PAGE FOUB. MONDAY. SEPT. 25, 1933. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL MURDOCH ITEMS I We saw this card displayed in business house in Murdock: "Please do not ask for credit; our socks are thin too." Albert Blum and wire, of South Bend, were visitors in Murdock last Wednesday, coming to visit with their friends and as well to look at ter some business matters. Fred II. Gorder, county commis sioner in the district of which Mur dock is a part, was a visitor here last Wednesday afternoon and was look ing after some business matters for the day. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. McKinnon, of near Alvo, were guests for a short time on last Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Tool, the ladies being sisters, and sure they enjoyed the visit very much. R. J. Williams and wife of John son, friends of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Craig, were visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Craig, when all went ' to Fre mont, where they enjoyed a picnic, together with a pleasant session of fishing and swimming. A. II. Ward and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Gillespie and Miss Viola Everett went to the grove by the lakeside at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Schewe with their supper and enjoyed a picnic dinner there dur ing the cool of the evening. A. II. Ward and the family were visiting and at the same time look ing after some business matters at Plattsmouth the fore part of the week and again later in the week went back to enjoy the festivities of the Korn Klub Karnival, which was be ing held in the county seat from Wednesday to Saturday. Well Pleased with Business Emil Kuehn, who recently opened a Clover Farm store in Murdock, is well pleased with the business he has received to date. Taking a Vacation James Warren, manager of the Murdock Froduce company, has been taking a vacation from the buying of produce and as well looking after some business matters while the wife and her mother are looking after the business at the produce station. Jim" is seeing some fine country and at a time of the year when it is looking the best. Sophomores Enjoy Party i . The Sophomore class of the Mur dock high school on last Thursday evening, under the sponsorship of Miss Dorothy Parks, their teacher, and with well filled baskets, went to the farm of J. J. Gustin, where they enjoyed an evening party, and say how they did eat those weiners and the other good things they had along. Brought Happiness and a Boy There was a happy smile on the face of Rer. Hugo A. Norenberg, pas tor of the Callahan Evangelical church during the early portion of last week and the smile still remains for the cause of it is that a son was born at the hospital in Lincoln and the young man and his mother are both getting along nicely. Saw Good Ball Game John Ostbloom and John W. Kru- ger, both of them interested in the great American game of baseball. went to Memphis last Sunday to see a tie played off between the Ashland and Memphis teams. The teams were inembers of the Saunders County as sociation, and when the wind-up of the season came, they were tied for first honors and were playing off the tie. The boys report a very nicely contested game with the result, Ash land, 10, to Memphis, 5. That leaves Ashland winner of the league cham pionship honors. Union Meeting at Callahan A union revival meeting of Elm wood, Callahan, Louisville and Mur dock churches began Sunday evening, September 24th, and will continue until October Sth. Meetings will be Jheld at the Callahan church. No evangelist will be employed, but the lecal pastors will alternate in bring ing the messages II. R. Knosp, H. A. Noerenberg, J. L. Arnold and F. L. Wiegert. It is rather to be an in spirational meeting, preliminary to the local revival meetings to be held in the local churches during the com ing months. ABCoHGa Gecd at Low Price Nebraska Grown Dakota No. 12 and Grimm while it Lasts $5 Bushel Formers Elevator Company Phone 17 Murray, Nebr. Nebraska s Expenses for Last Year25i Million Per Capita Cost $10; Fourteen Mil lion Dollars Sept on Highways. Washington, Sept. 20. It cost Ne braska S13.799.477 to operate and maintain its general governmental departments the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932 about $10 per cap ita. A summary of Nebraska financial statistics made public today by the census bureau shows the state's total revenue receipts in 1932 were $23, 561,756, or $17 per capita. Expenses that jear dropped slight ly from 1931. when the cost was $10.47 per capita. Back in 1917 the state carried on for only $3.86 per capita. Expenses Exceed Revenue. Not included in departmental ex penses are expenditures of $11,633, 173 for permanent improvements and $9,892 for interest on debts, bring ing Nebraska's total 1932 outlay to $25,442,S42. Of that sum, $14,065, $64 went to highways $10,326,461 lor construction and the balance for naintenance. Nebraska's revenues fell $1,8S1, )86 short of her total expenditures, jut exceeded by more than nine mil lion dollars her expenditure exclu sive of permanent improvements. Property and special taxes yielded nore than a fourth of Nebraska's rev 3nue in fiscal year 1932. In 1931 those taxes provided a third of the state's income and in 1918 they orought 60 per cent. They increased $9.7 percent in their yield from 1917 -.o 1932, but dropped 21.1 per cent n the latter year. Indebtedness Is Same. Business and nonbusiness licenses jrougTlt 38.3 per cent of the state's earnings in 1932, compared with 39.1 per cent in 1931 and 6.S per ent in 1917. Earnings of general departments lus pay to state officials for services rendered, brought 8.S per cent of .he total revenu. Included under business licenses ire gasoline sales taxes, which pro duced $7,008,371 in 1932. Nebraska owed only $237,500 on lune 30, 1932, in funded or fixed Jebts. The - per .capita .indebtedness was 17 cents, the same as in 1931. In 1917 the state of. Nebraska had 10 debt other than outstanding war rants. Property in Nebraska subject tc id valorem taxation was valued by issessors at $2,C75,394 in 1932. SENTENCE IN PEN REFUSED Omaha. The pica of Elaine Fletcher, 24, confessed parole vio lator, that he be sent to a federal penitentiary to serve his time and receive medical attention, was re jected temporarily by Dr. James P. Connolly, new federal probation of ficer here. Instead Dr. Connolly found a job for the 24 year old McCook man, who claimed to be unable to find one, md arranged for ihedical treatment. Fletcher will be held at county jail here until the return next Monday of Federal Judge Donohoe who will pass on Dr. Connolly's arrangement. Fletcher was paroled on a Dyer act charge in 1931 while serving a one year term in Nebraska reform atory for breaking and entering. He has a wife and two children at Mc Cook, he said. Suffering from a ser ious malady, he was unable to find work and hospital treatment was de nied him, he said. If Judge Donohoe approves Dr. Connolly's recommenda tions, Fletcher will go to work here as soon as his phyhical condition war rants. We aren't quite ture what is de laying the arrest of George Machine Gun Kelly, who is making himself quite a nuisance as the Urschel trial progresses, but perhaps they're wait ing to get something on him. :o: Wall Street bankers are urging expansion of credit rather than in flation of currency as a recovery measure. It took quite a while to run the W. S. bankers into that par ticular corner, but there they are. Buy at CHome 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 prices and the most liberal terms. Buy now I Opsn a Checking Account We urge the opening of Checking Accounts with this bank, on which there will be NO SERVICE CHABGE no matter how small the account. Pay by check and have a receipt. We solicit deposits both fop Time Certificates and Savings accounts, on which we pay the usual rates of interest. USE OUE SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES at $1.10 to $3.30 per year, for your Insurance Policies, Abstracts, Etc. Efficient and Courteous Bank ing Service is Our Aim Farmers State Bank Plattsmouth, Nebr. Bryan Says Combine Still Functioning Rejects Grading and Culvert Bids; State to Do Own Work; Con tracts for $312,106 Let. Lincoln, Sept. 20. Contracts for $3 12, 10C or highway work in Ne braska were awarded today, while Governor Bryan announced the state itself would grade and build culverts and bridges on 10.3 miles of highway between Meadow Grove and Norfolk because "unsatisfactory" bids were received twice. Bryan said the work on the two Madison county projects would begin "almost immediately," with prelim inary work probably starting within a few days. The governor said he re gretted the state undertaking this work, but he could "see no other re course after taking second bids and finding the combination still func tioning as one unit with prices so high the state cannot afford to re cognize them." State Engineer Cochran announced the award of contracts for paving seven miles east of Lincoln, grading 12.2 miles in Lincoln and Keith coun ties, all on projects for which bids were rejected after the August 31 letting and new bids asked. He also announced award of contract to L. C. Sokol of Duncan for $9,115, of right of way fence between Decatur and Winnebago on three projects in Burt and Thurston counties. Low Bids $180,000. Bids for gravel preparatory to bituminous mat and on all state pro jects still are under consideration Bryan said action would not be tak en until after the Friday letting here. when further bidding on new work and a large amount of maintenance gravel is scheduled. The low bids on the grading cul verts and bridges between Meadow Grove and Norfolk, which were re jected as too high, totaled more than 180 thousand dollars. The work is on a new right of way west of Nor folk which will eliminate the job to Battle Creek and shorten the road to Meadow Grove four miles. Bitum inous mat finishing is planned for the road from the end of the concrete pavement six miles west of Norfolk, Bryan said. Omahans Get Contracts. C. F. Lytle of Sioux City got the contract for paving 6.5 miles east of Lincoln in Cass county for $206,- 496 and the Yant Construction com pany of Omaha got the contract for the other half mile for $31,748. J. E. Tift, Grand Island, will do the 7.2 miles of Lincoln county grad ing west of Sutherland for $33,310 and E. L. Marrs of Omaha, the five miles of grading in Keith county east of Paxton for $31,46. TOTAL 4,194 ENROLLED Four thousand, one hundred and ninety-four students have registered for work in the University of Ne braska for the first semester of the school year 1933-1934, according to official figures released from the reg istrar's office. That figure Includes registration through Monday even ing. The total so far does not include registration in the medical college in Omaha or in the . graduate college, according to the registrar's office. A check-up on the registration fig ures for the same period last fall re vealed that the total registration at that time was 4,363 students, a dif ference of only 168 more students than have registered so far this year. In the school of nursing at Om aha, 119 students have registered for work, according to the statement of the registrar's office while the to tal registration at that school last year was 118 students. Alvo Nswg John B. Skinner has been quite ill for a number of days and last week was kept to his bed for a greater por tion of the time. Roy Coatman was over to Omaha for two trips during the early por tion of last week with stock, also hav ing some feeders on the return trip. Byron Golding, of Plattsmouth, who is the owner of some property in Alvo, was in town last Wednesday, looking after the same, and also call ing on friends hero. Frank Taylor and wife were over to Weeping Water on last Wednes day, where they were looking after some business matters for a short time and at the same time were vis iting with their friend3. W. O. Boyles and wife, of Lincoln, were visiting in Alvo on last Wednes day and were guests for the day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Boyles and Mr. Boyles was also visiting with his friends down town. The Rev. B. B. Stanley, an evange list, who was formerly engaged as a regular pastor of the Christian church, has secured the Dunkard church building and is conducting a series of revival meetings there. Sterling Coatman has been among those on the sick list and while he has been very ill it is with great dif ficult that he can be kept in bed and at home as he is very ambitious to work whenever there is anything to do. Simon Rehmeier was loading and shipping two cars of wheat from the elevator on last Wednesday, thus put ting more feed stuff on the market for the workers who are not more generally employed thru the work ing of the NRA. Roy Coatman was occupied a por tion of the time last week with the moving of a part of the building own ed by S. C. Boyles and situated near the rear of the Nelson store to the Boyles farm, where it is to be used as one of the farm buildings. L. M. Snaveley and family and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rosenow, who have been in Wisconsin for some time past, write that thejr are having a splendid time and enjoying their vis it very nicely. They expect to re turn home via Chicago and look in on the Century of Progress exposi tion, after which they will come on home. Moving to Alvo to Live ' Mr. and Mrs. Turner McKinnon have secured a residence property to live in and will move to Alvo in a short time to make their home, while Donald will remain on the farm ami will do the farming. Mrs. Schwartz, better known as "Grandmother" Schwartz, has moved to the Upte grove property, thus making two more families for the city. Enjoyed Seeing World's Fair A merry party composed of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Appleman, Charles Apple man and Edith left a week ago Sat urday for the Century of Progress ex position in Chicago, where they spent almost an entire week taking in the sights of the great world ex hibition and returned home last Sat urday, well pleased with the glimpse at the workings of the nation and an insight Into what the world has been doing in the last one hundred years. They found there . have been many wonderful changes in the lapse of three generations. Miss Mary Anderson Still Poorly Miss Mary Anderson, sister of Mrs. Eugene Barkhurst, who is reported as being quite ill at her home at Bush nell, near the Wyoming line and who was visited by the sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Barkhurst, still re mains very poorly and with her ad vanced age, which is In the eighties, it is difficult to overcome the illness. Mr. and Mrs. Barkrust, who are re maining for the present with the pa tient to render whatever aid and com fort is possible, write that she is still very seriously ill. Will Give Reception The Methodist church of Alvo, in conjunction with the Parent-Teachers association are at this time working on a program which is to be given September 27th at the Methodist church and which is in the form of a reception to the teachers of the pub lic schoo and the minister and wife, Rev. and Mrs. R. J. McKenzie. who were last week returned to the charge at Alvo. With the program which is being worked out there will also be some excellent eats provided and both will be enjoyed by all who at tend. The two new teachers for the year are Miss Reynolds, whose home is at Seward, and E. F. Goar. Will Hold County Meet The Cass County Women's Chris tian Temperance Union will have a county convention at the Methodist church in Alvo on Thursday, Sept. 28th, at which a program will be given and at which there will be a large number of delegates from over the county present to discuss the present phase of the liquor situation as well as consider other phases of Intemperance. Entering Business Again John Wood, Jr., who it will be re membered was engaged in business in Alvo some years ago, and who has been succeeded by E. L. Nelson and wife, is again to enter the mercantile lines, having recently purchased the store in Elmwood that was formerly owned by Mr. Fuller and later by the Fuller estate. Mr. Woods has had a good deal of experience in the com mercial line and is well qualified to succeed in his avocation. Sorely Has It Handy At the E. L. Nelson store a wander ing swarm of bees located their home and central place of business between the outer siding of the building and the inner, which was sealed Instead of plastered, and there they went to work. To aid them, Mr. Nelson bored a hole in the outer wall so they could get in and out, while from the inside he cut an opening and placed the "super" of a bee hive, and with the hole leading to it from the outside the bees are now busily engaged in making honey. Whenever he desires, Mr. Nelson can go to the super, re move a section of honey and let the bees go on working. This makes it about as handy a proposition as one can imagine, for the honey can be gotten at from inside the house, while the bees have their own way of get ting in and out. SEE HIGHER WHEAT PRICE Omaha. Local grain men Wed nesday were expressing belief that the government thru the agricultural adjustment administration, is to an nounce some plan soon to raise the price of grain in the middlewest. The government's goal, which is influenced to some extent by the pres ent currency manipulation, appears to be to put the price of wheat some where above a dollar, they said. Probability of some such action in the midwest was forecast by the recent announcement that the gov ernment will subsidize buying of wheat in the northwest for expert to countries not normally large buy ers of United States wheat. The general effort of the govern ment plan, if it works, would be to keep the price of wheat in this coun try considerably above the world level. N. B. Updike, who returned re cently from Washington, is confident that some such plan will be adopt ed, and that the price of wheat will be materially higher as soon as the plan is announced. BREAD LAW HELD INVALID Des Moines. Federal Judge Dewey granted a permanent injunction re straining state officers from enforc ing the Iowa bread weight law. A three judge court composed of Judge Dewey, the late Judge Kenyon of the circuit bench, and Judge Scott of the northern Iowa district several months ago held the law unconstitutional and issued a temporary injunction. Twelve baking companies petitioned for the injunction. The law which was declared unconstitutional pro vides that bread must be baked in loaves weight either one-half a pound, one pound, a pound and one-quarter, a pound and one-half or a multiple of one pound. In each case the maker was allowed a tolerance of 10 per cent more than that weight or 3 per cent less. The bakers claimed that the per mitted variation is so slight that it was impossible for them to comply with the statutes. The law is invalid, Judge Dewey held, insofar as it ap plies to the maximum variation. OMAHA HAS HOUSING PLAN Omaha. A housing project tpread ing from Cuming to Wirt streets, and from 16th to 30th streets, has been outlined by architects, real estate men and city officials here. More than 300 square blocks, are involved. Blueprints for the area are now be ing prepared and a group of real es tate men will designate on them the property worth renovizing and the houses that should be torn down and replaced. When the plans are complete they will be taken to Washington for the tentative approval of Robert D. Kohn, in charge of the housing division of the public works administration. With his sanction, definite plans for the reclamation of the area would be rushed forward. Plans for financ ing the project are still nebulous. WANTED TO BUY Prairie hay wanted. Plattsmouth Feed Yards. ' Telephone 377. tftw Vote will be Taken on the Car rier Problem Proposed Equalizing of Competition by Rail, Water and Highway; To Determine by Canvass. Washington. The United States chamber of commerce proposes to find out, by a canvass, what the rank and file of the nation's business men think about further equalizing competition among the three major carriers, rail. water and highway. To determine this, the chamber announced, it had instituted a poll, based primarily on the report of a representative com mittee which recently ended a study of the carrier problem. The committee predicted its report on the statement that "unregulated competition with regulated forms of comparable transportation is unfair, contrary to the public interest in the losses which are caused and inequit able to shippers whose interest is in dependable service and conditions." The majority report of the com mittee included the following pro posals, submitted as questions in the poll: Water transportation in domestic commerce: "All common carriers should be required to obtain certi flcates of public convenience" and should be subject to regulation as to rates. Those not common carriers, but accepting cargoes for hire, should charge the established common car rier rates. Government operation of commercial water transportation should be discontinued. Highway transportation in inter state commerce: Motor buses and other passenger carriers "should pay a special user tax in the form of a mileage tax, graduated according to seating capacity." Truck3 should pay a users tax, "reflecting fairly the de mands each makes upon the high ways." The gasoline tax "should be kept down to a point not encourag ing wholesale evasion." State recip rocal agreements for special licenses on commercial vehicles. Intrastate carriers should adhere to "rules that are just, reasonable and non-discriminatory among shippers." Interstate regulation: "There should be the same degree of regula tion by congress of interstate motor carriers as to permits to operate, rates, financial responsibility and hours of service. The interstate reg ulatory authority should act as an appellate body." Section 500 of the transportation act "should be con strued as a declaration by congress of the importance to the public of the major forms of transportation, with out preference for rail or water trans portation over highway transporta tion." SENTENCE PAINT DAUBERS Norfolk, Neb. Charles Fehir, Am bridge, O., and Joe May, New York City, young men who confessed they were hired to daub yellow paint on two Norfolk beauty shops, pleaded guilty to charges of malicious de struction of property and were sen tenced to serve thirty-five days at hard labor on county highways by County Judge Reeker at Madison Wednesday morning. Journal Want-Atfs get results I Moon Magic on r ;The charm of moonlight lends an added beauty to the gigantic profile tf George Washington, carved out of solid granite on Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This is the first moonlight picture, ever made of the national memorial which is being carved out of , the ' mountain by Gutzon Gorglum, -world-famous sculptor, fll. 21 Marks the Spot It. may be where the house stood before the fire or wind storm . . . It. may be where the two cars came together, or where the injured person was thrown by the wreck. 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Cheers and applause warmed their hearts as old time tunes of Civil war fame injected a new Epryness in the weary legs while wistful comrades, disabled (by the wounds of old age, rode behind in automobiles or sat in the grandstand as the parade passed. Texas had one veteran in line, John Shearer, Hous ton, and Louisiana and Mississippi were represented by two aged Ne groes. Russell C. Martin of Los Angles, commander in chief, urged veterans to battle for pensions, accusing the government of "using every effort to increase, the prices of production but decrease Uie" amount of the pensions with which to buy." He pleaded for his comrades to "make every effort to have the injustice in the reduction in pensions removed." The economy act cut Civil war pensions 10 per cent. UNKNOWN MAN SENTENCED Omaha. A man arrested under the name of Henry Heitman, but who told officers he was the son of the major of a western Nebraska town, was sentenced by District Judge Fitzgerald. Wednesday to two years in the state penitentiary on a charge of larceny as bailee. Heitman re fused to give Deputy County Attor ney Shotwell his correct name, say ing he would not have his parents know that he is in trouble. He told newspapermen he left home nine years ago and became an alcohol run ner for the Capone gang in Chicago. His record shows a number of ar rests. Memorial Mount : .-. : :::::: J ' :..:: i .. I r, :?VWi w x-:-.;::::-V : ; '7- f: 1 : v :::;.y-vvn 4 7 :