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STATE GROUP IS PLANNING ALKY PUNTS Nebraska: Not much change in temperature this afternoon and tonight except slightly colder extreme east tonight. Lincoln: Not much change in temperature this afternoon and tonight. THE LINCOLN STAR HOME EDITION Telephone 2-1234 Police Number 2-6844 Grain At Source FORTIETH YEAR LINCOLN, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1942 FIVE CENTS Articles of incorporation of the Farm Crops Processing corporation were filed with the secretary of state Monday morning by George E. Johnson, Hastings. Arthur J.

Weaver of Falls City, Frank L. Robinson of Kearney and C. A. Sorensen of Lincoln. The corporation will be somewhat unique in the product it manufactures and its profit sharing.

The Farm Crops Processing cooperation. according to Sorensen, intends to construct a number of plints in Nebraska to produce alcohol from grain. Any moneys remaining in the general fund, according to the articles of incorporation, and after certain other requirements are met, shall be set aside, transferred and paid into the profits participation account. The money in this account shall be distributed and paid to the owners of the agricultural products bought by the corporation during the preceeding twelve months on the basis of or in proportion to the amount or value of the agricultural so purchased. Five Plants First.

The corporation plans first to build five plants in Nebraska. These can be put into operation in five months after receiving priorities, according to the directors. They would be able to produce 18 million gallons of grain alcohol a year, each producing 10 thousand gallons a day, operating 20 hours daily. Government needs will probably require 400 million gallons of alcohol next year, according to Sorensen. He said he believed one million tons of raw sugar a year is now being used to make alcohol, and may be one reason for rationing.

Present plans for the location of the five plants were not revealed. Favorite localities, however, are to be found along the Platte. Loup and Elkhorn rivers. Here are found the advantages of a ready prain supply, convenient transportation and water. Water Important Factor.

Water will determine chiefly where the plants are built. It is used for condensing purposes in the alcohol manufacture and must be of a 55 degree temperature. Otherwise costly refrigerator units must be used, according to the directors. An expansion in the number of plants after the ficst year is desired by the corporation. They will be located in various desirable Diaces.

It was said desirable locations also exist near Scottsbluff and in the region from Seward west to points south of Lexington The alcohol plants will cost $800,000 each. At the present price of alcohol the directors believe five plants could be paid for in one year. They hope to finance the building through a loan from the defense commission of the RFC. It wes pointed out. however, that the money could also be obtained fro mprivate The total number of shares of stock which may be issued is one hundred, of the par value of $100 each, and no stock shall be issued at less than par value, the articles of incorporation provide.

Accounting Plan Set Up. All money received by the corporation from the operation of its business shall be deposited immediately in a general fund, in which there will be four special accounts, the loan payment trust account, operating account, plant extension and construction account, and profits participaton account. Each account must be entirely satisfied before the succeeding one may be considered. Officers of the corporation are Johnson, president; Weaver, vice president, Robinson, treasurer Sorensen, secretary; Johnson, general manager; and Sorensen, general counsel. Sorensen shall also be resident agent, corporation plans to finally build 20 plants in Nebraska, capable of making alcohol from almost any kind of grain.

They may later expand to other states One hundred tons of grain can be handled a day by a plant, producing 10.000 gallons of alcohol and 32 tons of high protein feed. ALLIES BATTLE JAPS JAVA Counter-Offensive Against Invaders Develops Satisfactorily Supply BUI 'We Must Take War To Enemy Gen. Marshall Says Highway Crash loll Now Four Griswold For Palmer Wo man Dies COZAD, March Lawrence Prince of Palmer died today, bringing to four the toll of a Saturday night car- truck collision east of here. Preceding her in death were L. B.

Curren, Palmer elevator operator; Mrs. Curren, and Mr. Prince, a farmer. Charles Watson of Grand Island, suffered a broken arm. 32Billion Dollar War Measure Is Passed By Senate WASHINGTON, March 2 senate passed and sent back to the house a $32,762,737,900 military appropriations bill today after being informed by Gen.

George C. Marshall, chief of staff, that "we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy." Approval of the measure on a voice vote came quickly after Senator Austin (R-Vt) had read to the senate a letter from Marshall explaining that the army must disregard some pleas for soldiers to guard continental installations because it could not permit greater portion of our armed forces and our valuable material to be immobilized within the United States. Forecasting isolated air raids on this country. General Marshall said such forays might constitute a part of a plan to prevent American efforts to our planes and ground troops so far as practicable, offensively in distant Most For Supplies. In passing the huge appropriations bill, largest in history, the senate increased by $691.836,000 the funds previously voted by the house, $596,836.000 of this amount being for clothing and equippage for the army and $95.000,000 for warehousing of lend-lease goods.

Of the total amount in the measure, $23,485,737,900 would be allocated to the war department, of which $13,252,200,000 would be (Continued on Page Eight! AMERICAN FREIGHTER TORPEDOED Off Atlantic Coast Limitation On Work Type If Japs Brought In Mrs. Ethel Ludwig Dies Suddenly At Her Home Monday Mrs. Ethel Irene Ludwig, 63, died suddenly at her home, 2203 South Tenth street, early Monday morning. Mr. Ludwig was awakened by her struggling movement, it was unable to arouse his wife.

He called Dr. W. W. Carveth, but death came before he could reach the home. Mrs.

Ludwig came to Burwell at the age of three years. She had been a Lincoln resident 55 years The survivors include her hus band. Albert son, George Lincoln; mother, Mrs. Ella Noble, Oklahoma City; three sisters, Grace Noble, Lincoln; Mrs. Edith Barnett, Oklahoma City; and Mrs Charles Adair, San Francisco, Cal five brothers.

John Noble, Lansing, George. Lincoln. Harry. Chicago; Clarence, Oklahoma City, Sam, Oroville, Cal. YOUR STAR Merry-Go-Round 2 Serial Story 3 Editorials 4 Nebraska 5 Social News 6 Here In 6 Comics 7 General News 8 Sports ......................................8.

9 Markets .............................10 Want Radio Programs 12 ension Repeal VotedBy Senate Goes To President WASHINGTON, March 2 senate completed legislative action today on a measure repealing legislation permitting congressmen to obtain government pensions. With only a score of members present, the senate accepted a joint house-senate conference report approving the pension pealer as an amendment to a house bill. The house bill, which now goes to the president for signature, provides continued pay for members of the armed forces and government civilian workers who are reported missing or in enemy custody. These payments would go to dependents. Two Riders Attached.

In addition to the pensions pealer, two other significant riders were attached to the bill. One would authorize an $8,000,000 appropriation for construction of supplemental locks in the Soo canal between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron to expedite the shipment of iron ores. The other would provide a 20 per cent increase in the basic pay of enlisted men and 10 per cent in the basic pay of officers in the army and naval forces on duty in foreign lands or in the Philippines, Hawaii and Midway islands. The provision excludes members of the armed forces in continental United States or any other possessions or territories not specifically mentioned. NORFOLK, March (AP) Three axis submarines combined their striking power to sink the American freighter Marore off the middle Atlantic coast Thursday night, crippling her with one torpedo and riddling her from stem to stern with more than 100 shells, members of the 39-man crew related on their safe arrival at Norfolk 24 hours later.

The fifth naval district permitted interviews with the crew Saturday but withheld public announcement of the sinking until today. The 8.214-ton freighter, owned by the Ore Steamship Co. of New York, was northbound with 23.000 tons of iron ore when attacked. Navy planes directed another ship to the rescue of 25 members after they had been afloat in two lifeboats for 12 hours. Fourteen in the third lifeboat rigged a sail and landed at Cape Hatteras.

Abandoning ship less than 10 minutes after the torpedo struck amidship on the starboard side, the crew rowed several hundred yards away and watched the death struggle as the three submarines, grouped in a rhough triangle and each about mile distant, staged what one crewman described as a fu display of Capt. Charles E. Nash of Dundalk, said the submirsibles fired more than 100 shells at the Marore and that 100 per of them struck the freighter. None of the crew saw the three submarines but several related that the flash of gunfire and the bright trail of tracer shells were vishible from three directions simultaneously. Howard W.

Bock of Baltimore, first assistant engineer, said the enemy craft were still shelling the Marore when she went under more than an hour after the crew took to the boatsh. Governor Griswold said Monday he would advise the congressional defense migration committee he would have no objection to the quartering of enemy aliens in Nebraska provided they were not placed in competition with Nebraska labor, see where there would be much objectior to bringing in a couple hundred Japanese and putting them up on the Niobrara river under guard or putting them on the Republican river for possible use in the construction of the proposed Harlan county the governor said. The announcement last week that the migration committee headed by Rep. John H. Tolan had asked w'hat facilities Nebraska has for quartering enemy aliens, brought almost immediate comment.

200 Nat Tolman, supervisor for the Mirage Flats farm project, sent word the northwestern Nebraska development could use alien laborers, full time for several Tolman explained the project work is now being done by WPA labor and that the supply of labor probably would be shut off soon. He suggested the alien laborers could be paid for their work by th government. Labor Groups Opposed. In contrast to telegram, the Lincoln Typographical union, local No. 209, at a meeting Sunday instructed its secretary, Harry E.

Meskil, to write the governor and object to bringing in enemy aliens. The move for the objection was unanimous. A. C. Keller, Scottsbluff, secretary of the North Platte (valley) central labor union wired protests Doomed AIM THREE-POINT INVASION OF JAVA landings on Java are: In the northwestern Bantam district (1); In the Indramaju district (2); Near Rembang (3).

White arrows indicate projected drives to cut off vital centers oi Batavia, Bandoeng and Soerabaja. Tokyo claims allied ships were sunk at (A), (B), and (C). 1 AND SHADOWS By I. E. LAWRENCE Monday, March 2, 1942.

qpHE terrific struggle in Java between the forces of the United Nations and the Invading Japanese as darkness closed upon the island Monday had its darkness and its sunshine for the defenders. Incredibly, it appeared, the Japs had succeeded in putting 100.000 men upon the soil of Java. In a three-pronged drive they had knifed through one region, 40 miles inland, to capture Soebang. which is less than 30 miles from Bandoeng, headquarters of the supreme command of the United Nations. They drove forward this distaqfe in 24 hours.

Below Parity Sales Banned In Farm Bill iBv The United Nations' counteroffensive against the Japanese invasion oi Java has "developed It was of- ficiqlly cautiously announced at Bandoeng today and one unofficial report suggested that the deepest of the three spearheads had been sheared off. Details of the counter-stroke, however, remained an official secret. Destruction of vital installations was started at Batavia, capital and chief city of the Netherlands East Indies, it was announced officially there is no question of a direct to the city. There was, however, an invasion spearhead pointed at Batavia in the Bantam district, western end of the island. The spearhead there was believed be about 60 miles from Batavia.

If actually theie was np immediate threat to tnen that drive appeared to have been checkeo Situation Critical. By Committee DIFFICULT to the invasion force of 100.000 Funds For Next Yeai Japs was an army of 200,000 defenders. The figures themselves do not truthfully reflect the odds. coast is long, intersected by Innumerable inlets and bays, and the burden of defending it against swift and savage slashes is much greater than appears. Perhaps the most significant newTs contained in the cable was that admission that a thorough policy of scorched earth was being applied.

Agriculture Proaram Are Slashed (Continued on Page Eight) Parity Price Registration For Consumers March 17 to 20 Tentative Dates THE WEATHER (By U. S. Weather LINCOLN, March lor thla afternoon and evening. Lincoln and vicinity: Not much change in temperature this afternoon and tonight. Nebraska: Not much change in temperature this afternoon and tonight except slightly colder in extreme -east portion tonight.

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so m. 38 Nebraska county superintendents were advised Monday that tentative sugar rationing registration dates have been set for March 9 and 10 for trade outlets and March 17 to 20 for civilian consumers. In a letter to the superintendents, State Supt. Charles W. Taylor urged that they get in touch with their local rationing boards as a preliminary step toward the handling of the registrations.

Handled By Schools. Under plans previously outlined, sugar registrations are to be handled by the schools. suggest that you, as county superintendent, take the lead in the organization of this measure in your county and that you call to your assistance all city superintendents in towns of 2,500 or Taylor wrote. addition to the city superintendents, we suggest that the county attorney and the county clerk be brought into the picture wherever possible, since this may become more than a registration for the securing of sugar ration Highest temperature a year ago, 53; lowest. 30 Sun uni Moon.

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Talk With FDR Is Off Thomas Announces WASHINGTON, March 2 Thomas (D-Okla.) said today that members of the senate farm bloc had abandoned efforts to obtain a conference with President Roosevelt on parity price legislation. Thomas added that he would not offer a proposed amendment to the pending $32,762,737,900 military appropriations bill to prohibit use of any of the funds for the purchase of government-held crop surpluses at less than parity. Parity is a price calculated to give farm products the same purchasing power they had in a specified period, usually 1909-14. Too Late To See President. too late to see the president, Thomas told reporters, explaining tJiat the committee had been unable to obtain an appointment this morning.

hold up this military He said, however, that he believed restrictions inserted by the house appropriations committee in the regular department of agriculture appropriations bill reported today would go far toward accomplishing the purpose of the proposed amendment. In addition, he pointed out, the senate has passed and sent to the house legislation to prevent the Commodity Credit Corp. from disposing of surpluses at less than parity. Members of the farm group had named a seven-member committee, headed by Senator Bankhead to see the president and (CoafiniMct on Pago Eight) R. S.

Ferguson Heads Chamber Ag Committee Robert S. Ferguson has been named chairman of the agricultural committee of the chamber of commerce, Harry K. Grainger, president, announced Monday. Everett T. Winter is vice chairman.

STATE DAY OBSERVED AT LINCOLN HIGH State day was observed at an assembly program at Lincoln high school Monday morning, when Judge Bayard H. Paine, of the Supreme court spoke on He advised the students to stay here and win the war, declaring that Nebraska will come through the war as well as any other section of the country. Vocal solos were sung by Mrs. Bessie Meek Frazer, an American Indian. Paul LeBar accompanied.

SHOOTING THE traditional fashion the Japs were shooting the works for a lightning triumph upon Java, ignoring losses for the sake of a speedy verdict in their favor. Originally, military in the Far East estimated that a quarter million Jap troops embarked upon the invasion of Java. They put out from Borneo and Sumatra. Thus far it appeared that less than half reached their destination. Nine Japanese warships of the convoy either were sunk or damaged, and between 32 and 37 of the transports, supply ships, and troop-carrying lighters were sunk or crippled.

The Dutch lost four warships in the naval battle which preceded the land invasion, and a fifth was damaged. MEN ON speed of the drive inland by the Japs was credited to cyclist troops and to light-armed car detachments. They appear to have overrun a considerable part of the Rawang plains in a drive from the central beachhead near Indramaju. It was the apparent aim of the Japanese to isolate Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, from the great naval base at Soerabaja to the east, cut the island in half and break the east-west railway and highway communication lines. The threat against Bandoeng, which is the third largest city in the Netherlands East Indies, and a strategic communications center, was recognized immediately and brought a blistering counter attack from the hard-fighting Dutch.

STAKES ARE Monday morning Dutch, British, and American troops were fighting side by side in a newly-launched counter attack against the Japanese invaders. It was initiated along the north coast, and as it got under way word came of a new Japanese reverse near Rembang. in north central Java. There a new Japanese convoy of 20 transports was heavily attacked by planes just as troop-laden barges were shoving off for the shore. Virtually every barge was sunk, and the United Nation bombers went on to attack the transport and protecting warships.

A Dutch motor torpedo boat succeeded in sinking the Jap flotilla leader. WASHINGTON, March 2 house appropriations committee recommended today that congress prohibit the Commodity Credit Corp. selling its farm stocks at less than parity, a provision President Roosevelt opposed unsuccessfully in the senate last week. Sending a $695,065.859 supply bill for the agriculture department to the house, the committee inserted a provision which said that no part of the Commodity Credit Corp. appropriations could be used for administrative expenses in connection with the sale of government-owned stocks less than The senate last week directly forbade sales at less than parity a few hours after a letter from the president was read which said such a prohibition was improper and which criticized those who were seeking few more for the farmer.

Funds Smaller. In a report accompanying the bill, which was $458,767,861 less than the funds for this year, the committee accused the farm security administration of on experiments in (Continued on Page Eight A night communique acknowledged that situation in some parts of Java is obviously but added that the enemy was being hit "hammer and Informed circles in London estimated that the Japanese had landed five and a half some on Java, increasing previous estimates by 15.000. These sources predicted that loss of material, ralher than lives, would be the controlling factor in any defeat for the Japanese. are willing to gamble at least 10 divisions, or 150.000 men, on the subjugation of it was said. Other Pacific The battle of Java thrust to the background these other phases of the Pacific struggle; Rangoon, gateway to the Burma road into China and milestone the march toward.

on POSSIBLY CUT there was secrecy at the headquarters of the United Nations, reports persisted that the main Japanese spearhead which captured Soebang has been cut off, with the chance that it could be wiped out. Most heartening of all was however the word that there had been no new' landings up until Tuesday morning. At the same time it was announced that destruction of all vital installations in Batavia has been started although there is no question of an immediate threat to the capital. MAY BE was believed In Batavia that the invasion transports turned back in the naval battle may be reorganizing to attempt a fresh landing. On the basis of the relative strength of defenders and attackers there was a disposition to view the situation hopefully in the event that fresh landings can be prevented.

The defenses of Java have been well organized, and the force opposed to the Japs is capable of continuing resistance for a considerable period of time. LULL IN THE lull in the Philippines continued. There was virtually no ground activity. General forces held the gains they made in a recent counter offensive, while in northern Luzon a small Atnerican-Filipino detachment forced the Japs to evacuate a 45-mile stretch of the Abra valley, President the Philippine provisional government Monday said the spirit of resistance remained among his countrymen. RANGOON HARD Burma one of the fiercest battles of the war was beinr fought in the southern Burmese paddy fields for control of the scorched and battered capital of Rangoon.

Heavy (Continued on Page Eight) Aid Revenue Problem Grows Gas Tax Declining While liquor tax collections failed to show any decline during February, Governor Griswold said Monday the revenue sources of the state assistance program still present a "very serious Liquor taxes, the liquor commission reported, brought in $185,693 last month, compared with $112,411 for the same month last year. The January collections, unusually high as a result of a tax procedure change, totaled $285,436 this year. The governor pointed out that while liquor taxes give the assistance program about $1,500,000 a year, the main source of revenue is gasoline tax which contributes $2,500,000 to assistance coffers. Gasoline taxes last month were off 5 per cent and department officials indicated the slump was the May Drop 50 Per Gent. The governor said some national tax agencies have estimated gasoline tax collections may drop off as much as 50 per cent by July as the result of curtailed motor travel.

Summer grants to old age and dependent child aid clients this year have already been ordered cut 7 per cent below those of last year. Governor Griswold said he realized the reduction would create new difficulties for many old people. I he added, "that we may find even this reduction be sufficient to cover to reduction in revenue India, W'as all but doomed. The Japanese extended their aerial incursions into the Indian ocean. Australia and New Zealand, with collaboration of other Unned Nations, prepared to battle for life should the Java barricade crumble.

From the Bataan peninsula General MacArthur reported an indication that the Japanese were using German-made planes, possibly dipping into their backlog of air strength. But, in the broadest sense the battle of the Pacific was being decided on verdant coastal plains. The deepest Japanese penetration appeared to be in the west- central part of Java. The Dutch admitted that the Japanese who landed on the northern coast in the Indramaju bay area 100 miles east of Batavia, had slashed and (Continuad on Page Eight) 'LINK' LYMAN TAKES POSITION WITH INSURANCE FIRM Roy Lyman, formerly associated with the University of Nebraska athletic department, is through with the worries of coaching football. Although Lyman was out of the city, it was learned today that he now is connected with the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

It was not immediately known whether or not his new duties would take him from Lincoln. NATIONAL HEAD OF LIFE UNDERWRITERS TO SPEAK MARCH 10 John Witherspoon, president of the National Association of Life Underwriters, will speak at a public affairs luncheon at the chamber of commerce March 10, according to H. L. Schwenker, chairman of the insurance committee which met at the chamber of commerce Monday noon. INCREASED PAY for men in the armed forces is asked in a measure introduced in U.

senate. Page 2. GEN. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is dev.d at Miami, Fla. Last page..

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