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Assembly Lines Rush More Bombs * a" •- . ' " • • ', v *"** > ; '* tj*t ' U' i - . --.' ' jnEt T" TBI KoHXmiT PLAIMDXALHl Thursday, October 15,1942 | wfiff . Twice Jto i d Tales Kni ®f Interest Taksa the rilM of the Plaindeake -- «f TIUI A|i SIXTY YEARS AGO •;0i* Washington Not a scene from (he world of tomorrow, but a picture of something that is very definitely part of the world of today, this photograph, ap- ; {roved by the war and navy departments, shows one of the assembly j •es down which death for the enemy is rolling daily as production pro- j •eeds on a wartime basis. Here suspension lugs are being welded to ! tomb casings. this week revealed that, for instance, there are a number of foreign groups •"! here who are now engaged in trying to affect post-War settlements by in- , flueneing arid dividing foreign-born - groups in this country on questioris relating to. the political or "geographic! ! cal structure of post-war Europe. A g e n t s of t h e e x i l e d g o v e r n m e n t s o f . : central European countries have taken a lead in these activities which tend to revive and create tension between foreign-born groups on .such issues. Checks by the F. B. I. disclosed the President Roosevelt's latest presence within our borders of 80,000 nfireside" speech are weighed in Con- persons of military age who are memjjressional and administrative circles bers of the active on Reserve military ttt determine what changes in war forces of foreign countries and who policies are in the offing. Curiously are between the ages of eighteen and ^zitore concern is provoked by the forty-four. Anu of these persons, who | things left unsaid,, especially when the are subject to#iilitary duty in a for- Chief Executive evades discussion of eign country, are required to register Highly controversial question^ in if they engaged in political activities, which the pubic is keenly interested. A number of these people are regard- Prior to the broadcast the White ed as dangerous to th^ war effort. 7."•! ' --By-- " **". National Editorial Association Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Story and daughter have returned from the Green Mountains and report a splendid time. H. E. Wightman, of the Riverside House, has taken a partner, in the person of E. W, Wheeler, who will hereafter assist him, in running that popular hotel. The brick manufacturing Co., have just finished burning their kiln of brick, which, we understand are already all sold. The steamer, "Mary Griswold," brought down from the lakes on Monday morning over six hundred ducks, which were shot on Saturday and j Sunday., . . c ' / : FIFTY YEARS AGO Washington Dipestj Nazi Break With Russia Foiled Sabotage in U. S. Hitler Held Responsible for Wrecking Ger- - many's Elaborate Plans to Blow Up . ^ VitayPoints jn ^ ^ Washington. October 14--Implica? House dispatched s number of recommendations for Congressional atten- ° Jos. Heimer, at the McHenry House is constantly making improvements in and around his premises. Circuit court is in session at Woodstofck this week, Judge Kellum presiding. The store of J. C. Fitzsimmons, on the West Side, is closed for inventory; the goods, we understand, have been \ sold to a party from Iowa, who will ! continue the business at the old stand., We experienced some of the warm- j est weather of the season the latter ; part of last week. On Sunday we were treated to a fine shower, since which time the air has been much cooler. Plans of the War Manpower Commission reveal the siphoning of workv llOI V3en tion which are bound to increase the ers from non-war industries to war sion between the legislative and work. Director McNutt testified. administrative wings of the government. Many political factors are involved in the President's latest legislative program. "Workers not already engaged in war production, possessing skills which are in demand are being called to the local employment offices for inter- TTie issuance of directives from the views. Every effort is being made to 1 newly created Economic Stabilization place these workers in essential war j Board are anxiously awaited. The law- industries." This statement was am- • makers are frankly irked about the plified by others, who advised Con-1 promulgation of an executive order gress that they are combing the Selec- ! simultaneously with the signing of the tive Service questionnaires to find peo-1 • amended price control act. The legis- pje who will take training to quality ' lators openly charge the executive them for work in war plants. They i order, apparently drafted before the are using these questionnaires to find lull passed, goes far beyond the statu- . people in the lessep'essential industory power conferred by them. Pri- , tries Wtely, they concede ttm is little to; whenever » n* is discovered on Oe done about corrections. The tip j the draft list a rtotice is sent out re- 18 passed that Mr. Roosevelt is bank- j questing him tor visit the local eramg heavily upon the complete Su-, ployment officeAor an interview. Afpreme Court decision in the saboteur ter these intelgriews an effort is made lease to arm him with vast war pow- ! iQ make occupational determinations 1 ers. It is recalled that the tribunal, and in some cases try to induce a j only rendered a partial opinion last; qualified man to take a special course; June with a promise of a full text; 0f training or to give up his civilian • early in the regular court term. Mean- . act,ivity and accept employment in an while employers and workers are puz- j essential industry. Another project j f ed as to what the la^ means in 0f Manpower Board is to help objerms of their business. The forth-; tain additional women to help to work; fORTY YEARS AGO N. J. Justen how delivers his goods in a new furniture wagon, made especially for that purpose. It has a large light box, lined with carpet to prevent furniture from being scratched. A tar sidewalk will be constructed on the west side of River street from N. E. Barbian's corner to Geo. Rothermel's lots. D. G. Nellis is building a small shop on C. T. Eldredge's land on Waukegan street near the Park hotel, wherein he will engage in blacksmithing. W. C. Evanson is having city water put in at his store building. The mains have , beenokpped many times this summer. THIRTY YEARS AGO coming regulations, issued by Director Byrnes in collaboration with the War Labor Board, will supply the answer. ! in war industries. The Commission is ! advising industry to select new ap- j ,, , , „ ; prentices from the present working! :• i Many national lawmakers usually force> particularly those with family; ^fllsposed toi talkativeness and the de- dependents, so that credit may be al- •ire to be first with important infor- iowe(j for experience already obtained,; mation are apparently curbing their with the objective of producing essentongues. It was not the President s skilled workers within one or two Criticism of loose talking by respons- yearS' time, who willciprobably remain ible officials so much as the gradual available to industry. It is signficank precognition the folks back home did to note that Director Hershey, of t&e j Jttbt like their attitude which some- Selective Service System, suggested to ( times revealed valuable data to enemy the Manpower Commission that "all itt- «gents. The latest hearings before the dustrial training -- apprentice and ' House Appropriations Committee on otherwise -- should be made in the the second supplemental defense bill gr0up which is not expected to become carried authorizations for war expen- Hable for mjijtary service. Women, ditures in excess of six billions. High- men ovej the age of forty-five, and f&nking Army, Navy and other war men who have bona fide family relaagency officials answered the solons • tionship with a wife and children or Questions, but the printed report is re- with children are the safest group to "Mete with the significant notation j which training should be applied." The ^discussion off the record." The pub- War Manpower Commission and the Mshed testimony is greatly enlighten- Selective Service System are jointly fog to the average citizen, but pre- j developing a plan for the orderly with- •umably the material is considered of j drawal of men from war production • ipjittle value to spies. Testimony deal- ! and for scheduling the replacement of £ng with secret plans 'is notably ab- such men. fent and legislators have promised to eep mum. Few persons realize the scope of foreigners' activities in this country despite wartime laws. Department of ( Justice report submitted to Congress The water has again been let out of the mill pond for the purpose of killing the weeds and thus insuring clear waters for the season's crop of ice. ; Mr. and Mrs. Johw Thennes are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby boy at their home last week. Miss Elizabeth Miller, youngest daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Frank Miller, and Mr. John Degen, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Degeri of this place, were united in marriage at St. John's Catholic church at Johnsburg this week. Rev. Edward Bert hold officiated. Mr. Eld. Simon, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Simon of this place, was quietly married at Milwaukee Sept. 25 to Miss Amanda Simon of Milwaukee. Powerful Amplifier So powerful it enables listeners to hear grass growing, a new radio amplifier has been perfected in Europe. ITTENTY YE A most impressive ceremony took place on Wednesday afternoon at St. Patrick's church when the Right Rev. Bishop Muldoon solemnly blessed the new bell for the sanctuary belfry of the new church. The public drinking fountains about town have beea taken down and stored for the winter. The rain and coot wtather, which arrived the latter part of last week, caused most of our citizens to start their furnaces and as a consequence the coal dealers have been kept quite busy nflaking deliveries. M. A. Thelen, who recently toon j over the agency for the Paige & Jewi ett automobile, is clearing out his | store room ^ preparatory to making ! same into an automobile display roonf. By BAtJKHAGE News Analyst and Commentuttf, WNU Service) WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-W, Washington, D. C. A mystery that has perplexed many laymen and some officials in Washington with riespect to the manner in which the government has forestalled a mammoth Nazi plan for sabotaging American industry can now be explained. There will be no official confirmation of the explanation but it comes to me from what are frequently described as "informed sources"--which really means "a man who has never lied to me so far." "J '-• '• • •' z7 In a sentence; The map who wrecked elaborate' Nazi plans for blowing up munitions plants, railway terminals; bridges, electric light and power plants in ' 've United States was none other than Adolf Schikelgruber, Hitler himself. He did it when he tossed the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact out of the window just after Nazi armies had launched tfielr surprise drive on Russia.' To understand what a job the fuehrer did for himself we must remember that for years, with the methodical care of the German mind, a detailed plan had been worked out for the sabotage of American industry. Even during the last wa,r there were some terrible and effective pieces of sabotage accomplished by a comparatively untrained arid unregimented crowd of German spies. The famous Black Tom explosion which wrecked the huge New Jersey plant not far from New York city, was an example. An international mixed claims commission finally awarded huge damages to the United States for that act. Bnt the Nazis began where the kaiser left oflf. They had schools for the training of saboteors especially selected from Germans who had lived in tfie United States and were lured back to Germany and either bribed or intimidated into undertaking; the work of destruction in territory with which they had become familiar. Details of this training came out in the secret testimony in the recent trial of the Nazi saboteurs in Washington. But much of it was ancient history to the department of justice. And the way the advance information came into> the hands of our intelligence officers was this: While the Germans hadvtheir pact of friendship with Russia, Nazi agents were busy making friends ; with Communists all over the world in the hope that they could use them for subversive activities. The Cbmmunists naturally did not turn a : deaf ear and Hitler's agents told all. Then came the doable eras, Germany attacked Russia, and Communist and Nazi who had always hated each other thoroughly gave vent to their real feelings. The plans which the Nazis had confided to the Communists were turned ever to the governments of the United Nations. The United States also had been picking up a little information about the German sabotage methods in other ways--such as by planting a man or two in the German Gestapo. These men learned, from one source or another, that the Germans had hired safe crackers in this country to steal the blue prints of factories from insurance companies, which always demand a detailed description and plan of all buildings they insure. The plans were stolen, photographed and returned. That is one example. Many other little devious tricks and enterprises were revealed by dint of our own investigators, and with the help of the Communists who had complete and exhaustive data, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was able to take the necessary steps to break up the complicated plots and counter-plots to wreck American industry. So far there have been very few, if any, major cases which have been branded as sabotage in this country, thanks to Mr. Hitler. On Pronunciation You may not know it, but nobody 'thinks broadcasters know how. to pronounce the names of foreign places. Some write in and tell us about it and even the news services try to help us. When an item comes over the news ticker about Rzhev or Chumbly they obligingly put the pronunciation in brackets. The other day the news services had something to say about disturbances in Lyons, France. Now I've been hearing about Lyons all my life and I know perfectly well that Lyons is pronounced like two lions in the zoo. I also know that the same city is spelled by the French without the "s,"--Lyon--and I've visited that ancient and attractive city and I know how the French pronounce it. So when the ticker said "Lyons (pronounced Lee-on)" I got the same feeling as when I once heard two Frenchmen disputing whether Washington was called "Vashinjton" or "Vassington." Lyon, if you want to be pedantic, is not pronounced "Lee-on" or anything like it. If you want to pronounce it the French way,v,you'll have to study French. ' As for me, I'll go on laying Lyons,/and I'll continue to say Paris--ncc "Pah-ree," and Rome, and Vienna and The Hague and Cologne ana Athens, although I know that the fiatives don't call any of those cities by those names. Note* FrOma Broadcaster's Diary Is the government farm-constfibus? It is. I am going to risk a gentle indiscretion and quote a suggestion from a high government source to broadcasters. It is part of an appeal to encourage enlistment in our merchant marine that must have one hundred thousand skilled workers for the shipyards in 1942; must have 120,000 experienced seamen. Here is the suggestion: "Take care to specify that the Merchant Marine does not want men engaged in farming or war production work. They do their share now. Any change would bring more harm than good. It does, however, want the young, the strong, the adventurous for seagoing jobs, and the skilled capable workers for the shipy a r d s . . . " And the government wants the skilled farmer to stay on the farm where he is: Food will win the war and write the peace. * • • The Whole Troth The Nazi regime is hot usually credited with doing much to encour- j age truth. Hitler himself spends I many paragraphs in "Mein Kampf" I telling about the importance of be-; ing a good liar. But, strange as it j may seem, according to a tale that | is whispered behind the closed doors i of state department offices, the Nazis have struck a blew for verity. ! Here is the tale which may never i appear in the official communiques i of our*ministry of foreign relations, j When Germiany declared war on | the United States last December, ! after Pearl Harbor, there were still ! several hundred Americans, men ! and women, living in Paris. Many i of them had lived there for 20 years, getting their American passports re- i newed periodically. Some of the j ladies, it seems, took advantage of j these periodical renewals to lop a couple of years off their age now and again. And who would grudge the ladies a few years stolen from the calendar, especially in Paris? But the gentle prevarication bounced back with a vengeance. For when the Nazis announced that women under 60 would be interned in concentration camps, while older women would be allowed to remain at liberty, a certain number of American women suddenly discovered that the age shown on their passport was erroneous. They hurried to the Swiss consulate, which had charge of American interests, and swore out affidavits to the effect that they were not, say, 45, but 62. Not all of these belated amendments were accepted by the Nazi officials--gallant for once. Tlie consequence is that the rigors of the Nazi internment camps are now being suffered by women who, if they had been less coquettish about their years, would now be free. --Buy War Bonds-- OHUBOH SERVICES . St. Mary's Catholic Church ' * Masses: Sundays: 7:00; 8:30; 10:00; Holy Days: 6:00; 8:00;10:00i Week Days: 6:45 and 8:00. First Friday: 6:30 and 8:00. Confessions: Saturdays: 3:00 p. m. and 7:00'"p. nt. Thursday before Firlt Friday-*-* After 8:00 Mass on Thursday; 3:00 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. Msgr. C. S. Nix, Pastor. '•t Patrick's Catholic Church Masses: , Sundays: 8:00; 9:00; 10:00;, 11:00. Weekdays: 7:30. First Fridays: 7:80. { On First Friday, Comnumion distributed at 8:30, 7:00 and before and during the 7:80 Mass. Confessions: Saturdays: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 8:00 p. m. Thursday before First Friday*. 4:00 ? to 5:00 p. m. and 7:00 t* 8:09 : Rev. Wm. A. OHourke, pastor. McHENRY GARAGE Electric and Acetylene Welding. General Repairing, Wagons and Trailers to Order! Rt$. 31 -- John & Pront Sts. me 97-J or 151-M Nick P. Miller : St. John's Catholic Church, Johaabarg Masses: Sunday^: 7, 8:30, 10 and 1,1 ;15. :. Holy Days: 7:00 and 9:00. Weekdays: 8:00. J • v » First Friday: 8:00. * , «"* Confessions: 1 ? Saturdays: 2:30 and 7:^0.- * \ Thursday before First Friday: 2:^4 and 7:30. Rev. A. J. Neidert, pastor. Community Church " Sunday School: 10:00 a. m. 7 ' Worship Service: 11:00 a. pi. Junior League: 6:30 p. m.1 - Epworth League: 8:00 p. m. „ H Rev. J. Heber Miller, pastorf, Ziou Evangelical Lutheran ChQrth Divine Service -- Nine o'docS, Sunday School -- Ten o'cl'ock^ t Rev. R. T. E_isf_eldt , Pasto£ '* St. Peter's Catholic Church;-< . Spring Grove • Masses: Sundays: 8:00 and 10:00. ; •Holy Days: 6:30 and 9HM>.- Weekdays: 8:00. 777-7 First Friday: 8:00. •" Confessionsr Saturdays: 2:80 and 7:15. Thursday before First Friday} 2:80 and 7:15. . ^ w Rev. John L. Daleiden. Pastor. McHENRY LODGE A. F. & A. M.' McHenry Lodge No. 158 meets the first/"and third Tuesdays of each month at the hall on Court street. Not TOo Mucft Pafet Home owners: who are planning' any outdoor painting during cold weather should bear in mind that a too heavy application of paint will' result in a wrinkled surface. Even though/the surface may be dry when the paint is applied, cold or damp weather will retard drying. An addition of turpentine^ will reduce this tendency. A A. WORWICK PHOTOGRAPHER :t.; Portraiture • Commercial /. Photography • Photo-Finishing ^ ' Enlarging - Copying - Framing Phone 275 -- Riverside Drive McHENRY, ILL. FIRE AUTO FARM LIT* INSURANCE EARL R. WALSH Presenting . Reliable Companies * V . When you need insurance of any kM Phone 43 or 118-M Green & Elm McHenry Phone McHenry 677TR-1 - -- Basement Excavating -- * NETT'S SAND & GRAVEL Special Rates on Road Gravel and Lot Filling ... Black Dirt & Stone Power Shovel Service . Power Leveling and Grading . . . Cement Mixers for Rent. T J. E. NETT Johnsburg P. 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B R I E F S . • • b y B a u k h a g e The WPA has just completed a survey of automobile graveyards for the War Production board. • • • -There are still a number of men who have rushed into Washington to do war work who honestly think the sun rises in the East river and sets in the Hudson. They work on the basis that if New York never heard about it, it doesn't exist. "Getting enough workefiTTs the Number One problem of war-time farming. --Buy War Bonds-- The USO at Phoebus, Va., not only provides hostesses for its guests, but precedes its dances by a Charm School so that hostesses will present the ultimate in charm, poise, personality, how to wear their hair and fthow to play games weU. McHENRY TOWN CLUB Riverside Drive and Pearl Street Mixed Drinks of All Kinds '•a\ OUR SPECIAL BARBECUED RIBS Phone 12 McHenry Furs for the Fair Sex Some 30,000 muskrats which wffl eventually grace the shoulders of American and Canadian women, are being trapped this spring by Indians on the Two Island preserve near The Pas, Manitoba. The Two Islands muskrat harvest Is being shared by 160 Indian and non-Indian trappers who for three weeks work should receive an average of $20 per month for the ensuing 12 months. The preserve of 160,000 acres has an estimated 60,000 muskrat population. Subscribe to The Plaindealer! AM.VMIOKDI Good Brakes Save Your Tires " K E E P 'EM R O L L I N G " If you are having brake trouble, bring your car or truck to our trained mechanics for expert Brake Servicc Remember, good brakes give your tires the chance to giv you the maximum service at minimum cost. Come in today for a checkup on our State Approved Safety Lane. 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