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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945 THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA PAGE FIVE ALLEY OOP By V. T. Hamlin Lend Lease For Military Use, Not Post War Aid their requests for machines, mater- A 1 ials and food to minimum needs? ACriai vjUlfflCry vnnerwise vast quantities ot sup plies could be contracted for during the one-year extension period to be delivered over a three-year period. 2. Will agreements for payment for post-armistice lend-lease mater ial be more favorable to the Ameri can taxpayer or to the foreign pur chaser? School Develops Frangible Bullet Amendment of Bill to Check Un due Aid Given to Foreign Coun tries Not for War Aid f SEIM& N.E Av J SO WHAT? 0AV.' IP THAT'S T VOU TEViM' "Tn SAY ' ' WHAT V", V " -J COME TO LEW. t I'M TJ VOJg POLICY, xjS TSAYVOU ''rTTrr'N kYmTI A VNKS J Ith1 USHTTNlNJ&l VOU CAM'T ( RULE VOL) thEN VOUR. c) LEMIANS J f 5-.Ytt tJ. noinSA EAT EATRS-- I WILL STOKE KNOW AAiV- P0PE9, MOT ) Hl&HNESS TC- WILL RUM HIGHNESs Jft PEOPLE ( P1NOSMJR IV AMV MOMENT 1 TH1M6 OF 0U2 I PEED VUHV WILL SOONI VfT OUT ON ME? J . , f cTAPVATiniti MEAT' X NOW.' A LEVI I AN POOD V HAVE NO y . STARVATION VOUfi C RED RYDER By Fred Harman Flood Water Of The Missouri Now Receeding strengthen levees at Nebraska City. The Kansas City weather bureau issued a warning late yesterday to bottom land residents of the Nebraska-City Hamburg area of an impend ing rise. According to the bureau, the river will continue to rise reach ing bar.kful tonight and one-foot above bankful tomorrow. Hornick, la., 25 miles south of Sioux City flooded early yesterday bv water from the West Fork river. i ' a tributary of the Missouri, was OMAHA. Neb., March 15. -U.?-fW f'ut from under four to five Flood waters cf the Missouri river fe of waur a,r'd ud Xy- , , . . , , . Approximated io soldiers from anu us triD'Jiaries were receu.n m- v. - , i tr.e sioux city armv an oase were j ! called out yesterday to open a dike Waters Along the River Between Bismark and Kansas City Falling But Raise Forseen Government Shows Anxiety Oyer Coal Strike Stalemate in Discussions Between Soft Coal Producers and Mine Workers caused a pain in my spine which lasted more than a minute.'' His bomb-aimer said the bomb ex ploded with a "fanatical flash that was at once smothered by a high column of smoke." Air correspondents said the new bomb could be expected to have devastating effect over a radius of .commit the United States WASHINGTON, March 15. (U.R) This being income tax pay day, it is appropriate to examine the key sentence in the administration's lend-lease extension bill passed by the house and now pending in the senate. The key sentence runs 135 words. These 135 words comprise what is popularly known as the '"military use" amendment. This amendment was designed to prevent the use of lend-lease materials for postwar re lief, rehabilitation or reconstruction of foreign countries. Lend-lease materials are supposed to be used only in promoting the de fense of the United States. But un fulfilled contract deliveries will continue long after the European armistice. The purpose of the amend ment is to protect the American taxpayer against using defense ma terials for other purposes. By a vote of 354 to 28 the house passed the bill as amended this week. The lopsided tally suggested that representatives generally have no doubt how the amending sentence will be construed or administered. Many legislators, however, had been fearful that without the "mili tary use" amendment American of ficials during the next year might to give "literally hundreds of yards'' which ' foreign countries vast quantities of should do hundred times more dam-j our machines, materials and food age than the increase in tonnage j for delivery after hostilities actually clay, although a weather bureau warning that another rise,, was im pending has not been rescinded. ; Army engineers said the general ; picture of the situation, from Bis-1 marck. N. D., to St. Joseph. Mo.,j looked brighter than it had all week. From Bismarck south, the riv er was reported falling slowly early j and let out the flood water, and rescue victims stranded by the high water. The main street of the town was estimated to be under several feet of water late yesterday. Dam ! age was estimated at $10,000. iTO MAKE APPEAL todav. At Omaha the river had fallen j from 14.3 feet yesterday to 13.4 j WASHINGTON. Mar. 14. (U.R) feet early today. In 24 hours the President Rc osevelt will make a stream had fallen 2.3 ftet" tit Blair, j brief radio appeal for the Red Sross '. forts to agree on a reply to the wage and 1.7 feet at Sioux City, la. 'next Tuesday night, March 20th, the (demands he made two weeks ago. Armv engineers said the river wa WASHINGTON, March 15. (U.R) Government officials expressed in creased anxiety today over the danger of a soft coal strike on April ! 1- Their mounting fears resulted ; from the stalemate in contract dis ! cussions between soft coal producers and the United Mine Workers. j The present contract expires in! 16 davs and the miners ''past poli-j cy has been "no contract, no work." For the fourth straight day, the operators asked UMW President John L. Lewis to postpone direct ne gotiations while they continued ef- they said. The bomb, nearly twice as heavy as the largest bomb heretofore used, is twenty-five feet, five inches long and has a diameter of three ! feet, ten inches. It was designed primarily for attacks on under ground structures. Some idea of its devastating possi bilities can be seen in the fact that its six-ton predecessor sank Ger many's super - battleship Tirpitz. penetrated the 15-foot thick con crete roof of U-boat shelters and tore craters 100 feet wide across the Saumur railwav tunnel in France. comparatively free of ice today. No! new levee failures were reported in the Nebraska City-Hamburg area. I Although crews of volunteers report-j edly worked through the night to' White House announced today. Mr. Roosevelt will speak over all net works from 8 to 8 :05 P. M. cwt. He will be introduced by Basil O' Connor, head of the American Red Cross. Explosion Nearly Wrecks Fortress Word has been received here of the death at Dayton, Washington, of John Thierolf, 53, a former resident of Cass county. Mr. Thierolf was born in Neb raska November 23, 1891. making his home in this county until some nineteen years ago when he moved to the west coast and settled in Washington. He has been in failing health for some time and passed away at the Robinson nursing home where he has been cared for as he suffered from a cancer. He passed away on February 21st. The survivors include three dau ghters and five sone, one daughter being Mrs. Fred Robanski of this city. Two of the sons are in the United States service in France. He also has two sisters and thiee brjth ers living. The longest salt water piers in the world ahe located at Smith Cove, in the Puget Sound harbor of Seat tle. Each pier is approximately 2,500 feet in length. C0LVIN - HEYN STUDIO FINE PORTRAITS Open Fridays and Saturdays 1 to 8:30 P. M. North of Plattsmouth Hotel Coffee Shop If you can't get in on Friday or Saturday, leave word at the hotel and we will arrange an appointment. Among them is the controversial 10-i cents a ton royalty. I GUAM , March 15. CU.R. A I The operators were reported seri-j building believed to have been the ously divided on their reply. One! Osaka arsenal,' one of Japan's big faction, headed by Charles O'Neill, j gest. war plants, blew up during Wed president of the Central Pennsyl-j nesday's fire raid in an explosion vania Producers, was said to be; so violent it nearly wrecked two willing to srive Lewis a basis fori Superfortresses a mile and a half ! continued negotiations. Another,; overhead, it was announced today. ! headed by Edward R. Burke, presi-j Definite proof of the explosion ident of the southern Producers, was! awaited clearing weather that would said to be opposed to any tencessior.si permit recaonnaissance photographs j without governmental direction. i cf the five-square-mile area devas j Government agencies anxiously j tated in the 2.300-ton attack on ! concerned with the delay in direct i Osaka. ! bargaining included the labor depart-1 The arsenal, well within the tar Iment, solid fuels administration, get area, covers 150 acres and pro jwar labor board, army and navy. j duces anti-aircraft guns, artillery, i Operators, UMW and government machine guns, rifles, shell cases, officials have maintained a tight-! bombs and fuses. The plant also con- lipped silence on the regulations': tains a steel mill, chemical works i but there were indications that this! and a research laboratory. be- 4L KaalMBiwawi ATTENTION ! Calling All Farmers! Calling All Poultry Raisers! 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The government was reported pre pared to seize the 15,000 bituminous mines on an hour's notice if the situation warranted. Some industry sources expected that the present mine owners and operators would be designated government managers in the same fashion as in 1043. The explosion sent two Super fortresses rocketting 3,000 to 4,000 feet into the sky within a few sec- had ceased. The lend-lease bill itself pro vides that contracts for munitions and materials entered into with foreign powers during the 12 months extension period about to be authorized may be in effect actually for three years. That is, a contract drawn before June 30, 1946, could provide for de liveries over a period ending June 30, 1949. Democrats agreed with republi cans that some safeguard against too, much generosity should be included! in the extension Din. ine amend ment, therefore, says that the exten sion of lend-lease contract author ity for one year shall not be constru- ' ed as giving the president authority to enter into or to carry out any contract or agreement with a for eign government for postwar r-lief, rehabilitation o r reconstruction. That is, lend-lease deals to promote defense of the United States shall not automatically became postwar relief deals when the armistice ccmes all at the expense of the United States treasury. If the amendment stopped there, its meaning would be clear and simple. But it continues immediately with an exception. The exception provides, in effect, that if the Euro pean armistice comes while the new lend-lease contracts are being ful filled, the machines, materials or food may continue to go to the for eign countries provided the latter arrange to pay for them. The presi dent is authorized to enter into agreements for payment. 1. Will American lend-lease offi cials require foreign nations to limit INKLERS CARD CLUB Mrs. Henry Sarkjohn was high and Mrs. F. Bourck came in second at the Inklers card club last even-' ing when the members were enter tained at the home cf Mrs. Robert Cappell. Mrs. D. M. Babbitt won the spec ial prize. The hostess served refreshments. British Bombs Blast Vital German Viaduct IMPARTIAL TEST E 100 - rnpnvrn mft LABOR UKCHIEti RETURNS-7A Blasts Out the Last Double Track Line from the Ruhr With Rest of Germany LONDON. March 15. (U.R) Eli.ven-ton British bombs, biggest in the world, collapsed six and per haps eight spans of the German i Ruhr's vital Bielefeld railway via !duct yesterday, the air ministry an nounced today. j The attack knocked out one of the last remaining double-trunk rail ways linking the Ruhr with the rest I of Germany. The pilot of one of the RAF Lan i caster bombers which dropped the j giant bombs, said the resultant ex- plosion lifted his plane 500 feet in the air. 'Tt felt as though someone had hit me severely in the back.'" he said. "I didn't expect the kick quite so soon. The force of the explosion I V V-" i DRESS I ftore PALATABLE! pkint S More DIGESTIBLE! .1 A,i 1 fVLl By instinct baby chicks like a gran ular leed, berause it looks better to them and is more palatable. As a re sult they eat more, do better, grow faster at.d more uniformly. Crunchies have also proved more dl srestible. Digestive juices penetrate a rranular feed in the crop much faster than the comparatively "douphy" mass of a star'er mash and much faster than pellets. Both experimental and practical tents have proven Crunchies superior to either mash or pellets. We recommend Crunchies as a superior new type Chick Starter worth trying on your next brood of Chicks. PLATTSMOUTH CREAMERY Home of CASC0 Butter CtANVlAt lgd ChickStarftr V rs-vi tt i $L B ALL OUT FOR VICTORY The government is asking yon to store your winter supply of Coal NOW to taye trans portation for war material later on. So see us now for your next Winter's Coal. E. J. RiCHEY Lumber Coal Phone 128 New Bullet Developed at the Gun nery School to Htve Great Ef fect in Air War. Laredo, Tex., March 15 (U.R) Everything but the blood of battle was added to the teaching of aerial fe-unery with the introduction of the frangible bullet here today at the army air forces central school for flexible gunnery. Frangible means breakable. The bullet, made of powdered lead and plastic, disintegrates into a few pinches of fine, black dust on impact with a specially treated armor plate. Yet it will penetrate an ordinary sheet of cold steel. The new missiles, plus a specially equipped and armored fighter plane, give the gunner on a bomber a chance to shoot as he would in actual combat, except that the fighter does not shoot back. The gunner know immediately what results he is get- i ting. Up to now the gunner in training has been shadow-boxing, using tow ed targets, or a gun-camera which gave his results hours later after he was off the range and unable to recall with certainty just how he got his hits. Now he can throw his punches at a sparring partner. The frangible bullet and the pro cess of tempering the armor were developed by Maj. Cameron Fair child of Houston, Texas, with the aid of many experts, including fac ulty members at Duke and Princeton Universities. The plane chosen to be the frang inle bullets's target was the P-63 Airacobra. It was covered with 1,000 pounds of the armor-plate and re named the RP-63, R meaning re stricted from combat. On these "flying pin-ball mach ines," microphones pick up the ping of the bullets and flash the blinker in the nose of the plane. At the same time the hit is recorded on a counter, the "cash register", in the cckpit. Glass seven layers thick provides vision and protects the pi- rlot. The fighter pilot can let the gun ' ner know whether or not he is on target. Training command officers i pointed out that being able to cor i rect the gunner's aim immediately ! is the greatest contribution of the frangible bullet to gunnery training. At .the direction of Lt. Gen. Bar ton K. Young, commanding general cf the AAF training command, the frangible bullet and the RP-63 and being made part of the course in all of the air forces' flexible gunnery. BAGS IN HAND FOR EASTER! For extra smartness, it's Cords. and for longer wear too. Black, Brown and Navy. Three new shapes you re sure to like. $500 Plus Tax J HATS IN FLOWER . . will lead the Easter Parade. 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