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THE PANTAGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1943. THREE 'Company K's Men Missing Sleep kut Determined to Stay on Duty Charles Funk Commended for Heroic Action Sergeant Major From McLean Wins Praise For Part in Battle for heroic action during the initial assaults on Florida and Tanam-bogo islands in the Solomons area last August, corps headquarters announced Monday. Sgt. Major Funk's citation said: "For meritorious conduct in action against the enemy while serving with a marine battalion on Florida, Solomon islands, Aug. 7, 1942, Sgt Major Funk, together with several comrades, courageously advanced through unfamiliar jungles in which the Japanese were concealed.

"So swift and determined was the progress of the marines, the enemy fled, leaving behind large stores of valuable supplies which were captured by Sgt. Major Funk and his comrades. His conduct was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States naval service." Vermilion River Invades Pontiac Bloomington's Militiamen Soldiers' sr BY CLIFTON WEBB (Pantagraph Staff Writer.) illlBIBllllllIIlllliB BEARDSTOWN. Bloomington's McLEAN An Illinois enlisted man of the United States marine corps, Sgt. Maj.

Charles A. Funk, 39, whose mother, Mrs. Minnie M. Funk lives in McLean, has received a letter of commendation Company Illinois reserve mil Britain now has more than 13,000 communal feeding centers. tia, inexperienced in actual duty "efore being assigned to the Beardstown liood area last Saturday, was beginning to show the strain of military hours and lack of sleep Monday.

Nevertheless S. ny iSJvs.2 GOOD SWIMMING. They can swim in or out of Camp Humiston memorial swimming pool in Pontiac's Chautauqua park these days. Water from the Vermilion river floods the park. they were resolved to stay on duty nywhere from two weeks to three months, should the Beardstown levee break.

Monday they were issued steel DOWNS GROUPS PLAN helmets and were patroling down town as well as residential streets of the nearly vacated city. Resi ACTIVITIES FOR WEEK w.ents were not allowed to enter their own houses without passes issued at the city hall and militia men carried loaded shotguns with orders to use them if their chal lunohi and bakery sale Thursday at the Davis hardware store. Commencement Exercises Top Calendar Miss Iris Brown is chairman of lenges to prowlers went unheeded. 9 Prove Good Soldiers. the committee in charge and as sisting her are Mrs.

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Room 323 Criesheim Bldg. Bloomington, III. Phone 4233 HOURS 11:00 A. 31. to 6:00 P.

M. Except Thursday Company is the largest group of militia on duty, although there tron, Mrs. Harry Shrigley, Mrs. are companies from Quincy, Floyd Cole and Mrs. George DOWNS.

(PNS) Community PONTIAC. PNS) This is typical of many homes in Tontiac where 90 percent of the basements Have been flooded and many houses completely surrounded by water. Clarke Jr. Galesburg, Macomb, Delavan on activities listed for this week are: Downs Bridge club will meet at duty also, together with army Commencement exercises for eighth grade graduates of Downs 2 p. m.

Thursday with Mrs. Wayne Davis. apits from Ft. Sheridan. The Bloomington men are prov and rural schools at 8:15 p.

Ho Hum! Nothing Ha ppens in Beardstown The Downs 4-H club will meet ins good soldiers. The last 24 Tuesday. There are 18 graduates, nine from the Downs grade school hours they shifted from the one at 2 p. m. Friday at the high school.

Mrs. Joseph Young and hour on, two hours off duty sched and nine from rural schools. Pro gram given by the pupils. Mrs. Harold Rhoades are leaders ule to a routine of 12 hours at a and registration of members will be completed Friday.

stretch, the guard changing at 7 6. m. and 7 p. m. Wednesday from 1 to 5 p.

the Red Cross room will be open for surgical dressing work. A quota of 2,500 dressings is to be The town is so quiet you can hear some one yawn in the next block. Wind Could Do It. The two theaters have long been closed. And yesterday Mayor Fred I.

Cline closed the tavprns. The shift in sleeping schedule had Set. Edward Enckson "on completed by July first. MEADOWS Mrs. Donald Gundy of Weeping The midweek prayer service for the ropes" Sunday night.

After being awakened and going back to sleep five times in short order unday night, he finally was per The men's arms are sore from Diamond Grove United Brethren Water, came Friday for an Said Doris Langdon: "They can't do this to me. Mine has only a 15 day furlough," but Postmaster L. G. Schaeffer who also publishes the Beardstown Illi-noisian-Star, was a contented man. "The post office," he said, "maintained its records of selling war bonds or stamps every day since Pearl Harbor.

Monday's sales: two 10-cent stamps." Ready for Flood. The paper, cut by flood threat to one page one side, took in 40 cents. Almost all business houses have gone out of business for the "duration" although one sign on a barricaded front reads, "duck church Wednesday night has been indefinite stay at the home of the Rev. and Mrs. G.

I. Gundy. cancelled to enable the pastor, the suaded to arise by Sergeant of the typhoid shots. Most of the work of protecting the city has been done but the men know they're sitting atop a keg of dynamite. Should a strong wind come up Kev.

ired T. Ogan and the con Guard Ross Thomas, who pulled the covers off him and let the BY JOHN TEMPLE. BEARDSTOWN, ILL. UP) This was a man's town Monday night, and the men don't know what to do with it. As a matter of fact, they're about ready to give it back to the Indians.

But not to the river. Taking no chances with the power drunk 'Illinois inching hourly toward new flood records, stsrie militiamen Monday evacuated all but a handful of women. Girls Are Sad. Remaining Monday night were a few telephone operators, waitresses, Red Cross workers and other essential women. Perhaps the saddest persons in Beardstown Monday night were two telephone operators.

Their boy friends are only 13 miles away at Rushville. But to get here they'd have to travel 300 gregation to attend the evangelical cool evening breeze do its worst, conference at Washington, 111. The Ladies Aid society of Dia ON HIGH AND IMPARTIAL irom the right they Capt. George W. Johnston of mond Grove church will meet at agree tne protective levee will go and battering flood waters will cover the city at least seven feet 2 p.

m. Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Charles Tallon. The Woman' Society for Chris deep. Still, they're bored.

under and come in. we're sure Company was regimental officer 0f the day Monday. This correspondent, along with others, was on duty at city hall 13 hours Monday as an orderly. Lake Abandoned. A militiaman was credited with jhaving saved the Beardstown sit uan service win noia a noon open." Another: "Wet or dry, we're doing business." The Illinois Bell Telephone company is ready for the flood.

Most of its equipment is on the ground floor of its office. There are facilities to sleep and feed its 35 workers there and tied in back is a boat that will, officers say, rise with the flood. uation at 4 a. m. Sunday when miles (round trip) to bypass flood Men Enjoy Them, Too! he found water seeping through a waters.

Said Lois Bergmann: "Hey, this is serious, my boy friend leaves crevice, fired warning shots and attracted workmen to the spot in time to have the weak place bolstered before it could break for the army tomorrow." Our Fine Food and Daily Style Shows hrough. A the Illinois reserve militia ordered There are an estimated 100,000 the evacuation of all remaining bags of sand piled on top and be women, children, aged and infirm by 8 p. m. Monday night. The supplied by the Pfister Hybrid Corn company, and 200,000 more promised by other concerns, while every Boy Scout in the vicinity scoured residential and business Mmm.

Style Shows Daily in Our Tea Koom From 12 to 1 Living Models Showing The Latest Styles Ihind the levee at critical spots. Thompson lake was abandoned by army workers Monday and it is about, to go over banks. The 0f only exceptions were those persons holding passes showing their presence was essential in the en districts collecting any kind of CB railroad has cancelled all train service into the area. sacks that would hold sand. dangered area.

An estimated 4,500 of the community's 6,500 population had been evacuated earlier. Reading on the main river gauge Militia men are transported to at 9 p. m. Monday showed a crest the plant in small boats which DOCV GLASGOW AT THE HAMMOND ORGAN ROLAND'S RESTAURANT Fourth Floor Closed Mondays of 29.55 feet, with the crest ex pected Tuesday or Wednesday. Beardstown was left with only one highway open route 67 A makeshift extension atop the ply back and forth across the intervening water.

They are billeted in the armory, where there is almost constant commotion from changing guards and incoming companies setting up their equip when two feet of flood waters went over route 100, six miles south of here. The flooded route was barricaded. ment, but are so dog tired they Four levees south of the city manage to sleep through it all. gave way during the day. ijcaiuoiuwu oca wan waa icuacu eight inches late Monday as the flood-bloated Illinois river began another slow rise, after remaining stationary for three hours.

Although a 30-foot river crest fvas still predicted, additional sandbags were piled on the concrete sea wall, raising its height to 30 feet and eight inches. Meanwhile, Col. Fred Ball of Sopping wet from the fitful rains and water that continually seeps in between the sand bags. HOME LOANS the men are thankful enough to crawl into dry cots. A soldier from Camp Ellis drowned near here Monday, when a boat in which he was riding1 with three other soldiers capsized.

State police and state conservation department workers recovered the body. Mr. Bennett said an engineer of the disposal plant told him the enclosed space would fill with water in three minutes if the dyke should be swept away by the raging river. Police said the boat was heavily DON'T READ THIS IF YOU LIVE IN A TENT loaded with sand bags and that it tipped over when the men in the Men Battle Water. Each man is given instructions craft shifted their position.

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