PAOE TWO
FLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTJSNAL
MONDAY. AUGUST 22, 1932.
Alvo News
Thomas Stout, while some improv-
t!. is r.til! quite poorly, but is so as
t be up an'l about a portion of the
lime.
E. L. Xelson was a visitor in Lin
coln on last Wednesday, where he
was making purchase of goods for
the store.
Win. Kitz 11 and Glen Dimmltt
were- shelling and delivering corn to
t.'i" Kt-hmc-ier t levator on Monday of
last week.
Lee Stewart has been busy tearing
down the old barn on the place and
v :!l in a short time commence the
net ion of a new one.
L. r. Mullen and Archie and Henry
Miller wire shelling and delivering;
corn to the Rehmeier elevator on
We-dncsday of last week.
I. M. Coalman and the family were
.-nests for the day on last Sunday at
the home of Gordon Heneger and fam
ily and enjoyed a very nice dinner.
Grant Durbin, who is to farm the
Edward Casey place the coming year,
a visitor in Alvo on last Tuesday
and was looking after some business.
Eugene Barkhurst was called to Xe
l raska City on Wednesday of last
week, where he was looking after
rn:e business matters for a short
time.
Mrs. Maybclle Wynn has been vis
it injr with friends and relatives at
Central City for the past week and
will make a ten days visit before she
returns.
V.". II. Warner was visiting for a
short time in Lincoln at the home of
his brother. Frank Warner and fam
ily, r.illie was also looking after
trvio business while there.
John Skinner and Roy Coatman
w, t- vt-r to Omaha on last Monday
and would be feeling strong again in
a short time.
Mrs. Phillip Kahler was entertain
ing the members of the Royal Neigh
bors of America, of which she is a
member, at her home on last Wednes
day afternoon and had a goodly num
ber of the members with her for the
occasion. The regular order of busi
nrss was first looked after, and then
the sociable part of the meeting was
pn loved, beinsr concluded with the
serving of a delicious luncheon by the
genial hostess.
Thcrp was icv when the stork on
last Monday afternoon brought
very line young man to the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl r.ornemeier, and
with the advent of the new member
in the home, there is joy both with
the father and mother as well as the
heme of Grandfather and C.randmoth
er A. I. I3ird and wife. The grand
children who have come to grace the
home of the grandparents are now
five in! number and all are happy and
well f leased.
Marketing Act
Called Farm's
Best Defense
TO BRING TRIO FROM IOWA
Visitine: in the East
G eorc:e Braun, who is operator for
the Rock Island at South Rend, with
the wife, are taking their vacation
having started last week and are
this week visitine in Wisconsin and
will remain there for some two weeks
En route home they will come by way
of Chicaco. where they will visit for
a time with his folks. They are to
spend three weeks on their vacation
NIFTY NOOK 4-H CLUB
with two
large truck loads of oats
v:h h tr.ey were delivering to the
feeders from Simon Rehmeier.
John Iianning has taken the con
tract f.-r the erection of a barn for
August Johnson an ! 13 having G. L.
Rrinton as foreman as well as a num
ber of assisting carpenters at work on
the Job.
Miss Lucele Clifton, daughter of
Mr. an.! Mrs. Roy Clifton, has been
quite ill for the past two weeks with
an attack of jaundice. While still far
f rc m well, the is thowing some im
prove merit.
Neal Lewis was quietly celebrating
the passing of his birthday on Thurs
day of last week, he being 33 years of
se- cn that day. He was doing some
painting at home a3 a portion of the
day's observance.
Miss Lucele Buissing, daughter of
Mrs. E. L. Nelson, has been quite ill
with a serious attack of intestinal flu,
which has kept thi3 young lady in
be.l for several days. She is getting
along much better at this time.
John 15. Skinner and wife were
enjoying a visit for a few days last
w ek at the home of Mrs. Skinner's
parents, J. C. Ohers and wife, of near
FuIIcrton. They drove over in their
car and found the corn looking very
go.-,d, out not quite as good as in Cass
county.
Superintendent of the Alvo schools.
Prof. Robert Quick, with hi3 family
sr.'! household roods, arrived and
they have moved into the house of
Mrs. Minnie Peterson and are getting
Fettled he-fore the opening of the
school y.- ar which is to occur cn Sep
tember 5th.
I'rnnk Plymalo and the family, who
have lin enjoying a vacation in
Wyoming for the past ten days
turnca in st week and report
fine trip and out in
fish that w-rc in a
V.'hib- they v.ere away
business was looked r.Tter
Khelton and Floyd I'ifcr.
Harv. y Hi ir. whil working around
The organization meeting of the
club was held at the school house
Miss Baldwin was present and helped
us to decide upon a girls room club
At this meeting we chose our leaders,
officers and named our club the Nifty
Nook 4-H club. With the aid of her
camera Miss Baldwin displayed sev
eral pictures of prize 4-H projects on
the board.
At the next meeting, with
five
members present, we received out"
first lesson and discusssed color com
binations. Each of us made a colored
whee Ito demonstrate this.
Nine members were present at the
second meeting. For this lesson our
main tonic was about curtains. We
examined some sample curtain ma
terial and commented upon the color
combinations, size and width of the
goods.
Roll call was answered by six
members at the next meeting. Dif
ferent arrangements of the furniture
of our rooms was the topic of inter
est.
The pillows of the first lesson were
Judged at the fourth meeting by the
five members present. Different ways
of improving the finish on furniture
was the main topic.
At the fifth meeting v.e made plans
for a picnic to be given for our moth
ers. The fourth lesson the dressing
center was distributed and read
At the sixth meeting the care of
our rooms was discussed. Our fifth
lesson gave us several suggestions for
doing this in a more efficient way.
Five members answered the roll
call at the seventh meeting. The pil
lows and curtains were judged.
Achievement day plans were discuss
ed and each of us decided on what
we would send to the fair.
Today is the last and closing meet
ing of our Nifty Nook clothing club.
NEWS REPORTER.
GRAIN HEAD IS CHALLENGED
Minneapolis. J. P. Flemming,
managing editor of the Co-Operative
re- Manager and Farmer, sent a mes-
a very isage to C. E. Huff of Chicago, Farm-
but found few 'crs National Grain corporation pres
mood to bite, ident, challenging his recent an-
the grinding ;nouncement that the corporation
by Don showed a 1 million dollar profit in
the last year. Fleminiing, identified
Omaha. Police here said Thurs
day night two Omaha youths and a
third from Vincennes, Inch, would be
returned here from Ames, la., where
jthey were arrested on charges of
stealing twenty-three undertakers
Attacks Laid to Speculative Groups sample burial dresses.
The garments, with twelve scarfs
and a man's suit were taken from an
automobile belonging to James
Moody of St. Louis, parked on the
street here Wednesday. Police said
the youths had attempted to sell the
merchandise in Iowa.
They gave their names as John
I'lakis, twenty; and B. M. Sullivan,
twenty-two, both of Omaha; and W.
B. Dailey, twenty, of Vincennes.
on the Grain, Livestock and
Produce Exchanges
Baton Rouge, La. Every organ
ized farm group in t lie nation was
called upon to demand that the Fed
eral Agricultural Marketing Act b
retained for the benefit of agricul
ture, and thus to prevent a 10-year
setback fcr the cooperative market
ing government, in an address at
Louisiana Agricultural College short
course by Mr. M. II. Winder of Chi
cago, executive secretary of the
American Farm Bureau Federation
Mr. Winder declared the Federa
tion of American Business which
heads the anti-cooperation move
ment in the middle west, is conduct
ing a campaign of misrepresentation
to discredit the Marketing Act, am
asserted that its board of directors
"is composed of almost entirely cf
representatives of the speculative
groups who operate on the grain
live stock and produce exchanges.'
It was observed hy Mr. Winder
that while these "enemy groups
stress the decline in farm prices
'they carefully avoid all reference to
the fact that mcst other articles cf
commerce have gone dawn even far
ther." Admitting that wheat has
dropped more than 50 per cent in
three years, cotton CO per cent and
steers 5S per cent, he insisted that
farmers should be tcld that the mar
ket prices for 50 lead industrial
stocks dropped 85 per cent in the
same period, 20 leading rail stocks
dropped 91.4 per cent since 192'J, the
copper and brass g-Vup declined
79.20 per cent, and New York City
banks had a shrinkage in value of
1.29 per cent.
Analizing charges of antaganistic
groups that the Lnited States De
partment of Agriculture exsponds
annually more than $300,000,000
as a subsidy to agriculture, Mr. Wir
der declared that more than half
of it goes fcr roads to connect large
centers cf population and still more
for use of food and drug adminis
tration, weather bureau, forest ser
vice, etc. He added. Only some
$23,000,000 can properly be charged
gainst the Department of Agrcul-
ture for strictly agricultural pu
poses.
ARRIVES TO VISIT MOTHER
New York. Mrs. Mathilde Mc
cormick Oser and the riding master
husband her mother forbade her to
narry arrived on a steamer late
Tuesday enroute to Chicago, where
her mother, Mrs. Edith Rockefel
ler McCormick, is seriously ill. With
her and her husband, Mex Oser, were
their two children. They plan to
leave for Chicago Wednesday. Mrs.
Oser married her husband in 1922,
when she was sixteen years old, and
precipitated a breach with her moth
er that lasted seven years. Mrs. Mc
Cormick is a sister of John D. Ro;ke-
elier, jr. There were reports that
ho would accompany the Osers to
'hicago to join other members of
the family who are at Mrs. Mccor
mick's bedside.
Chicago. With her daughter, Mrs.
Mathilde Oser, about to start the
last lap of her trans-Atlantic dash
to her bedside, the condition of Mrs.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick was
eported to have improved so much
that she no longer was in immediat
danger, tier sister and brother-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. E. Parmaleo Pren
Trimble Rules
Loan Details will
be Made Public
Farmers' Strike
Picketing Moves
into Nebraska
Dakota County Group Joins in the
Move to Halt Trucks
Clash Reported.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Will Make Monthly Report in
Distrilution of Funds.
Washington. Loans by the Re
construction corporation subsequent
to July 21 will be made public un
der a ruling by South Trimble, clerk
of the house.
The house official's decision fol
lows a controversy which raged dur
ing the enactment of the unemploy
ment relief bill over making public
information about loans by the cor
poration to banks and financial in
stitutions.
The house, led by Speaker Garner,
inserted the "publicity" clause, re
quiring the corporation to report
monthly to the house and senate.
Despite administration objections,
the senate approved the clause after
everal leaders, both democratic and
republican, held it did not require
that the reports should be made pub
lic.
Trimble withheld until Monday
the first monthly report, for the ten
day period from July 21 to Aug. 1,
filed with him Wednesday. He ex
plained he had been advised by coun
sel to permit thirty days to elapse
after the relief bill became c-fTective,
which was July 21. On that date
President Hoover signed it and
characterized the publicity clause a3
obnoxious."
In announcing his decision Trim
ble made public a brief giving his
reasons and reviewing senate and
house debate on the provision. He
cited that the Reconstruction cor
poration objected to it, on the ground
that "all loans made would become
public property."
"It appears," Trimble said, "from
the explanatory statements made by
the committee members in charge of
the bill in course, of passage that it
was tne intent and purpose of con
gress tr.at the reports submitted ny
the Reconstruction corporation un
der section 201 (b) are to bo made
public. It is, therefore, my duty to
ermit the reports filed with me to
be open to public inspection." State
Journal.
Stevens, S. I)., Aug. 17.
Sheriff Hugh Slocum of Union
county appealed to the South
Dakota state sheriff tonight for
assistance in combating pickets
in the farm strike after they had
dispossessed him of his gun in an
encounter between farmers and
special deputies here.
Slocum and several deputies
were escorting i'ivo trucks to
ward Sioux City v. !k :' about one
hundred farmers picketing the
highway l.cre fo:e.l tki-n to
stop.
The sheriff remonstrated and
fned one rliot
gered by the
overpowered the sheriff and took
away his gun.
into the air. A;i
shot. the farmers
Wins Prize at Olympic Exhibit
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CREW HURT ET DERAILMENT
ti:- faim. was climbing a ladder when erativo movement, asked Huff to tell
he f'ipp d and f. 11. striking the floor j how a profit without a pipe line in-
vtn gr-at rorce and ruptured the
vc-riibrap rf his neck. Ills injuries
were very ?ev-re and he was taken to
the Lincoln general hospital, where
he is being treated. It is hoped his
recovery may b- assured, but at best
it will be a long time
Lis fornur condition again. (tico of this oganization which you
Herman L. r.ornemeier has been jare really operating at the expense
troubled for seme time with repeated :f tne federal treasury as the agent
many years with the farmers o-op- I tice, who came here last week when
her life was almost despaired of. have
started back to their home in the
east.
to the federal treasury."
He also said "it is time that you
and your associates, who owe their
princely salaries to political influ
ence and not to farmers cease de
ceiving the public with half truths
before he is in j regarding the character and prac-
atta( ks of appendicitis and while each
recurring attack has been more severe
than that before he concluded to go
to the hospital and have the cause of
his trouble ir.iovc:!. He was taken
last week to the Rryan Me morial hos
pital at Lincoln, where he underwent
an rperation and sirue that time has
be en making fair progress towards
rc'-overy.
'Irs. Joe Armstrong, who has been
making good progress towards recov-
ry. was asked by the physicians at
the I diversity hospital to come to the
hrspita! for an examination nnd in
crmpany with her daughter. Mrs.
Earl Rarrett and Mesdames Ivan and
of the federal farm board."
ICE CREAM SOCIAL
The ladies of the Mynard church
will hold an ice cream social at the
community building, Tuedsay even
ing. Home made ice cream, cake and
coffee, each article 5 cents. Musical
program by the orchestra.
a22-ltw-2td
WILL GO TO WASHINGTON
Minneapolis. Fifteen iwin cities
and northwest business leaders ac
cepteel the invitation of President
Hoover to attend a conference in
I.i Armstrong, v ent to umana last j u asningion next wecK to discuss na
V.'cdnsdny where thfy were assured j tional economic affairs. They held
that Mr.-. Armstrong is doing nicely jan informal conference here.
SHARP WARNING TO CHINESE
ly
Shanghai. The controversy part
responsible for the destructive
Sino-Japanese conflict of last winter
has bobbed up again to disturb the
peace of tho far cast. Consul Gen
eral Murai of Japan submitter! to
Mayor Wu Teh-chen of greater
Shanghai a sharp protest against
what he termed the revival of the
anti-Japanese boycott by Chinese
terrorist organizations. Consul Gen
eral Murai, himself wounded by a
bomb in the hanels of a crazed Kor
ean in March, charged that chambers
of commerce in many Chinese cities
were backing up these "lawless ele
ments" with the intention of stiffen
ing Japanese trade. Moreover, he
accused Chinese papers of stirring
up the Chinese people by publishing
editorials "encouraging hostility to
ward Japan."
Unless Chinese authorities sup
press the agitators, he warned, the
situation "is likely again to assume
a grave aspect.
Peru, 111. A fast transcontinental
train was wrecked in the downtown
district with possibly fatal injuries
to it3 engine crew. The Rocky Moun
tain limited of the Rock Island lines,
whistling for the right of way as it
ped thru La Salle and Peru, struck
nag as it passed the La Salle sta
tion. A baggage car loft the rails
and a few seconds later tiie engine
overturned with derailment of a sec
ond baggage car.
Harry Clewer of Chicago, the en
gineer, suffered injuries which nec
essitated amputation of one leg. John
Horras of Mokena, a fireman, sufl'er-
Sioux City. Ia.. Aug. 17. Pieket
ing farmers Joininrr i:i two c.x-f-
the "farm holiday" movement a id a
milk producers' strike hemmed in
this concentration po;:U tor taini
produce of three states ov. all tides
tonight as they extended tlieir high
way blockade into Nebraska.
J. F. Kriege of Dakota City, who
announced tho dcciiion of Dakota
county, Ncbiaska. farnuri to join
in the strike niov?i:i ?.:t. fv.W the
pickets had crderj to stop cli trucks,
regardless of what they contained.
N'o farm r.roiluc: "cf any i;r.tuie
whatsoever," he : aid, voul-J Lo al
lowed to go through.
Milo Rene, n.'.tio.ial preiiJeat of
the farmers" holiday movement, ar
rived from Pes M-Vae:; In company
with Cleim U. Ililer. lava itate
president of the rimers' union. They
immediately went into conference
with Wallace M. Sliort, former Sioux
City mayor and reputed leader in
the milk war.
Other Envelopment'.
Joining in I his conference were
two Woodbury county farmers and
several from Ccuth Dakota, while
in an adjoining room tne socoimi con-
fe rente of milk producers nnd local
distributors v.s in region. Both
sides continued to held out hope of
arbitration as they rorumed their
conference after the dinner hour.
Other developments included a call
for a farmers' mass meeting at Bcres
ford, S. D., tonight and an outbreak
between some 50 deputies and a
group of pickets cn the Ccrrection
ville road tat cf hero late today.
The fracas result rc". v. hsn three
truckloads cf live sUcl:, w;t"n a six
ton truck in the vagc.urrrl and the
deputies clinging to tho rides, rush
ed the pickets. The l?ac! truck suc
ceeded in Lou icing ever logs and
planks the pul-ct? ha-J thrown in the
way, while the lighter vehicles!
swung aroui-.d the barricade and
ploughed diiTctly into the crowd.
All the pickets jamn.d aside and
started in pu.ruit of tho cavalcade,
but were c:ttditr.r.ccc!, and tho
trucks reach.: A t'ic- stockyards with
out further cli::tnrbar.ce. World
He raid.
1 Skn Mp 9
Percy Crosby Onset), creator of the famous "Jikippy" c-.; ric-ris. won
second prize at the International Olympic art ompc-i ; -.: in Le
Ar.e!c3 with this black and white sketch titled "Jr.ck Knife Divtr."
Artists from thirty-one nations competed.
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Acquitted of a
Murder Charge
want to pive you m
for exonerating me.
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bowed briskly,
from the fr "U
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relisted. He Siys.
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Verdict Causes Uproar in Court;
Trial was Sensational; Jury
Out Alrcost 5 Hours.
:H0USE GIVEN A
2EW JOS
Miami, Fla., Aug. 17. Captain
W. X. Lancaster, Rritish flier, was
freed of a charge cf murdering
Haden Clarke, young writer and bis
rival in love, today by a verdict
which precipitated a courtroom dem
onstration that threatened to go be
yond control of the bailiffs.
The 12-man jury deliberated four
hours -IS minutes before acquitting
him on one complete ballot.
He had been on trial since August
2 in one of the most sensational hear
ings in the history of Florida a
trial that brought out the secret love
lives of himself, Haden Clarke and
Mrs. Jessie M. Keither-Miller, Aus
tralian aviatrix, in detail.
Women Weep.
Fashionably gowned women wept
and shrieked in delight as K. Ik
Leathcrman, clerk of circuit court,
read aloud the jury's verdict of "not
guilty."
Xear-pandem.onium followed, with
bailiffs, deputy sheriffs and police
vainly striving to control the crowd
that surged toward the freed man in
an effort to grasp his hand.
In the midst of the uproar, still
ness descended as Lancaster, ner
vously clasping and unclasping his.
hands, stepped forward before the
jurors, still in their box.
"Gentlemen." he said, "you have
been very patient with my case. You
have had to listen during the long
trial of the case to many things. I
occu;,icd
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sure of
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attempted to t.iik
roar of the crowd.
Mrs. J. M. Keith
ure in the rtrange triangk'.
v. hi : tii
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th courtroom
Miller, third fi-r-
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through."
cxjuv;;se d
in
was read, but quickly
an adjoining office.
"I am delighted," she
knew" old Rill would come
Defense Counsel Carson
pleasure at the verdict.
Slate Attorney Ha wt home !H not
immediately have stfcrjuHi. ,Ir.
Reverly Clarke of New York, b: other
of the dead man, was in the- court
room at the verdict but ouid make
no cc m in e 1 1 1 . Wor 1 J -1 1 e ra 1 d .
ILLNESS HAY SICP FLIGHT
New York. Illness threatened t'
end the en Jura no refueling lii?;ht
of Mrs. Louise Thaden and Mrs.
Fran-es Maivailes at Otitis.-, li Id af
ter they had spent eighty hours fit
the air. The women elrof-pcil a note
saying Mrs. Tdar-aiks was FUfjVrin.g
pains in her side. Field officials
feared it might be appendicitis and
consulted a physician. An ice ba.v;
and a buc ket of ice were Ion ere d to
the endurance plane and vcith them
a no'.c. urging the women to hind if
the pain continued. At 1 p. m. th'j
pair had completed three full days in
the air and by niht they were less
than two days freni their goal of
breaking tho 122 hour record for
women.
ed a crushed riht foot. Kither may
die, hospital officials fa'd, but only
four of their passengers incurred
oven minor cuts or bruises. The
train left Chicago at 10:30 a. m.,
and crashed at 12:45 p. m. Cause of
the derailment was not learned im
mediately. Tho train was a crack
flier of the Rock Island and carried
eighteen passenger coaches, none cf
which left the track.
FIRE SWEEPS THRU MANILA
Manila, P. I. An all night fight
of firemen and volunteers brouaht a
raging fire under control after it had
destroyed three blocks of the historic
old Spanish walled city here.
One unidentified woman was re
ported to have been burned to death eighteenth
Washinc'i-m. The Association
Against the rrchlbition Amendment
announced ihe appointment of Jou
ett Shouso as its i.ew president.
Shouse, u-.til recently chairman of
the clcmocra-1:- r.r.t;c::al executive
committee, will .Miececd Henry S.
Curran, who. w.jI r.ume the vice
chairman;!: cf tl:c beard of direc
tors. The ani;oi:--.ccn:c:it was made in a
letter to clii. ct.-s of the association
from Pierre fS. Pu Font, chairman of
the orgar.:zr.l!onj executive commit
tee, in which he : aid a. "somewhat
different cherar tv r cf work con
fronts" the : ;:srck-1 !o i. Active steps
toward organization will be requir
ed in a nu -Tiber of the states "to I
i
brin. about prc:i ;itly the ratification
of the new r :n?:,.s.mer.t which con
gress v. i"l n:')-n:t," he said. To meet
a "nee l cf eenict::- of guidance ad
ditional to i'.zi ss successful in the
past." Fri Print continued, Shouse
has been r.r.mcd tr the presidency.
In r.n a err-;: ipnnying statement,
Shouse raid "A constructive eppor
tunity cf lane possibilities now
awaits th? ::5!;orir.tion. He said it
was founded on the principle that
"tho police power embodied in the
rnencTnient never belong-
Expressing Economy
1 - "I
and two score others were injured
by flames and falling timber as build
ings were leveled in the path cf the
fire. The Santa Isabel girls' college,
the historic Atcneo school, a bureau
of public works building and the land
registration office we re in the section
destroyed. Damages amounted to
more than 5 million dollars.
ed in the fe.lerr.1 constitution and
should h climii!fted."
Now, l.o r.d'!' d, "there is the duty,
too. to ceo that in any substitute
that may bo proposed this improper
attempt at control is guarded
against."
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"Sec it before you Buy it.'
Little Elinor L. Matheson is weighed like any ether "package" as sh
v-s 5,'iinped by "air express" from Detroit to Chicago by her mother.
Tiiou-h lh regular passenger fare is en.55. ei;ht-yca-frW Elinor
traveled as a "package" tot 57.25.