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MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1944 THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA PAGE FIYI ir. Si Auction Draws Many The auction of the stock of goods of the Kroehler Hardware store, held Friday from noon until in the evening, drew a very large crowd of ; interested bidders. The late Andrew Kroehler was a veil experienced hardware man and his stock comprised many excellent buys and hard to secure at this time on the market. There were dealers here from many different points to buy up all that they could of the stock, men being here from Shenan- j doah, Fairbury, Omaha, Lincoln, Louisville, Nebraska City to look at the line and make purchases. It was after 8 Friday night when the last articles were sold out and not a single article was left on the shelves and even the safe and office equipment was gathered in by the purchasers. Col. Rex Young conducted the sale in his usual capable manner and handled the sale from the start to the finish. Chief Kas Surprise Friday Mrs. Noah Parker arrang ed a very pleasant birthday surprise for the husband and last evening as the chief of police was relaxing at home a group of the neighbors and friends came in to help !'?!ebrate the anniversary. The evening was spent at cards and visiting among the members of the group. Mr. Parker received a large num ber of useful gifts in honor of the anniversary. At the close of the pleasant even ing the members enjoyed a very much appreciated luncheon prepared by the hostess. Those who attended wern Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bruns and family. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Smock. Mr. and Mrs. CI if fort1 McGraw, Vivian Shoe maker, and Mr. and Mrs. Parker and family. Celebrate Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. William Sheehan, Sr., prominent residents of the Man ley community, celebrated their forty-fifth anniversary on Tuesday. January 25th, and in honor of the occasion the members of the family joined in a very pleasant party for them on last Sunday evening. All but two of the faniily were in attendance, Mrs. Ray Reynolds of Kansas and Miss Margaret Sheehan, of Omaha were unable to be home for the day. Suffers from Illness Annual Farm Bureau And4-H: Meeting Held: Fine Meeting Held at Weeping Water and Great Interest Shown in Proceedings Thursday evening a large crowd gathered at the Weeping Water Agricultural Society building to at tend the annual Farm Bureau and 4-H Achievement meeting, which began with a dinner at seven o'clock. This was served by the ladies of the Methodist church, and to give an idea of the excellent quality of the meal here is the menu: Breaded Tenderloin, Escalloped Potatoes, ,jlome Buttered Lima Beans, Relish Plate, Spiced Peach Salad, Rolls and But ter, Ice Cream and Cake, Coffee. T7'-. 11 : i 1 J- J - ruiu"u"8 lue U,MW im Washington. Jan. 29. (UP) at tne ,able- Art Roehlofsz Pre- rreeident Roogevelt will raake a - " 1 , .1 ,.U A 1 - i! t biueu at a uu uubme meeuug, brief address tonight on a radio pro- wnen Mrs. Koy Cole, secretary, read gram honoring hia birthday. Mr. the minutes of last years meeting, Roosevelt be Bixty-two years old and new directors were elected for tomorrow each of the three districts, as fo!- ! lows: 1st Dist. Oliver Meisinger. ACKNOWLEDGE LOSSES Louisville; 2nd Dist. John Reike, i Harry Mrs.. William Shea, local restaur ant owner, who has been suffering from an attack of the flu was so ill today that she was confined to her TO GIVE RADIO ADDRESS Point Value Reductions In Canned Vegetables Public Is Warned However That There Will Be Less Processed Pood Available This Year Wm. Allen White, Noted Editor Is Dead In Kansas Noted Newspaper Figure Dies as Nearing His Seventy-Sixth Birth day Anniversary Visits in Old Home Weeping Water; 3rd Dist Fischer. Eagle. The guests then adjourned to the main auditorium where Mr. Roehl ofsz presided and introduced H. G. Gould, assistant director of extension service in Nebraska, who spoke not only of the greater need of victory gardens this coming year and of every one doing their special war London, Jan. 29. (UP) Berlin acknowledged today that the German army had lost Smela, Ukrainian rail junction anchor at the northern rim of the nazi salient in the Dnieper bend. time job, especially of our post war j BEDS WIDEN BREACHES London, Jan. 29. (UP) The Ber- i lin radio said tonight that several job and of the farm survey being (Russian infantry and tank divisions Attend Initiation Last evening three of the promin- raade to assist in providing jobs for j the men in service after their re turn from the war. This is a part of I the Farm Bureau work to help to provide jobs so that our boys may immediately be absorbed and find Iheir niche in life, when they come home. Robert Bobby) Lee Graham, 14 years of age, then entertained the audience with his versatile know ledge of all kinds of instruments. had blasted "wide breaches" in the German lines in lower White Rus- 'sia, between the Pripet and Berezina I rivers. ent Plattsmouth Masons were . Omaha, attending the meeting of -Mt. Calvary Commandery No. 1, of Nebraska. The commandery confer rsd the order of the temple on three candidates. One of the candidates was Leslie Martin, a member of the board of trustees of the Nebraska Masonic Home. In the degree work, , W. F. Ever?, a member of the grand - commandery of Nebraska, partici pated. Short talks were given by William "' A. Robertson, past grand commander of Nebraska, and Rev. T. Porter. Eennett. prominent figure in Ne braska Masonry. LEAVES FOR MICHIGAN in i Beginning with the marimba he also played the slide whistle, the occar ino, the tonette, the pugarina, har monica and accordion, closing with "The Stars and Stripes" on the piano accordion. The audience were delighted. Bobby's mother, Mrs. Doretta Graham, . accompanied him and from her we learned that his musical education began at the age of four when he began taking piano lessons, an'l at eight he was study ing the accordion. In October 1042 he was heard on the Hobby Lobby radio program. John Hix featured him as the "One Man Banct" in hi3 "Strange As It Seems." For some time he had a regular fifteen min ute program over KMMJ, Grand Island. Miss Betty Fay Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Reed, departed this morning for Portage, Michigan. While in Portage she will be a guest of Miss Frances Parker. Cannot Aid Prisoners Washington, Jan. 28. (UP) White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said today that the reason for releasing the story of Japanese atrocities against American prison ers was that the United States can :io longer expect to get medicine, clothing and other supplies to Ameri can prisoners of war in the hands of. the Japanese. "The time has come to release factual carefully authenticated re ports of Japanese atrocities," Early told reporters. "The government can no longer expect to get further re lief to .American prisoners of war in the hands of the Japanese." Returns From Hospital Mrs. J .E. Meisinger, who has been at St. Catherine's hospital at Omaha, for the past several weeks, was so far recovered that she was able to be brought homo this morn ing to recuperate here at the family home. Mrs. Meisinger has been suf fering from a fractured lower limb. She was returned in the Sattler ambulance. Commissioned Lieutenant John Farris, of Murray, who has teen attending marine officers train ing school at Quantico, Virginia, has received his commission as second lieutenant. The graduating exercises were held on January 12th and he ?s now In reserve officers school at Quantico. Goes to Denver Pfc. Edgar Kief, who was here over Thursday and Frlfiay to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Kief, departed today for Denver where he expects to spend a few- days visiting his brother, Arthur Kief. This will be the first time in two years that the brothers have had the opportunity or a visit or since the enlistment of Edgar in the army. Apprehend Wanted Men Solves Car Ownership The car that was round overturn ed south of this city on Friday and bearing the auto license plates with the address of Mrs. Carl Miller, seems to have been the property of some other person. The car had been sold by Mrs. Miller and later sold to Bill Campbell and in doing so the license plates had not been changed. The car at the time of the accident was owned by Mr. 'Camp bell and not Mrs. Miller. To Attend Conference Ivan Marsh, state service officer of the American Legion, with E. A. Webb, assistant state service officer, are leaving early Sunday morning from Omaha for Washington, D. C. They are to attend the National Re habilitation conference sponsored by the American Legion. Mr. Marsh will present the subject, "Insurance"' at the two-day conference that opens tomorrow. The Nebraska representatives will confer with Fred Kochli .insurance representative .later in the week. On Monday they will appear in ieview and appeal cases before the Central office personnel of the Vet- terans Administration, taking up Monday, Tuesday and a portion of Wednesday. They will then contact the National Legislative Service and call on the Nebraska congressmen pltal program for Nebraska. Satur- (vWaiSSa , day will be for contacts with the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled We met with Patty Huffman. In American Veterans and regular vet- jour meeting we discussed dues and The office of Sheriff Joe Mrascl has received the information from the office of Capt. William A. Hay ward, CM. P., of the apprehension of two men wanted in connection with their absence from military duty. They are Paul Bressman of this city and T5 Howard R. GilleBpie, of Union, and both have been returned to military custody. WHERE THE FUEL GOES A PLANT manufacturing air planes in New England burns 800,000 gallons of. fuel oil a month. eran associations. The two Nebraska representatives are expecting to leave Washington on Saturday, February 6th and be back at their desks on Monday, Feb ruary 7th, at Lincoln. , DONT LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowels are sluggish when you feel irritable, headachy do as millions of folks do. Chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing-gum laxative. FEEN-A-MINT looks and tastes like your fa vorite gum you'll like its fresh mint flavor. Simply chew FEEN-A-MINT at bedtime taking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being disturbed. Next morning gentle, effect ive relief. You'll feel like a million again. A generous family supply of FEEN-A- xhxin l costs only 10. the earning of money for our pins and ties. Several new members have joined us since v.e ordered our first pins and ties. Our next meeting is Mothers Cay and we will meet at the Library. Each girl bring a mother please. Scribe: Patty Huffman Visiting Parents Mrs. Grant Roberts "and her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Fulton. (liave as their p-srrt- Mrs. Rob ert's brother-in-larv. IV. I owell Eobert3 of Camp ZlzCoy, Wisconsin. ) Pvt. Roberts, arrlycd Thursday 10 FEEN-A-MINT evening and plans to stay through Saturday. The waste paper you save will help fill Nazi (rave. Protect our boys. Washington. Jan. 28. (UP) Price Administrator Chester Bowles today announced general point value re ductions for major canned vegetables in February but coupled his an nouncement with a warning that "less processed food will be avail able for civilians this year than last." The reductions, effective Sunday, will range generally from two to four points a pound although for four categories of canned fruits the point value will be increased. Bowles explained that the reduc tions are designed primarily to stim ulate the flow of slow-moving com modities and are not, except in a few instances, based on any improve ment in Dupplies. The reductions also extended to fruit ipreads, applying chiefly to those purchased In two-pound con tainers, and to a number of fruits. Applesauce, fruit cocktail,, salad fruits, mixed fruits, and pears, how ever, were Increased four points each, and peaches were hiked two points. Grapefruit, on the other hand, was reduced to zero, although additional supplies are not expected. Pointing out that civilians will be allotted only 22S, 800,000 cases of canned goods from 1943-44 produc tion, as compared with 247,200,000 the year before, Bowies said there was nothing to rumors he had heard ot a "point holiday for canned food. He said military food demands will be greater this year than last, and added: "The supply of processed food available for rationing is inadequate to meet uncontrolled demand. The indications are that less processed food will be available for distribu tion to civilians thl3 year than last. All who can use unrationed foods or products from their own gardens, either fresh or home canned, certain ly should do bo." Point value changes for Febru ary, applicable to cans over 14 ounces and including one pound, two ounces capacity, and explanations for thern include: Applesauce up four points to 16; short apple crop last year. Cranberries and sauce Down four points to six; season of peak demand is pa6t. Fruit cocktail, fruits for salad. mixed fruits up four points to 24; suprly tight and movement fast. Grapefruit down-14 points to zero; reduction designed to permit limited, poorly distributed stocks in stores to move out unrestricted. Peaches up two points to "0: crop short, pack small, movement fast. Pears up four points to 20; sup ply short, movement fast. Apricots down four points to 20; short crop and pack, but slow movement. I Plums end prunes down two points to eight; movement slow. Asparagus dov n two pointB to 12; movement slow, supply fairly good. Beans, all dry varieties down four points to six; movement slow, supply improved over year ago. Beans, soy, all types down two points to zero; movement slow. Beans, fresh shelled down two points to eix, in line with other types. Beets: including pickled d own two points to two; movement slow, supply somewhat better than year ago. Corn, except vacuum packed down two points to eight; movement slow, supply, somewhat .better than year ago. Corn, vacuum packed down three points to 10. in line with other corn. Spinach down two points to six, fall pack was large and early spring pack is expected. Greens, leafy, except spinach -down two points to four, in line with spinach.:. 1 v Mixed vegetables do w n four points to eight; follows trend in corn, peas, and tomatoes. Mushrooms down 18 points to zfro; movement slow, continued ra tioning unwarranted. Tomatoes down two points to tight; movement slow. Pure grape, jams, r preserves, etc. Down four points , to 4 per pound container; movement." slow. Fig, plum jamspreserves, etc. down eix points to two per pound; movement slow. Several other spreads were reduc ed one to to points per two-pound Emporia, Kansas, Jan. 29. (UP) William Allen White, dean of the American country editors whose writings in his Emporia Gazette brought him national fame, died at his home early today, two weeks be fore his 7Cth birthday. White died of a heart attack, but his condition had been serious since he underwent an abdonminal opera tion at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., last October. He failed to recover fully, and was confined to his home during most of the months after the operation. He spent his last two weeks in bed. White, who purchased the Gazette la 1896, first achieved national re cognition with an editorial entitled, "What's the Matter With Kansas The editorial attacked the radical populists who, at that time, were rising to power in Kansas. The editorial attracted the atten tion of republican party leaders, in cluding Mark Hanna, who had it distributed nationally as a campaign pamphlet. White maintained his affiliation with the republican party through out his life, except for two brief breaks. He supported Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency on the Bull Moose" ticket in 1912, and ran as an independent on an anti Ku Klux Klan ticket for the govern orship of Kansas in 1924. Politically, White considered him elf a progressive, once characteriz ing his life in an article entitled "The Decay of a Conservative." A confidant of presidents. White was a party leader and had an act ive part in formulating policy dur ing the Coolidge, Harding and Hoover administrations. Edgar Walters, who has been mak ing his home in Jos Angeles for the past two years, arrived Friday for visit here in the old home com munity and also looKing alter nis residential property here. He was Aery much surprised at the mild and springlike weather that is prevail ing and also to learn of the record breaking winter that we have had so far this season. Senate Committees Promise Full Facts Of Jap Outrages Congress Stirred ' to Depths by Story of the Japanese Abuse of Helpless Prisoners Locates in Omaha Norman Baker, who has been here employed at the BREX shops, is mov ing to Omaha where he will be en gaged with the Industrial Chemical Co., in the future. He will be located at 211 So. 33rd street as his residence. Washington, Jan. 29. (CP) A senate committee chairman promised today to dig still unpublished facts about Japanese prison camp atroci ties which already have roused the nation to cencentrated fury and given it a blazing new battle cry "Vengeance! " This promise, underscoring a White House hint that the full story has yet to be told, came as the con viction grev among congressional and military leaders that only the destruction of Tokyo and the un leashing of war's horors upon the Japanese people at heme can quench this country's thirst for revenge. There was no doubt that the American people had been aroused to a pitch of anger unparalleled since Pearl Harbor by the army navy disclosure that the Japanese employing starvation, torture and butchery had exterminated at least 7,700 American and many more Filipino heroes of Bataan and Cor regidor. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early indicated yesterday that the account of Japanese barbarity was a continued story when he said "The time has come to release factual, carefully authenticated reports of Japanese atrocities." Today Chairman Elbert D. Thom as, D., Utah, of the Senate Military Affairs subcommittee on war prison ers announced that he would sum mon army and navy intelligence of ficers to closed hearings some time v.i the near future. Expressing sur prise that his- group had not been told in advance of the facts in the army-navy report, he added: "My committee is going to get all the information it can through the proper channels." In Los Angeles, Capt. Samuel R. Grashio. companion of the late Lt. Col. William Dyess in the infamous "March of Death," told how 1,100 Americans and 1,400 Filipino prison ers died horribly in Camp O'Don nell. Despiie the rising demand for vengeance against the Japanese a demand which found its most clam orous expression among congress men there was nothing to indicate that allied staff chiefs would permit popular anger, however, just to alter strategic decisions reached after lung and careful consideration of all military necessities involved. These decisions, calling for the ! smashing of Germans' and Japan in that order, will be unswervingly ad hered to dt spite suL demands as that of Chairman Andrew J. May, D., Ky., of the House Military Af fairs committee that the entire fleet move at once upon Tokyo and "Blow it into Hades." This does not mean, however, that Tokyo will not one day be des troyed. It is no secret that even now j heavy new blows, are being mounted j in the Pacific, and observers here would not be surprised if Japanese garrisons in the Marshall Islands were soon introduced violently to overwhelming force and sudden death. New Grocery Racket Minneapolis, Jan. 2S. (UP) The Minneapolis Retail Grocers' associa tion has uncovered a new7 confidence game. It works this way: A man en ters a grocery store, buys a can of tr.matoes and puts it in his shopping bag. A few minutes later, he pulls a similar can out of the bag, rattles it a few times and tells the grocer it contains peas. The grocer argues that tomatoes are tomatoes ar.d he is willing to bet on it. The confi dence man offers to bet some cash and the point value of a large can of tomatoes. The grocer accepts, opens the can and, of course, it contains peas. BACK THE ATTACK WITH BONDS PLAY SQUARE . . . m mm it A ill U iJ Display your colors now! Do you remember that soldier you saw on the bus with his arm in a cast? Do you recall that sailor you saw hobbling down the street on a cane? Have you no ticed the list of casualties printed from time to time in this newspaper? What you are asked to do, compared to the boys who are really in it, is easy. But your job is mighty important, too. Once again you are asked to BUY AT LEAST one EXTRA HUNDRED DOLLAR WAR BOND. A Series E War Savings Bond will cost you only $75 and you get back at maturity in ten years, $4 for every $3 invested; this is the least you can do. Invest more if you possibly can-$200, $300, $400. Remember, it all comes back with interest. So play square do your share. HE did! All War Loan & Bond Advertising Space Contributed By PLATTSMOUTH JOURNAL This is an official U. S. Treasury advertisscisnt prepared tinder auspices of Treasury Depsrtasera and War Advertising Council. 1 container,'" t O