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mm Eelr. Stats Historical Society VOL. NO. 40 PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1945 NO.55 1 1 1 CIVIC GROUPS TO DISCUSS PROPOSED CITY AUDITORIUM j. ! The desirability fif litiilrlinf a auditorium in Plattsmouth 1 will be t he nit! in topir of discus- .:on hi evening when reptesc-n-j ia;!v.s from fourt en civic or- j'jMii'.aiiuns meet at :"0 p. m. in, the dining- room of the Piatts- ti.uij-f, hotel. '1 he Hi e-t i r ,tr ua. called by the bring this matter of an auditorium to iniiii' iiate attention and to ac quaint the various local o'raniza-io!'- with the purpo.-e and aims o1' the council. Pi obb ms of location, finance arid tyji" of bu'Mirig will be opt-n-i for di.-i u-ion. A committee frctn Platts nioutli recently completed a tour cf neighboring; communi ties to study the:r auditor, urn facilities. Speakers for the com mittee will be County Judge Pa-jl Fauquet who will explain the purpose of the recreation council, and Rev. Edward C. Tuchek who will report on the tour. The committee mtmber w no . ,. i ... km...., ...l r,., I i ,,.ci,i.t nf ,.v,,h,., : of commerce, Robert Caftjell and;'00' K. II. Bernhardt, members of thej school hoanl, Frank Rehal repres-j onting c ity council, Judge Paul Faucpiet and Rev. Edward Tu-j chek. j The 1 1 creation council hopes to gain the cooperation of the civic j ero'd's t. the extent of the groups j appointing regular delegate as! i epi o.-entatives to the council. It is the aim of the recreation al committee, according to Mrs. Maigery Woith, member, to try t. centralize th: civic improve ment projects of the local organi zations in older to prevent useless duplication of effort. Members of the comunity re creation council are Judge Paul Fauquet, Milo Price, Walter H. Smith, . Mrs. Thelma Trltsch, Rev. Edward C. Tuchek, and Mrs. Margery Worth. The organizations represented at tonight's meeting will include tin- city cmim-il. school board. A n.eiican legion. American legh.n auxilliary, eagles lodge, senior wo men's club, junior women's club i "tary club, chamber of commerce ad club, king korn cirrh, forty and Club Women Go to Nehawka Thurs. The Cass Cour.tv Woman's Club Convention will be held at Nehaw ka at the Methodist church on Thursday. Sentember 27, accord ing to Mrs. C.ay Wiles of Platts mouth, secretary-treasurer of the con n lv fedei at ion. The morning session will start at '.'::!0 with l egistration, and the meeting will !. called to order at 1" a. m. Convention sinking will be led by Mrs. E. A. Nutz niaii, with Mrs. II. L. Kttnz at the priuo. The program for the rest of i the morning will be as follows: cliegiance to the flag. Mrs. Will iam Minl'oid, Murray; devotional-. M r. Louis Morugay, Union; . addre.-s of welcome, Mrs. John Hansen, president of the Nehaw ka women's club; response, Mrs. Fred Rea, Plattsmouth; music, Ne hawka high school choir; Cass County demonstration agent. Miss I.avern Shaftr; report, Mrs. Ray Norris, Weeping Water, Cass county chairman of united war fund and American red cross; P.e- pott. Mis. A. B. Stromer, Alvo, camp and hospital fund; address, Mrs. J. C. Jacka. Tecumseh, Presi dent of first district; business ses sion, club i eports scholarship loan fund march; noon, luncheon an devoting. Afternoon session: solo, Miss Petty Ro.-s. Nehawka; book re view, Mrs. Henry Donat. Platts mouth junior women club; ad - dies state nutrition specialist ; group singing; addtess, Mrs. II. C. Hanna, superior vice-president of state federation; committee re - poits; installaitons; invitation forlbined radical and radical-socialist ll'in convention; and reading 0lPart'es- minutes and treasurer's report. I The omniunist Party had clinch , , , . ed 10 seats. The movement repub- Officers of the countv federa- ,i,-. vj . . lican populatre had won two seat: tion are Mrs. W. A. Ost, Nehaw-j and an other parties, eight. ka. president: Mrs. Harry Lannin, It was too early to speak of i Elmwoodj vice president; Mr. Guy Wiles, Plattsmouth, secretary - , ,c T , 1T tieasurer; and Mrs. John Hansen , Aenawka. president ot hostess club. boy scouts, and cam pf ire ,,j t A number of individuals who do not belong to any organization, nut wno have expressed interest jn the recreational .committee will also attend. Stauffer Is Named Managing Editor Of Daily Journal Robert P.. Stauffer has been 'named managing editor of The 1 Daily Journal and has assumed i his new duties, it was announced 1 Monday. He takes over the post which has been unfilled since the i resignation of Frank Smith late in May. Stauffer, who is a graduate of the school of journalism at thw j University of Missouri, was dis ; charged from the air army corps ' early this month. Before entering service he worked on daily news- PaPrs at Wellington, Kan., Mex rs at Wellington, 1 and Columbia, Mo. Duiine the last eight months of his air corps service Stauffer was in public relations, handling cral publicity at Ft. Dix, N. J., army air base. He snenl a year oversea, flew 48 missions as a bombardier on a B-24 with Brig. Gen. Chen nault's "Flying Tigers" in China. He held the rank of first lieutenant when discharg ed J Speaking of Plattsmouth and jhis new job Stauffer said, "I'm going to like it here. I've been in ! a great many small towns in the ! past few years but none of them ! made a better impression on me than Platt.mouth has. You don't have to be in a town long to find out if the people who live there are friendly and progressive. They are in Plattsmouth. As far as The Journal is concerned," he added, "we're going to give Plattsmouth people the kind of paper they want and deserve. We'll he work ing for the town and everybody in it." Stauffer's home was originally in Missouri. Mrs. Stauffer, who i visiting relatives in Kansas City, will join him here as soon as suit- j able living quarters can be obtain ed. Atomic Future Policy Responsibility Taken By President Truman WASHINGTON, J.R) Presi dent Truman Monday planned fuither cor. -ultations with his top advisers before formulating an official policy on the future dev elopment and use of atomic en ergy. lie told reporters on his return from a week-end trip Sunday night that he was assuming full personal responsibility for hand ling the awesome war-born se ret. At the fame time, the president denied reports that Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace had touched off a cabinet controversy last Friday by proposing that the atomic bomb formula be turned over to Soviet Russia. Truman said the cabinet did discuss atomic bomb policy but that Wallace took no particular stand. The chief executive said his decision on a policy would be ! made after further consultations j with the department heads eon- cerned. Swing to Left in First French Election Sun. PARIS, (U.P.) Early returns in France's first municipal elec tions since 1 1 H 7 showed a strong j swing to the left Monday. ! The socialist nartv anneared tc have won 50 district seats, nearly ! double its strength in 10.T7. Close j behind, with 48, came the com- i landslide, but all indications were 1 lhat three leftwing parties ! would win a sweeping victory with I . ,. . . . . , , t socialists far ahead of both the radical-socialists and commun ists. eight, Compromise Seen In Big Five Meet A m As It Wears fcnd LONDON, U.R Competent sources predicted Monday that j the Big Five foreign ministers will I compromise their differences overj the Balkans and the Mediterran ean, probably before their confer ence ends later this week. Those close to the conferees be- j lieved the minister: 'agree on formula.- finally would along these lines: 1. Russia will concede a mea i ure of free opposition should be 1 permitted against the comniu"- j ist government in Bulgaria and a somewhat smaller measure a gainst those in Romania and Hungary. v- z. l ne western allies win a- gree to ''token" Russian repres entation in the administration of Italian colonies. Such soviet representation would be ''token'' in that it would riot permit Russia to develop a military base in a sea the Med iterranean which Britain con siders a vital link in her lifeline to her empire. It did not seem likely that sov iet Foreign Commissar V. M. Mol otov ever had expected that Rus sia actually would win a base in the Mediterranean. On the other hand, realistic members of the American dele gation never had expected that Russia would bow to a demand that the AngloAmerican concept of democracy be" installed in the Balkans. Sweeping demands by both Rus sia and the western allies on these issues probably were based on the hope they would result in, at least "token" victories. Even the most hard-boiled ne gotiators knew they could not adjourn the conference three or four days hence without some semblance of agreement on the main issues Balkan fcJid Ital ian peace treaties. J The ministers were grimly a ware that they were working in the shadow of a third world war, a war wiucn u. secretary or state James Byrnes is convinced could come in tight to 10 year? despite the present world-wide de vastation. Few hard decisions were expect ed as an outcome of the confer ence and probably the most impor tant phases of every major issue will be referred to deputies for solution under broadly-generalized instructions . American delegates still held high hopes that speedy and com plete agreement could be reached on the president Truman's propos al for internationalization of Europe's inland waterwavs. The weekend switch from ex treme pessimism to hope over the results of the conference was bas ed in part on a series of telephone conversations among London Moscow and Washington. High School Paper Goes to Press Soon Finst Edition of the Platts mouth High School newspaper, "The Platter," for this school term, will come off the press ear ly this week. Staff members for The Plat ter are: Eldora Shellenbarger, editor; Charles Thomason, asso ciate editor; Charles Warga, ad vertising editor; William Win ters, s-ports editor; Lois Robinson, correspondence editor; Geraldine Case, circulation editor; and Bet ty Green, Norma June Favors. Leila Clark, Frances Gunsolly, Frances Clinkenbeard, Mary Jane Hams, Jackie Krejci, Carlene Meisinger, Florence Haswell, Nor ma Moore, Mary Lou Walling and Eidell Speck, all reporters. Threatened Eviction Leads To Independence Killing INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (U.R) A 59-year-old cemetery sexion was to be arraigned Monday on a charge of slaying a slight acquain tance whom he mistook for ano ther man while the victims five children screamed ''Please don't shoot our daddy." A threatened eviction and a home buying deal were involved in the maze of circumstances winch proceeded the killing on lonely country road four miles east of Independence Sunday. PICKET LINE SET UP IN HOUSTON OIL STRIKE Pickets from CWIU, Local 227 set up the first picket line in Houston in the oil workers stiike. They appeared at the Sinclair bulk plant. Refineries were to be picketed also. (NEA Telephoto) Senate Prepares for Battle Over Bill on "Jobs for AH"; Taft Offers Amendment WASHINGTON, U.R The sen- ate squared off Monday for a' bruising scrap over the adminis - tration's jobs-for-all bill. ' . Ihe measure came up tor bate with a IS to 7 endorsement by the banking committee, but faced bitter floor opposition from! a coalition of republicans andtam of spending even if th , . v. 4 ;, piesident submits it. southern democrats who term it'4 ... i a fnuul- Thev were ai med with a meas- bill Its 'provisions for go'vernmenl ff TTW AinfatnFC spending and substitute instead aj VII UU I f lUialUld program of public works whic h j WASHINGTON. (U P.) The could he expanded at need. j government is preparing to crack Sen. Robert A. Taft. r., 0., whoj(5own on manufacturers who are drafted the amendment with Sen. : cashing in on the magic of DDT George L. Radcliffe. d., Md., pre-j with so-called "DDT insecticides" dieted it would pass. j that are really of little or no val- The hill before the senate de-ue as bug-killers. clares that everyone is "entitled t othe opportunity'' for a good well-paying job. To back up that promise it dir ects the president to submit to congress each year a proected na tional budget on probable num- Welfare Group Will Meet in Plattsmouth The Southeast Nebraska Wei-! one year's imprisonment, fare Association, comprising twen-j Government scientists eir.phas ty counties, will hold an all dayiized DDT actuallv is as potent meeting at the auditorium of thcjas ils reputation indicates. But nublic library in Plattsmouth, ui .ui, "nnx" Thursday, Sept. 27th beginning, nt in a m. nprordino- to Mr, Mar- - - .saici, is mai xney nave as nine as gery Worth, Plattsmouth, trea. jiioo of one per cent DDT. urer- I Most effective solutions, the The theme of the meeting will j k.gricuiture department said, be "Our Comunity" and is a top-j contain at ieait f;Te per cent. ic that should interest every: In cracking down on faise or citizen of Plattsmouth and vicini- misleadinjr claims, the depart- ty jment is insisting that all powders Mr. C. W. Motter, secretary and pprays be labeled correctly, manager of the Fremont chamber j Here is an exampie 0f the in of commerce and well known tojstTuctions that is has issued: many local townsfolk will give I If a preparation contains DDT the main address of the morning.! 5n sufficient amounts to be ef This will be followed by a general j fective against all of the insects disCUSSion. I nan.o1 f-n the laKol nri rihiprtwin ine rneenn? win adiourn ai,is Iaised A statement that it noon for a luncheon at the EagleSj contains "DDT", provided the Hall, served by the Holy Rosary! word -contains" is in the same parish ladies. ; s;7tlfi tvnp arid enuallv as nrom- nr i . - Mi i . The afternoon session will con tinue discussion of the theme of the meeting and other phases of community development. j e purpose of the association' is to distribute information on the social development in Nebraska! and to promote desirable social. legislation. ( E. Glenn Callen, of the Depart- ment of Political Science and So ciology, Wesleyan University, and a past president of the Nebraska Welfare Association and of the Lincoln Welfare Society is expect ed to attend. Ben Hayenga, of Lincoln is president of the group at this time. The public is invited to all ses sions of the meeting as well as the noon luncheon. Anyone wish ing to make a reservation should phone Mrs. Margery Worth at 298. ber of available jobs and work-! , ei's If tnc budget indicates ! cals said some men would have ! unemployment, the president is;le-s take home pay under the 'directed to submit a program of: WLB schedule. Thev asked ad- j job-stimulating government sj.end-! option of a more liberal award , jr. to congress. imade by a WLB panel ast July, Taft predicted that congress i A walkout by approximately would not accept any such pro-j i i I nVfrirrt ATlr IX TTC t The agriculture department, it was learned Monday, soon will cpen the nationwide drive by issuing complaints against firms and indirduals suspected of violating the Insecticide Act of 1910. Convictions under the act car. ry a fine of $100 for the ; i offense. Subsequent offenses are i subject to a penalty of $200 and producte now on the maiket - . ...... , inent as he term "DDT" and that they are not more prominent than jthe nallle of the product. Seleclive Seryice RuIes M r ;e.teran.$ Not "Orced to J0n Union to Regain JOD WASHINGTON, (U.R) Veter- ans with re-employment lights cannot be forced to join a union to get their old jobs back, select ive service ruled Monday. In a policy guide to local draft boards, the agency also said that duiing the year in which a vet eran is guaranteed his"olJ job, his rights take precedence over any system of seniority. "Union membership or other conditions not enumerated in the law, may not be required of a veteran as a prerequisite to hi? re-instatement." the guide said. overnor iiilie; Mi Threat in NEW YORK, W.P.X- A trike of 11,000 elevator operators and I 'building service employees began ! j at 8:30 a. m. Monday at the j ;heighth of the morning rush hour j j in 075 buildings from 14th to j 41st streets from the East river I to the North river. The Empire State building. worlds tallest j structure, was effected by the strike. All 72 elevators in the sky scrapers were idle. David Sullivan, president of lo cal l'2-B, building service employ ees international union (AFL) said that 11,000 workers of the total of 25,000 who may walk out Monday, had struck. Thousands of the buildings ten ants were stranded without ele vator service as they arrived to start the days work. It was not clear immediately whether the day shift of elevator ' workers ju-t stayed out or re ported for work and then walk ed off the job. i Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, and ; the health department were ex j pected to declare an emergency and assign trained city workers to operate elevators, j The locals voted to strike af ter the regional WLB offered pay j boost with a cut of total weekly hours in some categories. The lo- 60,000 west coast lumber work- ers, coupled with a continuing (strike which has 1 educed the na- jtion's oil output by a third Mon- dav further marred the IT. S. in- idustrtal scene. AFL lumber and sawmill work ers in four states left their jobs at 12:01 a. in. Monday skyrock eting the number of strike-idle to an estimated .112,000, the high est this year. The walkout was called follow ing a breakdown in negotiations for a blanket minimum watre of j $1.10 an hour for workers in j Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The employers have de clined to negotiate on an industry-wide basis, contending set- jtlement should be made in each jarea. I Hope for settlement of . the j f reading oil strike apparently I ningea on a joint conierence oi i union and oil company otticials, scheduled for Tuesday in Chicago with federal department of labor conciliators. Members of the United Oil Workers International Union ; brought critical shortages to De- tro.t Clel.nd Toledo, O.. and I Houston, Tex., struck two addi- jtional Texas refineries Sunday. I Workers at the Magnolia plant at Beaumont left their jobs at 8 a. m., and the Shell refinery at Houston went down at midnight. Operations in three of the na tions richest refining areas the Texas gulf coast region, the Cal umet river basin near Chicago and the Ohio-West Virginia sec tion were crippled by the mass walkout. Refining centers in California, Oklahoma and New Jersey as yet had been unaffected by the oil would go for naught if the oil mands for a 30 per cent wage in crease. Company Asks Lease Here Says Manager 'Contrary to any information released from other sources we j are definitely interested in re- , maining in Plattsmouth and per petuating the interests of Style- craft Mfg. company" said Chas. Babian, manager Saturday. According to Babian there is no intent to move tne manufac turing company and the present desire of the owners is to obtain a lease here, so that the plant may remain in Plattsmouth. It was indicated by the manager the firm has sufficient interest lo cally that construction of a build ing to house its facilities might be considered in' event satisfactory leasing arrangments could not be made. . Acts to Acheson Defends His Position On M' Arthur Rebuke WASHINGTON. U.R Acting secretary of state Dean G. Ache-j son will cletenc! himstli iiondav i against complaint that he rebuk ed Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Acheson awaits senate confirm ation as undersecretary of state, a position he is holding now by recess appointment. Administra tion leaders expect to renew late Monday their request for con firmation. They are confident of -peedy action. President Truman said Sun day night upon his return to Washington from a week-end trip that he felt that Acheson would "of course" be confirm ed. Acheson's confirmation was blocked last Thursday when Sen. A. B. Chandler, d., Ky., and Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, r., Neb., de nounced him for a statement he made after MacArthur had an nounced that he shortly would be able to reduce occupation forces ! in Japan to 200,000 men. The statement embarrassing ly put the war department on the (Turn to Page 4, Number 1) Bans Jap Research Of Atomic Power; Freezes AH Funds TOKYO, -U.R Gen. Douglas MacArthur Monday froze all Jap anese funds at home and abroad, stripped newspapers arid new a gencies of government control and banned research into atomic power. In an eight-point directive blue printing JapanV post-war domes tic economy, he also ordered strict control of waes, prices and rationed goods, halted all aircrift naval and other war production, and urged maximum output of ci vilian necessities of food, clothing and shelter. The orders put into effect some of the major policies outlined for Japan by president Truman in his. directive to MacArthur. 1 "The generals sweeping financial order i was seen as a step toward securing reparations from Japan and toward thwarting attempts of the Japanese war profiteers to un load their wealth in an effort to escape war guilt trials. J President Truman stated that j repaiations would be secured In the future through the transfer of Jpanese property outside the home islands. MacArthur. finan cial order specifically directed the government to amend its laws to prohibit: 1. Export to or import from any foreign country of gold, sil ver coin; gold, silver or platinum bullion; currency, securities checks, bank drafts, bills of ex change, powers of attorney, prox ies, or any other evidence of in debtedness or of property owner ship. 2. Transactions within Japan in gold or silver coin or gold, silver or platinum bullion. 3. Transfer of assets abroac owned or controlled directly oi indirectly in whole or part by an person within Japan. 4. Transfer of property which now or which has been since Dec. 7, 1941, owned or controlled by any person outside Japan. 5. Transactions in foreign ex change. MacArthur said the orders were aimed at freezing traffic in cur rencies and all negotiable assets within the country which will in turn facilitate the finger printing of the nations assets here and a broad. CAR STOLEN SATURDAY A dark-blue, 1941 Ford coupe owned by Ambrose Klouse, Platts mouth, was stolen sometime Sat urday night from in front of Weysels' Garage. License number on the car is 20-2539, Nebraska. MY DETROIT, (U.PJ Governor Harry F. Kelly Monday intervened in the 32-day old Kelsey-Hayes. Wheel Company strike halting Ford automobile production as the CIO called for strike votes among COO, .000 employees of the indus try's big three. Kelly ordered chairman Philip v eiss of the national labor meoia- tion boaid to examine the FTelsey- Hayes dispute immediately to de termine why -1,500 worker-, were kept idle by a "minority of the plant employees." "There must never be min ority rule in America. "And, Kelly said, "that ffoes for uaions too." UAW secretary George F. A ri des, meantime, joined union lead ers in meetings with Kelsey-Hayes local officials seeking to end the lingering strike. He conferred with them Monday morning re ported no developments and sched uled an afternoon session. Official strike action in the ma jor controversy in Dertroit recon verting automobile industry coin cides with management offers to cjorisider the united automobile workers (CIO) .10 percent pay boost demand. Chrysler corporation officials asked for a wage conference with the United Automobile Workers union Tuesday. The General Motors union petition already was on file with the national labor relations board, setting the foundation for a strike election among 35, 000 workers in 96 plants n thirty days. Officials of Ford local unions said their strike vote petition would be filed about Oct. 1st, following an approval meeting of the local representatives Sept. 29. Some 150,000 employees are effected by the Chrysler strike petition. Ford employees number 100,000. Nebraska City Slayer Draws Six Year Term NEBRASKA CITY, 0J.Pf Frank Stuart, 4(1, Monday jleii ed guilty to manslaughter in- con nection with the fatal shooting- f Wallace Hike, 82, on July 0th. and was sentenced to six years m the state penitentary "Thats awful stout," Stttmt said after District Judge Thomas E. Dunbar, passed sentence. "You know, Frank, the maxi mum is ten years," the judge re plied. Thirty prospective jurors were in the courtroom for selection of a jury when Stuart offered through defense atorney Lloyd E. Peterson, to plead guilty to man slaughter instead of standing trial on a second degree murder charge. County attorney B. M. Spencer, agreed to a reduction of the charge in exchange for the plea of guilty. Peterson asked the court for a low sentence. Spencer made no recommendations. Tavern Management Entertains Tuesday Bob's Tavern, 141 S. Sixth Street, will have a special "open ing night" this Tuesday for all customers. The tavern was purchased re cently from Robert and Mae Sed lak by Robert T. Whelan, of Oma ha, and Harry C. Ruth of Austin,' Minnesota. Although the new management has had the tavern since Sept. li, this is the first opportunity they have had to show their apprecia tion to their new customers. THE WEATHER NEBRASKA : Partly cloudy Monday, Monday night and Tues day; cooler Monday extreme east portion; high Monday CO to 7 continued cool Monday night with frost or near freesing tempera tures west and north central por tion. Temperature ranges: Oma ha 91-50; Scottsbluff (WMlJ; Chadon 66-3S.