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By the men . . . for the
men in the service
THE AR WEEKL

CARRIER PLANE
IN THE PACIHC

2-Frofit Veteran Compares Pacific and f TO Combat

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 YANK The Army Weekly • NOVEMBER 1 0

A general who has battled Japs

in the Solomons and Germans in
western Europe compares two
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theaters and two enemies.
By Sgt. M A C K MORRISS

m YANK Staff C o r r e s p o n d e n t

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O N THE WESTER.N- FRONT—Tht> general
speaking about foxholes. "I'm not say-
ing." he said, "that men in the theater
are living in the lap of luxury, but most of the
was

time they can find straw to line their holes with.

"In the Solomons they could take their choice
between a foxhole in tiie soft mud or a foxhole
in nard coral. That was all."
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m foxholes is a two-star named J. Lawton Col-
•r^-ff'- lins, sometimes called Joe Lightning,
A year ago he commanded the 25th Division,
1 ^ ' just finishing up the New Georgia campaign. Be-
fore that it had fought at Guadalcanal.
t*\ Now Joe Lightning is CO of the VII Corps,
^ which has moved eastward from the D-Day
beaches by way of Cherbourg, the St. Lo bi'eak-
through. the Mortain counterattack and then the
rat race across France toward Germany.
In the Solomons he earned himself a reputa-

. r r ^ / 1^ tion for personal combat by prowling around

in the jungle, occasionally dueling with Jap
snipers. Over here he has had less time for duels,
vv but his corps has become known as a "spear-
- ^ head" outfit and his enthusiasm hasn't suffered
because of the greater responsibility.
"The Jap is tougher than the German. Even the Because he's seen war in islands and hedge-
fanatic 5S troops can't compare with the Jap." rows. Maj. Gen. Collins, an iron-graying West
Pointer, speaks with authority on the relative
merits of the Japs and Germans in combat. He
rips rather fearlessly into the much-disputed
question: "Which is tougher—the Pacific or the
ETO?" He speaks quickly and with force.
"From the purely physical standpoint, the Pa-
-"^i cific campaigns have been infinitely worse for
the private soldier. There he's had to live in the
heat and filth of the jungle, worrying about
'i&t malaria and the fact that a scratch may develop
into a tropical ulcer.
^«>- "The natural character of the country alone—
the climate, the civilization of Europe, the lack
It of it in the islands, problems of supply—these
things are entirely opposed to each other in the
two theaters.
^^^
.*^^ V "In the Solomons the terrain of the jungle
made road nets as we know them here impossi-
ble. There was a lack of roads, and the rain
and mud made the few we had almost impassa-
ble. ID some instances our only transportation
• ^ .
. I' in the islands was small boats.
''^' "We had enervating heat in the day and
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damp chill at night. We've had rain in France
but nothing like the rains in the tropics.
"Here we've been fighting in civilized country
in which we can and do take advantage of the
'In the civilized country of Europe we
shelter of buildings. There we had heat, rain,
can take shelter behind the buildings." ">] mud, jungle and nothing else.
"At one time the men had to be supplied by
parachute. The parachutes hung in trees so they
had to be shot down by a. burst of automatic
) fire. The men took the parachute silk and made
loin cloths which they wore while their other
clothes dried. They used silk as blankets. I've
slept wrapped in parachute silk. I was, glad to
have that much protection.
"On New Georgia we used cannon companies
and antitank people as carrying parties. Food,
^"'S ammunition, heavy weapons—everything deliv-
ered to the line—went on the backs of soldiers.
.t- Two-and-a-half-ton trucks went forward as far
as possible, then jeeps. But finally it was up to
,^** \ the men who used haversacks as harnesses to
carry C-ration cases and five-gallon water cans."
h^M
OE LIGHTNING got up from his desk and paced
J across the carpeted floor of the room that
was his office. It was a paneled room bigger
than a couple of pyramidal tents, but it was part
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of Corps headquarters in the field.
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"The J a p is a helluva sight tougher than the
German," Maj. Gen. Collins said, "but he's not
as smart. ''
••f "Even the fanaticism of the SS troops we've
PSV . , ^ hit is nothing to compare with the Jap's. We've
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had to use bulldozers to cover Jerry pillboxes
once in a while; if they'd been J a p pillboxes the
^ . ' ^''On New Georgia, food, ammunition and weapons^ use of bulldozers would have been common.
for the line had to go up on soldiers' bocks."

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"Cut off an outfit of Germans and nine times

out of 10 they'll surrender. Not .the Jap. On
Guadalcanal we counted 2,300 Japs lying out in
front of the division; we captured 22. But we've
captured Germans by the thousands. I'd say we've
probably captured 10 to every one we've killed.
"But the Japs are dumb. The Germans are
much more skillful tactically.
"In the New Georgia campaign the Japs made
one terrible blunder. To land on New Georgia
we had to go in and out between a number of
small islands to reach our beaches. Those is-
lands weren^t defended. If it had been the Ger-
mans instead of the Japs, Jerry would have been
sitting on every little island in the passageway
waiting for us.
"The Japs in the Solomons didn't organize on
the high ground overlooking our positions in
every case. Toward the end of thd Guadalcanal
campaign, during our push toward Kokumbona,
they should have been sitting on the hills look-
ing down our throats, but they weren't. We took
the high ground and drove them down into the
ravines so we were looking down their throats.
"Over here we've had to fight for high ground
and fight hard for it. Whereas the Japs missed " I n som« instances the only kind of transporta-
the key terrain features, the Germans don't. tion w e h a d in the Solomons w a s by small boot."
"Jap equipment in the Solomons was almost
childish but they could move faster than we
could. They didn't have so much to carry.
"I used to go into bivouac areas to talk to
officers. I'd tell 'em: 'Look around you. Every-
thing you can se^, the Japs can do without.' We
had a great deal more equipment than the Japs
had but we had to have these things to survive i ^•y>fiC
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in the jungle. Our men slept on cots when otl]
the line, for example. The J a p didn't have a lot
of these things but he died more often. w^l""'^
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I the Japs, particularly with artillery. The
Japs are lousy artillerymen but the Germans know
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how to use it. We are better than either of 'em. li^.
"Over there in the jungle, in a mass of hills
where visibility was almost nil, you could never
tell where the front' line was. There were no
accurate maps. That made it extremely difficult
to adjust artillery fire.
"So we put our forward artillery observers
up on the front line with the Infantry and they
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adjusted their fire by the sound. They would put
the first round far out in front, then walk it back
until it was falling on the Japs right in front of
them. They could never see where it was hit-
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ting but when it sounded close enough they'd
fire for effect.
"We've had some fighting here in very heavy
forest. We reverted back to the policy of fire
adjustment by sound for that phase.
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"In the Pacific we're fighting the toughest
kind of warfare—amphibious warfare—the most
difficult military operation. In the Solomons we
tried to 'land where they ain't.' It worked. But
on some of the smaller islands there is no es-
cape from landing on defended beaches. The
death battle at Tarawa was a result.
"Most of the American Army training is based
on warfare in civilized country. We've trained I' ^^m^ T
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the bulk of men in the States. They've been I * , -jg •< "•^'
taught combat lessons on terrain similar to ter-
rain over here that isn't as strange as the jungle.
'"There's been a lot of talk about jungle fight-
ing versus hedgerow fighting. We had a combi-
nation of hedgerows and swamps west and south-
west of Carentan in France that was the closest
to the kind of thing we hit in the jungles.
"It was hard to maneuver in that area. It was
difficult to outflank the hedgerows because of
the swamps, so we had to use frontal attack.
That was about all we ever got in the islands.
"We've enjoyed the same air superiority over
here that we had in the Pacific. It's been just
as vital to our operations. As a matter of fact,
however, we were bombed more often over there M o j . Gen. J. Lawton Collins, veteran
than we have been here. I haven't been in a fox- of Guodolcanol, N e w G e o r g i a , France.
hole yet over here. On New Georgia I was in
one 15 times in one night."
The general grinned in repollection.
"The worst part of it was that the Japs were
such rotten bombers you couldn't tell where they
were going to hit." •

Sgi. Morrhs, who interyiews Maj. Gen. Col-

lins, covered Guadalcanal and New Georgia
for YANK before going to the Western Front.
MOST OF THE WITNESSES AGAINST PIETRO CARUSO COULDN'T TESTIFY. THEY WERE THE 336 ITALIANS SLAUGHTERED BY THE NAZIS IN THE AROEATINE CAVES,

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Lynch law meted out death to one

Roman Justice
Fascist ofRcial but an orderly
trial preceded the execution for
murder and treason of Caruso,
the collaborationist police chief.

By Sgt. HARRY SIONS grabbed Carretta from the lightly resisting cara-
YANK Staff Correspondent binieri. They gouged out his eyes, tossed him in
the Tiber and finished him off in its muddy wa-

R OME—In some respects the murder-treason

trial of Pietro Caruso, former Fascist chief
of police in occupied Rome, and his chief
accomplice, Roberto Occhetto, resembled the trials
ters while he was trying to swim away.
There wasn't much chance of anything like that
happening again. Heavily armed carabinieri were
posted at the ends of the street, at the courtyard
of big-shot gangsters back in the States. gates and inside the courtyard itself. They guarded
The entrances to the Palazzo Corsini, the court every possible entrance into the Palazzo Corsini.
building, were heavily guarded by police. It was Squads patrolled each floor and guards stood at
practically impossible to get into the stuffy, ornate every door of the courtroom.
courtroom unless you were a member of the press
or knew somebody who knew somebody else.
There were solid rows of Italian and Allied news-
papermen looking for fresh angles, and photog-
T HE trial opened at about 9 A.M. on Sept. 20
The eight-man special court, headed by Presi-
dent Lorenzo Maroni, sat at one end of the court-
raphers snapping their cameras at every break. room, with the prisoners at the judges' left and
And there was the usual array of defense counsel the prosecuting attorney at the right. The wit-
making objections and stalling for time. ness chair was placed directly in front of the pre-
There was also the same atmosphere of morbid siding judge.
tension, needled by the fact that two days before, After a few preliminaries and some fussing
when the trial was originally scheduled, the pros- around on procedure, Caruso was called to the
ecution's chief witness, Donato Carretta. former witness chair. He hobbled across the room on
warden of the Regina Coeli jail in Rome, had crutches—he had injured his leg while trying to
been beaten to death. A group of Romans, some flee Rome—stood before the court while answer-
of them relatives of former political prisoners, ing a few formal questions, then sat down.
had broken through the courtroom doors and The prisoner had a tough, strong-featured face-
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that once might have been rutlile.ss. But there

was little fire left in Caruso's heavy-lidded eyes
as the court read the accusations against him. He
sjmply looked dead tired, and his face was almost
expressionless during the couit's telling of the
Tiassacre in the Ardeatine Caves
The massacre was a German act of reprisal for
the killing by mortar bombs of 32 SS men in
Rome last Mar, 23. Italian Partisans were held
responsible, and the German commander, Marshal
Kesselring, ordered that 320 Romans—10 for each
German killed—be shot in revenge. The Germans,
after emptying Rome's Via Tasso and Regina
Cceli jails of political prisoners, found they were
still 50 Italians short. Caruso obligingly supplied
the remaining victims. The next day, in the Ar-
deatine Caves near the Catacombs, the Germans
carried out the mass execution, shooting the hos-
tages in the nape of the neck. In all, 336 bodies,
.stripped of valuables and outer clothing, were
found at the entrance to the caves. Presumably
the Germans increased the original number of
hostages, though nobody knows for sure.

ARUSO described his part in the massacre of

C the Ardeatine Caves in a casual, conversa-
tional tone. He admitted making up the list of
50 names at the request of the Gestapo and con-
fessed to stealing nine million lire in cash, be-
sides diamonds and jewelry, from the victims. It
all sounded as if he were describing the sale of
a pound of potatoes.
'•Did you know that the 50 hostages you turned
over to the Germans would be shot?" asked Ma-
rio Berlinguer, the prosecuting attorney.
"Yes," replied Caruso.
The-signed order containing the list of 50 names
was introduced as evidence. Ten of the names had
been crossed out and replaced by 10 others, indi-
cating that Caruso had had difficulty making up
his mind on some of his choices.
The ex-Fascist police chief was accused of su-
pervising torture sessions, of working in harmony
with the Gestapo at all times and of picking
innocent persons for Nazi firing squads because
the victims had tat bank accounts or because he
wanted to settle private grudges.
Earlier in the trial the defense asked for post-
ponement on the ground that two Fascist minis-
ters who had been Caruso's superiors in Rome
were essential as defense witnesses but had since
tied to the north of Italy. The court, after adjourn-
ing for an hour to consider the request, denied
any further delay.
Throughout the two-day trial the defense at-
torneys made no effort to deny any of the accu-
sations against Caruso. They simply said he took
his orders from higher-up Fascists and was there-
fore not legally responsible. You got the impres-
.sion that here was a pattern for future defenses
of Fascist crimes: the accused couldn't be legally
guilty because they were carrying out the orders
of superior officers.
There were few dramatics throughout the trial.
But Caruso buried his face in his hands when
Attilio Ascarelli, the famous criminologist who
had charge of exhuming the 336 bodies in the
Ardeatine Caves, gave details of the aut(jpsies,
'^'^ '.•\^«S '^MP^i^i
IT was obvious that both the court and the pros-
ecution were bending over backward to make m0
v^'ertain the defendant received a fan trial. They <
. .j^. .s.
permitted debatable evidence to be brought in
without protest. They listened to a chain of char-
acter witnesses. One of them testified that Caruso
was a "fine man" when he was 17 years old—
that was 28 years ago. Another said the Fascist
chief- of police was a "nice fellow" because he
once gave the witness a ride in his automobile.
Defense counsel wound up with two three-hour
speeches.
At 8 P.M. on the second day of the trial, both
Car uso and Occhetto were sentenced by the court.
Caruso got the death penalty, Occhetto 30 years.
There was little demonstration in the court-
room when the verdict was given. Caruso turned
a ghostly white and seemed ready to keel over,
but he recovered and was led out by the guards.
At 2 P.M. the next day, Caruso was driven to a
courtyard about three miles outside Rome. He
was tied to a chair with his back toward a squad
of 16 carabinieii. Then he was shot in the nape
'Of the neck, just as were the 50 victims he had
turned over to the Gestapo for butchering in the
Ardeatine Caves.
Pierto Caruso died with the words "Viva Italia
—aim well" on his lips, but few Romans were
impressed by that.
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The verdict of the court was "Guilty." A carabinieri Firing squad shot Caruso in the back of the head.
A mighty Allied airborne force There was a last burst of fire over the drop- Jerry put up a stiff' fight at first, but we drove
ping zone and then Lt. Hoshal swung us earth- him out into an open field crossed by drainage
ran interference for the British ward in a hurry. Counting up on the ground, we ditches and he started giving up.
found we had been pretty lucky. A private sit- Pfc. Ernest Miller of Payson, Utah, was charg-
armor attempting an end run ting back of the cockpit had been wounded in ing from a ditch firing his BAR when it blew up
the face. I'd caught a slug, but it slopped halfway in his face. Carried forward by the impetus of
around the Siegfried Line. through a notebook in my hip pocket. The others the charge, Miller leaped into the next ditch
were all right. There were holes all over the waving his trench knife. The occupants'— three
By Pfc. GEORGE GROH glider, but the bullets had hit where we weren't. Nazis armed with machine guns and a mortar—
Other gliders were still coming in, some of them threw away their weapons, shouted "Americans!"
YANK Field Correspondent catching fire. Just as we struck off across a field and surrendered.
for the assembly area, we saw two big C-47s.
W ITH THE F I R S T A I R B O R N E A R M Y I N H O L L A N D
—The operation was to be like the old
end-run play in football. Lt. Gen. Miles C.
Dempsey of the British Second Army was mass-
belly up, plunge in flames.
A Clayville (R. I.) lieutenant named Walker
assembled about 100 men to set up a temporary
T HE next day the regiment made a forced
march to Veghel, about nine miles down the
line, where Jerry was putting up strong efforts
ing his armor for a sweep through Holland and defense. The rest of our company was scattered to cut the road. One of the companies went into
around the end of the Siegfried Line. Running all the way from London to Brussels. position to set up an- outpost.
interference for the tanks would be Lt. Gen. Division headquarters sent a call for help soon Two German noncoms who were cautiously
Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army, after we arrived, and about a dozen of us piled working toward the line, bringing with them a
largest glider and parachute force ever assembled. into a pair of jeeps and hurried down to Son, a blindfolded sergeant of one of our parachute
Our job, as explained at the briefing, was to nearby village. They had beaten off an attack units, were themselves taken prisoner. The para-
swoop down on both sides of the long road r u n - by the time we arrived but now J e r r y was hav- chutist said he had been captured the day b e -
ning north to Arnhem in Holland. By seizing ing a try with bombers, so we crawled into the fore, when he and another sergeant sighted what
and holding the bridges, canal banks and road first handy holes to sweat it out for the night. appeared to be a white flag waving from the
junctions, we would make sure the tanks could The company moved up to the other side of German lines. The white flag turned out to be
keep rolling forward. Airborne forces had landed Son and took over a canal bank the next day. Jerry's artillery direction finder. The two Ger-
on Sunday, two days before the wave of rein- S/Sgt. Jack Eleopoulos of St. Louis, Mo., took a mans had been hooked on different bait — they
forcements to which our glider belonged. patrol and "liberated" the village of Beugel had volunteered to enter our lines in the hope
Our glider was piloted by Lt. Hoshal and was about three miles away. For some reason it had of finding American chocolate.
named Roy White's Revenge after a friend of been bypassed in earlier drives. There was a Capt. Walter'Miller of Washington, D. C , a r -
Hoshal's who had been killed in Italy. It was great deal of rejoicing but no beer; we celebrated ranged an old-fashioned horse trade. One of the
just before noon when the towplane pilot wished by gorging ourselves with apples. Several of the Germans was sent back, returning with the other
Lt. Hoshal "Good Luck." We rendezvoused over young men of the village volunteered to accom- American parachutist. The four noncoms, two
England and then struck out across the Channel pany us back to our lines. They spoke reason- Yanks and two Germans, then parted company
for the Continent. ably good English and had considerable informa- on the banks of the Wilhelmina Canal, each pair
The fog closed in early. At times we could tion as to the disposition of the German troops. returning to its own lines. But it was better than
barely see the dim outline of a towship just We held Son for three days and had one action. an even swap. From his interrogation of the
up ahead. Occasionally through a break in the That came when our battalion was detailed to Germans and from reports of the freed para-
fog we spotted a glider abandoning the flight and clean out a German pocket menacing a road. chutists, Capt. Miller learned that our artillery
spiraling down toward the Channel. Usually air- was missing the German CP by about 200 yards.
sea rescu'e boats were waiting for them. The mistake was corrected.
The flight crossed a German pocket near In the meantime the remainder of the regi-
Dunkerque but the expected ack-ack didn't ma- This Week's Cover ment, now strengthened by scattered groups
terialize in any quantity. Another glider lost • N the Pacific, where car- which had failed to finish the first flight, was
control over this pocket but held to a long glide • rier plones have been ex- sitting tight on roads and bridges assuring the
and apparently made it to safe territory. When tensively used in blasting the command of Veghel.
we looked back, the boys were standing around Japs an the Philippines, one .A battalion of Hermann Goering troops was
talking with the local population. of the Navy's Avengers conies reported ready to make a do-or-die attempt on
in for a landing on a flat- our position, but the attack never came off. The
I was holding down the co-pilot's seat as
top. The landing signal man
Lt. Hoshal swung north toward Holland. I saw is waving the pilot off be-
Germans contented themselves with an occa-
him motion for his flak suit. A few minutes later couse the plane is in improp- sional shelling and one unsuccessful attempt by
his judgment was confirmed as we crossed a er position. Next time it was a demolition party to destroy our bridges. Other-
patch of woods from which short marking bursts okay—with no "go owoy." wise the boys in Veghel were left to divide their
of machine-gun fire emerged suddenly. That time between outpost duty and what passes in
happened several times. A glider at 500 feet is the Army for personal reconnaissance.
PHOTO C R E D I T S . Cover—U. S. Navy. 3 — S i f n i t Corps. « —
a clay pigeon. You just sit there feeling naked, This reconnaissance yielded a lot of valuable
Ucper. Coffraan, P W B : lower left. Heeox, P W B . 5—Upper, PWB:
helpless and as big as a barn door, while slugs center. A F P U : lower. P A . 6—Sgt. Ret Kenny. 8 — O W I . 9—Des information. Dutch girls are good looking and as
drop through the canvas. Moines (Iowa) Register. 11—Upper, Spt. Eddy Becker; lower two, plentiful as Dutch apples. Most of the Dutch
Glancing back, I could see some of the boys Sgt, Arthur Benjamin. 12 A 13—Sgt. Jerry Hausner, Armed know more English than most Americans know
hunching toward the center of the glider, though Forces Radio Service. 15—Acme. 18—Lett, P A : right. Acme. 19—• Dutch. You can get a pair of Dutch shoes for two
it wasn't much use—one pwsition is about as safe Acme. 2 0 — M 6 l t r . 22—Upper left. P A : lower left A upper r i g h t . packs of cigarettes if you're lucky and a bottle
as another. Once I thought the pilot was hit, but I N P : others. Sgt. Kenny. 23—Upper. P A : lower, U S C G . of wine for seven packs. But just where you can
he grinned and said: "No, not yet!" get them is something of a military secret.

PAGt 6
Down on the Farm

By Pvt. DEBS MYERS "I'm a little concerned," he said, "about things At least part of the reason for Ringoen's suc-
YANK Staff Writer I have read in the papers telling that a lot of cess is his scientific training. He is constantly
Army boys who have lived in cities all their lives studying the feed program and production rec-
GOOD hired man is hard to find in the farm
A country these days. Ed. J. Volz, who at 66
• farms 480 acres near Des Moines, Iowa,
had the problem licked. He had a good hired man,
want to come back now and start farming. For
the farm boys that will be fine. For the city boys,
I'm a little doubtful. Making a living off the land
is kinda tough. Tough even for an old codger
ords of his cows, for example. All cows are fed
according to individual production records, which
are carefully checked morning and evening.
"I get a lot of satisfaction out of farming,"
a respectable, steady fellow, 60 years old, who like me who should know most of the ropes." Ringoen says. But he doesn't recommend ttie
knew how to get milk out of cows, eggs out of There are, said Volz, so many "triflin", mean course he followed as an easy way to get ahead.
chickens, spiders out of privies. All the good little problems." Like the civet cat that got into "I had to feel my way. It took me five years to
basic things. the hen house and killed 80 baby chicks. The learn what farming was all about."
The hired man made $100 a month and board. next night Volz trapped and killed the civet cat.
He was happy until in a moment of baleful (In front of the store in the little town a man
That wasn't so bad, according to Volz, but taking in overalls was whittling on a piece of wood.
brooding he decided he could not really attain "that doggoned cat out of the trap was plain dis- "That," said the mayor, "is the village half-wit.
the abundant life without an automobile. gustin'." Smartest fellow in town. Been whittling like that
Volz bought him an automobile, admittedly an Of course, some city boys do make good farm- for years. Making battleships, he says. First man
old one whose arteries could harden in harmony ers in spite of everything. Like Marion Ringoen, in the whole country, I guess, to get busy on a
with those of its driver. who lives on a 160-acre place near Ridgeway, two-ocean navy.'')
"I should never," said Volz, "have bought him Iowa, in Winneshiek County. Back in 1927 Rin-
thaf damned jalopy."
The hired man deserted the tinkle of Old
Bossy's bell for the siren wail of the juke box.
goen taught physics and chemistry in the public
schools. He'd never lived on a farm and didn't
know shucks about farming. But he wearied of
T HERE is no doubt that most farmers have been
making money. Squirreling some of it away,
too, paying off mortgages, improving the place.
He developed a penchant for old whisky, young sitting behind a desk and decided to try his hand Like Ed Rieck, who farms 350 acres in Polk
women, bucolic benders. He became a Juke-Box at something new. County, Iowa. His 25-year-old son Norman is a
Jasper. Ringoen started in a small way, with six sergeant in a ground crew in Italy, and Rieck,
"Went plumb to hell," said Volz. "A-drinkin' Brown Swiss cows and a bull. Now he has one like all farm dads, is counting the days until the
and a-girlin' almost every night. Not gettin' back of Iowa's highest-producing dairy herds, with boy comes home.
home hardly in time for milkin'. Had to get rid more than 30 choice. animals, an annual aver- "He's been in Africa and Sicily and a helluva
of him." age production per cow of 375 to 400 pounds of lot of places he doesn't like," said Rieck. "When
That's the way it goes. Farmers still have their butterfat and a 4-percent milk test. he writes back, he keeps asking about things on
problems. There is more work to be done than In the bargain, he raises 150 to 160 crossbred the farm. Tells a little about being bombed and
there ever was and there aren't enough hands to hogs a year. About a month ago he sold a batch strafed and a lt>t more about how he hopes the
do it. But somehow, through sweat, a little new- of shoats that averaged just slightly under 200 corn is coming along. K^eps asking about a pair
fangled machinery and some old-fashioned cuss- pounds at five months and three weeks old.' of old mules he was reared up with, names of
ing, the job gets done.
("Too much work to be done to pay miLch at-
tention to politics in this neck of the woods," said
an old man in the grain elevator at Bondurunt,
Iowa. "Just the other night heard a political fel-
THE PRICES FARM PRODUCTS ARE BRINGING
low on the radio say he was goin' to cut farmers'
taxes. Sure. That will happen when the frogs do a Here are late wholesale prices on some of the principol farm commodities on the Chicago market:
two-step up the Mississippi.") WHEAT—No. 2 $1.66 per bu. LAMBS—Good and choice, $14.50 to $14.85 per
Many farmers who aren't more than one faint CORN—No. 2 $1.16 ceiling per bu. cwt.
whoop and half-a-holler from the 70-year mark OATS—67Vic per bu. Medium, $12.25 to $13.85 per cwt.
are more than ready to step aside and turn their BARLEY—$1.10 per bu. Common, $10.25 to $12.00 per cwt.
farms over to sons who have been trained for the HOGS—150 to 240 lbs., $14.75 per cwt. Fat ewes, $4.00 to $6.25 per cwt.
task. They can't. The sons are in service, and Over 240 lbs., $14.00 per cwt. Feeder, $12.75 per cwt.
it is any man's guess when they will get out. CATTLE—Good and choice steers, $18.35 per EGGS—Large 1 and 2 extras, 48c to 49c per doz.
Like Volz. His boy Henry is a good farmer. But cwt. Large 3 and 4 extras, 42C to 45<' per doz.
Western grass steers, $15.00 per cwt. POTATOES—^Top quality, Idaho Russet, $3.10
he went into the Army in March 1941. He's a ser- per cwt.
geant in the Armored Forces, and his tank was Cows—Good, $13.50 to $14.00.
Common and medium, $7.75 to $10.75 per CELERY—Top quality, $1.00 to $1.35 per crate.
shot out from under him at St. Lo in Normandy, CAULIFLOWER—Colorado pony crate, 12 heads,
and he is now in a hospital in the States with a cwt.
$2.75 to $2.85.
wounded left arm. Canners and cutters, $5.00 to $6.75-per Michigan crate, 9 to 12 heads, $2.00 to $2.50.
Volz believes that Henry, his arm permitting, cwt. MILK—$3.22 per cwt. (subsidy excluded).
will take over the farm when the war is ended Light canners, $4.50 per cwt. CHEESE—Twins and cheddars, 23 ¥4 C per lb.
BULLS—$8.00 to $11.00 per cwt. POULTRY—Fowl, 23c to 24C per lb.
and run things. As far as Volz is concerned, it
will be high time, too. Some days last summer Sausage, $11.50 per cwt. Leghorn fryers, 21C to 22c per lb.
Fat beef, $13.00 per cwt. Old roosters, 19C to 20c per lb.
he worked 15 hours. Now, when the chance VEALERS—$16.00 per cwt.
comes, he wants to stretch out his feet and look Cull grade, $7.00 per cwt. Ducklings, 22%C to 23»^c per lb.
at them. FEEDER CATTLE---$12.00 to $13.50 per cwt. Old ducks. 17c to 18C per lb.

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Jl^fi^ydf^Mks in Nebraska and Iowa say

crojp^lcMtprices are so good they^re pay-
i f ^ oif'ffiNCir mortgage on the old home-
sfieod. ^Mt everybody's waiting for the
boys to come back from the war.

Kate and Jack. Don't guess eithci- mule is worth

a damn, and I wouldn't take a thousand dollars
for 'em."
Rieck makes no secret of his pride that he has
paid off the mortgage on his farm since the war
began. Next to a discharge, he said, it makes
about as nice a present as Norman would want.
•A mortgage company official said that of 385
mortgages held on farms by his company a year
ago, all but 82 had been paid off. 'This, he de-
clared, was typical of what is happening in the
prairie states. "One fellow," he said, "pinned up
the paid-up paper on the wall, like a pennant."
Rieck is producing 5,000 more bushels of corn
a year than he did at the start of the war. Iowa's
cor.n yield last year was 640,740,000 bushels,
largest in the state's history. The Sept. 1 estimate
for this year was 589,992,000 bushels, second
largest. Last year Iowa's farm income hit a new
peak of $1,636,000,000.

N OT everywhere in the farm country, of

course, is farm labor a problem. For in-
stance, near Paullina, Iowa, on the 239-acre farm
of Reinhard G. Fegebank, there is an air almost
of complacency.
Fegebank has three daughters—Helen, 19; Ber- On many farms in the prairie states last summer, farmers put headlights on tractors and worked around
neice, 16, and Mabel, 13. They can pitch hay like the clock. Harvey Hunt rides a tractor equipped For night work on the Doyle farm near Ankeny, Iowa.
Bucky Walters can pitch a baseball or a first ser-
geant can pitch guff. Their mother died in 1932
and they have grown up knowing the ropes. lis died because he didn't see m.uch use m living Statistics of the U. S. Department of Agricul-
Their father vows that any one of them can do any longer. "The old senator," the cook observed, ture tell their own story.
as much work in the fields as a man. "damned well always had a mind of his own.") For illustration, 836,298,000 bushels of wheat
The girls helped put in the crops last spring, Near Lincoln, Ernest Brandt farms 500 acres. were produced over the nation in 1943 compared
cultivated the corn, then put up 20 acres of hay. He has two sons in the Field Artillery—Clifford, with an average national yield from 1932 to 1941
They cut and shocked 75 acres of oats at home, 25, in Italy, and Everett, 30, "in France, or maybe of 738,412,000 bushels. And this was despite the
then went to the neighbors to help shock grain. in Germany now." He has a third son Harley, fact that acreage devoted to wheat had declined
When neighbors w^anted to pay the girls at the 20, who has been deferred. in 1943 to 50,554,000 acres from the 1932-41 aver-
rate of $1 an hour for their work during the "Harley felt pretty bad about his brothers be- age of 54,572,000 acres.
small-grain - harvest, Fegebank said no, even ing in the service and his staying back on the Corn production in 1943 was 3,076,159,000
though $1 an hour was the prevailing wage. He home place," said Brandt. "But we needed him bushels compared with a yearly average of
ruled that 50 cents an hour was enough. "Hadn't powerful bad, and his brothers kept writing to 2,349,267,000 for 1932-41. Corn acreage also in-
forgotten my younger days," he said, "when I him telling him to stay right here. Harley is creased in 1943, going to 94,790,000 acres from
only got $85 for a whole year's work on a farm." taking care of Clifford's milk route now, and the 1932-41 average of 94,511,000 acres.
While Helen and her father went threshing, Clifford keeps writing him to keep in the saddle Production of oats over the same period in-
Berneice went to the Elmer Haht farm nearby and plug away. He doggoned well wants to have creased from 1,018,783,000 bushels to 1,143,867,-
and ran the binder for 20 acres of flax. Helen that milk route when he comes back." 000 bushels.
threshed until the threshing ring was finished, (An Iowa farm wife suggested to the Des Production of hay went up from 82,952,000
and when they threshed at home Berneice Moines Office of Price Administration that it do tons — t h e 1932-41 average-i-to 99,543,000 tons.
stacked straw. The girls also helped the neigh- something to impede her husband's romance with And soybeans, which are just about as versatile
bors with late haying. They pick corn by hand, another woman. Wasn't so much the trifling that in wartime as a wild jack in a poker game,
and they do all the chores, night and morning, ruffled her feathers, she said, as the fact that he scooted up from a 51,571,000-bushel average in
winter and summer. was using all the family gasoline visiting the girl. 1932-41 to 195,762,000 bushels in 1943.
Not only did he use all the regular highway gaso-
The chores, incidentally, are no small job, what line coupons but he had dipped into the tiuctor A farmer at a store in Newton, Iowa, summed
with their father owning 17 head of high-grade fuel and the gasoline rations she got for her up the soybean situation.
Hereford cattle, four milk cows, 90 head of hogs, washing machine.) "They will do anything for you," he said, "ex-
250 chickens, one goose and 14 ducks. cept keep house."
(In Lincoln, Nebr., at a hamburger stand near
the railroad station, where quart-size milkshakes
sell for 15 cents, the cook leaned against the
N ATIONALLY, farmers have been doing the same
thing they have been doing in the prairie
states—working long hours, getting the job done,
All through the farm country buildings are
freshly painted. Crops are good. So are prices.
Even outhouses are painted. That's a sure sign
counter and said he kinda believed George Nor- producing as they never have produced before. things are going well.

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Gl Views on Demobilization
Y feeling," said Pvt. Norman Moore, 20 fair to those of us who weren't as lucky. Each
M
we were right in the middle of something else."
years old, of Philadelphia, Pa., who is man's service record should be carefully exam- S/Sgt. Donald B. Abernathy, 22, of Lafayette,
stationed in the Persian Gulf, "is that ined for things like this before points are finally Ind., who has been on 34 missions with the
they ought to let the older men out." awarded. But all in all, I think the War Depart- Twelfth Air Force in Italy, felt the same way
And T-5 Frank (Shorty) lanuccilli of Provi- ment plan is excellent." about points for children. "I want to get married
dence, R. I., who has been in the Army for three Cooper is married and 30 years old, but he and have kids myself some day," he said.
years, two of them in the Caribbean, said: "I doesn't think that age or marital status should The only thing Abernathy likes about the plan
guess this demobilization plan is OK, but you can have anything to do with the demobilization is that points will be awarded for overseas com-
put down that I don't give a damn how I get plan. "Young unmarried men," he said, "are just bat duty. He has been in the Army four years
out, just so I get out." Then he added: as anxious to get home as we are, and we have and has been overseas 27 months. He was
"I'll admit, though, that guys in combat should the advantage of already having a wife and wounded by flak over Toulon and has the Purple
get out first. They are the guys who are doing all maybe a home to go back to." Heart, six battle stars and the Air Medal with a
the work. Fellows with kids should go home first number of clusters. "I don't know exactly how
if it's a choice between them and single men."
That's what two of the many GIs questioned
by YANK correspondents all over the world think
A LOT of men disagree and think age should
be considered. Sgt. W. J. Bennett, with a
fighter group in the ETO, said: "Our conclusion
many clusters I've got. There shouldn't be any
points for awards," he said. "We get them too
easily. Points for battle stars are a joke. You get
of the demobilization plan that is to go into after studying the plan is that a 21-year-old them for practically nothing, just being around."
effect when we defeat Germany. Most of the father may be discharged before a 40-year-old
men who were questioned think the plan is a broken-down man."
good one. There was some criticism, of course,
and a number of suggestions were made.
Sgt. Donald B. Hanks of Houston, Tex., who
has been in the CBI for 17 months said: "The
T -5 Garry "Vandeberg, 28, of Sioux Center,
Iowa, has been in the Army four years and
overseas 31 months. He has seen action with the
Most of the criticism can be summed up this American Legion says the demobilization plan is 34th Division in North Africa and in Italy,
way: older men should be released from the ser- good, so it's OK for me. I do think, though, that where he is now. Vandeberg praised the War
vice, and no credit should be given for battle older m e n . and men with dependent parents Department for adopting a plan that takes into
decorations, because (so critical GIs say) they should get extra preference." Hanks is 23. consideration the views of most GIs. "I'm in fa-
have sometimes been given out too freely. And Cpl. Donald A. Himan of Chicago, who vor of the point system," he said. "It's the fairest
Oddly, a great number of the men who believe has been in the Army 28 months, 20 of them in way to demobilize the troops."
that older men should be released from the Army the Middle East, said: "I think it is a fair system,
are in their early 20s; and "most of those who T-4 Charles Reagor, 30, who has the Silver
but they should consider that age Is a point Star, the Purple Heart and two campaign stars
don't want points given for battle decorations are credit, although combat and overseas service
men who have received them. for Guadalcanal and New Georgia, has been in
should come first." the South Pacific 25 months. He is married but
T-4 Moe Handeh of New York City, who has has no children. "I was impressed," he said,
VERYBODY agrees that the men who have seen
E combat should have the highest priority.
Here's what the men had to say about the dis-
been in Puerto Rico and Trinidad for 13 months,
said: "I believe the demobilization plan is very
fair except for one thing. Age wasn't considered.
"with the fact that the machinery will be ready
when (Germany falls. And when Japan falls, it
charge of soldiers who have been in combat: should be oiled and working full swing."
It seems to me that at least 30 should be just Pfc. Eugene McCoy of Rochester, N. Y., who is
Cpl. Louis C. Arnold, 22 years old, of Louis- about the right age limit for discharge."
ville, Ky., in the Army 25 months, 16 of them in with the 4th Infantry Division on the Western
Handeh spoke also about point credit for over- Front, noted that the War Department said men
the Persian Gulf: "It gives fellows at the front, seas duty and dependents. "Credit for overseas
in actual battle, a break, which is the way it in outfits with specially developed techniques
service," he said, "should be at least double the will be needed in the Pacific.
should be. The Army is trying to be fair, and I credit given for service in the States. A man
am all for the plan." Arnold has one child. "They don't seem to realize," he said, "that
should be given more credit for dependent chil-
Sgt. Alfred Breese, 28, of Trenton, N. J., also many of the troops with experience, say in land-
dren than for any other one thing. I don't think
believes combat men should get the first nod. ing tactics and in winning beachheads, aren't in
marriage alone should be considered, since many
He's been in the Caribbean for 13 months. their original outfits any more. The combat out-
men would get married now just to become eligi-
"In general," he said, "the plan looks OK to fits have many replacements now. If the replace-
ble for discharge. But credit might be given for
me. But when they start determining point rat- ments who have had only a few months' training
a wife if you've been married a year."
ings, credit should be about one to two for do- can replace experienced men here, why can't
Among the many GIs who agree with Handeh other replacements take over where we leave off
mestic and overseas service. They should get at is Cpl. Robert E. Cornish of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
least 13 points for each campaign." when the war here is finished? I don't like the
who has been in the Army two years, with 14 point system. The trouble is that when we win
Breese, who is single, thinks married men months of that time overseas. He's an infantry-
should not get any points for a wife. As a matter a tough fight, our officers get the Silver Stars."
man and a veteran of combat in the Aleutians
of fact, the plan doesn't give points for wives, and the Marshall Islands. "I've been in two cam- T/Sgt. E. D. Gorsucs of Baltimore, Md., in
but it does give credit for dependent children. paigns," he said. "I'm married and have a child. It Western Europe with the Ninth Air Force as an
T/Sgt. Milton Koren, 28, of Long Island City, seems to me the system is fair, and combat men aviation mechanic, said: "I'm a National Guards-
N. Y., who has served with the Eighth Air Force deserve their priority, with married men next." man and I've been in since Oct. 12, 1940. I was
in the ETO for 17 months, said: "I'm in favor of on submarine patrol for 2V2 years as a flight en-
1st Sgt. Tom Lampert of Jersey City, N. J., who gineer on Liberators doing convoy duty. Then I
giving a break to the men who have been in has been in the Caribbean 27 months, said: "The
combat on the ground or in the air." spent 15 months in Europe. There's a lot of fel-
trouble with the plan as it has been stated so far lows who have been in since this show started
Koren also spoke about what he called the u n - is that it doesn't make provision for dependents
fairness of giving demobilization points for bat- and who have been overseas a long time. But
other than children. A dependent wife, such as there's nothing in this plan to give us a break."
tle stars. "Ground crews in the Eighth Air Force an invalid, or a dependent parent, should also
have two battle stars on theater ribbons for give a man points. Single men with dependents As a matter of fact, Sgt. Gorsucs will get point
western European air offensives before and after should get as much credit as fathers." credits for each month he has been in the Army
D Day," he said. "On the other hand, service since Sept. 16, 1940, additional points for each
squadrons that have worked side by side with month he has been overseas, points for his battle
these men, in many cases doing the same work, stars and for certain decorations he may have.
haven't been made eligible for awards. Unless
that's corrected somehow, the demobilization
plan will be unfair to service squadrons."
Pfc. Cas Haak of Cicero, 111., in the 9th Divi-
Y ANK has received a great many letters on the
demobilization plan from GIs in the States.
Most of them agree that men who have seen
sion, which saw action in North Africa and is combat and who have been overseas for a long
now on the Western Front, said: "Maybe a guy time should be discharged. But they say they
gets through these tough campaigns and has been didn't ask to be kept in the States and that gen-
in two or three years, but he never gets wound- erally they were kept in the States because of
ed and never wins any medals. Another guy, a their age or because of physical defects unfitting
replacement say, who i s ^ only six months, gets Pfc. Russ Peyton of Atlantic City, N. J., who them for overseas duty. These two factors, they
a couple of shrapnel wounds in his tail because is a machine gunner on an ammunition train in say, will make it hard for them to readjust them-
he's got lead in it. That doesn't look fair to me. the Southwest Pacific, believes the "general selves to a highly competitive civilian life.
•Why don't they let the men over here go home plan" is okay but that medals shouldn't figure "How about us forgotten men who are 38 or
and let those guys go out to the Pacific?" in the deal, and neither should children. over?" said Pvt. Arthur J. Micha of Biggs Field,
Sgt. Morris Cooper of Bridgeport, Conn., in the "Hell," he said, "we'd all have had kids if we'd Tex. "I read Gen. Marshall has no use for older
CBI for 14 months and now at a B-29 base in had the chance." men, so why don't we get discharges? I see Bobby
India, also thinks battle decorations have been Cpl. Carl Smith of Louisville, Ga., who is 24 Jones and Clark Gable got discharges." He's been
too freely given. and has been in the Army 26 months, 16 of them in the Army 27 months and has two children.
"A lot of men are getting battle stars and at an advanced base in the Aleutians, agrees with Sgt. G. D. Thompson of Indiantown Gap, Pa.,
theater ribbons and maybe other decorations just Peyton. He said: "What about all the guys who who is in the Air Forces, agreed that men who
because they are lucky and not because they got married after Pearl Harbor? I don't think have been in combat overseas should "get the
deserve them," Cooper said. "There is also a lot dependents they got that way should have much first break." But, he said, "I've never ducked a
of loose awarding of battle stars to men who to do with their getting out. Some of the rest of job yet and have tried for overseas, too. Because
never get close to battle. I don't think giving us could have seen our way clear to get married, of my age I have been retained here." Thompson
extra demobilization points for these men is too, if we hadn't gotten into the Army just when was drafted two years ago when he was 38.
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zo t.7. Laurence W o o l n o u s e , C h i c o g o , land in
Egypt Schlauch s g r i n tells its o w n story.

By Sgt. ROBERT M c B R I N N "The night of the break," said Judd. •'every-

YANK Staff Correspondent
AIRO. EGYPT—The raid (in Ploesn started out
p^; thing was set except who was going over the
fence first. One of the boys pulled four straws
i>ut of a mattress and we all drew one. I had

C like any other raid, but it triok 13 months

to get back.
.•\fter all that time in an Axis prison camp if Id
first pick and got the shortest straw.
"We made the fence okay and dropped over.
We thought we were in a long deep ravine but
m Bulgaria, freedom tastes good !o American instead we crawled out of the underbrush onto
.lii-men shot down on the first bombing of what
vas then Hitler's main oil source. Most of them
'r-M^: flat ground almost at the feet of a Bulgarian
guard. He started tooting his whistle and in a
are back with their outfits now, thanks to the ..'£n minute we were surrounded.
Red Army. They passed through Cairo on the •'The camp commandant shouted and stamped
-vay. after a train and plane trip out of Bulgaria when he heard that the ungrateful Americans
through Greece and Turkey. had tried to get away from his 'rest camp.' "
.-Almost every raid after that first one to Ploesti All this time the prisoners were organized just
added a few more men to the prison camp at like an Army post. The CO was the ranking of-
Shumen near Sofia, the Bulgarian capital^. Even- ficer, Maj, Walter A, Smith, a 28-year-old banker
tually there were 170 GIs, 170 U. S. officers and 24 from Savannah, Ga, The major was pilot of a
other prisoners, including British and Canadian Liberator that ran into a fountain of flak over
fivers, Yugoslav Partisans, a Dutchman and a Sofia. Under him were an executive officer, ad-
Greek paratrooper. jutant, top sergeant, and K P and fatigue details.
-S/Sgt. Stanley H. Horine of Los Angeles, an There was even an S-2 whose job was to bribe
! 8-year-old tail gunner on a B-24 on the first the prison guards to smuggle in rumors from the
Ploesti raid, was the only man on his crew to outside world and Bulgarian newspapers.
come out alive. He bailed out after the pilot and *»-.". I ..5 "Our pipe line was so good," said the major,
co-pilot were killed. He saw his buddies jump- "we knew about the Allied landing in Normandy
:ng, too, but their parachutes were on fire. two days after it happened,
Horine was picked up by some tough Bulgar "You could follow the progress of war on the
mountain police and marched oflf to a hospital. Eastern Front by the way the guards acted. The
Flyers from other crews had been rounded up closer the Russians got to Bulgaria, the more
and a Hitler-type corporal was ordering them polite the guards became,"
'hrough the streets. The Americans were carry- As their treatment eased, the prisoners tried
ing two wounded men, T/Sgt. Lloyd Brisbi of to find ways to amuse themselves. They built
Sew Orleans and S/Sgt. Ned Howard of Little an outdoor bowling alley and carved pins out
Rock, Ark, You could see everyone thought of sticks. The officers teamed up against the GIs,
•hese two were great guys. Everybody called using a round rock for a ball until one of the
them Briz and Uncle Bud. guards sold them a wooden bowling ball.
Horine later found that Uncle Bud had soaked Twice a week the prisoners gave their own
up a bucketful of machine-gun bullets in the leg version of USO shows, as they remembered
and had gone 24 hours without medical aid. them. This was always good for a laugh and it
."Vs each man was let out of the hospital he was even better after a Red Cross Prisoners of
vas taken to a small prison camp right in the War box arrived from somewhere. In the box
middle of a bunch of ammunition sheds. were a record player and a collection of records,
•One of our worst experiences," .said Horine, a couple of guitars and 40 pairs of bowling shoes,
was when the Americans made their first raid Maj. Smith got one of the guitars and joined

When their guards started to

salute them, U. 5. fiyers in an
II I Axis prison camp knew that
the Red Army was on the way.

on Sofia. We were locked in cells during the the show with a black-face act. He also played
bombing. We begged the guards to let us try in the Shumen Symphony Orchestra. Some of
•<) find a safe shelter, but it was no go. One bomb the other instruments were a home-made drum
lit in that area and we'd have gone sky high." and bottles, jugs and pans. Emcee was usually Lt.
In October the prisoners were herded into a Julian T. Darlington of Washington, D. C. He
cattle car and hauled away by train to Shumen ran a quiz show and the man who answered
;n upper Bulgaria, There 100 men were billeted the $64 question got an egg for a prize.
•n a two-room barracks. The food ratjon was a Before the Red Cross box came, the prisoners
half-loaf of dark bread a day with some crushed- had to make decks of cards from the tops of Bul-
oean soup. Almost everyone got the GIs and i' IZ''''*"^' garian cigarette boxes smuggled in by the guards.
'here was only a one-holer for the entire gang. Pretty soon the guards started letting a street
Winter set in and the prisoners, trying to keep peddler come into the camp. He really cleaned
.varm around one little monkey stove in each up. He got $1 for a razor blade, 50 cents for a
room, made a "three-foot rule." This meant no- cake of lye soap and $3.50 for a little bar of
body could stand within three feet of the stove. chocolate. By this time the GIs were getting paid
That way more men could share the heat. SIO a month, For many months before that the
.A lot of men had no decent shoes and none officers were getting about $40 to $60 s month,
Ydd any more clothes than the flying suits they •a; but the enlisted men were going broke. Several
•.vere wearing when they were shot down. officers split their money with their crews.
The camp commandant was a bird whose house )t W i l l i a m R. Harkness of Athens, La., rests
at camp in MidcJIe East. O b v i o u s l y he has h a d
;n Sofia was wrecked by Allied bombs and he
•ook out his grudge on the prisoners. When
some British flyers were captured, they had to
e n o u g h of B u l g a r i a n PW camps to last h i m . W HEN the guards suddenly started saluting
the American officers, Maj. Smith figured
the Russians must have had Bulgaria in a tight
stand up in a public square in Sofia while crowds spot. He asked to see the camp commandant and
•nilled around jeering and threatening them. after a lot of fast talking he was given a plane
When Nazi agents pumped S/Sgt. Charles and a pilot so he could make a trip to talk to
• Red) Dameron of Goldsboro, N. C , a gunner, all some higher officials. The major was a good man.
the information he'd give was his name, rank and Soon the prisoners were told Maj. Smith had
serial number. They blindfolded and backed him arranged for a train to take them to Turkey.
.jgainst a wall and called for a firing squad. When A
•v.* There was no question as to who was going
.le still didn't crack, they called off the grim game. to have the honor of being the first to walk out
Naturally there was a lot of planning for an of the prison. The whole gang had decided long
••scape, but only one try. It lasted 10 minutes. ago that when that moment arrived, two guys
Lt. Thomas Judd, a fighter pilot from Wash- who never let anything get under their skin and
mgton, D. C„ was the ringleader. Judd has a who did their damndest to keep the rest of the
'nemento from his last dogfight over Sofia—a outfit laughing would lead the exit. There were
scar that starts over his right eye and disappears •^i. a lot of moist eyes when the prisoners lined up
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into his close-cropped black hair. Three other %^i behind Briz and Uncle Bud to march to the train.
lieutenants agreed to try to make the break with Two hours later Russian GIs took Shumen.
lim. They were Robert Schultz of Appleton, All along the route Bulgarians cheered the
Wis,; Patrick Maegler of Rochester, N. Y.. and train carrying the Allied flyers. Everyone thought
Joseph Quigley of Newark. N. J. they were Russians coming to free Bulgaria.
S Sgt. LloycJ Barnes, Little Rock, Ark., a n d
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Cpl. H a r r y Ross, New York City, eat U. S.
chow once more and seem to a p p r o v e of it.
 On "Mail Call" W. C. Fields tries to reduce Charlie McCarthy to a pile of sow- If seems there was a doughfoot who wanted to know what Ann Miller would sound
dust. Bergen and Paulette Goddard look on in horror os Fields goes to work. if she danced in Gl brogans. Answering his request, Annie donned Gl brogans and dan

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Everything on Command Performance" is a request In this particulor combination are comedian Phil Silvers making lamour without her sarong, which doesn'i
like o Pied Piper with two mice flanking him, simulated by red-headed Constance Moore ond leg-lovely Betty Grable carry on the air anyway, rolls a pair of dice
 |lf|fl|||a|||GI show. From A homesick marine asked to hear the sound of San Francisco foghorns. Ginny
Ts in the studio as on the air. Simms, one of our better foghorns, gives ond Frances Longford watches her.

Lena Home goes on the air in "Jubilee." The song she sings will go out on re-
cordings to stations that reach U, S servicemen and women on overseas duty.
 Fair Play
Dear YANK:
isn't It about time some ot the.se post newspaper
editors stopped re-serving the propaganda cooked up
by antilabor newspapers'? Don't they know that three-
fourths of our guns a r e turned out by union men and
Not Much Formality women'.' Official Government figures show less than
Dear YANK: 1 percent of production is lost because of cessation of
1 lust got to read your article on Col. Philip Coch- work from strikes. In that respect labor is even purer
•n. I just want to add I happened to be a mechanic than Ivory soap. . .
.1 ' h e Screwball Squadron" in Tunisia when Coch- One out of every four GIs is or was a union man.
i n look over. You .said that when Cochran took over We still hear from the fellows' and gals who a r e
here were remnants of two .squadrons there. T h e r e working and we see the results in victories of their
.\as lust one squadron there and later another of the work. On the whole, they've done a good job. Why
- .me group showed up. don't these service-paper editors read a few of those
In those days there wasn't very much formality. letters and scan a few union papers and maybe print
Beards were more common than not. During t h e day some extracts from them'/
.ve were too damn busy .getting a plane that was on Aleutians -T-4 B i l l REUBENS
he around back into the air by using parts from
m o t h e r which was in worse shape. What tech supply
.ve had with us was all there was. Added Burden
-\nvway. we weren't bothered with much bra.ss. Dear YANK:
One da.v Gen. Doolittle dropped in with some more The question of a bonus should b e approached from
iira.s.s. Jerry wanted to show off that day, so we were a number of side.s. but t h e economic is one of the
-•.sated twice m the morning, and then in t h e after- most important. A bonus would entail billions of dol-
noon they paid us a call with 10 JU-88s. T h e general's lars at a time when heavy taxes a r e already breaking
ransport took off very shortly after this. Also t w o '.he back of the middle class. It is from this class that
lews corre.'jpondents. Pyle and Liebling ( t h e New .America will come back on t h e wide highway of
Yarkert. decided it was time they went back t o write peace and prosperity.
"heir articles. They'd been there a couple of weeks. A bonus added to the already-neat present granted
.\s I .say. things just ran themselves, with everyone by the GI Bill of Rights would be nothing more or
-weating out the chow line except pilots going out less than economic suicide. T h e men and women m
'in a mission. If you wanted to get chewed out but service want a chance to make their own living.
ijood. just salute someone. That fact would be made more difficult by an over-
We lived m dugouts that we made ourselves; otti- Safe and Sound
crowding of t h e money market and a sharp rise in
ler.^. Loo. and they cared for their own baggage. Any- prices that would affect all people. Dear YANK:
ine slept where »he chose. In o u r shack there was a It is granted that in some cases a money grant be- Here is a telegram written by an ex-member
-tcond lieutenant, a tech sergeant and two lowly cor- yond that offered by t h e G I Bill jof Rights might be of our organization requesting an extension of
porals, but everyone had his day of room orderly. necessary. In cases of this kind, set up some Govern- his furlough. T h e answer was thought up by
.Sure we got plenty of hell, but we had fun and fig- ment agency to meet the emergency. After careful our first sergeant, Herbert L. Turner, who. by
ured we dished out more than we took. Maj. Levi investigation make the loan and permit the veteran a the way, once graced the pages of YANK as t h e
Chase was our big gun and went home quite a hero. long period of time to repay. youngest master sergeant in t h e ETO. He was
I don't think there a r e many from that "Screwball" redesignated to first sergeant and is now the
:;ang that would not go to hell a n d back with Coch- Let us feel that the job we have done was one that
needs no present from our Government. It was a job youngest first sergeant in our division. T h e
iiii. for we knew he would be right out in front. telegram said:
that needed doing, if America was to survive as a great
Chma - C p l . JOHN H O l i E t nation. All we ask of o u r Government is continued "URGENT JVIATRIMONIAL PROBLEM STOP AM IN
peace, for as Americans we can take care of ourselves, TROUBLE STOP REQUEST ( 3 ) THREE DAYS EXTENSION
f^ronce -JAMES J. FlYNN CBM ON FURLOUGH STOP DESPERATELY NEEDED STOP A M
Jeeps on the Farm STRIVING TO REMAIN SINGLE.
Dear Y A N K ; Dear YANK: r h e answer was:
We read t h e article "Jeeps on t h e F a r m " in a r e - A bonus for post-war veterans? Wouldn't that be •RETURN IMMEDIATELY YOU WILL BE PERFECTLY
cent issue of YANK and we don't think much of Miss robbing Peter to pay Paul? T h e people of t h e U. S. SAFE H E R E . "
Dorothy V. Knibb's opinion. In t h e first place, she is are the Government, and when one group as huge as • fori Bragg, N. C -Pfc. HENRY COOPERMAN
i.ving to compare t h e jeep with t h e passenger car. the veterans of this w a r receive direct hand-outs, the
which it was never meant to be. She says t h e jeep bill will be footed to a large extent by us. But. more
nas no shock absorbers, which is wrong. We have been important, there has been, and will be more intensi-
.' iirking on jeeps for 19 months. They have been used fied, a tendency for us to feel that t h e Government
;n mud. water, dust, hot and cold weather. They have owes us something. It does, and it will pay us in future to start. If the switch is thrown before the 3 shows up.
oroved themselves to be satisfactory in all conditions. security and t h e best medical care, a s well as the sev- numt>ers a n d codtjs will flash on the screen before
In several cases we have used t h e jeep motor as a eral points of t h e GI Bill of Rights. France fell in the picture starts. This is important to remember if
<tatuinary motor. It will stand up as good if not better 1940 because, over a period of years, all organized you want a smooth showing.
• han any other motor of its size. Miss Knibb made the groups were out for themselves rather than for France Not only is it important at the start of a show out.
statement that a pulley assembly for a jeep wouldn't as a whole. :f two projectors a r e being used for a show with
tost more than $50. A pulley assembly can be made I do think we should consider the good of the en- more than one reel, it is imperative that the .second
for a jeep without t h e cost being over $5. We're not tire country before we make huge demands on the reel .start at the right place and time. This is done
car salesmen but we don't want people t o get t h e Government. )y watching t h e numbers as before and starting the
A rong opinion of the jeep by someone who has taken ^econd projector in time to turn on that lamp and
ii couple of rides in one. England -Pfc. E. H H t U I A R D tiini off the lamp on the first machine at the same
ndia - S g l . N O R M A N SMITH*
nme—just after the cue mark on the first reel and
Finger Bowls •he 3 on the .second Hash by.
AKo signed by T-4 Franic Romono. I hope you can understand this explanation the-
Dear YANK: Aay I've written it. If not, then ask some good pro-
Dear YANK: I fear that my brother Elmer Lambiotte Iwho com- jectionist to clarify it for you.
. . The looks of the jeep don't bother the GI who plained about leaky raincoats in a recent Moil Call]
vants one. He will paint it a different color and may- Ceylon - U . JAMES E HENRY
doesn't know too much about GI raincoats. It was
i)e add to the body. The men that I have talked to •lever intended that they should shed rain. They a r e • T h a n k y o u . l i e u t e n a n t , b u t t h e r e isn't a q u e s -
• bout owning a jeep afte'r t h e war a r e the boys thai made in such a way that t h e rain filters through the tion in o u r m i n d s .
'low drive and ride in them. cloth, slowly runs down the length of t h e body and
It is true that the jeep doesn't ride like a '42 model thus bathes and cools same all in one operation. The
ear but it has four separate hydraulic shock-absorbers fact that the pockets All u p with water is a blessing. Back Home
• it the type used on the better late-model cars. It .Anyone who has served in t h e field during rainy Dear YANK;
doesn't have the riding quality of a car because of the seasons knows that it is a delightful sensation, after My wife is a Wac. I love her as other fighting men
-hort springs. I find that by adding a cushion to the eating in the rain, to dip one's hands into the water- love their wives. But right now I wonder what the
ilmost cushionless seat you get a much better ride. rilled pockets and wash said hands free of food par- hell kind of freedom I'm fighting tor when, if I stay
.As for the gas consumption, it isn't bad. Many d n v - ticles. Garrison soldiers a r e not so furnished with alive long enough to return to Shangri-La, I find that
. i s have told me that they made between 21 to 32 linger bowls. . . my wife has been sent overseas. Women overseas?
niles per gallon when traveling on hard-surfaced Sroiil - T . / S g t . J . A . LAMBIOTTE What hairbrained idea is this?
. oads. The average truck driver in the Army is very On my way over to this theater, I stopped at many
•lard on the equipment with fast stops a n d starts. tiases in various countries, a n d at every one there
The man owning his own jeep wouldn't rough- it as Rate of Exchange Acre many GIs lying on their behinds and complain-
luich and could save a little on gas. Dear YANK: ing about how tough it was. So what do we need
.Miss Knibb states that running the engine at r e - About a month ago I was reassigned from ETO to Wacs over here for? Get any economy expert to weed
1uced speed will harm it. If she was speaking of air- the Central Pacific. Upon my arrival in the States out these useless GIs and put them to work. Keep
craft engines, she would be correct. The engine in a I had in my possession a 500-franc note, which I at- our women at home where they a r e doing a grand
j i e p IS designed to run at any speed, preferably low tempted to change into American currency. At that job working and waiting.
-peeds. The slower you r u n the engine t h e longer it time I was told to t r y my next station. They told me India - S / S g t . GEORGE R. KUNTZ
.viU last. ."Vny car driver knows that. Another advan- that any finance officer would be only too glad to
•age of the jeep is its tires. They a r e the same size change the bill for me. Since then I've tried a dozen
..s the standard '37 to '42 model cars. Its engine is built tinance officers here and in t h e States and always Permanent Grades
*o stand punishment. It has a heavy-duty generator, they have the same answer: "We know what it's Dear YANK:
nil-bath air cleaner, oil filter, gasoline Alter and very worth, but we haven't a n y rate of exchange." Do I believe enlisted men who plan on staying in
Lsood hydrauhc brakes. vou honestly think I'll ever get that money e x -
Cor/jfrom Field, fla. - A C ANTON J. BOZICH changed? If so, when? T h e latest I heard was that after the war and now hold a noncommissioned grade
a radiogram was sent to Washington for authoriza- ^hould be given an opportunity to make their grades
Dear YANK: tion last week. permanent if they could pass a required examination.
The farmer of today is not the mute brute depicted Somewhere Overseai -T-5 NORMAN COLTUN Comp tee, Vo. - T Sgt. CHARIES AIMEDA
by T h e Man With the Hoe." Farmers well know that
for t h e past three years most farmers in t h e U. S. Army of Occupation
'lave been running their trucks, tractors and cars on That Film-Strip Girl
nakeshift parts. F a r m e r s have been their own m e - Dear YANK: Dear YANK:
chanics, doing a swell job of keeping t h e machinery Some time ago you had in Mail Call an explanation There seems to be a lot of concern about 'who is
••il agriculture going with next to no help from others. of the gal and t h e numbers found on movie film t>e- to serve in the Army of Occupation after. Germany
After the war, farmers are going t o need new trac- tore the movie begins. T h e explanation was fine as IS defeated. Here is a suggestion. There must be at
!ors, trucks and cars to replace t h e already over- far as it went, but t h e part that is most important least 3 million .soldiers in t h e Army, some of whom
Aorked ones. These new machines cannot b e built, U) those operating projectors was left out. have been in the Army two years or more, who at
transported and marketed overnight. There will be a When a projector is loaded properly, t h e film is present a r e in service units and have not served
ijeriod between t h e end of t h e w a r and the time these threaded through the machine in such a way that the overseas. 1 am sure that from this group t h e Army
new machines become available during which a sub- leader comes off the sound d r u m and onto t h e take-up could get at least a million volunteers to serve a
stitute would be a godsend. Reconditioned jeeps fresh reel. When the machine is started you can see the specified time with the Army of Occupation in Ger-
out of the Army motor pools would be such a substi- numbers flash oft' t h e drum—10. 9, 8, etc., to 4, 3. It many. . . . A lot of us in t h e service. I am sure,
:ute if made available to the American farmer. the projection lamp is turned on just as the 3 flashes would welcome this opportunity. .
A A f , V/eithamplon Beach. N. Y. - C p i . F. E. MARTIN by. the picture starts at the point that it was intended Selman Field, La. - S / S B » . JOHN A. TYIER

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YANK rhe Army Weekly • NOVEMBER 10

ODDS AND ENDS DEPT.

Son Francisco school t<'achei.s appealed to stu-
dents' patriotism to stop a bean-shooting fad
which has exhausted bean supplies in some sec-
News From Home tions, littered streets with spent "ammunition"
and brought censure from the War Food Admin-
istration. . Sign in a los Angeles barber shop:
"Have your 1-A hair cut by our 4-F barbers."
Gladys E. Chapman. 32. died at North Stonington,
Conn., of blastomycoses, a tropical fungus disease
that dexi'loped after she was stung by a hornel
15 years ago . Reat pleats and svelte belts are
available ifor dance pants again The WPB at
Washington lifted all restrictions on men"s clothes
except two-trouser suits and vests for double-
lireasted coats. . . Kalamazoo, Mich., has installed
a special fire-alarm box for false-alarm fiends,
which sounds a gong but doesn't call out the fire
trucks; the city hopes it will satisfy the urge of
pranksters as well as educate the public in the
operation of real alarm boxes. . Mrs. Eva
Denend of los Angeles, Calif., asked $4,916 from
the estate of Grant S. Cobb, Omaha (Nebr. i
candy merchant, for injuries received when he
fell dead on a Los Angeles street and knocked
her down. . . . An 80-year-old Seminole (Okla.)
man. applying for a marriage license, was
stumped when asked the given name of his 77-
year-old bride-to-be. He said he'd check up, add-
ing: "Most of my wives have been named Mary "

NAMES IN THE NEWS

Teresa Wright, Hollywood actress, and her hus-
band, writer-producer Niven Busch, were sued for
815,000 damages in Los Angeles by Emerson Rob-
inson, their cook, who charged that Busch's 11-
CLEVELAND DISASTER. This mass of twisted steel was once the Eost Ohio Gas plant on Cleveland's East year-old son by a previous marriage shot him in
Side. A huge gas tank exploded and set off a fire that ranged uncontrolled for hours. An estimated 100 the arm while playing soldier. . . . Hollywood
persons were killed, 108 were missing and property wos destroyed with a value placed at $10 million. marital front: Lucille Ball, red-haired actress,
divorced Sgt. Desi Arnai. then began work on a
N. C I chairman of, the Senate Military Commii.
Whom Did Willkie Favor? lee. declared: "There are too damn many secrets. Lucille Ball's un-
s ihc 1944 prcsvdt-ntia! campaign difw tn a It looks to me like it's time for the American contested divorce

A , clo.SL'. then- was consicit'iable -spoculatioii

^ iin whom Wt ndfll Willkit;. the Republican
opponent to Pre.<iclem Roosevelt in 1940. would
people to know how Pearl Harbor h a p p e n e d '
Rep. W. Sterling Cole [Rep.. N. Y.] said he did
not see how the facts about Pearl Harbor could
was in the bag.

have finally supported had he not died on Oct. 8 have major security importance now. nearly
Diew Pearson, widely syndicated Washing- three years after the event.
ton columnist, who is more often pro-New Deal Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal sent
than not. began the futile game the next day by the report to Adm. Ernest J. King, commander of
allegedly quoting Willkie that in the end he was the fleet, for determination as to how much of the
going to say "yes" to the Presidents wooing. material could be made public. Reporters could
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, Re- get no indication of how long King would take
publican candidate for reelection, denied this, to do this.
Baldwin, who .seconded Willkie's nomination for The Navy investigation, as well as a parallel
president at the 1940 Republican Convention, said one by the War Department, was undertaken in
Willkie told him when Gov. Thomas E. Dewey obedience to a Congressional resolution last July.
of New York was nominated at the GOP Con-
vention this yeaJ : "Well, you can rely on one
thing. I wilTnot support the President in his
campaign for a fourth term."'
P hilippine Invasion. The home front was thrilled
by the invasion of the Philippines. Folks were
feeling a little down-in-the-mouth about the
Carl M. Owen. New York law partner of Will- near-stalemate on.the Western Front in Europe
kie. told tht San Francisco Chronicle virtually and the prospect that GIs would spend another
the same thing. "1 can say most empliatically," winter in the foxholes there. They were heart-
Owen declared, "that under no conditions would ened by the demonstration that we could press
he have supported the Roosevelt .Administration. on step by step against terrific Nazi resistance in
M the time of his death. I think he was still re- Germany and have enough power to mount a
serving judgment." Owen added that he believed huge new offensive closer than ever to the Japa-
Dewey's clarification of his views on international nese home islands.
cooperation after Willkie's death would have been Of course. Gen. Douglas MacArthur got hi.s full
acceptable to the author of "One World." share of acclaim There was obvious drama in his
Henry R. Luce, president of Time Inc., said he being able to say after stepping ashore on Leyte
knew Willkie was for Dewey, and so did Malcolm on A Day. "I have returned,'" 2Vi years after he-
Muir, publisher of Newsweek magazine, left m Lt. Comdr. John D Bulkeley's PT boat,
A letter from Willkie to Rojicoe Drummond, promising. "I shall return." film titled '"Without Love," Two song writers were
Washington reporter for the Christian Science Incidentally the home front was excellently in- divorced by actress-wives—Leo Robin by Estelle
Monitor, written about one week before the for- formed of the entire military operation. The news Clarke and Robert G. Hartley, now a corporal in
m e r s death, indicated thai Willkie had not yet coverage was tremendous, unequaled even at Nor- the Army, by Bonnie Jean Hartley. Humphrey
made up his mind. mandy on D Day. and reports were received in Bogart, $200,000-a-year movie bad man. admitted
And Willkie's wife, home in Rushville. Ind.. some cases only a few minutes after the event. he's separated from his third wife, former ac-
tried to put an end to the whole business. "I am Naturally, the newspapers played the story all tress Mayo Methot; one friend said politics may
distressed." she said, "because many people are over their front pages and the radio was loud have been responsible — Bogart favored Roose-
saying that they knew how Wendell Willkie in- with accounts and comment. velt, his wife Dewey. . . . George Weyerhaueser,
tended to vote in the election. I am sure he had The New York Times felt the invasion of the 18, whose kidnaping in 1935 received nation-
not made his decision. No one could speak for him Philippines might signalize in history the coming wide publicity, was inducted into the Navy at
while he was living, and I ask, out of respect for of the while man "not to'conquer, enslave, exploit Seattle. Wash. . . . Pearl Harbour of Dayton, Ohio,
his memory, that no one should attempt to speak or condescendingly patronize Oriental peoples but is now a Wac. And James D. Six, one of the six
for him now," to liberate them." Six boys in the armed forces, was back in Phila-
And the San Francisco Chroincle rejoiced be- delphia on furlough; five of the Sixes are in the
earl Harbor Inquiry. The controversy over
P whether to make public now the fads of the
investigation into the causes of the Pearl Harbor
cause "this time we are not in the Philippines
with too little." and because we would have the
active guerrilla help of the Filipinos,
Army and the sixth Six is in the Navy. . , Elton
Ellison of Ralls. Tex., now in the armed forces.
was named the nation's top Future Farmer.
disaster flared up again as a special Navy court Meanwhile war-production cut-backs were not Lt. Col. Leslie B. Cooper, nationally known heli-
finished its study of the affair but marked its materializing in the volume that had been feared coptOT expert, was one of five Army men killed
report "top secret" in part and "secret" in the would create a blow to employment and morale in a plane crash at Pennsville, N. J . . John Henry
rest of it. this winter. Industrial experts pointed out that Titus, 87. self-styled author of "The Face on the
Members of Congress opposing the Adminislra- as long as the £uropean war continued, war con- Barroom Floor,"' married Elizabeth Pfeiderer, 54.
iion. who tried to gel a public inquiry before tracts would be diminished in a gradual way so at Elkton, Md. . . Bucky Harris signed a $15,000
Election Day. denounced the "secret" procedure that 'V-E Day would bring a smaller dislocation contract to manage the Buffalo (N. Y.) Bisons in
as a cover for high Administration responsibility than a sudden 40-peicent cut that had been pre- 1945; that's more than he was paid as manager
for the success of the Japanese bombing. dicted. There apparently would be more and of the Washington Senators. . . Died. Richard
Rep. Melvin J. Maas I Hep., Minn. I said the more "ran-outs""—contracts completed and not Bennett, long a stage matinee idol and later a
"secret" classification was "an alibi for not giving renewed—which were preferred by both labor screen character actor, father of actresses Con-
It to the public." Sen, Robert R. Reynolds |Dem.. and management to sudden cancelations. stance. Barbara and Joan, in Los Angeles at 72.

PAGl 15
YANK rhe Army Weekly . NOVEMBER 10

"BUSINESS HOURS"
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o-month check to $68 a montft (the maximum allowed for two

Refund of Premiums parents) to cover the support of both your mother and your
Dear YAUK: mother-in-law. The odditional $18 will not cost you any money
I have been in the hospital for over seven since the $27 o month now being deducted from your pay is
months now and expect to be shipped back to t+ie moximum that moy be deducted, no matter how many
the States soon. For the last three months 1 dependents a G I hos.
have been trying to get a refund on my GI in-
surance premiums. I did that because I read in
"YANK that any guy who is hospitalized .for six
months is entitled to get his premiums back.
WM^iMea^-^sS
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Overseas Service Stripes
Dear YANK:
The insurance officer of our detachment tells me •ii^jb'j^lfeMi^'^weW^^ I have been overseas for 22 months now and
ne c a n t do anything unless he knows the AR, recently I was able to get some of those new
circular or law which OKs the refund. Of course overseas stripes. What's bothering me is how
ne c a n t be bothered writing to you, so I would many can I wear and where do I put them, u n -
iippreciate it if you would help me out. Upon dischorge. H he wants \o go to school under the low, he der my hash mark or over it?
may do so. The omount that will be poid for his tuition, etc.,
Hawoi, - P v t . HERMAN MICHAELS France - P v t . JAMES WELITON
will no* Come out of his mustering-out pay.
9 The Veterans Administration soys that hospitalization in • You can wear one overseas stripe for eoch six months of
and oi itself constitutes total disability for the purposes o( Service in Allied Armies overseas service since Dec. 7, 1 9 4 1 . Fractions of the six-month
>uch a refund. Your insurance officer should follow the in period do not count. Therefore 22 months' service rote three
tiructions set forth in W D O r . N o . 135 n944). Sec. 4: In Dear YANK: overseas stripes, and they go above your hosh mark.
^ormotion and ossistance to be furnished totally disobled mili- I read your recent article on the point system
'ary personnel who become eligible for disobiiity benefits for demobilizing men after Germany is defeated
and cannot figure out where I stand. I joined up N a t u r a l i z a t i o n of Aliens
while on active duty. '
with the Canadian Army right after Germany Dear YANK:
mvaded Poland and I have completed five full I have been in the Army for more than two
Mustering-Out P a y a n d Schooling years of service, counting my time in the Ameri- years now and at every camp where I have been
Dear YANK: can Army. What I want to know is, does the time I have tried to start the machinery going to b e -
The educational benefits of the GI Bill of I spent in the Canadian Army get me any point come an American citizen. In every case I have
Rights may sound wonderful, but they don't credits under the plan? run into nothing but double talk. My CO tells me
mean much for those of us who are only enti- Italy - S g t . THOMAS REARDON that the reason for my failure to get my citizen-
'led to one year of free school. After all, while ship pushed through is that I came into the U. S.
B It does. Point credit will be given for service in the arfne'd illegally. The truth of the matter is that I worked
the Veterans' Administration will pay up to $500
for the year's tuition, books, etc., most colleges forces of Allied nations but only for time served offer Sept. 16. my way over from Holland and then jumped
charge much less. In fact many cost no more than 1940. However, no point credit will be given for foreign ship. I have been in the States for over 10 years*-
S300 a year. When you consider that by taking decorations or campaign insignio. but I have never been able to afford the money
advantage of the GI Bill of Rights you lose your needed to go back to Holland and legalize my
mustering-out pay ($300 for overseas service), Allotments f o r M o t h e r s - i n - l a w entry into the U. S. Is there any way I can get
how much do you stand to gain? As I see it, only naturalized despite these facts?
Dear YANK:
t he kids who can get more than one year of Before I went into service I supported my wife, Manhall Islands - P v t . HANS MOK
schooling under the law stand to profit by the my two children and my widowed mother. A few • Under o recent ruling of the Immigration and Noturolizo-
deal. Am I right?
months ago my wife's father passed away and tion Service, you will be able to opply for citizenship when
aougainv ille - P f c . FRED WALL her mother, who has no other children, became you return to the States. Your entry into the U. S. ol thol
I You're wrong. Mustering-out' pay has nothing to do with
dependent upon us for her entire support. My time will be considered a legal entry and will enable you to
the G I Bill of Rights. Every G I will get his mustering-out poy
wife has no job and has to live on the allotments. become a citizen. ( W D Circular 382 CJ944). I
Now that my mother-in-law has come to live
with my wife, all five of them have to get
along on $150 a month, the total amount that is
sent to my wife and my mother in the form of
allotments. Is there any way that I can get some
additional allotment for my mother-in-law? Will
it cost me any more money?
Sritom - C p l . THOMAS H. ARNOLD

S You con get o family allowance for your mother-in-law.

II you will look at Alt 35-5540, you will note that o parent of
o spouse is considered o parent for the purposes of o Class
B or B-1 allowance. Since your mother-in-law is entirely de-
pendent upon you, the ODB wilt increase your mother's $50-

PAGf Id
 Overseas Refurnees
Z. J \ \
T
HE War Department
has announced that
I about 30,000 men are
being returned to the
States each month from
' overseas. This number,
said the WD in a report to the House Military
Affairs Committee, cannot be increased substan-
tially without "endangering the success of our
military operations. . , ."
To return 30,000 men each month, according to
the WD, four to seven times this number must be
immobilized. This is the equivalent of from eight
to 14 divisions. As a rule, men are returned to
the States for rehabilitation, recuperation and
recovery. Some men have been returned when
threats from the enemy were no longer antici-
pated in their area arid a reduction in the size of
our forces was possible. Others are sent back on
temporary duty for a rest and then returned
overseas. Still others are brought back under the
rotation plan and assigned to new duties.
In no csise, says the WD, can a soldier be sure
he will be returned after serving a certain length
of time, although some theater commanders have
set a minimum period a soldier must serve before
he can be considered eligible for return.
The overseas commanders have been given the
sole responsibility of selecting the men to be sent
home. The determining factors are local condi-
tions, the length of time spent overseas, whether
the GI is a key man in his unit, the nature of his
duties, his importance in relation to the accom-
plishment of his unit's military mission and the
morale of the individuals in the unit, including
the extent of rebuilding of mind and body re-
quired. Men who have been engaged in dangerous
and difficult duty are to get special consideration.
"How d'ya like that? This makes the fourth suicide detail I've been on this weekl"
The WD report pointed out that in order to
send a man back to the States for temporary
duty so that he might spend 30 days at home, he
must be away from his outfit for about four appointments as flight officers or second lieuten-
months. This includes travel time and preparation
for shipment from the theater and for his return.
A shortage in shipping space for replacements
ants on Oct. 16 will not be graduated until Nov. 20.
Wash i n g t o n OP
going overseas is another reason why more men Texas Voters
cannot be returned to the States.
The report noted an erroneous impression that
there are plenty of men in the Army still in the
Gis from Texas who are planning to vote by
the Federal ballot are advised by the U. S. War
Ballot Commission of the following changes in
A rtificial Harbors. President Roosevelt showed
reporters a scale model of one of the two
artificial harbors floated into place along the
States who can be used as replacements for the list of candidates published earlier in YANK Normandy Channel coast to help make possible
troops overseas. As a matter of fact, says the WD, and on W® Soldier Voting Poster No. 4: Add— the invasion of France. The model was complete
"the exact opjwsite is the case." to the candidates for President and Vice Presi- even to 'the Liberty ships loaded with stones
"Overhead installations (in the States)," says dent — Smith and Romer, America First Party; and sunk a mile offshore to provide a break-
the report, "are at present operated almost exclu- for Representative, 18th District, McD. Bybee of water, the floating docks and the 3,300-foot pon-
sively by personnel who have already had over- Childress, Republican. Delete from the list of ton causeways connecting them with the sliore.
seas service or who are not physically qualified candidates for Representative, 6th District— Known as "mulberries" in code, the harbors
for such service or by members of the WAC." Charles W. Beck of Hillsboro, Republican. were a secret from the time they were conceived
Most of the men in the States who are qualified at the Quebec Conference. Some 20,000 tons of
for overseas duty, says the report, are assigned Why We Fight supplies a day were unloaded from each harbor,
to organizations preparing for shipment overseas, and today they are unloading more supplies than
or they are receiving individual training for ship- Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, CG of the Army Ground the great port of Cherbourg, the President said.
ment overseas as replacements for battle losses. Forces, has issued a directive stressing the impor- The mulberries were in operation by D-plus-
tance of keeping soldiers well informed about the three, but one of them was knocked out for six
war through weekly orientation hours. "A weeks by a severe storm that swept the Channel
Lighter Loads thorough technical knowledge of weapons and a few days later.
Soldiers are now carrying 15 pounds less in their use and good physical condition alone," he
clothing and equipment than in 1941, according said, "are not sufficient to make a first-class fight- Rote of Discharge. Secretary Stimson declared
to the WD. The total load of 110 pounds has been ing man. He must have a basic knowledge of what that only two considerations will affect the speed
cut down to 95 by the QM. The number of items he is fighting for, what is happening at home and of demobilization: (1) the need for troops to
was reduced and some articles were redesigned the progress of our troops in other theaters." defeat Japan quickly and permanently, and (2)
or manufactured of lighter, materials. This saving the amount of available shipping. He denied
in weight and bulk means that cargo and truck- 80th Division that available employment opportunities would
ing space is saved when units are moved. With govern the rate of discharge.
the lighter load, a GI boarding a ship wears Presence in Europe of the 80th Infantry Divi-
about 18% pounds of clothing and equipment; sion, a veteran of the 1918 Western Front, has Odds and Ends. The Veterans' Administration
carries a 45-pound pack, including a rifle, gas been disclosed by the has ruled that under the GI Bill of Rights quali-
mask and medical supplies, and has a duffle bag War Department. Known fied veterans may attend educational institutions
weighing from 25 to 35 pounds, depending on his as the Blue Ridge Divi- outside the States. However, the institutions
destination and personal effects. sion because it was origi- must be approved by the VA. . . . Recent legis-
nally composed of men lation has abolished forfeiture of pay for time
/* from Virginia, West Vir- lost from the effects of VD. . . . Army Reserva-
Pilot Training ginia and western Penn- tion Bureaus- are being set up in large cities in
Because the Army's reservoir of pilots is filled, sylvania, the outfit has the States by the Transportation Corps to help
pilot trainees will receive 15 instead of 10 weeks' as its insignia a shield of military personnel traveling on orders or on fur-
instruction in the phase of training in which they OD cloth with three blue lough obtain sleeping-car, parlor-car and re-
are currei\tly engaged. T h e A A F directive applies hills in the center. Reac- served-coach accommodations on trains. . . . Half
to aU phases of undergraduate pilot training, in- tivated in 1942, the 80th of all the nickel candy bars and rolls have been
cluding pre-fiight, primary, basic and advanced. trained in "Tennessee. earmarked for the armed forces by the War
Advanced students scheduled to get wings and Kansas and California before shipping overseas. Food Administration. - Y A N K Wothingten B « r M »

YANK
YANK i i puMlfliMl WMkly ky tiM eall>te4 « i i •( tin U. S. Army an* It Seuth PaclDc: Cal. James Gohle. Armd.: Cal. Lea Wllsen. Sif Coras.
t«r sale only tt these in the ansed senrieee. Sterles. features, yictures and Central Paeille: Sft. Jamet L. McManut, CA: Sft. Bill Reed. Inf.: Cal.
ether material freai VANK laay ke rearedueed If they are net restrieted Tom O'Brien, laf.: Sft. H. M. Oliahaat. Enfr.: Pfc Geerfe Burnt. Sif.
ky lair ar •lUtary reialattei. >t»»ldad avaaar endit it ^«ea. ralaate datet Coras: Ken Harris CPhoM. -USCG: Sft. Barrett HcGura. Med.: Massn
are ektereed aad taacitt arier aenaiislea hat keea irairted fer each Iteai
tA be repredueed. Eatlre eenteats ceayrifhted. 1944. ky Get. Franklin S. E. Pawlak PboMIc, USNR: Sft. Oillon Ferris. AAF; Sft. Jack Rufe.
Ferskeri aad reviewed ky tf. S. aiilitary centers. DEML.
Alaska: Cal. John Haverstick. CA: 8ft. Ray Duncan, AAF.
MAIN EDITORIAL OFFICE
205 E. 42d STREET. NEW YORK 17, N. Y.. U. S. A. Panama: Sit. John Hay. Inf.: Cal. Richard Douflass. Med.
EDITORIAL STAFF THE ARMY WEEKLY Puerto Rleo: Sft. Don Cooke. FA: Pfc. Janes lorlo. MP.
Bermuda: Cal. William Pene du Bols.
Maaaalai Editar. Sit. Jce McCarthy, FA: Art Oiraeter. S«t. Arthur B r u l l : Pfc. Nat Bodlan. AAF.
Welthai. DEML: Astistaat Maaaiiai Editer, 8ft. lattat Schlelihaaer. Inf.;
Attlilaat Art DIretter, 8ft. Ralah 8teln, Med.; PIcturei, S«t. Lee Hefaller. Central Africa: 8ft. Kenneth Abbott, AAF.
Armd.: Features, 8tt. Maria* Hariram. FA: Saerts. Sit. Oaa Paller. leelaad: Sft. John Moraa. Inf.
AAF: Overseas Hews. 8 i t . Allan Eeker, AAF. Newfoundta.id; Sft. Frank Bode, Sif. Corps.
Washiaitaa: Sft. Rkhard Paal, DEML. Navy: Robert L. Schwartz Y2c: Donald Nuient S2c
BrIUia-France: Sit. Darkia Haraer. BMC: S«t. iaha Scatt. Enir.: Middle East: Sft. Retert MeBriaa. Sit. Cerat.
Sft. Charles Praad. AAF.- 8ft. Bill Davidsaa. laf.: Sft. Sa.'dersaa Van- Ira«-lraa: Sft. Burtt Evaas. laf.: Cal. Richard Galfe. OEML. Cemmandinf OlScer: Col. Franklin S. Forcbera.
derkitt, CA; Cat. lack Caff Ins. CA: Cal. iehn Prcstsn, AAF: Sft. Saul Chlna-Burma-lndIa: Sft. Dave Richardson, CA: Sft. Leu Stouroen. E<ecutlve Officer: Mai. Jack W. Weeks.
Levitt. AAF: Cal. Edaiund Aatrahus. Inf.: Sft. ReflnaM Kenny. AAF: OEML; Sft. Seymour Frlednan. Sif. Coras: Cpl. Geerfe J. Corhellini.
Pvt. Heward Kalzaader. CA: 8ft. Mack Marritt, laf.: 8tt. Earl Andersen. SIf. Cerat: Cal. Paul Jeknstaa. AAF. Business Manafer: Caat. North Bitbee.
AAF: 8 i t . Merle Millar. AAF. Seuthwest Pacific: Sot. LaFayette Locke. AAF: Sat. Douflas Borfstedt. Overseas Bureau OfHcers: London, MaJ. WaHer Hussman: India. Cant.
Italy>8e«tkeni Fraaee: Sft. Geerfe Aareas. 8if. Cera*: Sft. Jamet P. DEML; Sft. Oz2ie St. Geerfe. Inf.; Sft. Dick Hanley, AAF: Sft. Charles Harold A. Burroufhs: Australia, MaJ. Harold B. Hawley: Italy. Mai.
O'Neill. Inf.: 8ft. iehn Frane. Inf.; 8ft. Harry Slens, AAF: Sft. Aufust Pearson, Enfr.: Sft. Ralah Beyce, AAF: Sft. Bill Alcine. Sl«. Coras: Robert Strether; Hawaii, MaJ. Josua Eaainter: Cairo, Caat. Knewlten
Leeb, AAF: Pfc.Carl Sehwind. AAF: Sft. J. Oeaten Scett. FA: 8tt. Steve Sft. Charles Rathe, OEML: Cal. Geerfe Blek. Inf.: Cal. John McLeod. Ames: Iran, MaJ. Henry E. Johnson; South Pacific. Caat. Justus J.
Derry, DEML: Cal. Geerw Barrett, AAF. Med.: Sfl. Marvin Fasif, Enfr.; Cal. Refer Wrenn, Sit. Coras. Craemer: Alaska, Caat, Harry R, Roberts: Panama, Caat. Howard J.
Cartwell: Puerto Rico, Caat. Frank Gladstone.
ALABAMA
NEWS FROM HOME
Four Birmingham men, all present or former
law-enforcement officers, were charged with pos-
^jession of 13,750 counterfeit gas coupons; they
were city detectives Joe F, Prickett and David
Hal McKinney, former city patrolman Hubert G.
Alexander and Johnny Coe, Jefferson County
honorary deputy sheriflf. Luke Stevens retired
after 37 years as a fireman in Mobile. Decatur
received a $44,000 Federal grant for a health cen-
ter. The Alabama Education Association, District
1. elected J. M. Laird of Prichard president.
CALIFORNIA
Socially prominent Mrs. Frances Andrews, 38,
was acquitted after a sensational month-long trial
at Salinas of the murder last July in Carmel Val-
ley of Jay Lovett, 19-year-oId farm-boy protege.
Mayor John F. Slavich of Oakland led a protest
against post-war construction of a $6,500,000 Fed-
eral Building on the old Post Office site, 17th and
Broadway, recommending instead a site in the
proposed Civic Center area. The California Racing
Board licensed a 55-day race meet at Santa Anita
from Dec. 30 through Mar. 13.
COLORADO
The Trail Ridge Road between Estes Park and
Grand Lake will be left to the snowdrifts this
winter, Supt. John E. Doerr of Rocky Mountain
National Park said; he hasn't the gas or the funds
to clear it. Joe Rademacher of Longmont, his three
sons and two friends got six deer in' the Meeker
district in two days—a season record. The OPA
sued Sam Kleinman and Edwin M. Tucker of
Denver for $45,230 triple damages for over-ceil-
ing liquor sales, biggest suit of its type in the
region. Died: Andrew Campion. 84, retired live-
stock broker and Denver resident for 60 years.
GEORGIA
Acting on a protest from the Protestant Minis-
terial Association, Savannah movies closed on
Sundays; a theater spokesman said 80 percent of for driving through a boulevard stoo, then paid MASSACHUSETTS
the Sunday patrons were servicemen and women the fine; the defendant was Mrs. Allen. Mrs. John Arraigned in an ambulance after he was left
and that the profits went to charity. The Wayne * Warnholtz was killed when her team ran away for dead in a gang-ride shooting, Patrick T. Fa-
County Singing Convention was held in Jesup in a cornfield on the Warnholtz farm near Floyd; rina of Roxbury was held for $50,000 bail in a
High School. W. Comer Cherry of Valdosta was her baby Mary Beth, 2, escaped from the wagon $7,000 pay-roll hold-up a month earlier in Bos-
elected president of the Georgia Associated Credit and wandered home alone. ton. Frank H. Barnett, former Provincetown se-
Bureaus at a convention in Waycross. The Middle lectman, was given an 18-month term for larceny
Baptist Association held its I03d session at Big KANSAS of town funds. Somerville High defeated Med-
Horse Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. H. E. As the voice of Thurman Hill, Democratic can- ford at football for the first time in 30 years, 19-7,
Gaddy of Sylvania as moderator. didate for the U. S. Senate, thundered through Prof. Earnests A. Hooton, Harvard anthropologist,
the Municipal Auditorium in Chanute in "a cam- said the country needs a woman President.
IDAHO paign address a 500-pound chunk of cornice fell,
Idaho GIs on furlough can go hunting in the but no one was injured. At Eniporia, James D. MICHIGAN
state without a license; they can get free permits Donovan of Kansas City, Kans., was re-elected A $1-million bequest for cancer research was
from their home-town conservation officer. The president of the Kansas Association of Municipal made by Mrs. James T. Pardee of Midland,
Idaho Allied Civic Forces, in a letter signed by Utilities; O. K. Stewart of Pratt was named first widow of a founder of the Dow Chemical Com-
Harry S. Keesler, secretary, charged "pateiit and vice president. A team of three Republic County pany; her total estate was about $6 million.
flagrant" gambling-law violations in Boise and youths took stock-judging honors at the Ameri- Brother faced brother at Ann Arbor when Duane
Ada County. At Twin Falls, Deputy Sheriff Ed can Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City—Hal Sickels, Northwestern end, and Quentin Sickels,
Hall received a map from a soldier who'd lost his Ramsbottom of Munden, Ed Valek of Wayne and Michigan guard, met in a Big Ten game; the
purse on the way through to Mississippi; at "X" Joe Hanzlick of Belleville. Sickels are from Benton Harbor. Macomb Coun-
on the map Hall found the purse with $52 in it. ty Sheriff Jacob F. Theut kept the promise he
Fire blackened 30,000 acres in the edge of the LOUISIANA made in 1942 not to run again; he's retiring after
Sawtooth National Forest near Hailey, destroyed Six candidates announced for the New Orleans four years, the only sheriff of the county ever to
ranch buildings, killed horses and game apd d a m - Parish School Board: Willis A. Pellerin, Mrs. quit voluntarily. The Very Rev. Charles H.
aged buildings of the Camas Mining Company. Rosalee Teavis Cummins, William C. Fletcher, Cloud, president of the University of Detroit
R. Elmmett Mahoney, Leon Sarpy and Stuart Paul from 1935 until last June, died at 65.
ILLINOIS Weiss. Grady Kinnard, operator of a bar in Bas-
At Peoria, Alderman Alfred J. Schuh was trop, was fined $5,000 by Judge Ben C. Dawkins MISSOURI
charged with attacking news photographer Larry in Federal Court at Monroe for failure to pay a At Kansas City, Raymond T. Demsey, 64, vice
Lawrence and smashing his camera' in the Jour- Federal liquor tax. The Bossier-Caddo Kiwanis president of the Long-Bell Lumber Company,
nal-Tran:script office after Lawrence took a pic- Club opened a children's playground park in Bos- which he joined in 1903, was seriously injured
ture of Schuh's double-parked truck blocking sier City. Deaths: Mrs. Frances Gordon Randolph, in a leap from the eighth floor of the R. A. Long
traffic. At Carmi, Mrs. Effie Elizabeth Owen, 61. 67, of Kateland plantation near Colfax; Mrs. Mary Building; he hit a wire netting after falling six
went back to school as a high-school freshman Digby Golden, 70, of New Orleans, whose kidnap- floors. Betty Jean Taylor, 12, of St. Louis, got
after 47 years. Mrs. Tillie Majczek of Chicago ing when she was a baby prompted England's a 25-cent reward for returning to a neighbor a
Queen Victoria to appeal for her return. lost wallet containing $88, The 150-year-old Iron
scrubbed floors 11 years, mortgaged her home, Mountain Mine in St. Francois County resumed
saved allotment checks from her son in the Army operations after more than 10 years. Be sure not
until she had $5,000; then she offered this sum as MAINE to shoot any antlerless deer in red coats, the
reward for proof that her other son Joe, now The Legislature had a three-day special session, State Conservation Commission warned as Mis-
serving a 99-year prison term, didn't kill police- appropriated $769,000 for expansion of fish hatch- souri had its first deer season in eight years.
man William Lundy in 1932. eries and construction at Pownal State School,
raised legislators' pay from $600 to $850 a session MONTANA
INDIANA and accepted a set of revised statutes. Meeting The largest single sale of tax-deed lands in the
Eight Rush County farmers who had been his at Portland, Maine Red Men elected A. Walter history of Hill County was made at Havre when
tenants carried Wendell Willkie to his grave in Pierce of South Berwick great sachem. Died: at Harry E. Voyta and James Connors bought 4,320
Rushville; the Rev. Dr. George A. Frantz of Indi- Waldoboro, John W. Palmer, 98, adjutant of the acres in the Wildhorse Lake section. Mrs. Aria
anapolis preached the burial sermon. Fire gutted Maine Department, GAR; at Saco, Superior Court Selzer, day clerk at the Hotel Deer Lodge,
the Wolf Building at Petersburg with a $40,000 Justice George L. Emery, 68. Football scores: drowned in her bathtub. The State of Montana
loss; the Red Men's Building at Taylorsville was Rumford 6, Waterville 6; Portland 13, Bangor 0; appealed to the State Supreme Court in an at-
destroyed by fire with a loss of $20,000. Russell Old Orchard Beach 14, Westbrook 6; Old Town tempt to obtain for the school fund the $11,297
L. Hoak, vice president of the First National Bank 25, Brewer 6; South Paris 6, Norway 0. estate left by Adolph Pincus of Butte to an heir
of Elkhart, took a week-end war job as b r a k e - in Breslau, Germany; the Silver Bow District
man on a freight run to Chicago. At Seymour, MARYLAND Court held that the money should go to the Fed-
William H. Quade, 69, died in the house in which Baltimore's International League Orioles won eral property custodian. Powell County High
he was born and married. the Little World Series for the first time since closed a week to let 175 students harvest potatoes.
1925 by defeating Louisville of the American As-
IOWA sociation 5-3; top crowd was 52,833, some 17,000 NEBRASKA
Sheriff Henry Jordan was investigating what more than the best crowd at the World Series. Nebraska was harvesting its biggest corn crop,
was believed to be a murder plot against the Fred P. Wiseman was elected mayor of Luke for somewhere above 310 million bushels compared
family of Pete Eisel, Cass County supervisor, who the third successive term. Rives Matthews, 37, with the 1927 record of 294 million. Anna
lives near Griswold; poison in sugar, catsup and publisher of the Somerset News, at Princess Kramph, 71, who began as clerk at the North
peaches made members of the family ill, none Anne, obtained a peace warrant naming State's Platte First National Bank in 1904, retired as as-
fatally. An outbreak of typhoid occurred in the Atty. Harry C. Dashiell, 58, who told newsmen: sistant cashier. James A. Lindsey of Omaha was
Brayton section north of Atlantic. In Des Moines, "I beat the devil out of him. He has been after- named purchasing agent by the boys in the office
Municipal Judge Don G. Allen fined a woman $3 me for three years in his paper." to get a going-away present for a girl employee

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and chose earrings, he told police; his wife found drowned in a creek near her home. David Gramm probably to cost more than $5 million, was an-
out about the purchase and shot him twice in the of Beulah was killed when a train hit his auto. nounced for Marlin. E. N. Paslay of Dallas was
legs before he could explain. named grand patriarch of Texas Odd Fellows.
OHIO Marie Stanphill, 18, of Coleman, who helped fel-
NEVADA Joe Heving, veteran relief pitcher of the Cleve- low nurses escape a $15,000 fire in the nurses'
The University of Nevada inaugurated Dr. land Indians and only grandfather in the major home at Santa Anna, died in the blaze.
John O. Moseley as president. The OPA issued a leagues, pleaded innocent to a paternity charge
30-day suspension order against the Christie and before Judge Frank Merick and was released on VERMONT
Corey Steak House, Las Vegas, for meat pur- $500 bond. The Green Line Company of Cincin- The state opposed a $30-million Federal dam
chases without ration points, first restaurant sus- nati has been finding thousands of red and blue for West River flood control, which would sub-
pension in Nevada. Seventy-eight Hereford bulls food-ration tokens in its Dixie Terminal turn- merge towns in the valley, and proposed instead
sold at the Western Pacific stock corrals in Win- stiles instead of coins. William F. Lange came eight small dams to cost $9% million. Raymond
nemucca by Peterson Bros, brought a total of from the University of North Carolina to be Sinclair of Brattleboro was elected president of
$24,570. Deaths: Ray J. Welden, superintendent athletic director of Kenyon College. Deaths: the State Elks Association, succeeding Joseph
of mails at Reno; Peter Pauff, 97, Las Vegas pio- Charles R. Ely, mayor of Euclid for 12 years, McWeeny, also of Brattleboro. Died: at Fair
neer, who is survived by his wife to whom he while en route to Florida; John Sanner, 86, life- Haven, George M. Mahar, 64, organizer of the
had been married 72 years. long resident of the Mansfield section. Mahar Brothers Slate Manufacturing Company;
at Springfield, Floyd B. Johnson, 57, president of
NEW JERSEY OREGON the Springfield Printing Company. Football
GI papas of babies born in Paterson General At Oregon City, John Mickels rigged up a scores: Springfield 38, Rutland 0; St. Johnsbury
Hospital will receive a set of their new offsprings' camera to catch a thief who had been stealing 7, Burlington 0; Bennington 7, Brattleboro 0.
footprints. At Hackensack, John Warchalowski clothes from the line in his back yard; the thief
was held in $50,000 bail after police found loot stole the camera. Iris Vogel of Union won top WASHINGTON
from 50 Bergen County burglaries, totaling sev- honors in the Hereford 4-H showmanship divi- Vancouver planned a $40,000 juvenile detention
eral hundred thousand dollars, in his home and sion at the Pacific International Livestock Expo- home. At Bellingham, $60,000 was to be spent
office. To obtain a more realistic effect while sition in Portland. William Gavin, 16, a 6-foot- improving the anchorage for the fishing fleet.
playing with a 125-year-old flintlock musket, 5V2-inch basketball player, won over seven girls Mrs. Ann Eliza Stroops, North Whidby's oldest
William Hayward, 15, of Jersey City put a match in a state-wide 4-H cooking contest. U. Laine, resident, died at 96. In Seattle, Marvin Dwayne
head in the powder pan and pulled the trigger; Astoria jeweler, his wife and Verne Heikkanen, Dye, 16, w^as shot and killed by D. A. MacKenzie,
the gun, which must have been loaded several watchmaker in his store, drowned in the Naha- who said he heard someone tampering with a
generations ago, went off and William's brother lem River near Mohler while on a fishing trip. window screen at his home. O'Dea ended its
Jimmy, 6, was killed. Frank Trinka, Little Ferry three-year reign as Catholic high school cham-
police chief for 37 years, was suspended for fail- PENNSYLVANIA pion of Seattle when its football team was beaten
ing to suppress a tavern fight: he won reinstate- 7-0 by Seattle Prep.
ment and then resigned. Retirement from the baby assembly line was
announced by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wallace E^terly
NEW YORK of Allentown after birth of their 20th child; nine WEST VIRGINIA
boys and nine girls are living. Peter Yock and Joseph S. Jefferson of Meadow Estates was
Mrs. Josephine Tys, 53, of the Bronx died of George J. Helfrich, Pittsburgh semi-pro football named city treasurer of Wheeling, succeeding the
rabies after her pet dog bit her; it was the first players, were killed and 25 other players were late Harry Jungling. Deaths: John C. Hopkins,
death from the disease in New York in three injured when their truck overturned in suburban 49, of Cameron, Democratic nominee for prose-
years, and the entire city was put under anti- Glenfield. The Middletown Press, largest weekly cuting attorney; Sister Mary Magdalen Poulten
rabies quarantine, with all unleashed dogs sub- paper in Dauphin County, was sold by George of Mount de Chantel, Wheeling, who celebrated
ject to death. Peter J. Schmitt, Buffalo wholesale A. Bacon to J. Henry Fox, publisher of the semi- her golden jubilee as one of the Sisters of the
grocer, was killed when his private plane crashed weekly Middletown Journal. Harry B. Knoll, 62, Visitation three years ago. Football scores:
near HoUsopple, Pa., on the way to Florida. Rob- and his nephew, Harry Jamison, 44, of Fayette- Triadelphia 14, Wellsburg 12; Moundsville 13,
ert Jesson of Somerset Corners got so excited ville were crushed to death when a blasting Bellaire 0; Union 12, Magnolia 0; Follansbee 12,
when he failed to get his wife to Lockport City charge went off prematurely at the Mount Cy- Chester 6; St. John 7, Bridgeport 6.
Hospital ahead of the stork that he fainted at the donia Sand Bank Inc. quarry near Chambersburg.
wheel and wrecked the car; passers-by rescued
Jesson, Mrs. Jesson and the new baby, none seri- WISCONSIN
ously damaged. Miss Emily Getty, 80, member of TENNESSEE Madison police used tear gas and streams, of
the pioneer Yonkers family for which Getty Prodded into action by Knoxville ministers, water to subdue 3,000 rioters who took over State
Square was named, died in the house at 15 Cedar police made 10 bootlegging arrests and two for Street in the annual University of Wisconsin
Place where she was born. operation of "tip-board" gambling devices. The homecoming disturbance; nine were arrested.
Island Queen, Memphis-to-Cincinnati (Ohio) e x - The Rev. E. L. Shroeder resigned the pastorate
NORTH CAROLINA cursion boat, will get a $300,000 remodeling as of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Ixonia, to become
University of North Carolina trustees author- soon as priorities can be arranged, Capt. C. N. professor of English at Northwestern College at
ized paying a $12,000 salary to a football coach— Hall, master, announced. The UDC placed a Watertown. The OPA filed suit in Milwaukee to
generally believed a bid for Carl Snavely of marker honoring the late Henry Watterson on a close Edward GoUin's grocery store on South
Cornell; newspapers pointed out that the amount downtown Chattanooga building where he. edited "Third Street for a year for ceiling-price viola-
is about a third more than the $8,250 the univer- the Rebel during the War Between the States. tions. After a collision in downtown Madison,
sity's president, Frank Graham, gets. Co-eds from Three prominent Nashville citizens died: Willard Atty. Gen. John E. Martin was fined $50 and costs
Duke University picked cotton on the M. B. Law- Cakes Tirrill, 70, with the Graham Paper Com- for driving an auto while intoxicated.
rence farm and put the money they earned in the pany 34 years; James E. Caldwell, 90, retired
junior-class fund. Died: at Hopewell, Col. E. L. banker, and Donald Macdonald, 71, manager of WYOMING
Baxter Davidson, 86; at Charlotte, Arthur Game- the Nashville Baking Company. At Cheyenne, $5,770 in fees were paid when
well Craig, 83, and Mrs. Susie Wolfe DeArmon, 76, the Atlantic Refining Company filed for oil leases
wife of Dr. J. 'Mc. DeArmon; at Chapel Hill, TEXAS on 21,102 acres of state land in Niobrara County
Judge Robe'rt Watson Winston, 84. An anti-city-manager ticket headed by George —a state record. Walt Williams, Laramie flying
D. Neal for mayor opposed a city-manager ticket cowboy, had. rounded up 80 head of wild horses
NORTH DAKOTA headed by Mayor Otis Massey at Houston, but by plane in the desert north of Rock Springs.
Gov. John Moses recovered from an operation petitions for a vote to do away with the city- M. S. Jordan resigned as chief of police at Lusk
in Rochester, Minn., in time to get into his cam- manager system weren't presented in time for to become a member of the State Highway Patrol.
paign for U. S. senator. Bismarck WPB officials the November election; voters also were to pass Sale at Sheridan of 65 Herefords owned by the
announced approval of $571,000 in construction on proposals for $26^/^ million in city bonds, Bear Claw Ranch of Dayton brought $20,995.
projects for the state, including $43,250 for the $7y2 million in school bonds and a probable total Deaths: Mart T. Christensen, secretary of state,
Memorial Hospital at Hazen. Jeannet Bartel. 18- of $22 million in county, flood-control and Navi- of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Cheyenne; Ford B.
month-old daughter of Nick Bartel of Lefor, gation District bonds. A 1,000-bed Navy hospital, Kuns, former superintendent of schools ai Lusk.

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Pulped m a Guadalcanal lungle. broken w neri- As a good Wac and soldier should do.

The Poete Corflered God w i l l s -

What vou e'ndure is trivial to the uell vou tram
ton:
The crawling on your guts, blastmg away.
Digging in under fire. Face the fact of your tlesh
To be blasted, scorched, paralyzed, ripped i rom
.A.nd yet we agree that our standard CD
Goes exceptionally well with dark blue
He likes me. I know, for he told me.
His picture he willingly gave.
But I cannot deny there's a gleam in his eye
The broken bones. Coward's body When he catches a glimpse of a Wave!
TRILOGY FOR AN INFANTRY GUIDON A man's soul has started you eas;
On a long, hard road! Now. no one can claim that I'm fickle.
I
New Guineo —Cpl HARGIS WESTERFIELO
Yet I have a peculiar feeling—
It is good to follow the blue guirion. Be he tall, be he short, from both starboard and
Remember this before the mist settles down port.
It IS good in the long-legged ranks. 1ne la2> THE SEED A sailor is plenty appealing!
guidon Blessed hand that plants a seed into the eartn.
Aslant on the staff, the column,- of khaki four,- So we should combine operations.
Stamping the cadences, keepin.s the intetvals. And many hancis have wearied through a d a \ . A joint-plans committee appoint.
marking the turns. And many backs have bended To discuss our affairs and reflect upon theirs.
Remember this before the mist settles down. In pain When we find an appropriate joint
You are back in the ranks where a man belongs The seedii that drank the ram.
Before the mist of fatigue, mudd>' marchings. There'll be a new zest to the battle.
The leaves which breathe by million.s on oin We'll manage a quick victory.
The cringing to caddish superiors. Remembei breath.
this; When he's launched with his Wave and the sailor
The limbs and branches centurie.s have deal', I crave
Mortify the flesh, the flabby office muscles no death.
Man must do penance for an epic privilege. Is plotting maneuvers with me!
The yearly harvest on its way— Woshmglon, D. C - S g l , MARGARET i A N E TAGGS
For the honor of crossing wide waters: com- Know how blessed is a hand that plants a seed
mando raiders into the sod.
Hurled against blazing beachheads: so keep your Blessed be the heart that feels the growing pain
cadences in column; Of the little seed into the glowing grain;
Jealously guard your intervals, learn discipline. Blessed be the hand that works along with God
THE SONGS OF ORPHEUS
Accept the mist of fatigue, sleeplessness, dirt India - S g t . CARLYLE A. OBERIE
hunger, pains.
In these days, only the man in t^je ranks has the /. Red Wine in a Cracked Glass
CPL. ROBERT HOLCtROOK. SNIPER
right to be This is France,
II. 'You said you needed me; I did not doubt
This is the war.
Sometimes in the middle of a tired morning. That there was need for men to fight your war
Sleepily tramping in time behind the drooping 1 did not heed the crass civilian shout This is the three thousand miles awa\
guidon, This would be dearer than the ones before From the dizzy Saturday nights.
We dream of home: a lazy small town From the grind of bells of Sunday morning,
South of the Ohio, the noon rush in Times Square. I questioned not that I had never killed. From the coming into the dark house at dawn
Orange groves by Pasadena: white shirts Nor hated well enough to thirst for blood. When the air was gray.
Maybe somebody calling us "Mister" agam. I did not cry my heart was gently filled
A quiet morning of lecturing to classes. With brother love or that I had a God From walking under the trees in the evening.
Our homes in the evening. From kissing you good night.
But dreams are no good; the guidon flaunts I fought your war. I lay behind a tree From the warm touch of Tips
Blue with the rifles crossed; a greater dream And aimed the fine, unerring gun at those In the summer.
The fighting man's dream; breaking through the You pointed out to be my hated foes. Drinking sweet wine
passes I'm sure your medal will look well on me
Over against Bavaria, or catching a heavy tank In a cafe.
Notched in the battle sights. Over the" dark But I must not kill again. I must not feel The ruined city.
waters The sweet precision of^ newer gun. The night,
There is a greater dream for the fighting man: The keener sight, the silver kiss of steel. A world of enemies and strangers
An old dream made real. The love of weapons with which death is done. This is the battle.
III. This is the siege.
My body groans against the blue guidon The day I die. on some forsaken shoal.
High on the staff over stalwart shoulders Let me be decent and my conscience clean This is the weary warrior.
Pulling me up the long road. The rifle With no barbaric frenzy on my soul— Drunk with tears.
Cramps the stiff forearm. The mist of fatigue. No thrill of killing with a new machine. Watching the bright-lipped maidens
Sleeplessness clouds my bright dream of battle SCU, toke Placid, N Y - S g t . H A R O I D APPIEBAUM Dance and sing under the yellow light.
The racked things, shoulders wrenched by the And the fat civilian with the beard like wire.
pack RE: YOUR LETTER Wearing a tam and smoking a Lucky.
Make me forget ancestral traditions of battle Sits in the corner, crooning a song in Spanish.
God's silent order into the ranks. V-mail is quicker And drinking.
The blue guidon coils, a snake on the staff. Air mail is thickei, Drinking.
Streams in the breeze from the west, hisses. Southwest Pacifiz - P v t . R A Y M O N D CARtSON Drinking
Red wine from a cracked glass.
France —Pfc. J O H N M . BEHM

Myers. Fla.: write Pvt. Ben L. Brown. Two Rock F/O Wallace F. Miller, OTS, SAAF. 'Warrensburg. Mo
Ranch, Petaluma, Calif. . . . Pvt. CARL ENCLEKINC: . . . ROGER W . MORRIS, 12173702, once at Providence
write Cpl. Charles E. Beck (formerly of Scott Field i. College, later at Fort Knox: write Pvt. Gene Lazicki
Sec. Q. BAAF. Fort Myers, Fla. . . . Pvt. ROBERT LOGAK 1645 Engrs. Util. Det., Camp Sutton. N. C, . , Lt.
S /SGT. RICHARD ARONSTAM. somewhere m England
write Cpl. Simeon Busenover. 423d AAF Base'
Unit. Sq. B. AAF. Walla Walla. Wash . . . Pvt. LEVERI
EscHBACK. once in Lansing, Mich., last heard of at
Tarawa: write Pvt. Peter J. Treleaven, Co. A. 275th
Inf. Regt.. APO 461, Fort Leonard Wood. Mo. . . .
CHARLES ORLANDO, formerly of Class 43-D, SAACC:
write Pfc. Peter J. Elardo, Sec, C. 2509 AAFBU. Big
Spring Tex. . . Pfc. IRIS O'BRIEN, WAC. somewhere
."VvERY. 597th Airborne Engrs.. Camp McCall. N C. JOSEPH FELTHANGER. U S N , believed to be in a New
write Pfc. Vilma Bickerstaff. WAC Det. *!. Fort in Italy: write A. D. Harris GM2c, USCG, COTP. New
Moultrie. S. C. . . . S/Sgt. EDWARD T, CICIOR. formerly
York hospital: write Pvt. Joseph Yoklavich. Co. B. Orleans. La. . . . Sgt. GORDON PAVtAir. once at Lowrv
with the 66th AB Sq., Macon. Ga.: write Pvt. Charlep 74th Bn.. ASFTC, Cariip Barkeley, Tex. . . Pvt. FIN- Field: write Pvt. Jack A. Rhavies. Med. Det., AAAB.
L- Grange, 267th AAF Base Unit iFi. Sec. III. Fon FROCK, once in the 32d Cavalry, Camp Maxey: write Abilene. Tex. . . . Capt. GEORGE PRICHARD JR.. formerly
Sumner. N. Mex. . . . Anyone having information con- Pvt. Orin Brooks, Hq. Troop, 45th Cav. Ren. Sq. Mecz.. of Fort Benning: write Sgt. Steve A. Yarak. Co. A.
Camp Polk. La. . . . Sgt. JOHN B.,,<BLACK) GARDNER. 3169 Sig, Serv, Bn.. Camp Kohler. Calif
cerning Lt. JOHN B . CRUL. 2d Marines, last heard of AAF: write Pfc. Joseph J. Misso. Isl Acad. Co.. TPS.
or, Saipan Island: write Lt. Earl Shepard, Joyce. La Box 427. Fort Benning. Ga. . . . Cpl. GOLDBROOK oi
. . . PAUL CZOPYDALO of Brooklyn, last heard of in Connecticut, formerly at APO 43: write Pvt. 'Louis
OCS in North Carolina: write Pvt. William K. Edmis- Scherl. England Gen. Hosp., Atlantic City. N. J. .
ton. Co. C. 62d Med. Tng. Bn., ASFTC. Camp Barke- Pfc. LAWSON GRIFFIN, last heard of in England: write
ley. Tex. . . . ORILLO C. DABE of Phoenix. Ariz., now
somewhere in the South Pacific: write Sgt. Robert S Cpl. Rey Gonzalez, Co, A. 406th Inf.. APO 102. Fort CHANGE OF ADDRESS ; r K r r
Dix. N. Y . . Lt. HARRY HANSON of Los Angeles, for- scriber a n d have changed your address, use this coupon
Dabe. 2514th Base Unit lAAF), Sec. A-Pl. 1. Laugh- merly ai Cochran Field: write R. Cunningham SK3c.
lin Field, Del Rio, Tex. . . . CARLISLE DEMPSEY, for- together with the mailing address on your latest YANK
merly of Flint, Mich., entered the Army early in 1942 Maint. Office, W-34, Naval Tng. Sta.. Newport. R. I. to notify us of the change. M a i l it to Y A N K , The Army
. . . HOWARD "W. HATCH SF3C, last heard of on the USS
write A/C Joseph Luketich. Sec. H. FU. D. Class 44- Mackab write Cpl. I. Nusbaum, Box 1172, 328 ABU Weekly, JOS East 4 2 d Street, N e w York 17, N , Y.. a n d
12, 2509 AAF Base Unit. Big Spring, Tex. Pfc, lA). GAAF. Gulfport, Miss. . . . Sgt. A. (ROCKYi HEN- YANK will follow you to a n y part of the world.
WAYNE J. (DUT) DUTTON, stationed at McChord Field RiKSEN. USMC. at Camp Linda 'Vista, Calif.: write Cpl
m 1941. later sent overseas: write S/Sgt, Joseph A. J. Staiano, 132 Sig. Co., APO 411, Camp Gruber,
Brand, Casual Del., Camp Stoneman. Calif. Cpl Okla. . . . S,/Sgt. EDWARD JACOBS, with the Medics, last F u l l Name and Rank Order No
WILLIAM ELLIS, last heard of at Page Field, Fort heard of in France: write Cpl. Leonard K. Hovles. OLD MilfTARY ADDRESS
Co. B. 1899th Engr. Avn. Bn.. APAAF. Avon Park.
Fla. . . . Lt. FORREST E. KELLY (43-E), once an aviation
cadet at AAFFTD, Ala.: write Pfc. WilUam L. Reams,
His d e l i c a t e b i t o f f e m i n i n i t y is a n o t h e r of 2156th AAF BU (CPS, P), Decatur, Ala. . . . S/Sgt
JOE KOPEC formerly at Miami Beach, Fla., left for
B r o o k l y n ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n s to a g r a t e f u l Crash Boat Tng.: write Sgt. Sigmund Cohen. Sec. B.
w o r l d . Her n a m e is M a r y G a n l y . She w a s Bks, ill. Buckley Field, 3702 AAF, Denver...8. Colo NEW MILITARY ADDRESS
, , Sgt, CHARLES 'LAMB, last heard of at Hendricks
d a n c i n g in N e w York City w h e n the r o v i n g Field, Fla.: write S/Sgt. W. C. Buckleman. 371!
eye of a m o v i e t a l e n t scout focused o n her AAFBU. Boeing B-29 Sch., Seattle, Wash. . . . Sgt
b l o n d p e r s o n . Before y o u could say M e t r o - RALPH MCCORD. once at Camp Breckinridge, Kv,: write
Pfc, Marvin Marshall. Btry. C. 513th AAA Gun. Bn
G o l d w y n - M a y e r she w a s o u t in H o l l y w o o d (Semi. Fort Bliss. Tex. . . . GEORGE MCCORMACK. for-
p l a y i n g a c a m p u s cutie in " B a t h i n g B e a u t y . " merly in Lubbock, Tex., and S/Sgt. RALPH MEDOFI- of AHow 2 1 days f o r change of address to become effective
Brooklyn, formerly a cadet at Coleman, Tex. write

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PARIS. Pictured above are scenes from one of the few baseball games ever played
in Paris. The three GIs who seem to be enjoying oil the comforts of a cafe are ac-
tually sitting in box seats where white-jacketed waiters served beer and cognac.
Lower photo shows general view of the stadium. Game featured two Gi teams.

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 Shausihiie.ssy at 'I'uiane in 1917 and took the
pledge that little t'elix would also toil for
Ml', Shaughnessy wherever he coached.
But thanks to the little words of comfort.
Messrs. McEver and Shaughnessy went away
from West Point feeling more kindly toward
then wa.vward boys and the Army horde. Mr.
Shaughnessy especially. He summoned a
group of n e w s p a p e r m e n and announced:
"I just had the pleasure of being absolute-
y m u r d e r e d by the best Army team I have
evei' seen. I wouldn't be surprised if it
turned out to be A r m y ' s all-time best. If
anybody beats them, they'll have to score 51
points, because Army will score 50
"I would also like to say that this boy
Blanchard is the gre'ktest fullback I have ever
seen. He's even better than Norm Standlee.
He's just as big and faster. Yes. he's faster
than Standlee and more powerful. He could
play halfback as well as fullback. He can
pass and kick. He's absolutely at the top of
the heap as far as I'm concerned."
When Lt. Col. Earl Blaik. the Army coach,
heard of Mr. Shaughnessy's speech he was
horror-stricken. This generous b u i l d - u p was
t h e o n ^ t h i n g he had been guarding against
all season. He wanted Navy or Notre Dame
to win t h e national championship on p a p e r :
he'd win it on the field when the proper time
came. The colonel dispatched Maj. Andy
Gustafson, his No. 1 aide, to New York to
address the Football Writers with i n s t r u c -
tions to stem the w a v e of optimism that Mr.
Shaughnessy had t u r n e d loose,
•'I w a n t to-thank Mr. Shaughnessy for giv-
ing us sifch a nice b u i l d - u p , " Maj. Gustafson
told the assembled group of writers. "I guess
we're set to beat the world now. But, gentle-
men. I w a n t to w a r n you we haven't been
tested as yet. "We don't know how good our
t e a m is. We still h a v e Navy, P e n n and N o t r e
Dame to play and one or all of t h e m could
lick us—especially Navy. They have too much
backfield depth.
"This young man Blanchard. of whom Mr.'
Shaughnessy speaks so highly, is big, rough
and tough, all right, but he is a victim of a
peculiar disease we have at West Point. We
Army's Felix Blanchard spins out of the clutches of two Brown tacklers on 50-yard touchdown gallop call it 'plebitis.' It's a m a l a d y caught only by
plebes, and t h e upperclassmen give it to

I T was a few m i n u t e s after the Army foot-

ball t e a m had massacred North Carolina.
46-0. B a r n e y Poole, a big r a w - b o n e d cadet
end. sought out Mr. Gene McEver. the Caro-
"Sir. I don't leei vei\v happy about thi,<
awful slaughter. I think we should have tried
to hold the scoie down. Say about 59-T."
Both of these young men had good reason
them. Our tradition d e m a n d s t h a t plebes
walk around with chins in and backs straight.
Blanchard is so stiff t h a t we can't even relax
him on the football field; But he'll come along
lina coach, and in a g r a v e l - t h r o a t e d voice to apologize. As late as last fall. Mr. Poole all right."
said: had rented out his splendid 6-foot-3. 220- It would a p p e a r that Mr. Blanchard's k i n d -
"Coach, I'm really sorry we had to m u r - pound frame to the University of North Car- ness t o w a r d Mr. Shaughnessy paid off too
der you lik? this. But, believe me. sir. it olina. He was their finest end and made the many dividends to suit Col. Blaik. This is u n -
couldn't h a v e happened to a nicer guy." All-Southern Conference team, Mr. Blanch- fortunate, because we were about to suggest
Two weeks later a similar scene took place. ard, on the other hand, never gave a pint of that the colonel detail one m e m b e r of his first
A r m y had just dismembered Pittsburgh. blood for Pittsburgh, but he was bound to team to seek out the losing coach after every
69-7. and Felix Blanchard. A r m y s sensa- Mr, Shaughnessy by ties stronger than blood. game and cheer him up. A lot of coaches are
tional fullback, w e n t over to Mr. Clark His father ( w h o by sheer coincidence was going to need it. Especially, when Mr. Blanch-
Shaughnessy, the P i t t s b u r g h coach, and said: also named Felfx) played fullback under Mi ard u n b e n d s and learns to fly right.

J UST to keep the records straight, Bill Dudley

is not a substitute in the March Field (Calif.)
b'ackfield as we reported here a few weeks ago.
He is just about the whole backfield for the
mighty Randolph Field (Tex.) Ramblers. Our
mistake was made when Dudley was "loaned"
out to March Field to help in a charily game from the South Pacific say Phil Rizzuto, the Yan-
against the Washington Redskins. , . , According kees' shortstop, is coming back to the States be-
to Dana Bible, whose Texas team was smothered, cause . of recurring malaria attacks. Another
42-6, by Randolph Field, the Ramblers have the Yankee. S/S»gt, Joe DiMaggio, is due for a ODD:
individual stars for one of the greatest football stomach ulcers, , , Pvt. Lloyd Mongrum, the pro
teams of all time. Let's run briefly over the line- golfer, injured his arm and shoulder when 'nis
up: Ends—Sgt. Jack Russell, ex-Baylor, and T/Sgt. jeep overturned in France. He's back in Eng-
Don Looney, ex-TCU and Philadelphia Eagles: land recovering, . , A lot of professional foot-
tackles—S/Sgt. William Causey, ex-Elon College ball teams are going to be disappointed when
and New York Giants, and If. Martin Ruby, ex- they learn that A C Bob Steuber, the Missouri
Texas A & M; guards—S/Sgt. Joe Vaughan, ex- All-American, wants to be a major-league base-
Lon Morris Junior College, and Lt. Jock freeman, ball player after the war, , , , Specialists Johnny
ex-Texas; center—Pvt. T. B. Robertson, ex-Brook- Rigney and Hal White will soon join the rest of
lyn Dodgers; backs—If. Pefe Layden, ex-Texas. the big-league stais in the South Pacific. .
It. Bill Dudley, ex-'Virginia AIl-American. Pvt, S/Sgt. Joe Louis is busy writing a book but won't
Kenneth Holley, ex-Holy Cross and Haitford tell what it's about. . . Charley Justice, the sen-
Blues, It. Dippy Evans, ex-Notre Dame .sational 19-year-old Bainbridge (Md.) NTC
U. Cot. Wallace Wade, the Duke football coach. halfback, will play for Duke after the war.
is an Artillery ofScer in Gen. Patton's Third Coach Joe Maniaci of Bainbridge calls Justice
Army, pushing toward Germany . . Reports "the greatest natural football player I've s e e n "

HOCKEY ACE. Frankie Brimsek MM2c, star goalie

for the Boston Bruins hockey ciub, takes iime oui
for a smoke aboard invasion ship in the Pacific.
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