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VOL. LIII. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1932. No. 25
RECORD VOTE CAST
IN HOLT COUNTY AT
TUESDAY ELECTION
More Than Seven Thous
and Vote In A Demo
cratic Landslide.
MALONE RE-ELECTED
Skidmore is Defeated; Steinhauser is
Reelected, and John Carson Elected
From 2nd Supervisor District.
Polling the largest vote in its his
tory, 7178 with 89 mail votes to be
counted, Holt county joined the Na
tional democratic landslide last Tues
day by giving a majority to the demo
cratic standard bearers, Roosevelt and
Garner of 2317, with Swan, which cast
67 votes four years ago, missing. This
is a stupendous reversal of the vote
of four years ago when Herbert Hoov
er carried the county with a majority
of 639.
Governor Bryan carried the county
with a majority of 986, with one pre
cinct missing. Bryan ran 670 behind
the head of the ticket in this county.
The balance of the democratic state
ticket carried the county with maj
orities ranging from 2119, given to
Crist Anderson for state senator to
214 given to Slaymaker for state
representative. Congressman Edgar
Howard carried the county witn a
majority of 1842. Attorney General
Sorenson received the largest repub
lican vote in the county, polling 3060
to 3351 for Good, the democratic can
didate, or a majority of 291.
In the race for Chief Justice of the
state supreme court, Chas A. Goss has
a lead in the county of 49 over Harry
O. Palmer, with four precincts missing.
Reports from over the state are to the
effect that Goss has been reelected
Chief Justice with a majority of
around 12,000.
Judge Dickson apparently has car
ried every county in the district with
the exception of Brown county and
will have a majority of over 3,000 in
the district. His majority in Holt
county, with four precincts missing is
1,525.
County Judge Malone had an easy
victory. With four precincts missing
he has a majority in the county of
916. When the final count is made he
will have over 1,000 majority in the
county.
The only victory gained by the re
publicans in this county in the last
election is that they retained control
of the county board. Three republicans
were candidates for membership on
the county board at the election last
Tuesday, two of them being candid
ates for reelection, John Steinhauser
and L. E. Skidmore of Ewing. Stein
hauser was elected, having a majority
in the district of about 50, with the
mail vote not counted. Skidmore was
snowed under with an avalanche of
opposition votes. Reimers, the demo
cratic candidate carried every pre
cinct in the district and had a maj
ority of 653. John Carson, republican
candidate in the Second district won
out over Herb Jansen and Will Harvey
with a majority of 30 over Jansen, the
runner up. The political complexion
of the board after the first of the year,
will be four republicans and three
democrats.
Holt county voters voted overwhelm
ingly against the employment of a
county agent in this county. The vote
was: For the employment of a county
agent 1938, with a few precincts mis
sing, against the employment of a
county agent 4426, a majority against
of 2,488.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment, proposed by initiative petition,
providing for the creation of a Public
Safety Commission for the patrol of
the highways was likewise defeated in
the county. With a few precincts mis
sing the vote on this was: For 2,689,
against 3,867, or a majority against of
1,178.
COUNTY SUPERVISOR
Second District:
Jansen Carson Harvey
Antelope- 17 29 9
Iowa_ 35 59 19
Paddock_ 38 81 64
Scott _ 44 51 30
Shields_ 173 19 22
Steel Creek_ 21 98 20
Willowdale _ 41 62 11
369 399 175
Carson Majority 30
Fourth District:
Reimer Skidmore
Deloit_ 127 27
Golden __ 129 35
Ewing_ 306 96
Verdigris __ 335 86
897 244
Reimers majority.._653
Sixth District:
Coufal Steinhauser
Francis_ 37 15
Green Valley_ 58 34
Holt Creek_ 22 10
Josie_13 6
Stuart_ 250 394
380 459
Steinhauser’s majority 79
On the vote for Supervisor in this
district ,Swan township is missing. It
cast 57 votes four years ago and the
vote there will not effect the result.
NON-POLITICAL BALLOT
Chief Justice Supreme Court:
Charles A. Goss .2649— 49
Harry O. Palmer_2600
District Judge, Fifteenth Dist.:
Robert R. Dickson _4036—1525
William M. Ely_2511
Regent of State Uni. 6th Dist.:
Frank J. Taylor_2799— 652
Frank M. Johnson_2147
County Judge:
Clarence J. Malone_3653— 916
LeRoy C. Richards_2737
PRESIDENTIAL TICKET
Democrat _4625—2317
Republican _2308
Socialist_58
STATE TICKET
For Governor:
Charles W. Bryan_3955— 986
Dwight Griswold_2969
John M. Paul_ 28
Lieutenant Governor:
Walter H. Jurgensen_3466— 537
Theodore W. Metcalfe_2929
C. H. Wilson_ 70
Secretary of State:
Harry R. Swanson .3689—1032
Frank Marsh _2657
H. H. Hester_ 49
Albert W. Handschuh_ 54
Auditor of Public Accounts:
William B. Price_3368— 490
George W. Marsh..2878
Land Commissioner:
Harry P. Conklin __3672— 994
Dan Swanson ...2678
State Treasurer:
George E. Hall_3732—1148
T. W. Bass _2584
Attorney General:
Paul F. Good_3351— 291
C. A. Sorenson_3060
Railway Commissioner:
Floyd L. Bollen_3592—1337
Lloyd Dort _2255
Glen Griffith_ 99
Ralph W. Madison_ 185
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET
Congressman, 3rd Dist.:
Edgar Howard _3959—1842
H. Halderson _2117
Aug. Hohneke_ 83
M. F. Hall _ 241
LEGISLATIVE TICKET
State Senator, 22nd Dist.:
Crist Anderson_4309—2199
Ross Amspoker _2110
State Representative, 64th Dist.:
E. O. Slaymaker_3378— 214
Ezra W. Cooke_3164
TAX REDUCTION
The State Tax Commissioner reports
that he is in receipt of a certificate
from County Clerk John C. Gallagher
of Holt county, showing the total
amount of taxes levied in that county
for the year 1932, for all purposes, to
be $435,248.92 as compared to $511,
545.64 levied in 1931.
The valuation of the county for the
two years was as follows:
1931 _$25,955,137
1932 _21,317,387
Decrease-$ 4,637,750
The total taxes are levied for the
various purposes for the two years are
as follows:
TAX 1932 1931
State _$ 51,745.68 $ 54,386.83
County_ 80,795.61 96,483.40
School_ 234,741.87 265,236.68
Township _ 32,265.39 51,150.93
City & Village 29,165.87 34,867.80
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TOTAL __$428,714.42 $502,125.64
Special Tax
1932 1931
Miscellaneous $ 17.00 3,169.00
Poll_ 6,517.50 6,251.00
Total Special
Taxes_$ 6,534.50 $ 9,420.00
GRAND
TOTAL ... $435,248.92 $511,545.641
Judge Dickson
Wins Easily
Judge R. R. Dickson won a splendid
victory at the election Tuesday. Not
withstanding the bitter fight made
against him he emerges victorious
with a majority that will exceed 3,000
votes. He received a spledid majority
in every town in the county, O’Neill
heading the list by giving him a
majority of 517. With four precincts
missing in this county and two pre
cincts out in Rock county he carried
every county in the district except
Brown, the home of Judge Ely. His
majorities in the several counties were
as follows:
Holt_. 1525
Rock 38
Boyd . 1268
Keya Paha 341
3172
Brown, Ely _ 262
Dickson’s majority _2910
DISTRICT COURT
Frank M. Hood has filed suit in the
district court against Margaret Knapp,
et al. The plaintiff in his petition sets
out that he and the defendants, Mar
garet Knapp, Mary Crumb and James
R. Hood are the owners as tenants in
common of the south half of section
26, township 36, north of range 13 and
that each of them own a one-fourth
right, title and interest therein. Plain
tiff prays that the right, title and in
terest of all the parties to this action
and to the said described real estate
be ascertained and determined by said
court. The plaintiff alleges that he
has a one-fourth interest and that in
addition thereto that he be adjudged
to have a first lien on said property
for $182.33 taxes paid by him on the
above described property.
The Norfolk Building & Loan As
sociation brings suit against Anna M.
Jones and lots A. B. C. D. of Pioneer
townsite company’s subdivision of
lots 1, 2 of Hallock’s addition to the
village of Stuart to foreclose on fail
ure to comply with contract.
L. A. Andrews, superintendent of
Banking for the state of Iowa, and as
receiver of the Hubbard State bank of
Hubbard, Iowa, brings suit to fore
close a mortgage given by Albert
Frederickson and wife to the Hubbard
State bank on December 27, 1929, for
$400, on the north half of the north
east quarter and north half of the
northwest quarter of section 1, town
ship 25, range 9. Plaintiff alleges that
there is now due the sum of $489.67
with interest from November 16, 1932,
and they ask judgment for that
amount and that the land be sold to
satisfy the amount found due.
The Omaha National Bank has filed
suit in the district court to foreclose
a mortgage given by Edmond C. Rec
tor, et al., for $35,000.00 on the fol
lowing described Holt county real
estate: The north half of the north
east quarter; west half of section 15;
west half of the northwest quarter;
south half of section 22; north half of
section 27; all of sections 21 and 28;
south half of northwest quarter; south
half of section 20; northeast quarter,
northeast quarter of northwest quart
er of section 29; east half; southwest
quarter of section 32; north half of
southeast quarter; southeast quarter
of southeast quarter of section 19, all
in township 30, north of range 9 west.
The petition alleges that the mort
gage was given on May 1, 1929, to the
Omaha Trust company to secure bonds
in the sum of $35,000.00 and a mort
gage given on the real estate to secure
the bonds. The Omaha Trust com
pany resigned as trustee for the bonds
in April of last year and the Omaha
National Bank was appointed trustee
in its stead. The petition alleges that
they have failed to pay the interest
coupon due on November 1, 1931, and
that they have likewise failed to pay
the bonds that have matured since that
date nor have they paid any interest
since that date. , They allege that
there is now due the sum of $35,889.00
and they ask that the mortgage be
foreclosed >and the land sold to satisfy
the amount found due.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donohoe, accom
panied by Mrs. S. J. Weekes and Mrs.
H. J. Birmingham drove to Omaha last
Tuesday morning. From Omaha Mr.
Donohoe will go to Des Moines on
legal business and then back to Omaha
where he will join Mrs. Donohoe and
accompanied by Mrs. Weekes they will
go to Lincoln Saturday to take in the
Nebraska-Pittsburg foot ball game.
DEMOCRATS SWEEP THE UNION
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BRIEFLY STATED
E. F. Porter was up from Chambers
last Monday.
Mrs. Hess Baker entertains the
Delta Deck Club this evening.
John Waters, of Chambers, was
looking after business matters in this
city last Monday.
George McNally returned last Sat
urday from a trip through Boyd county
and the Rosebud country.
E. C. McElhaney, of Omah, form
erly of Page, was visiting relatives and
friends in this city last Friday.
Bert Shearer, of Stuart, one of the
pioneers of the western part of the
country, was in the city last Wednes
day.
Joan Burgess entertained a party of
friends at her home last Monday after,
noon, the occasion being her fourth
birthday.
Charles Peterson, of Mills, was in
the city last Friday and Saturday
visiting at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Arthur Cowperthwaite.
Herb Hamond, Ira Moss and M. H.
Horiskey went up to Cherry county
Wednesday where they will try duck
hunting for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mellor enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stortz, of
Omaha, and Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Chi
cago, over the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Smith and Frank
Krotchoil, of Osmond, were in the city
last Sunday visiting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Kersenbrock.
,,Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Slattery are
rejoicing over the arrival of a nine
and one-half pound baby daughter who
! arrived at their home last Sunday
morning.
Several of our sport lovers are fig
uring on going to Lincoln tomorrow
to witness the football game there
next Saturday between Pittsburg and
Nebraska.
Lorraine Agnes entertained about
twenty of her little friends with a
birthday party at her home last Sat
urday afternoon, it being her sixth
anniversary.
Mrs. Eliza Wilcox entertained at
bridge at her home last Sunday even
ing, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Mullen, of Norfolk, who were guests
in the city for the week end.
The O’Neill High School foot ball
team took the measure of the Spring
view team on the local gridiron last
Friday afternoon with a score of 6
to 0. It was a good stiff game all the
way through.
Mrs. F. N. Cronin entertained the
Martez Club at her home last Wednes
day evening. Mrs. Ira Moss, Mrs.
Hess Baker and Mrs. John McManus
won the prizes, while Mrs. Dr. Kubi
check won the guest prize.
Mr. and Mrs. George Agnes, Mrs.
H. J. Hamond and Ben J. Grady left
last Sunday morning for Denver, Colo
rado, where they will visit friends and
relatives for a week. Miss May me
Grady, of Denver, who had been visit
ing relatives here for the past ten
days, returned home with them.
At the annual election of officers of
Simonson Post of the American Le
gion last Monday evening the follow
ing were elected for the ensuing year:
Joel Parker, Commander; R. L. Jor
dan, vice Commander; Roy Sauers,
John Lansworth, Joe Sabotka, William
Gatz and Leo Carney, member of the
executive board.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. O’Sullivan, of
Denver, acompanied by Mr. O’Sul
livan’s mother, Mrs. Ryder, of Greg
ory, South Dakota, were visiting
friends and relatives in this city the
first of the week. Mr. O’Sulivan was
born and raised in this city, but since
the war has made his home in other
states. For the past few years he
has been living at Rockford, Illinois,
but moved to Colorado about six
months ago, where he expects to make
his future home.
Carry Every State in the Country but
Six. Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Del
aware, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Maine Only Republican States,
ROOSEVELT 474 ELECTORAL
VOTES, HOOVER 59
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Nebraska Goes Democratic, Reelecting Bryan;
Entire Ticket Elected With Him. All Five
Congressmen are Democrats '
The democratic revolution at the*
polls which elevated Franklin D.
Roosevelt to the presidency and cut
down republican office holders was em
phasized by late election tabulations.
The figures told the story of an elect
orate so determined upon a change
that it braved almost every variety of
weather to register the greatest popu
lar vote ever known, millions higher
than the outpouring drawn by the in
tensity of the 1928 campaign.
President Hoover saw every state
west of the Allcghanies turn against
him. Only Pennsylvania, Connecticut,
Deleware, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Maine kept the faith.
Roosevelt’s electorial vote reached
a new high figure of 474. Mr. Hoover
had 59. For election 266 were neces
sary. Hoover received 444 four years
ago. Michigan went democratic. So
did Iowa, birthplace of Herbert Hoover
California, where he lives; Kansas,
I home of Vice President Curtis, and
among others, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Minnesota.
That was only part of a country
wide political upheavel. The result
was substantially the same whether
one looked at the senate, the house,
gubernatorial races or even returns
affecting prohibition.
Political old timers blinked as they
tried to envision a senate without such
captains of the republican old guard
as Jim Watson of Indiana, Reed Smoot
of Utah, George Moses of New Hamp
shire and Hiram Bingham of Con
necticut. They were all beaten by
democrats. Add to them another vet
eran Wesley Jones of Washington.
The eloquence of Senator Borah in
Idaho failed to save his republican col
league, Senator John Thomas.
There were thirty-four senate seats
at issue. The democrats captured
twenty-five of these to give them fifty
six seats in the seventy-third congress.
The republicans took five. The others
are still doubtful.
On the house side, already demo
cratic, the tale of republican disaster
was repeated. The winners have 218
seats there now. They are certain
of about 280 after March 4 and 78
house races are still in doubt.
NEBRASKA JOINS THE PARADE.
Nebraska democracy Wednesday
took stock of its greatest victory in
history and began to lay plans for
taking over almost the entire govern
mental machinery of the state, says
the Lincoln Journal.
“Governor Roosevelt had carried the
state with more than 150,000 plurality,
with 95 per cent of the vote tabulated
unofficially. It was the first time any
candidate had reached that plurality
in Nebraska and he was believed to
have recorded the highest total vote in
state history.
“It was the first time since 1016 all
democratic nominees for state office
had been elected. It was the first time
since the days of the farmers’ alliance
and populism in the 18i)0’s that Ne
braska republicans failed to elect a
congressman. And it was by far the
largest control democrats have ever
exercised over the legislature. Ninety
per cent of the senate will be demo
cratic and more than 75 per cent of
the house.
“The only remaining doubt of the
democrats vanished as Terry Carpent
er, continued to increase his lead over
Congressman Robert G. Simmons. A
margin of 3,405 in 414 of 525 precincts
assured his election.
“With 00 per cent of the senate
democratic, the party already is as
sured of more than 75 per cent control
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of the house of representatives. In
100 districts, the democrats have elect
ed seventy-seven and the republicans
eighteen, Vvith five still in doubl.
“Two races probably will take a
mail vote to determine as the final
unofficial count showed differences of
less than fifteen votes between the two
candidates. These races are between
Joe Gunnarson, (r) and Carl Bremer
(d) in Hamilton county and between
C. B. Putnam, (r) and W. D. Brad
street (d) in Boyd county.
“The other undetermined represent
ative contests are in the Twenty-fifth,
Sixty-fourth and Eighty-seventh dis
tricts. In the latter, Dan L. Ough of
Benkelman, republican incumbent, was
trailing with two preceincts out.
“Along with the smashing demo
cratic state victory, voters defeated
the Sorensen state police plan which
had undegone a severe campaign buf
feting by Governor Bryan and Paul
F. Good, who defeated Sorensen for
the attorney generalship.
“There was little to interfere with
the democrats taking charge of the
statehouse after the first of the year.
Only two elected republicans will re
main in the entire building, the hold
over members of the railway commis
sion, C. A. Randall and Hugh Drake.
The only other elected officials not
democrats will be State Superintend
ent Taylor, non-political, who did not
have to run for office this year, and
the seven non-political judges of the
supreme court. One of these, Chief
Justice Goss, wron a close race for re
election over Harry Palmer.
“Governor Bryan’s two chief com
plaints this term, that he had antagon
istic legislature and an unfriendly at
torney general to work with, were re
moved by the Tuesday landslide.
“State democratic headquarters were
as enthusiastic over the clean sweep
of the congressional races as over the
complete victory in the state contests.
“The five democratic candidates fur
nished an interesting contrast, includ
ing two former governors, a disting
uished lawyer, the long haired Col
umbus newspaper publisher, Edgar
Howard, and the bespectacled twenty
seven year old gas and coal merchant,
Terry Carpenter.
“It was the sixth successive con
gressional victory of John H. More
head of Falls City while the other ex
governor, A. C. Shallenberger of Alma,
won another leg on the frequent con
gressional race between Shallenberger
and former Congressman Fred John
son of Hastings. Shallenberger went
to congress after his governorship
years ago, was out and then returned
in 1930 to defeat Congressman John
son. He had a substantial lead over
Johnson this year.
“Omaha’s stately democratic law
yer, Edward Burke, defeated the same
man who last year took him into camp,
Malcolm Baldridge, once captain of
the Yale college wrestling team. Con
gressman Edgar Howard more than
doubled the vote of his opponent, H.
Halderson of Newman Grove, who also
lost to Howard in 1930.
“The victory of Terry Carpenter in
the “big Fifth-” was the big event to
democratic chieftains. Simmons has
held the old “big Sixth” in hand witty
ease but the overwhelming democratic
landslide coupled with the aggressive
campaign of the young Carpenter was
too much for him.
Final Tabulation
Final returns Nebraska 1,995 pre
cincts out of 2.038: Roosevelt 348,512;
Hoover 196,352.
(Continued on page 4.)