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FXATTSMOTTTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTTHNAL PJL3E TEXEE MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1939. Sarah A. Cotner Passes Away at Home, Age 88 After Two Weeks of Critical Illness Long Time Resident of County Goes to Last Rest. Prom Thursday Dally This noon Mrs. Sarah A. Cotner passed away at the family home in the south pa'rt of the city whore for many years she .had resided, death coming as the result of her declining years and an illness of some weeks' duration. Mrs. Cotner had been failing for weeks and her going was not unex pected as she peacefully sank into the last rest at the end of a long and useful life, going to join those of her family circle that had parted with her in the past. Sarah A. Smith was born In Cory don. Indiana, March 23, 1851, spend ing her younger years in that state and where on February 13, 1868 she was married to John B. Cotner. The family made their home there for a number of years and here several of the children were born. The family moved west in 1SSS and located in Cass county, first at Nehawka and in which community they made their home for a great many years, later going to Greenwood and in later years moving to Plattsmouth where they have since resided. The hus band and father preceded her in death in 1920, she continuing to make her home alone since that time at the residence on Patterson avenue where she passed srVay. There is surviving the passing of this good woman seven children, six sons and one daughter. Dr. James W. Cotner. Eureka Springs. Arkansas. Walter and Howard Cotner, Red Cloud, Edward. Clarence and Albert Cotner of this city, and Mrs. Cora Kaiser, of Tabor, Iowa. There also survives a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren as well as a brother and sister residing in In diana. Seven children have preceded her in death. SCOUT COURT OF HONOR HERE SEPTEMBER 5TH The Arbor Lodge district Court of Honor for Boy Scouts of Cass, Otoe and Nemaha counties, will,' be held at the American Legion budding in Plattsmouth Tuesday evening. Sept. 5. The board of review will convene at 7'30 and the program starts at S:15. -Scouts will be here from every town in the three counties where a troop exists, according to word given the local committee by the Corn husker Council office in Lincoln. The public, and particularly the parents of Scouts due to receive ad vancement honors are invited to be present. There will be a double Eagle award, one going to Bill Rosencrans and the other to Jim Webb. Both boys have already been before the special board of review that passes on Eagle applications and approved for this award. It will be the first double Eagle ceremony to be held in Plattsmouth, although there have been such awards made elsewhere in the Council. TO RETURN HOME From Saturday's Dally Dr. and Mrs. P. T. Heineman will motor to Columbus, Nebraska to spend the week end with Dr. Heine man's parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Heineman. En route back to Platts mouth they will bring their daugh ter. Miss Margaret Heineman, back with them. Since Thursday Miss Margaret has been her grandparents' guest. Laughing Around the World With irvin s. COBB Asking for the Details By IRVIN S. COBB "YOU most have heard of the young woman just out of finishing school who went to the stationery store and purchased a very large order of writing-paper and pencils and the like, and when the clerk who had waited on hex expressed surprise that she should require so great a supply replied sweetly: Oh, I shall need it all. You know, I'm going to take up writing. I'm going to write a novel." "What sort of a novel?" inquired the salesman. "Well," said the expectant author, "it will be about as long as Victor Hugo's Les Miserables" only much stronger." I am not prepared to match this with a little yarn concerning a youth in the Corn Belt whose ambitions were equally great. From his home in Illinois he wrote to the director of an Eastern art-museum explaining that he felt the call of creation but was undecided yet as to whether he would be a painter or a sculptor. After detailing his symptoms at length, he would on his letter with the following aimple request: "Please send me full particulars about art." VISITING IN IOWA Mr. and Mrs. James Rebal are en joying a visit at Iowa City, Iowa, with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Rebal, as well as with other relatives near that city. Mr. Rebal has a number of relatives residing near Iowa City, old home of the Rebal family and they will enjoy a visit there for a short time. Last Rites for Mrs. Sarah Cotner Held This Morn'g Long Time Resident of Cass County Laid to the Last Rest at . Oak Hill Cemetery. From Saturday's Dally This morning at the Horton fun eral home was held the last rites for Mrs. Sarah Cotner, 88, a long time resident of this community and who had gone to rest Thursday after noon after an illness of some dur ation. There was a group of the old friends and neighbors at the funeral home to pay their last tributes and to share with the members of the family circle the sorrow that her passing had occasioned. Rev. J. C. Lowson, pastor of the First Methodist church had charge of the services and brought the mes- sage of the scriptures to comfort those who mourned. Mrs. E. H. Wescott gave two of the old and loved hymns, favorites of the departed lady. "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" and "Rock of Ages." Mr. Wescott being the accompanist. The pall bearers were the six sons of Mrs. Cotner. Edward. Albert. Clarence. Dr. J. W., Howard, and Walter Cotner. who bore the body to the last rest in Oak Hill cemetery. TO CONTINUE FLYER The Exposition Flyer, the first through train service between Chi cago and San Francisco by joint operation over the Burlington, Den ver & Rio Grande Western and West ern Pacific railroads, will become a permanent transcontinental train ac cording to announcement made to day by officials of the three roads. Inspired by the two world's fairs and started early In'Tune. this new thru train was an experimental ven ture. Public patronage' and accept ance to the new thru route was far beyond the expectations of railroad executives as extra cars were almost a daily occurrence and on occasions extra sections were necessary. Fol lowing a conference yesterday by the three roads and analysis of the sur vey on "travel public opinion," de rision was made to continue the trains on present daily schedules. CALIFORNIA MAN HERE Mrs. Janet Simons of this city has as her guest for the next two weeks her brother. James R. Hunter,-who arrived in Plattsmouth Tuesday from Los Angeles. California. A retired railroad worker. Mr. Hunter will go to South Dakota from here to visit with a brother, Robert Hunter. VISIT AT LINCOLN from Thursday Daily Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Lowson and family were at Lincoln today where they spent the day at the Wesleyan university where their daughter. Miss Florence is a student, arranging for the coming fall season at the well known school. Join the Journal's growing list of Semi-Weekly subscribers. It costs only $2 per year. a - j ; . I - n ft VICTOR McLAGLEii, most im pressive he-man of motion pic tures, was born in London, Eng land, on a Dec 11. Standing 6 feet 3 inches and weighing 225 pounds, spent a great part of his boyhood in South Africa where his father was Bishop of Clermont. When the Boer War broke out he ran away, added several years to his age, and enlisted in the Life Guards. A confirmed globe-trotter, he adventured in Tahiti, the Fiji Islands, Australia. Bombay, and Ceylon. He boxed and wres tled professionally in Canada. He. fought Jack Johnson a non-decision bout and was champion boxer of Eastern Canada. In the United States he played in medicine shows and over vaudeville cir cuits, making use of his ability and strength achieved in the army as a wrestler. He joined a Wild West show in order to travel. He joined the gold rush of Kalgoorlie. His fighting qualities were recog nized during the World War when he served with the British army as lieutenant in Mesopotamia. Later he was made Assistant Provost Marshal of Bagdad with the military rank of captain. When McLaglen returned to Lon don he was induced to act in a mo tion picture, "The Call of the Road. He won v.nde acclaim in subsequent English productions, but it was his role in "The Glori ous Adventure that caught the eyes of American picture pro ducers, rle was lured to the United States to play the lead in "The Beloved Brute." after which fol lowed many other notable pic tures, such a-. "The Lost Patrol." "The Informer" und the more re cent "Pacific Cner" and "Gunga Din" for RKO Radio, which stu dio has now cast him with Joseph Calleia and Sally Eile-rs in "Full Confession" in which he plays an other vivid role as a burly crook whose savagery is tamed by a kiodly priest. RETURN FROH EAST From Saturday's Pally Following s. two-weeks' vacation trip In the east, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Jahrig and daughter, Mias Fern, ar rived home early this morning. The Plattsmouth people left Sat urday, August 12 for New York. Here they witnessed as so many of their Plattsmouth friends did and will the world's fair. Boston was one of the largest cities they visit ed in Massachusetts. They also went to Alexandria, Virginia and it was here that Mr. Jahrig and his daugh ter called at the head office of the Fruit Growers Express company. Before their return home they spent some time in Washington. D. C. and while there visited with Warren Farmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Farmer of this city. Other former Plattsmouth people that the Jahrigs saw were Herbert Patterson and Jack McCarty, in New York where they have been located for several years. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Alice Andrews, daughter of Mrs. S. E. Kerr and a sister of Mrs. James Rishel and Merritt Kerr of this city, is in the Lutheran hospital in Omaha recovering from the effects of a major operation which she un derwent on Wednesday morning. Although still critical, Mrs. Andrews' recovery seems to be certain. MRS. GOULD RETURNS HOME From Thursday's Daffy Mrs. D. R. Gould, who has been here as a guest of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William Woolcott, left last evening for her home in York, Nebraska. However, she expects to return for another visit before the ending of the sum mer season. PLAY AT RED OAK From Thursday's Daily Postmaster Ray Larson, with his son, Lars and Donald Martin and Ralph Hilt, Jr., were at Red Oak, Iowa, today to attend the Southwest ern Iowa open tennis tournament. Mr. Larson is playing in the singles and the boys are playing in, the junior matches. Mr. and MrB. John Hiber, Jr., of Hastings were Tuesday visitors in Plattsmouth at the home of Mr. Hiber's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hiber, Sr. TO HOLD MURDER HEARING LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24 (UP) Richard Jensen, a snub-nosed, bare footed boy of fourteen with a curly mop of red hair, may become one of the country's youngest life-term murder convicts, authorities said to day. Richard killed his playmate, Billy Williams, 13. He beat in the boy's head with a butcher knife and choked him with wire to silence his moans. Richard, who had been to reform 3chool twice, resented Eilly's taunts of "how does it feel to be an ex convict?" "And I'm not sorry. He got what was coming to him." boasted Rich ard. "And I guess I'll get what's coming to me. Let them hang me or electrocute me or whatever they want. I'm not afraid to die." He was informed that in Cali fornia no one under eighteen years of age may be executed but that a slayer fourteen years of age or older, such as himself, may be sent to prison for life. Superior Judge W. T. Fox will hold a hearing tomorrow to decide whether Richard is a fit subject for juvenile court. The county prose cutor's office insists he is not and will demand that the boy go on trial as an adult on a charge of first degree murder. Juvenile authorities, meanwhile, decided Richard is "en tirely too tough" to mingle with other delinquent youths in juvenile hall and had him placed in the psy chopathic ward of the general hos pital. Psychiatrists said he is "not normal" mentally but declined to say whether the boy is insane. TYPHOID EPIDEMIC CENTERVILLE, la.. Aug. 24 (UP) The cases of seven of twenty-seven persons who became ill at a country church picnic near here were diag nosed positively today as typhoid fever. Tests of the other cases have not been completed, but state health" au thorities said they undoubtedly would prove the same. Dr. Frank Condon, medical direc tor of the state health district 2, said contaminated food was suspect ed of causing the disease. ALL BUSINESS BUILDINGS AT SEWARD ARE OCCUPIED SEWARD, Neb.; Aug. 24 (UP) As an Indicator ot the return to' nor mal business conditions, this com munity will on September 1 be able to claim the distinction of having every store and business house with in the business district occupied in spite of a failure of the 1939 corn crop in thi3 vicinity. Of the only two remaining empty store buildings iu Seward, one is be ing occupied this Week; the other will be filled on September 1. SALVATION ARMY ELECTS LONDON. Aug. 24 (UP) The high council of the Salvation Army elected George L. Carpenter of Canada as its general today, succeed ing Evangeline Booth. Carpenter, territorial commander of Canada, is a native of Australia. He joined the Salvation Army when he was nineteen. He was literary secretary to Bramwell Booth for twelve years. He became commander of eastern South America and then Canada. POPE APPEALS FOR PEACE CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Aug. 24 (UP) Pope Pius XII tonight broadcast an appeal for peace for the world. "It is a grave hour in the world," the pope said. "We feel we must talk of peace. Jesus. wants men to be brothers." He deplored the use of force as an instrument for solving international problems. TMMS WIN GAME From Saturday's DalT ' The Timm kittenball team last evening won an 11 to 7 game from the Park Service team of Omaha-at the local athletic park. On Sunday the Timms will play the Cuming Street Merchants of Omaha, one of the good fast teams of that citv at 8 p. m. under the lights. GUESTS AT HIATT HOME Mrs. Laura Kurtz and two daugh ters, of Peoria. Illinois, were guests here over night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hiatt and family, departing this morning for their home. GOES TO CALIFORNIA From Thursday's Dally Miss Jean Brady departed this morning for Glendale, California, where she will visit with her cousin, Mrs. Herbert Minor and Mr. Minor for some three weeks. DeSota Trail Mapped After 20-Year Study Smithsonian Experts End Difficult Work as History Fades Few Records of Journey. By FRED BAILEY WASHINGTON (UP) The 400-year-old trail of Hernando De Soto first white man to penetrate the in terior of America has been mapped by ethnologists of the Smithsonian Institution. The ethnologists spent 20 years tracing the Spanish captain and his little expedition from the east Flor ida coast to northern Mexico. It took De Soto three years to make the journey that men now make by air in six hours. The task of trailing De Soto, which historians had held was im possible because of the few records of the journey, was performed by Dr. John R. Swanton, chairman of the U. S. De Soto Expedition Com mission in preparation for the 400th anniversary of the expedition. Dr. Swanton directed a staff of assistants that included Miss Caro line Dormon of Chestnut, La., and Col. John R. Fordyce of Little Rock, Ark. Col. Fordyce died recently, soon after completion of his long and arduous task. Changes Blur History During the four centuries that have passed since the Spanish Cap tain landed on the Florida coast and undertook his expedition into the in terior of the continent, the country side has undergone profound changes. The last speakers of the tongues of some of the savage tribes he encoun tered have died. No accurate journal was kept of the 1,500-mile trip. The trail had to be pieced together from scanty rec ords and diaries of members of the party. These sometimes differ. The expedition moved through an un mapped and unknown territory. Names of rivers and other landmarks differ from one source to another. Dr. Swanton concludes his report with a tribute to De Soto: "We are paying tribute to an en terprise which has Important his toric, ethnologic and archeologic meanings for the people of the United States as a whole. We are paying tribute also to an enterprise which, in Bpite of Its coarser aspects, did not lack something of knightly char acter, a ttieater for the display of real virtues albeit virtues of the sterner and harsher type. Compared With Cortez "In the leader of the expedition we have no Galahad, but one who, by the standards of his time and country, compared favorably with Cortez, Pizarro and other similar leaders. "His courage was unquestioned, his skill tested over and over again in the most difficult situations, and the cruelties in which he, like all of his contemporaries, indulged appear almost always to have been moti vated by supposed military necessity rather than the enjos'ment of suf fering for itself. "De Sotc when dying far from home as a disappointed, disillusion ed and financially ruined manfi could not have foreseen that his passing in what was destined to be the heart of one of the world's greatest na tions, and his burial beneath the waters of the grandest of North America's rivers, would give him a place In the world's history far more assured than if he had discovered the fabled El Dorado for which he searched.' BUILDING PLAN FOR CHUNG- - KING OFFSETS RAIDS CHUNGKING (UP) Chungking Is being rebuilt over a wide area to maintain itself with a minimum of disruption from anticipated bomb ings, according to Gen. Ho Kuo- kwang, director of the air defense headquarters and mayor of Chung king. With this in view, the municipal administration Is concentrating on perfecting relief measures to mini mize' civilian losses from future Jap anese bombings, he said. For this purpose ( fire brigades and air raid relief brigades were being trained, dugouts were being constructed and water tanks erected, he added. Addi tional alarm sirens also were being provided. Municipal reconstruction, he ex plained, at present consisted prin cipally In improving motor roads and ferry crossings and establishing mar kets in the suburbs. The sum of 13,000,000, he said, had been jointly subscribed by four leading banks for constructing the markets. See the goods you Duy. Catalog but how about the aoods when descriptions are alluring enough, you get themT CAR WRECK AT UNION From Saturday's Dally This morning a small car-train crash occurred at the crossing of highway No. 34 and the Missouri Pacific tracks near the station at Union. A car occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Price and their family. Herbert. Robert and Marine Price, was going west on the highway when they crossed the tracks as a freight train was being switched. The car ran onto the tracks as a section of the train was switched and the result was that the radiator of the car was damaged and other minor damages to the car. Herbert Price suffered minor injuries as the result of the accident but the party was able to proceed on to Lincoln. Long Termers to Enter U. S. Desert Prison Farm at La Tuna, N. M., Undergoes Extensive Improvement To Be Completed in 1940. LA TUNA. N. M. (UP) Prison gates will open less frequently for inmates at the federal detention farm here with Its designation by Attor ney General Frank Murphy as a long-term penitentiary. As a short term prison, La Tuna housed prisoners serving sentences of a year or less. Under the new designation, gates will shut on per sons sentenced for terms of one to twenty-five years. Completion in 1940 of a $200,000 Improvement program now in pro gress was a factor In the change from a detention farm to a federal long-term penitentiary. Irrigation projects to enlarge the prison farm carved from the arid foothills of the Organ mountains and building construction in a move to make the institution - self-sufficient are part of the Improvement pro gram. Prisoners Do Work Prison labor will lay irrigation pipes from the present main bring ing water from the Rio Grande three miles away to add 200 more acres to thep resent 200-acre polt under cul tivation. An earth dam 50 feet high and 1,500 feet long has been built to control flood waters from the foot hills and a four-mile fence will be erected to enclose the farm at a cost of $25,000. Twenty prisoners have completed a $90,000 project to double the present 35-man capacity of the work shop. Two dairy barn units will be finished within three months and a 200-foot hay and grain barn is under construction. Roads and 10 new houses for prison guards and federal employes also are on the improve ment program. Like most federal penitentiaries, La Tuna is as nearly self-sufficient as possible. Corn, beans, tomatoes, squash, potatoes and other crops are grown on the grounds and canned in the penitentiary shops, using equip ment constructed by prison machin ists. More than 11,000 gallons of vegetables have been canned at the farm. To Have Dairy Herd -The prison has its own hogs to supply meat and a herd of 36 dairy cattle will be brought from Leaven worth penitentiary by Jan. 1 to pro vide the prison with dairy products. Ducks, because, as prison officials pay, they lay more eggs at less cost than chickens, fill egg needs at table and kitchen. Designation of the farm as a long term prison will entail no hardships upon management of the peniten tiary, and Reuben R. Cross, asso ciate warden. "Operation of a short term prison is more difficult than a long term penitentiary." he said. "When the prisoners have become accustomed to prison life, there is no difference. The difficulty arises in acclimating so many different men in a short term Institution." PULITZER PRIZE WINNER LOSES LIFE IN ACCIDENT TYRINGHAM. Mass.. Aug. 24 (UP) Sidney Coe Howard. .48. of Oakland. California. 1925 Pulitzer prize winning playwright and son-in-law of Walter Damrosh, was killed Instantly late yesterday when run over by a tractor which he was cranking on his farm. KING THANKS PRESIDENT ROME, Aug. 25 (UP) King Vic tor Emmanuel has asked United States Ambassador William Phillips to thank President Roosevelt for his peace appeal and to tell him that it was being brought to the attention of the Italian government, Phillips said today. Our stock of legal blanks Is most complete. Jews of Italy Now Ineligible in Most Jobs Strict Rules in Effect for Public Office and Professions Even Tradesmen Affected. By HUGO SPECK ROME tUP) The future hold- little hope for the Italian Jew if he is to remain in the land of his birth. Following in the footsteps of its axis partner, the Fascist state ha now made it impossible for Jews to hold certain positions, and places trict regulations on other types of employment they can undertake. Moreover, except in urgent cases. they can only follow their profes sions for the exclusive benefit of the Jewish race. By a series of new decrees just Issued. Jews henceforth are forbidden the right to follow the profession of notaries. Journalism is also a for bidden field except in instances where special permission has been granted as in the case of war vet erans, etc. For a large number of other pro fessions stringent rules hereafter will have to be observed. If ihey are not. the employe can be expelled per manently from his profession in ex treme cases. Even Tradesmen Affected The professions affected are: Surgeon, pharmacist, veterinary. obstetrician, engineer, architect, ac countant, attorney, tradesman, land surveyor, agriculturist, agricultural or business appraiser. To follow the normal pursuits of the aforementioned profession Italian Jews must, first of all. notify authorities that they are Jewish within a limited time of a little over three weeks. Failure to do so may result In one month's imprisonment or a fine amounting to approximately $150. At the same time. Jews cease to be members of all syndical asso ciations juridically recognized. Following this it is necessary that they get their names inscribed in special professional lists. This is more complicated. To have their names added to the lists of their profession they must: Be an Italian citizen. Be of good moral conduct, and never have committed an act con trary to the interests of the regime and the nation. Be a resident of the district where they make their request. Possess the established requisite of their profession. Must Be Law-Abiding: Those who have been condemned for certain types of crime or have been expelled from their profession for whatever reason cannot be In scribed in these lists. At the same time, those who wish to be inscribed must present docu ments showing that they are Italian citizens, with a certif.cate of resi dence, and proof of their good morul. civil and political conduct. Once their names have been added to the special lists, disciplinary measures may be taken against them if they do not live up to the rules of their profession. The law calls for the constitution of a special commis sion which will review all such case once a year. If It deems necessary the employe can be suspended from his profession for a period of not longer than six months, or have bis name struck from the special limn entirely. On the other hand, however, the commission also will investigate new applications and may allow certain names to be inscribed in the lists where previous demands have been rejected. By the new laws Jews are alo barred from any activities on the part of public bodies and can hold no important public offices. DOCTOR GETS REMITTANCE 22 YEARS AFTER CASE ELYRIA, O. (UP) Dr. Austin S. McKitrick has had his faith re newed in the honesty of his fellow man. Twenty-two years ago he cared for a boy injured In an automobile accident. The boy's father then as unable to pay. The doctor recently received a check for 50 from the father, who apologized for the long delay, tut said he was glad he finally could pay his bills. You can get Rubber Stamps at lowest prices at Journal office. 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