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0 , r - -- - - - - - A VOL. NO. LX1 " pL ATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, MAY 14, 1945 ' NcTls I . H J Mother's Day Brings Many Home Reunions Many Homes Bright With Re unions and a Number Journey to Other Places for Day Despite the facts that a large part of the homes of the city have sons cr daughters in the armed services, there were a great many very pleasant home gatherings Sunday in honor of Mother's day. The country home of Mr. and Mrs. John Alex-en brought the nrembers of the family in this lo cality together for the day and a family dinner. Mrs. Harry Port er and Betty Alexsen were home as was Mrs. Chester Lagerstrom, j April meeting of the club met son and daughter, Irene Alexsen : at the home of Mrs. Lulu Wolfe, tnd Andrew Alexsen. The two j hostesses being Mesdames Earl children, Carl Alexsen and Mrs. 'and Eruce Wolfe. Tinus .Bomberg, f California.! Meeting was called to order by sent a very lovely bedspread as : . 1 , i Mrs. Lois Bestor had as a j past officers hold their offices guest for the day Miss Catherine ' for the ensuing year. Aschenfeller of Omaha while the! A motif n was made and second son, "Butch" Bestor, spent the ! ed that we take up the Reading day with his grandparents, Mr. j Extension for the coming year, and Mrs. W. 0. Trocp of Ne-jThe rest cf the afternoon was hawka. j turned into a sci;.! good time. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Born cf! The fo:iowin,r month our ciub this city were entertained at the ! home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hennings west of the city and Mrs. Elizabeth Hennings, mother of Herman, was also a guest. Mrs. E. M. Buttery spent the day in Union with her daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Younker and family. She remained over to attend the graduation of her twin grand daughters, Margie and Margaret Younker, who are completing their studies in the Union schools. Mr. and Mrs. Roy O. Cole and j family spent the day at home and; , ., ! in the afternoon visited Council ! Bluffs with M. C. Keefer, of j (jlenwood, father cf 31rs. Lole. who is at a hospital under treat ment. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Donat were at Council Bluffs to visit Mrs. Donat's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Jordansen and Mary Ann. Mrs. J. A. Donelan was at Papil lion to visit at the Karl Erown home for the day. The home of Mr. and Mrs. James Qiunette, Sr., on west Main street was the scene of a very pleasant partv with the daughters, Mrs.. Gail Blank and daugher, Juc'ce Ann. home as well as Mr. and Mrs. Conant Wiles of Weep ing Water. S. Sgt. James Quin-jsnend the time with the parents, ette. Jr., now in Germany, sent ; Those here were Mr. and Mrs. a floral Greeting. j Georqe F. Swatek and children. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Long and, Stephen, Billy. Carolyn Lon of daughter, Nancy, of Pacific Jun-j Lincoln: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sp2s ction were here Sundav to join j tat aid children. Billy, Jimmie in a Mother's Day fathering at j and David of Omaha, Mr. 2nd the home of Mrs. Nelle Shea and; Mrs. William Nelson and son, with Mrs. Hattie Kirker, the mo ther as the guet of the day. Miss Ilia Kirker also joined in the pleasant event. Mr. and Mrs. Don J. Arundel, euests at the home of Mrs. V. T. and dauehter, Marilyn, and Wil- Am, Sr.. end to visit Mrs. An liam Brigrs. brother of Mrs. Ar- derson, their mother, undel, were in Fremont Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Harry Royal of fs guests at the home of Mr. rnd: Lincoln were here Sundav to vi Mrs. J. F. Briggs, parents of Mrs.' sit with Judee C. L. Graves fath- Arundel. VETtRANS RETURN UNDER NEW SYSTEM Pvt. Wartin J. Fell, veteran with 108 points (33-months overseas and 4-majcr battles) who was aviaiting discharge at Jefferson Coach Stewart At Fort Lewis Pfc. Merle L. Stewart, who served as the athletic coach of the Flattsmouth high school, up to the last two months, is now saticned at Fort Lewis, Washing on, one of the large military es tablishments of the country. The coach has been assigned into physical reconditicnary in struction and will serve in aiding the caches of men returned from overseas. He is expecting to be assigned into a convalescent hos pital for his work. The coach states that he has his basic training to take and also six weeks of medical school. Lewistsn Social Circle Club president. Being election of off i- ...... . . r - n . - . . f . 1 I- n i- Vi . . 1 met with Mrs. Harry Gobelman,'; assisted by Mrs. Oliver Schreiber. J Being Y-E Day the meeting i was carried out m a ratriouc motive. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Tony Klimm, as sociate hostess Mrs. Ray Creamer. County Clerk and Mrs. Geo rge R. Sayles had Dr. and Mrs. P T. Cpmrbell of Omaha here , , ... M , , ". Campbell be?ng a daughter of the Sayles family. Mr. and Mrs. Major I. Hall were in Glenwood for Mother's day and spending the time with Mrs. Grace Hall, mother of Ma jor and Miss Elizabeth Hall, a sister. Mrs. Mae S. Morgan and Clara Mae Morgan of Omaha were here Sunday to spend the day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. II. Wes cott. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chae of Lincoln were also guesta in the afternoon. The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Swatek was the scene of a very pleasant family party as fll of the children and grandchildren were here for the day and to Brian Bovd and Miss Wilrra Swa tek of this city. Mr. nnd Mrs. Frank Anderson of Union were hore Sund?v as er of Mrs. Royal for a few hours. Seventh War Loan Drive Starts Today Goal for the Nation Set at $14,000,000,000 Cass County $758,000 WASHINGTON (U.R) The government today officially open ed its Seventh War Loan, aimed; to help finance the war with Japan and combat continued in flationary dangers, with a re minder that ''there Ls no truce for the men on, Okinawa." The Seventh War Loan, with a total of $14,000,000,000, will seek to collect 25 per cent more from sales of $25-$l,000 E-bonds to the man in the street than any previous drive. The E-bond quota is $4,000, 000,000 $1,000,000,000 more than the E-bond goal in the Six th War Loan which had the same overall quota as the Seven th, $1-1,000,000,000. Sales goals of bonds to all individual invest tors in the current drive is $7,000,000,000 $2,000,000, 000 more than in the Sixth War Loan. Pushing the sales of E-bonds, intended chiefly for smaller in come investors, will be the big job of 6,000,000 volunteer work ers enlisted by the treasury for the campaign. To" meet the $4,000,000,000 quota, these volunteers will have to sell a bond to virtually every one of the 85,000,000 people who have bought bonds at some time during the war. Some $30,500,000 worth of E-bonds have been sold since May, 1940. here have been, of course, a good many redemp tions. Assurance of officials that this drive would succeed as have all others so far was voiced by Sec retary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who said in a broadcast opening the campaign "We cannot fail, ws cannot fal ter." Ruth Lowson To Graduate Soon The school friends of Miss Ruth Lowson, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Lowson, former Plattsmouth residents, will be in terested in learning cf the forth coming graduation of Miss Ruth from the Wesleyan university at Lincoln. The graduating exercises will be held on Tuesday, May 29th at the university and will mark the fifty-sixth graduation of this long established Methodist school. Weather Forecast High 48 Low 42 Nebraska forecast: Light rain, ex cept rain showers and thunder storms southeast. Freezing rain or snow north, light rain south. Cooler southeast and extreme east. Low temperature 30 north to 35 southeast. Light rain south, partly cloudy and warmer Tues day. Moderate to strong north easterly winds. Barracks, surprises his mother, Mrs. Louise Maloney, St Louis, Mo., when he returned home under the new point sys tem. (NEA Telephoto) Two Men Badly Injured When Charge Explodes Dale Campbell May Lose Sight of Eyes and Elwood Snodgrass Badly Bruised Dale Campbell, 17, and El wood Snodgrass, a prominent farmer of southeast of Platts mouth were badly injured Satur day while they were engaged in blasting on the Snodgrass farm to drain off a section of low land. There were several of the charges laid along to blast open the waterway and drain the land, one of the battery charges failed to go off and the two started to working on the wiring when sud denly the explosion took place, the two men being almost direct ly over the heavy charge of dyna mite. The force of the explosion hurled them into the air and some distance away where they lit in the debris and dirt caused by the discharge. The explosion tore a hole some four feet in the ground. The injured men were taken in a wagon to the Snodgrass home and the Caldwell ambulance took Campbell to Doctors' hospital while Snodgrass was taken in the Sattler ambulance to the Imman uel hospital.. Both men were very seriously hurt and it is thought that Camp bell will lose the sight of one eye and possibly both.Sr.odgrass was cut in a great many places over the face and his hearing seemed to be badly affected by the explosion: Homer Campbell, father of Dale, who was at the scene and assisting in the blasting was also injured by flying particles that cut up his face some. Death of Former Murray Resident. The death of Mrs. Walter Jchr son, former resident of Murray, occurred on Sunday at her home at 6337 North 33rd avenue at 2:30 a.m. at the age of thirty-six years, ten months and ten days. Nora Elizabeth Wilson, daught er of John and Elizabeth Wilson, was born in the vicinity of Mur ray and where she spent a large part of her lifetime. She married Walter R. John son of Plattsmouth, July 3, 1928. To this union were born three children, Lavina Mae, Charlotte Elizabeth and one son who pre ceded her in death in infancy. She leaves to mourn her pas sing the husband, Walter R., her father, John A. Wilson, of Mur ray, six brothers, Albenta of Wa hoo. Font of Plattsmouth, Kee of Washington, David of Kansas Wayne of Missouri, Levi of Dun bar: four sisters, Mrs. John Crump of Oklahoma, Mrs. Russell Wilson of Omaha, Mrs. Herbert Beins of Kansas, Mrs. Roy Beins of Platts mouth, a number of nieces and a host of friends. Preceding her in death is the mother and one sister who died in infancy. She was quite active in the Eastern Star and was an officer in the order. The funeral will be on Tuesday, May 15th at 2 p.m. at the Fitch mortuary, 3Gth and Farnam streets. Burial will be at Forest Lawn. Shubert Man Dies Here Sunday C. M. Conover, of Shubert, Nebraska, arrived in the city Sat urday to visit with his daughter, Mrs. John L. Foster and family, who live in the west part of the city. Sunday while out in the yard at the Foster home Mr. Conover was suddenly taken ill and died almost instantly from a heart at tack. He had come here planning on going to Omaha Monday with the members of the Foster family to meet a son, stationed in the air corps and who was expected in Omaha- Read Journal Want Ads LOAN DRIVE STARTS TODAY Netab Campfire Fetes Mothers Saturday evening the members of the Netab campfire girls staged a dinner party for the mothers, commemorating Mother's Day, the girls preparing the plans, cook ing and serving the repast. The- dinner was served at the St. John's hall that had been most attractively arranged by the girls in honor of the occasion. The hall was decorated in the spring flowers with purple and white as the color scheme. The girls that had charge of the preparation of the repast was Janis Schmidtmann, Elva Jean Smock, Phyllis Snodgrass, Jean ette Rhylander and Sally Tess Gaines. In addition to the dinner the mothers were entertained by a program arranged and presented by the girls that was most en joyed and was a fine tribute to the spirit of Mother's day. 1 Each of the mothers received a picture of the Netab group that had been taken by Dr. P. T. Heineman, these being in very attractive folders that had been made by Mary Jo Rebal. ! Mrs. Henry J. Donat, guardian, and Mrs. Richard Logsdon, as sistant guardian, assisted the girls in the pleasant event. Another group of the members will later srrange and give a din ner in honor of the fathers, hon oring father's day in June. Baccalaureate at Union Sunday The baccalaureate services for the Union high school were held on Sunday evening at 8:15 at the Methodist church in that citv. A very large attendance was pres ent to enjoy the fine service ar ranged. The processional was played by Mrs. D. Ray Frans and the invo cation offered by the Rev. T. Porter Bennett, pastor of the church. Mrs. Lewis Mougey gave the cal solo, "Hold Thou My Hand" with Mrs. Frans as the accompan ist. Rev. Bennett gave the sermon, filled with inspiration on this im portant part of the life of the class. The members of the class are: Gladys Irene Comer, Lester R. Hathaway, Cecil J. Klein, Eugene P. Lutz, Doris Laverne Martin. Lola Ann Midkiff, Robert L. Mor ton, Bessie Ann Nichols, Mary A. Roddy, Jack W. Scott, Ruth Evelyn Stine, Harold C. Willis. Robert A. Wolfe, Margaret June Younker, Marjorie Jean Younker. The graduating exercises will be Wednesday, May 16, at the Baptist church at Union. Fine Service Held on Sunday The beautiful service on Moth er's day and "The Day of Pray er and Thanksgiving" was observ ed at the First Methodist church by the pastor,' Rev. T. Porter Bennett, when he administered the sacrament of baptism on Everett Newton, Delta Day Newton, Rich ard Everett Newton, using water that the pastor brought from the River Jordan in Palestine. At the same time the pastor received into church membership, Mrs. Robert L. Hill. Miss Sharon Hill, John Hill, Everett Newton, Mrs. Everett Newton. The church re gards all children who have been baptized as being in visible coven ant relation to God and under the special care and supervision of the church and are enrolled as preparatory members. Richard Everett Newton was thus enroll ed as a preparatory member. The choir sang, "Hymn of Peace," by Keller, and Mrs. R. B. Hayes sang a9 a solo, "Mother Machree." E. H. Wescott presid ed at the organ. W. A. Davis To Omaha Hospital W. A. Davis, well known resid ent of the city, is at the Univer sity hosspital at Omaha where he was taken Friday for treatment. Mr. Davis was taken to the hospital by the Caldwell arbul ance. ' MONGOLIA mm BURMA Hong Rang RENCH 4NDO-CHJNA r.'iSoigon v recked il- 1 . . in I Jops ame.ii p Saigon -jrs "4 from Burma, British took to Singapore -f . X x. t X&2&0'-- ttfotiii&hJo Tonka IndianOcean 5 INDIES : DGntnAU$TRAjJ4ff TODAY'S WAR MAP The wreckage of Saigwi. The Chinese counter-offensive to pjsh the Japs from the U. S. air base at Chihiiiing and the record attacks by B-29's on Japan spotlight the increased tempo of war in the Pacific. (NEA Tele-map) District Court of Honor Held At High School Features Mother Day Cere mony at Which Many Boyt Giv en Advancements The Mother's day court of hon or of the Boy Scouts of America was held on Sunday afternoon at the Plattsmouth high school and quite largely attended despite the threatening weather. Carl J. Schneider, disrict presi dent, presided ever the meeting and E. H. Wescott, scout execu tive over the awards. The program presented com prised the following: Assembly Call James Alkire Entrance of Troops Presentation of Colors Flag Salute Invocation Rev. J. "W. Taenz ler, Pastor Christian Church America Audience Formal Opening of District Court E. H. Y.'escott, Dist. Adv. Chm. Tenderfoot Presentation of Second Class Aw-ards Dr. Leonard Fitch, Dist. Treasurer Presentation First Class Awards Supt. T. I. Friest Presentation Merit Badge Awardss Milo W. Price, P.H.S Prin. Presentation Star Awards Carl J. Schneider, Dist. Chm. Presentation Life Award-Rev. T. Porter Bennett, Pastor Metho dist Church Our Youngest Troop Rev. Fr. Edward Tuchek, Pastor, Holy Rosary Church. The Scout's Mother Frank M. Chase, Scout Executive, Cohn husker Area, B. S. of A., Lin coln, Neb. God Bless America Audience Benediction Rev. T. Porter Bennett. TROOP 365 Louis Swoboda, Scoutmaster Second Class: John Dougherty, George Forbes. First Class: Tom Rohan, Dan Rohan, Richard Bintner. Star: Charles Fulton Life: Robert Gaines Merit Badges: Thomas Pucelik, First Aid, Personal Health, Read ing, Pathfinding, Music, Animal Record B-29 fortes hit Tokvc. other yiodivoVrokJ Jop cities, oirfwtdsl mine Jap waters Tokyo PAN fWO JIMAv, FORMOSA ftnat Okinawa push under way Kcng Pacific Ocean GUAM Luzon. M-ndanao cleanup continues V 1 j ' j CAROLINE ISJ lAussies battle EQUATOR r j Industry; Dan Rohan, Music, Farm Home & Its Planning, Farm Layout & Bldg. Arrang.; Tom Rohan, First Aid, Farm Home & Its Planning,"Farm Lay out & Bldg. Arrang.; Richard Bintner, First Aid; Charles Ful ton, Personal Health, Farm Heme & Its Planning, First Aid, Ani mal Industry; Robert Gaines, Ath letics, Physical Develop ment First Aid to Animals, Wood Carv ing. First Class: Richard Bintner, Tom Rohan. Dan Rohan. Merit Badge: Richard Eintner, Farm Home Building and Ar rangement, Firemanship, Safety, Farm & Home Planning. TROOP 366 Dwight Edwards, Scoutmaster Second Class: Dale Brookhous- eK Donald Grassman, John ChambcMain, John Glare, Jr, Smalley. First Class: Carl Ofe, Leon El liott. Star: Dick Jones, Jim Alkire, Chas. Newtcn, Leon Elliott, Life: John Howard Johnson, Jim Doody, Cyril Kocian. Merit Badges: John Howard Johnson, Public Health, Reading, Safety, Physical Development; James Edwards: Personal Health; Cyril Kocian, Personal Health, Reading, Pathfinding, Woodwork, Firemanship, Public Health, Phy sical Development, Wood Carving; ! Dick Jones, Book binding, Handi craft, Leather Work; Carl Haith, Handicraft; Jim Doody, Physical Development, Bird Study, Wood Carving, Wood work, Book bind ing Public Health, Pathfinding, Reading; Leon Elliott, Wood Carving, Civics, Personal Health, First Aid, Pathfinding; James Al kire, Music, Personal Health, Pathfinding, First Aid, Safety. TROOP 367 Leister Thimiran, Scoutmaster Second Class: Manfred Mor itz, David Friest, Jerry Sharp nack, Merlyn Hodge, Irvan My ers, Laverne Haley, LaVay Ro zell. First Class: Gordon Green, Glen Hamilton, Kenneth Rozell. Star: Ray Tincher, Bobbie Cap pell, George McConkay, Bill Baumgart, Jake Taenzler. Life: Larry L. Thimgan. Merit Badges: Frank Cheval, Safety; Glen White, Publie Heal th, First Aid, Personal Health; Ray Tincher, Handicraft, First Aid, Personal Health, Public (Continued on the next page) GUAM U.R The biggest B-29 armada of the war more than 500 Superfortresses shower ed 3500 tons of fire bombs over nine square miles of Nagoya to day in an attack even heavier than most of the air raids on Germany. The Superforts were believed to have burned out more than twice the area destroyed in two fire raids made at night last March. In a daylight attack, the planes deluged Nagoya, Japan's main aircraft manufacturing cen ter and third lrgest city, with more than 500,750 fire bombs. Early reports indicated Ameri can losses were light. Returning flyers said flames and smoke pos sibly made it imposible for the Japanese ground batteries to go into action. The attack exceeded in weight most raids made by the Ameri can Eighth Air Force and RAF against Germany. It underlined official warnings that Japan faced fver greater destruction than the shattered reich unless she sur rendered. Radio Tokyo said another hug; American air armada of nearly 1,000 carrier planes was raiding southern Japan for the second straight day, apparently concen trating on bases from which Jap anese suicide planes have ben attacking shipping off Okinawa. On southern Okinawa, U. S. marines were slugging it out with desperate Japanese in the north ern outskirts of the capital city of Naha in a battle as bloody as any on Iwo. One marine company lost 50 per cent of its strength in the past two days. Other Japanese attempted to land behind American lines five miles northwes of Naha and were wiped out to the laFt man. A Tokyo broadcast said 100,000 American troops have been land ed on Okinawa. Air bases on the island were being expanded to handle 200 American aircraft, the broadcast said. The B-19 raid on Nagoya, 165 miles west of Tokyo on the main Japanese home island of Honshu, marked a renewal of the fire raids in which Superfortresses burned out 53.68 square miles of Tokyo, Yokahama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and Kawasaki in March and April. More than 32 square miles of Tokyo were burned out in three attacks and 5.36 square miles of Nagoya in two raids during the earlier offensive. Today's mighty armada concen trated in nine square miles of northern Nagoya, an area crowd ed with flim.sy homes, numerous "shadow" factories and the huge Mitsubishi electric woriks and Chigusa plant of the Nagoya ars enal. B-29s from Guam, Tinian and Saipan rendezvous near Iwo for the attack and thundered north in columns of 11 planes to a squadron without fighter escort. The vanguard hit Nagoya at 8:15 A. M. Tokyo time front med ium altitude and the parade of destruction continued uninterrupt ed with methodical precision for nearly 90 minutes. Each squadron dropped its entire bombload in one minute. It was an all fire-bomb raid. Each Superfortress carried about seven tons of the army air force's deadly new M-69 fire bombs, which spray flaming gasoline jelly over a radius of 30 yards. They are dropped in clusters of 38. Visits at Council Bluffs Sunday Mrs. Anna Stoll was a visitor at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sunday where she was a guest at the home of her son, Francis Stoll and family for mother's day. The occasion also marked the first communion of her grandson, George Stoll, at the St. Francis church which the grandmother enjoyed attending. t