PAGE FOUR
MONDAY, SEPT. 18, 1933.
PLATTBMOTJTH SEMI -.WEEKLY JOURNAL
Alvo
News
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Iiosenow have
purchased a new V-8 coach and are
well pleased with their choice.
Simon Rehmeier was called to Lin
coln last Tuesday evening to trans
act some business -matters, driving to
the capital city in his auto.
Simon Rehmeier and the family
were in Weeping Water on Thursday,
where they visited with relatives and
friends and enjoyed the various at
tractions at the fair.
John Elliott was a visitor in Lin
coln on last Tuesday, and was ac
companied by the family, they visit
ing with friends while he looked af
ter the business which called him
there.
On Friday of last week Mrs. A. B.
Stromer entertained the members of
the Alvo Woman's Reading club, at
which time they enjoyed a social hour
and the excellent program that was
rendered as well as the refreshments
served by the hostess.
The reports are that George Cur
yea, who is making his home at Lin
coln at this time is not feeling the
best and i3 kept to his bed the great
er part of the time. His many friends
here are hoping he may soon be in
his former health again.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist church of Alvo were meet
ing at the church parlors on last
Thursday and were looking after the
work which comes before them and
making plans for the work of the
society of the church for the coming
winter.
Charles F. Rosenow and brother,
William F. Rosenow, departed early
last week for Clay Center, Kansas,
where they went to visit with their
mother and other relatives in the
south and also visited at Howard,
Kansas. They expected to be gone
about a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor were
over to Weeping Water on last Wed
nesday afternoon, where they were
looking after some shopping and as
well meeting their friends at the
county fair. They also visited the fair
again on Friday and were accompan
ied by Mr. and Mrs. G. Rehmeier, who
visited relatives in Weeping Water.
CLOVER SEED
leaned (Free
Bring your Clover Seed to the
Murray Farmers Elevator
have it cleaned free. Get lib
eral payment on same now,
and when carload has been re
ceived, it will be shipped and
balance of payment made. Car
lot shipments sell at a much
better advantage and you will
receive the benefit. Ask about
.this at the Elevator.
MURRAY
Farmers Elevator
Company
Murray - - - Nebraska
Finds Clover Seed Fair
Billie Warner, who is a veteran
thresher, has been, busy with, the
hulling of clover of late and reports
that the seed has turned out so well
that the prices have gone down, be
ing governed by the age-old law of
supply and demand. One piece which
he has recently hulled turned out
four bushels to the acre while the
poorest did not make quite one bushel
to the acre.
Will Visit in Wisconsin
Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Snaveley and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rose
now will visit at the home of Charles
Snaveley and wife, in Wisconsin, for
a week or ten days. They left via
auto late last week. The Wisconsin
relatives recently visited here for a
time at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
L. M. Snaveley and now they are re
turning the call. They may look in on
the world's fair before they return
home.
Making Their Own Lake
W. If. (Billie) Warner was over to
Lincoln last Friday, being accompan
ied by Soren Petersen. Mr. Warner
went to look after some business
matters connected with the filling of
artificial lake which some hunters of
Lincoln propose to have filled to use
it for hunting purposes. Mr. Warner
placed a bid on the filling of the lake,
which will require five hundred hours
of constant pumping with a pump
throwing a stream of water one foot
In diameter. Should he be awarded
the job he will have to maintain a
force of pumpers working eight hours
each and keep the pumps running
during the entire twenty-four hours
of each day.
The "make-your-own-lake" idea is
n rather novel one and perhaps will
prove all that the hunters expect it
to, although it seems like a lot of
work to get a hunting place.
Are Wrecking Buildings
There are a number of buildings In
Alvo which have practically no com
mercial value and it has been deem
ed best to have them torn down. One
of them is the shed in the rear of the
building on the northwest corner of
the intersection on Main street which
belongs to S. C. Boyles. The removal
of this structure reduces the fire haz
ard of all buildings situated nearby.
Another Is the building in which Joe
Romulas resides and which was form
erly occupied by Dr. L. Muir before
hl3 death.
dition was very grave. Mr. and Mrs.
Barkhurst immediately departed for
the west, where the sister, Miss Mary
Anderson resides. A brother, residing
at Bushnell, was also summoned.
It is hoped that Air. and Mrs
Barkhurst will find the sister in much
better condition when they arrive.
Called Away by Sickness
Word has been received by Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Barkhurst, telling of the
eistar of Mrs. B4rkhurst being strick
en with, paralysis and that her con-
Thornbrugh Dies
in a Trap Set by
Missouri Police
Gun Fight Kails Suspect in Omaha
Slaying Patrol Officer Is
Critically Wounded.
Hopkins, Mo. Harold Thorn
brugh, 24 year old Kansas desperado
wanted for the murder of an Omaha
policeman, bank robber and other
crimes, was killed near here in a
pistol fight with officers in which Sgt.
James S. Poage, Missouri highway pa
trolman, was critically wounded.
Thornbrugh died of a bullet wound
below the heart, he was also shot in
the leg.
He was trapped by state and coun
ty officers from Maryville, St. Joseph
and Hopkins as he drove here pre
sumably to obtain a general delivery
letter addressed to J. L. Dennis. Of
ficers said the letter, containing $25.
was sent by his father, who lives
near Quenamo, Kas.
Thornbrugh's brother, Cecil, ' ac
cused with him in the shooting of
Otto- Peterson, Omaha: special police
man, wa3 captured at Juenamo Sun
day Sept. 3, after he was. wounded
with a shotgun by the father of his
estranged bride, Will McCormick of
Prescott, Kas. 1
Thornbrugh was v shot either by
Poage, who fired a riot gun after
having been wounded by. Thornbrugh,
or by Paul Inman, driver of the high
way patrol car from St. Joseph, who
was armed with a pistol. Poage was
wounded in the head and hospital at
taches at Maryville said the charge
from Thornbrugh's gun had seared
the brain tissue.
With the two highway patrolmen
were Sheriff Wallace, Deputy Grow
ney, Constable Dougan and Will Trul
linger, deputized by Wallace Thurs
day, all from Maryville, and Art
Bonar, city marshal of Hopkins.
Coming into town, Thornbrugh
spied the state patrol car waiting for
him. He sped away in his sedan and
was overtaken about a half mile
north of here. Thornbrugh tried to
crowd the first pursuit car off the
road but was forced into the ditch
himself. He opened fire, wounding
Pcage. Poage returned the fire and
Inman followed suit.
Thornbrugh and his brother, Cecil,
in addition to the slaying of Peter
son, were sought for mail robbery
and bank holdups in Lc Loup, Har
ris and Prescott, Kas., and motor car
thefts.
Both brothers were wounded re
cently after Cecil was shot thru a
shoulder and one arm when he went
to the home of his bride, Esther Mc
Cormick, 17, with threats against
his 2atherin-law, Harold was shot in
flight at Quenemo. A woman who
said she was Barbara Schmidt, Min
neapolis waitress, was arrested with
Cecil Thornbrugh.
TEXAS DEATH TOLL IS 29
Brownsville, Tex. The discovery
of five more bodies bad increased to
twenty-nine the number of fatalities
caused by a tropical hurricane which
swept the lower Rio Grande valley
and adjacent gulf coast last week.
Four unidentified Mexicans were
found crushed to death in the ruins
of a shack. The body of "Uncle Jim"
Summers, veteran fisherman drowned
in the storm, drifted ashore at Red
Fish Bay.
Flood waters which coursed down
the Rio Grande after the violent wind
and rainstorm still menaced the val
ley, but except for a break in the
Willacy county flood way levee near
Raymondville, the flood control works
were withstanding the battering of
the swollen stream.
750,000 Handed
Jobs; Payrolls are
Hiked in August
No Time for. Celebration with Win
ter Just Ahead, Say3 Sacre
tary of Labor.
Washington. Labor department
officials estimated an employment
gain of 750,000 and an increase of 12
million dollars in factory payrolls in
August over July, but Secretary Per
kins cautioned that the upturn should
not occasion any ballyhoo that hard
times are over. "This is not the time
to throw hats too high in the air,"
she said, and then recalled that win
ter was jst ahead and that the months
of November, December and Janu
ary normally show reverses.
She said employment was still
28.4 percent and payrolls 48 percent
below the normal average in 1926,
and while the August figures were
encouraging, "We must try soberly
to reach that normal peak." She ex
pressed hope however, that "This was
the beginning of the upward spiral
we have been working for" and that
the increased wage earning would
lead to buying of the kind that would
make demands on other factories.
Payrolls were increasing faster
than employment, Miss Perkins add
ed, regarding this as indicating that
"purchasing power of factory work
ers was being revived to some ex
tent." Attributing some of the gains
to the XRA, the labor secretary said
this was not responsible for all as
the first code did not begin to oper
ate until July 15, and the figures
only covered the month ending Aug.
15. She believed, however, that the
increased payrolls indicated "a mass
movement due to the conviction that
there must be a wage earners mar-;
ket to build up."
August payrolls incerased 11.6
percent and employment 6.4 percent
over July. The payrolls, represent
ing a gain of 55.4 percent over
March, the lowest point of the de
pression, were the highest since De
cember, 1931. Employment gained
29.9 percent over March and hit the
highest peak since July, 1931.
The employment gain since March
was placed at, 2.200,000, of which
1,500,000 were factory ' workers.
Factory payrolls increased 40 mil
lion dollars.
Of the 750,000 returned to work
last month, 3SO,000 were estimated
to have entered factories and 370,000
non-manufacturing industries.
Of the S9 manufacturing indus
tries covered in the department's sur
vey, 81 reported job gains and 83
payroll boosts. A total of 18,008 es
tablishments reported 3.1S7.674 em
ployes at work and payrolls cf $G0,
351,490 on August 15. The report
ing establishments covered approxi
mately 50 percent of the total wage
earners in all manufacturing indus
tries of the country.
Miss Perkins found most encour
agement in ehavy industry gains, iron
and steel reporting 12.2 and 20 per
cent increases in employment and
payrolls, respectively, machine man
ufacturing 10 and 10, and machine
tools 17.5 and 17.
She attributed a 20 percent pay
roll jump in the textile industry to
tho NRA code and said a "general
upswing" was reflected in the six
teen non - manufacturing industrial
groups, particularly the retail trade,
which gained 4.7 and 7.9 percent re
spectively, in employment and pay
rolls. The beet sugar industry had the
highest employment gain, 55.3 per
cent, among the manufacturing in
dustries. This is primarily seasonal.
The locomotive industry had a gain
of 32.9 percent, and confectionery,
millinery, extile machinery and type
writer industries more than 20 per
cent. Every state except Florida,
South Carolina, Ltah and Texas re
ported employment gains. State
Journal.
1 RDOGK
MS
Mrs. Hannah McDonald was visit
ing at Hampton during the past
week, boing a guest at the home of
her son, Gayle McDonald and fam
ily. Mrs. A. J. Tool was attending the
county . fair last Wednesday, where
he was officiating as one of the
judges in the domestic department
of the fair.
Rudy Iverson, of Plattsmouth, was
a visitor in Murdock on Thursday of
last week, looking after some busi
ness matters and consulting with
Lawrence Race regarding the sale of
the celebrated line of Chevrolet cars
that are now leading the field.
Charles Long was attending the
Cass county fair at Weeping Water
during the greater part of the time
the fair was: on, as he was one of
those who assisted in the dispensing
of sweet music which added so much
to the enjoyment of those in attend
ance. Harold W.- Tool was a visitor in
Murray one day last week, where
he went to secure some shingles at
the Murray lumber yard, a3 his car
load shipment from the mills in the
west was delayed. Harold sure seeks
to serve his trade no matter what
the obstacles and he generally does
it at that.
SWOLLEN STREAMS RECEDE
McCook, Neb. Swollen streams
forced to high levels by heavy rains
in this section of Nebraska had re
ceded Wednesday and no flood dam
age was reported, alt ho the Republi
can river overflowed it3 banks Tues
day and residents in the lowlands
had been warned to be ready to move
to higher ground.
Traffic on highway No. 183 into
Kansas which had been Interrupted,
was resumed. High water near Tren
ton and Palisade washed out high
ways and bridges. A number of auto
mobiles and trucks were stalled.
However, roads were passable.
NAMES ENVOY TO IRISH
Washington. President Roosevelt
appointed W. W. McDowell of Mon
tana to be inister to the Irish free
ftate.
No School Last Friday
There was no school last Friday,
as the schools were closed over most
of the county in order that the stu
dents might attend the county fair
and participate in the school parade,
which was one of the very wonder
ful things about the fair and why
not, for certainly our children are
the most important thing produced in
the county, far in the lead of live
stock or hybred strawberries.
Large Crowds Attend Opening
On last Saturday at the opening
of the new store of Emil Kuehn,
which is known as the Clover Farm
store, but is withal the individual
property of Mr. Kuehn, there was a
large crowd cf people present, not
alone residents of Murdock and vi
cinity, but some who came from a
much longer distance to reap the ad
vantages of the low prices which the
new store was able to offer. All were
satisfied with ithe savings they were
able to make, r Two large baskets of
groceries were given away during the
day, cne at four in the afternoon and
the other at eight in the evening. In
addition to this, free shopping bags
were passed oit and presents for the
children.
This new mode of merchandising
that is being inaugurated in Mur
dock has for its purpose the bring
ing of city store advantages to the
smallest towns and villages through
increased buying power of group
purchases. The Clover Farm organi
zation is one of the largest and is in
creasing its scope every day as more
and more individual merchants take
on this new merchandising plan.
Entered the State University
Douglass Tool, who for the past
two years has been a student of
Creighton college of Omaha, is this
year entering the University of Ne
braska for a term of study. He left
for Lincoln last week and Is now at
his work as a student there. Douglass
is very persistent in his application
to the task of studying and being al
so very apt in the assimilating of the
knowledge imparted by the textbooks
and instructors, will make an excel
lent student and secure the utmost
from his schooling.
Played a Stiff Game
In a kittenhall game -which was
staged. at the county fair at Weeping
Water last Wednesday between the
Weeping Water and Murdock teams,
the contest was very spirited and re
quired sixteen innings to determine
the result. . The score was 1 to 0 in
favor of Weeping Water.
Exhibited Ccb Cabinet
Oscar E. McDonald was at the
Cass county fair all last week, where
he had charge of the display of kit
chen keb kabinets, which are manu
factured by II. w. Tool. One of the
features of his display and demon
stration was the giving away of one
of these kabinets at the fair, the win-
$uy at EHoine
You do not have to go else
where to secure your Auto.
See Lawrence Race
Murdock, Nebraska
and get a demonstration of the
celebrated - Bigger and Better
Chevrolet- the leading car in
America. Low Drices and the
most liberal terms. Buy now!
her to be the one guessing closest to
the number of cobs which the re
ceptacle contained.
South. Bend Wins Game
In a game of baseball which was
staged on the high scool diamond
between the locals and a team from
South Bend, the game was won by
the visitors. Score, 8 to 7.
Attend Family Reunion
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Craig were in
attendance at a family reunion of
the Craig family, which was held at
the park in Beatrice and attended by
some 35 of the members of the family.
Enjoyed Picnic at Seward
A large number of the families of
the Tools and McDonalds gathered at
the public park in Seward on last
Sunday, where they enjoyed a picnic
and a fine dinner with a good time
by all. There were there for the oc
casion and to assist in the excellent
time which was had, Henry A. Tool
and wife, E. A. Bradford and wife.
Lacey McDonald and family, Mrs.
Hannah McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. B. McDonald, of Murdock. Kenneth
Tool and wife of Wahoo, Gale Mc
Donald and family of Hampton, and
D. C. Bradford and wife, Charles
Beggs and wife and Ezra Beggs and
family, all of Carlton. Following the
dinner they repaired to the golf
groundj nearby, where they enjoyed
a game of golf.
TRAINMEN OUST LEADER
Cleveland. The executive board
of the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men announced that it had ordered
removal cf James Murdock, of Lon
don, Ont., as a vice president of the
brotherhood for failure in several in
stances to promote the interests of
the organization and attend properly
to his duties.
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Ronvicted in record time of kidnaping and slaying Joe Nesbitt, Detroit
automobile executive, Robert Frazer (left) and Robert Buffa are shown
manacled as they were taken from McComb County jail to Michigan
Prison to begin their life sentence. With two other men they 6lew
N'esbitt after sobbing him. There is no capital punishment in Michigan.
ANALYZE SWEEP OF REPEAL
Washington. Tre movement for
repeal which has swept unchecked
across twenty-nine states was shown
by an unofficial tabulation to have
piled up a total popular vote of near
ly 3 to 1 for the death of constitu
tional prohibition a result now offi
cially possible on Dec. 5. By adding
in the latest tallies available from
the last five states to hold elections,
the popular ballot stood: For repeal,
10,760,154; against 3,578,955. With
only seven more states needed to sig
nal the passing of the amendmnt, at
least ten more state votes are assured
by Nov. 7.
Should all follow the wet trend,
the focus would turn to the three
states which have arranged ratifying
conventions on Dec. 5 Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Utah.
The last three to act officially,
provided the trend continues un
broken, would officially usher out the
eighteenth amendment and open the
door to legal whiskies, wines and all
the rest. Should one or more of these
states vote against the twenty-first
or repealing amendment, conventions
have been set for D:c. C, by Maino
and North Carolina. The Kentucky
convention meets on Dec. 15.
Letterneads, envelopes and all
kinds of Job Printing at the Jour
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