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tTlic IJnlur ffilutf Kiuli(iratt PAGE FOUR 4 THtmiDtfV, 3VKP, 7, 1945 Joke Backfires DOt BLK CATCH Lyons Falls, N. June 2. (AP) Henry Bartlett taught a jewel of a bullhead inside the fish was a white sapphire later valued at $75. Czechs Will Always Remember Lidice, Village of 657, Wiped Out With Natives by Germans com yj YjtffMVM ewr Tomtom W01 O' MVKMriu LEVEE BREAK WEAR KEffJETT IS REPAIRED Some of Inundated Land Has Already Been Plant ed and Most of Remainder May Be Cultivated This Farmers Say. Kennett, June 2.

The 275-foot gap in the St. Francis river levee some seven miles southwest of Kennctt was closed last night after approximately 100 men had worked two days taler direction of U. S. Engineers seeking to stop flow of floodwaters onto the fertile farming area. The levee break occurred early in May, after crest of the flood-waters from Wappapello reservoir had passed and after the levees which protect Dunklin county property were believed to have served their purpose successfully.

Area Covered Between 7,000 and 8,000 acres of land, much of it in cultivation, was flooded and farm operations halted by the levee break. For several days engineers have sought to close the levee break out it has been dif- fieult to obtain the necessary labor. Hugh Lemonds, county clerk, said today he believes 15 to 20 per cent of the land originally overflowed is now dry and farming operations are in progress. The runoff, he said, was rather slow but as lake level dropped and as flow of water into the river below the Take was reduced, the run-off left quite a lot of farm land dry so that some cotton was planted. He said the farmers believe they can cultivate most of the land inundated this year although some of it will be in corn, soy beans and some crops which mature more rapidly.

The government paid expenses of closing the levee break but the county provided transportation for men to and from the site. Another Threat A sand boil developed a small break in the levee just south of highway 84 bridge but it was discovered in time to prevent serious trouble. "It is possible, said Lemonds, that other levees have been damaged bo that breaks may be possible at any time. While it is the general opinion in Dunklin county that the system of levees, as outlihed by the Engineers would be of great benefit, there appears some dissention in connection with such a plan because it is contended all of those who would be benefitted will not have to bear their proportionate cost. As one man asserted: The levees would be fine, if we bad them, but we may not need them again for a long time.

The cost would be pretty high on a few and would not be equitably This airport map of Missouri shows how citizens of this state will participate in the nationwide airport expansion program being sponsored by the Civil Aeronautics Administration and now under discussion in Congress. When completed there will be 129 airports in the state with many communities having such facilities for the first time. Actual construction is scheduled to start as soon as possible after the war. The whole program is designed to encourage private flying and the development of commercial air transportation. rm.m i Exclusive of buildings, hangars and special facilities such as restaurants and Shops, the proposed state program wojilf) ost 18,923,000 of which half would be spent by the federal government and half ny local agencies.

This map was prepared by Cities Service Company from official records of the CAA. House Cuts Sharply Into 1946 Appropriations for War-Born Agencies; End Is in Sight MARRIAGE LICEVSflS II. A. While, Piedmont, Cora Beatrice Ilolt, Braggadocio. tion.

The House Appropriations Committee yesterday denied it funds in the war agencies supply bill for the 1946 fiscal year. Friends of the FEIC, and they are plentiful, have no known chance to reinstate the funds in the house because of rules there which would prevhnt consideration of an amendment to provide the money. Optimistic But they are optimistic about the chances of supplying the appropriation in the Senate. i Senator Chavez (D-NM) told reporters an attempt to rescue the FEPC, will surely be made," in the Senate. On several past occasions when Southerners in the House blocked FEPC, the Senate saved it and the House finally gave in.

Southerners predict any Senate move lo approve the $599,000 ali lotmenf tarried' for FEPC in the budget would signal the start of a filibuster speech-makings lAara-than which would delay action indefinitely. FORMATION OF IIMIIFI) FAKTNMtsHil' 1 We, the unriPimtcnC't, is. MtuUel. of Poplar Bluff, Mm-ouii, etui Cieorue Rodney hoott. of Poplar Htuif.

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icznis 3 FURNACE WORK Phone 250 S17 N. Brosdwiy Poplar Bluff, Mo. NO FINER DEER IN ALL THE WORLD A 0X3 03. The prank backfired when Marine Pvt. Anselrno Como, above, of New York City, donned a pair of spectacles taken from a dead Jap and grinned a toothy smile on Peleliu Island.

The Marines were taking no chances, so they made him a prisoner, hustled him off to a stockade and kept him caged with real Jap prisoners despite his protests. He got out only when his own captain identified him. FILIBUSTER LIKELY OVER FEPC FUNDS Southerners Vehemently Oppose Agency Which Faces Dissolution If Appropriations Denied for 1946. By William F. Abrogast Washington, June 2.

(AP). For the second time- this week, southerners hurled the threat of a Senate filibuster today at legislation which they vehemently oppose. Newest object of their disaffection is the Fair Employment Practices Committee, created by the late President Roosevelt to prevent employment discrimination because of race, creed or color. Now operating as an executive agency, the FKlO faces dissolu- tes- BILL SMART SMS SHES FOUND A WAy TO PUT OYER MEAT-SAVING DISHES ON Bill- 5ERVES EV1 WITH BOTTLE OF 6RIE5EDIECK BROS. BEERa.

,1 GRIESEDIECK SROS. BREWERY CO. 6T. lOUiyMQtt 4 at 3 area. Mrs.

Anna Stribony, a peasant woman from Nakotracsy, a little village a half-mile away, stood in the plot today and told what happened on June 9, 1942. A bent little woman with cheeks reddened from wind and sun and her handv roughened by toil in the fields, she wept beneath her shawl as she spoke. The Germans fiist came to Lidice on a Tuesday and surrounded the town," she said: They were searching for two Czech soldiers who had made their way to England after the fall of France. Fourteen people were asleep in one soldiers home, and three in the other. All were taken away.

"Nothing happened until the following Thursday. Then they came back saying they had found in Lidice traces of men who killed Heydrich. This was not true because We knew Heydrich was killed by men dropped by parachute and were never near Lidice. During the night the Germans rounded up all the women in the school house. Four women heavy with babies were sent to a prague hospital.

After their babies were born, they were sent to a concentration camp and nothing was ever heard of them or their babies. While the women were being herded Into the school, the Germans gathered' he men on the village commons'. The men then were marched to the cemetery and shot. 1 i 4 We heard -the first shots at 4 a. m.

The shooting kept up until 8 a. m. The Germans were using! rifels, machineguns and pistols, The first fire w-as started in the mayors home at 7:30 a. m. for the next three days they burned Lidice.

While the village 'Vas still burning, the Germans came to Ma-kotraesy and told us to open our indows because there would be explosions which would break our panes. They then brought up artillery and shelled the town. They kept this up a whole day. German planes circled Lidice all the time, watching the shell bursts. After the fires died down, the Germans tore down everything left of Lidice and carried it away.

Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were brought in and made to bury the dead. There were 172 bodies in the graveyard. Others were killed In their homes and their bodies were burned. I lost a lot of lifetime friends and a number of distant relatives in Lidice. Weve had news of only two villagers.

They were Anastasia I do not recall her last name who ran the tobacco store. She is low with tuberculosis in a hospital somewhere in the Sudenten-land. The other Is a woman in another hospital." Mrs. Stribony had never heard of Illinois, or the town there they renamed after Lidice, because under the Germans the Czechs got no news. But we all know about America," she said.

"America always has been colse to our hearts. As Mrs. Stribony talked, a man wearing the khaki uniform of the Czech Revolutionaries came up on a bicycle. He was Vaclav Brejcha, born and reared in Lidice but living in another village. We were joined next by Russian soldiers who sauntered over to inquire what we doing in their territory.

After being told, they returned to the bivouac area where the Russians 'clustered about a soldier pumping gn accordion 4 and singing Russian folk songs. Heydrich w-as shot May 27, 1942, outride Prague and died seven days later, atf Lben, Brejcha said. "We had carefully made plans to do away this man known as The Butcher of Prague. Heinrich Himmler then sent General Dalue-ge, who gave the order for the destruction of Lidice. Lidice is twenty miles northwest of the spot where Heydrich was shot and nobody here had anything to do with i it.

Brejcha said the Gestapo made many pictures of the dead and of the wreckage in Lidice. "We have copies of these pictures, he added. "We got them by getting the Gestapo men dead drunk and then slipping them from their files. From his pocket Brejcha drew a picture of a family group. In it were his father, mother, two brothers, a sister-in-law and her babv.

His father and brothers were killed by the Germans. His mother died in a concentration camp. He does not know what became of the sister-in-law and baby. He also had a picture of Lidice pronounced Lo-djeet-say ith its bulbous-spired church and neat white stone homes where lived people who worked part-time in the fields and part-time in Klad-nos coal mines before the Germans came. Lidice, Czechoslovakia, June 2 (AP) At the lower end of a gently sloping wheat field, polka-dotted by a million blond red poppies, Is a freshly-painted sign saying There used to stand the village of Lidice.

1 The little In the wheat beside a dusty, rutted clay road is the epitaph of Lidice, a quiet little Czech village erased from the earth by vengeful Germans. All the World heard about Lidice, as trumpeted by the Nazis themselves following the assassination of hangman Reinhardt Hey-drich in 1939; of the killing of its male population and its extermination. They stripped Lidices men naked and slaughtered them. Women and children were packed off to concentration camps. They left not one stone of the villages 112 buildings standing.

Today the mile-square area which was Lidice is an open field partly covered by fat, ripening wheat, partly by a stubble of wheat already harvested. Out of 667 people In Lidice that night of June 9th, 1942, only two are known for sure to be alive. Both are women in a hospital, one of them a tubercular patient. The marched naked to a hillside cemetery early on the morning of June IQ and shot in rows of bodies wers later dumped into a hole in what was the center of tow-n and their mass grave left unmarked. Even the cemetery was levelled.

The tombstones Vvere hauled away. A flock of sheep was grazing today on the clover growing over the cemetery site. Scattered about in wheat stubble are small stones which once Were part of Saint Martinas church and the elementary school next door. There, to, is the stump of a fear tree, a foot across, sawed off flush with the ground. It stood in front of the elementary school.

Under its branches the Germans dragged Father Stemberka, 75- ear-old pastor of Saint Martinas, and shot him to start the massacre of Lidice. Rocks and the stump are all that is left of Lidice. New maps being printed by the Czech government do not show Lidice. Lidice is a hallowed name to the Czechs and they want to let it live in memory only. Workers from neighboring villages have cleared away a plot 25 feet square in the center of the stubble field as a simple memorial to Lidices dead.

The edges of the powdery, yellow clay square are kept banked with bright, fresh-cut flowers. In the center are two dirt mounds flattened on top with neatly inlaid white crosses of snow-white pebbles. The mounds are banked with wreaths, one sent by the Russians who have an anti-aircraft battery bivouaced under the trees a couple of hundred yards down the road. Attached to it is a red cloth streamer bearing the words: To the victims of the German Fascists. Another wreath was sent by the Czech garrison at Kladno, four miles away.

It has red, white and blue streamers reading: To the undying men of Lidice we shall never forget. On the north side of the plot the red, white and blue Tag of Czechoslovakia flies on the right and the Red flag of Russia on the left. Between them is a two-foot high Crucifix with a placard Teading: Here lie bodies of Lidices victims, murdered June 10, 1942, by the German invaders. Although tips spot has been designated as a grave, the peasants are not sure whether it is the actual place where the bodies lie, or a few yards away where the wheat and poppies still grow. While the Germans were still here they threatened death to anyone going near the place.

The peasants do know, however, that the grave is in this general of heavily fortified Shuri, in the center of the once formidable Na-ha-Yonabaru line, was announced in todays fleet communique which reported general advances jester-day up to 2,000 yards. On the west coast below fallen Naha, Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherds Sixth Marine Division crossed the Kokuba river yesterday.

That put it in position to cut a-cross a peninsula containing the largest and best enemy airfield on Okinawa. On the east coast, Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnolds Seventh Infantry Division speared south in an apparent drive to cut off Chin en peninsula forming the southern arm of Nakagusuku harbor.

That major anchorage, once used by the Japanese fleet, thus could be opened to American warships. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz communique today spoke of diminishing resistance and mopping up operations in newly captured areas behind the lines, suggesting strongly the acceleration of the drive. The Nipponese still offered a stiff fight in spots.

They battled fiercely at Kokuba tillage, southeast of Naha, as the Sixth Marine Division set up a 1,000 jard line along the Kokuba river. Aw xam chmih VUfv iovvpytf to muMW VIA' liwoV ewmff OT I mnuy. 7.V OPA STOPS Die The local War Price and Ration ing Board of the Office of Price Administration today was instructed to issue no more canning sugar until further notice, Mrs. Dorptbf Hoge, chief clerk, announced today. Mrs.

Hoge said the instructions followed the recent announcement by OPA Administrator Chester Bowles that a revision of the can ning sugar distribution program would have to be made over the nation because of prevailing sugar shortages. It is expected that the prograttf will be readjusted and more allotments issued in the near future. RECEIVES KD A War Department report this morning states that Pvt. Claude E. Slayton, son of Abel F.

Slayton, Doniphan, has been wounded in action. LOST IN AGTIOil A report received from the War Department today states that Pvt. Jack D. Hhelby, son of Mrs. E.

P. Aldrich of Sikcston is missing in action. Tenth Army Is Gleaning. (Jp Okinawa Japs By Hamilton W. Faron Guam, June 2.

(AP). The U. S. 10th Army, after completing erasure of Japans main defense line on southern Okinawa by capturing all of Shuri, sprang drives today aimed at obtaining use of the islands best airfield and harbor. A front line dispatch from Associated Press correspondent Al Dopking said another 10 days may see the end of organized enemy resistance.

An 'Okinawa dispatch from Associated Tress correspondent Vern Haugland 'noted, however, that the west coast peninsula below the fallen capital of Naha is alive with troops, in position to defend the big Naha airfield. An official Navy spokesman said yesterday in Washington he 'was convinced the backbone of Japans Okinawa defenses has been broken. Tokyo radio found little to say about the ground operations but sought to bolster the homeland with extensive claims of American shipping sunk by suicide planes and assurances more such attacks are in the offing. The unnamed American navy spokesman in Washington listed losses of 23 U. S.

Navy ships and two merchant ammunition ships in the Okinawa area since the invasion on April 1. More than 46 others have been damaged. -v Occupation The complete occupation Friday if UmmQ VaiM RUINATION ON JAP CITIES MAY EXCEED GERMANS Seventh Fleet Headquarters, Luzon, June 1. (AP) Japan will commit national hara-kari if her leaders continue the Pacific war, Vice Adm. Daniel E.

Barbey, commander of the Seventh Amphibious Forces and acting commander of the Seventh Fleet, declared today. The veteran leader of 52 amphibious operations in the southwest Pacific told the Associated Press in an interview: We will land eventually with our argues and force our will upon them. Perhaps Japans leaders will take the easy way out and capitulate before total destruction of their homeland. If the enemy does not sue for peace in the near future, the ruination visited upon their cities and industries will be far greater than Germany, suffered. Barbey pointed out that soon allied capacity for inflicting damage on Nippon will be more than doubled.

Besides the greater central Pacific bases in the Mariannas and Okinawa, Luzon is bound to play a vital and essential part in the invasion of either China or Japan, whichever is undertaken first, or both if need be, he said. GOVERNMENT still -HAS. BAN. ON FAIRS EXCEPT LOCAL ONES 2. Rural America's traditional county fair wont be rubbed out by travel conservation measures.

Its right to local and county fairs provided they do not involve intercity transportation by exhibitors or spectators. Regional and state fairs cannot be held this year, the Office of Defense Transportation said yesterday. The agency requested managers of regional and state fairs to cancel these events because military and essential wartime activities will require the entire transportation capacity of the country, both rail and water. TRUMAN IS NOT HAPPY OVER THE ARGENTINA CASE Washington, June 2. (AP).

The White House affirmed today that President Truman is not happy over the situation in Argentina. It also was announced that the President told a group of visiting Latin American journalists yesterday that he was in complete and unqualified accord with the good neighbor policy of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary, was asked if the President had been correctly quoted by the Latin American reporters in saying that he was not happy over the situation in Argentina.

Ross replied in the affirmative, adding: The president is not happy over Argentina. He was correctly quoted. A dog, standing on earth, can make himself heard at an altitude of 5,900 feet. Washington, June 1 The House Appropriation Committee today cut sharply into the 1946 fiscal year funds for a group of war-born agencies in a bill it described as The beginning of the end of such agencies. With one exception, the committee trimmed budget estimates for every agency which already had been reduced by President Truman, as it sent the $769,764,850 measure to the floor for House action next week.

The exception was a $325,000 allotment for operation of State Marine Schools, which the committee left untouched. This bill, the committee told the House, Marks the beginning of the end of those agencies established during the war to develop and maintain the war production machine, to furnish the necessary civilian assistance to the armed forces, and to adjust the civilian economy to wartime necessity. Many of the domestic controls adopted during the war, the committee said, are Foreign to the American way of life and Should be eased as rapidly as progress of the war will permit and abolished as soon as the national security no longer requires them. One war agency, the Office of Civilian Defense, already is being liquidated, the committee pointed out, and another, the War Relocation Authority, soon will go out of business. Withheld from the bill at the last moment were funds for the Office of Price the Foreign Economic Administration, and the Fair Employment Practiced Committee.

Legislation affecting OPA and the FEPC is pending in Congress. The FEA funds were held up until lend-lease estimates are received from the the White House. The total in the bill fell below budget estimates and $209,348,880 under current year funds. Largest individual allotment went to the War Shipping Administration, which was earmarked for $437,325,000, including for its revolving fund. The agencys cut was $48,270,000 below budget estimates.

MRS. W. A. SANNER BREAKS ANKLE IN FALL AT HER HOME Mrs. W.

A. Sanner, widow of the late Mayor Sanner and mother of City Clerk Ralph Sanner, suffered a broken right ankle in a fall at her home at 930 Vine yesterday. She is at the home of a son, Ray Sanner; on the old country club grounds. MALDEN SOLDIER' KILLED IN CRASH Malden, June 2 T. Sgt.

Henry Everett Peavy, 24, was killed while on a secret mission over China on March 17, his parents were notified yesterday. He had been based in India and was crew chief on a C-54 plane. He went across last October after getting his training in Wyoming, Mississippi and New York. He leaves his parents, two brothers. Pvt.

Joe Peavy of Texas and Curtis Peavy. He was a member of the Methodist Church, STEUECS, CPTIOCL CEPEITCIOT I Mi DR. PAUIWt WlMBAl.L, Registered Optometrist. EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED Convenient Credit Terms on A Stevens Account. i SEYDGLD Now Trusted Over 100,000 Times! DIED UMIT Judge Jess A.

McCollum, former Poplar Bluff City Court Judge and well known resident of the city for many years, died in a Cape Girardeau Hospital at oclock last night from a complication of ailments from which he had suffered for the past several weeks. He had been In the Cape Girardeau hospital for the past several Weeks. His condition grew serious a few weeks ago. He and his wife, Mrs. Elaine McCollum, operated the McCollum tourist home at 641 I'ine Boulevard here until a few months ago when they sold the property and went to Hot Springs, Ark.

They returned here for a short time and then went to Cape Girardeau where Mr. McCollum later entered the hospital. He formerly operate a mercantile establishment at Fisk and later was salesman and employee for many years of a local wholesale grocery concern. He was elected as police judge here. An active leader in Democratic political circles in the county for ears, Mr.

McCollum served as foreman of various WIA projects here before his retirement. In addition to his widow, a son, Theo. McCollum of Cape Girardeau, survives. The body was taken to the Frank-Cotrell Chapel here this morning and funeral services were expected to be held here Monday. Mrs.

McCollum was cnroute here from Cape Girardeau this morning. OLD HARGROVE BRIDGE REPAIR WORK STARTED County Engineer John reason said this morning county highway department employees are repairing the old Hargrove bridge which has been badly in need of repairs for the past several weeks. Greason said the east approach Is being replaced and the deck repaired. The Kansas, or Kaw, river separates Kansas Citj'-Mo. and Kansas City, whieT xbre "both op the same back of the Missouri river, V.

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NERVE WRACKING Las Cruces, N. June 2. (AP). Special officer Jack Bowers, who sat in for fire chief B.f Camuenz during the lunch hour, complains the job is "to hard on the nerv- 44 Bowers received only one call but it was to his own home. Volunteer firemen confined the damage to one room..