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THE PLATTSMOUTH EVENING JOURNAL
MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1034.
Congregation
alists Holding a
Conference
Peace Is te Theme of Opening Ses
sion More Than 150 Dele
gates Are Registered.
Omaha. The .seven ty -eighth an
nual meeting of the Nebraska Con
gregational conference opened here
Thursday with 150 ministers and
delegate;; registered. At least fifty
more are expected to register before
the conference reconvenes on Friday.
Rev. Motier C. Bulcck, moderator,
of McCook i3 presiding. The confer
ence was opened with devotions con
ducted by Dr. Albert W. Palmer, pres
ident of the' Chicago Theological sem
inary, followed by presentation by a
program for social action by the com
mittee on social relations.
Mrs. Margaret Thompson Sheldon,
presiding officer of the state execu
tive board, reviewed the child labor
situation, pointing out that child la
bor laws are inadequate because it
has been found thai those statss
whic h have the worst laws are those
in which the great industries that
exploint child labor are situated.
"Peace and How to Pursue It," was
the subject of the address of Rev.
M. J. A. Ualrymple of Burwell, who
said "war doesn't settle anything, it
just decides for the moment who is
strongest."
At the suggestion cf Rev. Mr. Dal
rymple, a motion was passed where
by each person attending U12 con
ference would sign a pledge "never to
cross the boundary of another na
tion to kill cr destroy nor will I sup
pert my country in doing so."
Other speakers included Rev. Fran
cis ('. Snyder of Elgin, Neb., who led
a discussion on "goals for the farm-
el s cnurcii; i;ev. iu oi i'imukihi,
Xeb.
STAND AGAINST SCHOOL AID
Boston. The National League of
Women Voters, after one of the rucct
active discussions of its week's con
vention, voted not to support legis
lation seeking federal aid for public
education in the present emergen;'.
Most of the opposition came from
delegates from New York. Wisconsin
and Illinois. Opponents said the sub
ject had not been a matter of study
for two years, as are most items which
the league recommends for legisla
tive support:
Previous to this action, the conven
tion recommended for study the- fol
lowing subjects: School finances,
vas and means of equalizing the
lurclcn cf school support, the school
systems of citie, and the federal gov
ernment's emergency project in edu
cation and their possible future.
The only contest in the election of
officers resulted in the selection of
Mrs. Augustus M. Rcan of Atlanta as
director of the third region. The nern-
inating committee's slate of officers !
was eleectd in its entirety, Miss Mar
guerite M. Wells of Minneapolis, be
ing chosen as president.
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I IV rr x u us
BIG YEAR FOR INVENTORS
Omaha. There will be plenty of
new ideas in the offing when the
National Inventors congress convenes
here June 5 to 9. Albert G. Burns
of Oakland, Calif., president of the
group, has arrived to establish head
quarters. ,. The Inventors Congress is chiefly
concerned in seeing that the invent
ors get an opportunity to market
their gadgets. One gadget to be
shown will be a device into which
one puts a quarter, and receives five
nickels in change.
Among new developments, Burns
pointed out, are: The invisible death
ray, used to kiu pigeons severni
blocks away; a method of transmit
ting heavy current of electricity by
wireless; and instant photography,
whereby the scene is transferred in
stantly to the print. Women, too,
wiil get a thrill out of a device to
shell pecs ,to say nothing of the eu
thusiam the men will how the gadget
to eliminate collar buttons.
One of the feature of the con
gress, Burns said, is the selection of
a "Miss Gadget of 1934." And if
you're preuming that Miss Godget is
to be of wood and iron, with a steel-
wool head of hair, and a rubber neck,
I tTit n it'a i-nu rsnt t li r i.ivpntnr who is
-vi . - -
wrong. She'll be human and alive,
young and beautiful, and she'll walk
and talk and keep the girls watching
their boy friends.
Thanks to nforced leisure, Burns
added, last year was the greatest
year of all times for the creation of
new things. "I never say anymore
that a thing can't be done," he said.
"No such phrase exi"ts in the in
ventor's language."
MURPHY SEES WHEAT RISE
New York. A belief that ratifica
tion cf a proposal to set up a special
committee to fix minimium export
prices for wheat would gradually
raise the world prie.? for that com
modity was expressed by Frederick
E. Murphy of Minneapolis, American
delegate to the international wheat
conference at Rome.
Murphy, returning aboard the
Europa, said hs believed the pro
posal would be ratified by the var
ious countries represented at con
ference and said he was encouraged
by what he termed the increasingly
co-operative attitude cf other wheat
producing nations. Asserting the
world wheat surplus has risen stead
ily since 192S until it reached COO
million bushels last fall, Murphy de
clared he was "very much hopeful"
that production can be curtailed
thru international agreement.
TWO LIFE TERMERS CAUGHT
Indianapolis. Two negro life
terms who escaped last Sunday from
the Michigan City prison were recap
tured here. They are Willard But
ler and Charles Irwin. Butler was
arrested at a rooming house with a
r.c-uress who gave her name as Clela
Todd of Michigan City. Irwin was ar-
rested at another house with a ne
gress who said she was Mary Lewis
of Benton Harbor, Mich.
SPRING
SE51g3
PURE
CREPES
YOU'LL Icok first at the remarkable value cf
the silk and satin crepes . . . You'll note
nest the gorgeous laces with which they are
trimmed. . . . Then you cannot fail to observe
the unusually good workmanship, in design
and in finish We think you will then agree
with us that this lingerie offering constitutes
cne cf the most interesting sales cf the new
spring- season. . . . We therefore suggest an
early inspection and selection.
KiGineowns
LADIES TOGGERY
"The Shop of Personal Service"
Deny Return o
Lindbergh Baby
Ransom Money
Fublished Reports of Restitution in
Part Is Without Confirmation
by the Autlioriteis.
Boston. The discovery in New
England of a large portion of the
$50,000 ransom money paid by Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh after the kid
naping of his infant son was report
ed and denied. Late editions of Bos
ton newspapers announced that more
than half of the $50,000 which Br.
John F. "Jai'sie" Condon tossed over
a Bronx wall as ransom for return
of the kidnaped son of Lindbergh
had turned up thru the federal re
serve bank in Boston. William W.
Paddock, deputy governor of the
bank denied any knowledge of the
recovery cf the money, which was
said in the published reports to
amount to as much as $30,000. One
report said this had been unloaded
in amounts of $4,000 and 5,000 dur
ing the pa&t six months.
At Rutland Vt., Boston news
papers said, a group of thirty or more
department of justice agents had been
concentrated under orders of Clar
ence D. McKean chief of the bureau
of investigation for New England. At
offices of the bureau here the only
information forthcoming was a state
ment of one official that the men
were there in connection with "a
kidnaping." No kidnaping has re
cently been reported in that section.
Department of ojusticv officials in
Washington said, however", that re
ports of the finding of Lindbergh
ransom money in New England were
unfounded and Attorney General
t'ummings said there was no concen
tration of federal agents in Ver
mont. For the past week or more the
presence of more than the usual num
ber of department of justice agents
has been noted at headquarters here
and in the vicinity of Rutland, Vt.
Local police in Rutland professed no
knowledge of federal activities there,
despite a report that a number of
high school students had been ques
tioned in connection with the in
quiry, an 'J. some had been ask.d to
write the words "meet me at the
Union station in Albany audi will
give you a thousand."
The $50,000 paid by Colonel Lind
bergh was tossed over a cemetery
wall two years ago by Dr. Condon
after negotiations had convinced him
that the man to whom he paid was
one of the kidnapers of the baby.
The recipient of the money disap
peared and search for him has been
unrelenting since.
Clarence D. McKean, chief of the
X'ew England bureau cf investiga
tion of the department cf justice,
said: "I was in Vermont on a con
fidential matter. It did not relate to
the Lindbergh kidnaping case."
Department of justice agents said
there was not now any department
agent in Rutland. Late Wednesday
night witnesses reported seeing five
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dutiful
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and SATINS
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agents of the department of justice
carrying machine guns and a radio
outfit into the Boston federal build
ing, but agents refused to say wheth
er these agents had been in Rutland.
TUGWELL BILL IS TARGET
New Rork. A sharp attack' on
the so-called Tugwcll food and drug
bill and the "pernicious influence"
of advertising definitions and restric
tions propounded by Dr. Rexford G.
Tugwell was made before the an
nual convention of the American
Newspaper Publishers' association.
Condemnation of the Tugwell ad
vertising theories was made by L. B.
Palmer, general manager of the as
sociation. It was reported in the cor
ridors that the association would, by
resolution, take a strong stand in the
matter later.
"During the past year," Palmer
said, "there has been marked evi
dence of effort on the part of admin
istrative officials and others to
change the existing philosophy and
practices relating to advertising and
to substitute punitive, and tyranni
cal legislation to harass manufac
turers and advertisers." Relating de
tails of the fight to obtained a satis
factory definition cf advertising in
the third and final food and drug
bill now pending in the senate, rai
nier said the latest amendment was
comparatively satisfactory, but that
Tugwell "advertising language" had
already crept into fifty-three codes.
HUGH SUTLER IS ELECTED
Omaha. Hugh A. Butler of Om
aha, was elected moderator of the
Nebraska Congregational conference
at the late session Friday of the
group's annual convention. lie suc
ceeds Dr. M. C. Bullock of McCook.
Mrs. 11. W. Orr of Lincoln, was named
associate moderator to succeed Rev.
Christiana R. Dickey of lied Cloud.
The election was preceded by as
sociation meetings, followed by brief
talks by Rev. Leo L- Duerson, Ash
land; C. C. Sheldon, 'Columbus; W.
A. Tyler, Lincoln; Mrs. Orr, Rev.
P. J. Thiel, Lincoln; Andrew E. E.
Morrill, Albion, on the general sub
ject "Fellowship i:. Common Tasks."
Forum group meetings for men
and women followed the reading of
the committee reports during the
morning session. Rev. Helen Street
llanney of Chicago, spoke to the
women, telling of the family cent-a-meal
plan of providing funds for
ministerial relief and of a mission
ary exposition held in? Chicago. Rob
ert R. Hastings of Crete, led a dis
eu.sion on "The Opportunity and Re
sponsibility of Church Leadership,"
at the men's forum.
VACATIONS ARE RESTORED
Washington. Restoration of vaca
tions for postal workers was ordered
by Postmaster General Farley. Far
ley said improvement of business
conditions resulting in increases in
postal revenue made the vacations
possible.
In a statement . ke-rsaid: "I am
gratified to be able to announce that
I have found it possible to revoke
that portion of my order of March 2
which relates to the discontinuance
of annual vacations for postal em
ployes. ...
"This order has been revoked be
caune the improvement in general
business, conditions thruout the coun
try has resulted in sufficiently in
creased postal revenues to justify this
action. Postal employes who have
not taken their annual vacation may
do so between now and the end of
the fiscal year June o0, instead of
having them deferred until after the
beginning cf the next fiscal year on
July -, as was contemplated in the
order of March 2. With the resump
tion of vacations additional employ
ment will be provided for postal sub
stitutes thruout the country."
GRAFT LIVE SXIN ON BABY
Omaha. An unusual skin graft
ing operation is resulting in the
gradual restoration to Raymond Dis
haw, jr., 14 months old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Dishaw of Omaha,
of the use of his right hand. The
boy's hand was severely burned seven
months ago on a hot stove. Surgeons
cut a ntrip of skin on the child's back
about two inches wide and three
inches long and inserted the burned
palm under this strip of skin.
Tho skin was not cut at the ends,
in order to keep the tissue alive. A
paster cast was then made to sur
round the baby's body, keeping the
arm and hand in place. Surgeons
said that when the skin from the
back is strongly attached to the palm
of the hand, the ends of the strip
will be cut from the back. Then, by
a series of spot grafting operations,
skin being taken in small pieces from
the baby's thigh, the skinless area
on the back will bo covered. It will
take several months more for full
recovery the surgeons said.
Bishop Cannon
and Woman Aid
are Not Guilty
Verdict of Jury in District of Co
lumbia Supreme Couit Acquits
Them Both of Violation.
Washington. Bishop James Can
non, jr., and Ada L. Burroughs are
innocent of concealing campaign
contributions in 192S, when the
churchman opposed Alfred E. Smith
for president. A jury so found in the
District of Columbia supreme court.
After three hours of deliberations,
during which the jury took four bal
lots, it brought to the bishop, sitting
tensely forward on the edge of his
chair, and Miss Burroughs, standing
stiffly grasping a table, an acquittal
on both counts of the indictment
against them. On the first ballot,
the jury voted nine innocent, one
guilty of wilfully violating the cor
rupt practices act and two unwii
fully, but unlawfully violating. The
second ballot found ten voting to ac
quit and two that the funds were
unwilfully not reported. The third
ballet was eleven to one for acquit
tal. The charges involved money
given Bishop Cannon by Edwin C.
Jameson, a New York insurance
executive, for use in the campaign in
Virginia and other southern states
rgainst Alfred E. Smith.
No Immediate Comment.
As his friends and newspapermen
crowded about his chair in the court
room, the bishop waved aside immed
iate comment. He said that later,
"after I take a nap," he would have1
a statement. Miss Burroughs, too,
preferred to remain silent, but she
smiled when women pushed thru the
crowd to shake her hand or touch
her arm and congratulate her.
There was little demonstration at
the verdict. A few handclaps rippled
thru the hum of voices, bu sharp
shouts of "(fuiet" from the 'mar
shals halted this. Bishop Cannon
said he would leave for a conference
cf Methodist Episcopal bishops at
Jackson, Miss.
A woman spectator, Ada Pairecy
cf Parkersburg, W. Va., fought her
way thru the crowd surrounding the
bishop to exclaim:
"Bishop, I said I'd hug you if you
were acquitted."
"Hug away," the bishop said smil
ing. She did.
"We still love you, we know you're
not a criminal," she said. "It is a
victory for protestantism." The
courtroom, the seating capacity of
which had been crowded thruout the
trial, .as jammed with standing
rpectatsrs when Justice Gordon as
cended to the bench, a moment be
fore the first of the jurors begin filing
in. The woman juror, Mrs. Naomi
A. Jackson, a housewife, trooped in
behind the first two men. Her face
Hushed slightly. The clerk of the
court stood up, the indictment slip
in his hands.
"Mr. Foreman," he asked of Wil
liam J. Newman, accountant, "what
verdict do you find for the defend
ants, James Cannon, jr., and Ada L.
Burroughs, on the ninth count?"
"Not guilty," answered Newman
in a steady tone.
"What verdict do you find for th
defendants on the tenth count?"
"Not guilty," said Newman again.
EYRA2I DEFENDS PROJECT STAND
Lincoln, April 27. Governor Bry
an received the plaudits of state
house employes and a group of about
50 University of Nebraska students
at two informal receptions in the cap
itol late Thursday preparatory to the
governor's departure for Washing
ton. The students heard him review his
handling of water rights for the
state's two big power and irrigation
projects with a comment that "work
hasn't started yet although it's been
more than a month since I granted
water rights, while they were sand
bagging me and charging I was de
laying the projects."
He also endorsed the Norris one
house legislature plan and explained
it to the students.
Speaking to statehouse employes,
he said he had always told them that
"if you give the state service, you
have discharged your obligation to
me," and added that he believed the
state has reached it highest degree
of efficiency in government through
their services.
ESTATE OF A MILLION
Chicago. Frank O. Mars, who died
April 8, left an estate of approxi
mately a million dollars, it was re
vealed with the filing of his will in
probate court. Mars lived in Minne
sota and Nebraska before founding
his Chicago business.
MISSIONARY GROUP ELECTS
North Bend, Neb. The fourth an
nual convention of the Presbyterian
Women's Missionary society cf Ne
braska closed here late Wednesday
with the election of r!Ia. F. J. Mc
Connelee of Minden, as president.
Mrs. J. Haupt of Superior, was
elected vice president; Mrs. George
Miller, Pawnee City, efficiency sec
retary; Ada Grab, Lincoln, treasurer;
Mrs. Rion Robbins, Summerfield,
Kas. prayer group secretary; Mrs.
Harriet Donmeyer, North Bend, spec
ial work secretary.
Speakers included Dr. V. 1'. Aik
en, Omaha, Mrs. Robert Scott, North
Bend; Anna Milligan, former educa
tional secretary to the foreign' mis
sions beard, and Dr. and Mrs. Paul
Smith of Sudan, Egypt.
SEEK CHAIR FOR HAMILTON
Dallas, Tex. A quick trip to the
electric chair was planned by state
authorities who hope to gain a cap
ital conviction of Raymond Hamil
ton, cocksure, 20 year old Texas des
perado and pal of Clyde Barrow, the
southwest' public enemy No. 1.
Captured while fleeing with $800
lost from the First National bank cf
Lewisville, Hamilton will be tried
under the habitual criminal act for
participation in the recent robbery of
the Grand Prairie State bank.
Hamilton intimated he did not re
sist capture because he had no ma
chine gun and elected not to shoot it
out with postols when the Grayson
and Denton county officers overtook
his speeding automobile near Sher
man, Tex.
COUPLE AND BABE HUNTED
Miami, Fla. Authorities broad
cast thruout the southeastern states
and California a request for the ar
rest cf Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moran,
of San Fernando, Calif., on a warrant
charging them with the kidnaping of
nine weeks old Franklin Delano
Roosevelt oGodma here April 5. The
child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Goodman, of Whitman, Mass., alleg
edly was taken from a tourist camp
here where his parents and the Kor
an's lived.
Authorities said the infant was to
have made a journey to St. Peters
burg with the Morans where the
Morans were to get money to enable
thm and the Goodmans to go to San
Fernando. No trace of the Morans
or the baby has been found.
STUDENT OF TEE NEW DEAL
San Francisco. Former President
Hoover was represented as bving an
eager student cf the new deal. The
San Francisco News said that Paul
Sexon, Hoover's secretary, went to
the freshman citizenship library at
Stanford university and reserved for
the former president a book written
by Rexford Guy Tugwcll, ranking
member of President Roosevelt's so
called "brain trust."
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New softies of finest fabrics and the most grace
ful straws you've seen in years!
Ladies Toggery
THE SHOP OF PERSONAL SERVICE
PLATTSIVIOUTH, NZ2RASKA
U. S. WAITS JAP CLARIFICATION
Washington, April 27. The Unit
ed tSates will await clarification of
Japan's "hands off China" policy be
fore taking any teps in the far east
ern situation.
This was ascertained Friday fol
lowing President Roosevelt's confer
ence with Secretary of State Hull and
the diplomatic representativea cf
other powers.
Dispatch from Tokio Friday said
the Japanese government had decided
to yield to foreign pressure and amp
lify its new policy toward China.
If the clarification bears out re
port that Japau proposes to pass up
on foreign loans to China, and to
some extent say what goods may be
sell in China.
FIRE DAMAGES YORK STORE
York, Neb. Fire of undetermined
origin did heavy damage to the stock
of the Mary Lou women's apparel
shop here Thursday as twenty-eiglit
repi esentatives of fire insurance com
panies were making a building to
building canvass for fire hazards in
the business district.
The names were confined to the
rear rcom of the shop and spread to
the De-Luxe cafe next door. Smoke
and water did heavy damage to the
stock in the store and smoke poured
into the cam?, the Bradwell drug
store and the eMtz mortuary adjoin
ing. B. M. Greenle owns the Mary
Lou store. The loss was partially
covered by insurance.
CELEBRATE NEW BANK
North Bend, Neb. The Platte Val
ley bank of North Bend was form
ally opened Wednesday and the citi
zens of the town made quite a day of
it. Stores were closed, cigars, candy
and flowers were given away, and
there was a free baseball game and
a dance. North Bend has been with
out a bank since February of
The Platte Valley bank is capital
ized at $25,000 and is headed by
Richard MeCluhan.
COUPLE ARRESTED IN UTAH
Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City
police were questioning a man and
woman arrested with five guns in
their possession while they were rid
ing in a canyon near here in a bullet-riddled
automobile bearing Ne
braska and Indiana license plates.
Police said the couple gave the
names "William H. Hall and. aMrion
Hall," but declined to divulge any
information.
Remember that Sunday, May 13th
will be Mother's Day end that to se
cure a suitable gift at the best pos
sible prices ycu can be accommodated
at the Bates Bock store. Call there
and cee their lines of candy, card3
and special Mother's Day rrtottos.
No better town m v.-Mcfc to re
side than Plattsmouth.
HATS
$1.95
and
$2.95
and
Fabrics
Cashable
Panamas
$1.00