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J PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, MAY y, i94: Plattsrooath Daily Journal OLZ rSTABLlSHFBt DAILY 1905: SEW! WEEKLY 1881 j III- MRshed week day evenings at 409-413 Main Street Plattsmouth. Cms County. Nebraska, by Tfc Journal Publishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER. B. J. ALCOTT EL F. MURRAY Publisher ..General Manager ..Managing Editor bter4 at tk Postoffiee at Ptattsnwith. Nebraska, as setond class Mi) matter hi accordance with the Act e4 Congress Mre 1879. TJaited Press leased Wire Serrfee 5EA Telephoto Newspictttrei and Feature SUBSCRIPTION RATES : -Delivered by sirrier m te City f PUttsmouth, 15 cents per week of $7.00 per year cash In advance; ky mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: $3 per year 51.75 for six lonth. $1.00 for three months, cash in advance By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. $5.00 per year. $3.00 for six montfca. tO cents per month. Start Toward a New Era The personal aircraft industry to day is about where the automobile in dustry was GO years ago, and for the same reason. Inexpensive, mass-produced cars had to wait upon the con struction of improved h i h v. ays -throughout the country. The person al plane lias been waiting for numer ous, convenient airports to be built. And now with the signing of the bil lion dollar federal airport act, the era , of private flying seems really to have dawned. About 3,500 of the country's 16, 750 incorporated urban areas already have landing fields. The new air port appropriation (which municipal ities must match on a 50-50 basis) will add 3,000 more over a seven-year period, besides improving 1,300 ex isting fields. This is only a start, of course. But it should encourage the resump tion of activity by aircraft manufac turers which was drastically curtailed by the cutback in military orders. It should stimulate competition, and thus start the price of personal planes .downward toward a point where they will be within reach of a mass market. As the market grows, volume, pro duction and continued competition should give rise to further research and a resulting advance in safety, sim plicity, efficiency, and comfort. But the market probably , cannot grow to a. point where all thefe things can be realized until the plane owner is no more limited in his choice of places to go than is the car owner today. That brings up the problem of the 10,000 communities which will still be without federal aid for an air port after the civil aeronautics admin istration has chosen the site of 3,000 new fields on the basis of need and, probably, considerations of national security. What can the 10,000 do? Well, many of them could do what the town of Eldon, Mo., has done. Eldon built an airpark a name coin ed to designate a small landing field sufficient to the need of small planes which will be dedicated next month. It was financed by a $25,000 municipal bond issue which costs the. Eldon tax payer about one extra mill on every tax dollar. Such an investment would seem to be a sound one. An airpark in a smaller tornmunity will attract bus iness to the field just as an airport does in a big city. It will help pro vide jobs for the many air-minded and air-trained veterans who desire to remain in aviation. It will bring new money and new people to town. And, in a small way, it should help to speed the day of safer, cheaper private flying for the many who are eagerly looking forward to a plane of their own. Q What is an aerolite? A An "air-stone," or meteorite. Q What animal, a close relative of the leopard, is a fish eater? A The jaguar. South Ameri can natives say the jaguar lures fish by tapping its' tail on the water's sur face, but this has never been proved. Q What is tzuica? A Romania's national drink-H plum brandy. Romania is Europe's largest plum-growing nation. Q How old is President Truman' A 02. By DIMiYV PEAESON;: '..- -7 WASHINGTON Today;; V ''voteJ: vi , House of Representatives' ' will determine1 ' whether the so-called nylon lobby' has been able to do its job. This is the lobby5 of Arkan sas, Oklahoma and Texas utility bigwigs i'wKd ' have beea trying to block distribution of gov ernment power in competition with ' private 1 power from the Norfolk;antt Denison lawf -the Texas-Oklahoma border and in Arfcah'sasJ The name "nylon lobby" comes from tha!; fact thatHam Moses, pyes'i'rhijTfr .of Arkansas; Tower and Light, arrival jo" Wasltirigton witty a promise of nylons?ftv jjief Jwli j$f Arkan- sas-! senators and congressmen.' However, a lots, of other., interesting .-; ''public . riijatfcjns" exi ' penses by "this lobby have . since, been tmcover-f ed, including the factj 'that the pklahbiv.a Gas and Electric company paid clubs "dues sknd en-J-j tertainment bills for its executives ; 'at various! " Oklahoma golf clubs all at the'' .expense off the consumer. . ,'. -: :,i ... jf in Congress for mjrhy years is by; those .two ; spokesmen of the o-tallc'tl. "cfct,ton 'bloc,4 en- J j ators'John Bankhead of . Alabama ifnd:: Jlnier Thomas- of Oklahoma.;" who. whtfe vigorously! opposing curbs on cotton, have.Jbeen -framing, .either personally or through their, Jfalnilie; on'i the cotton market Father Coughlin's Friend Senatt-r Thomas' cotton trading has been through .Robert Harriss of -Harris anidVdie, GO Beaver street,, New York, with the aecctrht i carried in the name of .ihA .senator wife, Ed- ith. Bob Harriss is an old fcn'J -intimate friend ? of the Senator's atul of other sen'aU)i;sc4u.the "t cotton bloc. At:onp time, Harriss banJJeeL the cotton trading of Sena.orv jaykhead of Ala- J bama, and was also extiepely; . ckvse to the late Senator "Cotton Ed", .Smith., of Sjoth;.' Carolina. . ; ; , .: ; ' ; Harriss first ' became prominent on the j.. Washington scene wher irie-' iC- purchasing? agent for Father. Coughlyys silver speciila-; f tiops. After becoming ' friendly. ' vithi.fTafqss, the rad.o priest started a vigorous' c'ampaign ifor the remonetization of silver and later it;, was disclosed that Coughlin's "f secretary, Anie-?,' lia Colli?,"' had purchased 500.000 ounces" of 1 silver and was the highest holder of silver'-in?-the country. t . , t . , . . , F Senator ' Thomas of Olilalloma' aTsowasaV great silver- inflation enthusiast andidid iiis best to tack a silver amendment eti jthe wolk-'v relief biH in ly35V-This;ca- -nbovfc t.fcr satue time Father, CougJiUn. was peculating in sil ver and vrhn' Bob Han is 'was close to both men. S inator Theaija,v asq secms to; have av bent for other kinds of speculation and, dar- ing the.ear'o,: days of the war. proposed that .' the waivs tosU be -,'pa)d, by a national lottery.. Thomas Pleads . for Cotton- His recent cotton speculations, ' how'ever, ' are especially interesting and appear to be closely related to his speeches on the senate flooi. I .Mr. Harriss, who handles the Thomas fam- ilv's cotton-trading account, is in and -out -oi Latest Sty lcr Note From Paris ir :: f t! W: ;0s iff 11 Ik w lw 4A Svtcc,m.. DSONS WASHINGTON COLUMN NEA Washington Corresponuer.t VMSHIXGTON, D. C (NEA) The unemployed are beginning to figure in the news aain. There is a lot of official and unofficial guesting as to how many there are. why they are, and whether the situation is going to get worse or better. But when it comes to Dinning cown iacts, the iigures are at variance, and about all that can be reported are a number of trends which indicate a terrific amount of milling around, a concentrated effort to get settled. The Bureau of Labor Statistics collects figures cn the number of workers employed in non-agricultural industries, dealing with wages and hours, quit rates, and labor turnover. Proprietors, the self-emplcyed, and domestic servants, are excluded from these figures. The Department of Agriculture collects from its crop reporters estimates on the number of farm workers and their wages. uiiciiipioyinczii jigures come irom trace sourcer. The Bureau of the Census runs a sample survey on the number of unemployed and the size of the labor force, month by month. r i a Via Edson r .4 . U . v . iS-lit. I '.' Vi -i r! HOWARD B0FFE7T Congressman, 2nd Nebraska District T . t . ; jei'v slow down "d.3Kveries:"orrtop producing. Most of UNKRA's supplies are paid f of by American taxpayers. r The nroney is .-created .by borrow-ing-. That namesil'NRR.- is ont central , Europe claiming there j farmers, who are the food produc- ers were wmpsaweci on prices. TTSING the Bureau of Census figures, March returns show 2,700,000 unemployed in a labor force of 55,600,000, both totals constituting new highs since V-J Day. The ether two sources of unemployment figures are the Social Security Board and the Veterans' Bureau. The Social Security Board collects figures from state unemployment insurance benefit payments. They show a March average of 1,573,000 unemployed collecting job insurance. The Veterans' Bureau nays out unemployment insurance under the GI Eill of Rights to ex-soldiers and sailors unable to find work. At the end of March, 1,704,250 vets were on its rolls. When you add this total to the Social Security Board figure, you come up with a total of 3,277,000 collecting job insurance, and this is half a million greater than the census survey indicated. i As for the trends, the Army and the Navy are now close to the fcur million mark on combined strength, and they have about two million more to demobilize. Other federal government employment is still high, at 2.343.00Q. STRIKERS are not counted as unemployed, though strikes since; V-J Day have had as many as 1,500,000 idle at a time. f Quit rates and labor turnover are still high, being over six per cent for non-veterans and eight per cent for vets. Up to the beginning of the coal strike, the highest separation rate was reported in mining, ji The building and trade industries have shown the biggest increase in employment 500,000 each, and still rising. f Farm labor always picks up during the summer. The peak for 1945 was a little over 11 million, two million above the March level. The average monthly farm wage for the nation was put at $83.80 with '.board, $97.40 without, reflecting the shortage of farm labor. the seratorJs offide tvury .week or so. They are very warm friend?. The "Thomas purchases'; never mor-e than.' 5,000 bales?-, which-. is the X legal li nit for cotton, and usually the Thomas trading is through pools ,which generaaly run : up to 0,000 vbales. ' .".-.'-.',. ; Investigation - rfiows -that . the. . Harriss.. jind . Vote firm was trading in cotton and very heavily between the dates of March 4 and 7, between March 29 and April 4 and between April 8 and 12. Harriss and YOse trading at this time was largely for its customers and the firm was careful to break' no market regu- r lations. ' " .' - If you compare the dates of the- Harriss and Vose cotton-trading and the the dates of speeehos made by Senator Thomas," Senator . Bankhead plus other members- of the cotton? bloc in Washington, the similarity, is signifi- " cant. Jjjjr instance on March 4, cotton futures ' were' selling as follows: March "27.29 "cents, July 27 .29 -cents, October 27 .10 cents. March 4 is the date when the Harriss and Vbse trad-' ing became active. Then, on March 6, two days later, Senator Bankhead made, a public, statement charging .Chester Bowles with trying to put a price ceiling on cotton and planning a GO per cent margin on futures. -Prices immediately drop ped $3.25 a bale and recovered to a close .of about 25 points. On March 7, prices snapped . back ;harply by $1.10 bale "'. - " ; The next heavy operations by Harriss a"wd Vose were between March 29 and April . 4. ; On March 28,. cotton futures were selling r r about 27.40 -cents, at whiclCtime, according ; to the Wall Street JournaJ, .."cotton, futures " rose 1.35 to a bale on a late -rush bay-' ing orders stimulated by the possibility that . the Pace bill, would ,be adopted by the Sen- .' ate.; The rally was touched off by the plea 'of Senator Thomas '(T)'.' Okja.) for' higher fatms prices in suppyrti&g .tacking on of the Pate measure to the minimum wage bill. All n-- tures made 22-year highs." -.,., i . On March 29, the "cotton market rose again' $2.45 a. bale as a result of Senate statements by members of the cotton bloc. Again the , . Wall Struct.-ouriaaJ. cojiiiente4:- "Predictions f by Senate sponsors 'of the Vace 'parity " bill ; that the Senate would approve it as an amend-, inehtr to the mifliiauwa(e.,jneasuxe;evelop-;v ed broad buying" 1ri 'cotton-'futures". j?, .' . Again :pn .April. 1, cotton spared,';gainp--as-.;." a result of cottorr-sp6ke'smen's opet&Upnsrn ' Washington. "NeV rmmeuvers; by' thfe 'tfoTton congressmen," remarked the Wall Street j Journal, 'tok assume passage of the Pace pari-';: ty-ra:sihg measure . .-'provided the'structure for sharp rally in the cotton utua'es'inar-1 kct." - ' ' ' ' - '-:-.-'"' ') On April. 3, cotton 'aSf. still soilhg'v.bul on April 4, the Harriss and,aVpse operation got out cf the market. Simultaneously the price of cotton- dropped, - . The next Harriss and Voie operation was? between ..April 8 and 12. The date April 8 is significant,, because, next .daVj congress man Stephen Pace pressed for'earfsactTon on : his bill in" the 'House of Re'pf esfentaiivVsJ The ?2 cotton market soared. Then on April 12, Con gressman P"ace VnnouriceTliaTTre'vo'tnirTfpt attach his amedmnt tor thjr. legislation btit y that it must ' stan'a5 ortMs- ovnf Tnerit. Thisi mrat t, of course, that dtiwtlidnptapass; o the cotton market dropped. Simultaneously ? the Harri&s and Vose operators got out of the 3" market." - .-. ?: important cause of inflation. By the ;ha of March, 200,000 tons 4of free. UNRRA supplies had gone to two Russian provinces. NoA Rufsia, is seniiijir food to France to. both feed them and promote In Russia the government oj5er- communism. ' : ates black, niarket stores. For ex- . ample, a ration oook tnere mrgnt KmmA fM- J afL- .Jou it fn LNRRA. By having a high prior-, buy extra butter in the vtffli ;lly UNRRA grao off short sup ment black market store at $1.50 ?hes h,ere and fe.d3 them to var per pound, or some fancy ice'1? ac"' 'bach Russia. Rus- sia gets them free. ith Russia divo Mrs. Veira Heier Jane is reported to the out ;of danger now. Mr. Biunkow is an inspector on the pipe line and has. been in Plattsmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brunkow have been car I ing for their grandson during i their grandaughter's illness. How does that deal sound to Borrowed dollars finance House Hunting- System i ; ANDERSON, I n d. ttJ.F!) A hotrse-hunter has reached a new high in hunting efficiency. Each day at presstime he had a rendez vous with a taxi at the. city nes- ; paper. As the first edition rolls off ads for a place to live. If there!s anything desirable, he the scene in his cab. speeds to nie, both of- Alvo. ' Mis". Harry Anderson, formerly sible" by your go'ernment, ana at oi an uiego, taui., is wsiung your expense.. ! the home of her parents, Mr. and ''"- ' -- "' , i Mrs. Dan Reuter,. while her bro- . m ". T . ither, Elmer Reuter, and her hus- .... The f QJrosoimj deal is inflation band returned to California. Mr. witn botn oarreis. rust, it A.,. .;1J j,.;vo t-rrT---' .ffegttiiig.supVes Jrom us, they can Apparently our government has send supplies' to "foster commurl adopted the Russian-, black .cvarket ism in France. This is made pos- system with a hew twist. The 30 cent premium. the government now pays above its own legal price's for coin and wheat is an official black market. If Bowles and some others have their wav, it will be eipn W1U Doul o a r 1 e i s. riisi, Andersno will drive his car back worse. They are reported to'faW cieates Prctasing power here by. him. Walter Reuter, who has seizure of - eorn and wheM sup. government deficit spending Then feeen jn boot trainin vill returil plies, like Ihe Russians did when the goods purchased wnth the bcr- tQ d a ahort they liquidated the Kulak farmers. td "vi Ti 1 'furlough. tha the h0$ ProWem here 13 i Alvo is the owner of a new 16 C,' -- made more difficulty , millimeter Bell Howe projector. Price fixing in America is fol-, . , , r . , . '-r- .vas made 110ibl lowing the regular course of this A constituent suggests admin- e p"rf e. t narcotic: Always the first result istration.. .bungling, has . created through the eoite. of the P.T.A. of price .'control, like a dbe of much of the food crisis in Europe, and the cooperation of school dis marijuana is pleasant exhilaration. First, unconditional surrender and tuct 10-. Later black markets, thievery, and the Morgenthau plan prolonged ,. Ivan Brunkow and son James, ruthless regimentation develop, the war many months. That pre- returned to Kansas City Tuesday. Finally, producers discover how cented crop plantings. Then the Mrs. Brunkow has been at home the decline in the value of money administration refused the plea of caring for their daughter, Dixie is cheating them. Then they .cith- church and private charities to aid Jane, who is a victim, ot polio- The volunteer firemen held Ralph (Rip) Roelofsz, son of, their meetiu? in the fire house Mr. and Mrs- Charles Roelofsz, Monday vening. A large number was discharged from the Marines were in attendance and was ser-! at San Diego, Calif., April 10. Hejved at the Alvo cafe, was inducted into the service Jan.i 22. 1943. and received his bootf Welton Kinney is employed at. training at San Diego. He served . Plattsmouth on the pipe line. PLYMOUTH, Ind. (U.P.) The 23 months overseas on Tinian isl-j Six couples gave a party Sat. ; following note 'appeared recently and,tSaipan, Okinawa and Japan.' evening in honor of Ralph Roe-i 0n the Plymouth police blotter: He arrived in Lincoln May. 1 and losz's homecoming They later at- "Some culprit stole the newspaper was met by his parents and two, tended the Pla-mor. All spent an j out of the station between G and sisters, Mrs. Carl Winget and Min-i enjoyable evening. ; '"7 p.m." Cops Like ' Paper, too 4 p i El hi REMEMBER TO MAKE THIS DAY REMEMBERED . ..!-, '" . ivi'-v .S"&??" - II r.-. ': . Jf -4 u B B v ("::- fW -.if . " Special Purchase Sale of Til The MOST BEAUTIFUL SILK TIES we have 5i .... - been aBIe to offer for your selection in a; long. time ARE HERE NOW. 'VJ;. nii.s: V i m y m 1 y These Ties are sIllTwdven'Brocadesnof printed but woven and very hard to get. They were cdiirractedJ tor 'm January and : have jusL arrived. . lcu ; can see them crfdisplay our iast entrance window Mkeouf selection now for Father s day, and avoid disappointment. $150 Gift Box Included r. i5 Yes! We give 5n &, H;Sreenr Stamps 1 Fancy BlVUSlt &lld Stationery Ccmb Sets Colors or Plain New Designs Pure Bristle or Nylon EaCh9 98C Assorted Sizes ' $1.00 to $25.00 Evening in Paris Perfume $1.25 Bathasweet Sets ..$1.00 Coty's Perfume ....$2.25 Bath Powder Mitts 89c Perfume Sets ; Rouge - Lipstick Home Items Perfume - Cologne ,, ... Powder 1 Coffee Makers Popular Bra.nds Vases $i.co to $10.00 r!BTk EnFds Old South Body Powder $1.00 Co",n Blossom Cologne 1..0 Cclton Blossom , , Sachet 51 00 Honey Suckle baChet Cologne 31.15 Pen and Fesiclis " Skyline by Eversharp ChOCOlatGS $5.00 tO $1495 Large Assortment , , , Fancy Boxes Other Popular Makes $1.00 to $5.00 65c ?500 n M m Mother's Day Cards Gift Wrappings and many other items that will hslp reive your problem. tarnation Cologne $1.00 Pine Bath Oil 49c WALGREEN AGENCY, Spa Bath Foam ..$1.00 y Cake Make Up ..'..$1.00 1' n g