Bismarck Tribune, The (Newspaper) - July 3, 1942, Bismarck, North Dakota Thought For The rust will find tht sword of The dust will the shall nail so high his name Time will not tear it VANCE CHENEY THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota's Oldest 1873 VOLUME 156 N. JULY 1942 PRICE FIVE CENTS THE WEATHER early Not much change in British 5 Destroy 1 m if if if if if IB Men Will Be Inducted Beginning Aug. 1 RIDE 'IM LET 'ER TO BE Men Wrth One Eye or With Only One Good Ear Slated Limited Service There'll be plenty of this tion when saddles are pd tonight for the opening of annual three-day July Fourth Cowboys the running for championships will make their bid for honors in Caddie bronc calf and bull great Mandan biggest in the West Independence day Alvin don of keeps his seat on the hurricane deck of Golden at the 1941 Mandan event is entered again this The rodeo opens with serf ance tonight at 9 marck Other are scheduled at 3 and 9 p. m. afternoon and and WASHINGTON T e array Friday announced in- of starting the t on of regular quotas of men placed in the deferred 1-B tive service class because of minor physical Beginning Aug. men with only cae eye or complete deafness in one among will be inducted for limited military provided otherwise meet They will be assigned to duty with corps area service commands and fhe war department overhead and thereby release an almost equal number of folly qualified soldiers for service with task under the new be limited to those with minor physical defects who are able to bring to the army a useful vocation which was followed in civil the war department Men found upon re-examination to be qualified for full military service be inducted as 1-A Among who would be eligible under the new ruling for limited service status are weight and chest do not fall in Class who nave minimum 20-40 sight in one or both eyes if corrective with glasses to 20-40 in either whose hearing in one or both ears is not less than with complete deafness in one ear permitted if hearing in the other is 10-20 or who have ficient teeth if the defect is tible by HAIL DOES LITTLE PAIGE TO Ci Hail that fell Thursday evening over an area extending from Mandan to Wilton on the northeast caused slight damage to crops over the Stones big as chicken fell in parts of it was but caused surprisingly little damage to gardens and foliage even though they were big enough to batter fabric automobile The storm lasted for about 15 starting at about p. m. in Wilton and win in Burleigh county reported very light Wilton also reporting the heaviest precipitation in the In inch of rain fell within the space of a few minutes about p. m. At the Great Plains Field ment south of it was estimated that from 40 to 50 per cent of the fruit was knocked off fruit Damage to wheat and oats set at about 5 per cent with rye age slightly Corn was hurt but may be expected to The hail extended north along the river from Mandan to and east. It extended about eight miles south of WAR BULLETINS NAZIS ACTIVE IN NORWAY German forces are greatly increasing military tions in Norway and presumably against a possible second Stockholm dispatches SEES FRANCE AS BATTLEFIELD Charles De leader of the Free told his countrymen in France that the final battle of the decides would be fought there and urged them to pre- pare for it. HUSKING CONTEST CANCELED ST. of corn husking contest scheduled to be Blue Earth county near this was announced Rubber conservation was the chief FDR SIGNS WAR FUND Roosevelt has signed law a vast appropriation for the war containing funds for sands of new tanks and guns and money to equip an army of men by next July 1. STATE OF SIEGE LIFTED BERLIN German Prague newspapers published a decree lifting the state of siege imposed in the protectorate following the assassination of Reinhard SUB SINKS SHIP AT DOCK SAN COSTA ine attacked Puerto Limon with its deck sinking a the San which was at British Roily to Repel Axis Claims Gain By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Britain's Egyptian armies clashed with the Axis in violent battle west of El Alamein again Friday after driving Field shal Erwin Rommel's Africa corps into at temporary re- treat in the of the Unsubstantiated reports from said lin dispatches asserted late Friday that fhe Axis armies have ad- within 15 or 20 miles of Alexandria and that the battle of El Alamein is regarded as These dispatches declared that the British are in retreat toward the Nile British reports gave an entirely opposite asserting that the battle still is raging 70 miles or more beyond Dispatches from the front said the rallying at the eleventh are striking furiously at the Axis Details are lacking as to whether Rommel has returned after withdrawing Thursday night or whether the ing the are pursuing the Axis on Page BATTLE TOOK PLACE PRIOR TO EGYPT RETREAT All Ships Were Italians Lose Two De- Sub Brit- ish light cruiser four British destroyers and one Polish destroyer were lost in the recent effort to reinforce Malta and British forces in Libya before they were pushed back into it was an- officially The loss of the ships was announced in commons June 23 by Clement R. dominions secretary and uty prime but he did not then identify Besides the the destroyers were the British Airedale and the Polish All were comparatively new and many were completed since the war The completed in 1939. was one of nine cruisers of the Dido class and carried 10 535-inch Against the British losses an Italian 8-inch gun two destroyers and a submarine were sunk and a of the few Mussolini has Itt mostly from the the Axis lest 95 planes and the British 30. of the naval forces re- parted to next-of-kin by the navy department the period June were announced day as 885 and The 190 wounded and 642 missing which up this total included personnel of the coast guard and marine corps and raised to approximately the number of casualties reported by the navy since the war of those under the tion of may have been cued at sea and landed at isolated spots or otherwise made their way l Over Half of Men in People Urged To Display Flag People of Bismarck were urged today to display the American flag Saturday in observance of this when we are fighting to preserve the freedom our forefathers won for should we employ this means of calling attention to our declared E. S. American Legion Gag committee offices and other ness places will be The Bismarck Tribune will not publish GIFFORD PAID president of the American Telephone and was paid in the annual report of the company filed with the securities N. North i and exchange commission resources board met in Fargo i TO HAVE FLORA HEADS NEA C. super- intendent of S. C. schools was elected president of the National Education association to succeed Mrs. Myrtle Hooper Dahl of B. C. B. principal of the senior high was elected first vice dent to succeed Here Are Unofficial Final Figures for Election were only 29 precincts in the state not accounted for in the unofficial compilation of the Tuesday primary vote when tabulations were ended in the itate Associated Press elections returns bureau here Friday At that Incumbent Herman Thorson held a lead of 513 over C. P. Dahl for the Republican nomination for tary of At the same William Lemke held a lead of over Incumbent Congressman C. R. Robertson for the second con- gressional Here are the unofficial figures that will stand until the official canvass is For secretary of Thorson Dahl For Usher L. Burdick Lemke Robertson Smart The precincts not reported included one each in Williams and two each in Mountrail and three each in Divide and and six in 33 Out of 47 Die When Ship Is Sunk i Thursday to consider employment of 'a full-time paid representative to handle the business of the board and to plan a program of The board made a tentative tion for the Job and Murray win of will make the announcement Other members of the board are Henry Holt of Grand W. L. Gardner of New Ales Jardine of j Herman Stern of Valley City and B. I E. Groom of The board proposes a three-point contact all agencies in the state that can do parts work on sub- contracts in the war program that i would give employment to the state's skilled up to see what larger federal projects might be secured for i the planning a long range Rodeos Top Independence Day Programs I More than half the membership of the 219 obtained i 1 cards in Washington for unlimited war program for the j j purchases of files of the By The Associated Press j district rationing administration re- The sinking of another United Nations vessel with the death of 33 The representatives who obtained the cards North Robertson holding cards in- eluded Senator North of its 47-tnan crew was disclosed Friday bv the raising to 333 the unofficial Associated Press tabulation cf sinkings in the Western Atlantic ment of the state war coal and other PROMOTED WASHINGTON Vice j Royal E chief of the Atlantic has been to flic rank yf full admiral by order of President Celebrations not distant from home were on the Fourth of July schedule of most Bismarck folk this weekend with at Mandan and Killdeer due to entertain many of The urge to travel stymied this first holiday by the necessity conserving on tires and many people will spend their time merely at It will be the back the golf a visit at Grandpa's or a picnic at the park for who will look upon the two days of freedom as cease from the increasing strain of business and other Promise of the weatherman that rain is in for the weekend indicated a pleasant weekend for all Tempering the holiday mood of will that while America at home takes note of the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of In- American men and boys on four continents are ding their blood in defense of it. remembrance of the guns of Ba- taan and the heroes of the Coral sea and Midway Mandan this year will combine patriotic and festive activities at TRICK ROPERS HERE Several of the riding and roping stars who thrilled Mandan rodeo goers at last year's show have returned to perform in the 1942 Polly wife of clowning Georgie will so through her variety of Cossack drags and on the back of a galloping Don star who was one of the big hits of the 1941 win appear He was featured this winter with the Gene Autry shows In the East. Veme and Myrtle featured trick ropers and riders at son Garden's have brought their best horses here with This will make the Fourth of July celebration most serious the last There will be gayety as the tion seeks temporary release from the natural strain of but through it all will run grim its second annual major opening tonight with a ance at 9 Other performances arc scheduled and Sunday afternoon at 3 and and day evenings at 9 i A parade through the city of I beginning at noon remind Bismarck i pie of the rodeo opening and an- I other emphasizing the i patriotic Independence Day i be held Saturday in Rodeo riders participate in L i rodeo also opens the first performance ing at p. m. Many of the best bronc riders in Western i North Dakota's great range i try will participate in the many i contests at At will be a combined turing rodeo and day celebration day and Other smaller manj of them drawing mauy hundred people from surrounding fill in the Fourth of WASHINGTON President Roosevelt stepped into the scrap over the deadlocked riculture appropriations Friday to assail group and declare that the only real issue In- volved is the government should be free to use its feed re- sources to produce food for wartime He strongly supported the demand that congress sale of bushels of wheat for feeding purposes at prices under Mr. Roosevelt gave bis views in a letter to leaders of seven labor and religious who had written to him June 20 in behalf of the wheat proposal and in support of larger funds for the Farm Security Informed of the President's Cannon of the house appropriations tee promptly said that only real issue is whether the principle of ity guaranteed the farmer by tion be Cannon told producing a greater amount of foodstuffs than ever before in the history of the nation and at a cost which is the lowest percentage of consumer income ever paid by the consumer for food in the history of Congress went into a recess until Monday without acting on the culture department's propriation The which has ed plans for record production of food for the military and domestic needs of the United has been without funds since when the new fiscal year Senator RusseU floor manager of the annual departmental supply told colleagues it is his belief that failure of congress to re- solve differences on the measure would tie up all the ment's until an tion measure is I The department continued to tion in a nominal but officials made no Budget are in a They were particularly perturbed about a payday for employes coming up on July 8. They said that unless funds are voted by July checks could be made out only for the last week of The Old Town Grown a i 60 years J. L. now I of nearby Wythe paid his first visit to Big a village of i a few hundred He's just paid his second visit to Big now a city of nearly Said POSTMASTER APPROVED 1 The senate hap confirmed H I as at K.
