MONDAY, FEBR. 13, 1933.
PAGS nvs
Elmwood Has
Visitation from
Fire Demon
Elm weed Department called 0:rt ic
Coldest Weather to Fifct
Fire in Residence.
On Tuesday evening about CvcjR. C. iladclox examined the young
o'clock the fire alarm was turned inters and was encouraged. He said
and firemen were soon at the fire' he saAY no sign that the poison was
house getting out the hose carts and 'getting rn its work. Apparently, he
ladders. They had just gotten the -raid, the boys received medical treat
carts out w hen Dr. Listen cams along !ment quick enough to save their lives.
with his coupe and hauled the carts
to the scene of the fire at the Coat-!
man residence, and in the meantime
the hook and ladder wagon was
brought up
was comim
Quite a lot of smoke!
from the roof of the
house and it locked as if there wrs
real work for the firemen. It wa3
discovered that the fire was between
the wall on the inside and also the
ceiling and floor of the second Socr.
Holes were chopped in the floor r.r.d
chemical tank:- used and finally it
was necessary to ue water to put
the fire out. The Cre is supposed to
have caught because of a defective
chimney. As it was, quite a little
damage was done before tl3 fro wan
extinguished. The firemen hr.d the
water from two hoses ready in case
that it was needed and this showed
good work upon the part of the fire
men. It has been just a little over a
year ago when Mr. Cor.tr.an suffered
a oz3 by fire when the Goodridgc
and Coatman hardware burned.
Mrs. Coatman discovered the fire
when f he saw flames issuing from a
he'e rear the chimney, she got water
and vent up stairs to see what rhej
could do and Ethel Coatman called
central office to blow the fire siren.
Elmwood Leader-Echo.
f SCHOOL NOTES
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Snightiiocl of Ycrth.
School r.tv.3, sixth grade. Central
building. Miss Hiatt, teacher.
Secretary report. Knighthood
Youth, Febr. 3, 1933:
We opened our meeting by singing
"America" and giving the Hag ralute.
Roll call was naming a national
park. Then followed the secretary's
report, report of committees, and
'reading committee report.
Mary Alice Hiatt, Jimmie Kozak,
Donald Bureham, Maxine Nielsen,
Bessie Mae Lanais. Kathryn Skallen
btrger. Violet Rabb, Donald Wall,
Gertrude Taylor and Opal Byers were
rewarded with a stone.
New .buSincrs To decide if we
should have a new reading chart.
Frogram Club yells and club
songs.
Meeting adjourned until February
10th.
We have a new member added to
our group, Margie Marie Lancaster
who has been attending school at
Murray. We are glad to have her
with ua. We have an enrollment of
34.
We are studying "The New' World
History," which we c-njey very much.
Making booklets cf ancient and mod
ern inventions.
We had 16 absent Tuesday due to
the snow storm.
We have our room decorated for
February. Come and see us, we sure
look nice.
Mr. Devoe will entertain us in our
Knighthood of Youth club Friday
morning. February 1C.
Miss Hiatt'3 d?ck is deccratad with
a beautiful rone and a hyacinth which
is blooming thi week.
We r.re having our 19th self-testing
drill Friday.
We have rated C, four times; 1
ten time?.; S three times; 9 once tin?
year. T.hh? ; hows that, we have made
a good record and we want to keep
it up the rest cf the year.
Knighthood of Youth.
Mi.ss Manner, teatT'cr.
Minute- c:
Youth club
tl:
Kingthond
meeting February 2
The meeting was called to order
ty the president. Eleanor Giles.
After givir.i? the Sag salute end
ringing "America" cur president pre
sented us with our Knighthood of
Youth club pins.
We appointed the following nw
eommittees: Ruth. Ann Hatt and
Charlotte Palmer for housekeepers;
Anna Mary McMaken, health in
spector ; Rose Mary Steppct, Kathryn
Barkus, Raymond Kalasel: and Dale
Jackson, program committee; Shirley
Secord and Frances Hadraba were
appointed to make the valentine bjx
for our room.
We decided to work on the f-I-jat
lowing this month: 1. Keep our rocm
clean, especially the floor. 2. Being
more courteous. 3. Being quiet
whenever it is necessary for the
teacher to be out of the room. 4. Get
our work in on time. 5. Good be
havior. This being the month cf Edison's
birthday our president read us the
Ftory of his life and our meeting was
adjourned Winford Dasher, secre
tary. Beautiful art valentines at a Tide
range cf prices are to te found cn
display at the Bates Eook store. Nov;
is the time to call and look over the
line while there arc so many fine re
membrances to be found.
MISTAKE POISON FOR CANDY
Rome, Ga. Little Jimmy Doss, 3,
and his brother, Clayton, 2, played
in glee with their toys and then went
to bed. totally unaware and not
caring about the efforts of doctors
to prevent them becoming possible
victims of a slow poison death. Be
hind the cribs the parents watched
ttruout the night for the least sign
that the poison was taking effect. Dr.
Early this week the
playing about the house.
boys were
They saw
a box that they believed contained
candy. They took several pellets
from the bes and ate them.
Mouse Debates
Proposed Fran-
cmse r revisions
Dorglas County Delegation Well Di
vided in Rejrard to the
School Board.
Islembers of the houre indulged in
debate Friday cn the matter of how
towns and villages should determine
franchise matters concerning gas and
electricity. II. R. 150, by Maday of
Nemaha, providing for franchise
grants cf twenty-five years and con
tracts over a rcriod of five years,
jwas under discussion. The experience
;of Lincoln with a ten year franchise
may induce friends of the bill to re
duce the twenty-five year period
down to that extension. Progress
was reported and the matter will be
determined when the house recon
venes next week.
Members of the Douglas county
delegation were divided on the mat
ter as prcporcd in II. R. CI. by Tesar,
providing for the nomination of can-
! ' 1 . i m l . 1 y"v 1
school board by district. Rohlff was
the leader of the opposition, alleging
that no word had been presented by
A prononents of the bill to indicate the
present board members had failed to
manage affairs efficiently. The mo
tion by Rohlff to postpone was de
feated 47 to 19 and the bill was ad
vanced to third reading.
Tesar argued that his proposition
gave representation with taxation.
The bill, as amended, provides for
nomination by district and election
at large. Dehate was largely ever
silk stockings. Chase, member of the
Douglas delegation, insisted that
stocking:; should not have entered
since those cf the sheer tort are worn
generally even tho cotton coverings
v. onld be in better keeping with the
times. Tesar claimed that silk stock
ing districts, or those populated by
the wealthier class, controlled the
board.
The bill, killed in committee, was
resurrected by Tesar. The measure
was advanced to third reading.
Proposal to amend the orange and
cedar rust bill enacted by the 1931
session was defeated.
House judiciary voted out to gen
eral file H. R. 2S0, by Uttecht. pro
viding that persons jointly indicted
shall be entitled to separate trials
only when the trial judge, in his
sound discretion, so directs. The
committee amended by writing in a
section of the model criminal code
which covers both misdemeanors and
felonies. It provides that when a
grcup is charged, the court may try
in group or separately.
The house revenue committee fin
ished its work cf revision of the bill
to reduce delinquent tax interest
rates except for the problem of dis
tress warrants on personal tare". As
revised, the committee will report out
a bill which will permit payment
either of real or personal taxes in
two installments but will require
pajmient of interest on the unpaid
portion until paid.
"HIE" KAH0HEY EETTE
Omaha. Frank "Ike" Mahoney,
county commissioner and former star
Creighton university athlete, badly
j Tuesday night, cotinues to improve
Lord Lister hospital. Mahoney'st
splendid physique may pull him thru,
altho his chest was badly crushed,
surgeons said.
TTT.TE TOR nZDT.T.TPTIOU
Bismarck, N. D. A measure ex
tending to two years the present one
year period for property redemption
after mortgage foreclosure and real
estate execution sales was approved
by the state legislature and sent to
Governor Langer.
If you want to sen anythlna. I
try a Journal Want-fid. The cost:
Is small.
Confusion Reigns
ai Opening Fatal
Hotel Fire Probe
Reveal Sprinkler System Failed While
the Flames Swept Building
Wiring "was Dangerous
Omaha, Feb. 10. A score or more
witnesses paraded to the witness
stand Friday as city, county, state
and insurance company authorities
opened their investigation of the Mil
lard hotel fire that resulted in the
death cf seven firemen but the re
sults were practically gainless as far
as uncovering the cause of the fire.
The stories told by some witnesses
were conflicting and only served to
make the situation more confused.
Investigators revealed they had
found a notebook in the pockets of
Clarence Urban, fire inspector who
was killed, in which he had written
a few words about the sprinkler sys
tem net working and had jotted down
a few other notes of his observations.
Urban was killed when the four
floors and roof at the south end of
the building collapsed, trapping him
in the basement. He had entered the
building for further checkup on the
sprinkler system.
Assistant Fire Chief Hartnett, a
leading witness, testified that the
fire had been burning at least ten
minutes and possibly twenty-five min
utes before firemen arrived on the
scene.
He said that nowhere in the build
ing was there evidence that the
sprinkler system was operating. The
system, he said, was not in operation
cn the second and third floors, center
cf the early fire, when he made a
tcur of these floors shortly after ar
riving at the fire.
Fire Inspector Urban, trapped in
the basement when four floors and
the roof collapsed, died in an attempt
to check up on the sprinkler system to
see if the valve in the basement was
turned on, Hartnett said. He testified
that Urfcan entered the building
against his advice.
He also testified that he distinctly
heard an explosion before the north
wall collapsed, burying five firemen
under tons of brick, but said he could
give no reason for the blast. He said
the entire north end of the building
was '"aflame from the second floor to
the roof within-a few minutes after
the firemen arrived."
Otto Maurer, day engineer at the
hotel, testified that the sprinkler sys
tems had been turned off all day
Tuesday and up to 5 p. m. Wednes
day for repairs, but that they had
turned it on at 5 p. m. Wednesday,
when he went off duty. The fire broke
out ahoutj 10 p. m.
Some guests of the hotel, called as
witnesses, testified the alarm bells, at
tached to the sprinkler system, were
ringing; others testified they heard
no bells.
Walter R. Hutscn, fire inspector,
said he inspected the hotel on Jan.
3, and found the wiring in a store
rocm on the north side of the build
ing "so bad that I marked it 'no
good.' lie said he did not know of
action being taken on the basis of
his report.
Work of razing the old landmark
in progressing rapidly, the walls be
ing pulled down with cables attach
ed through the windows and whole
sections being toppled over by power
from trucks in the street.
Separate funerals will be held for
all seven firemen victims who lost
their lives in the flames.
C0ATMAN-ALBE2
On Wednesday evening, February
1st, occurred the marriage of Miss
Mrs. Y.'m. Coatman of Elmwood and
Rcyal G. Alber of Lincoln. The wed
ding tock place at the home of the
J bride's parents at 9:00 p. m.
The bride was accompanied by her
cister, Miss Ethel Coatman a3 brides
maid and entered by way of the
stairs to the strains of Lohengrin's
wedding march played by Miss Jean
Malowney, preceded by two violin
. numbers by Prof. Molscr of the Uni
Iversity cf Nebraska. At the foot of
I the stair3 they met the groom and
the best man, Harold Alber, brother
of the groom.
The wedding ceremony, performed
by Rev. John G. Alber, father of
the groom, took place under an arch
in the living room in the presence of
nearly fifty guests. A reception fol
lowed immediately after the cere
mony. The best wishes of a host of friends
of the bride here go with her and
her husband for a long and prosper
ous vcyago over life's matrimonial
sea. Weeping Water Republican.
Everything for trie student
from sennv lendnencllo to tvn.
writers. The gIsm tn nnt them
why, at Bates Book Store, of
i course.
CANNON 'CASE CARRIED HIGH
Washington. The indictment of
Bishop Cannon, jr., and his secre
tary, Ada L. Burroughs, charged
with violating the corrupt practices
law by failing to report contribu
tions of approximately 565,000
which the government claimed they
received during the presidential cam
paign in 1928 from E. C. Jameson
of New York City, reached the su
preme court.
The District of Columbia supreme
court dismissed the indictment and
the government took the case to the
District of Columbia court of ap
peals. The jurisdiction of the court
was challenged by Cannon, who
claimed the appeal should have been
taken direct to the supreme court.
The district court of appeals asked
the highest court to decide whether
it has jurisdiction to review the
case.
Court Denies 1
Lien of Equal
Priority
But Loan Company Can't Be Denied
the Right When the Inter
est Is Advanced.
Trust and investment companies
which pay interest coupons on mort
gages they have sold to others, ad
vancing the money therefor without
having collected it tliemselves from
the mortgagor, are not entitled to a
lien for the unpaid advancements
equal in priority to that of the mort
gage holder, the supreme court held
Friday.
At the same time, where payments
of matured installments of interest
by a mortgagee to prior lienors to
protect subordinate liens are not
necessarily voluntary in the sense
that they discharge liabilities of the
debtor. The decision of the court has
been awaited with great interest by
mortgage loan companies because of
the fact that it was a common prac
tice for years, as a matter of sup
posed good business, to make such
advancements. In many cases the
companies never did collect the in
terest, and in a number of instances
foreclosed on the unpaid coupons and
took title.
The case came before the court in
an appeal from Adams" county, where
A. E. Allyn had bought a S 6,500 loan
from Clarke-Buchanan company, a
mortgage broker. It advanced to
Allyn the money to take up eight in
terest coupons of $102.50 each, dur
ing a four year period in which it
collected no interest. It held a third
mortgage, and pleaded that it had
advanced the interest money to pro
tect that lien, altho Allyn was never
advised of that fact. He sent in the
coupons unendorsed. The company
is now in receivership. Hastings col
lege holds a second mortgage for $1,
000, on which interest Lad also been
advanced.
The supreme court holds that the
lower court was wrong in holding
that these advances were voluntary,
since it is well settled law that the
holder of a subordinate mortgage
may pay a superior lien to protect
his own lien and be subrogated to
the rights of the prior incumbrancer
to the extent of the payment. The
court, however, says that where the
evidence does not show that there
were absolute sales and transfers of
each interest note, the party ad
vancing the money cannot claim an
equal lien with the first mortgage
holder.
In this case the latter was not
made acquainted with the fact that
the loan company was itself making
the payment, and did not find it out
until the receiver was named. As
these interest notes carried 10 per
cent interest and the mortgage itself
but 5 percent, the effect was to de
prive the mortgagee of a part of the
security for the unpaid principal
since the incumbrance was thereby
increased. The act of the loan com
pany in paying the interest without
disclosing any default of the mort
gagor prevented plaintiff from then
foreclosing his mortgage, and he
claimed that his concealment should
work a forfeiture of any lien for the
interest advancements. The supreme
court, however, holds these were in
voluntary payments, and gives the
company a fourth lien for the
amount.
U? ni ALASKA, IT'S
30 TO 40 ABOVE ZERO
Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 9 Alaska
today was basking in Bpring like
weather, with temperatures of be
tween 30 and 40 degrees above zero
general along the coast.
Tho weather was warmer than
many residents preferred as it has
resulted in the premature thawing
of trails and winter highways.
U. S. Agents Push
Quiz into Lindy
Kidnap Threat
Will Seek Confession from Three
Held on Federal Charges
Demanded $50,000.
Roanoke, Va., Feb. 10. Expert
federal investigators tonight moved
swiftly nearer their first big attempt
to draw from two young men and a
woman a confession that they sought
to extort 50 thousand dollars from
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, threat
ening peril for his infant second son.
Assignment of John M. Keith of
the United States bureau of inves
tigation to the case here is seen by
federal and local authorities as the
start of a sweeping investigation into
the plot, which recalled the fatal
kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lind
bergh, Jr., less than a year ago.
Elsie Harvey, 26, held by the au
thorities on two separate charges
conspiracy and mailing threatening
communications was released tonite
under five thousand dollar bond. Nor
man Harvey, her husband, and Joe
Bryant, still are in jail. No move
was made to post the 25 thousand
dollar bond required for each of them.
They are held on the same charges.
Pests Realty Bond
Keith arrived here late tonight
and immediately Bryant was taken
from his cell in the Roanoke city
jail.
Earlier T. M. Stapleton of the de
partment of justice said the three
would undergo rigid questioning in
an effort to draw from them a con
fession. Nannie V. Harvey, Norman's moth
er, posted real estate as security for
her son's wife, who, during the after
noon, collapsed when United States
Commissioner Fox informed her of
the charges the United States had
preferred against her and the two
young men.
While waiting the arrival of Keith,
Stapleton accompanied by local offi
cers and carrying search warrants,
visited the homes of the Harveys and
the Bryants searching for more evi
dence. Seeks Writing1 Specimens
He was particularly eager for more
handwriting examples and some fing
erprints. He Baid he obtained hand
writing -samples at the Harvey house,
a whitewashed, shanty.
At the home of Bryant's parents,
where the ycuth lives, the officers
said they found little of interest in
their search of the youth's room.
The houses are not far from the
stump where police who represented
themselves to be emmisaries of Col.
Lindbergh deposited the 17 thousand
dollar compromise check which yes
terday led to the arrests.
Stapleton tonight said that at least
one other arrest was possible, and
that several persons probably would
be called for examination.
It was learned that major atten
tion was being centered on the hand
writing of the notes sent to Colonel
Lindberg threatening to kidnep his
second child unless 50 thousand dol
lars was paid, and on notes exchang
ed at a hollow stump postoffice with
the wouldbe extortionist by a detect
ive posing as a Lindbergh representa
tive. Penalty for conviction under the
law prohibiting sending of threaten
Mutiny
Dutch cruiser De Zeven Procincicn
ing a five day mutiny of its native crew
forsible seizure of the vessel and the mou
A fleet of half a dozen warships pursued
killed and 25 hurt by a single airplane
bomb dropped amidst the crew, and the
threatened "raider" oa the high seas tha
ing letters through the mails could be
20 years imprisonment, or a five
thousand dollar fine or both.
World-Herald
FREIGHT REDUCTION
Chicago. The western railways
committee on public relations an
nounced reduction on freight rates
from 18 to 25 cents per hundred
weight on apples chipped from the
Pacific northwest to eastern markets.
The new rates, the announcement
said, included a storage in transit
privilege whereby the shipper may
interrupt the shipment en route and
store the apples at an intermediate
point to await more favorable mar
keting conditions.
Three Men Get
Loot of $325,000
in Mail Robbery
Seize Registered Ba at Main Post
office in Sacramento Get
$110,000 in Cash.
Sacramento, Cal., Feb. D. More
than 325 thousand dollars in currency
and bonds were stolen by three ban
dits in a daring holdup at the main
postoffice at Seventh and K streets
here tonight.
The bandits, wearing white hand
kerchief masks, surprised and dis
armed a truck driver ard an armed
guard on the loading platform in
the rear of the postoffice building,
grabbed a double-locked sack of out
going registered mail and vanisbed
in the downtown traffic within a few
moments.
Although an exact check of the
contents of the mail sack had not
been completed, postal inspectors said
ihey were certain that at least 110
thousand Millars in currency, largely
in small billr-, and approximately 214
thousand dollars in bonds being sent
to Los Angeles and San Francisco by
the state treasurer and from local
banks. All the bonds were negotiable,
but traceable because of the num
bers. Drove Into Alleyway.
The three bandits drove into an
alleyway in the rear of the postoffice,
timing their arrival just to the in
stant that a truck had arrived from
the terminal station to take the reg
istered mail to the Southern Pacific
station.
The men advanced with drawn
guns on G. Swanson, the truck driver.
Swanson drew his pistol but was
overpowered. One man guarded
Swanson and the others leaped onto
the loading platform.
W. E. Williams, armed guard who
accompanies all registered mall
trucks, stepped from the rear of the
postoffice onto the loading platform
to face the two bandits with revolv
ers.
"We want that sack," the leader
of the two said.
Fail to Get Number.
Williams, threatened with death,
handed over the sack.
All three bandits then leaped to
the ctreet and fled in their car. Al
though fairly good descriptions of
the men were obtained, postal em
ployes were unable to get the license
number of the car.
The cash was in approximately
two hundred pieces of registered
mail.
Ship Captured
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captured yesterday morning at dawn, end
cuspected of piratical intentions after their
nting thereon of guns made in Germany
the boat, together with half a dozen air
planes. Twenty
survivors promptly surrendered, ending a
t would outrival Capt. Kid's exploits.
H2 You Acre
Hfi&tereste&l
in the prosperity of the City
of Plattsmouth and of Cass
county farmers and are desir
ious of seeing the enterprises
of this community prosper
the next time you ask your
grocer for BUTTER, make it
CASCO
We pay the Highest Price
to the Farmer for his
Cream and Produce
Fialts. Produce
;5JWe are also maintaining a
high wage scale for our help!
Postmaster Karold McCurry said
he could not understand how the
bandits knew of the shipment. He
said they missed a much larger de
livery of cash and bond? consigned
to San Francisco and leaving here
earlier in the evening. World-Herald.
MAE, 68, IS GROWING UP
Omaha. First it was a tooth and
now Frank J. Crawford, at 8 8, is
growing ncv.- hair, cutting more new
teeth and has discarded his glasses.
He is a gardener and librarian at the
Clearview country home near here.
Crawford was as bald as a billiard
ball two years ago. He didn't know
he was growirg hair until a nurse
at the home noticed the fuzz. The
hair revival i3 attributed by Craw
ford to the same thing that makes
hi3 plants grow :o big nourish
ment. He uses a good deal of raw
commercial ammonia around his
greenhouse, and he thinks the am
monia livened up the hair roots.
Second sight came to him five years
ago. He said an uncle, who was
toothless at 90, chewed turkey on
his one hundredth birthday as tho it
were mush. Relatives wondered and
an inspection revealed eleven new
teeth.
"I'il have to get a haircut pretty
rcon," said Crawford, "or I'll look
like an old man."
RADIO MEASURE IS PASSED
Washington. A house bill to pre
vent the use of radio for advertising
lotteries and revising procedure of
the radio commission was passed Fri
day by the senate.
It now goes back to the house for
action on senate amendments. The
bill, which was rponsored in the sc-n-ata
by Senator Dill authorizes tho
radio commission to hold hearings
thru examiners in routine cases not
involving changes of policy. It car
ries a penalty of one year in Jail or a
fine fo $1,000, or both, for broad
casting information on lotteries.
FOR SALE
I will have three registered Scotch
Shorthorn bulls at the Harry Knabe
thoroughbred hog sale, sale barn, Ne
hawka, Xebr., Friday, Feb. 17th.
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few cents and get real resultsi
Friday
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