PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
MONDAY, SEPT. 5, 1938.
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Heavy Rains
Eing Floods in
the Mountains
Morrison. Colo., Suffers Heavy Flood
of Business Section Damage
Estimated at $2,0CC,O0O.
DENVER, Co'.o., Sept. 3 (UP)
Heavy rains sent "flash" f.oods roar
ing down streams in the Rock Mount
ains today, taking at least or.e life,
inudutim? or isolating a score of towns
and inflicting: damage estimated at
$2,000,000.
Several persons were missing in
flood areas. One party of 12 was
ctrandcd for several hours near Mor
rison, a resort town at the mouth of
Bear Creek Canyon 13 miles south
west of Denver.
A six foot wall of water struck
Morrison at 7 p. m. last night, it
Hooded business establishments and
residences to a depth of from three i
to seven feet.
Other resort or mining towns swept
by high waters were Estes Park, E!
Dorado Springs, Louisvi'ie, Superior.
Fort Collins, Munn, i'dledal and a
dozen small communities in Big
Thompson canyon.
Scores of persons were rescued
from house tcps and automobiles. irs-'
Wa.tcr Ecyd. wife cr a LcuisvUe.j Tne new divisions were composed
Colo., doctor, was drowned in a swob .f infantr-f cavalry, motorized col
kn creek west of Denver. Her r.uto- umns .motorized artillery and special
mcbile was swept off the highway. ized troops. It was believed the
Traffic was paralyzed in the entire
crea west and north cf Denver. Ar
estimated 200 miles of roadway was
wachtd out or made impassable.
Stat? highway patrolman Patrick
O Rourkc, the first officer to reach
Morrison after the flood struck, said
there wasn't a single dry house cr
person in town." He said boulders
"almost as big as automobiles'' hac
b?en washed in.
Sheriff Donny Durham said he
feared persons living in cabins along
Bear Creek canyon might have
drowr.ed.
"But that's oniv a guess," he said
Officials of the highway depart
ment sid tho damage might be much
higher than 2,000,000. it was im
possible to make an accurate check
until the waters had drained away.
El Dorado Springs, 20 miles north
west of Denver, was isolated foi
hours. Cole Creek swept through the
mining towns of Louisville, Superior
and Erie.
The Big Thompson river flccded
numerous fishing cabin along its
course. Fort Collins, a northern Col
orado college town, reported that the
Poudre river was pouring water into
the town.
COMMUNITY HALL BURNED
ROWLEY, la., Sept. D (UP) Fire
destroyed the Rowlev community hal'
and nine cf the town's 22 businers
buildings earlv today at a loss esti
mated tvt ?50.000.
Heaviest loss cf S2;".010 wan suf
fered by P.. R. Rorencranr, imple
ment dealer. The fire broke cut at
2 a. m. in the cemmunitv hall fol
lowing a wedding dance last night
It was the second disartcr here in
15 months, the first being. a $40,000
tornado in the residence district.
FEEL NO ALARM
PARIS, France, .Sept- " (UP)
The Priemer's office said today that
there is no cause for alarm over the
German troop movements on the Rhine
because they are purely defensive,
French agencies were requested not
to publish the reports because they
might alarm public opinion.
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Germany Moves
More Troops to
the Rhine River
Reinforcements Imported as Moved in
Along the French Frontier in
the Past 24 Hours.
By JOHN KNITTEL
STRASBOURG, France, Sept. 3
(UP) Strong German reinforce
ments moved into positions on the
right bank of the Rhine in the last
24 hours in the Kehl and Offenburg
region.
Mechanized units. Including light
artillerp batteries and heavy machine
guns occupied the garrisons.
The Kehl bridge leading to Stras
bourg remained open. No counter
measures are visible on the French
side this afternoon.
A high military officer assured the
United Press correspondent that no
i special steps had been considered and
no move made as yet to cancel week
end leaves of the French troops.
According to estimates reaching
here approximately two divisions, or
more than 30.000 men arrived in the
Kehl and Offenburg regions since
Friday night.
Travelers reported that only skele
ton units were in that region before
Friday
troops were merely occupying newly
completed fortifications in that re
gion as part of the current
maneuvers.
NEW TYPE SUIT FOR DIV
ING HAS DOUBLE SHEATH
SYDNEY (UP) A new diving
suit, which may revolutionize pres
ent methods of deep-sea diving, will
be used in an attempt to salvage the
cargo of the steamer Cumberland.
The wreck with its cargo of metal
valued at $200,000, lies at a depth
of 47 fathoms off the coast of New
South Wales. The ship struck a mine
in 1917 while on the way to England
with copper, iron and zinc for British
munitions.
Navy officials who have been test
ing the new diving suit, the invention
of E. R. Clifford of Sydney, believe
that it will permit diving operations
at such a pi eat depth owing to its
novel construction. It is built in twe
compartments, the outer of which is
subject to air pressure, while the in
ner contains air at normal surface
pressure.
In old type of diving suits par
alysis often resulted from the pres
sure of the air that had been forced
in in order to resist the water.
ANTI - GERMAN DEMONSTRATION
WARSAW. Poland, Sept. 3 (UP)
Violent anti-German demonstrations
broke out last night in the town
of Bielsko Silesia, advices received
tcday said.
A crowd of 1,000 stormed a Ger
man book store and burned many
volumes including copies of Hitler's
"Mein ICampf." The crowd smashed
the windows of a loral German newsf
paper as well as those of private
homes, according to reports.
EANISH JEW STUDENTS
ROME. Sept. 2 (UP) The cabinet,
at its scrond meeting in two days,
today banished Jewish students from
all Italian schools and prohibited
the employment of Jewish instruc
tors, professors and other teachers
in any school, effective October 1
when the new school term starts.
APPROVE TESTING STATION
WASHINGTOS, Sept. 2 .(UP)
The. "WPA .today announced approval
of an allotment of $3,514 for con
struction s of an . automobile., safety
testing station at Nebraska City.
Coach Jones is
Ready to Start
Football Season
Loss of Eleven Lettennen Will Have
Its Effect But Sophomores of
Squad Look Very Good.
By JOSEPH V. MILLER
LINCOLN, Sept. 2 (UP) Major
Lawrence "Biff" Jones of the Ne
braska Cornhuskers surveyed his
193S football prospects today and
decided the Huskers are at least a
year away from first class gridiron
calibre.
This does not mean Nebraska will
lack Its customary strength this sea
son but it does signify that Jones is
building for 1939 and 1940 with the
best crop of sophomores, based on
their performances as freshmen, in
many years.
Jones lost 11 lettermen frdm last
year's alert, hard-fighting crew that
repeated as Big Six conference cham
pions, whipped three Big Ten foes
including Minnesota and came within
an ace of beating mighty Pitt. He
has only 12 veterans back this fall
and is short experienced replace
ments. "Playing the schedule that we are.
we need a squad three deep in every
position." he observed. "We are go
ing to develop three or four teams.
Last year's freshman squad was good
but sophomores are unpredictable."
Starting bis second year as head
coach. Biff plans to pick up where he
and his aides left off last year. Tricky
variations of basic plays will be in
order. He looks for weaker punting
than last year unless the sophomore
backs surprise, but is counting on an
improved passing game with Thurs
ton Phelps, quarterback, on the
throwing end.
He believes every conference team
will be stronger than in 1937 and
refuses to venture any prediction
about the Big Six race.
Bob Kahler of Grand Island, an
end. is the only sophomore listed as
a probable regular. Jack Dcdd, of
Gothenburg, an elusive ball carrier
who broke up several games last year,
will spark a veteran backfield oper
ating a line built around Charley
Brock of Columbus, considered one of
the best of a long line of outstand
ing centers at Nebraska.
Other lettermen in addition, to
Dodd, Phelps and Brock are' Bill
Pfeiff and Adna Dobson, guards, both
of Lincoln; Bob Mills and Sam
Schwartzkoff, both of Lincoln,
tackles: Lloyd Grimm of Omaha and
Kenneth Shindo of Grand Island,
ends; Marvin Plock of Lincoln, Bill
Anderson of Plainville, Kan., half
backs, and Bill Callihan of Grand
Island, fullback.
Best sophomores listed are Harry
Hopp of Hastings, Edsel Wibbels of
Wolbach, Roy Petsch of Scottsbluff,
Herman Rohrig of Lincoln and Vike
Francis of Fort Morgan, Colo., bro
ther of Ail-American Sam, all backs;
Leonard Muskin of Omaha, guard;
Forrest Dehm of Lincoln and Pv.ul
Koetowski of Fitchburg, Mass.,
tackles, and Kahler, end. Jones
said nine or 10 sophomores probably
will find places on the second string.
In addition -to the five confer
ence games, the Huskers meet Pitts
burgh, Minnesota, Iowa and Indiana
a repetition of the 1937 schedule.
SAYS MUST REMOVE EQUIPMENT
YORK, Neb., Sept. 2 (UP) York
city council last night adopted reso
lutions notifying the Iowa-Nebraska
Light and Power company that it
must remove its lines, poles and other
distribution equipment from streets
and alleys here. Officials explained
the action was necessary in order
to secure a PWA grant for the con
struction of a municipal distribution
system for which the voters gave ap
proval last week. The city had sought
to buy the existing system but nego
tiations failed. The company had re
fused to remove equipment, it . was
stated.
SEVERS LEG IN BUZZ SAW
MOUNT AYR, la., Sept. 2 (UP)
Ed-Dugan, 73. Mount Ayr, wa3 re
ported in critical condition at a
Creston hospital today after nearly
severing hi3 leg in a buzz saw acci
dent. The limb was amputated late yes
terday. Dugan's leg became caught above
the knee while he was showing
Marks Owens, Beaconsfield, how to
run the saw.
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OTOE FARMERS SEEK REVERSAL
LINCOLN, Sept. 2 (UP) Thirteen
farmer-subscribers of the Eastern Ne
braska public power district in Otoe
county returned home today armed
with petitions seeking a revision of
a railway commission order which
gave the district 10 days to de-energize
53 miles of rural transmission
lines.
The line was ordered de-energized
after the Unadilla Union Telephone
company complained inductive inter
ference froni the system made tele
phone conversations virtually impos
sible. The farmers made a peisonal pro
test yesterday to Railway Commis
sioner F. A Good, and offered to cir
culate the petitions seeking to extend
the 10-day deadline so that some other
solution of the problem might be
found.
The district is financed by the rural
electrification administration which
has refused to pay cost oi" metallic
izing telephone wires.
Delegation members said they had
invested a considerable sum in elec
trical appliances and that if current
is shut eff the appliances will be of
no value, they said they desired both
telephone and electric service, but
would prefer power to the telephone
in event of a choice.
The delegation contended the Un
adilla company had not properly
maintained its lines despite recent
repairs.
CROP UNDER AUGUST ESTIMATE
CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (UP) Private
crop experts today forecast a U. S.
corn crop of 2,438,000,000 bushels
more than 100,000,000 bushels under
the government August estimate and
76,000,000 bushels less than their own
estimate last month.
Drouth and excessive heat during
the part month were blamed for heavy
crop deterioration in Nebraska ad
sections of Iowa, Missouri, South
Dakota and . Kansas. Spring wheat
production vas placed at 253,000.000
bushels, oniv 5,000,000 less than the
average "forecast August 1 and 15,
000,000 under the government esti
mate for that date
Today's average estimated ccrn crop
is almost 20-,),000,000 bushels less than
J the 1937 yield but still about 150,000,
000 bushels larger than t.e 1927-36
j average return of 2,305.0CO,O0O.
MONEY FOR BINDWEED FIGHT
LINCOLN, Sept. 3 (UP) Appli
cation has been made to the WPA at
1 Washington for" a $500,000 blnd
I weed eradication program in Ne
braska, it was announced today.
The project would supplement the
present setup under which bindweed
control districts may be formed in
accordance with a 1937 law.
The application calls for $209,914
in federal funds and $276. S00 from
counties which may desire to co
operate. If operate fully the eradi
cation program would employ 360
men a year. Some 400,000 acres of
Nebraska farm land are infested with
bindweed and alsoibout 60,000 miles
of highway right-of-way.
TO INSPECT NEW SITES
LINCOLN. Sept. 3 (UP) Dr. O.
. May and Dr. G. K. Hubert of
the bureau of chemistry and soils of
the U. S. department of agriculture
will arrive here September 13 to
inspect proposed sites for the new
federal agricultural experiment sta
tion to be located in one of the north
central states
The laboratory, one of four to be
set up in the nation will, it was
estimated, cost $1,000,000. A com
mittee here, headed by E. T. Winter,
secretary of the Nebraska Farm Bu
reau Federation, has made plans for
an inspection tour of Lincoln for the
two ivsitors. !
NEW ZEALAND PREPARES
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Sept.
3 (UP) Prime Minister M. J. Sav
age said today after a meeting of
the defense council that "reasonable
precautions for emergency" had been
considered.
"We are hoping for the best but
must prepare for the worst," he add
ed. SUSPEND OMAHA OFFICER
OMAHA, Sept. 3 (UP) Sergeant
M. J. Timmin3, charged with failure
to investigate a bad automobile acci
dent here, has been suspended for
15 days by Acting Police Chief
Robert Munch.
LAND, FARM and
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St. Louis Company
Sues the General4
Motors Company
Asks Damages for $48,000,000 for
Alleged Infringement of
Patent Rights.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 3 (UP)
The Gasifier Manufacturing com
pany sought $48,000,000 damages to
day from the General Motors corpor
ation, Detroit, and the International
Harvester company, Chicago, in two
suits charging that the companies
had infringed on two patents.
Attorney Orla M. Hill filed the
suits in U. S. district court late yes
terday. One asked $30,003,000 from
General Motors and the other asked
$18,000,000 from International Har
vester. The bills said that the companies
had infringed on patents for two
types of fuel vaporizer attachments
for carburetors. The devices are
manifolds which supply dry gasoline
to cylinders and reduce gasoline con
sumption. Hill said.
Both petitions specified that Mau
rice O. Smith, Dallas. Tex., vice
president of the plaintiff firm, had
received patents for the devices in
1922 and 1923.
The suit against General Motors
claimed an actual loss of $0,000,000.
The damages were based on royalties
set at one dollar per device for ten
million used by General Motors and
six million used by International
Harvester, Hill said. The suits asked
a judgment of $4S,000,000 because
patent laws provide that damages
may be trebled for infringement.
The Gasifier company's headquar
ters are located at Clayton, Mo.
HITCH-HIKER ROBS BENEFACTOR
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia., Sept. 3
(UP) Not content with a lift across
the state of Iowa, a hitch-hiker yes
terday robbed his benefactor of his
means of transportation and $72.
When a blond complexioncd youth
about 24 years old. dressed in brown
slacks, a light polo shirt and white
J sport shoes hailed John B. Van Has
Men, jr.. of Tenafly, N. J., the latter
j obliged. But a few miles out of
Council Bluffs, the hiker pulled an
automatic pistol from his pocket
and demanded Van Haslen's wallet
and car. -
Van Ilaslen, an airplane pilot who
was bound for the west coast, had to
hitch-hike into Council Bluffs to re
port the incident.
IOWA CHAMPION EEEF
DES MOINES, la.. Sept. 2 (UP)
The state fair grand champion baby
beef owned by Herbert Olson of New
hall was hold at auction today for
$1.00 a pound, the highest price paid
for a baby beef in the history of the
exhibition.
The animal was bought by the
John Morrill Packing Co. Governor
Nelson G. Kraschel also submitted
a bid.
Kraschel's offer was 90c. The $1.00
bid astonished many bystanders. The
champion baby beef last year sold for
51c a pound. Olson's steer weighed
1,010 pounds. It brought him
$979.70 after 3 per cent was deducted
for shrinkage.
IIUBBELL OUT SOON
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 2 (UP)
The stiches in the left arm of Carl
Ilubbell, ace of the New York Giant
pitching; staff, were removed Thurs
day and his physicians said he would
be able to leave the hospital in about
a week or ten days.
Hubble underwent an operation 1C
days ago for removal of a bone chip
from the elbow of his left arm.
Although Ilubbell will not be able
to pitch again this season, Dr. Spen
cer fenced said he should regain nis
old effectiveness next vcar.
I0WANS APPROVE FRANCHISE
KNOXVILLE, la., Sept. 2 (UP)
Knoxville residents, in a record
vote, yesterday approved a 25-year
franchise renewal for the Iowa Light
and Power Co.
The vote was 1,401 to COS. The
company announced it would build a
$143,000 direct power line from Knox
ville to Des Moines.
Farmers Attention
WE PAY CASH FOR
, Dead Horses
and Cows
" For Prompt Service Call
The Fort Croolc
Rendering Works
Market 3541 Omaha
WE PAY ALL PHONE CALLS
FAMILY TO BE RETURN
ED TO CASS COUNTY
LINCOLN, Sept. 2 (PU) Mrs. R.
Bishop, Lancaster county relief di
rector said today Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
C. Leonard and their six children,
who staged a sit-down strike at re
lief headquarters Wednesday prob
ably would be returned to Cass coun
ty.
The matter was brought before
State Assistance Director Neil C.
Vandemoer today. Mrs. Leonard,
spokesman for the "strikers" said
the family had received no food for
two weeks and asked an emergency
food order. Relief authorities said
the family had not been residents
of this county for the prescribed year
and were ineligible. The Leonards
have been living in an extra farm
building near Waverly. County com
missioners offered the family tem
porary lodging and meals at the city
mission pending disposition of the
case. Leonard, a former steel worker,
handicapped by loss of a. foot, said he
had had 18 days of work this summer
as a harvest hand. The family dur
ing the past 24 years has lived alter
nately in Lancaster, Cass and Ante
lope counties.
SORGHUM DEMONSTRATIONS
LINCOLN, Sept. 2 (UP) G. T.
Webster, assistant Nebraska College
of Agriculture extension agronomist
today reported findings of grain sor
ghum variety demonstrations in Ne
maha and Richardson counties this
week attended by about GO farmers
from that area. Webster said the
first two meetings held at any of the
88 cooperative sorghum variety plots
in the state showed grain sorghums
probably would yield only about the
same as corn in the two counties this
year, due to abundant moisture.
In other counties where drouth has
been a factor the early sorghums
promised to mature in time for good
yields due to quick growth and in spite
of interruption of growth by drouth.
Webster said he believed only enough
rorghums will be planted in southeast
Nebraska in the future to prevent
complete crop failure in event of
drouth.
HAS SPEECH RESTORED
IOWA CITY, la., Sept. 3 (UP)
Maurice Arcoren, 20, hall-breed Sioux
Indian youth from Rosebud, S. D.,
was enjoying the power of speech to
day after being unable to talk foi
two years.
He suddenly recovered his voice, as
tounding University of Io.va speech
clinicians. He had been under treat
ment here for three months, but all
efforts of the experts to cure him
failed.
They said thev believed, the shock
the youth suffered when told his case
was hopeless if he did not exert him
self more, goaded him to talk.
"God did it," Arcoren said.
He had been a stutterer since child
hood, and gave up talking to resort
to sign language and writing.
WILL BAR THOSE NOT
FILING ELECTION EXPENSE
LINCOLN, Sept. 3 (UP) Secre
tary of State Harry L. Swanson said
today 73 persons nominated at the
August primary election will be denied
a place on the general bnllot if they
fail to file campaign expense state
ments. Sixty-five of the 73 are public power
nominees, seven are legislative con
tenders and or.e is a nominee for the
University of Nebraska board of re
gents. Certificates of nomination have been
mailed to all other nominees. Accept
ance must be returned within ten days.
ASSIGN JURGENSEN CASE
LINCOLN, Sept. 3 (UP) The su
preme court, in its call of cases to
day tentatively assigned the appeal
of former Lieutenant Governor Wal
ter H. Jurgensen from an embezzle
ment conviction for a hearing the
week of October 3.
RIOTING BY INDIANS
BANGOON, Burma. Sept. 3 (UP)
Troops were called out for emergency
patrol today after a renewal of riot
ing by the Burmese and Indians.
Four Burmese were killed and many
wounded in rioting yesterday.
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Every Nebraska
Worker Should
Have Number
Nebraska Unemployment Compensa
tion Division of Social Security
Urges Account Number.
LINCOLN, Sept. 3. One social se
curity account number for every Ne
braska worker, regardless of age, em
ployed by a firm subject to the Ne
braska unemployment compensation
law, but only one number, is the ob
jective of a renewed drive of the Ne
braska unemployment compensation
division.
Behind this campaign lies the
story of numerous delayed claims for
unemployment benefits in twenty
eight states now paying benefits. In
the majority of cases these delays
were due solely to the failure of
eligible claimants to provide them
selves with social security account
numbers while they worked in cov
ered employment, when wage credits
were accumulated on which unem
ployment insurance rights are deter
mined. '
V. B. Kinney, commissioner of the
Nebraska state labor department has
ruled that every worker in this
state who la covered by the Nebraska
unemployment compensation 1 a w
must secure a social security num
ber. When benefit payments start
after January 1, 1939, it will be ab
solutely necessary for every claimant
to produce his social security num
ber at the time he files his claim for
unemployment compensation with an
office of the Nebraska state employ
ment service.
It is also the Nebraska division's
aim to end for the future, as far as
possible, delay in ascertaining bene
fit rights growing out of the fact
that certain eligible workers' record
ed earnings are filed under two or
more social security account num
bers. Nebraska employers and Ne
braska workers have been asked to
cooperate in this official drive so
thai every one of Nebraska's 130,000
covered workers? whether under or
over sixty-five years of age, will have
a proper social security number, with
his wage credits filed under that num
ber, when the time comes to pay
benefits to unemployed persons who
are covered by the Nebraska law.
REMOVE PURCHASE BARRIER
YORK, Sept. 3 (UP) Another ob
stacle in the path of the acquisition
by the city of York of its own electric
light plant was removed today when
District Judge H. D. Landis dismissed
an injunction suit brought by Wilbur
G. Liggett.
Liggett sought to have the special
election authorizing the proposal set
aside. He alleged that a contract
made with special engineer Robert
Fulton of Lincoln was in accord with
the mandnte of the voters. The city
council modified the contract and the
court upheld the revised contract.
Judge Landis decreed cost of the suit
shall be divided evenly between Lig
gett and the city.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
IOWA CITY. Ia., Sept. 2 (UP)
John LewandowskI, 19-year-old farm
hand, faced charges of assault today
after his capture by a posse of 50
farmers armed with pitchforks and
shotguns.
LewandowskI, whose home is in
New York state, was accused of chok
ing Mrs. Leonard Novak, by whose
husband he was employed.
He was captured when he ran from
a barn where he had been hiding be
neath some straw. Mrs. Novak was
not injured seriously.
WILL AUCTION GUNS
LINCOLN, Sept. " (UP) The an
nual auction of guns confiscated
from violation of Nebraska game
laws will be held at the state fair
grounds September 17 the state game
commission announced today. Sixty-
six guns will be sold.
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