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The Frontier « j * ___ _ _ ______ VOL. Lin. O'NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1933. • No. 45 <? MULLEN REFUSES FEDERAL CIRCUT COURT JUDGESHIP Appointment Probably to Judge Woodrough of the Federal District Court. J. A. DONOHOE MAY BE DISTRICT JUDGE Last Friday President Roosevelt of fered Arthur F. Mullen, of Omaha, a place on the federal circuit court bench for the eighth circuit of which Ne braska is a part. Mr. Roosevelt sent the following letter to Mr. Mullen: “Dear Arthur: I hope very much that you will permit me to name you to the senate as a United States Circuit Court judge for the Eighth district where, I undestand, a vac ancy exists. Not only because of my long friendship for you, but also because of my personal knowledge of your fine public spirit and your ability, I feel that you are eminently qualified to become a member of this distinguished court.” Arthur Mullen grew to manhood in this county, coming here with his par ents when he was about nine years of age. He attended the country school north of this city and later the public school of htis city and later served as Deputy County Treasurer w'hile still in his teens. He later attended the University of Michigan and graduated therefrom about 1900 then returned to this city where he entered the practice of law and was elected county attorney of this county. He remained in practice here until 1911 when he moved to Omaha where he has been very active in the practice of his pro fession. A lover of a political battle, Art has always been in the front line, bat tling for his party and the principles they espoused. About the time he reached manhood’s estate this county had about as astute a bunch of poli ticians, in both political parties, as there were in the state and in this en viroment Arthur learned fill the fine points of the game and others that emerged from his fertile brain, in his numerous political contests, and is now recognized as one of the ablest polit ical strategists in the west, if not the entire country. une oi tne original nooseveit men he was floor manager for the New Yorker in the Chicago convention and during the campaign was assistant chairman of the national committee. While the proffered appointment was offered as a reward for political ser vices rendered, Mr. Mullen was com petent to fill the position with honor and ability, had he accepted the ap pointment, but he declined the offer. In his declination he stated that he was of the opinion that he could be of more assistance to the president as a private citizen than he could in any official position. When Mr. Mullen declined to accept the appointment, which was tendered him unsolicited, and wre think it is about the first time in history that a lawyer declined an appointment to the circuit court bench, (in Nebraska at least) one of the highest judicial posi tions within the gift of the adminis tration, the names of other possible ap pointees to that position were brought out. Among the number was that of Hon. J. W. Woodrough, now judge of the United States District court at Omaha. Judge Woodrough has served upon the United States District court bench for about sixteen years and has made a splendid record as a fearless and impartial jurist, well versed in the law and one of the hardest working judges in this circuit. His promotion would be a deserving tribute to one of i the finest men that ever wore the judicial robe in this or ahy other state and his numerous friends throughout Nebraska hope that he will receive the appointment. In case of the promotion of Judge Woodrough there would be a vacancy on the district bench in this state and to fill this position the name of James A. Donohoe of this city seems to com mand the most attention from those who keep track of current political events, and the chances for hi3 ap pointment to this position are very bright. Practically all the lawyers of the northern part of the state are hoping that Mr. Donohoe receives the appoint ment, as he is looked upon by the members of the profession as one of the leading members of the bar in Nebraska and one who could fill the position with ability, dignity and honor. Like Arthur Mullen, Jame3 A. Dono I hoe grew to manhood in this section, having spent his boyhood on a farm a few miles north c$f O’NeilL After} serving a couple of terms as deputy county treasurer of this county he studied law in the offices of the late M. F. Harrington, where he remained for several years, finally branching out for himself and has been engaged in active practice in this city for the past thirty years. Mr. Donohoe has been unusually successful as a lawyer and has a large and lucrative practice. From a financial standpoint the ac ceptance of the position would be a loss to Mr. Donohoe as he is now in the height of his career as a lawyer and there is a constantly increasnig demand for his services. But the life dream of every lawyer, worthy of the name, is to finish his legal career on the bench and if this position is of fered Mr. Donohoe we are confident that he would accept the position. In Mr. Donohoe the people of Nebraska would find a worthy successor to the able and talented Judge Woodrough, and a man who would help hold the United States District court for this district in the eminent position that it has occupied in the state for the past half century. The World-Herald this morning con tained the following about the above prospective appointments: “Nomination of Joseph W. Wood rough to the eighth circuit court of appeals is expected to be sent to the senate by President Roosevelt soon for confirmation, it appeared Tuesday night following various capital con ferences at which the judgeship was discussed, according to a special dis patch to the World Herald. “At the same time the name of James A. Donohoe, attorney of O’Neill, Nebr., emerged as the leading candid ate to succeed Woodrough on the fed eral district bench in Nebraska. “The chances of Woodrough, who has repeatedly been mentioned for the appointment, for senate confirmation, are said to be virtually certain, the dis patch said. “Mr. Donohoe, 56 years old, is a native of O’Neill. He was educated in the Holt county schools and at tended the Fremont Normal college. Afterwards he was deputy county treasurer for several years. He also taught school and studied law in the offices of M.F. Harrington, with whom, upon his admission to the bar, he formed a partnership in 1905. “Mr. Donohoe was a member of the state senate in 1908 and in 1918 was a member of the state constitutional convention.” THE BRIDGE TOURNAMENT The regular weekly meeting of the bridge tournament was held as usual at the Golden Hotel last Monday even ing and Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Grady were the prize winners in the north and south division and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Biglin in the east and west division. The meeting Monday night was the end of the tournament proper and the winners, or the five high couples in each division, will play next Mon day night for the bridge champion ship of the city. Following are the names of those that will participate in the championship contest, with the scores made by each couple during the various evenings of play: North and South Division. Score Mrs. Pat Harty, Mrs. Mabel McKenna _4,240 Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Birmingham—3,200 Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Cronin_—213 Miss Marjorie Dickson, Miss Miss Helen Biglin ___—580 Miss Anna O’Donnell, Mrs. Ira Mo3S _—1,000 East and West Division Score Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Campbell._..5,270 Mrs. J. J. Harrington, Mrs. R. R. Morrison . 4,860 Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Biglin -4,770 Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Coyne.3,830 Mrs. C. E. Stout, Mrs. J. A. Donohoe _3,490 The balance of the players will play for a consolation prize Monday night, which will officially end the tourna ment. MILNAR-GANS Edward C. Milnar, of Atkinson, and Miss Hattie Regina Cans, of Stuart, were united in marriage by County \ Judge Malone at the county court f room last Tuesday afternoon. These young people are well known and popular residents of the western part of the county, the groom being one of the industrious farmers of that section of the county. Their many friends tender congratulations and good wishes for a long and happy married life. BRIEFLY STATED Norb Uhl was in Grand Island last Monday. Ed. Adams was up from Chambers last Wednesday. Pat Boyle was up from the south country last Monday. William Gatz went down to Omaha the latter part of last week. Attorney J. D. Cronin made a busi ness trip to Neligh last Monday. Romaine Saunders was up from the ranch in the southwestern part of the county Wednesday. Editor Ralph Kelley, of the Atkin son Graphic, was looking after busi ness matters in the city last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mellor drove down to Omaha Wednesday morning for a few days business and pleasure trip. Francis Bazelman suffered a light attack of appendicitis the first of the week, but is much better at this writing. Ivan L. Lines and Miss Gayle Tuck er, both of Page, were granted a mar riage license in county court last ruesday. Frank Smith came up from Omaha the first of the week and has been /isiting friends here and looking after uusiness matters. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Carson and Mrs. Harry Scott, of Chambers, were ooking after business matters in this city last Wednesday. Louis Nielson, of Chambers, was a pleasant caller at this office last Sat urday and extended his subscription to this household necessity for another fear. Mrs. E. M. Gallagher entertained fight young ladies with a luncheon at the Golden Hotel last Tuesday noon ind afterwards with a bridge party »t her home. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Donohoe re turned last Monday from Omaha, where they had been in attendance at the funeral of Mrs. Donohoe’s brother, 1 M. J. Holland. 1 Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Brown and family drove down to Plainview last Sunday and spent the day visiting friends in their old home town, re turning home Sunday night. — Mrs. F. H. Butts, of Nebraska City, j ind Mrs. R. E. Benson, of Omaha, Irove up from Omaha last Tuesday^ ind will spend a week or ten days 1 /isiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Cronin. The Frontier mentioned last week hat a large herd of Holt county cat tle had been placed under quarantine for tuberculosis. On an examination ind test of the herd it was found that 12 head were afflicted with the disease, j Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Brown enter- j tained 16 guests with a dinner at the Golden Hotel last Thursday evening, 1 then with a bridge party at their home. VIrs. Harry Reardon won high score, 1 Miss Rose Taylor the consolation and , Mrs. P. B. Harty the all cut. _ Last wfeek John Kersenbrock pur chased the William Hersh' ier home in 1 the western part of the city. As Mr. 1 Kersenbrock owns the home in the eastern part of the city, where he ! ives, he purchased the Hershiser home is an investment. George Harrington and Dr. W. F. Finley went down to Fremont last Monday where George is trying a compensation case in the district court this week. Dr. Finley was a witness n the case and returned home Tuesday 1 light, but the case was expected to ;ast most of the week. The O’Neill Woman’s Club will meet lext Wednesday at the home of Mrs. James F. O’Donnell. The meeting will ie in the evening at eight o’clock in stead of in the afternoon as (Usual, rhe subject under discussion will be India, concerning which Miss Florence i beamy will give a review of Michael Pym’s book, “The Power of India.’’ Considering the importance of the Indian situation as a world problem this promises to be an interesting and enlightening meeting. HOLT COUNTY SPELLING CONTEST IS POSTPONED Due to the inclement weather and and bad roads it was thought best to postpone the County Spelling Contest which was to have been held last Fri day. The contest will now be held in the O’Neill Public School auditorium on Friday evening, April 7th, be ginning at 6:30 P. M. Mrs. Margaret Clauson returned last Tuesday night from attending the Trans-Mississippi Hair Dressers Con vention held at the Fontenelle Hotel in Omaha on March 27, 28 and 29. If there is anything new pertaining to Margaret’s profession she will always bring the best home to her patrons. The daily press of Wednesday morn ing carried the following as a special dispatch from Bismark, North Dakota: Clark Hough, O’Neill, was arrested for reckless driving, after a collision today. Lee Haigh, 19, Bismark, oc cupant of the other car, is in a serious condition. Nick Vogel, its driver, suf fered a scalp wound. All occupants of the Hough car, including Scott Hough, a brother, also of O’Neill, R. E. Register and Clare Register, were uninjured. REDUCE SALARIES OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES The salaries of all government em ployes, high and low, will be cut a maximum of 15 per cent effective next Saturday. President Roosevelt ordered the re duction yesterday, bringing the pre vious 8 1-3 per cent reduction under the Hoover administration’s furlough system up to the maximum of 15 per cent allowed by the new economy act. The cut will continue until June 30, the end of the current fiscal year, and is expected to save $30,000,000 in this period. What action will be taken after that date will depend on changes in living costs. In his executive order Mr. Roose velt said he had determined that the cost of living had dropped 21.7 per cent since the first half of 1928. All employes are affected except vhere specially exempted by previous aw as in the case of the president rimself or federal judges. The army ind navy enlisted personnel, includ ng officers, is included. Several of the leading democrats ind many others of the party in this :ity and county have sent telegrams ind letters to Senator Anderson and Representative Slaymaker at Lincoln lrging them to vote to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer in this itate. The national congress has said hat beer of an alcoholic content of 1.2 per cent is not intoxicating and the sale of beer could be made in this itate if the legislature would amend he bone dry law and the sale >f beverages containing more than 3.2 per cent of alcohol intoxicating liquor, rhe matter will probably come before he legislature next week and while it s said that the senate would probably 'avor the proposal the house is liable ;o be against it. Clark Calhoun, one of the pioneer •esidents of the south country was a pleasant caller at this office last Wed lesday and extended his subscription :o The Frontier to January 1, 1934. Calhoun came to this county with his parents fifty years ago, and, with the ■xception of three years, has been a •esident of the county ever since. He 'armed near Chambers for years and made a financial success of it. He dis posed of his holdings last month, in ending to take things easy for a while, put Clark got so used to hustling that le just could not be idle so he expects :o leave next week for Sauk Center, Minn., where he may engage in busi less, providing the field looks as in citing as he expects it to be. The Frontier regrets to see an old timer ike Clark leave the county, but he said that he would probably be back ;o old Holt again, if not to live that le would have to come back every so >ften to visit old neighbors and friends, [f he decides to enter business in Min lesota his many Holt county friends lope that Prosperity and happiness will be his in abundance. The Front ier will accompany him to his new Minnesota home to keep him posted ipon the affairs in this section of the country. Chambers Sun: Mrs. Louie Taggert ind little daughter, Ann Edith, were quite badly burned Friday evening when Mrs. Taggart in some way up set a pot of hot tea. Ann Edith re vived a scalded right arm and Mrs. faggart a patch on the lower left limb. LET CONTRACT FOR EWING SCHOOL The Ewing school board let the con tract last Tuesday for the erection of a new school building there, to take the place of the one destroyed by fire last December. The general contract was let to Harry S. Holtz of Sioux City, la., for $24,715. The heating and plumbing went to E. L. Rodwell of Omaha for $496.76. The electric wiring was let to Quelvog and Son of Norfolk, for $1,192.80. The total is $30,876.55. The building will be of fireproof construction throughout with a vacu um heating system. Work on the new building will com mence the week of April 3. JAMES H. HANLEY NAMED RADIO COMMISSIONER James H. Hanley, a member of the Omaha bar for several years, w'ho was raised and grew to manhood on a farm a few miles north of this city, was appointed a member of the federal radio commission by President Roose velt last Thursday. The position pays $10,000.00 per year. Jim has many friends in this city and county who extend congratula tions upon his appointment and know that he will fill the position with credit to himself and those responsible for his appointment. The district over which he will pre side includes Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Mis souri, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Il linois. The postion is one of the juciest political plums that the administration has the handling of and Nebraska democrats are to be congratulated that they had sufficient power to get a maj or appointment like this for a resident of this state. AN OLD FRAUD BOBS UP AGAIN The following appeared in Wednes day’s Sioux City Journal, as a special from Ponca: “Two mysterious letters received by two Ponca business men have aroused considerable comment here. The let ters are thought to be part of an in ternational swindle scheme and were mailed from Barcelona, Spain. “In the letters the sender, who, signs himself “S” and begs secrecy, claims he is imprisoned in a Spanish prison on a charge of bankruptcy and pleads for his “friend” to come to Spain and pay the register of the court the ex penses of his trial and to obtain pos session of his private portmanteau in which he says is a secret pocket con taining two checks drawn on American banks to the sum of $360,000 which he may cash. As a reward he offers to pay his liberator a third part, $120,00.” An O’Neill citizen received a letter this morning, also from Barcelonia, Spain, and is another of the old swin dle letters that have periodically ap peared in this country, most of which are from Spain. The letter the O’Neill man received is couched in practically the same language as the one above mentioned. A post script says that he is waiting patiently your answer to intrust you all my secrets. An ad ditional postscript says: First of all answer by cable, not letter. It has been several years since a letter of like character has bobbed up here, but the workers of the swindle evidently make it pay or they would not keep it up year after year. A resident of Plainview, who has some reputation in his city and county as a “scrapper” arrived in the city last Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of “cleaning up” a resident of this city, in other words to beat his head off. The Plainview man tackled the job all right but soon discovered that he had taken a bite that was a little too much for him and he was convinced of that a little later as he lay on the ground suffering from numerous abraisons on his face and body, thoroughly licked, that he had tackled a man’s job and was unable to fill the bill. He returns to his Pierce county home a sorer, but let us hope a wiser man. REMINGTON-DeHART Ralph Remmington and Miss Oral DeHart, both of Chambers, were united in marriage at the Conrad residence in this city last Friday evening, March 24, 1933, Rev. D. F. Conard performed the ceremony, in the pres ence of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Lowrie. The bride for several years has been a teacher in the Chambers public school and has an extensive acquaint enance in the south country. The groom is one of the progressive farm ers of the south country. Their many friends tender con gratulations and good wishes. EXAMINATION OF McCauley shows INJURIES A FRAUD Small Hook Found In His Clothing With Which Wounds Were Made. On account of the numerous reports going over the county, regarding the physical condition of Arthur McCauley, The Frontier decided that it was about time that the people of the county be given some inside information regard ing this case. It will be remembered that Mc Cauley was convicted of contempt of court, the charge growing out of the bribery, or attempted bribery, of the Flannigan jury a little over a year ago. After his conviction he was sentenced to six months in the Holt county jail and to pay a fine. The case was appealed to the supreme court and the sentence of the lower court was affirmed and mandate is sued under the date of December 6, 1932, received in the office of the clerk of the district court of this county on December 7, 1932, and committment issued. Prior to December 5th, McCauley, according to the information that we have been able to receive, was around the streets of Atkinson apparently in his usual health. But he was taken sick and the sheriff reported that his condition would not permit his incar ceration in jail. So Mr. McCauley re mained in Atkinson until January 4, 1933, when he was placed in the county jail here. H*? complained of being sick, unable to eat and when he did e&t he claimed he was unable to re tain food upon his stomach. Dr. Brown of this city and Dr. Douglas of Atkin son held a consultation and agreed that they would order him taken to a local rooming house and placed in the charge of a registered nurse in order to have a record of his condi tion from day to day. While the nurses daily report of his condition did not show any alarming symptoms, or that the patient was very ill, he kept complaining and about the mid dle of January, on January 17, 1933, he was taken to the University Hos pital at Omaha for observation and treatment, if found necessary. On account of the various reports that were being circulated around town regarding his condition Judge Dickson wrote the Dean of the Uni versity Hospital for him to send him a statement as to the true condition and trouble, if any, of McCauley and send him a report when he was dis charged. , Under date of January 24, 1933, the following letter was received re garding the condition of McCauley. January 24, 1933 Dr. Poynter has referred to me your correspondence concerning Mr. Mc Cauley. We have felt as did you, that Mr. McCauley exaggerates his symptoms and is in a way a malingerer. We found upon proctoscopic examination that he had a few small polyps and anal fissures. The polyps were re moved Saturday and treatment is be ing directed toward the healing of the fissures. This should be accomplished in a few days following which he should be able to return for his sent ence. F. J. Bean, M. D., Ass’t. Supt. Uni. Hosp. Under date of January 31, 1933, the following letter was recived from the University Hospital at Omaha: January 31, 1933 Your patient, Mr. McCauley, is ready to be dismissed. Will you kind ly arrange to have somebody call for him. We have been unable to find anything further wrong with this man and believe that he is undoubtedly ex aggerating his symptoms with the idea of avoiding a return for his sent ence. Last Saturday we removed a rectal polyp and found two small anal fissures which have since been heal ing. He has been up and about sev eral days, is on a general diet and requires no medication beyond an oc casional cathartic, such as, mineral oil. Gastric analysis has been negative and there is no indication of further trouble in the gastro-intestinal tract. We believe he can safely be returned to the County jail although this is j much against his will. I am sending a j copy of the enclosed letter to Dr. Douglas at Atkinson at the request of Mrs. McCauley. F. J. Bean, M. D., Ass’t. Supt., Uni. Hosp. (Continued on page 8, column 1.)