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.
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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
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Murdock, Nebraska
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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.
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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
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;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.
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OLD VETERANS MARCH AGAIN
St. Paul. The old time veterans
of this country's Civil war were tired
but happy Wednesday night. They
had inarched again not thru Geor
gia or with Sherman to the sea but
thru St. Paul's downtown district,
mustering their thinning ranks for
one more parade of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
It was the high point of the sixty-seventh
annual reunion for some
270 boys in blue, who, despite fail
ing strength, trod the pavements in
rank and file before a crowd esti
mated at 75,000 by Col. F. G. Stutz,
parade marshal. 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
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