PAGE FIVE
MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
Ouster of WPA
Head in Minne
sota is Asked
Disagreements with Farmer - Labor
Leaders May Have Effect on
Coming Primaries.
ST. PAUL. Minn.. June 11 (UP)
Ouster of Victor A. Christgau. Min
nesota WPA administrator, who had
bickered constantly with Farmer
Labor leaders over allotments for re
lief projects, loomed today as a pos
sible issue which may bring the
Roosevelt administration to a test in
the Minnesota primary June 21.
At his press conference in Wash
ington yesterday President Roosevelt
was asked whether he had fired
Christgau. He answered in the af
firmative but refused to discuss de
tails. Christgau revealed yesterday that
he had forwarded a letter of resig
nation to President Roosevelt Thurs
day, after having defied a dismissal
notice he hjd received May 25 from
Howard O. Hunter, midwestern di
rector for the WPA. Hunter had act
ed on orders of Harry L. Hopkins,
national WPA chief.
Christgau maintained that the no
tice was not sufficient authority tb
remove him and that the president,
who appointed him, was the only one
who possessed the power to remove
him.
Christgau's supporters said that
the direct cause of the ouster was his
refusal to approve an appropriation
of $700,000 of WPA funds for a
weed eradication project proposed
by Gov. Elmer A. Benson. Christ
gau said that such a project was out
side WPA jurisdiction and would
have placed WPA workers on jobs
improving private lands.
His supporters hinted that his ous
ter may have been a move by admin
istration leaders to retain support oj
ilie dominant Farmer-Labor party at
the primary polls a point which
Christgau's followers may attempt
to make an issue in the campaign.
Benson and other Farmer-Labor
leaders contended that Christgau had
hhown an anti-labor attitude.
President Roosevelt confirmed
Christgau's removal at a press con
ference yesterday. Christgau's letter
to the chief executive said in part:
"I respectfully acknowledge re
ceipt of your official communication
on June 6. which I am compelled to
regard as tantamount to an order re
moving me as state administrator.
"Agreeing with your wish, I here
by tender you my resignation, effec
tive at the expiration of my accrued
cnnual leave.
"In complying with your request.
nevertheless I wish to call to your at
tention the following salient facts
"1. My removal is not predicated
upon charges either preferred or
proved and therefore is effected
v. holly without cause.
"2. The honesty and integrity and
efficiency of my administration had
never been questioned by any offi
cial in this organization or by the
public which I have been privileged
to serve.
"3. It is significant that Roy C.
Jacobson. WPA field representative,
now acting state administrator, had
this to say concerning my adminis
tration. 'I have only this to say now.
There will be no changes in the WPA
in Minnesota Mr. Christgau and
his staff have built up a splendid
organization. I will do all I can to
see that it continues in the same effi
cient manner. There will be no
fundamental change in the organiz
ation or its program.'
"4. Moreover, your attention is
respectfully called to the fact that
Mr. Hopkins recently tendered me
the alternative of a responsible
position on his staff in Washing
ton. ..."
SPANISH INSURGENTS PUSH
HENDAYE. Franco-Spanish Fron
tier, June 11 (UP) Insurgent
forces, driving steadily toward the
Mediterranean in the Teruel sector
north of Valencia, captured several
strategic towns tortay and were ap
proaching Castellon de la Plana on
the coast.
An official announcement issued
at Zaragoza said that at noon the
nationalsts were 6 miles from Castel
lon. The fighting was along a front ap
proximately 20 miles from north to
south. At the northern end the na
tionalists captured Albocacer, 15
miles from the coast. The announce
ment said loyalists were fleeing and
abandoning materially and that the
nationalists had made 2.000 prison
ers. Housewives will find the Betty
Crocker column most interesting,
ft's just another of the improved
features the Journal is bringing
to its readers.
GOOD ROADS MEETING
OMAHA, June 11 (UP) Harry
S. Byrne, secretary of the Nebraska
Good Roads association announced to
day the annual convention of the as
sociation will be held at Norfolk
about Oct. 11 next. Congressman
Wilburn Cartright, Oklahoma, will
address the convention.
Byrne said the principal reason for
locating the convention at Norfolk was
to compliment Congressman Karl
Stefan, R., Neb., who as a member of
the house good roads committee has
"saved a substantial amount of fed
eral aid for Nebraska.
'Bottom' of
50c a Bushel
Set for Wheat
Department of Agriculture Officials
Decide on Tentative Loan
Program for Wheat.
WASHINGTON, June 11 (UP)
Department of Agriculture officials
decided tentatively today upon a loan
program expected to establish a "bot
tom" of about 50 cents a bushel undei
wheat prices.
The decision to expedite announce
ment of a program was reached aftei
the department had forecast an all
time high wheat crop this year of
between 1,020,000,000 and 1,045,000,
000 bushels.
Officials said that the loan program
lacked only decision on a few miner
details and approval of Sccrtary of
Agriculture Wallace. Announcement
probably will be made within the
next two weeks.
The department faced a predicted
supply of 1,225,000,000 of wheat. This
would be approximately 500,000,00f
bushels in excess of the expected do
mestic and export demand.
More than 200,000,000 bushels of
wheat harvested last year remained
in farm bins and grain elevators as
the new crop started to market from
the southwest.
Department of agriculture plan?
calling for 4 programs to bolster in
come of wheat farmers:
1. Loans in wheat to bo stored un
der government seal.
2. Soil conservation benefit pay
ments. 3. Collection of crop insurance
premiums on wheat.
4. A parity pavment of 10 cents a
bushel.
The loan rate pronosed woud be
between 60 and 70 cents a bushel
delivered at or.e of the principle grain
terminals. Deductions to be made
by distance from terminals and in
ferior grade of wheat would reduce
considerably the wheat loan rate to
farmers.
The new farm act requires loans
at between f0 and 85 cents a bushe1
if the crop exceeds expected demand
about 725,000,000 in July 1.
DISTRIBUTE GAS TAX
LINCOLN. June r (UP) State
Treasurer " Walter H. Jensen today
distributed $252,495 in gasoline tax
collections in Nebraska counties.
The amount represented the coun
ties' share of $S64.928 collected in
final taxes during May. County dis
tribution included Cass, $3,651; Ne
maha. $2,491: Otoe. $4,273
and
Richardson. $3,826.
POSTAGE STAMP BOUGHT
TO ASSUAGE CONSCIENCE
DECATUR, lnd. (UP) A conscious-stricken
farmer paid a rural
postman 3 cents with this explana
tion: "Several years ago 1 sent a letter
through the mails using a stamp on
which I had erased the cancellation
marks. I want to reimburse Uncle
Sam for that."
ROCKEFELLER SITE PARCELED
CLEVELAND (UP) John D.
Rockefeller's former estate. Forest
Hills, is being turned into home
sites. It is estimated that about 25
homes will be built on it during the
spring and summer months.
SAYS WAR SAVED LIVES
PASADENA, Cal. (UP) Gen. P.
J. H. Farrell. retired, believes that
the Spanish-American war saved
500,000 American lives. It furnish
ed the impetus necessary to find the
solution for malaria and typhoid.
ALBINO DEER SIGHTED
FISHKILL, N. Y. (UP) An al
bino deer was seen by Stephen "V.
Blodgctt on a farm near here. Dur
ing the fall hunting season a white
buck was shot on the same property.
We will appreciate phone calls
of news Items from our readers.
New Fragrant
Flowers Much
More Beautiful
Plantsmen are Breeding Good Looks
into the Old Favorite Scented
Subjects of Yesteryear.
Fragrance is a precious quality in
flowers which formerly was valued
as highly as color. Old-fashioned
flowerB were not so flamboyantly
beautiful as the modern giants; their
attraction was of a more Bubtle na
ture and bo our grandfathers took
more delight in the delicate perfume
of flowers than we do.
This offers a suggestion to those
who like to be a little different.
Plant a fragrant corner in the bor
der, take your friends there in the
evening when the scent is always
more evident (maybe because the
colors are less dominant). See if
they are not delighted by the frag
rance of the evening flowers.
SCAftlOSA 'hil'Milli'
A fragrant corner will not be the
most brilliant spot in the gaTden for
some of the most fragrant flowers
wear an inconspicuous dress. Fori
example the evening-scented stocks
(matthiola bicornis), which give
such an abundance of perfume they
may well be grown for that alone.
But many fragrant flowers have
been highly developed by modern
plant breeding and may be planted
for color and beauty as well. Mig
nonette (reseda odorata) is one of
these, and has no superior for its
delicate scent. It makes excellent
cutting material to combine with
other flowers.
There are many fragrant '.looms
that can be grown from spring-sown
seeds. The ten-week stocks are a de
lightful race of garden subjects
which come in a long color range.
Nicotiana. the sweet-scented tobacco
plants, should have a place in every
garden. Their long tubular flowers
close in midday, but open as even
ing approaches and give forth a
rich perfume.
The sweet sultans and sweet
scabiosas have a soft fragrance and
add beauty to the garden picture.
They are fast growing annuals. Sow
seeds of the sweet sultan (centurea)
broadcast where they are to grow.
The datura (angel's trumpet) is an
other fragrant annual which is beau
tiful. It might be started early in
the house, or a hotbed.
The evening primrose is noted for
its heavy scent, given off during the
evening hours. Its yellow and white
blooms, attractive during the day
time, seem to reflect the moon at
night. The heliotrope is another uni
versal favorite.
Gardeners who will take the time
to search the seed catalogs will be
C'ble to find numerous fragrant sub
jects to fit into their summer pic
ture. COMPLETING TRAVEL PLANS
PARIS, June 11 (UP) Plans of
the Duke and Dutches of Windsor tc
visit the United States next March
are so well advanced that only a def
inite threat of war in Europe would
cause the - Duke to change his mind
close friends of the coup'.e said today.
If war breaks out th Duke's friends
understand he would go at once tc
England where he could render valu
able service. The Duke is highly pop
ular with British war veterans and
military circles and would be usefu1
on special missions.
4-H CLUB DELEGATES LEAVE
LINCOLN, June 10 (UP) 1938
delegates to the national 4-H club
camp at Washington leave for the
nation's capital tonight immediately
after their initiation into the Nebraska-Washington
4-H group. L. R.
j Fribbic. state i ll leader and his as
j sistant Miss Allegra Wilkins will ac-
company the group.
DANISH QUEEN BITTEN
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 9
(UP) Queen Alexandrine was bit
ten severely in the left leg yesterday
while defending hr two little pet
dogs from the attack of a mongrel,
it was announced today.
An operation was performed and
anti-tetanus serum administered. It
was announced that the queen was
progressing comparatively well.
Queen Alexandrine, who is 56,
was walking with her pets along the
beach near the royal seaside resi
dence in northern Denmark when
the incident occurred.
Czech Germans
Not to Support
Defense Loan
Government to Float Loan to Provide
Funds for Proper Defense
of the Nation.
PRAGUE, Czech., June 11 (UP)
Sudeten German party leaders indi
cated today that they would boycott
a national defense loan which the gov
ernment intends to raise to meet ex
traordinary expenses incident to the
minority crisis.
Sudeten German leaders in parlia
ment had been invited to take part
in the work cf raising the loan.
They countered with a statement
attacking the loan on contitutional.
political, and economic grounds, cited
the "poor financial condition" of in
dustry in the sudeten (minority)
area and said:
"We can not see our way clear to
advise Sudeten German populations
to participate in the loan."
They advised Prof. Carl English,
governor of the national bank, that
they must reject his invitation to i
participate.
A committee named to handle the
loan decided, at a meeting under Prof.
English o call he loan "a jubilee
dedication of the population for def
ense of the state.
Emphasizing even more plainly
than did the loan government's de
termination to resist any foreign at
tacker, the army general staff warn
ed that an invader would meet the
most formidable resistance.
Maj. Rudolf Broz, in a national
wireless speech, explained in detail
the fortificat'on system which has
been developed to meet invasion.
"On crossing the border an enemy
would be engaged bv a ring of ma
chine gun nests so planned as to break
up mass attacks into smaller single en
gagements," be said. "Our tactical
plan, combining such natural hindr
ances as mountains with fortifications
will prescribe for an enemy the ter
rain in which he can seek battle and
the routes over which he can enter
the country. Thus enemy casualties
would be increased and the defenders
would be able to fight on their own
terms."
As regards the probability that the
defense lines would be subjected to
mass airplane bombardment, Maj.
Broz said that machine gun network
as laid out bv the army general staff
would offer only a negligible targe
to aircraft.
RESEARCH SHIP MARKS
800 ARCTIC WHALES
LONDON (UP) The Royal Re
search ship. William Sooreby. has
just returned here after a seven
months' voyage to the most desolate
eas in the world the Antarctic
ocean to mark whales.
The ship left last September with
a crew of 23. and during the cruise
marked 800 whales, making the total
in the last four years 3.000.
The whales are marked by firing
stainless-steel tubes into them from
ordinarv 12-bore puns, to enable a
study or the mipratory habits or dif
ferent types of whales to be, made.
The Scoreby marked five types dur
ing her last voyage. The vessel will
return to the Antarctic to resume the
work in the fall.
HAD PREMONITION OF DEATH
ELGIN. 111.. June 0 (UP) Early
last June Leouell Late, then 37, told
his wife. Clara, he had a premoni
tion he was going to die and went
over with her the arrangements for
his funeral.
On June 12. he dropped into a
deep sleep from which he awoke
only twice. Yesterday, in the 361st
day of coma, he died. His physician
had diagnosed his disease as sleep
ing sickness. Tomorrow the funeral
plans Mrs. Late jotted down a year
ago will be carried out.
AUSTRALIA SAVING MORE
SYDNEY (UP- Deposits in Aus
tralian savings banks have reached
$937rlSS,000, an all-time high.
Herbert Gooch,
Prominent in the
State, Suicides
President of Gooch Milling Company
and Active in Business and Poli
tics for Many, Years.
LINCOLN, June 11 (UP) The
body of Herbert E. Gooch, 59, presi
dent of the Gooch Milling and Ele
vator company and numerous Ne
braska corporations today was found
with a bullet wound through the
right temple on the floor of a bath
room at his home here. A gun was
found beside him.
Assistant County Attorney Farley
Young announced no inquest would
be held and that the death would be
officially listed as suicide. The room
in which Gooch's body was found was
locked from the inside, according to
Herbert Gooch, Jr., who found him.
County officials reported powder!
marks on Gooch's hands indicated
suicide.
The body was found when the son
became alarmed after his father did
not appear at the office. One cart
ridge in the revolver had been fired.
Two had missed fire. Gooch appar
ently was alone in the house at the
time of his death. Mrs. Gooch was
in Chicago and a daughter. Ann, had
gone to Yassar to attend commence
ment exercises.
Gooch had been prominent in pub
lishing and milling activities in this
state, heading several corporations in
both interests. He was born Septem
ber 10, 187S in Chicago. He enter
ed the grain and stock business at
Duluth. Minn., in 1904 he came to
Lincoln the next year. Meanwhile he
organized the Gooch Milling and Ele
vator company in 1908. In 1910
Gooch purchased the Star Publishing
company and in 1917 organized the
Gooch Food Products company. He
was president of the Lincoln mills.
Seven years ago Gooch retired from
the publishing business to take over
the grain and stock brokerage busi
ness of Jackson Brothers. Boesel and
Co., in Lincoln. He is survived by his
wife, two frons, Gilbert Amsden
Gooch and Herbert E. Gooch, Jr.. and
a daughter, Ann, all cf Lincoln.
Authorities said there was evi
dence Gooch apparently had attempt
ed first to slash his neck and arm
with a razor. Herbert Gooch, Jr. said
his father was in good spirits last
night about 10:30 p. m. It is be
lieved the shooting occurred short
ly afterwards.
ANTI-CRIBBING SETUP
DEVISED BY UNIVERSITY i
NORMAN, Okla., (UP; The Uni
versity of Oklahoma faculty will in
augurate an "anti-cribbing"' program
tor the conduct of final examinations
this year.
The program was worked out sci
entifically, university officials said.
They think it will hold cheating and
copying of other students' papers to
a minimum.
Under the plan, co-eds' purses,
handy places to conceal reference
material, and books and papers will
be banned from rooms where examin
ations are holding forth.
In addition, a record-breaking num
ber of "protectors" students employ
ed to watch other students will stand
guard in the classrooms and no one
will be allowed to leave the room dur
ing quiz periods.
FILES FOR CHIEF JUSTICE
LINCOLN, June 10 (UP) Arch
bold J. "Jack" Weaver, Falls City-
attorney filed his candidacy for chief
justice of the supreme court with
the secretary of state today. He is
the third to enter the race. Other
candidates are District Judges, E. B.
Chappell of Lincoln and John W.
Yeager of Omaha.
Weaver, about S3, was associated
with a Kansas City law firm four
years before returning to Falls City
to engage in practice.
He is the son of P. B. Weaver and
a nephw of Arthur J. Weaver, for
mer governor of Nebraska.
FRIENDSHHIP CEASES
NEW YORK, June 10 (UP)
Frederick Reilly, hauled into court
today for the eleventh time on
charges of drunkenness and vag
rancy, weaved up to the bench,
squinted at the judge and said: "If
you were Magistrate Mark Rudich,
you'd let me go. Mark and me are
just like that " He held up two
fingers. "Thirty days," said Magis
trate Mark Rudich.
WOLVES OVERRUN COUNTY
CASSYILLE. Mo. (UP) Wolves
have become so abundant in Barry
county and their depredations on
livestock so costly to farmers that
a government trapper has been as
signed to capture them. ,
EVEN POLES GROWING
FRANKLIN, Neb.. June 10 (UP)
Rain has been so plentiful here
this spring that telephone poles along
the South Republican river road are
growing. Green poles were used and
leafy branches have been growing on
the poles.
R. D. Dunlap has a patch of rye
6 feet 2 inches tall and has been
perplexed by the problem of how to
harvest it. Chester Joy has oats in
a 36-acre patch with heads 11 inches
long and 60 grains to the head. Rain
this year has totaled 9.19 inches,
nearly twice as much as a year ago.
Windsors to
Pay a Visit to
United States
United Press Learns From Unim
peachable Source of Proposed
Visit to This Country.
NEW YORK. June 9 (Copyright
1938 by UP) The Duke and Duchess
of Windsor will visit the United
States next March, the United Tress
learned definitely today from an un
impeachable source. t
The duke and duchess plan a tnree
month tour of the country. The trip
will not be under anybody's aus
pices. It will be a vacation pri
marily although the duke hopes to
make some incidental study of social
conditions.
Only the duke and duchess, and
personal servants and a police
guard will be in the party.
The visit will be entirely unoffi
cial and private but it is understood
that approval of Buckingham Palace
and the British and American gov
ernments either has been sought or
will be.
It has been suggested that if their
reception is sufficiently favorable the
duke may decide to reside eventually
in the United States.
PLANE SERVICE TO MAYA
RUINS TO START SOON
WASHINGTON (UP) Travelers
soon will be able to fly to the north
ern Guatamalan ruins of Uaxactun,
oldest center of Maya civilization
partly because of the civilized taste
for chewing gum.
The region has been accessible
only by packtrain because of the
dense jungle of Sapote trees. These
trees, however, indirectly will lead
to air service to the heart of the
jungle, according to the National
Geographic Society.
The trees produce chicle, from
which American chewing gum is
made. To failitate export of the
chicle, natives have cleared an air
field and invited planes to replace
mules as transporters of the basic
ingredient of chewing gum.
Coming of the airplanes will mark
a new chapter in Uaxactun's history.
Originally occupied about 6S A. D..
the town became a center to which
Mayas from outlying agriultural re
gions flocked for games, religious
ceremonies and trade.
Uaxactun (pronounced Washock-
tune) still is a center of the jungle
life. It not only attract the native
chicle-gatherers and woodcutters but
also various archeological expedi
tions such as that of the Carnegie
Institute of Washington.
DISBAR ATTORNEY
LINCOLN, June 10 (UP) The
supreme court today disbarred Fred
P. Marconnit, Omaha attorney, from
the practice of law for unprofessional
conduct.
Attorney General Richard C. Hunt
er brought the disbarment action a?
the result of Marconnit's action in
concealing the fact that stock entrust
ed to him by a client for sale to a
third party had been used by the at
torney as collateral for a loan and
that the stock subsequently was sold
to realize something on the collatrcal
Marconnit contended he was actinp
as a broker rather than attorney in
the transaction but the high court
ruled "misconduct of an attorney in
dicative of moral unfitness to prac
tice law, although not committed in
a professional relationship, justifies
disbarment".
BID ON PERU ROAD
LINCOLN. June 9 (UP) State
Engineer A. C. Tilley today an
nounced a highway letting for June
30 wlien bids will be opened on proj
ects worth an estimated $700,000.
State construction projects listed
included:
Nebraska 67: Peru, U. S. 73-75,
5.7 miles stabilized soil base course
and bituminous surface course (bids
rejected in June 2 letting).
Nebraska 67: Talmagc-Brock and
Drock-U. c. 73-75. ID miles saud
gravcl surfacing (second applica-
tion).
Missing Michi
gan Couple Re
turns to Home
Man Probably to Be Charged Under
the Mann Act by Mich
igan Authorities.
ADRIAN, Mich.. June 11 (UP)
Lucille Wilson, 22-yerr-oId missing
school teacher, and Henry Yander
cook. 29, both of whom had been
:-ought since Tuesday, returned to
iheir homes early today, and police
immediately took Vandercook into
custody.
?liss Wilson. 22-year-old school
teacher, told authorities that Van
drcook had induced her to go with
him to Wensel, Mo., on the promise
of a job.
Sheriff Fred Soger said Yander
cook probably would be charged with
violation of the Mann act.
The girl was uninjured, but she
said that Yandercook made advances
toward her several times during the
trip.
"I answered a newspaper adver
tisement which offered a job to a
young lady who would care for a
child on a trip to California with a
man and his wife," Miss Wilson told
police.
"Yandercook was the man who in
serted the advertisement. He told me
that his wife and child were visiting
in Missouri and that we should drive
there to meet them."
The girl said that there was noth
ing improper about Yandercook's be
havior until they stopped at Effing
ham. 111., to spend the night. There,
she said, he suggested that they share
the same hotel room to save expenses.
She refused and he made no further
proposals until they reached Wensel.
"When we arrived at the place
where his wife war, supposed to be
visiting he told mo that his friend
had died and that his wife and child
had returned to Adrian," Miss Wil
son said.
GARDEN WITH NO WEEDS
GENOA, Neb., June 11 (UP)
Found : a vegetable garden that will
not grow weed 5.
As an experiment, Manager Har
old Kramer of the Loup povcr and ir
rigation district and a group of em
ployes, spread eight inches of silt
over a small plot of ground. The silt
had been pumped by a dredge in the
canal. Seeds were planted in what is
known as "black", or "floating silt".
The vegetables came up, but no weeds.
Kenneth Maurer, assistant canal
superintendent, explained the phen
omenon. River silt, he said is pure
soil. All foreign bodies, such as trash
and seeds have been sifted out as the
silt moves along the stream, settling
very slowly.
Since there were no other seeds in
the soil except vegetable seeds, said
Maurer it was impossible to grow a
crop of weeds.
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