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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1939.
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WRECK DUE TO BRAKEMAN
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 24 (UP)
The negligence of Robert Brown, 25,
of Clarion, Iowa, brakemun on the
Chicago & Great Western railroad
was alleged here today as responsible
for the head-on collision of a freight
engine with a passenger train near
Harlan, Iowa, Sunday which brought
death to two persons and injury to
twenty-two passengers.
The nejrliger.ee charge was brought
after an investigation by a railroad
board of inquiry. "Our inquiry prov
ed conclusively that the brakeman of
the freight train failed to set the
brakes on a grain car," A. Freiberger
division superintendent of the road
said.
TRAIN FRIGHT LASTS LIFETIME
CLOVER. S. C. (UP) Robert
Davis Wallace, 76-year-old farmer
at Dowling Green, has lived in sight
of the railroad tracks ever since
they were built but has never ridden
on a train. He said the reason he'd
never ridden on a train might be be
cause the first time he saw one it
scared him so much he ran most of
the way home.
BIG CUCUMBER GROWS
RIGHT IN THE BOTTLE
EENNINGTON. Vt. (UP) George
A. Robinson says that the best way
3IACARONI MERGER
If you're trying to plan meals
without meat, you ought to con
uider the possibilities of macaroni,
Cooked macaroni, the ready-to-
serve kind that comes done up in
a cream sauce rich with cheese,
loull find this makes a fine main
course dish just as it comes from
the tin, spooned into a casserole
topped with buttered bread crumbs
and baked. I tell you, that's mighty
hnc main course eating! The deli
cate flavor of this cooked macaroni
maes it a gooa mixer wun otner
ioous nsn, vegetaoies ana an Kinas prevent Joar Irom sticking. Pota
of meats. For instance, have .you toes, onions and carrots may be
ever tried macaroni mixed with cooked around loaf, placing them in
caujinower ana mushrooms lor a
: pctiai supper tiisn ; ur nau you
thought of merging macaroni with
smidgens of meat tucked away in
tne refrigerator for a thrifty way
to use up left-overs ? And say, you
just can t beat our way of pool
in? a canful of macaroni with a tin
of salmon for a full-flavored mam
course casserole dish. It's easy to
do and makes mighty fine eating
v.-hcn you follow these simple sug
gestions:
INDIVIDUAL SALMON AND
MACARONI CASSEROLES
Drain, thc.i remove skin from
1 16-oz. can red salmon.
Flake salmon, then add
1 medium (17 oz.) can cooked
macaroni in cream caucc
with cheese
Mix thoroughly, breaking maca
roni into fmall pieces. Fill well
greased muffin tins full of the mix
ture. Bake in a moderate oven
(375 F.) 45 minutes. TUm onto
hot platter and garnish with pars
ley and fresh cucumber pickle.
Xote: May be baked in one
casserole, if desired, baking as
directed.
TOMATO KETCHUP COOKERY
For something pretty special in
th way of fine flavoring, have you
ever tried tucking a generous por
tion of ketchup in a meat loaf?
It's a sure-fire successful merger
when you blend a good mixture of
meats like fresh pork and smoked
ham, ground together, with all the
usual makings of a meat loaf an
egg, a cupful of crisply golden rice
flake3, fait and pepper with a
fillip ot fine flavored tomato lcetch
up added for extra seasoning. .It's
the ketchup - that gives this meat
Joaf fisecial zip and 2insi :
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to preserve cucumbers is to grow
them right in the bottle.
He lias one 5 inches tall and three
in diameter which nearly fills its
soda-bottle greenhouse.
All he has to do now is add sugar
and vinegar, snip the vine, cap the
bottle, and keep until ready to serve.
BRIDE'S EXCUSE FALLS FLAT
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) A young
bride, arrested for zooming past a
policeman at 45 miles an hour,
glanced furtively at the judge and
told him it was all because she was
so worried about getting home in
time to prepare a good dinned for
her new husband. She was told that
it was an "old one," but got off
with a suspended sentence.
STATUTE GIVES ANSWER
TO TOBACCO M00CHERS
LINCOLN. Neb. (UP) If tobacco
moochers bore you in Nebraska, cite
the law.
Section 2S-1023, Nebraska com
piled statutes. 1019, provides that "it
shall be unlawful for any person to
give away cigars, tobacco, cigarettes
or cigarette material to anyone, with
out a license." One is subject to a
fine of $100 to $200, or a maximum
of two months in county jail for such
an offense.
IB..
KETCHUP MEAT LOAF
Grind together twice
J lb. fresh pork
M lb. smoked ham.
Add
1 cup rice flakes ,
egg
cup tomato ketchup
1 teaspoon salt
li teas poon pepper.
Mix thoroughly and form into
an oblong loaf, patting together
well. Place in a small roaster. th
I bottom of which has been greased.
and spread top of loaf with 1 table-
spoon ketchup. Scar in a very hot
oven (500 F.) 10 minutes, then
pour Va cud water around loaf.
Cover and bake in a moderate oven
(375 F.) 1 hour. Remove cover
last 15 minutes to allow loaf to
brown. If water evaporates during5
i cooKing, add a lew tablespoons to
alter searing meat loaf. (Serves 6.)
SPLIT-SECOND SPAGHETTI
, .. SPECIAL .
When a cook's in a quandary for
quickie one of those hurrv-im
meals "that can be tossed toerether
on a moment's notice there's noth
ing: better than spaghetti. Canned
spaghetti the ready-to-serve kind
that comes all done.UD in tins
sauced with aristocrat, tomatoes
and cheese and seasoned with snap
py spices. All you have to do is
open the tin, heat up the spaghetti
and brirg it on piping hot with;;
circles of steam spiraling up from
the casserole. M-m-m-m, makes
mighty good eating served that'
way. or, if you'd like a little more
elaborate version, how about mix-
ing the spaghetti with e round
round steak browned in eood bacon
dripping3. Add a lusty dash of
57-Becfstsak sauce and nippy Ital
ian cnee;e lor extra seasonings and :
pop in the oven to bake 20 minute.
Here's how.:
SPAGHETTI SPECIAL
Brown .......
6 lb. ground round steak
nv
2 tablespoons bacon drippings.
Season with
Vs teaspoon salt. -
Combine, being cartful not to break '
up spaghetti too much
1 large (24 oz.) can cooked n.
srhetti in tomato Kaura -
1 tablespoon 57-Beefsteak sauce
1 ounie package Italian stylo
grated, cheese.
Arrange spaghetti mixture in aT-
ternate layers in casserole with
meat, ending with spaghetti. Bake
in a moderate oven 375' F.) 20
minutes." (Serves 6.) '
Note: May be made in indi-
yidual taking dishes,:".-". .
Oppb
ses
Army Service
for Students
University 2,000 Miles Inland Be
comes Cultural Seat Com
mon. Bond Stressed.
CHENGTU, Szechuan China (UP)
While Japan's legions were sweep
ing across the 'northern and central
provinces of China, driving millions
of refugees before them, little groups
of students and professors from for
eign-endowed and government-supported
schols quietly packed their
books and scientific instruments in
junks and on trucks to begin the
trek to the comparatively unknown
hinterland.
Here in Chengtu, nearly 2,000
miles from the coast and still a com
paratively safe distance from the
theater of war, they began their
studies again on the beautiful campus
of West China Union University.
This influx or refugee students has
created complex problems,- both from
the educational and the financial
viewpoint. Where formerly approxi
mately 800 students lived and at
tended classes, now nearly 2,000
ycung men and women including
those attending middle school are
enrolled.
New buildings are being erected
as fast as funds can be obtained
from the supporting mission beards
and from government giants. Al
ready, several new structures have
been built to house refugee students.
The buildings have been so well in
tegrated that they will fit into the
expansion plans of the West China
Union University itself when the
pres of students lessens after the war
is ended.
Ccmmon Bond Stressed
A recently constructed laboratory
and pharmaceutical building will oe
converted into a hospital laundry.
New dormitories have been erected,
and can be changed into classrooms
when the students return home. In
addition, a new hospital and clinic is
well under way to give patients from
the surrounding countryside better
care and to give nurses and prospec
tive physuians, now in training, bet
ter opportunity for study.
The war spirit which animates
most of the refugee students also has
created ne,w., problems. This militant
spirit finds expression in rallies, de
bates and th well-known midnight
"bull sessions." Some students left
school and went to the front, but tho
government discouraged this by ex
empting students and professors from
conscription.
The school has passed through
many such critical stages. During
the 1927 "wars" the students, the
majority of whom favored the "Red
Hankow" government, held demon
strations. These troubles were even
more serious during the anti-foreign
outbreaks. When the communists
evaded the armies of Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek during the "long
march" from the south to the north,
there was much bitterness on the
campus between rival factions.
Hospital and Clinic Built
"This time, the militancy is far
different," a veteran professor of
the schofrt said. "Now they are
united under a common belief to
study, study, so that they can help
their country when they are needed.
Each seems to fear that if he fails
to get all he can from the school, lie
is a traitor to China."
The influx of refugee students has
also created a rivalry among the var
ious groups. If. would be considered
a loss of "face" if all the students
in one class from Tseloo University,
Tsinan, were to rank below the stu
dents from Nanking. Collectively,
each group strives to outdoor the
other groups in scholarship and the
result brings beams of satisfaction
to the faces of instructors.
.
The National Government has en
deavored" to use the students as much
as possible in Its work' of organizing
and instructing the people in the var
ious problems on the part they must
play in the war.' . '
"Now China University and this
is true; r.f the other schools through
out China -is " not regarded as a
foreign' institution," Dr. Robert L.
Simkin; a. graduate of Columbia Uni
versity in New York, said. "They
call it 'our school. It i3 a part of
the now China."
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INDICTED UNDER NEW LAW
BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 23 (UP)
In the fir3t such criminal proceedings
in the nation, a federal grand jury
today indicted the Brown Stitching
Contract company of Lawrence and
its treasurer for alleged violation ,of
the wages and hours law.
The company and Treasurer Na
than Brown, were charged with fail
ing to pay minimum wages and with
falsifying company records to con
ceal this failure.
The grand jury reported to Fed
eral Judge George Sweeney after
hearing evidence presented by As
sistant U. S. Attorney General Joseph
Birrell of Washington.
Supreme Court
Reverses Ruling
on Picket Law
While Not Passing on the Constitu
tionality of Law Grants Omaha
Man a Dismissal.
LINCOLN, Feb. 24 (UP) With
out ruling on the constitutionality
of the act, the supreme court to
day reversed and dismissed an action
in favor of Edgar Dutiel, Omaha
labor union member, brought to
test legality of Nebraska's 1921 anti-
picketing law.
Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons,
writing the court's unanimous opin
ion, ruled that the complaint against
Dutiel was defective and declared
the Douglas county district court
should have sustained a demurrer on
Dutiel's behalf that there had been
n6 violation of the law.
Dutiel, member of the Omaha car
penter's union, was arrested in Jan
uary, 193S for picketing the Philip
Greenberg department store in South
Omaha. His placard informed pass
ereby that the store had been de
clared unfair to labor and requested
union men not to patronize the es
tablishment. Non-union men had
been employed on construction of
an addition to the store. Dutiel was
fined $10 and costs in municipal
court and the district court affirmed
the conviction,.
The action against "Dutiel was
filed by the state. The Omaha Cen
tral Labor union backed the suit es
a test of the Nebraska law ana was
supported , by,.. the Nebraska State
Federation of Labor.
TO SUPPRESS TERRORISM
TOKYO, Feb. 23 (UP) Premier
Kiichiro Hiranuma and Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita said in the
house of peers today that the gov
ernment was considering drastic
measures to end a campaign of ter
rorism in Shanghai, where many Chi
nese friendly to Japan have been
assassinated.., .They declined to par
ticularize.
The statements were drawn by an
interpellation by AtsuskI Akaike, who
is asking what tho government in
tended to do said that Shanghai was
a "Jewish fortress."
ROYAL AIR FORCE POSTS
1,300 FOR COMMISSIONS
LONDON (UP) The British Air
Ministry has accepted 1,300 candi
dates for short-service commissions
out of the 1,700 tailed for last June.
Only 400 pilots are required with
in the 12 months', program, which
will mark a record for the largest in
take of shortrgpvice officers for any
year in the history of the Royal Air
Force.
TASTE AND SMELL VALUED
LONDON (UP) Mrs. Elizabeth
Piatt of Manchester, who lost her
sense of taste and Bmell as a result
of injuries received in a motor ac
cident, has hpen awarded $2,180
damages. The Judge made this state
ment to the jury- "Imagine what
it would be like not to know the dif
ference between eating chalk ond
cheese."
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Proper Prepara
tion Needed for
College Work
Survey Made by University of Ne
braska College of Business
Administration.
Students with poor academic ability
and inadequate preparation have little
chance to succeed in college work, ac
according to study recently completed
by the University of Nebraska College
of Business Administration. The in
vestigation indicates high correlation
between grades made by the students
in the psychollogical examinations
which they take upon entering the
university and their subsequent schol
astic records.
Professor E. A. Gilmorc jr., and
Herschel Jones, assistant instructor,
analyzed the records of 39C students
in the college of business administra
tion the first semester of the 1937-38
school year, in the course of research
which was designed to aid the faculty
of the college in planning more effici
ent freshman guidance. The students
were classed in four quartiles based
on their scores in the psychological
tests.
Sixty-nine per cent of the students
whose records placed them in the top
quartile were not reported delinquent
either the first or second six weeks.
Ninety-two per cent of the same quar
terile came through the semester with
no grades below passing.
In the second quartile 46" per ceni
of the students were not reported de
linquent in the first tweleve weeks and
82 per cent received oo semester
grades below passing. One-third of
the students in the third quartile were
not reported "down" and hi per ceni
passed in all subjects for the- semester.
Only 13 per cent of the students
in the lowest quartile kept their av
erages high enough to avoid delinquent
reports the first and second six weeks,
and 35 per cent finished the semester
with no grades below pass:n.
Professor E. S. Fullbrook is chair
man of the general committee appoint
ed by the college to study guidance
problems. Other members are Pro
fessor Gilmore, C. O. Swayzee, C. D.
Spangler, G. M. Darlington, J. A.
Pfanner, and assistant instructor
Jones.
U. P. IN BUILDING PROGRAM
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UP) The
Union Pacific railroad company ex
pects to order 15 high-speed passen
ger locomotives within the next few
days, W. M. Jeffers, president, said
today.
Materials have been ordered by
the carrier for construction of 2,000
cars. Work on these cars will get
under way in the road's shop in Om
aha as feoou as delivery is made.
JefTers added that the company also
will build 300 flat cars.
Revenues in February are run
ning a little below January but are
entirely satisfactory and will be sub
stantially above a year ago, he de
clared. COURT OBEYED ON RUN
COLUMBIA, S. C. (UP) Elbert
Hall, arrested on a charge of beg
ging, pleaded for mercy before the
judge and swore to leave town "on
the run" if given his freedom. "Very
well," said the Judge. "Take it on
the run." Hall then sprinted out of
the court room, and was reported
still running near the city limits. j
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merchant to sign when you buy.
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' slip for DOUBLE the regular num.
ber of votes on your purchase.
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U; S. to Improve Prison System,
Allots 14 Million for the Biggest
Expansion I Program in History
Steadily Increasing: Convict Population Over
crowds All Penal Institutions and
Prevents Segregation
By JAMES EARL ROPER
WASHINGTON (UP) The federal
government is rushing toward com
pletion the most extensive prison
building program in history.
The government is using $14,
085,000 received from the Public
Works Administration to construct
or improve penal facilities scattered
from Alcatraz Island, Cal., to Dan
bury, Conn., and from Milan, Mich.,
to Tallahasse, Fla.
James V. Bennett, federal direc
tor of prisons, is supervising the vast
program, intended to relieve present
over-crowding and enable further
segregation of various types of crim
inals.
New facilities will accommodate
4,350 convicts, and provide cleaner,
more comfortable quarters. Federal
penal institutions now confine ap
proximately 18,000 persons. A stead
ily increasing convict population has
filled present facilities to overflow
ing and prevented the segregation
that is considered necessary for re
habilitation of large numbers of
convicts.
Many Projects Underway
Original contracts for the entire
construction program have been let,
although actual work on many
projects has not begun. !"
Largest and most expensive unit
of the program' is a $3,000,000 peni
tentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. The
prison will house 1.200 convicts
classified as "tractable" not vicious
or habitual offenders, but too hard
ened to be trusted to a prison camp
or placed with younger men in a re
formatory. A $1,750,000 prison, accommo
dating COO persons, will be built at
Danbury, Conn. Three detention
farms for a total of 1,800 convicts
also are planned. Farms costing $1,
450,000 each will be at Denver, Colo.,
and Ashland, Ky. A $1,000,000 farm
will be at Texarkana, , Tex. Facil
ities for 500 additional inmates will
be constructed at a cost of $500,000
at the Dallas. Tex., women's reform
atory. Alcatraz to Be Improved
Other expenditures will Include
$1,180,000 for additional personnel
housing and these scattered proj -
ects:
California Alcatraz Prison, mod
ernization of power plant and util
ities, $1,100,000.
Florida Tallahassee Correctional
Institution, receiving and hospital
building, $145,000.
Georgia Atlanta Penitentiary, re
ceiving and officer training building,
$130,000.
Kansas Leavenworth Peniten
tiary, hospital, water tank, boiler
and storage, $354,500; Leavenworth
Annex, boiler, $32,000.
Michigan Milan Correctional In
stitution, tioiler plant, $90,000.
Minnesota Sandstone Correction
al Institution, completion of build
ings, $250,000.
Medical Center to Grow
Missouri Springfield Medical Cen
ter, additional facilities. $813,000.
Ohio Cllillicothe Reformatory,
cell block, farm buildings and in
cinerator, $154,000.
Oklahoma Southwestern Reform-
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atory at El Reno, hydrotherapy
rooms, v$8, 000.
Pennsylvania Northeastern Peni
tentiary at Lewisburg, farm dorm
itory; garage and shops, $125,000.
Texas La Tuna Detention Farm,
buildings, shops and garage, $90,000.
Virginia Petersburg Reformatory,
receiving building, dormitories and
officers' training building. $230,000.
West Virg'nia Mill Point, prison
camp, and perhaps two other camps
in other states, $25,000 each.
Washington McNeil Island Peni
tentiary, boiler, shipyard building,
barn and receiving building, $148,
500. The construction work will be of
the latest type designed for com
fort, sanitation, maximum security
and. above all, segregation, which
has been impossible with present
crowded condition.
Explaining the program, a prisons
bureau official said that more hu
mane handling of convicts would
tend to rehabilitate criminals and
thereby offer greater protection than
the hardening influence of the
"damp, dark, dismal thambcr of a
prison of a bygone era."
"If we are to make an approach
to a man's rehabilitation through the
influences of religion, literature, and
a study of his social needs, may we
not as well frankly admit that we
can do this better under surround
ings that will uplift rather than de
grade?" the official asked.
Some Beyond Reform -Some
prisoners, he said, are, of
course, beyond rehabilitation. These,
he said, should be confined to maxi
mum security institutions such as Al
catraz Island just off the coast of
San Francisco.
Alcatraz, however, is rapidly fill
ing to its normal capacity. Built to
hold 336, the "escape-proof" insti
tution now confines 309 long-term
convicts.
Every other prison is filled far
beyond its normal capacity. Atlanta
and Leavenworth' penitentiaries
holding the majority of the nation's
habitual offenders are among the
most over-crowded. Atlanta, built
for 1,810, actually houses ,133.
f Leavenworth, built for 1,860, actu
ally holds 3,026.
Northeastern Penitentiary at Lew
isburg, Pa., opened in 1932, confines
1.650 instead of a normal 1,188,
while McNeil Island, the other in
stitution for "tractable" offenders,
confines 902 instead of the normal
714.
Virtually all of the correctional
institutions and reformatories are
crowded similarly. And the prison
population increases daily.
ACCIDENT PREVENTION HONORS
GRAND ISLAND, Feb. 23 (UP)
The Central Power company of Ne
braska won first honors for accident
prevention work during 1938 and
was presented a bronze plaque at
the Nebraska Electric association
safety conference here yesterday. Ne
braska Power company of Omaha was
given a certificate of merit.
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