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o PAGE TWO THE JOURNAL, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1831 Published semi-weekly, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska, by The Journal Publishing Company. RONALD R. FURSE Editor-Publisher Thelma Olson, Society Editor. Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Patrick Osbon, Pressroom Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Entered at the Postofficc at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second class mail matter in ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3 per year, cash in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Plattsmouth, 15 cents for two weeks. EDITORIALS INDEPENDENCE DAY This Fourth of July, the American -people should have given sober tnought to what the aay stanas for and to what its implications are in the modern world. Those matters go a great deal deeper tnan fireworks and Inacpenucnce Day orations. We are the only major power left on earth which is independent in the iuilest sense. We are independent of domination by foreign pow ers and. equally important, witnin our own borders our people are independent of dictation or oppresion Dy any ruling class. That is what the American system means and that is the true wealth of this nation. We observed this Independence Day a4, a time when our economic macnine is in hign gear, tne goal of full employment has been pretty well achieved, and wages are at record levels. There is no want in tnis country now. Under these conditions, it is a relatively -simple matter to preserve our institutions and our freedoms. The real test will come when and if major eco nomic dislocations occur, with their depressing influences on employment, rncome, ana living standards. In Europe, great veconomic' pressures have always paved tne way for dictatorsnip. Na tions have surrendered every human liberty in search of the chimera of bare' security. It is to hoped that the American people never have to choose between this kind of security and liberty. But if the time ever comes when tnat choice must be made, there should '-be no question in our minds. We have the privilege of celebrat ing an Independence Day because the founders, of this nation made their choice without hesita tion. They chose liberty, and fought for-;.jt. v If the United States ever loses"thrt spirit, ,it will lose with it all that the nation represents, regardless of material wealth and resources. If need be, we must stand alone , in the entire world as the one powei devoted to the doctrine that the purpose of the state is to serve the people and mat the rights of man are sacred. Furse's Fresh Flashes It seems everybody wants to hear, see and read vulgar stuff, but no one wants to sponsor it. . A terrible collision occurred in one of our neighboring towns recently. Two- motorists collided while chasing the same pedestrian. After listening to the tale of a local girl as to the number of "heart throbs" she had, we have come to the conclusion Cupid is using a machine gun instead of a bow and arrow. ' Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twis ter, says if kisses speak . volumes she's going to start a library. . A Tennessee husband writes that he has been having a little wife trouble she's teething. A fellow back cast has our sympathy. He lost his temper when his car became stalled, in the mud and blew it up with dynamite on a country road in protest to the commissioner's failure to keep it in proper repair. That's just the way we've felt about one of our Linotypes several times here lately but never had the cour age to go through with it. One Plattsmouth woman has just made the supreme sacrifice for the flood sufferers she gave the $3 intended for a shirt for her husband to the releif fund. Adam and Eve were certainly lucky when they went out to dine there was no cover charge. DOWN MEMORY LANE Ten years ago A. L. Tidd moved law offices from Plattsmouth State Bank Uuilding'to the sec ond floor of the Gund building, 4th and Main . . . Ellen Dodds placed first for the seventh grade in the city library poetry contest . . . Annual meeting of Fifed Cross held in Union; Mjs. Augusta Robb of Union reelected chairman of Cass Chapter . . . Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ful ton and Glen Fulton arrived from McCall, Idaho, for a visit with the J. H. Fultons . . . Mich ael Bajeck operated on at St. Joseph hospital for hand injury . . . Bronson and LeRoy Timm returned from motorcycle trip in western part of U. S. . . . Evacuation made on farm north of Plattsmouth occupied by George Stone form erly home of Indian family; survey made by five delegates from the archeoloical department of the Nebraska Historical Society . . . Mrs. W. R. V. Vaughn of Bellingham, Wash., visited Judge and 0lrs. A. H. Duxbury . . . Cass County Board of Equalization complete cqualizati n of assessments . . . Edward G. Ofc named head of American Legion, Milo Fulton elected first commander and C L. Pittman second .... Thomas Stokes, former resident dies in Fowler, Colo. ... In June 1931 Plattsmouth Rotary Club and their Anns joined other clubs and at tended Ak-Sar-Ben show in Omaha . . . Mal don D. Brown drove to Omaha in his 1903 vintage Brush, making the trip in one hour flat . . . City Clerk Herman L. Thomas returned from the hospital . . . Leonard building between Fifth and Sixth streets being remodeled for use of the Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power nearly completed . .. . Joseph F. Hadraba departed for vacation trip to the west coast . . . Lightning strikes residence of Mrs. J. C. Ellington, badly damaging property . . . Joe Raw Is former resident died at Lewiston, Montana . . . Marjorie B. Shopp and Louis W. Lohnes wedded at home of bride's mother . -. . Body pf Plattsmouth man, Ed ward Lewis found along railroad track in western New York . . . Murray Red Sox won one sided game defeating colored Boston. Terriers . . . Fred G. Egenbcrgcr opened soft drink es tablishment . . . Check artist apprehended by Officer Joe Libcrshal. Nearly always it's more fun to be a guest than to -entertain, a guest. If it weren't for paying (axes, many of us could pay our bills on time. We bold it to be self-evident that women adjust themselves to idleness better than men. sians sent a wheat-laden, ship to Marseilles to relieve French hunger., When it arrived, the streeth of Marseilles were be decked with the sickle and ham mer, an official holiday was de clared, the populace paraded through the streets o welcome the Soviet vessel. What the French people didn't know was: 1. That they had to pay Russia for the wheat and in dollars, not Trancs; 2. That si multaneously several U. S. ships were arriving in Havre with wheat which was a free gift from the American people. However, the United States had no adequate propaganda machine to publicize its gifts to France, and the Russians, back ed by a virile communist party, got all the credit. BARUCH'S "COLD WAR" Best description of what's go ing on in Europe today was given by Elder Statesman Bernie Bar uch when ha said we are in a "Cold War." (Actually Baruch gives credit to gliost-writer Her bert Bayard Swcpe for coining the phrase.) - What the Swope-Baruch team meant, of course, was that we are in a war of nerves, politics, and labor movements. If the U. S. A. can woo and win certain political groups in France Italy, it can keep western Europe from going communist. If, on the other hand. Russia can woo and win them, Europe will defi nitely go communist. During the war, the office of strategic services spent millions smuggling U. S. labor leaders be hind enemy lines to make con tacts with German, Italian, Aus trian, French, Norwegian labor leaders, thus undermining Axis politics and industry. In today's the first to feel the recession, are now more optimistic. (Ccpyrigni. 1947, by the Eell Syndicate, Inc.) hssnuvood By Connie Osburn Mrs. Wm. Rosencrans and Jackie and Mrs. Knecht of South Bend spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Grady. Palmyra came to Greenwood to play baseball Sunday. The diamond was quite wet but a good game was enjoyed. Palmyra won by a score of 9 to 7. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Kyles came to snend a week with Mr. and Mrs. Jce Kyles. Mr. and Mrs. Don Knipple of Lincoln are the parents pf a fine baby boy also burned but noe as badly as Mr. Leesley. Mr. and Mrs. Don Sacca and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Leadabrand and Carol Sue attended the movies at Ashland Sunday evening. flmwjocd Mrs. Graet Pljbon has been Mrs. Nellie Patton ill the past week. jCommimity Kensington was held last Thursday afternoon at at the home of Mrs. Charles Fleischman. Mrs. Monning president, and Mrs. Fleischman vice president cpnducted the business and games. Officers for the coming year were elected president, Mrs . C.Fleischman, Vice DresiHfnt. .Mrs Cni-a f.pr. born June 25 at Kiin q,....... t I r t l i r I , i ....... 1 I 1 R T f WlUeidl llUJiUllctl. IU1S,. ITllic lVf ,.r,rr,.o.v, ftnir. operation at Lincoln this week. His sisters Marjory and Judith, and brother Thomas spent the Mrs. Nettie Mendenhall, his father, Claude Hewitt, is able to work again some now, after his accident earlier this month. Guests at the home of Mrs. Addie Fleischman are her brot her George Hartzell of Denver MONDAY-JULY 7, 1947 and his brother-in-law OrviUe Bonner of Leota, Kansas. Her daughter-in-law from Ll1"' Mrs. Jennings Haggerty drove down for a visit. Guests of their grand-parents Mr. and Mrs. R. Kuebn are Ted, Frances, and John Schroeder of Davenport, Iowa. Their parents will arrive later after a vacation trip. . Knipple was formerly Miss Lois' Cope. I Dorcas Society met Friday at man, Mis. Kudy Kuehn. Last week the Gooch Milling i imay a. u ' . . . the church with Mrs. Ellen Kirk t.ul "lt " g pi"uieT?r"r fciiuu ai nit! oinmunuy nan, sponsered by their sales business MOTORCYCLE RACES NEBRASKA STATE FAIR GROinDS LINCOLN SUNDAY, JULY 6th TIME TRIALS 1 P. M. RACES START 2:30 P, M. ADMISSION $1.0p CHILDREN 5Qe (TAX INCLUDED) Riders from several states will compete cn the y2 mile dirt track for prizes totalling $475.00 VNPUl S4CTlOX OF AM.A. ' SPONSORED BY ... LINCOLN M OTORCYpL$ CLl'B, INC O ST. LINCOLN AND AMERICAN LtGION DRL'M AND BL'CLB CORPS. INC. Ifcl and Mrs. hostesses. Mr. and Clara Brachaga as Claude Osburn . land Rorirci- snpnt Knnrlsu after. and . . , . V. , . liuon wan Air. j. v. ttooinson at Ashland. Ronald Osburn and Dickie Buckingham attended the show. N Mrs. lick n Drew and Miss Margaret Kelly of Denver spent from Friday morning until Sat urday night with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kelly. The Garden Gopher 4-H club met with Marion Vanelli Mon day afternoon. Mrs. Beulah Lunceford of ITT 1.1 ... . ... cold war the same thins- is even iUdVL10CK sPem Wednesday witn but with nol'ViI- uuu i;us- J- "oensnen. Mrs. William Meyers,- Mrs. O. more necessary one cent being spent on it. In contrast, the Russians have agents in U. S. factories, in U. S. labor unions, even in seme U. S. government offices. And to get money from con gress so we won't have to sweat out this cold war with our mouth gagged and one arm tied behind! our back, General Marshall lit A. McDonald, Mrs. Henry Wright. Mr. John Meyers and Max Mey ers called on Mrs. John Meyers at the hospital Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Armstrong and Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hile left Tuesday evening for a weeks fishing trip to Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Wrioht MERRY-0-ROUND Bv UREW PERSON - '-.IT'"'-"Tag DREW PEARSON SAYS: BUGSY SIEGEL RECEIVED MONEY FROM HIGH AND LOW PLACES; GEN. MARSHALL PLEADS WITH CONGRESS FOR MONEY TO FIGHT 'COLD WAR"; U. S. CAN'T STOP MOLOTOVS PR-OPOGAIIDA MACHINE. WASHINGTON The government probe in to Dapper Bugsy Siegcl, slain Nevada gangster, reveals that he" had some amazing contacts, high and low, bizarre and unique. He raised money in all sorts of interesting places, some apparently from his girl friend, Virginia HiU, and at one time several years ' ago from Charles Ward, one of the loading busmeshmen of the northwest. In 1938, U. S. Agents, then investigating Sie ger, found that he had received $20,000 from Ward, now head of Brown and Bigelow, .well known St. Paul, Minn. . stationery firm. The money was accompanied by a letter telling Siegel that this was all Ward could raise at the time. Later Ward sent Siegel a check for $80,000, rais ing the total payment- to- $100,000. Apparently Ward was not anxious to hide the transaction, or he would not have made the payment by check. Asked by this columnist about the payments, Mr. Ward said that he had borrowed some money from Siegel and was paying it back. Though it illustrates Siegel's far-flung asso ciates, this payment is not figuring in the currently scnatc foreign reiations com- j fl-cm 'the club and also from their men here. Charles Finley, Ted Hall, Ed Earnst and Orley Clem ents. Pictures of the farm work, stock, poultry, and grain raising, with a musical interlude and the Gooch Mill activities were shown. Ten people whose names were , drawn received small sacks of flour and the large prize of a sack of poultry feed went to one of the Drake boys. Mrs. Orlin Burrill of Weeping Water attended Kensington here Thursday. She and her family will reside near E.lmwood next year as they have purchased the Olson farm North West of town, where Mr. and Mrs. Taylor now live. Mrs. Minnie Rosenkoetter has returned from Lincoln, where she had been visiting her cousin Mrs. Pearl Shreve for a few days. Russell Deasitt of Panama, Nebraska, underwent a hernia erally nas to gel down on aUcndod tne horseraces in Om knees before congress. Even hejaha Sunday. doesn't get what he "really needs. I j.lr. and ftIrs Clarence Otto Note Though the shrewd callcd at lhe Charles Martin British are pulling almost every-'heme Sunday afternoon. Mr. thing out of Greece for "econ- 0tto used to work for Mr. Mar omy" reasons, they 'aren't reduc- tin wht,n hc vvas a 5oy ing their propagganda operations J Mr. ;md Mrs. C. S. Bethel there. British -information" tOspc.Rt Wednesday in Ashland. Greek schools and newspapers i rvT,.g w M jjeyers and Mrs. costs-around $2,000,000 annually; jQ A; McDonald were in Ash ours did cost $125.000 untU con-:Iand Tuesday. gregs "cut it out. We spend Mr and Uvs Buz Gakemeier 5150,000,000 on food and arms forjspent Saturday with Mr. and the Greek army, but not one per-1Mrs Bernard Grady, cent of that to educate the j Mr and Mrs Ervin Kvle and U iff.ironQ l-vflVTPn If t ts- 1 A rrl 1 i uiec-Ks on "'"''"' lvirs. doe is. vies spent liiuisuayi our democracy and Russian com munism. Wise crack around the Repub- at the Wayne Kinney home near Alvo. The Twin Table club met with lican National Committee: 'Is it ; Wrs. Leora Reighard for a cov true that Carroll Recce has de- j crcd dish iuncneon in honor of lirium Trumans." . . . The j Mrs Rfjghard and Mrs. June erowing tendency to by-pass the , Kyles birthdays. Each of the ; United Nations cropped cut m hostesses received .if-vely gifts investigation MISSION TO PARIS mittee when the Vandenoerg ; heartsisters. group voted to join tne wouui Mn and Mrs Henry Wright However, whatdoes arouse the curiosity of ' health organization with a big -Wtrc shopping in Lincoln Thurs- Harding: Seal-Test ICE CREAM FIVE FLAVORS TO CHOOSE FROM! Raspberry Strawberry Chocolate Vanilla Butter Brickie Either in Bricks or Bulk SPECIAL ORDERS for ALL OCCASIONS Buy your Picnic Ice Cream in the bulk Orders taken in advance at special price! ICE CREAM IS A FOOD Buy only what is Gov-. ernment Inspected and put up under strictest sanitary conditions! BRICKS Pt. 25c BULK Pt. 40c Schreiner Drug government agents is the departure of Virginia Hill, together with a Chinese woman doctor, Dr. Chung, and a French wine merchant for Paris a few weeks before Bugsy was bumped off. Miss Hill said she was going to France to establish a but" Namely that the United dav cvening and also called on States had the right to withdraw Mls John Meycrs at Bryan Me- on 90 days' notice. The U. S. A. : moriai hospital. was the only country asking this j,ir and MrS- Ervin Kyles and I special privilege . . . De , Mrs. Joe Kyles drove to Friend ocratic Director uaei suiman is.tnday and stayed until batur- champagne agency, and considering the iact tnai ,nfc man vvh0 healed the breach day at the Wallace home. her champagne bill at Ciro's on one night alone b-twetn President Truman and Irs. Henry Raash left for her was 4,7 noo hnr drsirp to imnort her own cham- A F. Whitney of the railroad 9 casne is understandable. brotherhoods At about the same time Miss H'll departed for Paris, another ass&ciate of Siegel's Billy Wilker son, publisher of the Hollywood Reporteralso left Hollywood for Fi'ancp. Wilkerson' was nomi inal owner and builder of the Flamingo Hotel, ornate gambling casino in Las Vegas, though the real owner was Siegcl. Siegel is reported to have run into financial difficulties with the Flamingo and to have been anxious to borrow $1,500,000 shortly before his dnnth Tho -Flamineo. incidentally, had cost a minimum of $3,000,000 to build. Virginia Hill has been one of the most lavish entertainers in Hollywood, spending an estimated $200,000 a year. It was' at her Beverly Hills home that Bugsy Siegcl was killed. A gojd key to her house was found in his pocket. . MARSHALL PLEADS It was not entirely coincid"cnce that on the day the Big Three Marshall plan . Conference broke up in Paris, Secretary of State Marshall went up to the capitpl, pleaded with the senate almost on bended knee to pass the Mundt Bill authorizing the state department to conduct for eign propaganda. , For, while Marhhall was pleading with the senate not to muzzle the state department's "Voice of America," Russian propaganda was blaring forth the: Molotov version of why the Paris conference failed. That version was that the U. S. A. wanted to meddle with the sovereignty of small European nations, wanted to dominate Europe, wanted to tell each country who it could or could not have in power. Actually the chief disrupter, dominator and meddler in Eurppe has been not the U. S. A., but the USSR as witness Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugo slavia, Rumania and to some extent Austria and Greece. However, when people are told one thing and told it often enough, they get to believe it. And a large part of Europe has come to believe the Soviet propaganda machine simply because the state department hasn't had sufficient means to give the other side of the story. A little oyer a year ago, for inatauiec, the Kus- Dcpart- hoine at Kimball Tuesday. She had been visiting at the Gilbert n-cnt of Agriculture economist , rjaash and John Meyers homes. figure American farmers are Mrs. Everclte Cope and Mrs. worth $100 billion now com- ; Leonard Jardine visited Mrs. Don pared with about one-fourth that before the war . . . The auto industry anticipates new cars will be lots easier to buy right after the vacation season . . . That's when several big pro- Knipple and the new baby at Lincoln General hospital Sun day evening. They also called on Mrs. Ellis Kelly. A very serious accident hap pened at the Joe Leesley home ducers will shut down for the , when gas from a hot water heat-! first' time since V-J Day to con-;er exploded and burned Mr. ivert to new models . . .'Leesley very seriously. J. T. Shoe-industry oificials, among ( Leesley, son of the Leesleys was 6-3IG NIGHTS-8:!5fm Rain cr Shine STARTING TUES., JULY 15th, THRU SUNDAY. JULY 20ih 'A Tickets Now on Sale RUSSELL SPORTING G0C3S STCRE Kit Firna Strttt :30 t I fH. Reserved Sects 52.40, $1.80, $U0 Unrtitmtf, We. 4rl r MAIL ORDERS NOW MORTokt DMHEY CAST OF D5dD BATHING BEAUTIES CHAMPIONS Mi COMEglAKS TWO MAMMOUTH OUT-DOOR SWIMMIHO POOLS ' "i '"t1 'ill -i.. 'VI THE CASS COUNTY CHAPTER AMERICAN BED CROSS wishes to thank the Fund Chairman, Mr. Francis M. Casey, Plattsmouth ;'the workers; and the generous response of the towns, and their surrounding com munities in Cass County. Amt. Wprkers Quota Contrib. ALVO H. L. Borncmcicr, B. A, Meunchau $ 132.00 $ 263.50 AVOCA Elmer Hallstrcm, Mrs. C O. Zaiser ... 72.00 242.00 EAGLE Mrs. Marvin Carr, Valley Trumble 160.00 200.00 CEDAR CREEK Mrs. Evelyn Franke 64.00 176.50 ELMWOOD Mrs. Emily Gonzales 106.00 233.00 GREENWOOp Luther Harmon 100.00 368.60 LOUISVILLE Henry Davis 176.00 404.45 MANLEY Mrs. John Rauth 62.00 (Manley Branch dissolved members contributed to neighbor towns). MURDOCK Mrs. F. A. Stock 74.00 296.68 MURRAY Mrs. James F. Comstock 78.00 240.50 NEHAWKA Mrs. George Sheldon 4.00 170.00 MYNARD Mrs. R. G. Kiser 64.00 308.00 PLATTSMOUTH ' Walter Smith 560.00 849.41 SOUTH BEND - Mrs. F. J. Knecht . 60.00 70.00 UNION ' Mrs. Nina Upton 90.0Q 422.00 WABASH :.. ' - , , Mrs. Kenneth Baier ... 60.00 89,50 WEEPING WATER Harold C. Elliott 194.00 382.50 1. Total cash received $4425.74 2. Authorized 67' retained by Chapter (in excess of $1820.00, Chapter goal set by headquarters) . 1745.85 3. Amount sent national headquarters 2679.89 4. Number of individual contributors of $1.00 or more. (Not including corporations, other business firms or other organizations) 3056.00 Elmer Hailstrom, Chapter Treasurer, Cass County. The men's suit market is in a muddle. It would seem that by this time a man should -be able to walk into a clothing store and find any kind of a suit he might want. Well, that's the way it should be but it isn't. Men's HARD FINISH ALL-YQOL WORSTED SUITS are still on ALLOTMENT that is, e can get just so many and no more. Soft finish tweedy or woolen suits are to be had as low as $21.50 but who wants them. Fortunately, we are connected with one of the biggest worsted houses in the business even then ye do n-ot have as many as we would like, but we do have some and we invite you to look per haps we have just what you want. Prices for All-Wool Worsted and Good Make $38,00 to $48,00 WHITE SHIRTS 6 GREErV STAMPS '. ESTABLISHED 1879 4