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VOL. NO. 40 PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, NOV. 29, 1945 NO. 112 Nebraska Farm Bureau Adopts 15 Resolutions HOLlUtKCK, iU.P The Neb raska farm bureau federation wound un its four-day convention Wednesday with the adoption of 15 resolutions prepared earlier by the resolutions committee of the senior farm bin eau, associated wo-, men, and the Junior farm bureau. The convention made only to"1" or changes in the resolutions, which included those opposing the Murray bill creating the MVA, favoring a broadening of the tax base in Nebraska, and opposing peace time military training, and socialized medicine and dentistry. Full Support b ull support of i ho Junior Farm IHireau by the senior organiza tion was urged by Peterson, who (iu-d Kb man's statement that less than 112 per cent of the -1.O00.000 farm youths in America belon to a farm organization. The resolutions submitted to the convention included those 1 hat : 1. Opposed the Murray bill ci eating the MVA. Other bills passed in l'-M-l and 11)15 adequate ly provide for flood control, pow er development, navigation and irrigation in the Missouri valley the committee said. Supplemental legislation was asked for coordin ating purposes, if necessary. Tax Base 2. Favored a broadening of tax base in Nebraska, to be accom plished by a state sales arid in come tax, and endorsed the Clen "ial principles of the sales tax hill introduced by Sen. I.add J. llubka. Beatrice, at the 1H45 leg islative session. A Bi-partisan three-member state tax commis sion was proposed to have general charge of the assessment of pro pel ty and collection of taxes. .'!. Asked that the basic prin ciple of the AAA farm program be (Tmu to Page 1, Number 7) Cub Scouts to Present Show A minstrel show will be present- I ed Frid;iy evening. November I :ii S o'clock in the Central build-i ing auditorium by the five dens j which comprise the local cub i scout puck. It will lie preceded ; l.y a business meeting and it is . op n to the parents of tho cub pack j members and interested friends. Members of the minstrel show I ast are: Interlocutor. James Ed- wards; Jasper. Van White; Rasp- berry. Victor Volkart; Snowball, Tiounie Schneider; Alabaster. Jim Mat khaui and ftastus. Charles Ay- bo'. Tonette Band A tonette hand will play two numbers, "Jingle Hells" and "The Caisson Song." Members of the band are from Miss Hermsmeyer's tilth grade room and include Ron- uie Schneidtr. Wendell Priest. Kbhard leverage. liillie Hill. John Alliens. Tommy Conis, TSillie lluteher and Jerome Shellenherg er. .Mrs. ('. J. White will serve as 1 i.-inist. Membership .Membership to the Cub Scouts is open to hoys when 'they have WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 0J.R) passed their ninth birthday. It i Republican Senators split sharply is necessary for them to pass four; over United States foreign policy ranks and appear before a Hoy I Thursday in heated debate over S out examining board before they i details of American participation an become a full fledged Scout j i'1 the United Nations organiza at the age of twelve years. The j tion. lien mothers prepare the boys in cull den for these four ranks. K;u h den has a den Chief who is an active l!oy Stout and after he has served in this position at every .meeting for a year he re i eives a special honor ia the form of a merit badne. This is a respon sible job for the boys who work In that capacity and credit is due them for a fine job of leadership fr the younger boys. Call Me Mister! Nine men reported their dis charges from the armed forces to the Cass county selective service office Wednesday, Nov. 28. From the army: Clinton E. i Nearhood, Edward Hope, Ferdi-! nand Detlef and Frank Sheldon,! all of Plattsmouth;- David Bene-j diet and Gilbert Luken both of ; Louisville Roy Wipf and Melvinj Rickford, both of Weepies Water. J From the navy: Richard Strat-; ton; Weepingr Water. i Santa Claus Will Visit Here Dec. 15 Santa Claus will be in Platts mouth in person on December 15 on the courthouse lawn to pee all the boys and jrirls in the county who can come here to meet him. lie didn't av exactly what time DC neve mt n0 ,as promised to ?en( word ahead about when j0 eXpect him. -phe Business Men's Ad club, whose members will be Santa's sn0.:at assistants during bis visit here, are making arrangements to show him howr welcome he is. The committee for the arrangements includes: William Puis, chairman; Fred Feldhausen and Dick Logs don. It was decided at the ad club meeting Wednesday that the stores in Plattsmouth will remain open until 0 p.m. from December 17 until Christmas to help take care of the Christmas shopping rush. Basketball Team Will Play Friday Members of the Plattsmouth j high school basketball team were , announced Thursday morning by coach Joe York. The players will , i lie John Kimball and Charles I Eaton, guards; Terry Cullen and; Larry Thimgan. forwards. York ! said he is still undecided about the center position. Charles Eaton is the only re-, turned letterman on the team and he will be team captain. j Their first game of the season ; ' will be played Friday against . South High in Omaha. The floor, ! is considerably larger at South j high than what the Flattsmouth i boys are used to, York said, and ; they may tire more quickly. Genealogy Books "Are Now at Library The Luc R. Spencer Genealogi cal library, property of the Ne braska Society. PAR, is available for research by adults at the Plattsmouth Public Library. Mrs. E. V. WVscott of Fonten- elle Chapter MAR. Plattsmouth, is in charge of the books. Mrs. Wcs cott or some other member of the chapter will be at the library auditorium on Tuesday and Wed-, liesday afternoon and Wednesday veiling to assist anyone interested in genealogical research. The books may be chocked out j of the library. Louisville Gets New Post Office ! The Louisville Post Office is; j being moved into a new building! j this week. The post office has. been housed for many years in any building available but it will j now have its own permanent quar- ;tt,rp - j ! Williams Israelson and Son,; , Ilartington, were the contractors.; j The floor plan is much the j same as the old building but of- j f ice space has been provided for; ! the postmaster. More boxes will! be available in the new location. ; Postmaster at Louisville is Rose I Tempelmeyer. ' ! Republicans Split Over Foreign Policy Sen. George 1). Aiken, R., Vt., took the floor to answer his fel low Republican, Sen. Robert A. Taft. O., who is campaigning to limit presidential authority to u,"""a -"" " J"u I action against aggressors. ; Sen. Forrest C. Donnell, R., MO. j i also was scheduled to speak on j i the pending bill which would let . American troops and economic j sanctions be used against unruly j 'nations without specific congres-j ' sional okay. i j Sens. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R. i Mich., and Wayne C. Morse, R., j j Ore., were engaged in a side clash ! over whether the United Nations j should pledge itself to submit to T.... :1 r l t.. . lilt: Allien Kiiioiicii iuuit ui IU-1 tice any dispute with another j country which also recognizes the ' court. HUNTING TIME Friday - 7:06 a. m. to p. m. Saturday 7:07 a. m. to p. m. ELAST GERMAN WAR FACTORY Clouds of smoke and de bris fill the air as an underground war material factory near Geislirgeii, Germany, is destroyed by dynamite placed under the supervision of I'nited States engineers. (NKA Telephoto). Medical Association is Opposed to Proposed National Health Program CHICAGO. Nov. 20. (U.R)- member of the American Medical Association board of trustees Thursday' denounced President Truman's proposed national health program and the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill as tickets to national socialism. Dr. Louis H. Piauer, Hempstead, N. Y., said in an article published by the AM A Journal that "not withstanding Senator Wagner's claim that the bill is not socialized J medicine, it is just that. It in- eviiably will lead to national so-j cialism." ! Opinion's Differ "We are all agreed as to the ultimate aim" in furthering med ical care, but "differences of op inion arise as to how this aim is io be achieved." he wrote. Dr. Pauer referred to an AMA ; piatfoi m. adopted in l'U4. which called for "availability of medical care of a high Quality to every 1 person in tlie t mtea Mates. , Dr. Hauer said the medical pro- ; fession was "unalterably opposed" j to the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill 1 for theTfoloving reasons: . It is un-American. It is inordinately expensive, in- j volving an eight per cent pay roll tax up to $3,600 of income, and this probably inadequate. j It sets up another federal bur eaucracy with a lay board the social security board at its head, to decide all medical matters. Third Party A third party, namely the gov- Seek Funds to Help Fight Polio Ted W. Metcalfe, state chairman j r a pnysical cneckup. 1'or the Sister . Elizabeth Kenny i Two other survivors were be Fund. has announced that Gover- j ing brought in over washed-out nor Dwiglit Griswold will serve as riiad- and hastily-constructed honorary chairman of the Xe-' mountain trails from a logging hraska Chapter of the Sister Eliz-eamp some 40 miles from here. aheth Kenny Institute. Ring Crosby, chairman of the National campaign to raise, five million dollars is asking for your hdp for the helpless. Contribu tions will help bring more Kenny technicians into hospitals and clinics in Nebraska. One half the amount raised in Nebraska will remain here, the other half will go to the Kenny Institute in Min- i reapolis to finance full training j of Kenny technicians for perman j tut stay at clinics throughout the j country: to provide periodical study courses for physicians anil technicians and to conduct in tensive clinical research in polio myelitis and related subjects. At the Kenny Institute a maxi mum hospital fee of $5.00 per day is charged, if the patient can af ford it, nothing if he cannot. Treatment is given absolutely free of charge to everyone. Close WAC Center In Des Moines, Iowa nT4TTi rilPl Tl.a ll'Am.n .... ....i,, j itv . vuiuiio Army Training Corps center at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa will be dis- j continued December 15, 7th Ser- J vice. Command headquarters anri- j oansed Thursday. ' :57". Separation activities' for the WAC and U other activities, how :57 ever, will continue at Ft. Des Moi- ines indefinitely, headquarters sid. eminent, is brought between the doctor and the patient, and the doctor is responsible to that third party. A poor type of medical care is encouraged quantity without i icgard to quality. "Inefficiency, red tape and po litical medicine will result if the bill becomes law." Dr. P.auer said. Rely on Doctors "There are many who think that legislators, those engaged in social welfare and other lay men can draw up a complete pro gram, have it adopted and thin expect the doctors to make it work. "It should be borne in ' mind that, no matter what system is (Aeutually evolved in this country for delivering medical care, the doctor is the one who is going to i have to deliver it. It cannot be de- t i livered by a 'social uplifter' ". ! "Hence it would be better for all concerned if the plan adopted is one which will enlist the coop eration and enthusiasm of the medical profession." Search for Airmen In Oregon Forest I COOS BAY, Nov. 29 (U.PJ I Civilian volunteers and rescue J teams from the Portland Army I Air Base combed the heavily-woo-i tied southern . Oregon wilderness i Thursday in search of seven air j men, missing since their C-4G plane crashed . Monday. ' Five of the 12 men aboard the i giant army transport were known j to be safe. Two already ha3 been taken to Coos Bay City hospital They stumbled upon the camp after two clays of wandering thr ough the dense forest. A third, Flight Officer Dave Peed, Sedalia, Mo. dangled in his parachute harness from a giant evergreen fir tree for 36 hours before he was freed. President Savs U. S. Has Taken Steps To Revive Potsdam Declaration i WASHINGTON, (U.W Presi- dent Truman announced Thursday (Cd Wednesday by Byron Price., that this government has taken , former censorship director who steps to revive the Potsdam de-!rccently con.lud.d an investiga claration with a view of limiting tive mission in Germany for the difficulties in the 4-power control : president. ot oermany. , i At the same time, Mr. Truman i ... . , said m answer to news confer-! u .v. tt-:. XT .. rt . .. i-i i, ,tj x-l u i itrol commission by a single dis like it should, there would be no' . . 1 need in the future for meetings r .i. t- . , i me Dis-i nree or any oiner type , . , . . ... , . of special top level international! , j . Conferences j The president said that it was these special conferences that turned tue-.ttssue al ottaona. He said h opposed iiheijj:;. for .that raason, iparring inatead;t-o- se U.N.O. d its job. A basic overJaaul of U. S. pol i icies in Germany was recoTmri.nd Beatrice Fairfax j Dies Wednesday WASHINGTON, U.R Beatrice Fairfax will give no more advice to the lovelorn. Mrs. Marie Manning Gasch, 70, known to millions of Americans as the "Beatrice Fairfax" whose daily newspaper column tackled problems, of the lonely human heart, died at her home here of heart failure Wednesday. The funeral will be private. Although she had many imita tors, Mrs. Gaseh was the first author of 'Advice to the Lovelorn'' columns and her name has been famed in song, story and humor ous anecdote for many years. It was back in 1898 that the young Miss Manning, working as an early torerunner ot tne "od- lister on tne uui .New l oi k , , , , , journal was asnea oy tne iaie,the wa?(i dislllU. i(HinK 223.ooo Arthur Brisbane to answer some (;t n( i.aI Motors emplov(s T h e leiiers iiiui came m u uie journal seeking advice on love problems j "as a public service." . The resulting flood of addition- j al letters, all seeking love hints, led Brisbane to start a daily "ad-! vice to the Lovelorn" column, the first to appear in an American i Daily, with "Miss Fairfax" at the' helm. Truman Says Reconversion Is Moving Ahead WASHINGTON. U.fi President Truman said Thursday that re conversion of U. Sj industry from war to peace production was well 1 on its wav to completion. In a news conference review of the first 100 days of reconversion Mr. Truman said total employ ment was rising after the initial post-war lay ot'fs and was now back at the level of V-J Day. He added that employment is ex- pected to continue to rise,. Truman said the disruption of peace was much less severe than had been anticipated and reiterat ed that reconversion was almost completed. Ahead of Schedule The president said frankly that v, hi ,r,o,ta ,, mmnv0inn r. IIUU tllUUV CVl'M 1 capitulation at this time to show that the administration is not asleep on he job. and that, actual- ly, the reconversion program Ls far ahead of schedule. He warned that inflation pres sures are still great and be saw "danger signals" building up through the winter and spring, particularly In rising real estate, wholesale and raw material prices. "We must continue to hold the line," he said. "We cannot permit inflation." Inflation He agreed that there was a companionate danger of deflation but this danger, he said, is not nearly as great in his opinion as the threat of inflation. "Business continues good," the president said, citing statistics to show that retail sales are up ten per cent over the same period of last year, steel ignot production has gone up sharply since V.J day and electric power production now is only fourteen per cent under the wartime peak. Strikes The president attributes the upsurge of (Turn to strikes since V-J clay i Page 4. Number 1) -i n . . . . V . . .1 Price m his report complained j , . . , ... about th system under which one of the four powers on the con- - ., . , r, , i of the council. He blamed France i - , . .. . for obstruction of the operating . . of Germany as an economic unit. This veto situation the presi-: , . ... - ... , dent said is one of the things be- i ing. discussed by this govennent'j in its efforts to have at least some i portion 0f the Potdam declaration, charged. Mr. Truman would not titiir AltLrsMtm. aavina' that he feared that a detailed dis cussion mifirht prejudice tbe cur rent nejpotatioris. Congress to Indictment General Motors Asked Again to Discuss Dispute DKTROIT. Nov eminent attempts 29. 0J.R1 Gov to bring labor peace to the strikebound General Motors empire rested Thursday with tlie corporation's chief ex ecutive. j ,,e askwl apajn fo attoml a man j a?eni(,nt . pilVtrnnwnt conterence , ,. . . to discuss the company s side of strike of 17f.00". GM production workers, members of the United Automobile Workers union (CIO), entered its ninth day, with ;10,00n non - striking employes barred from the H3 struck plants by UAW picket lines. Edgar L. Warren Edgar L. Warren, chief of the federal conciliation service, said in Washington he planned to con ' tact Wison with a view to ac hieving the "earliest possible set- tlement" of the walkout cutting off nearly half the nation's auto mobile production. Previous efforts by Warren to ; persuade management officials to j confer with him were turned down j by Wilson, who angrily denied ever having accepted an invita ; lion to go to Washington. There 'was no indication what GM's re- i 1 .. .A XI"., ..V , '"-v ,u ""' o..m, ?be. Union Officials returning from Washington to Itroit to await rtevclopmonts. ' They were promised there yester- .day that Secretary j Sehwellenbach would of Labor na move quickly as possible toward re - sumption of deadlocked comiidny - union negotiations on the UAW's demand for a 3 per cent pay in - j crease. j Therc were thes(' otller lt'Vl'1" opnunts in the troubled auto - ! motive labor picture. Advertising j -funeral Motors said that all j advertising for products Med up u inv "us wu oi.eieu, i cancelled until April 1. It was - (Turn to Page -I, Number 2) 20 Top Nazis See Atrocity Movies NUE REN BURG, U.W The 20 top nazi war criminals were terestd spectators Thursday m- -4 a court room showing of horror films taken by American amy! photographers in Germany's worst concentration camps. It was the first time the captur - ed nazi leaders had been brought face to face with the pictorial evi- dence of the atrocities carried on under their regime, and they wat - ched with rapt attention through - out the 52 minute showing. Hjalmar Schact alone of the defendants refused to watch the horror film. He turned his back to the screen and sat rigidly thr-, oughout the showing1, ref usjrig to ' turn his head or glance at the ; picture, MUST EXPLAIN Captain Charles B. McVay. Ill, who will' face general rourt mar tial in Washington. D. C, De cember 3, as aftermath of loss of heavy craitcr, Indianapolis sunk during the closing hours of tne war in the Philippine Sea, presumably by torpedoes from a Jap submarine. I . -'"w' J i 'i $ 1 1 Investigate Hurley's of Career Diplomats Commission Leaves Leaders Demand For Japan Dec. 26 ImmPfUatp ArKntl Washington, up- The io- lmmeciiaie icuon nation far eastern advisory com-j WASHINGTON, U.R) Per mission leaves for Japan Dec. ponding to angrv demands from 1 1 . i - .IMS ' under oruers to woik entiiei. through Gen. Douzlas MacArthui and not directly with any Japan-; ese government agency. Secretary of State James F. ( Uvrnes outlined the commission method of operation in a letter to the chairman, Maj. Gen. Frank K. McCoy. He recalled that the Jap-j anese surrender documant made MacArthur, as Supreme Allied ; Commander, the official allied' voice in dealing- wiih the Japanese. In view of this, Hyrnes wrote,; "dealings by the commission or, members of the commission with the Japanese government and its agencies would, of course, be en - tirely through the medium of the supreme commander." The secretary implied that it would be well for the commission to occupy itself with a tour of Ja - pan while awaiting final deter mination of its scope and powers. This won't be known until the current Pusso-American negotia tions on Japanese control are end ed. Steelworkers Favor Strike By United Press Kesults of the most extensive ganrzed vote1 in the history of or labor Thursday showed CIO steel- workers overwhelmingly in favor of strike action, back demaiAls for if necessary, to a 2-a-dav wage . ; Del ore tne rear! Harbor mvest- mcrease. 1 Workers who fashioned the:1-1"1 m''ttee. He is an irn steel and aluminum sinews of war J !,orta?t w,tneM! and' a'corlin P o-jiv.i tbir Te:i,-lr.r n Vw-Ait rwl i n fivcto-one vote of confidence, the National Labor Relations, Board - .u i t lejnuieu on wit; iiukis ui apjuctjij-; 'niately 75 per cent of the ballots' ' cast. ; No Work Stoppage 1 The United Steel Workers M CIO), however, warned its mem - hcrs that thc vote not consti - ltute authorization for a work : stoDDage: that the final strike C F - - - ; decision rested with CIO and USW , President Philip Murray and his; i strike strategy staff. lne i rade Journal Iron Age ; predicted a strike could be ex- 1 pected some time after the first ' of the year. More Vot An additional 250,000 steel- 'workers have scheduled strike' ! votes by Dec. 31, so that a work stoppage, i f called, ultimately i .n,,t,i ff.- o,. onnnnn ;iica policy tnat the tormer ambas vl 7 members. As USW members voted whe- ther to tie up steel production, nearly half a million workers were j away from their jobs in strikes and shut-doyns almost univer - sally the result of demand increased wages. i " 1 - j j wm jr rj r WW Wl i m jRT j) FROM THE WIRES Discuss Peace DETROIT, U.R C. E. Wil nesws flashes page 1 son, president of the strike bound General Motors corpora tion Thursday said be had in vited Edgar G. Warren, direct or of the federal consultation service to come to Detroit to discuss peace moves in the par alyzing strike. Reject Proposal WINDSOR, Ontario, - 0J.RU Striking CIO united automobile workers at Windsor Ontario bave rejected the advise of their policy committee and turned down Dominion pro posals to settle the 79-day strike against Ford of Canada. Praise Truman TOKYO, (UR) George Atch eson Jr., political advisor to Ganeral Douglas MacArthur Thursday praised Presidnit Truman's action in sending General George Marshall to. China, but declined to comment on Major General Petrick J Hurley's attack on state de partment career diplomats. ;lmth vepublicans and democrats. congressional leaders Thursday promised an investigation into cx ambassador Patrick .1. Hurley's blistering indictment of American career diplomats. Chaiiman Tom Connally, D., Tex., of th,e senate foreign rela tions committee, said he planned tentatively to begin an inquiry Monday. He said he would call both Hurley and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes to get the full story behind Hurley's dram- ! atio resignation as ambassador M ! China two days ago Congress Demands , Connally's plans, however; di-1 : not silence congressional demands for a more swoc.r,;nff investigation ,, nha a frtM: policy and the way it is bein carried out by the state depart ment. Resolutions for such in quiries were introduced in both the house and senate. President Truman may enter the mounting foreign policy con- troversy when he is questioned by reporters at a scheduled morning news conference (10 a. m.) Developments Meanwhile, there were these yelopnts: - . ',' "en- l'fYrrKe 1 ' trenail. : w' !!acooe', Urle a envo',to n,n: Vreavea to .cave tor ' f1"" s so??s .ho testifies war department sources, may not M ablf ! K'ave Washington for i pveral da r Paps a week i or two. Hur.Iey reiterated his charg- . "s l'iat "double-dealing" state de- partment "career men" wree op- ' erating behind-the-scenes to sa- ; bota"e American foreign policy. iHp charged specifically that they ! na1 undermined his attempts tn ! unif China's opposing factions. .1. Secretary of State Byrnes be I gan his own inquiry into Hurley's ' accusations against career diplo i mats, calling for all department (records and letters dealing with tne t"' l China. He was keeping in close touch with devel- opments in Congress. Baet HrIy Byrnes gave Hurley his fall Peking Wednesday saying there a Detn vo cnane in tne Amer- t 1 T . Mil . ; sauor naa pursued in .r..na. ine "V. before he resigned, that any 0PP??1"? state, department p.j lyifu i ' 1 ne siaie uepanmenr n poucy, for Byrnes said, is always to back an j ambassador ove$- career- men. i , In his personal inquiry, Byrnes ?jwas interested primarily In the tecords. of two. .career men mast I strongly objected to by ITurley : George Atcheson. Jr.. and John Stewart Service. They were among the ten ."subordinate foreign ser i vice men recalled from China at Hurley's request. George Atcheson I Atcheson is now political advis- er to (len. Douglas MacArthur, Ku ; preme allied commander in Jap ' an. and service also is on Mac- Arthur's staff. Service was arvest j ed last summer on a federal charge of unauthorized possession of state department documents, but (Turn to Pace 4, Number 6) j WEATHER i Nebraska Forecast: Clear' to ; partly cloudy Thursday; Thursday night and Friday; somewhat cool 1 er Thursday east portion and in ! extreme east Thursday night and 'Friday; low Thursday night ;? ". SHOPPING DAIS. Tilt CHRISTMAS Tb re vos o msn in ear town. And he wot vonrfrottt vise: SHOP He did hi shopping eorh XAKLt Teke e tip, you otter guy! . - 11 )