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Along a road in Tunisia, the order is "Take a break." And as far as the eye can see, U. S. soldiers get ofF their feet.

YANKS AND BRITISH WHO MAKE

A BATTLE TEAM IN TUNISIA

An American soldier who speaks Italian talks to a

group of Mussolini's troops captured in Tunisia.
The " M o n t y " lettered on this American tank means it's Two Tommies of the British 8th who helped smash through M a r e t h line and bring
the one that carries the leader of the 8th Army to victory. about the joining of Americon and British forces. They grin despite their wounds.

By Sgt. A. W. ACLAND and salt water, dress them and wail for them to
heal, which sometimes takes a couple of weeks.
British Eighth Army
GTI y^^ClAiw,'^ a photographer with the British One thing that continually amazes the Ameri-
'*» OMEWHERE ON THE TUNISIAN FRONT [ B y Ra-
; % die]—The British Eighth had been saying for
S Eighilb AnHir.,ond wa$ the first Englishman to
shake bonds wWi the Americans at the historic
cans is our brewing of tea, but you seem just as
fond of your coffee. Actually, tea stimulates the
'^ many weeks, "Hope we meet up with the juncture on lh*'i^faes>Gafsa road. He was affec- nerves and peps up the men before battle. Most
Americans soon." We were wondering what you tionately: hoiicd hy Sgt. Joseph Randall of State of us like it sweet and strong. You might even
were like as fighting men. Since we've met we Center, towfO, Vwlh "Hello, you bloody limey." say that the British have won and lost battles
think that you're tops. Maybe we should confess Aclond fplli htMV adaout the experiences of his on the strength of tea.
that we were also looking forward to exchanging Eighth ^NiiS'i. .|M|W (ighting side by side with the We often use it to shave with, for shaving is a
a package of King's for a pack of American Yanks inttii|» d ^ towards Tunis. strict order in the Eighth. When we want a
brand cigarettes and to seeing some of your creamier shave we use tea with milk.
American magazines with plenty of silk stockings We English will always thank the Yanks for
in them. the canned bacon in our rations. Our daily ra-
We heard a rumor a while back, and rumors dried by the sun for so long that we resemble tions almost never vary—meat and vegetables,
don't spread fast in our Army, that the Eighth the Arabs. We're old war horses and you're bully beef, biscuits, bread upon rare occasions,
would not be the first to reach Tripoli but that young ones. tea and dried fruits. For a change the biscuits
the Americans would get there ahead of us. We Our Army has gone through practically every- are occasionally broken up, soaked in water,
heard the rumor going into Benghazi and it made thing. Often we've been rationed a mug of water fried and served with marmalade. Or raisins are
the Eighth move faster. When we arrived at daily for weeks, and that's been salty. The more added and they are made into a pudding, which
Gabes we heard you chaps on the radio for the we drank, the more we wanted. For a long time is regarded as a delicacy and eaten with much
first time, but we couldn't understand what we drank chlorinated water or repurified water ceremony.
you were saying because you were using code. from wells which had been poisoned with fish oil Between Tripoli and Tunisia we encountered
But we knew that you weren't far away. by the Ities. When we didn't have time to drain a great many streams and frog-catching became
We were also worried about the rumor that or scrub the wells, we had to be satisfied with a popular sport. Frogs are said to make excellent
the Germans had captured a few of your Sher- what water could be brought up from the rear. eating, but none of us knew how to cook them.
man tanks and afraid that when we met we On the rare occasions we had water to spare We also took our first good baths in these
would shoot each other up. That would have been we'd strip off in the boiling sun and pour the streams. At first we were afraid of typhoid fever.
just too bad because your tanks and ours are water over us very carefully in dribbles from Then we decided that if the water was good
equipped with the same caliber guns and neither petrol cans. enough for the frogs it was good enough for us.
would have been able to outshoot the other. Maybe because of the hard life we led, illness The infantrymen are the toughest chaps in the
Since we've met we're going to work like among the m^n of the Eighth was very scarce. Eighth. More than once they have successfully
brothers. There really isn't much difference be- We were bothered only by sand sores which n o - pulled off an attack because of their initiative
tween the Yanks and the Tommies. body knows much about—how they originate or and guts in opening holes for the armored forces
The thing we noticed first about your men was how to cure them. They're damn painful. We to go through.
their fresh, smooth faces. We've been baked and usually scrub ourselves with a scrubbing brush The Sappers often go out under heavy shellfire

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YANK Tfie Army W«^fy • MAY 21

to demolish tanks on the battlefields so the Montgomery, called "Monty" by most of the men, via Cape Town to join in the desert fighting.
enemy cannot recover them. who have great faith in him. Our men think and talk about the same things
Most of the infantrymen hail from the Mid- The general is always up at reveille for you fellows think and talk about—mostly what
lands and Lancashire, Australia, New Zealand, physical training. He is often seen at the front we did before the war and what we plan to do
Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa, Then lines with the tanks and frequently stops to brew after the war. If you came upon our men sud-
there are Gurkas from Nepal—-tiny men who tea with his men. denly some quiet evening you'd find them sit-
would rather use a knife than a rifle. On .one Gen. Montgomery is a typical Englishman in ting smoking, watching the sunset and thinking
occasion a unit of them were told to "duffy u p " that he is reserved, but he always talks with his about home and family.
(meaning wipe out) an Itie stronghold. Their men. The men of the Eighth Army think he is a Living in the desert isn't easy and it takes a
sergeant came back and reported 15 enemy troops great leader. He emphasizes the fact that he will long time to do it successfully. Now that the
killed and no shots fired. never ask the men to do anything that is im- American Army has joined up with us, perhaps
The Indians, all types and creeds, are also possible. I think he believes we can do about we can help its men over the rough spots by
magnificent fighters and consider it an honor to anything, and we are proud of his confidence in us. drawing upon our own experiences.
die during battle. Many of the men of the Eighth Army are vet- It is a hard life and a tough one, but men
You might want to know a little about Gen. erans from Dunkerque, but they sailed to Egypt can stomach it.

Here^s the First Yank Who Didn't Meet the British 8th Army

By Sgt. MILTON LEHMAN

YANK Field Correspondent
OMEWHERE IN TUNISIA [ B y R a d i o ] — I f t h e

S trip hadn't gone sour and if I had been

able to find the right road, I might have
been the first American to meet the British
Eighth Army.
That day when all those Yanks were shaking boys and finally decided to say, "Franklin De-
hands, laughing and passing around flasks of lano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and to stop and open my C rations. I had lunch
Scotch and cigarettes with the Eighth Army George A. Patton asked me to send their greet- there in the middle of the desert with gusts of
Tommies somewhere on the road between ings, and I also bring tidings from the Ameri- sand blowing into the can to season my vege-
Gabes and Gafsa, I was one of the few Joes can enlisted men. We will fight a good fight table hash. A few planes circled overhead,
who had absolutely nothing to do with the together." which I hoped were friendly.
historic meeting. In fact, I am a little bit dis- That would have made much better copy for After lunch, I kept on moving, making de-
gusted with the whole business. the historians than "Hello, you bloody limey." cisions every 10 minutes about which road to
Now don't get me wrong. It's not that the However, I never found Mdilla. Further- take. There was no sign anywhere of the Brit-
meeting of the Americans and the British more, the Australian arr^ored cars were not ish Eighth Army. In fact there was no sign
Eighth Army wasn't a fine thing and a good able to get through the German mine field in of anything except one young camel, sitting
meeting, as good meetings go. Military his- the neighborhood of Kebili that day. It was a and sunning himself by the side of the road.
torians will write in their books that Sgt. Joe bad break for both of us. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I began
Randall of State Center, Iowa, greeted Sgt. A. I did everything I could. I found a sign on to think less of the British Eighth Army and
W. Acland of Maida Vale, London, with the the outskirts of Gafsa which read "MDILLA—• more about getting back to my bivouac. For
words, "Hello, you bloody limey," and Acland 14 K M " and pointed to the right, down a dirt the next hour, I let the jeep make the decisions
replied, "Very glad to see you." road. I turned right and the road wasn't so for itself and it did a good job, bringing me
The historians may also note that T/5 Ed bad—for the first 200 yards. Then it became with great relief to an American command
Berg of Albany, N. Y., had the accelerator of very bad in a big way. The small ruts in the car which I followed to an area near Djebel
his jeep down to the floor but couldn't quite road turned into great chasms which lifted where Lt. Robert Porter of Warren, Pa., was
pass Sgt. Randall in the photo-finish of the the rear end of my jeep high into the air and bivouaced with his artillery battery from the
American race to Acland's outstretched hand. pointed the front end down into the ground Ninth Division.
T/5 Berg's classic remark for the history books every 20 seconds or so. Lt. Porter, whose words I took as authority,
might have been quite different if Sgt. Ran- It was a nice warm day with a brisk African said he hadn't seen the British Eighth Army
dall's armored car hadn't gotten there first. As wind that started to whip up a sandstorm and either. Then T/Sgt. P e r r y Maki of South
it turned out, T/5 Berg merely snorted: threatened to lift me out of my jeep every Swansea, Mass., who used to run the lOO-yard
"The bastard beat me." time we went around a curve. "There was no dash for Boston College, pointed out the direc-
While all this excitement was transpiring at shubbery in sight with the possible exception tion to Gafsa and I started away from the b a t -
the famous spot on the Gabes road, I was back of a few clumps of cactus and a bushy and tery. Being something of a pioneer by nature,
in Gafsa, studying a map of the Southern lonesome burro whose master had probably I headed the jeep across country. I came out
Tunisian terrain, trying to figure out what forgotten to beat him for the last few days on a road 10 yards from a familiar-looking
happened to me during my trip to Mdilla. and who had come out there to get away from sign which pointed toward the right and read:
I got mixed up in that trip to Mdilla because it all. "MDILLA—14 KM."
I was just as willing as the next fellow to be Every time the road met a clump of cactus it I never found the British Eighth Army, y
the first American soldier to meet the British divided and became three other roads. When haven't even seen it yet. But if Gen. Mont-
Eighth Army. I had an inside tip that Aus- you are out in the middle of a desert, no road gomery is reading this, I would advise him to
tralian armored cars were going to break makes sense unless it goes matter-of-factly in do something about those roads in Southern
through and shake hands with the Americans one direction. This one went in a dozen direc- Tunisia. Whenever I think about it, I am as-
somewhere near that town. tions, branching all over the place like a pear tonished that the good general ever managed
So I jumped into my jeep and headed for tree. to find his way here from the Middle East in
Mdilla. I thought of several historic statements I took the road with the most shallow ruts the first place. I am sure that I never would
to make when I welcomed Gen. Montgomery's and followed it until I got so hungry that I had have been able to find the way myself.

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It's enemy flag day in New Guinea. Yanks of 41st Division s h o w t r o p h i e s (left to right): Jap Army flag, a soldier's personal flag and flag of Japan.

coiled beside a shell hole, killed by shrapnel.

Mess of Destruction is Left in War's Wake Monkeys which once chattered and clambered
through the overhanging vines fled to the hills
at the ttrst shooting.
On New Guinea's Tropical Shores Jap postcards, showing the victorious Sons of
the Emperor marching under the Rising Sun
flag, are found in many of the thatched huts. A
Sy Sgt. DAVE RICHARDSON fighter planes. Pill boxes, made of earth and logs, stack of Japanese phonograph records and song
are everywhere. Two goats, all that remain of a books show that the enemy was confident tliat he
Y A N K Staff Correspondent herd brought to New Guinea by the Japanese was here to stay.
to provide milk and meat, amble leisurely among
W TTH AMERICAN FORCES IN NEW
I By Radio]—The shattered and smold-
GUINEA

ering remains of this once lovely tropical

shore are grim reminders of some fierce battles
the pill boxes, chewing on cans, hand grenades,
helmets and any otiier metallic delicacies.
A deathly silence lies over the scone. Giant
On the wall of one hut is a Japanese calendar
with a map of Australia and a picture of a kan-
garoo vividly printed above the charts of the
months; it was used to count the days until
of the war. butterflies that once flitted through the palm Tojo's men would break through to that conti-
Where there were rows of stately coconut palm plantations are gone. So are the startling white nent.
trees, there is now only a shell-and-bomb- parakeets. A deadly poisonous Kunei viper lies Near Sanananda Point is a large headquarters
leveled waste of stumps. Where natives once building which may have housed Lt. Gen Horii.
lived peaceful lives, there are wrecked huts and reported killed in the battle of Buna. Trucks and
huge bomb craters. staff cars, mostly shrapnel-pocked, stand here
Equipment is strewn everywhere. Rifles, tom- in their last parking places. A few of them, still
my guns and machine guns, hand grenades, in running order, carried American infantrymen
packs, rifle belts, bullets, shells and helmets— to the rear after the soldiers had mopped up the
many bearing bullet holes—lie scattered about. last of the enemy. Most of the trucks are Ameri-
American soldiers collect this equipment for can, brought here from the Philippines and Java,
salvage. They burn huge piles of rotted debris as were American tommy guns, machine guns
and bury the Japanese dead. and pistols. In their last hours, the trucks served
The dead Japs lie in water-filled fox holes, as pill boxes.
pill boxes and shell holes, in tangled jungles and In a Japanese hospital, stacked high with the
stagnant swamps, in all forms of decay. Some dead, are medicine and equipment as good as
are swollen yellow-green carcasses; others are that of any army. The quinine is an English
sun-bleached skeletons with tattered clothes cov- brand, much of the other equipment American
ering their white bones. Others, who sniped made.
from tree tops, still remain tied there. ^W'Yfct^v rMW" As Sgt. Paul Stiritz, hard-bitten old jeep driver
It will be weeks, maybe months, before all from Alton, 111., wandered through the battle-
these Nip remains can be found and buried. destroyed area, he took in the sight with wid-
Meanwhile, the pungent and nauseatingly svt-eet ened eyes.
odor of death pervades the whole area. "Phew!" he whistled. "I used to work in an
Here, lying in a puddle, is a Jap Marine hel- ammunition plant, and the ballistics expert there
met with a skull in it. Over there, behind bul- claimed our shotgun shells had a spread that
let-splintered breastworks, is a pair of Jap split- Cpl. Edward Hamilton of Cambridge, Mass., attached would kill a mouse at 100 yards. I'm going to
toed, tree-climbing sneakers. to Air Transport Command, seems, with photographer, write him that we've seen miles of battleground
On the Buna airstrip are hulks of 12 Zero to have stopped a cricket game in British Guiana. where a mouse couldn't live."

PAG£ 5
 character when it was adorned by a beautifully •
lettered nameplate; The Thunderpit, Capacity Six
PFCs. Which is no better, actually, than a fighter
squadron's directional arrow pointing to Used
Beer Department, or the cook shack which
somehow became Hoo Mollie MoUie.
Even the bomb squadron's ground men got
the bug when the truck drivers, using brilliant
red paint, decorated the hoods of their vehicles
with lusty titles of Siycet Lips and others even
lustier. Trucks of one fleet are named, like b a t -
tleships, after the various states. Generally the
boys stick to old stand-bys such as Mary Lou
and Anna Belle.
Dean of the vehicular glamorites, however, is
and will forevermore be the Tokyo Taxi, one of
the most battered pieces of machinery ever to
operate under its own power. Once J a p property,
it continued to serve U.S. personnel after it had
been reduced to four wheels and an engine, noth-
ing more.
All airplanes, of course, have names. Most of
the Forts stick to the orthodox titles of The Skip-
per, Madame X, Sad Sack and what have you.
A gang of night-flying Catalina Flying Boats
have gained fame as the Blacfc Cats, and one pilot
in particular, although nobody knows his real
name, is referred to as Heartless Henry.
Since appropriate names are a soldier's pride
and joy, the combat areas always were showered
with descriptive proper nouns. There's Bloody
Knoll, also known as Edson's ridge. Grassy Knoll
and Burnt Knob, and the Horses Neck and S k y -
line Drive, all with a history of their own.
But there was one sad case of mistaken
identity, only recently corrected. The Battle of
the Teneru wasn't fought at the Teneru River
at all. In the original mapping of the area the
names of two rivers were, in some way, swapped.
Actually the battle was fought at the Ilu River,
not that it makes any difference. Hells Point is
still Hells Point, no matter which river runs by
it, and there were a lot of dead Japs on the
premises.
You can see little lettering jobs which bear
This is fhe Fita-Fita Guard of Samoa which has been part of the regular U. 5. Navy since 1900. the subtle information, Officers Country, and
others (placed prominently around a huge and
ever-increasing area of trash and rubbish) which
say: Positively No Dumping Here.
Guadalcanal Has Its O w n Tojo ice Plant - S g l . MACK MORRISS
YANK Staff Correspondent

To Say Nothing of Hotel de Gink

It Was a Little Like Magic When
G UADALCANAL—A Soldier has a name for ev-
erything, and, given a bucket of paint and
a free hand, he will decorate the works of
God and man with signposts.
title, Club 2^nzibar. It's located just off Pine-
apple Drive, incidentally.
An officers' hut has become the Mark Hopkins,
and some nostalgic San Franciscan went whole
The Bakers Turned Out White Bread
PERSIAN G U L F SERVICE COMMAND, IRAN—"These
boys landed with their barracks bags and nothing
Driving down the Burma Road which skirts hog by adding the famous trademark of the Top more," Lt. R. J. Shaffer said, "and within the
the beach, you pass the Guadalcanal Tel and O' the Mark. It makes no difference that this week they were baking white bread."
Tel, and beyond that is the South Sea Salvage Guadalcanal version of the famous hotel is a p - The boys the lieutenant spoke of are members
Area, proclaimed by glaring red letters on a yel- proximately two feet above sea level. of a colored QM baking outfit. They took the diffi-
low board. But men on The Rock (Guadalcanal) hold no culties offered by a strange country and lack of
On the left is the Hotel Foo, originally built monopoly on trick names for living quarters. equipment in their stride, and turned out good
by the Japs but later taken over by marines and, Elsewhere in the Pacific is an Army-occupied white bread in sufficient quantity to feed all their
in December, occupied by soldiers. The Foo is Quonset hut which serves as an officers' mess. hungry GI customers.
little more than a glorified lean-to, but the Japs It has a neat blue-and-white sign: Hutset Quonset. White bread here is the exception rather than
dug a beautiful air-raid shelter which is definite- A rather unassuming latrine built by the bomb the rule. Even the best hotels serve a coarse
ly the place for an evening of quiet relaxation. squadron immediately attained entirely different brown version of the familiar American loaf.
The, Foo's only real competitor is Hotel d e
Gink, nestled somewhere near Pagoda Hill which
is adjacent to Coconut Bowl. Skunk Hollow, a ';^
nearby bivouac area of old, was so named b e -
cause its original tenants were never buried quite
deeply enough.
One of the best known of all Guadalcanal \'^^'-' -'^^Si^
landmarks is the Tojo Ice Plant, which, although
now under new management, was exactly that.
There are more Bomb Alleys and Mosquito J u n c -
tions on this island than any other spot of ground
in the world.
The strip of sea between Savo and Guadalcanal
became Tin Can Alley b a c k ' i n the days when
Pistol Pete and Tokyo Express and Washing Ma-
chine Charlie were household words. Charlie,
bless his heart, is still a familiar character.
For sheer imagination, a bombardment squad-
ron bivouac area probably stands with the most
high among those who call a rose by any other
name.
The place is occupied by men who were called
the Eager Beavers. A split in the party resulted
in the insurgent faction becoming t h e Uneager ••--^r ^^''O^-^m'-'ir''^^^
Beavers. It naturally follows that at least one fox
hole should be the Beaver Hole.
Most imposing of all shelters in the area, how-
PlK-^v,;...
ever, is a canopied structure with the fetching Part of the great traffic of lend-lease goods, U. S.Army trucks carry supplies across Iran to Russia.

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 GIs alone enjoy the soft white loaf that mother
used to buy at the corner grocery.
For their first few weelts in the base camp,
conditions were really rugged. Cooks and Bakers
School at Camp Lee, Va., hadn't prepared Sgt.
Tom Donaldson of Jacksonville, Fla., for mud
ovens. But he and his cousin, Sgt. Julius Donald-
son (they were'drafted six months apart, but
have been in the same platoon ever since) waded
right into the job ahead of thcni. Back in Jack-
sonville, Julius was head steam-table man at the
Army Air Base mess. Feeding GIs is routine to
him whether it's Florida, Fiji or Iran.
They rigged up the best mud bakery you
could want anywhere. Giving them a helping
hand was Lt. Harry Watts of the Engineers, who
in civilian life helped design the model bakery
at the New York World's Fair. I t s a long way
• from Flushing to Iran, but the principles of good
baking remain the same.
They built their own scales to measure flour.
A wooden bar with a GI can at one end to hold
the flour served as a balance. For weights at the
other end they had a couple of metal bolts,
weighing 1 pound and ',2 pound each.
It all worked out so well that Sgt. Charles
Flanagan of Dcs Moines, l o v a , who used to be a
butcher, isn't sure he won't try to carry on with
baking when the war is over. Pfc. Tom Starks,
another butcher from Cleveland, Ohio, who used
to box a little in the 135-lightweight class in
Wyoming, feels the same way. Says Tom, "Man,
I really love baking!"
From the base camp they moved to better
equipped surroundings. Now they have an old
Russian bakery to work in and a Russian master
baker to give them tips on how his method
differs from the American. The Russki and the
boys hit it off well. As far as language goes,
they're still strangers but when the loaves are
being shoved into the oven, sign language is
sufficient and everyone knows his job.
Conditions aren't ideal but the bread comes
out uniformly good. Water, for example, is still
heated in large GI drums, for there isn't a boiler
available. The drums are raised above the ground
on bricks and kerosene is burned in loaf molds Lf. Jack K. Wood of Wichita falls, Tex., admires his plane's insignia. She's seen act/on in Africa.
underneath them.
The men aren't at the bakery all the time. the boat. .A.nyone who has seen a landing boat go
They work in shifts so that while some of them Saturday Night Baths In Aioska through the surf knows that all this iniis! be done
are baking, others are doing guard duty and at top speed with split second timing. And
others are on fatigue at camp. They've even Require Guts, Plus Fanaticism Jacobsen does it. If the Japs are shooting at him.
found time to get up a quartet, a socko combo SoMKWHERE IN ALASKA—Saturday night in this he only does it faster.
paced by tenor Cpl. Jeffrey Craig, who sang in When the boat is beached Jacobsen practically
Alaska camp has one thing in common with
his church choir back in Clairton, Pa., where he shoves the men off. His language helps a lot.
used to be a cook. Backing up Jeff are Pfc. Joseph Saturday night the world over. It ends.
Back home, Saturday night is bath-and-binge They say it turns the air slightly blue.
Martin of Chicago, Pfc. Eugene Hawkins (cousin
of the band leader, Erskine Hawkins) of Grand night. To bathe here calls for a fanatic faith Then he reverses the motor, cranks up the
Rapids, Mich., and Cpl. James Taylor of Jersey that cleanliness is next to godliness—plus guts. ramp and dashes to the wheel, heading back to
City, N. J. Our bathroom is our residential pyramidal or the ship for another load. He does this all day,
Quonset. The bath tub is 18 inches high and 10 in so far bettering his time each trip.
The quartet started singing together for the diameter. When shipped here it contained pow- —YANK Coast Guard Correspondent
hell of it, but they sounded so well that other
dered milk. Powdered milk still clings to the
outfits called them in for entertainment. Now,
between singing and baking, they don't have inside of the can. And clings and clings.
enough time to see the sights of Iran. Nude and shivering, the bather now stands
Most cosmopolitan of the lot is Cpl. Homer
Potter, an ex-waiter from Chicago.
straddling the tub, laving himself with a soapy
sock, handkerchief or GI shirt-tail while his TEE-TOTAL
good buddies stare and pass clinical wisecracks. RIZES are given to the GIs who submit tlie higli-
"I worked in the Brown Hotel in Louisville,"
he said. "Quite a place that, especially at Derby It's harrowing. Ptry you
est Tee-Total scores in each competition. If
haven't taken a whack at this word game,
it now. It's easy—and you may win one of
time. And then there was O'Donnell's Sea Grill But now comes heartening news. GI rumor _^ . . . . .
"VANK'S Puzzle Kits.
in Washington, D. C. Business was always foretells that we're to be allotted one 5-gallon Here's how: Simply fill the dia-
tin per 10 men. These cans formerly held oil. gram with six good English
jumpin'. And the Pantlind Hotel in Grand Rapids, words. No proper nouns. "Then
Mich. And I worked. . . ." And we know that oil is easier to dislodge than total up the individual scores of
powdered milk. the 20 letters used giving each
Cpl. Potter stopped and heaved a long nostalgic '^'t^r a numerical value as shown
sigh as he stacked the neat rows of white, Or anyway, we hope so. on the chart. The idea is to use
letters of high value.
pleasant-smelling, homelike white bread. -Sgt. FRANK E. FRIEDSICHSEN
A sample workout is shown at the left above
- S g t . AL HINE YANK Field Correspondent with a score of 236. Can you beat that par.'
YANK Staff Correspondent LETTER VALUES

In Next Week's YANK . . .

Coast Guardsman in the Solomons
A - 6
B - 22
C - 1
D - 14
N - U
O - 3
P - 23
Q - 11
1 1
Runs a One-Mon Invasion Barge E - S
F - 25
R - 16
S - 13
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC—There's a guy out G - 17 T - 15
H - 19 U - 2
GiimtmMASPm here in the Solomons who may well become the
Sgt. York of the Coast Guard. He's Seaman First
1 - 4
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he shoves off for land standing in the rear at New York. N. V.. within two weeks from the date
the cox's wheel. Near the beach he lashes the of this issue for entries from the IT. S.. within two
months for overseas entries. 15/211
wheel, tears up front, lowers the ramp, rushes
amidships, slows down the motor, and beaches

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How to Live \f^'
1st U. Shaw Carter, a Dartmouth
grad\iate, grates coconut meat, from
which $^,,MfiU press coconut cream.

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Probably your next job will be to discover

All you need is a machete to keep your stomach full whether or not the island is inhabited. You'll
find most natives in small villages, usually along
and a roof over your head. But remember not to act the coast; and inland villages are almost inva-
riably along streams or on tops of ridges. Where
like a tough guy if you meet the natives. there are no trails, follow the ridges or streams.
Wade the streams until they become rivers, then
float on a log. With your machete you can find
By Sgt. MERLE MILLER trench or cane knife issued in your outfit, you a soft wood that will float easily and can be cut
better buy one before you leave San Francisco. down- with a few strokes.
YANK Staff Correspondent
Your island will be either volcanic or a coral If you can't reach the natives any other way,

H AWAII—Let's say you are a GI marooned on

a strange island somewhere in the South
Pacific or isolated far behind enemy lines
in a jungle with no rations. What are the dan-
atoll. Atolls closest to the equator are dry, de-
serted and uninviting but have sea birds, fish
and one good vegetable—the common pigweed,
a prolific plant with fleshy leaves and a stem
set fire to a pile of dead leaves and branches or
tie a few dried coconut leaves together and make
a torch. You can usually bring the natives in
canoes and may also attract a passing PB-Y.
gers? What are your chances of survival? which can be eaten like watercress. On semi-dry No South Sea islander will prepare to serve
Dr. Kenneth P. Emory, ethnologist at Hono- atolls you will be surrounded by pandanus trees. you as evening chow; cannibalism today exists
lulu's Bishop Museum and a walking Baedeker On volcanic islands you will find coconuts, ba- almost exclusively in fiction and rumor. Natives
of lore for castaways, has spent a good part of nanas, sugar cane, mangroves, limes, guavas, will not greet you as a "white god": almost all
his life among the natives of the South Seas. He papaya and sometimes oranges. Eat any fruit or of them will have seen a white m a n before,
says that the only danger is fear. And he thinks vegetable that tastes good. and even in the Japanese-controlled islands the
that your chances of survival are excellent—if All shell fish are nonpoisonous and—except for chances are good that the natives will help you
you avoid Japs. several varieties of "balloon fish" which swell —if you know how to treat them.
Dr. Emory spent three weeks recently teach- when cau?ht and are deadly—so are most fish in The rules are simple.
ing the a r t of survival in the South Seas with lagoons and rivers. If there is any question, try Never show fear and never threaten or use a
nothing more than a GI machete (and plenty of a small piece first. Then, if you become mildly gun. First of all, find out if anyone speaks Eng-
guts) to a class of 20 of us—Infantry and Artil- ill, drink enough salt water to cause you to cough lish and can act as your interpreter-guide. If not,
lery officers, a handful of Pacific Rangers, a half up the poison and avoid that fish from then on. approach the native who looks like the village
dozen assorted noncoms, two teen-aged sailors, On a coral atoll there'll be no streams; but you chief. Probably he'll have a bigger ring in his
YANK'S staff photographer, Sgt. John A. (One- can get plenty of drinkable, brackish water sim- nose, be wearing brighter paint, or have a more
Shot) Bushemi, and your correspondent. Here is ply by digging through the sand to the water- brilliant headdress. Go up to him with a smile
a pocket-sized digest of what we learned, a sort soaked level below. For digging, use a pearl shell —even if it hurts. Offer him a cigarette if you
of South Pacific life insurance for YANK readers or a turtle bone. Drifted coconuts probably will have one. Use the sign language and ask him for
who may be bound west from San Francisco one lie nearby. To open these, use any hardwood whatever you want—food, directions, advice.
day soon on a fighting assignment. stick; sharpen both ends with your machete, He'll probably give you all three. Every week
The first thing to remember is that GI machete. drive one end in the ground and husk the nut stories come from the South Pacific of men saved
That's the only thing you need on a desert island. by bringing it down horizontally on the stick by the loan of a dug-out canoe or a native guide.
If there isn't some kind of GI machete, bolo, and prying away the husk section by section. In case you spend much time with the natives.

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 YANK The Army Weekly • MAY 21

learn as many names and as much of their lan- a slight coconut flavor and is a delicacy toasted.
guage as possible. Most of them—particularly The sprout itself can be eaten as a vegetable.
Polynesians—are incurable practical jokers, and Where coconut trees are numerous, you can fell
you should laugh as loud and as long as they one with your machete and eat the celery-like
even if the joke's on you. A jitterbug, a good jive heart in the center of the trunk. Dr. Emory calls
drummer or an amateur magician will probably it "millionaire's salad."
be a hero—especially if he lets a few natives in As for bananas, each tree bears only once; so
on his technique. Anyone who's a superior swim- don't hestitate to chop it down. Some bananas
mer and can outrace the village athletes will may taste strange pven when ripe; they are cook-
earn their undying admiration. Better not try it ing bananas and can be toasted or fried. Even
unless you're almost as good as Weismuller. green bananas are edible after being cooked. The
The women will, in no case, resemble the Hol- breadfruit tree—called the "staff of life" by the
lywood product, and the few instances in which natives—has a fruit 5 to 8 inches in diameter
natives have been unfriendly with white men •With a rough, yellow-green skin. Cook it half an
have resulted when the visitor was overly atten- hour over an open fire, peel off the skin and eat
tive to a wife or daughter. Otherwise, simply with coconut cream.
treat the natives as your equals and friends who In case you've been wondering about that fire,
can help you. They will. the best advice is "Save Your Matches." But you
For shelter even the clumsiest novice can make can keep one fire going indefinitely by using
a semi-durable, hardy lean-to or hut from the pieces of dried coconut husk as punk. They will
materials furnished by the coconut tree. As a burn for hours.
frame use two pairs of coconut-leaf butts for If you have no matches, don't try rubbing two
rafters, a midrib of a tree as a ridge pole, and sticks together and expect a flame to burst forth.
tie with strips of coconut cloth. Any of the primitive methods of fire-making are
For a thatched covering, split long green leaves a sure way to a quick Section 8 unless a native
which are a little longer than the frame and plait or Dr. Emory shows you how. But don't worry.
the leaves the same way you wove baskets as a You can make an oven from a shallow hole with
boy scout or at summer camp. Then lay the fire inside and stones on top.
plaited leaves on the rafters from the ground up, "With a coconut grove around, who needs a
tie them, one overlapping the other, like shingles. fire?" the doctor demands, skillfully evading a
By thatching both sides and one of the ends, you rumor that if you pull off the lower fronds of a
have a hut that not only will protect you from tree and let the juice drip into an empty shell
tropical rains but, with a row of coconut stems tied directly below you will have, in two or three
in front, keep out curious land crabs. By draping days, a beer that will put any PX 3.2 to shame.
a sheet of coconut cloth over the entrance, your Dr. Emory insists that only the natives can make
hut is mosquito- and flyproof. Coconut cloth also Dr. Kenneth P. Emory, director of Jhe "castaways" the beer properly, but when we get to our South
can be used to make a handy loin cloth, belt. advises theirx to cut down the tree to reach bananas. Sea island, we're planning to try.

Capt.-JtKob Hertzog eats tfc« cel- S/Sgt. John Obert of HIbbing, Minn., sam- Mc. Jolin isttdt of GoMlii, Coto., raefcs S/S«f.(Mtwt«l^,|
•iy-lik« hear! of a coconut tne. ples fhe nutritious end of a coconut spiout. broadtruit on a stov* HMMII oi koi 09M». will provid* btM.^'

bag or shawl as well as a stout all-purpose twine.

If you never learned to weave as a boy scout
—and this reporter was given up as hopeless by
both the scouts and Dr. Emory—don't worry. We
found that if you just tie several layers of un-
woven leaves over the frame of your hut it's al-
most as snug—and much simpler to make. A
spare thatch, a mat woven by plaiting an unsplit
leaf, or even a pile of dried leaves makes a sur-
prisingly comfortable bed.
When your water-soaked GI shoes give out,
you can make an excellent sandal by strapping
a piece of coconut husk to the bottom of each
foot. Foot covering is necessary if you're plan-
ning to swim or fish near the coral rocks along
the sea or lagoons. Wear as many clothes as pos-
sible and try to ride the surf in. Coral cuts are
dangerously infectious.
Besides providing you with materials for a
house and clothing, even the scrubbiest coconut
grove gives you almost a complete diet. For ex-
ample, there is the refreshing water or "milk" in
the half-grown nut whose jelly-like meat is a
satisfying though monotonous meal.
The meat of the mature nut—the kind you used
to buy at the corner grocery back home—is too
rich for a steady diet, but you can grate it with
a piece of coral or the edge of a shell, squeeze
the gratings with your hand, and produce a cream
that will make most cows envious. You can drink
ftCf'^.Wmm^
the cream straight, have bananas and cream for
breakfast—no corn flakes—or make a sauce for
^•^m.'r'''^M'
s'*\ # i . i^^-^^s
fish, pandanus or breadfruit. Dry a mature nut,
grate its meat, and squeeze for the oil that, I ' .I ' ^ - 1 ^ ie*.'y^v*4fec ^-•"•--
smeared over your body, prevents excessive sun-
burn and keeps your hair from cracking.
ik -"^'^^m^
In addition, nuts with sprouts have a spongy
growth inside which tastes like marshmallow with
MJ t^y.: •n£^
Pacific Rangers return after a day of gathering jungle fruits, ferns are cool and good camouflage.

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YANK The Army W e e k l y • MAY 21

S IGNIFICANT events in the Pacific are the con-

sistent American bombing raids on the J a p -
held Gilbert Islands, and the shelling of
Attu and Kiska by the U. S. Navy.
It is no secret that the Japanese have been
feverishly constructing airfields on the two tip-
most islands of the Aleutian chain. For months
the treacherous North Pacific weather has aided
them, American bombing planes were unable to
penetrate the thick pea-soup fog.
When the weather broke, however, American
fighters and bombers harried the life out of the
Nips. Supply ships en route from Tokyo to the
Japs on the Aleutians were either sunk or turned
back. Americans were determined either to bomb
the Japs out of the Aleutians or starve them
out.
At great cost, the Japs managed to maintain
their troops on the northern American stepping
stones, the most distant of which is only 800
miles from Dutch Harbor.
Because of the great distances involved in
the Pacific fighting areas, strategy in the Aleu-
tians has never been too clear. But distance has
been the very thing the Japs have played on.
Distance has been their greatest ally in the war
they have waged on the United Nations.
To protect the Island Blmpire Japan pushed
into China, thus eliminating the possibility of
attack from the Asiatic mainland. She grabbed
American bombs fall on the airfield the Japs have been building in Kiska. the tip of the Aleutians to protect the vulnerable
Kurile Islands, stepping stones to Tokyo. She
pushed into the Southwest Pacific to keep the
United Nations busy on a fighting front 3,000
miles away.
These initial moves established Japan's fight-

Japan's Doorstep ing fronts in areas well away from Tokyo. As a

matter of fact, a look at any map will show
that once these distant fronts fall, Japan itself
falls. The Island Empire is extremely vulnerable,
and could offer no adequate defense against a
full-scale invasion attempt.
ff we fake fffie northern bases at Affu and Kkka, In this sense, Japan got the first jump in the
Pacific. But maintaining these distant fronts is
a gigantic job for the Nips.
Tofo win be Hghfing his Pacific war close to home. 'All military observers agree that the Nips will
try to hang on to the Aleutian Islands as long
as they can. There is little fear that Japan will
ever use the islands as a base, for attack on the
American mainland. It is apparent, however, that
the Aleutians are protection for the Kurile Is-
lands, only 750 miles from Attu.
Kiska and Attu airfields in the hands of the
Japs, can harass American attempts to take the
Kurile Islands and use them as stepping stones
to Tokyo.
In the Southwest Pacific, American air and
submarine bases have been coming closer and
closer to Japan's extended shipping lines. J a p -
anese shipping losses have far exceeded their
shipbuilding program. This Allied policy has
reduced the Japs' merchant fleet by 14 percent,
costing them 66 warships and 2,000 planes de-
stroyed.
In two months of bombing in the Aleutians,
more than 1,000,000 high explosive and incen-
diary bombs were dropped, and a naval task
force topped off the raids by standing off Holtz
Bay and Chichagof Harbor and pumping shell
after shell into the J a p installations.
Farther south, Americans opened up on the
Japs' 3,000-mile distant front by bombing the
Gilbert Islands. Nauru was blasted, as was
Tarawa. Simultaneously, an announcement was
made that American troops had been in pos-
session of the island of Fanafuti in the Ellice
Island group for some time.
Maj. Gen. William H, Hale, commanding gen-
eral of the Seventh Air Force, said that present
operations are "a prelude to an American offen-
sive action in a big central area of the Pacific."
If this "central area" once falls into the hands
of the Americans; if the islands, stretching in a
wide arc from Attu and Kiska to the Dutch
East Indies, are wrested from the hands of the
enemy, it means that the fighting will land right
on Japan's front doorstep — which is the last
place she wants it to be.

PHOTO CREDITS: Covar, Sgt. John Bushami. t, laft, Sgi. PMw

Paris; rigHf, Acme. 3, left, Sgt. George Aaront; right, Acme,
5, top, U. S; Sigiral Corpt; bottom, Cpl. Bon Schnoll. 6, top, W W ;
bottom, an. 7, U. $. Air forte. • A «, Smhomt. 10, PA. 12, lop
left, U. S. Navy; top right, Sgt. Dave Richardson; center loft and
bottom right. Acme; bottom left, W W ; center right, PRO Bryan,
Tex.; bottom center. Signal Corps. 13, lop left. Acme; top right,
INP; center bottom, INP; bottom right and left, PA; center, Cpl.
E. Cvlver Wold; center right, Paris. 16, RKO Radio. 17, loft, PA;
right, PRO, BIythe (Calif.) AAB. 20, bottom left, INP; bottom
--•><• •'^-MW.'^^.i^/gi^ • right. Acme. 2 1 , INP. 23, left. Acme; right, PA.

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 YANK The Army Weekly • MAY 21

YA N K
THE ARMY WEEKLY
TAKE IT mSY-TWEBE'S
V-Maii and the Sugar Report MMWLITUE l E F T / "
ANK has received a letter from S/Sgt. Hobert Skidmore, who is in
Y the Air Corps overseas. He comments very strongly on YANK'S
editorials asking soldiers to use more V-Mail so that ships may
carry more packages.
The sergeant's letter is eloquent, and we quote part of it:
"V-Mail is fine and good for the short message, the quick message or
the indifferent one. It is perfect for Aunt Gussie, who wants to know a lot
of things we can't write anyway. But for a real sugar report it isn't worth
a lot. I have yet to see a soldier carrying around a worn, battered, dirty
and loved V-Mail letter. For some reason, we read them and then hurry
back to the mail call to see if any mail has come. But you can find soldiers
carrying around letters so rubbed, worn and crumpled from hikes and work
and general wear that they can only be read from memory. But we hold
onto them!
"From Fort Jay to Algiers, letter-writing is the soldier's great escape,
and he's a writing fool. He's also a reading fool. Take the pretty presents
and the fine stale cakes, leave us the sugar reports. As for V-Mail not being
lost, that is absolutely true. But frankly, I'd rather lose 10 of those brief,
studied notes than to miss the possibility of one good letter, written during
a long, lonely evening—when I felt exactly the same way."
Well, there you are. A lot of other men write that they feel the same
way. But the fact remains that there are just so many boats available
to tote mail, and no more. You've got to decide what is most important.
It probably will not be just a temporary decision. The Navy reports that
United Nations shipping losses in 1942 exceeded by a million gross tons ROMULUa AND." REMUS. ^
the total of new ship construction. Shipping probably will remain one
of the big headaches for a long time.
We are informed this week by the Army Postal Service that they
are considering a plan whereby soldiers might receive one 5-pound
package per month without approval of the CO. If that were allowed.
5 pounds of mail must give way somewhere else.
But where? How many letters do you write that could just as well
go V-Mail? How many letters do you get that could just as well go
V-Mail? Aunt Gussie isn't the only correspondent you could take care
of that way. If you wrote everybody except the heavy sugar and the I t e m s T h a t R e q u i r e ^'o E d i C o r i a l C w i n i n e n t
folks by V-Mail, and asked people to reply by the same V-Mail. in the
aggregate you'd save a lot of shipping space. Adolf's Days Numbered? Modest Murderers
And what about the sugar report? Well, note that YANK advocated The Dutch have a new trick for "Americans just don't understand
keeping the regulation which allows you to send and receive 8-ounce annoying their Nazi guests: They the Japanese people," mourned the
packages by first class mail. Eight ounces of sugar would be about 30 are printing calendars and desk Tokyo radio. "A little thought will
pages of ordinary letter paper. Thirty pages, written on both sides, cards that list American holidays make Americans see how patiently
would be about 18,000 words. but omit the German ones. Dates Japan has stood American abuses;
That ought to be enough sugar report for anybody. of Thanksgiving Day, Washing- how tolerant, patient and modest
ton's Birthday, Memorial Day, St. we are.'" The broadcast took place
Patrick's Day and Armistice Day the day after the announcement of
Good Conduct Medal are displayed prominently, but the Jap execution of the Doolittle
HE WD has amended the require- Hitler's birthday is conspicuous by flyers.
smmiM: T
'•'^^"•M" ''Wi^^S'Ci-i;.;./
ments for the Good Conduct Medal
to include the following; It may be
awarded by the CO of a unit for "ex-
its absence.
Axis Solidarity
Italian Generals Walk
Allied HQ in North Africa re-
emplary behavior, efficiency and fidel- Latest sidelight on Axis solidar- ports the capture of Gen. Alberto
ity" to any GI who on or after Aug. 27, ity comes in a story from Bari. Mannerini, former chief of the
1940, had or shall have completed three Italy, where both Nazi and Itie Italian Sahara Command, and his
years of active military service or who after Dec. 7, 1941, has or shall aviators are stationed. Naturally entire staff. The general and his
have completed one year of continuous active military service while the the Nazis get better food and quar- staff were nabbed, it was ex-
U. S. is at war. Not more than one Good Conduct Medal may be awarded ters. One day somebody made a plained, because the retreating
to any one soldier, but he may get a clasp for an additional three-year mistake and gave the Italians some Germans took all the motor vehi-
period. A ribbon of scarlet with a white strip at each end is given in of the German rations. In the en- cles belonging to the Italians for
place of the medal during wartime. See AR 600-68 (1943). suing argument, three of II Duce's their own use, leaving their Axis
flyers were wounded and one was buddies, including generals, to
Voor Girl Shouldn't Wear Army Insignia killed. hoof it.
GIs are warned that their civilian girl friends or wives are liable
to six months in jail or a $300 fine if they wear official Army insignia. YANK it publi<h«d weakly by lh« Enlisted North Africa: Sgt. Peter Paris, Engr.; Sgt. Ralph
The regulation is part of the National Defense Act and has been in Men of the U. S. Army, and is for sole G. Martin, Inf.
only to those in the Armed Services.
effect for some time, but the Army didn't do anything about it until so Stories, features, pictures or other mate-
Cairo: Sgt. Burgess Scott, Inf.; Sgt. George
Aarons, Sig. Corps.
many women rushed to buy pins, wings and even hash marks that ria) from YANK may be reproduced if Iraq-Iron: Sgt. Al Hine, Engr.
they are not restricted by law or mili-
they created a shortage for soldiers. AR 600-40. tary regulation, provided proper credit
India: Sgt. Ed Cunningham, Inf.; Sgt. Robert
Ghio, MP.
is given, release dotes ore observed and China: Sgt. John P. Barnes, AAF.
Animal Gas Masks specific prior permission has been
granted for eoch item to be reproduced. Australia: Sgt, Don Harrison, AAF.
Horses and mules in combat areas are now being issued gas masks. South Pacific: Sgt. Mack Morriss, Inf.; Sgt.
Howard Brodie, Sig. Corps.
They are like those for human use, having close-fitting muzzle pieces Fiji Islands: Cpl. Bill Haworth, DEML.
connected by flexible hoses to canisters. This is a great improvement New Guinea: Sgt. Dave Richardson, CA.
Hawaii: Sgt. Merle Miller, AAF; Sgt. John
over the first World War models, which were nose bags filled with wads Bushemi, FA.
of cheesecloth filter. Pack animals get the M4, with two canisters carried Aloska: Sgt. Georg N. Meyers, AAF.
Alcon Highway: Pvt. Donald Seely, Engr.
on each shoulder. Cavalry horses get the M5, with one canister slung Panama: Sgt. Robert G. Ryan, Inf.
on the horse's right shoulder to balance the weight of the rifle on the left. Trinidad: Cpl. Frank H. Rice, Inf.
British Guiano: Pvt. Fred A. Peruzzi, Inf.
No Stump Speeches Puerto Rico: Cpl. Byron B. Evans, Inf.; Sgt.
Lou Stoumen.
A new WD regulation prohibits a soldier on active duty from seek- YANK EDITORIAL STAFF Nassau: Cpl. David B. Fold, MP.
ing or accepting a public office unless he held that office when he en- Bermuda: Cpl. William Pene du Bois.
Managing Editor, Sgt. Jo« McCarthy, FA; Art Iceland: Cpl. Dennis Wiegand, AAF.
tered the Army. If seeking reelection, he must first get permission of Dnrector, Sgt. Arthur Weithas, DEML; Assistant Newfoundland: Pfc. Fronk Bode, Sig. Corps.
the WD and his CO. This permission will be given only in "cases of Managing Iditor, Cpl. Justus Schlotxhauvr, Inf.;
Assistant Art Director, Sgt. Ralph St*in, M«d.;
Marines: 1st Sgt. Riley Aikman.
Navy: Robert L. Schwartz Y3c; Allen Churchill
material hardship." Under no circumstances will soldiers be given time Pictures, Sgt. Leo Hofellor, Armd.; Fvoturos, Sgt. Y3c.
off to make political campaigns. Douglas Borgst*dt, OEML; CabI* Editor, Cpl. Dvrbin
Hornor, Q M ; Sportft, Sgt. Dan Polior. AAF.
Officer in chorge, Lt. Col. Franklin S. Forsberg;
Editor, Mai. Hartzell Spence; Detochment Com-
Washington: Sgl. Earl Andorson, AAF; Cpl. mander, Copt. Sam Humphfus,
Club, Police, Ml Richard Paul, OEML. Overseas Bureau Officers: London, M a i . Desmond
London: Sgt. Bill Ricfaordson, Sig. Corps; Sgt. H. O'Connell; Cairo, . Copt. William H. Carter;
MPs have been issued a new standard persuader known as Club, Harry Brown, Engr.; Cpl. Ben Frozier, CA; Sgt. Alaska, Copt. Jack W. Weeks; Puerto Rico, Lt.
Police, Ml. It weighs 1 2 ^ ounces, is 20 inches long, and is made of Walter Peters, Q M ; Sgt. Jock Scott, FA; Cpl. Charles Gerald Rock.
Brand, AAF; Cpl. Thomos Fleming, DEML; Cpl. Full 24-hour INS ond UP leased wire service.
ash, elm, birch, hickory, locust, maple, oak or beech. Stephen Derry, DEML; Cpl. Louts McFodden, Engr. M A I N EDITORIAL OFFICE
205 EAST 42D ST., NEW YORK CITY, U.S.A.

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T H E C H E F . Rufus Chapman OC/3c F E R R Y L I N E . U.S. advance units ir
helps make his ship happy by doing New Guinea crossed stream in assault
some good cooking for sea fighters. boat before engineers built bridge.

G E N E R A L P F C . Pfe. General Johr

J. Pershing Chesser of Lubbock, Tex.,
lets kidded aplenty about his name.

T H E B A Z O O K A . Once a "secret weapon," this new gun

first showed up, with good effect, in Tunisia. Manned by two, it
fires rocket-like shell. This training picture also shows carbine.

S P R I N G S T Y L E . Georgette Walk- L U C K Y G l . Pvt. Joseph Smoocha of Chicago, III., is the AFRICAN FASHIONS Tucking
er, model, takes advantage of Califor- fortunate ma/t in this Red Cross club somewhere in England, the trousers into the socks helps t<
nia sun, and probably California eyes. where they have thought up a new way of being good to soldiers. keep off some of the mud in Tunisia.
 Columbia dancing star, needs to do is
to touch up her "stockings" with a puff.
V ; .«" •
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C^aOD ^ i L A T t O f V S . Edgar Rice

Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, gives
a cigarette to a Pacific island native. | ^

* WAGON. Some Yanks in Tunisia bring 'em in

in a jeep. These Italian prisoners, captured during the Allied
advance, don't seem to be as happy about it as some.

H O M E N E W S . Dorothy Mitcham, t R O P I C A " . D R E S S . New Gl uni- fU A V T f C R E S C U E . A U.S. Coast Guard cutter sighted
WAAC, at Fort Washington, Md., feels form for hot places has twill shorts and this raft crowded with 16 men near exhaustion. Their ship
fine after getting 27 letters while ill. shirt, fibre helmet, cotton stockings. had been torpedoed by a Nazi sub. Here the rescue is made.
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STRENGTH REPORT (LAST RESORT) A strategic point must be hard to d e -

fend
Down in steaming Moresby, THE POETS CORNERED When your only weapon's a "plum-
They still bomb it just for sport, ber's friend."
Nor all your piety and wit
I'm sweating and I'm worrying Shall lure it back to cancel half a line.
Over a screwed-up strength report. ^^•1 \^^ P/c. Omar K.. 1st PBromidoi Tenl Co
At the risk of arousing paternal ire
I'd venture to say, my valiant sire.
Now I'm the guy that's supposed to
know - r r A 3<^ From the pottery background plainly
seen
Where every outfit is— Gl MUFFETT FAMILY ALBUM-1960 You fought the war inside a l a -
Where they are, how many there are trine.
Little Miss Muflett sat on her tuffet Dear father, is that your martyred - S g t . W. C. ALLISON
And what the hell's their biz. demean—
Eating her curds and whey; Camp Walters, Tex.
Before I lie down to sleep at night, A German came by her and sat The one with the visage that's
I first get down and pray: down beside her— slightly green?
Period. (She was a booby trap.) How pale and worn you seem to be; ME GUSTIBUS
Make that strength report be right, What a horrible wound is "house-
Oh, Lord, help me today! - U t Sgi. LUMAN S. NUHER I like the new field rations,
maid's knee." I honestly do.
Fort Taylor, Key West, fla.
Although I know the darn thing's Now, really, did you go over the top With unaccountable passions
wrong. MY FOUR-FOOTED FRIENDS Armed only with that trusty mop? For salads and stew;
There's no use for me to cry. I'll bet the enemy saw his doom There's a tang in a ham hock,
I had a little horse A thrill in smoked butts . . . .
And neither do I sing a song And his name was Chief, When you charged him with your Hey! Don't go away, doc,
When the ratings pass me by. But now he's on the menu deadly broom. I'll convince you I'm nuts.
As barbecued beef.
Now, how I got these corporal's Are tanks and mortars hard to bag - P f c . IRVING KRAUT
stripes I had another little pony With a bar of soap and a dirty rag? Gowen field, Idaho
I'm sure that I don't know. And his name was Sam,
And I won't be so much surprised But now he's disguised
To see this rating go. As sugar-cured ham.
When I turn in the strength report So it's ashes to ashes.
The major smiles with glee; Dust to dust;
He knows it's wrong before it starts If the glue factory didn't get them,
And h e brings it back to me. Then the butcher must.
Tomorrow's Monday once again - T / S g t . RICHARD K. GREENE
And I'll try it one more day. Morrison field, fla.
Then if I'm short just 15 men
I'll go j u m p in the bay. NOMECLATURE OF AAF DETAIL
- C p l . DUDLEY E. BRAMBLETTE Guys in the Air Force no longer
New Guinea are Joes,
We're mess attendants, as everyone
GAS knows;
Though we peel and we scruo like
This is the odor of our blood. other GIs,
The fragrance of our breath We're mess attendants who fly
That burns the nostrils of our foes; through the skies.
This is death.
Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery men
Dimensional and infinite. Wind up on K P again and again.
This lightness bears a weight But we of the Air Force, though we
To crush their breasts and well de- don't get it less.
fines Are perfumed and polished attend-
The circumference of our hate. ants de mess.
There is a hand upon this mist And while we are at it, we may
Beneath this yellow sky. as well blush.
And who shall lift their eyes to us— Our latrine orderlies are attendants
They shall die. de flxish. "My big brother soys it's different
- C p l . lESTER EWIN6 - P v t . CHARLES LEHMAN when the other fellow has a gun, too."
634d CA (AA), Seattle, Wad,. Lowry field, Colo. —Sgt. Charlet Pearson, Audralia

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Tex. . . . Pvt. Andy Soosa, Det. Med. Dept., Sp. AD Air la ^; * •?jj, '>%••-•::*3%' •a:'*ii: _

MESSAGE
Dep. Sta.. Spokane, Wash., wants to hear from two
friends in the Navy. Joe Andrews and Tommy Seuso.
. . . It's important that Sgt. Thomas Sheridian write to
w oiiiic:! <>R.0 .s s
Pvt. Harry J. Rice, Btry. C. 161 CA Bn. ( A A ) , Camp
CENTER Haan. Calif. . . . Will Merle Bloomfield please write to
Cpl. L. Ervin, Co. C. 719th Ry. Opn. Bn., Fort Sam
Houston, Tex.?
Pvt. John P. Oobek, Barnes Gen. Hosp., Ward 35, Van-
Sgt. Alton C. Elwood, Band 249th. CA, Fort Stevens, couver, Wash., sends best wishes to Jacob Szolkewski,
Oreg., wants to get 21st Inf. Regt. insignia in an e x - somewhere in N. Africa. . . . Sgt. Tobin, 245 Hq. Btry..
change. . . . Anyone who knows what happened to Fort Hancock, N. J., hasn't heard from his brother.
Pv». Norman E. Whitehoad, stationed at Clark Field. Ba- Pvt. John Tobin. stationed in Bermuda, for 15 months.
taan, in April 1942, please write Pvt. Howard Cummincis, . . . Will Arthur Thieberger write to Pvt. Alfred H. Thie-
Co. D, 124th Inf., Fort Benning, Ga. . . . Pvt. Vince berger, Hq. and Hq. Btry.. 5th FA Trng. Rgt., Fort
Pocate wants his friends overseas to know his new Bragg, N. C ? . . . Will Pvt. Jerry Bair in the AAF. Aus-
address: 367 TTS, Bks. 283. Scott Field, 111. . . . pfc. tralia, send his address to Cpl. Fred F. Kaiser, Co. E.
Charles V. Orr. Hd. Co. 7th Repl. Dep., NO Staging 415th Inf.. Camp Adair. Oreg.? . . . Cpl. Thomas W. Ryba Bucci Sterling
Area, New Orleans, La., wants to make contact with Dolan, 96th Base Hq. and AB Sq., Columbia AAB, Co-
friends from Charlotte, N. C . and especially those lumbia, S. C . sends his greetings to his friends serv- Sgt. louis J. Ryba of C o l u n i b u s . Nebr., is a
who worked for Barnwell Bros, motor freight w a r e - ing in the 1st Div. Co. B, 16th Inf., somewhere in company clerk at an air depot in India a n d
house. . . . It's important that U. Jud T. Brady write to Africa. . . . Pvt. Thoddeus Pawlak, Co. L. 113th Inf., w i s h e s h e h a d s o m e of t h e cool b r e e z e h i s b r o t h -
S/Sgt. Edri K. Monroe, 91st Obsn. Sq. AAF, Godman Eatontown, N. J., will exchange Army insignia if er, S g t . F r a n k H. R y b a , is e n j o y i n g in A l a s k a .
Field, Fort Knox, Ky. . . . Will the men of the old collectors will write him. . , . Pvt. Anthony F. Aspreo " H e r e , w e s w e a t o u t t h e w a r l i t e r a l l y a n d fig-
118th QM Rcgt. 43d Div. write Lt. A. R. Nevelle. AAF, wants his uncle. Pfc. Michael. Masi, stationed in England,
to know he's been in the Signal Corps for six months u r a t i v e l y , " h e t e l l s F r a n k . . . . Pfc. Florindo D.
La Corona Hotel, Miami Beach. Fla.? . . . Pvt. Joseph (Butch) Bucci, S a n J u a n , P u e r t o Rico, w a n t s t o
Leaver of Waltham (Mass.I TD Div., send your correct and his new ad(Jress is: Co. C, 9th Bn., 3d Trng. Regt,
address to Cpl. Frank T. Velardo, 407 Trng. Gp. P P , SPRD, Greenville, Pa. h e a r from h i s b r o t h e r . P v t . A n g e l o C. B u c c i ,
Miami Beach. Fla. s o m e w h e r e in t h e M i d d l e East. H e s a y s : " D e a r
James Cofer, or anyone knowing his whereabouts, Li'l ( a s in 'Li'l A b n e r ' ) : H o w a b o u t w r i t i n g
It's urgent that Pvt. Wesley F. Smith, with the Marines please write Pvt. Curtis O. Canups, Co. I, 1st Prcht. TR. m o r e often? E v e r y t h i n g is o k a y a t h o m e . " . . .
overseas, write A/C Joseph f. Ward, AAFCC, SAACC. Fort Benning, Ga. . . . T/Sgt. Marvin (Rip) Henderson. Pvt. Clarence A. Sterling, P u e r t o Rico, w a n t s t o
Sq. 106th Fit., San Antonio, Tex. . . . Cpl. RoiMrt J. Hill, 874th CMI Co.. Will Rogers Field, Okla.. would like
Btry. H, 241st CS <HD). Fort Standish. Mass.. wants to hear from some of his pals who went to Australia h e a r from L t . G e o r g e M a x w e l l , w i t h t h e A A F
to hear from Teth. Bill Shugart who returned from Aus- in 1941. . . . A. A. Wynne ACMM, USNAS. Anacostia. in E g y p t . ''Best r e g a r d s a n d c o n v e y m y b u l l e t s
tralia to attend OCS in the States. . . . Pfc. Uoyd Hol- D. C , sends best wishes to M/Sgt. Hervey E. Noyes, to R o m m e l . ' ho .says.
gersen, 505 Prcht. Inf. Med. Det.. 82d A / B Div.. Fort somewhere in England, an old friend who he's missed
iBragg. N. C . wants news from Pvt. Roy Hilton, who seeing in the past few years. . . . $/Sgt. Ralph Behar,
was stationed at Kodiak. Alaska. . . . Cpl. R. C. Jack. 41st B Hq. and AB Sq.. Geiger Field. Wash., would
91st Sig. Co.. Camp White, Oreg.. wants to know what like to hear from his pals in the 365th Bomb. Sq..
happened to Charles P. Gou^h when he left Santa Ana. 305th Bomb. Gp. . . . Cpl. Marty Bergman, 89th Gen.
Calif. . . . Anyone knowmg the location of Donald Hosp.. Charleston. S. C . is anxious to hear from hi^
Sealey please get in touch with Cpl. James A. Gasser, brother. Lewis Bergman, Alaska, who hasn't written for
Co. D. 504th Prcht. Inf.. Fort Bragg, N. C. . . . s/Sgt. J. three months. . . . Pvt. Robert C. Hallberg, Hq. Co.. Recp.
C. Lawrence iost his purse when his company spent the Cen.. Camp Shelby. Miss., invites insignia collectors
night at F o r t George G. Meade. Md. If anyone found to send 10 of one kind for which he will send 10
it please notify Lawrence at Cler. Co.. 111th Med. Bn.. different ones. Will also swap in lots of one.
Camp Edwards. Mass. . . . If Joe Vera, mentioned in Sgt. William G. Gray, 30th Sig. Co.. Camp Blanding.
an April issue of YANK, was a member of Don Pedro's lofferty Von VIeet
band, will he send his address to Cpl. C. I. Mason. Fla.. wants to remind Lt. Joseph A. Butler, overseas with
the AAF. of the good times they had in Baltimore F r o m h i s A l a s k a n a i r base. Cpl. J a m e s A.
301 Inf.. Co. G. Camp Phillips, Kans.? and that he'd like to hear from him. . . . Pvt. Alvin Lafferty r e m i n d s T / 5 V e r n o n Zcller in E g y p t :
Pvt. Joseph I. Barfcus, Btry. A. 15th FA Bn.. Camp Forrar, Ward 5. Fitzsimmons Hospital, Denver. Colo., " M e e t m e on t h e 5 0 - y a r d line a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y
McCoy, Wis., wants his friends from Worcester, Ma.ss.. would like to get in touch with all his friends for- of D a y t o n S t a d i u m for t h e M i a m i g a m e in '44."
to write. . . . Pvt. Sol Satkman, Co. G. 12th QM TR. merly at Camp Roberts, Calif., and Fort Benning, Ga. . . . Albert Schram Ylc, of t h e P o r t D i r e c t o r ' s Office,
£ a m p Lee. 'Va.. has news for his brother, pfc. Morris . . . B. W. Minshall F3c, Bks. A. VW. NYS. Dearborn. U S N A B , F P O 502, S a n F r a n c i s c o , Calif., w a n t s
Sackmon, who left for overseas duty but hasn't written Mich., would like to hear from his father, Pvi. Bernard his friend, R o b e r t C. M i t c h e l l , s o m e w h e r e in t h e
yet. . . . Pvt. Meivin Wilder, Maint. Co., 41st AR. 11th AD. Minshall, overseas. . . . Pvt. Murray Bernstein. Med. Det..
Camp Polk. La., wants news from his brothers. Edgar 180th Inf., Camp Pickett. Va.. wants news from pvt. A r m y , to w r i t e . " T h e N a v y is s w e l l , " h e tells
Wilder, USN; Nelson Wilder, CAC; Beverty E. Wilder, FA. Jack Kati who was stationed at Miami Beach. Fla. . . . Mitchell. . . . Pvt. Harold Van VIeet in A l a s k a
. . - S/Sg». Martin W. Kinsella, 438th Base Hq. and AB A/C Edward R. Hickerson, AAF, AFS. Marianna, Fla.. w o u l d l i k e t o s w a p e n d s of t h e Pacific w i t h h i s
Sq., Newark AAB. Newark, N. J., wants to hear from wanl.5 to hear from Pvt. Marshall G. Murphy and old b r o t h e r , Pfc. M o r r i s V a n VIeet. " T h e n , " s a y s
S/Sg«. Francis L. Goode. formerly at Sheppard Field. members of M Co.. 185th Inf. Harold. "I'd let you shiver far a while."

Dear "yANK: Dear YANK:

I don't know where S.E. got his in- There is already a slight friction be-

Mail
formation to write about us Mule Pack- tween the Army and Navy out here, but
ers [in a J a n u a r y issuel. but I can say what do you think will happen when
that h e is all wet. and I do mean wet. they stop letting the Army boys get
I am an ex-infantryman myself, but I packages from home while the sailors
decided some time ago to transfer into and marines continue getting them? It
a man's outfit, namely the Pack Artil- doesn't make us very happy to know
lery. On every occasion we have had Dear YANK: Dear YANK: there are some people in the good old
contact with the Infantry, we have out- On your Mail Call page I in an April The article Un an April issue of YANK J United States who would pass a bill
marched them, outdrilled them and also issuel. I read four letters from four dif- entitled "The Supply Sergeant" by discriminating between the branches
outfought them. Records will show that lerent soldiers and alter them an an- S/Sgt. Fred C. Buse of Camp Butner, of service like the one that restricts
this outfit walked a total of 30 odd miles swer. The whole five of you a r e wrong. the mailing of packages to men over-
N. C . really interested me very much. .seas except to the Navy, Coast Guard
in rain and sleet leading our beloved For your information and theirs: the I spent six weeks in their Second Army
mules through the wilds of Georgia in guns mentioned a r e definitely not .50 and Marines. T h e fact that the Army
Personnel Pooling Center, and I don't has post exchanges around the camps
1940. We also have to our credit some or .30 caliber but a r e caliber .50 or think I have ever seen a camp that ex- to supply their men with the things
600 miles on the Carolina maneuvers in caliber .30. There is a distinct difference changed as many items of issue as that they need is a gross misstatement. We
1941. If any more records a r e required when the word "caliber" is placed b e - place did. On an average of every third have one where we are stationed, but
to test our stamina, write the man in fore or after the number, and in this day we would have a clothing check we a r e lucky if we can get a bar of
Washington who knows and I am quite case it should be before the number. and anything that was missing, or was soap now and then.
sure that he can prove these statements. -Pvt. O n O F. ROEHM JR too big or too small, or was worn out
If not. there is one battalion overseas Camp Choffee, Ark, - P f c . JAMES Z. HAYES
or otherwise unusable, was turned in
which can. for salvage. Anyone who did not have and 10 other enlisted men
- T / 5 J O H N C. SKEEN* the proper amount of good clothing could New Hebrides
Dear YANK:
Mule Packers Association, South Pacific Most people have the mistaken idea blame no one but himself. . . . I would • I n t h e last four issues Y A N K h a s
•Letter also signed by T/4 Otis Davis that all militar.v policemen are men in appreciate hearing from any of the fel- p r o p o s e d a n e w p l a n to t h e A P O in
limited service or a r e unfit for field lows who were there with me. W a s h i n g t o n w h i c h w o u l d c u r e this.
and Cpl. F r a n k H. Hur.sey. -. „ ,- ,., - P v t . FRED BURKE
duty. This idea is extremely erroneous
and should be corrected. I therefore Camp Young, Calif. D e a r YANK:
Dear YANK:
Here is something .straight from the suggest that in order to distinguish be- Dear YANK: I soldiered in Camp Wheeler, Ga..
horse's mouth. The Sad Sack, than tween combat Military Police and the I have just finished reading your very with the 11th Battalion and the 43d
whom there is no sorrier person, is non-combatants or limited servicemen, touching article "The Supply Sergeant." Infantry Division. I wish to pass on to
stationed on the Alcan Highway. He that the latter (in Zone of Interior out- I think a better name for it would be all others in the service this idea for
was having trouble as usual when I fits i be given an official name, such as "Everyone in the Army picks on me." those who do their own laundry. The
snapped this picture. The woodcarving Zone of Interior Police. Our job in com- I suggest that Sgt. Buse take his plunger as shown in Fig. 1 [below] is
[see belouO was done by yours truly. bat is an important one. We handle all troubles to the chaplain. If this doesn't made of soft wood. Fig. 2 is made by
—Pvt. V A U G H N KENDRICK traffic in the combat zone, which in- work. I think it would be a very good perforating a No. 2 tomato or fruit can,
cludes food, ammunition, guns and med- idea if the Army issued supply ser- rough edges inside, then nailing
Alaska bottom of can to wide end of plunger.
ical supplies for troops on the front. geants nice big heavy duty towels so
We also establish a prisoner-of-war they could cry to their hearts content. This leaves the top open where cover
stockade, a straggler line, and control was removed and two smooth compart-
occupied towns and cities. Port Angeles, Wash. ™' ments for soap (to create suds).
-Sgt. OSCAR LEVINSON
Overseas Dear YANK:
Being an ardent reader of YANK, I
Dear YANK: recently read an article on supply ser-
geants written by S/Sgt. Fred C. Buse.
The Coast Guard issue is a bang-up and. being a supply sergeant myself, I
job. YOU have succeeded in presenting fully agree with him on all the hor-
the major work of the service in an in- rors and misery depicted in his theme.
telligent and absorbingly interesting -S/Sgt. JOHNNIE WOODS
fashion. Every one of t h e articles was Wayne County Airport, Romulus, Mich.
well-handled. The pictures and features
were likewise excellent. Please express
the thanks of the Coast Guard to all the
writers and the others who worked on
Dear YANK:
About overseas mail regulations, you
This little gadget can be made by any-
ne.z
the issue. hit the nail on the head with your
7-point program. It's a 100-percent one in a few moments and with a lit-
- R . R. WAESCHE morale booster. tle elbow grease.
Vice Admiral, U. S. Coast G u a r d - C p l . ROBERT D. BROCK
-PETER COCCHiO
Commandant Trinidad "Turn The Crank Jimmie"
Fort Barrancas, Fla.

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HOLLYWOOD. Know a civilian who
is 23 years old and 5 feet 2 inches
BOOKS
PRINCIPLES O F W A R
I.\ \VARTI.>Ili
Lardner. "If we don't go to Austra-
tall? Paramount wants him to play lia," said Kirkland, "I don't know
the part of a jockey in "Three on a By Carl von ClausewUz
Gen. von Clausewitz's "Principles how the hell the beer is." Lardner
Rainbow." . . . Jane Russell, the girl went to Australia all right, and he
most sailors would like to have wait- of War" were three: 1) Heroic d e - brought back the best humored book
ing for them in every port, is the cisions in battle are based upon rea- yet to come out of this war. You
bride of Bob Waterfield, UCLA foot- sonable conclusions arrived at b e - won't find many hysterics in "South-
ball player. Jane's boss, the million- forehand. 2) Successful generals a l - west Passage" and you won't find
aire eccentric Howard Hughes, has ways familiarize themselves with many dull pages, either. [J. B. Lip-
threatened to buy a chain of thea- the thought of defeat. 3) No military pincott Company.] Desert s e s s i o n . Art evening of poker at
leader has ever become great with- Blythe Army Air Base, Calif. The hand-
out audacity. Von Clausewitz, great- THE LAST DAYS OF SEVASTOPOL
holders are Pvt. Charles Jurin, Pvt.
est of the theorists of war, wrote this By Borif YoyefekhoY
Roger Lamberf, Pfc. Robert Gerst, Pvt.
book more than 100 years ago and it is On July 14, 1942, the Red Navy
John Karpinski and Pvt. Jim Leitch.
as pertinent today as it ever was. cutter Papinin landed at an eastern
This edition, a condensation of his Black Sea port. "She was mastless. from the lack of money o n the table,
famous "Vom Kriege," was ably Her bridge had been shot away, and this game must have been held near
translated and edited by Hans W, her sides were riddled." On her deck the end of the month.
Gatze. [The Military Service Pub- were the last of t h e Soviet soldiers,
lishing Company.] sailors, marines and civilians who NAMES. "I'm tired of fighting for
had held Sevastopol against over- Japan," writes Pvt. James C. Brad-
whelming German forces for eight shaw. Camp Wheeler, Ga., to his home
WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY months during one of the bloodiest
By John T. Whitaker
folks at Japan, N. C. "Can't you
military sieges in history. In simple, change its name to something A m e r -
John T. Whitaker, a capable, far- moving prose Voyetekhov, a Russian ican?" . . . There's one guy at the
sighted reporter, starts this book reporter, describes the last three Sampson (N. Y.) Naval Training Base
with a dedication to his brother, an weeks of the siege. An inspiring whose name has saved him from get-
Army surgeon who enlisted before story of a fighting ally, brilliantly ting a lot of extra duty. He is Nicho-
Pearl Harbor because he saw that translated by Ralph Parker of the las Vandervoortmaarschalk AS. . . .
the U. S. "cannot escape history." In New York Times. [Alfred A. Knopf.] Marine brothers taking boot training
the subsequent chapters, Whitaker at Parris Island, S. C , are Pvts. Max
walks down the road to war with IN PEACE JAPAN BREEDS WAR and Leonard Antinazi. . . . At the
J o n e R u s s e / f married Bob Waterfield.
byway stops in Germany, France, By Gustav Ecksfein New Cumberland (Pa.) Army Recep-
Spain, Italy, Great Britain, the So- There is little in these delicately tion Center, Pvt. Andrew Mussoline
ters so that sailors—and o t h e r s - viet Union and Japan. What emerges written sketches of life in pre-war (pronounced like II Dace's name)
may see Jane in her one and only on his pages is a stirring, vivid pic- Japan to indicate how Japan breeds says he would like to meet his n a m e -
movie, "The Outlaw." The Hays of- ture of the inside of a war and a war. Instead Dr. Eckstein attempts sake with an M l . . . . Dogfaces at
fice has frowned upon the film as too valid appraisal of our part in the to penetrate the subtleties of the Camp Sibert, Ala., salute 2d Lt. D. C.
sexy. . . . A woman from Indiana re- fight. [The Macmillan Company.] Japanese mind, comes off second best. Fuerher.
cently ordered $100 worth of pin-ups GIs in New Guinea or Guadalcanal
of Buck Jones, cowboy star killed in SOUTHWEST PASSAGE would not recognize the polite and CHOW. Pfc. Robert Todhunter,
Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire. . . . By John Lardner art-loving Japs described here. The Fort Bliss, Tex., is mess cook for the
Candy Jones, the goo-goo girl, is the "If we're going to Australia, the author asks us to treat the Japs with Army's real chow hounds; he takes
latest New York model to go Holly- beer is warm," a photographer named "knowledge, imagination, and even care of the chow for the K-9 Com-
wood. She has signed with Sam Kirkland told John Lardner as the sympathy" after w e smash them. He mand, the GI dogs of war. . . . Most
Goldwyn. . . . Desi Arnez, the Conga- two of them stood on the deck of a doesn't say how they would treat popular guy in his company at Fort
dancing husband of Lucille Ball, has ship in a west bound convoy. "What us if they should win. [Harper & Riley, Kans., is Pvt. Ray ( P i e Man)
passed his Army physical. . . . How- if we don't go to Australia?" said Brothers.] Perry. He owns a pie business back
ard Hawks' n e w picture, "Battle home at Rochester, N. Y. Every time
Cry," will have a cast headed by Perry gets a large package his bud-
Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, Bette
Davis, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bo-
W o r d Square CHECKER STRATEGY dies loosen their belts and smack
their lips. . . . Lt. Lilbert O. Sparks,
gart, John Garfield and George Raft. The word square is the father of the on mess inspection at Marianna
BROADWAY. Seven thousand hep
crossword puzzle. Though miniature in
size, it's lots of fun.
When correctly filled out. the square will
1 2 3 4 (Fla.) Air Base, bit into an oyster,
found a pearl.
cats, wearing zoot suits and rolled 6 7
socks, broke a policeman's ribs and
show the same words horizontally as ver-
cally 5 8 COMPANY. For six straight days
Pvt. James R. Foore, of Cxen. P a t -
a plate glass window on Broadway A few letters have been thrown m free 9 10 11
while cramming into the Paramount
Theatre when Harry James and his
band opened. . . . Dooley Wilson,
to get you off to a good start. Go to it!
ACROSS A N D D O W N 15 14 15 16 t ton's Second Army Corps, kept open
house in a slit trench d u g into a
Tunisian hillside. Visitors kept plop-
who sang "As Time Goes By" in the
1.
2.
Civvy tummer bonnet
Worthiest, offensive thing (slang) 17 • # 20 ping in whenever a Heinle shell
dropped nearby, were welcomed by
movie "Casablanca," is still singing 3. Unyielding 22 23 24 Foore with "(ilad to have you.
it—in a Greenwich Village night #
4. Mimicking Kinda breaks t h e monotony." . . .
28
spot. "As Time Goes By" has become
the first revival song to top the 300,-
5. To crowd in

1 :l 3 4 5 L %^
0 310 Coast Guards 2d Class Firemen
Dominick Vilardi, J i m m y Searle,
000 mark in sheet sales since "Oh,
Johnny." . . . Gypsy Rose Lee, the
well-known intellectual, is writmg
one show, "Ghost in the Woodpile," X W b o 9 Aaron Gabrille and James Pledger,
while practicing on maneuvers in
Scotland, s a w a big castle guarded
closely by the Scotch Black Watch.
while starring in another, "Star and "Let's see that shanty," said Domi-
Garter." Gypsy's sister, J u n e Havoc, X R WHITE TO MOVJE A N D W I N
HITE is a piece behind. Furthermore,
nick. So t h e four CGs sneaked
will do some teasing herself as a
burly queen in t h e film, "Hi Diddle 3 G W another
the Black king on 32 threatens to steal
White checker.
through the guard, knocked at the
castle door and were welcomed by
Diddle." She got the part after Lupe Yet, with all these strikes piled up against the 70-year-old Duke of Argyll.
him. White can force a win. Your problem
Velez and Constance Bennett turned
it down. . . . Duke Ellington is writ- 4 N is to determine how.
Before checking your analysis with the
They were treated to fish and chips
and wound u p their visit singing
jive numbers while the Duke
ing a "Concerto for Oscar" (Levant).
BETWEEN THE COASTS. Because of
w solution on page 22, number the playing
squares of your board as shown above. warbled Italian operatic arias. Said
castle - crasher Vilardi: "The old
the rubber shortage, Sally Rand is duck was tickled pink."
using last year's bubbles at Chica-
go's Brown Derby. . . . Don Chester N B P K
and his band are playing in Miami,
Morton Downey is singing in Wash-
ington, Julie Haydon is acting in
Pittsburgh, Fats Waller opens soon
in Philadelphia and Tommy Dorsey
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Minneapolis Orpheum. EMEMBER long divlsion the way we
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learned it at public school? Well, here's
a new take-off on it. A long-division
has been accurately worked out R AB
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you t o a n y port o f the w o r l d .
and then letters substituted for the num-
Maureen O'Hara bers, a different letter for each digit.
Your job is to reconstruct the original N TR R
"She looks like the kind of a girl you'd problem from what clues you can dig up FULL NAME A N D RANK SERIAL N O .
in the substitution. For example: Since N
like to marry," said someone about the minus N equals Y, then Y must be zero. N U K P
Irish foss on the opposite page. It might This puzzle is by no means a cinch but
it's a swell brain sharpener and a good test OLD MILITARY ADDRESS
be added that she also looks like the of your arithmetical logic. A Y T K
When you do crack it, arrange the sub-
,and o f a girl you like to look tit. Mau- stituted letters in the order of 1, 2, 3. 4, 5,
reen's latest picture is RKO Radio's 6. 7. 8, 9, 0. They will spell out a 10-letter A YT K NEW MILITARY ADDRESS
word.
"This< Land Is Mine."

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By Sgt. BILL DAVIDSON crowded with farmers and their families on Sat- The west end of town is still the west end, and
urdays. To save gas, they shop in the afternoon, the north end is still across the tracks. Art
YANK Staff Writer then stay to see a movie at the Willmar or State Dalien's pool parlor and Barney Shine's sports
iLLMAR, MINN.—Like 90 percent of its
W population, this town is big, blond, stolid
and Scandinavian.
Its neat white houses and wide streets are
Theater (called, respectively, ' T h e New One"
and "The Old One" by the inhabitants). The
Tulip Shop is still crowded every day with kids
drinking cokes and eating fudge sundaes. They
hang-out are half-filled but functioning. The Bos-
ton Cafe closed when the county refused to r e -
new its .beer license. Thursday night is still dance
night at nearby Spicer. And Saturday night is
spread over a broad area on the borderline be- are, however, mostly girls and small fry. still making-the-rounds night when you go to the
tween prairie and lake country, which is much The only feuniliar male figure around the Tulip Bungalow Cafe in Kandiyohi for coke, peanuts
like northern Sweden. Its telephone book is filled Shop is Ronnie Haugen, who never quite recov- and juke box, then to Spicer for coke, peanuts
with Johnsons, Hansens, and Svensons. It is ered from the infantile paralysis attack he suf- and juke box, and finally back to the Puritan
neither rich nor poor. Its politics are Farmer- fered as a child. Ronnie watched the others go Cafe for coke, peanuts and juke box. Only every-
Labor and pro-Roosevelt. It is hard-working, and tried to enlist. When all the services turned one goes in crowds now to make up for the defi-
thrifty, ponderous. It is slow to anger. But when him down, he took up telegraphy at the railroad ciencies in males and gasoline.
its anger is aroused, watch out. yards, hoping that might develop into something. If you have a date to yourself, the principal
In this way, Willmar is much like the bone- He hangs around the Tulip Shop now, acting as parking places are still the golf course and Rob-
crushing football teams Bernie Bierman used to a sort of sage for the kids and reflecting loneliness bins Island (just outside of town in Foot Lake
turn out at the University of Minnesota. in his eyes. and connected to the mainland by a dirt road).
It is also a like a Norwegian flyer named Olaf "Lucky Strike green has gone to war," he says, The island, otherwise known as Mosquito P a r a -
with whom I had dinner once in Canada. All with a forced smile. "I'm the Lucky Strike white dise, was recently converted into a park—with
through the meal, Olaf was the picture of r e - that's left behind." benches, grates, rest rooms and a gate. This has
strained joviality. Then someone mentioned The busy railroad yards have a $125,000 month- made little difference in its normal activities,
Trondheim, where his mother and two sisters had ly pay roll. All the old timers have been called however. When one couple was locked in by mis-
been killed. Olaf's fingers tightened on his heavy back, and many of the girls have gone to work take late one night, they got out simply by knock-

HOME TOWNS IN WAR TIME

WILLMAR, Minn.
Continuing YANK's series of visits to home towns
scattered over America, revealing the changes war has wrought
on them. Watch for your town. It may be
the next to appear here.

drinking glass. A second later, it shattered in his there. The crops were hard hit by a terrific wind- ing the gate down and driving through.
hand. storm last September, followed by a 6-inch snow The high-school teams, as usual, ended up in
That's the way Willmar is. which canceled the Willmar-Marshall football the cellar of the West Central Minnesota Confer-
Only Willmar hasn't gotten really mad yet. The game. Before winter was over, there had been 52 ence. The league basketball schedule was canceled
front lines are far away from this pleasant little inches of snow. But $50,000 worth of furs were altogether because of transportation difficulties,
junction on the Great Northern Railroad. Four- trapped during December alone, and turkey-rais- and the schools were allowed to book indepen-
teen hundred men have gone into the armed ing blossomed into a major industry. The Ameri- dent games only with teams along the railroad line.
forces from Kandiyohi County, most of them sub- can people have become great eaters of turkey The great championship baseball team in the Corn
tracted from Willmar's population of 7,600. But since meat-rationing arrived, and Willmar turned Belt League was wrecked by the draft, and pitch-
there have been virtually no casualties among out to be as good a place as any to raise the er Dick Selvig, who was headed for the majors,
them thus far, and many of the farm boys are gobblers. Ole Hustoft, who cleaned up on his tur- ended up at Camp Edwards, Mass., instead. The
still home. So the loss of the men is not yet too key profits this year, still can't understand it. "I great softball team from Coffee John's Cafe also
keenly felt. plant good corn," he says, "and I lose money. I was wrecked by the draft; pitcher Eldon Matson
There is no dimout, you can still get two squares raise good healthy silver foxes, and I don't make is now at Camp Wallace, Tex.
a cent. Now I take in these damn noise-makers Little by little, things are beginning to change
of butter with your meal in the restaurants, and and just let them run around the yard—and the
the coffee is still flowing freely. The Scandi- around the town. Naval enlistments (strangely
money comes pouring in." popular in landlocked mid-Western towns) are
navians are a great coffee-drinking people. For
the slightest reason, such as a spurt of business The Puritan Cafe has been completely remod- on the rise. WAAC and WAVE enlistments are
or the baby showing signs of becoming house- eled, with pictures of airplanes all over the walls. increasing. The Amundsen and Evans Chevrolet
broken, they will drop what they are doing and A new office building has gone up on the site of Agency has hired all the unemployed garage
rush to the Lakeland Coffee Shop for a cup of the Willrnar Hospital. Old Andrew Larson cele- mechanics in town, and they are using the back
coffee. Mayor Martin Leaf and Sheriff Paul An- brated his 102d birthday by inviting everyone rooms to manufacture small bomber parts, while
derson are the most prodigious coffee drinkers in over for coffee and then informing them at great the cars in the show window gather dust. The
town. Sheriff Anderson, in fact, has been able to length how he personally master-minded Sher- Vinje Lutheran Church recently dedicated a ser-
maintain his proud average of 20 cups a day. To man's March to the Sea. Ice-fishing was good last vice flag with 77 stars. More and more citizens
satisfy such customers as these, the grocers laid winter, and Green Lake and Eagle Lake were are soberly attending Lyle Mack's welding classes
in huge reserves of coffee, months before ration- dotted with fish houses. Louie Halvorson is still at Parson's blacksmith shop and Kenneth Thomp-
ing was instituted. That is why the shortage has the conservation warden, and his principal duty son's sheet metal classes behind the police station.
not been felt yet. is pacifying people who complain to him when In its quiet Scandinavian way, Willmar is be-
the mink or raccoon raise hell with their chickens. ginning to get mad.
Litchfield Avenue and Fourth Street are still

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had on your last week-end pass. That one usu-

ally sweeps the CO right off his feet.
When you return from one pass you start im-

How To Get a PASS mediately to build up toward the next one. When
someone asks if you had a good time you maneu-
ver around to get within hearing distance of the
Old Man. Then you say:
"Heck no. When I got off the train, my wife
slipped and broke her leg. Why, I've been sitting
up nights with her. I haven't slept a wink since I
SOME TRIED AND TRUE METHODS left here. She was really in agony. She had a
complicated compound fracture—not just a little
break but a compound one. It was awful. Poor
kid."
If you use this system, take care to build it up
By Cpi. N O R M A N R. HART all, to arrange with someone to send you a con- at every opportunity within hearing distance of
Savanna (III.) Ordnance Depot Proving Ground vincingly important telegram. the Old Man. After a while, out of common
Sickness is an old well-worn excuse but still a courtesy, he will ask how your wife is getting
WEEK-END PASS IS the principal military ob-
A jective of soldiers all over the world, so
^ here are a few valuable tips on the subject,
by a guy who finds this type of pass much harder
sure bet in an emergency, such as when your
best pal back home is throwing a beer party for
all the boys. A wife or mother, conveniently ill,
can work wonders when it comes to getting
along. Then you've got him; you're in.
If your pass is turned down, you can always
put on the injured act. It goes like this: ^'Say,
what do you have to do to get a pass around
to make than the kind which takes place when passes. But don't do as one soldier did and have here?" or "What! After four months without a
you are with a blond in a rumble seat. them add the warning, "Do not contact Red pass?"
The first step is to get your name on the list at Cross." That's a dead give-away. When you use this latter approach be sure that
the proper time (usually Wednesday about 11 Better yet is the wife who is expecting a baby, the time element is great enough to excite pity:
o'clock). To make sure of this, you can go on because it can be used for innumerable passes. it might take them a few minutes to look it up
sick call or find some other form of Wednesday The fellow who can wrinkle his brow and put on and you could, in the meanwhile, gain your point.
morning goldbricking so that you can beat the the best worried act can do wonders with this Of course, this method has never been known to
other fellows to the line-up at the orderly room type. One man used the baby gag for the first five work but someday it might. Besides you have
door." months he was in the Army. He was broken- nothing to lose.
It is important to start your picketing at the hearted when the infant finally arrived. And, too, there is the belligerent attitude. "I'd
right moment. If you're too early the first ser- Of course, business appointments or family op- lietter get one next week," you threaten. This is
geant might get sore and find some time-consum- erations should always be scheduled to occur in designed to soften up the company clerk, but it
ing detail which will disrupt your whole scheme. usually makes him a little harder. It's not recom-
the middle of the week. That way you can get an
If you're late you'll be trampled in the rush and mended.
spend your week-end in the hospital. Experience emergency pass and then telephone for an exten-
teaches the correct timing. Some old-time pass sion to last over the week-end. -^ If all these methods fail you can always go to
grabbers have it down to a science; they can ap- One of the best pass-getting gags is ^ ^ tone the CO with a legitimate reason and in your
pear out of nowhere at just the proper instant. whereby you must be home on a certajnmate to proper turn. You'd be surprised how. well this
appear in court because of an auto ahoK^nt you system works.
Once your name is down you can keep yourself
posted by chasing the company clerk around,
whispering, "Did it go through?" or, "Did I make
it?" You must be very secretive about this
cause someone else might overhear and deci'
ask for a pass himself, thereby cutting dowqf':
own chances.
The telegram method is a little more troubfe
but your percentage is better. There are s e v ^
variations of this system. It is necessary,'flrj

"Ya see, Sarge, my wife and kid have broke their legs and my
grandmother was burned up in my house which was burned down
in the blackout accidentally for which the cops locked me up and
the installment man for the piano which burned up too and kin I
have a 12-hour pass in which to straighten out my affairs."

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ALABAMA members take their own lunches; the hotel

L. T. Corum, Huntsville textile-mill foreman, -where they convene stopped serving meals to
was held in Madison County jail in connection civic clubs because of shortage of help. Wesleyan
College was quarantined by measles.
with the fatal shooting of his son Laurence, 41.
One pig brought $3,500 at a Scottsboro War Bond
sale. Teen-age boys were recruited throughout
the state to harvest the potato crop in Baldwin
IDAHO
The new state law requiring a blood test before
NEWS
County. State control is not being considered by marriage will cost Coeur d'Alene's marriage mill
Tuskegee Institute, its president. Dr. F. D. Pat-
terson, declared.
ARIZONA
$100,000 a year, it is estimated by Justice of the
Peace M. E. Frandsen. At Boise, Mrs. Verl Higer
sold her hair for $20, gave the proceeds to the
Red Cross and USO. At Payette, first-degree
FROM HOME
murder charges were filed against Earl Clark, 38,
At Phoenix, John W. Clark, 50, pleaded guilty charged with shooting Tom Harris, his produce
to importing opium as Robert Dudley Linville, farm partner. Gov. Bottolfsen sought federal
43, and Ruby Lamont, 29, went on trial on simi- money for a trailer camp at Mountain Home.
lar charges. Stewart Krentz was elected president ford, a soldier perished when fire swept the
of the Cochise-Graham County Cattle Growers ILLINOIS Rendezvous Hotel. At Oakland, George T. Ben-
Association. Prescott High School gave 10 type- Robert M. Roloson, Chicago multimillionaire, son, Civil War veteran, celebrated his 102d birth-
writers toward the state goal of 900 for govern- perished with his wife and two of their three chil- day. E. H. Shute of Farmington was elected town
ment use. At Tucson, wmter visitors left at a dren when fire destroyed their home in Win- manager of Patton. Lewiston High won the an-
rate of 50 a day, but the housing shortage re- netka. Girls over 18 can be life guards in Evan- nual Bates College Interscholastic Debating
mained acute. ston this summer. Patrick H. FoUiard, conductor, Championship with South Portland High second.
saved the lives of seven passengers in a train The Legislature closed a 14-week session after
CALIFORNIA wreck between Aurora and Streator that killed creating a post-war planning fund of $1,000,000.
At Fresno, C. A. Hawkins gave away his 400- four persons and injured 14. At Granite City,
acre pea crop rather than pay pickers $3 a bushel Joseph Flowers killed his wife, Mary, wounded MARYLAND
when the selling price was $2.50. The drawbridge their son, then killed himself in a family row. Judy Judson, 29, became Maryland's first p r o -
at 4th Street, San Francisco, went up and re- Cole County honored Drs. O. G. Taylor and C. H. fessional woman jockey when granted a license
mained stuck for over a week. San Marino cele- Voorheis, physicians for 50 years. Cold weather at Pimlico. At Chestertown, Herman Blackway,
brated its 30th anniversary. A. J. McFadden, delayed crops, but heavy rains ended a drought. volunteer fire chief, was voted the town's No. 1
president of the State Board of Agriculture, said Gas rationing cut auto travel 60 percent. citizen. Fire at the Crisfleld Light & Power Co.
two-day business holidays will be necessary to plant destroyed cooking and illuminating gas. At
allow everyone possible to work in the fields to INDIANA Baltimore, two shipyard employees were sen-
harvest farm crops. At Los Angeles, Jackson M. New Castle's worst fire destroyed the Jennings tenced and nine others held on charges of sabo-
Weatherford, 69, wealthy realtor, was charged Building, causing a $250,000 loss. Arthur W. tage by faulty welding; one employee died and
with the ax-slaying of a tenant, Mrs. Marie Slagie of Topeka was crushed to death by a bull. five were injured in a six-alarm fire at the Cats
Struck, 54. UCLA professors are tilling 32 cam- At Indianapolis, Mrs. Iris Todd was denied a Paw Rubber Co. plant.
pus garden plots. Fire did $3,000 damage to the divorce when she wore slacks and a sweater to
Hemet Elementary School. court, later received her decree when she r e - MASSACHUSETTS
turned wearing a sedate dress. At Shelbyville, War Industry Coordinator John J. O'Shea a n -
COLORADO Roy Skillman, Mrs. Cathrine Oliger and her 18- nounced plans providing post-war jobs for ser-
At Denver, Grace Church was crowded for a month-old grandson were killed in a crash in- vicemen. The annual herring run in Back River
meeting considering the city's rising juvenile de- volving a passenger train, auto, truck and bicycle. at Weymouth and Hingham started a week late.
linquency; a 17-year-old boy blamed spring fever Fire did $4,000 damage to the-Knights of Colum- At Boston, the liquor stock from the vault of the
after two girls reported to police that he had bus home at Vincennes. Indiana was the first state fire-ravaged Cocoanut Grove night club was sold
kissed them. Grand Junction school children and in the U. S. to exceed its Second War Loan quota. to a hotel for $171,000. Fall River established a
American Legionnaires are turning files into 10 P.M. curfew for juveniles. Lowell school teach-
knives for shipment to jungle soldiers. Died at IOWA ers are going to court to collect a promised pay
Fort Morgan: R. B. Graham, 62, stockman and Cedar Rapids, chosen as a typical Mid-Western increase. At Northampton, Mrs. Beatrice Bouvier,
member of the state highway advisory board. town, entertained Secretary of the Treasury Mor- 27, of Ware went on trial for the alleged shotgun
genthau for a "We, the People" broadcast. Water- murder of her husband.
THE DAKOTAS loo bought land on the west bank of the Cedai
North Dakota: Every time the Bismarck lire River for a park. L. W. Feik was renamed head MICHIGAN
whistle blew during an appointed day, it meant of Sioux City schools. Fred Schwengel of Daven- Gov. Kelly vetoed a bill authorizing state piu:-
$25,000 more sales of War Bonds. Anton J. Ander- port was elected state president of the Junior chase of Ferris Institute at Big Rapids. At Bay
son, a farmer near Berg, reported that a turkey Chamber of Commerce. Missouri's new marriage City, Cecil Lisk, 41, killed two of his four daugh-
survived after being buried under an 8-foot law doomed "quickie" over-the-line marriages ters and himself during a four-hour battle with
snowdrift for 17 days, and Blaine Whipple, editor for lowans., police. Two new food-dehydrating plants were
of McKenzie County Farmers, swore his story approved for Greenville and Marshall. The 70,000
was true. South Dakota: At Aberdeen, Moccasin LOUISIANA depositors of the Grand Rapids Savings Bank
Creek flooded 15 blocks in Morningside Heights, Marihuana worth $160,000 was seized near will get $661,809 in its final pay-off. At Port
drove 125 persons from their homes and isolated Lake Charles. At New Orleans, three prisoners Huron, 18 persons were hospitalized after a $100,-
Tacoma P a r k for days; the city canceled its an- escaped from the Federal House of Detention; 000 fire swept the White block. Ionia's City Coun-
nual election for lack of candidates. Huron High eight persons were hurt by an explosion at the cil voted fast time for April to October, inclusive.
students spent three weeks helping Beadle County Gulf Supply Corp. plant. Dr. F. M. Terrell of
farmers plant crops. Lake Providence was elected state president of MINNESOTA
the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Edward A. Before resigning to begin active duty as a
GEORGIA Mittelbronn. former employee of the Orleans lieutenant commander in the Navy, Gov. Stassen
All but three of 25 convicts who escaped from Parish Levee Board, pleaded guilty to embezzling signed a bill giving war veterans job preferences.
Tattnall State Prison were recaptured within a $503 and was sentenced to one year at hard labor. Lt. Gov. Ed Thye became governor. At Minne-
week; then the ringleaders, Leland Harvey and Louisiana natural-gas rates were reduced. apolis, increased drinking among juveniles led
D. C. Black, escaped again from Bibb County to a public hearing. William C. Volkert, 46-year-
jail in Macon with the aid of a trusty. An inves- MAINE old farmer who allegedly sent a threatening let-
tigation disclosed three whisky stills at the Adolf G. Fischer of Brewer caught the season's ter to Gov. Stassen, was held in Ramsey County
prison. Atlanta's City Council outlawed the first salmon in the Bangor Pool and sent it, as jail. The Hubbell County Rationing Board estab-
drinking of hard liquor in public places and the usual, to President Roosevelt. Portland taxi lished a card-index system listing drivers, car
sale of mixed drinks within the city limits. drivers ended a five-day strike. A $65,000 bridge capacity and condition of the tires to aid the
When the Brunswick Rotary Club meets, its will replace ferry service to Allagash. At Bidde- community's "share-your-car" movement.

The old Dayett House in Glasgow, Del., was set afire when this trailer truck Mrs. Rose Micklich, vvho works with her hudiand in a Pueblo
crashed into it. The house was the site of Gen. Howe's headquarters in 1777. (Colo.) bolt mill, shovels them in as hard and as well as the men.

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NORTH CAROLINA Charleston Hardware Co. store. At Cleveland,

A tornado swept Roxobel, Northampton County, the state defended its repeal of the state poll-tax
killing six persons, demolishing 25 homes and 12 law in a suit filed by Sheriff Birch E. Biggs.
stores, and causing $250,000 damage. At Charlotte,
What Goes On H. H. Baxter was elected mayor: Capt. Leonard
Austin and L. W. Brown of the fire department
TEXAS
A 1,000-pound brass bell, once rung by Corpus
Christi volunteer firemen, will be used on the
in Your were suspended for 15 days for fighting. The
Army threatened to place Charlotte off limits
after describing the venereal disease situation as
new cruiser Houston. A Dallas judge ruled that
a mother with six children has priority over her
husband's sweetie when it comes to shoe-ration
Own Home Stafe "horrible." Judge Wilson Warlick of Newton was
the first announced candidate for governor. stamps, placed him under $1,000 bond. The last
five WPA employees in the 44-county Houston
OKLAHOMA District were discharged. Army scrap collectors
Oklahoma County raised 40 million dollars in rounded up a million pounds from each of five
one day to buy a new cruiser, the USS Oklahoma east Texas counties.
City. An Oklahoma City beauty parlor operator VERMONT
MISSOURI turned over to police a man who wanted his hair
Sheriff Omar Schnatmcicr ordered St. Charles At Burlington, Mayor Burns was reelected; the
dyed and waved and his eyebrows arched. Fort University of Vermont dropped intercollegiate
County loafers to get farm work, otherwise face Gibson schools closed for one day so students
vagrancy charges. The St. Louis Board of Alder- sports for the duration; James E. Burke, mayor
could harvest R. C. Chapman's radish crop. Be- for 10 years and state Democratic leader, died
men created a post-war planning committee. fore being electrocuted in Sing Sing Prison,
Ernest A. Hamwi, 59, who claimed he originated at 94; fire did $5,000 damage to the Lash Furni-
N. Y., Eli Shonbrun was allowed to read the love ture Co. warehouse; Allyn Krause, 23, last of
the ice cream cone, died in St. Louis. The Kansas letter sent him by Madeline Webb, former Still-
City zoo bought Joggs, a bicycle-riding h a r - the Malietts Bay camp burglars, got a lV2-year
water college co-ed, who is serving a life sen- sentence in State's Prison at Windsor. New
monica-playing ape. tence for the same murder for which Shonbrun England governors considered mutual problems
and a- companion were executed. at Montpelier. Norwich University announced
MONTANA
At Butte, Barry O'Leary was reelected mayor; that 440 of 529 students in last year's cadet corps
OHIO are now in the armed services.
women began a six-week course in pistol shoot- A tornado which swept northern Ohio killed
ing; George A. Forrest, 79, was killed by a bullet three persons, left 500 others homeless and caused
fired by an unidentified marksman; Butte High VIRGINIA
$4,000,000 damage in the Cleveland and Akron The trout season opened with plenty of fish
won the Big 16 basketball championship. Walter areas. At Circleville, Charles Mettler, 51, his wife
McGrail, Billings packing-house employee, suf- but few fishermen. In Richmond, an explosion
and 7-year-old foster grandson perished when at the Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Co. fac-
fered a fractured skull when a load of pigs fell their farm home burned. Cincinnati's City Man-
through an elevator shaft on top of him. tory killed Asst. Supt. Lynton B. Knighton and
ager Sherrill banned bingo. Six Cincinnati girls six workers, caused $35,000 damage. At Fulton,
NEVADA signed professional Softball contracts. Two Leb- police said Henry P. Tyree shot himself after
At Reno, the Better Government League anon Prison Farm inmates escaped but sur- seriously wounding Mrs. Mae Perry, a divorcee,
adopted the slogan, "Vote or Shut Up!"; a news- rendered after, finding it impossible to obtain and Joe Kelly, former C. & O. brakeman. Gov.
food without ration stamps. A fire in the Andrew Darden opened the 180-mile Greensboro - to -
reel theater opened at 20 West Second Street; Schollfield Co. plant at Columbus destroyed
Frederick La Vern Korst, 19, got six months for Richmond gasoline pipeline. The Virginia State
50,000 pounds of coffee and 20,000 pounds of sugar. Restaurant Association resolved to buy truck
robbing two service stations. The Kearns ranch,
55 miles north of Elko on the Humboldt River, farms to supply produce to restaurants.
OREGON
was sold to William L. Vogler of Salt Lake City. At Portland, the Willamette River was near WASHINGTON
NEW YORK flood stage, and waterfront warehousemen r e - Work was started on the Kittitas County air-
At New York City, a burning munitions ship moved goods from lower-level docks. The War port. Mayor F r a n k Anderson of Peaceful Valley,
was sunk before it could explode; civic leaders of Manpower Commission ordered loggers out of tired of finding empty liquor bottles on his prop-
Harlem tried to reopen the famous Savoy Ball- high-paying war industry jobs and back to the erty, urged a law requiring an empty bottle for
room, closed following vice charges. Gov. Dewey woods. A gale at Astoria caused considerable every new bottle sale. In Spokane, Stephen
vetoed a bill legalizing bingo. Dr. Frank P. property damage. Forest Grove's City Council Edwards, a Colville Indian, was on trial, charged
Graves, 73, former state education commissioner voted $15,000 for government bonds. A federal with killing another Indian with a can of peas.
and holder of 42collegedegrees, studied for his bar jury ordered the government to pay L. C. Wil- Flooded Tacoma Creek washed out a section of
exams at Albany Law School. William Hunt, 76, liamson $29,750 for his 200-acre ranch which is the Milwaukee Railroad branch line and the Pend
warden of Attica State Prison, was to retire. now a part of Camp Adair. Oreille Highway near Newport. Longview's City
Rochester milk men cut deliveries to every other Council set a 10 P.M. curfew for children under 18.
PENNSYLVANIA
day to conserve rubber and gas. At Buffalo, the Pittsburgh established a 11:30 P.M. curfew for WEST VIRGINIA
navigation season opened 24 days later than last girls under 18. A two-week Democratic filibuster
year. The Rev. Joseph A. Burke became the new Fifty Huntington taxicab drivers struck for
in the General Assembly over alleged Republican the third time within a month over their com-
auxiliary bishop of the Buffalo Catholic diocese. gerrymandering of congressional districts ended. pany's plans for more cabs during the early
NEW JERSEY City and county schools experienced a teacher morning hours. At Charleston, Hirohito's birth-
Trenton's first general alarm fire since 1931 shortage. Chester was building 6,000 homes for day was celebrated by a simulated daylight air
destroyed the State Food Store. The State De- war workers. At Philadelphia, 45.000 pounds of raid and accelerated War Bond sales. The new
partment of Health was alloted $50,000 for mater- Maine potatoes were seized by the OPA and $175,000 science building at Glenville State Col-
nity care for wives of soldiers below the grade of taken to Fort Dix, N. J., which had been without lege was completed. Bishop John J : Swint of the
staff sergeant. At Newark, Anthony Ascolese, 40, potatoes for a week. At Bellefonte, Herbert Catholic Diocese of Wheeling was being treated
killed himself after shooting his estranged wife Green, 41. was electrocuted for killing Melinda for a heart ailment. Liquidation of Camp Fair-
and her twin sister; owners of the Mosque The- Green, 65, and Josephine Cobb, 24. chance near Madison was started by the state.
ater building were charged with constructing a TENNESSEE WYOMING
night club in the basement in violation of a WPB The Second Army held maneuvers over a 20-
conservation order. The Rev. McKinley A. Swann At Cheyenne, a $70,000 bond issue was voted
county area of central Tennessee. At Athens, for a new fire station on the South Side; Dr.
of Paterson thought he was driving his son's car triplets, one boy and two girls, were born to Mr.
until Maplewood police stopped him after Philip John E. Osborne, 89, former governor and con-
and Mrs. Ben Ellis of Cokercreek, giving them gressman who once made a pair of shoes from
Insabella reported his car missing; the Swann one dozen children. Chattanooga's City Commis-
machine was still parked at Penn Station. New- a desperado's skin, died. Extensive oil explora-
sion approved the site of the old Market House tion work is underway in the Horse Creek field.
ark. State police were instructed to guard farm for a victoiy garden. At Charleston, thieves stole
crops against black-market thieves. James Thomsen, 65, Green River service station
75 cents from the post oflfico. $75 from the owner, was killed when his truck overturned.

The biggesf fir tree in the state is hauled through North Send, Residents of Cleveland's West Side stand on wreckage left after a tornado
Wash., in four sections, each lO'i feet around and weighing 35 tons. swept northern Ohio. Three persons were killed, 500 mode homeless.

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Afii#iina, the Aleutian Mil
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WAS walking through a meadow with wide brown eyes and dimpled
on a certain Aleutian island when ears.
I saw a cow. A cow in the Aleu- "Yes,'' said I, "and call me Lucky."
tians is a strange sight. This one was We walked to the house. Lambs
pink, with blue spots, and very small. were gamboling in the meadow. The
She was standing very still, because sun was shining, and pigs were pet-
a milkmaid was milking her. The ting in the pasture. When they saw
milkmaid was sitting on a pillow on Angelina they grunted happily and
the ground, with the pail between rushed to greet her. It was a pretty
her legs. She was milking away as I sight.
approached. "Plunkety-pTunk, plun- Angelina's mother was out in the
kety-plunk" went the milk into the yard chopping wood. Her father was
pail. sitting on the doorstep. He was smok-
The.cow and the milkmaid turned ing his pipe and thinking.
their heads when they saw me and The mother looked angry. "The
smiled. water is too rough to fish," she said.
"We ate the last of the turnips yes-
"Hello, soldier," said the milk- terday, and the blubber is all gone.
maid. The cow said nothing. What are we going to feed the sol-
"Hello, milkmaid," said I. dier?"
"Can you milk a cow?" she asked. Angelina smiled. "I will feed him
"Sure," I replied, "I used to fill 10 sugar."
pails of milk and honey every morn- There is no sugar shortage here.
ing before breakfast." Angelina and I had milk and sugar
"Where was that?" she asked. on bread. She told me she was 18
"In California, the land of milk and in the eighth grade at school.
and honey. You should see Califor- She liked poetry. She looked very
nia," I whispered huskily. sweet.
"Maybe some day. Right now I am "Angelina," I said suddenly, grasp-
too busy," she replied. ing her hand, "will you wait for me
Aleutian girls are very straight- until I come back?"
forwdfd and also a little backward. She smiled dreamily. "Yes," she
She finished milking the cow. The whispered, "I will wait for you. I
cow walked away, sniffing the ground might as well. I am already waiting
for ice cubes. for 11 other soldiers."
"My name is Angelina," said the Aleutian girls are very straight-
milkmaid. "Would you like a glass forward and also a little backward.
- P v t . DONALD SEEIY
of milk?"
Alcan Highway
Angelina was round and sweet.

THE ORD-NEERS
The Ord-neers are a bunch of guys TROPIC FEVER
Who'd rather sleep than fight,
Who gripe about the food they get Oh. the anchor chain is singing.
"Where the hef/ d'ya think you are, Palm Springs?" And talk of women at night they pet; And the gulls are swooping round,
-Cpl. Ernest Maxwell, AAF Carlsbad, N. Mex. But aside from this, these Ord-neers And the monkeys chatter nonsense
Would fight the devil and his peers. In the dusk of Coral Sound.
-Pvt. EDWIN I . BROOKS When the moon leans down to listen,
Will Rogers field, CalH. As the waves caress the keel.
"Weren't you in my philosophy
class at u s e during the 1936, fall To the parrot's rasping chuckle
term?" he blurts, speaking perfect THOUGHT And the scrape of weathered steel;
English except for that slightly The best Japs of all Then the fever of the tropics
nasal drawl that so many Cali- Lie in Guadalcanal. Grips a man until he aches.
fornians affect. —Fort N i a g a r a ( N . Y.) Drum And his hair creeps up his backbone
This is too much, in view of the And his hands begin to shake:
fact that I am trying to speak Jap. For the sea speaks fear in silence.
I lift the butt of my rifle and lot And the stillness takes its hold:
him have a crushing blow in the Though a man may fight his con-
ITH an old rusty safety-razor science.

W blade that I carry in a hol-

ster under my armpit, I
clipped an article from the Camp
teeth. I note with satisfaction that
he goes down immediately, indicat-
ing he is not in very good condition.
"Is it a big river?" he cries, stag-
It's the quiet turns him cold.

Centra/ Alrica
- P v t . JOHN M. HOICOMBE III

Roberts Dispatch and tucked it away gering to his feet. He tries to work
in my wallet. himself around to my rear, so he
It was a lesson in the Jap language,
and I am going to study it on my
way overseas. The first paragraph
can stab me in the back, but I am
a handy man with a bayonet. Before
long I am writing "Jimmy Doolittle" CHECKER STRATEGY
's^mm^^
White king moves 12 to 16. Black king
pointed out that "ga" indicates a on his prone body with my pig- jumps 32 to 23.
subject word and "wa" singles out sticker. White moves 26 to 22. Black jumps 18
to 25.
something about which a further I remember the clipping in my White moves 30 to 26. Black king jumps
statement is to be made. wallet when I am casting about for 23 to 30.
"Very little attention should be a suitable Jap phrase to carve. From White king jumps 16 to 23. and black,
though 3 men ahead, is ready for the
given to go and loa," said the article, this clipping I select the most appro- coroner.
and I quickly followed instructions. priate, which seems to be "Do de-
LETTER D I V I S I O N WORD SQUARE
At the bottom I noticed that "Ofcii su ka?" I etch it into his hide. The
kawa desu ka?" means "Is it a big translation, according to my clip- 3174 1 ^ 3 4 6
river?" ping, is "How is it?" 521 1653654
I S4TJR[AJW
I can see myself right now, in a - ! g t . RAY DUNCAN 1563
steaming tropical jungle. I have Sonfo A n a (Calif.) Army Air Base 906 J. TiRlllPjE.
521
paused in a clearing to stroke a 3855 3 R* l i e ^ 1 0
friendly python behind the ears. I THE TRAGIC ROUNDELAY 3647
am on a dangerous mission, the He reached for a piece of paper 2084 4 A P'l NjO
nature of which I cannot disclose, And wrote in hurried fashion 2084
5 W ElDiG E
deep in enemy territory. A fiery, tender verse of love
Suddenly a heavily armed Jap Entitled ''Here's to Passion." Tee-Total W i n n e r s
soldier appears in the pathway. We
A score of 404 w a s high mark in the April
glance at each other's sleeves, to see He mailed it home to Genevieve, 2 Tee-Total contest. Winner w a s Cpl. Mil-
who outranks whom. Both of us are To whom he was betrothed, ton Gluck. AGO, Hq. EDC and First Army.
too surprised to go for our guns, and But when his roundelay arrived Fort Jay. N. Y.. whose solution is illustrat-
ed at the right. Runner-up was
we just stand there and stare at each She only foamed and frothed. Cpl. Daniel Rhodes. 21st Spe-
other. cial Service Unit, Fort Riley.
To fill in this awkward pause I A sad, sad tale it surely is. Kans., w h o had a score of 401.
Third high man was Pfc. Wil-
say "Ga wa." He grins idiotically, For this is how he lost her: liam M. Robb, 84th A S Squad.
his whole manner vaguely irritating Our hero accidentally wrote * (."PW^jM^J'si^foaapftrf.'^/''''
LAFS. Lubbock. Tex. Each
On the back of a VD poster. receives a YANK puzzle kite.
to me. A Tee-Total contest appears in every is-
"Okii kawa desu ka?" I observe, -Pvt. BILL CASE
sue of YANK. Get into the competition and
meaning "Is it a big river?" lough/in (Tex.) Army Air Field —Sgl. Poul GoMona, For* Bcfvoir, V o . grab off a prize.

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^ n ^ P T C * THINKING OUT LOUD AND WONDERING WHATEVER

9 r V / l v l 9 « BECAME OF TUNNEY'S ANTI-CIGAREHE CAMPAIGN
By Sgt. DAN POLIER

W E Would Like to Have Seen: Manager

Casey Stengel w h e n h e w a s laid u p
in a Boston m a t e r n i t y w a r d w i t h a
busted leg. . . . J o e y B u r n s of t h e Braves steal
h o m e w h e n V a n Lingle Mungo took a full
w i n d - u p w i t h t h e bases loaded a n d nobody
out, . . . G e n . C h e n n a u l t w h e n h e t h r e w a
t h i r d strike past a p r i v a t e in a softball g a m e
played s o m e w h e r e in China. . . . Dizzy Dean
w h e n h e w a s a y a r d b i r d a t F o r t S a m Houston,
Tex., before t h e Cardinals discovered h i m . . . .
L i t t l e B a r n e y Ross w h e n h e flattened t h e
h e a v y w e i g h t champion of Samoa. . . . P v t .
J o e DiMaggio w h e n h e hit a l i n e - d r i v e single
in t h e n i n t h inning of t h e A r m y All S t a r - H o l -
lywood g a m e w i t h t h e score tied, bases loaded
and t w o o u t . . . . T o m m y H a r m o n w h e n h e
outmaneuVered t h r e e crocodiles while fight-
ing his w a y t h r o u g h t h e South American
jungles.
We Have Always W o n d e r e d Why: Mickey
Cochrane w a s fired a t Detroit. . . . First ser-
geants n e v e r t a k e calisthenics. . . . Fillies
n e v e r w i n t h e K e n t u c k y D e r b y . . . . Only b a s e -
ball p l a y e r s a n d shop foremen chew tobacco.
. . . College baseball p l a y e r s seldom m a k e
good in t h e big leagues. . . . Babe R u t h n e v e r
became a major league m a n a g e r . . . . Bill Cox
bought t h e Phillies. . . . All boxing champions
go into t h e r e s t a u r a n t business. . . . T h e C a r -
dinals t r a d e d Ducky Medwick to t h e Dodgers.
We Would Like to H a v e : Gen. P a t t o n ' s
i v o r y - h a n d l e d six shooters. . . . T h e inkwell
P a u l D e r r i n g e r t h r e w a t L a r r y MacPhail. . . . Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves, waves his fist in protest at being confined to a
Bob Zuppke's old sweater. . . . Films of t h e maternity ward with a broken leg. Stengel was hit by a taxi the day before the season opened.
D e m p s e y - F i r p o fight. . . . O n e of Connie
Mack's high collars. . . T h e baseball t h a t Ted searchlight." . . . " H e swings like a r u s t y lated overseas posts would b e transferred
Williams misjudged a n d t h r e w over t h e gate." . . . " T h a t kid c a n really c a r r y t h e after t w o years?
fence i n a fit of anger. . . . O n e of those A u s - m a i l . " . . . " H e ' s g o t a hole in his racquet." . . .
t r a l i a n c a m p a i g n hats. . . . Tony Galento's We Never Knew: L a r r y MacPhail t h r e a t -
" H e couldn't hit a bull in t h e can w i t h a bass ened to fire Leo Durocher because h e refused
capacity for beer. . . . A drill sergeant w h o fiddle." . . . " T h a t guy h a s t w o left feet."
h a d n o t served a hitch in t h e canal zone. . . . to send P e t e Reiser to Montreal. . . . T o m m y
P e p p e r M a r t i n ' s midget racer. W h a t e v e r Became of: Kingflsh Levinsky? H a r m o n washed out of flying school, b u t came
. . . T h e W a r n e r system? . . . T h e good 5-cent back to m a k e t h e grade. . . . Gen. Marshall
Expressions We Are Always Taking Literally: cigar? . . . T h e Irish w h i p ? . . . A r t T h e G r e a t was a n A l l - S o u t h e r n tackle at Virginia Mili-
" H e couldn't d r a w his b r e a t h at t h e g a t e . " Shires? . . . Hitler's secret weapon? . . . Bill t a r y Institute. . . . H e n r y A r m s t r o n g writes
. . . " H e can't punch his w a y o u t of a p a p e r T e r r y ? . . . T h e 4 - m i n u t e mile? . . . Gene poetry. . . . J a c k Dempsey h a s a small,
bag." . . . "Send t h a t b u m back to t h e bushes." T u n n e y ' s a n t i - c i g a r e t t e campaign? . . . Clark squeaky voice. . . . E a r l S a n d e once sang in a
. . . " H e h i t h i m w i t h e v e r y t h i n g b u t t h e ring Griffith's Cubans? . . . P a a v o N u r m i ? . . . B a b e night club. . . . Exactly h o w t o pronounce
post." . . . " H e couldn't find t h e plate w i t h a Didrikson? . . . T h e r u m o r t h a t G I s in iso- "Gallahadion," t h e 1940 Derby w i n n e r .

vision. His coach, Andy Kerr, advised

an operation, which resulted in Geyer
having to spend three weeks in total
darkness—'The most miserable three
weeks of m y life." After that h e h a d Roster of the
to rest three months but eventually
was accepted as a pilot. A few days
ago, Geyer returned to Colgate as a
Naval math student. His instructor
BROOKLYN DODGBtS
was Coach Andy Kerr.
Not all of the boxers in the Coast
Guard a r e physical training instruc- This l i the third In a series of fgur team rosters of the leading pennant contenders of the National League.
tors. Lew Jenkins, for one, has been Next wttk, the Chicago Culls.
made a prisoner chaser at the Nor- PITCHERS B Residence 1942 Club Games W L Pet. ERA
folk (Va.) Coast Guard brig. . . . Chigman, Robert Howard L 6:02!/: 190 East Northport, N . ' Y . Montreal 26 6— 9 .400 3.96
2.36
Davis. Curtis B R 6S3 II South Pasadena. C a l . 15— S .714
Hockey ace Muzz Patrick cleans his
Eddie (Buzzer) Bertinski, former N. C. Fitzsimmons, Fred R 5:11 200 Brooklyn
Dodgers
Dodgers
32
t
0— 0 .000 I5.0O
State football ace, is reported miss- Head. Edward . , R
6:01
180 W . Monroe, L a .
Columbia, 8 . C. Dodgers 36
10— 8
16—11
.625
.593
3.55
3.24
Springfield for the last time at OCS. Higbe. Walter lOrby R 190 Santa
ing in action in Tunisia. . . . Navy Kimball, Newell W R S:ll Monica, C a l .
200 New Albany, i n d .
Dodgers
Dodgers
3ft
14
2— 0 1.000 3.72
commissions for Vic Bradford, New Maeon. Max Cullen L 6*21, 9— 4 .692 2.33
6KI3 175 Montreal 16 5— 3 .625 1.93
aiH Corum says that GIs overseas York Giant outfielder; Wayne Miliner, Melton, Reuben Franklin R 6:05 20S Gastonia, N . C . Dodgers 14 9—20 .310 3.70
Newsom. Louis N R 6:02 210 Hartsvilte. N . C. Phils 42 11—17 .393 4.02
may soon be talking with Na- Notre Dame end coach; and Harry Wash 30 2— 2 .500 3.38
tionally known sports figures like Craft, Cincinnati outfielder.... Tommy Webber. Lester
Wyatt, John Whitlow
R 6KXI'/2 183 Santa M a r i a . C a l . Dcdgers 6 J— 2 .600
.731
2.94
2.74
R 6.-01 185 Buchanan. Ga. 19— 7
S<|t. Joe Louis, Sgt. Barney Ross, Cpl. Billy Tucker, the light heavyweight con- Allen, iohn T R 6:00 ISO Lenoir, N . C.
Dodgers
Dodgers
19
31 10— 6
.625 3.20
Conn, Pvt. Joe DiMaggio, Lt. Comdr. tender, was an enlisted man for 23 Dodgers 27
CATCHERS Games BA RBI
Jactc Dempsey, Lt. Benny Leonard, Babe months before he qualified as a naval Moore, 0 . C . . •. 190 Los Angeles Anniston 97 .348 63
Ruth, Jimmy Conzelman and Eddie aviation cadet. . . . Just eight months Owen, Arnold Malcolm. 5:10 170 Prookline, Mo.
New Orleans 47 .304 19
Arcaro (if reinstated). The War D e - out of OCS a n d he's already Copt. Bragan. Bob 5:11 170 Birmingham, Ala.
Dodgers
Phils
133
109 .259 44
partment, according to Corum, has Hank Greenberg. INFIELDERS
.205 22
such an expedition of sports stars to
overseas bases under consideration
and there's a chance it might go
through. . . . In the meantime, the
As an enlisted man Colonel Buster
Mills, former St. Louis Brown out-
fielder, took a lot of kidding from his
C a m i l l i , Adolph L
Herman, W i l l i a m J
Kafflpouris, Alexis
Vaughen, Floyd E l l i s . . . L R
L
R
R i 175
Laytenville, C a l .
New Albany, I n d ,
Sacramento
Dodgers
Dodgers
Dodgers
Montreal
ISO
155
10
55
,252
.256
.236
.275
.277
109
65
3
24
49
Army has cooled any enthusiasm
first sergeant because of his given Glossop. Alban Both R 1:1: 175
Potter Valley,
Philadelphia
Dodgers
Phils
128
121 ,225 40
name. At the OCS graduation exer-
Mike Jacobs might have had for a cises there was considerable eyebrow OUTFIELDERS
5,-07
Bordagaray, S t a n l e y . . . . R R 175 Coalinga. C a l . Dodgers 48 .241 5
Conn-Louis rematch simply by a s - lifting when Lt. Colonel Buster Mills Cooney, John R L 5:10 160 Sarasota, F l a . Braves •... 74 .207 7
signing Conn to combat duty with was called up to receive his commis- Galan, August J o h n . . . . B R 5:1 Hi 175 Berkeley. C a l .
Sappington, Mo.
Dodgers 69 .263
.300
22
96
Medwick, Joseph Mickael R R Dodgers 142
the 12th Armored Division. sion. . . . Hugh Casey, the ex-Dodger, Olfflo, Luis Rodriguez . R
190 R
5:10 180
Caguas, Puerto Rieo Richmond 131 .337 92
Pock, Harold Arthur L L 5:) IV; Genesee Depot, W i s . Milwaukee 141 .333 94
Fortunes of w a r : Indian Bill Geyer, pitched a no-hit, no-run game as the Walker, Fred 5:11 175
L R Freeport, N . V . Dodgers 118 .290 54
18 39
one of Colgate's greatest broken field Norfolk (Va.) Naval Air Station Waner, Paul 6:01 L
16
148
L Sarasota
Oklahoma City. Okla.
Braves 114 .258
.261 10
Wanor, Lloyd 5:06 L R Phils 101
runners, was turned down by the baseball team snapped the 15-game 5 « 7
Navy as a n aviation cadet because winning streak of the Norfolk Naval COACHES—Clyde Sukeforth. John Corriden MANAGER—Leo E. Durocher

a football injury had damaged his Station. The score was 4 to 0. N A T I O N A L S E R V I C E L I S T — H u g h Casey. Herman Franks. Larry French.
Harold Reese, Harold P. Reiser. Lewis Riggs, John Riz2o, Chester Kehn.
Harry Lavagetto, Don Padgett,

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