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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA MONDAY, JULY 16, 1934 r'lnyT'Cl Llnooln LlmltA 1 1 a fTVS cents LINCOLN MEN DIE IN CRASH Troops Take Charge In San Francisco Strike Area GENERAL STRIKE THROWS BUSINESS NEUSION Fear Grips City and Activity Paralyzed as Further Violence Looms. BACRAMENTO, Calif. (UP). The entire national guard of California was mobilized Monday to aaaiat civil authorities in maintaining peace in the San Francisco bay area and in agricultural districts where trouble wasthreat- ened. Most of the troops were ordered to San Francisco with scattered units directed into Interior California points where agitators were attempting fniit strikes, according to Governor Frank F.

Merriam. Details of movements of troops were not disclosed. Officials said that one company of militia was ordered to Stockton at the request of Mayor J. Con Franke. The mayor said troops were needed there to protect shipping tied up at the dock.

No street cars were running. There was no transportation of any kind. Hundreds of shops were was in confusion. Meantime public mayor, the police commissioner and stirring appeals to the citizenry to by organized and promised that the and lives of citizens" would bep rotected. There were indications that as many as 6,000 soldiers would be on duty by night.

As the strike became effective the 160th regiment was being mobilized in Los An(Continued on Page 7.) CLAIM DILLIN6ER IN IOWA Reported Seen Sunday Night by Three Farmers. CEDAR RAPros, la, A man answering the description of John Dlllinger was seen by three farmers near Cedar Bluffs, Sunday night, a report received by local police said. The farmers, whose names the sheriff declined to reveal, had gone to a heavily wooded pasture to salt cattle and found a man and a woman seated near an automobile (Ford V-8 bearing a Michigan license). The car was parked in the pasture but was beaded toward the road. 'The man told the farmers he was a Detroit business man on a vacation trip and asked to remain in the pasture until 10 p.

m. However, as the farmers started into the woods the couple got into the car and drove away. Later it was learned they stopped at a Cedar Bluffs garage and asked the way to Iowa City. IWO FAMILIES VERY IE FROM POISONING BEYOND HE SOME Canned Corn Is Blamed for Serious Condition of Seven Denton People. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles R. Ray and young son, Donald, of Denton and Mr. and Mrs. George Firestone and two babies of the same neighborhood were critically ill Monday with ptomaine poi.soning, attributed by Dr.

W. H. Slattery to some canned com they had eaten Saturday. The Firestone family is siting at the Ray home, Mrs. Firestone being a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ray, and all ate of the corn and were taken violently ill that night. Doctor Johnson was called to the Firestone home Sunday morning and had the family taken to Lincoln General hospital, where Dr. E. W.

Hancock and Dr. F. L. Rogers are attending them. Dr.

W. H. Slattery went to the Ray home Sunday night and brought that fEmlly to St. Elizabeth hospital by ambulance. He said all of theni were critically ill Monday.

CAN'T HALT FOREW FIRES Are Worst in History of Mesa Verde Region. DENVER. Colo. Defying efforts of several hundred men to check them, forest fires raged in Mesa Verda National park in southwestern Colorado and Washakie National forest in Wyoming. Two fires, which have destroped about 4,000 acres of tlmberland in the Mesa Verde park, were described by Superintendent Leavitt as the in this JEWEL THIEVES CAUGHT.

CHICAGO. E.P). Three men suspected in the theft of $62,500 in jewels from Mrs. Adolph Zukor, wife of the motion picture producer, are in the custody of federal agents and police, it was disclosed. Temperatures up to 117 Are Counties Doing Well.

Some of the corn has been injured beyond repair by temperatures ranging up to 117 degrees, high winds and lack of moisture. One of the worst areas centers around Clay county and another is centered about southeastern part of Custer county. However, con- injury has been done in the drouth counties outside of these two areas, according to A. E. Anderson after making an extended trip into drouth counties.

Some of corn is already hopeless, he says, and the balance in the drouth counties will be in the same condition unless relieved by rain soon. Temperatures ranging up to 117 degrees and high winds are simply burning up the corn. Even com ranging one half to one foot high is burning in the worst other sections that have had rain, corn is withstanding the terrific punishment much better than one could expect. Even forage crops are turning brown. Some of the more advanced corn is tasseling and firing.

The secoml crop of alfalfa in the drouth areas is much lighter than the first crop and it is too short to cut. Considerable of the alfalfa is being pastured. A continuation of high temperatures and drouth for another week of two will ruin most of the corn that is still in fair condition and Is even threatening the forage crops. It will mean the forced sale of a large proportion of the livestock as there is no hay, pasture or feed in About the only chance that is left in the worst areas is a late autumn with August rainfall that might enable farmers to plant and produce a little forage. Immediate rain will still revive the forage crops that are planted.

One of the greatest concerns now is the outcome of corn in the more favored sections, under the terrific temperatures. Cora has made good growth in the sections favored with moisture and is now drawing heavily on the moisture supply. White caps are already showing up and the high temperatures may blast the tassel. BLOODH A GRIM SEAR MISSING No New Clues in Probe Mysterious Disappearance Bobby Connor. N.

Y. Bloodhounds ranged thru neighboring brush and woodlands ahead of small army of searchers Monday in a grim hunt for missing 21 months old Bobby Connor. The baffling has not yet crystalized either as a kidnaping or accidental wider in reach over a net of police wires and radio as descriptions were broadcast for a drug peddler from sight at a time corresponding to disappearance four days ago. The parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Connor, have been in close association with the Frank A. Saporito, a Mount Vernon attorney. Saporito said the Connors were good friends. Saporito denied he was called into the ca.se as an intermediary by kidnapers. The attorney said the day-long visit of the Connors at his home Sunday was only to provide them rest.

He declared th ecase had none of the earmarks of a usual ing, expressing the belief the child had been taken by a childless mother or a maniac who was now afraid to return it. There have been no ransom notes. The use of blood hounds in the thickets surrounding the Connor home was a new development. At the request of police, state troops rounded up four dogs in New Jersey and brought them to the scene. Altho the scent is four days old and Sunday rain may have obliterated it entirely, authorities clung to the hope the might uncover more of the missing trail.

A dog brought from Ossining last Thursday lost the trail behinds the Connor home. The search for the mysterious peddler brought in another suspect Dyckee, 37, a Negro, picked up in Dobbs Ferry for questioning, When apprehended, he was wheeling a baby carriage filled with adult clothing. Dyckes said he was taking home washing, but federal agents forwarded his finger prints to Washington for a checkup. Milton Coleman, 77, a peddler from Manhattan, was questioned but sati.sfied police he was not in Hartsdale on Thursday. Five state police wires carried new enlarged descriptions of the Connor baby and of the mysterious peddler despite the statement of the father, in an interview with the Tarrytown Daily News, that the eccentric was picked up by police Friday night and absolved.

Reaction Is Growing In Case of NRA THE WEATHER. Fm- IJMwtai Md VletBltsri Fair wM mm- warm Utalfht and TaMdajr. For NebraaJta: Ornorally (air tofiifht aad Taoodari not oalto warm la ooatli- poftloa tonlKht; ronttnuod warm la east porttna. Taroday oua rtooo a. orto 1:87 By PHIL 8.

HANNA In Chicago Journal of Commerce In view of General newest threat to compel all business to get under the Blue Eagle or a code, we think it entirely fitting to state in language just as strong as that there is nothing In the law to compel you to do what he The plain facts are that this is the finale of a oue-man show. It is a desperate attempt to stir up public opinion so as to enliven those having a vested right created by NRA, and thus drive all others to sign on the dotted line. In view of some of the recent acts of the president, we can hardly believe that he has even endorsed Johnson's herding operation. Your rights are plainly stated in the recovery act and they are bolstered up by the brief submitted by the department of justice in the Weirton steel case. defendant was under no compulsion to promote the would have forfeited no rights if it had remained rieutral or antagonistic," the department says.

And if the law itself, and the department of justice, is not enough, read bulletin No. 2, page 6, put out by the NRA which says: la not the function of the NRA to determine what shall be in the the initiative shall come from the is not the purpose of the administrator to compel either industry or We are moved to say these things plainly for the simple reason that a great many have the impression that the law makes compulsory. And bear in mind that the licensing provision of the act expired a month ago. Either congress did not see fit to renew it or the president thought it not to ask for iL If you submit now you are signing away your rights unnecessarily. Of course the boycott remains, and is being used by the bureaucracy everywhere possible, but boycotts will not last Thus we suggest to every business man that either he hire a good lawyer or that he take a day off and read the recovery act.

Codes may be industries sign" no matter what General Johnson tries to make you think by clever use of ballyhoo. The act la still permissive and with the licensing provision expired there is no legal compulsion. Every business that signs for fear of the extra-legal threats, boycotts, or because of indirect compulsion, as in the Harriman mills case, reduces the sum total of resistance to this un-American way of finding a way around the constitution. As a matter of fact, it seems to us there are plain indications that some high-ups are running for cover before a growing storm of reaction against compulsion, Tammany and taxes. We suspect, moreover, that Mr.

Roosevelt has read the barometer, and is perhaps willing to let others have the blame. It does take an NRA lawyer to Identify the several spots that the president has sailed (Continued on Page 3) STIilE OFnCERS GE YMNS ON PHY BUUXIEDCE MUIHB lOUII Kearney Man Visiting Young Democrat Clubs. KEARNEY, Neb. (zP). H.

L. Blackledge of Keamey, president of the Nebraska Young Democratic clubs, left here to attend the meetings of young democrats in southeastern Nebraska. He was to be in Lincoln Monday afternoon and at night will meet with the Gage county club at Beatrice. Tuesday he will meet with the Johnson county club at Tecumseh and the Pawnee City club, and Tuesday night he will be guest of honor at a fish fry sponsored by the Richardson county club at Falls City. Otoe and Cass county clubs will be visited Wednesday, and Wednesday night Blackledge will be in Omaha.

EM NERE RY UNCOEN DAIRIES First Hearing Wednesday for Two Charged With Violations. LlSCOiy PEOPLE COULD STAISD MUCH MORE HEAT THAIS SVISnAY'S, DOCTORS ARE GENERALLY AGREED While no figure has oeen set as a maximum temperature at which human beings can live, doctors queried Monday were agreed that the recorded figure of 113 in Lincoln Sunday was nowhere near the limit erf endurance. Many factors enter into the situation besides absolute temperature. it was pointed out. Humidity is one.

Health of the individual, with particular reference to his age and the condition of his heart, is another. Quantity of clothing and presence or absence of moving air is another. For iiwtance, said City Physician Underwood, a person wrapped in woolens on a day like Sunday, kept In a place w'here the air was stagnant, probably vive. He would be in danger when the mercury reached 104, in fart. Moving air against the skin, to paraplratlon, is an tm- portant part of protective methods.

"People got around pretty well said Doctor Underwood, the humidity was On the other hand, American soldiers in the south of France drilled in woolen uniforms in a temperature of 124, Dr. Czar Johnson recalls, and none of them died of it. His theory was that the effect of high temperatures was entirely an individual matter, depending on a health and attire. no heat we are likely to get from the sun kill anybody was the opinion of Dr. G.

H. Mlsko. of us stand Sunday so well, tho we would have stood it a great deal worse had there been more humidity. largely a matter of state of a Victor E. Cappa, trial attorney for the dairy section of the AAA, arrived in Lincoln Monday and is preparing for the trials of five Lincoln dairies charged with failure to camply with any provisions of the Lincoln milk license.

The charges include failure to report to the market administrator and failure to pay into the equalization pool. Lyle Smith, Washington, D. will sit a.s the presiding officer at the hearings, which start with those of Graham Brothers, Guy Schreff and the Smith dairy Wednesday. Woodlawn and Lincoln Dairy hearings will be Thursday and the Creamline case Friday. Smith will make his report to the secretary of agriculture, and if the charges are found to be true he may recommend that the licenses to do business be revoked or suspended.

AHACK FARM MORTGAGE LAW Win Check Legitimate Loans, Says U. S. Chamber. WASHINGTON. (JP).

The Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium law was declared by the United States chamber of commerce to have unfortunate influence upon those who might make loans for agriculture." Discussing the measure in a review of the last session of con gress, the chamber added there are constitutional questions invohed in the new legislation seems partial he said, lie in the form of the legislation, which as a prerequisite requires utilization of the composition procedure at least up to a certain point before there is opportunity to invoke the new Auditor Price Merely Shuts Down on Normal Board Presidents Trips, state Auditor Price denied a rumor that he had ruled he would not allow state officials or ployes to take a vacation with pay. He said in most instances pay is fixed by law or department division of appropriation.s for office help and he has nothing to do with paying for vacations. is the general rule that ap- pointee.s are allowed two weeks vacation with said Price, that rule is being followed in my office and elsewhere. However, I did rule in October, 1933, in answer to a letter fro mthe state normal board which said it had been the custom to send the presidents of four state normal schools to three or four meetings a year of the national educational a.ssociation, at the expense of the state that such expense was not permissable, and that board, I think, was glad of the Price said he had made an exception of his rule when it came to expense of attending a conference called by the federal government concerning relief work or similar gatherings. He had allowed the expense of state Superintendent Taylor for a trip to Wwhington to attend a relief meeting, a trip by a delegate from the state barber board, out of fees of that board, to attend a national meeting of state barber boards, and a claim for expense of Dr.

C. A. Fulmer, state and federal director of vocational education. Price said he had cut down a recent claim of members of the state board of control to a welfare and prison labor meeting in City by changing the allowance from 5 cents a mile for two or more automobiles for three people to a basis of railroad fare and actual hotel bills, and that one of the board had suggested the claim should therefore include Pullman fare and bus hire from the railway station to a hotel. OISCARO 0ILLIN6ER THEGRY Bootleggers Blamed for Shooting of 2 Officers.

CHICAGO. The discovery of a huge still near the spot where Sunday two policemen were shot, one of them perhaps fatally, led authorities oattribute the attack to a gang of bootleggers. The development caused police to switch ifoni previous theory that the attack might have been made by members of the John Dlllinger gang. Edward Butenschoen, farrner and owTier of the bam in which the still was found, was arrested. He said he had ernted the building to several men a few weeks ago.

Margaret Pedro, 19, also was seized in a house near the bam. HOL IILV TKMPBRATl p. m. (San.) lit 4 p. 4 5 p.

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107 p. 108 At 7 Dry bulb 88. wet balb 70 bomklUjr 40. At p. Dry balb 108, wet balb 71.

hninidlty 18. Total wind movement, 288: per hoar, 11. tempemtnre year 84. I.Awe«t temperature year 88. MRS.

FLOYD RYMAN HAD PREMONITION Mrs. Floyd Ryman, wife of the dentist-flier killed Sunday in Montana, had a premonition of tragedy last Friday. It became so strong that Saturday she took her two children and drove to the home of her parents in Tecumseh. It while visiting there Sunday that she was notified of the fatal accident. STATE IS AGAIN NGR EA RELIEE SEEN Forecast Continued Warm as Mercury Rises to 107 at 1 p.

m. MILLION FOR REE GRANTED 10 NEBRASKA Nearly Half for Drouth, Rest for Transients, Research, Etc. WASHINGTON. (zP). Relief grants to eleven states for July totalling $36,336,646 were announced by the emergency relief administration.

The grants eluded: South $1,360,825 (or drouth relief and the ger relief program and $1,475 for relief search. in- Including eneral re North Including $1,505,196 for drouth relief and the generai relief program. $19,000 for transient relief and $550 for relief research. Including $590,000 for drouth relief, $29,000 for transient relief, $900 for relief research and $50,000 for rural rehabilitation, as well as $18,500 for obligations Incurred In May for the emergency educational program. MR EllED AGIST C.C.CARLSEA Matter Is Over the Issuance of Mortgage Certificates.

A. F. Schwenker filed suit in district court Monday against C. C. Carlsen.

John A. Reichenbach, Paul H. Holm, W. R. Mellor and Christian O.

Schlytern asking judgment on two causes of action for $1,133.40 each and $566.70 on a third. The suit involves alleged unlawful business transactions involving mortgage certificates on Cedar county land. The petition alleges that continuously until July 9, 1932, the Lincoln Safe Deposit company and the Lincoln Trust company were closely affiliated, and that the capital stock was owned substantially by the same persons. It is alleged that on Feb. 6,1929, the Lincoln Trust company unlawfully issued eleven certificates, each i nthe sum of $500, stating that the series of certificates were all secured by a note and mortgage given by John Korff and wife, and David Todd Montgomery and wife.

It is claimed the defendants knew that no mortgage against the Cedar county land had been made by Korff and Montgomery, and that the land was held by the Lincoln Safe Deposit company. The petition says a former Korff mortgage had been cajicelled by the (Continued on Page 2.) THREE AFECTED BY HEAT With the mercury rocketing up to record temperatures again after the hottest day in history Sunday, widespread havoc to crops that remain after the early drouth was noted over the state Monday. The temperature here Monday morning started from a low of 77 at 6 a. rose to 91 at 8 a. 99 at 10, 105 at noon and 107 at 1 p.

m. It was also 107 between noon and 12:30, the official weather bu- beau thermometer showed. The all time high tor July 16 is 109, set in 1913. Little hope for immediate relief was given by the government weather bureau which predicted The unprecedented heat was leaving a trail of devastation thru blasted cornfields in many sections according to A. E.

Anderson, state and federal crop statistician. Two persons seeking relief in Omaha from the heat were drowned and another died of a fractured skull after fainting from heat exhaustion as the new record of 107 degrees was established, according to the United Pre.sa, The body of James Devinney, shoestring peddler, was taken from the river at the edge of a hobo camp. He had entered the water a short time previously. Leo Lenz, 26, a city fireman, received a broken neck while diving at a sandpit lake near Oreapolis and died at an Omaha hospital Roily Ehl stmck his head on the pavement when he fell after fainting and died at a hospital. James F.

Miller, secretary of the state railway commission, who was overcome momentarily Sunday while changing a tire during an automobile trip, were received. In Lincoln the mercury mounted to 112 degrees at 3 and 4 p. (Continued on Page 2.) RYMAN, ANDREWS. CAMPBELL KILLED AS SHIP PLUNGES Montana Rancher Thrown Out of Burned Past Recognition. GLASGOW, Mont.

(JPi. The cra.sh of an airplane on a rolling hill thirty-five miies south of here Sunday ended the lives of three Lincoln, men and a Garfield, county, rancher. The victims: D. H. Campbell, 42, vice president of the Cosmopolitan Old Line Life Insurance company at Lincoln.

Alva H. Andrews, 35, agency manager of the Insurance company at Lincoln. Dr. F. W.

Ryman, 36, pilot and dentist. James Erickson, 46, rancher. As the plane struck the ground it burst into flame and the Lincoln men were burned past recognition. By papers in their possession and by rings identification was e.stab- lished. Trlckson was thrown clear of the plane a few feet.

He died on the way to a hospital. Funeral services are pending. The cra.sh occurred in rolling country of the Mi.s.souri river and about seventeen miles from the Fort Peck dam site. Cause of the accident was not immediately deter mined. E.

Hughes, department of commerce aeronautics inspector, was scheduled to arrive from Salt Lake City Monday to make an investigation. The Nebraskans were on a vacation trip and planned to vi.sit Erickson and spend some time on a homestead belonging to Andrews. The plane fell on the land. Three Witness Crash. Tom Pointer, who was riding the range south of the Missouri, was the first to reach the scene.

As he galloped up to the blazing mass of wreckage on the hillside he discovered that Erickson was lying near the ship and the others were trapped In the wreckage. Pointer crawled beneath the flames and dragged Erickson to his hor.se, then took him to a high(Continued on Page 3.) Tammany Selects Dooling. NEW YORK. James J. Dooling was elected leader of Tammany hall by an unanimous vote, succeeding John Curry, who was deposed last April 20.

OELAY STRATGSPHERE TRIP Atmospheric Conditions Still Unfavorable. RAPID CITY, s. Dak. (UP). Unfavorable weather conditions caused further delay in starting the stratosphere flight of Maj.

William E. Kepner and Capt. Albert W. Stevens of the United States army air corps. Studying weather maps, Major Kepner, pilot, said atmospheric conditions still were and refused to predict when the desired high pressure area over the middiewest would prevail.

Women at Shrine Club Not Entirely Overcome. Three women were affected by the heat on the Shrine country club golf course Sunday afternoon but all were fully recovered Monday morning. Mrs. Roy L. DuCharme, 2123 So.

17th, and Mrs. Harold Magee, 4326 Starr, were almo.st overcome on the eighth hole but felt the attack coming on and retired to the clubhouse before becoming unconscious. Mrs. M. A.

Alexander, 3910 Orchard, was almost overcome on No, 4, but she too felt the effects of the sun before being entirely overcome and sought the All said they experienced a chill as one of the first effects. MORE NTIEG IN RODIN AREAS LINCOLN MEN KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH D. H. CAMPBELL. DR.

FLOYD RYMAN. ALVA H. ANDREWS. These three Lincoln men were burned to death and a Montana man, thrown clear of the wreckage, was injured fataUy when the airplane of Dr. eraahed in a field near Glaagow, laU Sundar Abnormally Higb Temperatures Increase Acuteness of Situation.

Three more Furnas and that they Included in the emergency or primary drouth area of Nebraska so that cattle buying by the federal government can start Immediately. Prof. H. J. lich, state director of buying, wired the requests to Washington and action is expected soon.

Twenty-six counties in the state are now classified in the emergency area. Abnormally high temperatures the past few days have caused the cattle situation to become more acute reports to Indicate, is no reason for cattlemen to get panickey and sell off all their said. they have stock which they feel will bring more under our program. we are constantly urging them to get in touch with their precinct of county drouth committees. They will do everything pos- siWc to take care of distressed W.

W. Derrick, assistant state director of buying, goes to Lexington Tuesday for meeting with drouth committees in Dawson, Lincoln, Buffalo, Kearney, Hayes. Frontier, Red Willow, Gosper and Phelps counties, SLAYER LOSES APPEAL. ALBANY, N. Y.

(zP). The court of appeals granted a motion of District Attorney John T. Delaney dismissing the appeal of Mrs. Anna Antonio, convicted husband slayer, for a new trial. Mrs.

Antonio ie ASYLNMINMAIE FALLS TO NIS OEAIH MONDAY Lloyd Jensen Helping to Wasb and Paint Ceiling of Cbapel. While a group of fellow workers looked on, Lloyd Jensen, 56, inmate at the a.syliim from Filley, since 1922, plunged headlong to his death Monday morning from a sixteen foot scaffolding in the asylum chapel. About six or eight inmates, under the direction of J. T. Southack, Lincoln man, were washing the walls and ceiling of the chapel preparatory to painting the room.

eJnscn, one of the group, evidently lost his balance and toppled to the hard maple floor. Witnesses said the man, in falling, caught hold of one of he planks on which he had stood, but that the board began to give away with the weight of body. They said Jensen let go for a moment and then grabbed again. This time the sixteen foot board gave completely away. Jensen fell on his head, the sixteen foot plank striking him as it careened after him.

Deputy County Sheriff Ward, w'ho investigated the accident, said the skull was crushed. The accident happened about 10 a. but eJn.sen did not die until 11:30. home was formerly at Filley, Neb. He is survived by a sister, Mrs.

C. P. Thompson, of Filley, and a brother, J. A. Jen.sen, also of Filley.

The body is at Splain, Schnell Griffiths. LELANG G. STANLEY OIES Was in Charge of Home for Mental Patients. Leland G. Stanley, 45, died at a.

m. Monday at his home, 317 No. 18th. He was in charge of the county home for mental patients at that address, which was abandoned by the county July 15. Surviving is his wife, Ada.

B. Stanley. The body is at Helmsdoerfers, where funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday, Rev.

W. G. Rembolt officiating. SWIM WEEK STARTS WITH 1,092 SIGNED The Lincoln Newspapers Learn to Swim week was under way at four Lincoln pools Monday with a grand total of 1,092 enrolled for the Six days of free instruction. This is the second high enrolment in the five years which the swim week has been conducted, the first year class numbering 1,500.

Instructors at the various pools were being aided by staffs of assistants to care for the various classes which started early tn the morning and will last thru ths evening..