Xcb. State Historical Society
The
Frontier
VOL. LIII.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933.
No. 40
PROBABLE MEMBERS OF
ROOSEVELT’S CABINET
? Nine Men and One Women Named
for Positions in Cabinet.
According to the daily press Presi
dent-elect Roosevelt has selected his
cabinet and the following are the
members that will sit therein and con
duct the affairs of this country for the
next four years:
State—Cordell Hull of Tennessee.
Treasury—William H. Woodin of
Pennsylvania and New York.
War—George H. Dern of Utah.
Justice—Thomas J. Walsh of Mon
tana.
Postoffice—James A. Farley of New
York.
Navy—Claude A. Swanson of Vir
ginia.
Interior—Harold Ickes of Iillinois.
Agriculture—Henry A. Wallace of
Iowa.
Commerce—Daniel C. Roper of
South Carolina.
Labor—Miss Frances Perkins of
New York.
Democrats of Nebraska, as well as
the citizens of the state generally, will
regret that Arthur F. Mullen of Ne
braska was not selected for the posi
tion of Attorney general in the new
cabinet. That place has been given to
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana,
as forecast some weeks ago.
Of the names announced three of
them, William H. Woodin who has
been selected for secretary of the
treasury; Harold Ickes of Illinois, who
has been selected for secretary of the
Interior, and Henry A. Wallace, of
Iowa, who has been selected for Secre
tary of Agriculture have formerly
been identified with the republican
party, the latter being the son of the
secretary of agriculture in President
Harding’s cabinet.
According to the press reports it is
said that the selection of Ickes would
be especially pleasing to the independ
ent republican faction that supported
Roosevelt during the last campaign.
He is said to have been closely allied
with Senator Hiram Johnson, of Cal
ifornia, and is said to be agreed with
the president-elect on the power
question.
MRS. ANDREW WALSH
Mrs. Catherine Walsh, widow of the
late Andrew Walsh, died at her home
in Chambers last Monday morning,
after an illness of several months, at
the age of 54 years, 8 months and 6
days. The funeral was held at Cham
bers last Tuesday afternoon at 2 P. M.
interment in the Chambers cemetery,
Rev. Hopkins, of the Chambers M. E.
church officiating.
Katherine Rippenger was born at
Luxemburg, Germany, on June 14,
1878. When quite young she came to
America with her parents and came
to this county. On August 20, 1900
she was united in marriage to Andrew
Walsh in this city and has been a resi
dent of this county practically ever
since. Her husband died about tw’o
years ago.
PHYSICIANS CONCERNED OVER
CONDITION OF MAYOR CERMAK
The condition of Mayor Cermak of
Chicago, victim of the assassins bullet
intended ;for President-elect Roose
velt, caused his physicians grave con
cern Wednesday night.
Suffering from complications caused
by colitis, the mayor was examined
by three specialists: Dr. J. S. Snyder,
Dr. Frank Jirka and Dr. M. N. Caplan.
Dr. Snyder issued the following bul
letin:
“Colitis is still annoying Mayor
Cermak, but is less severe. The may
or has slept a great deal of the day.
Temperature is 100, pulst 120 respira
tion 28. We are still much concerned
about him, but hope he will be better
Thursday.”
Walter Hudson, near Dorsey, had a
narrow escape from death last Thurs
day afternoon. Mr. Hudson was out
hunting and in crawling through a
fence the 410 shot gun that he was
carrying went off, tearing a hole
through the top of his cap. It is figured
that as he crawled through the fence
the gun, at the side of his head raised
his cap as it exploded. Outside of a
few lacerations on the side of his head
he escaped injury, but it was a very
close call.
Ira Moss, H. J. Hammond, P. C.
Donohoe, M. H^ Horiskey and P. J.
O’Donnell drove to Cherry county last
Wednesday where they put in the day
fishing at Marsh lake. The boys say
the trip was a very successful one, and
that they brought back the limit of
the finney tribe.
MRS. RODELL ROOT PASSES
AWAY IN COLORADO
Mrs. Rodell Root, wife of Supervis
or Rodell Root, died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Laura Ingles, of
Erie, Colorado, Thursday evening,
February 9, after an illness of several
weeks.
Mrs. Root left the south country last
fall and went to Colorado for an ex
tended visit at the home of her daught.
er at Erie. She had intended return
ing home about the first of the year
but in the middle of December she
suffered a paralytic stroke, from which
she never fully recovered. Her hus
band had visited her but a few weeks
ago in Colorado and was of the opin
ion that she would ultimately recover,
and news of her sudden death was a
severe shock to him and his son,
Rodell.
Mr. Root and his son left Chambers
the morning after receiving the notice
of her death and attended the funeral
of their loved one, who was laid to
rest in the cemetery at Ft. Lupton,
Colorado. They returned last Mon
day and were accompanied on their re
turn trip by Mr. Root’s daughter, Mrs.
Ingles who visited for a few days at
Chambers and left last Monday morn
ing for her Colorado home.
The Root family have been residents
of the south country since the latter
eighties and Mrs. Root was known and
admired by a large circle of friends in
the southern part of the county who
will learn with regret of her death.
The Frontier joins the many friends of
the family in extending sympathy in
their hour of sorrow.
CELEBRATE FIFTIETH
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Summers,, liv
in east of this city, in the vicinity of
Middle Branch, were treated to a sur
prise party last Saturday, it being
their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
. Several of their children are resi
dents of Wheeler county and they came
with their families at an early hour
to help their parents celebrate the
day, bringing well filled baskets with
them so that they could put on a wed
ding feast fit for the occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. Summers were the re
cipients of many useful presents, the
gold color predominating from the
dishes to embroidered pillow cases.
Mrs. Summers’ parents celebrated
their Golden Wedding annivesrary
many, many, years ago and at that
celebration they received a set of gold
rimmed dishes from their children.
When they passed on the dishes were
given to Mrs. Sumers and these dishes
were used for the dinner last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Summer have many
friends in this city and county who
will join their children in wishing for
them many more delightful wedding
anniversarys.
PHYLLIS MAY NEAL
Phyllis May Neal, the nine months
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Neal, died at their home in this city
last Monday after an illness of a
couple of days of pneumonia.
Funeral services were held at the
home here last Tuesday, conducted by
Rev. Aucock of the Methodist church.
Following the services here the body
was taken to Neligh for interment in
the cemetery at the side of a sister
who died a few years ago.
Mrs. James Kelly and Doug Hunt
took the family to Neligh for the
funeral.
The members of the O’Neill Fire
Department entertained the Mayor,
members of the city council and other
city officials and the representatives
of the press with a dinner at the
Grand Cafe last Tuesday evening
which was very successful. After the
dinner party the guests went to the
fire station where they inspected the
fire equipment of the city. The mem
bers of the fire department are plan
ning on making these dinners an an
nual affair and when finances permit
plan on extending the guests list until
finally they will entertain for one
evening practically every business
man in the city, when matters of in
terest to the city’s future welfare will
be discussed.
Mrs. L. C. Chapman went down to
Omaha last Saturday morning and at
tended market week, returning Tues
day evening. Mrs. Chapman says
there were a large number of mer
chants from all over the state in the
city for market week. The different
wholesalers had on display beautiful
lines of goods and she said that tlffi
merchants were very liberal buyers,
the prices at which the goods were
offered having much to flo with the
success of market week.
BRIEFLY STATED
Mrs. Frank Froelich entertained the
Delta Deck Club at her home last
Thursday evening.
C. J. Taylor, who lives east of Op
portunity was in the city last Tuesday
transacting business.
Frank Hunter and Alex Wertz, of
Star, were transacting business at the
court house last Friday.
Dick Moon and son, W. L., of Stuart,
were transacting business at the court
house in this city last Friday.
Mrs. R. R. Dickson spent several
days visiting friends in Omaha last
week, returning Thursday evening.
Miss Marjorie Dickson went down
to Omaha last Saturday morning for
a few days visit, returning Sunday
evening.
R. M. Sauers and John Harrington
drove over to Bonesteel, South Dakota,
last Wednesday, returning home that
evening.
With young America playing mar
bles and tossing a baseball around we
are convinced that spring is fast ap
proaching.
Clarence Davis and Miss Lola
Wheeler, of Long Pine, were united
in marriage at O’Neill Saturday, by
Rev. H. D. Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Gatz and son and
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Brown left for a
short business trip to Omaha last
Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Oscar Newman and daughter,
Ardis Loree, of Dorsey, are spending
the week as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Tomlinson.
L. A. Jones left last Monday morn
ing for Bismark, North Dakota, where
he intends to locate and operate a
turkey farm the coming year.
John Batchelor, of Valentine, was
visiting in the city last Sunday. Mr.
Batchelor is one largest stock men in
the western part of the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Neil P. Brennan and
son, Jerry, and Mrs. Garretson, of
Norfolk spent the week end here
visiting at the home of J. B. Ryan.
Mrs. Dick Tomlinson came up from
Omaha the forepart of the week for
a few days visit at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McNally.
Mrs. Glenn Saunders, who had been
visiting relatives and friends at Wa
hoo and Lincoln for the past two weeks
returned home last Sunday afternoon.
Wilbur L. Moon, of Stuart, and Miss
Valerie Johnson, of Newport, were
united in marriage last Tuesday by
Rev. H. D. Johnson, at the Presbyter
ian manse.
George McKim, who has been receiv
ing medical treatment in this city for
several weeks past, was taken last
Friday to the hospital at Kearney
for treatment.
Mrs. Ray Philbin, of Wayne, came
up the latter part of last week for a
few days visit with her mother, Mrs.
W. H. Shaughnessey and with other
relatives here.
Walter Bolen and Miss Mildred
Steinback, both of Stuart, were united
in marriage at the county court room
last Monday afternoon by County
Judge Malone.
The Catholic Ladies Alter Society
will hold a food sale and will also
serve lunch at Morrison’s store next
Saturday. They respectfully solicit
your patronage.
Mrs. L. C. Chapman has as nice a
stock of new dresses and hats on dis
play in her style shop as has ever
been exhibited in this city. Do not
fail to call and inspect them.
Mrs. H. J. Birmingham entertained
the Martez Club at her home last
Wednesday evening. Miss Helen Big
lin, Mrs. John McManus and Mrs. F. J.
| Dishner were the prize winners.
_
Elmer Hagensick is putting in a
partition in the front of the Nebraska
State Bank building, which he recently
purchased and we understand that J.
H. McPharlin has rented same and
will move his barber shop there about
the first of the month.
Jack Marshal, of Tilden, well known
in this city is said to be in a hospital
at Tilden suffering from an attack of
indulent fever. His many friends in
this city hope for his speedy recovery.
R. R. Morrison drove to Kansas
City yesterday morning where he will
spend a few days looking after busi
ness and incidently visiting his son,
Terrance, who is engaged in business
there.
Judge R. R. Dickson and Reporter
McElhaney went up to Ainsworth last
Monday morning where they held a
term of district court the first three
days of the week, returning home
Wednesday night.
Fire of unkown origin destroyed an
elevator at Hartington last Tuesday
causing a loss of $10,000.00 on the
building. There was approximately
2,400 bushels of grain in the elevator
which was destroyed.
A card, received by this office from
Mrs. J. A. Naylor of this city, who is
spending the winter visiting with her
sister, Mrs. Laura Cress, in California
says that she is having a nice time and
thoroughly enjoying her visit and the
scenes on the coast.
Charles Parmlee, formerly a prom
inent banker of Plattsmouth but now
an employee of the Burlington railroad
company, was looking after business
matters at the court house last Mon
day for his company. He left that
evening for Valentine.
C. M. Gist, a conductor on the Bur
lington railroad and a former resident
of this city, died at his home in Sioux
City last Friday night after a pro
tracted illness. He was about 43 years
of age. The funeral was held last
Monday afternoon at 2 P. M.
George Seiss, of Brownlee, Nebr.,
well known in this city and vicinity,
died at a hospital in Grand Island last
Sunday afternoon. He had been taken
with a severe attack of appendicitis
and was taken to the hospital for an
operation. The operation was per
formed but he failed to recover there
from.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. McMillan re
turned last Tuesday evening from
Kirksville, Mo., where Mr. McMillan
had been receiving medical treatment
for the past six weeks. The condition
of Mr. McMillan has greatly improved
during the past month and his many
friends now look forward to his speedy
recovery*
The Butte Gazette and the Spencer
Advocate have consolidated and will
be published as one paper in the fu
ture. They are both two of the oldest
papers in Boyd county and we are of
the opinion that the consolidation will
be of financial benefit to both the pub
lishers and enable them to get out a
much better paper.
Garry Benson, the genial pastma3
ter at Ewing, was transacting busi
ness in this city last Friday. Garry
has been postmaster at Ewing for
about twelve years and he is now look
ing forward to handing the stamping
machine and other accessories over to
a deserving democrat in about a year,
when his present term expires.
Judge Dickson drove down to Wayne
last Friday and came back that even
ing bringing back with him a delega
tion of O’Neill young ladies who are
attending school there. Those return
ing ‘with him were: Miss Nancy
Dickson, Nellie Toy and Miss Saunto.
They spent the week end at home and
returned to school Sunday afternoon.
Joseph Dirgo the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Dirgo, jr., died at
the home of his grandmother in this
city last Sunday afternoon, about
twenty minutes after birth. Mrs. Dir
go was formerly Agnes Bazelman and
had been visiting her mother here when
the baby was bom. The funeral was
held Monday afternoon, interment in
Calvary cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jensen, of
Omaha, arrived in the city last Fri
day evening and spent a few days
visiting friends and relatives here
Mrs. Jensen is the state manager of
the Woodmen Circle, and while here
visited several members of the local
order. They left Sunday for Valen
tine, where she will inspect the local
order there. Mrs. Jensen, prior to her
marriage, was Miss Florence Holden
of Chambers, and had many friends in
this city as well as in the southern
part of the county.
COUNTY COUNCILIATION
COMMITTEE ORGANIZES
The members of the County Concil
iation Committee, appointed last week
for this county, held their first meet
ing in the court room in this city last
Saturday afternoon and organized by
selecting John A. Robertson, of Joy, as
chairman of the board and J. B. Ryan,
of this city, as secretary. Supplies
were ordered from the state head
quarters and the meeting then ad
journed subject to call by the chair
man.
Following are the members of the
board for this county, all of whom
were present at the meeting last Sat
urday: John Carson, Red Bird; John
A. Robertson, Joy; Frank Murray, At
kinson; J. K. Ernst, O’Neill, and J. B.
Ryan, O’Neill.
WOULD-BE ASSASSIN OF
PRESIDENT-ELECT SENT
ENCED TO EIGHTY YEARS
Guiseppe Zangara, who attenmpted
to assissinate President-elect Roose
velt at Miami, Florida, last week, was
sentenced last Monday to eighty years
in the Floridji state penitentiary, when
he plead guilty to four counts of at
tempted murder.
“Oh, Judge, don’t be Stingy. Give
me a hundred years,” the 33 year old
prisoner shouted as he was lead from
the courtroom. Then, laughing in evi
dent amusement, he fell in step with
his guards and was lead back to his
prison cell. Zangara’s sentences of
twenty years on each count, running
consecutively, constitute life imprison,
ment at Raiford state prison or hard
labor in the Florida road camps.
However, should Mayor Cermak of
Chicago or Mrs. Joe H. Gill die of
wounds they received from bullets fired
by the assassin at the president-elect,
the state will seek a firs? degree mur
der indictment and the death penalty.
Cermak and Mrs. Gill were reported
as continuing to show improvement
at the hospital at Miami.
Louis Twyman, defense counsel who
entered Zangara’s guilty pleas, said
the Italian had insisted he was guilty.
“He says ‘No, no, I not crazy’ when
we asked him if he thinks he is in
sane,” Twyman told the court.
Taking the witness chair, uncon
cernedly, Zangara gave stomach pains
and hatred of capitalists as the reason
for his desire to kill Mr. Roosevelt.
"I suffer all the time from my stom
ach,” Zangara told Judge Collins. “I
no like the way capitalists take all
money. When I read in paper the
president come here, I decide to kill
him. I decide to kill him and make
him suffer. I want to make it 50-50.
Since my stomach hurt I get even with
capitalists by killing the president.
My stomach hurt long time.”
Zangara told the court he did not
care whether he lived or not. “I sick
all time,” he said. “I just think may
be cops kill me if I kill president.
“Somebody hit my arm when I try
it. “They fools; they should let me
kill him.”
The Zealot turned as he was led
from the courtroom, held up eight
fingers and asked Judge Collins how
many years he had been sentenced to
serve. The judge nodded at the up
lifted fingers.
“Four times twenty is eighty,”
Zangara shouted. “Oh, judge, don’t be
stingy. Give me a hundred years.”
MRS. HENRY RITTS
Mrs. Henry Ritts died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Thompson
in this city last Friday evening, after
an illness of one week, at the age of
72 years and 22 days. The funeral
was held Monday morning from the
M. E. church, Rev. Aucock officiating,
burial in Prospect Hill cemetery.
Elizabeth Boyer was born at Dubu
que, Iowa, on January 25, 1861. Or
December 27, 1887 she was united ir
marriage at Washta, Iowa, to Henrj
Ritts and about ten years later the>
came to this county where she made
her home up to the time of her death
She was the mother of three children
two girls and one boy, two of whom
are living and with the father are lef 1
to mourn the death of a kind and lov
ing wife and mother. The childrer
are: Mrs. S. L. Thompson, O’Neill
and Mrs. W. H. La Page, of Omaha
both of whom were present for tht
last sad rites for their beloved mother
Mrs. Ritts was a splendid wife and
mother and was loved and admired
by all her neighbors and those having
the pleasure of her acquaintance. Sht
had been a member of the local Meth
odist church for over thirty years and
was active in church work and hei
departure will be mourned by hei
many friends in this city and vicinity.
Charles Richter was in from th<
Dorsey neighborhood last Tuesday.
SUBMIT REPEAL OF 18TH
AMENDMENT TO STATES
House Approves Blaine Resolution By
Comfortable Majority.
Congress Monday proposed to the
states that national prohibition, after
13 years of turbulent trial, be done
away with by repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment.
The House by a vote of 289 to 121,
15 more than necessary, approved the
repeal resolution passed last week by
the Senate. Under it, for the first
time in American history, conventions
of the people are to decide whether
the states shall ratify or reject a
change in the Constitution.
Thirty-six of the 48 states must
ratify to carve the Eighteenth amend
ment out of the national charter and
substitute for it a 21st. By its terms,
also, the ratifications must occur with
in seven years from Monday. With
repeal, the amendment carries a spe
cific prohibition of importation of in
toxicating liquors into any states re
maining dry.
Immediately after the House vote,
legislative action was started in more
than half a dozen states to make ready
for the conventions.
Only one federal formality remains
before the states have the question
fully in their keeping. The secretary
of state must certify the Congression
al action to the governors. They will
inform the legislatures. In many
cases the state executives, however,
had already taken steps to rush action.
The official copy of the repeal res
olution was delivered to the secretary
of state Monday and work was begun
immediately to mail out copies Tues
day.
The House approval came in dram
atic faahion as the dry minority fought
with its back to the wall against tbe
flood of anti-prohibition votes.
Confident from the first of victory,
Speaker Garner and party leaders
forced the vote under suspension of
the rules, a drastic debate-curbing1
procedure. Fifteen members who
voted against the speaker's outright
repeal proposal on the first day of
this session shifted their strength for
the Blaine amendment, adopted only
last Thursday by the Senate, 63 to 23.
The news was hailed as a great vic
tory by leaders of the anti-prohibition
organizations, but the drys, though
not disguising a defeat, proclaimed
their intention to intesify their fight
every step of the way. The wets, too,
in every utterance on the question,
emphasized that an enormous amount
of hard campaigning remains to be
done.
The Blaine prohibition repeal resolu
tion, after the preamble reads:
Section 1. The Eightheenth article
of amendment to the Constitution of
the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or
importation into any state, territory,
or possession of the United States for
delivery or use therein of intoxicating
liquors, in violation of the laws there
of, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3. This article shall be in
operative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Con
stitution by conventions in the several
states, as provided in the Constitution,
within seven years from the date of
the submission hereof to *he states
by the Congress.
BRIDGE TOURNAMENT
OPENED MONDAY
The O’Neill bridge tournament op
ened last Monday evening at the Gold
en Hotel with 24 couples participating.
R. R. Morrison and Clive Heckenlively
won first prize in the east and west
side, while Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Birm
ingham won the prize in the north
and south side. All present say they
had a very enjoyable evening and that
many of the participants had splendid
scores.
The next meeting of the tournament
is next Monday evening, also at the
j Golden Hotel.
Norb Uhl, Enard Leech, Jimmy
! Davidson, Dr. H. L. Ber.nett and How
ard Bauman drove up to Marsh lake
in Cherry county last Tuesday and put
| in the day fishing in the lake there,
coming home that evening with 250
nice perch. At the lake they met Pat
McGinnis of Emmet, who was also
fishing. Pat told the O’Neill boys that
a real fisherman always caught bass
and to demonstrate that he was a real
fisherman he proceeded to pull out a
nice black bass a few moments after
ward. The O’Neill boys say that
Emmet is entitled to claim the champ
ionship fisherman of this section in
Mr. McGinnis.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lydon are re
joicing over the arrival of a baby
daughter, born on Tuesday morning.