MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1934.
P1ATTSM0UTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
PAGE THREE
Rules Issued to
Govern Program
of Home Repair
Property to be Improved Must be
Free of Delinquent Taxes
Monthly Payments.
Washington, August 15. The fed
eral housing administration has re
cently issued rules and regulations
under which banks and lending insti
tutions may participate in the cam
paign to modernize and repair mil
lions of American homes and com
mercial buildings.
Automatically, these regulations
eliminate a sizeable number of prop
erty owners from the prospective bor
rowing by providing that property to
be improved must be unincumbered
by delinquent taxes or assessments.
For many home owners, however,
the rules mean they will be able to
get a new porch or install an extra
bath on about the same basis as they
would purchase a new automobile
on the installment plan.
The government will not advance
the money. It will come from lend
ing institutions such as banks and
finance companies, which will charge
no more than f 5 per 0100 in interest
or fees. This approximates the cover
age rate for similar loans. All types
of residential and commercial struc
tures fall within the scope of the pro
gram. A borrower has only -to establish
the soundness of his credit and show
that his annual income is five times
the amount of the annual payments
on his loans to obtain funds from a
financial institution co-operating in
the drive. He need not put up secur
ity unless the lender is required by
state law to obtain it.
Government Insurance
To the lender the inducement to
come into the modernization effort
is government insurance against loss
up to 20 per cent of their total loans.
The housing administration hopes to
loose thereby a flow of credit that
virtually disappeared during the eco
nomic recession and to provide a pow
erful stimulus to the durable goods
industries thru resultant spending.
Lending institutions learned from
the regulations that to obtain the in
surance they merely apply for an in
surance contract issued by the hous
ing administration and good until
December 3i; 1935. The Institutions
themselves determine the eligibility
for insurance of every note taken by
them as security for modernization
loans. Notes are insured automatic
ally when accepted by the approved
institutions.
The new regulations an even
score of them cover only national
and industrial banks, finance com
panies and state banks and trust com
panies. Additional rules will be draft
ed for savings banks, insurance firms
and building and loan associations.
The housing administration em
phasized in a bulletin that carried
the rules to 28,000 lending agencies
that it sought an "adequate expen
diture to take care of the accumulat
ed demand for repairs, remodeling
and modernizing."
Sound Spending Soueht
"It is not the purpose of the na
tional housing act," the administra
tion added, "to encourage unwise ex
penditures of money by property own
ers in improving property actually
beyond the possibility of effective re
habilitation." Instead, housing officials hope to
tap that construction which has been
postponed because of the inability of
property owners to obtain credit for
repairs and improvements. The hous
ing act is designed to make it safe for
financial institutions to advance the
credit without security.
Any number of separate note3 may
be made for improving a single piece
of property, provided the total of
the obligations does not pass $2,000.
And a single property owner will not
be permitted to obtain loans of a
maximum of $2,000 each for more
than five separate pieces of property
without special approval of the hous
ing administration.
Notes cannot run more than three
years and must be paid up in month
ly installments. Financial institu
tions will determine the period notes
nay run and may charge extra in
cases where a borrower fails to meet
his payments.
WON'T GO TO MARKET
Omaha. A big, husky pig who re
fused to go to market caused a fu
rore on the outskirts of downtown
Omaha Thursday when he leaped
from a truck and set out on a sight
seeing excursion. Omaha police, un
trained in such emergencies, sum
moned the humane society to take
charge of the porker after motorists
had several narrow escapes from be
coming impromptu butchers.
TO THE VOTERS OF
CASS COUNTY, NEBR
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I want to thank each and every
one of you for your fine support in
the primary nomination, as I sure
appreciate everything you did.
I have always tried to serve the
citizens of Cass county in the best
way, and if elected this fall will do
my utmost to deserve this fine sup
port. Your friend,
d&w REX YOUNG.
NEBRASKA WELLS LOWER
Washington. The department of
agriculture reported that farm wells
in Nebraska were five to fifteen feet
below normal level. The statement
was included in a general report of
the drouth situation compiled by the
bureau of agricultural economics, the
weather bureau and the bureau of
agricultural engineering. It said
pumping for irrigation had not been
practiced in: Nebraska before this
year and that now the water in the
areas where irrigation is necessary
is ten to thirty feet below the sur
face. It added that a serious short
age of water existed in the North
Platte area, where there is only 25
or 30 percent of the normal supply.
"Reel" Romance
Realism reached another high
point in Hollywood studio lots,
when Marjorie LytelL top, and
Philip Faversham, bottom, son of
the famous stage idol, William
Faversham, climaxed a seven
month romance of the Bound
stages that" began when they ap
peared together in a movie, by
rushing off to Yuma, Ariz., and
rettine married.
STATE BOARD APPROVES
SOLDIER RELIEF FUND
Lincoln, Aug. 16. Governor Bry
an met with State Treasurer Hall
and Land Commissioner Conklin
Thursday as the state board of edu
cational lands and funds. Claims
upon the state soldier relief fund,
for the benefit of world war and
Spanish war veterans and their de
pendents were approved.
FORESTER IN MONTANA
ASSIGNED TO LINCOLN
Dillon, Mont., Aug. 16. Super
visor A. A. Simpson of the Beaver
head National forest said Thursday
he had been transferred to Lincoln,
Neb., which has been designated as
national headquarters for the Fed
eral Shelter Belt project.
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Valuation of
Railroads Cut by
State Tax Board
$15,978,292 lopped Off, Represents
8.7 Per Cent Cat Figured on
Basis cf Total Stock.
Cutting the total assessed valua
tion of railroad property in the state
from $1S3,581,655 t3 $167,603,363.
the state board of assessment found
that the total cut was $15,978,292, a
reduction of 8.7 per cent. State Tax
Commissioner Smith said the board
used the same formula as last year, a
valuation based oh market value of
stocks and bonds as of April 1, aver
aged for a period of four years.
Stocks and bonds were higher this
year than last, reflecting some in
crease in business. If a one year
basis had been used, the railroads
would have been assessed nothing last
year cn stock and bond values, said
Smith.
As a result of the board's work,
the assessed valuation of the Burling
ton railroad is cut from ?S0,300,260
to $74,051,4S4, or $C,24S,776. Union
Pacific is next in line, with a cut of
$3,047,250, and the Missouri Pacific
third with $1,S23,652. Other roads
are cut lesser amounts.
The cut will be reflected in the
amount of railroad taxes to be paid in
Cass county this coming year.
TAXI DRIVER HURT
Omaha. Injured in an altercation
with his passenger, Carl R. Erick
son, cab driver, has been in a semi
conscious condition at a local hos
pital since Aug. 4. One side of his
body is paralyzed. During the juar
rel. Erickson's head struck a brick
wall, and then the sidewalk. Police
arrested the passenger, who said he
was drunk and doesn't remember
what happened. He is free on bond.
HOLLYWOOD Joan Blon dell's
baby, expected in October, will be
worth ten times its Weight in gold.
Figure it out for itself. Waiting for
the stork will keep the star off the
Warner payroll for nearly six months.
I don't know what Joan's exact sal
ary is, but $1,000 a week is a fair
guess. Twenty-four weeks off the
screen means a loss of $24,000 to the
star. In addition Joan and George
Barnes are remodeling their house to
put in an elaborate
nTS5" nursery. Then, too,
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f -J and hospital bills.
which, in the case
of a film celeb, soar
zJt I Say the baby
weighs 7 pounds.
That much gold is
worth about $3,
430 (according to
;my figures).
Joan Blondell
But Joan and George's baby will
represent an investment of more than
$3,000.
And worth it, too, to them.
The Marion Nixcn-Bill Seiter mar
riage may come off almost immedi
ately cr it may be delayed several
months. Bill says he and Marion
havn't got as far as naming the defi
nate date. But they are in love as
if Hollywood needed to be told
and both are now free to marry.
Laura La Plante's foreign divorce
gave Bill the immediate right. And
Marion's divorce from Eddie Hillman
recently became final,
divorce gave Bill the immediate right.
And Marion's divorce from Eddie
Hillman recently became final.
Down at Wilmington, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
company is building
an eract replica of the ship described
in "Mutiny on the Bounty." The ves
sel will be thoroughly seaworthy, as
it will be sailed to Tahita for the
filming of the picture. Amusing to
let the fancy play on this voyage. An
ancient shin suddenly looming out of
the mist before astonished eyes of a
skipper on some tramp steamer's
bridge.
Interesting comment of R. C. Sher
riff ... about why American pic
tures are more successful in England
than the British-made product.
"It is amazing," declares the Eng
lish author, "how your producers
have made film people seem fascinat
ing. Our studio heads have overlook
ed this point. For this reason, Amer
ican pictures appeal much more to
the dreamer and to the person hun-
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OMAHA CASTS RECORD VOTE
Omaha. A new record for pri
mary balloting was set in Douglas
county Tuesday when more than 53,
000 citizens went to the polls, final
returns from the election revealed
here Thursday. The new figure tops
by more than 5,000 votes the pre
vious best record set in the primaries
of 1932.
Interest of Omaha voters Thurs
day was centered on the close vic
tory of Frank L. Frost, Omaha at
torney, who defeated the veteran po
litical figure, Kenry Real, for the
republican nomination for county
attorney. It was Frost's first venture
into politics. The victor had a lead
of 20S votes over Beal and it was
not expected that mail votes would
change the final results.
Charles McLaughlin, former pres
ident of the Omaha Bar association,
Thursday was considered a clear win
ner of the Second district democratic
congressional nomination over Mrs.
Mabel Gillespie cf Gretna. Mc
Laughlin finally went definitely in
to the lead after an error in Sarpy
county tabulations had shown that
the woman legislator had been cred
ited with an extra SOO votes.
The total vote for McLaughlin and
Mrs. Gillespie was 10,160 for the
winner and 9,300 for the woman
legislator.
STATE BUYS LAND TO
GET VOLCANIC ASHES
Lincoln, Aug. 16. The state
highway department has purchased
two acres of land on a hill east of
Seward, from which to obtain sur
face volcanic ash which lies there.
From 10 to 20 per cent of this ash
is being used in the oil-mat mixture
to surface six miles of highway be
tween Seward and Lincoln.
Another small deposit has been
found near the west boundaries of
Seward county. It has been used for
polishing silver and for other pur
poses. gry for fantasy and adventure but
without the means to satisfy it."
Uncanny, these youngsters. Bert
Wheeler's daughter, Pat, has been liv
ing with him while her mother is
in the east. The other fight night,
Bert took her for a ride before bed
time. "Where are you going now,
daddy?" she asked as he delivered her
back home. Bert confessed he was
taking a girl to the fights.
"Is she pretty?" asked the young
ster. Bert nodded.
"Is she blonde?"
Business of another nod.
"That's what I thought," said Pat
demurely.
What big-time director, out of tho
kindness of his heart, just paid out
$3,000 to settle the bills of a woman
scenario writer, once well known but
now broke and harassed by credi
tors?
Knick-Knacks
Ciark Gable still has confidence in
his horse, Beverly Hills, and plans to
enter it in the Arcadia races this
year. . . . Friendliest of the estranj
ed couples in Hollywood are the Dud
ley Murphys. She goes about with
him half the time. . . . Ann Harding
is THAT proud because her 5-year-old
daughter, Jane, saved up money to
buy Ann two silver candle-sticks on
her birthday. . . . Norma Shearer's
uncle, Edwin Fercival, is up from
Texas to visit her. . . . It's still on
between Genevieve Tobin and Lyle
Talbot. They were together to hear
Gene Austin open at the Cocoanut
Grove. . . . Preston Foster and a pal
have bought the 55-foot yacht Ernie
Westmore bought from profits in the
make-up business. Westmore goes to
England to represent his firm there.
Did You Know
That Joel McCrea's family, a couple
of generations back, of course, treked
across the plains to California in the
days before the Gold Rush?
La Garbo continues to unbend. For
the first time during her contract at
M. G. M., the star has permitted the
number of her dressing room to he
listed in the studio directory. And
there's a wild rumor that she attend
ed her first baseball game the other
night.
Helen Hayes started something
when she gave out that momentous
statement: "Those of us who were
reared in the theatre should return
to it from time to time for our own
good and for the allegiance we owe
it."
Hollywood has been divided into
two camps ever since. Some laud the
diminutive star. Others shudder at
Katharine Hepburn's experience in
"The Lake."
Ann Harding, w-ho cut her theatri
cal eye-teeth on the stage, offers a
Holds Padlock
Law Impliedly
Set at Naught
Judge Horth at Grand Island Says
Beer Dealer Guilty, But En
titled to Jury Trial.
Judge Horth of the district court
at Grand Island, holding that the
defendant had sold intoxicating li
quors stronger than 3.2 percent but
that the 3.2 beer law repealed by
implication the penalties of the
state's old prohibition law, has noti
fied Assistant Attorney General Chan
ey that he refuses to grant the at
torney general's prayer for a writ of
injunction against Rudolph Kuester,
a Grand Island 3.2 beer dealer and
that he declines to order the sale of
the dealer's fixtures and padlock the
building for one year. These are the
penalties under the prohibition stat
ute. Chaney said the attorney gen
eral will appeal to the supreme court
of Nebraska.
In effect, said Chaney, the judge
holds that while the defendant has
violated the 3.2 beer law he cannot
impose the penalties of that law:
which would amount to a maximum
of a $1,000 fine, as the suit brought
is a civil suit and the defendant is
entitled to a jury trial, which he
has not had. The judge also holds
that the injunction and padlocking
penalties of the old state law are
by implication repealed by the 3.2
beer law. In support of this hold
ing he cites a decision of the United
States supreme court in the suit of
the United States vs. Yuginovicff.
256, U. S. 450.
Judge Horth holds in a lengthy
opinion that it was not intended by
the legislature to preserve the old
penalties under the law passed when
Nebraska became a dry state, but it
was the intention to enact new pen
alties as set forth in the 3.2 beer
law.
slightly different point of view:
"I shall never be able to repay in
full the real debt I owe to the the
atre, but (and she emphasized this)
not to the commercial theatre. I have
been allowed more liberty in the films
than on the Broadway stage. It is in
the Little Theatre that my allegiance
lies. It taught me everything I know
and I shall always go back to it."
And, so far, Ann has been as good
as her word. She makes regular pil
grimages back to the Hedgerow the
ater in Pennsylvania, where she got
her start as an actress.
Living a precarious existance, mo
tion picture extras must learn all the
tricks of the game. One of the more
amusing comes to light with every
dialect picture. When an English
story is announced, every voice on the
othr side of the casting window has
a British accent. If the picture be of
Scotch locale, as R-K-O's "Little Min
ister," the burrs are so thick you can
hardly understand them. They are
the same extras applying for both
jobs.
Whf.t blonde star, with a reputa
tion for temperament, has put her
self definitely on the spot by walk
ing out on a local newspaper inter
viewer an hour before they were
scheduled to do a broadcast together?
Knick-Knacks
Most embarrassed woman in Holly
wood was Ann HaHrding's sister, Ed
ith Nash, when autograph seekers
mistook her for Ann and mobbed her
. at the preview of
"The Fountain."
Funny part of it
lr
is there isn't much
resemblance, other
than blonde hair.
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. . . Honeymoon-
ers Gloria Stuart
I and Arthur Sheek-
X i j I man
are back in
S town, he to work
on the Cantor pic
Sally Elan
ture and she to
wait Universal's call
More en-
couraging reports from Mae Clarke.
Doctors hope she will be out of the
hospital before long. ... C. B. De
Mille got the thrill of a forced land
ing near the Grand Canyon. No harm
done, however. . . . Gossips have
their eyes on Cecilia Parker and Car-
lyle Moore, Jr., who are constant
swimming partners these warm day3.
. As soon as he finishes "Biography
of a Bachelor," Bob Montgomery is
flying east to vacation on his farm.
. . Frank Lawton. chosen to play
David Copperfield, is organizing a
Hollywood tennis tournament for the
early fall.
Did You Know
That Myrna Loy's first stage ap
pearance was as "The Spirit of Nor
thern Ice" in a Sid Grauman pro
logue for Charlie Chaplin's comedy,
"The Gold Rush."
BREAK UP SMUGGLING GANG
Phoenix, Ariz. Govern m e n t
agents, operating in Texas, Califor
nia and Arizona, said here they apJ
parently had broken up an inter
national narcotic smuggling and
counterfeiting syndicate with a series
of arrests. Five alleged narcotic law
violators are under arrest awaiting
grand jury action, Earl A. Patterson,
government narcotic agent said. Pat
terson said the narcotic smugglers
operated from a base at El Paso,
trafficking between the United
States and Mexico.
NOTHING TO DO WITH EEES
Minden, Neb. C. G. Binderup,
democratic nominee for congress in
the Fourth district was robbed of a
measure of the glory cf victory thru
mistaken identity, he said. The nom
inee, a former theater operator, said
that from the state papers he learn
ed to his surprise that he is a "bee
keeper." Binderup protested that he
has never meddled with bees and is
in fact, slightly afraid of them.
1,131 BANKS SIGNED UP
Washington. The federal housing
administration announced that 1,131
banks, with total resources of more
than 8 billion dollars, had signed
contracts to make loans for property
improvements and repairs.
The banks have agreed to make
loans of from $100 to $2,000 in the
first stage of the government's cam
paign for home modernization and
new building. The government in
sures against loss up to 20 percent.
LINCOLN COMPANY GETS
ROAD GRAVEL CONTRACT
Lincoln, Aug. 16. The Abel Con
struction Co. of Lincoln was low bid
der at $1,051 a ton for 970 tons of
road gravel for bituminous mat sur
facing on highway No. 77 north of
Lincoln.
Too Young forMovies
Marie Diveni
Pretty Marie Divcrsi, 17-year-old
Lynn, Mass., girl, wanted to be
come an actress in the movies, and
bo she went to New York City to
start her career. But her mother
.thought Marie was a bit too
young yet for any kind of a ca
reer, so Marie was taken back
home, J here she poses for this
Lhoto.
HERE FR03I CALIFORNIA
Frank McCarthy, old time resi
dent here and for many years in the
local shops, came in this morning to
visit with old friends. Frank was
reared in this city where his parents
came at an early day and has a host
of friends among the old time resi
dents of the community. He has
made his home in Los Angeles for
the past few years.
DEAD MAN GETS VOTES
Tiffin, O. A dead man received
487 votes in the primary. Judge
Hoke, candidate for the democratic
nomination for state representative,
died July 28, too late for the with
drawal of his name from ballots
Election officials said they were puz
zled by the heavy vote for him.
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Unites the Party,
Says Quigley
Democratic Rule in Nebraska Assured
for Twenty Years as Result,
Declares Leader.
The following statement wa? is
sued Wednesday by Janus C. Quig
ley of Valentine, state director of
the Burke-for-stnator campaign.
The tremendous vote given Con
gressman Burke must be attributed
to the confidence of the people in
him and in the New Deal. The
smashing victory is a sweeping en
dorsement of President Roosevelt.
Common sense and sound Judg
ment ruled the day.
The heavy Burke vote in the rural
communities shows the farmers' ap
preciation of what Burke actually
has done for them as a membtr of
congress. For years they had lived
on promises and kind words, but
with the arrival of the New Deal
they were given concrete, dollar3-in-the-pocket
help.
Burke led in this fight for the
farmers and Tuesday they marched
in mighty thousands to the ballot
boxes to thank him.
While the vote wa3 of great na
tional significance, it is of even
greater importance to the democratic
party in Nebraska.
To the party in Nebraska it means
the end of factionalism. Edward K.
Burke has become the undisputed
leader and spokesman of the party
in the state, a leader in support of
whom all factions can and will en
thusiastically unite.
I think he will lead the entire
party to victory in Nebraska in No
vember. A ticket of strong candi
dates will be headed by a Etrong
man.
The dominance of the democratic
party has been assured for the next
20 years.
I wish to express my personal ap
preciation an sincere thanks to the
thousands of men and women in ev
ery county in Nebraska who so loy
ally co-operated throughout the cam
paign. Thompson Says
He will Support
Burke for Senate
Says No One Has Discussed With
Him an Independent Race
for U. S. Senator.
Crand Island. Senator Thompson,
staunch friend of Governor Bryan,
will support Edward II. Burke of
Omaha for the United States senate,
he said Thursday.
Thompson, who was appointed
United States senator by Bryan, over
whelmingly defeated for the senator
ial nomination in Tuesday's pri
maries, had been mentioned as a pos
sible independent entry in the gen
eral (lection contest, with support of
the Bryan faction, which bitterly
opposes the democratic faction led by
Former National Committeeman Mul
len. Burke was supported by Mul
len in the primary contest.
"I have heard reports that my
candidacy as an independent has
reen suggested, but no one has dis
cussed such a plan with me," Thomp
son said. "I plan to support tho
democratic ticket in the general elec
tion and of course I'll support Burke.
I can't see how I could supportthe
patty ticket and not support Eurke,"
TLompson said.
P0ST0FFICE SITE CLEARED
Breckenridge, Tex. Perspiring
sheriff's officers forcibly evicted J.
W. Roman and his ramshackle vege
table stand from the site of the new
Breckenridge postoffiee without sub
mitting the matter to President
Roosevelt.
After the stand had been torn
down and piled beside the vegetables
in the street, Roman loaded his be
longings on a hired truck and, be
cause the city would not allow him
to set up his business downtown,
moved his stock and stand to his
home for the time being.
About a week ago when the time
came for preliminary work on the
postoffiee site, squatters were order
ed to move out. Roman objected and
said officials had no authority tc
evict him. Aske what authority he
would obey, he said, "President
Roosevelt's."
WANTED
Cattle to pasture. Harvey Shipley.
Rt. No. 1, Plattsmouth, Nebr.
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