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1 Pif» Six THE MoBSHST TLADIDSALHt SALERNO RUSSIAN • :t\ VICTORY :• Y E A R The year began with these important events: January Vl-r-Russians ; capture- Velikye Luki, great railway center. c •--78th Congress convenes. v v y»"S3t--British. troops enter Tripoli, , capital of Libya. . - 1&-- Advancing Russians jtaKe • v • r Voronezh, Nazi anchor, 'Unconditijrikl Surrender" 'agreement 'of Casablanca, conference announced. January *1--Russians recapture Velikye Luki, rkiKj road center. ) 4--U. S. Department of War Information I announces 61,126 service casualties to > date. ; 12--U. S. planes based In Africa bomb Naples. Italy. 19--British Only 40 miles from Tripoli. j 23--British enter Tripoli, Libyan capital. ; 25--Voronezh, big Nazi strongnold, falls to f Russians. ! 26--"Unconditional Surrender" agreement of Casablanca announced. February S--Last German troops surrender In Stalingrad, U. S. Naval forces repel major Japanese attacks in Solomons area. 8--Allied headquarters establish separate U. S. command for North Africa. 9--Last Japs withdraw from Guadalcanal 14;--Rostov and Voroshilovgrad captured bv Russians. 15--Russians take Kharkov, important base 16--Cruiser Chicago is sunk by Japs; U. S. Navy reports 15 Jap ships hit. K--U. S. flyers raid Kisk^ in Aleutians. March • :t~ 3--Rzhev ret^en by Russians. 4--Allied bombers destroy Jap convoy of 22 ships. 11--British attack Mareth line in Tunisia. 17--American forces take Gafsa in Tunisia. 20--Chinese check Jap drive in Hupeh-HunaiS region. 24--Advancing Russians retake Abinsk and other towns near Smolensk. 26--U. S. and BriUsh troops advance 1$ Tunisia. 51--British take Matouia and two otter cfties In ""--' ; destroyed, at a cost of 60 Flvinp Fortresses; Japanese, continuing thrusts . from Bunhai Invade Yunnan province, China. I SS-- Melitopol, key city of German defense in, south Ukraine, falls to Russians. 25-- Russian troops recapture Dnepropetrovsk, important Industrial city. 29--U. S. and New Zealand troops land on Treasury Islands, in Northern Solomons. 30--Russians reach entrance to Crimean peninsula, trapping thousands of Nazis. November „ 1--Russian troops Isolate Crimean peninsula, cutting off escape for many thousand of German soldiers. i--U. S. Marines invade Bougainville Is- >. "land in nortl'.cm Solomons. • ' 4-^.RAF planes drop more than 2;000 tens . of bombs on Dusseldorf, Germany. Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, retaken by Russians. ' . 74-British Eighth army advances In Italy, taking eight towns. 11-rJs'ans scuttlc ships, blast installations Jo V block harbors of Leghorn and Fescara.- ,,1^-Russians capture Zhitomir, important 'r'~ rail center of southern front; Chinese • - ' forces report gains along Yangtze river. I#--^Greatest raid in history blasts Berlin, ' . dropping 2.500 tons. -23--Another huge air attack smashes Berlin.' .One-fourth of oit.v said to be razed. •• r" Makin island, member of Gilbert group, = * vis taken by U. S. combined forces. , •|8»>-Russians rip 37-mile-wide gap in Natl tires north of Gomel. 27--Marines take Tarawa, one of Gilbert is- . lands, after "toughest fighting" in their history. 30--British Eighth army bursts through Nazi lines In Italy, approaching Rome. December • 1--RAF and V. S. bombers continue mass- • lve raids, hitting Dusseldorf region. President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek in Cairo, Egypt. / Agree tor "strip Japan of her stolen em- , : , ( i i r e , " j •--Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at 1 .Teheran, Iran, reach "complete agree- j ; t n e n t on measures to crush Germany"; j . U. S. naval task force raids Marshall 4 . Islands. ; ^--Chinese admit loss of Changieh, lmp?r- ' . , tant city in "rice bowl." ( . •--Turkey promises Allies all "aid short OI j war"; Chinese recapture Changteh. ' 13--Russian troops n/^in initiative in Kiev 1 area; British Eigfth army cracks Nazi line in Italy, capturing 6.000. ! 14--President Roosevelt, returning from I conferences, visits Malta and Sicily. . "j 15--American planes raid Greece; U. 8. ' ' heavy bombers smash Jap base on New j • Britain Island. '.: ' i#f»Prime Minister Churchill stricken by • pneumonia; German bombers sink 17 ! United Nations Merchant ships. : ' I7-~American Sixth army lands at Arawe, on New Britain island, southwest Pacific. THE YEAR S TEN BIGGEST EVENTS SELECTED By: BAUKHAGE (WNU Washington Correspondent.) I--MILITARY: (a) Russian summer-fall off en- ; sive. ' Pacific offensive (Attu, New Guinea, Solomons, Gilberts). (c) Italy snrrwirtay. V (d) Air offensive agaiflst Ger- , man cities. • »•' II--DIPLOMATIC^ .S (a) The four-power conferences (Moscow-Cairo-Teheran). /(I*) Formation of the UNRRA. III----DOMESTIC: ^ ? (a) Passage of the Cofinally Resolution, Administration moves to > right (OPA, Food Administration, War Mobilization, ' S t a b i 1 i z a 11 on, Economic Warfare). (c) Republican political gains. (d) Congress revolts against an- ^ ti-inflation program (subsidies, reduced tax bill, res- . olution favoring railroad wage increase). Simmons 7; Kazar Stadium--East All-' Stars 13, West A^-Stars 12. 17--Ted Williams, formerly of Boston Red - -Sox, named "player of the year." February 20--William Cox, New York sportsman, puf* chases Philadelphia Phillies for a boat £230,000 from National League. 31--The Big Ten athletic council ended the rule forbidding freshmen to play on varsity teams. 24-- Bucky Harris signs to manage PhUadefphia ball dub; ,.,v ' March 13--Greg Rice runs fastest 2 miles at K. of G; meet, in 8:52 7. 17-*Philadelph:a team wins the Golden Gloves championship in New York. • IB--Detroit wins national hockey league title. 20--Cornelius Warrherdam seta new pole , vault record of 15 feet. 8'a inches 25--Pauline Betz wins national thdoor tiennls singles championship." April,". ... . " . '; - 6--Cleveland Rams, professional football Club, suspends 'playing for duration: > 8--Iktroit Ked Wir.gs defeat the Bosion Biuins, 2j0 to capture Uie Stanley Cup; May if 1--Count Fleet Kentucky Derby; in 2:04 / 8-Count Fleet wins Preakness, in 1:57.2 21--Bob Montgomery' outpoints Beau Jack , to gain lightweight title. June 5--Count FJeet wins Belmont Stakes. 20--Gunder Hagg outruns Greg Rice to win 5,000 meter race. 26--Francisco Segura wirts Nat'l Collegiate tennis title, defeating Tom Brown Jf. 28--Whir La way. 5 year old rape horse, retired. , Tunisia. April. 1--Fortresses raid Cagliarl, Sardinia; Chinese drive Japs back into Burma. 4--Chinese retake Chuchiachuan. 6--Allies bomb Naples, Kiel, Antwerp, Brest. 10--British capture Sfax, important Tunisian port. 17--Bremen and other north German cities bombed in "biggest raid." 1 10--Russians attack on Kuban front. 21--Japanese execute U. S. fliers. j 23--U. S. Naval forces occupy Funafuti I inlands, southwest Pacific. • - j May j 7--Bizerte falls to Americans; BrttMi flr«t army takes Tunis. ; }4--Last resistance ends in North Africa. 17--Nazis attack in Kuban, Russian front. 1»--U. S. bombers raid PanteUeria, Italian island fortress. 23--Guerrilla warfare spreads in Balkans. 30--Japs admit loss of Attu. 1 31--French Alexandria fleet joins Allies. 1 Jane fr-Curtto saya ImmIm danger past ta Australia. 11--Pantelleria, Italian island fortress, sur- , renders. 12--Lampedusa, fortified Italian island, capitulates 13--Chinese recapture Sur.gtze, port city, lft--Chir.ese charge Japs use gas. 17--RAF borr.bs Co'.o?r.e 30--U S forces \zr.i nr. Rendora, tB ! ^ Sirkomoei. •; Jnlr 1--Rendova tahwi by V. S tore--. Russiaca laarsch on W0 mile < frost. U S Say bar„«s Japs off Sok>v. mor-s. ,f 12--British capture Syracuse. j' 23--U S *" '*•_- 24--Arr.erica-i TrapanL 25--MVSSOLTXI RESIGNS KING EMMANUEL ASSUMES GOVERNMENT. 26--RAF raids Hamburg, Hanover. Essen. 27--Italian peace nesotiatiocs begin. 28--Fatciit party dissolved. Riots sweep January . 1--President Roosevelt calls fbr unity vjamong Allies, stresses "the supreme necessity of planning what is to come after the war." 4--U. S. Supreme court frees Thomas • V Pendergast. Democratic political leader of Kansas City, under statute of limitations ruling. 78th Congress convenes: Samuel Ray- .burn speaker' of house for third term; Pleasure driving banned in eastern States; Fuel oil ration reduced 25 per cent. 11--U. S and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China. 'U--OPA sets corn ceilings at approximately |1 a bushel. oint draft system, by which men can be Inducted into navy, marines and coast guard as well as army, announced. February S--National income in 1042 was 9113,824,- 000.000 as compared with fS4.500.000.000 in 1941. •--Roosevelt orders 48-hour work week minimum in labor shortage areas. It--President Roosevelt promises steppedup attacks on Europe and JapaYi. IB--Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek addresses Congress asking for more vigorous prosecution of the war on Japan.1 20--Dried foods rationed, effective March 1. 23--Secretary of Agriculture Wickard suspends wheat quotas. March 2--U. S. and Chile representatives sign lend-lease agreement. T--Draft classification "4H" for men between 38 and 45 ended. 11--Lend-lease extension to July, 1944, signed by President. 24--Establishment of naval base at Casablanca announced by navy. 29--Chester Davis named Food Administrator. 2#--A "critical shortage of doctors is developing," an OWI survey reveala. April * " . . •--President moves to check lrifla'tlon by ; executive order freezing wages and forbidding war workers to change jobs. ifr-rFeed corn ceiling prices raised from $1 02 a bushel to $1.07. ••It** bill permitting the national debt limit to rise to 210 billion dollars, and a rider •"••.•'••repealing the $25,000 net salary limit becomes la w without President's signature. SO--President Roosevelt confers on war and postwar problems with President Camacho of Mexico. M--Soft coal miners of United Mine Workera union reject President Roosevelt's order;, - V S. breaks relations with Martinique. tion; Chester Bowles Is named general manager of the Office of Price Admin-1 istration. I 16--World's largest pipeline, the "Big Inch." | running from Longview, Texas, to j P h o e n i x v i l l e , P a . , is opened. j 21--John Lewis, as president of United Mine; Workers, signs two-year contract with; Illinois Coal Operators Association; War | Department reveals 65,058 prisoners of war in country. i 98--Navy asks for more WAVES, stating i that enrollment must reach 91,000 by1 end of 1944; Coffee rationing ended by I OPA; Blue Network of Radio Corporation of America sold for $8,000,000. August j 2--Race riot sweeps New York, resulting In! death of five Negroes, and injuries to! 500; Drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor' fathers set to begin on October 1; U. S. i Army flyer in England dives Thunderbolt and Lightning fighters at 780 miles per hour. •••--June personal incomes totaled $12. 000,000, a new record. .7--Airplane production reaches record 7,373 units. 13--Gasoline ration in Midwest and Southwest reduced from four to three gallons per coupon. 14--The War Manpower Commission establishes new list of 149 critical occupations for first priority in draft deferments. 19--The army must be raised to 8,200,000 men by January 1, 1944, and the navy to 2,861,000, the War Manpower Board announces. 23--The Guffey Coal Act, passed in 1937, to stabilize coal price*, expires. No move made to renew #. July 2--Patty Berg defeats Dorothy Rirby for Women's Western Open Golf Championship. ! 10--Gunder Hagg establishes 8:53.9 American record for 2 miles. 13--American League team wins annual Ali-Star game. 5 to 3. 26--Harold McSpaden defeats Buck Whitney by 1 stroke to win AIl-A'.nerlcan gofi • title; Patty Berg takes women's title. 27--Fred Fitzsimmons quits Brooklyn to become manager of Phillies. August 8--Ryder Cup golf team, captained by Craig Wood, -defeats Walter Hagen's team. •--Howard Schenken wins the contract bridge master's championship for fifth time. 25--College All-Stars defeat the Washington Redskins, professional football champions, 27-7. ^ j September 1--The St. Louis Cardinals and New York Yankees retain strong leads in National • and American leagues. 6--Lieut. Joseph Hunt takes the national amateur tennis championship. 18--The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1, clinching the National league pennant; Collegiate football season opens. 19--Detroit Lions beat the Chicago Cardinals in professional football opener. 25--The New Yqrk Yankees take the American League pennant tor the 14th time. 16--Two are killed, 11 Injured in riot growing out of lynching in Beaumont, Tex. Martial law declared. 21--Race rioting in Detroit is suppressed by Federal troops after 24 hours of dls- ,( * orders. Twenty-six Negroes and three white men are killed, and more than 700 are injured. July „ lr4' • • 22--Maj Gen. William Upshur, Capt. Charles Paddock, both IX. S. M. C. officers, and four other persons are killed in Navy : plane crash near Sitka, Alaska. .•tt-r'Three soldiers who became lost in desert " ^ maneuvers near Yuma, Ariz., die of r ; thirst. Sft--Hurricane sweeping over Texas Gulf . . coast kills 13 persons. Damage estl- ' mated at 10 million dollars. SSH-Twenty persons were burned to death ••; - when Arrterican Airlines plane Crashes and burns near Trammel, Ky. Twq • : " • ; • . e s c a p e . . . . . - . . „ 'August v. vV.V- 1--Ten pAryotw^ bitiludtoK ttaydr WilUam i< Baker and Mai. William Robertson, die ' j when Army glider crashes in demon- • " stration flight in St. Louis. ; |h~Five Negroes killed, more than 500 white / and colored injured in race rioting in ".. New York city's Harlem district. 'S-rrFourteen persons are drowned in a • ;i > "flash" flood in central West Virginia. : 28-^-Tvventy-one miners are killed in gas explosion at Sayreton, Ala. 30--Twenty-nine persons are killed and 150 injured in wreck of crack Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rR. R. near Wayiand, N. Y. . FOOD_ RATIONING QUE8 _ CONFERENCE t f. Thmtlay, Jsnnaiy lS, I9I4 Photographs Ballet In Flight In 1885 Ernst Mach of Vienna; by timing an electric spark, succeeded in photographing without a lens the shadow of a bullet in flight with the sound and heat waves it engendered. This method is still in USP. . •%. ^ z6? 5 • * + • ' *JJ OS. B. DeROME -- Dentist -- 120 Green Street . . . I*hane 292-J. McHenfy Office Hours: 10 a.mj to 5 p.m. daily except Wednesday. ..Tuesday and Friday nights to 8:30 p.m. Other hours iby. appointment. , September 5--Eighty persons killed and 177 injured, when Congressional Limited , of the Pennsylvania R. R. is derailed near Philadelphia. 7--Twentieth Century Limited' train of New York Central R. R. is derailed near Canastota, N. Y., killing three; Houston. Tex., hotel fire takes lives of 50 men. 17--Explosion of depth charges at the Naval Air Station. Norfolk. Va., takes 25 lives. About 250 are injured. 80--Twenty-five soldiers die when Army, transport plane crashes near Maxton. N. C. October 16--Crash of airliner 47 miles west of Nash- < ville, Tenn., takes 10 lives. 23--Navy announces that 88 seamen died x when two tankers collided off Palm Beach. November 23--six children die ta (arm home Are near Chicago. December 13--Twenty marines killed, 29 Injured in Hawaii when collision of navy planes releases bomb. l$-^-Sixty-nine killed. 50 Injured in collisiorof two fast trains near Buie, N. C, For ty-eight of the dead were servicemen. September October i--Occupy wins Belmont Futurity. - - ,f August 1--U, S. planes bomb Ploesti refineries. 5--Russians lake Orel; British capture Cat* ania, in Sicily. 8--Americans occupy Munda, in Solomons. 11--Russians drive into Ukraine. 17--Allies enter Messina; Island of Vela Lavella in Solomons taken. 18--Resistance ends on Sicily. 21--U. S. and Canadian troops occupy Kiska, 24--Quebec conference on war plans ends. 25--British Admiral Mountbatten made chief of Allied Southeast Asia command. *>--Russians retake Taganrog. Nazi anchor. September 1--Japs withdraw air base from New Guinea. I--Allied forces invade mainland of Italy near Reggio Calabria. 7--Allies capture Palmi, Delianova. * •--ITALY SURRENDERS UNCONDITIONALLY; Stalino, steel center, falls to Russians. •--British troops take Taranto; Greatest Allied raids strike northern France 10--Germans seize Rome. II--Allies take Salerno. Italian fleet surrenders. 14--Salamaua falls to U. S. and Australian forces. 16--Novorossiisk recaptured bv Russians 24--Nazi troops evacuate Corsica. 26--Jap defense at Fmschhafen stiffens. 28--British take Foggia. ^ October 1--Allied forces take Naples. 22 days after landing at Salerno. •--Australian troops capture Jap base at Finschhafen, New Guinea. * •--Island of Corsica, in Mediterranean la freed of N»zis. ' ~ 9--R ussinr.s complete mopping up of Cau casus region. U--Italy formally declajxs war on Germany by action of Premier. Marshal Batloglio' 14--In great raid on Sehweinfurt, Germany lmpoi tant baii-bcaring factories ar® May . I--Federal government takes over closed coal mines. It--Churchill arrives In Washington for war conference. 13--Merger between Western Union and Postal Telegraph is announced. >•--NLRB approves eight cent an hour . .raise for more than a million non-operrating railway workers. 27--M^cTiinists' union, with SS5.000 members. -';• withdfcAwi from the AFU. June 3--United Nations food conference ends, f--Coal miners of the United Mine Workers union return to work. 10--President signs "pay-as-you-go" income tax bill. SI--Riots in Detroit between white and colored mobs are suppressed by Federal troops, after-more than 24 hours of i disorder. Twenty-nine killed, 700 injured; ! Coal miners strike for third time since ! May 1. 23--President Roosevelt threatens to draft strikers in essential Industries. - 1 28*^Judge Marvin Jones succeeds Chester i Davis as War Food Administrator. j 29-^Federal court of appeals in Chicago grants new trials to six persons convicted of aiding Herbert Haupt, executed spy. 30-^Five senators appointed to visit war Zones and report on U. S. Army and Allies: Stocks on New York exchange reach a three-year high. My 1--House rejects amendment to Labor-Fed- • • eral Security bill, thereby cutting 'oft •• funds for National Youth Administration; President Roosevelt gl^es last ininutt .; reprieve to Max Stephen, sentenced to ...v., dea.h for aiding eic-ne of a Nazi flyer. ;7--Gen. Ilenri Giraud,' Flench commander of .Northwest Africa, arrives in 'Wtfsb- / . ington. • IS---Tl.e Board of Ferr.om.e Waifrsie Is a botched, and its function* -.transferred to the u.i :' i,-. t'i -fitee (/or: 2--The exchange ship Gripsholm satis with 1,310 Japanese, to be exchanged for 1.250 Americans at Goa, Portuguese India; Churchill and Roosevelt confer in Washington. 4--William Jeffers. director of the naUon's rubber program, resigns. 7--Republican Postwar Advisory Council meets at Mackinac Island, Mich. •--Drive for 15 billion dollar third war loan opened by presidential address. 14--Col. William Coleman is convicted by a military court for drunkenness and careless use of firearms, demoted to captaincy. 17--President Roosevelt reports to Congress on Quebec conference. 23--Shoe ration stamp becoming valid November 1 must last six months. 29--Edward Stettinius Jr. moves from lendlease administrator to succeed Sumner Wells as undersecretary of state. 29--Senators report on war tour. October 4--Treasury asks for ten and a half billion in new tax revenue. 7--Merger of Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies is completed. 11--Censorship of weather news is lifted. 12--National Labor board rules that labor unions have a moral responsibility not to strike in wartime. 13--American Federation of Labor votes to take United Mine Workers back into fold. H--Third war loan passes goal of 15 billion dollars by nearly four billions. 20--The 48-hour week for war industries la extended to 30 more localities. 22--Zinc-steel pennies are to be discontinued, Treasury announces. 28--Wildcat coal strikes referred to President by War Labor Board., November 1--Federal government seizes 3,000 coal mines in which strikes are halting pro-1 duction. 2--Elections of various state and national 1 .... officials reveal Republican trend. ^--United Mine Workers ordered to return to work as president John Lewis accepts : new wage agreement, giving miners, $56.74 for 48-hour week. 3--Final baseball standings; St. Loula Cardinals, won 105, lost 49, for a percentage of .682. The New York Yankees, Won 98, lost 56, for a percentage of .636. 8--Columbus, O.. American Association team, defeats Syracuse, N. Y., International league team, to capture "little world series" title. 10--Yankees win World Series, defeating Cardinals, four games to one. November 2--Stanley Musial, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, named most valuable player in National League. 9--Spurgeon Chandler, New York Yankees pitcher, chosen most valuable in American League. 14--U. of Southern California and the U. of Washington chosen for Rose Bowl. 19--Beau Jack regains lightweight title, outpointing Bob Montgomery. 27--Great Lakes defeats Notre Dam* (19-14) In year's biggest football upeet December 12--Chicago Bears win western pro football championship. 13--Ned Day regains Utle as All-Star Na-1 tional Bowling champion. January 8--Famed Negro scientist. Dr. George Washington Carver, 78. •--President emeritus of Harvard tf., Dr Abbott L. Lowell, 86. 10--"Message to Garcia" hero. Col. Andrev S. Rowan. 85. 23--Alexander Woollcott, 86, "The Towr. Crier" of radio, author* eritto, ?lay wright, actor. February 7--Dr. Attllio H. Giannini, 68, physician banker, motion picture executive, civic leader. 19--Lynn Overman. 55, comedian. March 10--Poet and author Stephen Vincent Benet 44, Pulitzer prize winner with "John Brown's Body." ••--Former governor of Illinois* Frank O Lowden, 82. 28--James A. Farrell, 80, president 9t the United States Steel corp. Mm COAL STRIKES REICH BOMBED »*JAP AIR SETTLEMENT Jwin JAP SUB B Office Hours---Daily Except Thurs. 10 to 12, 1:30 to 4:30, Mom, Wed, Fri. Nights: 7 tO*8. Other Hours by Appointment H. S. VAN DENBURGH, DC., PhC Chiropractor 120 Green St. Tel. 292-R. McHenry .. / TEL. WONDER LAKE 158 ^ DR. C L; WATKINS % . ' v*V ' , . •> Office Hour* - . 1' tWwiy 4 Saturdays: 9 a.m. toS p.Bb. Evenings and Sunday Mornings . *v by Appointment! ^ Lookout Point" Wonder Lake, ID. H. S. FIKE V Veterinarian Richmond Road Phone 31 McHENRY, ILL. o •V'O. ' j ' , ' If;«r 0 McHENRY FLORAL CO. -- Phone 608-R-l -- One Mile South of McHenry on Route 31. Flowers for all occasions! Phone 43 - • ; Vernon J. Knox ATTORNEY AT LAW ^ OFFICE HOURS -- 9 Tuesdays and Fridays Other Days by Appointment M c H e n r y . . . . . I U i n o i f A WORWiCK PHOTOGRAPHER Portraiture - Commercial Photography - Photo-Finishing Enlarging - Copying - Framing Phone 275 -- Riverside Drive McHENRY, ILL. D April MHBR January 6--Senate votes postwar collaboration with i other nations, 85 to 5. -I 6--Fifteen non-operating railroad unions re-1 Ject wage increase offered by emergency committee; Bernard Baruch Is | appointed chief of a new unit of the. Office of War Mobilization. ! 18--Army officials reduce budget by 13 billion dollars, which sum will revert to treasury. A subsidy of 100 million dollars Is alio- , cated to stabilize price of flour. S3--House votes against extension of eon. sumer subsidies. December 1--Ration values of meats reduced 30 per , cent. j 3--U. S. plane output for November an- | nounced as 7V789. i 4--Army will retire 25,000 Officers, reduc- I ing total to 625.000. i 7--Biggest U. S. battleship, the 45,000-ton Wisconsin, Is launched. 10--Non-operating rail workers get senate approval for eight cent per hour raise. 11--Senate military committee plans graduated discharge pay for servicemen, ranging from $200 to $500. I 16--President Roosevelt returns to capital; j senate committee votes to retain food • subsidies for 60 days. 17--OPA promises lowering of meat ration, points. • N .' •--Fire kills six and Injures 100 In Chicago; bowling alley. i 21--Thirty-five Americans die when a trans-! port plane crashes In the Jungle near Surinam, Dutch Guiana. 26--Brig. Gen. Carlyle Wash and nine other army men die in an army transport plane that came down near Flomaton, Ala. 31--Twenty-eight persons die In sanitarium Are in Seattle. February 11--Eighteen lose lives when a Liberator bomber crashes in Newfoundland. 18--Twenty-eight die when four engine bomber crashes aflame Into a packing plant in Seattle. Wash. S3--Yankee Clipper crashes and slnka In Tagus river, Lisbon. PortugaL March 1 . S--Nineteen bodies recovered In coal mine disaster at Bear Creek, Mont. SI--Flood waters spread over a wide area In Georgia. Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. About 2,500 persons removed by Bed Cross. April 13--Omaha airport ami village of Carter Lake, Iowa, floodea when Missouri river dikes break. 19--Seven Sea Scouts drowned, and three missing, when cabin cruiser founders off Long Island. S4--Blazing munitions ship ta> New York harbor towed out and sunk. •- May 23--Luren D. Dickinson, 84, former gover nor of Michigan, foe of "high life." 28--Maj. Gen. Robert Olds, 46, commandei of the U. 8. Second Army Air Force May 11--Mai Oen. Stephen O. Fuqua. 68, chief of infantry in U. S. Army, 1928-32. 20--Adm. Henry A. Wiley, 76, Pacific fleet commander. 1927-29. 26--Edsel B. Ford, 49. president of - Ford Motor Co. • 22--Sylvester Q. Cannon, 77. Mormon church leader and publisher. June 4--Maj. Kermtt Roosevelt. 83. son oC the formur President, on active duty In Alaska. 16--Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, noted historian and Harvard U. professor, at 88. 23--Rear Adm. Neil E. Nichols, 63, former commandant of Boston Navy Yard. July 14--Actress Beverly Sltgreaves, 76. 27--Rev. Ernest Lynn Waldorf, 67, bishop of the Methodist church. Chicago area. 29--Opera star Marie Gay Zaaatello. 64. August 1--President eX China, L4n Sen, 79. scholar and artist. t-~C. Bascom Slemp, 72, former Republi-' ;. can National Committeeman, ana secretary to Calvin Coolldge. 15--Lieut. Gen. WiUiam M. Wright, 79, commander of two divisions in World War I. 21--Dr. William Lyon Phelps. 78. of Yale university. INSURANCE 7.S EARL R. WALSI Presenting Reliable Companies WheA yon need insurance of any Id Hi Phone 43 or 118-M Green & Elm McHenry GUADALCANAL September Telephone No. 300 Stoffel ft Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies. 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J'., killing 14 and injuring 89 persons. 24--Death toll in flooded region of lower Mississippi valley reaches 17 and 160,0CD are estimated to be without shelter. 31--Deaths from all causes over Memorial day week-eaU iio^Uay total 154. . J u n e . . A ' 6--Navy reports 84 men killed when a ".ammunition sh:p collides with tanker off Port Arthur. Tex.; Eighteen soldiers are kil'ed when an army truck falls over a :i00 foot embankment near Nashville. Tenn •--Former ambassador to Poland, John C. Cudahy, 55. B--Rear Adm. Walton Sexton, 66, former chairman of the Navy General Board. 21--British Chancellor ol tlMI Exchequer. Sir Kingsley Wood. 6k. October ^Patrick Nash, 80, political leader of Democrats in Cook County, 111., which __J_ includes Chicago. 11--Samuel H. Church, 85, president. Carnegie Institute. So- Ben Bernie, 62, band leader. November »r-Dr. Jesse G. Bullowa, developer of pneu- • monia serum, at 64. , 21--Rep. J. W. O. Her (R.--Penn.). 22--Rep. H. B. Steagall (D.--Ala.). December ; 13--Marvin Mclntyfe, 65. for 20 years secretary to President Roosevelt, at Washington. . tg. E. C. "Billy" Hayes. 50. well-known track coach of Indiana U.; the Rev. Dr. William A Bro\vn. 77. Presbyterian minister. one of founders of World Council of 'Jhu:ehes. bv Western NewSpnper OniMt. FATHERS' DRAFT HI The year drew to a dote with th ese important events: ^ December 1--Koosevelt, Churchin, Chiang Kai-shek pledge to strip Japan of imperialistic gains. Exchange ship Gripsholm arrives with 1,223 American repatriates from Far East. I--Fathers' draft bill delays during absence of President. 16--President Roosevelt returns to America following five weeks' diplomatic trip. 17--Arniv announces successful landing on Japanese base in New Britain. A.P.Freun4 Co. Excavating Contractor Trucking, Hydraulic ~ and Crane Service. --Road Building- Tel. 204-M McHenry, 111 S. H. Freuod & Son „ CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Our Experience is at Your Serrict in Building . JTopr Wants. Phone 56-W McHenry SLOCUM LAKE (By Mrs. Harry Matthews) Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews were eailers last Thursday at the home of Dr, and Mrs. H. J. Carr at Arlington •JBimitjr «aHcr» at the home ol ft*, Mrs. John Blomgrtn were Mr. and Mrs. Axel Nerstrom and son of .North Chicago, Mrs. Harry Matthews and sons, Robert and Lyle, Mrs. Forrest (Jrunewald and d.aiighter, Patricia. _ ' . . Mrs. Wm. Burkhart and Mrs. S. Schnitke of Williams Park called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oswald in the Park Monday. Paul Larseri of 6*69 Plainea called on Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk last Friday. s, - . -- Chesney Brooks and Otis Phillips visited Frank Courtney of Clunty, Canada, at the Laura Courtney home on the "Flats" Sunday. . j Mrs. Duda of Williams Park called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. j Wm. Burkhart last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nordmeyer called on Mrs. John Blomgrren Monday and pave her a gift of Oranges they recently received from their daughter in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hansen were 7 o'clock dinner guests at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. F. Dfeyer at Island Lake last Saturday. \ Vr Mrs, Celi%,. Dowell and daughter, Jennie, visited at the apartment of Jhe former's daughter, Marion, at Waukegan Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M'arlett Henry and son, Marlett, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harris and three children and Mr. and Mrs. Art Harris of near Woodstock enjoyed a surprise birthday party* fit the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell in honor of the birthday of Mr. Dowi'li^last Thursday evening. Cards were played and a • lovely lunch served. : . . . . . ^ Portable Hangars Lightweight portable hangars are being moved to advance airdromes to shelter planes from dust and weather, particularly for overhaul and maintenance work. Barracks are built of rammed earth in some places to save transportation oi mmteriaL ' Ammunition Available I Farmers can get additional ammunition for control of predatory animals and game birds. Phone McHenry 677-R-l -- Basement Excavating -- NETT'S SAND & GRAVEL Special Rates oh Road Gravel and l ot Fillirg . . Black Dirt . . Power Leveling and Grading. J. E. NETT Johns burg P. O.--McHenry Treat Wood Prodvets "Clean Treatment" is the process of treating wood products with nonacqueous preservatives to protect them against changes due to moisture, stain and decay. This treatment leaves the wood f"**- able and easy to handle. .r* .. , 1 WANTED TO BUY .We, pay $5 to $15 for Old or Injuiced Horses or Cows Standing j or Down if Alive. 1 Matt's Mink Ranch Jotyisbiirg - Spring Grove Road Phone Johnsburpr 659-J-2 CALL AT ONCE ON DEAD HOGS, HORSES A CATTLE ^e pay phone charges. \