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MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE SATURDAY. JULY 24, 1943 Death Takes Mrs. Emma Foster, 63, Of Cedar Valley West Liberty Mrs. Emma Foster, 63, a long time residen ol Cedar Valley, died at her home at 9 a. m.

today following a lingering illness. wag bora near on April 8, I860, the daughter of William and Lavina Grain came to Iowa with her parents when two old. The family settled in the Cedar Valley com- munity'and Mrs. Foster had resided ever She wag married to John Foster at the home of her parents in January 1900. Mrs.

Foster was a member O'. the Presbyterian church and the Adah Rebekah lodge which she was a past noble grand. Surviving, husband, are one son, Dale or Cedar Valley, one sister, Mrs. Edith Stratton ol West Liberty, two brothers, Milo of Everly, and' Harry Cain of Iowa City, and five grandchildren. The body is at the Snyder Funeral home in West Liberty funeral arrangements which are incomplete.

Legion Convo Is Expected to Attract 4,000 Des Moines Wartime travel restrictions notwithstanding, the usual attendance of between 4,000 and 5,000 is expected for the 25th annual convention of the Iowa department of the American Legion here Aug. 8-11. By train and bus and by "doubling up" in private automobiles the veterans of the last war, augmented by some who served in World war II, will pour into the capital city. A feature of the convention will be the address Aug. 10 of Hoane Waring, Memphis, national Legion commander.

The oceaj- ion will mark the first official visit of Waring to Iowa. New officers will be elected Aug. 11. Informed sources predict that Dr. Charles R.

Logan, Keokuk dentist, will succeed Dan O'Brien of Des Moines as stet commander. Headquarters already have beer established at the Fort Des Moine hotel, convention center, by Keating of Des Moines, genera chairman of the assembly. Commander O'Brien has ex tended an invitation to any serv ice men of the present war whi may be home on furlough or dis charged because of disability ti attend the ar lowans) ivh have served in World war II, now members of the Legion. The customary parade will no be held this war casualty Due to transportation difficultie. many of the older musical, organizations couldn't attend and som of the younger ones have been disbanded for the duration.

Legionnaires will visit For Des Moines, where the WACs wil stage a review and those who make reservations call at Camp Dodge, where members of the 88th division of World war I anc many other lowans trained for duty overseas in yesteryear. Lieut Col. Orson Powers of Camp Dodge has invited the national commander, state officers and others to join the mess line at noon Aug. 10 just as tfiey did in their days of service. The veterans will be shown through the induction center.

Entertainment will be provided each night and the usual memorial service will be held. In no sense isolationist, the Legionnaires are expected to adopt resolutions pledging all out support to the the preservation of the American way of life and efforts to bring about a lasting peace. K. P. Lodge Will Lend Support to Hospital Group Cooperation in the Schick hospital camp and council organized here was voted at a business meeting of the Knights of Pythias Friday night.

Fred Johnson and Charles M. Mason were appointed as the lodge representatives on the council. Plans were-made for the Grand Lodge of Iowa session to be held at Cedar Rapids Aug. 23-24 -and 25. Delegates to the session will be Clyde Bouguess and Floyd Whitlow, both past chancellors.

Alternate delegates selected were Fred C. Grensing and William A. Ehoads. It was voted to draft a resolution which will be presented to the grand lodge session and copies of which will be sent to" all the lodges. C.

H. Rosenberger, past chancellor, William Spieth and Floyd Whitlow will serve on the resolution committee. City News A special meeting at the board ol education is scheduled for Monday, July 26, at The budget for the' 1843-44 school year'will be'considered. permits toUlllnf 1190 Were issued office of I. V.

Howenstine, city engineer. Albert Burr received a permit to repair a room at his residence, 814' Pine street, at an estimated cost of $40. 'F. Grooms, 1116 East Eighth street, was issued a permit for a composition roof on a residence at a total cost of Mr. and Mrs.

Boy Glass of Chicago are week-end visitors at the of Mr. Glass' mother, Mrs. Minnie Glass, 309 West Second street. Members of the Red Cross motor corps who have just completed the advanced first aid course under the direction of Miss Ruth Hartwig may receive their certi- cates fay calling at 'the Red Cross office, it was by Mrs. J.

R. Gibson, executive secretary of- the chapter. Those who have completed the course Leona Swank, Mable Nash, Lucille Graham, "Florence Dora, Genevieve Cobksey, Dorothy Naber. Verna Ager and Elizabeth Sattertrnvaite. Mr.

and Mrs. Edward H. Anderson of Nashville, arrived this afternoon for a week-end visit with Mr. and Mrs. Russell, 920 Newell avenue.

Mrs. Anderson is the former Miss Betty Blagg. Mr. and Mrs. William Moore of Detroit, Marilyn, Lack of Demand Quiets Wools at Boston Market S.

Agr.) of offerings of foreign wools and absence of demand for fine and hall blood domestic wools combined to make a very market in Boston this Approximately- 60,000,000 pounds of wool have been appraised for purchase by commodity Credit Corporation to date. Re-sale of these wools to manufacturers has been active'lor medium grades. Marsala Falls As Yanks Swing East (Continued From Page 1.) Moose Band Will Present Concert At Park on Aug. 1 Members of the Muscatine. Moose lodge band will play the" first in a series of public concerts at Weed paifc at 7:45 p.

in. Aug. 1, under the direction of Fred Mannhardt, it was announced today by Maurice Toyne, band manager. and daughter, of Detroit, are spending their vacation with Mr. Moore's Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest Moore, 314 West Fourth street. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gran'and daughter, Barbara, of Iowa City are spending the summer here with Mr.

Grau's mother, Mrs. Fred Grau, 1091 Lucas street, and with Mrs. Grau's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Moore, West Fourth street.

A freak stalk of asparag-us was displayed at The Journal office today by U. C. Lake, Houte No. 4. Spiro John Callas, 305 East Second street, passed' his physical examination at Camp Dodge this week and will be a member of the group of 26 Muscatine county to report for induction the armed forces early in Au- just, it was announced today by selective service board.

Gerald TL. LltteH, 607 East Third street, -was fined $5 and costs on a charge of intoxication and William H. Davis, 818 Cedar street, will be arraigned on a like charge Sunday morning in Police. Judge B. L.

Coffin's court as a result of their arrest by police Friday night. Members of organizations interested in the local committee of the Schick general hospital camp and hospital council who desire to visit tht hospital ab Clinton oh Wednesday, July 28, which is Visitors' day, must contact Red Cross headquarters at the Hershey building. Arangements must be made through the Red Cross not later than Tuesday noon to obtain admission to the hospital and for transportation. A son was horn to Mr. and Mrs Earland Schultheis, 800 East Sixth street, at Bellevue hospital Friday.

Mr, and Mrs. Nlles Hanson, 806 East Fifth street, announce the birth, of a daughter at Bellevue hospital today. Mr. and Mrs. Loran Tetrlck, 304 East Eighth street, announce the birth of a son at Hershey hospital Friday night.

Staff Sgt. and Mrs. Charles H. Curry of Camp Crowder, announce the birth of a 'son at Carthage, July 13. Sgt.

Curry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Curry, 916 East Seventh street. Mr. and Mrs.

Dale McGawan of Waterloo are spending several days' with Mrs. McGowans' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Barry, 2019 Mulberry avenue. Admitted to Hershey hospital today were: Mrs.

Florence Weaver, Fairbanks, Dayton Keckler, 901 East Eleventh street, and John Chatterton, 518 East Fifth street. Those dismissed were- Mrs. Weldon Pace, R. R. 2 and Mrs.

Chester Dickey and infant son, R. R. a. M. W.

Moore, 1619 Mulberry avenue, was admitted and dismissed. Those admitted to Bellevue loospital today include: Mrs. Ruth Lange, 110 1-2 West Sixth street, Calvin Brener, 104 street, and Donald Tierney, )26 Mulberry avenue. Mrs. Edith Gage of Letts was dismissed.

F. M. Ziegler, who underwent an appendicitis operation recently reported recovering home, 811 Cedar at his Priato Leonard, former naval commandant at is en route to England as a prisoner of war. Reports reaching allied headquarters. indicated Allied forces in central Sicily, from the west by an American armored.

drive into on the island's north coast, were on the move northeast of Enna. From that position they could bear directly upon the western flank of the Axis army now blocking the British drive up the east coast at Catania, either pressing the nazis within range of the big guns of the Allied fleet off the east coast or plunging Messina and cutting off the only escape route remaining open. Lieut. Gen. George S.

Patton's American forces were left free to thrust eastward Friday by the fall of Palermo, a drive that-may have trapped western Axis forces estimated at 45,000 men. The west coastal city of Trapani Italian base remained to be overrun by the swiftly-striking American column but allied headquarters apparently considered this a mopping up and consolidating action. (A German radio commentator, acknowledging in a Berlin broadcast that Palermo had fallen, said also that Axis forces had been withdrawn from Marsala and Trapani. Report Axis Leavinir. (Reuters quoted a Stockholm dispatch as.

saying Axis forces had evacuating. Sicily. The report, not confirmed by Allied sources, was based on a dispatch to the Svenska Dagbladet from Berne, Switzerland.) In splitting the Axis forces and toppling Palermo, the Americans applied their, modern tank and plane tactics. One column stormed into the Sicilian -capital from the southwest, another from the southeast, and a third cut northward to trap enemy forces withdrawing. toward the east- Meanwhile, German forces defending 'Catania and the northeastern tip were thrusting savagely at Gen.

Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth army. The bitte battle which has raged at Catania's southern environs for eight days, has reduced' the northward drive to the British veterans to a yard-by-yarj progress. Canadians Advance. The Canadians, advancing eastward the American Seventh army, reported swinging rapidly around the German west flank at Catania.

Paul- Kern Lee, Associated Those In Service REV. DUHAN AT HARVARD Lone Tree, Rev. Henry Duhan, who is now an army chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant, is taking a 4-week training course at Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass. His address is Lieut. Henry Duhan, Section Section 14, Harvard University, -Cambridge, Mass.

YAKISH COMMISSIONED Lone Tree Elmer Yakish, who waa graduated recently from the armored force officer candidate school at Fort Kriox, and as a second lieutenant, visited Wednesday, at the Harold Yakish home. Mrs. Yakish accompanjed Lieut. Yakish to Lone Tree. After visiting relatives at: Des Moines and Davenport, Lieut.

Yakish will return to Fort Knox, where he will attend a tank maintenance school. Students Enjoy Swimming WILLIAM HOPKINS William Hopkins, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ford Hopkins 508 Fletcher avenue, has enlistee in the navy and will leave Tuesday from Davenport for the nava training station at Farragut, Ida PVT. CURRY TRANSFERRED Pfc.

Vern H. Curry, son of Mr and Mrs. Wesley Curry, 619 East Seventh Street, has been transferred from Sheppard-field, Tex. to Tyndall -field, Fla. His new address is: Pfc.

Vern H. Curry, Pool suqdr. brks. 4, Tyndall Field, Fla. Sgt.

George R. Curry, another son, has been transferred from Jefferson Barracks, to Camp Adair, Ore. His address is: Sgt. George H. Curry, Service Btry.

25 F. A. Carnp Adair, U. S. Army.

Press Corespondent, report'ed the Germans are strongly dug in around Catania. He said their force there is estimated at more than three divisions, including the tough Hermann Goering armored division, reenforced by long-range coastal guns, and- large field pieces. The Germans are especially well entrenched about a mile and a quarter north of the Simeto river on the Catania plain south of the city with denses stretching back to a depth of several miles and with thinner but fairly strong defenses facing northwest and west, he said. Maytag Company To Dedicate New Shop at Newton Newton With officers from the' Ottumwa Naval Air station, treasury'officials and representatives of other branches ol the armed services 'present, the Maytag company's new foundry will be dedicated Sunday afternoon. At the same, time, Maytag plant workers will receive the flag for reaching their bond quota.

MEYERS FUNERAL HOME N. W. MEYERS WAITER RUBY 401 E. SEVENTH ST. PHONE 805 Livestock Feed Ceiling Prices Will Be Raised Washington The government is expected to announce soon increases in the ceiling prices of protein feeds for livestock such as soybean meal, penut meal, cotton seed meal, tankage, and fish and meat meals in a move designed" to encourage their more efficient use.

Present ceiling prices, which have in most cases been in effect for more than a year, are considered by the War Food Administration to be out of line with the general feed supply situation and with the food production program. Prices now are such, officials explained, as to encourage excessive feeding of a limited supply of protein feeds to some of livestock particularly classes hogs. To produce efficiently foods such as milk, eggs and meat, high protein feeds for livestock are needed. The WFA believes that somewhat higher prices would tend to cause farmers to use the protein feeds more sparingly and efficiently. All student! at Iowa Wesieyan I college at Mt.

Pleasant enjoy th faculties of an excellent Indoo swimming pool. Here a grou of co-eds are seen receiving In struction at the pool which provided through the physical ed ucation department at the colle? This is the pool which will available to some young man. women from this communil through a $100 scholarship to th college which is being offered The Journal throug the cooperation of college offlc Those who have never attende college and desire to apply for the scholarship are urged to ma the accompanying blank to Th Scholarship Chairman, at Th Journal office, to obtain'an ap plication blank. These blanks wt be considered by a committe which will select the winner. Erma Former Muscatine Woman, Succumb Wore! has been received her of death of Erma K.

Bucklej at a hospital in Independence, La at 4 a. on Wednesday of th week. Mrs. Buckley was a for me'r Muscatine resident. She was born in Muscatin county on June 28, 1905, and ha spent all her life here until 1940 She was married to Ray Buckle, on Dec.

10, 1924. In addition her husband, she is survived seven children, Lois, Frieda, Marvin, Rozella, Wand and Juanita, all at home; he father, Roy Middleton; thre brothers and three sisters. Funeral services were conduct ed at 2-30 p. Thursday at In dependence with burial in an In dependence cemetery. Thunderstorms Probable Here Showers and thunderstorms to night and through Sunday fore noon were predicted by the wea.

ther bureau today for Muscatine and vicinity. No decided change in temperature was anticipated. The higher temperatures which it was predicted would reach hert today had not materialized, the noon temperature today being degrees, as compared to a noon reading of 84 on Friday. The minimum overnight mercury reading was 88 degrees. The river continue; falling the psst 24 hours, the level here today being 8.7 feet a drop of -3 of a foot since Friday.

Upstream point? reported continuation of the river's drop up to .5 of a foot fall at Prairie du Chien. Associated Press messages reported spotted rainfall over the state Friday night, ranging up to 1:65 inches at'Atlantic, following a day which saw the temperature up to a high mark for the state of 95 degrees at Inwood, in the northwest section. MAGNUS LAUNDRY ALWAYS (UNO 90 TO: THE MUSCATINE JOURNAL NEWS TRIBUNE SCHOLARSHIP CHAIRMAN MUSCATINE, IOWA Please send me one of the application forms for the scholarship award to Iowa Wesleyan College. I intend to compete for this award. I am a graduate of High School wHh the of-.

NAME ADDRESS Joliet Jeweler Robbed By Fleet Diamond Thief Joliet, (SP) young man looked at a'tray of diamond rings at a jewelry. store, tried one on, then told the clerk, Mrs. Lucille Scherblick: "I like.this one very much. In fact, I like them all." Snatching the tray, he fled out the'door and escaped in an auto parked nearby. Proprietor Leo Seligman told police he valued the 14 rings at $5,000.

Motorists Must Get OK To Gas On Vacation Any motorist planing to gas coupons for a vacation trip must file application with the local rationing board for authorization. to such a trip, it was announced today by Clarence Halm, secretary of thr- Muscatihe rationing board. The'applicant must designate the starting time, the destination and the speedometer residing at the time of departure. The board must be satisfied that no other means of transportation is avail 3, able and that the applicant has sufficient coupons tor the round trip. A written authorization for the trip will be issued at protection to the motorist should he be questioned.

Holders of books do need this authorization if the round-trip is not over 90 miles, since 90 miles of personal driving per month is allowed to all book holders. Holders of and ration stamps not use their coupons for vacations. These measures are taken as a precaution against black markets, Mr. Hahn stated. 3 Need Troops For Wheat Harvest In North Dakota Bismarck, N.

D. A group of North Dakota agriculture leaders, called for a by Governor John Moses, pared today to press official Washington quarters for the. immediate release of troops to aid the state- in the harvest of the great wheat crop which 'Is maturing vapidly. The group was advised that specific need of labor must be certified to the war department before troops would be authorized. Data will be gathered immediately.

3 Governor Moses said that" Undersecretary War Patterson had advised his army "can- and will" send troops to North Dakota on proper certification by Department of Agriculture the manpower commission. Facing severe shortage of manpower and equipment. North Dakota is asking 30,000 troops ol which 10,000 are asked by August 1 and the remainder, or more iJ needed, when the labor becomes more acute. "And we'll do it out the cry of Doolittle's martyred Air Corps men! 'AND WE WILL! Could any of us men down! We, 131 million Americans, can keep our faith with those who kept their faith with us as they stood before a Japanese puppet court. We'll bomb Tokyo itself 150 million dollars strong.

When can we start? TODAY! Every purchase, of war stamps this month is to be ear-marked for the building of a new aircraft carrier to be christened the actual "Shangri-La" to carry planes and bombs to Tokyo. dollar you can span tWr month will hasten day it his flyin9 buddies and for att. PUT YOUR DOLLARS TO WORK NOW! BUILD THAT SHANGRI-LA! MUSCATIN?.