HIGHWAY WORK
TO BE BIG AID
Unemployment Situation in
Nebraska Expected to
Show Improvement
, Lincoln. Neb.—(UP)—Opening ol
[work on highway construction pro
MScls and on farms is expected to
’gfeatly relieve the unemployment
'Condition In Nebraska, according to
reports of the employment service
the United States department of
■labor, made public Thursday.
k "An extensive highway construc
tion program will be under way in
atother 60 days, furnishing employ
fcffimt for a large volume of work
the reports state, "and prepa
ration of land for beet growing and
‘other general farm work utilized
'many laborers during late April and
wirly May. Increased activity in
this direction is looked for toward
the end of May and during June."
}, Increased activity was reported
for the building trades, while the
‘supply of mechanics was reported
/£tiU visibly in excess of require
fcnents." Normal forces for the sea
son were reported at work in the
'meat packing Industry. Automo
bile accessory, public utilities, whole
sale groceries were reported as show
’ing substantial gains during April
‘as compared to March.
y Department stores, hotels and
restaurants were reported as show
ing Improved employment, condi
tions. Male and female factory and
clerical workers were reported In
better demand. Flour mills were re
jported operating with seasonably
pur tailed forces with additional la
bbr needs not anticipated before
’July or August.
W For Omaha, the labor survey
shows addition of a number of
wSrkers in city departments, but
the supply of skilled labor was re
ported in excess of demand. The
seasonal Influx of transient labor
was reported being partly absorbed
by a brisk demand for farm labor.
Gradual Improvement in general in
dustrial employment condition Is
expected during the next 60 days.
Building is reported as still dull.
1 Decided increase in employment
[was reported for Lincoln during
(Ala'll In automobile accessories and
! distribution plants, public utilities,
'candy and confectionery retail and
wholesale concerns and In farm
Implement establishments. Slight
gains were reported in railway re
pair shops, with further gains ex
pected for the remainder of the
month and during June. Many
{•killed and unskilled workers were
reported finding employment on
farms, in highway construction and
other outside labor. Building trades
were reported to show increased de
mand.
i Hastings was reported as showing
moderate industrial employment
gains, due largely to resumption of
outdoor operations. Demand for
experienced farm hands was report
ed active, with the supply more
than sufficient. Additional build
ing, scheduled to start in May, was
expected to Rbsorb many of the
excess building tradesmen.
With approximately $300,000 ol
city construction work under way
at Grand Island, the report states,
Such of the unskilled labor there
is been absorbed. Beet growers
ire reported as absorbing others of
.the unskilled laborers. Improve
ment was reported in the railway
•hops and much employment was
reported in highway construction
projects.
AUTO HITS TRAIN. ITS
OWNER PAYS DAMAGE
Broken Bow, Neb. — (Special) —
The owner of an automobile which
collided with a freight train must
pay for damage done when his au
tomobile ran Into a boxcar, upset
ting It on the right of way. This
unusual decision was given in Judge
Hostetler’s court in a suit brought
by the Burlington against Floyd
Hauck.
The Hauck car struck the 43rd
car from the engine and the Bur
lington road sued. Ho filed a coun
ter claim for $2,600 damages to his
car and person.
The evidence showed that the
crossing is elevated four feet above
the level of the country and that
the road rises that much In 300 feet.
Tests were made to show that auto
mobile lights reveal the train is the
driver is alert.
The judge held for the railroad
company holding Hauck must pay it
$231 damages.
CLASS OF 21 GIVEN
DIPLOMAS AT PENDER
Pender, Neb. —(Special)— The
high school graduating exercise took
place in the local theater Tuesday
evening. Dr. George W. Rosenlof.
director of secondary edueation and
teachers training, of Lincoln, de
livered the address. Nineteen girls
and eight boys received diplomas.
WAHOO BANKER PLEADS
GUILTY TO CHARGE
Wahoo. Neb. — The pending case
against Joseph M. Ohslund, former
president of the Citizens State
bank of Wahoo, which closed a lit
tle over a year ago, came to a close
here when Ohslund appeared before
District Judge H. D. Landis fcnd
pleaded guilty to three count}
charging he made false reports of
the bank’s condition. Ohslund is 12
years old.
KILL PONY THAT WAS
AFFLICTED WITH RABIES
Carroll, Neb.—(Special—Rabies
developed in a pony belonging to
Elmer Phillips and it was killed.
It is believed it was bitten by a
rat. Edna Phillips, who went to
feed the pony, noted his condition.
She is believed to have been un
harmed by the animal but is tak
ing anti-rabies treatments. Another
horse, two hogs and a dog which
,wwe near the pony are taking a 60
day course of treatments to pre
sent rabies.
PENDER DIVORCE CASE
TO SUPREME COURT
Lincoln, Neb.—'Special)—The su
preme court heard arguments Mon
day afternoon in the appeal of Mrs.
Marie C. Freed of Pender from a
judgment of the district court of
Thurston county that gave to her
husband, Marvin C. Freed, a di
vorce that she had sued for and
made a division of the property that
she insists is unjust and unfair.
She had sued on the ground of ex
treme cruelty, and had secured a
temporary injunction against her
husband uttering slanders against
her. He came back with similar
charges, and claimed that she has
misconducted herself with several
men he named. The Freeds have
been operating motion picture
houses at Pender, Emerson and Al
len, and the ownership of these are
in dispute in the appeal.
THURSTON BANK
CASE APPEALED
Nebraska State Department
Resists Claim of United
•
States Government
Lincoln. Neb.—(Special)— Attor
neys for the state banking depart
ment were before the supreme court
Tuesday pressing an appeal from
the district court of Thurston coun
ty, which gave the United States
a prior claim for $8,000 and Hein
rich Johnsen and John F. Kruse
mark one for $6,000 on the assets of
the failed Thurston state bank at
Thurston.
When the state took over the
bank in January, 1928. it was over
the protests of the officers, and at
a time when I he Indian agent, Mr.
Mann, had $14,500 on deposit. The
guaranty fund commission operated
it ns a going concern until April,
1929, when it was closed. The de
cision of the lower court was based
on the fact that the deposit repre
sented federal money for the use of
wards. Johnsen and Krusemark had
been bondsmen for the bank to the
extent of $6,000, and after paying
this they were allowed to step into
the shoes of the government, which
Is made a preferred creditor by op
eration of a federal law.
The principal legal point at issue
was whether the taking over of the
bank in January, 1928, constituted
an act of bankruptcy, and hence
made the claims a preferred one,
as the statute says. The state con
tends that the definition of bank
ruptcy does not Include inability to
pay current debts, which was all
that was the matter with the bank
when it took it over. The courts
have never passed on the question
of whether taking over a bank by
the commission constituted an act
of bankruptcy. It is also claimed
that the money the bondsmen paid
was furnished them by E. J. Han
cock, president of the bank, and the
state wants the judgment offset
against claims it has against him.
WIDOW OF ALBION
MAN GIVEN COMPENSATION
Lincoln, Neb.— (Special)—The su
preme court has awarded Laura
Elanor Hayes, administratrix of the
estate of Thomas Haynes, a judg
ment against the Paramount Mo
tors company of Albion. Haynes, a
mechanic for the company, was
killed when his machine struck a
cement post after he had been ac
costed by an autoist and had sup
plied the latter with gasoline. The
company argued that Haynes and a
companion had attended a dance
and later stopped at a refresh
ment stand and that his death did
not occur during the course of his
employment. The compensation
commissioner denied recovery, but
the court holds that he was rend
ering service incidental to his em
ployer’s business and awarded his
dependents $15 a week for 350
weeks, medical and hospital bills
and $600 attorney fees.
LUMBER YARD FIRE
CAUSES $225,000 LOSS
Grand Island, Neb.—The Cou
sins Whilesale Lumber company’s
yard and offices here were destroyed
by fire Tuesday night with a loss
estimated by O. G. Cousins, the
manager, at approximately $225,
000.
The lumber yard building was ap
proximately 477 feet by 180 feet and
was one of the largest yards in the
middlewest. The fire was discov
ered by Mr. Cousins, who was work
ing in the office. He said he was
unable to save anything after he
had called for help.
Trains on the main line of the
Union Pacific system were held up
for more than un hour. Three sets
of track adjoining the building were
warped by the intense heat.
BOUNTY PAID ON HEADS
OF 1,318 CROWS
Center, Neb.—(Special)—Tn one
week 1,318 crows' heads were turned
In at the office of the Knox coun
ty clerk here. Ten cents each Is paid
for each head. Fifty three coyote
scalps were brought in for the $2
lounty in the same period. On one
lay the county treasurer's office
»aid out $81 40 in bounties, the rec
>rd to date. Thirty eight persons
ihared in the crow extermination
»nd eight in the coyote hunt.
OMAHA THEATER ROBBER
GIVEN TERM IN PRISON
Omaha. Neb. — — Rudolph
Lisriah. 21 years old, of Chicago,
raptured In a street chase a week
ago after he had held up an Oma
ha theater, was to be taken to Ne
braska State penitentiary Wednes
day to start serving a four-year
sentence. He pleaded guilty to the
robbery charge. He had been iden
tified Des Moines police as the
man who held up a Des Moines the
ater 10 days before the Oin&ha
hold up
MEMORIAL DAY
From the Waterloo (la.) Tribune.
Men are marching on many
streets today.
Old men whose battle songs make
faint music now, and young men
whose lips still whistle the tunes
that brought courage when they
followed the flame of a scarlet ban
ner in an alien land, are keeping
step again.
The spirit of crusade has come
back for a little while and age and
youth seek the accolade that comes
to those who go forth to right a
wrong. The streets down which
they come and the thronging crowds
fade away, and the soldiers take
dim trails again, as the bands strike
up the martial challenge.
Across me Argonne, cnateu
Thierry, Soissons, down Flanders
way men march again, mud-caked,
bruised, bleeding, going to death
perhaps—but going unafraid. Khaki
lines swing by to keep a tryst with
yesterday.
And as they march thin lines of
older men, in faded blue or gray,
catch the same refrain and follow
tattered flags across the field to
Gettysburg, Vicksburg and other
famous, half-forgotten fields. Thetr
trail is a longer one. Weeds have
made a tangled way across the
paths they took when their suits
were new and their steps were sure.
But the goal they sought is as shin
ing as that which their sons and
grandsons fought to win in the
wars that have followed.
There will be a hush in the wait
ing’crowd and the drums will be
muffled sometimes while a bugle
sings a requiem for those who do
not march today. There will be
tears in many eyes for men who lie
in the graves on which loyal hands
have placed their flowers, and for
another group which sleeps in green
beds where poppies make a crimson
riot.
Through the ages there has been
a thrill to marching men. Ever
since the first knights went forth,
tteel clad, to seek the Grail, high
exultation has gone with those who
fought a good fight.
But today words of peace are
coming witn startling clearness as
they pierce the smoke from thou
sands of years of battles. After all,
there can be little happiness In any
drama, splendid though its stage, if
there are tears when the curtain
falls.
‘‘Greater love hath no man than
this, that he lay down his life for
his friend,” we have been told. How
ever, if a way is found which will
permit men to live that life for
others there will be greater rejoic
ing as the parades go by. ‘ Peace on
earth, good will to men,” make a
mightly challenge. It was to fulfill
Its prophecy that the men who
march today once went to war.
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Memorial nay
While the form of Memorial day
celebration has changed somewhat
In recent years, especially since sev
eral states have set November 11.
the anniversary of the World war
armistice, aside as a day for com- I
memorating the heroism and sacri
fice of armed citizens in war. the
spirit in which It Is observed re
mains unchanged. The common
heart of the country Is stirred by
reminders of the sacrifice involved
In war, the pulse of the nation is
quickened whenever flying flags and
martial music refresh the thought
that the country wras born in war,
saved in war and elevated to world
leadership in the greatest of all
wars. But the celebration is not an
exaltation of war. Rather it is a
tribute to the courage which made
i victory possible without thought of
1 cost.
As Memorial day inevitably stim
ulates thoughts of the sacrifice of
war, it brings also a feeling of
gratitude that peace is upon the
world. The country always has been
peace-loving. Its wars, its prepared
ness for wars, have always been
with peace in mind. The people
never have sacrificed the youth of
the land to a war for the sake of
war. Every hero whose valor is sung
in today’s ceremonies gave his life
for the peace, prosperity and se
curity of his country. The living
who take these things for granted
are reminded on Memorial day that
all the political liberties and eco
nomic advantages of American life
were paid by men who did not live
to enjov them.
The main attribute of Memorial
day is its inspiration to courage.
This quality, most admired by war
riors, is no less needed in peace
than in war. In the lives of men
who died in the heat of battlefield
struggle there is an example of
courage which If emulated in the
peace time world of affairs would
in a short time banish the cardinal
evils, crime and poverty, and set
up a will to peace that w'ould do
, away with war.
First Comes the Blue.
From the Milwaukee Journal
First comes the blue, and thai
may well be our thought on this
Memorial day. Only a remnant of
a remnant now, a breath out of
our childhood recollections, these
men who lived in days we have
heard of but never saw. They lead
as they should lead. And this host
In khaki follows b' cause ifc earned
the right to follow. No danger that
they will not honor the blue; their
lives have honored it. Well those in
khaki know that without these who
wore the blue there would not have
been a country to deserve from them
like sacrifice.
"Four score and ten years ago,"
said Lincoln at Oettysburg, "our
fathers brought forth a new nation."
And now it is three score years and
seven since he spoke those words
Now the men of our generation,
watched by fathers and mothers,
sisters and wives and children, fol
low the blue as those men whom
Lincoln honored were following the
buff and blue of those who made
us a nation. As they still follow,
their eyes, dim with age to mortal
things, seeing that invisible host
that moved before them and with
them.
So these “boys” of our own, the
defenders of T7, even as they pay
honor to those who bore the flag
before them, are seeing others who
went out with them and paid ‘‘the
last measure of devotion.” They see
men in hospital; they see home?
that are empty. And we must see
these, too, lest our remembering be
only a day of vainglory.
They would do it again if need
were. But it is not to make that
promise that they march. They are
teaching their children that a coun
try is like a home, and if either is
lost there is not left that which
makes life worth having.
If there is wrong in war, and we
know that there is, it is for us to
remove the fears and threats that
bring it. It is not wrong of these
men’s making who wore the blue
or who followed the blue. More than
we whose blundering ‘‘wakes the
drumming guns that have no
doubts,’ these men know beyond all
telling the hell of war. But they
know, too, that until wisdom brings
us other ways than war they have
no other course than to say to their
children: “You see us following the
‘boys in blue,’ as they were follow
ing the buff and blue, and as you
must follow, if ever your country
calls.”
USE OF TELEPHONES GROWS
STEADILY THROUGHOUT ITALY
Rome—(UP)—Although Italy oc
cupies a low position, the 22nd in
the list of telephone-using nations,
great steps have been made in pop
ularizing and extending the tele
phone during the last few years.
There is still, however, only 0.8
telephones per 100 inhabitants In
Italy, as against 16.3 telephones In
the United States, 4.6 in Germany,
3 8 in Great Britain and 2 3 in
Fiance,
In five years of private industrial
organization of the telephone ser
vice in Italy, the number of sub
scribers has been more than
doubled. When private enterprise
took over the telephone lines In
July, 1925, the number of subscrib
ers was 127,333 whereas at the end
of June, 1930, the total had reached
272,815. It Is calculated that the
number at present Is over 300,000
In 1925, in Lombardy and Pied
mont, the two regions of Italy with
the greatest number of telephone
users, only two cities, Milan and
Turin had an automatic telephone
service. The number of subscrib
ers in both cities total only 40,000.
Today there are over 115,000 au
tomatic telephones in use in Turin
and Milan. In the Rome province
and zone there are 74,000.
In Piedmont and Lombardy,
there are 100,410 telephone sub
scribers; 74,000 in the Rome re
gion; 36,000 in South Italy; 30,621
in Abruzzl Molise and the central
Adriatic zone, and 26,000 in the
' Venice provinces.
Spring Is Here
Ships of the Air.
From the Magazine of Wall Street. '
For every passenger aboard the
Leviathan her engines have to push
27,000 pounds of steel through wa
ter, a medium which is 900 times
heavier than air. The Leviathan
can carry only 4 per cent of her
displacement in paylord. whereas
Zoal Companies Plan to
Seal Unused Openings
Pittsville, Pa.—(UP)—Anthracite
companies are planning to seal shut
all surface openings other than
those used for mins entrances and
for purposes of ventil: t.cn.
According to the plan, mine caves,
min; breaches, old st. .pplags and
crop fail; v.iil br closed b charges
of dynamite, bringing tons of earth
down over the e\posed ccr.!.
Several factors influence the plan,
among them the desire to prevent
aecident to trespassers, the need of
an airship can carry over 20 per
cent of its lift In payload. The
speed of the airship is three times
that of the Leviathan. Several pow
eri® American companies are at
work on the problems of commer
cializing the Zeppelin. Within five
years there will be regular airship
services to Europe, and perhaps by
the same time to Hawaii, Japan,
China and South America. With
her mid-world position, the United
States will probably take and keep
the lead in lighter-than-air-craft.
She has the great material advan
tage of having a monopoly of the
world's supply of helium gas, which
is non-combustible, and enough of
It to last for 200 years. Like all in
novations, the airship will work
others. On account of weather con
ditions. and the at least the present
necessity of avoiding the high
winds of the sea coast during land
ing and take cff, the great Atlan
tic airport is likely to be In the
neighborhood of Washington, D. C„
rather than at New York or any
other coastal city. As a matter of
fact the great air terminals of the
future might be more desirably lo
cated at a central inland city. On
such reasoning we are thinking of
spedlng $1,000,000,000 or so to make
Chicago a seaport. There is already
a perfect air channel from Europe
and ah the world to Cricago.
shutting off outcropping veins from
the psths of forest and brush fires,
and, principally, the prevention of
coal “boot-legging.'’
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Piinre Orders Hunting Car.
Hardships of big-game hunting in
India ore to be eliminated for
quests of the Maharajah of Kodh
pur. He has purchased a special
motor coach, with space for 30 pas
sengers. and ammunition, a refrig
erator for food, an oven and a wash
basin with running water. The top
of the coach may be roiled back
and the windows lowered into the
body to provide more room and
an unhampered view fer the hunt
TWINS WIN HONORS IV
COUNTY SCHOOL TESTS
Hartington, Neb. — (Special) —
Velma Reimers, pupil in district No.
107 Cedar county, beat her twin sis
ter, Irma 1.1 point when she took
the eighth grade examination and
thereby became championship schol
ar of eighth graders in the county,
[rma had previously ranked high
est. Velma was ill at the time of the
first examination. The twins are 13
rears old.
Dean and Dale Westadt, 13-year
•>ld twin brothers of district No. 49,
near Belden, also held honors for
grades in the county examination.
Dean has an average of 93 and
ranks third. Dale is in fifth place,
since Dorothy Collier, who received
a grade of 92.3, placed fourth.
GASOLINETAX
SHOWS GAINS
Nebraska State Treasurer
Reports Slight Increase
Over 1930
Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) — Slight
gains were shown in gasoline tax
collections for the first five months
of the current year, as compared to
the first five months of 1930, com
putations by State Treasurer Bass
reveal.
Total collections to date for this
year are $3,384,819.20, Bass reports,
whereas for 1930 the total collection
for the same period was $3,384,062.35
representing a gain in collections of
$765.85.
Treasurer Bass reports that in
formation from other states indi
cates a heavy loss in collections over
the nation. That some loss in col
lections may be shown is predicted
by Bass, since a new tractor fuel
is being introduced which does not
come under provisions of the gas
tax.
It also is shown in the report that
a considerable quantity of gasoline
is being “bootlegged” into the state
without payment of tax. Some pre
caution will be taken to prevent
such action and prosecutions may
follow, Bass states.
NEBRASKA GRAIN MEN TO
DISCUSS PROBLEMS SOON
Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) — Prior to
the 1931 harvest, elevator men and
farmers will assemble at five meet
ings throughout the state to discuss
grading and marketing of high qual
ity grain. The meetings will be spon
sored co-operatively by federal in- ‘
spectors from the United States de
partment of agriculture, the Omaha
Grain exchange and the extension
division of the college of agriculture.
The schedule of the meetings as
announced follows: Chadron, May
25; Sidney, May 26; McCook, May
27, Grand Island, May 28 and Su
perior, May 29.
One section of the meetings will
be turned over to discussion of grain
grading and inspection, topics of
primary importance to grain elevat
or men. Among the speakers for this
section of the meetings are W. L.
Carroll, H. E. Nelson, and E. L.
Morris, all connected with the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
and H. E. Clark of Omaha. Their
topics include grain grading, grain
inspection, supervision of inspection
and demonstrations of moisture
testing.
D. L. Gross and Harold Hedges
of Lincoln, will speak during the
afternoon sections on production of
high quality small gTains and tfre
keeping of simple but accurate ele
vator accounts. Gross will speak pri
marily on curbing of smut in wheat
and the production of pure strains
Df wheat, oats and barley.
GERMAN AMBASSADOR
TO VISIT OMAHA
Omaha, Neb.—(UP)—This week
will be a busy one for Omaha’s so
cial calendar. There will be a visit
from the German ambassador, Dr.
Friederich Wilhelm von Prittwitz
und Gaffron, functions in honor of
the Nebraska Dentists’ association
which, with its women’s auxiliary
and dental assistants club, will meet
in annual session May 18 to 21, a
convention of the Nebraska Savings
and Loan association May 20-2f, the
annual meeting of the Nebraska
Diocesan council of the Episcopal
church, May 20 and 21, a celebra
tion of the 50th anniversary of the
found of the American Red Cross, a
concert by Edwin Kemp, noted Chi
cago tenor, and other features.
The German ambassador will be
honored by many functions during
his full day's stay here. He arrives
Tuesday evening and leaves Wed
nesday night. He will be guest of
honor at a Chamber of Commerce
banquet and will be asked to attend
many fuictions arranged by the
German-American colony here.
NEBRASKA HAS VAST
ACREAGE OF FARM LAND
Washington, D. C.—(UP)—There
were 129,458 farm aggregating 44,
708,565 acres valued at $2,495,203,
071 in the state of Nebraska in 1929,
according to a report of William L.
Austin, chief statistician for agri
culture. Of the total acreage crops
were harvested on 21,399.340 acres,
crops failed on 359.783, 584.489 acres
were fallow or idle. Of the pasture
land in the state 4,160.254 acres
were plowable. 798.141 woodland and
all but 143,078 of the woodland acre
age was used for pasturage, the re
port stated.
The total value stated above in
cludes farm land and buildings. The
value of farmers’ dwellings was
$222,568,739 and of other buildings
$446,539,222. Farm implements
worth $150,925,108 were owned by
the 129,458 farmers.
DROWNS AS FRIENDS
LOOK ON HELPLESSLY
Shelton, Neb.—While his mother
and a group of companions locked
cn helplessly, John Schmitt, 21 years
old, of Shelton, was drowned late
Sunday in a sand pit near here.
Schmitt, a member of a party of
young men who went on an outing
trip on the Platte river, stopped at
the pit for a brief swim as the party
was returning home.
Diving into the cold water, he
failed to come to the surface and
members of the group combed the
pit bed for an hour before recover
ing the body.
INDIANS WILL
HAVE NEW SON
Plan Adoption of Pennsyl
vania White Man at
Ceremony May 30
Winnebago, fteb. — 'Special) —
Winnebago Indians on the reserva
tion near Winnebago, Neb., will re
vive the ancient ceremony of adop
tion May 30 when the tribe will
make a member of J. W. Parks of
Altoona, Pa. Mr. Parks is planning
to come here by airplane for the
occasion. He is receiving this honor
for his interest in Indian affairs
and conservation of wild life He is
proprietor of a poultry farm near
Altoona.
The ceremony will take place at
1:30 o’clock on the ranch of Chief
Sampson Whirling Thunder, four
miles southeast of Winnebago. Sev
eral days of instruction will be re
quired before the Indians will be
ready for the ceremony. The Win
nebago celebrated buffalo dance
and the war ranee also will be erect
ed. Several speakers are on the pro
gram.
It is expected Indians from sev
eral western states will take part.
May 30 is also the time for the
“Spring Feast.” This is a religious
ceremony and takes place after each
of the four seasons. All members
of the Winnebago tribe will be pres
ent.
SHERIDAN COUNTY FARM
PEOPLE PLANT 29,800 TREES
Rushville, Neb. — (Special) —
Through the efforts of the farm bu
reau, farmers in Sheridan county
have planted a total of 29.800 seed
ling trees this spring. Scotch pine,
Chinese elm and Austrian pine lead
the list of varieties planted.
PAYS BOUNTY ON 76
SCALPS OF COYOTES
Rushville, Neb.—(Special)—Boun
ty warrants for 76 coyote scalps
have been issued by the county
clerk since April 1. Practically all
were of pups dug out of dens. Four
of the dens had litters of eight.
TOOK HIS MEDICINE ON
•PERSHING’S” COMMANi,.
Omaha, Neb. — — In de
lirium as he lay on his death bed
at a hospital here last week, Brig.
Gen. Leroy Altinge refused to take
medicine ordered by his doctor. His
nurse Monday night told how the
general was “commanded” to take
it.
“Who are you to tell the com
mander of an entire brigade what
to do?” the general demanded.
“I am General Pershing; I com
mand you to take your medicine,’
he was told.
General Altinge, she said, raised
his hand feebly in salute as a looi
of comprehension came over hit
face—and took the medicine.
General Altinge was buried Mon
day in Arlington, Va., cemeterj
with full military honors.
YOUNG OAKDALE FARMER
PROBABLY FATALLY BURNED
Oakdale Neb. — (Special) —
While filling an incubator lamp
when lighted, Elmer Christiansen
was probably fatally burned. He
was taken to a Norfalk hospital
and the attendants report little
hope for his -ecovery. Christiansen
is a young farmer living about five
miles south of Oakdale. He was
married last fall to Miss Alverda
Hopkins.
CLASS OF NINE GIVEN
DIPLOMAS AT OAKDALB
Oakdale, Neb. — (Special)—The
graduation exercises of the Oakdale
high school were held at the
school auditorium, with five girls
and four boys receiving diplomas
Prof. B. Shively of Plainview de
livered the address.
NO NEGROES IN SEVERAL
NEBRASKA COUNTIES
Washington—(UP)— Not a single
r.-gro resides in 28 of Nebraska's
93 counties and 15 other counties
have but a single Negro resident, ac
cording to a bulletin issued by the
census bureau here today.
Cuming county, with a population
of 14,327 is the largest county which
has no Negroes while Clay county
with 13,571 has but a single Ethio-'
pian. The total Negro population
of the state in 1930 was 13,752 com
pared with 13,242 in 1920 and 7,689
in 1910. Of the total but 640 were
rural, the others residing in cities,
including 11,123 in Omaha.
Counties having no Negro popu
laton are: Arthur, Banner, Cedar
Chase, Cuming, Deuel, Dundy,
Franklin, Garfield, Gesper, Haynes,.
Hooker, Johnson, Kearney. Loup,.
McPherson, Nance, Pawnee, Perkins,
Pierce, Polks, Hock, Saline, Sioux,
Thayer, Valley, Webster and
Wheeler.
Those with a single colored man
are: Antelope, B’aine, Boone. Boyd,
Brown, Burt, Clay, Dixon, Furnas,
Garden, Howard, Keya Paya, Kim
ball, Sherman, Thomas.
WISNER, NEB.. COUPLE
MARRIED 50 YEARS
Wisner. Neb.—(Special)—Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Fuller, pioneers of this
community, celebrated their golden
wedding. Seventy five relatives,
neighbors and friends spent the
afternoon and evening with them.
Rev. J. H. Tegeler, pastor of St.
Paul's Lutheran church, made an
appropriate address in the after
noon. A wedding supper was served
ONE IOWA REPRESENTATIVE
RETURNS EXPENSE CHECK
Des Moines, la.— —Repre
sentative Harry M. Greene has re
turned to the state treasurer *
check for $300 allowed him as a
member of the interim tax revision
committee provided for by the 43id
general assembly.
Greene, who served from Potta
wattamie county, opposed the al
lowance of expense funds to the
members of the committee and an
nounced during the 44th general as
sembly that he planned to return a
warrant when it was sent to luro