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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
THURSDAY. MARCH 12. 1931.
Nebraska Bus
Tax Shows an In
crease This Year
State Treasurer Licenses 118 Buses
and Collects Fees Amount
ing to $21,557.
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SPECIAL REIT. KS EN TAT! V K
SURPLUS CONTROL URGED
Chicago Senator Brookhart call
ed upon the government to purchase
surplus tann crops to "return pros
perity to farming." Addressing more
than L'.OOO members of the Pure Milk
asxociat ion. the Iowa senator said
that "if the present farm board would
come to congress and ask for funds
to handle the surplus, they would get
as much as they wanted right now."
"The farm problem," he said, "is
a national problem and it must he
handled as a whole rather than in
part. Take care of the surplus for
it will be a protection to the milk
industry. Agriculture is the basis of
prosperity and when restored the
prosperity of the whole country will
; be restored.
Overproduction of dairy products
lias resulted, he declared from farm-
iers going into the dairy business as
a sideline. "Make the other sides
of farming pay by relieving the sur
plus, r'uis relieving overproduction."
, he srid. "This can be done by the
government buying up all the sur
plus, such as the yearly production
c f wheat and cotton and holding it
until it can be sold at a profit."
State Treasurer Bass reports that
during the month of January and
! February he has collected a total of
$21,557 in fees or tax from motor bus
companies operating in Nebraska in
more than one county. This is an
i increase of $2,056.50 over the amount
collected in 1930 by the state treas
urer. The collections come under a
law recommended by Governor Weav
er to the legislature two years ago.
The number of motor licenses issued
the paM two months was 118. The
fees are credited to the state high
way fund.
! The names of the companies, the
number of buses licensed and the to
tal fees are reported by the state
treasurer as follows:
Interstate Transit Lines,
) Omaha
Burlinfcton Transporta
tion '.. Omaha
Pickwick Grey hound
Lines. Omaha
Missouri Pacific Transit
' Lines, Omaha
Stiles Bus fo., Ralston
Neb
Interstate Transit Lines,
Omaha
So. Kas. Stan- Line l'i.,
Wichita
Fisher' Hros., Norfolk.
Neb
Fred Nuttlemen, Hart
Ington, N-i
Lawrence Fisher. Nor
folk. Neb
Solomon Valley Stape
Lines, S.ilina
George Fisher. Broken
Bow. Neb
Rapid Transit Lines.
Norfolk. Neb
Oscar Zurn, Alliance.
Neb
Lines,
Girl's Mutilated
Body Discovered
Wrapped in Sack
Hickman Case Recalled by Similarity
Vanished on Way to School ;
Search Made for Clues.
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An Englishman in Florida has
proven an automobile can be driven
245 miles an hour under favorable
conditions, but fortunately conditions
are not usually favorable.
New Silk Dresses
FOR
Friday and Saturday Selling
Here are advance Spring models . . . They arc toe smartest things that wfl be worn ... ami
are in the newest combinations of the smartest of the spring fashion points color .. . and
we have had to 30 to great lengths to be able to present them at this very unusual price
San Diego. Cal.. March 10. The
decapitated and mutilated body of
Vorginia Brooks, 10. of Eaet San
Diego, who had been missing since
February 11. was found wrapped in a
burlap barley bag on Camp Kearny
mesa today by a sheep herder.
The girl vanished while on the
way to school and had been sought
over the southwest. Deputy Sheriff
Blake Mason said she apparently had
been dead about four weeks and that
in addition to being decapitated, both
legs had been cut off.
The sheep, herder said the body
had not been where he found it for
more than 24 hours. a6 he was in
that vicinity yesterday and would
have noticed it. The mesa is about
15 miles north of San Diego and lit
tle frequented.
Close Search for Clews.
Authorities were making a careful
search to determine whether the body
had been brought to the place in an
automobile. In the hope of finding
clews leading to the slayer.
A neighbor said he had seen an
elderly man, described as a "hermit,"
take the girl to her school on the
outskirts of the city several days pre
ceding her disappearance, but no one
seems to have seen her after she left
home on the morning she disappear
ed. A possible clew was given to the
sheriff by a taxicab driver who
brought in a hat partially identified
as having been worn by the girl.
The cab driver told the sheriff
that two weeks ago he had as pas
sengers a man and a girl wrapped
in a cloak.
Recalls Hickman Case.
The man ordered him to drive to
an address, the driver said, but three
blocks before the address was reach
ed the man ordered the cab stopped
and he and the eirl got out. The
next morning, the chauffeur said, he
found the hat on the floor of the cab.
This conflicted somewhat with the
estimate the girl had been dead about
four weeks.
The disappearance and death of
the Brooks girl recalled the slaying
in Los Angeles in 1927 of Marian
I Parker, 12, daughter of a banker, by
William Edward Hickman. Hickman
was later executed at San Quentin.
I Teachers at Virginia's school offer
jed the theory she might have been
i carried away while searching for
flower specimens for her school work.
World Herald.
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V are in the newest combinations of the smartest of the spring fashion points coirx ... and
we have had to 30 to great lengths to be able to present them at this very a aid price.
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Anti-Saloon
League Now in
New Fight
Seek to Establish Units in Every
County ; Claims Dry Majority
in Congress
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St. Petersburg. Fla.. March 10.
Plans for a mammoth dry organiza
tion of proportions never before
reached were unveiled before the
Anti-Saloon League or America con
vention here Tuesday by F. Scott
McBride, superintendent of the lea
gue. McBride said that under his plan
every county in the United States
would have a league organization,
with a responsible manager, and
that these county organizations would
be cemented into congressional dis
trict units, in turn to be co-ordinated
into state organizations.
"We shall meet the organized
wets with organization," Mc
Bride told the delegates.
"We have a dry majority in
congress." McBride declared.
"In the new congress there are
10 more drys in the senate and
10 more in the house than there
were when the Eighteenth
amendment was adopted. But
we must never relax our vigil
ance, because victories are won
in primaries, and we intend to
meet the wets in the primaries
at every single ballot box In the
nation.
"While it is true that only 12
states in the United States must
hold true to their purpose to
keep the Eighteenth amend
ment in the Constitution, the
cause of prohibition will find
itself in an uncomfortable posi
tion if we do not maintain our
present overwhelming majority
in the congress. This is exactly
what we propose to do with our
organization."
McBride defended the appointment
of wet administrators of prohibition
in wet districts by President Hoover.
"In all fairness, it must be
remembered that the ultimate
approval of appointees by the
senate takes all the real power
from the President," he de
clared. Bee-News.
RUM SHIP IS GIVEN HELP
New York The United States
coast guard, which seized the motor
ship Shamaliam and a cargo of 11-
nnnr lanf TVfftmhor COrted the ves-
8el to port Tuesday for another cause
that of mercy. The Shamaliam had
two injured seamen aboard wno neea
ed immediate attention.
The skipper of the vessel was ad
vlqpri hv wireless to seal UD any li
quor cargo, but this deference to the
prohibition law was unnecessary; sne
was emntv Tho QViq mul iftm which
sailed from Shelbourne, Nova Scotia,
was just released on order or rederai
court and placed under bond. She
wrut nn hnr m tn n i mniw whan
RENEW GAS TAX STRUGGLE
Lincoln, March 9. Nebraska advo
cates of gasoline tax exemption pre
pared Monday to renew their fight
with a new substitute bill, asking
an exemption of 2 cents per gallon
instead of exemption from the en
tire state 4-cent tax. The substitute
measure was to be presented to the
state senate's committee on revenue
and taxation Monday afternoon.
Bills were presented originally In
both house and senate asKing for tax
exemption on gasoline u.ed in trac
tors, combines, irrigation pumps and
other purposes off the highways.
The measure was killed and advo
cates of highway building hoped that
the exemption fight had been dis
posed of.
Senator C. W. Johnson of Potter,
senate leader of the fight for exemp
tions, said he would fight vigorously
for passage of the substitute bill.
Kirkland is
Convicted; To
Get Life Term
his own relatives and
the dead girl. When
merit denunciation of
Estill concluded his
COMMITTEE ON CONTEST
The committee that will have
charge of the Bet'er Yard and (Jar
den contest canvas In the city in the
next few weeks will comprise the
following persons:
First Ward Frank Bestor.
Second Ward Mrs. J W. Crabill.
Third Ward Mrs. Ralph Ander
son. Fourth Ward Robert Hayes.
Fifth Ward Julius Pitz.
There has been some confusion as
to the committees due to the fact
that the committee was announce;!
was composed of ladies entirely and
instead the committee is divided as
to the ladies and gentlemen.
Verdict Is Returned in Three Hours
After Given to the Jury
Fiist Vote 11 to 1.
Valparaiso, Ind., March 10. Vir
gil Kirkland. 20, was OOnvicted to
night of causing the death of Ailene
Draves. 18. when the jury returned
a verdict of first degree murder and
recommended life imprisonment.
The jury retired at 5:15 p. m. and
emerged shortly after 8:30 p. m. On
the first ballot, 15 minutes after re
tiring to consider the case, the jury,
comprising nine farmers and three
rural tradesmen, was reported voting
11 to 1 for conviction.
The Lake county prosecutor, Rob
ert G. Estill, Indiana Harbor, closed
the state's case at 4:15 p. m., with
an eloquent plea to send Kirkland to
the electric chair for the "protection
of girlhood."
Closing the defense. Attorney Bar
rett O'Hara of Chicago had pictured
Kirkland as a victim of what he
termed a gin-jazz age, undergoing
the ordeal of trial with his life at
slake because of the charge that he
killed the girl he loved and Intend d
to marry.
During the whole day's argument
the youth defendant heard himself
variously referred to as a "beast"
and an "unhappy boy," and sat un
moved. Tears were shed aplenty by
the family of
with a Vehe-
Kirkland, Mr.
jury addn - .
Judge (Irani Ci umpacker made hi i
Chfl rge.
Four other youths arc still to come
to trial. The charges were that tl y
forced the girl to be intima'e with
them at a "flaming youth." drinking
party in Gary. Ind., last fall. The
state charged the attacks caused
death, while the defense asserted
death was due to a fall on a concri tc
porch. VV' rld-Herald.
TRIAL AT HALF WAY MARK
Indianapolis The halfway mark
in the first degree murder trial of
i Harold Herbert Behroeder, Mobile.
Ala., garage man. was reached here
when the prosecution rested. Judge
Raker overruled motions by the de
fense seeking discharge of the defi
dant on various grounds and deft i
testimony begun.
charged In t nr e
murder of an un-
here last May. The
man met death by
heating, stabbing or Bhooting; the
second that he was burned to death
and the third that he was slain in
a manner unknown to the grand jury.
Behroeder is
counts with the
known man near
first charges the
EARPHONES IN CHURCH
Columbus -- An earphone system
designed to enable deaf persons iv
the congregation to hea;- the servici i
is one of the novel features of equip
ment iti the new Immanuel Luther
an church here which was formal I
dedicated last Sunday.
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SUNKIST Navel Small size, 2 dozen 35
HiD A are sze dozen 29
lAWvlIli3 Jumbo size, dozen 35
GRAPE FRUIT
Medium size.
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25
POTATOES Si-29
GREEN ONIONS .-5
a01 A O DHPC California. Green
Top. Large bunch.
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4
G. W. SUGAR
10 lb. Afik
Cloth Bag tZf
(Llimit One Bag to Each
Grocery Order
Thompson's
Malted Milk
FOR GROWING
CHILDREN
1 lb.
Can
39
PRUNES
California
Sweet Santa Clara
(Medium Size)
4-lb. box 25 OQ
25-lb. box for ldU
QUAKER OATS Quick or Regular, lg. pkg 19
PINK SALMON 1-lb. tall can 12
BOOTH SARDINES 1-lb. oval can 10
MACKEREL 1-lb. tall can 10
FIRST PRIZE HOMINY No. 2 cans. 3 for25
CAMPBELL BEANS Per can 7
FIRST PRIZE KRAUT No. 2 cans, 2 for 19
FIRST PRIZE CORN 3 medium cans 25
MILLION SMILES TOMATOES 3 med. cans25
MAY TIME MILK 2 tall cans 15
DEL MONTE TOMATO SAUCE Per can 5
PURE HONEY 5-lb. pail at 49
PET PEANUT BUTTER 1-lb. jar. 19: 2-lb.-35
NAVY BEANS Fancy Northerns. 3 lbs 19
SOAP Big 4 White Naptha. 10 bars 29
KITCHEN KLENZER 4 cans for 19
CXYDGL Small pkg.. 9: Large pkg 21
MATCHES Buffalo. 6 boxes 15
HINKY-DINKY
COFFEE
Sweet, Mild Blend
Per lb
HINKY-DINKY
FLOUR
48-lb.
Sack
115
BORDEN'S
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Choice of Six Varieties
American, Brick, Swiss,
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