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PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL. PLATT5MOUTH. NEBRASKA MONDAY. JUNE 16. 194S A Choice He Can No Longer Avoid The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1S31 Published semi-weekly, Mondays nd Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER, PUBLISHER DON J. ARUNDEL, EUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, fcy mal outside the Plattsmouth 'rade irca. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION HATES: Delivered by car rier in the City of Plattsmouth, 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per year cash in advance: by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: $3 per year, $1.75 for six months, S1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, 53.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. Let's Get Acquainted The first meeting- of American and Russian soldiers in Germany may have been an important landmark on the road to world peace. Before then they had been separated not only by the enemy, but by a veil of suspicion, misconception, confusion and spoon-fed propaganda- Suddenly the enemy was gone and the veil was torn aside. Two groups of ordin ary, unpretentious, frank and well-intend, ed young men greeted one another with grins, handshakes and a slap on the back. There have been many such meetings since then. And the preponderant evidence is that the American doughfoot considers his Russian counterpart an OK guy. Gi Ivan's opinion isn't on record, at least over here. But it wouldn't be surprising if the good impressions were mutual. The Russian soldier has grown up with a distored impression of America and her citizens. He has heard witch stories of villainous landlords and employers, of starved and exploited workers, of a thous and and one evils of capitalism, until it must have surprised him to find Ameri cans looking not like a combination of Unce Tom and one of Dostoevski's more doleful characters, but hale, hearty and happy. As for the Yank, he has developed a curious, all-embracing definition of the word "Russia." Russia has meant vast ter ritories, a way of life, Marshal Stalin, the Comintern, the Red Army, revolution and liquidation, or occasionally devious, secre tive, one-sided foreign policy, depending on the speaker and the context. He too must have been surprised to run into a delegation of hale, hearty, happy citizens of the U. S. S. R. It would certainy be well if more ord inary, unofficial Americans and Russians could share these soldiers' experience. It wouldn't settle the world's problems, but it would help. We wouldn't have to like communism, and they wouldn't have to embrace capitalism. But both we and they might learn better to distinguish between persons and policies. There has been too much economic accusation and rebuttal between the Unit ed States and Russia, too much deliberate ly planted suspicion, too little effort at genuine understanding. But the realistic fact remains that these countries are the dominant world powers. They must live in friendship if they are to survive, and peace is to endure- International friendship requires' ac quaintance and understanding between peoples as well as heads of government. So perhaps a wise bit of postwar planning would be for both America and Russia to give some thought to the development of so prosaic a thing as the "tourist trade" between their peoples. M - Vgsw - 1 , ,XAr i c : Mf! f I I " ' 1 1 ' " ' WEDDELL, Correspondent , Eastern Star Kensington met at the Masonic hall Wednesday ; afternoon. j Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duckworth ; have purchased the Moore farm' : south of town. Mr. and Mr?, j Moore talk of moving to Elmwood ! when they leave the farm later : on. Eugene Pratt was accepted ab a student in the radio s-chool at j Gulf Port, Mississippi. ! Lieut. Keith Clements was a- ' warded the silver star medal for ; bravery, posthumously. Lieut, j Boyd Clements has arrived in' I the States and is expected home! on his furlough soon. Leonard Kleemm is now in the; Eiyan Memorial hospital having! j had an appendectomy recently, j j He is setting along well. j Mr. and Mrs. Russell Miller and ! little daughter are here from Cal j fornia for a month's vacation, j visiting their parents and other relatives and freinds. Donald Parish is now working in Lincoln. His daughter Donna 1 I Vel also has work in that city. i On July 7 at Kansas City Miss , Elizabeth Box and George Moom ; ey were married. They are mak ing their home on the Box farm, and Mrs. Moomey is continuing her work for the Transfer Co. here. Mrs. Harry Linder has return ed home from Bryan hospital. She b feelimr ouite well, and will 1 father and later hi? untie left Frid:y on hU return trip to the. station. YVe understand that Herman' Gakeii.eier of Louisville viciniiv. business ; will hcvi.me a Munlotk resident' in the nvar future i I i Mis. A. II. Ward and children ! .Mr. Gt:ke:nci-r ha purc-hused were Plattsmouth visitor. j Satur-i th-. Ward r. , i.ionce ;nid will pi. t: day. i . t- ! ii January It. ! By DREW FKAXSON Drew Pearson cays: Truman facet his biggest tcit at Berlin; Will find himself between two men of conflicting temperaments; British and Russian cirpiics clash at Berlin. WASHINGTON Harry Truman, the farmer boy and haberdashery salesman from Independ ance, Mo., this week sits down to negotiate with a member of the British aristocracy whose ances tor was the duke of Marlborough, and with the steely-eyed product of the Georgian mountains whose offspring are as tough as the granite hills which tower above them and who learn to shoot shoitiy after they are weaned. It will be President Truman's greatest test.. In addition to sitting down between two men of opposite temperaments and background who don't particularly like each other, Truman will find him self embroiled in the clash of two great empires which have been rivals ever since Czars were Czars One of the men The revolutionary repre sents a country with the world's greatest land mass which has been straining at the leash to get a warm-water seaport lor well over a hundred years. His predecessors, the Czars, built the trans iberian railroad to Vladivostok in order to reach out to the Pacific. They seized Manchuria to get ports which were not ice-bound in the winter, only to lind Japan blocking their way in the Kusso Japanese war of 1'JOI. They started down through Iran to the gulf of Persia and the Indian ocean, but a British pphere of inlluence was in their path. They reached for the Dardanelles in the middle of the last century, but the British and French Kent armies to fight it out in the bloody Crimean war. Churchill's Anti. Russian Past The othir man the aristocrat helped send Allied troops into Archangel and Siberia after the la-t war to encourage the White Russian generals iu overthrow btalins new bolshevik regime. IDs fiiends m the British cabinet also carved out Lat via, Lithuania, and Estonia from the old Kussian empiie to keep the new red government from the Baltic sea. The British aristocrat's friends and predecess DIVIDED CRUSIER MAKES PORT Most damaged of the ships of the United States Pacific fleet hit by typhoon. June 4, was the cruiser, USS Pittsburgh, who:,c entire bow buckled and broke loose. The ship, minus its bow, made port some 600 miles ahead of the bow section, which was recovered and towed in by another vessel. (Navy Radio Photo from Guam from NEA) Resolutions of Condolence Whereas: In the ordering of the Divine providence that pre sides over the destinies of indiv iduals and nations, our fraternal circle has been broken by death in the transfer of our beloved brother, Dave L. Pickrel to the Grand Aerie of eternity, and Whereas, In his removal Sub-! Gen. Chennault, Stormy Air- Force Head, Resigns J Paul Stock was a caller in Lincoln Wednesday CHUNGKING OJ.R) Lt. Gen. Claire L. Chennault resign- ordinate Aerie No. 365 has sus-jed as commander of the U. S. tained the loss of a loyal mem-: 14th air force Saturday and his ber whose virtues, should be held , resignation was accepted by Lt. in enduring remembrance, there-'Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, com fore, ! mander of all American forces in Be it resolved, that Plattsmouth j China. Aerie hereby testifies to the worth j Chennault announced his de of its departed brother and em- j cision to retire from the Army but presses it deep sense of the sev-;did not specify any reasons for ere loss it experiences in his per-1 so doing. petual separation from its eoun-j The reason for Chennault's cilo and its activities. .resignation was officially des- Resolved. that, we extend our cribed by the 14th air force as ors also helped write the Anglo-Japanese alliance i """-e conajiences, to tnose near, -retirement. An official state- aimed at boxing Russia from the Pacific. They ! ana dear t0 the deceased, and that ment was indicated to be forth followed a policy of making the Mediterranean a!any dependent upon him shall be coming. British lake, of controlling both its ends together j recipients of cur continued f ra- j Fifty-five year-old Texas-born with strategic bases in the middle. jternal regard and brotherly asis- Chennault has had a stormy Stalin's Demands ! tance if needed. career ever since he first formed But now the man who sits down on the other side of Truman wants Russia to have a voice in Resolved that these resolutions the world famous "Flying Tigers" be spread upon the minutes of the' in the summer of 1941. the control of Tangier, the African port just op-! Aerie, and that a cony, thereof, ! Chennault probably knows as posite Britain's famous base of Gibraltar. Who-jduly attested, by the Worthy' much as any other man in the One of Mr. and Mr:,. Carl Bo j nemeier's daughters, was taken: DLLR HUNTING AREA to the Bryan Memorial IIo-pital ! Sunday night. ! '; The area on which hunting will Mr. anad Mrs. Marvin Thomas be pennitt. d m Nebraska Xa of Ashland were Murdoch visitor? tional Foro-i i-; nearly 140 square Thursday evening. i miles in si.e and not !e.s than rrank Laurenze of Elmwood ; 1300 deer are on the area. The was in Murdock Thursday fore-1 10 H count wet e made by corn noon, ihining aeroplane counts and Mrs. George Brown is helping giound counts and the results with the care of one of licr ; from the tv- methods were very friends, who is confined in the similar. , St. Elizabeth hospital in Lincoln.! . Chairman; B. G. Wurl. ever controls Tangier can partly neutralize Gib raltar. This man on the other side of Truman also wants Russia to have a representative sitting on the board which controls Suez, juglar vein of the British empire. Finaliy he wants Russian domin-! Helen Hunter Hostess ante 01 ine r'araaneiies, me narrow passageway by which Russian shipping reaches the Mediter lanean from the Black sea. There are revolutionary demands. They cut President and the Secretary tdiall world about the capabilities of the be furnished the bereaved family. Japanese pilot, or the Japanese Committee: m. H. Woolcott, plane. Time and again, he has To July Birthday Club The July Birthday club j amazed those around him by his ability to turn hLs field glasses on an approaching Japanese I squadron and accurately call off J every move that they would met .make. He came out of Herman Schwappe is rebui ing his lar?e implement shed. j Robert Gakemeier was m Mis -1 ouri Wednesday and bnuiTht bw( a combine for the Stock-lmol ment Co. ' ;an,,n'"n at instead 01 a NAOMI CIRCLE TO MEET The Xa. 'ciiuig ai uie Home 01 Hp rsmn rnf nf rotirainortt' squarely across policy which has been "must" f or Miss Helen Hunter to observe its ' from Waterproof ka. where he ",c U11UM1 empire lor cenimies. cut otann is a tnira annual meeting. There were; was livinsr in a simrde cottaee ..""-' ".7",ul" loa memoers present. Following ajwith his- wife and eight childre" bur. he is smart enough to use political preach ments which rightly or wrongly have appeal for thousands of people in the countries around the Mediterranean. d:: eluuTh Geo Small was in Greenwood Tuesday for a !o:id of county, biidge planks. j Wayland Ward who was call-j ed from the navy at Norfolk 'a. ' on account of the death of hi;1 -irele of the Metho i! meet Thursday .' : at the church the home of Mis. Jiv-eph Capwfil a- priviou.-ly announced. Read Journal Want Ads i only nave j treatments. occasional further QUESTIONS and ANSWERS Q Name some famous men who were epileptics. A Mohammed, Luther. Alexander the Great, Caesar, Peter the Great and Napoleon were among those said to have been so afflicted. Q What is the distance from the Mediterranean to India via the Suez Can al? A Approximately 6300 miles from Gib raltar to Ceylon. Q Are farmers generally in the United States planning widespread post, war use of the airplane? A A recent survey in the midwest re vealed that 455 out of 10,000 farm famil ies are planning to buy planes as soon as available. In a nearby city, the ratio was 196 families -in 10,000. , Mrs. Aldrich is spending sever al days at Lincoln at the home of her daughter Mrs. Mary Beech-ner. A large force of men working for the M. . P railroad have ar rived. Some live in cars and trad es, others have rooms and apart ments at the Douglas home. Some of the wives and families came with them. Mrs. C. T. Charlmg is ill at her home. W. S. C. S. meeting was held at the Methodist church basement on Friday. Mrs. Wade had charge of the devotionals, and Mr;;. Cap well was lesson leader. A study of Racial Relations was made. Margaret Cook sang a solo entit led ''Holding My Hand' accom panied by Conine Lind. The auto graph quilt is to be completed by next meeting. Mrs. Morris Fenterman has charge of the work, Mrs. Harry Arnold having written the names. The embroid ery work was nicely done by several ladies.. S.Sgt. Harry Krall is at home now, he having received his hon orable discharge, from the army. The Classy Cooks met . with Beth Janet Mendenhall on July 2 for their canning lesson. If - Ldson EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN rlr rETER EDSON KEA Washington Correspondent YTASHINGTON, D. C Don't be in too mueli of a hurry about ' trying to buy a ticket for an airplane rid-? ,- Europe. Best dope seems to be that it may be three month.?, possibly f:ix months or a year, before the three U. S, airlines ran get going on the new trans- Atlantic air routes just authorized by President Truman and the Civil Aeronautics Board. Fan American Airways, American Export Airlines and Transcontinental & Western Airlines are all anx ious to begin, but three things are holding them up. 1. Lack of planes. Fan-Am has live Boeing Clip pers, Export two Sikorskys, all under contract to the military, and TWA has five Stratoliners in do mestic service. But if it can get replacements for them in two-engined planes, TWA may get the jump with service to Paris via Newfoundland and. Fovnes, Ireland. 2. Need to arrange for air bases, communica- ' lions systems, weather repotting service and ground crews in European countries. U. S. Army Air Force installa-' tions in Europe can't be turned over to commercial airline operators without a lot of dickering. 3. U. S. Department of Stale must complete agreements with some 24 foreign countries to which routes have been authorized. This is the most important requirement of all. , Agreements for landing rights have now been completed with Can ada, Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Spain. In addition, the' State Department made agreements with France and Great Britain : before the war, and Fan-American has landing rights in Portugal and Marseilles, France. Briefly, the new routes approved are the?r: American Export to operate over a northern route to British Isles, Scandinavian countries, Berlin and Moscow. Pan-American to operate via British Isles and middle Europe to Turkey, the Near East, and Calcutta. TWA to Paris, Spain, the Mediterranean dounlries and Bombay. ALb three airlines given postwar commercial rights to Europe are' operating services for Army and Navy. There is terrific pres-i sure on the Army to release some of its tour-engined transport planes j for commercial service. So far this pressure has been resisted because the Air Transport Command has been given the job of flying back ! some 50,000 troops a month. Alter that, many of these planes may be assigned to the Facific. But it would take only a dozen planes to put the airlines in international business. Even when the airlines have the planes and even when all the necessary treaties are signed, there will be other obstacles. Foreign commercial airports must be designated, radio communication and weather reporting services established, and crews trained to operate them. Finally, all these planes, crews and services will have to be inspected and licensed to operate in the United States and foreign countries to insure. tie salety cf the traveling public. That will take more time. Truman in Middle Truman, the man who sits in the middle, is no revolutionary. Neither is he an aristocratic stand patter. He is a common-sense, nnddle-of-the road man, who believes in changes when the majority of the people favor change. He doesn't speak with the same broad 'A" of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, and aside from his experience as an artilleryman in France in the last war, he does not have the same knowledge or background or European affairs. He is primarily a product of the middle west, backbone of America. That may help him. Truman is known to feel that the British took advantage of us somewhat during the European war. As a senator, he some times dropped hints that the powers that were in the White House could have stood up more to Churchill's charm. But at the same time, Truman has been irked at the way the Russians walked over us in certain matters since the armistice. So Harry Truman, former farmer and haber dashery salesman, is likely to do his best to stand up to both men who sit beside him. But at the same time, Truman has strong convictions about the importance of getting along with our neigh bors and working out a permanent peace. Anyway, that is the stage setting and the cast of characters for this, one of the most important of all big three meetings. And after weeis of send ing diplomatic couriers back and forth across the Atlantic, here are the main points on the agenda which the Big Three will talk about. 1. Agreement for an early peace conference for Europe. 2. The war with Japan. 3. The Dardenelles; whether Russia will finally realize her century-old ambition to control this vital waterway. I. A permanent site for the new united na tions organization. 5. Recognition of the leftist-controlled govern ments of Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary. (Great Britain and the United States so far have refused recognition.) G Bringing Italy into the United Nations, and finally settling Italian peace terms. 7. Guaranteeing free elections in various con troversial parts of Europe, including Poland, where the U. S. is watching Russia, and Greece, where Russia is watching the British. 8. Feeding Europe next winter. 1). Regional treaties, such as the Anglo-French treaty and the Soviet-Czech-Polish treaty, how are they to fit into the United Nations security plan. 10. World aviation bases and routes; many of these problems still remain left over from the Chicago air conference. II. Organizing a world police force to be used by the United Nations to keep the peace. This is a long and complicated agenda for a new president not particularly versed in foreign affairs. No wonder President Truman took with him more than 100 experts to help advise him at Berlin. (Copyright, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) 1 v,., llJt iflHii, uiejin July, iyai, to help the Chiny evening was spent visiting. ese form a new airforce. It is planned that the Birthday j He found the Chinese had less club will meet next vear witbiiii j u A. v J vJH 1111 1 ' i a 1 i t 3 UIIU Mr. and Mrs. John Cole of Weep ing Water. Those having birthdays m July are John Hansen, Nehawka; Mrs. Hildreth Lyon, Lincoln; Mrs. Henry Hild, Mrs. Harry Knabe of Nehawka; Sterling Inguerson, Mrs. Franklin Wherbein, and the hostess, Miss Hunter, all of Plattsmouth. Weather Forecast- High 72. Low 68. Nebraska forecast : Partly cloudy Monday, . Monday night and Tuesday; scattered rain show ers and thunder storms in east Monday morning-, west Monday afternoon, and in most portions of the state Monday night and Tuesday morning; somewhat cool er Monday in northwest and ex treme west portions; high Mon day middle to upper 80's; little change in temperature Tuesday, except somewhat cooler west and north central portions. Nebraska weather : Partly cloudy weather with rain showers and thunder storms was forecast for Nebraska Monday though Tuesday morning. Rain was ex pected to begin in the east early Monday night. Somewhat lower temperatures were promised for the northwest and extreme west portion Monday with high temperatures over the state striking at middle to up per fcu s Monday. Temperatures generally were expected" to re main unchanged Tuesday. Temperature ranges: Valen tine 8G-61; Omaha 82-G9; Seotts blcff 98-5y; North Platte 87-6G. these were quickly wiped out by the Japanese. He taught the Chinese to fly in the air with one thought : "What chance have I of winning?" After three years of training the Chinese, Chennault said with only a small force ready to op erate the strategy he had devel oped, he would be able to flank and destroy any Japanese at tempt to invade the south Pacific. He returned to the United States in 1940 to get that force. He got 100 P-40's, originally scheduled for Sweden, but he didn't get any spare parts. Fin ally, in the summer of 1941, he crf A m origin -f 1 Ion. . 1 ,i'i svv leuii s uv 1 a u 11 1 1 ! v 1 1 can mechanics to come out to China, partially lured by the $600 a month salary with a $500 boun ty on downed Japanese planes, and formed the American volun teer group. The AVG became the hottest group of pilots in the world. Chen nault became so sure of them in May, 1942, he said that he could wipe out Japanese air force with 2,000 planes. Men to Get Increase In Twill Work Clothes A temporary increase in the amount of heirinrrbniiP tii! available for production of men's work clothing will result, from the declaration of a "holiday" for about three months in procure ment of this tpye of finished cot ton fabric by the Army Quarter master Corps. WPB announced. Though the "holiday is effective immediately, WFB said, it will be about six weeks before it u re flected in increased quantites of work clothing. Cass County Bought 154 Per Cent of Bond Quota Nebraskans and residents of Cass county purchased a record amount of War Bonds in the Sev enth War Loan drive, it was shown today when final figures for the state were released by the Ne braska War Finance committee. All types of government se curities bought by individuals and corporations during the campaign totalled $184,472,157, represent ing slightly more than 200 per cent of the stae's over-all quota of 92 million dollars. Sales to individuals in Cass county totaled. $892,730 or 118 percent of the assigned quota of $758,000. "E" Bond sales totaled $658,650 or 126 per cent of the assigned quota of$623,000. Total bond sales credited to this coun ty amounted to $1,222,410 or 154 per cent of the expected quota of $794,000. In a report from the Federal Reserve bank under date of July I IS this is announced as the "Final Report."