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PLATTSMOTJTH SEHI WEEKLY JOURNAL
THURSDAY. NOV. 27, 1930.
PAGE TWO
Nehawka
Clarence Hanson was looking af
ter some business matters in Omaha
on Monday of this week.
C. M. Chrisweisser has been in the
western portion of the state for the
pasl week where he has been looking
alter the purchasing of a load or so
oi feeding shoats.
J. H. Steffens and the good wife
were over to Nebraska City on last
Monday afternoon where Mr. Stef
fens was looking after some business
and also seeing the dentist.
C. W. Kleisihinan was a visitor in
Lineoin on last Saturday where he
went to consult a specialist regarding
some threat trouble which he has
been having for some time past.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Steffens of Lorton
parents of J. H. Steffens, and Mrs.
Albert Anderson, were guests at tbe
home of their daughter, Mrs. Ander
son for the day and dinner on lust
Sunday.
Walter J. Wunderlieh of the Ne
hawka bank was looking after some
business connected with the bank at
Nehawka on last Monday at Louis
ville, driving over to the cement town
in his auto.
Mrs. Albert Wolfe and daughter.
Gladys, were visiting and also look
ing after some business matters in
Omaha on last Monday afternoon,
they driving over to the big town
in their car.
Charles Chappel was out on last
Sunday night and with his new dog
was able to land a ccon for his trou
ble and sure he and the others of the
party as well as the new dog, en
joyed the sport.
In a game which was played be
tw en the Nehawka football team and
the team of Avoca, at Avoca, was
played on last Friday with the result
that the Avoca was the winner by a
score of seventeen to twelve.
Louis Carstens of Avoca was a
visitor in Nehawka from last Fri-
day until Monday of this week and ;
was making his relatives and friends
a fine visit. He was the dinner guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Wunderlieh for
Monday.
Arnold Camel and Glen Bauer
were over to Omaha on lust Sunday
where they purchased a used Chevro
let car, with which they will make
their return trip to Dunnlgan, Mo.,
they picking corn here for the past
several weeks.
Robert Parell and Klenime Parell
of Duunigan. Mo., who have been
here for the past few weeks picking
corn for Otis Barnes and where they
completed the work on last Saturday
departed on Monday afternoon for
tneir nonie in tne bouin.
Rmert D. Taylor and Frank Trot-
ter were delivering a large shipment
At 41.. Tr.. Viit-nini t Via
of cattle for Eugene Nutzman to tne
Omaha market on Monday afternoon
and evening with their truck?, they
with the trucks going to the farm
and delivering at the stock yards
makes this manner of transportation
far better than the shipping by train.
John G. Wunderlieh and the good
wife were over to Plattsmouth on
last Sunday where they went in the
afternoon to visit at the home
their daughter. Mrs. C. A. Rosen
crans and family. Messrs. Rosen
crans and Wunderlieh went to the
football game in the afternoon while
the women folks visited at home.
All enjoyed the trip very mucli.
Kdward Kruger was a visitor in
Plattsmouth where he was guest at
the home of his brother, Harry L.
Kruger. as was also W. H. Kruger
and family, and where all enjoyed a
most pleasant visit for the day, and
a fine dinner. Robert W. Black ac
companied Mr. Ldward Kruger to
Plattsmouth where he visted with
friends also and looking after some
business matters.
Robert Troop and wife, living
north of Nehawka, were over to
Plattsmouth on last Sunday where
they were attending ihe funeral of
the late Mrs. Amelia Sherwood, who
passed away at her late home in
Omaha on last Friday. While in
Z; ttsmouth they also visited with
the grandmother of Mrs. Troop, Mrs.
Fred Guenther, who is very poony
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Edward Becker of Plattsmoutn.
Murray Study Club Meets.
On last Friday afternoon al
home of Mrs. Harry G. Todd
ihe
was
held the regular meeting of the Mur
ray Study Club, where with the as
bistance of Mesdames John Vantine
of Wyoming, W. O. Troop of Nehaw
ka and A. A. Young of Lewiston en
tertained the members of the club,
and where a most worthwhile pro
gram was enjoyed by all present.
Delicious refreshments were served
at the appropriate hour and all de
clared they had enjoyed a very fine
afternoon and to which they credit
Mrs. Todd and her able assistants.
Providing Band Teacher.
That the organizing of the Ne
hawka band as well as the others in
this neighborhood has inspired the
Make Your Dollar
COUNT
Your dollar for
th Red Cross
rcll call, which
begins on Annis
tice day will aid
some one who is
very badly need
ing- help. Yon
could not put a
li. j 1 1
Dollar in a better earning position
v. to invest it in a membership in
this great humantarian organisation
tfcat - :o'.tiplishes so much 3001 all
e 'r ths world. Po it NOW. at the
trying of this 1031 Eoll Call!
SILK SALE
10,000 dress-length remnants of
finest silk to be cleared by mail
regardless. Every desired yard
age and color. All 39 inches wide.
Let us send you a piece of genuine
$6 Crepe Paris (very heavy flat
crepe) on approval for your inspec
tion. If you then wish to keep it mail
us vour check at only $1.90 a yard.
(Original price $6 a yd.) Or choose
printed Crepe Paris. Every wanted
combination of colors. We will glad
ly send you a piece to look at. What
colors and yardage, please? If you
keep it you can mail us check at
$1.25 a yd. (Final reduction. Origin
allv $6 a yd.)
All $2 silks, $2 satins and $2 print
ed crepes are 90c a yd. in this sale.
Every color. Do not ask for or buy
from samples. See the whole piece
you are getting before deciding. We
want to be your New York reference
so tell us all you wish to about your
self and describe the piece you want
to see on approval. Write NOW.
Send no money. To advertise our
silk thread, we will send you a spool
to match free.
CRANE'S, Silks, 545 Fifth Ave.,
New York City
young people to become more inter
ested in music, has inspired the peo
ple to continue the instruction of the
young people by the employment of
Mr. James Smith who has so signal
ly interested and Instructed the band
thus far. The money which is nec
essary to furnish the instruction is
being raised by tbe organization oi
a musical association to which a fee
of $3 is required to become a mem
ber. Delivered Special Address Sunday.
The Rev. George I. Morey. pastor
of the Methodist church of Nehawka
and Weeping Water, and who con-
ducted services at the Nehawka
church on last Sunday, delivered a
'discourse especially dedicated to the
Woman's Club of Nehawka, which
'was well received and was attended
bv all the members of the club as
well as a large number of the men
of the town. A most interesting dis
course was delivered by Rev. Morey.
Given Birthday Surprise.
(In loct nnrtnv it bfiner the birth-
dav anniversary of Mrs. Victor
Plunkett, who with the husband
make their home a few miles south
west of Murray, this good woman
wm snrnrised bv her friends and
jreiatives wno 0ame with well filled
baskets and made merry for the day
;t th, pilinj,ptt home. There were
;ar.out gfty present and all enjoyed
t ... r- .
the occasion splenudiiy. tney leit
remembrances as well as good wishes
ind taking the meeting all in all, it
was a most enjoyable occasion.
Visiting With Friends Here.
Miss Mary Troop who is employed
by the state in the Children's Home
at Beatrice and who as been there
for a number of years and where she
is beloved by all the people who
make their home there, has been in
poor health for some time past and
has for the past few weeks been here
visiting with relatives making her
home at that of her brother. Robert
Troop of Plattsmouth, and visiting
with the many relatives near Ne
hawka and Murray. Miss Mary
Troop is feeling much improved and
is expecting to return to her work
at the institute at Beatrice in a short
time.
Entertained In Honor of Brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Balfour, a num
ber of miles south of Nehawka en
tertained at a dinner at their home
on las Sunday where they made a
reception and party for Mr. and Mrs.
Max Balfour of Los Angeles, who are
visiting here for a number or weeks.
There were some thirty-eight of the
family present at the gathering and
among whom were Messrs. Wm. Bal
four, father of Max and Carl, as well
as Ivan. Fred Nutzman, a very close
neighbor of uncle Wm. Balfour and
Robert Ferguson, father of Mrs. Ivan
Balfour. A most enjoyable time was
had by all.
Enjoyed the Football Game.
Stewart Rough and wife and their
(laughter and husband, Martin Ross,
left last Friday for Iowa City, where $y,109.79. While they paid out dur
the: visited with two other daugh- J ing the year: advertising, $332.70;
ters and also attended the football
game between the two teams, Iowa
and Nebraska, which was stubbornly
contested but which the iowa team
won by a score of 12 to 7. Stewart
and the party made the ?np in the
new car. which all conceded to be
one of the very finest of boats.
Business Is Good.
To datp the Farmers Oil Co. of
Nehawka have enjoyed a very fine
increase in their business. They
served some four hundred farmers
who are members of the company,
with two oil and gas delivery trucks.
While they enjoyed a very fin busi
ness the first year, they have Increas
ed their business in 1930 over tbe
volume of 1929 by somp thirty ner
cent and which they consider as be
ing very good and they are well sat
isfied. See the Moorcman Man.
W. P. Wright, the Mooreman Min
eral man is hustling on the job. Re
member to phone him for your stock
needs. He will be "Johnnie on the
Spot" at your place to supply your
need in this line. n6-4tw.
BUFF ROCK COCKERELS
Accredited; blood tested. Price
$1.50. Mrs. F. A. Stohlman, Louis
ville, Nebraska. n20-12tw
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WEEPING WATER
Elmer Michelsen was a visitor in
Omaha on last Monday, called there
to look after some business matters.
Mrs. Charles Gibson entertained at
her home for dinner on last Mon
day and had as her guest Mrs. Mo
gans Johnson.
O. L. Hoffman is serving n the
petit jury in Plattsmouth during the
present term of the district court,
he being one of the regular panel.
James M. Teegarden and wife and
Miss Mable Dudley were over to Lin
coln on last Tuesday where they were
visiting for the afternoon with
friends.
Cass Sylvester of the Atlantic and
Pacific and Gulf Oil Co., was over
to Council Bluffs on last Monday
for a truck lead of Ethyl gas for the
Weeping Water station.
Earl Troop and wife who have
been spending the fall at Arriba.
Colorado, arrived home on Tuesday
evening of this week and report that
the crops are fine out that way.
August Wendt jr. and wife were
in Weeping Water on last Tuesday
on their way to Lincoln where they
were visiting with friends and also
looking after some business matters.
M. H. Prawl who is employed in
Lincoln was a visitor at home for
over the week end also spent last
Monday looking after some business
and visiting with friends in Platts
mouth. Searl S. Davis of Plattsmouth was
a visitor in Weeping Water on last
Tuesday and also was looking after
some business matters as well as be
ing the guest of his brother. Troy L.
Davis.
W. W. Davis, the contractor and
builder, in converting some of the
furniture used in the store of Knude
Jensen into a neater and later mode!
for use in the grocery department of
the store.
Otto Moritz, manager for the May
tag washer, says business is good and
that he is looking for a continua
tion of the same and that with as
good a washer as they have It is no
wonder that business is good.
Mrs. Harold Baker who has not
ben in the very best of health for
some time, is kept to her home and
bed for a number of days and while
every thing possible is being done
for her she still remains quite poor
ly. Mrs. Fred A. Bursch entertained
at her home in Weeping Water on
last Tuesday, the Idle a While club.
and at which time a most delightful
time was had. but she got busy and
served a very fine luncheon and then
no one was idle while they were
eating.
Frank Bresat and wife of Nebras
ka City have been visiting here for
the past week at the home of Mrs.
Bresat, brother George Towle. after
having spent a short time at Savana,
Mo., where she was receiving treat
ment for a cancer and which is en
tirely cured, returned to their home
at Nebraska City on last Monday.
Mx. and Mrs. G. R. Binger were
over to Omaha last Monday where
they visited with friends, making
two parties, one of four of the ladies
who attended a very entertaining
I play at one of the popular theatres
while the men all attended the Shrin
ers meeting and where they expected
that there would be fifteen hundred
but were surprised when they were
twenty-five hundred.
Will Build Storage Tanks.
The Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf Oil
Co., who conducts the Handy Filling
station at Weeping Water, are ex
pecting soon to install new storage
tanks for the storing of Ethyl gaso
line, and with the storage tnks at
Eagle which are used for kerosene,
they will be equipped so that they
can take a truck load of gas to Eagle
and return with a truck load of
kerosene for Weeping Water.
Cass County Fair Shows Profit.
At the meeting of the board of di
rectors and officers of the Cass coun
ty fair last week, the following was
the showing after all expenses had
been paid. With a balance on hand
in cash of $294.29. and the following
items shows their resources: from
membership fees. $50; rents, $32;
certificate of deposit and interest
thereon. $2,163.20; concessions,
$540.80: Checks sent out and rp-
turned uncashed, $4.50; fvom toun-
ty banks. $25; appropriation by
j county, $2,000, making a total of
purchased real estate. $1,950; pay
ing for rents, buildings use, of tents,
freight and labor. $747.73. cash
premiums and ribbons, $577.06;
judges. $131.25; supplies. $207.45;
miscellaneous items. $59.95; Insur
ance, salaries and improvements,
$240. SI. making $4,652.05, with
checks on the two Weeping Water
banks outstanding. $158.25. and bal
ance on hand on deposit, November
15, 1930, $299.49. making a total
of all S5.109.79. The association has
as a showing, now a balance in the
banks. $299.25, equipment old and
new $737.56: real estate and im
provements, $2,695.25 or a property
value of $3,732.30. which they have
charged against them last years In
ventory $3,219.03: depreciation on
real estate and improvement, $269.
53: depreciation on equipment,
$68.13. with a net Increase in
worth, $175.61. This with the real
estate which they have on hand and
with the buildings, placed the as
sociation in excellent condition for
the beginning of the fair for this
year.
Entertained Her Friends.
Miss Anna Hart, the deputy post
mistress, entertained at the Rest
Haven hotel, some 16 of her lady
friends, all belonging to the club
which is known as the Friendly
Ladies.
Installing Grocery Department.
Kaude JeRtiR the sarket aax. i
breachmg out in ffe bitsistfa and
has been installing shelving and
other apparatus so that he can carry
a stock of groceries and will place
the department in the hands of S.
J. Ambler who has had years of ex
perience in the mercantile business
in Weeping Water and who is well
equipped to conduct the ume as is
well known from his year or suc
cessful business here.
Chamber of Commerce.
At the last regular meeting of the
Weeping Water Chamber of Com
merce which was held on last Fri
day, among other things they elected
a new set of officers who will guide
the affairs of the city for the coni
ine vears. The officers for the past
year have accomplished many things
fnr thu benefit of the city and It IS
hoped the incoming officers will be
as active. The newly elected officers
being. W. L. Hobson. president, aud
a hustler at that; Lloyd WUcott, vice
president, also a hustler; D. D.
Wainscott, secretary, and especially
fitted for the position; Richniand P
Hobson, for their treasurer and ther
is no
doubt but that Richmand
knows how to carefully guard th
funds of the Chamber of Commerce
Gave Free Equitable Party
and
fa
On last Monday O. p. Hinas
I Victor Wallack of the First
' tional bank of Weeping Water
md
j agents for the Piquitable Life Insur
ance companyi and In conjunction
I with th"3 district manager, Mr. J. F.
I Wilcox, gave a free party at the Li
;berty theatre when they presented
the moving picture.; to all who carry
; policies in the Kquitable Life and
at which time all enjoyed the occa
I Ion for it was instructive, entertain-
ing and pertinent to the Interests of
every one who
the company.
carries a policy in
Brother and Wife Here.
John S. Williams and wife were
pleased on Wednesday of this week
when they had Evans F. William ;.
brother of John, here for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams, who came
T..,.l. O , . . . 1 nli-ntn alert l'i';.
Sited at the home of another brother
eeidine at Beatriee and as well fol-
lowing their visit, visiting with an
other brother and family in Iowa
i before thev will return to tnelr Da
kota home.
BOBBERS LOOT IOWA BANK
Mingo, la. Bank bandits struck
in Iowa again Monday, getting $1.
;000 from the Mingo Trust and Sav
ing:; bank and speeding away to the
north with hastily summoned officers
seeking to nicl: no the trail. Two
young men. about twenty-one. en-
I tnvtA honlr at nnon mirl f orf H
tered the bank at noon and forced
Lowell Huttery. assistant cashier, to
Me on the floor and Elna Walters, a
I customer, to stand with her face to
' the wall. While one stood guard
'over the pair in the lobby, the other
j entered the cage a.nd took all avail
' able cash. Then they dashed out to
fa waiting automobile driven by a
; third member of iJae band and sped
north. ,
Officers from surrounding counties
were notified of the robbery and im
mediately placed 1 guards over all
highways. A car .stolen from L. A.
Mullens of Des Moines, m found
abandoned two miles lorth Of Mingo
and attempts were made to link the
car with the robbery. The robbery
was the twenty-first in Iowa this
year.
CHARGES MAY BE PRESSED
Iowa City Bigamy charges
against Charles B. Brookins, former
University of Iowa assistant track
coach, will be pressed, it was indi
cated Monday when Brookins was ar
raigned and pleaded not guilty to a
grand jury indictment. He was re
leased under $1,500 bond. Brookins
was charged with marrying Miss
Dorothy Covey of Oskaloosa, on Oct.
31, at which time he was also mar
ried to Mrs. Ethel Heid, a former
stenographer in the department of
athletics. Brookins said he thought
Mrs. Heid had obtained a divorce at
Nevada, la., and after bigamy charges
had been filed, she expressed a desire
that they be dropped, feeling that
her former husband had "suffered
enough."
The former Hawkeye track star
remarried Miss Covey in Missouri af
ter Mrs. Heid obtained the the di
vorce at Nevada. Brookins case has
not been set for trial.
CONVICT WORK IS FOUGHT
Washington The treasury depart
ment promulgated regulations
against the importation of convict
made goods Monday while a witness
was telling the house communist in
vestigating committee how prisoners
fare in soviet camps. The regulations
require importations from all coun
tries are not produced by convict la
bor. Russian goods have figured in sev
eral recent hearings at which the
treasury was asked to bar certain
products, but in announcing the reg
ulations Monday Assistant Secretary
Low man said they were "not direct
ed against Russia but against every
body." Speaking in broken English. Alex
ander Grube, who served two years
in a soviet prison camp and escaped
nine months ago. said 20,000 politi
cal prisoners perished in penal col
onies during his incarceration.
RUTH NICHOLS PAUSES
IN WESTWARD FLIGHT
Columbus. O. Miss Ruth Nichols.
New York society aviatrix. stopped
here Monday night awaiting improv
ed weather conditions before continu
ing westward on a Sight ia quest of
tbe womeu's transcontinental speed
record held by Mrs. Keith Miller oi
Australia. The aviatrix came here
from Kew York ie S hour and M
minute, avoragfng 135 mile an
hour.
Parasitic Flies
Save $100,000
Peach Crop
Scientists Turn Insect 'Thieves' Into
Orchards to Catch 'Thieves'
Two Types Used
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 24. A
Cow thousand dollars' worth of para
sitic flies saved almost 100 thousand
I dollars' worth of peaches In Connect i
cut this year.
Tli is bit of scientific news, issued
at the Connecticut agrieukural ex
periment station today, forecasts a
possible curb to the peach scourage
jthat has covered much of the United
States east of the Mississippi river,
the oriental peach moth.
The Connecticut saving was from
the ravages of this moth, which Is
responsible for most of the wormy
peaches.
The files: are ihe l.ttest chapter in
ithe scientific version of setting n
jthief to catch a thief, one of the
jnaost effective of all crop protections.
Attacks Eggs.
The parasitic flies were developed
by nature, bu. man's strategy ar
ranged .he unusii;;! succ-ess of the
Connecticut campaign. Two kinds of
flies were used, which, so to speak.
caught the mollis both coming and
going. One band robbed the moths'
eggs; the other their young.
Attack on the eggs .ere made by
i.ri hogrammn, a fly bo small that
it is almost invisible, it bores noles
n peach moth eggs and through
rhem inserts its own eggs. From
such eggs no moths at all are born,
but only trichogramma.
The other ries, uiaerocent rus, arc
much larger and lay their eggs on
the bodies of the peach moth larvae.
This allows the larvae a chance to
:lo damage, but not very much, for
presently the cocoon out of which a
peacn mom snouui . raM-gu semi
forth macroecentrus, which like the
j tiger has the moth inside.
Live Flies Shipped.
These two types of parasite flies
were sent to 140 Connecticut or
ichards which a year ago lost 200
thousand dollars from the peach
moth. The trichogramma was dis
trihuted in the form of about four now be of great benefit. y severe quake yesterday afternoon,
million eggs on cards which were "We urgently call uu congress," j The Tokio central observatory re
hung in peach trees to hatch. About the resolutions say. "to consider if j oorcied the quake as beginning at
12 thousand live macroecentrus flies it did not err in 1029-1930. when l4:0; a. m. (1:03 p. m. Tuesda"y, C.
were shipped. although increasing appropriations g T ) and quickiy reaching a di-
The director of this experiment is
I jjj. Philip OarmaB, assistant entomo-
I 1 II 1... .;..,. in. kn ,...:
logist. He says he wishes to be pes-
simistic before offering predict io as,
and to try the flies for one or
two
'seasons more, "just to make certain
that nature in some manner unbe-
.
known to science may not have add-
ed some special conditions of her
own which partly account for this
vear's success." World-Heraid.
COMMUNISTS FIGHT POLICE
New York A crowd of nearly 1,
000 communists engaged in a strug
gle with 150 policemen Monday night
in front of a cafeteria on West Thirty-fourth
street that has been the
j focal point ot several previous riots,
, After several charges by police, two
ot wnom were injured anu laiien io a
hospital, the communists were rout
ed. More than a score were arrested.
Police were informed that another
one of the series of demonstrations in
front of the cafeteria had been plan-
ned for 5:30 p. m., and 150 patrol -
men were stationed near the street,
The communists appeared at 6:40
o'clock, waving banners and singing,
The marchers ignored police orders
to disperse and the fighting began.
Pr,ii,.o arpH thp r-rowH nnil were
met by the banner standards wielded
by communists. Thousands of curious 1
onlookers gathered at the edge of the
melee. For 15 minutes the battle
raged furiously. Then the marchers
began a disorderly retreat.
ROBBERS IN HOTEL BATTLE
Detroit A patrolman, a robber
suspect and two employes were
wounded in an attempted robbery of
the Briggs hotel here early Sunday.
Two robbers were accosted by Patrol
man Murphy, who was stationed at
the hotel, just as they ordered the
night clerk to hold up his hands.
They opened fire and the officer was
shot In both legs. He fell to tbe
floor but began shooting and wound
ed one of the men as th.-y fed. Mack
Wain, bellboy, ans Michael Beiekia,
newspaper vendor, also were hit.
Frank Ferris, twenty-two, was ar
rested at his room in iii apartment
hotel after the house physician re
ported he had been shot.
The four wounded mw;i were taken
to a receiving hospital when? physi
cians said Ferris and Zelekin prob
ably would die. Zelekiw was shot In
the arm. leg and abdomen. Briggs,
owner of the hotel, said the robbery
of $26,000 in cash and jewels had
been prevented by Patrolman Mur
phy. SLUG AND ROB 0MAHAN
Omaha C. R. Weir, Omaha man
ager for the United States Rubber
company, was slugged and robbed in
the garage at the rear of his home
Monday night by two thugi. Weir
was in the garage working on his
car when the lights suddenly went
out. As he walked toward the door,
the thugs accosted him. While one
held a gun on Weir, the other struck
him in the eye, knocking him down.
As Weir lay on the floor one bandit
took his wallet from his pocket, ex
tracted $31 and then left, the other
quickly following.
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FOR SALE
Severil ac-d Hanipsiii su'e hF?.
Phone 3114. Perry Nicklas. Murray.
Neb. r.l0-8tw.
NEBRASKA VICTIM OP STORM
Hugo, Colo. The body of a man
frozen to death in a snowbound
automobile near Kit Carson, Colo.,
Sunday night was identified Monday
af. that cf W. J. Panek of Kearney,
Neb. The body was brought here af
ter the coroner had called an inquest.
Authorities expressed belief Panek
died of exposure while awaiting help.
More than forty automobiles were
stalled on the highway. Ac rsWft
party was sent out from here . -id
the motorists.
Kearney Word received
Monday was that W. J. Panes'
here
sixty,
of Kearney, was frozen to death in
snow near Kit Carson, Col-.. Bui ' v
night. His widow, five sons and one
daughter survive him. He had lived
here more than thirty years. The
bod will be brought here for burial.
Urge Congress
Pass Waterway
Resolutions of Association Ask Five
Year Program Be Pushed Ahead
Dawes Is Re-Elected
S. Louis. Mo.. Nov. 25. Resolu
tion:; adopted by the MiBfllasiPpl Val-
lev association at its closing sossioi
today call on congress to pi f vide
j "by direct aporonriathn or other
suitable financial arrangement" the
; funds needed for completion of the
lass- clation's five-year program of ma
jor waterway.-.
The association re-elected W. R.
Daws. Chicago, president; Thomas
F. Cunningham, New Orleans, La.,
vice-pre3ident-at-large. and Richard
S. Hawes, St. Louis, Mo., treasurer.
Speakers named 100 million dol
lars a year for five years as the
amount needed to insure success of
the program, hut the resolutions do
, hoc ii ,m- u ueu.u e .
carry tne suggestion oi a ieuer;n
bond issue, which is favored by same
of the association's leaders.
Unemployment Is Cited.
Present conditions of unemploy
ment are cited in the resolutions
ito show that tbe plan, if it had been
! adopted by congress last ear, would
tor imanu waieiwajw, n slim i. n
far short of arming its engnu t ri ng
nml eo? IS t l'UCt lOll forces With DlOItCV
land construction forces with money
and authority to proceed adequately
land efficiently with the dve-year pro-
gram
! we desire agaiu 10 pen. k m auu
I . i . . 1 i . : r in
aovise congress iaui ; ne uiS..-oi
terest. not only of the region for
which we speak, but of the country
as a whole, demand that the inland
waterway projects. approved in
. . 1 , 1. ,1
principle
bv congress, be completed
where physically possible within a
! maximum of five years.'
Back Illinois System.
Congress is also asked to end the
("apparently unnecessary delays" in
i waterway, cn which 20 million dol
lars has been spent by Illinois and
for which congress has authorized
the expenditure of $7,500,000. to pro
vide a connecting link between the
Mississippi valley system and the
great lakes.
The resolution also called for the
elimination of "difficulties aid am
, biguit ies" in flood control legislation
1 so that "none of
. -
those called upon
jto yield lands for the common good
should be made to bear an unequal
part of the burden."
j Standardization of waterways on a
nine-foot depth basis, establishment
of a joint water and rail rate sched-
N. d clarification of ftood con
trol legislation were also recommend
ed in the report.
Missouri Development.
The committee reaffirmed its last
year's position that vital parts of the
waterways system, to be improved
with least possible dlay. are "the
main lines north and south on the
Mississippi river from Minneapolis to
New Orleans, and connecting water
ways, ami east and west from the up
taries. such as the Ohio and Lake
Erie canal, and the great Kanaun
nd the Tennessee and Cumberland:
Ouickly
up the Missouri to Sioux City and to s,,j(i the necklace for $TO,000 to
a point as far west as a satisfactory David Michel, a jeweler, who intend
channel can be secured: the intra- jed to remove the diamonds and sell
coastal canal from New Orlean:-. to j them separately.
Corpus Christi, Tex., the introeoasi;il 1
canal eastward from New Orleans, the
Alabania-Coosa. the Arkansas liver
1 the Red River."
With respect to the Missouri riv
er, the report recommended surves
from Sioux City to Benton. Mont
with a view to obtaining a navigable
channel as far northwest as possi
ble. It also urged a survey by army
engineers to determine the feasibil
ity of a slack water project along the
Beaver and Mahoning rivers from the
Ohio river to Warren, O.. and along
the Shenango river to Greenville,
Pa. World-Herald.
D0-X STILL AT ANCHOR
Santander, Spain. Nasty weather
along the "graveyard of the Spanish
peninsula" kept the German sea
plane. Do-X, at anchor here Saturday
night. No one could tell when she
would resume her flight to Corunna
or Serrol. Her owners said ttey had
practically abandoned their plans to
fly to America this year and that
they would probably keep the plane
at Ferrol for some time.
REPORT GOOSE HUNTING
BEST IN TEN YEARS
North Platte, Nov. 14. Despite
warm weather, goose hunting along
the North Platte river is better than
it has been for more than 10 years,
cld-tiraers say. Maev veteran hunt-
tc have killed from 30 to 40 of the
big birds this season.
187 Known Dead,
Hundreds Hurt in
Japanese Quake
Toll Mounts Steadily as Fragmentary
Dispatches Come In Fires
Follow Shocks.
Tokio, Nov. 26. Au eartbyuake
sti . '.rdied a belt of death and destruc
tion across the northern part of t hie
beautiful Izu peninsula' early today
,.uh a toll of dead and injured
mounting steadily aa fragments of
the disaster story emerged from the
t. icken area.
The governor of Shizuoka prefec
ture, which includes, the Izu penin
sula, announced the quake dead to he
at least 187, while the number of in-,
jured was likely to bring the total
casualties to nine hundred,
Other souicej; indicated the toll
j might mount much higher. An ac
eurate tally of the dead was impos
jsiblo owing to the destruction of -communications.
. ....
Fixes Follow Shocks,
j The chief of police at Numazu re
I ported 165 dead in the Numazu police
di -irict alone, including '.il killed at
N'lraysma, eight miles southeast of
Iiibhima.
The fate of a large portion of
i southern Izu was still undermined,
j while reports from such importaut
Renters as Atami, Ito, Nagaoka and
Shuzenji were meager.
Although first reports , designated
Misbima as the center of the quake
l2one, that railway junction appeared
jto have suffered less than resorts to
the southward. At many places fires
followed shocks, greatly increasing
material losses.
Climax of Series.
At the village of Nakazato, near
j Misbima, 20 persons were killed and
1 50 injured. At another nearby vil
lage, Numazu. one was killed, one
injured and fire broke out.
The quake apparently was the cli
max of a series which have been
iclt recently on the northern part of
the Izu peninsula. The Mishima re-
i gion has experienced an average of
three hundred minor shocks daily
since November 10, inelnding a fair-
mensjon of 40 millimeters. The seis-
i mograph continued to record shocks
i nr. : .
tar o0 minutes
In Resort Area..
The Izu peninsula is noted for its
centers of popular resorts." At Atami,
a famous geyser, dead since the eart h
quake of September, 19-23, resumed
'activity.
j The l7.n peninsularoiects south-
; ward trom the principal Japanese isjr
. . - , ' m . t
land of Hondo, Nagoya, one of the
peninsula's largest cities', lies at the'
northwestern base Of the' peninsula,
while Shizuoka. another large . city,
is at the opposite side. Nagoya is
about 150 miles southwest of Tokio,
while Shizuoka -He' about one hun
dred miles from the Japanese cap
ital. The peninsula is thickly populated.
World-Herald.
JURORS ACQUIT ARCHDUKE
New York A jury Monday night
(J. 11 u 1 11 iv mill ni ..-.'' ' - - --'-
of a charge that he aided In
grand larceny thru unauthorized
sale of a Napoleon iieckla: e. the pro
perty of his great aunt, the Arch
duehes Marie Theresa. The Austrian
nobleman, in certain cireunistaix
an heir to the HapsburK throne,
which fell during the latter part of
that country's participating in the
World war. was cleared by the Ameri
can jurors of the first of charges
against him in about four hours -f
deliberat ion.
The defendant stood unmoved
he heard the verdict. Judge Bertini
ordered bail continued for the arch
duke on another indictment eharg
ing the actual grand larceny of the
necklace. The verdict clears the
archduke of a charge of having hma
present on Feb. 11, last, when Col.
Charles L. Townsend and his wife
75.000 NORSE IN CHICAGO:
NOT ONE IS A RACKETEER'
"There are 75 thousand Norwck
ians in Chicago but none of them Mai
gangsters."
At least that is the belief of Rev.
Frederick Ring, 82. Methodist pre -cher
for 60 years, and a Cbicagoan
for the past 40 years. During many
of those years he has been head of
the Norwegian-American hospital at
Chicago. He says he "has never seen
a Norwegian murderer."
THOMPSON HAS A RIVAL
FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO
Chicago Charles V. Barrett, mem
ber of the board of review, announc
ed Tuesday night he is a candidate
for the republican nomination for
nnyor of Chicago. He issued, a state-
merit attacking Mayor William Hale
Thompson as a "ballyhoo and aud
bunk artist." and demanding a clean
up of the city hall.
LABOR DISORDER ENDS
London The Spanish embassy
Thursday issued a lriml statement
declaring that labor disorders follow
ing a general strike in Spain have
ceaed and that the labor situation
is under control.
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