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4 i The PkttsrcGUth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 days, r.t n M'lin Street, rinttsmouih. C.i'-s r.,iiri! v. X Nraska. RONALD 71. FURSE FRANK H. SMITH .Publisher Editor TTclen F. Hoinrieh. Npws Editor. Merle D. Furse, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department K'.trr.,1 at t"- T-n-Trf f rp pt riattstnouth, y..XP!:ri ,n "t-'-nti"! i-'h-- pmil mnMt-r in B0 r;,t i -fc t! ,t t f Conpripss of March S. 1 7!. rrDSCRIITIo:; RATE: S3.50 rrv year in Cass ami edj'-ming counties. $1.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outsid the city of Plattfmouth. By carrier in Platts r.emd.. 15 ci r.'s for two weeks. EDITORIALS f- - WHY I I.IKE AMERICA I l.ke Amrriei because: "I ( mi 0 to any church I please, "I re;. 1, :-o and hear what I choose. 'I can -vr..rC: :--. my cpir.icr.s openly. "!v ma;! reaches me a? sent unter.sored. -My :.) hcr.e a; untapped. 'I can jt in any ( American) political party I wish. "I can vote fir what and for whom please. "I have a constitutional right to trial by jury. "I am prntcrtod against 5c arch and seizure. "I 'either my life nor my prepetiy can be for f.it.i withe ut due process of law." Th :e are 10 rights that we Americans you rod I and rur m :-ghb''rs have that are enjoyed in th-.-ir ent'.-i'y by few peoples outside the North .!:-.'! icpn continent. V.'t m the Umted States have been in posses -f r,n ,.f ih's.' lights for ro many generations that . 0 have c m. ; icgerd them as natural" rights --:ahts that just naturally belong to every ir i:v;duuh Ex-change. OUTLOOK FOR THE NEW YEAR "what is the business outlook for the year 1943? If a u-oup of 2." 200 executives surveyed by For far." a correct, thr- boom will continue and it na.v .- : 1 igg-r. Nearly two-thirds of these re mym; s.ae, tr;:t. Bv (ntra-t. whe .. a rmilar poll was con- ae , rd cf RU6, more than half of those a oewraurn in loii. irie eaac. j- worm cua e:rvr:.e kixws, c aid no: matcri: This writer dors net agree with the prediction hat con titie.ns will continue to spiral onward and upwai-1 during the remaining months of this tar. W do Uheve that business will continue -a - he brisk an i the demand i'or most commodities will b- steady for many months to come. But, wc are due t j ro through a leveling off period me, t,pce; those: who have been too greedy. As is always true, farm products will be the first to get it in the neck. We believe we have so n the first cf this warning- in the slump of whi at and earn during the past few- days. We are not viewirg these drops in prices with alarm, howevtr. Tar the reason that surpluses of thes? commodities simply do not exist there will con tinue to be a strong demand but it will be a long tar. we see 53.50 wheat and $2.50 ccrn aea'.n. Parhaps not in this generation. A good share of our population has been cry ing f..-r lower prices and the end cf inflation. N aw. with the first indication that this is to come to pass, a good share of this group is ready to sun for cover l.ke scared rabbits, or throw up their hand.; in 6 spuir. Nothing at present or in the near future indicates any need for alarm at Prices are going to level off as they have done following every inflation period and the gamblers -rail take seme Iravy lorscs. But we little f?l k v. s who. moie cr less, go along from day to c av n.r.i have no undue fears at present. At 1 art. wo won't start to run 1'. r our hole until we bo:" to s e the st : c. is lined with unemployed, res jammed with surpluses at give-away ' rices a - - ; T1 nd markets .ng to buy farm pro- day is still a iong way oil. DOWN MEMORY LANE 1 EX YEARS AGO E. C. Stimbert. scoutmaster and superinten dent of Nthawka schools, was scoutmaster at Scoots . n Banquet at Nthawka given by . Mr. and Mrs. Sam Conis of Peary. Iowa were guests of the George Conis lam-ly . . . Ml.-s Mathiide Socnnichsen was hostess to Woman's Club honoring Girl Scouts . . . Library received installment of books given by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace- to hvercsl children in their friends in other lands . . . Lady 01 Lorctta Court No. 7C9 Catho lic Daughters observed their 16th birthday at home cf Mr. and Mrs. John Bergmann . . . Russr 1 Feeder and J. Howard Davis given charge into Rotary club. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO Mrs. J. E. Wiles appointed to serv.e as chair man of a committee to conduct a Better Homes campaign in Plattsmouth . . . Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Middleton entertained at party for their daughter's eighth birthday . . . Allison Flynn, lormer resident, as member of the Community Players, Omaha, was cast in the play "'The Wish-irg- Well" . . . Frank CcbelmSn, state president of Master Painters and Decorators attended inter national meet at Milwaukee . . . L. H. Hervey assumed position as manager of sales department cf Electric Company 'here . . . Herbert W. John son was installed as Master Councilor of DeMolay. Ralph Wchrbein Senior Councilor and Edward Patterson Junior Councilor. Furse's Fresh Flashes A plattsmouth man has a new good looking hat, a present from his wife. He says he doesn't know what the occasion was, but he came home early the other night and there it was on the dining room table. The old-fashioned man who never thought anj'thing cf walking eighteen or twenty miles in an afternoon, has thought of it civfcer. grandson who never Don't worry about the future yc-j may never see it. According to th? story in Genesis, the first thing that Eve found out after eating the apple was that she was unclothed. Women noticed things like that in those clays more than they do now. It's well and good for this country to care far its mentally incompetent, but we shouldn't fall into the habit of doing so by electing and appointing them to office. We have often wondered who is doing the farming, making the moonshine and keeping the lueds going down in the hiii countries since all the hillbillies have radio contract--. We hate to see spring con:. It has always been just my hard luck to live in a neighborhood where everybody keeps a nice looking lawn. 0 the VttSUMGHM &m- so- mum By. DRfcY I'EAKsO.'' (Copyright, 1943, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: THOMAS CF OKLAHOMA ACTIVE IN STOCK MARKET DURING MOST OF HIS SENSATIONAL CAREER; OPPOSED COT TON CONTROLS TO OWN ADVANTAGE; SPECULATED IN SILVER WHILE ACTIVE MEMBER OF PITMAN'S SILVER ELOC. (Ed. Note Drew Pearson's column today takes the form of a memo to Senator Ferguson cf Mich igan chairman of tha subcommittee investigating Senator Thomas and other grain speculators. Pea: son was the first to expose Thomas's com modity speculation, two years ago, at which time ho was called a liar by the Oklahoma senator.) WASHINGTON Memo to Senator Ferguson of Michigan: Believing in your sincere desire to get to the bottom of Senator Thomas and his use of the Senate for private speculation, I am sending you the results of my own investigation. These may furnish you with additional leads for yoor on probe. I think you will find that during most of Seia tor Thomas's career in the U. S. Senate, he has been active in the stock market and has net hesitated to ue his position of trust to infiuener the market. I suggest that first you look into 128; shares of Cities Service stock held by the sena tor around 1928. Following this, I suggest that you examine the senator's dealing in silver and cotton in 1933. At around this time his son, Wilfred, was employed by the old stoek-brokerag firm of Fenner and Beane at its Oklahoma City office, while the senator traded through the firm's Washington office. During the summer of 1933 you will find that Thomas was active in the silver market, in fact had bought considerable quantity of silver on margin, and when the silver bubble burst in July, Thomas was caught short. John Mother thed, then manager of Fenner and Beane's Wash ington office, called on him for more col'aterol .vhich the senator did not put up. Accordingly, he was sold out, at a heavy loss. I think vou will find that the next day, July 19, 1933, Senator Thomas then sent two blistering telegrams to the presidents of the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade demanding stricter regulation. The two tele grams read in part: "Today's activity in your exchange demonstrates absolute necessity for immediate adoption of a ruling limiting the amount of loss on any stock during any one session." It is interesting that the senator did not reveal that he himself was caught short. He put his protest on the high moral plane cf protecting the investing public. It is also interesting that some years later, in the spring of 1946 when the OPA uiged stricter control of the cotton market, Thomas took an exactly opposite view and op posed those controls. At that time he and his wife were long on cotton and gambling on a con tinued rise in prices. The senator didn't want OPA controls to interfere with such a rise. FATHER COUGIILIN'S ADVICE Going back to 1933, 1934 and 1935, I believe you will find that at about the time Senator Thomas was speculating in silver, he was also making speeches caculated to increase the price of silver. He was, for instance, an active member ! of Senator Key Pitman's silver bloc, and also described himself as "silver adviser to Father Coughlin," in attacking the Federal Reserve Act. Coughlin later turned out to the biggest individ ual buyer (through his secretary) of silver in the United States. In speech after speech Thomas urged passage of his silver-buying bill, the remonetization of silver and the payment of soldier bonuses from silver. But he said nothing to the public about the fact thaf he himself had been buying up silvei . On Feb. 18, 1935 Thomas offered an amendment to the WPA-relief appropriation bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to buy silver at the rate of 50,000,000 ounces a month until one fourth of our total metallic reserve was silver instead of gold. To check on the senator's early commodity market transactions, look in an old warehouse at 818 Gravier street, New Orleans, La., where the records of Fenner and Beane are stored. To lis- Y A i ML, , TTIR PLATTSMOUTH, NTP.RASKA, JOITA'AL !Iondav. February 9, 1948. PAGE THREE EDSON'S WASHINGTON COLUMN BY PETEIi ED5CN NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) A Russian ex-newspaoerrr.m r.:neu .Ta-o'i M. Lomakin now in New York as de'rcsv th t'mtwi a- a ,- Subcommission on Freedom of Information is currently kicking "u-j cuite a fuss over what he calls the -sensationalism" c: the U. S.' -'re-- a XiL- i I'oineiea particularly by sex sti r;cs, hke tnij Black Dahlia murder case in Lis Angeles. Rut Comrade Lomakin also wants the UN 1 adopt a covenant guaranteeing freedom ei spetth " freedom cf the press and freedom f aitistie ex pression. Ti.e la:-t sentence his resolution ica i ; "It shall be intoieracle that this 1 reed em of .1; fi imata n be used to pern.it propaganda for fasc.m and aggression, or to disseminate tih-j reports', dis honest ir. format: an. or repoi ts likely to incite un liaendly ie-k.tic :is between nations." This sour.d.s pretty good, un:! yo-j .v.ld it up, J gainst some of the stuff that the Russian press ami radio have been putting tut. Then vou get the f.'cl of what U. S. life is really like, according to the Russian funr.v pape -s. Ever since the Marshall Plan was conceived. Russian prerpauan U has been going ail out against it. Every day. Radio Moscow picks ur long articles liorn the Russian press, and rebrc&dcasts them. ERE in Washington these broadcasts are monitored and translated. " 1 vyort muKes rne zarac t reaamg m Edson II check on some of his other sil ver transactions, look up the rec ords of Harriss and Vc-se, 60 Eea ver street. New York, thougvi these may have been destroyed. In other words the senator from Oklahoma seems to have been in the stock and commodi ty markets during practically all cf his long career. Regarding more recent opera tions, it might be interesting to check the account listed under "Farm Products Co." with Bache and company and also for a short time with Merrill Lynch, Vcnncr and Beane. This account was handled by Dyke Cullum, about whom Senator Thomas re cently said: "From time to time I have turned money over to Dyke Cullum and asked him to invest in cotton for mo." Brokers Suspk-ious If your investigators check carefully, I think you will find that in February 1946, Dyke Cul lum proposed opening an account under "Farm Products Co." with Merrill Lynch, Fenner and Beane. The brokers, howerer, ere suspicious that it was a t',md for Senator Thomas and q juried Cullum closely. lie re pl Ad that he wanted to use the account for himself, Ralph Moore and one other. The brokers told him they would ask their New York office whether the account was accept able. They also examined him closely as to why he wanted a separate account under Farm Products Co. when he was al ready trading heavily under his own name, while Ralph Moore was trading heavily under his own name. Suspicious. Merrill Lynch, Fenner and Beane finally turn ed down the "Farm Products Co." account, though later, on October 22, 1946, by accident they accepted it. On Oct. 26, however, they asked Cullum to take the account elsewhere. Ralph Moore, who has used the offices cf both Senator Thomas and Senator Pappy O'Daniel of Texas, is now under investigation by the Justice De partment. Incidentally, it might be worth while also to examine the ac counts of Kiki Cullum and Dyke Cullum, Jr. These are Cul lum's children, but I suspect that their father handles the ac counts for them. (These are a few leads which I hope may be useful to your committee). COMMISSIONERS' PROCEEDINGS Office of County Commission ers Cass County Plattsmouth. Nebraska, February 3, 1948. Board met pursuant to ad journment. Present C. W. Stoehr, Parr Young and A. G. Reid. County Commissioners, Goo. R. Sayles, County Clerk. Minutes of last session ap proved, when the following busi n: ss was transacted in regular Lrm: Resolution WHEREAS, a certificate of lien has been filed pursuant to the previsions of L.B. 546 Laws of 1947, against the following described property, to-wit: Lot 4, Elock 8. Village of Avoca; North One-half of Lot 1, Block 12, Village of Avoca; Recorded in Book 72 at p?g-3 562 and 563, and WHEREAS, the owners of said real e-tate have not received Assistant Benefits since the ef fective date of L.B. 546, and are no longer receiving such bene fits. NOW THEREFORE BE IT REOLVED that the County Treasurer of Cass County, Ne braska, be and hereby is direct ed to release and discharge the lien created by such certificate in the manner provided by law. Dated at Plattsmouth. Nebras ka this 3rd day of Februarv, 1948. C. W. STOEHR, PARR YOUNG, A. G. REID Board of County Commissioners. Attest: GEO. R. SAYLES, County Clerk. CLAIMS as listed on the fol lowing funds were allowed: General Fund Consumers Public Pow er Dist.. Service to Court House & Jail 39.81 Board of Public Works, Water tQ Court House & Jail 39.85 Central Electric & Gas Co., Gas to County ' Jail 62.02 Central Electric & Gas Co., Gas to Court 2.03 House 135.39 Central Electric & Gas Co., Gas to Court House Drag Fund 1st District Consumers Public Pow er District, Service to Plattsmouth patrol building 2nd District Consumers Public Pow er Dist., Service to Union & NVhawka patrols Omaha Public Power Dist., Service to Man ley patrol . The board adjourned to meet on Tuesday February 17, 1943. Attest: GEO. R. SAYLES, County Clerk. No. 663 Feb. 9, 1948. 12.96 4. 60 1.00 Ever since Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal. COP mrcia-i policy expert John Foster Dulles and Bernard Paruch testified on the Marshall Plan. Moscow has had a field day. It began with a lor.g article in Pravda by Zhukov Russia's leading commentator, th.ouch no relation to the general. This Zhukov covered the San Francisco UN charter conference in 1945, so he thinks ho knows ail about the U. According to him. Secretary Ferrer a I ha.s annourced bluntly th.t in exchange for reconstruction aid, "the western European ct.untri'-.i are to grant to the United States military bases." Also, that "the task of unifying the military forces of the 16 countries would be handed over to the U. S. Department of Defense." The Pravda piece then goes on to paint the pictuie of "British. French, Italian, Belgian and other soldiers marching at the command of U. S. officers armed with U S. tommy guns and singing the Yankee. Doodle, with U. S. governors in command all over the plo." Ex-Governor Grisuold of Nebraska, supervising the Greek recov ery program, is presented as having "replaced Ministers at his own discretion." It is reported that "he rules this unfortunate country lmo u colonial official engaged in his job in some sort of a Puerto Rico." I TJRITAIN. Sweden, the Danes and the Dutch, Pravda finds, are dis covering that, "while dispatching to Europe stale ci carets, nylon stockings and similar goods of far-f rom-first necessity, the Americans isk for the right to interfere in the domestic affairs of western Europe. Sovereignty is to be exchanged against an omelet made from dried tggs,' as recently remarked the British Evening Standard." But this seems to be the least of it. According to Pravda. the U. S. is threatening to use the atomic bomb, if Europe doesn't accept Mar shall Plan aid. Proof is offered -by reference to a speech made be fore the Swedish Chamber of Commerce by Freeman Matthews, now U. S. embassador to Stockholm. Reports on the speech as received in Washington show that Ma' thews never even mentioned the. atomic bomb. What he did say was that the European recovery program was vital to the U. S. because. ;vhen Europe is threatened, the U. S. has founel that it, too. was threatened and must take whatever measures were found ne-tessu: y. What happened then was that the Swedish Communist paper aiV DAG (New Day) picked up this remark and interpreted it by saying that the atomic bomb was "the measure found necessary." This is the picture of America that Russia is now telling the world, Jay alter day. That's the way the Russian funny papers work. Miss Wilda Mitchell Will Sail for Hague The many friends in this city will be interested in learning that Miss Wilda Mitchell, who was in the early part of World War II, secretary of the Cass Count v Selective Service board, located at Plattsmouth. is leav ing in the next ten days for The Hague, Holland. She will be em ployed with the State depart ment at the American embassy. Miss Mitcheil has been in Wash ington, D. C. for the past sev eral weeks. While here Miss Mitchell en listed in the WAVES and served, later serving at Washington and Honolulu. At the end of the war, she accepted a Civil Service po sition and was stationed in Tok yo. Japan, wtih General Mac Arthur's headquarters and re mained there fer over a year. Miss Mitchell is taking her car with her. Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Tucker are driving the car to Washington, D. C. and left last Sunday morning. They made a stop over at Kansas City. Mo., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Clark Kup oinger and son. The Tuckers ex pect to be away about a week. Word from them state they got tied up in a Virginia snow storm and were delayed in mak ing the trip. K-B Club Has Fine Meeting The K-B card club was enter tained on Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Frank Bestir in the Coronado apartments. The winners of the gam?s were Mrs. Frank Bc-stor high score, and Mrs. Kenneth R. Schmitt, the second honors. Guests of the club for the evening were Mrs. W. E. Hickey. Mrs. Kenneth Schmitt and Mrs. Fred P. Busch. The ladies enjoyed delicious refreshments at the home-going hour. ' VaV -4 a -- V V v 'Just inquire at MUTAUL FI- ! NANCE! JIM EDEN For Expert Wallpaper Hanging . Call 4264 Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Grosshans of Marysville, Kansas and Miss Edna Grosshans of Omaha were ; here over Sunday as guests at j the home of Mr. and Mrs. Karl j Grosshans. ! PARTIES Every Wednesday Evening 8 o'clock at 40 and 8 Club Rooms PUBLIC INVITED Sponsored by American Legion Auxiliary W.e are informed by our tailoring houses that owing to the shortage of ex pert tailors it will be impossible to tailor a- suit to order for EASTER unless the order is in their hands by February 28th. Easter is March 28. Order your suit now and avoid disappointment. Wesc4$' SINCE 1879 Flavor-of-the-Month Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream "For a Real Taste Treat" In Bulk or Package Schreiner Drug For Free Pickup and Delivery ..eave Bundles at . . . 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