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VOL. NO. 40 PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1946 NO. 166 Truman Calls for Reduced Federal Agency Spending WASHINGTON U.P Presi dent Truman Thursday called on heads of federal departments and agencies to reduce expenditures as much as possible to combat in flation and to alleviate 'a most serious government financial si tuation." "Our present financial situa tion is a most serious one," the president said in a letter to gov ernir.ent department and agencv heads. "We are faced with a continued substantial budget deficit in the present fiscal vear," he adde Moit Effective Means Mr. Truman said that even the "most necessary" federal expen ditures increased inflationary pressure on the total national ec onomy. Cue of the most effective means of reducing this pressure, he said, i the reduction of federal expen ditures. . Mr. Truman has sent letters dealing: with specific problems to the heads of a few departments. For example, hehas asked the sec retaries of war and navy and the maritime commission to reduce expenditures substantially below their original budget program for this fiscal year. He pointed out in his letter that he had also ask ed for the postponement of pub lic works so far as possible. Ask Immediate Reviews The president will engage in a more detailed review of the pres ent government fiscal picture in a special budget seminar to be held at the White House at 3 p. m. Friday. He is expected to annouce budget estimates for fiscal 1947 shortly. In his letter Thursday, Mr. Tru man asked for an immediate re view of all department and agency expenditure and told the depart ment and angency heads not to hesitate to eliminate low priority work. lie also advised them not to overlook smaller economies. He told them not to compete with popular demand for scarce items. He urged improved department efficiency and use of personnel to help absorb the recent government pay inereaset authorized by Con gress. Poultry Shows in State Cancelled LINCOLN (U.P All poultry shows in Nebraska have been sus pended to protect flocks from dis ease, according to Dr. J. R. Sny der, director of the bureau of an imal industry. Although it has not been de finitely proven, there is evidence that the ailment, popularly called Newcastle's disease, exists Sny der said. The order applies to the state fair, 4-H club shows and county fairs. The disease spreads quickly, he said, and once a flock becomes infected there is little chance for survival. Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Minne sota and Wisconsin have taken similar action. Snyder reported. The national committee on New castle's disease has recommended that regional schools for veteri narians be held to acquaint them with the illness. Veterinarians from Lincoln, Om aha and the surrounding territory will meet Aug., 4 at Wahoo to discuss setting up such schools in Nebraska. ! At the Mailbox i i. By J. Rex Henry Mr. and Mrs. George McKins try found a cool spot to work Wednesday morning. They were cleaning the storage cave on the' -farm northeast of Weeping Water. Mrs. Merrell Ragoos was mow ing, weeds west of their farm home. The Ragoos fam is locac cc two miles northeast of Weep ing Water. Levis Lorenson was putting up hoy on hi? farm one mile north east of Weepinc Water Wednes day afternoon. H. W. Christensen and a crew ere shelling corn on his farm northeast of Weeping Water Wed nosdav. Mr. and Mrs. Thorwald Hansen are expected home Monday from a three -week trip to the west coast. The Hansens live two miles north ot Weeping Water. M. E. Wiles will soon 1 v.ve o new coat of white paint on his" house and has the front already done. Wiles farms about two miles .north of Weeping Water. I ri - ! CiiAKLrLS 1J LACK. MAIL j Iaul A. Olson, toriner secretary I Paul A. Olson, former secretary to Hep. John Coffee. I).. Wash., tells Senate war investigating committee that Eivind Ander son. Tacoma contractor, at tempted to "blackmail" him in to withdrawing as candidate for ma.yor of Tacoma last Jan uary. I NEA telephoto) Mynard United Brethren Church Elects Officers Church end Sunday school of ficers have been elected at the Mr.ynard United Erethern church. Rev. Lee Iluebert announced Thursday. The officers will serve for the conference year which bc e;ir.r, in September. Church officers elected were: Faymond C. Cook, class leade. : Doroth.ea Roberts, director of Ir - Rev. Lee Huebert youth work; Nellie Wctcnkamp. director of adult vo:k: Pearl Cole, Raymond C. Cook. Vivian Hi'U and C. Arthur Wetenkamp. stew ards: LeNora Cook, financial sec retary; Clara Smith, benevolence treasurer: Herman P. Meisinger. current expense treasurer; Elma Jantz. director of music; Robert Co'.e, director of religious educa tion; Robert Cole. Grant Roberts and Clark Wiles, ushers. Mildred Meisinger was elected rupei intendent of the Sunday school with Grant Roberts as her assistant. Other Sunday school officers elected were: Dorothea Ruber's, treasurer; Mary Margaret Cole, secretary; Marilyn Beckman, pian ist :Phyllis Arnolld. librarian: Ma bel Meisinger. home department superintendent: Clara Smith, era die roll superintendent; Bermce Kraeger. junior superintendent and director of children's work. Monkey Shows Teeth To All But One Man LONG BEACH, Calif.. UR Little monkey Jock, who became so vicious that her handlers, af ter keeping her seven years, had to turn her over to the pound, obeys one man poundmaster Henry Brockman. , None of the five attendants at the shelter can enter her ken nel. Any intruder sees a feroci ous, snarling bundle of fur. but with Brockman she becomes as docile as a pet rrrr- Brockman said he tamed her by "just treating her kindly, . al though he almost lost his -shirt when he first approached her. The monkey, unless she changes, said Brockman. is too dangerous to be given away. B-29 Takes Crack At Flight Record NEW YORK (U.R) Ar. army E 29 superfortress left LaGuardia field 'at 9:54:34 a. .m. Plattsmouth time, Thursday for Burbank, Cal if., in an attempt to set a new transcontinental non-stop flight record. The Superfortress, commanded by Capt. Boyd L. (Danny) Gru baugh, of Van " Eest, Ohio, will attempt' to "break the east-west speed record of nine hours; 13 minutes and 14 seconds from Flovd Eennett field to Burbank. --'. "v" i ' f , TmiWTIIllMllMiTl- I i ' Mystery Man of : Munitions Probe j Agrees to Talk WASHINGTON W.P) Benjamin ' F. Fields, mystery man of the ; Garsson munitions combine, sud denly has agreed to tell congres- sional investigators how he ob-' . , . . i tamed scarce wire screening sun- , rosedly reserved for veterans housing. ; Fields, it was learned, consent ed to relate his story Thursday to investigators for a House com- ' miitee open surplus property. The conference was scheduled to be held behind clor-ed doors in the ; office of committee counsel Hugh ; Wise, who said Fields agreed to i annear only on conditions he ; w ould not be served with a sub- : poena to testify before the com-' mittee itself. j "Something Very Peculiar" j The committee issued a sub- j j poena for him last week, but had ; !not been able to locate him. One j I committee member said there was; : "something very peculiar" about. I the whole incident. i j Fields, a publicist who can't j keep the publicity confined to his! ; clients, was dragged into the spot-j lients. was dragged into the spot light by the senate war investi gating committee hearing on pro fits of the Garsson arms-making syndicate. Meanwhile the Mead committee disclosed a report that the army several times halted all shipments of motar shells to battlefronts rather than risk sending defective ammunition which might kill American soldiers. Entire Stock Defective Chairman James M. Mead. D., N. Y. also announced that "first hand knowledge" of shell failures is being sought from some 50 of- finafiz t4nl tinlictfirt miin vhrt VltlVl r.u wijcieii m Liie loimiuiue. 11 has been sent a detailed question naire. Information regarding the mor tar shells was sent to the Sen ate's war investigating committee by the former commander of a chemical warfare service depot in Europe. He wrote that "on num erous occasions" no shipments could be made to front-line troops because the entire stock on hand was "impound" as defective. Lenis Grauf, 23 Dies in Hospital Lenis Glen Grauf. 23 of Nebras ka City, formerly of Plattsmout. died Thursday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Omaha Funeral services have not yet been arranged. Mr. Grauf was born in I'nior June 1,. 1923. He was the son of i Mr. and Mrs. August Grauf ot Nebraska City. He entered the navy Ma3' 10. 1944. and served ir. il e Atlantic and Pacific areas be- fore being discharged Jan. IP, 19-1G. He married Marie Allen June 24. 1944. and one son, Leni.-., jr.. was born to them. He was i member of the Eagles lodge. Survivors, in addition to hi:; parents and wile and son. incluoe. two brothers. Ed, stationed at Camp Hood, Texas, and David o! Nebrad;p. Citv, and two sisters. Mrs. Lena Atkinson of Nebraska City and Mrs. Pearl Fitchhorn of Plattsmouth. Shot-Down B-17 Returns Home DETROIT American B29 rhot down by Paris early in Part of an Flying Fortress the Germans near 1944 has been re turned to the manufacturer in Detroit who produced it. The war relic part of a B-17 stabilizer assembly was brought here from France by Lt. Col. V. Lee Edwards of Detroit. He pre sented it on behalf of the resi dents of the French town of Vil-lers-Cottcrcts to officials of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. The officer said he had been asked by the mayor of Villers Cotterets to deliver the bombe: part to the Briggs company. The French had been holding it for more than two years awaiting an opportunity to send it back to Detroit with a citation from th town officials and members of the French resistance movement. "The mayor told me that he '-mdseveral others examined the bomber wreckage soon after it crashed hoping to rescue the American crew," Colonel Ed wards said. "Finding them "all' dead the Frenchmen retrieved the only piece cf identifiable wreckage on the scene a piece bearing the Briggs label which they asked me to bring back to the Briggs people in Detroit 'V Edwards said the French town plans to erect a memorial at the spot where the fortress crashed. 94 FREED BY RUSSIANS After l -siii-e July 4. first as spies, and the: Harold C'orbin. left. Newark. N. J.. hihoina City. Okla., were reieasMi. ; ters in P.erlin tlie iair lvpnrfed ti. 1 NKA radioteleplioto Journey by Bike And Afoot nrf, Hoy is round ! A journey by bicycle and afout ! ended for young Mike Whitt. U. ; Wednesday night when he was i picked up in Omaha by police af ( ter he had left his home near Man j ley early Wednesday mornirg. i Mike, w ho has made his home fo: I three years with the J.ihn M ker. ihaupt family mile- northwest ; of Mar.lev because of marital i trouble between his parents. no;- : .... ned on his bscvtie a out :" a. m. to do a chore. At t p. m. that (iay the Moktn haupts called Sheriff Jie Maisek and said Mike Miasek started had not ret i on the hov- rned. and had no difficultly following him but Mike had luo much of a start. Mike was easilv ilerr ed be- ; cause he was wearing only ovei- alls, a cap and shoes anil was "as j brown as a biscuit," Mrasek said. . Miasek put in a call to Omaha po , lice when he found the hoy was j apparently headed for that city : and the b.n- was picked up almost i immediately. i No reason was given fir the j boys sudden departure but it wa j thought he may have started out j to see his mother who lives in j Omaha, although he did no; know ! her address. ; Must Sign for Draft When 18 i Ca.-s county youths must regis i ter at the selective service office in the court house here upon reach jing their lth birthday, it was an. inounced Thursday. The ar.nmin' nv.ent was made i because of mi.-understanding jover the prese it draft regulations ! which provide a minimum age limit ot i: tor induction. Many requests have been re ceived at the selective service here in regard to the matter, it was stated. All youths must register although they will not be called until they are 1! vears old. College Teaches Wives of GPs How to Keep House LINCOLN' (U.R) T h e versitv of Nebraska is h veterans' wives meet the costs of living and make V n i- elping rising their housekeeping jobs easier. Aseries of classes in practical home economics now is beinc conducted by Mrs. Rhea Kelle." ol the vocational educational de ed to 15 women and the course has become so popular that simi lar series will be offered next IV 1! and winter. The classes are frce and no university credit is offered bui none of the woman is interested in ' such credits Mrs. KtN-r said. : The wives learn a varietv of ' short-cuts in their dailv work, For example the instructor sad they are taught to iron a shirt i - . . -with three major turns and 10 1 Under OCCretary OF lifts of the iron instead of 32 maj or shifts and 72 lifts as one young homemaker had done. Mothers study the care of ba bies and are urgd to buy educa tional rather than entertaining toys with their limited budgets. PITTSFIELD, M a s s. (U.R Eighty-year-old Mrs. Annie Her forth of Pittsburgh shuns a rock ing chair for Berkshire county's streams. As the only woman octo genarian holding a fishing license, Mrs. Herforth already has caught a 14 i inch bullhead' and several blue gills. tf j l& y . 70 ? Id by the K special visitors.' .t. Ceorge Wya nrili'arv hea !!S-l;i L'S ' Cap;, tt. k ibpiar- einliired no hardships. N0ah W. Parker, pormer Qforf Qf Police, Dies W. ker. ."0. fjrr.or in Flsttsr-iouth. mornins l St. (:. ! 'lied Or-- h '! : p -bee ":.ur.-duv 'bV hospital been, in poor m health tor sorr.r :s hii-t net ye; 't.tra! e" ! ; i ',rei'l . bee X Mo. ; h V'ii ; :n P; rker was born IK-), at Wilmatheisville. son of Mr. isr.d ?v!rs. I'' . :!:(. r. Ho n been r re -id'"t . Pk.tt.-rrouth for c: f' C.ws c-a-'i-y mo Mr. P.irkor was here fi r four years ;b!i!: 1. Ifc is urv:vcd y;,. '; his lather. -ht I d years an h life. cn:e) . !'C';- :i:o las- ny r.'s v. ;e. Ira Parker of n. Noah Al'en : i; : i-r.outn; a ' l P!att-mo th: a daughter. Mrs Clifford cGraw of Chamois. Mo.: , ilrs. Jasnet Smock o' ter: Do V. ; PI: vn:' Mo., and Mrs. Albert ttsrr.xuth: two ba rker ot Weepin-J Edwin Da'bow of uid three crand- i:h Uod home. tnt Caldweh Crabill, Solomon In Ticket Race Ti e rare is on to determine who -el! the most ticket to donors e Chamber of Co mme re's civ c :;r,!)i DvcnuT.i benefit fund. John Crabill. retired jeweler. wa the off to a flving start when K-Kets were first distributed by the Chamber and quickly dis pose,! cf four books of ten tickets each. But Tom Solomon has come to the fore in past few weeks and the latest report shows Solomon i slightlv ahead with 100 tickets sold whiie Crabill has 15. The tickets arc being sold for, SI each to donors to the improve-; ment fund. To one of the donors will be awarded the first 1 1' 4 7 Kai ser auto to be delivered in Cass ' com ty and the award will be a; fiat ure of the Kass Kounty King, K in Karnival to be held in Platts mouth Sept. 11. 12, If! and 14. I And just m case any Lnamoer of Commerce ticket sellers have run out of tickets they can get more at the local credit bureau office. Duxbury to Install Legion Officers A. H. Duxburv of Omaha, for I mer Ca? county judge for many ! years, will be the installing of- j n o . ficev r.t the install. dion of th;Og friCeS OOar lO n?n-ly-r:ected o fixers of the Hugh . Kcarns nst No. 5fi. American i I.cgion. at 8 p. m. Thursdav in hH 4-: and 8 clu Duvbury is now rooms. i regional direc- tor ol the Vote ans administration, Labor Appointed ! WASHINGTON U.R -The ap ipointment of Keen Johnson, for ; mer Kentucky governor, as under ; secretary of labor, was announced 1 Thursday by President Truman at this news conference. At the same time, Mr. Tru man announced the elevation of Assistant Secretary of State Wil liam L. Clayton to the newly crea ted -post of under secretary for economic affairs. Shortly before announcing Clay ton's nomination, the president .igned a bill creating the new post. 4 Trieste Rejected. Price of Bread And Flour May Go Up One Cent j WA SH LN'GTON (U P.) Price ' Administrator Paul Porter and ; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton I P. Anderson may decide Thurs- i day to boost the retail price of bread one cent a loaf and the?: price of flour at least one cent a , pound. ' I The bread and flour price in creases have been recommended ; to the two agency chiefs by ; CPA's food price branch. I 1 The boosts would conperisate . mi'lers and bakers for higbei wheat prices and the ending oi ; the Hour subsidy. Wheat will be i decontrolled under the new OPA ! nil! unless the new decontrol j board puts it back under price veilings by Aug. 20. Tito flour subsidy which laps- j eci June 30, is not expected to be reinitiated. No determination has ; been made on wnetner ut'A o- i the decontrol board has the right ' to drop flour subsidies perman- ent'y. j A penny-a-pound increase in j flour would require higher prices on crackers, cookies and other bakery products as well as bread, j Meanwhile, the new decontrol i board announced it will begin hearings Aug. 12 to determine AP.etner to restore once ceiim on livestock, dairy products, grain, cottonseed and sov beans. After Aug. epgs. baccf poultry, petroleum, and to il' e to be recontrolled. Soviet Belittles U. S. Atom Plan NEW YORK (U.Ri little hone Thursday promise between the -Russia left of a corn Soviet and American plans for the control of atomic energy. The American proposal that all countries permit insepction of ato mic projects is not reconc ilable with the principle of sovereignity of states, Russian delegate An drei A. Gromyko told the control committee of the United Nations' atomic energy commission. "No inspection as such can gu arantee peace and security." Gro myko declared. "This idea of in spection is greatly exaggerated in importance. It is a too super ficial understanding of the prob lem of control." Showers, Cooler Forecast Friday Belief from i'O-degree heat was forecast for the Plattsmouth area Thursday and Friday and the pre diction for showers held promise that the corn crop may get some much-needed rain. The weather man said that show- ; ers would fall in the eastern part of the state, tonight and again t Fr iday and that Friday would see i cooler temperatures in this area. ! The mercury today, however, was ; expected to return to the middle IK) s again. Lemuel Gessell, Masonic home weather- observer, reported this morning that the high tempera ture yesterday was f3 and the low was 72. New High at Omaha I OMAHA U.fi Hog prices rock- eted to $24 per hundredweight on j the Omaha market Thursday for a new all-time high. The previous all-time high was S22.85, established in July 1919, and equaled Wednesday. The general range on hogs Thursday was $1 to $1.25 higher than Wednesday, with top choice barrows and gilts selling for 23.75 to $24. Taken to Hospital Lorraines Williams, Virginia Negro who until recently was em ployed on the Missouri Pacific section crew, was taken to Uni versity hospital in Omaha Wed nesday after he was seized with an appendicitis attack in town, Chief of Police Sibert Litle saw Williams collapse while . walking along a street. " Decision on I v" yJLr 1 lr?m I RURAL YOUTH HEAD P-s ident of the newly organized Cass county Rural Youth or ganization is Dorothy Stuhlman of Manley. above. The group, an organization for youths from 17 to 24. was organized last spring. There are 21 groups in the state. Rob Mayfield of Weeping Water is vice-president and Richard Cole of Plattsmouth is secretary. John L. Young, Stock Breeder, Dies Thursday WEEPING John L. WATER. (Special) j Young. prominent J livestock breader of ! farmer and Cass county, died Wednesday at his farm home near Murray. He was 72 year.' old. He had been in poor health for the past seveia! months but had not been seriously I in until the cast week. j Funeral services w ill be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at Hobson's fun eral home at Weeping Water. Fur ther arrangements had noi yet been made. j John Young was born March j 26. 1874. at Three Grove, a small! community near Murray which j has since passed out ot existance. J He was the son of Mr. and Mr.-. Louis H. Young. Cass countv pion- ; " "urur" eers. In 1911 he moved to Color-! He said it also violated the eth idge where he lived for 20 years nic borders which the Big Four until 1931. The remainder of h;.-had promised to observe, life was spent in this county. j "It would deprive the Slovenes Survivors include his wife. Xh-t : Boedekcr; 'wd daughters. Mrs. C. J. Schwers of Omaha and Mrs. H. C. Human of Wichita. Kans.; a son. J. L. Young, jr., who operates the home farm- a sister, Mrs. John Perry of Los: Angeles: a brother, Pan Young of Nehawita. and six grandchildren. The body is at the Caldwe'l funeral home. Lie Warns UN Is Not Living Up To Expectations tiDi t T :,. i i e tu t;a I secretarv general of the Lnitedj Natrons, warned the organization has foilurT t- measure up to expectations and i that the power of veto imposes an j obligation upon the Big Five na- tions to agree among themselves. "As in the control of atomic power, the choice is between life and death. Lie declared in a ; work summary report to the UN I general assembly. "The failure of I J of the United Nations would mean j 'the failure of peace, the triumph j ! of destruction." ! t Without mentioning specifically ! Russia's frequent use of her veto power rn the security council, Lie pointed out that many issues be fore the council had arisen from an inability to agree. Arm Badly Cut in Auto Accident MURDOCK. (Special) Ken neth Proctor sustained a badly cut arm in an auto accident Wed nesday. Eighteen stitches were re quired to close the wound. Charles Scattergood Injured in Accident EAGLE, (Special) Charles Scattergood is in the Bryan Mem orial hospital in Lincoln being treated for a broken vertebrae and other injuries sustained last week when the pick-up truck in vhich he was riding with Herbert Stoll overturned on the highway about a half mile south pf town. Stoll was not' injured, r " Kardelj Attacks Yugoslav-Italy Border Proposals PARIS U.R) Foreign Minister Edouard Kardelj of Yugoslavia Thursdav rejected the Rig Four I decision to internaltionalize Tri- ctp Qn.l dpnminced the proposed Italian-Yugoslav bol der as a "m -j nation of all the principles fought ! for in the war." j Kardelj'? denounciation of the Big Four agreements on Italian j Yugoslav problems coincided with I the circulation of a proposed Yugo slav amendment to the rules which would give Yugoslavia the power of veto over any recom- imendation? involving that region. Molotov Sponsor Compromise I Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. ! Molotov. at an early session of i the rules committee, sponsored (two compromises aimed at giving the little countries a greater voice in treaty deliberation. Molotov's compromise propo- jsals would permit the peace eon iference to nuts on its program at j the request of any delegation jany questions pertaining to the I peace tr eaties. The mechanics for j a conference decision on such a j request wei e not decided upon. I "We are of the opinion." Kar ; delj said, "that such a decision i could have been reached in the ' first place only because the rights j and wishes of the small natrons j were not always considered by the ! Big Four." Say Principle Violated "It goes without saving that a lust peace cannot be obtained under such conditions." Yugoslav's bitter attack on the Big Four decisions came after New Zealand served notice that it would seek in the rules com mittee to make Georges Bidault of 'France permanent chairman of the committee and to strip the big powers of all special prerogative? at this conference. Kardelj said the proposed fron tier between Italy and Yugoslavia violated the principle of "just punishment for aggressors." r- r"t- d i and Croats of union with Yugo slavia and abandons them to the aggression of Italian tyranny," he cried. "It cuts Trieste off from its hinterland. As a further injustice it creates a corridor between Italy and Yugoslavia and it also cuts off from their homeland the Slavs in Istria." Elusive Clams Do Not Have Chance SEASIDE. Ore.. (U.R) The usu ally elusive clams didn't have a chance. Hcctiit low tides here l .1.4 .. : . . i . . .- . e . 1 , i . iMMUsui an inuiiA oi i lain liifi- gers one with a plumber s help- .. .. ' Thursday thatjr': 11,1 "),r""1" '!- I'iieu me naiiiioom pmii.ner u the sand above place, worked a few minutes, picked up his the dam's hiding it vigorously for reached down and dam. Fined and Sentenced Beverly Sutton of Plattsmouth was fined ?25 and costs and sen tenced to four davs in the coun- ! ty jail by Judge Paul Fauquet jThrusday morning on a charge ,of disturbing the peace. Sutton j was also par oled to Deputy Sher jiff Emery Doody for six months ;as sentence on a charge of intox ; ication. 1 Barnard Car Damaged A car owned and driven by Charles Barnard was damaged j Wednesday after noon when it was j struck by a gover nment car driv ; en by E. H. Toman of the U. S. engineer's office at Omaha, Chief i of Police Sibert Litle reported j Thursday. The front fender and tire of the Barnard car were darri i aged. No one was injur ed. WEATHER Nebraska lorecast: Partly cloudy scattered thunder showers east rnd south, cooler central and we.-t Thursday. High temperatures middle 80's extreme west, mid dle 90's extreme east. Partly cloudy Thursday night and Friday with scattered thunder showers east Thursday night and aloe east portion Friday. - - n