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,1^4 yi /*v ~\r*Vf"Hii'.V^r5^ -* ?*P • ^>'-57?™ " " ' J? "' •IJ 'V 1 *• McHElfRY FLAIKDBALMt li|i Urm •* itr '^r«v-: \ Build Giant I/. S. fiase in Marshalls fighting Erfgineers of Navy Doing Great Job. NAMUR, KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall islands.--a powerful American naval aid air base is rising at a brisk pace out of the wreckage 6f Roi and Namur islands, until 9 few days ago a pair of Japanese 'ftrong points in the Marshalls. .Seabees, fighting engineers of the Mvy, are using giant bulldozers to 'tlish construction of the bomb and shell-smashed islands. Heaps of dead Japs, airplane^ wreckage and .damaged fuel tanks are being cleitred •way. . .The only hunting left for the ina- ,fines of the Fourth division who took ne islands are a few Japanese hidring in the thick underbrush on the northeast point of Namur, known as coffin corner, where the fighting was hardest. The leathernecks now have time to tidy up their fox holes, while on the beach 15 specially trained 4(>gs are exercised occasionally. • No sea or air opposition has been (Offered by the Japanese yet. Not a single Japanese plane or surface ship has been sighted in the vicinity. Actual fighting on Hoi lasted four hours and on Namur 24--and more . than 120 hours have passed since the attack on the Marshalls began. "Seabees coming ashore right behind the marines found one of their greatest rehabilitation jobs waiting for them. After incredible heavy naval aid aerial bombardment there was hardly a spot on the islands where bombs and shells hadn't left devastating marks. Only one woman was found on the islands. She was a native crouching in a tunnel. Indications are that tljere were as many as 500 working on the islands before the invaders ttruck. They fled to outer islets, crossing on reefs, without getting a scratch. One of the few Japanese prisoners taken apparently was a firm belie vin homeland propaganda. He 'feragged to a marine: "Well, you took this island, but you'll never take Pearl Harbor.*'-. Violator's Trip Makes His Fine Easy to Pay LADYSMITH, WIS.--A flying game warden, Jack Priegel, spotted a man ice fishing, landed his plane on the ice and picked up Tony Glenn for an air ride to court here. Glenn paid the court $16.35 for illegal ice fishing. He said he didn't mind paying the fine as he felt the free airplane trip was worth it. RINGWOOD . (By Helen Johnson) j rrahk Walkington and family of ( Libertyville called on Mr. and Mrs. j i B. N. Walkington Sunday afternoon, j Mr. and^Mrs. Nick Young and ^Irs. [ Joe .Weber and children of McHenry J j spent Friday at Burlington, Wis. j Mrs. Carlton Fay of Chicago spent J the weekend in the Frank Fay home. J The W. S. C. S. will meet with ' | Mrs. Andrew Hawley on Friday, Aug. j- 'is. • ; • * •• _ • Elijah Coates of Crystal Lake Blazing LJOCrSltOr i spent Wednesday and Thursday with iTwie* Told Talti Fliers Caught in V I «CT« to the rear of his shop on Water street. He lias found the steel tanks and feed cookers "which are making tiie Arm of Engeln & Son famous. Grow Vegetables I No Snakes Gl?T,plenty 8reen and yellow ( No makes, no toads live in Im. vegetables and don't forget those land. Swans grace the rivers con which can be eaten raw. ' graze on old abbey grounds. Sons of Five Generals Fighting in Marshalls WASHINGTON. - the American forces invading the Marshalls included the sons of five marine corps generals. One of them, Capt. James L. Denig, son of Brig. Gen. Robert L. Denig, director of public relations, died in the action. The others in the battle were: Lieut. Col. Alexander A. Vandegrift Jr., son of Lieut. Gen. Vandegrift, commandant of the marine corps. Maj. Richard K. Schmidt, son of Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt, commander of the fourth division, the ttdarine unit invading the Marshalls. First Lieut. Joseph C. Fegan Jr., son of Major General Fegan, commanding officer of Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Calif. Second Lieut. David A. Brewster, •ion of Brig. Gen. David L. S. Brewster, now with the first marine amphibious corps in the Pacific. Canada Will Use 5,000 Germans in Lumber Camps WINNIPEG, MJCN. -- More than 5,000 German prisoners of war from the large internment camp near Lethbridge, Alta., have been assigned to work in lumbering camps of northern Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, it was learned from reliable sources. More than 1,000 German prisoners are now working in lumbering camps of northern Alberta, half of them near White Court and the others in the Lesser Save take area. They comprised the first working parties to be sent out. : About 400 more went to lumbering jgfunps in the Thunder bay regions li>rth of Lake Superior. The next movement will place 500 German captives in the forests, generally northeast of Quebec City. The prisoners are paid 50 cents for an eighthour day. ;|SeU Vengeance for Two Brothers Slain by Japi BOUGAINVILLE. -- Staff Sergt. William.Baker, Oakland, Calif., has exacted vengeance from the Japanese for the deaths of his two brothers. Philip Baker was killed by ^IfDmbs at Pearl Harbor, and Robert "went down with the carrier Wasp. Sergeant Baker was a member of a 13-day patrol through the jungles led by Capt. John McCurdy, Des Moines, Iowa. He was in charge of a platoon which killed a Japanese patrol of eight men. "They had their day; now I've had mine," Baker said. He has spent 13 years in the army and is now with the Thirty-seventh <trmy division on this island. Won't Pray for Peace; Brother's Fixing That SEATTLE, WASH.--Lieut. Wally McKay of the marines, home on leave, was puzzled by the almost idolatrous admiration of the schoolmates of his six-year-old brother Larry. The teacher explained that last week first graders were asked to pray for peace. Larry refused. "That's taken care :pf," he explained. "My brothter's in the marines." ( Caraway Seed Serve oaraway seed in sauerkraut, with soft cheese, over cottage-fried potatoes And onions. * Vanilla' lee Crcaa, lee cream contains all ot the •Utritive elements of milk. It is rich .the very best of proteins and contains liberal quantities of vitamins as well as calcium. Vanilla ice Cream is made at about 80 per cent •ream and milk products ft per c«nt sweeteners. 1 his sister, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich. Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon of Others in Crew Save Them : Antiojph called on Mrs. Jennie Bacon • -T. * p , - 1 Sunday afternoon. * Alter crash Landing* - I Mrs. Thomas Doherty w.as hostess i ' to the Bunco club Thursday after- A UNITED STATES BOMBER ! noon. Mrs. Oscar Berg an3 Viola BASE IP^ ENGLAND. -- Torn by i Low were awarded the prise. ground fir* and with three of its en- i Jack Brennan of McHenry spent gines gone, the Liberator Liberty i Sunday afternoon and evening with Bell crash-landed near a southeast his mother, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr. England town after attacks on the, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Whiting and Mrs. French coast. For three hours the Roland Jackson and daughter were pilot and four fellow-crewmen bat- j callers in the Beatty-Low home Montled to save three others trapped i day afternoon. in the blazing wreckage with the j Mrs. rom jepson ^ . pueRi in bodies of two dead officers • 'the Lee Huson home at Libertyville Thirteen men went out on the Lib- , for th„ weekend. ESS?. ^returned ahve A Mr and Mr* John Skidmore and ££ family were callers in the John Zbom b bay, igni.ti ng ^the %N o. %3 einn gitnhee ; E. hlert home at Spring Grove Sim- aft-moon S? fSd"No°2 ^inen.tr°1S °' ^ krs Wiedrich. Mrs. Lester The pilot, Lieut. Keith Cookus f Carr and »tee Wi^rich were callers Bonham, Texas, ordered the high- ,n ^ke afternoon, explosive bomb load released. The ,, Hamson spent several days bombardier, Lieut. Woodrow C. Cole I **st week with friends in Chicago, j of Hollywood, Calif., had to hang^on ' . Iss Krumpen of Genoa • to the bomb bay to release one bomb 1 spent Wednesday with Mrs. Geo. j that had stuck because the catwalk i Shepard. ^ j was blown away. | Mrs. George R. Harrison is spend- j The blazing engine exploded near | two weeks with her daughters the English coast and was still byrn- Crystal Lake. j ing when, at a 50-foot height, Lieu- [ Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cristy and j tenant Cookus veered to avoid hit- ' Jerry visited friends at Waukesha, ting a house and the plane crashed Sunday. j in a field. The navigator, Lieut. | Lillie and Edith Dari>y, Mrs. Bert j Franklin A. Campbell of Detroit, and j Doolittle and Barbara Jean of An- ! the top turret gunner, Sergt. Her- ! tioch and Mrs. Walter Harrison i man Becker of Woodbury, N. J., ! spent Wednesday with Ella and Rose! Were injured by gunfire, "but I want i Bufton of Kenosha. j their mothers to know they aren't ; Frank Hawley of Chicago, Eleaserious and will be okay," Lieuten- nore Bacon of Crystal Lake and Mil-! ant Cookus said. | dred Roscoe of Park Ridge were j > ; c/dlers in the L. E. 'Hawley home! Contrite Robber Gives Sunday afternoon. j C If It AC* n V- •* Clayton Bruce of Starved Rock was i deli Up After 7 Tears home for the weekend. NEW YORK.--Christopher Hill, j Cadet Audrey Merchant of Elgin j 28 years old, went to the Ozone ! spent Wednesday with her parents,! Park police station in Queens and | Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Merchant. i told detectives that seven years ago [ Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bauer were call-1 he had participated in the robbery i ers in the Charles May home at of a tailor shop in Richmond Hill, Richmond Friday evening. Queens, stealing $22. j MTS. Cora Flanders and Mrs. Nick My conscience bothered me," he j Young spent Monday in McHenry/ .. . ^ A , I Mrs. James Linkman and daurh- HUinow iv«u.Cro»n-on-Hudson of c u, ^ ralM 0I, & o^n April 3, 1937, Charles fL e^be r, S22 »"<" Mr»- s- W. Smith. Monday, M. w- ' e. years old, was arrested, convicted a<™p« Tetioira u p ,enJlon' and sent to Sing Sing, but Hill was p ®.nd JJ™ not caught. It was his only criminal 2*™% and fam.ly Mrs. offense, he told Judge Thomas Ha"^0n, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Downs when he was arraigned in S?1 and family and Mr. and Mrs. the Queens county court. Judge ! rA]?c®^, rn8®n a n"e<* the pic- Downs set the case down for disposi- !l,c r members of the McHenry tion in the March term and Hill was i ^as^ern Star chapter and their fam- SIXTY YEARS AGO A. L. Howe has come out with a new covered milk wagon, and will now deliver you milk in regular city style. . Hon. F. K. Granger is buying wool and ife paying the highest market price for a good quality. The prices range low this season, rwenty-five cents b«ing the top figures. ' Owing to the great labof of get? ting our new press upstairs and getting it in running order, we are again one day late this week. The railroad company are making some good improvement® around the depot, and some which have been long needed^ They have raised the depot, are building new platforms all around and extending it further south, planking between the tracks and filling up with gravel all around. THIRTY YEARS AGO McHenry can now boast of one of j the best little country stores to be j found anywhere. We refer to the1 general store of F. A. Bohlander on | the west side, which recently was en- I larged to almost' twice its former size. 1 Butter on the Elgin board of trade! Monday sold at 27% cents per pound, i A handsome new front is being: con- ] ; structed at the Hippodrome theatre! in Centerville. j The Gage house on the west side, 1 one of the old landmarks of this j village, is being refreshed, with a! new coat of paint. * i TWENTY YEARS AGO A Ford truck, owned jointly by William Ghreen and Bud Vogt, caught fire on Green street last night, but fortunately the blaze was extinguished before any real damage resulted. A number of the property owners are now connected ftp with McHenry's new sewer system and from reports scores of connections will be made during the next few weeks. , Some of the roads leading into McHenry are in very bad condition. This I is particularly true of the west road, I from the railroad tracks to the cej ment leading to Woodstock. The band stand now occupies its j new site on the McHenry park on Pearl street. erience * When persons get sick they goto & dan, when they need advice about legal matters they seek a lawyer with a reputation for knowing the few. The same rule should apply when one has trouble with his car or truck. See to it that the repair is made by trained mechanics. This garage bears that reputation. CENTRAL GARAGE FBKD J. SMITH,,, Prop. , " Phone 2004 »* , . Towing Johnsbnrg FIFTY YEARS AGO Dr. Jos. L. Abt, late of Chicago, has located in this village for the practice of his profession. His office is in the Nichols block, over the Plaindealer office. The effects of the railroad strike have struck McHenry. Workmen on the new school house were obliged to stop work on Monday on account of not - being- fkble to get material over the railroad. Mrs. J. G. Fay has been siclc the past few days but is now reported ac much better. Wm. Paige, of Chicago, is spending a few days with his son, on his farm southeast of this village. Need Rubber Stamps? The Plaindealer. Older at FORTY YEASR AGO The employes of the Borden factory enjoyed an outing at, McCullum's lake last Thursday and they surely did enjoy it. The committee on streets ^nd alleys is doing some good work in filling up the chuck holes and low places in the streets with a good quality of gravel. Butter remains firm at 17 cents. - A year agot the price was 20 cents. M. Engeln is building an addition (ostlvtolds* Cl/T EGG PRODUCTION Cjnm Mit Mmitgk Umm tab (itar wHV ittm ti IM TNI MINK fcwMiMdbwteitwhlw B*)p« rabrrai •Yaptaaa. Wotim IwMl l^iMt KM ll--lfan. IM bIsml or is VAKV8P&AY. STRAY WITH VAPO-SPRAY Omhail of tHc bird*. Rapidia MttM, kifk in uiturptic »nd is* '•hrtntri 0«t VAPO-SPRAY NOW, aad U pt* Bolger's Drug Store Green Street McHenry 12A£) 3£|r For Truck and Passenger Can " FIRESTONE TIRES AKD TUBES We have a complete stock of both passenger and trade tires. -: You can now have your tires retreaded without an OPA order. Bring them in. TIRE AND TUBE VULCANIZING Trade in your old battery on a new FIRESTONE. We allow $2.00 for your old one. OFFICIAL TIRE INSPECTION STATION MAIN ST., WEST M HENRY PHONE 294 'V •s V N O R T H E R N I L L I N 0 I S - T H E L A N D OF O P P O R T U N I T Y released in $1,000 bail ilies at the home of Mrs. Valeska Hoppe at Wonder Lake Sunday. Blind Youth Arrested ; Mrsisi!cllrd Jnd . _ . _ _ 1 children, Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Mrs. As Burglary Lookout: Helen Johnson and Janet were call- WASECA, MINN.--A 21-year-old !ers in the p- C. Leonard home at blind youth, whose highly developed j La^® Geneva Sunday afternoon, sense of hearing enabled him to j ^r- an<* Mrs. Frank Buchert and serve as ft lookout while his 16-year- J frank, Jr., of Richmond called on old partner in crime footed business. Mrs- Jennie Bacon Sunday evening, places, wjus under arrest here, . j Mrs. Walter Harrison and Earle Sheriff R. G. Lowe said the look- jtook Miss Lillie Darby to Antioch out, Wallace Hagen, and his buddy j Thursday, where she is visiting Mr. had confessed to two burglaries here I and Mrs. Bert Doolittle and family, last month and to theft of a car at ! Miss Amy Harrison of Madison Little Falls, Minn., January 12. , spent the weekend with her parents, Hagen was blinded seven years {Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Harrison/ ago in the explosion of some dyna- j Shirley Walkington of Libertyvitle mj!g ^aps. j is spending the week with her grand- N«tm«r youth kad any record ap parent#, Mr. and Mrs. B. If. Walk ' serious offenses, Lowe said, but the , ington. minor was to be investigated on how j Miss' Norma CV.ison of W- cdstock he maaaged an ejrteimve automo- |g visiting Carol Harrison this week. «£? WCS- *"lelary. ch*Tge? W1" I Miss Edyth Darby was a guest 0' be filed against the pau-, the shenflf j Mig8 Helen Mobt ^ Dekalb for the * • " 'Weekend. » w* • ' .. I Mrs. Ruben Nelson and sons, Dick Diet of Poison While |ad Bobby, of Waupaca, are visiting ^in M-K!! SL „( W,u- CHICAGO.-Shortlyy before he was kesran called on Mr. and Mrs. Fred scheduled to appear m Felony court : Wiedrich, Jr, Monday evening TJ. Mecher, 23 Sy e0a rsa UotMld 2M6 iK0ihmn- ,' Mrs! Joe Weber and children of McIlonry t Wednes. with her ball avenue was found dead of car- ;parents Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young, bon monoxide poisoning in a car: m, j u.„ u lr , . parked In £*,nt rf 2645 Kimball ave-!, nue. A hose from the exhaust led 1 ii f,.. f „ .. HI into the car iWatt,e* of McHeniy were supper The automobile in which he died f"!?8 in ,the Chanc«y Harrison home was stolen Sunday night from in i M.ay tJ1"1 w v front of the Palmer House. It be- I .MlR8 ^«y McKean of Chicago is longed to J. M. Bergold, a navy lieu- I Harrison this week, tenant. ' Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wiedrich, Unaware of her husband's death, Henrietta and Merle, of Harvard his wife, Dorothy, was in Felony were callers in the Fred Wiedrich,. court when her husband's tifese was ®r' home Monday. ! Mrs. Rose Jepson has gone to Armstrong to spend two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Dewey and fam-. ily. Frank Smith is spending a few called, waiting for him to appear. Threw Table, Dinner and The Dog, Woman Charges „ LOS ANGELES. -- Mrs. Paul H. i <***« week in the R. C. Harrison Owsley was given a" divorce from j home. her husband, a pipe organ execu- i Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foss of Mount tive, on her testimony that he liked Vernon, N. Y, spent Friday with Mr. to throw things. He started to throw an^ Mrs. George Shepard. things soon after they were married, she said. "He threw the dishes, the clock, the table," she testified. "Then he threw the table with the breakfast' on it. Later he threw his dinner at my daughter. Finally he threw the dog across the. room." Her daughter, Sandra, seven, she said, lived in constant fear of Owsl «]r. •" • .•'• - -j* Old As China The, cultivation of sesame oil is as old as the history of China itself! Population Growth Before World War I the population of Europe was growing at the rate of about 10<>per cent a decade but the ravages of the FirsfWorld war nearly wiped out that rfatural increase between 1910 and 1920, so that the populaUaa rose 2 per cent.. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Treon, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hienze and Mrs. George Harrison called on Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Peet Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Haberlien of Chicago spent the weekend at their home here. Loren pnd Edyth Harrison spent Saturday evening at Woodstock, Mr. and Mrs. William Heine aid Mrs. Matt ha Page of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ainger aad children of Greenwood were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard for dinner Sunday. MM Smfcfca Since November 10,1778, when tha U. S. marine corps was organized, more than 8,000 Smiths have enlisted. Close to 5,000 Smivis are serving in the U. S. tnarine corps today. Over 100 Smiths have been casualties to da«a. i v i i t l f ^ % ^ .• ^ v>.v >\ « "v •«: \ £ \ > v>-'& \ I*-; ^ NICHWAYS /- V? * r. How this<<liub of Iransportatioii^fits iilto your plans of tomorrow From north and south, from east and west, America s lines of transportation come tOkg^t^r in the central area of Northern Illinois. * Converging here, are twenty-two great trunk-line railroads and seven airlines -that reach every pan of the United States. A network of highway transportation covers the area, and transport by -water is available on Lake Michigan and the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterway. Yes, manufacturers in Northern Illinois are fortunate in having unexcelled transportation. It is faster, costs less because they the shortest distance for national distributions From this area, products can be delivered to nearly one-Uaif tbf option's population in forty-eight hours or less. . Post-War Products Ceater 's Poduag (mIm: firaot CentroJ Market •aNat jW Ii I• aP • V,i [Utta< JUafrie Lew-Cast Becfrk Pmmt PUBLIC SERVICB COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 7#%