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i . "1 i u 'age rwo THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, JULY ant no" coi a m br to: The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Rshing Company. LESTER A. WALKER Publisher . 1 B J. ALCOTT .uenerai iuiua,Sci M. F. MURRAY Managing auor Enured t the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska. second class nail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. - SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. V: C J' t) s 1 t c t J DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Delivered by car a rier in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per aD year cash in advance: by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: Sc J3 per year. $1.75 for she months, $1.00 for three months, cash in in advance. By mail outside the Plattsmouth trade are. $5.00 oi per year. $3.00 for six months. 60 cents per month, cash w advance. " " -- Ouund-Dollar Statistics There are a lot of interesting fig ures and statistics floating around these days, bearing with them fearful or wonaerluii implications. Follow them, in the serene confidence that figures don't lie, and you may possibly find yourself in the midst of half-truths and erroneous conclusions. For example, there is the Bureau of Labor Statistics figure showing that the American factory worker's average wage in May was at a new high of $i.u an hour, or 42.67 a week. Then there was the New York Stock Ex cnange announcement that earnings of 4y5 leading American companies av eraged 37.5 per cent less in the first quarter of this year than in the same period of 1945. What's more, 110 of those companies had losses after taxes. We can just see some heads was ging over those amounts and percent ages. For it might seem to those heads that labor was killing its sourse of golden eggs, getting richer and richer at the expense of industry, which pro vides jobs. Or it could mean to those wag ging heads that a radical government was trying to force businesses to the wall. Or it might even mean that a conservative government was trying to make labor fat and contented to high wages, and thus force labor's think ing and voting toward the right. Statistics that permit such not-too-farfetched conclusions obviously don't tell very much. The ELS figures on earnings neglected to express them in terms of 1946 buying power. The Stock Exchange figures also fail to tell a good many things. For instance, how typical were the first quarter earnings of these 475 com panies in 1945? What was the rela tion of these companies' first-quarter earnings in 1946 to their average for the same quarter in, say, 1935-40? What was the reason for loss af ter taxes of the 110 companies? Strikes, reconversion, increased labor costs, OPA regulations-, or other fac tors? It may seem that some of the var ious statistics hurled at us today are deliberately calculated to mislead. But it may be suspected that their incom plete information often arises from the more innocent habit of thinking of the dollar as an entity of unchanging val ue, rather than in terms of what it will buy or in its relation to other dol lars of other days. Maybe that is short-sighted think ing. But there is cause for cheer in that habit of thinking too. For as long as the dollar remains in our minds as a concrete thing of value in itself, to be reckoned with and sought after, we are on pretty solid Ground and a long way from ruinous inflation. Q What is "transonic" speed? A Speed between 600 and 900 mph. This is the transition area be tween subsonic and complete super sonic speed, with speed of sound at 760 mph. Q Will wheat grow in any re gion? A Yes1, in the tropics, at sea le vel, on mountain tops. k rr al fo Q Do many states require vi sion tests before issuing hunting li censes? A None do. Q Why is the grapefruit so call ed? A The fruit often grows in clus ,, ters, simlar to grapes. MERRY-GO-R0UNP BO MbKW F&AKSOH WASHINGTON It might be a healthy thing if the Mead committee investigated more of the E-awards handed down to manufacturing -firm by the army and navy. Senator Mead's com mittee already has shown how wires were pul led by top officials to get an E for the Erie Basin war profiteers at he same time lesser army officials, who knew conditions first hand, were recommending against it. Another fishy case occurred when the navy gave an E to national industries when it and its affiliate, Durham Manufacturing corpora tion, were under indictment for war frauds. The company was actually being prosecuted by U. S. District Attorney Alex Campbell at Fort Wayne, Ind., when, right in the middle of the trial, the navy came across with its E. The trial had started in November, :o the navy knew all about the alleged war iaud when it gave the award on Dec. 17, 1945. Fur thermore, the war then over, and there was no need to give the company an incentive for further production. However, someone in the navy apparently pulled the wires, and the E award, coming at just the psychological moment, had a powerful effect on the jury. Nazi' Pre-Pearl Harbor Trap For some weeks, certain senators have been skillfully pulling back-stage wires to kill the Kilgore committee which has been probing nazi activities and their link with Americans. A brief and confidential peek at what's in die nazi files now makes it quite -.lear why sena tors are secretly battling so hard to squek-h Senator Kilgore's investigation. U. S. army and Justice Department officials have been extremely busy interviewing Ger man officials, from Hermann Goering down, and the results are amazing. They r-how various high-up American leaders and businessmen vo be either woefully naive or else deliberately playing into th hands of a dictatorship which had already started to conquer Europe and which was certain to be at war with us. For instance, in Foreign Minister Ribben trop's captured files was found ihis revealing memo regarding America firster Charles Lind bergh: "It is better not to mention Lindbergh's name anymore. He's more useful to us if we keep his name out of the press as he has askd us vo." Anti.Roosevelt Plot Nazi officials have been quite frank in loll ing about their operations with Americans. Ac tually, a statement attributed to Goering, pub lished two weeks ago, that he was ready to spend $5,000,000 to defeat Roosevelt in 1940 was an understatement. What Goering really said, according to U. S. officials who inter viewed him, was that he would gladly have spent $150,000,000 to defeat Roosevelt if he could have been shown any good way to do it. Another German, Dr. Heribert von Strempel of the German embassy in Washington, when asked what the nazis had done in the way of propaganda, responded: "The biggest thing was when Goering's agent came to me with that plan to defeat Roosevelt." This was the plan involving the late W. R. Davis, and independent oil operator, who had known Goering for some years, sold oil to the German navy, and who told the Germans he had four Americans he could use to defeat Roosevelt in 1940. The only name on this list which Gering could remember was that of John L. Lewis. However, other German officials who had been in on the halks supplied the additional names Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, Jim Farley and Herbert Hoover. Obviously, none of the above had any Ger man connection or probably any idea they were to be the tools of a potential enemy. II jw ever, some of them were careless, to ray the least, in the way they played into German hands. Wheeler Defends Nazi Agent Senator Wheeler, for instance, held various secret conferences to defend George Sylvester Viereck when on trial for sedition, despite the fact that Viereck obviously was guilty. Wheel er also made a speech defending the iate Sen ator Lundeen, after Lundeen was exposed :"or delivering speeches written for him by a Ger man agent. The ease with which intelligent Americans fell into the nazi trap is, of course, something they want hushed up now. But the day may come when the same sort of danger faces the nation and when the public should have an example before it of what goes on behind the scenes. That is why Senator Kilgore of West Virginia is pressing for his investigation. That is also why those great friends of the Chicago Tribune which also fell into the nazi trap isolationist republican Senators Curley Brooks of Illinois and Wherry of Nebraska, are trying to kill the Kilgore committee. 'Even Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, a democrat, apparently thinks twice about the Tribune and doesn't want to vote the committee any leal cash. Finally, GOP Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, whose state is anything but iso lationist, for some strange reason is trying to strangle the Kilgore investigation. Maybe it's because Bridges is a buddy of Senator Wheeler's. Lewis' Anti-Roosevelt Speech . While John L. Lewis does not pose as a international expert, it wouldn't have required a mental giant to know that oil man Davis was playing awfully close to the nazis. Davis was shadowed by the State Depart ment and by British secret service in Ber muda and Portugal on his way to Berlin in 1939. And when lie arrived back in Washing ton after his talks with Goering, FBI men covered his apartment at the Mayflower hotel. Davis told all this to John L. Lewis at the time, whereupon Lewis picked up the phone, . called Assistant Secretary of State Berle, and ' complained at the way Davis was' beingsha dow ex.1. v Later, Lewis called at Berle's home and dis cussed the whole matter with him. Despite this, Lewis stepped squarely into the Davis- Goering trap to use him to defeat Roosevelt in ihe 1940 election and allowed Davis to pay his famous $50,000 radio hook-up in which Lewis urged labor to desert FDR. (Copyright, ID46, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Last Few Days Are the Hardest urn kj j W -kk :fAt I ci 1. 1 k i L r - : ft F r I co ' ' I r 'k J . I . . - -. . - , - . . . . . telfc-u it-1 1 -vm i oy Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johnson, who make their home at Mrs. Lena Nessen's went to Sidney, Iowa, Saturday night to visit relatives. Johnson is working on the new addition to the Farmers elevator here. The Golden Circle club had its annual picnic at the state fisheries Sunday. A picnic dinner was ser ved. Mrs. Sylvia Urwin and family spent Sunday at the state fisheries. , Mr. and Mrs. John Rhoden of Plattsmouth, visited Mrs. Rhoden's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hochel Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Cliffton Meisinger and daughter visited in Louisville Sunday at the home of Mrs. Glen Miller. Mrs. Meisinger is a sis ter of Mrs. Miller. Bertha Sash called at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Adam Rentsch ler, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Amttk and son, Bill, and a niece of Mrs. Amick's, all from Omaha, called on Louis Gadway, Sunday, and had a swim at the lakes. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Rentschler and some friends visited Camp Harriet Sunday where their daugh ters are and also called on his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Rentschler. Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Worthman and Elwood Pankonin and Willard McShane drove to Omaha Sunday evening to bring back Bob Mc Shane who has been working on the new Pankonin building, which is being remodeled. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Heard and family visited Mrs. Heard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Meisinger Sunday, in South Bend. Louisville enjoyed a steady rain Monday afternoon and evening. Besides htlping the gardens, it made the temperature more com fortable. Mrs. Stanley Hall and family of Stella are visiting Mrs. Hall's mother, Mrs. Sylvia Urwin and family. Glendale had its picnic in the city park by the bridge Sunday. Rpad Journal Want Ads At the Movies Clark Gable makes a welcome return to the screen in "Adven ture," which opens Sunday at the Cass theater, with Greer Carson co-starring in the most exciting teaming of the year. As the tough, open-shirted bo' sun of a Merchant Marine freight er, Gable comes back in the virle type of role which kepi him amorg the ten best box-office bets for ten years, while Miss Garon makes an abrupt about-face from her recent costume characteriza tians to play an utterly captivat ing modern girl. The story of "Adventure," hea vily charged with both drama and comedy, has Gable and his pal Thomas Mitchell, on a big shore leave in San Francisco. Mitchell, who has made ceitain promises when his life is saved following a shipwreck, fails to keep their, and, as a result, believes he has "lost his soul." In an effort to convince him otherwise, Gable en lists the aid of Miss Garson, play ing a rather prim librarian. Her primness soon wears off when she and iier roommate. Joan Blondell, spend a riotous evening with Gable and his crew and Miss Garson finds herself involved both in a dance marathon and a free-for-all barroom brawl. She also finds herself very much in love after a whirlwind courtship with Gable at a little farmhouse. It is not until after their impetuous marriage, when Gable prepares to shove off on another cruise, that Miss Garson realizes she is mar ried to a man who will spend very little time with her, and decides the whole thing was a grave mis take. Gable leaves but returns in less than a year to discover he's about to become a father, and the twisttd destinies of the pair are resolved in an emotional climactic scene. The warmly moving story of a beautiful woman's desperate search for happiness, is gripping ly told in Warner Bros.' latest film drama, "My Reputation," which opens Wednesday at the Cass theater. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, the film features a gen erally excellent company of sup porting players including George Brent, Lucile Watson, Warner An derson, John Ridgely and Eve Av- Riies Today for Once Eagle Man EAGLE, CS-cl-Lu i'tuxral services were hel-i 'i niir. ;;iy in ing in Lincoln for David M. :Iu:a 7S, of H' !.:' '. forn-.cr Eale dent, who uied Sunday r.i;ci i-on in Lineoln. Ha rial was in the Eau'le ccmir tery. Rev. R. E. Rarge'.e.-. f-n-cer pastur o: the Trini y I.i.t"; c v?. 'v churcis here, wa- in charge oi tt".e cervk-es. Mr. Hur.-h was the l.r.:.l.r Mrs. iiliam 0-.-erik ami W. U. Ilursh of Eaule. WASHINGTON fU.R; A reove rentative reunion among the dem ocratic leader.-hip heie i'nursd.r.' to the defeat of Sen. Furt n K. Wheeler in the Montana primal y was: It is too had that President Truman had anything to say about the content. Wheeler was defeated for the ilemocrai ic rer.omitiation by Leif Erickson, forinei1 Montana stale supreme court iu-tke. Defended Wheeler Mr. Triin,. an (kfir.itc-iy entered the primary fight on tht side T Wheeler last week, dofendii'.o- him against charges that Wiit.der was an enemy of railroad labor. At the same time, Erickson had the backing of the (TO 1'o-itieal Action committee and ("TO Presi dent Philip Moiry, plu-; .Tamos Roosevelt, son of the late presi dent. The Erickson victory produced , .yy- I A -irr? - e I ti ) i m it .S I.' !! tt;o I - V. oc i . 1 L Y l.; l. 1 V. t-iC k e . la - vr, aen. A.iaj'ted K-i' the set c-vn by , Catherine Turney fi u.-n t he i:e -i-. e I , . ' : ! . ! . "in. i1. j'. : h.y S n row," '. h ; J , n,- n "nv ki.--a'ation" reial'. ihe '' .; :u . e :: : in saga of ne n onu:i:k ,-. u,i esntnee at 1 n. e an : -.c c: scandal that mm - hen: n-i !.' . her i:le un-.i me tae s,i her fuui .ly. As Je,s li.-j.:, :, U ' ive yoar.v' wnkr.,.',u-.t;,t.,- v ! v.-id. 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Mini i n. :m ' Record Under Attack j iiii1-, som-1 -.f the vmrtv ehiefs' ; Were happy ahaut EkeUsc-n's vie- " i-- .ui a . i ,y i r i ; tvoy, out e ry mmaiiyy tnat the t".r tilt- lainu sev uxv i; '. ! i!'c:-ii.k:u ehumjn .mod the tau-e of nun. A svptic tank en at h , T -T v y : r "t --:- y--yT:j m 4 ft W V I I iN?t yrw'v m t k I F.. k- if u : '-i s - i I., f' 5 ! PHI n i ml ij r'i y rr -r r "pi "VnTTlfiM i. f T fir x,k,:::,...:r ' " In the shadow, of the Arch of "Titus at Rome, where iy ceHiuvio .0,0 'k'n '""j'.' -(to march as slaves by Emperor Titus, a crowd of 3000 Jews protests Lngutn poucaes ia ere forced PalestinsV-' - erc ym3 0 Keep Prices Dov,n W-C3 CO f i'a Sines 1873 1 ; (j i J i.c.U