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PLATTSMOUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOTTRNAI PAGE TWO Plattsmeuth Journal ff fa si 3aJ PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT Entered at Postoffice, Plattsmouth, MRS. R. A. BATES, Publisher SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $2.00 A YEAR IN FIRST POSTAL ZONE Subscribers living in Second Postal Zone, $2.50 per year. Beyond 600 miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, $3.50 r-er year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. Germaa Moves Hedge Russia in Balkans Stalin Faced with Making Moves or Being Hedged in from European Influence By J. W. T. MASON Rumania's signature affixed to day in Berlin to the triple alliance added to Hungary's inclusion v.ith in the Germans' sphere gives Hitler formal control of a continuous sweep of territory from the German border to the Black Son. Russia cannot help look with suspicion and disfavor and thi3 expansion of German para mountcy to the short of her own southern water boundary. However Stalin may possibly be forced to disguise his feelings for the present, it is impossible to over look this new menace to Slav influ ence in the Balkans. Sooner or later it will be necessary for Russia to ir.nl'e some counter move or else abandon all Slavic ambitions in southeastern Europe. A glance at the map will show7 how Hitler has uninterrupted strategic command of the center of Europe extending from the North Sea to the Black Sea's northeastern coastline. Hungary and Rumania, ?s Germany's military vessels, have allowed Hitler to threaten Russia with a southern blockade. FRIDAY'S FOOTBALL RESULTS By United Pres3 ' Nebraska High School Nebraska City 0, Beatrice 0. Union 20, Nehawka 6. , Albion 7, Aurora 0. Ord IP, Loup City 0. Stapleton 34, Merna 0. Conception, Mo. 20, Lincoln Cath edral 14. McCook 31, Cambridge 6. Grcsham 44, Palmer 8. Davenport 6, Campbell 0. Spencer 19, Bassett 0. Silver Creek 32, Cedar Rapids 7. Hoklrege 18, M'.nden 7. Orleans 0, Alma 0. Mason City 28, Litchfield 0. BROTHER OF HARRY HOP KINS DIES IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, Nov. 23 (UP) Rome Hopkins, 51, brother of former Sec retary of Comr.crce Harry Hopkins, died last night of a heart attack at a Chicago hotel. Hoy F. Reder.b2u.7h, manager of the hotM, said Harry Hopkins had been advised cf las brother's death and that the former cabinet member would arrive at Chicago Sunday to take the body bac1: ti Grinnell, la., the Hop 1 ins home fcr burial. NEW TAX RECORD SET OLYMPIA. Wash. (UP) Revenue from Washington's sales and business taxes set a new all-time record in the fiscal year ended April 30, the state tax commission reported. Income was $29,935,773, compared to $23, 294. TGI the previous year. Heavier levies end improved business condi tions accounted for the increase, the commission said. ? , '; -,. 1 3'-'-- 3, V"" i . r m W -- V .7; 3V iXi; V' PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Neb., as second-class mail matter if S IV Mix-n-math sets are the rage with the younger set and I think that's just fine. For its a fashion trend that is decidedly practical and it does help develop style sense and good taste at an early age. One of the really new versions of this idea i a Cinderella "Duo blouse" jumper frock of "Anchors Aweigh" print poplin with a match ing blouse and an extra dotted swiss blouse for a smart change-off! Both blouses are trimly tailored and the junioer has a nicely flowing gored Fkirt. Civcn as a gift, it should make every little girl who wears a size 3 to 12 very happy this Christ mas. i BLINDED BY LIGHTS DRIVES ON TRACK NORTH PLATTE, Nov. 23 (UP) Abner Moore, 70, of Sutherland, is pretty sure a train struck the pick-up truck he was driving, he told a safety patrolman today, but can't swear to it because he never did see the train. Recovering in a Sutherland hos pital from a lacerated jaw and body bruises. Moore told investigators he was driving his truck early yesterday and as he approached the Union Pacific brpr.ch line north of Suther land, light3 of an approaching car blinded him. A second later his truck started across the tracks and he heard a loud crash. The next, thing he knew he was sitting, cut and bruised, in the vir tually demolished vehicle beside the railroad and there was nothing else in sight no other car, no train, nothing. Moore was able to walk the short distance back to Sutherland, where he was taken to a hospital. Patrol men surmised the approaching car's lights prevented Moore from seeing the train and that in the darkness trainmen might not have known the car was struck and, therefore, did not stop. RALLIES FROM OPERATION HOLDREGE, Neb., Nov. 22 (UF) Phsiciar.s tcdr.y said the condition of Mrs. Hush A. Butler, wife of Ne braska's senator-elect, was unchanged after her improvement following- an emergency operation yesterday. Mrs. Eutler was paralyzed from the neck dev-n j-.nd van sinking- fSpidly when the operation .was performed, it was said, but attendants said she had "rallied well." Results of the op eration will not be tr.o-.vn definitely for three days. WHEN kidneys function badly and y you suffer a nagging backache, with dizziness, burning, scanty or too! Muini biiimuuii ana geuing up aij night; when you feel tired, nervous.! all upset . .. use Doan's Pilkt x Doan' are especially for poorly working kidneys. Millions of boxes are used every year. They are recom mended the country over. Ask your neighborly - ', 'Cinderella Kid' Retains Light weight Title Lew Jenkins Proves Master of Pete Lello in Second Round of Their Bout in New York. By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UP) The clock was ready to strike midnight fcr the Cinderalla Kid, but he threw one whistling right hand punch and smashed the works. Lew Jenkins did it last night be fore 11,000 persons in Madison Square Garden, retaining his world light weight championship with a technical knockout in the second round over Pete Lello of Gary, -Ind. That punch did more than win the fight for Jenk ins. It rammed a lot of words down the throats of the wise boys who said the Texas killer-diller was washed up after a brief flight of fame. Eeverything seemed stacked against Jenkins, who was rattling around the country looking for coffe and cake mor.ev a little over a year ago, when he climbed through the ropes last night. Hemie Caplin, his manager, was absent the guest of the district at torney's office which got curious about some high-stake card games in which Hymie allegedly had a hand, maybe two hands. Whatever else Hymie may be, he is a shrewd man to have in your corn er when the bell rings and the wise boys said Jenkins would be lost with out him. But that was only part of Jenkin's troubles. He was fighting before a hostile audience which gave him a round of booing when he ap peared in the ring. The stigma of a knockout at the hands of Henry Arm strong in a nontitle fight was vivid on Jenkins' record. And Lello, in the other corner, is a popular, punching crowd pleaser. So those wise boys lgured all those things would be too much for the Cinderella Kid, who went from rags to riches so fast that he still gets a belt out of buying a long, shiny automobile and driving it like a streak down the highways. But the Cinderella liid shook off his troubles and gave a brilliant, smash ing performance. In the first round he went out and measured his man. In the second round he cooled him. The efficiency of it frightened people and brought them out of their scats, swarming down toward tho ling where Jenkins was giving Lello the lacing of his life. Lello, a dead game guy, never had a chance once the second round start ed. Jenkins drew back his long, lean right arm and the punch landed square on the chin. Lello went down, bounc ed a bit and gazed up at the ceiling with a bewildered look on his mashed face. He said later in his dressing room that he was blank after that frst punch that he fought on only by instinct and courage. Automatically, he got to his feet at the count of nine and this time Jenkins let him have it with a left hook. Lello bounced again, grabbed the ropes with one hand and hoisted himself up again at nine. Something told him to get against the ropes and he tried to do it, but Jenkins was after him with that right cocked for action. The ropes stopped Lello and another right whistled through to his chin. He fell into Jenkins' corner, blood spread ing out of his nose, but somehow he found the heart to give it one more try. Up he got, probably unable to hear the roar of 11,000 persons who were out of their seats swarming in the aisles and cheering his courage. Jenkins' right flashed again, Lello, un able to lift his hands, dropped in his tracks. He was struggling to get up once more when Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the massacre after two min utes and 37 seconds of the round. AWAIT OIL TESTS BEATRICE, Nov. 23 (UP) Gage county awaited further developments in oil drilling activities today as plans were completed for a rotary test on the Mrs. Robert Taylor farm south of Beatrice. E. T. Weekes, head of a local com pany searching for oil, said the test would start next week and another would be started later on the Mary Warner farm east of Ellis. Drilling will begin at two other sites in a few months, Weekes announced. Geologists who have studied the land leases by Weekes and associates reported that prospects appeared good. Drilling, meantime, continued on the Pethoud farm south of Pick-' rell. Used cars, livestock nr.rtfiC fll! fan Ha c s. I si thHAiinVi vail w awiu uuyii i Inexpensive Journal Want Ada. CHARTER CO-OPERATIVE LINCOLN, Nov. 23 (UP) The State Banking department announced today that articles of incorporation had been approved for formation of a Co-operative Credit Association at Bennet. The association was organized to meet commodity needs, it was said, following the department's recent ac tion in closing the Citizens Bank at Bennet. Grants-in-Aid May be Given to the States Problem of Nation's 4,000,000 Des titute Migratory Workers Is a Grave One. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) Federal attempts to deal with the problem of the nation's 4,000,000 des titute, migratory workers apparently will have to be based on grants-in-aid to states, Rep. John H. Tolan, D. California, said today. Tolan, chairman of a house com mittee investigating the problem, said his group probably would make its recommendations to congress some time in January. Lack of uniformity in state laws governing residence of workers, h said, creates a vast army of destitute migrants who have lost their citizen ship in one state and have not at tained it in another. "The care of these "stateless" citizens creates problem for each state they visit. Tolan said he believed the federal gTants-in-aid approach was the only way in which uniformity could be ob tained in state residence laws. The federal government has no jurisdic tion over such laws but if it granted funds, "jurisdiction would follow the dollar, as in social security." COCHRAN STUDIES BUDGET LINCOLN, Nov. 23 (UP) Gover nor R. L. Cochran today expressed be lief that Nebraska could avoid new forms of taxes in the next biennium if appropriations from property tax funds are trimmed at least propor tionately to property assessments. Announcing that he planned to hold hearings soon on the budget message to the 1941 legislature, Cochran said: "It appears to me that there should be a reduction in property tax ap propriations for state purposes at least equal to the reduction is assessed val uations made in 1940." He suggested the reduction perhaps should be even greater because the reduction asses sment was "not as great at the re duction income and ability to pay." At his first press conference since he returned from conferences at 'Wash ing-ton on defense contracts for Ne braska, the governor declined to dis cuss his future plans. "I realize my time and efforts belong to the state until the end of my term," he said. lie had "no comment on the de cision of Major General Ralph Tru man of Kansas City, commander of the "35th Division of the National Guard, to withhold his sheduled res ignation. GEORGE TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) The senate democratic steering com mittee today authorized Majority Leader Alben Barkley to offer the name of Senator Walter George, D., Ga., as new chairman of the senate foreign relations committee to succeed the late Key Pittman of Nevada. Senate Democratic Whip Sherman Minton said Barkley would offer George's name to the senate Monday. Steering committee nominations to a committee chairmanship is equal to election. ' George is second ranking majority member of the foreign relations com mittee, ranking next to Senator Pat Ilarriscn, D., Miss. Harrison, chair man of the finance committee, was not a candidate for Plttman's post since no senator can hold two commit tee chairmanships. George, bitter foe of new deal do mestic policies, was one of tho chief targets of President Roossvelt's un successful purge campeign of 1938. However, he has followed the presi dent closely in foreign policy. He will have to vacate his post as chairman cf the committee on privile jes and elections. HUGH BUTLER IMPROVING! noT.nrjrcntt Nov. 23 fUPI The mn.ininn nt Mrs Tlntrh Butler, wife of tho senator-elect who suffered a serious vertebra injury in an auto , I accident Wednesday night, showed: ("marked improvement" today. Hos- iuai aiienaanis repui ieu uio. uunci rested well last night Long Range Bombers in New Defense Bases Located at Bases Obtained from Eng- lang Can Do Work of Guard ing Coast Effectively. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) Navy sources said today that long- range patrol bombers operating from two of the eight bases obtained from Great Britain are doing work that would have been assigned to the 50 destroyers traded for the bases. The navy disclosed that President Roosevelt has allocated $25,000,000 from his defense "blank check" funds for additional survevs and to start construction on the base sites stretch ing from Newfoundland to the north eastern shoulder of South America. Negotiations for construction cont racts have not been started yet, navy spokesmen said. Neutrality patrol areas in rorth and central American waters which would have been assigned to the 50 destroyers now are being covered in the extended range of the navy's big patrol bombers working out of Bermuda and St. Lucia as well as Atlantic coast stations. It was said that one patrol bomoer, properly based, can cover in two and one-half hours the distance that a de stroyer would have required 24 hours to patrol. The range of vision from a low flying patrol aircraft, it was said, also is far greater than from surface craft. Though no exact figure was avail able on the number of bombers en gaged in patrol work, it was learned that about 50 such craft are on regul- ar duty ana mat a line numoer is available for special assignment in the broad reach from Halifax to St. Lucia. The bombers are backed by most of the navy's 125-sea-going Atlantic patrol ships. Storage facilities fcr aviation and marine fuel, food and aircraft am munition will be stressed in building the bases, it was learned The army, which will garrison the bases, will need quarters for troops. For the present, the navy does not contemplate accumulating huge am munition dumps at the bases since ships operating out of these ports can be readily supplied by auxiliaries mov ing between the bases and the United States, one source said. Allocation of $25,000,000 from the fund congress gave the president to use as he sees fit in the defense pro gram may be supplemented by fur ther assignments from this or trans fer cf other navy appropriations. The secretary of navy has the authority to transfer money from cne fund to another to meet emergency needs. SENTENCED FOR LIFE MASON CITY, Iowa, Nov. 23 (UP) Rudolph J. Allen. 81, today prepared to spend the remaining years of his life serving a sentence for the mur der of his S2-year-old divorced wife. Judge M. H. Kepler pronounced the penalty late yesterday after the elderly man pleaded guilty. He will be taken to the state hospital for the criminally insane at Anamosa. Allen, a former railroad worker, ... i 1 was brougnt 10 courc in a wnec- rhnir TTfi interruDted testimony at one point in the proceedings to dc clare that he and his former wife were "in the way." Tolice said Allen had admitted the hammer and razor slaying of Mrs. Allen while she slept at the home of a daughter here early October 1. He then slashed his throat with a razor in an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Allen had entered a Dlea of not guilty when arraigned yesterday. LEAHY MAY HAVE FRENCH POST WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) State department officials today de clined to confirm or deny reports that Admiral William D. Leahy, former chief of naval operators and now governor of Puerto Rico, has been chosen ambassador to France, suc ceeding William C. Eullitt. They said they had no knowledge nt ihp rpnnrt. and referred all in quiries to members of the White House secretariat who now are in Hyde Park, N. Y., with President Roosevelt. ' The president disclosed yesterday that'he had offered the airbassador- Uhin tn tten. John J. Peishing, World war commander of the A.E.F., but jthat. Pershing had rejecrea uie ay- pcintraent on the advice of physi- cians. Mr. Roosevelt declined to in- dicate his future plans in connec- tion with the Vichy post. I ..... 1 1 A . 1 ll.n r,umtt announced last ee mai he had submitted his written rcsig- uauuu ij i - but that it had not been accepted. Children "A Square Peg in a Round Hole" Eric promptly pulled up a chair when invited to do so, but his teach er, shunning the suggestion that this was to be a sociable chat among could-be friends, remained standing. It was Saturday forenoon. Yester day she had made an appointment to bring the 14-year-old boy before the juvenile court judge. "This is the boy I called you about," she com menced woodenly. "He has horribly dirty ways about him. He spits on Vu3 nH Ucrpli ifif an1 rulia tf rwmr Viia I face when I tell him to wash. He' never combs his hair, and he bites his grimy fingernails off instead of cutting them. His clothes are always filthy, and his shoestrings are forever dragging on the floor. He is the poorest excuse for a human being that I ever observed. There must be some thing wrong with his mind. I think he belongs in the state feeble-minded institution instead of in the public school. Luckily, she didn't ask the Judge what he thought of her tirade of abuses, during which little Eric, sullen and defiant, was shrinking back into his chair. It was quite ap parent that his trouble, whatever it was, rapidly grew worse under the pitiless scorn of his teacher. So un til further information about the boy's surroundings could be gathered, both were dismissed from the court room. Eric was a baby, less than a year old, when his father deserted his mother. She then relied on relief and the charity of a few neighbors for her livelihood. She professed mem- DEATH CLAIMS BRIDEGROOM OMAHA, Nov. 22 (UP) Instead of announcing her engagement Sat urday as had been planned, Miss Mary Louise Shirley, former Omaha girl, will attend the funeral of her fiance, Richard Francis, 23, son of the president of General Foods Cor poration. Miss Shirley, who now lives in Pan Francisco, passed through Omaha with Francis' body last night. Af ter making arrangements with Mary Louise for announcement of the en gagement at San Francisco Sunday young Francis, who lived in New York, started to drive to Gilroy California. En route the car plunged down a 250-foot embankment. TAKES BRIDE AT 90 YEARS SANGER, Cal., Nov. 22 (UP) Romance knows no age, says the Rev. J. M. Spencer, 90, who today revealed that he had married Mrs Eelle Hurst, 00, of Oklahoma , City after a whirlwind letter-writing campaign. A matrimonial agency put him in touch with Mrs. Hurst last July, he said, out lie nad told her he was only 80, for fear she would not be interested if she knew he was 90. "I think I've got a prize package and I know we will be happy," said Spencer, a bridegroom for the fourth time. Nobody ever took me to be older than G5 anyway." SEE ELECTION CONTEST TOPEKA, Kan. Nov. 22 (UP) Republicans today celebrated the re election of Governor Tayne Ratner to another term as governor of Kansas by the narrow margin of 42G votes. From the democratic camp of William H. Burke, there was no jubilation but there were plenty of indications that the election would be contested. The close election had dragged on for more than two weeks and was not finally decided until late yesterday when the list of the absentee ballots mere counted. Of the absentee votes, Ratner received 4,398 and Burke 2, 175. The total vote was Ratner 425, 923, Burke 425,497. GETS TICKET FOR STOLEN CAR BOSTON, Nov. 23 (UP) Albert Terkelson's automobile was stolen a month ago. Last night he stormed into the police station to demand why he had received through tne mail two over-time parking tags. "It's bad enough to lose my car," ho said, "but to be expected to pay a fine for the over-time parking of the thief is too much." i (l? i ? LAWYER 8 Plattsmouth, Nebr. b IttiCrossral m Ernest L-Reeker bership in a church, but she never attended it or sent Eric to Sunday school. In fact Eric received no more attention from his mother than an ordinary tree growing along the roadside receives from a passerby. Unless he was a miracle boy, Eric could not make an adjustment of his personal habits in his home, such as it was. nor at school under the super vision of a woman who exhibited her incompetence as a teacher to be greater than Eric's mother's incom petence as a mother. Though the mother was ignorant, she did recog nize her inability to rear Eric prop erly and voluntarily relinquished him to wiser, abler persons. Since Eric was of Swedish descent, we chose for his foster parents a Swedish farmer and his wife. Their patient insistence on cleanliness taught Eric the necessity of keeping clean and endeavoring to be like other normal boj-s. Two years ago, shortly before Eric was graduated from high school, his mother was committed to the state hospital for the insane. In recent months Eric has pro cured the assistant managership of a metropolitan taxi-cab company. Dur ing the past three years the irate teacher of his youth has been operat ing a mangle in a commercial laun dry a work for which she is no doubt better qualified than for teach ing. 1940 Campaign Most Costly of Any to Date More Money Spent in the Late Contest Large Sums Spent in New Jersey. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UP) Chairman Guy M. Gillette of the sen ate campaign expenditures investigat ing committee said today that more money was spent in the 1940 election campaign than during any other in the nation's history. Gillette said that specific complaints on cases of allegedly excessive spend ing had been received by his com mittee but declined to disclose them. He refused comment on reports that a large number of protest have been made on purportedly large spending in New Jersey, where Sen. W. War ren Barbour, republican, defeated James H. R Cromwell, democrat for the senate. The committee, he said, has under taken an exhaustive examination of campaign spending reports which con gressional candidates are required to file with either the clerk of the house or the secretary of the senate. Chair men of major party groups in all states, he added, have been asked to submit complete reports on their can didates' spending. Yesterday, Gillette turned over to the justice department a report which he said indicated "clear violations" of election laws in Harlan, Pike and Bell counties in Kentucky. Informa tion gathered by committee investiga tors, he said, disclosed widespread "ballot box stuffing." In many in stances, precincts cast more votes than the total of eligible voters with in its borders, he said. Our stock of legal blanks la most complete. 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