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DEALS HARSHLY WITH PRACTICE Concern Using Small Type to “Bury” Clause of Con tract Loses Suit Omaha. Neb., _ ,, (UP)— Business firms, which cause printed matter, dealing with charges, to be printed In small type or placed In an out of the way place in their pro posal for service were dealt harsh ly with by District Judge Stalmast er in a decision rendered against the publication division of the In ternational Transportation Associa tion, Inc., of Washington, here, to day. The association had sued the Ford Transfer and Storage com pany of Omaha for $50 for running an advertisement of the storage company. The alleged contract shown in court showed that the association had asked the Ford company for information about it self, but no mention of charges was made in the body of the blank form. Tucked in the right hand cornet in smaller type was the article which bound the storage company to pay $50 for the service to be rendered. The case is considered important in legal circles. The transporta tion association was represented by counsel from Washington and Kan sas City, who announced an appeal to the Nebraska supreme court. ODD FELLOWS OF THE COUNTY MEET AT BEIJDEN Hartington, Neb., _ (Spe cial)—The Cedar County Odd Fel lows Association held its second an nual convention last Tuesday with the Belden lodge. The sessions were held in the auditorium of the high school building. Registration of the delegates started at 5 o’clock and at 6 o’clock a banquet dinner was served in the basement of the Meth odist church by the Rebekahs. Following the banquet the busi ness session was held and each lodge was assigned Its part In the 1929 meeting by drawing. Magnet will entertain next year. The degrees will be conferred by the following lodges: Laurel, initiatory; Wynot, first; Belden, second; Randolph, third. Coleridge will name the next president while the Hartington lodge names the judges of the degree work. The Hartington degree staff ex emplified the third degree on a Bel den candidate. There were nearly 100 delegates registered. BRUNSWICK. NEB.. COUPLE MARRIED 68 YEARS AGO Brunswick. Neb., v__ -Mr. and Mrs. Willet Couch of Bruns wick will observe the sixty eighth anniversary of their marriage on November 4. Mr. Couch is 89 years old and his wife a few years younger. They have lived in Ante lope county 50 years and in Bruns wick 15 years. They were home steaders in the vicinity of Royal. Mr. Couch served in the Civil war three years and took part in 33 engagements, among them the battle of Gettysburg. He once was in danger of death when he lacked one step of having his head blown off on the march, 11 of his companions having fallen. Both Mr. and Mrs. Couch make daily trips downtown. OMAHA CHILD DIES AFTER ITS FATHER DISAPPEARS Omaha, Neb.,__ —Funeral services for Annie Laurie Wagner, 13 years old, who died Tucsdayat the University hospital, were put off un til Friday, to give time for the fami ly to hear from her father, Richard Wagner, who mysteriously disap peared from his home, Sunday. Mrs. Wagner believes that wor ry over the daughter's approach ing death affected her husbands mind. The services will be held at the Covenant Presbyterian church where Mr. and Mrs. Wagner had planned to go Sunday morning to pray for the girl's recovery. Wagner disappeared with his 1919 model Ford touring automo bile bearing license number 1 19804. NEBRASKA WAR MOTHERS ELECT NEW OFFICER^ Omaha, NeC., J (UP)—Ne braska war mothers last night elect ed Mrs. C. J. Stevens, of Ansley, as president: Mrs. Joe Roddy, of North Platte, Mrs. James McCullough, of Brady, and Mrs. Ella Burton, of Lincoln, vice presidents; Mrs. E. M. Lysinger, of Sargent, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Florence Spring er, of Brady, treasurer. CORN AND POTATO HARVESTS IN PROGRESS Crcfton, Neb.. (Special) —Corn picking has commenced in this neighborhood. The harvest of a fair crop of potatoes is about completed. The tubers are selling at 75 cents a bushel in the field or $1 delivered. START MOVE TO VACCINATE ALL DOGS IN OMAHA Omaha, Neb., _ _ (UP)—Ag itation for compulsory vaccination of dogs to stop rabies was begun here today, following reports that three more children are threatened with hydrophobia as a result of be ing bitten by animals. The children, Bonnie Jean Lonss, 2 years old; Harold Kahn. 3 years old, and Kermlt Cooper, 7 years old, are being given the Pasteur treat ment. Four other children bitten by the same dog which attacked Bonnie Jean are not in serious condition. FIRST DEGREE Ml'RDER CHARGE IS DISMISSED Tyron, Neb., . (UP)—First degree murder charges, against Joe Solomon, North Platte farmer, were dismissed by the district court Mon day. Solmon had been arrested in connection with the murder of Stefan Davis, a miser here. It was believed the miser was murdered for a cache of money he had hidden in his dilapidated shack in this little town. Solomon was arrested on circumstantial evi dence. The court ruled yesterday that the evidence was insufficient to ob tain a conviction and the case was dismissed. NEBRASKA WIND BALKS AMEIA Woman Who Flew over Atlantic Stays on the Ground at Omaha Omaha, Neb., * (UP)—Al though she braved the perils of the Atlantic to become the first woman ever to successfully fly across that body of water, Amelia Earhart re fused to take chances on a Nebraska dust storm today. Miss Earhart arrived at Munici pal field this morning from North Platte. She had intended to re fuel and hop off again immediately but Omaha pilots warned her against taking the air in a treach erous 40 mile wind. She plans to take off in her biplane tomorrow if the wind subsides. She is returning from Los Angeles where she attended the air races last month. NEBRASKA P. T. A. HOLDS SESSION AT KEARNEI Kearney, Neb., (UP)— Representatives of parent teachers associations from all over Nebraska gathered here today for the open ing sessions of the three day con vention. More than 500 delegates, including several officers of the national registered this morning, at the convention headquarters. CHARGED WITH TAKING WOMAN TO OTO, IA Omaha, Neb., (UP)—De Vere Clary, of Oakland, Neb., was ordered held in $500 bond on charges of violating the Mann act by the United States Commisisonei Mary Mullen here today. Clary is charged with transporting Elsie Romberg to Oto, la. BAPTISTS OF NEBRASKA OPEN SESSION AT FREMONT Fremont, Neb., (UP)— The sixty first annual Nebraska Baptist convention started here to day. A state pastors’ conference and the women’s missionary meet ings were the principal events on the program of the opening day. The convention will last through next Sunday. RED CROSS REGIONAL CONFERENCE AT NORFOLK Norfolk, Neb., . (UP) - More than 100 persons, Including officers of the 24 chapters in north and northwest Nebraska, attended the regional conference of the American Red Cross here yester day. The purpose of the meeting was to bring officers of the local chapters into contact with trained disaster workers of the national or ganization and to create a closer bond between neighboring chapters. The principal speaker of the con ference was Albert Evans, assistant national director of disaster relief, Washington, D. C„ who outlined the methods followed in the work ings of the national organization Some of the trained field workers who have been in charge of relief operations in the northwest Ne braska tornado zone also gave talks Special emphasis was laid upon the plans for the national Red Cross drive for funds which will b staged soon. MIS FARM BECOMES WILD DUCK PRESERVE Antioch. Neb.. (UP)—The farm of F. J. Kellar. near here, is virtually a wild duck preserve. More than 400 mallards, blue wing teal and pin tail ducks have free use )f the farm and are fed and pro ected. Kellar started with two ducks in 1918 and now has nearly 500. They nest in hay stacks, around the wind mill, and in the hot house bed he said. A government permit allows him ‘o band a number of the birds each year and in this way the depart ment of agriculture secures in formation concerning the migratory habits of birds. Reports have been sent in from Nebraska. Colorado. Texas and Louisiana as well as from points in the far north, by persons who have seen the banded birds. The birds all go south in the fall and about three out of five of them return the next spring. One mal lard returned seven consecutiv seasons, and this year, for the firs time, failed to come back. MANY PERCH SEINED FROM KIMBALL KESERVOIT Kimball, Neb.. _ (Special —Assisted by a force from the state game warden’s department, Joseph Pease, local deputy game warden seined and shipped 52,000 good sizec perch from the western reservoii here. More than twice the numbei shipped perished in the irrigation ditch after the water was shut of according to Pease. A force fron the department will return the lat ter part of November to seine th< east reservoir to take out suckers, k Beth reservoirs are overstocked. Gold Lace for Evening Weai Gold lace flares beautifully tn ruffle-edged panels on this latest creation of a famous Parisian couturier. The velvet belt and flower are of heliotrope, one of the colors popular among the dis cemmg this season. (International Illustrated N<«i PLAGIARISM IN THE PULPIT Plagiarism Is a polite name for stealing or purloining the words or ideas of another and using them as the offender’s own. A New Jersey Presbyterian minister has been ac cused of stealing and using not only the ideas but the words of a ser mon delivered by Bishop Quayle 20 years ago. He thinks the charge un just and “a sort of tragedy” to him, and his use of Quayle's words un consciously done. Twenty years ago he heard the Methodist bishop de liver the sermon and wrote it down in shorthand. That is his defense. Bishop Quayle said: I have plucked this text like one purple flower I might take from clematis, but in taking the one purple blossom I did not de nude the vine, did I? The 20th of John is a clematis vine—pur ple, glorious, and fairly stifling with color, and I have pulled one flower. This is what the Rev. Mr. Pat terson said on August 5 last, in opening his sermon at Lamber ville: I have plucked the flower of this text like one purple flower that I might take from a clematis vine, but in taking one purple, blossom I did not denude the vine. Plenty more left. This 20 th chapter of John is a clematis vine, purple, glorious, fairly stirring with color, and I have pulled one flower. The preacher did not improve the bishop's paragraph. It is said the ac cused man's sermon showed other striking similarities to that of the bishop and that his sermons have been “scholarly, with delicate phras ings and poetical comparisons.” Quayle’s sermons were made into a book 10 years ago. We incline to be lieve that book has been in the Rev. Mr. Patterson's library. THE NIGHT’S LODGING The Nation’s Business Here is one of many reasons why a night's lodging in a good hotel costs a great deal more today than it did when grandfather was a trav eling salesman: In 1910 a chambermaid was paid $12 a month and was fed in a good hotel, and at night she slept on a cot in a hall that looked as large as an auditorium and probably sounded like one. She did not get out in the sunlight very often because she was interested in her work. By the time she had made up the last room she tried to walk on her hands because her feet were so swollen, and she loafed in bed until 5 o'clock every morning because she was too tired to get up. Chambermaids are paid $40 a month and board nowadays and in stead of sleeping in dormitories each pair is given a neat little room in the more recently built hotels. In to morrow's hotels they will not "sleep in" at all, because land and building costs are too great to permit a hotel the extravagance of bedrooms for His Classification. From Judge. Driver (arrested for speeding): But. officer, I'm a prohibition agent. Officer: Ignorance is no excuse. Q When were the books of the New Testament written? C. M. MC. A. There are no actual data as to the precise dates at which the books of the New Testament were writ ten. It is believed they were all written before 100 A. D. the help. I am not going deeply in to the servant question, only enough to indicate the bearing the servants have on that $8 a day. In most states nowadays the girls work in three shifts on a six-day week. The $12 a month chambermaid of 1910 never did get through work until her feet broke at the ankles. When the poet wrote that "wo man's work is never done,” he thought of hotel chambermaids, who worked 30 days a month except in February. Nowadays they have plenty of time to go to dances. A handsome Danish girl told me that she had been a stenographer in Denmark and worked at the trade for a time after she got to this country. The best salary she could hope to get was $25 a week. As a chambermaid she is paid $40 a month and given board and room, her tips average $25, and she has all the time she wants to see her "faller.” RAT SEARCHERS London Times. Dr. W. M. Willoughby, the acting medical officer of health for the port of London, has recommended to the corporation the desirability of ap pointing a staff of rat-searchers for work in the port. With the signing of the international sanitary con vention it has become a matter of urgent necessity that trained rat searchers should be employed on ships with a view either to the ex emption of vessels from ‘ de-ratiza tion,” or to the ordering of “de-rati zation.” The medical officer points out that considerable training and experience are necessary before a good estimate of the number of rats on a ship can be made by searchers, and he has suggested that pensioned naval ratings or seamen should be appointed for the work of searching. There are, he computes, from 600 to 1,000 ships in the port of London whicn require half yearly searching for rats. Last month 3,495 rats were caught and destroyed in ships in the port and in shore premises. Ttaffic Experiments. From the Los Angeles Times. They are trying out new plans of traffic regulation in eastern cities. In Indianapolis an amber light in dicates that the signal is about to change, and wheel traffic must not start on that light. Pedestrians are not permitted to start until the gong has sounded three times. In Atlan tic City no pedestrian is permitted to cross the street except when an am ber light is shown. If he violates this rule he is subject to a heavy fine. However, the amber light will give the pedestrian absolute right of way, and all wheel traffic stops when this light is shown. In Los Angeles two bells indicate that the pedestrian may cross, and this signal is the same for motor vehicles. But no arrests are being made in cases where pedestrians cross after one stroke of the bell, though a local magistrate has decided that thev do so at their peril. Getting Personal. From Judge. Stew (entering flower sop): I want some flowers. Proprietor: Potted, sir? Stew: None of yer bishness. Q. Do any birds move their wings alternately while in flight? J. S. A. As far as is known, the swift is the only bird which moves its wings alternately in flight. Q Are there any illiterates in Denmark? E. J. H A. There are fi. lew Denmark is listed as having two tenths of one per cent, illiterates. RFEG ESTATE LAND SOLD FOR TOTAL OF $64,160 Madison, Neb., " (Special)— ! Four hundred acres 01 Madison county land, belonging to the es - tate to the late George Reeg, sold at auction here brought a total of $64,160. The quarter section of School- I craft precinct occupied by John Reeg was sold to William Prauen er, wealthy Battle Creek land own er for $190 an acre. This farm is considered among the very best in northeast Nebraska. Some antici pated it would bring more than that. Others declare that present day crop conditions make the price good. The quarter sectk - known as the old Busteed piece was sold to Fred Knapp, who lives a l ile south of the faim, for $142.50 an acre. V.'hile the soil is good, the improvements are older than the Reed farms. The 80-acre unimproved tract In Fairview precinct was purchased by j Otto Renner, farmer near Enola, for $138 an acre. REGENTS WANT MILLION MORE New Buildings at Univer sity One of Big Items They Are Demanding Lincoln, Neb., • ' (Special) — The state university regents will ask a total appropriation of $5,763, 000 for the next two years, at the hands of the next legislature. This | is $1,500,000 more than the present appropriation. Half this sum is for new buildings, additions to the uni versity hospital at Omaha, women’s dormitories in Iincoln, a power plant to be built in connection with the state capitol commission, and engineering building and a home economics building at the agricul tural college. The other increases are: for additional salaries and wages, $600,000; agricultural exten sion, $57,000; soil survey and con servation, $10,000, and dormitory at Curtis, incomplete, $50,000. The regents say there are two definite reasons for the increases asked, the upward tendency of costs which has also operated to draw from the service here to the service of other colleges, where appropria tions have kept pace with increased costs, more than five score men of worth and experience as instructors. The other reason is the increased number of students, the 10 year pe riod ending with the last semester showing an increase in enrollment from 5,405 students to 11,848, an in crease of 6,443. The average daily attendance of 6,676 calls for an in crease in the number of instructors, and if the faculty is to be kept at ! a high standard of efficiency there i must be enugh money paid to keep key men. Institut'ons of less pres tige pay $6,000 where Nebraska pays $4,500, ar d Columbia recently es tablished a minimum of $7,500 for a full professorship. The increases asked are $333,000 for increased salaries and $266,000 more for maintenance. WOMAN WHO POISONED PARENTS ASKS NEW TRIAL Lincoln, Neb. ~ . (Special)— Mrs. Mona Wilson is to hgve her appeal to the supreme court argued, October 7, when the supreme court again meets. She is 30 years old, and put poison into the coffee of her father and mother, residents of Sheridan county. The mother died. The daughter, saying she did not know \ hy she did it, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 30 years. Lat er attorneys sought a new trial say ing that she was not epresenW’ by c ~isc) and was ignorant of her rights; at as a i matter of fact and proof the girl is an epileptic, sub ject to fits in \ she loses all sense of action and that she ought to be’ given a chance to go before a jury. The lower court decided against her, and the appeal is to get another chance. Other cases s.t for the session beginning October 15 include Tarble estate case, from Madison county; Farmers State bank of Brunswick against Rasmussen, of Antelope county; Lorenz estate, of Cuming county, and Bleick against Ruden, of Knox county. TWO IMPORTANT CASF.S ARE SLATED FOR TRIAL Madison, Neb., (Special)— Among the imr jrtar.t cases to be heard at the fall term of district court here, beginning November 5, are the Kierstead will cases and the murder case of John W. Wehenkel. Wehenkel was brought here sever al months ago from the state pen itentiary at Lincoln to stand trial, after the state supreme court grant ed an appeal for a new trial. He is charged with the murder of Arthur Carrico, of Tilden, following alleged undue intimacy of the latter with Mrs. Wehenkel. The Kierstead will case will De heard for the third time. The last trial was one of the most prolonged in the history of Madison county. Heirs of the late Mrs. Susan Kier stead are suing for the whole es tate, most of which was left to sev eral Methodist institutions. TOLD CHILD NEAR DEATH THE FATHER DISAPPEARS Omaha. Neb., (UP)—Told that his 13-year-old daughter Laura, in a local hospital, could not live, Richard Wagner. 34 years old, left his home Sunday ostensibly to put some air in a tire and has not been seen since. Mrs. Wagner fears that his mind may have temporarily been affected by the bad new?s. Wagner has been in poor health and has not worked steadily since the tire com pany which employed him closed several month* ego FARMER FINED FOR COMTEMPT Refused to Permit Cattle Tuberculin Test Under Court Order Blair, Neb. ~ <UP)—U. H Thaden was fined $98 in the dis trict court here yesterday for con tempt of court because he refused to allow representatives of the state department of agriculture to give his cattle the tuberculin test. Thaden had refused to allow the test since the county first began its attempt to get on the accredited | list. An injunction was obtained to force him to allow the test. It was when the injunction was defied that the contempt of court action was started. Thaden also was placed under $600 bond yester day to insure his allowing the test. PROVIDE COMFORT FOR HUGE MUSEUM TURTLE Hastings, Neb., (UP)—The 300-pound turtle recently added to the Hastings museum has received attention not ordinarily accorded specimens on display. A water heater was installed in the tank where the Bermuda turtle makes his home, and a large quantity of salt added to the water. “We have been trying to make the turtle feel at home,” W. J. Kent, curator said. “He has shown a de cided tendency toward sluggishness since he took up his home here, and it was believed that unnatural conditions were the cause. Hence, we have tried to create a tank of warm, salt water such as he was used to. The common salt, how ever, makes a poor substitute for the chemical mixture that goes to make up the ocean water.” The turtle has refused to eat, but Kent said the situation was not alarming since it belongs to the reptile family and can go for a month or more without eating. The turtle family was estimated to be about 500 years old. THREE CARS IN ACCIDENT, HARD TO PLACE BLAME Fremont, Neb., (UP)—A car left on the highway near here was struck by a car which in turn struck another. Now the court has been asked to decide which of the drivers shall pay the $7,000 dam ages asked by one of the occupants of the second car, who received in juries in the collision. C. Ford, an Omaha policeman, left his car on thj pavement, with the right wheels off the road and the front and rear lights burning, while he went to a farmhouse to secure gasoline. E. C. Lutzelman, and Mrs. Lut zelman, were blinded by the lights of the car as they approached, and struck it, according to the story told bv Lutzelman. Lutzelman’s car than collided with a car driven by Au gust Zabell, of Auburn who ap proached from the opposite direc tion. Zabel said the rear light on Ford’s car was not burning and de clared Ford was liable because of leaving his car parked on the high way. Mrs. Lutzelman’s case named both Zabel and Ford as defendants. Evidence has been offered by both sides for the last four days. NEBRASKA POTATO CROP IS BEING HARVESTED Alliance, Neb., (UP)—The potato shipping season started here several days ago and dozens of car loads of high grade potatoes have moved to market from the pan handle section of Nebraska. Most of the cars are billed to southern states where the demand for Ne braska’s seed potatoes is strong. According to W. M. Morrow*, man ager of the Nebraska Certified Seed Potato Growers association, 24 cars of certified potatoes have been shipped to Cuba already this season, and several cars have been sent to South America. A long period of wet weather in the early summer reduces the av erage yield and this year the yield averaged 50 to 60 bushels to the acre. Table stock potatoes are low in price, but high prices w*ere be ing paid for certified seed stock, it was learned MANY FINE CATTLE FOR HE AK-SAR-BEN SHOW Omaha, Neb., (Special)— Prof. How'ard Gramlicn, head of the animal husbandry department of the Nebraskgyiollege of agricultural and general superintendent of live stock at the Ak-Sar-Ben live stock show to be held here, November 3-9, says that entries made for the show tend to prove that there will be breeding herds on display from the majority of the states of the union. Seasoned judges of high ability have been selected to place the ribbons and with many animals on exhibit which have bean champions at pre vious shows, interest will be keen in the various classes. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ESCAPE GASOLINE TAX Lincoln, Neb.. —The state of Nebraska was permanently enjoined from enforcing the pay ment of the 2-cent tax on gasoline used by departments of the United Stetes government in a decree hand ed down by Federal Judge T. C. Munger. INDETERMINATE SENTENCE LAW GIVEN APPROVAL Lincoln, Neb.. -The inde terminate sentence taw is the only law that gives the young offender a chance, in the opinion of W. T. Fen ton. warden of the Nebraska state penitentiary. “In my judgment, the indetermin ate sentence law is the best law ever passed in behalf of the young of fender who wants to make good.* the warden declared. “I believe the first purpose of a penal institution should be to reform prisoners.