ozark scenery
BASIS OF SUIT
Federal Judge to Decide
Outcome of Million
Dollar Case
Jefferson, City, Mo — CUP) —The
dollar value of Ozark mountain
scenery will be decided here when
the $1,000,000 suit involving land
submerged by the Lake of the
Ozarks is brought to trial in U 8
district court.
Federal Judge Albert L. Peeves
will be on the bench when the
Snyder brothers of Kansas City ask
the Union Electric company of St.
Louis for more than $1,000,000 for
damages to the vast Snyder estate
in central Missouri.
Union Electric company is build
er of the huge $33,000,000 dam over
the Osage river which has formed
a lake more than 175 miles in
length. Part of the Snyder eMate
now lies under the water.
That part, however, is not so
much in litigation It is claimed
that the scenic beauty of the fa
mous Castle of Hahatonka, and the
woods and eaves on the shore of th#
Jake, have been impaired
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U. S. Movie Describes
Storage Battery Action
Washington— (UP) —What hap
pens inside your battery when you
press the self-starter, a graphic
presentation of the hot time around
the spark plugs and multiple other
phases of the automotive ond allied
industries are presented In motion
picture films prepared by the Unit
ed States bureau of mines.
Prepared with detail but in a
manner designed to make them
understandable to the layman, the
films are lent free of charge to
the vorious organizations, educa
tional, fraternal professional and
civic, who wish to view the work
ings of vehicle motors and thing*
relevant.
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Hunter Kills Game
With His Slingshot
Millertown, Pa. - (UP) — Da
vid's weapon in his Biblical battle
with Goliath proved effective in
a hunting expedition here by Earl
Baker, 11.
Earl, armed only with a sling
shot, went in quest of rabbits.
One appeared about 20 feet in
front of him. Earl fitted a pebble
in the sling and fired. The missile
killed the rabbit, striking it in the
eye, he said.
The slingshot consisted of rub
ber strips from an automobile in
ner tube, a forked stick and a
piece of soft leather.
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Pastor Scores Ministers
For Meddling in Law
Detroit — (UP) — Meddling min
Vmters. devoting more time to law
enforcement than character build
ing, are one of the salient causes of
American lawlessness, according to
the Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Vance pas
tor of the First Presbyterian church
here.
Scoring such meddling in a ser
mon, the Rev. Vance said a man’s
life is less safe in America than
in an African jungle. Tire placs
of the church in making good gov
ernment is in making good citizens,
not direct participation in lawmak
ing he said.
HISTORY COURSE LEADS
Cambridge, Mass. — (UP) — A
course in European history from the
fall of the Roman empire to mod
ern time is the most popular at
Harvard college this year with an
enrollment of 749 students.
A BREAK FOR THE MEN.
The colored glass for table use,
The amber, rose and blue.
Is out of date and old cut glass
Now once again is "new."
And likewise colored table cloths
Are not considered “right;”
The pendulum has backward swung;
The proper shade is white.
One reason for the latter note—
Perhaps the fashion's starter—
Around a snowy festal board,
The black clad men look smarter.
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TWINS RUN IN FAMILIES
Southbridge, Mass. — (UP) — Dr.
J. T. Lacey, Harrington hospital
surgeon, is satisfied that twins run
in families. An investigation he
made disclosed that in one family’*
history 818 of 1,156 children were
.wins. The history of another fam
ily. with 2,226 children, showed no
twins.
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LOW DEATH RATE
Only one life was lost in every
4,000,000 persons carried on ocean
going vessels during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1931, according to
a report of the U. S. Department
of Commerce.
PAYS J180 AN ACRE
FOR SCHUYLER FARM
Schuyler, Neb. -(Special)— The
John L. Gaughen farm of 90 acres
in the Clyde community has been
bought by Joseph Cippera of the
Edholm community for $180 an
acre. It is a good farm and well im
proved. Possession will be given
March 1.
REVIEWS WORK
OF HIGH COURT
Minnesota Chief Justice
Speaks Particularly of
Criminal Cases
St. Paul, Minn.- —Of 1®3
criminal cases appealed to the state
supreme court in the last eight
years, verdicts in 153 of them have
been affirmed and only 35 granted
new trials. Chief Justice Samuel B
Wilson said, discussing the work of
the court in criminal litigation.
Five cases were discharged on the
ground that a conviction could not
be sustained by the tacts produced
in trials in lower courts. In all.
criminal cases represent not more
than 6 per cent of the number of
cases brought before the high court,
the chief justice said.
“The supreme court of this state
has never been in sympathy with
the impression that the trial of
criminal cases Is a gume concernim;
which the rules are to be prescribed
with cant and technicality," the
chief justice asserted.
“It is true that courts and law
yers generally are closely bound by
precedent; but we recognize that
precedent is not sacred.
“Much technicality has attended
indictments which is the grand
jury’s accusation against the ac
cused. This has been greatly les
sened. We now commend simple
and direct language.
“Our constitution is our funda
mental law. It provides rights and
liberties for the individual. It’s the
duty of every court to protect those
rights for therein lies much of our
happiness and safety. Our citizens
must not be made to give evidence
against themselves.
“Violence and third degree meth
ods to exact an admission of guilt
are shocking and most unfortunate.
A righteous and wholesome enforce
ment of the law does not include
such conduct. There are cases
where truthful admissions are thus
obtained.
"There are occasionally others
where the innocent are forced to
admit guilt and suffer wrongful
punishment. This is not often, but
too often."
FIRST FAMILY REUNION
HELD IN 38 YEARS
Wisner, Neb. (Special)—A fam
ily gathering, the first in 38 years,
took place at the hg»re of Mrs. Re
becca Hilt, 84, one of Wtsner’s pio
neer mothers, Christmas day. It
was attended by the following chil
dren: Mrs. Carl Johnson nnd hus
band, Pilger; Low Hill and v Ife who
ore spending the winter v. h the
mother: Ira Hill and familj Han
lon and Charles E. Hill, sup:' lten
dent of schools at Superior, Wyo.
AGAIN REMEMBERS NEEDY
IN HIS OLD HOME
Albion. Neb.—(Special)—For more
than 10 consecutive years, Norman
W. Peters of New York City, former
Albion resident has played Santa
Claus to needy families here. This
year 50 families in the community
were given food and clothing. Pet
ers’ two sisters, Mrs. Prank 6.
Thompson and Miss Blanche Peters,
acted as his agents. Warm clothing
was given 25 families and 25 bushel
baskets of food were passed out.
Several hundred dollars were
spent by the New York business
man for the needy. He was as gen
erous to the needy this year as in
the past, though his gifts to his
relatives were not as munificent thi.
year as in times past.
OLD BUILDINGS AT
NORFOLK, NEB., BERN
Norfolk, Neb. — (Special) — Fire
of unknown origin practically wiped
out tbe old frame buildings on
Madison avenue, known as the Bat
tler buildings. The Potthast Monu
ment Works, the Robertson Dry
Cleaning establishment and the
Matzke Cabinet Works, occupying
the old buildings were practically
wiped out. The buildings were land
marks.
FARMERS WILL NOT
BID AT FORCED SALES
Minneota, Minn. — Forced farm
auction sides are going to be ta
booed if farmers of Swede Prairie
township have their way about it.
At a meeting of farmers of the
township, held at the town hall the
farmers made pledges not to bid at
any auction sale of farm equipment
where the sale is held against the
free will of tire owner of the prop
erty offered.
The auction was taken to discour
age what are known as "close out
sales’’ conducted by banks and oth
er creditors. The sale of a man’s
property often deprives him of his
own means of making a living and
•we place the rights of humanity
above rights of the dollar,” the res
olutions adopted at the farmers*
aieeting said.
RELIEF WORK AT TRACY
DONE IN ORDERLY WAY
Tracy, Minn.—Relief work in aid
of the unemployed in Tracy now
has been arranged on a system,
with a central committee of three
assisting Dr. W. G. Workman,
chairman of the Red Cross.
Two ration lists have been pre
pared. one for a family of two to
four persons and another for fami
lies of from five to eight. Orders are
issued on grocers for filling the ra
tion lists with soap, navy beans,
rice, rolled oats, macaroni, coffee,
flour, sugar, lard, prunes or peaches,
bacon and tomato*
Al.hlJ WOMAN H<J1 II
DEAF AND BLIND
Pipestone, Minn.—(Special)—Mrs.
Fred Bloom pioneer resident of this
county celebrated her 91st birthday.
Sunday. She makes her he.me with
Her son, L, C. Bloom, she has been
totally deaf for a number of years
and for the led five years has been
‘tally blmd r
WILD DUCKS IN
WINTER REFUGE
Park at Fairmont, Minn.,
Has Large Population
in Recent Weeks
Fairmont, Minn. — (Special) -
More than 1,000 wild ducks hav
taken refuge for the winter at In
terlaken park, Just south of Fair
mont, They are mostly mallards
all hough there are manv others,
Thev started coming In after
Thanksgiving when most of the
lakes and sloughs froze and food
became scarce
At the Interlaken refuge the\
find clear running water anc
plenty of natural food, as well a:
corn and oats supplied by the Wal
ton league.
Tlie birds are protected at tht
refuge and are becoming quite tame
One may approach within a few
feet before they take to flight.
A Canadian goose flew in aftei
Thanksgiving and joined a fev
tame brethern he found here Then
are 10 honkers at the refuge am
eight geese of other varieties.
SISTERS HAVE
HAPPY MEET
Separated 49 Years, They
Had Believed Eac4
Other Dead
Worthington, Minn.—(SpeclaD
A reunion here recently of two sis
ters who had not seen each other
for 49 years occurred when Mrs.
Mary H. Ortlieb, T7. of Pennsylva
nia, arose from a sick bed when she
heard that her sister Mrs. Lucy
Baldwin of Worthington, was not
dead as she had supposed for many
years, but was lying ill here.
Another sister, the eldest, Mrs. T.
Terry of Elmira, N. Y„ journeyed to
the Pennsylvania town where the
sister lay ill with pneumonia and
told her she had heard from a
niece that Mrs. Baldwin was living
but ill. Although she had been up
from her sick bed only a day Mrs.
Ortlieb insisted on taking the trip
out here and was put on a sleeper
at Elmira, the old home of the
family, and came through to Wor
thington to surprise the sister here
who had long thought her dead.
May 5, 1883, Mrs. Baldwin and
her husband left Elmira to come to
Worthington and the former never
has left here since, taking care of
the estate left by her husband’s
death. About 20 years ago Mrs
Ortlieb married again and postal
authorities never found her for the
sister here and both had been led to
believe the other gone. Now they
are enjoying visiting after 49 year?
of separation.
ELEVATORS HOLDING
SMALL AMOUNT GRAIN
Duluth, Minn.- —With the
grain crop in the northwest re
ported to be the lightest in several
years, storage at elevators in Duluth
and Superior this winter are the
lightest in more than 10 years, ac
cording to the records at the Duluth
board of trade.
With navigation at the head of
the lakes virtually closed, stocks in
the elevators total less than 25,000,
300 bushels, with receipts by rail the
last couple of weeks averaging less
than 1,000,000 bushels weekly.
The elevators at Duluth and Su
perior, numbering nearly 30, have a
total capacity of approximately 48,
000,000 bushels and last year at this
time the holdings were more than
30,000,000 bushels, increasing as high
as 35,000,000 bushels during the
winter.
Practically all the grain stored in
elevators here and at Superior is
owned by the federal farm board.
The decrease in holdings is not the
result of increased shipments dur
ing the navigation season, as only
approximately 50,000.000 bushels of
grain were sent to eastern and
Canadian ports during the 1931
navigation season.
The small crop, shipment of grain
from other ports and holding of
grain by farmers are the contribut
ing reasons for the small amount of
grain being in storage here, it was
reported by grain men.
HIGHWAY EXPENSES
REPORTED MUCH LESS
Des Moines, la. — >— Econ
omy measures and lower purchasing
costs have reduced primary high
way expenditures materially, the
state highway commission has ad
vised Secretary Ed R. Brown of
the state tax reduction committee.
General maintenance work in
1932 is expected to cost 25.3 per cent
less than the average for the last
three years, while prices on con
struction work have been reduced
from 15 to 25 per cent in the last
two years, the commission explained
in the letter made public by Brown.
TO PUT ON DRIVE
TO EXTERMINATE CROWS
Des Moine, la— —A drive to
exterminate crows has been
launched by a member of communi
ties in the state, the state fish and
game commission has been advised
There is little doubt that crow's
do destroy a great many eggs of
quail and pheasant and other up
land game birds, the commission
members said.
Between 200 and 300 crows re
cently were killed by members of
the Hinton post of the American
Legion, it is reported
boonf. cot vrv school
ONE OF BEST IN STATE
Albion, Neb.— 'UP)—Pinnacle Hill
rural school, of district 43, Boone
county, received its best Christmas
present from the state department
of education.
The school ? as recognized as a
“superior school'’ by the state de
partment and eas presented wit" a
plaque to signify the rating. It It
the seventh rural school in the state
to be honored in this manner.
In addition ,o meeting the stand
ards for a a andard school, the
grounds of Pinnacle Hill school are
neatly fence!, sodded and land
scaped. The jehool is equipped with
waterworks, has a library and a cy»
clone cave.
GET CASH FOR
FEET) PURCHASE
North Nebraska Farmers
Receive Total of $168,
777 , Report Shows
Lincola, Neb. — (UP)—Federal
feed loans totaling $168,77/ have
been paid to 657 needy fanners in
seven northeast Nebraska drought
area counties, report shows.
The report of feed loatt activi
ties in north Nebraska was submit
ted to Director W. H. Brokaw of
the agricultural college extension
servic?:.
Thirty-two applications for loan
are dull awaiting action. It is ex
pected the pending loans will bring
the total of loans granted in the
area to over $175,000.
Knox county farmers received
363 loans, amounting to $90,000, the
report to Brokaw shows. Cedai
county farmers received 156 loans
totaling about $44,000. In Boyc
county 122 loans were made for a
total of $32,000. Ten farmers in
Holt, five in Brown and one in
Rock county received loans amount
inr to over $3,000.
Of the loans yet to be acted upon
It, are in Boyd. 11 in Knox, four
in Cedar, one in Holt and one in
Hxick county.
Except in those instances where
Joans are still pending, the actual
money from the government is in
the hands of the farmers who ap
plied for loans. All the loans were
made on a business basis and on
satisfactory security. Interest was
deducted in advance. The loans
are to be repaid after harvest next
fall.
All of the money so far loaned
has been for feed, to tide over
breeding stock. The next step is ex
pected to be to supply money for
seed loaned, to enable farmers to
plant another crop, according to
those in charge. No federal funds
have yet been appropriated for
seed loan purposes, however.
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YOUTH DROWNS IN
WATER OF MILL POND
Ainsworth, Neb.—(Special)—
George Taylor, 8, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Taylor, was drowned at
the mill dam. 14 miles north of
here. He disappeared after coming
home from school. A call for help
was sent out when he was not found
after a search by relatives. Fifty
men responded and the body was
found by Abe Moore, Harve Wil
liams and John Lewis who were
searching the mill pond with a
flashlight from a boat. The body
was standing upright with not more
than six inches of water above the
head.
The child probably tried the ice
and broke through. He was an ex
pert swimmer but heavy winter
clothing and galoshes probably held
him down.
MANY GliOIJSE SEEN
NEAR ARTHUR. NEB.
Arthur. Neb—(UP)—Ranchers of
this part of the sandhills have re
ported a marked increase in the
number of coveys of grouse seen
this winter.
The increases in the numbers of
this game bird are believed to be
due to the dry weather that has
prevailed over this section. The
dry weather has been a boon to
the hatching of small birds and the
mortality rate due to wet and freez
ing weather has not been so great.
The grouse had almost entirely
disappeared from this section—once
the paradise for hunters from other
sections of the state who came in
each year to hunt.
WANT COLD WEATHER
TO KILL HOPPERS
O’Neill. Neb.—Perhaps for the
first time in their lives, farmers of
Holt county are wishing for the
limit in cold weather. Half a foot
of snow has melted and sunk in
the ground.
A real cold spell would be sure to
destroy many grasshopper eggs, the
farmers say.
WOULD GIVE WISNER
EXPRESS DELIVERY
Lincoln. Neb.— (Special)—Appli
cation has been filed w-ith the state ,
railway commission by the Railway
Express Agency for authority to in
augurate collection and delivery
service at Wisner.
COW PRESENTS HER
OWNER WITH TRIPLETS
Gordon, Neb. —(Special)—A cow
on the ranch of Edward Jensen, near
Merriman. gave birth to triplets.
Two of the calves are steers. One or
two will have to be raised by hand
or by another cow.
JUDGE CHASE HEADS
FAIR ASSOCIATION
Stanton. Neb.—^Special)—At the
annual meeting of the Stanton
County Agriculture association.
Judge D. C. Chase was elected presi
dent; C. J. Krenier, vice president;
H. D. Miller, treasurer, and E. E.
Pont, secretary. Attorney A. E. Wen
ke, chairman of the budget commit
tee read the report which showed a
profit of $149.08 on the 1931 fair.
The 1932 fair will be operated strict
ly on the budget plan so that the
cost of the new and modern grand
stand and 4-H club barns can be
paid in the next few vpa>«
HOW THE TARIFF ¥aR^AGEs]
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From the New York Times.
The new British duties on “abnormal imports” an
noyed and even angered the French. They promptly re
taliated by raising the rates on certain British goods by
15 per cent. Thereupon the president of the British board
of Trade, Mr. Runciman. who is himself an old free trader,
served notice that if the French kept up that sort of thing
England would make customs regulations which would
deal certain industries in France a hard blow. There has
been talk of a conference between the two nations to ad
just this tariff dispute, but at present it is going full blast,
with irritation and animosity mounting on both sides of
the Channel.
This kind of international friction is not confined to
France and Er gland. In many parts of Europe the example
of the United States is imitated, with fatuous acceptance
of the American doctrine that foreigners ought to be glad
to admit our goods free and buy largely of us. while they
must never take it ill if we seek to shut out their products
entirely by high tariff taxes. All this has occurred in face
of a general agreement that such a course of action is
a compound of folly and spite. International conferences,
committees of bankers, groups of economists and financial
experts have year after year been condemning in the
strongest language the mania for protective and discrimin
ating tariffs which now afflicts the world, yet its ravages
are day after day growing more serious. The whole situa
tion is a sort of paradoxical confession of bankruptcy by
| the statesmen of many nations.
Not one of them believes, or can believe, that a tariff
war ever pays. It is a contest in which both parties are
doomed to lose. After it is over they have only the melan
choly duty of sitting down to reckon up their losses. Sev
eral years ago a violent tariff war broke out between
France and Switzerland. They hurled retaliatory duties at
each other like shells from big guns. In their way, these
were just as deadly. After a considerable period of this
destructive warfare, both nations came to their senses,
perceived that they were each harming itself as much as
the other, and negotiated a commercial treaty which
brought peace and contentment. Something like that may
soon come about between England and France. But the
virus of protection once taken into the blood of a nation
rapidly poisons the whole system. It is today visibly infect
ing and inflaming British public opinion. After it reaches
a certain stage of virulence, there is no cure for it except
putting the patient into a very cold bath of the hard facts
of trade.
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\$28,000,000 TRADE OPPORTUNITY|
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From Bureau of Research and Education of the Advertising
Federation of America.
There are millions upon millions of folks in this great
American market whose incomes are beyond their immedi
ate needs and who have been saving so much during the
past two years that the savings banks are embarrassed
with an over-supply of money. Savings deposits in the last
two years have been increasing more than 50 per cent
faster than is normal and today there is more than $28,
000,000,000 of available purchasing power lying in the sav
ings banks of the United States. Most of this vast sum is
owned by private individuals who have been curtailing
their purchases more than necessary and who now need
many kinds of goods. They are waiting for someone to come
along and sell them what they need.
It has often been said that leaders for the next period
of business prosperity are selected during the preceding
depression. Right now, today, the roster is being prepared,
listing business concerns which will be in the front rank
during the next few years. Our experience of the past has
proved over and over again that an aggressive policy of
selling and advertising during a time like this gives the
courageous company a head start and a lead which is
usually maintained. Money spent now for promotion will
continue to bring in dividends during future years.
And remember that advertising is not merely a com
petitive weapon with which strong companies beat back
the weak ones. The selling urge of good advertising not
only influences people where to buy goods and what to buy,
but also whether to buy at all. If all advertising and sell
ing effort were suspended most people would buy less than
they ever did. On the other hand, if all advertising were
increased in quantity, and freshened with new appeals,
people would buy more than they do at present. That is
why advertising is so important to all of us, with its power
to quicken all business.
For each company, the question of when to advertise
and how much money to spend must necessarily be an in
dividual matter, for in business everything depends on
profits. A great many well known companies have demon
strated that there is profit in the fearless use of good ad
vertising to overcome slack business. In fact, current rec
ords prove that the individual firms which are making an
exceptionally good showing this year are in nearly every
case those firms which have aggressively been making busi
ness instead of waiting for it to come.
Piano Class Draws
32,000 in Three Years
Chicogo — (UP) — Class instruc
tion has taught 32,000 children in
public schools how to play the
piano, of whom 6,000 are at a stage
where private instruction and music
schools are carrying on, according
to William J. Bogan, superintend
ent of schools, and J. Lewis Browne,
director of music.
Piano introduction as the back
ground of all music and as a cul
tural accomplishment, but with no
intention at developing skilled
pianists was began three years
ago. Each child has a keyboard
on the desk, but takes its turn at
Skunk Hunting Solves
Job Problem for Pair
Springville, N. Y.— (UP) —Skunk
hunting by automobile has solved
the unemployment problem for
Kenneth L. Quackenbush and Bus
ter N. Walters.
The pair have two automobile
headlights rigged to their ma- ]
chine. These are played over ad
joining fields as the men drive
slowly along country roads. The
skunks eyes glisten, and they can
be* seen at distances up to 600 feet,
tt’s perfectly easy after we snot j
the piano at every lesson. Ninety
per cent of the instruction is after
school hours.
Music firms have loaned 178
pianos.
UNEMPLOYED STRIKE
Las Animas, Colo.—(UP)—The
unemployed went on strike here re
cently because offered prices Ar
wood cutting did not appeal to
them. A huge woodpile was provided
by Rev. V. E. Shirley. The pile was
a nonprofit proposition, and offered
opportunity to make a little extra
money chopping wood. The eight
men who started the job decided
they would rather remain unem
ployed than work for the amount
the pastor was paying.
a, skunk,” Quackenbush explained
to a rather distant interviewer.
‘My partner just holds the light
while I run up and hit the animal
over the back with a club. Wc skin
It immediately.”
Tire hunters have averaged 10
skunks a night since the season
opened. Each pelt is worth from
$1 to $33.
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SMILING SALESMEN WORRIED
Phoenix, Ariz.— (UP) —The haz
ard of cracked lips has worried
employes of an uptown produce
and grocery market since the own
er posted a sign reading: "Your
groceries free if we fail to smi.’*•.,,'
