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THE PIATTSMOUTH EVENING JOURNAL
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942
Submergence
of Japanese
to Government
Complete Submission to the Mili
tary Clique of Country fcy
the Citizenship.
By H. O. THOMPSON
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UP)
The people of Japan in recent years
have been called upon for complete
submergence to the dictators of the
military clique.
The present military rule in Japan
is comparable to chapters in Japan's
history when power-usurping "sh
guns" laid down arbitrary rules of
conduct, even to the extent of prom
ulgating the exact dimensions of
dolls children might play with or
prescribing the death penalty for
mistreatment of a dog.
While depriving the people of
their individual liberties, the regi
mentation of Japan gives the advan
tage of unified action and utiliz
ation of all human and material
resources to the nation's war ef
fort. The Japanese people accept the
situation with a shrug of the shoul
ders and the word "shikataganai"
meaning, "it is fate and nothing
can be done about it."
There are cases of non-cooperation
but they are dealt with harsh
ly. A man on a street car asked a fel
low straphanger, "Have you heard
that our forces lost considerably at
the battle of Nomonhan?" He was
overheard by an informer and was
put in jail.
Even the once powerful financial
group has had to give in to the
dictates of the army.
Wealthy men have also surren
dered all the gold in their posses
sion, have relinquished their large
automobiles, have given up all sump
tuous entertaining and placed their
businesses at the disposal of the
government.
The working man has given up
the right to strike and accepted the
12-hour day for the duration of the
war effort.
The labor movement in Japan
never achieved any great strength,
but it was the Japanese that develop
ed the technique of the sit-down
strike. They called it the "go-slow"
method.
The tax schedules reach down
and tap the pockets of wage earn
ers who make $200 or more per
year. In the higher brackets - the
rates are practically confiscatory J
"I think the people would stand
for almost anything as long as their
leaders obtain food for them," said
an American official who had watch
ed the Japanese scene for several
years. "They could rip up the
street car tracks or tear down build
ings to obtain steel, if it should be
come necessary, and the people would
not grumble greatly. If the results
at 'the end are not considered suf
ficient reward for the hardships un
dergone then there might be
trouble.
' "But while the fight is on they
How to Distinguish Nationality of Aircraft
(3)
UNITED STATES ARMY
Win and Fanlart Blue dislt with
white (tar and ti center
Bidder HorlMnun red and white
tripea; blae laid
UNITED STATES NAVT
Wing and Fnielre Blue disk with
white iter and red jeenter
Bndder Blue, white and red vertical
tripea
GREAT BRITAIN. R. A. F.
Wlnr Bine circle, whit circle with
red center
Rodder No identification 1 vertical red
white and blae stripe on fin.
Enemy Submarine
Is Reported Off
the East Coast
(Continued from Page 1)
RUSSIA
VTfe and Fasciae Red star
Rudder No tdentl 6 cation
MEXICO
Wine Red triantie. white triangle
with mall green trianrle In center
Rodder Green, white and red vertical
tripea
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GERMANY
Winr Black croea
Rodder Black swastika circled la
red aeld
ITALY
Winf Roman fawes, yellow, la
white disk
Rodder -f.'reen, white ana red vertical
tripes with royal anas in center
JAPAN
Wine Red disk
Rodder No identiflcatiea
Civilian air raid spotters will have no difficulty distinguishing Axis planes from those of the United
nations if they memorize the markings illustrated above. American and British planes have designs
of red, white and blue, and Russia has a red sUu. Watchers on the southern border occasionally
may see the red triangle of Mexico. Axis raiders are easily spotted through the familiar black
cross and swastika of Germany, the round red rising sun emblem of Japan and the Roman fasce
Insignia borne by Italian planes
work together."
The Japanese farm boys, from the
age of 10 upward, work from be
fore dawn until after dark. Farm
ers do not have trucks or wagons as
a rule, and produce is hauled to mar
kets by boys with trailers behind
their bicycles. The boys dismount
and push up the hills, sometimes,
covering 40 miles a day.
The farm population provides a
reservoir of manpower for the army
and for manufacturing needs in the
cities. It is a fluctuating affair,
with boys who havs left home in
boom periods going back to the
farms in times of depression.
ARMY STRENGTH GROWS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UP)
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
said today that President Roosevelt
had authorized an increase of the
arm's strength to 3,600.000 men this
y$aT, The army now totals about
1,700,000.
Stimson told a press conference
that it would involve doubling thf
number of armored units, more than
doubling the air combat units, and
adding 32 new triangular divisions,
a large proportion of them com
pletely motorized, to the present 27
infantry divisions. .
"You can see from this picture
that plans already are under way
for very great enlargement of the
army, but they are based upon the
same balanced requirements that we
have followed in the past," Stimson
said. "The air force will have a
large part in this program."
Add 22 Acres
to Fontenelle
Dr. Harold Gifford, Jr,, Makes Gift
of Virgin Timberland South
of Omaha Monday.
Twenty-two acres were added to
the virgin timberland of the Fon
tenelle forest south of Omaha Mon
day, when Dr. Harold Gifford, jr.,
announced donation of a tract of
land at the annual meeting of the
Fontenelle Forest association at the
Chamber of Commerce.
The additional tract, which ad
joins the Mary Millard Gifford tract
given by Dr. Gifford's mother, will
be known as the Mary Elizabeth
Jonas tract. That was the maiden
name of Mrs. Gifford, jr. The forest
land now held by the association
amounts to approximately- seven
hundred acres. ' i
Dr. 'Gifford's' was 'thV first gift of
land to the forest since March, 1940,
when George T. Morton, association
secretary, gaxe it 10 a. res adjoining
the tract.
Mrs. John Bath was elected a di
rector to fill the unexpired term of
the late Edwin S. Jewell and W.
LeRoy Wilcox v.as elected replacing
Dr. E. H. Eruening, who left the
city. Re-elected were Frederick J.
; Adams, president; Roy N. Towl, vice
president; George T. Mortonr secre
tary; L. O. Horsky, treasurer; Ed
S. Miller and W.L. Steele, members
1 of the board. World-Herald.
SETTLE FOR LAND
WAHOO, Neb., Jan. 15 (UP)
Following Federal Judge J. A. Don
ohoe's notice to Saunders county
fanners that the government will
brook no delay in construction of the
25 million dollar bomb loading plant,
the real estate branch of the army
engineer corps announced that own
ers who were holding out now are
signing stipulations to accept the
amount offered on original appraisal
of value.
Most of the holdouts were clients
of Former Congressman William
Lemke, co-author of the Frazier
Lemke law.
As a result, about 13,500 of the
17.2S0 acres involved now are under
option, according to Kenneth F.
Reed, acquisition project manager.
LIVES THROUGH MANY WARS
SCOTTSBLUFrV- Neb,, Jan. 15
(UP) The present national emer
gency is just another war to Mrs.
Nancy Ann Sipes Ware, Scottsbluff's
oldest resident, who celebrated her
10 m birthday today.
Horn in Martinsville. Indiana,
January 15, 1841, Mrs. Ware re
members the Mexican war, Civil war,
Spanish war, first World war and the
various Indian affrays.
The centenarian admit hearing
and eyesight arej failing somewhat
but she still, enjoys the visits of
her friends. Most of her time is
spent locking' in her favorite chair
in front of a west window.
tip of Long Island, and approximate
ly 150 miles from New York City, at
1:30 a. 111. yesterday.
It was the second attack within
a few days off the coast of the North
American continent. A 10,000-ton
merchant ship was torpedoed prev
iously 160 miles off Nova Scotia
with a loss of 91 lives.
The loss of the Norness recalled
German submarine activity off the
coast from May to September in
1918, the last year of the World
war. One came to the surface off
Rhode Island and lobed a few shells
into a town. Others attacked mer
chant ships and schooners in coast
wise trade. On June 2. 1918, one
submarine sank six ships off the
New Jersey coast.
Japanese submarines menaced the
Pacific coast during the first two
weeks of the war. An army bomber
blasted one to bits and there have
been no reports of submarines being
active there since.
The Norness was almost a new
ship, having been completed in 1939
in Hamburg, Germany. Erling D.
Naess, president of the Tanker cor
poration, her owners, said in New-
York that her master was Captain
Harald Hansen, a Norwegian. He
was not at liberty to disclose her
port of destination or from whence
she had sailed. The company is own
ed by American, British, and Nor
wegian interests.
Of her crew of 40, her master and
eight others were taken to New
Bedford, Mas3.. in the fishing boat
Mai vina and then to the naval base
here by naval automobiles. Thirty
others, including six officers, were
picked up from their lifeboats by
naval vessels and brought here. No
American was in the crew which
was Scandinavian, chiefly Norwegian.
Nothing was known of the missing
man.
One of the rescued men had been
seriously injured. Others were suf
fering from shock and exposure. All
were put in the naval hospital here.
The navy did not release their names
or any detail of their experience.
PLACE AND DATE
OF SECOND CLINIC
Following is the schedule of the
second clinic of the Cass-Sarpy
Health Unit for Sarpy and Cass
counties:
Papillion School, 1 p. m. Feb. 6.
Springfield School, 1 p. m., Feb. 10.
Louisville, 1 p. m., Feb. 13.
Gretna, 1 p. m., Feb. 17.
Murray, 1 p. m., Feb. 20.
Weeping Water, 1 p. m., Feb. 24.
Chandler, 1:00 p. m., Pleasant
Hill, 2 p. m., Westsidc, 1:30 p. m.,
Lilly, 2 p. m. Feb, 27.
Elmwood. 1 p. m., March 3.
Riverview, 1 p. m., Avery 2 p. m.,
Fort Crook 2:30 p. 111. La Platte 3
p. 111. March 6.
Union and Rural 5 Dist. 11 Dist.
12 and Dist. 14 March 10 (Dr. Ty
son.) Nehawka 2 p. m., March 13 (Dr.
Anderson.)
Union, 1 p. m., March 13 (Dr. An
derson.) Cedar Creek, Dist. 47, Dist. 79,
Dist 76, Dist. 88, and Dist. 30,
March 17.
Alvo, Dist. 101, 1 p. m., March 20.
Eagle, 1 p. m.t March 20.
Avoca, Dist. 63. 1 p. m., March 24.
South Bend, 1 p. m. March 27.
Greenwood, 1 p. m. March 27.
Manley, Dist. 9, 1 p. m., March 31.
Murdock, Dist. 25, 1 p. m., March
31.
?lattsmouth Evening Journal
MRS. ROBERT A. BATES
Owner and Publisher .
FRANK H. SMITH Editor
Published Daily Except Sunday
Entered at the Post orrlce !n Plaits
mouth, Nebraska, as second class mail
matter in accordance with the Act of
Congress of March 3. 179.
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NO DEATH: The last enemy that
shall be destroyed is death. I Cor.
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PIONEER POULTRY CLUE NO. 2
The Poultry Progressive Pioneer
club b-!d their meeting at the home
of Carl Kra:ger on December 6th.
The members gave the flag salute,
thn were called to order. The
U-xHon wan read. Robert Kraeger, the
fiong and yel! leader had the mem
bers v.UtV, songs as a part of our
program. The bunch v.as served re
frfeKhmeutH by Frances Kraeger.
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Last Time Tonight - Thursday, Jan ,15
Jeanette MacDonald and Brian Aherne in
'SMILIN' THROUGH9
Don't miss this outstanding motion picture! One of Ihe most
important features of the new season! Also Comedv and Novelty.
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A Paramount Picture with
CHARLIE RUGGLES ELLEN DREW
PHILLIP TERRY-Joseph Schildkraut-Porter K;
Henry Kolker Janet Beecher Paul Hurst
Directed by William McGann A Harry Sherman Productic
Here comes that Fightm' Parson and a whole flock of
Action the big outdoor drama kind with six-guns blaz
fists flying! And
thrills!
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HOT ON THE TRAIL OF INCENDIARIES...
to scorch the screen
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II 5cr.n play by Albert DeMond
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It's arson . . . and a three-alarm blaze of thrills ... as the criminal
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