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PAGE TWO GREELEY DAILY TRIBUNE. GREKLEY. COLORADO MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1942 I I A tomes! nnte field piece, lht US nun. rifle speaki it Fort N. C.

Hi it 17 The fun driwn 175 the tractor totetber I I I A IN A I urtlty South Amriewi Ihrooch the' "Olympic village" belnt Wilt at the Illiidm egoatry club OB the Buenai Aires, Argentina, to house athletes expected for lummer and winter events. The 21 American republics are pledzed to eompele In camlvali Kheduled to be(u) tai mid-July. The refulir fimes bffla In November. Forty inch bnnfalowi art-being constructed. Bond Drive Will Begin On Friday Residents of Greeley and oilier northern Colorado cities were given an opportunity to observe American bombers and other army air-craft in maneuvers on April 27, na tactical assignments for the big planes from Lowry Field carried them over this territory.

"War bonds and savings stamps to help finance the war," Bays Rolierl M. Gilbert, "should be In every citizen's budget." The bond and savings stamps pledge campaign is scheduled to begin Friday o( this week with headquarters at the Greeley Elks home. An organization, meeting of the workers will bo held Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. In tlie-base- ment ot Greeley Elks home, accord- lug to the committee In charge.

In answer to reluctance to disclose personal finances, tlie committee states no local record Is kept ol the pledge campaign. "No money is to be collected In this campaign" according to Mes- danies Harry Green and Nelson Reynolds, chairmen of the pledge campaign. "We are Just to sign up pleases, and envelopes will be furnished any who desire them with wnlcli to send In their pledge without even the canvasser knowing the details. The pledge campaign Is strictly the concern of the citizen and tue United Slates'treasury who registers his bond and guarantees principal and good Interest for his invesiment. Our Job Is to help line up Greeley 100 percent In the bond pledging campaign." Senator Weds Colleague's! Widow Reds Launch DriveTb Knock Out Finland lAisoviated PreMl Tliere.were signs today on tht eastern front a Russia had launched upon offensive tc knock Finland out and outflank-the Germans on their mair northern anchors abont Leningrad and southward.

Nearly 2,000 Finnish soldiers Veteran Senator Tom Connally (center) of Texas and Mrs. Luclle Sanderson Sheppard (right), widow of Senitor Morris Sheppard of Texus, wero married this ceremony In New Performing nuptials Is The Rev. J. D. Grey (extreme left).

City Brevities Mrs. Mae Hunt loft Monday evening for Chicago and New York City, where she will three, on a combined business pleasure trip. She will tuy merchandize for Schrlver's Book store, both In Chicago and New York. P.ivate 'Wendell B. Coon of Fort visited friends, Mr.

and 1'Irs. Lew nay, in Greeley Sunday. I Coon formerly lived in Cree.ey and is the son of. Rev. and Mrs.

D. I. Coon. Rev. Coon was a the 1-irst Baptist church here family has many local fritziLs.

Private Coon IB vlth Piny First Q.M.T.R., U. S. army, Q.li.r..T.C., Fort Warren. Rev. and Mrs.

Reuben Carlson ana children left Monday for Omaha. where they will visit hla mother and sister. Rev. Carlson will from there to Kansas City to attend the conference of the Kansas Lutheran church. He also plans to go to Hllaca, fcr a brief visit before returning bere.

P.ev. Carlson Is pastor of the Lutheran church In Greeley. He and his family will be away a a week. Mr. and Ballard en- teicoined at dinner Sunday for their BOn-in-Iaw and daughter, Mr.

and Mrs. J. R. Grant of Denver, their children, Mary Jane and Joseph. 'The occasion celebrated the Grants' 15th wedding anniversary.

In Uio evening, the Ballards had a surprise telephona call from their son', Donald Ballard, a EMond mate in the U. S. navy, who had arrived in San Francisco, Calif. He has been stationed In Hawaii. Ex-cel-cls a Products.

Phone distributor, BLAQEN'S Permanent a Shoppe. 806 8th Ave. Ph. Sunday after neit Is Mother's Day. This year give mother something personal.

There's notUlng more acceptable than a Mode 0' Day dress or slip. 80514 9th SL-Adv. Fad Becomes Fashion The Steinkirk fashion of wearing a cravat casually tied in a loose knot originated on battlefield, according to the research stafl of the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts ot Decoration. In 1692, the French army was surprised at Steinkirk, Belgium, the men rushed forth to battle with their cravats hastily tied In loott knots. The soldiers fought so successfully that their casual dress became a lad throughout Europe has borne the name StcinkirV ever since.

In The Courts Audrey Weeden of Ixmgmonl was fined and costs on a cour- patrol careless driving charge when she appeared Saturday before Justice A. C. Feland at Johnstown were reported killed last week In this apparent 1 offensive likened In hitting power to the coupe de grace dealt the Finns by the Red army two. years ago to end their short winter war. War Irtsttfe 1939 i Frontier Russia and Finland fought that earlier war, with-Germany on the sidelines, over tho.Russian demand for Finnish territorial leaseholds to shield Leningrad.

The battle lines now are. drawn up well Inside the Finnish'frontier said dispatches thru London. The present Russian drive might lave tlie additional effect of projecting the lease-lend ports of Murmansk and Archangel while Adolf Hitler's main forces still mark lime In the slush and mud Trom south to the Clmea. Rerfs Repulsed Finnish high command said the Russians were attacking on the Karelian Isthmus and lu the vlcln ity of the Stlaln canal north of Lake Onega but asserted that the attacks bad repulsed. Stockholm reports safd the Russians had captured Bork, 20 miles soxithwest ot the German strong hold of Novgorod on the front between Moscow and Leningrad.

British Subs Sink Supples In the theater the latest reprts covered the sinking of four heavily laden Ajtls supply ships en route to Libya by British submarines, a British air raid on the Sicilian town ol Catania, non-stop attacks by the Germans on minor air land patrol and artillery actions on the Libyan front. Estate Conservator Files Suit J. L. Hanks of Fort Lupton Monday filed suit In Weld county dls Irict court, as conservator of the estate of Lee A. Hanks, of Boulder county, an Insane person, seeking cancellation of coal leases given the McNeil Coal Corporation and the McNoll Investment company and mortgages held by the Colorado National Bank, as well as an ac counting of all coal mined from or moved thru the Hanks (uarttr section neur Dacono during the 'past several years.

Emory O'Connell of Denver Is attorney for the plaintiff. Flyinjg Tigers Zlaim They've Been Lucky By PRESTON GROVER New Delhi, India, April been pretty lucky." That's what the Flying lie tilers the American yolun- group, themselves Bay for their record of destroying approxi- nately 400 Japanese plaues as against a hare quintet of their own number killed In actual combat. Naturally there have been other casualties but their losses have been BO trifling that even they are amazed. Examples oj Just how "lucky" the Tigers have been wore given by Uobert Layher of Colorado Springs, one of a group who stopped oft lu Now Delhi today while ferry- lug more planes into Burma, Layher said one Yankee pilot whose engine WHS not functioning too well was caught by a Japanese flier ttnd ctiasod 60 miles. His plane was simply shot to ribbons and he was flying BO low he couldn't dive to safety.

Minute after minute he felt Japanese bullets pounding against the armor plate at ilia back. Finally the Japanese ran out ot bullets and pulled off. The American still had a hundred miles to'go with an oil pump that was leaking badly. But he got In. "I've never seen a plane.with many holes In It," grinned Layher.

"All the tires were flat and the wings and fuselage were. like a sieve--but not a solitary control gear had been hit" Shot Away Another pilot in a blast ot machine-gun tiro that Bhot otf both his earphones at the same time. The bullets left burns aloug both cheeks just below the ears-but the pilot otherwise was scrdtched. Layber told how another filer took to his parachute during an air fight and five- times, Japanese pilots "made passes" r.i him. Gaping holes wore shot In the parachute but the pilot landed The AVG pilots heap unrestrained praise upon their commander, Brig.

Gen. Claire Chennault, one of the Billy Mitchell group of air power retired from-tiie S. army air corps and led a 1 dozen America pilots. Into action against the Japanese they first attacked China In 1937. his.

original dozen fliers still are with htm in various execu live positions In the-AVO. AVG pilots credit Chennault with teaching them how to solve Japanese fighter tricks, how. to attack their bombers and how to outguess them on where and how an attack "You can beat them without getting hurt yourself, If you do It prop- is telling his pilots time The "pilots' also are unstinting' In their praise of their ground crews. Some of the pilots are now won' deriug what will happen If they are Inducted United States air fo'rce. Under Chennault they operate with considerable freedom bul they are uncertain whether same freedom would.be possible 1 they were Incorporated into a larg er air force.

"It's the paperwork that gets you." said one 'pilot, "In a regular outfit you havo so much paperwork with special reports and all, that you don't have'time to fly. 0 Colorado Springs, April 27 was a marvelous hit ick," Mrs. Robert Ijiyher safd to ay when told her husband, a nicm er of the famed Flying Tigers ad escaped unscratched when Jap nese bullets uiade a sieve of the lane he waa ferrying from India Bnrmij. A cablegram. from her husbam April had Informed Mrs.

Lay er he was now headquartered in ndia after several months with tin Vmerlean volunteer group on thi lurma front. Mrs. Layher, the former Marloi socially prominent daughte Mra. H. W.

Aley ot Colorad Springs, was married to the file ast September just before ailed to Join Flyhig Tigers "he marriage -was not announcei until March, after his safe arrlva the far eastern war zone. Layher Is a graduate of the Un versity of Colorado and his horn at Otis, Colo. Not so Deserted The North African desert Isn't crt In the tense of the Sahara- mile! and miles lar.d and dunes. It Is more like the rugged Arizona- New Mexico variety with gravel, sharp escarpments several Hundred feet high, 'deep gulleys gouged by whistling winds and torrential raws. Air power there will be more decisive than any other one factor.

Olat Sandstrom, 59, farm hand employed by Miller and Johnson in the Longmont district, waa brought to 'the county Jail Sunday and held as a violator of bis district court probation granted him on his plea of guilty last fall to passing bad checks. The FBI Denver office Sunday asked Sheriff Gua 0. Anderson to check Weld county for Krue, 23. Nazi flyer who escaped from i Canadian prison camp. The won received by Anderson was tha Krug may be in Northern Colorado House of Jack Murcombe Frederick was entered Saturda night and the contents badl Deputy nherlffs here sal it looked (Ike a spite-Job.

Bob Cunningham of Northwest drover has asked the iherlffs flee here to aid him In disposing two cases of four-year-old mite. Cunningham taU he has th caps but not the fnnej with whlc to let it oft end render It armies Stork Express Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hn of Colorado Springs, a daughter I Colorado'Springs on April 25. Mr Hay Is the former Winifred John ion of Eaton.

Both she and her hn )an4 are CSCE graduates and wld ly known here. Born to Mr. and Floy Brown of Evans, a daughter at th Greeley hospital April 27. Born -to Mr. and Mrs.

James Ha low of 630 Thirteenth street, daughter at the Greeley hosplti April 27. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarenc Lynn ot 1842 Eighth avenue, daughter at the Greeley hospit April 27, Personal Property Tax Personal property taxes, payab this year, become delinquent May 1 and are subject to dlstraii action by the county treasurer aft that lime, Weld taxpayers we warned today by Duncan Dunn, trlct supervisor of tha state 6 partment ot revenue. Irn Crown of The ancient "Iron Crown of Lorn brdy," a magnificent, gold diadei set with rubies, emeralds an sapphires, now, ir.

the posiesilo of tht klng.ot Itsly. It give that name because ot a narrow iro band near thi base, said to been made from a nail used hi th crucifixion. JEEPTOONS By Fighting Men I WW Men of the fighting Mrvlcss are sdlpt wHh pen brush, ss shown In art hobby groups In UiO This entry shows humorous ebwrvstlon, too. U0 presents tha men's work In a of "JMptooni." 'JUST FOR FUN1 Ifa'f'i ttw thwiM of (cUt IvabXty to tt mrt.swd wi" pattern of floor covering provld" Color combination tt rust tin with shock-proof plywood wall In new IgM ftohi finish. Ctntsvi a ihufM-board court.

loosevelt (Continued from page 1) iought.no legislation was required under present circumstances." He added: "I that stabilizing the oat of living will mean that wanes general can and should be kept existing scales." Then he gave a brief summary, of government's labor policy, for congress bad been waiting lefore taking any action on restric- Ive labor legislation. Labor Gives Up Strike Right Organized labor, Mr. Roosovelt Townspeople May Attend Jr. Prom Annually tlie big event pf north- em Colorado Is-ttie Juiilor.Proinen-! ade of the Colorado' Stale College ot Wall Street By VICTOR A "New York, April 27 --The' market, got one foot on the recovery ia'dder today but ity utttl was sufficient to, prevent ft Krtucation. Agalu this yearjthe Junior Prom' scores -with one of the nations outstanding dance bands, Ansou Weeks and bla orchestra will play for the CSCE Promenade, Friday, May 8.

This famous band has tlint popular danclu' with Anson." Alison Weeks holds the All- Improved prices were the rule at the start a ad fractional ndviincci were well distributed at the close. There "were a few soft spots blue chip column and scattered early plus marks eventually were erased. The tlckor tape frequently halted for a minute or so at a time and trans for the full proceedings aid, has given up voluntarily a i American record for a major band C( i to approximately 250,000 ight to strike during- the war, a a major hotel six solid years at Therefore, he saldj all stabilization the Mark Hopkins' in -adjustment of wages will be Landled by the war labor board nia- ihinery which, he said bad been ae- generally by labor and Industry for adjustment of all dis- tutes. After remarking that atrikes i'cre at a minimum, the president aid that In all fairness, existing ontracts between employers and employes ba carried thru to heir expiration date, with existing niacl.lnery for handling labor disputes continuing' to consider Inequalities and the elimination of subtandards of living. Time and Half Should Continue Moat workers In munltiou indiis- he said, are working far more than 40 hours a week and should continue- to be paid at time and a San Francis-) co.

It was during that time that Favored stocks most of the session Included Bethlehem, Santa Fe, a w.nchell co hied the johns-Manville, Goodrich, Chrysler, Lets Go Duncm WHh Anson Boe(71g Dn Pont, Stands-Inch has stuck ever since. oil (N Chesapeake Ohio, The Prom IB to ba held from 9 Montgomery Ward and J. Cnse. until 1 o'clock In the ballroom of i American Telephone, was an es- tho Student Union. Tickets pur- caption, falling to a new bottom chased in advance ore $1.82 plus eighteen cents a ticketa bought at the door are $2.50 including the tax.

Townspeople are invited to join colleglants for the evening. All the students on the' campus are interested In which girl will le chosen queen. I The girts represent the seven BO- roritles nmt the Independent club. Each couple attending Is ialf for overtime. eald, their weekly would be reduced.

This apparently. Otherwise, he pay envelopes his on efforts In congress to abandon the law requiring payment of time and a half for hour a worked In excess of 40 a week. Only an all-era bracing program will suffice to keep the cost of living In check, Mr. Roosevelt the cost of living spirals upward week after week and month after month," the'-president satd, "people as a whole are'bound to become poorer, because the 'pay envelope will then lag reUH prices. The price paid for carrying on the war on'tbe government and, therefore by the people, will increase by many billions if prlcea go up." Then, recalling the old saying that "that -which goes up must al ways come down," the president spoke of the hardships and heart' aches In the yearn after the last war.

We do not Intend after this one, he said, to present the "same disastrous situation" to the brave men fighting our battles today in all parts of the world. First Rtbi Gold Strike Gold was first discovered in ka by a Russian settler in fit istnss trm KOMTffl.Y FEMALE WEAKNESS Try X. P1ntb, VegtUbla Compound to help rellcra ninthly pln with in nervous (Mllngi --dua to monthly functions! disturbances. It build up ttnce igaimt KKh dutrra of "difficult yellow label entitled to one vote for tlic queen. The candidates are: Ellen' Cribbs, Glenwood i Independent club; Ruth Voetsch, Denver, Alpha Sigma Alpha; Fogersori, Greeley, Sigma since 1935 as Washington dispatches Indicated administrative opposition to any attempt of the corporation to boost rates In order to mafntain'the $9 annual dividend.

Among falterers were Douglas Aircraft, Norfolk Western. Eastman Kodak, Kennecott and U. S. Steel. Bonds were mixed.

Major commodities retreated. Comiskey, Pueblo, Delta Sigma Ep- allon; Bety Lou Pleraon, Denver. I re31 gne Sigma Sigma Sigma; Jrfarjorle Streeder, Greeley, Theta Sigma Ep- Dave Bliss on a i i Board David B. Bliss 621 Twelfth avenue, known Greeley district farmer, was Monday appointed a "lemher the Greeley rationing Aboard, to succeed Lee Croiier who Colon Troubles Explained sllon; Genette Bennlng, 'Greeley, 40-page FREE BOOK--tells facts PI Kappa Sigma; Margaret about Colon Trouulea, Constipation, Greeley, Delta Phi Omega. The Junior class Is planning very unusual decorations whlcb will be very different from anything done before.

Stomach Conditions, Pllea, Fistula and other related ailments. Corrective treatments explained. Thornton Minor Clinic, Suite McGee, Kansas City, Ford Ammonium Sulphate Fertilizer for Lawns and Gardens Clean Economical Effective Get yours while the supply Is Available Garnsey and Wheeler.

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