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PAGE TEN THE FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD Farm Homes Are Leveled By Fire Of Allied Guns A mocflbre caricature of hell Hitler. It was the way he fell. Rifles, ammunition and iron helmets are strewn everywhere but you don't touch anything. Remember booby traps. Live Battlefield Then there is a sharp reminder that this isn't an old battlefield but a very live one.

Planes buzz busily back and forth. All your own. They have the same impersonal air as the I eunfire, It seems as if they might Editor's notr: Hugh Baillie, i merely be practicing as they do president, of the United Press, is mj around the big air fields back home. Sicily and in the following: dispatch But there are heavy rumblings from presents an eye-witness account of' tranquil looking Catania. Brownish the battle of Catania.

BT.HLT.H BAILLIE United Press Staff Correspondent With the British 8th army, bo- gray smoke up lazily from the town, Men are dying. Men are losine limbs and eyes. But after Hollywood movies it- fore Catnnia. July seems rather undramatic. It is all sec Catania over there on i way over there in that riviera look- the opposite hillside, so near and ing town or down in that plain which yet, so far, shimmering in the hen1.1 resembles the San Joaquin valley, hnze.

whitish town ton-Being'There is one effect you don't find In down to the lower bastion of Mount movie theatres however. That is the Etna. smell of death. In between ynu nnd (ho town lies Some distance off you find the the Catania plain, a brown land-1 headquarters of a famous division, scape dotted with green trees. And Prom it emerged a figure familiar to down there on that, plain are the all, Americans and British alike.

You British and German armies. can't mistake that beret, that sharp Thr German line through a planer. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont- long ridge which looks wooded and comery gets around over lot of pleasant.

The British are down there territory. on the brown plain somewhere but you can't sen them. He has a quick, cordial manner. In i response to I.he reporter's universal However, their batteries are he-! question, "What's doing," he men- hind you. The sharp crack-crack of tions his personal message just artillery comes intermittently, fol-j issued to troops which sums" up'the lowed by the abrupt yell of shells i situation.

Montgomery wears shorts arching overhead. There are and a short-sleeved kiiaiki shirt. His Then rapid drifting: where the shells hit. looks like a smudge from fires. sometimes many shots in i arms are lean and brown.

His beret succession. You see smoke bears two army badges. It. Montgomery radiates alertness and eagerness, "The Americans are go- "Bloody Ridge" Capture Epic Event Of War BV IIAROU) V. BOVLK With the U.

S. Infantry on Bloody Ridge, Sicily, July capture of "Bloody Ridge," an almost perpendicular hill mass ban-ins; the American advance east along the northern coast toward the mountain village of San Stefano is an epic battle of the Sicilian campaign. This natural rock-studded fortress held by Germans entrenched with machincguns in protecting draws and ravines was stormed and taken yesterday in blinding heat, Twice the day before American troops were beaten back by unbearably heavy fire from trie nazl defenders, but the third time up they took and held it through a fierce counterattack during which four American machinegunners. one whose arm was blown off, died at their flaming guns. Officers of American outfits who fought in north Africa said the taking of "Bloody Ridge" was comparable to the seizing of formidable Hill 609 in Tunisia, whose fall paved the way to the capture of Mateur in the, closing days of the campaign.

Here is the story of "Bloodv The bridge you stroll over is an U11J 0 occasional target for German guns t. There are shell holes around here rt sed a 8 I efirl and there. The farm houses in the i 11 myself ln that Flying Fortress vicinity are smashed as if by earth- lalldl yesterday. We burned out the brakes rushing down a short quakes. That is the look of the battlefield and rural except for the smashed houses.

You get used to the runway and finally the pilot slewed it around just in time." This remark accompanied by an noise. The banging behind you and engaging grin, was made half the screaming shells overhead seem impersonal. The armies are But there is plenty of the stink of battle. One sharp bend in the road nearby is called, most appropriately, "dead horse corner" and you know why when you whiff 'the breeze. There was sharp fighting here recently and the evidences re- nain.

Graves are here. and there, ind rough crosses, some with hel- nets stuck on them. Several very dead Germans lie in attitudes relaxed, like men deep in sleep. One has his right arm over his head in OLD PHOTOGRAPHS ENLARGED or REDUCED make appreciated rifts Bring in picture for THE BILGER STUDIO Freeport, Illinois GLASSES Correctly Prices SILVERSTONE OPTOMETRIST 302 Smith Building Main 156 Ridge" told to me by'the boys who captured it. Pvt.

Jerry Wolfe, New York City said: "It, was tough taking, but, we took it; and we will kick hell out of anybody who tries to take it from us." He looked at my military guide, Pvt. Henry Mills, Altoona, and said, "you were up here yesterday, weren't you?" Mills nodded. "Well, then you know how it went. We started up with a battalion yesterday morning and got driven off. Then we came back up again and got bounced right off.

We came up a third time yesterday now we're here to stay." As we moved up the twisting path we passed German helmets, ammunition, pieces of uniform, all abandoned. There was a heavy burnt smell still lingering from grass fires started by American Sheehan Pipeline Construction Co" I artill ery fire which ha'd blackened jokingly, then he climbed into his open car and was off about his business or battle. Leaving he gave a characteristic gesture, a half salute, half hand genial gesture. Sheehan Company Has Finished Pipeline Harrisburg, TIL, Aug. announced today completion of its portion of the Indiana section of the 20-inch oil pipeline being laid parallel to the recently completed "Big Inch." Like the 24-inch conduit the smaller line will be used to speed deliveries of Texas oil to the east coast.

The company also has the contract for the 25-mile section from the Wabash river to Norris Citv 111. Export Trade With Argentina Halted Washington, Aug. U. export trade with Argentina was virtually suspended today with a blanket revocation of individual export licenses by the Office of Economic warfare which indicated the whole picture of such exports will be reviewed to make certain that shipments to the Argentine go only to "satisfactory consignees." Georgia is the 20th largest state in the United States and the largest east of the Mississippi river Women Who Work: YOU are invited to call on us for any extra cash you may need. You'll find friendly folks here who will help you in every way they can.

A regular income qualifies you for a loan. Summer Needs most of the countryside. Two soldiers came down the trail leading a pack only way water, food and other supplies can reach the troops on the top except on their own backs. "We are lucky any of us are alive were up here the whole day under heavy fire without food or water," said Pvt. Frank Larosa, Brooklyn, N.

Y. Tough Battle "One young German who had been in the army for two years and had fought at Stalingrad said that thus was the hottest fight he had ever been in," said Skt. Jack Howard, Norman, a machinegun- ner, who paused to rest with Pvt. Augustine Salvetti, Lawrence, Mass. "Before the thing was cleaned up two of our Robert B.

Fuchs who lives near Kit Carson, and Corp. Lonnie Lewis of Lawrenceburg, to do a little souvenir-hunting. They heard a rustling in the bushes and tossed in a hand grenade. Six Germans ran out and tried to get away up the hill. They shot four and the other two gave up." "Seah, these Germans come at us like ants nnd we mow them down," said Pvt.

Paul Andujar of Puerto Rico. "Yesterday we killed 50 or 60 Germans. We like to kill them." Bloodstains on a rocky ledge showed where one Nazi died and in the last 100 yards from the top of the ridge more than a dozen German machineguns lay among the rocks. advancing Germans until the gun jnmed. spurgin flushed, and said: "What I did was nothing.

Tell the folks back homo about those boys wh'o didn't get away. I saw one of those gunners with his left arm blown off pull the mnchinegun closer to him with his right arm nnd keep on firing until the Germans shot him through the head. Tell the people about him." This company which had the heaviest losses of any of those participating was led by strapping Lieut. Joe M. Robertson, Lamar, Colo.

He was Immensely proud of the way his boys fought. Platton leaders were Lieut. Rob- ert.son Included Lieut. Charles A. Stanley, Anderson, Ind.

5, Sergeants Kill 8 Germans By Firing Shells From Guns BY HAROLD V. BOYCLE With 'American Troops Atop Bloody Ridge in Sicily, July with his braced against, an olive tree, Sgt. Russell Glad of Stratton, one of the men who fought their vay up the rocky slopes of Bloody Ridge, in an historic battle, told me low a fellow sergeant, killed eight lei-mans with eight for ach bullet in the clip of his Garnd rifle. The feat by Sgt, Herb Fish of Canon City, was praised by his officers as one of the most remarkable feats of courage and marksmanship against odds of the entire engagement. "While we were charging up the hill a German shot at Fish and hit him in the helmet," said Glad.

"The bullet went through his helmet and lining but circled inside and came out the back without even piercing his skin. The impact knocked Herb off his feet however, and stunned him for a second. "He was lucky to be was a miracle the bullet didn't kill or seriously injure it made him madder than a wet hen. "The German who had ruined his helmet came running out laughing and shouting to the other hidden Germans to come out and see the American he had knocked over. "That gave Fish the break he wanted.

Quick as a cat he rolled over and came up with his Garand in business position. His first shot dropped the guy who had put the hole through his helmet. "The other Germans were caught flat-footed too. Fish began working them over with his rifle and every time he pulled the trigger down went another German. Tney scattered and tried to get back at him but they were in a panic and before they could put a bullet very close to him Fish had knocked off eight of them.

Eight eight that's some plugging." Congress May Check Spending Of Public Funds Washington, Aug. Roosevelt's renewed request for "stiff" increases in made in a review of the revised $105,869,000,000 budget for this fiscal appeared likely today to be countered in congress with bi-partlsan demands for closer scrutiny of government spending. Senator Wherry told an Interviewer he believed the huge financial problem ought to involve reduced government outlays as well as enactment of new taxes. Expenses must be curtailed if we are going to keep America financially sound," Wherry declared. Similarly, Senator Radcliffe Md.) said he thought congress was preparing to look much more closely 'nto future army and navy requests.

Senator Taft predicted congress will have trouble in finding additional revenue sources for the "truly stiff program of additional taxes, savings, or both" that Mr, Roosevelt said ought to be enacted. 1 Tn a aid 1l seemed impossible on Dasls of S'urcs compiled by the Joint congressional committee on internal revenue, to obtain more thnn about. $3,000,000,000 in direct new taxes. He said the committee's figures showed that the federal government will take $13,450,000,000 Deaths in taxes out of corporate profits calendar year. $21,400,000.000 in in the present The Ohioan said he doubted this tax total could be increased more than $1,000,000,000 at the outside, with about $2,000,000,000 in new revenues obtained from individuals from miscellaneous sources.

The administration has been searching around for additional. In his first budget summation in five years, the president disclosed Saturday that while the over-all war spending outlook remains unchanged, the army now is expected to use $6,000,000.000 less than the $62,000.000,000 estimated for it last January, while the navy's share will be tipped $4,000,000,000 to $28,000,000,000. Congressional circles viewed this as perhaps indicating greater offensive power was being sought for the Pacific theatre dominated by the navy. Explaining that strategy has been more fully shaped since he sent his previous figures to congress, Mr. Roosevelt added that battle casualties have been fewer and material losses lighter than expected.

Official sources emphasized however that the recasting of the program does not represent any major shift in global strategy. The summation placed total government spending during the fiscal year at $106,000,000,000, of whicti $38,000,000,000 will be covered by receipts from present revenue laws, leaving a $68,000.000,000 deficit that William N. Word was received early this morning by Jimmy George Furst. 433 West Douglas street, of the death of his father, Sergeant William N. George, radio technician and gunner on a Flying Fortress, who is reported killed in action on the Italian front, July 16.

Sergeant George is survived by nfe son and his mother, Mrs. Walter George, of Chicago. MM. red Lubbers Word has been received by Freeport relatives telling of the death of Mrs. Fred Lubbers, which occurred recently at Tyndall, S.

D. Mrs. Lubbers is survived by her husband; two sons', John Lubbers, of Tyndall, and Walter, in the U. S. navy; three daughters, Mrs.

Alfred I. Meyer and Mrs. Melvln Stanlcke, of Freeport, Miss Ethel Lubbers, of Rockford; her mother, Mrs. John Johnson, of Freeport, and six sisters, Mrs. Jake Busker and Mrs.

William Burfelndt, of Dlxon, Mrs. Jnke Cordes and Mrs. Raymond Zimmerman, of Freeport, Mrs, William Boomgarclen, of German Volley and -Mrs. William Schmidt, of St. Louis, 111.

Donald R. Sea ton Pecatonica, 111., Aug. was received last night of the death of Donald R. Seaton, who passed awny at Woodstock, TIL, Sunday night n't 10 o'clock, following an illness of three weeks. AUGUST 2,1943 Luck Of Illinois Air Pilot Finally.

Runs To End; Death Avenged A United States Somber Station In England, July Lieut. John Johnson, 25, of East St. Louis, 111,, brought his crew and the Flying Fortress "American Beauty" back from Kiel June 13 without a scratch after fighting off attacks from more than 200 German fighters, There were amazingly few enemy fighters over Kiel when Johnson's group next attacked Nazi shipbuilding installations there July 25 But a 20 mm. shell from a lone Focke-Wulf which attacked the "American Beauty" killed Johnson. His crew was known as the "luckiest bunch of guys" in this station because in a.

dozen tough raids over Germany and France they'd never suffered a single wound. This contrasted sharply with the severe casualties suffered by the group In this station which alone lost ten bombers In the June 13 Kiel raid. But Johnson's luck began to run out on his 13th round trip to Trondhelm July 24. With one engine knocked out his ship straggled from the formation, but the pilot coaxed her home safely. Tell of Tragedy Next day his crew returned from Kiel told with tears in their eyes how Johnson's left arm was almost tf I Hi WIVil MllllUrtl.

He was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. C. torn off by a shell which also in- Seaton, of Pecatonica Oct.

15, 1902. fiicted a wound In his right lee His marriage to Alice White occurred Dec. 24, 1927. She survives as do two Navy Bombers i 1 st the national debt to Pound Munda, New Guinea and New Britain Allied BULLETIN Headquarters in the Southwest Pacific, Aug. Navy bombers hacked away Sunday at Japanese barriers commanding the approaches to Munda.

The bombers dropped 27 tons of explosives on gun positions and supply dump areas around the strongly-fortified central Solomons airbase. For the second the communique consecutive day from general Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said nothing about how American troops were doing around Munda. Five barges were destroyed off Cape Gloucester, New Briitain, and FREEPORT THRIFT NM.Y FMAHCC SEMVKI COMPANT In a peaceful olive grove so quiet ft connaissance plane bombed Lae, it looked like a picnic ground lav a New Guinea wit unreported suits. Fires were started in enemy oil installations at Boela, Ceram island, northwest of New Guinea. New Walkouts Cutting Down Working Force Baltimore, Aug.

walkouts resulting from admission of ne- groes to riveters' training classes at the big Sparrows Point shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel company cut the working force to an estimated 20 per cent today, but the union announced a settlement shortly afterward. Manager F. A. Hodge said the white riveters reported to work at group of dirty, tired American soldiers who had borne the brunt of the German counter attack. They were eating rations and reading mail as fast as it was sorted by orp.

Eugene s. Price of Sterling, who put letters for those slain the day before in a separate pile. On one side of the grove lay six freshly dug American graves with dogtags hanging from temporary crosses made from ration boxes. On the other side of the grove a weary young German soldier was digging graves for the bodies of Nazis which littered the ground. Started Yesterday "Our company took this position yesterday and we took 38 Germans 000,000,000 by next June 30.

Spending in the past year aggregated but $5,000,000,000 for receipts of $22,000,000,000 left a deficit of $58 000,000,000. Bishop Spellman Has Hopes Italians Will Find Way To Peace New York, Aug. Francis J. Spellman expressed the hope today that Italy will find it possible to accept the children, Donald Shirl, 10 years of age and Judith Alice, 4 years old, his father, W. C.

Seaton, and two sisters, Mrs. Verna Holden, of Pecatonica, Mrs, Mayree Clark, of Milwaukee. Funeral services will be held in Pecatonica Wednesday, the time nnd place to be announced later. Henry Fred Bcmiinp Rock City, 111., Aug. Fred Benning, 66, passed away Saturday evening at his home in Rock- City.

He was born in Hageclorn. Westphalia, Germany, Dec. 2, 1876, the son of Henry and Wilhelmina Benning, and at the age of 9 came with his parents to America. On Feb. 11, 1909, he was united in marriage to Miss Ida Tielkemeier, who died Dec.

9, 1938. He is survived by one son, Milton Benning, of Rock City; one foster daughter, Mrs. Alvin Henze. a brother, David, of a sister, Mrs. Minnie of Dakota; Rock City; Henze, of Davis; one Jerold Lee Henze.

One brother and two sisters preceded him in death Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the home and at 2 o'clock at St Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church. Rev. R. E. Schwarze will officiate and burial will be made in the church cemetery.

Albert Mann Winslow. Aug. Mann died early today at the Monroe, hospital as the result of a stroke suffered last Wednesday He was born Oct. 27, 1861, in Germany and came to the United States in 1888, settling in Lafayette County, where he engaged in farming. He later resided near Warren and Winslow.

In 1884 he was married to Augusta Gadow, who proceeded him in death Feb. 19, 1921. He was a member of the Lutheran church. Surviving are four sons, August, of Orangeville; Otto, of Lena; William and Emil. of Winslow, and three "Co-pilot take over," Johnson yelled three times as the shell struck and the bomber went into a nosn dive, the crew said.

Flight Officer Robert L. Carson, 24, of Fort Worth, although momentarily stunned and wounded slightly in the nose, righted the ship. Other crewmen with great difficulty finally dragged Johnson from the pilot's scat to the catwalk behind nnd administered first aid. An hour later Johnson died calling until the last for "June," his wife. He was the fnUier of a daughter born two days after he left St.

Louis. The Focke-Wulf which killed Johnson was shot down, the crew said, by tho top turret gunner, Sergeant Randal E. Cowan, 22, of Fritch, Tex. Eighteen Divisions Of Nazis In Northern Italy Madrid, Aug. German army estimated at 18 divisions garrisoned points in northern Italy today with apparent confidence that, if Marshal Pletro Badoglio rendered anything, he could render only that part of Italy lying south of the Po river line.

Nazi troops have been on the move nil during the last week of shilly-shallying by the Badoglio government, according to advices to Madrid. Strong German units were ported today to have occupied the upper Adign river scene Driver Is Injured As Truck Overturns Near Mr, Morris Mt. Morris, 111,, Aug. Ressler, of Oelweln, suffered injuries abotlt the right arm and face when the truck load of stock he was taking to Chicago overturned on route 64, about a mile east of Mt Morris near the grange hall, at 4:45 o'clock this morning. The accident occured when the driver apparently fell asleep.

Ressler was brought back to Mfc Morris by Chief of Police Hal Palmer. Seven stitches were taken to close the wounds on his right arm and face. At noon today Ressler was resting at the Kablo Inn, expecting to return to his home tomorrow. Seven of the forty-one hogs in tho truck were injured, and efforts were being made to obtain permission from the OPA, government agency, to kill the animals. Howard Ely, owner of the truck arrived in Mt.

Morris during the morning took charge of the shipment. U. S. Civilians (Continued Prom Page 1) nomics reported that compared with 1942, civilians in 1943 would get more per capita of pork, eggs, chickens, fluid milk, fats nnd oils, fresh citrus fruits, canned Juices, dried fruits, potatoes and dry edible beans. They will get less beef and veal, lamb nnd mutton, fish, most dairy products other than fluid milk, fresh and canned vegetables, sugar, rice, tea and cocoa.

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Slcphcnson Ill Telephone Main 3371 Hours: 8 to 5:30 1' Dally. Saturday. 8 to 8 I' M. First below Roosevelt and Prime Minister of Gen. of furious fighting in the World above and Trento, itself 70 miles south of the Brenner pass.

Homeward movements of Italian troops in northern Montenegro, Serbia also were reported. Greece and and Albania Funerals but we've only got 35 left," said Pvt. 7 a. as the yard re-opened fol- Lewis Hendrickson of Shelbyville, Ind. 'Three tried to get away.

We shot two and one made it. They counter attacked us with three 600 drove us back 200 yards. Then we reorganized and came right back and mopped up on them. They are still running," One soldier told how Pvt. Hubert of Craig, jumped to no gun, pulled aside the body of iiis fellow soldier and fired at the lowing a shutdown ordered last Fri- DwiRht D.

Eisenhower. "Italy's surrender would bring nearer the peace, for which the world yearns," Spellman said. "It would spare the lives of American, British and Canadian soldiers, as well as Italian lives and Italian cities. It would spare the lives of many soldiers and civilians of all nations, it would also provide an opportunity and a challenge to the to the United Nations to show how James Morris they intend to keep faith with the' Funeral services for Lieut. James T.

Morris, who was killed last Thnrs- day in a plane'crash near Bush i Field, Augusta, where he was a 1 flight instructor, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the United Brethren church, Rev. H. I. Newell, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Oakland cemetery.

The body will arrive late today and Wednesday at 1:30 o'clock at the Burington funeral home in ville, an at 2 o'clock at the odist church in Winslow, Rev. L. H. i Beto, of Lena, officiating. Burial will be in Christian Hollow cemetery, west of Winslow, Stevens Hotel Goes On Block In September Washington, Aug.

largest hotel in the world goes on the auction block next month. The war department announced last night that the $25,000,000 Stevens hotel in Chicago, bought by the army a year ago for a mere $5,500,000, will be offered for sale on Elizabeth, will officiate. Burial will be made in the Rock Grove Union cemetery. Pallbearers will be Miles Mitchell, Paul Bcrger, Ernest Trues- sfl, Walter Vehmfiier, Harry Hansen and Charles Wagner. Smith roofers cover caves and gable edges with satin smooth galvanized edging.

This keeps the roof line straight, prevents sagging, and further enhances the roof's eye appeal. It tones up the appearance of the whole house. If you NEED a new roof see Smith's. free within 50 world, with their words and themselves." Spellman returned last night from a tour of the war zones and visiting the Vatican, The archbishop said that his visit to Pope Pius XII "was for me the happiest, and saddest experience of mv life." in the vision of the weight of the twice the time intended. He was unable to visit India and China as day after a series of walkouts, but cross he carries." refused to work.

The men were Spellman said his journey took asked to leave the yard, he said, adding there were no disturbances. Shortly after noon, the interna- he had desired. His tour took him tional union of marine and ship- to Kuprope, Asia, Africa and South building workers notified the company that the riveters agreed to abide by the terms of a strict seniority agreement reached by Bethlehem and the union over the weekend. tomorrow until 1 p. will remain closed.

m. The casket America. Spellman explained that he traveled at all times as a private citizen and as military vicar to the catholics in the armed forces of the United States. Mrs. Grace L.

Kramer Dakota, 111., Aug. services for Mrs. Grace L. Kramer, who died Friday night in a Freeport hospital, will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at thr Myers funeral home in Dakota, and at, 2:15 o'clock at the Dakota Community church. Rev.

E. W. Coller, pastor, and Rev. J. M.

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