Freeport Journal-Standard from Freeport, Illinois • Page 7

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1944 THE FREEPORT PHONE OR 3100 PAGE SEVEN Market News Grain Chicago, Sept. futures were lower in nervous marketa today. Wheat WAS of! AS much As cent while rye suffered heavier setbacks. At the opening wheat was to cent lower than yesterday's close, September 1.54%. Oats were changed to cent lower, September 64 to Rye WAR off to 2 cents, September 1.0314 to 1.02.

Barley was down to cent, September 1.11%. GRAIN AND Open Today WheatSept. 1.54% Dec. 1.52% May 1.503 July 1.43⅞ OatsSept. Dec.

May July RyeSept. 1.0314-02 Dec. 1.03⅞-% May 1.03 -03 July BarleySept, 1.11⅛ Dec. 1.06 May Livestock PROVISIONS Close Close Year Yesterday Ago 1.55½ 1.45⅘ 1.42⅞-53 1.47 1.51 1.48⅞ 1.44% 1.46½ 1.043-04 1.01% 1.043-04 1.04 1.03⅞-¼ 1.06¼ 1.01¼-⅘ 1.06⅛ 1.11½ 1.07% 1.01½ Chicago, Sept. Nominally steady.

For the week: Local receipta dwindled to the lowest level since Oct. 1943, with supplies considerably below requirements and practically everything with slaughter merit continued to bring ceiling prices. Good and choice 150 to 240 pound barrows and gilts brought the 14.75 limit. Weights above 240 pounds along with most sows went at 14.00. Cattle-200.

For the week: Eastern order buyers were active buyers of- good choice fed steers and yearlings as well as numerous loads of lower grade cattle. Thirty-five loads of choice 1113 to 1489 pound fed steers brought the 18.35 top. Hellers reached a new high when strictly cholce 891 pound weights scored 17.75, just 75 cents under the all-time record high of 18.50 In 1919. Demand was broad for other classes with practically everything winding up steady to 50 cents higher. Cows finished 50.

to 70 cents higher. Choice 996 pound yearlings yielded 18.10. Good and choice fed heifers made 15.50 to 17.50. Weighty sausage bulls sold up to 11.75 and choice vealers topped at 16.50. Sheep--None.

For the week: Spring lambs, natives and westerns, advanced mostly 25 cents under local competition. Three doubles of mixed medium to choice 64 pound Washington spring lambs 'sold straight at 15,00, while good to choice natives changed hands at 14.80 to Actual top was $15.10 but choice westerns were considered salable up to $15.25 and alightabove. Shorn fed yearlings brought 11.50 to 12.50, LIVEATOCK ESTIMATES Chicago, Sept. estimated livestock receipts for Tuesday: cattle sheep 8,000. News About Persons In Armed Services 8gt.

Geo. E. Brown, Sliver Creek township, has been sent from Fort Belvolr. to the Regional hospital, Ward 8-4, Port George Mende, for medical care, Howard D. Kubatzke, son of Mrs.

F. Kubatzke, 729 East Wyandotte street, hAs been graduated from army air forces flexible gunnery school at Panama City, Fla, Pic. John Haupert, who has been stationed at San Diego, Arrived today for a 10-day furlough at the home, of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Haupert, North Wise avenue.

Thomas Pfisterer, who has been home on leave, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Ohio, where he is enrolled In the Pfisterer, has returned to Oxford, V-12 naval program. Pic.

Dale Johnson has gone to Texas, after, spending, 23-day furlough with; his wife, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson. He was overseas for seven months, having been stationed in Africa and In Italy. Mrs.

Herman A. Freidag, 1330 West Lincoln boulevard. has received word that her grandson. Private Wallace Freidag, has arrived in New York city, He is in a hospital there, having been slightly wounded while with the field artillery in Italy. Pvt.

Thomas Lloyd, son of Mrs. Mae Lloyd, 316. North Chicago avenue, who is with an infantry division in the southwest Pacific, has been awarded the Combat tryman's badge. He started his tour of overseas service on Sept. 7, 1943, and saw his first combat experience in the Bougainville campaign.

Among the members of the crew of the US8 Tulag! which operated in invasion of southern France and destroyed six German planes. the only ones seen in that area during the invasion, was Petty Officer, Donald Straub, son of Mr. and STARTS SUNDAY PATIO DOORS OPEN SUNDAY AT 12:45 P. M. The stars Paramount show that's and three mutt any entertainment Mr.

Frank Straub, South Biate avenue, who 1A bomb night mechanic. Pic. Walter Matherson, son of Mrs. Anna Matherson, 600 south James street, has returned from service outalde continental United States. He went overseas on Jan.

25, as an infantry rifleman. In New Caledonia he transferred to an intantry band on June 10, 1942. He arrived in Guadalcanal and the FIJI Islands before the band transterred as unit into the AAP, His I totals service 30 in montha. the He southwest Pacific Freeattended port high school and was employed by the Burgess Battery company before entering service. Strike With New "Secret Weapon" London, Sept.

2-(UP)-The Germans switched tactics last night and struck back feebly with new "secret weapon," pilotless bomber packed explosives and released from a control plane at a great distance. Two of the bombers crashed and exploded in southern England during the night, but the air ministry said they caused only slight damage and no casualties. Few details on the projectiles were available, but they were beleved to be obsolete Junkers-88 bombers carrying 4,000 to 8,000 pounds of high explosives and launched from specially- -equipped Messerschmitt fighters. Military observers withheld judgment on the new weapon, but it was believed to be merely an Improvisation forced on the Nazis by the capture and destruction of most of their robot bomb bases In northern France. First reports indicated that the new projectiles were not radio-controlled, but simply released In toward the general direction of the target area.

The pick-a-back bombers were unvelled by the Nazis, during the early stages of the French Invasion, when one WAS launched against a British sector of the Norman beachhead. The crashed harmlessly into the channel. The appearance of the pilotless raiders over England came 85 the London Area was enjoying lull in the enemy's robot offensive, Ing the sweeping Allied advances across northern France. PIPER CASE CONTINUED At a hearing held before Justice of the Peace M. L.

Karels, the case of Theodore Piper, Freeport, charged with assault and battery, was continued until Sept. 12, and the defendant remanded to jall when unable to provide bond of $1,000. WARSHIP POWER PLANTS The electric generators on big U. S. battleship or carrier could fill the electrical power needs of a city the size of Newark, N.

"and the Journa1-Standard Sure And It's Pat O'Neill Who Leads Maquis BY HAL DOYLE loyed)-(P)-Sure and wouldn't you be knowing the leader of 8,000 French Maquis who have been playing hob with the Germana for two years has a name as Irish as Paddy's pig. This Gallic Robin Hood goes by the Emerald Isle monicker of Patrick O'Neill and he doesn't care Orleans, France, Aug. 11 the Germans know it. It has been a long time since this wiry 6-foot plus colonel or his clan kissed the Blarney stone or threw shallalah, but he still has all the battling skill of his ancestors who forsook Erin France, "My people left Ireland 200 years ago," said the Maquis commander, who still looks like one of the fighting "black" Irish and who 15 renowned among American troops as well AR his own people for guerrilla exploits against the Nazis, Former French Officer O'Neill learned military tactics at St. Cyr, the West of France.

He served as captain in the French army and was twice wounded in 1940. For two years during the German occupation he lived quietly with his wife and three children, Then two years ago a group of young Frenchmen who refused to he drafted for their leader and Maquis. labor in Germany asked, him, Despite family responsibilities and outlook for Allied victory, O'Neill accepted. He has risen steadily and now leads 5,000 Maquis in tour departments of France around Orleans. Because of security reasons O'Neill declined to give some details of the manner in which the Maquis operate, but' said that his men armed with weapons dropped by Allied planes long before the vasion and that his group kept in radio contact with London.

Lived in Foresta "We've had.to live in the forests the last six months before you came," said the 35-year-old commander. "The last three weeks our men fought the Germans every day and every night. Before that we clashed with them about every 10 days somewhere in our territory, trapped their ambushed and fought their troops and blew up their transport trains and bridges. "We've lost at least 300 killed and many wounded in my four departments during the last two years, When the Germans took us they shot us, you know. They treated us as bandits rather than as the soldiers we really are." O'Neill said that once the Germans "burned to death 17 of our wounded in a small house we were using A8 hospital." ENDS TONITE -JOHN GARFIELD-ANN SHERIDAN "THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL" PLUS-EDW.

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"AT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU" "FOB THE FIRST HUNDELO YEARS" "NOW POES YOUR GARDEN Car ON YOUR QWN FEATURES START AT IN MY MORSE SAN AWAY HEART'S WRAPPED UP IN STANISLAUS GOT EXTRA ADDED ENTERTAINMENT LITTLE LULU COLOR TECHNICOLOR PARIS FREE AGAIN TO DE THRIFTY" "COLORADO TROUT" SOUTHERN FRANCE INVASION CARTOON "NIFTY SPORT REEL NEWS ROMANIA QUITS Home Bureau News Stephenson county home bureau meets Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 2 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Roy A.

Sanders, Demeter drive, Response to roll call will be flag etiquette. The major topic, "Short Cuta in Meat Preparation," will be given by Mrs. Ena K. Chesney, home bureau adviser. P.

A. Celander will give the minor topic, "Making A Bed with a Patient In 10." Mra. Paul F. Hirst will be in charge of the recreation, Presport Afternoon Unit The Freeport Afternoon Unit of Army Can Be Kept At Full Strength With Present Draft Policy Washington, Sept. Service reported to congress today that the armed forces, estimated at an overall 11,417,000, can be kept at full strength without changing current draft policies, barring unforeseen military reverses.

This means, Col. Francis V. Kess. ling, informed the senate and house military committees, that 11 future induction calls remain constant, few men over 26 will be drafted during the remainder of this year. During July, 83 per cent of the men inducted were between 18 and 26, he said.

While only 10,384,000 registrants had been inducted or enlisted up to August 1, Kessling reported, that total does not Include non-registered enlisted men and women and registrants over 38 now in the army or the navy. It does, however, include an estimated 1,500,000 separations from service. Total army personnel. he added. can be assumed to be "at least" goal of 7,700,000, while the navy recently announced its strength at approximately 3,717,000.

The house military committee released Kessling's report without; comment, but several members said privately it confirmed their suspicions that there have been inducted an estimated 2.000,000 more men than were necessary. Kessling gave the committees this breakdown on draft classifications as of August 1: Class 1-C (inducted and enlisted), class 4-F (rejected), class 1-A (men being processed for or awaiting induction), unclassified, classes 2-A and 2-B (deferred in tions other than agriculture), 000: classes 2-ALP and 2-BLF (occupationally deferred and not qualitied for general duty), classes 2-C and 3-C (deferred in agriculture), classes 2-C (L and F), deferred in agriculture, not qualified for general duty, class 3-D (hardship) all other classes, 235,000. Records indicate that an organIzed system of shorthand was used 88 far back as 03 B.C. AIR STATE COOLED ENDS TODAY- CONT. SHOWS "SLEEPY LAGOON" "FLYING FORTRESS" SUN.

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"DESTINATION TOKYO" Pope Says Force May Be Necessary To Prevent Future Wars' Vatican City, Sept. Plus Xt1 in world bromdcast last night defended the right of private property R8 the "cornerstone of social order" but condemned the type of capitalism which "arrogates to itself an unlimited right over property." In his address, made on the fifth anniversary of the war's outbreak and broadcast by the Vatican radio, the pontiff also appealed for A peace founded on christian principles but said that force might be necessary to prevent future wars. He declared all nations must collaborate in the maintenance of security. The vanquished should share with the victors "not only rights and duties but also in the benefits of true civilization," the pope sald. His entire address underlined the imminerice of the end of the war in Asserting that the "christian conscience cannot admit as just 50- clal order which either denies in principle or renders impossible or negatory in practice, the natural right to property," the pontiff declared that neither could it accept "unlimited right over property." permitting Immense riches dominate public and private economic life.

He declared the state should have the right to regulate or even expropriate, the public property where It st welfare and said that "where big business even today shows itself more productive there should be given the possibility of tempering the labor contract with contract of co-ownership." Dealing with the question of the use of force to prevent future wars, the pope said: "The sword can and sometimes, alas, must open the way to peace. "The shadow of the sword may be cast also over the transition from the cessation of hostilities to the formal conclusion of peace." A rudimentary steam engine made in ancient Egypt was described by Hero of Alexandria, writing about 120 B.C. "Twilight On The "Jungle Woman" Clarence F. Buck Dies At Home In Monmouth Monmouth, Sept. Clarence F.

Buck, a figure in Illlnols politics for many years, died at his home today. He was 74 years old. A Republican, Buck served 8 years in the Illinois senate from the thirty-second district, was former director of agriculture for state and served the federal government collector of customs of the port of Chicago. He WAS campaign manager for former Gov. Frank O.

Lowdo, when the latter ran for the presidency in 1928. He had a varied business career, Including publication of A newspaper for more than 20 years, farming and livestock raising And banking. Buck was born in Monmouth, in the house in which he resided when he died. He has four daughters and one son. Goering Reported Stripped Of Command Basel, Switzerland, Sept.

Geneva Tribune today reported A German. radio announcement that Hitler had stripped Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering of his air defense command, and had: entrusted that taak to Nasl party chiefe. An informant from Germans, the paper said, confirmed that Goering was under House arrest at his Karinhall estate. This Informant said there no direct evidence that Goering participated In the July 20 attempt upon life, but was 61s- pected because many of his coworkers were involved and some of them were executed. Sensitive Altimeter Aids U.

S. Fliers Teterboro, N. Sept. 1-(P)- American flyers skimming over the hedgerows in France In P-38'8 better than 300-miles-an-hour speeds to strafe Nazi concentrations use an altimeter so sensitive that it will register the difference between the floor and a kitchen table. The device contains more than 120 parts, many so tiny that they can be hidden under a finger nail, sembled into a gear, and linkage system which translates eighth inch movement of ting diaphragm into 30 revolutions of 1 pointer on a dial, according to R.

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