PAGE TWO PLATTSIIOUTH SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL JI0NDAY, APRIL 23, 1331. lie IPlattsmouth Journal PUELISIIED SKLn-WEEKLY AT PLATTSIIOUTH, 1IEBSASSA Entered at Postcffice, Plattsmouth, Neb., as second-class mail matter R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR III FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond GOO miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable Btrictly in advance. Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable- gift. II Corinthians 9: 15. :o: Oli, yes, lots of people are still playing miniature golf, but they're doing it on the regulation courses. :o: Conies to bat another G. O. r. essi iv.ifct this one arising to remark that the sum total of the various alpha betical groups equals IQU. :o: Maybe the congressional parr.de in welcome to the president on his re turn was merely to show how quick ly congress can get back into step vith the administration. :o: Judging from the autograph de mand j showered upon Max Baer dur- iog his brief visit to Kansas City, - b's greatest danger between now and the Camera fight isn't a matter of training it's writer's cramp. :o: The Boston lied Sox physician says Lefty Grove's sore arm is the result cf an ailing tooth. Obviously the thing to do is remove the tooth and tell it back to Connie Mack for a good round sum. :o: Mrs. Tommy Manville, who has been spe-nding several weeks in Reno, has changed her mind and is flying back to Xew York to Tommy. If Tommy can hold out the first few days of hearing what a swell time she had in Reno, it may turn out okay. :o: The Massachusetts processor who some years ago advised young men to marry the boss's daughter, has taken account of the depression, and rev advises marrying the steno grapher, because she has a job. This leaves the poor boss's daughter with practically no way to turn except sue fcr breach of promise. :o: Bill Nye once wrote a masterly cs.-ay cn the a m ual spring menace cf the crose--eycd vonmn with a gar den hose. But after assisting the fam ily in washing the screens prepara tcry to putting them in place last Sunday, wo have discovered that a woman doesn't need to be cross-eyed to bo dergerecus when armed with a garden hose. The Wall Grows Higher, as the Surplus PISss V.'hat this country needs is fewer blow-outs, blow-ups and blow-hards and more lock-outs. :o: After the way they caught Insull, why not put a few Turks ou Dillin ger's trail over here? :o: Samuel Insull says he didn't run away from home two years ago when he left Chicago. Just vice versa, he lost his home before he left. :o: Several cf the big league ball clubs haven't rounded into niidseasoa form yet, but this doesn't seem to apply to the Giants and the Cincinnati Reds. :o: The Detroit News recalls that for many years Stephen Leaccck was the only economist who was also a hu mcrist, but the last three years have brought them out ia droves. :o: High school boy ;at Springfield, Mo., have gone on rcccrt! as being opposed to girls who are "boy crazy" or wear red fingernail polish. (The redundancy is theirs, not ours.) :o: More than 200 brands of whisky are r.ow on the market, and it must be very difficult to select the best, owing to the effect it is said to have cn oae's remembering apparatus af ter the first 100 tests. :o: The cable3 report the finding in Franco cf M. Trotsky. Not having knewnt hat Mr. Tlrotsky was lost, we shall continue with our regular rchedulo of activities instead of tak ing the week off to celebrate. :o: Hero it is ihc opening of the ma jor league bee ball so son arid Gen eral Johnson las failed to provide the players with a ceil. It looks as If they will 1 avo to go ahead and play cvtra inning games at the came rate of pay a? those cf regulation length. : o : It rocmr, that Br. Wirt is the sort of person who goes cut cn a conver sational drive and then gets out and leaves hi.? meter running. Perhaps it would be better to team him up with Iluey Long, who also has the habit cf parking his conversation on a steep grade without setting his brake,'. THERE 13 NO OTHER LEADER AVAILABLE There is no alternative leadership in America today. It is so plaiu that the fact cries out Roosevelt or no body. If the president were to lose control cf his party and become fu tile and helpless in congress, the re publicans are in no position to fur nish the leadership required. The republicans cannot return to power before 1937. Even if, as the result cf the coming November elections, they should grin control of the house, they could do nothing ia the two last yeai-3 cf the term cf Mr. RooLevelt save obstruct his policies and hold the country at a dead aiop. In the democratic party there is no alternative to the president m leadership. No email clique of demo cratic senators and representatives cculd function in his place in fur nishing direction to the democratic majorities, which would disintegrate into quarreling groups if they were without the cement that his execu tive power and personality furnish them. The prolonged period in which the democratic majorities fol lowed the president 'blindly" con cealed from the public some of the most incongruous features in their composition and at the came time screened frcm the critical public view the palpable weaknesses of their own parliamentary controls. Politically, it is net at all a ques tion cf the constitutional right cf congress to pursue a course independ ent cf the president; and, realisti cally, an independent course can not be pursued with success. The democratic congress, like the demo cratic party, tanks or swims with the president. It is no exaggeration to say that the present strength cf the j party, in so far as it can be meas ured, derives to the extent of 5)0 per cent from the American peo ple's appreciation of and confidence in the president's governing capac ity. Loss cf faith in him means that the demoeratic party is cn the rocks. Continuance of faith in him, such as. was indicattd by the Illinois primar- ies, when for the first time eir.ee the : civil war more voters functioned m ; tho demc.crr.tic than in the republi-1 can primaries, means the continued utilization of the party as an instru ment cf responsible government. Springfield Republican. :o: Ex-S:nator Brcokhart, enamored of the Soviet system cf planned and regimented economy, basts tr-at "rv- ery mnn in Russia 1 has a job." Em' decs every mn in the penitential y have a job. I :o: . ' The President has turned d the MeLcod bii:t spon" j ,.: ,v ; red larger. Detroit interests, which would 1 obligated the government to reim burse depositors in closed banks. An 1 now the holders cf liability bar!: stocks will fc.l uncomfortable ail ever again. Link Desperados ' to Bask Robbery M ie?" 0m Slain Pair Tzken in Lincoln After Runnirg Gun Fight Wanted in Oklahoma Lay Is Wounded. Lincoln, Neb., April 20. Two gunmen, captured after a 10-milc running gun battle today in which their companion was slain and a schoolboy bystander criticaiy wound ed, were rait: ally identified tonight as the robbers of a Bethany, Okla., bank on Friday.. Tho pair under arrest gave their names as Walter Dean, 29, Beaver City, Okla., and Sam Rivctte, ua, Galveston, Tex., but refused to reveal the identity of the slain man, saying he might ' be Pretty Boy Floyd for all we know." Police said the man was not Floyd, however. Paitial identification of Dean, who suffered' wounds in his hip and left should. i . and Rivctte as the Bethany re-Lb. rs v. as made by Deputy Sheriff John dams of Oklahoma City in a telephone conversation with Lincoln police. The Oklahoma City sheriff left tonight for Lincoln to view the suspects. In the Bethany robber;-. DC3 was obtained and more than six hundred dollars was found on the trio here. Admits Prison Record;. Under questioning, Dean admitted all three hud served time in the Texas ststo prison. Officers began an investigation to see whether they were were involved in robberies at Perry, Ia., Edwardsville, Kans., and a kidnaping at Beaver City, Okla. Chief cf Detectives A. C. Anderson expressed belief the men might have planned an Omaha bank robbery. The gun battle started in the heart of Lincoln and continued for 10 miles with Patrolman Frank Rob bins, previously cited for bravery. I : iL'iiii iiequenc ll.lli on U1C Liailllll ear. Vclcott Co-adit, son of Police Chief V,'. C. CouJit. drove the police i cruiser in too chase in which both -i. rs attain: d a 'speed of 75 miles an hour. Littb Hope for Boy. The schoolboy victim was Lurcen Marshall, 11, son of Walter Mar : hall. He wr.s struck in the abdomen by a stray fcull-ji alter both cars had passed Tv.cn .y-fsurth and O streets, ubcui tlx LTr.cR:; from tho' start" ot the tragio fight: I'oetora toni?ht held :' r his reeovt ry. The " little y was hope with Ills twin sister, Lois, and Franklin i ill, cn their way heme from school for lunch when: he was truck. i During the pursuit a cor driven ; by Oilo Kolcue. Humboldt, and cou ! twining also Roam De-Brown,. Lincoln, ! both N. U. students, followed the po i :iee car in response to a hail from j IkObbims, ready to lend aid in con tinuing tho pursuit in case the police machine- was disabled. WHY THIS 7LYIIIG TO SIIEAE THE HEW DEAL? Nov.- that the- public nas Tiad its :aur;h at Dr. Vv'iit, Hhoe revolution ary plot bsmb turned cut to be only ia first rr.ckc: . a more serious ciucs- ti o-i arises. Why arc Dr. Wirt and l is group cf the Committee for the Nalioii, ss ar.xious to destroy public cr,-. fidence in tho Roosevelt admin istration and the new deal? And v.-by do they rtoop to such methods? Covorr.mcntal red bugaboos cf li.is kind a:c not new; every two or thr.-.c year.; they are manufactured, i'.ut they usually are not taken ser- ieusiy by any cue but the illiterate av.d ignorant. Mr. Rand, the big industrialist and active head of the Committee for the Nation, is an exceedingly intelli ::t and rcputabL- citiaen. It was lie wl-.o first peddi-d the Vv'irt stuff to congress and forced national pub- li.ity. Mr. Rand must have known then, as the world knows now, its puny and contradictory nature. Tho comntry .is accustomed to ir responsible old ladies of both sexes rhae'.ow-fiirting with such goblins. Tho country is also aware that un scrupulous men sometimes use thesa red fakes to mask their own seliish business, as described some years ago by R. R. McGregor, head of one cf the National Electric Light associa tion's Illinois branch "My idea would be not. to try logic or reason, but to try to pin the bolshevik idea cn my eppement." Unwilling to class the reputable leaders cf tho Committee for the Na tion in either of those two irrespon sible classes, we wonder how and why ruch men as Mr. Rand got in volved in this performance. If they were fooled and were not trying to mislead the public? by smearing the new e!eal, it 13 not about tima that they say so? New York Wcrld-Tclcgram. SILVER SUBSIDY SPECULATORS "With Speaker Ra-.noy cf the house of representatives assuming leader ship cf the silver bloc in congress, it becomes an even greater threat to the con; I;-m..raticu's recovery program. 'use early March the treasury de partment has beca concerned, and rightly so, with the scandal of silver speculation, apparently by those trad ers and brokers who seek to profit from the efforts of the congresional bloc. Asked then if his investigation showed that some advocates of silver legislation had a personal stake, Sec retary Mcrgenthau was quoted as say ing: "Yes, wo found some were not entirely disinterested." For some reason the secretary then was disinclined to make the names public. Now, using the s-uatc banking and currency committee end its ace investigator, Ferdinand ivecra, tlic treasury again is see!: ins mere in formation on silver trades and specu lators. As we said early in March, Mr. Morgenthuu to protect congress and the people should reveal v.-hat per sons are trying to profit ia silver speculation growing cut cf existing government subsidy and the renewed drive for extreme silver inflation. Editorial Opinion cf the Nc-w York World-Tel e g ram . :o: IDIALISfl CF YOUTH AS SHOW!-: AT HARVARD The reported rev.:a.:cn at Har vard against former Br. eider. t Low ell's "house plan" ..'S.s t:i be based on real in ju t ice a it ai :c:.rs that boys ci what tl: : la.:' Pan tu Wen dell used to call "ike better .son" ob ject to living in buii ling ".,;,.!. men of different creed:. ::s:itisa! .-.pinions and social peeiticr.a" This is, of course, pretty serious 'v if a uni versity compels E;-i ;c-spaHaia; to -ivo across the hall frost Umtariar.s and republican; to cie in the earn? room with democrats, or even with social ists, tli d resulting ii Icticn can hardly help irtorfering with tho quality of their clas:rccm work, with scrieus- damago to their chance cf success in later life. To be .sure. Dr. !):.:!' persuaded Mr. Harkaoss to :; sd s-vci'sl mil lion dollar- for th : purpose cf pioaiotia:: .'.ria- s a l of dear.' racy, ile seemed I ) f i.1 thai if m-u beca mo interested in A',y " i:.:.o:: I.:s assy or inorganic c!cr.tl cry, th'y might mo menta; i!y rccsvsr frcm Lb air creed.:,' political opinio:' a t.nd oeial p - itions. This was a dl-j'.iaai. uadctv'.imavo of the idrali .m of youth. Ir. is sho- h ing that an cduor.tcr should suppose that republic-are: wsr.M s.rp hating democrats, and Epi vopalians i-top shuddering at the eaa rscnllon of Mcthcdists :::r'.aly bccaiae cf the common Loud ci learn iar.. Youth is not so crave-1 as thaf. It demands that it associate with beys who wear the same club tip, even if they are too dumb to last beyond the first mid years. Some had thouht that religion was dying, but. at Harvard 'reed" is mentioned as one cf tho causes for the secession of the as. '?::'.:$ from the house plan. It surly reassuring to see creed so respected that the mere presence of thoso . 1 :r hold ether creeds makes moving seem necessary. Baltimore Sun. :o: BAD LZBT DILL LEADS TO THIS CONCLUSION The president arr scs iliac if the government, as some people propose, is going to return tj him tho three hundred dollars he let in a busted bank last year, what about the money he lost in another bank in 1921 and in another in 1907 and the money his father lot in lSDC? Probably he cculd have extended the argument indefinitely. No coast his grand father lost money in busted banks in 1S73, and his great grandfather ia 1S57, and so on. However, this aruencnt. stimulat ing as it is doesn't answer . direct iy the paint raised by protagonists cf what Mr. Rooscvci. colls the "bad debt bill." This pe.nl is that the government, thrcugh President Hoo ver, urged us to keep our money in these bad banks, tieereby incurring responsibility for the losses. One an swer to thr.t is thai a country fool ish caough to elect Mr. Hoover and take his advice deecrved to lose Its money. But Mr. Roose.-clt's extension method may be aprlia.1 to this point, also. If Mr. Hoover urged us to keep our money in the banks, a few years previously Mr. Ccolidge, who was president of the United States, and Mr. Mellon, who was at the time sec retary of the treasury, urged us to keep cur money in the stock market. Mr. Hoover, too, assured us that pros perity was to be permanent, which, was certainly an invitation to keep mency ia the stock market. DOESN'T SOUND ROSY EUT THEY LIKE IT "They pay me a salary here that I'm ashamed to specify. At S:o0 and 5:30, every morning and evening, I'm one of the subway sardines. I get kicked around in tho streets, bawled out by cops and not waited on in restaurants. When my wife and 1 go to a movie, we're stepped on, push ed and batted around. When I sit home at night I'm treated to the ra dio in the top left apaitmcnt or scales cn the saxophone in the top right. Our garden is Central park, shared by seven million. "It doesn't sound very rosy, but we like it. We're having fun on the way. I have a job where there's a chance to get ahead. My wife; and I are American born, and the Amer ican way is in our blood. This is the only country in the world where wc want to live. And that's exactly uli there is to it." News Item. So explains Robert M. Ferguson, young New Yorker, who has refused a title- and allegedly "rich estates" in Ssctland because he will not give up his American citizenship and resi dence. "The American w ay" is a refresh ing phrase after all our concentra tion cn thing; that are wrong in this country. "The American Way frcm Subway to Saxophone, theme for a musical comedy cf sentiment yes, and cf some flag-raising, too. Why not? Mr. Ferguson doesn't like the sub way or th: saxophone. Ho doesn't expect tost ay with them always; he has a jab where there's a chance to g.t abend." That is the American way that is in the blood. It's "rugged iadividuah ?m," if you Ilk--. The kind that sent men west and ret we men inventing house-kc-'iiag and conveniences fcr log cabins and sod huts. It's the kind cf rugged individualism that made us: not the piratical individualism cf these- later days that has threatened to destroy u. If it's in your blood, it is better than titles and estates. Milwaukee; Journal. :o: F. II. KZITCrS FATE TO JURY Omaha. A jury in district court Wednesday night was deliberating the case of F. M. Kir.g, Lencclu pipe insulation promoter, charged with using the mails to defraud. The jury was instructed to bring in a scaled verdict Thursday mcruir.g if an rgreemcr.t is reached during the night. Kir.g was cn the Ktand Wednes day and testified regarding entries in a book in which he recorded fig ures concerning Lis financial condi tion. The government charges he misrepresented his financial condition in selling "partnerships" in his busi ness. Kir. 3 said tho book rep re sent el his earnings in various cities but ur.ci.r cross examination admitted that many of the entries represented money collected by selling partner ships rather than by selling his prod uct. FISH CLAIMS WIHT EIGHT Detroit, April IS. Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., speaking before 900 women at a republican women's meeting, attacked the policies and personalities of the Roosevelt admin istrntic n and assorted ho would prove too charges mode by Dr. William A. Wirt cf Cary, Indiana. He declared Dr. Vv'irt faiiel to prove his case because his sources of i:ilr.r:-:iat!o:i were loo remote. "Not cue, but twenty persons, in key posi tions in this administration are not democ rats, but socialists at heart," be soid. "Haif the democrats in Washington have no use for democratic- policies. They are followers of Karl Marx." Journal Want-acs gcx results! NOTICE OF HEARING To r.!l pc-rrcris interested in the Cuardmnsnip 01 Anna Stroy, incom- pc ten l. No. G G41. Take notice that John C. Stroy guardian cf said inccmpttont, lias iil cd aus petition praying for the- ap proval, settlement and allowance of all his guardian accounts filed from the date of his appointment to the u.n.t- -ii.i iur .in u.iicr auinor- mmg mm to compromise certain in vcamcnts mado by him as guardian and fcr further relief as may seem proper n this Court; that said peti tion will be heard before this Ccart on May IS, 191 4 at two p. m. .Dated April 21, lf.34. A. II. DUNBURY, r.23-3w County Judge. lOTICE CF PROBATE OF FOREIGN WILL In the County Court of Cass Coun ty, Nebraska. No. 301 C. To all persons interested in the cstnto of Christian May, deceased: Take notice that a petition has been filed iu this Court praying for tho probate cf an Instrument, nur. porting to be an uuihentisntp,! cf the last will and testament of said deceased and alleging that the same was duly admitted to probate in the County Court of Tazewell County. Illinois, and praying further for the appointment cf Guy L. Clements as administrator with will annexed; that said petition has be? n set for hearing before t p. r County Court of Cuss County, Nebraska, May Ibth, 1G34 at ten a. m. Dated April 17, 10:5 4. A. 11. DrXBURY. a2C-?,w County Judge. NOTICE TO CREDITORS I:i the County Court of Cass coun ty. Nebraska. To tho creditors of the cstato cf William D;uglas McCrary, deceased. No. 300 2. Take net Ice that tho time limited for tho presentation and filing cf claim:; caninst said estate is August 11. 1 f :5 4 ; that a hearing will be bad ;;t tho County Court room in Piatts mouih on August 17, lil.ll, at ten o'clock a. m.. for tho purpose of ex amining, bearing, allowing and ad justing ail claims or objections duly liicd. Dated April 13. 11)11. A. H. DEXBURY. alG-1w County Judge. SHERIFF'S SALE State of Nebraska, County of Cass, ss. By virtue of an Order of Sab- issued by C. E. Lodgv.ay. Cl.rk of the- Dis trict Court within and for Cass County, Nebraska, and to m..- dire t cd, I will on the; .'tii day cn" May, A. IX 19.14. at 10:00 o'clock a. m. of said day at tho South Front iijor of tho Court IIou"o in : aid County, s 11 at public auction to ti e Uobc t bid der for cash the following real es tate tc-wit: Yv'est Half of Section Nine teen. Township Twelve, North, Range nine, East of tin- (ilh P. M.. in Cass, Count;.-. N. br.-vka; The seme being le.ocl upon and tr.k'oi as the property f James E. McGinley, et ah. d:f. ndsm: -, to satisfy a judgment cf tho Cr nvt rc ecve red by The Fie a Trust (';: opr-r.y of Lincoln, Nebsa.-Iai, a or;, .ration, plaintiff, against said fh fendm :s. Piatt -mouth, Nebraska April 2nd, A. D. 1034. II. SYLVESTER, Shoriif Cass County, a3-5w Nebraska. LEGAL NOTICE To Lov.onuj V.. Patterson, Nels C. Johnso!'.. Charles S. Smith, and nil peis'":; having or claiming any in terest in Let ninr- ( U ) . being th.; west half of the north wc-.-.-t quaUer of the .oeuthwet quarter cf Host ion seven teen (17), and Fractional Lois num bered six (C) and save:'. (7), in the south half cf tho northeast quarter and the ncithcaot quarter of the er,ulhc:st quartos cf Section eigh teen (IS), all in Tov.mshin eleven (II), North. e;f Range fourteen (14), Vlr.it of tho Sixth P. M., in Cnsu coun ty. Nobr.;sIea. real nam en ml:: own: Notice is -hereby ,oiv-c"i that, Adid rhus O. Pearslr-y :o; plaintiff filed in th? Db-trPt Court cf Cass county, Nebraska, bis petition against you us defendants, the- purpose ef which is to obtain a dcreo quieting lit!. to the above described reel estate in plaintiff against all claims by or un der any cf the defendants and can celing end setting aside, as having been paid and barred by the Statute of Limitations of the State of Nc- bra.-!:a, ;i moitTige made by W. H. Pcy.o! and Elizabeth R. Royal to the dofer-dar.t. Charles S. Smith, doted Mar h 0. lS'JS. filed for record July G, 1SCS. recorded in Book "C" Mort gages, page 11, of the records of soid county, to secure the payment cf the sum of ?C00.00. Yen may answer said petit-ion in raid court on or before the; 25U11 day cf May. 193 1. or r.tberwisc the alle gations in said petition, will be taken as true aad a decree entered accord ingly. ADOLPIIUS O. PEARSLEY, Plaintiff. TYLER & PETERSON, Attorneys, Nebraska City, Nebraska. NOTICE OF SALE In lbs DLrtrict Court of Cass County, Nebraska. In the Matter of the- Application of Charles L. Craves, Administrator of the Estate- cf John Wesley Wood a;d. dec. used, for license to sell real esinte. Notica is hereby given that in pur suance of an order of the Honorable D. W. LivinasOon. Judge cf the l)i trict Court of Cass County, Nebraska, nmt'e on tho ltith day of April. 1934. for tho sale of real estate herein-r.ft-r described, for the payment of debts and claims allowed against said estate and expenses of administra tion nf thn l.'.-.t;'! :t nf T.-li--, W.ulov Woodward, deceased, I will sell at nrtblie caution f, th hi-;,e,t i.i,?.;- for cash at the front door nf li; .Bank of Union, in Union, Nebraska, es-i Tbu r--rmy. May blt, 103-1, at tho hour of 11 o'clock a. m.. the follow ing described reel estate, to-v. it: Lot 7 in the Northeast Quar ter cf the Southwest Quarter of Section 23, Township 10, Range 13, containing 20. 3 acres more or less; Lot G in the Northeast Quarter cf the Southwest Quar ter of t'O'ctian 23. Township 10, Range; 12, conisir.iag lu aero; more or Ira.-; Lot 4 2 in Em Seuthea t Quarter pi the South west Quarter of Sect 10.1 2", Township 10, Range 13, con taining C.0." acres more or less all in Cass County. Nebraska. Said len! estate will be scld subject to lease thereon to March 1, 1935. Tho right to reject any and all bids is hereby reserved. Dated this 21st day of Anril. 1931. CHARLES L. GRAVES. Ad ministrator cf the Estate of Jchn Wesley Woodard, de ceased. A. L. TIDD, Attorney. a23-5w l