The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, January 30, 1936, Image 1
The Frontier VOL. LVI. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1936. No. 37 SUB-ZERO WEATHER | HAS HAD A GRIP ON COUNTY FOR 15 DAYS Low For Month is 22 Below; Rising Temperature and Snow Are On Weather Forecast. For the ninth consecutive night the thermometer in this city regis-, tered below zero, the reading this morning, according to Weather Ob server Bowen, leading 10 below zero. But one day during the nine, however, it failed to warm up dur ing the day forcing it above zero, the exception being last Saturday when the highest temperature of the day was 4 below zero. January, 1936, will go down in history as giving us more sub-zero weather than we have had in any month for many, many years. In cluding January 30 we have had 14 days when the thermometer regis tered below zero, the lowest being 22 below last Monday night. The first sub-zero night was January 7 when it registered 12 below. We were then given a breathing spell until January 16 when the present eold wave hit us and for fifteen days it has registered below zero every night but two, the exceptions being January 17 and 21. The following gives the tempera tures for the last fifteen days of the month: Jen. 16 13 —7 Jan. 17. 9 5 Jan. 18. 6 —12 Jan. 19 2 —10 Jan. 20 15 —14 Jan. 21 -. 38 1 Jan. 22 33 —18 Jan. 23 — 9 —17 Jan. 24 9 —7 Jan. 26 — . —4 —17 Jan. 26 .. 4 —19 Jan. 27 7 —22 Jan. 28 12 —2 Jan. 29 ..— 14 —16 Jan. 30_1- — —1° According to the weather report it will moderate some today and there will be more snow tonight and tomorrow. Civil Service a la Roosevelt From the United States Civil Service Commission comes a notice to this office that an open competi tive examination will be held for the purpose of providing post masters for twenty-nine Nebraska towns, including Battle Creek, Bloomfield, Greeley, Hay Springs, Naper, Randolph and Stuart in this section of the state. Applic ations for these positions must be received in Washington on or be fore February 7, 1936. The notice says: “At the request of the Postmaster General, the United States Civil Service Com mission announces an open compet itive examination to fill the posi tion of postmaster at each of the offices named in the list. It is ex pected that appointments will be made as a result of this examina tion unless it is found in the inter est of the service to fill any vac ancy by transfer or promotion This is not an examination under the Civil Service Act and rules, but is held under an Executive Order of July 12, 1933, providing for such procedure. The date for assembl ing of competitors will be stated on the admission cards sent applicants after the date for the close of re ceipt of applications, and will be about fifteen days from that date.” “In Nebraska examinations will be held only at the following places but a competitor for any office may be examined at any of the places named. O’Neill, Ord, Schuyler, Scottsbluff, Sidney, Te kamah, Wayne and West Point.” Will Give Prizes For Best 4-H Farm Records Encouragement of rural boys and girls belonging to 4-H clubs in keeping farm records is to be given in 1936 by the International Har vester company, Agricultural Ag ent F. M. Reece was informed this week. County, state and national awards will be made to the 4-H clubbers making the best showing in the farm record contest. To the county winner, where five or more records are completed, goes a $10 merchandise certificate. The Nebraska champion gets a merchandise certificate worth $100, the section winner a $225 certific ate and the national champion a well known make of truck or trac tor. Records must be started be tween January 1 and February 29. Interest in the national 4-H farm record contest in Nebraska has in creased rapidly since Ogden Riddle, Frontier county, won the national title in 1934. Farm record keeping is a pop ular 4-H project with many clubs organized over the state. The first year work consists of a model farm account record. Second year work deals with an actual record while during the third year the farm record work plus study on farm credit is given the 4-H clubbers. Any 4-H club member may take farm account work as additional club work or a 4-H account club may be organized. Anyone inter ested should get in touch with the agricultural agent as soon as pos sible since accounts should be start ed. before March 1. Over 250 Thousand Due Holt County Veterans On Service Certificates Congress passed the bonus bill over the veto of the President and it is now the law of the land. It will take $2,491,000,000 to pay the bill and it will be paid by the is suing of $50 bonds, which can be cashed. The bill provides full pay ment of the bonus nine years in ad vance of the 1945 maturity value of the twenty year adjusted World war service certificates. According to the list the follow ing amount will be paid to veterans in counties in this section -Of the state: Holt County, $261,205; Boyd county,$113,427; Rock county, $52, 256; Brown county, $91,324; Keya Paha county, $50,677; Knox county, $302,358; Antelopecounty,$240,589. Congressman Stefan Files For Re-election Karl Stefan, of Norfolk, now serving his first term a3 Congress man from the Third Nebraska dis trict, filed this week as a candidate for re-election to that office. From Washington, where he is attending the second session of the 74th Con gress, Congressman Stefan gave out the following statement: “In 1934, when I first became a candidate for office, I told my friends in northeast Nebraska that if elected I would give them vig orous and honest representation; that I would work and vote for those things which seemed of vital importance to our agricultural dis trict, without any regard to par tisan politics. “In asking for re-election, I can only say that I have done my best to carry out that promise. I have tried to keep the people of the dis trict informed about what was go ing on here in Washington and what I was trying to do. The press and radio have helped wond erfully in giving out this informa tion and I want to express now my deep gratitude for their many courtesies. “Right now I am terribly busy. We from the farm districts are trying to get the Frazier Bill for lower farm interest rates before the House. We are preparing for a battle with the powerful lobby which wants to take the three cent duty off df cocoanut oil and thus furnish worse competition for Am erican dairy farmers. Then there must be some program to take the place of the AAA and we are study ing that closely. “Next summer I hope to visit around the district, meet old friends and talk things over. In the mean time, let us hope for better crops, improved-conditions,and that every thing is going to be all right.” PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School 10:00—Mr. C. E. Yantzi superintendent. Morning Worship 11:00—“The Christian’s Delight.” Evening Service 7:30—“Freely.” In a day of confusion of tongues it is well that we hear the word of God. The choirs will lead the sing ing. H. D. Johnson, Pastor. METHODIST CHURCH NOTES Rev. A. J. May, Pastor Sunday School at 10 a. m. Morning Worship at 11 a. m. Special music by the choir. Serm on subject, “Walk to be Worthy." Epworth League at 6:30 p. m. Evening Worship at 7:30. Serm on subject, “A Talking Beast." Special music by the Junior choir. Think of a good reason why peo ple do not go to church on Sunday nights. Two good sayings: A man of snow is soon dissolved and so is a man of flesh. The reward of one duty is the power to do another. Dr. U. S. Conn, 80, for 25 years head of the Wayne Normal college, died last Tuesday night in his home in California, from a stroke of par alysis on Dec. 5. Many former students of Wayne college in this county will regret to learn of his death as he was dearly beloved by every student who ever attended Wayne college. L. L. Cambre, manager of the Hatchery Department of the Arm our Creameries, made a business trip to Sioux City last Monday, re turning home that evening. Will Get 10 Thousand From State School Fund The 93 counties in Nebraska share in the apportionment of $578,818 school funds. This is the largest amount apportioned to the several counties in several years. The funds are derived from interest on school bonds, school land leases, liquor licenses and other sources. Of the amount apportioned Holt county schools receive the sum of $10,700.84, which will be divided among the various schools of the county according to the number of pupils in the district. THE NEBRASKA SCENE by Janies R. Lowell Three questions in state politics have developed unusual interest in the past week or so—what sort of legislative body will be presented by the unicameral law-making as sembly; what chance has a third party movement to prosper in the Cornhusker state; and what will prohibition do in the coming elec tion? The latest figures show that ap proximately 100 men and women have filed for the 43 places in the one-house assembly. There are 133 members in the present senate and house, and more than half of them have filed for the unicameral posi tion. Senator Norris, father of the one-house plan, expressed the hope when he was stumping the state for his brain-child that the new legislature would attract experts who hitherto had refrained from entering the law-making business because of the low salaries attach ed thereto. The voters are discovering that the candidates for the unicameral are, for the most part, members of the two-house bodies, and. therefore they see a toppling of their fond hopes. A growing number are fearful that the next legislature will develop into a sort of “every man for himself and devil take the hindermost” affair. Signs to date point to a unicam eral legislature that will be no bet ter and no worse than the two house legislatures which have pre ceded it. There is a chance, how ever, that with the old controls of party loyality, fidelity to plaforms or susceptibility to leadership by the governor, thrown overboard, there will result a rather chaotic condition when the 1937 legislature convenes. During the past few days two of the principal democratic legislat ors of the 1935 sessions have cast their hats into the unicameral ring. Joh* Callan, of Odell, democratic floor leader in the senate, who has been mentioned prominently as a gubernatorial candidate, has de cided to run for the legislature, as has W. F. Haycock, Callaway, dem ocratic floor leader in the house. A number of prognosticators over the state have predicted that a third party would manifest itself in Nebraska, but to date nothing unusual in this score has arisen. True, a farmer-laborite party has been organized in South Dakota, and state democratic leaders are worried by the threat of a third party sponsored by the Townsend plan in Nebraska, but political soothsayers around the capitol say that the third party movements will not trouble Nebraska this year. Dr. Lane W. Lancaster, Univer sity of Nebraska political science professor, declares that a third party movement uniting the country’s farmers is a distance pos sibility in the 1940 election, bat hardly to be anticipated this year. “The republican party,” he as-, serts, “has long been a partnership between eastern industrialism and the western farmer. The business of keeping these two strange bed fellows between the same pair of sheets has continually taxed the statemanship of the republican high command, and on some oc casions proved beyond its re sourses.” He points to the progressive and farm-labor movements in Wiscon sin, Minnesota and South Dakota, the farm bloc of the Coolidge era, the chronic insurgency of Borah, i Norris and Nye, and recent flirta tions with the “Kansas Coolidge Landon,” as stresses on the party organization. The democratic party, which hai as its nucleous a combination of northern industrialism and south ern farmers, has not been without worry. Internal strife is indicated by the split between the gold dem ocrats and the Bryan wing in 1896, the clash of the Clark and Wilson forces at the Baltimore convention in 1912, and the present hostility of such democratic leaders as Cart er Glass, the late Huey Long, Gov ernor Talmadge, and the silver sen ator toward their party leader. Dr. Lancaster thinks that the po (Continued on page 8, column 3.) ONGRESS AS SEEN BY A NEBRASKAN By Karl Stefan The 1935 corn-hog checks will be paid somehow notwithstanding the decision of the supreme court on the AAA. This was indicated yes terday when the house committee on agriculture voted out a bill for $296,000,000 to take care of the 1935 payments. This will go to the appropriations committee. The bill does not suggest “how” this money is to be secured and the ap propriations committee and con gress will have to work that out. This indicates general feeling among congressmen that the gov ernment took on an obligation and must pay it. There are many married cuples in Washington today, each holding a good government job, and a ter rific fight is being waged in the House right now on a bill to allow married couples to hold govern ment jobs. With over 11,000,000 people out of jobs in the country, many Congressmen fell that one government job for the breadwin ner of a family should be enough, especially if he receives enough money to keep that family in com fort. However, the Washington City organization is making an un usually hard fight to save those jobs for these husbands and wives of one family. The lobby of these jobholders is so strong that predic tion is that their bill will carry in spite of the efforts of those who are trying to spread these jobs out to a greater number of bread winners. The sub-committee of the prairie farm group on investigation of im ports and reciprocal trade agree ments held a busy meeting and de cided to hear from experts within the next few days so they can re port to the main committee on how imports of foreign farm products are affecting the products of Am erican farmers. Many complaints have come in from farmers who say that lowering the duty on Can adian farm products is hurting the American farm business. The com mittee has been told of thousands of head of beef cattle coming into the United States from Canada be cause the duty has been lowered on Canadian beef cattle; dairy men are complaining because Canadian milk cows are coming in. The com mittee also wants to find out what affect on American graiu is the presence in this country of mil lions of bushels of foreign grain. This is called “show case” grain be cause it can come in from foreign countries and be held a year with out payment of duty. The com mittee also will-try to find out if so-called “feed wheat’’ from Can ada iB sometimes used, for making flour, etc. Practically every mem ber of the committee (and some are free traders) are agreed that it does not benefit American agricul ture to ship into this country for eign farm products if and when we have enough of our own farm products on hand. The Secretary of Commerce to day sends to the desk of every member of Congress the report of the census enumeration of agri culture for 1936. This shows that on January 1, 1935, Nebraska had a total of 133,618 farms as com pared with 121,417 in 1920 and 129,878 in 1910. The value of farm lands and buildings in Nebraska in 1935 is $1,562,812,974, as compared to $3,712,107,760 in 1920 and $1, 813,346,935 in 1910. This report shows that on January 1, 1935, there were 1,905,111 head of swine on Nebraska farms with a value of $11,049,644. In 1910, there were 3,435,724 head of swine on Nebras ka farms with a value of $29,649, 482. - Members of the House were told today that the President and his advisers may change their origina. plan for a farm program and that instead of an amendment to the soil erosion act, a new bill will be in'roduced in the Senate and a sim ilar one in the House. After dis cussing the information received from the White House conference today, it looks like the new pro gram embraces these items: 1. An expenditure amounting to about $5,000,000,000 to carry out new leg islation expanding the Soil Con servation Act to the extent neces sary to conduct a national farm program. 2. The sum of $237,000, 000 to fulfill the government’s mor al obligations to farmers who sign ed the 1935 contracts in good faith. 3. About $2,000,000,000 to compen sate for processing taxes impound ed in the lower courts. This new administration plan for quick leg islation on the new farm program was apparently changed at the last minute in order to meet objections to the manner in which the intro duction of the bill was planned. Members on both aides of the house are now waiting for these bills to come up. Naturally they will be given their regular hear ings in committees on both sides, with probably a majority and min ority report on both, and then they will come on the floors of both houses for the usual debate. Some members now say that with the Bonus out of the way, and the farm program fairly well lined up, there will be an effort made somewhere in the next month to work out a program for early ad journment of this session of Con gress. Many members on both sides are already accepting speak ing engagements from the cam paign leaders of both parties and at every opportunity they have they seem to inject considerable partisan political talk in their ap pearances on the floor. Much ob servation is made on both sides [that this is campaign year. Many temporary employees of the AAA have received letters say ing that their services would, nr longer be needed after February 1 and as a result many of them have gone to the offices of the Bureau Unions asking for help. Every one of these bureaus is now organized with a president, secretary and other officers whose duty it is to keep these employees on the job. These union officers say they are almost certain that they will find work for' these people who are threatened with unemployment. With over 110,000 people here draw ing money from the taxpayers, these unions have become very im portant among those who want to keep these government jobs. Certified Seed Lists At Ag. Agents Office Efforts to overcome severe losses dealt to crop improvement during the past two unfavorable crop years are to be doubled this year, the Nebraska Crop Growers’ as sociation announced this week. Agricultural Agent F. M. Reece received word of the plans from P. H. Stewart, extension agronomist at the Nebraska college of agricul ture and secretary of the crop growers. Certification of small grains and other crops will be car ried on in an effort to keep var ieties pure and hold gains already made by experimental means. "The drouth caused the shipment of more than 750,000 bushels of spring grain into Nebraska last year,” Stewart said. “Some of this was not pure and presented a ser ious problem to growers. In view of this situation, crop certification is more important than ever before if losses of the past 2 years are to be wiped off the books.” Simultaneously the certified seed list for 1936 planting of spring grains w.as released to the crop growers. Copies are in the hands of Agricultural Agent F. M. Reece. It lists all growers of certified seed. A total of 2,600 bushels of certi fied Trebi barley is held by grow ers. Glabron barley growers have 775 bushels of certified seed. Spar tan, a variety which has outyielded common 6-row barley 24 per cent in tests at the Nebraska station, i ; listed with 4,400. A liberal amount of Nebraska 21 oats is listed. Io gold oats are also included in the report. Only a small amount of certified atlas sorgo is included in the re port. A considerable amount of certified hybrid corn is available for spring planting. Copies of the certified seed list for 1936 planting can be had at the county agricul tural agent’s office. Owen McPharlin Is Married In Iowa Owen McPharlin, son of Mrs. J. H. McPharlin of this city, was mar ried to Miss Marjorie Wright, of Omaha, at Glenwood, Iowa, on Monday morning, Jan. 20, 1936. Another Omaha couple accompan ied them and were married at the same time and place. Mr. McPhar lin is a member of the State Barber board, having been re-appointed to a three year term a few months ago. O’Neill friends teniler congratu lations and best wishes to the new ly wed?. Bot Fly Control The next two to four weeks are the best time to treat horses for bot flies. Horses should be kept off feed 18 hours before the treat ment is Riven. Horses will not only fatten up but much of the trouble in the summer will be elim inated. Where entire communities will treat very little trouble is ex- j ^erienced with bot flies, more com monly known as nose flie3. Hospital Notes Max Wolfe went home last Sat urday feeling fine. Madelynti Haynes went home Saturday evening after having an attack of pneumonia. Donna Fae Myers had her tonsils and adenoids removed Monday aft ernoon and went home Tuesday morning. Mrs. Maurice Cavanaugh is still improving slowly. Darrel Johnson, the little boy that was scalded the 11th of Jan uary, went home Wednesday after-1 noon. Edward H. Whelan, A Former Attorney of Holt County Is Dead O’Neill relatives received a tele gram Sunday morning announcing the death in a hospital at San Diego, Calif., of Edward II. Whel an, of pneumonia. He was about G3 years of age. Funeral services were held Tuesday. Edward II. Whelan was a resid ent of this city for many years and held several positions of trust and honor during his residence here. He came here as a young man and for a few years was superintendent of the O’Neill public schools. Re tiring from teaching he went to law school and was admitted to the bar, coming back to O’Neill to start the practice of his profession. He served as county atornoy of this county and later was Mayor of this city. After the United States ent ered the war he enlisted and served during the war. His service was confined to the United States as he did not get to cross the water. At the conclusion of the war he came back to O’Neill and in 11)20 went to California and opened a law office at San Diego, where he was eminently successful in the practice of his profession. In later years three of his sons, who were also admitted to the bar, were as sociated with him in the practice. For several months Mr. Whelan had been in poor health, according to word brought here by O’Neill residents who had been on the eoast. Just before Christmas hr entered the hospital there for med ical treatment and was getting along nicely until a week before his death when he contracted pm monia, which was the cause of hi. death. He leaves his widow, a former O’Neill girl, five sons and one daughter to mourn the passin : I of a kind and indulgent husband j and father. Ed. Whelan had many friends in this city and county who will re j grot to learn of his death. Farmers Ask Large Number of Trees Interest in Nebraska's farmstead tree planting program continues to mount as applications pour into the office of Earl G. Maxwell, extension forester at the Nebraska college ol agriculture. Indications point to ward an all-time record in numbers of seedlings and transplants dis tributed with applications now on file for 447,000 in contrast to 240, 000 at the corresponding time one year ago. Holt county farmers are show ing renewed interest in the Clarke McNary tree planting program al so. They have now made applica tion for 13,600 trees. Scotts Bluff county took the lead in the state wide tree planting pro ject this week. Farmers there have made application for 19,400 seedlings thru their agricultural agent. Previously Adams county led the state but this week was forced to drop back to third place. Fillmore county is now in second place with orders in for 18,700 trees. Adams county applications ask for 17,900 thus far. It is advisable for anyone wish ing to secure Clarke NcNnry trees to make application as soon as pos sible in order to avoid disappoint ments. Application blanks may be secured at the office of the agricul tural agent, F. M. Reece, in O’Neill. RESETTLEMENT APPLICATION “The aplications for Resettle ment Loans and Assistance must be made at once,” says Ray L. Ver zal, resettlement supervisor, “if as sistance will be needed by any farmers for seed, feed, livestock or equipment.” The approval of these loans by the Lincoln office will take from three weeks to a mon.h so it is im perative that they be started at once. These applications must be made at the FERA office when the inspection will be made and re ferred to the county resettlement office. News, like everything else, has its ups and downs. There is a time after New Years when it is mighty scarce. Those knowing of news should never hesitate to call their local paper and give the details. ACADEMY PUPILS GIVE A FAREWELL TO FATHER LEAHY Program Given Tuesday Afternoon Uy The Pupils of St. Mary’s. Given Trophy and Purse. The pupils of St. Mary’s Acad emy gave a program Tuesday aft ernoon for Rev. B. J. Leahy who left the city Wednesday for his new pastorate in Omaha. The program was a splendid one especially pre pared for the occasion and partic ipated in by all the students of the higher grades. A basketball trophy was pre sented to Father Leahy by Francis Soukup on behalf of the pupils. A short address wus delivered by Monsignor McNamara, and J. D. Cronin presented Father Leahy with a purse on behalf of the mem bers of the congregation, to which Father Leahy feelingly responded, and he imparted his blessing on the students of the school and the members of the congregation. Rev. B. J. Leahy left Wednesday about noon for his future post of duty in Omaha. He carries with him the best wishes of a host of friends in this city for his future welfare and happiness. Former O’Neill Merchant Dies At His Lincoln Home Jacob Pfund, Sr., 86, died at bis home in Lincoln, Nebr., last Satur day morning, after a short illness. Mr. Pfund was for many years a resident of this city where he op erated a grocery store for a num ber of years. He built the brick block on west Douglas street now occupied by Peterson’s beer parlor and liquor store. After retiring" from the grocery business ho went into the southwestern part of the county where he too', a homestead and resided for several years. The following obituary is taken from the Sunday issue of the Lin coln State Journal: “Jacob Pfund, Sr,, 86, retired merchant, died at 12:02 a. m. Sat urday at his home, 91!’ O. P.om in Switzerland, be came to Amer ica at. the age of 9, living in Oh it; and in Wisconsin for several years, and in Omaha a short time. lie came to Lincoln fifty-five years age, then spent several years iri Colo rado, and homeateadc 1 in licit county, farming and operating a general store at O’Neill for 25 •years. He returned to Lincoln eight years ago. He and Mrr. Pfund celebrating their golden wedding anniversary last March 19. He was a member of the Nvangel ical Lutheran church in Wisconsin. “Besides his wife he leaves four daughters, Lurie Pfund, Gladys Wrede and May Fauth of Lincoln, and Grace Dawson, of Wayne; three sons, Jacob, William and Mil ton, all of Norfolk; sinter, Mrs. Kate Gerber, and brother, Fred Pfund, both of Monroe, Wis., and sixteen grandchildren. The body is at Umberger’s, where funeral services will he held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Presidential Campaign Is On In Full Swing The 1936 presidential campaign is on in earnest. The president started it in his speech to congress on the state of the union. He was followed by A1 Smith in an address to the Liberty League in Washing ton last week when he severely criticized the administration for failure to carry out the democratic platform of 1932. Senator Robin son of Arkansas tried to answer Smith last Tuesday night but failed dismally as far as many of the main points of Smith’s speech were concered. On Wednesday a mass conven tion of southern democrats was held in Macon, Ga., where dozens of democrats severely criticized the administration for its policies and its communistic attitude. They en dorsed Governor Talmage, of Georgia, as a candidate for the democratic nomination for presid ent. Things will probably grow warmer until after the general election next November. To Make Corn Loans Com loans are still being made but anyone interested should make application as soon as possible. Ap plications and information may be obtained at the agricultural agent’s office. S. J. Weekes went down to Om aha Wednesday night to attend the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Occidental Building & Loan association of that city, Mr. Weekes being a member of the board of directors. Attorney George Famtm, of Ainsworth, was looking alter legal matters in the city last Tuesday.