MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1935.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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HOLLYWOOD Hclly wood's loca
tion stouto will gnash teeth when
they rend this. Within 16 miles of
the studies, in territory combed by
cutcmobiles and
explored by planes,
Hoot Gibson has
found a new loca
tion paradise for
westerns. It lies in
the Malibu moun
tains, a little val
ley with an old
'arm house, cattle,
stream ar.d every
thing to make the
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Hoot Gibson heart of a cowboy
actor glad. Hoot discovered it while
riding his pony, hunting scenes that
hadn't been shot a thousand times
for "Sunset Range," the first of his
new series at the old Mack Sennet
studios.
He'll have to pack his production
equipment in.
Joan Bloncicll ami George Barnes,
her cameraman spouse, are building
a miniature "college" room r.cxt t3
the nursery of their baby. It will have
tiny penants. athletic equipment and
everything a ccilege k'd treasures.
George is taking "assembly" movies
of the child, similar to those showing
the construction of a dam. When ths
child is IS, he'll be able to cec himself
Ehoot up in celluloid.
Frank McIIugh tipped Hugh Her
bert off to a new racket the other
day when an extra touched Hugh for
enough for a meal and to rent a tux
edo for a dress job in the picture. He
took Herbert to the set where the
extra was appearing in overalls and
explained he lent the imposter $5 the
previous day for the same purpose.
Hollywood is getting its share of
f.rst nights. The special train for the
San Diego premiere cf Yv'arner Bros.
Cosmopolitan's picture, "Devil Dcgs
of the Air," almost denuded the lot
cf stars. They got back at three in
the morning after seeing the biggest
first night in the history of San
Diego.
Latest Flashes
The stars turned cut for Eillie
Burke's memorial revival cf the "Fol
lies." Charles Chaplin, with his hair
dyed for his r.ew film, was ducking
the "photegs" in company with Paul
ette Gcddard, whose cross-strapped
green evening gewn had the fans all
"oohing." . . . Stu
dio work delayed
Bille Burke until
15 minutes after
the show started.
. . Fox is broad
casting for Will
Rogers to "come
home" and do an
other picture. . . .
Evelyn Yenable is
arranging to pub
lish a cock book
rauletteGoadoid
for vegetarians this summer. Husband
Hal Mchr is a vegetarian, too. . . .
Frank Uorzacc is taking hi? f.rst
horse rides since h;j accident. . . .
Ken Maynard, his wife and sister get
in by boat scon. . . . Two sets of
dancers, Ramon and Roslta, and Tony
and Rene de Marco, were playing
mailman's holiday the ether night at
the Trocadero. . . . Pt-arce and Har
ris comprise the row dance team
there. . . . Do Mille's fighting falcon,
Caesar, disappeared from "The Cru
pades" set ar.d was found in the R-K-O
let. . . . Saw Ian Keith in his
handsome whiskers for his "Cru
sades" role, at the "Fellies' opening
with Fern Andre. . . . Henry Hull
and wife met Frank Morgan and Otto
Kruger there Ur the first time in five
years. . . . Joseph von Sternberg slag
ging it with Dr. Karl Ycellmueller cf
"The Miracle." . . . The Lew Ayres
(Ginger Rogers) are hct on ranch
Inlying sflcr a week-end with the
Joel McCca's (Frances Dee) at their
Chatsv.orth rar.ch. . . . Lillian Har
vey phoned from the Europa at sea
thtt she's going to Switzerland be
fore reporting to London for work.
Eld You Know
That in the past two years, Mae
West has baen made honorary mem
ber cf organizaticr.3 rt the rate of 40
c month?
Learning cf Claudetta Colbert's
building plans, a Ticcndercga, N. Y.,
admirer has written the s;tar that if
the will send him the exact specifi
cations cf the bricks she is using in
the i.ew house, he will send by air
mail a brick for the wall, exactly
matched.
In case you have wondered about
1'cychic Gene Denis' powers, here ia
a proof sworn to by Constance Col
lier, M-G-M's new importation from
England. The pair met eight months
age in London at the Savoy and Gene
told the star, whose reign was at its
height in IJritish films, she was going
to Hollywood very soon. That after
noon. Lcuis B. Mayer, making a Lon
don visit, gave her the offer to come
rver here.
HOLLYWOOD Regardless of the
unorthodox production methods fol
lowed by George White for his new
mimical at Fcx, the scheme seems to
work. White, you
in i i pwmjwai; i in
y -it 1- V . A
wiil recall, insists
on "shooting" be
tween the hours of
3 p. m. and 3 a. m.,
saying his girls are
more beautiful in
the evening. lie is
now a white-headed
boy with the
production depart
ment for being al
most seven days
George Whita
alie.vi cf h'.s schedule and plenty of
thousands under the assessed cost on
the picture.
Two new social dances will be in
j trcduced when Warners' "Go Into
Your Dance" and "Caliente" are re
leased. In the first picture, Ruby
Kecler and Klayton Kirby dance a
new rhuniba variation, the "Cuban
Son." Dolores Del Rio has had a
special dance devised for her by the
jame cf her picture, "Caliente."
A fan letter from the Fiji islands
brings Bing Crosby a belated proph
ecy. Mary Addis, who has just seen
"The Big Broadcast" (released sev
eral years ago), has written Bing
from one cf the Fiji towns that she
wants to be one of the first to ask
for his screen autograph, as she feels
sure he is going to be a big star when
the picture gets around.
lute Flashes
Mae West is being schooled in the
spaghetti style for her opera number
from "Sam and Delilah," by Armando
Agr.ini, Italian octave expert. . . .
With his own siege of the flu over
and Mrs. Erisson back from the hos
pital, Carl is taking her to Palm
Springs for a rest.
Una O'Connor mod
els her friends in
clay. . . . Dr. Lee
Jewell, father of
Isabel, arrives here
for a visit, his eye
sight greatly im
proved. . . . Bob
Montgomery reck
lessly starts a new
fad by buying ice
skates and depart
Una O'Connor
ing for Yoscmiie with the missus. . . .
Mrs. Clark Gable and her daughter,
Gecrgianr.a, leave for Houston, Tex.,
where Georgianna is to be maid of
honor at a chum's wedding. But not
before they bcught a load of presents
fcr Clark's birthday. . . . Hugh Wal
pole, the British novelist, is cut of
the hospital after two operations for
bis neuralgia, lie is better and leaves
London fcr Hollywood again some
time this year. . . . Bob Armstrong
keeps up his campus associations by
rttending the annual Delta Tau Drdta
dinner here. . . . When Eddie Suther
land developed toothache at the Dunes
the other day, Al V.'crtheimer had a
dentist come right in to the dinner
table r.5 d stop the misery for him.
. . . Tommy Conlin, whom you've been
p.'gec . nliolinp as a child actor, is back
alter a. year's personal appearances,
IS years eld but lookiiig 19.
Did Ycu Know
That those copies of Corot and
Rembrandt hanging on the walls of
Chester Franklin's home were painted
by the director himself?
TO STRT PLATTE SUEVEY
Washington. Dr. Elwood Mead,
director cf the U. S. bureau of re
clamation, said Friday that a field
fore? scon would be assigned to Ne
braska to make a survey of the pro
posed N'orth Platte river irrigation
project. The survey will be financed
by $50,000 allotted by Public Works
Administrator Ickes.
"V.'cik ou the survey will start in
the very near future," Mead said,
"and a report on the North Platte
project will be made to PWA and
reclamation officials as soon as pos
sible." Mead said he could not estimate
the length of time there will bo re
quired to study the North Platte ter-rito-y
and possible plans for im
pounding and diverting the water of
the F.treani.
Home Loans are
Being Repaid All
Over the Nation
Only Tea Deliberate Defaults Have
Eeen Found in Thousands of
Loans Over the Country.
The Home Owners' Lean Corpor
ation reports that of the 58 fore
closure suits which it has so far in
stituted throughout the United
States, only ten have resulted from
deliberate default by home owners
who apparently believed that no ac
tion to force payment would be tak
en by the corporation, the remainder
being due to abandonment, resulting
I frnn A r. n t li rf tlin nffnor fir similar
misfortune.
Referring to the ten cases of will
ful delinquency, John II. Fahey,
chairman of the corporation, said:
"The public interest calls fcr gen
eral recognition that individual loans
from this corporation are valid obli
gations, and that no compromise can
be made with borrowers who deliber
ately refuse to live up to their con
tracts on the mistaken assumption
that they can do so without penalty.
"The great majority of our bor
rowers are making their payments to
us promptly, just as they pay their
household bills and other private
obligations. Our record of collections
to date compares favorably with that
of private lending institutions. Our
delinquencies are confined mainly to
the relatively small number cf peo
ple who are in genuine diiTiculty, re
sulting frcm unemployment or other
causes beyond their control. They
are entitled to co-operation from
their creditors in getting back on
their, feet. The corporation intends
to keep ou giving helpful consider
ation to every home owner borrower
whoso past credit standing is favor
able and who proves to be in such
acute financial distress that he is ut
terly unable to make his contractual
payments at this time.
"On the other hand, the corpor
ation cannot tolerate the refusal of
any of its borrowers to live up to
their obligations, in cases where they
are obviously able to do so. A num
ber of cur borrowers now face the I
less cf their properties through fore
closure because they willfully de
faulted on their payments.
"It is to bo regretted that an ir
responsible element has spread the
impression that this corporation does
not insist upon collection of payments
due. Any such suggestion implies
that swindlers and deliberate de
faulters are entitled to encourage
ment in their bad faith at the cost
cf the entire public, which this cor
poration represents.
"I am glad to say that only a
small number cf people are so far
j threatened v. i;.h the loss of their
j homes in foreclosure by following
such misleading advice. The number
i3 bound to increase, however, if
more of our borrowers are deluded
into neglecting their promissory obli
gations which unquestionably they
are able to meet. Every such case
of willful default is subject to im
mediate foreclosure action.
"The eleven regional offices, which
supervise the servicing of the cor
poration's loans, are new in oper
ation. They have materially reduced
the amount of past-due interest and
principal and the number of delin
quents, by emphasizing the necessity
of punctual payment.
"In this way. the regional offices
have corrected misunderstanding in
many quarters, and have effected
payment in a number of cases which
would otherwise have resulted in
foreclosure proceedings. They report
that, with very few exceptions, the
borrowers recognize that this corpor
ation has helped them to save their
homes by making new loans, which
require only a very moderate month
ly payment to bring them into ulti
mate debt-free ownership of their
properties, and they are making
every effort to repay the obligation."
FACES KIDNAPING TRIAL
Sheffield, England. Henry Ross,
69, was committed to trial on a
charge of kidnaping a child in Eng
land thirty-one years ago and taking
him to New Jersey.
The prosecutor charged that in
1904 Ros3 obtained permission to
take John Vv'illiam Whitnear, 4, on
a fishing trip. Instead, the prosecu
tor said, they boarded a ship for the
United States and settled in Newark.
Authorities quoted Ross as saying
the boy's mother "told me I was the
father of her son and on several oc
cations had told me to take John
away." This was denied by the
mother, who has since remarried.
Your home town ner-chant will
do more to accommodate ycu than
any big city store, mail order
house or radio station peddler.
Isn't he entitled to your trad3?
MANLEY NEWS
Mrs. R. C. Meier, of Louisville, was
visiting for a few days during the
past week at the heme of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mockenhaupt.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rau were in
Louisville last Saturday, where they
were looking after some shopping
and as well meeting with friends.
Harold Krecklow, who has been vis
iting with friends and relatives at
Hartington for the past few days, re
turned home late last week after hav
ing had a very fine visit while he
way away.
Adclph Steinkamp, who has been
sick for so long is reported as getting
along very nicely now and is able to
be up and about the home, which is
very well, considering the condition
he has been in fcr some time past.
Harold Krecklow and Robert Wiles
were in Omaha last Wednesday, where
they were looking after some business
matters and as well were getting some
repairs for a car on which they were
working.
Harry Williams and wife are ex
pecting to remove to their home in
Elmwood shortly after the first of
March and the farm will be farmed
this summer by Henry Knaupe, who
has been farming on his father's place
near the Wabash cemetery. Henry's
father, who has been living on the
town line road east of the Rock Is
land tracks, will move to his farm,
being vacated by the son.
Make Change cf Priest
Mcr.signor Manville, who has been
stationed at Auburn, has been trans
ferred to a charge at York. Father P.
Harte, pastor of the Mauley church,
was called to Auburn laL;t Wednesday
to deliver an address to the church at
that place.
Ken Serve to Perfection
The men of the St. Patrick's parish
of the Catholic church, were sponsors
of a Tango party which was held at
the Manley town hall on last Tuesday
evening. The arrangements, which
are generally in the hands of the
wemen of the church, were transfer
red to the men this time, and they
surely proved themselves worthy of
the trust. Not alone did they handle
the preliminary arrangements, but
prepared the cats and served them in
most perfect manner. As a result of
their enterprise a neat sum of money
was realized fcr the use of the church.
Here's to you, beys! .
Elevator Beard Elects
The new board of directors of the
Manley Grain company held their
first meeting a few evenings ago and
after proceeding to organize by the
election of Frank Bergman as presi
dent and Oris Schliefert as secretary,
re-elected Harry Haws as manager for
the coming year. Their business last
year was very satisfactory as shown
by the auditor's balance sheet, recent
ly published in this paper. They are
anticipating even better business the
coming year. A satisfactory dividend
has been declared.
Sad Accident in the West
Mrs. Richard Pickard, who was a
resident of Manley some years ago,
and who removed from here to Fa!l3
City, later going frcm there to the
Paci5c coast, was killed instantly last
Saturday when a car in which she was
riding at San Diego, Calif., collided
with another car.
According to the information we
Lave received, Mrs. Pickard and her
husband, together with their son,
Maynard Pickard and wife and two
other persons figured in the accident,
rjuffering injuries of varying degrees.
The husband of the deceased fared the
best of the sextette, as he sustained no
! serious injuries, while his wife was
hilled instantly.
Celebrated 15tli Anniversary
February 4, 1920, witnessed a num
ber of weddings, including those of
Eddie Stander and wife, John Mock
enhaupt and wife and Aaron Rauth
and wife, this latter couple now resid
ing in the vicinity of York.
On Izst Sunday the friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Stander gathered at their
home for a right merry celebration of
the anniversary so near at hand. A
grand time was had by all, the ce'e
bration lasting throughout the day
and evening. Those present included
Frank Stander and wife, of Omaha,
the parents of Eddie; Walter O'Brien
and family, Mrs. James Kelly, Susan
Rolchart, cf Elmwood, Mr. and Mr3.
Mike Honor and family, John P. Stan
der and family, of Omaha, and Father
Patrick Harte, cf Manley. Numerous
remembrances and tokens cf esteem
were presented to the happy couple.
That same evening a large crowd
of the friend3 and relatives of Mr.
and Mrs. Mockenhaupt gathered at
their home to help them celebrate in
a fitting and proper manner. Among
these present were a number from
Louisville and Greenwood, the bride
having resided in that vicinity prior
to her marriage.
No report has been received from
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Herbert B. Cohen
An investigation was ordered of
New York state liquor store ad
ministration after Gov. George
Parle charged that the state board
had purchased a large quantity of
"unknown and unsalable" brands
of whisky which would require
124 . years to sell. Herbert B.
Cohen, above, was named chair
man of the legislative investicat
ing committee.
DJTIVIDZJAL EFFORT FIRST
Dayton, O. Social security was
declared by Senator L. J. Dickinson,
Iowa republican, to be the "product
of individual effort and not of gov
ernment planning" in an address be
fore the Dayton Women's Republican
club here.
"History warns us," said the new
deal critic, "that whenever social re
forms are attempted the future of
the individual is insecure. The free
cst people have always been the
richest and generally the happiest
and the healthiest. When individ
ual initiative is curbed; when rug
ged individualism becomes a crime;
when planned economy curtails the
effort of the individual, our people
are .'ess secure."
Dickinson said social security is
the product of plenty and not scarc
ity and ridiculed crop curtailment.
He also criticized the NRA, assert
ing that "all of the promises, all of
the ballyhoo, all of the headlines,
all of the publicity with reference to
the tS'RA, are just so many promises
with no benefits forthcoming."
The Tennessee valley authority
was criticized by the senator as an
expensive socialistic experiment. He
said the proposed nearly 5 billion dol
lar federal works bill represented
the most flagrant demand ever made
in peace ti:r.e for congress to abdi
cate its control of national expendi
tures. the Rauth heme at York as to how
they celebrated the anniversary.
Congratulations to all the parties,
and may ycu live to enjoy many more
years of happy married life together.
TEXAS SHERIFF ARRESTED
Po?t, Texas, Febr. S. Sheriff Cato
of Garra county made bond of $5,000
cn a state murder charge in connec
tion with the machine gun slaying of
Spencer Stafford, a federal narcotic
agent, but was taken into custody al
most immediately afterward on a fed
eral murder charge.
"Sec it before you buy it."
Arrest Organizer
Ward H. Rogers
An attempt to unionize southern
tenant farmers was broken up
when Ward H. Rogers, ousted
federal relief instructor, recently
convicted on charges of anarchy,
was arrested at Marked Tree,
Ark., fox disturbing the peace.
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. FPANK PARKER
nVESTSIENTS pictures, books
J. P. Morgan sold half a dozen
paintings from his collection the oth
er day for $1,500,000. He did not
state how much he or his father had
paid lor them, but there is little
doubt that he made a very handsome
profit.
Fcr anyone who has capital that
he can afford to tie up for a period of
years there is probably no more prof
itable investment than in rare pic
tures and rare books. Of course it is
not easy to acquire the necessary ex
pert knowledge to make such invest
ments intelligently, but I know of
many instances in which men have
taken out seveial hundred times what
they put in after only a lev years.
One friend cf mine who died a
m:mber of years ago had the walls
of his house, even the stair walls,
covered with paintings by George
Innes, which he bought at low prices
while Inncs was alive, figuring that
after the artist's death they would
command high prices. He also spent
several years and about $50,000 buy
ing autographed presentation copies
of first editions of the famous New
England authors of the 19th century.
On my friend's death this collection
of books was bought by J. P. Morgan
for $350,000 and the Innes paintings,
into which he had put about $100,
000, were ultimately sold by his es
t;te for nearly a million.
LOOKS sometimes live
Nothing is more true than that a
geed book never dies. I have a friend
who is at the head of the circulation
department of one of the branches of
the New York public library. He
tells me that they cannot supply the
demand for the standard English clas
sics, Dickens, Thackeray and other old
favorites and that Mark Twain's
books are in greater demand than
ever. Mark Twain's publishers told
me net long ago that they pay hi3
daughter, Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitch,
mere money in royalties every year
than her father ever got when he was
alive.
My friend. Charles II. Compton of
the St. Louis public library, has late
ly been checking up on the kind of
pecple who read the so-called "high
brow" books and finds that they cir
culate among people of every walk
cf life and every degree of educa
tion. We hear more about the popular
bocks of the day that sell 100,000
copies or more; these are cften quick
ly forgotten while the old stand-bys,
which really reveal people to them
selves because their authors had a
deep understanding of human nature,
live forever.
T20LLEYS their span
The ether day they ran the last
trolley car on the world's oldest street
car line. Modern buses replaced the
trolleys on the Fourth and Madison
avenue line in New York. I saw the
trolley cars begin and I am seeing
them end. Interurban line3 are rap
idly giving place to bus lines and now
the city trolleys are quitting. Less
than 50 years ago, when I was a boy
in Washington, the Richmond & Dan
ville railrcad used to run cheap Sun
day round trip excursions from Wash
ington to Richmond so that the peo
ple could go down to the capital of
Virginia and see the first electric rail
way ever built. It was the eight won
der of the world, end the man who
built it, whom I later got to know
very well, Frank J. Spraeue, died in
New York just a few weeks agD, just
as his great invention had come to
the end cf its life also.
A world can make a great many
revolutions in one man's life-time.
STAMPS for collectors
To folks who are not familiar with
the tremendous prices which stamp
collectors pay for rare or unique spec
imens, it may sound absurd when the
newspapers talk about half a million
dollarj as the calue of certain ungum
mcd, unperforated stamp3 which Post
master General Farley is reported to
have given some of 1m friends. It is
easily possible that a single small
block of such stamps may have a
collector's value cf $50,000 or more.
Few people realize that a large
source cf profit to the government for
many years has been from the sale of
first issues of new stamps in sheets
to collectors and dealers. Mr. Farley
has done more in this line than any
of his predecessors. Soviet Russia is
said to make a profit of over $2,000.
000 a year from the sale of collec-
Ladies Toggery
Pk Inner-Belt
That's
Adjustable !
As the inner-belt gradually fiat
tens your abdomen, you can
adjust it, by the lacings or each
side. This well boned belt is
12-inchcs deep at center front,
tapering to 10-inches at the
sides. The garment 13 of peach
brccrde with a semi-uplift cf
Satin Tricct. The boning in
back extends to the
shoulders. Model 3612 . O
G05SAR.D
tcri' stamps and one of the si ial!er
Latin-American nations, fcr several
years, paid nearly all of its govern
ment expenses by getting out limited
issues cf special stamps at frcquc-nt
intervals.
CIGAEETTE3 they grew
Twenty years ago, in ID 13, there
was just one respectable restaurant
in New York in which women were
permitted to smcke. In the mezzanine
gallery of the old Cafe Martin, at 2Cst
street and Broadway, a lady might
light a cigarette but she would be
thrown cut of any ether restaurant or
hotel in New York if she dared to
light one. To smoke a cigarette in
public was regarded as a public con
fession of immortality. Respectable
women just didn't do it.
I saw some figures the other day
indicating that as a result of the
f.prcad of cigarette smoking among
women the United States i3 now con
suming eight times as many cigarettes
as twenty years ago and only half as
many cigars. We smoke 2.S cigarette
per person per day. We also drink
2.8 crps cf coffee per person per day.
Whether there is any relation be
tween the consumption of coffee and
of cigarettes I am not sure, but I am
inclined to think that the stimulating
effect of coffee breeds a de;;ire for tho
sedative effect of cigarettes.
I have net seen any recent figures
on chewing tobacco, but that is one
use of the weed to which the lauhn
never did take kindly, clth ukIi in
my youth it was far more widespread
than, smoking either cigars, cigarettes
or pipes.
NO SUNDAY H0ESE RACES
A provision in S. F. 14, the Ak-Sar-Ben
parti-mutucl bill, which
wculd have prohibited d.g ra;-i:r
from coming within scope of th- act.
was stricken by the stat'? senate
Thursday afternoon.
The motion to stril:e th.' claur."
frcm the bill was offered by Senator
O'Brien of Grand Island, who has
pending a bill which would bring
dog racing under supervision of the
commission established by S. F. 14.
The motion to strike the laiiM
carried by 22 to 3 with 8 net vot
ing. Previously the senate had (locat
ed a motion by Neumann, vhhh
wculd have permitted home races 0:1
Sunday.
A motion to indefinitely postp.rif.
made by McGowan was if'-atfl
without a record vote, and the bill
advanced to third reading.
Advertising will stimulate busi
ness during sc-called dull sea
sons of the year. Tho store that
advertises regularly and persist
ently is seldom heard to complain
about business conditions.