A HIGHER BRACKET
HOOPESTON, 111. — (A1) —This
community of 5,000 is through
with two-bit and four-bit public
officials. Since the city was incor
porated in 1877, their salaries
have been nominal—25 cents for
aldermen and 50 cents for the
mayor each year. But after a new
administration is installed May 1,
the aldermen will get $300 and
the mayor $500 a year.
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Cordova Youth
Drowned In
Speedboat Mishap
CORDOVA, May 21 — William
Means, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Means, p;oneers, was drown
ed at eight o’clock Saturday night
a couple hundred yards off the
city dock while he and Gilbert
Gage, age sixteen, were trying out
means’ newly overhauled speed
boat.
Means was at the throttle of the
32 Johnson outboard and stood up
to take off his shirt while the boat
was at high speed. The tiller
kicked around, hitting him on the
hip and knocked him clear of the
boat at the rear end, which soon
swamped the boat, throwing Gage
into the water.
Means yelled “I can’t swim.”
Gage, who is a good swimmer,
struck out for him but Means
sank almost immediately and did
not come up again. Gage was un
able to see him when he dived for
him a couple of times, saved him
self by getting back to the partly
submerged boat and was picked i
up by a soldier fishing nearby.
Means body is still unlocated j
despite continuous diving with [
t
Navy apparatus and dragging op
erations by local fishermen and
boatmen.
The death was the third in a
week here, starting Monday when
George F. McDonald, prominent
citizen since early railroad days,
i and a drug store owner for the
; last twenty years, died as a result
of paralysis and general debilita
tion. He had been in ill health for
years. Albert Ohman, colorful
Alaskan of this area since early
in the century died Thursday of
heart trouble.
| Gen. Dalton
{Killed On Luzon
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| MANILA, May 21— (&)— Brig
Gen. James L. Dalton, 35, one of
the youngest generals in the Army
was killed by a Jap sniper nearj
Balete Pass in northern Luzon is
land. General MacArthur an
Inuonced that Gen. Dalton was
killed May 16.
He was Assistant Twenty-Fifth1
Division commander. He com- j
manded the 161st Regiment, for-'
merly past of the Washington
{State National Guard, through
Guadalcanal and New Georgia
campaigns in the Solomons, and
on Luzon in the battle of San
i
| Manuel, where the main Jap tank
strength was smashed.
He was killed while inspecting
a frontline ravine which formerly
.sheltered the enemy command on
; that front.
BUY WAR BONDS
| HELP SET
THE RISING SUN
N.H.A. Approves Higher
Rents And Sales Prices
On New Houses
Regional Representative George
W. Coplen, of the National Hous
ing Agency in Seattle, said today
approval has been given for in
creased sales and rental ceilings
on privately financed housing to
be constructed in the Alaskan cit
ies of Anchorage, Fairbanks and
Nome.
An increase in the sales price
ceiling to $9000 and rental price
ceiling to $75 has been made pos
sible through a joint agreement
between the War Production
Board and the National Housing
Agency. Mr. Coplen stated high
building costs in northern and in
land Alaskan cities made this in
crease possible.
Applications for priorities to se
cure material to build these houses
should be filed with Folger John
son, State Diretcor of the Federal
Housing Administration, Portland,
Oregon.
Ted—Your girl reminds me of
an Easter egg.
Ned—What do you mean?
Ted—She’s hand painted on
the outside and hardboiled inside.
'Chicago Army Man
| Doubles For Ike
!•
PARIS, May 21— UP) —A Chk
: cago Lieutenant Colonel used to
double for General Eisenhower
last December after the Germane
voiced threats against the Su
preme Comander’s life, it wee diw*
i closed.
Supreme Headquarter* saidF'
| however the plot was a hoax, a
story which the Germans spread
| to heighten then: armies’ —rnfc>
The double, Lt Col. Baldwin Bb
| Smith, was placed in Eisenhower**
four star auto on journeys be
tween St. Germains and Versailles.
Smith volunteered for the rete od
decoy when the Army clamped aa>
| iron tight curfew on the Pari*
area and set up the most elabora^
machinery of the war to prevent
| the possible destruction of Su
preme Allied headquarters and
the assassination of the Command
ing General.
a
1 The similarity of the appear
i ance between Eisenhower and
; Smith is so striking they are fre
quently mistaken for each other, i
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The Burmese consider tattooing
a fine art.
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