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j. PLATTSMOUTH SE3H WEEKLY JOURNAL MONDAY, JULY 16, 1031. PAGE TWO , ! ' i u The. Plattsmeuth Journal PUBLISHED SEHI-WEEELY AT PLATTSKOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Fostoffice, Plattsraouth. Neb., aa second-class mail matter MRS. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign cri $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly la advance. A Chicago tea shop displays this sign: "Courteuous service until 1 p. m." :o: Senator Borah is "agin" bureau cracy. So is everybody else. Then why do we have it? :o:- One thing certain aiout the ship of state under its present captain its collecting no barnacles. :o: The new government agency, the IKC, may prove useful, even though it looks like a truncated typograph ical error. :o: Why does a slim person delight in demonstrating in front of a fat per son how easy it is to slide into a nar row space? Those who took part in the nudist wedding in Chicago last week are no longer bare. They've had fines stuck on them. :o: Fifty straw hats were stolen from a truck. As they were valued at only $50 we assume they couldn't have been women's hats. :o: Perhaps the American sailors who created the rcughhouse at Nice would be willing to let their police court fines apply on the war debt. :o: The smaller amount of ticker tape being used in Wall Street is more than offset by the larger amount of red tape distributed in Washington. :o: The moral in the Finnish debt payment, if any, is now ready for circulation: If you have to have a war, try and find one that costs only $61,000. :o: The Martin Johnson expedition reports that there are no more than 1 2,0 Ocr'gbfillas left in Africa. Now as soon as we get the figures from C hicago and New York, we'll know where we stand as to gorillas. :o: Primo Camera passed through At lanta, Ga., Sunday headed toward Florida, but bound for Maine, so he told his friends there. It's a slow process, reaching Maine by going south. Perh'aps Max Baer hit him harder than was generally supposed. r ,1 S . O tun frVum $f nrijtV Inc.. Gw feiuun ntho mrmd. rt. V vT V"- VV . V! fc-1 ' 1 i J V f P I '( Ov x : cZftZ VX" ySx -S-ft-vv. m!M :- '" - ?-f:;-; '"l' .;.:-:v;i Vrv-.'? ., 1 - , :).." V,iV? Roger Babson says no one- can be blamed for the depression. He would make a poor politician. :o: Part of the trouble in the Balkans is that a country is there which doesn't show on the maps Mace donia. :o: - Back in the old home town there was one man who was so worthless that he wasn't even asked to sign the candidates' petitions. :o: The federal income for the present fiscal year is more than 3 billion dol lars, which sounds pretty big until it is compared with the outgo. :o: Evidently John Dillinger has fin ished "Anthony Adverse," which, according to theory, was why he had been out of circulation so long. :o: Huey Long has again referred to a rival statesman as a rat, and we suppose it's summer again in Louis iana, though the weather is nothing unusual. :o: An Iowa professor says he finds five different kinds of dumbness. It seems incredible that a prominent man like that should have met so few people. :o: The New Jersey man who stabbed a radio crooner probably will be severely dealt with by the game war den, as the season doesn't open un til October. :o: That period of the straw hat sea son is -now upon us when it is of small consequence which hat is se lected on leaving a restaurant. They all need cleaning anyhow. :o: Austria was somewhat startled by exploding bombs in various parts of the country yesterday, the; natives evidently having forgotten for the moment that it was the Fourth of July. :o: "Isn't your bank account more se cure than it wa3 a year and a half ago?" inquired Mr. Roosevelt on the radio last week. Well, ye3 and no. A year and a half ago it was secure because during the bank holiday we couldn't even check against' it. Justifiable Homicide! vv V I t4 c c . M I V Don't people like to drive motor cars any more? Advertising columns are full of requests for "one or two passengers to Chicago, to help drive." :o:- Fourth of July statistics indicate that we're now accomplished fire cracker shooters, and pretty fair mo tor car drivers, but we can's swim worth a cent. j . :o: Perhaps a good many of the d.ogs advertised in the Lost department have decided the ( Fourth is finally over and have come out from under the porch, by this time. . :o: - John Dillinger's sister says there is a lot of mail piled up which she -wishes he'd come and get. Probably he's afraid the government has sent him some sort of a summons.- :o: - An explorer says that most ani mals are pclite if you are. Occasion ally an animal snarls when you try to pet it, which is its polite intim ation that it is not in a necking mood. :o: : We don't remember what Finland borrowed the money for in the first place, but the fact that she is pay ing it back would indicate that it was for some uncommonly useful purpose. :o: It's vacation time for Amos 'n' Andy. Amos is going to Alaska and Andy is going to Pmgland. England offers great opportunities for a ro mancer like Andy to tell to a patient listener like Amos. :o: Scmeone reports seeing John Dil linger at a ball game recently. Un fortunately the game went the full nine innings, so there's no hope catch ing the bandit when, he comes back to use his rain check. :o: The Philadelphia mint reports that the demand for a half-nickel is again being heard. The Detroit News attributes it to a general fear among parents that quadruplets and quintuplets are catching. :o: Gen. Hugh Johnson is planning a vacation from his NIIA labors, most of his relaxation to come in the form of making public speeches. It seems just as easy for General Johnson to relax as it is for Senator Borah. :o;'; "No longer does . the average citi zen fear to speak-ftw; criticism -of the new deal administration1,'-' -says- a Washington observer. So "long, of course, as he doesn't try to speak it over the radio or on the movie reel. :o: New York police are searching for a man whose trousers have been vitally torn by savage dogs. Charlie Chaplin escaped under similar cir cumstances, we believe, in one of his old films by wearing an oevrcoat on a July day. 1 tyaeENEftor By HARRISON CARROLL Hollywood. Is Norman McLeod's face red? The Paramount director forgot to turn off the radio when he left his studio office for a holiday and the darned thing got so hot it pulled the trigger on the sprinkling a y s t e m. The fust thing the studio watchmen knew was when they found gallons of water pouring out into the- hall of the director's building. Nor man's room was sc full the desk prac Norman McLeod tically was floating and when the watchmen rushed down to the floor below they found Cecil B. De Mille's office in almost the same condition. That little moment of forgetfulness cost the studio $1,500 in water dam age. For fast thinking, I like the story of how Director Roy Del Ruth cov ered up an embarrassing moment the other evening. Roy thought ho rec ognized a friend in a restaurant and slapped him on the back. But the fellow who turned around was a ham actor, who recently gave his wife a nasty deal and is due to explain it to a judge in the near future. Before Roy could apologize, the ham drawled: "Really, do I know you?" Quick as a flash, Roy came back: "No but you will when your case conies up in fxy. court." They say the ham is still trying to locate the judge so he can apologize. You'll want to dcubt this, but it actually happened. A bit player in "The Old Fashioned Way" at Para mount was Mrs. Martha Gilbert. They sent her to the wardrobe department to get a 1005 style gown and 15 minutes later she gave a cry that brought attendants running. The gown she drew was one her sister had made fop her in San Francisco in 1905. .Thf crocheted collar, cuffs and -buttonu-overs identified it with out postiibiiit? df error: The extraordinary coincidence i accounted for this way: Mrs. Gilbert liked the gown so well she stored it away in a trunk. It was still there 15 vears aab. when she moved to Los Angeles, and didn't turn up until 1D2C. when Irs. Gilbert was making up a bag or old clothes for the Good will Industrie.-; here. From there on, it's all presumption, but Don Beach, of the Paramount wardrob2 depart ment, suggests it found its way to a -ecend-hend .store, where he bought it on oneof:hi regular forays for out-of-date clothes. A letter from an M. G. M.'er adds rn interesting point to my i;tory about the number of autographed pictures of Greta Garbo now existing in this country. To a man in Cincin nati gncu the distinction of being the only person to hold two such pictures. Seme years ego, the chap used to I:c p the long-distance wires hot be tween the. east and Hollywood and wrote innumerable letters to Greta and her friends. Finally he sent two enormous pictures of the star (no body knew where he got them to the studio with the request that Greta autograph the:n. Impressed by such devotion, and not quite so retiring in those days, the Swede signed them. These picture.-; today would be al most museum pieces. The new Ring Crosby lauio con- -P : 3 tract just signed f - i y f, tin' HUM 'qjll ii I i on record. Seven firms wanted to sign Bing and the final deal gave him 39 straight weeks with no cancella tion clauses o r catches of any kind. The salary mentioned would make your head swim. And, now. just to, make things nicer. Par- : Ling Crosby amount wants to tear up fling's con tract which ha3 a year to go, and give him a new three-year deal with a big up in the weekly pay check. By the way, Ring is going around with a little broader emile these days. The reason? He has just be come the father of twin boys! Folks are wondering how soon it will 'be before he will teach them to croon. What L03 Angeles attorney is now on a trip around the world because a Leveral-times-married star just I to tlimlt T. A. Grehan, advertisement man ager of the Dublin (Ireland) "Irish Independent," says: "In my over thirty years in adver tising, as a fascinated student, as ad vertisement writer, as a spender ol huge appropriations and as adver tisement director of a group of news papers for quite a long spell, I have naturally seen how advertising money gets results or does not get results. I have seen all sorts of advertising media tried out and have seen the results. At the best of times the in vestment of money in advertising is a speculation, but, properly and sanely invested, that is to say invested ac cording to the advice of men who arc in a position to guide and select for you, the 'speculative' feature of ad vertising can be considerably lessen ed, can even be mad practically in ocuous. "Well, having f:?cn how advertis ing 'works' in almost every sort of medium, I have no hesitation in stating that advertising in popular, well conducted, brightly presented newspapers is in the bet of all med iums. If you feel any doubt about this," don't lake the word of a hard ened veteran like mynelf. just take a careful look through the new'Pers that come your way. There you will find how true my v.crdi are for there you will find the warts of all the live merchants set before ycur eyes in alluring words and often in equally alluring pictures. Do all these enter prising people spend, their good money in the newspapers just to please a passing whim? Most assured ly they do not. The men who plan, place rnd pay for r.Jvei tisements do so because they expect resutls that will help to make t heir merchandising profit-making. They know what they are doing. They havo had ample ex perience and ju? because of this ex perience they r'ump for the news aper because their sales analyses show that it ir, the ncv.sx per that wins the people to their wares. ."So, gentlemen of the jury oZ news paper readers, ycur verdict is in my favor. When it conv.s to brass tacks in advertising, the newspapers have it every tmie!"- wouldn't accept ring? hia e:; rr - rrQ ment Knick-Knacks How fortunate that Hollywood di- virce pairs remain friendly. Else it would have been r.n embarrassing moment the other r.ight at Henri's 5-rO club when Eduie Iliilman and P.ochelle Hudson occupied one table and across the room were Marian Nixon and Bill Suiter. . . . And what a shock when Janet Gaynor showed up at this spot with Gene Raymond. The demure little Gaynor never goes to late spots. . . . Irene Castle Mc Laughlin writes to Warner's design er, Orry Kelly, denying those pub lished reports that she belittled Hollywood's fashions. . . . Spencer Tracy is still in the hospital. . . . Newest tennis feud in the film col ony is between Nelson Eddy and Gene Raymond, who, if you start checking, are about the only twe blonde leading men in the business. ... And Hteln Morgan, poor gal, is so worried for fear her mother won't give proper care to the 20 tanks of tropical fish she left in her New York apartment. Did Yen Know That Ramon Novarro still cher ishes a ragged dressing gown that he bought in Europe while filming "Ben Hur?" Some people are Ii: e carrots. Ev erybody says they are good, but fow folks like them. :o: A national event that is notice able: General John -ry.i no longer has to ask for nublic criticism of the NRA. :o: Somebody recalls that for 1,300 years Persia and China did not main tain diplomatic relations, and Inci dentally had no wars. :o: Secretary Ickes has ordered that all legal advertising from the depart ment of interior be inserted only in Democratic newspapers. We judge he is depending on word cf mouth to get the news around in the Re publican neighborhcods. . :o: The explanation of Mrs. Roosevelt's superior speed and endurance while "doing" the Chicago fair may lie in the fact tint her eccial petition 13, secure, and she can affcrd to appeal' in comfortable footwear. Alvo New s John Elliott of the Alvo Hardware and Implement company, was a vis itor in Lincoln on last Wednesday, looking after business for the firm. Mrs. Minnie Peterson and daugh ter, Dorothy, were over to Seward last Tuesday, where they were look ing after some business matters for the day. Among those who attended the funeral of. the late Edward Carr were Billie Warner, S. C. Boyles, Charles Godbey, L. D. Mullen anil a number cf others. Roy Coatman was over to Green wood one day last week to look after his political fences and his daughter, Jean, accompanied him to see that the work was done properly. John Lutz, of Plattsmouth, was a visitor in Alvo last Wednesday, ac coinpanying his friend, Bernard G Wurl, who is a candidate for county (. lerk on the democratic ticket. E. L. Nelson and daughter were over to Lincoln last Wednesday, at which place Mr. Nelson wa3 purchas ing goods for the store and where the daughter was visiting friends for a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Turner McKinnon de parted last week for St. Paul, Minn., v.-he re they have a son and daughter and where they will visit for some time, perhaps remaining for the rest cf the summer. A large crowd was in attendance at the band concert which was stag ed from the band Ftand last Wednes day and ail were pleased with the very fine music which was provided i by the Alvo civic band which Is com posed cf a large number of very fine musicians. Roy Stewart was over to Prairie Home on lact Wednesday, where he was making some repairs cn a pump and r.lso cleaning out a well for a f aimer. The water question is as suming a grave phase just now, with many wells drying up on account of the long drouth. Mrs. Simon Rehmeier and the boys, Fred and Frank, and Mrs. Sterling Ccatman and her cons were over to the Lincoln Shrine club on East O .street lr.st Wednesday afternoon, en joying a dip in the waters cf the swimming pool there. They drove over in their car. Mrs. Ro.se Scott, who has been vis iting in Alvo at the home of her sis ter, Mrs. R. M. Coatman, was taken to Lincoln by Mr. and Mrs. Coat man, where she will visit for some time with relatives and friends. They were accompanied by Shirley and Jean Coatman on their trip. There seems to be a fad for quilt ing just r.ow, with many preparing fcr the cold weather of the coming winter. There seems to be a quilt on the frames in most every home in town or cne just recently complet ed. Well, that is a good way to pre pare for the colder days that we all know will come a few months hence. Charles Roelofsz was shelling and delivering corn to the Rehmeyer ele vator on last Wednesday and on the anic day corn advanced some four cents per bushel and wheat five. All grain prices are going up. which will be good news for the farmers and everyone residing in this middle west, the farmer's prosperity is quickly parsed along to the rest cf us. Last Thursday, after he had re turned from delivering the mail on his route running out of Alvo, A. B. Strcmer, the genial carrier, and his wife departed for Kearney, where they will visit for some time and where their Ciauehter had been a fiu est at the heme of their friends Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, formerly cf Alvo. They expect to enjoy a nice vacation there. During their absence, the carrying of the mail will be locked after by R. M. Ccatman, sub stitute carrier. Eecanie Overheated Charles F. Rosenow, who has for .many years took the brunt of hard work on the Rock Island section here, was overcome by the excessive heat last Tuesday and compelled to cease working and be brought home. The following day he was feeling some better, but still feeling the effects of the heat stroke. Many Candidates Visit Alvo Last week Alvo was visited by a large number of candidates for the various offices to be voted upon at the forthcoming primary election August 14th. All of them came with friend ly smiles and fair explanations of their attitude cn questions of public expediency. It i3 well to have these get-aequaintcd periods when the vot ers may meet ond size up the candi dates before going to the polls to cast their ballots. Among those who were hero dur ing the pact week, and the office:: they Keek, were: Homer Sylvester, cheriff; Miss Alpha Peterr.on, county! superintendent of schools; Bernard! $1,000 Windstorm and Hail Insurance on TOWN DWELLINGS or Three Years Costs You Only Can You Afford to Take a Chance Call or See Buxbury & Bavis Representing the largest and Oldest Insurance Companies in America Wurl, county clerk; Otto Keck, coun ty clerk; Miss Jes.sie Robertson, coun ty superintendent; Joseph Brandt, register of deeds; J. R. Reeder, coun ty superintendent; P. T. Johnson, county superintendent; E. H. Arm rtrong and Henry Bac kei.icyer, both candidates for county commissioner on the republican ticket, who are op pesed by Fred II. Gorder, incumbent, and R. M. Coatman. the home can didate for this office, who is well and favorably known here in .Alvo. It may be we overlooked some ethers of the large irniy of candidates, and if so, we apologize. Alvo weic-omes ycu, come again. Announcement Many cf the people in this, vicin ity have urged me to file for the posi tion of County Commissioner for tho Third district cf Cass county, believ ing that a man from this vicinity is reeded to look after the interests or the western portion of the county. I have accordingly filed and be 1'evc I am well qualified for the posi tion, as I liavc been engaged in road conservation and other public work and know the needs of the county. I shall greatly appreciate the support and co-operation of those whose in terests, like mine, are along the line cf a careful and judicious expendi ture of the tax dollars, at the polls on election day, and if nominated to make the race, I will press forward to the fall election day, grateful to oil for their assistance. Roy M. Ccatman, Democratic Candidate for County Commissioner, Third District. WHEAT IN ANOTHER JUMP Chicago. The wheat market was subjected to heavy pressure, but prices continued to advance, much as 1 3-8 cents being added to the maximum 5 cents jump made Wed nesday following government fore cast of a sensationally low 19:11 grain production in the United States. Foremost among the weights on the market was the reverse tread in corn. The 4 cents gain made by that grain was all but wired out by a b luge of selling. Corn lost 1 3-4 to 2 cents, r.ltho at times the full 4 cent fall allowable was reached, putting September contracts as low as 58 cents a bushel. Cash wheat offerings of record breaking proportions from harvest territories and the disappointing re action of foreign markets to Wednes day's excited price bulge here served as bearish aspects. Some traders also took note of Canadian reports that the wheat crop in the prairie prov inces was estimated to be approxi mately 45 percent of normal. WOULD CUT TAXES, SALARY St. raul, Neb. An organization of the taxpayers alliance witli a platform calling for a drastic reduc tion in tnxes r.r. l reduction of sal nrie.s of all elective offices has been formed here by a group of farmers. James Tuma of Cotesfield, was elect ed president; Joseph Turrta, Coles ehl, vice president! and Joseph Dvor ncek of Farwc-11, secretary-treasurer. Grover Rtnpletcn of Broken Bow was the organizer. SACKETT 13 SENT TO JAIL Ottawa, 111. Joseph Sackett, tG, of Marseilles, returned by Kheritf Welter Sundry from Klwood, Neb., was held to the La Salle county grand jury under 13.000 bond on a charge cf attacking his daughter Jes sie, 20. Sackett went to jail in de fault of the sum. lie pleaded not guilty to tho charge, but his daugh ter testified he had assaulted her with death if she told. A child was stillborn March 31st. J ! l - J