MORE PERSONS
AUTO VICTIMS
New Accident Record in
Nebraska Despite More
Rigid Laws
Lincoln, Neb.— (UP)— Althougl
Nebraska's new laws calculated tc
safeguard the autoist went Into ef
feet August 3, the motor vehicle
accident rate leaped to a record
total for the two week period end
ing August 11.
The report of the Nebraska pres.5
association issued Wednesday that
21 persons were killed dining the
period in motor vehicle accident?
and the total casualty list mounted
to 438 for the period. Both marks
were records during the past twe
years that the press association has
been keeping accident charts.
There was a total of 31 acci
dental deaths during the two-week
period, with the automobile in the
role ns the greatest killer. In all
classifications there were U59 acci
dents. There was 120 accidents In
the agricultural pursuits.
Nebraska's all corn—and weeds—
caused 15 accidents by causing poor
visibility at intersections. Ten ac
cidents were caused by hit and run
drivers. Mechanical defects and tiro
blowouts were responsible for four
deaths. Trucks were Involved In 43
accidents, injuring 51 people and
killing four.
Since January 1 this year, there
have been 358 persons accidentally
killed in the state, nnd of this
number 176 met death In automobilo
crashes.
BRYAN BELITTLES PLAN
OF FORMER GOVERNOR
Lincoln, Neb.- — Governor
C. W. Bryan Wednesday described
the suggestion of Samuel R. Mt
Kelvie, former member of the fed
eral farm board, for the distribution
of wheat held by the grain stabili
zation corporation for use by the
needy of the nation as “a nice
posture which already has been de
clined by the farm board and the
president."
The Nebraska governor cirticizeci
the farm board for its handling ol
the wheat surplus and the nationa
administration for the economic
situation.
"McKelvie’s suggestion," Bryan
added, “would not be of any ser
vice in relieving the hungry unless
some way can be found of prying
the wheat loose from the board.
“It seems to me,” Bryan added,
“that it would be much more busi
ness like as well as human for
the government to use the wheat
which it is holding to relieve hun
ger, rather than to sit on it and
advise local communities through
out the nation to take care of their
own unemployed and their own
hungry.
“Although both conditions were
brought about by the action of the
nntlonal administration in the past
10 years, it is its problem and It
should go about it in a manly way
instead of passing the buck and ap
pointing more commissions.’1
BELIEVE HE WAS KILLED
BY HIT AND RUN CAR
Waverly, Neb.- —The body
of Herbert Wetenkamp, 23 years
old, a farmer, was found Wednes
day in a cornfield a mile east of
here. His head was crushed. He had
been missing since Tuesday night.
After an investigation of the
death. Lancaster county officials
said they believed the young man
had been the victim of a hit and
run driver.
With Donald Ossenkop, 25, who
also lives near Walton, Wetenkamp
left the Edgar Lipe farm Tuesday
night about 9 o’clock with a truck
load of cattle for the Omaha mar
ket. The truck was disabled and
Wetenkamp started to town for re
pairs. The body was found not more
than 250 yards from the spot where
Ossenkop sat waiting in the truck,
officers said.
GAS-ELECTRIC TRAIN
NORFOLK TO LONG PINE
Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—Author
ity has been granted by the state
railway commission to the Chicago
and North Western Railway com
pany to substitute gas-electric mo
tive power on trains No. 11 and No.
22 running between Norfolk and
Long Pine.
CARROLL PEOPLE TO
PAY HIGHER PHONE RATES
Lincoln, Neb. — (Special) — The
state railway commission has grant
ed authority to the Union Tele
phone company of Carroll to pub
lish and collect increased rates at
its Carroll exchange and to publish
a ralo of 25 cents a month for desk
rets to apply to business and resi
dence telephones. The latter be
comes effective September 1, 1931.
ASK FOR RATES ON
SAND AND GRAVEL
Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—Applica
tion has been filed with the state
railway commission by the Chicago
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Railway company for authority tc
establish a rate of 60 cents a ton or
6and and gravel from the Brockman
pit near Coleridge to Wausa and
the Chicago and North Western
Railway company has asked au
thority to publish emergency rates
on carloads of sand and gravel from
the Lyman Richey pit west of Fre
mont to Creston, Leigh, Clarkson
and Howells.
FORMER NEBRASKA G. A. R.
COMMANDER DEAD
Fremont, Neb. — — Lucius
Dunbar Richards, 84 years old. Ne
braska republican and veteran of
the Civil war, died at his home here
Wednesday night after a 10-day ill
ness. He wrs a past commander of
the Nebraska G. A. R. and once was
a candidate for governor. Several
years ago he gained nationwide dis
tinction by suggesting a reunion of
confederate and federal veterans of
the Civil war. Pour children survive
him. including Mrs. Josephine Sears
naa/lwoOd. 8. B>.
HORSES LOST IN BARN
FIRE NEAR ROSALIE, NEB
Rosalie, Neb.—Fire of undeter
mined origin destroyed a barn and
its contents with an estimated loss
of $3,400 on the farm of Ed Ander
son, one mile south of here Wed
nesday afternoon.
Five head of horses were burned
in their stalls. The flames de
stroyed 400 bushels of grain, farm
machinery and several sets of har
ness.
The fire started while Mr. Ander
son was working in the field and
Mrs. Anderson was visiting a
neighbor. Neighboring farmers
rushed from their fields and formed
a bucket brigade to fight the fire.
The loss is partially covered by in
surance.
SHOWS DECLINE
IN ILLITERACY
Douglas County Leads in
Nebraska in Persons Not
Able to Read
Washington. D. C. —(UP)— Al
though Nebraska reduced the num
ber of illiterates within the state
by more than 1,000 during the last
decade, rival states crowded her
from the second place nosition held
in 1920 to a present sixth place po
sition.
Reports of the national advisory
committee on illiteracy show that
the number of illiterates in Ne
braska fell from 13,784 in 1920 tc
12,725 in 1930. In 1920 Nebraska
ranged Just below Iowa as having
second least illiteracy among the
18 states. The percentage at that
time was 14 per cent of the popu
lation unable to read and write.
Today the percentage is 1.2 but
Nebraska position is sixth.
(OWE, Washington, Oregon and
Idaho are above Nebraska in per
centage of illiteracy as compared
to population, while Kansas and
Nebraska have the same percent
age.
Fourteen Nebraska counties list
10 or less illiterates. Among these
are Hooker, with no illiterates and
Arthur and Logan, which have one
each. Twenty four counties have
100 or more illiterates each. Four
have more than 500 each as fol
lows: Gage, 599; Lancaster, 1,136;
Scotts Bluff, 1,170, and Douglas, 3,
338.
Illiteracy among foreign borr
whites in the state declined from
9,468 to 6,924, Native white illiter
ates. however, increased in number
from 3,360 to 3,726. There were
listed for the state 450 Negroes
who are unable to read or write
and 1,589 persons belonging tc
races other than Negroes, most of
whom were Indians.
BURLINGTON RAILROAD
SHOPS ARE REOPENED
Lincoln, Neb.— (UP) —Burlington
shops at Havelock, Lincoun suburb,
are open, following a brief closing
for conversion of the shops from
locomotive to car rebuilding.
When the shops were reopene .’.
work was provided for the full for<
of the old shops, Burlington rallwa.
officials announced. Initial plans
for the shops call for the building
of two stock cars a day in addition
to repair and rebuilding. Later,
when the machinery has been al
tered. box cars wili be built.
Manager E. Flynn, in charge of
lines west on the Burlington sys
tem, stated the change meant “per
manence” of employment for men
»t the local shops. “The men em
ployed recognized that the locomo
tive repair work to which the shops
were formerly devoted was becom
ng lighter. They were greatly re
lieved to learn of the company’s
plans which will assure them cvf
permanent employment.”
SEVERAL SEEKING POST
IN NORFOLK COLLEGE
Norfolk, Neb.—Eight have applied
for the deanship of the Norfolk
Junior college, left vacant by the
death of Dr. Charles Lindsay last
Tuesday.
The men who are conferring
with the school authorities in re
gard to the deanship include Sam
uel A. Mahood of Tulane university
at New Orleans, William R
Thompson, former principal at Cot
tonwood Falls, Kan,; W. T. Mc
Donald, registrar of the Grand
Island college which was aban
doned last June; C. H. Wilcox, as
sistant professor of history at the
University of Wisconsin, and John
M. Matzen of Lincoln, former state
superintendent.
Samuel Davenport from Colum
ola university has applied. He
lacks only a foreign language re
quirement from having his doctors
degree. Mr. Davenport is only 24
years old.
MOTHER OF 11 TAKES
BABE TO COUNTY JAIL
Kearney, Neb.—While Mrs. Hel
en Shada. 36 years old. seemed con
tent in jail here where she has tak
en her 6-months-old baby to serve
a six months ’evm for bootlegging
with her, the husband and father.
John Shada, was bitter In nis
denunciation of the law “which
puts an innocent baby behind the
bars.”
Officials permitted the woman to
take the baby to jail with her
when she pleaded that it needed
ber care. They are in a cell in the
basement of the courthouse, the
fail proper being overcrowded.
FATHER FLANAGAN’S HOME
IN FINANCIAL DISTRESS
Omaha, Neb.- —Rev. A. P.
Flanagan, acting director of Father
Flanagan's boys' home, says the in
stitution will be forced to close if
an emergency appeal for financial
aid is unsuccessful.
Declaring the depression had
caused the income oi the home to
be cut in half this year. Rev. Flan
agan said $37,500 is needed to pay
obligations on the home and pro
vide maintenance. The home is
ncnseclarian, and receives no aid
from church, city, state or welfare
organization.
Side Glances
r
By George Clark]
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0 IMI BY NCA SiRvTcC.
“I keep a budget, but I don’t lei it bolhcr me. I'm bjying these
sodas out of my next Christmas sh opping fund.”
Germany Will Profit in Long Run
By Learning to Shift for Herself
By Theodore II. Price in Commerce and Finance.
The international conference that was held at Lon
don does not seem to have had much effect. The finan
ciers representing the conferees appear to have gone back
home convinced that Germany will have to take care of
herself. So far as it can now be discovered this is what
Germany intends to do. The experience is likely to be good
for her and in a few years she will probably be thankful
i that she has learned to walk alone financially. Of course
her progress may be slower than might otherwise have
been the case but she will be stronger for the effort she
will have to make, and no one has ever doubted her indus
try or ingenuity.
Of course, the pessimists will be gloomy- they always
are. But hard work is a wonderful specific for choler, and
those who have food to eat and clothes to wear can find a
good deal of joy in life if they are constructively at work.
It is difficult to say just how Germany will employ
herself during the coming winter, but it is evident that a
new spirit has taken hold of the people, and that it is like
ly to enthuse tile whole nation. So imbued, it does not need
much sympathy, and the indications are that within a year
or two Germany will be as prosperous as was France short
ly after the Franco-Prussian war. Therefore it is hardly
necessary to dwell upon the troubles that may be ahead
for the people who formerly composed the German Empire.
Of course, they will have trouble. Everybody does. But prob
ably they will extricate themselves more quickly than any
other nation in the world, and find themselves struggling
up the hill of difficulty at an amazingly rapid pace. The
bank rate is raised to 15 per cent.
Meantime, the centers of trouble seem to have shifted
to England and Russia. We are really ignorant of Russia’s
condition, but the whole world knows of England’s predica
ment. She is boldly trying to be the financial Atlas of the
reconstructed universe, and she has a heavy load to carry.
But it is well to recollect that Atlas has always managed
to sustain the universe despite its weight, and that the
history of the past provides us with the only data from
which we can draw any conclusions.
Then there is America. Of course, the universe is im
portant, and Central Europe has long considered itself an
essential part of the Aryan cosmogony, but to Americans
the United States is the most important part of all the
world, and if the outlook is reasonably cheerful here the
American business man is not much disturbed by condi
tions elsewhere.
Therefore it is satisfactory to report that there is a
scattered improvement in business in the United States,
and that the indications favor its extension in the near
future.
MARK ANTONY WON’T TELL.
The biggest laugh we get today
Prom advertising dope,
Are blurbs extolling merits of
A certain toilet soap.
An actress' charming face peers
forth
With plaint, "Why look your age?
I’m really thirty nine!" She means,
“And I am still the rage."
Who's Who has spilled the beans
for her.
For lo, front out its covers
Has crept the fact, on fifty’s brink
Miss So and So now hovers.
But Cleopatra’s safe enough—
She used those “soothing oiLs-—’’
And she might claim that glow of
youth,”
“Though really forty, soils."
—Sam Page.
CALLED HIS BUJUF
London—Sir Charles Trevelyan,
Labor member of the English Par
liament, told that body that what
NO PLAYTHING
Jellico, Tenn.—Mrs. E. A. Warm
ing was opening a package of toys
for he^ children, m the pile there
appeared a very live-looking snake
that wiggled from slue to side and
hissed. Mrs. Warming's husband
thought it was alive and hit it on
the head with a golf club. Sure
enough, the snake was a real one
and a young rattler at that
SHE’S EXCUSED
Portland, Me.—Doctors told Mrs.
Mildred Marston, 30 years old. of
(Glendale, cal., that site had or< a
the country needed was a more
equal distribution of wealth. Alfred
Denville, owner of a chain of the
aters and candidate for Sir Charles’
I seat in Parliament, issued a chal
lenge to Sir Charles, saying that
he would give half of his fortune to
the jx>or if Sir Charles would do
likewise. The wealthy socialist did
not reply.
KEPT HER SHOES WET
Newburyport, R I. —. (UP) —Her
husband kept her shoes in a pail of
water, so she couldn’t go out at
nights, Mrs. John Earl complained
in court here. The husband was
convicted of assault but the case
| was filed.
It's About Time.
Prom Alii for Alla, Stockholm.
Guest: I believe your hotel soon
celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Landlord: Quite right, sir.
Guest: Don’t you think you might
have clean table cloths to celebrate
the event?
v“ar to live. Mrs. Mavston decided
to "cat, drink and be merry,” for
she knew she was to die soon. She
was caught in the midst of her cel
ebration and arrested for drunken
driving. But the judge unearthed
an olu law and excused her from
b:i:ig arraigned.
Shallower Handbags
Many cf the handbags you’ll see
in the fall will be in a new rectan
| gular si. ;:e instead of the almost
| square shape were accustomed to.
! They’re shallower and longer, but
j still remain flat and capacious.
FINDS MANY DIVORCES
ARE NOT COMPLETE
Alliance, Neb.—(Special)—A flur
ry has been caused here by the dis
covery of District Court Clerk Phil
Grove that 43 divorce cases tried
here in the last five years are in
complete and the decrees never giv
en. Some of the parties in ques
tion have remarried, of course biga
mously.
The main reason for the unfin
ished proceedings is the holding of
the decree by the clerk for pay
ment of court costs or failure tc
file by the attorney until his fees
are paid.
The divorce does not go into ef
fect until the decree is on file.
PROVIDE WORK
City of Lincoln to Ask
Bids Requiring Men In
stead of Machines
Lincoln, Neb. — (UP) — In re
sponse to pleas of Lincon's more
than 5.000 unemployed, the Lincolr.
receive bids for construction of £
city commissioners has arranged tc
water pipe line from the new wells
at Ashland on basis of hand and
machine labor.
The council will therefore receive
bids for the project as to compara
tive cost of machine trench work
and hand trench work. Their ac
tions will depend upon the differ
ence in costs, they indicated.
The action was taken following
recent protests of unemployed labor
ers in Lincoln that machine trench
ing would provide work but for 50
men while employment of hand la
bor would provide jobs for approx
imately 400 or more men.
It is the claim of the unemploy
ed workers that they face a winter
of extreme want unless some effort
is made by the city to provide work
In an appeal to Attorney General
C. A. Sorensen, the'laborers recently
expressed their desire to be given
work .instead of charity.
ANTHRAX CAUSE
OF HEAVY LOSS
Sections of Boyd and
Knox Counties Hard Hit
by the Disease
Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)—Loss of
cattle and hogs from infection with
anthrax in northeastern and north
central Nebraska has been consid
erable, according to Dr. F. R. Wood
ring, field chief for the state de
partment of agriculture, who is in
vestigating conditions in that terri
tory. No estimate has been made as
to the number of animals lost, al
though it is believed that more than
100 have died in the vicinity of
Spencer, which is probably a very
small portion of the total. Twenty
four farms have been reported to
the department as under quaran
tine near Spencer and Verdigre and
20 additional quarantines were ex
pected near Lynch.
Dr. Woodring says rain and cool
er weather would greatly relieve the
situation.
Stock digging for the roots of
whatever vegetation was left after
infestation by grasshoppers and the
drought are said to become infected
with anthrax and thus cause its
spread. The sections of Boyd and
Knox counties that were hardest
hit by the drought and grasshop
per menace seem to be suffering
most from anthrax.
BOND COMPANY WITHDRAWS
OMAHA BRIDGE BID
Omaha, Neb.—Negotiations for the
purchase of the $2,000,000 South
Omaha bridge bond issue have been
formally withdrawn by Stranahan
Harris and company, Toledo bond
house. The company notified the
city council that it could not ac
cept terms demanded by the city.
Tt was the only bonding company
to bid for the issue and it was be
lieved no other offers will be re
ceived because of publication of a
traffic survey showing that tolls
would not pay interest on the bonds.
Further action by the council was
indefinitely postponed._
LOOKS LIKE BANK
AUDITOR LET OUT
Lincoln, Neb—(Special)—A. B.
Hoagland, state banking department
auditor who checked the Farmers
State bank of Genoa, has been giv
en a two weeks’ vacation and it is
uncertain whether or not his ser
vices will be needed by the depart
ment at the end of that time.
The Genoa institution, now de
funct, was formerly owned by A. C
Knudson, secretary of banking un
der Governor Bryan, and informa
tion concerning the check of this
bank led to accusations in regard
to some transactions against the
governor and Mr. Knudson during
the closing hours of the special ses
sion of the legislature. Secretary
Luikart of the banking department
stated that there is an effort to re
duce the force of the department
and it was not known whether Mr
Hoagland would be needed.
VFRniORE FARMER HAS
ANTHRAX INFECTION
Veruigre, Neb.—(Special)—Frank
J. Siverkrubbe, residing west ol
Verdigre was here Sunday to con
sult doctors, and it was found that
the scratch on his right hand was
infected and found to be anthrax
Dr. Donald FUffington of Omaha is
here and he gave the patient serum
Two state veterinarians were here
from Center who also pronounced
tin infection anthrax.
HORSE VALUES
UNDER AUTOS
But Nebraska Cattle Have
Lead Over Motors by
$21,000,000
Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—Cattle owned
by Nebraskans are valuable by ap
proximately $21,000,000 than are the
sutomobiles owned by Nebraskans,
iccording to assessment valuations
compiled by Tax Commissioner
Smith.
The comparative figures show the
value of Nebraksa's 2,604,900 cattle
to be $78,784,088 while the 331.322
automobiles owned by residents of
the state are valued at $56,312,273.
Horses, however, are valued at less
than one-half the valuation of auto
mobiles. Tte state’s 633,190 horses
are valued at $21,354,602. Figures of
automobile valuations. Smi'h ex
plains, do not include reports for six
counties which last year had 12,100
tars.
While the value of Nebraska cattle
fell this year from $95,267,485 a year
ago to $78,784,000 this year, the num
ber of cattle in the state was shown
to have increased from 2,474,206, In
1930 to 2,604,990 this year.
Stocks of horses on Nebraska
farms fell off from 670.137 in 1930 to
333,190 this year and valuations from
$24,750,294 last year to $21,854,602
this year. Last year there were 337,
055 automobiles with a valuation of
$70,258,505 whereas this year’s in
complete reports show 331,322 auto
biles, valued at $56,312,275.
ASSERTSNEED
OF AID PL AIN
Former Solon Studies Con*
ditions in Northeast Ne
braska Counties
Lincoln, Neb.—(Special)— After
spending seven weeks studying con
ditions in five counties of north
eastern Nebraska where damage by
grasshoppers and drought runs
high, former Congressman Thorpe
has asked Governor Bryan to visit
that section and see for himself
the deplorable conditions existing
there.
Thorpe reports the whole of Knox
and Cedar counties taken by grass
hoppers and drought and much of
Antelope county burnt to a crisp.
In portions of Madison and Platte
counties conditions are distressing,
and although some portions of the
counties named may be able to take
care of themselves, he expressed the
belief that something had to be done
immediately. He states that there
are vast areas where farmers have
neither feed nor seed and that the
governor or any other person mak
ing the statement that no suffering
exists in that section is mistaken.
GOVERNOR INSPECTS
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
Ashland, Neb., Aug 16.- —
Ten thousand spectators attended
the governor’s day review of Nebras
ka s national guardsmen here Sun
day afternoon on the closing day of
the annual encampment.
Charles W. Bryan mounted a horse
to inspect the 1,700 troops of which
he is commander-in-chief, while the
visitors, including many from Om
aha and Lincoln massed sidelines.
“Quite an improvement” was noted
by the chief executive in the mili
tary appearance of the company.
Mrs. Bryan also reviewed the after
noon parade from an automobile
parked near the reviewing stand.
Major General Johnson Hagood of
Omaha, commander of the seventh
corps area, was an unofficial ob
server.
The units of the guard demon
strated to Governor Bryan during
the morning their proficiency in
various military tactics. In the
afternoon .hey lined up for formal
review. Tire governor then mounted
and with a group of officers rode
down the ranks. He was in civilian
clothes.
"Camp Ashland has improved
greatly since I served as governor
some vears ago,” he said.
After the review he went to head
quarters and met the officers, then
returned to Lincoln by automobile
as he came.
Company C of Beatrice, captained
by D- E. Coonley, was awarded a
silver band on a guidon staff for
showing itself the most efficient
company during the last training
year.
NEW OUTBREAKS OF
ANTHRAX IN NEBRASKA
Lincoln, Neb .—(Special)— Dr. F.
R. Woodring and Dr. J. N. Mcllnay
of the state department of agri
culture are investigating reports of
new outbreaks of anthrax infection
rear Blair and Springview Fifteen
cattle and hogs Is the toll to date
in the vicinity of Blair, with three
new eases reported and 100 head of
stock is the total loss near Spring
view and several new cases report
ed.
It is raid the disease is confined
to a few scattered farms and it is
probable that rigid enforcement of
the quarantine 1 iws will prevent,
further spread. Sockmon are asked
to burn carcasses of animals dying
from the infection.
lio'ding fish and frogs’ heads in
the mouths of children suffering
from whooping cough is an old
‘cure” still practiced among peas
antry of western Ireland.
DROP MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGES AT FREMONT
Fremont, Neb.—(Special)—Chafes
of manslaughter preferred bv
County Attorney Fred H. Richards,
jr„ against William Fishman of
Muscatine, la., were dropped just
before the hour set for Fishman's
preliminary hearing Monday. At
torney Richards said further in
vestigation of the case convinced
him that the charges were not justi
fied. Fishman’s automobile on Aug
ust 12 ran over Hazel BUss. 5 years
old at North Bend, thb girl dying
fro* her iniuries.
