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PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, JANUARY 7, I94S The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Published seml-weekty. Mondays tr.i Thursdays, at 409-413 Main Street. Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher B. J. ALCOTT . General Manager ROBERT B. STATJFFER....Managing Editor Entered at the Postoffiee at Plattsmout, 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 mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by ter 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: $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 per year, $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, cash in dvanci. Neither Fish Nor Fowl The state department has 13,000, 000 to spend on its proposed foreign in formation service during its first six months of existence. It has jobs for some 2600 persons in 62 countries. All it has to do now is persuade congress to breathe the breath of life into the new agency. Given that, we shall have a perman ent successor to the late OWI and of fice of inter-American affairs whose ob ject, according to Assistant Secretary oi State Benton, is to give foreign peoples "a full and fair picture of American life and of the aims and policies of the Unit ed States government." Its instruments will include worldwide shortwave broadcasts and wireless bulletins every day, newsreels and documentary films, periodicals' and such like. Mr. Benton has said the new agency 'has no intention of competing with for eign propaganda abroad. He has like wise declared that it is not intended to compete with or supplant existing pri vate news services. Perhaps Mr. Benton is wise in making this explanation, since both foreign gov ernment propaganda agencies and non government news services are strongly established in their opposite fields. But he leaves us with the odd and hesitant inference that the state departmnt is going in neither for propaganda nor for factual news distribution. Only one thing seems definitely cer tain in this tepid declaration of an ex pensive project. Most foreign readers and lookers and listeners are going to accept the state department's foreign information output as slanted American propaganda. They've been fed too much government-issue news and views in the past to believe otherwise. The state department implies, by its declaration of this proposed agency's purpose, that foreign peoples have been getting an inadequate and unfair pic ture of this country, and a distorted im pression of its government's intentions. It might be more realistic if the state department would cease to disclaim any propaganda intentions and try to com pete with foreign propaganda agencies as best it could. Or, much better, it might throw its influence behind the growing efforts to promote a greater freedom of the press throughout the world. . For that world is badly in need of a free access to news for agencies which are known and trusted, and which will give the most straightforward informa tion that human frailty and prejudice will permit. And we doubt that more government handouts will meet that need. q What animals are put in the lead of caravans? A Donkeys or mules. Camels are pretty stupid and cannot follow a path. Q How many refugees found haven in Switzerland? A About 250,000, civilian and milk tary. Q What is the population of Nuern berg, scene of the German war crimes trial? A 430,000 prewar. Q Did Austria make airplanes dur ing the war? ; - , A Yes, 12 types of planes "and four types of engines. .3188 Austrian-made. )V planes were delivered to the Austrian-.:. Air Force. . '.' " " ' ? ' ROUND By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace isn't taking any chances on being left holding the political tag if the Tru man administration begins to lose out with the public. He continues on excellent terms with Tru man, but has also embarked on a speech-making campaign which, while supporting most ox Truman's enunciated program, makes it plain that the ex-vice-president still has a very forthright political mind of his own. It didn't get much attention, but Wallace made a significant speech at a negro frater nity meeting in Washington the other night which drew wide aeclain in the negro press a segment of the public that Bob Hannegan has been worried about ever since Mrs. Truman tossed aside the question of the DAK and Hazel Scott, wife of the negro congressman, who was barred from singing in Constitution Hall. Wallace's next talk will be at a ten-state farm meeting in St. Paul on January 11. This will be Wallace's first farm speech in almost two years and has more significance than meets the naked eye. After January, Wallace will make three or four speeches a' month all over the country, renewing his contacts with the hundreds of delegates who voted for him at the last democratic convention, at the same time checking his political fences around the the nation. Wallace doesn't plan to resign from the cab inet belore June, and when he does he will go out with Truman's blessing in oraer to cam paign for lioerai congressmen who will sup port the Truman program. This is tne type of campaigning where Truman is weakest and Wallace strongest, so there will be no break with the Truman administration unless. The "'unless'' hinges on plans to get Wal lace to testify Ict'ore congress regarding Tru niau'js recommended labor legislation and the much " debated cooliu'-ofi.' period. Wallace is opposed to this, and if culled before congress will be forced to say so in which cast lie will follow customary practice and submit his resignation. Trouble-makers on capitol hill already are maneuvering to put him on the spot. Secretary of Agriculture Secretary of Agriculture Anderson has come a long way from the day when he went out to Xew Mexico many years ago, Buffer ing from tuberculosis. Attaining membership in the cabinet of the U. S. is quite a climb for a country boy. Their, are only a handful of men every lour years who attain -that honor and distinction. At heart, however, Clinton Anderson is still a frustrated man. Most people don't know it, but his secret ambition long was to become au author. When he first went to New Mexico, Ander son had plenty of time to write. And he turned out dozens of magazine articles, aimed pri marily at the Saturday Evening Post. As fast as he sent them to Philadelphia, however, Post editors sent them back. Anderson collected a fine assortment of rejection slips and finally stopped writing. He turned to insurance,, cat tle raising and politics, in all of which he has been eminently successful. The other day, however, Anderson got his revenge. Bearded Forrest Davis of the Satur day Evening Post, sometimes nicknamed the "Missing Link"' dropped in to see Anderson and offered him a part-time writing job. He said the Saturday Evening Post could use. one article per month from the secretary of argrieulture. and offered a very juicy fee. I5ut the seeretaiy of agriculture, now one. of the busiest men in Washington, said he had no lime (o write. He gave the Saturday Eve ning Post a "rejection slip" of his own. NOTE One of the best pieces of literature written by any Washington official in recent months was Secretary Anderson's guest column for the Washington Merry-Go-Round last summer, in which he found time to express the hope that some of the neighborly habits of the war, such as car pools and victory gard ens, might be continued in times of peace. Byrnes Vs. Leahy Jimmy Byrnes' most vigorous critic inside the white house is now presidential Chief of Staff Adm. William Leahy. When Leahy read the final text of the Mos cow communique, lie hit the ceiling. He then burned the midnight oil writing a blunt anal ysis of the Moscow decisions for the president. He even went so far as to rescrib Byrne's Moscow agreement as a "veritable flunich." He also took occasion in the same white house memo to chastise Byrnes for the. complete breakdown of liaison between the white house and the state department. Actually the decisions at Moscow now have Truman's blessing. Both Truman and Byrnes, who had been irritated at each other for weeks, held a love fest aboard the S. S. Williamsburg', Truman's private .yacht, during the New Year week end when Truman agreed that Byrnes had taken the only reasonable course with the Russians aipl British in the soviet capital. Admiral Leahy is now saying that Byrnes is trying to have him ousted from the white , house, which may be true..- Actually. Leahy has long wanted to retire and has talked to Truman about doing so. Each time, however, the president h'as urged him to stay on. Now the admiral is so upset over our relations with Russia that he would probably like, to remain until they are ironed out. State Department Sabotage ' A significant off-the-record meeting took place in the state department . shortly after President Truman announced his plan to bring European refugees into the United States hy filling up Immigration quotas during the re- -mainder of the fiscal. year.- The meeting consisted ;of members ;of the state department's, visa office aud -although it wasn't said so. in these .exact words, ne re sult ot. the. session was' to sabotage the"1 prfcsfi den t's. plan lor:, admitting:; refugees. ... T.be slat,; Jd.epartnieiit; : -officials, "decided;.,. (1 V That they .'did: pofiUtwpu.taffH'r would ..he.ye.tg Vojiceii jra to .-.firsts: pnTyjijigipg hoiix'Xts'' fixigfi-l)pm V 'wives of j llniericap - (Copyright, ijlJi'b$"jkepeU SyndicqUvIne.) i. ii Reconverted V5? J The LATe tOM I fel U ,,"?eLAT AJfj fEfe SS Skimpy Clothing Supplies Expected In 1946; Must Fill World's Orders NEW YORK, U.R Skimpy wardrobes and empty shelves in the linen closet will remain a Notes on Nebraska Farming Carrier Telephones New equipment devised by en- gineers of the Rural Electrifica tion Administration and xhz Bell Telephone Labratories and now being tested in Arkansas may be erans. In rayons, new plant facilities reconversion of tire varn. and consumer problem through most!tne likelihood of some Jananese oi ly-io even ii texuie uouuc- ravv slulk lmp01.ts, rjus increas-1 the means of providing telephon . ion can get back quickly into cd nylon production, were all Eervice to thousands of .Neortsl a expected to brighten the supply , farm homes now served by rural picture some time after the mid- i electric lines, but out of reach of year period had passed. Itelepnone lines. Authoritative trade quarters' . . , - - . , , estimated the 1-J4G production j WR.LA Administrator Claude K. of broad woven rayon fabrics,!)? "kf.rd Jaf txPressed tne hope even before all newly scheduled : at the Arkansas test will r.rove yarn facilities get into opera- thue Particability of providing iele tion, mihgt reach 1,800,000,000 J puhoneJ v over the same l?nes yards a year, compared with a 1 hat dt1!ver electricity to rural rate of 1,400,000,000 iw census snowea a total of 63,124 Nebraska farms ' ' without telephone Eervice. prewar the giant strides taken during the war emergency. That's the viewpoint held by numerous cotton, wool and syn thetic fabric manufacturers af ter a survey of prospects for the New Year. Producers warn that it is go ing to take at least one year to get the "domestic distribution Timelines i'lowinir with enouirh dresses, shirts, shorts and suits yards, to meet normal demand. One trade authority does not expect the supply of shirts and underwear to be normal until the Fall of 1946. The scarcity of combed sheets and pillow cases is probably the severest ever experienced in the industry, a National Industrial Conference Board survey showed. In addition, the principal bur den of clothing the world will fall upon the United States, gov ernment officials point out, as the United Kingdon, Japan or China, leading prewar exporters, cannot supply large quantities of textile for some time to come. Sentiment Found Better The final weeks of 1945 wit nessed a decided change of sen timent in the cotton goods in dustry. The let-down in: opti mism which followed Y-S Day began to reassert itself because of three main factors: 1. The tremendous pentup domestic and foreign demand; 2. A belief that the worst of the labor strife in the industry is over; 3. Ji feel ing that Government pric con trol policies, at least at tv mill level, will be liberalized Isuffi ciently to encourage greater production. Top-flight leaders in tie in dustry expressed confidence that it might be possible to boo& pro auction in 194(1 to between 11, 000,000,000 and 12,000,0!0,000 yards, or almost equal to the record-breaking level achieved during the War emergency.! Saul Nelsen, director, Hatei ials and production division Civ ilian Production AdministJation, estimated that world "export mar kets stand in immediate need of at least 4,50,000,000 yards of cotton goods in 1916 as- com pared with combined exports from all sources in 1945 of some 2,500,000,000 yards. Nelson said exportying (coun tries outside the United States might increase their 1945; level by some 500,000,000 yard!, but the indicated remaining deficit of 1,500,000,000 yards would have to be made up as far as possible out of United - States production. Wool Reconversion Slow The woolen and worsted fabric industries, , besides ' contending with a serious labor problem, found the changeovers froai the production 'of military to civilian goods more prolonged .than ex pected. :Production dropped sharply, and at the year end, de liveries of worsteds were run niir four: to -six weeks, behinj schedules " at a time when;, gar ment: manufacturers were - hard put to ' meet the " clothing re in the Arkansas test, carrier telephone equipment has been in stalled by the Southwestern Hell 'ielephone Company of St. Louis I for everyday use in the homes or four members of the REA-linaiu- ... ed Craighead Electric Cooperative. Dr. and Mrs. Cilmore were; Speech is transmitted to and from dinner uests of Mr. and Mrs.' ihD hnmo. k .., ; " luvituc j n cciiiivr Wluhhcuj. MRS. OLIN C. MORRIS, Correspondent Kay Frans at Union on New Years Day. Bob Wohlfarth left Wednes day evening for Ft. Leavenworth where he will be inducted in the army. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lutz spent from Sunday till after New Years with Mr. and Mrs. Leo nard Lutz and family at Mal colm, Nebr. Major Henry Nelson who has served several years in the army medical corps received his discharge recently from the army. He and Mrs. Nelson, and daughter have moved to Michi gan where they will make their" home. All the members of the Guy Kiser family were guests on Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sporer and family. Olin Morris was recently pro moted to Staff Sergeant in Tac loban, Leyte, Thillipine Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Towner Living ston and family were spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Parr Young. The Murray school opened Wednesday following a two week Christmas vacation. Pvt. Robert Finkle spnt Monday with his aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mead. He returned to his station at the Separation center at Ft. Leaven worth, Kansas on Wednesday. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Onle Morris at St. Mary's Hospital in Nebraska City on December 23. Morgan Stewart left here Sat urday after a few days visit with his sister, Mrs. Charles Bodeker. He will go to Chicago and will enroll at DePaul Uni versity at the beginning of the second semester. Mrs. Kobert Kae was hostess to the Pinochle club on Thurs day night. The Blackwood Brothers of KMA will present a concert at the U. P. church on January 9. Wednesday night. wave of radio frequency, which travel on the cooperative s power lines along with the power supply. Electronic transmitting ana re ceiving equipment is installed at the switchboard in the telephone exchange and at the subscnocr,s end of the line. The- dial telephone is used in the same way as in reg ular telephone service. Several years ago, the U. S. De partment of Agriculture reports, the Bell Telephone Laboroiories started work on the problem f adapting carrier telephone tech nique to rural power distribution systems. REA, originally interest- i i j tu in aevismg a means oi com munication between power line maintenance crews and their home office, assigned engineers to wortc with Bell m a joint carrier tele phone research project in 1939. Numerous field tests of the equip ment were made before the war and were resumed last summer. The Arkansas installations are the first to be made for continuous operation under actual working cinditions. Nazi Journalist COPENHAGEN, (U.R) Former nazi journalist Fleniming II. Lar son died before a firing squad Saturday in the first Danish ex ecution sine eliberstion. lie had been convicted of murdering his colleague Carl Henrik Cleni- quirements of discharged vet-'meusen, in August, 1943. Damage Suits Seek 110,000 for Death Of Two Men Oct.7 GERING, Neb., (U.R) Two damage suits, filed in District Court Saturday ask a total of $110,000 for the death of two Minatare men on Oct. 7, 1915. The North Central Gas com pany was named defendant in both actions. R. L. Alkire and Frank Ruff were burned fatally when an ex plosion rocked the Kenneth Grier Buildin at Minatare Oct. 6. The men died the next day. There were no natural gas connections to the Grier Build ing, and a gas expert said the gas had seeped into the store from the outside. A Minatare city ordinance re quires the gas company to main tain its lines up to and includ ing the meters. Tne gas com pany was alleged to have been negligent in several phases of maintenance and checking of its lines. Read Journal Want Ads EPSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTOiN, D. C The lineup of the new, bigger eiid better State Department organization is gradually emerging under As sistant Secretary in Charge of Administration Donald P.usseli. for merly of Spartanburg, S. C, where he was a junior law partner to Secretary Byrnes. Late in January the department will go before Congress with estimates of what it's going to take to run a modern office of international affairs, working' as energetically for peace as it worked for war. Tentatively, the blueprint will show how an expanded Foreign Service, an increas- - information and intelligence divisions will be fitted I 9H - '( '"to the purely political divisions which have in I I VeB I '' the past done most of the U S. government's busi- ! 1 ness with foreign countries. XJt;lj tlot: d 1UL JA lit w jvu. nuvc yvtn uui upv,u t EOson its ap( the department of State, which in 1939 had less than 4700 employes and in 1945 had 10,600 employes, will, for the fiscal year 1947, require at least 15,000 employes, rnaybe more. Its budget, which in 1939 was 18 million dollars and in 1946 was 76 million dollars, will, for fiscal 1917, be in the neighborhood of 100 million dollars. COME of the things that have been found unco-ordinated about the State Department are almost unbelievable. For instance, it was found that cables coming into the department from all over the world might be referred to 127 different offices. Messages took days t code and decode and deliver, and no wonder some got lost. The de partment was 30 days behind in its duplicating and printing Files were in terrible shape. Employes weren't getting paid promptly, and their War Bonds weren't delivered. Gradually, some of these things are being corrected The number of offices getting cables has been cut to 17 A new message center has been set up under three young Army officers who ran message centers for General Eisenhower and know the importance of speed in coding, decoding and delivery. Borrowing printing facilities f i on other agencies, the duplicating work is being caught up So are Iho payrolls. And any day now, all the economic functions will be moved into one building or one gent . al area. 'THAT'S prineipallywhat re agamzation of the State Department is going to amount to. It i n't going to be any drastic reshuffling of everybody all at the same time. Decision has not been mac1 on how the civilian government or ganization will be set up to replace military government in Germany This is a temporary job. Eventually it will be liquidated, as will ho the remaining functions of the Foreign Economic Administration, dis . posal of surplus property overseas and some of the wartime v.cik done by the overseas Office of War Information, Office of Inter American Affairs end Office of Strategic Services. Mrs. Wiilfcie IVlakes Appeal ior Memorial Cancer tenter campaign Mrs. vendell Wiihue recent ly urged getting behind the ?4,- 000,000 memorial cancer center fund campaign in a statement to the press She hau. previously maae an appeal over tne rauio ior support oi Memorial s un ect all-out efiort to Dring can cer under control. Mrs. Wilikie pointed cut that memorial cancer center is in ternational in scope and that the whole woald will benent from the advances in treatment of cancer made at Memorial. ''Everyone should assist mem orial cancer center to attain its goal of 4,000,000" sne said. 'Memorial s program offers hope for the eventual control of cancer, our most dreaded dis ease. This hope which is real, 1 A 1 - - . is iouna in memorial s "iour fronts'' of cancer treatment, cancer research, cancer preven tion and cancer teaching of young specialists who will carry Memorial's techniques all over the world. Memorial is more international. It is a symbol of our realization that we are One Woild. Not only am I contribu ting, but I am personally asking my friends to do so," she added. Mrs. Wilikie said she had made a list of those she ex pects ot join her in support of memorial cancer center. The center is at 411 East Gbth Street, New York 21, New York, and when completed will cover an entire block. "With the start of another year, it is heartening to know that memoiral cancer center, the largest in the world, pro vides real hope for the event ual control of cancer," Mrs. Wilikie said. "Cancer is the first cause of death among wo men between the ages of 35 ana oo. it kuis one out ot ev-i ery nine persons m u.jc lui ttu siattN iiiii means U.l iixteen million peituus no . auve in tins cuuiiuy aic doom ed unless cancer can Oe oiuu-,;ii. uniier control.'" iAprevsn.g great interest in the oniy cuiiuitii b Wui u in l.u worm uovolcu exclusively co li.c iieaiment oi cmnucii v.na car eer, .'lis. vv llikic fcii;u, ' .-i nii.'.-c fciiocKirig lact is mat more cima i"tn tile- oi cancel" tiian uie liixantue paraiyais, meningitis, scarlet fever, tivphtiieiia ,an! small i;jx cumomea. , W ith ai iacuities at work at one spui., memorial cancer center iinis cancer with every known agen cy. It dues so witn liiniteu re sources, 'mat, is why memonal is raising $4,uu0,uuu to ound and maintain a center laigo enougn anu witn siiiiicicnt per sonnel to expand and put into action its extensive program." "One of the most important features of this vital campaign of mercy,'' Mrs. Wilikie added, '"is the training of young can cer specialists in the latest techniques of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Specialists grad uated at Memorial have already gone into twenty-four states and twenty foreign countries. But what is needed is hundreds more just like them, able to diagnose every type of cancer; capable of organizing and dir ecting cancer clinics, ready to practice and bring relief to can cer sufferers in communities ' where such facilities do not ex ist. Memorial cancer center, foi twenty years, has been, training cancer specialists in association with Cornell University. Those who know these facts will agree with me, I am sure, that it is a public responsibility to sup port a campaign of such inter national importance.'' THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson (M l4-t IS E5TmATTn TUAr O-, OOO, GOO PERSONS' IN THE UNITED STATES TCC TRIPS' IN 16,000,000 AUTOttCBlLES AND .SPENT 6, OOO, OOO, OOO ON GASOLINE., REPAIRS, LCD&INvb AND OTHESZ TRAVELING INCIDENTALS. JL ''.VkD!rviTCiNs BEANS. " MSD! v - i STR1N3 BEANS, PL'RNi TMr. U A IN NKXTt rtn tree 1hjK to the future.