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lowan Named
Head of Legion
Coming Year
Service Organization Again Supports
Resolution for Payment of
Bonus to Vets.
A lumultous convention of the
American Legion ended late Thurs
day at St. Louis with the election of
J. Ray Murphy of Iowa to lead the
world war veterans in a renewed
fight for immediate cash payment of
the bonus.
Murphy led on the first ballot with
566 votes, but was short of the neces
sary 604 required for a majority and
J. Ray Murphy'
a second poll was ordered. Harris
W. Colmery of Kansas was second
with 405 votes.
Others in the race were Earl U.
Cliff, Ortonville, Minn.; Maurice De
vine, Manchester, N. H.; Frank D.
Rash, Louisville, Ky., and Vilas H.
Whaley, Racine, Wis.
Wisconsin Switches to lowan.
During the roll call on the second
ballot, Whaley announced Wiscon
sin's delegation was swinging its
votes to Murphy. That gave the
lowan enough votes to win, but on
motion of Colmery, seconded by Cliff,
the election was made unanimous.
In a spontaneous demonstration,
delegates from the various depart
ments grabbed their department
standards and rushed to the stage
surrounding Murphy as he was pre
sented to the convention by Frank
N. Belgrano, jr., the rotiring com
mander. Then the delegates named Ray
mond A. Gates of Connecticut, W. E.
Whitlock of Florida, Whitney F. God
win of Virginia, Oscar Worthwine of
Idaho and Lou Probst of Wyoming as
national vice-commanders.
Rev. Thomas I). Kennedy of St.
Louis was elected national chaplain.
In accepting the commandership,
Murphy said: "I want to pledge to
you . . . that I am free ... to do for
this legion what I think should be
done.
"I am determined to carry on the
American Legion to make it bigger,
finer and stronger."
Murphy, Iowa state commissioner
of insurance, during the past year
was chairman of the legion's national
commission on Americanism. He had
been chairman of its national ath
letic commission and also a member
of its executive board.
An attorney, he graduated from
Iowa State university in 1912. For
a short time after his graduation he
practiced law at Metolius, Ore., but
returned to his native city of Ida
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Fatman Cheered Later.
Shortly before the bonus vote, the
delegates booed Representative
Wright Patman (dem., Tex.), advo
cate of payment by inflation, when
he asked the floor during debate on
the bonus resolution.
Patman, author of the bonus In
flation bill vetoed by President Roose
velt, then was given a hearing but
delegates interrupted him with fre
quent cat calls. Later, when Patman
asserted that the method of payment
is secondary to the main Issue, he
was cheered.
The Bonus Resolution.
The resolution adopted by the con
vention follows:
"We request immediate cash pay
ment of the adjusted service certi
ficates at face value, with cancel
lation of accrued interest on loans,
and refund of interest paid, and do
hereby reaffirm the Miami conven
tion resolution on this subject.
"We request the immediate favor
able action of the congress, and the
approval of the president of the Unit
ed States, upon this clear cut and
single issue without having it com
plicated or confused by other issues
of government finance, or theories
of currency with which the legion
does not intend to become involved.
"We hereby ratify and approve the
efforts of National Commander Bel
grano, and the national legislative
committee on behalf of the legion's
bill at the last session of congress."
Oppose Bergdoll Clemency.
A resolution opposing executive
clemency for Grover C. Bergdoll,
draft dodger now residing in Ger
many, was unanimously adopted soon
after the bonus excitement subsided.
! Another resolution expressing the
legion's "deep regret" at the loss of
lives of world war veterans In the re
cent Florida hurricane was adopted
unanimously by a rising vote.
An independent Investigation by
the legion of the disaster was au
thorized. A committee of three is
to be named by the national com
mander. Joseph Granier, officially repre
senting the French government, con
ferred on Belgrano the decoration of
commander of the Legion of Honor.
BILLINGS ACCUSES POLICE
San Francisco. Accusations that
police assisted witnesses In identify
ing him as a suspect in the 1916 San
Francisco preparedness day bombing
were made by Warren K. Billings in
the Tom Mooney habeas corpus hear
ing. The little Folsom prisoner, who,
with Mooney was convicted of the
bombing, also charged his statement
to police was "edited" to eliminate
his contention that officials were try
ing to "frame" him.
When potential state witnesses
were brought to his cell, Billings
testified, policemen would say "this
is Billings" or "walk up there, Bill
ings someone wants to talk to you."
MASONS TO SPEND $40,000
Cleveland. The supreme council
of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
?Iasons, northern jurisdiction, ap
proved a $40,000 appropriation to fi
nance a continuance of its fight
against dementia praecox, a form of
insanity.
In making the appropriation, the
council accepted a report of Dr. Nolan
D. C. Lewis of St. Elizabeth's hos
pital. Washington. D. C, who recom
mended a concerted and co-ordinated
drive against the affliction to be led
by 200 of the country's leading scien
tists. NAVY LZEET3 REAL DANGER
Tokyo. The Japanese navy met
genuine peril in its war maneuvers in
the northwest Pacific when a ty
phoon which pounded the ships ewept
fifty-two officers and men to death.
The fifty-two, all of whom were
swept from the warship's decks, were
officially listed as missing and were
not included in the government's toll
of 580 dead, 195 missing and feared
dead and 34 injured thruout Japan;
The storm, accompanied by torren
tial rains, was the same one that de-
vastated the northeastern prefectures
of Japan proper earlier in the week,
claiming 350 of the total lives lost.
McNINCH COUNTING ON HELP
Washington. Frank McNinch.
chairman of the federal power com
mission, declared that "nothing ot
the punitive spirit will be tolerated
or invoked" in the administration of
the Public Utilities Holding company
act. McNinch, just returned from a
European trip, said, after reporting
to the president, that the commission
will expect the co-operation of the
power Industry In the impartial ad
ministration of the act.
"I am satisfied the act will be
found by the industry to be infinitely
helpful and in no sense destructive,"
McNinch added.
Horse Show at
Omaha Promises
Big Feature
Program Will Include Indoor Polo
Games by Crack Teams from
Western Army Posts.
Omaha. Ak-Sar-Ben's million-dollar
fall exposition, which starts at
Omaha Sunday, October 27, will be
augmented by another exciting en
tertainment feature this year, accord
ing to George Brandeis, chairman of
the horse show-rodeo committee.
It will consist of the first cham
pionship indoor polo tournament ever
staged in the middlewest, and will
bring into competition the finest
civilian and army polo teams in this
part of the country. Already, accept
ances have been received from the
hard riding army teams at Fort
Snelling, Fort Des Moines, Fort Leav
enworth and Fort Riley, and from
crack civilian teams at Minneapolis,
Topeka, Des Moines and Omaha.
"Indoor polo, played in a small
arena, is much more exciting and
there is a great deal more action
than in the outdoor game," explained
Mr. Brandeis. Indoor polo has been
an annual feature of the Internation
al Live Stock and Horse Show at Chi
cago, but ours is the first actual tour
nament ever presented in the mid
west."
No other part of the entertainment
program will be eliminated, Mr.
Brandeis said, and once again Ak-Sar-Ben
will be the only show in the
country offering its great variety of
features, which includes the" beauti
ful horse show, the wild west rodeo,
world's largest 4-H baby beef show,
midwest pogeon show, Nebraska
county resource exhibits and the
world-famous rodeo clown, Homer
Holcomb, and his "Cousin Hugo."
A record-breaking year, from every
standpoint, is expected by Mr. Bran
dels and his co-chairman, W. H.
Schellberg.who supervises the live
stock show arrangements. Railroads
have granted reduced rates for the
entire week of the show, with a spe
cial one-cent a mile rate for Iowa
Day, which is Wednesday, October
30th, and Nebraska Day, which is
Thursday, October 31st.
SNOW FALLING IN ROCKIES
Denver. Swiftly falling snow, the
season's first extensive squall in the
northern Rockies, marooned three
persons atop Pikes' Peak and trap
ped livestock unprotected on summer
ranges. Snow fell until mid-morning
in many parts of Colorado and Wyo
ming. It slowed up the search for a
missing airplane near Sheridan, Wyo.
where two men and a woman were
found burned to death in their wreck
ed ship. Caught atop towering Pikes'
Peak when the sudden storm drifted
across the winding mountain high
way, a woman and two men employed
at Summit House, asked Colorado
Springs to send a trail breaking truck
tn them. Late in the day the road
was cleared, but the trio decided to
remain on the peak overnight.
In the northwest and middlewest
frost appeared during Thursday
night and more was predicted. West
ern stockmen, who heard with inter
est a statement of F. E. Mollin, sec
retary of the American Livestock as
sociation, that supplies of livestock
were ample for all needs, expressed
concern fo rtheir cattle and sheep
still on mountain ranges. The sun
broke thru the clouds, In midafter-
noon, lessening fears.
SUREVEYING SCENIC ROUTE
Nebraska City. A scenic drive
along the crest of tho hills that slope
down to the east bank of the Mis
souri river Is being surveyed by fed
eral engineers. It is proposed to
make the route an alternative one to
U. S. 75, designed for automobilists
who are not in a hurry to drive be
tween . the two river .towns, Omaha
and Kansas City, or other towns
along the route, tagging these routes
with names such as "Blossom Road"
between Peru and Nebraska City,
"Goose Hill Drive," north of Nebras
ka City, and "Canada Ridge."
Back to Farm
Movement Grows
in This State
Figures Show Larger Number Now
on Farms Than in Past Reset
tlement Aid Movement.
"Back to the farm" was far more
than a slogan in Nebraska during
the last half decade, according to fig
ures just released by the regional of
fice of the Rettlemcnt Administration
at Lincoln, Neb. They show 1. .3,6 16
farm operators In ;ha state in 1935,
as compared with 129,458 in 1930
and 121,525 in 1900.
This represents a gain of 4,158
farm operators during the past five
years which is more than half as
great as the total gain of 7,933 dur
ing the three decades from 1900 to
1930, or an average annual increase
of approximately 832 during the five
year period, more than three times
as rapid as the annual increase of
around 264 during the 30 year period.
The Resettlement Administration
is helping give these new farmers the
same opportunity, their fathers had to
make a living from the land. It is
particularly interested in problems
brought about by the alarming in
crease in farm tenancy since the turn
of the century. ; Figures from 1935
are not yet available, but census re
ports show that 47.1 per cent, or a
total of 61,020 Nebraska farms were
operated by tenants in 1930, as con
trasted with 36.9 per cent in 1900.
This situation has, in part, been both
a cause and a rsult of the Incorrect
use of farm lands.
The government 13 now seeking a
way out through two main divisions
of its Resettlement Administration.
They are the Rural Settlement Divi
sion, under Regional Director Cal A.
ard, and the Land Utilization Divi
sion, under Regional Director Sher
man E. Johnson. They have this to
say about their work:
"Naturally," Mr. Ward observes,
"the tenant who is not sure how long
he will be permitted to remain on
his farm will not take the same care
of it as would an owner. The tenant
usually does not feel justified in
spending much time and money on
commercial fertilizer, crop rotation,
and other methods of conserving or
restoring fertility. He can scarcely
afford to construct terraces or exten
sive plants to control erosion. He is
apt to try to get as much as he can
from the grass in his pastures, letting
his cattle clip them too short. He
has little incentive to construct im
provements he may never be permit
ted to use.
"The Rural Resettlement Division
is aiding worthy farmers in becom
ing self-supporting by means of its
state rehabilitation staff, through
which an individual plan of farming
and budget will be worked out for
each family receiving rehabilitation
assistance, and through which ad
vances will be made when advisable
for purchase of necessary equipment
and supplies. The government hopes,
eventually, to enable many of the
most capable clients to obtain farms
of their own. The Rural Resettle
ment Division wjll be responsible, as
well, for creating resettlement oppor
tunities for farm families now living
on lands being purchased by the gov
ernment who want to leave the com
munities in which they now live.
Most of the families on optioned land
will prefer to remain in their
present neighborhoods. Nevertheless,
since our program is voluntary and
operates only when rural people
themselves seek assistance, we must
provide opportunities for the fam
ilies who prefer to seek a fresh start
in other locations.
"Through another agency, the
Farm Debt Adjustment unit, our divi
sion will assist county debt concil
iation commitecs in working out vol
untary agreements to scale down
farm debts and in getting rid of mort
gages which threaten a new increase
in the number of farm tenants."
Seconding Mr. Ward's remarks
about the voluntary nature of the
government's program, Mr. Johnson
explains the work of his own divi
sion: i
"Some land3, of course, were never
suited to commercial farming. Others
that ones produced good crop3 are
now gullied, or have lost their, fer
tility. Some farmers on those lands
are tenants because they could not
produce enough from the soil to per
mit them to buy farms. Low prices
during recent years have added to
the social and economic problems of
the country.
"The Land Utilization Division is
charged with buying lands which
might well bo put to more profitable,
or socially more desirable uses. It is
responsible, too, for resettling farm
ers on those lands who have sold
their homes or live on rented farms.
but wish to renra'fn in the same com
munities. These lands will be used
1935 CORNHUSKER FOOTBALL SQUAD
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Lincoln, Neb. The football season
is here again and, as usual, the Uni
versity of Iebraska is facing a stiff
schedule of nine game3. The card in
cludes all members of the Big Six con
ference, two teams from the Big Ten,
the leading team of the east and a
strong eleven from the Tacific coast
The attractive nve-game aome
schedule brings Minnesota, Chicago,
Oklahoma, Kansas and Oregon State
to Memorial stadium. This combin
ation of five major contests has re
sulted in the largest advance sale of
tickets in the history of Nebraska
athletics.
All sections of Nebraska are rep
resented on the Cornhusker squad
with ,tbe addition of several outttand
ing athletes from neighboring states.
Coach Dana X. Bible, starting his
seventh season at Nebraska U., has
nominated three full teams for the
first varsity. The other athletes have
been assigned to the B team and will
for grazing, parks, forests, game re
fuges, or other desirable purposes.
If some of them are leased out, the
farmers who use men w;:i e as
sured of long terms of tenancy. If
certain tracts are eventually return
ed to private ownership, the govern
ment will see they are bought by
competent farmers who will use them
to the best advantage, from a long
time standpoint."
The program in this region, com
prising North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, and Kansas, is a part of a
national program. Figures for the
nation show 6,811,960 farm oper
ators in 1935, as compared with 6,
288,648 in 1930 and 5,737,372 in
1900. Farm tenancy in the United
of all farms are mortgaged in the
West North Central section, which
includes Minnesota, Iowa, and Mis
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'snap. . Those sleek and sophisticated young ladies
who are now showing the fall and winter styles live
a far different existence than popularly imagined.
Each is a product of long and arduous training
which taught them to walk properly and wear
clothes to advantage Even, the most successful of
COACH O.X.BlBJ-E
move up to the varsity roster a3 they
develop.
As usual the 150-piece University
of Nebraska band will be a colorful
feature of all home games. The stu
dent cheer section with its card
board stunts will entertain between
halves. A massed band of more than
1000 musicians will play a brief con
cert before the Oklahoma game, Oct.
26. The Nov. 9 appearance of the
Kansas Jayhawkers will be the main
attraction of Homecoming day. The
impressive ceremony in honor of the
University soldier dead will precede
the game.
Members of the varsity squad posed
for the samera man on the opening
day of practice. The squad:
Lower row Eernie Schorer, Dal
las, S. D. ; Henry Bauer, Lincoln;
Harold Holmbeck, Beatrice; Student
Manager Jack Mohr, Lincoln; Head
CoachCoach Dana X. Bible; Assistant
Coach W. H. Browne; Assistant
Coach Roy Lyman; Trainer M. J.
McLean; Equipment Fanager Floyd
Bottorff; James Heldt, Scottsbluif;
souri in addition to the four states
in this region of the Resettlement Ad
ministration. Thirteen per cent of all
farms in this section are mortgaged
for more than 70 per cent of their
value. In the entire nation, 30 per
cent of all farms are mortgaged, and
six per cent are mortgaged for more
than'70i per Cent of their Value.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The household goods of the A. F.
Meisinger family will be offered for
sale at public auction Thursday, Oc
tober 3rd at 1:30 p. m. at the resi
dence, 902 Granite street. W. R.
Young, auctioneer. s25-4td-ltw
Work-relief money snouTd be
spent only on worth-whiie pro
jects that will be of benefit to tho
greatest number.
Young Woman Not an Ideal One
-them find their" lot far from ideal.7" Those in the
higher range of salaries earn from $2,000 to $3,000
a year, but a considerable portion of this must bs
spent on the wardrobe which each model 13 re
quired to have. Society debutantes have also in
vaded the field, making the competition even keener
than before.
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Ralph Eldridge, Norfolk; Bob Ben
son, Pender.
Second row Kenneth McGinnis.
Ord; Jack Mercier, Lincoln; Lowell
English, Lincoln; Wallace DeBrown,
Lincoln; Jerry LaNoue, Wisner; Gus
Peters, Lexington; Bob Mehring,
Grand Island; Jack Dodd, Gothen
burg; Allen Turner, Western Springs,
111.; Lester McDonald, Grand Island;
Sam Francis, Oberlin, Kas.
Third row Pat Glenn, Lincoln;
Harris Andrews, Beatrice; Bob Kasal,
Omaha; Orval Kildabeck, Hardy;
Charles Wheeler, Belleville, Kas.;
Don Flasnick, Omaha; Paul Morri
son, Lincoln; Asher Brown, Lincoln;
John Richardson, Eau Claire, Wis.
Fourth row John Williams, Lin
coln: Fred Griffin, Sutherland; Perry
Franks, Sidney, la.; William Doherty,
Omaha; Theodore Doyle, Curtis; Ron
ald Douglas, Crete; Paul Amen, Lin
coln; John Howell, Omaha; Jack
Ellis, Omaha.
Fifth row Fred Shirey, Latrobe,
Pa.; Ladas Hubka, Table Rock; John
Cox, Lincoln; Richard Fischer, Val-
lentine; Henry Kosnian, Omaha;
Lloyd Card well, Seward; Elmer Dohr
mann, Staplehurst; Art Ball, Fre
mont; Joe Eyen, Lincoln.
HOOVER HEADS DELEGATION
Palo Alto, Calif. Herbert Hoover
will head a delegation of distinguish
ed Stanford university alumni who
will go east next month to attend a
meeting in New York, Oct. 10, of
the "Standard Associates."
With Mr.' "Hoover will 'go Presi-1'
dent Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford,
and a member of the Stanford board '
of trustees, probably Leland Cutler or
W. Parmer Fuller, both San Fran
cisco financiers.
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