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Exploit of War
Wins High Honor
Lone Yank Officer Repulses
Tank Attack Led by
250 Germans.
WASHINGTON.—A young officer
who manned a machine gun atop a
blazing abandoned tank destroyer
and beat back a tank led assault by
250 Germans has been awarded the
nation’s top decoration.
He is First Lt. Audie L. Murphy,
21, ol Farmersville, Texas, who won
the Congressional Medal of Honor
near Holtzwihr, France, last Janu
ary 26. He was still a second lieu
tenant and new to the command of
his company in the third infantry
division, says the Chicago Tribune.
The citation accompanying the
medal, which was to be given to
Murphy in Europe, credited him
with killing or wounding 50 of the
Germans with machine gun fire and
with directing artillery fire earlier in
the fighting which killed "many”
more. Some of Murphy’s buddies
estimated that he accounted for 100
Nazis in the hour-long battle.
Swept From Woods.
Murphy was in front of his com
pany when the two German infan
try comftenies, paced by six heavy
tanks, swept from a woods. He or
dered his men to fall back to pre
pared positions while he stayed at
his advance post to call for artillery
fire to smash the Germans in the
open. He was alone except for a
tree and the tank destroyer about
10 yards to his right.
First Lt. Walter W. Weispfennig,
an artillery officer of Fredonia, N.
D., who witnessed the action, said
later the artillery fire that Murphy
directed “had a deadly effect.”
“I saw Germans disappearing in
clouds of dirt and snow,” he related.
Then a German 88 mm. shell
crashed into the tank destroyer and
its crew bailed out, falling back to
join the remainder of the company.
Smoke and flames spurted from the
destroyer. The German tank crews
swung wide around it, fearing that
its gasoline and ammunition would
blow up.
With the German infantry only 100
yards away, Murphy dashed over to
the destroyer, climbed into the tur
ret, and began blasting the Nazis
with its .50 caliber machine gun.
Weispfennig called it the “bravest
thing I’ve ever seen a man do in
combat,’’ adding:
Exposed to Foe’s Fire.
"He was completely exposed to
the enemy fire and there was a blaze
under him that threatened to blow
the destroyer to bits. Machine gun,
machine pistol, and 88 shellfire was
all around him.
“Twice the tank destroyer was hit
by direct shellfire and Lieutenant
Murphy was engulfed In smoke and
flame. His clothing was riddled by
flying fragments of sheHs and bits
of rocks. I saw that his trouser leg
was soaked with blood.”
Twelve Germans tried to sneak up
along a ditch and flank him but he
swung the machine gun and killed
aU of them at a 50-yard range. The
Nazi Infantry was stalled. Without
the infantry the enemy tanks
couldn’t advance and the whole at
tack collapsed.
Murphy dropped wearily off the
destroyer, all his ammunition gone,
and limped back to his company.
Refusing treatment, he reorganized
his company and led it In an attack
that routed the Germans.
Murphy, a native of Farmersville,
joined the army on his 18th birth
day and fought throughout the Af
rican, Sicilian, Italian and French
campaigns. He has been wounded
three times and wears the Purple
Heart with two clusters.
United States U-Boats
Sank 1,256 Jap Ships
WASHINGTON. —U. S. sub
marines operating in far Eastern
waters in the last three months of
the war sank 69 enemy vessels, the
navy announced recently, bringing
to 1,256 the number of Japanese
ships sunk by American underseas
craft in the war.
None of the sinkings in the last
three months had been announced
previously. The figures were com
piled from reports of submarines
after their return from Pacific
action.
The latest bag included 20 Jap
anese warships and 49 noncombat
ant ships.
The warships sunk were two Jap
anese submarines, one mine-layer,
two minesweepers, two large sub
chasers, eight special sub-chasers,
four coastal defense frigates, and
one torpedo boat.
‘Jobs for AH’ Goal Seen
In 150 Billioii Income
WASHINGTON.— Treasury Secre
tary Vinson told congress that a
national income of 150 billion dollars
will ba needed to provide jobs for
all who are willing and able to work.
To assure employment for 60 mil
lion people, purchasing power must
be Increased enough to boost con
sumption 50 per cent and to expand
construction and investment by 100
per cent over prewar levels, Vinson
said in a statement for the senate
banking committee.
Vinson endorsed the so-called “full
employment” bill, which the com
mittee is considering, but cautioned
that “ultimate reliance for jobs must
come from an expansion of prlvata
consumption and investments.”
THE BLACK MOUNTAIN NEWS
$1,920 Is Found in
Home Laundry Chute
KANSAS CITY. A laundry
chute loosed a shower of S2O, SSO
and SIOO bills along with the
soiled clothes when Mrs. Cleota
Atwood pulled open the chute out
let in her basement. The money
—51,920 of it—had disappeared
from a strongbox belonging to a
guest of the Atwoods. Now ev
eryone is a lot happier.
Society Wakes Up;
Wrong Is Righted
Debt to Cripple to Be Paid;
Builds Him Home.
ST. LOUlS.—Theodore Harris, 43-
year-old cripple who has been living
In an abandoned double-decker bus,
soon will move Into a dream house
of his own—complete with shrub
bery and a vine-covered fence.
Harris’ plight came to the public
attention recently when he was
charged with violating the zoning
ordinance. Alderman Vernon G.
Riehl, who served as provisional
city judge in the cripple’s case, dis
missed the charge and said:
“Society owes you an apology for
singling you out and bringing you
into court on a charge when there
is so much wrong in the world.”
Society is going to add action to
kind words.
Twenty sympathetic St. Louisans
are banding together to help In the
house-raising. They have bought a
lot on which the home is to be built.
It will be held in trust for Harris,
and later it will be turned over to
a charitable institution.
Doors, windows, roofing material
and paint will be donated by firms
dealing in such commodities.
The cripple, who makes a meager
living repairing clocks and old-fash
ioned music boxes, said he had ac
quired a gift of 240 feet of wooden
handrails from the old excursion
steamer Capital, which is now being
scrapped.
“I’m going to make a fence out
of that,” he said, “with vines.”
There wall be a special ramp into
the house to facilitate Harris’ en
trance on his motor-propelled three
■wheeled car.
The move in his behalf, he said,
was started by three persons who
appeared as character witnesses in
his case.
“I’ve already got a name for my
home,’’ Harris said. “I’m going to
call it *The Little Ranch House on
the HilL’ *’
Physician’s Trust Fund
Helps 12,519 Students
MARSHALL, MO. The quinine
pills of Dr. John Sappington, pioneer
Missouri physician, have helped
12,519 Saline county boys and girls
get an education at a total cost of
$211,803, the annual report of the
Sappington school fund discloses.
The fund dates back to 1857 when
Dr. Sappington, one of the state’s
first physicians, set up a $20,000
trust, the income from which was to
be used in giving common school
education to deserving, needy chil
dren. This was before public schools
had been established.
The proud and whimsical “Old
Doc” was the first to use quinine ex
tensively for malaria and made a
fortune selling the drug to malaria
sufferers of the Missouri and Mis
sissippi valleys.
With the advent of public school
systems, proceeds of the fund were
directed toward aiding boys and
girls of high school and college ages,
with a big share of the money going
to the latter group. Beneficiaries of
the fund are required to maintain
good scholastic standing.
The original $20,000 has earned
nearly $300,000. The fund has a cur
rent balance of $82,500.
The colorful Sappington family
figured prominently in early Mis
souri history.
Selling Restrictions
On Domestic Wool Relax
WASHINGTON, D. C. - The gov
ernment recently lifted restrictions
on the sale of domestic wool which
made the. Commodity Credit corpora
tion the sole legal buyer.
Growers may sell to any one, but
under present market conditions lit
tle wool is expected to go to any one
except the CCC. The agency is com
mitted to buy all wool offered it at
ceiling prices until June 30,1946. The
ceiling is about 2 per cent above the
price of foreign wools readily avail
able to manufacturers.
The department of agriculture is
considering a proposal to cut the
price of government-owned domestic
wool to levels competit ; -e with for
eign wools.
Hear Better in Noisy
Spot With Plugged Ears
SCHENECTADY. N. Y. - If you
have difficulty hearing an ordinary
conversation above the din of a
machine shop or a busy street cor
ner, try putting your fingers in your
ears.
Dr. Edwin G. Boring, Harvard
university psychologist, said that
when noise is extremely loud, the
ear loses its ability to discrim
inate differences in sound such as
the tone of a voice.
When the mass of the sound is
blocked out, the ear can distinguish
voice tones and other sounds above
the loud noise, be said.
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* SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON *
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Theme For Quarter:
“A Nation In The Making”
Lesson for February 24, 1946 —
“What Makes a People Great -
Religion in the Home.”
Basic Scripture—Djeut. 5-34.
Devotional Reading —Proverbs
4:20-27.
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Comments to guide further
study. By Rev. R. E- McClure,
Executive Secretary of Asheville
Presbytery, Presbyterian Church,
U. S. based on the Uniform Series
of International Lessons, Cycle of
1945-1950.
Lesson treatments developed
from Outlines copyrighted by the
International Council of Religious
Education. Outlines used by per
mission.
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Nothing is more basic in build
ing for the future than the home
life of people. Nations and peo
ples who have exalted the home
have themselves been exalted-
Conversely, when nations allow
home and home relationships to be
undermined, those nations begin
to lose their power and influence.
The oldest nations in existence
today are those whose family life
has been preserved and honored.
The Children of Irael, scattered
throughout all the nations of the
world in the present generation are
a testimony of a foundation stone
laid by their forefathers genera
tions ago. God ordered it, and in
so far as the Jews followed it,
their nation prospered.
The key passage to the study of
this week is in Deuteronomy
6:1-12. Here are three funda
mentals. First, God’s laws are
to be taught to family units for
generations to come (1-3). Sec-;
ond, the perpetual recognition of
God was to be through memoriz
ing and repeating, “Hear, 0 Is
rael: the LORD our God is one
LORD, and thou shalt love the
LORD thy God with all thy heart j
and with all thy soul, and with all
thy might.” These words w-ere i
repeated daily, at the beginning
of each day by every faithful,
Jew. Third, the recognition of j
God as the giver of every good
and perfect gift must never be
forgotten. The moment man at- j
tributes his success to his own ef
forts, he begins to falter.
Deuteronomy is a summary of :
God’s laws revealed to man, ex
plained by the great lawgiver
Moses, and recorded for the guid
ance of future generations. They
are too complicated for a survey |
in one lesson, but a careful read- j
ing of chapter 5-34 will well re-j
pay the approximately three hours
time required.
In teaching this les’son empha
iss can be made with the Primary
and Junior Children under the
title, “In A Happy Home.” A
home is happiest where God is
honored. Intermediates and Sen
iors should loo'k carefully to “Our
Nation and Its Homes.” Surely
in Amreica, the place of the Chris
tian home in its founding has a
supremeyl high position- A sur- 1
vey of the rise and fall of nations
will challenge young people and
adults to see “Home Foundations
for National Greatness.”
The secret of the Christian
home should have much emphasis
in the presentation of this lesson,
with the regard to Bible reading,
prayer and personal devotional
life. The commands of God for
the Jew demanded memorizing the
Word, and daily repetitions of
parts of God’s Word as a renewal
of allegiance to Him.
The lesson of next week, “A
People Finding A Homeland,” has
little meaning without the word,
“Home.” There can be a “Land”
but it is merely a geological form
ation of rocks and trees, lakes and
rivers, valleys and mountains
without the “Home.” People make
a real “homeland” and only in real
homes are poeple trained in the
highest ideals.
OVER GRANGE WIRE C
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National Secretary Caton Gets All
the News From Every State
And Passes It on Each Month
to Eagerly-Waiting Patrons.
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Cold and snow, then sunshine
and rain; crows returning to their
northern haunts; the tail-end of
winter —February.
*****
Outstanding Grange years in
growth and service were 1944 and
1945; 1946 promises to he an equal
ly good one, or even better.
*****
State Secretary Nellie L. Has
call of Maine has just been in-
FAMOUS SOUTHERN RECIPES
angel PIE
lean Pet milk (chill and whip) j
1 box lemon jello (wbip> I
1 pkg. Nabiscos or Grahan
crackers (ground)
1(4 cup hot water .
1-3 cup sugar .
14 sup lemon juice
Mix together; pour into square
pan on the ground crackers then .
sprinkle more crackers on top and
chill.
PUMPKIN CHIFFON PIE
1 envelope Knox gelatine
14 cup cold water
1(4 cup canned pumpkin
(4 cup milk
1 cup sugar
(4 teaspoon salt
14 teaspoon nutmeg
(4 teaspoon cinnamon
14 teaspoon ginger
3 eggs !
To slightly beaten egg yoUs
add (4 cup sugar, pumpkin, milk,;
salt and spices; cook until thick
in double boiler- Soak gelatine in
cold water 5 minutes; add to hot
pumpkin mixture, mix thoroughly
and cool. When it begins to
thicken add remaining sugar and
fold in stiffly beaten egg whites j
Pour into baked pie shell. Serve
with whipped cream.
stalled for her 27th consecutive
term as Secretary of her Pomona
Grange.
*****
And speaking of long rceords
National Secretary has served for
42 consecutive years as legislative
agent of his home Subordinate
Grange.
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And here’s another: We are told
that C. W. Swayze of Denver has
been lecturer of the Colorado
State Grange for 34 years.
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We want to urge all Juvenile
Granges to make it a point that
their quarterly reports get to
their State Secretary just as soon
after the close of the quarter as
possible. The matrons should help
in this.
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Someone has said “There are
no little things.” What he really
meant was that things that are
sometimes considered little are
really important. After all it’s
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Thursday, February 21, 1945
PIE CRUST
1 cup lard
14 cup boiling water
3 cups fluor
1 teaspoon salt
Pour boiling water over l af( j
and stir until melted; when cool
add flour and salt. Store in re .
frigerator until ready to use.
move about an hour before roll,
ing into pies.
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lemon chiffon pie
(4 tablespoon gelatine
(4 cup cold water
3 tablespoon lemon juice
4 eggs separated
1 cup sugar
Pinch salt
Soak gelatine in 2 tablespoon of
the cold water, combine rest 0 f
water with Vi cup of the sugar,
lemon juice, salt and beaten egg
yolks in top of double boiler, cook
over boiling water, stirring con .
stantly until thickened. Remove
from heat and stir in softened
gelatine until dsisolved. Cook un
til thick and syrupy. Beat egg
whites until fluffy, gradually beat
in remaining sugar until stiff and
smooth and fold into cooled mix
ture. Turn into cooled pie shell
and chill until firm. Cover with
whipped cream before serving.
Delicious in graham cracker crust.
little things added together that
makes the big things in life.
*****
Oregon has started a systemat
ic campaign of Grange advertis
ing. Their aim is to carry the story
of Grange services to all the peo
ple of the state.
*****
A letter from Northland Pioneer
Grange in Matanuska Valley at
Palmer, Alaska indicates that this
far-northern Grange is going
I strong.
*****
One of the charter members of
1 the “Heart of America” Grange
recently organized in northwest
ern Missouri is President Harry
S. Truman.
*****
We hope that every Grange in
the nation has had its officers to
gether in a conference as suggest
ed by the National Master, and
has planned out definite goals for
the year ahead; but it still isn’t
too late to do this.