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i t - 'age rwtj THE JOURNAL, PLATT5MOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY JULY 25, 1946 The Plattsmouth Journal j Cft V&SMKfiTOM Clothed With Lit tie Authority ESTABLISHED 1881 Published semi-wceldy. Mondays and Thursdays, rt WMU Majii Street. Plattsmouth. Cass County. Kebraska. by The Journal Pub lishing Company. LESTER A. WALKER B. J. ALCOTT M. F. MURRAY. Publisher General Manager Managing Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth. Nebraska, as second class mail matter in accordance with the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the Plattsmouth trade area. DAILY JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delivered by car rier in the City of Plattsmouth. 15 cents per week, or $7.00 per year cash in advance; by mail in the Plattsmouth trade area: S3 per year. $1.75 for six months. $1.00 for three months cash in advance. By nail outside the Plattsmouth trade area, $5.00 per year. $3.00 for six months, 60 cents per month, ash in advance. Long-Range Price Control? Certain CIO executives seem to have appointed themselves guardians of the public welfare. As soon as price controls were lifted they sprung into action, on the apparent assumption that nobody would ever think of re fusing to buy steak and butter at 95 cents a pound without work stoppages, mass meetings, parades and picket lines. Since they have assumed this patented responsibility, and since they exert a considerable mlluence in Wash ington, it might be interesting to have tnese executives' explanation of the uu s ultimate hopes and aims regard ing price control. As of now, their siana is a little confusing. Last week, 1'hilip Murray, CIO president, outlined to a congressional committee some proposals for a "pro gressive labor policy for the future." Among them he mentioned passage of adequate price control legislation, adoption of the minimum wage bill, and expanded social security legisla tion. The confusing thing about that statement is the inclusion of price con trol in a "future" policy along with two bills which deal with permanent and continuing matters. It has been generally assumed that price controls were a temporary measure, and that they would be lifted when production and supply were at a safe level of abundance. Perhaps the Senate acted too swiftly in lifting controls. But thus far events since July 1 have not war ranted all the panicky laments and predictions of doom that greeted them. Nor have they warranted Mr. Murray's charge that the Senate's action was a "scandalous exhibition of log-rolling unequalled in its depth of betrayal of public interest." Wasn't there maybe a little Presidential log-rolling in the lifting of rationing and pay restric tions? If Mr. Murray did not intend the inference that he favors permanent or long-range price control, he would do the public a service by saying so. If he did intend the inference, it might be well to find out if it is" price control or profit control which he seeks. The need of price control is tem porary. But profit control can be per manent. We had some samples of pro fit control under OPA, and they con tributed heavily to needless scarcities and black markets. Permanent price-and-pYofit fixing by government would be revolutionary and dangerous. , All this may seem like looking under the bed. But Mr. Truman is' con siderably beholden to Mr. Murray and the CIO for his present office, and the CIO commands a lot of votes. When Mr. Murray asks for some thing he is listened to. And it might be well to find out now exactly what he wants. Q How many pigs and how many goats on the Bikini fleet were killed when the atom bomb air test was- con ducted? A About 10 of each. There were 150 pigs and 150 goats on the ships, and survivors were found on every ship afloat but the carrier Independ ence, which lay nearly under the blast. Q Are ocean levels rising or falling? A The Atlantic is rising at a rate of lio feet a century. It started ris ing in 1920. tar huw pxAKSoa i WASHINGTON The Mead committee, whim I..., uune ucn an excellent job of prob ing Congressman May and war profiteering might do a little further digging into phony E awards and possible connections with the Ken tuckian who still chairmans the House mili tary affairs committee. Specifically, they might examine an E-award given to licneral Tire and ltubber company, the very same company which got May's nep hew out of the army after he had been in only nine days, and is still paying his a juicy salary. If the Mead committee should probe deeply enough they would unearth the following amaz ing facts: General Tire and Rubber had a contract - with the army to make pneumatic floats for the army engineers. These were big rubber bags which were inflated with air and used vo hold up pontoon bridges. The famous cross ing of the Rapido river in Italy and almost ev ery military crossing of water was aone by pon toon bridges supported by rubber floats. Tnese floats, of course, had to be absolutely airtight. Fraud on Army However, when General Tire floats were tested by the armyengineers in advance of ac ceptance it was discovered that General Tire employees would deliberately pump up the floats during the night, thus deceiving army inspectors. rlhe floats were required to maintain a cer tain pressure lor 'Si hours, and when tne pres sure wouid go down, General lire people wjuid pump them up while army inspectors weren't around. Ihis fraud finally was discovered, and a report very critical of General Tire was iiled by army engineers. The army also secured con fessions from about -0 General lac employees. Despite this discovery of deliberate fraud, General Tire later was awarded the much covet ed E, supposed to go only to companies per forming tne highest war service. Furthermore, not only was the fraud hushed up, but afterward, General Tire and Kuober company was given a lush contract at Hunting ton, W . Va., wnere Congressman May s nephew, Uliam 11. May, occupied a mysterious out very profitable role, working for General lire. How much, if anything, the chairman of the military affairs committee had to do with vhis is not known. However, the whole thing would bear investigation. In another case, it is knjwn that May pulled wires to get an E for his friends, the Erie Basin company, overriding the recommendation of army officers who op posed the E. In the case of General Tire, several army en gineers who knew the real truth about h rub ber pontoon floats, were vigorously opposed va the E award. But their recommendation also was overridden. Truman's Support Backfires Old-line democrats back in Jackson county, Mo., are dead certain that President Truman's public endorsement of Enos Axtell coupled with IO-PAC support has virtually assured Kansas City's Roger C. Slaughter in ihe Mis souri primary Aug. 6. They are equally cer tain that a republican will defeat Slaughter in the final elections. Albert L. Reeves, jr., republican "on of a Harding-appointed federal district judge in Kansas City ,is the man expected vo win out next November. Truman's old friends back home are really sore. Ihey say he injected the nation's hignest office into the dirtiest political fight Missouri has had in -0 years, at a time when democratic leaders were attempting to promote harmony among the various factions. For years FDR tried to purge his home con gressman, GCV Ham Fish, and finally accomp lished it with republican Tom Dewey support. Truman, therefore, felt he had a right to inter vene in Kansas City, home politics. Here's how the whole thing happened: Shortly after Jerome Walsh, former OPA attorney, announced he would oppose Slaugn ter, ClO-PAC of Kansas City and other local labor unions indicated they would support Wal sh's campaign: No public endorsement was made, however. Truman, apparently figuring PAC i-upport would do more harm than good, sent, word back home to dig up another candidate. It was his brother, J. Vivian Truman who has a habit of balling things up who selected Axtell, vir tually an unknown in county polities. Axtell is from rural Jackson county and once served as assistant county prosecutor. Truman pressur ed James Pendergast and the powerful demo cratic machine in Kansas City endorsed Ax tell's candidacy: This turn of events and the ditching of the PAC pleased the president that is, until PAC voted 15 to 6 to drop Walsh and hop on the Ax tell bandwagon. hieh it did. Note Support for Rep. Slaughter is ter rific among women's roganizations. Mrs. Nell Donnelly Reed, wife of the late Senator Jim Reed, a bitter Roosevelt-hater, is leading the "Keep Slaughter in Congress" movemnt. Capital Chaff Senatorial colleagues of Montana's Burt Wheeler refused to believe up to the very end that Wheeler stood in real danger of defeat. Fi nal tipoff that he was in trouble was Wheeler's statement, in. reply an attack by Jimmy Roosevelt, that FDR hal asked Wheeler vo be his vice-presidential running mate in 1940 ... Typical reaction to this was majority leader Alben Barkley's comment: "That's one lie nobody in the entire country will believe" . . . Sponsors of effective atomic-energy control are suspicious of the timing of developments far from Capitol Hill. The Canadian fpy atory broke just at the height of the struggle with in the Senate committee over civilian or mili tary control, the Canadian repbrt on spy oper ations was released while the House military . affairs committee was butchering the bill,' 'and ' the announcement that the army was firing workers at Edgcwood arsenal, Md., came just as the bill was heading into a stormy trip through the House. The last was particularly suspicious because it was timed so perfectly vo influence House votes. (Copyright 1040, by Bell Snydicate Co. Inc.) - ----- :- t--m: i , m jW T I I. 'u 1. - Iff r v M7W- Kice com UgS W 1 vigi " EPSON'S WASWKCTON COLUMN Edson BY rETH ED ON N'EA Washington Corrsrontlent WASHINGTON, D. C (NEA)-The old Bdfy Mitchell argument that rocked Washington for two decades is about to begin all over again, though with new emphasis. Twenty-five years ago it! was over the question, "Can an airplane sink a battleship?" Today' ine suojeci is. -can an atom bomb sink a fleet?" 1 No Army officer is yet ready to let out a blast at the antiquated thinking of naval officers, nor to risk a court-martial by charging that the whole Navy is obsolete. But there are stirrings and mur muring of these sentiments, brought on by what Army brass considers naval-braid-esnbroide-red re ports from the first atomic bomb test ;,t rut-ir,; r$ Ajj Nearly all of these reports are inclined to belittle l't the Po-xev of the atomic bomb! i . v Ki.-3 Tt ;,-."t .. . i. j . .. .i. !. v,j iuui.li uaniiipe as some ot tne experts thou-.ht it would. But in spite of this, backers of. the bomb in Washington claim results Of the first, tftt Amu fln-irUr , V, naval and amphibious warfare will have to be changed. rJ,0 the defense that only five ships were sunk of the 73 ships in the unnatural fleet concentration in Bikini lagoon, atom bombers make this reply: The ships at Bikini were spread ever a five-mile radius, covering 75 square miles. The bomb knocked ot-t everything in a one-mile radius, covering three square miles. Only 25 bombs would have knocked out the fleet completely. Furthermore, say the bombers, the B.kini test has shown that it will not be safe for ships to be anchored or to maneuver within two miles of each otiur, if an enemy air force- has atom bomb;;. Another point made by the bombers i.; that amphibious landing operations will have to be planned and executed on entirelv new concepts if they we to be made proof :ic;ainst atomic-bomb difiense. One well-placed atomic bomb could disrupt an amphibious land ing. Half a dozen would stop it cold. rpiIE Navy boys come bock with this argument: The bomb exploded in the air did not damape the hulls of out ships. Aside from the five ships sunk, only nine were seriously dam aped, and they all stayed afloat. They could have steamed back to base and been repaired. To which the bombers reply: Oh, is that so? You are overlooking the fact that the damaged h;ps were set on fire and were otherwise made so radio-actively hot" that it would have been unsafe for crews to remain aboard, ! even it the crews were not decimated by radiation. j Making the hulls safe for personnel insulating battle-stations agamst ractm-acUvsty would require a protection of about two feet of steel or eight feet of concrete. Ships just can't be built with that much armor and still operate efficiently. The argument goes on and on from here, just as the Billy Mitchell : rgument went on between World Wars I and II. Mrs. Verna Heier Mr. and Mrs. Everett. IK i r were I.incol l shoppers 1 uesday. Mrs. Ellis Mickle and Mrs. Marmi Zoz were also shoppeis the saa.e day. Dinners were the main thea.e at the Earl Bennett home a week ago as several of then relative.: were heie fioin detain po.iii.-. Thursday Mis. Laid Bennett's ia- : ter, -Mrs Lssie La.uay, and her sn-in-law and daughter, Mr. a:. 1 Mr.-. Bill Fleming. Jerry and Sharon of Washington, 1). ( .. were guests- Mis. Eva McKim and son, Dickie, an i Mrs. Usher of Newton, Kans., were dinner guests Fiiday- Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bennett and Mr. and Mr.-. O'iCouike of Califoi nia w e: e dinner a. id .-upper guets . Mon thly the Bennetts and O'K 'Uikc bid Alvo a farewell as they kit for their homes in California. Roger Dee Bennett, so;i of Mr. and Mis. Dee Bennett of Lincoln, has been spending the past week at the home of Jus giandpurents, Mr and Mrs. Earl Bennett. A family reunion was hel 1 Tuesday evening at the Esther Clark home. Those attending were Mr. and Mis. er!e Rosenow and son, V. 11., and Miss Billie Kesterson of Huntington Beach, Calif., Mr. and Mis. Karl Rose now, Charley Rosenow, Mr. and Mis. Elmer Rosenow and Rae Jean, Mr. and Mrs. John Rooney of Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Adams and children of Eagle and Mr. and Mrs. John Rockcnback, also of Eagle. Friday morning Mr. and Mis. Verio Rosenow and son and Miss Billie Kestersoii left for Mini- "I taire, where they will spend a few m days visiting, from their they will travel through Yellowstone paik" on their way to Portland, Dre., I where they expect to spend somc-iaj time salmon fishing before re-' J turning to their home in Hunting-j "J ton Beach. i " i Suipri.-cs were in stoic for Jotm E. TliriM!' I'lilll-.' M l'l ! n rw.n ... I." his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. i" and Mrs. X. D.Bothweil. and their V son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and'." Mrs. James Rvclopz, arrived in J Alvo fiom Seattle. James Roel-1 1m ofsz is the son of Mr. and Mrs. j I Charley Roelofsz. i. Ueoi-ge lore-man went to Oma-J." lia Sunday niorning to spend thej"J day visiting his daughter, Mr.-.;!!; Schadel, who iccently returned j home from the hospital. Mr. and l Mrs. Schadel and Mr. and Mrs. ij Warren brought Foreman hon.e. Mrs. Art Skinner, Mrs. Clyde Jipp and Stevie and Bonnie Mar- I coe spent Wednesday in Spring field visiting Mr . and Mrs. Or- J" val Marcoe and Gary Lee. They l returned home in the late after noon, blinking Cary Lee with'"" them to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Jipp arid Stevie. ! Gaty Leeueturned home Sunday J on the train with Bonnie Marcoe. ! Donna Lee Heier is spelling a week as a house guest of Ger- J" near Wabash. Mr. and Mrs. liar- 'I old Sliefert and daughters a:id l" Danna Lee spent Wednesday ev- "I ening- at Capitol beach in Lineal t. I; Mr. and Mrs. Harold French';! were Friday evening callers at ! the Lrvin Heier home. Divorce Seen As Threat to Family Life ( lXCl.XXATI, O. 'UR' vorce de.ree is the death certifi cate of American family life, some jaii.-ts beheve. change divorce procedure to take , cinnati, where fewer divorce suits : care of our cnuuren .' e need a were filed last year than in any genius oi law a legal Jane ,oi the eight surrounding counties, .-luuanib wno win jinu a way to . all of which have much less popu awaken America to tne nteus of j lation. I It shows up in other statistics. J While other cities were swept with ' juvenile delinquency, Cincinnati j The ih- jiad an ever-decreasing rate every; year from 1911 to 1943. j One judge has been responsible j for much of Cincinnati's favorable accomplishment. He is Judge Charles W. Hoff- ! our children." Heal instate li ransters ' Dae judge termed divorce the "giavest threat to our democracy ;.; the history of our country." lie ..sted the reasons: 1. Divorces top last year's all time high in number. . ' hnuren (.1 broken nomes tiuul 50,o0t couples have brought crowd reformatories, correction their troubles to him. nonies and otner institutions. ". The majarity of adults in prison today as -hildren lecame "orphans of living parents" when they were children. 1. Today there is one divorce ;'": every five mairiages in ited States. During the last 70 years, figures how, the population of the Uni i'i States has doubled, marriages John Ward and Blanche to Bra dy V neeier and riorence, c ,j iol -i- i, Louisville. -VlaudP KOi'hui- :ind nihoiv tn 11 . i.l T I t ri f ,11iri r. 4rmll. .iMmf .. ....... v-.nwiwaLi a lamu, uu imtr IJ. HoimelStCr, the first such court in the na- o-t-O. tion, over winch he has presided for 'A'2 veal's. In that time more iot ii, oiock if, i lattsmoutn. erna L . r Uimore to tva -Uc-Gartn, lots G and , oiock oL', un uiviueu naif interest lot 6, oiock Aivma Roessler to Karl A. Roes- 6-Week Waiting Period The court has three divisions: family division, delinquent boys, and delinquent girls. It shifts from one to another as fast as Judge Hoffman can tell his secretarv, the; "Okay, we're juvenile court now."' ' .l:h!po HnffniQTi'j nintViniis; 51 ro ! based on the six-week waiting pe riod demanded by Ohio law in di vorce cases. During that time he check-, with all social service ag encies. He compiles data on the family, history of parents and t Wayne county, Mich., reached a grandparents, the children's ration of one divorce for cverv sehoolwork, and reports of psy- two marriages. In California, it chologists and psychiatrists. C. R. 1 odd and inme, S -N W 'i was one divorce for every 1 .Go j When the case comes to court, 'and lot 1, .NriSW'i, 10-1-13. marriages. In St. Louis over a he knows whom he's talking about. ! Alvin O. Xierste and Helen to four-month period there were 301 , "A child must have security, Clark Searbrough, undivided hail divorces, only 298 marriages. ' love and affection," the judge interest, lot 5, block oi, Platts C'.ie bright spot seems to be Cin- says, "but how are we going to mouth. have trebled and divorce has creased 2,000 per cent. One Out of Two Fail in- oi and lots o and o, block '6, loung and Hays audition, i'latis mouth. rreuerick II. Still to Haroid Stoll, b. 12U leet, oiock 1, Xehaw- ! ka. Max Straub, jr., to Margaret E. Perkins, SE1! 2S-10-12 antt un divided half-interest X U 20-10-12. ernon T. Arn and Mildred to August V . Cioidt, lot 6, block b'T, i iattsmouth. Forrest C. Wood and others to Cop Says Gals Charm Way Out ot Tickets I AKKUX, U. U.Ri Akron women j have a smaller record of traffic 'violations then men, but at least one Akron policeman isn't sure j it's due to better driving. Of about 30 persons fined daily ' for vehicular nwsuenaving, only i three or four are on the distaff team. Some days, the records show, no woman at all face the traffic court. But men don't necessarily have to stop complaining about '"these 'women drivers!" according to one member f the police force who diplomatically chooses not to be identified. He says the gals don't appear on the record because "it's difficult to give them a ticket." "In the first place a women usually acts like she's scared to death, ' he explains. "If you stop her, she does one of two things. S-ne either cries and acts confused that's the usual reaction or if she is pretty, charms her way out of it. What can you do'.'" Hikers and mountain climbers in New York State may enjoy their hobby to the fullest this year. The state conservation de partment has built more thail 075 miles of trails in the Adirou dacks, Catskills, at Bear Moun tain and in 7 7 state-owned parks. Read Journal Want Ads B5 ES As stated in our ad of July 1st No article in our store on that date will be raised despite the fact replacements must be higher. There Are Five Items In Our Line which must inevitably rise if and when we can get them namely Dress Shirts - Pajamas - Underwear - Denim Overalls and Lea' ther Jackets The intense pressure of demand over supply causes this. When production and competi tion become normal these prices will level off, but until then be prepared to pay increases. MEANWHILE and we say it advisedly if you can get along without these do so, that's the best way to bring the price down. This advice perhaps is not in our interest but we offer it candidly. C. E. WESCOTT'S SONS Clothiers Since 1879 9;mmmmam v.V.V.V.VAV.ViViViVi'iViVAViWAV