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MONDAY, MAY 2, JT1 Page foub PLATTS1IOUTII SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL I"I-t-MI-M"M"M"I"I' GREENWOOD 1 Evans Armstrong was a business visitor at South Bend on Tuesday ot last week where he was looking af ter some business matters at the home of Harry Hinton, who is farm ing Mr. Armstrong's place. There was joy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Franks on last Tues day morning when the stork came their way with a very fine young son .The mother and son are doing very nicely and Frank is getting along tolerable well. Received Third Degree- Messrs. Glen Teters and Earl Hart sook who have heretofore received the iniatory and first and second de gree of the I. O. O. F. lodge and were to have been given the third degree by the home lodge but with the rush of farm work and many of the degree team being farmers, they were taken to Ashland to receive the degree. They, accompanied by a large crowd of members of the Greenwood lodge went to Ashland on last Tues day night, where they with a class of the Ashland lodge were given the degree. All enjoyed the evening with the brothers of the Ashland lodge very pleasantly. C. C. Eucknell Very Sick. Charles C. Bucknell. who with the wife have made their home at Bur lington. Colorado, for a number of years, they formerly having resided at Alvo. Mr. Bucknell was not en joying the best of health for some time past, and recently came to Alvo and Greenwood and continued on to Sioux City, where he is at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Verle Linch. and where he is receiving medical attention. On Thursday evening Mrs. Bucknell came from their home in Colorado and stopped at Greenwood where she visited for a time with her son, Goorge Bucknell. and also visit ed at Alvo and Elmwood with other sons and daughter. Mrs. Bucknell is to continue on to Sioux City where she will assist in the care of the sick husband. The many friends of this excellent gentleman are hoping that he may soon be in his former health again. Buys 1.050 Baby Cbick3. Paul A. White, living south or town and the wife were the pur chasers of ov&r a thousand baby chicks, getting them of the Leesley Hatchery. Mr. Leesley who has a number of brooder houses and whose practire has been to fill them every season with chicks, has not been able to get any chickens in the brood er houses as all have been taken as rapidly as they have been hatched. He also sold five hundred the same day to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gaebei who reside between Murdock and Louisville. Are Now Old Timers. While some have come and come have gone and some only to come again, and enter into business the second time, S. S. Peterson, the blacksmith, and Mr. N. U. Talcott have remained and now enjoy the distinction of having been in busi ness the longest consecutive period of any of the busiress houses. Oth er. l.ave been engaged in business and suspended for a time and again engaged in the same line and at the fame place, which makes them not the longest continuous merchants. Died at Kearney Monday. Little Phillis Loriene Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watson of Knerim, Iowa, and who was visiting at the home of the grandparents, passed away at Kear ney last Monday, the funeral being held on Tuesday and burial made at the Kearney cemetery. Elmer Coleman, who was relative of the little Miss departed for Kearney where he attended the funeral and burial. New Machine Working Fine. The new ice cream freezer which has been recently manufactured by E. F. Smith and Ed Stradley and which has been installed at the Smith drug store has now been in service fcr nearly a month and is used every day in the manufacture of ice cream and is operated by elec tricity and as the cream is frozen it is forced into a receptlcal or tube where it is stored for use. The ap paratus takes the liquid when pre pared and which is then poured through a tube into the freezer and there frozen. The temperature can be reduced to four below zero and the finished product frozen to such a consistancy as is desired. This de vice which is uaed by Mr. Smith af fords a better market for the local creams and also saves transportation both ways, the shipping of the cream to Lincoln and the shipment of the ice cream here. Operates Feeding Yards. Some time since E. L. McDonald of Greenwood, purchased a plat of 17 acres of land just west of Salt crppW anil has converted it into a feed yard and ever and anon pur chased a few cattle which he fat tened and then with his truck trans ports them to market, thus saving on the feed which he has to use, for he. gets this of people who aennot pay cash and marketing the cattle and hogs. He also butchers a num ber of hogs and has thus saved the purchasing of a portion of the meat he uses from the packing houses. "Baby Steps Out." This is the name of the Senior class play of the Greenwood high school, which they are to present on May 6th, Friday of this week, and which will be given at the Meth odist church. This is comic tragedy and one containing many good hearty laughs and will surely be well worth the while of all who think they have a good laugh coming. Keep the date in mind. CAST OF CHARACTERS Elmer Morris Everett Reece Edna Morris Greta Woitzel Christine Morris Marjorie Xewkirk Madge Morris Virginia Xewkirk Eskew Maybank Arthur Armstrong Willie Baxter Neil Marvin Jane Lucile Reece Betty I-ucile Norton Mary Phyllis ledeman Tokyo Defends Military Acts in Geneva Note Beascns for Continued Occupation cf Manchuria Given to League Cites Rebel Activities. Geneva, April 22. Japan yester day gave members of the League a forceful memorandum defending Tokyo's policies in Manchuria, par- icularly supporting the necessity of he new Manchu government and at he same time reiterating the im possibility of withdrawing Japanese troops. This diplomatic defense is appar ently to anticipate the sharp attack on the autonomous Manchu state which is brewing in many capitals, rot least in Geneva, where refusal to permit Dr. Wellington Koo to enter its territory with the League com mission has made an unfavorable im pression. The Japanese argument runs that following the military occupation of Manchuria, last September, two courses were possible. Either the Chinese could have reorganized and rallied their forces, or local groups could have established separate gov ernments. The first course, which the Chinese obviously attempted to fellow, was blocked by the Japanese army in the words of the present memorandum, because of "the great danger which would have been pre sented by the reassembling of the Chinese forces." Had China been willing to nego tiate privately with the Japanese trocps on its soil, then perhaps the Manchu state would not have been necessary, asserts Tokyo. But failing the private negotiations, Japan was forced to crush the Chinese army and foster a puppet state movement. Tokyo then attempts to build up a case for continued military occupa tion of Manchuria by recounting vast numbers of rebel and outlaw move ments which persist. By this reasoning it is apparently clear that President Pu Yi's govern ment has more active opposition than it has suport apart from the Japa nese troops. But this point escapes the Japanese diplomats, who stress the serious opposition to the new state without realizing its implica tions. CRISP WANTS SENATE SEAT Atlanta. Congressman Charles R. Crisp announced his candidacy Tues day for the unexpired term of the late Senator Harris in opposition to Governor Russell. The governor an nounced his candidacy Monday with the appointment of Maj. John S. Cohen to serve a3 Senator Harris' successor until after the elections in November. They will contest in the democratic primary in September for the remainder of Senator Harris' term, which expires fn" 1937. SCOTT SETS NEW MARK Tort Darwin, Australia. (Thurs day.) C. W. A. Scott, noted flier, landed his airplane here at 10:22 a. m. to recover the speed record from England to Australia which was wasted from him last November by C. A. Butler. Scott, who left Lympne, England, on April 19, bettered But ler's time by 7 hours and 36 min utes, Butler having made the flight ia '4 days, 2 hours and 29 minutes. Willing Hands to Build Park in Idaho Town Bond Issues Spurned by Barley's Pub lic-Spirted Men and Women Have Much to Offer. Twin Falls, Idaho, April 24. Lack of funds for public improvements may be an inconvenience but it is no in superable barrier to the men and women of Burley, Idaho, when they want a public improvement or a need ed community betterment. "We have hands and feet, tools and equipment, and the will to work,' they say, in effect, and no sooner is the need known, than the organiza tion for achieving is under way, and the next thing, the task is done. Lying along the bank of the Snake River, adjacent to the town and the municipal airport is a 20-acre tract of wild land that has all the possi bilities of an outdoor playground, pic nic ground and public park. It belongs to the city. The city has no suitable place near by for outings. Why not make it into a park? "But this is no time to propose bond issues," began the city fathers. And the park advocates replied with fervor: "Who is talking of bond issues? What we are asking s that the business men agree to rel ev eryone for a day to help wit. e work. According to the popular i ports, that will give the business men one good day on which they will lose no money, it will give every man a chance to get out and into the nut doors and it will give Burley a play ground." Behind the movement are the American Legion and the National Guard. Women's organizations will be on hand with picnic luncheons, and with the promised organization at no expense at all. the town will have its playground with bathing beach and motorboat piers and every thing else needed. It is estimated that more than 500 men and boys will be available, and with the prop er organization, 500 days' work ac complishes a lot. Burley people know that things like this can be done, for last year, without wasting time for pleas for help to work their way through the network of legislative procedure, they fell to and built a road into the heart of the lovely mountain section that rims their valley. Cool breezes, fish ing, camping sites all the joys of the hill country lay there, separated from the valley only by an almost im passable mountain trail. But with the co-operation of the national forest of ficials, the Burley men and women made holidays out cf the task of cul verts and grades and fills ami when the hot weather of summer came, they were up and away to the new play ground. So, it is not unreasonable to expect that they will do equally as well with this new project they are undertak ing. ADMIT LOOTING P0ST0FFICE Chicago. Edward Wallace and Frank Wilson, suspects in the recent bombing of the new Ohio state of fice building at Columbus, confessed, police said, to having robbed two Ohio postoflice safes and were ex pected to be returned to the Ohio city. The Ohioans were arrested last Tuesday when Chicago police found dynamite, percussion caps, and blast ing tools in the automobile they were driving. They admitted they had been wording on the construction of the state office building when it was wrecked by a terrific blast on April 14, with the loss of ten lives. They denied knowing anything about the origin of the explosion. Efforts were made to extradite them. REICHERS COMPLETES TRIP Havana, Cuba. Lou Rcichers, American flier, landed here at 5:25 p. m. after a non-stop flight from Montreal, made to test the airplane in which he intends to attempt a transatlantic flight this summer. He made the trip in, nine hours, three minutes. Reichers had explained that the length of the Montreal-Havana flight, 1,786 miles, wa3 approx imately the same distance he would have to fly over water from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in the two-stop flight he plans to make to Paris in the summer. SEED CORN Yellow and graded, $1.25 Barnard. white, shelled and per bushel Charles ni2-2tw Mother day cards in all styles and designs can be found at the Bates Book & Gift shop. Come and look them over while the line is unbroken. We have been working at a lot on 7th and Main street. Mr. Petring has given us permission to transform it into a park. Our requirement to go to camp is to work seventeen hours on this lot. Mr. Ilea sent a truck to haul away the junk, who we thank very much. Mrs. Fricke, who gave us flower seeds of which are to bo divided among us to plant, we thank you. We have been planting holly hocks. Mr. Tidball furnished the water for our plants, for which we thank him very much. The park committee is Rachel Robertson, Maty K. Wiles and Edna May Peterson. The clean-up commUtee i3 Margie Tidball and Shirley Keck. We are now going in groups to make little flower beds. The best one will receive a local honor. A week ago we gave a program for the Social Workers. Election of offuers took place a few weeks ago. They are as follows: President Jacqueline Grassman. Vice-President Anna Marie Rea. Secretary Joan Moore. Treasurer Mark Kathryn Wiles. Scribe Jane Rebal. Notification chairman Maryann Highfield. Song Leader Velma Wells. Sergeant at Arms Katheiine An thes. JANE REBAL. Scribe. Driver of Death Car Must Serve a Prison Sentence Bayard Man Must Serve Two Con secutive Terms of Ten Years Each. Gering. William Hill, twenty-six, of Bayard, was sentenced to two con secutive prison terms of ten years each Thursday afternoon. One was for an attempt to assault a Scotts bluff girl and the other was for sec ond degree murder in connection with the death Sunday night of Miss Bessie Mueller, twenty-two, of Bay ard, who was struck by Hill's auto mobile. He was convicted of the assault charge two weeks ago. He pleaded guilty to the second degree murder charge when arraigned before Judge Carter in district court here. Hill swerved his car across the street at Bayard Sunday night and drove it directly toward Miss Muel ler, her sister, Mrs. Margaret Guard. and Mrs. Jessie Smith inan attempt to frighten them. He was free on bond awaiting sentence on the other charge. Mis Mueller's body was drag ged forty-two feet by the car. She died within two hours. Mrs. Guard was Injured slightly. Hill has served one term in the state penitentiary and also one in the Wyoming prison. He had been drinking Sunday night but insisted he was not intoxicated. Pete Nru, Bayard youth, was in the car with Hill, and raid they were en route to a dance. A coroner's jury blamed Hill for the woman's death. Following his arrest Sunday night. Hill twice attempted to end his life, but officers interrupted each time. Mis3 Mueller was the daughter of a retired business man and western Nebraska pioneer. ALLOW INGERSOLL BURIAL Washington. The ashes of Rob ert Ingersoll, noted agnostic, will be buried in Arlington national ceme tery May 4 at 10 a. m. War depart ment officials said that a "friend" of Ingersoll's had requested that a grave be prepared for that date. Per mission was granted for Ingersoll's burial in Arlington on April 19, 1930. Ho served in the Eleventh Illinois cavalry during the Civil war. Department officials said that no mention wa3 made in the applica tion looking toward a similar burial for Mrs. Ingersoll. BRYAN ASSOCIATE DIES Chicago. Henry Spencer Robbins, seventy-nine, attorney for the Chi cago board of trade for twenty-six years, died in his hotel suite after an illness of several months. Rob bins became nationally known in democratic circles as an associate of William Jennings Bryan. WANT THEIR CEDAR TREES Falls City. General resistance to the department of agriculture's cam paign to destroy cedar trees in Rich ardson county is forming here Among those reported to be leading the movement for organized resist ance are Theodore Schuetz, Shubert; H. C. Witt rock, Henry Wyatt, Fred Marmet and Fred Meyer, all of Falls City; Tony Ege, John Long and Johnnie Bauer, all of Verdon; and J. A. Weddle, tella. The law requiring the cutting of cedar trees where they are within two miles of an apple orchard of I, 000 or more trees is unconstitu tional, being class legislation, the farmers claim. Many of their cedar trees were planted as windbreaks from thirty to forty years ago. Seventeen Cass county farmers went into federal court last week and obtained a temporary restraining or der to keep state men from cutting their cedars. Judge Munger will de cide later in the year whether they are entitled to a permanent injunc tion. Meanwhile it is too late, of ficials at the department of agricul ture say, to keep rust spores now being exuded from the trees, from drying and blowing thru the or chards. ENTERTAIN AT BRIDGE The W. A. Robertson home was the seen- of a very charming bridge party on Wednesday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. Harrison L. Gayer entertaining a large group of the friends. The setting.; were in keeping with the May day spirit, large baskets of the spring flowers, and apple blos soms adding their beauty to the scene. In the playing Mrs. George Pet ring secured the high score wth the consolation honors going to Mrs. A. 11. Duxbury, while for the gentle men, E. J. Richey and Gerald Kvas nicka were tied for first, the honor being won on the draw by Mr. Richey. The gentlemen's consolation was won by Ralph Petring. At the close of the evening the hosts and hostesses served a dainty two-course luncheon to bring to a close one of the pleasant social events of the spring season. Out cf town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brown of Papillion. F. E. MULLEN PROMOTED The announcement was made in Lincoln Wednesday of the appoint ment of F. R. Mullen, superintend ent of the consolidated Omaha and Lincoln divisions cf the Burlnigton, to be general superintendent of the lines west. Mr. Mullen is appointed to thi position to succeed F. G. Gurley, who goes to Chicago as assistant to Ed ward Flynn, operating vice-presiden of the Burlington. The new general superintenden is one of the vetrans of the Bur lington in its Nebraska territory and was for a number of years roadmas- ter of the Omaha division, during which time he was a familiar figure in this city. Mr. Mullen later was sent to the Wymore division and in the last few years has been in charge of the Lin coln division, last fall being made head of the consolidated Omaha and Lincoln divisions of the railroad. Mr. Gurley, who is going to Chi cago, was the former superintendent of th? admission to their pat- Alliance succeeds Mr. Mullen on the Omaha-Lincoln division job. VISIT LOUISVILLE SCHOOL From Thursday's laily Mrs. Glen Yallery and daughter Miss Gertrude, Mrs. Isaac Cecil, .Mrs. David Rutherford. -Mrs. B. F. Wiles and Mrs. Harold Mullis, were at Louisville today where they enjoy ed the day visiting the schools there They were inattendance at the an nual patrons day exhibit staged by the grade schools of Louisville. This work is larsely along the line ot nroiect training and is one of the best in the county in its way. Miss Helen Wiles, of this city, is one of the teachers in the Louisville school, having charge of the fifth and sixth grade work. MUCH CONTAGIOUS DISEASE The west part of the county is suf fering from an epidemic of diptheria, especially in the vicinity of Murdock. The county sheriff has placed a large number under quarantine in the last few days and the spread of the mal ady has been such that a conference was held Friday afternoon. Sheriff Thimgan, County Physician J. W. Brendel and representatives of the state board of health conferred with the Murdock board of health and school board. It was decided that the schools would not be closed at this time at least. 3 mwmmmtfmmmm SPUR-ROYALE Nationally Advertised What better for Japanese Victim of Bomb Dies as Result of Wound Korean Is Named as the Assassin and Other Officials in a Grave Condition, Shanghai. A. iCawabata, presi dent of the Shanghai Japanese resi dents association and one of the five high Japanese officials injured in a bomb explosion at Honekew. died early Saturday. Physicians operated on Gen. Ken kichi I'yeili, second in command of the Japanese army contingent here. removing the toes of his right foot. Mamoru S'nigemitsus, tho Japanese minister to China, who was in criti cal condition witu thirty-two pieces of the hand grenade bomb thrown by the Kor.skew assassin in nis body, passed a faiiiy good night and was reported to be bearing up a3 well as might be expected. The other victims of the bombing were Gen. Yoshir.ori Shirakawa, commander in chief of the Japanese land forces, who was suffering from severe bruises on the upper part of the body and had lost all his teeth, and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, naval commander, who had serious head wounds and lost an eye. Police identified the bomb thrower as Yin Kitsu, a Korean i evolution ary from Manchuria and a member of a Chinese-Korean revolutionary .society functioning in various orien tal countries. Meanwhile, the peace conferences which have for months been going on in an effort to end the Sino-Japanese difficulties have been indefinitely postponed and it was feared all the work accomplished might be nullified by this single dis astrous incident. State Journal. ENJOY A FINE TIME Fro m Fr i il a y's Da i 1 y 4 The card party given by the Holy Rosary sodality last evening at the Knights of Columbus hall was large ly attended and a very delightful time was enjoyed by everyone. There were some twenty tables with a wide variety of different games. In the bridge contest the first ladies prize was awarded to Mrs. Frank Muller while Eractt Mullen received the first gentleman's prize. In the pin ochle games, Miss Helen Smetana re ceived tho first ladies prize, John Svobcda the first gentleman's honors and the consolation prize was award ed to William Woolcott. The rummy awards were to J. C. Brittaln for first and Mrs. Charles Fulton the ladies prize. In the cribbage games E. 11. Schulhof was the winner. The special prize was secured by Mrs. Julius Pitz. At the close of the evening dainty aim ueuc-ious reiresnments were 1 .1,1!,; a served by the ladies of the organ ization. TO CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY Mr. Wm. A. Howard, an inmate of the Nebraska Masonic Home, will celebrate hfs 83rd birthday anniver sary on the fourth day of May, 1932. He has been a member of twenty three secret orders, ten grand and ten supreme lodges. He has been a member of the A. F. &. A. M. and K. of P. orders sixty-two years, and is a veteran of the State Fireman's association. He will be pleased to meet his friends at all times. CARD OF THANKS We take this means of thanking our friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted u;i in different man ners, following the sudden death of our son, husband and father. These deeds were appreciated from the depth of our heart, we assure you. Mrs. C. M. Chriswlsser and Family, Mrs. Martha Chriswisser. The line of cards for Mother's day at the Bates Book & Gift shop is one of the largest that has been brought to this city. Call and make your selection now. lies that "sleep off the wrinkles' they're just like rubber. Beautiful silk patterns. Each: $1.00 Wescott's graduation gifts? INVESTIGATING FIRE From Thursday's Daily County Attorney W. G. Kieck w at Louisville today where he wi called by W. H. Breeden, whose hon was destroyed by fire on last Sat urday night. The case has been ill vestigated by the state fire marshal! office and Mr. Breeden desired thai the county also look into the mat ter. The fire was of an incendiar :::ituiv and the officers of both th htate and county have been hopin to find some trace of the person n persons who might have caused th f.re. Missouri Pacific r Operating Income Shows a Decliib h Baldvajx Statement of President CI. T t r it- I iiiows i-ubs m .Revenue lor uie i Revenue First Three Months. St. Loui.. April 29. Net railw operating income of the Missou Pacific railroad for March amount to $933,127. IS, compared with $1 35S.799.47 in March 1931, accorJ ing to the monthly financial stat ment released by President L Baldwin. Total operating revenu for the month were $6,360,000, con pared with $S, 62 1,537 in March la year. For the first three months 1932 net railway operating incon amounted to $1,778,010, compar with $4,160,299 during the same pe 4 iod of 1931. Total operating reil enuc-s for the three months this yea is $18,238,00S, compared with $24 536,002 last year. On the Gulf Coast Lines net rail way operating income for month ci March amounted to $195,240, con pared with $208,300 in March, 193 Total operating revenues for U i month were $910,526, compared wit; i $1,14S,712 in March last year. fi the three months period net railwij operating income was $53S,525, it inciease of $57,675 over same pdr iod, 1931. Total operating revenuJCf for the first three months of 19U amounted to $2,695,161, compared with $3,272,534 last year. The International-Great NorthTJ net railway operating Income shcjjr- ed a deficit of $19,37S in March, cop pared with surplus of $356,882 Ipt yer.r. Total operating revenues wft $SS9,905, compared with $1,823. ZS in March 1931. Net railway op sting incomef or tho first thi months of 1932 showed a deficit $138,761, compared with surplus jpl $437, 67S in same period last yetr Total operating revenue for tlit thre months this year is $2,671,71 t, compared with $4,112,937 same par iod 1931. Special Mother day mottoes ctl be found in a large variety of dJ signs at the Bates Book & Gift shep Call end look them over. Confirmation Suits A spick and span new shift ment of these mannish Iittli suits of all wool blues ola serge and cashmeres- Coal vest and two pants, well ta ored and a suit built for lo wear and lasting good loo Give the Boy a Suit He will be Frond to Wear $7.50 Carhartt Overall Prices Hi-back op Suspenders $1? Oak Brand ZZ il i uup snaciai y i