The Morning Spotlight from Hastings, Nebraska • 1

The Morning Spotlight 3 FIFTY-NINTH YEAR HASTINGS NEBRASKA JULY 9 1938 NUMBER 13S Cole Preaches Crusade of Work To 700 Salesfolk Kenesaw Farmer Faces Bad Check Charge In Court OFFICERS INVESTIGATING NIGHT SALE OF LOAD OF WHEAT AT GIBBON Registration For Baby Conference Begins On Monday RED CROSS WILL REGISTER BUT 200 FOR EXAMINATION JULY 26-27 year's Improvement Clara for another examination Children entered in the contest will again undergo the free health examination in the conference sponsored annually by the Adams county fair in cooperation with the Red Cross the Adams County Medical society and the Adams County Dental society hope that mothers will understand it isnt necessary to bring babies themselves to the Red' Cress in order to register said Mrs Wicker She said registration could be accomplished in three ways: 1 Mothers may call in person at the Red Cross office at 619 west First street in Hastings 2 They may telephone the registration to the Red Cross office Phone 1664 3 They may use a registration blank printed on page 7 in this issue of The Morning Spotlight and mail it- to American Red Cross headquarters in Hastings basfd on the insufficient fund check received June 4 at was already on file In the jail cell Schmidt begged for five days that officials release him in order that he might pay up the checks I gave him three said County Attorney Nuss 'Now apparently in more trouble and we are investigating the sale of mortgaged a night at a Gibbon elevator 'I consider that he has broken faith He will be brought up before the judge tomorrow morning on that insufficient fund check And county Attorney Nuss flourished a sheaf of checks not a one of which he said was paid Meanwhile investigation of the sale of mortgaged wheat continued Whether graver charges of selling mortgaged property would supplement the insufficient fund check charge still pending against Schmidt was a thing officials able to predict last night Beginning next Monday morning at 8 registration of Adams county babies for the 16th annual Better Babies conference will be accepted at American Red Cross headquarters in Hastings by Mrs Martha Wicker executive secretary of the Adams county chapter Places will be available to the first 200 babies registered Only the first 200 babies registered will be elegible to receive free medical and dental examinations at the Junior high school July 26 and 27 Under the plan announced yesterday by Mrs Wicker registration will open July 11 at 8 at Red Cross headquarters in Hastings at 619 west First street Each week day thereafter the office will remain open until 4 in the afternoon and registrations will be received until July 25 barring the contingency the quota of 200 reached before that date Last year the quota of 200 reg-istratrants for the 14th annual Better Babies conference was reached in just two days ending plans for a longer registration period first announced- The year before that the quota was filled in four days Mrs Wicker this year emphasized that in harmony with the State health committee a new age limit had been set for entrants Babies entering the conference for the first time this year must be not less than 18 months of age by July date of the nor more than 86 months old on that date Sole exceptions to this rule will be babies entered in last yearns conference who wish to enter this Transient Forger Gets 12-14 Months On Plea of Guilt WRIGHT WHO WROTE SIX CHECKS SENTENCED BY BLACKLEDCE Wright 44-year-old transient painter from St Joseph Missouri yesterday went through court routine that sent him to Nebraska penitentiary to serve a 12-14 month sentence in less time than it took him last Tuesday afternoon to circulate six $10 checks forged with the name of his former employer John Velte of 824 notth Hewitt avenue Wright told District Judge Lewis Blackledge it took- two hours to get the six checks circulated but added that been in the hospital 21 times for treatment of a fractured skull and con eluded: know in my right mind I have done that I really know what I you ever been in trouble queried Judge Blackledge (Continued on Page 7) REDOUBLED EFFORT KEYNOTE IN NEW CAMPAIGN SAYS LINCOLN MAN Liki- a reincarnated Peter the Hermit' at Clermont President' Dana Cole of Chamber of -Commerce preached a new crusade before 700 listeners in Hastings' city auditorium last a national crusade of American salesmen founded on a new battle cry -Mean Jobs Jobs Mean Delivery of shrine business from infidel hands of depression furnished President Cole his theme and he backed his preachment that Hastings sales-ifnlk join in the movement by testi- monials from Crusaders who have" I made the plan work successfully first at Lincoln then at New York Chicago Milwaukee Redoubling of effort on the part v-of every salesperson from boot-black to banker from garbage hauler to interior decorator was the keynote of thNationla Crusade listeners learned 'President Cole's preachment -of the new Crusade to help business all came after Hastings massed salesfolk including the store clerks for whom attendance waa a command' performance card Bandmaster James municiv pal 6and set pulses throbbing with stirring music and had joined Dr A Hopper in singing the old songs that are known to alL But from President Cole Hastings salesmen learned of a new" -crusade if not a new song National said he based on the fact that in spite of bad-business and the uncertainties that exist there is as much wealth in this country today as at any time in the not the wealth that ia measured by security values nor -inflated realty and commodity values but the real wealth that is measured in goods and our 1 vast -natural resources which beset us today are those that come to a nation -when social readjustment follows great social unrest "The whole world has been affected by social unrest since the signing of the 'Armistice and -ve -tion Re inhold Schmidt Kenesaw farmer who had a 10-second escape from paying court coats of $878 on a $5 insufficient fund check issued in Hastings June 24 last year and who was released fromf the Adams county jail June IS this year with charges of issuing a $10 insufficient fund check still pending against him in county Judge Halsey court was back in the county jail last night Meanwhile Adams county officials and Superintendent Ward Snow of the Resettlement administration were checking to determine whether 62 bushels of wheat sold by Schmidt at Gibbon the night before last was wheat on which Haws a Kenesaw man and the federal government both held mortgages The resettlement lien on the Schmidt grain was released last night through psyment in full Surveying the whole picture County Attorney Edmund Nuss Sheriff Worthy Wood and Deputy Sheriff Carroll Parker concluded that the milk of human kindness that persuaded them to listen to Schmidt's pleas that he'd "make good" a sheaf of in raff i-cient fund checks if released from jail was about to turn sour and curdle Schmidt said County Attorney Nuss last night will be arraigned in Judge Bohlke's court this morning on the old charge filed against him Juno 4 of this year a charge based on passage of a $10 insufficient fund check drawn on the City National Bank of Hastings at on June 4 of thisj year When the complaint based on the Colton check was filed Coun ty Attonqy Edmund Nuss also held a $12 insufficient fund check bearing signature and passed at Smart Shop June 4 I During the five days that Schmidt remained in jail other insufficient fund checks bearing the signature "Reinhold Schmidt" bobbed into the picture a $10 cheek paused at Brown-McDon-ald'a Company May 81 Since other cheeks have bobbed into the picture said County Attorney a $10 check at the Gamble Stores a $15 check at the Montgomery Ward company a $9 check at the Kearney Hardware Company and a $9 check and a $5 check at the Nims Oil Company the latter two places in Buffalo county I When the complaint based on the Colton check was filed last June Sheriff Wood and Deputy Sheriff Parker arrested Schmidt at his farm home June 8 Officials recalled that in 1987 Schmidt had a lOsecond escape from facing charges on June 26 of passing a- $5 insufficient fund check at the Blackatone cafe County Attorney Nuss was just about to have Miss Rena Gartner file the complaint when Schmidt broke in with the cash made the check good and avoided a filing The same thing had happened though not so dramatically just two days on June 24 1987 when Schmidt arrived in County Attorney Nuss' office to find him in possession of a typewritten complaint ready for filing and charging Schmidt with issuing a $5 insufficient fund check at the Whisinand Grocery in Hastings Again Schmidt paid and no complaint was filed But when Schmidt waa arrested June 8 of this year the complaint Missing Billfold I Brings Memory of Gypsy Yellow Car MONEY DISAPPEARS FOLLOWING FRIENDLY VISIT WITH STRANGE WOMAN An 8J)-year-old Hastings William Krueger 722 south Colorado avenue was an easy victim of a pick-pocket woman driving a yellow Car" who robbed him of $61 yesterday morning Krueger was returning to his home on south Colorado avenue from the bank where he had just drawn out $61 of his savings when he was encountered by the near the intersection in the 600 block on south Colorado avenue The aged man who could give no definite description of the woman other than that she was a and I know a gypsy when I see one and that she drove a new model yellow had gone to the bank shortly after opening hours yesterday morning and immediately began the return trip to his home Less than two blocks from I his home the woman in the yellow car" approached from the north on Colorado avenue and pulled alongside the curb Krueger told police she got out of the car and came over to the sidewalk and began a friendly conversation (Continued on Page 8) Hope To Start Skin Grafting For George Downes Next Week The condition of George Downes of 414 north Bellevue avenue special tank wagon salesman for the Standard Oil Company burned as result of an explosion and fire at Wallace on June 22! remained serious yesterday in a North Platte hospital The coming week will be a1 crucial period in treatment physicians said for it is then that skin grafting operations on the mans chest and arms will begin At the bedside of her husband yesterday was Mrs Downes and Jerre her 4 -year-old daughter The Downes moved to Hastings from York last April 16 Downes burns resulted from a fire and explosion in the truck depot at Wallace Paxton a truck driver was credited with saving life THE WEATHER Generally fair today with rising temperature in the west Sunday continued fair Arvanette Evolves Horse Collar Theory As Part of Sales Crusade Iesaly pointed out to his customers the fine quality of the leather -in the horse collar contrasted it with materials found nowadays in some articles of merchandise of a more popular type He asserted the collar bore evidences of skilled workmanship and sturdy construction also sometimes missing from some present day 1 merchandise He recalled that manufacture of horse collars of this type once built for Hastings an A-l industry summarised that though the demand for quality horse collars had departed the demand for quality merchandise of other types remained The horse collar asserted Proprietor Arvanette was worth every cent of the $750 he paid for it because of these' honest qualities found in materials workmanship and construction Those qualities gave the horse collar honest value For Proprietor Arvanette and his visitors the horse collar on the coat rack became a symbol of a basic which if corrected might help present-day sales fit other articles Correction of the error according to Proprietor Ar- tion that hard work will bripg "hone theory wits the kind of work every would involve a reinstatement of business has had to do in the process have-not escaped it It is not easy for business men to adjust themselves to new thoughts and newpracticeshor should they seek to adjust them- selvesto things that are unsoUhd but business men will adapt themselves to new conditions because social progress is the strongest motivating force in a democratic na-- When the pendulum of so- cial progress swings it is inevitable that it swings too far "Government and business must cooperate It is for the best interests of all that they should The'Americsn people will insist that business and government cooperate to the end that prosperity may again return to this country In the meantime we business men must not remain idle in the hope that something favorable will develop to improve business "The formula upon whiih the National crusade is based is that of hard work and that the harder times are the harder we must work to overcome them "This Crusade is based upon this sound homely old-fsshioned no- Mean Jobs Surely there is something you feel you actually need but which yod should buy now esn well afford to buy now William Arvanette dour-humored co-proprietor of The Arvanette Cafe heard that gospel of the National Sales Crusade to stimulate business spread by fellow members of the Hastings Chamber of Cqmmeree Yesterday morning sly-humored Proprietor Arvanette scooped wordy fellow members by suiting the action to the word He walked across the street purchased a $750 leather horse collar and carried it back to his cafe Fellow Chamber of Commerce members arriving for a morning cup of coffee grew pop-eyed when they saw the sturdy leather collar hanging on a shiny walnut hat-rack in the cafe course I need explained Proprietor Arvanette have a car parked out herein front I need either I have lota of things up at the house I need The man who makes these horse collars has been a good customer of mine for a long time Proprietor Arvanette who speaks his mind candidly and fear- of' becoming larger and more prosperous I is not merely a mat-' (Continued on Page 5) the quality materials skilled workmanship and sturdy construction still found in horse-collars of honest value.