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THE COLTJMBUS DAILY TELEGRAM. COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA SATURDAY. JANUARY 20. 1945 PAGE EIGHT Tough Going on Wesrerrr Front I TTT 1 ram Ax 1 GORUERV Dog Incident Displeases Capitol Hill Such Mistakes Won't Again, Says War Department By EULALIE M'DOWELL WASHINGON.

Jan. 20 Ui!) FDR Only Man Without An Overcoat Remainder of Crowd at His Inaugural Dressed For Cold Weather By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 tipv Franklin D.

Roosevelt, only man at his inaugural without an over T.ELERft The cross-country priority flight (of Blaze. Col. Elliott Roosevelt's (big bull Mastiff, brought new ex- coat, looked across the thousands crowded into his snow-covered ft PBESiEHT THE hill today despite the war department's promise to prevent repetition of such "mistakes." One prominent senator, who declined use of his name, pointed angrily to reports an army major had met Blaze when he landed in California after his trip from Washington and escorted the 115 pound dog to the home of Colonel Roosevelt's wife, movie, actress Faye Emerson. "If the army has so much help it can send majors around chaperoning dogs," he said. "I fail to see how it justifies the administration's arguments the manpower situation is so critical a national service act is needed." Complete Report A "complete report" on Blaze's back yard today and swore solemnly to uphold the constitution for a fourth terra as president of the United States.

Mr. Roosevelt's eyeglasses glistened in the spotlights. His hands may have trembled, but his voice was strong and clear as he repeated the oath after Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone and then delivered the shortest inaugural address ever gave 540 words. On his left was the blue presidential pennant, on his right the American flag.

Behind him were the members of his personnel and official family. Below him on the ground were the others who were lucky enough to get invitations and hardy enough to brave the wet and the cold. 13 Minute Ceremony The entire ceremony lasted only 13 minutes. Sharp at noon the marine band broke into strident ruffles and What our fighters are up against as winter grips the Western Front is graphically shown in photo above, where airmen are seen struggling to haul a 1000-pound bomb through the mud at a forest ammunition depot. "Ammo" dump supplies Allied aircraft now pounding Gen.

von Rundstedt's supply lines and rear bases. aerial travels was demanded by Rep. George P. Miller, Calif. depot at Hastings.

Mrs. Wood is a be "American Comedy," given by Miss Miriam Richardson. waitress here. His congressional district includes the home of one of the three serv Notice Benefit P. T.

A. card icemen forced off Blaze's plane while the dog was permitted to comnlete the flight to Hollywood. party will be held at 8 p. m. Tuesday.

Jan. 23, at the Field school. Jury Session Called Off Jury session of the district court for Platte county, which was scheduled to begin next Tuesday, has been indefinitely postponed and mem- Miller said the serviceman. Sea There will be prizes and refresh ments will be served. man 1c Leon Leroy of Antioch, had seen foreign service and El ks Elks dinner-bridge party flourishes, then "Hail to the Chief signaling the president's arrival at the center of the portico.

Men In the snowy crowd bared their heads for the invocation. Mr. Roosevelt watched retiring Vice President Henrv A. Wallace administer the oath to his successor, Harry S. Truman.

The band sounded more ruffles and flourishes, and the president will be held at 6:30 p. m. Wednes day. Jan. 24 at the Elks home.

Members are to call in reserva tions, direct, by Monday night, as they will not be contacted. notified that they are excused from cial consideration remaining service, subject to possible call aooarj later. Judge Lightner's order post-) If the facte as represented are poning the session was issued aft- correct." Miller wrote to Secretary er he was notified by counsel that Cf war Henry L. Stlmson, "this the case of Mrs. Bertha Albers, incident is deplorable and cannot, administratrix of the estate of her my estimation, be iustified." husband, the late Herman Albers, Regrettable vs.

Farmers Union Creamery The white house agreed the of Fremont et al had been settled whole incident was "regrettable" was escorted to the speaker's rostrum by Marine Ool. James Roosevelt, only one of his four fighting Daughter Born 2c and Mrs. Richard Schoultz of Columbus are parents of a daughter born yesterday at St. Mary's hospital. She weighed seven pounds and eight ounces.

Richard Schoultz is now on sea duty. out of court. but declared Colonel Roosevelt had sons who was able to come nere The president, standing bareheaded, snoke the oath In a clear, re- not been responsible for getting Blaze an travel priority. In fact, no one here professed to voice, his left hand on his old family Dutch Bible and his eves focused on Chief Justice know who did make the arrange' ments. but the army promised to take steps to prevent such an oc Stone.

Thousand Club In Celebration WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (ID Then after shaking hands with Stone, the president turned slow currence again. Closes Supt. R. R.

McGee announced today that the tuberculosis health fund drive has come to a successful close. He reports the Knights of Columbus and the Rotary club as the latest organizations to purchase $5 health bonds. Seaman Leroy and two com- ly toward the crowd, opened his i nmiinn.Q were nut off thA armv nle de- The four-month-old One Thousand transport command plane at Mem- familiar Mac noieooo auu livered hU address. Crowd Applauds The crowd had applauded when he swore to do his duty as presi dent, and gloved hands clapped w.KJw iiicuimis cumnuuwu phis, because room had to $1,000 each to the re-election of be made for some "high priority" President Roosevelt, celebrated the cargo. Thev held only priori-fourth term victory with a full-j ties while Blaze, who boasted an scale program of inauguration-day rating, stayed on the plane, social events today before turning Meanwhile, the controversy took toward what it hopes will be a on a new note of mystery with the permanent political future.

I disclosure that roaming the white Welburn Mayock of Los Angeles. house grounds now is another bull a trustee of the club, told a press, dog that -bears a striking resem-conference shortly before the an-jHance to the more-famous Blaze, auguration to which each mem- But whether it is the bride, son Notice Catholic Daughters of America will hold their 19th anniversary party Monday night at K. a hall. It will be a 6:30 o'clock covered dish supper and members are asked to bring dishes and silver. A social evening will follow.

Moves Included in the regular weekly list of changes of addresses of persons reported by the Colum again when he completed nu speech. The president stood silently gazing toward the Washington monument while the minister said the benediction, the band played the -Star Snangled Banner and the crowd stood hatless under the drippine trees. ber was invited that the club was, or daughter, or in fact any km to bus Credit Bureau are the follow Blabe, no one knew. ing: Roll a Bemis. from Rising City to 1614 Eighth street and R.

Another Dog to be a continuing organization. "We are interested in sponsoring good government by constitutional means," he said. Although declining to "prophesy" the club's Latta. from Agricultural Farm Nor was it known whether it was the animal Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt had in mind when she to Casper, W'yo.

Mr. Bemis formerly farmed. political activities, he indicated there was "another" dog that was shipped from London to Need Nurses Elks Lodge has ccepted the responsibility of en Washington by air. As in the casts! of Blaze, it remained a mystery as I listing 1,000 nurses for the Veter to who arranged for the second i ans administration and the Columbus Elks Lodge is in the drive along dog to make the wartime trans Mr. Roosevelt wavea ms to the crowds, which responded with men waving their hats and women shaking handkerchiefs toward the portico.

The president then turned and went back Into the White House to the tune of "Hail to the Chief." thus ending the shortest Inauguration in many, many years. Stops Snowing The weather got progressively better after snow stopped falling about 8 a. and a few minutes before the ceremony began at noon, the skies became considerably lighter. No actual sunlight filtered through the gray overcast, however, and the temperature remained near freezing. oceanic hop.

with other Nebraska Klks lodges. ThA "mvcturv jna" nrlninln iiraa! All interested persons are asked to very much in evidence at the white that lengthy conferences of the past two days have brought out the general lines of the club's strategy for the 19-16 congressional elections. Members of the club are predominately democrats, Mayock said, and supported only democratic candidates in the 1944 campaign. He said there was nothing in the club's by-laws, however, to prevent it from supporting a repu-lican candidate "if one should meet our requirements." contact either Milton Wagner, L. I.

Rohner or Frank J. Tooley. January 17, 1945 The President of the United States White House Washington, D. C. 31 r.

President: At your personal direction, th army seized Wards stores on December 28, 1944. On the same day, you directed that a suit be filed in the federal court to decide whether you had anytright to order this seizure. The constitution makes it the supreme law of the land that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." The supreme court, has said that an order which is before the courts should not be executed before the judges have declared its legality. In defiance of this safeguard of liberty, you have ordered the army to place in immediate effect the arbitrary and illegal orders of the War Labor Board without awaiting the decision of the courts. You have ordered these War Labor Board directives placed in immediate effect despite the fact that the courts have held them to be legally unenforceable, and despite the fact that in issuing them the board refused to give Wards the hearings required by the War Labor Disputes Act.

You have ordered the army to place in effect a wage directive at Portland; Oregon, which a representative of the War Labor Board admitted on January 9, 1945, was unworkable. You have ordered the army to place in effect wage directives at St. Paul, Minnesota, which unfairly discriminate against sixty percent of the employees. When several hundred walked off their jobs in protest against your command, the army forced them to return by threats of criminal prosecution. Youjhave ordered the army at Denver, Colorado, and Jamaica, New York; to increase wage rates which the War Labor Board admitted were already higher than those paid by Wards competitors.

No increases have been ordered against these competitors. Finally, and most importantly, you have ordered the army to impose that form of the closed shop called maintenance of membership. Obedience to your order willrequire the discharge of all employees who have chosen not to maintain their union membership, and deny to them the liberty to choose whether or not they wish to remain union members. Wards, in opposing the closed shop in all of its forms, has not been promoted by any feeling of anti-unionism. Wards has fully recognized the freedom of all of its employees to join or not to join a union, as they wished, and has assured all employees that their opportunity with the company will be the same whether they are union members or not.

Wards refusal to accept the closed shop arises solely from a determination that its employees be in their individual liberty to join a union or not free of the fear of physical injury, damage to their property or loss of their jobs. Wards, in opposing the closed shop, has not acted against the wishes even of its unionized employees. In the seized store at Chicago on December 15, 1944, ninety percent of the employees through a signed petition declared against the maintenance of membership requirement. Spokesmen for the unionized employees in the four seized stores at Detroit have openly stated that they do not desire maintenance of membership. Wards has been singled out for unequal treatment.

The army has been used to enforce orders of questioned legality without first giving the courts an opportunity to make a decision. These are the methods of dictatorship. The legality of your order commanding the seizure of Wards' properties is now before the courts for decision. Wards respectfully calls upon you to order the army to withhold the taking of action which would deprive Wards' employees of their liberty and Wards and its customers of their property until the case has been decided in the courts as required by the constitution. MONTGOMERY WARD CO.

SEW ELL AVERY, Chairman. nouse yesterday alter a special i march-of -dimes broadcast in which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and; Mr. Higging Dies Frank A farororn fVRrion Alcrht-VAar-nlsf Higgins.

53. died at 1 a. m. today -e II screen star, took part. St.

Catherine hospital in Oma ne young movie star was seen ha, where he had been a patient nlauini, with 4Vio Hntr In nna nf thn since Nov. 20. The body was taken wnue nouse nans wniie a group oi i Roosevelt grandchildren, here forj from Omaha to Red Oak. his former family home, and funeral tomorrows fourth term inaugura Beyoni the iron white house fence, a good two blocks from the mansion, upwards of 6.000 non-tioket holding spectators spilled iLanger to Fight arrangements are pending. Burial will be there.

Obituary will be ear tion ceremonies, shouted encouragement from nearby. Dead Ringer ned in The Telegram on Monday. For Principles over into th Klippse beyond treet and stood silently in the An observing reporter said the dog was a "dead ringer" for Rice Services Funeral services snow as Mr. Roosevelt's word? WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (IT Son Williarrt Tan rrctv Blaze but had no success in learn-! came clearly over loudspeakers for Mrs.

Ina Jane Bouton Rice, 6S. of Bellwood. who died Wendesdav who has announced "his" intention if kin to Ho1" Many women unlimbered compacts mi othermirrors from their pock- at St. Mary's hospital, were held lywoou traveler. As for Blaze, he appeared to be unconcerned about the furore and ethooks and held them over their heads to get a vague glimpse of rtit.mt reremonv over the Friday at p.

m. at the Bellwood Methodist church with Rev. Mr. Embree officiating. Burial was in the Bellwood cemetery.

Pallbear concentrated on the six weeks of attending the republican national committee meeting in Indianapolis next Monday, said today that unless the grand old party made a determined stand for the farmers and laboring men a third party would arise to do so. Langer. who often bolts his heads of the crowd. course in the American way of ers were Lew Wagner. Victor Lnn- life he 19 undergoing at a Holly One man.

apparently a veteran mis. Ermn DeFord. William ntwi- inausrurations. shook his wood kennel. The only time he lost his temper came when a reporter, Haugh.

Cecil HaU. and W. K. Flake. head as he stamped about outside who was paying a personal call.

Federated Church Men of the the fence, it ain't like old times." he said party line on senate legislation, tried to help a cat who attracted Federated church are invited to a saia ne wouia iigm ior a return Blazes attention. of the republican party to the The cat got away, but Blaze got forum to be held at 7 p. m. tomorrow at the church. P.

L. Bauer, a hunk of the reporters trousers. City Briefs chairman in charge for the even ing, will present G. W. Soden who will lead the forum on the subject of "A debt-free church serving its Notice P.

E. O. Sisterhood will meet at 2:30 p. m. Monday, Jan.

22. 2 Negro Electors At Inauguration principles of Abraham Lincoln. He declared he would battle for two points at Indianapolis 1. "Progressive-minded men like Sen. Hiram Johnson (r.) of California.

Senator George Aiken (r.) of Vermont and Sen. Robert La-follette (prog.) of Wisconsin must be given a directing part in the shaping of policies by the republican party. with Mrs. Leonard Miller. community." and the second part of the evening will be the showing of a sound film, "Working Togeth er." Diimitie Louis Hamsa of Howell was dismissed yesterday ST.

PAUL. Jan. 20 IP Frank Boyd, secretary-treasurer of Dull Day Edd Kelly vesterday the Twin Cities division of the from SU Mary's hospital. Initiation There will be spent a very quiet day. 24 hours which he considered wasted.

Edd. Brotherhood of Sleeping Carport ers, attends the presidential inaug 2. "The chairmanship of the GOP must be occupied by a man Knirbts of Cblumbus initiation who has been president of the Loup Sunday at Creighton. Nebr. who will give it his full time and ration today as one of the first an active peoples organization two negro electors in the history Trttf th.

fouriof the democratic party. Fellowship Meeting Young Adult Fellowship of the Methodist ruver t-UDiic power District for about two weeks, had been served a summons in a lawsuit on eight different occasions during this brief period, incident to the Omaha Power controversy. But yesterday 1 th. Boyd, son of an ex-slave, has years in every state the union. church will meet at 8 p.

m. Mon served with the Pullman company dav. for 38 years. no summons to be served. Edd Soldier's Medal Given Nebraskan New Position Muss Wflma The other negro elector is Alice Anderson, sister of Singer Marian Anderson, who was elected from is wondering how that happened.

Divorce Decree Mrs. Pauline Wood was granted a divorce from Pennsylvania. WASHINGTON. Jan. 20 SSsrt.

Elwood Betz. Bayard, has Bomemann is now employed as stenographer for Donald and company in Grand Island. Son Born Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Misek of Rogers are parents of a son born this noon at St.

Mary's hospital. He weighed eight pounds. Edward Wood by Judge Lightner in district court today on grounds been awarded the soldier's medal. or cruelty. Mr.

Wood had cross according to the war department) Japs Launch todav. petitioned for a divorce, also alleg ing cruelty, but. though repre In December, 1943. when Ser-1 geant Betz was standing on Uie.MCW wTTenSIVe rightwing of the transport air c-ir. Henjtrtment nwerd wniea oy counsel, aid not contest a call at 11:15 a.

m. today in the for decree. They were married allev behind Gasa Funeral home. lat ichuylcr Mar. 28.

1936. and plane which he was refueling at a CHUNGKING, Jan. 20 IP The base in upper Assam, the tractor- Chinese central news agency re-trailer refueling unit, containing ported today that Japanese forces 100-octane gasoline, burst into had launched a three-pronged of- It was a truck fire, and no dam- separated Apr. 10. 1944.

Under age was done. terms of the decree custody of their 2-months-old daughter, Judy Eagles Dance "Hard Times" Ann. was given to Mrs. Wood, and flames. With disregard for his per- fensive aimed at closing a 140- scnal safety, he jumped to the mile gap in the southern part of dance will be held tonight at custody of their 4-year-old son ground and proceeded to drive the the canton-Hankow railway.

Eazles hall. Members are urzed to Kobert. who is now with Mr. Large-scale drives were reported burning refueling unit a safe dis dress accordingly and to bring a Wood's parents in Columbus. guest.

was granted to Mr. Wood, with mounted at either end of the gap and a third Japanese force was said to be attempting to push through the western flank from eastern Kwangsi province. tance from the airplane. HARRY PRESENT WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (IP) Harry Hopkins, presidential adviser who in recent days has been persistently rumored in or enroute to London, attended the inauguration today.

He was -accompanied by his wife and daughter, Diana. The main spearhead was report (provision that Mrs. Wood should Notice The music and drama have custody of him for six weeks department of the Columbus Wo- each summer. Defendant is or-man'a club will meet at 7:45 p. m.

dered to pay plaintiff $45 a month Tuesday. Jan. 23. at the home of for the support of Judy Ann. and Mrs.

John Hoge. 1670 Twenty- also to pay up $135 of past-due sixth avenue. Mrs. I. E.

Levine temporary alimony, and certain and" Mrs. Gordon Watt will be as- other financial obligations. Mr Sist-ng hostesses. The program win. Wood is employed at the navai ed striking south from Leiyang while troops attacking from the Kwangsi side were thrusting from the cities of Fuchwan and Kur.g- cheng southeast or Kweinn..