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VOLUME ONE___ LINCOLN. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY Hi, 1988,_NUMBER SEVEN
Legislature Approves
Progressive Measures
Reactionary Lineup Is Repulsed On
The Moratorium BUI—Auto
License Fees.
By Geo. Kline.
Lincoln. Nebr.—After definitely de
feating the forces of reaction by or
dering the Cone moratorium bill to
third reading, leaders In the Nebras
ka legislature sent word Wednesday
to the vanguard of the Holiday
Marchers that there could be a meet
ing with the solons “at any time, any
place".
Speaker O'Malley last Monday de
clared that the visitors would be ac
corded every courtesy and that the leg
islature would make prompt report of
its activities.
On Monday noon Governor Bryan
issued the proclamation suggesting
that foreclosure proceedings cease.
On Tuesday the moratorium bills of
Cone and Dugan came up on special
order. During the morning the bills
were debated at length with veiled op
position from a number of sources.
The opposition was strong from the of
fice of Attorney-General Good He ad
vised that the bills were unconstitu
tional. He did not at any time tell the
legislature that In matters of court
procedure the legislators have the
right, under the constitution, to ask
by joint resolution for an interpreta
tion of such bills as the one introduc
ed by Cone.
The Moratorium Bill
Cone’s moratorium bill permits stays
under the direction of the court for
more than five years. However, the
defendant may be required to make
such payments as is possible. Dugan’s
bill, H. R. 92, gives a stay of nineteen
months.
In committee of the whole, Cone’s
bill was ordered to third reading. A
motion to advance Dugan's bill failed
to carry. This scheduled Cone’s bill
for passage and left Dugan's plan
alive and in reserve.
During the debate Binfield declared
that during the last campaign "every
candidate either promised relief to the
farmers or else held out hope for a
moratorium by silence."
Tremor Cone made ^ an extended
argument for his bill. He'told of being
laughed at six years ago when he first
presented it to the legislature. Pour I
years ago some paid attention.
“Two years ago," he declared. ‘‘I was 1
in a wheel chair, but I almost put it
over."
Dugen presented an argument to
prove that his bill had a show of be
ing upheld by the courts, while he
doubted the constitutionality of the
Cone bill.
After the vote was taken, which was
without roll call, Cone retired to his
seat, exhausted and worn out.
The Party Circle
electric voting machines and will now
H. R. 7 by Cushing, abolishing the
party circle, has been approved by the
senate.
Governor Bryan has signed the bar
ber’s bill. It was passed by the use of
the electric voting machine and will
now be tested out in the supreme
court to determine if the use of the
machine is legal.
The road bill, H. R. 195. has been
rushed along in the house. It looks as
if the license fees would be $3. $5. and
$8
The Lancaster county members oi
the conciliation board are: J. B. Moore.
Bennet; E. B. Duling. Raymond; Ted
Snyder. Waverly; Thomas Wallin, R 2
Lincoln, and Ned Brown of Arbor.
The Railway Commission
The senate has lifted up its hand
against one of the four "sacred ele
phants” of the state government.
A joint resolution for a constitu
tional amendment has been advanced
to third reading, submitting to the
people the question of abolishing the
railway commission.
When the bill first came up in the
committee of the whole, a powerful
lobby attempted to protect the com
mission from the chance of being ta
ken for a ride before the people. It
was suggested that the commission be
placed under the authority of the su
preme court, thus mixing up the ex
ecutive and Judicial departments. This
proposition lost out.
As originally drawn the proposal
provided that the legislature of 1935
arrange for the taking over of the du
ties of the railway commission by
some agency of state. Senator O’F’urev
made a motion to specify the state of
ficials mentioned in the governor's
message. In this way the railway com
mission might get the benefit of any
opposition aroused by the method of
handling the work suggested by the
governor In this form the proposal
was advanced to third residing.
The suggestion to let the people
vote on the abolition of the railway
commission is being fought under the
hut from several quarters.
Two Platform Pledges
Governor Bryan, in an informal
message last week, expressed his ap
proval of the bill passed by the house
to take the party circle from the bal
lot. He also approved House Roll 10 by
Cone, and H. R. 161 by Chase as meet
ing the democratic platform pledge on
the plank to do e\*ay with deficiency
judgments. These two bills have been
endorsed by the house.
Uproar about Missouri River naviga
tion continued for a time last Friday
night. Ex-Oovemor Arthur J. Weaver
made a defense against the charges of
Crosier of Polk. Mark Woods also en
tered the arena.
There was little public interest man
ifested. From Washington comes the
information that the old Missouri
River setup has been knocked into a
cocked hat. Distribution of contracts
to monkey with the old river will not
hereafter be handed out as of yore. It
is a new deal. Those who have been
getting much of the gravy have a rude
surprise in store for them after March
4th, it is reported from Washington.
Within the next ten <iays the proposed
items in the general appropriation
bill, it is reported, will be entirely
changed and rewritten in the United
State senate. Those now waiting in
fondest expectancy will later have
naught to do but nurse shattered
hopes and mourn over fat contracts
of other day. When it comes to Nation
al politics after March 4th the old re
publican crowd does not function. And
a river and harbors bill is politics.
Nothing else but.
Brain Trust Active
One of the significant events of the
week was the hot spotting of Senator
McCarter by the alleged brain trust.
Composed largely of professors, the
membership of the brain trust is aug
mented by representatives of corpora
tions and attorneys for the special in
terests. The brain trust functions
through some civic clubs. The pro
ceedings ace never reported.
In Lincoln there are about 130 of
these bodies, each club working under
a pressure during a session of the leg
islature. Senator McCarter went on
the hot griddle for introducing a gross
income tax bill.
Coming prepared to riddle the inno
cent little bill of the senator from
Bayard, they were not ready for a
half dozen questions McCarter shot at
the trust. These questions had to do
with the lack of constructive ideas in
braintrustlend and why-the-dickens
did all this depression happen and who
let it happen.
In the ensuing row over which group
was most responsible, McCarter eluded
the tentacles of the intellectual octo
pus. He made his escape to the open
air. income tax bill unpunctured. Dur
ing the ordeal the senator was buoyed
up and encouraged by some private
information whispered by a reporter
"That bunch," he was informed,
have been consistently and uni
formly wrong for the last twenty
years."
The Cone Opinion
While attorneys general are seeking
to get acquainted with their new du
ties and have as yet no time for a
quiet perusal of the Nebraska state
constitution, it becomes the duty of
this newspaper to suggest to Mr. Cone
that the last opinion of the attorney
general on the moratorium may be
safely disregarded. Mr. Cone, without
delaying his bill, which, as he claims
Bliss, either in his transfer of the as
sets of the Guaranty Fund or the De
positors Final Statlement Fund or In
his distribution of such assets to de
positors of the defendant bank ac
cording to the legislative mandate con
tained in Senate File No. 3.
It contains no allegations that Bliss
as secretary deliberately and with
knowledge of the unconstitutionality
of Senate Pile No. 3. or with knowledge
of pre-existing judgment liens against
the assets of the Guarany Fund, trans
ferred the assets of the Guaranty
Fund to the Depositors Final Settle
ment Fund and then distributed them
to the depositors of the defunct bank.
It contains no allegation that Bliss
as secretary acted in violation of any
injunction issued against him by any
court at the suit of interested parties
forbidding the transfer of assets of the
Guaranty Fund to the Final Settle
ment Fund and the distribution of as
sets so transferred, to depositors of
defendant bank according to the "step
up-plan".
II. Misjoinder of parties defendant
in that:
The intervener has failed to Include
as parties defendant to this action the
recipients of the $1321.90 In question
and Clarence O. Bliss, the former sec
retary of the Department of Trade
and Commerce, who distributed the
money to them.
The receiver of the defunct is not a
proper party defendant in this ac
tion.
Deficiency Judgment Bills
The'house Monday afternoon passed
Scottsboro Star Witness
Repudiates Testimony
By Federated Press
NEW YORK (FP)—The state's star
witness against the nine Scottsboro
boys has repudiated her testimony
charging them with rape. •‘Those po
liceman made me tell a lie," she wrote
a former sweetheart "Those Negroes
, did not touch me.”
The letter containing her denial of
the lies she told cn the witness stand
was intercepted and suppressed by
Huntsville, Ala, police. The Inti. La
j bor Defense, which has conducted an
; international fight for the release of
the nine Negro youths framed on
rape charges, forced the court to pro
duce the letter.
Written by Ruby Bates, whose testi
mony was the basis for sentencing the
boys to the chair, the letter knocks
the props from under the state's case.
When the letter was produced, how
ever. the hearing was postponed eight
days. Rumors that a lynching Is be
ing planned, since the legal lynching
may be stopped by this letter, have
caused the I. L. D. to demand safe
guards for the boys’ lives.
"This is my statement because 1
want to make myself clear” the girl
wrote to her sweetheart. "I hope you
will believe me—the law don’t. I was
drunk at the time and didn’t know
what I was doing. I know it was wron $
to let those Negroes die on account of
me. I hope you will believe my state
ment because It is the God’s truth. I
hope you tell the law.
“P. 8.—This Is one time that I might
tell a lie but It Is the truth so God
help me.”
One of the cases resulted in a mis
trial. The Alabama State Supreme
Court reversed the conviction of one
of the boys, and the U. S. Supreme
Court reversed the conviction of the
remaining seven. All nine cases are
set for retrial In March In (he Scotts
boro court, by the same judge who pre -
sided over their first trials in an at
mosphere of mob rule. A change of
venue has been demanded by the I. L.
D.
Sick List
Mrs. Billie Ford McWilliams, who
has been ill lor some time, is still im
proving slowly. We are very glad to
hear of this and hope that she contin
ues to improve.
Miss Orvilla Banks, one of our tal
ented group, who is in the St. Eliza
beth hospital, underwent an operation
for "appendicitis. At the time of this
report she had not regained con
sciousness from the ether. We are in
deed hoping she is up and around very
soon.
Rex Williams, 8 years old son of Mr.
and Mrs. M. E. Williams, was removed
to the St. Elizabeth Hospital Monday
afternoon, Feb. 13th. We are very sor
ry to hear of this and also hope he
will be out soon.
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Entertain Students
Miss Charlotte Williams entertain
ed a group of high school students on
Tuesday evening, Feb. 14, 1933, at her
home. 2211 R St. Those present were:
Miss Charlotte Williams, Miss Ger
trude Buckner, Miss Doris Jones, Miss
Bernice Evans. Miss Marian Watkins,
Mr. William Molden, Mr. Hershel Bur
den, Mr. Sherwood Venerable, and Mr
Monroe E. Williams, Jr.
The evening was spent with cards
and dancing, a most exclusive lunch
eon was served—Strawberry jello with
mixed fiuits and nuts mounted on let
tuce, french sandwitches, sponge cake
topped with whipped cream with
chopped pineapple and cocoa. All en
joyed themselves immensely.
House Roil 10 by Cone, forbidding de
ficiency judgments. Many lawyers de
clared that this bill would not apply
to contracts made before the law was
passed, while others expressed an op
posite view. The bill passed by a vote
of 81 to 13. Those voting on the nega
tive were: Burr. Chase. Comstock. S.
B. Johnson. W R. Johnson. McBride, j
O'Gara, Pattavina. Rohlff, Smallwood.
Tesar. Turbyfill, and Williams.
Next on the list came House Roll 161
by Chase, amending a different sec
tion of the statutes and authorizing
judges to order resales until the
amount of the lien was bid and in
this way avoiding a deficiency judg
ment. This bill passed 73 to 16 Both
H. R. 10 and H. R. 161 go to the sen
ate with the emergency clause. The
negative votes were: Anderson of
Nuckolls. Buffington. Carman. Cone.
Dowell, Freeouf. Draff, Havekost,
Hawk. Larsen. McMahon. Mitchell,
Peters, Warrington. Webber of Colfax,
Woodruff
Speaker O'Malley issued a state
ment to the holiday group after the
passage of House Rolls 10 and 161. He
said the holiday organization was
working for the same things that oc
cupied the legislature. He assured them
a hearty welcome when they came to
Lincoln.
A Social Chat
With Loretta
Mr. and Mrs Cicero Johnson were
Omaha visitors over the week-end.
Mr Harvey Washington, an old res
ident of the city, shows a marked Im
provement at th'x writing He has
been seriously til for some time.
Mr and Mrs. Ed Williamson was at
home Sunday afternoon to a few
friends. An enjoyable time was had
and the hostess served dainty refresh
ments.
Mr and Mrs. E. Poster entertained
a few friends at c-ards last Friday eve
ning A buffet luncheon was served
which was very appetizing, .uid those
present praised Mrs. Foster very high
ly as a wonderful hostess
The Rev. Burbrldge and Dr. Win
chester were Omaha visitors the past
week.
The Home Benevolent Charity club
gave a Valentine party last Tuesday
evening at the 1133 M Bt. Hall Mr.
Harold Jones and hla red hot orches
tra played to one of the largest crowds
this winter. The Charity club utytys,
enjoys a nice patronage and. through
the president, we wish to sincerely
thank the public.
Making Good
William (Bill) Nelson, man about
town, has entered the business world
and Is nicely established near the
Rock Island Station on 19th street. A
trip of inspection through Mr" Nelson's
Bar-be-cue place shows one of the
finest, most modem Bar-be-cue pits
I have ever seen, and after eatlmi
some of Mr. Nelson's Bar-be-cue I
think you will agree with me, that it
is the very best in Nebraska. This
young man is an old citizen here and
is running a clean respectable place,
where the very best people cun go and
feel free to enjoy a nice meal in peace.
Let's help this young man to make
good, let’s show him how much we ap
preciate the start he has taken, and
give him our patronage. After all, the
right Vfay of living is the best way.
Good luck "Bill".
As a compliment to Mrs. Pres-, j
Graves, the Review wishes to announce
that Mrs. Graves is selling fresh eggs
every day at her home, 2700 So. 9th
St. F-3226.
Quinn Chapel—ftth and C Sts. Sun
day, Feb. 19th. The Rev. Mr. Bur
hridge, Pastor.
Sunday School—9:30 a. m. Mrs. Jas
Shelby, Super.
Dr. W. B. Brooks, presiding elder of
the Omaha District, will fill the pul
pit both morning and evening.
Love Feast—Friday night. Please
have your quarterly conference dues
ready.
Las. Sunday being Lincoln's birthday,
the Revs. Burbridge and Winchester
and their respected choirs were hon
ored guests of Dr. B. F. Wyland and j
members of the Plymoth Congregation- ]
al church. 20th &. D Sts. Mr. Wilbur
Chenoweth gave an organ recital that
was a treat indeed. The choirs from i
the Mt Zion Baptist and Quinn chap
el sang three beautiful old spirituals I
which were very much enjoyed. Ply
moth church was packed. The Review
takes this means of letting thoee min- j
isters know just how much we appre- j
ciate their efforts in being one of the |
means cf bringing about this closer
relation to the races. It’s just one of1
the steps planned for the year 1933
program.
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Sports
Dear Sir —
Your constant grumble for sport j
news concerning Lincoln boy® can now |
come to an end, I am only sorry that
I don't have time to write more of
them. But you may look for at least
one article a week. In this particular
article I will attempt to give you the
“low down" on something that is more
or less right here under our nose.
A new comer to Nebraska University
is Clyde Walton. He halls from Kan
sas City. Mo., and is an all-round ath
lete—may I add, and is a dam good
one. At present Walton may be seen
almost any evening working out very
diligently on the indoor track at the
stadium, and can he go? "Yowsah!”
This boy makes the half mile rim look
like a sprint. And I “kinda" think
Coach Schulte realizes it. too. That is
the reason why Walton is going to
Wisconsin next year, (it is rumored).
Aside from being a track man, Wal
ton plays basket bail (his specialty* as
hard and as well. Once I asked him
why he played so hard when the other
boys took it more or less for a joke.
He replied. "I've got a goal in view "
Well, anyway, if Walton runs the
half mile at Wisconsin like he does
at the stadium, and what is going to
stop him, Lincoln wili have something
to be proud of
Attention!
After this week The Review
office will be located at 1031 N.
Street. Signed,
T. T. McWilliams.
Editor and Publisher.
Kadke Files Demurrer
In Bank Guaranty Suit
('ounae! for the Receiver Interposes
Objections to Suits fur $270,000.
Attorney P. C. Radke of the receiv
ership division of the department of
trade and commerce Iras filed a de
murrer to the suit to compell depos
itors who have received $270,000 under
the terms of the Depositors Settlement
Fund to pay it bock Senate Pile 3,
passed at the special session of the
legislature, repealing the old bank
guarantee act and creating this scheme
of settlement, has been declared un
constitutional. Under it was paid out
$270,000 to the depositors of the fail
ed banks.
With the law declared unconstitu
tional, the amount would go to the de
positors of approximately eight of the
banks. Attorney Radke has filed a de
murrer In which he assails the theory
ft>f preferred settlement on the follow
ing grounds:
1. Said petition does not state facts
sufficient to constitute a cause of ac
tion against the defendant bank, its
assets or receiver in that:
It contains no allegation that the re
ceiver of the Western State Bank ever
come into the possession of the $1321
90 in question.
It falls to allege that the sum of
$1321.00 was ever Included among the
assets of (he defendant bank or had
been distributed as dividends from
those assets to the depositors.
It fails to allege any breach of good
faith by the former secretary of the
Department of Trade and Commerce,
F. C. HADKE
only reeks to modify court rules, mere- 1
ly an amendment to “practice and
procedure," can easily get the "low
down". Mr. Cone does not need to con
duct a joint debate with attorneys
general. He can smoke the supreme
court itself out into the open. And
he can do it now.
For just notice the following quota
tion from Art. V. Sec. 26. Nebraska
Constitution:
"To the same end. the court may.
and when requested by the legislature
by joint resolution, shall certify to the
legislature, its conclusions as to desir
able amendments or changes in the
general laws governing such practice
and proceedings."
All the legislature has to do in this
matter is to pass a resolution. Then
it is up to the court to purt with some
of its wisdom, which can be applied
when the bill gets to the senate. The
attorneys will now rush in to say that
this section was intended for practic
rules of attorneys in courts. True
enough. But that is all Core’s bill Is
for. he says. It amends the general
laws and regulates the rules of pro
cedure in mortgage cases.
And what on earth is the foreclo
sure of a mortgage on a good Nebras
ka farm if it is not ' such practice and
proceedings”?
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Race Cooperation
What the colored man needs most
as a race is a greater spirit of cooper
ation He should entourage every
worthy ambition of a membrr of his
race, and should patronize and fos
ter every laudable enterprise which is
controlled b; his people.
Tlie colored man can only become a
formidable factor in this nation by
uniting his forces. It is too common
to hear him speak disparingly of his
own race.
Seine old fossils and fogies take a
morbid delight in adverse criticism of
themselves. No doubt a first class fu
nearl occasionally, is of incalcuable
benefit to the race
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Here And There
Rex Williams, son of Mr and Mrs.
M. E. Williams, was taken to the St.
Elizabeth Hospital Monday. FVb. 13th
Soma Henie of St. Moritz. Switzer
land. is said to be the world’s ama
teur skating champion.
Why You All Should
Take A Race Paper
Bach home should have a race paper.
Oet one In the columns of which the
editors are seeking to build up tho
race and not working to pull It down.
When you subscribe to thp Review you
get one In which the editors display,
not pessimistic, but optimistic views
of the race.
It will be well to remember that It
takes, or presumably should take,
brains to edit a newspaper Men who
have not been trained to think are
hardly men to be entrusted with the
precious task of giving direction to
public opinion. The editorial chair re
quires more than that culture received
from reading news from other papers
The editor who is sending out week
by week his paper Into the world
ought to be able to grapple with the
problems of the day and think them
through. There Is too much guessing
on the social problems of the day 6y a
few editors. Riots and mdbs are the
results of false teachings, both on the
part of hot-headed anarchists and In
competent editors who are not anar
chists.
You will find that the editorial col
umns of this paper show meditation,
and is never squared away with a
chip on its shoulder, daring someone
to knock it off. The paper which
spends its time fighting its contem
poraries cannot be of much help to
its readers.
There are two outstanding reasons
why you should take the Review. The
first is a duty that you owe to your
self to keep up with the movements
among your own people. Second, you
owe It to the race to support a laud
able enterprise that looks to the bet
terment of the race. Let us also re
member, too, that the pulpit, the press
and the platform have been the great
liberators of the nation. In this land
ol ours we need all to plead our cause
up and uown the length of the land
Put the Review in your home now.
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Obituary
Wilson Augustus Hardin was bom
on the 8th dny of March, 1864. at New
London, Ind., and came west to Lincoln
in the year 1882, where he found em
ployment with some of Lincoln's first
mercantile enterprises.
f?oon after coming west. Mr Har
din met Mrs. Aille Mason and they
were united in marriage on the 16th
day of Mny, 1895.
As one of the early pioneers in th**
restaurant business, Mr. Hardin and
his wife conducted several eating es
tablishments in Lincoln.
In later years he was employed at
Hardy, Rudge And Gunzel’s and spent
ceveral years with the Hashengerber
Store.
Although in failing health for some
time, It was only since December 28th
that he was confined to his home. He
had been seriously ill for some time,
but lately, seemed well on the road to
recovery. However on Feb. 11th, there
was a relapse and Mr. Hardin died at
11.45 p. m.. Tuesday, February 14,
1933, of heart attack
He Is survived by his wife, Alllc. a
brother James B„ of Marrien, Kans,
a sister. Lucy Marsh, of Kokomo. Ind .
and a daughter. Mrs. Lennle Thomas,
and a host of other relatives and
friends
Final arrangements pending, the
body is at Brown's Mortuary.
Smalls Injured
In Auto Mishap
Leaving Lincoln In sub-zero weather
last Wednesday and encountering a
blinding snow storm after crossing the
Kansas line on his way to Kansas City.
Mo., his home, W Robert Smalls hit
a snow bank just after leaving Hia
watha. Kars. He lost control of his
car, with this unexpected compact and
It turned upside down.
Very little damage was done to the
car. Mr Smalls received minor injur
ies. including bruises and slight lacer
ations. He was able to complete his
drive home.
Mi Smalls is the executive secre
tary of the Kansas City Urban League.
He had been in Lincoln t .e previous
week in the interest of the branch of
the Urban League that is to be estab
lished here soon.
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Lincoln High
School News
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We are very sorry to hear of our
fellow student. Miss Orvllla Banks, be
ing summoned to the St. Elizabeth
i Hospital We hope very much that she
I will be able to return home very soon.
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