Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Pace 2the stars and stripes sunday May 30, 1943 Start spangled lad this. I the army. I while he was training on the hot Sands of the Southern California desert Cpl. George Rosson penned a letter to a Friend of his pleading with him to Send him some a a Good old new Jersey  his Friend obligingly called him a Box of the coveted soil and George spread it on the Barracks floor and walked Over it in his Bare feet. A deadly Black widow spider is kept at the army s precision shop at Coumbus Ohio to spin its web for the hair sights used in surveying  the East. Cheltenham Philadelphia police raided the Melrose country club and bagged 46 crap shooters. The fraction of Mill Pun Ham and Union streets in Attleboro mass., was named Johnson Morin Square in Honor of two Attleboro soldiers killed at Guadalcanal. An angry crowd of shipyard workers partly wrecked the colonial theatre in Portland Maine after a Midnight Stag show had been abruptly halted at 1 45 am. Max Bishop former Oriole baseball player was accused of illegally shooting geese in Kent county my. An irate Street car conductor in Cleveland Ohio fired several shots into a group of Rowdy passengers injuring one. Pretty shots into a group of Rowdy passengers injuring one. A Bridgeport conn., War Plant has installed sob Assembly lines in the Weston town Hall. Fire damaged the 70-year-old Getty House in Yonkers n. Y., while Albany s ten Eyck hotel went into receivership. A. The Columbus Ohio judge asked William Oliver Why he had sabotaged a joke Box. Oliver retorted Quot every time i tried to get i wonder what a become of Sally a i got a somebody else is taking my  South a a a at Knoxville tenn., 13 autos were destroyed by fire in the Quality body works. L. W. Perrin of Spartansburg s. C., was elected president of the state bar association. New Orleans Reform groups campaigned to close saloons at Midnight weekdays and All Day sundays. The 45-year-old Harris and crowd us hardware co. In Franklin ky., was suspended. The rerouting of busses and Street cars was proposed in Birmingham ala., to relieve crowded traffic on 19th and 20th streets. The University of South Carolina at Columbia offered free night instruction to prospective War workers. The Douglas dam on the French Broad Stiver in term., was completed. Two persons were arrested and two others were sought in Lebanon Junction ky., after the Rev. Walter Bryant Baptist minister was kidnapped robbed and beaten. Gov. Johnson miss., suspended sentence of la convicts including three who aided in the capture of Parchman prison escapees. Abbeville and Vermillion Parish la., were having a rat extermination  West. J three year old Bryan Schroeder of Oakland cal., drank a pint j of whiskey and Only suffered a slight hangover. Or. Robert Patterson of Duluth minn., travelled on snowshoes Over 15-foot Snow i drifts on the Duluth Superior Harbor to deliver a baby. Lightning struck the Nortin Cipal Light Plant at Winfield Kansas and killed Oscar Davis Sam Rogers Rad Hillary Davis. University of Iowa students at Iowa City if Elmul the shoe rationing by checking their i shoes with their Coats St dances. Construction of a stockade for prisoners of War captured abroad was started at fort Custer Mich. Chicago a judge Harold o Connell slapped too Dollar fines Oil workers who missed work because of drunkenness. Salt Lake City Utah test area for recruiting women marines produced 25 volunteers in one week. Seattle a City Council authorized 138,000 dollars to repair streets damaged by the removal of Street car rails for scrap. A sow at Wharton Texas gave birth to 18 pigs and received Federal commendation. Albert Coon can Sam was tried at Cheyenne wyo., on a charge of murdering his wife. Sheriffs sought the abolition of the state police in new Mexico. A a fire damaged the my hone beverage co. Warehouse in Moorhead . The Quot leaning Sequoia a in Sequoia National Park believed to be 3,000 years old collapsed this month. Minnesota is famed for us Dairy lands. State letterheads have always plugged the Industry by carrying the slogan Quot eat More  last week senators voted to i hurry the repeal of the Law requiring the  to Hollywood. I i this rising Young Starlet is miss Juanita Stark of the film Quot thank your Lucky  to Date unlike her competitors Ann Sheridan and Lana Turner she has said Little on the controversy Over sweater girls working in War factories. Juanita cooing Quot seeing is believing Quot is Content to let pictures like this do her  overflows Banks towns Coal mines flooded mentioned in this space last week As the lad who is carrying the Torch for Betty Grable George raft is nightly parked in the same Little nightclub in new York City where he tips a Gal vocalist five dollars for every Torch song she sings to him. Meanwhile Harry i James is the Quot unknown Quot orchestra Leader who is burning the wires calling Betty every Day. The Fellows who wrote the tune Quot in be i heard that song  Are doing a followup tilled Quot there goes that song . William l. Whites yarn of a it boats adventures in the South Pacific Quot they were expendable Quot will be screened with Spencer Tracy in the starring Roll. Spence is now working with Katherine Hepburn in a without . When Bob Hope brought his radio show to a wave trainee Camp he told his audience Quot a lot of these girls Are going to be Navy secretaries. Of course they be just started training they re not even in the first Lap . The Stork dropped by the Benny Goodman House the other Day and left the King of swing and his wife Alica their first Wingette six and a Quarter Pound Rachel. Hedy Lamarr still insists that she does not play the title role in her new film Quot heavenly  Bill Powell thinks differently. Orson Welles was nixed by his draft Board. In a Uso skit at Camp Shelby miss., Cpl. James w. Burton had to kiss Lovely Flicker Star Frances Gifford eight times nightly for three  and file. A a the first recorded Case of jealousy because of army rank landed one sergeant and a lieutenant in a Miami divorce court. Tile lieutenant was army nurse Betty Richford la Macchia and the sergeant was her husband Joe la Macchia. Betty charged her husband with extreme cruelty because he was jealous of her Superior rank. She said that he resented the fact that Quot she had friends who were officers and that she visited officers clubs Quot. When a drunk attempted to pass by her on her new York City Post Audrey Robert of Miami slugged him on the head and became the first wave cited As a successfully defending her Post and efficiently carrying out Lier orders with a disregard for her own personal  quoting the comics. A Milton Berle Quot my ancestors were really Tough. They ate their breakfast raw they ate their lunch raw. But they dressed for . Julie Oshins of Quot this is the army Quot show Quot two sardines were waiting for the 5th Avenue bus. After waiting for quite some time one sardine suggested that they use the subway. The other sardine said a what and get packed in like soldiers Quot. Jimmy Durante that last Gal i dated was a Well rounded person i tried to hug her but could t make it All at once so i made Chalk Marks to know where i left off.�?�. Comic strip characters continue to join the armed forces. Those now in the service of their country include aviation a adet Terry Lee and naval Lieut. Patrick Ryan of Terry and the pirates pm. Joe Paloska Cpl. Skeezix Wallet Captain smiling Jack Martin Markev finn Navy and Junior commando chief Little orphan . Ii. 8t. Louis old Man River is on the rampage again As the Muddy murky Mississippi and its tributaries swollen by heavy Rains and an Early thaw fanned out Over the surrounding lowlands this week. More than 100,000 people have already left their Homes in the Bottom lands of Indiana Illinois Missouri Kansas Arkansas and Oklahoma and have sought Refuge on higher land. Last minute reports paint a slightly brighter picture As the Rivers lately show signs of receding but the Waters Are still at Flodd stage. The flood concerned chiefly four Rivers the Mississippi Missouri the Illinois and the Wabash but Many lesser streams went on the rampage too. These four swollen Rivers burst their Banks engulfing thousands of acres of Fertile Farmland. Army engineers and coast guard personnel Are Labouring to Rescue marooned communities in Missouri where a Concrete levee was breached by the torrential wave which indiscriminately swy ept away everything in its path. War plants menaced the Mississippi is being fed by the hit ii Waters of the Missouri the Illinois and the Wabash. During the week at St. Louis the River level exceeded 36 feet and according to last minute reports has risen to the highest level in 99 years. Near St. Louis the Missouri River has joined the Mississippi More than 20 Miles from the Normal Confluence the flood has threatened several towns and has caused the shutdown of Many factories Between St. In Nils and Alton 111. The Atlas powder Plant 120 Miles South of St. Louis is seriously threatened As is the generating Plant at grand Tower 111. In Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma 5,000 miners found themselves without work As the mounting Waters inundated the Coal mines in those areas. It is estimated that damage caused by the flood already amounts to 50,000,000 dollars. 125,000 homeless More than 10,000 soldiers. 2,400 of them from Scott Field mo., Are working Side by Side with civilians erecting Sand bag levees at Dupo Columbia and Granite City to. Although no conclusive figures have been forthcoming authorities estimate that approximately 125,000 Are homeless and that much of the Best farm land has been flooded the danger was Over As far As Indiana w As concerned except for Posey county where the flood choked Wabash River is nine Miles wide in some places. At St. Diaries mo., the Missouri River Rose in one Day from one to 35 feet. At last reports the Waters were receding slowly in Northern Indiana Illinois and Kansas. However the Mississippi and its tributaries still menace Points from Alton 111., to Cape Girardeau to. At one Point Between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau the River broke through the levee and flooded another 45,000 acres of land. Amphibious jeeps not to be outdone by its sister tributaries the Illinois River too began to aet up this week. Floods reached a 26 loot Cret at Peoria and at Beardstown iu., where the levee gave Way to the crashing Force of the River. An All time High of nearly 30 feet was re a Miod. In Peoria mass evacuations of women children and the aged were ordered while Beardstown s entire population of 4,000 had to leave the town to the ravages of the flood. Service command troops and civilian defense engineers have moved families to higher ground. Amphibious jeeps Are being used in these operations. While these movements away from the critical areas were being effected the army and state militia were fighting Day and night against a swelling torrent on the Banks of the Illinois River. At Meredosia 111., several City blocks Are completely under water. Vincennes ind., said a prayer and then breathed a deep sigh of Relief As the Wabash River broke the levee three Miles North of the City and spilled its Waters into a sparsely populated Section of Lawrence county 111. Arkansas overflows families in the Arkansas lowlands received an army order to evacuate again As the Arkansas River reached a level of 39 feet before it spilled Over and flooded part of the fort Smith area. The Railroad and highways in this sector Are blocked and broken water Mains have Cut fort Smiths and Camp Robinson s water supplies. At fort Smith residents Are restricted to five Gallons daily. It was the second time within two weeks that people of Tulsa okla., were driven from their Homes by the rising Arkansas River. Last minute reports said the Arkansas River is now slowly receding. The death toll in the flooded areas has been surprisingly Low the latest figures being 14. Planes have Boon flying food Medicine cots and blankets to the flood victims