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m i y is ... VOL. NO. 40 PLATTS MOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1946 NO. 124 (mm to 1 . . i r it I Mrs. Otto Pita -to Lead Adult Group In Day of Prayer Mrs. Otto Pitz will be the lead er for the meeting' of the adult group program of the World Day of Prayer to be held Friday at 2 p. m. in the St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church. "The Things that Make Our Peace" is the theme for the les son which will be developed through for subdivisions of the topic under the leadership of one woman from each church repres ented. Mrs. Ray Herring will be the soloist with a choir composed of members of the various church choirs. Accompaniments will be played by Mrs. Frank Bierl. Candlelight Service Mrs. Jess Hodge of the Chris ian church will develop the first attribute of peace, "A Childlike Spirit," with a candlelieht service presented by three children and three youths. They will close with the recessional, "Savior Like a Sheperd Lead Us." Mrs. Ed Egenberger of St. Luke's Episcopal church will pres ent the second attribute or peace. "A Quiet and Confident Mind." The third attribute of peace will be present by Mrs. Merle Rainey of the Methodist church who will Tise as her topic, "A Loving Heart." Blue Devils Win First Tournament Game Wednesday Plattsmouth's Blue Devils won their first game in the district tournament at Bellvue Wednes day nieht by defeating Cnaha Cathedral 37-17. The Blue Devils took an early lead with the hlf time score 24-7. The Omaha Cath edral team was unable to make up the lead. Thimgan scored 19 points to , head the list of Plattsmouth's scorers. Rivard was high point : man for Omaha Cathedral with 6 points. The. startinglinenTrfor Platts mouth: Thimgan, Niel? Eaton, Kimball and Cullen. The Blue Devils will play Omaha St. Joseph tonight at 7:30 for the second round of the tournament. St. Joseph drew bye for the first round so" did not play Wednesday. In other tournament games on Wednesday night Wahoo defeated Bellvue. 27-21, and Holy Name defeated Blair, 51-25. Wahoo and Blair will play tonight after the Plattsmouth game. The two win ners in tonight's games will go to the finals for the district cham pionship. Plattsmouth coach Joe York said, "The St. Joseph team is go ing to give us more trouble than Omaha Cathedral but I think we have a good chance of winning. Holy Name is the favorite to win the tournament but we would like' to meet them in the finals. There was a good home crowd at the game Wednesday. We hope to see even more Plattsmouth supporters there tonight." Norfolk Packing Plant Suspends Operations Here The Norfolk Packing Company was forced to suspend operations Wednesday because their supply of cans has been exhausted and none are immediately available, according to E. H. Bernhardt, sup erintendent. The company was forced to lay off 50 of their wom en workers but the men who have been working there will be kept busy installing a gas heating sys tem in the plant. Bernhardt said they don't know yet when they will be able to ob tain more cans. He said they would have plenty of work to keep them busy but there's nothing they can do without cans. District Court Notes Arthur Harvey and Alice M. Harvey vs. John S. Townsend and others, suit to quiet title on fol lowing real estate: Lots 7, 8, 9. 10, block 11, and all that part of lots 19, 20, 21 and 22, block 12. excepting only the right of way of the Missouri-Pacific Railway Company, all in Duke's addition. Plattsmouth. Call Me Mister! Four men reported their dis charges from the armed forces Wednesday to the Cass county sel ective service office, it was an nounced Thursday. From the army: Lyle Wagers and George E. Miller, both of Plattsmouth. From the navy: Lewis Eaton, Union. From the coast guard: Mathew Sedlak, Plattsmouth. Red Cross Drive Gets Under Way in Plattsmouth Today The Red Cros drive started of ficially in Plattsmouth Thursday morning with some 100 workers ready to make a door to door can vass for donations. Francis M. Casey, city chairman, said it is hoped they will be able to com plete the drive in Plattsmouth within ten days to two weeks. The ward captains and their workers met Wednesday night in the district court room where they received final instructions and supplies. The drive has been or- jganized so' that each worker will canvass a certain number of blocks and no one will be missed. The ward captains are: Mary Richey, first ward L. A. Caldwell second ward ; Walter Tritsch, third ward; Millie Gobelman, fourth ward; and Mrs. John Fitch, fifth ward. Plattsmouth's quota this year is only $1000 as compared with ?3000 for last vear. Judge Paul E. Fauquet, county Red Cross drive chairman, has emphasized, however, that in spite of the reduced quota the need for money is as urgent as ever if the Red Cross is to continu its tradi tional good work. Fourth Grade Punils Visit Daily Journal Office Wednesday Thirty-seven children in Miss Esther Petersen's fourth grade I class in the Central building Wed I nesday afternoon visited The Daily Journal to see at first hand how a newspaper and print shon is operated. B. J. Alcott, general manager of The Journal, explained to the group how the various pres ses operate and gave them a chance to see the presses in ac tion. The children kept Alcott jump ing with their questions and took notes on what they learned. Their teacher, Miss Petersen, said that each of them will write an essay about their visit. The children in the class who made the visit were: Phillis Schie? sL" JoTar-Sfrcreiner, Bobbv Sheard. Betty Taenzler. Van White, Shir ley, Winters, Lyle Wood, Stephen Woster Larry Pierce, Douglas Rohlfs, Jo Non Albin, Janet Arp, Patsy Bailey, Elna Bombers. Jan ice Caldwell, Kathryn Deaver, Shirley Duda, George Ebersole, Harvey Eledge, Larry Fauquet, Clarence Forbes. Norman Foster, Sally Fulton, Mary Jo Gentry, Dickie Glaze, Margaret Green, Harley Hardison, Richard Hu-rh-son, Darlene Hull, Donald Hutch inson, Herbert Inman, Donnie Jones, Janet Kalasek, Charles Kerns, Wonda Litle, James Price and Jon Scheutz. Henry Zorn Dies Of Heart Attack Henry Zorn, of Union, 71 years old, dropped dead in front of his home as a result of a heart at tack Wednesday night, according to Emery Doody, deputy sheriff. Zorn had been to the grocery store and had just gotten in front of his house when he had the heart attack. His wife, Anna, died in 1944. Zorn is survived by three sons, and has been Vving with a son, Earl Zorn, in Union, Doody said. Files for Divorce Hazel Banks Thursday filed pe tition for divorce from Raymond Banks. She seeks custody of their two minor children. o" - f a i - j SIX RESCUED AT SEA Six crew members of a nineteen foot coast guard surf boat, who spent twenty-four hours adrift in choppy seas off the California coast when they were unable to re turn to Farallon Island station for mercy mission, are helped aboard their rescue ship, the coast guard cutter, "Air Partridge." (NEA Telephoto) " ' ; Evidence Found Of Spy Ring at Atom Bomb Plant - WASHINGTON, U.PX Chair man John S. Wood, D., Ga., hint ed Thursday that his house un- american activities committee has uncovered a foreign spy ring seek- ing information on the atom bomb ( plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn. i He told reporters the committee had been interested in the Oak Ridge project for some time and had been conducting secret inves tigation of its security. Seeking Information "We have gone far enough in our investigation to show," he said, "that there are elements in this ocuntry who are decidedly seeking information that our mili tary authorities have not authori zed to be given out." He said "there might be some Americans involved but the inves tigation so far points to foreign nations." Wood refused to amplify his statement except to say the for eign agents "knew what was going on at Oak Ridge." Wood was understood to be seeking a conference with Direct or J. Edgar Hoover of the Feder al Bureau of investigation. Com mittee sources said wood and com mittee investigators also have been in touch with war depart ment officials in charge of the bomb's security. Tougher Statutes The Justice Department, mean while, informed the senate atomic committee that tougher federal statutes were necessary to protect aom bomb secrets from foreign spys. In a report to the committee, it said that espionage on a wide scale was possible in this country under present laws. It urged the enactment of legis lation that would imnose maxi mum penalties of $300,000 fine and 30 years imprisonment on anyone divulging atomic informa tion. Under its proposals, viola tors of the security regulations ! would also be liable to a fine of $100,000 and five years imprison ment. Horticulture Expert To Give Lecture At Pollock Farm Professor E. H. Hoppert, hort iculture expert of the University of Nebraska College of Agricul ture, will give a demonstration and lecture on the pruning and care of .young orchard , trees, grapes and raspberries at the T. H. Pollock farm, March 12 at 1 p. m., according to information received j by Mrs. Virgil Perry from County Extension Agent Willard Waldo. A large orchard consisting of apples, plum, pear, peach, apri cot and cherry trees, grapes and raspberries was planted on this farm a few years ago and will offer a fine setting for the lec ture. There is also a large decid uous and conifer windbreak lo cated on the farm and Hoppert will include an explanation of its advantages in his talk. Mrs. Perry said Thursday that all farmers and anyone else in terested in the care and. propa gation of these types of trees is cordially invited to attend the j demonstration. The farm is the former Virgil j Perry home located six miles south of Plattsmouth on highway 75 or one-half mile east and one and one-half miles north of Mur ray. j -it- s V'l 5j . - i m ri&M : ,; i inmti; 4 Wrf? -i.m iijiirri r-mnrj BOMB ESPIONAGE SUSPECTS Four suspects are booked in Canada on atomic bomb espionagi charges. They are: (top left) Miss Kathleen Mary Willsher; toj right) Mrs. Emma Woikin; (bottom left) Capt. Gordon Lunaa, and Edward Wilfred Maz- erall. (NEA Telephoto) 4 . Telephone Strike Is Averted at Last Minute WASHINGTON 0J.R) The threatened nationwide telephone strike was called off Thursday when the national federation of telephone workers accepted a new wage proposal at 5:30 a. m. (EST), only 30 minutes before the walkout was scheduled to begin. The settlement was announced at 5:45 a. m., (EST) by director Edgar L. Warren of the U. S. con ciliation service Even so, the walkout wasn't definitely averted until Warren's announcement just 15 minutes be f or the 6 a. m. strike deadline. President Joseph Eeirne was on the telephone during most of the early morning getting the appro val of union locals for the settle ment. Their acceptance ruled out the walkout which would have idled some 250,000 telephone workers and cut off long distance and lo cal manual service immediately. Ultimately the paralysis might have spread to dial systems, ra dio and teletype circuits. The . walkout already had be gun in some communities, when the settlement terms were an nounced Some 2,000 operators left their switchboards at Balti more to attend a mass meeting last night and voted not to re turn to their jobs. The union originally had ar ranged for a radio broadcast at 11:15 o'clock Thursday night to advise affiliated unions the strike was on. Shortly before then the broadcast was called off although newsmen even at that time were warned not to misinterpret this action. Public Library- Receives S25 Gift From P.E.O. Society A gift of $25 to be used at the discretion of the librarian at Plattsmouth Public Library was given during February by the P. E. O. society, according to the monthly recort of Miss Verna Leonard, librarian. Granger's Index to Poetry, new supplement, was ordered purchas ed by the P. E. t). in memory of Mrs. T. H. Pollock, the report said. Other bocks in memory of Mrs. Pollock were "Lovely is the Lee," by Robert Gibbins, and Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations," . new edi tion, in memory of Mrs. Baird and Mrs. Pollock. . Other gifts to the library dur ing February included: "Nature Lovers Library," three , volumes, from A. L. Tidd; "Good Night Sweet Prince" and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," given by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Vanderveen; "Alimony," "King's General.V "Gauntlet," "So- Well Remembered," "Three O'Clock Dinner," - and "Black Rose," given by Mrs. Dana Baird. Miss Leonard's report shows 3,298 books circulated during Feb ruary, of which 2131 were adult and 1165 were juvenile The Ma sonic Home borrowed 178 books, 12 new borrowers were listed and 15 books were purchased and donated. i Negotiations Are Broken Off DETROIT, 0J.R) Negotiations between General Motors and the CIO united Automobile workers were broken off Thursday and the union v asked President Tru man to remove Federal Mediator J&mes F." Dewey and intervene personally in the - 107-day-old No negotiating sessions were held Thursday for the first time in two weeks as Dewey went to Washington to report personally to Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach on the deadlock. Chairman Alfred Federico of the UAW's negotiating committee appealed to Truman to remove Dewey and call both sides to the White House immediately. Appeal to Truman R. .-J. Thomas, international UAW " president, said he '.wanted to know what Mr. Truman "is go ing to do" about the recommenda tions made by the presidential fact-finding board last Jan. 10. Detroit's city council adopted a resolution urging the president to ' intervene because the prolonged ' strike was harmful to "the whole economic life of Detroit and had caused increased costs in many city departments." Federico said he had written to the president as a national rep resentative of some 60,000 UAW strikers at Flint and Lansings j Mich., to report that "Dewey's ' - r. . a t i presence in ueixon nas Become an obstacle to settlement." Dewey an Obstacle "Mr. Dewey, who speaks as a special conciliator for the federal government has repeatedly mis represented the seriousness of the differences between the corp oration and the union," Federico wrote. . "In optimistic statements . to the press, he has minimized the points at issue and has time after time raised hopes of an early set stlement, hopes which have often been dashed by the . stalling of General Motors." Federico contended that the strike could have been settled at any time if GM had "been willing to abide by the compromise re commendation of your fact-finding board, calling for a 19 Vt cents an hour wage increase and reinstate ment of the old contract." , He said the union , believed Dewey "is powerless to act" and had made no effort to persuade the company to accept the presi dent's recommendations. - . Federico released his letter last night after a one-hour session between the company and union, with Dewey presiding. Churchill Returns To British Embassy i WASHINGTON, (U.PJ Winston ' Churchill returned here Thursday and took up quarters at the Brit ish embassy. . The former British prime min ister made an overnight train trip -to Washington aboard President Trnman's special train. The pres ident returned Wednesday by plane.. Pauley Fights Back in Effort to Get Appointment in Navy Department i HoUSe PaSSeS Tf v ratman Housing DII TPL J Illlf I nUrSClaV WASHINGTON (U.R) -The house Thursday passed a diluted version of the Patman housing bill after beating down a final move to kill the measure. The vote was 357 to 24. Representative Jessie Summer, R.. 111., opposing the measure by which the administration hopes to build 2,700,000 homes in the next year, moved to shelve the bill by sending it back to the banking committee. Her proposal was rejected 304 to 76. Solid Line-Up Administration forces lined up solidly in passing the bill. Many democrats earlier and joined re publicans in rejecting several fea tures urged by President Truman and housing administrator Wilson Wyatt. ; Mr. Truman and Wyatt hoped the senate would add price ceil ings on existing dwellings and $6,000,000 dollars in subsidies to stimulate production of building materials. Both were rejected in the house J by a coalition of southern demo- crat3 and republicans. Eight Point - The measure as approved by the house would be valid until June 30. 1947. and would auth approved by orize these things: 1. Price ceilings on new homes, 2. Allocation of scarce materials where needed. 3. Veterans preference in pur (Turn to Pags 4, Number 5) Peron Far Ahead in Argentine Election BUENOS AIRES, GJ.f9 Tabula tions of nearly, one-fifth of the votes of the February 24 election! showed a definite trend Thursday toward Colonel Juan Peron, na tional presidential candidate and "strong man." With a steadily increasing lead over his democratic opponent, Dr. Jose P. Tamborini, Peron had won and was substantially ahead in j provinces naving z.yZ electoral votes 43 more than necessary for election. Tamborini had won or was lead ing in provinces having only 8 electorial votes.' Othinan Reports on Complications of Proposed Loan to Help Great Britain BY FPTFPirK C. OTHMN WASHINGTON (U.R) .Wit time out onlv for lunch (bought with a non-interest bfariner silver certificate of the U.S.A.V I have found out about this new loan to the British. I can describe the whole ?3. 750.000.000 idea in one word Comnlicated. It is getting no simpler, either, the more the ex perts explain it to ine and the U. S. Senate. Let us consider fust the secre tary of treasurv. the man with th eyebrow. Fred M. Vinson. He eat on one side of a n?tntie coffin shaped mahoeranv table and soent a day and a half tellincr the mem bers of the banking and currency committee why he , believed , we should lead our .cousins the money. ; - - .. c An Able Citizen This Vinson is a .able citizen. His views must be accepted with resnect. It was tileased to observe that he wore a black tie with red dish stripes, a cravat which indi cated that . he spends not . one nickle more than necessary on his haberdashery .A man who is care ful of little things may be' expect ed, etcetera "on the big ones.? . This loan, fellow taxpavers-. ain't little. So a lady in a loud blouse sat in the first row 'of spec tators knitting what looked like the sleeve. to a blue sweater. Day. long she '- counted under her breath, either " her purls or Vin son's dollars. It was hard to tell which. Numerous other folks were there, too, including about half a dozen gents in dark, horn-rimmed eyeglasses. These were Britishers, observing. My man said you could spot 'em by the chocolate shade of their spectacle rims. 'Americans wear light-colored rims. Vinson Statement - So Vinson made his statement. He tangled with an assortment of senators including Robert A. Taft of - Ohio, Abe Murdock of Utah, and Ernest W. McFarland of Ari zona over such esoterica as in visible incomes (even as yours and French and Chinese Military Leaders jTaik over Dispute j PARIS fU.P) The French gov- lernment announced Thursday that military leaders in Indo China are trying to settle the dis pute over occupation of northern Indo-China which resulted Wed nesday in a ship-to-shore gun duel between French and Chinese forces. A French communique said that French warships trying to disem bark occupation troops at Haip hong, chief port of northern Indo China, were brought under ''very violent" fire from Chinese shore batteries. After 30 minutes, the' communi que said, the French ships return ed the fire. (A Chinese news agency dis patch from Hanoi said the French warships caused 12 casualties among the Chinese garrison. It did not mention Chinese fire on the French. Strikes At a Glance By UNITED PRESS Reconversion labor disputes kept an estimated 843,000 U. S. 'workers away from their jobs on Thllcj Tv,p ma;or strikes: Telephone The National Fed- j eration of telephone workers ac cepted a new wage proposal, avert ing a -strike of 250,000 workers, set for 6 a. m. (local time) Thurs day. Automotive The city of De troit sought presidential inter vention in the 107-day-old Gen eral Motors strike, idling 175,000 CIO workers. Railroads President Truman was expected to name an emer gency board to delay for at least SO days a nationwide strike by members of two powerful rail road brotherhoods. . Shipping CIO longshoremen and Pacific coast waterfront em ployers adjourned negotiations for one week, with the union announc ing it would go aheatl with plans for a " coastwide dockworkers' strike before April 1. Electrical The CIO electrical workers union said it would re sume discussions within a few days with General Electric in an effort to reach a settlement in their 52-day-old wage walkout. mine), gold credits, sterling balances and dollar Tools, with your permission, I'll skip those. Assistant Secretary, of State Will Clayton, the big cotton man in a fine cotton shirt, came alono then and told the same story in different words. He also got into the same arguments with the same senators. It is peculiar how a head likp mine (or maybe it isn't) begin? to ache from the strain, of a ses sion like this, but I believe I have the deal fieured out. Vinson and Clayton claim the . British have got to have this dough so they can buy stuff from us. If they don't, they'll be an international de pression, and whooie! I'm still quoting Vinson & Co. Some of the senators aren't so sure. Poor Business Scheme So we lendthe money to the British and charge 'em something under two per cent a j-ear interest. If business still goes blooie, we skip the interest. Strictly as a bus iness loan, Vinson said the scheme was not so hot. He said he liked it because of its other advantages. We do not have any $3,750. 000,000 to lend across the ocean. Vinson has got to borrow it from the people. He thinks this should be. easy. If he can sell bonds that pay 1.64 per cent interest and loan the dough to Britain at 1.76 per eent, he might make a profit of about twelve hundredths of one per cent. : - Sen. Taft said air right, then, what's the idea of charging home buyers four per cent Vinson said that wasn't, his business. The arguers then c took . up British credits, South African "gold .mines and I swear, it-y-why mechanical cotton pickers . won't work in Brazil. Clayton said it was too hilly there. . Or if you could lend me about 15 cents, with interest at a token rate, I could buy a headache powder and tell you more about high finance tomorrow. Otherwise not. See? The principle's -the same. Protests Theory Excluding Oil Men froih Office WASHINGTON. 0JP Edv.in W. Pauley Thursday bitterly at tacked what he called "the strange, the spurious and utterly unexplained theory that a man who ha3 been in the oil business should not hold office in the navy department." This contention was advanced Wednesday by former Secretary of Interior Harold L. Icke?, who testified as a private citizen be fore the senate naval affairs committee, which is holding hear ings on Pauley's nomination to be naval undersecretary. Pauley Speaks "Irrespective of Ed Pauley just leave him out of the argument it is high time that this utterly unsupported cannard be blasted out of existence," Pauley said in a statement released as the com mittee began its sixth week of hearing on his nomination. He said the simple complaint that he was an oil man seemed to be the principle objection to hi nomination. "I want to grab that bull by the horns," he said. "If men in the oil business were good enough, experienced, skilled and energetic enough to hold high government positions durin? the war crises, good enough to meet unprecedented demands of the army and navy for a vast variety of petroleum products v.hat were Mr. Ickes. and all the dis ciples of a fantastic philosophy please explain in plain logical and understandable language what is wronsr with them now?" Oil Men's Doghoouse Why should they be accept--able in war time and so definite ly in the dog house therefter? Whv should their years of inval uable and irreplacable exnerience disqualify them for peacetime ser vice with the navy department to which petroleum is absolutely es sential? "I don't mean Ed Pauley, I just mean any and all American oil men. I and I'm sure the en tire great industry with which. T am proud to have been identified would like to know the an-?wer." Must Consult Senate Paulev pointed out tht the law requires the navy department to consult the senate and house naval affairs committee before iraking any contracts involving the navy's petroleum reserves. This, he indicated, precluded a navy official from usin"- his in fluence over such contracts fnr Ms personal rain. Paulev's statement was isfned after the committee ordered Ickes ri unlock his "ifetv denogit bo and produces the original memor anda he wrote about Pauley. These memoranda eharped that Pauley used improper methods to 'Turn to Page 4. Number 7) Truman to Xnnolnt Emergency Board In Railroad Strike WAPmvGTrw . (.j.R) Tn'e White Hoee paid Thyrcdm- iha't President Truman "verv shc-rtlv" will atrooint an emerrencv board in an sttemnt to' awrt the rail road strike called for Mondav. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the board mipht be aDncinted today. Annointment of. the board would at least postpone the-threatened strike- of ' SOO.000 railway trainmen and locomotive engine ers for SO to 60 davs. The case was referred to the White House by the national mediation board after it received official strike notices from the Brotherhood of Railroad . Train men and Brotherhood of Locomo tive engineers. The railwav labor act provides that, the president shall anpoint an emereency board of three public members to study the dispute. The law states that theTe. should be no strike or change in working . conditions, except by agreement of both parties, dirrine:. the time the board prepares its re port and for SO days after it is submitted. ,NMB members said this could mean postponement of -the strike for at least 60 days. ' WEATHER Nebraska forecast Cloudy end colder Thursday, strong northerly winds and snow flurries in the west portion; clearing and colder tonight; Fridayi fairy rising- tem peratures west; low tonight" 15 20 west, 25-30 east. 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