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Declares Gainer
Not a Candidate
for Presidency
Friend Says Speaker. Will Enter in
No State Primary Wire
to Georgia.
Washington, Feb. 24. A flat state
meat that Speaker Garner is not
candidate for the democratic presi
dential nomination and would not file
in any state primary was made today
by Representative Sam Kayburn
(dem., Tex.) in the midst of another
round cf preconvention happenings.
Ravburn. chosen leader of the
Texan's advocates at a rally in San
Antonio on Monday, telegraphed
Judge G. II. Hov.-ard of Atlanta ask
ing bin. to withdraw from the Geor
gia pnimry as a proxy for Garner.
Howard filed Monday in the strong
Koorevelt f.iate, .saying if he won he
would tbiow the state's vote to Gar
ner at Chicago.
"As a friend of John X. Garner
and speaker for his host of friends,
Rayburn's message to Howard said,
"it is my earnest desire that you
not enter the Georgia primary either
as a nrcxy or in any other sense as
a representative of Mr. Garner.
Another Statement.
In a separate statement Rayburn
said:
"Speaker Garner is not a can
didate for the democratic nomi
nation, although sentiment in
his favor is developing rapidly
throughout the country.
"He net enly has not entered
his candidacy in any state pri
. mary, but he will not do so. Of
course, under these circum
stances he would not enter the
primary in Georgia through a
proxy."
Speaker Garner himself has re
mained silent on efforts In his be
half. It remains to be seen whether
his supporters throughout the coun
try will accept Rayburn's statement
as final and thus shorten the field
against Governor Roosevelt, who had
Georgia's delegation in his pocket
until Howard came along.
Speculates on Farley Removal.
Observers watching the fast-moving
preparations for the national po
litical conventions weighed the prob
able effect cf Roosevelt's removal
today of Sheriff Thomas M. Farley,
Tammany leader, but came to no pub
lic conclusions.'
One senator. Wheeler of Montana,
a supporter of Roosevelt for the pres
idency, indorsed Hiis action.
Other senators manifested inter
est, but made no comment. These
included Senators Wagner and Cope
land, New York democrats. World-Herald.
SAMS RE-ELECTED HEAD
OF STERLING SCHOOLS
Sterling, Feb. 2a. Superintend
ent M. A. Sams,, head of the Sterl
ing schools five years, has been re
elected by the board of education.
As a result of a taxpayers' petition
asking a 25 per cent cut in teachers'
salaries, a radical reduction was
made.
ASK SPECIAL SESSION
TO BRING TAX RELIEF
Falls City, Feb. 25. Richardson
County Taxpayers league Thursday
passed a resolution calling for a
special session of the Nebraska legis
lature to pass on tax relief matters.
It nsked that rela estate be re
valued on a basis comparable to re
duced market values, that the state
laws be amended to reduce the fixed
salaries of state and county officials.
Representatives of the Richard
son, Nemaha and Johnson county or
ganizatiens will call Monday on Gov
ernor Bryan to ask a special session
Police Wanted
on Same Level
as War Forces
Conference at Evanston Hears Plea
for More Respect Would Train
Men in Their Duties.
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REFEREE'S SALE
Notice is hereby given that by
virtue of Judgment in partition en
tered on the 20th day of February,
1932. confirming shares in the case
of Humphrey Murphy, plaintiff, vs.
Joseph I Murphy, Margaret Mur
phy, Edward W. Murphy, Agnes
Murphy, Bradford J. Murphy, Mar
garet Murphy, Catherine Wonder,
Charles J. Wonder, and Ershal Mur
phy, then pending in the District
Court of Cass county, Nebraska,
wherein the undersigned was ap
pointed referee to partition the land
involved in said action; upon re
port of the referee that physical par
tition of the land could not be made
without great prejudice to the par
ties it was thereupon ordered and
adjudged by the court that said land
be sold and the proceeds thereof be
divided into shares between the
parties as theretofore determined
Pursuant to said judgment of the
court, the undersigned referee will,
on the Slst day of March, 1932, at
ten o'clock a. m., of said day at the
south front door of the court house in
Plattsmouth, in said county, sell the
said real estate, to-wit:
The SE4 and the N of the
NEU of Sec. 20, Twp. 11,
North Range 12, east of the 6th
P. M., in Cass county, Nebras
ka at public auction to the highest bid
der for cash, ten per cent of the
bid to be paid at the time of the sale
and the balance of the purchase
money to be paid upon confirmation
of sale and making deed by referee.
Said sale will be made subject to a
mortgage in the sum of-11842.12,
with interest from Jan. 1, 1932 at
5 per cent, to the Lincoln Joint
Stock Land Bank on the of the
NEU of Sec. 20, Twp. 11, North
Range 12.
Dated this 26th day of February,
1932.
J. A. CAPWELL,
Referee.
. t. O. DWYER,
W. L. DWYER,
Attorneys. 29-4w
Evanston, 111., Febr. 24. An ap
peal to the policemen of the nation
to elevate their calling to the same
standing as that of the army and
the navy, and a demand for a state
police training school in Illinois,
brought to a close yesterday the four-
day conference on police problems
held here at Northwestern Lniver-
sity. The conference was sponsored
ointly by the university and the
Evanston Police Department, and
brought together several hundred
policemen from Illinois, Indiana and
Wisconsin.
In the closing address. Col. John
Wigmore, dean-emeritus of North
western University Law School, char
acterizes the conference as one of the
'finest signs of the times." Prof. A.
Raymond Hatton, who presided, said
revealed an excellent attitude
among the police, who all showed a
great desire to help improve police
work. If the wish is expressed, and
he thinks it will be, Professor Hatton
said, other such conferences will be
held in the future.
It is within the power of the po-
lce themselves, Colonel v lgmore
said, "to make that occupation a
public career so high it will attract
the best talent from all walks of
life."
Colonel Wigmore deprecated crit
icism of the police for "lawlessness,"
when they exceeded the letter of the
law in obeying the call of duty and
said that "the laws of criminal pro
cedure today are in many respects !
so lacking in aptness and flexibility
that a strict conformity to them in
the pursuit of offenders is sometimes
incompatible with efficiency."
Before the public criticizes its
police forces unduly," Colonel Wig
more said, "it should be remembered
that they are the arm of the law
which goes into the front 4ine
trenches to protect lives and prop
erty against the criminal classes, and
that they deserve our first sympathy
and active support. Therefore anv
udgment passed by public opinion
should be both cautious and discrimi
nating."
Police should never resort to vio
lence, Colonel Wigmore added, declar
ing that their moral and legal power
is ample. While saying that he did
not know the exact extent of violence
used by police in "third-degree" ex
aminations, he said he did not think
there was enough of it to justify gen
eral condemnation of the police.
Colonel Wigmore recommended
that accused persons be given an op
portunity, immediately after their ar
rest, to tell their story before a re
sponsible, impartial person, and held
that the prerogative in this respect
should be transferred from the police
to the magistrate. In most cases, the
opportunity to relieve their thought
of the strain of secrecy, he said,
would be sufficient to bring forth
confessions from guilty persons, if
they felt they could have confidence
in the person examining them.
In a resolution adopted by the
conference, the state legislature was
asked to make a sufficient appropria
tion to support a state police training
school, the resources of which would
be available to all the various municipalities.
Flood Control
Makes Progress,
Engineer Notes
Congress at Louisville Opens with an
Address by Its President .
Cites Work Under Way
Louisville, Ky., Febr. 25. Despite
enforced inactivity because of the
curtailment of public fundi, much
progress in the work of flood control,
drainage and the development of in
land waterways for navigation was
noted during the year 19 31, Mr. R.
F. Williams, Austin, Texas, president
of the National Drainage Conserva
tion and Flood Control Congress, told
delegates at the twenty-hrst annual
session here yesterday.
Among outstanding projects upon
which progress was made during the
year, Mr. Williams listed the Hoover
Dam- Atlantic Intracostal water
ways, projected from Boston to
Miami; Mississippi flood control,
dock and port facilities at Lake
Charles, La.; improvement of the
intracoastal canal between Corpus
Christi, Texas, and New Orleans, for
which a federal appropriation was
granted and a $2,750,000 bond issue
floated, and the straightening of the
Trinity liver's bod at Houston.
Mr. Williams also commended the
co-operation between the United
States and Mexico, which has result
ed in the formation of an internation
al commission to work out an equit
able division of the waters of the
Rio Grande and the Colorado rivers.
Two Huge Projects
In an interview, Mr. Williams, who
is state reclamation engineer of
Texarf, outlined two water-control and
navigation projects in his state which
should have more than a mere local
influence. On the west fork oi the
Trinity river, between 20 and 50
miles northwest of Fort Worth, the
Tarrant water-control district plans
of water and the impounding of 500,-000-acre
feet for irrigation, power,
flood control and industrial uses, to
cost $0,500,000.
The second and more important
project is the canalization of the
Trinity river, from its mouth on Gal
veston bay to Dallas and Fort Worth.
For this, project Mr. Williams has es
timated that 3:5 locks and dams will
be necessary, besides the dredging and
straightening of channels and the
construction of levees, as well as the
construction of storage reservoirs,
which should cost not more than $63,
00,000. Thus waterway navigation
would be supplied for the important
cotton and oil-produeing and manu
facturing territory adjacent to the
two north Texas cities.
Problem Eefore Congress
The problem presented to the Unit
ed States congress for solution is
whether it is impossible to effect
flood control, by means of storage res
ervoirs and reduce the flood peaks to
tlic bank full stae and to eke out the
the controlling of 1,000. 000-acre feet stored water through the dry period
and thus furnish a 9-foot navigation
depth. Mr. Williams says that this
cannot be? done without the assistance
of locks and dams. The Federal gov
ernment appropriated money for the
improvement of Trinity river for nav
igation purposes both before and after
the Civil war until 1921, during
which time seven locks and dams
were built. No aid has been given in
the last ten years.
The deep water navigation project
from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston,
which gave that city a great advant
age, and the enactment of the Dcnni
son Act providing joint rail and
water rates were incentives for an ef
fort by the people of Dallas and Fort
Worth to have a federal survey made
of the natural features and economic
and traffic possibilities of the Trinity
canalization project. Hearings have
been held and a report shortly will be
made by the engineering corps of the
War department. Naturally the pro
ject means much to a large territory
tributary to the cities of Dallas and
Fort Worth, Mr. Williams said.
FLANNIGAN CASE TO JUBY i
O'Neill. Febr. 25. The fate. ;
James C. Flannigan, former Stua
banker, charged with violating tl
state banking laws, was placed in tl
hands, of a district court jury he
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
This trial, the second for FlanB
gan, started a week ago Monday, j
J. J. Harrington and J. C. Coj
argued for the defense and Irv
Stahlmaster, of Lincoln, "and Coun
Attorney J. D. Cronin for the sta
The prosecution stressed the poi:
that the reserve of the Citizens bat
at Stuart had dwindled from 15 P
cent of the deposits to less than
per cent. Judge R. R. Dickson t
structed the jurors.
Flannigan is charged with accep
ing deposits in the bank, which fal
ed a year ago with $300,000 deposit
while knowing it to be insolvent.
After his first trial last Decembt
the jury failed to reach an agre
went. His brother, John, who w,
tried jointly with him in Decemb'c
may go on trial in a few days.
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erade stock of late model cars in Cass county and it will pay you to come many miles to this sale. We have held auction sales in the past and reali
we must take a loss of StViiKAL 1HUU5AINL dollars, out we are going to taste our loss in oruer ia move our siock in one aay.
The following cars are now on display at our sales room and we invite you to come, look them over and try them out before sale day.
Subject to Prior Sale
1 1931 Ford Coupe
1 1930 Ford Coupe
1 1939 Ford Town Sedan
1 1930 Ford Tudor
1 1930 Ford Pick-Up
1 1929 Ford Pick-Up
1 1929 Ford Tudor
1 1928 Ford Tudor
1 1929 Ford Fordor Sedan
1 1930 Chevrolet Coach
,1 1927 Chevrolet Sedan
1 1926 Chevrolet Coach
1 1927 Chevrolet Truck
1 1929 Graham Paige Sedan
1 1928 Graham Paige Coupe
1 1929 Essex Sedan
1 1928
1 1929
1 1928
1 1928
1 1928
1 1927
1 1927
1 1927
1 1925
1 1925
1 1926
1 1924
1 1927
1 1925
1 1926
1 1927
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1 1927 Ford Truck
1 1924 Ford Coupe
1 1926 Ford Touring
1 1925 Ford Touring
1 1 927 Ford Touring
1 1925 Ford Tudor
1 1926 Ford Roadster
1 1927 Ford Pick-Up
Tractors
1 1925 Fordson Tractor
1 1926 Fordson Tractor
1 1927 Fordson Tractor
3 Used Tractor Plows
STEAL COFFER WIRE
From Wednesday's Daily
Sheriff E. W. Thlmgan and Deputy
Sheriff Ray 'Becker, were down in
the vicinity of Union last evening
where they were called on the report
of the theft of copper wire. The
wire was taken from where a tele
phone line force was working, con
sisting ot 244 pounds. The parties
had been successful in removing the
wire before .the arrival of the offi
cers and were able to make their get
away from, th scene before the crime
was detected. -
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