THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1930.
PAGE SIX
FLATTSM6UTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Opposes New
Laws to Curb
City Gangsters
Hoover Says All That Is Needed Is
Enforcement of Present Ones;
Up to the States
Washington, Nov. 25. President
Hoover said today that reports, that
he would propose to congress new
laws for the control of gangster ac
tivities were untrue. He believes mo
bilization of public opinion behind
present laws will solve the problem.
The text of the president's re
marks: "The report that I am proposing
to congress any extension of the fed
eral criminal laws to cover racket
eering is untrue.
"Every single state has ample laws
that cover such criminality.
"What is needed is the enforce
ment of these laws, and not more
laws.
Reflection on Stamina.
"Any suggestion of increasing the
federal criminal laws in general is
a reflection on the sovereignty and
the stamina of state government.
"The federal government is as
Fisting local authorities to overcome
a hideous gangster and corrupt con
trol of some local governments. But
I get no satisfaction from the reflec
tion that the only way this can be
done is for the federal government to
convict men for failing to pay income
taxes on the financial products of
crime against state laws.
"What we need is more widespread
public awakening to the failure of
Borne local governments to protect
their citizens from murder, racketeer
ing, and corruption and other crimes,
and their rallying of support to the
men of these localities that are today
making a courageous battle to clean
up these places ."
Comment by Mitchell.
Virtually similar comment was
made by Attorney-General Mitchell,
who recently disclosed the govern
ment had sent agents to Chicago to
operate against organized gangs
through the federal income tax, nar
cotics, white slave and immigration
laws.
"It is a fact." Mitchell said "that
our laws are not being enforced. Nev
ertheless, the control of racketeer-1
ing is primarily a state function, and
we are merely offering assistance,
such as attempting to break up labor
rackets which we can reach in a
backhanded way. We have no inten
tion of taking over the whole af
fair." World-Herald.
SUGGESTS 26-DA7 MONTH
FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYES
Chicago, 111., Nov. 14. A sugges
tion from the president of the Rail
road Security Owners' organization
that railway employes reduce their
working time to 26 days a month in
order to provide more jobs was taken
under advisement today by the five
leading railway brotherhoods.
A telegram from Milton W. Har
rison, president of the security own
ers association, called attention to
the necessity of maintaining the fi
nancial integrity of the carriers and
the six-hour day, which has been
suggested to the brotherhoods, would
be impracticable and untenable if it
included provisions for eight-hour
compensation or shortening of the
straight day and lengthening of the
overtime periods.
Damaging Gales
Sweep Nebraska;
5 Persons Hurt
Roofs and Windows Are Chief Suf
ferers in Record Storm Fore
cast, Quiet and Colder
Fear Teacher
Killed by Kid
naper in Colo.
Posse Searches Lonely Prairie; Be
lieve Body Hidden in Deep
Snowdrift.
RUSH TO CITIES FEARED
Philadelphia The Rev. Edward D.
Kohlstedt. secretary of the board of
home missions and church extension
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
in his annual report submitted to the
board Monday, says that American
democratic civilization is in danger
if the trend of population toward the
cities continues. "No purely city
civilization has yet survived in his
tory." the report says.
"It is necessary to develop in
America a national policy in which
the trend toward urbanism will be
balanced by a wholesome, secure,
rural life, in which a sufficient num
ber of our best people may be en
couraged to carry on the important
and primary tasks of building homes,
rearing families, producing the food
and raw materials, but above all,
giving to our cities that quality of
mankind without which no nation
has yet survived."
Port Morgan, Colo., Nov. 25. A
sheriff's posse was organized Tuesday
to search the lonely prairie country
of northern Morgan county for Miss
Enid Marriott, 2S-year-old WigginB
(Colo.) school teacher, missing since
Nov 16.
Clue after clue proving without
substantiation, authorities were con
vinced Tuesday their original theory
of kidnaping explained the woman's
strange disappearance. They believe
the teacher may have been slain and
her body concealed in a snowdrift.
Meanwhile officers at Cheyenne
were investigating a report a woman
resembling Miss Marriott registered
at a hotel there last Monday with a
man.
School officials at Wiggins have
added the information a warrant for
$112 available to Miss Marriott the
Friday before she disappeared was
not claimed. They believe that if the
teacher planned her disappearance
she would have collected her sal
ary. Miss Marriott has not been seen
since she alighted from a train at
Wiggins a week ago last Sunday af
ter spending the week-end in Denver.
A man and a car were on the station
platform when the train arrived. She
is believec to have entered the car
with the man.
BOYCOTT CHARGE DENIED
Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and
all kinds of legal blanks fcr sale at
the Jonrnal office.
East St. Louis William A. Moody,
president of the St. Louis livestock
exchange, denied Tuesday on the
witness stand that any concerted ef
fort had been made on the St. Louis
market to boycott proteges of the
federal farm board. Moody testified
at the hearing ordered by Secretary
of Agriculture Hyde to Investigate
charges that forty-seven buying com
panies and other marketing agencies
had refused to deal with co-operatives
backed by the farm board.
Moody, a former president of the
national livestock exchange, said the
St. Louis exchange had taken no ac
tion in regard to co-operatives al
leged to have been boycotted, and
had not part In inquencing any one
to boycott the firm.
WILLS KEY'S BELONGINGS
TO NATIONAL GALLERIES
New York, Nov. 18. Portraits and
possessions of Francis Scott Key, au
thor of the "Star Spangled Banner."
are bequeathed to the National gal
leries at Washington in the will of
Mary Lloyd Pendleton Abney, his
granddaughter.
THAN KS I
Our Store will Close at Noon
Thanksgiving Day
C. E. Wescott's Sons
A strong northwest wind, which
in certain sections of the state broke
all-time velocity records for the
month of November, swept Nebraska
Tuesday, causing heavy property
damage and injuring at least five
persons, two at Grand Island, one in
Omaha, and two Omahans near Mea
dow Grove. Nebraska's blustering
gale was part of a general storm over
the middle west.
Probably the coldest weather of
the season was to be felt in Omaha
today, with a temperature of 20 de
grese above zero at municipal airport
at 1 o'clock this morning. Huron,
S. D., was the lowest nearby point
reporting at that hour, with 10
above. Sioux City had 14 above, and
temperatures elsewhere over the state
ranged between 22 and 28 avoce.
Salt Lake City had 10 avoce at mid
night. The eastern half of the state was
clear and the western part cloudy
at that hour, and strong northwest
winds were general, with a velocity
here at 28 miles an hour on the
ground. Mail planes were running
close to schedule. There was no
snow.
A 51-mile gale about noon in Lin
coln broke all velocity records for
the month there, according to the
Associated Press. On November 21,
1917, a 60-mile wind was registered.
but it was explained that on the old
fashioned type instrument the 60
mark would be only equivalent to
48 on the present type of wind gauge.
Half the roof of the new 2o0 thou
sand dollar grand stand at the Ne
braska state fairgrounds was stripped
from its steel supports during the
height of the storm. Secretary Geo.
Jackson of the fair board said the
damage would amount to three thou
sand dollars, but workmen who saw
the wreckage estimated the damage
at 12 thousand dollars.
Damage at Penitentiary.
At the state penitentiary, the roof
was ripped oft the shirt factory, do
ing five hundred dollars' damage but
the prisoners were marched out of
the building and into their cells with
out disorder, and repairs started soon
after, Warden Fenton said. The only
other damage was the wrecking of a
large sign board on top of a grocery
store, and smashing of several store
windows.
When the fairgrounds grand stand
roof started giving way at 1 o'clock,
workmen took to cover. Part of the
roofing fell on the roof of the old
auditorium just suoth of the stands,
and smashed great holes. Some of
the concession stands also toppled,
and employes of the fair board main
tained guard to keep spectators at
safe distance.
Praises Convicts.
Warden Fenton said bravery of
inmates and guards prevented great
er loss at the penitentiary. As a sec
tion of the shirt factory roof crash
ed to the ground, the rest of it loosen
ed. A steel ladder across the top of
the building helped keep all from
going, and then the men climbed to
the top and in the face of the wind,
wired the beams and roof supports.
The roof of the old power house
at the penitentiary also loosened, but
it was weighted down and made se
cure. Telephone wires were down near
Wahoo and Ashland, and Burlington
trains were delayed near Seneca when
the wind drifted snow into a cut.
Investigation of reports that the roof
of a building at Ashland had been
blown six miles by the wind reveal
ed that the damage there had con
sisted of the collapse, because of wind
pressure, of a large section of the
west wall of the Swift & Co. ice
house. The wall. 190 feet by 30 feet,
and 18 inches thick, was part of a
section of the structure which was
built last spring.
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COLDEST DAY OF YEAR
YOUTHFUL HUNTER INJURED
from Wednesdays rslly
This morning was the coldest so
far this season with the mercury
standing at 11 degrees above zero
ind one that made the residents step
lively as they hurried to their var
ious places of business and activities.
This locality fortunately escaped any
damage from the high winds which
made other sections of Nebraska out
standing in the days weather news.
Bach Quartette
to Take Part in
'The Messiah'
Raymond Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Hill, of near Percival, Iowa,
well known in the southern portion
of Cass county, was the victim of a
severe accident while hunting on the
Missouri river. The voune man was
iwith a younger brother and the gun
that Raymond was carrying was ac
cidently discharged while the two
were in their blind, the charge from
the gun tearing the ankle and lower
portion of the leg and almost tear
ing off the foot. The younger boy
hastened to the shore with the in
jured brother and reaching a farm
house attempted to secure help but
found that the residents of the farm
were absent and they were compelled
to take their boat and travel down the
river for some distance until they
j were able to secure help and the in
jured young man was then taken on
Into Nebraska City by auto.
The injured young man had bled
very freely and In the search for help I
naa lost a great deal of blood, so
much that it was feared that the loss
of blood would cause the death of
the boy. The wound was dressed at
the Nebraska City hospital and the
young man still under constant care
as it will be necessary for him to
undergo several blood transfusions
before he is able to regain his
strength and return home.
Great Chicago Musical Organization
Is to Be Feature in the
Omaha Offering.
The Bach quartette of Chicago, one
of the finest musical organizations of
its kind in America, has been en
gaged as guest artists for the second
annual presentation of the "Messiah''
at the Omaha City auditorium, Mon
day night, December 15, Dean N. J.
Logan, director of the chorus an
nounced Saturday.
Music lovers of Nebraska and Iowa,
who heard the "Messiah," at its first
presentation a year ago, will recall
the splendid singing of Edwin Kemp,
tenor, Lilian Knowles, contralto, and
Mme. Else Arendt, soprano, three of
the four members of the quartet. It
was in response to requests from
many local music lovers that these
singers wer einvited to return for this
year's presentation.
Mark Love, basso, who critics con
sider one of the most promising
young artists of the country, is the
fourth member of this quartet. He
will make his first appearance before
an Omaha audience.
"We believe in bringing the Bach
quartette to Omaha for the second
presentation of the 'Messiah' that we
are bringing the finest quartette we
can obtain for the solo parts," said
Allen Hupp, secretary of the Asso
ciated Retailers of Omaha, sponsors
of the "Messiah."
"In assuring the second presenta
tion of the 'Messiah' for music lovers
of Omaha and surrounding territory,
we believe we are helping to provide
a cultural attraction that will be
thoroughly enjoyed." Hupp said.
The "Messiah" chorus of thirteen
hundred voices, three hundred ore
than last year, will bring together
singers from Omaha, Council Bluffs
and twenty town in Nebraska and
Iowa near Omaha.
These singers are united into
twelve Choral Unions, which have
been meeting weekly for the past
two months at Omaha, Council Bluifs,
Tabor la.; Red Oak, la.; Blair. Neb.;
Glenwood, la.; Scribner, Neb.; Ne
braska City, Neb.; Malvern, la.;
Plattsmouth. Neb.; Fremont, Neb.;
and Missouri Valleq, la.
Advance ticket reservations may
be obtained by mail or telephone at
the Associated Retailers concert bu
reau, 1624 City National Bank, At
lantic 7190. Mrs. R. E. Kilgore is in
charge of reservations.
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Cass County 4-H'ers to Chicago.
Helen Cole and John Day of Weep
ing Water, Evelyn Sumner of Avoca,
Maiden Hanks, Maize Foreman,
James Wall and Melvin Mayer of
Eagle, leave Saturday November 29
to attend the International livestock
Exposition at Chicago.
Helen Cole has had four years of
4-H work, 3 in clothing and 1 in
Girl's Room. Helen was high Girl's
Room judge at the state fair and
Room judging at theetadlshrdleuta
will represent Nebraska in Girl's
Room judging at the International.
Evelyn Sumner, who has had two
years clothing work, placed 2nd in
clothing judging at state fair and
is one of the members of the cloth
ing team to represent Nebraska at
Chicago.
Nebraska's poultry judges consist
of James Wall, Maize Foreman, and
Melvin Mayer. James and Melvin
have had 2 years each in joultrv
work, while Maize has had 1 year in
clothing, 1 year in Girl's Room and
2 years in poultry.
John Day, the champion baby
beef club member in the county goes
to Chicago as a guest of the Rock Is
land railroad.
Maiden Hanks wins her trip for
being the outstanding poultry club
member in the state. This is Mai
den's second year in poultry club
work.
4-H Home Economics Ex
hibits Go to Chicago.
A reading center belonging to
Margaret Ranney, Weeping Water,
was selected as the outstanding
Girls Room exhibit at the state fair
and has been sent to Chinago to som
pete against exhibits from other
states. Margaret refinished an old
table and chair which have been in
the Ranney family for a good many
years. For light she wired an old
kerosene lamp and made a pleated
shade for it from wall paper. A
braided rag rug, picture, book ends
and waste basket complete the ex
hibit. An exhibit of children's garments
including one boy's suit and one
girl's dress and bloomers suitable
for children between the ages of
2-6 years, made by Arduth Martin
of Union, was entered as one of Ne
braska's exhibits.
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Just a Few o Our Offerings for
Friday and Saturday
APPLES
ROME BEAUTY. Good keep
ers. Bushel Basket
GRAPES Red
Flame. 3 lbs..
HEAD LETTUCE
Finn, solid heads. Each.
ORANGES
SUNKIST Med. size, doz.
NAVELS Large size, doz.
Choc. Cherries
in cream. 1-lb..
MARGUERITE Asstd. Chocolates
Mb., 29: 2i-lb., 59; 5-lb., 98
niTT AIOWT'C Tiie coffee yon have always 07
ULtL, lflVfll 1 Ei hoped some day to find. Lb. O I
MARGARINE
PURITAN. Plattsmouth
has found this OK. 2 lbs.
CRACKERS
SUNSHINE WAFERS Your
choice Graham or Soda. 2 lbs.
AWEONT CAMP FIRE
Poultry Show December 2. 3, 4, & 5.
Entries coming in to the Secre
tary. D. D. Wainscott, Weeping Wa
ter indicate that the Tri-County
Poultry Show will be much larger
this year than last. The show will
be held in the American Legion hall
at Plattsmouth. Nebraska. In addi
tion to the regular cash premiums
a special premium is made on "the
largest number entered by one ex
hibitor," $10.00 for first, $7.50 for
second, and $5.00 for third.
The merchants of Plattsmouth are
also giving many valuable specials
in merchandise this year. Several
educational features will be on dis
play during the show.
The closing entry date is Satur
day November 89. Premium lists
can be obtained at the Farm Bureau
office at Weeping Water or at the
Farmers State bank at Plattsmouth.
Wednesday, November 12, the
Aweont Comp Fire girls met at Ihe j
home of Miss Alice Crabill. A short ,
business meeting, presided over by
the vice-president, Mary Jane Mark,
was followed by song practice. Af
ter that we continued Christmas work
in the work shop. Rachel Robert
son, Scribe.
There is no slack business period
for the merchant who advertises hie
goods the year 'round.
NATURAL OAS IS DEFEATED
Omaha Omaha Tuesday defeated
a proposed natural gas franchise by
a margin of nearly 6 to 1, the vote
being 34,768 against 6,821 for. A
cold wind that ewept the city kept
the oto down. Two yean ago Omaha
defeated natural cms by a margin of
to 1.
Suppose this were the head
ing of a newspaper article
referring to an accident in
which YOUR car was in
volved !
THE man who drives
a car without carry
ing enough liability in
surance takes a long
chance. He may be a
most careful driver and
yet become involved in a
suit that wiU call for the
payment of thousands of
dollars. Liability Insur
ance provides legal de
fense and pays awards
np to the amount of the
policy.
Call, write or phone this agency
of the Hartford Fire Insurance
Company make sure that you
have complete protection.
Searl S. Davis
AGBNT
Plattsmouth - - Nebraska
Protect Your Trees.
Mice are becoming increasingly
more serious in Nebraska orchards.
Orchard owners in Cass, Otoe. Rich
ardson and Nemaha counties report
ed girdling of their trees last winter
and this fall.
Girdled trees can be saved by
bridge grafting but it is a tedious
job and doesn't always work. It is
better to kill the mice before they
damage the trees.
First of all scrape or hoe all grass
and weeds away from the trunk
within a radius of three feet. This
discourages the mice from making
nests close to the trunk. Then
watch for new runways into these
areas and wherever they occur scat
ter poison grain in them or put poi
son bait in stations. A bulletin on
"Mouse Control in Field and Or
chard" can be had at the Farm Bu
reau office and it gives the formula
for mixing poison bait and other details.
BRED SPREAD 6 J C QUEEN OLIVES OQ
varieties. 14 oz. jar. 1 0 Quart jar for Oaf
C0C0ANUT TAFFY OQ GINGER JEMS OP
BARS 2 lbs 2 lbs. for OD
CORN First Prize. OP PEAS Approved OO
3 cans for -Ct3 brand. 2 cans J
TOMATO SAUCE T TOMATO SOUP AQ
Del Monte. Per can O i Campbell. 6 cans for e
Of If if) G. W. 10-lb. Cloth Bags. Limit
of 10 lbs. to a customer.
MAY-TIME MILK
Tall cans. Dozen.
PIPCNIC HAMS
Per pound
SALMON Zeal
brand. 2 cans for.
ROULETTE HAMS OP
Per pound
STORY OF SHOCK VICTIM
Omaha Severely burned when he
twice came in contact with a cable
carrying G.600 volts of electricity,
John P. Weiss, farmer living near
Imperial, is recovering in an Omaha
hospital after a five weeks' battle
for life.
Tuesday Weiss described the sen
sations he experienced when he re
ceived the tremendous shock.
"There was no pain," he said. "I
didn't know what happened. I be
came sort of numb and then drifted
away into unconsciousness I remem
ber regaining consciousness once and
then receiving a second shock that
again rendered me helpless and
numb."
Weiss received the second shock
when workers at the power house
where the line originated repaired a
fuse blown out by the farmer's con
tact with the wire.
Weiss and Dan Benson of Imper
ial, in company with two others, were
moving a house near Iirperial five
weeks ago. When telephone wires
caught on the roof of the house,
Weiss climbed thru the chimney to
release the wires. In some manner
he came in contact with the cable
which cleared the roof by eighteen
inches and to which he had given no
thought.
Weiss was rescued by Benson, who
climbed thru the chimney and
brought the man to safety. Benson
was himself burned on the hands
and stomach.
TAKEN FROM POTTER FIELD
St. Louis Fifteen years ago po
lice arrested a homeless and penni
less beggar and sent him to an iso
lation hospital when they learned he
was suffering from leprosy. He died
later and they buried him in potter's
field.
Eighteen months ago Jacob Kuhl,
who served on Dewey's flagship,
heard a Spanish-American war vet
eran was buried id a pauper's grave.
He wrote scores of letters, examined
many files and interviewed numerous
officials, establishing the fact that
the penniless begar was Emil R.
Graxle. who participated in more
than 100 battles and skirmishes in
the Philippines. Tuesday Kuhl and
three other former service men car
ried Graxle to a new grave in Na
tional cemetery at Jefferson barracks
Ceremonies at the grave were
brief and simple. There was a squad
of soldiers to fire a salute as a final
tribute, an undertaker to say a pray
er over the body and a bugler to
sound taps.
KYLE SAYS STORY OF
THREAT JUST A JOKE
! BARE RED PLOT TO GET MOTORS
Washington. Nov. 25. Basile W.
Delgass, a former vice president of
the Amtorg Trading Corp., told the
house Communist investigating com
mittee Tuesday that 400 Liberty air
plane motors had been bought in the
United States and shipped illegally
to Russia.
Delgas said the motors were pur
chased from the War department and
turned over to Amtorg. They were
accompanied, he added, by "secret
papers" from the War department
files showing changes and improve
ments in the motors used in United
States airplanes.
Delgass said after the motors had
been repaired they were crated and
shipped to Russia as "other mach
inery" despite prohibitive regula
tions. He did not give the date fur
ther than that they had been shipped
since 1927.
POPE PIUS RECEIVES
TWO FROM CALIFORNIA
Vatican City, Nov. 20. E. Ray
mond Armsby and his sister, Corn
elia Armsby of Burlingame, Cal.,
were received in audience by Pope
Pius Thursday.
Omaha Lew F. Kyle, dancing
teacher, who was run down by a hit
and run driver Wednesday night and
who told police that his life had been
threatened during a mysterious tele
phone call he received, Thursday af
ternoon told police that the story
of the threatening phone call had
been intended "as a joke." After
being taken to a hospital Wednesday
night Kyle told police of the threat
ening phone call and intimated that
the accident in which he was injur
ed might have been an attempt on
his life. This afternoon he said "I
was just having a little fun in my
own way.
CLING FOR HOURS TO ROCK
Juneau, Alaska Forty-eight hours
of tenacious clinging to a rock,
pounded and battered by the surf,
save the lives of Theodore Kettelson,
of the Alaska pioneers home; Dr. J.
Hogies, Alfred Tilson and Hugh
Frederickson, all of Sitka. They were
rescued from the surf rock by the
passing motor ship Estebeth, which
arrived here Tuesday. The Estebeth
took them to Sitka. The party was
returning by sea from a hunting trip
when a gale smashed their power
launch against the rocks. The four
climbed on a rock and remained there
two days and two night.
Old Man Winter
is Here
and you must greet him warm
ly. If you are an out-door worker
you should have warm under
clothing wool shirts a depend
able storm coat.
No matter where you work or
what you do, we have the ideal
garment for your needs, at not
higher than you'll pay for inferior
merchandise.