Carroll Daily Times Herald from Carroll, Iowa • Page 8

jTEe Daily Times HeraTd, Carroll, lews lowahs Law Of Missouri ten Tft. Joseph E. Myer, head of- the rtiihbQUnty Court of Domestic predicted today that fesoitrf's new marriage law, ned last week, will have atwo- effect In this "Not only will the license busl- SfemJ Increase in Iowa, from the jjew Missouri law, hut there will he a definite decrease in Iowa forces arising out of 'quickie' JSjarriajros in Missouri," Myer ijduimented, Missouri's new law requires a three-day wait after the license Issued, as well as a blood test fdr Syphilis. towa has had a blood test law but no wait is required after the license Is issued. In recent years, Judge Myer observed, thare has been a noticeable number of uncontested divorce cases here involving; couples ican'ied in Missouri.

Public Safety Bureau Heads Reappointed Dcs Moines (JP) Karl W. Fischer, Iowa superintendent of public safety, today announced the re-appointment of R. Nebergall as chief of the State Bureau of Investigation; Clint A. Knee as chief of highway patrol, and John W. Strohm as state fire marshal.

Fischer explained that the reappointments actually are "continuations in office," since under the law creating the state department of public safety the three divisional bureau heads serve at the plea. sure of the commissioner. 7 AU three men have held their ports for the last four years. Nebergall and Knee will continue on their present salaries of $3600 a year and $3200 a year spectively. Strohn, however, will receive a $300 raise effective July 1, the legislature having upped his salai'y from $2700 a year to $3000 a year.

Fischer also said that Paul Hill Will continue in his post of director of the Division of Safety Education. 'Forward to Tunis! Drive the Enemy Into the Sea! 1 Siliano (Maktar Monday, April 19, 1943 Bob Carver Is Third Class Petty Officer Bob Carver, now a third class petty officer in the U. S. Navy, visited his mother, Mrs. Clara Carver, and other relatives Saturday.

He left yesterday morning for Toledo, Ohio, to await orders. Bob has just been graduated from the storekeepers' school at Toledo. Miles Direction of allied drives ED Axis-held area lOusseltia Kairouair Fondouk Amor el Kenani Kerberl The battle cry from Gen. Bernard Montgomery is spurring the British Eighth Army on in the advance up the Tunisian coast. Meanwhile American, French forces and the British First Army are thrusting toward Bi- zerte and Tunis from positions in the interior of Tunisia.

Map spots key towns, roads and railways in the area where the last battle for Tunisia may fought. Germans Stiffen Ground Forces in Caucasus Sector Aleutians Are Raided Another 10 Times Sunday Washington Six Japanese I planes were destroyed, twp enemy surface ships damaged and Nipponese positions im the Aleutians raided 10 times in American aerial activity reported by the qnavy yesterday. A comminique issued yesterday said two Japanese bombers and zero fighter planes weee clown by American Jjtghtnlng fighters in the area. Later, the same group Light- tnings met and destroyed another bomber. The action occurred Sunday, time.

The fight came a light raid by Japanese planes on Henderson field on during which "light" "personnel casualties arid "minor" were, Demos Omaha (jp) the party was the only object of mid democrats who organized q. 10-state group here last winter and those in the movement have expressed vigorously "love, affec tion, respect and loyalty" to President Roosevelt, Nebraska tional committeeman, James C. Quigley, said in a statement here today. Quigley issued the statement after conferring with Eugene ey, one of the president's aides, who spoke at a Jackson Day dinner here Saturday night. Casey told Quigley the move had been construed by some as an attack on the president.

i. Extension Director Attends Conference John Ingels, Carroll County tension director, went to Ames Jaat night to spend today and tomorrow attending a conference 'jjtor all personnel of the state agrl- gtyltural extension Bervlce at Iowa State College, Central staff mem- typrs and extension workers from 'counties are meeting to line up Intensive program of food and conservation. Stormovik fighters attacked a large enemy fighter base on the Leningrad front and destroyed 19 enemy planes. The fighter escort, it was said, accounted for six German fighters while the bombers broke through to the airdrome and dropped their bombs. The enemy base was reported to have been completely wrecked, increasing the probability of mounting Soviet air activity in this re- By Eddy Gilmore Moscow (JP) Germans are stiffening their ground forces in the Kuban region of the Caucasus with large air units in an effort to hold their positions against on a Red army drive to push them into the Black Sea, a dispatch Pravda said today after the Rus- Auxiliary rOUCe sians had thrown back repeated To Meet Toillght German counter-attacks.

Twenty-five enemy nlar.es were All auxiliary policemen of the shot down and crip-. civilian defense organization are, pled yesterday alone in air bat- asked to meet at the city hall at ties in this sector as crack Soviet 8:30 o'clock'tonight. Mayor A. X. pilots thwarted enemy attempts will lead a discussion on Cito raid the Red army positions, i vilian Defense activities as it per- Pravda said.

tains t0 this branch. Enemy ground troops, concentrating their forces, launched a MAJOR DEGREES combined attack on Soviet posi- j. j. Meyers and his staff con- April Term Of Court to Open Today The April term of the District Court, here opened this afternoon with assignments being made under the direction of Judge R. L.

McCord. Grand jurors reported this afternoon at o'clock and mat ters retarding the grand jury were to be arranged late today. tions. Two German infantry regi-: er rert the major degree on a class ments, supported by tank and air ot twenty candidates who joined units, hammered without success the Knights of Columbus at Des at Soviet front lines, it was yesterday. The initiatory! and Mrs.

Glenn Groves of Scran- ported. Pravda said the Germans service was held in the Knights of ton at the St. Anthony Hospital TRANSFERRED Halbur Frank J. Hacker, who has been stationed at Camp Hood, has recently been sent to Shreveport, where his address is: Co. 603 T.

D. A. P. O. 93, Postmaster, Shreveport, La.

OUT HOSPITAL Donald A. Hinze has been released from, the hospital at which he is stationed, after being a patient for three weeks because of the mumps. His address is: Donald A. Hinze, H. A.

St. Albans Naval Hospital Staff, Long Island, N. Y. George Bliss Is Called to Duty George Bliss, who enlisted In the signal corps last fnll, has received his call to report for active duty. He left last night for Camp Dodge, Des Moines.

During the week of April 25 to May 1, he leaves for Camp Kohler, Sacramento, Calif. Since enlisting In the service, Bliss has spent five and one-half months attending the rado school at WOFT High, Des Moines. IN MEDICAL CORPS Pvt. Roy Comes, who was inducted into the army April 10, has been assigned to the medical corps. He is a son of Mr, and Mrs.

Ben Comes. His address is: Co. 35th B. 1st Platoon, Camp Grant, 111. ADVANCED IJdderdale Pvt.

Donald J. Schleisman has been promoted to private first class. His address Is: Pfc. Donald J. Schleisman, 37438279, Btry.

196th C. A. C. Gunnery Camp, A. P.

O. 838. Postmaster, New Orleans, La. TO CAMP KOHLER Bob Meyers, older son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. J. Meyers, who has been in the signal corps since the first of the year, is leaving today for Camp Dodge, expecting to be sent on from there to Camp Kohler, Sacramento, Calif. He has had several weeks' training at Dunwoody Hall, Minneapolis, since going into the service. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Pvt.

George Schmich, son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Schmich, who is at Camp Wheeler, has been given his serial number. His new address is: Pvt.

F. G. Schmich, 17130907, Co. Sth Trn. Camp Wheeler, Ga.

Births Mr. and Mrs. John Rotert of Glldden are the parents of a son. bora at the St. Anthony Hospital this morning.

Mr. and Mrs. Knock of Audubon are the parents of a daughter, born at the St. Anthony Hospital this morning. A daughter was born to Mr.

GRADUATED Sheppard Field, Joseph A. Staiert, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Staiert of Carroll, has been graduated from an intensive course in aviation mechanics at Sheppard Field, near Wichita Falls, one of the many schools in the army air forces technical training command which trains the technicians who main- tan our bombers and fighter aircraft In perfect combat condition. He is now eligible to become crew chief on a bomber and to win a rating as corporal or sergeant.

FOURTEEN-DAY FURLOUGH Pvt. Joe Spoo of Passagrille, arrived in Carroll last night, and, after an overnight visit in Mrs. Agnes Brauckman's home, went to Dedham today to spend a fourteen-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. John Spoo, and other relatives. He is attached to Battery 53rd Co.

C. at grille. Holds the Tip German commander who faces a "Dunkirk" evacuation on the Bizerte-Tunis tip of Tunisia is von Arnim, above. Rommel's retreating forces are merging with his. Iowa Spring Produces No Season Ode Des Molncs (jp)-Orx the basis of this month's weather, no pofet ever would have been inspired to write: "Oh, to be In Iowa now that April's there." Chilling cold continued to grip the state today and readings in the below-freezing 20s were expecting over all Iowa tonight.

The mercury dropped to an un- springlike 15 above at Inwood last night. Yesterday's high was 60 at Clarinda." tt.was a cold 34 In Dcs Moines at 9 a. m. today. Dubuque reported .2 inch of rain, the state's only precipitation over night.

VISITING PARENTS Tech. Sgt. Clarence J. Fischer of Ft. Riley, is home on a ten- day furlough.

He is visiting his arents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank X. ischer, at Templeton. often advanced walking upright with fire from Soviet heavy mor ranks.

tars and rifles pouring into their The mid-day communique said the Germans launched fresh forces in an attack last night and succeeded in breaking into the Soviet trenches, but were repulsed after fierce engagement in which they suffered heavy losses. Rumanian troops also were employed in the Kuban fighting and numerous hand-to-hand fights developed, but they ended invariably in favor of the Red rirmy, Pravda Said. On several sectors, it was said, the Russians followed up frustrated German counter-attacks and succeeded in gaining improved positions. Successful Raid The mid-day communique said there were no important changes on the front. South of Izyum, on the Donets river front about 70 miles southeast of Kharkov, the Russians attacked during the night and captured better positions on a new line, the ique said.

Dispatches from the Leningrad Front said Soviet bombers and Columbus hall there. yesterday afternoon'. PAYDAY BUY CASH For Used Househofd (poods At FARM LOANS We will make farm loans at interest on highly improved farm property where the loan does not exceed $50 or $60 per acre, and the loan can be for as long a period as twenty years with a small annual payment on the principal. IF INTERESTED, PLEASE' WRITE FARMERS UNION LIFE INSURANCE CO. 504 Grand Ave.

Pes Moines, Iowa RIGHT You 've probably never seen a better year to make money with poultry. That's why it's so important to start your chicks RIGHT with a starting feed that contains everything chicks need to grow into big husky pullets, laying lots of earty fall eggs. Don't be satisfied this year with anything less than Purina, STARTENA. Sanitation Pays, Tool With your Startena, take along a bottle of CHEK-R-TABS, the only poultry water tablet that acts as a disinfectant, bowel astringent, and fungicide. Easy and nomlcal to use.

See us TODAY I OBBINK HATCHERY CARROLL, IOWA WAV British Cross Alps for New Raid on Italy London British home-based bombers made the long: trip across the Alps again last night to blast the Italian naval base of Spezia for the secosd time In six nights, It was announced today. The attack was described as heavy and concentrated and while it was in progress aircraft of the fighter command struck at enemy destroyers at Lorient, the German naval and submarine base on the French coast. Fleet In Hiding Strong units of the Italian fleet were suspected in hiding at Spezia. Observers said the success, of the attack and the weakness of Italian defenses was shown in the contrast between one bomber lost last; night and 55 missing from the two-ply blow against the Skoda works at Pilsen and at Mannheim in Germany Friday. I The Italian cdmmunique said Spezia was one of several targets of four-engined American bombers," suggesting a twin allied assault from north and south on the great naval base which the RAF blasted last Tuesday night.

There was no confirmation from allied quarters that the Americans, too, had attacked Spezia. The Italians said the Americans also bombed Palmero and Ragusa in Sicily and Porto Torres in Sardinia, and commented: "Great damage was caused in Palmero. It Is not yet known the number of casual- tics among the civilian jxipulation In Spezia." Two Alerts London was under an alert twice in hours because of approaching enemy planes and a third time after a false alarm. One German plane approached the city last night and set off a terrific barrage of anti-aircraft fire. No bombs were dropped.

Early today a small force of enemy raiders reached the outskirts of London, but was driven off before any bombs could be dropped. did fall at two places in southeast England, but there was little damage and no casualties were reported. No Crops Likely In Flooded Areas Des Moines (jp) a severe drought occurs in the early part of the season, the stagnant waters left by the falling Missouri river will not disappear in time to permit crops of either soybeans or corn, Charles D. Reed, meteorologist for the Des Moines weather bureau, said Saturday. Reed added, however, that there is nothing now to indicate another flood in June unless there are formidable rains on the watershed of South Dakota, eastern Nebraska and western Iowa.

As it is, he said, the flood has taken "hundreds of thousands" of acres of Iowa lowlands from full production. Mrs. Hartman, Glidden Woman, Dies Saturday Funeral Services Will Be Tuesday Afternoon at Presbyterian Church Glidden E. H. Hartman, a longtime resident of Glidden, who had been in Chicago for the hist year and a half, died in Chicago Saturday morning.

She had been in poor health for some time. The body is being brought here tomorrow. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Presbyterian Church, with the pastor, the Rev. S. R.

Reed, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn cemetery beside her husband, who died in December, 1941. Rites will be under the direction of the Eaton Funeral Mrs. Hartman leaves one son. Melvln, of Chicago.

Her husband was in the blacksmith business here for many years. Cedar Rapids Firm to Vote On Bargaining Washington National Labor Relations Board today ordered an election among ployes of the Cherry-Burrell corporation plant at Cedar Rapids, to determine whether the United Farm Equipment and Metal Union (CIO) shall be their collective bargaining agent. Audubon Man, 72, Dies Here Saturday Jens Sorenson, 72, of Audubon, died at 11 o'clock Saturday night at the St. Anthony Hospital, where he had been a medical patient since Feb. 19.

I i Mi EST, l)( JOET Largest gold nugget ever recorded weighed btween 2250 and 2 500 Troy ounces. It was named "Welcome Strajiger" by its discoverer, who found It In a shallow rut near Mollgul, Victoria, Australia on 186' Fire power on American planes has been stepped up and "blind spots" eliminated, soaking our planes the best equipped in the war. A Garden is Your Defense Against Food Shortage You know the facts. Food is growing scarcer. No longer can you depend on others to supply your needs.

The time has come when we must all help ourselves. Gardening means security against hunger. Now is the time to get busy. Mother Nature doesn't wait. She has a time for sowing and a time for reaping.

If gardening is new to you, see your seed dealer for helpful hints. Get a Plot! Sow a Lot! Can a Lot! Have a Lot! Iowa Public Service Company GO AHEAD TALK ALL DAY WHAT DO YOU CAKE IF OTHERS NEED TO CALL? Beware of the "Phonimp" Hm'll ruin your party fine service if he con Considerate use of party line and farm line service will help to assure good service for all on the line. This means being careful not to make too many calls in succession, not to talk too long and not to interrupt others' conversations. NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY.