VOLUME LI.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1930.
No. 27
Starting Dec. 1
we will
clean and press
your suit
for
$1.°° Cash
W. H. HARTY
O’Neill
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LOCAL NEWS
Mrs. S. J. Weekes, who has been in ;
Omaha the past five weeks visiting ,
her parents, Judge and Mrs. C. T.
Dickinson, is expected home Friday, i
John Minton came up from Omaha
the later part of last week and is vis-,
iting at the home of his mother, Mrs.
Alice Minton. Mr. Minton has been
conductor on the Burlington out of
Omaha for the past seventeen years, j
Paul Young, who has been working
in the central part of the state for
several weeks, came home on Tues
day of last week.
The Frontier went to press Wed
nesday evening in order that the
force may have Thanksgiving to
themselves.
Miss Fern and Burt Hubbard and
Miss Carol Simonson came from Lin
coln, Wednesday evening to spend
Thanksgiving with home folks.
Mrs. Georgia Rasley went to Oma
ha last Thursday to transact some
business; she then went to Iowa City,
Iowa to visit her son, Warren Hall
and wife and little grandson, Rich
ard.
The city of Atkinson has signed a
I new contract with the Interstate
Power Company for street lighting.
| The old rate was 10c per kwh; the
new rate for pumping the city water
is four cents for the first 1000 kwh,
three and one-half cents for the next
1000 kwh and three cents for all over
2000.
The weather turned cold and
stormy last Sunday morning. Satur
day was a nice, warm day for this
season of the year. Sunday after
noon a heavy northwest wind was
filled with snow at times that resem
bled a regular blizzard, but Monday
was clear but cold. Again Tuesday
! snow flurries were prevalent.
TELEPHONE AND HIGH LINE
CREWS REPAIRING LINES
Several crews of telephone men
arrived in O'Neill last Thursday
morning and began repairing the
O’Neill system which was badly de
molished by the sleet storm of last
Wednesday night. The telephone
lines have all been repaired in the
city excepting those which pass
through the cable on south fifth
street; the high line fell on the cable
in one place and burned it in two.
Long distance service was l'esumed
the latter part of the week but the
line is only a temporary one and will
be rebuilt as soon as possible.
The Interstate Power Co. suffered
considerable damage over almost all
of their system. Manager Walling
tells us that he has seven crews work
ing with ten to twenty men to the
crew, trying to get the lines in shape
so that the towns may be lighted. He
says that several towns in southern
South Dakota are still without light
as is also Bassett, Newport and some
of the tow’ns west where service wras
cdt off from both sides of them.
O’Neill people should congratulate
themselves upon the fact that they
received tip-top service both from the
light company and the telephone
company following the worst sleet
storm that has ever visited this sec
tion of the state; every effort was
put forth by both companies to clear
up the trouble as quickly as possible.
THE NEW CHEVROLET SIX
HAS MANY IMPROVEMENTS
The introduction of
the new Chevrolet
Six marks the most
impressive forward step in Chev
rolet's twenty^year record of con
stant progress and improvement.
For this Bigger and Better Six
offers new beauty, new luxury,
new completeness and new qual
Ity—yet It sells at lower prices I
The improvements In the new
Chevrolet Six begin at the smart
new chrome-plated headlamps
and extend throughout the entire
car. The radiator is deeper and
unusually efficient. Due to the
increased wheelbase, the lines
are longer and lower, giving an
air of exceptional fleetness and
grace. And the new Fisher bodies
combine with this more attrac
tive exterior appearance, a new
degree of interior luxury.
The chassis of the new Chevrolet
Six has also been refined and
advanced in a number of different
ways. The frame is heavier and
deeper. There is a smoother oper
ating, long lived clutch; a sturdier
front axle; an entirely new steer
ing mechanism; an easier shifting
transmission.
And along with these improve
ments, Chevrolet offers a 50
horsepower, six-cylinder motor—
four long semi-elliptic springs
—four hydraulic shock absorbers
— a safety gasoline tank —and
an economy of operation not sur
passed by any automobile.
» » » AT NEW LOW 3*RhC<ES « « «
The
Phaet«n _
The
Roadster
Sport Roadster
with rumble seat
*510
*475
*495
The
Coach __
Standard
Coupe ___
Standard Five
Window Coupe
’545
’535
’545
Sport Coupe
with rumbfe seat
Standard
Sedan _
Special
Sedan ...._
*575
$635
*650
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FBOEUCII LEADS WAR IN
CHICAGO l’PON GANGSTERS
(Omaha World-Herald)
William J. Froelieh, former Oma
han, is commander-in-ehief of the
government forces in their war
against Chicago’s gangland, it was
revealed Friday i n a copyrighted
Consolidated Pro s dispatch to The
World-Herald.
Froelieh, a native Nebraskan, ner
ved for two years as assistant Unit
ed States district attorney in Omaha
under J. C. Kinsler. He left in 192!)
to become an assistant to the attor
_m_HB
WILLIAM J. FROELICH
ney general and is the youngest mem
ber of the attorney general’s staff.
The Chicago campaign which Froe
lich is directing is described by At
torney Mitchel as “a concerted drive
against crime in Chicago.”
All government resources will be
placed at Froelich’s disposal, it is
stated. Prohobition agents, secret
service, internel revenue agents, the
intelligence unit, immigration offi
cers, the department of justice, bur
eau of investigation, postal inspect
ions, the narcotic bureau and the cus
toms inspectors will all be massed in
the government’s army.
Federal officers in Chicago refused
to comment on Froelich’s appoint
ment. “If words could drive the offi
cial and criminal gangsters out of
Chicago they would have been gone
long ago,” said District Attorney
Johnson.
- Froelich himself refused to com
ment.
“Assistant Attorney General Froe
lich is here to make action take the
place of verbal fighting that has been
so common,” says the press dispatch
from Chicago.
Other agencies will co-operate with
Froelich in the “war of extermina
tion.” Among them will be Pat
Roche and his investigators of the
state’s attorney’s office, and the “se
cret six,” civilian organization form
ed to combat official corruption.
Important results have already
been achieved, it is pointed out, al
though the campaign is barely under
way. Ralph Capone, brother of Sear
face Al,” is under sentence of three
years in federal prison after convic
tion on charges of conspiring to vio-;
late the income tax laws. Jake Gu-1
zik, general manager of Al Capone’s j
gambling organization, was convicted t
this week on a similar charge and is
awaiting sentence. Frank Nitti,
treasurer of the Capone organization
is awaiting trial on similar charges, j
Federal officials have indicated that
Scarface Al himself may be the next
arrested.
The income tax laws will be the
chief weapon of the federal officers,
Although the gang leaders speak
openly of their liquor business, it has
been difficult to get convictions and
long prison sentences on liquor char- j
ges. The federal officers, it is said,
believe that they can break the gang
by sending the leaders to prison on
tax charges and that, once the lead
ers are disposed of, the liquor busi
ness can be attacked with greater
success.
Proelich’s rise in the government!
service has been rapid. He was grad
uated from the law school of George
town University, Washington, I). C.,
in the class of 1926, and shortly
afterward passed the Nebraska bar
examination. On July 13 of that
year he was appointed an assistant
to District Attorney Kinsler here.
His work in the Omaha office at
tracted the attention of Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, then assistant
attorneygeneral here in charge of li
quor prosecutions, and in April, 1929,
he was appointed assistant to th,e at
torney general. Since that time he
has been assigned to liquor law pro
secutions in various parts of the
country. He came to Omaha last
spring to assist the local office in
handling a part of the docket.
Froelich was born in Stromsburg,
Neb., but when he was 10 months, old
his family moved to a farm near
O’Neill. At the age of ten, when his
father died. Froelich went to work in
O’Neill to help support the family.
—Buy it in O’Neill—
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Bargains In New
and Used Pianos
1
1 used Hamilton Piano
as good as new.
$150
1 Rush & Gerts Piano,
$150
1 New Hamilton Piano,
Walnut case.
$75
1 Halet & Davis Piano,
$290
TERMS CAN BE ARRANGED.
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Bowen’s Variety Store
THE O’NEILL LIONS CLUB
ENTERTAIN FOOTBALL BOYS
The O’Neill Lions Club had as their
guests at their regular noonday lun
cheon last Tuesday the members of
the High School football team. The
boys have not registered very many
wins this season owing to the fact
that they are young and inexperienc
ed; many of the boys are small in
stature; Coach CarroR has worked
hard with the squad this year and
they are in a position to go out next
I season and make a creditable show
i ing. The boys have established a rep
; utation throughout this section of
I the state as having played clean
j football and have been commended
by many of the towns for the man
! ner in which they have conducted
themselves both on the field and on
j the streets.
Secretary of the Lions, L. E. Down
ey, in a few well chosen words, ex
tended a welcome to the boys and ex
pressed the sentiment of the entire
membership of the club when he said
that the Club was 100% behind the
squad and their coach in their en
deavor to promote clean athletics.
Thomas Abdouch, captain of the
team, very ably responded, expressing
the appreciation of the team for the
interest taken in them by the Lions.
Mayor C. E. Stout was present
and also made a short talk to the
team. Each Lion as well as each
member of the squad made a few re-1
marks relative to the team. The lun
cheon was one of the best that the ;
club has enjoyed and no doubt was 1
conducive to a closer friendship be
tween the boys and the business men
present.
The following is a list of the foot
ball boys present at the luncheon:
Orville Winchell
• ...(iK
Lyle Green
John Harbottle
Ned Cole
Ned Allendorfer
Garland Bressler
Gerald Donohoe
Scott Hough
Charles Meyers
Thomas Liddy
Burdette Miller
James Spindler
Phillip Dempsey
Dick Cromwell
Eugene Revelle
Melvin Pilger
LeRoy Hartford
Eugene Kilpatrick
Francis Kelly
Glenn Auten
Francis Dempsey
George Abdouch
Bennet Sanders
—Buy it in O’Neill—
MISS MARTHA FISHER,
AMELIA, 4-H CLUB WINNER
Miss Martha Fisher, Amelia, Ne
braska, is the Holt county 4-H win
ner. Miss Fisher, in company with
the winners of the other twenty-eight
county winners of the state, will be
given a trip to the National Club
Congress which will be held in Chi
cago from November 29th to Decem
ber 5th.
Miss Fisher is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. E. Fisher, prominent citi
zens of the Amelia vicinity; she was
graduated from the Ewing high
school last May; she is teaching in
District No. 222 near Amelia.
T1 o trip to Chicago to attend the
National Club Congress is furnished
each year by the railroad company.
The winners of the 4-H clubs in
the adjoining counties are Ruth Wy
lie, Antelope county; Dorothy Chris
tensen, Knox county.
. BVEN in Summer you cannot
make hay without grass, and
even with a large income a man
cannot become rich unless he
saves.
The O’Neil! National
Bank
Capital, Surplus and Undivided
Profits, $125,000,00
This bank carries no indebted
ness of officers or stockholders.
