THURSDAY, JUNE 6,- 1925.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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War Deparhn'f
Outlines the' New
River Work Plan
Two Projects on Llissonri River in;fcy
This
Section, Among Those
That Aro-Listed.
The war derailment at Washing
ton 'on Tuesday made announcement
of plans for the expenditure of the
$10,000,000 fund that Is being al
lotted to work cn the upper Missouri.
Two of the projects are located con
tinguous to Cass county and three
near Otoe county.
The project calls for a permanent
navigable channel six feet deep.
Work to Le dene with the new ap
propriation consists cf:
Dikes on the Pcmeroy-Littlc Platte
Lends near Parkvillc, Mo.
P-evctmcnts on the Xickapoo bend
near Leavenworth, Has.
Dikes on the St. Joseph bend near
St. Joseph, Mc.
Revetments cn Belmont tend near
Wathena, Kas.
Dikes and revetments cn Wolf
Creek-Forbes hem's near Troy, lias.
Dikes r.nd revetments cn the Ara-go-Rush
bottom bends ecntinguous
to Richardson county, Nebraska, and
Holt county, Missouri.
Dikes cn the Darricn bend con
tiguous to Holt county.
Dikes and revetment on Morgan
Island bend contiguous to
county, Nebraska, and
county, Missouri.
Nemaha!
Atchison :
Dikes and revetment on Langdon:
bend continuous to Nemaha ccunty
and Atchison county.
Dikes on the Nishnabctna-Feru
bends contiguous to the same coun
ties. Dikes and revetment on Barney
bend contiguous to Otoe county, Ne
braska and Atchison ccunty, Mis
souri. .
Dikes and revetment on Otoe-Ham-burg
bends contiguous to Otce coun
ty, Nebraska and Fremont county,
Iowa.
Dikes and revetment on Pin Hook
bends contiguous to Cass county, Ne-
braska, and Fremont covnty, Iowa.
Dikes and revetment on tho Cal-umet-Eartlett
bends contiguous to
Cass ccunty, Nebraska, and MillB
county, Iowa.
FARM HOUSE BURNS
Fullerton, Neb. The farm house
owned by Mrs. Owen Kavcney was
destroyed by fire Tuesday. The house
was occupied by John and Francis
Bouthit who were away from homo
at the time. More than 125 turkeys
were burned to death.
Nebraska is one ot hut very few
states that has no bonded indebt-j
edness.
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The deepest hole in the worid is an oil well being drilled in Upton
county in western Texas which has penetrated the earth's interior
r.early 13, COO feet. The fact that modern engineering methods
have made it possible to go down more than two miles beneath th
earth's surface foreshadows at least two possible industrial develop
ments cf importance. Engineers' success in striking new low levels
is expected to cpen up vast new hitherto unvaluable sources cf
petroleum to supplant the surface suppiy. It has also been suggested
that new drilling methods be used to sink a' shaft 500,009 feet into
the earth to tap the internal heat' and pressure of the planet ta run
. . Ji8 wheels of civilization.
PASTOR DENIES MISCONDUCT
Camden, N. J. Rev. Neal Don
Kclley's relations with Mrs. Hazel
Mary Cramer were only those of pas
tor to church member, he told a
jury in the $100,000 alienation of
affections suit brought against him
Illrs- Cramer's husband
There was no affection on his part,
no kissing or misconduct of any sort,
he insisted. He vigorously denied
admitting such actions, or asking for
forgiveness, as Mrs. Cramer testified.
Mrs. Kelley testified in her husband's
behalf.
Letters purporting to have been
written by the former Camden clergy
man to Cramer were read to the jury.
A quotation rrom one read: "I am a
sinner. Wc have gone astray like
sheep. We are beyond self help."
Kclley, C6, is now located in Long
Branch, N. J.
The clergyman told of visiting the
Cramer heme. "Wc had a pastoral
prayer together. I didn't ask Mr.
Cramer to forgive me. I merely ask
ed him to forgive his wife for de
ceiving him," ho testified.
INVITE STATE ELKS
CONVENTION IN 1936
Grnnd Island, Neb., June 4.
North Platte Tuesday formally in
vited the Nebraska State Elks asso
ciation to meet there in 193G. The
invitation, extended in the closing
ession of the 1935 convention, 'will
be acted on by the board of trustees.
Officers were installed by T. C.
Lord, of York, district deputy and
grand exalted ruler. Guy Touvelle,
Lincoln, newly elected president, im
mediately appointed W. J. Eheehan,
Grand Island, sergeant-at-arms, and
the Rev. Father Patrick McDade,
North Platte, chaplain. Members of
the new crippled children's commit
tee are August Schneider, York;
Gould Deitz, Omaha; J. L. Martin,
Sccttsbluff; Howard Loomis, Fre
mont; Dr. P. C. Fall, Beatrice; Frank
Real, McCook, and A. C. Eintz, Lin
coln. HAWXBY TENANT CHARGED
Auburn. Neb. A charge cf second
degree murder was filed by County
Attorney McKnight here Tuesday
against Gaiien Moore, CO, in connec
tion with the death of John Hawxby,
G5. Moore pleaded not guilty when
r.rraigned and was released on $4,000
bond. The preliminary hearing was
set -for- Juno .1 4 .
Tho charge was filed following the
report Tuesday of physicians who
performed an autopsy 'on Hawxby's
body. They reported Hawxby, who
died Monday, suffered a brain hem-
crrhage.
Officers said Kawxby's death re
sulted from a beating received at
Moore's hands two months ago.
Mocre was a former tenant on Hawx
by's farm.
New Depths
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Crillin;
M
urray
Van Allen last week disposed of a
car to John Frans.
Miss Margaret Moore is not feeling
the best this week.
Mrs. Joe Campbell was numbered
among the sick last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Albin of Mur
ray were guests of Mrs. Georgia
Creamer last Sunday.
Lawrence Nelson of Omaha and a
son of Tom Nelson was a visitor at
the home cf hi3 father last Sunday.
Robert Shrader of Nehawka is
spending the week end with his sis
ter, Mrs. Creamer, east of Murray.
Uncle J. W. Ilobson has been get
ting the screens in shape to combat
the flies at the home of A. A. Young.
Mr. John Nottlcman and son, John
of Murray were looking after some
business matters in Springfield last
Thursday.
Mrs. L. A. Weber was a visitor in
Plattsmouth last Monday, where she
was visiting with friends and doing
seme shopping.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Shrader and
family of Herman, Nebr., were guests
of Mrs. Georgia Creamer last Thurs
day. All had a fine time.
Mrs. Ona Lawton and son, Lyle,
who make their home in Omaha, were
visiting with relatives and friends in
Murray cn Memorial day.
A. A. Young has been doing some
carpenter work at the home of Fred
Drucker and getting the home in
i hape for the coming summer.
Mrs. Georgia Creamer, Mrs. Arthur
Hanson and Miss Moore entertained
the Ladies' Aid cf the Christian
church on Wednesday, June 5th.
Tom Nelson, with the return of Mr.
Nickles io having more time for the
work and Is starting on the manufac
ture cf a hay rack for Roy Gerking.
W. R. Young, of Plattsmouth, was
looking after seme business matters
in Murray, where he was visiting at
the home of his brother, Albert A.
Young.
Don Saiver, Standard Oil company
truck operator, was a business visitor
in Murray last Tuesday, bringing a
load of gasoline and coal oil for his
customers.
Alvador Nickles was building a hay
rack at the lumber yard the first part
o.f the week, getting ready for the
heavy crop of hay which is scon to be
ready to cut. .
A.- G. Long, who had all of his corn
planted but, a. Jew acres, taj'3 he will
go at it and plant the entire field over
ami be sure of a stand as soon as the
ground is dry enough.
George Berger, who was spending
a few weeks at- the heme of hii
brother at Nebraska City, returned to
Murray last Friday and is staying at
the home cf his mother.
Curtis Fari3 has been changing a
perch on the home and transfering it
into a sleeping porch for the summer,
when the weather is so that it is un
comfortable sleeping indoors.
Fred Drucker was busy harvesting
and delivering his crop of spinach on
last Tuesday and was assisted by Al
bert Young, the crop being delivered
to tho Norfolk Packing company's
plant at Plattsmouth.
Jce Vallery went over to Platts
mouth last Tuesday, riding his bicycle
to the county seat town, where he
expected to dispose ol it, either sell
ing it outright or trading for some
thing which he might fancy better.
George Nickles was a visitor in
Omaha, where he had some business
matters to leck after, both as to mak
ing purchase of some goods for the
lumber yard and finishing come of the
left over work of the state legislature.
Wm. Sporer was shelling and de
livering corn last Tuesday to the ele
vator in Murray for which he receiv
ed S3 cents per bushel. This is a con
siderable reduction from the amount
being paid lazt winter, the tcp price
at that time being around $1.05.
Ray Frederick, cf Nebraska City,
was locking after seme business mat
ters in Murray last Tuesday. He had
just returned from Missouri, where ho
has some 2,100 acre3 of blue grass,
which he is stripping. He has some
27 strippers at work now harvesting
the blue grass seed crop in Missouri.
William Hull, of Emmitt, Okla
homa, who is visiting here at the
heme of his daughter, Mrs. Allie
Leonard, with the daughter, were
viiitir.g on last Monday at the homo
of A. A. Young, in Murray. Mr. Hull
has been visiting here for the pa3t
two weeks and will visit for seme
t!me longer.
Will Give Graduates Party
Following the closing of the Bible
school at tho Presbyterian church this
coming Sunday, June 9, the school
will honor the graduates of Murray,
bcth from tho local school and those
living here whe have graduated from
other schools. The list of those who
are scheduled to receive this honor
and ency the excellent dinner to be
.erved on the lawa of the Presbyter-
ian. church grounds are Jane Boedek;
er, who graduated from the Platts
incuth high school, Willard Nelson,
who graduated from Wesleyan uni
versity, J. L. Young, who i3 a gradu
ate of the Nehawka high school, Lou
ise Bakkc, Howard Peterson, Lois
Meade and Bob Long.
Has Car Rebuilt
Messrs. Harry Albin and Van Allen
were in Omaha a few days ago, where
they went for the car of Mr. Albin,
which was recently wrecked and was
being repaired and made like new at
one of the body repair work3 there.
They brought the car home with them
last Saturday evening.
Recalls Many Different Seasons
Sixty-eight year3 ago, George I.
Lloyd came to Nebraska and settled
in Cass county. During the entire
63 years in which he has resided
here, he says he ha3 not seen a year
in which it has continued to rain for
the number of days in succession it
ha3 this year. Mr. Lloyd believes,
however, that there will bo good
crops of corn, wheat and oats this
year.
Taking His Vacation
Eugene Roddy, the regular mail
carrier for the route running out of
Murray,, who makes his home in
Union, is at this time taking his an
nual vacation, which lasts for fifteen
day3 and while he is off, the work of
carrying the mail has fallen to the
substitute carrier, Harry Albin.
Aged Man Very Poorly
Grandfather Leonard, father of Al
lie Leonard and Frank Leonard, i3
very sick at the home of the sen,
Frank. The beys are taking turns in
caring for the father, which is a very
fine manner of doing far the parent.
Visiting Friends at Des Moines
Mrs. C. H. Boedeker was a guest of
friends in De3 Moines during the past
two weeks, her parents having for
merly resided there, she enjoying re
newing acquaintance with many of
the eld friends. The latter part of
last week, Sir. Boedeker and sister,
Miss Flora Jane Boedeker drove to
Des Moines, where they visited for a
r,hort time, and then all returned to
Murray.
Free Tickets to Ak-Sar-Ben Show
Do you want to see the' Ak-Sar-Ben
den show this year? If so, as in the
past, you may go fre of charge. The
1935 show is a, Broadway production,
instead of the ordinary home-written
plct, and a splendid cast has been as
sembled to present it. Monday even
ing, June 17th, has been set for south
eastern Nebraska night, and a supply
cf free tickets is now cn hand at the
Murray State Bank, where they can
be secured by all desiring to attend.
One ticket is all that is needed to ad
mit a man and any ladies in his
party. Children not admitted. It is
hoped to have a good representation
present from Murray. If you are plan
ning on attending, stop in at the Mur
ray State bank and get your. ticket.
Visited Here Over Night
J. T. Brendel and wife, of Frank
lin and Mrs. Margaret Brendel of
Lincoln were here over Mcnday night,
visiting with friends. Mrs. Margaret
Brendel returned to the capital city
the following morning to arrange to
return to Murray for the summer and
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Brendel continued
on to their home at Franklin.
Speaking of the flood cn the Re
publican river, cn which Franklin is
located, Mr. Brendel said the flood
was very severe there, not from any
exce.-s rain in that' vicinity but com
ing down upon them from the head
water: of the river as a result of ex
traordinary rains in western Nebras
ka, northeastern Kansas and eastern
Cclcrado. He saw three people meet
death by drowning,' it being imposs
ible to cave them. ' He also assisted in
the rescue of three others who were
clinging to bits of boards that were
flcating in the turbulent stream.
It is far the worst flood that has
ever Visited the state and tcck a total
cf more than one hundred lives, to
Lay nothing of hundreds of thousands
cf dollar' property damage.
EAWXEY DIES OF BEATING
Auburn, Neb. John Hawxby, 65,
cf Nemaha, died in a hospital here
of injuries caid by officers to have
been received when he was beaten
more than two months ago by Gaiien
Mcore, 30, formerly a tenant on land
owned by Hawxby, An autopsy was
to l? performed. Moore has been
held cn a charge of assault. He is
charged with dragging Hawxby off a
discing machine and beating him
during an argument ever whether
Jdoore was entitled to farm Hawx
by's land. Hawxby, a brother of
Fred G. Hawxby, assistant United
States attorney here, i3 also survived
by his widow and son.
D. F. Felton is
Named as Work
Administrator
Selection KaJe at Washington
Gov. Cochran Starts for Home
to Aid in Flood Relief.
as
Federal Relief Administrator Harry
Hopkins at Washington, appointed
D. F. Felton, Ogallala, Neb., state
works progress administrator late
Tuesday as Governor R. L. Cochran
left by plane to take charge cf re
habilitation in the flood ravaged Re
publican river valley of Nebraska.
Felton, until recently director of
the Nebraska state department of
agriculture, will have a key role in
formulating Nebraska's program un
der the 4,8 SO million dollar federal
work relief appropriation. Rowland
Haynes apparently will continue in
charge of direct relief.
Felton's selection capped confer
ences of Hopkins with Senators Burke
and Norris and Governor Cochran.
Blanket Authority.
Besides obtaining blanket author
ity to use federal relief funds for
rehabilitation work in the flood area,
Governor Ccchran Tuesday pictured
the flood situation to President Roose
velt and discussed the works relief
program with Frank C. Walker, di
rector of the division of applications
and information.
Cochran said he did not believe
the door was closed on Nebraska's
proposed power and irrigation de
velopments. The governor said ho felt there
still was a chance to win approval
lor some of the projects.
Confers with Walker.
The governor was accompanied to
his conference with Walker by J. T.
Keefe of North Platte. Cochran
broached the possibility of obtaining
federal relief funds to supplement
5200,000 of state funds available for
work cn the state hospital at Hast
ings, Neb., the governor said he
thought a federal grant might be ob
tained because the state had funds it
could put up for the project.
Cochran expected t to arrive in
North Platte early Wednesday. From
there he will survey the flooded dis
tricts by automobile.
State Engineer A. C. Tilley left
Lincoln Tuesday by auto for North
Platte to meet Governor Ccchran and
accompany" him cn the tour.
From President Roosevelt he re
ceived personal expressions of sym
pathy for Nebraska flood sufferers.
The governor discussed the fate
of the North Loup Public Power and
Irrigation district with A. M. Fere
bee of the public works engineering
division, who said an amended appli
cation had been approved by both
legal and engineering divisions but
not by the finance division.
Public works administration offi
cials are awaiting an amended appli
cation for tho Middle Loup project.
Cochran said.
Distresses Lonp Project.
Cochran said he believed the North
Loup project would have a better
chance if irrigation districts were
organized which would contract for
water from the power and irrigation
district.
He said, however, another diffi
culty of this project in the eyes of
PWA officials as compared with the
approved seven and cne-half million
dollar Platte Valley project in Ne
braska was the greater proportion cf
income which must come from irri
gation rather than from sale of elec
tric power.
STATESMAN SURPRISED
Edgar Howard, for many years
congressman from the third Nebraska
district, was in Omaha Wednesday
and brought up over a matter that
to the veteran statesman was far
greater than the plucking cf the blue
eagle's feathers. This was all on ac
count of a Washington barber.
On his way back to Columbus,
Neb., the long-haired ex-congressman
stormed as he paced up and down
the Union station. It seems that
when he fell asleep in a Washington
barber's chair, the barber snipped
his hair too short.
"I never got such a shock in my
life as when I awoke and heard those
scisscrs snipping dangerously near
my car," the former congressman
said. "Why, the damn fool had cut
one side of my hair almost as short
as a boyish bob. Luckily, the other
side was saved, but I'm a sight now,
one side of my hair short and the
ether long."
Howard thinks congress will be
kept in session until it sets up some
thing to take the NRA's place.
Cass ccunty is one cf the finest
agricultural centers in the state.
Improved farming conditions and
better prices for farm products
will react to the advantage of ev
ery town in this territory.
FPAN
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STOCKED
SPRING np onr way
Spring has come at last up in the
New England hills. It has been the
latest season in recent years so late
that I hear many of the younger folk
in our town say that this May must
have been the coldest on record.
Well, I cuu i"cmcmTr one New
England summer in my boyhood
when snow fell on the Fourth of
July! Not much, to be sure, but
enough of the rain that fell all that
day and spoiled our "celebration"
froze under the chill of a Cana
dian north wind to enable U3 to see
the white flakes. And I remember
one Memorial Day we used always
to call it "Decoration Day" when
my sisters and I were looking for
wood violet3 to place on the sol
diers' graves, we found a snow-bank
a foot deep in a shaded gully. And
jr.st above the snow the violet3 were
blooming.
There is no precedent that any
body can go by in forecasting the
weather. No two years are ever quite
alike.
FI AGS increased sales
The Chicago Association of Com-j
merce reports that three times as
many American flags have been sold
so far this year as in the first half
of 1D34. I don't know that that I
means that the reaction against com-j
munism has set in, as the Chicago
business men seem to think, but I
would be glad to see a general re
vival of tho old-fashioned "flag
raisings" that used to be a regular
Fourth-of-July affair in the smaller
communities, and even in some big
cities. In my youth.
Every rural town in the east used
to have its "Liberty Pole," and the
hoisting of the Stars and Stripes,
with a prayer by the minister, a "con
cert" by the local "brass band," and
a patriotic speech by some local or
imported big-wig were fitting pre
ludes to the ' spurts and games and
picnic feast in which everybody took
' . ' ! : til
part.
There is a little hill on my farm
where the Liberty Pole used to stand,
up to forty or fifty years ago. The
pasture around it is still known as
"the flagpole let."
If I thought anything could divert
my neighbors from their holiday joy
riding to an exhibition of patriotism,
I'd set up a new Liberty Pole cn
tho old flagpole lot and invite them
to an old-fashioned Fourth-of-July
picnic.
RADIO fine in country
I don't think that any modern in
vention has ever brought so much
real pleasure and value to so many
people as the radio. I drive around
in the country a good deal, calling
cn neighboring farmers and friends,
and it is the exception to find a coun
try or village home where the radio
is not going.
There isn't any doubt that the
radio has proved a powerful influ
ence in Getting all sorts of people to
thinking of soiial and political ques
tions, to ivhich they never gave at
tention before. It i3 bringing relig
ion into many hemes whose people,
for one reason or another, seldom go
to church. Then tho music, the
household talks for the home-makers,
the entertaining features for the chil
dren, the farm market news and all
the rest of the good things that are
broadcast.
WAR two sides
Listening to and reading all the
anti-war talk that i3 going around,
I am reminded of the most stirring
speech I ever hoard Woodrow Wil
son make. It was 24 years ago, in
June, 1911, at Denver, when he
spoke of "The Bible and Progress,"
speke as a believing and practical
Christian to an audience composed
of mcst of the members of all the
Christian churches in that city.
"Liberty," ho said, "is a spiritual
conception. . . . There are times in
the history of nations when they
mv.st take up the crude impleme nts
cf bloodshed in order to vindicate
spiritual conceptions. . . . When men
take up arms to set other men free,
there is something sacred and holy
in the warfare."
That was spoken more than three
years before Europe went to war In
1914, more than six years before the
United States went into that conflict.
Nobody wanted war. But when a
situation arcse- In which Ameri a
was called upon to vindicate the spir
itual conception of liberty, as Mr.
Wilson had phrased it, we went into
the war in that spirit.
Don't let anyone tell you America
went to war for profits or to tave
somebody's investments.
CHAINS and gambling
How many chain letters naw you
had? I've only received one myself
but my wife has had four or fio in
the past fortnight and I think my
daughter's latest score is around fif
teen. We have one very simple system
of handling these chain letters. That
is to throw them in the waste basket
without answering them.
The chain letter cra?e is ju?t one
mere evidence of the widespread
gambling spirit which pervades the
whole country. ,T12 rouble with
this form of gambling is that the
odus arc so heavy against everyone
who tries it.
I suggest that anybody who has
money to bet and the urge to get
money without working for it would
better wait until he can lay his
wager under seme cent rolled and
v.'cll-policcd scheme where he at least
ha3 a chance of collecting his win
nings if luck should happca to Le
with him.
PLAIT LINCOLN BANS APPEAL
Des Moines. Attorneys fcr the
Lincoln, Neb., national bank xaid
they will appeal to the Iowa supreme
court the bank's suit to recover 517,
0 00 in stolen bonds. Judge Loy Ladd
directed a verdict in favor ol the
Iowa-DcsMoines National aDi.k and
Trust company and four other de
fendants at the conclusion of the
plaintiff's evidence.
The court held that the evidence!
failed to show that certain bonds
stolen in the Lincoln bank robbery in
1932 were pvrcha.s2j by the Dc:i
Mcincs bank in bad faith, and witli
knowledge that tho bonds were
stolen. Judge Ladd awarded the Lin
coln bank Judgn.ent for $G,700
against Dewey Berlovic, a defendant
in the suit now serving a life sen
tence in the slate penitentiary for
murder.
LI1JT3ERGII TO LEAVE POST
Wilmington. Del. Retirement of
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh from ac
tive connection with Transcontin
ental and Western Air as technical
adviser was announced by Henry It.
Dupont, TWA board chairman.
Dupcnt, ' confirming reports that
Lindbergh's four year service with
the transport company had been ter
minated "for a time at least," f;aid
"it is certainly not true" differences
had developed between the boaid and"
the flying colonel.
LADIES TOGGERY
"All-Way" Stretch,
but It Will NOT
Allow Hips To
Spread
The all-way-stretc h clastic back
has a center panel of one-way-stretch
elastic for excra hip
control. The front cf the gar
ment is fine cotton batiste,
while the uplift top is of lace.
Perfect for the "little woman"
type.
Model 3630
$500
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