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THURSDAY, DEO 5, 1929.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
FAGE FIV1.
Put Missouri
First in U. S.
River Budget
$10,000,000 to Be Spent Next Year
Improving Big Muddy, Says Re
port of Gen. Bream
The largest single item in the
first rivers and harbors budget under
tlie Hoover administration is for the
Missouri river. This budget, fixed
r.t $."5,000,000. an increase of $5,
OoO.ui'O over the last budget, was
.submitted to congress Monday by the
chief of army engineers. It i.- for the
fiscal year starting July 1, 1930.
The Missouri river, under the
budget, gets $10,050,000.
$3,000,000 North of K. C.
This is divided into $7,000,000
for the river from Kansas City to
the mouth. $3,000,000 between
Kansas City and Sioux City and 150.
(nD from Sioux City to Fort Benton.
Mont.
The first big "improvement bud
get" for the Missouri above Kansas
City is set at 52.SSG.0O0. with $114.
000 for maintenance. The budget be
low Kansas City is divided into $6,
020,000 for improvement and $3S0
000 for maintenance.
Less For Other Rivers
For the Mississippi river proper
f4.7C0.00n is asked and for the Ohio
$2,036,700. The Illinois river al
lotment is ?S55.000, the Allegheny
rivfr 5S03.000. and the Monogahela
$000,000.
New York harbor and adjacent
bays and river channels get $4,
420.000. and Philadelphia and the
Delaware $4,250,000.
P.ecause of unexpended balances
appropriated by congress thre was
available on July 1 last for the cur
rent fiscal year $76,509,037. of
which $27,349,477 was on the Miss
issippi system.
The sum spent in
$1,000,000 BOND ISSUE PLANNED
Lincoln, Dec. 3. The Interstate
Transit lines applied Tuesday to the
state railway commission for per
mission to issue an aditional $1,
000.000 worth of stock to finance
contemplated improvements and ex
tensions of its motor bus service in
Nebraska. The company is a subsi
diary of the Union Pacific railroad
and that company will subscribe for
all of the new stock.
The application shows that the
company now has autstanding more
than 69,000 shares of stock valued
at $10 a share. The Union Pacific
owns 47,505 shares and the Chi
cago & North Western Railroad Co
owns 22,41 1 shares. The company
has heretofore been capitalized at
$1,000,000. Its capital is to be in
creased to $3,000,000, according to
the application.
Sears May Not
Head the Claims
Committee
Clash with Underhill Last Spring
Possible Factor in Today's
Decision.
which t nd-d last June 30 was $47,
771.132. Brcwn Explains Plans
Maj. Gf-n. Lyle FSrown. chief of
rngin'-ers of the army, explained to
cor, press in his annual report Mon
day how it was contemplated to use
the ?1 0,050. 000 on the Missouri dur
inir the fiscal year beginning Julv 1,
1920.
(' neral Brown said the work for
a compleuly controlled and regu
latfd river below Kansas City was
about 55 p.r cert completed, but it
would not by any means be necessary
to complete all the work in order to
make navigation on a large scale
practicable. The $7,000,000 asked
will go a long way towards doing
this. General Brown reported.
Th existing project, for securing
a permanent navigable channel with
a minimum low water depfh of six
f-t and a minimum width of 20O i
frt. i estimated to cost $35,000,000
to $40,000,000 as revised in 192S.
The net total expenditure under the
exis'ing project amounts to $25,
162.039. $3,000,000 Is Asked
For the river between Kansns City
and Sioux City. Ia.. $3.0no.ooo is
ask' d. General Brown said the pres
ent year's operations amounting to
fl.63o.S92. by June 30, next, the
larrst portion being used in con
struction of dikes. Of the amount
ask-d for the coming fiscal year $2,
500.000 would be used in channel
rectification and bank protection
works; $75,000 in maintenance and
repair of snag boats, and ?53.000 for
superintendence and office.
The project on this stretch of the
river calls for a permanent navigable
channel of six feet deep, and to con
form to the character and methods
of improvement of the section of the
river between the upper end of Quin
daro bend and the mouth, namely, by
means of bank revetment, permeable
dikes to contract and rectify the
waterway, removal of snags and oc
casional dredging.
Washington, Dec. 2 Appointment
of Representative Willis G. Sears, ot
Omaha, to the chairmanship of the
house claims committee will be con
sidered by the committee on com
mittees in a meeting her tomorrow.
Sears has been occupying the of
fices of the chairman of that commit
tee for several months, and is in line
for that chairmanship post, but ex
pressions late today indicate grave
doubt the house leaders will confirm
him in that position. Reason for this
hesitancy is said to revolve about ac
tion last spring when Sears fell into
a dispuate with Representative Un-
the fiscal year j derhill (Mass.), over the committee
STATE BUYS 2 TONS OF CANDY
post.
Underhill vacated the claims po
sition to take the chairmanship of
the accounts committee, but refused
to resign from the former until Sears'
action in moving into the committee
rooms forced his hand. Underhill
stated at the time that Sears should
have ascertained whether the com
mittee on committees would confirm
him before changing his office. Sears
replied that it was customary for
the ranking member of a committee
to pursue such a course when the
chairman was advanced to another
committee.
The dispute led to a congestion of
legislation in the claims body dur
ing the last session of the Seventieth
congress which made night sessions
of the house necessary to clear up the
committee's docket.
Sears indicated today that he ex
pects to retain the committee chair
manship if he is confirmed tomorrow,
although last session he refused to
attending a meeting of the commit
tee. Representative Irwin (111.), pre
sided at that session last spring, and
is now actively engaged in a cam
paign for the committee post as rank
ing man next to Sears. Influential
Illinois members claimed today that
Irwin would get the post tomorrow,
and that Sears would not be confirm
ed. Sears is the Nebraska member of
the committee on committees, and
probably will attend the meeting to
morrow. His friends state he will get
the chiarmanship if he makes an ac
tive bid for it before the committee.
Negro at West
Point Says He is
Treated Fairly
Cadet Deplores Publicity "Singling
Me Out as an Object for Pity;"
Joins in Activities.
HUSBAND WINS DECISION
a.
Washington The husband who
gives his wife money to pay cash in
stead of having her buy on credit
won Monday in a decision by the Dis
trict of Columbia court of appeals.
- -j which excused Representative Hud-
dleston of Alabama, of liability for
a $245 debt for furs bought by his
wife. Bertha. The Alabaman had
Lincoln. Dec. 2. Approximately said he gave Mrs. Huddleston $7i in
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nuts are beinc nurchased by the penses and had forbidden her to
board of control this week for dis
tribution among inmates and em
ployes of the 17 state institutions at
Christmas time. This will give each
person an average of over two-thirds
cf a pound of candy and more than
a half-pound of nuts. However, the
quantities will vary considerably at
the different institutions.
A Santa Claus treat of oranges
will also be provided by the board
of control for the state's ward3.
These will probably be purchased
locally as needed at the various
places, under specific authority from
the board.
The regular quarterly letting of
contracts for foodstuffs at the in
stitutional establishments is under
way this week and will last for three
or four days. Other supplies are also
being bought, the list including:
Groceries, meats, flour and feed,
coffee and tea. tobacco, laundry sup
plies, janitor's supplies, dishes, paper
and shoes.
CHICAGO BANKER MISSING
St. Louis The Mississippi Valley
Trust company officials announced
Monday that W. J. Lavery. manager
of the Chicago investment branch of
the Mississippi Valley Merchants
State Trust company, has beer, miss
ing for more than a week and that
a check of his account in Chicago
disclosed a shortage of $47,245.
Lavery, for whom a search is be
ing made, had been speculating on
the stock market and the missing se
curities are said to have been lost by
him before his disappearance. Vir
tually all his own personal wealth
had ben wiped out.
Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and
all kinds of legal blanks for sale at
Journal office.
pledge his credit, nevertheless, pay
ing $8 down on a coat and fox scarf
costing $253.
Judgment in favor of the husband
was rendered in the municipal court,
and the fur mrechant sued out a writ
or error. Justice Charles H. Robb in
Monday's decision said it would tend
"to check extravagance (one of the
most pronounced modern evils) and
at the same time protect husbands
who, in good faith, have made such
provisions for their wives as their
means and station of life warranted,
from debts thoughtlessly and need
lessly contracted and often beyond
the capacity of the husband to pay."
WOMAN COUNTY TREASURER
Franklin, Neb. Miss Ida Liene
man, daughter of S. Lieneman of
Bloomington, was elected treasurer
of Franklin county by the board of
commissioners late Tuesday. She suc
ceeds George A. Carter who was sen
tenced to prison and fined $64,000
last week for embezzlement of county
funds. Miss Lieneman was chosen
from a group of nineteen applicants.
She will take office Thursday morn
ing. Miss Lieneman formerly attended
the University of Nebraska. For the
past several months she has been em
ployed as a stenographer for an at
torney at Alma.
Place your order for engraved
cards now while the lines are large
for the selections. The Bates Book
& Gift Shop has the cards of qual
ity and at a wide range of prices.
Mrs. Marvin Allen was among the
visitors in Omaha today where Bhe
was called to spend a few hours at
tending to some matters o business
and visiting with iriends.
West Point, N. Y., Dec. 2. Alonza
Parham, Negro cadet appointed to
the United States Military academy
from Chicago, in an interview today
said the treatment he has received
since he entered the academy July 1
has been absolutely fair and impar
tial. The permission granted the cadet
to talk for publication broke a policy
which had been in effect at the acad
emy for more than a century.
Parham objected to publicity re
cently given him and remarked that
it was "discouraging to see my posi
tion so badly misrepresented and to
be singled out as an object for pity."
Published reports that cadets
never talk to me or that my relations
with them are strained are absolute
ly false." Parham said.
"Since July 1, when I entered, my
treatment at the hands of officers
and cadets has been fair and never
under any circumstances has there
been any sign of discrimination or
prejudice. All the officers are giving
me a square deal.
Joins in Activities.
"I have participated in every ac
tivity with other fourth class men
from the minute of my arrival and
in addition to the military drills have
participated in intramural sports,
playing baseball, basketball, football
and several others. At the football
trips to Boston, New Haven and New
York City, I marched with my com
pany and sat in the stands exactly
as the other cadets."
Major General William R. Smith,
superintendent, also deplored the
publicity Parham has received and
stated that it was having a most
harmful effect.
"This young man is absolutely on
his own," the general said, "exactly
as every other cadet and to single
him out merely because of his color
s un-American."
Mathematics Standing Low.
"Parham's academic standing in
mathematics has been commented on
n the press. "While heis deficient
n that subject, at one time there
were 18 other cadets with lower
marks than his and at the present
time there are 10 below him. In
Parham's class at present a total oX
42 cadets are deficient in mathe
matics, while in the third class there
are 61 cadets below our required
standards."
"Is Parham isolated from the oth
er cadets in any way outside of
rooming alone?" General Smith was
asked.
"He is not!" was the emphatic
reply. j
"Have orders been issued requir-
ing cadets to refrain from talking!
to Parham or having social relations
with him?" the general was asked.
"No," General Smith replied.
"If I discover any officer or cadet
issuing such orders or joining a
movement or clique to do such a de
spicable thing I would immediately
bring him before a court-martial. In
fact I might almost consider that
hazing if cadets were involved, and
under the law in such cases congress
has authorized me to peremptorily
dismiss hazers."
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GIRL'S PARENTS TESTIFY
Rockford, 111. The aged parents
of the girl alleged to have been
wronged bv the former Rev. J. A.
Warren Friday took the witness stand
in behalf of 5 defendants being sued
for $50,000 for statements which the
exminister charges caused him to be
unfrocked and ousted from the Meth
odist Episcopal church at Durand,
111.
The couple were Newell E. Lamb,
janitor of the church, and his wife,
Mary. It was on the affidavit of
their daughter Hazel, now Mrs. Hazel
Lathery of Kansas City, that the
church board voted to have Rev. Mr.
Warren removed The girl declared
that Warren, for whom she worked
as a domestic in 1927, took indecent
liberties with her on several occa
sions. Newell Lamb, who is seventy-nine,
said that his daughter began work
fng for Warrne in the fall of 192 G.
He said that he had asked her point
blank, on Jan. 14. 1927, whether
certain "rumors" which he said he
had heard about her and her employ
er had foundation. Newell said that
Hazel Lamb, who was then eighteen,
confessed intimacy with Warren.
BURNS PROVE FATAL
TO NEBRASKA WOMAN
Sioux Citj-, la.. Nov. 29. Mrs. Ed
ward Rhode of Emerson, Neb., who
was burned in a fire in her home
Thursday evening, died Friday in a
local hospital. Mrs. Rhode was walk
ing into the cellar with a kerosene
lamp in her hand when the explosion
occurred. The basement had filled
with gas, which was believed to have
been thrown off by a lighting plant.
WOMAN MAY LOSE
HER MAN FRIDAY
Reno, Dec. 2. David Friday, for
mer president of Michigan agricul
tural college, statistical adviser to
the United Sta'tes treasurer in 1918
and noted economist and tax expert,
filed suit in the district court here
Monday against Genevieve Lockwood
Friday, charging desertion.
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Stop Public
Land Abuse,
U. S. Warns!.
Interior Secretary Wilbur Says Ne
braska. Other Wesjern States
Face Barrenness.
Washington, Dec. 1. The west
will become a vast expanse of man
made barrenness, a prey to floods,
erosion and decay, unless abuse of
public lands is ceased.
This disquieting assertion was
made by Secretary of the Interior
Ray Lyman Wilbur in his annual re
port to congress, made public Sun
day. He said:
"From Nebraska west, water
and water alone is the key to
our future. There must be great
western strategy for the pro
tection of our watersheds and
the plant life on them.
"Plants hold the snow and the
rain, prevent rapid run-off and
soil erosion, and build a bal
anced set of natural conditions
which can only be broken at the
peril of those bringing it about."
Domain. Abused.
"The public domain has been
abused, overgrazed and not re
spected in many sections of the
country. Unless we care for the
lands now in the possession of
the United States, in forests and
public domain, the west will re
peat the degradation of Korea
and parts of China with man
made barrenness, floods, erosion
and decay."
It is because of this situation that
President Hoover proposed that pub
lic lands be transferred to the var
ir"e states for administration, Dr.
Wilbur pointed out
The proposal is now being studied
by a commission headed by former
Secretary of the Interior James A.
Garfield. It has been opposed in some
quarters because only the surface,
and not the mineral rights would be
ceded. Taking cognizance of this op
position, Dr. Wilbur said:
Mineral Rights.
"With regard to mineral
rights, inasmuch as the great
bulk of revenues collected by the
United States reverts to the
states., either directly or indi
. rectly or through the reclama
tion fund, and inasmuch as fed
eral expenditures for tbe devel
opment of the mineral resources
have far exceeded the goverr
ment's portion of receipts, no
hardship will result to the states
for thecontinued administration
of these national asserts by the
federal government."
The secretary also sounded a warn
ng against petroleum waste, another
matter now under consideration by a
Hoover commission. He said:
"Petroleum is our fastest
dwindling irreplaceable asset. It
is acknowledged that there is a
considerable preventable waste
in the handling of our oil sup
plies. Withe regard to hydroelectric
power, the secretary said:
"The proper office of the fed
eral government ends with con
struction of dams and incidental
structures for federal purposes
only, leaving to municipal or pri
vate initiative to develop and
market the power under lease of
rights to the falling water."
It was this policy that was follow
ed in working out the many prob
lems in connection with the Boulder
dam, he added. Omaha Bee-News.
MONEY FOR ROAD BUILDING
Washington Secretary Hyde Sun
day ordered an apportionment
among the states of a fund of $73,
125,000 authorized by congress as
federal aid for construction of roads
in the fiscal year of 1931. Calling
attention to President Hoover's sug
gestions for acceleration of public
building programs to promte business
the secretary said state highway de
partments would be given authority
to make immediate preparations for
expenditure of the money. He added
there was still an unexpected balance
of $28,000,000 from funds previously-
apportioned, which added to the
new fund, made a total of $101,125,
000. All of the forty-eight states and
Hawaii share in the appropriation on
the basis of their respective areas,
populations and milages of post
roads. With an allotment of $4,545,
S30, Texas will receive the largest
amount under the secretary's appor
tionment. Next in order are New
Cork, with $3,605,965. and Penn
sylvania, with $3,314,707.
The funds allocated to other states
include: Colorado, $1,390,524; Iowa
$2,005,944; Kansas, $2,048,585; Ne
braska, $1,586,526; South Dakota,
$1,232,296.
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Bodies of 75
Soldiers Arrive
at New York
Military Honors Shown as the Dead
from Archangel Reach Home
To be Taken to Detroit
New York. Nov. 29. The last of
the returning American world war
dead 75 who died in Russia are
home today. They received the full
military honors of the nation as the
United States liner President Roose
velt arrived shortly before 3 o'clock
this morning.
Official honors started at Quaran
tine with the destroyer Kane, the
municipal tug Macom, and an air
plane escort assigned as a guard of
honor for the 10-mile trip up the
harbor to the liner's Hoboken pier.
Delegations aboard the two escort
ing ships represented the nation, the
cities of Detroit and New York, the
state of Michigan, which furnished
most of the men for the Russian cam
paign, and representatives of patriotic
orders.
Flags on public buildings in New
York were at half staff, while at the
Hoboken pier elaborate military cere
monies were arranged.
A special room was set apart for
the dead and soldiers of the Six
teenth infantry, assigned as a guard
of honor. The Rev. Wallace Hayes,
of Rutland, Vt., national chaplain of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, thru
whose efforts the bodies were brought
back to this country, was in charge
of a memorial service. Another brief
service will be held at the Pennsyl
vania railroad station here tomorrow
after which 56 of the bodies will be
started by special train for Detroit.
En route to Detroit honors will be
paid to the funeral train by various
cities. At North Philadelphia, the
first stop, a firing squad and a bugle
corps will greet the train; at Har
risburg, Palfi. a troop of national
guardsmen will stand at attention
while Governor John S. Fisher de
livers an address. At Pittsburgh as
the train passes there, tomorrow
night other honors will be paid by
world war veterans.
Arriving in Detroit Sunday after
noon, the train will be met by an
official delegation headed by Gover
nor Greene and troops from Fort
Wayne. After services at city hall
square the bodies will be placed in
vaults until nest Memorial day. when
they will be placed ia a special plot.
Of the other bodies, three will e
sent to Washington for burial in Ar
lington National cemetery; two to
Chicago; one to New Richmond, Wis.;
one will be buried here, and the re
maining 12 will go to various other
points. World-Herald.
FLEAGLES UNDER ARREST
Garden City, Kas. Jack Fleagie,
sr., and Walter Fleagle, father and
brother of Ralph Fleagle, condemned
leader of the Lamar, Colo., bank rob
bers and slayers, have been pic: 1
under arrest on charges of concealing
taxable funds. Fred Fleagle, another
brother, is sought. The funds were
said to have been deposited in banks
of Finney and nearby counties by the
Fleagles, using assumed names over a
period of years. The total is reported
to be nearly $100,000, of which
about $12,000 was said to be in Hol
combe and Garden City banks in this
county. About $2,000 in back taxes
is said to be due on the cash and se
curities. Wlater Fleagle was released on
$2,500 bond but his father has been
in jail since mid-November. Some of
the property 13 said to have been tax
able for five years. When Ralph
Fleagle and other members of the
family were arrested as suspects in
the Lamar robbery several r.iontli.s
ago and existence of deposits came to
light, officers expressed the belief
that the money represented part of
the loot from a series of bank rob
beries laid to the "Fleagle gang."
TEST FLIGHT OF AMPHIBIAN
Chicago The Century Aircraft
corporation announced Sunday that a
huge new amphibian, known as the
"Sea Devil," constructed for trans
Atlantic flights, will be given its trial
flight within the next fortnight.
Work on the plar.e has been done in
secrecy during the past nine months.
The "Sea Devil" was constructed
under the direction of John H.
Wendt, former German war pilot. It
is a huge metal airliner, with capac
ity of fourteen persons and a cruising
range of 4,200 miles. It is powered
with three Hispano-Suiza motors cf
325 horsepower each, and will have
an estimated speed of 110 to 120
miles per hour.
P. Copeland, vice president of the
Century Aircraft corporation and for
mer professor of gasoline engines at
the University of Alabama, said that
the "Sea Devil" is the forerunner of
a huge 125-passenger plane now be
ing designed.