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■ WAR BRIDES ARRIVES IN U.S;FRONI BRITAIN—A group of more than 60 English girls who* married American soldiers arrived from Europe aboard the USS Barry. Photo shows some of the war brides who left for all parts of the country to the homes of their American husbands. Veteran Bonds To Mature June 15 Gatesville. — Robin Hood, cashier of the Bank of Gates, today reminded veterans of the First World War, who hold 3 percent adjusted service bonds •of 1945, issued in payment of amounts due on adjusted serv ice certificates, that the bonds which are dated June 15, 1936, will mature on June 15, 1945, when the face amount of the Ibonds and interest for the full nine-year period will be pay able. The amount due on each bond is $63.50, which includes S50 principle and $13.50 interest. No further interest will accrue after Tur.e 15 “Veterans who hav°e not ex changed their adjusted service certificates for the adjusted serv ;ice bonds of 1945 must do so (before June 15, otherwise they will lose all of .the interest which Urns' accrued on tin? bonds since June 15, 1936, amounting to $13.50 on each $50 bond,’’ Hood .said. The Bonds must be signed in fihe presence of a bonk officer or postmaster and veterans should net promptly in order to receive (the fdll benefits to which they rare entitled. LINKER (Continued from, page 1) 'was in jail within four hours af ter landing, he said. He would not have escaped from the crippled plane had it not exploded, the sergeant ;ad ed. The blast blew him out of the turret and he retained con sciousness long enough, to open his parachute. . Without Shoes He landed without shoes, was given one issue of clothing which he wore fob the next several months and subsided on three potatoes a day and half a loaf of bread per week supplemented by occasional Red Cross supplies. Diseases, dysentery and march ing during the evacuation when Russia started its drive, took its toll of American prisoners, Harry said. While they were marched in an effort to keep out of reach of Russian liberaters, 500 or more would go to sleep in a barn and leave 50 or 00 who couLd not go on the next morning. The Germans said the disabled men would be hospitalized. Harry could not say whether they were or not. Harry weighed only 98 pounds j when he again .reached Allied military control. He regained his normal weight within 30 days at a French rest camp. Harry and-thousands of others escaped when the collapse of Nazi Germany appeared, eminent, but he was in a group recaptured by German troops who were scheduled to surrender the fol lowing day. But on the following day, the regiment got orders to continue fighting at the Elbe River. At one time, the American es capees were within sound of front line g'un fire but German machine guns drove them back to cover. As prisoners, the men were permitted to write a Letter a month. He did not . receive a let ter during the whole time he was imprisoned, and Red Cross sup plies did not come through with .Sk-.&K Madame Marie Gifted Palmist and Psychic Medium Tells you any and everything you wish to know without asking any questions, gives you names of enemies, and friends. Gives true and never failing advice on all affairs of life. If worried, troubled or in doubt consult this psychic reader at once. She can and will help you. Consult her on business, love, marriages, wills, deeds, mortgages, lost and stolen arti cles and speculations of all kinds. Lucky Days and Lucky Numbers Don't be discouraged it others have failed to help you. She does what others claim to do. One visit will convince you this.-Medium and Divine Healer is superior to a^ny reader you I have ever consulted. if ■ • .PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL READINGS DAILY AND SUNDAY FOR DOTH WHITE AND COLORED. Hours: 9 A»M.—10 P.M. You must be satisfied or no'charge. ? Located in Trailer Coach on U.8. 58 Suffolk Highway at {Alexander's Corner: Take Sirnonddle or Dower's Hiil Dus, get pff at Nabor's Food Inn, and look for hand sign. J*0«T8M OUTN,V4«G*N4A regularity, the said. Harry holds the Purple Heart, the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Good Conduct Ribbon, American theatre of operations Ribbon, and the Euro pean theatre of operations rib bon with four campaign stars, representing the Air War, the 'battles of (Norway and Southern France and the battle of Ger many. €owper Wires Mother, Roses Gatesville.—A buddy of Ma jor William R. Cowper, Jr., now stationed in the South Pacific -theatre of operations where at last reports he had again been decorated for heroism in the air, wired a dozen American Beauty roses to his mother, Mrs. W. R. Cowper, Sr., of Gatesville. The buddy, Captain John Hag gerty, is in Wyandotte, Mich., where he telegraphed the flow ers to Mrs. Cowper. She said it was not a delayed Mother’s Day remembrance, but Major Cow per had asked the captain to wire his mother the roses on his return to the United States. There’s always one more squeeze in an empty tooth paste tube. Read and Usa the Want Ads smiling! Any hour of the day or evening, you’ll like 7-Up and 7-Up will like you. Sip this fresh, clean-tasting drink first thyig in the morning ... let it roll over and under your tongue. You’ll find a smile coming on. It will be a good start on a "good” day for you. Start now for the nearest store dis playing the 7-Up signs. 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