MONDAY, MAY 13, 1929. PAGE FIVE 1 RDOCK On last Monday Otto Buck had biB tonsils, which have been giving: this gentleman some trouble, removed. Otto is getting along nicely. Diller Utt. of Havelock, accompan ied by his wife, were spending Sun day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Georpe Utt. where they were cele brating Mother's day. Mr9. A. J. Tool was a visitor in Sioux City with her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Meyer for the past week, going over Tues day and remaining the rest of the week. Last week at the M. W A. hall, there was given on Wednesday even ing a movie play with musical and vaudeville features, which were great ly appreciated and enjoyed by those who attended. In a ball game which was played in Murdock on last Wednesday be tween a team from the Greenwood High school and the team of the High school of Murdock. the result was a victory for the visitors, the score being Greenwood. 9, to Mur dock. 3. Dr. MacDiarmid and family, of Omaha, were visiting for the day on last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Neitzel. where- all enjoyed the day very nicely, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Neitzel has not been in the best of health for some time past. He is making good gains at this time, however. There is joy near Wabash at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Towle, as on last Tuesday, May 7th, there came to the home of this estimable couple a very fine young American who tip ped the scales at just nine pounds and the reports are that the mother and little one are doing nicely and that the joy of the father knows no bounds. It has been said that "Faith with out Works is Dead" and we believe it. but some of the reports coming Irom the vicinity of Murdock are to the effect that one certain farmer does not think so. for he was plant ing corn in the field without even discing the ground. It might be that this will serve all right, but we doubt it. ; Harvester Supplies. I am carrying a supply of sickles, sickle bars, sections and guards for all McCormick-Deering machines as well at other makes. Henry Crasten, Farmars Elevator Co., Murdock. m6-2tw. . Many Attend Funeral Many of the people of Murdock Averc at Elmwood on last Wednesday afternoon, when the funeral of the late Sirah A. McCrorey, mother of I. C. McCroray was held at the Christian church of that place. Mrs. McCrorey was seventy .years, jot age and had passed away on the -Monday before. She had - been preceded in death by the aged husband, who died last June. She was a life long member of the Christian church. She had many friends in and about Murdock. Among those who were in attendance at the funeral and to honor her mem ory were Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Gilles pie. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Ward. Henry A. Tool and wife and Mrs. Una Mc Hugh and her mother, Mrs. George Towle. Burial Vaults You care well for your loved ones while alive. One of our concrete vaults protects their remains when buried. An absolute guarantee. MILLER & GRUEER. tf-N Nehawka. Nebr. Dedication Held Sunday Under plans furnished by the Rev. Daniels, Matthew Thimsan worked out a most convenient tabernacle which was erected and is so it can be taken down and moved to another hcation whenever desired. The state papers have illustrated the building and given it a great deal of publicity, which is well deserved. There is a series of meetings in progress at Lewiston, in the southern portion of the state, where this building has been erected and on last Sunday it was dedicated. There was a large concourse of people at the meeting. Rev. Knosp delivered the evening address and the Murdock ladies quar- Dry Cleaning and Repairing Absolutely Best Service Leave Work at Barber Shop Prices Right Lugsct, the Cleaner Plattsmouth, Nebr. General Blacksmithing! N. L. GRUBB Weeping Water The one shop that is always there and ready to do your work. Only the test service and prices right. Plow Trork, wagon work, horseshoeing, etc. Every Courtesy Extended Phone 245 "seping Water - - Nebraska tette, composed of Meedames E. W. Thimgan, Frank Rosenow, Carl Schlaphoff and Otto Miller, sang dur ing the evening exercises. For Sale. Improved Shenandoah yellow Beed corn for sale, tipped and butted at $2.00 per bushel, and also Kiffir corn seed. Phone 404, Wm. Knaup, Murdock. Neb. a22-4tw. Mothers and Daughters Banquet On Tuesday evening. May 7th, the Daughters of the E. L. C. E. of the Callahan church gave a banquet in honor of their mothers. The color scheme which was car ried out was lavender and white. The tables were arranged in the form of a square In the center of which was a Maypole. Bowls of lavender and white lilacs were arranged upon the tables. The favors, programs and placards also carried out the color scheme. The banquet was served in two courses, the first comprising Chicken a la King, Mashed Potatoes, Cream ed Peas, Buns, Butter and Pineapple Salad. The second course consisted of Ice Cream, Angel Food Cake, Mints and Coffee. The following program was car ried out at the conclusion of the re past: Group singing; Toast to the; Moth ers, Delia Neben ; Toast to the Daugh ters, Mrs. M. Bornemeier; Piano solo, by Louise Meierjurgen; Read ing. Lydia Striech; Solo, "Wonder ful Mother of Mine," by Grace Back emeyer. A total of forty-two mothers and daughters were present. Four Square Club. The Four Square club met on May 6th, at the home of Mrs. Henry Tool for the purpose of finishing up the work of the year and electing officers for the coming year. Officers elected: Mrs. Lyda Lawton, president; Mrs. Helen McDonald, project leader; Mrs. Johnson, assistant project leader; Mrs. Esther Amgwert, secretary treasurer; Mrs. A. J. Tool, publicity manager. It war; decided to con tinue the meetings through the sum mer months. The June meeting will be a picnic day, plans will be made by the officers. Each member may bring some new thought or plan for the good of the club. Arraign Youth in Murder of Nels Erickson Fred Eussell Enters a Plea of Not Guilty at McCook; Claims to Have Good Alibi. McCook, May 9. Fred Russell, 18, of Cedar Rapids, la., pleaded not euiltv in countv court Thursday to a charge of slaying Nels Erick3on of Wauneta, Neb., on March 17. Judge Zwink granted the youth permission to obtain legal advice before waiving or asking for a preliminary hearing. Upon arriving here Thursday morn ing from Los Angeles In custody of Sheriff George McClain, Russell in formed authorities his real name is Paul Konecny. He said his mother, MrB. Mari Konecny, lives on Route 1, Cedar Rapids. Youth Calm. The youth was cool and unruffled when accused in county court of slay ing Erickson, who, police say, was ris road enmnansion. Russell claims to be able to prove by persons in Den ver that he was in that city during all of March. He never knew Erick son. he said. Sheriff McClain intends to take Russell to several of the surrounding towns where Erickson and his com panion stopped before the killing in an attempt to have him identified. Pictures of Russell have already been identified as the companion of the slain man, police declared. In Trouble Before. The youth told police that Russell is the name his older brother used in traveling around the country. When he left home, he said, he adopt ed the same, as his own was too awkward. Police said Russell admitted being in trouble before He was arrested in Springer. N. M., they said, on a charge of robbing a pool hall. He was released in Dec. 1928 New Mex that when arrested Russell was carry ico officers informed Sheriff McSlain ing a gun. Colored shirts, boots, hig hhats ana other cowboy regalia make up the greater share of the contents of Rus sell's suitcase. Omaha Bee-News. SHOOTING CASE REVIVED Washington The contention that no arresting officer has the right to kill a person for violating the pro hibition law except in self defense was presented to the house Thurs day by Representative Brand, demo crat. Georgia, a dry. The Georgian discussed the events surrounding the recent killing in Washington of the fleeing driver of an automobile equipped with a smakescreen. The revival of the question resulted in a renewed re quest from Representative LaGuar dia. republican. New York, a wet, that the word "applause" be ex punged from the report in the con gressional record of a speech telling of the killing. Objection to the requestw as made by Representative Carew, a demo crat. New York, who asked that the objection be made permanent and Speaker Longworth told LaGuardia that since it had been refused three time he would not recognize him to make it again. Mrs. Wiley Sigler and children, Waunita and Granville, were among thoe .going to Omaha this morning where they will visit over the week end at the hom nf Mrs. Sigler's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan. COL. JEWELL IS NEAR DEATH St. Paul Col. B. Wood JewelL eighty-one, grand sovereign adviser of the Woodmen of the World and civil war veteran, was near death at the St. Joseph's hospital here Friday night. His physician expressed doubt that that he would recover. Colonel Jewell, one of the founders of the order and a power in its circles for years, was taken to the hospital Mon day, suffering from an internal hem orrhage. He became ill while attend ing the district convention of the or ganization at Faribault, Minn., last week and came here to the home of a stepson, V. J. Gibbs. WThen his con dition became worse he was removed to the hospital. Colonel Jewell underwent a blood transfusion Friday morning, but the results were witheld by hospital au thorities. His home is in Omaha. Lord Brinkenhead Moves Approval of Balfour Note Britain Urged Not to Ask More From Debtors Than Would Pay American Debt London The Earl of Birkenhead, moving in the House of Lords for "approval of the principle of the famous Balfour note," declared that Great Britain had never had the credit she was entitled to for being prepared at the end of the World War "to forego every war debt owed her on the basis of complete can cellation." The House of Lords, where usually only a handful of nobles are in at tendance, was comparatively crowded when Lord Birkenhead moved ap proval of the British stand not to de mand more from her war debtors than would suffice to pay her own debt service to the United States. Lord Birkenhead said: "I make no attempt at criticism or complaint that the American Nation, whose in ternational charities, privately exer cised, have been upon a scale which the world previously has never known and whose humanity and sen timents no one has even been foolish enough to impeach, did not in this matter take the view which impaired the Balfour memorandum. "It is very important in speaking of matters so delicate that I should make it plain that no English public man of any consequence with whom I have been acquainted ever thought that there was the least justification for complaining that the American Nation did not take this view. Had they taken it, it would, in my judg ment, have most suitably concluded a great and perilous comradeship in arms. "We could not tell at the moment when the memorandum was issued what their views would be. May I make it plain that there is not, nor has not been, any complaint of the decision they took. They were mas ters of their financial policy pre cisely as we were. "Let it go round the world that we in Britain at the end cf the war were prepared to forgo every debt owed to us on the basis of complete can celation." Bottom Knock ed Out of Prices on Wheat Largest Level for Season in Past Fif teen Years Is Reached Thurs day at Chicago. Chicago "Wheat went begging on the North American continent Thurs day. The luster of the golden harvest of 1928 faded as bear traders trimmed millions of dollars from its value. Thirty cents a bushel had been slip ped from the peak price of last Feb ruary at the close of Thursday's mar ket session, during which the lowest level reached at this sesaon of the year for fifteen years was touched. Foreign buyers still held aloof, and holders of wheat, wondering whether there was not some new significance in the pit, probed for its bottom with extreme low offerings, 5 1-Sc under Wednesday's prices, without attract ing formidable buying. The incumberance of a tremendous 1928 crop surplus contending for the world market with Canadian and Ar gentine offerings, news from Liver pool of congested grain storage there and anticipation of a bearish govern ment forecast after the close were the principal elements in the situ ation Thursday. Altho Liverpool quo tation sended to to 1 -78 pence high er these factors combined to drive prices down to season's record depths on this continent. May wheat finish ed at $1.03 5-8 in Chicago and July at $1.07 7-8 to $1.08, off 3 l-4c to 4 l-2c from Wednesday. Wheat de clined 3 l-2c at Kansas City, 3 3-8c to 3 7-8c at Minneapolis, and 2 5-Sc to 2 3-4c at Winnipeg. Other grains were scaled down in sympathy with wheat, corn at Chicago dropping 2 3-8c to 4 c. Particular interest was attracted by the department of agriculture crop productions. The mammoth 1928 crop, held by the farmers and at the seaboard for higher prices and now glutting the market, faces competi tion within eight weeks from the 1929 crop, and the forecast made public this afternoon was for a win ter wheat crop of 595,335.000 bushels based on the May 1 condition of 86.3 per cent of normal. Last year's domestic crop was 578,964,400 bush els and the five-year average 549, 257,000 bus. State Journal. FOR SALE Hampshire fall boar. Brothers, Nehawka, Neb. Pollard ni2-4tw. Haensel Paints Somber Picture of Russians Z,uuu,uuu workmen xie oays, jjcuc- fit at the Expense of 12, 000,000 Peasants London Russia has become the . unskilled workers' elysium, accord- ling to Prof. Paul Haensel, formerly J , director of the Imperial State Bank of that country, who has for the last seven years been professor of public I finance at the University of Moscow. Lecturing in Oxford, Professor Haensel said that the abolition of wages and other distinctions between skilled and unskilled labor in Russia has so reduced the numbers of skill ed workers that it has been found necessary to revert to piece-work f wages in the factories. "Of course," said Professor Haensel, "that is j against socialistic principles, but what were they to do? Otherwise I they would continue to get bad re- j suits." j It is not only the manual workers who are affected by the low scale of remuneration. "The average pay of a Russian official," said the professor, "is now 6 10s. monthly. Even in I Moscow the salary of a government official averages only 15 a month. A university professor gets 5, 10 or 14 a month. My salary is only 5 a month, so you see there is a great deal of saving on me. A teacher gets a salary of 3, 4, or 5 a month. "The amount invested by the gov ernment in state enterprises is about 220,000,000. Is it a success? We do not know because we have not the criterion that you have in west ern countries. That crierion is profit. The Russian State enterprises bring in money, but is it profit or is it a monopolistic tax?" Although the Russian peasant was . now free to sell his produce to whom ; he would, no one came forward to j buy from him. That was because the i railways had orders not to accept j private grain for transport. The only ! thing left to do was to buy a large j coffee mill and grind one's own. As the result of these restrictions the government stepped in and bought the peasant's grain at 30 or 40 per cent less than the prices for grain abroad. The peasant grumbled, but he was careful nobody heard him, because in Soviet Russia grumbling j was prohibited. , The workmen today were prosper- J pus. They received good wages and free tickets for all the best seats at j the theaters. "But," added the j speaker, "there are only 2,00,000, workmen in Russia, and their pros-1 perity is gained at the expense of 120.000,000 peasants. The result is that there is an influx into the towns, and there is such a shortage of j houses as has never been seen be-1 fore. Five hundred people arrive in j Moscow every day looking for work, . and there are about 2,500.000 people unemployed in Russia. So great is the j shortage of accommodation that no- body is allowed to occupy more than j 90 square feet for himself." GEORGE APPEALS TO F0MEN London David Lloyd George, lib eral party leader, made his great election arpeal to the new women voters Thursday night with an ad dress to 10.000 in Albert hall and probably 30,000 reached by radio broadcast to other towns. Nancy Samuel, twenty-two-year-old daugh ter cf Sir Herbert Samuel, presided, and young women predominated thru out the great hall. The famous Welch orator began: "Madame Chairman, ladies and the few gentlemen who have been permitted to come into the immense gathering." and then launched into the subject of disarm ament, which he had chosen for his appeal to the women. He expressed the belief that the story of the na tions would have been different from 1914 on if Germany and the other belligerents had given the franchise to women. "The cause of peace is one for women." he explained. "You can not trust men where fighting is con cerned." MAY SELECT WICKERSHAM Washington George W. Wicker sham of New York, attorney general in the Taft administration, is re garded as the most likely choice of President Hoover a3 chairman of hte proposed national law enforcement commission. Having abandoned hope of obtain- j ing the services of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the supreme court, as head of the commission, the J president was said in high official circles Thursday to have turned to Mr. Wickersham as his next choice. It was stated in official quarters that the chief executive has not de termined who would be chairman of the commission, but that he had about decided upon several other members. Newton D. Baker, of Cleve land, secretary of war under Presi- , dent Wilson, was reported to be among these. WOMEN'S CLUBS URGE SLASH IN INCOME TAX May 9. Unani- Santa Cruz, Cal., mous approval of the r-. income tax on earned salaries was voiced here Thursday by the annual' convention of the California Feder- . ation of Women's Clubs. The reso- lution calls for a reduction of the , tax by the increase of exemption from 25 to 50 per cent. MAY NAME BOULDER DAM AFTER HOOVER Washington. May 9. The colossal engineer project of the lower Colo rado river, long identified as Boulder dam, may be officially designated as "Hoover's dam." Advanced Engineering Car illustrated is Model 612, six cylin der, five passenger, two door Sedan $ 895: at factory, special quipment extra. AAAAAM Road Bonds Carried in Fre mont County Means Paving. Sidney to Shenandoah, Grading to Nebraska City; Foes Snowed Under. Des Moines. Ia., May 9. Fremont county's 415 thousand dollar road improvement bond issue went, over with a whoop here today, 1,497 to 273. It is presumed the issue will be authorized promptly and the con tracts let soon on the plan to pave highway No. 3 from Sidney to Shen andoah and to grade No. 3 from Sidney to Nebraska City. Neb. The only thing which may hamper the latter project is formal establishment of the disputed route by the state highway commission. -. In Dallas county, the vote was nearly two to one in favor of the bonds. Five counties had voted favorably rn rnart hrmrl Issues totaling X2.S20.- 000 before the elections today in j Dallas and Fremont counties. j Approval in these two ocunties ! brings the total approved this spring ! by seven counties to $5,745,000. ! j Ten other counties have set dates , lor road bond elections during May. 'All but 1 of Iowa's counties have ap ' proved bond issues in the last two years or are considering such issues at the present time. The Dallas county issue is for paving of U. S. No. 32 from Polk county to Guthrie county lines, and of Iowa No. 7 from the Polk county ' line to the junction of No. 17. , BARTON REVEALS PAPT55 f)W TTWrOTTI Springfield, 111., May 9. Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presi dency, an unknown. Dr. William E. Barton said Thursday in addressing the Illinois State Historical society, in the Centennial building erected on the site or the house on whicc Lincoln married juary load- As the word flashed over the wires from the Wigwam in Chicago that an Illinois lawyer named Lincoln had been named the Republican party I candidate. Dr. Barton related, bio- sraphers and editorial writers turned , to the editorial page of an obscure Pennsylvania country newspaper for IUC11 UU1J utuki uiiunai Ul V. VJ. Lincoln. MARK-LI PKlbLUiiHl DEFENDS STOCK LOANS Chicago, May 9. E. H. H. Sim mons, president of the New York Stock exchange, Thursday defended stock market loans as necessary and vital to American prosperity and pro gress. Addressing members of the Chicago Stock exchange at their an- t nual dinner. Mr. Simmons declared that "any arbitrary curtailment of day revised ritualistic work, as adopt funds for stock market loans inevi- ed last summer iu Denver, will be tably acts as a curb upon progress and "prosperity. in the New 612 You will find the same principles of modern design and advanced engineer ing in the new Model 612 that distin guish the larger Graham-Paige sixes and eights. We invite you to examine the 612 for surplus value, and to make your own comparisons. Morse Motor Company 608 Pearl Street Plattsmouth, Nebraska -PA SENATOR ASKS TO RESIGN Jeffedson - City Tbe -democwit majority in the Missouri state senate Thursday night was seeking a method sternly to reprimand Senator Carter M. Buford, democrat, Elling- . ton, for his part in a row that broke 1 up a senate session Wednesday after- ! noon. Climaxing a series of causes was an ultimatum to Senator Buford to resign, with an accompanying threat of impeachment, but the situ ation had toned down tonight. The row occurred when Harold Ma son, a senate clerk, rose in the gal lery while Senator Buford was mak ing a speech and shouted to "take the drinking senator from Reynolds out of here" Buford, demanding that the. clerk be brought down to the senate floor to "settle the argument" launched into a violent tirade of epi thets. Later he apologized to women in the galleries and to the senate. Eastern Star State Meeting i i " -New Ritualistic Work to Re Es- emplied at Omaha by Order of Eastern Star. Omaha, May 10. The fifty-fourth annual session of the Nebraska grand chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will be held in Omaha on Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. More than 1,200 dele gates, most of them past officers of the Nebraska chapters, are expected to attend, according to Miss Hose M. Owens, grand secretary. Governor John Hammill of Iowa, will be the most distinguished dele gate. Governor Hammill is a right ; worthy associate grand patron of the general grand chapter of the world. Three other members of the general ! grand chapter will participate, in- eluding Dr. George S. Dunlap of Lin coln, trustee of the right worthy grand board of the past patron of Nebraska, and Mrs. Gertrude Ben jamin of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Car rie F. McLaughlin, officers of the general grand chapter ! There will also be grand officers from Wvomintr. Colorado. Iowa and Missouri , Among the most interesting events nf the nrotrram. armrrtin to Miss Owens, will be the presentation to the convention of Mrs. Mary Rymal of Lincoln, senior member of the O. E. S. of Nebraska. Mrs. Rymal ha3 held continuous membership in Electa chapter No. 9 at Lincoln since its organization in 1874. On Monday evening, before the convention opens, there is to be a membership banquet ana reception at the Scottish Rite cathedral. Tues day afternoon, through the courtesy of the Omaha Past Matrons and Past Patronss' club, who furnish the auto mobiles, the delegates will go to Fre mont to visit the Masonic and East ern Star home for children. Grand officers will make their re- ports Tuesday evening, On Wednes- exemplified for the first time in Ne- ;braska. Lincoln Star. B i r i 1..' 'U '.. ; Legacy L,eu to Poor Won Had Been Given Only Small Legacy in Distribution cf aFther's Estate. Central City, .Neb.. May 9. Be queathed only a small portion of the 140 thousand dollar estate left by her father, J. B. Phelps, when he died last, January, Mrs. J. B. DilhoZft this w.eek. succeeded in breaking his will and gaining possession of more than 100 thousand dollars which otherwise would have gone to the poor, j County Judge Riggs ruled that : Phelps, who died in January at the age of 83, was incompetent when he made his will. Twenty-six neigh bors, many of them old friends of the wealthy farmer, testified during the hearing that he had carried uncashed checks, bank certificates and other negotiable documents on his person for periods of 10 years or more. i Left Only 80 Acres. i Phelps left his daughter an f 0 acre farm adjoining the city. To his six children he gave one thousand dollars each. A niece. Mrs. Mary Valentine Howard, of York was left $7,500. The rest was placed in the hands of J. E. Dorshimer, Phelps' at torney, to distribute among the poor at his discretion. The hearing began as a court fight 1U1B. i 1 U ' l I H UT 1 VI1U1 llf, LUC " U J . Before it was finished, however, Mrs. Howard consented to a settlement un der the terms of which she is to re ceive the sum designated in the will. Seldom Used Banks. 1 "Phelps seldom, if ever, placed his money in banks," said Dorshimer. "In that way he evaded taxes. He made his fortune by strict economy It was a common sawing mat Old I'neips never bought a new implement for his farms. "But his kindness toward the poor was not a sudden fancy. In his life time he frequently lent large sums of money to charitable institutions, real- izing his chances of collecting were slim. Even when they did pay he re turned the interest." World-Herald. INSPECTS WORK OF IOWA 4-H CLUBS Dcr.ison. Ia., May 9. Carl A. Old- sen of Ames, representing the Iowa Beef Producers' association, has been making a tour of the county with the 'farm bureau agent to inspect th .baby beef feeding work done by the 4-H boys and girls. He finds the young folks are on the job and the calves are looking well. HELIUM GAS DEPOSIT LOCATED BY COMPANY Louisville, Ky., May 9. An nouncement he had discovered a de posit of natural gas containing 3.C per cent helium, was made here Thursday by Lieut. R. R. Bottom, di- rector of research for the Helium Co., probably in Kansas.