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0 PLATTSMOTJTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE TWO MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1941. he Eattsmoiith Jotirna jj PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AT Entered at Postoffice, Plattamouta, 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 COO miles, $3.00 per year. Rate to Canada and foreign countries, 53 50 per year. All subscriptions are payable strictly in advance. 4 H t PUBLIC LIBRARY fiOTES j I The Plattsmouth public library circulated "CI 9 books in the month of February, 1041; 201 of these went to the Masonic Home; over 500 ref erence questions were asked, and the nn.rtvors fo'.'nd for the schools, and different study clubs in town. Fifty six new books were purchased. There were 15 new borrowers. On April 23 the district library convention mots at our library. We are pleased to be host to this gather ing which will include 40 or 50 peo- p'e from the libraries cf southeast Xebraska. The library will be closed celled? Is education too standardized? to the rub'ic on that clay. jwell, you read the article for you-r- We are now buying the book se- : self, lections for the Y.L.R.R.A. shelf. The Atlantic runs a thrilling war One dollar paid now, makes one a j diary by Wm. L. Shirer. entitled member of this group for the year. "With the German Armies." It starts ar.d anyone Is welcomo. We hope;n P.erlin May S. 1940 and takes us to have a large membership thi3 j through Terrain. Steenorkerzeel year. The Y.L.R.R.A. really com- j where Archduke Otto's and Zita's mcmorates the original group of castle was bombed Brussels, Paris, young ladies who inspired the begin- Mr. Shirer's is the voice you hear nings for our present library. Those when CBS in its international news who become members may read any broadcast says "Go ahead, Berlin!" or all of the books from that eollec-"Sweeping Death's Doorstep" by tion. At the end of the year these ; Eertimeus comes from a reporter who books will be put into general cir- ! went out with a fleet of trawlers that dilation, and a new selection bought does the dangerous work of sweeping for the Y.L.R.R.A. shelves. 'the channel's waters, to detonate the The following books have been mines laid in the niSht by the Ger edded to the pav rhelf: "Born In There are two poems by Anne Paradise" bv Von Tempski; "Fame Morrow Lindbergh. If you are a is the Spur" bv Howard Spring; jdo" lover do read "Memory Be "Sarphira and the Slave Girl" by;Gre" b' Jane Walloch. She tells Willi Cnthor; "Random Harvest" by ,of a Nantuckett summer vacation James Hilton; and "Not for the'and three lovabIe Scottish terr,ers' Meek" bv Elizabeth Kauf. The last named is a Literary Guild book-of the-month selection. Howard Sprin is the author of "My Son, My Son,' which many have read with pleas ure. "Papphira and the Slave Girl" is the first, new book in several years from Mir,s Gather's facile pen. Al though tho time of tho story is be fore Civil war days, its theme is not so far removed from present day problems. It tells of the subtle cruelty of a southern mistress to her negro maid. It will raise questions in your mind and this is one: Is any dictatorship, no matter how benign it; pnrro?e and acts, preferable to freedom? "Random Harvest" is the story of a soldier's amnesia and how he strove all the rest of his life to "find" the three years lost from memory right after the armistice in 1918. It is interesting, but to me the ending seemed a little artificial and unfin ished. In my opinion, Mr. Hilton has not written a book yet o equal his "Good-bye. Mr. Chips." Two new non-fiction books ot time ly interest are on airplane metal work, and welding. Some fine magazine articles in March numbers deserve wide read ing. Harpers contains "Modernize the Army" by Major M. Wheeler Xicholson, a fine war poem, "Dun kirk" by Robert Nathan, and "Bomber to Britain" by James L. H Peek. The last Irs a lead pilot's ac count of ferrying planes across the Up frcm the Depths "A pick-up" and "Bey! Is she tough" so the young fellows re ferred .to Kate, 17. She, herself, frankly admitted that she was a prostitute. The married man w:th whom she associated more than with any oth ers had served time in the state penitentiary, not once but thrice. While living with him, Kate often became intoxicated on bootleg liquor. When we csked her if she smoked, ehe replied: "Sure I do. And I chew tobacco, too." If there was any hope for regen eration in Kate, it lay in the disci pline of a state institution. Surpris ingly, upon her commitment, she be gan to make an excellent record. After her release, she enrolled in a private business college and com :v tj i u trirxi j PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA Neb., as secona-ciass man mallei Atlantic And you may forget the war in "The Young Moon Seeks a Lover" by Ruth Harkness, an ac count of a sojourn In Panzoa in the Peruvian jungle. Perhaps you will remember that Miss Harkness is the lar'y who brought back the baby giant Panda from China. Parents may enjoy reading "Education for College or for Life," by Dorothy -iribir Promly. Three years ago ?.r0 colleges and universities were asked to waive technical admission requirements for r. frroup of young pecpie from SO selected "progres sive" hifh schools and preparatory schools. For three co'leee years th"sc students have been watched and com pared with a like group from stand ard hh schools. Which group ex- but Banny is a true boulevardier bored with country sights and smells. sights and smells. A magazine that deserves more at tention Is "Correct English, How to Use It." This is not a school ref erence magazine alone, but of Inter est to everyone. An article on "Re discovering Literature" which tells of the strange beauty of Lafacadio Hearn's writing appealed to me. I have always felt the haunting love liness of his writing, and this helps me understand why. Those who like James Thurber's humorous writing and pictures will enjoy "Author! Author!" by F. Sherman Baker. And very practical folk will like the answers to Business Queries, the Prize-Winning Business Letter, En riching Your Vocabulary, and "How Would You Say It? LOREXE D. HEIXEMAX. TO AID FOOD STAMP PLAN LINCOLN, March 14 (UP) The appropriations committee or the leg islature late yesterday voted to re port out a bill creating a $-100,000 re volving: fund to facilitate Installation j of the Federal Food Stamp plan in Nebraska. Two other bills reported out would permit reappropriation of money, re ceived for motor vehicle licenses ar.d titles to the hiphway fund. Tho committee also reported out a bill to allow temporarily admission of patients to the state hospital upon payment of expenses. pleted a full couise. Today she is learning $40. 00 a week as a book keeper for a large west-coast radio station. Once she had been removed from the sphere of influence of the men who were responsible for her down fall, Kate made an excellent adjust ment. Possibly if she had been old er, if her immoral habits had become fixed, she would not have made for herself new life. Even the most debased human be fns can stage a comeback if his fel low man will give him eome encour agement instead of tramping him still deeper into the gutter. Thirty-Three Strikes in the Defense Industry Disturbances Tie Up Industry as President Plans Mediation Board to Handle Situation. By United Press Thirty-three strikes were in pro press today against national defense industries and projects as President Ecoscvelt went to work on formation cf a super-mediation board to prevent such disputes choking the flow cf armaments. The president was expected to com plete selection of an 11-man board by the middlo of next week. Among the prominent citizens mentioned as pos sible chairman of the new pgency were Bernard Baruch, head of the World War industries board, ar.d Wendell L. Willkie. 1940 Republ-cr.n candidate for president. Voluntary registration of an esti mated 1,250,000 unemployed and skill ed workers for national defense jobs was begun at 4,."00 state ouiees of the U. S. employment service. The registration, expected to be completed by April 1", is designed tn meet r. grcving shrrtage of skilled liber. Industrial lenders cntinated an increasing demand for skilled work ers w'.ien the program mace possible by the $7,900,010,000 fund requested by the president for British Pid gets under wav Director General William P. Knudse-i of the Offiee cf Produc tion Management told a house sub committee yesterday it wi'l be rome time before that program gets urder vp.v. However, bo ip.dieated that de fense production wv.s proceeding rap idly. Wer'-ers r.t the Har.ill Aircrtft Die Casting Corp. ph-nt r.t Inelewcorl. California, were on strike, stopping work on essential airplane parts. The strike was called by the CIO die cast ers who recently were named barg aining cgentn for the 42o employes in a national labor relations board election. The ur.icn demands seeded wage increases which would raise hourly pay from 30 cents an hour to 70 cents an ho-.ir after six months. At Oakland. Calif.. United Auto mobile Workers (CIO) memcbrs e.t the Fisher Body plant of General Mo tors, emplcjing 1,000 men, vote on a ctrikc to protest discharge of a weld er who objected to alleged speedup tactics. A strike at the Fisher plant would force a shutdown cf the Gen eral Motors parts department, arc! the Chevrolet autnrr.obue rn.i truck "sscmbiier. which wculd affect more hban 3,010 workers and disruption of 35 trucks a day for the U. S. army. Pennsylvania state police were ordered to the Bvidgevillc, Pa., plant cf the Vandadium Steel Corp., closed four weeks by a strike, to furnish pro tection Gov. Arthur II. James said was necessary for removal of about two carloads of finished steel "ab solutely essential to national defense." Strikers had refused to permit movement cf the finished goods Allegheny County Sheriff John Ilines informed the governor. James de scribed the strike as "outlaw" and said lack of the finished steel was re tarding work in many plants. He declined to comment on whether U. S. officials had asked him to send the officers. APPROVE 7 BILLION DOLLAR BILL WASHINGTON, March 15 (UF) A house appropriations subcommit tee approved Fresident P.oosevelt's 7- billion dollar war aid request today, y profcspor of mp(li(.ine at the Uni only a matter cf hours before he telks vrrai(y of Minnesota and director of to the nation and the world -en his L1nlfal inveFti!;ation at the Mayo general plans for spending the money jf Hnif Rochester, Minn., is direct to help Britain and ether nations fight Jng the cxperimcnts on cancer, which the a::is powers. 'annually causes more deaths in Am- The 7-biliion dollar cash outlay wasrica than any other ailment except approved after only- 2Va days of hc.art disease. secret' hearings The full appropria-j The project was started three tions committee will give its approval 'years ago, when members of the cf the measure on Monda and the 1 Philadelphia Institute for Medical houee will berin debate Tuesday. Research, in experiments with Vi- age is expected cn Wednesday. ' tamin F discovered that wheat germ Members cf the subcommittee said 'oil produced cancer in rats, that the full amount of 7 billion dol-j The research workers then 'devised lars was unanimously approved. 'a plan by which rats were treated Several sen-tero havo nerved notice with the oil to produce cancer for that they may seek to rcduee the bill. :purpose3 of study. Senator George W. Norris, Ind., During the experiments, two ex Nebraska, who voted for the lend- plosive fires occurred in opsn stills lease bill, said, nevertheless, that "7 where ether was used as a fat boI- billion dollars is a tremendous let of money. I don't see how wo can spend that much norey intelligently in such a short sp?ce of time. Congress should and probably will examine this pro posal very carefully." WARN STATE TRUCKERS LINCOLN, March IS (UP) The state railway commission today noti fied 470 Nebraska truckers that their licenses would be revoked March 28 uales3 they show cause why they failed to pay required fees. Macaroni and Cheese the Modern Way 1 r " V J i I- . y4 " if 4. V " f rpiIERE'S nothing unusual about ; X macaroni and cheese except the newest way of making it with a hot mayonnaise sauce that presents this old favorite in its best light yet. The satiny sauce gilds this prosaic dish deliciously, so try it with frankfurter slices as shown in the picture, or in the various ways that follow. Jiffy Macaroni and Cheese Vi cup mayon- 1 cup prated raise American 'i teaspoon salt cheese 's teaspoon ptp- 3 cups hot per cooke! Vi cup m!U: macaroni 6 frankfurters, sliced 1 tablespoon minced parsloy riace mayonnaise, salt, and pep per in top of double Loiler. Gradu ally add milk, stirring after each OOMPH GIRL" BACK TO WOSK HOLLYWOOD, March 14 (UP) Ann Sheridan remember her? ! Go mph? cr.t back to work in the t movies today at a "mere" ?C0O a week j after a x months eit-down strike! which ccst her $13,600 in pajless pay- days. 3t Forgotten were her accusations that : and continued the work where no Warner Brothers were trying to outside persons would be endangered starve her to death, brushed aside ! by possible explosions, were their charges that she was try-' Y'hether the group has been suc ing to hold them up. The brothers ' cessful again in producing the dis even infused to gloat at what seemed jpaEe la the rodents has not been re to be a clear-cut victory over their jvealed. Dr. Rountree announced most curvaceous star. They said mcre-tnat at the present no report would Iv that thev were delighted to have,De maue public. her back. She gees immediately into a movie called "Navy blue" ar.d after 40 weeks at the old $600 per, her agent, Myron Selsnick, will try 'to talk the boss ir.to boosting her pay. Almost two jears ago to the day, the studio's inspired press agents held a dinner to which they invited about a dozen men-abcut-tewn to select an "comph girl." It was a good dinner. The highballs were excellent, and the wily publicists saw to it that Miss Sheridan was the only candidate for the honor they had cooked up. She had or. a tight, silver-colored dress and she looked compliy enough to suit anybody. The boys took one loo and gave her the vote. Advertisements cverj where next day called her "The Oomph Girl." CANCER EXPERTS CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS ON A FARM MALVERN, Pa. (UP) Miles from the Philadelphia industrial center, on a tiny, peaceful farm, three sci entists are conducting experiments which some day may rroduce a cure for cancer. Dr. Leonard C. Rowntree, former Help your teeth shine like the stars ... use Calox Tooth Powder Many of Ilollywood' brightest 6tars use Calox to help bring out the natural lustre of their teeth and you can rely on Calox too. Pure, wholesome, pleasant-tasting, approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau. Five tested ingredients, blended according to the formula of a foremost dental authority, make Calox an economical tooth powder that can't harm tooth enameL Get Calox today at your drug store. Five sizes, from 104 to $1.25. Copt. 1959 McKesson & Robbins, lac. loeta rowDia f s ' S f-i j.jT -1 -r? A addition until smooth. Add cheese. macaroni, and about 4 frankfurters, sliced.. Cook over boiling water about 15 minutes, or until sauce is thickened and macaroni thoroughly heated, stirring occasionally. Add parsley. Garnish with remaining frankfurter slices, sautced until lightly browned. Approximate yield: C portions. Variations (1) Omit frankfurters and salt. Saute one 3-cunce jar dried beef, cut in pieces, in 1 tablespoon butter until crisp and browned. Add with macaroni to mayonna'se-chcese sauce. (2) Omit frankfurters. Add 1 cup diced cooked ham with macaroni to maycnnaisc.-cb.cese sauce. vent in distilling the crude oil. The scientists decided to distill the oil in closed vats, but, much to their astonishment, the rats no longer dc- veloped the disease under this method. Last spring, they went back to the old method of distilling the prod- iuct. They rented the Malvern farm DISCUSS TRUCK TAXING DES MOINES, March 24 (UP) Threats of retaliation by surrounding states should Iowa adopt a "ton mile" truck tax were being considered by Iowa legislators today. Tlie proposal for such a tax is pend ing in the legislature. At a hearing late yesterday, repre sentatives of Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota let it be known that they!N'azi ,eader, warned in a speech last opposed the bill which would make optional a "ton mile" tax or a steeply graduated road use tax. The views cf John Nash, director of the Illinois Vehicle division; R. F. Weller, assistant director of the Nebraska Department of Tvoads and Irrigation; and J. P. Bengtson, di rector of the Minnesota Motor Ve hicle division, were expressed tersely by Nash. "If Iowa taxes the vehicles of Il linois, then we will tax Iowa vehicles," he sr.id. Weller called attention to one pro vision of the proposal that permits reciprocity between border cities. He said it would have no eu"ect insofar as Nebraska was concerned. "It must be statewide or nothing," he said. WOMAN SERVES 50 YEARS IN UNION PACIFIC POSTS OMAHA, Neb. (UP) Believed the oldest woman employe in point of ser viee on the Union Pacific system, Miss Ivatnerine Loretta Conncll, as-1 sistai.t head of the statistical bureau at headquarters in Omaha, completed 50 years' service with the railroad. In her half-century with the. road, Miss Connell has served under 11 Union Pacific presidents. When Miss Ccnnell was 15, she was made freight car mileage clerk at 33 a month. Miss Conncll 's father had been a section foreman fcr the railroad at Elkhorn, Neb., in 1869. NEW OIL WELL GOOD FALLS CITY, March 13 (UB) ; A daily production estimate of be- ! tween 200 and 300 barrels for the new Ellen Smith well near Shubert ! indicated that the Shubert oil pro-1 di'cing pool is larger than was first ! believed. The new well of the Black Gold Operating company is located approx imately two miles southwest of an other producer. The pay formation of the Ellen Smith well was hit at 2,536 feet: Rules on Regis tering Those Now 21 Years of Ape If Reaching That Age After Octo ber 1G, 1G40 Need Not Reg ister Until Further Call Men who havo become 21 years of age sinc October 1C, 1940. are not required to register for Selective Service training unless or until an other registration day is proclaimed by the president. Nevertheless, they ran volunteer. This announcement was made to day by Ilrigadier General Guy N. Hnninger, director of Selective Ser vice for the state of Nebraska, be cause of numerous inquiries being received at state headepuarters and by local boards. General Henninger pointed out that the president's proclamation specifically designated October ft. HMO, as the date for the "first registration under the Selective Training end Service Act of 1940." and that the act provides for subse quent registratioris onlv at the call of the president Likewise the act and proclamation were specific in limiting the first registration on (October 16, 1940, to men between the ages of 21 and 36 years on that ;date. "The law is clear, therefore," he said, "that any man who was not 21 years of age on October 16, 1940, will not be required to register un til the president calls for another registration. However, any male citizen or declarant alien between the ages cf IS and 26 years may volunteer for Selective Service training, unless he is a registrant who has received his order to report for induction." Oa the ether hand. General Hen ninger pointed out, a registrant who has passed the age of 36 years sincvj October 16. 1940, remains liable for Selective Service training. WILL SUBDUE NORWAY STOCKHOLM, Norway, March 13 (FP) Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian u'8ht that rsorway would be Nazi tied by force if necessary, reports from Oslo said today. Addressing a, mass meeting of 2, 000 persons. Quisling announced that the Germans would use force hence forth to quash opposition. "Norway was united by force, Christianized by force and will also be Nazified by force," he was quoted. He charged that Great Britain had made Norway a "Scandinavian Portugal." adding that King Haakon had always been pro-British. "He is in the right place now," Quisling was quoted. "A place from which he will never return." (Haakon is in Great Britain, lead ing the Norwegian government in exile.) DELIVER 972 PLANES WASHINGTON, March 13 (LP) Airplane manufacturers delivered 972 planes during February to the army navy, Great Britain, other governments and commercial air lines, the office of production man agement announced today. Deliveries in January were 1,036 planes and in December, 799. DON'T BE BOSSED BY YOUR LAXATIVE-RELIEVE CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY When you feel gassy, headachy, logy due to clogged-up bowels, do as milliont do take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next morning thorough, comfortable relief, helping you stare the day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a million! Feen-A-Mint doesn't disturb your night's rest or interfere with work the next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, it' handy and economical ... a family supply costs only FEEFJ-A-HflSNT Byrd's Party Closes Books on Antarctic jTv;o Vessels Evacuate 69 Ken After Year's Work Vast Coast line Is Mapped. By THOMAS A. DOZIER WASHINGTON (UP) The Ant arctic Service, which has maintain ed a scientific expedition of 69 men at two bases for more than a year, has closed its log book. Two ships are evacuating the men. as congress refused ' to appropriate money for continuing the Antarctic study, headed by Rear Admiral Richard E. Ryrd. The vessels, the Fca. and the North Star, will start home this month, weather and ice conditions permitting. The North Star will proceed to Valparaiso. Chile, and is tentatively scheduled to arrive there on March K. It will then proceed to Seattle, Washington, its ultimate distin ction, and is due there about April 15. B?ar Heads fcr Eor.ton . . , . The Pear will go to boston by way of buenos Aires and Rio. de . Janeiro. Its tentative schedule callJ for a five-day stav-over at buenos vires about March 19 aud- a similar pause at Rio beginning Maili SO. Arrival in Eoston is scheduled for April 30. After disembarkation of the Ant arctic Service's personnel at boston and Seattle, the tedious work will be- n of preparing reports on the var ious phases of the expedition work. This work, according to Antarctic Service officials here, has been of great importance in supplying the world with information and data concerning the Antarctic which hith erto has been unknown. Vast Coast-line Mapped The colony of scientists and ex plorers at the West base mapped by means of photographs taken from airplanes more than half the lotal coast-line of the Antarctic continent, as well as large sections of the in terior which had never before been ! apped including the- Queen Maude mountains. The scientists also established .a magnetic station, a seismograph sta tion to record earthquake tremors, and a weather station. They also made cosmic ray observations at altitudes up, to 23,000 feet. These observations correlated . with data ol;tainedi,,in.,tljehtemperatej zones ,are expected to. prove valuaWe in weath er forecasting. . . The East Base party also mapped hundreds of miles of coast-line and made important discoveries concern ing the topography of Antarctica. IOWA O.O.P. CHAIRMAN KILLED STUART, la., Mrach 12 (UP) Harry B. Swan, 47, Atlantic, Iowa, chairman of the republican state central committee, was killed today in an automobile accident here. His car skidded on slippery pave ment Just inside the west city limits of Stuart and. coLlided -with another machine. Boyd Cambridge, young attorney who has been Swan's assistant, was riding with him. He was reported seriously hurt. Swan had been considered a lead ing candidate for the post of repub lican, national chairman. He had planned to attend a meeting of the national committee in Washington March 24. DIES FROM SHOT SIOUX CITY. Ia.. March 13 (UP) Richard Lee Wells, 10-year-oW son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wells, died last nipht shortly after he had been shot through the heart acci-' dentally by a playmate. Author ities said the shot came from a sup posedly empty .22 caliber revolver. FCR mt'FrS &:gCzAc&f II IZ in VA U SI EE PCCKET WATCH $.50 Chrome finished case, unbreakable crystal and cav-reading dial. lias a arcond-hand. Also NKW Sweep-Second Watches, J1.9S to 4.VS. lager soli-Water bury Company Water bury. Conn. t 1 4 n n