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Nebraska: Little change in temperature tonight and Sunday forenoon. Lincoln: Little change in temperature tonight and Sunday forenoon. FORTY-FIRST YEAR THE LINCOLN STAR OME EDITION Fire 2-2222 Telephone 2-1234 Police 2-6844 LINCOLN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1943 FIVE CENTS QUEBEC COffFEHENCE- PneiSie Smash Looms VIetory Pattern Cut QUEBEC, Aug. pattern for victory appeared today to have been cut by the Quebec war conference. Meanwhile, as the conference neared the stage of public pronouncements by its principals, an air of expectancy pervaded this temporary allied war capital and word spread that news of a new blow against Japan might be forthcoming soon.

This expectation was based on an idea that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, having finished their most pressing chores in the field of long- range strategy, were ready to focus attention on more contemporary developments. Odds and ends of military logistics and strategy which allied experts have been fitting together for 11 days now have been cemented into a single mosaic, the best available evidence indicated, leaving the conferees virtually free to concentrate on related problems of international political Import. This Is the evidence: I. end of the conferenre by next Tueidev definitely In sight. It snnounced thst President Roosexelt spend wednesdnv Otfsws, an tnformsJ meeting of the dominion parliament, then head aouth- fConflnuad On Sixl KISKA RETAKEN Withou QDanese Opposition Trend Toward Labor Party Noted Augtralian Election MELBOURNE, Australia.

Aug. pronounced trend toward the labor party of Prime Minister John Curtin indicated late today in a partial count of votes cast by nearly 4,500,000 Australians in their first general election in three years. The voting was for all 75 seats in the house of representatives and 19 of the 36 senate posts. Preliminary returns from all parts of the commonwealth received at midnight hours after the polls indicated a strong possibility the labor party would gain frim 8 to 14 seats in the house of representatives. The party previously had 36 of them.

In Australia, as in Britain, the leader of the largest party group in the lower house customarily is asked to form the government. Soften Italy For Cross Post Invaisum Cotter To Colorado Rod Erwin Johnnton New Lincoln Secretary Fenton Takes Over Prentice Place In Hospitality Work Joe Fenton will succeed Fred Prentice, in charge of arrangements for soldiers, one Sunday each month, it was announced by the hospitality clearing house. Prentice, who is moving to Kansas City, has served the clearing house in this capacity since it was started. Fenton wnll continue serving every fourth Sunday. This Sunday he will be assisted by Mesdames: Max Meyer, J.

M. Roberts, George Kimball, C. L. Hobbs and Jane Ferguson, and Misses Marie Donlan, Ri'rta Dean, Mary Chapin, Tillie Wright and Marie Dugan. Two Boy Scouts will cooperate as messengers.

Invitations may be extended Saturday evening through Sunday by calling the hospitality clearing house, 2-5419. Wlio OvQffiiQord Hittor's amd MttssoitAi's Rowdy QiKNTd? Wytha Wiiiiams reported the row the Axis leaders had over the French armistice terms. No one else knew. How did Williams get this inside news? He tells, in his new book, "Secret Sources," the story of the war's most amazing feats of inside news-gathering. Read it serially, beginning SUNDAY JOURNAL AND STAR Erwin Johnston, of Chicago, has been chosen by the executive board of the Lancaster Red Cross, as executive secretary and manager, to succeed James C.

Cotter, who has resigned to go to Colorado Springs in a similar capacity, it was announced Saturday by Paul Good, chairman. Mr. Cotter left today for Colorado Springs and Mr. Good will supervise the Lincoln office until Johnston arrives. Mr.

Johnston, who was bom and received his early education in North Daxota, is a post-graduate of the University of Chicago, with a degree, and for ten years has been an executive with the Home and Aid Society of Illinois. He will arrive with his wife late in September, to take over his new duties. The resignation of Mr. Cotter was accepted with reluctance. He has been with the county chapter since May, 1942.

OneltiiicirAs Car Goes Over Embankment Near Beaver City BEAVER CITY, Aug. Hockinson. 60, Holbrook farmer, was killed instantly last night when his car plunged over a 15-foot embankment from the gravel highway at Cemetery hill one mile west of Beaver City. Five others w'ere injured. Mrs.

Andrew Hockinson, 78, was reported in a critical condition. Also injured were Mrs. Herman Hockinson, and her tw'o grandchildren, ages 8 and 10 and William Overholzer, a farmer. Sheriff R. B.

Watson said he could find no apparent reason for the car leaving the road. It had weaved slightly and the tracks indicated a wheel may have skidded previous to the plunge. They were returning from a shopping trip in Beaver City. An ambulance took the injured to a hospital at Oxford. Fortner INebraska Woman Awarded for Peari Harbor Work SHUBERT, Aug.

faithful work as a civilian employe at the Pearl Harbor navy yard, where she was stationed at the time of the Japanese attack Dec. 7, 1941, Mrs. Lea Arnold, former Shubert resident, has been given a special citation by Rear Admiral William R. Furlong. The admiral wrote Mrs.

father, D. D. Lewis, Shubert, of the award. Bationiny Boardn May Raire Waiting Period Wben Food Bookg Lost WASHINGTON, Aug. office of price administration today authorized local war price and rationing boards to waive prescribed waiting periods in handling applications tor replacement of lost or stolen food ration books in cases of If further investigation is desired, the board may issue certificates by which the applicant may obtain the rationed goods temporarily.

HOMEIV REICH UYIIVG OF HCMGER ALGIERS, Aug. 21 Hundreds of French women sent to Germany have been forced to in salt mines and are dying at the rate of 300 a month in some camps, the newspaper Echo said today on the basis of information from persons arriving from France. The newspaper said the women are made to work 14 hours a day. It declared that death by a firing squad is the punishment for even minor infractions of the rules. Allied fjiung, Pianex And Ships Attack (By the Associated Press) American warships hurled tons of steel into "Hell's Triangle" on the toe of the Italian boot before down yesterday, setting big fires at Gioia Tauro, and allied bombers heavily pounded the kingdom in a invasion campaign to soften axis defenses.

It was the second time in 48 hours that U. S. naval gunners had turned their fire on Gioia Tauro, which lies 20 miles northeast of Messina where American and British conquerors of Sicily w'ere awaiting a possible imminent signal to spring onto the Italian mainland. A bulletin from Gen. Dwight D.

headquarters said British warships joining in the blockade of west coast sank seven axis landing craft off Scalea in the Tyrrhenian sea. Paola Port Bombed An Italian communique said allied warships and planes also shelled and bombed the mainland port of Paola, 85 miles northeast of Messina, and inflicted in an air raid on the city of Benevento, about 40 miles (Contlnugd on Six) $1,014,720,112 Assessed Value Of State Farms Farm lands and improvements, valued at $1,014,720,112 for taxation purposes, made up 47.78 per cent of the total of tangible property assessed values for 1943, State Tax Commissioner Robert Armstrong reported Saturday. Town lots and improvements, value $436,267,301, were second high, comprising 20.54 per cent of the total. Livestock, at $218,290,423, came next ith 10.28 per cent, followed by railroad properties, including Pullman, at $142.203,460 and 6.70 per cent. Grains totalled $57,439,153 and 2.71 per cent, automobiles and trucks $53,883,159 and 2.54 per cent, and farm machinery $46,750,510 and $2.20 per cent.

Goods and merchandise amounted to $40,451,968 and 1.90 per cent. Other listings: Farm lands under lease or contract $6,052,451 and poultry and household goods $20,057,508 and industrial machinery $7,460,979 and telegraph companies $1,548,154 and telephone companies $19,371,595 and pipe line companies $8,093,346 and electric lighting, heading and power companies $14,818,215 and fire insurance companies $8,227,583 and franchise valuation $3,159,650 and all other property (ex. intangibles) $19,694,010 and .93. Fair Livestock KISKA BACK IN OUR HANDS Jap inslallationt at Kiaka harbor In Alautiani, photographed by U. S.

army oir force, were oi U. S. in almost daily attacks after American forces occupied neorby Amchitka island. Damaged shore show in foreground. (International).

Hor Prisonerg In Line Eor Chrigtmag Letterg Write Them Now ST. LOUIS, Aug. That boy who fought his heart out in the tangled ravines of Bataan is in line for a Christmas letter from write it now. The midwestern area Red Cross office said today that letters to prisoners of war in the Far East, received in New York post- office by midnight Aug. 27, would be sent on the Swedish exchange ship Gripsholm if the Japanese agree to carry mail from the exchange point in Portuguese India to the Far East.

The envelope should be marked plainly Via The state department in Washington announced it was asking the Japanese for safe conduct for the vessel to carry 1,400 tons of relief boxes and to exchange civilian internees. Exhibits In Big Drop From Early reports that there would be a general decrease in exhibits at Lancaster fair were proven accurate as registration of entries closed Friday. J. F. Purbaugh, county agent, stated that exhibits of baby beef calves had fallen off about 25 per cent, and that swine exhibits, wuth 125 registered, had decreased almost 50 per cent.

Only 160 fowls and 18 sheep are scheduled for exhibition this year, while dairy exhibits will number 26. $44,391 Profit By Tri County Shown In Audit Accumulated to 1943 Franz Will Head Schools at Union John Franz, for the last tw'O years superintendent of schools at Bingham, has been appointed superintendent of schools at Union, and w-ill assume his new position in September, it was announced Saturday. Mr. Franz is a graduate of York college, and received his degree this summer from the University of Nebraska. THE (By U.

S. WVather Bureau.) LINCOLN. Aug. (or thla afternoon and tonight: Lincoln: Little change in tempera- tu'e tonight and Sunday lorenoon. Nebraska: Little change In temperature tonight and Sunday forenoon.

(Lincoln Temperatures) 2:30 m. .81 3:30 p. 8S 4 30 p. ..........86 5:30 p. 85 6 30 p.

84 7:30 p. ............82 8:30 p. ..........78 9:30 p. 10:30 p. 11 30 p.

...........71 12 30 a. m. 1:30 a. Highest temperature 97: lowest, 75. 3 30 a.

3:30 a. 4 30 a. 5 30 a. 6:30 a. 7:30 a.

8:30 a. m. ...........69 9:30 a. 10:30 a ...............75 11 30 a. 87 13:30 p.

...........84 1:30 p. 2:30 p. ...........91 a year ago today, Sun rises, 6 43 a. m-: sets. 8:17 p.

ra. Moon rises. 13 sets. 1:15 p. m.

Precipitation since Jan. I. 1943, 18.22 in. Precipitation Jan. 1 to Aug.

20. 1942, 19.84 in. Normal, same period. 17.92 in. Preclpltohon 1942.

2.SS in. Aug. to 1.82 In. Normal ior August, 3.57 in. The Central Nebraska public power and irrigation district, more familiarly known as Tri-County, showed an accumulated profit of $44,391 as of Dec.

31, 1942, according to audit made by the Anderson accounting firm of Chicago and placed on file with the state department of roads and irrigation Saturday. The audit was objected to by George Johnson, Hastings director of the district, who outlined in an explanatory letter, that the district has been audited in former years on an basis, and that the surplus was greater than the Anderson audit showed. The Anderson audit was made under the federal power commission regulations, maintaining that the district was not under construction. Under the new auditing system, however, the district showed $20,242 profit for 1942, with net revenue before interest and other deductions were made of $93,462. Accumulated net revenue amounted to $24,150, it was shown.

The district, which is a link of the Nebraska public power system, shows the greatest profit of any single district, it was pointed out, its operating revenues during 1942 coming to $975,787. Of this total, $888,085 was derived from electricity, $24,272 from steam and $63,430 from irrigation. Operating expenses for the year came to $896,488. leaving a net revenue from operations of $79,300. Non-operating revenue during this period came to while the total interest payments on bonded indebtedness amounted to $73,219.

Robert Becker Of Ogallala OGALLALA, Aug. war department has notified Rev. and Mrs. William Becker that their son, Sgt. Robert Becker, is missing in action in the middle east.

Sgt. Becker was flight engineer and turret gunner on a Liberator bomber. Navigator of the missing Liberator was Robert Patterson, Vote On Delayed. Only 4 Council Membcrg In City son of the undersecretary of war. master.

The annual appropriation ordinance, formally fixing the city levy at 10.4 mills, largely because only four councilmen are in the city, will not be put through under suspension of the rules and passed Monday. One of the four members of the council in the city is Councilman Wilkinson, w'hose vote until court action finally determines his right to sit permanently, is open to legal challenge. The council does not want to pass this important measure and leave any loophole, it was plainly indicated at the city hall Saturday. Vice Chairman Arthur J. Weaver announced the big appropriations ordinance, formally authorizing use of $981,683.14 tax money in the coming year and a grand total of all balances, collections, of $3,385,567.87, will be read next Monday only the first and second times and held over for final passage one week when either the mayor or Councilman Maly shall have returned.

Needs Four Votes. The charter specifies that no business may be transacted by the council without a majority of four votes in its favor. Delay of one week, it was stated by Vice Chairman Weaver, will not delay payment of salaries under the appropriation. May Fill Seat. Possibility exists that the place of Joe Iverson, city councilman, may be filled during his period of military service, by the council under section 32-1701 of the elections law, passed in 1941 because of this situation.

The matter was brought to the surface by Councilman Kitrell, discussing the possibility of having no quorum at all, rendering the council unable to function. Councilman Weaver Saturday said he had talked the matter over with Mayor Marti and Councilman Maly before the mayor left for Estes Park and Mr. Maly left on vacation. is still under Mr. Weaver added.

Councilman De Brown said today he thinks the place should be filled we will turn up shorthanded some The law in article 17 of the statutes on elections specifies that when a public office is vacated for military the governing body appoint an acting officer for the period during the elected or appointed member shall be absent by reason of military or naval Funeral Sunday For F. A. Sandberff LAUREL, Aug. services will be held tomorrow for F. A.

Sandberg, 66, rural mail carrier here for 25 years and former Magnet post- 59 Ships Lost By Japs Trying To Hold Kiska WASHINGTON. Aug. A recapitulation ol nary department communiques shows that Japanese lost at least 59 ships in trying to hold Kiska. The enemy ship losses at Kiska, occording to nary, were as ioliows: COMBATANT SHIPS Cruisers Destroyers Submarines ,.0 .7 .0 Others .............2 Totals ...........9 i 3 rs- cr I 0 0 3 1 7 5 3 I 16 NON-COMBATANT SHIPS Transports 1 Cargo and supply .........5 Miscellaneous 0 Totals ...........6 Total ships ol oil types 15 13 3 20 36 7 15 4 3 29 21 3 30 59 Legionnaires Assemble For Annual Meet at Norfolk NORFOLK, Aug. of the Nebraska American Legion and its auxiliary began arriving in Norfolk today for the 25th annual state convention, the third held here in the past 11 years.

The convention will start tomorrow and end on Tuesday. Officials were uncertain as to attenilance, but indications point to between 1,000 and 1,500 delegates and visitors. Some Norfolk hotels have been unable to furnish room reservations for the past two weeks, and Department Commander John Curti.ss, Lincoln, has predicted a large attendance. A golf tournament with the Sam Reynolds trophy at stake will be held tomorrow morning. The department executive committee will meet.

40 And 8 In Charge. Tomorrow afternoon the fun organization, the 40 and 8, will take over. A joint memorial and patricitic service for the Legion and auxiliary will be presented at the city (Continued on Six) Falls City Farmer Attacked By Sow In Serious Condition FALLS CITY. Aug. William T.

Nutter, prominent Falls City farmer who was attacked by an enraged sow Wednesday, w'as near death today in a Falls City hospital. The attending physician said infection had developed in the blood stream and expressed doubt Nutter would survive. His son, Charles Nutter, head of the Associated Latin American division with headquarters in New York, was en route here. Yanksi, CaiiacliaiiM Land On Isiland To Find Eneniy Firgt Big Bagc Given I By Nipg Without Eight WASHINGTON, Aug. the Japanese from their last known foothold in the Aleutian islands, American and Canadian troops have important base of Kiska after a terrific bombardment of invader positions.

The victorious advance came 14 months after Tokyo first leported landings in the Aleutian chain stretching from Alaska westward toward Japan's home islands. Making the announcement today, the navy said landings on the narrow beaches of the rocky island were made Aug. 15 and "no Japanese were found." Indications w'cre, the navy said, that the Japanese ony recently had fled rrom their positions laboriously built in the rocky terrain and along the beaches. Positions Untenable the munique said, heavy bombardments of our ships and planes that have been carried on for some time and the danger to their supply lines by our capture of Attu made the enemy positions on Kiska Those bombardments, unreported in the last three weeks, among the heaviest ever made on enemy positions in the Pacific. Army and navy bombing planes during the period from Aug.

1 to Aug. 14, the navy said, struck 106 times, dropoing ton after ton of bombs on the Japanese at Kiska. Surface units joined in the pounding of the enemy garrison, standing off shore and hurling shells from their big guns onto the island in 15 separate bombardments. Escape Not Explained How the Japanese escaped from Kiska under the heavy bombings and bombardments was not explained. The navy said, however, that it was possible that enemy surface ships, taking advantage of the heavy fogs of the north Pacific, slipped in to evacuate remnants of the garrison estimated at one time to have included 10,000 Japanese troops.

Explaining the three weeks of silence on the Aleutians campaign, the navy said that air and surface bombardments in the latter part of July had destroyed Japanese radio equipment, cutting Kiska off from communication with the homeland. Any mention jof the progress of the campaign, the navy continued, have conveyed information to the enemy which he otherwise would not have Silence Imperative Silence, the navy said, particularly was desirable during the period immediately prior to the landings when transports were in areas exposed to submarine attack and while they were unloading troops and equipment. The enemy eTQcuatioo represented the iirst time oiiicially reported in war that Japanese have given up a maior base without a light. Previously on Attu they had lought almost to last man. and in linal organised resistance on Attu some enemy soldiers had battled with bayonets tied to sticks.

The last resistance reported on Kiska was on Aug. 13 when light anti-aircraft fire was encountered (Continued on Six) ADMIRAL KINKAID directed final conquest of Kiska, New Freight Rale For Potato Growers In Area HOLDREGE, Aug. new commercial potato freight rate will become effective in this tri-county irrigated area Oct. 1, D. M.

Osborne, local potato grower, has been informed by D. Kastrup, Burlington freight agent at Hastings. Commercial potato growers here operated under a handicap because the area was not established previously as a potato growing region and rates remained higher than they were at other points no greater distant than the shipping point at Loomis. The new commercial potato freight rate, Kastrup said, will be effective from Smithfield to Axtell on the Burlington, anci will be equal to the rate at other points where commercial potatoes are shipped. Sculptor Connor Dies DUBLIN, Aug.

21 Derham Connor, 70, Iri-sh-Ameri- can sculptor, died today after a brief illness. Investigation Of Rendering Plant Mapped Committee To Visit Fort Dodge Prolect Vice-Chairman Arthur J. Weaver of the city council Saturday appointed a committee consisting of Directors Erickson and Venner and Councilman Kitrell and Dc- Brown to visit Fort Dodge to inspect a large plant there for rendering by-products of freshly killed exactly like the one the Lincoln Packing company is asking the council for permission to add to its local operating facilities. The ordinance amending the zoning laws of the city and introduced by Councilman Kitrell, has been read twice. Before it is acted upon finally Vice-Chairman Weaver said, the council will receive a report from this committee.

This action was taken because information came to Mr. Weaver and the council Saturday that a group of citizens, represented by Attorney Sterling F. Mutz, expect to protest enactment on the ground odors from such operations would be objectionable and unsanitary. Restrictions Listed. The ordinance permits fat rendering where confined to byproducts of freshly killed animals and livestock pen.s and sheds near the existing Lincoln Packing plant.

am firmly convinced the plant would not be Mr. Weaver said. have gone into the matter with Director Erickson at length and have satisfied ourselves that the new type construction will not be (Continued on Six) V. 1.01» On BuUor NEW YORK, Aug. butter supply reached a record low today, with only 40 per cent of normal stocks on hand, and 16 per cent of the stores without any butter at all, the department of disclosed.

All meats except pork averaged less than half of the normal supply..