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THE EVENING SENTINEE, CARLISLE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1942. FXGEFIVE 9 Drift 48 Days On 2 Life Rafts; Husband's 14 Dogs Too Many to Feed TOLEDO. Fourteen dogs were listed as the basis for a divorce in a petition filed here by Mrs. Clara Rose against -Frank A. Rose.

Mrs. Rose said her husband insisted on keeping the 14 dogs at their home and forced her to cook for them when there was not sufficient food for her and daughter. Army's Doing Right Well in the Army "ELGIN FIELD. FLA. This may be a little confusing at first glance, but a headline in the Elgin Eagle, weekly publication of this army training base, read: ''Army Is Doing All Right in the Army Here." "Elgin Field has a soldier named Army, Wilfred and he recently was promoted to corporal." wv iv" 1 lc Tins 1 saiM-nsiaaisiillis'iitrlilliiiwfilai aMrlMtii em Mrs.

Roosevelt illi.i.H I ill Ill fir The top photo cabled from London to New York shows Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt inspecting air raid wardens at the Guildhall in London. The First Lady knows some of their problems, having been one of the heads of the U. S.

Office of Civilian Defense. Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her host and hostess, the King and Queen of England, also visited St. Paul's Cathedral. They are looking at the empty pedestal (bottom) inside the Cathedral.

The inscription reads "Georpe Washington bust removed to a safe place." This is a radiophoto. Plane Wreckage in Which Twelve Persons Died on Sightseeing 4 -is- Tour of London K4 artillery positions to cover tb leathernecks be seen (fora- I 1 'Mother9 Roper Has Helped More Than 6,000 'Lost9 Seamen Head of Missing Sailors' Bureau Widely Known For Her Work. NEW YORK. Mrs. Janet Roper, 72-jear-old Seamen's Church institute official here, in some 30 years of devoted service, has restored more than 6,000 lost mariners to anxious friends and relatives.

Her slogan is "never give up hope for a missing sailor!" It is a slogan of which "Mother" Roper as she Is known to seafarers all over the world must remind herself frequently these days. For enemy U-boats, striking without warning along America's trade and convoy routes, have been adding new names almost daily to the grim list of those lost at sea. And every enemy torpedo, as it strikes home, finds an echo somewhere in the heart of an American mother, wife or sweetheart. Their letters of inquiry regarding the lost ones pathetic, anguished messages in which hopejstrives valiantly against heart-break are piling up fast in the tall cases that line "Mother" Roper's office, where she directs the institute's missing seamen's bureau. Pathetic Letters.

The letters distress her greatly. There have never been so many before, and it has never been so hard for her to answer them cheerfully. But, when the weight of them becomes particularly depressing, Mother Roper remembers all the thousands of lost sailors she has found, and regains hope. If a navy man falls in the line ol duty, it becomes the navy's official business to notify his next of kin. And the same applies In all other branches of the nation's armed forces.

But no such government action covers the merchant marine, albeit its ships have suffered greatly from the Axis submarine onslaught. And that is where Mother Roper's comes in. Mother Roper's Investigations cover all phases of sailors' wanderings. They stop at nothing, except where a man is being sought by the luw. Their chief aim is to get back to the mothers and other loved ones who inquire, all possible news concerning their missing sailor boys.

A Grateful Mother. As an example, she showed a letter she had written to a Mrs. Peter II. J. Keen in London.

It read, slm-ply: "I am a stranger to you, but I might explain that I am in charge of the Missing Seamen's Bureau of the Seamen's Church Institute in New York. "A seaman by the name of 'Pad dy King has just called at my of flee, having come from a concen tration camp in Sweden. He told me that your son, Peter, is In this camp. Peter asked Mr. King that if he ever came to New York to get some word to his people so as to relieve their anxiety.

That is the reason for my writing to you. "I asked this seaman how the men were treated. He told me they were treated well, but that the food wasn't good. I could get no additional in formation, but to know your boy is alive should be a comfort to you." Attached to the copy of the letter was the mother's grateful reply. "I received your letter from my son Peter, for which I thank you It was so wonderful to think that some one so far away would be so kind and thoughtful." The most vital fact the bureau re quires through which to locate miss ing seamen is a last known record of their employment.

Guides Lifeboat With Watch; Saves 26 Lives A CARIBBEAN PORT. The navy revealed how Third Officer Robert Nichols of New York, by use of a watch and chart, navigated a lifeboat with 20 survivors of a torpedoed ship for 17 days and landed them safely. The sinking of the vessel had been announced previously, and Its master, Capt Henry A. Stephenson, was taken as a prisoner aboard the attacking submarine. One of the survivors is Ensign Ralph Karol, Brighton, Mass.

All the survivors were in good physical condition except one man, who suffered head injuries. When they stepped ashore Lieut. Kasper J. Kraynick, co-pilot of an army plane that had spotted the lifeboat, recognized Karol as a former classmate at the Vniversity of North Carolina. Fires 35 Shots to Test His Aim to End His Life PHILADELPHIA.

Patrolman William Harkins found Chester Zyg-mond sitting on a bed. firing a revolver at the walls and ceiling. "You trying to kill yourself?" roared Harkins. "Yep," Zygmond replied, "but a man's gotta practice first, hasn't he?" The policeman, counting 35 emp-ty .38 shells around the room, decided Zygmond had had enough practice. Magistrate Charles Med- way, entering a charge of reckless use of firearms, agreed.

Try an advertising campaign in THE SENTINEL and watch your business grow. Investigators check the charred wreckno of the hujre which crashed and burned on Mount San Jacinto near. Palm, Springs, Cal killing twelve pwsons. Hopelessly trapped, the victims Were burned almost beyond recognition. A Western Defense Command announcement said the crash resulted from a tollision between an Army piane and the east-bound Los Angeles to New York airliner.

This is a phonephoto. Eat Rr Turtle Survivors of a Torpsdoing Lose From 40 to 58 Pounds Each. NEW YORK. Nine men who drifted on two life rafts for 48 dayt in the Atlantic after their ship wa torpedoed and lunk by a German lubmarine told their story at an East coast port. Among them were leven Norwe gians, a Dane and a Swede.

They were memberi of the crew of 44 aboard a Norwegian merchant ve ael that was struck by two torpedes in June about 300 miles off the At lantic coast. Thirteen men were lost and the ship went down in 15 minutes. The sinking of the ship had been previously announced by the navy. Wearing rubber life belts, coats and sweaters over their regular clothes, the 31 Survivors abandoned ship and took to two lifeboats and two rafts. Of the survivors 17, including the captain and the wounded, were in a motor boat, five in a jolly boat and nine on two rafts.

The boats and rafts were lashed together at first, with the motorboet towing. Try to Get Help. When smoke was sighted on the second day, the jolly boat set off in an attempt to get help but failed. That night the jolly boat started (or land alone. On the third day the motor boat did likewise, after the captain decided it was necessary to save the wounded.

Both boats reached land a week after the sink ing. The nine were left alone on their two rafts, which were lashed togeth er by tow line. They were only 200 miles from shore, but from then on the gulf stream kept moving them seaward. The tow line kept break ing. At the end the tow line had been reduced from ten to two fathoms.

On their 16th day afloat the men sighted a ship only two miles away and sent up flares, but she failed to stop. Again on the 30th day they saw a vessel, headed straight for them and only a mile away. They ran up signals, but she turned and ran away at full steam. "I am absolutely sure they saw us," said a spokesman. "They probably thought we were sub marine trap." Three heavy gales drove the rafts hundreds of miles out to sea.

"When the first gale struck most of us were asleep, and we were nearly swept off the rafts," he said. "We clung to everything in sight." Ate Raw Turtles. The men had rations that lasted three weeks, or less than half the time they were on the rafts. After that they caught fish and turtles. "We caught three each about 50 or 60 pounds, and I guess it was the turtle fat that nourished us," said the They ate the fish and turtles raw, and drank the turtle blood.

They also drank rain water that they caught in the sails. The men bathed In the ocean in turns, others wielding oars to drive off the sharks that swam around the rafts. When the rescue ship picked them up all nine were able to climb the ship's ladder without help. One dived from the raft and swam 100 yards to grasp a line thrown from the ship. The nine, who ranged from 21 to 59 years in age, had lost from 40 to 58 pounds- each.

'The ship's doctor found them suffering from malnutrition, but otherwise all right physically. They said the summer weather and their life suits saved them. When interviewed ashore, they had regained much of their lost weight, and were bronzed and clear-eyed. All said they were ready to go back to sea when fully recovered. 'Hundreds' of Villages Razed in Yugoslavia LONDON.

German and Italian troops have destroyed hundreds of villages throughout Yugoslavia in an attempt to break patriot resistance, a Yugoslav government spokesman said. Quoting "unimpeachable" reports, the spokesman said that along the Montenegrin coast on the Adriatic, Italian warships had wrecked whole villages in the interior with incendiary bombs. In June, the spokesman said, the Italians burned 42 villages in Slovenia. "In some provinces of Yrosla'Ia, villages were wiped out and farms burned to the ground," he asserted. White Crow Reverses Adage in Illinois County JERSEYVILLE, ILL.

The old comparison of "black as a crow" may have to be discarded in the Jersey county area, for this locality has a snow-white crow. Last spring, according to observers, a pair of crows nested in a big tree in the vicinity of the William Schaefer farm northeast of Delhi. When young birds emerged, three were black and one was white. The four grew to adult size. Charles Terry, assistant cashier of the Jeriey State bank, recalls seeing a white crow In almost the same neighborhood, about 40 years ago.

Try an advertising cam-nalern In THE SENTINEL i and watch your business gnw. West Virginia Town's Main Street Flooded Blackout Balked By Lightning Bug Mass Display of Fireflies Fools Officials. WASHINGTON. It's blackout story time In Washington. Best one of the printable bunch goes like this: Some soldiers, though tanned and tough, blush whenever their pals hum the "Glow Worm" or sing the 1942 version: "Dim, little lightning bug.

"Damn it, dimmer That's because the first all night total blackout in Washington recently found fireflies the only real threat to complete darkness. Several soldiers, the fellows say, insisted on investigating a sizable glqw across the Potomac, It turned out to be a mass display produced by a gang of fireflies. Even Col. Lemuel BolWs, executive director of OCD, found himself fooled by a firefly glow out Maryland way. Blackouts bode no romance boom in Washington, what with 4,120 auxiliary cops to add to the regular force (and more's the number daily).

Outdoor romancing is strictly out and it's too hot inside. The town's talking about a practical Joker problem poked at the police by the blackout. It seems that youngsters around the District ot Columbia think it's funny to jump out of particularly dark spots to scare late working women going home during blackouts. The boys yell stuiT at the girls, and the girls don't know whether to ignore them or scream and run like blazes (most of them at least run). The police are said already to be considering an escort system, but are reported to wonder how to work it and where to look for the escorts.

Civilian Flier Attacked In Plane by Bald Eagle HAMILTON, N. Gay-lord, a civilian pilot training Instructor, landed his plane here after being attacked In the air by a bald eagle. Mr. Gaylord said that the eagle dived at his plane, but that he expected it would veer off as other eagles and hawks had done in previous attacks. However, the flier related, the bald eagle did not change its course and came at one wing.

There was a sudden crash as the bird struck a wire strut with such force that part of Its wing was torn off. Unable to fly, the eagle dropped, Mr. Gaylord said, and after he righted his plane, he followed its plunge to the ground. Mr, Gaylord said he marked Uie spot and returned in his automobile after he landed. In a field, he said, he found the body of the bald eagle, apparently killed by the fall.

He said that the bird had a wing spread of nearly eight feet. Life Prisoner Performs His Bit for Soldiers BOSTON A lifer at Charlestown state prison is doing his bit to provide recreation for the boys in the service, according to Arthur T. Ly man, commissioner of correction. The prisoner is Frank Festo, 49, of Waterbury, who was convicted of murder in 1923. Festo has made and donated 500 copper for Victory" pins, to be sold at 25 cents each.

Proceeds will go to the Chaplain's fund and be used to purchase material for checker boards and other games for service men. Copper for the pins was bought by Festo with money he himself earned in prison. The game boards are being made by other inmates at the prison. Proposal to Stranger Is Answered by Police MILWAUKEE. Daniel J.

Skinner of Milwaukee overestimated his charm. He proposed marriage to an attractive 20-year-old girl who sat next to him In a theater. Unfortunately, for Skinner, the girl rejected his offer and called the police. The police found four unused mar riage licenses, issued In different states, in the 23-year-old would-be Romeo's possession. District Judge Harvey L.

Neclcn admonished him, saying, "It Isn't wise to propose to a strunuer." 'It's been done before and some times it works." Skinner retorted. He was held for examination. Boy Hurled to Death as He Makes 'Chute in Car JEFFERSON CITY. ear-old Robert Lee Card well rigged parachute from a piece of canvas while riding home from market in the rear of his father's truck. The wind caught the canvas and hurled the boy head first to the ground.

He died of a fractured skull. Job printing of all kinds at THE SENTINEL Advertise your sale in Blind Man Saves Self in Tumble Grasps Wire and Hangs on Till Help Comes. CHICAGO. Robert Henneman, who is blind, fell off his third-story back porch. He clutched instinctively at space and found an insulated electrical wire in his hand.

He kicked, and his feet came to rest upon a heavy cable below. "Call the police, Clarice," he told his wife. "Call the firemen. I can hang on here O. To assure his wife that there was nothing to be excited about, he let go of the wire with one hand, pulled out his pipe, filled it and calmly lighted it Mrs.

Henneman, who is almost blind, saw that he was safe for the moment and called firemen to theit home. Capt. Robert Casey came with Chi-caeo's hook and ladder Company 48. The firemen found Henneman still smoking his pipe among the wires which run past his porch. John Henneman, his father, had already oiled bed springs beneath him and advised him to jump upon them, but the blind man only kept on pull ing his pipe.

While the firemen prepared to res cue Henneman bis wife explained what had happened. They had been measuring the porch, which was wet from rain, when Henneman slipped He fell over the low railing, bhe ihniinht hari nlnnffpd to his death until she heard his void and her" weak eyes discerned him lodged amone the wires. The firemen spread a net beneath him for safety, but warned him not to iumD. They warned him, too, that just above him was a wire carrying 2,200 volts of electricity, insulated but nothing to experiment with Then they ran up a ladder and car ried Henneman down. He was still clutching the pipe between bis teeth and beaming with a calm befitting his 32 years.

But he was blowing no smoke rings. He pipe was out. He'd been up there 18 minutes. A Soldier Can Kiss and Kiss and Kiss in Macon MACON. GA.

The good-night kiss of a soldier and his date is not dis orderly conduct in Macon, ruled Recorder George M. Nottingham, a veteran of the First World war. An 18-year-old Macon girl and her 22-year-old army air force soldier date were charged with disorderly conduct by the girl's parents on the young couple's return from a movie. 'If I'm guilty of being disorderly, then every man in Uncle Sam army belongs In jail," the young sol dier told reporters as he waited to be called by the court. "And if every girl who kisses a soldier-sweetheart goodnight is going to be locked up, this is going to be a mighty dull war." After hearing the evidence.

Judge Nottingham imiled and ordered case dismissed." Gift of Fiancee Saves Life of American Sailor MINNEAPOLIS. Richard H. Bachman, Excelsior, gives his fiancee credit for saving his life when Japanese planes attacked the aircraft carrier Lexington in the Coral sea. Although she was 12.000 miles away, Bachman said Anna Lee Etchison's gift a metal cigarette case which he carried in his dungaree pocket kept him from injury. perhaps death.

It deflected a flying chunk of jag ged metal that otherwise might have torn his leg off, Bachman said. Bachman and Miss Etchison, Frederick, were' reunited here during his furlough. Hand Gone, Indian Air Hero Keeps on Firing MELBOURNE. Ralph Sam, a full-blooded American Indian, gave his life to get a few extra shots at Japanese plane, the Melboiie Herald reported. Sam, a gunner in an American bomber, had a hand shot away during a recent raid on Japanese positions.

Unable to handle te ma chine guns, Sam Ignored hi wound and used his one hand to a revolver at a Japanese Zer plane. But before the pilot could Py back to the base', Sam lost so mush blood that he died a few days la. Attempt to Get Nickel Costs Youth His Life HOUSTON. nickel Joel Torres dropped in warehouse elevator shaft cost hi life. The 12-year-old la ook the con trols of the elevator nd descended to within a few let' of the bottom of the shaft The evator moved he to squ between the walls and crushed 4m.

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Water level is near second story of the town's buildings. Townspeople view the damage from above the waterline. When Navy Backed Up Marines in Solomons Guns of a U. S. destroyer beleh flame and Ktrcl as they blast away at Jap landing of marines in the Solomons.

The landing barges filled with Krcund) Heading lor the oeaenes. isotii i. Iv an.) Jap forces counted rising- losses as both sides jockey fgr positions to deliver all-out blows in the battle for the tntcgic islands. This la an efficiai U. S.

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