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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 Phttsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Latin American Business Our Central and South American neighbors are estimated to have some two billions of dollars credits in this country available to pay for American goods when reconversion makes them obtainable. Big manufacturers, like General Mot ors and General Electric and U. S. Steel, may be assumed to be eyeing this large sum and laying plans to cut in on it. To the ex tent that they do, employment will be made for American workers. But Latin American postwar needs and desires are not confined to automo biles, electric refrigerators, washing ma chines, radios, structural steel, and other products of Big Business. The people south of the Rio Grande want clothing, household furnishings, hardware, jewel ry, accessories, toys, and a wide varisty of items made by Little Business. And Little Business isn't really so small. It has units with annual sales in the tens of millions. It has industries that, in the aggregate, though each individual factory is small, employ scores or hun dreds of thousands of men and women. If inha nrp to be nrovided after the war for' t Superior Race Chained " -UAiWy) 45WV 2skJBZ-lLiUr w10r m tamo. Mi i ml i i i LEONE EVERETT. Correspondent Commencement exercises for the Senior Class of Avoca hi?h ! school will be held in the audi j torium Tuesday evening May 8, I at 8:30. Baccalaureate services MRS. JUNE KYLES. Correspondent Mrs. Florence Armstrong was ; in Lincoln Thursday. MWA club met with Mrs. Myrtle' all who need them, it is not enough that Coleman ThursJay at a one o'-l Big Business shall thrive. Little Business' clock luncheon. Pinochle was; nUn must r.rosner. and must cet its share Played at two taues. in which Latin still Mr. Lincoln Dimmett U very sick at his horn.'. Junior and Senior banquet was held at the Methoditt church Fri day evening:. 'Mr. Roy Reighard who has been very sick is abie to be up and around again. Little Bobby Cole is very sick at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cope. Sgt. Myron Wright came home of the export outlets America is promising. But only very large concerns can af ford to maintain their own sales organiza tions throughout the world. In the past, smaller manufacturers have had to work through a cumbersome, inefficient and generally ineffective brokerage setup. They can not hope to win from Latin America, the business necessary to make full employment unless some improvement i Thursday to visit his parents, Mr is provided in selling methods- jand Irs- Louis Wright end ether j An interesting experiment along this j relfIves- . T. . ! ,. , . , , ,. , , ... , Dorcns met at the churcji In-! line, iiuw uciag caiauiuncu ilh an tjt 'day afternoon the time when we shall have consumer goods to sell, is the Foreign Trades Bur eau headed by a New Yorker named Budd Roth, which already has sixteen show rooms in fifteen Central and South Ameri can republics. The Bureau is a private venture, op erated for profit, and is of public note chiefly because it is seeking intelligently to fill a gap in our international mercan tile setup upon which much postwar em ployment depends. The showrooms in all instances are staffed by natives of the countries con cerned, who know the temperamental idiosyncrasies of their fellow-countrymen as few North American salesmen ever get to know them. They will sell on commis ' sion, as a spur to initiative and agrressive ness. They will act as direct representa tives of the American manufacturers who patronize the Bureau. The project may prove important for coIn- Two hundred were present. the goods it sells itself. It is more imnort- choolTof in?truction s held by iur-ii i Mrs- Josephine Vallery, Lincoln, ant, before the first sale is made, as evi- past president of a;sembiy of dence of a new spirit in which American I Nebraska. Mrs. Lois Harris of Little Business is approaching the diffi-j Lynch, secretary of assembly, cult but potentially profitable field Of Lat-hvas Present. Lodges represented in American export business. ;vrere; nay' lumo.a. "..vi., v ciuv i, v eftjjer, cevvaru, urete, Dorchester, Ashland, Milford, Palmyra, Valparaiso, Bennet, Panama and Greenwood. i i Edson Jay Woman's club will meet Tues day afternoon, May 8. Dr. and Mr. Wallace ana i Leonard of Friend called Thurs-j day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kyles. Mrs. Lula Hurlbut spent Wed nesday with Mrs. Belle Stradley. Deal-a-Deck club met with Mrs. Myrtle Guild Thursday afternoon. Seaman Lyle and Mrs. Arm strong are visiting Lyle's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Arm strong, other relatives and friends. Mrs. Joe Kyles attended a Rebekah district meeting in Lin coln Tuesday. Mrs. Robt. Wall, Mis. Truly Wall and Mrs. Roy Comstock at tended Achievement Day in Weep ing Water Tuesday. Rehekahs held district meeting Tuesday. Delegates from 15 Re bekah lodges in Dist. No. 7 open ed session in IOOF Hall in Lin- QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Q Who originated latitude and longi tude? A The ancient Greeks. Q Why do mechanics like the jet propulsion engine of the P-59 Airacomet? A There are only 11 bolts holding it together, and a job that takes five days on a conventional engine can be done in one day on the P-59. Q How fast do our feet grow? A A boy's double in size betwen one and one-half and 18 years. Girl's feet are nearer maturity between these ages than boys' feet. . Q How many doughnuts do our doughboys cat? " 1 A BARBS '-vC TfE wouldn't mind being coaxeci " into the garden by the blister ing sun if it weren't for the blis tering hands. "Mosquitoes Give Berlin a Pasting" headline. That re minds us we must put up our scree -s. Warm hearts are best indicated right now by the warm clothing you donate to the United National Clothing drive. EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY TETER EDSO.N NEA Service Staff Correspondent CAN FRANCISCO, Calif. When U. S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. next picks up the gavel to preside over a plenary session of the United Nations Conference, it will be a tribute to the fact that he has now become a polished statesman. This doesn't mean he has been polishcd-ofr by the British, the Russians, his tailor or his barber, either. In three international conferences in little less than a year, the protocol boys in the State De partment have whipped him into shape, taught him all the tricks of the diplomatic trade, taught him when to say yes, no, or maybe when some Latin or Old World baby poses a hypothetical question demanding a firm, unequivocal evasion. Stettinius proved what a skilled diplomat he has become when a reporter asked him if it would be safe to take the weekend off and go fishing. Now this was a leading question which might have compromised the United States with every one of the powers having an interest in the Pacific Ocean, in which it is assumed the reporter wished to fish. The trusteeship issue on all the? islands in the Pacific being particularly touchy at .this time, such a question was obviously fraught with utmost significance. TT is not permitted to quote the distinguished Secretary's reply di rectly, as that might embarrass this government at some later period. But on highest authority of informed sources, it can be stated that the reply to the direct question, "May we go fishing over the weekend?" was to the effect: Do you mean fishing for fish? A less skilled diplomat might have muffed that one, but the first test of a statesman is that he never be caught off guard, behind the eight ball, dead on his feet, and with his striped pants down or out to the cleaner's. Without limiting the issue to its proper concept, the Secretary might have been tricked into giving the correspondents approval to go fishing for blondes, seals, crabs, abalone, or hidden information. THIS chess-master conduct of foreign relations is difficult, but it can be learned. The traditional school of diplomacy demands that international affairs be kept as complicated as possible, so that everybody will be happy because nobody will know where he is. Take Stettinius' position in the great controversy over who should preside at this conference. To have one chairman would have been too simple. So what do they do? They have four presidents and they make Stettinius, who is now only one-fourth of a president, chairman of the Big Four co-presidents. They call this system "rotating the chairmanship." Revolving might be more accurate. Round and round and round. Stettinius is also chairman of the Steering Committee of 40 and the Executive Ccrr.mittee of 14 as well as chairman of the U. S. delegatijn of eight. So any way you look at it, Stettinius is lop man, is doin all rieht. has the situation well in hand, and more power tc him. By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. R. S. Allen Now On Active Service) COVERING FRISCO PARLEY w Drew Pearson Say: Safety precautions lax at i were held at the Congregational FtUco paley; Quartet enters and leaves hall un-i al church at 8 o'clock Sunday molested; Eden and Molotcv dominating perscnali-; evening May G. Sneaker was l,es' : Rev. Fr. E. C. McFadden of Syia- SAN FRANCISCO On October 9, 1034, a A community picnic will bomb thrown in the streets of Marseilles killed be held Friday noon and the King Alexander of Jugoslavia and changed the j Alumni banquet Saturday even fate of the world. The Jugoslavs blamed the ' ing, May 12, at the Avoca high French for not protecting their king, and swerved ' school, away from their traditional alliance with France! ,T into the German orbit. Mrs- J- Zimmerer returned rpi , i t, , ,. - .- ! home Tuesday afternoon after lhe bomb wa.s thrown by a Croatian fanatic ,. J , , . , carefully trained in a special German sabotage ! s?endl.nff feval days with rela- school. Its repercussions started a new European ! tives in Nebraska City. alignment and helped the beginning of another j Mrs. Wm. Ilollenberg-er, wa war- ! shopping in Linccin Monday. Today, in San Francisco, security precautions' and Mrs. Wm. Dettmcr. are so shockingly loose that the same thing might jjrs easily happen, roreign delegates have complained about them, but nothing has been done. Meanwhile the ease with which an outsider can get into the conference unidentified would be laughable if it weren't potentially tragic. On one day while 46 tcp delegates, including the foremost foreign ministers of the world, were given by the people of Avoca and sitting in secret session at the Veterans' Building, ; vicinity for the United Nations two newspapeimen plus two University of South- relief. ern ,ainornia cc-eas made a test ot getting into: Mrs. Carl Zaiser and Mrs. Jul- this week. ' May day was a gala day for the young folks of the town, and many were the lovely May bas kets that were hung at the doors which helped the older ones to al so enoy the festal occasion. Mrs. James McAllister, of De catur, was visiting her mother, Mrs. Jenkins and sister, Mrs. Kay Dill, a few days this week. Sojuih M3S. WILLIAM BLUM, Correspondent Irs. John Rippc and Elaine drove to Savannah, Mo., Ia.it Friday. The Missionary committee of the Congregational Ladies Aid, sorted and packed 900 pounds cf clothing Monday, that had been four the building without credentials. carrvinar typewriters. The four typewriters could have tained 50 pounds of TNT each, totaling pounds. THRICE UNCHALLENGED The two men and two girls drove in a taxi, not a conference car, through police lines without being stopped, and walked into the Veterans' Building without showing credentials. They walk- Miss Elda Thieman returned home Saturday after having spent a few days with her sister Mar garet in Omaha. Relatives and friends of Capt. and Mrs. Allen Blum have re cieved announcements cf the birth of a baby girl, Francis Alana on April 12th at Oklahoma City, Ok lahoma. Mr. Ael Zarr who has been ill this winter has been in Oma ha for two weeks. He is under a doctors care. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Ronnau and family of Syracuse were Sun- : day dinner guests at the Clinton i Jones home. Their son Burdette, i is in the army and is located in iu.s Neumeister were shopping in Lincoln, Tuesday. Sterling Eaier went to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for his pre- muucuon examination ruesuay. ;a camp in Oklahoma. Thev cal Helping Hand Aid Society met ! lod at lhe William Blura home in "Wednesday afternoon at the t!ie afternoon. home of Mrs. Dick Berr.er. j Patty Al.m'?trong of 0maha Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Carsten, i c0f tl onA .;i, w cd the entire length of tne building, through the Carol and Sally were in Nebrw- Vr F4 hall alongside of which the 40 delegates were sit- ka C5tyf Tuesday. . eandparcnt6, Mi. and Mrs. Ld ting, and then left still carrying their typewriters.: cnnt ' fl Vr" rw wiK,r .. . . ... Twenty minutes later they returned. The taxi . . , . . j "ss erla Kau and Miss 1-ran- cis Gilmore of Omaha were week end guests at the Ed Rau home. stopped at the police lines, but both the military Mrs. Clair Wulbc-r I entertained the Avoca senicrs at j a fried chicken dinner Monday j evening. Invitations have been sent out for the wedding of Miss CharleneJ Maseman, daughter of Mr. andj Mrs. Henry Maseman of Avoca i and Walter A. Halm of Syracuse, j The ceiemony will take place Wednesday, May . at six o'clock ! at St. Johns Evangelical church; in Syracuse. Reception will be held j at 8:00 p. m. at the Anderson) Taviiion. Miss Roberta Huffman. who has been taking treatments at! ' .ur police and the San Francisco police waved to them . to go inside. No credentials were shown. They also entered the Veterans' Building without creden tial.?, walked through the building with their type writers and depaited. Later as the foreign ministers were about to end their session, the four returned again, carry ing typewriters. Again they were not required to show credentials. This time the military police were even removed from the conference doors. This time, if the typewriter carried TNT. the four peo ple making three trips to the conference hall, could have totaled COO pounds of TNT. Or on the last trip they might hae carried Tommy guns to meet the delegates as they came out the door. Neither the military pclice nor the local pohce would have known the dfference. At the opera house where plenary sessions of the conference are held, security is better. But tne .secret meetings oi tne -io top ieiegat.es a"" ; who has spent the past two months fcreign ministers at the less-guaided Veterans , in California arrivod Is?t Satur. building are much more important. I , , Should a Hitler agent, wanting last-minute j 1, !p cro i0r hcr" vengeance for Berlin and the end of nazidom.! Tho Avoca Romans club held execute a plot against these 46 key men of the ; their annual Guest and Music world, civilization would be set back for years, j day, Wednesday afternoon in the And every other nation would blame the United States for what happened. Some people have joked about Molotov'.s body guards and the Russian complaints about secur ity. But the real fact is that on this point the Russians aie the only realistic people at the con- j ference. I Note Yesterday while guards checked passes at one door of the conference, an MP left another door unguarded. So about 20 people turned down at one door streamed into the unguarded entrance. I Miss Margaret Thieman of Om aha spent the week end with her mother, Mrs. Ida Thieman. Callers this week at the Jim mie Fidlcr home were Mrs. Ber- j nard Dill and her mother, Mrs. j Nannie Christison, Jess Fidler, Elaine and Elenor and Mrs. Yyrl j Livers. Sgt. Wynne Thiesen has been promoted to the rank of S. Sgt. j He is serving somewhere in Gcr- the Brysn Memorial hospital in , , , , , . . Lincoln, returned to her home last S the Wednesday afterno. n Pmch week. Her aunt Mi,s Anna Ruhge, I le, Mr?l LU JaC,ks0n n prize was won by Mrs. George Vogel. Mrs. Glen Thieson and Gor don caled cn Mrs. Jimmie Fidler Wednesday evening to see the new babr. Tyler Nunn called on Mrs. Cor bin Cox Thursday. s War Widow Faced With A Great Problem Had Learned Husband Dead and Later Married Only to Find Husband Alive. The British "Who's IVhn" In 1944 the Red Cross distributed i lists Hitler's Berlin phone num- 34,130,000 less than a dozen a year iei man. - bar as 11-5131. Jus a bit too late twe already had his num year old Mrs. MacDowell, a blue eyed, honey-blonde, told repor ters. "I was convinced beyond all doubt that Harold was dead before I married again. Now I don't know just what to do they're both swell men." Congregational church parlors, i Members cf the Holy Trinity ! Guild met Tuesday afternoon at! the home of Mrs. Henry Straub, j and served for the Red Cross. ' Mr. and Mrs. Carl Maseman and Mrs. Kate Abker of Lincoln ! and Charles Maseman of Marys-! ville, Calif., visited relatives and friends in Avoca, Mcndav. j TOP PERSONALITIES i Mr.s Henry Masemtn and Mari-j i lyn attended a miscellaneous By all odds the two most dominating figures shewer at Cook Wednesday after at this conference are Anthony Eden and V. M. noon, that was triven fcr Mi MRS. JAVES COMSTOCK, Correspondent Harry Griff en who enlisted in the Navy some three years ago, and has seen much action in the southwest Pacific, arrived in Mur- Molotov. They put all others, including the U. S. i Charlene Maeman, bv Mr.s. Paul Journal Want Ads Sell Goods Long Beach, Calif., (U.R) Mrs. Helen MacDowell cabled "love" to her first husband today and pondered whether to stay wed to him or the man she mar ried after the first was officially reported killed in action, then found to be alive. When she learned that her first husband, Lt. Harold W. Goad, 27, still lived, Mrs. MacDoweil cabled him at the Rangoon hos pital where he had been told of her remarriage: Darhnj, am so glad to hear! you are alive. Will see you soon. I love you with all my heart." But she also is anxious to mes sage Ens. Robert A. MacDowell. Saugerties, N. Y., whom she mar ried last December in the belief that Goad was killed when his flaming plane exploded over Bur ma 14 months before. MacDow ell left last month for overseas. "I'm faced with a decision I) can't make at present," pretty 22 ABE MARTIN 'Housework an' fresh air used t' turn out some purty good lookin' women. Anybuddy that's got time t' read half o' th? new books has got entirely too much time. delegates, in the shade. Crowds swarm the St Fiancis Hotel, where the Russians live, hoping to catch a glimpse of Molotcv. Crowds crane their necks as the dapper British foreign minister enters the conference hall. The two men are direct opposites, yet their lives have been closely interwoven. One was bom cf wealthy British aristocracy, can trace his fam ily back to the first Eden baronetcy by Charles II in 1672 . . . The other comes from a worker-revolutioni-.t family whom nobody ever heard of . . . Eden is known as the heir-apparent of Churchill . . . Molotov is known as the hair of Stalin . . . Eden can and does cross words with Churchill, but Molotov is never known to have rowed with Stalin . . Molotov was in power when Russia made its famus exit from the League of Nations. Eden was in the league assembly at the time . . . Despite their diametrically opposite back grounds, Eden is the Britisher who Molotov knows and likes best. In l'J41 it was Eden who sat in the Kremlin with the Germans only 38 miles away and signed the 20-year pact between England and Russia . . . That was one of Eden's three trips to Moscow one in 1935 to discuss trade relations, the 1941 try to sign the 20-year alliance, and the trip to sign a pact with Cordell Hull in 1943. He also went to Yalta with Churchill. EDEN'S PEACE HISTORY Mussolini's recent demise probably seemed like personal justice to Anthony Eden. Mussolini hated him, scoffed at him, called him "that boy" and spread a story, probably untrue, that Eden had slipped on a rug in front of Mussolini's desk ac companied by physical discomfiture and boisterous Mussolini laughter . . . The late dictator resented Eden because cf his strong stand against the Ital ian conquest of Ethiopia and his leadership in league sanctions against Italy. Eden knows what he is talking about when he says that the world could not stand another war. His two brothers were killed in the last war. He fought all through it, coming out with the rank cf major . . . Later he did his best to prevent war in Ethiopia, staging a terrific fight inside the Brit ish cabinet against Sir Samuel Hoarc who wanted to let Mussolini have his way. Eden knew that if Mussolini broke down the league's pace machinery it was the beginning of a world war. Edeh married the daughter of the publisher of the Yorkshire Post, hates to wear glasses in pub lic, as a result has to peer close to his plate to see what he's eating. He is immensely popular with the British working classes who say: "'E's a prop er gent." Halm, Mrs. Albert Doden and Mrs. Harvey Halm, at the Cook Community building. Mr. and" Mr?. Elmer Hallstrom were in Omaha Friday. The Holy Trinity Guild mem bers voted at their annual meet ing that was held at the home cf Mrs. Paul Meyer Monday after noon to have a Game Party at the Parish Hall in Avoca, Monday evening, May 27, at eight o'clock. MRS. GRACE PLYE0M, Correspondent Mrs. T. T. Long rendered a very fine solo, as a special num- ! ray this week for a visit with his Grandmother, Mrs. Jennie Jen kins, and other friends and relat ives here, as well as with his bro ther, Albert Griffon and family at Louisville. Harry will report again for duty at his Port of em barkation at San Francisco on the 12th. The Wm. Griffen family who arrived recently from Washing ton, are now visiting at Louis ville wwth the family of their brother. Albert Griffen. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Richtci" and Mrs. Carl Vest and daughter, Judy were in Weeping Water Sunday where they were visiting with Mrs. Gay Coster and family, and assisting Mrs. Coster to cele brate her birthday. , Mrs. M. D. Cooley was able to to return home from the hospital (Copyright, John F. Pille Co.) (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) at the 'morning services at j last week, and is feeling much improved in health. Private Ehvin Coolman is in training at Camp Fannin. Floyd Campbell, S2c, a former Murray boy, is spending a few days with his parents in Platts mouth, since completing his Boot training at Great Lakes. Mrs. Olin Morris was giving the seventh and eighth grade ex aminations at the schoolhouse Friday. James Gruber arrived home Monday evening from Pncino, California, where he and Mrs. Gruber have made their home for the past two and a half years, and says the old town looks good to him. Mrs. Gruber preceded him by a few weeks. They are both happy to make the acquaintence of the little Grand daughter, Clarissa. Martina Spoicr, who is now a student at Plattsmouth High Sch ool, won an honor in the recent music contest at Auburn, when she rated good, in Girl's hih voice. ber the United Presbyterean church Sunday morning. Merdames Fred Druecker, Lloyd Scott, John Frans, and Harry Bic kett were attending the County Achievement day program at Weeping Water Tuesday after noon. T-5 and Mrs. Paul Dobbin ar rived Thursday from their sta tion at San Antonia, for a few! days furlough with the parents, Dr. and Mrs. B. M. Dobbin, at the U. P. church parsonage. Mrs. Brendel, Mrs. Park, and Mrs. Dreiuker were attending the District meeting of tho Christ ian churches last Friday in Plattsmouth. Mrs. Cecelia Wulf returned toi her home at Avoca Sunday af ter a week's visit with her daugh ter, Mrs. Fred Hild, and Mr. Hild. She was taken home by her dau ghter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hardison are now occupying the Cook house on lower Mam street, having moved from the garage house M ... -1