The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 5

5 DAILY DISPATCH. MOLINE. ILLINOIS: TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1043. EX-WRESTLER IS CONSIDER NEGRO MY REQUES In Western Thriller at Paradise Two Arrested for Arguing Over Slot Machine Fined $5 WORKER STATUS ROTARY SPEAKER OF POINT VAIilES Important Dates on Rationing By the Associated Press. MEAT, CHEESE, ETC.

Book 2 red stamps P. and valid through July 31. good until August 31. PROCESSED FRUITS and VEGETABLES Book 2 blue stamps and valid through August 7. and valid August 1 September 7.

SUGAR Book ltamp 13 good for 5 pounds through August 15; stamps 15 and 16 worth 5 pounds each for home canning. COFFEE Book 1 stamp 22 worth one pound until August 11. SHOES Book 1 stamp 18 good through October 31. GASOLINE In east. No.

6 coupons worth three gallons each; elsewhere No. 7 worth four gallons. and coupons in 12 northeast states worth 2M gallons, In rest of east 3 gallons; elsewhere 4 Official OPA Tables Must Be 'Humorous Expose of Profes-sional Mat Sport Is Presented. Colored Women Refused Employment Here, Moline Meeting Told. Posted Conspicuously in All Stores.

B. L. Shurtleff of Providence, R. Meat dealers and grocers were George Sullivan. Campbells island, and James Boyer, 334 Railroad avenue, who were arrested July 23 on a charge of fighting over a slot machine at the rear of a tavern at Third street and Third avenue, were fined $5 each in Moline police court last night.

Sullivan was fined on a charge cf assault and battery and Boyer was assessed on a charge of disturbing the peace. Sullivan, It was claimed, accused Boyer of carrying a 5-cent slot machine from the Nick Caleo tavern. Officers who arrested the men said they confiscated a 5-cent slot machine which they found at the rear of the tavern. former Brown university and pro treed again today by P. T.

Ban fessional football player, as well as wrestler during his collegiate days, croft, chairman of the war price and rationing board serving Moline and the upper end of the county, to pest in a conspicuous place the cur rent OPA official consumer table of Life on Woodlark Island; You'll Get a Kick Out of Reading This poln values for meats, canned fish, tats and dairy products. Some dealers. Bancroft declared presented a humorous expose of professional wrestling yesterday noon at the weekly meeting of the Rotary club in the LeClaire hotel. Shurtleff, who is a high school teacher at Providence, gives lecture tours during the summer Illustrating the various tricks by professional wrestlers which excite the fans and attract large crowds. With the assistance of Rotarians he illustrated such holds as flying tackle, rabbit puhch.

scissors and flying mare, and apparently are not. yet aware that ed our canteens, Barnett called us By ART COHN. Woodlark Island, Solomon Sea, they are required by law to post point values as well as prices. He aid that each store also must display a sign to show whether It Is Zoning Board of over to the water bag. -Look," he said.

Revelation. Representatives of most tri-city plants employing an appreciable number of colored workers were present at a meeting of the tri-city branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at Tabernacle Baptist church, Moline, last evening, where problems relating to the employment of negroes in war industries were discussed. Only one plant In the entire area reported a larger percentage of absenteeism- among colored than among white workers. It was stated that colored employes in this plant were mostly laborers, performing arduous duties detrimental to health and requiring rest periods. Many plants still refused to employ colored women, some not desiring them for such tasks as maids and Janitresses.

It was ttated. One colored representative, machine operator, reported that she had been refused employment at three plants which were constantly advertising for this type of help. "Colored workers are patriotic and July 27. (INS) Dear Boss: you can tell the promotion dept. to "jlV vV'- i Ft I 'rMTr Class 1, 2.

3 or 4. according to the start exploiting me as the Wood lark editor of I. N. S. We did.

Blissfully wriggling about the bottom of the bag was a deadly Ceiling prices It may charge. Appeals to Hold Hearing Tonight "There is no more effective way coral snake. Sleeping Is another of life's un For years I've been pointed out as a Stoopnagle who knew less about more subjects than any other speeding up service and reduc Ing delays or rationing than to dis certainties here. Our downy couch Johnny Mack Brown, the man executing the right to the Jaw above, shares honors with Raymond Hatton, Kerby Grant and Christine Mc-Intyre in Stranger from Pecos at the Paradise theater Wednesday and Thursday. Feature picture on the double bill is Girls in Chains, with Arline Judge and Roger Clark in the lead roles.

lardbraln in either hemisphere. That es are jungle hammocks hung be play the point table in a prominent Moline eonlng board ef appeal distinction now belongs to my 11 place." declared Bancroft. "Cus tween trees. Undoubtedly Invented literate past; today I know more tomers then may tell at a glance the by Rube Goldberg, assisted by Sal will hold a public hearing at 8 thl evening In the city council rooms on a petition to amend the coning ordi about one subject than anyone else, jvint value of the various meats vadore Dali, the jungle hammock especially Jack Kleran. and other rationed items." completely enclosed in air is a showed how they are applied and broken by the professionals.

"This Is one sport in which the amateurs are better than the professionals." said Shurtleff. "The sport is dramatized as much as possible to excite the fans; therefore all action Is exaggerated so that everyone can fully appreciate the show. "Whenever the show gets dull and the fans become quiet, professional wrestlers resort to what is called ribbing. This is the faked procedure of acting dirty, such as gouging eyes out. splitting men in two.

pulling cars off, wrapping the ring ropes in love, that's what he Is Willy Toad is in love. Come on. let's go That subject Is Woodlark Island. masterpiece In levitation and sus In all modesty I am the world's ponded animation. It Is like speel- back.

By and by hell return to nance to permit a multiple dwelling district on the tract of ground known as Seven Acres which lies between Seventh and Eighth streets and Fifth and Eleventh avenues. greatest authority on Woodlarkiana, ing on a tightrope. his mushroom and likely as not living andor dead. Cost Accountants To Hold Picnic at Did Bob Stevenson know Treas are buying war savings bonds," declared one leader of the N. A.

A. C. The a. I. hammock Is supposed to be waterproof and it probably Is in Arizona or New Mexico.

But he'll bring someone with him that beautiful someone he's talking about. Just you wait and see." car. While backing up from the street car he rammed into an automobile the same car involved in the first accident. Temptation. Dallas.

Tex. Newsboys, despite the black headlines on Mussolini's downfall, held themselves in check admirably. This is antinoLse week. The property Is owned by Mra, ure island? Does Damon Runyon know HlbLscus Island? That's how P. "Negro workers are still rather skeptical of the labor unions.

Short Hills Club I know Woodlark Island, only more Nancy S. Stevens, widow of G. Arthur Stephens, former president of the old Moline Plow Co. It noar Is In a residential district. "The local unions are working so.

not under Niagara Falls. According to the natives, 140 inches of rain falls here per year, eight Inches of which has fallen every night since we landed here. The rest of the time N0.1 FUEL OIL COUPON IS VALID TO JANUARY 3 hard to gain the confidence of their colored members. As the first American newspaper man ever to step foot on its coral Annual stag picnic for members of around each other's necks." The former wrestler illustrated how all types of ribbing can be faked. C.

E. Brewer of New York was introduced as a guest. "As a rule, colored workers are shore, the only u. s. war corre It has not stopped raining.

given the hardest and dirtiest Jobs ROCK ISLAND RATIONING BOARD GETS PHYSICIANS spondent with General MacArthur'a the tri-city chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants will held Thursday, August 19, at Safety Tips and are not placed, rated or up ta.sk force that Invaded and occu graded according to the training or The natives obviously made a typographical error, they must mean 140 Inches a week. Rain, rain, rain this must be the day the whole Short Hills Country club. pled It, I take more than a professional Interest In Woodlark. I shall Members of the committee in MOTORIST FINED FOR IGNORING STOP LIGHT charge include O. O.

Deters of Rock always have a sentimental Interest world has been saving something ability of the worker. There Is also evidence that in a majority of the plants colored workmen are retained in low wage brackets as long as possible." Island, chairman; K. Johnson of in it. Indeed. I propose to bore the for.

next two generations with my ex He's a Jeep. Springfield. (fl1) Number 1 fuel oil ration coupons now being issued are valid from July 1 to next January 3. the Springfield district office of price administration announced. Other validity dates are November 30 through February 7 for No.

2 coupons: November 30 through March 13 for No. 3, and Feb. 8, 1944, to Sept. 30. 1944.

for numbers 4 and 5. Changcmaking coupons and inventory reserve coupons are valid from July 1, 1943, through Sept. 30, 1944. periences here, comforted by the Both white and colored memters Oh yes, the hammocks. After knowledge no one can contradict These are the days of summer daze and that's spelled D-A-Z-E The National Safety council urges pedestrians to save their dreams of cool shade, lazy streams, mountains, beaches and romance for safer places than the street.

Keep in mind this little rhyme: Dnydreamera who amble in manner seraphic Are heading for nightmares in fast-moving traffic! sleeping In one for a week during Rock Island. July 27. Appointment of Dr. C. P.

O'Neill and Dr. W. Snively as medical directors on the local rationing board was made today by LaRue Bowker, chairman. Mr. Bowker said the two physicians have been named to rule on applications for additional received from persons who ay they are 111 or who have physicians' certificates stating they are ill.

me. Eugene H. Carr, 837 Fifteenth street was fined $5 In Moline police court last night on a charge of failing to observe a traffic signal. He was arrested July 22. a torrential downpour that would I am grateful to Woodlark for Davenport, co-chairman, and R.

N. Gilson of Davenport and H. C. Thompson of Rock Island. The first meeting of the new year .11 be held September 14 at the Ho-t in Davenport.

On September 21 a ladles night party be held at the Outing club In Davenport. Guy E. Sharpe of Davenport is general chairman. and visitors from all the quad-clt'es attended the meeting. Carroll Owens, of Moline.

chairman of the committee on labor and industry, was discussion leader. make unusual weather in Los An many things, not the least being geles unusual, your correspondent Is that it has made me a man of the also amphibious. great outdoors. All my life I took This committee, it is announced. Save your waste kitchen fats! For the benefit of most of my elaborate precautions against fresh friends, who will think that means air poisoning.

I have one record of being in New York three weeks I sleep either on my left or right will probably make some constructive suggestions to local plant managers in the near future, relatives to Improving the status of the negro worker. side, I hasten to explain that as a Save and flatten jour tin cans. without leaving Toots Shor's. bonaflde member of this force I sleep on dry land or water, mostly Tenderfoot for Four Years. There is another national record water, one foot deep Inside the hold that must still be on the hammock.

underground apartment. "Didn't say If a man hasn drowned or books. I was a tenderfoot In the boy scouts for four years. I couldn't where he was going either. I don rightly think he knew where he was pass a test.

The fact I didn't know a bowline knot from the scout oath going. Seemed to be in a daze, he did." Flashes of Life By the AiKociattd Powder Puff. Washington A four-star general paid a courtesy call on a sergeant by the name of Powder and that, friends, happens seldom. Neighbors of Master Sergeant James W. Powder watched agape as Gen.

George C. Marshall, United States army chief of staff, rang the soldier's doorbell, to say hello to his chauffeur who has been ill. strangled to death during the night he gets up at the crack of dawn and starts the day with a luscious breakfast. Meals a la carte In this wilderness may be almost anything may have had something to do with Blinky offered to go along with it. At any rate I was finally given the heave-ho, having grown a head but 10 to 1 it's spam.

them and find Willy. "I can't understand why he should be acting in such a funny way," Hanid kept saying. taller than the scoutmaster. There are fifty-seven varieties of How I wish that scoutmaster dishes among them spam and cornflakes, spam souffle, spam a la "Look! There he is nowi" Knarf could see me now, roughing It In a tropical jungle where man has never lived before. who knew from king, sauerkraut and spam, spam suddenly exclaimed after they had crossed the road (and after making and eggs without eggs, spam a la Rockefeller, spam suzettes, spam nothing about nature, can now ex quite sure that Willy wasn't in the "There he Is, standing un amine a hunk of moss and almost instantly tell on what side of It to au gratin, spam borsht, spam jello and spam a la mode.

der that daisy!" Wanted. BEAUTY OPERATORS Gworontced Salary Commission On Ptrmonents Department Stort Hour Vocation With Pay Hospitafixation Insuranct Without Cost Opportunity For Advancement Wall Equipped Salons Discount Priviieg, See Miss Short NEW YORK STORE Phone Moline 120S look for a tree. I have eaten spam In every form They ran over to the daisy as fast In fact, I have already plotted a except in the can, unopened, which as they could. Willy was smiling in I am anticipating almost any day. happy, dazed way.

He hardly book. My Life on Woodlark Island, or Beating About the Bush. Helmet Valuable. Of all the gear we lug around, and There is a delightful uncertainty 355 i about everything here. The other night we were drinking water out of I must have at least 225 pounds, the most important is our steel helmet.

We wash our faces in it, shave out canvas bag. It had a peculiar taste but then, everything has here. of it, make coffee in it, wash our "Tastes like Iodine In there," clothes In it, drink out of it and leave it hanging outside our tent growled Martin Barnett. a newsreel man, who shares our tent. 'Iodine, hell," snarled Curtis all night to catch a fresh hatful of rain water with which to repeat the Hindson, a Reuters man, "that's same process next day.

chlorine." It Is sometimes worn on the head I said nothing, revealing my su during air raids. perior Intellect. There are some 750 Papuan na A while later, after we had drain- The Fixers. Villahermosa, Mexico Merchants found a solution to Mexico's shortage of coins. They tear peso bills in half, using each half for a 50-centavo piece.

Mayor Jose Gallegos is urging them to stop it. Uncle Alex Retires. Topcka, Kas. Uncle Alex Bryant, negro Janitor at the University of Kansas since 1918, has been doing only odd Jobs since 1932. He decided he'd take one of the new civil service examinations to get full-time work.

"Your age, pleaseV was the question that blocked his career. He had to acknowledge 112. Cooperation. Salt Lake City Would-be lassoers were biting their fingernails. They tried repeatedly to snare a buck deer who escaped from the Hogle gardens zoo but every time he leaped straight over their heads.

It was fine strategy until he leaped In the wrong direction and landed back inside his 7-foot wire enclosure. Encore. Chicago Vincent Dietmeyer's automobile was given much body abuse in a few minutes. After Dietmeyer's car and another machine collided he started to a police station to report the accident. He crashed into a street tives of Melanesian strain on the island.

The women wear nothing above the waist and the gents nothing anywhere save a long bone in their fuzzy-wuzzy hair, rings in their noses and, oh yes, G-strings If "C4 made from the bark of pandanus palm trees. Poor Willy was in love! Yours, A. C. seemed to notice his friends and didn't at all notice the worried tone of their voices when they asked: Willy Willy what's the matter with you?" Field Artillery ADVENTURES 'Oh, she's so beautiful so so beautiful!" he murmured. 'Who is beautiful, Willy? Whom in- are you talking about?" NOTICE? SIIADOWLAND But he didn't seem to hear them.

Blinky drew Knarf and Hanid By Max Trell- aside. "No use trying to talk to him now," he whispered. "And no use worrying about him either. He's WILLY TOAD IX A DAZE. "Something's happened to Willy Toad," Squire Squirrel was saying to Knarf and Hanid, the shadows.

He just sits and sits and stares and stares and doesn't m- ft seem to pay any attention to anyone. You have to tap him on the head to wake him up. And he isn't asleep either!" 1 -r i Judging by the expression on this Victory gardener's face, the Jap beetles in this garden are going to take a worse beating than the Japs took at Guadalcanal. And that goes double for Old Man Drought for this gardener knows our fighting men are waiting for the food his crops will help release. It's tough work, but there's a cool bottle of Canada Dry Water on ice to help our friend end his personal drought! In millions of homes, that frosted crystal bottle has been helping Americans mix better tall, cool drinks for a good many years.

Canada Dry "world-famous for quality" is the most popular brand of club soda and ginger ale in the land. "Why, he's just waiting for flies." viy MI Knarf put in. "That's right!" Hanid agreed. "Willy often sits like that." Squire Squirrel shook his head. Not like that he doesn't! No slree! He's not waiting for flies! I TOJ Water The two shadows walked around The New York Store Will Close at 2 P.M.

Wednesday for Our Annual Store Picnic. to the other side of the garden wall to the mushroom where Willy usually sat. He wasn't there. "Hasnt been there for two or three days," Blinky Mole said fitting on his dark glasses as he put his head out of the door of his Please don't blame your dealer for temporary shortages of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wartime restrictions limit the supply.

Just keep asking for it. There's no substitute for "the Champagne of Ginger Ales? Tomorrow's the big day the day we set aside for fun. We hope you'll cooperate by doing your shopping before two o'clock so we can leave for our annual picnic. Thanks a lot! PH. R.

I. 411 FIRST FEDERAL World-famous for quality Pat every dollar above tha hStlL neceaniUe-i of life into War Bonds. Payroll Savings la the best means of doing your best in helpinr your sons and ROOM 216, FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING, MOLINE friends on the fighting fronts. Fig-are it out yourself..