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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO Ihe -jlattsmeoth Journal PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Entered at Postoffice. Plattamoutn. Neb., a secou-d-clas? mail matter MRS. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRITTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. i Legislative Council Debates Recommendafns - . '. Question of Just Submitting Report or Making Recommer.diition as to the New Legislature. LINCOLN. Nov. 2G (UP) The issue of whether or not the Nebras ka legislative council" should submit recommendation concerning its work to the new legislature convening iu January today forced the council members to return for an afternoon session. Sentiment cf seme members had been that only a formal report of its studies should bs presented without recommendation to the legislature, when Senator Frank Brady of Atkin son speke up. "You might as w;ll get all this material together and throw it in a waste basket as to pile it on the clerk's desk in the legislature," he asserted. "I think wa will be neg lecting our duty if we don't see to it that our report goes to the proper legislative committee or committee::, pointing out what we think should be given further study and outlining By FBAXCZS FECK. Ileitis Bom Instltat NEW BEAN FEAST These nights when there's teeth in the wind and the feel of snow in the air, you can be sure that family of yours is. going to come home at supper time hungry as grizzlies. It's food they want and plenty of it. The solid kind, that sticks to the ribs like a sizzling potful of beans, and ham, and rich slabs of Boston brown bread. But it's a fine howdy-do if a busy woman hag to spend all afternoon getting such a meal when there at. thousand and one other things Xw tend to. You'd do much better to cut kitchen time and assure meal success by calling your grocer and ordering up a couple of good-sized tins of ready-to-serve beans. The real old-fashioned kind of beans baked in dry ovens and simmered in a savory sauce. They come, all done up in tins now just ready to open, heat and serve. Or, if it's a new note in bean feasts that you're after, sometime try merging a canful of that good old western favorite oven-baked red kidney beans with a couple of cupfuls of crunchy corn kernels. Tuck this succulent blend in individual bean pots and heat in thj oven 'til J.ho sauce is all bubbly, tnd pork V brown and sizzly, and the sweet heady fragrance of sauce and spice nils the kitchen. Try it tonight so: INDIVIDUAL BEAN POTS OF SUCCOTASH Drain, off all but A cup liquid from 1 No. 2 (20 oz.) can whole kernel corn. Combine com with 1 17,.2-oz. can Oven-Eaked Red Kidney Beans. Add 1 teaspoon salt, dash of pepper. Pour into individual bean pots, then dot with Butter. Bake in a moderate oven (375 F.) about 25 minutes. MUFFIN MERGER How would you like to serve Mince Meat Muffins to your folks tonieht? Tender, tasty muffins studded with succulent mince meat tidbits. You can tos3 them off m a trice arid bring theni to the table in triumph steaming hot, mellow and moist. They're guaranteed easy to make and to eat done this- way MINCE 31 EAT MUFFINS Sift together m cuaa. sifted all-purposa flour 33 what is important as a basi3 for legis lation." , . ; , Brady, however.; did not propose that any specific recommendations be made by the council which was designed to be a fact rinding agency ratker th'an a policy forming group. Senator Harry Gants of Alliance concurred with Brady, saying that if the council offered no suggestions, reports on public assistance, expendi tures and revenue would be filed away'. EXPORT TRADE REPORT v WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Ur) The commerce department reported today that the United States sold $960,131,000 more goods to foreign nation than it bought in the first ten months of 1938. Exports totaled $2,573,045,000, a decrease of $138,022,000 from ten months of 1937. Imports aggregated $1,612,914,000. a drop of $1,03S, 831.000 frcm the 1937 period. The value of this country's foreign trade increased ia Oriober. Exports were 13 per csnt larger than in Sep tem and imports wer? up 6 per cent. Total foreign trade for the first ten months was considerably below the I same pericd last year. The favorable J trade balance this year, however was almost nine times greater than in the I same period last year. 2 tablespoons sugar 4 teaspoons baking powdsf teaspoon sal Work 4 tablespoons fat into dry ingredients, until tht partirle3 of flour and fat ars very fine. Combine 2 cup mince meat SA cup milk. Make a depression in center ol dry ingredients, then pour in liquid mixture all at once, mixing just enough to dampen flour. Drop by teaspoons into greased muffin tins. Bake in a hot oven (450 F.) 20 minutes. (1 do2n muffins.) Uen;emb3r way back when a bowl of wilted lettuce was practi cally the only salad that ever found it3 way to your table?' Oh, some times we did have a few salad greens plucked frcm the backdoor garden and dressed with vinegar and oil from the sparkling glass cruets in the old silver castor. And occasionally in the epringtime mother would cook up a mess of early greens peppery young blades of horseradish, jagged dandelion leaves, mild mannered narrow dock, milkweed and the like seasoned with sharp vinegar and spices, then put up in glass jars to be used as a rensn on meat rr.a Deans, Jsut that's about as far as it ever went. Wo just weren't much for serving salads In those days. Certainly not the way we are now with a salad for every course in the menu if we've a mind to plan our meals that way. For all they were so simple those first salads were good and savory just the same. Tender, delicate lettuce shred3 wilting gent ly under the sturdy impact of pun gent vinegar and hot bacon grease the whole lieautiful bowl topped with small slivers of scallion and bacon snippets done to a erisp. There was a salad now a mouth watering savory salad worth trying on your family today. Here's how! WILTED LETTUCE SALAD Chop coarsely, then chill . lettuce. . . Fry until crisp, then break inU pieces Several slices bacon. To bacon anil bacon fat add 2 tablespoons pure cider vinegar 2 tablespoons water ' 1 tablespoon sugar. Dash of pepper. Sprinkle chilled Ztftxce with . salt. - ' Pour bacon sauce . over Iettuca and mix thoroughly. Strv on in-' dividual aalid plates. - ,. SALAD REVIVAL Nazi Press Says -Father Coughlin Being 'Muzzled' Berlin Papers State jewry Controls Radio end Checks the Broad cast of Noted Priest. BERLIN, Nov. 26 (UP) The Nazi press, commenting on the refusal of radio station WMCA in New York to broadcast the regular speech of Fath er Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit to morrow, charged today that Jewish organizations had "muzzled Father Coughlin." "America is not allowed to hear the truth," the Zwoelfuhrblatt said in a featured article on its front page this afternoon. "The action against Father Cough lin is a sample of the mendacity of the so-much lauded freedom of speech in the United States." the newspaper said. It charged that "Jewish organizations camouflaged as American organizations have con ducted such a campaign that the radiocasting company has proceeded to muzzle the well beloved Father ( Coughlin, subjecting his speeches to censorship. "This attempt at veiling the truth shows not only the enslavement and submission to Jewry, but also is indi cative of boundless cowardice. The dreary, slimy motivation of this step demands attention." Germany's military might was dis played "oday to Oswald Pirow, de fense minister of the Union of South Africa, who came heru to confer on Germany's colonial demands. A sham battle was held at Dceberitz by mo torized infantrymen using heavy ma chine guns and shuotxng real am munition. There followed a counter- attacK by tanks. Communication units also took part. Later, Pirow was shown the infantry school in Olympi; Village. ' CHARGED PADDING PAYROLL OMAHA, Nov. 2G (UP) Charged with padding WPA payrolls George A. Mer.tzer was arrested at his home in Schuyler today b;r secret service agents and brought here for arraign ment. Mentzer had been supervising time keeper and project clerk on a WPA project at Schuyler He i3 charged with carrying on the rolls names of according to municipal court author some eight or nine workers who had'ities. .. resigned. to take, private employment j - Miller, president of ,local numbei It is charged that when the checks i COS and Hill, union business ageni arrived he took them to a store, en dorsed the names of the former WPA employes and cashed them. The total amount involved is about $130 as sistant U. S. District Attorney Em mctt Murphy estimated. RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DOWN WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UP- Secretary of Labor Perkins reported J today that the value of residential building for which permits were is sued in October declined 10 per cent from the September level but increas ed 65 per cent over October 1935. It was the fourth month that de partment of labor statistics showed an increase of more than 50 per cent in the corresponding mon.ft of last year. Permits for additions reparirs ind alterations increased 10 per cent and new non-residential permits de creased less than .1 of one per cent. Total permits were 26 per cent high er than in 1937. FIRE AT TIJUANA TIJUANA, Mex., Nov. 26 (UP) The second major fiiri in two months left landmarks in ruins today in this historic resort town. Damage was estimated at $500,000. Destroyed were the American club, the Ben Hur club, the Midnight Fol lies and the three-story Colonial hotel. They were located in a cab aret blcck to which the fire was con fined. When efforts to stop the blaze failed, soldiers were called out to help salvage stocks, mostly imported liquors and clothing. .The fire finally was cut off at an alley, sparing the postoffice, the tele graph office and the American hotel. DECLINES TO ACT IN STRIKE WASHINGTON, NOV. 2 6 (UP) Secretary of Agriculture Wallace de clined today to intervene in the strike of Chicago stock yard employees. ' In response to a teiegram from the Chicago livestock exchange board of directors Wallace said the depart ment of agriculture "is without au thority to act in a matter of this kind." ;The directors had asked Wallace to use his influence vith President Roosevelt in an effort to secure a set tlement of the strike which virtu virtually has paralyzed the yards. 1,438 EMPLOYED IN CAPITOL LINCOLN, Nov. 2 J (UP) Some 1,43S persons are employed In Ne braska's $10,000,000 capitol build ing, the state planning board report ed today. The board made the count in cal culating how much flocr space is be iug used 4n the state house for a re port to the regional council. State employees number 1,097 of whom 463 are employed full time and 341 receive their e hecks from the federal govcrnn?ent. The laUer number 310 on full time employment. Force Discharge of Yives of Non- Striking Men Employes of Cudahy Packing Co., at Sioux City Discharged at Request of CIO. SIOUX CITY, la., Nov. 2 6 (UP) Discharge of four women employes 6f the Cudahy Packing company here at the request of the C.I.O.'s packing house workers union was announced today. Husbands of the women were said to be non-striking employes of the Swift and company plant here. The women had been employed by Cudahy for more than a year. At the same time, Ar.thol Shelton, Negro president of tho: Swift unit of the union, gained hij freedom after being in jail since shortly after the strike bagan Sept. 29. He had been held on a charge of violating an injunction limiting picketing but the information was found faulty. Subsequently he was arrested on a charge cf carrying a concealed weapon. A grand jury still ia investigating charges in connection with the strike, which began when the union accused the company of refusing to recognize a grievance committee; No further conferences between companr and union lef.iers have been arranged. POSTPONE DRIVERS HEARING LINCOLN, Nov. 25 ( UP) Pre liminary hearing scheduled today against general drivers union of ficials Elmer ;C. Miller and John 'Hill was continued to December 2 are charged with assult. with intent to do great .'bodily injury. Miller, police said signed a statement admit ting he used a sling shot to fire heavy ball bearings through an open window of a Wilson and Sons transfer truck last week. Hill was alleged to have been driving at the time of the in cident. CONVICTS DRAW LIFE SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26 (UP) A federal court jury today con victed two convicts of lirst degree murder for killing a guard in May'r attempted break from Alcatraz pen itentiary The jury recommended leniency, saving the pair from the death penalty. The men were James Lucas, 26, of Abeliene, Texas, who won notcriet for stabbing Al Capone in a previous Alcatraz disturbance and Rufur Franklin, 22, of Kilby, Alabama. Today's verdict automatically called for life sentences beyond recourse of possible parole. ANOTHER NAVY PLANE CRASHES EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 26 (UP) A naval airplane from San Diego. Cali fornia rashed shortly after a take off at Biggs army airfield today. Two persons were killed instantly and a third was injured. Aviation Cadet L. T. Rowe, the pilot and Machinist M-Uc C. K. Wise, both of San Diego, wore killed and Howard Willis, a Filipino mess at tendant, was injured slightly. The fliers bound for the cast coast were up about 50 feet when the right wing apparently collapsed. Witnesses said the plane skidded for about 60 feet, then flipped over. FINALLY CATCHES FISH SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25 (UP) John Galloway.63, could compete today with any fisherman's story. Gal loway tried to lure a fish into his basket while standing in the embar cadero. He had no fish hcoks or line but he could see the fish below. He did his best to capture one by plac ing his basket into the water. At last he swung too far and fell in. He was rescued and taken to a hospital where attendants and police are the authorities, a fish flopped out of his pocket. ALVO A. H. Weichel sawed wood last Friday. 1 Lloyd Dimmitt of Ashland spent Friday night and Saturday at the Glenn -Dimmitt home. H. L. Bornemeier has been serv ing on jury duty during this term oi court at Plattsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. John Vickers and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ayres were Lincoln visitors Saturday. Rosemary Peters of Greenwood spent her Thanksgiving vacation at the Glenn Dimmitt home. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Vinson and son, Charles, of Cedar Hill, visited at the Frank Daugherty home Satur day. Grace Muenchau, a student at the Peru State Normal school, came home Wednesday evening for Thanksgiving vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Armstrong en tertained their sons and daughter and their families at Thanksgiving dinner Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hutchinson pnd son of Cedar Hill community spent Thanksgiving day- with the Charles Holmes family. Archie Miller has the job of com pleting the details of the maps taken by a photographer from an airplane last spring in connection with the farm program. School closed Wednesday evening lor Thanksgiving vacation for the teachers and students. The teachers returned to their homes for their vacations. School reopens today. Friends of Ed Stone, who resides in California, will be more than glad to learn that Mr. Stone's health is much improved. They are advised he may return to Nebraska to spend the winter. Mrs. H. L. Bornemeier spent Thanksgiving day with her mother. Mrs. Ostertag of Elmwood. In the evening Mrs. Bornemeier and Dickie were present and all enjoyed a de licious Thanksgiving meal. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Howe enter tained Junior Weichel and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bornemeier and little daughter at dinner Wednesday even ing in honor of little Lavonne who was celebrating her first birthday anniversary. The Harry Weichel family. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Howe. L.-J. Dream er of Lincoln. Mr. and Mrs. Laura Dreajner and Ralph. Mr. and Mrs. Lefler of Unadilla, Miss Irene Menke and Miss Iona Weichel. of Lincoln, were guests Thanksgiving day at the J. C. Dreamer home at Elm wood. Tax Foreclosure Sale Frank Edwards purchased the Schaeffer home at the sale held in Plattsmouth Saturday. J. B. Elliott purchased the Art Bird blacksmith shop. The town purchased the drug store and the property where the Hermanse fam ily lives. "Mexican" Joe purchased the home where the Koster family lives. Attend Golden Jubilee Some of the folks from this com munity attending the Golden Jubilee of the Cedar Hill church Sunday, November 20, were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Vinson and family, Mrs. Mar ion Kellogg and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dimmitt and son. Dr. V. A. Hunter gave the morn ing address. After a basket dinner, talks were given by charter members and former members from visiting states. Bank Building Near Completion The addition to the back of the bank building and the basement is near completion. Carl D. Ganz will have his private offic in the part that is being added. Mr. Ganz has been driving to Lincoln, where he had his office for the past several months. Mr. Pilkington and sons, of Lin coln, former Alvo people, have been doing the work on the building. Held Most Enjoyable Meeting The Mothers'- Daughters' Council club members enjoyed the delightful hospitality of Mrs. Emil Reiche on Friday afternoon, November 18. Mrs. Ellis Mickle had charge of the business meeting. Mrs. S. C. Hardnock had charge of the devo tions. Club singing was led by Mrs. Earl Bennett.' The lesson on "The Library and Adult Education" was in charge of Mrs. Glenn Dimmitt. Several inter esting topics were given by club members. A contest was held and six members furnished practical and enlightening information on questions pertaining to the lesson. At the close of the afternoon ac tivities, Mrs. Reiche served hot rolls, golden glow salad, cscalloped chick en and coffee. Mesdames Frank Taylor, William Mickle, George Nickel and Grover Hill were guests at the meeting. DRUG ADDICTS INCREASE SHANGHAI, Nov. 26 (UP) Dr. M. S.. Bates, American physician at tached to Nanking University, esti mated today that there were 500,000 heroin addicts in Nanking. He said that opium had been rare and heroin almost unknown in Nan king but "today opium and heroin are abundantly supplied by author ities and those enjoying protection are tens of thousands of youths of both sexes." The Japanese are in control Nanking. of Baby Survives Asphyxiation of Rest of Family Mother Found Dead With Babe in Arms and Two Other Children Dead in Same Room. HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 26 (UP) A year-old baby survived while her mother, brother and bister died of asphyxiation in the same room. Mary Edna was tightly cluached in the lifeless arms cf her mother, Mrs. Lena Pearl Dorsey, 35. Her brother, Calvin Dorsey, 9, and her sister, Kathryn Ann, 3, also were dead when the father, J. M. Dorsey, returned home last night. Dorsey grabbed up the baby and ran to a neighbor, Mrs. N. II. El liott, and said: "Please keen my baby for me, I think my whole family is dead." He was trying to revive them when police arrived. They found a gas heater burning. All but one window was tightly closed. That one was slightly raised. Tom Mayes, justice of the peace, ordered a post mortem and withheld a verdict. Police could not explain the baby's survival. She showed no ill effects, doctors said. They said that she might have been in a draft of air carrying enough oxjgen to sustain her. A baby need3 comparatively less oxygen than an adult. Dorsey, a telephone lineman, had left his family yesterday morning. They were in good health and spirits when he last saw them. DEATH OF MRS DISNEY HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26 (UP) Mrs.Flora Disney, 71, mother of Walt Disney was fatally overcome by gas from a furnace today and her hus band Elias Disney, SO, was in criti cal condition. They were both unconscious when a maid. Alma Smith, found them. Mrs. Disney died en route to Holly wood hospital. The maid nearly col lapsed from the fumts before she summoned aid. Disney, attendants said, probably will recover. The maid told police that when she entered the kitchen she became faint and opened the doors and windows.' Then fearing for her employers she ran to the bed room and found them unconscious in bed. Pciice attributcd tho tragedy to a faulty connection hi the furnace which had been left burning all night. The couple had been looking for ward to celebration of their 51st wedding anniversary next New Year's day. The North Hollywood house in which they lived was a gift to the couple by their sons when they cele brated their golden wedding anni versary last January 1. SLAYS SWEETHEART NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (UP) A disapointed suiter pursued Miss Mar ion Wheeler along a corridor in the New York Central building today thru groups of workers, cornered her be hind her desk, killed her with one shot and then committed suicide in the corridor. The slayer who had been quarrel ing with Miss Wheeler in the elevator on the way to the 7th floor where the shooting occurred, was identified by policD as Jack McNcal, 52, of Yonkers. New York, a Westchester county suburb Police said he was a widower j and had met Miss Wheeler through his daughter. Frequently police said he had begged the 32 year old girl to marry him. BLOWN OVER CLIFF PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 25 (UP) Invcstigtors said today that George H. Tilbury, 61, of Kennewick, Wash ington was blown to death when a strong east wind toppled him over a 350-foot cliff along the Columbia River highway . Tilbury was stand ing on the edge of the road attempting to hail a passing motorist after his own car had been wrecked in a col-lission. Thanksgiving Services at the C. S. Church Many Attend Services Held at the - Church at Sixth and Granite Street Thursday at 11. A Thanksgiving day service was held by the Christian. Science Society of this city in the church at Sixth end Granite at 11 o'clock on the morning of Thanksgiving day. The service opened with the con gregation singing the hymn No. 146 in the Christian Science Hymnal. The Thanksgiving Proclamation was then read by Mr: J. R. Tremble, the First Reader. , The Scriptural selection was from Philippians 4:1-20, and was also read by the First Reader. After the Scriptural selection the congregation united in silent prayer which ' was followed by the audible repetition of the Lord s Prayer with its spiritual interpretation from- the Christian Science textbook, "Science a n T Health with KGey to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy. " : Hymn No. 3 42 from the Hymnal v.as then sung by the congregation. The lesson-sermon for Thanksgiv icg day given in the Christian Sci ence Quarterly and read in all Chris tian Science churches in the United States and many other parts of the world followed the second hymn. The subject of this lesson-sermon was ' Thanksgiving" and had for the Golden Text: "Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows un to the most High." (P3alms 50:14). Ofter the responsive reading of Pible passages, Mrs. Ogla Wiles, the Second Reader, read the citations chosen from the Bible, while Mr. J. R. Tremble, the First Reader, read the correlative passages from Science and Health. Among the Scriptural verse3 was included: "What shall I render unto the Lord for all hi3 benefits-toward me? I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. I will offer to thee the sac rifice cf thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord." (Psalms 116:12, 14, 17). And among the citations from Science and Health was: "Chris tians rejoice in secret beauty and bounty, hidden from the world, but known to God.' Self-forgetfulness, purity and affection are constant prayers. Practice not profession, un derstanding not belief, gain the ear and right hand of omnipotence and they assuredly call down infinite blessings. Trustworthiness is the foundation of enlightened faith. Without a fitness for holiness we cannot receive holiness. A great sacrifice of material things must precede this advanced spiritual un deistanding." (pages 15, 16). A solo entitled "Praise the Lord" v a3 sung by Mr. Richard Cole, . the soloist, accompanied by Mrs. Wiley Sigler, the organist, after the lesson- sermon had been concluded. Testimonies appropriate to the oc casion were then given by the Chris tian Scientists in the congregation. This period was completely filled by expressions of gratitude for healings and other help received during the psst year. The closing hymn was No. 37 4 from the Hymnal and was followed by the Scientific Statement of Being from the Christian Science textbook and the correlative passage from I John 3:1-3 read by the First Read er. The meeting was concluded with the benediction. ""scribe for the Journal. LAND, FARM and RANCH BARGAINS1 VE clean Seed for nominal charge,' and arc buyers of seeds of all kinds. . Edward Bartling Seed Co., Nc' braska City. Nebr. ii21, 2S, d5 sw YOU own a home today how do you know you will own one tomorrow? IF fire Visit3. you tonight - will your insurance cover the cost of all the damage ? Best to be safe ! Searl S. Davis OFFICKSi 2!Vn FLOOR Platta. State Dank Btdg. tik