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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1933. PAGE FOUR PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PA i; i i 1 t- Alvo Nws Mr. and Mrs. Win. Bornemeier, of Elmwood, were Sunday dinner guests at the Roy Ccatman home. Mr. and Mrs. George Vilner were enjoying a visit at the Ak-Sar-Ben stock show In Omaha on Tuesday last week. of John Elliott was called to Lincoln last Wednesday to look after sonic business matters for the Alvo Hard ware and Implement company. The public library, which is lo cated at the high school building. ts being opened to the public from 2 to 4 o'clock p. m. each week day. Frank Warner, of Lincoln, a brcth er of our own Billie Warner, was visiting for a number of days with the brother here in Alvo, and surely they both enjoyed the visit very much. Mrs. George Frisbee, living a few miles northeast of Alvo. - has been very ill for the past two weeks and while she is now much better, she is far from being in her usual good health. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Barkhurs were over to Omaha last Wednesday where they went to visit the Ak-Sar Ben stock show and rodeo and en joyed the fine entertainment that was provided. Sunday afternoon visitors at the Kirkpatrick heme were Mrs. Moore, Jcyce Carter, Myrtle Clark, Mildred Krouch. Belle Maj'er, all of Lincoln, and Adolph Mayer, a brother of Bell Mayer, of Paducah, Kentucky. They also visited at the John Skinner home and with other friends. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ilermance was made happy on Tues day of last week when the stork brought a brand new baby girl to their heme. The mother and little daughter are doing nicely and Earl is getting along fairly well. How ever, joy reigns supreme at the home. Will Organize Basketball There is a move on foot to orga nize a basketball team in the Alvo schools and also a town team as well and with two teani3 in the field there should be plenty of amusement for the reople of Alvo in this line dur ing the coming winter. Building Permanent Cribs The Miller Cereal company, of Om aha, are having some permanent cribs nilf at Alvo,- having- leased ground from Simon Rehmeier. The new crib will be twelve feet wide, fourteen feet high at the eves and sixteen at the opposite side, to give the roof a good pitch and long enough to hold 150,000 bushels of ear corn. This activity will provide a good market for those who desire to tell a portion of their crop in the ear and not both er with shelling just now, while they will be able to hold the rest for a better market, should one come, a3 we all trust it will. Attending Wrestling Match Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rosenow and Ted McCartney and wife were over to Omaha last Tuesday evening, at which place the lads enjoyed a wrest ling match and the lassies enjoyed a very fine show. Thus both the gen tlemen and the ladies enjoyed a very pleasant evening, returning home at a late hour. Piling Ccrn on Ground Charles God bey, who has a very fine farm north of town, has his last year's crop of corn in the cribs and not being satisfied with the prevail ing market price, will hold the grain for a higher figure. This compels him to pile the present crop on the ground until he shall have completed the harvesting. This practice is fol lowed by many who do net care to erect additional cribs and yet who expect to hold the grain a little long er. Watched the Contest George Kitzel, Elmer and George Hoffman and M. R. Williams made up a party of farmers who are in terested in the picking of corn and friends of the Nebraska man who won the national championship, drove to West Point one day last week, where they were able to see their friend come through victorious despite the fact that he drew the poorest rows and had to overcome the further han dicap cf trampled down com. It was a thrilling contest and was witnessed by upwards of 40,000 people, some of whom trampled over the fields and got in the way of the huskers they were interested In seeing win, al though they must have known it could react only to the disadvantage of such huskers in the contest. Little Lad Now Better Allen Edwards, the two year old Ecn of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Edwards, who has been ill for so long with pneumonia, and upon whom an op- eration had to be performed and a drainage tube placed In the little lad's lung, while he is now consider ably better, is still far from being in his usual good health. The family and physician are confident, however, that unless something unforseen occurs, the lad will soon be well again. COTTONWOOD LUMBER Save on your lumber costs. Cotton wood lumber for all uses. L. D. Hiatt, "Basket Factory." tf-sw Placek Named President of Ne braska Bankers Two-Cent Levy on Checks Is Called 'Nuisance' Tax as Group Asks for Its Repeal. Omaha. Election of Emil E. Pla cek, of Wahoo, as president and adop tion of a resolution urging repeal of the federal tax on bank checks, fea tured the closing session here Thurs day of the two day convention ot the Nebraska State Bankers associa tion. The check resolution said "this tax may properly be called a nuisance tax and has a tendency to encourage the carrying of cash by the bank cus tomers and retards business by dis couraging checking activity and hin ders expansion of credit." The resolution added the comment that the tax produces "relatively a ?mall revenue." Another resolution urged "closer and more co-ordinated co-operation between the state sheriff and the var ious county sheriffs and all other po- lici officers, to the end that crime may be greatly eliminated and the apprehension of criminals be made more effective." No decision was made on the bank ing code submitted by the code com mittee. This action left the way clear for district banking groups to pro pose their own codes. An attempt w:K be made in the near future to got district committees together at Grand Island or Hastings for a final effort to agree on a statewide code. A. L. Coad of Omaha, was elected association treasurer. The conven tion also made these elections: Mem bers of the state executive council F. W. Thomas, Omaha; T. B. Strain. Lincoln; J, ;M. Sorensen, Fremont; O. A. Riley, Hastings; Otto Kotouc, Humboldt; and A. J. Jorgenson, Sid ney. Vice president for Nebraska of the American Bankers association, J. V. Webster of Chadron. Nebraska member of the governing council, A. B. A., Arthur Jensen of Minden. Ne braska members of the A. B. A. nom inating committee, J. R. Cain, Om aha, and Clyde Newman, Oakland. Vice presidents of A. B. A. divisions, Robert I. Stout, Tekamah, national banking; and A. B. Wood, Eartley, state banking. INDICT FOR NRA VIOLATION New York. An indictment des cribed by United States Attorney , Howard W. Ameli as the first return ed in the United States for alleged violation of an NRA code was sub mitted to Federal Judge Clarence G. Galston in Brooklyn by a grand jury. The indictment named as defend ants the Hercules Gasoline Filling Stations, inc., Brooklyn, and David Lircd, New York, president, and Moe Levine, vice president. Nine counts charged the defendants with viola tion of provisions of the code of fair competition for the petroleum indus try. It was alleged that employes of the Hercules company have been working eleven hours a day, six days a week, with one hour for lunch. The petroleum code provides a maxi mum of forty-eight working hours a week. It alco was charged the concern failed to post the price of gasoline in the manner prescribed by the code. HERO OF WORLD WAR DIES Portland, Ore. Capt. James S Michael, 76, hero of a gallant fight against fire aboard a French ammuni tion ship in Bordeaux harbor March 21. 1918, died Thursday or a heart ailment. Captain Michael, born In Millereburg, la., Jan. 27, 1857, moved to Portland in 1908, where he was engaged in the contracting business until the United States entered the World war. He was commissioned a captain in the quartermaster depart ment and spent seventeen months in France. Captain Michael and three other American officers boarded the burn ing vessel in Bordeaux harbor after It was abandoned by the crew adjacent to a long warehouse containing explo sives. The four battled the flames for several hours and saved the munition depot. They were decorated by the French government. Administration Seeks Low Price for Liquors Policy to Diseourage Bootlegger is Adopted in Washington tor Regulation of Whiskey Washington, Nov. 15 The policy of the administration after the re peal of the eighteenth amendment actually becomes effective will be to give the public the best quality of liquor at the lowest possible price. so as to discourage the bootlegger and Illicit distiller. In carrying out this policy, one of the objectives will be to hold down federal taxes on liquor. Interdepart mental committees are making a com plete study of the question with the revenue requirements of the govern ment in mind. Their report probably will reach the president soon. Mean while, a subcommittee of the house committee on ways and means is pre paring a new tax bill including the levy to be made on legalized liquor, to be completed by November 20th. 80 Million Gallons in 1934 James M. Doran, commissioner of industrial alcohol, estimates the con sumption of spirituous liquors the first year after prohibition will be about SO million gallons, which was considerably below that of pre-Vol-stedian days. If the federal tax is raised from $1.10 a gallon, which will be effective without new legislation, to $3 a gallon, about 240 million dol lars in new revenue will be produced. That will take the place of the four special taxes, including the 5 per cent on stock dividends, set up early last summer as a part of the recovery pro gram to finance the 3,300 million dollars of public works. The desire of the ways and means subcommittee is to produce about 500 millicn dollars of new revenue to get rid of some of the nuisance as well as other newer forms of federal taxa tion. This is sought without offering encouragement to a continuation of bootlegging and the smuggling of liquor across the borders. Foreign wine makers and distillers are wait ing to jump into the American mar ket if the present import tax of $5 a gallon i3 not disturbed by congress. Aged Whiskey in 90 Days Assurances are given of a plentiful supply of blended whiskey -and wines after prohibition repeal becomes ef fected. Aging may now be accomp lished through the use of chemicals, so 10-year-old whiskey may be made in ninety days, it is asserted. Some of the leaders on the ways and means committee are understood to favor a domestic revenue tax as low as $2 a gallon, and a low import duty. Other wise the American wineries and dis tillers would be given a virtual mo nopoly with resulting high prices. The committee members also fear state and local liqucr taxes will be made so high as to encourage boot legging. One of the proposals con sidered is to permit the federal gov ernment to collect all the liquor tax, and t odistribute the revenue among the states and municipalities. Both the ways and means and the finance cemmittee of the senate havej subcommittees working on the ques tion of methods to prevent tax-pyramiding. The Doughton resolution of fered in the house last winter pro- vided for collection of the tobacco tax by the federal government and its al location among the states on the basis of population. The question is how this can be done with the liquor lax without a constitutional amend ment or the consent of the states, which are generally as much in need of new revenue as the federal gov ernment. It is estimated that on December 5th, when the eighteenth amendment is expected to pass from the Constitu tion, there will be 4 million gallons of aged whiskey and 7 millions from one to four years old. This may be increased many times in the process of rectification. RESUME PICKETING DUTIES Milwaukee. Undaunted by near zero weather, Wisconsin farm strik ers rallied to the call of their lead ers and resumed picket duty on high ways in widely separated parts of the state. Deputy sheriffs, escorting milk truck3 to market .engaged "in brief skirmishes with pickets at Green Bay and Beaver Dam. About 350 Mara thon county farmers paraded thru Wausau in automobiles and trucks, ending their demonstration with a visit to a meeting of the county board. Three men were arrested and war rants were issued for four others after Brown county deputies tussel with farm strike pickets who had dumped two loads of milk near Green Bay. The three taken into custody pleaded not guilty to charges of destroying property and Municipal Judge Mona han set bail at $200 each. 0 o Do You Want Money? Do you desire to market some Ear Corn? We take your ear corn or advance you cash on your grain. Highest prices paid for all grains. It will pay you to see us before you sell! Farmers Elevator Company Phone 17 Murray, Nebr. Areas Selected to Extend Loans Upon Corn Crop Sixty-Eight Counties in Nebraska are Eligible at 45 Cents Bushel to August 1st, Next Year Washington, Nov. 1G. Farm ad ministrators designated areas in which loans on corn will be made at the rate of 45 cents a bushel and pro vided that the maturity date of loans will be August 1, 1934. Farmers in all counties in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Kansas will be eligible to loans. In addition loans will be made in forty-seven counties hi southern Min nesota, sixty-nine in northern and southeastern Missouri, sixty-eight in eastern Nebraska, fifty in western Ohio, thirty-six in southeastern South Dakota and seven in southern Wis consin. The administration announced, however, that loans will be made available "to such other counties as it may be deemed necessary to in clude." The applications for loans will be received starting in the next ten days. The last day for accepting applications will be March 1, next. In states with farm warehouse laws, including Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Minnesota and Illinois, certifcates that the corn has been warehoused under seal on the farm will be accepted as collateral for the loans. In all cases ONLY farmers who agree to take part in the admin istration's corn control program for next year, calling for a reduction by 20 per cent of plantings, will be elig ible to obtain the loans. The loans will be made on corn which in the judgment of 1 the warehouse sealer will store properly and will grade not lower than No. 4. To allow for variations in moisture content, a standard measure of two and one-half cubic feet, instead of the customary two and one-quarter cubic feet, will be regarded as the equiva lent of one bushel. Any corn even tually delivered to markets in settle ment of loan notes, however, will be taken at the regular shelled market weight of fifty-six pounds a bushel. Loans on corn in public ware houses will be made on shelled corn, grading No. 2 and at the rate of 45 cents a bushel of 56 pounds. The loan regulations will permit any bank, co-operative marketing as sociation or other corporation, part nership, association or person except lending agencies of the RFC, to lend money to producers on eligible farm warehouse certificates in states hav ing farm -warehouse laws or on eleva tor receipts in states net having farm warehouse acts. Nebraska counties eligible are: Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow, Furnas, Harlan, Franklin, Webster, Nuckolls, Thayer, Jefferson, Fawr.ee, Gage, Richardson, Namaha, Johnson, Chase, IIaye3, Fronirer, Gosper, Clay. Gosper, Phelps, Kearney, Adams, Fil- more, Saline, Ctoe, Cass, Lancaster, Seward, York, Hamilton, Hall, Buf falo, Dawson, Lincoln, Perkins, Keith, Custer, Howard, Sherman. Merrick, Polk, Butler, Saunders, Sarpy, Doug las, Washington, Dodge, Colfax, Val ley, Platte, Nance, Greeley, Boone, Madison, Stanton, Cuming, Thurston, Burt, Wayne, Fierce, Antelope, Holt, Boyd, Knox, Cedar, Dixon and Da kota. GRANGE URGED TO EACK NRA Boise, Idaho, Nov. 16. Hunfireds of Grangers representing 33 state3 reassembled here Thursday for their national convention, with Louis J. Taber of Columbus, Ohio, presiding as national master. The Ohio dairyman, who has guid ed the destiny of the "world's largest farm fraternity" for decade, described this year's meeting as "the most im portant convention the; grange has ever had, In view of the acute agri cultural situation." Taber called upon the grange to co-operate in achieving agricultural recovery, and recommended support t the NRA. As to the latter, he said, its "weaknesses and failures must be poiatea out." ? ' Manley News Items G. C. Rhoden and wife were visit ing and looking after some business at Plattsmouth on last Saturday. Miss Teresa Rauth was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bergman for a few days last week. School at the Chilson school was dismissed one day last week on ac count of the illness of the teacher. Frank Stander, of Omaha, was looking after some business matters in Manley for a few days last week The Manley elevator made their second shelling of ear corn, the work being done by George Vogler with his sheller. Earl Quinn and family, of Lincoln, were visiting for a few days in and about Manley with their many friends. Miss Teresa Rauth entertained the Altar society of the St. Patrick Cath olic church at her home on last Sunday. The St. Patrick's church in Man- ley erjoyed a forty hour service, ex tending over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Walter Steinkamp and wife, of Plattsmouth, were in Manley one day last week, ccming to see their father, A. Steinkamp. G rover Rhoden and the family were visiting over Sunday at the heme of Roy Rhoden, where they all enjoyed a good visit. The Rev. Father Harte was a visi tor in Palmyra, where he called on his friend. Father Shamgar, and at tended the Forty Hour devotions. W. F. Sehliefert, who was eo ser iously injured when he fell a number of week3 ago, is now feeling a great deal better and is able to get about again. Mrs. Fred Krecklow was visiting in Omaha at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. John Shellhorn and Mrs. Herman, where they all enjoyed the visit very much. Fred Bauer and wife, who have been making their home in North Dakota for the past two years, arriv ed in Manley last week and will make their heme here during the winter. Rudy Bergmann and the wife were over to Weeping Water last Tuesday, where Mrs. Bergman attended a meet ing of the Order of Eastern Star and Rudy tock in a show while waiting for her. Gcod Heavy Halter. I am prepared to do celluloid work while you wait. A good, heavy doub le stitched head halter for 90 cents. A. J. Tool, Murdock Nebr. Met at Weeping Water The members of the Manley Royal Neighbors of America all went to Weeping Water on last Wednesday, where they met with Mrs. Clyde Jenkins, a fellow member, and where all enjoyed a very pleasant after noon. Has Hand Injured Little Anna Marie Mockenhaupt, while playing about the corn elevator, got her hand entangled in the chain lift, bruising and mashing it quite badly. A. Steinkamp Very Sick A. Steinkamp, who has been in very poor health for the past many month;?, had a very serious sick spell, which caused the family great con sternation. Last Wednesday a slight change fcr the better occurred in his condition, but he is still confined to his bed. Everything possible is be ing done to restore him to his form er health and his friends all hope he will show the desired improvement. SHOUTING PAEcON SEIZED La Habra, Calif. A lusty lunged clergyman, Rev. C. F. Chambers, was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace on complaint of Mrs. Myra Hibba, who said the minister made "loud, unusual and unnecessary noises" in conducting hi3 services at the Pentecostal church. "Yes," said the minister, "I have been arrested. I do not believe it necessary for me or for members of my flock to whisper when we pray." His attorney, C. A. Watson said he would ask the court to decide the difference between "religious noises" and others. ORDERS ARREST OF 9 ON LYNCHING COUNT Baltimore. Nov. 16. Attorney General Lane Thursday night asked Somerset county authorities to arrest nine men on charges of participating in the lynching of George Armwood, Negro, at Princess Anne, Mr., the night of Oct. 18. Lane would not reveal tlfe names. He forwarded them to State's Attor ney Robins at Princess Anne together with accumulated information, he said. Delay Work on Hog-Corn Plan a Short While Wheat Allotment to be Finished Be fore New Program Taken Up, Says Director Brokaw. Very few meetings will be held in the next two weeks to discuss the corn-hog adjustment plan with farm ers in Nebraska, says W. H. Brokaw, extension service director at the agri cultural college in Lincoln. In a let ter to county agent.? and emergency agricultural assistants, he advised them to finish up their wheat allot ment work while waiting for more definite information about the details of the rorn-hog plan. Postponing the beginning of the educational program on the corn-hog plan will help rather than hinder the progress of the plan, Brokaw feels. With the experience of the wheat adjustment program behind them, ad ministrative officials in Washington and in the states should be able to draw up the corn-hog plan In prac tically final form before discussing it in detail with the producers. Nebraska wil announce no tenta tive date on which the first corn-hog checks will probably be received by growers. Winter weather will slow up the educational program. The holiday reason will interfere. Men working on the corn-hog program have said it will not be as easily ad ministered as the wheat program. Every attempt, nevertheless, will be made to keep the educational program moving as rapidly as possible, but ex perience with the wheat adjustment plan shows that it will take time to sign up the applications and contracts on corn and hogs. Asked regarding the apparent de lay in arrival of the wheat allotment checks, Brokaw declared: 'We have no one to blame but our selves so far for the delay. Nebraska wheat growers were no worse than those of ether states. They all called for consideration of this case and that exception to the adjustment plan until the state and federal adminis tration offices were swamped with the special cases. No attempt was made to stampede wheat growers into the adjustment contract fold. They took their time about considering the application blanks and will do the same cn the contracts. Application signing, which was scheduled to fin ish up early in September stretched out until September 25. and then hundreds of blanks had to be correct ed before the county figures could be summarized. 'No one reed be alarmed about the slowness of the wheat adjustment program. The procedure is moving like clockwork. It has been part of the greatest undertaking ever han dled by a government." DEAD ANIMALS WANTED Call The South Omaha Rendering Works. Tel. MArket 4626. F. Cramer. R. F. D. No. 3, South Omaha. tf-w Those "small supper parties for forty persons" given by Drcxcl Bid- die Sicel, are just the kind of relief work it will take this winter to pro vide for the needy. Socialist Mayor Takes Office A .4 , i The first Socialist Mayor ever elected in the State of Connecticut, tre on. Jasper McLevy-i left) is shown as he was sworn into office Mayor of Bndyfcrt by his predecessor, the Hon. Edward T. Buckirx , "'Kyo .MLerT Bridgeport' perennial Socialist candidate, pror.. 1 . w wed progressive administration loj hjs city. Why " Liquid Laxatives Do You No Harm The dose of a liquid lautive can be measured. The action can be con trolled. It forms no babit; you need not take a "double dose" a day or two later. A'or will a mild liquid laxative irritate the kidneys. The right liquid laxative will bring a perfect movement, and with no discomfort at the time, or afterward. The wrong cathartic may keep you constipated as long as you keep on using it I An approved liquid laxative (cr.e which is most widely used for both adults and children) is syrup pepsin. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a prescription, and is perfectly safe. Its laxative action is basrd on senna a natural laxative. The bowels not become dependent on this form of help, as they do in the case cl cathartics containing mineral dregs. Ask your druggist for Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Member 11. H. A. FARMER DESIPJEED 'HERO Wti?er, Ida. Senator Borah des cribed the farmer a.-t tli.- "hir" of the economic situation and t. -ailtd the "powerful fipures in finance" who have "defraudtd the p-er.le rif tril lions." The conjrrf .-si'.r.al invetisa tion, he said, di.clo.--d bank' r had "cheated and defrauded the p-'pk' by selling them millions of dollars cf worthless securities and then turn ed about and be?an cheaiir sr. a:id rob bing one another and at la't heat ing the state and nation of their taxes." "The state chamber of commerce of the state of New Yoik r- -oIv d a ew days ftgo," he said, "that th k-y to the return of a higher pric- Mtl was confidence. Certainly thre 1 need of confidence and certainly the farmer has plenty of it or he would not be on the farm. But there i one point in his carer hre con fidence doe.3 not pave him. With con fidence he cannot pay hi IntereJt or his taxes, neither his creditor nor trie state will accept rayment of the.- things in confidence. In such a cri.-U nothing will save him but a fair rriee for hi"? products. CHEN0WETH SAYS WOLF S0NO SUnXAR TO EI3 Beatrice, Nov. 16. Wi'.hur Che.no weth, Lincoln organi-t and niu-ic writer, announced Thursday he i in vestigating the ro??;hility the "FJ'.g Bad Wolf" song from tl-e "Three Lit tle rigs" movie was taken from or, a of his composition of several years ago. "Nothing definite has ben done about it," Chenoweth said when questioned Iit about a report he was preparinz to sue Walt Disney & Co. tor appro priating the song. "Hut it i- very, very similar," h added. He paid the close similarity to I-.i- "Rustic Dance" published in mu-ir but without word by him in er 1923 led to his ir.Yesiicatiori. Journal Wans-flds Qtl res-Its I wiv.rw. -re."-'. J- -.- ' "? ' : ,.v3 A " i I 'X v.- 1 1 .7 .... i - H I X -.A : ' . 2