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¥fyir*day, July 16, IMS •4 • •?x r •., # ,*# - <. • ••', T5*"" WM'W ,r.«" _ J* pimf JHS M/-SKHKY PLAINDSALZK^ EfL CQBNER THEATER GIVES v "FREE" SHOW AT $3,000 PER DAY INTERESTING LETTER WRITTEN BY A U. S. * SOLDIER IN ENGLAND APPEARING Fu§ty recently friends in Wau^onda ceived word ' from Udell "Bu<|" Grantham, who is stationed with the arttied forces in England. "Bud" is brother of Mrs. Edward Swansflm and a nephew of Mrs. Frank Meyer, both of McHenry. - V . • i Following is the which contains mahy interesting news-! itenys of life in England. -- f "Dear -- : - ,, _ - - j "The weather is fine' and the seen-i try is beautiful. XThe roads are aw-1 ful narrow and they-all drive op the' wrong side. The closest town is five i ^ur'nS City Council Proceedings a recent New York visit that miles away and there is po transpor- j ^or years she has been wondering tiorv. Ail you see is bicycles; and I j why she is always being cast .as a n irnina to.Mirpt mvsplf nnc nn -nav ' brittle, forbidding old lady. ~ ' Council Room, July 6J 1942. , The City - Council met in regular monthly meeting with Mayor Overton . ,f presiding. Aldermen present: BuSs, Ferwerda. Freund, Nye, Regner. Absent: Bolger. Motion -by B«^/^le^&d' by Freund, that the minutes of the last regular meeting and the special meet-- j'Og held June 12, be approved as read. Motion carried,. . - } Motion by Nj-e, seconded by "Fer- B. T r QTirvrvcnv , ;werda. that the treasurer's report N. KatWe^' How^ho80^; i H Mo«„„ c,rn,d. humor of other pr?nd dames of the i VT "otlon by Freund. seconded by ' • ' '%< proved as^ refuj. Motion carried. Motion by Ferwerda. seconded by Regner. that the clerk's report be screen Without the'acidity, declared I Nye- ^collector's report be apapproved as read. Motion'carried. Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by the following bills be Marlene Dietrich, movie star, is shown at "Treasury Cornet'" in Chi- • ..aij®*?®' where in a space of 15 minutes she sold enough war bonds and stamps "c %|o buy a "jeep*' ear for the army. "Jeeps" cost $S00. With her is Don cKiernan, Chicago business executive, director of special events for the bnois War Savings Statf, - . - '.i Chicago. -- There's a big Street w |jcorner show going on in Chicago's .. " 4o°p where the public enjoys the .. j ;• ^world's best and most varied enter- *j*^tainment free of charge and yet pro- ^ duces some $3,000 per day for Uncle . Barn's fighting forces. - The spot is known as "Treasury Corner" and everything is free. It is carved out of the corner of a. department store and, is rent-free. Women volunteer their time to sell war bonds and stamps, ^he^^is no talent charge and everything ^else that goes to make tMis uniqupshow .is donated--all in rkie interest of Uncle Sam and his fighting forces. Director of Extravaganza Difttpt^r of this extravaganza is Don McKiernan, Chicago business executive who donates his time as manager of special events for the .Illinois War Savings Staff. With "him serveT^aSv-ertising men and - *4- showmen, who give freely of their lime to make "Treasury Corner" the 1 most productive sales outlet for war . stamps and bonds of any similar en- •'/. terprise in the nation. And never before did any street corner show enlist such big name artists of Brordway and Hollywood whose aggregate time devoted to this purpose would cost any impresario ether than Untie Sam at least half a million dollars a month. At Treasury Corner they give their best efforts, for nothing!--nothing, unless it's something to get together the money to buy guns and bullets and planes and tanks and ships. Star Salesmen "Names make news," and here are some of the names that have •made news and sold war bonds (ah average of more than $3,000 worth a day since May 4 when Treasury Corner opened): Marlene Dietrich, Judy Canova. Bobby Arnst, Shirley Ross, Mrs. Pat O'Brien, and Mary Howard; topnotchers of radio such as Morton Downey, hill-billies Dick Baker, Bob and* Bonnie Atcher, Russell Conlon, Eddie and Fannie Cavanaugh, "Shorty" Carson, and Uncle Walter of "Dog-house" fame; sports announcers Pat Flanagan, Bob Elson, and Hal Totten; stage stars such as George Jessel, Buddy Ebsen and Skeets Gallagher; White Sox,- Cubs, Giants and Yankee ball players; band leaders Eddie Duchin and Ted Weems; those dancing divines, Veloz and Yolanda; magicians, sketch artists, cartoonists. If you're coming to Chicago, don't miss it--it's a must! No other city has a show like it. And just to be helpful, it's at State and Van Buren Streets. U. S. Treasury Litpartm*nt 4 v.". Honeybees Honeybees were brought to North America by some of the early colonists. It appears that none existed on this continent before the white men came. WUatljeM.Buy With WAR BONDS • • The 75-millimeter gun is a divisional weapon used by the Artillery as an anti-tank gun. It has been f ; replaced to some extent by the more w J&iodern "105", known as the heaviest of divisional weapons. The 75- . irim gun costs $12,000 and has been Converted by our Ordnance into a - "blaster" twice as efficient as in the Drat World War, W •v~ This gun gets maximum power for minimum weight and cost, and the American people are providing the finance through-the purchase of War Bonds. If you do your share and invest 10 per cent of your inconmfin War Bonds, adequate supply of this efficient gun car. be assured our fighting forces. Buy War Bonds every VJ)ay day. U.S. Treasury Department N. J. STANDARD STRIKES OIL George Peck .1--i There has bDeeeenn considerable Controversy about the famous deal made in 192^ by the Standard Oil Company of N.J. with a German Company. This was a bit of "horse-trading" involving exchange of a number of patent rights. Now that most of the evidence is in, it looks ,as though Standard Oil kind of "out-swapped" the Germans. Some of the things they brought back from Germany are going to play major roles in defeating the ^xis powers. Owing to lack of space, we can only"1-'talk of one of these today-- TOLUOL. Standard Oil brought back the germ of a process for making toluol (a constituent of TNT) from petroleum. By 1932, the Esso Laboratories after much research and experimentation, were convinced there was a chance of making synthetic toluol lronr petroleum and so advised the U. S. Army that year. The Army foreseeing that modern warfare would call for almost limitless supplies of explosives, to<& a keen interest in Standard Oil's efforts to achieve commercial production of toluol. In 1939, Standard Oil was able to advise the Army that synthetic toluol had arrived--it spent $96,000 additional money conducting tests under Army direction. These tests were so successful" that Standard Oil erected a synthetic toluol plant for Army Ordnance. This plant was in fullscale operation two months before Pearl Harbor and multiplied by two America's production of toluol from all sources hitherto relied on. Toluol formerly was a by-product of making coke. 1942 wartime requirements far exceed any possible supply from this sourc^. TNT, the basic ' military explosive" used in ta . .... „ „ ._ ... am going toMget myself one on ;pay.; lady day.. They cost eight to ten ^blinds, ' Imagine anyone---Renting J9 be a which is thirty to forty dollars.-One!" shr®Wish wife to W. C. Fields! ' she pound is equal to four dollars of our j exPloded. Well, I nad to do that j paid as approved by the finance com-s money. There are no family cars on ^ee times" . Miss Howard's jady- jmittee; , , v . r > the.roaid because of the gas rationing,! e v®.lce regIS>tered shock and her sH*>wai&^iJaifchiijv'fcbjtce" ,0 you can readily see how tough mu?.lse snood^colc so. with ..vie*".- hitch-hiking would be. . . _ ]JIf*.. 'Poiide.^W'" •'The food is rationed here, too, So loose from. their mooring "Really ,W; C. Felti, .Supt. streets and I don t feel a nit vile and you can ' 110.00 yotl can't buy it in town without; & coupon and they are hard to get. "D»e food isn't so very good, either. Thete is ho sugar, so ,yoil can imagine what. SCi many, movies, including the prim I think of the food. Everything. is , jhateful housekeeper in "Ball of Waterworks boiled, and tea is served at all owl meal?. We eat breakast at 7:00, din-1 ner at 12:00, tea or lunch at 4:30 and j supper at 7:30. It doesn't get dark j until (censored) so we never get over j six or seven hours of sleep. We wash in our steel helmets, but we hope' things will be more convenient after awhile. You really don't fappreciate home until you've been over here. - ."The people here treat an American soldier swell and if it wasn't for the food ration they would do more. They ask you in for tea any time of the day. The villages are awful small and are certainly very interesting. We are not able to tell you what thjfc j closest town is to our (censored) as they call it. All we cian say is tJiat, we are in England. "The boat trip was not to my liking, but 1 didn't get sick. We had six in our room and toilet and bath, but it was salt water and so we couldn't get much of any suds. But we weren't on the oq.e.an as long as I thought we .would be y " 'J. "When you write, write on one side only, because they might cut some1 bf it out. Our letters are censored by the squadron officer and then by the British. They ask us not to write too often. We can send an air mail letter twice a moqth»* We can also receive packages ,18" x 13", over all dimensions hot to exceed 43" and not to weigh over eleven pounds, once a month. But if you don't hear, from me aften, don't worry because we are in the safest place for being overseas. I can't tell you what we are doing, ---bftt^ we are busy. I -have certainly seen scenery that 1 would never havt seen in our own states. "If you are going to send me anything, a good hint (ha, ha) you can send me a box of candy, Milky Way, cigarettes, (you can't buy American cigarettes), tooth paste, - brushless shaving cream, combs, razor blades thin edge, which are the hardest articles to buy. "You would t>e surprised to see how hard people have to work here. The girls are drafted for farm work or the army. The girls are not very good looking., probably on account of the hard work they have to do in fields or factories, but they are crazy about- American soldiers (censored), "Well, 1 will have to quit for now on account of the blackout- Be good and don't worry. Write. - "BUD." , alleys tell by one look' at me that I could ]£ Niesen not carry out a threat if I wanted j superintendent ...... . . - to. Bill I ve been the villamess in ] Earl lt. Walsh, Office'expend Arf»er. Playgrouhd • Device €osi" 60.00 2500 Fire," that the fans are writing in arid asking if I'm secretly manied to Frankenstein in private lift;" Actually, the reluclajnt villainess is not married to anyone in private life. Instead, she lives pretty much alone--except for visits from brothers and sisters--just outside Holly- -. , • - „ wood which she regards as Valhalla ' s "rruckln»T Co., Hauling on earth. Her abundant love for her IT *1**® * V •' fellowman, which has never^been i McCracken, Playground Pltfygj-ound equipment J^.66 .j McGee's Men'sWear,'; Police .. } uniforms A., • 100.57 fMayrne Buss, *. 'Cleiical, ..salary,' f* j, commissions |J. W. North & Co.; Audit Li... J50.1R) jW. R. Meadows, Inc.. Road seal 51.16 Buss Motor Sales, Auto maintenance .^..^305.57 Illinois Beir Telephone Co^ ^ Telephone service 2.76 * ^Special Sewer Fund Fred C. Feltz, Supt. disposal ,, Plant IO5.OO J. W. North & po., Sewer fund audit! ;..1..4r.;........,. 50.00 Link-BM*; Co^ Chain 128.51 Public Service Co., Power and" - light ....j 61.10 A. P. Freund & Sons, Hauling -gravel i....;.... 6.'oi/ - Motion by Buss, seconded by Nye, tp advertise for bids, to be receoved at a special meeting, July 20th, for seal coat on Arterial Street No. 5", John Street. Motion carried.- Motion by Regner, seconded by Ferwerda, to pass and approve the an- •nual appropriation ordinance ,as read. Motion carried. • ( Motion by Ferwerda, seconded by Buss, to adjourn. Motion carried, v EARL R. WALSH, City Clerk.. R-L OVERTON, Mayor. FIFTEEN NEW RATION v PROGRAMS EXPECTED DURING COMING YEAR 18.29 «3.60 given a chance to show itself on the screen, is pretty well distributed among all professions and types,, But the electricians and .the prop men on the sets are her private discovi ery. "They live in a world of their own," she explained, "and they know more about eveiy little plane in your face than the most observing painter of other artist. They know when wrong lighting will make you look grotesque, insipid or just plain dull. Of course, in my case, they've never had occasion to dwell on the beautiful. But when they do, I'll have fun because I know they'll treat me right." • . • • : Experience: When "Best Foot Forward," the George Abbott musical in which just about all the players are juveniles, opened, Joan Edwards had only one criticism--the situation in which Rosemary Lane's gown is torn off by over-enthusiastic autograph hounds.' Such a thing just couldn't happen, she averred. Miss Edwards has changed her mind. Accompanied by Jimmy Dorsey, she made a guest appearance at a high school dance near Paterson, N. J. And it was a lucky thing indeed for Miss Edwards that Dorsey had a spare overcoat with him. Not only did she lose her dress, but her sport coat as weU^in the rush of boys and girlw^ager to get free autographed phonograph records. 1 Lr J. McCracken, ' superihtendent .; j Nick J. Adams, Special police 1 duty 'Robert Winkel, Special police I duty j H. B. Schaefer, Special police i duty j Matt Blake, Special police duty Leo Blake, Special police duty ;H. E. Buch & Son, Hydrant rer | pair ' Alexander Lumber Co., Coal ...!. i Paul E. ' lie rasch,--Labor -for^ . , .. ! waterworks 40.00 30.00 25.TH) 11.25 loo 2.00 9.90 9.44 6.25 6.02 20.50 bombs, torpedoes and shells, is made 1 from toluol. Therefore, toluol might j be considered, the one product most essential i to......the destruction^ of the enemy. Other oil refiners are now'erecting synthetic toluol plants which will be in operation shortly to produce toluol either by the process pioneered by Standard Oil Co. or processes stemming therefrom. Three out of every five bombs which our armed forces will use to blast the enemy will carry TNT made processes first demonstrated by Standard Oil's laboratories and first put into practical operation by that company.- ' . Yes, Standard Oil Company "struck oil" when they madle that deal with the German company back in 1929, and we Americans can be mighty thankful for this bit of "horse-trading" by this American company. j Around the Town: Mervyn LeRoy I at the Avenue restaurant with a I cigar T-H-A-T long in his mouth . . . j Wendell Willkie's felt bonnet floating I across the Rockefeller Plaza ice ) rink with three skating cuties in hot i pursuit ... A young Indian princess walking down Fifth avenue barefooted and passing Jean Tyler who is swathed in furs . . . Lewis E. Lawes, former warden of §ing Sing, and William S. Hart at a Letpne table .. . Hart, one of the few white men who speak the Sioux language, telling tales of Pancho Villa . . . and Lawes countering with stories of Sing Sing inmates . . . Ray Bolger. of the rubber legs, hopping nimbly over the Roosevelt hotel dance floor. Earl R. Walsh, Freight Vycital Hardware, Supplies .... McHenry Co. Farmers; Co-op., > Lawn seed James Orr, Lawn mowers re? paired ....... Earl' R.' \ya+shy- Federal Use sticker, police car Ed M. Smith, Labor, streets. and waterworks •. George Jackson, Labor painting streets Art Jackson,, Labor 'painting streets Paul bonslett, Jr., Labor paintr -Jng -»tr«<da_w..<...M..,. Martin Stoffel, Labor at city park ..< Thiodore Wirfkel, Labor at city park ; Jonn King, Jr., Labor at city park ...... ..v.;....:;.'.,. Linus Newman, Labor at city park William Dettmer, Labor oil ' streets .1 25.00 B. N. Smith, Grading sti-eets " T7.50 McHerrfry Plaindealer, Printing and publications ...... Freund Oil Co., Gas, oil, police car 7 Clarence Regner; Labor and filling at waterworks I McHenry Artificial Stone, Jie- I pairing pavement lAlex J. Justen, Gasoline . Ben J. Miller. Labor and material at waterworks G. P. Newman, Repairing pavement Wm., H. Althoff, Sharpening mower .ir.Wr:'.?:?... Public Service Co., Power and 5.50 2.75 5.00 89.40 21.9 4^(1 11.00 25.50 27.00 36.60 20.05 21.00 4.28 Americans were, warned recently ift a house report on a $1,830,437,615 appropriation bill for 19 war agencies to prepare for 15 additional ratioriing programs Within the next year. OPA Administrator Leon Henderson told his committee he "foresees thf need" for IS* new rationing programs in addition U> present rationing of sugar, r^soline, automobnes, lirei; and typewriters, ; The committee's report said that it would be folly to name, the specific items likely to be rationed because it would cause immediate runs on them. The largest single -item in the bill was $1,100,000,000 for the War shipping administration. Testimony at hearihgs on-the various appropriations revealed that: 1. The Army may be increased to 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 men in 1943 after reaching 4,500,000 by the end of this- year. 2. The United States will operate between 2,200 and 2,600 merchant vessels in the war effort this year. 3. "The outlook for the consumer is--very bacL'-' War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson told the committee the full impact of total war will ijpt get home to the civilians until late fall. . 4. The federal bureau of investigation staff will be increased by 998 new agents"and 2,904 clerical workers. On June 1, the report said, 66,197 of the F. B. I.'s 166.282 pending cases were unassigned because of insufficient personnel. j\ The appropriation carries $100,- KKlCOOO to replenish the president's emergency fund, bringing the total allotted for it to $506,459,000. - The fund now has only $64,000,000, of which $31,000,000 has been requested by various agencies. The committee's report said Henderson's latest <«*jj|aate of excess consumer purchas$iji>: power during 1942 is $17 000,000,000. SUGGESTION 267.60 "Here, waiter, this doughnut's like rubber. I can't eat it to save my life." "You're not expected to, sir. For that purpose you wear it under your arms." ftp Sev« m 1 P»:. CONGRESSIONAL, VIEWS bjrCongressman Chauncey W. Reeil Housing Problems Are No Btetter . - With the continual increase - women government workers coming , to Washington the housing problem - 'f lowing more and more acute. TheT;^r Koyertjment is completing a 644-room. building, to house 718 women, which will" be, ready for occupancy July 15. •* This super - exclusive establishment. , known a s " M e r i d i a n H i l l H o t e J , i s a r : ' .beautifully constructed building which includes among its appointments a swimming pool, cannot in the judg- • ' ment of housing officials, solve the housing problem for rrfany war workers* because the first qualification for .resident is a salary of $1,800, Accord- : ing to statistics, sixty per cent of . ,". >omen> employed in all government ; agencies, war and- otherwise, make ; * •less1 than $1,600.00;,1 th^' majority are - . paid $1:,2$0 to $1,440 and a few $1,080. - ' Apparently thf ;A<lrtifnjstration- did""' - not.'.'take this into consideration when -v planning this bujldrng. r... RooHev^lt'd Emergency Expenditure* A special report on the expenditure;, of the, $239,500,000 .secret emergency fupd of President Roosevelt since- J u n e , 1 9 4 0 , w a s g i v e n " ^ t o £ © a g r e s s o n ' i C the 1st of. July: The Army, Navy, S'jSS; Maritirtie -CommissjoR and; Federal Loan . Agency^^ree^iyed eighty-seven; A* per cent of thfe total; the President said, "Through'.this means the con- ^ struction of cantonments and hemisphere bases was started, the building of ships expedited and the stock pileg of wool and copper procured." Important among the expenditures i was $52,000,000 for secret naval bases in Western Hemisphere countries, $12,000,000 for Australian wool to in- , sure uniforms for our fighting force*, $8,000,000 fop development of air, rail and highway transportation systems In l^atin-American countries; and $36.- 500,000 for construction of merchant ; ships along with $6,000,000 for repairs ^ of vessels damaged by enemy action. Large suras were also spent to suppress subversive radio activities in this country in connection with Hit- • ler's submarine campaign against shipping in the Western Hemisphere.; The OEM received $15,014,184 and the Coordinator of Information $1,125,000.^ _ The report does not include the recent funds voted l»y Congrtss trMch brin* the total of secret emergency funds to $506,459,000. Of Interest to Agriculture Albert ™S. G08S, Master of the National Grange, this week denounced Leon Henderson's "system of price control" as "unsound and unworkable" in letters addressed to the Chairmen,, of the House and Senate Agriculture and- Appropriations Committees. Goss challenged Henderson's statement that the first "break" in established price ceilings (those for canned and (friedfruits) had been necessitated by Con-~~ gressional requirement for 110 per cent of parity prices on farm products and failure to protect packers and processors from price squeezes. "This is( the very opposite of the truth," Goss asserted. "Mr. Henderson established " .11s ceilings in uttei disregard of the - parity clause, and the reason he has. had to change his prices is not because of any failure of Congress but * because his policy resulted in prices so low for farmers that they could not cover the cost of harvesting." ' fireproof Wool The narfry is studying chtnifelk which will make wood as fireproof as steel. Not everybody with a dollar, ta spare can shoot a pa straight--but everybody oai shoot straight to the bank and buy War Bonds. Baj jsms 19% every pay day. ^ WNU Service) a More: Doris Duke Cromwell in the Cafe Louis XIV, taking macadamia nuts from her purse and munching them instead of dessert . . . Ronald Colman departing from the Russian Tea Room unnoticed by autograph hounds because his gray hair really changes his appearance . . . The "For Rent" sign over the Army and Navy club on West Fortyfourth street ... A peanut vender at Seventh avenue and Fifty-seventh street feeding his Wares to pigeons and at the same time, reading a Broadway column. ."-.V. •'*-•-• * • ' • • .""rf *' This & That Dep't: A liquor shop in the swank Sntton Place neighborhood includes a card with each bottle of firewater which bears the dotted outline of a pink elephant and the inscription. "If voii can't trace this figure,.better stop drinking" : . . Tamara Toumanova, beautiful baU Merina, is reading A. Jv Crorrrn*'s "Keys to the Kingdom" . She has been tipped off that sihe is being considered for. the role of one of the nuns irtv the screen version of the novel . . . Buy United States Defense stamps and bonds, r- (BelkSyndicate^WNU Service ) Reds Get Box of Iron Crosses and Big Laugh NEW YORK.--The British radio quoted a correspondent of Tass, Russian news agency, as reporting that,among the German booty taken in the Russian counteroffensive was a box of. iron crosses, second class, which bore the tag: "To be handed out fof the capture of Moscow^-*--" ---- •:' Originated Deck of Cards , Queen Elizabeth of England originated the 52-card deck. The four i kings are David, Alexander, Caesar ' and Charlemagne. David is clean shaven . .. . » First American Book The first book published in Eng-' lish in America was "The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Faithfully Translated into English metro," which was completed in 1640-at Cambridge by Stephen Daye. '