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Sfate Historic! Sociefy VOL. NO. XT.TX PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. MONDAY, SEPT. 4, 1933. NO. 62 First Parade of the Kangaroo Kourt is Held Many Clever and Humorous Costumes Seen in Parade Large Array of Prisoners for Next Week. The first parade of the Kangaroo Kcurt ras held Wednesday night vhen the victims of the Kourt who had been tried were given their op portunity to fulfill the sentences of the court. There were many very clever cos tumes prepared and that of Roy Oter dcrsky was outstanding and repre sented a great deal of skill and abil ity in preparing, being as fine a de sign as can be found in any city parade. County Attorney W. G. Kieek in a flapper costume was one that attracted much attention as did Gilbert Hirz who appeared as a kit tenball player of the feminine type. All cf the persons in the parade did their part in puttnig over the fall festival by starting out the parade in fine shape. The American Legion junior drum corps which James Farnham and An ton Bajeek have developed headed the parade and added their part to the success of the event. Before and after the parade the of ficers of the Kourt were busy on the street in rou-.ding up the men select ed for the purpose of trial and who will be paraded in the festival of fun on next Wednesday night. RED SOX WIN AT NEB. CITY Trom Thurdy DaUy Last evening the Red Sox baseball team who have turned kittenball, visited Nebraska City w'here" "ihey played the Central-Power Co., one of the fast teams in this section of the state, winning the game 5 to 3. The Plattsmouth team scored in the opening on errors and repeated in the second when the Central Pow er juggled the sphere. In the third inning the Red Sox scored when they hit Ritterbusch freely. Joe Krejci contributed the last local score in the ninth with a home run. Knofli cek, youthful pitcher developed by the Wildcats of the National league, was the hurler. The Central Power Co. scored in the first two innings, the first man up gettiv.g a triple off Knoflicck and scoring when Livingston was safe on an error, he scoiing later on the out field hit of McGuire. In the second a walk was converted into a score by an error at third base. The box score of the battle: Red Son ab n ii ro a k Schliscke, Cb 4 2 0 5 2 1 Spidell. c 4 10 3 12 Evcboda. lb 4 0 1 11 0 1 F. Krejci, If 4 0 1 2 0 0 Newman, ss 4 0 0 2 C 1 J. Krejci. s 4 13 110 Gradoville, 3b 4 -1 0 0 3 2 Thimgnn, cf 3 0 0 1 0 0 Knoflicck, p 3 0 0 1 0 0 Kriskey, rf 10 0 10 0 Smith, rf 2 0 0 1 0 0 37 5 5 27 13 7 Central Power ATi n h ro a e B. McGuire, If 4 1 1 1 0 1 Randell. cf 4 0 0 3 0 0 Livingston. 2b 3 1 0 4 0 2 McGuire. ss 3 0 0 1 1 1 Binens. rf 4 0 2 5 0 0 Schottler, lb 4 0 0 6 0 1 In tyre, c 3 1 0 4 0 0 Hill, ss 4 0 0 2 1 0 llockenborg, 3b 10 4 12 0 Ritterbusch, p 200010 32 3 3 27 5 5 RECOVER STOLEN CAR Chief of Police Libershal was call- id Wednesday afternoon to the vi cinity of the Missouri river traffic bridge where an Oldmobile coupe, badly damaged was reported to have been left by the driver, a colored man. The driver of the car was pick ed up by the chief and Constable Edgerton and brought on into the city. The car was stolen from thej Main street in Council Bluffs Wed-J nesuuy morning anu ariven uuwu highway 34 to Glenwood and hence io inc mcai Driage, Deing cam- aged just before getting to the bridge. The man, giving the name of Charles . Harper, was turned over to the cus tody of the sheriff and lodged in jail to await the arrival of Council Bluffs pfficers. HOLD TRUCK FOR, PLATES From Thursday's Daily Early this morning the night po lice force stopped one of the trucks operated by the Watson Brothers line, which was passing through the city. The truck carried Kansas truck li cense plates, but none of Nebraska and as this matter has been the ob ject of considerable warfare between the two states, the truck was held. The matter was settled by the pay ment of the necessary fees for the Nebraska licenses to tho county treas urer and the truck driver allowed to take his truck o:i into Omaha. Fund Allotment for River Work Formally Made Forest Work Money Also Is Provided for Nebraska Other Large Allotments Hade. Formal allotment of $14,211,108 of federal funds for public works in Nebraska was announced Wednes day in Associated Press dispatches from Washington and from Denver, Colo. The chief item is that of $14,15S, 10S for channel development work on the Missouri river between Kansas City and Sioux City. Other items in cluded eight thousand dollars for roads and trails in national forests in this state and 4 5 thousand dollars for other improvements in the na tional forests of Nebraska. Nearby States to Benefit. Neighboring states also will ben efit by forest service allotments as follows: For roads and trails, Colo rado, 271 thousand dollars; Wyom ing, 76 thousand dollars; South Da kota, 59 thousand dollars; Oklahoma three thousand dollars.. For other forest serviec improvements: Colo rado, 392 thousand dollars; Wyom ing, 125 thousand dollars; South Da kota, 110 thousand dollars; Oklahoma S3 thousand dollars. Still another big allotment close to Nebraska that of $22,700,000 for the Casper-Alcova irrigation pro ject in Wyoming was announced Wednesday by the public works board. Earlier, it announced allocations of $15,415,000 for construction work on 14 irrigation projects in Arizona, Idaho. Montana, Nevada, New Mex ico, Texas, Oregon and Utah and $2,- 250,000 for the naval hospital at Philadelphia. Other Large Allotments. Other large allotments included 50 million dollars to the Tenenssee valley authority; 100 million dollars to the farm credit administration; 40 million dollars to the civilian conser vation corps; 25 milioln dollars for establishment of subsistence home steads; $43,986,956 for flood control on the lower Mississippi river; $44, 460,000 for reclamation, including 38 million dollars for Boulder dam; and $11,500,000 for continuation of work on the nine-foot channel in the upper Mississippi river. A loan of $37,500,000 to the port of New York authority for a mid-town vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river brought total allotments from the public works fund to $1,325,H 896.13S. RETURN FROM MISSOURI County Commissioner Julius A. Pitz and daughters, Pauline and Mar garet Ann, have returned from a very pleasant visit at Sedalia, Missouri, where they have been guests of rela tives. They spent some time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brink man, reporting Mrs. Brinkman as be ing improved over her long illness, as well as at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Slatinsky. The Slatin- sky family are now located on a farm northwest,of Sedalia and where they are residing altho Mr. Slatinsky i still engaged In his work in the Missouri Pacific shops. HAS TONSILS REMOVED From Thursday' Dally This morning Miss Beatrice Krejci was operated on at the office of one of the local physicians, the operation being for the removal of her tonsils. The patient stood the ordeal in excel lent shape and it is expected will soon be able to resume her usual activities. City Homes are Lined up for the Recovery Move Pledge Cards Being Signed by Resi dents cf the City to Aid the National Recovery Act With the sounding of the whistle at the Norfolk Packing plant Wed nesday morning a force of earnest and hard workers in the move for the national recovery program started cut over the city. Each ward had a committee of ladies who visited the homes with the pledge cards on which parties called upon were to sign as evidence of their willingness to patronize those who are taking part in the NRA and to sustain the employes of the var ious institutions that are in the new deal movement by buying the goods that will bear this label. The greater part of the canvassing was completed last evening, although in each ward there were some not at home, and these the committees will endeavor to reach today or Friday with the cards and expect to have the city fully 99 per cent signed up for the movement by Friday night. The task was no small one for the ladies and they deserve a great deal of credit for their work, which is purely voluntary and without any remuneration save that of the satis faction that comes from lending aid to a program that has as its object the creation of more jobs and a re turn to normal conditions of the in dustrial and commercial businesses of the nation. The outlying wards made neces sary the covering of a great deal of territory by the workers as many of the homes are scattered over a wide area and this greatly Increased the work.' : - . Workers who visited the homes re port a general response to the request to sign the cards and very few are reported as refusing to sign up and these no doubt will do so as they learn more of the purpose of the pledge cards. In the fourth ward additional so licitors for the east portion, or Win tersteen hill were Mrs. Charles An thes, Mrs. Charles Palmer, Mrs. Don Tincher and Miss Mathilde Olson. ACCEPT BRIDGE OFFER The stockholders of the Louisville bridge over the Platte river, have voted to accept the price offered by the state for the structure, advanc ing by this action the time when the bridge will be toll free. The bridge company will accord ingly convey to the state of Nebraska the ownership of one-half of the bridge structure, the other half to be purchased by the counties of Cass and Sarpy. The state will pay out right the price of half of the bridge while the two counties will collect the tolls until the remaining half of the purchase price has been received. The state railway commission ap praised the bridge at $177,240, but this figure was considered too high by Governor Bryan under the present prices and instructed the state high way department to appraise the bridge under the present prices. The value of the bridge was set at $149, 862, a reduction of some twelve per cent of the actual cost of construc tion. Cass county some time ago request ed the state to make the purchase of the bridge and their acceptance of the purchase of one-fourth to be paid by tolls. Sarpy county held the mat ter up until last week when they also joined in the move for the pur chase of the structure. As soon as possible the counties will start the ocllecting of tolls and which in time will give a free bridge over the Platte. LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Egenberger are to leave Friday for California where they will enjoy an indefinite visit on the west coast. Their children, John, Charles and Miss Helen Egenberger, have been located at Los Angeles and Long Beach for the past few years and the parents will now enjoy a visit with them. The family have been looking forward to this meet ing and which will reunite the fam ily utter several years. UNDERGOING TREATMENT Frank Rebal, who tas been suffer ing from the effects of a broken foot since the ninth of May, was returned to the St. Joseph hospital Tuesday to receive treatment as the result of the condition of the injured foot. Mr. Rebal has been home for the past three weeks and was able to get around with the use of crutches to seme extent, but for several days the leg and foot has bullicred him a grat deal and led to the necessity cf spending several days .it the hospital under treatment. 1 Wiles Family Holds 28th An nual , Reunion Held at Weeping Water Thursday, Largely Attended Ray Cor nelius Wiles, President. The twenty-eighth annual reunion of the members of the Wiles family, one of the largest if not the largest in Cazs county, was Leld on Thurs day at the city park at Weeping Wa ter, where as near Plattsmouth and in Mills county, Iowa, large numbers of the family are located. At the noon hour the hundreds of baskets of the good things to eat were produced and which was spread on the one long table at which all of the family were seated at the common board. The grace was offered by Charles Leslie Wiles, of Glenwood, the oldest member of the family in attendance at the reunion. It was estimated that there were 150 of the family present at the fes tivs occasion and to participate in the reunion. The business session of the family association was presided over fey the retiring president. T. Frank Wiles of Omaha, the meeting taking up the election of the officers for the en suing year, the following being named: President, Ray Cornelius Wiles, Weeping Water. Vice - President, Ray Marshall Wiles, Plattsmouth. Secretary, Mrs. Myron Wiles, Plattsmouth. Treasurer, Stephen Glen Wiles, Plattsmouth. The meeting voted to hold the next reunion at Plattsmouth, which will make it possible for more of the Iowa members of the family to make the trip to the reunion. The remainder of the day was spent in visiting among the members of the family circle until the approach of the evening hours when they all returned to their homes in the var ious parts of the county. THEATRICAL SOCIETY ORGANIZED The local aerie of the Eagles, in order to give the young people of the city the opportunity of demon strating their thespian ability have formed a dramatic department. They believe Plattsmouth has a lot of hid den talent and the Eagles will at tempt to bring this to the public's view. In order to make the enterprise purely local, the first presentation scheduled for fall will be "The Big Hit," a musical comedy written by Francis Heatherington and Paul Vandervoort. The book and musical score will bo orginal, and the committee feels that the script now in preparation will meet with public approval. Tryouts for the cast of the show will be held soon. ATTEND REUNION From Thursday's Daily Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Pease re turned home last evening from a visit of several days which they have spent visiting with relatives in the vicinity of Creighton and Neligh,! Nebraska. While they were at Creighton they enjoyed attending a family reunion of the Bonge, Haas and Emberg families which was held at Creighton on Sunday. There were over 100 at the reunion and it was an event that all will remember most pleasantly. The crops in that section of the state look excellent, the Platts mouth people report, much better than for the past two years, there be ing no drouth or grasshopper dam age in that section, .this year. Plans for Dry Ice Plant Here are Discussed Representatives of the New Industry Heie from Omaha to Meet with Local Committee. From Friday's Dally Last evening a meeting of members of the industries committee of the Chamber of Commerce, members of the directorate and others, were gath ered at the main dining room of the Brown cafe to hear discussed, the matter of the location cf a dry ice plant in this city. The matter was presented by a group cf well known Omaha men who have been identified with the artificial ice business for many years, J. L. Baker of the Baker Ice Machine Co., and C. K. Larson, associated with Mr. Baker and the originator of the special dry ice and the temperature control of refrigeration, were the chief figures in the presentation, but were accompanied by R. C. Miller, attorney and George Chew, consult ing engineer. With the party was John Latenser, one of the members of the consult ing board of the federal public works in Nebraska, who explained during the evening the requirements of the government in the spread of support of the public works. Mr. Larson was the chief speaker of the evening, presenting the facts as to the manufacture of this form of refrigeration which has proven so popular. Mr. Larson stated that thi3 ice was formed from gases that were condensed and formed a very cold substance. That in the manufacture cf the ice by his method the lime stone rock and the real cold water of the Platte would be vital factors in the making of the ice at a plant here. This ice would reach 109 be low zero, making necessary methods of handling by control. He cited tests mads on packing house products and butter, one car shipped packed with water ice and the other with dry ice, the result being that with thei patented control, that the dry ice varied only 2 degrees form Omaha to New York. It was proposed by Mr. Larson that in locating a plant here that the city government assist by the securing of the enterprise fed eral aid funds to build the plant which, in the opinion of Mr. Larson would be $60,000. The only plants now engaged in this line of work were in Michigan and New York and a plant here of the size proposed could care for the need of a territory of the radius of 100 miles. John Latenser of the federal gov ernment board, was called upon and stated that there was a wide range of projects, that he had no specific cases of ice plants. The government in advancing the money for this work would require assurance that it would be repaid at least 70 per cent of the amount that had been loaned. In many cases the government would loan up to 100 per cent of the pro ject but would have to be secured in bonds or some other stable security. The ice plant to come under ije scope of the federal act would have .o be a municipal one, Mr. Latenser stated in replies to qustions. Mr. Chew and Mr. Miller discussed the matter of the right of the muni cipality to engage in enterprises of this kind or to vote or ask to have bonds voted for the purpose of erect ing and maintaining a plant of this kind. Mr. Miller was of the opinion that under a decision in the matter of the Standard Oil Co. vs. The City of Lincoln, covering municipal gas stations, that the city had a right to do this. The members of the party of visi tors, especially Mr. Larson, was kept busy in .answering questions that were asked by local people regarding the handling of the affairs of the plant and its control as well as var ious phaess of the handling of financ ing methods. Mayor Sattler and the members of the city council were in attendance at the meeting to hear the plan of the originator of the ice making method and control. Miss Jane Dunbar, who has been here visiting at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William Highfield, is at Ashland where she will spend a short time at the Wig genhorn home in that city. CARD OF THANKS We wish to take this means of ex pressing to our kind friends and neighbors, the deep feeling of grati tude that we have for the many kind acts for us in the long illness and death of our husband and son, Bert Coleman. Also to the friends for the sympathy, beautiful floral of ferings and kindnesses at the last service. Mrs. Florence Coleman, J. C. Coleman. Freshman Class of High School Shows Increase 105 Freshmen Enrolled in the High School Number Are Enrolled from Sarpy County. The enrollment of 105 Freshmen was one of two outstanding features of the two-day registration of stu dents held at Plattsmouth high school Wednesday and Thursday. The pres ent beginning class is the largest since 1927 when 99 enrolled and is considerably larger than the class which entered in the fall of 1932 as this group numbered only 78. Two factors were responsible for this increase. These were the graduation of 05 from our local junior high school and a class of 16 at St. John's. The second outstanding feature of the registration was an increase in the non-reEident students, the Fresh man class alone having 26 from the rural schools. The enrollment from Sarpy county continues to demon strate the popularity of Plattsmouth high school north of the river with seven students representing the La Platte territory. The presence of such a large be ginning class coupled with the fact that the Sor.iOr class now has pros pects of being the largest graduating class In the history of the school, makes difficult the handling of such an unusually large group. But the purpose of the pre-school registration is to make it possible to work these problems out before the opening of school so that on the opening day the entire student body may go im mediately to class without any con fusion or delay. Last year, all the students were in their first class at 9:25 on the opening morning and even with a larger number for next Tuesday the same goal will be In mind. Seating arrangement and assign ment of class rooms are now being made and most of the teachers are expected to be here today and to morrow. RETURN FROM VACATION From Friday'a Dally Dr. and Mrs. P. H. Murdick, Sr., and daughter. Miss Charlotte, who have been spending the summer at their home in Michigan, were in the city last evening, en route to Lincoln. They have been at the summer home in .the Michigan lake country and now Dr. Murdick will resume his work as pastor of the Trinity Meth odist church at Lincoln. With them at the summer home were Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Murdick, Jr., of Elizabeth, New Jersey, the latter formerly Miss Helen Wescott. While In the city they were guests at "Sunnyside," the E. H. Wescott home in this city. BIDS ON RIVER JOES Bids for three new projects in the Misouri river improvement program will be opened at Kansas City Sept ember 13th, Captain Theodore Way- man, engineer in charge announced Thursday. One of the projects will be near this city, 41,005 linear feet of dyke and 9.0SO fet of revetment at To bacco and Rock Bluff bends. The center of this work will be about three miles south of this city. INVITE YOUR FRIENDS The committee on Old Settlers and Homecoming day have prepared printed letters of Invitation to be sent to your friends far and near. These letters ca nbe secured at the two banks, Journal office, Wescott store or of the committee, A. H. Dux bury, Judge C. L. Graves or George B. Mann. Secure your invitations and invite in an old time. River Work to Start Soon in This Section With Letting of Contracts Several Projects will be Started in the Missouri Near Here. The letting of contracts for the placing of retards and ether work along the Missouri river from Kansas City north will mark the active start cf the program of making the river navjgable through this section. One of the boats used in the river work at Omaha was here last night and early today started on its journey down stream to Kansas City, where It was to secure additional material for use on the Omaha project. There are several pieces of work that will be carried out in this Im mediate vicinity to harness the river and force it into a narrow channel that the force of the current will scour clear and make It possible to operate boats and barges. Retards will be placed on the Ne braska side of the river near where the pipe line of the Continental com pany crosses under the waters of the Missouri, this being one of the first projects, upon which work will start during the early part of the present month. In addition to the work here, there will be a large section of retards plac ed near Tobacco bend, located on the Iowa side of the river near the mouth of Keg Creek and also near what is known as Rock Bluff bend further south on the river. The placing of these retards will cause the filling in of the land and the narrowing of the stream itself to form a six foot channel. The accomplishment of this work should -provide considerable employ ment in the local labor field, although certain skilled labor will have to be supplied by experienced river men, brought here by the contractors from other points, where they have been engaged in this line of work. It is expected that all the common labor will be r.ecured in the localities where the work is being done, as a part of the general relief and employment campaign of the government. CRASH TELEPHONE POLE From Saturday's Dally This morning one of the large tele phone poles standing in the alley south of Main street and near Fifth street, was knocked down by the force of the impact with one of the large trucks of the McMaken Trans fer company. The truck which was traveling west through the alley, was caught on one of the hooks projecting from the pole, snapping the pole off at tho point where it entered the ground, the pole being old and badly decayed, which made it apparently very easy to break off. As a result of the accident, a num ber of the telephones on the south side of Main street were out of com mission for some time while the Lin coln Telephone company force worked to have the damage repaired. SOLDIERS ON RANGE From Saturday's Dally A large group of the soldiers from Fort Crook were on the rifle range here today shooting over the regular training course with rifle and ma chine guns. The men -were brought to the range in trucks, taking the route through the main part of the city and the road along the Missouri river bottom to the range. There has been a great deal of work done on the range in the past two weeks and it has been greatly improved for the use of the Seven teenth Infantry and the training units who are drilled at the fort. NOTICE Those desiring to take advantage of loans thru the Federal Home Own ers Loan Corporation may make ap plication for same at the law office of Dwyer & Dwyer, Plattsmouth, on any week day and at their office in Weeping Water on Mondays, Wed nesdays and Fridays of each week. D. O. DWYER, Attorney for the Corporation In d&w Cass County.