Beatrice Daily Sun from Beatrice, Nebraska • Page 1

TflE TEMPERATURES High 75 lo.v (59 lilph yesir nso 1M Knlnriilt 22 BEATRICE DAILY SUN 'If You Didn't See It In The SUN It Didn't Happen" Member of The Associated Press THE WEATHER NEBRASKA: cut Sunday; little change In temperature. KANSAS: Scattered showers east, warmer west and central portions. UOLUME XLI BEATRICE. NEBRASKA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1942 Ho.

50 1 1st Dempster Anti-Aircraft Shells Ready Ceremony Marks Beatrice Plant's New Product In Fight Against The Axis. X)T GOING QUICKLY Dempster officers, employes and few guests gathered Saturday in he new plant where the Dempster ompany is making anti-aircraft hells for the army, to witness the ii'st shell being presented by H. Dempster to Capt. Fred G. J.

Beckman, res- and B. M. Kll- superintendent, llrkoosh. John ident inspector, liourne. plant poke briefly.

Admission to the building- was liy pass and identification badge I mly. I When shell no. 1 was handed to liim properly inscribed, Capt. Ar- Icoosh, of the ordnance depart- Inent, said a number of contracts liad been awarded about the time he Dempster contract was made vlarch 14, and none were ahead tf the local company. He hoped be able to give an award" or production to the Dempster liompany.

Shell no. 2 was pro- liented to Dempster by Kilbourne. I H. L. Dempster, in his speech the first shell to Capt.

reviewed recent history leading up to the company getting Into this entirely new line of man- lifacture, Must Bo Prepared Three years ago when Hitler litarted this war, he continued, little did the American people expect to be drawn into the conflict an attack upon American as was delivered at Pearl AXIS WILL HEAR FfcOM BEATRICE PLANT Anti-Inflation Orders Of FDR Loom Drastic Expect Labor Day Decree To Ban Wage Hikes Of More Than 15 Percent. Two U. S. Warships Sunk; Rommel Forced Retreat; Stalingrad Stands Firm Piioto Yesterday was a red-letter day in the history of the Dempster plant here, for it saw the completion of the first shells under the Dempster contract with the army ordnance department. Pictured above as they appeared at ceremonies celebrating the event yesterday afternoon, left to right, arc: Herman M.

Loeber, chief engineer; John J. Beckman, resident inspector for the armj Capt. Fred G. Arkoosh, officer In charge of the Omaha subofflce of the St. Louis ordnance district, U.

S. army; and H. L. Dempster, plant president. Loeber and Capt.

Arkoosh hold two of the completed shells. "Last year Russia stood against enemy, but now it is evident l-hat Stalingrad may be lost and enemy menaces the Caucasus the route to the Black sea. "Not long ago, men said America could never be invaded, but l.vith perfection of new machines I'ew still believe in the Impossibility of the United States being bombed. The world situation pre- a dark picture, which vve may not become a reality, aut Russia may go down and England may lose. Imagine the sltion of the United States between triumphant enemies, and Japan.

"Our enemies' strength in ma- erial resources has greatly in- Icreascd. Recent statistical estim- lates of the percentages of var- vital materials in the hands Germany and Japan are: 57 ncrcent of world's pig iron output, percent of steel capacity, 58 lif aluminum, 33 of lead, 65 of tin, of zinc, 49 of manganese. The llamaged factories in captured been put back to Ivork by the invaders. The steel rapacity lost in Russia is greater the steel output of 1 Telegrams From Washington Mr. Dempster read a telegram rom Under Secretary of War Paterson and Under Secretary of Na- Forrester, saying this year's or Day is the most critical in American history.

On every front United Nations have suffered hetbacks, American been lulled and captured. W'ln nine Inonths of war our afceomplish- Inents in terms of final victory lire meager. Ahead lies a long, rlesperate struggle. Now, with the fruits of American toil, the In my and navy have begun to take offensive east and west. But attack and keep on attacking, must have full support of American labor andTnanagement." The company had investigated f.vhere best it might be of service, Kempster said, and decided on the iroduction of 90 mm.

M-71 high Explosive, anti-aircraft shells. The Contract was awarded March 14 lasi. Since then the staff has working long hours and sev- pn days a week. He congratulat- H. M.

Loeber, company chief I'jiglneer. and others who had vorked long and hard to get pro- liuction started. Special Honor To Trio Firms Rivoli, Wilke, Ward Employees 100 Percent On 10 Percent Club Rolls. School To Open Tuesday St. Paul's Lutheran school will i its doors for the new term 'uesday, Sept.

8, at 9 o'clock. Miss Mary Fischer will be in of the lower grades. Parents interested in the day school may call on the principal, Herman Schmieding at $00 North llth, or Pastor Tim- ten, 1400 North 10th. Three Beatrice business houses reported Saturday to the Lions club defense bond promotion committee that all of their employes had joined the 10 per cent club pledging 10 per cent of their income for war bonds and stamps. Th'e firms placed on the special honor roll were Rivoli theater, Wilke Baking company, and Montgomery Ward.

Other firms will be given special notice when they reach the 100 per cent mark. A complete list of firms taking signatures in the 10 per cent club was released by the Lions club committee with the number of signers each firm has. County clerk's staff 8, County treasurer's staff 7, Store Kraft 37, Daily Sun 4, Beatrice. Times 3, Beatrice Steel Tank 25, Rial to theater 8, Rivoli theater 28, Victory theater 1, AAA office 14. Lutheran hospital 17, Post Office 11, State Savings 12, Brown- McDonald 8, J.

C. Penney 20, Smith Dry Goods 10, Home Savings 2, Umphenour Grocery 14, Ostrander Grocery 5, Wllkie Bakery 20. Northern Natural Gas 4, Natural Gas Pipeline 9, State Institution 14, Beatrice Banks 26, Telephone 18, Warren Drugs 2, Coca Cola Bottling Co. 2, Kees Mfg. Co.

11, Swift Co. 81, Burlington 5. Union Pacific 32, City Light Power 2, Consumers Power 9, Beatrice Production Credit 5, Montgomery Ward 20. Sentimental Value In Legion's Cannon Gift The American Legion is expressing its purpose to aid the national cause by giving the old cannon to the metal salvage campaign, a legion officer said yesterday. Sentiment attaches to the old gun, relic of a war in which legion men bore, arms, and a new sentiment inspires the gift.

The freight bill for bringing- the old cannon on to Beatrice was $425, which the World war veterans raised. The old gun will be formally presented to the salvage drive Friday evening, after a parade through downtown streets. City School Bells Ring Again Tuesday Public schools of the city open the 1942-43 term Tuesday morn- Ing, poors open at 8:30 a. m. at the junior ajid senior high schools, 9 a.

m. at the grade schools. All grade pupils should report on the first day to the school of the district In which they live, and later make application for transfer, If desirable, Supt. E. L.

Novotny said. Kindergarten children who will be five years of age on or before January- 1, 1943, should enter school Tuesday. Morning sessions will be at Fairview, East, South and West; afternoon classes at Central, Belvidere, Glenover and Harrington. Harrington pupils will be transported by taxi to Glenover at 1 p. m.

and returned at 3:30. In response to requests for refresher courses in typing and shorthand for adults, a public meeting has been set for Thursday at 8 p. m. in the board of education rooms when interested parties should appear. The response will determine action.

Salvation Army Gratified With Initial Gift Response contributions through he "Initial gifts" campaign for he Salvation Army have been cry gratifying, Capt. A. C. Read iid yesterday. The campaign be- lan a few days ago with the ob- Ictive of raising, through it and he subsequent general drive, a linunu'm of $4,000 for Salvation Irmy purposes.

1 Capt. Read said that a number 3 friends of the army have dou- their contributions over those, a year ago, in view of the rmy's pressing need for funds to latfit a basement in the church young people's activities. Figures compiled by the army. 12-months -period ending fept. 1 show that: 52 Sunday Bhool meetings were held; which re attended by a total of 3,502 young people.

Young people's leadership classes totaled 221 and drew a total attendance of 1,806. Total attendance at 409 young people's character-building meetings wa? 6,598. These figures represented only a small part of the work the army is conducting, Capt. Read said, activities for other age groups being equally Intensive, "Our facilities are terribly overtaxed," he said, "and we are calling on our good friends in Beatrice to help us meet the emergency. We are confident in the outcome." Last year, $3,100 was solicited.

An equal amount is needed this maintenance aloner-TIW army anticipates need for an additional $900 for the basement pro. ject 11 Seek Enlistment Beatrice Navy Post Eleven men, including one from Beatrice, have applied for enlistment in the navy through the local recruiting station in last few days, and will be sent to Omaha for enlistment before the end of next week, A. B. Goodwin, recruiter, announced yesterday. The applicants: A.

Nixon; Marvin E. Jewell and Everett F. Buss; Virginia John V. Mencl; C. Jensen; Raymond E.

Van Busklrk; W. Bilby and Theodore H. Kohlmeyer; Western Richard -A. Winter; Swan ton Glen Richard Strouf. Goodwin said yesterday that, although most men enlisting in the navy are in younger age groups, the navy very definitely has a place for men up to 50 years of age, and older men wfyo want to serve their country in this war should not be reluctant about investigating opportunities that await them in the navy.

"A navy recruit doesn't have to be a specialist or have a trade," he said. "The navy will train him in the finest schools and shops in the world, fitting him for a vocation that will serve him well after the war is over." The pay for skilled jobs in the navy ranges from $78 to $138 per month, plus board and lodging, and with 20 per cent additional for service at sea. Public Offices Not Open On Labor Day All offices in the courthouse will be closed Monday. Employes are observing Labor day. There will be no window service at the Beatrice post office.

Postmaster J. C. Douthitt announced. There will be no delivery service either in town or in the country. Other local institutions to be closed all day Monday will be the YMCA war price and rationing board.

FINGER IN MIXER Elizabeth Andrelfsr daughter of John Andreas, living east of town on the 'Scott street road, "had a bone of her finger fractured when she got it into mixer yesterday. The finger nail was also torn off. She a high junior. Trio Charged Enemy Agents Printed Propaganda In Magazine Bought With Jap Consulate Funds. WASHINGTON, Sept.

5 The justice department announced today that it had arrested three men, including a former employe of the office of the coordinator of Inter-American affairs in Washington, on charges of acting an agents of the Japanese government. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation, named the three ns Walker Grey Matheson of Washington, formerly a news analyst in the Inter-American affairs office; Joseph Hilton Smyth and Irvine Harvey Williams, both of New York. Hoover said that Smyth and Matheson bought the magazine "The Living Age" in June. 1938, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) Two Auto Purchases Merit Rationing OK The Gage county war price and rationing- board granted authorizations for the pui-chase of two new motorcars and for a number of new passenger and truck tires and tubes and numerous retreads this week.

The following authorizations were made: New G. Dorn, Filley, and William D. Breunsbach, Liberty. New passenger car tires and C. Schulte, Adams, 1-1.

Obsolete tires and Times, 1-1; School district no. 164, Virginia, 1-0; William Niemeyer, Clatonia, 1-1; W. W. Wick, Blue Springs. 0-1; Walter F.

Niemeyer, Cortland, 1-0; Dietrich Riechers, Clatonia, 0-1; Earl Mat- threws, Blue Springs, 1-1; and Calving- Duncan, 1-1. New truck tires and Wilke Baking company, 1-0; Arthur Mills, 1-1; Hairy Fisher, 1-0; Perry Baker, 1-1; Marshall Produce, Wymore, 1-1. Truck J. Siebels, Barneston, WilKe Baking company, Cecil Freel, Wymore, Kirk's Wholesale, Federal Oil company, Iowa-Nebraska Power and Light. Don Weber, E.

S. Stevens, Frank Best plumbing, 3. Tractor E. Haecker, John K. Summers, 1.

Passenger retreads Ward Finch, Dr. A. R. Bryant, Willis Menke, S. J.

Hevelone, A. R. Trout, Filley, 2. DOUBT ASK CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 IS 1 drastic presidential order limiting all wages, salaries and farm prices was in store for the nation today in an unprecedented move, government officials revealed, to thwart a threatened runaway rise in the cost of living.

The responsible sources who can not be quoted by name, said the decree, as drafted by President Roosevelt for issuance on Labor day, calls for creation of an economic administrator to carry out these policies designated to halt rising wartime In effect, the presidential edict is scheduled to tighten the purse strings of every American to luxury or unnecessary spending and to open them wide to payments of debts and more taxes, and to greater war bond purchases. Even Mr. Roosevelt's advisers who aided in preparing the message regarded it as almost revolutionary because- an act of congress virtually will be set aside by the farm price section of the order which affects a provision of the price control act specifically forbidding any price ceilings on farm products at less than 110 per cent of parity. The president will say his wartime powers and duties-are sufficient authority for the order. Already mentioned as possibilities for the post of economic administrator were Governor Herbert H.

Lehman of New York, Wendell Willkie and Bernard M. Baruch. January 1 Base General provisions of the decree as outlined by auhtorltatlve informants is expected to prohibit wage increases above the January 1941, level by more than 15 per cent, the approximate rise In living costs since that date. Workers paid by the hour, however, will not be" prevented from receiving more for extra hours employed, and it was indicated that those who had received more than a 15 per cent increase since January 1, 1941, will be permitted to continue on the basis of the increased paj While wages will constitute the amount paid by an hourly rate or I Continued on Page 2, 'Col. 6) DeVries Speaker At Banquet Of Chamber Donald E.

Devries, secretary of the Associated Industries of Nebraska, will be one of the principal speakers at the "every-mem- bcr" meeting- of the chamber of commerce starting at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Paddock, R. S. Latta, 'secretary, announced yesterday.

Devries, who returned recently from a national meeting called by the WPB to discuss changes from to "allocations," is expected to bring, some vital information to persons at the meeting Tuesday. Also featured at the meeting will be an open forum on the question, "What should be the program of work of the chamber of commerce in the next. six months?" Henry Mosiman, John Kees, and Rev. John Streng, representing retailers, manufacturers, and the community, respectively, will speak briefly, after which several opinions from the floor will be heard. A time limit will be set on each speaker.

Deadline for ticket purchases, Latta said, is Tuesday noon. They may be secured at the Beatrice State bank, Bauer's, Weigel's Geyerman's, Gamble's, Hetherington's, and the chamber office. Car Rams Tree; 0. L. Clarke In Hospital O.

L. Clarke of Beatrice is in a Hastings hospital with a broken jaw and nose fracture and lacerations and bruises after a highway accident yesterday afternoon caused by his falling asleep while driving. He had driven to Superior, where his Mary Ann Is teaching school, and was on his way north to Fairmont, when his car ran off the road near Clay Center and collided with a tree. The car was demolished. HB was taken to Clay Center, but the -doctor there aUvised taking him to a hospital.

E3d Home, Beatrice, who Was at Fairmont, went to the hospital and Clarke who told him he had evidently fallen asleep. He will be in the hospital for several days at least before he can be removed to his home. Ripening Weather Need Of Corn Now Report Nazis Force Wounded Take Up Arms Civilians Help Russian Troops Check Invaders In Suburbs Of City. SCREENS OF SHELLS MOSCOW, Sept. 6 (Sunday) UP) an amazing power of recuperation, Soviet Russian soldiers have hurled back German attempts to advance on.

Stalingrad by violent assaults of infantrymen, tanks and planes for the second straight day, and the Russians are holding their lines firmly, the Soviets announced Sunday. In the Caucasus also, military advices said, the Russians were checking the German progress, and in the central and eastern sector were counterattacking. The only enemy advance recorded in dispatches was above the Black sea naval station of Novo- rossisk. The red army meanwhile continued to push Its own offensive at Rzhev, northwest of Moscow. About Stalingrad, the Germans were described as in difficulties with a screen of red army fire ahead of them and a barren expanse of steppes behind.

The Russian lines stiffened after three successive days of withdrawals and the newspaper Red Star said the enemy apparently was "assembling his last forces" in ah effort to break through to the Volga. Tough To Crack (A German broadcast, quoting nazi military quarters, said the Russians were fighting bitterly to make Stalingrad a "Red Verdun" and declared the sprawling Industrial center had been converted Into a vast fortress which would be difficult to take. are many tanks and so much artillery that German troops, even after they have entered the city's environs, must capture house after house," a riazl military spokesman said. (Besides heavy reinforced concrete bunkers, Stalingrad's bristling defenses include "innumerable giant minefields, reaching right up to the suburbs Where German forces are now fighting," the spokesman said. (German siege guns were reported pounding the city while hundreds of nazi warplanes spread fires and destruction, but still the red armies, bolstered by factory workers and civilians, fought to the death rather than surrender the "City of "Our warships in the Baltic sank four enemy transports and two German torpedo 'boats with a displacement of 37,000 tons," the war bulletin reported.

Wounded Forced To Red Star declared that German officers, seeking the greatest use of their available manpower, were even forcing their own wounded Into repeated attacks, killing those who were able to rise but unable to advance. "The enemy is still strong here, but his hasty actions for a conclusion indicate he is assembling his last forces from other sectors and fronts," it said. The Russians announced earlier this week that they were outnumbered on some sectors before Stalingrad as much ax three to one. Japs Get Auxiliary Transport, Destroyer WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 The loss of the U.

S. destroyer Blue and the small auxiliary transport Calhonn by enemy action In the south Pacific was ajmounced by the navy tonight. The navy said the sinkings occurred "during the past two weeks" but did not connect them with any specific action. The destroyer Blue, commissioned in 1937, was a 1,500 ton type vessel and had a normal complement of 175 men. The transport Calhonn was commissioned first as.

a destroyer In 1918 and was converted to an auxiliary transport In 1940. She would have a normal complement of about 200 if troops were aboard. With the sun behind clouds the greater part of four days this past week, Gage county corn needs weeks of good ripening weather, County Agricultural Agent Kenneth Reed said yesterday. He estimated the crop is at 110 per cent' of normal, the same as last week. Sorghums are also rated 110 per cent, alfalfa, 100, and range and pastures 120 per cent.

Rainfall, surface, and subsoil moisture were listed by the county agent as sufficient 'following a total rainfall of 1.45 during the week. The rains, it was said, have delayed the seeding of alfalfa and brome and some farmers have decided to postpone seeding until next spring. County Relief Cost In August Decline The cost of general relief again was on the decline during the month of August, County Relief Director Andrew Thomson said yesterday. Total cost for the month was $2,425.81 for 204 cases and 488 persons. The figures are $634,71, thirty-one cases, and 120 persons less than those for July of this year.

year in August $2926,32 were expended for 287 cases and 802 persons. Charles De Rock of Wymore entered a Beatrice hospital last night (or treatment. U.S. Bombers Heaviest Blow Rouen Railroad Center, Le Havre Docks Raided; No Planes Shot Down. County Would Purchase 100 Corn Beatrice implement dealers believe that 100 mechanical corn pickers could be sold in Gage county if they were made available by the WPB, a survey by the Gage county war agricultural board revealed yesterday.

It was believed by board mem- beri that the 100 two-row machines if made available could harvest 30,000 acres of corn with the help of the estimated 25 pickers already in the county. Each machine could pick about 300 acres during th season, it was said. Farmers and what few farm hands are available would have to harvest the remaining 95,000 acres. Under present WPB regulations no machines are to be shipped to this county for sale. The number alloted is based on the number sold in each county for the 1940 crop.

There was a small corn crop in Gage county that year pickers sold. LONDON, Sept. 5 (JP) The United States air forces struck their heaviest blow of the war against Hitler today when Flying Fortresses, attacked the Rouen railway yards'for the second time and 'Boston bombers were in action against the Le Havre docks. American and RAF fighters es- scocted the bombers and engaged in sharp combats. The Fortresses completed their eighth successive raid without loss and all the Bos- tons came home safely, too.

Three squadrons of the four- motored Fortresses flew against Rouen, the largest flight yet used in Europe. They Bombed their targets from high altitude. Six allied fighters were lost. None of the U. S.

fighters was missing, however, an authoritative source said. RAF, SOVIETS LASH GERMANY LONDON, Sept. 5 and Russian airmen administered a punishing whipsaw assault upon Germany from west and east last night, a strong RAF kindling big fire's in Bremen and the Russians scattering bombs over eastern Germany and occupied Poland while unidentified allied raiders made their first attack on Budapest. The German war bulletin which reported the raids on eastern Germany failed to name the cities attacked, but the British radio quoted Scandinavian dispatches from Berlin as saying that the targets included Vienna in Austria, Koenigsburg, a city of East Prussia; and Breslau, in German Silesia. Berlin broadcast an official Hungarian announcement that Budapest and points in northern Hungary were hit by bombs dropped during a two-hour alarm by high-flying raiders.

The Budapest announcement failed to give their nationality, but the Germans said they were Russian. 2,008 AAA Policies Insure County Wheat The county triple-A office announced yesterday that 2,008 farmers and land owners had signed up for federal crop insurance on their .1943 wheat crop and that the majority of this number took 75 per cent coverage on the crop. The total was 800 applications below the record mark of last when 2808 signed. Chairman Nelson Walker Gas Shortage Holds Up Axis Push In Egypt British Gain Ground For Second Day Of Struggle In Hot Desert Wastes. TANKS IN WITHDRAWAL CAIRO, Sept.

5 tank columns withdrew farther and their unarmored vehicles were taken almost entirely out of battle area, British headquarters reported tonight. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel perhaps encountered more resistance than expected and observers, claimed the first week of renewed battle for Egypt had ended in a limited victory for Allied arms', said he was giving offensive ideas for the moment. A joint General Headquarters- RAF communique said General Sir Harold Alexander's forces met and hurled back the successive battering-ram assaults by Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel in a futile effort to regain -positions lost by his German and Italian troops Reviewing the first week of Rommel's campaign aimed at Alexandria, Suez and the Valley of the Nile, British military men said, the nazi commander incurred an initial setback when he penetrated an allied minefield, where allied heavy artillery and air bombardments twice forced him to withdraw. New Gun Effective One military observer ex-' pressed the view that damage German and Italian armor had been heavy. This he said, inflicted chiefly by British 25-, pounders and a new 4.5-Inch howitzer.

i Rommel's quick withdrawal af-J. ter but sharp action over cooling desert, sands was "believed to have been inspired by supply difficulties, especially a shortage of gasoline. In this event, military quarters said Gen. Alexander might press forward before the German command is able to draw new strength from forward depots. The British, however, avoided any suggestion of a full-scale counter offensive and imperial headquarters likewise declared only that British forces "continued their pressure on the enemy's main concentration." Dispatches indicated that thfc British were wary of a new trap set by Rommel and were guarding against a repetition of the disaster at Tobruk last June, when he sent a small force of tanks forward as bait and lured the British into a' nest of hidden anti-tank guns.

U. S. Tanks'In Action Front-line advices said United States tank crews, riding "General Grants" into action in the first two days of the battle, showed they could both take it and hand it back. U. S.

army headquarters said a single American tank knocked out six axis tanks and probably wrecked two others. and no DELEHANT HOME SOLD that complete tabulations not yet available but the said were trend showed that about 98 per cent of all signers had applied for 75 per cent coverage on their wheat. Walker is to attend an AAA meeting in Lincoln tomorrow at which time workers will suggest changes which might be made in the agriculture program for the 1943 year. Walker represents a seven-county area at the meeting. JayCees To Sponsor Cornhusking Contest The Beatrice Junior chamber of commerce decided at a meeting Friday night to energetically promote a county cornhusking contest this fall.

4 Picked as a committee to plan the event are Forrest Maranville. I. G. Christensen, George Ryan, and Kenneth' Reed. The group also decided to look into the feasibility of erecting a sign board on which would be placed the names of all Beatrice boys serving with the armed forces.

A committee of Don Hawley, Wes Winker, Lloyd Bauer, Ed Damrow, and Robert Latta was picked to consider the promotion of a dance for junior chamber, of commerce members, their wives and sweethearts. Wes Winker was board of directors "place of Max Barrett, moved from, the city, Stray Porker On Courthouse Lawn By La; 1 w2 f-S The spacious home and Mrar John Delehant, 1323 Jefferson street, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. I. G.

ChrUtenson of this city, it was announced yesterday by Ruyle ft Ruyle, who made the The Christensons expect to occupy property about September 15, And now comes the case of the sixth little pig. Of course you've heard of the first little pig went to market," etc. Well, now, the sixth little pig kept employes of the courthouse entertained Saturday afternoon. No one seems to know whether the little fellow was part of the Victory Food program gono or whether he sqme young'un fed too long by his own, house. Tim he may ijaye the grein; street; tor Two county.