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1 PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL. FLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1343 Honorable Deflation Now a Fact o The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-weekly. Mondays and Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street, Piattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. IESTER A. WALKER, PUBLISHER D(JN J. ARUNDEL, BUSINESS MANAGER Entered at the Postoff ice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1379. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by nail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. CAIlY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car net m the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents ptr week, or $7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: $3 per year, $1.75 for six months, $1.00 for three months, cash In advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 jser year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in advance. AFTER THE DELUGE itvadors whose memory of "the the ater or movies spans 10 years- or so may retail a play called "The Delude." It was the story of a group of people, a small-town group full of social, political and-personal animosities, who took ref uge from a flood in a water-tight basement. Though in temporary safety, all fated death from suffocation in their unvt utilated refuge. And as breath ing became more difficult and death drew nearer, their enmities seemed les. and less important. Two by two they resolved their differences, admitted the good points, of their opponents' views and characters, and composed their souls to meet their imminent fate. At last the oxygen in the room was nearly ex hausted Preferring quick drowning to suffocation, one of the characters threw open the door in ex pectation f i torrent of water. But the flood hail receded. And. with peril past, the bad feeling returned. All de parted for home as bitter as when they entered. Tiie point of that play is uncomfort ably applicable to the present state of this country and of the world. The tragic truth is that it takes the dix peri! of war to bring out the best in men. So in this war nations forgot ambi tion and jealuously and ideological dif ferences, and pooled their strength to crush the forces of tyranny. Here at Lome workers and employers found a "way to settle disputes and work to gether in turning out the arms that made victory possible, f l!ut now that the flood of war has receded, the differences are with us -again in greater intensity. Selfishness and stubbornness have returned. The domestic front is threatened with eco nomic war. In London, the first post .war meeting of diplomatic representa lives of the great Allies was a deadlock "of opposing views which ended in dis couragement and general frustration. The knowledge that classes and mm tions cannot get along together, unless they face extinction may not be new. Hut it is shocking to have to make that discovery again. Somehow, after the 'bitter battle to cleanse the earth of the fascist scourge, everyone hoped that perhaps the world might become a bet ter and happier place. Vet, though we made great scientific strides during the war years, we did not keep pace in human relations. Though we attained a high level of prosperity, ve find the continuation of that pros perity endangered by disputes involv ing a few thousand of our multi-million population. Though we "spread the doctrine of democracy far, our destinies are still shaped in the secret meetings of'a few world statesmen. As of today, there is precious little evidence that this country or the world has learned much from history's mo.it terrible war. ; Q How much gold is mined in the 'United States? A In 19-10, 0,000,000 troy ounces worth 8210,000,000. Cold mine oper ations were suspended in 1912, but re sumed recentlv. '( What city was known as the "Gi braltar of the East?" A - -Singapore, Britain's big naval base. Q What is the history of the famous brou.e bell in Seoul, Korean capital oc cupied by U. S. troops? A It was cast in the 15th century to ring a curfew in the city, at which time men had to leave the streets to make way for women, MERRY- GO- ROUND Mr BW PEAOSOM KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Navy insiders are hoping for a new deal leg-aiding discharges, recognition of reserves and other navy in justices, following the shake-up in the navy's bureau of personnel and the impending exit of Navy Czar A dm. Ernie King. In fact, some fre.-h air already has blown into the navy de partment. To get the full picture of what's happening, it's necessary to realize that for about five years the secretary of the navy has chiefly been the performing puppet of hard-boiled, high-handed Adm. Ernie King. The late Sec letary of the Navy Frank Knox' wav at sword's points with King most of the time. The ad mirals would meet in formal session with him, show him a few routine cables and then ad journ. Later, King and his close associate-- would handle the really important cable, which neither Knox nor Under Secretary James For restal knew existed. Admiral King pulled his own Annapolis classmates around him. He formed the most powerful clique the navy has ever seen, with no one able to penetrate it, least of all the secretary of the navy. The older men of King'. time at Annapolis the is 05) got the chief plums, and the younger men bore 'the brunt of the fighting. Antagonism against King was especially bitter among Annapolis men between the classes of 11)17 to 1!K!3. Navy Storm Breaks With the end of the war, however, the storm broke. Reserve officers and regular navy of ficers found strict censorship lifted and began to 'peak out. Long before tin-, however, some of the younger officers on Secretary Forrestal's staff had tipped him off as to what was going on. They told him that the important tele grams were not being shown him. They suggested that he go up to the communications room himself and look them over. Forrestal did. and, from that time one, he has had more to say about running the navy. The man who handled promotions, trans fers and discharges for King was Adm. Ran dall Jacobs, chief of the bureau of naval per sonnel or "Kupers.'' If you control "Supers," you can pretty much dominate the navy. And between them. King and Jacobs did. But the end of the war caught both King and -Jacobs completely off-guard. They had never expected it so soon. In fact they were making all preparations for a full-sce invasion of Japan this fall. Furthermore, King did not want to see the navy reduced to anywhere near it.- peacetime size, so was the last man to want to speed naval discharges. Forrestal Gets Tough It was at about this point that Jim For lestal, for the most part a meek and mild lit tle man, began to get tough. Though he had been wise to King for a long time, he had been handicapped by the fact that King was the special pet of FDR, and the late president con sidered it his1 own job to run the navy. For-ie-;tal was almost helpless. With Truman, however, it was different. Truman not only believes in each cabinet member being tesponsible for his own depart ment, but he also knew something about the way Admiral King had ridden roughshod over the civilian secretaries of the navy. So the first move made by Secretary Forrestal wa: to remove Admiral Jacobs, the man with the key to promotions, transfers and discharge-. Jacobs never wanted to go. Me had a fine house at the naval hospital supplied him by the government, together with a couple of Filipino servants. However he had no choice in the matter. At first a special job was created for Ja cobs. He way to be a full admiral with the magnificent title of "inspector general of the Pacific." By this time, however, Forrestal va- really, feeling his oats. He was determined to run the navy himself. And public criticism against Jacobs' slow discharge system strengthened Forrestal'.-- hand. He took away the glittering job in the Pacific and reduced Jacobs to the humdrum chore of running the Bremerton naval base near Seattle, Wa-hington. Furthermore, Forrestal brought into the navy a man who does not play on Admiral King's team, Adm. Lou Denfield, and made him chief of personnel. King kicked like a Missouri mule, but Forrestal overrode him. The Navy's Eisenhower Then, to make matters worse, Forrestal brought in as Denfeld's assistant, Capt. John Gingrich, another man who does not play on King's team. Ginrich's career, in a way, might be com pared to that of General Eisenhower. Like Eisenhower, he is the product of the Kansas prairies. Born in Dodge City, Kan., he grad uated from Annapolis and did a great job in the war as commander of the cruiser Pitts burgh. It was Gingrich who largely towed the flaming carrier Franklin out of danger, in cidentally covering up some glaring mistakes by other commanders which have never leaked out. It was Gingrich who nursed the Pittsburgh all the way across the Pacific when 100 feet of her bow was torn off by a typhoon once again covering up some faulty construction which the navy didn't want advertised. But, somewhat like Eisenhower, who was fired by General MacArthur when they served together in Manila in 1938, Gingrich was "fired" by Admiral King. As a reward for his heroism, he was relegated to the sidelines, removed from command of the Pittsburgh, and given the innocuous job of chief of per sonnel at Miami, Fla. Gingrich had been offered several important jobs by admirals in the Pacific, but King "sent him to Liberia" instead. At this point, however, Secretary Forrestal stepped in. He ordered young Captain Gin grich back to Washington as deputy chief of the powerful bureau of personnel. The' mothers, wives and sweethearts of navy men have a lot to be thankful'' for as a result of this transfer. Both Denfeld and Gingrich, though Annapolis graduates, believe in recog nizing the reserves, believe in speeding dis charges, and understand the problems of navy men. There should be a new huiry-up of navy discharges as a result. (Copyxight, 1945, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) T. - " : - RT'cO Ml TIC CE&me Davis Mate: Distributed by NEA TF I wasn't born precisely in the traditional dressing room trunk, it was the next best thing, for I spent the first years of my life in theater and circus dressing rooms in many lands, playing between wardrobe trunks and slumbering in an atmosphere of greasepaint with the distant throb of the or chestra as my lullaby. Grandmother often told me that I had been inconsiderate enough to arrive in the world feet first. But perhaps I should begin at the beginning. ; . . I was born on January 18, 1906, in Wheeling, West Virginia, dur ing one of the wildest storms and coldest winters ever known in that region. Mother was visiting my grandmother, who was assembling her company for the southern tour of the Sells-Floto Circus, Wheel ing being in those days a sort of taking-off point for acts going south for the winter circus dates. My father was in Canada, and mother had intended joining him fcr the '"blessed event,' but I was born three weeks prematurely, the result of an accident mother ex perienced while out driving with grandmama. in which she broke her wrist. The shock not only pre cipitated my birth but caused complications which nearly cost mother her life. My mother, Sofia Oswaldo, was an exceedingly beautiful woman, with a dead-white skin and copper-colored hair that contrasted strangely with her vividly green eyes. She was very tiny, with ex quisite little feet but ugly hands of which she was morbidly ashamed, especially when this de fect was reproduced in me. Grandmama used to say "that mother was a seventh child of a seventh child and as a result had second sight. I don't know just how true this is, but mother in sisted that she encountered ghosts almost everywhere we went, often announcing she had just seen "Tio Enrique," a favorite uncle, or some other defunct relative who sent his regards to everybody. This happened so frequently we even tually took it as a matter of course. In addition to her beauty, mother had a magnificent soprano voice and was a finished musician. She played both piano and guitar perfectly and had a vast knowl edge of music. She had made a considerable reputation for herself as a concert and grand opera singer, under the stage name of Maria de Lisle, both in Europe and in the Americas. She had a child ish disregard for the practical things in life, living only for music, yet she was devoted to me, and looking back, I have a feeling of intense admiration for her and the things for which she stood. In appearance she was totally different from my grandmother, who was also very tiny but with a dark, almost oriental beauty fre quently seen in the Andalusian gypsies, lovely feet and hands, and jet-black hair so long she could almost stand on it. She smoked black Cuban cigars incessantly, loved to gamble, and, like all gyp lies, preferred to "borrow" rather than buy anything she wanted. pRANDMOTHER married very young, in the Spanish custom, and couldn't have been more thnn 16 when she was already a famous flamenco dancer known through- i niSht rife Jlt ' (Illustrated by George Scarbo). In Spain a icoman in her early thirties is considered too old to dance professionally, so Grandmama decided to turn her uncanny gift of snake-charming to account. With this talent and her great beauty, she created her jamous act, "A Night in India." out Spain as "La Maravilla" (the Marvel). Her diminutive green satin slippers are still preserved in a glass case in the Posada de la Sangre, an ancient hangout of bullfighters in the gypsy quarter of Seville, where the autographed dancing slippers of many great dancers of Spain are reverently kept, together with the glowering black heads of famous bulls. Grandmama's maiden name was Lolita Bazil de Delgado, and her husband, my grandfather, was Guillcrmo Oswaldo. He must have been very handsome, to judge from the little faded photograph grandmama always carried. His family had been owners for three or four generations of a fleet of small freighters that plied in and out of the Port of Cadiz with cargoes of fruit. Grandfather wds also an "abogado," as lawyers are called in Spain, and he died rather young to have had such a large family, for grandmama managed to have 14 children and keep her figure. She was very slender as I first knew her, and as she got older, she seemed to shrink till there was nothing left but her great black eyes. After grandfather's death she found herself obliged to return to the stage, for he had left very little money. As far as her own people were concerned she could look for no assistance whatsoever, having married out of the gypsy race, and thus, in their eyes, auto matically forfeited her right to make any call on them. In Spain a woman in her early thirties is considered almost de crepit and far too old to dance professionally, so after months of struggling to make a "come back," grandmama conceived the idea of turning to account her gift of snake-charming which she had learned from her infancy and for which she had ah uncanny talent. WITH this talerft and her great " beauty, grandmama created her famous act, "A Night in India," which rapidly became a star at traction throughout Europe and the United States. She had her : own orchestra of Indian musicians EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BV PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent ; WASHINGTON, D C.-'-Former Secretary of War Henry L. Slimson "will not be named presiding officer of the forthcoming labor management conference after all. His health will not permit him 1i ' take the arduous assignment. No announcement was made of it at the time, but the venerable statesman had a heart attack at "the, White House on his 78th birthday This was the day he left Washington He recovered remarkably and was able to leave on his own feet, though the attack did delay his takeoff from Wash ington airport by nearly an hour. TTTTl llirillll"iM I II III., VWfWg f The 5000 Jap Prisoncrs of wai' no'v h,,'l in the V " United States will be shipped back where they fJ&$'f came from in the near future. General MacArthur lw J hps advised Washington the POWs can be absorbed mA without difficulty and Major General Lereh. the ; v Edson Provost Marshal General, has flown to Jap;in h- -v complete arrangements for the transfer Most of the Jap prisoners in the U. S. were captured in earlier Pacific cam paigns and remained obstinately irreconcilable up to the clay the Emperor threw in the sponge, towel, glove and works $ it te 17RIC A. JOHNSTON, new head of the motion picture producers and successor to "Czar" Will Hays, recently installed a profit sharing plan for employes in his electrical concerns in the northwest. Briefly, the plan called for setting aside.25 per cent of the net profit -after taxes, for division among employes on the basis of their seniority in service and salary scales. After the plan was put in effect a group of the employes protested It wasn't fair, they said, to the stability of the company or the stockholders. To Johnston's surprise, what they proposed was that 6 per cent net profits be set aside for the stock holders first, before any allocation was made .for profit-sharing amons the employes. f-' CO many plans for the government of Germany have been made that it is almost impossible to keep up with them. That fact led former Secretary of Treasury Henry W. Morgenthau astray the other day when he criticized the government because it had not made publii its plan known as JC-1067 Joint Chiefs of Staff Memo No 10H7. Morgenthau made this criticism of his former pals while putting in a plug for his own forthcoming book, "Germany Is Our Problem." m which he finally reveals with President Roosevelt's deathbed per mission the famous Morgenthau plan of 1944 for governing Germany Morgenthau's criticism of the Truman administration for not makir.-' public 1067 doesn't add up because he had it in his hands when he was Secretary of Treasury, he was asked to make it public, and didn't. doom LEONE EVERETT. Correspondent Avoca womans club met Wed nesday October with Phyllis Straub. The program as follows: Roll Call, Musk-, -Hard Times Come Again No More. World pro blems: Foods and nutrition, Mrs. Henry Smith; Clothing, Claire Wulber. ; Heating, Fred Meyer. Visitors were Mrs. Nelson ger, Nehawka; Mrs Weeping Water. Henry Shaeffer was here ting out his sale bills for a Mrs.) Mrs. Ber-I Ray Norris, ; I put-i I gen eral farm sale north west of A-j voca on Tuesday October 9. j Ed Morley was a business visit-! or to Nebraska City Wed. j Mrs. Alvin Gustavson, Portland, ' Ore. has been a guest at the ; George Meyer home. They took 1 her to Omaha where she took a' train for home. j Mrs. William Kepler Jr. receiv-' ed a letter saying her husband j was in Manila. Nora Jean McDonald is the proud owner of a new bicycle. Miss Dorothy Jorjensen former-; ly with the waves at Great Lades training hospital is visiting her State Department at Odds With Senators WASHINGTON "JR'The stair department, already linked i!'. ci.iil'Pct with Russia over plans for European peace treaties, found itself at odd- with senator. and Latin-Amtrican nations Sat urday on method- for adopting a permanent western hemi.-phei e security pact. Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson was handed a sharp dip lomatic rebuff late Friday by the governing board of the Pan American union. Acheson asked that the Oct. 10 lti de Janei i contorence called to dralt a per manent military aid tiiaxy to le place the wartime act of Chap ultepec be postponed indefinitely. The Pan-American board rep resenting all American . nations e.Xfei4i-- Canada, agreed to pont pone vthe meeting but voted to meet again NsK. -2'0tb "to consider fixing a future date for the post poned Rio conference. Acheson went along with the plan for the Nov. 10 meeting. l!ut lie indicated quite clearly earlier this- week that the United Slates preferred cancellation of the Rio conference entirely and the draft ing of the hemisphere security playing specially written music on native instruments, with marvel ous drum effects, and wore vividly colored Indian costume. All this, together with her ability as a dancer, produced a sensational artistic triumph. Her power over snakes was fantastic: she bought them wild and trained them herself and could handle any poisonous rep tile without getting bitten, often demonstrating this ability to direc tors of zoological societies and scientists. She said it was because snake-charming was done not by- force but through the eyes and with the mind. Snakes have to be washed daily, and this was one of my duties. I would put them in a bathtub of trepid water, stir them around for a while, then take them out and dry them carefully, after which I rubbed them with warm olive oil. Snakes love to be oiled because it helps them to slide. Some big ones (like the boa I later kept for years in my apartment in Paris) lubricate themselves by spitting out something that looks like whipped cream. This has an awful effect on servants, especially if they happen to suspect where it came from. The business of "milking" poi sonous snakes was a more serious proceeding. Grandmama used to put a piece of absorbent cotton in a wine glass and cover it with antiseptic gauze; then she took the glass in her left hand and the snake in her right, and with a gentle pressure of her fingers forced its mouth open and pushed the fangs into the soft gauze. The infuriated reptile would eject his venom where it would drop harm lessly on to the cotton. She took the greatest care of her snakes, holding them in deep re spect, and I can still recall her when some momentous decision was to -!be made, consulting with them in' the middle of the night, by the light of a small lamp. The greatest benefit I ever derived from them was their usefulness in getting unwanted guests out of the l ouse in a hurry and in negotiat ing the customs when traveling. (To Be Continued r j parents Mr. an dMrs. Henry Jor-, jensen. Mrs. Buchanan ami Alma Lame j of Nebraska Citv were visiting i with Mrs. Attie Nutzman Wednes day. The men of the community got together Wed. night in the town hall and organized a mens com munity club. They had a fish fry and 75 lbs. of fish were on hand for lunch. The following of ficers were elected: Carl Zaiser, chairman, Otto Hauschild, treas urer and Henry Maseman, secre tary. Mr. and Mrs. Will Kunz an nounce the birth of a daughter Friday, . October 5 at the St. Mary's hospital in Nebraska City. Mrs. Ralph Stubendich is at Sterling, Colo, in the hospital. She suffered several attacks of asthma and had to go to Colo, for i treaty through diplomatic chan nels, thus making it possible to leave Argentina out. The reason, he explained at this time, was this country's willingness to make military pacts with the present Aigentine regime. First Harvard President GREENVILLE. N. H. 'UP Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard College, is buried in an old cemeteiy in Greenville. relief. At this writing she is some what improved. Lt. Roy Huh-ie came , hon e Thursday from the separation center at San Antonio, Texa . He is now on inactive duty and after ;!0 days will receive his dis charge papers. He will help his father in the grocery store for the present. THIS CURIOUS WORLD ly William Ftrgutoa COPR. 194i BY NEA SERVICE. INC. ill r i T. M. PEC. U S. PAT. 01 F, ou pont meed to fsoa a snake The fastest American species cam travel only 3 amles per hour. "A TYPIST AAY HAVE A PERFECT TOUCH SYSTEM, YET NEVER BORROW." Sajs f?. BILL WILLIAMSON, ' i 1 Ul-i xm ' i M vY -r--; ii 1 . ' i , .tit. r . a-, i, IS AASAAM&DS ITS NAAE COMES FROM THE &EE. THSffMOS ( HEAT) AND MSTAOM (MEASURE) SL'T ACTUALLY IT MEASURES TEMPERATURE . . . NOT HE A t . NEXT: Square meal for an Eskimo. I s I nr