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riATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1939. Japan Considers Broader Alliance with Its Allies Tortion of Cabinet, However, Against German Italian Military Combine Against Democracies. By II. O. THOMSON TOKYO. March 25 (Copyright 1939 by UP) Japanese leaders are engaged in urgent consultations over a German proposal for a broad German-Italian-Japanese military al liance against any opposition to their policies by the democracies, it was asserted today in official quarters. Informants said that discussions were so bitter that a cabinet crisis might possibly be precipitated. It was said that at present a ma jority of leaders were opposed to in volving Japan in European matters but were not willing to abandon the German idea unless a better proposi tion were forthcoming elsewhere. Daron Kiichiro Hiranuma, the premier; Hachiro Arita, foreign min ister; Lieut. Gen. Seishiro Itagaki. war minister; Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai. navy minister, and Sotaro Iihiwata, finance minister, were said to be in frequent conference in an effort to .decide Japan's policy. In connection with the alliance trk, it was disclosed that Baron Iliranuma had reported to Emperor Ilirohito today on the closing of parliament and "pending diplomatic matters." He summarized the situ ation for the emperor, it was said, and answered questions regarding it. As Iliranuma visited t lie emperor, 106 of the 4C6 members of the diet, representing minor parties, sent him a petition asking him to conclude a military alliance with Germany and Italy "against Great Britain and France, which are obstructing Japan's sacred aims The petition was presented after the government had refused to per mit introduction in parliament of a resolution to the same effect. In favor of the alliance, accord ing to informants, were the Rus sian, Italian and German sections of the Japanese general staff. War Minister Itagaki was repre sented as favoring an alliance to cover the possibility of war against Soviet Russia alone. Foreign Minister Arita was held to be supporting War Minister Itag aki and to be urging that. Japan make a counter-proposal for a military alliance applicable to Russia alone. It was admitted by those who favored this course, informants said, that Germany and Italy were unlike ly to acept any such counter-proposal. The Japanese navy was said to oppose any broad alliance with the "axis" powers on the ground that the project would call for the dis patch of a Japanese fleet to Europe in event of hostilities and, it was argued, Japan could obtain no bal ancing compensation. There were indications here in well informed quarters that desrite the signature yesterday of a Japanese-Italian cultural pact, and other gestures to Germany and Italy, many influential Japanese were luke-v.arm toward the "axis" and felt that Ger many, particularly, wanted more than she was prepared to give. One more important factor was the necessity for Japan to obtain financial aid in undertaking the re construction of China, as it was pro posed to do after the present war. This necessity weighed against any alliance with Germany and Italy. Information was obtained that present negotiations for a trade agreement with Germany were fal tering because Germany wanted pay ments in gold fcr some of her goods ! Fighter on fc3 ' - - r . - d w """7 ..2- ,7 Rainbow trout have been planted in many states, not only, but have been successfully Import sd Into New Zealand. Away from its native waters, the mountain streams cf California, the rainbow reaches its maximum weight of 25 pounds and more. It is a savage fighter when' hooked, and, unlike the brook trout, is liksly to leap agaiD and again out of water. Rainbows spawn in streams, i:a the spring, but prefer big bodies or fresh water when they are full grown. With the brown trout of Europe, the rainbow has displaced the brook trout, a more delicate fish, in many hard-fished waters. Fred Everett painted the rainbow trout for the 1939 Wildlife Week poster tumps, distributed by the National Wildlife Federation. Candidate Dares City to Elect Him; Vows He'll Make Payless Job Pay NOGALES, Ariz. (UP) Voters of Nogales were dared to vote for Mar tin Loughman, tomato broker, when be filed his candidacy for mayor. Here's why: "Nogales big opportunity, and I mean big 240 pounds well, it was cold and I says to myself: I haven't anything to do, anyhow, so what, eo I'll run for mayor'." So Loughman continued: "Qualifications? what's the dif ference? The job doesn't pay any thing, anyhow but like other can didates, it's civic pride that urges me that and the fact if I am elected I'll find a way to make the job pay. "Behold America's most outspoken politician. I guarantee I'll not be oh the job SO days until I find a way to make some money out of it. My candidacy is sponsored by 6,700 non voters from Sonora (Mexico) up to date I haven't been able to contact voters from this side of the border. "My platform is founded on a give and take basis you give and I'll take. "I guarantee to make a new deal af it. I'll fire everybody now work ing in the city from the chief of po lice down say, I've got to fire that guy twice. I'll put friends of mine in .y office- and only demand that they give me 20 per cent of their salaries- and the guy that doesn't kick in gets kicked out. Loyalty is one thing I demand. ! instead of negotiating a barter agree ment of goods for goods. Foreign Minister Arita was said to be one of those who, despite his suggestion for a counter-proposal for an alliance limited to the possibil ity of war with Russia, entertained hope that some more satisfactory solution might be possible than a totalitarian alliance. This alternative would be cooper ation with the United States and Great Britain. It was admitted that there was nothing tangible on which to base a hope for the success of this alternative just now. Mccormick seriously ill LOS ANGELES, Calif., Mar. 25 (UP) Harold F. McCormick, the millionaire harvester manufacturer, is so seriously ill from a heart ail-, ment, his doctor said today, that hir life would be endangered by an in terview with lawyers for Mrs. Hhoda Tanner Dcubleday, who is suinjr him for $350,000. As a result Judge Ruben Schmidt denied the lawyers' permission to in vade the McCormick mansion in Bev erly Hills and obtain a deposition foi ! use in her "breach of privacy" law suit against him. McCormick's' per sonal physician, Dr. Jackscn Frick testified to his condition. Mrs. Doublcday once settled a $1, 000,000 breach cf promise suit airainst McCormick for a reputed $ 63 Oi.'O. Her new lawsuit charged that his awyeis schemed to obtain medical i-eecrds giving the nature of her ailment when she was a patient at a L-al hospital in 1933. The information was to have been used to combat her breach of promise claim she charged. Due for trial on April 18, Mrs. Doublday's action will test whether California laws guarantee "right of privacy"' to a hospital patient. CITE PEER DEALER LINCOLN, March 25 (UP) The state liquor control commission to day cited II. J. Law of Falls City for hearing March 30 to show cause why his beer license should not be re voked because of alleged improper operation of his place of business. a Fly Rod . '5 "'I'll have every tomato man in town pinched for vagrancy, maybe then I can get an order for a car of tomatoes myself. "I have no doubt in my mind that I an be elected, but just as a ges ture I am willing to be . reasonable and talk business and will withdraw for a stipend. Business being what it is I am easy to talk to. "As for my chances of being elect ed, I have gone over that very thor oughly in my own mind and reasoned out that if everyone to whom I owe money votes for me, I'm a cinch and if the vote Is too close I'm willing to borrow from a few more people just to that the election won't be in doubt. "Another innovation for a can didate. I'm willing to give my auto graph to any young lady in town in return for her telephone number. "And to show how broad-minded I am and not opposed to big busi ness, I am willing to give my auto graph to the First National bank if they will in response give the amount that is written above my signature. I think this shows my willingness to co-operate in things civic. "I owe allegiance to my country and money to my friends. I am dif ferent than the other tandidates. They plead for your vote for them. I dare you to vote for me. "The people have spoken or will speak. "Say, who's that other tomato man that's running for my job?" University Graduates Find Many Jobs Many Find Places in Agricultural Pursuits and Pusiness Adminis tration Places Many. LINCOLN, March 25 Business and industry over the country are showing increased interest this year in University of Nebraska gradu ates. Dr. Cliff S. Hamilton of the department of chemistry reports that many of last year's chemistry gradu ates are now being absorbed. As many company interviews have visit ed the department this year as last. The placement record for chemistry graduates of January 1939 is about the same as for a year ago. Students with majors in agricul ture have better prospects for jobs this year than last, according to the increased number of inquiries re ceived by the college of agriculture. All members of the January class have been placed. Various govern ment agencies and insurance com panies have shown an increased in terest in graduates of the college, especially those who have majored in land-use courses, land and farm man agement, conservation, and agron omy. Professor T. T. Bullock, in charge of placement for the college of busi ness administration, said he had re ceived more calls from industry and business this year than for last. Salesmen, merchandisers, and "ac countants are in great demand. More calls for teachers have been received so far this year than last, according to Professor R. D. Moritz, director of the university teacher placement bureau. During the period January, to March 15, 1938, 262 in quiries came to the bureau. During the same period this year, 302 calls have been recorded. August is the peak employment month. Officials also reported that the de mand for agriculture and home eco nomics teachers is fully up to last year, while the supply is not bo great. DISCUSS FARM APPROPRIATIONS WASHINGTON, March 25 (UP) The house approached a showdown today on a 1250,000,000 extra bud getary farm appropriation which may determine the fact of government economy efforts at this session ot ;on gress. The house votes today on a $250, 000,000 parity payment provision at tached to the agriculture appropria tion bill without budget bureau recommendation and over the bitter protest of economy forces. Indica-, tions of increased log-rolling activ ities by farm and city members seek ing to form a united front for ap proval of $250,000,000 for parity payments and $150,000,000 deficiency funds for WPA appeared. Several well - informed members said they believed that if the $250, 000,000 were approved, the president would get the full $150,000,000 re lief fund he desires despite opposi tion of appropriations commute members. Death Closes Story of Wyoming Youthful Bandit In a Few Weeks Simple Kindly Youth Changes into Savage, Relent less Killer of Men. CODY, Wyo., March 25 (UP) The undertaker shaved the beard anc1 shingled the unkept hair today and made Tarzan Durand, a savage who ate raw meat and killed five men, into plain Earl Durand, 26, a simple mind ed youth who had a bad dream and never woke up. The national guard hauled its How itzers out of the Beat tooth mountainr and 300 men came behind, unbreech ing their rifles. The hunt was over. Tarzen, bearded woodsman, killer of man and beast, was dead. And even his parents were glad. To the natives of this ranch county who had known Durand all his life, the inunderstand2ble thing was what had changed him in an instant from an open-handed jouth who loved the outdoors ard this wiid mountain country'? who had felt confined even when he was in a house, into a sav age killer. Until eight days ago he had no reputation as an untractablc person or as a "bad man." At tlawn yesterday, three hundred men set out for the highest pinnacle of tho Beartooth where Blackburn believed Durand had found another citadel. By noon they were ncaring the pinnacle. And at noon, 10 miles to the cast, a bearded, shaggy-haired man sat with a rifle across his arms at a road side. He stopped an automobile carrying three possemen. The mar fingered his badge; "How about taking me up to the posse," he said. "Sure, said Harry Moore. The man got in and pulled a pistol from his hip pocket. "I guess you'd better turn around and drive the other way," he said. "I'm Earl Durand."- Moore did, while his passengers, John Simpson and his 86-5'car old father, F. O. Simpson, cowered. Moore drove him to his home He entered confronting his mother and father, his pistol still in the ribs of one of his captives. "They've got me, dad aren't you surprised?" he said, laughing. "I've come after some things. Do I get them or do I have to take them at the point of this gun?" His mother sobbed, "Earl, you sure have changed." His father said, "go right ahead., son." He took a knapsack of food. He hadn't eaten cooked food in eight days. He forced Moore to drive to an a bandoned mine east of town, put the three out and drove away, yelling: "Goodbye boys don't forget to come to my funeral." Thirty minutes later he parked the car on the Powell main street in front of the First National hank. He en tered, brandishing his revolver, his rifle under the other arm. To Presi dent Robert Nelson, he said : "No one will be hurt if you all obey orders," and he asked for the money in the safe, bringing Into his gun range Cashier Morris Knutson and John Throp. Knutson told him the safe was lock ed, bv time lock. He scooped up $2, 000 in currency and jammed it into his knapsack. Tieing the three men haphazardly together with the boot strings of his last victim, he moved them ahead of him toward the door. But he had been recognized as he entered the bank and townsmen were outside, waiting. From behind his shield of three men, he saw them and opened fire. His rifle and pistol fire rained out into the street, smashing through windows and door glass His captives broke away, and when Throp sought to slip out the door he waE shot dead, either accidently or pur posely by Tarzen. Cornered, all aven lies of escape closed, already winged by shots from the street, he boldly ex posed himself, firing wildly in all di rections. Aeross the street in a gasoline sta tion, a school boy, who had always thought Earl Durand "a great guy," Jeveled a rifle and brought the sight cn Tarzan's chest and fired. Tarzen crumpled, groveling on the tile floor of the bank. He had just reloaded hir big black .43. Slowly, painfully he drew up his arm, put the barrel against his temple and fired. Today Park County Coroner Ray Easton, Powell's only undertaker, pre pared to report on his findings. On the fourth day of his spree, Tarzan had written Sheriff Blackburn and penciled this return address on the envelope: "Earl Durand, Undertaker, Powell, Wyo." In the letter he sug gested that, when killed, his head be mounted and hung from the Park county court house as a lesson to youth and law and order. Today his white-haired mother sat in a farmhouse two miles west of here, wringing her hands and sobbing: "He liked people, she said. "And he always liked to help them. He often said, to me, 'mother, the people around us need help. Can't wre give them something?' "We are more depressed over the deaths of those others than we are over his death." V. W. Durand, his farmer father, believed his son had been insane. "When they jailed him and told him he would get ten years for killing a ranchman's beef, I guess the thought of that drove him temporarily insane," he said. "It was so foreign to Earl's nature that he could not bear it." The Durands arc highly respected. The father spoke quietly of his con's good deeds. "He never could stend the thought of people going hungry. Once while returning from California, Earl met a young man in unfortunate circum stances. He gave him S10 which left him hardly enough to buy food the rest of the way home. "At another time in Laurel, Mont, he gave his last cent to a down-and-cut bum and rode home in a box car. "He loved the outdoors and never killed until he was hungry, but they jailed him and told him he would get 10 years for killing that beef." NEW PLATES RED AND BLUE LINCOLN, March 25 (UP) Ne braska's 1940 automobile license plates will have persian-red figures upon a deft-blue background. State Engineer A. C. Tilley said Ontario, Canada has a similar color scheme but that it is different from the plates "of any of the other states." The new colors will be brighter and more harmonious than Nebraska's present black and white, he said. A resolution is pending in the leg islature to change the present license nlates bv reproducing an outline of the state capitol to separate the coun-j ty designation from tne rest oi me number as is now being done by a dash. HONOR KUTH BRYAN K0HDE "WASHINGTON, March 25 (UP) Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, former min ister to Denmark and daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan to day was appointed consular for the new U. S. travel bureau by Secretary of Interior Ickes. The position which i3 of an advisory capacity pays one dollar a. year. It was understood the appointment was urged by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, close friend of the former Florida congress woman. The travel bureau has no official permanent status. Legislation to accomplish this is pending in con gress. REMOVED FROM OFFICE NEW YORK, March 25 (UP)- Magistrate Mark Kudich of Brooklyn was removed from office today by the appellate division of the New York supreme court for delinquency. Although he had been charged with accepting bribes and other judicial misconducts of the court did not fin Kudich guilty of criminal activities Rudich's attorney, Walter Hart said the decision absolved him of any charges of corrupt and "the judge and 1 feel it to be a clean-cut victory. WIN IN SWEEPSTAKES DUBLIN, Ireland, March 24 (UP) Ten tickets on Workman were drawn in the Irish Sweepstakes by residents of the United States who won $141,000 each, a total of $1, 410,000. Seven Americans held tickets on MacMaffatt, winning $70,500 each for a total of $ 493,500. Nine had tickets on Kilstar, winning $47,000 each for a total of $423,000. NEW MAP FOR TOURISTS LINCOLN, March 25 (UP) The state game, forestation, and parks commission plans to issue next month its most elaborate Nebraska map for tourists, hunters, fishermen, and campers. Approximately 50,000 folding maps In four colors, measuring 25x38 inches will be distributed. The maps show the location of state parks and 5 end fish centers. NEW SECRET SERVICE HEAD OMAHA. Marcn 24 (UP) William A. Merrill, head of the Omaha bu reau of the U. S. Becret service, has been transferred to he Salt Lake City bureau. He will be succeeded here by Russell Daniel, who has been head of the Kansas City office for several years. Subscribe for the Journal tmm m mm 3 . ' In the perpetual campaign to stamp out man-caused Area that burn over 40,000.000 acres annually, tho United States Forest Service In co operation with the state forestry agencies and organizations Interested in conservation, will distribute In poster form nearly a million reproduc tions of the above painting by the famed Illustrator, James Montgomery Flagg. The painting Is the property of the American Forestry Association. Tree Planting by U. S. hi 1938 Tops 140,000,000 Michigan Leads Country; 13 Other States in Million Class Pine Trees Popular. WASHINGTON (UP) The Na tional Forest Service made long strides last year toward building up a forest reserve by planting more than 140,000,000 trees. The service supervised the plant ing of. 154,268 acres of deforested land in 31 states at an average tost of $10 an acre. It estimated that timber prodqeed by the trees woud be worth $7,000,000. The largest number of trees in any state was 44,885,000 planted in Michigan. More than a million trees each were planted in Wisconsin, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Minnesota, Texas, Washngton, Alabama, Colorado, Illi nois, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Indiana. Pine Trees Most Popular The service reported that 28 dif ferent tree species were planted. Five members of the extensive pine fam ily red, jack, white, longleaf and slash represented 88 per cent of all trees planted. Most of the young trees set out in the national forests were grown in the 28 forest service nurseries. Approximately 20 tons of coniferous tree seed and five tons of hardwood seed were used to produce the young trees. Extension of the reforestatiou pro gram, the service said, was made pos sible by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Planting crew3 were made up entirely of CCC enrollees, unem ployed local residents and relief la bor. Most extensive planting opera tions were reported in the Gulf and Lake states where adequate natural reproduction has faileti to follow the heavy cutting and repeated fires. Michigan Forest Foremost The Manistee National Forest on the Lake Michigan shore of the Lower Peninsula led the 74 national forests where planting was done last year with 17,984 acres. Three other national forests reporting more than 10,000 acres planted were the De 3oto in Southern Mississippi, the Nicolet in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Michigan National For est. In Michigan the service planted 41.022 a'. res in longleaf and slash pine; Minnesota. 9,030 acres in red find jack rie; Washington, 7,432 acres in Douglas fir; Idaho, 3.836 acres in ponderosa and western white pine; Colorado, 3.805 acres In ponde rosa pine, and Alabama, 3,089 acres in longleaf and slash pine. PJES DECLINED ON 'DEED ROCK' INDIANS CARVED ALGOMA. Wis. (UP) Emil I wen has. been offered $300 on numerous occasions by persons who want to buy his little rock door stop, but he refuses to sell. He found the rock 28 years ago on his father's farm a heavy, oddly shaped rock with strange markings on it. It made a nice weight to hold the door open. Then Chief Simon Kahqaadas of, the Pottawattomles, now dead, in- , ft IT: X - Ul J 3X!r !Kf " 1 .V- formed Iwcn through his brother in 1920 that the ro:k was a "deed rock" by which Indians designated trans fer and ownership of property. Since then many persons, hearing of the rare exhibit of Indian lore, have tried to purchase it for collec tions. Chief Kahfjuadas told Iweu that the four inscriptions a figure of a brave, a wigwam, a bow and arrow and a horse signified the chief had presented a certain brave these neces sities of life. This was the usual custom, since the chiefs were sup posed to own all property. The recipient of the gift was iden tified by the figure of the man. with certain characteristics accentuated. This particular brave had only four fingers. Oddities in Expressions are Revealed Reccarch Workers Find Many of Old Time Expressions Used in West Strange to Hear Today. Although a people's basi; activ ities change but little through the years, the language describing these activities, because of new ideas and methods, doc3 change. Research workers of the Federal Writers' Proj ect, WPA, in studying old Nebraska newspapers, find many expressions which seem odd today. The actions implied by "necking" certainly are not" new; the word i3 simply a streamlined form of an elder phrase. Nebraska's young couples of the lS70's and ISSO's en gaged in "neck cntwincment," espe cially, so it was said, when the moon was full. Instalment buying, though of more recent origin, has been practiced many years. Early Nebraska papers often advertised farm machinery in this way: "If you want a mower on three falls, a hay rake on two falls, farm and spring wagons on 12 month's time, come to L & R." Ex cept for the words, "on 12 month's time." we might not understand the "falls;" evidently tliiH referred to number of payments to be made lftcr crops were harvested in the fall. Corn palaces, advertising Nebras ka's mosH important crop, were pop uar in the 18 90's. So were adver tising puns such as this: "D & M have just received their spring line of corn palaces. If you don't believe it just step in and ec their elegant boots and shoes." The following item, as Ripley might say, is self-explanatory. A northeast Nebraska paper, Sept. 17. 1 874, reported: "An aj;ed imbiber t-f benzine would have rr.ade it warm for some young aiabs who were pelt ing him with mud but. unfortun ately for both, the tanglefoot ton trolled his locomotion." QUEEN LIKES CRINOLINES LONDON (UP) Crinolines have been approved by the Queen for wear by debutantes at court presentations this year. She wore one last season, and gave hte fashion a big lift. Now they have been chosen as the equate of formal, btralgLt touit dresbe-. Phone news Items to no. B-