.. .—-— The Frontier D. H. Cronin, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Postoffice at O'Neill, Nebraska as Second Class Matter. ‘ ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertising on pages 4, 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 25c an inch (one column wide) per week; on page 1 the charge is 40 cents an inch per week. Want ads, 10c per line, first insertion, subsequent insertions, 5c per line. One Year, in Nebraska — $2.00 One Year, outside Nebraska $2.50 Every subscription is regarded as an open account. The names of subscribers will be instantly re moved from our mailing list at ex piration of time paid for, if pub lisher shall be notified; otherwise the subscription remains in force at thedesignated subscription price. Every subscriber must un derstand that these con ditions are made a part of the contract between pub lisher and subscriber. POLITICAL NEWS OF NEBRASKA By James R. Lowell The answer is yes and no to the moot question of whether Nebraska is in a better economic and social condition thin fall than last. While statistics show the farm income of the state is greater than for several years, due to higher produce prices, farm loans and AAA benefit pay ments, the fact remains that this income is by no means evenly dis tributed and the number of people in the state who must have assist ance this winter will reach an all time high, due largely to the drouth. The number of persons receiving aid thru federal and county funds this month is approximately 150, 000, or one out of every nine inhabi tants of the state. Social workers who are in close touch with the sit uation say that in the neighbor hood of one out of every six per sons will require relief before the winter is over. Drouth relief iB requiring nearly half the funds allotted to this state by the FERA. The federal allot ment to the State Emergency Re lief Administration for September totals $1,987,070, and approximate ly $500,000 of this will be spent for livestock feed for winter distri bution to farmers who without such | assistance would have to go on re lief. Previous to this month, the Rural Rehabilitation Division of the SERA had spent $700,000 to pile up a reserve supply of fodder. The question of financing relief is one of the really ’Sei^oua problems now facing Nebraska. The FERA has been furnishing far more than its share, and is pretty certain to drastically curtail its necessary program in the state unless the state legislature provides an equit able amount of relief money. Ne braska is one of five states that have failed so far to provide relief funds. The counties which have been helping the FERA to provide relief cannot be expected to dig down too far beneath the skin while the state does nothing. The majority of the counties are honestly attempting to do their share in helping the FERA to pro vide relief, according to State Tax Commissioner Smith, who also is chairman of the State Relief Com mittee. Out of thirty counties re porting to the tax commissioner up to this week, 20 have increased their levies, four retain the same levies as last year and six have re duced. Event; where reductions arc shown, however, the pbor relief levies have been increased and the reductions are due to cutting down on other items. On the brighter side of the Ne braska scene, statistics show that the average price of seven basic farm commodities plus the benefit payments derived from processing taxes has reached 95 per cent of pre-war parity. The total farm in come for this year, also including benefit payments, is forecast at about 19 per cent increase over that of last year which in turn was a substantial increase over that of 1932. Before the end of the year, approximately $40,000,000 willhave been disbursed by the federal gov ernment to Nebraska farmers. The greater part of this is their share of the processing taxes earned by contracting with the government to co-operate in production control programs. A smaller part comes from the special fund allotted to the purchase of drouth emaciated cattle. In the more favored sections of the country where crops came thru in a nearly normal fashion, the firmer* will have more money than they have had for a long time. Ne braska is among the least favored aections, but it still is receiving a sizeable income thanks to the gov ernment program. Despite the increased relief bur;j den that Nebraska must carry this j winter, the situation may be re-1 garded as hopeful. The SERA has girded itself for the task of taking the "dole" out of relief by provid ing employment for all needy per sons who are able to work. The relief program is looking ahead to the rehabilitation and future in dependence of its clients, and out of this program may be expected to materialize a more intelligent, humane, efficient and economical social welfare program than the state has known in the past. A crop of petition candidates, gathered for the most part from the ranks of candidates defeated in the primary election, is making its appearance as the general elect ion looms closer ahead. Incident ally, a question is involved as to the legal right of these defeated candidates to run. In addition to candidates who have actually announced their in tentions of running for various offices as petition “dark horses,” there are numerous rumors in the political wind as to who else may get in. Eugene O’Sullivan, Omaha, who ran third against R. L. Coch ran in the democratic gubernatorial primary contest, admits he is con sidering filing as an independent candidate to oppose Congressman E. R. Burke, also of Omaha, for United States Senator. O’Sullivan was the leader of a small group of democrats who passed up the recent democratic state convention at Omaha to visit Governor Bryan, defeated by Burke in the primary, at the capitol and convey their high esteem of and to the state’s chief executive. Pe titions nominating O'Sullivan are being circulated and he says he will run if he sees a possibility of win ning. The governor last week stated “that there really was no democrat ic convention held in Omuha,” and that “the democratic state conven tion should be reassembled to per mit the delegates to have a voice and a vote in deciding the policies of the party and in helping our great president with his recovery program.” The governor, O’Sulliv an, William Ritchie and several others, charge that there was too much “planned economy” in the democratic convention and that only the chosen few were allowed a say-so. The only “specific and positive plan” suggested at the Omaha con vention, according to Bryan, was “repeal of the state prohibition lnws so as to make it easier for everyone to secure a drink,." Thus does the famous Bryan-Mullen fued roll merrily along, and the republi cans aren’t shedding a tear. Another rumor which was subse quently spiked was that Henry C. Luckey, Lincoln, democratic nomi nee for congress in the First dis trict, would withdraw and turn his place over to the governor. The rumor had no sooner appeared, however, than Luckey filed an ac ceptance of his nomination with the secretary of state. Wilbur E. Sanford, Lincoln, who was a republican candidate for rail way commissioner four years ago in the primary, has filed his nomi nation as petition candidate for congress in the First district, to oppose Luckey and Marcus Poteet, duly nominated candidates. The law requires 200 names for a nomi nation of this kind in a district and 1,000 names for a candidate for state office. Petitions are being circulated to place the names of Gernie Thomas, defeated candidate for land com missioner in the primary, and Chas. H. Driscoll, defeated for secretary of state, on the general election ballot. The former now would run for railway commissioner, the latter for state auditor. A petition has been filed namidg Herold B. Applegate, Ogallala, as a candidate for congress in the Fifth district. An acceptance had not been filed early this week. To cap the climax a whole petition party may file for the No vember election. The Workers and rarmers United front, an organ ization headed by Charles Taylor, former senator from Montana, and now Nebraska manager for the group, is said to have ambitions towards being a third party in the coming election. Harry Lux, who has been a left-wing leader in the farm strike movement, and was jailed at Wilber some time ago for attempting to halt a farm mort gage foreclosure sale, is one of the head men of the organization. The question is in doubt whether a candidate defeated in the primary can run again in the general elect ion as a petition candidate. There are two sections of the statute, one forbidding a defeated primary can didate to run by petition for the same office in the general election, and another forbidding such a can didate from running for any office at the general election. Attorney General Paul Good say* it U a serious question and might be de cided either v.ay. GIST OF THE CAPITOL NEWS A petition is said to have been prepared requesting the original jurisdiction in a suit to test the validity of the repeal of the party circle on the general election bal lot, to be taken by the supreme court. It had not been filed early this week. The petition was cir culated by a republican, it is claimed, and he questions the leg ality of making the secretary of state the respondent in such a suit. One of the county clerks should be the respondent, he thinks. The republican central committee has picked as its main speakers this fall in the “most active and aggressive campaign Nebraska has ever seen,” the following: Robert Simmons, nominee for United States senator; Dwight Griswold, nominee for governor; J. H. Kemp, nominee for the senatorial short term; and R. O. Johnson, nominee for attorney general. Bids on eight additional highway projects, to cost about §250,000 have been called for September 27, bringing the total of offers asked on that date to more than a million dollars. The state is conducting experi ments in highway surfacing with asphaltic materials on a mile and a quarter stretch north of Lincoln on highway No. 77. The penetration method, wherein the*'old gravel base is first swept clean, then a “tack coat” of asphalt is put to soak into the rond bed, after which alternate coats of old gravel and asphalt fol low, is ‘being used on part of the experimental stretch. The surface will not stand hard use, but it costs half as much as bituminous mat. Another section of tne road wui be surfaced according to regular specifications for bituminous mat, but without a base other than the old roadway after the gravel is re moved. Still another stretch will have a tack-coat emulsion base with a bituminous mat composition above, while the last section will combine the asphalt penetration base with a standard surface. Other experimental surface was done on No. 77 in the same vicin ity last fall, and the results are ex pected to be of considerable benefit in future road work all over the state. Over 17,250 mortgage loans for more than $62,069,000 were made in Nebraska under the farm debt refinancing program of the farm credit administration from June 1, 1983, to July 81, 1934, it was re cently disclosed at the state house. The value of Nebraska’s wheat crop this year, including the carry over, is placed at $22,000,000, com pared with $18,739,000 last year, $7,157,000 in 1932, and $23,559,000 in 1931. The value of Nebraska corn sealed in farm warehouses was boosted $3,500,000 by recent gov ernment action wherein new and refunding loans of the Commodity Credit Corporation raise the value from 45 to 55 cents a bushel for loaning purposes. Under this action, persons holding the present loans must either repay them or obtain new loans within a reason able length of time. It is estimated that there are 35,000,000 bushels of corn under seal in this state at the present time. The government at first announ ced that the date for the extension of the present 45-cents-a-bushel loans would be changed from Jan uary 1 to October 15, but the latter date is expected to be extended in view of the fact that moving all corn under seal in so short a time might flood the market. BRIEFLY STATED — Judge Dickson and Reporter Mc Elhaney went up to Springview last Monday morning, where they are holding the regular term of the Keya Paha county district court. It was thought that the term would last a week or more, several crim inal cases being on the docket for trial. Bernard Walsh returned last Sunday from a two wedks vacation spent with the home folks at West Union, Iowa. He also visited rela tives in Minneapolis while away. His sister, Miss Leonore Walsh, re turned. with him and will visit here for a couple of weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hough and family and Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Ward and family, of Odebolt, Iowa, brother and cousin of Scott and William Hough, of this city, ar rived here Monday for a short visit i with their many relatives and friends in this city and vicinity. Bruce Vail, one of the capable and efficient employees of the Gamble store, left on his vacation the latter part of last week. A S VAK DIRI S. S. Van Dine has established a unique place for himself in con temporary fiction as a writer of murder mystery stories. In 1926 came the first—The Ben son Murder Case. This was fol lowed by The Canary Murder Case, The Greene Murder Case, The Bishop Murder Case, The Scarab Murder Case and then The Kennel Murder Case, acclaimed the great est and most baffling mystery story of the whole series. Through each of these stories moves Philo Vance, super-detective, who gathers the strands of evi dence together and out of the maze of bewildering clews produces a reasonable solution of the mystery. Read The Kennel Murder Case as it is published serially in this pa per and join in the manhunt for the shrewdest killer Philo Vance ever sought. See if you can work out the solution before the great detec tive points to the guilty person. Do Not Miss the Opening Chapters of This Thrilling Story on page 3, this issue young lady informed us that when Bruce returns he will have a charm ing life partner with him, as he is away on a wedding trip, instead of a vacation. Miss Marie Biglin, who has been visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and. Mrs. P. J. Biglin, and with other relatives here for the past two weeks, left Sunday for her home at Salt Lake City, Utah. Her sister, Miss Helen and William Wehl dr^ve her down to Grand Island where she took the train. Word was received here the first of the week that Dan P. McGinty, who formerly traveled in this terri tory and was well known in this city, died in New Mexico last week. Mr. McGinty made this territory for several years and married an O’Neill girl, Dorothy Frost, daugh ter of Dr. Margaret Frost, who later divorced him. A large number from this city attended the fair at Chambers last Thursday hrid Friday. On Friday the Center Union base ball team crossed bats with the Ballagh team at the fair and emerged victorious with a score of 2 to 0. John Dick was in the box for Center Union and held the Ballagh sluggers to two scratch hits and was master of the contest all the way through. A good-sized delegation went down to Chambers last Monday evening, headed by the band, boost ing for. the Free Day Celebration. The delege^ftn report that they received a very nice reception from the Chambers people and that the people of that section were very much interested in the celebration. They proved it by sending large numbers of their citizens here on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Loran Simonson ex pect to leave this evening for Chi cago, where they will take in the Exposition and will then visit rela tives at Kenosha and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and will also visit at their old home in Dane county, Wis. Loran says he has not been back to the old home since 1S94, although Mrs. Simnoson has made several trips back there. Both Mr. and Mrs. Simonson have many relatives and friends in their old home county and they look forward to having an enjoyable visit. They expect to be gone about a month. While the businesss men of this city claim that business was not as good last Tuesday as it was on Free Day of 1932 they are all well satisftedwith theamount of business they received. The celebration was not put on for the purpose of gett ing a lot of business on that par ticular day, but for the purpose of giving the people of our trade ter ritory an opportunity to come to this city and enjoy the various i amusements provided for their ben efit by the business men of the city, without ar,y cost to our guests. And the vast crowd that thronged our city cn that day were well con vinced that O’Neill had again made good. MONEY AVAILABLE FOR BUYING CATTLE Farmers who desire to purchase cattle for feeding, and who have plenty of surplus feed, can be finan ced through the Production Credit associations, E. R. Heaton, presi dent of the Production Credit Cor poration today advised James W. Rooney, secretary-treasurer of the O'Neill Production Credit Asso ciation. “We have already made many such loans,”,Mr. Heaton asserted, “and the production credit associ ations will pursue a liberal policy in the handling cf it.” Under this program, farmers will obtain the full value frodm their surplus feed stuffs. James W. Rooney, secretary treasurer of the O’Neill Production Credit Association will put farmers in this territory in touch with pro ducers of cattle and sheep who have them for sale. A FINANCIAL WIZARD. Chicago Tribuns: There can no longer be any doubt about it. Mr. Morgenthau is, unquestionably, the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Mr. Woodin. Under Mr. Morganthan’s guid ance this country i engaged in im porting silver ar.d paying for it by exporting gold. We are buying the silver for more than it is worth. Every time a ship heads east with a load of gold aboard we take a loss and every time a ship heads west with a load of silver we take an other one. The eminent Mr. Mon tagu Norman of the Bank of Eng land is lost in admiration of our cunning. Mr. Morgenthau is lost also, but it is just plain lost. The other day he explained that the profit from the gold devaluation constitu tes a treasury asset which some day will be used to decrease the national debt. * * * What Mr. Morgenthau with truly statesmanlike reticense did not say, though it