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jitGEN BRIDGE FAIiS; MANY HURT (Contim>^ from Page One) | p{ ^en bobbed to the sur Many, injured, swam weakly face'r‘d twjsted timbers swirling ■‘“The current. They were swept ,n ,ard a pontoon bridge which <0"a had thrown across the L distance north of the Original crossing site 10 days be *’r.e' . of the men were horribly and pinned between steel ^a,nf. others were buried in under the water. dTvo signalmen, Pvt. George 1 w pf oil City, Pa., and Pvt. Pnattista. of Pence. Wis., were wire across the bridge, but L .one to a jeep off the span and ®.-ned injury. Lp.-al of the coolness with w, Americans met the emerg "“ T‘ ,.dey tapped the line and Omened ambulances and medics rp the scene. In a matter of sec 115. ]ines of Red Cross vehicles fere streaking up to the bridge on ,.;h sides of the river. An aid sta 10I) ;vas set up in a windowless, shell-tom building. A division chap lain, Capt. George Barber of M«itebello, Cjlif administered last rites to the fatally wounded. He walked down among the wreckage to be with one man who died under tons { steel and lumber ground into the muddy banks at the water’* edge. , Scopes of troops raced onto a pontoon bridge to pull men from •he water. Some were taken from •he cold river before they were swept into the cables and pon toons . An outstanding hero was Sgt. George Aneson of Brooklyn, N. Y. he helped a lieutenant colonel and a captain pull a corporal from the water at a pontoon, but left when hnlda nftW0 mfn Str,lgg^g to keep ' l ^eCkage about midway between the pontoon . and the wrecked bridge. Without stopping to throw 6ff hls heavy combat boots, Aneson yanked off his trousers and swam into the water with a heavy rope which Pvt. Theodore Gates of Presto, Pa had tried vainly to tnrow to the men from his posi tion waist-deep in the water on the edge of the bank. One man on the log was an Engineer severely hurt when the bridge collapsed. The other was Corp. Roy Larson of Erie, Pa., who had swum out to help the wounded man, but had become exhausted and numbed with cold. Aneson swam 100 yards, fixed the rope to the piece of wreckawa, and the three men were hauled to safety by Gates and Lt.-Col Frank Heikkila of Cooper, Tex. The col onel had stripped to his under wear, ready to enter the water. Engineers on the pontoon bridge also were busy shunting splinter ed pieces of timber away from the vulnerable pontoons. In the middle of rescue opera tions, a German shell landed near by, and fragments cut down sev eral men. Narrow escapes were legion. Sgt. Hansel B. Payne of Truss ville, Ala., was caught between two girders. "Two men from my squad lift ed one of the beams enough to get me out,’’ said Payne, who escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Pvt. Edward Friedel, Lancaster, N. Y., said, “I was about 20 yards from the stone piling at the east end of the bridge. I was thrown «ito the water, but grabbed a gir er. It bent as the bridge fell and threw me into the air.” Sgt. Merle Williams, Cowans ville, Pa., and Pvt. Richard Myren, Winchester, St., Madison Wis., climbed down the piling and beams and lifted a man, un conscious but still alive, from where he was pinned in the water. Lt. Eugene Moffat, Palo Alto, Calif., had just stepped onto the stone pier at the west end of the bridge when it gave way. Pfc. William Johnson. Santa Rosa, Calif., was in the middle of the span, and rode it down. He suffered no more than a scratched leg. The bridge had been weakened by two charges which the Germans exploded, and more by shells which gouged chunks out of three vertical beams several days ago. The Germans started throwing heavy shells into the general area of the bridge yesterday, and al though none of them hit anywhere near the span, some soldiery ad vanced the theory that deep vibra tions caused by their blast might have started a shift in weight which sent the bridge down. There had been no enemy planes in the neighborhood for 36 hours before the collapse. -_V-- * BOWLING’S HIS DISH CHICAGO, March 18.— (U.R) — Seventy-four-year-old A. A. Clark rolls three games a day, five days a week, at a Chicago bowling al ley as part of a physical^ condi tioning program. What's more, he averages 155, a score many young bowlers would consider pretty good. -V BELGIAN DELEGATE BRUSSELS, March 18.— (JP) — Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak will head Belgium’s delega tion to the World security confer ence at San Francisco next month, it was announced today. The names of the other delegates will be announced later. Georgia Plant Building Housing For Europeans GREENVILLE, Ga„ March 18. —CT)—Prefabricated houses to shel ter bombed-out French and Bri tish families are being turned out on an assembly-line basis in a new factory set in the center of the Georgia pine belt. Some 300 farmers, housewives, filling station operators and others are on the payroll of the new plant which has contracts from the Federal Housing Authority for 500 barracks to be shipped to France and 500 houses for Britain. Each of the barracks will house 30 French shipyard workers. They are being turned out at the rate of ten daily. The plant will begin work shortly on the British con tract calling for 50 houses con sisting o£ living room, two bed rooms, kitchen and bath. C. Eugene Tovell selected this farming center for the site of the plant because of the region’s sup ply of pine lumber, availability of labor and rail facilities. It is the town's first “big payroll” indus try. Few of the workers have had factory experience but Tovell said many, including women, had mas tered buzz saws and other tools since the plant began . operations a month ago. Barracks for the French work ers consist of 32 panels. When set up they form a building 20 feet wide by 48 feet long with 16 win 1 dows. The windows will be screen ed with a semi-transparent plastic glass. Each barracks fills 47 packing cases. Along with each unit goes three gallons of paint, a brush, and a package of bolts and nuts. The units are bolted together ex cept for a few places where nails are necessary. Double-headed nails are provided, one head just be neath the other, so that the house can be disassembled and recon structed, using the same nails. LAGUARDIA ACTS AGAINST CURFEW (Continued from Page One) LaGuardia did not pitch his ex tension of the curfew for the thousands of saloons and nigl* clubs in his city on a note of de fiance. Indeed, he did not call it an extension. He called it “an hour of tolerance.” It was an “ad justment,’ he said, “to meet local conditions.” He announced it during the course of his Sunday speech on the municipal radio sta*on and soon after he spoke this order went out on the police teletype to precinct stations in all boroughs: “Amendment to original order. One hour of tolerance after mid night will be allowed, and it is expected that all places affected by the midnight curfew will be completely closed by one a. m. daily.” “To carry out the real purpose of the curfew,” the mayor said, “I believe it is reasonable in New York City to extend one. hour of tolerance. In other words, at 12 o’clock there is an hour’s time of adjustment in which patrons may pay their bills without a wild scramble for the doors and exits. “Therefore, I would say that with this one hour of tolerance, if the places are actually closed one hour after midnight, that that is a full and reasonable and bona fide compliance with the request.” There was nothing in either his speech or in the police order to indicate that he expected the sell ing of drinks, the cavorting of chorus girls, the blaring of jive to cease at midnight so customers could pay their bills and leave in an orderly manner. Saloons and night clubs interpre ted it to mean that business coulH continue until there was ju.* enough timq to shoo the customers out, get the lights out and the doors locked before one o’clock. The mayor hadn’t said his last word on the radio when bartend ers were modifying the signs josted on their backbars. “Last :all for drinks, 11:45 p. m.,” the iigns had read. This hour was crossed out crudely with chalk and scrawled above it was “12:45 a. m.” Several night clubs announc ed within an hour or so that their Eloor shows would start later in the evening and end later—in all cases after midnight. Night clubs and saloons form a tremendous industry here, em ploying thousands, with millions invested in capital, and the mayor had been under terrific pressure from constituents to do something about the Nation-wide order that was preventing New York City from extending its customary hos pitality to natives and out-of towners with money. Spokesmen for the industry expressed their pleasure at once. Sherman Bill ingsley, manager of the Stork Club, said: “I'm grateful to Mr. LaGuardia.” Barney Josephson, owner of the twin night clubs, Cafe Society Uptown and Cafe Society Downtown, said: “It is a step in the right direction.” But Monte Proser was the most jubilant of the hot spot owners. His is Copacobana, the largest of them all, which had a $50,000 weekly gross before the curfew. It closed as a night club then, and Proser announced it would reopen within three weeks. “I’m so damn happy,” he1 ex claimed. SENATORSEEKS PACT CHANGES (Continued from Page One) for its brief world court chapter “does not once mention ‘justice’ as a guiding objective or a rule of conduct.” Chairman Connally (D-Tex) of th - Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, another of the eight Amer ican delegates said he expected the group to meet again within a week or two. Thus far, in meetings with Sec rr ’ .ry of State Stettinius and Presi dent Roosevelt, the delegates have [discussed largely the mechanics of conference operations, leaving until later the real work of trying to get together on an American pro gram. -V PALACE DAMAGED ROME, March 18.— (JP) —The Royal Palace at Naples suffered damage in a fire of undetermined origin, II Tempo reported today. -V Cook cheese at low temperatures to prevent curdling, scorching or stringness. ALLEGED SLAYER IS APPREHENDED (Continued from Page One) ;he money when the guard left rim to park the car. Police theorize that he met Mr». Boyer through a mutual interest in poker-playing and horse racing. They have established that he had at least one date with the slain woman and that he was among 10 or 11 guests at a poker party in her rpartment the night before she wa murdered. Mrs. Boyer was beaten and shot to death in the kitchen of her swank apartment. But so effective was the apartment sound-proofing that no one heard the shots and th crime was not discovered until three days later. Her body was slumped against a blood-spattered wall. Two bullets had pierced her left temple and a third had hit her left index finger, indicating that she may have rais ed her hand in a gesture of de fense. Her daughter, Mrs. Dolores C. Mitchell, 20, lives in Cambridge, Mass., her son-in-law, Ensign Ly man Mitchell, is a naval instructor at Harvard University. -V TIRED OF WAR STOCKHOLM. March 18.—m— A boat with eight German men and women who said they were “tired of war” arrived at a small Swedish port near Goteberg today. -V Save canned vegetables liquid to use in vegetable cocktails, cream soups, sauces and gravies. i muv s-o-o-T-H-m j • become they're really medicated jj • e e : COUGH LOZENGES : ; Soothe your throat all the way, • ; down — far below the gargle lint. ; I Each F & F Lozenge gives your ; ; throat a 15 minute soothing, com- ; J forting treatment. Used by million* ; ; for coughs, throat irritations or ; ; hoarseness resulting from cold* or j • _1.:_A.I.. 1 C\1 I- * e • • » • ft • » • ft • ■ e • * ft • ■ • t • I • I e I • I • > What A ‘Town-Buster* Adds Up To | rr.« . - ..:::<&***.. _____ . , ...4 Devastation wrought by “block-busters'’ used b y thf RAF fades into insignificance alongside that created by the new li-ton “town-buster” now being dropped on German targets. Composite photo above shows what it would take in the way of bombs now in use to make up one of the new super bombs. Figures indicate poundage, which adds up t o equivalent of an 11-tonner. Here’s Dependable First Aid BEING oily, Resinol Oint ment forms a protective, coating for the burned skin, as its bland medication quickly relieves fiery throbbing. Many say it soothes like magic. RESINOL 10NG AGO we decided something about the American fighting man. Give him good weapons to fight with and he’ll do the rest! That thought guided us in building the big Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines that keep the B-24 boring relentlessly through the skies. It stood at our elbows as we sat down to design the M-18 76-mm. gun motor carriage. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when stories began coming back about the Hellcat. Stories like the one about the single battalion of 12 M-18’s that spent 21 days in continuous action. Score? Four Tigers, two Mark IV’s, four armored vehicles knocked out and hundreds of enem^ troops killed, wounded or captured. Two M-18 s damaged, neither beyond repair, and only minor injuries to their crews! Stories like that are legion. They account for words like this, coming straight from the front: •‘The vehicle itself is the finest track-laying vehicle in the army. It will outmaneuver any vehicle, go where others wont and has the speed of a wheeled vehicle. “X” company alone has accounted for 25 German tanks, two self-propelled guns and numerous wagons and trucks? I That’s what Buick men and Ordnance officers were I after when they joined hands to develop the M-18. 1 They gave it hitting power in a high-velocity 76-mm. ' cannon - traction to go anywhere - speed to outrace any other land vehicle. And given that much, the boys are doing the job! Every Sunday Afternoon— GENERAL MOTORS SYMPHONY OF THE AIR—NBC Network The Army-Navy “E” proudly flies over all Buick plants ' , •• . ■
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