The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 6

ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1944 PAGE SIX Called Louisiana's Flyingest Family The public relaticns office at Alexandria Army Air Field had dubbed the family of Mr. and Mrs. Otha Martin of Chirks, "Louisiana's Flyingest Family." Si McCORMlCK COMPANY, Proprietors Established 1883 MYRTLE HUXE DELLMON ROLLO C. JARREAU HUNTER JARREAU President Editor. Publisher nd Vice-President Secreury-Treasurer and Manager DIAL rELtPHONtS Display Advertising 6644 New Department or 7018 Classified Advertising 6frU I Society Newa Department 664a Circulation Department 5739 We Carry a Full Stock of Cclotcx Plank Cclotcx Ceiling Tile Cslotex Wall Board HENRY W.

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Seattle. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PFUSS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to tne use (or publication ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. AU richta of republication of apeclal dispatches herein are also reserved. BY MAIL One Weelt 20c Month 8Sc Three Worths S3 i0 Months to 00 Year MOO BY CARRIER IN ALEXANDRIA i One Week One Month Three Months Six Months Hnl Vnar Entered at the Postoffice at Alexandria, BY CARRIER tN OTHER TOWNS One Week One Month tOc 85c All tn Memorlams. Obituaries, will and must be paid for as such at the regular 20c 8Sc One $2 So to mi Six 50 One One One Six One Madam Valetta Crystal Readings we will call you or call the name of the one that best.

Now we will say that you taught not to believe in our Official Journal of City of Alexandria i Official Journal of Town of LecomDte Official Journal of Town ot Pinevilie I Official Journal of Town of Boyce Official Journal of Town of Cheneyvilie Official Journal of the R.ipides Parish School Board Official Journal Rapides Parish Police Jury SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1944 give us credit if we do as we help you beyond any reason of may be too late. place. My name is over door signs read: I Call You By Name. Colored Folks Invited Catch Willow Glen Bus a. m.

until 10 p. m. STOCK r. ift ft i i I if I it i ran i) i rom HOSPITAL After spending sev en months in a naval hospital at Oakland. Ensign Henry Landry, son cf Mr, and M.s.

Henry Landry, Pinevilie, arrived home lest Wednesday to spend a few days with his parents while en route to Jacksonville, where he will be stationed as an instructor. Credited with shooting down a Japanese bomber and a Jap fighter in the South Pacific, young Landry is the holder of the air medal, which he wears directly beneath the gold wings of the naval air force. Alter seeing action in the Solomon and Gilbert islands, Ensign Landry was injured last August in a plane crash and sent to the naval hospital at Oakland. A graduate of Tioga high school in 1 937, Ensign Landry attended Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette. and enlisted in the naval air corps in March, 1 942.

He will leave Saturday for Jacksonville. EXCEED BOM) OFOTA NEW ORLEAXS. Julv 1 The WAVEs in the Eighth Naval district expect to exceed a quota of 525,000 worth of war bone's in the navy's week long drive which begins Saturday. Lieut. W.

G. Williams, war bond officer for the district, said that the WAVEs already purchased S3, 000 worth of bonds. Ire cold watermelons, all this summer. Harris Ice Company, 2709 Lee street. 6-24-tfd Paramount pays promptly.

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l.cialdry i for Thu neck's home town news is 6 immanzod for Central Louisiana servicemen overseas. this aiid mail it to them. Joseph Lee Novo, 40 Alexandria attorney, was shot and killed by City Judge Gus A. Voltz on a downtown sidewalk about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Two llhiurs later, a coroners jury exon- rated Voltz terming the act 'sell defense" and "justifiable homicide." Judge Voltz.

56, now serving his second term on the city bench, shot the attorney followinj a discussion about money, witnesses test; if led. Novo was reported to have advanced toward Judge Voltz on Murray street between Fourth and Fifth streets and demanded of the municipal jurist: "Where's that money you owe me?" The judge reportedly asked "What money, Lee?" A discussion followed climaxed by Judge Voltz drawing a .33 calibre pistol from his pocket and shooting the attorney. Following the sidewalk episode, Judge Voltz handed his weapon to Chief George Gray, who was with him at the time, and walked unaccompanied to Sheriff Grady Kelley's office in the courthouse, two blocks away, where he surrendered 'himself. Women bond workers are contacting every person in Alexandria and Pinevilie, giving each home an opportunity to buy at least one extra bond for each member of the household, Mrs. J.

P. Kellcy and Mrs. John Gibson, cjty chairmen, disclosed. "The work thus far has been satisfactory but everyone ir urged to buy as many bond; as possible in order that Rapides may attain her quota and oversubscribe it," Kellcy said. A soldier of undetermined nationality (Mexican, Indian, or Chinese) was charged this week with attempted assault on an Alexandria waitress shortly after midnight.

The girl, listed as 13 years old, was on her way home from the FI iBPFLlATiSsTolD go coi 'PiyDEiOiPiEj? AlFiOE IM'AISiO'NiSEaP SiC'A'R iv a KCTS Eli D' I PiRiOBAuhLiliThjEiS i t-1 5 1 II 1 i c. EiS PS.oiPsu iC OS 3 liPSftCiAiULiO-W rvrrf-i-ita sTlTy tELrOp'E A Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle fit. Steep f2. Secretary Ci. Let It stand DOWN 1.

TVi-nii 2. in in 9 nama Delivery! Bath Tubs Heaters Fitting--,) MADE IF DESIRED The Tornado People are reminded once more by the tornado which recently such a swath of destruction and misery through Pennsylvania and West Virginia that powerful as man is, he has never been able to master the wilder forces of nature. Man has learned to control flood streams and get power from them. He uses the force behind the lightning. He has made highways of the seas and of the air.

Metals fused into being by long-gone fires go into his daily tools. But the hurricane, the tornado, the storm at sea, the lightning, the volcano these still have power to destroy him. When they turn upon him in their great force and fury he knows, once more, his littleness. He can learn, however, to adjust himself so that they cause less terror and devastation as time goes on. He learns the ways of the sea and builds better ships.

He watches the winds and builds houses which can withstand them. He should, but has not yet learned this lesson entirely, build his homes farther from the volcano so that molten lava need not destroy them. There are now methods of building which withstand earthquake. Houses which went down like chips before this last tornado may be well lost, great as was the suffering caused at the time, if new-ones are built more soundly in the future. It should never be necessary for human beings to live in houses such as some of those which sent down so easily in that twisting wind.

Vice-Presidents If the coming conventions want to do something useful, they should tackle the unsolved problem of the vice-presidency. As the vice-president's only duty is to preside over the Senate, which any senator can do as well and often does, his office is about as useless as any in the country. It is also dangerous not to the holder, but to the nation. At any moment some fanatic's crime, or sudden illness of the chief, may make him president. Some time this unexpected elevation may be unfortunate.

Except for Theodore Pioosevelt, possibly no vice-president who filled the unexpired term of a president would have had enough political strength to enter the White House on his own account, And there have been some vice-presidents whose elevation would have been calamitous. A few presidents have tried to find work for their deputy. Vice-President Wallace has represented the President in South America and in China. Harding asked Vice-President Coolidge to attend cabinet meetings. But mostly the position has been what a Washington newspaper called it, "the best-paid relief job in the United Stales." Ought it not be a position of importance and dignity? War Partners Plumbin Ocnlrsctor Dial 6231 restaurant where she is employed when the soldier attempted to at-Hi-t her in a dark part of Tenth street, District Attorney Ben i Thompson reported after complet-1 ing his investigation.

n. Wainwright, veteran pilot and instructor was critically injured in a plane crash at the Municipal air port Sunday afternoon about 4 p. m. Wainwright and his son, Jack, an employe at the Alexandria Army Air Field, were living a bi-plane, open cockpit Fleet ship when the engine cut out on the take-off. The plane was "lying about to 100 feet off the ground when the engine difficulty arose and Wainwright attorn )ted to turn around and come back into the air port, but his altitude was insufficient and he crashed into a field of corn, witnesses said.

James L. Treadway, Alexandria, was re-elected president of the Louisiana Chapter No. 12, National Association of Postmasters, when the chapter met at the La-favctte, courthouse. William A. Cushman, 66-year-old Long Leaf watch confessed that he killed William M.

Cooper, 45, railroad worker, following an argument over Coop- i er's wife's watch crown. The fatal shooting occurred at Cush- man's residence about 6:35 p. m. Thursday. Sheriff Grady Kellcy reported at noon Friday that no charges had been filed against Cushman, but the confessed slayer remained in custody in the parish jail.

The small, wrinkled confessed slayer was lying in the wing on his front porch reading "Revelations" in the Bible when he heard Bill Cooper shout to him "Hi." he recounted in his cell atop the Rapides parish courthouse on Friday morning. Cooper jumped from behind a hibiscus bush, Cushman said, and a lengthy debate over Mrs. Cooper's watch stem crown resulted. Cushman said that he shot Cooper after telling him three times to leave his house. If men in the cotton services are to wear cotton khakis next summer, the high school students of the nation will be needed to harvest the cotton crop.

Rapides parish is promised a thriving cotton crop due to the dry, penetrating heat this season. With the farm labor shortage already making back-breaking demands of local farmers, high school pupils can do a patriotic job by turning cotton picker during their vacation. Last year a number of scout groups were organized to go into the fields and some army wives volunteered their services. They were paid $1.25 per hundred pounds. wage is determined the opening of each season by the crop that is made and the price put on it.

Alexandrqia citizens pre not thinking of the Fifth War Loan in terms of the casualties reported from the European invasion, war bond officials pointed out. "If they were, their bond purchases would have soared when tabulations of the American casualties in France were released, True, the enemy's losses are greater, but how many Rapides citizens stopped to think that some extra bonds might have saved the lives of some of those American bond leaders ask. The bond drive now stands slightly over the mark, with a goal stipulated at COURTHOUSE RECORDS Marriage Licenses Capt. Ross G. Ransey, Atlanta, and Florence Alice Tucker, Spartanburg, S.

C. Lieut. Richard E. Nelson and Marjory Carlson, Boone, Iowa. Glen II.

Johnson, Brookings, S. and Margaret Vondell Aucoin, Houson, Texas. Marvin O. Williams and Addie Lee Floyd lies. Alexandria.

Sgt. Paul G. Adamson, New Salisbury, Ind and Edith Col-1 glazier, Salem, Ind. 1 Francis L. Killelea and Alberta Fribbs, Attawa, 111.

3 Trapped Airmen Reach Gorge Rim GRAND CANYON, July 1 Dr. Harold C. Bryant, superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, said three army airmen who had been trapped in the great gorge since June 21 had reached the north rim. Aviators who gain altitude too rapidly get the "bends" the same as a deep sea diver who is brought to the surface too quickly. More People get well in hospitals.

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Licensed and bonded by the state of Louisiana. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Painting Contractor Free Estimatrs and Inspection Phone 32S1 or 8745 Merry Go Round (COMIMED FROM PAGE ONE) private in Uncle Sam's army. The convention, from a newspaper man's viewpoint, was dull. The ticket scalpers lost money. Even Republican leaders complained about the dullness, bemoaned the fact that they couldn't get a crowd out on the first day to hear Gov.

Warren's keynote speech. However, from a political viewpoint, this dullness may have been a good thing. Whit makes for a good newspaper stcry doesn't necessarily make for success on election day. But what some people resented, especially the Bricker boys, was too much steam roller tactics and too much of the greased Dewey machine. It looked a little like the early steam roller days of the New Deal.

Out here in Maryland, where it's clean and green and where the farmers are cutting their hay and cultivating their corn without worrying much about keynote speakers or keyhole politics, I look back at Chicago and the whole political broil seems rather tawdry and out of place. But when you think about it carefully, it isn't. Chicago was part of the machinery of political opposition. And political opposition is what makes this country strong able to weather wars and depressions and internal turmoil. The Roosevelt administration would have profited from more political opoosition in the early-days.

They're going to get a good dose of it this fall. And as long as it doesn't hit below the belt and bring the war into politics, it will be a healthy thing. And I hope that whoever is elected president will have plenty of fair, honest political opposition. It will keep him on his toes. GI Goes to GOP What I really started to write you about, however, was Gordon.

He was able to leave camp only one day. Sundfty, therefore never got a chance to see the convention in session. Despite that, I think he got a greater kick out of it than Mr. Dewey himself and out of sleeping in a soft bed! He went out to the convention hall the day before it opened and watched all the preparations that go into the staging of the greatest show on earth the myriad of telephone and telegraph wires to carry the story to the country, the loud speakers which the Republicans were terribly afraid might fall into the hands of Mayor Kelly's sewer commissioner, and even the sawing off of the state flagpoles after the Chicago Sun photographer complained that he couldn't shoot through the Michigan state flagpole because it was too high. If everyone took their politics as seriously and as enthusiastically as your husband, we would have a better-run country.

There are others like him, however. Sunday night, efore he caught the train back to camp, he brought some of his buddies up to hotel room, and they too are doing a lot of thinking. They are thinking about what's goitre to happen after the war. The Republican platform hod not been finally drafted then, but already word had looked out that the Chicago Tribune and its isolationist friends were working for a weasel-worded compromise en world cooperation for peace similar to that of President Harding's day. And believe me, if the Republicans or any other party let down the men who come back from this war in retard to preventing another war then it's going to be just too bad for whoever is responsible.

The men in this war are doing more thinking than our brother and I did in the last war. We were younger than your husband, were without families, and war was a glorious adventure that we hoped would continue long enough so we could be in the thick of it. But in this war, not only ar: the youngsters doing more thinking, but there are thousands of men like your husband, with three children or even more, who have only one idea that their kids shall not have to go through the same thing that they are going through. Thoughts of a Soldier ather Gordon says he can't get a ten-day furlough for six Months and that it's not much use your bringing the children out to Illinois, because it's almost impossible to find a place to live and also, what with getting up every morning at 4:30, he's so tired at night that he never has time to do anything except keep his quarters clean. He misses you all terribly.

I am afraid I never realized, until I talked to him, how tough it was to drag a man away from his family. He has lost about 12 pounds, looks very well, ami is proud of the fact that he has been able to stand up with the 18-year-olds half his age when it comes to the long marches. After about eight miles, with a 25-pound pack on his back, lie begins to feel the years creep up, but so far he hasn't passed out and others have. He keeps telling himself that his life is very easy compared with that, of the fellows "over there." But on the long marches, he can't help figuring that, if little Johnny has to go through all this agoin. then the old men who sat around the Stevens Hotel, writing high-sounding but evasive ambiguities into the Republican platform, had better gin digging their own foxholes.

It may be tough for them when the boys come back when it's over over there. And as 1'look at the old men who wrote the party platform, some of whom have served in neither war, I wonder if they realize the responsibility that rests on their shoulders. What they do and may shape the destiny oi millions. Your brother. WARNING LOUISVILLE.

Ky. Over a pay telephone in a downtown restaurant here is a picture of a wide-mouthed fish accompanied by the remark: "Even little Jish get into troub'. for opening the.r mouths too ten." Repair Parts Your Dealer It finds that one son, Second Lieut. Clarence Martin is a bom- bardier at the field here. Another, Second Lieut.

Stanley Martin, is a B-26 pilot, in New York. A third. Second Lieut. Otha Martin, is an army air forces crew commander stationed at Greens- boro, N. C.

The fourth brother, Pvt. Carl Martin, is now attending an army air forces radio school at Sioux Falls, S. D. NO MEAT SIIO'TAGE PHILADELPHIA (ST) Tab- i by, Mrs. Rachel Walker's cherish- 407 Lakevicw Pinevilie A fi i4 h-r.

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seem to think, or at least to feel, colored GIs (heavyweights) were fighting and one of them was get ting the daylights lambasted out of him. The colored boy who was his second just couldn't stand it any longer. He jumped on the cdc of the ring and yelled, "Boy don let that boy establish a beachhead on you! Get in there and fight. Remember your Uncle Sam still makes "On the same card an infantry man was fighting a man from the Quartermaster Corps. As you probably know, all the other branches of the army feel that the Quartermaster Corps, which handles all the food, cats at least three times as well as any other branch of the army.

"So, when the Quartermaster fighter, who was superior, began belaboring the Infantrvman, the Infantry backers started tauntin the Quartermaster fighter with remarks like this: ivo wonacr you re winning. ou're- full of chicken and kct cliup and our poor boy ain't had nothin' but rations in a "'Knock the turkey out of soldier. Just belt him once in that fat stomach and he'll "'Give our man one square meal a month and he'd kill ya, yi overfed "Going swimming now. We've organized a couple of swimming teams. "Hey.

Hey guess whom I love? Pt. Henry T. MoLemore 31733203." Many of our fellow-Americans ii-i stls 4. suthor 5. Fart of a church 6.

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Lee Street Parking Space 7318 i Lr 25 7 i i l-o 7, ITpo7 --'-u 4-7 -t3 11 I jTi rr 1 JO loO I i 1 I I I 1 I 1 that our country is fighting this European war virtually alone and unaided. It therefore comes with a little shock of surprise when one of our doughty patriots suddenly comes across a bit of news telling of a German ship being blown up by a combined attack from British, Canadian and Polish destroyers, as happened the other day. As a matter of fact, there is nothing exclusive about "our" war against Germany. Anybody can get in. And the number of nations now engaged in fighting beside our own forces includes all the free nations of Europe, and various others from other continents.

Britain and America are doing most of the financing of the friendly nations on our side, but the latter cheerfully do their share of the lighting and dying. And it is not only fair, but highly desirable, that such valiant partners and the countries they represent should have full recognition. We're for the French, all right, but couldn't they pick out easier names than Lille-Nord, Montdifier, Evereux-Fauvillc, Dreux, Vitry-en-Artois arid Beauvois-Tillc? Henry McLemore Takes a Look smsi i IS SCARCE and TO BE SO even won. THE SHORTAGE, WE QUANTITY TO DURING 1944! Wsek-End Try a "CUBA-LIBRA" 90-proof AT O. P.

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Ci.hH. in Br l.tA aid A AW WORLD ZZm WHAT AUECiCASJ NIAVAU OFFICES? int lii'TH Ct.NTl1!?!' HAS CALLED THE "PATHFINDER OF THE FECAL'SE C'MiS NAVIGATION CHA1CT5 F. Maury. 7 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Get two American men together at the farthest reaches of the earth and it won't be long before they will devise some sort ol equipment so they can start playing sports be it only This letter from Henry certainly bears out that theory of in me.

"My dear, darling Mrs. McLemore, "It is hotter than the underarms of a setting hen here today. Very enervating and I have spent most of the day stretched out on my cot reading. Read 'Great again and 'Jane Eyre' and am now reading Lamb's 'Genghis I may come back a little tattered around the edges but I will be a man of letters. Baby.

It took a total war and a South Pacific jungle to do it to me but I'm fast becoming a rlass-iscist. I'll be in a class with the classy classiscists some class, eh kid? "But on the other hand I am now a permanent judge at all the division fights and I really enjoy this. The boys fight three or four times a week and they really slug it out. The jeers of the GIs directed at the judges is very caustic. me rivalry Between the various i elements is terrific.

I've never seen a championship fight at home, with millions of dollars bet on it, where the spectators went wild as they do at those fights "The other n.ght a couple of mum wissw STORES MANY SPIRITS 732 Lee NEXT; That vonoVrful bird, the oclican! i 1 urinmiianiiiiiiiiii in WiiMWiiMii.afciii.