The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

jif ^ j| up A ) ',*V. . ^ Thursday, July 20,1944 •* • ' ".'/If t? rfM . McHENKY PLAINDEALEB , r+p?*r . « * \ , : / - v- v : ^ -Vv^ v*>" *"< * v~ *.V~ .- .;,y, ' . y** ; ' •/- .Sic 15 l,t With Ernie Pyle at the Front «.v ^ • ,"i • "»:-r« • "U.S. Army Based in England Is Strict About Saluting ' • . V ' -- Proper Uniform Also Very Important 0r;j,^b^:!f.$!^^,hing$ Amuse British By Ernie Pyle , fe'" ^ LONDON.--I can't seem to make up my mind about London this trip. ;: Some say that they can see in people's conduct the strain of waiting on the invasion--that tempers are short and nerves tvat. Y«t the English seem to me just as imperturbable as ever. Some say the English have been at war so long they've forgotten about .peacetime life and are resigned like sheep to the war dragging on and on. But I don't sense any such resignation. It is certainly true that Britain has adjusted herself te wartime life, but that doesn't mean blind, per-^ petual acceptance. People have .. learned to get along. American aid, ' and years of learning how to do, ;;J;have eased the meager war life of " the early days. There is more food now, and it is better than it used to be. There are more people on the -•streets, more shopping, more Sunday strollers in the parks. y 1 had supposed the people would look shabbier than a year and a half ego, but to me they look neater. And the physical city itself seems less dreary than in the fall of 1942. As for short tempers. I haven't feen any. Maybe it's just because I have been accustomed to the screaming outbursts at each other of the emotional Italians. But from iwhat I've seen so far the English are as kind and polite to each other as they always were. All in all. my first impression is that England is better, all around, than it was a year and a half ago. Of course spring may have something to do with it. Every day the London papers 0 quote all the German rumors on invasion. They print the predictions • ®f the German radio, and pieces from neutral countries saying the invasion will have to occur between 4:39 a. m. today and 4:41 a. m. togfc morrow, or else be put off for a month. They print pictures of Gerinan fortifications, and tell of the *udden regrouping and rushing around of German troops. They conjecture on the thunderous explosions ^ heard daily on the French side of W the Channel. Since the only invasion news we have is what the Germans predict, this echo from Germany has the effect, upon me at least, of a war ^ of nerves. - 9 London is crawling with Americans, both army and civilian. All headquarters cities are alike in their ' overcrowding, their exaggerated discipline, and what appears to be 6 military overstaffing. Some say London is as bad as Washington. Some say it is worse. ~ I do know that the section where American offices are most highly concentrated is a funny sight at ^ lunchtime or in late afternoon. American uniforms pour out of the • buildings in floods. On some streets an Englishman stands out as incongruously as he would in North Platte, Neb. Desk officers and fliers £ and WACs and nurses abound. Two things that amuse the Brit- . ish are the "pink" trousers our officers wear and our perpetual saluting. The American army Is very a strict about saluting here. Everybody has to salute. Second lieutenants salute other second lieutenants. Arms flail up and ,v" down by the thousands as - .though everybody was erazy. v* ' People jab each other in the * r eyes saluting. On one short street much , traveled by Americans they _ have had to make sidewalk trafie one-way, presumably to pre- _ vent saluting casualties. V A friend of mine, a captain recently arrived from Afriea, was stopped the other day by another captain just over from America who bawled the living daylights out of him for not returning his salute. My captain friend said he couldn't be- . ' cause his right arm had become muscle-bound from waving it too much. € They're strict about dress here too. You have to wear your dress blouse and either pinks or darkgreen dress trousers. Everybody looks just so-so and exactly like everybody else. • • • £ 1 thought I looked very pretty whe-n I got here, for all my c^thes were clean for the first tirrfe in months. But I hadn't reckoned with the headquarters atmosphere. I ^ have never been stared at so much ™ in my life as during my first three days here. w' For I had on a British battle jacket, O. D. pants and infantry boots. They had never seen anybody dressed like that before. Nobody • knew what this strange apparition was. but they all played safe and saluted it anyhow--and then turned and stared belligerently at it. I think sheer awe is all that kept the M.P.'s from picking me up. 3 Finally, after three days, I dug up a trunk I had left here a year and a half ago and got out my old brown civilian suit and gray hat, and now I'm all right. People just think I'm a bedraggled hank clerk, and it's much better. • • • The other day I took a trip up to mid-England to see a man from Albuquerque. He is in fact the man who built our little white house out there on the mesa, and who subsequently became one of our best friends. His name is Arthur McCollum. He was a lieutenant in the last war and he is a captain in this one. He spent 20 years regretting that he never got overseas the other time, and he is very happy that he made it this time. He is attached to a big general hospital in the country. In January Captain McCollum had a reunion with his son, Lieut. Ross McCollum. Ross was thief pilot of a flying fortress. Father and son had two wonderful weekends together. And then on his second mission over Germany Ross didn't come back. Nothing has been heard from him since. That was nearly four months ago. Captain Mac and Ross were real companions -- they played together and dreamed and planned together. After the war they were" going to fish a lot and then start an airplane sales agency together. Captain Mac says he kind of went to the bottom of the barrel over Ross. For two months he was so low he felt he couldn't tafce it. And then he said to himself, "Look here, you damn fool. You can't do this. Get yourself together." And having given himself that abrupt command, he carried it out. And today he is all right. I found him the same kind of lifeloving, gay friend I had known in Albuquerque. We rode bicycle® around the countryside, celebrated here and there, made fools of ourselves and had a wonderful time. Captain Mac talked a lot about Ross, and felt better for the talking, and he didn't do any crying on my shoulder. He feels firmly that Ross will come back, but he knows now that if he never does he can take it. Even though he is an intimate friend of mine, I consider him one of the finest examples I know of what people can and must do when the tragedy of war falls fully upon them. • • • - • • I had a quick V-letter the other day from the Mediterranean. It was from one of the "frozen" boys in Casablanca that I wrote about -- the American-bound soldiers who had hit a dead-end street and had been hung up in Casa for six weeks when I ran into them. Well, they got a decision on their fate. But it was the wrong one. Their schooling program was called off, th^ir transfer home was cancelled, and they were ordered back to their original outfits. The letter says: "It was a great dream while it lasted, but it's over now. We have been riding the Forty-and-Eights and hitting the replacement depots --and you know what that means. "The only thing that really hurts is that we didn't catch the many boats we might have caught if we had seen 'somebody' sooner. But. enough of this crying in your Scotch, Ernie. We will see you again some day. And again, thanks a million from all of us." Hi was a cTuel and disappointing thing, "but that is the way real soldiers take it. The army is so bis that things like that are bound to happen. But they shouldn't happen too often. Such a thing had happened to one of those bo>s four times in two years. Even the best soU dier can't have too much" discouragement and disillusion- ' ment heaped upon him. Women of Britain Aid Our Red Cross Yarns Front Old Ldndon Town W The American contingent in London has many new terms sine* I left here in 1942. The newest and most frequently heard is "SHAEF." •frus is the initials of Supreme Head- _ quarters Allied Expeditionary force. Wit is SHAEF that is planning and will direct the invasion. General Eisenhower is head man of ^ SHAEF. I mention it to show how initials grow over here. One story has to do with Li.eut. Gen. Carl Spaatz, head of the American army air forces here. One night he was standing on a balconv Watching a German raid on London. Their aim was very bad that night and they were dropping bombs mile3 from any target. General Spaatz was furious. He shook his head and blurted. "The damp fooJs. They're setting bombing back 20 years." 5,000 Volunteers in Group of 25,000 Serving Clubs. JttEW YORK.--Some 25,000 British women are currently serving as volunteers or paid staff workers, at American Red Cross clubs for American serivcefnen in England. Miss Cynthia Waters, recently returned from spending 15 months in the British Isles as acting club director for the American Red Cross, revealed that approximately 5,000 of this group are volunteers. Besides getting a stimulus from the presence of American servicemen as a welcome relief from a four years' dearth of men in England, Miss Waters noted that British women were equally interested in hearing about American women. * "Women there are very curious •bout American women," she said. "And I found them unusually re^. ceptive to constructive criticism." " Miss Waters cited her experience In the cathedral town of Worcester. She told clubwomen there it was up to them to improve the lot of the young British war workers. In srftall town communities she had observed that the population, due to the influx of women war workers, had often risen from 200 to 2,000, with no suitable recreational facilities for the girls. "Some of them were only 13 years old," Miss Waters said. "Women workers were billeted with town families, who usually didn't include them in the family circle. Imagine these girls on blacked-out evenings with no place to go except a tiny YWCA hut and a few hostels or pubs off the beaten track. I suggested that what they needed was some large recreation hall in the center of town. Far from resenting this from an outsider, they were so concerned that they called on town officials to do something about it." In Miss Waters' opinion, English women, as a majority group there, could be an even greater force in their country "if they could only get organized." The iqflux of our servicemen, Miss Waters believes, made the English women raise the standard of their appearance. Versatile Cottons Lure Early Shoppers Latest Weaves Use Mexican, S. American Motifs. One-Man Tank Buster Rips 4 Inche? of Armor OTTAWA.--Details of a new Allied secret weapon, so powerful its projectile will penetrate four inches of the finest armor plate und yet so light it can be carried easily by one man, were revealed for the first time here. Described by Canadian national defense headquarters here as an unorthodox but simple weapon, it is the "piat projector" and has been used for some time by Canadian and British troops fighting in Italy. The name "piat" is derived from the initials of the weapon's official designation--"projector infantry anti- tank." "The piat is not to be confused with the American army's famed 'bazooka,' although its role is primarily the same," an announcement said. "As its name implies# the piat projects a two and three-quarter pound bomb, filled with high explo-' sives, which explodes on impact with the target, the propellent force being derived from the explosion of a cartridge in the tail assembly." -The weapon, which weighs 33 pounds, is easily carried by one man and can be brought into action in a few seconds. V Sons' Service Friends Are Mother's 'Boys' Too PROVIDENCE, R. I. - "Ma" Brown has 36 "boys" in the service and she hopes it will be 100 before long. "Ma" is Mrs. Frederick Brown and her 36 "boys" are all servicemen friends of her own two sons in the aimv She has photographs of them all and corresponds with them regularly--sending letters to such distant spots as Australia, Egypt, Munda, New Caledonia and England. Says Ma happily: "I wanted to be a mother to them all and I guess I have succeeded." By CHERIE NICHOLAS I* has come to be that cottons art so versatile, so all-year-round in giving service, so ever-responsive to all apparel needs and for all occasion, that women are more and mora taking to thinking in terms of cotton when planning their wardrobes, knowing there is no time or place where cottons will prove other than dependably fashion correct. This year a bumper crop of cotton has been harvested for the benefit of shoppers who look to their cottons as first in favor for spring and summer sewing plans. All the wellknown types, from utilitarian jeans, denim and seersucker to velveteens and corduroy, or to sheerest of organdies, answer "present" to the roll call, but there are certain highlights that give exciting accent to the 1944 Style program. For instance, we have with us this season a group of wildly colovfui picturesque cottons that out-glamour anything imagination might picture in way of eye-appealing washable weaves. These cottons are frankly of Mexican and South American influence, and American designers are making them up in authentic native types. In this picturesque class that is contributing so richly to the program of play clothes and daytime casuals, designers make much of the deep flounced skirts done in gayprint cottons such as the native Mexican women wear, voluminous scarves in flamboyant colors so entrancing, blouses of exquisite handiwork, some enriched with colorful embroidery, others beautified with dainty drawn work. While these picturesque below-theborder cottons are making a spectacular play on the spring fashion horizon, no less an exciting story is being told by ouf own American time-honored tried and true ginghams. Designers are pushing ginghams in to fashion-first rank, using them in most unexpected ways, such as lining smart black or navy wool Coats and jackets with these gay cotton plaids. Also it is tres chic to wear hats and matching accessories fashioned of color-brighl ginghams with your modish wool suits and dresses. You can find hat, bag and glove-sets styled so charmingly as to tempt you into buying at -first sight. AN ORDINANCE MAKING TftE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL o£ the City of McHenry, Illinois: SECTION 1. That it is deemed necessary in order to defray the n e c e s s a r y e x p e n s e s and l i a b i l i t i e s o f ; said City for the current fiscal year, i that there be and there hereby is i appropriated to provide for the gene r a l t a x l e v y and o t h e r r e v e n u e f o r j current fiscal year, the agfrregate sum of Seventy-two Thousand Eight Hundred and One ($72,801.00) Dol-i l a r s ; t h a t t h e o b j e c t and p u r p o s e f o r i which said appropriation is made and i the amounts appropriated for .the same are as follows, to-wit: Interest on bonded indebtedness .......-.^N 880.00 Payments on maturing bonds , ;.$,000.00 Public Property-- Materials and supplies..*.* 1,000.00 Labor and rep^^ ...^^y 750.00 Telephone ' 76.00 Light and gad " 150.00 Water Works-- '1 - Salaries -- Equipment purchases Cover-Up Top Labor and repairs Power • Meters Collection fees Miscellaneous Salaries -- Police .: .*.... City Attorney City Clerk ......... Mayor ana aldermen Treasurer ...... Collector .......... Streets and Alleys- Salaries Lighting Material and supplie Construction ..... .Miscellaneous Fire protection ........ Legal fees and court cost# Maintenance of Sewerage Disposal Plant- Labor and supplies .......... Construction Sewer fund support Insurance ...........^......^....'..1. Salaries Band Library Printing ....... Loss and cost of collecting taxes ................................ Contingent-- . Auditing Special salaries and wag^s ! Supplies I Print'nx Election Insurance Sundry ..;....i.w._..:. Motor Fuel Tax ................. *;500.00 2.000.00 $.000 00 |500 .00 ' 400.00 150.00 300.00 '1.500.00 200.00 420.00 1,600.00 120.00 120.00 ... 1,500.00 ... 8,100.00 ... 2.r»oo.oo ... 80,000.00' ... 1,200.00 400.00 4^.00 2.W^.fO! 1,500.00 300.00 tr»o.oo 150.00 R36.00 800.00 375.00 2,00c .00 225.00 750.001 100.00! 103.00 400.00; £•400.00, 100.00 0..'00.00 its regular monthly meeting at the Wauconda Township high school Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Van Rasdale of DesPlaines spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank King. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hafer of Fremont township were Monday evening visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz and daughter, Marian, spent Wednesday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Highgate at Fox Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Case spent Sunday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Float and family of Hampshire, 111., spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dowell moved to Wauconda Saturday. Mr. Dowell is employed at the Golden Bull farm. Mrs. Horace Grabbe of Ivanhoe visited Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parson, and son, Donald, Mrs. T. Parson, and daughter, Ardath, of Chicag* were Tuesday evening visitors at the home of Mr, and. Mrs. Glenn Bacon. . Mrs. William Wirtz and daughter, Marian, Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and daughters, Arvilla, Lilah Mae and Mary Lou, Misses Mary and Carole Case and Betty Lou attended the music recital Wednesday sponsored by Mrs. Roland Lueder and her students. Clifford Peterson of Bass L#ke, Indiana, and Miss Arlene Messenger of Wauconda spent Tuesday .evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher. Mrs. Alvin Case, Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and Mrs. William Wirt* attended the luncheon sponsored by Mayflower chapter, O. E. S., at Wauconda Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kaiser and sonf James, were Waukeg&n callers Tuesday. Macy Lou Fisher and Lyle Case attended a birthday" party in honor of Miss Nancy Lageschulte near Wauconda Friday. Mr. and Mrs. William Wirts, Mrs. Alvin Case and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher attended the regular stated meeting of the Mayflower chapter, O. E. S., at Wauconda Thursday evening. Initiation ceremony was held for Mr. an<l Mrs. Edwin Underwood. McCULLOM LAKE (By Marie McKkn) Robert Sales graduated from boot training at Lake* *Kednes&sj, July 12. He expects to be there an- ; other few weeks. However, he has : not received any boot leave as yet. His parents visi^d him last Sunday j and report he looks and feels fine, j Steven Huska has finished his j training at Little Creek, Va. He ! visited the state of Washington on a f l-hour pass last week. They have ; the whole crew ready to go to Chicago, where they will soon piek their boat. ( Chas. Bracken of the army tank corps left Sunday to return to ; Texas. Staff Sgt. Langfey Bennett, who had to be in Florida July 22, left here Thursday. | Miss Eileen O'Neill of Chicag was .i a weekend guest at the A. J. Thompson home. The Frank Madsens and daughter are enjoying an extended vacation at their home here. Mrs. J>ger and daughter of Texas are visiting at the Hugh McDonald's. VOOR CHICKS y (f 'SWJSUYt , * m i n n i k , . warm mm. tM. aae. ACTS IS irraa* T i a s s . Ombmmm b M r t r « »llM HH Till M* f*r m Bolger's Drug Store Green Street McHenry Total ... *72.801.00 $||<TI0N 2. All un^xpert'ed balances of any it.vie or items of any general appropcat.on made by this On.vnai.ee hiav I -• expend«-J in making up any insufficiency in any item | or items in the same general appropriation and for the same genera! purposes or in a like appropriation made toy this Ordinance. SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, approval *nd publication, jic- ,, ccrding to law. Passed this 3rd day of July, A. p. «> 1944. Approved of July, j A. D. 1944. R. t. OVERTON, Mayor oT the City of McHenry. Attest: EARL R. WALSH, City Clerk. Published July 20, 1944. VOLO (By Mrs. Llovl Fislu'rI Mrs. Clifford Vedders and daughter, Judy Marie, of Waukepan are spending a few weeks here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kine. The Wauconda-Volo 4-H club held -- P R I T Z E L ' S -- RIVERSIDE HOTEL is now prepared to serve appetizing meals, whether it is a delicious luncheon or L, full course dixm?r. Business people caa be accommodated here for lunch at the time of day preferred. Make it a habit to eat at FRITZEL'S, the name that identifies good food. EVERY FRIDAY--All Ac fcrcK you c*n «t $1.00 - SPECIAL EVERY SUNDAY - Home Cooked Chicken and Dumplings We also cater to Parties aad Banqxtets Movies Giving Farmers Lessons on Machinery WASHINGTON. -- Farmers can now go to a show and pick up some tips on how To repair their machinery. The United States office of education has released a new series of motion pictures including films showing how to recondition a mower, a two-bottom tractor plow and a -grain drill. These pictures are released to help farmers hard pressed in obtaining skilled workers to repair mechanical equipment, especially motorized units. Here is a very striking interpretation of that new and important style, ,the cover-up bare shouldered or forj' Bial d^collette dress. A tremendous j vogue is predicted for these newfrocks. some of which have halter necklines, others mere straps over the shoulder. Without the cover-up top the gown is either a sunback type or a formal that is just right for party wear. However, the new mode provides either a little extra jacket, preferably a bolero, or a removable wide scarf or a cunningly devised shoulder cape arrangement. Soldier Made Hejf To $2,000,000 Estate 'LONDON. -- A 26-year-old United States army private was notified here that according to the will of a Canadian aunt he would receive $2,000,000. Private Ben' R. Violette, South Bend, Ind., will receive the fortune when he reaches the age of 30. His aunt was the late Mrs. Mary Martin~of Ontario. Violette is a military policeman. • Pots Once Classed With Gems During the reign of England's Edward III in the 14th century the royal household's iron utensils were classed among its jewels ladian Imprint on Farm Oatpqf It is estimated that four-sevenths •f the agricultural production of the United States, measured in farm lvalue, c<unes from plants originally domesticated by the Indians. Feed More Crops will feed more people than , will meat and other livestock products produced from them. An acre of land in corn would produce grain to feed a person 635 days. This J amount of corn, fed to hogs, would j produce enough pork to feed a per- 3 son only 125rdays. In addition the production of pork wouid require much additional labor. Need Rubber Stamps! Order at Th® Plaindealer. - 7. Big Game Population Big game "population" of the !!*• tional forests has increased mot# than three-fold in the past twenty years. Average works ou*, to six animals to the squar® mile. Mos( numerous animals are deer. Next ia rank are elk, black bears, antelopes, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, mOose, grizzly bears and Alaska brown bears, and wild boars. Style Notes Shantung is a featured fabric for spring. Inlriguir.gly styled sandals lead in shoe fashions. Hostess aprons take to gay colors and novel designs. Masses of frilly neckwear add charm to the spring mode. Spring coat casuals take to shorter lengths and daring colors. Fashion interest centers about the sunback dress w:ithr a little jacket. Short nipped-in jacket with slim, straight skirt is a smart suit formula. Straw brims are softened with ruffles or ruches of net, lace or novelty fringe. _ THE OLD JUDGE SAYS.*. liHSM B 2%"CSubaeribe for the Plaindealer Transmitted by Mosquito . Kala-azar seems to be transmit* ted to man by the bite of the desert sandfly, perhaps by the bedbug in India, and also by a mosquito known as the "anopheles puntipenis." The disease occurs along the Mediter^ ranean shore in West Africa, Mesopotamia, Southern Russia, India, North China, and Brazil. It is marked by fever, progressive anemia, wasting, enlargement of the spleen and liver and dropsy. "I don't blams the fallows overseas foe gettin' all het up over it, Judge. For the likes of me I cn&.ytf* what's all the hurry about holdin' these local prohibition elections while they're away." "I agree with you, Steve. Tune after time...in their letters, in article#? in polls taken to get tha views of our fighting men thay have indicated in unmistakable terms thai they doa't want any action takso on prohibition, either local or natimai, until they get back " "Too bad therfc isn't a law or somethte* to be sure their wishes are carried oat. Judge." ' "There te in one state I know of, Steve. Jo3t recently it passed a law prohibiting the calling of any prohibition election untfl a year after the peace is declared." " "That really makes sense to me, Judfs." n* yinmti ty Cmtf'tHMt */ Am+kti* Bum*ft Imimm*ML '#I