MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1S39. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL faqc tot t k I t Elmwood News Mr. and Mrs. Ralpli Greene were rusts of friends in Omaha last Funday. Miss Betty Clement departed last week for Fort Morgan, Colorado, v. here she is visiting friends. Lemuel ransh. who has been sick fcr a number of weeks, still remains ory poorly at his home in the south prt of town. George Eidenmiller and family v.tre in Lincoln Tuesday afternoon ot last week, doing some shopping vv.d visiting friends. The building in which Mr. and j ily who lived there for many years. Mis. David Lnterline conduct their For the past seven years, Fred Bas el cum and produce station has been j sie and famWy have resided there niven a ccat of paint, greatly im proving its appearance. Uncle Paul Marshall, who has not l.fcn able to be about for some time. u down town last Tuesday, when l.e enjoyed meeting his friends, and aiso transacted some business. Mrs. Roy Addyman of Louisville v as a visitor in Elmwood last Tues day, calling on Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hazen. former Louisville residents, ana looking :!ter business matters. William Groat was able to be down town last Tuesday for the first t::::e in several weeks, and said he is now considerably better. Both he and his wife have been poorly for rime time. Tuesday marked the end of the ftth week since Edward Penterman Mi2fered,his last stroke, and found remaining in about the same ( nditicn. Only part of the time is he able to recognize those caring for him. Mrs. Pearl Boyd Alber has been Msiting at the home of her parents, .Mr. and Mrs. V. YV. Coatman, dur ing the past few days. Mrs. Alber Va? been employed as a teacher in tro public schools at Shenandoah for several years and was recently re elected for another year. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Anderson, of Milford, visited over the week end at the Emil Bornemeier home. Mrs. Anderson is r. sister of Mr. Borne rubier. Her husband is a member of tilt board of county commissioners St ward county. Committees at Work The committees in whose hands have been placed the work of ar ranging th3 various details (and there are many) necessary to assure jb" success of Elmwood's celebration are quietly working away, getting tilings ready tor the occasion. It would h a nice thing if it is possible (and we understand an ef fort will be made) to get the Mc (':. ir? homestead building erected be lcre time for Jubilee Days. Seeing the San Francisco Fair Morris Penterman departed last week for Yuba. California, where the p;-rents of Mrs. Penterman reside, and where sh3 has been visiting for rcme time. They expect to go from tl.cre to San Francisco, where they v ill take in the World Fair and see many of the interesting sights of the west coast country, before re turning to Elmwood some thirty days hence. Crop Reined by Hail Albert Ku:itz, who has land in the western part of the state, up to a f w days ago was feeling good over piosyects for a fine yield of wheat a-, the harvest there comes later l.rre. Just as the grain was about ready to be cut, a severe rain and ban storm came and beat the wheat into the ground, entailing an almost total loss, which is very disappoint in:; to Mr. Kuntz. He received the i.ows a few days ago in a letter from out there. Home from Outing in the West Mrs. George W. Blessing. Sr., f.orge W. Blessing. Jr.. and family, an.! Richard l'-icssing. who have been H e nding several weeks in the west on a ranch that recently came to Mrs. Blessing. Sr., from the estate of her uncie, arrived home late last v.M'k and a-e back at work again, re lieving George, Sr., of some of the duties of publishing the Leader Echo. All members of the party were i: .'pressed wi-h the Montana ranch c jutry, and would like to make ti.eir home there. But their business ij here and Mrs. Blessing also owns a farm near Murdock, so they v ould not think of leaving Elmwood for a home in the west. Will Restore Ancient Post Office Considerable has been written in f:rse columns of late about the de molishing of the McCaig home, an c id landmark in the community that as erected in IS 66 and housed the first post office in this vicinity. The l ease was well built of logs and has vithstocd tha elements for these cany, many years, being still in a S-od state cf preservation, but is being torn down to make way for a new house on the site it occupied. As has been stated, the house was built as a home for the McCaig fam ily, consisting of Mrs. McCaig, a widow, who came here from Indiana, together with her four sons and two dr. ughters. When it was built, the Civil war was little more than over, and the period of reconstruction had ji st begun. The family continued to i t ride there for many years, and David McCaij, the eldest son, was named as the first postmaster for this vicinity, maintaining the post office there. Later it was moved to Elmwood. Later the property came into the hands of the Bourke fam- and farmed the land, which is owned by Mr. Helmors, of Omaha. Now, Mr. Lassie and Fred Weyers are tearing down the old landmark. The town of Elmwood has been able to secure the logs and will re construct the eld building on the lot just east of the community building. All of its rustic exterior appearance will be retained, but is is probable more comfortable rooms will be pro vided therein and there is talk of using them to house a public library certainly a splendid use to which to dedicate it. It may be possible to complete the reconstruction in time to dedicate this ancient landmark at the time of Fimwood's Jubilee celebration. Rearranges Store Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Bothwell have been making a number of changes in the interior arrangement of their Clover Farm store, all designed to j provide more room and effect a bet ter display of the large stock they cr rry. Attend Celebration at Eagle Emil Bornemeier and wife were in Eagle la-st Tuesday evening to attend the celebration being held in that town. A number of cars that had been stripped down for racing purposes were also taken over from here to parti 'ipate in the races that proved among the most exciting fea tures of the two day celebration. POWER DISTRICTS AGREEABLE OMAHA, Aug. 5 (UP) Talk of Nebraska's "little TVA" was emphas ized today following statements by officials of hydro-electric groups yes terday that the Loup River Public Power District has not given up hopes of purchasing Nebraska Power Co. of Omaha. President C. B. Fricke ot the Loup district said emphatically the dis trict will purchase NPC if arrange ments can be made. He said there was "objectionable feautres" to the pro posal to instead sell current to Ne braska Power and that the district r.ow believes the thing to do is to buy the company's holdings and "be done with it." The statement brought a sharp re port from James E. Davidson, presi dent of Nebraska Tower. "We have said again and again and our people in New York have said thai the com pany is not for sale. I think the public is getting sick of hearing the same old storv." HAGUE FOR ROOSEVELT JERSEY CITY. N. J., Aug. 5 (UP) Mayor Frank Hague is "absolute ly 100 per cent"' for a third term for President Roosevelt if he wants it, one of the mayor's spokesmen said today. Hague, he said, will send New Jersey delegates to the democrat'c national convention Instructed to vote for Mr. Roosevelt or, in case Mr. Roosevelt doesn't run, to vote for any candidate the president en dorses. The mayor is vice chairman ct the democratic national committee and dominates the party in fie state. His city administration hs been under investigation by the de partment of justice for several months. It has been charged win. interference with civil liberties. The United States supreme court recently upheld an injunction re straining Hague's police department from interfering with activities o labor and liberal groups. DEWEY STILL SILENT OWOSOO, Mich., Aug. 3 (UP) If Thomas Dewey intends to announce his availability for the republican presidential nomination when he visits the home town the week of August 14, he hasn't given the home folks any inkling of it. "I haven't even heard from Tom for a week," Mrs. George Dewey, hi3 widowed mother, said today. " He might have to stay in New York be cause cf the Lepke case. The search for Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, New York racketeer, is 'receiving Dewey's personal attention. MANLEY NEWS Mrs. Anna Stoll, of Plattsmouth, was visiting with her friends, the Wolperts, several days during the Fst week. August Pautsch of Louisville was looking after business matters in Manley Wednesday of last week and visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rau. Miss Bessie Mae Bailey of Platts mouth, a niece of Mrs. Fred Fleisch man, is a guest at the Fleischman home here, having arrived last Wed nesday. Charles Murphy went to Omaha last week, where he will visit friends a short time, later going to Port land, Oregon, where he will spend the winter. Mrs. Catherine Erhart spent a few ('.ays last weeK in Lincoln and Have lock, visiting at the home of her daughters, Mrs. Earl Quinn and Mrs. Morgan McCurdy. Mrs. Harry Haws was hostess to the No Name club, a social organiza tion composed of Manley and Weep ing Water lrdies, last Tuesday. A very enjoyable afternoon was spent. Mr. and Mis. John C. Rauth at tended the funeral of the late Charles E. Cook last Sunday. The two men were schoolmates and neighbors for many years, when both resided in the eastern part of the county. Bobbie McDonald and family of Avoca were quests at the home of O. E. McDonald in Manley on Mon day. While Bobbie remained here, t lie rest of the family and Mrs. Oscar McDonald visited with relatives in liuttsmouth a part of the day. The families of Albert Cochran bi)d Charles Gade of Ashland were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fleischman over last Sunday, th-; ladies being daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Fleischman. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gade re mained to visit during the week. Greeted Their Neighbor Another year has rolled around in the life of Hei man Rauth, and in honor of th 3 occasion, a number of his friends and associates got to- lpether and went to the Rauth home. where a very pleasant social even ing was enjoyed. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were provided to climax the evening. Hostess to Danish Aid The Danish Aid Society of the terntory which includes Weeping Water and Manley. met last Thurs day at the home of Mrs. Herman Kauth. one of the members. Follow ing the business session, a delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. Coyotes Raid Chicken Roosts For some time there has been evi dence of coyotes raiding chicken rousts in this vicinity and they have even been s-:?n prowling about the firm yards. A few days ago there was a combat between "Jiggs," the small white dog of Herman Rauth and a coyot3 in which the dog was badly chewed up, being unable to get about for some time. He is around again now, but with this ex Ic'ience may not be so ready and willing to tackle the next blood thirsty coyote that shows up about the farm yard. Eat Ice Cream and Cake The ladies of St. Patrick's church Rave a very pleasant social on the lawn of the parish house last Sun day afternoon, serving ice cream jar - d ake to the large number who attended, both from this vicinity md more disiant points. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Doc-ley of Sarpy county. Mr. Dooley, who is county democratic chairman in his homo county, expressed sur prise at the dried out condition of the fields and crops around Manley, as he says crop prospects are ex cellent over his way. Entertained Relatives Monday Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Rhoden entertained a group of relatives at their home Manley last Monday. Th-guests included the mother of Mr. Rhoden. Sarah A. Rhoden. who is here from her home in Dakota; Robert Rhod-n and wife of Manley, Crrl Rhoden of Omaha, Frank Rhod en of Murray and 'Bus' Rhoden, who is a member of the CCC camp at Weeping Water. Attended Family Reunion Grover Rhoden and family and Robert Rhoden and. family were in Plattsmouth last Sunday, where they cttended the Rhoden family reunion. To their surprise and delight. Carl Khcden of Omaha drove down with the mother of the Rhoden boys. Mrs. Sarah Rhoden. of South Dakota, who came on to Manley that evening to visit with the families of Grover and Robert RhodcU for a time. Rubber Stamps, targe or small, at right prices at the Journal. Foreigners in China Suffer from Japanese Bombs Churches and Hospitals Suffer From the Attacks of the Japanese War Planes. By JOHN R. MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Aug. 5 (UP) Chin ese dispatches asserted today that Japanese troops at Yochow forced American and British missionaries to evacuate a church which they then demolished. The dispatches, of which there was no official confirmation here, said Japanese trccps and Chinese merc enaries operating with them burned clown a British mission hospital at Tsinyang July 25. Eighteen Japanese airplanes, bomb ing Chungking, the Chinese emer gency capital, in the fourth moon light raid this week, damaged the Belgian embassy and the home of an American missionary and caused bomb-shock to six Americans and five other foreigners who were taking shelter in the Belgian embassy air raid dugout. The Japanese bombed the city off and on for 90 minutes, dispatches said. One 500-pound demolition bomb caused the damage to the Belgian em bassy and the missionary's home and the shock to people in the embassy dugout. The bomb struck near the em bassy building, and broke windows and knocked dew ceil ir. go. Those in the dugout erc thrown to the floor. The missionary's home damaged was that of C. B. Rape, of the Am erican Methodist mission, a quarter of a mile from the place where the bomb struck. Plaster in the house was knocked down. The same bomb destroyed about 20 houses, crumbled four automobiles and caved in a high wall under which numerous Chinese had taken refuge. Hearing shrieks of people buried in the debris, Louis Desan, embassy charge d affairs, and Marcel Renard, an official of the Belgian foreign bank left their dugout aind led Chinese rescuers, personally digging many victims from the wreckage. Japanese dispatches said the Jap anese counsel general had rejected a British protest against an attack by a mob on the British-owned interna tional export company's property in the former Russian concession at Tientsin. The Japanese consul gener al held that Japanese authorities had no connection with anti-British act ivities. The British consulate general, other dispatches said, at once began draft ing a new and stronger protest which was expected to include also a later attack on a branch office of the Brit ish Butterfield-Swires company in the former Russian concession. Japanese army sentries patroled nearby dur ing thi3 attack, it was asserted. A dispatch of the Japanese Romei news ' agency said that a "national'' anti-British mass meeting was being organized at Tientsin for Aug. 14 as the climax to a two-day confer ence of delegates of a "nation-wide anti-British committee. ' The dispatch said that the dele gates would (1) Discuss "the trans lation of anti-British sentiment into action"; (2) Investigate activities of British subjects; (3) Denounce "pro British" Chinese; (4) Take steps to "centralize" the anti-British move ment; (5) Discuss means of spread ing anti-British sentiment abroad and (6) Discuss means cf aiding Indian independence. Tientsin reported that the British and French concessions, and adjacent Japanese-occupied areas, were with out beef because of a slaughter house strike, reported to le due to Japan ese monopolists having offered work ers half their former wages. The markets were short of vegetables and other perishable foods also, h?cuuse of floods. START FOR TRAINING CAMP ASHLAND. Aug. 5 (UP) Ey truck and train. Nebraska's l.00 national guardsmen and their offi cers left home stations today for tbe reservation near here for the annual two-week training period. For the firEt time in years the camp has f Sunday opening which means the training schedule will be in I'll! swing at sunrise Monday. This is Guy Henning's first camp as commandant of the guard. Last year he was a lieutenant colonel of the 110th quartermaster regiment but in mid-winter, upon resignation of H. J. Paul, he was made adjutant general of the guard with the rank of brigadier general. Jciirnal Job Printing Pleases. LINCOLN MAN SUICIDES LINCOLN, Aug. 5 (UP) Robert Hornby died late yesterday at his home from a single bullet wound which apparetnly was self-inflicted. The body of the aged farmer was found by his son with whom he made his home. A revolver was found clutched in his right hand. Relatives said he had been despondent since his wife's death several months ago had been in ill health, and had wor ried considerably about crop failures. West Nebraska Wants a Larger Wheat Area Protest Allotments on Wheat Land Will Not Allow Fanners to Make a Living. KIMBALL, Aug. 4 (UP) The small wheat farmer "is being forc"d out ot business because the acreage allotment for the western section of Nebraska is unfair," a group of Kim ball county "small farmers" said today in a petition protesting the present agricultural conservation program. They charge the small town is also vitally affected since the small wheat farmer's acreage allotment has been so reduced he cannot make i living and is forced to leave the farm to join the unemployed in large cities. It is no longer possible, it if rtntedfi for a western Nebraska farmer lo live on the returns of a quarter section of land. One farmer, who owns 160 acres, was al loted forty-one acres last year and this year has been cut to twenty eight. "Western Nebraska should have n larger acreage allotment because, unMke the eastern part of the state, it is a one-crop country. Let us raise; commercial wheat, and fci that an extensive acreage of this dty land is needed, and let the eaft raise corn and the other cropp (besides wheat) for which their land and climate is suited," was one suggestion offered in solution of the problem. Figures indicated there was a larger wheat acreage in east ern Nebraska since the advent ci the conservation program than eer before. GRISW0LD IS "WILLING" GORDON, Nebr., Aug. 5 (UP) Dwight Griswold, former republican nominee for governor, is "willing" to make another campaign fight of the office but plans to wait another month or so before deciding whether he will enter the 1940 primary race. Writing in his newspaper, The Gordon Journal, Griswold said "we have not made a definite decision and will likelv not do so until September r October if the republicans want us to again make the fight; we are willing to do it although we look for ward with little pleasure to making another campaign." Griswold ran unsuccessfully as the GOP nominee for governor in 1932-34-36. ZEPHYR DERAILED OMAHA, Aug 4 (UP) No one was injured when the Burlington's westbound Chicago & Denver stream lined Zephyr train left the rails in the Omaha yards here today. The de railment occurred a block and a half east of the station. Three units of the train left the rails and a delay of four hours was encountered before the journey to Denver could be resumed. Most of the delay was due to the fact that a baggage car containing the train's air-conditioning equipment was among the units leaving the track. DEAF MUTES' CAR HITS TRAIN OMAHA, Aug. 5 (UP) Neither Floyd Zabel, 35, nor William Sinclair 33, heard the whistle of a Missouri Pacific locomotive last night and his car collided with it at a street cros sing. Both men were deaf. Zabel, boys' supervisor at the Nebraska School for the Deaf, was killed. Sinclair escaped serious injury. ENTERS GUILTY PLEA RUSHVILLE, Nebr., Aug. 5 (UP) Irving Tail entered a plea of guilty to second-degree murder for the brut al slaying of Nellie Yellow Thunder, nineteen - year - old Indian maiden before a county ' judge here today. Sentence on the seventeen-yar-old Pine Ridge reservation Sioux brave is to be pronounced in district court on August 28. Subscribe for the Journal. Congress Acted on Much Legisla tion at Session Congress Exceeded the President's Financial Budget by More Than $300,000,000. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UP) The congressional score box for ihid session: President Roosevelt got: A modified reorganization bill, under which re-juggling of govern ment agencies has been started. The president estimated that initial re organizations would save upward of 530,000,000 a year. His 2,000,000,000 national de fense program in full, with slight opposition, except for establishment of an air base on Guam. Continuance of his $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund and monetary pow ers, but with a cloud on their legal ity because a senate filibuster held up rassage of the bill until after the deadline for expiration of the powers. His 1940 relief program for II, 755,600,000 in full, but loaded with restrictions which the president de nounced. The Franklin D. Roosevelt mem orial library, to be established at Hyde Park, N. Y., with the govern ment pledged to maintain the li brary. The president was denied: A neutrality att lifting the man datory arms embargo. The $3,000,000,000 lending pro gram, killed in the house. The $800,0P0,000 housing bill, killed in the house. A total of $50,000,000 requested for 1939 relief deficiencies. General legislation: Congress passed and Mr. Roose velt signed the Hatch bill, prohibit ing political activity by all federal jobholders save the topmost policy making officials. The house launched a $50,000 in vestigation of the national labor re lations board, against administra tion wishes. The undistributed profits tax, a pet new deal theory, was junked In a revised tax bill which has not been enacted. Railroad-relief legislation was left in a conference' committee untilnext session. Revision of the farm program was delayed. Major items of amending the Wagner-labor relations act and the wage-hour law were put over until next session, on the list of unfin'shed business. This suited the adminis tration. The Townsend $200-a-monlli old age pension bill was beaten In the house, 3 to 1. Congress exceeded the president's financial budget by more than $300. 000,000. MAY LOCATE LOST BODY OMAHA, August 5 (UP) A strange sequel to the disappearance three years ago of Louis Circo was written today when Mrs. Elizabeth Eppley told police she believed hc had buried his body, thinking it to be that of her son, Roland Leroy Day, 17. Yesterday Joseph Servia, 17, con fessed that Circo was drowned whtl? swimming with another boy and himself in the Missouri river. For three years the boys kept the secret. letting Mrs. Sebastlano Circo, moth er of Louis, conduct a fruitless na tion wide search for her son. Mrs. Eppley said that when the body of a boy was taken from the river three years ago she was con vinced it was that of her son. She had the body buried at Missouri Val ley, Iowa. Later her son reappeared: he had been on a camping expedi tion. The body is being disinterd and efforts made to determine If it really is Circo's. REFUSES TO SIGN COMPLAINT WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UP) William Leiserson. newest member of the national labor relations board, caused considerable speculation in labor circles today by refusing tj sicn a complaint charging eisM major motion picture companies j with violations of the labor relations act. He declined to sign the complaint authorized by NLRD Chnlrman J Warren Madden and member, Edwin Smith charging the film companies with discriminating against the Screen Writers' Guild. Inc. '1 Just didn't approve it." he said, ''and it would take too long to explain the details." Officials could, not recall another instance when a board mem ber had refused to sign a complaint Se th poofls ou tuy. Catalog but how about the oocxl when descriptions are alluring enough, you cct them? Japanese Weigh Matter of Mill tary Alliances Military Groups in the Empire Lean Toward Military Tisups With Germany and Italy. By II. O. THOMPSON United Press Staff Correspondent TOKYO, Aug. 4 (UP) Kokumin, extreme nationalist newspaper which enjoys a wide circulation among m.li tary groups, gave guarded expression today to the army demand that Japan enter a military alliance with G?r-manj- and Italy at encc. Discussing the army's drive for "enlarged" European connections, the newspaper said: "It is the army's view that although great importance is attached to British-Japanese negotiations, practical measures to deal with the European situation should not be hampered by parleys, and materialization of Uu ropean policy must be made adequate ly and independently. "Further, the army even has ex pressed the view that adequate mater ization of European policy would act ually faciliate the British-Japanese negotiations." The editorial was taken as an additional indication that the Japan ese ambassadors to Germany and Italy, in announcing that they had met to discuss Japan's adherence to the German-Italian military alliance were acting, if on any authority at all, in co-operation with military authorities and not in behalf of the government as a whole. A breakdown of negotiations with Britain undoubtedly would strength en the position of those who want, an alliance. For the present it was in dicated that the government had not changed its previous attitude of aloof ness as regards a formal military alliance, though an early show down with the army was expected. Official sources minimized the im portance of the statement made by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain yesterday that in certain circum stances Britain might send a fleet to the far east. "Chamberlain's speech was vague and contained nothing surprising," said a navy spokesman. "Probably European conditions will keep the British fleet at home for the present. However, since the completion of the Singapore base we have been expect ing Britain to send battleships and other ships at any time. It make no difference to us. Our policy will be unchanged. Commenting on British-Japanese negotiations, the newspaper As&hi and Nichi Nichi, independent, both aid that if delays blamed on the British continued, the army would take ade quate measures, presumably in China. AGAINST THIRD TERM BOSTON, Aug. 5 (UP) Dr. Francis E. Townsend, old-age pen sion plan advocate believes that if President Roosevelt should run for a third term "it would be the biggest fool mistake ever made." Asked if he would go alor.g with the democratic party if President Roosevelt were the candidate. Dr. Townsend said "Don't fear that Presi dent Roosevelt will run for a third term. People will never tolerate a third term for him. The president has more sense than to try it, I'm sure' Fire am A stroke of lightning may destroy your home. Are you fully insured? Pro tect what you have with Good Insurance CALL OR SEE PH01U 16 Plattsmouth INSURANCE" Z7te' a ivny -