Nebraska Newspapers

    ALTA YELLOW IS
USED IN DEWEY
Constitutes 67 Per Cent
of County's Corn
Acreage
limber Lake. S. D. — -Alta
yellow dent will be planted on 32
per rent of the land devoted to corn
in Dewey county and the Alta, Ful
ler and Rurtler varieties trill consti
tute 67 per rent of the county s com
acreage. County Agent H. D. McCul
lough found by sending out a ques
tionaire.
Alta corn ft as introduced into
Dewey county in 192J, when 10 bush
els were brought in and distributed
to 4-H club members, McCullough
said In its seventh year, this variety
leads all others and will occupy ap
proximately a third of the corn acre
age ®I the county.
Developed at the Highmore .sta
tion as a variety, especially adapted
for the. two northern tiers of coun
ties in South Dakota, Alta has con
sistently won first place In Dewey
county corn contests and has made
good with most of the critical farm
ers, the county agent said.
Puller’s yellow dent lias also
shown up well In corn contests and
is being grown more generally this
year than ever before.
“Rustler” is the name g*ven to
MVeral local strains of white dent,
formerly the most popular variety
in the county and thought to be the
only one which would mature safely.
It. has bee* giving place to Alta the
last few years because of the higher
feed value of a yellow dent corn
when alfalfa hay or pasture are not
available, McCullough explained.
“t’ALF DAYS” PLANNED
Milbank S. D - <APi - The
"trade, expansion committae’’ of the
Milbank commerce and community
club,' is planning “calf days” during
Jum', July and August, at which it
will pve away heifer calves. The
project is designed to promote com
munity g®od will.
MOKE TAXABLE LAND
Mclffteeh, S. D. — (API A total of
16,514 acres of land has been added
to tax. rolls of Corson ceunty during
the Hist year—9.467 acres of Indian
land^ conveyed by deed to purchas
er* tbreugh the Standing Rock
Agency; and 6.047 acres in home
stead lands on which final payments
were made through the United
Mates land office at Pierre.
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What Newspapers Do.
From Atlanta Constitution.
There is a mistaken idea current
with a certain type of reformer that
newspapers carry the functions of
creators and censors of the public
taste. They complain of the gen
erat content of the daily papers be
cause they contain news and fea
ture stories that offend the reform
er's notion of what the people ought
to read.
Newspapers are. in a way, guard
ians of the public morale within
the terms ot the law and the can
ons of common decency. They aro
published as a rule by men of clean
character, habits and taste, as Jeal
ous of the good morals of their own
families as is any reformer in the
land. They print newspapers that
pass through the mails without of
fense to the law which protect
against indecency and immorality
and that are welcomed by the most
correct and intelligent people of the
rountry.
The objective of the newspaper
is to report to its readers as fully
and reliably as possible the news of
human current transactions and
the events of nature. The pages are
kept sensitive to the demand of
the reading public. They are photo
graphic plates of the day and the
public watches and searches them
t\s the astronomer does his plates of
the night to catch the phases of
the heaven and possibly discover a
new- planet.
The popular pages of the newspa
l»r reflect very accurately the
phases of public taste, created oth
erwise than by the newspapers. The
news columns are the study of a
section of the public, the society
columns are most important to an
other section, the sports pages to
vet another, the market pages to
another and so on through the
makeup of the daily issue. But the
public at large wants “all the news
that is fit to print" by the com
mon standards of public interest and
curiosity, so that the run of the
readers are the proper censors of
the press and not the fervid re
formers who are monomaniacs on
particular phases of popular life.
FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS
The Balkans are aflame again,—
There’ll be another shake up;
The Jugo-Slavs are waging war,—
This time, on facial make up.
The war whoop of the profs is this!
"Keep that schoolgirl complexion!
But if you powder use1, or rouge,
Prepare for a correction.
"Before the class. And If agaii
You dim your nose's shine,
Then ma and pa must go to jail
Or pay for you a fine.”
Before such custom we adopt,
Let’s think what it entails -
Vast treasuries, to hold the finds.
And countless thousand jails.
__ —Sam Page.
Q- Are railroad earning* increas
ing or decreasing?—B. V. 8
A. The net earnings of Class 1
railroads dufing the firit quarter
of this year showed • falling off
32 per cent a* compared with the
same quarter last year.
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Obeying Orders.
From Answers.
Mother: Bobby, I’m ashamed of
you eating your sister’s share at
cake. What have I been trying to
teach you?
Bobby: Always to “take her part,”
mother.
Q. Who has written th* moot
successful song of modern time*?
—R. E. D.
A. Carrie Jacobs Bond Is recog*
nixed as the most successful song
writer of modern times, as her song
"The End of a Perfect Dor” la®
totaled a greater number of sates
then any other song.
DRUNKEN MAN SAVED
FROM DEATH IN WATER
Norfolk, Neb. — (Special) —Found
paddling helplessly around in the
Northfork river just below the Nor
folk avenue bridge. Oscar Beckford,
of Creston, Iowa, was pulled
from the water by mill employes,
and taken to the police station
where he was booked on a charge of
intoxication. Beckford, according to
witnesses, noticed several boys
swimming under the bridge. He de
cided that he wanted to go swim
ming too.
Carefully laying his hat and shoes
aside, but keeping on his other
clothes, he waded into the water,
and proceeded to enjoy himself, the
witnesses said.
The men who rescued the Iowa
man stated that if he had drifted
around the bend, he would more
than likely have gotten into deep
water and drowned as he was near
ly helpless.
WOMAN RENEWS
DAMAGE ACTION
Sensalional Case at Fre
mont Bids Fair to Be
Even More “Racy”
Fremont, Neb. — (Special) —Mrs
Eva Rouzee whose $35,000 breach ol
promise suit blew up and was dis
missed when her husband appeared
in court early last week, with a new
attorney, J. E. Daly, has refiled the
suit and a new trial is asked on the
ground of misconduct and error in
the court room and that “excite
ment and unusuel spectacular evi
dence” Influenced ttdecision which
was Jn Rice’s favor.
Judge Spear has appointed John
L. Cutrjght as special prosecutor of
the statutory charges filed by coun
ty attorney E. L. Mahlln against Rice
and Mrs. Rouzee.
Mrs. Rouzee is still in the county
Jail awaiting investigation of per
jury charges.
Attorney J. C.,Cook, representing
Rice, declares he is considering an
appeal for a grand jury to investi
gate the whole proceedings.
HOLD FUNERAL FOR
RETIRED M. E. MINISTER
Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—Funeral
services were held here at 10 a. m.
Monday lor Rev. Samuel T. Walker,
78 years old, retired Methodist min
ister, and burial will be in Clay
Center cemetery. Rev. Mr. Walker
retired in 1922 because of his health
after having held numerous pastor
ates in the state, including two
years at Loretto and one at O’Neill.
He is survived by his wife, one son,
two daughters and two grandsons.
COUNTY SCHOOL HEAD
BECOMES A BRIDE
Pender, Neb. — (Special* —Coun
ty Superintendent Ada M. Rledler
of Thurston County was married
Fridy at LeMars, la., to Alfred A.
Wagner, farmer near South Sioux
City. Mrs. Wegner will continue to
act as superintendent of Thurston
county until the first of the year,
when a new superintendent, to be
named at the fall elections, will take
over the office.
ATTENDS SILVER JUBILEE
OF HER PRIEST SON
Royal, Neb. — (Special) —Mrs.
Mary Brown, 77 years old, recently
went to St. Meinrad, Ind., to attend
the silver jubilee in honor of her
son, Rev. Benedict G. Brown, prior
of St. Meinrad abbey, who has been
associated with that institution for
37, years, since he went there to
prepare for the priesthood when he
was but 17 years old.
NEWSPAPER UNION TO
MOVE ITS HEADQUARTERS
Omaha— —Removal of the
headquarters office of the Western
Newspaper Union from Omaha to
New York will be effected in the
near future, H. H. Fish, president,
and general manager, announced
Friday.
Omaha has been headquarters for
the 36 branches of the company in
the United States. The firm serves
more than 10,000 newspapers.
Mrs. Sarah Joslyn, Nebraska’s
wealthiest individual and widow of
the founder, sold her controlling
interest in the company last July
at a reported price of $5,000,000.
FORMER WHITE HOUSE
PARROT DEAD AT OMAH^
Omaha, Neb.—(UP)—A former
White House pet Is dead here at
the age of 75 years. Polly, a South
African gray parrot, whose White
House debut was made during the
administration of President Benja
min Harrison, died from ravages of
old age at the home of John A.
Metcalfe, who became her owner
when Mrs. Russell Harrison, daugh
terinlaw to the former president,
moved away from here several years
ago.
President Harding presented Polly
to Mrs. Harrison during his tenure
of office.
DISCONTINUES AIRPLANE
NEWSPAPER DELIVERY
McCook, Neb.—(UP)—Because of
improved railroad service, together
with the expense and uncertainty
of the elements In delivering news
papers by airplane, the McCook
Gazette will discontinue its aerial
newspaper delivery started last Sep
tember. The airplane service to
date has cost approximately $12,000.
or about $10 per subscription since
the service was put in operation.
AIRPLANE USED IN CROW
HUNT IN PIERCE COUNTY
Norfolk, Neb.—An airplane was
used In a war on crows in Pierce
county.
A. A. Risser of Norfolk arranged
with a number of .'hunters, armed
with shotguns, tow assemble In a
large grove. Risser then flew
around the grove in circles, herding
thousands of the crows into It.
The birds were so confused by
the noise of the airplane motor
that they did not leave the shelter
of the grove despite the gunfire. The
result was a wholesale slaughter of
the pests.
NEBRASKA BUYS
ANOTHER LAKE
Small Body of Water Near
Spalding to Be Made
Fishing Resort
Lincoln. Neb—(UP)—Pibel Lake,
a 35-acre body of water contained
within a 65-acre tract in Greeley
county, was purchased, Thursday by
the game, forcstration and parks
commission for $6,500.
The place will be made into a
public fishing ground and a large
hotel building oh the edge of the
lake probably will be leased to a
concessionaire. The #ommission met
again Thursday to consider the pos
sible purchase of other tracts of
fered to the state as public recrea
tion places.
Pibel lake lies about five miles
northwest of Spalding. James Gil
roy, Greeley county farmer, was its
owner.
A group of Missouri river fish
ermen was heard by the commission
with the request that something be
done about allowing the fishermen
to continue the taking fish by seine
and net in the river. Members of the
commission made no decision.
A delegation from the community
club at Memphis promised the com
mission aid in developing the recre
ation grounds recently purchased
near there. The men said that work
will begin soon on graveling the
town's street leading to the arti
ficial lake which has been developed.
The commission began distribu
tion of a pamphlet containing in
forms Won on all state parks, recre
ation grounds and historical parks
which recently was compiled by Sec
tary Frank O’Connell.
MUST PAY 16,000
TO DAUGHTERINLAW
Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—Peter Eb
mier, wealthy fanner of Gosper
county must pay his former tlaugh
terlnlaw, Clara Etomlor, the $6,000
that the Gosper county court fixed
as her damages by reason off con
duct that aliented the affections of
his son, her husband, the supreme
court ruled Thursday.
The jury made it $6,000, but the
court cut the sum one thirdl The
testimony showed that the senior
Ebmier had paid her fare from
Germany to Nebraka, and that six
months after arrival, she was mar
ried to his son. She was under 21
and the son was 34. Meanwhile she
worked as an unpaid servant, and
her 'contention was that to escape
liability of wages, the defendant
caused her to marry the son. She
told the jury, however, that the
father induced the son to abandon
her and sought to make her return
to Germany.
CHICKENS IN TOWN
DECLARED A NUISANCE
Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—The chick
ens of Thomas R. Kimbull, Omaha
architect, that crowed so loud that
the neighbors complained, were de
clared to be a nuisance by the su
preme court in a decision which or
dered Kimball to abate the nui
sance of his game chicken farm on
his premises.
His neighbors had brought the
suit in the Douglas county district
court complaining of the nuisance
on Kimball's palatial grounds in
Omaha, and claimed that chickens
would not be tolerated in the neigh
borhood. The Douglas court decreed
in favor of the neighbors and Kim
ball appealed to the supreme court.
WELL DIGGERS STRIKE
OIL NEAR HERMAN, NEB.
Herman, Neb.—(UP)—Hopes that
oil is in this district were strength
ened when natural gas and oil were
•truck near here in Washington
county Friday by a well-digging
crew.
Operations at the well were sus
pended until further investigation
could be made. The gas burst
through as the men were drilling
the well* at 61 feet below the sur
face, and hurled mud and water 20
feet in the air.
Tire discovery was made on the
old Frank farm two miles north of
here.
A bucketful of oil later was
brought to the surface and when a
match was touched to the mouth of
the well, the blaze burned for seven
hours. With diminishing force,
however, the gas continued to force
Itself through the mud.
NEWSPAPER UNION MAN
NEARLY DROWNS IN LAKE
Valentine, Neb.— (UP)—G. S. Pox
worthy, manager of the Western
Newspaper Union, Omaha, and-his
soninlaw, had a narrow escape from
drowning in Pelican lake in Cherry
county Friday.
They were In a boat when the
waves were running high because of
the strong wind when the younger
man attempted to take up the an
chor. He overbalanced and fell into
the water. This caused Foxworthy
to fall into the lake also.
They were In the water 45 min
utes clinging to the boat which was
filled with water before their plight
became known to the other fisher
men some distance away.
When they were brought to shore,
Foxworthy was nearly exhausted
from hanging onto the boat. Ed
McGowan, of Broken Bow. t-nd
William Lind of Lincoln, rescued the 1
two men.
MANY CATTLE MEN
AT CHADRON MEETING
Chadron, Neb.—(UP)—With a new
record for attendance as about 500
cattle men were here, the annual
convention of the Nebraska Stock
Growers association was to come tc
a close Saturday.
General optimism over the condi
tion of crops and livestock condi
tions were -expressed by the dele
gates. Railroad men at the con
vention said indications are that
more cattle will be shipped from the
Black HlUs district and tend hill:
country than • year «*o.
BOOZE IN HOME
OF NEWLYWEDS
Omaha Couple Made Mis
take by Renting Former
Legger’s Resort
Omaha. Neb—(UP)—Virgil Ran
dall, 21 years old, and Virginia
Randall, 19, newlyweds, made the
mistake of renting a house whict
formerly was occupied by a we!
known bootlegger, when they start
cd out to ‘feather their love nest’
through illegal sale of liquor, ac
cording to federal agents.
The couple had been married onl;
a few weeks. He was out of wort
and they decided to enter the gam*
made famous by A1 Capone, Gem
Livingston and other "big shots."
After operating less than a weel
they found the bootlegger game s*
lucrative that Randall went dowr
town to p ck out a new automobile
While he was gone, federa
agents, on the trail of the forme:
occupant*o' the place, visited th*
home and the wife unsuspecting!)
sold them several drinks of whisky
they allege.
The house was raided and th*
Randall’s honeymoon plans wen*
awry when both were taken to jail
GRADUATION EXERCISES FOR
WAYNE RURAL SCHOOLS
Carroll, Neb.—(Special)—Eightfc
grade graduation exercises for thi
rural schools of Wayne county were
held at Wayne, Monday, when 14#
children were given their promo
tion diplomas.
AINSWORTH STILL HAS
NINE CIVIL WAR VETS
Ainsworth. Neb.—Ainsworth claims
to have as large a number of sol
diers of the Civil war as any othei
community of its size in the state oJ
Nebraska. The nine Civil war vet
erans living here Include L. K. Al
der, A. D. Wilson, U. G. Grant, W
H. McGill. F. S. Clapper, Lee Gould
William H. H. Van Epps, John Cut
singer and P. D. McAndrew.
GIVEN PRISON TERMS
FOR STORE ROBBERIES
Columbus, Neb.—(UP)—Less than
a week after they had been appre
hended while robbing stores at
Creston, Leonard Johnson, 24 years
old. o! Elgin, and Verne Snyder, ol
Albion, were sentenced to five year.'
each in the state penitentiary.
They were sentenced late Monday
by District Judge Louis Lightner
before whom they pleaded guilty to
charges of burglary. No leniency was
given on their plea because the
youths previously had served year
terms in the state reformatory sev
eral years ago.
FEAR WATER SHORTAGE
IN IRRIGATION DISTRICT
Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) — A water
shortage in the Platte river is
threatening damage to crops in
western and central Nebraska where
irrigation is general, State Engi
neer Roy Cochran reported follow
ing a survey.
‘•The snowfall in the mountains
was 66 per cent of normal this last
season, and was the least in 20
years,” Cochrane said.
NEW BRIDGE SPANNING
PLATTE RIVER OPENED
Clarke, Neb.—(UP)—A new bridge
over the Platte river was opened to ;
traffic here Wednesday with color- i
ful ceremonies and a program of
speeches.
The new bridge is on highway No.
16, which goes through Wahoo,
David City and Omaha. State Engi
neer Roy Cochran and J. N. Nor
ton, former congressman, gave ad
dresses.
The cost of the bridge is approxi
mately $100,000, of which three
fourths was paid out of state and
federal funds while the remainder
was shared by Polk and Merrick
counties.
OMAHA OFFICER FREED
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES
Omaha, Neb. — (UP) — Freed of
manslaughter charges after a pre
liminary hearing before Municipal
Judge George Holmes, Patrolman
Harry Green was walking a beat
here Thursday. Green faced trial
for tlie death of Mrs. Lottie Dixon,
negress, who was shot and killed by
a bullet from his gun after he had
attempted to place her under ar
rest, June 10.
The Dixon woman was accused of
soliciting white men on the street.
She resisted arrest and, according
to Green’s story, pulled the offi
cer's revolver from its holster in a
hand to hand struggle.
NEW TRIAL REFUSED
IN HEART BALM CASE
Fremont, Neb.—(Special)—After
listening to the argument of at
torneys, Judge F. L. Spear refused,
to grant a re-hearing of the case of
Mrs. Eva Rouzee against Jim Rice,
battery and spark plug distributor.
Mrs. Rouzee, under $1,000 bond, is
recovering at the Military avenue
hospital, from a nervous breakdown
in the county jail, that followed the
sensational collapse of her $35,000
heart balm suit, when her husband,
whom she had testified was dead,
was presented in court. Special In
vestigator J. L. Outright is investi
gating the question of perjury un
i der Judge Spear’s instruction.
DIES REFUSING TO TELL
HOW HE WAS BURNED
Omaha, Neb- —After re
fusing for 30 hours to tell police
| how he had bees burned, Louis
Smolinski, 35 years old, formerlj
of Wichita, Kan., died Wednesdaj
ii> a local hospital. Police are seek
ing a man who brought Smolinski
to the hospital and gave a fictitious
name to attendants.
The burned man would not tell
them who the man was nor wha’
their relations were.
MANY OMAHANS
NOT EMPLOYED
Census Report Shows 5,
124 Persons Are With
out Work There
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^maha, Neb.—(UP)—There is
much unemployment here accord
ing to Census Director Victor Rey
nolds, who announced the unem
ployment census Monday, placing the
figure at 5,124 or 2.39 per cent of the
city's population of 214,184.
This figure includes all persons
who usually work at a gainful oc
cupation but who were able to work
and were unsuccessful in their quest
for employment when census enum
erators called on them.
Tabulated figures showed most un
employment in the down town
that is often not realized by the na
tion is owed to the veterans of the
Spanish-American war. Rice W.
Means, formerly senator from Colo
rado, declared Monday in addressing
the annual encampment of the
Spanish-American war veterans of
Nebraska.
Two hundred veterans and one
hundred auxiliary members opened
the convention Sunday and the ses
sions will close Tuesday.
“The service of the Spanish
American veterans played an im
portant part in the prosperity of
wards, with the packing house dis
trict running a close second.
NATION OWES DEBT TO
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
Columbus, Neb.—(UP) — A debt
the nation from 1900 until 1912,”
Means said in his address. "The
people of the nation owe a great
debt to these veterans, and it is a
debt that too often is not realized”
With formal and picturesque cere
monies, the convention opened Sun
day. Former United States. Gilbert
Hitchcock, Omaha newspaper pub
lisher gave the address at the Flag
day program Sunday and a flower
placing ceremony in tribute to the
dead also was held. Rev. William
H. Talmage, pastor af the Grace
Episcopal church, at Columbus,
gave the address at the Memorial
service in the evening.
LACK OF CO-OPERATION
CAUSE OF BAH BUSINESS
Lincoln, Neb. — (UP)—Committee
reports on the activities of the clybs
during the last year were present
ed Tuesday at the eighth annual
convention of Cosmopolitan Inter
national here.
Edward L. Young, of Decatur, 111.,
president of Cosmopolitan Interna
tional, blamed the lack of co-oper
ation for bringing about the unus
ual economic conditions being ey
perienced.
"The curse of the country has
been the greed of manufacturers in
their cry for volume through mass
production with no thought of the
effect this mass production would
have on the distributor,” Young
said. “Co-operation is the farthest
thing from their minds. If forced
co-operation had not been brought
in through the medium of chain re
tail stores, this country would have
been in a state of chaos.”
NEWSPAPER MAN’S WIFE
GIVEN DIVORCE AT LINCOLN
Lincoln, Neb.—A divorce was
granted to Mrs. Doris Tilton Sea
crest from Fred Seacrest here. He
is the son of J. C. Seacrest, owner of
the Nebraska State Journal, and is
business manager of the Journal.
Seacrest did not contest the di
vorce.
The wife is given custody of June,
3 years old, and the husband custo
dy of Ann, 7, and Mark, 10 The
husband is to pay $90 a month for
the support of June until she is 8
years old, then $100 a month until
she is 15, and thereafter $119 a
month until she is 21 Each of the
i two summer vacation months that
their mother has Mark and Ann,
their father is to pay $250 for their
support and $100 at Christmas vaca
tion.
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ACCUSED WOMAN SAID
TO BE SERIOUSLY ILL
Fremont, Neb. —(UP)— Mrs. Eva
Rouzee, whose heart balm suit re
cently collapsed when her suppos
edly dead husband appeared in
court, is in a hospital here, after
having furnished $1,000 bond for re
lease from the county jail where
she was being held pending investi
gation of possible perjury in the
testimony offered.
According to Sheriff W. A. John
son, Mrs. Rouzee had been seriously
ill for two days. She had previous
ly furnished bond on a statutory
charge filed against her and James
Rice, filling station ow’ner, whom
she was suing for $35,000.
i HOMER, NEB., WOMAN HAD
! CHICKEN WITH TWO HEARTS
Homer, Neb.—(Special)—A chick
en having two hearts may be unusu
al but not an impossible condition as
evidenced by the fact that Mrs. Ot
to Swanson of Homer dressed a
chicken that had two hearts alike in
size and apparently perfect in con
dition. The foul, a Rhode Island
Red, was of good size, in healthful
condition and not otherwise unlike
the rest of the flock.
R. O. T. C. ENCAMPMENT
OPENS AT FORT CROOK
Omaha, Neb.—(UP)—Annual six
weeks’ encampment of R. O. T. C.
officers of this division got under
way at Fort Crook Tuesday. Five
universities are represented with a
total of 153 men. University of Ne
braska has 82; Iowa, 33; South Da
kota. 26; Creighton, 11, and Illinois,
1.
TWO FAIRBURY, NEB.,
BANKS CONSOLIDATED
Fairbury, Neb.—(UP)—Consolida
tion of the Harbine State bank of
Fairbury and the First National
bank of Fairbury was announced
Tuesday. The new bank has re
sources of about $4,000,000 and is
capitalized at $400,000. Luther Bon
ham, president of the First Nation
al, will be head of the new institu
tion and H H. McLucas, C. M. Hurl
burt. Frank Moon. Frank Houston
and E P. Conrad will be directors.
The consolidation was brought
about through the acquisition last
fall of both banks by the North Wes'.
Banoorporation.
UK 1 DOE WORKER DROWNS
WHEN FALLS INTO RIVEN
Nebraska City, Neb.—The first fa
tal accident on the Waubon.ue
bridge job here occurred Monday af
ternoon when Harvey H. Smith,
steel worker, 35 years old, slipped
off ehe piling of a false-work and
tell into the Missouri river.
He came to Nebraska City with
Mr*. Smith only l~-t E-turday, and
this was his fir: u?.y of labor.
Fellow workc . Smith fall
15 feet as ho v.-.j trying to un
fasten a cable near pier No. 2. The
swift stream carried him down the
river, and he was seen only once
after he went, under. He seemed
to be struggling to swim toward
shore, 60 feet sway. Tins drown
ing makes the Missouri's toll for
this year reach five, four Nebraska
City business men having been
downed in March.
Work on the bridge was suspend
ed for the rest ol the dfty, as i;
customary following such an aeu
dent.
WOULD DEBATE
‘POWER’ ISSUES
President of Nebraska Tax
payers’ League Has Some
thing to Say on Subjeci
Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—William F'
Adams, president of the taxpayers
league, who said he had been busy
in his cornfields near Hastings since
he was drawn into the "power bill”
controversy, wrote Attorney Gen.
C. A. Sorense*. that he would be
glad to debate Joseph Bums, of Lin
coln, at Hastings on the night of
June 28.
The subject of the debate is the
various power bills that are being
circulated in the initiative petitions
now being circulated in the state.
Adams, in his letter, denied that,
the taxpayers league has paid one
cent for circulating the petitions;
that no one has been hired to cir
culate these petitions, and revealed
that Attorney McNehy, af Red
Cloud, drafted the petitions far the
league. Sorensen ha$ intimated
that the petitions, be\pg circulated
in opposition to ones hd had
drawn, were sponsored by the
power interests.
"I will have my chores done by
8:30 p. m., Saturday evening, June
28, and will meet you pr Bums at
the courthouse in Hastings and dis
cuss with you these questions from
the taxpayers’ viewpoint,” Adams
wrote.
BUYS YEAR’S SUPPLY
OF LUBRICATING OILS
Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) — Contracts
for supplying $40,000 worth of lu
bricating oils and greases to the
state for the next year were awarded
Tuesday to the Standard Gil com
pany, Independent Oil and Gas
company, and Mona Motor Oil com
pany, all of Omaha, Purchasing
Agent Blaine Yoder announced.
The Independent’s contracts total
about $30,000. Its average bid on oil
for Internal combustion engines was
43 cents a gallon, delivered in all
except dstrct No. 5 on the eglit
hghway dstrcts. The Independent
also will furnish axle grease in all
districts at 4 cents per pound in 50
pound lots.
Standard Oil company will supply
lubricating oil in district No. 5 lo
cated in the far northwest of the
state, at 48)4 cents a gallon.
Transmission oil at an average
price of 2314 cents a gallon in bar
rel lot* is to be supplied by the
Mona Motor company. This firm al
so has the contract to furnish inter
nal gear grease at an average of 5
cents per pound, cup greases and
chassis lubricant at 4*4 cents per
pound, all in full drum lots.
BOY SCOUT CAMT
ON NIOBRARA OPENED
O’Neill, Neb.—The North Central
district camp for Boy Scouts has
opened for 10 days. The camp is
on the Niobrara river, south of
Spencer. The capacity is 100 boys.
An advance foe of $1 was asked
with registrations. Camp charges
are $10 for 10 days.
The Niobrara camp was planned
to care for scouts from Atkinson.
Creighton, Bloomfield, Newport,
Plainview, Wausa, Vercligre, Bruns
wick, Ewing, Spencer, Bassett, Nio
brara, Page, Crofton, Lynch, Butte.
Bristow, Santee, Stuart, Osmond
and O’Ne.Ul.
FORMER WAYNE STUDENT
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
Tecumseh, Neb. —(UP)— F.. C.
Radke, who served as private sec
retary to Charles Bryan when he
was governor of Nebraska, paid his
filing fee here Tuesday as a demo
cratic candidate for attorney gen
eral. He is city attorney of Tecum
seh and is a former Johnson county
judge. While In his senior year in
the University of Nebraska college
of law, he was elected state repre
sentative from Gedar county. He
i was elected Johnson county judge in
1924 and served four years.
Radke entered Wayne Normal in
1907 and following h4s graduation
taught school near Tekamah. He
was admitted to the bar in 1917.
He was a delegate from Cedar
county to the Nebraska constitu
tional convention in 1920.
NORFOLK HOG THIEF -
GIVEN PENITENTIARY TERM
Norfolk, Neb. —(UP)— Lambert
Classen, known also In this vicinity
as "Cyclone Taylor,” under which
name he formerly engaged In sev
eral pugilistic enterprises here, was
taken to Lincoln Monday to begin
serving a term in the state peniten
tiary.
He was sentenced to two years
and 11 mqnths on his plea of guilty
to a charge of stealing six hogs from
the Theodore Pclakl farm last April
aa.