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i THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, MAY 21, 194: PACE TWO PA AL Rt ft St an ur gi' is Ls M p The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Wain Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. IESTEH A. WALKE2, PUBLISHES .DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Fostofficc at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mai! matter in accordance with the Acfxif Congress of Marcn 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, mail ortside 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 trail in the Plattsmouth trade area: 53 pr year, 51.75 for sx mtnths, S1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Piat'.smouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. A TOUCH OF BUREAUCRACY The brief history of OWI's proposed news blackout of Germany offers an ex cellent starting point for another explora tion o fthe bureaucratic mind, in case any one feels in the mood for such an expedition. The central figure in the story is OWI Director Elmer Davis, who apparently for got to consult the right members of the military before giving out what he said was a "military order" banning circula tion of the bureaucratic mind, in case any- cals in Germany, and turning the news dis-1 pensing job exclusively over to OWI. O.Ir. Davis' explained that Germany would get only such news as would best serve the Allied governments and occupy ing armies. And he added his own obser vation that the Germans, it left free to read uncensored news from America, "would gpt too much impression of divid ed policies," and that after 12 years of j It Takes but One Arm to Told a Hoop AraMl tern'' s h ffflff W . . ' w - i R": I Barn Oat Japs f " j f MERfi WASIIW Hymn By DREW PEARSON llbjifiuiig J5 MRS. THOMAS MUftTEY, Correspondent Drew Pearson Says: Stettinius upset Rutian j lr by tiyir.g to get o!e San Francisco chairmanship; Sent (J. S. Adviser Fasvolsky has Reds worried; Brass hats cutdo State Department in needling Russians. WASHINGTON Against the unfortunate Sov iet transgressions which have marred our present Russian relations, must be chalked up a list of petty mistakes and needling of which U. S. offi cials have been guilty. None of these are basically important in American eyes, bat to the orientally was attended by a group of np- resentatve parents and teaches- of the community,. Although the . , i . was not as iarj-'e ''"I' iui, Lilt; line co operation of those present ,i j mises well for the cri'ani.Tt-'.m j The meeting opened with n t u r iv..nnihorn sol Flayed by Charles Wall John Robinson . , . . , . 1 icv, accoinpaiueu vy jh.ss Kalr iiyn Ellis, after which Joe Bi-n I- er, representative of the Basin, I Men's Luncheon Club, announce! the folowing numbers. Vocal .o;.. 1 . r Tl" 7 . . J T in.' ' ' v--.l- law, mts. aiin ;leg Marth Chic8g0 atc0. coin. and Mrs Mothors Day with their daughter, Miss Margaret itotin son, in Omaha. Mrs. Robert Baker is spending j this week with her daughter-in- bv Mrs. Carl Day. Two piano Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lane and,los by :,Irs Carl Day) "v.n.ti minded Russians, always suspicious and made more j baby, and Mr. nd Mrs. Harlan lovc Song' and '"March Of 'i so by long years of diplomatic snubbing, they are ' Gibson, and son Richard, spent; Vocal solo, Mrs. Maith "A K exaggerated cut of proportion and become very ; Mothers Day at the home of Mr. j jn The Dark''; Songs, "I: ,:. and Mrs. George Bates, at LIm-;Rain sono aRCj "Cuckoo"' 1,-- r wood. ; ghls, Susan Hobson, Joan i'i - Mr. and Mrs. Howard Colbert er Mildred Neilsen, Nancy i,i .u i j Mothers Dav, wnen their jpjest : Pett and a niann coin ),- r. at that time piouosed a compromise and it, was pre- ,r TI Kllt' dnu a i''ano J1() o. J' sumed this would be adopted. j veie 'vIr- and 'lIrs' IIenry Lr0Z' j Eender. Richmond Hobson ir: Other delegates were amazed, therefore, when ! ier- Mr" and Mrs' Eugene Colbert, duced the speaker of the eveni. Secretary Stettinius permitted the Mexican For-; Mr- and Mrs" Lloyd Colbcrt &xi(i , Superintendent Gorman of t! eign Minister to propose Stettinius' name as lull- j f-amily, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard j Ajvo schools, who told of serious. Before the San Francisco conference opened, for instance, Foreign Minister Molotov took up in hington the question of rotating the chairman- Was and Mr. and time chairman of the conference instead of rotat-1 Doty, and family. ing the chairmanship. Molotov, not understanding j Mrs. Glen Heneger. English, did not realize what was happening and j Mrs. Ruth Sahs and Mrs. Betty Stettinius was virtually elected when -Molotov rose gejj were business visitors in Lin to reiterate his point made earlier in Washington. ! C(.ln Tuesday. Later, Senator Vandenberg let out to newsmen j jrs LeRoy ell and son Bob what happened at the secret session giving a dis-! . ; from Indianapol. toned version to the eitect that Molotov was try-; wlU live ing to sabotage the conference. 1 , , . i rf, ... . , , ; in the second floor apartment at itu.-.siaiia i;vt dtviuny ituuuuiii wiitu ciic tniiiK you aie trying to double-cross them, even on Utile things, and if our handsome young secretary the home of .LeRoy's parents. work of the P. T. A. at Ah.,. ;!;, outlined plans for organizing. Th: was followed by a general di.-cu sion after which E. Thomas .uu ey was appointed as torr.rm: arc-hair man to further the oivanira tion. Chairman Stacey na:..t:l ; committee of five to act as i kv. mating and entertainment c,:r. mittee for the first meetirg tu 1 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Domingo , y,eid jR the earlv fall of state had nut th ouittm on hi r.un vnii v ' r-pent Mothers Uay vul .'luuiu S xjo-j iac ww.i.v . u,ar oiIlCtTS Will 0e C'lCCtCJ and graciously offered at the start ; ot Mr. Domingo s parents, Mr. ar.u to share the dull; routine job of wielding the gav'fcl Mrs. Oscar Domingo, before the delegates (and new.s photographers) j Merton Norris left Monday it-re uved is no telling what headaches it might have ' , 1T1 ith-.' til; us m other places. ! . . ,i. v I LUclSL. ill IC1 a WCf&S lUUUUIl ptllL Instead, the Russians got the idea that we were ! .,;th his v.:fe and hi, rjarents. Mr. 10,000 greater than casualties cn Iwo. Japanese dead alone for the e EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN Nazism, they were "out of the habit of; period totalled 4S.103. understanding what a free press means. President Truman promptly lifted Mr. Davis's ban. And in doing so he revealed that General Eisenhower had never issued the order which ?Ir, Hodge said the nightly enemy artillery fire on Okinawa hnd dropped from 15,000 .round in mid-April to fewer than 1,000 in the past week. But he warned Davis attributed to there had been no corresponding and Mrs. John Norris. t Alfred Grieger has accepted a I position as mechanic with a Me- Ccrmick Deer ing dealer, in Ne i ligh, Nebraska. Mr. Grieger took I over his new duties Monday, and the military. In fact, Mr. Truman quoted ! weakening of enemy morale, thp vor.rn n wvincr tViat -Tr-n rr-aJ. The decrease in artillery fire T " - """1"ltttiy" tl,lu jUt;i shortage or the movement ct biiouiu prevau in uermany in a indicate heavy pieces farther manner coimstent with military security." The President then mollified his lurlfo rf AT v ricric u r,,.; ui. iu. rTTrT i their defense t f Shuri - "i. i-ii. itiio u) jajui iiiai, nit; u vv i rliror-tnr- V. o A o .,1 ; :u i 1 ' ancient, outh for the final all-out effort, rp-! The Japanese were tnrecling from an moated cnstle that for r, ' --. Af f fMiit tATihirioc conieTiea at too low a levei. j ter of crivnt&l intrigue and feuds Mr. Dtvis, when he professed that the between island kings for control -Germans would get an impression of ourl0 trade witn China and Malaya. divided noliriea. annarpntlv Wcmt iha Field dispatches said the Japan- J. 7 "X" I' --r.r V . V A A V f I . 1. .1 1 : J Lh 4-1 A .v. T4-V. ue have been letting German war prison-; the aJdition of eIcctric lirht aml ers in tnis country read any English langu age publication of general circulation. And he apparently forgot that those uris- bombs, the castle's thick oners would go home some day, and if ' parapets still stand, nearly ihw Mm",,1 ..ritl, U : feet hlgh- w.i-j iLii liiciu iny iiiiprtJshion ui divided policies, their account of it would surely be as damaging as anything straight from the printed page. Why are we suddenly so afraid of "divided policies," anyway? Wasn't it our proud boast to the world last fall that we could hold an election, with all the old name-calling and airing of bitter differ ences, and still preserve our national un ity? Why did Mr. Davis want to conceal from the long-Xazified Germans the facts of American life and a continuing ex ample of the four freedoms in action? We're rather afraid that Mr. Davis, ,the lioosier Juhodes scholar and distin-! guished journalist, finally has come down with Potomac fever but bad. DY PETEH EDSON N'EA Service Staff Ccrresrondent CAN FRANCISCO, Calif. The sad fact is that after nearly three weeks of labor this United Nations Conference hasn't clone any thing more about writing a World Charter, which is what it c?.:r.s cut here for, than to aree on some more principles. That isn t quite fair either. It: c. also isolated a few principles on whir!: .: :; :.r.ve agreed they can't yet agree. Ponderous 49-man committees 's.:-.-:c actually spent days trying to draft single sentences and all the real news about the Charter thus far devel oped at Sa.n Francisco could therefore be put in one eye without causing a squint. There have of course been some nice fights about Poland and the Argentine and a lot of smoke has come out of the pots on freedom for Korea, Yugoslavia, India, Spain and vyaypoir.ts, but these side issues don't help the Charter get written. This being the situation, a good third of the working press corps originally assigned to cover this historic occa sion has Rone home along with Molotov and Eden, and there are great "open spaces in the press headquarters at the Palace Hotel where once all was merry din and shop talk. plans ligh iifr " t'1 it - ' out to put their man on the sidelines at the very start, and this impression continued especially when Stettinius reiused to permit even a four-day delay on the admission of Argentina. NOTE At the Erttton Woods conference, where the Russians finally agreed 100 per cent, they asked for various delays of three and lour oays to consult Moscow. But after these delays, they always came through in the end. PETTY NEEDLING Personal pettiness; has featured much of our recent relationship with Russia. The Russians, for instance, has never quite forgotten Chief of Staff Marshall s pix-sj coniert nce when he predicted the j Sundav evening. ' lail of Moscow in six weeks. General Mai snail was j T , , , -,.;., .1 1 t- 1. j. ,i- Mrs. Helen Clark h umjr wMiig uie wuiu vi ins iiiiiuaiy intelligence, anu is not anti-Russian. But red army generals never forgot it. Later the war department made the mistake of yanking Gen. Phil in I avmonville, the only U. S". to move his family to Ne at the close of the school year. Mis. T. R. Darnen, of Lincoln, attended the Baccalaureate i ser vice at the Congregational Chur- as moved into the former Richmond Hob son home. ' '' Mothers Day juests at the Ar thur Wilos home were Mr. and that committee are Supt. T. 2. Dappen, Mrs. Harold Myers, Mr-. Willard Yates, Joe Bender, ar.d Mrs. M. L. DeCraeme. The meet ing closed with a song by the Camp Fire Girls accompanied by Miss Ellis. Lightening struck the huge hay barn on Mrs. Chas Mye.-s fr.rm Sunday evening and co,V, pletely destroyed the buildimr r.t.d I its contents, which included inacii- inery and ofher farm couipir.er.t. John Ahrens is farming the rl:- during Robert Mytrs ab-enr while in the army. 1 The high school Junii r-Svnir.r banquet, which was served by the ladies of the Christian Church, Friday evening, had for its tl.c io the "Circus", and to make th: i scene more real, the iirst Ujcov:: ! tion which caught the, eye, v.iwn military man whom the Russians liked and who ! Iiv. Keith Saunders Oh Edson j entering the dining room v.a u .,n'-.. thu w.t.rri. ...,t .-. M.-,o,- -.,.!..;, ' Knraoa ir nrM m, fiar Trff.-.?. iiaming arena in ine center 01 with an anti-Kussian friend of Genoral Harsliall's, man and family, of Syracuse, j the room' with fcach animal hav Gen. John R. Deane. , Russian officials considered Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wiles ncj j ing the face of one ot the seniitis especially significant tne fact that General Fay- j family and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell'0 K:ae tno circus more color:"-.; monwiie, tneir irienu, was reduced in ranK ! reduced colonel. Somewhat more serious has been neealir.g of state department officials, place, the tcp adviser to Stettinius is the petty In the first Leo Pasvol- i gun slits. Thought pounded by an estimated 550 tons of shells and rock 200 American Troops Kill Many Japanese Average 1,000 Daily in the Campaign in the Philippine Is lands Is Report QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Q Who originally ruled the Adriatic port of Trieste, now under dispute be tween Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia? A Until 1919, when it was given to Italy, Trieste fell under Austrian rule for 500 years- Q How do Russian soldiers become officers? A By advancement from the ranks. Q What is the cargo capacity of a Liberty ship? A It can carry cargo equal to four train loads of 75 cars each. . . Q How are meats' and vegetables 'shipped to the South Pacific kept fresh? A Concrete refrigerated barges built by the Maritime Commission for the . Army, each capable of holding 1000 tons, are used as food depots. Q How did Nazi occupation affect Greek population? A The Greeks decreased 13 per cent. '' Q WThat is General G fraud's post? ' a Commander of the 21st Army Reg ion in France, non-combat. MANILA, (U.R) American troops, killing a thousand Japan ese daily in the Philippines, split open an enemy pocket on Luzon and seized another airfield on Mindanao, it was announced to day. Gen. Douglas C. MacArthur announced 13.8G6 Japanese were killed in the Philippines in the past two weeks. Only C02 prisoners were taken. These figures brought the total of Japanese killed or captured in the Philippines cam paign since the Leyte landing sev en months ago yesterday to 369, 818. The 43rd "division drove a wedge through a force of several thousand Japanese on Luzon by opening the highway from Nova lich.es, five miles north of Manila, to Ipo Dam. The dam itself was taken two days ago. Doughboys broke through the heart of the enemy pocket after a blistering, J, 000-ton fire raid on Japanese positions by over 50 Lightning, Thunderbolt, and Mus tang fighter-bombers as jellied gasoline bombs poured fire on them, the Japanese tried desper ately to brir down the attack ing planes with mortar shells. On the east coast of Luzon, in a leapfrogging shore-tc-,shore op eration, Filipino guerrilas landei at Dinachican Point, 48 miles cast of Manila and six miles below the port town of Infanta. On Mindanao Island, the 24th division seized Sasa airdrome north of Davao and advanced two n'iVs beyv.d 't to enter l.hc vil lage of Panacan. THIS doesn't mean that the Conference has boused down and will i advance and here they are. To the people at home whose role is merely to pray for peace, and to the outsiders and observers here at San Francisco, it may appear that the business of writing this Charter has been made un necessarily complicated. When it was found that the Executive Com mitee, the Steering Committee, the four principal commissions and their 12 sub-committees trying to write the Charter in sections were not making much progress something new was added a Co-ordinating Committee. This 19th committee, like the . . :-.v. is r.-v.v ro-.v ..sins ta watch. Committees of 49 members being wo unwieldy to get r-.r.yi'r.ing done v.ith dispatch or finality, the size of the Co-ordinatm-; Committee has been kept at 14 members and it is made up of the deputies to the 14 members of the Executive Committee. A S Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius is U. S. member of the x Executive Committee, his deputy, Leo Pasvcl.-ky of the State De partment, is U. S. member and chairman of the Co-ordinating Com mittee. Similarly, Number Two man from each of the 14 delegations on the Executive Committee, the technical expert who is supposed to know the most about the Dumbarton Oaks proposals as amended, is the man who will sit on the Co-ordinating Committee. In short this Co-ordinating Committee is rppnrcntly going to do the work at San Francisco the editing and the final drafting to re move the bugs and the inconsistencies end make the United Mations Charter a practical document. 10 i Wiles. ' Mrs. August Kiemme left V.'eJ- morning for Big Springs. Nebraska, to visit relatives. From Al J TT sky, last secretary to the Russian embassy in Wash- j lu . ou L0 ington before the Bolshevik revolution, later edi-! md Oklahoma for a visit, tor of two White Iius.-ian newspapers in New York, j The people of this community Various delegates at tian Francisco were amazed join with Mrs. Lois Davison in at the way Stettinius called on Fasvolsky for ad- i rejoicing over the good news vice at almost every turn. More than any other j which she received last Saturday, man. mis wnne Russian seemed to be the back stage manager of the American delegation. Anotner right-hand adviser to Stettinius when she rceived word from the lied Cross that her son Merle had there were bright colored stra ers all about the room. On t moles mere wrift- tpm.-i , wnpcn and merrv-jo-rounds, and for .nut cups there were toy drums. Hat ley Rector was master of cere monies who directed the follow ing r-rogram: Address of Welcome, Harloy Rector. Response, Dick Eickford Roller Coaster , Bare Back Kid- The 31t Division, driving up animously by the seven-member the center of the island, pushed commission to replace the defeat- three miles more along the Sayre highway to within 11 miles of Malaybalay, capital of Budkinon Province. Malaybalay is the agri cultural center of middle Min danao. Today's communique reported an unusual raid on an enemy con voy north of Formosa Friday night. A lone Liberator of the U. S. navy sank all five ships in the convoy, a total of 17,000 tons of enemy shipping. The big gest vessel, a combination freighter-transport of from 5,500 to 7,500 tons went down burning after strafing set off a deckload of gasoline. Australian dispatches reported that two-thirds of Tarakan Is land off Borneo now was held by Australian and Dutch troops after 16 days of fierce fighting. All important installations on the oil rich island have been captured. ed Butler. Lecman was elected to the commission on a success ful slate of four candidates back ed by the Omaha Voters League. Other successful candidates were Arthur J. Weaver, Carl W. Jen sen, and Joe Dolan. The reelected members of the commission Harry Trustin, Har ry Knudsen, and Roy N. Towl joined with the majority in choos ing Leeman for mayor. fouraal Want Ads For Results O Charles Leeman Mayor of Omaha OMAHA, Neb., (U.R) Charles W. Leeman, insurance executive, I was chosen mayor of Omaha late yesterday to succeed Dan B. But ler. Leeman. elected to the citv coiunik'-ion in Tuesday's mimioi-! pal balloting, was elected un- TVTOW, if our returning soldiers could just turn over to the wife the points they have left over! Judging by some of the cloth ing prices -folks pay, all the dummies aren't inside the show windows. British experts are going to re open Germany's breweries. The occupation army can clean things up better with a bucket of suds. Save all your grease! The war lives partly on the fat of the land! m There are 14,000,000,000 reasons why you should invest in 7-th War Loan Bonds every one of them much-needed dollars! cnampion ot Franco and the man who consistent ly opposed the republican government of Spain because he feared it was too much like the Soviet. Naturally it is hard for the Russians'to forget that Fianco came into power through Hitler and Musso lini plus the hands-off embargo policy of Jimmy Dunn; and that Franco promised to send 1,000,000 membeis of his Blue Division to fight the Russians when they had their backs to the wall at Stalin giad. Now they see Jimmy Dunn sitting at Stet tinius' right hand. Then there is Nelson Rockefeller, whose fam ily owns many of the big oil companies which prosper under certain Latin American dictator ships. No matter what his fine personal qualities, Rockefeller is bound to arouse soviet suspicions. PEASANT VS. FINANCIER There are many others Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, who has been doing an increasingly good job in the State Department, but whom the Russians remember as selling cotton to the axis through his subsidiaries right up until Pearl Harbor; Assistant Secretary Julius Holmes, who frankly admitted that he saw nothing wrong with Franco or the fascist iron guard of Rcumania; Under Secretary Joe Grew, who urged that we continue selling scrap iron and oil to Japan; and finally Ed Stettinius himself, former chairman of U. S. Steel, who has been built up by General Motors and the House of J. P. Morgan. When representatives of the peasants and workers sit down to negotiate with the scions of the Armours, the Morgans, and the Rockefellers, naturally the boys from the backwoods figure, that the cards are stacked against them from the very start. The hair bristles on their back every time a scion of Wall Street says '"Boo," even though the latter have excellent intentions. This kind of atmosphere ju.t doesn't make for harmon ious diplomacy especially when some of our diplomats were among those who ardently favored the Cliveden-set theory of building up a strong Germany against Russia. One up on the State Department needlers, how ever, when it ccmes to souring our relations with Russia, are certain admirals and generals who look upon war with Russia as a foregone conclusion. Though we have no territory that either covets, though our borders are in no way contiguous, and though our peoples when they come in genuine contact usually like each other, some of the brass hats have already proposed building 73 war ships for an expected war ae;ain5t Russia. KNIVES AND MONKEY-WRENCHES The Russians know all this. They would know it even if the admirals tried to keep it a secret, which they don't. And when the Soviet figures that the other side is out to knife them, they in turn can and do resort to the most ruthless knifing in re turn. In fact they are much better at it then ve are. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Mrs. Davisson's older son, Franklin, has joined the Sea Bees. Little Wayne Frederick Det mer, celebrated his first birth day, Wednesday by entertaining his cousin, Linda' Kay Rehmeier, and her mother, Mrs. Vincent Rehmeier, and Milton Kritzer, and Milton Kritzer, and his mo ther Mrs. Harry Kritzer, at thejR.) Zahlman home of his grandparents, Mr. j and Mrs. Fred Rehmeier where he and his mother, Mrs. Arnold Det mer are making their home while Mr. Detmer is in the Army. In The Fun House, Fat Lady (Donna) Philpot Two Vocal solos - "Going My Way" and "Candy", Gypsy Kte (Kathleen) Hike Grand Parade, Swcrd Swallow er (Kenneth) Powers Merry-Go-Round, Chief, .Tent Man (Supt. T. R.) Dappen The Big Top, Rubberman (Wni. Guests for the banquet were the seniors and the members of I R. Zahlman, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Jones. Mrs. Frank El-raard. Mrs. Wednesday evening the teach- Florence Paap and Mrs. Arnold ers of the public school were in- Detmai-. vited to the Rehmeier home for a picnic supper. The Weeping Water P T .A. More than 10,000 acres on bnt organization meeting held Tues- tie-scarred islands in the Pacific day evening at the high school have been planted in vegetable auditorium, and sponsered by the (gardens to help supply the armed Business Men's Luncheon Club, forces. i;: GUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams " WHY IM HECK, WELL, IF I PU1 "sS. WITH A LITTLE V A LITTLE ON 1 ( IliiiKSv I SCRATCH OM YOUS CAN'T KEEP AMY . g "li'iljijXV., ;A FIMOEE, DO VOL) J OF IT OM BUT i f . ; ''II 'fg ENOU3H BAMDAGE OM I CAM KEEP J fi , 'v !'!l 'r" OM IT TO WRAP 1 A LITTLE OF J vkj J 'MSMm ) ,!.. r if.v 'iVn in: 'i ""'HCO-TIED ,Tf?wiiuAk r