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SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE The Plattsmouth Journal I Furse's Fresh Flashes ESTABLISHED IN 1881 r'urilishecs seml-weeklv, Mondays and Thurs days, at 409.413 Mnin .Street, l'hiitsmouth. I'asH County. Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH.- Editor HAROLD TUCKER. . .Advertising Manager O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Harry Wilcoxen, Manager Job Department Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor lassocmrion M 3SJ2 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail, outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier In Rlatts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Knteretl at the Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second lajs mail matter In ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March 3, 1S79. EDITORIALS OVERLOOKS HALF OF IT Because the "purchasing power repre sented by agriculture" is of "vital and fundamental importance to the whole eco nomic structure of the nation," Louis Bromfield, novelist and agricultural writ er, says that any modification of the farm subsidy program "will have to be brought about gradually." Mr. Broomfield admits that there is no worse enemy of parities, support prices and agricultural subsidies than himself and alleges that the American farmer, although potentially able to produce food or cotton more cheaply than anywhere else in the world, has the world's highest production cost. This, he adds, means higher prices and taxes for city dwellers. We do not have a full account of the sneech recently delivered in Cincinnati bv Mr. Bromfield, alleging that our agricul ture is "kept" by the tax money "of the city taxpayer," which pays for the Govern ment's program. Mr. Bromfield suggests that the final answer to the problem "lies in a better agriculture." While a better agriculture would be for the general benefit of farmers and the na tion alike, we are somewhat surprised that Mr. Bromfield, in his strictures against the assistance being extended to agriculture, . does not denounce the subsidies given manufacturers under the protective tariff laws which operate for the benefit of in dustry. Certainly, if the farmers of the nation are compelled to buy what thev need from a "protected" industry, they should not be expected to sell what they produce on a "free" market. 4c NOTHING IMPORTANT SO FAR A brief announcement in Moscow, tell ing that Prime Minister Molotov had been rnlaced bv Deputy Foreign Minister Vi shinsky. without anv official explanation of the change, caused American newspaper men and radio commentators to go into a highlv speculrlve fever. The radio and the press emphasized how the capitals -of the world were specu lating "feverishlv" upon the significance of the change in Moscow and so-called ex perts used thousands and thousands of words of conv and oratorv to tell the public about the shift in Russia's official line-up. with sideline comment and guesswork as to what impends in the Russian capital. News must be much more difficult to obtain than we had thought. What hap pens in Moscow can be awaited without any sensational conjectures as to a shift in personnel. About the most sensible comment came from Cenators Arthur II. Vandenbere. of Michigan, and Tom Con nally, of Texas, who agreed that no ac curate appraisal of the incident would be possible until further developments. This commonsense conclusion, which ought to be apparent to everybody, did not rnt an end to the frenzy of "if-ing" which filled the air and the press. One would bink, if one knew no better, that the wel fare and progress of the people of the United States depended upon the ukases that issue from the Communist capital. STATISTICAL Here are some economic statistics that you can intepret for yourself: There were 3,200,000 unemployed in February, which was the highest number of people out of work since the war. During the same month, there were 57,168.000 persons at work, which was the hitrhest total employment for the month of February on record. The explanation seems to be in the greatly increased number of people at work and "seeking work." Incidentally, of those out of work. 1,803,916 were get ting jobless benefits at the end of February. When we asked a waitress up the street for the dollar dinner she wanted to know if we wanted it on rve -or whole wheat. Flipper Fanny, our dainty little contour twister, reports to us that she's heard of guys stealing kisses, but personally, she's waiting a long time for the crime wave to begin. x -k COULD BE VERSE, THOUGH A little bird sits in a tree Now he scratches himself Life is like that Lousy. A local man is the most forgetful fel low we ever met. The other day he left his umbrella in our office, and now he tells us that he's going to Arizona for his lungs. Note to girls: He'll give you lots of presents before marriage, but who ever heard of a fisherman giving bait to a fish after he caught it? - Husband : Goodbye, baby. I'm leaving town for a few days. Will call you when I get back. Wife: OK, honey, but if a man answers you stayed away too long. It's easy to hit the bull's eye every time. Shoot first and draw the circles afterward. When you start for work tomorrow morning, fill your pockets with smiles and give them away. Why We MUST Have Peace THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEM! -WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, March 17. 1949. PAGE ONE 1 DOWN MEMORY LANE TEN YEARS AGO Citv Council discussed sale of land mark known as "The Perkins House". . . . Junior Woman's Club named Miss Wile! rnina Henrichsen as president: Edith Solo mon, vice president. Fern Jahrig, secretary and Gertrude Vallery, treasurer. . . . John Livingston and Jim Webb, local high school Seniors, attended session of legislature at Lincoln; W. H. Puis accompanied the boys . . . Allan White, trumnet soloist scored su perior in the M-I-N-K music contest at Peru : several were given excellent rating Peegy Wiles, Jaunita Sijxand Billie Jean Sylvester; Ralph Stava and Stephen Devoe. TWENTY YEARS AGO Fred Rothert. popular and efficient di rector of local high school athletics was reelected to position. . . . Junior Class pre sented play "Grumpv" under direction of Miss Mary Jane Tidball, with the follow ing in the cast: Robert Livingston, Ira Mumm, Hershel Dew. Warren Farmer, George Sayles. Verner Jarl, Donald Rainey, John Albert, Mary Swatek, Marie Vallery, Ella Nora Meisinger. . . . W. F. Nolte shipped 105 of his fine ducks to a poultry farm at Clarinda. Iowa. . . . J. L. Potter arrived in Louisville as new manager of the local telephone exchanee. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young of Weeping Water celebrated their golden wedding annivers ary. .(Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: " MYSTERIOUS AMERICAN HEADS ANTI-RUSSIAN UNDERGROUND IN GERMANY; "BARON X" USES AMERICAN MONEY TO SMUGGLE ARMS BEHIND THE IRON CUR TAIN: GENERAL MARSHALL IS PEEVED AT GENERAL WEDE MEYER. WASHINGTON. Uncensored diplo matic reports indicate that the Soviet gov vernment is planning to place before the United Nations the strange case of an American citizen reported to be the leader of the anti-Russian underground in Poland and Germany. The mysterious American, who owns a farm twelve miles outside Hillman, Minn., operates under various names including Edward F. T'kach. Count Heinrich von Gelbe. Baron von Tanthen. Heinrich Woy ceho, Dr. Edouard von Rothkirch, or some times just Baron X. According to associates, he is the head of the Frei corps of Barbarossa, the name of the anti-Russian underground in parts of Poland and the Soviet zone of Germany. Baron X has raised considerable amounts of money in the United States and is re puted to have smuggled arms and ammuni tion into the Soviet areas via Austria and Scandinavian ports. He is also reported to have terrorized Soviet officials and been a constant thorn in the side of the Russian government in these areas. U. S. officials have made it clear, how ever, that Baron X has no connection what soever with the U. S. government. On the contrary, they have frowned on his activi ties and fear he may cause serious trouble between the United States and Russia. For that reason, the State department has consistently refused any passport. His " 1 1 I S V 111 I m llf , : h Ul l i! wife, who was reached by tele phone at Hillman, Minn., under the name of Mrs. von Rothkirch, said that her husband had left by car and was driving to New York. She said he went away for long periods of time during which she did not hear from him. She declined to comment on his activities in Germany except to say: "I know that the Soviets have found out about him." In Cleveland, one of von Roth kirch's lieutenants, Wilhelm Ul-lenhorst-Zeichmenn, said that von Rothkirch was head of the Frei corps of Barbarossa, and that he had gone back and forth to Germany without an official passport. Other quarters re ported that von Rothkirch had used merchant seaman's papers. The mysterious "Baron" served for a time with the German Luftwaffe in Spain during the Spanish revolution, then entered the U. S. Army after Pearl Har bor. For a time he also served as Chief Bosun's Mate in the U. S. Coast Guard in a temporary, nonpaying capacity. At that time he used the name T'kach. WHERE HE GOT THE MONEY In 1946, he registered under the name of Edward von Roth kirch as a lobbyist for the Cen tral European Research council, and was active on Capitol Hill among isolationist congressmen and congressmen of German de scent. He was also connected in 1946 with the Central European Re habilitation association, with headquarters at 201 Division ave., Brooklyn, and headed by Father Don Odo, self-proclaimed Duke of Wurttemberg. Some indication as to where Baron X has been able to raise his funds may be had from the fact that the assets of the Cen tral European Rehabilitation association in the Riggs National bank jumped from $5 to $169, 000 in less than a year in 1946 47. It is believed that some of these funds were drawn on to finance underground operations in Soviet areas in central Eu rope. Baron X is reputed to have the best intelligence service inside the Russian areas despite the large amounts of money spent on intelligence by the U. S. govern ment since the war. He is also reported to have intimate con tacts inside Czechoslovakia, Au stria and Hungary. U. S. records show that von Rothkirch's father was born in Odessa. Russia, under the name of Fred T'kach, and that his mother was also born in Odessa in 1897. Von Rothkirch himself i was born in St. Paul, Minn. I MERRY-GO-ROUND I Ex-Secretary of State George J Marshall is so peeved at war plans chief Gen. Al Wedemeyerj he has privately threatened to j SDeak against him if Weriemever : is nominated to succeed General Clay in Germany . . . Other like ly candidate to succeed Clay is Gen. Mark Clark, former com" mander of the 5th Army in Italy . . . There was something very fishy about the delay in confirm ing Ernest Gruening as Governor of Alaska. The Salmon 1oby was agin' him ... At first Sec retary of State Acheson was in clined to overlook the pro-nazi board of governors selected to govern the Ruhr steel industry until he saw a blistering cartoon in the Washington Post. Then he cabled Clay to oust the pro nazis . . . Hitherto Clay has run Germany as he wished. It will be interesting to see whether Clay or Acheson now wins out. Congratulations to Sam P. Mc Kenzie and the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta for urg ing that Atlanta pass laws ban ning KKK masks in public . . -Bulletproof glass may be built around the Senate and House galleries as the result of the sui cide 50 feet from the Senate chamber last week. Some nerv ous solons now want protection from trigger-happy spectators . . The Agriculture department is warning that all the West from Michigan to California and from Canada to Texas will be hit by grasshoppers this sum mer. Deep snow protected grass hoppers' eggs and, as a result, the worst plague in ten years is ex pected. In 1938 grasshoppers ate a $200,000,000 hole in farmers' pockets. While southern senator fili bustered 28 hours. 45 minutes, other senators talked for 39 hours. 55 minutes, which, in ef fect, helped the filibuster . . . Prime Minister Attlee has order edall members of the British embassy to keen their mouths shut about Britain's recovery. Attlee doesn't want anyone else to brag about how fSt Britain is coming back, especially at a time when Congress is debating how much Britain should eet under the Marshall plan . . . The Council of Economic Advisers will file a new report on the eco nomic health of the nation on April 1 . . . Joe Lawrence, one of Democratic Chairman Howard McGrath's top aides, will resign from the national committee within two weeks. It was Law rence who accurately predicted that the Midwest farm vote would twing the election to Tru man ... Dr. B. W. Windeyer of London and other British physi cians attending the American Cancer Society meetins: in Mem phis refuted the American medi cal lobby's charge that national "alth insurance had flooned in Britain. The British health nro cram. said the British medicos, has bn workiner satisfactorily . . . Col. Hvdney Grubbs, rom mmdins: officer of Bollinr field, has inaugurated a "eoldfish brw'" nre"-rolations noHcv. Savs Grubbs: "Tf we make pny mis a'cFs w0' orninT to be men o-iruh tnortrvnr it. Rnfrp is a favorite device of burrrlers." LETTER BOX The Journal TrfltoraM lotters from rVjMlcT. for this column on snv eulvicct. Your name iniit l't sitnvil to all articles intended for tmldication, however. by request, it can be Anitt-(1 from the letter apneaiinsr in print. (Contents do tint ticessri ril v e press the opin ions oT this newspaper. ) Editor of The Journal: The residents of Wintersteen Hill owe our neighbor, Elmer Gochenour, a public "thank you" for grading our roads on his own time Saturday. Al though there are some 70 fam ilies who live up here and we are inside the city limits, this section of town has always been the "forgotten spot" as far as road repairs has been concern ed. Several years ago, the WPA fixed us a good rock road, but the city failed to keep this in condition and now the roads are impassable much of the time. The Wintersteen school teacher must park her car and walk five blocks to school and the mail carrier, in his Jeep, finds the roads almost impassa ble. "Thanks again, Elmer," and once again until we have an other snow or rain) we can drive home instead of parking at the corner and walking from four to eight blocks. Old Timer on So. 1st St. The Navy delivered the his toric Wright Brothers' airplane, Kittv Hawk, from Nova Scotia to National Museum, Washing ton, D. C. Th" N?Ws o-iortt fonsMtution nn fiv from New Yok to Panama Canal in only eight hours. Last Time Thursday, March 17 Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent "TOMORROW IS FOREVER" The greatest drama of our times! Comedy and Technicolor Special Fri. and Sat., March 18-19 Double Feature Roy Rogers with Trigger "GRAND CANYON TRAIL" New Western action all in color! and James Lydon and Lois Collier "OUT OF THE STORM" See this new smash action thriller! "CONGO BILL" Serial Mat., Sat. 2:30 - Nights 7:00-9:30 ashingta THE LOWLY "spud" moved into the big time here in Washington when announcement was made that the National Potato council has opened a Washington office to "serve as an educational bureau to promote greater use of Irish pota toes." Actually, however, observers say it is obvious that the new organization is a lobbying organization and that its main objective will be a proper price -support for potatoes. The or ganization in its initial announce ment said in part: "... support prices should serve as insurance against price collapse rather than as ail inducement to growers to over produce. They (the farmers) believe the 60 per cent support program for this year will materially reduce the incentive for overplanting." The council says folks are not eating enough potatoes and pro ducers are raising- more potatoes per acre so the thing: to do is to boost consumption. In the meantime, the battle be tween the southern senators who oppose the Truman administration civil rights program has been joined aad the fight to a finish on cloture and against the filibuster assumed the proportions of a real grudge fight. Whether or not the so-called states Tightens will become suffici ently mollified, or whether a split of such durability has been created that little legislation can get through this congress, remains to be seen. Some old political observers de clare the President was right in at tempting to force the cloture rule in the senate, others disagree declaring that unlimited debat-e, no matter who it hurts or what happens, was a more or less inalienable right in such a democratic forum as the United States senate. Unless the congress gets busy, it will find itself up against the deadline for rent control since the present rent control law ex pires March 31. Every organiza tion interested in rent control, either for or against, has a dif ferent proposal to make to the congress, so it will be a matter of judgment as to what will fin ally come out of the legislative mill on this subject. The various reports of the Hoover commission which are being made to the congress piece-meal, accord ing to observers here, constitute an outstanding job of proposed govern mental reorganization. President Real Estate Transfers Hester Morgan Pearl M. Schwindt et al, 8-14-46. L. 1 & 2 B. 23 Und. 15 Int. L. 5 & 6 B. 18 Eagle, Louie Jacobs & Estella Chas. Lowder Sr. & Ruth, 2-21-49, L. 19 W. Greenwd & L. 1 & 2 Jones Add., $3800.00. Sophia Bohlman Joe F. Be hrns & Lena, 9-11-43, Prop, in Avoca, $4750.00. Linford Dasher & Mary Mary Dasher, 3-4-49, L. 3 B. 61 Platts., $1.00. Lorene Rohrdanz et al Leda Engelkemier & Allien Ragoss, 12-17-48, N1 SEi. 31-12-12, $11000.00. Leda Englekemier et al El don Ragoss & Viola. 12-17-48, S'2 SE'i 31-12-12 & EV2 NW4. 6-11-12 & L. 7 SE'4 SW4, 31- Truman has declared he is in favor of many of the proposals. Old-timers in the government, however, a- e skeptical that the proposals will no the job intended, namely, to .treair line the federal set-up into more ef ficient, less costly agencies. The e old-timers point out that the woulc be reorganizers have overlooked or.? objective of government and that -a "public service." Public sen-ice, f jr instance, such ss the postotlice 1 partment gives and for which Mw taxpayers pay a subsidy, likely ".ill never be placed on a payin? bns'.s for the reason that the rates would be prohibitive to the average iu;er. The National Farm Coopera tive association charges that the hardware dealers through their national officers are being- used as "front line shock troops for the promoters of the National Tax Equality association" in their fight against co-ops. NFC A points to a speech by Seth Mar shall, chairman of the National Wholesale Hardware associa tion's committee on coopera tives, as evidence backing their charge. In his speech Mr. Mar shall is quoted as having said: "There is only one way this fight can be won and that is by convinc ing the millions of federal taxpay ers, particularly taxpaying business men, that tax equality is fair; that tax equality is necesFary for them to survive: that no legitimate co-ou is going to be put out of business be cause it will have to pay federal in come tax on its earnings. When we fight for tax equality we are fight ing for the heart and soul of free enterprise . . . But to really obtain tax equality, business men, big raid little, must, in my opinion, face the fact that the success of tax subsi dized business will surely destroy the profit system that is enjoyed by mil lions of people and place it in the hands of a few who easily become dictators." Incidentally, Congressman Robert W. Kean R., New Jersey) has in troduced a bill which would prevent tax-exempt non-profit educational and charitable institutions from avoiding taxes on some cf their en terprises. The New Jersey congieas man would protect "legitimate charitable and educational organiza tions" in their tax exemption, but would hit at the practice of some non-profit organizations or institu tions of purchasing various business institutions, manufacturing estab lishments or real estate which sup ply tax free revenue. 12-12. $30475X0. Hattie McCann R. R. Mc Donald & Julia, 3-9-49. L. 13.14. 15 B. 7 Carter's Add. to Avoca, $2800.00. Henry A. Schneider Carl J. Schneider & Kermii, 3-8-49 SEU, 4-11-13, $1.00. First Washington WASHINGTON, Va. (U.R This town, surveyed and plotted by George Washington on Aug. 4. 1749, claims to be the "first Washington of all," but it was not incorporated until Feb. 12. 1894. Twenty-five other cities and towns in the United States are named Washington. Two-week courses at 70 schools are offered Naval Re servists for annual training with pay. The Navy has a new device which will automatically and continuously record a ship's course. Sun. and Mon., March 20-21 Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy and a big cast. "A SOUTHERN YANKEE" You'll howl shriek roar! At Red who's a spy for both sides! 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