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MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1934. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE ITVT Wabash News! W. A. Kline cf Lincoln was a visi tor in Wabr.sh looking after seme business fcr a Ehort time on "Wednes day cf last week. Warren Richards was ever to South Rend last Wednesday after noon where he was looking after some matters on the ranch for a time. Fred Weieheidt, living a short dis tance from Wabash was looking after seme business matters at Weeping Water cn Tuesday of last week. Even dry as the weather has been, someone discovered Warren Richards hoeing his potatoes early this week. And the tubers are looking fine just the same. Frank Hansen was cutting his wheat during the early portion of la.t week, he beginning on Wednes day and expecting to be through in a few dyas. Homer II. Lawton of Murdock was a visitor in Wabash last Wednesday visiting with his mother and assist ing in the picking of the cherry crop which his mother was canning. Carl Jensen, who has been work ing with Clarence Oiimes on the farm went over to west cf Elmwood where he is assisting with the work on the farm of Mrs. Ellen Ohme3, mother of Clarence Ohmes. Henry II. Gcrbeling, who has the farm work well in hand at all times, was cutting and storing Ills alfalfa hay Wednesday of last week and as it was very dry did net kava to let it remain on the ground to cure, but could go ahead and store it as soon as it was cut. The Rev. F. C. Weber, the new rastor of the Wabash church, was here last Sunday and conducted the services and was met by many of the congregation and was well pleased with the reception which was ac corded him as well as were the mem bership to greet him. Net New in the Damps. People in various walks of life ,Tet in the dumps, some get out one way, Ecme another. Some take a spring tonic and ether just snap out of it. John C. Brown has another way; He lias an elevator which has a dump which is modern in that it has an air contrivance for operating the grain dumps. John had occasion to go down in the dump which has an inside lad-j der, and touching' the air button the dump cpened and he went down to look after the work, but the work took longer than, he had calculated, lie forgetting that the apparatus leaked air, thought nothing about the matter until he was through with the work and wished to ascend to daylight, but when he got up to the dump platform it had closed. The elevator is net very much frequented by anyone, but Lester Bothwell lives Hear and Mr. Brown shouted lustily for help, but the ears of both Mr. Bothwell and his mother were un able to hear the cry for assistance. However after a long time, and ii sure seemed long to Mr. Brown, a paper boy came along and hearing him answered the cry and acting under the orders of Mr. Brown, the doors were opened and the prisoner was free again. Ilary Attend Picni:. Mrs. Frank Marshall was over to the three Bible schools picnic which -was held at the Callahan church last Tuesday. The picnic was also at tended by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Vogt, while the family of Wm. Rueter also attended and Mr. Rueter engaged in one of the ball games and was feel ing very sore from the different exer cise, than ordinary farming. Still he had a lot of fun in the game. Assisting at Crete ileet. The Lincoln Y. M. C. A. have a (lafc-3 who are spending some time at the resorts cn the river and lakes iear Creta and where they are hav ing instructions and arc expecting a god time with provisions for safety fcr all. Among those in charge of the program there i3 Miss Helen Slandley, whoie picture appeared in the State Journal lat Sunday, she having charge of the music. EFOILED PORK KILLS TWO Chicago. Because they ate epoil d pork Sunday, two young Mexican children were drad and three other i.icmbers of their family were in criti cal condition. The dead aro Solidat Yillagas, 10, and her sister, Coleca, 3, and these seriously ill are Mag d?.lena. 2. the father, Michael, 37, end Miss Thercna Macha, 29, his 1 imekrrpor. Miss Macha told police she bought the pork from a peddler rn Fridny and failed to keep it on icr. Police arc hunting the peddler. Letterheads, envelopes, state-rrenf-r and all Vinds cT commer cial printlnn done promptly at the Journal off.ee. Call Mo. G. GaP Between School and Work is Considered Professor A. A. Reed Reports on Trop to Washington Zook Hears Educators. Means of bringing the wide gap between school and employment are now under corisidertion, reports Prof. A. A. Reed, director of the university extension division, who recently rcturnaed from Wshington, where he had been called by Com missioner George F. Zook, cf the of fice of education, in company with fifty other educators. Director Reed explained that three separate reports were made as the results of three round table discus sion groups and that co-ordination is neeesary before any report may be made. In explaining the need for bridg ing this gap between school and em ployment, Mr. Reed said that dur ing the deprtssionmany 'thousands of young people who had been graduationg fro mschools and colleges had faced little chance of securing employment. There are probably 1C, SCO, 0 00 young men and women between 16 and 25 in this country who are not in come school, college, or CCC camp. How to change the type of edu cation so as to care for these large groups not in sympathy with work now found there and how to accom plish this end was among the points rtuuird at the Washington confer ence. In connection with how to quickly change the type of education the Nebraska supervised ccrrespon dence study work was consdered. SPEAK AT CLAY CENTER Clay Center, June 15. Nebraska's house must be put in order if Ne braska is to move steadily forward, Theodore (Ted) W. Metcalfe, Re publican candidate for governor, de clared in a radio speach over station KMMJ here today. "The seriousness of present condi tions, not only in Nebraska but throughout the world," Metcalfe said, "requires the co-operation and support of men and women who will dare to take their stand forcefully and fearlessly for those things which they believe to be for the best in terests of all." Metcalfe reiterated his plea for repeal cf the prohibition law. In putting the state's governmental house in order Metcalfe declared for a tax revision program, a sales tax to replace the state property tax, reorganization of the state banking department, removal from politics of the state highway department, ade quate financial support of education al institutions, an agricultural pro gram which would bring together the leading agricultural states of the niiddlewest so that mutual problems might be tackled on a broader basis. Before his radio address the form er lieutenant governor addressed a larg gathering cf men an women in Clay Center. TERRIFIC GUAKE REPORTED Calcutta, India. A terrific earth quake which it is feared may have killed many persons, shock Afghani stan and Baluchistan. No detailed re ports from the affected area, which was reported to extend along the whole northwest Himalaya range, has been received here. It was re called that the quake in Bihar prov ince laj.t January so disrupted com munication that it w.-is more than a week before details of the dis aster were learned. stimates of dead" in tho Bihar earthquake ran from 4,000 to C.000, and there was a great deal of suffering from dis ease among the refugees. There were indications that Mach, r.t?r Onictta, which was dstroyed by an earthquake in 1931, has again been seriously hit. The epicenter of the temblor was in Afghanistan, re ports suggested. Seismographs bore, however, recording the most severe shock at 3 a. m., g.m.t. (10 p. m. Wednesday c.s.t.) indicated that the center cf the greatest earth activity was in Baluchistan. HERE FR03I CALIFORNIA From Iriilay's D.iily Calvin H. Taylor, county attorney cf Cass county for a great many years, now of Long Beach, was in the city today. Mr. and Mr3. Taylor arrived a few days ago at Lincoln where they are visiting relatives, their bou having been there for the past six weeks. Mr. Taylor has been engaged in the practice of law on the vest coast since lsaving this city seme eiohtsen y;ar-, ago and has been very successful in his wcrk taerB. SURPRISED BANDITS ESCAPE Norfolk, Neb. Surprised by the owner, George Doering, while in the act of robbing the Doering drugstore at Battle Creek at midnight, two bandits escaped with about 50 cents in cash and a few small articles. After closing his establishment, Doering returned to it and discov ered the robbers as he switched on the lights. The men started to run to the back door with Doering in pursuit. He caught one, grappled with him, but couldn't hold him. The two men were last seen by Doering as they fled down an alley. In making their escape the men I are believed by authorties to have) , , , . , . . . . . . anaiKlnnpil a coach in wnifh nan hpen left a crate of white chickens. One of the robbers is also believed by officers to have walked barefooted and bareheaded to Norfolk early Thursday. State to Get Federal Funds for Highway Aid Federal Funds for the Ifext Three Years to Exceed $7,500,000 Fund to Be Matched. A total of $7,500,000 for road building in Nebraska during the next three years was in prospect Thurs day as congress wound up action on the federal roads bill. The pending act, authorizing ex penditure of 100 million dollars in each of the years 1935, 1036 and 1937, as pure grants, would provide approximately $1,800,000 each of those years for Nebraska on the basis of last year's apportionments. In adition to the above 300 mil lion dollars, however, there is in cluded for 1935 an additional au thorization cf 125 million dollars to be apportioned out to the states for roads on condition the federal money is matched with state funds. Inclus ion of Nebraska's share of this amount on the basis already used would bring her total to slightly over the $7,500,000 mark. Provisions of the bill call for c minimum of 25 per cent of the ap propriation to be spent cn rural roads leading to markets and feeders of main highways, 25 per cent to cities and the remaining 50 per cent on federal and main routes. To Improve Feeder Routes. The change in wording from last year's provision that "not more than 25 per cent shall be spent on rural roads" to that of "a minimum of 25 per cent shall be spent for such highways, will not. in the opinion of public roads officials, materially alter distribution of the funds with in the state. The 50-25-23 division has been pretty well followed in its present roads program throughout the country, officials said, and it is likely that the various clases of highways will draw the same proportion of moneys when the new one gets un der way. Designed to prevent slighting o farmers need3 for good roads on which to get their produce to mar ket, the new 25 per cent minimum provision will, however, tend to im prove the feeder routes, officials be lieve. TEST FOR COAL NEAR PAUL Paul, Neb. Results from tests for coal being made on the Wll Meredith farm, two miles west of Paul, may end the long quest for a source of local fuel in Nebraska. W. F. Mise gadis, Talmage well driller, who dis covered the vein which sems to have coal in commercial quantities, says the coal is at least seven feet thick and five acres in area. Core drilling will be conducted this veek, or as soon as a rig can be set up to penetrate the ISO feet to the eighteen inch cap rock cov ering the vein. The actual drilling will be done by a machine owned by tho state of Nebraska. If the tests prove successful, mining op erations will start within a month. A shaft will be sunk to cap rock. It will be eight feet by sixteen feet. If the vein is actually seven feet deep, the men are eligible for a $5,000 bonus from the state, which they will seek for fiaancing pur poses. WORMS HALT TRAIN Fort William, Ont. Armies of green caterpillars which have prac tically denuded poplar and other trees in this area, furnished an an noying problem for locomotive engi neers. So thick were the "crawlers" on railroad tracks that locomotives had great difficulty in starting after coming to a full stop. Phone tho news to Tio. C Manley News Items A. Steinkamp and wife have had a new Kelvinator installed in their borne. This does away with the nec essity of ice and its bother. Mrs. Harry Hawes who has been visiting at the home cf relatives at Clay Center for the past week, re turned home on last Saturday. Mrs. Wm. Rau and Miss Sue Mock enhaupt were over to Omaha one day during the past week where they were looking after some shopping. C. E. Mockenhaupt was called to Plattsmcuth on Monday of last week - - V. --.- V ii'q q Innkin n- after crmo - ... , business matters and visiting with friends. Messrs. August Stander of Elm wood and Frank Stander of Omaha, were in Manley on Tuesday of last vveek and were looking after some business matters. George Rau who has been staying at Utica for the past few months where he has been employed as a salesman in a drug store, returned to Manley last week. Anton Auerswald, the blacksmith, is kept busy with the work which comes to his place of business and is pleased with the very fine business which he has been doing. John A. Stander, who has been troubled with an abcess on his breast had the same removed by Dr. M. U. Thomas one day last week and which is now getting along nicely. John F. Carper, Harry Ha wes and John Mockenhaupt wede called to Plattsmouth to serve as jurors on the cases which were being heard in the district court during the past week. George Coon, who has been caring for the pool hall in Mainey for some time past has resigned the position and which has been filled by Harvey Decker, one of the ball players of the Manley team. John Crane who was spending a few days at the old home with his sister at Sutton artd who was ac companied by Jackie Bergman, re turned home last week and tells of the weather being even drier than here. The Manley baseball team went over to Alvo on last Sunday where they engaged the Alvo team in a very spirited game of baseball and in which the Manley team was able to win over the Alvo lads by a score of 6 to 0. i 9 During the " wee fi there Tias been in Manley the following candidates for nomination for the various of fices: E. W. Thinigan, Martin Neil sen, Henry Ragoss and Miss Jessie M. Robertson and her sister, Mrs. Blanche Gamer. Herman Rauth who i3 candidate fcr county commissioner on the democratic ticket in the second dis trict, is kept so busy with the farm wcrk that he has been unable thus far to get out andmake an aggres sive campaign, but expects to later. The mmebers of the Royal Neigh bors cf America gave a very pleasant going away party for Mrs. Pearson on the eve of her departure for her home at Denver which was attended by a large number of the members of the society and at which a very pleasant time was had. The Rev. Father Harte, pastor of the St. Patrick's Catholic church of Manley and George Agius, pastor of the St. John's Catholic church of Plattsmouth, drove to York where they were attending the celebration cf the golden jubilee of Monsignor Cullen of the church there. Mrs. Julius Neilson who has been in poor health for seme time was taken last week to the Lincoln hos pital where it was expected that she would have to undergo an operation for appendicitis, but upon examin ation it was thought that with care ful treatment her health might te restored and an operation avoided. Elmer Pearson and family, who have been visiting in Manley for some two weeks, with Mrs. Alice Jenkins, imother of Mrs. Pearson and other relatves and friends, having enjoyed a very fine time while here departed on last Saturday for their home in Denver, Mrs. iiuga O'Brien and little daughter accompanying them to their western home where they will visit for the coming ten days. Have an Excellent Time The Friendly Farm Ladies were gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. HermEn Rauth last Wednesday aft ernoon where they were enjoying a very fine program and where they were studying the problems of the farm house wfe and as well were en tertained by the four genial hostesses who had charge of the gathering, Mesdamcs M. Wiles. Roy Ward, T. Nelson and Herman Rauth. Many Enjoyed Picture Show. The free picture shows which have been sponsored by the business men cr Manley and ths farniers cf th surrounding country were attended on last Monday evening by goodly crowds of people both in and out of town and which is considered a very good move for the town. VISITS IN THE CITY From Saturday's Daily Fred L. Carstens, of Avoca, was in the city today visiting with his friends and locking after his inter ests as a candidate for the democra tic nomination for state senator "rom the second district. Mr. Carster.s is well known over the county through his work in the Cass county fair as sociation and the Cass County Farm Bureau of which he has been a mem ber for several years. The district composed of Cass, Otoe and Sarpy counties. One Agitator Free, 3 Others Being Held Lcup City Sheriff Calls cn State for Aid in Drawing Charges Looking for Others. Loup City, Neb. Sheriff Hrailkill Friday night said he had released Frank Caddy, farmer near here, sub ject to good behavior and charges probably will not be filed against him for his participation in a hand to hand battle between townsmen and a crowd of outsiders. Three men were under arrest in connection with the melee Thursday, and authorities said they still were looking for others. Meanwhile, Bert Sells, 55, Arcadia farmer, was in a Loup City hospital suffering from se vere head injuries suffered in the dis turbance. An assistant attorney general was requested to come here to help with drawing up charges against those held and those sought, but author ities declined to say what the charge will be or to give the names of those held. One of those in custody was Charles Decius of Grand Island. The trouble was the result of a group cf 150 "outside agitators" coming here and attempting to get forty or fifty women of a produce plant to striks or quit their jobs. Au thorities said the outsiders made sev eral complaints of working conditions in the plant to the workers. After a lengthy conference between a committee of the outsiders and of ficials of the plant, the outsiders were ordered by the townsmen to leave town. This precipitated the struggle which saw clubs and stones brought into play. About a score of persons suffered from minor injuries. Authorities said most of the out siders were from Grand Island, Kear ney and Valley county in the Ar cadia vicinity. FAVORS FUND FOR FATHERS Washington. If there is a fath er's day movement for dollar con tributions in behalf of the fathers of quintuplets, present and future, blame it onto a father who wrote a letter to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. His unsigned letter wa3 postmarked Ithaca. N. Y. Enclosing a dollar bill, he said: "I am father of twins, with inter est and principal due on a mortgage due in July. For this reason the situation of Ernest Dionne of Cor bell, Ontario, has haunted me. Those quintuplets are a pretty heavy re sponsibility fcr any one man. When I think of the 6pinach and the modi fied milk and the cod liver oil alone, I sigh with weariness. "Of course this will bring a cry cf indignation from you mothers, 'the father heaves a sigh of weari ness.' Well, I'm thinking of that mother, too5 So I'm enclosing a dol lar bill. It isn't much, but it may help for some items. Father's day is approaching. Let me suggest that fathers cf the United States celebrate by sending a little cash contribu tion to this brother in fraternalism and distress! And if the amount so collected should provec onsiderable, let's give a goodly sum to Ernest and let the balance accumulate for the next father of quadruplets, quin tuplets cr what have you." MILK STRIKE THREATENED Sioux Falls, S. D.DL'nable to ob tain price advances from distribu tors aft.r more than two weeks of negotiations, Sioux Falls milk pro ducers threatened to strike and withhold supplies from the Sioux Fal'3 market. Producers said they were demanding $2 per hundred pounds for grade "A" milk, now bringing $1.75 and $1.50 per hun dred for grade "B" milk, which now bring3 $1. Shortages of feed and pastures and a sharp increase re cently in feed prices were given by the produces as grounds for their demands. Wheat Payment is Increased as Drouth Relief Freight Rate Decreases Also Author ized Into the Drouth Stricken States of the West. Increase in the second wheat bene fit payments from eight cents, as orig inally planned, to nine cents per bushel, and plans to rush these pay ments, totaling more than 30 million dollars, to farmers in the next few weeks, are among drought relief steps just announced by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The largest part of the wheat pay ments will go to farmers in the drouth states. Since these payments are based on past production aver ages and are not affected by current crop failure, they serve as farm in come insurance and farmers are as sured seme cash even if drought des troys their crop. The increase of one cent per bushel on the domestic al lotment will mean nearly 3 mil lion dollars more for farms. Other developments in the drought situation are: First Co-operating with the Ad justment Administration drought re lief service and the Federal Emer gency Relief and Farm Credit Ad ministrations and the railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission has authorized freight rate reductions on livestock and teed for the drought areas. The reductions authorized amount to 33 to 50 per cent below regular rates and apply to hay, coarse grains, livestock feed and to livestock ship ments into grazing areas. Actual rate reductions are made by the railroads, themselves, within the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Second More than 200 inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, are in the field todr.y appraising and classi fying cattle in 160 emergency drought counties in nine states. The ap praisal and classification are part of the cattle buying operation which will provide anoutlet for lower grades of surplus cattle. Meat prod ucts will be distributed for relief uses through the Emergency Relief Administration. The first year's payments to co operating wheat farmers are made in two parts. The second payment of nine cents per bushel on the do mestic allotment, supplements the first payment of 20 cents per bushel which was made beginning late last Autumn. The more than $30,000,000 therefore will be added to over $68, 000,000 which already has been paid. In time of drought like the pres ent, these payments give the farmers a continuity cf income otherwise im possible, and are a safeguard against the depopulation and destruction of productive power which otherwise would be theratened by drought, Chester C. Davis, administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, ex plained. Similar protection is afford ed co-operating corn and hog grow ers who will get about 1C0 million dollars in payments this summer no matter what happens to their crop, and to cotton and tobacco contract signers, making the adjustment pro gram as a whole the greatest crop in come insurance plan ever put into effect anywhere. The second payment of nine cents per bushel is the one from which lo cal costs of administering the wheat program are deductible. Estimates of processing tax collections are suffi cient to cover the enlarged second wheat payment. George E. Farrell, chief of the wheat section, has been working on speeding up the wheat plan to get the payments out. Co operating farmers in 40 6tates are participating in the wheat benefit payments. The railroad rate adjustments are important in relation to both phases of the program of maintaining suf ficient numbers of foundation stock of dairy and beef cattle so as to pre serve the livestock and dairy indus tries in the drought regions. The lower artcs ara authorized on shipments of this foundation live stock to available grazing areas, and also on shipments of feed concen trates and hay into the drought re gions to feed the stock. The rate au thorized on livestock will be 85 per cent cf the regular rate to the feed ing point, with the privilege of re turn shipment at 15 per cent of the regular rate. This is intended to en courage return of foundation stock and future Maintenance cf the beef and dairy industries in the drought region. On grains and livestock feeds ship ped into the drought counties, the rate authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission will be 6G 2-3 per cent of the regular freight rate; and 50 per cent cf the regular rat? for hay shipments. Water shipments are normally intra-state. Notification of the rate author izations was received by Philip G. Murphy, assistant to E. W. Sheets, director of tha Agricultural Adjust- ARE HI It is Eetter to Have Insurance and Not Need it than to Nted Insurance and Net Have it Insure Against Loss From WINDSTORMS HAIL FIRE CAR ACCIDENTS THEFT Duxbury & Davi HEP11KSEMI.XO Tho Largest end Oldest Insurance Companies in America ment Administration emergency drought service. Authorizations of rate reductions already are effective for all cf the emergency drought countk-s, and for secondary counties except those most recently designated. Additional or ders are expected to include all coun ties t?o designated. The Bureau of Animal Industry in spectors in the field are co-operating in the battle purchase program. This program is designed to provide an outlet for distress cattle. Dae to ac cumulations since 192S, numbers of cattle on farina now xcced: all rec ords. The Agricultural Atiju;tiiciit Administration cattle plans are be ing adjusted tc meet the drtuRht sit uation and help relieve farmers cf surplus animals .while maintaining good foundation stoc"; on the farm. The Bureau of Animal Industry in spectors are working in nine states, with concentration in the worst drought sections of the Dakotas and Minnesota. Fifty-four are working in North Dakota, 52 in South Dakota, CO in Minnesota, and 25 in Texas, with other smaller numbers in Wis consin, Montana, Colorado, Wyom ing and Oklahoma. As to the second 1933 wheat pay ment, approximate amounts wtneli will go to farmers in important fctatc.i in the drought region are: Kansas, $7,4 00,000; North Dakota, $4,300, ,,000; South Dakota, $1,500,000; Mon tana, $1,S00,000; Texas, $1,600,000; Nebraska, $1,700,000; Minnesota, $560,000; Oklahoma, $2,000,000; Idaho, $1,000,000; Colorado, $040, 000; and Utah. $200,000. IRRIGATION WATER IS LOW. Kearney, Neb. Less than 200,000 acre feet of water are in the Path finder reservoir, according to the lat ent bulletin issued by the bureau of irrigation. The actual reading, 198. 270 feet, is the lowest reading for the year and dangerously close to the low in late summer last year. The Pathfinder is holding back less than one-fifth of its capacity of storage water at the middle of June, not an encouraging prospect for those in need of water for irrigation. The outflow, on the day of the report, was enly 830 second feet, with 70 second feet reported flowing across the state line into Nebraska. Thi3 is far from sufficient to meet needs of irrigation in the upper valley. Even with all ditches clo-ed, it is doubtful if enough water would reach this far east to be of any benefit. "See It before you buy It." Indicted Ax-Slayer ' i 4: 1 - V The confessed slayer of his mother and brother, Louis P.ude Paynei (right), 21-year-old son of a St. as he entered grand jury room tt Los Angeles with a detective to hear himself indicted for the double murder. '.