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IRF' VOL. NO. 40 PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1946 NO. 142 L ' ft If: Frank Gobelman Sells Business After 35 Years Frank Gobelman, been in business in for tbe pat 3! years from activity in bis who bas Plattsmoutb , bas retired retail paint, glass, wallpaper business effective and contract January 1 be cause of ill bealtb. Clarke Scar hrough and Alvin Nierste, con tractors of Omaha, bave pur chased this long established bus iness and assumed ownership Tuesday. Frank started his retail busi ness in 1010, tbe first retail paint, glass and wallpaper store in Plattsmouth and conducted a large contract business in addi tion to tbe store. Prior to the organization of this business he did contract painting, decorat ing and sieri paintincr work. Sign - Painter A sign nainter of ability, his work in this " line bas been on display -here and many- other of the Master Painters of Neb places through the yars of bis activity. He is a past president ra-ka. in which capacitv he ser ved for two terms, and was on the national executive committee for two years. His first store was located on north sixth street in the Elks building before it was remodeled where he occupied the entire downstairs floor. After that l.uildinp- was sold, he moved across tbe street to one of the store rooms in tbe hotel build ing and later moved to the site occupied by the offices of the Consumers IaVht and PoVt Company;. In September. 1041. tbe ;tore was moved to its pres ent location in the building: pur chased b" tbe fiohflmans. Mrs. Gobelman Mrs. Gobelman bas been as sociated with the business since its orenniration thirtv-five vear .""o and bas been in complete f-'iaipp fir the past, two vears. She will be employed bv the new owners in clerical capacity in the store Henry T.ntz. who has been with the Gobelmans for the nast pne vears will contin ue bis work under tbe new man :igenient. Alvin NiTerste has been in tbe contract business for the pn-t wentv-five vear? and Clarke P'vbrr'io'b has been associated with h1'-" for the nst several vears. Thi s their first venture in tbe retail paint busi-ir-s and the' plan to continue their eon tract work. New Owners The Tierfps bave two child ren, a bov fifteen vear old and a dnuehter nine vefs old. Neir ste i a member of Post 1 of th" American Legion n Omaha. The S'-arbVoue-hs have ono wbo is seventeen years obi. frvth famies plan to mo-e to Plattsmouth ns soon ar- livinc r"iv(rs cm be secured, and l)"' til that tin,e the two men will commute dilv" to their work here from Omaha. Hollywood Stars Are Involved in New Year's Eve Holdup HOLLYWOOD. (UP) Six masked bandits pointed a mach ineeun at actress Betty Grable while they pulled a $75,000 new year's eve holdup, the film star said Thursday. And because the proprietors of a sunset strip gambling den apparently preferred g- o i n e? broke to going to jail, the rob bers had a 48-hour head start on police. Sheriff's deputies did not learn of the daring holdup until rumors sifted into a Hollywood substation late Wednesday. Detective E. M. Ren fro said the owners of the Swanky Night Club probably had been reluct ant to report the robbery and tangle with the law for operat ing a gambling house illegally. Renfro said a score of movie celebrities, including Miss Gra ble, her bandleader husband Harry James, .producers Sam Wood and Edmund Goukilng, Mrs. Irene Selznick and musical director Leo Forbstein, all wera witnesses to the looting. Call Me Mister! Twelve ' men reported their discbarges from the armed for ces Wednesday to the Cass coun ty select jve service office it was announced Thursday. From the army: Elmer Alex en and Richard Black, both of Plattsmouth; John Farmer, Om aha; Don E. Ziegler, - Elmwood; Basil II. Little, "Dvfnnegan, Mo.: Charles Pankonin. Louisville; Rov Stock. Murdock: Louis Car nicle, South Bend; Vernon Hurl-but-and Frank Harban, both of Greenwood; Richard - Dixon, Seattle; Boyd Elliott, Lincoln. Six Men are Given Induction Physical Six Cass, county men have re ceived instructions from the se lective service office to appear Thursday for their pre-induct ion physical examination, it was re vealed Thursday. The men called are: Wayne George Meisinger. Donald R. McClintok ar.d James Rae Hutchison, all of Platts mouth; Robert Allen Koighard. Greenwood; Victor V. Holleii heck, Elmwood and Russol Nitl Ward, Murdock. Four Cass county men left on Wednesday for Ft. Leavenworth for induction into military ser vice, the selective service office announced Thursday. Those be ing inducted are: Hubert K. Car rett. Plat tsmouth ; Lyman K. And erson, Nehawka; Melvin A. Eaton, Vnion ami Robert G. Wohlfarth of Murray. Victory Clothing Collection Will Start Monday The Victory nothing Collection for overseas relief starts Monda.v ! and will continue until the end of! January, Miss Ardyth Hall, chair- man of the collection for Platts-j mouth said this morning. A re-j ceiving center will be opened , January 7 in iho court house for the collection. "Meanwhile." Miss Hall declared, "we urge that ev eryone in Plattsmouth devote some time to search through clothes closets, trunks, chests and bureau Hi a" :p tv..u .,-. CLOTHING outgrown by your son could be used by this Italian boy whose entire wardrobe went up in flames when his home was bombed. Give your spare clothing to the Victory Clothing Collection to help millions of such unfortunates. drawers for garments, shoes and bedding that can he spared for the relief of the needy and destitute people of the war-torn lands." Miss Hall said that complete plans for conducting the drive in Plattsmouth have not yet been made hut that she hopes to get the matter settled within a couple da vs. "Virtually all the clothing mil lions of people in war-d.nasted countries have this winter is what was given to them last April. And millions of poonle still need clothing rtesneratelv." it is pointed out by the TTNRRA." Every type of clothing, bedding and shoes aie needed for the drive. Teachers Exams to Be Given Saturday Special examinations for per sons wishinjr to obtain temporary teaching certificates will bo con ducted in Lincoln Snturday. ac cording to L. A. TV-hvends. coun ty superintendent. Th examina tions will he eiven in the state capitol building and will begin at 0 a. m. Behrends also said that th? Nebraska state tnohers examin ations for tb third nrade ele mentary certificate wi?l be piv- en in Plattsmouth on January 19. The examination will lie conducted in the county super intendent's 'office n the court hone and will bein at S n.. m. T" 11 1 ' 1 . t iserrenus exnannnt tnnt sev- interested in tenrbinj next year will take the exam. To Accent Bids on Star Mail Routes Proposals mail routes received bv ment until for enrrving all star in Nebraska Avill be the postoffice depart Februar.v 19, accord ing to Edward Egenberger. post master. Two star routes serving Plattsmouth are among those open for bids. Egenberger said. . ' - Complete . Information concern ing these routes may be obtained through ttte. local 'postmaster. l!"t -v (ft .SM&2t i ' J March of Dimes Campaign Begins In Cass County Mrs. Henry Donat, president of the Junior Woman's Club, has been appointed county dir ector for the March of Dimes campaign sponsored by the Na tional Foundation for Infaiitib1 Paralysis, it was announced Thursday morning. L. A. llchrerids, county super intendent will be in charge of a special drive to be conducted in tbe schools throughout the county. Begins January 14 Although the drive does not officially begin until January 11 and runs Hi rough January '51, I com containers nave already ! been distributed with the hope of securing more money, Mrs. Itnat expYtinod. ''"March of Dimes fubiers are bien disiii I billed to all organizations dut- ing tliis month." she said, "and i it is hoped that donations to (this worthy cause will be gener- The will be no house to bouse canvass, tbe chairman said, and Everyone is urged to cotittibute in the coin containers, through their organizations iv.nl through tbe schools. Used in (bounty Half of the money raised in tbe campaign remains in Cass J County to be used in case an epidemic breaks out in this lo cality. The nast year wan the fourth. woist polio period in the history of this country. Ibe mon ey raised through this campaign will help fight out this dread disease. Chairmen Chairmen for the various towns and communities through the county appointed by Mrs. I Donat include: Mrs. Nelson Ber ber, Xehawka; Mis. Carl O. Zaiser, Avoca: Mrs. Earl Elliott Elmwood;, Mrs. O. Murdock; Mrs. F South Bend: Mrs. nng, Alvo; Mrs. Weepi ng Wa i er ; B. Lunar '.lis, . J. Kneeht. J. W. Ban Don Philpot. Mrs. CI rover Rhoden, Manley; Mrs. Olin Mor ris, Murray; Mrs. Donald Born. Plattsmouth: Mrs. . Tarn es Roddy Union; Mildred M Trumble, j Eagle; Mrs. Mildred Coiv.stocV Greenwood; Mrs. Floyd Cauer, I j)Mn purveyed by Hawaiian de Cedar Creek; and Myrtle M. commanders and joint de- Wood, Wa hasli. Ono Lawton Funeral Services Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Ono Lawton, who died December 2S, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia were held Wednesday afternoon from the Christion church at Murray with Rev. J. W. Taenzler officiating. Mrs. Jess Hodge s a lit; ihree hymns, "Rock of Ages." Tn ihe Garden," anil "Beautiful Tsle of Somewhere" rt ith Mrs. C. J. White serving as her accompanist. Pall bearers were William Nel son, John Nelson of Lincoln, Fied erick Wehrbein, M. F. Allen. Mvi.i Ramge and Will Minford. Internment was made in the Young cemetery. The CabUve'tl funeral home was in c-liagi- of ar rangements. Federal Spending Drops 10 Billion WASHINGTON". (UP) Govern ment spending in the. first six months of the 1!MG fiscal year totaled $38. f.7 1.000, oOO, a drop of almost $10,000,000,000 from the same period of the previous year, the treasury announced oi Thursday. The 1046 fiscal year began last July 1. The drop in spending was due mainl.y to the large war time contract cancellations which fol lowed Japan's surrender in Aug ust. Despite the end of the war. which brought industrial shut downs and decreases in overtime pay, the government income con tinued at a high level. In the first six months of this fiscal year net receipts to the treasury totalled $1!), 003, 000, 000 as compared with $20,314,000,000 during.' the same months of the 19 45 fiscal year. France Agrees to Paris Conference Paris, (UP) France notified the United States Thursday that it accepts, in principle, the big three proposal for a United Nations conference to be held probably in Paris, to study draft peace trea ties. However, the French asked for more details on the big three plan before giving full and unqualified approval. - . The French views were set forth in a note, transmitted to U.. S. ambassador Jefferson Caf fery in accordance with- a cab inet decision taken Wednesday night. - 7 . "1 -j- ', vi fiic. ; lit' .i,t- . 7 if. f ,31 MAY BE NEW NAVY UNIFORMS New uniforms for en listed Navy personnel, being teetefl in both Atlantic and Pacific fleets and shore stations, include summer dress (right) and winter dress (left) uniforms. Note absence of traditional hell bottom, front -flap trousers, and middies. ( N K A Telephoto) Jap Air Attack on Pearl Harbor Was Anticipated j WASHINGTON, (U.R) Admiral I Harold R. Stark said ThursGay he assumed late in 1941 that Admiral Husband E. Kinunel. Pacific Fleet commander, wajs well aware of the danger of a possible Japanese air attacTv on Pearl Harbor. j Stark, former chief of naval 'operations, reminded the Pearl j Harbor investigating committee that the matter had been a sub- jpet of concern as far back as the fall of 1940. The situation had fense arrangements had been made he said. "I Assume" "I assume that having made this agreemeni and having agreed with me that the danger of an air attack on Pearl Harbor was pres ent, the commander in Chief, Pa cific f Ic t . would continue his ef forts to prepare himself to meet a possible air attack," Stark said. "T had no reason to believe, from any communications which came to me from the Pacific fleet that the concern shown by the responsible officers there over a possible air attack on Pearl Har bor had diminished in any re spect during 1911. I am certain that my concern had not." Calls Attention Stark called the committees at tention to: 1. Correspondence between him self and Admiral Claude C. Bloch, commandant of the 14lh naval district at Hawaii in December. 1910, regarding the inadequacy of air defense at Pearl Harbor. 2. Correspondence between for- t nur secretary of nav.y Frank Knox j and former secretary of war Henry Jj. Stimson. in January, 1941. in which Knox listed a surprise air attack as one of Japan's most likely moves in the event of war with the IT. S. ?. A joint coastal frontier de fense plan drafted by army and navy commanders in May 1941 continue near 1945 levels dur wh u-h included preparation for( nz the first half of 1946. De- .loint operations PEARL HAEB0E COUNCIL Seth-W. Richardson tabes, over., as counsel for the Pearl Harbor , Investigating Committee from .William D. Mitchell, who re signed ior Jack of tiroe. ? joint anti- aircraft measures and an aircraft warning service. Stark said he was so impressed by the joint defense agreement llictl lie uuu it iDiuc-u alio nt-ui iu ; commandants of all naval dist- j ricts and the commanders of the Atlantic, Pacific and Asiatic fleets. "In view of the fact that the .matter of air defense of Pearl Harbor had been surveyed and machinery put in motion to imp lement the defense, and in view of the fact that the authorities at l'earl Harbor nad arrived at a satisfactory joint arrangement for the air defense of Pearl Harbor, with which I was thoroughly fa miliar, I felt it no longer nec essary to emphasize this matter in my letter." Sark said. Say Farm Prices WUI Stay High WASHINGTON, (U.R) The agriculture department revised earlier estimates Thursday and predicted that farm prices would stay at present high levels for the next few months. Its economists now believe that the 1945 farm income will surpass earlier predictions by more than $300,000,000 to reach an all-time high of $21,500,000, 000. 1946 Demand In October, the department said, the demand for farm pro ducts would remain high in 104C, but, even so, that income was likely to slip ten to fif teen percent. However, consumers have been demanding farm. goods at an unpredecented high rate and the department now believes prices will remain close to war time peaks at least for the first few months of the new year. Latest estimates indicate that: Prices for meat are likely "to mand for dairy products probab ly would be "the strongest since the outbreak of the war." Measures to support prices on eggs probably will bo less but chicken meat prices are due to stay" it present levels." A de mand for feeds ot increase con sumption over present ''subnor mal" v levels will be "important price supporting factors." Accuses Army of Shameful Abuses of Martial Law Power WASHINGTON, 0J.R) Sen Pat McCarran, D., Nev., Thurs- ! day accused the army of shame ful abuses in administration of martial law and promised a con gressional investigation. McCarran, chairman of tbe senate judiciary,, committee, said the inquiry should also cover the army's court-martial system He said particularly objection able practices occurred while military law was in force in Hawaii where, he declared, in nocent' persons suffered punish (Turn to Page 4, Number 5) Western Electric Workers Start Sympathy Truman Radio Address Tonight WASHINGTON UR) Presi dent Truman goes on the air Thursday to seek strong public support in his fight to overcome congressional indifference to his legislative program. He will deliver .a ."0-minute na tionwide radio address from the White House at 10 p.m. (EST). Tt will be broadcast by all netvikc. To List Prevision! He will list for 'he nation ihe basic provisions of his program and explain the status of ihe many individual proposals io which Con gress thus far bas given litll? sup port. Mr. Truman was not expected to ask for anything jv hut merely to restate ami stress ihe need for White House proposals already pending before the house and Senate. New Development His speech Thursday marked a new development in the rresident- al teebnioue of pressing legisla-1 tion. Usually, at the first of each J year, a president submits a state of the union message to .he Con gress, then follows up with an ex planatory address to ibe public. The President now has reversed this procedure. Congress is in a holiday recess until Jan. 14. Mr. Truman apparently feels t is more strategic to get the people behind bis program while their legislative representatives are on home grounds and can sense public re action at first hand. Mansfield Sanity Trial is Ad journet s . A 1 1 I rial IS AdjOUrned Until Next Friday SAN FRANCISCO, (U.R The sanity trial of Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt Thursday will be giv en to the same iurv that a fort night ago found her guilty of manslaughter in the allen-ed iealousv slaving of nurse VadaiTondon orison. M.OT,tin. The five-day trial on Mrs. Manfeldt's pier of "not guiltv by reason of insanity" was ad .iinned Wednesday after he 4y'ear-old widow electrified the courtroom by jumning from br chair atr' 'lemandiiT Trt be rllowed to "tell the truth" to the Jury. After M-s. Mansfeldt was re turned t the. courtroom, he de fense attorney James Mclnnis charped that Flkinton had sub jected her to "sadi-:tic. toupees snrv and even cowVirdlv" tnr tur in his onenin" arfmment. Court ws adioijrncd until Th"rcdav when both the nrose ention pnd d'ent:' were exnect ed to conclude thir final i',m int by nooT. Snnerior Jude Fdwrd P. Murrhv aid h" would give his instroctions and submit the rnso to the iorv of iv men and six women immed iately. MacArthur Is Divided American-Soviet Russian Control of Korea WASHINGTON U.R Gen. Douglas MacArthur was Revealed Thursday to bave exnressed dis satisfaction to the War Depart ment over divided American-Soviet Russian control of Korea. In his first report on bis ste wardship as supreme commander for the Allied oowers, MacArthur said that the dual control was bringing "serious conseouences" and that the Korean people vere "greatly concerned." War Deoartment This report, issued through the war department, was prepared be fore tbe three-power conference of foreign ministers at Moscow agreed on a joint Soviet-U. S. commission for Korea and the calling of a m'eeting of ihe Rus sian and American military -"om-mand in Korea to establish co ordination on administrative and economic matters. Soviet Russia is. in cent ;1 of Korea north of the 33th parallel and the United States has jurisdic tion of the area to the south. Deportation MacArthur also indicated his opposition to any plan calling or the mass deportation of Japanese from Japan for reparation labor service. He said that deportation should be confined to 'specialists needed to install and to menage transpanted industrial establish ments. However, MacAtthur proposed Walkout; 10,000 Quit Senator Wherry Asks ODT to Take Over Midwest Truck Lines WASHINGTON. (UP) Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, R., Neb., Thursday asked the office of de fense transportation to take ov- er operation ot smuck Trucking lines in seven mid -western sta tes. , An ODT representative said that president Truman would have to order any such move. The walkout by AFL drivers has for nine weeks halted com mercial trucking in North Dako ta. South Dakota, Nebraska. Minnesota. Iowa. Missouri and Kansas. Senators from these states re cently called union and manage ment representatives to Wash ington in a futile effort to ob tain a settlement. Tbe senators also asked Mr. Truman to an point a fact-finding board in the dispute. "But the president has not acted," Wherrv told reporters. 'There are 200 Nebraska towns that are served exclusively by trucks, and something has to be done to keen food and other ne cessities ?oing into these towns. "I'm not trying to take sides in the labor disoute I'm try-in"1 to watch out for the consumer." Haw Haw Hangs For High Treason In British Prison LONDON. U.R William Joyce, a Brooklyn Irish lad who became the scar-faced and snarl ing Lord Haw Haw of the nazi radio son was hanged for high treas on the gallows of Wands- worth nrison Thursday. At. least four of bis fascist svmpathizer sood in th shiv- i ering crowd ot oou outsio ine i -tone walls of the southwest Reinforces no- lice pnards and a croup of Bri tish soldiers on leave were at the orison eate. readv for trouhle. b"t thee w?s no demon stration when the eyenijtio'n no tice was rioted t 9:0? a. n. One of th bttb traitor's sur rorter hred bis head and stood at attention the crowd jam med afiint the big Treen rte to read he words, "tb judg ment of dotb was this day exe eut4 on William Joyce." Three othr young- men sten ned behind o cbimn of tree and removed their hf when the 9 a. m. evolution hour r.sses. A small woman stan;n,r nar tVie. ! ftioyl Twotetinof her fc,t f-ov the frest. said, "good rid' mce." Porn "ri Aneri,nn Jove oae lindr T?rii?h i'-ncit 'tio brt- coiiip held ? Pritisb oassnort when he beeran. Ho broad cast freni Op'riiat"' "while still a subject of the British crown. Opposed to that Japanese military nnd civilian personnel who were left on by passed islands in the southwest Pacific be utilized to rebuild damaged areas and to construct new developments "m order to take advantage of their otherwise idle and restless manpower." Inter-Department MacArthur's apparent con rn over the dual jurisdiction over Korea was expressed in several places in bis report. He point, -d out that the two areas of the coun try were inter-denartment and suggested that the Russians were not being altogether coooerat v.-. "Russian consular officials are stationed in Seoul (Korea's cap ital, which is in the American zone)," MacArthur wrote. 'A re ciprocal privilege does not exist in the north." At another point in the report, MacArthur said: "The present division of Korea into Russian-controlled northern and American-controlled southern sections presents many problems of policy and operation. Aside arising from tbe fact that the 2Sth parallel cuts through three pro vinces, the economic and cultural dichotomy (division) resulting from the dual control has serious consequences. The Korean people are gTeatly concerned with the (Turn to Page 4, Number 3) Phone Operators May Also Strike BULLETIN OMAHA,, Neb. (UP.) Tbe strike of the united packing house workers of America (CI O) against the meat packing in dustry January 16 for hipher wages will effect 30,000 work ers in Iowa, Nebraska and Colo rado, A. T. Steohens, Des Moin es, director of District 3 of UP WA said Thursday. Omaha, the nations second largest packing center, will be hardest hit in the district with 10,000 workers going out, Ste phens said. Plants in other Nebraska cities will not be struck, the di rector said. By United Press WTestern Elec tric Company employees in New York and New Jersey struck Thursday and Stamford, Conn., workers began walking out in sympathy with Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company strikers. The first of 10,000 workers who threatened to paralyze industrial Stamford with a city-wide strike, left their jobs at 11 a. m. (EST) Shortly before noon 250 CIO mine, mill and smelter workers march ed to the. town square. A few min utes later 10 AFL book binders appeared. 400,000 Idle In all U. S. labor disputes 432, 000 workers were idle. About 17,400 employees were in volved immediately in the Western Electric walkout, called to en force demands for a 30 per cent wage increase. The Western Electric employees association, affiliated with the National Federation of Telephone Workers, has asked telephone op erators across the nation to walk out in sympathy. The union pre dicted that the strike also would spread to 68,000 Western electrir workers throughout the country. Auto Workers At Detroit, CIO United Auto workers pickets barred 5U0 non striking office workers from a General Motors plant. Police said there was no violence but pickets pushed aside office workers trying to cross the lines. In Washington, secretary of agriculture Clinton P. Anderson warned that severe shortages of meat for civilian consumption, European war relief and the army would follow swiftly any wide spread strike in the meat packing industry. Packing: Houses The CIO packing house work ers Wednesday ordered its mn bers to strike January 16 against the nations four major packers to support demands for a 2T cent hourly wage increase. If the strike went off, more than 200.000 workers in 147 Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cud ahy plants would be idled, union leaders said, while employees of smaller plants also would be call ed out. In the steel industry, it was hoped that a possible counter of fer might avoid a walkout of U. S. steel corporation workers seeking a $2.00 a day wage hike and pre pared to back up tbe demand with a strike January 14. Another Threat Another threat to communica tions arose Wednesday night when Western Electric employees in the New York metropolitan-area voted (Turn to Page 4, Number-4) Begin Search for Suitable UNO Site London. (U.R) A six-man United Nations committee will arrive in New York Saturday to select a permanent headquarters site for the UNO in the Boston or New York area, it was announced on Thursday. The site delegation, which orig inally was scheduled to leave for the United States Thursday, will board a Pan-American airways clipper Friday and is expected to start its real estate search early next week. Temporary headquarters of the group will be in New York, Wal dorf Astoria Hotel. Its mission is to find 40 or 50 square miles, of beautiful land near but not tou near Boston or New York where the proposed international city of the UNO can be erected. WEATHER Nebraska Forecast: Partly cloudy warmer east Thursday and Thursday night; Friday; cloudy, becoming": colder north-: west in afternoon; low Thursday nizht 25 to 35. -:,t u - - : i if