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r J VOL NO. 40 PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA , THURSDAY,, JUNE 6, 1946 NO. 150 Interest Centered in Five Primary Election Races; Strike May Slow Returns Interest in the primary election' next Tuesday as far as Cass coun ty candidates are concerned will center on five offices for in the tests. And there was a possibility other six offices there are no con Thursday that the county might have to wait longer than usual to ; learn the returns of the election. ! A stiike of union employes ri ' the Lincoln Telephone Co., which I s-erves 22 southeastern counties,! incuding part of Cass county has leen caled for Mo iday, June 10 the day preceding the election. , A meeting between union and comnany officials has been cailel for Fridav. Siiouiu the strike be called, all means of repotting tlec-: tion returns :o Platts.-xioth bv tele phone would be suspended and a ' considerable; delay would result. Greatest interest will undoubt-, dly lie in the race for commission-1 er posts in the second and third! districts where both incumbents. G. W. Hart of Louisville, secrndi distiict commissioner, and Henry I C. Backemeyer of Murdock, third i are seek-1 Six Separate Probes of Fire In Hotel Begun CHICAGO (U.fO Six separate investigations were begun Thurs day to find the cause of the La Salle hotel disaster in which 58 persons died. Meanwhile, fire-conscious city officials closed five night clubs and two loop theaters on charges that they ''repeatedly ignored" warnings to remove five hazards. Preliminary investigations fail ed to established what caused the fire that spread through the La Salle hotel lobby early yesterday and within a few minutes turned ;he lower floors into a flaming death trap. Mavor Edward J. Kelly and fire department officials charged that hotel employes delayed call ing the fire department for "15 or 20 minutes" while they tried to put out the fire themselves. Avery Brundage, chairman of the hotel management, denied the charge, and asserted that every fire precaution possible had been provided. Roy Steffen, president of the LaSalle-Madison Hotel Co.. which operates the hotel, said the fire department was called within th-oe minutes after the flames wer discovered. district commissioner, j Ir.g nomination on the rep'jblka.i . ticket. - ! Nomination Means Election j ! Nomination for one of the four j republican candidates in the se- j co:ul distiict vill be tantamount' to election si ice there are no dem-1 j ocrais in the field. In the third dis-j i trict, however, for democrats as jwell as four republicans are seek-1 ; in nomination. j nomination, j Airayed against Hart in the se ! cond district are Geoige P. Wils i j and Parr Young, both of Nehaw-i ka, and II. Y. Griffin of Union. j i In the thiid distiict William H.j ! Schuelke of G:eenvood, R. J. Mill-' : er of Elmwood and H. L. Borne-! meier of Alvo, in addition toj i Backemeyer, are seeking th" re-j nomination, while Fred, - rrat-"" - - """"" 1 S-r 'PTtJV V- "ill fUi1ri 2fl i j Legion Junior j Team Opens ! Season Sunday The Plattsmouth American gion Junior baseball team Louisville the K,c:! rn Le wi 1 1 Turior Bowles, Porter May Quit if Senate Okays OPA Extension Bill , v. 1 il "5 0 ' DEATH TAKES A HAND Four hands of cards lie faceJownward as their players left them on a card table in Chicago's LaSalle hotel as fire swept through the building with lightening i if speed. The man in the right background had almost leached the door before he was over done by smoke, '.while his companion, left, fell by the table. (NEA telephoto) Schmadeke Is County Agent to Succeed Waldo The Cass county extension Pirates Threaten Walkout Unless Union Okayed PITTSBURGH, U.R Major league baseball came face to face House to Fight Senate Version Of Draft Bill WASHINGTON, U.R) H o u s e j made plans to walk out Friday on their game with the New York publican W. Klenser and Chris J. Etgaard both of Weeping Water, and Alva A , , ; " ' I,:T,4. ' with the realization Thursday that Ko c:,i Thiirsrinv thev woud G. Reid of Ashland and John W.;f ofSclarence H. Schmadeke , is no more immune to strike ac-I vthout fight a II. Maack of near Ashland are af-1 , . , f ountv agricul-I tion than industrial pla vts m; coal ; ?enate.appr0ved bill to extend the ter the democrat nomination. j. , ' . ff v.-nt bv the mines when the Pittsburgh urates , f tU M 15 1947 Sayles Has Opposition Ire cent resignation of Willard H Savles. incumbent count v clerk 1 Sfhmadeke has been aspiptant u,aJlt;- litis 1.' 1 hum l J ' 1 1 it iunaiu jvi-; iuuulv ai huhuiui w v i ; , Ti'-n- T w when ajviicmmiiv,! the Pirate dressing: room in 12 years, prevented a strike from tak ing place last night belore the eame with the Brooklyn Dodarers. 11I Iiii!leii until iiv titiv-ifu m. college of agriculture at the Uni- mcumbent 01 nosition from idea and William S. Wetenkamo i county ince last February j both of Flausmouth, for the re- j Waldo left the position, 'publican nomination, tantamount! Farmed for Himself to election since there are none in Schmadeke was reared on a ! Boone county farm and farmed Thomas Solomon, Plattsmcth and Earl Nichols, who lives neai Ashland, are contestants for the versity of Nebraska democratic nomination for sheriff je in to run airainst incumbent renub-i Only the first appearance by 1947, to re vive the induction of teen-agers. j The House last April passed a bill banning induction of 18 and I 19-year-olds, declaring a draft holiday until Oct. 15 and extend ing the life of the act to Feb. 15. i Although the Senate approved its- own. bill overwhelmingly late : clash with tr.e Legion nire on j field at 2:30 p. m. hi (Tex) Chovanec, tea announced Thursday, i The game will mark the ; en- irg of competition in district No. 17 of American Legion Junion 117 of American Legion Juoioi 'teams in the 23 districts announc-j ied Wednesday will begin play i Sunday. , i Two Others to Play j Nebraska City and Lincoln Northeast, the other two tennis :in district 17 will also clash Sun Iday at Lincoln. I District tournaments will start: July 8, Chovanec said, and tho 'state tournament will be played : during the week of August 4. : Chovanec named Larry Thim- gan and Leo .Morse as nis battel jfor the first game Sunday. Nine Games Scheduled I The team manager also an--jnounced the remainder of the loc- al club's schedule, which calls for inine games during the next month and a half, with Plattsmouth meet iing each of the other three teams three times each. Ir. addition to Sunday's game, i the schedule includes: June 10 Lincoln Northeast, here. (Maybe switched to Lincoln because of conflict with Platts mouth Eagles' game.) June 23 Nebiaska City, there. June .30 Louisville, there. July 7 L i nc o 1 Northeast, there. (May be switched to Platts mouth.) July 14 Nebraska City, here. 17 Louisville, here. 21 L i ncoln Ncitheast RETIRES Lewi K-.nn T.-irt . T -i r. I- I-.i Vi n-iinofil , vHe Mercur y Rises to election. In the only other county contest n. ii e itnin,. ,.i mi . , , , ! Pacific for almost four years publican nombination for county surveyor. Nomination will mean election since no democrat candi dates are in the field. He gradudat- 1041 While a student, he assisted agronomy department in hy- j brid corn test work. j Served With Nary i He served with the navy in the and '.was dischaiged early in 194G. ; As a boy, Schmadeke was active i in 4-H club and Future Farmers' I activities. vesterdav. House members said Players Angered ' the teenage and draft holiday pro- The players, angered over the ! visions were certain to cause hot refusal of club officials to reeog-lfioor fights and possibly a pro nize their unio-n, the American j longed tussle in conference corn Baseball Guide (independent), asijittee. a collective bargaining agent, had j Chairman Andrew J. May, D., Kv., of the House military affairs Juh July here. Julv E. Smith, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. of Ne braska announced Irs retire ment after :J1 years of contin uous services at the second day of the communication of the Grand Lodge at Omaha. He bus- been in Masonry nearly 40 years and is a past grand mas ter of the Grand Lodge. Committee Set To Investigate Maritime 24 Nebraska City, there. Mann Elected to High Committee agreed not to meet the Dodgers in a night game unless Benswan ger came to their quarters for a conference. Finally he arrived with private attorney Seward French. With the guild organizer and founder. Kohert committee and author ai.T.dment prohibiting inductions said he will continue totTre American I oppose the induction of teen-agers, j Rep. Dewey Short, R., Mo., a leadng opponent of any form of : Robert W. Mnn of Plattsmouth of the -was elected to the executive com-teen-age iiiee of the Nebraska ?P.-1ior, nf . . : - bociety of Mechan ical Engineers Wednesday at an executive meeting of the society. The temperature was due to hit f'O degrees Thursday after it reach ed a sizzling 85 Wednesday, ac cording to Lemuel Gessel, Masonic home weather observer, and an unofficial 72 degrees at 7 a. m. this morning indicated that the mercury may well reach 90 today. The state's hih for Wednes day was 99 at Culbertson. Anoth er day of summertime weather is scheduled for Friday with temper afiiies due to touch 90 in the east and 90 to 95 in the west. Comrlaints of lack of moisture are being heard in the county as I the continued varm weather and j wind is drying the soil. J At the Mailbox f I I Tlis hendonni'ters nrp in Ween- For republican C. E. Ledgway j jno. Water, clerk o fui.-trict court; republican i Ruth Patton, treasurer; democrat; Walter Smith, county attorney; democrat W. H. Puis, county as sessor, and ncn-partisan L. A. B e h r e i d s, superintendent of schools, election is ceitain since there are no candidates of eithei them in the primary, party in the primary opposing Incumbent Lucille Horn Gaines demociat, is assured of 'Nomina- Former Murray Man Is Killed it Vas announced Thursday by C. A. N. Armstrong secretary-treasurer of the Nebraska section. John W. Kurtz of Omahn W55 jneed them. They don't need the; elected chairman and George A. . Diu at au. j sogers of Lincoln was named I ith -May and fchort- spearnead- a member of the committee, jing the opposition to the Senate; the '"11. there is no likelihood that the : Anriprsnn f r R., -MUrpnj, as tneir SPOkes- dr;1ft pvtonsin. tr.lil rpnnrtPK- "man the players agreed to rlayi "I will fight any effrt to draft I in order not to disappoint the fans I these teen-age boys. Thev don't iawio were m the stands. It was ! On ll" 1 niimifnp I f . iiwuuiv.-?. uciwe uame time when they went onto the field. as By P.ex Henry Over four hail flooded farm May 14, of Eagle. II inches of rain and the Eail Peckham two miles southwest lost most of his fences as well as his com, ne re ports. He spent two days replacing his fences and replanted all but eight acres of corn. Roy C. Siekman was busy Wed nesday filling his hay Lift with the first cutting of alfalfa on his farm two moes west of Eagle. Northwest of Eagle the May 14 storm eased a bit. II. A. Rocken bach Teports he lost very little com. Rokenbach has plenty of work planned to occupy his spare time. He has completed reshingl ing most of his buildirgs and plans to paint them soon. tion for register of deeds while! James II. Graves of Plattsmouth republican, is unonro-pd on the republican side of the ballot foi that office. Two Cass county men are in the running for nomination to the leg islature from the third district. They are W. O. Schewe of Mur dock and William A. Metzsrer of Cedar Cieek. Tom Dooley of Pa pillion is also a candidtae. Voting will begin in 2:1 pre cincts throughout the county at 8 a. m. Tuesday. The Daily Journal will be oper Tesday night to give returns of the election as quickly as they can be obtained. jager Leo Durocher that he intend jed to see his players tomorrow to which Lippy replied: ''Go ahead. See if I care." MURRAY, ( Special ) -W o r d was received here Wednesday of the accidental death of Albert iSchafer of Caldwell, W yo., who lived near here at one time. Schafer, according to word re ceived by his sister, Mrs. Herman Wohlfarth, and his brothers, Otto ti:ii: l l.;nJ XT Monday when a truck he was driv-j rilOt LlVeS Manley ing was struck by a train in Idaho. Mrs. Wohlfarth and Otto Scha fer left Wednesday to attend fun eral services. Albert Schafer moved from the Murray prea several years ago. Survivors include a son and daugh ter in. California, two brothers Fred of Norfolk and George Idaho, in addition to the To Organize Dodgers However, Murphy said that players definitely would not meet i Senate amendments will be ac- ithe Giants Fridav unless their de- icepted unchanged. imands for an immediate collective , bargaining election were met. I Murphy also made plans to com 'plete organization of visiting Meat PackinC i iiuurvjtii i'uuut'i ne ioki man- i W A S II I N G T O N (U P The ; House labor committee Thursday ! voted an investigation of current jmaiit'ine labor disputes after more jthan 62,000 members of the AFL ! seamens union arranged to leave their jobs. Seven other maritime unions 'one independent and six CIO shipping strike June 15 unless the . groups- threaten a nationwide) I demands for higher wages and J ! shorter working hours are met. : They are negotiating with ship ' owners here. Name Sevn-Man Group The House committee named a seven-man ;nvestigating sub-committee headed by Rep. Augustine B. Kelly, D., Pa. Kelly said his group may start WASHINGTON, 0.'.P The Sen ate banking committee Thursday agreed "without enthusiasm or objection" to send to the Senate floor an OPA extension bill re versing manv of the government's present stabilization policies. Price chief Paul Porter and economic stabilization director Chester Bowles reportedly have said they will resign if the Senate bill is approved by Congress in its present form. Not an Endorsement Banking Chairman Robert F. Wagner, I., New York, said he would file a minority report. He expected several other members of the committee to join him on it. Democratic leader Alben W. Bark'ey, Ky., said that since he would put the committee bill be fore the Senate, he could n it join the administration disseni ers. But, he said, the fact that he reported the bill was not to be regarded as an endorsement of its various provisions or of the bill as a whole. None "For All of Bill" Barkley said he did not believe that any member of the commit tee, which worked on the contro versial measure for nearly two months, was "for all of the bill." 1m its present form, the bill would strip OPA of the controls on food, lift ceilings on meat, poultry and dairy products and eliminate OPA's maximum aver age price rules designed to in crease production of low cost clothinir. Administration of any future controls retained would be transfer-red to the Agriculture Depart ment. The Senate w;ll begin consid eration of the bill Monday. j Practice in Nehawka jits inquiry Friday depending upon whether "we can schedule witnesses." jHormel, Wealthy Executive, Dies Youngsters Rides MANLEY, (Special) Free air plane ride? thrilled children liv ing near the Fred Stohlmann farm near here Sunday. The children came swarming to Stohlmann's alfalfa field Sundav in ! evening when a PiDer Cub nlane three handed in the field. The unidentif- LOS ANGELES, 0J.PJ The The subcommittee was nntbor- NEHAWKA, - (Special) Major ized to investigate ar.v imminent or actual strike that affects the rational interest. The action stem med from the current outbreak in the maritime disputes. The inquiry was voted as the nation faced a crippling tie-up of j its merchant fleet. "Stop-Work" Meetings Vice-President John Hawk of UiDjMiliM ion of North America (AFL) said ; rc. J.. Anderson, physician here for eight years prior' to entering j the army, has returned home and I will resume his practice after a j few week of rest. Major Anderson served in th Geergej Guinea. Philippines and Ja- 4 brothers here, and another sister, ied pilot obliged the youngsters Mrs. Nicholas Frederick of Buena'by taking some of .them for a Park, Calif. short hop. jaSTT the Seafai Fjfjj i " New Yo St 'group and The first hay cutting is com plete on the John Kelly farm three miles northwest of Et-gle. Kelly said they ht:d most of it raked Wed nesday and hope to have it stacked soon. Kelley reports the barn and house on the farm jut north of him have been purchased by a Lin coln man. The buyer is now tear ing down both buildings and plans to transport the lumber to Lincoln for use in building construction according to Kelly. The farm labor situation should ease soon for Kenneth Trunken bolz, two miles northwest of Eagle. Mr. and Mrs. Trunkenbolz are the proud parents of a baby boy, born May 31 at Bryan Memorial hos pital in Lincoln. -, firss$ . .. v. y ( w7'' u ; tv body of multimillionaire Albert Hormel, 87, will be sent'Pan areas to Austin, Minn., birthplace of his meat packing house chain, foi burial after funeral services ihursday at his palatial Bel An V2&jLJJ$.LI'J3 v,e"'v orl that members of his mansion. L VXlSLSSssSJl 'group and those of the Sailors Hormel died late yestersday ati Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robbir.s, union of tlie Pacific (AFL) would Good Samaritan hospital. He was a son, born Wednesday at St. begin '"stop-work" meetings at admitted four days ago for treat- Mary's hospital in Nebraska City, about 1 p. m., (Plattsmouth time) ment for a cerebral hemorrhage j Mrs. Robbins is the former Nor- today. They will be held at Paci- The onetime butcher's boy had ; ma Spar.gler. lie, Atlantic and Gulf ports. been ill since his wife Lillian, died here a year ago. Their only son, Jay was here when his father died. Hormel had lived quietly at Bel Air since he retired from active management of his meat company in 1926. He still retained his pot as chairman of the board, but turned the business over to his son. Omar Distributor Hero to Children, Shoots Blue Racer A. Lamb, local distributor . for the Omar company, was a hero to a number of clii'dren at 623 North 6th street Thurs day morning. During their play, the child ren cf Mr. and Mrs. George McGraw and thrir playmates were in the yard of their horns and found what they said was a blue racer snake about liv feat long crawling near the basement door. Just at that time, Lamb was making his reglar call at the M-.Graw residence and shot the snake before it was able to attack any of the children. This is the second snake that has been killed at the McGraw home this summer. Seven Local Men Drawn for Jury Seven Plsttsmouth men are in cluded in a list of 150 men from the 18 counties constituting the Lincoln division drawn for federal court petit jury May . term which opened May 13. The jury will convene at 9:30 a. m. June 17, The Plattsmouth men drawn for the jury include: E. II. Bern hardt, Donald H. Born, Clarence C. Cotner, Albert Funk, August Gall, Louis Naeve and Clem T. Woster. . , . II II M imiliJKW -.-.-.MIWWWC.V.-.yi-J1.Vji-.V.-.,.fl' IDENTIFY FIRE VICTIMS Police Chief John Pendergast, extreme right, and Coroner A. L. Brodie, at his right, examine a few of the 53 victims of the LaSalle hotel fire in Chicago. A temporary morgue was hastily set up in the city hall, a block from the hotel. More than 600 policemen were called to the scene to help carry the dead, and assist the injured. (NEA telephoto) lSM..i Ordered to Pay for Support of Children George Forbes was ordered Wednesday at ft hearing on a com plaint of failure to support -minor children in the office of County Judge Paul Fauquet to pay $12 a week for support of the children to Almada Alehin. Payments are to begin June 8. ', The complaint was filed by "Al mada Alchin, who charged the de fendant failed to contribute to the suport of four children, ranging in age from 6 to 11 years. V i I T4 JrX 4 o r ' If - J -Al w 'mi r v K.-- ..VI' 9$ 4 "'mi3 ITIirwi - !'" VOLUNTEERS AID RESCUE WORKERS Chicago policemen, together with military police, shore patrol members, and other volunteers rushed to the blazing LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, to aid in the rescue work. Many of the victims of the fire were carried down fire escapes on stretchers. (NEA telephoto) Murdock, Mynard to Be Served by Gas Company Extension Murdock and Mynard in Cass county will be served by an ex tension of the Northern Natural Gas company's pipeline system, on which construction will get underway immediately, it was an nounced Wednesday. The S7, 880,076 extension proj ect was approved bv the federal power commission late last week. The FPC made its order public Wednesday. Communities in Iowa and Min nesota as well as Murdock and Mynard in Nebraska, will be ser ved by the extension. The gas company hopes to complete the job by the first of the year. Former Plattsmouth Man Dies in West Levi Wesley 'Nedrow, 49, died June 2 at a hospital in Moorpai k, Calif., where he has made his home for several yeais. Prior to his moving to California, he faint ed south of Plattsmouth. Funeral services will be held Saturday at Imperial, his former home. WEATHER Nebraska Forecast: Partly cloudy Thursday, scattered thund er showers northwest in after noon, warmer extreme east and extrme northwest portion. High temperatures near 90 east, 90 o S3 west. Partly cloudy with scat tered showers and thunder storms west and central portions Thurs day night and most of state Fri day. Coder west and north por tionh Friday. 1
