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THE TEMPERATURES S3 Ycsterdny's High Low Year Ajrn HIpJi 03 Year ARO Low 80 BEATRICE DAILY SUN "If You Didn't See It In the SUN It Didn't Happen" Member of The Associated Press THE WEATHER wanner. VOLUME XLIII BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1944 Single Copy 5c No. 117 I Reversion Of Price Rises Soon To Come ADULTS Living Costs Won't Outrun Pay Sralrs; To Take Specific )PA NOT JUDGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. 1 I to reverse recent price I 'ises described as small but dis- lurbing, is expected shortly, ngned as an assurance to work- M-s that living costs will not out- I run pay scales.

Claiming a series of administration moves all pointing to a to hold on to the prin- I'iple of the "Little Steel" wage formula until after V-E day, the, OPA prepared to take specific steps to hold the price line. Price Administrator Chester Bowles called a news conference! for this afternoon but cancelled it. to polish further new regulation I to be put into effect. Associates paid it probably will be announced I tomorrow. May Tightwi Fabric Control The conference was arranged I following Sunday's statement by Economic Stabilization Director Fred M.

Vinson that "disturbing" I advances in costs of living, espe- i dally in textiles and clothing. 'must stop." Observers believed was ready to: 1 First, tighten controls over fab- and wearing apparel, the singled out by Vinson as nflated; and Second, announce more rigid Standards for ruling on requests For "extraordinary" price increases pot provided for in the price con- act and other laws. Not Solo Judge On the "extraordinary" in- Icreases OPA is not sole judge, lout must set its ceilings by agree- I nent with other agencies, usually food administration. It was that Vinson. a.r final I arbiter, has given as- 1 nirance he will uphold a firm portion on the part of OPA.

Events of the last fortnight hear out the impression of a con- hcerted effort for a home-front until Germany yields. (The series began with President 1 Roosevelt's refusal to accept resig- Inations from War Mobilization Di- fjrector James F. Byrnes and three of the war labor board, Germany quits. It gained with the current cam- to emphasize war production and de-emphasize reconver- sion in planning. On Saturday the cost-of-living by Chairman William H.

JDavis of WLB dashed some cold (water on the CIO's drive for wage poosts beyond the "Little Steel" level. It largely upheld the cost- lof-living index of the bureau of Kabor statistics, which indicates Ino great disparity between prices land wage increases since January, base date of Steel." IPhe CIO contends the index does liot truly reflect cost-of-living acl- (A source close to the WLB re- Iported last night that CIO de- I'Tiands for increases in steelwork- pay may be given a partial Imswer this week. He said this Ijnay be in the form of an average Ibf 5 or 10 cents an hour increase to compensate for such "inequalities" as night an open (break in the wage formula.) Passenger Trains Collide On Bridge Over Mississippi MEMPHIS. Nov. 21 -Two outbound passenger trains collided today on the Harahan bridge which spans the Mississippi river but none of the passengers was -injured seriously and damage to the trains was slight.

The Missouri Pacific said its train bound for Hot Springs. crashed into the rear of the Rock Island's local en route to Helena, Ark. The Missouri Pacific normally carries eight or nine passenger cars while the Rock Island carries about three. A press-scimitar photographer said the rear Rock Island car was damaged only slightly and none of the passengers was injured. The accident occurred just across the river on the Arkansas side of the bridge.

Police reported a fog over the river at the time of the accident. Beatrice Bond Drive Starts B-29s Attack Heart Of Jap Industry Area Typhoon Slows-; Leyle Battle 'To Walk; Foe Feels 4th Manila Carrier Raid. DOWN 118 PLANES French Thrusting North Down Rhine Storm Mulhouse; American Forces Seize Sarrebourg uorum Elects Red Cross 1945 Officers Two officers were re-elected lift light at the annual meeting of the (page Red Cross chapter, presided bver, in the absence of Rev. John Streng, chairman, by Dr. Harry RSouders.

A few members over the necessary quorum re-elected Rev. (John Strong, chairman, and Miss iuth Stolzenberg, secretary. Oth- appointed to office were Mrs. Kiarry Price, first vice chairman, veteran Red Cross worker who lilso is a directive head of one of line groups in the home service Kommittee, George Ryan, second trice chairman, and Mrs. Homer (3rimes, treasurer, both of whom Ire new comers to the Red Cross After the first of the year when Ihe new board begins office, its Tjirst duties will be to make from fifteen to twenty committee appointments.

LINCOLN, Nov. 21 Ijy General Walter R. Johnson has IJsked the Nebraska supreme court reverse the decision by District fudge Charles Eldrfed of Mc- pok which sustained Judge Hen- Beal of Omaha in dismissing' Jrst and second degree murder Charges against Charles Hutter, armer Sarpy county sheriff. Workers Inspired By Men Of Fighting Services At Kiek- Off War Loan Meeting. Workers in the Sixth War Loan drive got off to a favorable start last evening at a meeting at the Elks club, consuming a fine' dinner served by the Navy Mothers and hearing inspiring talks on various phases of bond selling and its relation to winning the war.

Major Lindley Ryan, of the U. S. Marines, home on leave after service in various theatres, from Iceland to the Pacific, said the men in service are buying bonds as well as doing the fighting. They depend upon support by the home front and when they sec the vast amount of shipping and supplies involved in winning the war thoy are impressed by the money cost of victory. In Big Pacific Ralph Hauer.

pharmacist mate 1-c, USN, told of his observations in 21 months in the Pacific. New Guinea is now a relatively quiet sector with few surviving Japs, ho said. "We had better equipment than the enemy and more of said Hauer, "and we realized it takes a lot of ships to supply the aimv and navy over tremendous distances in the Pacific." City Chairman R. W. Trofz.

presiding at the meeting, n-as told that the day was Hauer's birthday, so the crowd sang him a "Happy Birthday." Surprise in Italy Wayne. Atkinson, a paratrooper who was honorably discharged because of wounds, one of which cost him most of a hand, told of thrilling experiences in Italy. He responded to a call for 55 volunteers to land at Anzio. They met little enemy opposition at first, found a group of German officers holding a party and captured them. He was with a unit which hit the Gothic line five miles from Rome and they fought until they ran out of ammunition and'food.

At one point the Germans had a motor pool, a lot of vehicles parked in a guarded place. Atkinson war ith a party of ten which raided he motor pool, planted explosives on the trucks and caught an enemy ammunition truck on the road. The (Continued to Page 7, Col. 5) Fete Orangemen At Traditional Banquet Orangemen will be feted at the annual football festival, the Orange and Black banquet on Tuesday, Nov. 28, according to announcement made today by Fred Brockman.

The informal baquet which will be served by church ladies at Cetenary church is open to all students and townspeople who have followed the teams fortunes this year. Dr. O. H. Bimson, assistant supervisors of schools- in Lincoln High will make the principal address of the evening, and Cliff Ashburn will present the honored lettermen.

There will be two. other student speakers who will make the banquet presentation and appreciation speeches, both as yet unan- Associfttetl Press Supcrforts bombed the heart of Japan's aircraft industry today in the wake of a sea-borne air raid on Manila that wiped out 118 Nipponese' planes and added three more ships to the useless fleet of 100 bomb-wrecked craft that litter the Philippines harbor. has lost close to 1,000 planes this month in the Philippines where rain-chilled American troops slid forward over Leyte island's muddy hills again after being virtually halted for two days by the third typhoon of their brief campaign. The war department announced "a large task force of B29 aircraft" attacked industries on Kyushu, southernmost of Nippon's home islands. Claim M-25 B-29's Down Tokyo radio said their targets were Omura, big aircraft center twice previously hit, and Nagasaki, went coast port city.

Japanese propagandist claimed between 14 and 25 Superforts were shot down in an hour-long air battle fought above low-hanging clouds. They said the giant bomb' ers came from southwest China bases, now threatened by Japanese armies which have driven the 14th U. S. air force from all of its fields in east China. i The Chinese high command ack- nowledged that units of the Lt.

Gen. Somcrvell Asks For 000 Japanese troops in southeast! i i China effected a junction, thereby 1 More Laborers i cutting the nation in half and' Convention. preventing Generalissimo Chiang German People's Army Fails Test Jn Fighting WITH the U. S. Third Army, Nov.

21 Heinrich Himmler's people's army completely flunked its first test against the U. S. Third army in a attempt to defend Metz, but may give a better account of itself later in Germany. That is the reaction of officers who led troops against Metz' defenses which were Lough on the they were manned SS or Wehrmacht units -but were hopelessly feeble inside the city save for one pocket in the 'north held by a handful of regulars. Called up only Nov.

5 as a part-time homcguard, the soldiers of this motley crew of males from 16 to 60 had had only a few hours training by the time they faced the P'ifth and 95th infantry division veterans. They were badly armed, too, and wholly incapable of coping with the Americans. Record Fleet Destroys 52 Nazi Planes Heavy Bombers Plunge 4.000 Tons Of Explosives On Oil Plants. I FLAY 'VERY Eisenhower In Need Of More Arm Supplies General Says Plan Is To Increase Pressure Steadily All. Along Front.

I -n j-u. INTENSE' FIGHT UNTIL VICTORY LONDON. Nov. 21 armor thrusting northward down the Rhine stormed Mulhouse today, and U. S.

troops captured Sarrebourg, 32 miles from the Rhine, in an eastward drive collapsing the whole German stand in the Vosges mountains- The swift-paced French perhaps had already entered Mulhouse, an industrial city of 97,000, in exploitation of their Belfort breakthrough. This push was undermining German positions for 100 miles to the north. Both the American Seventh and o- Third armies were beating east- LONDON, Nov .21 A rec- i ord fleet of more than i lean fighter craft destroyed at least 52 German planes today while the 1,250 heavy bombers they Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. Paris, Nov. 21 Eisenhower declared today his plan for future operations is to increase pressure steadily all along the western front un- wcre escorting plung'ed 4,000 tons i til the Germans are crushed.

of explosives onto three zealously guarded synthetic oil plants. An Eighth air force said the score of the swirling battles over Hamburg, Harburg and To do this, greater supplies are necessary, the supreme commander of the westren front said. Mants More Supplies "I want more supplies than we are getting and I think the soldier wants more than he is get- ward toward Strasbourg and Saar- brucken, meeting weakening rear- I guard resistance from 'Germans apparently retreating to the. Rhine. Capture Sarrebourg The 44th division of the Seventh army captured Sarrebourg (pop.

miles northwest of Mulhouse and mechanized patrols were stabbing onward toward Strasbourg 30 miles beyond. Third army forces fought within 18 miles of Saarbrucken in the industrially-rich Saar basin. Still farther north, tanks of the Third army had driven three miles into Germany. Belfort, bypassed city guarding the Rhine, was captured, Gen. Merseburg might approach the 203 ting both now and in the future," Seek Workers In War Plants he said.

"To get peace, we have got to destroyed on Nov. 2. Then, as today, the Germans came up to de- fend the huge Leuna synthetic re- finery at Merseburg, 100 miles southwest of Berlin. Fleet Well-Guarded i The mighty fleet was well guard- nd today and it struck in fine weather even as Gen. Eisenhower I promised Germany a winter of re! morseless bombardment from the so much in a long while as the Dwight D.

Eisenhower disclosed in ralKng for ever-increasing pressure until victory. Resistance Disorganized Six allied armies were heaping on this pressure at quickening pace. The U. S. Seventh and Third I air.

Kai-Shek's inland armies from joining a potential American in; vasion force. Attackers Almost Unopposed IT S. carrier planes i Manila Sunday (Philippine time) found the harbor turned into a shipping graveyard. Like tombstones, 100-half-sunken derelicts testified to the effectiveness of previous U. S.

carrier attacks. CHICAGO, Nov. 21 CIO convention today was urged by Lt. Gen. Brehon Somcrvell, ar- CIO The 1,100 fighter craft made up the most powerful escort ever dis- patched with the bombers and most flew from British bases, the Eighth air force announcement said.

fight like hell for it," the commander said, "now let's do it." Eisenhower appeared fit as ever after a tour of all parts of I armies, swarming eastward in the the fighting zone, and said he was other blade of a French-American especially happy over the French scissors, hit into broken nazi re- breakthrough to the Rhine. stance described officially as "No single instance has pleased Orad and disorganized. An unconfirmed Swiss report said the French were attempting to bridge the Rhine of Mulhouse. An assault was re- my supply chief, to help recruit 100,000 workers for war to turn out the fighting needed in Europe and the Pacific. "We must have these workers at once," said the general in an ad- Heavy Lancaster bombers of the surrenc i el capture of Belfort by the gallant French army and its reaching the Rhine," Eisenhower said.

The general told correspondents that his plans were to hit and hammer the Germans with increasing pressure, reaching its peak on the day the nazis finally ii.l to tlV- I ii. 11 It 4- The attackers-Tokyo said there dress Prepared for the delegates 300 of amiog who yesterday cheered their presi- unopposed. They wrecked 100 Nip- i 'lent, Philip Murray after he urged RAF during the afternoon smashed I a synthetic oil plant at Homberg in the Ruhr, 20 miles southwest of Kassel. Spitfires and Mustangs flew as escorts. First reports of the American attacks showed 21 nazis felled by a single Eighth air force unit, and wce No War End Prediction "Unless everyone all the way through the at the front and those at home on the job everlastingly and with mounting intensity, we are only postponing the day of victory," Eisenhower declared.

onese aircraft on the ground. Japanese planes did attack Sixth army troops on Leyte is- have no- quarrel 'With business:" land and struck back at Vice Adm. J. S. McCain's carrier task force.

Seven Japanese were shot, down over Leyte and eight over the fleet, without inflicting any announced damage. The navy announced the recent loss of ten craft, ranging from a destroyer down to four PT boats. Set Fire, To Freighters American air raiders bombed a destroyer at Borneo's Brunei naval base, and set fire to six small enemy freighters in sorties ranging from the northern Kuiile islands to Ceram in the Dutch East Indies. Leyte's newest typhoon all but drowned out ground fighting. Nevertheless, the 7th division pushed from the south toward Or- moc; the 32nd reduced more enemy fortifications north of Limon a revision of the "Something big happened over 1 1 Maj.

George E. Freddy, Greens- U. mula limiting wages and said "we this prompted a spokesman to i "The very maximum effort must comment: be made on the day of surrender." Eisenhower declined to make ported underway on Mulhouse itself. At the north end of the front, beyond Aachen, American and British armies had cut through fierce German opposition to within some three miles of the Roer river, the last natural defense barrier short of the Rhine near Cologne. Eliminate Foe From Maas British troops in southeastern Holland eliminating the nazis i from the west banks the Maas convention boro Mustang commander, Somervell told the that production in some items is shot down one of tne nazis run 40 percent behind, adding, "it all nm his acore to of whjcn five boils down to this: We are calling on American productive power for a.

supreme effort to meet a supreme crisis. The doughboy ha? fought his way ahead of schedule and we have to catch up with him." Turn To Other Employment To the delegates who yesterday heard Murray assert the CIO would continue "in the maintenance of our no-strike pledge." Somervell said: "I know that you men and women are sticking to your war jobs but there are a lot of Americans who are not. They are turning to other employment in quest of greater postwar security. "Our men aren't dying in Ger- were destroyed on the ground. Flak "Very Intense Clouds were scattered over the targets and at Hamburg and nearby Harburg the flak was "very intense." Ground fire was reported moderate at Merseburg.

The Leuna synthetic oil plant at Merseburg, at almost the exact geographic center of Germany, was bombed for the 12th time on Nov. 2. It once was capable of supplying 50.000 tons a month. The Deutsche synthetic oil refineries at Hamburg are among the largest in the Reich. The great Rhenamia refineries are located six miles south of Harburg.

All were objectives today. First reports made no mention any prediction as to when the war 'Would end and said his call for "an all-out effort both at the front and at home was his "prescription for victory." He said the weather had prevented a full effort in the air in the current offensive but. added: "One thing that continues to grow to my intense satisfaction is the teamwork between the ground forces, navies and air forces." Will Inevitably Crack He said that while he saw no and the 24th beat down violent I many and in the Philippines sim-i of tne temper of nazi opposition counterattacks against Its block south of Limon. Normal Students Take Exams For Teachers Forty-two Normal training students from Adams, Odell and Beatrice took normal training examinations for third grade element- tary teachers certificates last week it was announced by H. W.

Munson county school superintend- I cut. Successful completion of these examinations will qualify the students for teaching positions i in the county rural school system, I Munson stated. Although Gage has been the 1 only county in the State with suf- ficient teachers before the ning of the school terms during the last two years, it is expected a critical shortage may develop. At i present there are only twenty-six seniors in the normal training schools at Beatrice, Adams and Odell. Attraction of higher wages in war industry has increased the problem.

The situation has been partially alleviated by offering rural teachers higher salaries. road ply to give someone the right to work at a soft job before the war is over or to get an advantage ever his competitor. Our men are dying for causes greater than any industry or group of industries, greater than any worker or group of workers." Somervell said the 40 percent loss in production on some schedules "can mean the difference between victory and a long drawn stalemate. Some 27 percent of our shortages are in the items most urgently needed right-now. Those, are mortars and mortar ammunition, artillery and artillery am- munilion, heavy trucks and tires, airborne, radar, tanks, cotton duck, field and assault wire." but trips to the same targets in re- cent months have precipitated 1 some of history's largest air bat! ties.

before Venlo, a gate to the Ruhr. In the battle area east and northeast of Aachen, the American armies and, the British Second army pushed their lines slowly toward Cologne 26 miles beyond the American vanguards and the Rhine against increasingly furious German resistance marked by tank-led counterattacks which slowed but failed to stop the allied drive to crack the Reich's strongest defenses. The Germans threw 20 to 30 tanks against American Ninth ar- Withdrawal In Misckolc Seeft Red Army Troops Fight Into Hungary's Outskirts Of Fifth Town. LONDON, Nov. 20 Red army troops closed in today on northern escape routes for enemy troops rolling back to the outskirts of Miskolc.

Hungary's fifth city, as the Germans declared the Russians had opened their winter Offensive far to the north against 300,000 nazis pocketed in western Latvia. Late front reports said a German withdrawal from Miskolc appeared imminent. Nazi escape routes to the east and west of Miskolc, 85 miles northeast of besieged Budapest, already were cut. One Red army column had battled to the outskirts of Eger, 22 miles southwest of Miskolc, Russian front dispatches said. Another Soviet armored unit which had rolled through Di- osgyor, three miles west of Miskolc and within 20 miles of the old Czechoslovakian frontier, veered north to grapple for a hold on road and rail communications between Miskolc and the rail hub of Losonc (Lucenec) on the Slovak border.

Seize Csaba and Szirma Units of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukraine army plunged into the southern outskirts of Miskolc with the capture of Csaba and Szirma, less than one and two miles south and southeast of the city. Berlin reports on the Latvian offensive said the Russians had sign of a German crackup, the my units at Schleiden, seven miles Germans were human beings like southeast of captured Geilen- other people and if confronted by kirchen, but Lt. Gen. William H.

failure of their armed forces, they I Simpson's men repulsed this blow would inevitably crack. It is the and advanced a mile and a half allied job, he said, to confront the i northeast capturing Aldenhoven on Germans with more and more of ne roa( to Julich, three miles these failures. In asking for more supplies, the general made it clear that he was not criticizing the efforts of the (Continued on Page 7, Col. 4) Nebraska 1945 Crop Goals Have Been Set Arthur Keckley Found Dead At Diller Farm The banquet, the traditional closing event of the football season is 1 scheduled to be served at 6:15. Nelson on Cabinet Level WASHINGTON, Nov.

21 iDonald M. Nelson has been designated "personal representative" of President Roosevelt vith rank at the cabinet level, land will occupy offices in the House. The appointment was confirmed by letter shortly before Nelson, former WPB chairman, this country on his second aission to Chungking to create Chinese war production board, ft was ascertained today. Sit In Meetings The presidential letter notified Jelson he would sit in cabinet ieetings, and was understood ilso to mention another trip in Pacific on his return from China. This appeared to.point to New Zealand or Australia.

Beyond this, the note did not go much farther in formalizing Nelson's status than the "Dear Donald" letter accepting Nelson's resignation from strife- torn WPB. Mr. Roosevelt then asked him to remain in the government for "a high post of major importance" in international economic affairs. For this reason, some friends of Nelson believe the new message an interim device emphasizing Nelson's role as direct economic envoy between the president- and the heads of foreign governments, but probably to be followed up by more precise title and official status. British Eighth Takes Nazi Observation Post ROME, Nov.

21 Behind strong artillery, British Eighth army troops have captured strongly defended sugar factory buildings at Zuccherificio, two miles south of Ravenna on the Adriatic, allied headquarters announced today. The buildings had been used as a German observation post. West of Forli on the highway to Bologna, other British troops captured several localities in local gains. German raids on the Fifth army sector have been beaten There was no major action. The Mediterranean allied air forces flew approximately 1,800 sorties yesterday, from which 27 aircraft are missing.

These included attacks forces of U. S. 15th army air force heavy bombers on an oil refinery at Blechhammer in upper Silesia, Other heavy and fighter bombers of the strategic air force hit railroad targets in Yugoslavia. Melvin Wyland Dies At Fairbury Hospital (The Suu'a Own Service) FAIRBURY, Nov. Melvin Everett Wyland passed away at a Fairbury hospital yesterday.

He had been visiting at the home of his sister, Mrs. Vivia Bolender. Wyland is survived by two sons, Melvin and Darrel both in the navy air corps; eight brothers, Leonard, Claude. Frank. Alvia, Richard, Russell, Lloyd and Harold; and many nephews and nieces.

He was preceded in death by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper M. Wyland, a sister, Beau- pha, and two brothers, Charles and John. The Wylands lived in the Blur- Springs neighborhood twenty years ago.

Burial will be at Alliance where Wyland had made his home for a number of years. Mrs. Bert Cumpston Dies At Local Hospital Mrs. Bert Cumpston passed away at a local hospital late Monday afternoon after an illness of several months. She was born Sept.

15, 1907, at Greshman, York county, Netar. She is survived by her husband, two children at Lincoln, Chester and Richard Steiber, six children at home, Mary Lou, Eugene, Charles, Barbara, Louis and Donald; her mother, four sisters, two bi'others, stepfather and three step brothers. The body is at the Harman-Johnson funeral home asvait- ing funeral arrangements. LINCOLN. Nov.

21 Nebraska crop goals for 1945 were set here today at a triple A meeting- as follows: (The WFA suggested goal is given first and the Nebraska goals committee recommendation second.) Corn 8,750,000 acres and 9,000,000 acres. Sorghums 675,000 acres and same. Soybeans 50,000 acres and 65,000 Potatoes 80,000 acres and 80,000 Sugar beets 75,000 acres and 75,000 acres. Dry edible beans 57,000 acres and 55,000 acres. Oats 2,300,000 acres and 000 acres.

Barley 1.299,000 acres and 1,100,000 acres. Wheat 4.800,000 acres and 4,000,000 acres (reduction due to drouth in southwest that slowed planting) Rye 410,000 acres and 410,000 acres. Flax 2,000,000 acres and 2,000,000 acres. Tame hay 1,000,000 acres and 1,000,000 acres. Seed crops 161,000 acres and 161,000 Sows to farrow (spring only) 670,000 and 670,000.

(The Sxin's Own Service) DILLER, Nov. 20. The lifeless body of Arthur Keckley, 47 years old, was found hanging in the barn at his farm home, six miles west and two miles south of Diller, this morning at about seven o'clock. According to news learned from telephone linemen who had re- paired the phone which had been out of order, Arthur Keckley arose about 6:20 this morning, talked briefly with his wife, and then turneil on the yard light and went to the barn and turned on the electric light there. As he did not return soon, Mrs.

Keckley looked out and. seeing the barn light was out, she went to see what was the matter. It was then, about sex en o'clock, she away. Julich is a bastion on the Roer river, a strong natural defense barrier before the Rhine- Earlier the Ninth army breached a formidable 10-mile-long German antitank ditch. Five fortress groups at Metz continued firing after the German commander within the enemy-held northern portion of the French fortress city ignored an ultimatum to surrender.

A two-mile advance on the. American Third army wing east of carried Lt. Gen. George Patton, men to points eight to 12 miles below the Saar frontier. Third army troops entered the old Maginot line, defenses north of Faulqtiemont, 20 (Continued on Page 7, Col.

4) Man Asks Reduction In Decree Ex-service man and father of seven, Wilber G. Andrews will seek modification of a divorce decree granted to his former wife. Nellie, of Beatrice on July 25, 1944. The hearing is scheduled found him hanging by a rope. for tomorrow in district court.

Sheriff Dwight Young of Fair- After the decree was granted, bury and Dr. I. N. Morgan were called from the home of a neighbor, about 7:30, and responded promptly. Dr.

Morgan pronounced Mr. Keckley dead, and Sheriff the plaintiff continued to receive a sizable monthly allotment check by virtue of the defendant being in the navy. Since discharge from the navy Nov. 10. 1944, the de- and artillery forces against the Germans ori a 30-mile front near Liepaja, one of the two Baltic escape ports left to the nazis.

The German accounts said the Russians had ripped holes in the axis lines in violent fighting entering its third day, but claimed conu- terattacks had nullified the Red army gains The Russian midnight war bulletin said that southwest of Jel- gava, 87 miles east of Liepaja, the Germans' were dislodged from some positions in hand-to-hand fighting. Berlin asserted fighting was particularly fierce near Priekule 20 miles southeast of Liepaja. Peru Graduate Accepts Teaching Position Here Acceptance of a teaching position in the Beatrice school system was announced by Supt. E. L.

Novotny today. Barbara Jane Dressier of Fairbury, now attending Peru state teachers will start teaching Jan. 24, 1945, following her graduation. She is to take the place of Mrs. Cliff Ashburn who has been substituting in Glenover primary grades- Facing a wartime shortage of qualified teachers, Dr.

Novotny stressed the necessity of building up a reserve of substitute teachers. At present only five are available to fill emergencies, while generally there are 20. Any person who is qualified may receive an emergency teaching certificate by applying through the school superintendent. Moonglow Lightens Blacked Out London Young stated this fendant 'pleads inability to match 454,000. Milk cows on farms as of Jan.

1, 1946, 680,000 and 675,000. Milk production on pounds and pounds. Milk production per cow 4,350 pounds and 4,370 pounds. Sheep and lambs on farms 1,080,000 and same. Eggs produced on farms 137,930,000 dozen and same.

Chickens raised on farms 28,655,000 and same. The WFA made no i-ecommencla- tion. on turkeys but the state goal committee set a production mark Of 1,350,000. would be no coroner's inquiry. The body was taken to Odell by Ed.

Vance, the undertaker. Arthur Keckley was a tenant on the farm of Ray Barber, Fairbury business man. Keckley had been planning to move to another farm southeast of Diller next spring. No reason could be learned for his act except that he had been in poor health and had been unusually nervous lately. He is survived by his wife, Ina, and several uncles and aunts and other relatives living near Odell.

There are no children. Funeral arrangements later. the amount formerly provided by the government for support of his wife and seven children. Andrews at present is unemployed in Corpus Texas. LONDON, Nov.

21 the first time in more than five years of blackout London rejoices the next best thing to full pre-war moonglow that enables pedestrians to make their way about most of the capital without flashlights. This modified kind of lighting came on for the first time last night. Crowds used to feeling their way gingerly through the darkness were noisily appreciative. Big-3 Parley Meets Snag WACS IX CHINA CHUNGKING, Nov. 21 GP) The first Wacs have in China.

They are Capt. Elizabeth M. Lutz of and 1st Lt Florence Bullitt of San Jose, both assigned to Secretarial in Maj. Gen. Albert C.Wedemeyer's headquarters here.

They reached Chungking yesterday by plane. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 CSV- Plans for an early meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin appear to have hit a snag. Despite hopes freely expressed here and in London, the best prospect now is for a parley early in 1945. The whole schedule of postwar conferences and world peace organization evidently is having to be revised in consequence.

It may have to be moved two or three months into the future, probably would mean a I United Nations gathering on the Dumbarton Oaks security pj next spring rather than in winter. However, the whole scheduler is in a state of uncertainty at the moment. Should it be found, that the problems left over froni Dumbarton as, the "veto" voting be tied without a Big-Three mg the full dress con could be held earlier. AH Want Conference Exactly what has to the projected Big-Three mg before the end of this is not certain. But presuma! the way in whicjti tfte war is having scale into probabiUty into.