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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1933)
Washington —(UP)— Two gov ernment employes, who developed valuable radio patents while work ing in the bureau of standards, were gianted permission to retain their patents by a recent decision of the Supreme Court. The men were Francis W. Dun more, head of the bureau's radio research division, and one of his assistants, Percival D. Lowell. They developed mechanisms which covered the operation of radio receiving sets and loud speakers from alternating cur rent and the elimination of hum, and they took out three patents covering these appliances. Because the work had been done on government time and fre quently with government instru ments, suit was brought to force them to turn over to the United States the right to the inven tions. They claimed, homever. that the improvements were the result of their own “scientific curiosity.” The Third Circuit Court of Ap peals, in Philadelphia, ruled that Dunmore and Lowell lawfully owned the patents, and the Su preme Court upheld the decision. In the ruling by the latter body, however, a dissenting opinion was handed down by Justice Stone, with Chief Justice Hughes and Justiue Cardozo concurring, that the patents should have beeo cancelled completely. Farmer Hauled Gold To Town in Gunnysack Smith Center, Kan. — (UP) — The story is told here of a bache lor farmer who, when learning hoarding must stop, dug up iris $10000 in gold and currency, stuffed the money in a gunnysack and threw it on top of a load of wood. The farmer hauled the load of wood — and the money — into tcwn. The money was deposited in a bank. Asked why he took no fur ther precaution on the journey to town, the farmer replied: “That was the safest place for It." - ---- Guineas Acted As Watchdogs Walnut Ridge, Ark. — (UP) — '"All bark and no bite,” is particu larly applicable to the chicken yard "watchdogs" that a farmer near here keeps. William Ballard, the farmer, claims that for 15 years a few guineas in his flock of fowls have proved efficient burglar alarms to frighten away would-be thieves. In addition to the value of their shrill, yraucous cackle, the guineas furnish eggs and are a tasty dish when properly cooked. , . . ♦♦ The migration of birds is believed to have started in the latter part or the tertiary period when the ice sheet came down from the north. --« «-— — Beach or Sports The demure beach dress which Mary Carlisle, screen player, wears for sports is of striped “eponge” fabric, styled with a novel halter• sseck button closing around the neck of the bib top. The slippers, fea turing the fame stripes of red and white, are of wide wale white piiiue with colored stripes of bedford cord, «•-—- - Man Has Perfect Attendance Reccrd Austin, Tex. —'UP)— When he Was 10 years old J. W. Farias, now night clerk of the Austin police department, resolved to have a perfect Sunday school at tendance record fer 25 years. He kept that resolution — and exceeded it. Not one Sunday did he miss during the 25 years, and only once, when he was ill, has he been absent in 40 years. He la ! superintendent a! the Hvd* n-Hr 1 A SUR SHOT" WORM OIL BbST For wtrffling pig*, writ* for infVemation and price*. Fairview Chemical Cc. HUMBOLDT. S D Out Our Way By Williams 7 \ / KAiSTfcR ' / hoist, ; wn\_U NOO I 6HC»N UsAe HOw TO SET This BEviEt i PBOTPACTOf? : Pow Them \ BENiEL GEARS \lM / LESSEE . VlOvNl — \ I 0«D ^O'M \ MOvM TO SET -Them tVa>mCj«» — r P\ KA.*J\~KA - i"TS» \ Beem mEaRs &k»ce X - 0*4 - LESSEE. . AiOwy-WAlTAlA'LilTC , / Tm M»Pt\ A U3T O' C>caoC.Oe.%S, ©U"T' (NOwlO MA^e. A V-CT" MOQE tv/ tnw BoDw ^out-D &AW . 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The women workers were asked if they liked the change, with the smaller pay, while the managers were asked of the shorter hours increased efficiency. “Advantages of the change re ported by the management,” said the bureau, “included decreased overhead, increased return from liipuai imL'SH:u, ciiiiiJiinwuii vn cafeteria expense. "The reason most often given by the women who liked the shorter workday were the in creased time available for home duties and for leisure, and the fact that they were less tired at the close of the day." Those who preferred the longer day explained their preference was due solely to the higher pay possible. -- Mormons’ Scrip Took Place of Money Salt Lake City, —(UP)— Scrip, with nothing back of it except confidence in the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) church, is being used freely here and works as well as regular money. The scrip is issued dollar for dollar for donations to the church maintenance fund. It is in units of one dollar. Before passage, a two-cent scrip stamp must be af fixed. When 52 such stamps are used the bishop of a church ward redeems the scrip in cash. Fifty of the stamps automat ically retires the scrip dollar. The additional two stamps pay the cost of printing and administra tion. ■ ♦ • ■ - ■— Men Students Emulated Coeds Monroe, La. —(UP)— Four young men filed into Miss Ann Mar shall’s zoology class at the junior college here, objects of amaze ment. Their air was nonchalant; their faces as red as rouge would make them; their lips scarlet; their eyebrows mere pencil slits over their orbs. A murmur of indignation arose among male members of the class. Feminine members looked on with a mingled sarcasm and jealousy. Miss Marshall, out of the room at the time returned on seeing the cause of the commotion, ordered the quartet outside to remove the coloring matter. Arose the leader of the four and explained: "Women are apeing us. They wear our trousers, smoke our eig arets and assume our habits. We, madam, are turning the tables upon them.” Vet Has Papers to Prove He Is Dead Merced, Cal. — (UP) — Frank Pira, Merced war veteran, is dead, and to prove it, he carries two death certificates around with him to show the incredulous. One certificate, made out in French, officially reported him dead in a gas attack. A second, written in English, said the same thing. Pira explained them by saying he was gassed in action and was missing for several days, during which the certificates were made out. - - ♦ ♦ ■ —.- ■ — Unique Tangle Can Puzzle Sociologists Provo, Utah. — (UP) — Here's a j problem for sociologists with a twist. Dela Irene Peterson. married Truman G. Atwood, whose sister, Mrs. Mary A. Stringer, married Francis T. Peterson, father of Miss Peterson. The problem is, what relation is Peterson to himself? New Swim Suit Betty Furness, screen actress, is all excited over this new bathing suit which has a minute skirl tied in place with a belt of many colors, When the skirt is removed, these It n one-piece costume far distance swimming. The knitted cap is an additional nttraction ol her oven Wrecked by California Landslide - —1 Following the collapse of a 200-foot cliff at San Clemente, Cal., the beautiful $50,000 mansion of Mavor Thomas Murohine is reduced to the mass of i cracked masonry and twisted wreckage shown here. The landslide also blocked the main line of the Fanta i h e railroad. Strangest Bird Nest Is Roofed Eugene. Ore. —\UP)— Thatched like an Ir.sh cot Use. crc ol the world s strangest birds' nests has been found here, built by the wa ter ouzel. The parent birds were noticed by elate game department work ers to fly directly into waterfalls. Investigation showed they had built a waterproof nest ol moss and leaves rn a ledge of the dam, , beldnd the cascading water. The ; nest has a "root" on it to prelect the eggs and young birds. The water ouzel, or dipporfl, has the strange habit of walking on the bottom of a river, searching lor food. Fishermen have report ed seeing them stalking gravely along on the floor of an eddy lli feet down from the surface. Like a bnrny.rd pullet, they scratch the gravel bottom, looking lor aquatic insects and marine life. The birds are about the size ol a sparrow and remain active throughout the hardest winter, seeming impervious to cold that , makes other bird life bunch up under caves in misery. —■ ' - — Robbers Shunned Police Chief’s Letter Tyler, Tex. — ?UP> — Mall rob bers shunned a letter addressed to the chief of police of Tyler. The letter, apparently un touched, was delivered to Chief J. J. Ray here nine months after it had been mailed at Cisco, in West Texas, with the post office notation, "Delayed and damaged due tp mail robbery." HOME AID AND ITS LIMITS From the Kansas City Star. ---■ When a group from New York, including women and children, visited the White House a few days ago to make a plea for assistance against threatened foreclosures on their homes, the reply was that the administration was "moving heaven and earth to do something for you folks.* The administration’s program for this form of relief is em bodied in the home loan mortgage bill, which has passed the house and now is awaiting action in the senate. It is a companion measx^e to the farm mortgage provisions in cluded in the farm price and inflation measure, already enacted. While the contemplated aid to the home owner is genuine and doubtless will be far-reaching in its benefits, it is quite possible that there will arise hopes entirely be yond fulfillment with respect to this government under taking. There is need of warning on this point, lest there be a repetition of public expectations at the time the home loan banks were being organized and made ready for busi ness. With the help of state enactments enabling building and loan associations to make use of the banks, the home loan system gradually is being put into operation. The measure now pending is designed to tie in with this system and to extend its usefulness. But there is no intention of government refinancing for all the $20,000,000,000 of home mortgages outstanding, or even for scaling down obligations of those persons who are aided. That is made clear in the statement of C. B. Merriam of Topeka, member of the home loan board. The aim primarily and perhaps finally will be liquidation of frozen mortgages, both for the benefit of the home owner and the mortgage holder. The process will be an exchange of government 4 per cent bonds, with interest guaranteed, for mortgages on homes up to 80 per cent of appraised value. So there are several points to be kept in mind. Unless the pending bill is radically changed—and being an ad ministration measure it is likely to stand virtually as it is —the aid will be limited to distress cases, to those who no longer can make mortgage payments. No property of more than $15,000 appraised value will get the assistance, and the limit on any mortgage obligation assumed will be $10, 000. But it will be necessary to remember that values have depreciated greatly since the vast bulk of affected mort gages were made, and that appraisals will be on present, not past, values. Finally, the administration of such a biH necessarily will be slow. These observations are not intended to detract from the value of the proposed home loan assistance, or to minimize the imperative need of it. But it will be to the Interest of all concerned if the situation is understood from the outset. -_____-■« What Missouri River Project Means From a Missouri Kiver Development Association Bulletin. V The administration and Congress are proposing to spend $6,000,000,000 and put millions of men to work throughout America, by building great works of internal improvement. The United States has already built the Panama Canal giving great benefits of cheap transportation to the coasts, which in turn is stifling the mid-continent’s industry and agriculture. California and the southwest Is getting its Boulder dam for power and water. The south is getting its Muscle Shoals for power and transportation. The northwest hopes to get a vast power and irriga tion project on the Columbia. The east expects to get the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway with cheap power and transportation. The mid-continent has asked nothing and will get nothing unless it asks and acts today. Our part of the northwest has a project as susceptible of development, and as far reaching in its benefits as any named above. It is a combination of navigation, power and irrigation improvement of the Missouri river. The army engineers have surveyed the Missouri river for its improvement from St. Louis to Fort Benton. They have reported that below Yankton it must be improved generally by dikes and revetments; and above Yankton by a series of 22 dams, at intervals of from 30 to 50 miles.. This plan has now been adopted by the government. The lowest dam would be at Gavin’s Point, eight miles west of Yankton. The benefits to the northwest are tremendous, a few of which are: 1— The immediate spending of many millions of dol lars and employment of many thousands of men. 2— The 22 dams would create a water power in size comparable to Niagara—giving the northwest an ocean of cheap power. 3— The 22 dams would create a permanent lake in the Dakotas of volume possibly equal to Lake Ontario, with probability 'that it would favorably affect our rainfall. 4— The cheap power would make possible the develop ment of vast bodies of iron, manganese, chalk rock, mag nesium and aluminum ores now found in central South Dakota. 5— The flood stages of the Missouri would be con trolled. 6— Below the 22 dams are hundreds of thousands of acres of rich bottomlands readily irrigable. 7— Cheap transportation—possibly reducing more than half the cost of getting a bushel of grain to market—add ing millions of dollars annually to the income of north west citizens, and equalizing the advantage now possessed by the coasts through cheap transportation via the Pan ama canal. , This giant picture can be realized in our generation— in fact, during the next few years. But first it must be sold to the administration as de sirable. Our present job Is to organize and sell it. Depression Reduced Number of Dog Owners Providence, R. I. —«UP>— The repression has reduced by half Diary Says Shakespeare Died After Merry Meeting Washington — <UP» — William Shakespeare a.ed after a "merry I meeting at which "it seems he drank too hard" according to the manuscript dairy or Dr, John , Ward who lived at Stratford* | on-Avon a few years after the . death of the Elizabethan dram atist. Ward's dairy Is In Fo’.ger Me morial Library here. It reads in cart: "I have heard Uiat Mr. Shake- i I the number of dog owners iw Providence. Only 4.704 dogs were regained in the city for the past y«*» against 8 080 lor the year «* 1928-29. spear was a natural wit, wttim* any art at all; he frequented ten plays ail his younger tune. Nit * his elder days lived at StnOfNdL and supplied the stage for it Ndl an allowance so large, that bn spent at the rntc of £1,000 a year, os 1 have heurd. "Shake spear, Drayton and Dm Johnson, had a merry im it me and it seems drank too hard, tar Shakespeare died of a fever ittrrm contracted." *— — ■ ■1 Walla SO feet deep and right leet thick enclose tfw 50 «♦ ih* Dank of England