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$7.80 $7. i by 4 1 1 1 NO. 65 1 Guernica Restored Basques are a distinctive people In north- Spain. the centuries they have jied their manners and customs and their n' distinctive language. in Spain, the Basques were long corded local independence and a special status in Wiftlr relations with the central government.

-''Ancient capital of Biscaya, one of tha three JiBasque provinces is Guernica, a town of about $8,000 population. During the Spanish civil war, filler and Mussolini sent considerable forces to aid Franco in fighting the republican government these ambitious dictators bad another purt: To experiment in the technics of lightning On April 24, 1837, Hermann Goering's flyers H'v Swooped-down upon Guernica and tested their air tactics and special weapons on the undefended tovro. They left scarcely a building standing. The experiment was a great success. has the distinction of being the first in Europe to be subjected to obliteration iblng.

J' Today, according to the London Telegraph, the town Is almost entirely rebuilt of brick and -stone. Reconstruction started in 1940. The center the town, the main street, the square, the school, civic "buildings and a number of dwellings are already "completed. Guernica Is again a thriving market In the center of the rich Bicayan farmlands. 'one of the cherished institutions of Guernica tree under which the representatives of "the" free people met.

There as early as 1371, the Likings of Castile came to swear an oath uphold the liberties Of the Basques. The tree was im- in a song, Arbol de Guernica, by a poet, which serves as the national anthem free people. The original tree died long ago, successor survived the bombing. What is more significant, the spirit of the people also sur' cruel ordeal. not, ML-they remember wnen western ftnrf ourselves united to crush that? revolution toy supporting the White Russian faction.

Private Citizen Wallace will likely discuss these The American people should consider them. The Room Why does not Nebraska legalize the mechanical one-armed bandits into which people poke so many coins of various denomination 7 Hyde Sweet, recalling that our state legalized hoss-raee gambling, plumps for the slots, a form of chsjice- taking which flourishes the year around. Race betting was legalized for the purpose of "improving the breed of horses in Nebraska." out cam WAY -By Wiilimii Always there must be a laudable purpose. Hyde would legalize slot machines "to Improve the gul- Hbillty of all who still believe that you can get something worth while without Working for it" I detect a cynical note there. I suggest a better slogan: "to'teach the people the futility of trying to make gains without honest effort." Or, still better, why not use the state 1 rake-off of gambling to fill the fund for state-aid to schools 1 The $40 per pupil amendment it criticized because it does not specify the source, other than property taxes, which is to furnish the money to aid education.

A rake-off of the gambling take could be the answer. It would provide adult education; adults loae money trying for the jackpot; put the machine's profit into the fund to support the schools. Stranger things have been done. During a week of rest a G.I. friend calls correspondence.has logged.

A lady at Odell aska Information on the meat situation In cow being sacred, don't the animals accumulate and become a nuisance? They sure do. Sacred cows in India cannot be killed for all religious sects take this position they are a sorry lot, sharing in the famines which frequently sweep that crowded country Another friend writes from Pawnee City, asking my recipe for chutney relish. This Is not available at the moment, but I hope to get It soon. And this leads me to an embarrassing confession: we didn't make chutney relish this year, but made the tomatoes Into chili sauce. This Is a scarce Item and I'll give you the recipe soon.

Private Citizen Wallace Henry Wallace Is now a private citizen, and he announced he "will continue to' fight for t- peace." 'Maybe "fight for peace" was hot the happiest choice of words, but we can skip that. If he is to do any fighting, it were more appropriate that he It as a private 1 -citizen, not as a member of the administration fighting hip own associates. The retirement from the cabinet Is the logical Reclining at ease, insulated from the roaring canyon of trade which is Court street, from the madding crowd's contentions, I am in a position to take an objective view of what goes on In the world and in our own little segment of it. I have whirled away some hours reading U. S.

history. It is interesting to note that our country has been headed for the demnotion bow-wowa most of its natural existence. outcome. The incident embarrassed our country i- its international Delations and; will plague the administration politically at home! Unhampered by official responsibility, Private Citizen Wallace is free to exnound his thesis. He danger in the widespread feeling that a new war is inevitable.

Any thinking person must con- for never before, so soon after a great war, so many people taken the cheerless 'f that- another conflict may come soon. (t We must live in a world with Russia, and the is true that Russia must live in a world us. The whole world's Interest lies In peace- trade and communication between the nations. Differences In ideologies need not bring on "-Itarmed conflict. Czarist Russia was no menace to nor need be the soviet state.

A long-time aspiration of Russia, under the and inherited by the present regime, is a port exit to the south. Is it essential to our own to block that objective? know our own devotion to peace, but the are suspicious. Have they no good for doubting us? We (know they have Our history is studded with crises which tried men's souls, and prophets of gloom in each era have croaked their dark forebodings. Most of these lamentations, however true they may have seemed to those who gave them utterance, have humorous side, viewed from a distance. Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln each in his day was the target of the most relentless vituperation.

The country has survived a lot of destructive policies, manhood suffrage, abolishing imprisonment for debt, social security. Another Displaced Person vr 1 ffi Ml JtT, saw mr 5 "W2 f. fc- Economically, T)te Jhave gone through the boom- bust routine time after time. When we find and apply the formula of preventing these sharp angles on the economic chart, growth will have ceased. Each generation must have Its fling.

Production cures scarcity; surpluses clog the market and slow down Industry; then unemployment, want, hard times, followed by a surge of pent-up energy and we start over again. I doubt if we realized the price of a fool-proof economy, we'd be willing to pay for it. The aged yearn for a static monotony, but youth aspires for progress which is another name, for changing what has been I'm- preparing a lecture on the subject for the grandchildren. Out of the Past SIDE GLANCES By Gailbrftilh Battle of the Inches By Peter Edson WASHINGTON Sept. 22 (NBA) five-way battle royal among natural gas, petroleum, coal, artificial gas, and states'-rights conservation interests is now being waged under cover, as a sideshow to disposal of the Big Inch pipelines running from Texas to New York.

Sixteen bids, to buy or lease these 147-mlllion-dollar war babies are now before the War Assets Administration, which will make final disposal. Six of the bids come from concerns wanting to use the two pipelines for transportation of natural gas from Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana fields to the Philadelphia-New Jersey New York areas that now consume artificial gas. The other 10 bidders propose using the pipelines to carry petroleum or Its products. Submission of final data In connection with the bids was due Sept. 16.

Sometime early In October the War Assets Administration is expected to hand down its decision on who gets the prize for what use and for how much. Conflict over use of the pipelines for natural gas or petroleum and Its products arises from a curious and crazy situation. Every day, an estimated billion and one-half to two billion cubic feet of natural gas is that it is burned off and the Texas, Louisiana Oklahoma, and Kansas fields. It would probably not be practical to save all of this gas. Industry estimates are that perhaps half a billion cubic feet a day could be used.

That figures out to 182 billion cubic feet a year. Natural gas being richer than artificial gas be converted into over 350 billion feet of gas suitable fo domestic cooking and heating This is far in excess of today'; apparent market demand. In the densely populated area between Philadelphia and New York live 13 million three and one-half million familiei are present and potentia users of gas. in 1944 they burned 172 billion cubic feet of 'artifIcia gas. With the two pipelines alread; built to connect this source supply with the big eastern con centratlon of consumers, the pos sible saving of wasted gasses now being flared in the Texas-to-Kan sas oil fields would seem to a logical measure for conservatio in the national interest.

There are however, a number of strong opponents to any proposal for this use of the big pipelines as carriers of natural gas, and they're all in there pitching to prevent the western gas from being piped to eastern users. Leading the fighfare the local- pride conservationists from the producing states. They oppose letting the east benefit from their natural resources. Instead, they say eastern industry should come west, where gas is, cheap, and use it there. That this "gas is now being wasted in- many the pro- ducing areas is ooked.

Second in opposition are the coal iroducers and the eastern manu- acturers of artificial gas. Artificial gas is made largely from coal, Chis use of coal were elimlnat- It would mean less work for coal miners, reduced sales for Jie coal operators; Third In opposition are the strong-jiational-defense advocates who shout that the pipelines should be kept ready to trans- sort petroleum products from west east in case there should be another war and a submarine menace that would interfere with tanker movements between Gulf 3orts and eastern refineries. 40 Years Afto Kong KoAg city -was visited by a hurricane Which midnight until, after- daylight, property loss estimates from to twenty millions. Fremont light-frost In Maple Creefc, Valley killed tender oliage and slightly damaged'corn his morning. 1 Mr.

and Mrs. Fogg left on an extended trip to Iowa. 20 Years Ago Chicago lucky boy to be William Schroder, 14, of Chicago was playing a roof of a seven story. Chicago hotel building 1 he fell 'overboard. A skylight broke the force of, his 'all and be hit the street without fracturing a bone.

Postmaster Robert Pease and wife were at Crete to visit their daughter who is attending school there. 10 Tears Ago Saavedra Lamas Agrentine foreign minister, was elected president of League of Nations assembly tonight. John Elliott, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Stewart Elliott, left yesterday for Northfield, where 'he, will attend school the- coming year. You can't see the new moon. When you first see the crescent moon low in the western sky, it is fronvone to two days old. MM. ft MA StnVKC.

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8. MT. OFF. "If I do go on a meat strike against going to hurt you a lot more than these prices, it's it does me!" Finally, the War Assets Administration, in a policy statement issued last January, seemed to give preference to the use of the pipelines for petroleum. In a statement to which congress gave tacit approval by not disapproving, the WAA policy was set down in this language: "Disposal (of the pipelines) for natural gas will be favored only if It proves impossible to keep the lines In petroleum service.

It will be considered then only if national security appears to be otherwise protected." That statement means everything to everybody, and it Is the center of the present controversy between gas and oil Interests. Not so unnaturally, when you stop to. figure it out. private industry in the oil business is perfectly content to haul its oil by ship and convert the pipelines into gas carriers. This conversion would not be expensive.

Natural gas now being wasted could be saved and sold at profit, bringing greater prosperity to producers, cheaper and perhaps better gas to consumers. There Is no shortage of natural gas In the ground. Estimated reserves in' Texas are put at 60 trillion feet, in Louisiana at 11 trillion feet, in Oklahoma and Kansas at 16 trillion feet. That's enough to supply the U. S.

for nearly a century, if it could all be used. Soldier Serving Term For Jap Killing Flees HOKOHAMA, Sept. 21 Joseph E. Hicswa, under 30-year- sentence for the slaying of two Japanese last November, escaped from Tokyo hospital Tuesday and is at large, the U. S.

Eighth army provost marshall announced today. The Walling, N. private, who had been death last January and had his sentence commuted by President Truman, was sent to the hospital after swallowing two nails in stockade carpenter shop, the announcement said. When a ship flies the Stars and Stripes upside down, it means that the ship is in dire distress. ARGE JUST RECEIVED I Platform Rockers Living Room Suites Crome Breakfast Sets Occasional Pieces Tables Lamp Tables Telephone Sets Lamps Table Lamps A very nice assortment in sets Plasto Glass Vanity Sets Pin-Up Lamps 9x12 Wool Rugs 27x54 Axminster Throw Rugs Light Ail It Jk IP IF i 7 ilw IF 1C BB WW HUHDR BEAUTIFUL 1 iJi, Mi Iflume FMSi js I i 1 i 1 1 I'i' i( vJ.

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