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MONDAY, MARCH 31i' 1931. PAGE TWO PLATTSMOTmr SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL Compromise is Advised on Flexible Tariff Conies From Administration Side and May Avert Fight - By Vanderburg Washington, March 26. A com promise on the flexible provision of the tariff bill, one of the main points of contention between the president, the senate and the house, was pro posed today by Senator Vandenberg (rep., Mich.) The senator is one of the admin istration leaders. In an open letter to Chairman Smoot of the senate finance com mittee, he suggested a plan that would give to both the president and to congress the power to change tariff rates under the flexible cause. Mr. Hoover has demanded that the present law giving the executive authority to modify tariff rates be retained. The senate has amended the tar iff act to give this authority to con gress alone. The house has retained the present law in executive author ity to modify tariff rates be retained. The controversy over the flexible provision threatens to be one of the biggest stubling blocks in the way cf an agreement between the sen ate and house in the forthcoming conferences on the tariff. The Van denberg proposal was looked upon today as offering a possible solu tion which might be acceptable to the Hoover administration. Manufacturers Ask Veto. President Hoover was urged to day by John E. Edgerton, president cf the National Association of Manu facturers, to veto the tariff bill if after conference it provides less flex ibility of administration than the law of 1922. Edgerton told press correspond ents he had informed the chief ex ecutive that the senate previsions of "cTiblo administration were not satisfactory to the association. He st id he lnd addei that the same view was shared by farm and labor organizations. His association, Edgerton con tinued, favored the house provi sions cf flexibility. To adopt the senate provisions, he argued would be a backward step. Vanderberg is one of the repub lican young guard, which group is aligned with the administration. He advocated approval cf the com promise flexible provision as a means of avoiding another general revision of the tariff. The senator wrote he was con vinced that "our economic structure hag become too complex to suffer the inevitable hazard and speculation unavoidably incident to general re vision in congress.' Vandenberg's Reasons. "The greatest insurance," he con tinued, "against the need of another general revision is the creation of the greatest possible latitude in pro visions for serial flexibility. Regard less of contemporary rates, I believe this bill's greatest justification and its greatest service lies in its max imum expansion of the principle of flexibility." Vandenberg said that if forced to choose between the house bill con tinuing administrative flexibility and the senate measure providing for legislative flexibility he would choose the former. He proposed administrative flexi bility for presidential use when con gress is not in session and subor dinate to subsequent congressional vote if congress chooses to act. Sec ondly, legislative flexibility for con gressional use when congress is in session. "Thus," he said, "we shall hvae flexing machinery all the way around the calendar, whether con gress is or is not in session. Nor mally congress Is in session only 10 months out of 24. Therefore, legislative flexibility alone is not enough. On the other hand, the house text des not permit admin istrative flexibility to touch com modities upon the free list. There fore, administrative flexibility alone also is not enough. World-Herald. ZEPPELIN ROUTE PLANNED New York Charles E. Mtichell, chairman of the National City com pany, and Dr. Hugo Eckener, com mander of the Graf Zeppelin, Mon day announced the signing of con tracts with prominent financial and aircraft interests in the United States and Europe for the establishment of a lighter-than air mail and passeng er line across the Atlantic. The con tracts were signed by the Interna tional Zeppelin Transport company, formed late last year In Deleware, and by the National City company, the Goodyear Zeppelin company; Luftschiffoau Zeppelin (the German Zeppelin comany); the Carbite and Carbon Chemicals comany, a subsid iary of the Union Carbite company; the United Aircraft corporation and the Aluminum company of America. The announcement was interpreted as clearing away all doube that plans for the trans-Atlantic airship ser vice, discussed for some time, would be pushed forward. REFUSE MONEY FOR YOUNG ARAB VICTIMS Jerusalem, March 26. The govern ment Wednesday made public a com pensation scale for the Palestine riots of last summer which provides no compensation for the deaths of per sons under 14 years of age. EGGS FOR SETTING White' Leghorn eggs for hatching, 10c above the market price.. Mrs. Kick Frederick Murray, Nebr. URGES PAYMENT ON VET BONUSES Washington, March 25. Asserting the veterans bureau had a reserve fund of $700,000,000, Representative Patman (D.), Texas, Tuesday sug gested steps be taken to arrange for a partial payment to veterans on their bonus certificates. He said immediate and widespread prosperity would result if such pay ments could be made. The Texan wrote all house mem bers asking that they unite In draft ing one bill that would satisfy a ma jor! ty. Claims Govern ment Control is Colossal Failure E. C. Drury, Former Premier of On tario, So Testifies Before the House Committee. Washington Government control of liquor sales in Canada was de scribed as an "absolute failure" by E. C. Drury, a former premier of Ontario province, who predicted at prohibition hearings before the house Judiciary committee Wednesday that the dominion eventually would re turn to complete prohibition. "Whatever the solution of the drink problem may be," the Cana dian asserted, "it is not government control." F. Scott McBride, general super intendent of the anti-saloon league, was scheduled to climax the day but when Mrs. Lenna Lowe Yost, general of the dry forces, presented him, Chairman Graham adjourned the committee meeting. Mr. Graham also made known that a recess of about two weeks might be taken before the wets are permitted to offer rebuttal testimony. Drawing his conclusions from in surance statistics, Lentz said mor tality had decreased under prohibi tion and that the dry laws had proved of widespread benefit to the American people. Insurance companies have found, he said, that total abstainers live an average of about four years longer than liquor drinkers. It was important to an under standing of the situation, he said, to realize that each province of Canada had different laws for the regulation of retail sale and that the dominion government limited its legislation to control of manufacturing and inter province and foreign shipment. Drury said he did not think the liquor question would continue as at present because of what he termed popular dissatisfaction and the enor mouth growth of the annual liquor bill which he said last year totalled $192,000,000.' . Drury expressed the hope that the next time the dominion government adopted prohibition it would abolish the manufacture of liquors as well as prohibiting transportation and re tail sale. Thursday the Judiciary committee is to meet in executive session to give consideration to several of the bills recommended by the Wicker sham commission for further trengthening of law enforcement. Drury placed himself on record as favoring a direct vote of the people on liquor policy, entirely separate from other political considerations. He said this had been the traditional .method in Canada, largely because It was feared that if the issue were thrown in campaigns, the liquor in terests would gain a dangerous foot- khold in the political machinery. State Journal. DIAL TELEPHONE SERVICE SOUGHT BY TOWN OF 1,500 Lincoln, March 24. Automatic telephone service for Newman Grove, a Madison county town of 1,500 citi zens, was proposed to the state rail way commission Saturday by the Monroe Telephone Co. Though the change from the pres ent old-fashioned equipment would mean a rate increase, 85 per cent of the residential subscribers, 88 per cent of the business subscribers, and 80 per cent of the country subscrib ers favor it, the board was told. Omaha, Lincoln and Kearney are now the only Nebraska towns that have automatic phone service, al though companies have applied for authorization to install it at Colum bus and Seward, both of which are considerably larger than Newman Grove. The rates established for service in town at Newman Grove would be $4 for business phones, $3.50 for two party business phones, $2.50 for resi dence phones, and $2 for two-party residence phones. Fifty thousand dollars would be required to effect the change. The company has bought the Farmers State Bank building and would make that the exchange. With a present investment fit $86,000, the company anticipates that its total valuation after the change would be $123,000. With its new rates Jn effect, it would make a profit, it reckons, of 4.09 per cent. HUCRTNS AWAITS HEARING Cedar Rapids, Ia.--Elmer 8. Huck ne, brought here from Wautoma, Wis., to face charges of obtaining money under false pretenses, will be arraigned Thursday. Huckins, his at torneys said, will plead not guilty to the charges. They said he would ask a reduction of the $22,000 bond set at the time of the filing of the charg es. County Attorney Carl Hendricks son said he would oppose the move. AU kinds" of "business stationery printed at the Journal office. Uni, Students Split in Poll on the Dry Laws Two Omahans Favor Repeal of Act; Stricter Enforcement is Solu tion, Says Schuyler Man Lincoln, March 26. Divergent views concerning the prohibition question have been voiced by the University of Nebraska students, picked at random by an inquiring, reporter on the student daily, which Is seeking the will of undergraduates on the matter. Two Omaha students. Miss Fran ces Holyoke and Arnold B. Walker, would like to see a repeal of the pres ent prohibition laws. The former would substitute the Canadian sys tem of state control for the present federal management. This would re sult in a better respect for law, she says. "Repealing of the present law," declares Mr. Walker, the other Omahan, "would make matters no worse than at present. People often do things forbidden in public opin ion. There would be less accident, less disease and the like with the repeal." Opinions expressed by others were favorable to the continuation of the present prohibition laws. Richard McKenzle, Schuyler, does not take much stock in the poll taken by a magazine regarding public opinion in cities. He thinks stricter enforce ment is the solution. "I do not agree with Hoover that the prohibition law is enforced as well as other laws," he says. "The government should authorize a larg er expenditure for enforcement." Those who were content to let things be as they are included Gor don E. Larson, Rawlins, Wyo., and J. Marshall Pitzer, Nebraska City, two members of the university's sen ior honorary society, the Innocents. They would like to see the law be given a fair trial, they said. Omaha Bee-News. lOCAMIEWS "r.m Thursday's rjally Mrs. William Budig of Omaha, who has been here visitng with eld time friends for a few days, departed last evening for Creston, Iowa, where she will be the guest of relatives. Ervin Buskirk and Alex Jones, residents of the vicinity of South Bend, came In this morning to spend a few hours attending to some mat ters at the court house and visiting with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gouchenour and sons, Richard and Stuart and Mrs. Louis Taylor and daughter, Mathilda, were at Omaha last eve ning to visit Mr. Taylor at the St. Joseph hospital and were well pleas ed to find that Mr. Taylor has so much improved that he expects to be able to return home Sunday. From Friday' Dany John McKay of Weeping Water was here today to attend the meet ing of the county assessors at the court house for the day. Mrs. Martha Haddon of Louisville was here today for a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Taylor and family for a short time. Attorney V. E. Tyler of Nebraska City was here Thursday afternoon for a few hours being enroute home from Omaha where he was trying a case in the district court. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Klimm came in this morning from their farm home and departed for Omaha where they will visit for a few hours looking after some matters of business. Attorney Howard Saxton of Oma ha, former democratic candidate for attorney general, was in the city for a short time today looking after some matters at the court house. Mrs. Loretta McVicker of Lin coln was a visitor in the city last evening to enjoy the lecture given by Judge Davis at the Christian Science church and as a guest of friends. L. G. Todd and Harry Rheumann, well known residents of Union were in the city today to spend a few hours attending to some matters of business and visiting with friends. Attorney C. E. Tefft of Weeping Water was in the city today for a short time attending to some mat ters at the court house and visit ing with the many friends in the city. L. J. Mayfield, editor of the Louis ville Courier, Dr. E. H. Worthman and R. H. Hastain of the Bank of Commerce, eanie down from Louis ville today to visit with friends and looking after some matters of busi ness. m snTtTrift vh Tany W. G. Boedeker, of the Murray State bank, was a visitor in the city today to spend a few hours with friends. H. A. Funke, well known Louis ville lumberman was in the city to day visiting with friends and look ing after some business matters. O. A. Davis, well known resident of Murray, was in the city today to spend a few hours visiting with friends and looking after some mat ters of business. Miss Violet Ackerman, who has been here for the past two weeks visiting her uncle, George Luschin sky, departed this morning for her home at Wymore. Mrs. Giles Henkle of Lincoln, formerly Miss Delores Boesee, teacher in the local schools, was here last evening in company with Mis3 Cath erine Schneider, for a visit at the H. A. Schneider home. The modern girl may not be afraid of a mouse, but we'll bet she will use the mouse tradition as an excuse to let everybody sei she still wears 'em silk all the way up. BANK SUSPECT APPEALS TERM Nebraska City, . March 24. Con visted of robbing the Nebraska City National bank here December 19, 1927 and taking over $100,000 in cash and securities, Charles C. Clin ton of Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. He has appeal ed to the supreme court. A motion for new trial was overruled. Clinton was sentenced by District Judge James T. Begley, after going through two trials here following his apprehension several weeks ago in Kansas City. The first jury was dis charged after it had disagreed. Chicago Now Restoring Condi tions to Normal Streets Become Slushy as Sun Comes Out After Two-Day Storm; Jobs for 40,000 Men. Chicago, 111., March 27. Winter's post-mortem left spring in a melting mood and Chicago deep in slush. Warm rays from the sun, bring ing welcome contrasts to the two past days of chilly blasts and swirling snows, caused water literally to pour from the city's skyscrapers and left the streets filled with mushy dirt and ice. Business and transportation, both all but paralyzed during the storm which brought a record 19.2 inches of snow, were being restored rapid ly to normal operation, and the whole city was rejoicing at one piece of good luck which blew in with the proverbial ill wind jobs for 40 thou sand unemployed men. The 40 thou sand were in the streets and on rail road rights of way clearing away the slush and chopping through the pack ed drifts. School board officials announced they would open all schools tomor row. All the main thoroughfares were open tonight. Most side streets had paths broken through them by coal, milk, bread and grocery wagons. Late in the day surface line trans portation was announced at 40 per cent normal and bus lines 87 per cent normal. The city had farmers and railroad men to thank for its milk supplies today. After appeals over the radio last night, it was reported, every available milk farmer in the terri tory surrounding Chicago sacrificed sleep and rest to get milk to the rail roads. Hitching six to eight teams to trucks, the farmers in many places formed caravans to break through dritfs. World-Herald. U. of N. Year': Costs are Set at $896,609.40 $391,239.37 Spent on Permanent Im provement and Equipment, Senaton Says. Lincoln, March 27. Exactly $696,609.40 wasspent by the Uni versity of Nebraska during the year 1928-29, according to L. F. Seaton, operating superintendent, in a state ment made to George Dunn, Omaha, sophomore journalism student at the university, who is securing a series of interviews with members of the vari ous departments of the institution re garding their duties, expenditures and the like. Of the total amount, $305,370.03 was set aside for the physical plant which included administrative sal aries, operation, maintenance and campus upkeep, while $391,239.37 was used for permanent improve ments and equipments. "The expenditure of taxation mon ies on the University of Nebraska," declared Mr. Seaton, "was only $39,- 067.95 in 1871-1873, the first year of the university when 253 students attended. The biennial of 1927-29, however, saw $4,148,230.25 spent with approximately 25,000 students registered in classes." Specifying the scope of his depart ment, the operating superintendent says he is the custodian, of all chattel property of the university with the exception of the books. He may trans fer property that is not being used by the department or division to which it has been allotted to other departments or divisions of the uni versity, or he may sell it. All purchases and maintenance of physical plants at the school of agri culture at Curtis, the agricultural substations at North Platte, Valen tine and at Scottsbluff and the fruit farm at Union are under the direct supervision of Mr. Seaton. Local managers, he said, have charge of the details of those places. Omaha Bee News. HERE FROM GRAND ISLAND Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hendricks of Grand Island arrived here last nighl where they will spend a few days with relatives. Mr. Hendricks has been attending the Grand Island college and the couple have been making their homo there for the last few months. In a few days they will move to Omaha where they expect to make their fu ture home. Mrs. Hendricks was formerly Miss Theresa Donat of this city. The greatest sacrifices on school tablets at the Bates Book &. Gift shop, 3c each or 35c a dozen. Come early and make your selections. Woodmen Rate Case Has Taken a New urn Iowa Member Would Restrain Work ers Protective Association From Activity. Springfield, 111. Charging that the Modern Woodmen Protective as sociation is destroying the Modern Woodmen of America by opposing the increased fraternal insurance rates announced last June by the head offi cers of the order, Glenn Kenderline, a member of the Woodmen at Lis bon, la., asked an injunction against the opponents to the rate increase in the federal court here Wednesday. Kenderdine charged that thru the activities of the rate protest group, 100,000 members of the Modern Woodmen have let their membership lapse, thus threatening the collapse of the organization. If Judge Louis Fitzhenry grants a temporary injunc tion at a hearing Thursday morning, the Woodmen insurance rate contro versy will be taken out of the hands of the state supreme court where it is now pending on rehearing. Change Held Necessary. At the last session the supreme court of Illinois held that the rate changes are not only valid but are necessary to preserve the solvency of the fraternal order. Previously the court had held that the increased rates were illegal because based on an unconstitutional state statute. At torneys for the head camp persuaded the court to reverse its decision by showing that the changes were based on the general insurance law of the state rather than the statute in ques tion. Led by the protective association, opponents to the changes filed for an other rehearing. Their petition is still before the court, which convenes here April '. Kenderdine brought his suit for injunction as an individual member of the society. He explained that he has asked the officers of the head camp to bring suit but that they had declined to take such action on the ground that they would be charged with spending the money of the society in their own defense. State Journal. Austria Yields to Switzerland on Trade Treaty Revised Drcit on Tariffs Pub lished at Geneva In-' " quiry by League Geneva Austria's objection to signing the tariff truce convention has been the subject of further con versations which has resulted in r.n accord between Austria and Switzer land by which Austria hns consented to maintain its bilateral commercial treaty with Switzerland fcr the next year. As Svis exports to Austria amount to 65,000.000 francs an nually the. Swiss delegation is high ly gratified. The Austrian delegation also ad justed its differences with the Czeclio--.lovakian and Hungarian delegations so that prospect of the final passage of the draft convention of the tariff truce as proposed by ttie French dele gation is now more hopeful. A revised first draft of the proto col regarding future negotiations for consolidation of economic peace be tween the nations by closer co-opera-ticn and enlargement of markets by reduction of tariffs and other means was published March IS. It contains a final act embodying the Italian proposal for investigation of nil pos sible means of strengthening Eu rope's position in overseas markets which it recommends that the eco nomic organization of the League of Nations should undertake. The annex deals with adjustment of economic relations between indus trial and agricultural countries and points out that agricultural coun tries consider their economic depres sion mainly due to the policy of agrarian protection practiced by cer tain industrial countries of Europe and competition with overseas coun tries whose production is favored by exceptional economic conditions. It is on these lines that the League is to examine the agricultural prob lem of European countries, great im portance being attached to improve ment of the organization of agri cultural credit. No agreement could be reached concerning the modification of the most favored nation clause in bila teral treaties, the British delegation in particular opposing strongly all restrictions on this clause. LEARNS OF SISTER'S DEATH This morning Sheriff Bert Reed received a message from Roseberg, Oregon, announcing the death at that place last night of his sister, Miss Blanche Reed, following a short illness. The deceased lady has served for a number of years as the deputy county clerk in Douglas county, Ore gon. The funeral will be held at Roseberg, which Is the old home of the Reed family. PILOT SAVES LIFE BY JUMPING FROM PLANE Burbank, Calif.- Stephen R. Shor, test pilot, jumped from a plane, be ing flown in trials here Wednesday and landed safely in his parachute. 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Plattsmouth, Nebraska 10 Broken Up in Missouri Prison Group of 500 Convicts Eat Meekly After Enforced Fast; 'Iron Hand' Rule. Jefferson City, Mo., March 28. The backbone of the Missouri prison revolt was believed to have been broken late today when a group of five hundred convicts who mutinied Wednesday and Thursday in the din ing hall went meekly to dinner after nearly 30 hours of enforced fasting. Whereas Wednesday they had re belled against the food and Thurs day rioted in the dining room, to day they ate silently and at a given signal filed from the hall with alac rity and in orderly fashion. Warden Leslie Rudolph, who today put into -effect strict rules designed to make the penitentiary a "hard boiled" prison, said the situation is eompletely in hand and that he be lieves the trouble is over. Casualty List of 75. Carrying out his edict to rule with an iron hand, prison guards wielded their clubs today at the least pro vocation with the result that the casualty list of convicts mounted to 75, most of whom were treated in the prison hospital for head injuries. Late today prison officials named 22 of the most desperate convicts in the penitentiary as ringleaders in the two days of disorder and sent them to solitary confinement, pending fur ther investigation. More than three thousand of the four thousand convicts in the peni tentiary were kept locked in cells as prison factories remained idle and were fed only after having missed their evening meal last night and breakfast this morning. Factories are to remain idle until Monday. Fifteen Are Clubbed. The only clash today was a brief skirmish between guards and 15 con victs who became gruff when taken from their cells. They were clubbed and sent to the hospital. Among those named as instigators of the revolt was Walter Dipley, who is serving life for the murder of Stanley Ketchel, former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world- who was slain near Springfield. World-Herald. OH MAC, WILL YE LIGHT MY PIPY? Glasgow, Scotland, March 2C A professional pipe lighter has been employed to keep street railway la borers from wasting their time. His sole duty is to refill and light the men's pipes as fast as they go out. His job was established by an efficiency expert. The men havt t own tobacco, matches and suction. Deeds, Mortgages. Contract and dl kinds of legal blanks for sale at Tournal office. Custom PRODUCTION HATCHING or CHICIIS FOR GALS We have the kind anyone would want. Reserve your trays early' Try us cn DAY OLD or STARTED CHICKS. Youi like them TT 17 no 18th and Granite Phone k Plattsmouth, Nebr, E2EECEEES Avers 3?000 'Leggers Operat- Capita! mg in Congressman P-eports on Results of Three-Year Livestigation Charges Probed. Washington, March. 26. Charges of graft and crime in Washington once more attracted congressional at tention today as Representative Gib son rep., Vt.) reported to a house committee that a three-year investi gation showed three thousand boot leggers operated here. Meanwhile, federal prohibition -agents were investigating a claim that some Eastern High school stu dents were spending their lunch money in speakeasies. This allega tion was made by a street car con-, ductbr, Henry W. Lynn, in a house hearing on a proposal tb reduce trbt-J ley fares for children. : Lynn said that if -the fares were reduced, the money would not be spent for scup or soda water. He reported that in one speakeasy ioys and girls were paying '25 cents for a gill of gin. After a month's lull in interest, the bootlegging question was revived with Gibson's statement that there were only 38 policemen assigned to liquor work, although there were three thousand rum sellers. Senator Blease (dem.f S. C.) re cently repeated his charges that crime and liquor law violations were rampant in Washington. A grand jury investigated and reported that the South Carolinian's charges were unfounded. Then George II. Carter, public printer, asserted there were several gambling establishments near the government printing office. A senate committee still is considering that charge. World-Herald. GOVERNMENT MAY RESIGN Dublin The Irish Free State gov ernment headed hv rrpewimt rue- grave Thursday night considered the advisability of resigning after an un expected defeat on an' opposition bill in the dail, but finally postponed uecision until Friday. Political cir cles generally expect thf ministrv to announce its resignation when they meet the dail then. Resignation doe3 not involve a general election, the constitution providing for a change of government within tli statutory life of the dail without an appeal to the country. PAYS ON FARE TO FINISH PRISON TRIP Peoria, March 26. VnrrtA w hi snowstorm to abandon tv.eii- auto mobile while taking five prisoners to the state farm at Vandalia. two de puty sheriffs had to borrow money from one of the prisoners to con tinue to their d eRtlnntinn Kw train The prisoner was sentenced on a bad check charge. r-11 - t" iae ate mm ery . 6.11 -W - v P. O, Eox 417 "4 lir"TtJlU"jf1fi'frT' i i 111 i 11 flf 2EE' DS325