Lincoln Nebraska State Journal from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 8

8 Lincoln Tuesday, AuguM 17, 1943 6 Jeep for every farmer 9 may be more than slogan after war A A A WASHINGTON. UP). Unless a lot of people are reading the signs wrong congress is about to put the "CI" on the "GI." Freely translated, that means there is likely to be what is known in polite military circles as "congressional interference" when the time comes to dispose of the "government shoes, socks, jeeps, bazookas, tanks and trucks the army will have on hand when the war is over. And don't be surprised if some bright aspirant for a legislative seat comes up in the next campaign with "a jeep for every farmer" as his political slogan. Congress has already done some head scratching over the problem of disposing of what may amount to upwards of $50,000,000,000 in equipment that will be left over from the war, Altho President Roosevelt once suggested that the budget bureau would be the proper agency to tackle this task, the house passed, a bill to set up a joint committee of five senators and five representatives to study the situation and make recommendations.

Thus far the measure has received scant attention in the senate but Senator Hatch N.M.), a member of the Truman war investigating committee, predicted Monday that the problem will get consideration soon after congress reconvenes next month. "I think every farmer wants a Jeep," Hatch told a reporter. "At least it seems that way from the mail I have been getting. If there are jeeps for sale after the war, they ought to be sold direct to the farmer at low cost and not disposed of to some broker who can make a handsome' profit for himself on a resale." Hatch said he believed congress either ought to create a special committee to study the problem or turn it over to an established committee. N.L.C.

votes to probe dispute NORTH PLATTE, Neb. UP). The Nebraska legislative council voted Monday to direct its public power committee to investigate all circumstances in connection with the controversy in Omaha over L. B. 204, the Omaha people's power commission bill.

The resolution said that the council "directs its committee on public power to proceed at with an investigation of the circumstances surrounding L. B. 204 and the power situation generally in the metropolitan areas as "defined in 204." The council did not approve a resolution offered by State Senator Sidney Cullingham, Omaha, which called for appointment of Asst. Atty. Gen.

Rush Clarke as an investigator. Council members said they believed the resolution 'was too specific, and left procedure up to the power committee. Senator C. Petrus Peterson, Lincoln, told the council he wanted the committee to investigate whether information being given to the public was accurate. The council, he added, should advise the people of Omaha both as to the accuracy of the information and the committee should look into motives of those supplying information.

State Senator John Mekota told the council that "the legislature acted in good faith. Now there are implications that the legislature did not act in good faith. That should be cleared up." State Senator John Doyle, Greeley, asserted he "opposed 204 from start to finish, but now I find Nebraska Power company is on my side. Do we flare to go on record as spending state money to find out why Nebraska Power company changed its mind? I think that is the company's right. "I opposed 204 because Nebraska has a statewide public power grid and Nebraska Power properties should be made a part of it.

I believed before, and I still believe, that Nebraska Power should go to the Consumers' public power district." Livestock feeders form association NORFOLK, Neb. UP). Stockman who formed the Nebraska Livestock Feeders association here will hold their first annual meeting at West Point Sept. 13. The group named A.

F. Magdanz, Pierce, president. Parr Young, Nehawka, is vice president; George Higgins, Hartington, secretary, and Ernest Strate, Hoskins, treasurer. Bylaws adopted provide that funds for the association be raised from sale of livestock by county 'association members, 3 cents per head on cattle, -1 cent on hogs and cent on sheep. A committee will be appointed to determine the legality of collecting' the money at markets.

Mrs. Monasmith, 67, dies Sunday Mrs. Rilla Mae Monasmith, 67, died Sunday night at her home on Route 2, Lincoln. Born in Des Moines, she came to Nebraska 65 years ago, first living at Humboldt. She moved to Lincoln in 1915 and later moved to Pawnee City where she resided returning to Lincoln in 1930.

Mrs. Monasmith is survived by two sons, Chester of Lincoln and Lungs Dreier recovering HASTINGS, Neb. About six weeks after both lungs were punctured when he fell upon an iron shaft at the Hastings ordnance depot, David H. Dreier, 51-year-old Ogallala carpenter, plans to return to work Sept. 1.

Dreier fell off a ladder July 11 onto a five-eighths inch iron bar set in concrete. The bar tore into his back on the left side, plunged upward and across, puncturing both lungs, and came out hrtu the chest in front of the right shoulder. Several ribs and his right forearm also were broken in the fall. "In the 35 years I have been in safety work I have never seen anything like it," R. R.

Inman, safety engineer for the construction company, said of Dreier's recovery, which doctors attributed to sulfa drugs and his excellent physical condition and mental Mortality in alien camps low WASHINGTON. (UP). Disease in the past year has killed only one out of every 273 enemy aliens including Japanese, interned in this country, as contrasted with an average since the fall of Corregidor of one out of every 10 American soldiers in Japanese prison camps. This is revealed by a comparison of U. S.

department Of justice records for two enemy alien camps and those of the International Red Cross for Japanese prison camps. U. S. army personnel in Japanese prison camps are dying at a rate roughly nine times higher than American civilians of all ages at home. U.

S. bureau of census provisional figures for 1942 showed a death rate of 10.4 persons per 1,000 population. However, disease has killed 1,344 of the nearly 14,000 Americans captured on the Philippines. Disease took a toll of only 0.7 per 1,000 among TJ. S.

army personnel last year at home and abroad. Members of the naval officer and WAVE procurement board now at navy recruiting headquarters in the postoffice building are, sitting left to right, Lt. A. S. Hawkey, medical officer; Lt.

R. N. Larson, senior member; Ensign Jennie M. Wise, navy nurse; and standing left to right, Ensign Ann Dorsey; Dorothy Johnson, specialist recruiter; L. Lane, pharmacist mate; and Rex Gipple, yeoman first class.

(Staff Photo) Naval officer, WAVE board in session A complete and efficient naval officer and WAVE procurement board, headed by Lt. R. N. Larson, senior member, took over at local navy recruiting headquarters, fourth floor postoffice building, Monday morning. When they arrived on the scene, they found several applicants waiting.

The board personnel even includes a nurse and medical officer. Four men and three women make up the party. Ensign Anne Dorsey and Specialist Recruiter Dorothy Johnson, together with Ensign Jennie M. Wise, navy nurse, are looking to the welfare of WAVE applicants. The male contingent, in addition to Lieutenant Larson, consists of Lt.

A. S. Hawkey, medican officer in charge; Rex Gipple, yeoman 1st class and L. Lane, pharmacist mate. The board, in part at least, will be here for the entire week, thru Aug.

21, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. each day.

It is the plan to interview men only on Monday and Tuesday, unless there develops a hold- NEBRASKANS in the service Uncle and nephew Fred of Kansas daughter, Lucille, grandchildren grandchildren. City, a at home, two and two great 216 delegates at Luther conference A total of 216 registered delegates attended the 29th annual Nebraska conference League convention at Luther college, Wahoo, Aug. 8 to 13. Pastors of the -Lutheran Augustana synod met there at the same time to perfect plans for observance of the synod's centennial in Nebraska. Officers elected by the Luther league are: Rev.

A. B. Pearson, Oakland, presiednt; Rev. Everett Bexell, Osceola, vice president; Miss Mary Nell Hanson, Wahoo, secretary; Winton Hoog, Axtell, treasurer; a i Ludwigsen, Wausa, statistician, and Ruth Wahlgren, Osceola, Pocket Testament league secretary. Directors who will launch the centennial observance in Nebraska Sept.

12 to 26, are Rev. Floyd Lauerson, Luther college president, and Rev. C. O. Gulleen, president of the Nebraska conference.

Former resident dies BARNESTON, has Four deaths occurred during the past year. Among the average of 1,158 Japanese and Italian enemy aliens at Fort Missoula, the average age of those who died was 58.5 years. At the Fort Lincoln, N. enemy camp, four died among the average population of 756 Germans and Japanese. One of these was a Japanese who committed suicide.

Average of those who died was 45. Hit-run driver kills Antioch man Clyde Pittulo, 52, ofy Antioch, was killed late Sunday night when he was struck by a hit-and- run driver while walking; along the highway at Antioch, highway patrolmen reported Monday. The accident occurred at 10 p. m. Patrolmen said Wendell Neafus, 15, is being held by Sheridan county authorities under an open charge in connection with the fatality.

Crete plans pet parade CRETE, eighth annual pet parade, marking the beginning of back-to-school days, will be held Saturday afternoon, according to C. D. Blauvelt, Commercial club secretary. Prizes for the three groups will range from $2 to 50 cents. Last year, a contingent from the Air Base helped handle the parade but, it is probable that a group of V-12 naval Sgt.

Sobotka. Pvt. Sobotka. Raymond W. Sobotka, son of Mrs.

Frank Sobotka, Bee, is with the paratroopers in North Africa. He received his training at Fort Benning, Ga. Sgt. Sobotka went into training Oct. 22, 1S41.

He is an uncle of Pvt. Duane C. Sobotka. son of Mr. and Mrs.

V. Sobotka, 1459 Stunner, who is with the field artillery in North Africa. Pvt. Sobotka enlisted June 11, 1942 and has been overseas since Dec. 11 of that year.

In Solomons area Bob Gillett, R. M. son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gillett, 548 No.

24th, has been in the Solomons area three months. His brother, Lt Warren Gillett, has been in the coast artillery a i- air a four years. He was recently transferred to radar and will take further training in Florida. Both boys are former a ri Journal route 39 Furlough ends Pvt. Frank W.

McCormick, returned to Fort Sam Huston, Saturday after spending a 15-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Mildred McCormick, 1738 street, and other relatives. He graduated from the Lincoln high school with the class of '43. Rifle expert Pvt. William D.

"Bud" Hamilton recently qualified as a rifle expert at the a placement training center at Fort Knox, Ky. His wife, June I. Hamilton, resides at 1515 over list. Women will be interviewed from Monday thru Saturday. Complete physical examinations will be given both men and women.

It is the first time women for the navy have been processed-given complete physicals, in Lincoln. "Lincoln has always responded excellently in navy programs," said Larson. "Any one who feels qualified should come in if interested. There are no Transferred Pvt. W.

R. Taylor, 1028 So. 23rd, has been transferred from Fort Warren, Cheyenne, to quartermaster corps, Camp Ellis, Table Grove, HI. BEATRICE--Tech. Sgt.

Roger Maxwell has returned to Camp Carson, after a visit in the city with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Maxwell.

F. E. Richards and wife are visiting in the city with his mother, Mrs. Minnie Richards. He has been stationed at Camp Rucker, Ala.

Return to Denver Sgt. and Mrs. G. Leo Patton lave returned to their home in Denver after visiting at home of Mrs. Ada Patton and of Mrs.

Patton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hudson at Crete. Sergeant Patton is stationed at Fort Logan, where he has been since enlisting here 18 months ago. Sgt.

and Vtrs. Patton, the former Dorothy Hudson, were employed at The Fournal before moving to Denver. Like shooting fish says Sgt. O'Malley AT A U. S.

BOMBER BASE IN ENGLAND. C5). The Flying Fortress raid on the Poix- Amiens area Sunday was "just like shooting fish in a barrel" to Sgt. George O'Malley, 27, 3721 Washington Lincoln, Neb. It was the first mission for Sergeant O'Malley, a tail gunner on the Fortress "Maybe." To dedicate field at Bruning Aug.

28 The Bruning army air field will be dedicated Saturday, Aug. 28 at 3:30 at services open to the public. High army officials and civilian notables will attend. Maj. Frank E.

Quindry is commanding officer. trainees from this year. Doane will assist been received here of George Ehlers, of the death formerly of Barncston at his home at Los Angeles. He is survived toy his wife, three sons and two daughters. Fire at Fairmont, Omaha 9MAHA.

(UP). Officials of the Fairmont Creamery company plant were counting up damage that may total several thousand dollars from a fire Sunday morning in a building being converted to dairy purposes. The fire broke out in insulation being installed in the joists of the building, formerly occupied by the Nebraska Seed company. Most damage was caused by smoke and water. Correspondent injured ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA.

(UP). Richard McMillan, United Press war correspondent, has been evacuated to North Africa after suffering powder blast burns on the head, face and forearms at the front in Sicily. McMillan has covered most of the principal campaigns of World war in Europe and Africa, including France, Egypt, Libya, Greece, Crete and Sicily. Bury Rev. W.

Harms BANCROFT, Neb. UP). Funeral services were held Monday for Rev. W. Harms, 87, pastor of Zion Lutheran church 57 years before retiring in 1938.

He served as visitor for the Northern Nebraska Lutheran district and then was its president from 1922 to 1933. Griswold and Butler take part in airport rites OMAHA. (UP). Governor Griswold and mayor Butler participated in ceremonies at the airport Monday inaugurating new direct airline passenger service to Washington. Griswold presented the state flag which will be added to flags of other states thru which the new service will pass.

Fliers from this section will no longer be forced to go to Cleveland for a change of planes, but will proceed from Chicago thru Toledo and directly to the nation's capitol. Quits draft board rather than help draft fathers BOWLING GREEN, O. UP). Tom C. Wooden, first World war veteran, resigned as chairman of Wood county's selective service board No.

1 rather than draft jre- Pearl Harbor fathers. In a letter to Col. C. W. Goble, state director of selective service, Wooden said: "I cannot and will not, be a party to a system permitting these conditions which will take family men from, homes, some of long standing." Mrs.

Henry Miller buried Henry Miller, 69, died Friday evening. Her husband and five children, Allen, Adams; Harm, Cortland; John, Pickrell; Mrs. Grace DeBuhr, Adams, and Mrs. Harmine Parde, Pickrell, survive. Services were held Monday from the Hanover Lutheran church, Rev.

J. B. Reents officiating. Asks court to rule law not applicable Frank C. Yates, Omaha attorney for the administrator of the estate of Alex Eddens, asked the supreme court to hold that the common law rule that' a man may name in a life insurance policy anyone whom he may desire does not apply in Nebraska, and that the beneficiary must have an insurable interest.

When Eddens died, a policy of $500 issued by the Guardian National company with "Laura Eddens, wife" as beneficiary "was presented. The company paid the money into court. The administrator says Eddens was a single man and the wuman known as his wife was the undivorced spouse of Ben Ritchie, still alive. The district court decided in the woman's favor. Mr.

Yates contends that to pay her the proceeds of the policy would be in violation of the statute and of public policy because it would be rewarding her for illegal conduct. He also argues that a mistress does not have any insurable interest in the life of her paramour. 'Bulk of refining capacity wrecked' WASHINGTON. (UP). The American bomber raid on Rumanian's Ploesti oil fields on Aug.

1 demolished the "vast bulk" of the area's refining capacity and ultimately will impose a "strain thru- out the entire German war machine," Brig. Gen. E. P. Sorenson, assistant chief of air staff intelligence, revealed Monday.

In a statement based on detailed military study of the attack; he the rs-d that American bombers can execute long- range precision attacks with the 'accuracy of a skilled surgeon guiding his knife." He said the targets were chosen after months of minute study on Jie basis of their relative impor- in the entire fuel production and refining program of the axis countries. Seorge Beideck dies George Beideck, 75, died Friday it Waverly, Minn. He leaves a )rother, Louis Lincoln; sister, Mrs. Susan Beideck, Waverly, and nephew, Jake Beideck, McCook. Funeral services will be at 2 p.

m. Tuesday at Hodgman, Splain, Schnell Griffiths. Appeals dismissal of suit for $15,000 From the dismissal of his $15,000 damage suit against Charles N. Robinson, his wife and Ernest F. Siefkin, by the district court of Douglas county which tried the case, Vernon Hutson appealed Monday to the supreme court.

Hutson was riding as an invited guest with half a dozen others in any army reconnaisance truck on April 27, 1942, when it ran into the Robinson car, which had been halted on the edge of the highway till a dust storm passed. While the truck was careening about Siefkin came along in his car and hit it, the truck falling over on Hutson. The defense was that the truck driver was negligent in proceeding at 25 miles an hour on a road where he could not see what was immediately ahead, and that his negligence was that of Hutson, who failed to complain. It was also claimed that Hutson had settled with the federal government, but he said that he got nothing and that he was forced to sign the release. Saline county will hold fair Saline county fair will be held this year as usual at Tuxedo park Sept.

10, 11 and 12, F. E. Putnam, president of the Saline county fair board announced. For the past few weeks, it has been uncertain whether it would be possible to have a fair due to the lack of entertainment and concessions. However, there should be a good display of exhibits because of victory gardens.

Huge explosions seen at oil center SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRAL- LIA, Aug-. 15. (Delayed). (UF). Seven big explosions and fires thruout the town were observed during the Liberator bombing raid Friday night on Balikpapan, Dutch Borneo, which set a distance record for the Pacific theater.

The fliers, winging more than 2,500 miles, were believed to have struck a crippling blow at the great refinery point held by the Japanese since January, 1941. Direct hits were scored on two refineries. Good results were achieved despite some of the most violent weather encountered by northwest of Australia. But all came thru. hero bombing raid By United Lost way down in a long list of the men who took part in the American bombing- raid last Thursday on the Japanese Ku- rile islands in the north Pacific was the name of one Nebraska airman--Sgt.

Clifford Davis, Sidney. Monday, a dispatch from U. P. Correspondent Russell Annabel, at a bomber command headquarters in the Aleutians, lifted Davis' name out of the obscurity of last week's listings and placed it in a hero's spot. Davis was engineer on one of the Liberator bombers which took part in the raid on the Japanese mystery island of Paramushiro.

One of the engines of the great craft had gone out just as the flight came in sight of the target, but the pilot, Lt. Robert Entiat, refused to turn back. Pounding ahead on three engines, the crippled American plane was just the kind of target the Japanese like and they took after it. Three out of a swarm of 40 Jap Zeros headed into the clouds after it. The Japs never did catch up, but trouble stayed right with the ship and its crew.

Half way on the homeward trip, the remaining three engines stopped dead. The bomber nosed down to within 200 feet of the water. "We were throwing switches right and left," said Lieutenant Lockwood. "But it was Sergeant Davis who got the engines turning again, and we owe him our lives." Seek replacement Laud work of labor now-WMC The war manpower commission suggested Monday that employers using student workers and teachers start now to seek replacements for them, if replacements are necessary, in advance of the reopening of school. B.

E. Ogden, manpower director for this area and local manager of the U. S. employment service, said the need for advance preparation is more urgent this year than before because of the shortage of workers. "Student labor helped to tide us over during the summer," Ogden "and students will be avail- for part-time employment said, able during the school year, "working after school hours and on Saturday.

More full-time workers, however, are needed in the labor market, and they will be drawn largely from groups such aff women, older men and the physically handicapped." Employers in the Lincoln area who need replacements for student workers and other employes are asked to communicate their needs to the Lincoln office of the Funeral services for Knox Folsom Burnett, prominent architectural engineer and son of the late Chancellor Edgar A. Burnett, were held Monday morning at First- Plymouth Congregational church --the church for which he was superintendent or construction. The body lay in state at the church between 10 and 10:30 a. m. Burial was in Wyuka with these pallbearers: H.

R. Burks Harley, Ed Turner, J. Weir, John employment possible. service as soon as Omaha youths admit break-in Four lads, who left Omaha Friday, two of them after quitting jobs there, faced District Judge Shepherd Monday morning and pleaded guilty to breaking into and entering the Cornhusker Market, 14th and and taking some $38 from the cash register. Sentence was deferred pending investigation of their records.

The boys, Veryl Konvalin, 16, Robert L. Ellis, 17, Kenneth Jackson, 18, and Sam Di Mauro, 19, who had two flat tires while en route to Lincoln and another at 18th and as they were leaving with their loot, were found with the money on their persons when arrested while debating what was to be done with the tire. Lincoln police notified Omaha police who were to notify their parents but have as yet received no word from them. All four had served terms in Commissioner liits cattle restrictions County Commissioner Clinton Mitchell, who just shipped 130 head of fat cattle on which he netted a loss of exactly $1,950 or $15 per head, had this to say for benefit of congress now in session as regards price regulation: "I have fed cattle 50 years this coming September without missing a year and this is one of the worst shellackings I have ever taken. "If present conditions continue, feeders will not put cattle back in the yard for feeding, yet the government is urging more beef production.

There is too wide a gap between corn prices as fixed in comparison with the price put on beef. "It seems to me that if they want more beef congress should take off all restrictions and let the law of supply and demand function. Normally in the past a man could feed cattle and at least make enough to stay in business." Nieces and sister file appeal in estate case Because District Judge Falloon of Richardson county admitted to probate a will signed by Henry they said he never signed it, was not mentally competent to make a will and that it was procured by undue influence, Lena Argabright, Verna Lawver and Lola Armstrong, nieces and Marie Bailer, sister, filed an appeal Monday with the supreme court. The estate was given in the will to G. Roy and Kearney for breaking and entering, they told the court, but expressed hope they might again be paroled so that they might work on farms.

They told the court they got into the market by boosting- Di Mauro thru a window. He then unlocked the door for the others to enter. Sinatra tries out for films HOLLYWOOD. up. Singer Frank Sinatra turned his talents filmward Monday after adding a fourth to the list of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras in the past three weeks.

The crooner, who ascribes his success largely to vocal shading (via microphone) and appreciation for lyrics, is testing for additional picture work at R-K-O. Billed as a. baritone, he enraptured a near-capacity Hollywood bowl audience Saturday night With songs fairly dripping love, stars, above, moon, June, arms and charms. The "ickies" held hands and sighed, closed. They i ecstaically, made yearning noises.

They moaned in adoration when he began a number, and squealed in anguish when he left the stage. Sinatra's accompaniment was the Los Angeles philharmonic orchestra. Bowl authorities estimated the crowd at military maximum. The amphitheater's capacity is 20.000. Amended zone law is sought At request of Lincoln Packing company, an ordinance Was prepared for introdutcion Monday amending the zone law as to industrial classification.

The company desires a change so that it may not be excluded from rendering freshly killed animals in connection with its existing plant. It proposes to construct a new building to cost upward of $200,000. It also proposes a change so that stockyards, where conducted in connection with plant operation, may be permitted within the zone. The company had procured a change in classification to permit extension of its plant to the north. It owns all the abutting property.

Bid of Highway Equipmant Supply company, $870, for furnishing an industrial tractor-type power mower to the street department, was accepted. Immediate delivery, is assured. Only other bid was that of Fehrs Tractor Equipment company Omaha, $835, with no such assurance. Condemnation hearings were conducted as to the following House at 1740 No. 31st; house at 1135 Benton, apartments at 243 257 So.

20th and 209-221 So The building inspector reportec that, because of age and delapi- dation, they are hazardous to public health and safety. District requests case be dismissed In a brief filed Monday with the supreme court, attorneys for the Platte Valley public power and irrigation district ask that the judgment for $1,630 obtained in Keith county by Rachel J. Snyder be set aside and the case dismissed. Mrs. Snyder sued for $15,000 damages to her land by reason of the improper construction of a flume on adjoining lands which threw surface waters on her holdings and $3,847 for damages to crops.

The jury gave her a little over $800 on each claim. The district says the erosion to the Snyder lands had started before it built into that area, and all of the damages resulted from a natural flow of waters. Keith Heineman, nephews. Personal property of $7,000 was listed. He had previously deeded his lands to relatives.

The appellants claim that the court abused its discretion in refusing to allow a continuance in view of extraordinary circumstances, and that he was not justified by the evidence in instructing the jury to find that the instrument offered was the man's last will. Council conducts 2 beer bearings IVo beer hearings conduct- by the city council Monday, one on' application to enter the field and another oh summons to show cause, if any, why ar. operator should not leave the field. Danford A. Jones, tavern operator at 2011 allegedly permitted the drinking of beer and whisky at his place on Aug.

6, at 1:30 a. whereas' midnight is the closing hour. He faced revocation or suspension possible of li- Preston Bryant Jap prisoner BLUE SPRINGS, E. Bryant has received a card from his son Preston, interned in the Philippine military prison camp, stating that he is well and uninjured. Liberators fire base at Cbatbam NEW DELHI.

(UP). Liberators of the Tenth U. S. air force causec heavy destruction and touched off fires visible 50 miles in a raid Sunday on Chatham in the Adaman islands in the bay of Bengal south of Burma, it was announced Mon- Hilder, Carl Olson and Phillip Assenmacher. Honorary pallbearers were: W.

L. Day, T. T. Bullock, Robert Van Pelt, Walter Wilson, Ellery Davis, Walker S. Battey, H.

E. Bradford, T. A. Kiesselbach and Clifford Hicks. Dr.

Raymond A. McConnell, officiating at the services, traced briefly the life of Mr. Burnett, from the time of his birth here in 1903 to the final illness which forced him into inactivity. "He has died in the full maturity of early manhood," said Dr. McConnell.

"His was a life full of both achievements and promise. He had just begun to reveal his great stature. Our tribute will not be words, always so inadequate, but in consecration to the ideals and honors of a worthy son of a great father and a good mother." Received Decorations. After graduation from the University of Nebraska in 1924, Mr. Burnett worked for a time with aa Omaha firm, then for eight years with Davis and Architects, 1 church was being- built he was selected by the architect as superintendent of construction.

One of his last tasks before final illness was the thoro inspection of the structure's roof. Under the engineering firm of Parsons, Clapp, Brinkerhoss and Douglas, he held executive engineering positions in two huge projects--the Platte Valley irrigation project and the New York world fair. During the latter, because of his courteous skill in dealing with people, he received decorations from France and the Order of the Knight from Rumania. While with the same firm he superintended work on defense bases in the Caribbean, first at Port of Spain, Trinidad, and later at Antigua. Followed His Career.

"Knox was known, respected and loved by many," concluded Dr. McConnell. "His mind was keen and alert, his judgment excellent, his capacity for work and for leadership unlimited. Men in the church and community came to know him well and followed his career with admiration and affection. That career has ended far too soon.

"If I may turn again to the words written in tribute to his father two years ago, I will use them as belonging equally to the son who in sembled his great measure father: 'Death re- has taken him after these months of illness, but death neither ends nor cense. James Nemer, a non-resident, appeared in behalf of his application for license to operate at 1951 thru purchase of a business conducted by Martha Rosenstock. Three applications under the recently enacted ordinance requiring annual permit to operate rooming houses, apartments and hotels, were referred, those of Mrs. Alma Willis, 1029 Mrs. Agnes Splichal, 1538 and Mrs.

C. W. Cole, 1407-09 Q. Bury Mrs. Kostermeier D'WITT, services were held Sunday afternoon for Mrs.

Minnie Kostermeier, 85, Rev. Mr. Monhardt of the Clatonia Lutheran church officiating. She is surivived by a son and a daughter. Drouth delays farmers are being delayed with their fall plowing because of continued dry weather.

The ground is so dry it is almost impossible to plow. Kay Wells, 60, dies Wells. 60, formerly of Beatrice, died at Gary, Ind. He is survived by his widow and daughter. day.

Direct hits were scored on Japanese warehouses and buildings. All bombers returned safely. A joint communique revealed that an allied patrol ambushed a party of Japanese in the Sumpha- bum area of northern Burma Friday and inflicted 14 casualties. British Blenheim bombers attacked the Japanacc supply base at Kudaung, south of Rathedaung in western Burma, Sunday. The bombardment was followed by a machinegun attack.

Hagert confesses killing third boy CLEVELAND. (UP). Henry Hagert, 17, slayer of 13-year-old twin brothers, has confessed killing Edgar Pugh, 15, Sheriff Joseph M. Sweeney announced. Edgar disappeared in March.

Hagert said his body would be found in the Cuyahoga river weighted with railroad spikes with a bullet hole in the back of the head. He put it there himself, he said, after responding to "a feeling that I wanted to Shoot and kill someone." Judicial procedure was underway by which authorities planned to try Hagert for first degree murder. Released only a week ago from a psychopathic ward he is' admittedly subject to unnatural impulses which played a part in his slaying James and Charles Collins, 13, and kidnaping John Buchanan, 9, last week. Mrs. Vance dies in Texas WYMORE, Lorie Vance, 83, visiting her daughter, Miss Enid Vance, Carrizo, died there Saturday as the result of a broken leg.

A son, Hal Vance, Wymore, also survives. The body I is being brought here for burial. removes such a life. There is a permanence about such a personality, and a persistence about such simple greatness, integrity and devotion that makes his life an abiding influence and his spirit a possession of all. Abandoned old rules-McNear CHICAGO.

(UP). George P. McNear, titular president of the Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad, said Monday that many of union "featherbed" rules which ed to government seizure of the ine on March 21, 1942, had since been abandoned by the government managers as unworkable. McNear charged in his interhn report to T. P.

W. stockholders that the government refused to jive the railroad any pay compensation for the use of its prop- rties or agree to an impartial nvestigation of facts involved in the dispute. 'Joseph P. Eastman, director of hf- office of defense transportation, who operates the line admits that he secretly changed rules which he inaugurated on our railroad in July, 1942, and which, for the most part, he ordered us to accept," McNear said. McNear said Eastman's abandonment of the "featherbed" rules was admission he could not operate under them.

The government has increased train miles only 3.3 percent, altho the untaxed profits amount to $3,000,000, he said. U.S. uiiaefeated says Tokyo radio By United A Tokyo radio speaker abruptly admitted to the Japanese people Sunday night that America is not "defeated." Capt. Etsuzo Kurihar, new Japanese navy propaganda chief, was making his first speech since taking over the job and he was recorded by the TJ. S.

foreign broadcast intelligence service. "The counter-offensive of the American forces at the tiir.e in the Solomons and' New -uinea is extremely furious and the fighting spirit of the men and officers of the American forces is also excellent," he said. "They do not give our forces sven a moment of rest. However, counter-offensive of the enemy 's what we had anticipated." He repeated the Japanese claim the United States was defeated in the early days of the war but said it had "finally braced" itself. Has fine cornfield ODELL, Hlatt ias 100 acres of the finest corn he ever raised, and hopes that a good rain will come in time to save the crop.

He estimates a yield of between 60 and 70 bushels. present Lockwood going to Ord WYMORE, Neb. G. Howard Lockwood, director of the Wymore band, has resigned to take a similar place at Ord. The school at Ord maintains a $2,000 Investment in band equipment.

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