MEN FINED AND JAILED
FOR REFUSING TO REVEAL
SOURCE OF VD
A report from Monterey, Calif,
discloses that a sentence of ten
days in jail followed one man’s
refusal togive the name of the
woman whom he contacted to get
VD- The same attitude cost an
other man a fine of $35.00. Al
though California makes it a
misdemeanor to withhold contact
information, this is the first time
the law has been invoked.
T.iese men had gone to the
health department for treatment,
and, after court action, they fin
ally gave the first name of the
girl. When located, she revealed
that they had both exploited her
as procurers. Ihis information
came too late. Three sc» tiers had
already named the same girl as
the source of U.e-r venereal ii,s
ease.
STATE BOND CHAIRMAN
ASKS VOLUNTEERS TO
CONTINUE WORKING
Allen T. Hupp of Omaha, Chair
man of the LB Lav gs Bonds Ad.
v.-ory Committee of Nebraska,
today aj.vga former v*ar i .nance
corn u »•> v -1 't'- s in t ■ 5*3
counties of Nebraska to continue
to assist in t.ie bond sales pi emo
tion program.
a num-ef of volunteers have
c -r'hessed the hope that the fine
relationship wh.ch we of the War
Department of Finance Commit
tee enjoyed during the war be
come translated into an Alumni
Association, Hupp wrote in a per
son' 1 letter addressed to 385 Ne
braskans who had served as Coun
ty vVar Finance chairman or a
dr.ve cha mien for their counties
d .r.ng the War Bond drives held
L. the war period.
Th's Association would be will
f"T to counsel and aus.ve p. o
biems that effect not only the na
tion, but every one as ind.vidua’s.
* -J-o « utio.i is now being'
formed. There will be no assign-1
ment of detail work or sales re-1
spons:bility, but the ’treasury
will have in this group an advis
ory committee to whom it can i
tu-n for guid-ince a..d moral sup-'
port. i
Chairman Hupp urged that
every Nebraskan continue to buy 1
bonds regulaily and to retain the j
bonds already bought as a curb
on dangerous inflation.
The v->!ur^ ---
ranks who through helping to
finance the v.c. Uj
Have You
Seen
Beer Licensee
Violations?
i • _
Is there a beer licensee in
your community who care
lessly or willfully violates the
provisions of the Nebraska
liquor control law?
If so, now is your time to
act because hearings are be
ing called on applications for
new licenses for the year be
j ginning May 1. For the good
of your community, it is your
duty to protest against any re
tailer whose past record will
i not bear inspection.
The Nebraska brewing in
i dustry constantly is activa
with a program of self-reg
L ulation. A field man regular
ly checks taverns throughout
the state, and wherever im
'f proper operations are found
the tavern owner is warned.
Failure to make correction
results in the case being given
to legal authorities for what
ever action they may deem
necessary.
These efforts are fruitful,
but they will be even more so
if all citizens will remember
—the public, not the beer in
dustry, selects the licensees.
ip
NEBRASKA COMMITTEE
□. United States
Brewers
Foundation
Eharies E. Sandall, State Director
710 Pint Nat'I Bank Bldg., Lincoln
THIS IS AMERICA!'
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Courtesy Appreciate America. Inc. j
Bo.'ds gave so much of their time
and effort to help win the victory
must not rest now. Democracy
itself is at the crossroads. It must
be defended and protected as zea
lously as it was protected through
the war. What better group can
stand fa-t and keep Selling Amer
icanism than this group? Every
thing we have talked about the
ast five years is at stake. We
must stay together in our com
munities and go on with the ideal
,ve believe in.
Patterson Sees Nation Facing
Third World War
Room 413 Karbach Block
Omaha, 2,Nebr
Mr. H. W. Smith
March 21,
Dear Friends:
Today our nation faces the very
grave danger of World War III.
The war inciting speeches of for
mer British Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill, Secretary of Stat*
James F. Byrnes, and Senator
Arthur Vandenberg, of Michigan
calling for war of the English
speaking peoples against the So
viet Union our ally of only yest
erday.
How could it be that the die
hard old Tory Churchill, driven
out of office by his own people,
could dare to make such a war
mongering speech in the United
States? Why the atomic bomb get
tough policies of our State Dept. 1
against the Soviet Union? What
is behind these war mongering
speeches ?
Is the war-mongering speeches
purposely to defeat people’s de
mands for Fair Employment Pra
ctices Committee, the Full Em
ployment bill, the Federal Health
bill, the Housing bil, to destroy
the OPA, to pass anti-labor leg
islation to destroy the trade un
ions, etc. ? ? ?
The attacks in Congress by the
Bilbo’s, Rankin’s, etc., on the peo
ples’ demands are carried into
action by the brutal murders and
terrorization of Negroes in Col
umbia, Tennesse, and in Freeport,
Long Island.
I am enclosing two pamphlets, 1
“the Menace of a New World War
exposing the war mongering: 2
“Dixie Comes to New York, The
GI Slayings in Freeport’’ which
tells the story of one of the most
un-American fascist crimes ever
committed in our country.
We call upon you to write to
Sec- of State Byrnes protesting
the war like policies for World
War HI; to write to Gov. Thos.
E. Dewey, Albany, New York, and
to Gov. Jim MjcCord, Nashville,
Tennessee "protesting the fascist
crimes in their states. Demanding
investigation of these fascist at
tacks upon the Negro people.
Additional copies of these pam
phlets are available at the New
World Bookshop. Telephone JA
7948.
Sincerely yours,
Signed—Warren Patterson
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Nassau County, NY—Acting
Police Captain Adam Yulch has
taken the dividends out of crime
for many a law breaker. The Nas
sau police officer, a consultant for
the FBI on his specialty, traces
criminals through laundry marks
on their clothes. For instance, if
a thug di ' " rl victim with
a laundry ma' kcd handkerchief,
Yulch can c' eck through his files
compare identification, and usu
ally have the man arrested within
a few days. The recent murder of
6 year old Suzanne Degnan in
Chicago hinged in its solution on
the question of laundry marks, ac
cording to the American Institute
of Laundering. The murderer used
a handkerchief marked with the
name of a man who, it turned out
was innocent. But Yulch usually
can get his man. Even the new
invisible laundry marks, now used
by some laundryowners, come to
life as plainly is neon signs when
Yulch 'puts them under ultra
violet light.
Omaha Has Tremendous
Natural Outdoor Resources .
at Hand Says Carlsen
Omaha has tremendouss natural
outdoor resources at hand Reynold
E. Carlson, nature specialist with
the National Recreation Associa
tion, New York City, declared
here in connection with a two
day city wide conference for plan
ing of summer youth activities.
The conference which was con
cluded Tuesday evening, was sp
onsored by the Youth Activities
Subcouncil of the Community
Welfare council’s group work di
vision.
“We ought to help our young
People get some sense of this fine
heritage,’’ Carlson said. “The main
job is to get some people to open
‘heir eyes to see what is around
us.”
“It’s not the intention to make
botonists of youngsters but pust
enough to give them a satisfaction
of living, he said.
Youth leaders may be procured
in two ways. One, seeking a per
son already trained for the field
considered; or accej ij.ng leader
shipo f one who is willing to learn
and share his experience with the
training of group.
Carlson drew attention to the
need for considering the teen-age
group. With prospects of working
hours being reduced in the next
few years, fewer jobs for those
of high school age will be avail
able, he said.
He suggested a work experience
program, such as study of conser
vation and erosion controls.
Other means to acquaint youth
with the out of doors are organi
zed hikes, bicycle clubs, hobby
clubs and over night camping.
The first assumption in a nature
program is that we must begin
locally, Carlson said Try to bring
together those who have an in
teresti in natural history.
ILLINOIS PRENATAL LAW
SHOWS RESULTS
Since the enactment in 1939 of
the Illinois prenatal law, 94.31
percent of 550 pregnant women
who had syphilis were given early
treatment and gave birth to non
hyphilitic children. According to
the AP dispatch which quotes
these statistics, the most effect
ive results were attained with
those who began treatment be
fore the fourth month of pregna
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SEE “THE POWER OF GOD"
AT ST. JOHNS APRIL 8TH
One of the finest Christian film
ever filmed is to be presented on
Monday April 8, 1946 at St. John
Church 22nd and Willis Ave at
8:15 pm. This full length film in
sound *s being presented by Club
9 of St. Johns. One has to See the
film to appreciate the story it has
to tell. Persons who have witness
Iltectiome
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L RepjViteJi
gin WASHINGTON
^By Walter Shead
jjj||wrNI^Corr»ipo«idMif^ j
WNU Washington Bureau.
1616 Eye St. N. W.
OPA Will Be Continued
In Watered-Down Form
IS IT true what they say about
OPA?
Are OPA policies sending business
firms into bankruptcy? Is it true
that production is being curtailed by
price control? What about subsi
dies? Shouldn’t they be dropped?
Answers to these questions will de
pend largely on your particular
point of vievir, upon whose “ox is be
ing gored” and. indeed, largely upon
your honesty.
For there is no question that, im
mediately an OPA regulation is is
sued, whether good or bad . . . and
there have been some bad ones
. . . the first question which arises
in the minds of many people is . . .
how can we get around that regula
tion? And there generally is a way.
What happens amounts to a vir
tual conspiracy to evade the orders
of OPA. This writer believes that if
the same folks would spend as much
time and energy in attempting to
make OPA work, in co-operating,
then this agency which has become
the one bulwark against rising liv
ing costs would function far better
than it does, battered, repudiated
and kicked around as it is by spe
cial interests and the congress.
In spite of all the criticism di
rected against OPA, it is so popular
with the people generally that con
gress does not dare repeal the law.
and will extend it bvyond June 30.
How it will be extended is another
matter. The same coalition of
Democrats and Republicans which
cut the heart out of the housing bill
'in the house and which has made |
ineffective every liberal piece of
domestic legislation yet offered, is
bent on stripping OPA of every pow
er it can possibly take away from
it.
Business Failures Dwindle
Here are a few statistics which
may answer some of the criticism
directed against OPA. On the charge
concerning business bankruptcies,
the records show, according to Dun
& Bradstreet, there were 14,768 bank
ruptcies in 1939 and 13.619 in 1940,
before OPA. The first full year of
OPA control was 1943, when there
were 3,221 bankruptcies. In 1945
there were only 810. So it appears
to your Home Town Reporter that
those 810 firms which went bankrupt
in 1945 did so in spite of OPA, and
not because of OPA.
The National Manufacturers asso
ciation, the National Retail Dry
Goods association and others are
trying to persuade congress and the
public that OPA pricing policies are
responsible for existing shortages.
The fact is that the record shows
that for the five months after V-J
Day, production was at a rate ex
ceeding that of any prewar year,
even of 1941 when defense produc
tion lifted output above real prewar
levels. In December of 1945 produc
tion output was 51 per cent above
1939, which can hardly be consid
ered as a production failure.
The committee for economic de- |
veiopment says employment is.at
the highest peacetime level in our
history despite strikes and labor
management disputes. Payrolls and
earnings are now only slightly be
low wartime peaks and are rising.
What about subsidies? Farm or
ganizations are against them . . .
always have been. They came as
a wartime emergency and are still
being used in the reconversion emer
gency. Can they be dropped? Of
course, they could be dropped. If
they were, this is what would hap
pen. Food prices would shoot up 8
per cent at retail overnight, and
there is no reason to believe they
would stop there. On our 40 billion
dollar annual food bill that would
mean an increase of 3.2 billion dol
lars In the annual price of food.
The subsidy on food amounts to
only a billion and a half annually
and it is paid in federal taxes large
ly by those with the most ability to
pay. The rise in food costs would be
borne alike by rich and poor.
Profits 4 Times Greater
What about the charge that profits |
are being curtailed? The per cent of 1
gain in profits in 1944 over the 1936
to 1939 average in the retail field,
before taxes, was as follows:
Hardware retailers, 464 per cent;
small furniture stores, 185 per cent;
variety chain stores, 339 per cent;
men's apparel stores, 398 per cent;
department stores. 609 per cent;
chain groceries, 152 per cent; auto
dealers, 200 per cent.
The gain in profits before taxes
in the industrial field shows the
same large percentages with all
manufacturing showing a 450 per
cent average. Textiles and leather
show a 730 per cent gain; metals
and products, 650 per cent; build
ing materials, 270 per cent; chemi
cals, 230 per cent; food, bever
ages and tobacco, 200 per cent.
Another complaint from some
businesses is OPA’s cost absorption
policy which if abandoned would, ac
cording to OPA, boost cost of foods
700 million dollars, none of which
would go to farmers.
ed this gripping picture acclaim
it over and over as one of the
best in Christian films. The Pow
er of God is so true to life that
it will touch the heart of all who
see it. It is filmed with a mess
age If you wish to see a film
filled with spiritual wealth, THE
POWER OF OOP is the film you
should see. All the family can get
a lesson from this revealing film.
Plan to see it at St. Johns Monday
April 8th at 8:15 pm. Bring the
entire family and spend an even
ing: of relaxation. Tes we urge you
to see The Power of God.
SOFTBALL LEAGUE FOR
BOYS 14 or UNDER
Mr. Arthur McCaw, director of
Boy’s Work (a dept, of the Urban
League), announces his plans for
a pre-season softball or baseball
league consisting of boys 14 years
of age or under. The tentative
plan would go into effect after the
school hours.
All team managers or would be
managers and interested boys who
want to join contact Mr. McCaw
at the Urban League, 2213 Lake
St., Phone WE 5020.
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--WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS_
Farmers Set for Big Crop Year;
Reds Plan Industrial Expansion,
Peron Victory Poses Problem
..-.. Released by Western Newspaper (Tnirtn
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are ‘hose «*f
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
With money cheap and goods scarce, German women dicker with
Russian soldiers for clothing in Berlin black market. Despite efforts
to suppress illegal trade, pressing demands for goods result in re
appearance of practice.
FARMERS:
All-Out Again
In stepping up crop acreage this
year in answer to government de
mands for increased food produc
tion, farmers are banking on the
continuer, good growing weather of
the war years and no adverse turn
of the present tight labor, ma
chinery and equipment situation
Though falling short of govern
ment acreage goals for 16 major
crops by 3 per cent, farmers plans
call for planting 357^ million acres
this year in comparison with 357
million in 1945 and 355 million for
the 1934-’43 average
Of critical crops needed for over
seas relief, wheat is expected to ex
ceed goals while prospects for vege
table oil seeds are less favorable.
Oats, peanuts, tobacco and rice are
also expected to surpass goals with
corn, hay, sorghums, barley pota
toes, sugar beets, dry beans and
peas falling short.
With the indicated acreage of
corn down from last year and
only oati of all the feed grains ex
pected to top goals, additional re
ductions in livestock feeding through
1947 were forecast.
U S Drinking Heavy
Americans spent an average of
$58 for every man, woman and child
in the country on alcoholic drinks
in 1945 as consumption reached 190
million gallons, 14 per cent more
than the previous year As a result
of continued high taxes, the federal
government collected about 2l/2 bil
lion dollars on total sales of almost
8 billion dollars, with the states tak
ing another half billion
UNO:
Back Iran
Maintaining its firm position
against encroachment on the sov
ereignty of small nations, the TJ S.
pressed for UNO’s consideration of
Iran’s complaint against Russian oc
cupation of the country in the face
of Soviet opposition
Evidencing no inclination to bac<c
down on its strong statement that
it could not remain indifferent to
Russian activities in Iran the U S.
bucked the Reds’ request for a post
ponement of Iran's complaint be
cause of their professed inability to
assemble pertinent data in time for
the hearing. By opposing the Rus
sian demand, the U S. substanti
ated reports from Teheran that this
country had pledged Iran to back its
rights under the UNO charter
Iran’s complaint against Russia
was the second filed since UNO got
underway, Teheran having previ
ously protested against Red support
of an autonomous movement in
Azerbaijan province. Basis of the
second complaint, Russia's occupa
tion of Iran was seen as a move to
exert pressure for obtaining oil
concessions in the northern half of
the country adjoining the Red petro
leum fields around Baku
LABOR BILL:
Senate Version
Minus the stringent restrictions of
the house-approved Case bill but
providing for free movement of
perishable farm goods to market or
processing centers without inter
ference the senate’s education and
labor committee drew up its own
labor measure for consideration of
the upper chamber
Wheras the Case bill had called
for 30-day cooling off periods and
creation of a labor management
board to investigate disputes, the
senate measure would establish an
independent mediation board de
signed to avert strikes by conciliat
ing differences between workers and
employers.
While the Case oill would make
unions liable for contract violations
and outlaw inter-union boycotts of
employers engaged in disputes the
senate measure would impose fines
and imprisonment upon anyone re
sorting to violence and intimidation
in seeking to stop truckers from
hauling perishables to their destina
tion. Sponsored by Senator Aiken
(Rep. Vt. the provision was op
posed by a committee minority
which charged discrimination
against non-farm carriers
RUSSIA:
Industrial Plan
Looking not only to the rebuilding
of its war-shattered economy but
also to the further development of
the country Russia proclaimed a
new five-year-plan affecting indus
try, housing, education and re
search.
For industry, Russia plans a three
to four-fold increase in automobile
production; one and one-half boost
in chemical output, and a 17 per
cent raise in food processing. In
addition iron production would be
stepped up to 19 million tons an
nually. steel, 25 million tons; coal.
250 million tons; oil 35 million tons
and electric power. 85 billion kilo
watt hours
Over 3y4 billion dollars are sched
uled to be spent on housing over
the five-year period and prewar ex
penditures for education and culture
would be increased two and one
quarter times to over 13y« billion
dollars
Substantial sums also were re
served for scientific research, in
cluding the release and ultilization
of atomic energy and weather fore- j
casting.
DIPLOMACY:
U. S. Embarrassed
Juan Domingo Peron’s smashing
victory in Argentine’s presidential
election has greatly complicated the
U S s diplomatic position in South
America since this country not only
openly opposed his candidacy but
also repeatedly insisted that it could
not sign any treaty with a govern
ment headed by him
Second-guessers were quick to
jump on the state department’s
back for underestimating Peron’s
strength among the working classes
and farmers and going out whole
hog for the opposition. The workers
idolize Peron for having pushed leg
islation for raising wages, estab
lishing social security and assur
ing vacations with pay, while the
farmers are in sympathy with his
agrarian reforms
Now seated firmly in the saddle,
Peron could relieve U S. embar
rassment by acting against the
Nazi industrialists and agents he is
accused of harboring While Britain
has gone along with the U. S. in
diplomatic protests against Fascist
penetrations in Argentine, observ
ers believe London could not be ex
pected to apply pressure against
Peron because of Britain’s depend
ence upon the South American na
tion for wheat and meat
Will Air Gripes co Ease G.I. Lot
Critics of the army’: so-ca-ed
“caste system’ will be given the
opportunity to express their convic
tions on military life soon before a
special civilian board of former en
listed men and officers headed by
Lt Gen. James Doolittle.
Witnesses will include e misted
men and officers both in and out of
the army, and non-military person
nel who have viewed first hand the
operation u th' army
The subject of inquiry will be re
lationships between officers and en
listed men both on and off duty. In
establishing the board. Secretary of
War Patterson requested its mem
bers particularly to look into such
questions as housing, clothing, liv
ing conditions, and recreational fa
cilities of enlisted men and women
as compared with officers
JAPAN:
Production >'
Severely crimped by U. S. bomb
ings through the war, Japanese in
dustry is making a slow but steady
recovery under American military
direction despite difficulties created
by reduction of imports of material,
damaged plants and a riddled
transport system
Showing a willingness to rebuild
their once thriving economic ma
chine in accordance with democratic
principles laid down by General
MacArthur, the Japanese have
made noteworthy progress in recon
verting war production facilities to
peacetime output of farm ma
chinery, household utensils, marine
engines and parts for motor trucks.
At the same time there has been
an increase in the manufacture of
consumer goods from stocks of raw
material, on hand.
In line with government encour
agement, labor unions have been
springing up, especially in manufac
turing, transportation and coal min
ing While workers have been press
ing for better conditions and pay,
no strikes have been called.
Food
While the Japanese production
outlook improved, the immediate
food situation caused grave concern,
leading General MacArthur to rec
ommend monthly imports of 200,000
tons of wheat, rice and other com
modities to avert starvation.
Much of the country's food
trouble has been attributed to farm
ers’ withholding of substantial rice
tonnage from the market. On top
of the November harvest being one
of the worst in years because of
climatic conditions, producers have
shipped only 52 per cent of the rice
demanded by the government for
urban centers.
Besides hanging onto iheir rice,
farmers have withheld their meager
supplies of vegetables caused by
diversion of acreage to rice last
year. Farmers have also been get
ting substantial amounts of sea
food because fishermen have gone
to the rural areas to trade their
catch for more rice.
FRENCH BLUEBEARD:
Waves Flag
Charged with committing 26 mur
ders for gain during the German
occupation, Marcel Petiot went on
trial in Paris, France, insisting
that he had killed 63—not 26—per
sons because they were traitors to
the cause of liberation.
In pressing its case, the prosecu
tion charged that Petiot had lured
his victims to his home on promise
Marcel Petiot (left) confers
with attorney in court
of rustling them out of Nazi-occu
pied France, but then had slain them
to steal their Vnoney and jewels.
Mangled corpses, human skeletons
and charred bones were found in
his residence, along with rotted
bodies in a lime pit in his garden.
With luggage of his victims piled
high in the courtroom, the accused
Bluebeard indignantly denied kill
ing for gain. Waving the flag, he said
victims included gestapo men.
French police spies and informers.
PEARL HARBOR:
Late Testimony
In his long sought testimony to
the congressional Pearl Harbor in
vestigating committee, former Sec
retary of War Henry Stimson re
vealed that President Roosevelt’s
cabinet had overruled his proposal
for attacking Japan first late in No
vember, 1941, and rather decided
upon the dispatch of a secret ap
peal to the mikado.
Submitting a written statement to
the committee because of inability
to personally testify on account of
illness, Stimson said that he had
counselled action after learning of
Japanese movements southward
off the Asiatic coast. High officials
in Washington were convinced that
Japanese expansion to the south
threatened the Philippines and ag
gression against British and Dutch
holdings constituted a menace to
U S. security, he added
Stimson also disclosed that the
U. S had considered proposing a
three-month diplomatic truce to the
Japanese late in 1941 on condition
that the Nipponese would pull out
of China While the truce might
have afforded additional time for
negotiation, Stimson said he feared
the Japs would have rejected it be
cause of its stringent demands
NATIONAL INCOME:
Total income payments to individ
uals set an all-time high in 1945,
with a total of $160,749,000,000, ac
cording to the Alexander Hamilton
institute. This was an increase of
2.5 per cent over 1944.
Salaries and wages in 1945 totaled
$110,162,000,000; somewhat under
the 1944 figure of $111,734,000,000.
However, a comparison of the 1945
figure with that of $45,658,000,000 for
salaries and wages in 1939 indicate
that the war years brought about
a 141 per cent increase
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