Star-Herald from Scottsbluff, Nebraska • 1

WEATHER NEBRASKA-Generally fair Friday, Saturday; No important change in temperature. WYOMING-Generally fair Friday, Saturday; little change in temperature. Vol. 80, No. 162.

GIRL FLIERS ON ROAD TO RECORD HELD BY AIRMEN Sail Past 100 Hour Mark After Riding Out Storm -Fly Back to Field SEND FOR MATERIALS TO MAKE FUSELAGE REPAIRS "Question Mark" Record Next in Sight After Women's Old Figure Tumbles Los Angeles, Jan. 8. (AP) -A rain soaked monoplane, carrying Bobbie Trout and Edna May Cooper, girl endurance fliers, who simply refused to be beaten by a storm, rounded out its one hundredth hour in the air tonight at 6:30 p. m. p.

5, t. Resigned to flying through the storm after clouds enveloped them in the Imperial valley where they sought clear skies last night, the girls brought the "Lady Rolph" back to its circle over the municipal airport here. None of the bright little messages the girls dropped during the early part of flight came down today. Their absence, was interpreted by the ground as evidence girls were flying on grit and determination. Send for Repairs "We want to beat the Question Mark," one of the notes said.

The other was in a grimmer vein. "Send up a bottle of wing dope and a small brush." The latter, managers pointed out, indicated the girls had discovered a rip in the fuselage of the plane. The materials requested are used patching plane fabric. The Question Mark, the army's contribution to endurance flying, set the first refueling mark here two years ago. It was aloft a little more than-150 hours.

Under a sodden sky the Lady Rolph was refueled at twilight for the 10th time, since its takeoff at 2:30 p. Sunday. With its tanks full, the plane was prepared to fly through a dreary night. DEMURRER IN BANK SUIT TURNED DOWN BY DISTRICT COURT Judge Carter Holds. Officials and Former Officials of Bank to Trial.

District Judge E. F. Carter Wednesday overruled demurrers in Morrill county district court at Bridgeport presented by counsel for defendants In the case of, the county of Morrifl against former bank officials of the defunct Bridgeport bank, the receiver, guaranty fund officers and others. The action, asks for an accounting for alleged irregularities in which It is declared that illegal preferences resulted in the 108g of approximately $300,000 to depositors. Conspiracy, Fraud Alloged Defense lawyers alleged in their demurrers that there was no liability on the defendants because they were public officers but Judge Carter held that since conspiracy, fraud and bad faith was alleged the demurrers could not be upheld.

The case is entitled county of Morrill, plaintiff, vs. Clarence G. Bliss, Henry C. Peterson, receiver of the Bridgeport bank. Kirk Griggs, I.

W. Rogers, Fay C. Hill, I. A. Kirk, R.

O. Brownell, George I. Parker, Charles H. Burk, John A. Erickson, Morris A.

Well, Fred Lindberg. National Bank of Commerce of Lincoln, J. 0. Baker, Ben F. Roberts, American Surety company of York and Fidelity Deposit company of Maryland.

County Presses Case The county alleges that it had deposited in theebank $59,223.71 on Sept. 8, 1927, when the bank was closed, after having been operated for about two years by the guaranty fund commission, and that the amount had been designated in court as a preferred (Continued on Page Five) Deputies are Named By County Officers as They Take Jobs Four county officers have appointed deputies, it was learned yesterday at Gering, while a fifth indicated that! his appointment would be made before Monday of next week. William S. Trumbull, new clerk of the district court, selected Mrs. Bess L.

Nisley of Gering as his deputy: Mrs. Nisley has bad considerable experience in the office, serving for some time under the late M. H. Harry R. Lawyer of Gering was 'appointed deputy county treasurer by Floyd Taylor.

He has been employed in the office for several years. County Clerk J. W. Burrows has appointed Ruth Andersen of Gering while Alice Davis of Gering has been selected as deputy by the new register of deeds, Chester R. Barton.

Both are experienced, capable clerks. County Assessor. Claire Emery had not made his appointment yesterday but stated that Mrs. Verle 0. Taylor of Scottsbluff would be his deputy.

Mrs. Taylor gained considerable experience in the office as deputy for her husband, Floyd C. Taylor. Mr. Emery has been appointed county probation officer by District Judge E.

Carter, in addition to his other duties. FIRST WESTE NEBRASKAS ONLY DAILY CAPER IC HE NO ASSOCIATED PHI EL ATTO WILT Scottsbluff DAILY) Star Herald MORY A Auto and Truck Are Damaged in Collision at Breadway Corner The automobile driven by Mrs. J. M. Smith of Morrill, formerly of this city, and a truck driven by W.

M. Truckenmiller, 'Scottsbluff, were badly damaged last evening when they collided at the corner of. Broadway and Twentieth street. The accident resulted in the breaking a fire plug at the northeast corner the intersection and the street of was flooded for" some time until the break was repaired. Mrs.

Smith was driving east on Twentieth and Mr. Truckenmiller north on Broadway. When they collided, the truck veered off to the east and the car in a northeasterly direction, stopping after it: crashed into the fire hydrant. No one was injured. CONTINUE HEARING IN ELECTION CASE UNTIL' NEXT WEEK Morrill County Sheriffship to Remain in Dispute Until Court Decides.

Hearing of the Morrill county election contest case in county court at Bridgeport yesterday was continued to Tuesday week to permit additional evidence to be procured by the principals, E. L. Davis and A. M. Webb.

Davis, sheriff for the past four years, is seeking to have the election of A. M. Webb set aside and have himself declared elected for another term. Webb defeated Davis in No(vember, but the sheriff has laid claims to finding errors and irregularities which, he says, took from him the election. Both in Office, Pending the outcome the court action, Davis continues to hold office.

Webb has duly qualified, posted his giving the county two bondinthereby Webb: and Davis reached an exact tie in votes when the final count was made. A drawing was held, as election laws specify, and Webb was the fortunate one. Davis immediately cited one instance in which he said polls. were closed an hour early, depriving him of several favorable votes, and also other Instances of error and irregularity. His case? was filed in court, and hearing begun early this week.

Red Cross Meeting Will Be Held Here Wednesday, Jan. 14 T. M. Morrow, chairman of the lo-1 cal Red Cross chapter, announces that held Wednesday evening, January 14, meeting of the, organization will be at 7:30 at the offices of Morrow and Morrow in Weller bullding. Election of officers and discussion of the use of local Red Cross funds will be the principal items of business, -it is stated.

All persons in Scottsbluff holding a membership of $1 or more are entitled to attend the meeting and take part in any feature on which action may be taken. Oil Troubles Delay Flight: hOver Ocean Hamilton, Bermuda, Jan. 8. (AP)Lieut. William B.

MacLaren and Mrs. Beryl Hart rested tonight that they might be fresh, tomorrow to fly, to Horta, in the Azores, the second lap of their' projected pay-load flight to Paris. When the two American fliers brought their monoplane Tradewind in yesterday after a flight of six hours 55 minutes. from Norfolk, they intended to proceed over the Atlantic to the Azores today. Slight oil trouble developed in the trip from the American coast, ever, and today, With weather conditions unfavorable at the same time, they decided that the oil feed line had best be repaired.

PAGES SCOTTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, GIRL PILOTS AFTER MEN'S MARK dacociated Press Photo Bobble Trout (left) and Edna May Cooper, girl pilots, seek to set new endurance flight record. The two in their plane, Lady Rolph, took off from Los Angeles, beat the women's endurance mark of 42 hours and 16 minutes and now are soaring on toward the 645-hour record of Jackson and ('Brine. HUNDREDS CROWD BRYAN, WEAVER BRYAN ASKS BANK GUARANTY LAW BE PASSED IN STATE New Governor Presents Viewer an Needed Legislation to, "Nebraska Solons. Lincoln, Jan. 8.

(AP) -Renewing his pursue an economical administration, Governor Charles W. Bryan, in his inaugural address at the forty-seventh Nebraska legislature today, urged that body to consider the merits of reinstating the bank guaranty fund act, creation of a state-controlled banking system, and a form income taxation.b The governor's remarks to the legislature marked his formal induction. chief executive of Nebraska for the second time. He first became governor of Nebraska in 1923. Recovery of Losses Stressing the urgency of banking legislation and re-enactment of the guaranty fund act which was repealed by the special session a year ago, the governor declared he believed that move on the part of the legislature would alleviate the present condition of depression in six months' time.

He said it would stabilize and stimulate business and greatly lessen the number of unemployed within the state. Gov. Bryan further recommended that Attorney General C. A. Sorensen be empowered to determine what recourse at any, the state now has to recover from the state banks, for.

the benefit of depositors, all of the money due them at the time the guaranty fund act was repealed. (Continued on Page Two) Woman Fined $50 and Costs Rosy Jackson, 35, negress, was fined $50 and costs in police court yesterday after pleading guilty before Judge W. W. Dingman to an immorality charge. POPE HITS AT COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN ENCYLICAL EXPOSITION Urges Bishops to Promulgate View That Marriage Is Dissoluble Only by Death- -Strikes at Birth Control.

Rome, Jan. 8. (AP)-The full power and authority of the Roman Catholic church were invoked by Pope Pius XI today to uphold the sanctity of Christian marriage and to stamp out the practices of birth control, "companmarriage and divorce. Condemns Birth Control In the most sweeping exposition of the church's vlews on matrimony in many years, he condemned the use of contraception, abortion, sterilization or any other means to prevent the fruitfulness of wedlock. His pronouncement came in the form of a long encyclical, the first of its kind in 50 years of ecclesiastical history.

In it he enjoined his bishops to propagate the church's view that marriage is indissoluble except by death, and that the family, within the meaning of this sacrament, "Ig more sacred than the state." Offense to Law of God Birth control is a deed "shameful and intrinsically vicious" and a "horrible crime," the pontiff enjoined the faithful. "Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act JANUARY 9, 1931 GAS COMPANY IS EXPECTED TO GET WYOMING PERMIT Torrington's Protest Is Withdrawn at Hearing. Held. at Cheyenne NEBRASKA CONCERN DOES NOT FILE AN OBJECTION Geologists Assure Enough Gas Available. to Serve for Next 50 Years.

Cheyenne, Jan. 8. (AP)-Granting of a permit to the North Central Gas company to supply eastern Wyoming cities with natural gas from the Muskrat field Casper appeared almost a certainty tonight following a hearing before the Wyoming public service commission. Expected protests to the application failed to materialize. At the same time the protest of Torrington, one of the cities to be served, was withdrawn during the hearing.

Representatives of the Public Service corporation of Nebraska, have been. seeking a permit to supply the same area with natural gas from outside the state, were present at the meeting but offered adverse testimony. They were given the opportunity to: protest the North Central application. Torrington Quits Protest It was said at the state house that the Torrington protest was withdrawn on the grounds that the Wyoming commission has no power to refuse a permit to the Nebraska firm because it is an interstate carrier. An application for a permit by the Nebraska firm is consideration by the Public Service commission.

At the hearing today geologists for the North Central company testified the Muskrat and Sand Draw fields hold 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas or more than a 50 years' supply of gas for the towns they propose to serve. It was also testified the pipe line, which would run from field to Douglas, Glendo, Wheatland, Torrington and Laramie, would be f1- nanced by Charles A. Monroe, president of the New York Oil company. The company's investment in Wyo000 for the line, ming would be approximately, Douglas Man Bids Two of the principal witnesses ware R. E.

Woods, vice president of the Producers and Refiners corporation, owners of the gas wells, and J. M. McIntire, vice president of the New York Oil company. A hearing was also held today on the application of Frank England of Douglas to supply that town with natural gas. Both applications were taken under consideration.

It WAS expected the decision would be handed down by the commission in about 30 days. CROMER SUGGESTS LEGISLATORS MOVE RAPIDLY ON WORK Protests Adjourning Until Monday But Solons Decide to Take a Holiday. Lincoln. Jan. 8.

(P) -Nebraska legislative mills, halted today to permit members be to in join action in again the inaugural, day. In session only briefly for the' saction of business, the house voted to adjourn joint session until Monday at 2 o'clock. The senate did likewise. The week-end recess, however, was not agreed to in the house without a protest from the farmer-members. Protest Falls Led by Rep.

E. P. Cromer, Gering, they protested vainly, "We farmers here want to get the work that is ahead of us done as soon as possible. We should take advantage of every day." Cromer's motion to convene row morning at 10 o'clock was only feebly supported, the house mem-bers supporting Rep. Charles L.

Jones, Schuyler, in a counter proposal to recess until to permit the final formulation standing committees. Monday, John Cruz and Wife Released from Jail Both John and Maggie Cruz, of this city, have been released from county in Gering where they have been held on charges of theft and carrying concealed weapons, respectively. District Judge E. F. Carter sentenced both to 60 days in jail and dered their release, both having been held in jail for a longer period.

Fred Fertig, Melbeta, convicted on a charge of possession of mash and still, was sentenced to 30 days in jail 'and was fined $500. Private Funeral for Dora Lee Barry Today Private funeral services for Dora Lee Barry, three- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Barry, who passed away Wednesday evening of scarlet fever, will be conducted a this afternoon at two o'clock in charge of the Rev. F.

J. McCaffree. Interment will be in Fairview cemetery. PUBLISHED EVERY Frank Wallace of this a broken right shoulder blade yesterday morning about 10 o'clock when his car turned over on the highway, about 16 miles south of Alliance. Mr.

Wallace Was driving along from 30 to, 40 miles an hour, it was stated, and the machine suddenly, from 'no apparent cause, turned over into the ditch, landing its' side. The local man was aided by passersby in righting the car, which was damaged somewhat, and. he drove it back to Alliance. He did not realize that he had been hurt until he neared the Box Butte capital and upon arriving secured medical aid. The bone was set and he is being cared for at the home of his brother, Wallace, in Alliance.

Mrs. Wallace Alliance last evening to be with him. Frank Wallace Hurt Car Overturns South of BLOODY SHIRT IS LATEST OF CLUES IN GIRL MYSTERY Colorado Authorities Now Convinced Enid Marriott Has Been Slain. Fort Morgan, Jan. 8.

(P) Discovery of a work shirt, spattered with what appears to be blood, found near the irrigation ditch which search ed for the body of Enid Marriott, miss: ing school teacher, has convinced authorities that she has been murdered. shirt was discovered by Wen. dell Wacker, 15 years old, buried der rocks near the banks of the Bijou irrigation canal, into which it is believed the body of the school teacher was thrown after she had been killed. The school teacher disappeared vember 16 after leaving a train at I Wiggins, where she taught school. Authorities announced tonight that as soon as the ice melts from the ditch another attempt will be made to find her body.

Sheriff Johnson of Fort Morgan, who has been in Scottsbluff and Gering. for two days, yesterday started back for Fort Morgan. He declined to make any comment excepting that his mission here was connected with the Marriott case. Mrs. J.

T. Snow Dies Early Yesterday Morn at Home Near Henry Mrs. J. T. Snow, 70, for many years a resident of the valley, passed away yesterday morning at four o'clock, at ber home eight miles north of Henry, in the Sheep Creek community.

She bad been ill for a long time. Funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, from the Church of God, with Rev. H. W. Haycraft, of Forest Morrill Lawn charge.

cemetery Burial at Mor- will rill. Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, of which Mrs. Snow was a member, are being asked to attend as the organization will take part in the funeral rites. Four daughters and four sons, in addition to the husband, are left to survive Mrs. Snow.

The children are all living in the valley, with the exception of a son, Bert, who resides at Cheyenne. The other children are: Mrs. Kate Bridenstein, Mrs. Greeta Bridentine, Mrs. Stella Brown, Mrs.

Edith Winchell, Leslie, Archie and Vincent Snow. Lions Hold District Meeting Here Today Members of western Nebraska Lions clubs will convene in Scottsbiuff this afternoon for the annual district vention, which will be held at the Lincoln hotel. Beginning at four o'clock, their will be a round table conference of club executives. A banquet will be held at six o'clock, following which a ber of speeches made by local, state and national officers of the organization, scheduled to be here for the affair. Among the group A.

L. Miller, deputy district governor; Vincent D. Haskell, Omaha, international director; Lloyd L. Anthony, president Omaha Lions club; Mayor Joe Davis of Hastings and Robert L. Moodie, West Point, district governor.

'Western Front' Film Ordered Withdrawn at Vienna by Authorities Vienna, Jan. 8. (AP)-Police forbade today's second and third performances of the American war film "All Quiet on the Western Front," after it had been shown once. The police order was issued after huge crowds of demonstrators gathered in the streets in protest against the picture. Last night windows were smashed in rioting that attended its exhibition.

The prohibition of today's two remaining performances came a8 8 surprise, since officers of the regular army had been watching all afternoon for soldiers intending to participate in the demonstrations to deprive them of their arms. The police remained in readiness for disorders, and were compelled to use their truncheons in dispersing several hundred rowdies who milled about a cafe this evening. MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY SUGAR INDUSTRY WILL SEEK HELP OF CONGRESSMEN Leaders in Manufacture Converge on Washington aS Menace Grows GERMAN LEADERS ACCEPT NEW RESTRICTION PLAN Export Quota of European Nation Will Be Reduced in Next Four Years. Denver, Jan. 8.

(P)-In a special dispatch from Washington, the Rocky Mountain News will say tomorrow that leaders of the domestic sugar industry. alarmed by continued low prices and threats against the whole tariff structure affecting sugar and syrups, are rallying in Washington to consider a program under which congressional aid may be sought for the sugar industry. William L. Petrikin, president of the Great Western company, and W. D.

Lippitt, general manager, are reported enroute to Washington to attend the conference, called by S. L. Lowe, president of the United States Beet Sugar association. Favor Timberlake Bill The News will quote Mr. Lowe as saying that the beet sugar industry in the United States is lacing ruin unless free Philippine sugar is restricted under the Timberlake bill, the Cuban differential of 20 per cent repealed under the Waterman resolution and ambiguity in the tariff act, which might permit entrance of "liquid sugar," is clarified by congress.

ASSEMBLY WHILE EXCHANGE PLACES Much Applause Greets Outgoing Executive as He Begins Farewell Talk I OTHER STATE OFFICIALS TAKE UP THEIR DUTIES Lincoln, Jan. 8. (AP) -The chief executive office of the state. of Nebraska passed today from hands- of Arthur J. Weaver, Falls Gity, to Goyernor Charles W.

Bryan of Lincoln. Traditional formality was followed in the' inaugural this afternoon, with the. exception of the swearing in of the governor-elect, which was transacted this morning in the chambers of Justice W. H. Thompson of the supreme court.

At Governor Bryan's request, the justice, a friend of of of many years, administered the oath of office before retiring to private life. Ceremony Is Quiet The ceremony was entirely void of display, Justice Thompson reading the oath, the governor repeating it, in the presence of newspaper men and photographers. The stilled assembly of nearly 800, who elbowed their way into every nook and corner of the huge house room, applauded as the retiring governor began to speak. Also greeted with a hearty welcome of applause, Governor Bryan urged re(Continued on Page Two) Gering Attorney Is President of County Association for 1930 Howarth Olsen of Gering was elected! president of the Scotts -County Bar association at the association's dinner meeting held last night in the annex of the Community Congregational church. He succeeds Patterson of Scottsbluff.

Straight Townsend, Scottsbluff, was named secretary-treasurer, taking the position held in the past year by Olsen. Tallon, Scottsbluff accountant, was a guest of the association and gave an interesting talk on the eral income tax regulations as related to practice of law. District Judge E. F. Carter made 3 on the state bar association meeting held recently.

Casey, of the Western Public Service company, was also a guest of the county association. He is a member of the Massachusetts, Bar association, and has recently also been admitted to the bar in Nebraska. Will Ask Log Cabin Dormitory Be Built for Kansas Solons Topeka, Jan. 8. -A resolution calling for construction of a log cabin dormitory on the state house grounds to provide living quarters for members of the legislature in keeping with their $3 a day "generous allowance" has been prepared for introduction into the house of representatives.

Under the resolution, the cabin would be provided with wooden bunks and supplied with "fresh clean straw twice weekly" during session of the legislature, and tal. low candles which would be burned until 9 p. m. In five elections the voters have rejected constitutional amendmenta calling for increases in the pay of the Kansas makers, who meet in regular biennial session next Tuesday. Germans Accept Plan Berlin, Jan.

8. Representatives of German sugar producers today came to terms with Thomas L. Chadbourne of the Cuban-American sugar delegation and accepted an export quota covering the next four years' production. The agreement resulted from negotiations which continued after the collapse of a series of conferences at Amsterdam and Brussels, while Mr. Chadbourne remained in Paris under the -care of a doctor.

It makes possible an international sugar agreement for the limitation of production and export and removes the threat of chaos in the industry which appeared after the Brussels negotiations had failed. Take Short Quota Under the agreement reached today Germany accepts a quota of 000 tons export for the fiscal year 1930-31; 350,000 tons for 1931-32 and 300,000 tons each of the following three years. (Continued on Page Five) EFFORTS TO HEAD OFF PROHIBITION REPORT ARE LATE Congressional Leaders Fear It Will Cause Debate Leading to Special. Washington, Jan. 8.

(P)--The prohibition report of President Hoover's law enforcement commission was awaited tonight with more expectancy than ever in view of a fruitless effort by some republican leaders to head it off. Seeking to avoid an extra session, congressional chieftains went direct to commission headquarters in an effort to sidetrack the rush of oratory expected to follow submission of the report. They were informed, however, that the report was virtually ready for delivery to the president and would be sent planned. Officials Study Situation In the house meanwhile final approval was given to the Stobbs bill to modify the Jones five and ten law, a measure which grew out of commission suggestions. It now goes to the president.

same time, Attorney General Mitchell and Prohibition Director Woodcock were discounting the effect of the elimination from the deficiency appropriation of the $10,000 provisions for prohibition education. The sum was stricken out yesterday by the house. The prohibition bureau still has left from its last appropriation $22,000 for this purpose and has spent but $18,000 to this end since last July. Any Time After Monday The forecast remained that the dry law report might be submitted to the president any time after Monday. Jones law modification, upon which the house acted today, would define casual violators under the stringent five and ten statute.

If approved by the president, it would set up category of offenses involving less than one gallon liquor and provide a' maximum penalty of $500 fine and six months in prison for a first offense, rather than the five year and $10,000 penalty. is deliberately frustrated in its natural power," he said, "is an offense against the law of God and nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave "Companionate" marriage came in for an equally vigorous denunciation. Marriages of such a nature are often defended as a necessity of "modern" culture, he declared. He gave as the church's dictim that they did not partake of such culture but were "simply hateful abominations which beyond all question simply reduce our truly cultured natures to the barbarous standards of savage people." The modern wife, the pope declared, must carry the doctrine of obedience to her husband to the point of sacrificing her wifely dignity. Head of Family Should Support Divorce he utterly condemned 'and he called on the pronouncements of the saints and the bible itself to show that once entered into conjugal fidelity and union must persist until death separates the partners.

The pontiff urged the education of youth for marriage but condemned too (Continued on Page Two) Continue Inquiry in Death at Torrington gation into the death Mrs. A. L. Torrington, Jan. 8.

investiBenshoof, burned to death here on New Year's day, was at a standstill tonight pending the arrival of relatives from out of town, Prosecuting Attorney J. L. Sawyer said. The woman's husband, A Torrington plumber is being held for investigation. No charges have been filed against him, Sawyer said,.