PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE 'Pacific House' at '39 Fair on S. F. Bay Italy's Budget Sets 6 Million as Foreign Propaganda Fund; Schools Abroad Receive Half Nations Seek to Settle Czech German Trouble Warner Not to Withdraw from GOP Race MONDAY, MAY 9, 1S38. Privite Associations in Two Americas Also Help Program and Spread Culture of Homeland Among Youth Py STEWART BROWN ROME (UP) Italy spends 124, 00O.000 lire ($G. 522, 000) annually en propaganda of various kinds in foreign countries in an effort to make new converts for Fascism and t; keep Italians living abroad in closer contact with their homeland, a study of the current financial bud git reveals. Almost half of this money, most cf which comes from the budget of the ministry for foreign affairs, is :-ent on Italian schools abroad. The I'alian government maintains 138 j ivhools in foreign lands and gives I'liancial assistance to an additional t.-1. This alone costs the government 000, OoO yearly. These schools. .!'ich are chiefly established in the I ;iiid States. South America and Fianc-e. have a total attendance of -dragon, aster, calendula, marigold. C5.000. Tho pupils are almost cxclu- j panpy. petunia, pinks, salvia, sca sively sons and daughters of Italians biosa aud verbena; perennials au living abroad and the main aim of bi it tia, buddleia. Canterbury bells, the schools is to teach them Italian ; coiumbine, hollyhock, pyrethrum, and pet them interested in Fascist pinkSi scabiosa and viola. Italy. Betwen the groups of flowers that New Citizens Sought may and may not be transplanted i3 Naturally, the Italian government ! a Jhird division. plants in this hopes the majority of these boys will rrek Tor lialian citizenship when they become of age. rather than accept ing the nationality of the country in which they were born. The Fascist party boasts that more than SO. 000 Italian boys aud girls living in foreign countries are now regularly inscribed in the Balilla or ganization, recently renamed the "Gioventu del Littorio." According to a recent party com munication, some 10.000 applications! lor membeship in this organization were received in Latin-America alone! last year. The government yearly, fpends between $250,000 and S300.-J 000 in assisting these foreign! 1. ranches. I T act i-t. r- t h r. rnvcmmpni nt ITS own expense brought IS. 5 00 of thee ' Italian bovs back to Italv to spend a few weeks in summer camps vithj their voung Fascist brothers. Many,! of them came from the United States J and Latin-America. The same thing : 111 Uf UUIie IU1S MHUIUtl. I Private Organizations Active In addition to the Fascist organ izations which are directly subsidized . ,. . ,, , ,,w nnrato lhi hnTi accnr allfinQ fluff f l t(R! supported by wealthy Italian com I muni ties -ru :-. : . : 1 i J the United States, where the Order ! neutrality m a Lzecnosio.a u,, of the Sons of Italv is a flourishing j nt vas expected to be similar to . : they "banIts nff" ntfitlirlp nf fiprmiiny (M L.dllUdl ion. in .-"iiiui iva mv.li urn,.i,,;, f i.aiion. in Smith 1.1 lilt V C . V ' IU1 V L ALCIIIUHO v' v America. Most of these non-official organ ization have a distinct bond with Fascist Italy. Many of them operate on programs laid down by the "Dante Alighieri." which is a government supported organization created toj spread Italian culture and propa ganda in foreign countries. This or ganization has 200 committee in for eign countries with a total member ship of 23.000. To further this work the govern ment spends more than $500,000 an nually, which is entered in the For-1 eien Affairs budget as "defense of j I:;ilianity abroad. Exactly'how this sum is expended is not divulged. Tourist Trade Sought The second biggest item for foreign propaganda, after schools, is $1,000. onO annually for "tourist propa ganda." This appears in the budget (if the ministry of popular culture. This money mostly is spent on for eign advertising to attract tourists to Italy. In addition, the ministry of pop ular culture spends about $100,000 annually on keeping Italian press at taches in the big capitals of the world. The chief task of these men H to try to obtain a better press for Fascist Italy In foreign newspapers. Other items of a propaganda na ture in the budgets of the ministries of popular culture and foreign af fairs are: special political missions abroad, $150. 000; broadcasts to for- c isn countries, $75,000: foreign con- renres and congress, $80,000; te c-rot expenses. ;5.000. FILES TOR LEGISLATURE LINCOLN, May 7 (UP) J. B. Douglas. 01, Tecumseh business man and a member of the state game commission filerl today as a candidate for the unicameral legislature from the first district. Douglas said "it seems important ;vt tlii? tirnc tcr rorr.cr," to br rent to the legislature who carries a stop vatch ou expenditures." TRANSPLANTING MAY BE INJURIOUS TO FLOWERS While many 11 overt may be safely transplanted, there are other that, because of their root growth, should be left where their seed is sown. Members of this latter group should be kept in mind when planting seed as veil as later, when moving plants. The following annuals should not be moved: California poppy, celosia, ! di1jscus (blue lace flower), lour! v!,i, n,,ri hnnnnnnii .mnnc the perennials, lathyrus (perennial sweet pea) and orienta1 popp.v shouh' not be transplanted. The following popular flowers, on the other hand, may be transplanted i with little fear of damaging them: Annuals ageratum, alyssuni, snap- group will he stunted, though not ; seriously harmed, by transplanting. ! While both plant and flower will be ; smaller, earlier bloom will also re- suit. j Larkspur, zinnia, phlox, nastur i tium and bachelor's button are i:i I this classification. WILL REMAIN NEUTRAL ROME. May C (UP) Reliable lazi sources revealed toniffin xnai Italy and Germany had decided against concluding alliance during Adolf Hitler's current visit to Rome. Mussolini, it was declared, will preserve "free neutrality" toward a settlement of the German minority p m 1,1 Czechoslovakia, vnun ' Hitler is determined to achieve out "peaceful means.' Nazi sources said the essential Poin,s ot the cussions between ""ler and Mussolini concerned i Czechoslovakia and the ltauan-uer-I man policy in Ppain. A further two-hour final confer ence between the two leaders of the Rome-Berlin axis was expected to- morrow out it was precticiea mat me, . ; understanding already reached would HOI be altered materially. Italian during Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. SPEND MONEY IS PRIMARIES EAST CHANGE. S. J., May 6 (UP) Postmaster General James A. Far ley told an audience of 700 at a testimonial dinner for Representative Edward L. O'Neill last night that "experts in such matters" had in formed him that enemies of the ad ministration already had spent $500, 000 in the congressional primaries which are "now just under way." He said that "in some of the re- cent movements opposing measures of the president there were hundreds of thousands of telegrams sent to con gressmen in an attempt to influence their votes. "You know and I know who paid for those telegrams." he said. "In the case of one stub propaganda cam paign investigated by the senate it developed that messages were filed in batches of hundreds or more by a single unidentified individual and that names came out of city direc tories or telephone books without the knowledge of those whose signatures were attached. REPUBLICANS SEEK PLANS DKS MOINES, la.. May " (UP) Rules for a national republican party program were being drawn up here today at a conference of delegates from Iowa. Nebraska. Missouri. Min- j nesota. Kansas, aud North and South I Dakota. Y. J. Goodwin. Des Moines manu facturer, is chairman of the republi can party program committee for the area embracing the seven states. "We will organize committees to assist Glenn Frank, head of the G.O.P. policy committee in outlining a pro gram of rules for the next repub lican platform." be explained. First speaker on the program will be Wil liam S. Hard, republican political commentator. Your courtesy in phoning news to Wo. 6 is appreciated. British and French Ministers Confer in Effort to Secure a Peaceful Solution of Dispute. Jiy REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent PRAGUE, Czech.. May 7 (UP) British and French ministers to Czechoslovakia were expected to con fer with Foreign Minister Kmail Krofta today in an effort to effect, a peaceful settlement of the demands of the German minority for a greatei measure of self government. It was understood thai the cabinet at p. meeting yesterday aproved the draft of a new minority statute and this would be submitted to the envoys. The government is ready to rush the statute throurh parliament vt once it was reported, if it offers a real hope for solution. The government also apmvci the make-up cf a Czech economic dele gation which will leave for Berlin tomorrow for a conference which if designed to review German-Czechoslovak economic relations. This meet ing1, ostensibly a routine one, may give the first sign whether Germany is preparing to exert economic pressure against Czechoslovakia in an effort to force sweeping concsssior.s to the German minority. Believing- that sveh pressure is cer tain, the government already has started a study of its position as re gards foreign trade. Alternative transportation routes arc! alternative markets have been considered. In these discussions the United States plays a big part, Germany is Czechoslovakia's best customer but the United States conies next and as regards actual cash, is the best cutomer. Hence, would look to the the best field for the government United states as increased exports if the German markets were closed! j to t. The representations to be made to day by the British and French en voys were the result of the British French conference at London. There was a sudden revival ofi minority German complaints of police oppression. German news sources published at Berlin reports of clashes between police and minority Germans here, at Falkenau, at Sar.z, and at Asch. In each case it was asserted that the rolice had been tne aggres sors. As fast as the reports appeared they were denied by government sour ces here. It was ar.nou ced that the govern- merit's ban on political meetings would be lifted immediately. i he ban was decreed on March 31 ind became ef- fective April 1. Its lifting was interpreted as a con cession to the Sudeten Germans, whe j protested. SECOND QUEST UNDERWAY F0R OIL IN ALASKA PAN FRANCISCO (UP). The . The full oil steamer North Wind, with a full oil drilling equipment and had been sent to drill a in Alaska, has made crew wnicn wildcat well a successful landing, three California oil com panies that are backing the enter prise have announced. It will be the first attempt to strike oil on the Alaska peninsula since 10 years ago when the same com panies made a similar attempt. That venture was unsuccessful. The landing for the present enter prise has been made southwest of the volcanic "Valley of 10.000 Smok es." The exploratory well will be start ed about May 15 on the Bear-Creek -Salmon Creek incline. The Sua co. a former purse-seiner, has arrived at Jute Bay from Seattle and will serve as a tender for the expedition. It is equipped with radio to keep in touch with the Alaskan outposts t)f civilization. A modern radio-direction finder also is carried due to heavy fogs which settle close down along the rocky Alaskan shore. It is expected that the expedi tion this time will be able to estab lish definitely whether there are oil possibilities on the Alaskan penin sula. ROCK PUT BACK IN SOIL I FISHKILL. N. Y. (UP) By grind- ing slabs of rock from a stonewall on his property, A. M. Polhemus. Cedar Hill Road farmer, expects to ' fertilize his fields for spring plar.t .' ing. The wall, erected by an early settler, is made ! t ti c- nf udiii'h of limestone, rpeci- mens V l U1V. II test 9SVi per cent pure. Rubber Stamps, prompt tieliv- erv. lowest dHces. All siies at the y, low ' Journal office. 'iTSrf , t &::t 3 3sk A s-? issSTv v-Rs?! ; Jnf$ JTf y-zjr- - . - ,- , , ,S 3W yess!'" -- ' f , Tvmm ' -U 'S- " ''f ? Ir"'1 jZrS " a Hers is the colorful "Pacific House" to be erected at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bayv History, culture and customs of the nations of the Pacific will be dramatized here. The building will rise on the edge of one of the picturesque lagoons on Treasure Island. Salaries Show Upward Trends, Reports Show TTod A nt ftTira1 Motor; Pornoration Exception to the General Up ward Move of Salaries. WASHINGTON. May 7 U'P) Se-; curities and exchange commission re-; ports revealed today a sharp drop in 1 1937 salaries of William S. Knudseii. General Motors corporation presi-. dent, and other General Motors of ficials. salary ngures were presemeu in annual reports filed with the SEC by the corporation. In most eases.; aside from General Meters, the re-' ports Hidicated an upward trend in j corporate compensation. j The General Motors report showed j lhat Knudsen, v. ho v. as executive! vice president part of 1Do7 received, total remuneration of S140.3S0 com-: pared with $"07.64"j in 1930. Charles. f. Kettering, vice president, drew $93,120 in 1937. a reduction of j ?2oS.C35 from 1936. Eoth officials j rcceived but only Under a share of profits salaries in 1937. PEC regulations in 1936; i corpor- ations must include in their annual j reoorts the names and salaries of the1 i thrpe highest paId ernployees. Sonja Heme, Norwegian skating star and film actress, received $210.-; 729 from Twentieth Century-Fox Film corporation. The only other movie performer who rated among the top salary reported so far was Warner P.axter, another Twentieth jcentury - Fox star who received $225.- '9C1 compared with $2S4.3S4. General Hugh Johnson, first adniin- ; iKf , nf th vn anrl now a news- ,., mlnmnist. was in the SECs paper hij;h salary list in the roll of labor advhor to the Radio Corporation of America. The report disclosed that ho received $ 40,000 in fees in that capacity. RELIEF COST HIGH WASHINGTON. May 7 (UP) WPA Administrator Harry L. Hop kins told a house subcommittee that federal relief will cost about S3.000. 000. 000 for the fiscal year 1939 with relief rolls of about 3.100,000 per sons next winter it was revealed to day. Relief rolls now list about 2.C00, (oo persons. Hopkins said. An in crease to 3.100.000 would exceed the previous WPA peak of 3. 030,000 on February 29, 1936. Hopkins gave his testimony before the house appropriations deficiency subcommittee during hearings on President Roosevelt's relief recovery bill, in which $1,250,000,000 was requested for the WPA for the first seven months of fiscal 1939. NAMED AS DIRECTOR OMAHA. May . (opeciau i arr (Special) Young of Nehawka. Neb., extensive , JIrs Cox as'Ked 10,000 in damages Cass county livestock feeder, has been and costs alleging that neglicrce of elected a director of the South Omaha (h(? state highway department in fail Production Credit association, to fill j inff to ropa;r a washout in highway the vacancy created by the resig-j lg3 C2U?od thc;r car to ups3t 2q miies nation of Francis 11. iianson ot ue catur. Mr. Young will serve until the 1939 annual meeting of the associa tion's stockholders. j Oreanized four years ago, the ; South Omaha unsocial ion is a operative credit or anization supply - iug funds for livestock and farming; operations. li; territory includes Kurt. Dodre. Wailiingi'jn. -auiidrr: i - - Douglas. Sarny aud Cats counties, DENIES LIQUOR LICENSE LINCOLN, May C (UP) The, I state liquor commission today de-j ! nied a package liquor license sought i ci,; Mrs. Laura F. Long of Nebraska j t hairman J. A. ;.jcLachen said a license was refused Mrs. Long be- cause her husband, her co-partner in a drug store was ineligible! ecause his license was revoked last year. MeEachen said the law contem plated that both partners must be eligible for a license. Mrs. Long was represented at the hearing by Attor ney Lloyd E. Peterson. Rev. Ralph C. Xelst-n of Nebraska City appeared as an objector. Character witnesses for Mrs. Long arc George O. Meyer. John M.Carthy and John C. Miller. 'Streamlined' Farms are to be Shown in State Eenefit of Soil Erosion Control in Conservation Program to Be i i Demonstrated. LINCOLN. May (J ( UP t "Stream- line farms will be featured at numer-' ous farm tours to be held in Nebraska! this vear. On soil conservation ser-! j vice 'demonstration erosion control ' ; aseas alone there are l.:'.'"0 farms, j New style farms have been brought i about by changes made to conserve soil and moisture. These changes in clude a shift from straight rows to contour rows that run across slopes raher than up and down them, re placements of straight fences and I farm roads with roads j that cross farms on the level, ir.tro- j duction of the practice of growing) crntmir ;t:irc: n ni 1 -h nl H i n o- rmns. in I " " - "- ! alternation with strips of clean-tilled row crops, and the cons'. ruction terraces. ; On pasture; lard a streamlined cf-! feet has been obtained on many forms! by the plowing of contour pasture j furrows to hold moisture. There arc 750 miles of such furrows on dem onstration erosion control farms in the state. Areas where erosion control ir.eth being demonstrated " are lo - ods are cated at Albion. Beatrice. Blair. Col umbus, David Citv, Denton, Hebron Ilunboldt, Madison, Pawnee City Ralston, Ravenna, Syracuse and Weeping water. LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL LINCOLN. May G (UP) A 1037 legislative act giving Mre. Earl Cox of North P'alte and others the right to sue the state for injuries received in p highway accident was declared jUnco"; .titutional by the Nebraska supreme court today. By provisions of legislative bill number 20. Mr. and Mrs. Cox and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bailey were j ,rivcn permission to sue the state south of North Tlatte in December 1930. In sustaining a lower court dis missal of the case, the supreme court held the legislative act constituted I special legislation in vioiaiion oi int i ron?' if rtinn 1 :n - 1 v r ipnnr?l law ! . , , . , .. i cm: d havp hr-pn madp aiMi:icah n I Whether your printing job Is) i iiruc u r s nil . i n ihusi j vu . large or small, it will recelva our, prompt attention. Call No. C. Chinese Guer rillas Attack in Many Points j Threst to Cut Off Railroad Between ' leiping and Tientsin. Most Important to Japanese. j ' i SHANGHAI, May 7 (UP) Chin I cse p-uernlias, ther numbers running j into the hundreds of thousands. i tacked Japanese throughout central ard northern China today with weap- ons ranging from midieval big swords , and spears to the submachine guns of todays. j Gurrilias operating with the famous I 8th rente army under General Chu i Teh "red Napoleon" the one-time com- ! munist army attacked Japanese on j three sides of Pieping. j They threatened to cut off the rail j road between Pieping and Tientsin, near the coast perhaps the most im I portant road, to the Japanese in all China, i In Shansi province in western China, guerrilas took the offensive over an area of hundreds cf miles and threatned to wipe out Japanese gar risons heavily outnumbered and iso- Is ted from their bases at a dozen points. Other forces ripped up railroad tracks to prevent the Japanese from sending reinforcements by railroad to retake the big areas thev had lost. It was even reported, though this was not -confirmed that Chinese guer- rilas penitrated into Nanking, cap ital of the Japanese sponsored "pro visional government for central ' : ' 1 r u . 1 : . - 7 carrison f.ir two hours Lefoi-e tiring to posts outside the city. re- . --r- . -t n..,r. -im-vrT"Tr ! XS U.A WUAAA int CHICAGO, Mav i (UP) Phil K. Wrigley. millionaire owner of the Chicago Cubs, who paid ?1?.V0C ana tratica tnrce piayers to me si. Stores are jouis Cardinals for Dizzy Dean, said j thre0 ties a today he still believes it was a good i are weeks pamble. j from Sydney. He returned from California last j Nevcrthless night to find Chicago fans upset byij, ma(jc with 'a Ending of t!ie Cubs phy.ician that Dean's pitching s nu needs a month's i rest. Dean has pitched oniv one full game since he joined the Cuds last month. His trouble has bucn caused by a muscle inflamation r.?ar the right shoulder Wrigley said he had not considered only Dean's pitching ability when he bought him. "A plaver of Dean's type b an ar set to any team," Wrigiev said. "He has spirit. The money he cost does not enter into it. We knew a let about him Vie for? we bought him. J knew it was a gamble ar.d thought it was a good one. I still trir.k it is." He said that if he had been forced to trade second baseman Billy Her man or catcher Gabby Harnett to get Dean it might have been a dif ferent matter "But I'd rather have Dean with a sore arm than I wou'.d Curt Davis," he said DAVE RUBIN0FF ILL BATTLE CREEK, Mich. May " , UP) Dave Rubinoff, the violonist, 'was reported in serious condition here today when peritonitis developed fol lowing an emergency operation for appendicitis. Rubinoff was rushed to the Battle Creek tanitarium for liie operation yesterday ; Feels That Filling Vacancy of Lieu tenant Governor Would Not Bar Him From Race. LIN'COLX. .May 7 (UP) -Speaker j Charles J. Warner of the unicam eral legislature announced last nieht I he has decided his candidacy as r republican candidate for governor will net be affected if he performs I such duties of the lieutenant governor . iis signing wari'ants and records. I Attorney General Richard C. Hunt j er, in an opinion last week, ru'jd that j the speaker should take over these j duties inasmuch as the attorney gen- eral's office has held that the office j of lieutenant governor has been vac i ant since March 7 when Lieut. Gov. j Walter I!. Jurgcnsen was convicted ' of embezzlement. j Warner hesitated, however, until ho COUid determine for himself whether the assumption of the lieutenant gov ernor's duties would make him lieut :.r,t governor and thus bar Inni, under the constitution, from running for governor. . '"If the governor is absent from the state and the office of lieutant gov ernor is vacant, the speaker will b called upon to perform some duties in the office of governor," Warner said. "In li'.:e manner pcrformirg duties normally performed by the lieutant governor does net make the speakev licutenanant governor. The attorney general holds that the constitution of the ftate docs not provide for a sue- fnpc'r.n n iff ion v "f 1 im in'in tpit ernor, and that office remain; vacant. No other question sjcms to be in- at-!Volved." I Warner's decision will enable per- i ir.anent legislative employes J re- ' ceive April salary checks aggrcgat'ng j $000, which have been helu up pend- Warner's signature j I 2RIDE MISTRESS OF VAST RANCH SYDNEY (U P) Miss Maxinc Darrow, in nam ing "Bill" McDon ald married into a family which has the LigL-est ranch in Australia owned by oe person Under the countryside sounding name of Fossil Downs, it covers 1. 064.000 acres and is situated in that western part of Australia that is so far west that is known as the "Back o' Beyond" The rise of Fossil Downs into its ; present immensity has an interesting 5tcry behind it. In 188.1, two uncles of "Bill" McDonald started out from Goulbourn with 1,000 head of cattle an(j 300 horses. They spent three J years going westward until they found j what they considered the best pastoral country ort the continent. They settled down ana their ranch grew and their herds grew until when it was finally left to the present own er is was the largest cattle station controlled by one man in Australia. An entire native tribe is row work ing on the station and two adjoining properties. b very one of the l,noi),(i't() anu more acrcs has a knowledge of first aid. as I there is no doctor or der.tist nearer i t-lan utrDy, 230 miles awav. received year and old when from Perth newspapers thev arrive the homestead house ventilating- pipes run throUffh the concrete bricks and U e-.uipped with elcctr:c lighting and ! refrigeration, while outside a swim ! ming pool and golf course arc undei ; construction. MAY RUN FOR CHIEF JUSTICE LINCOLN. May 6 (UP) C. A. Sorensen. Lincoln attorney, said to day he is giving "serious eonsider aiion" to filing as a candidate for chief justice of the Nebraska supremo court and may have a statement to make soon. Reports have been current here for some time that Korensen, former rtlorney general virtually has decided to enter the race. District Judges K. II. Chappell of Lincoln and Jcr V. Ycager of Omaha have filed for this pest. FALL VICTIM "FAIR' OMAHA. May 6 (UP) George iMalnick, 27. a window washer fell from a third story window to a sec ond floor landing yesterday, but de Fpite a severe leg laceration his con dition was "fair" at a hospital this morning In his tumble, Malnick hit a window ledge. A passerny applied a crude tourniquet to Malnick's le v our.d after the accident. Subscribe for the Journal.