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Paft 81*- McHXNRY PLA1NDEALER t7. f? v/r VI • ^ »«w „ .. - h u •<- •> * « ' . V;. A n -%' t:-5 Thuriday, December 2, 1943 iv: ®®?S ; W R I G H T A . ! P A T T E R S O N Western Newspaper Union. •" K RANT I'* AT THE PEACE TABLE WO WEEKS before4he signing of the armistice that ended World j War I, on November 11, 1918, I had ; » brief and informal interview with Ciemenceau, the French premier, i I .had no prepared questions and was , hot then permitted to use anything he might say. One of the two of . three questions I asked was: "When the war ends, will France , support President Wilson s .announced policies at the peace con- Icrence?" ; ; - 'For just a moment his eyes flashed ' °; under those heavy brows and :then V, ise replied very quietly : . . .» . •' ' .-"In this war France has suffered 'far more than any other nation. ^ f ;-w ilI collect. The Boche will pay.' . . 'At the peace table American •,'ii-H idoenailiicsmm Wwaass ftno . and did, collide, wt ith, *""" French i ealism. France, more than, . America, dominated the peace coiy4 ' fertnee. Again American idealist^ Million Dollar Swindler Givenl ^ 7-Year Penalty Pleads Guilty to Charge of Defrauding a Widow -- Of $32,500. CHICAGO.-- Justice finally caught up with Arthur Davis Wheless in federal court here. Wheless has had a million dollar career as a confidence man de luxe. He is 63 years old and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for swindling a 70-year-old widow out of $32,500. Assistant United States Attorney Richard G. Finn referred to her case as "the most pitiful this court will come across in some time." . Wheless pleaded guilty to indictments char.',-ig ul» of the mails to defraud ard for transporting stolen securities across tne state line. Using' the alias Albert Watson, he aind another swindler, known as C. M. Jordlan, tricked Mrs. Lucy Sheridan into turning her investments over to them in 1939 in Chicago. Jordan has not been apprehended; Other Victims of Wheless. / * Three of /Wheless" mbre gullible 'Victims weve a man from Sussex, Kathleen Norris Says: I "%I ' ' . _ I • |'| -1, Iiir^ii Iiwy'-v The Despairing Bride T FLOATING STREETCAR Two soldiers had just managed to stagger aboard a street car, reports Stars and Stripes. One of therm turned to the nearest uniformed per* son and offered his fare. "Sorry I can't take it," replied the stranger., "I'm a naval officer." a "Holy smoke, Joe," shouted the , soldier to his buddy, "let's get ofYa here. We've boarded a battleship." - 7 Extremely Short r -Diner -- Some strawberry shortcake, please. ' Waiter--Here you ^r^, sir, Diner--Where are the strawberries? Waiter--That's.what's itme it will be Russian realism that ; will dominate. Insofar as easitern Europe is concerned and eastern Asia, should Russia enter the war - against Japan, Russia will stake the boundary lines. Self-pr^gervation of Russia, not self-determination of peoples, will be the guiding factor. ' Russia will takr back much of what she lost in the settlement of World • Wat I and in the war with Poland. In that, it is my guess, she will have the support of England. Joseph Stalin is a realist. There will be no federation of small nations of eastern Europe to threaten the Rus- . sian bear. . Sword of Damocles? 's over my head. ;,W-V - , ' A Hint??? •:• thinking of asking soirie girl to marry me. ' She--It's a good Jfleia, ifciyou ask me. ., "LUCKY GIRL income is at least double that of normal times. They want to spend . jhat increase but there is a de- • efease in the commodities they can auy. Such a condition causes m- . flation. Abnormal wage scales have meant excessive prices for war. products, a doubling up of the cost f of war. That calls for increased ™ tu*atior, and an increased issue of government bonds The taxation and purchase of bonds have fallen hardest upon those who have not profited from increased wage scales in war plants or increased profits from the production of war necessities. The increased wages in war plants has thrown the whole economic machin- • crj out of gear and produced the conditions out of which inflation is Worn. The place to have controlled inflation was in thewar,plant payrolls. ;• You Said It! • Jones--Did you understand what: •••-••.^joff'cJllide 'with European vfealisifi: f England, $160,000, November, 1930; j- yotir; wife meant when she said to i ' This time it will hot be France that a worfSan from Johannesburg. South j look out for the Sw--•* ' 1 ."•wiil name the peace terms. This Africa, $130,000, September, 192$; • Smith--No, that ••• > " -- ----- ---and a woman from Black River Falls, Wis., $50,000, May. 1938. Because of insufficient evidence he was not prosecuted on these charges.- With his face as tanned and weather beaten as a farmer's and his clothes rumpled, the defendant's appearance in court scarcely lived up to the postal authorities' description of him as "one of the most successful confidence men in this country." But when he talked it was in a soft-spoken and engaging manner. Although Wheless has admitted that he took in $1,000,000 by artifice and his criminal record dates back to 1905, he has served only two years for swindling. Prosecutor Finn pic- ,WAR PLANT PAYROLLS tured Wheless' last shady deal as AND INFLATION the most despicable in his long and WORKERS IN WAR PLANTS are ctooked career. •oiven increases in wages until their Recommends 15 Years. ' This woman was left this money* by her husband for her support," Finn said, in summing up the case. "She is now in St. Anthony's home in Dubuque, Iowa. That is a poor house. This man has spent his life at this sort of thing, and I recommenld 15 years." Prosecutor Finn said a $2,000 settlement has been recovered for Mrs. Sheridan from Mrs. Wheless, Who lives in the Puget Sound home. Asked by the court if he wished to say anything, the defendant pleaded that when he was arrested last month in Los Angeles, Calif., he was "practically living in an oxygen tent" and that he has gall stones, chronic thrombosis, and scores of other ailments. When Judge Sulli- J born The place to have controlled van pronounced sentence he sug- 7 ' • gested that Wheless be sent to an institution for hospitalization. - Wheless complained that "two years is the usual sentence for men in my line of endeavor." His "line of endeavor,' postal authorities assert. has earned him a beautiful 11-room house on Puget Sound and luxury trips to all parts of the globe. Ota these journeys, according to his wife, he took along nurses for his children--Arthur Jr., 22; Mary, 18, and Cara, 15. JMI Syndicate--WNU Features. IQVaaMWtfHi CHURCH SERVICES St. Hiry'i Catholic Ck«H§ ,: ;/. Masses:. \ ' Sunday: 8:00 and 10:30 Holy Days: 6:00; 8:00; 10:00. Week Days: 6:45 and 8:00. First Friday: 6:80 and 8:00. Confessions: Saturdays: 8:00 p. m. and 7:6&f». M. Thursday before First Friday-- After 8:00 Mass on Thursday; 3:00 p. m. and,7:00 p. m. Msgr. C. S. Nix. Pastor, R. De&OME ,j --Dentist -- ' 120 Green Street ffcoae 292-J. McHeary CMWee Hoars: 10 •.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Wednesday. ..Tuesday and Friday nights to 8:30 pja. Other boors by appointment. St. Patrick's Catholic Cftoreli Masses: <. Sunday: 8:00 and 10:00 Weekdays: 7:30. " ; First Fridays: 7:30. V ^ On First Friday, Communion 'di*: tributed at 6:30, 7:00 and befoi» and durinsr the 7:30 Mass. Confessions: Saturdays: 4:00 to 6:00 p. m: and 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. ..Thursday before First Friday^ 4:00! |*oint to 6:00 p. m. and.7K)^' tf 8:00i : r 1 ' :|tev. Wm. A. CRourte, pastor. Office Hoars--Daily Except Than. 10 to 12,1:30 to 4:30, Mon^Wed^. Fri. Nights: 7 to 8. Other Hoars by Appointment H. S. VAN DEN BURGH. DC., PhC , Chiropractor 120 GVeea St. Tel. 291-R. McHeniy TEL.'WONDER LAKE 158 DR. C. L. WATKINfii Dentist Office Hoars - ! Tuesday & Saturdays: 9 a.M, to S pjm.- ->• Ereninfd and Sunday Morninga by Appointment! . Wonder Uke-ttL u St. John's Catholic Chareh, Johnsbarg Masses:' Sunday: 8:00 and 10^06! Holy Days: 7:00 and 9:00. - v Weekdays: 8:00. >v First Friday: 8:00. ~ : Confessions: Saturdays: 2:30 and 7it§. Thursday before First Fri*iayI 2:30 and 7:30. . < Rev. A. J,' Neidert, paitor. J ^ DR. H. S. Veterinarfap Richmond Road rinm McHENRY, ILL. Y: HERE IS A MAN WHO KNOWS FARM PROBLEMS 1 do not believe there is any nian in America who has a clearer conception of the big and little problems of American agriculture than Wheeler McMillen. He knows the neeos of the dirt farmer through having been one and he is still operating a farm of that character. As <. rganizer and president of the Cheiriurgic council., he knows the fu-, lure possibilities of American agriculture. • He has been directly instrumental in.providing new uses for farm products. His urge is for greater farm production and in that increased quantity he sees the future of America. His value to the American farm is far greater than those who seek temporary makeshifts to increase prices of farm products. His efforts are to create increased permanent markets that will provide profitable prices. He is a safe and practical type for agriculture to follow. r. . CIVILIAN ACTIVITIES IN GOVERNMENT SENATOR BYRD S COMMITTEE - Jane--Well, Muriel married a man j With a pug nose. Joan--She waited long enough. Something had to turn up. JTictory Garden Joke 199,999 ""Preacher--Rastus, you and the | Lord have made a wonderful im-: provement'in that lot you're ^york- i ing on. Rastus--Yassuh, we has. But j youall should a seen it when de j Lawd was taken care ob it-by His- , self! ,' - _ And Buses Too? Joe--It's getting now so you have j to be careful about politeness at the movies. Jerry--What do you mean? Joe--I stood up to let a lady pass the other night and she slipped into my seat. Glutton for Experience Joe--So you're keeping bees, now. What's the idea? Harry--Well, I don't want to miss anything and I've been stung every other way I know. tells us the increase in the number of civilian employees of the federal government in the first six months Of 1943 amounted tor„something like 900,000 new names on the payroll, that, despite all the efforts of the «>mmittee to reduce the cost of the . civilian activities of the government. < They say withholding appropriations does not accomplish the desired purpose as the employees are simply transferred from the department* for which there is no appropriation -to others for which appropriations have been made, even though to do this economies must be made in other than personnel lines. It is to be regretted that congress cannot find a way of exchanging the white collars of government desk jobs for uniforms of the armed forces or the overalls of war production plants. Such an exchange would help to solve the manpower problem. • • • THE LABOR RACKETEER may be able to force obedience to his dictates on the part of union mem bers in most things but there is one place where he falls down. He cannot accompany the member into the ' voting booth, mark his ballot for him and deposit it in the ballot box. . The American secret ballot still works.; ' . * ' * • THERE ARE 90 MANY "ju&t as good" things offered us that scarcely miss the things we cannot get- Orders 'Ham on Rye to Go,' With It Goes $250 NEWARK, N. J.--George Pagonis, proprietor of the Mayfair Luncheonette, was somewhat downcast as he ruefully explained that he had heard nothing from the customer who was given $250, the day's receipts. through error. It seemS the customer ordered a "ham on rye to go" and received hia order in a brown paper bag. Later Pagonis picked up a paper bag which he supposed contained the $250. It held only a "ham Would-Be Bridegroom Is Taking No Chances ELBERTON. GA.--County Ordi- ' .iary (Judge) C. B. Thornton, filling i out a marriage license application, asked the prospective bridegroom the name of his fiancee. "Just leave that blank," the applicant said. "I'm courtin' two women and don't know which one I'll get, but I heard licenses were going to be rationed and I wanted to be sure to get one while I could," Well Remembered! - Harry--Did your rich uncle member you when he made will? . Jerry---1 guess so. : He left out. . re^ his Slight Encouragement Patient--How are my chances, Doc? Doctor--Pretty good. But don't start reading any continued stories. WARTIME DILEMMA She is mdrried to a soldier with very little educational background. During his absence she met another young man whom she felt was more her type. She wrote to her husband asking him to set her free. But soon afterward she discovered she was going to be a mother. The second man has gone to camp disgusted that she did not break from her husband sooner. Her letter is on the way, and so is the baby. At 18 the girl is so upset she feels on the verge of suicide. She asks Kathleen Corns' advice and gets it. Quite Evident Then there was the professor who told one of his class: "Erase the board so I can show the students what I have on my mind." Excuse Me! Hubby--That's delicious stuffing you put in the turkey, darling. Wifey--Stuffing? I didn't stuff it. I just cooked the turkey. FARMER'S SPELLING Thief Must Leave Wife For Prison Honeymoon GLASGOW. SCOTLAND.-Arrested by detectives who surrounded the, Glasgow church where he was imping married, J*rres Gray was sentenced to a 60-day prison honeymoon. Seized when he ^Fn&tged from the church. Gray was convicted of three thefts. A friend said he needed money to get married. Strahger--Which is correct, "a hen is sitting ' or "a hen is setting." Farmer--I don't care. The important thing when she cackles is "is she laying*' or "is she lying"? War Training Program* ^ Lengthen Teachers' Week -^ HAMILTON, N Y.--War workers aren't, the only ones whose hours • have increased since Pearl Harbor. Pridr to the eventful December 7, Colgate university professors worked a weekly average of 22 hours,;, now they're putting in 40 University officials say the increase was occasioned by the opening of two naval ! programs at the school, which sent 1 enrollment soaring to'200 above the . peacetime normal of l.OfiQ. ---Milkman's Helper Father--On her last birthday T gave my daughter her first front you think she's door key. Friend--Don't pretty young? >Father--Maybe, but I got awfully tired of having her knock the milk off the back porch. fie went off t$ camp and Ixiuis came home. When we mel again it was in lim e the knowledge that my marriage was a mistake grow daily stronger. By KATHLEEN NORRIS OU have'never received a letter from a more despairing heart than mine," writes Marie Porter, from a great war industries center in Michigan. "I have so completely wrecked my life, and my ^chances of happiness in life, that if we were face to face I could ftot tell you my story. But I can write it, and ask for advice, and I.know you will save me if you can. Many times I have thought of ending it all, but although I have not prayed for years I was raised in an atmosphere of strict religious belief and I hesitate to kill myself--it seems to me a grave sin. And I have not actually sinned, foolish and weak as I certainly am. I was 18 in June. "Seven months ago, working as a riveter, I met a young man who was destined to leave for the army last July. We fell in love and were married. I have no family, and his is in Oregon, where they have asked me to come and stay. Louis is a fine man, quiet, and without any educational or cultural advantages; his first letters were somewhat of a shock to me, for although he is 28, he writes like a boy of ten. But we thought ourselves in love and would not wait to try our affection by delay or absence. * "After he left I met another man, a different type. This man is vital, 'afhusing, successful and popular. He is far better educated than Louis. When I met him I did not tell him I was married; it seemed a joke then. It wias at a service dance; he supposed me to be even younger than I am. and as the few girls I knew didn't know anything of my private life, he suspected nothing. We went about together after that, always, may I say, with strict pro- * priety, and presently discovered ourselves to be really in love. This was quite different from the first affair; it caused me as much misery as joy, and I knew no one ever would mean to me what Jack did. He went off to camp and Louis came home. When we met again it was to have the knowledge that my marriage ; was a mistake grow daily stronger. j The frantic distress this caused me,, I you may imagine; Louis suspected ' nothing and was completely happy; we spent every hour of his leave together. He was being sent to Africa immediately afterward. I did . not have the courage to tell him of •my feeling for Jack, but when Jack i in turn tame home he persuaded me to write the absolute truth to Louis; that I had been foolish to i marry so young and so hastily, and that I wanted him to set me free. i I wrote quite a long letter, making ! it as gentle and affectionate as I ! could, and Jack and[ I began to plan , our marriage. Baby to Complicate Situation. Two weeks ago a dreadful suspit cion was confirmed by an old kind doctor who is here at the plant; I • am going to have a baby. I know noth ng of babies, I have never had anything to do with one, and I am Sick with nervousness and horror at the mere idea. My letter to Louis is ion its way. may not reach him for weeks, and Jack has gone, gone without one word of good-by, disgusted with me, and no wonder! Having no home and no family I do not know which way to turn; I Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Divine Service -- Nine o'clock. Sunday School -- Ten o'clock. Rev. R. T. Eisfeldt, Pastor. Community Church Sttiiday School: 10:00 a. m. Worship Service: 11:00 a. m; Junior League: 6:30 p.m. Epworth League: 8:00 p.m. Rev. Mack Powell, pastor. McHENRY FLORAL GO. -- Phone 608-R-l -- One Mile South of McHenry on Route 31. Flowers for all occasions! •U St. Peter's Catholic Church, j 5 Spring Grove | Masses: Sundays: 8:00 and 10:00. Holy Days: 6:30 and 9:00. Weekdays: 8:00. i First Friday: 8:00. 'Confessions: Saturdays: 2:30 and f:1&. Thursday before First Friday: and 7:16. . Rev. John L. Dalekfen. Pastor. Phone ii. Vecgon J. Knox ATTORNEY AT LAW -- OFFICE HOURS -- • Tuesdays and Fridays Other Days by Appointment M c H e a r y . . . . . I l t i a a f e 2:80 Outstanding Designer Duncan Phyfe was the first outstanding furniture designer in America. Born in Scotland, he came here with his parents at the age of 16, settled in Albany and eventually went into business for himself. He came to New York in the early 1790s. won the patronage of the John Jacob Astor family, and by 1800 was the foremost furniture designer of the country. Fat Collections ;; Present collections of waste kitchen fats are about 85 million pounds annually. Sead the Want A4i» WITH WAR BONDS And Dad Knows! . Sonny--Say, Dad, how soon will I be old enough to do as I please. - Dad--Son, nobody has ever lived, that long! Mosquito Bomber The fighting Mosquito bombar--> "the fastest airplane of any type in operation with any air force in the world today"--is built entirely of wood, a number of 'he parts laminated. • . • • • House Dress Roomy, comfortable armholes and necklines, short sleeves that don't bind, adequately full skirts, practi cal pockets that won't catch on door> knobs are points tq consider for your house dress. can go on working until after Christmas-- then what? Divorced from Louis, with a baby to support, what can I do? I think and think, and my head spins around, and I feel ill and giddy most of the time. Jack s consternation when I told him left me in no doubt of what he feels; he said that I should have told Louis the minute he got home, and all this could not have happened. Please advise me and save me from despair." Poor little 18-year-old, you have certainly made a sad mess of your life so far! But 18 is not very old, in fact, twice 18 is not very old, and you have time ahead to grow wiser and build up to happiness and selfrespect again out of this wreckage. The first consideration now is your baby, and if ydu don't realize that • today I can assure you that you will realize it in March, when you have the little creature in your arms, i Since Louis is the father, and Louis loves you, the best first step is to write Louis the truth. That you met Jack, liked Jack, liked him even to the point of considering marrying him, and that it was under that par- ; ticular emotional stress that you wrote Louis to ask a divorce. Write Husband About Plans. Go on to say that everything is changed now. A new responsibility ; --a new prospect has come. There is going to be a child. And for that child's sake you are never going to see Jack again, you are going to live quietly, planning for the baby in the spring, and waiting for Louis to come home. Say that you are sorry, and hope he will destroy your letter and forget it; remind him that you are very young, and confused by ; the exciting conditions in which you are living in war time. He will write you forgivingly, I'm sure. If you can possibly go to his parents early in the new year, I would do so. And if you do go to the farm, and it sounds a corpfortable place, make them love you; set yourself to winning them, and to being a good wife and mother. As for loving Jack; you are no more sure of . that than you were of loving Louis only a few months ago. At 18 you are hardly sure of any emotional reaction, let alone two love affairs. You have plunged much too young into the realities of life, and life revenges itself upon you by presenting you with its most poignant reality; that of motherhood. Nothing matters nbw except that you fit yourself to meet this challenge as worthily, cheerfully, normally as you can. You are-making a high salary, put aside something every week for your expenses when the baby comes: look about you for some place where you can | board, and perhaps board the baby, too, and go on working afterward. ' Girl Must Grow Up. If Louis writes you coldly, indignant at your v&ccilations, as well he may, face that situation, too. In other words, try to grow up and be a woman, rather than a bewildered child stumbling from one mistake to another. Don't say anything more about a divorce, should Louis angrily agree to one. Instead write him cheerful letters about yourself, about his parents and his home, and eventually about the baby, and let all serious decisions wait until he comes home again. Wonder Lake Ev. Luth. Church r (Missouri Synod) Sunday school--10:00 a. m. Divine services--3:00 p. m. H. L. PFOTENHAUER, Pastoif Grace Lutheran Church Richmond ^nndav School: 10:30 a. m. Adult Service: 11:00 a. m. John W. Gable, pastor. Ringwood Church Ringwood, 111. Sunday--Public worship, 9:30. Church School, 10:30. Choir Rehearsals--Wednesday evening. Mrs. Kenneth Cristy, director. A. WORWICK PHOTOGRAPHER Portrattwr* - Cantaerchl Photography - Photo-Finishing Enlarging - Copying - Framing Phone 275 -- MveieHe Drive , McHENRY, ILL. : I ; FARM L1FB McHENRY LODGE A. £. & A. M. McIIenry Lodge No. 163 meets thfe first and third Tuesdays of each month at the hall on Court street. 11% INSURANCE EARL R. WALSH i Presenting | Reliable Companies j *Vhen jrnu need insurance of any IW 43 or H8-M Green 4t Elm McHenry Fighting Musicians The 34 men who made up the original United States Marine Corps band when it was formed in 1798 set the standard of "fighting gnusicians." Many of those first bandsmen fell in battle aboard U. S. warships during the French Naval war of 1798- 1801. Ever since then the musicians have been recruited for general duty and must qualify as fighting marines before earning a musical assignment. 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Phone 56-W McHenry Fire Losses " About 8,000 lives a year and a million dollars of* property a day are destroyed by fire. • Bomber Cameriifc-: V Bomber cameras are synchronized with bomh release mechanisms so that the bombs can be photographed at every stage of their flight, and by means of a flash bomb '.the target is illuminated at the pre- | cise moment when they at Throw Food Away Enough food has been wasted in American homes in a year to feed all the men now in military services of the U. S: and provide fof &(!«d- Lease shipments of food. ' ': ~ Children Like Simplicity Play materials for children can be simple and inexpensive. Many of the best are available at little or no cost -- dirt, water, grass, wood, stones, sand, pebbles, pine cones, ; scorns and leaves. Winterize Your Car Now! Wartime transportation is essential transportation. Don't risk your car's breaking down--keeping you from work or blocking the roads! Rely on us to give your car a thorough pre-winter check-up--to enable it to do it's part in winning the war. CENTRAL GARAGE FREp J. SMITH, Prop. Phone 200-J Towing > Johnsburg