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luursotty, jnaroa id, Kathleen NorrJs Says Hold Up Your End ~~ B«U Syndlsate--WNU Features. Foe Agents Trifl Trying to Flow of Harmleii Letters Tips Secret Writing, but ' FBI Reads 'Em* Washington.--Once agafn the vaunted German spy system has proven vulnerable at its weakest j link--communications. I Communications, in the world of I espionage, mean the important" busi- - ness of transmitting information back to headquarters. And that was where Ernest F. Lehmitz, 57-year,- old New ,York air rafH warden, and Erwin H. De Spretter, 52, one of his aids, fell dov/n so hard that they dropped straight into -the arms of the". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Cehmitz and 0e Spretter, both-of whom promptly pleaded •* guilty, to . espionage recently; are the latest of a long list of Axis spies to trapped through thif weakness in procedure. -; • : ; Gestapo Gets Secrets. . The gathering of vital military secrets seems to be easy enough for Gestapo agents in this country. But: getting the information to Berlin without detection is another matter. RINGWOOD (by Helen Johnson) Don't forget the basket social to be given by the P. T. A. at the community hall on Thursday evening March 23. Entertainment and dancing will be enjoyed. Alice and Marion Peet of Elgin spent the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Mary,' Mr. and Mrs. Jack Leonard ajid Pepwy spent Saturday afternoon at Belvidere. The W. $. (5. S. will meet with Mip. Ben Walkin'ptdn on Friday. ; . Carol Harrison, Muriel Butler, Dor-, othy Smith and LuAnn Bauer attended the 4-H banquet at Woodstock j Saturday, t - •; Floyd Carr of Greenwood was a Sunday c a l l e r in the William MfcVj Cannon home. ' " / •' • "! Greenwood called on Mrs. Joe Mitlei j Monday afternoon. j Mrs. George Harrison spent Sun- -- i day ajiftenoon with her daughter, j Mrs. Glen Treon, of Crystal Lake, j Mrs. Jack Leonard and Mrs. Helen Johnson and Janet spent .Monday afternoon in Waukegan. William Glawe of Great Lakes and Mrs. Glawe of Woodstock spent Sunday in the R. C. Harrison home. Loren Harrison took ,Mr. Glawe back to Great Lakes Sunday evening. Protective Resin Coatings Keep Bomber Noses Shiny While cosmetics have long been used to take "shine" from human noses, the reverse treatment is essential for the transparent noses of bomber planes. The accuracy of aim of the bombardiers and gunners requires that the nose "blisi ters" or "greenhouses" of the planes j be as clearly transparent as it is possible to make them--free from . v • even such tiny nicks or scratches George Mastiff 61, Zftiiesvillfv Ohio, as might t© caused by abrasion by is visiting his wife and son, Tommy, buttons or buckles on the clothing of Helen Johnson spent several days workers or by hoses or portable light last week with Mrs. Eton Smart 'of ;j cables in the bomber factories, says This was so in World War I and i urday. Waukegan. Edyth Harrison of Chicago, •: Was home for the weekend," t ^ " . Rita Mae Merchant of Woods$OClf spent the week-rend -at":.feme. ' " , Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper and daughters of Chicago were dinner guests of Mrs.--W. R. Hoffman $at- W HEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME We will always be indebted to our soldiers now going through the trials of war. The least they deserve when their fighting is dime, is to be greeted at home by happy families in a position to help them back to civilian normalcy. If there are debts, quarreling or any other unpleasant conditions in the family, now is the time to get them straightened out. Dont wait until Johnny eohies marching home to unburden your troubles on his shoulders ichich already have fek the weight of more suffering than most civilians will ever be subjected to. "I fretted about hem; a h'Hfchold drudge, and that made George erost, children hrard a great deul thut was quarrelsome and unpleasant." By KATHLEEN NORRIS I F YOU are one of those women who feel that they have made a general mess of mat-.. •ters, that your life up to this point has been,one long mistake, "misunderstanding and failure, then remember that we can always start fresh from where we SI and, that it is always possible to look our affairs honestly in the face, make a plan that includes everybody and everything, and begin again. This is a good time to try it, because life just now is at a low ebb for us all. The incredible dreadful thing has happened; the world is at war, and fall the money and all the manpower we have are smashing Civilization to pieces on a score of battlefronts. Our hearts are sick With longing for our boys, with prayers for them; our home life is disorganized and changed. Nothing is as it was, and from buying a new car to buying three shirts for the new baby, we can't get what we Want. So, since things are bad, make fhem a little worse by getting your Own problem ready for solution. We , all hate to do it. We hate to pay pld bills, to forgive old wrongs, to change old ways. We hate dullness, «re Americans, staying at home instead of floating all over the high- Ways; discussing brown points with our friends instead of cutting into great thick red steaks; putting up jam or fruitcake for Christmas instead of buying things in shops. Ijood Credit Important. But it's going to be that kind of "a period, and believe me, it will be one of the most interesting of your Hfe if you determine that in 1944 you will live well under your "Income, pay up your bills to the last penny and be able to face whatever the future holds confidently. There is a family in our town that Uras paid off about three thousand dollars in petty debts in the last 18 months. They own their own home now, and while the big salaries go on they are planning to buy some modest bits of rentable property, so that When the war is over, if the girls irarry and have babies, the older Couple can offer them holidays in the old home, help them get started, and live themselves without money anxiety. Yes, that's what these years might easily mean to yog and yours, if you use them wiseljf The, woman of whom I write is one of the mothers Whose, boys won't come home; she is carrying a deep load of sorrow as she plans for the postwar world. "I wish I'd knbwn," she said to n>e the other day, "that it was so -.Simple to solve the money ..(jroblem. •„We had plenty, ail those fears, for George never, made' less than about -$50 a week. But I was younger, --find extravagant, -and the children needed so much. I fretted, about being a household drudge, and that made George cross, and our childrenheard a great deal that \vas quarrel- ' some and unpleasant. They tried so hard to av?o;d trouble, to keep us friendly--I see that now, . "Just before Pearl Harbor we began to talk divorce; we were all miserable and upset--looking back, . it seems so.sad to me, for if I could have Hugh back, just for a few hours, . he'd never have one moment of inharmony at home to remember. Our darling one boy, he was 18 just one week after Pearl Harbor and in the navy one week after that. He went away in January, was lost at Coral sea. For awhile it seemed to me as if I- never could enter his room again, but now we've all shifted about, so that the association is slowly dying away. War Makes Mother Wis.$r. "Now there's plenty of money, for our girls of 18 and 16 are both in the production line, and I. earn my has proved repeatedly so in World War II. Lehmitz and De Spretter operated cleverly enough. Each lived on Staten Island, tucked away in New York harbor, where they could conveniently observe ships entering and leaving the port. Lehmitz, employed as a* waterfront cafe porter, kept his ears open for stray bits of information dropped by sailors and merchanLseamen.* He made a practice of visiting other waterfront cafes for this • purpose. Trained in the espionage school in Germany, he was able to piece to- Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich and Automotive War Production. The big problem of keeping the bombers' noses shiny during assembly of the planes was first dealt with by maskipg the noses with paper and adhesive tape, but this required toof much time. Besides it darkened the interior of the plane. Even-, tual solution of the problem was effected by the perfection and use of an amber colored fluid resin which FBI 'Crime Laboratory* Aids All Police Agencies The FBI technical laboratory has entered* its 12th year of service to the nation's law enforcement system". Representing the highest development of the scientific approach to crime detection, the laboratory has grown in 11 years from a lone technician and a single microscope to a staff of 3$$ with equipment valued at more than $1,000,000. During the last fiscal year alone the laboratory completed almbst 200,000 examinai tions to aid in the apprehension of j criminals of all types; from petty ! check flashers, to Nazi espionage j agents. j The present laboratory is the ful- I fillment of the original plan of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who, at its establishment 4n 1932, envisioned ; it as a national clearing house to which all law* enforcement agencies cquld come with their toughest technical problems. Today it is used by virtually every state and local police agency in the United States as well, upoa occasion, as those of foreign countries. The services of the laboratory are, free arid its technicians are available to testify as j expert witnesses. v ' ; I' Many of the tools of science used by the FBI technicians Were devel- 1 oped in. the laboratory. In numerousinstances these experts have been confronted with problems nevetf befbre solved and they have developed their own techniques; Jap Propaganda Builds Up Hirohito as Divine Persoi^ The Japanese propaganda has for years skillfully built up the idea pf Mikado who is different from any*" other ruler in the world in the following ways: 1. He is a divine person, descend* ed from § goddess, and therefore; : not subject "to any human laws. % \ 2. He is so aloof from mundane! ' affairs that he does not take direct. ( part even in the business of ,govera4 | ing his own country. | 3. He acts only on the advice of j his ministers and is therefore not responsible for anything done in his . name. And, largely for home consumption, the" Japanese propagandists have included the following points in j their Mikado-fiction: 4. He occupies a throne which is established forever, and continues a ' line of rulers "unbroken for ages - eternal." 5. He is destined to be the ruler of all nations, when all peoples fromthe "eight corners" of the world. will be brought under "one roof." ; J Any war fought in his n&ffie ii., a holy war; and anyone who is killed while fighting his war becomes im- • mortalized as a god in the Shinto pantheon. \ children spent Sunday afternoon and hardens into a tough film on contact evening in the Arnold Huff home at Greenwood William Janssen of Glenview* training base called on Rev. and Mrs. Collins Sunday evening. Loren and Edyth Harrison were callers in Woodstock Monday. Mrs. Clarence Pearson returned home on Thursday from the Woodstock hospital where she had been a patient for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Elof Borgeson apd Helen of Greenwood were dinner gether odd ^agments into a co- ! guests in the Walter Harrison home herent informative picture of ship Sunday. • . v . and troop movements. Mrs. John Woodward spent several He. lived the role of an enthusiastic air raid warden arid superpatri »lc Victory gardener. He was a naturalized American* citizen, though back in 1917, when he was an employee of the German condays last week with relatives at Crystal Lake. , Mrs. George Bacon of Antioch spent Tuesday and ' Wednesday with with air. This protective coating can be applied by dipping, spraying or brushing. At the end of the assembly line, just before ftnal inspection, the film is Softened with water and stripped off in sheets, which carry away with them all dirt, grime and other blemishes acquired during the manufacturing operations. It is stated that in accordance with the automotive industry's practice of sharing knowhow with all U. S. industries working for Allied victory, full details of preparation dnd .^application of the film have been made available tp: all companies who have need. Cheapest Vitamin Alfalfa is one of the cheapest, most available a.nd best sources of the vitamins needed By pigs raised under drylot conditions. ; Mrs. Jennie BacOn. glad to know that Friends will Mrs. Bacon sulate, he was listed as "a danger- now able to be up. $300 ,a month, too. We'll be independent when all this is over. But I wish I could have those lost years back, to share George-'s responsibilities better than I did, to keep expenses down, to keep home the happy place it might have been, instead of the scene of so much worrying and bickering. I wish I could see my boy just once, to tell him how much happier- and wiser we are now!" Life is going to be changed for us all, make sure of that. We are not going to rejoice in an armistice as we did 25 years ago, and go back serenely to the old ways. It has to be a better world, now, a safer place for us all. We will have to assume some of the responsibility for making and keeping it „so. Thousands on thousands of women making big salaries today will be out of Work. Taxes will soar, for we are counting on the care of a million injured men. Anything that you are buying on the installment plan will be badly wanted by someone else, and your failure to pay up promptly will mean that you lose it. To face postwar conditions with a load of debt, to start right in complaining and worrying when the boys come home, will mean being a bad citizen, an American who is dragging down the struggling nation rather than holding it up. We can do our returning soldiers no greater service than to meet them with good news. The house is paid for; we've bought a little farm; we don't owe anyone a cent. We're all in good health, we've a pound of butter in the icebox, and we're all ready to enjoy the better times with you, when they come along. Service Men Want Normal Life. Our boys don't want to come home to any troubles or any complaining at all. They dori't want to hear any bad news. They'll be tired and depuS enemy alien.' / Access to Plants. De Spretter, born in Urugtray of a German father, is an engineer, educated in Germany. For a time, he too, was an air raid warden on Staten Island. De Spretter ran a heat treatment and brazing company i^a Manhattan Mrs. Alan Ainger and Mrs. George Shepard entertained at a post-nuptial shower in honor of Mrs. John Woodward (Shirley Hawley) at the Shepard home, Saturday evening. Guests were present from Elgin, Crystal Lake, Greenwood, Harvard, Richmond and Ringwood. > * Pvt. George R. Vogel of Camp British Ta&s Tax rates in Great Britain range from 32V4 per cent on the first $660 of taxable income to 97% per cent in the highest brackets. • Use Potato Crust Cse left-over mashed potatoes Jine the sides of a baking dish for a meat pie. Fill the center with a well-seaspned stew of vegetabjes and left-over bits of meat or fish. Cover the top with mashed potatoes. Bake in a hot oven until the pie is hot through and browned lightly on top. If you have just a little left-over potato, make only the upper crust. . ^ .'Smallest City With Subw£y" - Oslo, Norway, is the smallest citf with any kind of subway." NEW DISCOVERY FOR MASTITIS Dum to Streptococcus Agalactia^ About 90% of all Mastitis, or Garget, ia caused by Streptococcus agalactiae. The new discovery, Beebe G-Lac, (Tyrothridn) stops the action of Streptococcus agalactiae. If Mastitis, due to this microbe, ia cutting into the milk production of your best dairy cows, act now! Get Beebe G-Lac! Easy to inject. Goes right to work. Don't let Mastitis rob you of your profits. Get Beebe G-Lac today. Ask about our tpmc milk testing serrlce. WATTLES E-RUG STORE West McHlenry, Illinois Amazing Properties " Silica gel--made by treating "water glass" with acid--has some amazing properties. One quart of the coarse, white granulated substance is capable of absorbing almost one pint of moisture from the air without changing appearance. which had access to war contract j Blanding Florida, Mrs. George Vogel I Porosity accounts for it. It has specifications. He acted as consulting engineer for munitions companies. Thus, he was able to give to Lehmitz, who served as penman, considerable data about war production. Lehmitz used invisible ink to write his secrets between the lines of apparently innocuous letters addressed to recipients in Lisbon, Madrid and Switzerland. The addressees were other German agents who forwarded the communications to Berlin. .All went well (from the enemy's point of view) for a while. But a few months ago the British censors at Bermuda, examining Clipper mail, grew suspicious of Lehmitz's stream of letters. The censors called the FBI's attention to the prolific correspondence. It was no trick for the FBI, once it had a batch of Lehmitz's missives in hand, to discover the messages written in invisible ink. British Find Beaches # Are Busy Despite War tiONDON.--Despite a new Nazi terror practice, that of machine-gunning sunbathers along southcoast beaches from the air, Britain's seashore resorts today are enjoying the best business season since the war began. So great has been this summer's rush to south and southwest coast beaches in England, however, that a serious food shortage has been caused in some areas. Official government requests not and Phillip, Mrs. Dan Lawrence and Susan and Mrs. Katherine Vogel andJ Jean of Elkhorn wefre Sunday g u e s t s j in the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home. j Carl Meyer of Wbodstock called on his s i s t e r , Mrs. Roy W i e d r i c h , Sat- j urday. | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet called i on Henry Hienze at the. Sherman hos-! p i t a l in Elgin Sunday a f t e r n o o n . j Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Harrison been estimated that one cubic inch of silica gel contains 50,000 square feet of pore surface, about one acre. This material is used today in cloth bags which are tied to military motors and metal equipment to prevent rusting in shipment. ^fter-Imaget If you gate fixedly for half 'a minute at a design, as a re i cross on a and Carol were Sunday guests in the' s^ee^ paper, and thiji turn your Henry Marlowe home at Huntley. I eyes an^ look sharply at a blank A number of Ringwood ladies at- s^ee^. white paper, you will see tended the all day meeting of the Home Bureau at the home of M*s. Eva Eppel Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brennan spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Blackman of« Zion. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper and daughters of Chicago called on Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith Saturday. Mrs. Henry Hienze of Crystal Lake spent Saturday night and Sunday in the Harrison-Peet home. the Object again for an instant on the blank space. Tiis sight of aftobject after it's removal from th« range of vision is known as an afterimage. There are two kinds of after-images, positive and negative. Positive after-images resemble the original object in color and brightness. Negative after-images are seen ia complementary colors. If the object is red, the after-image will be green. Psychologists explain this " " ... . to .travel, and the stronger deterrent moralized, and sick of troubles. The ';' of beach strafing by Fock-Wulfes, one thing we can do for them is ; have apparently had little effect to be normal, to have serpnity and on vacationers. and^affection t^aiting1^'tbC°cfmvince ' *eW -are ^ing ttlh,e„mm that t4>h e t4 owns to w,h i, c,h,' tnhrc>ev . ~ up ag,a inst the wave-skimming raid- . L. .. wnitn incy ers who fnl ash, ab, ove tAhl e beach at 4.0 0• miles per hour, machine-gunning v and cannonading women and chil- Your share of that, however small, ' dren sunbathers indiscriminately, s is very important. If you don't do your , share, your soldier will have a right, to feel badly treated, when he comes home. ; - come home are the most prosperous* and contented in the world. Mr. and Mrs. Don Smart and 6ill JT Cuno 1 u# ,ir , „ . , smiting 01 alter-images to complew fanK Te iT" <= ? h mentary colors by the fact that thr F;e,J Wurinch, Jr., home Saturday delicate nervous visual apparatus i» afternoon. I easily fatigued. Ordinarily such fa-. Mr. and Mrs.. Alan Ainger and tigue is unnoticed because restoral children called on Mr. and Mrs. tion of nervous balance «is very George Shepard Sunday evening. ; rapid. - , ^ Mr. and Mrs. John Pierce of Rich-; mond spent Monday evening with i ' ' ' Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brennan. ' WAR BONDS vital investments^ for Mrs. Arnold Huff and children of I a future Free World. . So .clean house. If |he family is quarrelsome, get'out of the quarreling habit. If theTe are unpaid bills, settle them. If therp is grief to bear, remember that when he finds you quietly cheerful, more interested in the welfare df the living than in mourning for the dead, his own heart will feel an uplift; he will love you all the" more. house next to mine two years ago; one came home last month. The whole family dreaded his lone return ; but after the first moment everything went smoothly, and his leave was a happy one. "I found out what a dad and mother and sisters I've got," he told me "Courage and faith and love like tliat are something to come home to!" Close Shaves Are Routine For Americans in Sicily WITH THE UNITED STATES SEVENTH ARMY, SOUTHERN SICILY.--Two United States paratroopers, Private Wilfred J. Thomas of Milton, Ore., and Private Cecil E. Prine of Bartow, Fla., related how they had killed or helped to kill six enemy troops since landing on Sicily as they waited their turn in the chair. of a Sicilian barber Two brothers went out from the shop. As they finished his stories, the Bread Waste Wasting a slice or two of bread a ."week in each American home means Don't Lubricate Rope Do not lubricate your rope. A well- . . . m a d e r o p e i s p r o p e r l y l u b r i c a t p H throwing away the equivalent of two by the nTanufacturer-and adequate million loaves every week/ v for its service life. equate Sicilian barber finished with the customer in the chair and turned towar<J the two Americans. Private Thomas, who had told of killing three Italians, got into the chair and looked at the little barber waiting with a razor in his hand. Then he leaned back, bared his throat and said calmly: "Shave*" Could Support 350 Million The maximum yield from the arable land of the United States would support roughly 350,500,000 people. Use Feathers Feathers from chicken-dressing . plants were formerly wasted or used as fertilizer. Now they are being •preserved in a weak acid solution and will be used for sleeping bags |rillows, and for camouflage. ' "'Extra Vitamias To supply poultry with additional vitamin A, feed each hundred birds, 4 to 5 pounds of carrots, cabbage or kale leaves, lawn clippings, clover or alfalfa hay or other green feed each day. Increase Carrying Capacity r The nation's transit' industry Is saving 200 million bus miles annually and has added the equivalent of 14,500 street cars and buses by creasing the carrying capacity - ol existing equipment. i Tune-Up Your Car If you need yorrr car--your car needs special care as we get into warmer weather. Better drive around and get expert opinion as to the amount of servicing your car will need to have enough "go" for the months ahead. Our prices are in line with wartime economy. Our truck safety lane awaits your visit. CENTRAL GARAGE FRED J. 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HOC MOSSES MOOD tit NOUSES- • Here's another "North Western" 3p-yeaf service Uaao-r- Freight Brakeman Ernest O. Tavener. Belying his pleasant exterior, Tavener is tough--tough in the sense that the elements mean nothing to him when there's work to do. Snow may^eleaguer a city, bitter cold may nip ears and noses, yet Brakeman Tavener stays on the job. As he says; "My work helps to keep trainloads of war materials on thi move, therefore it's important.;. the war must be won. The war must be won!--that, too, is the motivating thought of Tavener's sons. Lieutenant Gene, with special training ia radar, has had over six months service in Iceland. Lieutenant Ernest is a bombardier, now on duty in the South Pacific; Caryl, the youngest, is aa aviation cadet, completing his .trains. ing in Texas. „ * TheTaveners are loyal Americans. Butwar Isn't a glamorous thing to them. They're fighting because their way of living is endangered; because they feel, as do millions of others, that peace can come to this war-torn world only through the united efforts of all. "Braking* - trains is one way of helping--fighting on the battle front is another. "North Western" gratefully acknowledges the efforts of iff thousands of patriotic employes. Like Tavener they have accepted the added responsibility of war-- and are coming through gloriously. SItVINO AMEBIC A IN, WAR AND PBACI AIMOST A CSNTU&Y J CHlCAGOand NORTH WESTERN LINE