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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1?42. PAGE S PLATTSMCUTH SEMI - WEEKLY JOUItNAL failed States Warned of Need of AM War Effort Ambassador J, C. Grew Tells of ! Need of Maximum Capacity to Crush Nin War. Machine WASHINGTON. Aug. 31 .UP) The American people today had a grim warning from their former am bassador to Japan. Joseph C. Grew, that it would take "our maximum capacities to smash the brutality and beast iality of the Japanese war ma chine." Grew, a career diplomat who has spent the last 10 years in Japan, nave his first public address last nighf. In a radio talk he told how glad b- was to lie home, described the last Pours in Tokyo before Pearl Harbor and denounced Japanese atrocities in the strongest terms yet uttered by an American official. "Let us put it in a nut shell: There is not sufficient room in the area of the Pacific ocean for a peaceful American, for any and all of the! p.'a'v loving United Nations and a swashbuckling Japan," he said. Tie cautioned Americans against; expecting Japan to crack unrin- pres-! sure of defeat. That will serve only j to steel the Japanese people to great cr sacrifices. New China Ambassador "WASHINGTON. Sept. 2 (UP) Dr. IIu Shin, Chinese ambassador to the ' United States for the past 12 years, has been recalled by his government and will be succeeded by Wei Tao Ming, former ambassador to Vichy, France, it was learned today. I)r. Hu, a native of Anhwei, China, and a graduate of Cornell university, will leave for China by plane as soon as lie concludes his affairs here. Poultry With the meat rationing com ing to us, new is the time to ? tart those yciing pullets on Egg Frcduction by feeding laying mash . . . and have you flocks culled and dewonned by us. Free culling and inspection of your flock. We vc'dl pay yon Market Price for your Cull:. Weight on the ground. , We have a buttermilk mash that we are featuring at $2.70 a hundred. TSS Hatchery Phone 1S2 Next to Court House 1942 Nebraska Skate Fas? LINCOLN September 6th through 11th A Salute to "Food and Victory" PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS SUNDAY Veterans Day . . . "Death Drivers" Crash Show MONDAY Labor Day . . . Judging of Exhibits Eegins. TUESDAY Children's Day . . . Spelling Contest WEDNESDAY Nebraska Derby Day . . . 4-H Champ Beef THURSDAY Parade Day and War Bond and Stamp Day FRIDAY Final Fair Day . . . Baby Eeef Auction EVERY DAY EXHIBITS From farms, homes end industry STAGE REVUE A gala night grandstand musical (except Gun.) MIDWAY Goodman Wonder Shows . . . Rides . . . Vaudeville . . . Curiosities FREE ACTS Aerialists . . . Clowns . . . Wild Animals . . Novelties HORSE SHOW Nightly in Coliseum through Sept. 10th. RACES Six cr mere daily . . . noted jockeys . . fine race horses MUSIC lots of bands . . . Free Nebraska Music Festival PRICES (All prices include new federal tax) Main Gate 55 cents. Children under 12 free if with adult. Grandstand Afternoon and night. Reserved box seats, S5 cents; Reserved center sections, 55 cents; Unreserved end sections, 30 cents. FREE Admission to fairgrounds for all men in U. S. uniform. See Your Neighbor at Nebraska's Friendly Fair BUY WAR STAMPS AND BONDS May Undergo Operation Harold Blunt, who has been . HI ! for (he past two weeks as the result ; of an attack thought to be pneu- monia. is now at the University hos-j pital at Omaha. The young man was brought home when taken sick en! route to Alliance to w a defense project. He has been norne since, but his condition has not pro gressed as well as had been hoped and he has been taken to the hos pital. It is thought that an opera tion may be necessary and possibly may be performed this week. North Africa Looms as Big Battle-Ground British Hint Major Allied Drive with the United States Troops Farticiuatinsr Rising day was Pacific to allied offensive spirit to un.tu -I-- j committee have, through vigorous pread from the southwest! . . , i campaigns ot diversion and suppres the enemv in Egypt where, . heavy British-American air attacks hnav foretell their land attacks. j London dispatches gave incrcas-j iing importance to me .oriu .-lmfaa situation where both the Germans at the jumping off point for big scale new desert battles. Feme sources in Britain hinted at: the possibility of a major allied drive to sweep the Axis out of Africa pos- Bible invloving a breach in relations between the United States and Vichy, j Fi ance. j They suggested the possibility of an Hied drive to seize the strategic v est Africa port of Dakar and the ,. .c.;, TTw.w.1, Toc..-r.no IH:iil -VliUtiU i I till It iMj...Tiuii.i 1 order to deny their use by the Ger mans. However, it was admitted that any such action depends in large part up on the ability of the British to take Marshal Irwin Rommel's measure in the forth-coming desert campaign. It was suggested that the African offen sive may be the allied substitute for the long awaited second front in Europe. U. S. Air Men in Russia Moscow, August 31st, (tTP) Six more American airforce officers arrived today to augment the Amer ican lend-lease to Russia headed by Colonel Alva Harvey. The party travelled aboard a soviet manned, soviet built Douglas Airliner. Among those in the party were f'filnni.l Wii 1 1 r.v Tontu-n T itii i pti n n t ' . ' Colonel George Kreiger and James Thompson, Major Prosse, Captain j Nick Kuzmaek' and lieutenant Vio jtor Page. Harvey sc.id his mission j was to aid Major General Toilette ! Pradlcy in his discussions regard- expansion of American supplies to Russia. Soldier is Killed i LOS ANGELES. Sept. 2 (UP) ; Privates Culburt Foreman. 21, Lin- coin. Nebraska, R. L. Eskholm and I John Uurkefi Los Angeles, were killed : last night when their automobile ' overturned. Investigation of Martin Dies s Sought National Federation of Constitu tional liberties Charges "Shield ins" of Axis Agents WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 .UP) The justice department today was asked to investigate Chairman Mar tin Dies of Texas of the house com mittee on un-American activities on eharges of "shielding" Axis agents. In a 52-page documented book out lining the congressman's alleged ac tivities in protecting 51 Communists, the National Federation for Consti tutional Liberties accused Dies of protecting the agents by "superficial investigations" which "white wash ed" them by "suppressing important evidence of their activities." j In a foreword to the book, fed era -I tioji chairman George Marshall charg- ed that, "for four years Dies and his j on. onsctireu tne activities oi me Nazi network, the fifth column in the United States." Indict Former WPB Employe WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. (UP) Two discharged War Production Board officials and three dealers in used machine tools were indKted today by federal grand jury here on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and interfere with the prosecution of the war. Robert B. Rkoads, formerly of In dianapolis and Ralph L, Glaser, New 1Iav- Connecticut, chief and as- Jsistant chief, respectively, of the used tools section of the WPB tools branch until released of their duties August 4. also were charged in two separate indictments with making false returns to the government. TJoth were full time WPB employees with annual salaries of $6,500 each Tndicted in the conspiracy charge j with Rhoads and Glaser, were Lewis E. Eniernian, president cf the Lewis E. Emerman company of Chicago, Clarence J. O'Brien of the O'Brien machine company of Philadelphia and his nephew and associate of the same firm. Maximum penalties un- !der these charges are two years im prisonment. $10,000 fine or both. Wabash Boys Take Training GREAT LAKES, 111., Sept. 2. (UP) Paul M. O'Erien. son of Mrs. Walter J. O'Brien. Wabash, Nebras- ika, today successfully completed a 16 t ....... week course of intensive training in the school for Machinist's Mate at the Service Schools of the U. S. Navy here. Men graduated are sent either to the fleet or to an advanced Service School for additional instruction. Then they serve under veteran pet ty officers in their specialized fields, receiving more practical in struction and experience. Service School graduates -will be eligible for petty officer ratings as soon as they are able to pass the qualifying examination after graduation. Great Lakes Service Schools of fer courses in 21 of the 55 trades of the U. S. Navy. Selection of men to attend the schools was made on the basis of a series of aptitude tests given to every Rluejacket dur ing his period of recruit training. Omahan Thought Prisoner OMAHA. September 1, (UP) A letter received yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hunter of Omaha, from a passenger on the returning exchange ship Gripsholm leads them j to believe that their son, John J. j Hunter is a prisoner of the Japanese, j Hunter had been unheard from j since Dec. 31, when he called his j parents, "All's well, don't worry." For the past four and a half years, he had been general manager of the U. S. rubber export company in Manila. He attended South High school here and Nebraska university. Miss Frances Long, returning on the Gripsholm, wrote that she had met Hunter while in Manila. She added that he was receiving good food, proper treatment and urged his parents "not to worry too much." Soft Coal Price Increases WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UP) The bituminous coal division has or dered nation-wide increases averag ing 15.53 cents per ton at the mine minimum prices of bituminous coal, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes has announced. The order, effective Oct. 1, will have "no appreciable effect" on actual prices paid either by householders or distributors. Rejoice in Son Mr. and Mrs. Glen Parkening have announced the birth of a sou at the St. Catherine's hospital on August 2S. Mrs. Parkening was the former Miss Inga Reichstadt and she, with the infant son, is progressing nicely. This is the Parkenings first child and his coming has brought a great deal of happiness to his parents as well as to his grandparents. perts Appraise i Y flans of Kaiser for Cargo PIpies Glen Martin One of Group That Examine Flans and Pieport To Donald Johnson WPA Head OMAHA, August 31st, (UP) Glenn L. Martin, airplane builder, disclosed here last night that a com mittee of aeronautical experts have appraist,(1 tne plans Df Henry J Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder, to manufacture giant cargo planes and have reported its findings to WPB Chieftain Donald Nelson. Martin was one of a group of four directed by Nelson to evaluate Kaiser's proposals. Martin said that any announcement of the com mittee's report would have to come from the War Production boss. The Baltimore plane manufact uier today inspects the Fort Crook bomber plant, which has been building Martin planes since Aug. 12. The bomber plant here completes as sembly of planes after the automo bile industry fabricates parts and sub-assemblies. The Martin-Nebraska plant, Mar tin said, is the first to complete a plane in accordance with the gov ernment's program for so-called auto motive plants. Other members of the committee, whose report may decide the feasi bility cf! Kaiser's proposals were Donald Douglas, president of Doug- las Aircraft; John K. Northrop, j piesident of Northrop Aircraft, and G rover WPB. Loening, air consultant to Policeman Delivers Child LOUISVILLE. Ken., Sept. 1, (UP) Two policemen named "P.ill" today gave their Christian name to a baby they brought into the world by long distance instruction after the mother had died. Owen Stanley mountains to the Ko- Bill. seven pounds and a day old, j koda operations area on the north was well and healthy thanks to the J ern slo!)cs d rakpcl cnpmv roons quick action of the officers. They had found his mother dead for an hour from the pains of childbirth. They telp,koled headquarters , for advice and a health officer finally was reached and his directions were relayed to the nervous policemen by a priest. An hour after they arrived, the polisemen had delivered the baby, completed the post-birth operation, bathed him, wrapped him in a blan ket and had him on the way to the hospital. The names of the two men are William Smellen and Wil liam Sturgeon. Japs May Help with Crops WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. (UP) The War Relocation Authority to day announced revising for employ ment of Japanese evacuees from the vest coast. In the harvesting of sugar beets and other crops in the inter mountain region and plains states. Under the new plan, farmers de siring laborers will apply to the TJ. S. Employment Service stating the amount of work and the wages. If labor is not available from ordinary sources, the requests will be for warded to evacuation camps for consideration by the Japanese. Grant Gas Shipments CHICAGO. Sept. 2 (UP) More than 2,000 tank car shipment of auto motive gasoline have been authorized for transportation to the midwest since the tank car ban on Aug. 24, Walter Dumont, district director of the office of petroleum coordinator, said today. The office granted 2,042 permits during the first five days of the ban including 90 cars to Iowa and 75 to Nebraska. Mission to Brazil WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, (UP) President Roosevelt announced today that a special U. S. technical mis sion of industrial engineers headed by M. L. Cooke will leave for Brazil soon to assist the Brazilian govern ment in expanding its industrial war machine. President Dedi cates Matioe to Caiise of Justice Demands the Removal of the In equalities and Justices that Breed for War WASHINGTON. Aug. 31 .UP) President Roosevelt today rededicat ed the American nation "to the re moval from this earth of the injustices and inequalities" which breed war and create such inhuman tyrants as the German, Italian and Japanese leaders. Speaking at the dedication of the naval medical center at Bethesda, Md.. in obser'ance of the 140th an niversary of the naval bureau of med icine and surgery, Mr. Roosevelt re called that three years ago on Sept. 1, 1939, "Hitler's legions launched their first blitzkreig against the peo ple of Poland." "To the defeat of such tryants to the removal from this earth of the injustices and inequalities which create such tryants and breed new wars this nation is wholly dedicat ed" Mr. Roosevelt praised the work of the "great men and women of the bureau of medicine and surgery" who have reduced the. cost of American life. He also urged that greater ef forts be made to reduce the number of casualties due to accidents among the civilian population. Planes Aid Battle Against Japanese in New Guinea Jungle Fighting Australians Battle Thrusts of the Japs Toward Port Moresby General MacArthur's Headquar ters, Australia, Sept. 2nd. (UP) Allied infantry co-operation plail'S have made two heavy attacks on Japanese combat forces who are thrusting with steadily increasing power against Australian troops in the Kokodo area 55 miles across New Guinea from Tort Moresby, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Racing fighter planes, in close support of veteran Australian jun- and communications with machine gun and cannon fire at tree-top level in two separate raids. Interest increased in Japanese op erations, which seemed increasingly to indicate the possibility of a real attempt to break through the Aus tralian defenses, pour through the S.000 foot mountain pass, and sweep down to the south toward Port Moresby, the great allied advanced base on the south New Guinea coast. Dispatches indicated that the Aus tralians had succeeded so far in holding the enemy to the area of Kokoda village, down the northern side of the mountains, .but is was evident that the Japanese were in creasing their pressure steadily. Down at the southeastern tip of New Guinea. Australians under Ma. Gen. "Cyril Clowes continued mop ping i:p the Japanese scattered through the jungle after their shat tering defeat at Milne Bay. The fighting had now assumed Guerilla aspects, in which small Australian patrols operated inde pendently to hunt down the enemy groups who had fled to the north side of the bay from their landing point. Army Airfield at McCook McCOOK. Neb., Sept. 2 (UP) An army airfield will be built nine miles north of here, one of a report ed chain of satellite filelds stretching across Nebraska," it was announced today by Capt. William E. Grubb of the army engineer corps. Construction work will begin im mediately, Capt. Grubb said, point ing out that the field must be com pleted by Dec. 1. Grubb expects a staff of 75 workers from the engineer corps to " arrive here shortly and commence preliminary operations. The field will take up four sec tions of land. The site has already been surveyed and staked out and is large enough to accomodate two-mile long runways big enough for the largest bombers now in existence. Plenty of Whiskey WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, (UP) The ultimate consumer of distilled spirits was reassured today by War Production Board estimates that a five, year suppiy of whiskey is on hand for civilian use. DEPENDENT'S CHECKS MAILED WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UP) A war official disclosed today that about 20.000 checks representing more thair $2,000,000 in. accumu lated payments to dependents of army men were placed in the mails during; the past 12 hours. An addi tional 10,000 checks will be dis tributed next Saturday, the offi cials said. The 20,000 initial checks were being- sent to "emergency cases" determined before President Rcosevelt signed an amendment to the service men's dependents act authorizing payment immediately instead of on Nov. 1, the date set in the original bill. Japanese Foreign Minister Togo Has Resigned First Change in Japanese Cabinet Since Opening of the War With the United States By United Press Japan today announced that For eign Minister Shigenori Togo had re signed in the first major Japanese cabinet change since the Pacific war started. It was announced that General Hideki Tojo, the premier, war min ister and home minister had assumed the foreign ministry. Tokyo said that the resignation of Togo was due to personal reasons which were not specified. Speculation arose at once whether there had been a Japanese cabinet split on the issue of war with Rus sia for which Germany was report ed pressing. It had been reported that Germany was urging Japan to attack and that Japan had intended to do so only if the Germans took the Russian Cau casus, captured Stalingrad and form ed a line on the Volga river. American Troops in London LONDON, Sept. 2 (UP) American troops marched through the streets of London today on their first parade of the war but their commander, Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, was unable to be present because of "urg ent matters of greatest importance." Speaking to the American troops at the Guild hall, Maj. Gen. J. C. H. Lee told them: "At the last moment Eisenhower was detained by urgent matters of greatest important." He said that the American forces had not come to Britain for defense but to join the British "in sustained offensive operations." Lee told the troops who had pa raded past crowds of 300,000 which througed the London streets that, "We have come here for the dura tion. None of us wants to return home until victory shall have crown ed our united efforts and until then we have much to do together." Postpone 'Spending Tax WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UP) For the second successive day the treasury today postponed presentation of its proposed new "spending" tax to the senate finance committee in the face of indications that it would provoke a quick show-down on a fed eral sales levy. Chairman Walter F. George of Georgia, after a conference with Treasury General Counsel Randolph Paul, said consideration of the new tax would be postponed until tomor row because "some more work has to be done on it" including some work on schedules. Seek to Abandon Line WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, (UP) Authorization to abandon a 21 mile line between StocCton, Iowa and Tipton, Iowa, was asked today by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa cific Railway Company in a petition filed with the inter-state commerce commission. Subscribe to The Journal A Perfect Fit for Your Foot at Woster Shoe Store Quality Footwear and Shoe Repair Plattsmouth - Phone 407 Senator Taft Seeks Changes in Draft Laws Would Establish a Uniform System to Prevent Drafting of Men with Dependents WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UP) Congress may be asked to establish a uniform national selective service quota system to make certain that no local board is forced to draft men with dependents while boards in other parts of the country have ample reserves of eligible single men. Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, last night called for a nationaliza tion of the draft quota system to end the widespread discreapancies in the treatment of registrants which "are "inevitable" in the present system under which the state is the basic unit in determining quotas. He suggested that the quota sys tem be overhauled when congress acts on expected legislation to authorize military service for 18 and 19 year old youths. No man in one deferred class should be drafted until all men in all states in the next highest class have been called up," Taft said. Strike Threat Continues in Aluminum Plants Threat Precipitated by Devision of War labor Board on Appeal for Wage Increase PITTSBURGH, Sept. 2 (UP) Leaders of the International Alum inum Workers of America, CIO, dis agreed today over rank and file senti ment of a threatened strike of 32, 000 members in seven Aluminum Company of America plants whose production is indispensable in the war program. The strike threat was precipitated by a war labor board decision not to raise the wages of company employ ees one dollar a day. The member ship voted to reject the decision whicb.was interpreted as having created an "emergency" under the AWA constitution and empowered officials to call a strike when it is "deemed necessary." Also in Pittsburgh, haggard but happy after more than a day and a half without sleep, negotiators for the CIO United Steel Workers today pronounced successful a 37-hour con ference table "sit down" which re sulted in an agreement for settle ment of grievances at the Park works of the Crucible Steel company of America. S. J. Gaul, president of the local, said 10 pending grievances were set tled and that the company agreed to file answers in other cases before a week from tomorrow. Accused workers will not be penalized with out a hearing and contract job class ifications were clarified. The Matanuska Valley is located at the head of Cook Inlet between parallels 61 degrees and 62 degrees north latitude and meridians 14'J and 150 degrees west longitude. It's new ... It's different ... WOEIDS IN THE NEWS Listen to this exciting new-type quiz program 3:00 P. M Every Sunday n n v u Presented by: MEDISALT TOOTH POWDER Bomb the Japs with Junk!