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PAGE TWO MONITOR-INDEX AND DEMOCRAT, MOBERLY, MO. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1944 Fresh Walkouts In Labor Disputes; 60,000 Are Idle By The Associated Press Strikers returned to their jobs today at all five north.err New Jersey plants of the Wright Aeronautical corporation, but fresh walkouts kept the number of idle in the nation at a total of between 60,600 and 63,500. The government may "at any moment" take over in the Midwest truck drivers strike, Attor-1 ne General Francis Biddle said at In. this dispute over alleged non-compliance the Midwest operators Association with a War Labor Board wage increase order, the Army estimated were idle. Area AfTected The area affected embraced Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, North and South Dakota, and Northwestern Wisconsin In addition a "sympathy walkout" ended truck shipments.

out of Tulsa, Okla. An operators' spokesman estimated 3,000 out there but the AFL-tea'msters union figurea it'at only about 300- Another and similar trucking dispute ended when 774 AFL-dnv- Returns to Duty Drscheln Drivers' Return To Work Ends 3-Week Tieup Cpi. Thomas W. Hitt. has returned to Camp after a furlough spent with his mother, Mrs.

Thomas W. Hitt, and his sister. Mrs. Kenneth H. Megoivn.

of Renick. Cpl. Hitt has been In the Army years and spent 25 months in the Aleutian Islands. Makes Visit Here The three-week strike of union drivers employed by Orscheln truck lines ended shortly after 3-30 o'clock yesterday afternoon when L. A.

baugherty, business- agent for the local union, received word from union officials directing a return to work, Daugherty was advised that the region; al board would bring the issue in dispute to a conclusion in ten davs. Wednesday the regional board in Kansas City termed the tie- up "an illegal strike." Later it was announced that the board had fixed 2 o'clock yesterday as the deadline for drivers to return, to work. Before that hour a union official in Indianapolis said drivers had been ordered to go back to work immediately. It was later in the afternoon, when i'Daugherty received the. work or- Letter From Maine Commends Work of Moberly's Canteen The fine treatment of service "Then, by contrast, came the men passing through Moberly, in stop at Moberly.

contrast to treatment received i "Your town's treatment of other places, was commended in these men did them Mr. a letter received yesterday by Regan continues, "but to Moberly Ready for Duty Mayor Martin J. Kehoe from James D. Regan of Sebago Lake, Maine. it did an even greater honor which will be everlastingly to its credit.

Your act of kindness and Mr. Regan had read in Time humanity will never b'e forgotten (news magazine) the story of the I by those Marines as long as they hospitality received by surviving 1 live, and we throughout the JPvt. Joseph Winscott, 18- Year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Winscott, 300 Chandler has been spending a 14- day furlough here on his way members of the famous First country who feel as you citizens Marine Division, who were re- of-Moberiy do, owe you a great 'turning from extensive combat in! debt of gratitude for having the Southwest Pacific on their Again His letter follows: "I have just read with disgust in this week's Time that for the 1st Marine Division at Tucumcari, N.

"there was shown them that there are towns like yours in the land that appreciate at its full value what they have done and are doing for us. "Mv heartiest congratulations to you and your fellow-townsmen Vt, j. I.VI J-w '4- time for a beer at the station and women on your fine spin. Fort McClellan, to I shot to 40c. hotel; on the first round it cost a quarter; by the second the price War Bulletins LONDON, Aug.

11 Nearly ap Lan- 500 American heavy bombers cas- a i Lan semi armor pier cing explos- agreed to nnmcd- azi an ers in caster, are iate resumption 01 work, after the Army indicated it would take control. To Meet Tonight In Detroit the ClO-United Automobile Workers arranged a mass meeting tonight in an effort to end a stoppage of 7,000 at the General Motors' and axle division. Chevrolet gear The War Labor ives on stubborn Nazi troops and armor opposing American ground forces which were advancing four miles from Brest this afternoon. ON THE ORNE RIVER FRONT, FRANCE, Aug. 11 -Masses of German troops with tanks were fighting for their lives tonight in the great bulge west of the River Orne and Field Mar- der.

The strike here. began Camp Breckenridge, Ry. Pvt. Winscott, member of the Infantry, has been 'in the ser- and my best wishes for the happy and prosperous future that your town so richly deserves. in the July 18, was not a part of the i ce since February 10.

He was dispute involving truck lines i employed in the Kraft Clieese eight midwestern states, includ-; company at 'the time he entered in Missouri. service. Orscheln Bros. Co. is not a I member of the association of in that dis- company has wage awards operators involved pute.

The local met labor board which are the basis of the eight- state tieup. The local dispute involves overtime pay for layover time of drivers. Orscheln officials say a labor board conciliator ruled overtime claims should be paid the basis of a check of the drivers' cards, which the company Big Sheep Exhibit At The Bullesta was growing more acute. A prisoner captured on the Caen front said Von Kluge had ordered a general retreat. Board after a hearing in Washing- shal Guenther Von Kluge's plight ton yesterday ordered the walkout ended immediately so production of aircraft engines, tanks and tanks and heavy trucks could pro- heavy trucks could proceed.

A new stoppage kept 1,500 idle at four plants of the Warner Gear Muncie, Ind. but settlement was announced of a dispute af- that sector and lhat tee Canadian Second-Infantry Division, veteran of the Dieppe raid two years ago, forms part of til2 Canadian First VY SPenCCr AXa Buffalo, X. Gains Qf up to a mile and a The status quo continued in more than a scora of other disputes, keeping idle. at'ieast 23,000 Yankees May Trap 300,000 Nazis (Continued From One) Combat teams made rapid progress in the Brittany Peninsula to the rear, completing the capture of the Loire River cities of Nantes 'and Angers, and wiping out all resistance except at one stronghold, The Citadel, in St. Malo on the coast, thus cleaning up three of the six large centers, of Nazi resistance on the Brittany rim.

The German radio said 1,500,000 men were engaged- on both sides in the far-flung battles ranging i from Brittany, through the Paris- pointed salient to the Caen sector. The large-scale encirclement 'that appeared to be in the making by the northward sweep by Allied forces driving south of Vire on the American left flank were reported by the communique and a British staff officer declared that: "Any normal army would be pulling out of the Vire salient. But curiously enough, the Germans seems to be throwing more troops into the While the Britisa seriously menaced Thury.Harcourt the Americans to the west recaptured Gathemo in heavy fighting in Jae enemy's Mortain-Vire salient. On the Britany forces still were besieging the big western port of Brest and the encircled submarine base ot Lorient, and were cne final nest of German resistance in St. Malo, on the.

north. The situation at St. Nazaire, the big U-boat nest in the Loire estuary, remained cloaked in official silence. Battle Mounting The fight for Brest mounted in intensity after an American column which had followed the pe. north coast drew up be- Americans'" reported If ore the port and joined other G.OJP.

Claims Only Wishful Thinking Hannegan Says NEW YORK, Aug. 11 CAP) Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic stands ready.to do. On the other national chairman, today de- hand, the union officials are said ibed as ishful thinking" Reto insist on a flat settlement of $2.50 a day, which the Orscheln company insists it has no authority to do under the board's order. Three American Prisoners Of War Executed By Japs WASHINGTON, Aug.

11 -Execution of three American pns- oners of war by the Japanese was reported by the Navy today. The men, two Marine Corps noncommissioned officers and a Navy seaman were killed July 31, 1943, after they had escaped from a prison camp, were, recaptured, Rolla L. Eaton, 18-year-old of Mr. and Mrs. K.

L. Eaton of Renick, is now in San Francisco awaiting- further publican claims that the Democrats are split into factions and that they will have difficulty winning a single electoral vote in the mid-West. Hannegan made tne statement at a press conference in reply assertions yesterday by Republican National" Chairman Herbert Brownell, Jr. "When a candidate's manager i has a feeling of frustration he begins to look for dissension in the opposite 1 Hannegan said. The Democratic chairman also described as "wishful thinking" Brownell's statement that some Kentucky Democrats were "so (Continued From Page One) His was a fitting companion to the prize winning exhibit of Mrs.

W. E. Foose. who displayed corn, potatoes, turnips, sweet potatoes, beets, carrots, squash, cabbage, peas, onions, cucumbers, pickles, peppers, acnned vegetables, relisnes made from various vegetables. She added to her display a number of canned fruits.

Home Economics Announcement of winners in the home economics exhibits, judged yesterday, had to be delayed while officials matched names with the numbers by which the entries were designated. It was learned, however, that Mrs. Ned Hutton, Cairo, who exhibited 22 cans of fruits and vegetables, took' eight blue, three red and four white ribbons, All her entries were products of her own 5th, Walter Westhues. Plate Onions--1st, Hugh Thorn- December burg; 2nd, Mrs. M.

T. Kribbs. -Plate Pears--1st. Mrs. Cynthia Ridgeway; 2nd, Arnold Duncan.

1 Plate Tomatoes--1st. Arnold has been in the Navy since last 9. German Ultimatum To Poles Holding Part Of Warsaw LONDON. Aug. 11 -3 The Germans have sent an ultimatum to Gen.

Eor's underground troops holding parts of Warsaw that they must surrender or die. the Polish Telegraph Agency said today. Bor announced in a radio message to the Polish government in exile in London that unless help arrived ''our heroic fight must soon come to a disastrous end." The exiled government issued an appeal yesterday for arms, ammunition" and artillery support for these units of its underground army in the street battle at the rear of German forces opposing- Russian siege lines at the eastern suburbs of the Polish capital. Coupled with the ultimatum, to the underground troops was a Nazi order for the Polish population to evacuate Warsaw. All the able-bodied were instructed to enroll lor labor with the Ger- Duncan: 2nd.

W. A. Wagner: 3rd, Mrs. Wm. M.

Palmer; 4th, W. Koester. 5th, Hugh Thornburg. Bundle and Sheaf Exhibits Tallest stalk of corn: 1, L. F.

2, V. L. Trusty; 3. Arnold Duncan: 4. L.

F. Quisen- being trained for the purpose were jjgj.j.y. 5 V- former airmen grounded for lack) Best bale red clover--1. W. of aircraf B.

Koester; 2, Wm. M. Palmer; 3 V. L. Trusty; 4.

Ralph E. Austin; 5. Wm. M. Palmer.

The mans, the Polish Telegraph Agen- Daily Mail, in a dispatch from sal today quoted an Aus- oprjW trian research worker who fled 1L.LS UT from Germany as saying 250.000, RIVER PROGRAM to 500,000 persons are making "secret weapons" for the Nazis. 4 Mo AUST 11 -V-He said many of the persons rm 0 0 Crawford, either firing the flying bombs or a boat in- THREE NEW WARSHIPS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 11. aircraft carrier "trip down the River, told the Glasgow Rotary Club last night that he hoped Congress would pass the. comprehensive flood bill to give the river flood protection for all time.

home canning. In the 4-H baby beef class, 17 'steer calves had ai-rived today. There were eight dairy heifers, 5 Duroc hogs and 3 O.I.C. hogs. Seperate from the state Shropshire show held today is the general sheep show limited to Randolph county breeders, to be judged tomorrow morning.

Farm Crop Exhibits peck Oats--1st, Edward Best 3 i bale Korean lespedeza: i The 27.000-ton Antietam and the cruis- The general's boat, the Sergeant ers Chicago and Los Angeles will Floyd, docked at Glasgow laJt be christened in a triple ceremony night after a trip down the river 1. McCormick and Crutcher; McCormick and Crutcher. Best Vt bale alfalfa: 1. V. L.

Trusty. Best bale timothy: 1. V. L. Trusty; 2.

McCormick and Crutcher; 3, W. B. Koester. Stalk of corn with most ears: 1. G.

W. Conrad; 2. V. L. Trusty: 3, W.

A. Wagner: 4. W. A. Wagner.

Freak corn: 1, A. Wagner; 2, Wm. M. Palmer. Longest ear of corn: 1.

B.ay- mond Roberts: 2, Raymond Roberts; 3. W. A. Wagner; 4, V. L.

Trusty: 5, V. -L; Trusty. Bundle soy beans: 1, Wm. M. Palmer; 2, Wm.

M. Palmer: 3. Ralph B. Austin; 4. Raymond Roberts: 5.

Raymond Roberts. at the Philadelphia navy yard Sun-1 from Kansas City with other ar- day Aug. 20. Rear Admiral M- F. my officers and civilian officials Draemel announced today.

I aboard. double crossed and publicly hu alm er 2 nd Orin K. Austin: 3rd miliated" at the party's a i a 5th convention that they, were working for the Republicans. tried and sentenced to death for think the Republicans from Le Mans obviously threatened to be far more disastrous to the Germans if forces which have been there nearly a week. Elements of three German di- killing a man who participated in their recapture." They were Seaman Frank Mer- ingblo, Sergeant Joe B.

Chastain and Corporal Victor Palotti. The International Red Cross relayed through Switzerland to the State Department and the Navy information from the Japanese Foreign Office that the three Americans had been held prisoners of' war in a camp in Manchuria. it in" trapping the ir maintained a re forces around Caen than would be Instance the big poit and fleitt a mere-pushing of their line back I reports said it seemed likely that to Paris and the Seine. reduction would take as long 'IT The apparently have tS SSSS the communique.said mopping up was in progress in the area of Quiberon and Auray. Quiberon is directly on the coast.

(The German news agency Transocean early today made, the wholly unconfirmed assertion that jthe American Third Army is op. erating in Brittany "and seems-to be in the hands of" Lt. Gen. George S. Fatten, "an exponent of mobile (Allied officials have announced that the American First Army is tha.t city and to within 100 miles of Paris without meeting- any serious German opposition.

Full occupation of Nantes, France's eighth largest city, and Angers, 60 miles farther up the Loire, was announced this morning. Supreme headquarters saict there was only slight resistance at i rittanv Nantes. Extensive mine fields eratmg Brittany encountered around both cities British Renew Pressure The British renewed pressure on 1 ain. their end of this huge maneuver by throwing a third bridgehead across the Orne River and storm- ing to within half a mile of Thury- HaVcourt, 15 miles below Caen. assignment Two other powerful battering rama, set up by the Canadian First Army, were driving against Rommel's gun.studded anti-tank screen--one last reported within five miles of the Germans' strong- point city, of Falaise, 21 miles south -of Caen, and the other thrust eastward in the Vimoni area below Troarn.

The dailv headquarters com- munique said that hard fighting raged all day yesterday in the Vi- area. The Germans are seeking to rush reinforcements and supplies from Belgium, Germany and Eastern France, but this traffic came under heavy aerial attack: Continuous Air Blows Fighter bombers struck without let up at rail movements westward from Antwerp, Brussels, Metz, Strasbourg, Lille, Sedan ana other points east of the Seine, the communique announced. There was no official news of the reported fanning out of the American Chartres drive toward Orleans and Tours. The latter city is 48 miles southeast of Lc Mans. It was believed these two columns might be attempting to head the thin German forces in.

Southwestern France, estimated to total about ten divisions, which were to rushing toward the battle zone. of their positions' at Nantes at the base of Brittany 30 miles up the Loire estuary cives the Americans a solid flank at least 50 and possibly 100 or more miles deep at the southern edge of Rommel's defense area. The comiaunique said enemy resistance to the Canadian drive to. ward Falaise "increased considerably yesterday." It was disciosed ttat a Polish innored disvision is fighting in but never has Army. Nor any word of the (M- BM Patton, once commander "of" the American Seventh Army in Sicily it was revealed weeks ago that he was in Bnt- (Transocean said "ten fully mo.

torized divisions at present are operating in the coastal regions of To Relax Rules On News To Army WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -Relaxation of tight official on the news, pitcures. and speeches which the armed forces may read, see and hear today appeared in prospect. Interested Senators and representatives of the services agreed on an amendment to the soldier voting law as applied to political propaganda. Congressional action will be pressed.

In the latest Army application of the law, the "official guide to the Army Air Force" was banned from sale at post exchanges because it carried a pen portrait of President. Roosevelt captioned "Commander in. Chief of the Army and Poles Into Fight On French Front Bv ROBERT C- WILSON I CANADIAN FIRST ARMY IN 11 Poish armored division went- into action with the Chad- ian First Army three days ago and already has 'advanced five miles, it was disclosed today. It was also revealed that the Canadian Second' Division, which took part in the 1942 raid on Dieppe, has been fighting in Normandy. Kentucky would advise him dif- Hannegan said.

New Message Has Report of Death of L. C. Hudson Bugle Ann, Here For Bullesta, Has Night in Backyard Little wonder the coon hounds had trouble getting started in the drag race at the Bullesta last night. They lacked the inspiration that would have been given them by the presence of Old King Blue, state champion better known by the movie name of Bugle Ann. Bugle Ann was brought here from Paris to be a special at the show.

When it Thornburg; 2nd Mrs. M.T was all over, the officials dlscov- i Pound Extorted Honey-lst ana ered to their that 2nd, J. Patton Ryals; 3rd Ben A t-V, Carrol K. Austin; McCormick Crutcher. Best peck Wheat---1st, W.

A. Wagner; 2nd, Carrol K. Austin; 3rd, Raymond Roberts; 4th, Orln K. Austin. 5th, Ralph B.

Austin. Peck Potatoes--1st, J.L. Ehrett; 2nd and 3rd, Wallace Austin; 4th, Carroll K. Austin; -5th, Harris Bcn- r.ett. Peck Rye--1st, Mr.

G. Conrad; 2nd, Raymond Roberts; 3rd, McCormick Crutcher. Peck Red Clover Seed--1st, Mrs. Samuel Palmer. Peck Sweet Clover Seed--1st, C.

E. Zwonitzer. Peck Timothy Seed--1st ana 2nd W. A. Wagner.

3rd, C.E. Zwo- nitzer; 4th, L. F. Quisenberry; Radcliff of Novelty. 5th, Mrs.

Samuel Palmer. Peck Red Top Seed--1st, W. A. (Continued from Page One) lough, shortly before leaving for overseas duty. He was employed in the mailing department of the Monitor-Index and later by the Gulick grocery store prior to entering sevice.

Pfc. Hudson was born in Kirksville and came to Mobely his parents while still a child. He was a member of Trinity Methodist church. Besides his parents, he is survived by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Eugene Wagner; 2nd, L. F. Quisenberry. pound Comb Honey--1st, Hugh Bugle Ann had been forgotten completely, and at that moment was tied in the back yard of one of the show's sponsors. Churchill Has Arrived In Italy Westhues.

4th, Bernard Westhues; Take 4,322 Prisoners SUPREME HEADQUARTERS A I EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Aug. 11 American forces captured 4,322 Germans in France in 24 hours ended at midnight Wednesday ROME, Aug. 11. Minister 'Churchill has arrived Italy- Allied Headquarters announced tonight the Prime Minister's arrival, but did not disclose the purpose of his crip or how long he would stay. It was Churchill's first visit to the Italian war.

theater and followed closely a trip earlier this week to the Normandy Beachhead Relieves painful SUNBURN To be ('Vaseline' Petroleum Jelly. It's the first aid treatment that has brought effective relief to birn sufferers on our Kghtinf" pigeon flew into a power plant transformer today, causing.a short gd nce the repor attempt on i. Pigeon A Power Failure PURGE IS STOCKHOLM. Aug. 11 (AP)-- The newspaper Tidningen in an undated dispatch today quoted a A A person with close connections DETROIT, Aug.

11 (AP)-- A Germany as' saying 1,000 Germans I arres ci and 100 execut. circuit that cut off electric service to a city pumping. station and deprived a lO.square mile a rea ot water for sn h(Jur and a half. Waterworks officials explained that when power was restored water surged though the mains with such force as to cause a break. No flooding was reported.

WAR STOMACH Over-work, over-worry, ftasry may bring nervous indigestion. When your stomach is upset, try sootfunf PEPTO-BISMOL. Helps bring prompt relief from distress after meals, heartburn, gas on stomach. Tasres good and docs good. Ask your druggist for soothing PSPTO-BISMOU A NORWICH FKODVC1 Hitler's life, July 20.

To sell household articles or appliances advertise them in tli2 Monitor-Index Want Ad columns. MoberlT. Farm Lumber on and County Board Grants tor Farm Buildings. that enter into production. Dwelling, Town and Country can now get only a very-little -lumber for essential needs allotted supply admits.

Rated orders are able to secure lumber. But nothing we have but lumber is restricted. Free and wide open are our many stock items--Shingles, Sidings, Storm Sash and Doors, Glass, Cement, Brick, Bock, Sand, Mill Work, Paints, Etc. Any Size Order Welcomed And Planned Deliveries YOU can feel that you have a definite part in fighting the war when you help make rocket and artillery powder at the Sunflower Ordnance Works. More workers are needed--crt once--to meet the needs of our fighting men.

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Practice Limited to RECTAL AILMENTS Phone MAin 4191 501 PINE ST. ST. LOUIS 1, MO. Has Your Fur Coal Faded or Lost Us Color? Let us Redye it ior you. We will restore its Original Color and Beauty.

Life Begins When Bentleys Dye Bentley Custom Furriers No. PUBLIC SALE I will sell at public auction at my farm, 2 miles south of Huntsvilie, on Wednesday, August 16, at 1 p. m. The Following: Angus yearling heifers; Angus yearling steer; six 2-year-old heifers, 3 with calves at side; two 3-year-old Hereford cows; 4-year-old Hereford cow with calf at side; 6 ear-old brmdle cow and calf; 2 black cows with calves; 9-year-old Hereford cow and calf; 2-year-old registered Angus bull Smooth mouth black mare; 8-year-old bay mare, Iron wheel wagon; wagon frame; set iron kettle; copper kettle; sausage mil lard press electric fence controler; sorghum mill and pan; large water tank; sulky plow. BEN MILAN, owner D.

S. EUBANK, Auctioneer.