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.
The plane, a $22,000 craft, swirled to
a dry river bed and burst into flames.
Colonel Lindbergh said "Shor' jump
ed from the plane at an elevation of
3,000 feet.
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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
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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.
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