Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • 28

Sunday morning THE DAVENPORT DEMOCRAT AND LEADER June 22, 1941 Down Abandoned Railway Bridge to Salvage Steel 1 ear 2S SS i i I 1 ll I Dll mum 1,1 I 1" PLAN TO OBTAIN 100 TONS FOR DEFENSEWORK Employ Dynamite GLASS URGES DISMISSAL OF DAVIDLASSER Senator Says WAP Should Drop Former Workers Alliance Head. li' I-- it --v a Up Structure Near Big Rock. The call for scrap metal to be used in industries manufacturing national defense Washington. (AP) Senator Class (D-Va.) said Saturday that he had urged dismissal of David Lassep from the Works Project administration whe: senate debate Friday brought mention of both i i i (vmk.w ti Pictured above are (left to right) Gilbert L. Nelson, S.

Walby and the Job of breaking concrete away from the reinforcing steel. Doyle Sidie as they complete (left) Is shown above as ha is about to olaea two atieba Hvmmii for blasting a block of concrete, the water charge the two sticks concrete and the mud placed over concrete. Recalls Days materials has caused work to be started on the wrecking of the railroad bridge on the abandoned Milwaukee line just north of Big Rock in order to salvage more than 100 tons of steel and iron which was used in the struc ture. The bridge was built cross a creek in 1901 but ihe road discontinued several years afro. Work of wrecking the structure being done by a crew of men employed by S.

Walby of Viroqua, Wis, who is in charge of the recking operations. The concrete roadbed bleb, covered the bridgn i beinR broken up and the steel reinforcing rods are being salvaged. As oon an thia work is completed, the large steel braces and beams will be cut Into small sections wih a torch. Dynamite charges are t.sed to break tip the concrete idabr which form the roadbed. These slabs are about four feet wide and 12 feet long, and each, requires nil charges of dyrt-smite to break them up.

Two sticks are used In each charge. Several hundred sticks of the explosive will be needed to finish the work. FARMER OWES HIS LIFE TO HIS RAM Hood River, Ore (AP) S. Ku-sachl owes his life to his pet ram which proved more than a match for a 350-pound boar. When the 76-year-old rancher was attacked by the boar, his cries for help brought, the ram on the run.

The pet leaped a fence and battered the boar into submission. Kusachl, seriously, hurt, crawled to safety. Lasser and Howard O. Hunter, YVPA administrator. Glass referred to ati exchange of remarks wth Senator Adams (D-Colo) during debajte on a house provision in the work relief bill prohibiting continued employment of Lasser, former head of the workers' alliance and now a WPA inspector receiving $4,400 a year.

Glass suggested Adama was confusing Hunter and Lasser and added, "I think we ought to cut him off if we can." windows high and low. Heckart was no more dextrous. Finally Engineer Carl Hastings, called from nearby Beth Israel hospital, quieted bossy. Take Off Ugly Fat With Grapefruit Juice Recipe Try this home recipe to bring back alluriiiK curves and graceful slendtr-ness; follow the easy way, endorsed by thousands who have tried it. Here is a recipe that can be made quickly and inexpensively at home.

It's easy -no trouble at all and pleasant. You need only two tablespoonfula a day. Contains nothing harmful. Now you mar slim down your figure and lose pounds of ugly fat without bark breaking exercises or starvation diet. Just get 4 ounces of Fernol concentrate from any druggist.

Add cups of canned grape-, fruit juice and you have a pint of excellent reducer. You can get Fernol concentrate from druggist nnywhere, including Bond Drug Third and Harrison. Mail orders. Adv. Rubio, Banker, Who Started Business 35 Years Ago, Looks Back on His Experiences As He Prepares to Move to Larger Town.

PRESIDENTHAS POWER NOW TO CHECKJJENS Bill Is Another Move to Check Espionage Subversive Activities. Washington. (AP) In a further move to check espionage on subversive activities, President Roosevelt gave speedy approval Saturday to a bill giving him virtually unlimited authority to regulate entry into the departure from the United Stateeg of both aliens' and citizens. The measure received final congressional approval only Friday. The authority as far as citizens Denver Police Just Bunch of City Slickers Denver.

(AP) Denver policemen have hown vast versatility at times, but in the pinch they're just a bunch of city slickers. A matronly Guernsey went astray and had three of them cowed Friday. Her bawling disturbed slumbering residents at 2 a. ra. and patrolmen Louis Knifer and Charles Stevenson were sent to soothe her.

An oversupply of milk proved to be the problem. A pail procured, Knifer tries his hand. No luck. Stevenson took over. Same result.

Patrolman Lesjie Heckart was then summoned. neighbors called signals from -J-" fc "1 rt.t 4 I tS I 1 Teamwork in Football Game Is Free-f or-All Compared With Salvos on Battleship 1 f'-VfeK' are concerned Is limited to the duration of the present emergency. Senators said the authority would not be used to interfere with normal travel of persons between this country and western hemisphere nations, but would be utilized only to control the activities of those believed to be engaged in activities detrimental to the national interests. Walby of Vlroqua, Wii in a puddle of water In readiness finishing pat to a mud charge. In charge two sticks are laid on the Is downward thus breaking up the STEEL HELMETS TO BE DISCARDED BY POLICE IN LONDON London.

AP)-Coufident that I the RAF has beaten the German day raider, roost Ixindon policemen will discard steel helmet by day and don again the old style peacetime high-topped variety. The order allowing return of the old helmets for metropolitan police, special constables and war reserves stipulated that steel helmets must be worn at night. thence to shell tables. Breeches swung open, spanner tiays were thrown into the breeches and the shells were rammed home mechanically. The crash and whine within the narrow turret seemed like Armageddon.

The breeches swung shut and down, elevating the mimics to firing positions. Light flashed on, indicating-, the? guns were ready to Then the complicated director sysler fired a salvo of 12 guns from all four turrets. The broad-sido thrust the ship eldewise thru the water, like a crab. 26 SURVIVORS OFZAMZAM IN U.S. ONCE MORE Missionaries Say Fed eral Government Told Them Not to Talk Case.

New York A Twenty six American missionaries, survivors I of the Kgyptfan liner ani.aui, and jlll Kuropean refugee children re-Uently released from concentration camps arrived Saturday on the Portuguese liner Mouninlio. Miss Alice K. Landis, Kliiabeth-itown. missionary nurse who was enroute to the South African British tetritoiy of Kenya colony when a German raider sank the Zamzam. said the federal government had otderod the missionaries noi tu discuss fletails of the south Atlantic incident.

Miss Landts was one of the who left an overloaded life-. boat ami swam to a nearby raft to await Ceiman rescue an hour or more latei The leiiiree liildi en. from to 15 years from Prut esiiini, Jettish and Catholic families, were brought from Marseilles. Kratice. by the United States com' luitlee for the tare nf cuildreti.

Marshall Field, committee pies-j ident, said the children had been eva. ttaicd trom one Kuropean count! to another and had cornel ciietnally from (Jermativ, Austria I I'oland ii nd Czechoslovakia. Homes' beve been for them. It "a l-i-'. Mich croup to anhe since last Ilcidilliei REV.

F. G. CODD TO SPEAK AT RITES IN IOWA CITY iiCta It 4 1 ny. la The Ke. F.

0 Codd. pastor of Calvary Baptist church. Iaerport, wjj tr tured speaker here today at the centennial observance of the Iowa Uity Baptist church. He will conduct the IOC a. m.

service of worship, otie of five events on Sunday's program. The church wan founded June 26, 1S41. A basket dinner will be held at P- ni. and the liev. Klnier Dierks, pastor of the lo City church, will talk at 3 p.

m. The Ue and Mrs. hieiks will at to ibauh nnnibci and friends in the evening. 8 a to by while Gilbert L. Nelson gives a are not covered, while in the mud them.

The force of the explosion of 4 with Mr. t.uithly still having: the revolver in the bank as a souvenir. The Uubio bank lias been closed only nine days, this being during the governmental reorganization in Ht. Mrs. Lutthly, who has been in the bank with her husband for the past IS years, remarked that "we haven't had these gray hairs for nothing in the banking game." of ni fwnn.

ty under the Iowa soil conservation mm d4 a MR. AND MRS L. D. LUITHLY Kubio, Tit. l.uithly, wiio has been opening the Hubiu Savings bank for the past I5 years will move his main bank to Hriglilon July retaining the Rubio bank as a blanch.

I opened the Rubio bank in Wash-inglon county in 1906 we paid four per cent interest, rever heard tell of a chattel mortgage, trusted everyone on "their face" and "made money," remarked the banker who knows all 125 citizens of Rubio and every farmer in the community "like a book." TLH1D By HUGH LYTLE. Wiih Hie United States Tai ific Fleet In Hawaiian News Service) Firing the tnaiu batteries of a battleship represents suth split fecund liiuliiR and such precise teamwork that a football game is a free-for-all by comparison. The battleship exists for Its main batteries of 34 or 16 Juea guns. These monsters, a dorea of them, are mounted four power-driven turrets that can, with ihcir secondary batteries, hurl some nine tons of steel and explosive with every broadside. And the secret 'fire-control 'system of the navy co-ordinates the batteries to get the greatest number of hits In the shortest time.

Since the battleship is tlie ultimate strength of the fleet, de-signed to fight it out with any ship anywhere and to go hunting for the fight, what Is insida those mam hatteiies is a key to the whole naval establishment. Within each of the four main turrets on this battleship truis-lug: in the Hawaiian area is a space about the size of a buck bedroom in a city flat. A picked crew operates the three guns jS, each turret. INSTRUMENTS ALL OVER. Almost every square foul tir bulkhead hii-ide the tnrrcts i covered with insiiuiiiem which make It possible to turn the tur ret, raise and lower the load, fire and clean.

guns Tha revolving turret rid-s on a hurre cylinder of heavy armor whose sides extended down into the ship far below the water line. From magazines below, ammutu-ion comes up on conveyors, pu- ieciea every stage of the by flautepioof door. lotn 'lev fcath step of t)if. i)ajjI1K iU, firing is guided by bells aud indicator lights. An intricate system of omnium-cation connects th- four with raie finders and duvetur which form tlj- lira in mjip mechanical i1( notls The action enemy bad MMbtrd tar uu ran'- buirle u-iavci thru the ships speaker -vs.

tern to the shriiHn of ad lien iu trneiai qua! ici ii dieii doii.s ic-iUle Like armageddon. Men in rooms i-i0w" fd (,, Iwgs to the fcjMi mho steel cradles, und -iJUJiilUiM i vis HAKSSERS 21b W. 2nd St. HARDWARE wilr vmm M-ISr- 1 Mm ii 1 Baby Bed High Chair Motorcycle Bicycle 3-piece Living Room Suite 4 Poster Bed Love Seat Cherries Lamps End Table Davenport-Rugs Dining Room Set Chairs Buffet-Bedroom Suite Mirrors Other Articles! All Sold From Ads of Private Individuals. Place your ad where the buyers look! SOLD EVERYTHING! In l'tn Mr.

l.uithly had his only holdup experience; when a masked man demanded Jibm, the price of Ford in those days. Mr. T.uithly was "mad." As the demands were made while the banker was out in front reading the paper, be had time to figure out a little trick relieve the bandit of his gun the time the two reached the vault. The trick worked, the robber was tried and setit to prison Their bank in Rubio. VOTE SOIL PROJECT.

If. (APt inneshitk 1' I' NICK CHERRIES PKk tliein yourelf or buy the trea. 1 riinl 8-ilS(i J-piecf- Iiviiik rouin uite, in excelletit condition. 4-poster bed. Dial or NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL! DIAL 3-2721 DEMOCRAT ECONOMY WANT ADS SOLD EVERYTHING! rRACTICALUT BRAND NKW RKAfTlFVL, MODERN SOLID RUN1 JIATEL 11AVWOOP-WAKEHELD KLRMTl'RE AT 4tn OK COST loesrat, end lbl.

3-de-e davenport wnd cornfr table group, two I. B. S. tamps. mi and tad, small dining room net, tal-W, 4 clmirs and buffet.

SxlO rug and pad, 1 choKtu of vanity, vanity bench and mirror, night stand. Also breakfast sot, simmong roll-away beda and screen. Witt aell everything tor Cost $72. Can be financed. Tranfernd to Seattle, must mnv by tlie Cull Kwk Island C3TS 'f apivimtmi-nt.

vv.v,r A "Z' INDIAN MOTORCYCLE Kxi-t-tlt-nt condition. I Hal J-JSJI LINK B.iby Hed, like new, modern high chair, llj'j Hnrrison, Att. 3. Dint 3-3708. IIICYC'LK In cimd condition hint 2-1 7s -6 couHiy laud uwiieti voted 231 to I disti law.

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