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V "1 t• >; " • * ; h . •"'s- » ••• »s§4 ">:i? •pi*:- V» Ai v J ^ ** •**• - _t1 * j 1 V iu **> •* \ V '-j *xw * ', \ • , *0* :W: 3 • ,f "'T' T"^ Thursday, July 1, 1943 THE McHEHRY PLAINDEAfJEK Page Sevea •'pft \./ ; l D.S.O. Awarded to Illinois Boy Old War Heroes ^ •> • .., S Serve Nation in Present Conflict Hick,' Donovan and York Take Leading Roles in Second World War. McCULLOM LAKE (By Marie McKim) On Thursday, June 24, young" Rolj and Piotrowski, 8 years old, rescued ! a 5-year-old boy, John Nagle, from I the deen hole in the lake. Mr. and ;v "While new American heroes are in the making in the steaming jungles of the Solomons, in the frozen wastes of the Arctic, on the burning sands of Tunisia find is the air over enslaved Europe, many o| the heroes of World War I are busily engaged at the battle centers as Well as the home front today. Although 25 years older,"'these veterans have once again answered the call of the country, some to don uniforms for active service, others to perform vital wartime civilian tasks. Hero of one of the most stirring Many Modern Uses Found For Newly Seated Timber Newly developed improvements in the treatment of wood to ritake it fire resistant and still paintable have helped to make forest products a major heavy construction material over the past year. Such timbers were becoming more common in large buildings before the war, and Mrs. Nagle were visiting MakofskiV because of shortages of other'per home a«4t t4h-We/t time JIo,ahHnn"ns sister, BKeAtttrVy, .... •witnessed the rescue. What might have been a double tragedy at the lake occurred last Sunday, when two girls almost lost their lives. The tragedy was averted by Mickey Schmitt and another man, who were close by when the girls went down. No doubt the training Mickey received in the navy was responsible for saving the girls lives. ; The two girls were visitors at the | Sawdo home. In each ease the tragedies that have occurred in the past •vears were either renters, visitors or outsiders who flock in here to use the I lake and do not know about the deep I hole. At no time was it a property I ow^ef. We know about the hole. They FOR cutatanding qualities of leadership in the Royal Canadian . Air Force, Flight Lieut. J. H.! Stickell, a native of Illinois, has just been awarded the Distinguished! Service Order by King George. This; award is the third highest that can' be given to a member of the Ca-i nadian armed forces. The citation states that "his courage, determination and devotion to duty have been mo6t outstanding over a long period." Flight Lieut. Stickell's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harley Charles Stickell of Gilson, III Flight Lieut. Stickell also won the Distinguished Flying Cross in November, 1942. Gelatinous Substance May Replace Medicinal Weed Relief of the shortage of agaragar, an essential medicinal material obtained from seaweed, is promised by studies conducted at the University of California. Four species of red algae, previously known to be agar sources, were found to yield the gelatinous substance in quantity and quality equal to that obtained from varieties of seaweed now being commercially exploited. These new species are harvestable at La Jella in moderate quantity without special equipment, it was reported by staff member* conducting the research. Before the war the United States consumed about 600,000 pounds of •gar a year, with Japan supplying the bulk of this, they pointed out. Much of the seaweed supplying agar was harvested in waters of Southern and Lower California by Japanese who, after drying and shipping to Japan for refinement, were able to resell it here below the American price. After Oriental supplies were cut off, relief of the situation was blocked by the fact that Japanese divers kept secret the location of the kelp beds. episodes of the present War in the Pacific was Capt. Eddie Rickenback- do note? I am surprised we have not er who, flying on a secret mission had more of them. In the past tew for the army, was lost with his crew, years, since the Fox River has been and picked up on a life raft near condemned, our swimming sp'ace has Samoa after being tossed in the open been over-crowded with outsiders, sea for three weeks. One member wh© know this lake is for the prop- Of the crew died from the ordeal frty owners/only. Over Saturday and before the brave crew was rescued.;Sunday fdrtr^ix cars from M<-Henry Rickenbacker commanded the 94th - a]on,, passed here on their wav to the Aerial Pursuit squadron in 1918.. and ;lake; Sora€r of these cars '^e so fought his Way through 26 air victq- ' pai:k(>d they had people on tht ruv ries to become Americas top ace , niti^boards. In one carthey even had a big spotted dog. If this lake is to be public, why not charge admission cars parked at the beach long after midin that war. For his exploits with the first AEF, Rickenbacker was awarded Uie Congressional Medal of-, ^ ? ^ seVcra, Honor and the Distinguished Service . .. . . . „ manent construction materials their use was greatly accelerated in 1942. One of the most important wartime uses of wood has been in construction of plants important to war. production. In many instances this use of fre-proofed timbers has released critically needed steel for other purposes. In other instances the buildings would not have been erected at all because of steel shortages, or wpuld have been delayed many months. In Baltimore, a complete anti-aircraft gun carrige assembly plant was built of treated wood in 90 days. Immense hangars have been built with very little steel to house navy blimps used in coastal patrol work, and more of these are now being erected: These structures are as high as a 17-story building and have a clear timber arch of 246 feet--a new record for this type of construction. The huge spandrel-braced arches, composed of timbers bolted together in chords, are said to have, a pound for pound tensile strength equal to mild steel. The already well established usef of treated wood in bulkheads, runways, bridges, culverts, Railroad cars, railroad crossings, ties, piling and telephone poles continued and ! expanded in 1942. Roots Extend From Plants; j Fertilizer Should Be Spread j The feeder roots of most plants < extend out from the crown much farther than is commonly thought. Ignorant of this, Sbme amateur gardeners dump the fertilizer on a *nall area of soil rather close to the crown roots. A heaping tablespoonfuL of sulphate of ammonia is a liberal allowance of fertilizer concentrate for a quarterly application on a rose bush. The larger portion of concentrated materials should be scattered along the limits of the 'root zone, and comparatively little near the crown roots. | • To insure a'ganst damage and to i increase the efficiency of the treat- , ment, a spot or hole method of applying soil correctives, disease preventing substances and plant nutri- , | ents around the roots of horticultural I CTops may be used. This consists of j punching circles of holes in the soil far enough from the crown area to avoid possibility of damage to the crown or to the larger lateral roots of plants. , > - For small, weak feeders like geraniums, it might be desirable to use very small amounts of material applied in a circle of about six holes, 8 to 12 inches deep, spaced 12 Inches from the plant and about 12 inches apart. For large trees, it is best to use two circles of h^oles spaced aboot six to eight feet, with the inner circle about this distance from the crown roots; Watef will carry „the soluble-: material downward and outward,/ Right Names, Different People To give one an idea of how fast the army works/It |ook Hollywood, with all its glamour and extravaganza, several years to "discover" such names as Laaa Turner, Hedy Lamarr, Ronald Coleman and Roberj Taylor. In one week, Keesler Field's B-24 Liberator Bomber school turned up a Charlie Chaplin, Joe E. Brown, Charlie McCarthy, Bob Burns, two Ronald Colemans, three Robert Taylors, three William Powells and a half doaen Charles Boyers--all airplane *inechanics students, no movie stars. Crops Absorb Arsenic Scientists in the field of soils artd vegetable growing at a University report that some vegetable crops n\ay take up arsenic from the soil m suflficient quantities to make the •rops dangerous to persons with a high degTee of susceptibility to this poison. Although persons who have •a high degree of tolerance for arsenic would probably suffer no ill effects, some risk is involved- and the plantings of arsenate-treated; soil had best be avoided. Native Drivers Submerge foil Pearl Catches Off Venezuela J* , Hundreds of small boats in th# pearl-fishing fleet oil Venezuela's Margarita island are reported makj»' , . ing a record-breaking catch sinc^* .*• the signal-gun opened the season^ ? the second week in January, aftek a closed season of more than twe years. ' 'f | Pearling has been outlawed for It ; year at a time, but this restriction i proved inadequate to "preserve thf «•' ' ; oyster supply. Fishing is now pei*» ' ! mitted for five or six months of ev^ j ery third year. | Forty years ago Venezuelan pearls ; brought well over a half million doW * ' lars in the Paris market. Values gradually declined until 1912 when; $25,000 worth was exported. From 1912 to 1917 values increased mor£ than tenfold. France normalljf bought most of the best pearls. Fishing from small boats--pira- ' guas--divers can descend nearly 9i feet by means of stone "sinkers.\ In diver's gear they work oyateti % beds 85 feet below'the surface.: V. Many Ston^Jgtocks in Pyramids » About 2'^ million huge stone blocks were used in building the famous pyramid of Cheops in Egypt * China's Blue Sheep / •" A flock of blue sheep was fount living in the high mountains 0- Siechwan province, western China, at altitude of 10.000 feet HELICOPTER TO CO INTO QUANTITY PRODUCTION Cross. Patterson Directs Strategy. Robert P. Patterson, winner of the 13SC for heroism in the last war, today plays a leading role in directing strategy as undersecretary of War. Another civilian who occupies a key position in this war is William night and they were not property owners.^ No! the lights on the beach J Were not burning. j I Rose Mary Anthony of Oak Park' ; received a diamond engagement ring rlast spring from Lt. Bernard Voelzow. He & a pilot in the Ferry Command from the United States to South j. Donovan, who directs American America. Her^iser, Dorothy, received psychological warfare throughout 1 ^or (hanion(! a* Easter time from Coi p. the world. As commander of the I Fred Kilker, now stationed in Texas, famous "Fighting 69th" regiment in The four young people are well know* World War I, Donovan was known : in this vicinity. Their parents had as "Wild Bill" for leading his troops the Fardy home all last summer. Tiie into battles and his contempt for 'young folks met at Nell's in Johnsdanger. Besides winning the Con- burg. . ' Robert Wietle, Bob to. us, took his oath in the Naval Reserve corp. Monday, June 28. He will not be 18 until July 4. Hope he will be with us for a while. Had 'Em Then, Too! Clay tablets of cuneiform writing of 1500 to 1300 B. C. were found on the Turkish-Syrian frontier on the site of the capital of the Mitanni kingdom. They record a non-aggression and mutual-aid pact between the Egyptians, Hittites and Mitannis. Check Casualties Carefully Tlie prompt, accurate, and sympathetic dispatch of information to | the families of army personnel re- i ported as wounded, missing or dead ; is the function of the casualty I branch of the adjutant general's department. Organized in October, j 1942, the casualty branch took over j all duties connected with receiving, ! editing, and dispatching casualty in- i formation. When a casualty report i is received, usually hy radio or ca- j ble, it contains the serial number of i the individual, as well as his name j and grade. These data are imme- j diately checked with the "emer- I gency addressee card" which is on , file for every member of the j army serving overseas, giviag his! full name, serial number, and the ; name, address and relationship of < gressional Medal of ftonor, Donovan also won the DSC and DSM for his many acts of bravery. One of the busiest men on the civilian home front today is Harry M. Gambrel. 1942 national winner of the annual $1,000 given by Lewis S. Rosentiel, New York industrialist, as a part of the program of the . Americanism Commission of the American Legion. Cited as the Legionnaire who performed the most outstanding community service last year, Gambrel was decorated in the last war with the Croix de Guerre and the Order of the Purple Heart for "devotion to duty and heroic conduct under fire" at Verdun. York Infantry Consultant. Best-known Yankee hero of the earlier war is Sergt. Alvin York, who one day led a series of attacks on machine-gun nests, and finally returned to his lines with 132 prisoners. Today York, holder of a string of awards including the coveted Con gressional Medal of. Honor, is serving the U. S. army as consultant on infantry problems in training ground troops. Also acting in a similar consulting capacity with the army is Sam Woodfill, whom General Pershing called "America's greatest doughboy." Winner of the highest decorations of six nations, Woodfill's most spectacular act of valor was in single-handedly knocking out a series of German machine-gun nests that were holding up an Allied advance in 1918. Just like their more famous comrades, millions of other Americans who donned the khaki in World War I are again in the service of the nation--some at the world's battle • stations, others at the war council taMes, ami mart. W them doing e»- * sential civilian tasks on the home front. person to be notified in case of . __ _ . _ u emergency. Intensive precautions ^ More Debt-rree Homes, a r e t a k e n t o g u a r d a g a i n s t t h e p o s - j ~ - - - - - - sibility of mechanical errors in j transmission. Cases of identical | names, and sometimes almost iden- ] tical serial numbers, mean that at | times the records of numerous oth- i er agencies of the war department must be consulted. France's Lourdes Situated in southwestern Francs at the foot of the Pyrenees, 20 miles from the Spanish border, Lourdes is served by a railway joining the towns of Pau and Tarbes. Long a prize in territorial and religigi wars, Lourdes was regarded as the of the Pyrenees." Read the Want Ads! • * What you Ruy With WAR _B0NDS "Smoke Eaters" A battlewagon loaded with various explosives, bombs, torpedoes, oil and gasoline is not the safest place to be with a fire raging, so all but the smaller ships of our Navy are equipped with elaborate fire fighting apparatus. fv Seen in U. S. After War" PHILADELPHIA.--There will be more debt-free homes in the United States at the end of the war than ever before in the nation's history, in the opinion of Newell J. Nessen, president of the Quaker City Federal Savings and Loan association. "Individuals today are not reacting in the same manner as they did in the last war," Nessen declared. "In 1917-18 heavy spending was the rule Luxuries and nonessentials of all descriptions were purchased in large amounts. "Ujrfas not unusual for a man to 1 $10 or $15 for a silk shirt, but this time just the reverse is true. Instead of spending, people are saving. They are saving in war bonds, in savings accounts, even hoarding --and they are paying off their mortgages." Nessen recalled that President Roosevelt urged that, as a curb against inflation, individuals make larger payments on mortgage principal and pay off the mortgage in shorter time. "It is doubtful whetner the President or any home-financing institut\ on anticipated the response which foHe^ed," the savings expert continued. "According to reports |rom various home financing groups, an untisually large number of mortgages liave been paid in full this year. This number has been increasing steacfilv. In many other cases, substantial reductions have been made in the mortgage principal." Chuck Brocken now of Camp Custer, Mich., spent Saturday evening and Sunday here. He is expecting'to be transferred soon. That kahki uniform is quite becoming to him. Gerald Burg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Art Burg, is enjoying a furlough," spending most of it out here with his parents and aunt, Mrs. Huska. On July 1 the Wm. Schaefer family took possession of their new home jand place of business which was pur- | chased from Davidson's, at Petite Lake, 111. A young friend of Millie and BiH Roschelle, Bill Sobe, of Chicago is spending the week with them. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Sales were married 19 years June 26. He called her from East St. Louis Friday evening to tell her he would be home over the : weekend and during the 4th. Then ; they will celebrate his birthday and ! anniversary / together. Congratula- | tions, you two! Mr. and Mrs. Brocken were married 23 years June 26 also. That day was also Mrs. Brocken's dad's birthday. He is well know)} here. Mr. Gillis is the gent's name. Dave Boyle and Allan McKim froiii here will take their physical July 8. This place will be like a morgue when jail these boys are gone. Seldom an ; evening pa.s.«es without some of these , boys in our home. Monday eve it was Bob Wetle, Bud Adams and Dave ; Boyle. Yes, we miss Chuck Brocken, too. Visitors at the Syd Smith home on Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. E. Haley (Violet O'Neil), Phylis, Dick and Jerry Mmz, Mrs. Artery and Joan. ; At the Madsen home, their daughter, Harriet, husband and two children, i In other words, the J. Bauer family. * Mr. and Mrp. Pete Lenard and C<0" . lete are spending their two weeks* ' vacation at their home here. The Terry Mathers family intend to spend the rest of the summer here. Mrs. Reid received a letter from their son, Billie, telling her he received a medal for marksmanship on the rifle range. He is overjoyed because ; he has a brand Jiew combat truck to ; drive. Gueets at the Wm. Roschelle home Place Cords Carefully Cords should never be run over radiators or isteam .pipes. "Check your needs carefully before you make your purchases and insist on cords designed for use in damp places and where contact with metal is likely to occur. The dealer will help you select the proper type. Avoid the very dangerons practice of running cords under rugs or placing them in door jambs. The outer coverings become abraded and worn and the insulation breaks-down causing short circuits, Sfceel Built Esse# To the combination of1 coat it home and iron ore in neighboring Alsace-Lorraine, the Ruhr owes its industrial stature. Nowhere is its productive power applied more ingeniously than* in Essen, a sleepy town of 10,000 until Alfred Krupp took over his father's steel works in 1848. Spurred by the son's method of casting steel in large masses, the modest plant became an industrial empire, the payroll lengthened to 80,000 names, and the town cpuld count 650.000 noses. Essen was def-' "tnitely on the map. Bombed time and again, the people of Essen have lived for years to the accompaniment of sound and fury of their own making. The1 earth vibrates day and night to the roar and rumble of huge furnaces and forges. Essen's favorite music was the rattle and clank of precision machinery, and the booming of great guns on the proving grounds. • V ' V j Need Rubber Stamps! Order at The IPlaindealer. 1 / This type of helicopter, which will be built in quantity for the Armyj "Air Forces by Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, peacetime manufacturer! of automobiles and refrigerators, can alight on land, water, snow thini ice, a rooftop or a parking lot. The craft can hoyer motionless ml mid-air; descend and ascend vertically without forward motion and] fly backward, sideways or forward with equal facility./^ 4*. How electrical appliance dealers conserve vital materials over the weekend were her sister and i husband,. Mrf and Mrs. McCauley, also their dad, Mr. Nelson, of Indiana. Mrs. Larry Huck and Mrs. Wolf of the Riverside Bake Chop got quite a 1 bang out of Ed Doran Saturday, , when he purchased four loaves of 1 bread, two pies and three cakes for* two people. He told them he was celebrating his seventy-eighth wedding : anniversary. On Sunday morningi he returned and bought bread. He had | forgotten the events of the preceding day, but he is still looking for the groceries he bought on Saturday. ' When he arrived home he had only his coffee. Was it the heat that, went to your head, Ed ? Pia--er Flier's Sen Twelve years after Randolph Field, Texas, was opened, Benjamin D. Randolph, son of the pioneer flier for whom the field was named, completed basic flying training at the Weal Point of the Air. It may be that this equipment never will be used during the entire course of the war, but it must be paid for out of the War Bonds and Stamps that we are setting aside each payday, u. 5. Tr*w : Pertagal: N. African ClimatS Portugal, threshold of the Iberian i Seninsula, and next-door neighbor of j pain, is as much North African in Climate as it is South European. Rolling and rugged country is charac- j ' teristic, with a few wind-swept mile- 1 i high elevations. Gardens and vine- | yards distinguish the northern coast- I : al regions. The midriff is the na- , I tional fruit basket. To the south, the ' country is drier and less productive. Jap-Rass Incidents During the past 11 years, the Japanese have been involved in moti than 2.000 "incidents" with the Russians. These have ranged from pot shojb$ at one another to a great bat' tie at Nomonhan in 1939 in which the Japs were badly beaten, losing 18,000 of 60,000 men. Read the Want Adsl Ancient Egyptian City? Bxcavations in Egypt disclose#, several more tombs, the oldest dat» ing back more than 5,000 years. Two soldiers digging near their camp, not far from Cairo, came upon s mosaic floor in excellent preservation. It is believed to .mark the sits of an ancient city. After d*f*rminJnfl cause of the trouble and completing necessary repairs, this serviceman reassem-T bles the vacuum cleaner. Restoring life of this appliance means the saving of critical matenaU. In devoting iheix timc #nd skill to the adjusting and repairing of electric appliances, hundreds of electrical dealers throughout Northern Illinois arc performing an important wartime service. • By extending the useful life of electric irons, washers, vacuum cleaners, toasters, coffeemakcrs and other time- and work-savers, these expert repairmen eliminate the necessity of manufacturing hundreds of thousands of new electric appliances. And the critical1 materials saved in this way are available for the production of tanks, ships and planes which arc essential to victory on the land, pn the sea and in the air. , Electricity has gone to war-don't waste it! ftodto Tatting is explained to a new employe who is beiog trained for radio repair worlt. With radios working overtime the number of repairs has shown a marked increase. Ih« Mkat* m*chanlun of an electric clock is adjusted by this repairman. Often a simple adjustment is all that is necessary to put a clock fead^ in good working condition; Th* proof of the wtfle iron is in the baking. So this repairmal tests the operation of the repaired iron by actually baking a, waffle. It looks like die iron is working perfectly. fvary day, electric irons, toasters, coffee* makers, waffle bakers, vacuum cleaners and Other work-saving appliances arc brought in io dealers for adjuscneac and repair. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN lllilNOlS Supplying Vital Electric Power for War Production in Northern Illinois Service Order -- lOl Wiiliain* St, Crystal Lake -- Telephone JSnterpriae ilOO. NATIONS L_: •jskisa.