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.
