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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930.
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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Total.
Figure It Out
It costs just so much to pro
duce your crop! You must buy
seeds, fertilizer and labor.
Every month you face the
probability that a crop which
gives promise of yielding a
profitable harvest may be sud
denly wiped out by a hail
storm. Your expense for ma
terial and labor is a total loss.
Hail insurance in the Hart
ford Fire Insurance Company
is a reliable means of offsetting
this loss. Ask us for informa
tion and rates.
Searl S. Davis
AGENT
Plattsmouth
Nebraska
Clash in Probe
of Prison Fire;
Death Toll 318
Guard Is Suspended, but Denies
Blame for Not Opening Doors ;
Other Disclosures.
SET DATE FOR APRIL 30TH
From Wednesday's Daily
Advice received yesterday from
Adjutant Quinn of South Omaha
(Melting Pot) post of the American
Legion, is to the effect that the re
turn dinner-dance date has been set
for next Wednesday night. April
30th. and the affair will be held at
the German home on South 13th
street.
The canvas of local post members
to ascertain how many from here
expect to attend will have to be
undertaken in the next two or three
days and will not be such an easy
matter with many of the active Leg
ionnaires of Plattsmouth post work
ing on the Trade Exposition and
Style Show project. The committee
has a list of those who attended the
former inter-city dinner-dance here
the latter part of February and asks
that all advise them of their inten
tions without waiting to be called
upon. The members of the commit
tee are Leo Boynton. Don Seiver, Roy
Holly and Harold Holeomb.
Under ordinary conditions. Platts
mouth) post could be expected to send
as large a crowd to this affair as the
South Siders had here, but tied up
as they are with the Trade show and
the work of tearing down the booths
next week to make ready for the
Junior-Senior banquet, it may be
hard to enlist the attendance of more
than thirty-five or forty couples.
URGES CENSUS REPORT
W. T. Richardson, census enum
erator for Plattsmouth precinct is
about ready to send in the final re
turns. Should there be any one in
the precinct who has not ben enum
erated, if you will get word to Mr.
Richardson, he will gladly call on
you.
The Season's
Smartest Colors are Here
in-
IVIutisingwear
Hosiery
Some of the loveliest
new Hosiery shades
that we have ever
been privileged to
present have just
arrived. Words can-
not do them justice
... to see them is to
want them ! Chic new
tan tones . . . exquis
ite complexion tints
. . . and some of the
darker shades so very
popular today.
Ladies Toggery
'The Shop of Personal Service
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
Columbia, O.. April 22. With the
death list swelled to 31S. investiga
tion of the disastrous Ohio peniten
tiary fire last night was marked to
day by a clash between county ana
state authorities over a proposal" to
suspend Warden P. E. Thomas until
the facts are known.
Demand for the warden's suspen
sion was made by County Prosecu
tor John J. Chester, jr., but the issue
was shelved when Governor Cooper
took the case out of the hands by
assigning the attorney general to
make the official inquiry to place
responsibility for the great loss of
life.
The investigation opened with the
warden on the witness stand. The
board of inquiry was composed of
Governor Cooper, Assistant Attorneys
General Early Shivley, Joseph God
own, and Harry Levy. Welfare Di
rector Hal Griswold and two mem
bers of the state clemency board.
The warden's testimony revealed
that Thomas Watkinson, guard in
the cell blocks housing companies
G and II, where all of the victims
perished, refused to turn over the
key to the cell ranges of other guards.
Watkinson was suspended pending
investigation. Later in the investi
gation Watkinson denied he was re
sponsible for not opening the doors.
Other Disclosures.
The inquiry also disclosed:
That Thomas assigned his chief
deputy, J. C. Woodward, to take
charge within the prison walls when
the lire broke out at 5:30 p. m., yes
terday. That the warden stationed himself
outside the prison to prevent any es
capes. That Night Guards Thomas Little
and W. C. Baldwin, just coming on
duty, had to take the range key away
from Watkinson to get the cells
where some eight hundred prisoners
were locked behind bars, suffocating
in dense smoke that rose from the
fast spreading fire. It was asserted
that but for Watkinson's refusal to
turn over the keys, no lives need
have been lost.
That Little and Baldwin could get
no higher than the fifth tier before
they became exhausted, leaving most
of the convicts in the fifth and sixth
tiers to die.
That Ohio penitentiary guards,
numbering 337 on both day and
night shifts, are required to watch
4,300 prisoners at salaries ranging
from $130 to $150 a month.
While the investigation was un
der way a corps of undertakers spent
a busy day embalming the bodies
of the fire victims at an improvised
morgue into which the horticultural
building at the state fairgrounds had
been converted.
The bodies are held awaiting or
ders of relatives. To silence reports
that shots were fired during the fire,
each body is being examined for bul
let wounds. World-Herald.
PRESENT FINE PAGEANT
From Monday's Daily
The presentation of "The Resur
rection of Peter," held last night as
a part of the Easter services at the
Methodist church was a very fine rep
resentation of the incidents leading
to the re-birth of the faith of Peter,
who bowed with remorse and grief
at his denial of the Master had sor
rowed until the Risen Christ sent
forth the message to Peter to be of
good faith. The role of Peter was
taken by William F. Evers,, that of
the other members of the pageant
group being Vern Price as "James,"
John Turner as "John," J. II. Jahrig
as "Andrew," William Heinrich as
"Phillip," Roy Perkins as "Cleopas,"
and Clement Wooster as "Thomas."
The role of "Mary" was taken by
Mrs. William Heinrich, "Mary Mag
dalene" by Mrs. Loretta Wilcox, and
"Salome" by Miss Alice Funk.
The musical offerings of the pag
eant were given by Dr. R. P. West-
over with the selections. "God My
fatner, trom "The Seven Last
Words of Christ," and "Where He
Leads Me, I will Follow." and Edsar
Wescott in the numbers, "'Into the
W oods My Master Went,," "The Way
of the Cross Leads Home" and "There
Is a Green Hill Far Away."
SHOWING IMPROVEMENT
From Monday's Daily
The many friends over the city of
George Barr will be pleased to
learn that Mr. Barr is doing very
nicely at the Methodist hospital at
Omaha, where he was operated on
some days ago for appendicitis. The
patient has rallied very nicely from
the effects of the illness and opera
tion and now seems chiefly troubled
by the smallpox as he has broken out
a great deal and which will keep
him in from ten days to two weeks
before he is able to return home.
RETURNING FROM CALIFORNIA.
From Tuesday's Dally
The many old time friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred L. Lindeman, will be
pleased to learn that this estimable
family is now en route from their
home at Orange, California, to Platts
mouth, where they are planning on
making their home again. Mr. and
Mrs. Lindeman are expected here at
any time and their coming is await
ed with interest by the members of
the family circle and the old friends.
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lFIffi,I M0TIIR CMIPANY
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D. H. I. A. Report for March.
Earl Mansfield of Ashland had the
highest producing hard in the Cass
County D. H. I. A. in the group of
5 to 15 cows. This was a mixed herd
of 12 cows that averaged 9 60 lbs milk
and 33.6 lbs per cow for the month.
In the group of 16 or more cows
Ervin Markland of Weeping Water
had the high herd that produced
709 lbs milk and 24.9 lbs butterfat.
E. A. Schuelke again had the high
est producing cow In the county, as
sociation. This cow produced 1919
lbs milk and 57.6 lbs fat.
C. H. Becker and son of Lancaster
county had the highest producing
cow of all the association in the
state. This cow's' record for the
month is 2256 lbs of milk and 103.7
lbs fat.
At the present time, the state of
Nebraska could produce just as many
pounds of milk with 376,999 cows
as they do with 638,000 if all the
376,000 .cows were as good as the
average cow does in a dairy herd
improvement association. Not only
would it take fewer cows but the
376,000 cows would return over
$10,200,000 more over feed cost than
the 638,000 cows. The average cow
in the state returns $40 over feed
cost, where as the average cow in
dairy herd improvement associations
returns $95 over feed cost. Why the
difference? Because profits practical
ly treble as production doubles.
At the present time, Nebraska has
only 1.5 per cent of her dairy cow
population on test, whereas the Uni
ted States as a whole has 2.3 per
cent of the entire dairy cattle popu
lation on test.
Nebraska, as a state, ranks twenty
sixth when one considered the per
cent of cattle on test. It ranks twel
fth in reference to the total number
of associations. It would require
forty dairy herd improvement as
sociations, the size of the present
ones in the state of Nebraska, to
take care of the number of cows to
make 2.3 per cent of the dairy cows
population on test.
If one only stops to realize the
importance of this work in helping
to stablize the dairy interest, there
would never be one bit of doubt
enter anyone's mind as to whether or
not they should be a member of a
D. II. I. A.
4-H Clubs.
The Pleasant View Hot Lunch
club has completed the year's work
and fitted their final reports. This
club organized in November and
adopted the pint jar system of hot
lunch. They had hot lunches 70 days
and served 700 individual lunches.
Hot lunch work teaches the mem
bers the importance of proper food in
the diet. This club reports that 6
homes have used more fruit, more
milk and dairy products, more green
vegetables and more whole grain
cereals, thru the influence of the
club.
4-H Clothing Leader's Conference.
Six clothing club leaders met at
the farm bureau oflice Saturday,
April 19, to discu3 problems rela
tive to 4-H activities. An exhibit of
under-garments, children's clothing
and girl's dresses, from the Wright's
Bias Tape Company, was inspected
and many interesting suggestions
for the use of bias tape as trimming
were noted.
May 11 Closing Date for Club Week.
Is your club sending a representa
tive to 4-H club week at Lincoln
June 2-7?
May 11th is the closing date at
the State Oflice, for applications so
the sooner plans are made and ap
plications sent the better.
Floors and Floor Coverings.
At house cleaning time a common
questions is "What can we do about
our floors?" Farmers Bulletin 1219
offers many helpful suggestions on
Floors & Floor coverings such as:
cleaning, removing varnish, waxing,
painting, removing. spots and stains
from rugs, .resiaing rugs and laying
linoleum, etc. If interested write or
acll the farm bureau oflice for a copy
of this bulletin,-), p. Walnscott,
Co. Ext. Agent; Jessie H.' Baldwin,
Asst. Co. Ext. Agent.
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Miss Thelma Rhoden. one of tha
members of the class of 1929 of the
Plattsmouth high school was taken
to the hospital at Omaha Sunday
where she was operated on at onc
the patient was suffering from ap
pendicitis and peritonitis has set in
on the cas and mad th condition
of the patient on of the gravest.
The patient was doing just as well
as possible at tblatt reports but
in very severe pondition.
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