THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1929.
FLATTSM0T7TH SEMI - WEEKLY . JOURNAL
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Labor Surplus
Increases in Last
30-Day Period
Building Recession Adds to Number
Seeking Work During the
Wintej Months.
Lincoln, Dec. 16. The Department
of Labor reports a more plentiful sup
ply of building tradesmen in Nebras
ka now than last month, due to ex
pected recessions in the construction
industry.
At the same time a surplus of fac
tory and clerical labor is noted. Meat
packing establishments have increas
ed their forces slightly, but the rail
road shops, on the other hand, have
cut theirs. Farms, highways and
municipal improvement jobs are still
utilizing a large number of unskilled
workers.
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conditions are said to be on an even
keel. Though building is not as ac
tive there as formerly, the surplus of
workers in this line Is no-longer than
usual. Some increases were noted in
meat packing, candy making confec
tionary and wholesale clothing esti
mates. "Satisfactory" also describes the
attitude towards the employment sit
uation in Lincoln, although labor
here is available in sufficient amount
to meet the demand in all lines.
Overtime still prevails in flour mills
and other industries report normal
activity. Agricultural calls are num
erous and outside work generally kept
the laborers moving. A seasonal
slackening", of building trades- de-v
mands has been "evident.
A good demand for farm help was
reported both at Grand Island and
Hastings. Railroad employment at
the former place showed further
' slight declines, and a slight surplus
' of building men was noted at Hast
ings. Omaha Bee-News.
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Depositors
Approve Ail Sales
of Land
Secretary Bliss Bequires Signatures
of Committee Representing
the Creditors
Secretary Bliss of the department
of trade and commerce, said Saturday
he is pleased with the record of the
real estate department of his office,
managed by James B. Lacey. The de
partment of trade and commerce is
now serving in place of the guaranty
fund commission as receiver for fail
ed banks. Mr. Bliss finds that the
real estate department is selling more
land in Nebraska than any other
agency. The lands sold were the
property of failed state banks.
"The real estate department Is
selling lands when other agencies
are unable to accomplish much."'
said Secretary Bliss. "It is not only
selling lands, but its sales are satis
factory. I would like to call atten
tion to the fact that its sales arc
in every instance approved by a com
mittee chosen by the creditors of the
failed bank. Surely these sales are
the best that can be made and are
satisfactory cr they would not be
approved by men representing credi
tors, depositors of the banks. The de
positors committees are doing good
work. There can be no charge, as
there has been in the past, that these
lands are given to the buyers at less
than they are worth on the market.-
The real estate department in
1929 sold 403 properties, of which.
242 were farms containing 70,001
acres, and 161 city properties. De
ducting mortgages of $1,173,050
assumed bj the purchasers, the sales
netted the guaranty fund $994,669
cash. The last legislature appropri
ate $150,000 for an investigation of
the manner in which failed state
banks were handled by the state
both before and after failure and
during any period they were operated
by the defunct guaranty fund com
mission. This work will be com
pleted sometime next year.
Since a real estate department was
established for the state banking de
partment in September, 1925, it has
sold 601 farms of 1S0.7S1 acres and
557 city properties for $7,159,971.
With prior mortgages of $3,741,42S
the net realization was $3,418,542.
ENFORCEMENT OF DRY LAW
Washington A study in means of
reorganizing the prohibition enforce
ment agencies by a joint congression
al committee was ordered Monday by
the committee was ordered Monday
by the committee in response to a re
quest made several days ago by Presi
dent Hoover. The resolution to that
end by Senator Jones, Washington
republican, was adopted by the sen
ate without a word of debate. The
house has to act on the measure be
for it can be effective.
The resolution authorizes the com
mittee to "conduct an investigation
and make a study of the reorgan
ization and concentration of respon
sibility in the administration of the
federal bureaus connected with pro
hibition enforcement, together with
the unification and strengthening of
our border patrols, both in connec
tion with prohibition and the illegal
entry o faliens to formulate recom
mendations and submit legislation to
carry out the foregoing for the con
sideration of congress."
Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and
all kinds pt legal blanks for sale at
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State's Corn,
Wheat to Net a
Quarter Billion
Wheat Harvest Brings a Return of
$53,200.000 Crop of Corn
Pays $163,990,700.
Nebraska's greatest natural re
source its soil will return thru
two basic crops,- corn and wheat, the
sum of $216,209,700, perhaps more,
when ledgers for 1929 are finally bal
anced and a new page is prepared
for 1930. A. E. Anderson, state fed
eral crop expert, told the Associated
press Saturday.
Calculations based upon actual fig
ures, definite crop yields and market
prices as of Nov. 15, provided Mr.
Anderson with the answer to Nebras
ka's agricultural efforts just ended.
The year's wheat crop of 56,000,
600 bushels netted its harvesters
$53,200,000, or nearly $1 per bushel
if sold on Nov. 15, when the market
was paying 95 cents. This figure, it
is clearly seen, may far exceed the
total estimated value for much of it
may be disposed of upon a higher
market after the advent of the new
year.
A year ago, when the wheat fields
of the state yielded 70,000,000 bush
els, the market of Nov. 15 was nine
ty-two cnts, but moved to a higher
range.
Corn Makes Record.
King corn in 1929 made rapid
strides to a rcord, the estimated yield
as of Nov. 1 placing the final figure
at 232,871.000 bushels, or 20,000.-
000 bushels in excess of the 1920
mark.
If disposed of Nov. 15 when the
market was paying seventy cents,
$163,990,700 was poured into the
state's agricultural coffers. In con
trast to the market figure on wheat
on this date, corn was purchased at
seventy cents, a two-cent per bushel
crop over a year ago.
"Tho corn is omewhat under the
market of last year, wheat, on the
other hand, is higher and the average
for 1929 is as good or better than a
year ago," Mr. Anderson states.
On the subject of reduced market
prices the statistician attributed the
slump to a somewhat glutted mar
ket. :
"Creamery butter "stocks, for in
stance," be related, "are greater by
far than a year ago and consequent
ly we have experienced a drop in but
terfat pricer from forty-four cents to
thirty-seven cents per pound. But
this will only be temporary."
Increased Crop . Acreage.
. lie believes the same situation ex
ists in the market reaction on live
stock, but is firmly convinced this
situation is also to be only; tempor
ary. '"While the tendency may be down
ward, it will come back up in just
as pronounced a manner," Mr. An
derson predicted.
With supply and demand the end
less chain as a factor in determin
ing values and market prices, the
statistician points to the fact that
Nebraska's crop acreage in 1929 was
2 per cent greater than in 192S and
the yield 4 per cent in excess of the
ten year average.
Tho somewhat premature for an
agricultural survey of 1930, Mr. An
derson is positive of one thing and
that is the condition at the very ad
vent of winter of the state's winter
wheat crop.
"It is excellent. Seldom, if ever,
has it been better than at the pres
ent time," he asserted, "and provid
ing everything is equal, the 1930 out
look Is 'rosy,' " he states.
V0LCAN0S SHOW VIOLENCE
Seattle Volcanoes reported spout
ing flame and lava several hundred
feet in the air and at frequent inter
vals along the southern coast of the
Alaska peninsula, showed signs of
growing violent as long ago as Octo
ber, Lieut. T. R. Lukens, of the Unit
ed States coast and geological sur
vey said here Sunday.
His statement led to the belief that
the seven volcanos which the crew
of the steamer Starr reported last
week as showing unusual activity
may have been spouting for some
time. They are located northwest of
Kodiak island in a region where they
are only a few Indian settlements.
Lieutenant Lukens, master of the
U. S. S. Surveyor, who returned re
cently after his twelfth annual cruise
of Alaskan waters, said Katmai and
Mageik, two of the seven volcanos
reported erupting( were spreading
dense clouds of sulphur steam before
his return. Katmai showered Kod
iak island and the mainland where
it is located with volcanic ash in
1912.
THIRTEEN DEAD W BATTLE
Mexico City Thirteen y)f-rsons
were killed and six wounded Sunday
in a battle between rival agrarian
bands near the town of Venta de
Carpio. only twenty miles from Mex
ico City. The fight was the result
of a long disagreement between the
neighboring villages of Santo Tonias
Chiconautla and Santa Maria Chi
conautla over, the boundary line of
communal lands. Residents met in
their villages Saturday night, but
could arrive at no satisfactory plan
to settle the problem. Armed agar
ian bands sallied forth from both
villages to fight it out.
FOR SALE
For Sale 100 ""bite Rock pullets.
$1.00 each. Mrs. .d Jochim, Louis
ville, Net' dl9-2tw
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AWARD OF AUDITION PRIZES
New York Miss Genevieve I.
Rowe. twenty-one, of Wooster, O.,
and Edward Kane, twenty-two, of
Atlanta, Ga., Sunday won the first
prizes in the third national radio
audition. Each prize consists of $5,
000, a gold decoration and two year's
conservatory tuition. Th e winners
were selected from among ten young
persons who sang in the finals of the
competition.
Second prizes of $300 and one
year's tuition each were awarded to
Miss Floy Hamlin, twenty-two, of
Los Angeles, and Calvin Hendricks,
twenty-five, also of Los Angeles. Miss
Josephine Antoine, twenty, of Boul
der, Colo., and John Jameson, twen
ty, of Denver, Colo., were awrded
third prizes, consisting of $2,000
cash and one year's tuition each.
Fourth prizes of $1,500 cash and
one year's tuition each went to Miss
Francis Tortbrich, twenty-three, of
New Orleans, La., and Charles E.
Carlile, twenty-five, of Central Falls,
R. I. Fifth prizes of $1,000 and one
year's tuition were awrded to Miss
Agnes L. Skillin, twenty-three, of
Springvale, Me., and Carlyle Bennett,
twenty-four, of Chicago.
CALLS GRUNDY PARTY HEAD
New York United Staies Senator
Joseph R. Grundy was acclaimed by
Governor Fisher Sunday as the leader
of the republican party in Pennsyl
vania. This declaration came from
the governor while Senator Grundy
was receiving congratulations on his
appointment and pledges of support
in the primary election next Moy
from a group of influential Penn
sylvania political leaders, represent
ing nearly every section of the com
monwealth. The governor predicted a harmon
ious primary with all elements uni
tedly supporting a ticket to be built
around the man so recently designat
ed by the chief executive to fill the
vacancy in the senate caused by the
rejection of William S. Vare.
The makeup of the ticket, accord
ing to the governor and others as
sembled in the Belmont hotel as an
aftermath to the annual dinner of
the Pennsylvania society held Satur
day night, will not be seriously dis
cussed until after the Christmas hol
idays. LINK FALL VICTIM
WITH KING SLAYING
Washington,. Dec 16. Detective
headquarters said late Monday that
an investigation had established that
Mrs. Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus, attrac
tive young divorcee, who was killed
in a fall here Oct. 20, had been a
witness in the "Dot" King murder
mystery in New York several years
ago.
PUBLIC AUCTION
We. the undersigned, will sell at
Tublic Auction at the L. E. Reinackle
farm, known as the Ben Beckman
farm, one mile east and one mile
north of Murray, six miles south of
Plattsmouth. on the paved highway,
r-ommencing at 10 o'clock a. m.,
sharp, on
Monday, Dec 23d
with lunch served on the grounds at
noon, the following property, to-wit:
Six Head of Horses
One brown mare, 10 years old, wt.
1C50: one bay horse, 12 years old,
wt. 1000: one team black c-eldings,
6 years old, wt. 2S50; one bay mare,
smooth mouth, wt. 1300; one bay
hcrse. smooth mouth, wt. 1200.
Ten Head Holstein Cattle
Seven head of Milk Cows, 3 fresh
by sale day, 1 fresh in January, 2
fresh in April, milking now; 1 fresh
last November, open; two heifers, 1
bred, 1 open. One heifer six weeks
old.
Twenty-Four Head Hogs'
Two tried Spotted Poland China
sows; ten neaa 1'oiana nina Dreu
srilts: two Spring gilts: four spring
shcats and six fall pigs..
Farm Machinery
One new Newton wagon; one good
Berkins wagon; Bettendorf all steel
truck wagon; one new wagon box;
one John Deere 4-wheel lister, in
good shape; one P & O wide tread
lister, with new float drop; one P &
O 2-row machine, new; one Rock Is
land 2-row machine; one P & O 1-row
cultivator, new; two Avery walking
cultivators; one John Deere disc;
one 14x16 disc; two 3-section har
rows; one Moline gang plow; one
Janesville sulky plow; one walking
plow; one 2-row stalk cutter; one
top buggy; one 6-inch feed grinder;
one good set 1-inch harness; two
sets y -inch harness; one set buggy
harness; eight good collars; one road
scraper; one large water tank; one
tank heater; one pump jack; one I.
H. C. 212-h. p. gas engine; one butch
ering kettle; one Melotte cream sep
arator; one blacksmith forge; one
post drill; one roll wire cribbing;
two Belle City 140-egg incubators;
one Queen 120-egg incubator; one
Buokeve brooder stove, 500 chick
size; about 10 chicken coops; four
dozen Buff Orpington pullets; one
dozen Buff Orpington roosters; one
new Riverside two-tone range; one
new Ches: 'ton circulating heating
stove and oilier articles too numerous
to mention.
Terms of Sale
All sums of $10.00 and under.
cash. On sums over that amount, six
months time will be given on bank
able notes bearing 8 per cent inter
est. No property to be removed un
til settled for.
L. E. Reinackle
IS Clair Ferris,
Owners.
REX YOUNG Auctioneer.
MURRAY. STATE BANK, Clerk.
Ocean Aviators
Safe and Sound
on Brazil Coast
Successful Crossing to South Amer
ica, But Compelled to Land in
Forest Plane Wrecked
Rio Janerio Two men, who had
flown from Seville, Spain, in thirty
six hours without a stop Tuesday
emerged from the tropical forest of
Brazil in reassure an anxious world
as to their safety.
Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, who
had hoped to reach Montevideo, cap
ital of his native land of Uruguay,
was the first to reach a village con
nected by telegraph with the out
side world. He gave assurance that
altho he and his companion, Lieut.
Leon Challe, French aviator, had
been stunned by the wreck of their
plane in a forced landing Monday
night neither was seriously injured.
He told how, after successfully
negotiating more than half of their
projected route, including the whole
of the hazardous over water route,
they had reached South American
shores in darkness and were unable
to orient themselves. Failing to pick
up even the lights of towns that
might guide them to a haven, the
fliers circled inland, and, weary from
the strain and with the dwindling
fuel supply, picked up the first clear
ing to bring their sesquiplane to
earth.
Plane Smashed in Landing.
The ground was soft and the plane
overturned and smashed. The major
crawled out and released his com
panion. A short time later natives
reached them and guided Larre-Bor
ges to the little town of Santo An
tonia do Salto. near the northeastern
coast of Brazil. As soon as word of
their plight was received physicians
and officials hurried to the spot.
Santo Antonio is remote and in
accessible, and it was some time be
fore a coherent account of the land
ing could be ordered. Lieutenant
Challe was reported to be cut over
one eye and severely bruised. Major
Larre-Borges, who went to Santo An
tonio for aid after the fliers had
been located by a party of horsemen,
said that he and his comrade had
struggled against head winds most of
the way across the south Atlantic.
They gave up their attempt to
reach .Monteviedo after a flight of
more than thirty-six hours from
Seville, which they left at 12:40 p.
m. Sunday (7:40 a. m., e. s. t.) and
covering 3.600 miles.
"For the first few hours of the
flight the winds were favorable."
Major Larre-Borges explained, "but
after passing Cape Verde, on the
African coast, we ran into head winds
so unfavorable that r.bout 4 o'clock
in the afternoon we decided to ask
the couse to the nearest land and
to. head ior it."
Obliged to Change Course.
He said they found it necessary
to change their course from Pernam
buco, where they had planned to
land, and make for the nearest point
on the northeastern coast of Brazil.
They had difficulty in finding their
way because they were unable to
get their position by wireless.
'Tlying low to pick up the land,
we could not see the . lights of the
coast towns and finally we decided
to land as quickly as possible. The
wheels struck soft ground and the
plane turned over, knocking us un
conscious. I recovered firt and found
Challe pinned under the plane. I
dragged him out and he soon re
covered. He was not seriously injur
ed. Then I started to find help and
go to Santo Antonio, where the au
thorities aided me most generously.
The airplane was entirely wrecked."
He added that he and his compan
ion were exhausted when they made
their landing and that their fuel was
running low.
Major Larre-Borges and Lieuten
ant Challes made the third direct
flight from Europe to South America,
their predecessors being the Ital
ians. Artuaro Ferrarin and Carlo Del
Prete, and the Spandiards, Iglesia
and Jimnez. The other fliers that
crossed the South Atlantic made
stops in Africa. State Journal.
OIL MEN HAVE HOUSE IN ORDER
Lincoln, Dec. 14. Nebraska oil
men, O. V. McCracken, chief of the
state food, drug and oil department,
reflected Saturday, "have their house
well in order."
A state-wide gathering of these
men at Omaha this week, he said,
disclosed a united front in favor of
strictly complying with all stautory
regulations in the distilling and dis
pensing of fuels and oils.
He is confident, he said, that Ne
braska autoists are receiving a class
of products of the highest type, even
.superior than those distributed un
der regulation in nearby states.
FIRST VICTIM OF PLOT
FILLED WITH POISON
West Plains, Mo., Dec. 14. Re
ports received here Saturday from
St. Louis chemists said the stomach
of E. E. Trimmer, aged victim of the
confessed poison plot of his daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Laura James Trim
mer, and her son, Slyvester James,
was found to have been filled with
poison.
PLEASANT RIDGE COMMUNITY
There will be a meeting of the
Pleasant Ridge . community .club, at
the Pleasant Ridge school, seven
miles west of Plattsmouth, on the
coming Friday night, December 20th
where a very worthwhile program
will be given, and, of course there
will be good eats to make the occas
ion the better. Do not neglect to
be out and enjoy it. d&w.
Bead the Journal Waat-Ad.
S0RENSEN WARNS
OF TAX INCREASES
Lincoln, Dec. 17. For the benefit
of Nebraska county commissioners
who may be contemplating a boost
in tax levies, Attorney General Sc ren
sen Monday authorized a warning
against exceeding the statutory limit
of 34 mills. Several counties, he
advised Tax Commissioner Scott, have
already jumped ahead of that figure
and are now liable in a court action
should anyone intervene. The sta
tutory limit, he stated, is the maxi
mum levy any county may make for
any and all purposes except as au
thorized by an election.
Solons Mas:
in Effort to
Pass Tariff
Woolen Schedules Cause Only Split
in Coalition; Simmons Predicts
Amendment Attack.
Washington, Dec. 15. With the
tax reduction bill out of the way, a
final drive will open In the senate
Monday to get the tariff bill passed
before the end of January.
During the remainder of the fight,
democrats and progressive republi
cans will stand united. Senator Sim
mons of North Carolina, ranking min
ority member cf the finance commit
tee, declared.
The only split between coalition
senators is on the woolen schedules
now under consideration. Otherwise,
they are in harmony, Simmons said.
Predictions Old.
Predictions that the bill will be
rewritten in conference are nothing
new during the making of a tariff
measure, said Simmons.
"Obviously, both the senate
and the house conferees will
find it advantageous in some in
stances and necessary in others
to compose certain differences in
compromise. In this way tariff
bills, as a rule, are made.
"It now seems clear that the
republican members of the con
ference committee on the part
of the house will insist upon de
leting the flexible provision and
the debenture plan both of
which were added to the bill as
senate amendments.
Will Not Yield.
"Unless I am deep in the dark
they will make a stubborn attack on
these two amendments using as one
of their weapons of assault the argu
ment that the president will veto the
bill with the flexible provision and
the debenture included.
"But the democratic conferees
on the part of the senate will
exert themselves with equal de
. termination to report out a bill
with the two amendments intact,
and in this connection I'll say
that Senator Smoot, chairman of
the finance committee,, has giv
en assurance that he will stand
by action of the senate conferees
unless the senate should direct
its members to recede as to
them."
Insofar as they are permitted to
go in conference the democratic con
ferees will not yield upon these two
amendments, he added. Omaha Bee
News. A FEW WORDS FROM ENGLAND
"We electrical people are offering
the public a commodity or a service
which can perform innumerable
duties in the homes where they live,
the places where they work, the
places where they seek amusement
when in health and the places where
they seek health when ill. From the
time they wake to the time they re
tire it can minister to many of their
necessities, comforts and luxuries.
There is nothing else like it in the
world; its adaptibility is almost in
finite. And new applications are be
ing discovered almost daily. ..."
This is not an enthusiastic official
of one of our electric utilities speak
ing, but a writer in the Electric
Times of London. All over the world
electricity is revolutionizing, the
callings and diversions of life and
distributing its benefits.
The United States, in its electrical
development, has been far ahead of
the rest of the world. Electricity
has played a major role in making
us the preeminent industrial nation.
Now, however, other countries arc
following our lead. Great electrical
projects are taking shape in all lands.
Foreign usage of power is rapidly
increasing.
There will be keen competition
from now on to reduce the advant
age which the United States has had
over the rest of the world in the field
of electrical development.
SHLP BURNING AFTER MUTINY
San Francisco, Dec. 17. With the
freighter Skagway on the rocks off
Cape Flattery Tuesday, its ' cargo
nearly destroyed by fire and her
master and crew safely ashore, re
ports of mutiny aboard the vessel
were heard.
The Skagway ran ashore Monday
with its cargo ablaze.
Mrs. Nancy Stradquist, wife cf the
skipper, said that just before the
ship left San Francisco Friday she
heard members of the crew threaten
to "get" her husband.
A fist fight resulted between Cap
tain Strandquist and First Mate An
drew Rynberg. Mrs. Strandquist as
serted, after which the captain sent
the- mate ashore and the boat sailed
without him.
When Captain Strandquist and his
crew reached Port Angeles Tuesday
night they stated that reports of the
mutiny were without foundation.
Just a few of the Cass county maps
left. While they last, 50c each.