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“NEBRASKA BEES ARE PROFITABLE Owner* of 44,096 Colonies Marketed $502,253 Worth of Honey in 1927 Lincoln, Neb., _j „ (UP)— There were 44,086 colonies of bees in Nebraska during 1927, an In crease of more than 1.000 colonies over 1926- the state and federal di vision of agricultural statistics an nounces, Figures just obtained re vealed that the surplus honey mar keted amounted to 2.854,432 pounds in this state, or a sum of *502,253 at a selling price of 17 cents a pound. Apiarists report that the average production of surplus honey was 07 pounds a colony. This is slightly low lower than the 1826 average in Ne braska. but a! ill is higher than any average reported lor the whole United States. , Honey production ranged from 30 or 35 pounds as high as 170 pounds for a colony. Although the price for the year averaged 17 cents a pound, on December 1 it varied from 13 to 25 cents a pound. The Nebraska average price of 17 cents was 1 cent lower than in 1926 but the same as in 1925, the division an nounced. CREIGHTON FARM SELLS AT PRICE OF $101 PER ACRE Creighton. Neb.. , (Special i — The William Meikle 80-acre farm was sold at auction to Frank Lam bert, of Plainview, for $101 an acre Lambert will take possession March 1. 1929. The price is considered fair, taking the condition of repair of the buildings into consideration. GASOLINE EXPLODES, TRACTOR DRIVER INJURED Osmond, Neb., __ (Special)— Elmer Schnecklolh. a young man living northwest of town, received Injuries to his lace and eyes when the f/nsnline tank on a tractor er plodrd. He was taken Immediately to a hospital and the extent of his Injuries are not yet known. INTERSCIIOI.ASTIC CONTEST AT LINCOLN SATURDAY Lincoln, Neb., _ (UP)—Ail arrangements had f>een completed here today for the sixth annual state high school Interscholastic contest, that will start tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. The contest will be held contin uously until 3:45 o'clock, when re sults will be announced and awards made. As students gathered for the "brain meet," it was predicted tha* the most Interest will center about the new academic pentathlon. The contest is similar to a contest for all-round athletes in a track and field meet and will be held in con nection with the academic meet for the first time. CARROLL KCHOOLK WILL GRADUATE CLARK OF 19 Carroll. Neb , <8pecial) — A class of 18 will graduate from the Carroll high school this year, it being the largest in history of the school. The commencement activi ties begin with the class play, and then the Junior-Senior banquet at the M. E. church. May 10, and the baceulaureate sermon by Rev. John son at the Methodist church. The commencement exercises will be held May 17 at the Community hall. FLAN LANDSCAPE WORK ON NEW HOSPITAL SITE Watertown, S. D„ (Spe cial)—Actual work on the land scaping of the site for the northern state hospital for the insane, south of this city, will be started this week ns a result of arrangements completed by Dr. G. S Adams, su IH'rintendent of the state hospital nt Yankton, and Arthur R. Nichol son, of Minneapolis, in charge of the landscape contract. The con tract for extensive planting of trees and shn bs about the proposed building site, was awarded to the Lake Kampeska Nursery company. Grading in preparation for land scaping the site was com Dieted last fall. Underground concrete tunnels to connect the proposed adminis tration and ward buildings, have already been constructed. ACHIEVEMENT TESTS BETTER THAN MONTHLY EXAMS, FIND Aberdeen. S. D.. ' — Replacement of the monthly exam ination In rural and graded schools by "achievement tests,” with ques tions based on the state course ot study, is being carried out in many South Dakota counties, it was re ported by the uriginators of the mw plan at Northern narmal. Working on the theory that the old monthly examination is cum b<rsume and indefinite. Prof. V. H. Culp, Prof H. M. tiuhin and Prof I. D. Weeks, of Northern narmal. planned the "achievement tests.* which have been used for two years turd which they report are being adopted rapidly. WOLKEY GIRL IK CHAMP SPELIAH OF THE COUNTY Wolvey, 8. D.. (Specialr — Gertrude Scheib*. of WoUry, P D.. Is Beadle county's champion spel ler. Bhe spelled everybody down in the annual spelling bee held at Huron, last Saturday. TOWN or LAKE ANDES VOTES TO GMAtKL STREETS Lake Andes 8 D. • Re sults of the special election held in lake Andes for the purpose of de < .ding whether or not the town should Issue bonds la the amount of • .•»eoo for graveling the street, tarried by a Iff vide In favor and M against This street improvement will cov er about M Marks, or bo per cent of the rttjr Property earner* will ronsffwrt curbing. and. on Main street, a or. .eaied gutter. FARMERS SELL THF.IR STOCK OF POPCORN Ord. Neb., (Special*-—One and a quarter million pounds of baby rice popcorn were bought by Val Pullen, local manager or the Dickinson Seed company here, in three days. Four cents a pound was paid foe it, a total of about $60,000. date Gilroy, local grower, sold 230.000 pounds, and got a check in return for almost $10,000. Gilroy still has 100,000 pound* of popcorn, which Is worth considerably less than the baby rice. There are about 350.000 pounds of baby rice popcorn left in the section. The rice pop corn is now $3 a hundred. Those who raised rice popcorn this year averaged about a ton to the acre. MOTHER TAKES HER CHILDREN Divorced W i f e Kidnaps Youngster* During Ab sence of Their Father Bushnell, Neb.. *" (Special! — Iheda end Bernard Tnomas, chil dren of Gene Thomas, were kid naped by their mother, his divorced wife, who drove here in a large tour ing car, bearing a Colorado license She was accompanied by three other women ana a man. The little girl was taken from school and the boy from the home of his father, for whom the grandmother keeps house. Gene Thomas, the father of the children, was in Cheyenne at the time, but when he returned and was informed of the kidnaping, started for Colorado to look for them. KNOX COUNTY ESTATE CASE IS APPEALED Lincoln. Neb., (Special 1 — Anna Bleick, administrator of the estate of Christina Ruden, deceased, is asking the supreme court to set aside the findings of the Knox 1 county district court that the statute of limitations had run against her claim for a Judgment of $20,000 against her son. Charles Ruden, who did not contest the ac tion. Mrs. Ruden, when alive, sued lor tlie foreclosure of a lien that arose out of a contract by which her son was to provide for her keep for the remainder of her life and to pay a stipulated sum per year. He did not keep the agreement in full, but in the meantime three persons got liens aaginst his property, and these appeared in the case to raise the claim that the mother had been guilty of laches in not pushing her claim sooner, ana uiai an sne rouic recover «m the sum mar'» up of the failure of the son since 1917, to keep the provisions of the contract for support and maintenance. The administrator also claims that the statute of limitations is a personal defense and that only thp von could have earned led the deed and taken the land free of these liens, but out of justice to the claim ! ants asked only for foreclosure of her prior lien, which would leave the creditors of the son whatever was left alter it had been satisfied by a sale Instead of 123.000. how ever, she got a judgment against the son for only $3,576. SUES HANK OFFICIALS FOR RETURN OF NOTES Bridgeport. Neb.. (UP) — Officers and stockholders of the* defunct Nebraska State bank here attempted to reimburse themselves for money they put in the insolvent institution, it was charged in suit filed against them today. Acting for the guaranty fund commission, which now Is operating the bank, the county attorney filed suit which showeu that the officers and stockholders took saleable notes and mortgages from the bank just prior to its closing. The paper was taken, it was charged, in lieu of money loaned to the bank in an attempt to prevent insolvency. The suit which also names Ray C. Munkres of the Union State bank of Broadwater, seeks a restraining order, preventing disposal of the paper by the former bank officials. Mitchell headquarters and later may be transferred to n branch of fice. These branch offices will be established in Sioux Falls. Ranid City, Huron, Watertown. Belle Fourche, Yankton. Pierre, Aberdeen and Hot Springs. Mr. Brown and his wife have previously been asso ciated with the Automobile club ol Southern California. Officers of the state association, which is affiliated with the A. A. A. are: president. J. W. Parmlev, r\ Ipswich; vice president. R. C. Mills, of Sioux Falls; treasurer, Leo Harmon, of Mitchell; R. L. Bron son. of Belle Fourche; O. M. Say lor. of Rapid City; Ople Chamber? of Yankton; George Townsend, ol Huron, and George Rczum. of Wa tertown, directors. W. D. Fisher. of Mitchell, is secretary-manager. WEALTHY 8I,EI> DEALER IS VICTIM or APOLKXY Waterloo. Neb . »UP»—J. i C. Robinson, wealthy seeo man. died at hia home here last night follow ing a stroke of apoplexy. Robinson ws* prominent In business circle? here and in Omaha. He had been prom Inertly identified with Ma sonic affairs of the itale tor many years. IMO KITS I4S.#00 BI T IIK Wild. Mini TO lUKHlHISt. Omaha, Nrb, <UP>—No tified that ho I# to receive ttSOOt from the estate of a relative who Led rvently in New York City, fted Wteldon. M years old Omaha bar - net announced he would e.nllmu to work m tl nothing h*py»*nvt Sheldon has been be*b?ring for 31 year*, and does not intend to quit because of the moo** he «a>d H* and a brasher who lives it. Chi cago. are aolo heirs to '*>• ootate Then expect to receive the:* mune< Out Our Way By Williams 1 ■■ Claim Tm' GREATEST ACTORS AmT OKI .Th* ^ ‘5TACrEI4 - A SECLODEO \ eEKiCH LOAFERS, j Three-clarets ^Three [ Puffs — PResFo — Three * eo<W ! BEES 4 LOO Kim' per *FHREB4P»tCES OF STEEL V\NHlC H 4 H aPPEkiS ^T^6E '‘>IE P»ECE OF L\C/ER WURST. y_ ^ \-Okj Cv-vE.M^f \ n »€> "Th- Okiuw Cnj^ \ / vsjmo COocO 0EAT \ ^"ThEM FEP? QvjiC*< I CHAm6'KJ ■— HE O I \ CHAkmjE * i*uTO V ' -tH' L'ViEP \NuvA€>Ty y\ Zm.4i**.im ySMAPPtKiCx OoT OF \T._ -—-■ . ■ - — — ■ - --- Claiming and Conceding. From the New York Times. With the decline ot the cross word puzzle, its place bids bair to be taken by tables showing the votes for president in the Electoral Col lege Every political manager has his little list of them, ready to pro duce from his vest pocket in order to surprise and overpower an oppo nent in argument. It is an old and favorite game at about this time of year in the presidential campaign, but a rather astonishing variation has been introduced into it during its present revival. What we mean is Indicated in the Washington dispatches reporting the rival claims of the champions of Governor Lowden, as against those of Secretary Hoover. Each asserts that their man is the only one who can defeat Governor Smith. Both allege that the other republican candidate would be certain to go down before the governor of New York. Thus Representative Dick inson of Iowa, speaking for Low den. thinks it will help his cause to assert, with an electoral table to prove it, that Goveruor 8mith would surely beat Mr Hoover, so that the only republican hope lies in nomi nating Governor Lowden. On the I other hand. Representative Newton | of Minnesota, a Hoover supporter, exactly reverses this contention and attempts to demonstrate by arith metic of his own that Governor Lowden will be absolutely hoplcss against Smith, and that Secretary Hoover remains the sole dependence of the Republican party in the con test with the democrats, if Gover nor Smith is nominated. These are surprising claims, but still more astonishing concessions. The leader of both republican factions start out bv admitting that Governor Smith will be almost in vincible In the cast. They give him without a murmur New York. New Jersey. Massachusetts. Connecticut and Rhode Island. This is certainly a new tune to be played on the republican organ. Where are those grand rolling notes of other years, to the effect that any republican can beat any democrate, and that it Is absurd to talk of “doubtful” States alter the majestic republican march to victory gets under way? - * ♦ Merited Fame. From Commerce and Finance. We are not sure but tha. the most significant bit of last week’s news was an incident that is quite sure not to get into state papers or year books We refer to the sale at auction to an American collec tor of the manuscript of "Alice in Wonderland" at the record price of $75,259.30. The purchaser. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, has offered to turn the manuscript over to the British museum at the mice he paid for it. and himself will con tribute $5,000 to a fund for that purpose. 'Hie price paid set a record for sales of manuscripts, and ranks among the three top prices for his toric documents, the two others be ing for the Gutenberg Bible and a Shakespeare First Folio. The sale has excited widespread interest throughout the far flung range of the English-speaking neoples. The reason why this much talked of sale may in seriousness be re garded as perhaps the most sig nificant among the world's happen ings of the past few days is the evidence it affords of the exceed ing weight afforded in our gener ation to things seemingly impon derable; in this case to the expression of the gossamer whim sicalities of a child's story, a smil ing. genial topsy-turvy recital of funny animals, people and things around them The manuscript is put up at auction, and keen eyed bidder* appear with cheque books In their hands The English nation itself sends the officers of the Brtt 'ah museum to attend the sale, Collectors vie with each o£t?r to obtain the treasure. Twenty five. Wilbur Told Too Much. From the Baltimore Sun. Secretary Wilbur having rente out ef lit* wrst has gone back again But even so It »»n1 prob able that he will be considered a las hintar Secretary Wilbur may have the dating, but he lacks the tuet. Speaking in Omaha on Saturday lie explained that **We are paying aa much for ptmjiT.ly a* for ship* , , , We rould buy toe ships abroad for >>ne half what they cost if we pay our money to American *ork» men. But wre wan* American ships, ucatfned and bull*, by Atm; team Campaign Biography Exaggerates Part Played by Hoover in China From the Chicago Journal of Commerce. It is rather amusing to observe that t lie New York Times, which ought to know better, has swallowed whole the pre posterous misstatements about H. C. Hoover’s early and middle life made by Professor Vernon Kellogg in his 1920 authorized campaign biography. H. C. Hoover was not director general of mines of the Chinese empire, either at 25 or at any other age. The claim to that effect in Professor Kellogg's biography is a com plete misstatement. The facts concerning Mr. Hoover’s transition from Australia to China, with which the New York Times deals, are these: In 1898 Hoover was working as an engineer in Australia, whither lie had been sent from London in 1897 by C. Alger non Moreing, head of the London mining engineering firm of Bewick Moreing and company. Late in 1898 Hoover was recalled to London. Early in 1899 be and another young engineer were sent out to Tientsin, China, by Moreing to work under His Excellency Chang Yen Mao, bead of the bureau of mines of Chi-li province. Hoover and bis fellow engineer represented Moreing. who had arranged with Chang to survey the mining properties in the province with a view to enlisting foreign capital. Instead of holding the magnificent office of “director general of mines of the Celestial Empire,” to use Professor Kellogg's rolling words, Hoover worked as an engineer in the mining bureau of a single Cliine.se province. “All these matters,” says the New Ifcrk Times trust fully, “are set forth in Vernon Kellogg's hook.” Grimm’s fairy tales might serve equally well. Those wishing the facts, as told contemporaneously by Mr. Hoover himself, had bet ter turn to bis short article in the Engineering and Mining Journal for May 26, I960, while hew as stationed in China Itio in x ’ i 11 / • i • i I utli The Times’ editorial also adverts to the Chinese law suit in London in 1905, which involved Hoover's methods of gaining the Kaiping coal concession for Moreing. As has been said, there is no disposition among business men to aid anybody trying to rake up an old scandal; but the truth de mands right of way when the Times, still trusting Kellogg, declares: “Chang traveled all the way to London to assert his rights in the British courts. Mr. Hoover testified for him and lie won his case.” It is also true that Henry Ford testified for Aaron Sapiro. The plain fact is that His Excellency Chang Yen Mao filed a suit against two defendants, one of which was Bewick, Moreing and company, of which Hoover by that time was a partner; and that Hoover and his partners, far from testify ing for Chang, denied his statements, cross-examined the plaintiff’s witnesses thoroughly, and did not admit the truth until late in the trial—at a point when, as Justice Joyce said in his opinion, they could not have continued their denial “with the slightest prospect of success, or, as I think, hon estly.” 1 If Mr. Hoover's authorized alibiographers ami his friend ly newspapers, will refrain from issuing a farrago of inac curacies respecting his career, there will he no need for a business newspaper to call them to account by speaking the facts. “The story of the coal concession,” as one engineer has written grimly, “can be found in the court records of (treat Britain.” Let them lie there, well interred, if the Kelloggs will only refrain from digging them up and then dressing them up in Mr. Hoover’■ favor. 50. 60 thousand dollars Is offered, and the bids go up by thousand dollar leaps. Gutenberg's Bible, ushering in the art of printing and thr spacious times of modern history; the Shakespeare Kollo, an early imprint of the author recognized as the foremost figure in literature a her- j ever the English language runs; It is among this small company of the aristocrats of all time ttu' the smiling little figure of Alice, with her March Hare and Grvphor. and and manned and operated by Ameri cans.'* The "adequate'* navy advocates are above bargains in number cr cost. But no matter howr eager he Is to speak frankly. It still la hard to see what heart* Secretary Wilbur fane ed hut speech would win in Omaha Neb No cruiseri are built there and wheeled overland to the Pacific and Atlantic. And if there i« any section In the country w?kh welcome* a chance to hear mace about tire peotedion of American manufacturers by the tariff, it rer- , tainf) is not Omaha. set among the i Rabbit. 1* now invited to enter. No where is there question or demur There is universal accord on her nght to be received into that dis tinguished company. • • • (io4t«! Reason. Prom the Pathfinder. Quest- Your dinners are always i ruccr.sc Mrs De Smvthe. How dc you select your menus? Hostess -Thu doctor has given ms a list of thlr.}* I mustn't eat, and I choose the dishes from that. wheat end com f.rids of the mid die west Sec re is nr Wilbur has not always been tmprr-sive as a secretary «»l navy Put this much has to In gran'ed He qualifies for his cabi net position in much totter »t*ta man for any post which call* fm diplomacy • • Q Who represented America at the Ibsen Grntettniai celebration ir Norway? A * D A The Author*' League of Amer ica Appointed (U’twrt UnderwotM Johnson, dirunguiahed writer and former air.O«s«sdor to Italy, to rep resent this country at the liwvtt I to unmai Juoikre a; Uha SLEEPING FLU LATEST MALADY Oak^Ie, Neb., Youth Had Memory Lapse Before Collapse Oakd&le.'Neb. (Special)— An attack < sleeping flu is believed to be the dkpase from which James Corkle, 16 y%rs old. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlen Corkle, Is suffering. He had recency recovered from an attack of inftpenza. Later while riding his por% to Morning Star high school, he suffered a lapse of memory. He rode nearly all day and at 3 a. m. the next day arrived,at a farm 14 miles west of tlgin, where he asked for a place to^leep. A large number of neighbors were scouring the country for him in the meantime. Since he was found, he has been in bed, a\leep. SLIGHT SHIFT IN DELEGATES Norris Has 10 Delegates While 9 Are Counted to Vote for Hoover Lincoln, Neb., • <UP>—Fur ther official figures for the Nebras ka primary given out today indicat ed a slight shift in the lineup of the republican d^'rgation that will go to the national convention. Latest reports give 10 delegates to the Norris group and nine to the administration group, who will sup port Hoover. This counts Gould Dietz, of Omaha, as a Norris man, but many think he is virtually an administration delegate. The change from 11 to eight came when it was learned that William E. Shuman, of North Platte, admin istration candidate for delegate from the Sixth district, defeated Elmer E. Youngs of Lexington. Total republican vote this year was 228,726 compared with 134,808 two years ago and 170,096 four years ago. Democrats cast 80,808 votes this year compared with 80,761 two years ago and 100,168 four years ago. Official returns in the republican senatorial contest gave Howell 82 672 and Spillman 26,014. In the democratic senatorial race Metcalfe received 37,630 votes and Placek 27, 929. HASTINGS. NEB., PASTOR OFFERED COLLEGE WORK Hastings, Neb.. (UP)—Rev. E. M. Bavles, of Grace Evangelical church, of Hastings, has been of fered the position of field secretary and financial agent of Western Union college, at LeMars. Ia. Bayles came here from Broadview. Mont,, three years ago. He has not decided to take the new position. NEBRASKA GOVERNOR IN DEMAND AS SPEAKER Lincoln, Neb., ' -Governor McMullen continues to risfc to the heights of republicanism. He has accepted an invitation to be the chief speaker at the seventy-second anniversary celebration of the founding of the republican party at Bloomington, 111., on May 29. It was on that occasion that Abraham Lincoln .then a young Ill inois lawyer and country politician, delivered the famous “lost speech” which is still being sought. Ex-Governor Joseph Fier of Ill inois, 81 years old. and one of the few remaining associates of Lincoln, in Illinois politics, will be master of ceremonies on the occasion and many notables in the party from ail parts of the United States will be present, the governor was in formed. "I consider this the high est honor that has been paid to me in my public life,” the governor said in announcing h s acceptance of the invitation. BEGINS PREPARATIONS FOR REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Lincoln, Neb., (UP)—A. n Mathers: of Gerinsr. temDorarv chairman of the republican state convention, arrived in Lincoln today to prepare for the bienniel meet ing here Thursday. Mathers, known to be a supporter of the code law and the NcNary Haugen bill, will confer with the tentative platform committee to morrow. He predicted the conven t. on this year will be harmonious. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GIVES PLACES TO WOMEN Omaha. Neb., (UP)—Ef fective July 1, rules of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce will be changed to permit women to serve on standing committees, it is an nounced. Women m?mbers of committee will be recommended by the woman's division of the chamber. OSMOND WOMAN'S HIP BROKEN BY SLIGHT FALL Osmond. Neb.. (Special) — Mrs. Henry Kahler. Sr, 73 years old. broke ore hip Sunday night, when she stumbled and fell over a chair. She was taken to the hospital at Plalnvlew. She Is the mother of O. O. Mtlcher. of Sloui City, la. ANOTHER BRIDGE SOON TO STAN PLATTE RIVER Oothe rsburg. Neb. - -Work !• sunn to start on placing the fi lial concrete on Qothenburg’s new UNI thousand dollar bridge span ning the Platte fiver Concrete work was suspended last fall, due to free* ttsgr weather. AH that remains of the structure. The new bridge will bring the »«ad into Gothenburg from (he southwest instead of the southeast and wlU connect with the nr w federal and state highway from Arnold through Gothenburg tr Par Lam now under e*mtrucUcr
