for men
Sentence of Noland and Kerns was
deferred pending further investiga
tion. A district court jury convicted
Ed Voegele, Falls City farmer, of re
ceiving stolen property. Authorities
said he had in his possession a set
of harness taken from Carl Jamison.
Sentence was deferred.
If you have sometfiTng to sell,
try a Journal Want-Ad.
PLAN STATE C0EN SHOW
Nebraska farmers again will have
the opportunity of entering their best
corn and small grains in the annual
state corn show scheduled to be held
during Organized Agriculture on the
college of agriculture campus the first
week in January.
Plans are being made at the col
lege for the event. A. L. Frolik cf the
agronomy department will again be
superintendent. Classes for market
corn, ear corn and certified grains
are expected to be open to Nebraska
producers. The 1932 show attracted
more entries than in other years, and
many inquiries regarding the show
for this year have reached the col
lege. Obstacles Roll
Across Path of
Swope Proposal
Opinion Divided Within Industry and
Robert L. Lund Will Op
pose Scheme.
Wahsington A division of opinion
within industry itself, a frankly
skeptical attitude on the part of labor
and the reiterated determination of
the government not to relax its par
ticipation, supervision and veto pow
er over industry, as provided in the
recovery codes, clouded the future of
the Swope plan.
Advanced by Gerard Swope, presi
dent of the General Electric company
and until Wednesday a member ot
the national industrial advisory
board, the plan calls for a super
chamber of commerce and industry
which would serve as an appeal board
for the administration of the code3.
Its purpose, as described by Swope,
would be to establish an industrial
self-government to avoid government
organization and governing of indus
try "with the consequent paralyzing
ecects on initiative and progress."
Difference of opinion within indus
try itself was revealed in a statement
by Robert L.. Lund, president of the
national association of manufacturers
and also a member of the industrial
advisory board, in which he said his
organization desired to remain au
tonomous.
Lund endorsed resolutions adopted
by an advisory committee of manu
facturers national trade associations
in New York this week. He criticized
recent rulings relating to the admin
istration of codes and said the poli
cies cf the national labor board tend
ed to prevent "prompt and peaceful
local settlements of industrial dis
putes," but he added that there was
no need for change in the direction
and organization now, further than
to enlarge its present staff.
Lund attributed uncertainty in the
minds of business men largely to de
lay in framing and approving codes
under the agricultural adjustment ad
ministration. He opposed the Swope
plan and advocated continuance of
the practice which is essentially in
effect now, under which trade bodies
are designated as code authorities.
While industrialists disagree as to
the method by which industry could
best govern itself, Hugh S. Johnson
issued a statement to amplify and
clarify his attitude toward the Swope
plan and "various interpretations
upon the future of the recovery ad
ministration or its interests in indus
try, labor and commerce."
"The Swope plan," he said, "does
not propose the slightest interference
with NRA or with government par
ticipation, supervision or absolute
veto power or anything done by any
organized industry under any code or
code authority, or with exclusive gov
ernmental control of any penal sanc
tions of the law.
"It is the ultimate ideal of such
an industrial organization as will en
able the NRA to control industry,
leaving to industry the right to dis
cipline itself in the first instance. The
national industrial recovery act speci
fically provides for and intends the
organization of industry into asso
ciations, subject to governmental
control, and the Swope plan is in
tended to follow closely the pattern
laid down in that act." State Jour
nal. EOOSEVELT SAYS PLANS
SUMMER OCEAN TRIP
Wahington, Nov. 2. President
Roosevelt told delegations from
Hawaii and Puerto Rico today he was
planning on a trip to these far flung
American outposts next summer if
congress adjourned in time.
The vovagre would probably be
made aboard the cruiser Indianapolis,
which has fitted up special quarters
for the president. He said he would
go first to the island in the Atlantic
thence through the Panama canal
and out in the Pacific to Hawaii, re
turning to California.
Insull Probably
to Remain Free
in Athens Retreat
But Prosecution Is to Be Vigorously
Pushed Against Other
Defendants.
Chicago. Samuel Insull's exile in
Greece probably will go undisturbed,
it was indcaited, and upon a score of
Chicago business and financial lead
ers will fall federal prosecution in
the collapse of his utility companies:
The federal government and the state
of Illinois have spent about $100,000
in futile attempts to bring Insull
back to Chicago for trial. The Greek
courts have twice refused his re
moval. A government official said there
probably will be no further federal
attempts to extradite him. The state
already has desisted. Insull appears
assured of spending the remainder of
his days in Greece, where he has
already acted toward obtaining cit
izenship.
But there will be no leniency
shown toward twenty-four prominent
Chicagoans named in two indictments
charging mail fraud and violation of
the federal bankruptcy laws, the of
ficials said. They are men who served
as officers or directors of utility com
panies in the 4 billion dollar Insull
network. Also named in the indict
ment are Insull's son, Samuel, jr., and
his brother, Martin J., who is fight
ing extradition from Canada.
Insull Plans to Work.
Athens. Samuel Insull thought of
work after months of extradition pro
ceedings. "I will start to work," he
told a throng of friends who came to
falicitate him on the refusal of a
Greek court to permit his return to
the United State3 to face bankruptcy
I charges in connection with the col
lapse of his middle west utilities sys
tems.
Forest Harness, representative of
the American government in the
hearing that closed Tuesday, replied
"I am not the American government;
you had better see the minister,
when asked about a report three other
charges were being bought against
Insull.
"Harness worked hard," said In
sull. "It would have been a great
feather in the young fellow's cap if
he could have escorted me back with
him. I'm very sorry for Harness.
CONTINUE ST. LOUIS STUDY
Washington. A week's more ob
servation oT experiments on convicts
and a month's more laboratory work
in St. Louis will complete the public
health service study cf the late en
cephalitis epidemic in the Missouri
city. Dr. J. P. Leake, public health
surgeon in charge at St. Louis, will
remain there with a staff of assist
ants a month longer.
Animal experimentation and con
vict tests are believed to have estab
lished hew facts with regard to the
baffling disease. A complete study of
the outbreak will be published.
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Charging that her health and career were ruined as the result of negligence on the part of its agents,
Edwina Booth, "White Goddess" of the film Trader Horn," is suing the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
lor $1,000,000 damages. The actress asserts that while enroute to Africa she was compelled to expose her
ilmost nude body to scorching tropic sun to acquire the coating of sun tan in keeping with her role of wild
tungle girl. And during the actual filming of the picture was directed to run through sharp jungle weeds
tnd grasses that inflicted painful injuries on her bare flesh. Since her return from Africa, Miss Booth has
suffered from a mysterious tropical disease that, so far, has baffled Western modical science.
Betrothal in
Prlncinals in the newest Hollywood romance are Miss Doris Earner,
daughter ol Harry Warner, film magnate, and Mervyn Iniy.ptMjj
movie director who recently announced their engapremcnt. They will
wed Si New Yorknxi Janury. after which they will make a honeymoon
trip around the world.
View Uni. of
Neb. Armory as
Public Works
United States Will Be Asked to Payi
the Full Cost May Visit
Capital Soon.
Omaha. Plans of the University
of Nebraska to ask an outright grant
of federal public works funds for the
construction of an armory on the
campus are near the stage where a
delegation may soon visit Washing
ton in the interests of the project, it
was revealed here.
It was indicated that $300,000 may
be asked as an outright grant rather
than the 30 percent grant and 7
percent loan as is usualy asked. The
armory project, it was indicated, is
considered as falling under the full
federal public works classification.
The university would furnish the
ground and, it is understod here, the
armory would be called Pershing
Memorial armory.
Dr. A. C. Stokes of Omaha, a mem
ber of the board of regents, said that
a delegation from the university
planned to visit MaJ. Gen. Frank R.
McCoy, seventh corps area command
er, and Congressman Burke here in
the interests of the project and that
later a delegation might be sent to
Washington.
Major General McCoy said he was
not familiar with the Nebraska situ-
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ation but that if the university was
not fully equipped he woruld favor
the construction of the armory.
"I will he glad to receive the dele
gation," he said. "The University of
Iowa has a wonderful armory and
every university Ehould have one."
Burke was out of the city. The
project, it was paid, is the same as
the one outlined to Secretary of War
Pern when he was in Nebraska some
time ago. At that time it was esti
mated that the armory would cost
about $300,000.
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