" PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1938.
PAGE TWO
the Piattsmouth Journal
PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
Entered at Postoflice, Piattsmouth, Neb., as Becond-clasw mall matter
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WILL LET ROAD PROJECTS
LINCOLN'. Aug. 31 (UP) State
Engineer A. C. Tilley today an
nounced bids will be opened Septem
ber 22 on state highway projects to
cost $322,500. Because of the late
ness of the season the letting will not
include pavement or bituminous mat
contracts.
Projects included:
Federal aid secondary projects
Otoe county west of Lorton 4.4 milesx
grading, culvert and sand gravel sur
facing; Jefferson county, Diller to
Nebraska 3S, 4.6 miles grading, cul
verts, sand gravel surfacing and
guard rail.
State construction projects Paw-fto tne Times, all residents of Maple
nee county, state highway south of jWOO(j Avenue, have received their
Pawnee City. 3.9 miles grading, cul-
verts and one bridge.
TRY, TRY AGAIN
VALPARAISO. Ind., Aug. 31 (UP)
Anthony Kalvaliska will try to get
a load of corn stalks across the road
again today. He tried twice yester
day and here's what happened:
The first time, an automobile
crashed into his wagon, bruising him
and injuring his horse.
Five hours later he tried again
and another car struck the wagon,
cutting it in two and killing the
crippled horse.
LOG PIPELINE OF 1853
UNEARTHED BY WPA
SCRANTON. Pa. (UP) A water
line of log "pipes" originally laid
in 1853 has only recently been re
moved for a WPA improvement.
The line, formed of logs 10 to 12
feet long and bored for a 5-inch con
duit, connected Mountain Lake and
No. 5 reservoir. It was placed 3 feet
I'ndcrground to prevent freezing in
winter.
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Adults 25c Children. . .10c
SUNDAY - MONDAY
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PUCES
BOY, 12, EDITS WEEKLY PAPER
AMBRIDUE, Fa. (UP) Earl
Baeuerelein is a newspaper publisher
at 12.
Earl's paper is a one-sheet affair.
printed on both sides. It's called the
Maplewood Times, because a majority
of the items printed concern the do
ings of people who live on Maple
wood Avenue. Earl lives on that
street, too.
The Maplewood Times is printed
once a week. Promptly at 5 p. m.
each Saturday Bobby Strain, Earl's
carrier boy, walks out of the Times
"office" the Baeuerlein home and
within an hour, the 25 subscribers
COpies.
The Times brings young Baeuer-
lein an average profit of 50 cents a
week. He pays his carrier boy Ys
cent a copy.
Earl is proud of the fact that oc
casionally the Arabridge papers copy
some of his personal items. A dyed-in-the-wool
newspaperman, he de
clares that "I don't really care just
)so i get t first."
Earl's parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Baeuerlein. report their son first
became interested in newspaper work
when he was S years old. He started
printing on a toy press he received
as a Christmas gift. But since then
he has bought a more serviceable ma
chine. Earl's 3x5 inch paper, which he
started printing July 16, contains
hospital notes, personals and brief
stories about Maplewood Avenue resi
dents and about college boys who
live on the street during the school
year.
AIR LINES SET SAFETY
RECORD WITH BRITAIN
LONDON (UP) Planes and fly
ing boats flew 3,000,000 miles over
the 4,500 miles of Britain's internal
air lines last year without one serious
accident, it was stated in the report
on the Progress of Civil Aviation.
Civil aircraft carried 161,500 pas
sengers and handled 4,300 tons of
freight and mail during 1937.
Four fatal accidents occurred to
Imperial Airway aircraft abroad, but
it is pointed out that nearly 10,000,
000 passenger miles were flown on
the regular services during the year
for each passenger killed.
The number of civil aircraft regis
tered in the Empire was 3,140, as
compared to 2.899 in 1936.
40-YEAR-OLD BILL PAID
ALTUS, Okla. (UP) J. R. Ham
had some proof today for his con
tention that "most folks are honest."
He received a letter which contained
a money order for $2.75. in payment
for a bill incurred at Ham's store in
Dew, Tex., more than 4 0 years ago.
SOUTHAMPTON TO BE AIR HUB
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. (UP) Af
ter years of controversy, Southamp
ton has been chosen as the world's
commercial air base terminus of the
Atlantic and Empire services of the
future.
CAT SPARS WITH RATTLER
STIRLING CITY. Cal. (UP) Miss
Darbara Rose's pet cat Boots sparred
with a five-button rattlesnake for
jmore than an hour and kept it cor
nered till Barbara's father came and
killed the rattler.
AUTO MUSEUM STARTED
EAST LIVERMORE, Mc. (UP)
Otho Farrington has a nucleus for a
museum of antique automobiles in
the 1901 Duryea. 1909 Maxwell and
1910 Flanders he has collected.
LAND, FARM and
RANCH BARGAINS
Alfalfa and clover, combining
wanter, Allis-Chalmers rotary pick
up. Call Maynard Tritsch, Piatts
mouth phone 3004. - ltw
FOR SALE
Alfalfa seed, for Bale Nebraska and
TlaVnta. Kn. 12. Call CtLarlps RmH.
Wheat Subsidy
will Bring U. S.
a Heavy Loss
Placing of 100,000,000 Bushels on
World Competitive Market to
to Entail Large Cost.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 3 (UP)
Agriculture department officials esti
mated today that the government
would lose up to $12,500,000 through
its new wheat export subsidy plan.
This was revealed as the depart
ment initiated the broadest subsidy
program ever undertaken by offer
ing exporters 100,000,000 bushels of
wheat for sale abroad at competitive
world prices. The department will
absorb all losses on the transactions.
The federal surplus commodities
corporation has begun the purchase
of wheat and flour at prevailing mar
ket prices, for resale to exporters at
a price which will enable them to
dispose of it abroad in competition
with Canada, the Argentine and Aus
tralia. Losses sustained by the FSCC will
be made up from-section 32A of the
AAA act. which set aside 30 per cyit
of custom receipts for disposal of
agricultural surpluses. The FSCC
has borrowed $30,000,000 from the
Reconstruction Finance corporation
to finance wheat purchases.
A six hour conference between
agriculture officials and 20 prom
inent grain dealers and exporters
preceded the announcement of the
subsidy program. The conference was
reported to have developed a plan for
an intensive sales campaign abroad
for American wheat.
As explained by Acting Secretary
of Agriculture M. L. Wilson, the sub
sidy program would operate as fol
lows: Exporter Jones would find a
foreign buyer for $10,000 bushels of
wheat at 60 cents a bushel, delivered
to Liverpool. Jones would inform
the FSCC that he would have to buy
the wheat at 4 6 cents a bushel in or-;
der to pay shipping costs and make a
reasonable profit. The FSCC. which
had paid American farmers 65 cents
a bushel, would sell it to ths exporter
at 4G cents and deduct the 19 cents
a bushel from the customs fund.
Grain dealers who attended the
conference included W. L. Richard
son. New Orleans; Robert F. Staub,
New York; M. R. Glaser. Chicago; j
Frank A. Theis, Kansas City; J. M.
Chilton. Minneapolis;. R. B. Bowden,
St. Louis; and Richard F. Uhlmann.
Chicago. George H. Davis, president
of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
also attended.
Wilson said that the United States
would follow a subsidy policy similar
to that adopted by the Canadian
wheat board, which announced last
week that it would meet "all com
petition." In the world wheat mar
ket in an effort to sell 250,000,000
bushels. He tacitly acknowledged the
failure of Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace to obtain a co
operative export agreement wnn
Canada and other wheat exporting
nations. He said the subsidy was
adopted to "meet a special situation."
"That situation," he said, "is the
fact that, up to the present, the ma
jod exporting nations are not co
operating in a general program for
meeting the world wheat surplus
problem."
The United States is completing
the harvest of its second largest
wheat crop on record 956,000,000
bushels. Adding a 154.000,000
bushel carryover a supply of 1,110,
000 bushels is available. That is
450,000,000 bushels more than nor
mal domestic demand.
In order to remove as much of that
surplus as possible, Wilson said that
the FSCC would continue indefinitely
purchasing wheat and flour in the
domestic market for subsidized sale
abroad.
LIQUOR COMMISSION REPORTS
LINCOLN. Aug. 29 (UP) The
state liquor commission today re
leased an audit report of the com
mission's records and accounts for
the period extending from June 11,
1937 to May 31, 1938.
"In my opinion the books and
records are kept in an efficient man
ner and. the lack of shortages in the
stamp account is quite commend
able," said Chairman J. A. McEachen.
"I have advised some minor changes
in handling a few of the accounis."
Farmers Attention
WE PAY CASH FOR
Dead Houses
and Cows
Pop Prompt Service -Call
The Fort Crook
Rendering Works
Market 3541 Omaha
WE PAY ALL PHONE CALLS
DISMISSES ACTION
FALLS CITY. Neb., Aug. 29 (UP)
District Judge Virgil Falloon to
day dismissed the one year old civil
action against Fred Nofsger, Hum
boldt oil transporter and his father-in-law,
Ulrich Lionberger, to collect
approximately $11,000 in gasoline
taxes and penalties. Lack of prose
cution was given as the reason.
Nofsger was acquitted by a district
court jury of a criminal charge of
failure to pay taxes. The state's re
luctance to try the civil action, it
was believed arose primarily from
failure
charge.
of conviction on criminal
Estate Andrew
Mellon Valued
at 37 Million
Large Part of Etate Will Be Turned
Over to the A. W. Mellon Foun
dation Trust Fund.
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 31 (UP)
The estate of Andrew W. Mellon,
wealthy financier and former secre
tary of the treasury today was evalu
ated at ?37(000,000 in an inventory
and appraisement filed with the reg
ister ot wills.
Far les than the amount conjec
tured as the value of the estate soon
after his death at Southampton, Long
Iilrtnd, on August 26, 1937, the es
tate, oxi-t'i.t for a small portion of it
is to be turned over to the A. W.
Mellon educational and charitable
trust to be devoted to charitable and
educational purposes.
In the inventory filed today was
listed approximately $35,000,000 in
personal property. T-his appraisal ex
cluded Mellon's real estate holdings
which are estimated to be worth $2,
000.000. As the inventory was filed. H. M.
Johnson, secretary to the late Mr.
Mellon, issued a brief explanatory of
it, pointing out various gifts the fi
nancier had given during his life
time, his gifts cutting down the
value of his estate at his death.
FARMERS PLANT SORGHUM
LINCOLN. Aug. 29 (UP) Canny
Nebraska farmers who saw their
corn scorched out during drouth
years, this year planted the equiva
lent of 6,300,000 bushels of corn In
drouth resistant sorghum as livestock
feed, D. L. Gross,' Nebraska college
of agriculture agronomist reported
today.
Gross said early grain sorghums
planted by June 1 now are mature
and beyond further drouth damage.
He reported 90 per cent ot the state's
grain sorghum acreage is planted in
early varieties. His estimate of feed
ing value compared to corn was
based on feed crop reports and feed
ing tests by the college of agricul
ture and estimates by A. E. Ander
son, state and federal crop statis
ticians which indicated a total grain
sorghum production of 7,800,000
bushels in Nebraska this year.
PASTOR, 75. MISSES GOAL:
RUNS CENTURY IN 18.2
ELboRADO. 111. (UP) Alec D.
Hancock of Eldorado, a Baptist min
ister, was celebrating his 75th birth
day. For two weeks he had been train
ing "to run the 100-yard dash in 16
seconds flat."
Traffic on Eldorado's main street
halted as he rolled up his sleeves and
troii3cr legs and discarded his shoes.
He started, sprinted nicely, the first
50 yards, then slowed, and finally
labored across the finish line, his
stockinged feet pounding the brick
pavement.
"Sorry, Alec.' said a spectator with
a stop watch. You made it in IS. 2."
RATS DOUSE POLICE LIGHTS
WINNIPEG. Man. (UP) Rats dis
rupted the police department's street
light signal system here. Searching
for the cause of failure of the system,
electricians found the rodents had
chewed a chunk of lead from one of
the cables laid in sewers and under
ground tunnels.
LOST INDIAN TRIBE TRACED
' TITUSVILLE, Pa. (UP) Traces of
an Indian tribe heretofore almost
lost to the pages of American his
tory have been unearthed in north
western Pennsylvania, according to
officials in charge of an archaelogical
survey recently completed in that
section. -
caii 4208 R. A. DOUD for
JELLY GRAPES - - - $1 Bu. Delivered
Also DOUD SOAP
Large Number
Have Social Se
curity Accounts
Lincoln Office of Social Security
Board Reports 274,820 Have
Been Assigned to State.
Five thousand three hundred and
twenty-three social security account
numbers were issued to Nebraska
tworkers during the month of July, ac-
cording to Leo W. Smith in charge
of the Lincoln, Nebraska, office of
the social security board. This
brings the total of social security
account numbers assigned to Ne
braska to 274,820.
Mr. Smith also stated that during
July, 8S claims for single cash old
age insurance payments were certi
fied to residents of Nebraska, to
taling $3,831.00. The average pay
ment per claim was $43.53.
The total number of social se
curity applications on file with the
social security board was 40,097,446
at the end of July, Mr. Smith said.
He also indicated that $6,700,993
has been paid out by the federal gov
ernment to 184,612 claimants of
benefits under the old-age insurance
program.
COULD SAVE HORSES
CHICAGO, Aug. 29 (UP) If farm
ers used "good horse sense" 90 to
95 per cent of the horses affected by
sleeping sickness will recover, Secre
tary Wayne Dinsmore of the Horse
and Mule Association of America said
today.
Dinsmore said there should be no
cause of panic among farmers be
cause 75 per cent of the horses in
communities where the disease is
present "will never get it because
most of them are immune."
Of the remaining 25 per cent, he
said. 90 to 95 per cent could be
cured if farmers used "good horse
sense" and isolated the stricken
horses from mosquitoes and flies,
covered them with netting or used fly
snray every two hours. Dinsmore
I said the disease - was transmitted
jfrom sick to healthy horses by flies
and mosquitoes.
MANY OF JOBLESS ILL
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30 (UP)
If all the nation's jobless workers
suddenly were called back to work
today, at least 350.000 of them would
be unable to report for duty because
of illness, according to the U. S.
public health service.
A national health survey by the
service disclosed that many persons
are ill because they are unemployed
and cannot afford decent diets,
proper housing or medical care.
Preliminary tabulations indicated
that among white unemployed work
ers 15 to 64 years of age, the propor
tion disabled by illness was 39.5 per
1.000 while the rate among employed
workers was 19.5 per 1,000.
YORK VOTES BOND ISSUE
YORK. Neb.. Aug. 30 (UP) York
more than tne required bu per ceni
majority a bond issue of $90,000 for
a municipal auditorium, the city
council announced today after "can
vassing the mail vote.
The vote favoring the issue was
1,268 and 757 voted against the pro
posal. A $35,000 bond issue for park
improvement also won approval of
the voters. PWA grants are being
sought to supplement funds voted
in the bond issue.
JAPANESE SOOTHING UNIT
WANTS TO QUIT CHINA
PEIPING (UP) Officers of the
Japanese Pacification and Soothing
Society want to go home.
Reason for the back-to-the-home
movement lay in the fact that more
than 20 members of the society have
been killed recently by Chinese
plainsclothesmen while engaged in
pacifying Chinese civilians off the
beaten path of Japanese army garri
sons.
BOLT SPLINTERS ROD,
ANGLER ESCAPES INJURY
FORT ERIE, Out. (UP) rJack
Richmond, Bertie Township youth,
sat fishing at a shipyard sup on
Niagara river near here, and got a
bite.
A moment later, a bolt of light
ning knocked Richmond's fishing pole
out of his hands, slivering it to bits.
He was not injured.
POWER FROM COLUMBUS PLANT
LINCOLN. Aug. 31 (UP) Hydro
electric power from the Loup River
public power district's plant at Co
lumbus flooded through its $500,000
substation here today. Officials said
lines fo the Lancaster county rural
public power district would be ener
gized with electricty. Final inspec
tion was completed yesterday and the
switches were turned on for the first
time.
The Lancaster project which serves
200 farm homes in the Lincoln area
has been receiving current for six
months from the Iowa - Nebraska
Light and Power company.
Cozad Decides
to Build Own
Power Plant
Unable to Agree With Private Plant
or Power District, City Decides
to Go Ahead With Plant.
COZAD, Nebr., Auj?. 30 (UP)
Unable to pet cooperation from either
the owenrs of the private plant or
the North Platte Valley public power
and irrigation district, the city of
Cozad has decided to call for bids
for the erection of its own municipal I
power plant, R. E. Bannister, sec-j
retary of the board of public works
announced today.
Last April Cozad citizens voted
$275,000 in bonds for the power plant
and distribution system here. Since
that time Bannister said, the board I
has had several meeting's with officials !
cf the Western Public Service Co.
Scottsbluff, owners of the present
plant, but nothing developed.
"Finding: ourselves unable to pur
chase the distribution system of the
company and beinp unable to make
satisfaitory arrangements with the
Platte Valley District for power,"
said a statement isshed by Bannister,"
"the Cozad mayor and city council
together with the board of public
works at a joint meeting today voted
to advertise for bids for the construc
tion of an electric plant and distribu
tion system, bids to be received Sep
tember 26."
The estimated cost of the project
was placed at $220,000.
MALARIA STUDY GOES FOR
WARD WITH CANARIES
ATLANTA (UP) Beneath the
golden feathers of the singing
canary may lie the secret of new
methods of treating malaria, accord
ing to the theory of Emory Univer
sity medical students.
Officials of Emory have announced
a $3,000 grant from the Abbott
Laboratories of North Chicago. III., to
continue present research work on
canaries. Dr. Elizabeth Gambrcll,
instructor in bacteriology, will di
rect the research, which was begun
several months ago on a preliminary
$1,000 award from the research or
ganization. Dr. Gambrell . said that the re
search would be conducted on more
'inan 50 canaries. The canary is the
! nn Ii' animal Lr rt In ra Q rprfpfl Tl V
malaria in the same way as human
beings.
"We hope, through the testing of
new drugs on canaries which are
stricken with malaria, to discover a
remedy which will treat the disease
more effectively and thus help the
r.outh to rid itself of its present
scourge," said Dr. Gambrell.
"Although we have no definite de
velopments to announce yet, we be
leive we are making progress."
CAT MOTHERS RABBITS.
SQUIRRELS AND RODENT
CLEBURNE. Tex. (UP) Cat
fanciers who have reported from time
to time Jhe strange "babies" adopted
by their mother cats can take a back
seat now. Cecilia, Miss Edna Earl
Moore's tabby, can top them all.
Cecilia has three kittens of her
own, but that is the least of her lif
ter. She also has: One young rat,
two baby rabbits and two ground
squirrels.
of any
SYIM7 13AT
in the House
WESCOTT'S
Where Quality Count
HIV
325,370 Voted
in State Primary
Tabulation Shows
Figture of Vote Cast Only Exceeded
by Enormous Vote Rolled Up
in the 1934 Election.
LINCOLN, Aug. 30 (UP) More
Ncbraskans went to the polls at the
primary election August 9 than at
any previous primary contest except
1934, the official canvass of the vote
showed today.
Tabulation revealed 325,370 per
sons cast ballots at the 1938 primary
as against the record breaking total
of 408,238 in 1934. Of the approxi
mately 325,000 who voted in this
year's primary, 170,529 were demo
crats and 154,941 republicans.
Charle3 W. Taylor, veteran state
superintendent of public instruction
who is seeking his fourth four year
term, again polled the highest in
dividual vote as he did in 1934. His
office, however, is listed on the non
political ballot and draws votes from
both major parties. Taylor received
166.945 votes compared to 54,089 for
Sarah T. Muir, his closest competitor.
In second place was Governor R. L.
jCochran who received 109,885 to load
I his democratic opponents by a wide
margin. William H. Swanson was
next with 15,702 voles and Frank C.
Radke finished third with 15,426.
Exactly 107.537 persons took the
trouble to acatch an X opposite the
name of William H. Trice, Omaha
democrat who
was unopposed for
renomination as state auditor. Price
ranked next to the governor as a
ofvote getter. Not far behind wa
Harry N. Swanson who was easily
renominated to the office of secretary
of state with a poll of 90,934 votes.
Floyd L. Bollen, chairman cf the
rtato railway commission won re
nomination in a tight race with
Harry Conklin of Scottsbluff and Lin
coln. Bollen received 22.820 vote.i
against 21,514 for Conklin.
Figures for congress in the first
! district follow:
Democratic: Henry C. Luckey, 14.
957; George V. Olson, 2.103; Irvin
Lechliter, 3,106; A. P. Fitzsimmons,
4,155; Leon Wondra, 2,613.
Republican: George H. Heinkc,
15,524; Oren S. Copeland. 14,904.
FISHING WARDEN SEES
THAT BIG ONE GET AWAY
EL PASO, Tex. (UP) R. A. Slub
blefield primarily is a game warden
not a fisherman but here is his
story of the big one he let get away:
Stubblefield approached a Negro
fishing in a canal. He spied nearby
a three-pound bass tied to a stick
in the mud. It would have been Il
legal to catrh the bass.
"How's luck?" Stubblefield gin
gerly asked his "prospect."
"You know, boss," the Negro said,
"I've had an awful hard time here.
I've been fishing for perch, and this
big bass here has been stealin' my
bait all day.
"So, I just tied him up here on
the bank to keen him off my bait
so I could catch some perch but I'm
through fishin' now, so I might as
well turn him loose again."
Gaping, Stubblefield watched the
man loose the fish, and the evidence
swam into the stream while the fish
erman took his perch and started
home.
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