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JULY 9

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VOL 2, NO. 3
By the men.. for the
men in the service
HE ARMY! WEEKLY
Pfe. K«tfc Pefdianf of F«nh Amboy, N. J., drives a jeep on tiw headquarters
oir-cowrier nra. Here she tolfcs French to mechanics of the French Air Force.

Pvt. Atargoret Mitter of Clevefomd, Ohio, otherwise known as "Birtch'


or "DmImI," is ijeMsrat handy man. She likes if better than office work.

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Pfc. Ethel Fonder of Sulphur Springs, Tex., gives the motor of her feep the "Come and get ^f screams Mess Sgt. Gertrude lund of los Angeles, CaKf., a
once over with a grease gun. She was formerly a oiorticiaa's assisfant. sounds off with q-^MKl noontime chow calf. She knows how to moke herself h
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By Sgt. PETE PARIS first-aid station. The Waac never said a word of Bethsada, Md., CO of the American Motor
about the incident, which would have been for- Transportation Company, for example, is com-
YANK Staff Correspondent pletely sold on them. He has six Waacs assigned
gotten if Lt. Mayfield hadn't turned in a report
LGIERS — The first Waac commended for 10 days later when he was released from the hos- to him as jeep drivers and he'd like to have a
A gallantry under fire in this war didn't do
' her stuff as a sniper or half-track driver in
the front lines. She is a private first class named
pital. Col. Eklgar W. King, comma'nder of the lieu-
tenant's Coast Artillery outfit, sent an oflScial let-
ter of commendation to Capt. Frances Marquis,
whole company. "We need them here," he says.
"They can take care of all the headquarters driv-
ing while our boys make the long hauls."
Mary L. Taylor from Lake Charles, La., who the former New York business executive who The jeep-driving Waacs get no special favors
pounds a typewriter for the North African Eco- commands the WAAC company in Algiers. When or courtesies. When their buggies get dry or
nomic Board. Pfc. Taylor was questioned by her astonished dusty or need a new tire or a grease job, they
Pfc. Taylor was walking home alone to the friends, she merely shrugged her shoulders and haul out fatigue clothes and do it themselves.
WAAC barracks from her desk at the Economic said, "I just got caught in a blackout." She They eat lunch at the GI mess hall with the
Board one night during the black-out when enemy wouldn't go into further details. other drivers, using their own mess kits and
planes came over the town and rained bombs Like Pfc. Taylor, the Waacs in North Africa sweating out the line to wash them afterwards.
on the streets. Lt. Earnest R. Mayfield, a Special are good soldiers, even though they don't pack a One of the Waac jeep drivers is Pfc. Ruth Perch-
Service officer in an antiaircraft outfit, yelled gun or sleep in foxholes. They realize that it ard of Perth Amboy, N. J., who wears pants, has
at her to get under cover. As they ran for a is a man's war and they have withdrawn dis- a boyish bob and a sun-burned face full of
doorway, a piece of shrapnel plowed through the creetly to the side lines, cheerfully accepting the freckles. Ruth is a graduate of Russell Sage and
calf of Lt- Mayfield's leg. many overseas jobs that men hate. The girls in worked for nine years as a social investigator for
The Waac took one quick look and stooped uniform have not had an easy time in this over- the State of New Jersey before joining the
down and did a cool-headed bit of first-aid work. seas theater. They live under strict military dis- WAAC. She was qualified for a commission but
She applied a torniquet to the wound and cipline and they found plenty of Old Army men turned down a chance to go to OCS when she
stopped the flow of blood. who resented their arrival in North Africa. "Let heard about the formation of this overseas com-
•'I don't know what she made it from—perhaps 'em stay home and do the house work," these 30- pany. Another driver, Pfc. Mary Helen Lovell of
her slip—but, anyway, she did a good job," Lt. year men muttered. Curtis, Ohio, used to be a short-order cook. "I
Mayfield said later. However, the Army soon found that the Waacs don't see why we can't do more night driving,"
Then Pfc. Taylor and the lieutenant's driver were doing a superior job with the few oppor- Mary says. "Of course we are not allowed to
took him 20 miles in a jeep with a flat tire to a tunities opened to them. Capt. Robert Seckinger carry arms. All I have is this GI billy club."

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Two of the girl drivers, incidentally, act as she landed in North Africa but now she is a kitchen and doing their laundry. The money
chauffeurs for Gen. Eisenhower's staff officers. T-4, thank you. She works hard from 8:30 A.M. they earn that way goes into a church charity
Since they have been handling Army cars in to 6 and' sometimes 10 P.M. fund.
North Africa, the Waacs have not been charged These girls, the first WAAC company to ar- The Waacs sleep under mosquito netting in GI
with a single MP traffic violation, which is quite rive overseas, crossed the Atlantic in January cots, hospital bunks and some beds that the nuns
a record. after training at Fort Des Moines and Dajrtona gave them. They sleep in pajamas—GI issue—
The rest of the Waacs—^there are 195 of them Beach, Fla. Arriving here, they were quartered blue and white checkered in the winter and
stationed here in Algiers — work as typists, several miles from town in an old convent which peach or blue seersucker in the summer. Just as
switchboard operators, cable clerks and teletype they share with several nuns and French refugee you can tell a soldier who has been in the Army
operators not only for the Army but also for the children. The only males permitted near the a long time because the fatigue clothes are blue
Navy and British, French and civil agencies. The convent a r e t h e MP guards, one during the day instead of green, you can spot an old-time Waac
roster also includes a couple of draftsmen, or and two at night. Occasionally some of the local by the color of her summer pajamas hanging on
should we say draftswomen? The Waac with a n GIs from the Quartermasters get a close look at the wash line. Peach seersucker is the old issue.
especially interesting job is Sgt. Nan Rae, who is the place while delivering rations. The first sergeant of the company is Elaine
a stenographer assigned to Gen. Eisenhower. She The convent is a pretty building, covered with Olmstead of Phoenix, Ariz., a former physical
was a stenographer in New York, her home bright red poppies. The monastery, where it is ed instructor at Arizona State College with five
town, before going into uniform and previous to located, owns its own cows and chickens and brothers in the Army. She clips her hair short
that worked for t h e Vacuum Oil Company in grows its own vegetables. The nuns get along and wears pants, but the girls say she isn't too
Glasgow, Scotland. Nan was an auxiliary when fine with the Waacs, working for them in the tough. Your correspondent had a hard time get-
ting her to pose for a picture and the only quote
she gave was "This French plumbing is terrible."

S GT. OLMSTEAD blows the first whistle at 6 in the


morning. Some of the Waacs have to catch
a 7-o'clock bus, which doesn't leave them much
time for powdering their noses, sweating the
chow line and mess-kit-washing line and policing
barracks. Lt. Margaret Janeway, a doctor from
New York^ makes inspections daily. If the girls
get gigged for oversleeping or failure to make
their beds according to regulations, they are con-
fined to quarters for two weeks.
Unlike all other GIs, t h e Waacs here praise
their cooks who not only dress up the regular
issue chow temptingly but occasionally produce
such miracles as apple pie, doughnuts and but-
terscotch pudding. "Sometimes," they boast, "we
even have ice cream." God only knows how.
Here are typical menus at the convent mess
hall: Breakfast—Oranges, French toast, syrup,
cereal, butter, coffee. Dinner—Baked spam with
cheese sauce (very good; I had some), spinach,
buttered beets, crushed pineapple, bread, jam,
lemonade. Supper—Link sausages, creamed po-
tatoes, fresh lima beans, bread, butter, jam, cof-
fee. Once a week they get fresh meat. •
Once a week, too, the tiny PX, managed by
S/Sgt. Ann Bradley, the supply sergeant from
Philadelphia, Pa., opens up to sell the girls their
rations of bonbons and smokes. This PX is a
small room filled with candy, tooth paste, ciga-
rettes, bats, balls, catchers' mitts and other toilet
articles and recreational equipment. Sgt. Bradley
sells no liquor, not even light wine or beer.
The Waac in North Africa puts up with all the
bad features of military routine and gets none
of the breaks that come to the average dogface.
She draws her $50 a month with nothing extra
for overseas duty. She has no free postage and
no special GI insurance. Allotments? She never
heard of them.
It's about time the Waacs over here started
getting some of those breaks. They are doing a
swell job under unfavorable conditions and not
one of them is beefing.
This h ff)« second YANK article on file Woacs at home onc^
overseas. A third one will appear soon.

n» WINKS tm^tar « ! # t e * • «w^w*<^Hw i^umMfMbiff^


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In Attu a Yank mop-vp aqoad closes in on J o p dugouts a€n«n»d by amokm of oxptotlins gritados. fhm Japs fcotl to b « ovf of pesrttoMs liko Hbeso.

Palmer Elarle, regimental commander, on a recon


Killing a Jug of Captured Jap Wine^ foray in advance of the American lines. The ser-
geant was not told that the colonel was dead of
mortar shrapnel, possibly the first American vic-
These GIs Rehash the Attu Invasion tim of the assault.
"Where the hell are they?" cried the sergeant.
By S g t . G E O R G N . M E Y E R S vicious swarm of Japs has been prodding off sev- "You can't see the bastridies!"
eral times its number in battle-eager Yanks. Of course, you can't. All day and all night they
YANK Staff Correspondent crouch in their cliflfside caves towering over both
The weapon: log.
TTU ISLAND, ALEUTIAN ARCHIPELAGO [Via "What kind of a goddam war is this! You can't the east and west passes of Massacre Valley. Frcrni

A Courier from Massacre Bay] — We are


i hunched around a small warm fire, a bunch
of us, killing our last liter of captured sake and
see 'em!" swore a sergeant from his litter, v^hile
four medics, knee-deep in custard mud, lugged
his tough, strin©r body from where he lay on a
their invisible emplacements they command an
uninterrupted view of our entire operations.
Shielded by fog, on stubby skis and flypaper feet,
second-guessing the invasion of Attu. muskeg slope with 11 machir>e-gun and rifle they inch their way down the sherbet-snow
On one jjoint w e are all agreed. War here is bullets in his arms and legs. The sergeant, an ravines. When the fog rolls up, like a window
blindman's buff with bullets. Plus a single sin- Alaska Combat Intelligence Platoon scout, had curtain, for perhaps a quarter hour at a stretch
ister, incombatable weapon by which a crafty. been assigned as bodyguard to Col. Edward a half-dozen times a day, they peppier away with
their chattery machine guns and moaning, thud-
ding mortars. Before our artillery can spot the
range, down rolls the fog. When it goes up again,
they are the little men who are not there.
THE WAACS HAVE A BUSY SOCIAL LIFE OVERSEAS "It's eerie," says M/Sgt. Charles Burgmann,
A LGIERS—The poor yordbird, already staggering
i under the burden of a strange tongue, new wine
and an undesire on the port of the local French
Not all the girls like to go to the dances, as for
instance Pfc. AAory Helen LoveH of Curtis, Ohio, a
jeep driver: " I prefer to play catch or ping-pong;
who formerly handled chores for NBC in Holly-
wood. "It's a script by Ernest Hemingway, direc-
tion by Alfred Hitchcock."
maidens to leom the intricacies of the jitterbug and but best of all I like to eat." It was there, the fog, when our formidably
conga was immensely relieved at the arrival of the The girls ploy no favorites. In their average of escorted convoy pushed its way blindly into the
Wooes in North Africa. three dances a week, they include those sponsored rock-fanged maw of Massacre Bay. It chased us
It wasn't unusual, prior to the debarkation of by the English Army, Navy and RAF. The English down the Aleutian Chain. It forced the assault
our gals in khaki, for Joe Yordbird to escort his dances ore well attended because of the novelty troops into the most bizarre invasion of enemy
favorite French mademoiselle to dances. The only of such trick dances as Boomps-o-Oaisy, Palais Gliding shore line in the second World War.
catch was that the old lady generally tagged along and the Lambeth Walk. Tea, cream puffs, lemonade Even the cunning Jap gunner in his steep
as chaperon with the rest of the younger members and sometimes ice cream ore served. gc^her hole must have doubted his senses when
of the family bringing up the rear. The homebodies, too, are not forgotten. Their mess a U. S. Navy destroyer, with foghorn sounding
The majority of the French girls ore getting the hall is converted into a day room at night. Here the full blast, nosed through the low-hanging mist at
cold shoulder these days. Lt. Sylvia AAarsili of Pitts- girls ploy the piano, listen to the radio, sing ond the head of an armada of amphibious assault
burgh, Pa., who is the W A A C Special Service officer ploy ping-pong on a table which some local outfit barges.
in Algiers as well as mess, supply, PX, transportation mode for Lt. Marsili. Once a week, bingo is ployed But on the beach, no Japs.
and lost-and-found officer, and her assistant, S/Sgt. at one of the G l day rooms or in the W A A C mess Riflemen slogged up the central ridge forming
Ann Bradley, of Philadelphia, Pa., have been con- hall. Prizes are given but no money is collected. the backbone of Massacre Valley. No Japs.
stantly swamped with requests by the Special Service O n Mondoys, favorite movies of the post years Machine gunners sweated their weapons up the
officers of the doughboy outfits. ore shown in the mess hall. hill, and the mud grew deeper. No Japs.
At the crest of the ridge. Massacre Creek, West

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YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9

Fork, trickled a thin line 1,000 feet below on the


left. East Fork meandered deep down on the right. Japs' Broadcast to U. S. Troops
On three sides loomed the sheer, smooth shoulders
of mountains whose snow patches were already
Sugar Scrapbook Presents Popeye and Poppycock
USTRALIA — S/Sgt. James E. Greathouse,
bruised black by naval bombardment preceding
the attack. For more than an hour the guns of
warships offshore had hurled their high explosives
A ^ 25, of Pennsylvania has a hobby that
makes sense. He collects a photo of every
O N THE RUSSELL ISLANDS—Every week night
soldiers in this area are entertained by what they
call "The Zero Hour," a variety program beamed
to blast the Japs off the face of these cliffs. There girl who raises his blood pressure, and in this direction by the Nips from Tokyo.
could be no Japs here. sends it home for his mother to put in a They're terrific, these Japs. For instance,
The fog lifted and the medics went to v/ork. scrapbook. they've got a soap opera going now featuring
The line of unarmed litter bearers across the Greathouse will go to any lengths of Popeye, and at the moment he's changing from
slippery snow patches, over the unjeepworthy cajolery or flattery to wheedle a photo out spinach to pickled plums because the plums con-
swamp glades, has been steady ever since. of a good-looking girl. The hobby began tain more vitamins. In the middle of the script
"We had a close go last night," drawls Pvt. when Greathouse was in high school and an announcer with a clipped English accent will
Frederick Dulaney of Houston, Tex. "We'd picked by the time he entered the Army he had interrupt to say, "How would you boys on
up our patient and were starting back over the 400 pictures. He is still forging ahead and Guadalcanal like a nice cold beer?" or maybe
ridge when some machine gunner on the other now his total is a little more than 600. he'll say, "You men in New Guinea, your girls
side of the valley opened up. We had to hit the "I still haven't met the one I'm going to at home are running around with defense work-
muskeg, and little divots of moss were flicking marry," he says. ers." Or he'll pay special attention to this island
up all around us. We'd have got it for sure if some with the plug, "How would you men in the Rus-
infantryman in his trench hadn't held up a lighted sell Islands like to sink your teeth into a juicy
match. That drew the fire away from us right steak?"
away." dived out of sight. He didn't even know I was American soldiers listen to this crap with good
Howitzers on the hummocky shelf above the watching him. He should have known better than humor. They even get a kick out of most of it,
beach have picked up where the heavy barrage to mess with an Alabama boy like that." particularly when the Japs give out with a news
from seaward left off. More snow is turning black "If those snipers would only go to bed nights, broadcast claiming their "Wild Eagles" have ac-
on the mountains. When the fog lifts, there is a everybody would have a cheerier disposition," counted for our airmen to the tune of IJ to 1.
chatter of machine-gun fire. Tracers from our says Cpl. Harold Peterson of Hampton, Nebr. "But They always wind up these descriptions with the
batteries lace the far face of the valley like sparks they get the idea they can prowl around in the statement that the heroic pilot "dives on his ob-
from a chimney in the wind. A few mortar shells dark and sneak through our sentry lines. I gu.ess jective to a glorious death for the Emperor," and
crash up front where our emplacements are thick- they figure they'll get through somehow, then at least that much of what the radio says is true.
est. pick us off one by one in the cold light of dawn. Sometimes the J a p radio takes on the peculiar
In the CP a corporal moves toward the field Just this morning we were all jerked out of our propaganda technique of trying to persuade our
phone in the soggy foxhole which is his sleeping sleeping holes at 3 o'clock because some J a p soldiers that the Japs are push-overs for our
quarters and the regimental message center. Zing! patrols were working in close to the CP. Worst side, and that they can't compete against us.
He goes down, clutching his shoulder. A private part of being pulled out when it's dark like that The men out here aren't fooled by that, either.
runs to pick him up, then stops short and looks and you're sleepy is that everybody sounds like Too many of them have been in contact with the
bewildered as his own a r m hangs limply, blood he's speaking with a Japanese accent." enemy at one place or another.
gushing from his wrist. The only time American planes have been able - S g t . ARTHUR BARSCHDORF
Snipers,, too, play hide and seek in the fog. to try to give us a hand on the Massacre Bay side, YANK Field Correspondent
Spiderlike, they cling to the crags overlooking four fighters went roaring up the valley into the
our camp areas and bide their time. Most of their gray veil. Only one came out. The same day, a
hits are sheer luck. They're potshotting from transport plane trying to parachute food and sup-
1,000 yards. plies to an advanced position on the other side The First Theatrical Task Force
"Some of 'em work closer than that," says Pvt. nosed low into the soup. We never saw it again.
Randolph Duboise of Phil Campbell, Ala. "The Fog.
In Western Desert Clicks With GIs
one who tried his luck on me was only about The most amazing feature of this operation is CAIRO—The Army's first theatrical task force
15 yards away. the fact that every soldier here thinks the other in the Middle East has hit the desert roads and
"I was slicing across a galley over on the West fellow's job is tougher. The heavy-laboring shore- trails.
Fork. I thought I caught sight of somebody skulk- party crews wipe the sweat from their eyes and It's an all-male outfit, but they're packing them
ing along behind me, but I reckoned it was one vow they wouldn't swap their 16-hour shifts for into the dunes and wadis just as if they had a
of the other boys. I stopped and turned around to the midnight jaunts of the medics. The litter 12-girl line. They call themselves the "Sky
wait for him to catch i ^ with me, and there he bearers regard their neck-exposing task as a soft Blazers," and their strength is an even dozen
was," lying on the top of a little mound, just draw- touch stacked against the infantrymen's lot, firing musicians, truck drivers, comedians, stagehands,
ing a bead on me. I plunked to the ground and away from their shallow mudslots. And the gun- electricians and vocalists drawn from the U. S.
scurried behind a little knoll. In a minut'e I was ners themselves yell over their shoulders, "You Middle East Forces.
higher than he was. He was down on his hands just carry us some hot grub and dry sleeping bags, The Ninth Air Force Special Service Mobile'
and knees, still watching the spot where I had and we'll fight the goddam war!" Entertainment Unit—as they're officially known
—pack themselves, their props, instruments, even
their stage, into a truck and a home-made bus.
They combed second-hand stores for properties
and for instruments for the six-piece swing band
which backs up the show. Around this equip-
ment and rolling stock, they've built their show
along "Helzapoppin" lines, making it a natural
for the U. S. troops and a hit with every British
or Dominion troop audience to which it plays.
"Sky Blazers" was the idea of Maj. Leroy C.
Hinchcliffe, Air Force Special Service officer, and
S/Sgt. Regis R. Schlegel, formerly in show Isusi-
ness in Pittsburgh, who now directs the troupe.
Schlegel started a search through the Middle
East forces and turned up with the following
who now comprise the mobile unit:
S/Sgt. Murray Davidson of New York, a
former trumpeter in Will Bradley's orchestra;
Sgt. Jack Jacobson who played New York night
clubs as an entertainer under the name of Jack
Williams; Pvt. Jack Wolfe, Chicago, another
night-club entertainer; Pvt. Frank Smith, e x -
Cleveland dance musician; Pvt. Robert Clements,
Pittsburgh, former radio performer; Pvt. Wood-
row Perrin, San Antonio, who once played with
Senator O'Daniel's band in Texas; Cpl. Maurice
Deise, former Baltimore dance-band merhber;
S/Sgt. Robert Pinachi, Philadelphia, who was
with Artie Shaw's band; Pvt. Jacques L. Kahn,
Baltimore, former KDKA commentator under the
name of Jack Crane; Cpl. Alston Townley, New
York, former NBC staff singer; and Sgt. Bernie
Neirenberg, Miami Beach, Fla., who danced u n -
HE hunters are back with a trophy from the hills back to camp and after a few days the chow line der the name of Harry Bernie in Cole Porter's
T of Iran. But they're not Iranians—just American
GIs who got a day off to shoot boars. Pfc. Hiawatha
got the benefit. (On another holiday Linkinogger
came back with two huge sows. Now they call him
"Jubilee."
Two swing numbers, "Blackout Boogie" and
Linkinogger headed the band, which galloped off in Hogginhogger.) In the photo above Pfc. Linkinogger "Middle East Blues," written by Kahn and
a weapons carrier. As one boar was found and shot is in left foreground by the boar's head. Second row Clements for the show, have become hits on the
at, the carrier bogged down in the mud; but four of (I. to r.) Cpl. Gindlesperger, LI. Biundell, of the British desert trails.
the hunters kept going on foot, sighted two more Army, Pfc. Day and S/Sgt. Crabtree. Rear row (I. to r.) - S g l . BURGESS SCOTT
boars and killed one. The boar finally got hauled Pvt. Coleman, S/Sgt. Olendorf and Cpl. Oonahoe. YANK Staff Corrospond*

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who Is Artie Greengroin?
P FC. ARTIE GREENGROIN, whose adventures in England
appear on the same page with The Sad Sack, is o new-
comer to this edition of YANK although he has been a mem-
ber of YANK's British Edition for many months. We've h a d a
lot of questions about him. " W h o is this jerk Greengroin?"
most readers inquire. "Is he a real Gl? Give us some proof.
Either put up or shut u p . " So we asked our British edition to
send its photographer, C p l . Steve Derry, to hunt up Green-
groin a n d send us some proof. Artie kept Derry in a pub f o r
three days a n d then produced these pictures from his own
scrap book, thus saving Derry a lot of work a n d film.
Captions are by Artie, too.

was unable to dislodge the fireboxes with his r e -


Russian Cuts Rope with Teeth maining hand, which h a d become paralyzed. He Army Sure Has Some Screwy Jobs;
used his teeth to bite through the ropes that
To Save His Ship from Exploding lashed the smoke boxes and rolled them into t h e These Three Guys Pump for Dentist
Moscow [By Cable]—The crew of Patrol Cut- sea. ALGIERS—One of the screwiest jobs in this
ter 065 of the Soviet Black Sea fleet knows how With half the crew killed or out of action with man's army belongs to Sgt. Lawrence Gannan of
to take it. wounds and the cutter listing badly, the Germans Detroit, Pfc. John Hazuda of Williamstown, Pa.,
The cutter was convoying a transport and two retired. Chief Petty Officer Kalashnikov and Sea- and Pvt. Joseph Black of Detroit. They pump the
schooners when eight German bombers attacked. man Saleyev, both wounded, crawled to the hold field engines for the dentists in this vicinity.
The planes were driven off and the cutter reached and attempted to calk the worst leaks in the Known as the "Three Pumpers of Algiers,"
her destination. She had just tied up at her pier ship's sides. Rising water drove the men topside. they place their good right legs on foot pedals
when 20 dive bombers struck her with everything The pumps were manned and an effort was made for 6 hours a day and pump like hell. The power
they had. to patch the hull from the outside. thus generated turns the drills with which the
During t h e fight a bo'sun named Antonenko, Seven hours later, with jury patches on some dentists bore holes in GI teeth.
wounded in both hands from shapnel, remained 1,600 holes, the cutter reached port on two motors Believing that the men who drew this dignified
at his machine-gun post until h e became uncon- without outside assistance. assignment must have special aptitudes for the
scious. An ammunition carrier named Marochkin, job, the Stars and Stripes of North Africa did
blown overboard by a bomb blast, swam back to a little investigating. It discovered that Pfc.
the ship and resumed his work. Again the Ger- Hazuda had been an undertaker, Sgt. Gannan a
mans were driven off. In Next Week's YANK . . prescription chemist in a drug store and Black
The cutter put to sea next day with the trans- an engineer. But classification found that Black
port in convoy, and the dive bombers returned. had worked his way through college mixing fill-
More than 100 bombs were dropped on or near ''MaUw-i ings; that's how he got his present job.
the cutter. The bridge and chartroom were d e - - . / ^ " ^ l i i ^ s i "f'.?^!^' Greatest pleasure the Three Pumpers have had
molished, the bow gun knocked out, the radio was the day a general was getting t w o fillings.
crippled and two motors silenced. A thousand h fth^^rift iiilfit '!• Their biggest disappointment was the day
holes riddled t h e hull, a n d the cutter began to • t W i g i W ^ - ^PWB». w Mitzi Mayfair appeared while the pumpers were
sink. out to lunch, and Kay Francis pumped while the
Petty Officer Kuropyatnikov, his left a r m torn dentist, Capt. Francis Runde of Galena, 111., did
off above the elbow, continued to man a machine his stuff. Pfc. Hazuda was particularly disap-
gun. Then he saw that smoke boxes which lay pointed that he had missed Mitzi.
on top of the depth charges had catight, fire. In "I sure would have loved to have seen her
his weakened condition he crawled to the fire but crunchers," he lamented.

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Air Force veterans, returning to watch tJbe flying Train-
ing ComfnofKfs new metfcods o# tBtxhii^ fvmkunentals
to jbemJbonfier%r nawigtOors and goiNietri, ah^ays say,
By Sgt. H. N. OUPHANT
YANK Staff Writer *'i ¥^tk we had fids stu& ktst ym*"
YOUNG gunner, back in the States on fur-
A lough after 11 months of action in a B-17
in the South Pacific, recently paid a visit
to the Flying Training Command's Flexible Gun-
ishment is understandable. The Flying Training
Command's new course in gunnery, revised with
you"ve got a proper range and lead, then go to
work on him with short bursts, you'll get a better
nery School at Harlingen, Tex. Escorted by non- thorough streamlining, is hardly recognizable to mission—and you'll live a lot longer."
com guides, he toured the pleice, from skeet a gunner who took his training a year ago. The student gets a 16-hour course that teaches
ranges and synthetic trainers to Laguna Madre, Student gunners used to get little ballistics in- him how the approximately 200 parts of a .50-
the rugged sub-depot on the Gulf of Mexico struction, little maintenance. Often they had fired caliber machine gun tick. He devotes five more
where GIs fire from the Sperry Ball, the Con- only a few hundred rounds before heading for hours to the secret sights. He gets 15 hours on
solidated and other turrets. After he had seen their first combat assignments. sighting and sight harmonization, learns how to
the works, the gunner said, "This is the damned- It's not that way now—by a long shot. sight a spot through the gun barrel, finds out
est place I've ever seen. P a r t of the joint is like During his 12 weeks at Harlingen, the student how to estimate the drop in the trajectory of a
Public School 20 in Brooklyn, another part is gunner spends 12 hours in a classroom learning bullet and masters the various sight adjustments.
like an alley of shootin' galleries in Coney Island ballistics. ("Ballistics," an instructor explains, "is Meanwhile, he learns the importance of lead-
and that range down on the Gulf is like Guadal- what makes a ballet go here, instead of there.") ing a target by firing a shotgun at clay pigeons
canal. It's screwy. But I wish to hell some of us He listens to confidential reports from the battle on the skeet range. After 500 rounds or so, he
early birds coulda had training like this." zones and studies letters from gunners at all goes to the GI shootin' gallery, a Coney Island
Harlingen, one of the Army Air Force's four fronts. For example, a tail gunner from North sort of a building in which flexible air machine
flexible-gunnery schools (the others are at Fort Africa writes: "A lot of us out here have had to guns are fired at moving miniature enemy-plane
Myers, Fla.; Las Vegas, Nev., and Tyndall Field. learn the hard way that ammunition is precious models. During tiiis period, he spends 12 hours
Fla.) contains such a variety of newly developed stuff, not to be thrown away every time you see learning how to spot Axis aircraft.
training devices that the young veteran's aston- an enemy plane in the sky. If you'll wait until To develop his sense of range and distance, the

PAGf «
YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9

student peers through regular sights mounted on "It's basically the same course," he said, "al- tory is flashed on a screen for an instant and
aji electrical device at moving silhouettes of though combat experience has dictated several then removed. By consulting his map, the navi-
enemy planes. He learns to judge a plane's dis- shifts of emphasis on certain subjects. For ex- gator is supposed to be able to identify the sec-
tance by its size and position in his ring sight. ample, observers at the front reported to us that tion he has seen. This system is being installed
Later at Laguna Madre, he gets important prac- a number of missions had failed because of vari- because many pilots in England reported that
tice at range estimation by looking through his ous forms of mechanical failure, such as fuse, quick recognition of landmarks was often the
sights at AT-6s, which swoop at him from all shackle or sight troubles. At once we increased only thing that saved them when flying over fog-
directions, sometimes streaking less than 20 feet the maintenance course from 4 to 34 hours and bound areas where only small slits of land were
above his head. intensified the training in actual repair work. visible for an instant at a time.
The trainees begin firing with .22-caliber Our cadets now learn their equipment from the 4. A great deal more stress is being placed on
machine guns. Then they go to the malfunction littlest bolt to the mechanism of a blockbuster." aircraft identification.
range, where deliberate sabotage is practiced. There have been few changes principally be- 5. Increasing attention is being paid to teach-
There are fifteen .30-caliber machine guns on the cause AAF bombardier training has always been ing code by lights as well as by sound. This has
rsyige in carefully adjusted, nonworking condi- built around the Norden and Sperry'bombsights, been done because it is essential for the navi-
tion. The GIs have to find out what's wrong and still the deadliest instruments of their kind in gator to be able to use light beacons flashing in
the world. Learning those sights was the cadet's code to take bearings.
fix it, pronto.
job a year ago, and it's his biggest job today. 6. A year ago navigation equipment at the
Letters from gunners in combat zones empha- Cadets, however, get considerably more gunnery
size the importance of maintenance. One gunner, schools was not identical with that used in com-
instruction than a year ago, and they have to
writing recently to an instructor at Harlingen, learn blinker code. bat. In the case of sextants, the lightest and most
said: "Thank God I got plenty of maintenance Most bombardiers, after completing the 12- easily manipulated were reserved for combat
before I was sent over here. On my last trip, I week course at Midland, go to navigation schools navigators. "The bulky hard-to-work ones were
had 'jam' trouble, and the trouble came at a now. The AAF intends to have in the future only used in training. As a result, navigators had a
damned unfortunate moment, with about 20 combination navigator - bombardiers. Reports tough time adapting themselves to the new
Zeros burning hell out of my tail. It was a jammed from combat zones show that on long missions equipment when they got to theaters of opera-
ejector. I spotted it and fixed it in a hurry. If I navigators wear themselves down to a frazzle, tion. Now the equipment at the schools and in
hadn't, those Japs would have ripped my stinger while bombardiers, save for 20 odd seconds on combat theaters is identical.
off in nothing flat." the target run, do nothing but cool their heels. Instructors W i t h Experience
Gunners Learn Their Turrets While the collective AAF experience in com-
bat has produced few changes in U. S. bomb- Many men with extensive combat experience
Other combat experiences have shown that ardier training, the FTC's new 18-week course are on duty as instructors at various AAF navi-
some missions were failures because gunners in tactical and combat navigation is based almost gation schools, guys like Lt. Everett S. Turner of
didn't know the mechanism of their turrets. "A wholly on procedures proved under fire. Binghamton, N. Y., who teaches tactical and
ship, for example, would be over the Channel en Nowhere in the AAF is.there a closer bond be- combat navigation to the cadets at Hondo Field.
route to a target in France," says Maj. Wilson J. tween the fronts and training school than at the Lt, Turner was stationed at Hickam Field, Ha-
Selden, Harlingen's director of training. "The FTC navigation centers. The AAF Navigation waii, when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor. For the
tail gunner would test his turret and discover School at Hondo Field, near San Antonio, Tex., next 15 months he was busy guiding a Flying
that it wouldn't work. He would notify the pilot for example, keeps the addresses of all its grad- Fortress all over the South Pacific on J a p - h u n t -
over the intercom, and the pilot would nose the uates, who report on their missions. At the s£une ing expeditions. During that time, he says, U. S.
ship around and head for home, relinquishing time, new ideas developed at Hondo are mailed map markers had to learn combat navigation
the mission. Gunners trained today know their to the men at the fronts. largely by trial and error.
turrets as well as a good dogface knows his Ml, In the early months of the war, Turner and
and if anything happens during a mission, they Lessons Learned Part of Program his crew were flying in a ship with no astro-
can usually fix it in flight." Lt. P. P. Dawson, of the navigation section of compass. In fact, they didn't even know there
After three weeks at Harlingen, the boys move the Flying Training Command, who saw plenty was such a thing. But they did know they needed
down to Laguna Madre on the desolate mudflats of combat while stationed in England, lists these something which an astrocompass would one
near the Gulf. Here they fire shotguns and sub- combat lessons learned by the AAF that are now day supply. So they took a little strip of sheet
machine guns from moving trucks at various a part of the training program in U. S. naviga- metal, a torn piece of negative film and some
kinds of moving and stationary targets, and they tion schools: ordinary red paint and made a crude but effec-
begin an acquaintance with a gun turret that 1. A year ago practically all navigation train- tive contraption of their own. The strip of sheet
ends, as a sergeant puts it, by being "downright ing was done in 5-place trainers, Beechcraft metal, 1 inch wide, was attached to the circular
indecently intimate." Then they climb into me- AT-7s. Now, in addition to the AT-7s, the schools edge (360°) of the top revolving gun turret. The
dium bombers and fly out over the Gulf to fire are using considerable numbers of tactical bomb- film softened the sun glare and the red paint
at tow targets. Finally, if the student passes a ers, notably B-24s and Venturas, \yhich the indicated the azimuth. The pilot could take a
tough examination and makes a qualifying score RAF has been flying lately in its raids on Germany. reading by simply looking over his shoulder.
on the ground and in the air, he gets a staff 2. They're teaching far less theory than a year "It got us to plenty of shows," Lt. Turner said.
sergeant's rating and his gunnery wings. ago, concentrating on the practical aspects of "And, equally important, it always got us back."
Flexible gunnery has at least one advantage navigation. For instance, the schools are now Perhaps the best way to sum up a story on the
over fixed gunnery. In a bomber, a gunner can experimenting with low-level tactical missions, new training which the FTC is dishing out to
swing his turret and guns on the target while which they would never have thought of doing our pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners
his ship keeps on course but a fighter pilot has a year ago. These flights, at an altitude of a p - is to quote a recent U. S. communique from Eng-
to swing the plane .itself to the target. The funda- proximately 100 feet, provide tough navigation land: "Heavy and medium bombers, with fighter
mentals of both, however, are identical. At Foster problems, since the air is almost invariably escort, raided certain points in France yesterday,
Field, the AAF Advanced Single-Engine Flying rough, and the pilotage points, which the student smashing wsrehouses, dock facilities and rail-
School near Victoria, Tex., future fighter pilots h^s to check, flash by in split-second succession. road yards with numerous direct hits. All our
get essentially the same preliminary training that 3. The navigators are now experimenting with planes returned safely."
bomber gunners get at Harlingen. "grope," a system of landmark recognition in A lot of the airmen on that raid were training
When cadets leave Foster, they get 14 days of which a photograph of a given portion of t e r r i - over the bondocs of Texas only a few weeks ago.
fixed gunnery at a God-forsaken strip of sandy
Texas soil in the Gulf of Mexico called Mata-
gorda Island or on nearby Matagorda Peninsula,
equally desolate. Here, under experienced com-
bat pilots like Maj. Paul Greene, who was with
the AVG in China, they first learn to "fire in"
and harmonize their guns. They learn how to
disassemble, clean and reassemble their pieces,
and how to load them with belts of ammunition.
They fire several times each day at a tow
target, peeling off and diving at a long strip of
meshed wire which is pulled through the air on
a prescribed course by another plane. (The tips
of their bullets are painted in various colors so
a record can be kept of their hits.) They swoop
in low, strafipg specially constructed ground
targets. They learn the intricate business of com-
pensating for cross winds close to the earth.
Upon completion of their course here, the
cadets return to their advanced schools where
they get their silver wings, additional transition
training and finally assignments to combat.
Lt. Col. C. A. Miller, CO of the Matagorda
base, summed up the course: "We teach pilots to G l I N V E N T O R S . Sgt. John Cable (left), MilvMoukee, Wis., poses by section of "Scenic Trainer" he
use a ship just as if it were a gun turret." dreamed up for gunnery students at Harlingen Field, Tex. Models of enemy planes, set on steel rods, speed
in and out of " p e a k s " and " c l o u d s " while trainees pepper 'em with BB shots from flexible air machine guns.
URING the past year, according to Lt. Col.
D John D. Ryan, assistant director of training
at the AAF Bombardier School near Midland,
Cpl. Dick Sanders (right), ballistics expert of Denver, Colo., looks through sight of synthetic trainer he helped
develop at Foster Field, Tex. Device consists of Link Trainer and fixed air machine g u n . Cadet fighter pilots,
firing from pitching cockpit at moving targets, learn lead and alignment.
Tex., there have been no significant changes in
the FTC program for bombardiers.

PAGB 9
By Cpl. RICHARD PAUL
YANK Washington Bureau Neiv on income over $2,124—^your $1,500 service pay
exclusion plus the $624 Victory-tax exemption.
Not many GIs will have to file declarations or

T HE new pay-as-you-go tax law, signed by the returns from now on. The act provided that

TAX
President last month, does practically every- everyone would have to pay both March and
thing for men in the armed forces except J u n e installments this year under the old sys-
serve them their breakfast in bed. In fact, it's so tem. But the Bureau of Internal Revenue noti-
liberal that unless you made a big pile of dough fied commanding generals of the service com-
with investments, dividends and the like in 1942, mands that servicemen whose March payment
your tax problems—for the duration, at least— took care of their whole liability under the new

BILL
will be as scarce as Japs on the island of Attu. law would not have to fork over a J u n e install-
In this new bill, the soldier's exemption for
service pay is $1,500 as compared with $250 or
^ 0 0 under the old law. This is in addition to the
personal exemptions to which every one is en-
titled. Thus a single soldier gets a $2,000 exemp-
tion from taxes, a married soldier $2,700. And
each child adds $350 more exemption. It Lets Servfcemefi
A married soldier with a working wife may,
however, want to apply the personal exemption OffEiasy
to his wife's salary. Married people are entitled
to $1,200 personal exemption between them, and
they can split it up however they see fit. Take
for example a sergeant in the U. S. who is pulling
down $936 a year and has a wife who works. His
$1,500 service-pay exclusion will keep him out of
the tax brackets, so he can permit his wife to
use the $1,200.
Remember, however, that this $1,500 exclusion
covers only service pay. It doesn't apply to
money you made outside the Army. You can't
apply it to stock dividends, money from the old
company that still keeps you on its pay roll or
gambling profits. But you can apply it to such
items as overseas pay, flight pay and so forth.
The next biggest feature of the new tax bill
is that it puts taxpayers on a current basis. In
other words, they pay taxes on their 1943 in-
comes in 1943, not in 1944 as would be the case
under the old system. However, the withholding
provisions, by which civilian taxes will be col-
lected at the source, do not apply to service pay.
The soldier will be unaffected by withholding
unless he is still on a civilian pay roll.
In getting on this pay-as-you-go basis Con-
gress had made provision for taking care of two
years' taxes in one year. It provided that:
1. Civilian taxpayers pay during 1943 the full
amount of the larger of the taxes for t h e years
1942 and 1943. - >^
2. The Government cancel $50 or 75 percei^tVv
(whichever is greater) of the smaller of the taxes '
of those two years.
3. The remaining 25 percent of the tax for the
smaller year be spread over the next two years,
with 12'/^ percent payable on Mar. 15, 1944, and
the rest on Mar. 15, 1945.
For soldiers, however, there is special relief in
a provision concerning earned income. Earned
income means the first $3,000 of a man's income
regardless of source and any above that amount
received as compensation for services. Unearned The only Gfs w i t h f a x problems now a r e those w h o
income means any income other than compensa- m o d e piles of dough from investments in 7 9 4 2 .
tion for services that is not included in the first
$3,000. All service pay is earned income. the tax was based on earned income, as a soldier • ment, saving the headaches cf a lot of refunds.
he is forgiven that tax, and also 75 percent of his Next Sept. 15 most civilians will have to file a
If a serviceman's 1942 tax exceeds his 1943 one, 1943 tax, which is nothing. In short, he doesn't
the earned-income provision in effect forgives 75 declaration of estimated income. There are three
have to pay a cent of tax for either year. classes of soldiers who must file the declaration
percent of the 1943 tax and as much of the 1942
tax as results from earned income. In a case Again, take the case of a soldier who had both also, but not many fall in those classes. If you
where his Army pay was his only source of in- earned income and income frorri investments in filed a 1942 return and had a gross income sub-
1942. His 1942 tax, after eliminating his earned ject to withholding greater than you expect in
come during the whole year, this means that the income, is $80. In 1943 his earned income is all
whole year's tax is canceled. A couple of e x - 1943, you file. Service pay, remember, isn't sub-
service pay, and the tax on it is wiped out by the ject to withholding. Of if you filed a 1942 return
amples may make this a little clearer. $1,500 exclusion, but he still owes a $75 tax on
Take a soldier who had only earned income in or expect to file a 1943 one and had or expect to
investment income. This year he must pay the have more than $100 investment income in 1942
1942 and owed $100 tax on it, and, with the new 1942 tax of $80. He is forgiven 75 percent of his
high exemptions, doesn't owe any t a x for 1943. or 1943, then too you must hand in the declara-
1943 $75 tax, and pays the other 25 percent of tion. Finally, you must file if you made in 1942
His greater tax year was 1942, and he would pay that tax in 1944 and 1945. For his earned income
that tax in 1943 if he were a civilian. But since or expect to make in 1943 more than $2,700 if
he doesn't owe anything, being in the same posi- single or $3,500 if married (including your wife's
tion as the first soldier. income). Otherwise, forget it.
In the declaration you figure what you think
CHANGE OF ADDRESS «/;;; "^^^^
scfib«f, ami hov* changMi your address, <»• iMs ca«pen
to notify ut of the dions*. MaH it to YANK, Hw Army
T HERE'S an exception to this complicated busi-
ness when a man's 1942 net earned income
was over $14,000, but anyone who made that much
you will make for this year. If you owe any tajt
on it that you haven't already paid in the first
two quarterly installments, you pay the r e -
Weokly, 205 East 43d StrMt, Now Yotlt 17, N. Y., and money can afford to hire his own tax lawyer. mainder in Sept. 15 and Dec. 15 of this year..
YANK will follow you to any port of tite world. These forgiveness provisions a r e most impor- One wrinkle of the new tax bill has escaped
' t i n t to men who entered the Army in 1942 or much comment. It is the provision for abatement
1943, especially if they made a lot of money be- of servicemen's taxes in case of death. Anyone in
fore they were inducted at $50 per. Without any of the services who dies while on active
F U U NAME AND RANK SERIAL N O . these provisions, a buck private's pay might not service will have all his unpaid taxes canceled.
be enough to take care of all his tax on his This applies to anyone who died after Dec. 7,
civilian pay, but with them the chances are that 1941, and will be in effect until the end of the
OLD MIIITARV AIMMIESS the tax will be forgiven. They apply to anyone war. The cause of the death doesn't make any
entering the service at any time in 1942 and 1943. difference. If your estate paid the taxes by mis-
All this forgiving of taxes doesn't have any- take, the money will be refunded. And it doesn't
NEW MIIITARV ADDRESS thing to do with the Victory tax, which you still matter how long you have owed them or how
owe and still have to pay on Mar. 15, 1944, unless big they are. If you want to get out of any taxes,
you are overseas. However with the new high just get in the way of a Mark VI. Or just spend
exemptions you pay a 5-percent Victory tax only a few days trying to figure out the new tax act.

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YANK The A r m y W e e k l y • JULY 9

YA N K
I
JULY 9, 1943
8y the met* • • for the
men in the service

THE ARMY WEEKLY

Discipline

S OME leaders in t h e b a t t l e sectors h a v e honestly w o n d e r e d w h a t h a p -


pened to their outfits w h e n things went badly wrong. P e r h a p s a
subordinate decided, u n d e r tough conditions, to go ahead and use
lights on vehicles d u r i n g a night m o v e m e n t despite standing orders to
the c o n t r a r y . P e r h a p s another did not see to it t h a t foxholes w e r e dug.
Or some other d e a t h - c a u s i n g relaxation of discipline was the cause of
t h e outfit's getting badly smeared.
T h e r e is only one answer. . . . Every experience . . . goes to show
t h a t an outfit in which essential discipline is relaxed on the battlefield
is an outfit t h a t is p r e t t y certain to cave in or go snafu when the test
comes. Not until t h e b a t t l e itself is reached does the high value of even
t h e m i n o r aspects of discipline prove itself. Carelessness in dress—anyi
of a dozen m i n o r offenses, and some bigger ones, too—when you let
these appear, when you stand for them, justifying t h e m on grounds that
you a r e getting close to b a t t l e and t h a t t h e r e is no need to insist on
ordinary discipline, you are simply training . . . to neglect and forget
the a t t i t u d e of response t h a t m a k e s for success the m o m e n t your outfit
does get into a real fight.
As you train, you h a v e your chance to build t h e discipline t h a t will
m a k e your u n i t a fine fighting outfit when it comes to battle. But you
have got to c a r r y t h a t discipline right on t h r o u g h into the fight. On
through t h e first b a t t l e to the next. And t h r o u g h t h a t one to t h e next.
A n d r i g h t on to the end. -InVontry journal, JuM 1943

Chow for Yank Prisoners


MERICAN soldiers held prisoner by
the G e r m a n s and Italians are b e -
ing supplied with weekly packages of
food by the American Red Cross
t h r o u g h the International Red Cross in
Switzerland. These packages, which
s u p p l e m e n t the meager p r i s o n - c a m p 'Your orders are to sink the American Navy again.'
rations, contain corned beef and pork, prunes, cheese, liver paste, b i s -
cuits, chocolate, milk p>owder. concentrated orange juice, powdered
coffee, sugar, oleomargarine, canned salmon and several packs of cigar- soldier be instructed on how to ask
ettes. Through the same channels t h e QMC supplies the prisoners with Washington O.P his question through proper military
all items of clothing, tooth ppwder and brushes, razors and razor channels" for "What in hell is the
blades, shaving c r e a m s and soap. Prisoners are also entitled to receive situation out in the field now?"
a package from their next of kin every 60 days. The WD is negotiating ASTP, hedging on OCS chances
with J a p a n to allow similar t r e a t m e n t for American soldiers held by
the J a p s , but so far a r r a n g e m e n t s h a v e not been completed.
B RIG. Gen. LaVerne G. Saunders,
deputy chief of air staff, says
that U. S. air losses in the knock-out
for graduates, states "the number of
soldiers actually appointed to OCS
blows on Pantelleria were one-half of will always depend upon the open-
N e w Army Clothing 1 percent of the planes engaged. . . . ings at any given time. Inasmuch
T h e QMC has started to issue cotton clothing to Arctic troops and In case you're asked, there are now as the number of openings has re-
knitted shirts to guys in the j u n g l e . It has discovered that the most about 5.600 dogs on active duty in cently been sharply reduced, this
comfortable clothes for sub-zero w e a t h e r are a l t e r n a t e suits of wool the Army and 3.500 more in training. statement has been prepared. . . .
and cotton topped with a n outer g a r m e n t of w i n d - and w a t e r - r e p e l l i n g Fashion Dept.: The WAAC cap is to avoid any semblance of misstate-
material, such as a fine-woven poplin. Hoboes use the same principle the only authorized headgear to be ment of fact." That brings ASTP'.s
in w r a p p i n g n e w s p a p e r s u n d e r their coats as insulation against t h e cold. worn with the uniform away from booklet and Y A N K S recent story up
The knitted .shirt for tropical climates is like a p u l l - o v e r s w e a t e r and the post. Garrison caps can be au- to date. Another ASTP change: All
has a high collar and long sleeves. T h e shirt comes in handy on cold thorized under local conditions for privates in advanced phases will get
nights in the j u n g l e . wear on the post only. . . . Hereafter. pfc. ratings. . . . We look for a rush
T h e QMC also has a new three-fingered mitten for cold weather, the chief of chf-plains will okay of new bills affecting servicemen to
with the trigger finger m a d e of deerskin. sketches of designs before GI artist.s appear in Congress shortly, or after
go to work on wall murals in the summer recess. And prohibition
Legion of Merit chapels. . . . Washington double- isn't dead.
The WD has simplified regulations governing the a w a r d of the talk; "It is recommended that this —YANK Woshingflon Burvow
Legion of Merit decoration, which is given to soldiers for services not
on the field of battle. T h e r e will no longer be four degrees of the decora-
YANK i< publUhMl WMkly by fk* Enliitcd New Guinea. Sgt. Dave Richardson, CA.
tion except in its a w a r d to m e m b e r s of the armed forces of friendly Men of th* U. 5. ArMV. o«td it for tolt Hawaii: Sgt. Merle Miller. AAF; Sgl. John
foreign nations. "It is particularly desired," the circular says, " t h a t only to thoM in rii* A r m x i S*r<icM. Bwsbemi, FA
StorittS, f«otw*«, pictvroi or oliior Mot*, Alosko: Sgl. Georg N. Meyert. AAF
recognition shall be given to fjersonnel in the enlisted and lower com- rial from YANK may be reproduced if Ponomo: Sgt. Robert G Ryon, Inf.
missioned grades." The changes do not affect previous a w a r d s of the Hiey ore not restricted by law or mili. Bermwdo; Cpl. Williom Pens du &aia.
tory regwiotien. provided proper credit British Gwiono; Pvi fred A. Perux^ti, Inf.
Legion of Merit. is 9ive«, release dotes ore observed Puerto Rico: Cpl Byron B. Evans. Inf.; Sgt.
and specific prior permission bos been Lou Stoumen.
$64 Question granted for eacb item to be reprod«*<ed Nassau: Sgt. Do^^id B. Fold Jr.. MP.
Icelond. Cpl. Oenms Wiegond, AAF; Sgt. Gene
A corporal muffed the $64 question on a radio p r o g r a m because he YANK EDITORIAL STAFF Groff, Inf.
didn"t know the n a m e s of the bosses of the t h r e e main b r a n c h e s of the Monociing Erfilor, Sqt. io« MrCor^y, fA; Art
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Service Forces: Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell; A r m y Ground Forces: Lt. Pictures. Sgt leo Hofeller, Armd.; Features, Sgt. OfRcer in chorge. Lt. Cot. Franklin S. Forsborg;
Oowglos ftorgstedl. OEMl; Sports, Sgt. Don Policr, Editor, Mai. Hortielt SperKe; Detachment Com-
Gen. Lesley J. McNair. AAf. monder, Copt. Sam Hwmpbfus.
Overseas Bureau OfBcers: Loocloa, Moi. Desmond
Wasliington: Sgt. €arl Anderson. AAF; Cpl.
Counting Destroyed Enemy Planes Richard Paul, OEML.
H. O'Connell; Cairo. Capt. William H. Carter;
Aloska, Capt. Jack W. Weeks; Puerto Rtco, It.
The WD has disclosed the official method of counting e n e m y planes London: Sgt. Silt RicKordson, Stg. Corps; Sgt. Gerald Rock; AuMrolio, Capt. OofKiM W. RoyiMlds.
Harry Brown, £ngr.; Cpl. Sen Frozier. CA; Sgt. 1st L>. Jesse L. Bigbee; Hawaii, Cttpt. Chorlos W.
destroyed b y the AAF. An e n e m y plane is counted lost if it is seen Walter Peters. QM; Sgt. Jack Scott, FA; Cpl. Chorles Balthrope; Panama, Capt. Henry E. Johnson.
descending completely enveloped in flames; if it is seen to disintegrate Brand, AAF; Cpl. Thooias Ftenting, DEML; Cpl. Full iA-kom INS and UP leased wire service.
Stephen Oerry, DEML; Cpl. Louis McFodden, Engr.;
in the air, or its complete wing or tail is seen to be shot away from the Sgt. Durbin Hom*r QMC. M A I N EDITORIAL OFFICE
fuselage; or if it is a single-seater and t h e pilot is seen to bail out. It's 205 EAST 420 ST.. NEW YORK 17, N. Y., U.S.A.
North Africa: Sgt. Peter Poris. Engr.; Sgt. Ralph
easier to count J a p planes destroyed t h a n those of the Axis because w h e n 6 . Martin, Inf.; Sgt. Milton Lehman of Sfors A
Stripef.
a Zero gets hit once it's a goner. AAF in China has chalked up a record
of 10 to 1 in air combat since 1942 and in Europe, a record of 6 to 1.
Cotro: Sgt. Burge«» Scott, Inf.; Sgt. George This W e e k ' s C o v e r
Aorons, Sig. Corps; Sgt. Walter Bernstein, Inf.
Iraq-Iran: Sgt. Al Hin; Engr.; Sgf. Jomes The stirring photogroph oi O l d GU>ry was
O'Neill. QMC.
Jewelry in Hawaii India: Sgt. Ed Cunningham, Inf.; Sgt. Robert
mode as it fiewr over on American air base
Sgt. F. S. Miller writes in from Hawaii that the latest jewelry gadget Ghio, MP. in North Africa. It was from such desert
Chtno: Sgt. John P, Barnes, AAF. oirfietds that thousands of U, S. planes
there is a gold lapel pin for the soldier's girl. T h e pin has the letters Austrolio: Sgt. Oon Morrison, AAF; Sgt. Richard lounched the air ottocks that did so much
"USA," with the guy's rank insignia, from a pfc. stripe to a general's Hanley, AAF.
to drive the Axis from Africa.
South Pacific: Sgt. Mock MorriH, Inf.; Sgt.
star, suspended by delicate chains from the initials. Howard Brodie, Sig. Corps.
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Pvt. James Miiier of Covington, Ky., asks Pfc. Leo Riopelle of Lowell, Mass., boards N a t i v e soidiers in U. S. A r m y Puerto Rican u
directions f r o m Oswald Messiah, a native Trinidad streetcar on the green of pic- l i k e Pfc. Braulio Santiago Torrez, machine gun
British mounted constable in T r i n i d a d . turesque Queens Park, Port-of-Spain. shown a b o v e , get overseas pay even though t
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are stationed near home. If they are sent back to This Air force musical comedy t r o u p e flew f r o m W a l l e r Field, T r i n i d a d , to e n t e r t a i n so
the States for f o r e i g n duty at Fort Benning, Ga., diers in British Guiana at their jungle bose. At the r i g h t , t w o of the stars in the C
they lose t h a t e x t r a m o n e y . Don't ask us w h y . show, Pvt. Phil Ducat of N e w Y o r k , N. Y.. ond Sgt. W a y n e Freitag of Wauwatosa, W i
YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9

half-aloud. "The troubles I got on me head


shouldn't happen to a top kick." He sent another
one down the groove. Low and inside.
"Ball," we said.
"Ah, for gaw sakes," Artie said. He let .another
one go. The little man took a healthy cut at it and
missed it by a margin of something like two feet.
"OoDoooo," the little man said. "A Lefty Gomez.
A Hubbell. Greengroin the speed merchant. OK.
The next one I knock down yer windpipe."
The next one went behind him and to the left.
ARTIE ON THE MOUND "Ball," we said. "Three and one."
HEY were playing baseball in the field down latrine orderlies laughed themselves silly around
T behind the Motor Pool and they had us in
there cis umpire. At least, Artie Greengroin
had us in there as umpire. He was pitching for the
the plate.
The KPs' first baseman strolled over to the
pitcher's box. "Look old boy," he said. 'I think
Artie turned to us. "What would you do, ole
boy?" he asked. "Would you give him the incoive
or the outshoot?"
"Mix 'em up," we said.
KPs, against the latrine orderlies, and h e had you played a great game so far. But yer best days
raised such a howl that they had stuck us in be- is pass. Why don't you take up coaching behine
hind the pitcher's box. Artie trusts us, we think.
Artie, let it be said here and now, is no pitcher.
thoid base for instance?"
"Beat it," Artie said. "Get back to your vocation."'
A BTiE let it go. For once he really had some speed
, on it. The little man never saw it go by him.
Neither did we. We said "Strike" on principle.
He is strictly no hit, no field, no nothing, but h e is He turned to us. "Thass awways the way it is," "Thass more like it," Artie said. "Thass more
a great man on the dialog, after the school of Leo he said. "The minute a guy runs up against a little like the ole Greengroin. Thass the way I used to
Durocher, and is very handy along those lines. adversity the pack is on his heels. Now, if I was be before I took to soft living and fancy dress."
He was being very handy along those lines in the winning they'd be talking out of the other side of The little man seemed puzzled. He looked first
third inning of the game between the KPs and the their face. 'Nice game, Artie,' they'd say. 'They's at Artie and then at the catcher. It was quite an
latrine orderlies. The score was 26-0 in favor of nobody like our boy Greengroin to boin 'em down impressive moment. Even Artie's first baseman
the LOs. the ole alley. Greengroin's the bess pitcher in the was impressed. "Come on, Artie, ole boy," he said.
"Awright," Artie said. "Awright. This is the E T C Thass the way they'd talk if I was in me "Give him the end-all. Make him walk aWay."
time I get them." He pegged the apple to first base regular good form. But now look at the ole bassars. Artie began the old elaborate wind-up, three
and the first baseman missed by two feet. The Awways on me neck, awways trying to cut me times around. Then he threw. The little man
game was held up while he retrieved the ball. t'roat. Humiane nature is a grim and terrible thing." tensed himself, swung and missed as clean as a
"For gaw's sake," Artie said, "what kine of a "So are you, Artie," we said. "So are you." whistle. "You're out!" we said.
team have I got behine me? Grdver Cleveland The next batter was Artie's nemesis, the little The little man threw his bat in the general
Alexander would of crumbled behine a team like man we had r u n into several times before, the guy direction-of first base. "The only trouble with this
this." to whom Artie has owed four quid for almost as game," he said, " i s that he is a crook. He's a scab.
"You got a arm like a ole woman," the first long as the Bank of England has been making He's a company spy. We don't need no empire in
baseman said as he returned to his sack. them. this game."
•'You got a eye like a bline beggar," Artie r e - "Awright, ya rummy," the little man said. "Feed Artie's meager chest was swelling perceptibly.
torted, me a homer. Jess slip me a home run. It ain't every He was taking a new lease on life, a new lease on
"Play ball," we said. day I gets the chancet to face the woist pitcher in the game. "You know," he said to us while the
"With this herd of Arabs?" Artie said. "If t h e . the country." infield was pegging the ball around, "I think I got
American Army fights wars like these toikeys Artie's jaw set. He wound up and let go. It was a future in baseball. The Dodgers could use a man
play baseball, the Goiman Army is as good as in high and outside—very high and very outside. like me, a man that's awways poised and calm
Niagara Falls right now." "Ball," we said. and cerlected. When I get back to the States I
"Trun me that ball at me bat," the batter roared. "Bline man," Artie hissed. think I'll have a little talk with Branch Rickey
"I'll trun it down yer t'roat," Artie said. "Wass the matter?" the little man wanted to and maybe we can come to some kine of toims.
Artie wound up, giving his throwing a r m a set know, "are you afraid of jne? Greengroin, you ole I'd be a good influence on baseball."
of complicated and rather ingenious twirls. Then bassar, I'm going ter drive this right down yer "You certainly would," we said.
he heaved one down the groove. The batter, a little windpipe. This is going to be four quid's worth of And the game went on. Final score: latrine
man, proceeded to knock it into Northumberland. batting average." orderlies 53; KPs 7. Artie hit a homer, too. A
He trotted casually around the bases while the Artie swallowed. "A placement hitter," he said great kid, Artie. A definite prospect.

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f TRAWHG POST WORDS AillOSS THE SEA


"I a m c o m p i l i n g , an anthology of raal soldiers'
songs—not t h e kind y o u sing in t h e parlor. Send
w o r d s and m u s i c o r w o r d s only. If original, author
gets credit. Don't bother to have O K e d b y t h e chap-
lain."—Sj/t. Emanuel Weiner, 130H0857, APO 4181,
PM, Seattle, Wash T h e following want to swop
stiowldor potdtos and insignio: Cpl. J o h n Risio, Serv.
Co., 349th Inj., Camp Gruber, Okla.: Lt. Betty
Stinson, 1326 SU, Sta. Hasp., Camp Lee. Va.; Sgt.
Jack E. Merrill, Hq., USMA, West Point, N.Y
Stomp collectors: "1 will send first-day covers of
•new U. S. stam'ps t o m e n overseas if t h e y will
w r i t e to m e b y V - M a i l . I a m building a specialized Beck Doty Manwnes Homer i Harmon Konzel
collection of V - M a i l letters."—John D. Stanard, Master T/Sgt. Edward A. 'Beck, U S M C , N e w Lt. Joseph E. Homer (right) w a n t s P v t . E r w i n A.
734 N. Broadway, Dayton, Ohio. . . . Supply Ser- Hebrides, sends w o r d to his friend, Cpl. T e d Wil- H a r m o n (left) to write h i m c / o Y A N K ' S Words
geants: T w o filled olive-colored, barracks bags son, w h o left Beck's post four m o n t h s a g o to at- Across t h e Sea. H a m e r s a y s h e o w e s H a r m o n $10
marked 203C—Erhard S c h w a r z b e r g , 3271009—A tend O C S in the States: "When you're in N e w and the interest is piling up. . . . Steve N. Konzel
( B ) h a v e been lost. P l e a s e send t h e m t o PtJt. York, look u p Margie. B u t take it e a s y ; I'm t h e S 2 c stationed at S a n Juan, P u e r t o Rico, tells P v t .
JSrhard S c h w a r z b e r g , Btry. G, 13th CA, Fort Pick- g u y w h o m a r r i e d her.". . . Cpl. Ralph R. Doty, of T o n y Grudo it's v e r y important h e g e t in t o u c h
ens, Fla. . . . "Novehy 'Gold Bricks' for sale, to b e H e m p s t e a d , L. I., just back from P u e r t o Rico tells w i t h h i m o r w r i t e Mrs. J. A b r a m c z y k , 1345 L y n n
used as p a p e r w e i g h t s , book ends, w a l l decoration, h i s pal, P f c . William Parker, at Morrison Field, St., Erie, Pa. . . . M/Sgt. Victor M. Macy, just r e -
etc. Illustrated w i t h a gold brick in action, w i t h Fla., that h e w a s h o m e on a 20-day furlough and turned from a N . A t l a n t i c base to attend OCS in
n a m e of soldier and c a m p lettered underneath. is n o w stationed at C a m p S h e l b y , Miss. . . . Sgt. f. t h e States, tells 1st Sgt. Erickson and M / S g t . B a s -
$1.50 each or three for $3."—PtJt. H. E. Caiey, Med. AAanunes, B l y t h e , Calif., s e n d s this to Pfc. Frankie sett: "I hoisted o n e for e v e r y m a n in t h e c o m p a n y ,
Det., 133 Engr. (C) Bn., NWS Post Office Co. A, Korowitz, S. Pacifier "Show t h e gals in T o k y o t h e but couldn't take care of t h e battalion. O n l y h a d 10
Fort Levois, Wash. Lindy Hop—I'll be over soon.'* days' furlough."

If anyone knows where He. WMnd Uciw, overseas wants his friends in the armed forces from St.
in the Field Artillery, is stationed, will he write to Louis, Mo., to write him. . . . Sgt. Douglas McLeod
Pfc. H. T. CoMim c / o YANK'S Message Center? . . . Cpl.
John 0. Skally wants to hear from Cpl. WMtam T. Enkin*.
overseas in the Engineers. . . . Pvt. s. FrMnmrdii wants
MESSAGE wants to get in touch with KoneU Wondling, who
took a gunner's course at Fort Monroe. Va.. in De-
cember 1941. . . . Pfc. John (High PockeH) Fitihugh
news from 2d It. Jo* Gromko, somewhere in the has some important news for Cirf. Grondville E. Sturm,
States, and p»t. John SIMI*, somewhere in Hawaii. . . .
Pvt. Ed. RWMION wants letters from Pv*. JanMs Picote,
CENTER a marine in the S. Pacific. . . . Pvt. Cliencs Steveoeon
wants to hear from his St. Louis. Mo., friends now
Pvt. Robert Parra and Pvt. io» RoHMra. . . • Sat. Ridiard in the service. . . . Pvt. Andy Folio. India, wants news
Cibbem wants the address of S«t. OwMid MUrdioni, Th« centof won't M vt print the full o d d r a u of indiriduol from Pvta. tesGe Tobits and Josapb M. Bibbio. who were
who was in Btry. Co. 338th FA in Oklahoma. . . . mwt ovarseos. All the messages fhis week come /rom~ men
l>oth stationed at Drew Field, Fla. . . . Sgt. Wilbur E.
Will M/Sflt. GMrga P. ThenM, N. W. Africa, write to Walls would like to hear from his brother, Pvt. leon
Pfc. Murray C. llienM? - . . T/Sflt. C. J. Meoacetl wants overseas, so if you wanf to get in tovdi with a friend men- I. Walts, at Fort Clark, Tex., and his friends of St.
U. WiKoOT E. SIraa to know bis letters, in reply to tioned here, address your letter to him c / o Messoge Center, Louis. Mo. . . . Cpl. Ralph Reedy wants to hear from
those received in June and July, were returned. YANK. 2 0 5 £. 42<f St.. N e w York 17. N . Y. Well forward ». his cousin. Roland Simpfcins. . . - Pvt. Mike (Tioy) Kobon
Shea should write to Monacell c / o YANK'S Message of Aliquippa. Pa., wants to get in touch with his
Center. . . . Sgt. Jock WootMr wants mail from BvriMll sister Pearl, a Navy nurse. . . . Pfc. Gerald E. Dietzman
Hymmi. somewhere in the Navy. . . . pfc. Uiii»»tt« wants to hear from j . D. Tinec, who was stationed wants to hear from Pvt. Alvin E. Sdiultz of Milwaukee,
CwMowx has lost track of Pfc. H. J. GfriHiun. . . - at Camp Edwards. Mass. . . . Pvt. WJUMM Warren Wis., who was stationed at Tyler. Tex., when last
Pvt. Stoniav R. Monro*, an infantryman in the S. Pa- wants news from Pvt. WiHiam Omer in Hawaii. . . . heard from. . . . Lt. Byron S. Block wants to make
cific, should write to Pvt. Roboit A. Ryan. . . . Sat. Jodi Pvt. Frcmklin W. Thomirfiim wants mail from Gordo* contact with his brother-in-law. Moj. Joseph Bitmon.
Y. GraMbora wants a few words from Hcwry Roth, and Freeman ThompUm in the Navy, somewhere in . . . Will aorence S. Dawson, who was in a medical
formerly of Detroit, Mich. . . . Pvt. Horry DmrtMh the S. Pacific. , . $gt. Scwfnea i. VoSno has news for detachment at Camp Roberts. Calif., write to Pvt.
wants to hear from two friends with the Biigineers- WoHy Sloyton, Australia, if he will write. . . . Sgt. Joe Daniel W. Webb? . • • Will anyone knowing the where-
in N. Africa: Konnoth Brwdiaaor and M M Bicfcina. • - Oovn wants mail from Johmry Harmon, with whom abouts of William Camn get in touch with Pfc. Francis
Cpl. Looi* E. Todoro wants news from his brother in he enlisted at Pensacola, Fla., June 1923. . . . It's J. Maguire. . . . Pfc. Lester Gates has a message for Sgt.
the Navy, Joo Todoro SKlc, and Pvt. rmwlhy C. Skonnan. urgent that Frank Tolh of Brooklyn. N. Y.. ^ t in Robert Krogh. stationed in N. Africa. . . . M/Sgt.
once at Fort Meade, Md. . . . Pvt. V««o Sov«M wants touch with Cpl. Mick Klem. . . . Will S/Sot. Irwin P. Charles W. Coprono is anxious to get in touch with
his three brothers, JanMs, Donwt and WHUom Sovall, Shorpe and Sat. Jolie Kanon get in touch with Sgt. S/Sgt. Charles Snyder. . . . Sgt. Richard M. Griswold would
to know he's been fighting in New Guinea and won Harold Tunick? . .,. Lt. Thomas A. Herring wants his Old like to hear from someone who knows the 'address
the Silver Star. He's in the hospital in Australia friends, and especially Sgt. E. A. Volenttne. Sig. Corps, of S/Sgt- Paul Gollippio. who was at the Salt Lake
now and wants them to write. . . . Cpl- Uroy MHUr and Sgt. Clarence Collolian, Paratroops, to write him. City Air Base,
. • . Cpl. James L. Durham, somewhere in New Guinea,

Dear YANK: Dear YANK:


Compony Street [in a June issue of I want to thank you for having your

AlailCall
YANK] carried a yarn about P v t Mar- anniversary issue on June 25. 1943, be-
vin Rubin of Fort Slocum, N. Y , cause that is the date of my birthday.
spending 11 hours telephoning from It was also Gen. Henry H. Arnold's
New Rochelle to Brooklyn in order to birthday and Lord Louis Mountbatten's,
get his girl to agree to a wedding date. chief of the Commandos,
You mention he was armed with plenty - P f c , GEORGE LEO RESH
of nickels. Brother, he had to have Dear YANK: Dear YANK: Lowry Field, Colo.
plenty, because it costs considerably In a June issue of YANK there was a I offer this challenge to any member
more than a nickel to call Brooklyn picture of a staff sergeant firing a ma- of the armed forces: Eddie Shaboo
from New Rochelle, As a matter of fact chine gun at Harlingen (Tex,) Gunnery CMlc, former US Navy's welter wres- Dear YANK:
it's a 15-cent call, so if he made 140 School range. The caption refers to the tling champion during World War I In Compony Street (in a May issue
calls as you stated it cost him $21, To machine gun as a 50-mm, but I think and at present the Seabee's proud Judo of YANK] Pfc, Victor Sali of Camp
me the item smells fishy. If brother you'll find it's a caliber .50 machine instructor at Camp Peary, Williams- White, Oreg.. said his engineering unit
Rubin had the time to spend 11 hours gun. Tish. Tish, built a ponton bridge, 369 feet long,
in a phone booth, why didn't he get a - P v t . BILL SALT in one hour and 27 minutes. He claims
pass and go to Brooklyn, It's only an Miami Beach, Fla.
this is a record for portton-bridge build-
hour on the subway, ing! You weren't taken in by this, were
• T o Bill Salt a n d others: Sorry w e you? Because a year ago my regiment,
- P v t , f. E, KENNY the n t h Engineering Battalion, put up a
slipped up, but y o u made an error,
lacirbourne Army Air Base, Ohio too. T h e gun is a caliber .30. Tsk. light ponton bridge, 1,080 feet long,
• Maybe he w a s afraid he'd be Tsk. . . . in 1 hour and 35 minutes. I don't think
bounced d o w n the steps by her old that record has been beaten.
man. -Pvt, C H A R U S STRICKER
Dear YANK:
I have a request to make. Your story Panama Conaf
Dear YANK: [in a May issue of YANK] called "How
Here is evidence that irritating ininj^s to live on a Desert Island" has me Dear YANK:
are not always lousy (see photo beloic). burg. Va., challenges any wrestler at I can tell you the origin of the Kee
thinking. How about printing an article 148 pounds for a $1,000 side b e t My
-Pfc, BERNARD AUSTEIN called "How to Live in Elizabeth address is: Area A. Bks. 104, Camp Bird yarn which appeared in Poets Cor-
Gulfporl Field, Miss, County. Va."? That's where I'm sta- Peary, Williamsburg, Va, nered Tin a May issue of YANK], My
tioned and if .something isn't done soon. brother, Lt. Col, Dick Kight, was Wen-
—EDDIE SHABOO C M U dell Willkie's pilot on his round-the-
Congress will have to pass a bill giving Comp Peary, Ya.
all men down here an additional 20 per- world hop. When they were flying over
cent for foreign service. Siberia, the heating unit in.the GuIUuer
Dear YANK: went out and Mr. Willkie was standing
-Sgt, I R V I N G E. KAUFFMAN
Your sports editor proposed tin a in the aisle slapping himself trying to
For! Monroe, V a . June issue of YANK] the formation of keep warm. M S g t . James Cooper, a
an all-Army baseball squad, composed member of the crew, told Mr, Willkie
Dear Y.WK: of teams picked from the Air Forces he looked and sounded like the Kee
Would it tje possible for Sgt. George and the Ground Forces and operating Bird who sits on the North Pole slap-
Baker to promote poor old Sad Sack to like the East and West football teams ping himself with his wings, crying
Pfc." He's not the most brilliant soldier last fall. I hope this deal goes through, "Kee-Kee-Keerist but it's cold." How-
we've seen but he tries to the best of his because we'd like to propose a trainer ever, there is bad news for the GIs who
ability. for the Air Force team. How about P v t are writing more Kee Bird poems for
-Sod Sock for Pfc. Committee* Joe Doller, who in our estimation is you. An unidentified aircraft was
Camp Swift, Tex. the only big-time trainer in the AAF7 spotted by crack-pot (pardon, crack-
•Committee 1st Sgt. Elmer S. Bodi, He was trainer for the Chicago Bears shot) antiaircraft Joes off the West
S/Sgts. William H. Pantoplas, Jack C. Lun- football team and assisted the trainer Coast, They cut loose, and bingo, no
nen Wilfred Farley and Sgt. Merle L. for the Chicago Cubs baseball club last more Kee Bird, I hope your poets will
Derby. season. At present he's an aviation let him die in peace.
• Ratings are pretty damn scarce cadet here _ $ , , . RAY REITER -Pfc, EUGENE R. KIGHT
around here. Fresno, Calif. and the Men at BTC No. 8 Frederick, Okla.

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THE POETS CORNERED


^^^iMWf Nor oM your pie#y and wH
Shall Iwe H back to cancel half a line.
COAST TO COAST. Carol Bruce, star of Broad-
way musicals, will head the cast of "Show Boat," Pfc. Omar K., 1st Pyramidal TerU Co
which opens the summer-theater season in
Louisville, Ky. . . . Roger Touhy, whose escape L ^
inspired the picture, will
be among the 1,000 in- THE DAUNTLESS TROOP MOVEMENT
mates of Stateville Prison Though some must fight the war with ships These are the young, the purebred, the highly
near Joliet, 111., who will And some with cannon's boom. priced.
see "Roger Touhy, Last They also serve who only sit Traveling in Pullmans, watching the states
of the Gangsters" in the In an orderly room. roll by:
prison recreation hall the The thin, red farm lands of Georgia, the t u r -
same night the film is Yes; some we say must fight with guns key buzzards
premiered in Chicago. . . . Or teach weather classes, Wheeling circles against the blue Virginia sky.
The OPA stopped station But who dares say that he fights not
KGO in San Francisco Who types week-end passes? Tractor and mule teams crossing the late
from bartering coffee, afternoon,
sugar and other rationed Firm and entrenched behind a desk. Women from dusty porches waving good-byes,
items on its "What's Do- There does he take his stand. Improvised peace and home and family are
Corol Bruce in', Ladies?" program on Stern defiance on his face and posed
the ground that it constituted a black market. . . . A pencil in his hand. In neat and familiar patterns before their eyes.
The Yacht Club, Pittsburgh's floating night club,
now on the bottom of the Monongahela River, And while o'er all the global map Green shaded sw'aying evening; poker and
will not be raised, but will be salvaged piece by The nations sway and sink. craps
piece. The Heller Brothers, owners, are said to There he will fight the murderous Jap Continue, the train turns westward, and sing-
have lost $25,000 when it sank. . . . Keeping track To his last drop of ink! ing starts.
of the bands: Abe Lyman is on tour in the di- - S / S g l . WiUIAM KRASUffiR
Grand Kafuds Training Center, Mid%.
The air grows colder, gradually night begins
rection of the West Coast after a long stay at And quietly tightens around them and in their
New York's Hotel Lincoln, GrifT Williams is fea- hearts.
tured at the Palmer House in Chicago, Ted Lewis A COUPLET
England -»'• *°*«* «» fKSTON
is playing the Biltmore in Los Angeles, and If you want to ^et skinny
Joe Reichman and his boys are at San Francisco's Go to New Guinea. 20/20
Mark Hopkins. . . . Mickey Alpert, who was -Sg«. CHARLES D. PEARSON This soldier's eyesight worried me
leading the band last November when the fire New Guineo It seemed so very poor;
broke out in Boston's Cocoanut Grove which took Now here's the story why it did
almost 500 .lives, is to reorganize his band after ANOTHER COUPLET But doesn't any more:
he recovers' from a bad case of jitters brought In my present mood
on by his experiences that night. I'd prefer you nood. This yardbird on the rifle range
- P f c . NORMAN RUMNSTEIN Would aim and concentrate.
HOLLYWOOD. Katharine Hepburn's next picture Olmstead Field, Pa. And hit I h e bull on Target 6
will be "Without Love," from the Philip Barry While shooting Target 8.
play in which the Theater Guild starred her in AND ANOTHEH
He could not see an officer
New York. . . . Laird Cregar, who took off 52 Soldiers shun lasses When walking down the street.
pounds after he decided Allergic to passes. Although the distance'd be no more
he was getting too fat, - P v t . LOUIS FISHER Than 10 or 20 feet.
has been given the dis- Camp Crowder, Mo.
turbing news that his In town today I saw him run.
next role will be that of QUERY His face was creased with smiles.
a character even heftier Should the Nazis make use I followed him as best I could;
than himself — Hermann Of electrical juice He ran a couple miles.
Goering in "Ambassador
Dodd's Diary." . . . John To power their blitzkrieg advancers. I couldn't see a thing, but he
Garfield will play Barney Could we possibly say. Could see her very plain;
Ross in a film depicting As they roll on their way. For up the street a mile or two
the former welterweight That the Nazis have amps in their panzers? There walked a lovely jane.
champion's heroic adven- - P v t . JOHN W. SUUIVAN N « , Guineo - ^ JOHN READEY
tures on Guadalcanal. . . . Beloit College, Wis.
Katharine Hepburn "Ready, Willing and 4-F"
is the title of a picture that will star Eddie
Bracken, William Bendix and Gil Lamb. . . . asked for dates 26 times, was whistled at 389 times,
Mickey Rooney, 4-F with his draft_board, plans danced with 89 times, and was stood up 0 times
a tour of overseas Army camps this'summer. . . .
Lois Andrews is the only Hollywood starlet
whose father is young enough to make appli- OMPANY STREET The 67th class at the Fort Benning (Ga.) parachute
school broke Beiming records when not a single
man dropped out during the one-month training
cation for OCS. He is Sgt. George Gourley of the period. . . . Pvt. George Harris, Fort teonard Wood,
AAF and is 40 years old. . . . The Hardy Family Mo., claims to be the smallest GI in the Army.
is celebrating its sixth year on the screen. In He's 4 feet 11 inches. Don't ask us how he got
that time, 13 pictures have been made showing in the Army. . . . At Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Pvt.
the affairs of Andy and his folks. . . . Woody Chas. D. Masten made a perfect m a r k of 160 for
Herman, the orchestra leader, is trying to sell his AGrC test, highest ever made there. . . . Pvt.
20th Century-Fox the idea of having Sonja Henie Richard Zaterski got the longest letter ever r e -
sing in her next picture. Sonja sang with Her- ceived at Camp Edwards, Mass. I t was 87 feet, 2
man's band and he is convinced she has possi- inches long. His girl wrote the letter. . . . Two
bilities. . . . Anita Louise returns to the screen sailors attached to' the Third Naval District were
in Columbia's "Nine Girls" after an absence of bragging that each one was assigned to the biggest
two years. . . . Una O'Connor was born in Holly- ship in the Navy. "My ship," said the first sailor,
wood, Ireland, believe it or not; it's a suburb of "is so big ttiat our captain has to go around the
Belfast. MUSIC. Cpl. Salvatore Ficcitto, vocalist and deck in a racing car.'' "That's nothing," said tlje
guitar player, and Cpl. Don Layton, bull-fiddle second sailor. "My ship is so big that down in its
player, belong to an ack-ack crew in Tunisia that galley the cook has to go through the Irish stew
t H E I K E R STRATEGY has its own orchestra, even on the front lines. Be-
tween concerts the orchestra knocks down Nazi
in a submarine to see if the potatoes are cooked."
CANW hyiot eu faces?
se€ t h e d a n g e r
If h e a d - 1 Z 3 41 Focke-Wulfs. . . . The Four Commanders, a vocal
v a n c e s 24 to 19. t h e n Black quartette of Ordnance GIs in Tunisia, enter-
5 'Q) 7
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m o v e s 8 t o 11. a n d t h e tained President Roosevelt and Prime Minister
White piece o n 19 faces T U N E
annihilation. 9 10 11 Churchill at Casablanca. From left to right [photo
T h e p r o b l e m is t o w o r k abot;c]: Sgt. Grady Porter, leader; Cpl. Amos VE R S E
o u t a s t r a t e g y of m o v e s for 13 14 15 Ife Lundy, tenor; S/Sgt. Booker Harris, baritone, and
White that would insure 17 18 19 S/Sgt. Paul Favors, bass. . . . Prettiest umpah
a draw against Black's N 0
player in the A r m y is T/4 Luanne Spurgeon,
s t r o n g e s t a t t a c k . Look 'em
o v e r carefully.
Zl 22 23 w who toots a baritone in the WAAC Orchestra at Tp rHIS j u m b l e of w o r d s a n d
l e t t e r s is a c t u a l l y a
25 26 2?
Before c h e c k i n g y o u r
analysis w i t h t h e solution
on p a g e 22. n u m b e r y o u r 29 30 31 31
U Fort Des Moines, Iowa. . . . The most popular GI
bugler in England is Pfc. Tommy Zylman, former-
o b l e m in long division.
A letter has been substi-
t u t e d for e a c h digit. C a n
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b o a r d from I to 32 as ly a trumpeter on Tommy Tucker's band. Zyl- you restore the problem 0 V
shown. WHITE TO IMOVE AND DRAW man gets the guys out of bed with swing rendi- t o its o r i g i n a l n u m e r i c a l
tions of first call and reveille. . . . On the way state?
to raid over Antwerp, the crew of a Flying T h i s is a lot e a s i e r t h a n T U "s"
it m a y look. A little e x a m -
Fortress asked Brig. Gen. Heywood S. Hansell, ination a n d y o u ' l l b e s p o t -
T T T
Grace AAcDonold who was a guest on the ship, to sing them a song.
He sang "The Man on the Flying Trapeze."
ting clues. F o r example:
Since T times N O equals
"They didn't think a hell of a lot of my singing," NO, t h e n T m u s t e q u a l 1.
7ke amsMir Uomd across the way h «m oefrass Fill t h a t in n o w , a n d tr-' T I E
who con A Iber mood fo ffce mtomMmt. Or Jber said Gen. Hansell. t o solve for t h e o t h e r n u m -
bers. T I E
chahoM fo fhe soaaom. Wfcof tooU be more RECORDS. Waac Rita Smith broke popularity (Solution on Page 22)
eomiotUAle during a JtOy mthe U. 5. A. than records at Fort ICnox, Ky. In one week she was
the dcrttOM sfce is oof wearmg? Grace's IcrtMf
JMvJe for Umhfentd is "Girts, Inc." PAGE 1 7
YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9

By Sgt. BILL DAVIDSON Hatt'ie Doolittle, still look down in Gothic maj- in his eye. On such occasions, his wife sends him
esty from their vantage point on the corner of upstairs, locks the door and hides the key.
YANK Staff Writer Front and Spring Streets. Beaver Dam River The only way you can get to Madison and Mil-
EAVER DAM, WIS.—-This is a perfectly normal rushes cool and green and wild through the cen- waukee now is by bus, so nobody goes to the
B town with a main street, an Elks Club, tav-
erns, a war plant, roadhouses and a cheese
factory.
ter of the town. In spring, kids sneak away from
school and pull a mess of Ijullheads out of Beaver
Dam Lake, which is practically in the town's
University of Wisconsin and Green Bay Packer
games any more. Instead, the town jams the lo-
cal high-school games. This unexpected attention
It differs from the average, however, in several back yard. And Griff Jones (who claims the title completely rattled the Beaver football and bas-
minor respects, typical of which are the follow- of the world's champion bullhead skinner and ketball teams, both accustomed to performing in
ing: (a) At the age of 6, little boys have shotguns whose tavern is decorated with a plaque credit- relative obscurity. It affected them, however, in
placed in their hands and are sent out to h u n t ing him with the denuding of 2,150 pounds of different ways. The football team lost every
ducks in the wild Horicon Marsh, (b) citizens of live bullheads in a competition held at Browns game. The basketball team lost only to Horicon
70 take pleasure in ice skating and fishing on Valley, Minn., on Oct. 16, 1915) still rents his and ran away with the Little Ten Championship.
Beaver Dam Lake, and (c) the rabbits, possum summer cottages up the lake with a stipulation
and deer of the neighborhood are so bold they that no rent be paid on any cottage unless the
come right up into the back yard.
In other words, Beaver Dam is a community
tenant thereof pulls in a certain number of fish.
The Odeon Theater is still jammed for every
T HE American Legion waged a campaign
against Clarence Keller in 1942, charging him
with misuse of public funds. Notwithstanding,
made up principally of rugged German, Polish change of feature. The town's 42 taverns are Keller was re-electe.d mayor. Emil Drews, the
and Irish stock, schooled to absorb the hard testimony of the beer-drinking capacity of the town constable and taxi driver, was elected dog
blows of man and Nature. When a tribe of forebears of the citizenry. The high-school kids catcher. This posed a serious "problem for Emil,
skunks invaded the cellar of St. Mark's Luth- still go to Schwake's drug store for cokes. The since the town had no dog pound. He has solved
eran Church a few years ago, Bill Field, the boys go into the armed forces as soon as they the problem, temporarily at least, by running the
conservation warden, calmly proceeded to trap graduate from school. The girls go away to work. captured muts into his taxi stand. Sometimes
them while his wife sang "Nearer My God to Maddy Horn, once the world's champion speed when he has a particularly vicious prisoner, Emil
Thee" to the congregation upstairs. skater, is in a war plant at Oshkosh while her is afraid to enter the taxi stand to answer calls,
So on the whole, the town has been able to medals and trophies tarnish in the attic of her further complicating the transportation muddle.
take in stride the changes brought about by the home. The few remaining girls spend most of The transportation muddle is really a muddle.
war and the loss of most of its young men. their time in Adlon's Circus Bar. You can't get out to Crystal Beach — either for
The Weyenberg Shoe Factories, the Kirsh There are a lot of gold stars arounjl now, one swimming or parking. You can't get out to the
Foundry and the Monarch Malleable Iron Range of them for 1st Sgt. Lester Brown of the local Friday night pick-up dances at Fox Lake and
Company (now making shells for the Army) are National Guard outfit, killed in New Guinea; an- Horicon, or the Sunday night pick-up dances' at
going full blast. But, as Bert Schwake puts it, other for Windy Braun, buried on Guadalcanal. Burnett. You can't get out to Alice King's at
"You can roll a bowling ball down Front Street On the lawn in front of the library, there's a Minnesota Junction. Besides, it is reliably re-
any night after 9 P.M. without hitting anyone." big honor roll bearing the names of all the men ported that blond Alice, a very smart business
Everybody's got money, but there's no place to in the armed forces, and there's a wall filled with woman, has packed up her entire entourage and
spend it except at the local shops on Front Street, servicemen's photos in Tommy's Tavern in South moved them to Merrimac, where the huge new
like Newton and Wenz's, Maier and Zahn's, and Beaver Dam. The proprietor. Tommy Ellen powder plant is now running full blast.
the Model Exclusive Apparel. The women are (ne Xtopolous) turned out to be the town's only But most important of all, you can't get out to
gettiJig bored with bridge, so they've taken to hero of the first World War—despite the fact the fields and the woods.
knitting face masks for Coast Guardsmen. The that he could hardly speak English—when he Muskrat pelts are selling for $2 apiece. The
men are getting bored with scat, keeno and got lost in the Argonne Forest and captured lakes are alive with perch and pike. Horicon
schafskopf, so they've taken to hanging around something like 97 Germans in a cave. He still Marsh is crowded with pheasant and duck and
their lodges where they figure out ingenious new knows more about the war than anyone else in fox and mink and deer, none of which can quite
methods of invading Europe. town. And when the troop trains stop just out- comprehend what is going on.
The library and 82-year-old librarian. Miss side his tavern, he gets a strange, far-away look There is hardly anyone to hunt them.

HOME TOWNS
IN WARTIME BEAN^ER DAM, Wis.
Continuing YANK's reports on wartime changes
in U.S. communities. Watch for your
town. It may appear here soon.

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of it, sizes 5 to 13, as represented by two out boy at Fort Sill, Okla., knows all the answers
of 100 Air Force men who invaded a store on guns. He solved gunnery problems so easily
in Milwaukee, Wis., to get themselves shod. that they had him helping officer candidates.

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G l P Y R A M I D . The man who's responsible P L E A S E S T O P . They may not be getting T R I P L E A W A R D . M/Sgt. Gust PortI re-
for holding up all that fire power is Pvt. a ride into town, but Love Field at Dallas, ceiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air
George Puglise, 19. The performers belong to Tex., is doing its best for them by providing Medal and the Silver Star for gallantry in com-
the 422d Regiment at Fort Jackson, S. C. this bench and sign for all drivers to see. bat as a U. S. aerial gunner in the Middle East.
YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9

ARKANSAS was planning to abandon the Stevens Hotel in MICHIGAN


Forty-one business and industrial leaders of Chicago, which it purchased a year ago for $6,- The Central Fibre Products Co. of Chelsea was
the state, meeting at Little Rock, organized the 000,000 as a training school for AAF radio tech- lending some of its workmen on company time
Arkansas Ek:onomic Council to formulate a post- nicians. Died at Peru: Henry Donovan, Chicago to farmers in the area. Adam Oberle of Coloma
war program. For the second time the State Board of Trade wheat expert. got $8 for the season's first crate of strawberries
Hospital reported that Tuck Bishop, accused of a at the Benton Harbor market. Gambuisa, mos-
quadruple slaying in Springdale last January, INDIANA quito-eating fish, were let loose in ponds near
was sane. Ross Mauney, Extension Service econ- Culver Military Academy sold 34 artillery the Willow Run bomber plant to combat malaria-
omist, reported that Arkansas will have 22 per- horses. A shortage of labor and money closed carrying insects. Helen Burnett, 19, and Ilva
cent more hogs, 7 percent more cattle and 12 per- the 50-year-old Knox County Orphanage. To- Greene, 20, became mail carriers at East Lansing
cent more chickens to feed this year but only mato canneries in Madison and Tipton Counties when the volume of mail was increased by h u n -
85 percent as much corn as last year. Damage were looking for 12,000 workers. A $250,000 fire dreds of Air Force students at Michigan State
caused by the flooded Arkansas River between destroyed the Corcoran Metal Products plant at College. At Muskegon, Mrs. Hazel Wegner and
Pine Bluff and Tulsa, Okla., was estimated at Washington. Lloyd Miller of Jefferson Township her second husband, Edwin R. Austin, were
40 million dollars. was Boone County's "alfalfa king" for 1943. slain by Harry Wegner, the former's fifth hus-
Garry Dean, 3, was attacked by a gray fox at band, who then set Mrs. Wegner's house afire and
CAUFORNIA Bicknell. John E. Baker became principal of El- died in the flames. FBI agents^ investigated CIO
San Joaquin Valley's labor shortage was to be wood High School. Died: Robert C. Cox, Ladoga charges that the K u Klux Klan was responsible
partly met by the importation of 1,500 Mexican High principal; Miss Kate Finnery, 87, elected for a four-day wildcat strike at the Packard
workers. A mysterious fire caused 2 million dol- Attica's No. 1 citizen last year. Motor Co.
lars* damage to the Union Oil Co. refinery at
Oleum, 30 miles north of Oakland. At San Diego, IOWA MINNESOTA
the Junior Chamber of Commerce was sponsor- low^ City's Police Chief Sprinkle became an At Minneapolis, Mrs. Clyde Charley used her
ing a "knives for lives" campaign for the benefit Army private at Camp Dodge. Anamosa men lipstick to jot down the license number of a car
of sailors aboard the USS San Diego. Two sailors classified 4-F organized the "Famous Failures that knocked down Cpl. John Kitagawa; police
drove off three bears and rescued Joyce Hewlett, for Freedom Club" to promote War Bond pur- later picked up Alvin Fritz of Ferndale, who,
13, who was being mauled by the bears inside chases. Fire caused $225,000 damage to the they said, admitted being the hit-run driver.
a pit at the San Diego Zoo. Harry Nale, 78, six Amana Society's refrigeration plant at Middle Publisher Bradford of the Northland Times in
times a widower, married Sarah Hamilton, 72, at Amana. Irvin E. Rosa of Rochester, Minn., suc- Bemidji was the first newspaperman to accept
Long Beach. San Francisco's health director sent ceeded Irvin H. Schmitt as superintendent of Rep. Hagen's invitation to editors of the 9th Min-
out a call for women rat catchers. Yreka's honor schools at Davenport. A divorce decree granted nesota district to come one at a time to Wash-
roll on the courthouse lawn, erected by the to Laveta Brewster from William Brewster at ington at his expense and act as his secretary
Knights of Pythias, listed the names of 3,115 ser- Waterloo stipulated an equal division of their for one week. Wind and cold resulted in the
vicemen and women. canned goods. Southeastern Iowa restaurant of- poorest opening of the fishing season in 15 years.
ficials, meeting at Burlington, went without their Fairbault, Austin and Luverne opened recreation
CONNECTICUT usual banquet because the hotel where they met centers for teen-age youths to combat juvenile
Nineteen persons were arrested on gambling did not have enough ration points to serve them. delinquency. A thief stole 18 hams, 12 dozen eggs
charges at New 'Haven following an expose by Died at Woodburn: School Supt. Nickle at 63. and 30 pounds of butter from Schmidler's Mar-
the Yale Daily News after wires of the paper's ket in Minneapolis.
radio station became crossed and it started broad- KANSAS
casting race tips and results. At Hartford, Kansas restaurant men appealed in Washing-
Charles E. Ganter, former chairman of the Marl- ton for adjustment of food regulations; 600 Kan-
boro rationing board, fainted in court after be- sas eating places have closed this year. At K a n -
ing sentenced to nine months for violating gaso- sas City, women were called for Federal grand
line-rationing regulations. New Britain cops were jury service for the first time in Kansas; two
warned by the police commissioners against
"mooching" delicacies in local stores. Gov. Bald-
win said 2,000 high-school students would work
on Connecticut farms this summer. At Man-
chester, Police Chief Gordon charged Deputy
women called wanted to can strawberries so
Judge Hopkins kept Mrs. R. G. Liggett for the
jury and sent Mrs. Corrine Offut home to do all
the canning. "The Kansas State Fair was scheduled
for Sept. 19-24 at Hutchinson. A new star route
News
was established from Smith Center, giving Os-

From Home
Chief Prentice with "willful disobedience of or-
ders" by refusing to patrol a beat assigned to borne citizens an east mail each morning. Cold
him. Died in Hazardville: H. Stephen Bridge, 80, and rain delayed wheat harvesting in south Kan-
business and civic leader. sas. Three long-term convicts at the State Peni-
tentiary at Lansing were wounded and recap-
DELAWARE tured trying to escape from the prison mine.
At Wilmington, four officers of the Mantle
Club, which for 15 years had preached business KENTUCKY
ethics to its 30,000 members throughout the U.S., Mayor Weir and other Owensboro public of-
were convicted of using the mails to defraud and ficials headed a large group of volunteers who
faced possible prison terms of 97 years. Cigarette gathered the Daviess County tomato plants to
smokers laid in a stock to beat the state's new save the crop. A Federal Grand Jury invest!-,
2-cents-a-package tax. A Liberty ship launched gated last Novenit)er's election in which Senator'
at Baltimore was named for the late Senator Chandler received 93 percent of his majority in
T. F. Bayard. Girls from Wilmington junior high Harlan County in only 42 percent of the pre-
schools went to Bridgeville to pick strawberries. cincts. No school busses were to be operated in
Allen County this year. Ashland liquor and beer
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA dealers favored a 10 P.M. curfew as a curb
Federal officers sought to halt suspected espion- to juvenile delinquency. Elkton suffered its
age activities by clamping down on vice in the worst rabbit plague in years. Mayor Wyatt was
District as "Dr." Anna May Swift faced trial for the first donor at Louisville's new Red Cross MISSISSIPPI
operating alleged deluxe call houses in Chevy Blood'Donor Center. The State Railroad Commis- Picayune growers shipped 56 carloads of vege-
Chase, Md., and Washington. District druggists sion denied a petition for a 33 1/3 percent in- tables this season for a new record. Thieves loot-
closed their 91st annual meeting by donating crease in day-coach fares in Kentucky. ed J. R. Jackson's jewelry store at Waynesboro
their extra quinine supplies for use by GIs in of several hundred dollars worth of gems a n d
the Tropics. The Potomac Electric Power Co. LOUISIANA watches. At Natchez, Rabbi Meyer Marx r e -
appealed the $310,408 rate reduction ordered for C. B. Turner resigned as superintendent of signed from Temple B'Nai Israel to head a con-
its consumers for this year by the Public Utilities schools in East Baton Rouge Parish. New Or- gregation in Lincoln, Nebr. West Point victory
Commission. A shopping service opened for e m - leans taxi drivers were forbidden to wear zoot gardeners were given a 50-percent cut in their
ployees in the Pentagon Building. suits. John McNeese Junior College at Lake water rates for three months. At Jackson, 150
Charles was transferred to LSU. "The Morgan students had registered in advance for summer
FLORIDA City Civic Club urged Gov. Jones to provide a classes at Central High.
The Legislature voted a tax of 3 cents a pack special fund to develop the state's oyster indus-
on cigarettes before ending a 60-day session. A try. War Bonds and stamps were offered as MISSOURI
state-wide liquor curfew went into effect with prizes by the New Orleans Sportsmen League Herman McKinney's day-and-night restaurant
liquor stores closing at 8 P.M. weekdays and all for the biggest black bass caught in city parks. in Jefferson City closed for the first time in 33
day Sundays. At St. Petersburg, a $200,000 fire The State Board of Liquidation voted $10,000 to years to give employees a week's vacation. From
wrecked the Broquinda plant; a dozen women the State Mineral Board to investigate oil leases Albany 50 residents traveled 125 miles in a school
were driving city busses and trolley cars. Dune- made on state-owned land during the adminis- bus and a cattle truck to donate blood to the
din needed city employees so badly it advertised trations of former Govs. Allen and Noe. Red Cross in Kansas City. At Springfield, a jury
in newspapers for them. Mitchell Wolfson was awarded $500 to Mrs. Mildred Howard, Brook-
elected mayor of Miami Beach. The mercury MASSACHUSEHS line teacher, in a slander suit based on a letter
touched 100 in Jacksonville, which experienced The Valley Arena, Holyoke fight club, was labeled "Dynamite—for Your Eyes Only," which
the hottest J u n e in 29 years. Walter R. Clark, destroyed by fire. Favorite new sandwich of Bos- Ross Sparkman, former school-board member,
sheriff of Broward County before his suspension ton war workers was a mixture of peanut butter wrote to her. A St. Louis committee, authorized
last year, won a plea for reinstatement before and raw onions. At Springfield, the Advertising to pick names for 25 Flying Fortresses, included
the Senate. Club's annual Pynchon Medal awards for civic "St. Louis Cardinals," "Wings of St. Louis" and
service went to Edward H. Thomson, president "Show-Me" on their list. St. Louis University
ILLINOIS of the Federal Land Bank, and Mrs. Margaret gave up football for the duration.
The Senate passed a bill giving women equal C. Ells, assistant principal of the Trade School.
pay with men. Heavy rains had delayed corn Lawrence was to have a $7,500 war memorial NEBRASKA
planting and farmers were working from dawn on its common. Thomas J. O'Brien, teacher-coach Heavy rains created flood conditions in Peony
to dusk to catch up. The bass fishing season at Athol High for 12 years, received a Navy Park near Omaha and in the Blue River and
opened. A new airport will be constructed at commission. Cathedral High defeated Tech 5-2 Indian Creek sections; at Auburn, the Nemaha
Quincy next spring. At Lewiston, thieves stole for the Springfield baseball title, then lost to River was a mile wide after a flash flood. The
gasoline-rationing coupons worth 3 million gal- Dalton 10-5 for the Western Massachusetts cham- Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Omaha
lons. At Chicago, Mrs. France Dyke, 43, mother pionship. Danvers Junior High students are dis- was to close. The Scottsbluff Junior Chamber of
of 10 sons in the armed services, became the missed at noon to allow them to help farmers Commerce favored drafting fathers. Norfolk wo-
mother of another son, her fifteenth. The Army weed th^ir vegetable crops. men sought a 9 P.M. curfew. Bob Korte of Fair-

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bury was named Nebraska's No. 1 all-star ath- canned a ton of cherries that were going to TEXAS
lete of the 1942-'43 season. Mayor Klingman waste on trees owned by C. R. Hasket. Henryetta Fire swept the original J. Weingarten, Inc.,
of Gering was elected state president of the VFW. established a 9:30 P.M. curfew for children under grocery on Main Street, Houston. Rio Grande
A survey showed that Nebraska motorists had 16. State traffic accidents dropped 40 percent the Valley tomato shipments broke all previous rec-
slowed their average driving speed from 46 to 39 first three months of 1943 compared with the ords for volume and price. A $125,000 Methodist
miles an hour. The Grand Island air base was same period last year. Church chapel was proposed for the A. & M. cam-
opened. pus. At Galveston, Dr. Henry Cohen, rabbi of
PENNSYLVANIA Congregation B'nai Israel, was honored on the
NEW HAMPSHIRE Peach production was expected to be 25 per- 55th anniversary of his tenure and the 75th a n -
The Legislature ended a five-month session by cent under last year's. At Norristown, William niversary ot the founding of the congregation.
voting a $100 bonus for every New Hampshire Roosevelt, 10-year-old grandson of the President, C. M. Francis of Stamford was elected president
veteran of this war. Lack of help brought Arthur was absolved by a coroner's jury of responsibility of the Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association.
Bushwa, 71, out of retirement to join his son in the fatal shooting of his playmate, A. Lewis At Dallas, women were being trained as mechan-
and grandson in their barber shop at West Man- Hutchinson, 11, of Ardmore. Philadelphia hotels ical inspectors by the National Cash Register Co.
chester. George M. Hutton, Hopping farmer, was abolished room service, linen naplcins and fresh
awarded the Charles Holme Petty Memorial sheets daily in a move to conserve manpower. UTAH
Medal by U. of N. H. alumni. Mrs. Maude Bick- Two persons were killed and 69 injured in a Scores of first offenders are being placed on
ford is on 24-hour duty as a plane and forest- crash before daylight between a Philadelphia- probation and given a chance to enter the Army
fire spotter atop Black Mountain near Tilton. Pittsburgh bus and a streetcar at Baum Boule- rather than a prison. The WLB authorized wage
vard and Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh. Died at adjustments for 6,000 Utah cannery workers.
NEW MEXICO Waynesboro: Dr. J. Burns Amberson, 98, oldest Walter Stevens, who escaped recently from the
A 9-hour workday became effective in Santa Fe graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, just Salt Lake City jail, wrote and asked Police Chief
shops. Loretto Academy at Las Cruces, oldest before publication of his article on "How to At- Vetterli to send his belongings to Las Vegas, Nev.
educational institution of southern New Mexico tain a Happy Old Age" in the University alumni South High won the Salt Lake City track and
or west Texas, closed its doors after 73 years. magazine. Levi G. Lichliter of Boswell resigned baseball championships by defeating East, but
At Cimarron, Ed and Ralph McDaniel paid $1,- as chairman of the State Labor Relations Board East took the tennis title from South. A 450-unit
300,000 for the last piece of Waite Phillips' ranch and Leo C. Abernathy, Pittsburgh labor leader, housing development was nearly completed at
property. Poisonous home-canned pumpkin was was expected to succeed him. Drager in Carbon County.
blamed for the deaths of four persons at Santa
Rosa. State Guardsmen were to help fight forest RHODE ISLAND VIRGINIA
fires under a new contract. Gov. McGrath appointed a seven-man commit- Virginia's potato crop is expected to r u n 68
tee to study a bonus plan for Rhode Island's 50,- percent ahead of last year. "The Civil Service
NEW YORK 000 soldiers. Mrs. Thais L. Robertson, mother of Commission started a drive to enlist 8,500 Twork-
Gunnar and John Lundstedt netted $6,000 two, received the first taxi license granted to a ers for Hampton Roads shipyards. At Danville,
apiece from a 100,000-pound haul of porgies and Newport woman. The Peace Dale fire station was 120 textile-mill employees were hospitalized
sea bass, the largest single catch of fish in one damaged by a $10,000 blaze before Wakefield fire after eating contaminated food. Sixty persons
net ever reported off Long Island. Jamestown's fighters could bring it under control. Providence were injured, none seriously, in a collision be-
hotels Samuels and Jamestown were sold to Ray- College reported 1.300 alumni in uniform. Air- tween a Floyd bus and a Greyhound bus at Sec-
mond Grinstead of Seneca Falls. Animals in raid wardens Grandchamp a n d Lozoena of Gas- ond and Grace Street, Richmond. Dr. Robert S.

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U. S. Army f ngineers f r o m C a m p McCoy, Wis., built a Joan Leslie is a student as well as a star. She real- This is a detail that won't be stopped before the
ponton bridge across Chicago River in (ess than an ized a big ambition when she w o r e this cap and end of the war. The men are Italian prisoners, in-
hour and dismantled it in another hour—a demon- g o w n as a member of the graduating class of the terned at Camp Atterbury, Ind. They e a r n their keep
sfration celebrating the Engineers' 168th Anniversary. University High School at Brentwood, Calif. by working on routine camp jobs.

Buffalo's zoo were fed 150 pounds of meat con- pee Point, Warwick, who saddle horses and ride Perkins, Norfolk's oldest practicing physician,
fiscated from restaurant proprietor John Lindner, the sands when the sirens blow, were believed who visited patients by horse and buggy for 71
who was accused of smuggling it from Canada. to be Rhode Island's only mounted wardens. years, died at 95.
A deer raced through downtown Rochester, Thieves ransacked two offices and took valuable
leaped through an Elast Avenue restaurant win- machine parts from the basement workshop of WASHINGTON
dow and died from cuts. The state's prison popu- East Senior High in Pawtucket. Plans were announced for helicopter air-mail
lation was found to have dropped 17 percent since pick-^up service from Seattle to Kent, Auburn,
Pearl Harbor and a new parole-draft plan was SOUTH CAROLINA Puyallup, Tacoma, Olympia, Centralia, Chehalis,
expected to hasten a further reduction. A movement was under way to name Darling- Raymond, South Bend, Aberdeen and Monte-
ton County's new airport for Lt. Billy Farrow, sano. Delta Smyth's water-front machine shop at
OHIO who piloted a bomber on the Tokyo raid. A p - Olympia was damaged by a $10,000 fire. Sixty
The General Assembly ended its session after proximately 20,000 copies of the new metropoli- families in the White River Valley near Auburn
appropriating $400,000 for four new state parks. tan-size Charleston telephone directory were dis- must move because the Government is to build a
WLWO in Cincinnati will become the world's tributed. Three trainmen were killed and three 11-million-dollar lend-lease storage depot on
most powerful short-wave station after instal- injured in a head-on collision between two Sea- their land. Seattle's gambling houses were shut
lation of transmitters with power totaling 750,000 board Air Line freight trains near Clinton. At tight by a police drive. Wooden bodies for Army
watts. With Morrow County's relief rolls the Charleston, bids were about to be opened for trucks manufactured at the Northwest Chair Co.
lowest in a decade, office personnel was reduced construction of an $800,000 seven-story addition of Tacoma are being used successfully on world
to one clerk. So as not to interfere with war p r o - to Roper Hospital. battle fronts, the OWI revealed.
duction, the GAR, at its annual encampment at
Columbus, voted to call off its parade for the TENNESSEE WISCONSIN
first time in 77 years. Youngstown's Mayor Spag- Memphis placed a midnight curfew on juke The Legislature passed a bUI providing for a
nola fired John R. Elliott, manager of the m u - boxes and pinball machines and limited one of five-man board to supervise hospitalization and
nicipal airport, and named Joseph J. Smith his each to an establishment. A sale of 54 Jersey medical aid for returning war veterans; a bonus
successor. Ohio's new liquor-rationing plan per- cattle at the Tennessee State Fair Grounds, Nash- feature of the bill was dropped. A tornado swept
mits soldiers to receive their ration allowance ville, set a national record for sales of this breed northern Polk and southern Burnett Counties,
upon proving their Ohio residence. with a high of $3,000 and an average of $607 per killing two men and causing heavy damage.
head. Tom McKinney, former janitor at Sunny Eugene Sieger of Milwaukee was accused of
OKLAHOMA Side School and the Brainerd Methodist Church stealing a freight engine in Waukesha and driv-
At the request of Gov. Kerr farm-machinery- at Chattanooga, celebrated his 101st birthday. At ing it to North Prairie, 15 miles away. Rufus King
rationing boards acted to give quick relief to Dayton, Roy Denton, rural-mail carrier of Rhea and East tied for the Milwaukee high-school
farmers whose equipment was lost or damaged County for 27 years, retired. Heavy frosts cut the track championship; South was third, Washing-
by the recent flood; meanwhile the OPA cut red east Tennessee peach-crop prospects 75 percent. ton fourth and Bay View fifth. At Milwaukee,
tape to release badly needed rubber boots and Gas rationing was so severe that bus-line officials Principal Knoelk of West Division High was
new ration books to replace those lost in the at Chattanooga promised transportation north cleared by the school board of charges brought
deluge. High-school students at Noble picked and only as far as Bristol. by 38 teachers that he had belittled students.

MGE 21
YANK The Army Weekly * JULY 9

Comment on Freely's Law

OST P
FREELY'S LAW AMENDED

FC. HOLLAND'S treatise on Freely's Law


[YANK, May 7j is no doubt one of the most
notable contributions to Army science in r e -
cent years. However, as it now stands, Freely's
Law, which sheds light on the age-old problem

CHANGE
TKi* Pott Exchang*, lik« Y A N K itself, is w i d «
of when it is safe to ignore nature's call, is def-
initely open to further speculation and develop-
ment—especially in its application to soldiers.
The law per se is valid. Who can gainsay that
"resistance is directly proportional to the s u m of
urgency and distance, and inversely proportional
open to y o u . Sond yo«r cartoons, poems a n d to atmospheric temperature"? But we must r e -
stories to: The Post Exebange, Y A N K , The A r m y member that the factors tend to be variable and
W e e k l y , 2 0 5 East 42d Street, N e w York 1 7 , N . Y . thxis we cannot establish a hard and fast prin-
ciple of action.
If yovr contribution m i n e s the mark, you Pfc. Holland, for example, applied the law
w i l l receive YANK's special d e luxe rejection only to beer-drinking soldiers. But what of that
slip, that w i l l inspire a more creative mood. rare soldier, the teetotaler? What indeed? Or
.suppose that the soldier (hereinafter to be called
Pvt. Q) is in one of those localities, not uncom-
mon, where beer is beyond the realm of reality.
To M a r y WIfh Love What, in such cases, will determine urgency, or
treelies?
/ / • LOVE you .so much, darling." It is my contention that in such cases Pvt. Q
I Joe stopped pecking at the typewriter and will have to determine the number of freelies in
puffed his cigarette nervously. "Junior's been growing like a weed terms of beans (ounces or pounds), prunes or
It was a good letter so far, he thought. Not too since he got in the Army, Martha,'" other laxative-quality nutriments.
much goo. But solid enough to let her know she —Sgt. Howard P. Sporber, Miami Beach, fla. Suppose, again, that Pvt. Q finds himself in a
was important—and loved. combat area where snipers are a great menace.
This was the fourth letter to Mary this week. bunk. He perched the typewriter on his lap. He Peering out into the darkness, he sees that the
It was damned tough finding new words of en- continued. distance is 300 feet. On the other hand, he must
dearment and new words of love to write her. •'Every time I look at your picture, the thought reckon with the snipers. Using a chart which I
There was nothing wrong with the old stand- of your beauty runs through my blood like sweet have prepared and will send to any soldier in r e -
bys, of course. wine. Your name is like a golden bell hung in turn tor the left wing of a Junkers-88 and two
"I love you madly—I think of you from reveille my heart and when I think of you it rings and pin-ups of Carrie Nation, he discovers that the
to taps, just like the song says." That was good sings, 'Mary, Mary!' " distance value of snipers is 500 feet, makmg the
stuff, especially from a soldier. Women went for The last line was a steal from Cyrano, but she total distance 800 feet. He also discovers that the
it. Mary did, anyway. wouldn't know the difference. temperature is 140 degrees. (Pvt. Q seems to have
Joe frowned in concentration. Damn it! Why "I love you, I adore you. What more can I say?" got himself sent to one of the less desirable
hadn't he picked up those poetry books from the As a matter of fact, there was damn little more rronts.)
library yesterday? Edna St. Vincent Millay and he could say. He was running dry. Since beer is unavailable in this godforsaken
Shelley. They made plain words sound beautiful. "Just remember it is you I am fighting for. area, Pvt. Q immediately recalls that h e con-
Oh hell, she'd have to be satisfied with Xs and You are my war aims, my memories, my hopes. sumed 16 ounces of beans and 8 ounces of dried
the same kind of love words dames all over the prunes, making a total of 24 freelies.
world were getting from guys all over the world. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx We now have the following formula*:
Soldiers weren't supposed to be poets anyway. With love," / + d 24 4- 800 824
He crushed his cigarette butt, lifted the port- Joe closed the top of the typewriter with a = 6
able typewriter from his lap and -went to the foot bang. t ' 140 140
locker. He opened it and looked steadily at "The hell with this," he swore to himself. Resistance, therefore, is equal to six "urgens,"
Mary's picture pinned on the inside of the lid. "These letters are getting too tough. It'll cost the one "urgen" being equal to 15 minutes. Pvt. (oj,
It was 8-by-10, colored. sergeant 10 bucks next month, or he'll have to consequently, has exactly one hour and 30 min-
"Jees, she's beautiful," he whispered and write his own love letters." utes' resistance. If he has to fall out before that
looked around guiltily. Nobody was watching. -Pfe. 40E WESTON time is up, he may retire confidently. If not, it is
Joe closed the locker and went back to his Camp Whit; Orcg. incumbent upon him to answer the call to
urgency. Of course, there is still the possibility
that Pvt. Q may use the immediate vicinity of
AN MP'S LOT his shelter as a repository. This is not sporting
Oh, doggedly from dusk to dawn and virtually repeals Freely's Law. But it will
He watches other guys have fun, toil the snipers.
Playing mother, brother, father; - P v t . EMIL WEINSTEIN
Nothing is too great a bother. Canada

Enters room and all is quiet •Definition of symbols, according to Holland's original
Where before there was a riot; treatise: j equals urgency measured in freelies (tiie ireeiy
is an arbitrary unit lor the measurement of urgency); r is
If the riot' isn't finished, resistance measured in time; d is distance m feet; ( i:>
While he's there, it's quite diminished. temperature.
An MP lives and loves, but none
Can ever have a little fun,
'Cause if he tries to play or sin P^ZMM I^OLUTMBiS
Another MP pulls him in.
- P v t . JACK LUSTIG CHECKER STRATEGY DIVISION
ODE TO THE SIGN IN THE PX . . . Camp Maxey, Tex. Wliite king moves 6 to 10. 1235
which reads: We reserve the right to limit the Black king jumps 28 to 19. . .
sate of condy better to serve the enlisted man. 37 45695
CADENCE White moves,20 to 16—the key 37
It happens just once in a lifetime to the draw. . . . Now Black is
There was a drill sergeant named Crumbers on the spot. If he moves his 86'
(Believe me if I say it's t r u e ) , Who studied his men in their slumbers, king (19 to 23, or 19 to 24), he 74
And don't be a skeptical soldier— loses by White's 16-to-ll reply 129
And it worried the guy— So, Black must pitch 8 to 11 111
It might even happen to you. He was so damned GI— and accept a draw.
• 185
The ice cream was high as the mountains, That his men wouldn't snore by the numbers. 185
- P v t . WM. CAHN
The soda was deep as the seas, Tee-Total Winners
fort Rosecrani, Calif.
The clouds, which were puffed full of whipped Puzzle Kit winners in the Tee-Total contest for May 28.
cream, and their scores, are George Bateman, BoHing Field, D. C.
BTOIBIBTYI (467); Pvt. J. G. Yomner, Camp Pjnedale.
Floated down on chocolate trees. ~ - Calif. (456); Sgt. Alfred Burger, Aberdeen,
The girl friends were all made of sugar, Md. (455); Pvt. John Nizich. Fort Ord. Calit
(453); Sgt. Lloyd Waldron, Dale Mabrv Field,
Each redhead, each blond and brunette: Fla. (451); S/Sgt. A. L. Bronstein, Camp For-
And they laughed, and they sang, as they whisp- rest, Tenn., and Pvt. Stanley Baum. N. Camp
ered: _ _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Hood, Tex. (both 450). Bateman's solution is
LKINFOIB.LBIY' shown here.
"Oh darling, we'll all get you yet." Three officers also were among the winners. They are
w o Robert Scherer, Fort Devens. Mass. (463); Lt. K. W.
The music was so soft and swingful, Swayne, Camp Gordon. Ga. (456), and Capt. D. R. Kinney,
And the breeze blew of Nuit d'Amour; San Francisco (451).
"What a life, this is living!" I shouted, Congratulations to P v t . Yomner and WO Scherer; this
is the second time you've hit the jack pot. If you want
'No artist could write such a score." another Puzzle Kit, write us. Or you can send us the name
and address of a friend and we'll send your prize to him.
1 slept on the grass made of candy.
And voices .sang sweet in the air: PHOTO CREDITS; Cover—Cpl. Ben Schnall. 2. 3 4 4—Sgt. Pete Paris.
I smiled, so I guess, in my dreaming, 5—PA. 6—Buster Blundell. 7—Cpl. Steve Derry. 8. 9. 12 & 13—Schiull.
18—Univerul Pi<ture>. 17—Top left. NBC; center left. MGIN; rl«lit. Four
For I had not a worldly care. Commanilos, North Africa. 19—Upper left. AAF: upper center. USA Sig-
-Pfc. MAX KORASHAN 'And what would y o u like to have?" nal Corps; upper left. Acme; lower left. PRO. Fort Jackson. S. C ; lower
tenter. AAF Ferrying Command, Love Field, Tex.; lower right, U. S, Army.
Wiliiami field, Ariz. -Rvt. f. A. Bernard, North Africa 21—Left. Acme; center, INP; right. Acme, 23—INP.

PAOt 32
W HEN Branch (Trader) Rickey heard
that Boyd Owen Bartley, a genuine
cultured shortstop, was graduating
from the University of Illinois, he dispatched
one Mr. Henry Schultz to Chicago with in-
structions to bring the kid back to Brooklyn
come hell or the Chicago Cubs.
The fact that the Chicago Cubs had paid
Bartley's tuition at Illinois in exchange for
his solennin promise to sign with them after
graduation was of no interest to Trader
Rickey. Nothing interests the Trader when
he sets out after a player except the player
himself. Rickey e v e n forgot that he had once
subscribed to a gentleman's agreement with
the Cubs whereby he would recognize their
ownership of Bartley even though a contract
had not been signed.
The Trader wasn't fooling anybody, except
maybe the Cubs, when he gave his hand on
this deal.* "Die truth of the matter was the
Trader didn't want any truck with Judge
Landis. The Judge had already laid the law
down to his major-league moguls about con-
tracting college players until after their
graduation, and nobody knows any better
than the "Trader what it means when the
Judge cracks his whip.
The last time the Trader ran afoul of
Landis, the old man threw the book at him.
Those were the days when Rickey was over-
lording the vast Cardinal farm system and

SPORTS
By Sgt. DAN POLiER

the Judge discovered that he had over 100


players chained down to questionable con-
tracts and declared them all free agents.
This time the Trader was more cautious. He
waited until Bartley was free game before Boyd Owen Barfly, left, who learned aiMivt sfcortsfoppin^ under ex-mojor feogver Wally Roettger at the
he sent Mr. Schultz after him. University of Illinois, talks with his new boss. Manager Leo Durocfcer of the Breoiilyn Dodgers.
When Mr. Schultz arrived in Chicago he
learned that Bartley had already worked out with Trader Rickey in person. He has flown with a wrist watch. The Cubs wanted to see
with the Cubs and impressed Manager Jimmy all the way to Pittsburgh just to see you." the watch, but Wilson refused to let them
Wilson so much that Wilson wished he could The kid was properly impressed and asked leave the dugout.
start the kid at short that afternoon against Mr. Gallagher for a little time to think it "That kid will never have no luck," Wilson
the Giants. All that was left for the Cubs over. Gallagher agreed and Bartley was told his team, knocking a double negative
to do was to sign Bartley, and Mr. James hustled to Pittsburgh where Rickey was out to deep leftfield. "Nor will the guy who
Gallagher of the Chicago management said waiting to charm him. The Trader was never signed him." Wilson w a s referring, of course,
there was no rush about it, because it was in better form. He charmed Bartley right to Trader Rickey.
just "a mere formality." out of the extra $3,000 which he would have Mr. Rickey himself doesn't care what Wil-
Schultz grabbed this opportunity to work received for signing with the Cubs. son or anybody else says about him. Some-
on Bartley. The next time Gallagher or Wilson saw body is always yelling murder in the general
"Young man, you would be foolish to "Sign Bartley he was wearing a Dodger uniform direction of the Trader after they do business
with this last-place club without first seeing and playing shortstop against the Cubs in a with him.
what Brooklyn has to offer," Schultz told Sunday double-header at Wrigley Field. B e - But young Bartley seems disturbed. He's
Bartley. "Tell Mr. Gallagher to give you 24 tween games, there was a little ceremony afraid Jimmy Wilson has hexed him with one
hours to think his proposition over and w e around home plate in which a group of Bart- of those double negatives. He's not hitting no
will go to Pittsburgh where you can talk ley admirers from Illinois presented the kid better than .048.

.Back in 1907, Jim Farley took a semi-pro base- President at his Hyde Park (N. Y.) estate.
ball team down to West Point to play one of During a big Navy picnic somewhere in the South
the best cadet teams in years. Catching for West Pacific, Admiral Chester Nimitz challenged Bill Scog-
Point was one Cadet Ike Eisenhower, and Farley's gins SM I d to a horseshoe-pitching duel, and then
first baseman was a slick fielding Harvard un- proceeded to beat the pants off Scoggins, 21-15.
dergraduate named Ffcmklin D. Roosevelt. Army . . . At Fort Sheridan, 111., two Waacs, Edith DeWitt
won 8-5 Pvt. Harry Danning, the Giants' catcher, and Sally Oigley, entered the post tennis tourna-
has been selected for OCS. . . . Baron Gottfried ment and went all the way to semi-finals before
von Cramm, the German tennis champion who they were eliminated. . . . Atiey Donald's draft
was jailed by Hitler because he swished every number is up and so is that of Anton Chrittoforidis,
time he took a goose step and later was released the ex - light - heavyweight champ. . . . Bom-
to fight with Ronunel in Africa, is back in stir bardier lou Zamperini, the former USC intercol-
again. He was collared by the Allies in the big legiate mile champion, who was reported miss-
Tunisian clean-up. ing in action in the Pacific, never lost his en-
You GIs overseas, who have been using roUed- thusiasm for running. Between bombing mis-
up coveralls for basketballs and pickax hamdles sions he kept in shape by running around -the
for baseball bats, will soon be getting regulation airfield. . . . Helen Rains, one of the country's top
sports equipment from. Special Service. The War swimmers, is sweating out her costume jewelry
Department has already ordered $4,000,000 worth (bars to you, Joe) at the WAAC OCS at Des
of recreational supplies, including everything Moines, Iowa.
from fishing tackle to bingo and chess sets. What's this we hear about Sgt. Zeke Bonura,
. . . l*. Bob SoggoVf one of Notre Dame's greatest the former big leaguer, trading baseball lessons
quarterbacks, now calls signals for a Navy dive- to an Arab in North Africa, for the use of his
bombing squadron in the SoUth Pacific full-blooded Arabian horse? . . . The fabulous
Ffonkie Kovacs has turned up in Australia with Phillies are now in the newspaper business,
the US Army. . . . Pvt. Harry Boykoff, St. John's printing a weekly, the Scoreboard, for servicemen.
Chester Hajduck of Great loices slides home to start high-scoring basketball star, has been assigned It tells of the PhilUes' progress and is available
a triple steal against Chicago- Cubs. McCullough to the "King's Guard," an exclusive detachment for the asking. . . . Willie Pep, the featherweight
ccrtches; llcyland's the batter. Great lakes won, 4-0. of MPs all over 6 feet tall, who will guard the champ, has signed up with the Navy.

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Sqf. Leonard H. Baer. Nev%
£nc/ose check, cash, or money order a n d moif to:

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