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PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1945 The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1S81 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER, PUBLISHER DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March d. 1879. And Over the Alps Lies Italy pf if M f -tfiJ t K ft 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 S6.00 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, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Polish Border x o-rpflf nianv well-meaninc Ameri- 5- - " i cans, eager to avoid even good-tempered' arguments among the international Big j Three, now contend that the Polish boun dary settlement isn't worth worrying about. Says the well-informed, u s u ally thoughtful New York Times, for example: 'In our judgment the settlement of the Polish border problem made at the Crim ea conference was neither unfair nor un reasonable . . . With the accession of some new territory in the west and north the settlement provided ample space in which a sturdy Poland can live and pros per." Perhaps it is the stability of national boundaries in North America, and this country's massive impregnability and our generally fine relations with both Canada and Mexico, that caused the Times (and others who agree with it) to overlook a forensic parallel. Suppose, in the interest of justice, that tIto TiniroH Statp had heen overrun by a (, 1 i W N . V. V. ' " - military alliance of which Mexico was a! member, and had been liberated by Great '; Britain and Canada. And suppose thenj that Canada cast sheep's eyes at a strip! along the northern boundary of the Unit-J ed States a strip that took in Boston, New j lork, i'miacteipnia, ueiroil, ui.tfS;be invited to the United Nations Cleveland, Buffalo, the Twin Cities, Port-; conference may bn brought lonrl aftlp unrl wnv nnints tforrriA.lv toaav under a new sreea: y - tl 4. i - ' Jf-- v Suppose since we were defenseless and;P program w - - owed our liberation to Canada and Great; J . x Edson ., . , ,, , . -,x , , i j i nisrn Ciiifjais iicie icut ma.. tiritam, mat iney mei in jiunueai aim uc m&rz Mi Sv '0' & IK x - mr mL , 'ft N A. X yWh I I ft A. n talv iieioices a Death of Mighty III Buce Death of the Onetime Ruler of Italian Empire Brings Only Joy to the People. Rome, (U.R) II Duce was. dvzd, disgraced, and defiled to day and the Italian peonle from American Planes as t "Base oi Suicide Planes' By DREW PEARSON - ' - - (Lt. Col. R. S. Allen Now On Active Service) Drew Peartcji Says: ' Woundjii unloaded nearby asi delegates convene; Opening session of parley solemn and stiff; Wholesale AWOL's feared in fcklft to Pacific. SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco down by the waterfront where ships sail in from the Pacif ic, a Ions line of hospital trains wait in the rail road yards. Large red crosses are painted on the; premier to peasant took the news! side of each car. Uniformed nurses are inside. I with satisfaction. Silently, carefully, the cars are shunted alongside , .. ... .1 incoming ships, ships from Okinawa, Saipan and 1 he Vatican reportedly received ; Guam, bringing the wounded home. ! Wlth coolness the news of Mus-j Almost every day they come in and are rolled J solini's summary trial and exe-j out, noiselessly, tenderly, boys who will never i cution, but throughout the rest; fight again, some boys who never work again, all j of Rome there was only rejoic boys who hope there will be no war again. j jn,r A mile or so away from the waterfront, sit the! b' . representatives of 46 nations trying to make that) timpeacnaDie Vatican sources, hope come true. It is a conference which the world j tolci tne United Press the Holyj has awaited so eagerly; for which the state depart-! See felt Mussolini should have; Kyushu Island Bas.es Hit as Re sult of Bcmbing of U. S. Hcs. pital Ship Sunday United Nations Start Speed Up Program at Once Hope to Get Underway Before Germans Disintegrate and Cauce Disccnsion. j EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON CAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Hardest thing to find in San Francisco on the eve of the United Nations Conference opening was a dele gation which didn't have any Dumbarton Oaks amendments to pro pose. Foreign Minister Eelco Van KlefTens started off by saying the Netherlands would offer seven amendments. Just to show you can beet the Dutch, Foreign ment has planned so carefully. Fifty officials have been here for a week oiling the diplomatic mach inery. An unlimited budget hai been at their dis posal. The city of San Francisco has thrown all its hospitable energy into rooting for the conference. Yet it get off to a discouraging start. There has been somethoing lacking no spark, no con tagious enthusiasm, no great personality to lift things out of the doldrums of diplomatic routine, j remaps it was the absence of that magic per sonality, which even in his old age and ill-health, could inspire an assemblage to the heights of a. great, dynamic leader. At any rate the early ses sions featured the same cut-and-dried formal futili ty as the frock-ccated diplomats who mourned the I v.;fcuc iNttuuns io ocain at utneva. RIO ENTHUSIASM Three years ago at Rio de Janiero, another con ference was held of American foreign ministers to solidify the new world against attack. There, nothing hinged on stiff-necked formality. Instead of three solemn speeches as in San Francisco dolefully opening the conference, any Rio delegate might take the floor and say what he thought. had a more formal trial. The re vilement of his body also dis pleased church circles. American Consignor Walter Carroll was due to leave for Milan today to bring back a report on the entire episode. No such nicities bothered the Italians who had l'vcd so long under the dictator's yoke. The new first was flashed to a huge crowd gath ered in the Piiizzo Santi Ap ostili to celsbrate the liber ation of north Italy. That is only a block fremt he Piazza Venezia, where the balcony now was bare of the black shirt for good. The excited crowd almost mob bed two news vendors who shout- Nobody cared about lunch. Nobody cared about i ed "Mussolini Executed." A Un- the Rio reception scheduled for the late afternoon. itcd Pres.-, correspondent who cir-! xr,-L.,j.. 1 u.--.-4. ii.. i ti. . v . : '"" . , . neai. .ne comeicuce ub)C.jlatod throuffh the trowd carried away witn us own entnusiasm; with its. , , , , 3 r r -r- " i Di T!. tion of whether Argentine should j j ' UP, Ki -1 ' i e crowd re- "U own anxietv tr achieve. i At San 'Francisco -how different. No delegate ; was because Rome did not 'have had a chance to speak at the opening session. He ! thc privilege of trying and ex could not pour out of his colleagues his hopes and i ecuting Mussolini. dreams for future peace. He could only sit and j It was considered poetic jus-1 listen listen to the solemn, carefully modulated tice that the mortal remains of- voice i of the far-distant president, listen to the per-; :jussolini were taken for all tci ! functory speeches of welcome reeled off bv local, , ,r, , , . j official' ?t' t0 an, where his I ageism ; It"had the atmosphere of an undertaker's par-hvas born 26 'ears a-- i lor; or perhaps a U. S. steel corporation directors' j By that time Mussolini, son of. meeting over which Ed Stettir.ius once presided. ' a country village blacksmith, alv GUAM, (U.R) Avenging uuitiiuiiiiMts luuiiy uias.iea tne Kyushu bases of Japan's suicide planes one cf which crashed into and badly damaged the hospital ship Comfort Saturday night . Twenty-nine persons were kill ed, thirty three wounded serious ly, and one was missing, after the enemy plane hit the helpless and brilliantly lighted hospital shop south of Okinawa, the communi que announced. Dispatches from Vice Admiral Richard Kelley Turner's flagship off Okinawa said there was no doubt the attack was deliberate. Some 200 B-29's participated in today's raids on Japan. Though the majority concentrated cn the suicide plane baes on Kyushu for the fifth straight day, some bombed the Tachikawa army ar senal, 21 miles west of Tokyo. Despite the consistent Ameri can raids on Kyushu the Japan ese managed to hurl 200 planes against U. S. forces around Okin awa Saturday night and Sunday, causing some damage to light fleet units. A total cf 104 of the Japanese planes were shot down. U. P. correspondent Edward L. Thomas, reported from Admiral Turner's flagship that the enemy plane which hit the Comfort made several "iuns"' over the white hos pital ship in the moonlight before going into its suicide dive. At the time the Comfort wps about sixty miles south of Okin awa steaming unescorted toward the Mariannas with several hun dred American troops seriously wounded in the Okinawa campaign. 23 amendments. Then Foreign Minister Georges Bidault remind ed that the French provisional government would have nine. Without any help from the other Americana, U. S. Delegate Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg has been able to think up nine oi his own, so with 53 proposed amendments from the tirst four comers it looked as though the California sunshine which greeted early arrivals would in time be blanketed by more than fog rolling in from the Pacific. ,OTfproP -ill hrrrln to di- s wl" De warm dui vie meie pipcui ui to ".i, r-irWl tn mvp tViw ;trin tn Canada but to i. lU .V . offering half-a-dozen or more amendments, is enough to give every Clded to gle thlb stnp to Lanaaa DUX io ( integrate the momeTit Germany 8 delegate a chm that calIs or a pair of resh blankets to sleep under "compensate by permitting US to take j resi?tance ends. Therefore the;, ! every night. over an equivalent area of enemy Mexican: are attemtin-j to speed up all territory- jwork and to settle or side-track; 1 We Should then be as big as ever. We future negotiatioons any pro , , , , , , ,,r i,i blems which might delav the con- should have plenty of room. We could job-drafting the . i . l a. " r 1 a. UA4-u i move me population irom our iosm ; charter of world organization to Minister Ezekiel Padilla said Mexico would oiler ; Instead it was supposed to be a conference cany-I ready had had a varied career s area into our new acreage south of the Rio j maintain peace. Grande, and build up a new United States, i under this program,, the Ar-i You say that couldn't happen? True'gentine question was brought up enough. Yet that is exactly what is about , during the morning session ot to happen to Poland, and some Americans ; thc coference steering committee.. . ,, ; Cuba had been expected to raise i can't see anything wrong with it. j Jt but afc th &J minute .J A nation isn t lust &o many square miles of land, to be jockeyed geographic ally at the whim of stronger powers or it is? The war is in defense of democratic self-determination and the right of small nations to live their own lives without fear of aggression from bullies or is it? We are no more eager than the Times to pick a quarrel with Russia over Poland or. over anything else. Perhaps we have no option but to permit Russia to do as she pleases with Poland. But we do have the right to disapprove, and to argue don't we? QUESTIONS end ANSWERS Q Who was Robert Raikes? A The originator of Sunday School, in 1735 in Gloucester, England. His pur pose was to get gangs of young ruffians off the streets. q Which is closer to the.U. S., Mos cow or Buenos Aires? A Moscow, by 1000 miles. Q What people eat clay? . A The Octomacian Indians of South America mix it with their food. QWhat does radar mean? A Radio directioning and ranging. Q What is the Jap term for black marketing? A Bargaining in the dark. A new type concrete practice bomb, . used to train bombardiers for future pin point homings of Tokyo, can be dropped over arid over again merely by replacing metal fin assemblies. American delegates chose Albert-: o Llera Cmaro Columbian for- j eign minister to move that Argon- j tina be invited to send represent atives here. Any Russian proposition that an Argentine invitation be coup led with a invitation to the pro visional Polish government at Warsaw was expected to be sum marily rejected. The United Sta tes and other American delegates regated the two maters as en tirely different questions which should not be considered togeth er. If the Germans shoufd quit that the heads cf the Brit ish and Russian delegations shortly would be flying to their capitals that would leave the conference short of prestige and authority Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov of the Sov'et Union already had cancelled his plans to come here when Pre sident Truman made a per sonal request for his pre ence. He wanted to be in Moscow for the kill. Foreign Secretary Anthony E den of Great Britain almost in epitably must hurry back to Lon don immediately after V-E Day. Most of the British delegation, in fact, would be wanted at home where Prime Minister Winston TONE of these amendments is a criticism of Dumbarton Oaks pro posals, you understand. Dumbarton Oaks is perfect greatest thing in history hope of the future just what the world has been waiting for but. "Are you opposed to the Yalta vote plan," somebody asked Mr. Van KlefTens, "on quasi-judicial or quasi-executive decisions?" ' He answered it. but if you want to know how, please look some place else. It was just too deep. For SC. somebody asked Dutch Minister Van KlefTens what he thought about Korea. For S16, Mexican Minister Padilla was asked what he thought about Poland. For $32, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was asked some thing about Czechoslovakia. Bidault slid out of one of the slick questions by saying that "the question leads us onto a 'slippery slope." rrHIS Bidault, though, seems to be quite a character and a smoothie. mg with it the hopes, the ideals the future of mankind. Meanwhile, from incoming transports, cots laden with wounded men were loaded on hospital trains to roll away quietly almost as if they did not wish to disturb the solemn serenity cf the dele gates by injecting any unpleasant reminder of war. FROM WEST TO EAST The army is working today on a new film to accompany two uewn ana une io ,to, a i.io j j jvj?Jej already prepared to help explain to war-weary u Fs the reason they must pc their kits in soldier, socailist, editor, and tea:-; her. From his birth on July 29, j 1S83, at Dovia .Di Predapoio in; Komr.gne, Mussolini pursued a; relatively peaceful career until! 190-1. In that year he was expel-! led from Switzerland for politi-j cal activity. j Mussolini returned to Italy and! his time between school I teaching end socialism. He was jailed or.ee for his part in a F.iironp and fro on to fitrht another war ill tne Pacific. The two films are intended to bolster mor- , farmers' strike. In 1909 he found- ale, now considered far more important than the j ed a newspaper called "The Class; actual physical problem of transfer to the Orient, j Struggle.' Three years later he ; "Greatest problem after the victory in Eur- j became editor of the socialist! ) i: i -i l i-:n; i(.,:-n ! ! Ope, accui uiug lu uioiit.i imam .uvuu.nci , i jjjy Avmti world-famed chief of the army psychiatrists, "will! vhei" the rre--t completed one job to pack up and go cn to another ! aoanuoneu nis war in thc Tacif ic.'? He anticipates a heavy rate of ; st and facifist taeas. He i too. "I a in sure," his translator said he said, "This conference will meet with difficulty. All conferences meet with difficulty." It was a masterful understatement Biggest difficulty of this conference is apparently going to be the Russians, who up to opening day not only hadn't said anything, but nad stayed out cn a Soviet communications ship anchored in San Francisco Bay so they wouldn't have to say it. The SG4 question for them is "Lublin?" Anybody knowing the answer will please cder an amendment. plans a quick genera! Churchill election. Advisers to the American dele gation joined the speed-up by scheduling an 8:30 a.m. meeting called to meet at 9:30 this morn inj. It will review world court proposals to be placed before the conference and deal with some still pending details of the trust ee system which is to be establish-., ed over seized enemy territory The Polish question has. been presentatives. sidetracked but it does not lie quietfy. The Polish telegraphic agency circularized the confer ence today with what amounted to a charge that the Russian government had imprisoned or disposed of a number of Polish underground leaders. These leaders, the agency said, met the Russian forces near War saw and have not been heard from since March 28. The Polish so cial democratic party in London has sent an urgent plea to mem bers of similar parties amoung delegates here. Tthey want the conference to take up the ques tion of the disapnearance of the Poles. Under pressure the conference's 14-nation executive committee to day planned a 9 a.m., PWT meet ing. The 4G-nation steering com mittee meets at 10:30 a.m., and the next plenary session with E den presiding comes at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. The executive committee meet ing will . start the Russians To ward z showdown with the United Nations on the question of ad mitting Argentina to member ship. The United States and other American republics want Argen tina here and are supported by Great Britain, China and others. The Russians condemn the Argen tine government as "fascist"' and object to meeting with its re- Oliver Meisinger To Omaha Hospital Sunday evening Oliver Meising er, one of the well known young farmers of southeast of Louis ville, was taken to the St. Cath erine's hospital at Omaha for observation and treatment. He was taken to the hospital in the Caldwell ambulance. ABE MARTIN S5, war be jan, abandoned his social-! gave upi UVOL's ; his nost on Avanti and founded; This is the major reason that members of the j 1! own paper, II Popolo Romano. Senate Military Affairs Committee argued last j In 1915, he was arrested for mak month against giving G. l's cn their way from ! ing a speech urging Italy to enter Europe to the Pacific a 30-day leave at home. They I tie war on the side of the Allies, are afraid civilian members of the soldiers' family j 'Muolini joined the rrriy and Pacific0011"26 them tICf'V rd?rS l S " t0 thjhis' war rccord was a Pod onc' Arury men whese morale is impaired but who j IIe was mounded several times, are not actual neurotics will be pushed over the mentioned in dispatches frequen borderline by the Pacific transfer, Colonel Mennin-jtly. and ended as a sergeant, ger fears, although he believes most reasonably i Fascism vas- born in March of well-adjusted men will be able to take the orders j 1919, when Mussolini founded the in their stride. Excessive celebiation here of the fjrit "asci'' and was first cal-V-E day announcement will make the Pacific M led'il'Ducc." Bv 1922 he had a j ujui:a am; was ixuiv iu battle vets to accept, he warns. NOTE Colonel Menninger is also worried about the relatively small number of phychiatrists now practicing only about 4,000 will be avail able for post-war work, he estimates. And he is certain that at least twice that number will be needed to take care of servicemen after the war. Only practicable solution, he feels, is for medical schools to train general practitioners in psychia tric methods so that they will be equipped to step into the breach and handle some of these psychia tric cases along with their regular medical practice. They will be badly needed to handle insanity the most tragic type of casualty from war. CONFERENCE CROSS-CURRENTS Instead of playing national anthems at the opening of the conference, the orchestra played ''Lover Come Back to Me" and such martial musk n? ''Give me some men. some stout-hearted men." declare that the Italian govern ment would ''either be given tyo us or we shall take it.' Mti-solini bullied and beat his way into power. Where his bal cony speeches sometimes failed, castor oil or rubber hoses rarely did. The murder of the socialist leader, Giacomo Matteotti, shock ed the world. Bat Mussolini went on his colorful, swaggering way. His first big diplomatic vic tory was when he healed the his toric rift between Italy and the Vatican with the Lateran Treaty in 19'it. His next was when he went to war with Ethopia and Nebraskan Has Part in Surrender London, 'UR' John V. Love, Euclid Ave., Lincrln. Nebraska, who was shot down over north ern Germany and taken prisoner, persuaded his guards to surren der by extolling the virtues of American ration.-. Love was captured when he was forced to parachute from a burning Flying Fortress over Ger many. Thrcugh a British interpreter, Love was able to convince his captors of the delights of Ameri can rations, particularly chocl late and cigarettes in contrast to the hard bread and thin pota to soup which served-as the Ger mans' fare. The guards agreed to become prisoners and then guided the Americans, together with C1 li berated Britons and a number of former slave laborers, to Ameri can lines. Harry Griffin Is Home From Pacific Harry ,Grifin Plattsmouth and Murray resident, who has been spending tne past tour years ji the naval service for Uncle Save, is home for a visit with his re latives and many old time friend-. Harry has had a great exper ience in the Pacific war area and participated in many "of the of fensives of the Amercan navy in the Pacific area. He expects to enjoy a stay of sometime here with the many old time friends who are legion in the community. VA Rifi in in snared no detail in looking out for personal conference arrangements, j sot away witn it. He asked for the penthouse cn the Fairmount llo-j He supported Francisco Franco tel for his own living quarters, plus the 4th and j jn the Spanish civil war, and his 5th floors in the same hotel as offices, plus a j troops took a terrible whipping It's goin' some t' be prominent enough t' be criticized. You kin never tell what a woman or a jury is goin' t' do. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) yacht, plus a private dining room at the svanK Pacific Union club every day. The club decided it could outswank Stettinius and replied that he could have the dining room for one week only after which he could take his chances along with' other members. As a result of taking over so much space in the Fairmount Hotel, the Norwegian dele gates arrived with no place to lay their heads . . . Foreign Minister Molotcv was guarded by three U. S. army officers plus a flying wedge of three Russian secret service men. The latter complained that the ushers didn't know where Molotov was to sit, see-sawed him back and forth across the opera hcuse . . . "Don't they know they should make preparations in advance!" complained the Russian secret service men, "Don't they know anything about security?" . . . The Russians had wanted to inspect Molotov's seat in advance. This, of course, is what U. S. secret service men did when President Roosevelt traveled. They also inspected all win dows', doorways, etc., along F. D. R.'s line of .travel. What .worried the Russians is not danger .from Americans, but from Trotskyites in . the U.S.A. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) at Guadalajara. Journal Want Ads Sell Goods YOUR BEST BET Don't drive an uninscred car and risk to much. Buy your insurance protection frcrn , Phone 9. SEARL S.DAVIS Jerry Sharpnack Home From Lincoln Jerry Sharpnack, of this city, who has been visiting in Lincoln, has returned after a mcst ples ant outing in thc capital city. He wa a guest of Billy Kicck while in Lincoln and on Saturday was the honor guest at a party given at the Kieck home to which a number of the young friend were guests. CASS THEATRE PLATTSMOUTH. NEBR. Two Shoxvs every night. M.itsnr every Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. TUESDAY 9NIY VAY 1 Bargain 0y t'.! v ltcrs-n jt Out lie M rthy, R.svt.( i.!it!f a;ul a "SONG OF THE CPEN ROAD" Year' b:seet fun ami !r.'.iif.l V.o. WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY. 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