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Uebr. Stale Historical Society iln riamfiiiifiriitn 4g pjjjy v vvyo VOL. NO. LX NO. 93 PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1944 DON ARUNDEL, FREMONT, NAMED BUSINESS MANAGER OF JOURNAL Don J. Arundel, of Fremont, has boon named business manager of the PJattsmouth Daily Journal and will assume his new post December 1, it was announced Wednesday by Lester A. Walker, publisher of the Journal. Arundel, who resigned as Dodge county clerk after serving six years in the office, wan on the staff of The Fremont Daily Tribune for six years Trior to entering the office of I county clerk. He was first elected! in 193S, was reelected in 1J'42. His present term would have expired in j January, 1947. j A native cf Fremont, Arundel ra3 been prominently identified with civic activities there for several years. He is a director of the Fre mont Kiwania club, director of tha Fremont Y. M. C. A., president of Fremont Aerie No. 200 of the Fra ternal Order of Eagles, member of the Fremont chamber of commerce, and is a past-president of the Ne braska association cf county clerks and registers of deeds. Aj-undel has purchased an inter est in the Journal whi'h was sold on November 1 by J.Irs. R. A. Bates to Lester A. Walker, publisher of The Frericnt Guide and Tribune. Walker will continue to devote part of his time to the Plattsmouth business. American Forces Destroy Jap Boats Reinforcing Leyte Freighters and Coastal Vessels of the Japs Raided by Planes and P-T Boats VA'.VV Wv -W' DON J. ARUNDEL Home on Furlough Wednesday afternoon Miss Violet Dodge, of Omaha, was in the city for a few hours in company with Capt. W. E. Hungarford. U. S. medical corps, enjoyinl a visit here with friends in the old home of the Dodge family. Captain Hungarford made his home with the late Dr. Roy Dodge French top Into febour of Nazi " Defense Of The Upp gBastiori er line Valley and Miss Violet Dodge in Omaha for Mrs. Arundel and their two-year-j a great many years and ig now enjoy. old daughter, Marilyn, will move toL twenty-one day furlough at Flattsmouth as soon a3 hcusinsr facilities can be secured. suitable the home Fear for Son Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hilt, Sr., for mer Plattsmouth residents, now liv ing in Omaha, have written friends here of their concern regarding the safety of their son Ralph Hilt Jr ; Swift, Texas, where he will report Captain Hungerford has just re turned from a twenty-seven months stay in the Aleutian Islands off the Alaska coast and experienced the hardships that was suffered by the first troops in the islands. He will spend his furlough here and then expects to go to Camp ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, LEYTE, Nov. 23. U.R) American planes and P-T boats destroyed or damasred eisht Japanese coastal ves sels and 54 barges engaged in small scale reinforcement of Leyte, where Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita has swung most of his combat strength to the defense of the Ormoc corridor, it was announced today. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's fighter planes destroyed or badly damaged four small freighters, two coastal vessels and 10 barges, many laden with Japanese troops or supplies, the daily communique reported. More than 40 other barges beach ed south of Ormoc were destroyed. Motor torpedo boats sank two" lug gers and four troop barges off Or moc, and other small craft were damaged. The increased number of small shipping targets spotted by the U. S. airmen indicated the Japanese were persisting in small attempts to reinforce and supply the Leyte forces, but relatively few troops were being brought in. MacArthur reported that his ground forces were maintaining steady pressure on Limon, the north em bastion of the so-called Yama shita line or Ormoc corridor, "Where the enemy apparently has elected to make his principal stand." The Americans were pushing to ward the corridor not only from the north, but also from various high points to the east Heavy fighting iJ;5:S:;;::::i;-:-vij:-v:Vi;5 ' &y(:'-;i-y fesigPSS? ' ' - 1 v"f-, . , - - r ' ' ' who v,as known to be aboard the Abner Reed destroyer which was re ported sunk between Oct. 21st and 22r.d while participating In the Philippine warfare. However they have received no official notice from the government so are hoping he was among the survivors of this nav al battle. : for hospital service. Mrs. Cora Iske Dies Visits Mother Here First Lieutenant Martha Gorder of the Woman's Army Corps, is in the city to enjoy a visit with her mother, Mrs. Etta Gorder, "as well as the old friends. Lieutenant Gord er has been on tile west coast : for the past year and is now enroute to Des Moines, Iowa, the training center of the Woman's Ar-iy Corps, where she is expecting a reassign moi t to active duty. The message was received Thursday of the death at Newton, Iowa, of Mrs. Cora Iske, a lifelong resident of this section of Nebraska. Mrs. Iske had gone to Newton to visit at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Jensen and was taken ill while there. Mrs. Iske is the widow of SUPPLIES ARE POURED ONTO LEYTE An armada of LST's pour Army equipment ashore at Tsdoban airstrip on Leyte Island in the Philippines. Note the causeways built by bulldozers scraping the sand and rock from the beach and building "roads" for eich ship's invasion traffic. Bomb craters, brought about by the softening process are clearly visable. (U. S. Navy Photo from NEA Telephoto) Judge Graves 83 On November 23, 1861, there was quite a little excitement at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. "WV Graves, at has been going en around i Limon, thft frontieP settlement of Hillsdale, four miles from Carigara Bay, since the Yanks headed south toward Or moc, the last Japanese-held port on the island, two weeks ago. The initiative was ours, and ar- here j tiliery is giving the Japanese in the 20-mile corridor a severe drubbing. In the Pinamopoan-Capoocan sec tor near Carigara Bay, MacArthur's troops were mopping up scattered Japanese parties. Ia., their youngest child, being born on that date. Today Police 1 Magis trate C. L. Graves is observing his eighty-third birthday anniversary and from his lively step and his close attention to his business one would little Imagine that he had ar rived at this ripe old age. Judge Graves was the baby of a family of eleven children and is the last of the family now living. Henry Iske, for many years one of K Vflur Traffic Laws Store Closing HoUTS the leading farmers of Sarpy coun-1 Mlow Iour "ainCUWS ty, and is well known in the city as several of the family are residents here. The body is to be brought to La Platte where funeral services will be held. H JNTEES GUIDE Thursday Sun sets at 6 p. m Friday Sun rises at S a. m. sets at 5:59 p. m. Sun THE WEATHER ) V ; High 4 2 Low 30 '- ' Nebraska forecast: Clear to partly cloudy today, tonight and Friday. Warmer extreme east today. Low to night 28-38. Colder Friday. METHODIST FELLOWSHIP Nebraska Seventh State Over Top ForUWF United War Fund Drive Leaders of the State Congratulated on the Excellent Work Entertains Friends The "Medicine Wheel" in Wyo ming's Big Horn mountains, is constructed of stone3 forming a circle 7S feet in diameter. Other rocks, projecting from an altar like hub, form 18, spokes and six small cairns on the rim. Who built the wheel is a mystery. Only 'Friends and relations Will rate you aces. If you shop before shelves Become empty places. ' , More rr We opened our meeting with Har old Pickering, our new president, presiding. We had, as our guest3, the Papillion Fellowship. Rev. . V. C. Wright of Papillion led us in prayer lafter the opening song. Rev. Bennett then introduced the visitors and their officers and also three of their guests. He then in troduced our officers whom he in stalled Sunday morning. Phyllis Bourke honored us with a vocal solo, "Thanks Be To God." Harold Picketing read a poem of Thanksgiving which was followed by a part of the 91st Psalm being read by Wm. Edwards. Rev. Bennett talked to us for a few minutes and then following the benediction we dismissed to the base ment where an hour was passed in playing games. Refreshments were served by the refreshment commit tee. A good time was reported by all. Ruth Nelson, Sec.-Treas. The Business Men's Ad Club at A common cause of many accidents their noonday luncheon meeting yes is that of improper passing. The fol- terday voted to close their places of lowing hints, taken from our traf- business all day on Thanksgiving, fic laws, should help you in improv- Christmas and New Years Day. They ing your passing. When you have will be open Wednsday evening Dec. overtaken another car ar.d wish to 6th and Wednesday evening uec. nnsa it ho rutp ihore is sufficient 13th: and each evening the weeK Rnnc ahpad Oiv a left turn Risrnal I before Christmas until 9 'P. M. to notify the driver behind you that vou are chaneine lanes. Then sound your horn so that the driver ahead Asks for Divorce of you will know that you Intend to nass Alwavs nass other rars on This morning in the office of the the left. A good way to judge when clerk of the district court, a peti you are safely past a car is when tion was filed by Mrs. Blanche Jenk you can see it in your rearview mir- ins asking a decree of . divorce from ror. Then you can return to the William R. Jenkins. The petition right hand side of the road. states that the parties were married Passing cars on hills and curves, at Melvin, Iowa, October 13, 1928, at intersections and other dangerous ana are at this time residents or places is not only dangerous but is Cass county. The plaintiff asks the Miss Joan Tiekotter was hostess Wednesday evening at a very charm inply arranged dinner party at1 her home in the north part of the city. The decorations of. the table com prised the late fall flowers and made a very attractive setting. ,The invited guests were associates of the hostess from the office of the county treasurer, comprised County Treasurer Ruth Patton, Alice Jayne Grosshans, Frankie Krejci, Mary Helen Dill and Mrs. Gertrude Gorton Drives from Philadelphia Nebraska was the seventh state in the nation to go "over the top" in the 1944 War Fund drive. This an nouncement was made by Thomas C. Woods, State Chairman of the United War Fund of Nebraska, upon word received from Winthrop ;W Aldrich of New York City, president of the Early Sunday morning ' Robert National War Fund. Upon hearing Jacobs arrived here from Philadel the news. Governor Dwight Gris- phia, where he is engaged in the wold. Honorary , State Chairman, 'eendix plant, "coming here to join said: "As Governor of Nebraska ijthe wife and children, Bruce and extend congratulations and appre-j Karen, who have spent the winter PARIS, Nov. 23. (U.R) French forces today swept into the historic Rhine citadel of Strasbourg to plant the tri-color again in a bastion which allied military experts said was as vital to German defense of the upper Rhine as Stalingrad was to Russians on the Volga. In a dashing 20-mile race across the Alsace plain French forces un der command of General Jacques Le Clerc famed for his desert exploits in Africa, sent advance French armored elements into the ancient city at 10 A. M. today. The announcement that French forces had driven into the city rich in historic associations and valuable as the hub of the whole German communications system on the southern sector of the front, was made to the French Provincial as sembly by President Felix Gouin. The speed of the advance to Stras bourg was believed virtually to seal the fate of an estimated six to ten German divisions, some 50,000 troops in all, now caught in a rapid- contracting pocket between the osges and upper Rhine. At the other side of the pocket the French first army was swiftly push ing north along the Rhine banks and already was reported in the vi- -cinity of Colmar. When Gouin made his announce ment in the Assembly chamber the delegates rose and sang the Marseil laise and a vote of thanks to the French troops was approved by ac clamation. On the grim first army front American forces pushed to within a half mile of the Weisweiler Duerea highway against most bitter resist ance as the Germans fought to pre vent cutting the road which is the main artery to the west. Other American forces were on the south ern and western outskirts of Weis weiler and fighting hard inside the village of Peutzlohn, two miles north of Weisweiler. The British second army seized Horst, just northwest of Venlo, the vital Maas river crossing. ly forbidden by law. custody of the minor children of the marriage. CLEAR TO CLOUDY PREDICTED BACK THE ATTACK WITH BONDS Clear to partly cloudy weather was forecast for Nebraska today, to night and Friday, by M. V. Robins, meteorologist of the Omaha Weather Bureau. Warmer weather was predicted for the east portion today. Lower tem peratures were expected to be gen erai over tne state riaay. e Temperature ranges: Valentine 51-34; Omaha 41-33; Lincoln 44-31; North Platte 58-24; Sidney 56-25; Chadron 53-24; Grand Island 52-31; Scottsbluff 54-24; Overton 55-25. ' Promoted I- Mini lili II i ' 7 :: .. - ' 3 k 1 Shows Improvement Attorney Howard Dwyer, of Oma ha, who is at Rochester, Minnesota, with his father, Attorney D. O. Dwy- I er in a message to Mrs. Dwyer states that the father is doing very well. In the first few days following his operation at the Mayo clinic, he was not so( well but is now showing a line progress, it is expected tnat I he may be able to return home in the next ten days. . elation to all County War Fund and Community Chest officials and their many helpers, the newspapers and radio stations, and the generaus citi zens of our great state for the phe nomenal success of the 194 4 War Fund campaign. I also extend my personal congratulations to Thomas C. Woods, Stale Chairman; Walter F. Roberts, Executive Director; and the state staff for the efficient management of the campaign." Mr. Woods commented: "I want to express my hearty appreciation I and to extend congratulations to all the county War Fund chairmen and to the thousands of War Fund leaders and workers throughout the state for this wonderful demonstra tion of Nebaska spirit and participa tion in the war effort. I also want to thank Wralter F. Roberts, Executive Director; Fred C. Williams, Assist ant Director; E. F. DuTeau," Public ity; and the state War Fund staff for a splendid job that has brought recognition to the state." Mr. Roberts reported that by Fri day, November 17th the state War Fund total had reached $960,000,- here with Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Jacobs Mr. Jacobs drove practically con tinuously on the way from the east and made the trip in ' record time. He is expecting to remain here in the future; the family to make their home In this locality. Visits in City O. K. Yul, above, has been ele vated from vice minister to min ister of finance m the new Chinese cabinet. He succeeds Dr. H. H. Kung, brother-in-law of Madame Chiang Kai-shek.- D. J. Hollingshead, of Los Angeles, Is in the city, a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A.'doidt and visiting with other relatives and friends. Mr. Hollingshead' was call edxto this part of the west on busi ness and enjoys, the opportunity of visiting the relatives of Mrs. Holl- ingshead, who will be remembered i here as the former Harriett Peacock. Jofm Stumph Suffers Injury In Car Crash Saturday Enroute Home When His Car Strikes That of Roy Bax at Third Street Intersection The third and Main street inter section was the scene of an auto acicdent Saturday evening, tbat re suited in the damage of the cars in volved and possible serious injury to John Stumph, redding near the Mis souri river southeast of the city. A car owned by Roy Bax, driven by George Bax, a son, was comin north on Third street at the time of tho acriilpnt Tn the car with th 000, $35,000.00 over Nebraska's qub-i ' , .. uiivtr was via ua.v, o, ouiitcjr C. Ferguson, 8, and John ' Ferguson 5. As their car crossed to turn up ta of $925,000.00 "The state," said Mr. ' Roberts, "actually went 'over J the top' Friday, November 10th. We are. mighty proud of our county chairmen and their War Fund or ganizations." V J Mr. Roberts announced that seventy-three counties went "over the top" and that 'when the twenty .re maining counties complete their campaigns, the total should reach $975,000.00, or $50,000.00 over the quota. This will mean that Nebras ka's percentage of its quota will be a little over 105 .per cent. . - Main street the car driven by Mr Stumph came from the west and struck the Bax car in the center None of the young people were seri ously injured altho Shirley Ferguson suffered a cut lip. Mr. Stumph was caught by the steering wheel of his car and Sunday was suffering great deal from what may develop into a serious chest injury. If the injuries are not improved be proba bly will be taken to Omaha for hos pitalization. 1 Returns from Lincoln Father Edward C Tuchek, pastor of the Holy Rosary church of this city, arrived home Saturday after noon from Lincoln where he has spent the 1 ast week. Father Tuchek was attending a mission of the New man club at the University of Ne braska, comprising the Roman Catholic students, and reports a most interesting program of lectures 2nd studies given the young people. He enjoyed v.ry much the visits with the students and the discussions of their school problem. To Reside at Lincoln William B. Banning, who has been one of the outstanding residents of Cas3 county for many years, a members of one of the pioneer fam ilies cf Cass and Otoe counties, ia planning on moving from Union to Lincoln to make his home. Mr. Ban ning is expecting to close up the home at Union following the death of the wife, going to Lincoln where his son, Hollis Banning and family reside. r Uncle Sam's Daughters The ladies of the community, serving each Saturday in selling war stamps and bonds, at the stores over the city. In the past week sold $336.85 of the bonds and stamps to aid the war effort. This figure does not include the sales made at the Cass theatre. The ladies that are selling today are Mrs. Frank M. Smith. Mrs. Etta Gorder, Mrs. John Schutz, Mrs. George Thun, Miss Alpha Peterson, Miss Kraeger, Mrs. E. G. Ofe, and Miss Claudeen Keller. Mrs. E. H. Wescott is selling at the the Cass Theatre