Lincoln Journal Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 2

UNCOl.N FAF.MNG JOl RNAI. Mondar. June 30, 1947 Weather (Continued from 1 Sunday. A further rise is not expected. FED BY WEEK end rains, the river at Ruio rose to 21.25 feet five-hundrelhs foot rise since Sunday.

The Norfolk weather station reported that the Elkhorn crested at West Point Sunday. Monday, the river had dropped of a foot to 11.9 at West Point. The Elkhorn is likely to fall Mike DiBiase Train As Locked Car Blocks Tracks Stocky Mike DiBiase, University of Nebraska football tackle working this summer on the police department, pitted his great hulk, his hopes and a madly-waving flashlight against a Rock Island train early Monday morning and emerged the victor. The train, with its own pow- 1 erful beam glaring in above West Point in the next 24 hours. Extensive finding from automobile lock- ed on the tracks at 25th and 48 to 60 hours, and a rise to bank-full from Winslow to the Randolph.

mouth in the next 72 hours, are The cor driven by Gerald Wise, 20, 930 Peach, was found predicted. All prospect of more rain was overlooked in the prediction for Monday night and Tuesday. Fair and cooler weather is expected in Lincoln with a low of near 59 Monday night. Tuesday will also be fair with temperatures climbing back up to near 86 Tuesday afternoon. by DiBiase and Patrolman Clarence Miller, who were on a routine cruise, at 3:03 a.

m. OFFICIAL PRECIPITATION reports for 24 hours ending at 7 a. A im Torn Bow Colutnbua S5 .02 Kalrbury OJ North Plattt .22 Fairmont 03 Ravenna .11 Falla City T3 Valrnttna ..............41 Frvmont Alllanca firand CTtadron .43 Culbartson .........34 .03 llayta Cantar .34 Kimball 42 .07 litrrlman .........1.20 Scoitshluft 71 Martlngton Hastings Norfolk Oakdals Omaha Paul Hidnsy Tskamah LINCOIN TELEPHONE Telegraph company rainfall figures for 24 hours ending at 7 a. THE VEHICLE was sitting "at a the police report said, the right rear wheel and fender resting on the tracks, making it impossible to push off either manually or with another vehicle." Police headquarters was called to notify the railroad company of the predicament, and a wrecker was also summoned. Meantime DiBiase ran north on the tracks to meet the southbound Rock Lsland, No.

7, while Miller went to 19th and to try to Intercept the train at the station. attempts, using a spotlight and siren, to halt the train were unsuccessful but the engineer heeded flashlight. TRACKS LEFT from vehicle indicated that he had attempted to turn into the drive of the Phillips bulk station at 25th and Randolph but that he had been traveling too fast and had slid sideways approximately 30 feet, coming to rest headed south and parallel to the tracks. In municipal court Monday morning, Wise, in words hardly audible to anyone but Judge Edward C. Fisher, told his story.

He was fined $25 and costs for careless driving and another $100 because he had been driving on a suspended license. Wise admitted to officers that he was on parole from Beatrice, for reckless driving and drunken driving. His parole Was adjifdged June 18, the police report said. Coal Housing Aablanil Dat ivid City Humboldt Nab. City Oaci .34 Plattamouth ...1 34 Polk ....1.13 Slromsburg .24 Hyraeuat 31 .65 .50 2 .31 (Continued from Wcdgewood asserted.

THE Bl'RLINGTON railroad cannot re-establish to Red Cloud for at least another week. Red Cloud Agent N. B. Bush said. Three to five miles of track were washed out between Red Cloud and Franklin.

Damage to Platte highway system by recent rain.s and floods amounts to at least $127,300, the board of supervisors ard Highway Commissioner Edgar Asche reported at Columbus. At least 61 bridges are damaged to such an extent that they will have to be repaired or replaced. Many miles of county roads will require regrading and regraveling. FIRST OF three critical levees which had withstood one of the sharpest earthquakes Sunday in the St. Louis history, Monday crumbled before the highest flood on the Mississippi river in 103 years.

The Chouteau island levee near Granite City, 111., broke at 8:30 a. m. because its soggy condition was unable to withstand pressure of the cresting river. The break sent water pouring over 2,000 acres of land but there was no Immediate danger to Granite City. Engineers said the embankment at Dupt), and the long Dcgognia dike south of Chester, 111., were still holding but it was questionable continue to hold back the river.

THERE IS A great need for sleeping rooms with kitchen privileges, Mrs. Wedgewood said. The 141 units at the air base have been full for two months. Discouraged veterans ask her over the telephone: "Is Lincoln trying to discourage industry here? Why Lincoln taking care of her Chauncey Barney, a member of the American Legion and county service committees, also declared housing situation, "if anything. Is more acute than a year "This shortage of housing is hurting the he said.

"New industries in Lincoln are forced to interest themselves in housing employes In order to maintain an employment level. crops and land can be Acreage seeded to oats in the two counties was down 60 percent. Wet weather kept farmers from the corn fields, Montgomery said, "and the corn yield may be cut 20 to 40 percent because of the lack of (Continued from Page miners may stay out indefinitely instead of reporting back to work on July 8. Most of the soft coal operators would bo delighted to settle for the terms which Secretary of Interior Krug gave Lewis last year But Lewis than that. He wants a 35 cents hourly wage increase and a 8 hour day, instead of the present 9-hour day and 54-hour week.

He also wants to double the nickle-a-ton royalty for the welfare and retirement fund. At five cents a ton, the fund is getting $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 annually. MEANWHILE, a high A.F.L. official indicated Monday that some strong craft unions may refuse to sign new contracts with employers as a means of skirting the breach-of-contract penalties of the new Taft-Hartley labor law. This possible strategy was disclosed following a two-day seminar attended by 100 A.F.L.

attorneys. They discussed the complex provisions and mapped preliminary plans for testing them in the courts, JOSEPH PADWAY, the A.F.L. general counsel, said some of the lawyers believed several of the strong, highly-skilled craft unions which do not fear unemployment might be able to bypass the statute by doing without contracts. Emergencv Fund Group Completed Final organization of the Cambridge Emergency Fund initi- wants more I atcd in Lincoln to assist mu- I nicipal recovery in Cambridge was completed Monday when committee assistants were announced by W. W.

Putney and Milburn Johnson. Named to the finance committee to assist Putney were: Herbert Knapp, William Stoner, Charles Hellmers, Ernest Guenzel, Byron Dunn, C. W. D. Kinsey, Elmer Magee, John Lawlor, Giles Henkle, Ted Fritz Patrick, and Alfred Du 'Teau.

ASSISTANTS to the equipment group headed by Milbum Johnson are Robert A. Dobson, Russell Eichelberger, C. E. Beals, A. Lynn Myers, head of the Lincoln street department and member of the Lincoln delegation to visit Cambridge.

Johnson, who is engineer- secretary of the Nebraska chapter of Associated General Con tractors, has circularized the Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado members of the association. The Burlington is currently employing much of the construction equipment to reopen its main lines. CHAMBER Secretary Archie J. Baley has wired 11 chambers of commerce in the state calling attention to the co-operative campaign between the city, chamber, and newspapers in Lincoln in case those cities might be interested in establishing similar undertaking in their respective towns. Several towns such as Fremont, North Platte, and Fairbury have already initiated these measures.

JU.S. Proposes 300,000 in Global Police LAKE SUCCESS. (JP). The United States recommended to the United Nations Security council Monday that the world police force include 20 300,000 men ground troops, 3,800 combat planes, three battleships and six carriers. These totals were submitted in a report from the Big Five U.

N. Military staff committee to the security council. SOVIET RUSSIA did not make any recommendations. The Russians merely stated that they could not talk about the size of the world police force until the U. N.

had agreed on general principles governing its formation and use. The United States proposed that the force incude 1,250 bombers and 2,250 fighters among the planes, 15 cruisers, 84 destroyers and 90 submarines. FRANCE PROPOSED 1,275 planes, 16 divisions of troops, three battleships and six carriers. The British proposed a force of 1,200 planes, from 8 to 12 divisions of troops, two battleships, four carriers and six cruisers. COMMRE WNllbull Vlerriiiiuti Telephone Go.

for Rate InereaRe "THERE IS practically no low- cost housing being built in Lincoln, altho there is a desperate all along the line. Barney said the only bright spots in the picture were the activities of the Greater Lincoln Housing corporation and the proposed construction of multiple family units by Individual concerns. The housing group, comprising a group of prominent Lincoln business men, plans to complete construction within next eight months of 100 family units to rent for less than $50 a month, Barney said. He estimated some 2,000 family units required in Lincoln to take care over-all needs, of which three-fourths would be for veterans and their families. Crop Loss (Continued from l.J estimate the loss to be froni 6 to 10 he said.

"It is too early to tell much about the corn loss. Wheat damage is commencing to show up and oats are generally Steen added one bright spot to the Gage and Pawnee picture: "Pastures never have been better, and while there has been some loss in alfalfa, it should not be serious." TOTAL LOSS of crops on 3,000 acres of Nemaha country was estimated by Oscar Flau, farm secretary at Auburn. At Weeping Water, Harold C. Elliott, farm loan association secretary, estimated 14,500 acres of Cass county crops totally destroyed, with the county corn yield cut 25 percent, wheat 15, and oats IS. Wheat in Nuckolls and Webster counties, on the south border, was damaged 30 percent by the May freeze, D.

W. Montgomery of Red Cloud reported. Floods totally destroyed 8,000 acres along the Republican river, he estimated, but added that "the water must go down before the full extent of the damage to ART HEIN, PCA secretary at McCook, whose territory includes the Cambridge flood area, declined to hazard an estimate of flood damage to crop land. "Bridges and culverts have been washed out and definite information is unavailable at this he said. York county suffered complete loss of crops on more than 20,000 acres and as much more partly damaged.

W. A. Refshauge, NFLA secretary at York, reported. "Unless something unforeseen between now and harvest, wheat should run between 16 and 18 bushels per acre for the county, compared to a normal yield of 22 to 24 he said. "Some of the wheat on low ground is a twisted CORN AND OATS loss he estimated at 5 percent.

In Burt county, 55,000 acres were destroyed and another 50,000 damaged, according to Lloyd awrence, Tekamah NFLA secretary. Corn prospects have been reduced 35 percent, wheat 20, and oats 15. Cuming county suffered a crop loss of 3,000 acres completely destroyed and 7,000 acres damaged, with the corn yield 8 percent under normal expectations, according to Charles Beckenhauer, NFLA secretary at West Point. At Scottsbluff. C.

L. Abbott, farm loan secretary estimatec 1,200 acres of Scottsbluff county crops totally destroyed, and 7,500 acres damaged. Wheat and corn prospects were down 25 percent, he said, with oats and ryt down 10. "IT IS DIFFICULT to estimate the total damage to crops this early in the season, said F. A.

Witcher at Broken Bow. About 50,000 acres of Custer and Blaine county crops appear completely 4 ind another 250,000 acres partly destroyed. J. D. Berkeybile.

secretary of the Lincoln Farm Loan association, said 5,000 acres of crops in Lancaster county were destroyed and 30,000 acres partly damaged KENNETH G. BAKER, secretary-treasurer of the Omaha NFLA, gave these estimates of damage: Douglas county damaged 10 to 15 percent from flood and erosion. Wheat estimate cut 25 percent. Dodge Corn damaged 35 percent and maybe more. Wheat damaged 25 to 30 percent; some fields turning white and others with heads only partially filled.

Sarpy 70,000 intended corn acres this year, only 55,000 were planted. Poor stand and weedy condition on 15 percent of acreage; 15,000 acres of bottomland too wet to plant. The Merriman Telephone company applied to the state railway commission Monday for authority to raise its rates 50 cents for 34 party-county lines, and 75 cents for the other 42 subscribers. BomHOUKD Only by Greyhound can you buy as much coavenience, economy and courtesy. Call your local Grcvhoond agent for prooL V.

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