PAGE THREE
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1927.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
Pasture Contest
Entry Held Open
Extra Fortnigh
Farmers of State May Sign for the
Annual Improvement Com
petition Up to May 1.
Entry dates for the third annual
statewide pasture improvement eon
test was moved forward to May 1,
agronomists at the college of agricul
ture announced. The original dead
line was April 15.
Elvin F. Frolik, director of the
pasture contest and assistant exten
sion agronomist at the college, said
the change was made to accommo
date farmers w ishing to enter as mois
ture conditions improved during the
past few weeks. Rainfall has encour
aged spring seeding of grasses and
built up interest in the statewide
event.
"That Nebraska farmers are vital
ly interested in rebuilding their
drouth injured pastures and provid
ing grazing for their livestock is
shown by the unusually heavy de
mand for information." Frolik de
clared. "Over 50,000 copies of a
special circular have been distri
buted by county agricultural agents.
This unusually heavy interest indi
cates that farmers are planning to
lose no time in rebuilding pastures
severely injured by the extreme heat
and drouth of the past three years."
A total of 300 farmers already
have officially entered the 1937 con
test which is sponsored by the col
lege, thru its extension service, the
Will Ford
Block to Automobile Union?
Motor Magnate Takes Determined Stand as Organizers Launch
Drive on Last of "Big Three"
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By MAURICE MERRYFIELD
International Illustrated Xeivs
Feature Writer
DETROIT Will the C. I. O. find
the traditionally independent policy
of Henry Ford an insurmountable ob
stacle in its drive to unionize the au
tomobile industry?
That question is being asked in De
troit these days as the United Auto
mobile Workers of America, a C. I. O.
affiliate, is launching its plans to in
vade the last of the automobile indus
try's "big three."
In the past Ford has maintained a
policy which brooked little tolerance
of interference in his business affairs
by any outside agencj. Even the
federal government found him a dif -
ficult customer when the XRA at
tempted to dictate to him.
Hi3 stand was made clear in a re
cent state ment when he said ,he
"never would recognize" the union.
To this John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chair
man, replied: "Henry Ford will
change his mind onVthis subject."
Union leaders are apparently aware
that they are facing a struggle which
may possibly be the most critical yet.
They are proceeding slowly and sys
tematically toward their ultimate ob-
Omaha chamber of commerce, the Ne
braska Crop Growers' association and
the Nebraska Livestock Breeders as
sociation. Nearly 1,000 are expected
to enter by May 1. A total of S00
farmers competed last year.
Polk and Seward are the first Ne
braska counties to report the filling
of a quota for the contest. Thirty
farmers, the maximum allowed per
county, have entered in each. Other
high ranking counties in entries thu3
far include Nance, IS; Platte, 14;
Washington, 10; Douglas, 1; York.
11; Nemaha. 15: Thayer, 10; Jeffer
son, 13; Richardson, 21.
INTEREST CONTINUED
From Friday's Daily
The revival at the Murray Chris
tian church is increasing night. y in
interest as it draws to a close. Wed
nesday night was men and boys night
and the large audience listened at
tentively to the timely message given
by Evangelist Ilubbell on "The Lad
and Lis Pad." Nearly 70 men and
j boys were present. Male quartet com
posed of Cyrus and Harrison Living
stone. Louis Sack and Rev. Shubert
sanir beautifully "Just Outside the
IXbr." "Church in Wildwood" and
Negro spirituals. They were given a
good hand. Though it was men's
night the women as usual outnum
bered the men. Thursday night bap
tismal services were conducted by
Rev. Shubert. Friday night is last
service this week and subject "Cost
of Salvation."
Small factories will find wel
come and the opportunity to ex
pand (through river transporta
tion) in Plattsmouth.
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Union Proceeding Slowly
Their intention is seemingly to
organize the outlying and feeder
plants of the Ford industrial empire
rather than attack the main citadel
the huge River Rouge plant which
employs some 90.000 workers. Their
plan of strategy is to obtain control
of plants which supply vital parts to
the central assembling units and
work inward.
"Ford will eventually be unionized
and will be with the union," Homer
Martin, president of the U. A. W.,
stated unequivocally after Walter P.
, Chrysler had signed an agreement
with the union.
Ford's plants, however, are not so
designed as to permit sitdowners to
get the upper hand. The structures
set well back from the street, inside
Ford property, and all of it is in
side fences and gates. Sympathizers
could not hand sitdowners food. ,
Should, however. Ford decide to
close down rather than make a direct
fight, he has huge liquid resources.
And there are no stockholders to de
mand action.
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SUFFERS SEVERE INJURY
From Saturday's Daily
Carl Carlburg, employed at the
mill at the BREX shops, suffered a
severe injury this morning while at
his work and which will place him
on the retired list for some time.
Mr. Carlburg was feeding lumber
to one of the saws in t;:e mill when
the piece of lumber stuck and was
j suddenly hurled back onto the arms
of the workman. The skin was peeled
jto the bone ar.d the left arm suffered
I a bad cut from the lumber, tw o blood
vessels being severed and it was
necessary to have sixteen stitches
taken in the arm to close the wound.
The patient was treated by Dr. Puce
lik, company physician and later
taken to his home i:i the west part of
the c ity.
ATTEND ROTARY MEETING
From Friday's Bally
Frank A. Cloidt, president of the
local Rotary club with L. O. Minor,
superintendent of the Plattsmouth
Water Corporation, were at Glenwood
h-st evening to attend .the meeting
of the Rotary club.
Mr. Cloidt conducted the group
singing while Mr. Minor gave a short
talk on the local water plant, one of
the best in this part of the west and
which has a very abundant supply of
water. Glenwood has had much
trouble in the past two years on ac
count of the water supply secured
from Keg creek and which is now
very low. It is thought that perhaps
a supply may be secured by sinking
wells in the Missouri river bottoms
and have it pumped to Glenwood.
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Thousands Flock to C. I. 0.
The drive sponsored by the C. I. O.
in the mass industries has been given
tremendous impetus by its success
in the steel and auto fields. While
these victories have not been com
plete, nor has the C. I. O. attained
all it sought, their progress has been
undeniable.
As a result, an amazing psycho
logical support has been mustered
behind the John L. Lewis organiza
tion. Thousands of new members
have flocked to the steel and auto
unions in recent weeks. Almost as
important a factor in this increase
in size as the success of the C. I. O.
in its Chrysler and General Motors
campaigns was the rather surprising
agreement concluded with the Carnegie-Illinois
Steel, largest produc
tion unit of the giant United States
Steel corporation.
Union leaders are apparently not
carried away by their march forward,
however, and plan to proceed slowly
in their campaign to unionize the
Ford system. In view of this it is
improbable that there will be any im
mediate showdown between Ford and
the C. I. O.
New Photo of.
Mary Christine Dunn
This is a new photo of Mary Christine Dunn, two-year-old child
genius of Bonne Terre, Mo. The child has a reputed vocabulary of
more than 3,000 words and an intelligence quotient of 185, which, is
. 45 points hieher than the I. O. normally attributed to eenius.
Crop
Residue
on the Surface
Checks Dust
Clods and Stubble Valuable, Along
With Trees and Grass Help
Prevent Blowing.
Washington. The agriculture de
partment says the best preventive and
control of soil blow ing in the nation's
dust bowl is keeping crops, clods or
crop residue on the surface.
After a study of the causes and
possible cures for the dense black
blizzards which have swept the plains
regions ot tne lexas pannanuie, west
ern Oklahoma, southwestern Kansas
and southeastern Colorado,
E. F.
of the
Chilcott, senior agriculturist
division of dry land agriculture of
the bureau of plant industry, saidjef pressing urgency. These are the
"crop cover is the best method of
ecntrol."
Chilcott described soil blow ing in
the dust bowl as "in all essential fea -
tures a landslide with the force of
the wind substituted for that of
gravity."
"The extent to which a soil is ren
dered susceptible to blowing while
being prepared for a crop depends on
the tillage implements used." he said.
"Laud on which winter wheat has
been planted may. in spite of precau
tions, reach a condition that favors
soil blowing in the late winter or the
early spring. Timely preventive cul
tivation often protects the wheat crop
until it can grow enough to form a
separate cover. The kind of culti
vation to be used depends on the type
of soil and its surface condition."
Beans, cowpeas and such crops
should be grown in strips between
strips of sorghum, sudan grass or
corn, the department advised. If high
stubble is left on sorghum land it
may have a tendency to prevent some
soil from blowing during the winter.
A small amount of cultivation may be
effective in protecting row crop land.
Some western sandy lands will raise
such crops as sorghum, and if this
land is farmed in large blocks, soil
may start drifting and involve neigh
borhoods. "Farmed units should be small and
guarded by permanent plantings of
grass or browse material," the de
partment said. "With reasonable
sized holdings there is no" reason w hy
soil blowing cannot be controlled,
even in years of drouth, by the prop
er management of cover crop and
cultivation.
"Regrassing by natural or arti
ficial means on the shallower, more
sloping and sandier portion of the
plains is important.
"Shelterbelts of trees and shrub
bery should be planted immediately
about every farm home in the area."
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
Mrs. W. B. Rishel, aged resident of
Plattsmouth, who is ill at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Nell White at
Omaha, is reported as being much bet
ter altho she has been gravely ill
for the past week. Mrs. Rishel is so
much better that it is hoped she may
soon be able to return to this city
where she makes her home with her
son, James Rishel and family.
Child Geniusj
NO BOOM, SAYS AYRES
Cleveland. There isn't any busi
ness boom. Col. Leonard P. Ayres
said. Instead, "We have not as yet
definitely emerged from the depres
sion," the Cleveland statistician and
economist observed, charting general
j business as "15 percent or more be-
low normal."
"A good deal of bad economics is
being talked in these days about
emergency measures to prevent a
business boom, extended controls to
restrain bank credit expansion, and
increased federal powers to restrain
commodity advances," he said.
"These discussions constitute a
kind of locking of the stable door be
fore the family horse has even been
acquired.
"The present discussions are bane
'ful because thev divert our attention
'and our efforts away from the three
j economic problems which really are
reduction of unemployment, the bal-
.ancing of the federal budget, and the
restoration of harmony in labor rela
jtions.
I "The chief reason w hy about 15
i percent or more of our workers are
idle is that general business is still
15 percent 'or more below normal."
TRAILERS WILL BE PROBLEM
Salt Lake City, April 14. The
vest beckoned a record breaking
summer tourist trade with one hand
while wringing the other over what
to do about trailer traffic. Predic
tions that visitors will flock in un
precedented numbers to Rocky moun
tain and Pacific coast playgrounds
this summer were coupled with
some concern that theregion is not
prepared to accommodate a flow of
l ouses on wheels.
Said W. D. Rischel, president of
the Utah Automobile association:
'The 1937 tourist season will giv
tnem two million dollars and a
headache; the latter because, like
every western state, Utah is lack
ing in camps for trailer tourists
We expect a greater number of
trailers to enter tne state than ever
before. Where to put them is our
problem."
JOBS FOUND FOR 123,000
Work has been found for 123,000
Nebraskans during the past two
years by the state employment and
rational re-employment services,
according to a report made public
Wednesday by R. F. Vogeler arid F.
V. Cornell, directors of the state
and national services, respectively.
Of these, 4 6,9 35 were placed in pri
vate industry.
These figures are embodied in a
report made to Secretary of Labor
Perkins by Frank Persons, direc
tor general of the national employ
ment service, which shows approxi
mately nine million job placements
during the two years, 2.250.20S of
them in private industry.
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LEAVES FOR WASHINGTON, D. C.
From Saturday's Daily
Miss Lois Bestor left at 1 a. m. on
the "City of Denver" for Washing
ton, I). C. where she will act as a
special page at the I). A. R. Contin
ental Congress next week. Miss Bes
tor is going with Miss Anne Walsh
of Lincoln. The two girls are the
only pages going from Nebraska.
Miss Bestor arrived from Lincoln,
where she is a student at the Uni
versity of Nebraska, yesterday. Her
parents accompanied her to Omaha
last night.
The pages will arrive in Chicago
and spend today there. They will
leave Saturday night to arrive in
Washington at 5 p. m. Sunday. The
session opens with a formal Monday
evening.
Local Tragedy
Retold in Pardon
Board Hearing
lEverett Daniels Seeks Clemency for,i;ih water holding capacity. The
a Twelve Year Sentence for
Second Degree Murder.
REFUSE CLEMENCY
The state board of pardons at Lin
coln Friday, denied the application
of Everett Daniels of this city for
clemency and parole from the twelve
year sentence that he is serving for
second degree murder.
Daniels was sentenced here in the
district court on December 14, 1932
following his conviction of the
charge of stabbing James Zoubek,
Jr., to death on the highway near
the homes of the two men.
The hearing on the request for
clemency was held Wednesday at
Lincoln and a number both for and
against the plea for clemency were
heard.
A story of the tragedy that claim
ed the life of James Zoubek, Jr., in
this city in the fall of 1932, was re
told Wednesday at hearing at Lin
coln of the application of Everett
Daniels, 60, for clemency.
Daniels was convicted here in De
cember 1932 of the crime and sen
tenced on December 14, 1932 on the
verdict of second degree murder, to
twelve years in the state penitentiary
at Lincoln. "
Others charged with Daniels in the
crime were acquitted or released at
the hearings.
The tragedy occurred on Lincoln
avenue within a short distance of
both the Zoubek and Daniel homes
and followed a struggle by several
of the Daniels and Zoubek and Earl
New ton, James Zoubek being stabbed
in the struggle.
The board heard conflicting state
ments in the hearing at Lincoln,
Daniels protesting his innocence of
the crime. "I didn't commit the
crime,," he said at the hearing. "I
told the truth and nothing but the
truth during the trial. I didn't know
Zoubek was killed until the next
morning."
The statements of innocence were
disputed by Mr. and Mrs. Vaclava
Zoubek, parents of the slain youth,
who stated that they saw the tragedy
which had grown out of a neighbor
hood feud among the families. Mr.
Zoubek stated to the board, "I am
afraid of what Daniels might do to
us if he is released." j
Mrs. Daniels, wife of the prisoner,!
told the board that they might lose I
their small fruit farm if the husband!
was not released to assist the family. I
A number of petitions were offered j
and affidavits read from manyi
familiar with the case, one from for-
mer Sheriff E. W. Thimgan, who had'
arrested Daniels, that he did not be-.
lieve him guilty. The late Judge
William G. Kieck had written the
board opposing the clemency asked.
TO VISIT IN LINCOLN
From Friday's Daily ,
Alton Roland, sophomore at the
University of Nebraska, was in Platts
mouth today. His mother, Mrs. Flos
sie Redd, is returning with him this
evening and will attend the competi
tion drill tomorrow afternoon. Ne
braska, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minne
sota are to be participants in the
drill. Alton has recently been ad
vanced to the rank of corporal .
Our stock of
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legal blanks Is
LAND, FARM and
RANCH BARGAINS
ALFALFA HAY for sale, $12.00 per
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White seed corn,
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Saving Moisture
a Major Project
for the Farmer
Heavy P.unofT of Rainfall a Dinner;
Subsoil Tloisture Is Not
Easily Depletec'.
Soil am
tension :i;
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Nebraska
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;ro!!oniists r-.ii l i.i
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in l'.t::7. :n . of v.:
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portaiue to th- w-lfar-
Fa iiii'.-rs a re i: I -1 ;rai it i t: -season
with little, if an;.,
subsoil niia.lii!'!'. "Kr.'i
tl'c state.
th" i:;7
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oT. l't('ia
heavy rains on sli ;,iiii; land n.ay !
as much as .".') percent, rieveittim
of tiiis run off will be . specially im
portant this year. Cotitour operation
of farm mai liiiuiy, and ntit':r
planting are the out; landing prac
tices which tend not ot.ly to r-di.
run oil but at the -i-ar.ie time pre
vent soil loss that would result tl.ru
erosion.
"Nebraska soils generally have a
i silty
hold
soils whi. h predominate v. ill
slightly more than two inii-.;
i of availabl
Water f'T ea il foot ee-
tion.
"Contrary to popular belief. H
l moisture at field carring apaiity
does not move by eapillaritv. Mi ve-
nient takes place only v here tlui n
free water, such as that supplied by
rainfall or that from a 'free wat r
table. Thus a section of dry soil ir.ay
exist beside a similar one iiioi.-teticd
to its field carrying capacity, with
out any change in the moisture eon
tent of either. Moisture stored i:i
the subsoil, therefore, will remain
indefinitely unless n moved by plant
roots. That stored in the top foot
section only may be lost due- to
vaporization as a result of heat.
"Studies have shown that under
favorable soil conditions winter
wheat roots may penttrate and ex
tract all the available water to a
depth of 6 feet and may go to 1 feet.
Oats and barley may take water to a
depth of 6 to 7 feet and corn to a
depth of about 5 leet. Alfalfa, on th
other hand, has been known to ex
tract ail the available soil moisture
to a depth of 25 feet and to r move
part of it to a depth of over t et.
"It is interesting to consider what
yields of the different crops n'istit be
produced on stored moisture clone.
Experiments conducted at several
stations indicated that under av.-.ig;
conditions corn will us I- about v :i
inches of water to produce a
bushe l e-rep. Siniilai ly seven ineh-
will produce about 2' blight N of
wheat. 3(3 bushels c T oats, a? d !'.'
tons of alfalfa.
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