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PAGE FOUB MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1943 THE JOTJilTAL, PLATTSMOTTTH, NEBRASKA Japanese Said To Have Held Whites In Siege Testimony From Relocation Center That Interned Japs Ruled the Camp Los Angeles, June 12. ' (UP) Japanese at the Poston, Ariz., re location center held Caucasian camp employes under siege and threat of death for a week during riots there last November, H. H. Townsend, for mer camp supply officer, told a Dies Is CHAPTER X SYNOPSIS Timothy Hulme. principal of a good but impoverished Vermont academy, lives a studious bachelor's existence with only his Aunt Lavinia for company. Timothy makes friends with a new teacher. Susan Barney, and her younger sister. Delia. Timothy meets his neph ew. Canby Hunter, who goes on a ski ing party in bad weather. They run across an auto accident in the moun tains in which Susan is badly injured. Susan gropes her way back to health while Timothy jealously watches Canby. Timothy gets the news that Mr. Wheat on. a trustee of the academy, has died of apoplexy, and wiU leave the academy a rich endowment on condition that its name be changed and that it excludes all Jewish students. iThe old man's face cleared. He took a long step around the table j and held out his right hand. Tim i othy's hand clenched his, silently j took the vow with him. Mr. Dewey 1 drew a deep breath and said in a steady voice, "Yes, now is the time, T. C, for all good men to stand up for their country. But let's get us something to eat first I'm hollow , as a drum." "You're welcome to whatever Lottie has left for me at the house. Hash, probably." Timothy's voice sounded odd and far away. "Hash sounds all right to me." Burt Stephenson stood there by the desk, embarrassed and troubled. Then Mr. Dewey moved forward again, saying over his shoulder. "Well, Burt, come along with us to the Principal's house, will you?" In front of the Principal's house, Burt said, hesitatingly, "Say, Mr. Hulme well you see I get twenty five cents for every news item I send in to the Ashley Record. I wonder if it would be all right to ..." Timothy turned to Mr. Dewey. "What shall we do?" he asked. Mr. Dewey thought for a mo ment, and said, "My Great Uncle Zadok always used to tell me, i 'What's got to be done Better be begun.' " "That's so," said Timothy, and went on gravely. "Burt, this is about the most serious thing that ever happened to our old town. You're a Clifford boy. It's up to you as much as anybody to help do the right thing. Had your lunch? No? Well, go on in the house and telephone your grandmother that you'll have it with us. I'll help you get your news item ready. You'll probably get more than a quarter for it, too." Timothy found the dish of hash in the warming oven in the kitchen, started the coffee making, showed Burt where the knives and forks and dishes were kept, and stepped upstairs to speak to Aunt Lavinia. He found her about to lie down for a nap, asked her in what he thought was a quiet casual voice, "All right, Lavvy?" and told her, "I just wanted to let you know we're back. Mr. Dewey's going to eat something here before he goes home." But after one look at his face, she slid off her bed, crying, "What's happened, Tim? What has happened" He shook his head, tried to smile. "Tell you later." he said win what he intended to be a reassuring intonation. "You're hiding something from me, Timothy Hulme, she cried, over the stair railing. "Some body has died and you're not let ting me know." "Mr. Wheaton has died. Aunt La vinia." Halfway down the stairs she halted, astonished, relieved, re sentful. "Why, you crazy loon, that's good news," she exclaimed with her bald disregard to conven tional decencies. She sat down where she was looking through the banisters at the three men be low. Timothy, back at the table, told her curtly, without stopping his famished chewing and swallow ing. "He's left the Academy some money on condition that no Jewish students ever be admitted." "Well, wouldn't ye know the old rascal'd think up some dir-r-rty trick as his last act of life?" said Aunt Lavinia conversationally. She was struck by the trouble in the faces below her. "You're never thinking of taking it!" she cried. Aunt Lavinia stood by the table, putting back the strings of her white hair to peer into hi3 face. Tim, dear lad . . ." her voice was gentle and serious as he had not heard it in years. "Yes, Aunt Lavinia?" "Because you have an old wom an hanging around your neck like a millstone you're not going to be less than ycu were brought up to be? Tim, I'd starve rather than stand in your way now." He was pleased with her, kissed her cheek lightly, told her with a smile, "You'll be allowed to starve, Lavvy dear, whcn-I do." "Then you'll resign? Oh, Tim! Good for you!" "Res:n? I'm not going to resign! What makes you think I'm going to taWe th-.s lying down? We're go--irs to i-ut our heads together this : 'ery afternoon. Burt, what classes fcavc you?" subcommittee.. . .The Japanese, held control of the camp and the riots continued be cause the Federal Bureau of In vestigation, the U. S. Indian Ser vice and the War Department would not assume responsibility, Townsend testified. The Japanese sang their national anthem, pulled down the American flag, cursed it and the government, and seized complete control from the camp administration, Townsend said, while a force of military police adjacent to the camp could not ob tain authority to cross the road and quell the disturbances. Townsend said a fence was con structed around the camp on orders Pf W.N.U. DOROTHY CANFIELD cofeatures . . P" i 1 1 1 1 "Why you crazy loon, that's "Only a lab period from two to four, but see here, Professor Hulme, you don't mean you're . . .?" "You're excused from lab this afternoon for more important busi ness," said Timothy. Someone was calling to him. Above the babble of talk on the stairs Aunt Lavinia's voice rose, shouting, "Tim-o-thy! Canby's here. I've told him. He wants to know can he come up, too?" "Oh, yes." said Timothy. "Sure, if he wants to." Aunt Lavinia's small capacity to give attention to matters of literal fact had been used up. But Canby said, "You don't think for one holy second, Uncle Tim, that you can find anybody in this town who'd vote not to take that money?" "Hasn't it ever happened! Canby, in the history of the world that peo ple have put their principles be fore" "Oh, Uncle Tim, be yourself!" "Professor Hulme, may I ask one question?" "I should say so, Burt! This is your party lots more than it is ours." "Why, we don't hardly ever have any Jews as students, see? Just Jules, and those Hemmerling boys, and Rosie Steinberg, this year. Why couldn't they 'go somewhere else to school? Good gosh, Pro fessor Hulme, it'd be cheaper to pay their expenses up in Ashley at the high school and get all that money for the cademy!" Mr. Dewey now said with wrath, "Are we a-goin' to be told how to run our business in our own town by somebody that didn't even vote in Clifford just because he's rich? I'd fight takin' his money if he laid down the law to us this way about anything." "Listen, Burt." Timothy waited till the boy looked up at him. "If we don't take this money it'll mean that when we're old folks we can look back on our lives and think that we had a chance to prove whether we meant anything when we claimed to be free Americans, or whether it was just talk." The trained instinct of the ex perienced teacher told Timothy that this was enough. He looked at his watch, said, "Let's get at your news item." The bugle sent its blare down the hill to Clifford and its people, up the mountain to the pine and the spruces, as for the last hundred and eighteen years. But it did not galvanize into startled speed any laggards loitering on their way to assembly. Every student was there ahead of time, and grown-ups too, both men and women, sitting up stairs in the gallery, downstairs at the back on the bare straight backed benches where they found some of their youth still left, stand ing in the doorways and along the hall. The Ashley Record was dis tributed in Clifford by half past seven in the morning and it was now half, past eight, thirty-six hours after Mr. Wheaton'5 spirit had de parted from the heavy old body so carefully tended by his masseur, j Ever since the arrival of the news paper the closely woven network of telephone wires had been hum ming stormily in a tempest of ex clamations, questions and surmises. Now they sat and stood in the assembly room, a greater crowd than had ever come, even to a commencement, looking up at the words of America written large in Professor Hulme' s square handwrit ing on the blackboard at the back of the stage, at Professor Hulme standing by the piano, the harsh sonority of his voice carrying his words to the farthest ranks of those standing in the hall, "Our old town and our old school have suddenly been called out from the quiet and peace where they've lived so long, to 1 answer is a question of ; life and death importance to those who' be--lieve in the American principle of equal opportunity for all, and safety for minorities. The future of our town and of our school depends on the answer we will make at the elec tion of the new trustee two months from now. But before we begin to lay. the matter before you, I thin; of the war department, but the Jap anese tore it down. He estimated the cost of the fence at $100,000. There were more than' 1,000 Japanese sol diers and officers in the , camp, Townsend said, and they had; stolen and stored in secret caches about the camp more than $100,000 worth of food. Loyal Japanese told him the food was stored in anticipation of the arrival of an invading army, he said. "The mob used 5,000 gallons of gasoline the first two days of the riot," Townsend said. "I finally ob tained the keys and put the 4,000 remaining gallons of gas under Caucasian guard. Later the acting director, John Evans, ordered me good news," she exclaimed. we would do well to sing our na tional hymn." He sat down at the piano, he sang the first verse with the others, "My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing." From verse to verse, the music swelled like a rising tide of rhythm on which everyone there would he or would he not was swept for ward. When they came to the last verse, "Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light! Protect us by thy might, Great God, our king. A-men," sang the men, the women, the boys and girls of Clifford, slowly, draw ing in deep breaths between the lines, and remained standing for an instant to let the tide of music subside. Those who had seats sat down rustlingly. Timothy rose, went to the front of the platform and stood, looking out thoughtfully over the expectant faces. "Perhaps the best place to be gin," said Timothy, "is at the be ginning, eight years ago when we elected Mr. Wheaton as trustee of the Academy I'm afraid we all just thought that if we elected a rich man as one of the trustees, we could get some money out of him. And using our votes that way, the wrong way, has brought on us a great temptation to do wrong again, i this time a wrong we could never , set right. Here are the terms of the bequest." He read aloud slowly then, with pauses between the sentences, the letter from Mr. Wheaton's lawyer. "We are offered one million for. endowment and two hundred thou sand for buildings, on three condi tions: one" he drew a long breath "that the Academy bind itself never to admit to its classes or to give any education to a Jewish stu dent, the word Jewish being de fined as applying to a person with any relatives with Jewish blood.'" He stopped to breathe again, and to straighten his pince-nez. "Two, that the name be changed to the George Wheaton Preparatory School." He laid the emphasis on the word preparatory. "Three, that the tuition fee for day stu dents be raised to not less than , $250 a year, but, so the clause in the will reads, 'always making generous provision for scholarships for needy Clifford youth,' and the fee for boarding students to not less than one thousand dollars a year." After letting this sink in, he added more rapidly. "A quarter of a mil lion more either for buildings or endowment is offered if girls are excluded from the student body but this is not made a condition for obtaining the bequest. "I think now," said Timothy, put ting the letter into his coat pocket, and speaking in a level voice, "that probably this will had been drawn in December when I last saw Mr. Wheaton in New York. But of course I had no idea of it then, and I could not understand some things Mr. Wheaton said about the Academy budget. He objected to the salaries of the teachers of Do- -mestic Science, and of Agriculture and Manual Training because those subjects are not part of prepara tion for college. He told me he thought that if the Academy would concentrate on those who have money enough to attend college, we would have what he called a much better class of students, meaning by that, I understood, stu dents from families with more money. This, I suppose, explains his wish to have the name changed, , not only, you'll notice, to have his own. name part of it, but to have the Academy called a preparatory school. He spoke on that same day, as he had several times before of . his wish to exclude girls, ; giving it ' as his opinion that we could never f induce ' gentlemen's sons to come here as students as long as they were obliged to associate with girls in classes." He brought this out in the same fact-stating neutral voice he was using for the rest of his explanation. . ' Jai (TO. BE C0NTINVED).3 to surrender all the keys to the J clpS. . , "I told him to go to hell.... "A conference was held, at which Col. Main of the U. S. army from the military past nearby attended. "He had been sent there to settle the riot. He was denied this right and was not given any opportunity to take action with the angry Japs. "Finally after release of two pris oners who had been jailed things quieted down." To Hit Contribution Washington, June 12. (UP) Senator arl Hatch, D., N. M., said today that he is ready to propose legislation to prohibit employees and employers alike from contribut ing to political campaigns. A provision in the pending anti strike bill prohibits labor organiza tions from contributing to political campaigns. Hatch said his proposal did not result in any specific contri bution by an employer group but from his conviction that employees should not be prohibited from ac tions permitted their employers. "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," he said. "What I want to accomplish is mere ly to apply the identical restrictions we're about to impose on employees on their employers." Elmwood 5f Journal Field Repreaenratare Now in Navy Orville Julian, the efficient bank clerk at the American Exchange Bank of Elmwood who recently en listed in the Navy and who has been awaiting his induction call, receiv ed same the past week and departed for training. Orville" will be missed greatly by his many friends and associates here. Holds Family Reunion The McCrory famliy, consisting of more than a half hundred mem bers, gathered on last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Buell, and enjoyed a fine dinner and social time. Has Been in Army Hospital The frineds of Claude- (better known as Shorty) West will be pleased to learn that last week his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. West received six letters from him, in which he stated he was enjoying army life and that he is recuper ating from a recent stay in the Army Hospital. Visiting With. Brother The Rev, John Oehlerking, pastor of the Evangelical church at Bill ings, Montana, who has recently been called to the church at Mur dock, visited his two brothers A. H. and Henry Oehlerking, while the parsonage is being prepared for his occupancy. Meet in Pacific Sgt. Darold Pyle, son of Mrs. Jay Stanton, stationed in New Guinea, writes that he recently met Pvt. Merle Reickman of Murdock. This was a very happy event for the two Cass County lads, who made the most of meetings on the distant shore. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parriott an nounce the birth of a daughter in Lincoln, where Mrs. Parriott is making her home while Edward is In service. The grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Parriott are rejoic ing over the arrival of the grand daughter. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Par riott, east of Elmwood, have been enjoing a visit from their daughter Mrs. James Boyd and Mr. Boyd, of Lincoln. Mr. Boyd is in service and stationed at a southern camp. William Coatman who makes his home at Grand Island and who has been visiting with his son W. W. Coatman aud family has depart ed for his home, after having had a very enjoyable visit. Mrs. B. I. Clements is reported as getting along nicely from her recent accident which caused au injury to her ankle. James Wade, whose physical con dition has been poorly of late, is reported as being much improved and able to be around again. Albert Rueter and family, R. H. Greene and wife, and Mr. and Mrs.'ment Service located at ?io boutn Max Lamb and the kiddies visited , Eighteenth Street, telephone; We. in Lincoln Friday of last week. 14211. Contour Or Level Tillag Soil And Moister Interesting jyacts Showli hs to the Value of Planning the Tilling of the Soil The system of plotting land in mile-square sections,, with section lines running north to south and east to west over hills and through valleys and plains, is the founda tion of our land ownership, farm operations, and road systems. Roads were surveyed in as nearly straight lines as the terrain permitted, farm boundaries followed the sections' rectangular form, and the section lines were guides for dividing farms into fields and for farming operations. The practice of following sec tion lines in farming operations works well enough on flat land but it is very wasteful of soil and mois ture on sloping land, where plow ing, planting, and cultivating in Btraight lines up and down the slope set up ideal conditions for rapid run-off of water and maximum soil 1 nco :- U-J.Jk.ikiM Contour tillage that is, plow ing, planting, and cultivating a cross the slope as nearly on the JeveX as possible is necessary to protect the soil on sloping land. Contour tillage creates innumer able little dams or barriers to hold precipitation where it falls until it can soak into the soil. Each plow furrow, every cultivator groove, ev ery planter or drill row becomes a tiny reservoir. Water that is ah sorbed by the soil is beneficial to growing crops and causes no erosion, but water that runs off is a direct Iosb to crops growing at the time and also .impairs the productive a bility of the land itself by carrying away fertile topsoil. Besides conserving soil and mois ture, contour tillage also saves man power, horse-power, and tractor power. Why waste energy pulling heavy equipment up-and-down-hill and waste time shifting gears, when the operation is so much easier on the level? Contour lines should be laid out accurately with some kind of surveyor's level, and marked so they become permanent guides. The number and Bpacing of the lines needed for accurate contour tillage will vary with the regularity of the slope. More guide lines are needed about one every 100 feet on uneven land than on uniform slopes, where they may be as much as 250 feet or so apart. Generally there will be some irre gular patches, or "correction strips,' between contoured areas. In many places, planting them to grass or other hay crops will be the most satisfactory way to handle them. To get best results, contour till age usually should be supported by strip cropping, crop rotations, and the creation of a vegetative mulch hi most cases terraces are advisable Invited to Pacific New York, June 12 (UP) Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt has received i personal invitation from Dr. Her bert Evatt, Australian foreign min ister, to visit the Pacific Democra cies. During a ceremony in the Anzac garden at Rockefeller center yes terday, Dr. Evatt told Mrs. Roose velt: "I am sure I speak for all Aus tralians and new Zealanders as '. express the hope that in the near future Mrs. Roosevelt may find op portunity for further war service by herself visiting our Pacific De mocracies.' Mrs. Roosevelt, questioned after the ceremony as to whether she would accept, said: "I haven't any idea." U. S. Employment Service Starting July 2nd, 1943 the weekly hours of visiting Cass coun ty by the United States Employment Service will be changed. On and af ter that date a representatial from the Omaha office of the United States Employment Service will be at the Court House only between the hours of 10 A.M. and 12 noon on Friday of each week. This in terviewer may be contacted as usual in the office of the County Surveyor. At all other times resi dents of Cass County are invited to use the facilities' of the Omaha of- fice of the United btates tmpioy- Will Cut Quotas Pointing out that a sharp cut in enlistment quotas would go into effect July 1, Lieut. Comdr. Robert the Kansas City Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board, today urged all 17-year old high school seniors or graduates interested in enlisting in naval aviation to make applica tion immediately. Since January the Kansas City board has been authorized to enlist each month 200 young men who have reached their seventeenth but not their eighteenth birthdays. The majority of those enlisted are given two semesters of college training at the expense of the Navy before beginning their regular naval avia tion training which requires about seventeen months. Those not sent to college remain on inactive duty until after they reach their eigh teenth birthdays, when they begin regular naval aviation training. Complete information on the program and documents required can be obtained by writing the Nav al Aviation Cadet Selection Board, Bryant Building, Kansas City 6, Mo. The Board handles all enlist ments of men living in Kansas, Ne braska, Western Missouri and Southwest Iowa. Subsidy Will Aid Vegetables Packing Firms Move Sought to Cushion the Chang es Proposed in the Stabilization Plan The Office of Economic Stabiliza tion late Friday took steps to pre pare subsidizing for the vegetable packers, compensating them for wage increases that are pending before the war labor board. The vegetable subsidy authorized by Fred M. Vinson new director of stabilization, was the first to com pensate for proposed wage increases. Previously ordered subsidies for meat, butter, gasoline and metals have been based on increased costs of materials or transportation, or encouragement of production. Vinson based his authorization on an interpretation of President Roosevelt's "hold the line" order. He said that prices of canned green peas, snap beans, sweet corn, to matoes had been stabilized under a previous agreement. Under this pact, the Commodity Credit corpora tion agreed in January to buy the raw vegetables from growers at mar ket prices and resell them at a loss so that the higher current price of raw vegetables would not cause any increase in the price of canned vege GooaE EattSirog ,a has long been an American tradition. jVNki Even under rationing Hinky-Dinky is i-Cj'l still able to offer you a wide variety of ftm- foods for nourishing meals. Make ISIm Hinky - Dinky your Food Shopping Vwi ' Headquarters. PORK CHOPS SI"0. l 32 loin end cuts Lb. 341 Center Cuts Lb. 39f SPARE RIBS rvAND. .. HAMBURGER SMS!?- - --29 CABBAGE California Solid A Green Lb. j LEMONS California Large 252 Size, dozen trr) A XT' GOLDSMITH iVKAU 1 UNRATIONED FLOUR SSnSf'Sck $1.63 PICKLES SUPERIOR SWEET COFFEE COFELT'S 1-lb RICH, IMPROVED Bag HINKY-DINKY COFFEE PEN JEL FRUIT . PECTIN NANETTE DUPRE Good Housekeepers Prices in this ad effective June 14 through fresh fruits and vegetables. We reserve the tables. Now, cannery workers are asking increased wages and Vinson said that if the board granted them, the price stabilization of the vegetables would be upset and he was acting to forstall "higher consumer prices for essential cost of living items a result inconsistent with the hold the line program." Unofficial estimates of the cost of the possible wage subsidy, to be paid by CCC were approximately five million dollars a year. The previous CCC commitment to subsidize raw vegetables had been estimated to cost 25 million dollars a year. Vinson excepted from the wage subsidy canned vegetables sold to the government. Vinson said: "For minor vegetables, which are not essential cost of living items, aproved increased raw material costs and wage, rate increases will, where necessary to assure to the processors the margins required by law, be reflected in higher ceiling prices." Vinson also made it plain that the only wage increases considered were ones which may be approved by the war labor board. It was understood Vinson probably will study the canning companies' prof its to determine whether they should absorb part of wage increases. Vinson described the action as one of "a series of steps which will be taken by various governmental agencies to insure an adequate sup ply of processed vegetables." Consumers will be charged more points for many canned fruits and vegetables in the next few months as a result of lagging food produc tion, informed rationing officials predicted, according to a Chicago Tribune Press Service dispatch from Washington. The prediction came in the wake of Thursday's crop report which described food crop prospects as the poorest in three years. OPA sources said the prospective canned fruit and vegetable pack is estimated at about 15 per cent be low 1342. They added the govern ment is taking much larger amounts of these canned goods. These sour ces said consumers may expect a general increase in point values for canned foods next month, with the prospect of these values continuing into the fall. Consumer supplies will be cut at least one-fourth below the 1942 level and to less than half of the 1941, or prewar total. Rationing officials said no major changes in meat point values are expected soon. Approximately 7,500,000 cases of canned applesauce, blueberries, figs, beets, carrots, and pumpkin and squash will be available to civilians from the 1943 pack as a result of a reduction in government require ments, it was announced today. CARROTS California Green top 0 Large Bunch Grapefruit Marsh Seedless 4f A 10 54 Size, each ... Quart 4 A$ Jar 24 p.acKd 03 Quart . Jar 29 25 1-lb bag 23 Reg. A I Pkg. Ra. 4 A FACIAL TISSUES 500-sheet .. Package 22 Toliet a Tissue h$ Reg. 4 ft Rolls. June 16 subject only to market changes in right to limit quantities. No sales to dealers.