THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1930.
PLATTyOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUTJBAL
PAGE mi
Control of
House Forecast
by Shouse
BEINGS SUIT TO COLLECT
$15,000 GAMBLING DEBT
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 21. Deposi
tions in a suit to collect a 15 thou
sand dollar gambling debt from K.
R. Handlan, vice-president of QMS
Handlan, vice-president of the Hand-lan-Buck
Manufacturing company
here, were filed today in circuit
Says Revised Estimates of Election court
d t j j . Louis
XtCBUllB XilUiUttlC ITlHJUilLV
Details Claims
Washington, D. C. Oct. 19. For
the first time, Jouett Shouse. chair
man of the democratic national ex
ecutive national committee, predict
ed today that the democrats will gain
control of the house, the prize in the
election two weeks hence.
In a formal statement. Shouse said
he based his revised estimate of the
forthcoming congressional election
"on a dispassionate summary of the
facts, allowing full consideration to
over-optimism in some of our -ports.
An overturn of 54 seats now held
by republicans is necessary for the
democrats to win control of the
house. Shouse predicted a minimum
gain of 60 seats and said he believes
the total will be nearer 70.
Less hopeful of winning the senate
Shouse asserted that if the demo
crats win in three of five states now
classed as doubtful they would have
a majority of one in the next senate.
He classed the states of Illinois, 10a- j
nesota. South Dakota, Colorado and j
Wyoming as doubtful in the senate !
contests.
Lists Claims.
Shouse said his figures showed the
democratic party would gain at least
seven house members from New Eng
land, at least 15 in the group com
prising New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey. Delaware. Maryland and
West Virginia, together with all of
the seats in the south lost in the last
election.
"From the middle west,'' be con
tinued, "extending from Ohio to Kan
sas our gains will be not far short of
30. This may seem excessive, but
when it is realized that at present
we have only three seats in Indiana,
three in Ohio, six in Illinois, three
in Kentucky, and six in Misouri,
whereas we will have a majority of
the delegations in most of these
states this time, it will be seen that
there is no exaggeration."
Regarding the senate, Shouse said
there are too many states in which
the issue is close to justify predic
tion of a democratic majority. He
expressed confidence, however, that
we will maKe many gams in tne
senate."
Present Senate Makeup.
"The present complexion of the
Benate," he continued, "is 30 demo
crats, 56 republicans and one farm-er-laborite.
The most conservative
estimate for the senate after March
4, 1S21, according to our reports,
give us 45 democrats, 50 republic
an?, including all their factions, and
the one farmer-labor man. Shipstead
(Minn.).
"This takes no account of such
states as Illinois, Minnesota, South
Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming, in
all of which states the outcome is
doubtful and in several of which the
nonpartisan observers, such as the
correspondents of the great news
papers, give the democrats the best of
the situation. If we win in three of
these doubtful states we will have
one more senator than the republi
cans." World-Herald.
E. Goldsmith, described j3
the "greeter and mixer" of the Club
Forest, a night club and gambling
house near New Orleans, is seeking
to recover the 15 thousand dollars
Goldsmith claims he purchased from
Manasee Garger, manager of the
club, innocent of knowledge that it
on a note signed by Handlan, which
represented settlement of a gambling
debt.
Urges Citizen
Force to Combat
Bandit Gangs
Forming of Citizen Bodies to Aid
Officers in Emergencies Would
Be Worthy Move
In the early days of western hit
tory. when lawlessness got beyond
control of authorities, armed bands
of men were organized and put fear
of God into the hearts of horsethieves
and bandits by catching them and
I meting out the now famous brand
of punishment to offenders.
Banks of every size have been
1 plundered, stealing and holdups oc
cur al! around us, and participants
make speedy exit with small percent-
! age being brought to justice. Thr
law enforcement of this and adjoin-
'Warmer' is
Forecast for
Middle West
i ing states seems to be helpless, in
blocking and apprending these des
perados, whose numbers it is evi
dent are growing each day.
Last week Deputy Sheriff W. R.
Young in attempting to make an ar
rest single handed, was shot down
and the man no doubt wanted else
where for a serious crime made good
his escape. Why not? No one knew
of it but the immediate few, until
too late.
Hundreds of men in this commun
ity are anxious and willing to serv-?
if called, as attested by the various
posses that combed th hills steadily
all day Monday and most of th?
night. Let's perfect an organization
of vigilantes. A group or forty or
fifty men notified by the telephone
company could gather in such an
emergency quickly. And its instant
knowledge of the crime makes it ef
fective. Our fire department call system is
right by virtue of the fact a few men
on the sDOt in a few minutes is far
better than hundreds arriving when
it is too late. It would be of untold
benefit to the officers, if members of
this proposed vigilance committee as
well as residents of the community
and those living on main highways
near, had the warning of the affair
in time to be all eyes and ears.
In the event of a local holdup or
major crime in the confines of ou:
city under the present system, the
participants can make their escape
un-noticed and our efficient police
and county officials are powerless for
lack of information and leads. Pri
vate citizens are not paid for becom
ing targets for bandits bullets, but
many private citizens would rejoice
upon beholding a sample of these
devils suspended from the limb of a
convenient tree, so filled with holes
he would not stop rain water.
GUM SHOE PETE.
Death Call
Comes to Gen
eral Weyler
Spaniard Remembered for Military
Rule in Cuba Passes at Age
of Ninety-Two
Madrid Valeriano Weyler, rank
ing captain general of the Spanish
army and chiefly remembered for his
stern policies in Cuba just before the
Spanish-American war, died Mon
day. He was ninety-two years old.
Three times this year the aged vet
eran fought off attacks of illness,
each though to be his last. He held
on despite all predictions until a
fall from a horse last month weak
ened him.
Monday night General Weyler lay
in an improvised chapel in the mod
est Madrid home where he died, sur
rounded by his children.
Shortly before his death, it was
learned, the old warrior added a
codicil to his will ordering that he
be buried without state honors and
with the most modest funeral pos
sible. "In my time I have seen much
of the world," he dictated, "and I
know they are worth nothing."
Before the will was revealed of
ficials had planned for a state fun
eral with the highest military hon
ors. King Alfonso so ordered from
Zamora, where he is visiting.
By tonight, however, the family
appeared determined to carry out
General Weyler's last wishes as far
as possible. Unless the relatives
yield it is believed that the captain
general will be buried without pomp
or ceremony Tuesday afternoon in
the family plot at San Lorenzo ceme
tery, where lie his wife and a daugh
ter. State Journal.
REUNION OF A FAMILY
SCATTERED IN
1920
PUBLIC AUCTION
The undersigned executor of the
estate of Mary E. Dull will sell at
public auction at the home of the
late Mary E. Dull, on
Friday, October 31
beginning at 2 p. m., the following
described property, to-wit:
One small table; one small table
of walnut; one rocking chair; ore
bed with springs and matress; ore
dresser; one rug. one Congoleum rug;
one kitchen cabinet; one cupboard;
one kitchen table; one dining table;;
one electric Hot Plate; one Riverside
cook stove; one oil stove, 3 burner;
one oven for oil stove; one bock
case; one wash stand; three chain;;
one electric reading lamp; ore
lounge; one -wardrobe; one round Oak
heater; two shares stock in Farm
ers' Elevator and other articles.
We wil! also at that time sell
the following described
property
One rug: one table; one dresser;
four rocking chairs two straight
chairs; one lounge; one heating stove
for wood; 1 refrigerator; one cook
stove; one cupboard; 1 walnut ward
robe; one dresser; one Morris chair;
one lounge; one rug; one bed, springs
and matress; one oven for oil stove;
some crocks jars and dishes; one st
light harness; one buggy; one cutter;
one garden plow.
Terms of Sale
Cash, no property to be removed ur
til settled for.
O. A. DAVIS
Executor of the Estate of Mary
E. Dull, Deceased
REX YOUNG, Auctioneer.
The uper picture is a view of the I Gering
Wild Cat Hills Game Preserve near
The lower pictures show
deer and buffalo at the Federal Re-
P0INT WON BY PUBLISHERS
Omaha A scattered family will be
reunited here soon because Mrs
Lloyd Haskins of Omaha would not
give up in a ten year search for her
daughter, now married and residing
in Donna, Tex. Unable to support her
two small children, a girl and a boy,
after the death of their father in
Oklahoma, Mrs. Haskins left them
with relatives of her first husband
at Hiawatha, Kas. From there the
girl was sent to a Topeka, Kas., or
phanage and then to a mission at
Coffey ville, Kas., after which trace of
her was lost. She recently married
D. F. Rinehart of Donna, Tex. Thru
an attorney who knew her daughter.
Mrs. Haskins learned that she was
in the Texas town. She went there
to visit her and elicted a promise
from the girl to visit Omaha during
the Christmas holidays. She has also
brought her boy, now twelve, from
a farm near Horton, Kas., and has
placed him in school here.
NO DROUTH RELIEF HERE
Indian Summer Weather Is Expect
ed to Prevail for Time
Frost Did Good.
HOOVER HAS DAY AT CAMP
Kansas City. Mo.. Oct. 21. Win
ter's first blast was due to end to
night in the middle west, its echoes
lingering in Oklahoma and Texas
and in states east of the Mississippi.
Indian summer weather was forecast.
The Pacific slope was moderately
warm today and the country east of
the Rockies experienced intermittent
sunshine and clouds with no further
storm threat. Colorado had cool,
fair weather, Wyoming rising tem
peratures and lingering snow flur
ries and Montana was warmer with
more warmth predicted.
In place of temperatures which
ran from a new seasonal low to two
degrees at Max, S. D.. to a high of
55 as far south as Oklahoma City,
the wheat and corn states west of
the Mississippi were promised a mild
er night tonight and maximum tem
peratures which might reach into
the sixties. That was the interpre
tation put upon the laconic "slightly
warmer" forecast for the Dakotas.
Kohmaitq Kansas. Oklahoma. Mis
souri, Iowa and Minnesota by the PUMP AIR
weather observers.
The freeze which gripped the mid
dle west over the week-end and yes
terday did more good than damage
in most agricultural states, in the
Orange, Va. President Hoover
Sunday paid what may be his final
visit this year to his Virginia moun
tain camp. The chief executive mo
tored here Sunday morning from
Washington to see Herbert Hoover,
jr., who is ill, and expected to re
turn to the capital early Monday.
It may be the last time that Mr. Hoo
ver will see his son before he is
moved about Nov. 1 to Asheville, N.
C. The chief executive intends to
go to see the Navy-Princeton football
ame, and plans have been made id
take his son to North Carolina the
following week.
Alterations are being made to the
home on Sunset mountain at Ashe
ville which the son of the president
will occupy and the family hopes
these will be completed by Nov. 1, as
the presidential lodge is not equipped
comfort in cold weather.
President Hoover was accompanied
Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sulli
van of Washington, and Captain
Boone, the white house physician.
Mrs. Hoover arrived earlier in the
week to be with her son.
TO 150
ENTOMBED MINERS
About 55 percent of the counties
in twenty-one states are classified
as drouth relief counties. Nebraska
does not have a single county in this
area while two states, Arkansas and
Virginia, have all counties certified
as drouth counties, says the state and
federal division of agricultural sta
tistics.
A total of 1,016 out of 1.847 coun
ties in twenty-one states have been
certified as drouth counties for
freight rate reduction. While most
of the states within this drouth area
are southern and eastern states, four
of the cornbelt states, Ohio, Indianna,
Illinois and Missouri are included.
Southern states included in the area
are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina. Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia and West Virginia. The
eastern states are Maryland and
Pennsylvania and the western states
are New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana.
Washington The publishers of
the Minneapolis Saturday Press gain
ed a point Monday in their attack
upon the Minnesota newspaper sur.
pression law. Appealing from a per
manent injunction forebidding fur
ther publication of the periodicial,
they were told by the supreme court
that it would hear oral argument in
their case and then decide whether it
merits a review.
Thru Chief Justice Hughes, the
nation's high tribunal anounced it
would reserve judgment on whether
the case presents a controversy with
in its jurisdiction until counsel for
the paper have had their say in
court. The periodical was suppress
ed under a Minnesota law. enacted
in l:25, which empowers one judge,
sitting as a court of equity, to sup
press; any publication printing "mal
icious, scandalous, and defamatory
matter."
serve at Valentine from which
State Preserve will be stocked.
t he
WILD LIFE WILL BE
RESTORED AT NEBRAS
KA GAME PRESERVE
THREE BANKERS INDICTED
Wahoo Frank J. Kirscnman, sr.,
W. H. Kirscnman and Charles T.
Podhaisky, former clerk in the Wa
hoo banks of which the former were
officers, were charged jointly Tues
day with embezzlement, abstraction,
misapplication and making false en
tries, after indictments were return
ed by the grand jury.
Podhaiskv was arrested in Alli-
The Journal will appreciate yourance Tuesday night and will be re-
telephoning news items to No. 6. j turned immediately to stand trial.
The first residents of the Wild
Cat Hills Game Preserve in Scotts
Bluff 'county will be received this
fall. They will not thunder down
the plains to their new place of
abode, as the buffalo did nin the
days of the great hunts, nor pick
their way stealthily along the water
courses as the elk did before rud
settlers preempted their feeding
grounds. They will come inglorious
ly in trucks from Wind Cave federal
game preserve in the Black Hills
where six head of yearling buffalo
and six head of yearling elk hav
been purchased by the Nebraska
Game Forestation and Parks Commis
sion. These are the forerunners.
They will be followed by deer and
antelope. Then the peaceful repre
sentatives of the plains will be safe
ly lodged in their new home.
Wild Cat Hills gme preserve is
1,000 acres in extent. It is in the
wild, pine-clad hills south of Gering,
reached now by a graveled highway.
No. 29. Fence has been put around
300 acres. The fence is eight feet
high and exceedingly tight. It serves
two purposes. It will keep the buf
falo, elk, deer and antelope in, and
it will keep destructive wild animals
out. Marauding wolves and coyotes
prey on young deer, elk and antelope.
The young inside the fenced inclos
ure will be safe from attack.
The preserve will afford a natural
haunt for the wild life within the
inclosure. Three hundred acres will
give sufficient room for the animals
and yet enable visitors to see them
to advantage. The purpose of the
commission in acquiring the preserve
is to keep representative specimens
of animal life of the plains for pos
terity to see in a natural habitat.
For this reason the preserve is an
important reminder of the early life
and character of the state.
The federal government has a game
preserve near Valentine that con
tains large numbers of buffalo, elk,
deer and antelope. But the inclos
ure is so large it is difficult to get a
glimpse of the animals that keep to
cover. The state, through the Curac,
Forestation and Parks Commiss
has just well begun its work of pre
serving wild life, stocking Nebraska
waters with game fish and protecting
game against wanton .destruction
The preserve in Wild Cat Hills is
the largest undertaking but than MM
27 reserves in the state, devoted to
the protection of game.
A very remarkable work is being
done by the Commission. The Wild
Cat preserve was purchased with a
legislative appropriation but the
other projects were acquired either
by gifts or bought with funds ob
tained by th ecommission from the
sale of hunting and fishing UoMMaa.
In this way wooded lands are being
created and extended; natural lake;
are being created and preserved; na
tive game and fish are being multi
plied. Through these public activi
ties the rainfall of the state and its
fertility are being increased, beauty
spots are saved or added to, and Ne
braska youth from seven to seventy
is supplied with outdoor pleasures
that make happy boyhood.
W. M. Kirschmann was arrtsted for
the third time and is to go on trial
in district court Nov. 7 on other
charges. Frank J. Kirscnman is
serving a prison term at Lincoln.
The three are charged on twenty
two counts of abstraction, embez
zlement and misapplication and
eleven counts alleging false entries.
The embezzlement charges involve a
$27,700 deposit left in the Saunders
County National bank by Frank J.
Plak for the purpose of paying a
farm mortgage against him. Thin
money, the complaint sets out, was
not applied to retire the mortgage,
but transferred to the Nebraska
State Savings bank, operated by the
same officers in the same building as
the national bank.
Here it was dissipated in vnrious
amounts during the latter part of
March and the first of April, just
prior to the closing of the institu
tions, until a balance of less than
$200 remained, It is alleged.
NO DANGER OF MEAT FAMINE
Chicago E. S. Bayard of Pitts
burgh, a farm editor. Monday told
the Institute of American Meat
Packers that despite the summer
drouth that depleted feed there is
no danger of a meat famine. Farm
ers have found other feeds than corn
and are feeding livestock to matur
ity, thus avoiding the violent upset
in market procedure feared when the
drouth was at its height last sum
mer, he said.
"The famous cattle ranges of west
ern United States and Canada are
passing' he added, "and range cattle
are becoming a thing of the past, but
this same grazing country is being
turned into valuable grain growing
land, and then the grain is being
fed to the livestock in larger num
bers than the ranges ever produced."
LEAVE PIN STAY IN LUNG
Aix La Chapelle. Germany, Oct. 21
With 60 known dead in the trip;
explosion in the Anna coal mine at
opinion of S. D. Flora, meteorologist, jAltdorf Tuesday, air was being pump-
Topeka. Kas., he said it tended to
conserve moisture already in the
ground while the snow and sleet
augmented it.
ANTI-LYNCH CONGRESS
Boston The National Equal
Rights league and Race congress,
with headquarters here, Thursday
announced that a national negro
anti-lynching congress would be held
in Washington, Nov. 25. William
Monroe Trotter, executive secretary,
said the congress would offer a unit
ed protest to the National Govern
ment and the American people and
adopt plans for self-protection.
ed underground Tuesday night in
an effort to save the lives of 1E0
miners still entombed.
Large stores of dynamite exploded
70 feet beneath the surface, com
pletely wrecking the mine shaftB.
Debris piled up at the opening Of
the mine, making escape difficult.
The dramatic feature of the trag
edy was emphasized tonight when a
group of workers, still trapped 1,000
feet below, were able to talk by tele
phone to those above ground and di
rect rescue.
FOR SALE
Practically new automatic Delco
lie-ht nlant in fin ennditinn Rea-
A tew ot the large Cass connty sonably priced. Mrs. Glenn Perry,
maps left at the Jonrnal office. 1 Phone 4012. o23-ti:w
Lincoln. Oct. 30. Miss Nora
Douglas, 66. Tecumseh, has been re
leased from the Lincoln General hos
pital, where physicians examined her
and found a common pin lodged in
her right lung.
The pin is giving her no pain and,
unless complications arise, accord
ing to Dr. W. L. Curtis, will not be
removed immediately.
Dr. Curtis said that Miss Doug
las case is rare but parallel to that
of J. F. Stoddard, Lincoln man, who
was sent to Philadelphia last week
for the removal of a nail from his
bronchical tube. These two instances
within a week were the only ones of
which Dr. Curtis had heard of here
In 18 years.
The equipment necessary for re
moval of the pin, Dr. Curtis added, is
complicated and expensive.
AUTOMOBILE AND FURNITURE
LOANS. Monthly payments. Closed
by mail. Contracts refinanced. Mc
GINLEY CREDIT CORP.. 655 Bank
of Commerce Bldg., Lincoln, Nebr.
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