MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1927.
P1ATTSKOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOXTRKAI
TAGE THP.EE
States Act Jointly to Invade
'No Man's Land' of Government;
35 of 48 Enter Into Compacts
First Problems to be Attacked Include Crime
Control, Conflicting Taxes and Social
Security Others to Follow
By WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO (UP) Problems that
couldn't be solved and rackets that
couldn't be checked because they have
hidden in the "no man's land" of gov
ernment faced a determined challenge
today as states prepared to crack
down "with a new weapon of inter
state co-operation.
Officials of the Council of State
Governments announced that 35 of
the 48 United States have set up the
machinery for co-operation and the
machinery will go into operation
soon. Twenty-five states took the
step in 1937.
Problems the new united front of
states will advance first upon are na
tional in scope, according to council
officials, and include:
Crime control.
Conflicting taxation.
The knotty interstate problems in
volved in the new social security pro
gram. Highway Safety Included
Other problems which flow, liter
ally and figuratively across state lines
include the control of liquor and
milk. Highway safety, including the
administrative questions raised by
thousands of new trailer nomads tra
versing the nation's motor trails, is
receiving consideration by some of
the state commissions on co-operations.
States which have commissions on
interstate co-operation are:
Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut,
Georgia. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky.
Minnesita, Massachusetts, Montana,
Mississippi, Maryland, North Caro
lina, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, Ore
gon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Ten
nessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wis
consin, Nebraska, Alabama, Florida,
Iowa, Michigan, New York and Ver
mont. Machinery for the regional attack
on interstate problems now is being
set up. This machinery will work in
areas which vitally need immediate
co-operative action, such as the dust
bowl and the nation's flood basins.
List Illustrates Compacts
The immense scope of the region
al break-down on interstate co-operation
is illustrated by the following
partial list of interstate compacts be
tween two or more states already
made or proposed:
Stabilization of coal production
and sale.
Milk control.
Watermelon marketing.
Tobacco control.
Cattle rustling.
Labor standards.
Betterment of prison conditions.
Pollution prevention.
Control of natural resources.
Other questions expected to receive ,
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An aerial attack in the last period of the game between the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Minnesota Golden
Gophers Saturday gave the Cornhuskers a startling 14-9 upset victory over the Gophers at the Memorial sta
dium in Lincoln. A sell-out crowd of 36,000 spectators witnessed the game played in mid-summer heat. In
picture above, Martin Christiansen," of Minnesota, who replaced Buhler at full in second quarter, is shown just
before he was stopped by Dold of Nebraska.
attention soon include: banking, mo
tor vehicle legislation, conservation,
freight rates, interstate bridges, lob
ster fishing, hunting and fishing li
censes, oil, trucks and buses, citrus
fruits, mortgage rates, real estate re
organization, recreation and wild life.
By use of the co-operation weapon,
a number of problems have been
solved which no state alone nor the
federal government could touch. A
number of states have passed uniform
criminal extradition acts, uniform
narcotics acts and uniform transfer
of dependents acts which governs
both the transfer of dependents from
state to state and the settlement of
workers.
The momentum of the interstate
co-operation movement is shown by
the fact that a little more than two
years ago no official commission ex
isted. Then, New Jersey and Colo
rado, 2,000 miles apart, formed com
missions. By the end of 1935. nine
states had official interstate bodies
and by the end of 193G, seventeen
states were enrolled in the program.
Now, three-fourths of the states have
fallen in line.
The program is supported by con
tributions of the participating states
and the Spelman Fund of New York.
APPOINTED TO NEW POST
LINCOLN, Oct. 1 (UP) Harry
Bane, 47, of Omaha today was ap
pointed director of the Nebraska state
employment service by Governor
Cochran. The governor said Bane has
been state assistance director since
the assistance program was set up
early last week, was one of the five
ranking candidates among the 14 who
took a merit examination for the posi
tion recently.
Bane previously was appointed to
the position last May 15 and confirm
ed by the legislature but it was de
cided to conduct a merit examin
ation as Rudolf Vogeler, the director,
had taken an examination last year.
Vogeler took the examination along
with the others and last week an
nounced he had accepted a job with
the United States Emplo3"ment Ser
vice at Ealimore. Cochran said Bane's
appointment was effective immediate
ly. RETURN FROM THE EAST
Gu3 Whitely and H. T. Batten re
turned Wednesday night from a visit
in the east. Mr. Whitely has been
visiting with his relatives in Penn
sylvania and expects to return there
after a short stay here. Mr. Batten
was at Parkersburg, West Vorginia,
and while there had the pleasure of
attending a family reunion, meeting
a brother that he had not seen for
fifty years and his sister that he had
not met since thirteen years ago.
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thorne, 23. allegedly confessed that he shot and killed his 21-year-old
secret bride of eighteen months and a banker when they refused
to end their romance. Hawthorne is shown here in a police station
shortly after his surrender.
H0E0ES DEPEND ON STATE
PRIDE IN PANHANDLING
CHEYENNE. Wyo. (UP) A new
technique in panhandling has been
adopted by transients here. It is
called "streamlined" mooching.
Two transients, working in relays,
station themselves fn opposite sides
cf a street and keep tab on all cars
with out-of-state license plates.
When a likely suspect draws up to
the curb, one of the hoboes darts to
the right side of the car before the
driver can get out. He launches a
hard-luck story about being strand
ed in Cheyenne.
He's broke, he's out of gasoline and
his automobile is bogged down on the
edge of town. He-wants a gallon of
gas or the price cf it so he may
start back to his home, which is al
ways the state shown on the driver's
license plates.
Skeptical drivers are out of luck.
The hoboes know all the answers
that can be asked about the "home"
state because they pick only cars
from states with which they are
familiar.
MORE PLANES ON HAND
The Journal has received a new
shipment of planes which can be se
cured by Quaker Oats trademarks.
The planes are very popular with the
youngsters and the demand has been
very brisk, the first shipment being
exhausted several days ago. These
are secured by two of the pictures of
the Quaker from the large packages
of oats or four of the small ones.
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ABOLISH STATE OFFICERS PWA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UP) Sec
retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes to
day announced that state officers of
the Public Works Administration will
be replaced November 1 with region
al administrators as an economy
move.
The reorganization, first move in
the dissolution of the vast new deal
! building and lending agency will
mean "many operations" from the
service in the near future Ickes said.
"It is with keen regret that I am
compelled to put into effect this par
tial dissolution of an outstanding gov
ernment agency," Ickes said.
The secretary, who also is public
works administrator, said that boun
daries and headquarters of each re
gion have not yet been determined.
Ickes said the reorganization would
mean a "marked saving in overhead,
rent, supplies, equipment and per
sonnel." CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express to our many
kind friends and neighbors our deep
est appreciation of the many acts of
kindness and sympathy shown us at
the time of death and the funeral of
our loved son. Harlan. Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Grauf and family.
NOT SO WELL
From Friday's Daily
Miss Verna Leonard spent yester
day in Omaha with her mother, Mrs.
V. V. Leonard, whose condition is re
ported as not quite so encouraging.
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Propose New
Corn Loan Plan
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Governor cf Indiana Has Plan to Aid
Fanners of the Corn Belt in Hope
of Stabilizing the Market.
INDIAN AFOLIS, Ind., Oct. 2 (UP)
Gov. M. Clifford Towsnend said
Friday that he has proposed a new
corn-loan system to Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace in the
hope of stabilizing the corn market.
J The governor proposed that the
federal government loan the farmers
60 cents on every bushel of corn
grown, and then seal that corn in
cribs until the prices rise.
"I believe such loans would sta
bilize the market until congress
works out a permanent stabilization
program," he said.
Pointing out that taxes, mortgage
payments and bills come due for pay
ment in December, the governor Baid
that unless Indiana growers have
ready money available then they will
sell their corn at any price.
He said he feared the price for win
tern corn would slump to around 50
cents a bushel at that time and farm
ers would sell their produce at a loss.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEETS
LINCOLN. Oct. 1 (UP) Nebras
kans are becoming more historical
minded, President A. B. Wood of
Gering told the 60th annual meeting
of the Nebraska State Historical So
ciety toray.
"In spite of panic and depression,
amid wars and rumors of wars, there
seems to me to be a revival of inter
est in cultural matters and especially
a distinct interest in history," he
said.
Wood praised the work of the Ore
gon Trail Memorial association and
other organizations in stimulating
the program of historic education and
proper designation of sites.
John C. Page world commissioner
of the Federal Bureau of Reclam
ation was principal speaker at a joint
luncheon of the societies with the
Native Sons and Daughters of Nebras
ka group.
N. C. Abbott of Nebraska City, Don
L. Love of Lincoln and Dwight Dal
bey of Beatrice were re-elected to
the executive board for three-year
terms.
NOT DEALERS' LAWYER
LINCOLN, Oct. 2 (UP) John J.
Ledwith, Lincoln attorney, was er
roneously mentioned as representing
a group of gasoline dealers in a
United Press dispatch yesterday de
scribing a mandamus action brought
by the state against State Treasurer
Walter H. Jensen to recover $1,112,
675 in impounded gasoline taxes.
Ledwith was counsel for State
Treasurer Jensen and has no connec
tion with litigation blocked by gaso
line dealers.
REJECTS PAROLE
OMAHA, Oct. 1 (UP) Federal
Judge J. A. Donohoe today rejected
the parole of Dr. Arthur J. Wilson,
78, for many years a reputable phy
sician here, who had pleaded guilty
to a narcotic charge. Dr. Wilson is
in a critical condition at the Ma
sonic Home in Plattsmouth.
EADGES WORRY KUDISTS
SAN JOSE, Cal. (UP) Perhaps
the gravest question which the west
ern nudist convention had to solve
when it met here was just where a
nudist should pin his or her conven
tion badge. In fact, the question
hasn't been settled yet.
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SALTfTE FIRED BY YUG0-
SLAVS SEALS NUPTIALS
BELGADE (UP) r.Iilosn Kiklich,
C3, a wealthy widower of the Banja
Luka district of Yugoslavia went
a-wooing coy Jelena Matich, lS-year-old
belle of the village.
When her parents objected to the
proposed match. Milosh, with the help
of two cousins, kidnaped Jelena and
took her home.
The parents arrived to claim their
daughter back, only to find the wed
ding feast already in progress. Ilo
fore they could enter the house, Mi
losh seized a gun and fired three
times in the air, signifying the start
of the wedding ceremony.
Bosnian custom lays down that
once the shots have been fired and
the wedding thus started, the bride
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cannot return to her parents with
out giving rise to a blood feud be
tween her family and that of the
would-be bridegroom.
So Jelena's parents realizing that
Milosh was not to be foiled gave
their reluctant consent and sat down
to join in the wedding feast.
WOULD FIGHT FOR NATION
BOSTON, Mass.. Oct. 1 (UP) Earl
R. Browder. 193C Communist presi
dential candidate who was jailed for
opposing the World war draft has
changed his mind and would fight for
the United States in another war if
it were not against Russia.
"I would carry arms for the United
States in order to help fight fascism
which is wrecking the world," he told
the special legislative commission in
vestigating subversive moves yester
day. Asked if he would carry arms
for the United States against Russia
he replied:
"I refuse to entertain such a possi
bility. It is impossible under the
present international situation for
this country to so to war with Rus
sia, where Russia is helping the Unit
ed States.
Browder said he considered both
United States and Russia his coun
tries but owed allegiance only to the
American flag.
DUKE OF WINDSOR'S FORTUNE
LONDON, Oct. 2 (UP) The duke
of Windsor's private fortune amounts
to about 500,'000 pounds (54,500,
000) a writer of the Evening Stand
ard sa'd today. The duke receives no
grant from the state but gets 25.000
pounds (?1 25,009) annually from
the king, the writer said. The article
said that the financial discussions be
ing conducted in Paris between the
duke and his legal and financial ad
visors are just routine and involve
no change in the existing agreement.
DOUGLAS DEPUTIES RAID
OMAHA, Oct. 2 (UP) Six deputy
sheriffs raided the same number of
rural Douglas county night spots
early Friday and made arrests at two
places where liquor or gambling
equipment was seized.
The Skyline lodge. 14 miles out of
Omaha and Bryces night club at one
Hundred Tenth and Dodge and Dodge
streets were the victims. Other places
visited, but not molested, were the
Races. Chez Paree, Eidelweiss Gar
dens and Aviation Inn.
ORDER ORGANIZERS OUT
MACOMB, 111., Sept. 30 (UP)
Deputy sheriffs ordered union organ
izers to leave Macomb today and
burned the tents of pickets whom
they routed from around the hemp
plant yesterday with tear and knock
out gas. Officers said one picket was
arrested carrying dynamite. The
plant manufactures Illinois automo
bile license plates.
The pickets had defied an injunc
tion banning picketing.
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Floods Begun
on Allegheny
Western Pennsylvania Project Kay
Require 10 Years' Work; State
to Euy Dam Sites.
PITTSBURGH (UP) The work of
impounding western Pennsylvania's
flooding rivers finally nas started
after three decades of campaigning
for a vast flood control program.
With the war department allocat
ing $4,000,000 for the work, pre
liminaries started immediately for
construction of two of nine dams pro
posed to control the waters of the
Allegheny and Monongaliela rivers.
A few weeks ago, public ceremonies
were held celebrating the breaking
of ground for construction of Crook
ed Creek dam. near Indiana, Pa. The
other dam will be built on Tionesta
creek, a half miie from the village
of Tionesta.
Both these streams run into Al
legheny river, which joins the Mon
ongaliela at Pittsburgh to form the
Ohio river. These rivers have been
a scourge to western Pennsylvania
in flood times and during the St.
Patrick's Day flood of 1 9 " , approx
imately $212,500,000 damage was
done in western Pennsylvania.
Vast Reservoir Constructed
Expected to aid in controlling
surging waters in the Pittsburgh dis
trict is the great reservoir in Tygart
Valley, West Virginia, which is Hear
ing completion at a cost of approxi
mately $15,000,000.
A group of engineers is designing
the Red Bank Creek dam, on which
construction may start next spring.
As appropriations are made, it is
hoped that construction work on the
other proposed dams will be started.
In this large control program,
seven dams would be built on Alle
gheny tributaries, one on the Alle
gheny river 'itself and one on the
Monogahela river. The total cost has
been estimated at $5,000,000, and it
may take 10 years to complete.
But these proposed barriers, to
range in height from 112 to 1C0 feet,
will buck up and store the waters
to prevent floods that previously have
done so much damage in the upper
Ohio river watersheds. The control
program is expected to lower flood
damage by 75 per cent.
State to Euy Dam Sites
Pennsylvania has appropriated $5,
000.000 to purchase property for the
dams. Tionesta reservoir will flood
3,750 acres and Crooked Creek Reser
voir will flood 2,020 acres. Both will
be earthen dams, as will the dam at
Red Bank creek.
Nine thousand persons are expect
ed to be employed on the three proj
ects. There are other projects being
pushed to control floods as well as
the proposed dams.
Col. W. E. R. Covell, district U. S.
engineer, plans to study proposals for
a flood wall to protect Pittsburgh's
"Golden Triangle" business district,
which is always threatened when the
bordering Allegheny, Monongahela
and Ohio rivers go on a rampage.
HORSES FOR SALE
See Myron Wiles, one mile west
o? Mynard.
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Tenth Birthday
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O National 4-H Baby Beef
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O Gigantic Carlot Showl
O Brilliant $100,000 Horse
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O Midwest Pigeon Showl
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