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An Oregon County Plans Post-War Jobs for GIs

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Send this story home. It tells fiow some peo-

ple in Oregon are trying to keep their serv-
icemen from selling apples a few years from
now. Your town should hear about it.

PlIbJECTS IN THE WORKS UNDER lANE COUNTY PLAN

MOJECT CASH OM HAND STATUS
Eugene Sewage Disposal $80,000. Site already bought; plans and
blueprints completed.
Eugene Syrimming Pool 25,000. Site bought; plans being drawn.
Power and.Water Plant Improvements 1,400,000. Plans being drawn.
Eugene HI^H^ School: First part
of a $1,500,000 project 515,000. 70-acre site bought; blueprints
^ i being drawn.
Springfielc^ Sewage Plant 1^,000. Plans being drawn.
Springfield (iity Hall 30,000. Plans being drawn.

OTHER PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

P«OKCT ' • ' ECTIMATEDCOST STATUS
Eugene-Sprinpfield Drainage. . $1,000,000. U. S. Army Engineers have agreed to furnish basic
V,, • '- ' engineering in connection with their huge flood-
,, ., control dams at the headwaters of the Willamette
ij! f > River.
New High Street Bridge $300,000. State engineers are working with Eugene and Lane
Other rodds and brides 250,000. County to coordinate the High Street Bridge with
!'') • a grade separation and junction with U. S. 99 in
Eugene.
County-City Building , $600,000. In the talk stage.
In addition, the Government still has $50,000,000 for the completion of flood-control dams on the
Willqrn^tte River, and the State will have at least $3,000,000 for projects in the area.
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By Sgt. H. N. OLIPHANT Actually, several other U.S. coinmunities arc

getting on the ball. From coast tci coast in such
YANK Staff Writer widely separated places as Albert Lea, Minn.,
UGENE, OREG.—Apples here in Lane County Tulsa, Okla., and Miami, Fla., the machinery for

E are thicker than potatoes in Idaho, but no

veteran of this war will ever have to t r a m p
the sidewalks of Eugene trying to sell them.
rebuilding a war-strained America is slowly
being assembled. These post-war projects, as
they multiply, are encouraging evidence that
That's the promise of this frontier-bfed com- certain tough-minded people back home haven't
munity which, since its settlement by America's forgotten what happened after the last war when
last great pioneers less than 100 years ago, has rosx promises to veterans too often degenerated
built u p a notable reputation for not welshing. into a ghastly business of walking the streets
by day and sleeping in a two-bit flophouse by 1 ^ IT"
Today, with more than 7,500 of their men and
wom'en away in the armed forces, the people in night. That, they say, won't happen again.
and around Eugene, through a unique post-war Every soldier wants to come back after the war I ^^30^
planning set-up, are doing some important scout- to a good job and to a decent community where
ing and patrolling of many of the tough id<oblems he can piece together t h e parts of a better life,
that all of us will have to face when we get but he knows that the change from war to peace
back home after the war. won't be easy. He knows, for instance, that when
The set-up is called t h e Lane County P l a n - American industry, one-half of which is cur-
ning Coimcil. It is composed of some OO-odd key rently employed on Government contracts, sud-
citizens who represent all sections and interests denly stops making war materials and reconverts
in this part of the vast Willamette Valley. to m a k e peacetime goods, millions of war work-
Under a plan that could conceivably become e r s along with millions of ex-soldiers and e x -
a pattern for all American towns and counties, sailors will have to be employed pronto, or else.
the Planning Council is mobilizing its forces for The Government, of course, knows these things,
post-war reconstruction now. Without letting up too, and is tackling the problem from all sides:
on the w a r effort, it is working out a strat- but planning on a national basis is necessarily
egy for winning the peace. If other U. S. com- a pretty broad and impersonal matter. In the
munities get on the ball and prepare similar mountains of charts and statistics that have to be
strategies, the Planning Council believes, they can kept in Washington, a human being gradually
and will be in a position to see that their jMrom- begins to look like a card-index number. A Gl talks with Mike Moriarty,..repr
ises to veterans are really kept this time. To succeed, any post-war plan has to be built of the Veterans' Administration in l a n e County
 1 : na 1} anr lically, what do you predict the
\ •:« SK.MC!:- 1! .~v ar marktts will be for your goods?
iii'A-n^ anc •;•! !i'S. close one oi our soxiiei's, 1; 'I's humaniy possibie. 'i .\nd, fmalh. the most important question of
.'If cure <:; cvt'i\ hiinian lu'iiif. can yivo come •)ack and 'DO a uel!-adjiisted prt'diicinf. all is addressed to e\'ery employer in the county:
rlesh. and bloori, part oi ou! County. " As matters now stand, how many of Lane Coun-
Thai's win' the peopie of Lane CL>un'y are oiit Lane Ci;un1y. despiie its huge modern flood- y's veterans will you be able to employ, what
•.u do a }vh. to do their share in the building of contro! developments, its great lumber and ply- lypes of jobs will be available to them a n d ' w h a t
;i new and better America. Because it's the sort wood indu.stries. its scientific farmmg and co- .viil be their chances for advancement?
of job that all towns and cities will have to operative markets, is still essentially a settle-
undertake sooner or later—a job whose success ment of pioneers. Tough, resourceful and inde- Answers Are Given
or failure means a lot to every GI wherever he pendent as hell, these people refuse to lie back N the stores and two-story frame buildings
is-—YANK decided to lake a close look at the way
Eugene and Lane County are working it out.
and take it easy while public funds are drained
for "charity projects."
I that line Eugene s main street, in the bristling
sawmills and plywood plants that sprawl along
"We demand the right to do our share," Tug- the log-crammed banks of the river north of
Stockpile of Jobs man says. "We don't object to Federal and State town, on the rich farms and fruit ranches that

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F ORTUNATELY the members of the Lane County
Planning Council have no illusions about the
complicated problems they are up against. But
aid, but we insist on controlling our own show.
In our plan are included several Federal and
State works. We don't and won't interfere with
lie farther down the valley, the men on the Plan-
ning Council are beginning to bag some impor-
tant, revealing answers.
by taking them by the numbers for a while, and their employment policies. We don't want them Take Charlie Briggs. He says his lumber com-
by using hard-headed facts instead of pipe to interfere with ours. We simply want some- pany needs a new mill, new saws, hundreds of
dreams for ammunition, they figure they can lick thing of our own for our own men." new tools. If something is done about "withhold-
those problems. After all, as one logger out here The Lane County Plan is divided into three ing taxes," so -he and his partners can build u p
I recently put it, "our fathers and grandfathers parts, each headed by a special committee. First, adequate cash reserves, h e says they should be
licked a frontier wilderness back in the '40s and there is the Committee for Industrial Mobiliza- able to spend $100,000 for plant construction.
'50s. This frontier of a new kind of peace can't tion whose job is to canvass local business, in- Mack McComack says that at present 2,000
I be any tougher to beat than that one was.'" dustry, labor and education to determine what persons are working steadily at the EUigene Fruit
Led by Eugene's amiably stubborn mayor, the county will be able to provide in the way and "Vegetable Growers, t h a t his outfit is turning
Elisha Large, and old Clint Hurd, Lane County's of employment, expansion and improvements out two million cases of green beans a year,
I shrewd, drawling commissioner, the Planning after the war. mostly for the Army and Navy. In addition, 5,000
Council's first big hurdle has already been harvest workers are seasonally employed. Crop
jumped. Local financial affairs, thanks to an as- conditions are good. Soil treatments are being
sortment of budgets, tax bills and municipal experimented with for better cultivation of hops
scrimping, have been pulled almost completely and green vegetables; but the farmers and ranch-
I out of the red. This community, according to ers need new plows, tractors, trucks. These needs
Judge Hurd, will definitely not be caught with are being noted and counted.
its economic pants down when peace comes. The Southern Pacific Railroad shops have 1,800
"'With our own affairs in order," says Fred on their pay roll. Officials are studying ways and
} Stickels, ex-sheriff and the Planning Council's means of keeping their employment at the peak
first chairman, "we are now getting down to after the war. Women are now working in the
work on two major goals: first, creating jobs yards on msmy of the jobs that men used to do,
for the post-war period and, second, perfecting so S P experts are trying to determine how many
our plans for discharged veterans." of them will want to stay on after the w a r and
The Planning Council's objectives: how many will want to return to their kitchens
1) To make sure that every returning veteran and how many now single will want to get m a r -
gets either his old job back or one just as good. ried. The S P is also cooperating with mill owners
Or a better one if he deserves, wants and can in figuring out the transportation problems that
handle it. will confront them when w a r markets fold and
2) To see that every disabled veteran is p r o p - peacetime customers start shooting in orders.
erly taken care of. Lane County's giant lumber industry—there
3) To give all veterans every conceivable break are 21^ million acres of the world's best timber
both during and after the crucial period of their
readjustment to civilian life. in the county area between the rolling peaks of
4) To cooperate fully with the Government on 'the Cascades and the Jutting headlands of the
the vast Federal program for veterans. Pacific Coast—is preparing for a terrific post-
More wordy promises? Maybe. However, u n - war buUding boom. Moreover, local sawdust
like some of the high-sounding plans for soldiers savages like Dale Fisher, George Giustina and
mushrooming in the States these days—plans that T. W. Rosborough are expecting big things from
The log pool at one of Eugene's 137 sawmills, a part the young science of wood chemistry, which con-
would provide us with everything from the
of Lane County's great and thriving lumber industry. verts rotted wood and waste products into evefy-
Brooklyn Bridge to a cow and 40 acres of pas-
ture in Heaven—the Lane County Plan is r e - thing from plastics to sugar, charcoal, alcohol,
markably short on sweet talk and long on Next, there is the Committee for Public Works, yeast, lactic acid and even fodder.
down-to-earth action. which is raising the cash for the "5 Million Dol- In addition, the lumber men are cooperating
The Planning Council's slogan is "A 5 Million lar Stockpile of Jobs"—^preparing plans and spe- with various agencies like the Home Planners'
Dollar Stockpile of Jobs." But the people out cifications for such necessary public projects as Institute to encourage the building of better
here are not merely sitting in the back of Gil a new $1,500,000 high school, for power and water- homes for the future. Classes are held regularly,
MacLaren's hardware store or standing on the plant improvements, bridges, county-city build- usually in the old high-school building, where
Court House steps talking about their slogan; ings, sewage-disposal extensions and a million- businessmen, workers and their wives get free
they're doing something about it. Most of the dollar drainage project for some of the boggy instruction in smart home building. Specialists
dough has already been raised, or is earmarked ground around Lane County's two incorporated from Portland and nearby cities, and local archi-
in funds now in the making; and the Planning cities, Eugene and Springfield. tects, desigtners and electricians do the teaching.
Council has arranged for the purchase of land Third, there is the Committee" for 'Veterans' "We are sponsoring these classes," a member
sites, hired engineers and completed blueprints Relations. This is chiefly ah advisory board. By of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association said,
for many extensive projects, all ready to be put keeping in personal touch with Lane County sol- "because we believe by getting sound and u p -
under way as soon as the war ends. diers, it hopes to find out the kinds of work to-date construction work ready to go now, a lot
Formed a little more than a year ago, largely they will want to do after the war, what plans of commmiity benefits will be reaped later."
through the efforts of Alton Baker and William they are making for the future, whether they These he lists as follows:
M. Tugman, publisher and managing editor r e - will choose to live here or elsewhere. As more 1) The construction indiistry will be able to
spectively of the Register-Gtiard, Lane County's and more vetereins return, the committee's pri- provide thousands of jobs for carpenters, brick-
only daily newspaper, the Planning Council has mary job is to help ex-servicemen personally with layers, plumbers, plasterers, painters and many
plenty of other concrete achievements to show the problems of getting back into civilian life. others.
lor its work: 2) A big market will be opened for household
Questions Are Asked furnishings and appliances.
1) The city and county debts have been virtu- 3) The lumber industry and producers of build-
ally paid off. OB more than a year now men like Baker,. ing materials will be kept busy.
2) A tax structure, by which taxes that for-
merly went for debt payments now go into funds
F Stickels and Tugman have been belaboring
their fellow citizens with a number of big ques-
4) Business generally will get a shot in the arm
for home financing.
for post-war public works, has been okayed by tions. For example, they have asked Charlie Big shots of Lane County industries are not
the voters. Briggs of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company the only ones who are being subjected to the
3) A method for surveying local industry, busi- what he as an employer can do now to create Planning Council's third degree. Professional
ness and labor has been evolved by which the
Planning Council can get an azimuth on the post- jobs for the post-war period. They have asked men, merchants, workers, even housewives are
war reemployment problem. E. A, McComack of the Eugene Fruit Growers getting it. This is the reason. In every com-
4) Almost 3 million bucks has been socked in to make a list of the t}evelopments he and the mimity there are people who grow things, people
the public kitty for necessary public projects, and farmers and fruit ranchers are planning. They who make or distribute things and people who
that ain't hay for a county whose population is have asked T. 'V. Larsen what improvements he buy and sell things. Every one of these people,
less than 75,000. wants to make on his mill, 20 miles west of town. however modest his share, contributes some-
"We believe," Bill Tugman says between They have asked local factory owners what new thing to the community's economy pattern. Fred
thoughtful puffs on his well-caked pipe, 'that tools and implements they will need. To still Stickels and his Planning Council want to get
veterans of this war are not going to be satisfied, others they have put the question: On the basis a good unblurred gander at that pattern so they
with just getting jobs. Our aim, therefore, is not of regular surveys of conditions and needs both can predict with reasonable accuracy the buy-

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ing and selling power Lane County will have The university detir/,',s these types i < : I • onal
after the war. 1) Regular .studenls who hii\o );i tii an i\ .-'
Here as elsewhere in the country, the pinch into the armed "OICOH I rum high scliedi .• .• r: ' . i s t i i o I
ut war, the difficulty or impossibility of buying will be entering colkue foi the fiiM 1; •-. t r .'id b;!. ••• •
many essential materials, has created an enor- will register for coursis leading to d e t n i •••.•••. ••;• a aviati -; '..'..••• ••'. • y
mous pent-up demand for civilian goods and 2) Students who w ill have pajtiy n>r! . i ( : :•'••: ••' : i a n i ( arily a ^ ,,
labor. For instance, Gil MacLaren needs new college course before entering the .s r . ! i ! '• :iini y .•••a; .zes. h:.-.. ^ 11 ; ' :• oiih
counters and lighting fixtures for his hardware will return to ccliege to earn their dcaiee ,(! I ,• I \ s aliU lo !>e: •,••<••• "o pi-a!.''•• 1': '
store at the corner of Broadway and Oak. With 3) Students who have been injurec and iv s ':, j - i i i i i . i . i i ; t 'nvr'.y. thi p: ' j > inai .-(ira;!-:.
the release of w a r materials for home building pitalized, then dischaiged and sent to instiMiiioii> ,\(.i,:d p(.an whoie^aii .ir;i n i p o y i ..-rii
and store and plant improvements, he will need for special training. Some of these will faii mlo
•.)• i.ii r-i'lieS on a '.'ast sci':- aoo Myliti-i .a."' ••
Classes 1 or 2, but many will wish hi lei n-
a lot of new saws, planes, hammers and nails. tensive, specialised courses, distinctly vucihonai o'ei y< \ e r n i n e n t controls.
Charlie Steen needs a whole new set of meat in character and not leading to degrees. i.a.'K Cooruy sa^'- t h a t iici d/s I l u i p p - n Its , n -
knives and cleavers for his packing company 4) Ex-students, graduates. old.ei men and 11.- -o i^M ai\(, weight to iss w o r d s .
down on Willamette Street. He could also use others who have been dislocated by the war and
three brand-new delivery trucks. will, want short courses of a vocational natme The Spirit Behind the Plan
Dave Hoo~Ver needs new hog sheds, tools and Cooperating in Lane County's educational pro- HK Lane County Plan is iniportanl. all light.
implements for his dirt farm up the valley.
Mrs. Mahlon Sweet, wife of Eugene^s well-
gram is Eugene's remarkable Vocational School
which has remodeled and taken over the old T But almost more important than the plan it-
self IS the spirit of the people. It is a spirit that
known aviation pioneer, has been trying to get brick schoolhou.se on West Fourth .Street The >oi, si-(- more- and more these days throughout
a new refrigerator for two years. No go. R e - school is so organized that students may enter the U.S. It is hard to de.scribe. but it is thi-re.
frigerators haven't been available in these parts at any time during the year, and the cotir.ses .And s'ou can yet a good look at it in smaller
since Snappy Service No. 2, the coke and sand- offered range from skilled crafts and trades to < iininiunities like Lane County, which has given
wich hang-out for high-school kids next to the hints on baby care for prospective fathers. one-ninth of its population to the armed forces
McDonald Theater, got one from Portland two Arrangements have been made b<'tvveen ihi' War has never been so close to st) many beff)re.
weeks after Pearl Harbor. U of O and the Vocational School that make it Almost every man. woman and child here has a
The Eugene Register-Guard has been strug- possible for veterans enrolled in one institution personal stake in it. and the new spirit stems
gling along with an old press for a couple of to study for credit in the other. In other words from that fact.
years. Alton Baker says he would pay $25,000 a discharged soldiei- who has worked, say. m a It would be plain goofin' off. of course. U> sav
for a new one right now if he could find one. but garage may take a course in automobile me- that everybody here in Lane County understands
that's impossible because the iron and steel that chanics at the Vocational School and at the same what's going on in the world today. There are
formerly went into printing presses are now go- time ponder such subjects as physics, philosophy ctark forces at work molding the future which
ing into guns and bullets. and Modern English poetry in the university. no one any place clearly understands yet. But
All of these accumulated needs, great and nearly everybody, from the wealthier families
small, are being added up and placed alongside Ready When Peace Comes in their fine big homes on Snob Hill to the poorei
the current city-county income, the rate of e m - LL in all, the people of Lane County are con- people in their little frame houses down by the
ployment, the community's buying and selling
power. Lane County, knowing where it stands A fident that their plan will work, that it will
point the way to a new pattern of life much
SP tracks, feels .some of the deeper implicatiems
of tho.se problems. Sharpened and sobered by
today, is in a better position to know how it will sounder than the old one that a global war has tragedy and personal loss, they realize that un-
stand up against the needs of tomorrow. ripped to pieces less we win this war and then work together to
In the 14 months since Baker and Tugman in- build a saner world based on values of reason
Post-War Education vited 70 of the county's leaders to the Osborn and human understanding—that unless we do
AST in the Lane County Plan for veterans, but Hotel for the Planning Councils first meeting. this, justice, freedom, security and a decent life
L not least by a long shot, is an important, pos-
sibly a precedent-.setting, educational program
% lot has been di^ne lo justify that confidence.
/ For one thing, their surveys have shown them
for our families will vanish from the earth.
The spirit that you feel out here is partly a
that has been developed by Eugene's School four important points that give hope to any new awareness of the bigger problems of human
Board and the University of Oregon, located in thought about post-war .America. Fir.st. in Lane society and partly a steeled determination that
Eugene. Realizing that many soldiers, little more County, as in praitically all U.S. communities, tho.se problems shall be solved this time.
than kids when they joined up, will come back people have buill up what is probably the i>ig- Perhaps old Judge Hurd expressed it best the
as mature guys with a lot more serious interests gest fund of private savings in hJstor.y. Second. other day when, speaking of the battle for a
than they left with, local educators have devised as the war goes on. the demand for civilian goods better world and the little part that Lane Coutit,\
special courses in the U of O 'to fit the special and labor increases almost hourly. Third, a will play in it. he said: "At least, by Ge>d. weiv
needs ol various types of returning men." tremendous output oi tools and machinei\- will on the alert, and our powder's dry.'

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This Week's Cover

T H E happine^i of Pvt. (thot
U, Pfc.) Chorles Bond over
hii firit stripe wemi to be
exceeded by that of his In-
dian beorer who did the job
of sewing, in India, eight
American enlisted men usuol-
ly hire one beorer, eoch
paying him a sum omount-
)ng to about S I . 5 0 a month.
And he's well worth the cost. '*-«: \ > ^

P H O T O C R E D I T S : Cover—INP. 2. J, 4 & ^—Sgt. Ben S«hfiaM.

6—Upper, 8 « t . Oiek Hantey: lower. A T C . 7—Sflt. Hanley. 8 &
9 — U 8 M C . 10—PA. 12—Upper left. I N P : upper right. Acme; center
left. Sovfotn; center right. I N P ; lower left, Acme: lower right,
U 8 M C . 13—Upper & center left, A A F : upper right. Acme: center
right & lower l«ft. P A ; lower right, I N P . 15—Sgt. Georg Meyers.
18—Upper left. Acme: upper right, A A A School P R O . Camp Oavit.
N. C : center. M O » M Lake A A B . Wash.: lower left. Signal Cerpt,
Camp Edwards. Mass.; lower right. P R O . Fort S I t l . Okta. I B -
Upper (eft. Signal Corps: upper right, Sgt. Sehnall; center. A A F '
PRO, Orlando, F l a . ; tower laft, A A F , Long Beach. C a l i f . : lower
right, W A C . 20—Columbia Pictures, 2 3 - - U . S. Navy: bottom. I N P .

Straight Line, Chinese Gl Finds,

Not Shortest Distance Between Points
CENTRAL AFRICA—Every time Sgt. Wing Lee,
former grocery clerk from San Francisco, Calif.,
writes to his wife, the letter travels an estimated
35,000 miles and takes 55 or 60 days to reach her
—at a cost of six cents. When she writes back,
her letter requires the same length of time and
covers roughly t h e same distance but costs $14
(Chinese) in postage.
Wing is a naturalized American serving here
with the U. S. Army, while his wife is living with
her parents somewhere -in Unoccupied China.
Wing's brother, who lives in San Francisco, acts
as the clearing house for their letters.
The Chinese-American GI speaks English but
writes to his missus in Chinese. Since neither the
local censor nor the base censor is able to read
the language, they buck the letter to Washing-
ton, D. C.
From Washington t h e letter goes air mail to
San Francisco, where Wing's brother encloses the
letter with one of his own in an envelope ad-
dressed to Mrs. Wing. Bdck it goes across t h e
United States to Florida, to South America,
across the Atlantic to Africa, thence to India and
finally .into China. In the final stages, the letter
travels by oxcart and river barge until it finally
reaches Mrs. Wing.
Sweating out 110 days for news from his wife
the nurses are male on this island base—until
.sometimes has its humorous side for t h e GI.
Mrs. Wing wrote that she was sending a Christ-
Ascension Island Gets Kerner learned that there was a civilian
woman in the latest plane to land.
mas package from China. When it finally arrived,
the sergeant found that it contained a carton
An Amateur Theater The sergeant asked h e r to cooperate, b u t
of cigarettes that had cost $9 (Chinese). Wing SCENSION ISLAND—Recently a plane landed she said that all her extra clothing was in the
works in the camp P X here and sells American
cigarettes for 50 cents a carton.
A on this little aerial way station in t h e baggage on the plane. Kerner borrowed a suit
South Atlantic, carrying among its passengers of suntans from Supply, and that night t h e
—Sgt. KEN ABBOTT a tech sergeant. When t h e GI left here five woman enjoyed t h e show in Army uniform
YANK Reld Correspondent days later, Yanks on Ascension had put on a while a GI paraded about on the mi^eshift
two-hour show and organized a theater guild stage in the dress she had been wearing.
to continue t h e entertainment program t h e After the show had gone over successfully,
Father and Son in Aussie Army, sergeant had started. Kerner organized his acting a n d production
T/Sgt. Lew Kerner of Beverly Hills, Calif., staff into a permanent group and gave them
Another Son Serves in U. S. Navy who used to be associated with t h e William a supply of maktk-up kits, some costumes,
AusTRAUA—^The Guy family of Dayton, Ohio, Morris Agency in radio and the theater busi- scripts and other aids for future plays a n d
certainly gets around. ness in Hollywood, is now on a world trip a r - entertainments. Then h e left Ascension to
Sgt. Robert T. Guy, an American citizen whose ranging soldier shows and helping to produce carry on t h e theatrical-missionary work h e
children were born in the States, -moved to Mel- them at isolated outposts. Kerner says that has been doing since he first organized soldier
bourne 10 years ago. Now he's serving with the GIs "can p u t on good shows anytime, any- shows on the West Coast in J u n e 1942.
Australian Imperial Forces in New Guinea, after where, from their own talent, and have a —Pfc. NAT G. BODIAN
YANK Field Correspondent
fighting all through t h e Middle E^ast campaign. helluva lot of fun doing it."
Harper Guy. one of the sergeant's two sons, First thing Kerner did after he arrived h e r e -
was left behind in America with relatives when was to go through the Form 20s of all the men,
the rest of the family moved to Australia. He's looking for soldiers with specialized talents he
serving in the Pacific as a signalman in the U. S. could use. A buck sergeant who used to be a
Navy. tailor was a natural for costume expert. An-
Sgt. Robert T, Guy ,Jr. is in the Australian other GI who had directed a play in school
Imperial Forces like his father. He's assigned t o was put down on Kerner's list as a production
a Special Service unit that's entertaining A u s - aid. That evening Kerner called a meeting of
tralian and American troops. all the men on his list.
Just to make the family's service record com- The next day Kerner was all ready to start
plete, Robert Jr.'s two sisters take their turns rehearsals, but his "stars" were missing. A
working at canteens for American and Australian check-up .revealed they were all on K P . Ob-
troops. stacles like these kept cropping up, b u t a t
Sgt. Guy Sr. intends to stick in the AIF, and last t h e show was ready to go on before a
Harper couldn't be dragged out of the American large and enthusiastic audience in the brief-
Navy. But Sgt. Guy J r . is suffering from con- ing room.
tending loyalties. He has half a mind to transfer Everything was all set, except that Kerner
into the U. S. Army and "give it a go." still needed a woman's outfit for a soldier
-Pvl. JOHN MacLEOO comic. Things looked bad for a while—even T/Sgt. Kerner dresses T/Sgt. l a w r e n c e N e w t o n .

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us had the same thought; no living thing could

exist on that beach.
The boats were only a few yards offshore now,
and everyone checked again to see whom he was
to follow off and who was behind him. I was
to follow Pfc. Emmett Allen of Chickasha, Okla.
Allen had been slightly wounded several times in
the fighting at Sanananda. Behind me was Pfc.
Cliff Miller of Sweetwater, Tenn.
We hit the beach at full speed. As the ramp
dropped, the cox'n yelled, "Watch out for logs,"
and the men started jumping clear. I splashed
through a Tew feet of water behind Allen,
swerved left, ran up a short stretch of bomb-
pocked beach and plunged into the woods.
Those woods were one sweet mess. Branches,
limbs, even whole trees lay smashed and tangled,
as though the place had been hit by a dozen
cyclones. As I pushed through one mass of vines,
I went down on my face in the best slapstick-
comedian fashion.
Some yards in we came upon a tiny clearing
where a battered native hut was still miraculous-
ly standing. While riflemen covered them, S/Sgt.
Robert Rief, a platoon sergeant from Grandville,
Mich., and Pfc. Joe Dias of Hanford, Calif., ap-
proached the hut. They found it abandoned with
nothing inside but a box and a coil of rope. To
our right another platoon found a similar hut
with the table set for breakfast and rice still hot
in the bowls.

FTER negotiating 200 yards more we came out

A , of the woods onto the edge of a large kunai-
covered plain, later to become an American air-
field. As the line of men reached it, we stopped to
re-form. Miller a n d ! flopped down on a log for
a rest and a long slug of water. At our feet was
an old slit trench and a couple of long-handled
shovels. "I sure hope I see at least one J a p be-
fore he sees me," said Miller. "After" all this
training I'm going to be mighty disappointed if
I don't get to shoot even one of those bastards."
We moved out slowly across the plain. It had
stopped raining now, but the kunai was still
dripping wet. The grass had been burned some
time before. Now it made a black, thick paSte
that clung to our clothes until we were black
from the waist down.
The whole line of men hit the ground as
flights of Liberators unloaded their bombs in
the wooded area along the river, 500 yards ahead.
As the ground rocked "beneath us, we could only
hope that their aim was good. It was.
Wading through the kunai is like plowing
waist-deep in snow, and everyone dropped grate-
Landing Was a Different Story fully to the ground when word came to hold up
the advance. We had reached the first-phase line,
and our smoothly operating schedule called for
For 32cf Division's Buna Veterans us to wait there until other elements on our
flanks had moved up to capture an old abandoned
airstrip and take positions along the river's edge.
By Cpl. RALPH BOYCE fire sped toward land, exploding in a continuous The men unslung their packs, lit cigarettes
YANK Staff Correspondent roar. and began digging foxholes, just i n . case the
Intent on watching this barrage, we failed to J a p came overhead. He didn't; our planes had
AiDOR, N E W GUINEA [By Cable]—Shouts and
S laughter ran up and down the line as the
men of the 32d Division raised u p out of
their foxholes and stared—not in the direction
notice how swiftly it was growing light until
over the loudspeaker came the command: "Land-
ing party, load aboard boats."
We scrambled down the swaying cargo nets
complete mastery of the sky all day long.
Sgt. Harvel <Tex) Faulkner of Clarksville,
Tex., leader of the first squad, moved along the
line, checking up on his men. Hearing a couple
the enemy was supposed to be, but at the strange into landing craft. Somehow everyone managed of them talk about .what a push-over this job
sight behind them. to crouch low in the boats as we had been was, Tex shifted the -tobacco wad to the side of
Out of the woods and across the kunai-covered ordered. We were supposed to remain in that his mouth, spat and said: "Church ain't out till
plain lumbered two GI trucks, packed with men. position all the way into the beach, but besides they quit singin', boys."
A few yards from the front lines, the trucks becoming damned uncomfortable after a few Out front we could see Bostons (A-20s) and
halted and the men piled out and calmly began minutes, it prevented us from seeing what was Airacobras (P-39s) scouring the hillsides for
setting up the ack-ack guns they had towed be- going on. This was too good to miss, and before targets. Behind us was the crash of trees as
hind them. long, almost everyone was standing up. bulldozers broke through the woods, blasting
To these veteran infantrymen the sight was As the boats moved slowly forward, a few roads. Behind them from the landing ships rolled
more than strange; it was unbelievable. "Cripes," hundred feet at a time, we could see we were heavy equipment, ack-ack guns and artillery,
one groaned, "if only Buna could have been like part of a line of boats stretching along the whole which was soon set up and blasting away at dis-
this. We went to Buna with a rifle and a few length of the three designated invasion beaches. tant targets in the hills. Others strung telephone
grenades and dug them out. And now " Behind us were more waves of small landing wires from the CPs.
Now it was a different story all the way craft, and behind them, far out, we could see As the heat of noon struck us, word came up
through as elements of that same division struck bigger and bigger landing craft and warships. that the advance was to continue. We slung our
and captured this New Guinea base in a single The barrage from the warships still thundered ptacks and prepared to push on.
day. It was a different story from the moment overhead. Shells crashed into the woods on
we lined up in the pitch dark and rain on the shore, splintering trees into kindling. About a
decks of ships carrying the first assault waves. hundred yards offshore, lighter naval craft
Only the low sound of voices nearby and the moved up, raking the beach with a murderous In Next Week's YANK ...
occasional bump of another pack or the prod fire. The beach was a mass of smoke and flame
of somebody's rifle told you that the decks were that erupted like a huge volcano.'Every machine
jammed with men; you couldn't see them. gun on our landing barges opened up, and the
^ir was filled with tracers. p:~-S4
The first tiny glow of orange on the horizon
silhouetted two warships far offshore, but rain .Sg»i
Up by the ramp of our barge, the platoon lead-
and darkness still shrouded the coast from sight. er, Lt. Houston Covey of Fort Worth, Tex., ;^iM^>lihjli,»'
Our naval barrage opened up just as the dim turned around and yelled something. We couldn't tojhe.front;
outline of the coast appeared. From every d i - hear him above the din, but from his grin and 'ffy^lsiipirfli^
rection overhead, balls of red, white and green his "okay" sign we knew what he meant. All of '"""•"S'^llm^'f 'fS/i^^j^'.

PAGB 7
These Army scouts in the Solo- Jap grenades <in Ameucan grenade and a supph
of extra ammimition.
mons, who sneak through the But his ignoranci' of wood lore vva.s astonish-
ing Although t'no Japanese rifle is sl.< inches
jungles on five-day reconnais- longer tlian the American model, the Jap was
sance missions, have to know carrying his weapon slung across his back out of
reach in such a position that it caught on every
more wood lore than the Indian bush.
fighters of the Old West. As a result he was .spotted by two other Amer-
icans. S/Sgt. Thomas M. Miller of Ashland. Ohio,
and Sgt. Donald P. Evans of Fostoria. Ohio, who
By Cpl. BARRETT McGURN weie also moving through the woods. They were
YANK Staff Correspondent carrying their weapons ready, doing no talking
and making no noise, so by the time the Jap

B OIT.AINVILI.E. THE SOI.OMONS Ouf HigginS

landing boat drones along parallel to shore
and 1.000 feet off the breakers. Its mission
i.': to locate a party of 60 scouts. 20 miles up the
noticed them they were only 30 yards away.
They wanted to capture him. but he threw his
rifle off safety. Evans got him.
In the little knapsack slung at his side they
Bougainville coast outside the American lines. found bouillon cubes and two brands of ciga-
Radio communication with the scouts broke off rettes. Old Golds and Fleetwoods.
30 hours ago when the last ''clear" signal was
UDDENLY two tiny darting dots of red leap into
received. Our boat contains extra radio equip--
ment, in case that proves to be their trouble, and
it carries 30 helmeted volunteers armed with car-
S sight on the shore. Twenty square miles of
landscape lie in view, but rapidly moving spots
bines, if it develops that Japs have pinned down of crimson are so unnatural that they loom up
the scouts. almost as prominently as the largest peaks of the
We are outside sniper range but well within Crown Prince Range overhead.
reach of the type of Jap mortar that shelled other The dots are semaphore flags being waved by
Higgins boats several weeks ago when the Amer- the tiny, partly naked figure of a white man in
icans seized Vella Lavella, farther south in the. a clearing. Our Higgins boat swings hard to star-
Solomons. Our boat cannot stay too far off-shore board. There is a strained moment as the boat
because we might miss the beach signals of the comes within sniper range. Those 80-foot trees
scouts. The crew keeps a weather eye out for Jap could conceal a Jap regiment, but happily they
.strafers. who attacked a scout supply boat last don't. It turns out that the scouts are okay. Their
week, shooting holes in its canvas and its metal silence didn't mean that they had encountered
ramp, and knocking off one side light. an.y Japs; their radio had just gone dead, maybe
Bougainville's sheer green walls sweep down because of two days of drenching downpours.
from heights two miles high to within a few feet We ask them how their patrol work has been
of the water, like an emerald curtain hung up going. Pretty rugged, the scouts admit. As they
against the sky. hiding the jungle enemies from talk, their fatigues are wet to the armpits, a .sou-
one another. Scanning this vast natural portiere venir of an icy 75-foot river they forded a little
with binoculars is S/Sgt. W. A. Orick. a regi- earlier. ''No matter how many times you jump
mental intelligence noncom from Cincinnati. into those streams," one scout says, "they still
Ohio. A lover of the woods since his father, a take your breath away."
U. S. marshal, let him have a .38 to fool around Short, wiry S/Sgt. William E. Lucas of Steu-
with when he was 11, Orick is in his glory. His benville, Ohio, tells the story of their jungle trek.
costume as he squats on the fan tail of the Hig- On two mornings, he says, the scouts woke up
gin.s boat is an inspecting officer's nightmare: to find themselves in pools of rain water two or
soiled fatigue pants with torn cuffs. Marine Corps three inches deep. They stayed drenched for 48
buede shoes, a helmet liner and a sleeveless OD hours, with rain, river water and sweat.
.-vveatcr that no QM warehouse ever handled. They found that every pause in the march
Bnt Orick's boss. Capt. Ulysses Grant Carlan of means sending out a security guard and that at
Athens. Ga.. has only smiles of approval of him night the perimeter must be dug in. Each man
as the two sit side by side. stands three one-hour watches a night, and ev-
"He's a wizard," says Capt. Carlan, who is the eryone sleeps with rifle and knife beside him or
regimental intelligence officer. "He's my right- clutched in his hand. All cans and other refuse
hand man. He sees more than any man I ever must be buried and all foxholes must be filled
saw. and he doesn't know what fear is. He isn't and packed down to conceal the bivouac area or
happy unless he's in a hot spot. Orick, what's at least to hide the size of the party.
that white thing in there?" Each man carries drinking water in two can-

fe''v:,

BOUGAINVILLE PATROL
Orick peers. "Trunk of a tree," he grunts. Twice teens slung from his cartridge belt, and when appetities sharpened by mountain climbing. Con-
Orick has spotted signal smoke sent up by J a p these run dry they must be filled from streams centrated rations begin to taste like sawdust after
patrols in the five weeks since the first American or holes. "For three days we drank water from four or five days.
invaders landed, and once his restless eyes no- a hole back of a swamp," puts in Miller. "We used Worst of all i.'; the combat tension, the ever-
ticed a disturbance of earth that betrayed four four tablets of halazone, the amount you use to pre.sent possibility of a trap. So far only one pa-
buried boxes of Jap heavy machine-gun ammu- purify very polluted water. It tasted salty and trol has been ambushed. S/Sgt. James L. Buffett,
nition. The find provided valuable intelligence; had foam on it. like beer." a Cincinnati machinist, tells about it.
it showed that a party of 1,000 Japs who had Mosquitoes are a bother, too. Men of one patrol "1 never want another," he says, "We walked
tried a counteroffensive a few days previously found they could escape the mosquitoes by cov- into a beauty, up there by Kuraio Mission. There
had abandoned the effort, buried their heavy ering their heads with shelter halves, but they were thickets on both sides of the trail. The Japs
equipment and scrammed. had to wake up and peek out every once in a 'nad us surrounded Only six of us were on the
Orick is typical of the men in this party and while to make sure no Japs were sneaking up. patrol. They opened fire on us. We got'off two
of those who make up the other scouting parties Sleeping on patrols is done in a six- or eight- shots and then ran. We had to."
thai are constantly daring the dangers of Bou- inch foxhole, with the scout wrapped in a shelter If the Japs had been good shots, all six Ameri-
gainville's vast no-man's-land to obtain neces- half or raincoat and covered overhead with a cans would have been killed, but as it was only
sary information, capture prisoners and kill any hut constructed of bamboo and leaves in a man- two were wounded.
other Japs contacted. ner taught to the patrols by friendly natives. The relief party jumps back onto the ramp of
Onck points to the spot where, four days ear- Besides all these troubles the patrols have the the Higgins boat and the scouts file back into the
lier, a stalking J a p became the stalked one. The usual tropical jungle complaints. Pore^ are usu- jungle. Three days later the party completes its
J a p had spotted three infantrymen at work on a ally ojjen and energy is burned up even by sit- mission. Score: No Japs encountered, but a truck-
radio outside the American lines. Heavily armed, ting around, a luxury patrols cannot afford. There load of Jap ammunition, mortars, flares and gre-
he crept toward them, carrying his rifle, three are no fresh vegetables, meat or milk to satisfy nades discovered.

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Sorrie hred morioes co-ne csu' on ?H,? r>j

Sougafnvftle after fighting in the
Haiti
' !al> re !h' v\iliiou; food
V •ually P : h " nal;\a- guidt-s
lad di eiiieli te 'ad '-le patrcP ovei a back t r a d
:<ecause tliey'd •ard f n a n \h- n a t i v e g i a p e \ a n e
I'UP. .. iar • p a r t y of J a p s wa: i-aniped n e a r tile
iriam trail BufTett d e v e l o p e d a lot of respect foi
tile .gririn ig. friendlv native: " T h e y ' r e s m a r t
diick.^. " he said, " s m a r t e r t h a n you t h i n k '
(^nlv oiie riati're could s o e a k Englisti. a n d even
p:.- ic.i.-i t h e chop-c)i,jp variet.N'. A p r o d u c t ot
K u K u o Mission, he gloried in t h e n a m e of S o l o -
mon. Many of t h e B o u g a i n \ i l ! e n a t i v e s could
not e\'ep u n d e r s t a n d o n e ariothi'r. S o m e t i m e ^
w h e n a friendly n a t i v e c a m e in witli i n f o r m a -
tion, it had to go t h r o u g h t h r e e or four n a t i v e s
* • and got p r e t t y m a n g l e d in t r a n s l a t i o n .
T h e n a t i v e bo.vs could tell i n s t a n t l y w h e t h e r
o t h e r n a t i v e s w e r e friends oi' e n e m i e s . Buffelt
n e v e r could figure out h o w . A n o t h e r t h i n g t'lat
# a m a z e d iiim w a s how m u c h t h e y k n e w a b o u t
n a t u r e ' s local t r i c k s . O n e d a y t h e boys " m o t i o n e d
t<> us all e.xcited. to get t h e hell out <if t h e r e . "
Buffett recalled. T h e p a r t y w a s w a d i n g h i p - d e e p
in a s t r e a m in a s t e e p n a r r o w c a n y o n . It w a s
r a i n i n g S u d d e n l y , in t w o m i n u t e s , t h e wali'i
rose t w o feet. T h e p a r t y got.
Each, n a t i v e w i t h t h e p a t r o l w a s given a can
of T.S c i g a r e t t e s e v e r y four d a y s or so. T h e y
went for t h e c i g a r e t t e s in a big w a y . " T h e y
s m o k e m o r e o r less like an old w o m a n . " said
Buffett, h o l d i n g t w o fingers p i n c e r - f a s h i o n .
W h i l e GI chow h e l d out on t h e t r i p , t h e n a t i v e
hoys a t e t h a t a n d liked it. T h e y p i t c h e d into
a b r e a k f a s t t h a t must h a v e s e e m e d s t r a n g e -
o a t m e a l , p a n c a k e s , a p p l e b u t t e r a n d coffee.
T w i c e t h e p a t r o l h a d to get food by p a r a c h u t e ,
a n d u s u a l l y t h e cases s m a s h e d o p e n in t h e l a n d -
ing, s e n d i n g c a n s b o u n d i n g d o w n t h e cliffs, with
t h e n a t i v e boys in p u r s u i t .

W HEN t h e p a r t y r e a c h e d Ibu, t h e n a t i v e s with

t h e p a t r o l w e r e a n g r y b e c a u s e t h e r e had
b e e n no s k i r m i s h w i t h t h e J a p s , n o " b o o m , boom "
as t h e y call it. T h e n a t i v e s did not h a v e long to
g r u m b l e . ,A f r i e n d l y b u s h m a n c a m e in. w a v i n g
both h a n d s and j u m p i n g a r o u n d on o n e foot as
he a t t e m p t e d to r a i s e t h e o t h e r foot to wai.--t
level. .'Another n a t i v e r e c o g n i z e d his- p r o b l e m
-* *• a n d s t r e t c h e d o u t a h a n d . T h e ftist n a t i v e n o d d e d
h a p p i l y a n d put his t w o iiands n e x t to t h e o t h e r
one. E v e r y o n e got t h e i d e a : 15 J a p s .
A b o u t 2,000 y a r d s farthei' a l o n g , t h e p a r t y d i s -
covered tracks and read them the way an Indian
scout w o u l d . H e r e w e r e t h e p e c u l i a r m a r k i n g s
of J a p h o b n a i l boots. T h e r e w e r e t h e m i t t e n - l i k e
u n p i i n t s of t h e s p l i t - t o e d s h o e s o t h e r J a p s w e a r ,
a shoe w i t h a s e p a r a t e c a s i n g for t h e big toe
T h e p a t r o l r a d i o e d its findings t o t h e b e a c h h e a d
a n d tiien p r o c e e d e d After s e v e r a l h u n d r e d feet
m o r e t h e y s p o t t e d t h e point m a n of an o n c o m i n g
J a p p a t r o l . T h e Jtins failed to see t h e m . T h e
.Americans formed an ambu.sh. w i t h e v e r y o n e on
;)ne side of t h e trail to a l l o w for free s h o o t i n g
T h e r e w e r e s e v e n J a p s in t h e p a r t y , e a c h
Alt.-ouju I lis : a t r o l ,; a r m e d w i t h a b a y o n e t . T h e y also h a d t w o pistols
patrols h ; r ' - kil.tid one irui lis v\ , a o ' •!: iWiS' • ',:•._ • and a rifle a m o n g t h e m . As t h e J a p s c a m e a b r e a s t .
T h e 'K\'o '\;Tie' c a n s ' ,.• Tht iio\ ~ }.•• ;h p • !v ' .... , : ,.' , . : ; ; , I. .••^, Sgt. BufTett a n d t h e otiiers j u m p e d out T h e J a p s
lave ht-eii 'l.'? cr.Iy cas-i.-ut'. A T\l)icai pan-MJ J'he o t h e r •<M,k oti . . \ o ., : J.-. !:)! W,- .s , nt refused to s u r r e n d e r . T h i s t i m e t h e r e w a s no
>v;is t h e c)t;i .)n ,>'hich Su- \ ::i4P B ' Fi.r'JiH vr! looKPi« fo!" P i n v " Snut:> -.li.:; ''>•.' •'.,- . •;:.:ii ,;;.\t' b u c k - f e v e r s h o o t i n g . Six J a p s fell d e a d . T h e
if C o l u m b u s . In;i . a fo:;ii.'. •a!!'S-r,iii.. aiKi S - ; ji'd a n y w :eie He O ' o p o t d •ip.,:;;;!.. ;p ; Kr .jnd s e v e n t h , w o u n d e d , tried to get a w a y , but 'le
R;:y S. S m i t h of Niles, (>hi>., 1 'oriiic! su-i'i-ni:!; c a n d y ail o v e r tt!;' place a^ pi Uejp Tii. A n i e r - loo. w a s t r a c k e d d o w n a n d killed. It d o e s n ' t pay
i-'ltrk. w e r ; trie leading i m n d ms TV>cv !tiatc'ht-t! !canr- picked up ^il' c o n t . o ; , . ^ p ;.a:ine,! 'i-at to let a J a p get a w a y a n d r e l a y a m e s s a g e to
j u n g l f skiii with t w o J.;;-) o > of a J a p varaPvp likt the A r m : Kan t c a i u i :n o t h e r J a p forces.
'Wf ,spi!!t.><; tin- first liiiiu; 2ii(Hi y a r d s ri.iuri i.pp»'arance. and a sts-el h e l n i e t i u i of cooked n e e . Five hundred yards down the trail the patrol
!i'.' bc'.ich !uirn ijs." said Siiii .'i ' T i l l ' N V M ? " C 111)! stUi w.arm. Exidenibc the two .Japs laii •>•,••, -.n got t w o m o r e J a p s . " T h e y g a v e us a bad m i n u t e
:n t h e op("i,, w a l k i n g rig-it up "he bt'ach. i'oniiat; tlieii w a v to Liring food to a ijatrol. out no n i o i e or t w o t h r o w i n g h a n d g r e n a d e s . " said Buffett.
n k e hell. I sue.-i> t h a t ' s ti-.( i\ ay tluyv w a l k - J a p s wei<' e n c o u n t i red. O n e n a t i v e got a b e a d on a g r e n a d e t h r o w e r a n d
j u s t like l u i ! T h e y ' r e a i i v a s s in a huta'v e m p t i e d a w h o l e clip into him. S o m e o n e else
A pcrinii-iei d e f e n s e .vas Mrsjanizod uisUiiiUy.
T h e m e n d u s ii'i a foo' ieep a n a tha-eu up a
p a r a p e t , b u t t h e J a p poirit m a n wa.s on t h e sei'ne
M OST missions last fivt- ia.\ -. but t!ie orL-r one
to d a t e w e n t 13 d a v s T h o scouts tra\- Peit 60,
m i l e s t h r o u g h s n a r l e d j u n a l e and iix-netrated
got anotiier. T w o got a w a y A g a i n t h e r e w e r e no
A m e r i c a n injuries. T h e .score for t h e first fou;
.American p a t r o l s on B o u g a i n v i l l e s t a n d s : J a p
b e t o r e a n v camouflagin;^ could be d o n e . Half- 25 iiiile.s into no-rnan"s-lanri The>- killed ep^iit dead \2. w o u n d e d n o n e ; A m e r i c a n d e a d noiu-.
w a y past *ii< position t h e J a p did a d u u b l e - i a k e . J a p s T h e p a t r o l ' s first p r o b l e m was to scale wounded two
like a m o v i e c o m e d i a n — b u t t h e r e \'. as no c o m e d y C r o w n P r i n c e RansJe a b o v e tiie b e a c h h e a d . T h e " T h e averagi.' A m e r i c a n wiil w h i p a n y six o!
ir. this deal. T h e J a p m a d e a b u a k .•a it and t n e p a r t y m o v e d p r e c a r i o u s l y by c l i n g i n g to l o ^ l s . t h e , a v e r a g e J a p . " Buffett d e c l a r e d . "As far as
.•\niericans o p e n e d up. T h e point nian -A as killed, t r e e t r u n k s and vines. S e v e r a l t i m e s the e a r t h t h e bush goes, t h e a v e r a g i ' A m e r i c a n is just as
but t h e six b i h i n d h i m got a w a y c i u n i b l e b u n d e r f o o t , a n d once t h e mission's good or b e t t e r t h a n t h e a v e r a g e J a p . T h e only
N o x : d a y . '.".aiting for tlie supply boat to put p h o t o g r a p h e r . 1st Lt. Robert Field of W e b s t e r thing t h e y ' v e got on us is t h e art of camouflage
an e n d to t h e i r mission, t h e scouts got a second Grox-es. Mo., c a m e close to p l u n g i n g 1.000 feet T h o s e b i r d s r e a l l y k n o w how to d o it.
ciiance "We w e r e sittin.a aroanci." said S m i t h , Te,f p a r t y u o u n d up close to B o u g a m v i b e ' . - "Car. A m e r i c a n s live in t h e .jungle w i t h al!
"atid t h i o w i n a t h e bull a b o u t w h a t sjood food t w o v o l c a n o e s . 10.17!-foot S a l b i a n d 6.56f)-foot Its h a r d s h i p s a n d be.st t h e J a p s at if.' I, knovx
w t ' d be able lo eat t h a t n i g h t . S u d d e n l y tlie boys Ba.gana a c t i v e c r a t e r s from vx Inch smt.ike n e \ e r d a r n well t h e y can. I k n o w t h e y can t a k e a n y -
<::n t h e left H a n k s p o t t e d t w o J a p s . " ceases to roll. T h e scouts w e r e h e a d e d for t h e t h i n g t h e j u n g l e has to offer n o w . We could e v e n
O n e of t h e Jap.^ w a s c h e w i n g on a stick and tiny n a t i v e village of I b u . d e s c r i b e d as four h o u r s go n a t i v e if w e had to, I t h i n k . You could find
cai'^ying his g u n s t r a p p e d up in its leatliei case a w a v from a s t r o n g J a p e a s t - c o a s t g a r r i s o n . Miles I'liougli food to lix'e on - n o t as healtiiful as r e g -
That made two violations >: iungie-fi'i.htm.s; u e n t t e d i o u s l y u n d e r f o o t , but no Ibu. ular l a t i o n s b u t e n o u g h to live on."

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 spotted them and iet loose, killing one American
and wounding another. Then, in plain view of
everybody and everything. Van Ness carried
the wounded man back across the road to safety.
They gave him the Silver Star for that.
Since Salerno, they've had 35 Purple Hearts. And they think Herr also tells about another louey, 2d Lt.
Arthur B Merchant of Woonsocket, R. I., who
they've got the best gun in th6 who/e Fifth Army. went out with a tank reconnaissance patrol and
kept standing up in the tank, his head out of
the turret, reporting coordinates while the tank
guns were busy firing at some German Mark TVs
down the road.
By Sgt. RALPH G. M A R T I N with the rest. Sometmies they can bring it to
A f r i c a Stars & Stripes Correspondent
him during the night: sometimes they can't.
But whether he eats or not, Herr's job is to B UT the observers don't like to talk about
themselves; they pzefer to talk about their
battery. And Battery B is worth talking about.

W ITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY—You have

to crawl oil your belly through thick
mud up a steep slope for about 20 min-
utes before you reach the observation post of a
keep looking through his high-powered field
glasses, trying to pick out enemy machine-gun
positions, moving trucks and troop concentra-
tions, and constantly reporting his findings to
It's the outfit that fired an unprecedented 2,000
rounds from 1800 hours to 0600 during the first
critical days on the Salerno beaches. The guns
105-mm howitzer outfit. headquarters via radio. Then, two minutes later, got so hot that the boys had to keep pouring
Then, if you're lucky, you can look through he watches his battery's 105 shells pop and ex- a bucket of water into each muzzle about every
the broad slit in the big boulder and spot the plode, and he keeps adjusting their fire until the 15 minutes. This was strictly unorthodox, con-
nearby German gun positions and convoy move- shells land smack on the German positions. trary to all rules in the Field Artillery tactic
ments. If you're not so lucky, you'll spend all book. But in those first few days, the Fifth Army
Occasionally Herr gets a chance to see a little was doing all kinds of unorthodox things.
your time sharing a crowded foxhole, keeping more action. He goes along with an Infantry as-
your head low, praying hard that the Jerry shells sault company, carrying his portable radio with For example, the Infantry drafted 30 men from
will land somewhere else. him, relaying back to his Artillery CP the exact Battery B to replace casualties, leaving the other
For six days and nights, on top of Hill 769 coordinates of Jerry guns just a few hundred overworked, sweating Artillery boys even more
north of Filignano, S/Sgt. Olan Herr of Bluffton, yards ahead of him. He has to be exact about his short-handed, and with 700 crates of shells to
Ohio, wasn't so lucky. Sitting on top of a higher coordinates because otherwise he will have his unload. And all the time enemy shells were
hill, the Germans spotted his OP and began own shells whooshing down on him. landing not more than 50 yards from the guns
blistering the sector with a continuous barrage There were some machine guns shooting con- themselves, splattering shrapnel all over the gun
of concentrated artillery and mortar fire, trying centrated crossfire on an Infantry company and shields. But the Battery B boys never stopped
desperately to knock it out completely. One piece Battery B got the job of wiping them out. So loading, firing, reloading.
of shrapnel landed so close to Hern's foxhole that 1st Lt. Harry Van Ness of Newton. N. J., a Nobody slept that night, or the next, or the
it cut the telephone .wire one foot away. forward observer, got out of position with three next.
"I didn't eat very well those six days," said of his men and made a run for it across the road, Since Salerno, all four of the original guns
Herr. right in the face of direct 20-mm fire, and jumped in the battery have^ been knocked out and re-
He didn't eat very well because an Artillery for some scanty bushes where he could get placed. Since Salerno, out of the 112 men in
observer takes only one day's rations with him, better observation.' Van Ness and his men eaw Battery B there have been 35 Purple Hearts.
relying on the Infantry behind to supply him what they wanted, but one Jerry machine gun Like every other Artillery outfit in the Army,
the Battery B boys think that they've got the
best battery, the best gun. Boastfully 1st Sgt.
Vincent Shaflfer of Anadarko, Okla., says: "A 105
will fire more rounds, more accurately, for a
longer period of time, than any other gun,
"It gets closer to the front lines, too."
He told of the different times they were so
close that Jerry machine-gun and sniper fire was
splattering right into their gun positions, and
of the time they knocked out a German pillbox
with direct fire at close range, something that
just isn't done with a 105.
The 105 is supposed to be reserved for shooting
at targets of opportunity, over hills far away at
things it can't see. It is never farther than 2,000
yards behind the advance Infantry, and it's usu-
ally less than 700.
So they often take as large a dose of shells
as they dish out. The boys of Battery B are still
talking about the Thanksgiving dinner nobody
ate because Jerry shelled them for five hours.
There was the time, too, when a German 150-
mm shell landed right in a stack of artillery
ammo, blowing the shells all over the place.
There were two trucks nearby in danger of being
blown up, and Pfc. Elmer Meier of Kingfisher,
Okla., and 1st Lt. Charles K. Fetzer of Morris-
town, N. J., each hopped into a truck and started
driving it out of the area.
One piece of shrapnel broke Meier's windshield
and another landed in Fetzer's shoulder, but the
two kept going until the trucks were in a safety
zone. All this while the German shells were still
landing in the area, and the 105s were still
answering back.
••It was a helluva night," said the sergeant.
Another helluva night was the time a large
group of paratroopers dropped down near them
and nobody was exactly sure whether they were
ours or the enemy's. T-5 Clarence Pipestem of
Carnegie, Okla., went out on patrol and brought
back a "smart-alecky German who knows how
to speak English." The prisoner kept saying:
"Take your gun away from me. 'Who in the hell
do you think I am?"
The "smart-alecky German" turned out to be
a paratroop chaplain who had become separated
from the rest of his group. The boys are still
kidding Pipestem about it.
They kid about their home towns, too. There
is a good-natured feud between the veterans of
the battery—originally a National Guard unit
from Anadarko—and the replacements, most of
whom seem to be from Brooklyn. They kid each
other, but they work together. •
"And that's why we've got such a goddam good
battery."' said the sergeant.
 "Lookit him," spouted the 'trooper, still going
strong. "Goddam Infantry soldier. Went out, him
There Were No Oromoffcs on the Dock and his outfit did, to fight the whole Jerry army
We had to come floatin' down to get him out of
it. Goddam Infantry."
When This Hospital Ship Came Home The sober infantryman defended himself brief-
ly: "We was trapp«^d."
By S9t..^ACK A|IQRRISS The whole business of getting back hmne was A Japanese-American captain limped through
just about as simple as that. The swing music the ward. The paratrooper followed him with his
YANK Staff Correspondent was as inappropriate, perhaps, as the marches one eye. "Goddam good fighters, them fellers.
M £ A S I COAST POBT—The USES Acadia, her for the men who couldn't walk—and none could We used to send out patrols and the Jap boys

A I hull a startling white with huge red crosses

I blazing amidAips, tied up at the pier where
a band and a fleet <rf ambubmees awaited her.
walk very far—and'there was a profound incon-
gruity about it: but war is full of incongruities,
and the wounded wanted the jive even if they
would bring 'em back in. Our jump suits were
too much like the Jerries'. Them Jap boys was
takin' no chances. It was sort of rough on us.
The band played a march, and aboard lAdp the did cmne ashore with dead pans. They were Rugged but right though."
wounded said yeah, t h ^ knew there'd be a pretty solemn about it, those with an arm or a "Rugged, but right," echoed the happy Chief,
goddam band, but w h y didn't they swing it. Tbe leg gone or the few who were blind, but there Then he started needling some kid alMut having
band pUqred nuiybe a couple at nunre military were no tears. Nobody bawled, no matter how been overseas 19 months and coming h<Hne now
pieces and then jived into something that was much he felt l i t e it if he felt like it at aU. to a wife with a 2-month-old baby. The heckled
stnmger on the reeds than on the brass. Earlier, several hours before the 800-patient soldier swore comically, l>oasted that for a guy
And the wounded frmn Italy hiriMbted to pmrt- ho^ital ship had dodced, there wasn't a dead lite him it was easy and invited the Chief to go
holes ac swung up stairways to the open dedcs, pan aboard. On B deck. Ward 31 was getting to hell: it was his kid all right
leaned <m the rail and beat tone to tbe music r e a ^ to disembark. Since every ward in every
with whatever limbs they had l e f t Trom all over
the pcHTt side of the shq> the halMe raswtlties made
l i t e hqpi cats and watched as the Acadia dis-
hoq;>ital has its comic, 31 had its paratrooper
frmn tbe West Virginia hills. He and the Chief,
an (Klahoma Indian, kept the bulkheads ring-
M EAifwimjE the paratrooper threw his arms
around a middle-aged nurse and asked for
a date to get blind drunk ashore. The nurse tact-
charged ttie first of her cargo, the commiSsi<Hied ing witii their patter. fully refused and the trotqier said weU, he still
cases who were able to walk. Thore was an excess energy, pent up after loved her anyway. Among other nice things
They moved across the gangplank and stepped days at sea, and the wounded sought safety about the Acadia were 43 nurses who had a high
into waiting GI busses. Trained Negro littar valves f<M* its release. Tbe Chief calmly put his average of good looks.
bearers handled tteir luggage. T h m came the GI cane across his knee, threatened profanely to Two n^n, each with a foot encased in plaster
paydi cases, eadi <»e escorted by two m m . Then toeak i t thoui^t better of the idea and instead casts that left tmly their toes uncovered, sud-
the walking enlisted men, most of ttmn with banged it merrily on the deck. The paratrooper, denly tumbled off a bunk and started whirling
only a few personal belongings in little Red his face and arm scarred and an eye missing be- l>etween the tiers. One was a Seabee, the other
Cross d i t ^ bags but some with barrads bags cause of a hand grenade some now-deceased a soldier. They were trying to pull the hairs off
whidi they sunmidered to the N q ^ boys. At German used in a hand-to-hand fight at Salerno, each others' toes imprisoned in the casts. The
the end of the gangidank t w o Negro soldiers looked out the porthole to see a launch chugging ward looked OR half-interested. I l i e Seabee won.
grabbed every man ui^er tbe arms and helped akmgside. He erupted. A blind sergeant, his hands on the shoulders
him negotiate the low step «k>wn to stdid ground, "The U. S. Navy—in dangerous waters. Look of another soldier, walked majesticaUy toward
that last step he took to get bedi to the States^ at *em! Goddam! Let me off this boat. I wanna his bunk. The ward fought its t«idency to hush.
One (rf the casualties bent ova- and put both get at tiiem USO soldiers," he howled, switching SomelMdy reached out and tickled the blind guy
palms flat on the concrete pier, yetted in mode servkes. "<*, let m e at 'em.'" under the arm. He grinned and felt for his bed.
amazement and danced rather u n c n t a i n ^ into He registered a burlesque ferocity and, crouch- The two playful foot casualties came at him from
his bus. He was the only ooe. The rest of the ing into a fighter's posture, strode up and down either side and started tickling. The sergeant
hoys from Salomo and the Vcdtumo and b^raid the narrow passage betwe«i the tiers of bunks. roared and lashed out in an arch around him,
hardly changed espresMon. Some of them seamed I t will t a t e a while for him and the others to laughing. He had lost his eyes when a clip of
to relax tmaed lips t o let out ttie breath they'd get over that f e e i n g «diich he expressed as cartridges exploded in his face, detraiated by a
beat holding. But fliat was a l l No dramatics come«^ but w h k h be actually felt as a kind of hit on the chamber of his Ml.
The littor patients came l a s t The N ^ r o han- tragedy. It is an nnotion most returning soldiers It was an hour before docking time. Frwn the
dlers, who d e s n v e tbe reputation they have as have, fmr a while, regarding servicemen who of opposite ward came the smell of coffee and
experts in the work, moved tli«n into the a m - necessity are still cm duty in the States. luncheon m e a t
bulances in a smooth effortless stream. In five A grave guy finom Iowa stood on his one good "When do we e a t goddam it?" yelled the
hours the Aoadta was emptied. foot amd grinned tA the paratrooper. wounded in 31.

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B A C K F R O M W A R . These Yani& were wounded in Italy and are being

brought back on a hospital ship to Africa. Army hospitals in North Africa natu-
rally are better equipped to handle the wounded than those behind the lines in Italy.

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M U L E P L A Y . If the donkey is as sleepy as it looks these
three GIs are not going to have much of a ride. But maybe they
just jumped'up there for some relaxation, a welcome breath-
ing spell between rounds of fighting the Germans in Italy.

R U S S I A N B A T T L E F I E L D . Three Russian soldiers

move ahead on a scarred and desolate sector of the
Leningrad front. The man at left carries the base plate
of a mortar, and at right is a wrecked Russian tank.

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G E N . S A N T A C L A U S . otherwise known as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, commander
of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy. Two packages were sent to him to be given to any
two American servicemen. In person, the general is presenting them to Pfc. Ernest Gon-
zales (center) of Los Angeles, Calif., and Pvt. Salvatore lacono (right) of Lawrence, Mass.

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H O T O N C O L D . Meet Daun Kennedy, Hollywood A L L I E D M P S . There they are, going along with the GIs in this South Pacific port as
actress. Why is she sitting on a block of ice? Somebody well as every other. Two Yanks talk shop with an Aussie. L. to r.: U. S. Marine Gunnery
said she could warm an iceberg. This is the test scene. Sgt. Glen M. Hayes, Australian Cpl. Jack Casey and U. S. Army Sgt. Michael F. Ryan.
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housands of sea birds over As-
;ension Island in the Atlantic

IMPRESARIO Ente-*r.l"-r. F O R T H E B O Y S . Anette (Ton!) Robin, formerly o

GIs at the Jungle Junction Club commercial artist in New York City, is now a Red
Is Tony Steventon, India's own Cross worker in New Guinea, but in addition to her
little Yankee Doodle Dandy. regular duties she paints and names combat planes.

_ EET S H O O T E R . Rosemary LaPlanche, RKO

l^lwtress, was named "Miss Mosquito Junction of 1943"
i | j ^ soifie soldiers in New Guinea, so she's living up
pyo her title by going into action against the enemy.

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NEW GUINEA FRONT During one of the fiercest fights of the New Guinea cam- i l F E L I N E . A Navy flyer ju mps from the fuselage
paigr. an Aussie comes back ccirryjng a wounded buddy over his shoulder as a tank of his floating plane to grab a line from 0 Navy blimp
lumbfrs up toward the front T -sc qrim shuttle went on until the Japs were driven back again. which had spotted him downed in the Atlantic Ocean.
YANK The Army Weekly • FEBRUARY 4

Grades and Gripes

j'« -1. JUfHf'*- '%
Dear YANK;
I*\'t. Irwin Shaw's "Flood Control on the Rhine"
in a December issue of YANK was brilliant, bringing
Message Center
to the tore much that many of us have been thinking
^S-Si* w about. What beats me is, how come Shaw—with all
that good sense—is still a private?
Soldier-Voters Los Angeles, DM, Calif. - S g t . NAT JAFFEE n Pfc. ROBERT BERKOWITZ of the 449th Bomb. Gp.
Oo (H): write Pfc. J. E. Holmes, Co. H, ASTU 3905.
Dear YANK: Dear YANK: Stanford Univ.. Calif. . . . Cpl. EDWARD G . BOLTON.
The Senate action in killing the servicemen's vote Your Moil Call of a January issue reminds me that once at Fort Kamehameha, T. H.. recently returned
bill is a cynical way of repaying the men and women America is a wonderful place. Where but in the to the States: write S/Sgt. Kenneth H. Lang, 461 Base
who are fighting and dying in a war which is being United States Army could Umberto Anastasia. the Hq. & AB Sq., Douglas, Ariz. . . . S/Sgt. A. D. BRADLEY
fought, in part at least, to vindicate and preserve the oft-indicted member of Murder, Inc., rise to the rank JR., of Melrose, Masss., recently returned to the States:
representative principle of government. of Tech in less than a year, and twice within that see Message 1.' . . . T-3 IRVING BUFOCLE, once 1st cook
But this is not the time for post mortems. A large period make two promotions in a single month, while in 101st MP Bn. at Fort Dix, N. J.: see Message 2.***
soldier vote, rolled up in spite of the Senate's ob- soldier Henry Naquet-Hamilton of the Army Medical . . . GATHA BURCHETT. once of the AAFTD. Univ. of
stacles, will go a long way toward persuading poli- Center in Washington, a former research scientist Wiscpnsin: see Message 3.t
ticians that we mean to hold them strictly to account. who holds three degrees, including an M.D. from a
This is extremely important in view of the fact that in
the coming year Congress will be legislating on mus-
tering-out pay. educational job opportunities for vet-
French university, remains a T-5?
Nepiw Field. Ala. -T-S H. G. SCHUMANN C• S/Sgt. B. P. CAMMORATTA of East Boston. Mass..
recently returned from overseas: see Message
1.* . . . Pvt. E. DUNCAN CHAFFEE, once at AAB, At-
erans and many other matters directly affecting our lanta. Ga.: write Sgt. Frank O. Requist, Hq. Co., 4th
interests. Army, Presidio of Monterey. Calif. . . . Pvt. HENRY
Guadalcanal - T / S g t . JOSEPH LASH COOK, once in the AAF, Orlando. Fla.: write Pvt.
Roy E. Dudley, Hq. & Hq. Det.. 254th Ord. Bn., Red
Dear 'VANK: River Ord. Depot, Texarkana, Tex. . . . W / O JOHN
The Senate's action on the soldiers' vote bill makes CROTTY, once Co. Clk. in 101st MP Bn., Newark, N. J.:
this vital issue one which each state will now de- see Message 2.**
cide individuall.v, regardless of the fact that past
experience has proved that individual states siipply
do not want all servicemen to vote. Many states have H ALEX HALLEY, A S N 36662265: write Pvt. Donald
• Chjz, 1303d Engr. GS Regt., Co. A, Bks. 2412.
Camp Ellis, 111. .'-. . JOHN HARKINS, once of the
all sorts of loopholes in their election laws, and mil-
lions of soldiers will be left out in the cold, by tech- AAFTD, Univ. of Wisconsin; see Message 3.t . . .
S/Sgt. ALVIN CABR HEATH JR., U S M C : vifrite Pvt.
nicalities. The serviceman will not forget *he names Frank C. Miller. Sec. 242. Co. B. ASTU 4763, Colo-
of those senators who think he's good enough to be rado State College, Colo. . . . Pfc. FRANK HEMPLE,
a soldier but not good enough to be a citizen. once in the old 52d CA (Ry.). Fort Hancock. N. J.:
Soufh Pacific — C p l . G . S. PANNEL write Pvt. Ernest A. Paul, USCG. Smith Island.
Townsend, Va. . . . HARRY HOFFNUNG, w h o lived on
Williams Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., in Army since 1932:
More on Negro Soldiers write Pvt. I. J. Haber, Med. Det., Bks. E6, Rhoads
Dear YANK: Gen. Hosp., Utica. N. Y. . . . 1st Sgt. CHARLES HOPKINS.
My appreciation is extended to YANK for its sound last with Med. S e c . SCU 1967, Camp Haan, Calif.:
criticism of the letter signed by Sgt. Nolan and Cpl. write S/Sgt. William M. Quinn, 104th Gen. Hosp.,
Camp Pickett. Va.
Hitner. who suggested sending Negroes after the
war to "some country for their own use." It is un-
fortunate that the circulation of your fine paper is
restricted to military personnel, for in my opinion Jonce GENE
•
JANUSZ, once of the AAFTD, Univ. of Wis-
consin: see Message 3.t . . . CHARLES JOHNSON,
of the AAFTD, Univ. of Wisconsin: see Message
many civilians could learn a lot from your answer.
Camp Gruiwr. Okla. -M/Sgt. M. CROCKETT • ^ K ^ ^ 3.+ . . . MAURICE JOHNSON, who once lived in Alton,
111.: write Cpl. William H. Broer, 65th QM Co., Camp
Dear YANK: Shelby, Miss. . . . Lt. STANLEY JONES, once at Moody
Dear YANK: Field, Ga.: write Pvt. Deward M. JoUey, FAFRD,
YANK kinda hit the nail squarely. If from these Nice goin'! We were all worried here when w e
couldn't locate pretty Kathryn Case, Floyd Bennett Sq. 440. Hanruner Field, Calif.
years of toil and devastation and unlimited murder
we have not learned how to live with others, our Field's favorite pin-up ^ r l , but right after YANK
fathers and brothers have died in the greatest farce
in all the history of this world.
printed her photo foe us in Mail Coil, the Philadel-
phia Bulletin took up the hunt and found her. For-
merly known as Miss Philadelphia, 1937, she is now
M A / C J. G. MARION and A / C C. R. MATTHEWS,
• graduates of CI. 43-J, Advanced Fit. Tng., Wil-
liams Field, Ariz.: write Sgt. Frank A. Macken, 473d
Fort Sitt. Okla. -Pvt. DANIEL J. McGINNIS* Mrs. Michael McHale, wife of a tap dancer who is Bomb»Sc|. <M), 334th Bomb. Gp. (M), AAB, Green-
*Signed also by Pvt. Roliert Lasson. in England with a USO troupe. ville, S. C. . . . Anyone who knew S/Sgt. NICK M I N -
She is also the mother of a 14-month-oId boy and ciELi, once at Houlton Field, Maine: write Cpl. Joseph
Dear YANK: is as pretty as she ever was. To prove it. here's the L. Crowley, Hq. Co„ AGFRD 1. Fort George G.
Great work, YANK. I extend my sincere commenda- Bulletin's latest picture of her in her continuing role Meade, Md. . . . ROY (JACKIE) MORLAN. once in 77th
tion on the intelligent and forthright manner in of pin-up girl. Miss Case just said "gosh" when she Pur. Sq~ 20th Pur. Gp„ Hamilton Field. Calif.: write
which you refute bigotry. heard w e wanted her for an affair here in her honor, S/Sgt. Raymond E. Wilson, 4I4th PRD, SAAAB,
but w e think she will come. Santa Ana, Calif.
PaHwsoa fmU, Ohio -Pvt. UONAKO I. WEINBERG
Floyd Bmmoh field. N. Y. - M A N N I N G H A U Sic
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MilHary Pofice
P IRWIN H . PECKHAM: write to old Phoenix Hotel
• roonunate A / S Robert R. Albers. 308 College
Tng. Det. (Aircrew), Sq. 5, Fit. A, Hart Hall, College
a b o v e letters e x p r e s s t h e g e n e r a l attitude of a l l Station, Tex. . . . Lt. Louis PECOBA, once with the
the writers. Dear YANK: 101st MP Bn., Newark Airpwrt: see Message 2.**
I emphatically agree with Sgt. Tucker's letter in . . . Cpl. PETEB PECORA, once In Hawaii: write Pfc.
an October issue of YANK, where h e sounds off Peter Carocci, Hq. Co., 233d ECB, USNRTB. Fort
Rags and Riches against the tyrannical MPs in our Army. The IMP is Pierce, Fla.
faithfuUy charged with maintaining law and order,
Dear YANK: and he should be the best GI representative this
Eighteen months in an outpost, plus no beer, equals
one damned unhappy, miserable dogface—^no?
man's Army can present to the public. He should
be an exemplary soldier, possessing responsibility, R ROBERT RAMIREZ of Jersey City, N. J., and N e w
• York City: write T-4 John McGee. 2c Crescent
Road, Greenbelt, Md. . . . Pvt. WnxiE I,. R O K . once
Alaska - P v t . HAROLD COPPOCX high moral character and loyalty to his fellow G&. in Sig. Co., AWP. at Fort Clayton. C. Z.: write Cpl.
This happens to be a. particularly sore spot to the J. P. Waldrop. Co. I, 417th Inf., APO 76. Camp McCoy.
Dear YANK: members of ray squadron, b e c a u ^ a few of us re-
cently witnessed an unwarranted attack by MPs Wis.» . . P\'t. ^WABD RYAN of 95th St., S. Chicago, m.:
There was a barrel of beer left over from a party write Sgt. P. G. Kompier, Hq., 2d Bn.. 53d CA, Camp
we held here about four months ago and w e still upon one of otu- own men. Significantly enough, they
Bell Haven. Fla.
have it. Believe it or not, I can't seem to get the happened to be the typical "thug" type. I for one
boys together to drink it! say there should be some changes in Uie MPs. There
are too many notorious members in the MP outfits. C Sgt. ANDREW J. SANDOR JR.. once in 4th Air
C o d i r a i i FtM. G o . - S g t . JOE R T Z S I M M O N S 9 * Depot Gp., APO 922: write Cpl. Sigmimd Mas-
Brazil -Sgt. LEE B. BROWN Ian, Base PO. Alachua AAF. Fla. . . . Cpl. PAUL S E -
Kinjv. once at Westover Field, Mass.: write Cpl. Alex
FasfifOfi Nofes Dear YANK: Ross, Base H q , S-3. AAF. Presque Isle. Mamff. . . .
Dear YANK: Isn't it high time w e gave the MPs a break and Sgt. JOSEPH SERBIAN, once at Fort George G. Meade.
I am studying Hindustani stopped referring to them only as "khaki coppers"? Md: write your brother, Sgt. Fred Serrian, Med. Det-
in the ASTP at the Univer- After all, the MPs do a lot more than just town Sta. Hosp., Camp Butner, N. C. . . . Pvt. JOHN SMrrn.
sity of Pennsylvania. This patrol and railroad train duty. T h w process prison- once at Miami. Fla.: write Cpls. Ruth Talley and
costume is a little cold in the ers of war, escort these prisoners from ports, of de- Bette" Wilcox. Co. 9, 22d Regt., 3d WAC Tng. Center.
classroom but I And it adds Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. . . . HENRY SOCKOLOF MMlc.
barkation to PW camps all over the country, and USCG: write your brother, Frank Sockolof. Btry. A.
authenticity to my work. guard them in camp and while on labor details. The
rSee photo at the left.i 14th CA. Fort Casey, Wash. . . . HERMAN F . SON,
MPs are the police forces for AMG authorities in once at the 6th AAFGTD, Calif.: write Pfc. C. E.
We have to stand inspec-
tion every week and our occupied enemy areas, they control evacuation of
civilians, they guide military traffic and they main-
Kiught, 18th Replacement Wing. AAB, Salt Lake
uniforms must be strictly City Utah. . . . Pfc. AUBRY STEDMAN. once at Scott
GI. I get by all right be- tain straggler columns in all theaters of operations. Field, ni.: write Pvt. Richard D. Nichols, Hq., 359th
cause I wear a GI pillow Above all, tactical units of MPs attached to a divi- A B Sq., AAB, Alamogordo, N. Mex.
case. GI sheet and dog tags. sion, corps or army are nothing less than infantry-
men who fight shoulder to shoulder with the Ground *Message 1: Write M/Sgt. Leo F. Kane. Co. F, 13th
CHARLES CASMUS Forces in whatever combat zone they may find them- Regt.. QBdRTC. Camp Lee. Va.
ASTO, Uiwvwstty selves. So give the MPs the fair break they deserve. ••Message 2: Write S^t. Alfred J. I'atino, 40 Airbase Sq..
of Ptnnsfhania Fort Custer, Midi. —Pfc. HERMAN UPMAN Gowen Field. Idaho.
iMeasage 3: Write Col. Robert Harris, 8th Base Hq. It
Dear. YANK: Dear YANK: AB Sq.. Bks. 40. Scott Field, HI.
When I read the tag in Those guys who take cracks at MPs are carrying
my fatigue hat announcing chips on their shoulders. The MPs today are taught SHOULDER PATCH EXCHANGE
it was tailored by Charm. to be courteous but firm to all military personnel. A mimeographed fiit o/ all those wanting to exchange
Inc.. you could have knocked MPs are regular fellows who will treat GIs with the
respect and consideration due good soldiers. Today's shoalder patches will be sent to soMien upon request. We
me down with Lily Dach^.
Seeing me under this mas- soldiers should forget the bad reputation MPs had in haven't enough space to list everyone's name each weelc.
terpiece ••f military milli- World War I and try to be friends with us. They T h e s e m e n w a n t t o trade shoulder patches:
nery, the. boys thought it may be very surprised to find' we can and will help Pfc. Gorman Radeck, Med. i Sgt. John E. Welch. Hq. &
must have been styled by any time, and be glad to do it.
Murder, Inc. Or the give- AAFRS, AtlanHe City, N. J. -Pvt. JOHN J. McDONALO Sec. SCU 1944, Rehab. Hq. Sq., 28th TEFT Gp..
away may be that "Tent Center, Turlock. Calif. CAAF. Columbus, Miss.
Spec." [which also appears Dear YANK: Major T. E. Tappan. Hq.. Cpl. Robert E. Bullard, Hq,
on the hat's label]- 65th Inf. Div.. Camp * Hq. Btry. AAATC.
. . . in other words, w e have real soldiers in
-Sgt. BERT BRILLER the BJPs. Shelby, Miss. Camp Davis, N. C.
MMnl Field. N.-V. Napier Field, Ah. - l i t Sgt. R. W. HOPB Pfc. Ralph E. Rogers. Hq.. ! Cpl. John G. Nicoiosi. Co.
Co., 706 TD Bn.. Camp | B. 777th MP Bn.. Daugh-
PAGE M Maxey. Tex. erty Field, Calif.
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D O N A L D R. W I L L I A M S , shipfitter 3d class, answered with a defi-

nite no. "This place," he said, "would have to be a hell of a lot more
developed before I'd recommend it, even to sightseers. No, I can't see if."

EARL HINKLE, seaman 1st class, gave a qualified answer. " I think so,"
he sai3. "This is an unusual place, and Americans have a great curiosity
about seeing unusual things. They'll see things they never saw before."

J. B. SCHMIDT, carpenter's mate 1st class, changed the tune by say- KERMiT T. T H O M P S O N , shipfitter 3d class, said: "Yes and no. If
ng Sure! People are becoming more and more curious about the scenery is all you're after, this place certainly would be okay. But
T. r lo'v < undeveloped resources. They'll come here, including me." there are more things in life than scenery. At least, there used to be."
YANK The Army Weekly • FEBRUARY 4

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She had a nice figure and low-cut dress, so pretty

soon the marines were crowding around our
table in the barroom.
"Do you mind if we establish a beachhead?"
they grinned, drawing up chairs.
"What are you fellows thinking about?" I
asked suddenly, whipping out a pencil and paper.
"We could tell you, junior," they replied, leer-
ing at my girl friend, "but it would only lead to
bloodshed."
"ft] Over in the corner was a lone soldier at a
table, fondling a glass of beer. He had a far-
away and thoughtful look in his eye. "Here."
I told myself, "is a soldier who is thinking about
something. I must get him for my survey." But
when I put the question to him he only smiled
By Sgt. RAY DUNCAN crookedly.
"Waitress," he said at length, "another beer."
ASKED for "Horrible Harper," my favorite

I comic book, but the P X girl gave me Harper's

magazine by mistake. I got all the way to the
barracks before I discovered the error. By then
it was too late, so I read the Harper's article on
He blew a cloud of cigarette smoke in my face.
"So you want to know what I'm thinking about?"
"Yes!" I cried eagerly, pencil and paper
poised. A half hour passed and he said nothing
••What Soldiers Are Thinking About." more. After another 45 minutes it was closing
time, and the waitress brought him one last
•Service in the armed forces changes men in beer. At last he roused himself and said to me:
numerous ways," it said. "More than anything
else it stimulates thinking." Later on it pointed "Moral determination may have already been
out that "the main f>oint is that a yeast is work- present in men when they entered the Army,
ing." and the greater fitness of body and knowledge
Hurriedly I finished my business in the bar- of arms gained in training are important; but
racks and set out to watch the yeast work. it is this comradeship, or esprit de corps—call it
First man I came to was a corporal who was whatever you want—that has more than any-
gazing thoughtfully down the company street thing else to do with making the civilian over
and belching yeastily. into a soldier. It is the grasping of hands for
the long, hard and dreary effort."
"A penny," I said coyly, "for your thoughts."
'Say sarge." he grinned, "have you got an His words had a familiar ring. Familiar, hell
extra Uquor-ration coufKin?" —they were right out of that Harper's article.
"Okay, a liquor - ration coupon for your "You read that somewhere," I said cunningly.
thoughts." I handed him the coupon and sud- "Don't you get cunning with me," he cried
denly asked, "What do you think about an Inter- in rage and embarrassment, and leaping drunk-
national Police Force?" enly to his feet he overturned the table, glass
"Policemen!" he spat. "I hate their guts!" and beer in my lap. Then he began working me
The speculative look came into his eyes again. over, aided by the six marines, who seized this
What vou doin' tonight, sarge?" opportunity to eliminate me and get my girl.
•Well" ," I fenced skillfully. Luckily some sailors came in the door about
"My little chick has got a friend." he said. that time.
••She's really a lot of fun." A captain heard the battle a few minutes later
"I wish you hadn't said that." I sighed, ' b u t and came in to stop it. My girl friend said, "Hiya,
I'll chance it." big shot!" and flipped off his hat. She was really
My date really was a lot of fun. Each time we a lot of fun, and it was a wonderfurevening. The
passed an officer above the rank of captain she yeast was working that night, all right. The old
cried. "Hiya big shot!" and flipped off his hat. yeast was really working.

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 The New Troop-Rotation Policy
OR the first time since it started to send soldiers oversea- ini W;ii
F D e p a r t m e n t has announced the adoption of a troop-rotaiioi? polu >
Definite p l a n s a r e being m a d e to b r i n g back to t h e U.S. ihosv nu-n
in the Alaskan and Caribbean T h e a t e r s w h o h a v e had moro than two
y e a r s of continuous overseas d u t y and some m e n w h o have sweateci
out 18 m o n t h s in t h e North Africa Theater. P l a n s for t h e rotation of
troops in the South and Southwest Pacific h a v e almost been completed
and, according to a War D e p a r t m e n t spokesman, "it is expected that
shipping facilities will p e r m i t t h e r e t u r n of some soldiers from tho.'^e
theaters beginning in the coming spring."
This is good news for all GIs overseas and surprising news, too, be-
cause only a short t i m e ago, on Dec. 4, 1943, t h e W a r D e p a r t m e n t had
said that the lack of shipping space was m a k i n g it difficult to put into
effect any kind of a definite troop-rotation plan. Evidently the steady
production of American shipyards and the relentless w a r against enemy
submarines are beginning to pay off.
But like all good n e w s in the A r m y , this first move of the War De-
p a r t m e n t to replace overseas u n i t s h a s been misunderstood and blown
u p out of proportion by o v e r - a n x i o u s and over-optimistic GIs who have
been discussing it in the latrines and chow lines overseas.
It was received by m a n y of us in t h e same giddy frame of mind in
which we received the n e w s back in the s u m m e r of 1941 of the regula-
tion that permitted the discharge of all selectees over the age of 28.
T h e r e was one guy in our outfit who did not send out his l a u n d r y that
week because he expected to be out of the A r m y before it returned.
As things turned out, his discharge was postponed because the battery
went on the Carolina m a n e u v e r s . After t h e m a n e u v e r s , his papers went
through channels and w e r e okayed. But two days before h e was sched-
uled to get his railroad ticket home, the J a p s attacked Pearl Harbor.
Needless to say, he is still in the A r m y .
Now t h a t they have heard about the War D e p a r t m e n t ' s t r o o p - l o -
tation policy, plenty of GIs in Alaska and the Caribbean will have their
b a r r a c k s bags all packed and ready to be hauled to t h e boat the day
after they complete their two y e a r s of overseas duty. T h e r e are plenty Noi'th .'\frican Tlu'a'f : .'.:ii- lUKtri- ordinary conditiori.-^. be i'eturned to
of GIs in North Africa and the South and Southwest Pacific who are the United States." It say.s: i t is expected that shipping facilities will
already writing long letters home, m a k i n g plans to get married at their permit the r e t u r n of soiiic soldiers from the South and Southwest Pacific
parish church in J u n e . Theaters beginning in the coming spring."
Somebody ought to remind the boys gently t h a t good things in the The announcement of the War D e p a r t m e n t ' s first definite plan to
Army do not always come on schedule. As a m a t t e r of fact, the War rotate troops is swell encouraging news because if some of us are to
D e p a r t m e n t has not said that everybody in Alaska and the Caribbean be brought home soon there is real hope for the rest in the near future.
will come home immediately after t h e completion of t w o yeai's" overseas Now t h a t plans are being made to relieve troops in Alaska, the C a r i b -
duty. (A lot of them, of course, h a v e passed the t w o - y e a r m a r k t h e r e bean. North Africa, the South and Southwest Pacific, p e r h a p s rotation
long ago.) In some cases, they m a y leave the next day. But in othei' policies will be announced soon for the soldiers in the C h i n a - B u r m a -
cases they won't leave for several m o r e m o n t h s . Nor does the War De- India. Persian Gulf and Middle East Theaters and the ETO.
p a r t m e n t promise that everybody in North Africa will come home But, in the meantime, let's not start packing our b a r r a c k s bags and
after 18 m o n t h s or that everybody in the South and Southwest Pacific making dates to get married in our h o m e - t o w n church until the first
will r e t u r n in t h e spring. It says t h a t "a certain number of those in the sergeant gets o u r shipping orders from the company c o m m a n d e r .

• t o - •.'•>£ i f *

New Fighter Planes Reinducted CDDs G/ Shop Talk

STRICTLY,
A REVOLUTIONARY p r o -
pellerless fighter
plane soon will be in G.I.
Former EM under 38. who received CDDs and
are now being reinducted under new Selective
Service rulings, will be returned to the grades
"Bouncing Betty," the German S-mine that
bounces into the air before it explodes, is rated
by American troops in Italy as "Public Enemy
production, the WD an- they held at the time of discharge upon com- No. 1." Second most dangerous GI foe in Italy
nounces. The new plane pleting refresher training [Cir. 342]. After proc- is short-range tank fire. . . . J a p morale in the
is powered by two jet-propulsion engines and essing at reception centers, the men will take New Georgia campaign was high, according to
is capable of flights "at high altitudes and ex- their refresher training at the nearest replace- Army observers. Fewer hara-kiri cases were
treme speed." Experimental models have been ment training centers appropriate to their former noted, but a "willingness to fight to the end" was
flown successfully on hundreds of test missions branch of service and will be promoted when found. . . . Tens of thousands of fork-lift trucks,
here and in England. The plane is controlled their new COs decide they have demonstrated husky little unloading machines that can be
much- like the conventional pursuit ship except their fitness for assignment, operated by one man, are being supplied to over-
that there is no vibration and noise in- the pilot's seas areas where they are used to unload ships,
cockpit is lessened. British residents who heard Penkillin No Cure-Ail change airplane engines and do other tasks usu-
early models in flight report that they sounded ally requiring large groups of men working
like giant whistling tea kettles. Jet-propulsion Penicillin is neither a miracle nor a cure-all, with blocks and tackles. . . . Special Services are
engines were originally of British design, but says a WD report on the new drug's usefulness distributing thousands of small rudimentary
test models were made in the U.S. by General and limitations. The report reveals that jjenicil- musical instruments and teaching troops to play
Electric, and the plane was made by Bell Air- lin has a high efficiency in combatting certain
types of bacteria but is almost wholly ineffective them in as little as 10 minutes. Such instruments
craft. against others. A Medical Corps summary points as the harmonica, ukelele. ocarina and tonette
The WD also announces that a new night out that "the most dramatic results are relief are particularly popular in isolated North At-
fighter, the P-61, is in production. Known as the from pain and quick restoration of a normal a p - lantic outposts. . . . QMC laboratories have dis-
"Black Widow," the plane is powered by two petite, even in seriously wounded men." The covered that 62 parts of strained sea water can
Pratt and Whitney engines and is described as drug is especially effective in helping the body be used instead of the usual 60 parts of fresh
"having a fairly long range and possessing ef- build up new tissue proteins and in regenerat- water and two parts of salt for baking GI bread
fective si)eed and climb characteristics." ing red blood cells and hemoglobin after wounds. when either salt or fresh water are not available.

Y A N K is (UkNthed w n k l y by tiK n l i t t e d men i f the U . S . Army u d South Pacific: C a l , Barrett McGurn. M e d , : S i t , Dillon Ferris, A A F :
is far tait M i y U ttma in the armed senriees. Steries, fe«*ures. victtires

YA N K
S i t . Geerie Nerford, Q M C ,
and atker material (rem Y A N K may I n ravredueed if tkey are ael r e - H a w a i i : S | t , Merle Miller, A A F : Pfc. Richard J. N i h i l l , C A : Cal,
stricted by taw er military reiulatieas. irevided preiMr credit is f i v e a . lames L, McManus. C A ; S | t , Robert G r e e n h i l l h , I n f , : S i t , John A,
release dates are abserved aad siMeinc arier aermissiea bas been w a a t e d Busheni. F A .
(er eaeb item te be revredveed. Entire ceateats reviewed by U . S. military
censers. Alaska: S i t . Geori N . Meyers. A A F ; Pie. Robert McBrinn, S i f . Corns,
Bermuda: Cpl. W i l l i a m Pene du Bois.
MAIN EDITORIAL OFFICE Ascension island: Pfc. Nat G. Bedian, A T C ,
M S E A S T 42d S T . . N E W Y O R K 17. N . Y., U. S. A . Panama: S i t , Robert G, Ryan, I n f . : Pvt, Richard Harrity, O E M L ,
Puerto Rica: C p l , B i l l Haworth, D E M L : Pvt, Jud Cook, O E M L :
EDITORIAL STAFF THE ARMY WEEKLY 8 | t , Robert 2ellers. S i | , Corps.
T r i n i d a d : S i t . Clyde B i i i e r s t a l l . O E M L .
M a a a i i n t Editor. S i t . Jee McCarthy. F A : Art Drreclsr. S i t . Artkur Nassau: S | l . Dave P. Folds Jr.. M P .
Weitbas. D E M L : Assistant H a n a i i n i Editer. S f t . Justns Scblettbauer. Iceland: S | t . Gene Graff, Inf,
l a f . : Asslstaat A r t Directsr. S i t . RaliMi Stein. M e d . : Pictures. S i t . Newfoundland: S | t , Frank Bode,
Lee Hefeller, A r a i d . : Featnres. C n i . Narry siens. A A F : Snerts. S i t . Greenland: S i t , Edward F, O'Meara, A A F .
Dan P e l i i r . A A F : Overseas News. C » l . Allan Ecker. A A F . I t a l y : S | t . Waller Bernitein. I n t . : S i t . Geerie Aarons. S i l . Coras: Navy: Robert L. Schwartz Y2c: Allen Churchill Y3c,
W a s b l n i t a n : S i t . Eari Andersen. A A F : C«l. Ricbard Paul. O E M L . S i t . Buriess Scett. Inf.
Leaden: S | t . Walter Peters. Q M C : S | t , lebn Scett. A A F : S | t . Steven Central A f r i c a : S i l . Krnneth Abbelt, A A F .
Oerry. O E M L : S i t . Durbia Hemer. Q M C : S | 1 . B i l l Davidsen. I n f . : C a i r e : C » l . Richard Gaige, D E M L , OIRcer in C h a r i e : L t , Coi. Franklin S. Forsberfl.
C » l . S u d e r s a n VanderfeiK. C A ; S i t . Peter Paris. E a i r . : P v t . Jack I r a n - I r a n : S i t . A l Mine. E n i r . : Clil. JaaMt O ' N e i l l . O M C . Business M a n a i e r : M a i . Harold B. Hawley.
C e i i i n s . C A : Cpl. Jeha Presten. A A F , I n d i a : S | t . Ed Cunninibam. I n f . : S | t . Dave Richardson. CA. Overseas Bureau Odicers: London. M a j . Donald W , Reynolds: India,
A a s t r a l i a : S i t . Den H a r r i s m , A A F : S i t . Dick Hanley. A A F : S i t . Capt, Gerald J , Rock: Australia. 1st L t , J . N , B i i b e e : Cairo, Capt.
Nertb A f r i c a : S | t . Burtt Evans. I n f . : S | t , . Jekn Frane. S i l . C s r i s ; Robert Strether: Hawaii, Capt. Charles W . Balthrspe: I r a n - I r a n , Capt
O e w l a s Beristedt. D E M L .
Pvt, Tem Sheban. F A . Charles Hott.
New Guinea: Cpi. Ozzie St. Geerie, Inf.

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T R O U B L E A H E A D . A t least s i m u l a t e d t r o u b l e , a n d
this t r a i n e e at C a m p C a r s o n , Colo., is p r a c t i c i n g to
meet it w i t h a d u m m y h a n d g r e n a d e . He w a i t s u n t i l
he sees the w h i t e s of its eyes a n d then lets g o . Monotonous, Isn't It?
Old Paper
Houlton Air Bose, Maine -S/Sgt. Albeit Kallner
lushed into the oflFice of the base paper, the Hangar.
A STU, V o n d e r b i l f U n i v e r s i t y , Tenn.—Since lost
January the Army careers of Pvt. Stan Kutcher
and Pvt. LQU Kosden have run parallel. They have
with a piece of old tattered wallpaper. Pasted on consecutive serial numbers, v/ent to Fort Dix, N. J.,
the back was a fopy of the Portland (Maine) together ond slept in the some borrocks.
Herald Coxrier. dated 1863. They were in the same platoon when they took
One interesting item was a reprint of a letter bosic training and shipped to the same technicol
written by P\'t. .Jere Looper to President Lincoln school at the same time. They became T-5s the
in which Loopor offered to sell his eight slaves for same day, were shipped to an advanced technical
S330.33 each. The original offer had been printed
school together and left for a STAR unit together,
in the Walhalla (S. C.) Courier, and it wound up
with this sentence: "Please send your check for where they were classified for the same course.
whole amount as per Proclamation." They were busted together and arrived here at the
same time. Now they sleep in the some room and
Reunion at Christmas go out with two girls who are close friends.
Camp Van Dorn, Miss.—Sarah L. Kellerhouse of
Buffalo, N. Y., wrote the WD to inquire about a
brother whom she had not seen in 17 yeari'. She
leasoned that he might be in the Army, and she
gave full particulars, including a description of AROUND THE CAMPS
her brother as she last saw him at the aga of 13.
As a result of the WD investigation that fol- Salt Lake City AAB, Utah-;-Pvt. Ralph Furman. a
lowed. Miss Kellerhouse met her brother, Pfc. member of the base basketball team, served two
George H. Kellerhouse of the 225th Inf., at the
NCO Club here on Christmas. Said Pfc. Keller- terms as mayor of his home town of Sixes, Oreg..
house when he recognized her: "Gee, sis, last time a community of about 500 residents. Furman was
I saw you, you weren't much higher than this." only 22 when he was first elected. Now. while he
is in service, the town storekeeper whom Furman
defeated, is back in office.
Champ Liar
Ougway Proving Ground, Utah—Sgt. Baron S. Lincoln AAB, Nebr.—S/Sgt. Michael Suchorsky
Fonnesbeck was awarded the diamond-studded was so engrossed in the antics of Superman that
gold medal (nonexistent) by the Burlingtoi^ he failed to hear the barber's query: "Have I
(Wis.) Liar's Club for his prize-winning entry taken enough off?" Another GI did hear it though
among 6,000 competitors in the contest to find the and, edging closer, answered: "Heck no. Take
•'World Champion Liar of 1943." Sgt. Fonnesbeck's some more off." The barber went ahead, and now
story (in part) follows: Suchorsky is wondering what happened.
"The mosquitoes of Maryland were of the P-38 Miichel Field, N. Y.—Sgt. Bert Briller reporti
type, and when they landed they always filled both on a New Year's Eve dinner for the Base Special
fuselages. The first day I was there, they com- Service staff backstage in Theater 2 here. Speeches
pletely drained me of blood. "The second day I was were made by officers and members of the de-
giving them lOUs. Months later, when I was sta- partment, both civilian and military. Finally, after
tioned in Alabama, the Maryland mosquitoes sent everyone had spoken except the fireman on duty,
me a card on Fathers' Day because they had so the assemblage called on him to say a few words.
much of my blood in them." He did, saying: "No smoking."

B I G S C A L E . Sgt. Dean C. Ryerson of C o l u m b u s , O h i o , p u t s a last stroke on a h e a d s y m b o l i z i n g Duty

w h i c h he p a i n t e d at Service Club N o . 6, FARTC, Fort S i l l , O k l a . " D u t y , H o n o r a n d C o u n t r y " w a s the t h e m e .
 Comp Gruber, Oklo.—Pvt. Ray Hoffmeyer went
to the PX one night to call his wife. He placed Not Gl Issue
his call and the operator told him she'd call him
L O N G R E A C H . Pvt. M o r r i s A r n o v i t c h used t o b e
back. Hoffmeyer leaned back in the booth and
waited—and waited. When he awoke, it was
morning. He'd spent the night in the phone booth.
C a m p Lee, V a . - P f c . John Ellard, of the 1st Q M
Demonstration Bn. at the Q M School here,
takes his Army phraseology to heart. When the
a n o u t f i e l d e r f o r the P h i l l i e s , the Reds at%d t h e
G i a n t s . N o w he's t r y i n g t o k e e p i n s h a p e as a c t i n g
battalion provided a guest roster for a party, Pfc. assistant d i r e c t o r of athletics a t Fort Lewis, W a s h .
Camp Roberts, Calif.—When S/Sgt. Marvin J.
Ewe appeared with his girl for marriage by the Ellard signed up as follows:
post chaplain, the sky pilot shook his head and " 1 e a . , wife, small—civilian issue."
said to the girl: "Young lady, I can't marry you:
you're already married." It seems the chaplain
had performed a ceremony a few weeks before
for her twin sister. The twin was produced, and Camp Santa Anita, Calif.—Pfc. Al Bayus, DEML.
S/Sgt. Ewe is now a married man. has decided that women just can't be trusted.
Recently he went out with a blond and at the end
Camp Kilmer, N. J.—"fwo GIs, under court-mar- of the evening made another date with her. When
tial sentence to several weeks' confinement, were he went to,keep the second date, he didn't recog-
picking up paper under the eyes of a guard who nize her at first—she'd changed to a brunette.
followed them with loaded rifle. Suddenly the
guard fainted. The prisoners picked him up and Camp Wolters, Tex.—Pvt. Edward Frederickson
carried him to the neasest dispensary. There they thought it would be a nice idea if he introduced
calle'd the provost marshal's office to send an- some of his pals to his wife in Detroit, via tele-
other guard. The camp commander commuted phone. But the pals crossed him up by hinting to
their sentences. Mrs. Frederickson that her husband was at that
Second Army Maneuvers, Tenn.—While bivou- moment doing the night spots with them. It cost
acked near a farmyard, Pvt. Wallace Darnell came Frederickson an extra three bucks to convince
upon a large sow whose head was wedged inside her that the boys were only kidding.
a bucket. Darnell freed the animal and walked Camp Howze, Tex.—Pvt. Joe Roberts figured out
away. The next thing he knew the sow was mak- a scheme by which his quota of incoming mail
ing a mad dash for him. Pvt. Darnell barely es- would be materially increased. On his return trip
cape<f with a whole skin. from a maneuver area he wrote his name and
Camp Adair, Oreg.—Pvt. Joseph Palermo was address on several pieces of paper and dropped
near the front of the line waiting for the bus one them out wherever he saw a group of gals along
cold night. He noticed two shivering females the way. As a result he got 15 letters in two days.
standing in the dark doorway of a neighboring
building. He asked them if they would like to step
in line ahead of him and have a better chance at
a seat. The girls accepted his offer, but so did
three GIs who were hidden behind them in the
doorway. Pvt. Palermo stood all the way to camp.

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of laoding and unloading gear, anchor and mooring gear.

New Poy Pfon

A NEW and improved pay plan for Navy oflBcers
and enlisted men will go into effect about
-V
July 1. Main change is the elimination of the
t r a c e r pay account, heretofore an efficient way
of starving a man being transferred. Under the
new plan, every man wfil have a card listing his
rate, pay, allotments, etc This will be filed where
he is stationed and entries of his withdrawals
will be made. When he is transferred, he will be p^^*^
given the card to carry with him. Thus, while
traveling, he will have a complete record of
his pay and a means of getting paid en route by ^^^i' I
any disbursing officer. Changes in a man's rate
will be imm«[iately recorded on his card, as- •;H«'% ffce author."
suring accuracy of his pay status. New cards
will be issued every six months.
fUit Tops
UndersecNav James V. Forrestal revealed re-
cently that more than 65 carriers have been
built since we entered the war. At least 17 of POOR MAN'S BLACKJACK LETTER DIVISION
these are strictly combat carriers. . . . The names
Tarawa and Makin Island will be given to two
new carriers now on the ways. The Torauja will I K you've sworn off the pasteboards, there's always
this pencil and paper version of blackjack. All
you and your buddy rfeed a r e a couple of pen- L ETTERS have been substi-
tuted for numbers in
' this problem. The same
AND

be a combat carrier, the Makin Island an escort

carrier. The names were suggested by Adm. King
cils, two pieces of paper and a quarter of an hour.
To start with, each player draws
letter always represents
the same number. Numbers ^J| B R A 1 N S
and approved by SecNav Knox. . . . The number this diagram on his sheet, of paper. run from 0 through 9. Can B BJ G
Now t h e first player calls out you figure it out?
of jeeps assigned to work on carriers has been a n u m b e r between 1 and 9 and Here a r e some hints:
raised. Large carriers now have four instead of each player writes that number Look at the fourth and DBAN
three and other types have three on board. in some square on his diagram. fifth lines (DBAN and XNGB).
Then the second player calls out It is apparent here that D XNGR
a number between I and 9, and
fitsignja for NATS each writes it down as before.
is one greater than X.
Look at the sixth, sev-
Latest Naval organization- to hop on the in- They continue to call out num- enth and eighth lines. You'll XXGS
signia bandwagon is the Naval Air Transport bers alternately and write them see that D plus R equals X
down until 25 numbers have been called out and both plus 10. (Plus 10, because ARD 1
Service, whose crest [le/t belotp] was recently diagrams are filled. Neither player sees his opponent's 1 has obviously been car-
adopted as a result of a contest. NATS is the diagram during the contest. ried over to the next col-
Navy's equivalent of the Army Ferry Command DSR
The object is to see which player can get the great- umn on the left.) This gives
[tnsisrnia at rig}it\. Its planes haul men and ma- est number of columns (horizontal, vertical or the you two possible values for
terial to places where they're needed quickly. two main diagonals) that add up to 25. R. The correct one depends on whether 1 has been
carried over from the next column on the right.
But N times N equals a n u m b e r ending in R (see first,
second and fifth Unes). This, in connection with the
above clue, immediately establishes the value of R.
TEE-TOTAL The rest should fellow without too much trouble.
As you figure out a number, write it in beneath the
IG Puzzle Kits w i l i g o to GIs (that includes letter that represents it You can check your solu-
B Coast Guard, the Marines, etc.) who sub-
mit t h e highest scores on this puzzle. If
you've tried this before and failed to win a
tion with the .one on page 22.

prize, don't give up hope.

ft » 1 7 S
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^1"- ±L Try again, but remember

you've got a lot of competi-
^^«i:cK
T R|^ P 19
Tfie Mysfeiy of ffce Crashing Planes IS 0 b V tion.
LACK has just at-
The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery has
tracked down one of the most mysterious of war-
u 9 ok
S P | l N N|E R
E Fill in this diagram with
six good English words.
Don't use names df persons
B tacked by 25 to 21.
Looks as if White is
1
1
6
2
7
^
8
4
time killers in a search possessing the suspense
of a detective story, even to the surprise ending.
Squadron commsmders in the Pacific were
n '9 « 34 i^ % t i
or places. And don't comb the dictionary for
r a r e words. Tee-Totals are meant to test your
ingenuity, not your ability to read Webster's.
finished, because if he
goes 17 to 14, then Black
c h ^ e s 21 to 17 and gains • m
L 10 11 12
baffled by the cases of pilots who would waver To figure your score, add the number values
a piece. • 1* - 15 14
But the shoe is really
in night formations, then turn downward and
crash into the sea. After investigating and dis-
of the ticejity-fu)0 letters you have used, giving
each letter its value as shown on the table be- on the other foot. Black's
last attacking move will
D §)
19 20
i!^ 23 24
carding dozens of possibilities, the Navy medics
came to a strange conclusion, based on a Common
mental weakness. The doctors knew that a bright
low. The trick is to use ordinary words con-
taining a lot of letters of high value. In add-
ing the score, count each of the 22 letters in
your diagravi only once.
prove a blunder; it is
White who can now cop
the game. " That's it—
25 Zb b 28 zr
spot, when you look at it long enough, appears to White to move and win. 30 51 32
zs
The example above rates 334. Can you beat Before checking your
waver. This produces a mysterious mental pre- if.' analysis with the answer on page 22, number y o u r
occupation, technically known as autokinetic lETTW VALUES playing squares from 1 to 32 as shown.
fascination—a factor in hjrpnotism. N — 24
Medicine and Surgery discovered thac the B - U O - «
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 YANK The Army Weekly * FEBRUARf 4

SUZIE ON THE WALL

Bugbee's the guy in the bunk next to mine.
And Bugbee's got Suzie and Suzie's divine.
Suzie smiles down from our communal wall.

OST
Smiles sweetly at me and at Calvin and Paul.
O Bugbee's near frantic and Bugbee's near mad.
And deep is the green in the eye of the lad;
He threatens to tear Suzie down from the wall.
But Suzie demurely still smiles on us all.
Dear Bugbee, rest easy, the maiden is yours.
And when you come marching home from the wars,

CHANGE
Attired in honor, triumphant for truth.
Resplendent in glory and shining with youth,
Suzie will smile from her doorstep through tears
And smile for you only throughout the years.
Dole Mabry Field, Flo. - P f c . SIDNEY MASON
Thic POM Exchaitfi*, itke YANK itself, is wide
open to you. Soiid your cartoons, poems and TALE OF A THIRSTY G/
stories to: The Pest Exchange, YANK, The Army 'Tweis the night before pay day
Weekly, 205 East 424 Street, New York 17, N. Y. And I looked far and near,
I searched through my j a c k e t s
If your contribution misses the mark, yam I For the price of a beer.
win receive YANK's special de luxe rejecHo^^'
^ifi), tiwt wiH insfwre a more creative i m x l j ; But the kale was off duty.
3P Milled edges had quit;
There wasn't a quarter. " T w o f o r g e plates of pork and beans, please."
DAY DREAM
Not even a jit. —Pfc. John S t y g o , S h e p p o r d F i e l d , T e x .
Forward, turn forward,
In a little Algieis garden Oh time in thy flight;
Fringed with heaven's fragrant dew.
Where the weeping willows sigh,
Make it tomorrow
Just for tonight.
Saturday Night
I would like to be with you.

We could watch the drifting sky.

Wesfover

A THOUGHT
Field, Mass.

FOR HITLER
- C p l . ANDREAS HEIMUTH
S ATURDAY night is the high spot of the week for
Abilene, Tex. Between 25,000 and 35,000
people live there and all of them try to get
Smell the perfumed flowers, too; downtown on Saturday night. The smart ones
On the gi-anite face of cliffs drive down to North Pine Street or Cypress
But, my darling, that's not why Pharaoh carved his hieroglyphs. Street late in the afternoon to get the best park-
I would like to be with you He is dust; his words are stone ing places. The best parking places, it might be
In a little Algiers garden. Read by heedless winds alone. added, are in front of the Paramount Theater or
fort Benning. Go -Sgf. LEONARD SUMMERS C o m p She/by, Miss. —Sgt. GRANT A . SANDERS right across from the Post Office where the
bright window lights of the Walgreen Drug Store
provide better after-dark visibility.
What do the townspeople do after they get
parked, herringbone fashion, head-in to the curb?
Why, they sit there and watch the crowds of
civilians and soldiers from nearby Army camps
stream by. The civilian pedestrians—at least
most of them—are intent upon getting some-
where. The soldiers are not. They just drift.
The Army outweighs the town at least two
to one. On Saturday nights, an organization
known as the Blue Bonnet Brigade engages the
soldiers for dance-floor maneuvers. "The Blue
Bonnets are young unmarried women who must
be at least 17 years old, chronologically sijeak-
ing. At these dances there are usually enough
soldiers to make up two companies of marching
men. "Tags" happen so rapidly that if a soldier
dances more than 18 notes of a piece of fast music
he's probably with the most unpopular member
of the girls' group.
Tankmen stand around on street corners. So
do the medics. So do the Air Force men. Their
eyes follow the passing procession. None of them
looks very happy in a town which has three
small colleges, a church on every corner but not
a single taproom. Abilene is dry.
Groups of soldiers—the more venturesome
souls—scoot in and out of the stores, which are
open Saturday evening until 9. Some of them
drift down south of the railroad tracks to Penny
Arcade Row. They lounge in the town's three
USO clubs, reading, listening to radios and juke
I DROPPED my bags on the barracks floor, walked
outside ana.looked around. The place seemed
pretty dismal, right in the middle of nowhere,
"Whatcha want, soldjeer?" Honey asked. Her
words stumbled over her teeth.
"Sorry, I'm in the wrong building," I said
boxes, playing ping-pong. The street - corner
soldiers watch girls and women walk by, apprais-
ing their figures and their walks, making guesses.
but in the middle. I walked inside again and quickly, backing out. Back on Cypress Street a distinct change takes
asked a corporal who had the bunk next to mine I found my pal, the corporal. "What's the deal? place in the crowds roaming the "bright-light
if there was a town nearby. Who you kidding?" I asked. "That Honey is a district" after 6 o'clock. Civilians start disappear-
"There's something that calls itself a town," he sad sack if ever " ing from the sidewalks and the early-arriving
said. "Just a couple of stores, and you have to "Don't say it, don't say it!" he cut in. "And soldiers discover that reinforcements have moved
walk three miles through the snow to get there. remember, you'll have to wait your turn if you from camp to town. By 8 or 9 o'c|ock, civilians
Being .sent to town is company punishment— want to date her." get fewer and fewer on the sidewalks. Many of
that's how bad it is." "Date her? You got rocks in your head?" them climb into their automobiles to rest and
•'Any gals around here?" I asked. He stared at me for a moment and smiled watch the soldiers move up and down the
His eyes lit up. "Bud, you been to the library sadly. "You only been here a day. Remember avenues.
yet?" she's the only girl here. In time " What do the soldiers do then? Well, they go
"No, I don't want to read. What I asked was " "I don't care if she's the only dame left in into a cafe and have a steak. Or they go- into a
'Read. hell. Honey is there!" he said. His voice the world. She's a mess!" drug store and get a coke. Or they go to one of
lifted. "She's the only dame around hei-e, and "Okay, then don't date her." he said and the movies. Or they go back to camp.
boy, what a dream!" walked away. That's where the wise guys were all along.
"A dream, hey? How do 1 get ?" It's a funny thing, but about' a week later I
.happened to see Honey trudging through the Comp Barkeley. Tex. - P v t . JOHN NORMAN
"Dream," he repeated, cutting in. "Say, Honey snow, and it seemed there was some meat on
would put Betty Grable out of business. Is she her legs, a hint of a curve. About a week after
.stacked! I mean she's stacked!" that I had to go to the library and—well, maybe
I thought the guy was going to take off, he she wasn't absolutely flat-chested.
was that worked up. "Look," I said, "stop stall- At the end of a month I was sure her skin
ing. Which way "to the library?" wasn't really blotchy, just a few red patches CHECKER STRATIOV. White moves 18 to 13. Black king must
He pointed to a shack they called a library, here and there. After two months her voice had
jump 21 to 14. . . . Now White exchanges. 15 to 10. Black
and I spriiited through the snow to see Honey. jumps 14 to 7. White jumps 3 to 10. . . . Black is in a pretty
She was sitting behind a desk doing a cross- developed a peculiar kind of melody, and her pickle. Though a piece up, he is forced—move by move—
eyes seemed soft, even a little glowing. into a loss. He moves 9 to 14. White king jumps 10 to 17. . . .
word puzzle, and frankly she looked more like It's now six months sirice i first came here Black moves 5 to 9. White king retreats 17 to 21. . . . Black
a nightmare than a dream. From what I could moves 9 to 14. White king further retreats 21 to 25. . . .
see of her legs they were two thin bones. She and tonight I'm getting all dolled up. I'm as Black moves 14 to 17. White king moves 25 to 30. getting
excited as a school kid. My heart is pounding the exchange he was after. This swap gives White the
had buck teeth, blotchy skin and a mouth like a the hell out of my ribs. I finally got a date with move on the remaining Black checker. White wins.
slit in a potato. Her eyes were small and beady, Honey. Boy, am I lucky! Hello, Honey!
her dirty blond hair was stringy and her clothes LEHER DIVISION. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
would have fitted ibetter on a hanger. AAB, Topeka, Kans. - P f c . l E N ZINBERG SIB AXDNGRJ

PAGi 77
 M

T HERE has been a lot of talk lately about

the way the Navy is supposed to be keep-
ing its athletes, especially the major-
league baseball players, in cold storage at
the Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
while the not-so-talented guys are knocking
their brains out on destroyers in ihe South
Pacific. If this is true—if, for example, the
Navy is following a well-organized plan to
keep Johnny Mize safely anchored in.dry-
dock until he can return to the New York • % ' • ' • * , - f\
Giants—^then neither the Navy, Mize nor the
Giants know anything about it.
No one can honestly accuse the Navy of
employing Mize, Feller, Rigney or anybody
-~ ll^sftKB
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else for the exclusive purpose of building up •I'v,

SPORTS: CRITICS PUT THE BLAST

O N NAVY BIG LEAGUERS
By Sgt. DAN POLIER

the Navy's athletic prestige. True, Mize and

a lot of other big-league stars played at Great
Lakes last year and the season before, but
their status was as legitimate as the next
fellow's. Most of them were either conmiand-
^ r s of boot companies, boots themselves, gun- Lt. Mick«y Cochrane (l*h) with Johnny Mite before Johnny was shipped out for more intensive training.
nery instructors or assigned to the OGU (out-
going unit) and tagged for sea duty. one-term college as far as athletes were con- commander, having been a commander him-
It's easy to understand why the poison-pen cerned. "These baseball players are in the self the past winter. As it turned out, Rigney
critics have put the blast on Great Lakes. It's same bathtub with everybody else here," he failed to get his commission, mainly because
the largest and the best-known naval train- said. "And they all look alike to me." he had only 2'-i years of college and the Navy
ing station in the'world, and its athletic You begin to understand what the com- feels that a fellow should have a degree be-
teams are the most successful in the armed mander means by this bathtub business when fore he can cut a navigation course. His trans-
forces. Therefore, it becomes the most logical you thumb through the Great Lakes baseball fer to Bainbridge was a normal procedure.
target. If these critics—^who, incidentally, roster for 1943. Only three players, Joe Grace If there's any suspicion among the parents,
are the same crowd that fought and lost their and Johnny Lucadello from the Browns and as the critics say. about the whereabouts of
fight against intercollegiate sports for service- Johnny Rigney from the Cubs, were back last year's Great Lakes baseball team, they
men—can make their argument stick against for a second term. The others were scattered would do well to read the newspapers. Short-
Great Lakes, they would have no trouble in from South Carolina to the South Pacific. ly after the season ended, the whole baseball
persuading the Navy to de-emphasize base- The only reason Grace and Lucadello were gang shipped out. One group, including
ball, football and basketball at other bases. held over for another year was that they had Johnny Mize. Barney McCoskey, Tom Fer-
There's a pretty good chance that the distinguished themselves as company com- rick, Eddie Pellagrini, Bob Harris, Vern
critics can win their fight this time. They are manders. Although Rigney was held over, he Olsen. Joe Grace, Johnny Lucadello and
blasting, with sheer sentimental dynamite. did not play with the Bluejackets. The critics George Dickey, was transferred to Bain-
They're telling the public there's a growing soon made a classic example of him. They bridge for more intensive training. Just re-
dissatisfaction among parents, wives and said he spent most of his time driving um- cently it was moved again, this time to a Wesi
• sweethearts because so many major leaguers pires out from Chicago to the station for ex- Coast receiving ship. If that's cold storage,
are fighting this war in cleated shoes.- They hibition games while supposedly awaiting then most of the Navy must be well preserved.
•say, too, that parents are getting fed up com- transfer to sea duty. In time, they continued, What the critics forget is that the not-so-
paring batting averages at Great Lakes with Johnny went to Bainbridge and not overseas. talented guys ain't complaining. Perhaps
those of the South Dakota gun crew. If these The truth of the matter is, Rigney was these critics have never read a sailor's letter,
complaints are true, as the critics allege, then never awaiting shipment to sea. Actually, telling his folks with a great deal of pride
thiey've only been heard by the critics. he was sweating out a commission and was that he is in a company commanded by
As we said before. Great Lakes is no re- simply marking time until his papers came Johnny Rigney or that he's taking small-boat
treat for major-league baseball players or through. He was assigned to Lt. Mickey instruction from Johnny Mize. Perhaps, too,
any other breed of athletic monster. Last Cochrane's office as a handy man, and as such CPO Bob Feller, a battleship man, who's been
summer Lt. Cmdr. Russell Cooke, the sta- he did drive umpires out to the station and home only once in 18 months, can enlighten
tion's athletic director and a C P O in the last he umpired officer softball games. He also these critics on what cold storage is like on
war, told us that he was running strictly a helped out in the boot area as an assistant the convoy run to Murmansk.

'MM\
OSTON College is up- in arms because Stars
B and Stripes in Italy gave Harvard's informal
tootball team credit for a 6-0 victory over BC SPORTS SERVICE RECORD
I pionship when he was a kid. . . ."You can dream
up your gag for this one: the bugler at Camp
McCoy, Wis., is Pfc. Ben Gon, whom you'll remem-
last fall. It was a 6-6 tie. YANK goofed off by the I ber as Small Montana, the flyweight champion.
numbers, too, a few weeks ago on an item about Ordered for Induction: Jim Bivins, "duration'"
the Camp Croft (S.C.) Crusaders. We referred to heavyweight champion; Jake Early, firkt-string
them as the first major GI basketball team of Washington catcher; Tom Young, acting head foot-
this war when it should have read "football." . . . ball coach at the University of North Carolina;
How about a championship match between Pete Pihos, Indiana junior who made several AU-
Sgt. ie* Lmm and Sgt. Fraddi* NUNs of the RAF American football teams at end; Bobby RufRn
when Louis goes to England this spring? There nation's No. 4 lightweight contender Reclassi-
are plenty of GIs in the ETC who think Mills, fied 1-A: Jimmy Foxx, one-time slugging first base-
the.British light-heavy and heavyweight champ, man of the Boston Red Sox; Outdi Leonard
would have a better chance against Louis than knuckle-bal] pitching star of the Washington
Conn. . . . We don't believe that even the guys Senators; Marius Russe, New York Yankee south-
in the CBI know that their new deputy com- paw who stood the Cardinals on their heads in
mander in chief, Mai. Gen. Oonioi Sultan, once the fourth game of the Series; Al Milnor, former
played on the same football team at West Point Cleveland pitcher traded last season to the St.
with Gen. Dwight Eisenhower.. . . P«*W«« >••••. Louis Browns: Lon Wameke, veteran Chicago Cub
the Dodgers' shortstop, is taking bows for the right-hander. . . . Rejected: Beau Jack, lightweight
success of the Norfolk Navy basketball team. champion, because an Army psychiatrist found
He's the manager. . . . U. Potty Barg says her Min- him uneducatable. . . , Discharged: Pfc. Bob West-
neapolis neighbor, U. Col. Bomio Biomian, sold fall, Michigan's All-American spin-back, from the
her on the idea of joining the Marines. . . . Army with a CDD Promoted: Tom Heeney Sic,
Sgt. FraddM. Crawford, the old Duke tackle, is who once fought Gene Tunney for the title to
somewhere in England with the Eighth Air Force chief petty officer in New Caledonia. . . . Trans-
Bomber Command. . . . Mof. Gragoty loyingtan, T A L K I N G IT OVER aftm^ tho Bear Mountain (N Y.)
reported missing after downing his 26th Jap plane Ski Jump ore Merrill taiitor (left) and Sgl. Toiler jerred: Maj. Bobby Jones from Mitchel Field,
to equal Maj. Jo* FOM' record, won the Pacific Tokle, powerful jumping oce from Camp Hale, Colo. N. Y., to Eighth Air Force, England, as an intel-
Northwest amateur middleweight boxing cham- Barber won, scoring 223.7 points to Tokle's 221.7.
ligence officer: Pvt. Sixto Escobar, bantamweight
champ, from Puerto Rico to the Panama Canal.

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