Marion Sentinel (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, Marion, Iowa NOT JUST WAR BONDS BUY MORE BONDS Sty The Walker News Consolidated with The Sentinel May 1942 VOLUME 65 JANUARY 1945 NUMBER 26 MARION FLYER PRINCIPAL IN DRAMA Robert son of and Howard of has added another exper to his already varied collec tion of The radio early Monday morning and later the press dispatches in the brought to his and friends in Marlon the news lie and lour had been picked up off a small rubber raft from among the waves of the vast Pacific a thous and miles west of San Not many details have yet come to but here is the story as best it can be reconstructed from the vague facts He and his plane of which he was the were forced down from causes Be fore the uncertain landing was made on the unstable ocean they managed to send out an SOS with approximate This was picked up in Long Beach at Thursday Twenty planes were ordered made ready at and as soon as the location of the raft was estab the planes took looking for what would seem to a lands man like a needle in a Thirteen hours toe crew of a Liberator bomber discovered the shipwrecked men in their rub ber bath and stood until they had been picked uj by a na vy luckily nol too far away and ordered to their After the planes had arrived within the thirty square mile ocean plot marked out as location by Navigator it required 45 minutes more of search before they actually found the precious speck bobbing among the The five men when found were apparently and the planes Continued on Pace 12 Methodists Enjoyed Double Feature At Family Night Event At the Marion Methodist church Wednesday night the large crowd of church members at a family night gathering were treated to an exceptional double feature pro The first part was an ad dress by an exceptionally interest ing Frank Man pastor for a number of years of the largest Methodist church in southeast Rangoon in driven into India by the Japanese invasion in and only back in the states since Sep He told of the atrocities and of the heroism and sacrifices of his people Bur ma is a country about the size of Texas with 16 millions of a land that shelters many races and and in its interior parts is greatly handicapped in progress by its many different languages and Often the people in one valley cannot speak the samo language of their neighbors just across a single range of The speaker had a gift for making his story intensely The second part of this show was the presentation of three magnificent reels of pictures in of tours through taken by Howard of West The sub ject matter was not only well handled technically and but covered much rural and inter ior sections of Mexico not often and included closeups of in timate interior Mexican Theae are beautiful and carry information as well as The Crews have been to Mexico five times and have spent several months all collecting these Among other scenes they carry an extraordinarily com plete amateur showing of a rather gruesome Mexican in all its gory Rescued TITUS Rabbi Schaalman and Wife Badly Injured In Crash Tuesday An auto on highway 151 four and a half miles east of sent three persons to the hospital and put a couple of fairly good cars out of commission for the Rabbi Herman Schaalman and of Cedar were returning from Anamosa to their home in Cedar ana met without formal Anton of Ce dar driving accom by Frances The blame or cause of the accident has not been The effects are only too evident The 28yearold Rabbi Schaalman suffered a fractured right leg and various cuts Schaalman suf a broken left severe fa cial lacerations and some loosened front Bendon suffer ed leg and hip and Ba becka was also considerably cut and He was the only one not Rabbi Schaal man had been a speaker at a din ner club He is a bril liant young and has address ed the Lions club in New Cub Scout Den Installed Monday Monday night was an important night in the history of Scout cub pack which met in Legion A new installed with Norman Waffle as den and Robert as den Billy was and thus becomes eligible for rank as a boy He was also awarded gold and silver Others receiving silver arrows were Duane Ralph Wayne Richard Dave Edwin Blinks and Hugh Leffing Gold arrows went to Carl Darrell and James while Jack James Krueger and Darrell Stimson were given wolf and Russol a bear This cub pack is one of the most important institutions in and there is not a man along the busi ness street but wishes he was eli gible to join Suffers Hip David of Des formerly of now a mem ber of the State Board of fell while on his way to work on Wednesday morning and broke his The news was announced ov er WHO at noon Dave is one of the farm leaders of Linn and was ever an aggressive Republican and was appointed to the board of con trol several years and served one term as its Such an accident will certainly go hard for auch an active and energetic His Linn county friends ex tend him VOICE RECITAL SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY NIGHT A big went is scheduled for mu sic lovers of the community next Monday when the vocal mu sic department of the Marion under the direction of Miss Rose will present a The affair will commence at eight oclock in the Lincoln A delightful program of vocal featuring soloists for the most is to be There will also be numbers by vocal and some instrumental Accompanists will be Wil lys Irvin Hel en Loyce Carol Margaret Beadle and Frances The Program The Childrens ar ranged by Treharne Beside Still Hamblen Old King Glee The Pool of Cator Salter Elaine Deep Donald The Sweetest Story Ever Stultz My Lover is a Steal Burleigh No ahs old college quartet Floyd Calvin Lynn Balz The Little Hills are Morris The Lass with the Deli cate Miers Little ginia Lucia Di for left hand piano By Candle Blackwood Sandersson Cradle Phil Emmell Without a Wal Songs My Mother Taught Dvorak Sleep Little Tired Rhapsody in Gershwin Trade Keel American Joy of My Giordani Open the Gates of the 911 the Shipmates O Don In the Harrison Stars of the Summer Carol Tom Doch Don My Heart at Thy Sweet Going Dvorak My Grieg Reva Penn Two Lit tie OHara The Big Brown Mana vocal Virginia Loyce Bette Blok Kathleen Vea Emma Jean Annual Meeting of Elevator Company Scheduled 3 The annual meeting of stock holders of the Farmers Elevator company will be held February according to an made Wednesday by Irvin company The business meeting of the company will follow a dinner at the Hallwood cafe at The Marion fire department was called out on the boulevard to the Sunday morning at four Just as the folks were a fire was discovered blazing in the south started in some unknown It would have been a nasty blaze a half hour There was but a small loss it was covered with in Returns to Marion As Member Sigfred Clothing Company Studio Photo Dean who for a number of years preceding 1943 was connected with the Sigfied Clothing of and who more recently has been employed in has returned to Marion to reenter the clothing business Announcement was ade this week that Feigh had purchased an interest in the Sigfred firm as a partner with Ed Sigfred and De Marion School Made Good Showing In Heavy Competition In stepping into the Coe college statewide forensic battle for the first Marion high school not only showed but displayed This is the oldest and lead ing annual competition the state and is only patronized by the larger And in winning eighth place in a field of twelve beating out Ottumwa East McKinley and Ma the local has a right to be In debate for arguing that the age limit for voters in Iowa should be lowered to 18 years Louise Smith won the su Barbara Seger and Helen each added an ex to the Marion teams rec ord for good work in their depart Barbara Seger also made a good score in interpretive though nothing but the top place was the Marion team made a mighty fine showing for its city and and received the hearty congratulations of the student Marion Boy Hurt When Bomber Was Damaged By Flak A Marion Staff Nor man son of and Carl broke into the dispatches last He was on a bombing mission over the Axis country recently when his a Flying For ran into burst of flak that knocked out two of the planes cut off the oxygen and severed the cable controls of the ships Young who was flying as a waist was hit on the head and and was knocked unconscious for a but for the timely aid of other crew would not have come out of As it was they supplied him with oxygen the emer gency supply bottles until he re covered and he was able to help the others splice the rudder and they managed after a hard struggle to get back to their home landing Struchen entered service in Sep 1943 and received his wings in at He is a member of the 98th a part of the 8th air and was cracking away at some submarine docks at when his plane ran into SPEAKER SAID CHARTER AIMS NOW SCRAPPED The Marion Lions club Tuesday night heard a delivered by the Or val pastor of the Central Christian church of In Marion this week conducting a series of services at the Christ ian the Walker kindly consented to fill the breach when the advertised speaker failed to make the He filled the niche to Starting with sev eral good he explained the fear that this nation is losing of the idealism with which it en tered the He sees at the pres ent time a tendency of our leaders to be drifting away from the prin ciples laid down in the Atlantic charter of with Russia and England returning more to a pro gram of military rather to that of international good The Atlantic based upon the principles of the Golden and of the Sermon on the gave the small nations of the world a new faith and and the world was terribly shocked indeed when President Roosevelt later said that the Atlantic charter was not a signed agi but mere ly a scrap of paper with a few vague ideas written on And the speaker pointed thus faded the greatest promise of the end of predatory warfare among a free dom of a collaboration to promote economic a free dom on sea and The speaker also referred to the danger America faces in continu ing to disregard equality of rights to the people of the the Japanese and Chin Continued on Page IB This Gadget Helps Find Student With Eye Difficulty On the desk in the office of the city was a peepshow something like a glorified and as a curious reporter is apt to this one a question as to what might be the function of this cute It proved to be an a rather but very effectual means of testing the eyes of a per son of sufficient intelligence to answer By the aid of eye troubles of many Marion school youths have been and these pu pils sent on to proper places fitted with glasses so very much A pupil suffering from eyestrain does not do good Not long ago a pupil well along in the was reported by her teacher as possibly needing help for her She was given this simple and found to have on ly 60 per cent Her parents were she was taken to an optometrist and fitted with proper and has come into a new Her parents had no idea her eyes were bothering the They thanked the school heartily for discovering this The High Schools Big Night Next Tuesday night is the high night of the winter for the high school young Not only bas game with but Jie frolic and dance The game starts and will be over by if all goes Then will come the auc ion sale of and every girl s supposed to bring a box of lunch or The public is not barred this event and many older oik are expected to participate in The lady who brings jox gets a free ticket to the dance hat There is a small fee for the male but this mon ey so raised is for a worthy a memorial plaque the schools old star boys and a memorial ase to preserve such
