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cf "IT DDE PLATnrM(D)QJTD JJdDQJMAO. SECTION 2 NEWSpaper CASS COUNTY'S UNITED PRESS SERVICE NEA TELEPIIOTO The Plattsmouth Journal ESTABLISHED 1881 Tntilistn-i't sf'ml-wekly. Mon'liiys nml Tlnirs 1;ivs. :t -li:-4l;, Mnin Street. I 'la t tsmou th. C:iss Count v. Wlir.'iska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH .....Editor HAROLD TUCKER -..Advertising Manager Oscar C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor Helen Mrasel:, News and Circulation SUBSCRIPTION RATE: S3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts month, 15 cents for two weeks. Ki:tPre,1 at tie 1 Vie toff ire at ttsmouth, Nct.i iiskii as sepoml ( las-s mail matter in ar ,01 n e with t!i" Act of I'onstess of March ::. isT'j. EDITORIALS CONGRATULATIONS The Journal extends sincere congratu lations to the Nebraska City News-Press on it's 95th birthday. The oldest continu ously printed newspaper in the state, the News-Press can boast of being 05 years young. In celebrating the event, the Sweets presented a new heading across the front page ehaninner the name from the Ne braska Daily News-Press that glamorizes the old girl considerably. It was rather shocking at first glance to observe the bold lettering of the new head in contrast to it's more dainty predecessor having pic ture of the News-Press building in the center, but it again proves the newspaper doesn't do things "halfway." When they shout, they shout loud. We like the new addition, but would like to inquire if the hyphen between News and Press was not overlooked, or is this also a new innovation as the ''glamour girl" of Nebraska's small city dailies reaches the century mark? -K SOMETHING NEW HAS BEEN ADDED The publisher of the Journal is striving continuously to give readers a bigger, bet ter and easier to read newspaper. Nearly every week some minor improvement is made which in the aggregate adds up to a better printed and more newsy paper. This week two major improvements have been made to The Journal that most of our readers will accept with a great deal of pleasure and satisfaction. The addition of a new text matter for the news columns we consider the most important. One of Merganthaler Linotype's most modern and specially designed for easy reading faces has been selected to be used in the news columns. Nearly 3,000 matrices costing 1G cents oach are required to supply the two type setting machines in the Journal plant. These matrices, made of special alloys, are each cut with their special combi nations to drop in respective channels in the magazines, while each matrix carries two letters both light and black face and can be controlled by special rails on the Linotype machines. We are sure Journal readers will find today's and future issues much easier to read and will . appreciate our choice in news faces. Second addition to your newspaper is the new magazine section "Nowadays" that will be included in each Thursday edition of The Journal. ''Nowadays", we think, compares favorably with all other types of newspaper magazine sections and, though introduced during an "off season" of the year, will improve in size and content as future issues roll from the presses. The Journal is proud to be one of the newspapers of Nebraska to be se lected to carry this important innovation along with papers in Beatrice, Fairbury, McCook, and several others. Journal readers are receiving the great est newspaper value being offered in Cass County todav. Furse's Fresh Flashes One of our -local topers doesn't expect to have any trouble getting into Heaven when he passes on in spite of the odor of whiskey on his breath. He says that when he dies he expects to leave his breath be hind, anyway. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, says she is looking forward to her old age. It will give her permission to wear long underwear, a stocking cap, and fur-lined mittens on zero da vs. Pro-Christmas tip: You can give a man a necktie but you can't make him wear it. ! When you are due for a tongue lashing, we usually know it before the wife opens up on us. k M A friend of ours gives us a good tip. He tells us the time to sell is when you are thinking of buving. -K Hunting big game used to be popular now it's hunting big game tickets. M . Read where bandits held up a jazz or chestra and swiped all their instruments. At least thev suppressed one racket. Inmates of a Michigan prison are being taught dancing.and stage presence. Nothing- like being ready for the coming-out partv. -K - A man down in the south part of the county is reported to have beat up his dentist. Well, that's one way to find out if he reallv is painless. 'Sorta Dismal Country Around Here, Ain't It?' THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, November 18, 1948. PAGE ONE D0VN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Wayne Falk. former Plattsmouth High School football and basketball star, was awarded regular post as guard on the Tarkio college team. . . . Members of the congregation of the St. Paul's Evangelical church held a farewell for Rev. and Mrs. Ci. A. Pahl who were leaving to accept a charge in Iowa D. R. Thornton was host to members of local chamber of com merce on a visit to the "Lewis" and "Mc Gregor gigantic river dredge boats which docked here for the winter. . . . Miss Mar garet Ann Ortman and Walter H. Smith were married in a ceremony at St. John's church, Omaha on November 16. . . . Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hager of Shreveport. La., were guests of Mrs. Henry Herold, an aunt. . . . Attorney C. A. Rawls spoke be fore Rotary on the U. S. Constitution. TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO Dr. P. T. Heineman received his com mission as first lieutenant in the dental reserve corps of the army. ... A. H. Dux bury was named as High Priest of Nebras ka Chapter No. 3 Royal Arch Masons. . . . Among the interesting features of book exhibits during Rook Week program, was displayed a tiny bible loaned by Miss Jes sie Robertson. It was a complete edition of the King James translation and was one half inch in thickness with the pages meas uring but an inch and a quarter in length, necessitating the use of a magnifying glass for reading. . . . Miss Lydia Todd enter tained a group of teachers and friends from this city and Murray at the beauti ful country home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Harry Todd, south of Murray. Cfl VJfiSHl merry-aO-Eieune (Copyright, 1948. by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) By DREW PEARSON DREW PEARSON SAYS: BIG BUSINESS HAS REDDER FACE THAN THE POLLSTERS: VICE PRESIDENT P, A R K L E Y WON'T GET INTO (SOCIAL ROW WfTH SAM RAYBURN: ALL AM ERICAN AMBASSADORS TOLD TO RFSIGN. WASHINGTON Only one group of peo ple since Nov. 2 have redder faces than the pollsters the Big Businessmen who had feathered their nests with Dewey's friends. Take, for instance, the sad case of de lightful Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schen ley's giant distilling company. As one of the leading whiskey and wine producers in the U.S.A., Mr. Rosenstiel was interest ed in having an "in" with the new admini stration. It was not unnatural therefore that he should busv himself before elec tion in wining and dining various prospec tive members of the Dewey cabinet. Mr. Rosenstiel's motto is to leave no stone unturned. He is a successful busi nessman and he did not become one bv "accident He believes in looking ahead. Therefore, not long before election, he looked ahead and retained Herbert Brown ell, campaign manager for Mr. Dewey, as his attorney. Looking still further ahead, he also re tained as his public relations counsellor Carl Bvoir, a pro-republican gentleman with pipelines into the Deweyites. Then to make sure his position with the new administration was secure he invited Dewey to go yachting with him right af ter the election to get a little post-election rest. Dewey was dated up for a vacation with Roger Straus of American Smelting and refining, so Rosenstiel took the next best. He invited Dewey's right-hand man, Paul Lockwood, to go yachting. Paul accepted. Both Rosenstiel and Lorkwood are entertaining gentlemen, but neither felt much like entertaining the other on that post-election trip. INSIDE THE CABINET Various cabinet members, all set to re sign, are now angling to remain. One is Secret? rv of Commerce Sawyer, who gave only SI, 000 to the Truman campaign though one -of the wealthiest men in Ohio. . . . Averell Harriman. Marshal Plan Ambassador in Europe, has sent an urgent cable to President Truman asldng permis sion to come home to discuss a wide range of subjects. (Friends sav he wants to be Secretary of State). ... If Attorney Gen eral Tom Clark is elevated to the Supreme Court, the next Attorney General will be either Clark Clifford or Alex Campbell, hard-hitting head of the Criminal Division. . . . Here's one cabinet revision being dis"- rnmrn i i - 1 ' ' ' , , . 1 I - I m 1 1 Stewart and Mrs. F. R. Bird. m ft Q I ! Honoring Mrs. A. J. Nelson, ALMA( - whose birthday anniversary oc- I i cussed by the dopesters: Chief Justice Fred Vinson to be Se cretary of State; Attorney Gen eral Tom Clark to the Supreme Court as Associate Justice; Wil liam O. Douglas to be Chief Justice. (Wouldn't that burn Felix Frankfurter up?. . . . Al bert Greenfield, the big Phila delphia real estate' man. is in line for either the Truman cabi net or an embassy. ANOTHER DOLLY GANN ROW ? ? 1 Capital hostesses, who haven t enjoyed a good social row since the days of Dolly Gann and Alice Longworth's spat over who should sit where at dinner, have been glowing with anticipation over the problem of who will be Vice President Barkley's official hostess, and where she will rank at official dinners. Vice President Barkley, like Vice President Charlie Curtis, is a widower, mat was wny Cour tis's half-sister. Mrs. Edward i Everett Gann, was made his of ficial hostess. And it was the i.jrothea Keil Journal Correspondent Mr. and Mrs. Keith Muenchau stopped off for several days visit last week with the for mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. .i-William Muenchau. yhen en 1 route from California to New York City. C. O. Wright, who has been and son of ceresco Memorial ble, Mrs. Roy Vickers, Mrs. Lee Stewart and Mrs. F. R. Bird. Honoring Mrs. A. J. Nelson, whose birthday anniversary oc curred Nov. 17th. her daughter, Mrs. Myrl Miller , entertained the following relatives at her home last Sunday: Mr. and j Mrs. A. J. Nelson of Eagle, Mr. j and' Mrs. Hilbert Anderson, Mr. ' and Mrs. John Finnigan and ; Mr. and Mrs. Willard Anderson ; of Waverly, Mr. and Mrs. Aug- j ust Dahlstrom of Wahoo and I Mr. and Mrs. Paul Finnigan i WASHINGTON COLUMN Anything Can Happen in China And Probably Will-Too Late BY PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) It is anybody's guess what will happen in; China if Chiang Kai-shek's government falls. One good proverb to apply is that things never happen in China as fast as they should.' There is much concern lest the Chinese Communists of the North.' Under Mao Tse-tung, take over the whole country North-South rail' lines are all broken and the roads are worse. But it is claimed there are enough Communist converts in South China to do the taking over, when the time comes. , . An alternative would be that the Communists will stop their ad vance when they reach the Yellow River. That would divide the ' country into Communist North China, anti-Communist South China. t . Another alternative is that South China will break up into a number of separate provinces under war lords. Still another prospect : is that there will be a coalition of North and South, resulting in a "unified" China with the Communists dominant. This possibility frightens anti-Communists in the United States more than the others.:; THE present Chinese Communist propaganda line is an appeal to , non-Communists to ioin the northern forces for reform of tne corrupt Nationalist government. Goernment employes in the South . are told they need not fear loss of their jobs if the Communists take over. Public utility workers and other technicians are told the : same thing. , Attempts to tell the Chinese that these promises from the Com- " munists will not be kept fall on deaf ears. It is difficult to convince Chinese liberals and reformists that coalition with the Communists will mean a loss of civil liberties, because they have enjoyed no civil liberties under Chiang's government. Faced with these conditions, American government policy-makers ; have a real problem in trying to decide what to do next. There is a . tendency amcng some critics outside the government notably William C. Bullitt to criticize President Truman and Secretary of State ' Marshall for having failed to back Chiang's government with all-out . support, right from V-J Day on. , This may be largely the wisdom of hindsight. At the end of the.' war, Stalin had agreed to lay ofT China. Communist leader Mao had been brought to Chungking by Maj. Gen. Pat Hurley for conferences:" with Chiang Kai-shek. American policy at the time was to support', coalition of Communists and Nationalists in a unified China. VYHEN the unity conferences broke down and Marshall came home : in January, 1947, to become secretary cf state, he blamed his fail-.-ure on the extremists of both sides. He said the only hope lay in the liberals in both movements taking over from the extremists. That is just about where American policy has stood ever since, except that President Truman declared last March that the United States did not contemplate inclusion of Communists in the Chinese government, and never had. His memory may Jiave tricked him. J It is generally believed that the Republican-dominated 80th Con-i gress upset this policy by voting China $400,000,000 aid. That isn't1, quite the story. Truman had asked for S570.000.000 for 15 months.:. Congress cut it to $463,000,000 for 12 months, then cut further to j J 5275,000,000 civilian aid plus $125,000,000 military aid. , In appropriating this military aid, however, Congress stopped far, j short of providing for American intervention in China and full under- ! writing of the Chiang Kai-shek government as part of the Truman; I doctrine drive against world communism. The $125,000,000 military! aid was given China to spend as it saw fit in its war against the Com-; ' munists. No Am rican government supervision or military staff advice; i was provided for. As Sen. Arthur Vandenberg put it. there must be no implication that "we are underwriting the military campaign of the Nationalist government." cared for at Bryan hospital for about three months, was able to be brought home last Sunday. Although his condition is improved, he is not able to be up much. Mrs. A. W. Adams is spending this week with her daughter, Mrs. Jay Busker, Mr. Busker and family at Elk Point, South Dakota. Mrs .George Wilcox and in fant son, Patrick Jay, was able to leave the hospital and come home last Saturday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Burdick, Nov. 16th, j at a Lincoln hospital. j I Mrs. Dale Stall entertained I the O. S. C. club members at j her home Thursday afternoon, Nov. 11th. i Mrs. Harry West, Mrs. G. H. Palmer and Mrs. Edward Ger- hard attended the Cass Coun-1 ty W. C. T. U. Institute at I Plattsmouth on Tuesday, Nov. 9th. Miss Marie Bader of Lincoln, a former Eagle school teacher, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wenzel last Thursday. Miss Bader and Mrs. Wenzel called on Mrs. John Ronhcvde during the afternoon. The Misses Merna and La Verne Stradley of Lincoln spent Sunday with home folks. Miss Caroline Reitter was able to leave the hospital last Sunday and is spending a few- radio amateur, having success fully Dassed all the examina tions the Federal Communica tions Commission requires. nnest ion of whether the vice oresident's sister or the wife of j Mrs. Frisbce of Elmwood, was and Mrs speaker longworth preceded the j the guest of her daughter, Mrs. other at dinner which threw so- John Fischer and family, last cial Washington into such a , week end. Hubbub during the Hoover ad-j Thg three act comedy "Miss ministration. jimmie," was well presented by However, it looks as if Alben ; the Junior class at the school Barkley woum disappoint me auditorium last Friday evenin ladies. Alben is not averse to go ing out to dinner. In fact, he is in great demand. But he doesn't relish social rows. Furthermore, his counterpart is also single Speaker-to-be Sam Rayburn. Close friends, m and Alben have been going oat together as widowers for so long that the idea of their row ing over proctocol brings smiles to those who know them Mr. Colon directed the play. Representing the local unit ' at the Cass county American Legion Auxiliary last Friday evening at Union were: Mrs. Ralph Ransford. Mrs. Valley Trumble, Mrs. William Trum- riavs in the home of her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Valley Trumble Mrs. Frank piymai, at Millard. Kose caddy drove to ; Elmwood and visited Mr. and : BLINDNESS NO HANDICAP Mrs. Wellington Dennis and: rr,TmimTO .D . also helped their little grand- i COLUMBUS, O. (U.R)A new son, Terry, celebrate his first i world has been opened up to birthday anniversary 1 a s t j Milton Klein, blind since birth. Tuesday evening. j Klein has been licensed as a LOMBARD CHAIN SAWS ALL SIZES NEW LOW PRICES IMMEDIATE DELIVERY NIELSEN NURSERY AND TREE CO. 2iJ07 So. Ave. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA Phone 3-5682 UNDER THE DOME Senator McClellan of Arkan sas, one of the most reactionary Sam was married once, so long diehards on capitol hill, is slat- , ed to take over Senator Fergu son's investigating committee. ago that most people think he was always a bachelor. He has no official hostess and doesn't I McClellan is sore at Truman for intend to have one. Barkley, whose wife was an invalid for many years before she died, also goes to dinner on his own. Barkley says he's had a "number of applicants" for the iob. but if he needs an official ! ousting his friend Nat Dyke from the Home Loan Bank Board and friends say the senator is plan ning to smear any government department that backs major legislation he doesn't happen to like especially Civil Rights. . . . vv. ... Tiv-; l t .. ,i Tr;u;w t-Lr,nr hostess, he will draft his daugh- ir3.1 """"" ter, gracious Mrs. Max Truitt. ! of ne CIO-AFL have sent a stiff j protest to President Truman MERRY-GO-ROUND ! against making Senator Lucas All American a m b a ssadors 0f Illinois Majority Leader of the have received cables from the j Senate. (Lucas voted for the State Department r e minding Taft-Hartlev Act.) However. Lu- them that it's customary to sub mit their resignations. Truman wints a free hand to select new diplomats. . . . U. S. Ambassador to Moscow Bedell Smith has been milling wires to get Gen eral Clav's job as commander in of heln. cas will probablv get the job just the same. He faces a re election battle in 1950 an off year which makes for strong re publican showings and the dem ocrats want to give him Dlenty Gerald B. Winrod Berlin. He's not likely to suc ceed. . . . Not all of President Truman's callers get into the newspaners. One significant se cret caller was Chicago's demo cratic boss, Jake Arvey, the man who helped Truman carry the surprise state Illinois. . . . John ! be proud to have.' Mara-ron. President Truman's j Long of Louisiana old bootblack friend from the Kansas City union station, feels that the election guarantees his i future. Maraeon is trying to hire on" of the fanciest office suites in Washington for William Helis, the New Orleans oil man. (Mar agon is supposed to run the He lis office in Washington. of Wichita, Kansas, formerly in dicated for sedition against his country, has been trying to buy time once a weekon Washing ton radio stations. His agent tells station managers this is a "pro gram I believe your station will . . Gov. Earl has padded the Louisiana State Mineral Board with ten new members in a move caculated to let the po litical hacks and the party fav orites in on juicy oil concessions. B. A. 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