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Hebr. State Historical Society 23 ill vol. no. ini PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937. KO. 3 CLih Fay McClintock Severely Injured in Auto Wreck Taken to Clarkson Hospital While Less Seriously Injured are Treated Here. Vrum Thursday's Iaily Fay McClintock, auto mechanic at the Ruse Motor Co.. is at the Clark son hospital at Ornaha suffering a lo.s.siMe skull fracture, fractured leg and had cuts on the wrist and face, ai d his right ear severed, as the re sult of an auto smashup on highway , No. 7.". south of this city at 10 o'clock this morning. Others injured in the wreck are Michael Hausladen, well known farmer of south of this city and Oscar Weber and Ernest Zohn, of Nebraska City. Mr. Hausladen suffered a bad scalp wound, an injured knee and cuts on the wrist and face, but his condition is not thought serious. Oscar Weber suffered cuts on the face and a badly injured knee as the result of the accident. ; Ernest Zohn suffered the fracture; of the thumb of the left hand and his face was badly cut by glass as: he was hurled into the windshield of the car in which he was riding. The car of Mr. Hausladen. a model A Ford, was going south on the high- way, following a truck, the car being tested out by Mr. McClintock, re- pairman, while Mr. Hausladen was driving. Their car followed the truck up the McConkey hill until near the Pitt- man place when Mr. Hausladen turn- ed to his left to drive into the drive- ti-h- tr. t.irn arming To rnr- frnm Nebraska city, a V-S Ford was com- ; n- ,..v, , ,.L- kii,-q,i ttio i 11 -, 11 I.M L 11 U 11U I 11. U J XV Ul VVi V- view of the driver, Mr. Weber, as first in medium voice and Junior De well as Hausladen and it was not un- voe. second. Dick Hall was first in lil f Vio Hnncl-.iHen nnr tnmpH ml t that the occupants of the Nebraska City car saw it. then too late to avoid the impact. The Hausladen car was struck on the right side near the front seat where McClintock was sitting and who received the full shock of the crash. A passing auto party from Table Rock brought Hausladen, Weber and Zohn on into this city and where their injuries were dressed at the office of Dr. O. C. Hudson. McClintock, badly injured was car- rh'd into the Pittman home and Dr. R. P. Westover called to the scene find responded at once, giving what aid was possible and the injured man was taken by the Horton ambulance on into Omaha and the hospital. Both cars were badly wrecked and hauled in to the Ford garage to clear the highway. PLATTERS AT FREMONT The Plattsmouth high school bas ketball team will compete in the Fremont regional meet this year where winners of the state tourna- the Plattsmouth schools, has brought: and laborers, who have taken it on ment will be determined. The en-, out a good deal of talent this year, the "chin" repeatedly during the re tries at Fremont will include the High hopes are held for the Peru cent years of depression and yet have strong Fremont and Columbus teams, contest. not remained down for the count. He Blair and Wahoo, both of whom Plattsmouth has yet to play, in the season games, as well as Oakland, Schuyler and David City are in the tourney. The greater part of the south- eastern Nebraska teams will appear at the Beatrice tourney where some stiff competition will be offered by Beatrice, Crete, Falls City, Hebron, Pawnee City and Fairbury. Nebraska Citv, Tevumseh and Wvmore are oth- ers competing in the meet. The Omaha regional will be strict ly a family affair between South, North. Central. Creighton Prep, Ben son and Technical. LEAVES FOR HONOLULU From Thursday's Haily Mrs. E. G. Ofe left last evening for ancouver. Canada, from which place she will board "The Empress was in the city today to check over been holding their own. to say noth of Canada" for Honolulu. She will the local shops and their operators. ' ing cf paying off back debts, visit her sister and brother-in-law. She found the conditions here excel-: Mr. Kressel discussed business and Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Berggrtn, there, lent and all of the shops operating civic problems, pointing out that the On her way she plans to visit friends in strict compliance of law. I town that keeps its streets and sur al Denver and Tacoma. The return One of the shops in the extreme . roundings neat and up-to-date will trip w ill be made on the "Malola" of western part of the county was check- attract trade, but pointed out that the Mataon line. She plans to come ed over and the owner will be given! many towns, large and small, are back to San Francisco and spend a hearing later on the discrepancies ! hampered from lack of funds to do some time on the coast. that were found. this work and an already overburd- RETURN FROM CALIFORNIA ! Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carmeal and; son Thomas William have returned j Honi California. During their stay in the west, they visited relatives, and friends at Long Beach and Cam-; iarillo. California. They spent most ! : of their time with Mrs. Carmeal's j rreat-unele. Will Baker, who is a biother of Mrs. Carneal's grand j mother, Mrs. Wetenkainp. They also 'visited with a sister of Mr. Carneal. On their return trip, they stopped in Missouri to visit with Mr.yCar neal's parents for three days. ; Tl'.ey lound is quite t t HI in "sun ny" Calilernia and say it seems nice t- he back in good old Nebraska. with their far.iilv and friends. Mrs. Car neal was Wetenkamp. formerly Miss Fiances Representatives Announced for Music Contests H. Rennick Names Winners After Local Competition in Public Frogi im Last Night. From Thursday's Daily J. II. Rennick, supervisor of music in the Wahoo high school, acted as judge at the local music contest last evening in the high school audi- torium. Maymie Schwenneker won first place in high voice. Betty Yo- boril was second and Mildred Kno- flicek. third. Shirley Seiver was named first in medium voice and Eleanor Minor, second. Bow voice plaeings for girls were, Beatrice Arn, first, and Flora Belle Meade, second. ITS vet T1cw.o in l.r.x-c' liih VIllCP Wns,he Cllited FtUtP-S Supreme COUIt Oil won by Theodore Libershal. Richard j -.,i t, ccrA Pnhor Vaiiorv wim ! V - w 1 - V. W ."H V V'llU. . w V l V t . . v Irviv -rin Tot "Vnrlr cppnnjl pi Allan White won first in trumpet and Burton Rishel. second. Sextette number 2 won first place in the con-; test. Members of the sextette are, Wilma Swatek. Mildred Knollicek, Eleanor Minor. Helen Hiatt, Flora Belle Meade, and Margaret Vallery. Criticisms for each contestant were made by Mr. Rennick and will be given to them in cider that they may improve their work. 2o0 attended the contest. ' Winners of first place in each of. the divisions will represent the school in the MINK contest which is, to be held in Peru February 19 and: 20. Other soloists who will - appear ' in the contest w ill be Jean Knorr. ; piano: Rachtl Robertson, viola; and Mildred Knofiieek, violin. j A boy's quartet will also go to Peru. John Tidball will sing first tenor; John Jacobs, second tenor; Robert Yallcry, baritone; and Dick Hall. bass. The school also hopes to enter girls', boys' and mixed chorus groups in the Peru contest. Lee Knolle. director of music in FALLS ON ICE j cans have, causing chaos and a break- Frem Thursday's rally ing down cf government functions. This morning County Commission- ! As one concrete example of how val er George L. Farley suffered a cut cm nes have sunk, he cited a farm near the back of his head as the result of : a fall on the icy walk on the south side of the court house. Water from the melting snow had spread over the walk and formed a small -oating of ice that was not no- ticed by Mr. Farley and as he stepped . on the ice he fell .striking the back ; of his head. The injury caused a cut that quired two stitches to close. INSPECTOR VISITS CITY From Friday's lam Miss Bonnie Evans, of Lincoln state inspector of the beauty shops Hallas and Kressel Address thf iM rnK ilu Vlts Scrth C:r-La Banker and C:naha City Ccir.nisLicncr Guests cf Lunch eon Here Yesterd.iT. Frnm T:.ur.M!;!y's Iinily Flat tsme-uth Business Men's Ad club meeting yesterday drew a larger r.t tenuane e than usual and proved in teresting to those 1 1 end in Guests at the met ting wcri' Adolph J. Halh-s. ftirmer Phil tsmouth boy,! l'ow a leading South Omaha bankei j : ud head of the South Omaha Mer- j chants and Business Men's arsocia t on. and John Kressel. South Omaha hardware dealer and member of the Omaha city commission. The meeting opened with a discus sion of business problems generally. The committee on planning and trade Z la t ions was empowered to have a new lot ot "Peddler stay away troni My Door" cards printed, with word ing similar to the last group, which ' weiv put out sever;1.! years ago. Resi dents of the lity will be urged to dis- : play these cards at the entrance to; their homes or apartments. This brought ea some discussion of j tbe so-cailed Creen River ordinance' which de. lares a nuisance the ring- j ii:g of one's doorbell on other than j purely so: ial calls. This is not a li-j ttnsirg measure in ar.y way, as it; prohibits outright canvassing of any kind in homes where the agent has j not been invited to demonstrate his ; w;-. res. ar.d declares failure to ob-J serve the ordinance a misdemeanor j punishable by fine or imprison ment. This law has been upheld ii. ltst afitS bought from a number oi -states. A case at Aurora, where the officers arrested the canvassers of an -of-the-state concern has already pressed to the federal circuit court ' ari'eals. where decision has been favorable to the ordinance. This is the first Nebraska case appealed, the enabling statutes of different states 1 t ing the governing features upon j w h.ii h prior appeal decisions have been rendered. A bill in the legislature to limit working hours of all feminine labor to 4S hours per week came in for a "o.d bit cf discussion. The body oted to oppose the bill, submitting :i petition to that effect to the legis lature, and also that individual mom Lvrs and other merchants and busi ness nun of the city arrange to write personal letters expressing their op position. No action was taken to send i representative before the committee when the bill is called for hearing. Hallas and Kressel Speak Following an expression of pleas ure at meeting old friends in his home evn and a remark that looking into : .any cf their faces reminded him that "Time Marches On," Mr. Hallas devoted most of his fifteen minute talk to paying tribute to the stamina ot American businessmen, farmers pointed to foreign nations where the i people could not stand it like Ameri- Onawa. Iowa, that sold in the early twenties for $3C,Ooo, was later sold for flS.Ol'O, came back to the mort gagor for around ?l0.t(00 and was sold a third time for that amount, carrying back $0,000 on mortgage while now it is back in their hands for the $G0u one-sixth of what it was worth before depression. Hallas re- said the same devaluation had come j in stocks and bonds, city real estate jand all sorts of business enterprise. He paid the Plattsmouth city gov ernment a fine compliment on bond indebtedness reductions made during the past six to eight depression years when, he said, many towns have not ditil taxpaying public cannot pay the increased taxes necessary to do it. This led to his espousal of the bill introduced in the legislature at the request of Omaha, which would pro- 1 vide division of gas Ui rv.ee n the county and i ix money be towns located therein, in tbe ratio of 70-.il) instead of the present ratio of If this bill is passed, it will give owns three times their present rev .mue from gas tax collections for the .uirpci.se of maintaining streets and avenues. Mr. Kressel urged support ji the hill by all cities and villages n the state. He made one pertinent statement. ' ,ivii!g his reason for holding to such v pinion, namely, that we will have YPA in principle if not in name for i :li time to tome, and that towns must j and such increased revenue as great-! .a- share ot gas tax affords to meet i'ed era 1 sponsorship demands so they; an repair and improve streets. The reason he gave was that our : o:-ial security setup makes i.o pro vision for men between 4." and G5 jut of work, who are not wanted in .ndustry today, and who must there .'ore be given work under government '. riiper mion. He said every man all .he luncheon was of an age where ii ne lost his own business, he would .ind it impossible to secure eniploy aieut that is reserved to younger aeacs in this machine uiiu that har- at the number of jobs to abnut halt .he number clamoring far work. Emil Wuil enlightened Mr. Kres- ei on tbe fact that it was Platts ...outh and former Mayor Sattler who .:ad Ud the light to get any of the ;as tax money alloted to counties for .it its within their borders, and that nevicus to the passage of the present .aw a few years ago, cities and towns rot none of the money. On motion. President Busch named i committee to investigate the pro posed new law and bring in a report .it next meeting, composed of E. J. i;u bev, W. II. Pu's cr:1 Elmer Webb. 1 j It was two o'clock when the long i session came to a close. PONY CREEK MAKES TROUBLE the small Ponv Creek, one of troublesome streams cf Mills county, . , .,.,. ,,, ti, is causing considerable work to tne Burlington maintenance fnrpi..i in 1if TinsT few" (lavs yy I The section force under the direc- : breakfast. Despite the handicap, ini tio., of William Dasher of this city. revised cooking appliances ge nera.ly . . . ncro utile to Riinnlv the need ot the has been working to try and keep tne creek from overflowing the tracks of itlie main line of the Burlington, the ! creek bed having filled up a great1 deal in the long dry summer and,11' ; " :rives but small clearance at the rail- road bridge. . . ,, j Mr. Dasher savs they have talked ', . ... . of keeping the creek in its basin but . . , , -t ne nas iiciu u uuiu uu": l out ofthe tracks. METE0SIST CHURCH NIGH: From Friday's Paily Members of the Methodist church met last evening at the church par lor for a covered dish supper. Mrs. F H Wescott led the group in fa-j miliar songs after the meal. Mr. Wescott accompanied. Milo Price acted as master of ceremonies during the impromptu program. E. H. Wes cott read a poem which he composed for the occasion. The entertainment was closed with recitations of first eems memorized in school. A few of the recitations came from McGuffy readers. ENROLLS FOR JOURNAL F. A. Stohlman, member of one of the prominent families of the Louis-; that the break might soon be rePair" Nebraska, was also discussed in con ville community, was in the city j ed apd service resumed. inection w ith a general bridge bill Thursday for a few hours attending! The situation was a great deal less that included toll bridges at Blair, to some matters of business. While j serious than it might have been b' ! 0maha plattsmouth and Nebraska in Plattsmouth he was a caller at j the fact that the weather had mod- Cin'. tQ )e pur(.haPed and niade free the Journal and enrolled as a reader j erated greatly and thus eliminated bridge3 of the semi-weekly edition of the n;uch of the suffering to say nothing j a paper. DEATH OF MRS. SPANGLER From Tliurselay's raily Mrs. William Spangler, CO, who has ben ill for the past two weeks. as the result of an attack of flu and complications, aieu lu u.u.u.uB -jwere on the job al, npnt and thru-nce. an early hour at the family home. ( (he forenoon striving to get the! Father Mosltr js delivering a ser The family have made their home ; .. resumed ag well as seeing! jeg of lePtures in English each Wed here for the past year, coming from &u furnaces over the city were nesday and Friday at the Holy Rosary Ralston. ghut off tQ prevent accidents when j (hurtll on -The Prodigal Son" or the gas was again flowing through ! "Tne sinner's Return to God." Improving our rarm-lo-mar-ket i and again going out to j roads will be of direct benefit to; , . votrr' everyone In Cass county. I relight furnaces and water heaters, pnone news Uems lo No. c . . -i .i ... ; n ' Natural Gas Main Break Crip ples Local Places ! In addition to Plnttsmorth, the i :y cf the Hemes' and Business tlui1 Was rippid served cien Hcuses Kit as Heat Fails .wood and Council Bluffs and several Restaurants Suffer. Fr r:i Friday's rily A breai: in the two loot main of ! b e Northern Natural Oas company's pipe line two miles south of this ity. lest night, caused great inc-cm-eiiieme to the residents of Platts UK.iith, who awoke to tinc'i that their heating and cooking facilities were out as a result of the break. The break occurred shortly before , 7 o'clock in the sec tion of the pipe line on the Horning farm south of, iliis city, the flame from the ignited ' uas roaring hundreds of feet in the; air as fed by the 4toj pound pressure an the line and it was not until 2:30 this morning that the flames diedj down cTid the long and hard job of repairing tbe line r-tarted. The break is thought to have been caused iii thawing out a sec tion of the pipe by alcohol. To get the flames extinguished as jiiiekly as possible, the control valve it Mynard and another at the Mis souri river bridge were both shut iT, and the line "bled" or drained j at both these points. In spite of this j the pressure in the five mile stretch j of pipe held up until the early hour j ihis morning. The supply of gas in the pipe line tiom the city "gate" or shutoff into; town coupled with a reserve supply, in one of the old artificial gas plant ; tanks proved sufficient to provide1 beat until :V.: this morning to the: one hundred fifty homes in the city j hat depend on gas for fuel. Householders faced a real problem when tneir gas stoves were wiinoue fuel and juany families had difficulty ! I in getting their morning meal pre-1 ; pared, cold breakfasts being the order j of the day. i The restaurants and eating houses . 'Gf the cit' are practically all users of gas for their stoves and the demand for keronsene or gasoline cook stoves Wdb lh ill Oi LCI Lll.IL U1C, lil.ill supply their patrons withs food for hour, one plumber using his blow torch to brew his morning coffee. The Iowa-Nebraska Eight and T t t- 1-nnnlto.H jlft-t rif p tney couiu ieucn uuu ' helriefl to relieve the situation. ... . x t ! Several of the stores that are heat- , "c cd with gas found that attempting f . , to keep their places functioning was la matter of difficulty and the owners and employes hovered over oil stoves j or any other heating apparatus that ! they might find and the demand for e'ectric heaters was at a premium. I The Coronado and Heroid apart- ! ,.w,nta ivlmro vt larre number of falll- I ., . i j ilie'S reside, were without heat a good Part of the ni t. j The Journal was one of the most;"1""" l ; 1 , . The bill introduced bv Senator seriouslv affected by the break as gas 1 ne LUI i"nuueeu used both for heating the building IS otiil ti cnnntv hont for tho metnl IlOtS ,. - on the linotype machines, making it . . . r n jriT, HiipOSSl U1C IU ILlllLLIOll til till um! the morning hours, and which ac-, counts for the late hour at which it j j i eaches subscribers this afternoon. The residents of the city affected, j however took the matter in a cheer-; ful manner and while without hot coffee or the morning ham and eggs.. j bore their inconvenience hoping I of frozen plumbing that would have I I occurred had the temperature been down around the mark it has held; j pretty close to the last few weeks. I The break caused unceasing toil ! for Manager Rea and the workmen of the local plant of the Iowa - Nebras - ka Light and Power company, who after service was resumed shortly be- fore the noon hour. j Workmen were also sent here from j Omaha and Linc oln to do work on ! the pipe line in ordt-r to get service resumed at the earliest possible mo , raent. smaller towns in western Iowa, but the twenty-five mile line carried an enormous supply of gas. making it possible to continue Service to thes-' cities without interruption aft r the local section of the main line had bee-11 e ut off. Even had the supply run low in that line, a tye-in service is main tained east of. the river by which it would have been possibleto receive ?as lrom the Continental lines keep up the service to points east to Cass County Young Man Dies in Colorado ! Charles Stander. Member of Pioneer Family, Passes Away After Long- Illness in West. Charles R. Stancler. 27, died at Colorado Springs, Friday, February; 5. following an illness of two years in which every effort was made to. rebuild his health. j Mr. Stander was a son of Mr. and ; Mrs. Henry Stander of near South Bend. Born March IS. l!otf, Charles' grew to manhood in Cass county. February 9, HC2. he was married to Miss Selma Rohrdantz. To this union i were born three children. Dorothy May, Willis Herbert and Leland Charles. Mr. Stander farmed for i some time until his health broke i !and he had to give up that occupa-i tiom He went to Colorado Springs several months ago in an effort to ii-gain his health, but even there he could not halt the disease and he passed away last Friday. The remains were brought back to South Bend and funeral services were conducted by Rev. Kiev at the Trinity Lutheran church two miles north of Murdoch at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. February P. Burial was in the Trinity Luth eran cemetery. Pall bearers were Conrad Reinke, Paul Reinke, Jchn Jones. Marvin Sutton. Louis Wendt and Paul Kupke. Surviving relatives include his widow. Selma Stander: three child ren; his lather and mother, Mr. and' Mrs. Henry Stander; two siste rs, j Mrs. Eva Roeber and Mrs. Helen ; Mooney; and two brothers, Cecil and : Herbert Stander, all of Cass county. WOULD MAKE BRIDGE FREE Senator Fred L. Carsten, of Avoca. the representative of Cass ar.d Sarpy counties in the legislature, has open ed the fight to make the Louisville ! bridge free and to retire the cent i luer 1 -r !!-... ciii ctonHj in trmp-p its tne rsten, i'-'-ue, propriation of jfbS.uuu irom me gaso- i line tax fund to retire the debt , ., , , the Louisville bridge and make on it toll free. The residents of Louisville have been conducting a very vigorous e.amnaisrn to interest the state in the plan t remove the bars t0 niake the br,dge free after its several years of OI(riitiou as a toll structure, ' ,,. hrid which is the onlv toll bridge in the boundary of VISITS AT LINCOLN Thp v?ry Rpv A(oph M. Mosler. vicar general of the Lincoln diocese of tJ,e catholic church, was at Lin- roiu this week to confer with Bishop j L j, Kucera and also will be at Lin- ; coln cn next Monday for a confer- Frank Banner is Found Guilty by Jury Friday Verdict Returned Last Niht Finding Him Guilty of Breaking ai.d Entering-. Habitual Criminal. From Sat i: r.'.av's I:ii:: The jury that he; id the case of -ka vs. Fi.'i.k ,l!e Ptate of Nt br: Harnier. last night return d a rdi t that found tbe defendant guilty of the two counts of the in d : in-nt , breakinc and entering and that of a habitual criminal under tbe NebraV..i statute. ; The case has occupied th past two davs of the district court and tb" defense had sought to prove that the defendant bad been m-ntal!y de ranged for a great many years. Dr. George Neuhaus, of Omaha, was here to testify as to his examinations and mental tests. ssTc stcite had introduced evideti'-e o me anility o: .Mr. iiarmer io transact business and also the files in othe r criminal actions t support their second count. The state's cas1 was very ably pre sented by County Attorney J. A. Cap well, while C. A. Walsh, of Omaha, made a very strong defense for his client. The members of the jury that heard the case comprised John E. Hild. C. W. Stoehr, A. P. Heil. Ru dolph Skalak. R. L. Keckbr. Marion Stor e. Earl Wolfe. J. F. Gust in. W. H. Puis. W. C. Farmer. Adam Schafer. The verdict was received by Dis trict Judsre W. G. Kb.ck. i. J. W. Yen ger. the trial jm, returned to Omaha after the siou of the case to the jury . s J u d S " i:e. had submis- TELEPHONE COMPANY AIDS IN EMERGENCY From Friday's Dally la the emergency that was faced by the Iowa-Nebraska Light 4c Power company this morning in reaching their patrons, they had a fine co-operation from the local exchange f the ! Lincoln Telephone Telegiaph Co.. ; and Manager Ray Misner. j The light and power com p.-. uy faced the necessity cf reaching all of their gas consumers with warnings of the gas line being out and M -ps wire I taken at once to reach all those who had telephone servire or miccht he 'reached through this medium, j The telephone company arranged i some ten special phones at tlo- lial.t company office and the ta.-k that h.id beeui expected to take- se-ve-al hours to reach all of the patrons, was com pleted in a half hour. ! The operators at the local ex change also we're on the j -b Thurs day nitrht when the roaring blaze from the pipeline could be- seen for miles, call after call being handled not only from tiiis city but from the nearby towns from which the blaze could be se'cn. The operator did a fine job and deserve a gre-at de;il of credit. MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS Fr.m Friday's Daily Mrs. Y. C. Wright led th devotion als at the meeting of the Missionary soeiety at her home yeste rmiy after noon. Mrs. Pete Carr pies-nte-d the h son on the Cross and the Heart taken irom the hook, Coiil-o Crossed. Mrs. R. B. Hayes and Miss Lo.s Brandhorst sang two negro spirituals 'teal Away" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I Have." Tiny were ac companied by Miss Dorothy Ghuk. During the business met ting plans v. ere made lor a thank c tiering, a ycung people's social, and for Found ers' Dev. Mrs. Pete Carr was assist ant hostess. A number of visitor were present. - TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Mrs. Christina Ellithorte, (.f Coun cil Bluff's, who has been ill here at th; home of her brother. W. F. Evers. was taken to Omaha Wednesday i where she has been pla ed in th? Methodist hospital. The patient bad suffered an attack of pneumonia ami after a relapse it was decided to have her taken to the hospital. She was taken to the hospital where a slight operation was performed to drain the j affected lung.