PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
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MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 1938.
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Vote is Urged
on $30 Weekly
Ohio Pensions
Movement Starts With Two Rival
Groups Opening Drives
Need 300,000 Signers.
COLUMBUS, O. (UP) The seed
of- Sheridan Downey's $30 a "week
plan that first bloomed on the sunny
slopes of California has been trans
planted in Ohio. In this state, spon
sors of the idea, however, are divided
cn the questions: shall we pay it on
Wednesday or Thursday and must
recipients be at least 57 or only 50?
As yet, no politician in Ohio has
campaigned on the $30 a week plan
as Downey did successfully for the
democratic senatorial nomination in
California, but rival groups have
taken steps to write the proposals in
to the state constitution by way of
initiative petition.
Considerable amusement was oc
casioned over the difference of opin
ion as to the proper day for "pay
day." One Ohio editor ran this head
line over a news story heralding the
advent of the different timed pension
rlans "Let's all wait until Satur
day night."
300,000 Signers Needed
Both groups have obtained the
approval of the attorney general of
the form of their proposed amend
ment. The next step is to get per
functory designation by the secretary
of state of the proper type petition.
Then the proponents are free to
circulate petitions for signatures and
they must obtain 300.000 before the
voters will be asked to decide whether
they want to support the plan.
One group hopes to have the is
sue voted on next year. The other
has not signified its intentions, but
experience has shown that it is diffi
cult to put proposed amendments on
the ballot in Ohio by initiative peti
tions. Spokesman for the "$30 every
Wednesday" organization is Dr.
Frank H. Fagan, who operates a
dental X-ray laboratory In Cleveland.
The General Welfare League of Ohio,
of which E. L. Lansing, Cleveland,
is secretary, i3 urging adoption of
the Thursday alternative. Under the
latter scheme applicants for pensions
would be eligible only if they were
57 or older. Dr. Fagan would have
the state pension those over 50 who
could meet other requirements.
Pensioners Could Not Work
Essentially, the plans are the
same. Pensioners could not work.
They could not hire anyone to work
for them. They would be forbidden
to use their pensions to support any
one over 18. Present state old age
pensioners would have the option of
remaining on the rolls or subscribing
' to the new pension plan.
As the state, la now having diffi
culty of paying awards of less than
$25 a month, it would not be diffi
cult to decide which to take pro
vided the new system vould work.
The financial details? Pensions
would be paid each week either on
Wednesday or Thursday in pension
warrants issued by a state admin
istrator. To the back of the war
rants would be affixed each Wednes
day or Thursday a 2-cent warrant
repayment stamp. Hence at the end
of 52 weeks the back of the war
rants would be covered with the
stamps at a cost of $1.04, and the
warrant could then be redeemed for
51.
The pension warrants would be
negotiable and transferrable. Poli
tical subdivisions would be required
to accept them in payment of taxes
end other obligations. State em
ployes would be paid one-half their
salaries in them. But Dr. Fagan has
faith in the idea. His plan, provides
that he shall be the first administra
tor until one is elected, and the pro
posed amendment stipulates that the
administrator shall accept his $7,000
annual salary in warrants.
That the weekly pension plan peo
ple are not too optimistic over the
chances for immediate successful
operation once the scheme is launch
ed is indicated by a clause in one pro
posal which allows the administrator
to borrow $700,000 from the state's
general funds until the pension sys
tem begins paying for Itself.
Of course, officials say the general
revenue fund cannot, stand further
drain, particularly since the state
has had to borrow from it three
months running to meet existing old
age pension demands. This summer,
in fact, the state auditor said it was
"broke."
"BLACK BOOK" BEST SELLER
PRAGUE (UP) One of the pub
lishing successes of this season is the
"Black book" of Prague's tailors
vhich contains the addresses of 8,670
customers who have refused to pay
fcr their clothes. It has now run
into the 11th edition.
SCREEN DEVICE TRACES
PLANE ON TO LANDING
JIEW YORK (UP) Airline offi
cials here have been testing a new
method for locating airplanes in
flight a frosted glass screen with
a tiny green speck moving continu
ously across it to represent the plane
in flight.
The screen was developed by Bell
Telephone Laboratories for the West
ern Electric company and will be
used in connection with the Civil
Aeronautics Authority's beacon sys
tem. The board is said to follow
precisely the flight of an oncoming
plane. By return radio telephone
airport officials can guide the pilot
to the field.
As a pilot talks through his radio,
the green light moves with the
plane's position on the circular screen
of a cathode ray tube. Compass
markings on the screen's edge enable
the airport dispatcher to give the
pilot his exact bearings even though
visibility may be obliterated by fog
or rain.
WORK SPEEDED ON 100
BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS
LONDON (U P) One hundred
warships are under various stages of
construction in British shipyards for
the Royal Navy, and the Admiralty
has given orders for their completion
to be speeded.
The order is the British govern
ment's answer to Mussolini's decision
to build 12 extra large cruisers. The
British navy now is twice as big: as
Italy's, and when the present program
is completed the margin will be even
larger.
Ships pojv being built provide work
for 250,000, and include: five battle
ships, five aircraft-carriers, 12 cruis
ers, three fiotliia leaders, 35 destroy
ers and 17 submarines.
Other vessels under construction
include submarine depot ships, "Ad
miralty surveying ships, and a large
number of new-type submarine chas
ers equipped with motor engines.
EEAVERS GO TO WORK
ON EROSION PROJECT
WASH I NGT ON, (UP) Beavers
nature's greatest dam-builders, have
gone to work for Uncle Sum.
The interior department's division
of grazing "transplanted" beavers to
Idaho streams that were threatened
with erosion. Attaches said the paddle-tailed
animals immediately began
building dams across the small
streams.
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes said "transplanting" the beav
ers "had the benefit of two outstand
ing results restoration of beaver
population and arresting stream-bed
erosion and the consequent loss of
soil and water."
YOUTH, LOST IN LAKE,
MERELY WADES AbiiUitx-
PORT ARTHUR, Tex. (UP) John
Rainey, 22, dived overboard to swim
in Lake Sabine while sailing with
Caleb Hammond. This resulted in
the fright of his life.
Hammond- brought the sailboat
about to pick up the youth, but foot-
high waves concealed the swimmer.
Hammond returned to Port Arthur to
organize a searching party.
Meanwhile, almost exhausted.
Rainey discovered that he could
touch the bottom of the lake wjth his
feet. He waded half a mile to shore,
hailed a tugboat and was brought
home after being lost 10 hours.
DEER HUNTERS SHAMED
GILROY, Cal. (UP) The killing
in this vicinity of two toothless deer
is declared by game experts to be of
no particular credit to the hunters.
They insist that when a buck has
become so old as to lose all of its
teeth, almost anyone could knock it
over with a club.
TOWN OF OLD CHURCHES
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (UP)
Chester county has five Presbyterian
churches which are more than 200
years old. They are located at
Brandywine Manor, Upper Octorara,
Great Valley, Fagg's Manor and New
London.
BRIDGE ISSUES NO PASSES
PHILADELPMIA (UP) Since
erection of the Delaware river bridge
between Philadelphia and Camden,
N. J., in 1926, every vehicle passing
over it has paid toll charges, even
fire engines and ambulances.
FRENCH PHILOSOPHER ONLY 15
PARIS (UP) France's youngest
philosopher is Edouard - Mazabraud,
and he is only 15. He took his first
degree in philosophy last year and
comes from the Haute-Yienna department.
Law Anchors
the Gallant Ship
Used by Byrd
City of New York Sued With New
Owner by Skipper Bought
for Training Ship.
CLEVELAND (UP) The City of
New York, sturdy square-rigger
which fought Antarctic storm and
ice to carry Admiral Richard E.
Byrd and hi3 men to the "bottom
of the world" is the object of a new
attack a suit against the vessel and
her owner for back wages filed by
her keeper and skipper, Capt. Ralph
B. Von Suboff.
Capt. Von Suboff, spruce ex-offi-cer
in the Russian navy, who with
his wife has lived aboard the his
toric old bark through the Chicago
World Fair and Cleveland's Great
Lakes exposition, has filed suit in
federal court against Frederick Grif
fiith, who now owns the ship, and
against the ship, since under admir
alty law'a ship may be sued.
When the ship was exhibited at
the Chicago fair and later at Cleve
land's exposition, the Von Suboffs
pay came indirectly through Admiral
Byrd.
Later, Commander Frederick Grif
fith, a retired navy officer of Belmar,
N. J., became Interested in the old
ship, built originally in Norway as
a whaler. He persuaded a philan
thropist to buy the vessel for the New
Jersey state nautical school for the
training of sailors.
The price paid was reported to
have been $3,000 a fraction of the
$165,000 at which she was valued
when launched and ready for the
voyage into the Antarctic.
But the money required for tow
ing charges to New Jersey $3,000
was needed for relief, it was de
cided by New Jersey legislators, who
did not accept the gift.
Griffith, who sailed in his, youth
with the late Admiral William S.
Sims on the famous Saratoga, search
ed again for a backer someone who
would pay the towing charges and
finance the needed repairs.
Meanwhile, the hull stained a
sooty gray, the decks shrunk and
leaking, pigeons nesting in the rig
ging, the old ship lay moored to a
Lake Erie dock a mystery to this
city.
Commander Griffith arrived liere
recently, prepared, to take the ship
to New Jersey.
"At last," he said, gazing up into
the web of rigging, "I have found a
backer. I want to see her under her
own sails again, with young men
climbing her ratlines. She doesn't
belong here, rotting at a dock."
Surprised by Suit
"But I didn't anticipate a law
suit," Griffith said.
The Von Suboffs agree that the
square-rigger should sail again, but
think they are entitled to some
wages first.
"We've cared for her for years,"
the captain said. "We know her to
be a good ship and we would like to
sec her repaired. But we need money,
too."
Industrial soot has settled on the
City of New York's deck and rigg.ing,
and her hull needs paint. But other
wise the ship is sound and strong,
from the keelson bow, 9 feet thick,
to the stern of Norway oak 7 feet"
through.
The case of the sued ship does not
come up until January, but if at
that time it is settled in favor of the
Von Suboffs, it is more than likely
that there will be another ship start
ing for the south but to the tropics.
For while the City of New York
lies frozen in a legal ice jam. Cap
tain and Mrs. Suboff plan a trip to
the South Seas in a schooner of
their own.
CONDEMNATION COURT
FOR NEB. CITY UTILITY
LINCOLN, Sept. 2 4 Three district
judges held appointments from the
Nebraska Supreme Court today to sit
as a condemnation court for the
evaluation appraisal of property
owned by the Central Power com
pany, at Nebraska City, which the
city voted to purchase at the August
9 election.
.The judges are L. S. Hastings, of
David City; Virgil Faloon, of Falls
City, and John L. Polk, of Lincoln.
They will meet at Nebraska City at
a date to be fixed later by the
Supreme Court.
U. S. WHEAT SALES
HASTINGS,Sept. 24 (UP) The
death toll in the fruit truck and oil
transport collision near Red Cloud
Thursday right amounted to 5 today
when William Lonn, 29, of Indianola
died at a 'Hastings hospital. He was
badly burned. Lonn who was un
married is survived by his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Lonn of Atlanta.
GOOD OLD NEBRASKA
Nestled on the banks of the
Missouri river,
My old Nebraska home I seem
to see.
The cottonwood and willow
gently waving.
As in the little grove I rest
- at eve.
Take me back again to old
Nebraska,
To the friends of youth I long
to see.
With them I lived the happy
days of childhood,
And at the eve of life I long
to be.
Take me back to old Nebraska,
Where the fields of yellow
corn
Rustle faintly in the twilight,
Near the place where I was born.
Linden trees with nectar laden,
Busy bees their sweetness store.
Take me back to old Nebraska
And the happy days of wore.
Up at dawn in early spring
time, Quickly to the garden hie.
Bleeding heart and golden
tulips
Shed their beauty there awhile.
Then in June the lovely roses
Fling their fragrance on the
air.
Take me back to old Nebraska
Where I never knew a care.
Anna B. Howland,
Los Angeles, Calif.
NATIVE, 81, CONDUCTS
KNOW-UTAH CAMPAIGN
SALT LAKE CITY (UP) Utah
has a "one man chamber of com
merce" in Webster Greene, 81 -year-old
Salt Lake City resident.
Greene is a familiar figure on the
Latter Day Saints temple grounds,
where he passes out little slips of
paper to tourist visitors.
The messages, whkh Greene pre
pares himself on his typewriter at
home, contain 11 lines of super
latives about Utah,
He believes the lengthy publicity
booklets prepared by commercial
clubs are too lengthy for tourists to
read effectively.
Greene conducts his "know Utah"
campaign strictly on his own. Dur
ing intermissions at the temple
grounds, he walks up and down main
street slipping the messages into out
state automobiles.
WORLD'S FAIR CROWDS TO SEE
CAMEL-BACK LOCOMOTIVE
SCR ANTON, P. (UP) One of the
interesting exhibits at the New York
World's Fair will be the last of the
anthracite-burning, camelback loco
motives which puffed through 32 years
of service for the Deleware, Lacka
wanna & Western Railroad company.
Saved from the scrap heap by the
New York Chapter, Railway and Lo
comotive Historical Society, engine
No. 952, last of the ancient ilk, will
show fair visitors how far railway
transportation has progressed since
the hev-day of its use.
The ponderous locomotive was leg
islated out of use last December when
Thomas L. Tabor, New York, per
suaded rail officials to let him and
friends rehabiliate it for display at
the fair.
SEEKS NEBRASKA PLAN
LINCOLN, Sept. 24 (UP) W. L.
O'Daniel, who campaigned with a
hill billy band to win the governor
ship nomination in Texas asked the
secretary of state today for a copy of
Nebraska's tax plan.
He wrote that "We understand it
is operating successfully."
Staff members said O'Daniel would
be supplied with the requested In
formation. FATE' CROSSES EX-FIGHTER
CAMDEN, N. J. (UP) Billy An
gelo, 30, once a leading welter
weight, fought for nine years In the
ring without suffering any serious
injuries. While playing with his 4-year-old
niece, she stuck her finger
in his eye. Angelo went to a hos
pital, where surgeons removed the
eye.
TANGLED IN ROPE, BOY DROWNS
HOLYOKE, Mass. (UP) Edward
Perreault, 16, drowned in the Sec
ond Level Canal here when he be
came entangled in a rope used by
swimmers to pull themselves from the
water.
300TH STEWARDESS WED
OAKLAND, Cal. (UP) Miss Dor
othy Hickett. 24, is the 300th air
stewardess of the United Air lines to
be married in the past eight years.
'H0TD0GS" NEW TO BUTCHER
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (UP) Ed
ward Margerum. a butcher for 40
years, never ate a "hotdog" until he
attended a lodge picnic the other day.
Italy Steps Up
Motor Output
Vital to Army
Production Is 45 Per Cent Above
6-Months' Period in 1937
Self -Sufficiency .There.
ROME (UP) Although automo
bile production in Italy showed an
increase of 45.2 per cent during the
first six months of this year over the
corresponding period in 1937, supply
cannot keep pace with demand.
Ominous war clouds over Europe
are the main cause of this shortage.
It started during the Ethiopian cam
paign and has grown progressively
worse since.
Italian automobile factories are
working 24 hours a day for the gov
ernment. In addition to manufac
turing cars for private users, three
daily shifts of workers are busy turn
ing out trucks, motorized equipment,
rifles, cannons and other equipment
to prepare Italy for any eventual
ity. Self-Sufficiency Is Theme
There also is another factor. Ever
since sanctions were enforced during
the Ethiopian war, Italy has built
for self-sufficiency wherever possible
and has reduced imports to a mini
mum for materials unobtainable in
Italy.
Italy produces no 6teel and most
of that imported must go into forging
a powerful war machine. Conse
quently, the ordinary Italian citizen
who wants to permit himself the lux
ury of a car must pay the price
which is very expensive and wait
months before his order can be filled.
Despite War exigencies, the produc
tion has increased. A total of 31,
391 cars were turned out in Italian
factories between Jan. 1 and June
30, of this year, as against 21,626
during the same period in 1937.
Of this year's total, 21,021 were
touring cars. During the first six
months of 1937, Italy produced only
i.4,672 pleasure cars. This repre
sents an increase of 65.9 per cent.
There were 3,197 trucks produced
during the first six months of this
year, as against 2,285 during the
same period in 1937, an increase of
40 per cent.
Several Models Popular
The most popular automobiles in
Italy are the Fiat and the Lancia,
followed by the more expensive Bi
anchis. The Fiat and Lancia are
popular all over Europe to judge by
the number owned by non-Italians.
Fiat has a factory in France which
turns out cars for French consump
tion. In the luxury class are the Isotta
Fraschini and the high-powered
racing type Alfa-Romeos and Maser
atis. Until two years ago the Alfas
were supreme in the racing field,
winning the lion's share of laurels
against the German Mercedes and
Auto-Unions and the French Bugat
tis. There is no question that the de
mand would be even greater but for
the high price. The smallest and
cheapest car on the market is a four
cylinder Fiat, nicknamed Topolino
(Mickey Mouse), which costs 12,
000 lire ($600). It is exceptionally
small and has no equivalent to its
smallnes in size in the United States.
The Fiat six-cylinder motel, "Ford
and Chevrolet in size, costs 30,000
lire ($1,500). There is an in-between
four-cylinder model which costs 21,
000 lire ($1,050).
CAR LOADINGS UP
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UP)
The association of American railroads
announced today carloadings for the
week ending Sept. 17 totaled 680,142
cars, an increase of 16 per cent over
the preceding week.
The figure is 19.8 per cent below
the corresponding week in 1937 and
31.6 per cent less than the same in
1930.
The increase was caused by the fact
that the preceding week included the
labor holiday.
Loadings of grain products amount
ed to 35,900 cars, an increase of 5,
374 over the week before, but 53
cars under the same week las year.
Livestock loadings totaled 16,728
cars, an increase of 2,061 cars over
the week before but 1,236 less than
the same week in 1937.
HOUND NIGHTLY PATROLS
BEAT "WITH POLICEMAN
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (UP)
Every night during the summer a
large foxhound has accompanied of
ficer Raymond Hart as he patrolled
his beat for eight hours at a stretch.
"He just seemed to take a liking
to me one night," Hart said, "and
now he waits for me at the same
corner every night. The only timw
he doesn't show up is when it rains."
The dog refuses to show affection
for anv other member of the force.
POSTPONE HEARING
LINCOLN, Sept. 24 (UP) A hear
ing on former Lieutenant Gogernor
Walter H. Jurgensen's appeal from
an embezzlement conviction was set
back on the supreme court's tenta
tive war list today from Otcober 3
te- the week fo October 17. Illness of
Assistant Attorney General Burt
Overcash and absence of Richard F.
Stout, Jurgensen's counsel, was re
sponsible for the postponement.
Crop Failures
Blamed for Cost
of Assistance
Many Nebraska Counties Find This
Responsible for the Increasing
Cost of Assistance.
LINCOLN, Sept. 24 (UP) Crop
failures in many Nebraska counties
are responsible in part for the In
creased cost of all forms of public
assistance in the state during August,
a report prepared by the state as
sistance office disclosed today.
Public relief expenditures rose
from $2,378,923 in July to $2,560,
603, an increase of $18f.6S0. Recip
ients increased from 90,279 to 91,
058. Expenditures for general relief
from county funds aggregated $84.
450, a gain of $12,177 over July and
an increase of 658 cases. Officials
attributed the larger load directly to
poor crops. Ordinarily it was said,
the increase does not occur until No
vember. WPA reported 29,092 certified per
sons on its rayrolls August 31 with
wages of $1,557,937, a gain of 533
grants and $184,417 in wages com
pared with July.
Average old age assistance grants
are up from $15.07 in July to $15.14
in August compared with $13.60
in August 1937. Old age rolls car
ried the names of 26,368 persons, a
gain of 16 during the month.
IDENTIFY MASS FOUND
IN 1808 AS METEORITE
PROVIDENCE, Ky. (UP) Thirty
years after its discovery on a north
ern Kentucky farm, a metalic mass
has been Identified as a meteorite,
the 19th such specimen to be found
in this state.
Ever since it was found in 908
on the farm of W. T. Yeager near
here, the specimen has been kept
as a curio.
He did not learn of its value as
a meteorite until early this year
when he took the specimen to the
state highway department at Frank
fort. John Stokley, geologist, sub
mitted the curio to David M. Young,
curator at the University of Ken
tucky geology museum, who identi
fied it.
Young said the 15-pound body was
a siderite of the coarse octahedrite
variety, composed chiefly of Iron and
nickel. The new meteorite was
named the Providence siderite. .
CHRISTMAS GIFTS READY
FOR ARMY MEN ABROAD
FREMONT, O. (UP) A prema
ture Christmas spirit was evidenced
here as 25 gaily colored bags con
taining Christmas gifts were mailed
to the national Red Cross headquar
ters in Washington.
They will be shipped to United
States soldiers in foreign service,
and will be delivered Christmas. Each
bag contained a knife, automatic
pencil, "washcloth, soap, toothbrush,
toothpaste, talcum powder, station
ery, playing cards and a pocket-sized
diary.
INDIA INCREASES IRRIGATION
SIMLA, India (UP) The govern
ment is steadily enlarging the field
of cultivation in India by large-scale
irrigation schemes. Areas under
state irrigation now total 31,000,000
acres, or one-eighth of the total cul
tivatable area of British India, as
compared with only 10,500,000 acres
in 1878-79.
BURNING MOUNTAIN REPORTED
SYDNEY, Australia (UP) Re
turning tourists from off-beaten
routes of the interior report the find
ing of a mountain of coal that for
centuries past has been burning. The
mountain is onw so hot that coal
mining operations probably will
never be possible.
POLICE DISCLAIM JOKE
KITCHENER, Ont. (UP) Work-'
men repairing a hotel here said it
was an accident when they moved
a sign from its usual place near the
city hall to the front of the hotel
tavern, bearing the order: "No park
ing here. Reserved for civic officials.
Cotton Picker
to Help Build
Dixie Security
Rust Foundation Set Up to Cushion
Labor Displacement To
Euild Factory.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UP) A Negro
cotton picker's question, "what's go
ing to happen to us when cotton pick
ing machines are perfected," perhaps
has been answered by inventors of a
leading mechanical picker.
After announcing plans to build a
factory' here which will turn out at
least 1,000 low-priced pickers an
nually, John and Mack Rust, who
have worked many years to perfect
their machine, revealed plans for for
mation of the Rust Foundation
through which they plan to use a
large percentage of their profits to
offset labor displacements which will
follow successful use of mechanical
pickers.
Declaring that "we never intended
to use our invention for making
money but to better the condition of
southern workers," the Rust brothers
filed a charter of incorporation which
included a clause placing a ceiling
on their incomes.
Profits to Foundation
Their income, according to the
clause, must not be more than 10
times that of their lowest paid em
ploye. Remainder of the profits will
go to the foundation, a non-profit
organization designed to make the
mechanical picker a blessing rather
than a curse to Dixie.
John Rust listed eight objectives
of the foundation:
1. To promote educational and
health, activities and to establish and
maintain agencies and institutions,
including schools, libraries and hos
pitals. 2. To publish and distribute news
papers, books and periodicals, to
operate radio stations, and otherwise
to disseminate useful information.
3. To conduct investigation, re
search and experimentation, espe
cially in technical, scientific and
social-economic fields.
4. To help individuals and fam
ilies to raise their standards of liv
ing and become self-sustaining.
5. To give financial, technical, ad
visory or any other assistance to any
institutions that are organized to
accomplish or further the purposes
set forth by the foundation.
6. To operate farms, factories and
such other enterprises as many seem
useful in promoting the objects of
the foundation.
7. To enter Into partnerships, Joint
adventures or agreements for sharing
profits.
8. To co-operate with any indi
vidual or with any private, public or
governmental agency for achieve
ment of the aims of the foundation.
Suggestions Flow In.
Social questions arising as the re
sult of progress of the mechanical
picker has resulted in numerous sug
gestions being submitted ot the Rust
brothers. They range all the way
from throwing the machine into the
river to establishing technocracy.
"There have been objections to
the cotton picker because it will dis
place labor," John Rust said, "but
seeing that these cotton field work
ers are the poorest paid people in
America, we feel that we are doing
them a favor when we free them from
the back-breaking slavery of the cot
ton fields, especially the women and
children.
"It is tie business of the Rust
Cotton Picker company to produce
machines that will mechanize Ihe cot
ton growing industry, and It is the
business of the foundation to help
rehabilitate the displaced labor on a
highei plane.
"This transition will not take
place suddenly but will naturally
take place over a period of years.
This will give the government and
private business time to make the
necessary adjustments to take care
of .he displaced labor.
"However, the cotton picker busi
ness itself will absorb a good part
of the labor displaced in the fields.
Of course, these farm worVers will
have to be trained to operate and
service the new machinery, and the
training of these people for their
new job3 will be one of the Important
functions of the Rust Foundation."
CHECKS HELD 25 YEARS
WITHOUT BEING CASHED
CINCINNATI. O. (UP) Three
checks that William P. Devou. Cin
cinnati millionaire, had held for 25
years without cashing were present
ed in the U. S. district court here.
Sol Goodman, attorney for Devou's
estate, asked Judge John H. Druffel
for an entry directing the U. S. treas
ury to pay into the estate $127.50.
the amount of the checks given
Devou in payment of a debt to him as
a creditor of a bankrupt company.
