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PAGE TWO MONDAY, MAY 14, 1945 THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1831 Published ssml weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Strett. PlansmoiUh, Cass County, Nebraska, by Th Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER, PUBLISHER DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second claw mail matter in accordant with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION BATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. 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: $3 per year, $1.75 for six months, Sl.CO for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.03 per year, $3.00 for six months, 63 cents per month, cash in advance. Black market expands The black market is claiming another victim. Eggs, which escaped for a long time, now are falling under the racket eer's sway. The only protein food still reasonably free from such illegal influen ces seems to be fish, and developing mar ket conditions may soon remove that lone exception. Eggs were slow to attract the price gougers' attention because up to recently they were very plentiful. But now they are tightening up and the chiselers are muscl ing in. At least 25 New York wholesalers have gone out of business because they say they can't get eggs. Insiders say that other wholesalers are considering whether to shut down, try to keep going on legitimate supplies, or capitulate to the black market. Not long ago eggs were so abundant that both trade and government agencies said they were one protein you could de pend upon. In fact, the prospect had WFA worried enough to ask for a 16 per cent cut in output so that the administration would not have to turn a few million doz ens into fertilizer again this year. But the meat shortage caused a poul try shortage. Black marketers shoved the retail price up to as much as 75 cents a pound for chicken- Poultrymen began shifting from white leghorns, which lay a lot of eggs but weigh little, to breeds that lay less but weigh more Rhode., Island and New Hampshire Reds, Plymouth and Barred Rocks. Meanwhile incubator operators rushed to market to get eggs for hatching and Uncle Sam, who had been shipping to our men overseas the nutritious but not very palatable powdered eggs, discovered aj way to ship eggs in shells, and began buy ing in larger quantities. Taking one consideration with an other, the egg-eater's life is getting un happier every day. Fish, too, seemed fairly plentiful, and the black marketers pretty much ignored it. But fish also is tightening up. .. The Army has asked for 25 per cent of the Boston coach. Both requisitions are cod and scrod toward an overall order for frozen filets. The Navy wants 10 per cent ;of the Boston coach, Both requisitions are expected to be extended soon to Glouces ter, New Bedford, and Portland. Since Boston supplies about 65 per cent of the nation's fish at this season, and tfre other three ports add from 15 to 20 per cent totaling about 85 per cent from the four it is obvious that fish -filets are not going to be so plentiful for a while. ... This is exactly the sort pf situation that preceded black marketing in meat, then poultry, now eggs. Well, We Could Easily Starve It to Death M Somebody fK it' y 'Wi OUGHTA VO PEPLORABLE J amp , A BOUTTHlS ) , jj&?&&etiJf COURT OR HONOR . ! ---------------. nlmal In- I. By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. R. S. Allen Now On Active Service) Drew Pearson Says: Leahy's Jap blockade pro posal revived, first mooted 1937; Says would starve Japan into submissicn, save American lives; Enjcys senate suppcrt for; plan which state depart ment opposed. G Ts Get Chance To Study At Some Great Universities World's Greatest Schools are Available to Those Seeking Educational Work WASHINGTON. (U.R G. I.'s in Europe will get a chance to WASHINGTON Back in 1937-38, Admiral ; study at some of the world's most William Leahy, now chief of staff to the White ; famous universities Oxford and I-1 ,r. ii f. A f. .-, . A A A. - T 1 1 1 P ; "u.ua.c' ,ucVr zgamsz rjapan, wnicn, Cambridge in England, the Sor-!former residenee for the nut into off art tvh-V. hav ii.cxt.i vnn..i u.,' ' iormer lesiuente ior uie I ... w, iii'gJJb littrt HV.VUitu X call 11U1 bor and even World War II. Today, the MRS. GRACE PLYEON, Correspondent Harry Wilson is now living: in the home he recently purchased in east Elmwood. Mrs. Wilson is expected home from the hospital soon. Mrs. Cora Gerbeling, Mrs. Net tie Mendenhall, and Mrs. Lucy Lisle were Lincoln passengers on Friday. Mrs. Harley has moved into her summer bonne in Paris and the University months. Her daughters Blanche the old Leahv strateirv i heinr ,intd . . . . b. ' ri b a race neipea ner get setuca. off, especially on Capitol Hill, as the best means : f v of finishing the war with Japan. It would save ! m turPe- thousands of American lives, its proponents claim, Foreign universities will stand and would serve ai an example of how wars can on the top rung of a ladder of be won or prevented by naval blockade. ! 5choolin to be offered to dough- The propoals made by Admiral Leahy consti-1 boys still in Europe. At lower important and unwritten ; levels will be all kinds of in- traming A pleasant gathering was hell at the Evangelical Church on Sun day evening for observance of Family Week beginning that night. A 6:30 covered dish lunch eon was held before the evening services. Mr. C. F. Charling became ill while helping his son with the farm work. The physician diag nosed the case as Erysipelas. Mrs. E. F. Comer has a lovely tute one oi the most chapteis in the history of what happened .shortly ' struction from literacv before he war began. Leahy, then chief of. naval ! up through grade school and high operations and one of the best strategists the navy ; school as well as technical and has seen m years, saw all too clearly that was com-j ti , ira-m-mr ing both in Europe and Asia. At that time, 1937, I S? , V ' n Japan had just begun her full-scale invasion of!. ?, ?U, e,, Germany f0" bably will be able to start their ample of Nippon which would show Hitler and ; schooling in less than the 30 days ; Jjsplay of tulips on her lawn. Mussolini tlien feelinir the ir oats that the it was thought would be needed Many of these Plants are not do- L'nited States meant business and would stand ; to get the program rolling, four-square behind the peace machinery of the j Latest reports indicate it will world. , cioger t0 tvvo months, however, j Welch enjoyed Saturday Therefore, he proposed to Roosevelt a naval ' before the army education pro-j capital city, blockade of Japan m cooperation with the Bntisii j gram can begin in Germany. The j home of Mr and Mrs Cj( , o x - j " mam reason ior ine ueiay, n was i Ttv,q i, o explained, is the general confus ion in Germany resulting from the war. ing so well lor others this year. Misses Broderick, Kunz and in the which guaran- Aaticns and tne nine-power pact tees the sovereignty ot China. Leahy argued that by keeping i the U. S. navy in the Philippines and the Britisn lleet at Singa poie, we could cut off all oil, scrap iion, copper, Health, Firemtnship, dustry. r ' '' Larry L. Thimgan, Marksman ship, Firemanship, First Aid, Per sonal Health Public Health. Handicraft; Elmer Gochenour, Swimming; Bernard Dow, Marks- rrar.ship; Gordon Green, Reading, : Bookbinding, Handicraft; Gle Hamilton, Personal Health, Ani mal Industry; Miller Hurst, Pub- EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY TETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent a happv one on ; day when their son William, home j on furlough and his family, were j present and their son Robert who A second cau.e is the natural ; teaches at Schuyler, and Mr. and cotton and otner war mattra's from Japan. Wiih- nervous let-down U. S. troops are. Mis. Ed James were also there. cut these, he argued, the Japanese war machine would be powerless and would fold up in six months. Leahy ligured that the United States would lose its gunboats on the i'angtze river, but that aside from this the main U. S. lleet would not will in serious studies. For the most part, of schools will be used held at the at 2 P. M. following t lie Health; Raymond Him, Leath- j y Reading;! , , er-work, Handicraft, Dangard 'Reichstadt, Bookbind ing, Rabbit Raising; Bill Baum gart, Farm Records, Fireman ship, Personal Health, Public Health, Swimming, Pathfinding, Life. Saving; George McConkay, Carpentry, wood carving, Person al Health, Firemanship, Public Health, First Aid; Bobbie Cappell, Farm Home & Its Planning, Fire manship, Farm Records, Path finding, Public Health, Swimming, Personal Health, Lifesaving; Jake Taenzler, First Aid, Public Health, Handicraft, Firemanship, Pers onal Health; Kenneth Rozell, Firemanship, Personal Health, Handicraft; Dean McGinnis, First Aid, Firemanship. New Tenderfoot Scouts: Mar vin Hild, Richard Coffelt, Alfred Gross, Darrell Willianson, CAN FRANCISCO, Calif. Settlement of future threats to world peace as being worked out at the United Nations Conference is going to be just like a game of parcheesi, also spelled pachisi. This important discovery is announced after study of an elaborate JJ-nooo f Aiirrnl-- hnnlrlfit inct nut nut hv thf n State Department. Title of the booklet is, "Pro- i- i , i posals for a General International Organization as Developed at Dumbarton Oaks, 1944." To make it simple, 12 of the pages are given over to diagrams that resemble nothing so much as variations of old fashioned" parcheesi boards. There are brown, green and black arrows all over the pages to show you what to do next. The whole thing is so simple and complete in its explanations that the only thing lacking to make it a real parcheesi board is a pair of dice to shake, or a spinner or wheel of fortune to show how many spaces you advance or retreat on each move. Just take it as a game of parcheesi. Instead of having a tiddlede wink, which you call a "man" and move from one space to another on the diagram, just take a button and call it a "dispute." '4 3 .. Edson have to lire a tingle shot. BRITISH START BLOCKADE Piesident Roosevelt agreed. So did the British. auu in me laie summer oi lvui, ine riiLian a- abroad ualiy detailed six battleships, twelve cruisers and' .. , , . . , . . , , V. , , , i These are the unit school, giv- twer.ty detroyers to leave British home waters ior . , . Singapore. Just at that moment, however, the axis coursf rfSIR frora th,e ..ar..tia r...nth. r f .-hot .a yan,n. ! futh grade through junior 'col- i ing, and Mussolini slatted his Unofficial submarine the technical school, desig- t campaign off the coast of Spain which detained the 1 nated for vocational training; ! British fleet at Gibraltar. j army university study, located ( A couple of months later, however, Roosevelt ; at a military post or in a civilian ! revived the idea and sent Norman Davis, late head ' educational plant and offering i of the Red Cross, to Brussels to a meeting of the courses in arts, sciences anJ pro- nine-power pact signatures called to protect China j fessions; and foreign ' colleges, from Japan. In the interim, Roosevelt had deliver- j which have already made courses ; ed his lamous Chicago quarantine speech, warning j available. ' (that the United States might have to help put aj . quaiau me uiuuua an --i - - "r ors for the army course will be : part oi tne ouue-up ior ziunurai jeany s pian io ! quarantine Japan. ! However, the Brus-els cohference fizzled I largely because of sabotage by the state depart i ment in Washington. Norman Davis found every move he made undermined by the career diplo mats in Washington, some o them quite frankly u..uclBuuif; iui tnC ,,u yE Eervices were war m Europe. Ior a short time,i .. .... , , , . . , . , , : Community Euildmg at least, it is to dc expected tnati t i 1 j. i : .... , . Jon Tuesday, when the iney win not nave mucn interest , , , ,, , j auspices of the American Legion, four types , , . , m the i ,. , " e n T , x're.:entation oi colors iwo army s program of G. I. education' . . . ijvftiuii iiieuiLiuis. -iai.i:i:ig in 01 school children with flags. Selec tions by School band led by V. G. Clements, the numbers being "A merica," and ,':Faith of our Fath ers," Prs-yer Rev. C. F. Lind. National Anthem Band.- Mixed Quartette "God Bless America" High School Girls Trio "I Love America". Former Local Lady Visits With Queen QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Q What is the Hipo? ,. A -Danish collaborationist police. Q What does Japan's naval person nel number? .. A U. S. Navy estimates 850,000. Q What does France want done With Germany. A Military occupation of the Rhine Ifind and Ruhr, to be followed by inter national control of coal, steel and chemi cal industries of those regions. QWhat does CINCLANT mean in -?avy code? A Commander - in - Chief, United States Atlantic Fleet. r ,. q How many ships are in our Merch atn Marine? A Around 5000. Q How much foreign trade will be required to reach that much-discussed -"maximum employment"? A $10,000,000,000 a year, sayts Treasury Secretary Morgcnthau. LONDON. (U.R) Queen Elizabeth visited American WAC headquarters in London today. The girls gave her lipstick, face cfream, nail varnish and other cosmetics they have saved from their rations. The queen climbed to the fifth floor of WAC billets and chatted with the girls. Cpl. Beulah Mar shall of Lincoln, Nebr., told the Queen she had been driving in Britain "for eight months, and the queen observed: "The blackout was very dread ful for all you drivers, but, please God, that is a thing of the past now." 'T'HE idea of the game is to take a dispute and day it through suc - cessive stages of settlement moving it through spaces marked General Assembly, Regional Security Agency, Secretariat, Interna tional Court of Justice, and Security Council till you reach "Home," which in this game is called "Peace." Of course, not all disputes can be settled peacefully. In that case, the dispute leads to war. Go back and start over. Just as in parcheesi, you can put your dispute into play at several places. Shake the dice, or spin the wheel of fortune, and see what your first move will be in this game of "Peaceful Settlement of Dis putes." The dispute may be started toward settlement from space marked "Any State," "Regional Security Agency," "Secretariat," or "General Assembly." All this means is that any of these four can recognize or call attention to the existence of a dispute. Spin the wheel and see what you do next. If you don't have a war and have to go back and start all over, you move your dispute along any of four brown lines to a space marked "One." This is a tem porary safety zone in an area marked "Security Council." Move on to "Two." Your dispute is still in the Security Council, but from here there are four possible plays. Spin the wheel. The Security Council, according to directions printed along, the black arrow line leading from space "Two," now "calls upon the dis putants for direct peaceful settlement by: 1. Negotiation; 2. Media-, tion; 3. Arbitration; 4. Judicial Settlement." What happens if none of these works, the directions don't say. But if along any of these lines your dispute reaches home and you achieve settlement, that's parcheesi also known as peace. Ain't it wonderful? buffer state ! tural sightseeing tours they will Hall store in the absence of Mrs be given time for those also. I Cpl. Marshall is a former resi dent of Plattsmouth before mov ing to Lincoln and the friends here will be pleased to learn she has met the queen. Examination for Louisville Office by at The announcement is made thee postoffice department Washington, D. C. of examination for the position of postmaster at Louisville, Nebraska to fill va cancy in the office. The closing date for receipt of applications is set for June 7,1945. ' The postoffice pays a salary of $2,1 CO. The examinations will be held at riattsmouth before the ' civil service board of the local postof fice. ' f' Head Journal Want Ads ndicisd foi Mass Murder Massacre of Lidice and Wholesale Jew Murders at Door of Gestapo Chief the Laid LONDON 0J.2) United Na tions Crimes Commission has in dicted' gestapo chief Heir.rch" HhnnYIer on charges of mass mur der in the notorious massacre of Lidice and the Jewish extemina tion program, it was learned to day. At least five allied governments had lodged charges of war crim inality against Himmler, the be spectacled former schcol teacher who became nazidom's chief hang man. The War Crimes Commis sion has indicted him,, it was revealed, on at least seven count3.. It 'ranks him . No. 1 on the .list of nazis charged with the obliteration of : Lidice ' in . an orgy or revenge for the assassination wholesale .atrocities in nazi con wholesale atrocties in nazi con centration camps. The- disclosure of the indict ments against Himmler came as he apparently played an elusive game of hide and ?eek with allied authorities in northwestern Eur ope. Reports that he had fallen into allied hands were denied. One said he had been seen at the head quarters of the German high command, under the wing of which he evidently was seeking sanctuary until the status of that body and Admiral Karl Doenitz government is decided. The Russian government org an Izvestia demanded the im mediate arrest, , trial and execu tion of Doenitz. It reflected a soviet feeling of urgency that Doenitz, reichsmarshal Herman Goering; Col. Gen. Mikolaus van Falkenhorst and other accused war criminals bo dealt with as soon as possible. Great Britain, Belgium. France, Czechoslovakia and the Nether lands, have submitted to the commission separate charges of war criminalities against Himm ler, the multple indctments aganst him specifically included mass murder and systematic ter rorism both listed as war crimes by the Hague convention' Himm ler topped the list of 120 nazis and SS officials indicted for the wiping out of Lidce and the com panion village of Leazaky, in June 1942. Not a building was left standing in either village. All the male inhabitants of Lidice were shot and the women and children were sent eff to slavery. 1 hUi)DOl TvlRS. JUNE KYLES. Correspondent Journal Want Ads Sell Goods believing that it wai best to give the axb more roDe. (lt is this same croup which now believes Germany should be built up as a against Russia.) Part of Norman Davis' trouble was also the Isolationist Press, led by the Chicago Tribune and the New York News, which kept hammering away at the idea that Roosevelt was trying to get us into the war. (After Pearl Harbor, they remember ed Roosevelt's efforts to head off war and their own sabotage of his efforts.) THE PANAY INCIDENT j At any rate, the plan to blockade Japan,, fol- j Mi;;s shirl?y Buckingham of lowing the failure of the Brussels Conference in j 0maha spent Saturday night and October 1937, was dropped. But Admiral Leahy re--gund with her ct Mr. and Vived it again a year later, when, in December: Rrliinrham 1938, the Japs sank the U. S. Gunboat Tanay and MrJ- Buckingham the British Gunboat Ladybird. c r T , Jt Leahy recognized this for what it was, a de-! afternoon, May S. at 3:o0 at the liberate attempt by the Jap war lords to test out i Legion Hall. Mrs. Myrtle Cole how much insult the United States would take, j man and Mrs. Florence Armstrong and to make Britain and the USA lese face with ! served a;; hostesses. The meeting the Chinese. Accordingly he rushed to the state ! was caned to order by the presi- department and all one Sunday atternoon, t-'ec. i,i(ent, Mrs. Frank Hurlbut. Roll call was taken by Secretary Mrs. Frank Welton, with rcsponce on "A patriot I admire." Lesson: Educational Nebraska political leaders and cabinet leaders, by Mrs. Roy Comstock. Mrs. June Kyles was elected president for the coming year; Miss Mildred Comstock, vice president; Mrs. Nettie McDonald, secretary, and Mrs. Mary Welton, treasurer. The next meeting, June 12, at the Legion Hall. Solo "Lord's Prayer, Doris The great majority of instruct-! Cole Clapp. In memeoriam. , of our . three fallen heroes Rosemary John 0 : 1 Ti I m oueiii, rrajer ana laps. - Address Rev. J. A. Adams. Benediction Military Selection Band. Pianists Mrs. Fiolich, Mrs. Totman. Mrs .Don Parish clerked at the j chosen from the soldiers them i selves without regard for rank. Several million textbooks have been sent to the European thea ter. The men will be given time off from their military duties to take the courses. If these include cul- 1938. one day after the sinking of the Panay, he Urged Cordell Hull to seize this psychological mom ent to put the blockade of Japan into effect. The British were also willing to cooperate. And, Leahy pointed out, in another year, war, in evitably breaking out in Europe, would tie up the British fleet and they could not possibly help us in the Pacific. Russia, he also pointed out, had six ty submarines at Vladivostok, ready to help us cut off all scrap iron, all oil, all cotton and cop per from Japan. Without these, he argued, the Japanese war machine would be paralyzed. Pacing the floor of Hull's office with Leahy was Hugh Wilson, ex-ambassador to Germany and one of the state department's foremost appeasers. He opposed Leahy at every turn, finally convinced cautious Cordell Hull that Leahy was too vigorous, that it was best to appease Japan. Less than one year later, Hitler had invaded Poland, the British fleet was desperately needed to defend British home waters, and the fat was m the fire. From that point on there was no possible way the United States could blockade Japan though many people have never understood why we went to the opposite extreme and increased our shipments of oil and scrap iron to Japan so that she laid in tremendous reserves before Pearl Harbor. (Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, the man chiefly responsible for the policy of selling oil and scrap iron, has now been made under secre tary of state.) JAPAN CAN BE STARVED But beginning with V-E day last week, the pos sibility of blockading Japan for the first time since 1939 was completely reversed. Since V-E day, the Brtish fleet is entirely free to operate m the Pacific. So are the Russian submarines. So is the whole might of the U. S. navy, now no longer needed to watch for, submarines in the Caribbean or the Atlantic. i Today it is possible to throw up such a naval blockade around the main Jap islands, augmented by air patrols, that hardly a ton ef raw materials could reach Jap war factories. The Dutch East Indies, with their rubber and oil, could be com pletely cut eff; also Singapore and the aay states. Also the mainland of China. (Copyright, 1913, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Elmer Shreve last week. .Little Shannon Zichek was quite ill last week. Haroj' WSlUanisi is still weak after the pneumonia which he had last week alon with his other ailment, . At the Masonic Hall on Sunday, the Past Worthy Patrons and Ma trons ef Masonic and . Eastern Star Lodges with their families enjoyed their annual dinner and program. O.E.S. Kensington met Wednes day afternoon with Mrs. Myrtle Guild, Mrs. Maxine Peters, assist ing hostess. Robert Lee Cole was born July 1, 1943, died Sunday morn ing, May G, at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ev erett Cope. Surviving are his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cole, his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cope, Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cole, Weeping Water, and other relatives. Funer al services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Christian church. Mrs. Chas. Dyer sang while Miss Elizabeth Martin accompanied at the piano. Burial in Waverly. OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams AW, POOR SEE HOW 1 RATE L NOW DOnJ T STAWT TOBIEAKE J IN) THIS FAMtLV? THAT S:i.LV STDfP YOU HURT? I NOT A WORD ABOUT WALLOWiMG THOJ HE MIGHT I HINA ALLUS LAVIN' J THE HOUSE RcD , , HAVE BROKEN IN DOORWAVS---J1S A INO.' WHY CAN'T iii vour bac, my fldumoerinV CiYL you wait till 1 1 1 1 FLOUNDERING if IT'S TERRIBLE TO s--, you GET J I V OVER VOU BE A FOURTH- S2ATER.') aTV TO A ; LIKE THAT- V OOWH-1 MAV BE J kVM CHAIR? ) j ( POOR FELLOW JV CRIPPLED FER tv'? Ttf T "V ft -Ws (. ,