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i0 7 VOL. NO. LXI PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1945 NO. 66 wm . a. . a. a. m. i 1 1 I y-v a. a. ii ii ii ii ii ii ii ii Cass County Fair Grounds Takes on Gala Atmosphere WEEPING WATER, (Special to The Daily Journal) - The Cass county fair grounds was begin ning to take on a gala atmosphere Monday as the first peacetime fair since 1941 was to get under way here for three days starting Wed nesday. It will be the 25th annual Cass county exposition. Six rides, three shows, and 42 concessions were being unloaded and set up on the midway by the Central States shows and plenty of carnival entertainment was in store for visitors at the three-day event, W. II. Waldo, secretary said Monday afternoon. First Cass Countian to enter his exhibit of last year's corn was Fred Bunch of Elmwood Corn entries, Waldo stressed, are to be made from last year's crop and many entries are need ed to make the corn competition strong. Wednesday's horse show was showing signs of being a hotly contested affair Monday when ad ditional barn space was being sought to accommodate all the entries. Entries thus far, Waldo said, were mote than can be cared for in barn space available on the grounds and Weeping Water residents were quick to respond to the call for more stalls. "We'll be able to care for them all, I'm sure." Waldo said, add ing that shelter would be made available by horse fanciers in the Weeping Water vicinity. More pens were being added Monday for handling the hog and sheep entries, which are expected to be large this year. "All in all things are begin ning to shape up in such a man ner that right now it looks as though this years fair will have to be given consideration as the top ranker cf all we've ever had here," Waldo concluded. Entries may be made until noon Wednesday and the fair will be formally opened with the county spelling contest at 10 a. m. Wed nesday. The big show really starts however, Wednesday afternoon at one with a parade, followed by the horse show. The horse show is scheduled for afternoon and even ing Wednesday. Cut in Meat Points Seen for September WASHINGTON, OJ.m The office of price administration plans to lower the point values of many cuts of meat in Sep tember, it was understood Mon- day. I An outright end of meat and I possibly butter rationing is ex pected to follow later in the fall unle:s there are unforeseen sup ply complications. The outlook for the civilian meat situation became brighter over the week end when Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Ander son announced the suspension of set-aside orders on beef, veal and pork hams. The government, however, will continue to require packers to set aside quantities of pork shoulders and loins and lard which continues in scarce supply . New Classifications Announced by Cass County Draft Board New classifications announced by the Cass county selective ser vice board include two men plac ed in 1-A. They are Donald E. Stradley and Max A. Holman. Other classifications announced: 1- C (Disc) James P.. Quell horst, Cecil W. Niday. Albert R. Glaubitz, Edwin H. Hiber, John J. Hadraba. 2- A (F) George C. Stander. 2-C Boyd Linder, John C. Garringer, Lee Eau A. Gaebel, Robert L. Morton. 4-F Marvin R. Jornson. 4-A LeRoy E. Meisinger, John I Straka. ' 1-C (Ind) William F. Schroe der. Iowan One Survivor Of Midair Collision FORT WORTH, TEX., (U.R Cpl. Earl E. Wischeier, West Bur lington, la., was receiving special medical care at Mineral Wells, Tex., Monday after an aerial col lision of two Superfortresses, in which 18 airmen were killed. Wischmeier was one of two sur vivors of the collision, which caused an explosion 15,000 feet up and lighted the countryside for miles around. The Superforts crashed Friday ni?ht while on a routine training flight from their New Mexico bas es at Alamagordo and Clovis. jjhf Jl, ' - :: ! i , . ...:;;..v.A.:...jtj.:.....:.: WAINRIGHT FREED Surrender of Japan brought the freedom of one of the Pacific war's early heroes Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, above, the rran who took up the fight where MacArthur left off and held Bataan to the end. He sc inspired his troops that they changed the name of Corregi dor to "Wainwright' Rock". He was freed Sunday after being a prisoner of the Japs since May 6, 1942, when he surrendered to the Japs. Federal Control Of Atomic Energy Aim of President WASHINGTON, (U.R) Presi dent Truman will send to Con gress next month a special mes sage proposing permanent govern ment control over all phases of atomic energy devefapmeif,, it was revealed Monday. Chairman Elbert Thomas, d., Utah, of the senate military af fairs committee, said the measure now was being prepared by the war department and that he prob ably would introduce it after the president's message was received. Thomas declined to disclose specific details of the bill, but added : "Whatever course the law tak es you may be ure of one thing:The discovery of the sec ret of releasing atomic energy was made with the money of the American people, it belongs to e.11 the American people." Thomas said that the war de partment bill, which congress is expected to pass without major modification, will cover both war and peace time uses of the devas- tated force which precipitated Japanese surrender. It will establish a national con trol body Thomas opposed the word "commission"' including representatives of state, war and navy departments, civilian scien tists, other technical personnel and representatives of other in terested civilian agencies. The control bill is expected to seek acquisition of all patents for the production of atomic energy, which are not already in the hands of the government. Vinson Tells of Treasury Plan to Get Tax Evaders Collecting a billion dollars in additional taxes now being evaded is one aim of the U. S. treasury department. This drive will get underway as soon as the treasury forces can be expand ed to handle the situation. Right now a great many people each week are voluntarily filing de linquent tax returns to get in right w?th their government. How the treasury will ferret cut the real tax evader is des cribed in an article by Fred M. Vinson, secretary of the treas- ury, in the Washington Merry- go-round column of The Daily Journal Tuesday. In this issue a special article written by the famed industrial ist, Henry J. Kaiser, appears in Round column. Pearson is on vacation. THE WEATHER NEBRASKA: Mostly cloudy, scattered thunder showers east and south central. Cooler except extreme northwest. High tempera ture near 90 southeast. Partly cloudy Monday night and Tues day, but with vain showers and thunder storms southeast portion Monday night. Cooler south and east portion Monday and Monday night and in southeast portion Tueaday. VIOLATED STOP SIGN Charles N. Eaton was fined $1 and costs when he pleaded guilty to driving through a . stop sign, Monday. The fine was assessed by Police Judge Graves. - ....w. Labor Matters Are Big Problem Of Peace Program WASHINGTON, OI.R) Labor matters Monday remained near the top of President Truman's problems in the vast job of guid ing the nation back to a peace economy without inflation or de pression The president was due to confer this week with Secretary of La bor Lewis B. Schwellenbach on reorganization of federal labor agencies and on the scone and date of next month's labor-mana gement conference. He also will revoke soon the three year old executive order governing overtime pay in war plants. Schwellenbach was expected to recommend that the labor-mana gement conference be limited to creation of machinery to replace war labor board handling of in dustrial disputes. He reportedly is opposed to a CIO proposal that the discussions deal with new legisla tion of interest to labor, much of it of a controversial nature. The Truman administration al ready is committed to enactment of such labor-backed bills as the full employment, liberalized un employment compensation and broader social security measures The president may use his exe cutive authority to create a labor relation bureau in labor depart ment as a WLB substitute if the labor-management conference a grees. This bureau would prove conciliation, mediation and arbi tration services with a final step for voluntary settlement through appointment of special boards o inquiry similar to those appointed under the railway labor act. Meanwhile the government's labor and stabilization agencies began their reconversion opera tions under Truman's weekened executive order which contin ued major war controls but granted broad powers for their modification of early discontin uance. Truman provided in the order for establishment of a successor to WLB to handle wa-re stabiliza tion. The WLB's authority over all labor disputes was continued for I the reconversion period. On the wage front, the WLB was author ized to ignore the little steel yard stick and to approve or order any wage increases necessary to the effective transition of the econ omy. The only limit on wage increas es henceforth is that they must not result in price boosts. If they do, they must have approval of an office of economic stabiliza tion. No wage increases in dis pute cases are to be retroactive beyond the date of the issuance of the order. Organized labor's reaction to Truman's order was favorable Spokesmen for the American fed eration of labor and congress of industrial organizations said it was a step in the direction towyard full production and employment They felt, however, that congress must still pass much of the leeis lation supported by labor in order to provide a more adequate cush ion for the shock of reconversion Journal Want Ads For Results Japs Protest as Rescurers Freeing Allied Prisoners CHUNGKING, (U.PJ Japan formally asked Gen. MacArthur to halt allied air rescues of war prisoners from occupied areas Monday after American para troops liberated Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Bataan and Corergidor. An American plane will land at Mukden, Manchuria to pick up Wainwright and bring him to Chungking as soon as he arrives there from the prison camp at Sian. Sian is 100 miles northeast of Mukden. Japanese general headquarters radioed MacArthur from Tokyo that such rescues were likely to hamper "the realization of our earnest desire to effect smoothly and satisfactorily the cessation of hostilities and the surrender of arms." Allied air missions which al ready have landed at Mukden in Manchuria, Keija in Korea j and Hong Kong in China have j been "made to return to their bases," the Japanese note said, i The enemy broadcast made no specific mention of Wainwright,1 who was freed from a prisoner of war camp at Sian, 100 miles northeast of Mukden, and it was not known whether the Japanese would attempt to prevent his re turn to the allied lines pending the signing of Japan s surrender. Wainwright, highest ranking al lied prisoner of the Japanese, h$d been expected to land at a Chung king airdrome within the next 48 hours. Wainsrights friends hoped that the man they had affectionately called Skinny", who was forced into unconditional surrender on Corregidor May 6, 1942, would reach Manila in time to partici pate in the Japanese surrender ceremonies. Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of United States for ces in China, said that six-man American army parachute teams consisting of doctors and signal men had parachuted into the Muk den area on Aug. 16. One team landed within 300 yards of a prisoner of war en closure and the inmate cheered lustily as they watched the para chutes slowly descend. Wain wright was liberated from a camp at Sian, 100 miles north east of Mukden. Messages radioed back said the prisoners' overall condition was "much better than expected." ' Wainwright was held in a small camp with seven other Americans, 16 British, and 10 Dutch includ ing Tjarda Van Starkenborg Stachouwer, who was governor general of the Dutch East Indies when they fell to the Japanese in vaders. Wainwright, himself, was re ported in good shape, and stret cher cases in the camp were des cribed as "no more than normal." Japanese troops apparently made no atempt to interfere wrth the rescue operations. (ABC Correspondent Ed Soud er Jr., broadcasting from Chung king, said that Marine Mai. James P. S. Devereaux, who grimly de fended Wake Island shortly af ter Pearl Harbor, had been re ported safe in a Japanese prison camp near Peiping. There was no indication whether or not Dever eaux had left the camp.) Wedemeyer said there were ap proximately 20,000 prisoners of war and 15.000 civilian internees in camps within the China theat er, including Indo-China, For mosa, Korea, and Manchuria. He said that approximately 3, 500 were Americans. He added that he felt all prisoners should receive "highest priority" in be ing evacuated. Large Crowd Attends Sing; Next Week's Last One Scheduled A large crowd attended the Sunday night community sing, at the Masonic home, where two special numbers were presented. A special duet was "He Came to Me One Day," sung by Mrs. Jess Hodges and Mrs. C. J. White. The other number, "Satisfied with Jesus," also was a duet and "was presented by Mrs. Jess Hodges and Lester Thimgan. The Sunday night gathering saw words for the songs project ed on a screen by slides. The Cald well loud speaker system was used for amplification. The sing next Sunday will be the last outdoor event of the scheduled summer program, it was announced Monday . Journal Want Ads Find Bayers Americans to Make within Ten lays, MacArthur Says, as Jap Envoys Jeturn Home uitti Orders ' i-.-"1' : .Zn,.y: I'l --. ... r iTI "i - t.w 1 - J THEY CARRY JAP CREDENTIALS TO MACARTHUR Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, right, G-2 officer of Mac Arthur's staff and head of the American reception party, leads way to waiting autos immediately after 16-man Jap sur Cotner Will Put Big Cruiser in Service A big new cruiser soon will re place two buses on the Omaha run of the Cotner Bus line, C. C. Cotner said Monday. The new cruiser is expected to be put into service within tlje next 60 to 90 days, according to Cotner. Ray -Campbell, Cotner driver, left Saturday for Columbus, Ind., driving one of the six buses which were purchased for the Leppert Bus Lines. One of the buses was purchased from Cotner, the others at Omaha. Any changes in schedules to Ft. Crook due to curtailment f operations at the Martin-Nebraska plant, will be announced as soon as they are made, Cotner said. Japs Capitulate To Reds. Ending 1 1 Days of War LONDON, (U.R) The 11-day Russo-Japanese war ended Mon day with the capitulation of the Kwantung army that launched Ja pan's bid for Asiatic conquest 14 years ago. Soviet armies occupied Manchuria's four major cities and began disarming some 750,000 en emy troops. Moscow's formal victory pro clamation still was being withheld early Monday, apparently await-' railway system. The program will ing the complete disarmament of require national effort surpass the remaining Japanese in Man- ing anything attempted by the churia, Korea and Sakhalin island, soviet union in the years between But Japanese resistance had the 1918 revolution and World ended almost everywhere and j War II, because the country will upwards of 1,000,000 soviet .undertake simultaneously two troops were moving unopposed parallel plans of reconstruction into the enemy's key ports and jand expansion, communications centers. It had been believed generally Russian paratroops and air- that repairing the w-ar damage borne infantrymen wTrote off the alone would absorb Russia's econ battle of Manchuria late Sunday ;omic energies many decades to with a series of surprise landings come. But the new plan also calls on Mukden, Harbin, Kirin and for a tremendous industrial ex- Hsinking, kingpins of the Japan-, ese defensive system in the puppet state. Tokyo's Domei news agency said soviet military envoys follow ed the paratroops into Hsinking, headquarters of the Kwantung army, and that surrender nego tiations were begun there immed iately. Almost 100,000 Japanese and puppet Manchurian troops surren dered to the Soviets Sunday and entire enemy divisions were re ported marching into the Russian lines to lay down their arms Mon day. The first soviet airborne troops into Mukden, Harbin, Kir in and Hskinking relayed word to their headquarters that the Jap anese garrisons showed no fight and were ready to quit. Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 3wicu sirjidii tvuuuaiiuci jii hue far east, immediately started the main forces of his first and second far eastern armies and the Trans Baikal army moving on the four ( Turn to Page 2, Number 2) Russia Launches New 5-Year Plan Of Development MOSCOW, (U.R) Russia an nounced Monday the launching of a super-five-year plan design ed to repair the nation's war damage and surpass its prewar economic development by 1950. For the next five years, life in Russia will be harnessed to the restoration and expansion of the basic heavy industries to give the country a strong and well-balan-ed economy. That was the underlying principle of the instructions is sued by the communist party's central committee, and the council of the people's commis sars to the state planning com mission and various other com mittees over the week end. The instructions stated that the plan should be aimed first at ef fecting "complete restoration of the economy in the formerly oc cupied zones; secondly, postwar reorganization of the national economy, and thirdly, further de velopment of all resources of the soviet union. As a result of the program, the announcement said, "pre-war de velopment of the national econ omy should be considerably sur passed by 1950." The program called for large scale expansion of the national pansion of equal scope. One of the cardinal points in the pprogram undoubtedly will be to increase production of steel. Development of the Ural mills and partial restora tion of the Donhas mills al ready has raised basic produc tion of steel to about 15,000, 000 tons annually. By the end of 1946, produc tion is expected to reach 20, 000,000 tons a year, with steady annual increases thereafter. The Russians have steel in abundance and electrification programs are getting under way so that the planners can count on adequate power for the two volume industrial build-up. Besides their own resources the Russians have access to im I j, i a The first American champagne was produced in a small winery in Cincinnati, O., in 1842 by Nich olas Longworth. Landings render arrangement delegation arrived at Nicihols field, Man ila, from Ie Shima. (Signal Corps Radiotelephoto from NEA Telephoto) Joe C. York Attends Uni Coaching School Joe C. York, new Plattsmouth high school athletic coach, attend ed the University of Nebraska coaching school in Lincoln last week. He was one of more than 150 high school coaches and super intendents from Nebraska, Illinois, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colo rado who spent four days on the Nebraska campus. George "Potsty" Clark, head football coach at Nebraska, and Lynn Waldorf, head tutor of football at Northwestern univer sity, were headliners of the school. The coaching school was spon sored by the Nebraska high school activities association and the Uni versity of Nebraska. Norway Charges Hitler Orders to Quisling in 1939 OSLO, 0J.R) The Norweg ian state charged Monday that Adolph Hitler personally ordered Vidkum to begin preparations for the invasion of Norway on De cember 31, 1939. The charge was made at the opening of the Quisling trial on a charge of treason. He was the second of Hitler's puppets to go on trial for his life. Special Prosecutor Annaeus Schojoedt told the court that documents found in Germany disclosed that Quisling conferr ed with Hitler and Admiral Eric Raeder in December 1939. Hitler gave the traitor person al orders, Schjoedt said, to start invasion plans and promised to give him $40,000 a month for three months to be spent in spy ing out Norway's defenses. Quisling told Raeder he want ed to hand over to Germany the key points in Norway in order to keep the British out, Schjoedt said. Earlier Quisling had denied that he had any advance know ledge of Germany's plans for Norway. The pale, shabby man whose name has become the symbol for traitors and puppets throughout the world, uttered his plea in a ringing voice after listening to three supreme court judges read the long indictment against him in relays for almost a half hour. Schjoedt outlined the states case. He revealed that statements from Reischmarshal Herman Goer ing, former German commander Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, former German Chief of Staff Qol. Gen. Gustav Jodl, and Reichminister Alfred Rosenberg, nazidom'sl ead ing Jew-baiter, had been obtain ed by Norwegian investigators and would be introduced. Thus Quisling began the same ordeal from which former Mar (Turn to Page 2, Number 3) on Japan MANILA, 0J.R) General Douglas MacArthur sent the Jap anese surrender envoys back to Tokyo Monday with word that he would lead the American occupa tion army into Japan within ten days, fully equipped to back up the landing by force if necessary. Spokesmen for the supreme al lied command revealed that the Japanese emissaries bore back with them still-secret orders out lining when and where MacArthur would enter Japan to dictate the surrender terms to Emperor Hiro- hito. At the same time, they re vealed receipt of an urgent ap peal from the Japanese govern ment asking MacArthur to inter vene in China, where, Tokyo said, "undisciplined Chinese government and communist troops were scrambling to take over Japanese-held areas." The Japanese asked MacArthur to send an investigating party into China. They paid Chungking and Yenan (communist) forces were rushing unwarrantedly and without any discipline into Jap anese controlled China with sep arate surrender demands. Tokyo said the Chinese actions were hampering Japanese efforts to effect an orderly surrender in China and that the Japanese gar rison commanders were reluctant to lay down their arms under ex isting conditions. "Although the Japanese forces, which already have definitely ceased hostilities, intend to carry out quickly the demand mentioned in the (Potsdam) proclamation, it is deemed necessary to take appropriate measures for the maintenance of order and the promotion of general peace," the Japanese appeal said. There was no immediate indica tion whether the Japanese hoped to use the China situation as a pretext for further stalling in the surrender negotiations, but MacArthur made it clear that he would brook no more delay in moving his army into Japan. "I shall soon proceed to Japan with accompanying forces composed of ground, naval and air elements," the allied su preme commander declared. "Subject to weather that will permit the landings, it is antici pated the instrument of surren der will be signed within ten days." British and Australian armed forces, he added, will take over the occupation of all Japanese held areas in the Southwest Pa cific, south of the Philippines. A headquarters spokesman said the first occupation forces would enter Japan "prepared for any condition and armed with all available weapons." This presumably would include the atomic bomb. "A soldier is not a soldier un less he is prepared for fighting," the spokesman said. "The occupa tion forces will be ready for any eventuality." Sixteen trim and silent Japan ese envoys boarded a transport plane at Manila's Nichols field Monday afternoon to bring Mac Arthur's message back to Hiro hito. The naming of the Japanese airfields on which allied planes would land was believed to have been one of the main points of discussion at the meeting. The fields presumably would have to be lengthened and otherwise al tered to accomodate American aircraft which generally are heavier than the Japanese type. MacArthur remained aloof from the preliminary surren der discussions at his headquar ters, but through his chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Rochard K. Suth erland, he gave the Japanese specific orders couched in such blunt clear, language that there appeared no likelihood of fur ther stalling, by Tokyo. When the glum, Japanese dele gates left Manila's bomb-scarred city hall, under a strong American military police detail, they had completed all arrangements for the landing f American and al lied troops in Japan. It was believed that members of the allied staff now in Manila (Turn to Page 2, Number 1)