THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE Labor Federa tion Outlines Its Legislative Plan Roper Sees a Continuance of Business Turn SEASIM'S BFSTl IH3B ( . X- Many Phases to Be Taken. Up at Coming Session on Needs of Workers of Nation. WIiIIlF WW 1 GnEETINcT At this cheeriest season of the year, we add another wish for a HAPPY CHRISTMAS 0. K. Beauty Shop Sadie Shafer Secretary to Leave Post in Commerce Department Friday with Mes sage of Hope to Nation. WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (UP) SI To those whose friendship has meant so mnch to us ... we ex tend the season's greetings and wish each and every one of yon A Merry Christmas AND A MOST Happy New Year Tidball Lumber Co. Lumber and Coal Phone No. 40 Plattsmonth, Neb. Merry Christmas and a new year fnll of joy, health and prosperity. That's our wish for you, our many friends and patrons, at this most joyful season of the entire year! Ofc Oil Co. ''WMAMHftR. WE WISH ALL OUR PATRONS AND FRIENDS A MOST Merry Christmas AND A Happy New Year' F.R.Gobelflian It has always been our greatest pleasure to pre serve the spirit and good will of the holiday season ... and to each of our friends, old and new, we extend wishes for a most Merry Christmas Ran York GAMBLE STORE fa b emr .raw mwi i DRS. PUCELIEi 8 KYAN ft WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UP) The American Federation of Labor prepared a broad program of labor legislation today to sponsor in the forthcoming session of congress. The program was outlined at a meeting of representatives of 102 AFL unions together with officials of jthe "big four" railroad brotherhoods and announced by AFL President Green. 3reen also predicted that the sen ate would fail to confirm the nom ination of Donald Wakefield Smith for another term as a member of the national labor relations board. Re vealing that he had written letters to all members of the senate for their position on Smith's nomination, Green said: "I have received replies from vir tually all of the senators. I feel, on the basis of the replies, that senti ment against Smith is very strong. in fact preponderant. I believe we can defeat him." The AFL's legislative program in cludes: 1. Revision of the national labor relations act. 2. New legislation to aid the rail roads "Whatever recommendations the president's program committee brings out." 3. Revision of the Social Security act to extend its benefits as recom mended this week by the Social Se curity advisory council. 4. Amendment of the fair labor standards act to clarify definitions of learners, beginners and apprentices. 5. Continuation "of federal relief on the present scale. 6. Safeguards for labor in national defense legislation. Green said federation attorneys are "in the last stages" of drafting amendment to the national labor re lations act and that they will be presented to congress "with full AFL backing." The amendments, he said, will con tain two major provisions:' 1. To take away from the board its present power to determine whether a labor unit will operate as a craft, plant or industrial unit. It would provide for operation of the act in a manner similar to the rail way labor act. 2. Curtailment of the power of the board to void existing contracts be tween unions and employers. "Our purpose," he said, "is to guard and protect the fundamental provisions of the act. We stand now as we have always stood for the preservation of the act. Our com plaint is against the maladministra tion of the act." THREE CEOPS IN 70 YEARS 5 ra iS1s " ;is - M Pf t& : . : i ft YUTON, 111. (UP) A field on the farm of F. J. Basting near here has yielded three crops in the past 70 years with no cultivation. Basting harvested a crop of hedge posts this year which he figures will bring him $6 to S7 an acre. It was the third yield since 1870. Harris Baiid Box Cleaners & Launderers H Via w tVfl ii I ii in ll lift PNgjpfflHHflnnsi if M M M y nriTJTii m m z-J fa ft Egenberger, rccery f 11 RflftlM TDCrT 'ft LEGS BALK ON MIND CLEVELAND, O. (UP) Law rence Krum, 86, discovered that his old legs would not conform to his young ideas when he tried to jump a puddle, misjudged the distance, miss ed the curb and fell. He suffered lacerations on the forehead as a re sult of his "puddle-jumping." DELAWARE GETS SWEDISH FLAG WILMINGTON, Del. (UP) Gov. Richard C. McMullen has accepted for the state a Swedish flag which will be flown under the American flag in Christina Pakr here. The flag, hand made, was sent from Sweden by Mrs. Anna Mard of Stockholm. "ROD" TURNS INTO SNAKE COOKSTOWN, Australia (UP) Bitten on the foot by a snake, Wil liam Howard reached down for a stick with which to kill it. but the "stick" turned out to be another Bnake, which bit him on the arm. Prompt medical attention saved How ard. SHOT IN DARK COSTLY ALGER. O. (UP) Bradley Dyer, awakened by a poise he thought was caused by chicken thieves, grabbed his gun, approached the chicken coop, fired blindly and discovered that he had killed one of his most valuable farm horses. MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR Don's Barber Shop 1938 1938 OS LW The warmth of old friend ships is once again re newed in the greeting we are proud to send, to all our Patrons and Friends at this glad season for a MERRY CHRISTMAS FARLEY'S for Fine Furniture joyousUHK We desire to extend to you the Compliments of the season and express our sincere wishes for your prosperity through out the coming year! J. W. Crabill JEWELER 6th and "Main Plattsmonth YULE! WE WISH YOU A Most Merry Christmas The passing years serve only to increase the sincerity of our greeting to you. Let us all look hopefully forward to the coming year as an era of better times in store for everyone ! Etta Belle Beauty Shop Secretary of Commerce Roper, in his farewell press conference today fore cast continuance of a gradual up ward trend in business during 1939. Roper's resignation becomes effec tive at midnight Friday. "There are several elements of strength in the outlook for 1939 that create a much more hopeful frame of mind than existed at this time last year," he said. "The increase in the purchasing power of the population in recent months has given a new impetus to the value of domestic trade and is reflected in increased demand for dur able a well as consumers non-durable goods." Terminating more than 27 years service with the federal government Roper said: "I leave public service with grati tude to all and malice toward none. A number of people have had the thought that I ran this department politically. I don't know what has led to this conception. I have no recollection of ever bringing political pressure for political appointments in this department. My only interest was to develop the department in the interests of foreign and domestic commerce." We have found that friendship in business counts for much and we are grateful for yours. Let us wish you a very Merry Christmas and may the joy of the holidays go with you the whole year through. F. G. FR1CKE & CO. Thz Rexall Store DEATH OF HELEN GOULD ROXBURY, N. Y., Dec. 21 (UP) Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, 71, the former Helen Gould, philanthropist ! and daughter of the late Jay Gould, ! pioneer railroad builder died early I today at her home. She had been ill for two months and in a coma 24 hours after having suffered two apopletic strokes. Fun eral services will be held here to morrow and again in New York City where she will be buried. Although she had dispensed with most of the ?10,000,000 inherited from her father, who died in 1892, in various charities, she had invested the remainder so judiciously that by 1927 when she resigned as a trustee of the family estate she had tripled her original inheritance. Her first renown tame during the Spanish American war when she was acclaim ed a heroin for relief work in the United States and Cuba. ANTHONY EDEN HOME PLYMOUTH. Eng., Dec. 21 (UP) Anthony Eden returned to England from the United States today and said he had learned much of the Am erican viewpoint during his brief visit. Arriving aboard the Queen Mary Eden told interviewers that contrary to popular British belief the American people are greatly in terested in world affairs, European events in particular. "The principal American news papers give much space to events in Europe," he said, "and the editorials in their best newspapers are both shrewd and realistic in their Judg ment. He praised the "remarkable service rendered readers of American newspapers particularly about Eu ropean and far eastern affairs. To a host of Loyal Friends and Patrons we extend our sincere wish for a Joyous Hol iday Season and a Prosperous New Year! H Mauzy Drug Co. M Prescription Druggists Plattsmouth, Nebr. 2 To Our Many Friends and Patrons WE WISH YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Prosperous and Happy New Year Knorr's 5c to $1 Store Roy W. Knorr, Proprietor csy I FATHER AND TWO SONS ABE BROTHER PROFESSORS 1 w rt M ISP LANCASTER, Pa. (UP) Franklin and Marshall College's history de partment has three professors a father and his two Bons. Dr. H. M. J. Klein, the father and head of the department, has been at F. & M. since 1910. Frederick Schriver Klein has been a member of the faculty since 1929. Philip Schriver Klein joined his father and brother this fall after receiving a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. BLOODHOUNDS WON'T TRAIL MAN WHO TRAINED THEM FLORENCE. Ariz. (UP) James S. Carpenter liked , his job as a trusty at the Arizona state prison. Serving a life sentence for mur der, he was assigned to train prison bloodhounds to trail escaped con victs. Recently Carpenter apparent ly decided the hounds had received sufficient instruction, so rolling a dummy into his bed near the kennels, he crept away during the night. The bloodhounds could not trail him. BOY, 3, MILKS COW CASSVILLE. Wis. (UP) Three-year-old Joseph Berntgen is a veteran milker. Twice daily he milks a 12-year-old cow, Blackie. When the flurry of greetings snow you under, there's a little wish we would like to add in all sincerity and with grateful appreciation of your patronage throughout the years: May this be The Happiest Christmas You Ever Had ECrochlcr Hardware The spirit of Christmas calls ns to a better appreciation' of old as sociations and the value friendships. May you have a very Merry Christmas and may the New Year be the happiest and most prosper ous you have ever known. JOHN P. SATTLER, Sr. JOHN P. SATTLER, Jr. . SATTLER FUNERAL HOME L 3 ) u t t 1 Ml MHHhT 1 m bi ittcaniiru urn f . til fa ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ttm fa fa fa ft fa ft fa ft ft 5 3 fa. ft ft ft ft ft fa ft if fa ft ft fa if fa fa ft ft 4