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The Daily Times from Davenport, Iowa • 7

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The Daily Timesi
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Davenport, Iowa
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7
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I THE DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MARCH 11. 1943 PAGE SEVEN Rock. Betty Christensen is the director. The banquet is an annual ob Orpheum to Present "Casablanca" servance participated in by the tion made by white-collar workers to the war effort. Mrs Frank- lin D.

Roosevelt has sent her personal greetings to the business girls participating in the Nation Wide observance in Y. M. C. throughout the country. Two Seventecn-Ycar-Old Youths Are Captured After They Tunnel Through Wall to Escape From Juvenile Home YWCAs of the tri-cities and will be held at the Molina Y.

W. C. A. Teddy Roosevelt And 'Rough Rider' In Action Again Son of Former President Is Leading Unit in Tunisia this year. The Davenport was hostess city last year.

The theme is "Our Job the Nation's Business," setting forth the contribu The largest army in Central America is that of Guatemala. i I I'M 'f 1 When some of his men approach in a truck, he stands up in the front seat of his jeep and shouts: "You're looking good today, boys," or "you going to give it to them, boys?" The grinning soldiers salute and shout replies. He makes a practice of visiting his men two or three times weekly. He knows the mess sergeants by name and always asks if the boys are eating all right. He usually winds up drinking a cup of black coffee from the company mess.

Teddy, jr. he's 55 doesn't sit back waiting for the fighting to come to him. He goes out and finds it. Likes to Award Medals He commanded a combat team that attacked Oran from the west during the invasion last Nov. 8, and was with the first infantry platoon to reach its objective.

And he loves to hand out medals. He says: "Sure, Americans like medals as much as anybody. They like to pin 'em on and walk up and down in front of their women folk, showing 'em what a hell of a man they married." along the street. He stopped his car and took them into custody. They offered no resistance.

Covert said Hitchcock had been placed on probation last year after he and several other boys were given a hearing in the juvenile court for breaking into a school building and damaging property. Last fall, two other youths escaped from the home in the same manner. MELTING- ICE i CANT SPOIL DRINKS (Picture on Page 6) Two 17-year-old Davenport youths were being held in the juvenile ward of the Scott county jail today after they escaped from the Scott county juvenile home, 1535 West Pleasant street, Wednesday afternoon by tunneling through a wall and were picked up two hours and 40 minutes later. The pair, Glen Bankson of 1819 Harbor road, and William Hitchcock, 1937 West Fifth street, are scheduled to be given a hearing in the juvenile court for the escape, according to Paul Covert, Scott county probation officer. Hitchcock and Bankson were taken to the home when they returned from Burlington where they were taken into custody Sunday night after they ran away Short Skit to Be Feature at the "Y's" Nationwide Banquet A feature of the Nation Wide banquet for business girls, to CANADA DRY ITS jllN-f jP! Vj CARBONATfON LASTS' be held Friday evening is a SKit, BY PHIL AULT WITH AMERICAN FORCES, Central Tunisia, March 9 (UP) (Delayed) There's another General Teddy Roosevelt bouncing into battle at the head of American troops this time in a jeep called "Rough Rider." Shouting hoarse greetings to privates and colonels alike, Brig.

Gen. Theodore" Roosevelt, roams the battlefield as a combination assistant commanding general and cheer leader. He loves the smell of gun powder. He's happiest when standing in a topless jeep, his steel helmet slightly askew and bouncing from company to company, inspecting his men, inspecting observation posts and inspecting the enemy, whenever he can get close enough. He climbs the rocky Tunisian hills with a jaunty step, flourishing a walking stick.

His habit of returning salutes with that walking stick sometimes endangers the lives and limbs of his companions. But it's fun to tear around with him. Visits Men Often Joustling along a muddy, bumpy road, he recites poems, reeling off verse after verse. He hums tunes. "Liz the Whiz of the Business, from their homes.

Hitchcock, according to Covert, had been on probation from the juvenile court for the past year and was slated to be arraigned for violation of the probation. No charges were with the following cast: Betty Christensen, Dorothy Thompson, Martha Dankman, Mary Wiese, Anna Marie Marvin and Dorothy Standley's Views Are Reported by Press in Russia UUIIIIIIIII I III III III lllf WW 11 WW 111 I lngrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca," opening Friday on the Orpheum screen. Be a Gn dispenser-pour Old Sunny Brook! MOSCOW (AP) The Moscow radio and newspapers informed the Russian people today of Admiral William H. Standley's declaration that they had not been told the complete story of United Home Front Doesn't Know War, Yet Letters to Fighters Complain About Inconveniences that Have Developed Kht Watch vour friends' faces pending against Bankson, Covert said, but the youth had refused to return to his home and for that reason he was taken to the juvenile home. Shortly after 3 p.

m. Wednesday, the youths, broke through the wall from their cell into an adjoining storage closet. It is believed that tbey used a piece of metal from the toilet to cut the hole through the plaster. Crawling through the opening, the pair reached the inside of the storage closet and discovered that they were still prisoners the door was locked and the windows barred. They then forced open the door, breaking the door jamb.

Reaching the hallway, they ran down the stairway from the second to the first floor and fled from the building. Police Join In Search Police Captain R. W. Murray, who resides across the street from the juvenile home, saw the youths when they left the building and became suspicious. Upon inquiring at the home, he was informed that the pair had escaped.

After notifying police headquarters, the police captain joined in the search for the youths. Police squad cars also searched the vicinity, but were unable to locate the runaways. At 5:40 p. Probation Officer Covert was en route to his home and at Fifth and Gaines streets he saw the two youths walking un when vrm nour this cheerfi Kentucky bourbon. Old Sunny Brook has a satisfying goodness and a fineness of flavor that brightens up any drink.

ration. The marines, too, knew there was a war on. "Mr S. was buried today. He had a beautiful funeral.

The flowers were gorgeous We saw Stanislaus, a kid marine shot down near Point Cruz. For an entire day his body lay not more than 20 yards away from the shelter we had taken. He was just 18, religious too. We buried him at dusk, no grave, just a rapid scraping of dirt over his contorted body. No flowers.

States aid to the Soviet Union. The story was broadcast and printed under a New York dateline and credited to Tass, the official Soviet news agency which has offices in New York. The story said: "According to the Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press, the United States ambassador to Moscow, Mr Standley, made a statement to American correspondents announcing that, as he presumes, the information is not given to the Russian people on American aid to Russia." This was the first information received by the Russians on the controversy. The Russian home radio told the story in two broadcasts, evening and morning, and then all the newspapers carried it on the back page of their four-page editions the space usually allotted to foreign dispatches except those of transcendent interest. There was no editorial comment.

Admiral Standley likewise declined further "I have made my statement," he told the Associated Press. "I have nothing more to say at 0 "CUEERFUL AS ITS SAME" SurarBiooR Bettendorf Girl Expects a Call by WAACs Next Week BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON TinSKEY National Distillers Products Corporation, New York, N. Y. 1 50.4 Proof mmmwMmiiiim Miss Marguerite Canfield Flem-ming, daughter of Mr and Mrs E. E.

Canfield, 923 Twenty-third street, Betterv I aori, nas Sue's cessfully passed BY J. NORMAN LODGE SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. (Delayed) (AP) Mail call: No more welcome sound ever is heard on the fighting front. This time It was doubly delightful after a long tour of sea duty in submarine-infested waters. Envelopes bearing postmark of that far off heaven called the United States were opened avidly but then: "We are really in this war now," said the first.

"Pleasure driving is out for the duration and it's so tiresome sitting on a bus for two hours getting to and from work." A memory of Guadalcanal: Under terrific tropical heat the marines, pack laden, carrying heavy rifles, wearing shoes with inch thick, hob-studded soles, wearing the same fatigue uniforms they had worn for weeks without a chance to wash, trudging up toward the Matanikau river. Muck over the ankle tops struggling to lift one weary foot after the other, up, up, inexorably up toward the Japanese lines. "The food situation is getting terrible," another envelope's content said. "We have to stand in line for a pound of butter and then it's 59 cents a pound. We know there's a war Foxholes on Austen mountain: Col.

John M. Arthur of the 2nd U. S. marines has just glanced at his wrist watch. "Chow detail," he called and five youthful marines worm their way to the improvised galley some few hundred yards to the rear.

Snipers clip branches from other their heads but fighting men must eat. They bring back the inevitable ration, the same as we had been eating three times a day for the past four days: Dry biscuit containing calories galore, rancid warm water and a cigaret No sleep, plenty of guerrilla fighting, snipers, and aras for the a. WAAC. She expects to be called for Tree Local Option DES MOINES, (AP) The Iowa Anti-Saloon league today urged the state legislature to adopt pending local option bills which would "give citizens the democratic right to decide by majority vote whether or not to permit whisky stores or beer taverns in their home communities." auxiliary training next week. Miss Flemming attended Daven i port high school snH has hocn Miss Flemming empi0yed at the Petersen-Harned Von Maur department store for the past few years.

Aurora to Vote on Airport AURORA, 111. (AP) The question of floating a $180,000 bond issue for the purchase of a site of an airport the government wants to build here will be brought before Kane county voters at a special referendum April 6. ifelier of t'tieers Ikw Fiinso fhsf (THESE SOAPY-RICH SUDS WASHY w-r CLOTHES WHITER easily! ffp -says Mrs. RALPH GARDNER, Wf) 23 Hillside AvPiftefieJ, Mass. L.

GOSH DOESN'T IjlT CERTAINLY DOES, RALPH. IT'S SO I ifyzr THE SNOW DAZZLING AS WHITE AS A if.f'Vfi V- LOOK GRAND RINSO WASH 'F i The husky, attractive Gardner children love winter sports. All of 'SSr'T1 'f them, down to the 4-year-old, ski and ice skate. 1 Is 'Sfi? OUTGREW ARE FINE FOR YOUR LITTLE SISTERS. THIS C0LLAR WAS.

NOWil AND RINSO IS SAFE I TO HELP WITH Jf QUICK AND EASY WITH THANKS TO RINSO THEY'RE STILL ALMOST I LOOK! IT5 WHITE AS FOR WASHABLE I THE OISHES THROUGH I LIKFJNEW Sjf. I HL SN0W rT CLORSJOO A TONIGHT? V- IN A JIFFY Construction of the Pucalipa highway in the jungle district of Peru is being pushed to ME1 So Ml Can11 Pi- ft for least crowded schedules and best days to travel! For Cif a. 1 1 Victory To make your trip more comfortable do one thing: call the man who can point out the least crowded trips and days. Your courteous bus agent can give you pointers that will help you travel more comfortably and help irz-s- i ill 4 MON TUE WED THL) FW UT SUN the bus lines serve America best. Buy tickets early be on time take only one suitcase.

By these little sacrifices you help win the war. Two Gardner girls are Camp Fire Girls. Mealtime is a busy time, but the children lend a band. They set the table, serve, help many ways. band.

They set the table, serve, Help many ways. The Gardner children sell war stamps, collect scrap. Dad, veteran of last war, is a machinist. Dorothy, Charlotte, Ralph siog in the choir. sing to the choir.

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