MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936.
P1ATTSKOTTTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUBNAE
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Fifty Miles of
Paving Planned
for This State
To Complete Highway No. 6 From
Fairmont to Hastings as One
of the Projects.
State Engineer Tilley announced
the July highway letting will include
three projects to complete the pave
ment on highway No. G from Omaha
to a point 12 miles w est of Hastings.
Tilley said the July letting would
include about 50 miles of paving in
all and would just about clean up
the funds available for the 1935-36
fiscal year, except for a few odds and
ends such as maintenance and gravel.
Tilley did not release any figures
in connection with this announce
ment but said three of the projects
between Fairmont and Hastings
would complete the paved route from
Omaha to Hastings.
Other pavement to be included in
the July letting:
On the Tekamah-Herman stretch.
From Verdon west and north in
the junction of U. S. highv. ay No. 75
and highway No. 4 and from Dawson
north to highway No. 4.
With the completka of the above
stretches there will be a 'continuous
paved route from Tekamali south to
the state line, with the exception of
about ten miles.
The lefiing also will include a
stretpli 'of paving from West Point
tpScribner so as to make a contin
uous hard surfaced route from Wis
ner to Omaha on highway No. 8.
Paving also will be laid from Nor
folk east to a point north of Stan
ton and on" a stretch three miles east
of Waco.
Tilley said the 1936-37 federal
funds would become available July
1 but the state would be unable to
match the money dollar for dollar
as required, until about the first of
the year when gas tax collections
are built up to a point where suffi
cient funds become available to go
ahead with the work.
He said a little of the $7,500,000
work relief fund for highway work
and for the construction of grade
crossings and separations remained
for future work and there might be
more if York, Fremont or North
Platte should reject bond issues to
pay property damage in -connection
yith the proposed construction - of
viaducts.
RAILROAD SAFETY
Chicago. E. A. Meyer of Chicago,
manager of the safety department of
the Milwaukee railroad, was elected
chairman of the safety section of the
Association of American Railroads at
the section's concluding session. The
elected committee on. direction in
cludes S. K. Osborne, Omaha,
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An ' invitation to Al Smith and
other dissident Democrats to join
the fold of Gov. Alfred M. Landon
was voiced by John Hamilton, Cj
O. P. national chairman, when he
spoke in New York, above, open-'
ing Landon's eastern campaign.
Hamilton lauded Smith and four
other Democrats who concurred in
rejecting the New'Deal for
"choosing ieonntryover party
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Myrtle Bigman
When the big annual Sheridan,
Wyo., rodeo gets under way in
July one of the two reigning
queens will be a real Indian prin
cess. Myrtle Bigman, above,
daughter of Chief Max Big Man
of the Crow tribe.
Railway Re
tirement Act is
Declared Illegal
Immediate Appeal is Planned
Board on United States Dis
trict Court's Ruling:.
by
Washington. Congressional efforts
to set up a railroad retirement sj'S
tem were blocked in the courts for
a second time when the United
States district court here ruled the
1935 railway pension act and its com
panion tax measure unconstitutional.
In an injunction affecting more
than 1,000,000 railway workers, Jus
tice Bailey restrained the internal re
venue commission from collecting tax
es designed to raise 120 millions in the
first fiscal year thru a 3 1-2 per cent
tax on railway payrolls and an eq
ual levy on employes' wages.
He also enjoined the railroad em
ployment retirement board from mak
ing any preperations for paying the
pension which would have totaled
$47,000,000 during the first year.
Chairman Murray W. Latimer im
mediately called the retirement board
into an emergency session to consid
er what course it must follow under
the ruling. A spokesman for the board
said an appeal would be carried at
once to the court of appeals for the
District of Columbia.
The injunction suit was brought by
131 first class carriers, 289 associat
ed enterprises, and 16 intervening
employes of the Atlantic coast line
railroad. Justice Bailey upheld their
contention that the tax and pension
laws were "inseparable parts of a
sincrular regulatory scheme which vi
olated the due process provisions of
the Fifth amendment.
He based his ruling on a United
States supreme court decision handed
down last year in the Alton case de
claring the 1934 retirement act un
constitutional. That measure had at
emped to set up a simular retirement
system, under a single law including
both pension and revenue provisions.
- "It is clear," Bailey said, "that un
er the views of the supreme court
in the Alton case the taxing act trans
ysends the power of congress." He ad
ded that the two 1935 acts "taken to
gether so dovetail into one another
as to create a complete system sub
stantially the same as that created
by their railroad retirement act of
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WOOL MARKET IS IMPROVED
Omaha. Improved business con
ditions and good demand for a. light
supply are reflected in the purchase
by G. J. Kyte, Omaha wool buyer, of
several thousand pounds of new crop
wool at 22 1-2 to 2 cents per pound
recently. The purchase was made for
Silberman & Sons, Co., of Boston.
Last year at this time new crop wool
sold at around 20 cents per pound.
A relative improvement Is also
noted in the price of fat lambs aa
a result of the strong wool market.
Range lambs, which are now moving
In fair volume are selling at the
highest prices of this season of the
year since 1930. (
How the official family of the Bur
lington railroad will shift on July 1
due to the retirement at Chicago of
W. F. Thiehoff, general manager of
lines east of the Missouri river, was
announced at Omaha Thursday by E.
Flynn, executive vice-president.
He came to Omaha to confer with
F. R. Mullen, general superintendent
at Lincoln, who on July 1 will suc
ceed J. H. Aydelott at Omaha as general-manager
of lines west, and with
Mr. Aydelott.
Succeeding Thiehoff, Aydelott will
go to Chicago. S. L. Fee, superin
tendent at Aurora, 111., will replace
Mullen at Lincoln. W. E. Haist,
superintendent at Galesburg, 111., will
succeed Fee. V. R. Eble, assistant
superintendent at Brookfield, Mo.,
will take Haist's old post.
J. E. Thiehoff, son of V. F., will
take Eble's place. A. F. McKelvie,
nephew of former Governor S. R.
McKelvie, now trainmaster at Gales
burg, will succeed J. E. Thiehoff.
J. J. Ryan, trainmaster at St. Joseph
will succeed McKelvie. George Eck
hardt, chief dispatcher at Casper,
Wyo., steps into Ryan's place.
Also going to Omaha will be E. H.
Piper, assistant to the general-manager
at Chicago. He will succeed L.
B. Lyman as assistant to the general-manager
at Omaha, who goes to
Denver as executive assistant, a new
ly created post.
Forty-three years ago Mullen got
his first Job with the Burlington,
night . telegraph operator at Have-lock.
FIND CAES FOR TAXATION
Thomas county, one of the grazing
counties with a population of only
1,510, reports an increase of 126 per
cent in the assessed valuation of auto
mobiles under the new law for assess
ing such property from the list of
cars registered with the county
treasurer. The report of C. T. Mc
Millan, county assessor, to State Tax
Commissioner Smith shows the num
ber of cars listed has increased from
299 to 404 and the assessed valu
ation from $25,300 to $57,180, an
increase of $31,880.
The county being purely grazing
and sand region, reports no wheat,
rye, corn or any grain for assessment.
Altho the population is 1,510 there
are 557 taxpayers In the county.
Livestock listed comprises 10,560
head of cattle, 1,411 horses, 302 hogs
of the pig clss, 106 clocks and
watches and 153 radios to connect
the people with national conventions,
baseball games and other outside
world affairs.
Total valuation of property in the
county, personal, land and lots is
$1,658,960, an increase of 1 percent.
Personal property increased 5 percent
in valuation.
H. H. Ducy, Brown county assessor
reports $6,126,100 total valuation,
an increase of 2 percent. Personal
property Increased 12 percent and
automobiles 25 percent with 1,331
cars listed at $149,510. Last year
1,545 cars were assessed on a valu
ation of $122,615.
MRS. BOOLE IS OPTIMIST
New York. Eventual return of
prohibition was predicted by Mrs.
Ella A. Boole, president of the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union. "I don't attempt to predict
exactly when prohibition will be
made a law again in America" she
said after her return from the, na
tional W. C. T. U. convention in
Tulsa, Okl. "One thing would have
to be altered, of course, and that Is
the administration of the law." Mrs.
Boole said the W. C. T. U. has ex
panded its program and now actively
opposes gambling and narcotics as
well as liquor.
BANNING SUED BY TRUCKER
O'Neill, Neb. W. B. Banning, di
rector of the state department of
agriculture, was named defendant in
a $10,000 damage action filed in the
district court Thursday by Homer
Smith, an officer of the New Deal
Transport company.
Smith was acquitted in Thayer
county of charges of operating a
gasoline transport line without a '
permit, and he charges his arrest
"maliciously Injured the name and
credit of himself and his line and
was made "without cause." Al Hoge,
who arrested Smith last May 28, also
is named a defendant and $10,000 Is
asked of him.
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The above remarkable picture of President Roosevelt shows him holding up Vice President Garner's hand
as a referee does a champion before an immense throng at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Saturday night. The
president had just completed his 2,000 word speech of acceptance and the thousands of spectators had broken
into prolonged cheering. A few moments later Roosevelt and his party were en route back to their special train.
Chinese Prince
is a King Minus
His Country
Teh Wang Finds Himself Deserted
by Government in Time of Need ;
Desertion of Bodyguard.
Pailingmiao, Inner Mongolia.
Prince Teh Wang, hailed a few
months ago as a budding reincarn
ation of the great Ghengi? Kahn,
now finds himself virtually a king
without a country. Prince Teh's fail
ure to hold the allegiance of his
tribes people has all but erased the
last hope for an independent inner
Mongolian government as the Japan
ese steadily extend their influence
fro mthe east. Deserted by the Chi
nese government in his hour of need,
ignored by the Japanese because he
would not accept a Japanese protec
torate in the Gobi desert, Prince
Teh's latest blow was the desertion of
a large section of his personal body
guard. They went over to the Chi
nese camp.
Teh's policy for years has been
"Mongolia for the Mongolians." In
this he has endeavored to prevent
his arid plains from being overrun
by Japanese, or his impoverished
tribesmen from being exploited by
Chinese militarists. He has main
tained a frugal tribal government in
a collection of felt tents near here,
acknowledging nominal fealty to
Nanking, but managing his own af
fairs. Japan's march across Asia caught
Teh unprepared. When he refused to
become the leader of a Japanese dom
inated Inner Mongolia (desired as a
buffer to protect Manchoukuo from
the sovietized Out Molgols) the Jap
anese brushed him aside and created
their own puppet government in
northern Chahar under Mongol lead
ers who would listen more attentive
ly. Teh begged Nanking to Lelp him
unite the quarrelsome Mongol tribes
of Suiyuan, but in the meantime
Nanking had largely been ousted
from north. China.
From the south, the Shansi war
lord, General Yen Hsi-Shan then ex
tended his influence up into the Gobi.
Lukewarm in his allegiance to Nan
king, he regarded Mongolia as his
own private hunting ground. Yen
got his underling, Fu Tso-Yi, ap
pointed Chinese governor of Suiyuan.
Bad blood had existed between Fu
and Prince Teh ever since. Fu claims
Teh has accepted Japanese aid, but
so far as Is known here, Teh dislikes
the thought of Japanese influence
more than he dreads Chinese exploit
ation, and has never benefitted by
his Japanese contracts.
AMOS WRIGHT DEES
Falls City, Neb. Amos Wright,
S9, died here Thursday following a
brief illness. Amos E. Wright of
Lincoln is a son. Funeral services
will be held Saturday at Weeping
Water.
. Improvement of farm-to-market
roads will help everyone in Cass
county.
EXPECT MORE TAX BOOSTS
Omaha. Increases totaling $613,
865 in the personal property assess
ed valuations of nine Omaha busi
ness concerns are contemplated by
the county board of equalization.
The proposed bosts were set out
in orders issued by the board Wed
nesday mornirg citing these firms to
appear before it Monday to show
cause why the increases should not
be made.
Updike Lumber & Coal company,
4500 Dodge, from $15,800 to $150,
000. Bradford - Kennery Lumber com
pany, 3514 So. 25th, $15,000 to
$100,000.
J. Ii. watKins L.umDer company,
2511 O, $10,550 to $100,000.
Micklin Lumber company, 19th and
Nicholas, $5,875 to $75,000.
Canfield Lumber company, 61st and
Center, $35,400 to $80,000.
Brennan-Vana Lumber company,
3516 L, $10,680 to $100,000.
E. P. Boyer Lumber & Coal com
pany, three yards, $15,400 to $75,
000. Dresher Brothers, 2217 Farnam,
$8,400 to $35,000.
Pantorium, 1513 Jones, $3,900 to
$20,000.
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Fire Crackers
Spit Devils
Torpedoes
Cherry Salutes
Parachute Novelty
WE ARE CARRYING A COMPLETE LINE OF FIREWORKS
. Musical Salutes Aerial Bombs
2, 3 and 5-in. Salutes Paper Balloons
Roman Candles Fountains
Sky Rockets Screech Owls
Toy PIctoBc and Cops
Sparklers
Flower Pots
Pin Wheels
Aerial Salutes, 3, 5 shot
Colored Lights
ALSO A COMPLETE LINE OF PICNIC NECESSITIES
BATES BOOK STORE
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