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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 6 Nov 1941, p. 4

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fV'l - Entered as mooM#u« matter at the pos toff ice at McHWiry, IIl.t wmw the act of May 8, ltffi. One Year ... Six Months . *00 $i.oe |j ; VHu. FOR SAL® FOR SALE--Model A Fort. Actual niilos^. 17,000 miles. J. M- KB* feather, McCullom Lake. Phone 678- M-2. : ' ff* wcotvp a,eoo plane. and said he the broken graced his flasaes and but that's all. landing. fell in wing head. jfj i *. T*'" FOR SALE--Year-'round comfort and economy with fire-proof Johns-Manville Type A Home Insulation "Blownin" your wails ahd ceilings. Call j LEO J. STILLING, McHenry 18. 20-tf. ORDER YOUR TURKEY MOW--We J gelt wholesale and retail; all home grown. Cash and carry and pay leas. Phone McHenry 680-R-l. UrbandaJe Poultry Farm, \ mile south of Lily Lake school house. *25-2 FOR SALE -- House and four lots. Also six vacant lots. Tel 140-J. 24-tf at FOE RENT S^r- FOR RENT--4-room Modern Apartment. Running water and bath. M. L. Welter. Ringwood. 25 FOR RENT--Room. Plaindealer office. Inquire at Hie 25 FOR SALE OR RENT--Two cottages, year 'round homes. Owen Stenger & Allen subdivision, Crescent St. George Frey. 25-tf WANTED WANTED TO BUY -- Child's bed, large size. Phone McHenry 667-R-l. 25 YOUNG LADY WANTED--To clerk in local store. Steady position. Write, giving full particulars, to Box "E," care Plaindealer. ?5 MISCELLANEOUS FREE LOAF of Bread given away •with every 35c purchase on Saturday, Nov. 8. McHENRY BAKERY. 25 DEAD OR ALIVE ANIMALS $1.00 to $15.00 Oath Cows - Horses - Hoga No help needed for loading! 'V / Prompt and Sanitary Service 'Day and Night, Sundays and Holidays Phone Wheeling 101--Reverse Charge* Fincl| CiniHe* ^ow R«K«f Ahoost inOKifloiiifc. ERSVUiGTON, N. J John H. StffiweB thought there was some mistake \When a workman at a coal potitat ^bpjuta mile from his home telephone# that he had caught a 'ing a leg band which with Mr. Stillwell's name 4M Address. "I hasten ";t any pigeons," said Mr. Howe&M'he^dVa&rer and got hen, gaooa breasted with reddish spots am m atfhite body. "Yoo-hoo," said th* pigeon sight of Mr. Stillwell. " "I'll be darned/' said Mr. Stillwell at dgNi the pigeon. Mr. StiUwwffl waspretty sure that he recoghiart the bird, and when he got home with it-, 'his wife confirmed his Judgment:' 'ft was one of six youfig birds; all racing pigeons, which hfc* and his wife had I"taken by a roundabout route to Goshen, N. Y,, in'Hie spring of 1929 for a test flight The red-checkered hen is the first of the lot to show up. Inquiries Mr.StiUwettmade at the coal pocket shewed that the bind had been tying around 4he place for several days aad this moraine had found a window in the office open and had flown in. Mr. Stillwell .has lpst most of his interest in pigeons and was inclined to give the red-checkered hen to the man who had bought his other pigeons. His wife persuaded him to keep it, however. "After all," said Mrs. StillwelL, "it made the best time, of any of thoee we released at Goshen." The pigeon, now 13 years old, is in goo# shajpe', WU'fed and not at all exhausted toy its-flight from Goshen, a distance of about 50 miles as the1 trow ittes. Mr. Stillwell put it in with the cabbrle#. "You can't < fly," he told it, ."but maybe you can learn to sing." CLIFF"S RADIO SERVICE--107 Riv. erside Drive, Phone 436. Repairs on all radios and electrical home appliances. All work guaranteed. CLIFFORD WILSON, Prop. 9-tf German Jailer* Two Ambulance Driven and Priest Have Thrilling Experiences. GARBAGE COLLECTING -- Let us dispose ef your garbage each week, or oftener if desired. Reasonable rates. Regular year round route, formerly George Meyers'. Ben J. Smith Phone 366 or 631-M-l. 11-tf COUNTY DRAfrT BOARDS TO RECHECK STATUSES OF ALL DEFERRED MEN -i. A^' *<' kV- , jV-: *• The two McHenry county draft boards will recheek the statuses of all deferred registrants in an effort to, swell the list of 1-A men, as the result of a letter urging Such action from State Selective Service Director Paul G. Armstrong. Similar messages have gone out to all boards of Illinois. It is possible that a number of •n in deferred classifications may be aaoved up and made eligible for early army service. The suggested, review ef all deferred cases is based on the likelihood that the circumstances of many registrants may have altered siare original classification, Armstrong said. He stated that chief groups where re-classification may result are: S-A, those deferred on accuont of dependents; 2- A, those deferred because their skills are needed in factories, and 1-B, those deferred for limited physical disability. State selective service officials have net yet indicated how the supply of selectees Qualified for service may be replenished after exhaustion of the present list of 1-A's and those added by ^-classification. The state has furnished approxi- (Bately 55,000 men to the U.S. armed Wrces out of a total registration of almost 1,100.000. Although present nfonthly quotas have declined from earlier figures. Illinois is expected to Continue to supply a steady stream of Jfeen to the army. 14 Should the nation become involv;*! •Hp war, however, the state might face S tremendous drain on its man power. Ill the World war, with 1.500,000 less - population than today, Illinois con- . tjibuted about 600,000 to the armed ^fwees. ^/,^' * Clifford Gehrke, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gehrke of Highland Lake, was the victim of one of f;n- those freak gunshot accidents which #0 often result fatally. Friday afterrH^ I(|Oon, Oct. 17, Clifford had been to the Wte. and was on his way home when „jbe met three boys, Louis Lind, 12, Jojpet> h Conti. and another lad. The boys Sailed to Clifford, and as Louis ehang- ~ «d his 16-gauge shotgun from one .ptgrm to another it was discharged, the #?|nhot striking Clifford in the face and lieck. The injured boy was taken to file office of a doctor, and then St. Therese hospital, where the ' doctor performed a plastic operation, |nd Clifford was given a blood tapa#* |•f fusion, with his father as donor. - 59)Rmr Victims' Bodies PRAIRIE DU CHTEN, WIS.--Authorities have a ready answer when a drowgmsm J&L Mississippi river is reported here apa the body has not been - recovered. -- "j?end fgr the Lessards!" ^ * George LegEH^Tl^Shd ftis sons, George Jr. auaLesap, commercial fishermen, h^arecotred the bodies of 59 drowning victims'"from the Mississippi in the last 40 years. They never tiqpn down 9 request for help, and they work wftfitfut pay. "It would b® a poor thing to take pay for," the elder Les&ard remark edj31 Because of their intimate knowledge of the river and its currents, the Lessards usually lose little time in locating a body. But one March took them six days. British Golfers Advised About Play During Raids LONEcCl-:^0* Nazis can't stop AgpAmB|ulin| back--even if it's ir agiri oaif They do it with humor, too; here are aome of the new wartime rules issued by the Richmond Golf club: "In aanspatitiaaayNdMaing.- gunfire, may take cover without penalty for ceasing play. "The jKtions fifjuuwn delayed action \HBbs afl^Mied by red flags af AeasortgHniit not guaranteed, K ^MMi "Shram^ and-or bomb splinters on the fSways or in bunkers within a cluN leni movea witfiout may be 'Curb Service' Unites Co||je Seeking Minister NQRMAN; QiadHiRiorma* has Its first "curb service" mar-' riage. churc walked a passer a pre form worn coming went to Sutler. He was the }to4ith and girl to the cttfb and hailed we«can find askedj told him _ i» - vegetable and --SIS& offered to per "ceremony on the spot, to iwhom 'he had Just at tempted to a^l vegetables provided a pen for signing the tnarriage cer tificate. MEW YORK.--Three young Americans who escaped from the Nazis in occupied France related their experiences on their arrival here recently from Lisbon. Two were volunteer drivers with the British American ambulance corps who had been seized by the Germans after their ship, the Egyptian liner Zamzam, had been sunk in the Atlantic. The third was the Rsv. Joseph Trahan, 32 years old, of Swanton, Vt., who was assigned by his order, the Fathers of St. Edmund, to the Roman Catholic church of St. Martin, at Saint- Florentin, 10 miles east of Paris. The ambulance drivers were Jame» Stewart, 35, of Oneonta, N. Y., and Thomas O. Greenough, 50, of Proffit, Va. Mr. Stewart attended Union college and operated an ice company before volunteering. Mr. Greenough, who has received degrees from Amherst college and Cambridge university, was an assistant headmaster at the Lakemont, N. Y., academy. Set Course by Stars. They were aboard a Nazi prison train from Bordeaux when they made their escape. After 3% days, during which they hid by daylight and traced a southeast course by the stars at night, they arrived in unoccupied France, as they had intended. From there they went to Lisbon and boarded the ship. When they arrived, a representative of the corps informed them: that a new unit wa§ being formed lo go to Suez, leaving August 20. Asked if he would care to join, Mr. Stewart signified his willingness in one word. "Wow!" he explained, Mr. Greenough said: "That's one reason we, tried to escape--so we could get back and try again.4' Mr. Stewart, who recounted their adventures, made them sound most ordinary. "The train was supposed to take us from Bordeaux to. Paris," he said, "but in a conversation with guards Tom found out that we were going to be taken to Mulhouse, a German border town,, and then Is the Black forest. Decide to Get Busy. "After we had a chance to let this sink in a little bit, We decided to do something. So when the train came to a stop, we just stepped out a window." They took a small amount of bread, two tins of sardines and a can of German bully beef, he disclosed. He estimated that they had walked about 40 miles "as the crow flies," and much further than this when detours were included, before they ask|d a cyclist what ycttw of ranee they tvere in. He informed thegi that tjiey had reached unoccupied territory. father Trahan escaped from Samt-Florentin by carrying golf clubs and posing as a sportsman. He grew a beard also. After fleeing the town and reach* ing unoccupied territory, he was aided by United States consular officials »• ,'*•; Oil Well on powatown Street Proves No Dummy KILGORE, TEXAS.--People who never saw a real oil wen on a downtown street may be skeptical of this story, but East Texans will hot be surprised. There is one oil well in front of a tire company here, and others behind the building, all operated from central pumping unit. Many per sons believed that the well in front of the building was an advertisement for the gasoline station. Such persons were surprised recently when the well "blew but" its packing and ran wild for several minutes. Oil blew across the top of the building and covered two parked automobiles. Fire trucks rushed to the scene, because a careless smoker could have started disastrous fire. But the well was closed in, and the uninformed were taught that the oil well was real and not a dummy. Policeman's Kind Deed Bring's Suspect's Arrest NEW BRITAIN, CONN.--Policeman Benjamin Huck's good nature not only wins him many friends but it helps him catch suspects. Huck was driving a police cruiser about 2:30 a. m. when he discov- HOKXK manaALD LOCAL OHtTEMm IS S TAAMPE CRRICOASNS America's national defense efforts require a great expansion of all American Red Cross activities, Attorney Robert Twomley of Woodstock, chair® man of the McHenry County Red Cross chapter, declared this week in urging "all-out" support of the greatest membership Roll Call in the organisation's history, to be held Nov. 11 - 30. Expect 5,250 Meakn Mr. Twomley said the county chapter has set a quota of 5,250 members for its share in the' national appeal and Wednesday, Nov. 12, has .been designated as county-wide Roll Call day when the membership drive wilt reach its peak. Clergymen of all county churches are aiding in the appeal by giving recognition to the Red Cross at church services on Sunday, Nov. 9, designated, by Presidential proclamation as Roll Call Sunday. "We must go over the top in this Roll Call," Mr. Twomley added, "because continuance of the national Red Cross program depends upon the success of local chapters in appealing for membersv" Introduction in this county of a Red Cross garment program to provide sweaters and other comfort articles for distribution among men oh duty at military and naval stations hin<res upon the chapter's financial ability to purchase yarns and other materials needed. Funds realized during the Roll Call period will be used solely for domestic . activities and will enable the national | newspapers, organization and its chapters to carry on its expanded services to the Army and Navy, and to widen its national defense program for the civilian population. the chairman pointed out. War Relief Fund Separate Mr- ^Twomley emphasized that the funds ^rith which the Red Cross is doing war - relief work are quite distinct from the membership funds received at Roll Call, on which the organization depends for the support of its many activities at home. Relief activities abroad were made possible by funds contributed by the public in the summer of 1940 to a special War Relief drive, and by supplies purchased by the federal government for foreign war relief. He explained that out of each membership contribution of from one dollar to twenty-five dollars, fifty cents is turned orer fco the national organizaion and the balance remains in the county. Homer Fitegerald is lcoal Roll Call chairman, and McHenry's quota toward the county goal is thre* haadred flMenbcrft. " / ' ' "*'* perewedUlqg tavt^ait irfU* riiUMP wCQQBKf CUB was small spiced would . .. these buns ia the middle «f the table and force the bride aad groom 4a try and Idas over them. D they succeeded It meant lifelong prosperity. At one wedding a Vtoench coflfr became greatly irritated bocauae the small buns kept falling off the top, so he sohfed that difficulty at the next wedding by producing one large, pyfami<Miaped e»ke. • Excessive Exercise Net Fatal College athletes do «ot shorten their lives by excessive lofcercise, according to Dr. Louis Dublin, statistician. Over a period ef M years he has compared the deaths of 8,QW college athletes with an equal number of men of the same age whs were healthy enough to secure ltfe insurance and has reached the conclusion that exercise haS not injured college athletes. World Small Place The world is a small place after all, Judging by the size of particles, such as electrons, that make up all matter. Westinghouse research physicists, who smash ^toms to learn more about matter, say that if an orange and an electron could be magnified until the orange wdfc as large as the world, the electron would still be invisible. Tattooed Man From Maine The sobriquet, "The Tattooed Man," had its origin in the fact that one of the New York weekly illustrated magazines printed a cartoon representing James G. Blaine as Phryne, before the Athenian judges, and tattooed with the names of the political scandals with which his name had been connected. Infant Mortality Slashed Only 1 out of every 14 deaths in Wisconsin last year was that of a child less than one year of age, compared to one out of every five deaths in the state 30 years ago. Part of the difference is credited to a trailer school-house which visits rural communities to teach child £nd maternal health. ' Man o' War Blegrapby Man o' War, Sea biscuit and Gargantua, according to Collier's, are the only animals whose biographies have been written by the press associations and are on file, ready for immediate publication upon their death, in the office of more than Bone-Crusher Haadshake Beware of the bone-crushing handshaker, says Dr. Joseph Ranald of Mount Vernon, N. Y. He has been studying handshakes and personalities for 15 years, and he says, the bone-crusher is a domineering fellow who will stop at nothing. Use ier Newspapsts Lacking a regular rug pad, try putting newspapers under your large rugs. Several layers spread flat will help to save wear, make the floor warmer and give a nice soft tread when walking ovet the rugs. Nparbf £saa#ry Having a Landry adjacent to the kitchen simplifies hoUsehold chores It eliminates many weary steps and enables the housewife to keep a watchful eye on her cooking while doing her washing. Campus Sweaters Breakfast Orange Jaiee Breakfast orangte juice prepared •>!<*• lafcw i»m lose aome lose appreciable amounts of vitamin C if stored in'a refrigerator. > ered a motorist in distress. Always the good fellow, he obligingly o f fered to push. While sitting in the cruiser pushing the hapless motorist, Huck noticed that the marker plates were those of a car reported missing. He stopped pushing and arrested the driver. rtresMs Fair ^ For a fireside conversational grouping try s pair of small mahogany Victorian chairs, skirted and draped on either aids of a friendly Are. Alta Mae Amman, is a at DeKatt>, apart «be wodoend at ber home in Mrlj--ijpf. Mr. and Mrs, Ahfom Adams visited Mrs. IM tUaer and Bttle *on of Anttock at WL Ifeereae hospital ia Waukagan one evening last waek. Mrs. Eleatior Renard of McHenry and Mrs. Blair Heisec «f Chicago attended tlie atage play, "Louisiana Purchase," in Chicago last Friday James Laririn, Walter B«|ger and Bob Newkirk attended homecoming at the" University of Illinois last weekend. Sylvia Snyder spent the weekend visiting her sister In Oconomowoc, Wis. Gilbert Dewell of Chicago visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Dowell, early this week. Mrs. Eleanor Renard of McHenry and Mrs. Blair Heiser of Chicago attended the Ice Follies last Thruaday evening". Mrs. Kathryn Boger has been spending several days in Chicago. Mrs. Simon Stoffel visited relatives in Chicago this week. Miss Marguerite Johnson, who is a teacher at Grant Community High school at Fox Lake, attended a Home Economics state convention at t) Edsrewater Beach hotel on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. Mrs. Louis A 1thoff is spending 1 few weeks in the home of her daugh ter and husband. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beckenbaugh. in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. George Justen and daughter, Patricia, of Waukegan and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Justen and son spent Sunday in the Jlichael Justen home. , Guests at the B. W. Lemeron home the past weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lemeron and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Miller of Green Bay. Wis. Accompanied by-Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wolf of McHenry, they attended the Bear - Packer football game and rodeo Sunday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Frett of Chicago visited relatives in McHenry lant weekend. Mr. and Mrs. James Mahoney and children of Chicago spent the weekend in the John Phalin home. Miss Barbara Carey, who is attending school in Evanston, visited in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Carey, last weekend. Mrs. Harold Tacki of Kenosha visited her sister. Mrs. Thomas Kane, on Sunday. Miss Marjoi ie Duker, who is attending Northwestern university, spent the weekend at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. Math Riley of Chicago visited his aunt, Mrs. Ellen Whiting, last Sunday. * Mrs. Albert Vales and daughter. Marie, visited friends in Chicago Sunday. N. C. Klein, Mrs. Mildred May and son,-J. C., of Waukegan and Mr. and Mrs. John Murtaugh of McHenry were Sunday gbests in the Ed Young home. Miss Genevieve Knox, the Misses Eleanor and Mildred Kinsala of McHenry and Miss Georgianna Donahue of Huntley enjoyed dinner at the Korean Village in Lake Geneva last Thursday. Harold Lindsay is enjoying a two week*' vacation frow his $$es at Bolger's Drug1 store. West McHenry, ts treat McHsary. BdwniJ. Baid,€aycaco, to Maqr *• Uli|aE,Cfcicago. A man iage license has been iasaei m Waakegen to Elmer J. Diedrieh, S» of M£Benry and Cecdlia Lenzen, lit of Grayslalce. Charles F. Brooks, Crystal Lake, la Helen J. Butts, Woodstock. Elmer Ronton, Free port, to Evetya Dart, Freeport. A marriage license |u been iasaed in Chicago to Boon Kennel, 29, ef Chicago and Irene Pesz, 21, of McHenry. William Skiba, Chicago, to Marie Hornung, Chicago. Elmer E. Hammond, Harvard, to Mary E. Anderson, Harvard. Arthur McVickers, West McHenry, to Isabell Simon, McHenry. ^ Robert Houres, Carpentorsvilk^ Evelyn V. Miller, St. Charles. 2^1' Alf. Trygve Sunde, Chicago,^-|||i' Ragnhild Ruud. Chicago, ^ Z M ¥',ir A? Bolger's Drug Store Greea Street McH PheaMiftSeason . .• ' " r ; *»:;*.• 'V'V':'. - V'. ; -Are yon ready te- get the birds T This store can supply you with .. , ^ . V j. , 77 Gutm, "Sheik, etc. . Just drop in and let lis outfit yon frfth the best equipment >, . , * o': • 1, NICKELS' Hardware Phone 2 -:- Wert McHenry Dim Lights Thirty-five states have.lawa requiring that headlights be dimmed when another vehicle approaches from the opposite direction. Luxurious Soft Water:; 1* 1 j 11 sir •' Kem » •' ^ "Sitfsmter"Water $250 PKR MONTH 481 Weber Ptbg. & Heating Co. Green Street --:-- McHeory, 111.* TT § *1 Overhauling Airplane Engines la the World war, airplane engines had to be overhauled every SO hours; today they can go 800. Gas Shelter Gets Test--• Three Skunks MovtHti FORT IfEWlS, WASH.--The re cently completed gas-proof shelter of the 41st Infantry division received its first real test recently." Three skunks moved in. - rii**-* I.1-- - 6,1 1 ? % Ctisae • • -Wot ffhly the lame, the halt, Sn4 the blind ca» make good in the underworld. Judges must be inclined to think sometimes that all the freaks in the sid^ffiow have taken up crime as a career. A bearded lady robbed a bank in Kansas. More than one thug looks like the Wild Man of Borneo in spite of all that face lifting operations can do for him. The Human Eel who can throw his limtys out of joint is in great d€K mand to play a.stellar rede in fake accident cases. He Names 3 'Articles of War,' but Omits Artillery CAMP ROBINSON, ARK.--Lieut. Col. Alexander O. Gor'der, regular army training director, was quizzing new soldiers on military regu lations. "What are the Articles of War?' he asked. •- > ® "Thw* are three,", replied a re- 'J cruit, pistol and bay ^ "What a Seedling Is - Any young tee# under three feeila height is called a seedling. •ere are two of the smartest sweaters to be wora on the college eampus. JiMt is a aamber ol Autumn CapirpaH-Cro»ihsBn which achieves a jhrep shawMs* effect . . . Right, a sailer collar edged in white with darts of white in the sleeves and waist. It. is of Skipper Bide. Laag distance From Land Polar bears have been se££*wfeoa mine 300 smiles from landl , , ^ . , . Bottom Faker The /bottom faker < might be a member of the underworld--instead he is on the finishing end in a boot and shoe factory. • lbs, Gertrude Davis has returned to her home in Chicago after spending a few days visiting1 relatives here. * Motor Vehicles Prodaeed r Sfcvinty-nine million motor hlcleaiwere produced in the U. S. and Qjanada during the past 40 years. Noise Travels 20 MjVas ; 5„ The messages and noise of tomtoms in Africa travel as far as 20 miles; the sound itself goes 60,000 feet a minute. •m: ^ Niekel Worth Cent • As a metal, each United States live-cent piece is worth only one cent. Nickels are made qf an alloy of con>er and nickeL . Rubber Stamps at The Plaindealer GMC FUEL TANK TRUCKS KEEP TODAY'S MECHANIZED ARMY ON MOVE te$Motorised and mechanised ' ' - -- » . ^equipment of a modern, hard* " striking, fast-moving army must 1 ; 'jbe kept "on the go" at all costs. •"^vJ "Today's fighting force moves "*1 "®Ot only "on its stomach", but "Wifefalso on thousands of gallons of j gasoline. Such Martian vehicles as the tanks shown at the left must rely upon gasoline supplied from the utilitarian tank truck shown below. This Gen eral Motors Truck of 750-gallon capacity travels right along with the moving army, supplying fuel to the other vehicles. All six wheels of this 2!£-ton GMC are driving wheels, to enable the truck to ke4p up with tanks and other vehicles, no matter how rugged the terrain. BP? V. rt sjQi. !f'. V. J. s •" r •• ••.••••

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