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CERTIFIED FIRST IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA Vol. 6 No. 79 24-Hour United Press News Witm Beatrice, Nebraska, Thursday Morning, July 10, 1947 24-Iloar United Press fews Wire Five Cents JJ 7 opted By B. R. I I IV Tf 1 A Id OPilCDfl Ena (Sire ecfffftrs rg mm BO can Ambassador Ln.

i i and was understood feared the leftists Front and the the, government before the AV. ATHENS, GREECE, July 9. U.R Twenty-six hundred left wing adherents including party chieftains were arrested today in mass police raids which, the government said, thwarted a Communist-inspired uprising due to start tonight. Government spokesmen asserted that the plotters intended to seize public buildings, overthrow the government and execute certain high personages. Minister of Justice Apostolos Alexandris said that 1,400 were arrested here, 600 at Piraeus and 600 elsewhere.

Street rumore put the total arrested as high as 7 -000 to 8,000. Guerrilla Chief Gen. Markos 'afiades ordered the uprising, it was asserted, and told leftists here and In other cities that he had 14 battalions of his men in Athens and its port of Piraeus to spearhead the rebellion. Tension rose as police and gendarmes, under the personal supervision of the ministers of public order, air and navy and the chiefs of security and police, carried out their raids throughout the day. Officials expressed belief that the government might have been overthrown tonight had not the authorities acted promptly and vigorously.

Premier Demetrios Maximos conferred with Ameri- reaiiy under way. Premier Maxinos conferred with 'i. "ador Mac-Veagh a week ago when hints of pla for an uprising first reached the government. At that time, MacVeagh was understood to have suggested that arrests be confined to actual subversive elements and not carried out along political lines. ACRES OF GOLDEN GRAIN GOING Official Statements Deny Documents Gave leak On Atomic Bombs fo Foreign Agents WASHINGTON, July Washington was rocked today by the disclosure that top-secret atomic information was taken from the Los Alamos A-tromb plant by two army sergeants in March, 1946 enatf was toId that the documents had been purloined as "souvenirs," and were recovered Apparently none of their vital contents got beyond the twb soldiers, it was said, and so far as is known, there has been no major leak in any of this country's atomic centers The Justice Department said the two men, whom it declined to identify, possessed portion of the nation's number-one military secret for a full year after they left rv.LarmJ' Ty.

arin.ot under arrest but the question of prosecution still being studied, it said nV Bourke Hickenlooper, chairman of tne joint congressional committee on atomic energy revealed the theft to the Senate after Presidential Press teSLShafJess G- Ross assured reporters that no one the White House, "from President Truman on down knew anything about it. Hickenlooper spoke to halt a flood of "spy" j-umora started by a Washington dispatch in the New York Sun to the effect that "unknown agents" had stolen several secret files from the atomic plant at Oak Ridge Tenn 2v WmP- wt easy cunipicUii uuuui i the American educational system ar.d hard to distinguish between valid criticism and personal spleen. Nothing so big, so intimate and so important could expect to escape microscopic scrutiny nor avoid blame for almost anything that goes wrong with American thinking. And it is true that a great deal cf education's fault finding comes from people of riper years whose accomplishments have fallen short of desire, and whose egotism will not admit personal shortcomings. Education makes a good goat for people who wouldn't work at It in the first place and pay the Drice later.

And some of the criticism comes, too, because of education's own overstatement of its case. Education does very little educating. It simply provides the facilities, the subject matter and the encouragement The actual acquisition is up to the student. But if education Implies that it is the whole cheese then it can hardly escape criticism for the student's determination not to learn anything. But there is fair criticism, too.

such as would make education -more effective if it could. And we have one such which came ro our desk this morning. It was in the form of a distant newspaper comment (New York, probably). The sender, who is a thoughtful fellow, is as good a product of higher education as the town possesses, a constant patron of learning and an earnest well wisher for the schools. Reflection on his own educational experiences, which have been sound and faithfully ob-tnind.

ha orcduced some conclusions that tally with the eastern commentator's. There is the challenging thought in the article's asser tion that. "The greatest deittj education is not that we spend too little for it but that we spend too thoughtlessly. To-tlay's schools present an" odd contrast between modernistic fads and vestigal remnants of a dead oast." Progressive education is listed as one of the fads which has enticing possibilities on paper but cannot be made to work out in practice. It is the kind that is based on zroup proiects by the mini's.

It fails, the commentator asserts, because it requires expert teachers and small elates. The former are unavailable and the latter is too costly fcr the public pocket-Please turn to page 4 Legion Establishes Scholarship Fund LINCOLN. July 9 (U.R) The American Lesion today established a $7,000 memorial fund 1th the University of Nebraska Foundation. The fund, called a "Living Memorial to Nebraska's Honored Dead of World Wars I trui II." bv Legion officials, is r.amed after Edgar J. former Nebraska Lesion commander.

Boschult was killed iij action as a lieutenant colonel in Germany in 1944. Income from the memorial Will be used to provide scholarships annually for male members of the Freshmen, Sophomore. Junior and Senior classes of the university who registered for courses in military or naval science. Florence Sorenson of Filley Dies Here Mrs. Florence Sorenson, 54, Tilley resident for the last 25 years, died yesterday at a local hospital.

Funeral services had- not been arranged yet last night. They will be in the charge of the Harman mortuary. Mrs. Sorenson was born Sept. 4 1S93.

near Cortland, the daughter of Mr. -and Mrs. Charles E. Stewart. She is survived her hur-band; Frank F.

Sorenson; one son, William: four brothers, H. Stewart, Burlington, A. Stewart, Creighton; Perry Stewart. Minneapolis: and Leslie Stewart. Grand Island: and a sister.

Mrs. H. W. Burns, Falm Springs, Cal. of a elf -Propelled combine into a waiting truck Virginia.

Combine operator is Everett Weiss. (TIMES photo) James Mayhew Hurt in Affray; Kinaman Held James Mayhew, 310 West Scott street, was in Lutheran hospital last night nursing a deep scalp wound and a slashed hand which resulted rrcm an argument earlier in the evening with Frank G.C Kinaman, 35, 514 West Irving street. Mayhew told police who arrived during the fight at May- W. V. iUi Tr: 1 struck him over the head with a piece of gas pipe Then he lapsed into unconsciousness.

Rushed to the hospital, he was pronounced out of danger by his doctor after a probe of his scalp for a possible skull tracture. Jailed. Kinaman told Chief Perry Barker that he had struck Mayhew with his fist when the latter brandished a knife at him. He denied using the gas pipe. Mayhew admitted the knife which police took away from Kinaman was his own Heist Sells Livestock Co.

fo Sfelnmeyer William F. Steinmeyer of Holmesville, purchased the Beatrice Livestock company from John Heist yesterday. The County Fair Board met last night and consented to a lease of the building and grounds to Steinmeyer under the same conditions granted to Heist. Steinmeyer will take over immediately, holding his first sale on Monday. He will hire Heist to auctioneer the sales and continue the same popular sale dates used by Heist.

Steinmeyer has been in Holmesville since 1923. He has been buying hogs during most of this time and did direct buying at Beatrice during 1937 through 1939. He has been operating an elevator at Holmesville until recently. Steinmeyer said last evening that it was his intention to spend most of his time at the sales barn with the hope of making it serve the farmers of the territory. He said it was his intention to run a first class barn and carry on the gocd reputation it has enjoyed.

Federal School Aid Promised by Taft CINCINNATI, July 9 (U.R) Sen. Robert A. Taft, today told delegates to the National Education Association convention here that the nation's schools would have federal aid by the middle of 1948 In a transcribed address Taft expressed hope that a federal aid measure would be passed by the Senate this year and an appropriation made for the fiscal year 1948-49. The states should be allowed to use the federal funds in the same manner as they use their own, Taft said. i'OUR REJECT BIDS LONDON.

July Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia rejected today the Anglo-French invitation to attend the Marshall Plan conference in Paris Saturday. 'acVeagh on the situation tv told him that it was the i. National Liberation Communis, 1 to overthrow aid plan cot INTO BINS Labor Shortage 'Possibility' in Beatrice Area There are a lot of applications on file at the Nebraska State EmDlevment servipp from school and college students on vacation during the I summer months, but they fren 1 cutting much of a figure in the local labor picture, said Olfice Manager John T. Flory last nignt in his monthly report. Flory said the students' ages and short period of availability cannot meet the specifications ot present order demands and therefore, available full-time, husky labor is not as plentiful as it seems.

His report indicated a labor demand for 87 workers, 63 men and 24 women with a total of 189 applications on hand, of vhich 136 are men and 53 are vomen. This, he said, indicated a labor supply about the same at the end of June as compared to the end of May at which the supply was getting scarcer. The current demand, he explained, is mostly for domestic and service workers and skilled workers. The office placed 174 in jobs during June, which was an increase of 21 over May principally in construction, manufacturing and wholesale and retail trade. As to the future, it depends on the weather.

"It appears definite," Flory said, "that if the weather settles and both industrial as n'oll no industrial as well as construe tion material is available in the desired quantities, the demand for labor will increase during the next several months with a labor shortage a possibility." Return Car Theft Suspect to Omaha Bert Young, Omaha, went back to Omaha last night to face trial for the auto theft escapade which ended in Beatrice the night before. Young had been picked up by Beatrice, police after he tried to trade off his car, identified as one stolen from an Omaha concern at the Lentz garage ncre. All day yesterday he reiterated his innocence, pleading that he had only been riding in the car. The unknown driver had abandoned it when motor trouble developed north of Beatrice, telling Young to take it to a garage. Young contended.

Highway Patrolman W. P. Simons took custody of Young here on arrangement with Omaha Police Inspector Fritz Fianks. Teacher Exams Set July 19, Beatrice Prospective teachers In Gage county who need their third grade elementary certificates can take their 17 examinations required by the stats Saturday, July 19. County Schools Superintendent H.

W. Munson announced last night. The examinations will be conducted at the courthouse. Graduates of normal training courses in high school will be eligible for their certificates upon successful completion of the 17 exams. Graduates of ordinary high schools must take several hours normal training a college in addition to the exams.

Senate Vole On Tax Slash Likely Friday WASHINGTON. July 9. (U.R) i The Senate finance commit tee today wTecked a Democratic effort to scrap the new Republican income tax cut bill, and promptly sent the House-approved measure to the Senate floor by a thumping vote of 10 to 3. The bill, reducing personal income taxes by $4,000,000,000 a year beginning Jan. 1, was rammed through the House yesterday by a topheavy 302 to 112 majority, 26 votes more than would be needed to override a likely presidential veto.

The Senate committee followed suit after less than an hour of argument. Senate GOP leaders put It formally before the chamber late today, with debate scheduled to start at noon tomorrow. They hoped to get a vote late Friday or Saturday. Senate GOP leaders scheduled it for action as soon as the chamber disposes of its pending business President Truman's plan to unify the armed forces. That may be late this week, or not until next Monday or Tuesday.

Whenever the Senate votes, however, the bill Is assured of passage, probably without even a minor change from the House version. That will permit con gress to send it directly to the White House and put the poii-tlcs-laden issue up to Mr. Truman for the second time in little more than a month He vetoed the first Republican tax program, which would have started benefits flowing to the country's 48.500,000 taxpayers on July 1 of this year. Missing Girl, 13r Located in Boston BOSTON, July 9 (U.R) Tired and crying, 13-year-old Nadia Ann Evans, missing daughter of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology atom scientist, was found on Boston Common tonight more than 130 miles from the New Hampshire girls' camp she ran away from two days ago. Police said Nadia saw a family friend, whose name wes withheld, and asked him to "please take me home." She was taken to a hospital for rest but physicians that said she was "very weary, but apparently none the worse for her experience." iic luviu lines.

np Dukedom of Clarence was created in 1362. Princess Elizabeth presently receives 25,000 pounds- ($100,000) a year. According to precedent, this will be increased to 60.000 pounds a year whn she is married. There is another matter besides renouncing Grefrk citizenship that Philip must take care of before the wedding. He will his Greek Orthodox faith and become a member of the Church of England Tne dispatch touched off a chain reaction of rumors and; conflicting explanations.

Two house members of the committee said the dispatch was substantially correct, except that the purported theft occurred a Los Alamos instead of at Oah Ridge They said some of the documents still are missing and hinted at a shakeup in the civilian Atomic Energy Commis sions security system. The commission met behind closed doors for more than two hours but Chairman David E. Lilienthal refused to tulk publicly. The FBI said first it was "checking" the affair. Later it said "no comment." Rear Adm.

Roscoe H. Hilien-koetter, head of the povern-ment's central intCince group, said he knew noTTng about it. Hickenlooper stepped into tha breach with a carefully phrased statement. that laid most of the alarming reports to rest. Hickenlooper told the Senate the two soldiers walked out with certain documents and information" when they were demobilized in March, 1946.

"The fact that the documents were missing was discovered by the present atomic energy commission in the early port of this year, shortly after it took over (from the army)" he said. "Those facts were broucht to the attention of the FBI and to the attention of the. joint committee. The FBI with immediate vigor and in full cooperation with the commission, promptly located the two men and the documents were, as we believe, completely and fully recovered. "The FBI investigation indicates, at least up to now, and I believe that the indication are presently sound that the individuals were souvenir hunters and that they did not allow unauthorized persons to have an access to these documents.

Please turn to vage 4 3dsll RFD Carrier Heads Stale Ass'n Odell's lone rural mall carv ner, Howard Linville, Is no state president of the Nebraska Rural Letter Carrier's assoeia tion. Linville's election to succeed John C. Wright of Alliance came at the conclusion of the association's 45th annual convention held this week at Hag-tings. of Control Settlement Hon has riisr.l these to be fair and just settle ments, not only to the Stat of Nebraska but to all partie CGncerned," Nelson said. His report was contained in a letter to the new board, ap pointed last Jajiuary.

Attorneys fcr the three n. embers emphasized that the payment was a compromise, sines each contended they cwed nothing to the state. Cox claimed to have "more than 50 cancelled checks on hand, as confirmation of the fact that he paid systematically fcr all things received frora state Institution while ha served on the board. Atty. Gen Walter Johnson made the charges against th6 three board members iaut win tor after Mr.

Hahn ead Willey fired former warden Nell Olson of the penitentiary. Cox ob tO OlSOn'B diJWilMAl. Coal Contract Violates Law, Hartley mm WASHINGTON. Julv Souhtren coal opeartors to day followed northern and mid-western operators in sign ing soft coal contracts with John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and ReD.

Fred A. Hartley, N. J.l. charged that all the producers probably had violated the Taft-Hartley labor law. The southerners' action fore shadowed early resumption of full-scale production since onlv 35,000 of the nation's 400.000 soft coal miners will remain on strike.

But Hartley charged that the operators had won lair or peace at the cost of laying themselves open to fines and imprisonment under the new law. The New Jersey Republican, chairman of the House labor committee and co-author of the act, said in a statement in the House that the contract contains "at least one clear violation" of the law. He referred to the section providing for a check-off" from the miners' wages. The law. he said, permits a check-off only for union dues, but the contract calls for a check-off of initiation fees and union assessments.

In addition, he said, other sections "violate the spirit and intent of the law." The southern operators accepted the same terms to which the northern and western producers agreed to yesterday. Please turn to page 6 Deadline Toda for Flood Aid No more applications for assistance will be taken at the local Red Cross office after today, according to F. Leo Durkee, assistant regional director of St. Louis, Mo. Durkee said he and his two disaster workers, Mrs.

Margaret Purrnan, and Mrs. Laura Wad-deil, both of St. Louis, will stay for "several more days" to take care of all the 88 applicants for assistance. He said nearly every applicant has received snms Cross assistance since the flood ulc llwu on June 22, when 36 families were forced to flee high waters. Ousted Boartd Pays $433 in LINCOLN, July 9.

U.R) For- mer members of the Board of uontroi have paid the state $133 as "fair and just settlements" of the claims against them, Assistant Attorney General Robert A. Nelson reported today. Each of the three members Mrs. Lorena Hahn, Charles W. Willey, and Ralph Cox paid $5G for produce received without payment from the penitentiary and the men's reformatory.

In addition, Mrs. Hahn paid $1.50 each for 153 sliver juniper trees transplanted to her Dodge county farm. Their wholesale value is $5 each. Willey paid $2 per month for the use of an electric refrigerator for 23 months. "We have accepted the above sums as full settlement of these claims, and based upon the Information which our inrestlgra- at thlhfan PSWl r07? the at me J.

C. Penkava farm, Johnson County Reports Heavy Bridge Damage The Gage county highway department is working this week on the report of June tlood damage to roads and bridges which was requested two weeks ago by ftate Auditor Ray John son. To date, the department and members of the county board's roads and bridges committees have been too busy trying to repair the damage to add up ho much it will cost. Yesterday, Auditor Johnson releaesd the reports from 74 of the state's 93 counties, showing a need for $3,736,190 to repair or replace bridges and Culverts and $2,078,900 to repair damage to county roads. Hardest-hit of the counties In the Beatrice area was Johnson county which reported to Auditor Johnson that it would neea for work on 250 bridges and $50,000 to repair road damage.

Please turn to page 6 Marches Headline Muny Band Concert Program for the weekly concert of the Municipal band at Chautauqua park at 8 o'clock tonight includes four popular marches. The program includes Capitol City, Hail America. Bullets and Bayonets and Mooseheart March: The Girl That I Marry, Lord Most Holy. Theme for Second Concerto, Poor Butterfly, Spring Festival. Sin? fiino- Smg; My Heart at Thy Sweet Josephine Richardson Funeral al Lewisfon Special to The Times LEWISTON, July 9 Mrs.

Josephine Richardson, resident of Lewiston 30 years, died Monday night at a Lincoln hospital after a month's Illness. Funeral services will be 2 p. m. Thursday at her home here. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.

Dorothy Thomas, Lincoln; son, Melvin, McCook; two sisters, Mrs. Kay Rothell, Crab Orchard, Mrs. Ziegler, Vesta; brother, Rush Myers, Lincoln. Mm The wheat harvest is in high gear in the Beatrice Area, with binding nearly complete and combines busy everywhere. First report of threshing came Wednesday from DeWitt where Herbert Schuerman was running four racks with family labor.

Yields continue to bear out an 18 to 20 bushel per acre forecast. New wheat brought $2.04 per bushel on the Beatrice market yesterday. Meanwhile, Harry King, rate expert of the state railway commission, formerly of Beatrice, said at Lincoln that the box car shortage will be more acute than last when at one time 16,000.000 bushels of wheat were piled on the group in Nebraska. Reports of piling wheat already have come from Texas and Oklahoma. Wheat-state governors, meeting at Kansas City in May, found that only 25 per cent of the available storage space at Omaha.

Kansas City, Sioux City, and St. Joseph terminals had been used In 1946 while wheat was being piled on Nebraska farms. "If more of this storage space at the terminals could be used, available cars could be shuttled b.ick to the country elevators for a second and even a third loading." King said. Marysville Legion Pest Founder Dies MARYSVILLE, July (UP) The body of R. 9.

M. Montgomery. 55. American Lesr ion leader in Kansas, yho died in a Rochester, hospital, will be returned here for funeral services and burial. Montgomery was the founder of the American Legion post In Marysville and was the national Legion committeeman for the state.

At the time of his death he was connected with the internal revenue office here. Roy Schufiis Dies al Hospilal Special to The Times DILLER, July 9. Roy Schul-tis, 32, Diller farmer- auctioneer, died today at a Fairbury aiter a lingering illness. Surviving are the wife, Irene, two children; parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Schults, Fairbury; and brother, Ervin, Harbine. Funeral services, in charge of Waggoner funeral home, are tentatively set Sunday at the Fairbury Lutheran church. British Royal eiress Engaged his espoused wife becomes title after the weddine Kin-aueen. can become the father of; George VI was understood tl Vrinrf have deciaed to make the couple came 21 la Jm? Duke and Duchess of Clarence, tame zi last April whilp sip! -irVi LCNDON. July 10.

(Thursday) Cj.P) The king and queen announced today the engagement rf Frincess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the greatest throne on parth. to Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, who gave up a princedom in Greece because tt stood in the way of their romence. It siid officially that the wedding would be held "before Unofficial sources tt Buckingham palace understood that it would be held in Westminister Abbey in October. Frnlip can never become king.

On.y a son of a British king can become a British king. But Philip, as prince consort, when was in oouin Airim roreiTrQr her engagement ring "some time ago." It has three diamonds, but princess Elizabeth has not yet worn it in public. The princess and Philip, 28 who was sixth In the line of succession to the Greek throne until he became a British commoner last spring, will be the handsomest royal pair in Europe. Although he Is now only a Pia.n Briton, it was considered likely that he will be given a.