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Pfc Pui Phi Wi ment of th erica has 1 Class mout taine anesi ger : ment the j gmei i!a. his i assai (Wa the Sant alonj S( Will mou men ana with In ft GuL the C Wil tie boy ene sen at 1 Ma: altl 37t zon its far i the arj an to er hi du w lei tr; PC hi ei ai at F u il THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1945 n ft v - . - - - .... . ... .. rlaEt 1 - - - -i.' '. T" 1 ' ; Alles Kaput I . ; rz-C&r?: -AAaSsa???.- s r ! :-(n 'ill The Plattsmouth Journal - V ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Mafn 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 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 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, $5.00 per year, $3.C0 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. MERKr-tio-R miqn By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. R. S. Allen Now On Active Service) Drew Pearson Says: Truman adhere to FDR hard peace policy; Britain softened by commercial interests; Nazi executions demand caused 1 "Pell ouster. .... - - " SAN FRANCISCO On April '25 'and 2 this column revealed that one day after President Roosevelt wag buried, a meeting .was Jaeld in the state department at' which his previous ;policy of a hard peace for Germany was- reversed. State department jappeasers" proposed a new line favoring a soft peace. . .. On April 27, one day following aforesaid pub lication, President Truman called an important meeting in the White House. Attending it were Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Under Secretary of State Joe Grew, Undersecretary of the Navy Bard, assistant Secretary of ;War John McCloy, and Leo Crowley, federal economic ad ministrator. ' ' At the meeting Truman laid down a fat rule that Roosevelt's previous hard peace policy was not to be changed. f : . . This hard peace policy is basically hat laid down by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last autumn, following Roosevelt's discovery that the army and state department had been planning appeasement. The Morgenthau plan calls for the wiping out of all German industry whlrh could contribute to. war, the taking over of the nazi edu cational system, the banishment of " ;nazi school book, and a long occupation. . r .-. President Roosevelt himself, contributed one -pet idea of his own, namely 'that ' military music be banned in Germany for the next decade or so. He believed the playing "of .military ; niusic aroused people's warlike ' motions". " Instead he " proposed giving the Germans an extra quota of Wagner, Beethoven, Strauss,' etc. . The White House has had indications that the Russians .also will go for a hard peace. Big re maining question mark is the British. Many of their banks and business firms collaborated closely with the nazis before the .war, and after this war they will-control the most highly industrial sect ions cf Germany.- What, they--will do with these areas remains to be seen: ! Note Up until the middle of last week., Post master General Frank Walker was scheduled to be the U. S. member of the Reparations Commission. tut ap tne last minute he walked into the White Plattsmouth Improvements ; (Guest Editorial by Milo Price) The City of Plattsmouth, like many other cities, could be improved. It is not difficult to imagine changes which would make Plattsmouth a better, more desira ble place in which to live both at work and at play. Perhaps the greatest civic need is an Auditorium adequate for the needs of a community of five or ten thousand people. It is-desirable to have an adequate audi torium available for what ever programs and organizations there may be that need such facilities- Having the facilities avail able -would increase the number of calls for such a building. In addition to these somewhat hap hazard uses that would be made of a good community meeting place, some civic or ganization should assume the responsibili ty of making the building much more use ful. One really outstanding program eVinnlrl ha Q Vflilfl hip PSfh month to the beO- HniKP and nskp;? tr Hp" pvptispH FrnnL- K fcci pie Of this territory. Good programs of j several deaths in his family, was deeply moved by j 3 ppiQfafojP fH3 1 4 . 'K fCdson ?1 net it EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Staff Correspondent CAN FRANCISCO, Calif. They got the 1320 delegates and advisers squeezed into the 1300 seats on the m:un floor of the Opera House for the opening session of the United Nations Conference all right, but things were different nine flights up, behind row "L" (for last) of the second balcony above the dress circle. That's where the 1200 members of the press corps overflowed to when they couldn't all get into the 50G seats for which there must have been issued 1500 tickets. It was more fun. You couldn't see what went on down below, but the acoustics were perfect and the company was swell. People like Gracie Allen and Madame Genevieve Tabouis and Charlie Michelson and Bill Cunningham and Ernest Lind ley and nearly all the rush-powered pundits of the foreign press got shoved up to this second bal cony and didn't like it a oit. If they write nasty pieces about what went on, you'll know why. Only one correspondent in the world had a belter vantage point. That was Dorothy Thompson, who seems to be experting this con ference from London. Boy, that's going where you can get a good perspective and detached view. "OUT it was pretty detached up there behind Row "Last" of the second balcony, too. Some distinguished foreign-looking gent who had come early to get a good seat but didn't, brought along a book to read while waiting for things to get started, and while an unseen band played such inappropriate music as "Lover Come Back to Me" and "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise." The Military Police the sissies were all stationed down on the main floor where they could show off. Eut up on the second balcony things were in charge of the ladies of the Red Cross in gray uniforms and the girls of the Junior Red Cross in middy blouses, dark skirts and bobby socks. And they just weren't equal to the job. "You can't stand or sit in the aisles," they kept insisting. So the people kept right on standing in the aisles. And when people whose view was cut off by the standees yelled, "Down in front!" the people who had been standing in the aisles, sat in the aisles. TVHEN everybody finally got put to his own dissatisfaction, a kind " hearted lady loaned me her opera glasses and locking through them, away down there about a half mile away, it seemed, were little men on a great big stage. The program said they were Secretary Stettinius, Governor Warren, Mayor Lapham and Alger Hiss and they probably were, but you couldn't tell even with opera glasses from behind Row "Last." Any way, the four little men on their mustard-cclored chairs looked lost in all that space. Comes the new world order, us second balcony pioneers will have to see to it things are arranged different. County Salary Sill Again Before o BARBS many kinds often stop in Omaha. A few the death of his old, friend F?. D.;R., and would like to retire to nrivate life. Ki Paulev- wVin win tnko Plattsmouth people gee some of them, but i his place, says he will let the state department Ijot enough to much broaden the outlook ! handle his ! transportation but otherwise will not e i .,Aio;An ? itx' i listen to their soft peace ideas on reparations. Of the total population of this Clt. - j .i Fr5ends pf handsome Senator "Long Tom" Think of the improvement that would j Connally attribute,, publicity, rivalry between him result in our own educational activities if j and Senator Vandenberg of Michigan" as the reas- " u oonl,o. Vorl V,o rnnpp OQ "e eaK aD0 armistice talks with ilimmler, Attempt to Kill Bill to Giant New as Bill Advances an J Raises Amend : rails : LINCOLN. Neb., (U.R Thej legislature was off again on the; Forvears the eternal Twian hn YifreA Viattlo to have the students actually meet a staT j Roosevelt's;. .foreign policies "through the senate, or artist in the very field of theeachers J But last fall Roosevelt began playing up q Van efforts. What would an annual basket-ball i er as-.e of e Jf,adin ex-isoiationist re v , , .-ii i i PDl'cans with considerable influence in the sen- game between professional players or col-; ate and at one mceting of senate leaders it was lege players do for our high school basket-! especially noticeable that Roosevelt went out of ball team, if it were right here in Plaits-i his way to defer to the Michigan senator. A, m n i j. ii i a- n . I was: What do you thing of this, Van And mouth. To really see and talk to national j what do you think of that?-, UnU1 th'e neglected known players and look forward to doing j senator from Texas was obviously piqued." SO again hext year would Stimulate talent; 't San Francisco, Vanderberg, also has been u j grabbing the ball and running with it. By all odds anu am LUdL-nuis iai ucunu uux f"", he has been the dominating member of the Ameri realization. The annual appearance of a can delegation. Stettinius has sat somewhat in his vanaenoerg is tne man most sought out approximately a dozen bills seek ing salary raises for county of vpallv crnnrl musical ortranization would ' snadow. trivP trip local mimic teachers a chance to ' b "ews,men- He also the delegate who had ad gne tne local music leacners a cnance xo d th American fiewHtr. w v,; country salary bill late yesterday. Only one motion to kill the third-since the proposed legisla tion, cropped up on general file j was advanced. Offered by Sen. j William Hern, Chadron, and de i feated 11-24, it evoked comment from Sen. Frank Sorrcll, Syra cuse : "I guess that ought to satisfy em." So.rrell, chairman of the govern ment committee which correlated T ONG before Hitler's house was blown up it crumbled about him. ' The average American gal buys 3.5 hats per year. Oh, that's what we've been seeing the .5! The goal of the United National Clothing Collection is high up in the millions of pounds and part of that weight is on your shoul ders! A scientist says we will all be defld in 20,000 years. Just for the fun of it, let's wait and see. v-t mm m ionana i o Receive Foo it! d Relief Given Through Agree, ment to Allov.- Allied AiJ to the Famine Ridden Dutch starvation, was agreed upon at air- hiiherto-secret meeting of high allied and enemy officers Monday. The conferees, headed by Lt. Gen. Waller . Bedell Smith, chief of staff to Gen. ,Dvight D. Eisen hower, and Arthur Styss-Inquart, nazi commissar for Holland,- met i in an unnamed Dutch village to , arrange the relief deliveries. PARIS. iU.P. The Germans opened Holland to allied food trucks and ships today under a mysteriously - arranged truce agreed upon by. both sides, to provide hr.ediate relief Tor the famine-ridden Dutch people. Hundreds of allied trucks, piled Adolf once had a beautiful view j high with food and relief supplies. WINDSORS ARRIVE . MIAMI, Fla. X'J.R) The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived here today on a journey which may take them back to Europe and possibly to the Britain 'he once ruled. kindle a fire in students who now never lvallv awaken in their nossibilitips. So its every day .' u u ...ut a : ,iU Mean-while 'Senator vtuuiu uc wiu .leaning, uiuuiauca, eiane- should be put out one good story to 'the newsmen at his chalet near Berchtesgaden Now it's a beautiful view to us Americans Wed In Aleutians ing. and dozens of other desirable activi ties; I People insist upon doing something, nd usually doing it with other people. Many people do not have any great desire to indulge in the so called finer things of t life, but they would swim, skate, dance and bowl in desirable surroundings, if they were available. i 'Plattsmouth needs and could have a good outdoor swimming pool, skating rink for . both ice skates and for roller skates Connally has said little. sawed wood. But the other day when news reach ed the delegation from Washington that Himmler had approached Churchill regarding a surrender, it was too much for Long Tom. He got even for all the news tips Vandenberg had been feeding out by handing newsmen the story. One little-noticed difference between the U. S. and Great Britain on one hand, and Russia on the other hand, at San Francisco is the western allies attitude toward punishing war criminals.'-- It may, get squeezed out in the discussions be tween Stettinius, Eden and Molotov, but the Russ itns took an alarmist-view, of the way in which the state department squeezed out Pell as head of the American tlelee-ation tn tho war jt; London. mission in .London, lhis commission is charged and a vnnci nlacc tn hold dancp fhilrlron V u s against axis war cnmin- ana a gooa piace to noia aances. unuaren; als and seeinf? that they are brought to triaJ jn do. not grow up doing nothing; they do ! stead of organizing World War HI. Durinc the worse than nothing or better than nothing. A few opportunities to do better would re duce the number who do worse. . :Taking a handful of children away to a camp each summer is .not going to help much, especially when the handful come past year, sincere, graying Herbert Pelr maneuver ed himself into a position where he "was scheduled to be head of the whole allied war. crimes commis sion. Instead he was thrown out, The real inside story of Pell's ouster has never before been told. What actually happened was that at one of, his last commission meetings in London Pll . nrftfinciol It o 4-y , .... rn,ruin.u iioi utrman noiain" nazi from the families having some ability to ! PartJ' membership cards from Number 1 to 100 direct their children without camps. It r" ginauy funded the nazi i, '"ii i , , , V.1 movement) be put to death without trial. Should be natural and easy for Platts-1 This proposal so infuriated appeasemenUmind- rnuutn cnuuren to swim, SKate, DOWl, piay j -u unuan meniDers ol the commission that they ball and dance right here in the center of Hwn with good well planned supervision always on the job. Plattsmouth needs first of all a City Auditorium. Those who object to the cost might well investigate the cost of keeping part'of our population in various state In stitutions. Cities with a well rounded recreation- program spend more tax money for recreation but spend less for crime, de linquency and insanity. Go to the court house and ask for the official figures on the number of persons we. have in state institutions and then de cade whether or not some tax saving meth ods are not truly criminal. :- ; plattsmouth young people need and deserve a city auditorium and a swimming pool; the people of Plattsmouth can not afford to allow the city to continue to take chances upn weu rounded develop-; ment of tomorrows citizens. tipped off state department pals 'in Washington, whu went to work on 1'ell and caused his removal. early Although several ' months have passed since Pell's ouster; nothing has been, done to give America real representation on the war crimes commission, despite the recent hideous nazi' atroci ties. -- Here is the general conversation which took place between , President Truman, one-time Mis souri farm boy accidentally hurtled into the presi- uvuvj-, uu foreign. Minister wioiotov, who made a trip to Germany, in 1939 which we understand was his first trip outside his own country. ; The first 15 minutes of their 40-minute con versation dealt with regrets over President Roose velt's death and Truman's delight that Molotov had come to the United Nations conference. Then the conversation turned to Poland, and Truman reminded Molotov of theYalta pledge that some of. the London Pc'les would "be brought into the Lublin cabinet' in order to make it a democratic government. . . Truman sai dthat since Yalta this pledge ''not only had been ignored but that Russia had made the 'Lublin government a now constituted an ac complished fact" by signing a long-term alliance with it. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bei! Syndicate, Inc.) ficials into the single ill-starred measure, has been vociferous in supporting the proposition. With every motion to kill, offered each time the bill comes up for dis cussion, he " has increased his ef forts to persuade senators to show patience in discussing the multitudinous phases. Amendment flooded the legis lative clerk's desk, a majority seeking increased wages for the county officials, and a slim min ority lowering once-amended pro visions to conform. The process ion of senators to the front of the chamber moved Sen. Don Hanna Brownlee, to comment: ''Everyone has his friends tak en care of, and the result is that county salaries are all out of line." Advanced from general to se lect file, the bill was amended to provide the following changes: ( Counties of Class 2 County Judge, Counties with 2,750-6,500 population County judge, SI, 600- $1,700; county clerk, and county treasurer each $2,000-$2,100 ; sheriff, $1,300-$1, 100. Counties of 6.500-13,000 popu lation County clerk and county treasurer, each $2,200-$2,300; sheriff, $1,500-$1,600. Counties of 13,000 - 15,500 population Register of deeds, $1,60041,700; county superin tendent, $2,100-$2,200; county juidgr;. $2,200-$2,400; county clerk and county treasurer, each $2,200-$2,400; sheriff, $1,750 $1,850. Counties of 16,500-20,000 popu lationCounty assessor, $700 $300; sheriff, $2,000-$2,100. HEADQUARTERS, 11th ALASKA, (U.R) Marjorie Jean Burt, Duluth, Minn., and Warrant Officer Russell J. Ycag er, (5920 Southwest Ave.)' St. Louis, Mo., April 26 became the first American couple to be married in the Aleutians at a ceremony performed by a navy chaplain, it was disclosed today. They exchanged monel metal rings made in a navy machine shop and spent their honeymoon at the quarters of Maj. Gen. Davenport Johnson, commander of the lltn army air force. Mrs. Yeager, a Red Cross work er, will return to the United States because service men's de pendents may not live in the territory. She is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Roy E. Burt, (5414 E. Superior), Duluth. began rolling through the Canad- j ian First army" lines into German- occupied western Holland at sev-j en a. m. today, when the local j truce went into effect. j The convoy brought in an esti-1 a a i." i mated l.ui.tu tons oi iooa to ue; LAST EXAMINATION . : Announcement from Wayne O. Reed, Superintendent, State De partment of Public Instruction : The special ' examinations for the Temporary Certificate will be conducted; in .the State Capitol Building, Lincoln, on Saturday May 5, 1945.- ..This is the last examination for the school year of 1944-45. Wednesday evening City Trea surer M. D. Brown and his son, S M 2-c James Douglas Brown, home on leave from the navy, were in Council Bluffs. They were guerts at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Gallagher, the latter a sister of Mr. Brown and aunt of James. di?tributed bv Dutch authorities! without interference from the! Germans. Official spokesmen said; it was hoped to maintain this ton- nage daily by road, augmented by) whatever food could be dispatched j to Holland by sea and air de- j livery. j Dispatches from Canadian First I army headquarters said the first j allied relief ship is now enroutei and is expected to reach Rotter dam shortly. At the same time, 25 allied medical teams were standing by! behind the Canadian lines, ready j to enter Holland immediately with equipment for scientific i feeding if necessary to aid those Hollanders in advanced stages of starvation. . ' The truce, promising immediate j help for some 3,500,000 Dutch men, women and children in im minent danger of death from YOUR BEST BET Den' d.he an uninsured car and risk so much. Buy your insurance protection from Phone 9 SEARLS. DAVIS GOOD FEED PROFITABLE A; slate colleg2 survey cov ering ever. 7, 009 dairy cows produced thess conclusions: 1. 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