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THURSDAY, FEBR. 7, 1946 THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA PAGE SEVEN Greeting Card Business Wants to Get Super-DeLuxe Model for Truman BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN whether this oifer might make WASHINGTON, (U.RW The ros- yu sore; 1 told him I didn't think es-are-red violets-are-blue I-love-. LUi' e ft'lad. , I That seems to be the beauty of you boys now have next winter s lhe greetjng car(i business. Every- Chnstmas cards on the drawing body in it is happy all the time, boards, President Truman, anu the sun shines daily and love notes they want to ao you a iavoi. bu.a roll from the giant presses at u., as tixing you up a little tocivuo- mciediole rate, lager oi a Christmas greeting in Many Suggestions l'j46. There have been many sugges- They aren't sore, Mr. Truman, tions lor cards which a won an because they tigurcyou aiuii i re- could send to her worst en;.r;v alize you did dirt to the $13U,0UU,- but the industry has spurned them Out) greeting card Dusiness wnn all. It hews to one of its best seii- your moaest Christmas jreetint,' ers, which g-oes like this: "I couiu last Decemoer. lhe sentiment was walk down all the reads of tne fine, but that card was too dog- world, tut never lind a irisna gone plain and austere; no spang- like you never, never, never." les, no live-color angels, no"no, Numeious tmngs currently art. no genuine gold leai; nothing out bringing joy to the industry's some black writing on white pap- heart, such as the latest numoor, The Worker and His Take-Home Pay er. Future I Dark If everybody else lollows your example, Mr. President (and look at all the men now wearing piesi aeniial Dow ties, the iuuue is bound to be a steady seller. It be gins: "Sorry to hear you hau youi tonsils out." Under consideration by the ooaru ox directors moir.erua.iiy u one wmn savs: coiigta.aia.io:i; ''W dam, indeed, for tne greeting caru on your divorce 1 fie iii jll.i'i industry. Xhat leads to something else. Ine card masers are one oi the most customers the postoiiite department has. people buy $xUo, 000,000 worth of postage stamps a year to send canned sentiments to each other and there is a nice tie as worried aooul tnat as u.tfj u.-ed to De aoout niutiiei.s-in-iuw. Iney eventually solved mothjib-in-iaw brilliantly, 'lhe iue:.l moth-er-in-law card reads: 'To ihtf mother of the one I love best." Ah, love. And happiness. And 1945 $47.50 ' . , iinintHTrrr 545 50 if?;gT , $4i.oo jjfegg: H4- : ;3fl f H -!!'"iun ; ; ; pgfS tegp ... , !!!. tsiisg - P!SirB ll'iiiiiiS ' iii jijijjjijjS -: : 111; ;il;;iii5g . ; ii'illiiijS ; S"::;'!:?g. S!r:v:!M'"Jf EIlJUT'gai rTTiiiMiiiy.grt Enrn"miHi4 , ininnnir j f? ""ft) 'kg Army Olympics Is Spur to Sports in Philippine Islands SAN t KAN CISCO (U.R) The Army Olympic games in the Phil ippines were oniy an interlude to Gls awaiting return to the United States, but they meant a new life to sports in the islands. Dr. Regino Ylanan, secreary treasurer of the Philippine ama teur Athletic federation, known Mexico to hunt wild sheep which! as "the lather of Philippine will be reproduced as a habitat; sports, ' saiu pre-ulympic eiimina- for exhjbition at the Acad-1 tion contests in 15 sports among emy of Natural Science here. I Army personnel and rilipinos Carpenter, brother to Robert! from Luzon to Minaanao, opened Carpenter jr owner of the Na. new horizons for island athletics.. ... T., pumj Kct.K!Jii: Before the war, he said sports , b . v&t wild-game hunt-! U. S. Expedition Will Hunt Wild Desert Sheep PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3 U.R William K. Carpenter, 26, Wil mington, Del., and his wife Fran cis have left for the desert lands of were centered in Alamla, Cebu and Panay, "but now the expansion takes in the whole Philippines.' He expects baseball again to be come tne Pianos national sport. "Everywhere I see the kids littl profit to the government on beautiful poetry. And r.:ay Thi every stamp. paper bells ring out the.r peals I have been talking, Mr. Tra- of joyousness from the next batch man, to Stephen Q Shannon, of of V hire riotisv.' Christmas cai.s. New York, who is director oi the May. the greeting business con industry, and he is a nice guy, unue to boom. He talks like a greeting card, sort of, and you don t catch him criti- Jap Grenade Spoils ki6iug aiii uvu$ . As he says, a greeting card is a handshake across the miks. It shauld make the recipient feel good. Wants to Design Card "So what we d like to do is de sign a card for President Truman that is typical of the most typical card," he said. "I mean we would make for him a card that would epitomize Christmas in the friend- pondent. ly sense to the JNth degree. We re- A Jan hand grenade blew his gard the president as a real human best pair o His lc-vt outside a bein- and a grand gent and what cave near Itoinan one day. One ot we want to make for him is a card tne shoes was pretty ouJy toin, that would caues all his friends but .viartin escaped injury ana and neighbors to say, 'isn't that finished the campaign, beautiful'," Four Marines imished off the He wondered, Mr. President, Japs in tne cave two btsiaes one Martin shot and. -the . Jvnoxviue 7 Jr,J' J J jiarine finally i ALL TYPES OF : leit oi his shoe The average weekly take-home pay of the U. S. worker is well above his 1940 earnings, but stands to go still higher if strike com promises result in proposed increases. Increases like President Truman's recommended 182 cents an hour for steel workers would boost average for 40-hour week to $45.50. Wartime pay of $47.50 was for 45-hour week. Marine's Footwear GUAM (Delayed) One of the first things Marine Pvt. Robert L. Martin of Knoxviile, Tenn., looked for after the Okinawa cam paign ended was a new pair ox shoes, according to Sgt. Norman L. Thurston, Marine Corps corns- Seeks to Halt Litigation for Snuff Fortune someone slipped an forged page into the bound files J"" " ! w t,h of death certificates in the Vital , v,?tI?, trf,f r 1;! the Phuippine Davis cup tennis statistics Bureau. playing ban, using even waaded socks for baseballs," he said. Ylanan said the PAAr planned to ask American teachers to join the staffs of Philippine schools and colleges and inviie the best American teams in basebad, bas ketball and tennis to tour tne islands. llanan was one of the first southernmost type great Filipino athletes. He won sheep. the pentathlon in the li)13' Far Eastern Olympics. He said he was convinced he I Philippines had a bright interna tional future, pointing to out er. He has been on five expeditions since he was ten years old, in-f eluding two trips to Alaska, one to ' Greenland and one to Africa. J From the Greenland expedition, j made when he was 13 with Capt. j Bob Bartlett, of Polar fame, Car-j penter brought to the academy , several fine speciments of polar bear. Southernmost Type During the present 3-month expedition, Carpenter will hunt! wild desert sheep, classifed as the of big horn entire standing boxers like Pancho Villa His father, R. R. R, Carpenter, vice-president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., Wilmington, Del., collected and presented to the aca demy a group of white sheep from Alaska, known as the northern most type of big horn. Charles M. B. Cadwalader, pres ident of the academy, described SHOTS I! SPBGOCMl I team in competition next June. . the wild sheep as "one of the most Walter Garrett feared these en-! The squad includes two veterans ! difficult of all big-game animals to croachments on his huge snuff of the 1939 team, M. Ampon and hunt" because of its superb agil Y fortune , which interest doubled HAKRISBURG, Pa. (U.P.' The through the years. State of Pennsylvania has machin ery in motion to end 26,000 claim ants' bickering over the 30, 000, 000 estate of the late Henrietta E Garrtit, i iiilaaeii v.ia, wiioj hus band manuiactuied Miuff. Attorney Geiitial James II. Duff, anxious tu doe the issue will ask Phiiaael;jnia Oiphans Court to compel estate adii.inis trators to suoir.it an up-to-aate :ic- after a hard-fought match. "Don't let the scalawags get! any!" he wrote Mrs. Garrett 55 80-Year-Old FHeS years ago. I would not like it n what I have worked hard and long to accumulate should be squan dered by your or my sisters, cou sins and aunts and uncles'." Litigation has indicated that many of the 26,000 who claimed rights to shares in the estate were Garrett appar- found wr.at was ALL TYPES OF INSURANCE Call or See ERWIN S1EMERS PLATTSMOJTH fH t counting oi assets, liaoilities aid expenditures, 'lhe commonwealth the '"scalawags" can collect an J-0 per cent inherit- ently knew would seek illegal de ance ux :xl the tttate uses to a signation as heirs to the wealth, iirst toaiin or relative mere re- Mrs. Garrett had no children and mote. but one brother, a bachelor, de It no legal hiirs are found, the ceased, state could employ the ngnt oi The futile search for a will A. Sanchez, who lost to the Aus- hy. wariness and extreme shyness. tralian team at Long Beach, Cal. He estimated the cost of the ex-; pedition plus the reproductive workj which will take at least a year to i complete at $21,000. Funds for the j project are the gift of R. R. M. Carpenter. The desert sheep lives in the arid, hilly section of Mexico about 150 miles south of the border. Members of the expedition will: camp at Port Liberated, Province ! of Sonora, in northwest Mexico. To Make Movies For His Dance Date DELTA, Col. W.PJ Starr Nelson is SO years old, but nearly every Thursday he warms up his little airplane and flies to Junction City, Col., to take a lady friend dancing. One of the world's oldest pilots, The Carpenters will be accom-j jS -, 1 2HZ a i sllIMC'NEiEKl, Japaafi Delay ed) Our navy doesn t know it but it sank two '?0,OOD' ton Japa nese battleshins off Okinawa. - ', i Furtnermore, one of tnose ships . ; had juiocKea .'down 45 -ruhgnc.au pianes with one shut. What if your home is de- , y'ho sa"id so? A Jap educator. escheat to get the Garrett fortune went Nelson came to Colorado from Texas. He built an airport here at panied by Harold T. Green, cura Delta, his home. It's leased to a tor of Museum Exhibits, and private operator now and Nelson, Ernest Miller, who will be in a clear-eyed, spry oldster, flies charge of camping and equipment, just for the fun of it. Green will make color sketches, Nelson recently flew to Deni-1 photographs and movies of the son, lex., once his home, lie lett . wild sheen. He also will collect ! i lira m Here's IVhaf We Do: 1. Remove the front wheels and inspect lining. 2. Inspect, clean and repack front wheel hearings. 3. Inspect brake drums. 4. Check and add brake fluid if n 5. Adjust the brake shoes to sec with drum. m.,nA,J? stroyed by fire ? Do you have enough Insurance? 1 Phone or See Stephen M. Davis nattsmcruth State Bank fildg Phone 9 He told Marine Sergeant Den A. Landis of St. Louis, Mo., that he knew Japan had two super-super battleships, twice as large as any other battlew3gon afloat. He read it in the Jap newspap ers and,' according to the-cdu-cator, if he read it in Jap newspapers it ! must be so. minus-a probable $7,500, Ctu out- Garrett's coffin was dug up when, riding herd on more than 3,500 These with the hides of the ani ! lay td Charles ; Garrett Hall, whore a rumor circulated that her maid ; Longhorn cattle. He drove them mals be turned over to a staff lio per ceiit snare would be auth- had found a will and placed it in; to Dodge City, Kan., then went I of specialist artists whose job1 oiizea unuer a rtiuibj innu ia.v me caswet. j on to (jolorado, where he settled. I ;i - tn ,j olo compensating for those who first The ease has produced 50,000 j Taking his first flying lesson at It, !!d?n dnimalS and "inlorm ' the commonwealth oi pages of testimony and William M the ape of 74. Nelson received ineir surrounaings. pioerty it has a good chance oi Davison, appointed Mas-ter in int his private pilot's license in Feb hearings, still listens to new mem-, ruary, 1940. bers of the growing Garrett ; Thursday and Friday. j NOV IN STOCK Steel Strike Causes Bobby Pin Shortage CHICAGO (UR) Let your Garrett died dovvn' ladies! 'journal Want Ads For Results SUITED for Sprin, Occasions C1 x Ox Gallivant about town from morning1 coffee to mid night cocktails in this ver satile, stunning suit. Amid our collection of t.uit fav orites, is your perfect ensemble for spring. Ladies1 Toggery a i taking over. Hall was among the early, ruled-out claimants who said they were ''relatives' of Mrs. Garett& hu&band, Walter Garrett. 16 Years at Issue Hearings in the Garrett affair fonaly teimcd by attorneys 'Pennsyivania's peia.ai.ent lav,- suit, began lb years ago, snoruy Jr, nh,,nt,. t hpr hnm,. in Phlla- ObDy pill Supplies, ShOlt QUf- delphia. She left no duections foi ing the war, will hit rock bottom the disposal of more than" $17,- if the steel strike continues for a g 000,000 except $62,000 in be- long period, hairpin manufactur- fl quests to emplovees and old ers said Wednesday. friends. Inis was ordered in a Right now there's about a m letter to Chailes S. Starr, wealthy month's supply of bobby pins in investment broker and estate au- the country, and hair pin stock ministiator. won t last mucn longer. The parade of would-be heirs A week after the steel strike has been filing through Philadel- stalled some hairpin makers stop- phia Orphans Court ever since, ped taking orders from frantic They came from nearly every wholesalers. state and from 29 foreign coun- j There's an even greater .short tries. And they filled the record age of bobby pins that hair pins, .with tales of murder, fraud per- bobby pins require a fine high jury and some hi?h-grade lying. tension steel which went into Ludwijjf Schaeffer whose latt precision war instruments during name was Mrs. Garrett's maiden the war. "surname, killed his uncle, aunt One new company, not even in -and himself in Nieblingren, Germ- production, has orders that it any, because they refused to fin- won't be able to fill for the next ante his proposed trip to Philadel- six months even if the steel ttrike phia to enter claim as a close rela- were settled tomorrow, tive of the late heiress. j . A municipal clerk in Germany j J0UrnaJ Want Ads For Resu!t$ received an eight-year prison sen-1 tence for falsifying records at the requests of other members of the Schaeffer family, who planned to name, themselves relatives of the deceased milionare. 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