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5I0ITDAY, JULY 19, 1843 TEE JOmTAI, PLATTSMOUTH, HEBUL5KA PAGE THREE British Stirred Over Designes Of U.S. After War Question British Position of Britain Shipping. Officials in Post on War London, July 17. (UP) In creasing concern among important bodies of the British public regard ing possible imperialistic policies of the United States after the war is reflected in the growth of parlia mentary and press discussions of such vital issues as post-war air tranport. shipping bases, application of the AtHntic charter principles and lend-lease settlement. It is no mere coincidence that parliamentarians are directing sharp edged questions to Government of- licials on what Britain's shipping j . . i position will re after the war with possibly S.OOO.OOO tons compared to a minimum 20.000,000 United Plates tons. This especially is wor- risome since American ships will be; much newer and more efficient car go carriers than the remnants of the once-proud red duster fleet. The same worry lies behind the anxious inquiries regarding United States air transport after the war. It now is obvious the American Air Transport Corps will emerge with the world's most experienced and best equipped transport service. Other vital questions concern the retention of certain portions or ene my territory such as the States" present bases in the Islands. When Sir Archibald Southh asks the government whether it may Tint hi' nK'(i5-i.inr fnr T i t i in in rt. ' tain parts of present enemy terri tory, he obviously refers to such points as the north coast of Africa, Fantelleria and possibly Siicly. In this connection, the Atlantic charter, which precludes territorial arggrandizement as well as territor ial changes unless with the accord of the people resident therein, be omes most important. Little light is. cast on an inter- pretation of this point in nme;Food Administration revealed today. Minister Winston Churchill's tieelaraj tion, except that he pointed out the! charter is not a treaty but merely I a statement of 'broad views and! principles which are our common guide." j With ouestions of such vital in - - terest to Britain's economic at stake, it is obvious that thought ful Britons are most anxious about j per cent of fats and oils, 75 per cent j post-w ar United States imperialism, j of eggs and poultry, and 90 per cent j Chicago. July 17. (UP) Sen. ;of wheat and other grains. j Scott W. Lucas, D.. 111., said today -j The WTA emphasized that 't5 j itliat "high quarters in Washing Japs Make Attacks plans based on army-navy estimat-j tfm.. heijeve Col. Robert R. Mc- Chung King. July 16, U.P jap-j anese trnons with stroue sir sim- nnrt harp .-wie rtnonted attacks in the Taihang mountains along the:l,n loiecis ui "i'uu "'!Lucas said. Honan-Shansi provincial border but j all enemy assaults have been halted - by the Chinese, a communique re ported tonight. The High Command said that "sanguinary" fighting was in pro gress. The Japanese attempted four min- or thrusts in the Canton area of Southern China, but lost 200 men killed and wounded and had to re treat in each case. Red Army Hits London, July 1C, U.P. The Ger man official D.N.B. News Agency reported today that the Red Army had broke the long lull in the Len ingrad front by attacking south of Schluesselburg, after heavy artillery preparations. Three batullious of Russian in fantry took part in the attack which met strong resistance and was "part- i jmtf from 1035 through 1939. Sup ly" repelled by a counter assault, j pliPS y,e adequate to maintain the broadcast German report said. (od health, they said. The Russians capt ured Schlvessel- j Although the WFA estimates the burg, ancient fortress east of Len total meat supply at a record 23, iugrad in their offensive last winter, i 2S3. 200, 000 pounds, civilians will igct only 14.697,200.000 pounds. This May Remove Coffee Ban Washington, July 16, U.P. Of - fice of Price Administration officials) Givilians pct a1out 213,000,- are discussing a possible date for re-00 eases of canne(1 fruit3 aEd vege moving coffee from the list of ra-'tables durin; the next i2 months tioning commodities it was learned ! .ome 65,000,000 less than last "year, today. Officials said the date pro-' civilian vegetable supplies will be bably will be set soon unless unfor-ony Pijgntiy smaller than last year, seen events jeopardize anticipated hut a 40 per ccnt reduction is pro coffee supplies. Present supplies are ; V5,e(j for in canned fruits. good and further improvement is ex pected. Coffee Stamp 21 expires on July 21st and Stamp 22 on August 11th. Since this is the first time, two cof fee ration periods have been an nounced together, some quarters be lieved that rationing will be ended on August 11th. The Frantic Boy at the Leaky Dike ! Civilians Expect To ! Receive 70 Percent Of Food Supply Increase of Food Production Should Give Cilivians 63 Out of Each 100 Pounds of Meat Washington. July 17, (UP) j Civilians will get about 70 per cent! j of an expected record food supply (during the next 12 months, tenta-; tive allocation plans of the wari The allotment fo C3 out of every 100 pounds of moat will allow a continuation of the civilian meat ration at about present level; th3 jWFA said. Civilians will get approximately j 70 ner cent of canned vegetables. S3 I futurcjrer cent of canned fruits and juices, j lought-! 75 per cent of dairy products. o es. tena-iease anu reiiei neeas auu ! civilian requirements- to possible revision if -are subject j there should an unexpected change in produc officials believe crops have progres- sod to a Vint where total prod,lr tion can be accurately estimated, along with livestock totals. Although total crop production now is estimated at slighly less than j last year, increased production of i meats, dairy and poultry products is expected to result in total food supplies at least as large and per haps larger than last year's all-time high. Aside from the civilians' 70 per cent of the next 12 months total food supply, other claimants wilt get tho following amounts tinder WFA allocation plans: armed servi ces. 15 per cent; lend-lease, 10 per cent; relief and contingency re serves (to meet unexpected needs), five per cent. Food cffcials said supplies avail able for civilians will provide about 10 per cent less food per person than was consumed last year, but about as much on the average as was con - ; is nearly S,000, 000 pounds less than I they consumed last year, and l,f00,- 000 loss than the average during the j fIve vears 1935.1939. The allocation of meat for the com ing year is shown in the following j table (figures represent approximate : millions of pounds): Civilians: All meat, 14,697; beef, 5.93S; Veal. 909; Lamb and mutton. 540; Pork, 7,311. Military: All meat, 3.876; beef, 2.09S; "Veal, 204; Lamb and mut- Veronica's Baby Dies Hollywood. July 10. (UP) Ver onica Loke gained strength today despite her grief at the death of her prematurely born son, Anthony Det lie. The child, born July S, died yes terday of 'prematurity," said Dr. Raymond McBurney, the film star's physician. The three-pound baby had been placed in an incubator at birth and was given a blood trans fusion in an effort to savevhis life. Miss Lake, in private life the wife Irf Alai John Detlie. was injured in . . . a fau at her stuaio ana was mufu , 1 to the horpital in an effort to pre- not expected for two months. She was not told of the baby's j condition for several days because ; of her own illness. McCormick por Senate Cormiek may run as republican cangi(tate for the senate, ..Jn tnis case x v,olll( he tne one 'to oppose his isolationist views," j Previmiplyi Wendell Willkie had jexpresed hope McCormick would run for President. In that event, ; Willkie indicated be would cam paign against McCormick to pro vide a clear-cut test of whether or not Ihe country is opposed to iso lationism. Lucas said he doubted if Willkie's hope would be realized, because re ports from Washington indicated that McCormick.a publisher of the Chicago Tribune and a rrominent prewar Isolationist, would run for the senate instead of the Presidency in Illinois' preferential primary. Must Have Stamp Washington, July 17. (UP) The Bureau of Internal Revenue does not want to "get touch" about the unpopular $5 auto nse tax (stamp, but officials warned today that violators of the law are sub- ject to fines up to $i0. The Bureau will mail letters soon to all district collectors advising them to follow the enforcement pro cedure used last year. Violators are detected by deputies on the street who may either warn the driver to buy the stamp, tell him to report to the collector's orfice, or leave Resum mons. If the violator buys the stamp, no action is taken but when persons refuse or show any "re calcitrant" attitude, the collector must cite the case to the U. S. At torney for action in federal court. ton, 154; Pork, 1,419. Lend Lease: All meat, 3,282; Beef, 97; Veal, 8; Lamb and mutton, 135; Pork, 3,043. Reserve: All meat, 1,272; Beef, 771; Veal, 4; Lamb and mutton, 4; Tork, 493. Other exports: All meat, 156; Beef, 73; Veal, 1; Lamb and mut ton, 4; Pork, SO. Will Hold The Line On Corn -Hog Prices Says 0PA Feeders to Be Urged to Market Lighter Hogs in Order to Save the Corn Supplies Washington. July 17. (UP) Des pite the recent furore raised in congress and the market shortage of corn, the War Food Administration and the Office of Price Administra tion have agreed to hold-the-line on prices of both corn and hoes. Following closely OPA's announce ment that there will be no change before Oct. 31 in the corn ceiling price, the WFA prepared to extend its price support of $13.(3 a hun dred pounds to lighter weight hogs. Food Administrator Marvin Jones is expected to urge growers to sell hogs at lighter weights in order to conserve corn supplies which have dwindled to a point threatening live stock, dairy and poultry production. Chester C. Davis, predecessor of Jones as war food administrator, es tablished a "floor" of $13.75 a hun dred pounds- for hogs weighing 240 to 270 pounds. That support price likely will be extended to hogs weighing 220 pounds and more. The emphasis on lighter weight hogs will result, officials said, in a considerable saving of feed per pound of meat produced. Hogs gain weight more slowly per bushel of corn consumed after they pass about 220 pounds. The heavier weights were request ed last fall and winter when the need was greatest for increasing lar production. The result was dis appointing because packers left most of the fat on the meat. It brought a higher price that wray than when rendered as lard, but most of the fat was wasted in cooking. Midwestern farmers are holding nearly 200,000 bushels of corn, largely for feeding to hogs, while other section of the country are ex tremely short on feed grains. Corn fed to togs brings a return of about $1.30 to $1,40 a bushel when sold as meat at the present hog prices. The farm ceiling price on corn is $1.07, Chicago basis. Hopes for Release Ottowa, July 16. U.P General Henri Giraud, Commander in Chief of the fighting French forces in North Africa, said at a press confer ene today that "Italy already col lapsed, only the shell is left stand ing." General Giraud pleaded for early action by the United Nations a gainst Hitler's European fortress to save the French people. "France is not dead." he said, "she doesn't want to die." Confined to Home Mrs. Anna Ptak, one of the well known residents of the city, is con fined to her home at this time. She is suffering from an attack of rheu matism that has made it necessary for her taking an enforced rest. Fancy Cattle Finisher Quits For The Duration Illinois Feeder Says the Stock .Business Is Out for the Present at Least Chicago, July 17, (UP) Fancy cattle finisher Strother G. Jones pok ed the round, smooth rumps of his "sweetly finished" steers in the Chi cago stockyards today and said: "My business is a war casualty." I Jones who feeds 2,000 head of prime beef a year on his Melrose farm near Buffalo, III., in the heart of the cornbelt, is stocky, rutrdy faced, with gleaming blue eyes. He said he was marketing his last fat steers for the duration and that would nwan those fancy, blue-ribbon 1 porterhouse steaks are off civilian and military platteis for the dura tion. "Ev?ry steer on feed now is losing money, tie said. We teeders are j quitting and I'm speaking for eon-j tral Illiinois men who market C0, 000 head of fancy beef cattle year lywe aren't buying a single re placement steer. Range men will be left with the plains full of cattle if some solution isn't found." For '-50 years Jones has been buy ing grao-fattened cattle off the southwestern ranges and the Kansas flint hills, feeding corn for at least six months and in "good years" mak ing a profit when he sold the fat Fleers as fancy meat at premium prices. The steers put on a 200 pound gain per head every 100 days. "Dang it all. corn fed beef is tastier and more tender," he said. "You just try to get some extra special beef when we feeders go out of the market. - "t's those dang, dang price ceil ings on beef and corn that are liq uidating the fancy feeding industry. The government is just softening us up for the importation of Argentine beef. "That 40-cent rise in the corn ceiling price after the beef ceiling had been fixed made it impossible for us feeders to have any margin of profit on fancy beef. We expected to have a chance now to recuperate financially from the bad years. "The Office of Price Administra tion is creating an artificial short age of beef and corn when both are plentiful Why, I went to Washing ten recently to ask OPA to raise ceilings on better grades of beef and the economists said they didn't w-ant cattle 'fed and had no sympathy for cattlemen who paid over $12 a hun dred for replacement cattle. "They re just making us orphans of the storm. I told them a price ceiling rise was imperative, because of the increase in production costs and the competition from the packers who buy "the same grade of cattle we buy. "I told 'em our kind of finish feeding meant more beautifully fin ished steaks, usage of tons of rough feed which otherwise would be wasted and production of extra meat tonnage but did it do any good? No. "Why withouet us feeders. SO per cent of the plains cattle may be sold unfinished and that means they'd be like a smooth tire, useless unless recappd. "We feeders are not unpatriotic," and the last steer waddled out of the corral on' the long walk to the slaughter houe. "but we're just not going to throw goou money aiier Lad." Time Aids Japs BY UNITED PRESS : Major General Nakao Yahagi. Japanese army spokesman, told the fourth session of the central coop erative council of the imperial rule assistance association Saturday that time still favored Japan's strength ening of its "strategic and political positions." (The imperial rule association is made Tip principally of military ex tremists who seek to elimate the Japanese diet. It originally was formed by the terroristic Kwan tung army group.) Yahaga's talk was broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by United Press at San Francisco. "America lacks sufficient varie7 ties and quantity in the field of pro duction," he declared. The broadcast said the association had deliberated "more than 200 proposals to boost the nation's war effort," and that delegates "took a solemn oath for the untimate vic tory in the war." Buy War Bonds Christian E. Mockenhaupt The funeral of Mr. Mockenhaupt who died June 27th, at his home in Manley was held Tuesday, June 29th, from St. Patrick's church. A Requiem High Mass was celebrated by the pastor, the Rev. James P. Hennessy, assisted by the church choir with Mr. George Rau, organist, and Miss Leona Darveaux, soloist. The large crowd present attested to the high esteem in which the deceased was held. The pallbearers, John C. Rauth, Rudolph Bergman, Theedore Harms, I Frank J. Bergman, William Shee j han and William J. Rau were old 'friends of the family. Interment was I in St. Patrick's cemetery northeast of town. Mr. Mockenhaupt was bom in Mli waukee, Wisconsin, July 2, 18i5, and came to Plattsmouth, Nebr., with his widowed mother at the age of two and a half years. She later w-as . . 1 : . . .. . .. T 1 . .. t 1 . .1 nl and they later moved to a farm t northwest of Manley where Mr. Mockenhaupt grew into manhood. In May 1883 he was united in mar riage to Mary Stander and they made their home on a farm near Manley until they retired in 1920 and built a home in Manley. Mr. Mockenhaupt was active in all affairs of the community until 1937 when he suffered a stroke which kept him inactive until his death. He is survived by four sons and two daughters: Peter, Greenwood; Walter, Manley; Valentine A., Al vo; Mrs. Roman Meier. Louisville; Miss Sue, Manley; John, Wabash; eleven grandchildren, two great grandchildren and two half-sisters, Mrs. Frank Albee and Mrs. John Arrcs, Lincoln. Mrs. Mockenhaupt died Sept. 8, 1939, and a son, Alfred, in infancy. Now in Engineers Cpl. Raphael Toman, of this city. Just recently, transferred from Camp Grant, Illinois, to Michigan State college at Lansing. Michigan has been transferred to the engineers he informs his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Toman. This course will take some fourteen months study and basic training. On Graveyard Shift Richmond, Ind., July 17 (UP) Blame the manpower shortage for this: An agitated farmer told sheriff Ora Wilson of hearing strange voices in the dead of night in a nearby graveyard. The sheriff and his deputies clos ed in stealthily on two eerie figures shoveling dirt from yawning pits blacker than the moonless sky. Surprised, the eerie figures ex plained that they both work days at other tasks, and that they were hir ed by the township to dig graves " on the graveyard shift. 1 !: J" jj !. YOUR EXTRA ROOM WILL BUY 14 WAR BONDS At $5 per week net, your extra room will bring you $260 In 12 months. This amount will buy fourteen $25 War Bonds. Furthermore, the room shortage is so acute that you can do some nice young person a big favor by making your room available to a war worker. j! lmm A JOURNAL WANT - tenant for you. ' Telephone No. 6. i The Plattsmouth Journal :j Demands Sound Administration Philadelphia. July 17. (UP Election of a national administration in 1944 "determined to plan a sound economy on an international basis," was demanded today by Sidney Hill man, political chairman of the Con gress of Industrial Organizations. In an address before representa tives of 2,500,000 eastern seaboard trade unionists, Hillman urged the defeat of senators and representa tives who have built up a reaction ary defeatist and anti-labor record on the vital issues of inflation, tax ation and labor legislation. First of a series of regional CIO conferences "to promote labor unity I in the political field," today's meet ing was attended by union represen tatives from Pennsylvania, New i York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. A mid-west conference will be held in Chicago, July 23rd. Wins D. F. C Somewhere in Australia, July 17, (UP) Thirteen members of the U. S. army's T.th air force were awarded distinguished flying crosses in a list of citations announced today by Lt. Gen. Geo. C. Kenney, commander of the allied air forces in the South west Tacific. Ftaff Sgt. Amiel Vokum, Rt. No. 1, Ravenna, Nebr., won the D. F. C, for 200 combat hours between April 2th and June loth, 1942, and an oak leaf cluster, in lieu of a second D. F. C. for another 200 combat hours since then. His missions in clude long range bombing raids against enemy airdromes, harbors, shipping and naval forces. New Navy Post Washington, July 17, U.P. The j navy has raised the dignity of its air arm and further organized its problems and importance by creat ing a Deputy Chief of Naval Opera tions for air. The new office, which was ap proved by President Roosevelt, will be. filled by Vice-Admiral John Sid ney McCain, who has been Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics for sever al months. It will operate as a part of the office of the Chief of Naval Supplies and it is believed may take away many of the argu ments put forth by the proponents of a separate air arm. McCain's job will eb to coordate all military as-' pects of naval aviation, while the Bureau of Aeronautics will contin ue to deal with the design, pro curement and maintenance of air craft. McCain will be succeeded as Chief of Aeronautics by Rear Admiral D. C. Ramsey, who is at present a test force commander in the South Tacific. 1 1 AD will quickly find a $ i