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MONDAY, JULY 26, 1943 THE JOUENAX, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA PAGE FIVE U. S. Railroad in Britain A I 1 I I Purchases Home vrgowieu moor Opposes Stablizing Wages And Prices Albertus P. I County Surveyor Campbell, -who Las been living on1 west Rock street, lias purchased the j residence property of Ralph Hilt at! Ninth and Gold streets. The Hilt! family is moving to Omaha where Mr. Hilt is now employed and are Unless Prices Are Eolied Back Soon Labor Will Demand a Larg-! locatius iu a residence property on er Scale to Meet Living; North 21st street. A railroad system of 20 miles serves a thousand-acre American supply depot in Great Britain. Seventeen miles of track are standard gauge and three miles are narrow gauge. New switch engines built in America to British specifications operate on the standard sections. Col. Walter T. Wilcey of Copake, N. Y.. commanding officer of the depot, is shown giving instructions to an engine crew. Dont Forget To Write To The Boys In Service j. in Presented by Hen. Thomas Lane Massachusetts, editorial Lawrence, Mass., Tribune: DON'T FORGET The write-a-letter idea is just as important and imperative today as at any time since the first United States servicemen left the shores of this country. This Las been called to our atten tion by several letters that have recently arrived from boys in both the Atlantic and Pacific areas of war in which they say that if the folks back home would only keep writing it would make the task of serving in the Army, Navy, and Air Service much easier. It is too bad that the folks back home have to be reminded of the importance of keeping up the line of correspondence. The correspond ence line is almost as important as the convoy line and supply line and iha linrts nf communication gener- No Comment on Game Washington, July 23. (UP) The War Department had "no comment" today regarding published reports that army authorities had approved the 19 id Army-Navy football clas sic for Nov. zl at est i'oint. Act.ng Secretary ot War Robert 1'. Patterson said last weeK. a decis ion would be made soon and hinted that it would be in favor oi tne spectacle. Beyond that, however, there has been no ofliciai inumauon that a decision had been reached. A presidential order transferred last year's game Irom Philadelphia tc Annapolis, witu attendance con fined to residents ot that area. Washington, July 24. (UP) Surprises Friends President Roosevelt, wno earlier this month successfully delended nis Last evening Pvt. John S. Bishop, anti-inflation program against cou-ju. S. air corps, arrived in the city gressional uttacK, today faced tne to give the old friends a very pleas prospect of a widespread revolt by ' ant surprise and to enjoy a short organized labor against wage and visit while on his way to Atkinson, price staoiliiiation. Nebraska, to visit with the parents His victory over congress was on end old time friends. Pvt. Bisnop the price front where congress tried 1 was employed here with the lowa to aooiisti nis plan to roil uuck. pr- Nebraska LighL & Power Co., and Nazi Underground Groups Spurred By Russian Aid MURDOCK Qr Journal Field Representative threatened witn higher wage de mands by labor unless tne prices are actually rolled back and soon. Latest development in tnis price Aft age struggle was tne cnaage oi strategy by tue heads of tbe Amen- Louisville Visitors Here can federation oi Labor and tne Congress oi industrial Organisations who yesterday set a "price" upon Power company whn he was called to service, lie is now stationed at Orlando, Florida, at the air train ing base. Guests for last week end at the A. J. Tool home were Mr. and Mrs. Free Germany Committee May Be' w- p- MTers and children of Sioux Basis of Plans to Overthrow the city Mr- and Mrs- Geo- Woik aua Hitler Eegime jsons of Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Myers also visited with Mrs. August Pan ska, mother of Mrs. Myers. London, July 22. (UP) Estab-' Mrs- A- J- To1 spent a number oi lishment by Moscow of the free ' days in Omaha last week as a guest Germany committee and issuance of!f Ler daughter, Mrs. Geo. Work, what might be called the "German t and Mr. Work. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Heil, Glen their continued support oi the presi-I and Ellen, of near Louisville, were in dent s stabilization program. They served notice on xur. Freedom Charter" may signalize a' 1 aul blocii anu 15111145 U0UlKe notable increase inactivity of Ger-:ited I'lattsmouth on Thursday of ' last wees. Gust jTtock was over to Syracuse on Wednesday of last week, deliver ing some breed sows to the com munity sale. He found the market very poor. There was joy in the family cir cles of Harry Stock and J. A. Boyd, when the announcement came of the birth of a fine baby to Mr. and Mrs. Garry Stock. All are reported as doing well. Mrs. Stock was the former Miss Boyd. Lawrence Race, the automobile lioose- . the city Monday afternoon. They j were looking after some matters of! business and visiting with friends. man underground organizations whose size and strenght long have been a subject of wide speculation. In 10 years since Hitler came to power every vestige of underground activity appears, on the surface at least, to have been wiped out in the Reich. However, the fact that the com munist party was the second strong est numerically in Germany at the time of Hitler's succession is be lieved to indicate that the rudiments of communistic cells still exist. German defeats and an unfavorable V Vl w&m A 'ru it fj jj HURTS... To Probe Crash Washington July 23. (UP) The navy touay pressed an investigation of an airplane crash in Alaska last Wednesday that took the lives of laj. Gon. William P. Upshur, marine dealer, was in St. Joseph iast Tues- i tommancing general of the Pacific To Locate in Plattsmouth Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Rihu, who have for a great many years made then home m Union, are once more to become residents oi piattsmoutn, reports from Union state. Mr. itinu was for many years here with the H. M. Soenuichsen store and later, in going to Union, engaged in tne grocery business there with C. L Greene. Mr. and Mrs. Rihn hac been active in the social and business elt mat he must act soon to roil i price sbacH. to their Sept. lo, 194J ' levels or they win insist upon tne Goes to Hospital ....... . i scrapping or tne little sleei wage formula and tlie ouster of Price Au imnistralor Prentiss M. Brown. Presidtut Roosevelt s tut wild congress was at the end oi tne price wage tug-of-war. Congress had at tached a rider to a commodity creo.ii corporation bill prohibiting the use oi subsidies to roll back the retail prices oi food. The chief executive vetoed tne bill and congress sustain ed him, but only after he had call ed it "an inflation bill, a high cost of living bill, a food shortage bill. ' Thei; v. as no ndictaion how Mr. Roosevelt will meet lagor's virtual This afternoon C. C. Wescott de parted for Omaha where he will en ter the Methodist hospital and ex pects to undergo an operation tor hernia. It is hoped that he may soon be able to return home and his usual business activities. Funeral of Mrs. Reichstadt The funeral services for Mrs. Her man Reichstadt at the St. John's cburch, Monday, were attended by 1 1. large number of the old friends ultimatum. One theory was that be,ot lUe fi-mlIy ally. It is highly important to the j Jit at Unioll alld where they win maintenance of a high standard of morale. be greatly missed, but they will have a cordial welcome back to Piatts- Recovering From Operation Donaid Bowman, sou of Mr. and Mrs. Max Bowman of this city, is at the Clarkson hospital at Omaha, recovering from an operation tor hernia. He was operated on Thurs day and has reond'.d in fine shape cud is ietling in good spirits. Mrs. F. P. Basch of this city is also a patient at the Clarkson, where she is also recovering from the ei lects of a hernia operation and is showing fine rallying powers. Card of Thanks At tne outset oi our jiai iiliiouU mouth, in the war much was said about, Rihn as as Uis former writing to the boys in the camps liusiness 1(altner, Mr. Greene, is em- and the boys who were leaving iui Martin plant at Fort foreign lands and waters to cair j Crook the torch of democracy and decency. Organizations started movements and propaganda was spread every where urging everybody to write to Lis boy or brother or to some lad from his neighborhood so that they might hi among those receiving mail when it v as passed around in camp. There seems, however, to have beeii some let-up in the letter-writing activity and some reminders of the importance of keeping it up will undoubtedly do some good. Any let-up in the program of letter writing is certainly only due to thoughtlessness. If there was one campaign that met with 100-percent interest and cooperation it has been u-1-itf.-M-lottj'r canpaign. Any iwv - - - little lag will undoubtedly be more than taken care of by just a few words of reminder. The love and the respect and the devotion of the folks at home for all those in the service is so great that there is one thing that will be kept up as a first and a must and that is the writing of letters to those who are away. There is no greater thrill than to be anions those receiving letters v hen the mail is passed out and there is no greater disappoint ment than to be there waiting and to have no letter arrive. Some people think that unless they write long letters the purpose is not accomplished. That is not so. The one in service would rather get one each day even though it is short than to have to wait a week or 10 days for a long one. There is nothing to make them feel bet ter and to contribute to their happi ness than news may adopt a "wait and see" policy. That w .i based on an authentic re port that the next figures of the bureau oi labor statistics will show that for the first time since the war began, the rise in the cost of living has been halted. Farmers, business and industry the handlers of food and Other basic commodities all want higher pric es. They claim that their costs have not been stabilized. Labor wants higher wages, claim ing that the cost of living has not been stabilized. But labor .says thai it will settle for a roll-back of ex cessive prices. Caugat in the middle are consum ers who, ironically, are members on both sides. Trying to referee are the war agncies OPA, WLB, OES, and OWM v. hich are charged with pre venting inflation. CIO President Philip Murray and AFL President William Green took their case directly to the president yesterday and challenged him' to j fulfill his "hold-the-liue" promise of April 8 when he admitted that all prices affecting the cost of liv ing could not be rolled back to the Sept. 15, 1!42 level, "but some of thse can and should be rolled back." After leaving the White House, Green and 'Murray blamed Brown The Requiem Mass of the church was celebrated by Rt. Rev. Monsig nor George Agius, pastor. During the Mass, John J. Cloidt gave three numbers, "There Is No Heart Like Thine," "O Love Divine" and "Thy Will Be Done." Mrs. Cloidt was the accompanist. The burial was at the Catholic cemetery and the following served as the pallbearers; F.rank Toman. W. C. Soenuichsen, John Bergman, A. R. Case, James Peterson anu Willard Brink, Sr. The Caldwell funeral home was in charge. Suffers Broken Leg John W. Gamble Omaha capitalist, is now at the Methodist hospital at Omaha as the result of a broken leg, sustained when his riding horse fell while he was riding near his home in the Omaha suburbs. Mr. Gamble is a former county superintendent of Cass county and also of the Plattsmouth city schools and the many friends here will re gret to learn of his accident. day, attending the auto sale, lie home front are believed to have''as accompanied by W. O. GUles created a fertile field in which 1 Pie' wh- drove one of the cars home. revolutionary cells may multiply. While v . li. abel was attenumg Possibly along the pattern of the to sonie business matters in Lincoln first world war when the approach ' last Thursday, Mrs. Zabel took care . near Silka, Alaska. The plane burst of defeat was signalized by repeated . o lue store. department, his aide, Capt. Charles W. Paddock, 'the world's fastest hu man," and four others. The navy said there were no sur vivors of the crash, which occurred Summer in Colorado unless he measures up. We wish to thank the many fripn.1 ami neighbors for their ex-'ail of : "He "as failed pressions of sympathy and for their assistance to us in the hour of sep aration from our loved one. We wish to thank all those taking part in the funeral service and for the floral remembrances. The Relatives of Isabel Wiles Mrs. I aul Biggerstaff and daugh- for most of their complaints and L sharoI1 Kay are ending the summer in Boulder, Colo., visiting a pressure , M(. ui:.r.crstaff-s mother; while he demand will be made for his remov-1 ,u , nun.,Aa ; , ,,ofona al The new price-wage controversy 1 WAR BONDS Battle Wagons emphasized again the importance of and again that prices were rising the date of Sept. 15. 1942 in the far beyond wage levels and that administration's attempt to prevent ' workers were suffering in what they inflation. The president's stabilization pro gram, however, dales back to Oct. described as a "squeeze." On last April 8, Mr. Roosevelt made his second frontal attack on inflation from home. News from the family circle comes nrsi. news from the groups in which they moved across comes second, and gen ral community news come next. Keep up the v. rite-a-letter pro gram until the war is over. When Japan attacked at Pearl Har bor we had 17 battleships in service and 15 building. We were making preparations but the war did not wait These 32 battle wagons cost American taxpayers three billion dollars lor a two ocean navy. The war seemed far away then. Ask Perkins Restoration Wasn'ngton, July 24, UP) Rep resentative Louis Ludlow, D., Ind., today called upon Office of Economic Administrator Leo Crowiey to restore Milo Perkins as directing head of the Economic Warfare operations. Perlms was executive director of the old Bureau of Economic warfare which v-as abolished by President R.oosevelt in settling the Wallace- Jones fued. 'The most tragic casual-J 3, 1942 when the Office of Economic j with his "hold-the-line" order. Stabilization headed by James t'A "The only way to hold the line Byrnes was set np. It "froze" the is to stop trying to find justification price of agricultural commodities on ' for not loldng it here or not hold the basii of Sept. 15 levels; also wag- ing it there," he said "All items af- i es as of the same date, using the fecting the cost of living are to be "little steel" formula as the yard-j brought under control, no further stick. The latter permits a 15 per puke increases are to be sanctioned cent increase iu wages since Jan. 1, unless imperatively required by iaw 1941, to compensate for the rise in There are to be no further increas the cost of living, w hich admitted- 1 es in wage rates or salary scales be ly has risen more than that. yond the little steel formula, except Labor never took kindly to the where clearly necessary to correct idea of a "fix" on wages, contend- substandards of living." ing Ilia' it operated as a "freeze"! The next play came from congress Now fifty million Americans have a personal stake in this war. It has been brought home to them. That's why everyone is increasing pur chases of War Bonds. V. S. Trcojuri- Dcpartmtnt rather than equalized stabilization.' its attempt to stop the subsidy During the fall and winter of 1942 rollback program. But in vetoing th AFL-CIO labor war board carri- that, President Roosevelt warned ed ts case to the president repeatedly congres that the cost of living must stating t iter each confernce that all be kept more nearly to the Sept. labor wanted was "quality of sacri- 15, 1942 level or the wage line fice." would not hold. He admitted that After the first of the year, how- a reduction of all cost of living ever, Green and Murray asked, in- items to the September level was stead of higher wages or a relaxa- not practical, but "we must def tion of the "little steel" formula, initely stop the rising trend of liv that prices be rolled back to the iug and push back the price to con levels of Sept. 15, 1942, the sta- sumers of important key commodi bilizatiin date enacted by congress, ties"' not caviar and fur coats, but Then Vegan a concerted campaign bread, nulk. butter, sugar, coffee, or- for price rollbacks, aided by gov- dinary meats, fat and canned goods, rnment subsidies. Labor's war board "things that plain working folks complained to the president again must have." outbreaks on the home front such as strikes and war industry absentee ism. Recently there have ben fairly authenticated reports of anti-nazi dissent on a considerable scale, parti cularly among student bodies such as at Munich and in former Red strongholds such as Hamburg. Possibly the most notable phase of the free Germany manifesto is the promise that Germany can make peace without fighting to the bitter end provided it will overthrow Hit ler and the nazis and form a "genu ine national German government which will enjoy the confidence of the people of the powers at war with Germany." The manifesto also outlines in specific terms the German state : Russia envisages after the war. It cites these fundamentals: 1. Germany would enjoy equal right with other states. 2. She would have the sovereign right of determining the form of state. 3. She would be a free "strong democratic power." 4. She would "mercilessly and radically suppress all attempts of any kind in the nature of new plots against her own people or against European peace." 5. She would completely abolish all laws based on national or racial hatred. 6. She would abolish all laws against people imposed by the Hit lerites. 7. She would abolish all Hitlerite measures against freedom and hum an dignity. 8. She would restore and extend political and social gains to the working people. 9. She would guarantee freedom of speech, press, orgauiaztion, con science and religious faith. 10. She would guarantee freedom of economy. 11. She would guarantee the rights to work and legally acquire property. 12, She would return to legal own ers all property stolen by the nazis. 13. She would confiscate the pro perty of those responsible for the war and all war speculators. 14. She would guarautee ex change of commodities and trade with other countries as a guarantee of national welfare. 15. She would release all victims of Hitlerite terrorism and compen sate them for their losses. 16. She would place on "just and merciless" trial all persons charged wMth war guilt and their accom plices., 17. She would promise amnesty "for those adherents of Hitler who recant in time ond join in the move ment for a free Germany." Martiu Bornemeier and daughter of Wabash visited in Murdock last Thursday. Eugene Tool was in Murdock last week attending to business matters. Ray Howard, who has been mak ing his home at Milton, Ky., has en listed in the navy, going to the train ing station at Great Lakes. During his absence Mrs. Howard is staying at the heme of her parents. Rev. and Mrs. Oehlerking in Murdock. Harold Knosp, located at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., spent his furlough at the home of his sister, Mrs. Gust Wilkin, and Mr. Wilkin. Neil Crorey nephew of I. C. McCrorey, and sou of Marion Mc Crorey of Elmwood. spent a portion of his furlough visiting in Murdock the past week. Mrs. L. B. Gorthey was a visitor at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Bornemeier of Omaha the greater part of last week. Paul Stock was a business visitor at Red Rapids, S. D., last Tuesday and Marysville, Kans., on Wednes day, where he sold some farm equip ment. The Rock Island agent who has been here relieving Mr. I. G. Horn beck, has been transferred to Belle ville, Kans., while G. H. Beach, who has been at the Kansas station, has been sent to Murdock. into flames, but the bodies of all passengers and crew members have been recovered. Th names of the other fcur persons killed will not be disclosed until the next of kiu are notified. Paddock, whose world record oL 33.2 seconds for the 3oo meter dis tance still stands, won his title as "world's fastest human" in the early '2 Os when he set 94 separate track records. He was an Olympic games star of the 1920s. He served in the first World War, and after being commissioned a marine corps cal'taiu in 1942, became Pushur's uide-de-i am p. ers in this vicinity. The group con sisted of Eddie Craig and wife, Merle Gllispie, W. O. Gillispie. E. E. Gana way, Lawrence Race, Paul Stock and George Kruse. I. G. Hornbeck, who has been ill, is reported as showing some improve ment, although still confined to his bed. Mrs. L. B. Gorthey spent iast week in Omaha, visiting at the home ot her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Bornemeier. Bumor of Injury Incorrect The rumor in recent circulation to the effect that an explosion had injured the eyesight of Dr. Forman ack, formerly of Murdock, causing him to lose his eyesight is incorrect letters from the doctor himself prove tho report was erroneous that he is all right and al His post m England doing duty as an army sur geon. This is pleasing news to his many friends here. Did Their Part Faithfully A group of Murdock people iu an effort ot relieve the labor shortage hocked grain for a number of farm- The Axis stops at nothing Don't slop at 10. Buy More War Bonds For freedom's Sak BOYS9 PANTS Ages 6 to 16 Washable $1.75 t $2.95 Yes we have no boys overalls and nobody else has. These pants are dark colors and good for school wear. Where Quality Counts Is Resting Easier The reports from the bedside of of Lee Nickles, well known resident of this section of Cass county, state that he is resting somewhat better. Mr. Nickles has been suffering for the past week with a severe infec-; Hon that has made necessary his care at home. Mrs. Etta Nickles, sis ter of the patient, has been honiej from her beauty shop for the past few dayo. j (Each week in this space win be presented a picture and word portrait oi someone whose name is news.) i ' I o J Col. Florence A. Blanehfield , . The third American woman to hold the rank of a full colonel is Florence A. Blanchfield, new head of the Army Nurse corps. She has been an army nurse for 25 years, and has played a prominent part in the long struggle to develop the streamlined corps which exists today. Colonel Blanchfield was born on April 1, 1884, at Shepherdstown, W, Va. She took her nurse's training at the South Side hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa., and began her army career in 1917. -Her experience includes tours of duty in Panama, the Philippines, and China. She has worked at Walter Reed General hospital, Washington, D. C, and daring World War I she served at a base hospital in France. She is well read on government information and political subjects, likes biographies, scien tific works, historic novels, and travel books. Small and sandy-haired, she has the firm jaw of a crusader, but the eyes of a woman who understands people and who expects them to be straightforward and sincere with her because that is the way she will be with them.