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THURSDAY APRIL 12, 1945 PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Ma!n Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County. Nebraska, by The Journal kud lishinj Company. IESTER A. WALKER, PUBLISHER DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffic at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. our professions. This, I believe is common sense economics, good sociology and sound psychology. The future of our community is in our hands. We have no reason to expect to live in a better community after the war is over, if we fail to make it better. What are you willing to do to make Plattsmouth a better community to live in? How do vou want Plattsmouth, dead or alive? Yeh, He Must Fe ;1 Pretty Low Today SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. cash in advance, by DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car rier in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or $6.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: S3 per year, $1.75 for six months, $1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, S5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Plattsmouth: Dead or Alive? Guest Editorial by Rev. Edward C. Tuchek A great American has said, "No man has a right to leave this world as he found it." It is the opportunity of every man, his privilege, and his obligation to leave this world a little better because of his indiviual efforts. What is true of the individual, is equally true of a community. What can we do to make our community place to live in? Individuals are planning for peace time. They contemplate improvements at home, on their farms or in their place of business. In a word, they plan and work to better themselves and their con ditions for post-war living. Most communities are doing the same. riattt-mouth must do the same. Our commun ity must better itself and its conditions for a happier and more prosperous post-war life. An honest self-analysis should bring about a better understanding of our common picblem and bring about a solution which would be advantageous to our community. The people in Plattsmouth are good, honest and industrious. They are intelligent and friendly. They love their homes and they are interested in the welfare of their children. They are a religious people. All this indicates that the social make-up of the community is good and promising. " What is wrong with Plattsmouth? Because of the delicacy of this question, I assume to take the responsibility for all the views given in article.. From confdential sources, I find that not a few of the families residing in Plattsmouth, do not intend to make it their permanent dwelling place. The families considered, are those who lived THE WASMNTG0N MERRY-GO-ROUND Drew Pearson Say: British and U. S. armie buy 3,000,000 blanket from Franco; Little oil I . ...l 'J -- C I - tny companies lost snipping suosmy, uinip-ui. Jcncs's federal lean job. j WASHINGTON The brass hats, both British and American, have found there is more than one way to support Spanish Dictator Franco . . . ror some time the Spanish fascists have been trying to peddle 2.000,000 blankets to UNKRA. But strong-willed Governor Lehman turned the deal down. He also issued an order that no relief goods, were to be bought from Spain ... So now the British army is buying the 2,000,000 blankets from Franco and giving them to UNRRA as its contribution. Furthermore, the U. S. army is pur chasing an additional million blankets for its own use . . . Final payoff is that the state department has OK'd the deal . . .The diplomatic grapevine for weeks has warned that one of Moscow's chief gripes about the state department was not so much Poland, but close U. S. collaboration with Franco. The Soviets can't seem to forget that Franco en listed the Blue Legion to fight against them, even if the state department can. SMALL OIL COMPANIES SUFFER Like a breath of fresh air was the way govern ment officials described Judge Vinson's brief tour of duty as federal loan administrator. However, some of them are wondering why he pemitted his detense supplies corporation to get away with a squeeze play against small, independent oil com panies . . . All oil shipped east gets the benefit of a U. S. government subsidy called a ''compensa tory rate.' This amounts to 1.52 cents ($0.U152) ; per gallon and compensates for the rail haul, which ' is mure expensive than the water route . . . But; Vinson's uefense supplies corporation removed ! the compensatory rate from .small oil companies shipping natural gasoline to the east coast. These j companies had shipped it east, where dealers i blt-nded the natural gasoline with naptha and made A-l gasoline . . . Removal of the compensa-! tory subsidy automatically puts these small com-' panies out of business wnen it comes to natural gasoline. Only thing they can do is sell it to the! Dig companies in Oklahoma and Texas. v.hn miv! it themselves with naptha and then ship it to the i fl 2 1" n o s r T? t -l i. ; , vo. v.i. xjlh, mi- lh companies are paid tne i shipping subsidy provided they mix it before they! ship. Its ail a matter ot having the mixing f tcili-1 ties in the southwest, not the east. Looks like a put-up game for the big boys who have those f a- cihties. i i i rmmrvimi M&lPWi W0&mM teppSii Ha'r.;. hrbt? ,m mm fn i h fg 'l Pir& m (m$ j&rh. - EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN TSTASIIINC of Justic BY PETER EDSO.N NEA Washington Correspondent GTON, D. C Anti-Trust division of iho n.,. . - uiieiii ce wul soon enter the picture as an active f.nftnr ,i. mining who can buy what surplus government propcrtv, if its ori-nnn cost was more than a million dollars. Tow in preparation for issulmce in uiu ntdr imure is a department of Justice memo randum which will be a guidebook on what con ditions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law a protec tive purchaser will have to meet, and what he" will have to do or be to get approval. Assistant Atlorney General Wendell Berge, in charge of the Anti-Trut division, has already started to train a staff to process these proposals. First principle will obviously be that no sale will be approved if it will tend to give anyone a monqpoly in anything. A corollary may well be that sales of surplus war plants will be frowned on if the buvers intend in shut them down just to remove their productive capacity from competition. V Edson ri " 'A A AS an example of how these anti-trust restrictions may be applied, disposal of surplus aluminum producing and fabricating facilities may offer early test cases. The government now owns nearly 100 aluminum plants, valued at over 800 million dollars. When it comes to disposal of the aluminum ineot plants which might be used by industry, there are two complicating factors. First, the Small Business Committee of the Senate has launched an investigation of the light metals industry. That lends another decidedly anti-monopolistic cast to the proceedings. Second, the U. S. Circuit Court of New York, acting for the Supreme Court, has ruled that the Aluminum Company of America did formerly have a monopoly on ingot production. The point generally overlooked i was that the Circuit Court withheld judgment on whether the Aluminum Company should be dissolved, saying in effect that thi:; should wait on disposal of government facilities to see what the pattern of post-war ownership might turn out to be. RECENT government witness before the Small Business com- mittec, Samuel Moment of the Bconeville Power Administration, even went so far as tc say that the government should make such favorable terms of sale or lease to new producers that their market would be guaranteed for five years. Department of Justice gets its authority to advise on surplus property disposal from two sources. Congress reserved to itself the right to approve sales of properties costing more than live million dollars. But in the Surplus Property Act the Department of Justice was given authority to pass on the disposal of all properties costing more than one million dollars, and in the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act Justice is required to report to Congress on the growth of monopolies. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Villiams BARBS I "TORCH SINGER" STETTINIUS i I Handsome Secretary of State Ed Stettinius ! ! spent several-days in New York rehearsing for the ' state department movie on Dumbarton Oaks. But : despite rehearsals, movie-goers get a chuckle out ; i ot tne way Ed rolls hi t,..,., ; . u. : this i learn ad his lines, had to look at a blackboard mt i tner tne movie-camera in order to read then, Ihis mases his eyes roll away from the lens as if he v.ere a torch-singer. Otherwise it's an A-l pic ture . . . Philippine President Osmena underwent a successful operation in .In,Wrn,-,i: ..i ... - .... - '""""i x re- in Plattsmouth betore war time conditions. ine i " iuig at ronte erda . . The reason' for not being satisfied with our city is that on the PhTo ;t,epailmtnt,s bo:h have then- it is unable to afford their youth what other com-'j salary allowance tor"?' U S lmba d Carries a munities offer them. One of the most frequent ac- j Philippines, interior's budget 'carriela salary for cusations is, "Plattsmouth is not a progressive Jen 'cfio,f' there is immediate 'inde- town." "Plattsmouth is not community minded." j Wlll bp ' 1 uc a" moassador ; if not there Plattsmouth. not unlike other Nebraska towns, has had its reverses. But that is the past; we live in the present and the future. A good test for any social group is "how can it cope with conditions that are adverse to its progress?" Will Plattsmouth face today's problems and avoid regretting to morrow? The next ten or twelve years will tell whether Plattsmouth will live or die. If Plattsmouth fails to realize an effective post-war constructive program it is doomed to become another "River Town.'' The better, or let us say, the more progressive, will seek opportuni ties and residence elsewhere. Those who are un able or unwilling to better their lot in the post war world will remain. Too much of one thing or one kind will make the community a very undesir able place to live in. Some alarm is voiced about our juvenile de linquency. I, for one, am surprised that we do not have more of it. Comparisons are odious, but Plattsmouth in comparison with other Nebraska communities with equal or smaller population is criminally negligent of its young citizens. It has no place where they can congregate; where they can seek diversified entertainment; where they can develop physically and where they can culti vate and practice the social virtues. A few places where the young are allowed to congregate can be best described in the words of the young them selves, "definitely crummy." Even though we have splendid homes, active church groups, and fine schools, the influence of all these institutions can be nullified in places of recreation or in associa tions which are not ideal. A place of recreation should be a helpful .supplement to the environment provided by the home, the church and the school. Recreation should be character building. Our in terest in our youth should be almost if not just as important, as our effort to win the peace. Campbell, ' 'ingj Lippman, ! p :Z;"C ""8ner ... Sir Gerald the Pr ir ih 1 k "n ' V(i HaWax, is kav - vinyasM SuOtl . . . the movie "Tomorrow tha .". 7 Leader Bark W : -.r I" . T . courtii- Majority to the com thar, , . "4t lu.t 80 may senators - - - - juu liiii see call that 1 myself feel lost" Deal senatni i .' of Alabama i?", lS .c S,ourt are Black! HTHE beauty of spring scenery is another reason for not driving recklessly. You might damage some of it! What makes going to the den tist so tough is preparing for the hard, hard grind. The best place to cast your cast off clothing is right into the United National Clothing Collection. Originally Hitler was running the Germans. Now they are run ning very well all by them selves, v Vacation time is coming around again and once more home will be considered as a last resort. MRS. PEARL KRUGER, Correspondent oy any recent roll Among the New JESSE JONES a or n iro Backstage inr-l- ir, u, l .... i Jones's old job , as federaf lon i -,llc to 1' trolling the' purse- trin it h ,adm,strator- Con.; Position in the porf-wactuD bTe the ke' crusading Justice Bill Dn.L P u- 1 or a t d"ch0- be put; "e, 10m I orrnrnn IJo . " "'"--nine iavor- friends, Hugo Black iu iuni at a H nm.. V4HII1V.I and Wiley RutloT , " tt r tauic remain on the supreme court T A his..duty to ! i conservatives would h-.vr lt' ine t'Ouit if tv, r "juki nae a maiortv ncll;.,ii.. Douglas withdrew h; " 7 "u",s . P'.ace . . . So 1 tor Bankhead at firt uii Liurr as federal :T'T " "ulAUes appeared to K irr'.F too liberal - -o iiii, i-iioico tor A 1 i :liahama- L-n,-,. seemed stronc- fr.r ai-Iko',.'.. '"an duministrator T Lkirev be makinp- hav tor them . . . Mrs. Ann Fulton is a guest of her sister, Mrs. Olive Lemon at Topeka, Kansas. Mrs. G. W. Wcik and Cheryl are h i guests of her parents at Neligh I for two weeks, Sunt. eik took them there on Sunday. The "Happy Stitchers" 4-H club was organized in March; Mrs. F. O. Sand as leader; a les son on Making dust cloths was given. Patty LaRue as hostess; served refreshments. President el ected was Carolyn Wessel. News porter, Patsy Mathers. The Cass County Cooks held meetings at the school house ng JUarcli also; iruits and vegetables have been studied. These club meetings are now be ing held at the school house at the end of the school day to conserve land Mrs. Earl Cox, hospitalized; j at the Great Lakes Naval base; with rheumatic fever has bceni (transferred to another hospital i there. j Cpl. James Nickles from the. i Air Base at Stutgard, Okla. is with ' j his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. ; i Nickles for a furlough. Mr. and Mrs. Vilas Ketclhutj were Sunday evening guests of ; Mrs. Clarence Embury and child- j ren. j Mrs. Earl Cox, Lawrence ami Carlene were business visitors in I Nebraska City on Saturday after- j noon. j Rev. A. P. Vanniee, of York, i United Brethern Superintendent ; was an overnight guest of Rev. j and Mrs. A. B. Small Saturday.! lie conducted the services at the I Otterbein church Sunday and held j quarterly conference there. Betty Ross music inr tructor at j the Eagle school spent the week j end with her parents, Mr. and , Mrs. Martin Ross. j Mrs. Emma Murdoch was a j Sunday dinner guest of her sis-, ter, Mrs. Mary Wessel. j Mr. and Mrs. Willa Wonder e;i- tertaineu guests Irom Avoca on i Sunday. j Mrs. Jennie Dawson, riitts-j mouth was an overnight guest of ABE MARTIN M Tub 3 if O' COURSE VOU CAM DE VELOP SOME OF IT, BUT SOU COT TO ' BE BORM WITH WILL PCXNR, AM' IF VOU AIN'T BORNJ WITH , EITHER VOU C30T A HORRIBLE LIFE.' I GIT HOUNJDED A LOT CUi I WASN'T BOKM Mk.'ITU CITUCD t V 1 I I I I wr. 4 Hain't it great t' have someone speak at a banquet that needs no introduction? One good thing about a drafted loafer he don't leave a gap. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) HE'S A LUCKY GUV H J ' HE INHERITED THAT V '-s'rfc.-- j BE ISJ' QUICK UNDER. U - :,p" ' ' TH' HAT SCHOOL 5 " L' w' '. AKJ' THINKIN' IS EASY- j - j . Si , j - v HE DOM'T HAVET'BE , fK - V DR.OVE LIKE A MULE 1 ? v ' f LIKE 1 HAVE TO.' LL . IT'S BORN) IM I . . ), Mi ii I SOME GUYS- f 'lll''-; : ' 1 1 ?A V UlST SOME.' ) m x- , J a . "-v- THE FAR.TNECSHIP been a guest of her daughter, Mrs. i George Poulos and Mr. Poulos ; for several days. about 1.G00 flying fortresses and Paris, April 11. V t . -.1 J i- i . J . J I liberators witn an escort oi more air iorces atsiroyca or ua-itu than 850 mustang and thunder-; 1,738 German plane? during the U. S. War Plarie 1. u l , v ible, efficient h.uW ... OD..was. incorrupt- both time, and gas, as the lessons ctor iiaro Id fimin, could not object. The pointments recentlv th, t . . "11 f ""veit ap- iv "rtL1-iieb me conlinna- tnan any other. This bars "f-"5' vMiom tne senate senate has been fio-ht;, inn 1 . i'i-- aimost more a lot ot good men. Inside Germany Hitler's gestano men Vv tough time during blackouts. Thev "trUt i & :mlut. at."ht -hen the un'deVgroun ave a in the erground are Diplomats say " ut,:i "-Hey cower in corners accurate p imiiw! ri- ' ,r'vei . -ome Nnw is thfi timp for lis in trpf tno-PViPr nlan ' thn K.K .:.J.. "lIlln IS like durinir ' w " I xojws . . . iimimier ordered all rnnkino- together and work together to make our plans a &as turned off in Berlin last week . . Berlin reality. Many speak in favor of erecting a city j f reet cars are now used so much for' military "...uuaui inar. it taKes a trestann n3fi German bankers are desert ine the Rcischsbank. auditorium with all facilities of recreation for the,ot, them young and old, and an athlete field with football sinking-ship. and baseball diamond, tennis courts, perhaps even a golf course. A swimming pool, for sure. A wading pool and swings for our smaller citizens. What would it mean to Plattsmouth? It would boost our morale. It would aid the physical develop ment of the yourg; soothe he jangled war nerves of the old. It would give all of us an opportunity to assemble together; to know each other better: it T T i . - U""-V LIIU bwitzerland, trying to contact the allies. Their ob story is: "The German bankers never agreed with Hitler .merely went along for the ride'' Act ually Puhl is chief nazi operator for German fin ance minister, Hjalmar Schacht. 17 SWORD WOUNDS Inside Japan The Jap high command ordered 15 divisions out of Siberia a month ago to defend u t. i ii n i.i - " . . . uut June Lne lius- wuu.u t,tuu.iKc us io wu,k lUReuiw. n w oum j slan3 denounced their neutrality pact, the Japs are io.-aer juuu win, iuuifitfuun auu civic responsi-; lianuicauy scouring tne country for more troops to bility. This project would be socially, morally and materially advantageous to the community. From a material viewpoint it would be a good investment. It would make the community de sirable for the family man who would select Plattn mouth las a good community to live in; a place where he could rear his children; a community in which he would want to stay. Making Plattsmouth Wpql town to live in; would make Plattsmouth an ideal town to work in. This in turn, would j help our industries and our places of business and ' ooister tne Kusso-Jananese frontier . . . During i 1 1 1 ,.1 .1 . . . " ine Dtann-graa Dattie, the Russians depleted the red army in Siberia. It was the Cossack Cavalry, rusnea to stanngrad, which saved it. Now the red army m the east is at about full strength again . . . New Premier Suzuki of Japan was left for dead on the street when the young fascists of The Black Dragon society murdered most of Japan's moderate leaders a decade ago. He was carved up with seventeen fascist sword wouuds . . . Today Suzuki is front man for Japanese big business which long has leaned toward a negotiat ed peace. So has the emperor if thev can get xt. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) will be completed early in the spring and time saved for other activities. The Nehawka Woman's Club! met at the home of Mrs. Frank j Lemon Friday afternoon; with as sisting hostess; Mrs. John Hansen and Mrs. Leo Switzer. Mrs. Geo rge Sheldon led the flag salute Evelyn Wolph gave the devotional lesson. Mrs. Pollard presented Rev. Sanuel McKeown, who gave an interesting review of his mission ary work among the uncivilized Africans, where he worked for several months. The hostess serv ed lovely refreshments, spring flowers decorated the home. Mr. and Mrs. George Poulos moved to their new home Sunday, which they recently purchased from Delbert Switzer. Lt. Paul Sand from the Geneva Air Base is with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Sand for a 20 day furlough. He recently return ed to Geneva from a two weeks cross country flight. Donald Cox, S 2c, son of Mr. her neice, Mrs. Guy Murdoch, Mr. i IfjlCiSiC Murdock and children Saturday, and spent the day there on Sun- j dav: her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Ad-j am Cook of Weeping Water took her home Sunday evening. Guest for the past week at the home of Mr. Clarence Embury and children were her brother, Will ard Hunt and her sister, Mrs. Farrell Avise and children from Imperial. Mr. A. B. Small entertained the United Brethern Aid Society Wednesday afternoon; the ladies enjoyed visitinr as they quilted. Mrs. Small and daughter, Lillian served refreshments to the group. Mrs. Jane Sheard of Union has 13 : H iV bolt fighters. jweek ended Anril 10th. includm Chief targets were oil storageiat least 1.141 wrecked in attacks freight in 5t enemy airuelcs, head'juar- ver uermanv R5cre Than 2,100 Smash Hard ct War Faci'itie Deep in Southern Germany LONDON, U.FV More than 2,100 American war planes smashed today at war facilities deep in the southern reich in the interior triangle of Munich, Rcg- depots, ordnance depots, j yards, airfields and explosives factories all of them vital to any j German attempt to make a stand i in the southern "inner fortress.'' j The attack followed a night as-j 'fault by 800 KAF bombers on I Berlin, Leipzig and Plauen, 60 I miles south of Leipzig. ! The rail yards at Lleipzig and ; Plauen, communication centers ' for German operations facing I both the Russians and the Ameri j cans, were heavily bombed. Berlin was attack three times during the night. In all 800 RAF ten disclosed tods CASS THEATRE PLATTSrJIOUTH, NEER. Two shows every Night. Matinee every Sat. Sun. and Tues. at 2:30 Fri., & Sat., April 13 & 14 Double Feature Lionel Atwill and Jerome Cowan in "FOG ISLAND' Terror! Peril! Action: In a search for Pirate Gold!, and ; Smiley Burnette & Sunset Carson in "FIREBRANDS OF ARIZONA'' Also "Brcnda Starr Reporter" serial. ensburg and Nuernberg. The attack was carried out by; bombers were over the reich YOUR PARKED CAR can be damaged. My comprehensive auto insurance will pay the bill. Phone 9 SEARL S. DAVIS , Howard Davis Insurance Income Tex Service Sun., & Mon., Apr. 15 & 16 Deanna Durbin, GeneKelly and a big cast in CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY" Durbin in her most dramatic glory! AHo Disney Cartoon, News ez Novelty. are buying suits these days because: 1 They like to be well dressed 2 They knew good clothes are rapidly growing scarcer We are able RIGHT NOW to give you pure all-wool hard finish worst eds but When they're gonc- PRICES -they're gone GOOD CLOTHES SINCE 1879" (.feSSfi Ws Give Green Savings Stamps