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PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 191s The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. IESTER A. WALKER, PUBLISHER DON J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS 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: $3 per year, cash in advance, by nail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 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: S3 per year, $1.75 for six months. $1.00 for three months, cash in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. A Time of Confusion Iliidit now there is a good deal of confusion in the pubblic mind over the highly important matters of occupation policy for Japan and demobilization of our own army. Some of it comes from official .sources and some from unofficial but important army spokesmmen. General Kichclberer ha.s said that if the Japs behave themselves the occupation may not last more than a year. General Wainwright, with his painfully acquir ed knowledge of Japanese character, say.s it should continue for 20 years. General Harney Giles has upped the occupation estimate to a full century. Generals won't decide the length of occupation or initiatee any federal government policy, though they may be consulted. When the state department announced that Japanese policy would be made in Washington, not by Amer ican occupation forces, it was stating an obvious fact. It was also, by general agreement, rebuking General MacAr thur. This rebuke may have been called forth by the general's remark about re ducing the occupation forces in Japan to 200,000 in six months. Or it may have been because of some unpubliciz ed disagreement over policy or oper ation between Washington and Mac Aithur headquarters. At any rate, it succeeded in getting the public pretty well mixed up. Some people seem to have the idea that the 200.000 figure applies to the whole postwar army in the Pacific. They are disturbed by the feeling that we are taking unnecessary chances with Japan. In other quarters there is a appar ent fear that the army is retaining a lot of men needlessly, although the imme diate size of our force in Japan is not the determining factor in demobiliza tion.. Probably most of this confusion is inevitable, and probably the only rem edy for much of it is patience. Put there is an element of danger in this impatience. Every family with a member in the armed forces wants that member home as quickly as' poss ible; That is right and natural. And because it is, it might tempt some con gressmen and other officials to turn the whole thing into a political football. ' Congress already has its eyes on the 10 1G elections. And what the country doesn't need right now is a scramble of legislators to see who can make the most promises for quickest demobiliza tion, and to introduce to numerous flur ried, ill-considered and time-wasting . bills to implement those promises and impress the voters. The immediate result could only be more confusion. And the ultimate, re sult might be a national defense based on blind faith in the atomic bomb and another Skeleton army and navv. Questions and Answers Q Who said, "I would rather b; right than president"? A Henry Clay. Q Who was the American pilot wlui. .shot down Admiral Yamamoto of the Japanese navy? A Lt.-Col. Thomas G. Lanphier Jr. of Detroit, Mich. Q When did Hitler become chan cellor of Germany? A Jan. 30, 1033. . Q How much money is Great Bri tain trying to obtain from the United States? A ? 0,000,000, 0 0 0. . " MlRKV-eO-ROHt Br MUCW PKABSOJf WASHINGTON If congress id really in terested in investigating military efficiency rather than in political recrimination, it will probe thedisastrous battle of the Bulge ar$ well as Pearl Harbor. Casualties at Pearl Harbor were only around 3,00. But casualties in the battle of the battle of the Bulge delayed victory in Eur ope. General Eisenhower had hoped to fin ish Germany in the winter, possibly by Chris tmas, but disastrous overwhelming osses dur ing the first two weeks of the Ardennes offen sive helped drag out the war. How many extra American lives were lost as a result of the spurt given to German hopes is not known. But what is known is that U. S. supply officers immediately placed huge or ders for more tanks, more artillery, more al most everything as a result of the heavy sup ply losses in the Bulge. That i.s one reason why acres and acres of surplus supplies are seattererd over the country" today. What never leaked out at the time of the battle is that 20,000 U. S. infantry troops were flown straight from the United States into the Bulge by the air transport command. Losses w ere so heavy and men so tired that sufficient shock troops were not available in Europe. It was the longest air-borne carrying feat in history.. Also it never leaked out that certain U. S. intelligence officers in Washington warned that the Bulge attack wa? coming, and that nothing was done to prepare for it. These are a few of the things congress could investigate with profit to future military efficiency here are some more. Nazi Captives Talk Congress doesn't know it, though the army does, that captured German officers have now thrown significant light on the Belgian opera tion. They have testified that the Bulge operation was planned as early as November (though it didn't get started until Dee. 10). It was planned by Hitler himself. Generals were tak en by a circuitous route to Hitler's headquar ters, then near Frankfurt, wehere they were searched and placed in chairs four feet apart. Remembering how one colonel brought in a bomb concealed in a brief case at the last staff meeting Hitler took no chances. His Ges tapo men wanted to be able to see both sides of the chair in which each general sat; Also didn't want the generals to know exactly where Hitler's headquarters were. Hitler then unfolded his plan. The gener als debated whether the German army could squeeze enough gasoline and supplies from other operation?? to start the Bulge attack. Most of the generals were opposed. They thought the idea was sheer suicide. But Hit ler's mad fanaticism decreed that this one last attempt must be made to break the Am erican line and get through to Brussels. It nearly succeeded. Nazis Understood "Nuts" Lieut. Gen. Kurt Van Manteuffel was among tho.-e who left the meeting heartsick. Before beginning the offensive he went to ee his wife and children to tell them he never expected to see them again. Later he surprised himself by getting as far as Batgugne, where he sent the message to Brig. Gen. Anthony C. MeAuIiffe to surrender, McAuliffe's now fam ous reply was, "nuts,"' and General Manteuf fel has since told U. S. interviewers that he understood quite well what "nut?" meant. (Gen. Maxwell I). Haylor, top commander of the 101st airborne, was in Washington with his family. He has now been promoted to be head of West Point. Another German opposed to the Belgian Bulge campaign was the man generally cre dited with master-minding it Field Marshal Kurt Von Rundstcdt. Last December, Ameri can correspondents cabled accounts of how Von Rundstedt had planned and led the Ar dennes attack. But when interviews asked him about the Belgian Bulge, he gruffly re plied: ''Do not connect me with that operation. That was Model." Von Rundstedt was referring to Field Mar shal General Walther Von Model, his collea gue on the western front, who had been strong for Hitler's plan to catch the American army of f-base. Despite the opposition of regular German army officers Hitler guessed shrewdly in pick ing the time and place for his attack Tragic inside forct, however, is that U. S. forces would not have been caught napping if the ad vice of two war department colonels in Wash ington had been taken; also the advice of the assistant secretary of war, John McCloy. Washington Gave No Advice Mr. McCloy, looking at the map of the wes tern front several days before the Germans launched their surprise attack and noting the thinly spread American forces in the Arden nes forst, remarked that he though this was taking a chance. Members of the general staff however, reminded him that General Eisen hower knew what he was doing. The warning of the two colonels, however, was much stionger. They were Col. Truman Smith and Col. Percy Blair, who went to Gen. Clayton Dissell a week before the Bulge at tack and advised him what they feared was coming. General Dissell, head of intelligence, is an air officer, who spent a large part of thin war in India. When he ignored the oral advice of Colonels Smith and Blair, the two officers wrote a memorandum putting themselves on record that there was grave danger in the Ardennes and that General Eisenhower should be appraised of that fact. Green 106th Division However, even this written warning was not parsed on to Eisenhower. As at Pearl Harbor, war department routine required that each commander be on his own. On Dec. 15, a new and relatively green di vision, the 10(!th, was moved into the Arden nes forst opposite the German lines. It had ar rived in France less than a month before. Nev er before had it been under fire. Early the next morning, Dec. 16, Hitler launched his long-planned putsch. His intelligence must have been excellent. Tho,e are some of the things which should be probed in one of the war's worst tragedies, if we iuc Lo impiove militaiy efficiency "in the future. (Copyright, 1J15, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Broth Should Be More Savory Now tlk (enlM, toft LEANA PLANS POWER VII TIM' STOIIV: IJeKtnicion mused ly the explosion is widespread. Carolyn find Hubert at the lnl-or.-norj-, unable to vanla&u the blast. - TN Bob Hole's office the tele phene rang. Carolyn, as his secretary, arose to answer it, but plainly Bob was not used to hav ing a secretary yet. He reached for the handpiece himself. "Hale talking," said he. "Tins is Ken Palmer, Dr. Hale,'.' came the voice. .'Uh, would it be all right if I inquired about Miss Tyler? Carolyn? Fact is, I'd like to talk to her, if it won't be too much trouble." "She's right here." He motioned to Carolyn. "It's Mr. Palmer." Ken, it developed, wanted main ly to know where she had been keeping herself, and did she go out to the explosion yesterday, and was she trying to dodge him, and could he have a date tonight. "Ken, you're an old darling," she said, with some fervor. "The truth is, I have been quite busy. This is a new job, you know. And Ken I I think I'd better not" she glanced at her em ployer, who was feigning no in terest "better not set any dates for this week, because I'm ex pecting a lot of night work for a while. Dr. Hale's secretarial work had been rather neglected." Dr. Hale, who technically hadn't been listening, interrupted, "Oh, please go right ahead, Miss Ty ler!" She stuck her ground. She and Ken talked a bit more and she bade him goodby perhaps a lit tle more sweetly than necessary. TN studied manner, too, Bob Hale resumed their conversation where it had left off. "And so we cannot admit having caused the explosion, Carolyn, or admit hav ing produced the X-999 at all, be cause if we do the news will bring all manner of cranks, foreign agents, and such." "Of course, Bob." r ' "And yet it is my fault. I ought to tell the police." "There is no 'fault,' as you call it. I keep repeating that. This thing as new! Untried. That ex plosion wras an accident pure and simple. You say you have al ready arranged to pay money se cretly to the bereaved families, which is well, if you can avoid tbeing traced. Their tragedy can't be helped. And industry can ab sorb its own losses. Can't it? For so important a thing as you have, Bob? And when you do an nounce your discovery, you can make payment in full. The men financing your work insist that it be kept secret now." He nodded at her, slowly, ap preciatively. "I have an idea," she went on. "You are distressed to death, Bob, about what to do with the re maining X-999, now that you have actually produced a quantity of it. You say you don't dare experiment on it here because of the danger, and yet a tragedy occurred when you tried to move a part of it. Now look wouldn't it be feasible to " The telephone rang again and this time it was long distance wanting Bob himself. She waited. But the conversation turned out to be a long one, not concerning the matter at hand. Presently, she retired to the small anteroom of his office, which was now her own private office. . AROLYN was scanning her her shorthand notes, waiting for him to finish, when she heard an outer door open and she knew, by some strange subtlety of sound and intuition, that Leana Sormi had come to Bob. Even then the telephone conversation was end ing. ' "Leana," Bob greeted her. "Sit down." "Robert, I have been thinking." She plunged right in. "I do not believe you fully appreciate the magnitude of what we have here." "But, Leana " "You have power in your grasp, Robert! That explosion merely proves it." "Leana, you don't mean that. Not that way." Lesna's tone suddenly softened, grew more intimate and insinuat ing. "Don't you understand? Robert Hale, you can become the greatest man alive!" He did not answer. ''You can have no end of achievement and greatness. Every power over mankind is yours. Think of it! Barely a teaspoonful, and whole factories wiped out! Who would dare cross you if your discovery became known? "Orly two people know of this, Robert. You and I. Together we can te man and woman of the ages CHE said it so dramatically that she cast a veritable spell. Caro lyn, overhearing, was herself im pressed. "You and I know that what we have here will render all other power sources obsolete. Within a few years at most, all of America's electric plants, all steam and diesel and gasoline engines, every phase of industry must be revolution ized, as you and I direct! Have you forgotten that? "Don't you see, Robert, dear, how far-reaching it is? Almost at once, we can control a conti nent. And then and then oh, Robert!" In her little room Carolyn could almost hear her own heart pound ing. As usual, when one eaves drops, intentionally or otherwise, the things Bhe heard here were exceedingly disturbing. (To Be Continued) Powers for Delegate To United Nations Meet Soon Defined WASHINGTON, (U.R) Sena tor Tom Connally, D., Tex., said Monday that legislation to define the powers of the American dele gate to the United Nations secur ity council will probably be intro duced late in October. The chairman of the senate for eign relations committee said the administration proposal, which he will present, will be a simple de claration that the delegate sub ject to the control of the presi dent. The measure is expected to touch off the hot fight which was predicted but did rot develop during the ratification of United Nation charter in July. The char ter was ratified 8y,to 2 as erst while isolationists,' bowing to the overwhelming pressure of public opinion, joined in voting for1 it. However, some senators, am ong them Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., made it dear that they would stage their veal fight when congiess took up legislation "de fining the powers of the delegate. American Athletes Score In Servicemen's Games BERLIN, J.R American ath letes, who dominated track events before the war, maintained their favored position Monday after a decisive victory in an interallied ''little Olympics" among service men competitors. The United States won 11 of the 15 events and scored 94 points to 43 for Britain and 25 for France. Russia cancelled all en tries without explanation on the eve of the meet. RESIDENCE PROPERTY SOLD The residence property of Mr. Dow Armstrong, 1214 First St. has been sold to Mr. Jacob Krae ger. The sale was arranged by the T. II. Pollock Real Estate Agency. The historic London Bridge, razed in 1831, had been the first of ; London's stone bridges. It served the city for more than six centuries. Over it crossed the hundreds of Canterbury pilgrims, since .before Chaucer's time. Holi day crowds passed over it to the Globe and other theaters, and to the licar-baiting, in Southwark. It was tite gateway into London for traveled landing at '.Channel potto. Former Resident . Dies in Oregon Henry. Alfred Pyle was born near Minerville, Iowa, June 18, 1871, and passed away at the Jos ephine General hospital Grants Pass, Oreg., September y. He mov ed with his parents, Mathew and Sarah Pyle, to Giants Pass, Ore. in 1898. Previous to that he had lived for some time in Platts mouth. Henry Pyle was united in mar riage with Miss Katie Holt in 1903. Eight children were born to this union, Richard Harold and William, all who preceded him in death and four sons and one-daughter who survive. They are Pres ley and Snyder Pyle of Grants Pass, Ore., Jack and Robert Pyle of Klamath Falls, Ore. and Mrs. Katie George of Vallejo, Calif. In 1930 he was married to Mrs. Lillian Baker of Plattsmouth, who survived him as do her nine sons and daughter. Funeral services were held in the chapel at Grants Pass on Sept ember. 1.1, with internment at the Hillcrest Memorial Park. Ed son EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent TTTASHINGTON, D. C. Every time a newly-appointed public " official comes to Washington, the quaint old capital custom is to stand the poor character up at a press conference and let the boys and girls look him over. It's an ordeal only slightly less trying than the death march on Bataan. The poor victim is propped up like a duck on a rock and trick questions are heaved at him. To keep him from being too badly bruised, he usually is surrounded by experienced hands in his depart ment. But mostly the new man has to fend for him self and if he bounces back the brickbats as pearls of wisdom and in general handles himself well, he's a good Joe and he's in until further notice. Mr. William Benton of Chicago was subjected to this hazing 24 hours after he was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State. He. turned out to be a medium-sized gent with a nice voice and a nice smile and a slight need of a haircut, unless he likes it that way. The sour apple job wished on Mr. Benton is Public Affairs. This doesn't mean he's to be in charge of public ceremonies. It means public relations. JUDGING from Mr. Benton's self-confessed record, he can sell any thing even the State Department. The variety of things he's sold before Washington are unbelievable. He has sold advertising, the Encyclopedia Brittanica, movies for school rooms, and Muzac the canned music they play at you with your meals to drown out the clatter of dishes and your own voice in restaurants that can't afford or haven't space for a live orchestra. Mr. Benton's latest venture was in trying to seljj. "Subscription Radio," which is radio for entertainment and information only, with out the commercials. It would have been a blessing if he had put this over, and he would have been hailed as a public benefactor far and wide, but he was lured away to go into the service of his government. TR. BENTON says he has severed all his past and private business connections and from now on, till he gets fired or gives up, he will be strictly in the diplomacy business. That's too bad. If he could have moved some of his past into that noble Victorian pile of building blocks which houses the State Department, think what an improve ment it might have made. Every conference room wired for technicolor and sound. Advertising sales presentations for visual education on every wall. Lipstick, perfume and corset ad models all over the place. Appropriate Muzac for every international situation. Chopin's "Polo naise" while fixing the Curzon line. "Vienna Breeze" if the Russians weren't co-operating on Austria. A tango for the Argentine and "Song of India"when the independence issue comes up. MRS. GRACE PLYBON, Correspondent Mrs. Bertha Fitch and Miss Ah lene returned from their South Bend summer camp this week. Ah fyme, who ?-rites Christmas card overseas, received a call from her publishing company man re cently. Rev. Alfred Wilkens has been visiting home folks this week. His father, Fred Wilkens, is very ill in Bryan hospital. Herbert Lorenz is a student at Doane College this year. We pre dict he will help out in their vocal music programs. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Barber re turned on Tuesday from their California trip. They liked it so well they think some of going there for good later on, as it was beneficial for Mrs. Barbers health. Mr. George E. Miller is now nicely setlted in his residence in West Elmwood. He raised a gar den there before moving. Arlyne Streich received a mouth injury while playing on the Murdock school grounds. On Wed nesday she and her mother Mary Capwell Streich came to Elmwooi? and the doctor put in four stitches. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Tyson oi Eaton, Colorado, visited his mo ther, Mrs. Jennie Tyson, this week. Frank Hoffman has been busy tearing down the Beatrice cream ery building which he recently purchased. Thursday another old land mark is being removed. Mrs. Alice Wood visited her son, Stanley, and family a couple of days this week. She also made arrangements to rent an apart ment in Weeping Water for the winter, so as to be near them. Miss Frr.nces Elaine Buell is enrolled as a Wesleyan student after teaching for two years. She New Military Stamp Soon to Be Released Commemorating the activities of the armed services a new stamp is to be issued by the post office department for release Sept. 28. It is expected to be on sale at the Plattsmouth post office about ; Oct. 1, it was stated Monday by Ed Egenberger postmaster. The new stamp will be issued only in the three cent denomina tion and will be khaki colored, following the regulation army style. According to Egenberger the issuance of the new military com memorative stamp is drawing con siderable attention by stamp collectors. More than 0,000 married years were represented at a golden wed ding party held in San Diego, Cal., recently. is a Junior this year. Miss Yvonne Hayes haj been having a felon on her finger. She was in the hospital a short time. Mr. and Mrs. John Wood arc having the pleasure this week of entertaining their California son and daughter, Virgil Wood and Ruby McMaster, both having come from Santa Monica. W. C. T. U. met on Thursday with Mrs. Frank Lorenz, assisted by her daughter, Kathryn, who is having a vacation from her Omaha work, she served an especially fine luncheon. Minnie Kunz gave the lesson study, and the presi dent, Amy Hoffman, led the de votions. Mrs. Minnie Rosenkoct ter and Mrs. Jochens were guests. The State Journal records that the son of Rev. Seth Jacobsen and Abbie Van Every Jacobsen died in a prison camp in Japan in December. Both parents are de ceased. They were former county residents. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Schneider were week end guests of rela tives at Lexington, Nebraska. THIS CURIOUS WORLD y William Fergus r hZs SUN IS SO LARGE THAT IP IT WERE HOLLOW, THE EARTH COULD BE PLACED INS-IDE IT WITH ROCMA TO SPARE FOR THE MOON TO MAKE IS MONTHLY JOURNEY AROUND US'. " ' j j EARTH " i IIs. : I OON J J ; -y j &tS?Yss7&t Jeycxr j WHEN TOU Kfc INVITED OUT, YOU'RE INVITED IN, Says CORNELIUS DRISGOLL, A PACING RtOEON AND AN EXPRESS TRAIN LEPT DOVER FOR LONDON AT THE SAME TIME, AND THE PI6EON ARRIVED MAares- ahead of the TRAIN, ALTHOUGH THE LATTER TRAVELED AT A SPEED OF CUm, 15 B NE SEVIGt. WC. . T. M. REG. U. S. FAT. OFF. EXT: Fishermen's paradbe,