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NO VOL. NO. 40 PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1946 NO. 139 mm II MM H m llr vw Grade School Children to Give Operetta Grade school children will pres ent an operetta, "S low-white and the Seven Dwarfs," in the high school auditorium Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Mrs. Donald Hughes, supervisor of music in the j local schools, announced Monday. Mrs. Donald Hughes, has been working for the past several weeks with the children of all the grade schools in the production of the operetta. She has been assisted j bv the teachers of the various' grades who have worked on com mittees of the production staff. Tells of Beautiful Child The story of the operetta is based on the famous children's tale by the same name and is de veloped in three different acts with a setting of musical numbers. It tells of the beautiful child, Snow-white, being born to the king and queen and of the death of the queen during Snow-white's early childhood. Later, when the king re-marries, the new queen becomes jealous of the bautiful princess and banishes her to a forest. Snow-white wanders deep into the forest and comes upon the home of the seven dwarfs who of fer to protect her and beg her to live with them. The queen, learn ing through her maic mirror that Snow-white is still alive, goes into the forest disjuised as a peddler and gives Snow-white a poisoned apple which makes her fall into a deep sleep. Crushed With Grief The seven dwarfs, crushed with ' grief, will not part with Snow White. A young prince comes to the dwarfs' home, he kisses Snow white and awakens her from her Flecp. They are married and live happily afterward in the prince's domain. The wicked queen is pun ished for her treatment of Snow white by having to wear a pair of led-hot slippers. She danced away over the world and out of sight. A large number of pupils from the fifth and sixth grades make up the townspeople and pupils from the first, second and third grades make up the group of forest-folk who, with- the courtiers and the ladies in waiting, supoprt the cast of leading characters. Tickets will be on sale Tuesday and Wednesday at Schreiner's pharmacy. Curtain time will be at 8 p. m. for both performances. Believe U. S. to Meet Food Needs WASHINGTON (U.R) Govern ment officials crossed their fin gers Monday and cautiously agreed that the United States should now be able to meet its food promises to the world without imposing new controls. Their attitude was bolstered by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's belief that the gov ernment's new program bonus would bring at least 100.000,000 bushels of wheat cascading into world food offers. Officials did not rule out the possibility that to tighten up pres ent controls or impose new ones. Patricia Kocian Wins Auxiliary Poster Contest Patricia Kocian won first place in the Poppy day poster contest sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary through the high school art department in connection with the annual Poppy day sale, it was announced Monday. Her poster will be entered in the state contest as the best one from Plattsmouth and is to be sent to the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary headquar ters in Lincoln. Glen Hamilton won second place and DeNie Cundal won third place in the high school group in the local contest. Tenna Woster won first place in juries he claimed he sustained in the 8th grade group, Norma j at the hands of the defendant Ju Kaufmann, second place and! y j2 1945. Elizabeth Wondra third place.! ' . Cash awards were made by the j fl; f q f f Auxiliary to the winners of the! contest. Filed April 27: By Thomas J. Mrs. Zilnha Seward, art teach- Cacy and others vs. Joseph Ka er in the junior high and high lasek, sr., and others, suit to quiet school, directed the production of the posters in the school art class es. Posters are to be put on dis play in the local stores in about a week to announce the Poppy day sale on May 18. Lcuisville Hotel Sold Louisville, (Special) Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Larson have purchased the Louisville hotel building from Charles Drake, of Omaha. The transaction was completed last week. li K if : ml 4 IP 1 1 SKY'S THE LIMIT At White Sands proving grounds, N. M., men are dwarfed as they work on a German V-2 rocket of the type that will fire in a test scheduled for May 10. It is expected that the radi-control-led missile will attain a maxi mum speed of 3,200 miles per hour. Banquet Held For Avoca High Juniors, Seniors AVOCA, (Special) The Avoca high school annual junior-senior banquet was held at the Cornhusk er hotel in Lincoln with the junior and senior classes their sponsor and the members of the school board attending. Twelve seniors and eight juniors make up the two classes. The tables were decorated in the class colors, green and gold. Theme for the banquet was "Sail ing." Toastmistress was Leora Rippe. The address of welcome was given by Doris Ruhga and the response by Clarence Staack. The remainder of the program included: Sailing, Phyllis Gunn. Adventure of life, Supt. C. W. Wulbur. Initiative, Mrs. Emma Rawalt. Leaders, Elmer Hallstrom. Intellect, John Penny. Nonsense, class will, Carrol Meyer. Prophecy, Helen Noerrlinzer. Graduating, Richard Maseman. The program closed with the singing of the school song. University Man to Be Commencement Speaker at Union UNION (Special) Merle Stoe man, of the University of Nebras ka extension department, will be the commencement speaker for the members of the graduating class of the Union high school. rians are being completed for the annual commencement exer cises to be held at the Baptist church here May 16. Jury Awards $1,000 In Damage Suit A jury found for the plain tiff in the amount of $1,000 in a personal injury suit filed for Harold Wright, by next of friend, Louis A. Wright, against Holland Cameron in district court. The sealed verdict was read Monday morning. The plaintiff had asked dam ages in the amount of $5,135 for i tlt,e on lot n and south 5 feet oi lots iz ana is, SWft 12-12-13, Plattsmouth. Filed April 27: By Clarence J. White and others vs. Platts mouth Ferry Co., and others, suit to quiet title on west 10 feet of lot 2 and all of lot 3, block 96, Plattsmouth. Filed April 29: By John W. Crabill and Bertha L. Crabill vs. WTilliam "L. Browne and others, suit to quiet title on east half of lot 8" and west half of lot 9, block 27, Plattsmouth. Busy Week Faces Sports Teams at Plattsmouth High Plattsmouth high school track and baseball teams face a busy week with two ball games and the district track meet facing them as the climax of the springs sports season approaches. Smarting from two defeats last week, the ball players will play host to Gleenwood, Iowa, Wednes day, in an effort to get back on the winning side of the ledger. The boys dropped a 9-1 game to Boys Town last Wednesday and an 8-2 contest to Louisville here i last Friday. Following the Glenwood game, the team will journey to Lincoln to tackle Lincoln Central there Friday. District Track Meet The Plattsmouth thinclads will compete in only one meet this week but it will be the all-important district affair which will de cide which boys wll qualfy for the state meet May 10-11. Coach York said Monday he had not yet received definite In formation as to where the Platts mouth tracksters will complete but he said that the boys will take part in the David City or Crete contests either Friday or Satur day. A change in the method of qual ifying for the state meet calls for athletes to place first, second or third in class B district meets in order to be eligible to compete in the state affair. Previously marks recorded in two or three differ ent meets during the season were usd to determine state meet quli- fiers. Thimgan Scores Twice Plattsmouth, a class B school, will have to place first or second in the relay events to qualify for the state meet and the individual contestants will have to finish among the first three to win a spot in the state classic Friday nd Saturday, May 10-11. In the baseball game Friday Larry Thimgan was Plattsmouth's lone scorer. Thimgan hurled four innings and scored both Platts mouth runs, one on a sacrifice fly and the other on an overthrow of second base. Thimgan cracked out two hits. Jim Alkire took the mound for three innings. Big guns for the visiting Louis- j ville team were Welton, Sheehan and Brown, each whom jot a brace of hits. Sheehan pitched for the winners. Poppy Day Sale Here on May 18 Mrs. Clyde Jackson is chairman of the Poppy Day sale sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. Her assistants are Mrs. August Gall and Mrs. Reed Wolever. The sale will be held in Plattsmouth May 18 and the proceeds will go to the disabed war veterans. Posters announcing the sale, made by young people in the schools, will go on display in the store windows within the next week. Osmena Concedes Roxas' Election In Philippines MANILA, (U.R) Sergio Osmena Monday conceded the election of Manuel A. Roxas as the first pres ident of the Philippine republic. After sending a letter of con gratulations to Roxas, Osmena said, "the people have spoken and we must abide by their de cision." That is democracy." Osmena, incumbent president of the commonwealth, was trailing by more than 150,000 votes when he conceded. Roxas said he was "happy for the victory of the Liberal party," and renewed his pledge to "promote the freedom and welfare of all our people." The Philippines are scheduled to get their independence from the United States July 4. Second Assessor Finishes Precinct The second of Cass county's 24 assessors completed his precinct assessing work and reported Sat urday to County Assessor W. H Puis. Tom Tennant, Louisville, has finished the work of assessing for the Eight Miles road precinct, Puis announced Monday. First to wind up his work, was W. A. Wheeler, Plattsmouth, who assessed the East Rock Bluff pre cinct. The work must be finished by May 1. , 'J.' Ill um hi jjm,hmu ninvwrnmuypw ,f. .v. . .vv. :v v, .V. .'.V. .V .'.V. h y " ' f - - i ft ' : , - 1 EXERCISE MUSKtOX As exercise Muskox races ahead in an attempt to beat the spring breakup and complete the last lap of its 3,100 mile operation, this snowmobile crashed through the treacherous pressure ice cracks. Photo shows the type of dan gerous terrain the Exercise encountered, forcing them to carry heavy timbers to bridge the most serious gaps in the ice. The snowmobile was righted and sped on toward Edmonton with the rest of the expedition. (Canadian Army photo from NEA telephoto). Four Cars Are Damaged in Freak Accident on Sunday Four cars were damaged in a freak accident here Sunday after noon on v Main street between Fourth and Fifth streets. Three of the cars were parked at the south curb in front of Solomon's market on Main street. Autos belonging to Walter, Heil, Tom Solomon and Emerson Farm Implements Are Lost in Fire A large implement shed with almost a complete stock of farm implements on the Victor Stoehr farm a mile south of Cedar Creek was destroyed by fire Sunday af ternoon, Sheriff Joe Mrasek re ported Monday. Both the Plattsmouth and Louisville fire departments were called to the fire. All the farm implements, in cluding a complete stock of tools, with the exception of a tractor, which Stoehr was able to drive out of the burning shed, and a disc, which was not in the shed, were destroyed in the blaze. The shed, a structure about 60x24 feet, was also destroyed. The cause of the fire was un known. Stoehr told Sheriff Mra sek he was emptying fuel for his tractor from his fuel tank into a can when he suddenly saw the fire leap up from the back of the tank. The tank exploded but Stoehr was not injured. Forty Coyotes Are Turned in by Five Men for Bounties Bounties on coyotes have been paid to five Cass county men so far this season, County Clerk George Sayles reported Monday. A total of $141 has been paid for thi-ee old coyotes and 38 pups which have been brought in to Sayles since the season opened April 1. The season closes Oct. 1 In the past three years bounties on coyotes have shown a slight but definite increase. In 1943 164 coyotes were killed and bounties were paid on them. In 1944 the number jumped to 176 and in 1945 it increased to 179. , Those who have brought in coyotes so far this season include: Arnold H. Stohlmann, Elmwood, one old coyote and nine pups; Ellsworth F. Stohlmann, Louis ville, one old coyote and 11 pups; Jack Todd, Murray, four pups; Eric J. Charling, Elmwood, one old coyote and seven pups, and Clarence Staack, Weeping Water, seven pups. Louisville Bridge Is Being Widened LOUISVILLE, (Special) A crew of workmen is widening the bridge on Third street here. When the work is completed the bridge will be wide enough for two cars to. pass each other comfortably. The bridge will also have a walk for pedestrians. .". vw.1 .viv.v.,,.,.-.v.'.v,-.,.,.v.v.,.v. v.-.V.v.-. v.'. . .v.-.wT VL . W -V st. McBarader, Wilson Pipe Line Co., employe, all of Plattsmouth, and Warran Jordan, Ralston, were in volved in the ''quadruple" acci dent, Sheriff Joe 'Marsek report ed; ' fSeized With Coughing Spell j The mishap occurred when Heil who was driving his car, a 1940 model, east on Main street be tween Fourth and Fifth' street, wasseized with- b coughing spell. Hem6meTnarTTy lost conscious ness, he told Sheriff Mrasek, and his car veered to the right, crash ing into the three other cars parked at the curb. Sheriff Mrasek reported no one was injured. -Mrs. Heil was a passenger with her husband. Draw Crowd Quickly The Heil car was damaged con siderably in the front end, includ ing both front fenders. The Solo mon car, a 1941 model, was dam aged in the rear, the trunk and left rear fender and the right front fender of the McBarader car, a 1937 model, was damaged and the right rear fender and the left front door of the Jordan ma chine, a 1934 model, were dam aged. The accident occurred at 4.40 p.m. and immediately drew a crowd of about 100 persons Heil said the coughing spell seized him at the corner of Fifth and Main street and he did not recover consciousness until after the acci dent. Showdown Today On Franco Spain NEW YCRK, 0J.R) The eco nomic and social council of the United Nations began its work in the United States Monday while the security council faced a show down with Soviet Russia (at 2 p. m. CST) on Franco Spain. Six commissions of the eco nomic and social council, including the one of which Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is a member, started preparatory work today for the full 18-nation council meeting here May 25. The security council returns af ter a week-end recess with 10 of the 11 council members hop ing that Soviet Ambassador An drei A. Gromyko has received new instructions which will permit him, at least, to acquiesce to a council fact-finding investigation of the Franco regime. If Gromyko's instructions are unchanged from last week and he attempts to use Russia's veto to block the investigation the council will be headed for another angry row with most of the other delegates again lining up against Kussia. Today will be one of the bus iest days since the United Na tions set up shop in America. Heretofore, only the security council has been functioning here. Now the economic and social coun cil, another major UN organ, will be in almost continuous session. .. w ,.,ja&, i j To jo, 27 Other Jap Leaders, Indicted Today TOKYO, (U.R) Twenty-eight Japanese leaders, headed by Gen. Hideki Tojo, the Pearl Harbor premier, were indicted as war criminals Monday, charged with trying to rule the world in an ax is conspiracy with Germany and Italy. The indictment against Tojo and his political, military and in dustral colleagues was presented to the far east international mili tary tribunal by chief prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan. To Be Arraigned Friday "It is high time, indeed, that promoters of agressive, ruthless wars ana treaty wrecKers were stripped of their glamor as nation al heroes and exposed for what they really are plain, ordinary murders," Keenan said. Reaching back all the way to 1918, the 55-count indictment charged the defendants with wag ing agressive war and ruthlessly seeking their ends through mur der, inhumanities and plunder. The 28 indicted Japanese will be arrainged Friday morning, when they are expected to make their first public apeparance. Tojo tried to commit suicide when he was arrested after the Japanese sur render. The trial will begin in about one mo.nth. All the defendants were accused of participating as leaders, organ izers, instigators and accomplices in formulating or executing a conspiracy with Germany and Italy to win military, naval, poli tical and economic domination of the world, each nation having specal domination in its own sphere. Charged With Many Death Additional specific counts were read against various groups of the defendants for thousands of deaths resulting from the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Shanghai on Dec. i ami o, some were cnargea with warring against Russia in 1939, others with attacking France in Indo-China and with the wholesale slaughter of Chin ese civilians. v Among the most prominent on the list are Marquis Koichi Kido, former lord keeper of the privy seal and advisor to Emperor Hiro hito; Yosuke Matsuoka, former foreign minister; former premier Kuniaki Koiso and Shigetaro Shi mada, former navy minister. Brake Applied, Engineer Says CHICAGO CU.R) William W. Blaine, engineer of the Burling ton railroad's streamliner that crashed into the rear of another train and killed 45 persons, said Monday that he had set the emer gency brake. Blaine said through his attorney Edward Streit, that he did "every thing in my power to stop the train." He said he set both the emergency brake for the diesel locomotive and the air brake that connects with each of the cars. Members of the train crew testi fied Saturday at a hearing con ducted by the railroad that they j did not ''f eel" an emergency ap plication of the brakes. Blaine, against whom a man slaughter warrant charging care lessness and negligence has been issued, was recovering from a skull fracture in a hospital and could not attend the hearing. The Du Page county grand jury will begin an investigation of the wreck Tuesday. The wreck occurred last Hhurs day at Naperville, 111., when the Exposition Flyer plunged into the rear of the Advance Flyer, which had made an unscheduled stop. The death total mounted to 45 when Miss Lena Sayler, 32, Burns wick, Nebr., died in a hospital with a fractured skull. Eighth Grade Tests To Be Given Again In County Friday Eighth grade examinations for those who were unable to take them when they were given pre viously and for those who will take them again will be held at nine centers throughout Cass county Friday, beginning at 9 a. m., County Supt. Lloyd A. Behrends announced Monday. The examinations will be sim ilar to the first ones given ex cept that the arithmetic test will not be included. ' Mrs. Henry Donat will be in charge of the examinations at the court house here. Tests will be given at the following centers in addition ' to Plattsmouth : Avoca, "Elmwood," -Greenwood, Lomsville, Murdock, Murray, Weeping Water and Union. Miners Agree Negotiations BIKINI PROTECTION Mem bers of navy salvage groups which will board "guinea pig" ships after the atom bomb is dropped in Bikini atoll lagoon will wear the lightweight plas tic helmets and navy-tpye res cue breathing apparatus pictured above. Veterans Group Urges Congress To Preserve OP A WASHINGTON J.R) The American Veterans committee urged Congress Monday to pre serve a strong OPA lest wild in flation nullify the pensions, loans and other financial aids granted veterans. Vets Would Be Hit In an obvious slap at the amendment-riddled OPA bill approved by the House. AVC national re presentative Chat Paterson said OPA should be strengthened not weakened in its fight to main tain "a strong price control pro gram." He told the Senate barking committee that veterans would be among the hardest hit in any in flationary period. And yet, he said, the veteran has been the "forgotten man" in the "mad scramble of special interests for greater speculative profits." AAUW Joins Fight The Senate committee is con sidering legislation to extend OPA for one year beyond its present June 30 expiration date. The House approved a nine-month ex tension but wrote in so many re strictions on OPA that administra tion spokesmen said it amounted to repeal of price control. Twenty-three other consumer organizations joined in the fight for OPA. In a statement present ed by Caroline F. Ware of the American Association of Univer sity Women, the committee was told that the destruction of price control would benefit only ''the special interests seeking specu lative grain." Glaze Buys Ray's Delivery Service John Glaze, operator of the Fort Crook water plant, has pur chased the Ray's delivery serv ice, he announced jointly with Ray Campbell, former owner of the delivery service, Monday. The name of the service will be changed to Glaze's delivery service. Glaze, who has lived in Platts mouth since 1919, has two sons. Jack and Dick, both carriers of The Daily Journal. He plans to continue operating the delivery service as Campbell has done. The transaction was completed Friday. Glaze formerly was employed by the local water company for 22 years, during ten of which he was superintendent of the local plant. Campbell operated the delivery service since last September. He plans to continue as driver for the Cotner bus line. Six Pay Traffic Fines Six persons paid fines of $2 and costs Saturday and Monday to Police Judge C. L. Graves af ter, pleading guilty to charges of failure to stop for stop signs. Saturday Clyde Kammerer, Platts mouth, and Floyd Smith, Weeping Water, were fined, and Monday Forest McKenney; Omaha, Virgil Sharppe, Omaha, . Donald Taylor, Omaha, and D. L. Frank, Hum bbldt, Nebr., paid fines. to Resume on Strike WASHINGTON U- The striking United Workers, Al'L, agreed to resume negotiations Monday after a lapse of 19 days. A labor department spokesman announced that negotiations for the union and the soft coal opera tors would meet jointly at 1 ::!) p.m. CST. The resumption was arranged by Secretary of Labor Lewis II. Schwellenbach as the month long strike reached the point where really crippling effects on the na tion seemed imminent. . Schwellenbach, Lewis Talk Schwellenbach met for 90 min utes Monday morning with Presi dent John L. Lewis and other union officials. He had talked Sunday with operator representa- Itives in the long deadlock negotia tions. As the strike entered its fifth week, the administration called a special mediator into the dispute in an attempt to revive the con tract negotiations. Joining the mediation efforts at Schwellenbach's request was Ed ward F. McGrady, former assist ant secretary of labor and an ex pert conciliator. McGrady has been vice-president in charge of labor relations for the Radio Corporation of America since 1937. and was a wartime labor consultant for the army. Concerned Over Strike Administration officials from President Truman down were seriously concerned ever the com plete lack of progress toward end ing the coal strike and its strang ing effect on industry. The presi dent himself will discuss the situa tion with government experts this week. It was apparant, however, that the administration was bewilder ed as to a solution. Reconversion director, John W. Snyder, who gave Mr. Truman a week-end re port on the dispute, told him the government simply did not know exactly what Lewis wanted. The (Turn to Page 4, Number G) Two in Line for High Court Post WASHINGTON, OJ.R) President Truman neared a decision on a new chief justice of the supreme court and informed sources said the choice was between Justices Robert H. Jackson and William O. Douglas. Barring an unexpected hitch, Mr. Truman will announce his selection at a news conference early this week, along with the appointment of a new associate justice to fill the existing court vacancy. j The president, it can be re vealed, already has decided to elevate one of the eight present members of the court to suc ceed the late Harland F. Stone as chief justice. Persons close to Mr. Truman believe the post will go to either Jackson or Douglas. Just who will be appointed as the ninth member of the court remained a complete mystery as Mr. Truman returned to Wash ington Sunday from an eight-day cruise on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. Adoption Decision On 3 VanHorn Children Postponed OMAHA, (U.R) County Judge Robert Trover Monday continued until Oct. 3 the plea of a middle aged couple to adopt three child ren whose parents gave them away "because they got on their nerves." The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eu gene Van Horn, gave their three children to Mr. and Mrs. John Yunick because 'they made us nervous." The children have been staying at the Yunick home, and the Yunicks filed adoption pro ceedings. The parents said they "got along fine'' without the children, and seemed to quarrel when they were present. They lived in a tiny apartment in a crowded tenement. The children, Tommy, 4, Carol yn, 3, and Stanley, 2 like their new home. There is more room for them to play. Each has a do?, and they enjoy playing with the Yunicks' rabbits and chickens. The Yunicks said they enjoyed the children. "My husband said we might as well sell our place if we don't get the children," Mrs. Yunick said. "The place would be no good with out them." WEATHER Nebraska forecast: Fair and warmer Monday. Monday night fair, warmer northeast; low temp eratures 45-50; partly cloudy and mild Tuesday.