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MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1935. PLATTSMOUTH SEIH - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FTVE Seed Treating Campaigns Urged in Drought Area Steps Taken to Minimize the Effects of the Severe Drouth of Last Summer. RUGS TAKEN FROM TRAIN Another step has been taken by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to minimize the ill-effects of last summer's disastrous drought. The department, through the Federal Seed Conservation committees is using emergency funds to assist in seed-treating campaigns in drought Etates. In each state which co-operates the work will be under the im mediate direction of the State Exten sion Service. The danger of spreading smuts and other plant diseases by seed has never been greater. At least six mid western states have little seed of the common grains. Others have partial supplies. Thousands of bushels of seed must be shipped in frcm other states, sometimes from as far away as 2,000 miles in order to get seed of reasonably well adapted varieties. Treatments are recommended for seed whether from federal or com mercial supplies at the point of de livery to the farmer. The federal seed stocks committee has consider ed carefully the question of treat ing their grain but decided it is i:n racticable. It is net advisable to use for human food or for animal feed grain which has been treated for seed borne diseases. Surplus grain must be saleable either as food or feed. Moreover, treating grain which will not be used for seed would be an unnecessary expense. In addi tion, treating seed in quantities is bo new that many problems arise such as length of time treated grain may be stored, methods and equip ment to be used. Ever since last summer's drought investigators at the department's Arlington farm near Washington, D. C. have been doing emergency ex perimental work in treating seed in quantities, in testing commercial ma chines, and in devising better meth ods. Directions for treating seed grain are being published in pamph let form and will be available to farmers in the drought areas through their county agents or through the ' State Extension ' Sevfcev'Another publication will list chemicals avail able for seed treatments as well as equipment for doing the work. Treating seed has been a standard practice for some time on many farms and in some communities, but is recommended for all farmers in the drought states this year. Altho much seed will be treated on farm3 in the rural way it is thought that a large proportion of emergency seed will be treated using large scale methods at points of delivery. Ele vators and seedsmen will be encour aged and aided in setting up large capacity treatirg equipment where the work can be done effectively, rapidly and at low cost. R. J. Haskell, plant pathologist in the department points out that al though seed treatments are entirely voluntary on the part of retail deal ers and farmers, they are cheap in surance against introduction of plant diseases and against possible loss of a crop from high priced seed. Treat ing seed, he says, will improve both quality and yield. States which will push seed treat ing campaigns in co-operation with the Federal Extension Service are North Dakota, South Dakota, Min nesota, Montana, Nebraska and Kan sas. Others may decide to partici pate as the seeding season approaches The grains which are recommend ed for treatments are barley, spring wheat, cats and grain sorghum. In formation as to the best chemical treatments to use and the diseases to be guarded against will vary for dif ferent states. Individual farmers can obtain definite information from county agents and extension workers. Alliance, Neb. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rathburn will be brought before a federal grand Jury at Chad ron next month on charges of pos session of goods stolen from inter state commerce. Rugs billed from an Omaha wholesale firm over the Chicago &. Northwestern railway to Casper, Wyo., were Btolen from a train north of here. The RathburnB were bound over to the grand Jury following a hearing before United States Commissioner F. M. Broom. . E. Sandall Recommends State Police u. S. Attorney, Back From Crime Session at National Capital Ad dresses Omaha Lawyers. Creation of a state police system by the Nebraska legislature was recommended to the Omaha Bar as sociation Thursday by Charles E. Sandall, United States district at torney, in an address on Attorney General Cummings' recent crime con ference In Washington, which he at tended. Formation of a state constabulary, he said, should be accompanied by a law giving the state attorney general authority over county prosecutors to assist the government's war on crime. Looks to Legislature. "I am interested in what the present state legislature is go ing to do about crime," he said. Attorney General Cummings plan ned his conference well, Sandall said, at a time Just before congress and the state legislatures would con vene. This, he believes, will focus attention on lawmakers and their ef forts to curb crime. "The conference made it ap parent that the crime wavo is a very serious menace," Sandall declared. "It revealed that there are 400,000 active criminals in the United States." "It was generally agreed that the federal government have po lice power over cases of kidnap ing, bank robbery and commer cial racketeering." Would Ease Problems. Sandall said a stale police system would make it easier for the federal government to co-operate with states than with local authorities. - "Our state sheriffs have been handicapped by too few depu ties," he said, "and no facilities for keeping records and data. "It seemed apparent at the conference that local authorities cannot cope with the modern criminal, especially in small communities." Ary legislation strengthening law enforcement in Nebraska, Sandall said, should make the attorney gen eral co-ordinator of all enforcement agencies. BRIDE STEALING OUTLAWED FRENCH NEW DEAL L00HS Paris. The new deal Premier Flandin promised France last Novem ber was presented to the chamber of deputies. A "modified American NIRA plan," the government-introduced legislation seeks adjustment of French industry to emergency condi tions. It was in" line with the pledge Flandtn took when he became pre mier early in November that his government would fight poverty and unemployment. The plan, compared by Minister of Commerce Marchandeau to President Roosevelt's recovery efforts, would force French industries to adopt self made anti-depression codes to "save them from ruin." Skoplye, Yugoslavia. The Yugo slavia government outlawed bride stealing. In an effort to halt the practice, the authorities approved plans for exchange of marriageable girls between South Serbia and Herzegovina. A dearth of marriageable women in southern Serbia previously had caused professional .""bride snatch ers, white slave traders and even parents to sell eligible girls at such high prices that the newlyweds often faced many years' economic bond age. In Herzegovina, on the other hand, husbands are scarce, available brides too numerous. Marriageable girls often go at prices less than those for goats or cows. The government, therefore, has worked out plans for disposing of Herzegovina's surplus single women in southern Serbia where, owing to the excess of men, no girl over 16 goes long unwoed or unwed. Legislature Pushes Aid for Farmers Hurry Enactment of Eill to Postpone Rent Payment Date to De cember 31, 1936. Lincoln, Jan. 10. Nebraska leg islators Thursday came to the aid of farmers whose crops on state school lands were destroyed by drouth. They hurried toward enactment a bill to postpone the date of rent payments. Introduced in the senate Thurs day .the measure postponed the delin quent date on notes given for school land rental to Dec. 31, 1936, how ever,, 5 per cent interest must be paid on the delinquent rents. The measure was intended primarily to aid 241 farmers who were unable to meet their payments Dec. 31, 1934. The situation was called to the at tention of the legislature by the state board of educational lands and funds which said approximately $60,000 in rentals is delinquent. Signs Two Bills. Governor R. L. Cochran Thursday 6igned the first two bills passed thej 50th legislature, appropriating $200,-! 500 to pay legislators and expenses of the last two-house legislature In! Nebraska. In 1937 the state will in-' augurate a unicameral legislature. A move for ratification by Nebras ka of the proposed federal child labor amendment was started in the senate Thursday despite receipt of petitions opposing such a step. Senators J. C. McGowan (R.) of Norfolk, John J. McMahon (D.) of Omaha, Emil E. Brodecky (D.) of Howells, George T. Sullivan (D.) of Omaha and Charles D. Green (D.) of Sidney in troduced a bill calling for a joint resolution for the ratification. Few New Bills. Nine new bills were presented in the house Thursday, bringing its to tal to 86. The senate received only two new measures. A few bills were reported to the general file today after legislative committees had act ed on them. The senate taxation committee ap proved a measure which would change the date of delinquency on first half payments of personal and property taxes from March 1 to May 1 and on the second half payments from Aug. 1 to Sept. 1. A measure reauirinir notice of ' criminal alibis at least 24 hours before the start of a criminal trial was reported to the general file by the house judiciary committee. Both Meet Friday. Both houses meet Friday. Representative William "Worthing (D. ) was elected vice chairman and Representative P. P. Gutoski (D.), was named secretary of the house judiciary committee. Both men and the chairman. Representative Ed ward J. Dugan (D. ), are Omahans. Ratification of the proposed fed eral child labor amendment was ask ed in a measure introduced in the senate Thursday by Senators Mc Gowan of Norfolk, McMahon of Om aha, Brodecky of Howells, Sullivan of Omaha and Green of Sidney. In the house Wachtler of Omaha was made chairman of the committee on engrossed enrolled bills; Herrick of Curtis chairman of the commit tee on school lands and funds in place of Carlson of Funk; Sutton of Omaha was transferred from the com mittee on engrossed and enrolled bills to the cities and towns group, and Dugan of Omaha was dropped from the cities and towns committee. The changes were made by the mem bers involved. FEED ALLOWANCE BOOSTED Washington. More money to help distressed farmers carry their work horses thru the winter and early spring was assured. Senator Burke was notified by farm credit administration officials that an increase in the monthly al lowance for feed loans on horses from $4 to $6 a head had been approved. This 50 percent increase corresponds to the Increased allowance granted a few days ago on cattle, from $3 to $4.50 a head. Birth Rate Lower in All of the World American Native Stock Seems Des tined to Shrink According to Figures of Experts. New York, N. Y. Practically every civilized country in the world, includ ing the United States and each state comprising it, has a declining: birth rate according to staticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Comp any, who declare that conditions now pcv.-.iling in this country are such that "our native stock seems destined to form an ever smaller fraction of the American people." The birth rate in the United States, the stat isticians say, is falling twice as fast as that of Canada, while the rate of decline in Gcmany is now four times that of France, where the statisticians explain the rate is no longer dropping. "The decline in the birthrate," the statisticians sr.y, "extends to pract ically every civilized nation in the world. It has been going on for more than half a century; nnd the latest available dr.ta, wnich relate to 37 countries, aud with every continent sr.ve Africa represented, show that the rapidity of the fall hs beer, ac centuated in the last five years." Of the 37 countries covered by the statisticians' study r.oumania a: d the Philippine Islands alone f;:il to show . decline in the birthrate since 1923. Rcumaina has experienced what is described as an "inconsequential" rise, while tie "hi.sh birthrate cf the Philippine Islands has been station ary for five years." I:: 1923, o.dy nine of the 37 countr ies had birthrates lower than that of the United States, while the rate fox that year hi this country 17.4 per 1, 000 was 28 pei" cent- "wer than the of average of 24.2 for the ci tire group of 37 nations. Moreover, the drop of 12.1 per cent in the birthrate of the U-.ited States compared unfavorab ly withe the average fall of 8.7 per ce;.t for the w'p.ole group. With the exception of the slight rise in Rouiuania and the high rate in the Philippine Islands, decrease in the birthrate sir.ee 1923, the statisc ians say, have been in evidence in all the civilized countries. ;nd have ragg ed frcm a maximum drop cf 21.C per cent in Chile to a minimum decline of 2.7 in Venezuela. "The greatest drops, In America," the statisticians continue, "have cc cured in the north 2ist3rn states, where the population is Mghly indus trialized. With few exceptions, the p.gricultur-il sA.r.tcs have shewn below average decreases in their birthrates." SANDHILLS A DUCK HAVEN NO TRACE OF BANK BANDITS Phone the news to no. (S. Scottsbluff, Neb. No trace of the four bandits who Tuesday robbed the Scottsbluff National bank of 511. G34 was found Wednesday by of ficers who scoured nearby hills and small canyons in hope of finding a secret hidec'ut where the bandits may have taken refuge. Pictures of suspects, mostly crim inals who have participated in other bank robberies, were shown to bank officials and customers in the hope they might identify a member of the gang. Only one suspect was identified, and Folice Chief Carlson did not re veal his name. He intimated that the man was one of a gang that participated in the robbery of the banks at Sterling, Colo., and at Kear ney, Neb., several month.3 ago. Tac tics used by that gang and the one in Scottsbluff were similar, he said. MORE ALFALFA EMBARGOES Governor Cochran received a call Wednesday afternoon from State Sen ators Allen of Cozad, Brady of At kinson, and O'Brien of Grand Island, who informed him that Missouri had quarantined Nebraska alfalfa and that Iowa is to do the same, follow ing the example of Wisconsin and Kansas, for the reason that the for mer governor raised the quarantine on alfalfa from Idaho and Oregon. The delegation later said they be lieved the governor will reinstate the Quarantine lifted by Governor Bryan. L. M. Gates, state entomologist, said ho thought the chances were favorable that Missouri, Kansas, and Wisconsin would rescind their alfalfa hay embargoes against Nebraska if Governor Cochran restores the Ne braska ehbargo against certain Idaho and Oregrn counties. About ninety tons of Idaho hay has been shipped into Nebraska as far as he knows. Gates said. He add ed all this hay is being consumed in Nebraska and is not being reshipped to other states, as feared by the states which have set up quarantines against Nebraska. "See it before you buy It." Secretary O'Connell, of the game, forestation and parks commission, Friday said the Nebraska sandhills are now coming into prominence as a duck breeding area. O'Connell made this statement in expressing his elation over the fa vorable report to the federal bureau of biological survey concerning a group of Cherry county lakes. "It has only been recently that we have been able to convince federal authorities that the many sandhill lakes were not only important as 'fill ing Ftation in the annual migration but lor breeding grounds as well," the secretary said. O'Connell said we have one large sanctuary in Garden county and that the addition of the Cherry county sanctuary "will make us able to do our part in conserving the waterfowl of North America." DOWN-HEARTED? A UNANIMOUS NO! l.iM.iui mi.,. I ii. .mm ,' in mil-. I III ill ! in pW' '' ".' " " """ '" 1 1 I v , .1 t 4 '' .i J t l TVt ' v . H "-7-; &-z&h :K iP A7. - -, " i ' -v.- r . ac- i m. i- .- . l t t. 'j , i ,i t v : j.-i- " i v . J ii i i i i.. . o,in..' i. IV. hi ni"i'-''l-i,ifi v' '-if r' .';- 0 go-'-' "sp i r- 4 . v.- It may be hard to teach your legs to do things after they've had a battle with a flock of in fantile paralysis germs, but lit tle Carrie Surlak of New York isn't downhearted about it, as the picture (lower left) plain ly indicates. . Carrie is showing her legs a thing or two with the help of Miss Corstance Iluerstel. Nor has she anything on the 13-year-old lad smiling from a res pirator "(r;ght). lie is IleiLert Fuchs, also of New York. Two smiling youngsters (upper left) their legs In braces, partake of their midday luncheon at Camp Alyn for Crippled Children in Cincinnati, Ohio. These four and more than 200,000 fellow-sufferers throughout the na tion will be beneficiaries of the 1935 Birthday Ball for the Presi dent, Jan. 30, when more than 5,600 communities from coast to coast unite to raise funds for fighttiug what Col. Henry L. Do herty, national chairman of tl;o Birthday Ball committee, call3 "the most-dreaded disease r-er.-acing the nation". Seventy ctnta of every dollar raised will be re tained by local coii:;;i jullic-s to rehabilitate infantile paralvsia victims, while thirty cents cf ev ery dollar will be turned over to a Birthday Bull Co?uui.,s:on for Infantile Paralysis Kc.-.earta b-.-poir.ud by the Prcilutcu . World Court Movement in LAC ENTIRE FAMILY WIPED OUT Somerset, Ky. An entire family of seven persons was wiped out by a fire that destroyed their two-room cabin home, sixteen miles east of here. The victims were Othel Har per, 35, farmer and miner; his wife, Nellie Harper, 34; their five chil dren, Milton, 10; Wanda 8; Elmer, Z; Denver, 3, and Beryl, 1 year old. Neighbors raked the charred re mains of the family from the em bers of the little park log house at Public, a Bmall settlement east of here. Resolution for U. S. Adherence Ap proved in Committee in Split Party Vote on Measure. Backed by a 14-to-7 voie in its favor by the United States senate foreign relations committee, a reso lution that would bring the United States into the world court under strictly prescribed conditions was started Wednesday toward a long sought senate decision. The committee approved of Am erican adherence "with the clear understanding" that the court "shall not, over an objection by the United States, entertain any requests for an advisory opinion touching any dis pute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest. Senator Robinson cf Arkansas, the majority leader and ranking demo crat on the committee, offered the resolution, evidently with adminis tration approval. He said he would call it up in the senate "whenever I think the time is opportune." Makes Old Reservation. The condition attached was the same language of the old fifth reser vation the senate adopted in 1926 which led to strong opposition abroad and the ultimate formulation of the Itoot protocol of American adher ence. Conflict of opinion immediately arose ever whether other signatories would have to accept the committee approved conditions before America joined the court. Administration senators hinted that while other major powers re fused to accept the reservation be fore, they probably would give im plied consent now. Johnson, Borah Opposed. Senators Johnson (rep., Cal.) and Borah (rep., Idaho) said preserva tion cf the old fifth reservation was what they were striving for, but they remained fundamentally oppossd to American entry under any conditions. The committee vote split through party lines. Those supporting the resolution, with protection against advisory opinion, were: rittmai, Robinson, Harrison, Wagner, Con nally, Bachman Black, Thomas (Utah), Van Nuys, Duffy, Pope Bulkley, democrats; and Capper, Vandernberg, republicans. Opposing it were: Lewis and Mur ray, democrats; Borah, Johnson, Cutting, republicans; La Follette, progressive, and Shipstead, farmer-labor. DEITY OWNING STILL O'Neill, Neb. For r.: n am s-ted by federal agents i 1 a raid on a big UiucT ctill near Woc! La!.e Fun day, entered pleas oZ not guilty to charj;'!3 of violating internal rcv t nur- laws v. hen arrainil before I. P. Commisf-'oiier Frank J. Dimmer here. Officers said the still v. as cap able of producting "O.J o 400 gal lons daily. It 'was destroyed. The men gave th'-ir na:::s an William C. Hickman, Joe J. Stone. Clarence K. Stcuffes and 0.en Scott. Stone's bond was Pet at $1,000 and bond far the others at ? 3,000 each. None fup plied bond and the quartet was placed in the Holt county jail. LEGISLATURE ASSAILS FXRA Phone trie news to no. G. J?fTerso:i City, Mo. Disclosure that the federal emergency relief ad ministration is employing a flu()-a-incnth "observer" at the Missouri legislative session, brought criticism from bcth democrats and republicans. "I think it wholly unnecessary for the FERA to have a paid lobbyist tn observe and report the action of the general assemly in regard to public welfare work," said Phil M. Donnelly, democratic floor leader cf the senate. Lawrence If. Presley, ri publican leader of the house, observed "the money could be better used to feed the hungry and clothe the nacked." Stars-in Quandary as Court Rules Divorces Void rTS-r Max Baer and Dorothy Dunbar "v. Katharine Hepburn ."..-. - t t Z 1 S J . - ' I ... Jack Holt i-'v"' )- ( " '-r ' ,J7 J I ' " i 4 - ' -' . 1. ? j J ;. 11 Joseph M. Schenck and N rma Talmadge pewel Blair A ruling of the district court of appeals at Sacramento, Cal., declaring that Mexican divorce decrees are void has left many Hollywood lumi naries not knowing if they were married and if so, to whom. Some of the more prominent film folk who wers wondering about their Mexican divorces Gloria Stuart Richard Pix and, in some cases, subsequent marriages to others, include: Richard Dix and Winifred Coe, Katharine Hepburn and Ludiow Smith, Gloria Stuart and Newell Blair, Jack Holt and Margaret Wood Holt, Dorothy Dunbar and Max Baer, and Norma Talmadge and Joseph II. Schenck.