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THE LINCOLN STAR-WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1943 Dr. George Washington Carver Dies OWNERS FORESEE 1943 BOOM Nebraska Land Prices Due To Buyers Force Values To New High Marks latter price was satisfactory, but then he found it had gone to $90. He has just about concluded not to try to sell the farm, Sales Made Easily. One of the largest eastern Insurance companies has been aver- Nebraska is getting set for a big lift in land prices in 1943, aging farm sales of one a day which may culminate in a boom in a few years.

While they around Lincoln. used adver- Famed Negro Scientist refuse t0 quoted, several economists and men in touch with in the land situation declared today that a boom is not only pos- one real estate man re- sikle but may be hard to hold off. once people realize what has marked Rose From Slavery To Become One Of U. Leading Educators larger percentage land to the east. Although it was not generally known.

Nebraska land prices actually reached the lowest point 1941. at an ave age of just 55 per cent of their value in 1912 to 1914 Iowa reached its lowest price back in 1933 and has been advancing more or less steadily since that time. Its low point In 1933 was 58 per cent of its value Now I have four to five before the first war. By 1941 it Rail Commission Powers Detailed In Classifying Trucks Supreme Court Increase 4 than report which was accepted as "favorable Rev. Melvin TUSKEGEE, Ala Jan.

death of Dr George Wash- ington Carver, famous negro1 scientist who rose from slavery to become one of the leading Here ore some facts that have just come to calls a One teacher in a normal school started with a few thousand and but indications now are that they has been making more on buying will run for a considerable period and selling land than in his regu- following the war. lar position. 8. One drawback has been The federal land bank sold 74 the shortage of farm labor but farms around Lincoln last year LR. CARVER mad peanut famous was mourned throughout the nation today.

President Roosevelt, Henry Ford and noted scientists were informed of Dr. death at Tuskegee Institute last night. He had been in ill health for several months. Born slavery at Diamond Grove, Dr. Carver himself did- not know exact age.

All available records indicate he was born in 1864. One report held that as a child he was traded for a race horse. Once War Stolen. Dr. mother was owned by Moses Carver of Diamond Grove.

While still a small child he and has mother were stolen and carried into Arkansas. His master located the child and redeemed him by trading a horse to the abductors, but the mother had disappeared. Dr. Carver, best known as the man who made the peanut famous, devoted 44 years of his versatile life to science. He developed more than 300 useful products from the peanut and more than 100 others from the sweet potato besides discovering new uses for cotton.

Working as a messenger, launderer and general handyman. Dr. Carver earned enough to obtain an elementary education and to study at Iowa State college where he received his bachelor's degree 1894 and his degree two years later. He was about 20 years old before he was able to read and write. Given Honorary Degree.

In 1896 at the invitation of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Carver joined the staff of the famous negro college, later becoming director of the department of agricultural research. It was at Tuskegee that he turned his analytical mind to the woes of southern agriculture. Simpson college gave him an honorary degree in science, and the Royal Society of Arts in London voted him a membership.

In 1923 he was the Spmgarn medal for research in potash, and in 1939 he received the Theodore Roosevelt medal for distinguished service in science. Preferring to devote his life to aiding the people of his race, Dr. Carver turned down several attractive offes including a $100,000 a year research post in Thomas A. laboratories and another from the soviet union. In 1940 he donated his life's savings of $300,000 as a nucleus for a foundation at Tuskegee.

Abo A Painter. Last summer Ford, an intimate friend of Dr. Carver, opened a food experimental laboratory at Dearborn, with the aid of the noted negro scientist. Dr a painter Many years ago the Luxembourg galleries in Paris offered to buy one of his but Carver refused, preferring ta leave his works of art to Tuskegee His versatility as a scientist demon been happening light with the begining of a new year 1. Insurance companies and holders of distress properties taken over in the past several years have made rapid progress in cleaning them out.

Not only that, but they are now engaged in marking up prices. The federal land bank is going through its holdings and in many cases marking up the asking prices 20 to per cent. 2. There is practically no distress land coming on the market now, Richardson county, for example, reported not a single foreclosure last year. Prices on non-distress farms are much higher and owners in good standing are not anxious to sell.

3. Due ot a peculiar and inter-Q esting situation, described later, Nebraska will likely show a larger proportionate increase in land prices than states to the east Boom in Iowa. 4. Iowa has been having a miniature boom the past year. Iowa land sales averaged $100 an acre in November.

Excellent land there is selling from $120 to $134 an acre for the state and in the eastern counties as high as $160, according to a study made by the Iowa State college. 5. The federal land bank reports that Nebraska land prices have risen 14.6 per cent, while Iowa land prices have risen 10.9 per cent over a year ago last fall. 6. The number of Lincoln business and professional men who have purchased farms in the past year reads like a roster of the country club.

These farms are being bought for only a small payment down in some cases as a hedge against inflation. One Lincoln real estate company has established a farm management department and already has 75 farms being managed for absentee owners. These men this year expect to net close to 10 per cent on the total cost of the farm. On their equities they are getting as high as 40 per cent. Foresee Prosperity.

7. Most economists believe that farms are in for good times for a considerable period of years. Not only are the food demands tremendoifs incident to the war, with in draft classification and possibility of labor being assigned to farms, the situation is not an impossible one. The gossip in real estate offices and trust companies at present is a little like that of the beginning of other booms. One real estate man sold a farm at $75, was the asking price.

Then he found the price had already gone to $85 without his knowing it. Then the buyer offered $85, but by that time it was $87.50. The for nearly half a million dollars. Half of this money was cash. An interesting story is that of a soldier who bought an Iowa farm through a Lincoln man.

'He paid down The army got him and it looked as if the farming business was gone. But this year, in absentee management, he got out of the place beyond interest and taxes. The most interesting story concerns the question of why Nebraska land stands to have a had advanced to 75 per cent By the spring of 1942 it had reached 80 per cent. By that time Nebraska had gone to 50 per cent and it is believed that at the present time another 15 per cent increase would be conservative. Moisture and greater attention to raising hogs are important factors in changing the price of land.

While mortgage foreclosures in Nebraska have been distressing to many farmers, they have not been an unmixed blessing to tenants who have been able to start in on own with payments of $1.000 and $1.500 lately. They stand to make handsome sums on the rise in the entire value of their farms. Some insurance companies have been carrying their balances for as low as 2 per cent interest. GIRLS SERVE AS PAGES IN THE LEGISLATURE The Nebraska Supreme court Wednesday reversed in part the stand taken by the state railway commission in the case of William Kassenbaum, Hebron trucker, and held that the commission was not authorized to classify regular or irregular route carriers. The commission is.

however, authorized to direct and certify the that may be rendered by motor carriers, the court held in its opinion. The court affirmed the Knox county District court and held that Earl Perry, property owner, under the tax foreclosure statutes had no right to redeem his real estate by simply paying the amount the property went for at the sheriff's sale. Reverses Decision. The court reversed the trial decision, however, in the suit of Grand Island and its school districts against Hall county which arose with the sale of real estate. The school district maintained that a proportionate amount of the sale should be distributed.

was not the duty of the governmental subdivisions to ascertain the power and authority of the county in this the court held, case holds a different legal concepticm than do other cases (Garfield vs. the opinion maintained. The court affirmed the decision of the Douglas county District court which declined to grant workmen's compensation to Violet M. Baughman, widow of an Omaha policeman. Thomas A.

Baughman, killed an automobile accident. The court held that Baughman, was not engaged in the performance of his duty when killed and that the compensation law does not cover workmen except when they are engaged in, on or about; the premises where their duties are being performed. Other opimcms filed: McCarthy Pfast Appeal. Hamilton. Affirmed Bberly, Judge In re Estate of Tynan.

Wood Tynan Appeal, Riehardion. Affirmed. Eberly. Ju dge. The Village of Axtell Nebraska Hardware Mutual Insurance Co.

Appeal. I Phelps. Affirmed. Simmons. Chief Jus- i tice.

Redeemer Lutheran Church Geo. Tasslet it pastor of the church. Kraufthaar Preiident Great Salt Lake and Dead George Kraushaar was re- are the two bodies of water elected president of the Redeemer on saltier than the oceans. Lutheran church Voter's league in a meeting of the group at the church Tuesday night. Other officers elected were Becker, first vice president; A Wersehky.

second vice presi dent; Frank Winter, secretary and Martens, treasurer. L. T. gave a treas Acid Indigestion I root Whm mm jwiMXi pwdiriwB Sa.denteai January Specials SPORTS and STREET Typs SHOES ONE LOT of oxfords from Third Floor ond an additional lot of from our regular Thrift Rasrmrnt stork. sale 2.50 RAYON FABRICS pair A good eight for in a of colors ant) black.

Regularly SALE, yard I 47c WOMEN'S GLOVES FABRIC glovo in styles and Formerly 39c. ON SALE- 49c pair RAYON STOCKINGS IRREGULARS of better ho- Tmmbmtrime a broken lot of Regularly 79c ON SALE 67c pair 6.50 off Sateen-covered comforters filled with reprocessed wool or cotton and reprocessed wool. Approximate and 68x78. Shop early while this discount is In effect. Mllirr Thrift miLLEB ECRETARIES to the served as pages, along with the veteran of pages, Marine Corporal Henry Remington, at the opening ceremonies Tuesday.

Pages for the new sion are to be assigned later. Left to right, this group yesterday included: Remington; Mary Belle Heasley, Falls City; Gwenda Lee Holmes, Minden, and Barbara Payne, Beatrice. STORE 9:30 a. m. to 6 Tennis Champ From Elkhorn 30 Per CGilt Of Leading Force In Tunisia Training For Teg' Man" WITH U.

S. FORCES IN TUNISIA, Jan. scouts led by a former Missouri valley tennis champion are playing an important role in keeping allied the axis The patrols forces. certainly is great training for a leg said 26-year-old Lieut. Mark T.

Martin, former St. Louis reporter and assistant telegraph editor of the Des Moines, Register-Tribune, who hails from Hoe hid, Elkhorn, Neb. were out in the hills for five days at a stretch, travelling 60 to 100 miles and feeding whole time on emergency rations in our light packs. would like to have a blanket or two but they take up space and slow us down, so all we carry beside food is our Butter To Go To Army And Allies Juices Too the to solve the ills of the one-crop cotton system of farming in the south which was robbing the soil of its fertility. He advised the farmers to plant more peanuts and sweet potatoes xhicfa were less injurious to the soil and then went back to his laboratory to develop a host of mar- Ketabie bv-producu from the new produce.

Called upon to testify for 10 minutes on the Smoot-Hawley tariff before the congressional ways and means committee in 1621 Dr Carver discussed the peanut and other agricultural products so enter- taingly that he talked for an hour and 45 minutes before the committee realized he had spoken overtime. Dr Carver never married and has no He lived quietly in a second floos apartment one of the 110 buildings at Tuskegee near his laboratory and museum He is credited wits teaching Henry A Wallace the rudiments of scientific farming when the vice president a small many years ago he turned boy CREAM DEODORANT ti'buh safely STOPS under-arm PERSPIRATION 1. Does rot or men shirts. not irritate skin. No waiting to dry.

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are lucky if we get two hours sleep out of Lieut. Martin said, Spirit of Men High. He said that although casualties had been comparatively heavy, as expectable in these dangerous, commando-tvpe operations, the spirit of the men te very high and they are anxious to take on more risky assignments. Martin, who was ranked as number one junior class tennis player in the Missouri valley in 1933, weighed 190 pounds when he took up the commando-like training. Now he weighs 165 pounds.

Miller Vacates Office; Loses Motion to Unify County Relief Setup Commissioner Ira Miller fired his last salvo Tuesday afternoon before vacating his seat on the county board, by presenting a resolution to combine county assistance and direct relief under one directorship. Always one of pet topics, the resolution died for want of a second from either Commissioners Hall or Miller, who are violently opposed to it. In the resolution he pointed out that Douglas county with more people on relief rolls pays less for a director than Lancaster, where the outlay is $330 a month. believe that the county could save almost $1,000 monthly by this Miller said. Hall offered a motion to adjourn and Miller seconded it, saying, least get in one second before I Miller has served as county commissioner for one term of fice.

The board acted to deduct the victory tax from salaries of all county employes and officers after County Attorney Max Towle submitted the opinion that the tax should be applied possibly until a more direct rule on procedure is received form the federal government. Montreal is 1,000 miles from the ocean, but is 300 miles nearer Liverpool than New York City. WASHINGTON. Jan. (AP) armed forces and her allies are going to get 30 per cent of the nation's monthly production of creamery butter and virtually all of the canned citrus juices.

The new government order, effective Feb. 1, is expected to set aside about 510,000,000 pounds of butter this year for war requirements, leaving about 1,190,000,000 pounds for civilians. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard said last night that the curtailment will permit civilians about 13 pounds of butter each in 1943 as compared with an estimated per capita consumption of 16 pounds last year. In reserving production of all citrus juices, except trated grapefruit juices, for war needs, Wickard declared his order will not materially affect civilian Beach. supplies.

Large quantities of fresn citrus juices, he explained, are available to civilians. Rationing Studied. The war production board last Nov. 30 directed half of the then availat ie cold storage butter stock in 35 cities frozen for government needs. The directive earmarked about 18,000,000 pounds, or two weeks supply, for war needs.

Under the new order, about two-thirds of the share will go to American military forces and almost all the rest to Russia. Meantime, dairy officials declared that the possibility of rationing butter is being studied. Part of the civilian supply, they added, also may be reserved for distribution late in the year when butter production declines. Crash Fatal LONG BEACH, Jan. authorities today investigated a mid-air collision of two navy training planes at Los Alamitos, which killed one cadet pilot and critically injured another.

The dead pilot was identified as Walter Eugene Law, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Law of Steamboat Springs, Colo.

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