The Beatrice Times from Beatrice, Nebraska • 1

THE WEATHER Little change Vol. 2. Number 36 Gage County's Official Climax on Attu near as Yanks split defenses Jaws of American pincer tighten on dwindling Japanese garrison WASHINGTON, May forces have breached the island and are fighting fiercely blocking final conquest of outpost, the navy disclosed In Our TIMES TWO EXCELLENT MOVIES playing at the same time at the first-run houses in Beatrice describe the gallant resistance of Norwegians to the oppression and tyranny. of the nazi conqueror. One was the tion of the Steinbeck novel, "The Moon is Down." The other was a Hollywood original, "Edge of Darkness." THE FACT THAT Errol Flynn portrayed the hero in the latter production did not detract from its general superiority.

Perhaps "The Moon is Down" was restricted because of Steinbeck's realistic story; realism seldom is as dramatic as Hollywood fiction. However each picture presented faithfully the prevalence of smoldering resentment toward tyranny and the probability that free will -of a majority of persons will in 'the end dominate. EVEN IF WE. MUST discount the accuracy of the films because stories are easy to write, there were one or two elements of real tion. In "Edge of Darkness" the aging village philosopher -the teacher of three generations gave up his life to demonstrate to his countrymen that one individual cannot rebel against organized control and make it work.

He proved with his life that only collective, majority action can successfully prevail over minority tyranny. "EDGE OF DARKNESS" per Hollywood formula had a happy ending to show that resistance to nazi tyranny works. "The Moon Is Down" didn't try to kid us; it made the thing look real. In the end, the loyal, sincere little mayor and his 10 fellowmen perished, not for doing evil, but for thinking patriotically. To be sure, the mines were destroyed and thus takco from aid to Germany, fut whether the troops mowdown a portion of the populace we never learn.

SO THE MAYOR AND his friends gave us another example. Being neutral in days of this kind, in lands of war, doesn't work. Either you are for freedom, or you Please turn to page 3 Clatonia sugar signup is today William Bowersox, chief clerk of the rationing board, has announced that registration for canning sugar in Clatonia will be held today in the Red Cross building. Mrs. Stella Trump will be in charge.

Registration at Rockfora will take place tomorrow in the church building, starting at 10 a. m. and lasting all day. Mrs. Hilda Hixson will have charge.

I WAIT A WEEK Some persons are prematurely calling at the Municipal auditorium to register for canning sugar. The signup begins Monday, May 24. Weather Weather BEATRICE AREA: Little perature change; Tuesday's 63, low 45. The Newspaper Off-beat Gene Krupa idol of jitterbugs jailed in marihuana case. Hot drummer Krupa jailed SAN FRANCISCO, May 18.

(U.P.) -Gene Krupa, tousle-haired idol of the hep cats, went jail tonight for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The orchestra leader billed as "King of the Drums" in the nation's jive palaces, on the stage, screen and radio entered county jail to serve three months after he pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of John Pateakos, 20, Krupa's valet. He pleaded guilty to the delinquency charge, a misdemeanor, but faces a felony charge that he used the youth to transport marihuana cigarettes here last January. Hearing on the felony charge was postponed until June 8. The Krupa orchestra is on "vacation," it was explained.

He was arrested here by federal narcotic agents, who claimed he sent Pateakos to his hotel room to get alleged marihuana cigarettes. License rural dine and dance By a vote of 4 to 3 the county board of supervisors yesterday granted a license to John W. Berry, of Wymore, to operate a dine and dance establishment at the eight mile corner south of Beatrice. Dancing was restricted to week days although permission to serve meals included Sundays. Berry will be required to furnish a deputized officer under a $3,000 bond because of the location of his business in a rural locality.

'Beatrice' deleted by censorship from Bob Taylor's movie Robert Taylor, nee Arlington Brugh, has written to Secretary Bob Latta of the Chamber of Commerce that due to censorship problems the name of Beatrice had to be omitted from the original script of the movie, "Russia." Taylor, in an effort to put his home town in the movies, had the name listed as the birthplace of one of the principals. Censors cut it, however, as a precaution against similarity to some actual person born in the community. "I'll try again," Taylor wrote. "Meantime, give my best wishes to the folks at home and some day soon I'll try to get back for a visit. It's been all too long since I was there." DeFord pleads innocent; jury called for May 25 Lawrence DeFord, former manager of the Beatrice ing parlors, entered a plea of not guilty when he was arraigned yesterday on embezzelment charges before District Judge Cloyde B.

Ellis. The complaining witness, Edward Cekal, owner of the alleys, was not present at the arraignment. DeFord was remanded to the county jail and Judge Ellis set his trial for next Tuesday, May 25. DeFord's trial will come on the opening day of the May jury term. Judge Ellis summoned the jury for next Tuesday at 10 a.

m. tem- Notification is being sent high the following: W. T. Fort, DeWitt; Everybody Reads Beatrice Times column COUNTY AGENT'S page 2 First in Southeast Nebraska Beatrice, Nebraska, Wednesday Morning, May 19, 1943 United Press Associations Member Five Cents Lewis ordered negotiate wage pact through WLB 18 -American invasion main Japanese defenses on Attu for a key mountain pass that fog-bound north Pacific today. Big guns of the fleet are laying down a supporting bombardment as two American columns drive toward a junction, ready to trap the Japs in the jaws of a pincers.

An American victory appears near. (The German dominated Vichy radio, heard by the Exchange Telegraph in London reported from Tokyo tonight that pressure by United States was increasing on Attu island). At the same time, the navy disclosed new offensive blows in other theaters of the far-flung Pacific front- -a bomber attack against Jap-held Wake island and another aerial thrust against enemy positions in the Solomons. At least two of 22 Jap Zerbs which sought to intercept the big, four-motored Liberator bombers over Wake were destroyed. At Attu, westernmost of the Aleutians, the wipe eight-day Amerto out the Japs and win an advanced bridgehead on the northern road to Please turn to page 8 Hubbell farmer injured in cartruck smashup Bryan G.

Lamb, Hubbell farmer, was seriously inured last night when his car collided with a Dempster truck on Highway 77 five miles north of town during a light rain. Besides severe lacerations about the face he suffered a compound fracture of the upper left arm. Lamb is 49. Lamb was taken to Mennonite hospital by Sen. Ladd J.

'Hubka who was returning from Lincoln shortly after the accident, at about 9:40 p. m. Driver of the Dempster truck was Floyd Marko, Beatrice, a repairman for windmills and pump equipment and a veteran at the Dempster plant. He was accompanied by Edward Lenz, also a Dempster employee, returning from northeast of Pickrell where they had been working. They were not injured.

Marko said he was travelling south and Lamb's car was going north at the time of the accident. Marko said Lamb's car did not have lights. The car struck the truck on the left front fender, driving on back against a 30-foot pole carried on the truck as part of windmill repair equipment. The pole smashed the windshield of Lamb's car, which also was badly damaged about the motor. The radiator was broken and the left side of the two-door Ford was badly smashed.

Sheriff Ben A. Goble and Deputy J. D. Reynolds investigated, directing traffic around the the wrecked car. Dempster's scene until a truck could truck was only slightly damaged.

Predict Italy knocked out of war by fall; Hitler rushes coastal defense measures BY JOHN A. PARRIS LONDON, May 18. (U.P) military sources, asserting that the siege of Europe had now begun, predicted tonight that Italy might be knocked out of the war within five months. These statements by responsible informants strengthened belief that the unprecedented Allied night and day bombing Hail floods biggest blow to Germany LONDON, May 18. (U.P.) ly all the 134,000,000 tons of water in the Hohne dam system, broken by British planes, has swept down into the Ruhr valley and waters from the Eder dam system are spreading out to flood new areas, British reconnaissance photographs showed tonight.

Parts of the important industrial city of Kassel, on the Fulda river 35 miles below Der dam, have been flooded, it was said authoritatively. The breach in the Eder, the photographs showed, is as big as that in the Mohne dam, or about 100 yards across. The London Daily Telegraphs 'Stockholm correspondent quoted reports in that city as saying that between 800 and 1,500 persons were killed in the Eder flood area within the first 24 hours after that dam was smashed. Between the Eder dam and Kassel floodwaters have inundated the Bringhausen power station and washed away part of it, the photographs showed. Affoldern power station is flooded.

The area between Wabern and Please turn to page 8 Fred Yockel is dead at Lincoln Fred R. Yockel, 53, Lincoln building engineer, who moved from Beatrice 26 years ago, died Monday. Surviving are four sons, J. F. of Wymore, R.

A. of San Antonio, Paul of Lincoln, Robert E. of the U. S. army; and one daughter, Mrs.

Paul Tumble of Omaha; also three brothers, Henry of Beatrice, John of Lincoln, Louis of Casper, and a sister, Ann of Lincoln. Study purchase new fire siren Purchase of a new siren to augment the 18-year-old fire siren here and to be available for aid raid alerts as well will be explored today by Mayor Velmer Morris and Fire Chief Cecil Hess in a trip to Omaha. Cost of the siren is to be defrayed through the scrap metal drive now under way in the schools and city, civilian defense officials said. Under priority provisions the city can obtain the siren, where it might otherwise be restricted. Danielmeyer back IDE WITT, May 18 (TIMES farmer special) -Fred Danielmeyer, living with a brother five miles south of here, returned today after an absence of 40 hours during which relatives asked the Saline county sheriff to undertake a search.

No explanation was given. He said he had slept in a haystack Sunday and Monday nights. He apparently was in good health. Fined for assault Thomas Comer, Odell youth, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery in county court yesterday and was fined $35 and costs. He paid and was released.

Comer was arrested several weeks ago after an altercation in downtown Odell with Herman Mueller, elderly north Kansas man. offensive against the dominated continent was the prelude to land operations intended to drive straight at the heart of Italy and Germany. Reports from Europe, principally from neutral capitals, indicated that Germany was trying to get ready to meet imminently expected Allied landing operations anywhere from Norway to Greece. (The British radio, heard in New York, said the Germans had tightened their watch over shipping in Norwegian waters, warning that any ship which failed to obey orders to stop by night would be fired on.) County awards contract for road graveling Poor farm highway surfacing to cost 85c yard plus haul The county board of supervisors yesterday approved the purchase of 2,000 yards of gravel for re-surfacing the poor farm road, a stretch of a little more than six miles in the Pickrell vicinity. The contract will be let to Johnson brothers at a price of 85 cents per yard in truck plus a hauling charge of five cents per yard mile.

Board members said the contract would supply a high grade of gravel at an overall costs of approximately $1.35 per yard. The purchase was another step in re-activating the county's highway surfacing program and further alleviated the problem of gravel supply. The board also acted favorably on a resolution to take over two quarter-mile stretches of township road that will connect both the Filley and Logan township cemeteries with county and state graveled highways and ordered County Cleerk E. E. Powell to set a date for the hearing necessary to include the road into the county's system.

Requests by several townships asking the employment of county highway equipment on township roads were tabled at least for the time being owing to the county's shortage of manpower and equipment. Will build REA lines in county Extension of the Norris Public Power district over 68 miles of Gage county rural area will get under way within week, Manager Paul D. Marvin of Lincoln notified The Times yesterday. A carload of wire arrived in the city yesterday for that purpose. Poles and transformers also are available, with some of the poles having been set up for several months.

Marvin will arrive from Lincoln this weekend to supervise the work. J. Hassen is in charge of the operations. Invite Frisbie to 4-H chickfest L. L.

Frisbie, state University extension department officer, and Tom Leadley of the Nebraska Farmer have been invited by the Chamber of Commerce to attend Saturday afternoon's presentation of free baby chicks to 129 Gage county 4-H boys and girls. The presentation represents the largest promotion for farm youth "food-for-war" work in the state, also embracing more members in a single club than anywhere in the midwest. More than 11,400 chicks will be given away between 1 and 6 p. m. Saturday at the auditorlium basement.

Swiss dispatches reported 'that, the Germans now had ordered the entire French Mediterranean coast cleared and declared a forbidden zone, and had ordered Pierre Laval, Vichy dictator, to take all necessary steps to meet "danger of the invasion of southern France." According to these reports all Frenchmen between 16 and 60 years are to be put at the disposal of German occupation authorities. The Algiers radio reported that the Germans had ordered Laval to speed up the deportation of slave workers to Germany and to intensify police Great floods cause damage many millions Missouri inundation greatest since 1888; Kansas roads blocked BY UNITED PRESS One of the worst floods in a decade rolled southward through Illinois and Indiana Tuesday night, leaving millions of dollars damage in its wake as waters of a half dozen rivers spread over half grown crops. Three persons were known to have drowned. Large areas of farm land were inundated, highway travel disrupted and many homes flooded in widespread areas of Missouri and Kansas. In central Missouri the Osage and Gasconade rivers, important tributaries of the floodswollen Missouri, went out of their banks and were still rising.

The Lake of the Ozarks, backed up on the Osage river by Bagnell dam, was 4.6 feet above full reservoir a and 1 river men said that never since 1888, before the dam was built, has there been such a great volume of water in the river valley. Seven of the huge flood gates at Bagnell dam were opened fully and five were partially opened to ease the flooding along the lake front. In eastern Kansas the Marais Des Cygnes river was at flood stage and in southeast Kansas, neaer Galena, many highways were closed. The Arkansas river in eastern Oklahoma was on a rampage again and was expected to cause a repetition of last week's disastrous flood. Relief officials said that in most cases persons driven from their homes last week had not had a chance to return and many refugees were still being cared for.

CHILE IN BREAK SANTIAGO, Chile, May 18. (U.P.) Chile has 'broken off diplomatic and consular relations with the Vichy French government, Hungary and Rumania, the foreign office announced tonight. measures against patriot activities. Fernand Grenier, recently escaped from France, reported here that preparations were under way for a patriot revolt timed with an Allied invasion. will certainly be a mass uprising as soon as the Allies land," he asserted.

House kills Ruml plan a third time WASHINGTON, May 18. (U.P.).. Apparently influenced by President Roosevelt's implied threat of a veto, the house today refused to accept the senate proved Ruml 100-per cent forgiveness tax plan. The vote came on a republican motion to send the pay-as-yougo issue to a conference committee with instructions to house conferees to report back a measure embracing essentials of the senate's 100 per cent forgiveness plan. Had the motion been approved, final enactment of the Ruml scheme would have been a mere formality.

Now the issue goes to conference without instructions and another bitter partisan fight is anticipated. In event conferees become deadlocked and cannot agree even on the houseapproved Robertson-Forand 75 per cent cancellation plan, it is expected conferees will have to come back to the house for Instructions on what sort of compromise to draft. Voting against the Ruml plan were 190 democrats, nine republicans, two progressives and one farmer-laborite. For were 187 republicans and seven democrats. It was the third time within two months that the house has defeated the Ruml proposal by narrow margins.

On the last previous floor test, it rejected the plan, 206 to 202, and then adopted the Robertson-Forand proposal. Parking lot in use next week A free parking lot for Beatrice business men and employees on the vacant quarter-block east of Athletic park on Fourth street will be ready for use next week, Mayor Morris announced yesterday. Graveling will be completed early in the week, after which posts and parking-space markers will be installed. The parking lot is designed to facilitate parking for business men whose cars ordinarily crowd downtown streets where farmers and outof-town shoppers wish to park their cars. Maintenance of the facility depends upon cooperation of business men and workers with the intent; if they don't use it, the city won't keep lit up.

Old Central bell may go to war as scrap After two decades of silence, the old Central school bell movled the thoughts and actions of Beatricians again yesterday. This time the bell did not ring. Instead it was remembered. Proposals reached the board of education offices to contribute the bell to the current scrap metal campaign. Made of an alloy of much needed metals, mostly bronze, the bell weighs between 800 and 1,000 pounds.

Since old Central was razed to make way for the Junior high building in 1922, the bell has been stored in the basement of school. For years New clash seen after Ickes acts Mine chieftain must back up on stand or call coal pit strike WASHINGTON, May 18-- (U.P.) John L. Lewis' hopes of by-passing the war labor board in the United Mine Workers' coal wage dispute by dealing directly with Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes were blasted tonight when Ickes notified him that WLB must be the sole and final arbiter. This notice, contained in an letter to Lewis at New open York, set the stage once more for a headon clash between WLB and the chieftain.

That collision seemed inevitable Monday but was temporarily averted when Lewis accepted Ickes' telegraphed plea for extension of the mine strike truce from midnight tonight until May 31. In New York, Lewis informed of Ickes' letter, said: "I have no comment." The letter topped: a swift series of developments here that appeared to reflect WLB'S grave concern over Ickes' reentry into the controversy at the very time the board had sought to have it out with Lewis once and for all. WLB Chairman William H. Davis, apprised of the letter, described it as "very satisfactory." Earlier, he had called upon Ickes in what was viewed as a move to clarify finally and unmistakably the muddled lines of authority in the case and gain the fuel administrator's assurance that he would not becloud WLB'S jurisdiction. Davis also was reported reliably to have visited stabilization Director James F.

Byrnes in hope of nailing down the issue as between the board and Lewis. This was the second time Ickes has declared outspokenly that he has no power to negotiate or initiate negotiations in the wage dispute. The first instance came two days after the original truce was concluded at a secret meeting with Lewis here May 2. On both occasions, there was strong evidence that the WLB insisted on being recognized as sole arbiter, on threat of resigning in full or in part. One informed official said there were reliable reports that board members who visited the white house today had reitered the WLB'S intention to bow out if it lost its grip on the case.

The apparently final withPlease turn to page 2 Chamber begins post-war plans Wardlaw, Pickrell; Foster Brown, Beatrice; Pete Blevins, Beatrice; Walter Souder, Beatrice; Harry C. Price, Beatrice; Robert B. Harmon, Beatrice: E. L. Christlieb, Wymore; Chas.

C. Hutson, Wymore; Joe Jackson, Wymore; W. M. Kelley, Wymore; Earl Mathews, Wymore; C. H.

McPheron, Wymore; Louis DeRock, Wymore; W. E. Lillie, Rockford; John Hart, Liberty; Glen Bowhay, Liberty; Roy Kerns, Adams; Gerret Harms, Adams; Carl Hoecher, Pickrell; Marten Jurgens, Filley; John DeBuhr, Pickrell; Albert Knabe, Odell; George Schoenberg, Ellis; A. W. Koch, Odell; Kelly Garner, Beatrice; J.

H. Duitsman, Beatrice; to L. W. Fellwock, Beatrice; W. Frisbie, Beatrice; George F.

Gray, Beatrice. summoned the school children of the city and rang for the entire community when there were events of unusual importance. But for the past two decades there was no place for it in the modern buildings and no use to which it could be put by the community. Without doubt it would prove a veritable treasure for the scrap seekers. The question, however, that confronted the schools yesterday was that of sentiment versus patriotic action.

The community's feelings will be examined before the final decision is reached. How do YOU feel -about it? Embarking on an intensive study of local conditions with view to post-war adjustment problems, the Chamber of Commerce yesterday designated a committee of committees which will direct the explorative discussions. Each committee member heads a sub-committee on specific topics. The members are: T. E.

Adams, transportation; Everett Ruyle, real estate; C. B. Ellis, public indebtedness; E. L. Hevelone, public utilities; Leonard Tiemann, recreation; M.

G. Jones, industry, and Ladd J. Hubka, municipal government. Another member on. education and schools will be named.

Adopting a program outlined by U. S. Chamber President Eric Johnston and the Beatrice Chamber expects to thoroughly canvass the probable conselocally at the end of war. All likely undesirable conditions which may result in the community will be studied and counteractives sought. Meetings from time to time will keep tab on progress of the canvass..