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5 u JAN.6
^1943
VOL 1, NO. 30

file men,. for the

in the service

THE ARMY

A HERO COMES HOME. The bafth-

M\ scarred cruiser San francisco en-
ters fhe harbor of the city for
which she was named. Repairs were
necessary following her remarkable per-
formance against much heavier Jap-
anese ships off Guadalcanal.
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Our Navy is fighting a hard-headed,

hard'fisted war, making the rules as
it ^oes. 4n ^Kxowtts <md <harts of
three engagements of the last year,
YANK gives a composite picture of
the war our Navy is fighting with all
its strength.

Battle of the Java Sea

FEBRUARY 27, 1942
HE Jap was preparing the double encircle-
T ment of Java that would complete his hold
on the Indies. In the north his convoys were
gathering.
The defending Allied fleet was outnumbered
and partly crippled. The only strategy open to
its commander, the Dutch Admiral Doorman, was
to gather together all possible ships in the sea,
then hope to connect with only one Jap convoy
at a time, until reinforcements..arrived.
For five days Doorman cruised with his great-
est possible strength: the American cruiser
Houston, minus her after turret; the old British
heavy cruiser E.reter; the Australian light cruiser
Perth; two Dutch light cruisers; and 10 destroy-
ers, four of them American.
On Feb. 27, reconaissance reported a big con-
voy about halfway across the Java Sea, slanting
down toward the island. "Exhaustion point far
exceeded," Doorman had just radioed. His men
had been at their stations for more than 37 hours.
Nevertheless, he wheeled toward the Jap.
With contact, the two cruisers expected in the
J a p convoy turned out to be eight and the four

ljr An UIT Dropping out of low squall clouds, Jap dive bombers penetrate antiaircraft fire, narrowly missing U. S. cruiser. This painting
A NCAIf n i l * is by Lt. Dwight C. Shepler, USNR, who was aboard cruiser when it was attacked off Santa Cruz Islands, Oct. 26, 1942.

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destroyers 12. But at 16:00 the crippled Alliec IfiigtsiiilMiiftMIKMiSWMinittilHBilKiVS^^ tt>^Wiaa»tt«<HWWiilda^aai;i&l«KMiH^IWiWUilM£iM«iW»«i^a^

force formed into battle lines.
The J a p too was in line for battle — eight
cruisers headed by two heavies. Early salvos
boomed out at 25,000 yards. Houston and Exeter
struck with their guns and flame jumped from .ex, . ^ ^^ jumtk
the J a p heavies. The range was favorable to the
Jap, and Doorman ordered a 90-dcgree in-turn, ^''\''\^V^'^' aecTRA .^OS. DESTROYERS ^ ^
closing the range to less than 20,000 yards. JUPITBt
Now the battle line was in full life. The roar *^ " " ^ ' ^ ' ' ^ * ^ * ' ' ^ / ESCTST
of the guns reached a crescendo. The two J a p
heavies at the front of their line seemed to
pause, then flames rose as they started to stagger
f
15,000-30.000 YARDS
out of line. A huge billow of smoke rose from
a J a p destroyer as she was hit. We fired three
salvos to the Jap's two.
At 17:00 the tempo of the battle was still rising,
6 JAP LIGHT CRUISatS
i
6 JAP UGHT CRUISERS JAP HEAVIES

the ships in their parallel lines firing and

maneuvering. The J a p line had drawn a little 8 JAP DESTROYQiS
ahead, when out from behind the last ship in
his line streaked eight big destroyers, primed imww»»a«!!S»j*»ww'iwa!iia
8 JAP OESTROVERS
1
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for torpedo attack. Electra and Jupiter, lead
ships in the Allied line, swerved to meet the mmmtmsmm
new attack. They rushed into the smoke screen fmKrjmikivmm^mmammmm^^mmiMiikfmi^Mmitsis
of the destroyer charge and were never seen
again.
On the line Perth and Java now turned to stop 4 U.S.
the destroyer rush. One of the J a p heavies, firing DESTROYERS
her last gun as she staggered out of line, had the
luck to hit Exeter squarely in the fire room, ^ ^ fire RaqmRap ^'-^^-Z.
bursting her main line.
Now the fighting was of a different sort— JUP«TE?^'^'&-ECTRA j
defense. Exeter swung from line and others 4 Jap DMhoyen 15,000-20,000 YARDS
swung to protect her. A Dutch destroyer was hit Jap Deitroyen Attack 15,000-20,000 YARDS Coatinuo Attacfc
amidships and broke in half. The J a p destroyer
attack rushed in to fire a thunderous charge. One
of them, then another, took a torpedo hit and
broke up.
The Allied fleet started its retreat. There was
6 JAP LIGHT CRUISERS

^ ^ ^9m
i
TtwH
I
no pursuit. The J a p wanted no more fighting Jap H«avy CniiMrt on F m Dnirayan Cover HeoviM ^ ^
under the bright moon that was coming up.
Exeter headed with the American destroyers tr Hacnriw Out of AcHon
Surabaya for fuel while the others made for the •MBaH8.ilBM«
rendezvous at Priok in eastern Java.
The Dutch ships never got there; they wfere Bottle of the Jovo Seo (1) opens with opposing fleets arrayed in battle lines. (2) United Nations fleet has turned
blown up by mines or submarines during the in to shorten the range to its advantage; fxeter and Houston have scored hits on the two Japanese heavies.
night. Houston made it but was caught with (3) The screened Jap destroyers have moved in to attack; and Jupiter and Electra turn to meet them; Jap heavies
Perth trying to get through the Sunda Straits are afire and fxeter is hit in the fire room. (4) Exeter hos turned away, with cruisers following to screen her.
next day and was never heard from again.
Neither was Exeter nor Pope after they tried to attack only from the direction of the sea. It
sneak out of Surabaya. Only a destroyer squad- aircraft fire at the flyers who returned, and there
might be possible to attack over Guadalcanal and was seaplane-fighter interference. But it was too
ron ran through Bali Strait to safety. catch him by surprise. late for the J a p to save much. Some of the planes
Java was gone and the J a p position in the From this idea the Navy strategy developed. from Lexington fanned out after crossing the
Indies complete. This was naval fighting in the In one night it would be possible for Lexington mountains, and out at sea chased down ships
days when too little came too late. to run in close to the rear of Guadalcanal and at that escaped the harbor. A cruiser and a trans-
dawn send its planes sweeping over Tulagi. Yorfc- port were sneaking out just as they arrived. The
toujn would protect the rear and supply any planes dived and their bombs hit.
necessary reinforcements. Aboard Lexington The third time only bombers came over. They
everyone was at battle stations before dawn the found a damaged destroyer outside the harbor
morning of May 4 as the great ship turned into and sank her; then they dive-bombed the d a m -
the wind to launch its planes for the 120-mile aged ships inside. At a height of 50 feet they tore
race to Tulagi. in and out, trying to find targets for the rest
The first attack planes zoomed off at 06:15, r e - of the bomb load. There didn't seem to be any.
lays of bombers -and torpedo planes shooting At sea one destroyer was making off under
after. Scouts spread over every section of forced draft. Planes found her, systematically
territory but Tulagi. The same night that hid the shot her up and left her wallowing, steam and
approach of Lexington might also have hidden smoke pouring from her hatches and oil pouring
a J a p carrier. from ragged holes in her hull.
The scouts were back with the bombers by Back at Lexington they added u p t h e score of
B a t t l e o f t h e C o r a ! Sea the time they approached Tulagi, the first rays the first round: Fourteen out of 15 J a p ships
of the sun flashing from their wings as they sunk or damaged. Our losses: three planes, one
AWY 3- 8, J 942 rushed over jungles toward the peaks of the crew.
T HE J a p was the first to make full use of the
airplane carrier in surprise attack. Yet at
Pearl Harbor he had not sunk a single carrier,
island. Over the mountains, torpedo planes
pushed noses down in a dive which took them
to water level for the final 12 miles to the harbor.
That night Lexington was far from Guadal-
canal, refueling with the rest of the force. Next
morning they were pushing up into the Coral
and now our Navy was beginning to use car- They arrived there just as the bombers began Sea where army bombers had found an enemy
riers against him. their dives overhead, and to the pilots it seemed fleet in the Louisiades. In the afternoon scouts
In March, carrier-based planes blasted J a p ship the harbor was full of naval craft. The largest reported a large enemy force heading south by
concentrations in the harbors of Lae and Sala- transport, three cruisers and four destroyers east. The carriers turned and raced through
maua. Then, early in May, a J a p attack armada were marked for the first attack. the night.
was known to be moving from Truk. one part The J a p got his first warning from the high- At dawn reconaissance showed the J a p had
straight south toward the Louisiades, the other pitched roar of the first bomber dive. At the same split his force. North, toward Misima, was a force
in a great southeastwtrd loop which would enable time, torpedoes from the fanned-out torpedo of one carrier, three cruisers and six destroyers.
it to pick up a transport force concentrating in planes began to leave white wakes which criss- The Lexington planes found the force just as the
Tulagi Harbor on Florida Island in the Solomons. crossed all sections of the harbor. J a p carrier was turning to the wind.
The probable point of attack for this huge force Huge flames licked into the air as a destroyer The day was May 7—five months to the day
was Port Moresby, or perhaps Australia. listed under the impact of two bombs. Torpedo after Pearl Harbor. Every plane scored a hit on
An American force, the carriers Yorktown and explosions sent smaller craft into the air and the J a p carrier, which went down in five min-
Lexington with protecting fleet, on patrol in the shattered the light auxiliary vessels to splinters. utes. It was the new J a p carrier, Kyukdku.
Coral Sea, spotted the transport force concentrat- A 20,000-ton troopship went down; 1,000-lb. At night the weather turned bad. Squalls,
ing in Tulagi, on May 3. Between the carrier bombs plunged into the decks of a heavy cruiser; wind, clouds swept around the carriers as word
force and the enemy when the scout planes first two destroyers turned over and sank; a seaplane came through that there was a J a p armada only
radioed lay the Island of Guadalcanal, 70 miles tender was hit but sneaked out of the harbor, 30 miles away. This was a new force and a big
long, 50 miles wide, its mountains rising to peaks trailing oil; another destroyer and a couple of one — a t least two carriers, battleships and
of 6,000 feet. supply ships went down. But still the pilots were destroyers.
It was natural to suppose that the J a p in Tulagi not satisfied. They headed back for another load Lexington and Yorfctoion let go their full .at-
would be expecting attack from carrier-based of bombs. tack in the dawn. Through the swirling clouds
planes. But he probably would expect such an The J a p had rallied sufficiently to shoot anti- and driving rain the carrier Zuifcafcu was found

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and left afire. Through other clouds her sister

ship loomed up. The carrier Shokaku was hit NEW ^ k » • NO, 2. JAf TULAGI 1. ^
with two 1,000-pounders and the torpedo planes
sank five fish in her. BRITAIN ^ ^ ji ^
^^ FORCE
As these planes attacked, the Jap was con-
centrating on Lexington and Yorktown in great
force. Yorktown got a bomb but repaired the
damage by night. Lexttigtoti picked up three
^^^ 'X '"^
NO. hJAPt V S ^ > • .
V' "'^ •'.rsf-V^V
bombs and two torpedoes, all on the port side. •^•* ^SilHl-" ' Vm
Listing, she limped away, got the damage down
and the fires under control. But her gasoline
pipes were sprung. In the evening the fumes
•^y GUADALCANAL 1 " S B O i - S ^ M

^ ^ * @ ^ 10°
exploded and finished her.
Exactly what happened to the two-pronged
Jap attack force no one knows. None of the jBeets
-i"
was found again. It is safe to say they ran for
home. ^ ^ % U. S. Carrier and Escort

Battle of Midway 160"

JUNE 3-6, 1942
HE Jap had failed to get a foothold on Australia.
T Strategists reasoned that he would now strike
east, at an outpost of the North American conti-
Mere's how the Jops planned fhcir attack on either Porl
Moresby or Australia. Two attack forces move south,
one stroipht, one in a loop, to pick up troop transports.
But the American corrier force found one tronsport force
assembling in Tulogi harbor and destroyed it in a sudden
ottock over Guadalcanal. The U. S. force then . , .
nent. Alaska became the No. 1 alert; bombers
were fiown to Midway; carriers came northj and
Admiral Nimitz pushed patrols far out toward the
Bonins and Wake. JAPiT
A navy patrol found the enemy first, in the
early hours of June 3. The dark speck of the
10
first ^nemy column showed up in the moonlit
waters west of Midway. Land based bombers \,SA ^ATTACKED HERE
thundered out to begin the attack and that after- MiSIMA i.
noon punched through a screen of fighters and
antiaircraft to reach the convoy and leave two
ships burning. In the north a navy carrier force ^v^r*
swung south and raced toward Midway.
Reconnaissance showed a Jap force of about 80
ships approaching Midway. The first fleet, already
V
under attack, was a landing force—troop trans-
ports, protecting cruisers and destroyers. From
the north in the afternoon came the main attack
force with four carriers, battleships, cruisers and SUNK HERE
destroyers. Each force numbered about 40 ships. Coraf Sea
Strategy was determined while our Navy raced
south. Because the enemy had so many carriers
it was logical to assume that he had planned to . . . headed west and surprised port of the first Jap . . . our force next day attacked the spearhead of the
attack Midway first by air. During this time the attack force off Misima in the Louisades, sinking the Jap second Jap attack fleet. Here the U. S. carrier Lexing-
Jap fleet would be without its chief protection. carrier Ryukaku and a heavy cruiser. Swinging south . . . ton was sunk after we had damaged two Jap carriers.
The Navy task force, then, planned to slice be-
tween the two Jap fleets and on contact send its
planes in a flying leap on the Jap attacking force.
Strategically, this should come at the moment
the Jap Air Force raided Midway.
After sun-up, on the 4th, halyard flags re-
ported that patrol planes had established con-
tact. At almost the same moment word came in
from Midway that the Japs were attacking there.
Now our first carrier turned into the wind to
launch her attack group. Quickly the others
swung around. The carriers still raced along after
the planes had disappeared, men at their posts
standing on the alert for planes and submarines.
Under the attack of the land-based planes, the
Jap had begun his retreat and only one of the
first torpedo squadrons found him. Torpedo 8 re-
ported a force of three carriers and a whole
parade of other ships. The squadron radioed its
position, attacked, and no more was heard.
Now the planes had found the enemy and at-
tacked. The Navy gambled on a new tactic^ using
its planes in do-or-die inside blows. In-fighting,
it is called in the prize ring. While Army and
Navy bombers overhead joined in long-range
punches. Navy torpedo planes below dashed in and
out at close quarters. The tactic was successful;
the Jap directed all his attention to the torpedoes
and the bombers above had a field day. Each of ^"•ifM-'^-M ^i^^U-:-: ••:*••; .
the three carriers was hit, and caught fire; two
battleships were damaged, one destroyer seemed
to explode.
Almost the moment the Navy planes landed on Midway
the decks, .planes from the fourth Jap carrier
attacked. Yorktown got it first. Her fighters (1) Jap transport fleet sighted early morning June 3. Midway-based Army, Navy, Marine planes (2, 3, 4) begin
swung upward amid flashing guns, smoke and two-day attack. Strong Jap attack force (5) comes in from north. Jap planes attack Midway (6), as their fleet turns
ack-ack. The ships of the line turned and twisted. back under attack of planes from Midway. (7) Navy establishes contact and Navy planes (8) svrarm over Jap
To the men on the ships it seemed that only two fleet to damage three carriers and other siiips. (9) Carrier Soryu left sinking. (10) Fourth Jap carrier sunk
of the 18 attackers finally managed to get away. afternoon June 4. (11) Flying Fortresses from Midwoy attack. (12) Jap attack fleet escapes in bad weather.
In the afternoon the fourth carrier was found, (13) Fleeing ships of transport fleet attacked by land based Flying Fortresses and Marine bombers. Carrier based
bombed and crippled; later a sub put three tor- planes attack transport fleet (14, 15, ^6) and make repeated hits June 5-6.
pedoes in her hull. Next day, when planes searched
for the three carriers first put out of action, they had continued to engage the transport force and range of Jap land-based bombers, turned and
found only huge oil slicks on the water, with men ' now the enemy, abandoning its cripples, formed started back.
swimming in their midst. several fleeing groups. Flying Fortresses found "Things began to break for us at Midway,"
Reconnaissance showed the enemy forces flee- one group on the 5th and left a cruiser listing and Admiral King said later. "We began to get the
ing in disorder, ripped apart and stunned after turning. Rushing westward, our carriers found two breaks there." Navy losses were the carrier York-
meeting a force they did not expect. In the north more groups, one the Jap admiral's. Relays of town and the destroyer Hammann. The Japs lost
bad weather hid the fleeing Japs. In the waters planes shot out, attacked, scored hits. On the at least four carriers with at least 275 planes;
to the south land-based army and marine planes evening of the 6th the task force came within three destroyers, two cruisers and one transport.
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A WEEK OF WAR

Clicking On
All Fronts
ALUES MAKE GLOBAL ATTACKS
AS SUPPLY PROBLEM CHARS

RAMATIC highlights of this week's war news

D came 1) from the middle of the great Don
River basin, where the Russian Army drove
forward savagely at the rate of 12 to 20 miles a
day; 2) from Allied headquarters in North Africa
where Gen. Henri Honore Giraud was named Ad-
miral Darlan's successor as High Commissioner
in French Africa.
Focussed in the eyes of the world as vital
developments, their real significance could not
be fully grasped unless they were considered in With the Red Army on a great offensive, soldiers
the light of the global warfare which the Allies blast Germans with tommy guns outside Stalingrad.
are now waging.
As the peoples of the United Nations watched With Gen. Montgomery's British Eighth Army
tensely, a Russian Army which had lost 500,000 taking the coast town of Sirte, the British were
square miles of Soviet land to Germany, at a within 200 miles of Tripoli, had chased Rommel
reported cost to the enemy of four million men more than 230 miles beyond El Agheila. Rommel
and the complement of tanks, planes, guns and tried to protect his 45,000 German-Italian troops
supplies, was making one of the most brilliant
and 100 tanks by steady rear-guard resistance,
comebacks in military history.
heavy mine fields and booby traps.
With the failure of Nazi forces to accomplish Meanwhile, in Tunisia, British and American
their objectives—Leningrad, Moscow and Stalin- troops under Lt. Gen. Anderson made a quick
grad—the Russian line, after months of counter- thrust toward Tebourba and occupied strategic
attack, began an offensive in November that now .'^ positions commanding the Medjes-El-Bab-Te-
has gained epic proportions. bourba Road. Significance of Medjes-el-Bab is the
It's the first hot meal in days for these Yanks in fact that it is a junction of main highways run-
Keeps G e r m a n Strength in East
New Guinea, where they are driving Japs out. ning 35 miles northeast to Tunis, 50 miles north
Importance of this offensive to the Allied cause
is that more than 60 per cent of the military to Bizerte.
strength of the Reich must remain on this East- on destruction of the Nazi armies. By these tac- Of greatest importance to the fighting in North
ern front. This strength is reported to be between tics, the Russians reportedly drove to within 70 Africa, however, was the report from London that
four and five million men. miles of Rostov, key city on the Don River and British planes and submarines had broken heavily
Of this number, one million men were possibly the Moscow-Rostov Railway. into the Axis' trans-Mediterranean supply route.
trapped between the Don and Volga Rivers. Throwing back the Nazis, and approaching The Mediterranean, once closed to Allied ship-
In one of the greatest encircling movements Kharkov, great industrial center of the Ukraine ping, last week saw British convoys pushing to
ever attempted, the Russians made simultaneous (northwest of Millerovo), to within 150 miles, the Benghazi, Tobruk and Malta. Heavy Allied raids
drives southwest from Stalingrad and northwest Russians reported that these moves virtually on Italian supply depots weakened Axis positions
from the Caucasus, in the Nalchik area. doomed the one million Nazi men thus entrapped. in North Africa by destroying, at the source, the
Seen on a map, the encircling movement has They also reported the death of 106,000 enemy Axis supply lines.
more the appearance of a square: Nalchik at the troops in an 11-day sustained offensive, the fifth Chief threat to the Allied position in North
lower right-hand comer; Stalingrad, the upper they have sent against the Germans; the capture Africa was the possibility of a Nazi drive through
right-hand corner; Millerovo, upper left-hand of enormous quantities of enemy supplies and the Straits of Gibraltar, cutting supplies from
corner; Novorossiisk on the Black Sea, lower left- munitions. At week's end a reinforced push also Casablanca. With the exception of Gibraltar itself,
hand corner. started to drive the Nazis from Stalingrad's Spain controls both sides of the straits. And it is
The distances represented by these points, suburbs. reported that Hitler must move in this direction
roughly, are 450 miles on the east, 350 miles on Beyond Moscow to the west and northwest—in or forfeit his position in the whole North African
the north, 400 miles on the west, 400 miles on the Rzhev and Velikie Luki areas—strong Soviet area.
the south. As the Russians pound farther and offensives still prevailed. What Spain does in the future—or what Hitler
farther southwest, the Nazi's communication and Rout of Rommel Continues does to Spain—will be of the utmost importance
supply lines are being destroyed, their avenue of While this bloody, 2,000-mile front dominated to the Allied positions in North Africa. Sometimes
escape to the west practically eliminated. the scene, news from other fronts strengthened forgotten is the fact that it is only 16^4 miles
Following the time-proven strategy of avoid- the Allied hand. across the straits from Gibraltar to Spanish
ing costly attacks on cities, the Russians by-passed Field Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps con- Morocco.
important Nazi-held junctions along these lines, tinued its flight along the Mediterranean coast Jap Base at Rabaul Is Hit
cut them off from communications, concentrated toward Tripoli, last major Axis foothold in Libya. Guadalcanal flashed into the news again with
a report of great importance. Flying Fortresses
carried out a successful raid on enemy shipping
at the great Jap-held base of Rabaul, New Britain.
Winging 560 miles northwest from Henderson
Gen. Giraud, As Darlan's Snuessor, Expected Field, the Fortresses blasted objectives which
heretofore had been attacked only by Gen. Mac-
To Weld French Forces Arthur's command. Hitherto, planes based on
Guadalcanal have never been reported beyond
C LIMAXING a life of adventure and heroic service to his country.
Gen. Henri Honore G i r a u d , succeeding the fate A d m i r a l Jean
Dorian as High Commissioner in French Africa, is expected to bring
the Solomons area.
This indication of greatly expanded American
air (lower in the Solomoos, plu» t h e "holding
together French political elements into a compact fighting force. A d m i r a l
offensive" power of the American jungle fighters
Dorian was assassinated by a young Frenchman of Italian descent on in New Guinea, all pointed in the same direction
Christmas Eve, and with his death ended one of the strangest a n d most —the slow but steady dislodgement of the J a p a n -
violent debates of the war. Both Fighting French forces a n d Dorian ese sea-line anchor in the South Pacific.
followers support G e n . G i r a u d . He is also popular with the British. GEN. GIRAUD On the Burma front, the British, while blast-
ing Jap-held air bases, pushed slowly but steadily
southward toward enemy-held Akyab.

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 By SGT. JOHN T. BARNES no need to worry about secondary targets. The
YANK'S China Correspondent shipping was there when we came, but battered
when we left.

S OMEWHERE IN CHINA—Col. Herbert Morgan's

bomb unit, attached to the China Air Task
Force, has a record unparalleled in any war,
considering the size of the organization and the
Two large freighters were in the river. The
first flight took the one that was well out, and
direct hits accounted for the loss of 15,000 addi-
equipment at hand. tional tons of J a p Merchant Marine. The second
Late one morning, it moved out on a South flight scored several near misses on tha other
China airfield, bent on giving the Japs a pasting ship and did severe damage to the docks where
—the first since the Hong Kong debacle. it was moored. The third flight continued down
No time was wasted. They refueled and were the river to Haiphong and left fires raging on
off to hammer the Japanese-held port of Hongay, the docks and in the hearts of the Nipponese "Shipping was the main objective and shore instolla-
one of the largest coal-loading stations in French officials. The only enemy action was a little anti- fions the secondary target."
Indo-China and a vital source of fuel to the Nips. aircraft fire that fell far short of its target.
I was with Capt. Everett Holstrom, of Tacoma, Two Airfields Battered antiaircraft fire yet, but our luck held out and
Wash., a veteran air commander. Another old- The following day we hit twice, both times we got off again.
timer on the crew was T/Sgt. Adam R. Williams airfields. The one at Sanchau Island was battered A day later, we were off again, back to old
of Morgantown, W. Va., engineer and top gunner in the early morning and the other. White Cloud, stamping grounds, the Canton area. On this trip
on Tokyo Joe, as the crew had named the ship. during the afternoon. Both raids caught the Japs we were after the Whampoa section's shipping
The rest of the crew was made u p of Lt. L. J. with their pants in a lowered position, and no and storage areas. After the hammering we had
Murphy, of Silver City, N. Mex., co-pilot; Lt. C. J. opposition was encountered. The two quick been giving them in the Canton area it was too
Clarino, of Rutland, Vt., navigator; Lt. R. E. thrusts left smouldering hangars, blasted r u n - much to hope that again we would meet no o p -
Davis, of Savannah, Ga., bombardier; Sgt. J. L. ways and shattered J a p aircraft. In each raid at position, so we went prepared for the worst. We
Gould, of San Francisco, California, radioman least 10 J a p planes were destroyed on the ground. had a greatly enlarged pursuit escort personally
and lower gunner, and yours truly. Next day, we took a whack at the shipping in commanded by Col. Robert Scott, CO of the
the river between Canton and Hong Kong, and fighters in the CATF. It was a good thing that
Jap Shipping Blasted we did have them; we ran into some opposition
Shipping was the main objective and shore again we left a large ship aflame and sinking
rapidly, another badly damaged. The bombers but not enough to h u r t us.
installations the secondary target, but there was
turned for home still unscarred. He Joins Another Crew
We changed our base next day and hit to the I had shifted over to the crew of the Jap Nite-
north in the Hankow area. This time we were marc for this raid, and what a gang. The crew
out for troop concentrations. We were still taking was made up of Lt. E. L. Tarbox, of Higgins,
the enemy unawares and finding little opposition Tex., pilot; Lt. Mason O. Brown, of Caldwell,
except scattered antiaircraft fire. The J a p In- Idaho, co-pilot; Lt. C. H. Dearth, of Sidney,
fantry had-moved into Sienning and we moved Ohio, bombardier; Lt. J. F. Dockmiller, Syracuse,
a large portion of them out again permanently. N. Y., navigator; Sgt. K a r l May, of Yakima,
Ninety per cent of the bombs dropped fell in- Wash., top-turret gunner, and Sgt. P . N. Bou-
THE WAY OF A WORM side the walls of the crowded little city that was dreaux, radio man and lower gunner. That's the
"Ach, I should have looked at them two years ago." said to house 10,000 J a p troops. What didn't way they were listed on the squadron roster but
said Adolt Hitler as he took down two dusty old vol-
umes of "Napoleon's Russian Campaign." Then he fall in the city hit a troop train in the process on the interphone in their plane they were the
winced when he saw they were bound in morocco. of unloading just outside town. Chinese intelli- Chief, Moe, Sad Sack, Duckwilling, Nub and
Sure enough, the condition of the books showed
that they hadn't been touched for about 30 years. In gence reported gigantic casualties both inside the Patrick, in the order previously named.
fact, a worm had eaten its way from page 1 of Vol- city walls and on the train.
ume I to the last page of Volume II. As we went in for our r u n we could see a
"More sabotage! groaned Hitler. "I'll have to take In the afternoon we were Yochow-bound with swarm of J a p planes coming u p to meet us but
reprisal measures, as soon as I calculate the extent the same targets in mind. Once more the J a p -
of the damage." the bomber code says: "Make the run first and
Now—each book was exactly l>i inches thick, not anese Infantry bore the brunt of our attack worry about the enemy fighters later." So in we
counting the covers, and each cover was exactly when part of t h e bomb load floated into J a p went. T h e first element took a freighter t h a t was
one-eighth of an inch thick.
How much space had the worm eaten through? ammunition dumps and gasoline storage areas. offshore with a myriad of lighters working
(Solution on Page 23.) Tremendous fires raged in the already blasted around it. When the bombs hit, the freighter was
city. On this raid we encountered the heaviest completely hidden in a dense cloud of smoke and

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flame. About 50 of the small boats alongside

sank or capsized from the concussion. The next
element took a second freighter as its target,
and several hits and near misses quickly put it
out of commission and spread havoc among the
small craft around it. The third flight unloaded
on the docks and installations, and left roaring
fires testifying to its accuracy.
With the bombs away we turned and streaked
for home, but the Jap fighters were within range
and we had to run a gauntlet of fire. About 20
Jap planes had come from the airports around
Canton and another dozen or so were wait-
ing for us.
With as formidable a force as that it looked
like destruction was in the air and it was—for
the Japs. As we roared away Col. Scott and his
peashooters swarmed to the attack. In a running
50-mile fight the gunners on the bombers had
two confirmed and two probables. Our total
losses for the trip were the same as the name
of the best Jap fighter—Zero.
Twenty-four confirmed and six probables
against no losses is a pretty good score in any
leagtK.
The next morning the bombers temporarily
closed their onslaught on the Japs by taking one
more crack at Hongay, the first objective of this
series of missions. This time they took as their
target the coal piles and the power plant that
furnishes the juice to work the coal operations.
When the bombers were gone, incendiaries had
made a roaring inferno of the Japs' coal supply
and the demolition had reduced the power plant
to rubble.
It's gonna be a long, cold Winter for the Nip-
ponese hordes if they were depending on Hongay
for fuel, and it's a cinch they were. It looks as bad as tight-rope walking, but New Guinea natives carry U. S. Army supplies easily.

fONTHfSTAnOfTHC

Yanks atH indAbr iWATTERS RANGING FR(M^

WON TO WILD DOGS IN AFRICA

because we've slept in them—and we know what that she'd be out to see him in just a few minutes
it's like to leave home. We did it, too. —for all the world like somebody back home
You've walked 25 miles a day for days on end, calling to say they're going to pay a Sunday af-
carrying average weights of 40 pounds a man. ternoon visit.
You've climbed up and down steep hills, plowed But this was just the beginning of the strangest
through rivers and swamps, trudged through of strange coincidences that brought together
sand that tore at your legs. Sgt. Duffey and his sister, 2nd Lt. Margaret
We marvel at you. You've kept us going in our Duffey, ANC.
fight when without you we might have been Said Sgt. Duffey, "Sis, I've been cursing to my-
starved or licked. You've brought up our rations self all day for having to stay in tonight. Yet
when we were hungry; you've brought up our if I hadn't been confined for missing the morning
Open Letter to a Popuan Carrier ammunition when we ran low. roll call, I might not have seen you. You know,
You've guided us through the bewildering we're pulling out tomorrow."
From Grateful Yanks in New Guinea jungle so we wouldn't get lost, and you've Said Lt. Duffey, "If a Hartford lieutenant,
SOMEWHERE IN N E W GUINEA. brought us information about the enemy we named Hammond, hadn't come aboard our ship
Dear Fuzzy-Wuzzy: couldn't have obtained from anyone else. You've to see if there were any Connecticut nurses in
From the tough north side of the Owen Stan- climbed palm trees and knocked down fresh our group, I wouldn't have learned that your
ley Range, I and my buddies send you our deep- cocoanuts brimming with cool juice when we unit was stationed here. All the other nurses had
est thanks. Thanks to you and your buddies for were thirsty. to stay on board ship but I got permission to get
the tremendous help you've been to us in kicking You've carried our wounded back when they off tofindyou."
the Japs out of your backyard. had to be evacuated, moving swiftly, quietly and Sgt. Duffey is a member of a finance section.
You were a pretty peaceful lot before the Japs gently down the trail to the field hospital. Prior to coming into the Army, he was employed
moved in and turned your country into a bloody You've been bombed, strafed and wounded by the Life Assurance Company, Worcester, Mass.
battlefield. You were used to the ceaseless noises yourselves—but you stuck with us. You crossed Lt. Duffey had been on private duty in Hart-
of the jungle, but not the noises of whining bul- the mountains with us. You stayed with our ford, Conn., when, as a member of the Yale
lets and screeching, roaring bombs. columns for two long months, eating your rice, Unit, famous volunteer group of reserve nurses,
You'd seen a few white men—missionaries— sleeping on your kunai grass mats, chewing your she was inducted into the Army at Camp Ed-
who'd come to your out-of-the-way villages to strong tobacco sticks and singing your strange wards, Mass., last August.
teach you about God. They'd taught you to call chants. When we were up at the front, there Mr. and Mrs. Charles Duffey of Putnam, Conn.,
your children Joe or John or some other such you were, too. will soon learn of this dramatic overseas meet-
outlandish name. But you'd never seen white One observer thought it strange a few days ing of their only offspring.
men—so many of them—bent on the destruction ago when we saw an American general stop be- SGT. ARTHUR BARSCHDORF
and death the missionaries taught you to abhor. side a couple of you sitting in a slit trench. He YANK FIELD CORRESPONDENT
Yoiur lives are changed today. Sure, it's your gave you two of his cigarettes, and then bent
land, and you'd have been crazy to sit around as down and held a match for you.
spectators while the Japs sneaked in and over- The rest of us didn't think this was strange,
ran it. But it wasn't your kind of fighting. You though. We knew you deserved it. CRASS-WORDS PUZZLE
haven't got the tools and you wouldn't under- ScT. E. J. KAHN JR.
YANK FIELD CORRESPONDENT. "Crass," says Webster, means "very stupid."
stand them if you had them. But before you Jump to any conclusion, try to
Some of you, to be sure, know some English, solve this puzzle. Then, when you are ready to
give up, look at the solution on page 23.
and you've been made police boys and corporals
and sergeants of your own gangs. You haven't You Can't Keep the Duffeys Apart, ACROSS
any guns, tanks, planes or any of the other 1. Particular kind
things that go to make up the weapons of a Even In a South Padfic Battle Zone I i ? 4 5. To pound the keys
modern war—but you do have the best damned _ 6. Actor fitted only for
one sort of role.
• SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC—When a
legs and backs we ever saw. guy is 10,000 miles from home and in a combat 7. Characters used by
_ printers.
It hasn't been too easy for you, either. Many zone, the last person in the world he expects to DOWN
of you have left your homes, to follow us down get a telephone call from is the kid sister he left 1. Tantalize
the long jungle trails. By our standards, your back in the States. 7 2. Smart, shrewd
homes don't look like much—^just a bunch of Yet that's exactly what happened to Sgt. 3. China berries
huts on stilts with a wild pig or two sniffing Lawrence Duffey, of Worcester, Mass. He stood, 4. Military opposite of
"attention."
around» But we know they keep the rain off, dumbfounded, as his sister informed him blithely

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of ammunition enabled him to knock down three

Axis planes in one sortie.

ome and Abroad

"The least push of the gun button will bring
down any plane if the guns point in the right
direction," he says. "It's a waste to shoot more
bullets when the extras could get you another
plane,"
leave the average chorus girl limp and gasping.
The day he hit his three-plane jackpot, Middle-
Men Wait for Plones in South Calisthenics are followed by a four- or five-mile ditch and his squadron were flying top cover for
hike, without packs and quite mild as hikes go. a squadron of fighter-bombers,
And Do 0 Little Drill on the Side The curse of marching is alleviated by the points
"As we neared the target the sky was full of
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH—A hotel taken over by of interest, such as a large racetrack. Yardbirds
who are railbirds at heart think nothing of MEs, probably from Crete," he said. "Under the
the Army has no floor shows, room service or MEs were a score or more of Italians and below
bellhops, and the few luxuries left over from its double-timing the route to be rewarded by a peek
at Whirlaway. them as many Stuka dive bombers. Then I saw six
civilian existence are simply lucky dividends. MEs coming in on my side of the formation. Two
One hotel here is the baby of the Air Trans- Afternoons are partially devoted to Commando ships came at me, so I gave them a burst. The.
port Command. It's the last U.S. home that many tactics. The officers are touchy about their charges leader took a quick climb, rolled backwards and
men have before they climb into a transport for and go to great lengths .to see that they don't dove to the ground. When I tried for the second
foreign service. It's a kind of transient depot and wither and become soft under their care. one things really started happening.
it has all the business and occasional confusion There is another roll call at 5 P.M. If a man "I had plenty of altitude, but I was going too
of a railroad station. Here Air Force personnel, attends this without finding himself tapped for • fast to nail him in the tail. To protect myself
infantrymen, Signal Corps specialists and Army a sudden e x ^ u s from U. S. soil, the rest of the from above I kept on diving with four MEs
postal clerks sweat out their wait for overseas evening is his own. He may go back to his room following. Every time I tried to pull out I could
transportation. and enjoy the non-G.I. splendor of a hot tub. He see those 20-mm cannon bursts around me. Then
The hotel used to be a health resort and still may read any one of a number of books from I saw the first ship I had winged hit the ground.
has an aura about it of shredded breakfast foods the hotel library. Travel books, quite reasonably, By that time I was over the sea with the Nazis
and high colonics. But the Army, as you might are favorites. He may sleep, which is a very still trailing. One of them came too close and I
expect, continues to put its faith in calisthenics popular pastime. He may sign out and visit the lefted the nose and gave^him a light burst. He
as far as health is concerned. main stem, which is equally the property of kept right on going into the surf.
The enlisted man's day at the hotel opens with the AAF. He can stick around and go to the PX "The next plane overshot me and kept on go-
a roll call at 8 o'clock, a very reasonable hour. in back of the hotel. ing, leaving two still on my trail. The first came
The men rise from cots set up in the old hotel The PX is not the worst idea. "I like to make in close and exposed his belly for a second. I
rooms and in dormitories on the ground floor. the most of it,'' a staff sergeant pilot from Omaha raked his undersides with bullets and he spun
The rooms have been stripped of curtains and said. "It's not every day you hit a PX where the into the sea. The other fellow was still some dis-
such civilian nonsense and rather resemble the beer isn't 3.2." " ' " gCT. A L HINE tance away and I gave him a burst at 600 yards.
NCO rooms in an ordinary barracks. The lobby YANK CORRESPONDENT When he saw 1 still had some ammunition left
(known as the day room) has been similarly r e - he scrammed. Then I rejoined our other ships."
decorated or undecorated. The Black Scorpion Squadron, to which Mid-
Roll call over, the men police up their quarters If 0 Men's a Bit Tight Wi' Slugs dleditch belongs, shot down 20 Axis fighters in
and grab Breakfast, if they haven't had the fore- the first five days of its offensive with the loss
sight to grab it before. They then repair to an He Can Get 3 MEs on One Trip of two planes. Middleditch hardly looks like an
hour of calisthenics. The calisthenics devised by CAIRO—Lyman Middleditch Jr., who leads U. S. ace. He is slender, 27. five feet 10. inclined to be
the Air Force are to' ordinary Army calisthenics fighter pilots in this theater with four Messcr- shy. He was a printer's devil in his father's New _
as pro football is to hop scotch. The men jump schmidt 109s bagged, figures plain old Yankee York print shop until the war came along. He
and writhe and stretch and twist. The prize rou- thrift with bullets is responsible for his success. had been trying to get into the Army Air Forces
tine is a number known as the Randolph Hop, He holds his fire until he's sure of his target, for three years, but had to get his blood pressure
a coordination exercise so strenuous that it would then lets fly with the works. Such con.servatinn down firsi YANK FIELD CORRESPONDENT

G.I. Joe by Sgt. Dave Breger

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Canned Foods Rationing

Set to Meet Army Needs
W A S H I N G T O N — R a t i o n i n g of v i r t u -
e a r t h a t 25 m i l e s a s e c o n d . I t s closest a l l y all c a n n e d , d r i e d a n d frozen
Skimming the Week on the Home Front a p p r o a c h w i l l be j u s t u n d e r 40 m i l - f r u i t s a n d v e g e t a b l e s will b e g i n e a r l y
in F e b r u a r y , F o o d Administrator
lion m i l e s . . . . I n a C h i c a g o g u t t e r a
While saying t h a t there could be no real " M e r r y C h r i s t m a s " during m i l k m a n d i s c o v e r e d t h e b o d y of C l a u d e R. W i c k a r d a n n o u n c e d . M r .
p a r t i c i p a t i o n of A m e r i c a n s o l d i e r s i n a c t u a l c o m b a t , P r e s i d e n t R o o s e v e l t R o b e r t E. M c L a u g h l i n , w h o as p r e s i - W i c k a r d said t h a t m i l i t a r y r e q u i r e -
broadcast to t h e w o r l d his belief t h a t t h e " \ u l e t i d e w a s h a p p i e r t h a n d e n t of t h e C h e c k e r C a b C o m p a n y m e n t s , w h i c h n o w t a k e o n e t h i r d of
l a s t y e a r b e c a u s e " t h e f o r c e s of d a r k n e s s s t a n d a g a i n s t u s w i t h l e s s h a d in t h e '20s r i d d e n o u t o n e of t h e n a t i o n ' s food s u p p l y , w i l l t a k e
confidence in t h e s u c c e s s of t h e i r Chicago's bloodiest taxi wars. His o n e half in 1943, t h e r e f o r e m o r e r a -
evil w a y s . " torney General Francis Biddle or- overcoat had been pulled over his t i o n i n g is n e c e s s a r y .
I n a s i x - t o - t w o decision, t h e S u - d e r e d the F B I to t u r n over to t h e head, which contained three bullet
preme Court ruled that Nevada holes. O n t h e a v e r a g e , 33 p o u n d s of t h e s e
T r e a s u r y $174,588 s e i z e d in t h e a r -
divorces must be recognized by r e s t of e i g h t N a z i s a b o t e u r s . canned, frozen or dried fruits and
o t h e r s t a t e s . . . . S e c r e t a r y of L a b o r A smallpox epidemic broke out v e g e t a b l e s a r e e x p e c t e d to b e a v a i l -
a b l e t o e a c h c i v i l i a n in 1943, c o m -
Frances Perkins reported that the among the Amish farm people near What Price War p a r e d w i t h a n a v e r a g e of a b o u t 46
s c h e d u l e d w o r k w e e k in w a r i n - L e w i s t o w n , P a . M o r e t h a n 20 a d u l t s ,
d u s t r i e s r o s e t o a b o u t 48 h o u r s in W A S H I N G T O N — I n t h e U. S. fis- p o u n d s a y e a r f r o m 1937 t o 1941.
w h o h a d never been vaccinated, got cal y e a r t h a t s t a r t s n e x t J u l y 1,
O c t o b e r . . . . T h e n a t i o n a l i n c o m e in the disease after a w e d d i n g a t t e n d e d M o r e t h a n 200 i t e m s w i l l b e r a -
1942 e x c e e d e d 117 b i l l i o n d o l l a r s — t h i s c o u n t r y w i l l s p e n d on t h e
b y 250 m e m b e r s of t h e sect. . . . A t w a r a l o n e , 100 b i l l i o n d o l l a r s of t i o n e d a f t e r a t e m p o r a r y f r e e z e of
m o r e t h a n doubled since the bottom A l i q u i p p a , P a . 50 t o n s of r o c k a n d retail sales. M e a n w h i l e people w e r e
of t h e d e p r e s s i o n . t h e n a t i o n ' s t o t a l i n c o m e of 135
earth, loosened by t h a w and steady b i l l i o n d o l l a r s . C o m p a r e d to t h i s a s k e d n o t t o h o a r d s t o c k s n o w on
Emily Post okayed hitch-hiking by r a i n , t u m b l e d f r o m a 100-foot clift figure J a p a n is s p e n d i n g 5 b i l - grocers' shelves. To obtain a ration
w o m e n w a r w o r k e r s . . . . B e r n a r d T. and crushed a bus loaded with de- lion a y e a r on t h e w a r ; t h e B r i t - book, a d e c l a r a t i o n of foods n o w on
B a r u c h g a v e o n e m i l l i o n d o l l a r s in f e n s e w o r k e r s , k i l l i n g 26 p e r s o n s . ish E m p i r e , 20 b i l l i o n s ; G e r - h a n d will be required, and excess
W a r Bonds to a dozen war-relief a n d A H a r v a r d astronomer discovered m a n y , 30 b i l l i o n s . stocks will be deducted from each
charitable organizations. . . . At- a new comet hurtling toward the individual's ration allowance.

tration, brandishing a gun, and d e - the Pennsylvania R.R. train "Manhat- with O. E. Christy as president. Louisi-
ana has harvested its greatest sugar
People manded a raise. The next morning he
devoted to sharpening a long knife.
The F B I took over then.
tan" collided with a freight, killing En-
gineer Clarence Drivelbiss and Fireman
M. M. Million, both of Ft. Wayne. At
Connersville. Rev. Howard Kipp of
crop, and grinding operations are end-
ing at Greenwood, Leighton, Laurel
Grove, Raceland. Mathews Postoffice.
CONNECr/CUT Boonville, will succeed Rev. George S. and Lockport.

Back Home— At New Haven, the Connecticut Co.

put trolleys in operation
doned trocic in Whitney Avenue
Chapel Street to accommodate
over aban-
and
gasless
Taggart as pastor of First Presbyterian
Church. At Logansport, Rev. T r u e S.
Haddock, pastor of the Market Street
MAINe
Edward C. Moran J r . resigned as OPA
director. Candidates for speaker of the
ARIZONA Methodist Church, died. At Loogootee,
commuters. At Hartford, Gov. Hurley William A. Walker, Martin County com- House of Representatives a r e Cleveland
Eighteen Arizona Hig:hway Depart- burned $3,377,000 worth of state bonds, missioner, was killed by a truck. At Speaker J r . of Rockland; F. Ardine
ment oiBcials were cited for alleged retired with the surplus for the fiscal Huntington. 13 men were jailed for Richardson, Strong, and W. Mayo P a y -
illegal election activity. Gov. Osborn year. At Hartford, an eight-family stealing 500 gallons of gas and five gal- son, Portland. Candidates for Senate
threatened legal action to clean up apartment house was destroyed by fire. Ions of oil. At Peru, a house burned speaker a r e Horace A. Hildreth. of
prostitution in Phoenix. Commissioner At Guilford, Medical Examiner Dewitt with $7,000 damage. At Seymour, Cumberland; Francis Ford, Skowhegan:
Thad Moore and Commissioner-elect Joe Smith said 5-months-old Lawrence Charles B u r k e t t won a recount suit for Ralph W. Farris. Augusta; Albert B.
Hunt fired 16 employees of the Arizona Jackson died ftom pneumojiia in an mayor from Stanley Switzer, incumbent. Elliott. Thomaston, and Robert Dow.
Tax Commission, including Lillian auto stranded loithout gas, adding that At Indianapolis, retiring city Demo- Norway.
Swisher, secretary,' and Lloyd Wixon, the child was hopelessly ill. cratic officials gave a dinner for Re-
sales tax director. Erskine Caldwell, publican officials-elect. Rev. E. Howard MARYLAND
"Tobacco Road" author, married J u n e FLORIDA Cadle, 58, died, and funeral services At Baltimore, street-car and bus serv-
Johnson, of Phoenix. At Miami, a Catholic priest endorsed w e r e held in the huge tabernacle he ice was interrupted by a one-day AFL
the divorce suit of Mrs. Isabel Hess built in Indianapolis. At LaFayette, the strike. High-school students may soon
CALIFORNIA 'Tashiro, married to a J a p for six years. auto of John F r a n k DeWitt. 16, crashed spend half their time in school, half at
At Los Angeles, Mrs. Norma Brill, At Palm Beach, Byron D. Chandler, one- head-on into a locomotive. DeWitt uiorfc in stores. Baltimore's principal
model, won a long court fight to have time Broadway playboy, killed himself. crawled out, uninjured but dazed—and diaper service cut allotments to 12
Leon Raab, attorney, declared tfie then drowned when he staggered into per baby per day. At Baltim,ore, St.
father o/ her 3-year-old daughter. At GEORGIA the Wabash River. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran and Hamp-
San Francisco, Heinrich Roedel, former At Newton, Maj. Trammell Scott, den Methodist Churches celebrated
Nnzi storm trooper, was sentenced to former Southern Baseball Association IOWA 75th anniversaries, the latter by burn-
30 years for attempted sabotage. At San president, killed himself on a hunting At Creston. volunteer fire warden ing the church mortgage. The club Star
Francisco, bandits robbed Jack Kyne, trip. At Atlanta, Mrs. Joel Hurt Sr., Charles Graby, 61, was killed by a Dust, on West Baltimore Street, was
head cashier at Bay Meadows Race 87, civic leader, died. At Atlanta, the police car driven by Officer William condemned, its liquor license suspended,
Track, of $2,500. At Sacramento, the Georgia Ex-Slave Association m,et, with banner. Four Sioux City blackout vio- after a safety inspection. The Havre
Secretary of State announced the Town- members from 80 to 105 years old at- lators were fined. Fire destroyed the de Grace bridge, ujhtch earned $955,000
send Party will not be listed on future tending. At Savannah, the FBI arrested Indianola RECORD AND TRIBUNE Building. on a $700 investment in 23 years, is
ballots becav.se it didn't get enough John Christopher Abele. sought in At Montgomery, the Rock Island depot. being scrapped. William T. fKibby)
votes in November. connection with four-year-old eastern grai?i elet'Otor ond coal yard burned. iSchmitz, chief committee clerk of the
bank robberies. Farragut's postmaster Pauline Kraschel Baltimore City Council, was charged
COtORAOO joined the WAACs. Twenty-six per with selling liquor to minors at his
At Denver, Otis Edwin Gardner IDAHO cent of Black Hawk County's lawyers night club on Poplar Grove Street.
strode into the office' of his superior At Boise, the Idaho Pardon Board re- are in the armed services. At Burling-
in ttie U. S. Public Roads Adminis- fused to release Duncan M. Johnson, to)i, the Elks Club served horse meat. MASSACHUSeUS'^
former Twin Falls mayor, after Johnson At Des Moines, a night telegrapher. At New Bedford. Arthur W. Harri-
"walked a w a y " from the State Peniten- Robert Kuhl, prevented the t«recfc of man, first a candidate 28 years ago, de-
tiary and returned the next morning. an Illinois Central train by placing a
lantern on the track one minute before
(lL/NO(S the train appeared.
At Peoria, four children of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Robison burned to death KENTUCKY ^oENi^A^ r^!)(uV'*
'm '¥i ^
when fire destroyed their home. At Chi-
cago, the fourth set of twins were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Loren E. Hoff. Roger
A "fair price" was assured Kentucky
hemp growers by Stanley Johnson. Hen-
derson, secretary of the hemp growers

i 9/.nift r?^ii^ '^.

%
Touhy and Basil Banghart, fugitive
gangsters, were blamed for the seizure
of an a r m o r e d money truck containing
$20,000 outside the Buick airplane motor
plant near Melrose Park. Walter P.
association. At Frankfort, Tri-City Util-
ities asked an injunction against an
ordered 22.3 per cent c u t in Frankfort
electric rates. The U. S. Dept. of Agri-
Join the Navy
and see the world!
But we challenge
any sailor, who
thinks he really
4-'^)*.
\'^^ culture announced that burley quotas knows his geog-
® \?/i Murphy, president of the Standard will assure each company buying to- raphy, to locate

mn m w R a i l r o a d Equipment M a n u f a c t u r i n g bacco of the same share bought in other these islands:

I'f/fi Company, died. Three women and a years. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said, The Islands of
Langerhans.*
r / ' 'y
19i man were killed when they jumped
from the burning West Hotel at Halsted
"Tobacco is a crop which was supposed
to have been included in the first list
T h e I s l a n d of
Reil-T
and Madison streets: damage totalled
IV, 11 H B, $123,000. At Eldorado, police sought to
identify the body of a woman found in
of essential farm products, and was in-
advertently omitted." At Louisville, Dr.
J o h n D. Freeman, editor of a Baptist
Don't t r y too
hard, because the
answer is printed
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• 'ife O 28,
an abandoned mine shaft. At Chicago.
Patrjck Metegrano was freed
serving 10 months of a one year-to-life
after
publication, said Baptists will go to Jail
rather than pay the Victory tax on min-
isters' salaries, which would b e paid by
right at the bot-
tom of this puzzle. Instead, get right to
work on the General Mixups below.
Here we have scrambled the names of
© A o e sentence for a crime he didn't commit;
three other men recently confessed.
Miss Charlotte Carr, director of Hull
the congregation and deducted from the
preacher's salary, because the tax vio-
lates the "rigid Baptist tenet of the
10 bodies of water, all prominent in this
war. See if you can unscramble all of them
Example: SLAB CAKE is a mixup version
RED TO MOVE AND WIN House, resigned liecause the Board of separation of church and state." of the spelling of BLACK SEA
Look at this end-game position. You are Directors "felt Hull House and its offi-
playing the Reds. Black has just moved his 1. USA IN HOT CHASE
King from square 28 to square 32, attacking cers had no right to take part in politi- LOUISIANA 2. AREA NEAR TIME'S END
your checker on square 27. cal campaigns."
Easton High School of New Orleans 3. I FLUNG SPEAR
What do you do in reply? The chances beat the Jennings Bulldogs. 6-0, winning
are that you quickly move your vulnerable INDIANA 4. ICE ACT. NO CAR
checker away (to square 23 or 24). OK—but the state high-school football cham- 5. SOLAR ACE
that leads to no better than a draw. Why At Indianapolis, Walker Winslow, pionship. Twenty thousand persons be-
give Black a draw, when you can easily first World War flyer, is new superin- gan to t r a p Louisiana's annual haul of 6. THOSE RAN
WIN by correct play? tendent of the Municipal Airport. At 6.000,000 pelts. At Baton Rouge, Gov. 7. ICE. A BLAST
See if you can demonstrate a forced win Aurora, tire caused $40,000 damage at Jones said a civilian levee patrol is 8. DIN IN A CANOE
for Red. Time limit: 30 minutes of study. the Charles Marsh bowling center. At being formed at the request of Brig. 9. NICE CANAL.
If you can't find it by then, you'll find the Bloomington, Herman S. Bowman, lime- Gen. Max Tyler, of Vicksburg, Miss., 10.*The Islands
A NICE of TO
COIF,
A -T'
Langerhans
CAP! are certain
solution on page 23. But first number the stone executive, died. At Bloomfield, cells in the pancreas of the human bodv.
playing squares of your checkerboard from president of the Mississippi River Com-
1 to 32 as shown. In this way, you can fol- Joe Gilmore, 28, killed his estranged mission. At Morgan City, a volunteer tThe Island of Reil is a part of the brain
low the work-out. wife and himself. At Columbia City. fire department has been organized And let's not forget the alimentary canal
(Solution on Page 231
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was pardoned by Lt.-Gov. Bailey of Ar- clerk. In the House, James J. Broome,
kansas 19 years after Sullivan (real Clarksville, was without active oppo-
name, James Owens) escaped from an sition tor speaker. G. Edward Friar,
Arkansas prison farm. At New York Knoxville, was unopposed for chief
City, 100 debutantes made their debuts clerk, while no candidates had an-
jointly. nounced for assistant hou,se clerk,
OHIO TEXAS
At Cincinnati, Jeff Davis, hobo "king." At Galveston, J. L. (Johnny Jack)
came home after selling $2,000,000 Nounes, prohibition "big name." was
worth of war bonds on a 40,000-mile charged with operating his "social club"
tour. At Cincinnati. Jack Connelly, as an open saloon. At LaGrange, two
deputy sheriff for 22 years and assistant men answered when a draft-board offi-
chief house officer at the Netherlands cial called out, "Reinhard Joseph Win-
Plaza Hotel since 1936, retired. At Can- kler." Rice Institute paid Sl.OUV.OOO for
ton, the Canton Repository didn't ap- tne W. R. Davis estate's intere.it in the
pear for the first time in 127 years, Rincon oil field. At Houston, all trolley-
when a typographical union struck for car tracks nave been removed, sold to
one day. At Cincinnati, Mi.ss Margaret the government for steel, and busses
Maloney, public relations director at have taken over. At Houston, all Te.ras
WKRC. resigned to join Remington- properties of Arthur A. Cameron, oil
Rand. Inc.. at Louisville. At Oxford, a millionaire, were placed in receivership
manslaughter warrant was tiled against after his wife, June Knight, former
Edward Sladek. whose car hit a march- movie star, sued for divorce. At Gaines-
ing column of naval trainees. Harlan ville. Maj. Gen. Alexander E. Anderson,
W. Brush, former Alliance publisher, commander of the 86th Division, died.
died at Daytona Beach, Fla, At Cleve-
land. Paul Howland, who defended VERMONT
Harry Daugherty in the Teapot Dome Joseph H. Denny. Northfield. is op-
scandal, died. At Portsmouth, a log- posed by Asa S. Bloomer, West Rut-
cabin fire near New Boston killed Ora land, for speaker of the Vermont House
McCann, 28, and his two children, of Representatives. Howard Rice, Bat-
tleboro publisher, is expected to be
OREGON speaker of the Senate if he will run.
At Oakridge, eight persons were in-
Xffer a landslide crushed a bus near Aliquippa, Pa., killing 26 persons. jured when the Southern Pacific's north- VIRGINIA
bound Klamath train was derailed by Richmond—Rev. Beverley M. Boyd,
an avalanche. rector of Grace and Holy Trinity
eated Matthew A. Glynn, incumbent, Miami, Flo., after he had been missing Church, was granted six months' leave
Dr mayor. Mayor Joseph OHeefe was PENNSYLVANIA to work in JKrmy camps, Vepco com-
for three days. muters settled down to new bus routes,
lected for a third term at Peabody, At Aliquippa, at least 26 persons were
layor Daniel E. McLean became Bev- MONTANA killed when 200 tons of rock fell 600 adopted to save mileage, rubber and
rly's first third-term mayor, and Alex- Employees of Butte Water Co. put feet to bury an Ohio River Motor Coach gas, and Vepco complied with an
nder C. Murray won a fifth term at 37 per cent of their pay in War Bonds. Company bus. Four persons were res- NLRB order to dissolve the Independ-
'all River. At Hyannis, Rev. Mortimer An enlistment surge brought in 361 men, cued. At Manayunk. the Holliday yarn ent Organization of Employees, but will
>awnin|i:, 79, pastor of St. Francis 50 WWACs, in 15 days. mill was wrecked by fire. At Philadel- fight an order to refund "check-off"
Cavier Church, died. The Lawrence phia, the Racquet club broke a 53-year dues paid the organization. A State
'ire Department received from the NBBRASKA precedent, admitted women. In Lan- Corporation Commission hearing dis-
J. S. government a 750-ffallan pumper, At Omaha. Brig.-Gen. U. S. Grant caster, a vagrant stole the crutches of solved hastily, as attorneys and wit-
'armonth Board of Selectmen named inspected a blackout of nine mid- Ben Diffenbaugh, - one-legged County nesses rushed lo get gas before the gas
larry M. Robinson auditor and Allen Western states, covering 712.000 square Home orderly. Fifteen Chester firemen freezing orders took effect. Health- Di-
L Knoles, town clerk, town accounting miles. Mrs. Charles Massie. about to were injured in a fire on Edgmont St. rector revoked the license of the Para-
fficer. At Boston, the State Public have her eighth baby, told attendaiits At Philadelphia, Northeast High won mount Inn on East Broad Street, charg-
lealth Department is investiiratins not to call her husband—he viorks in a the city football championship from St. ing sanitation law violations. Two hun-
hargies horse meat is being used il- defense plant. Omaha's Joslyn Castle— Joseph. 7-0. Reading police started a dred John Marshall and Teejay boys
egally in hamburger and sausages. At cost $I5li,000—is valueless for as.sess- clean-up of gambling, slot machines in- and girls became rush season store
(oston. Congressman-elect James M. ment purposes, estate attorneys argued. cluded. At Honesdale, fire caused clerks. In Police Court, Justice Jewett
.'uriey will ask a re-trial of his $500,000 With alarm clocks scarce, an Omaha $100,000 damage in the A&P warehouse. dismissed a charge of reckless driving
ibel suit against the Saturday Evening woman charges $1.50 a month to waken At Williamsport. Luther Crouse thought against Councilman Emmett Perkinson,
'ost, after a jury was unable to agree, workers daily. Creighton University's he had a wildcat treed. He fired and Choice of a new Colt manager, to suc-
kt Cambridge, Mayor George T. Ashe basketball team trimmed Kansas. 38-33. his brother-in-law, Lester Hershey. ceed Ben Chapman, lay between Larry
f Lowell, pleaded guilty to accepting a Head football coach Glenn Presnell. dropped to the ground, dead. Classes in "Chick" Kinzer and George Ferrell.
ribe, was sent to East Cambridge of Nebraska, is joining the Navy, and Pottstown High School's vocational At Gloucester Point one man was
(ouse of Correction for one year. At head line coach Elmer Holm asked re- training department were suspended, drowned and 29 were rescued when a
(oston, Charles F. Adams, president of instatement of his Army commission. due to lack of fuel oil. At Philadelphia. Gloucester Point-Yorktown bus plunged
he Eastern Racing Association, said Charles H. Sykes, cartoonist of the old off a terry into the York River.
lorse racing in Massachusetts may be N f IV HAMPSHIRC Ledger, died. At Meadville, Carl T,
uspended next year. Fire destroyed a .\t Rochester. James A. Barry, extra- Blakeslee, 11, killed his half-brother, WASHINGTON
'OUth Boston coal-yard pier, causing dited from Chicago, was held for the Edward Wright. 17, Two Northern Pacific passenger trains
amage estimated at $200,000. At Plym- robbery of $9,904 from Rubin Weinstin crashed at a grade crossing near Ta-
uth, Victor Morini was killed and three in Rochester in 1936. RHODE (SIANO coma: two persons were seriously hurt.
ther city employees injured when they .'Vt Providence, bed-ridden Carmino Seattle motorists threatened to sue city
krere buried beneath a collapsing sand New JIRSEY Broccoli and 13 other persons were res- authorities after the jagged end of a
lank. At New Brunswick. Mrs. Frances cued when fire razed a four-story tene- street-car rail was left exposed by re-
Hall. 79. principal in the Hall-Mills ment house. At Newport, fire caused pairmen and tires of automobiles were
ilCHIGAN murder case, died. At Teaneck, the unestimated damage in the villa of the ripped. A Wenatchee girl gets a letter
.\t Kalamazoo. Furrenda Nath Chak- Holy Name Hospital materiiity loard late Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney. At every week from her soldier-boy friend
avorty. East Indian bio-chemist. and was closed after three infants died in Newport, George Henry Blakely, 77, —but it takes him eight hours to write
reorgia Jean Pugsley. Lawton. Mich., an outbreak of intestinal infections. At former president of the McClintic-Mar-
Trenton. Leonard Dreyfuss. state OCD each letter; the girl is blind, and the
v'ere killed in an auto-train collision, shall Corporation, died. letters are written in Braille on a slate
it Detroit. Gus Dorias. U. of Detroit director, urged factories to hire more
women, but the Curtiss-Wright Corpor- board with a stylus. Bellingham's first
ootball coach, refused to confirm re- ation plant at Paterson postponed hir- SOUTH CAROUNA traffic fatality of 19''2 came a few days
ports he will become coach oi tne Ue- ing of additional women until after At Waterboro. Henry Picard, profes- before the year's end, when a shipyard
roit Lions. At Detroit, the CIO Kot the holiday.'!; u-omen irerc apparently sional golfer, will retire lo a 10-acre worker was killed by a speeding auto.
>ehind State Senator Stanley Nowak. too busy preparing for holiday festivi- farm 40 miles from Charleston, where
arget of an ouster suit charging him ties to apply. At Tenafiy, 23 persons he began his career as a caddy. WISCONSIN
^itn falsifying his naturalization papers. were injured in two bus accidents. At At Spring Green, Frank Lloyd Wright,
Vt Bay City, it was announced that Jersey City, fire caused an unde- TENNESSEE famous architect, denied that he had ad-
lo more Michigan doctor? may enlist termined amount of damage at the In remote Hancock County, Eunice vised students at his architectural colony
n the armed .services: the State s quota Metro Glass Bottle Co. Johti.s;, 14, renowned child bride who to evade the draft. At Milwaukee, Jo-
las been exceeded by 36 per cent. At married when she was 9, gave birth to seph Sgro was given a life sentence for
/luskegon, Melvin Golden. 9. died after Nf-V YORK a daughter. The State administration the knife murder of Rev. Beniamino Re.
ioctors sought for 14 months to find a was reported backing Blan R. Maxwell, At Milwaukee, Gov. Heil pardoned Har-
are blood type needed to save him. Milk prices in Western New York
rose a cent a quart. The Erie County Memphis, for speaker of the Senate; ry Christiansen, who blindrd himseif in
MNNESOTA American Legion oratory contest was Fred Graves. Nashville, for chief clerk, a suicide attempt after he killed his
won by James F. Chambers, of St. Jo- and Roy Melton, Camden, for a.ssistant sweetheart.
yiinneapolis — Dismantliny of the
"eiitli / I r e . bridge began. City Council seph's Collegiate Institute. Buffalo City
liscussed closing the municipal aiidi- Judge Clifford McLaughlin said war MMH^ »CBHK^>mi^»«B<WW^i»>WI>H
workers must stay sober or go to jail.
orium for the duration. State Cotiser-
ation Comviissioner W. L. Strunk an- New manager of the Buffalo Interna- KNOTS TO YOU!
ounced his resignation. A Moorehead tional League baseball team is Greg
lowling alley operator was fined $100
or leaving lights on in a test binckout.
Mulleavy, former Jamestown manager.
Niagara University's basketball team
AAsHOY there, sailor, have .vou seen a loose
knot around.'
a matter of fact, there is at least one
won eight straight, beating among oth- loo.se knot among the six below.
(USSOUKI ers Cornell and Scranton. NYC superin- Imagine yourself pulling the two ends of
At St. Louis, a bill to create a city tendent of schools John Wade was asked each rope below. Which would form a true
ransportation czar, with authority over by the United Parents' Association to knot, and which would form no knot?
include sex education in ischool cur- Mark "VES or NO underneath each figure,
tore hours, is delayed.,Mayor Becker depending upon whether you think it rep-
'ctoed the bill to redistrict the city's ricula. .\t New York City, Jacob (Gur- resents a true knot or not. Time limit: 10
vards, so old boundaries trill be used rah) Shapiro, one-time racketeer, was minutes, and within that time you should
n the April election. .At Springfield, brought from Michigan and pleaded not get 5 out of 6 correct. (Check vour score on
lerbert McMahan, attendant at the guilty on 36 charges of extortion. Ithaca page 23.1
J. S. Medical Center, took a hog to a College held its 47th commencement
laughter house, got into an argument five months early. Gov. Poletti ordered
Dith the butcher, ujos fatally stabbed all dance hall owners to scrap Inflant-
mth a skinning knife: the butcher, mable decorations. At Potsdam, fire de-
Vaher S. Field, is held on second-de- stroyed a business block valued at $100,-
<ree murder charges. At Kansas City, 000. The Rainbow Room and Grill at
'ostmaster Alexander W. Graham said Rockefeller Center. New York City,
verything was normal the first day closed for the duration. At Auburn, ttie
00 women mail carriers worked—"one 20th child was born to Mr. and Mrs.
i/ (he»ii ereii got nipped by a dog." George .\dams. .\t Oneida. Joseph
"he body of Ben G. Brinkiyian, who Patane and Anna Gelina Lenway were
milt the Arena south of Forest Park charged with the murder of Patane's
n St. Louis, was found in the sea off wife. At New York City. Philip Sulliva- j»..jit:;^ M « « * . » r i f c . - » «ii|i'*'^ia',iyf'i7~-|s'||CT<»iaMrhaiqy^rfta'r^Siif-i

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BtWECM *e LWES
The Nomenclature of a G.I. Haircut
Words by S/Sgt. George (Admiral for short) Dewey
Drawings by Pvt. Mart (Pvt. for too long) Harris

No. 1—The Chili- No. 4—ThisHeart-

Bowl Special was Throbber is easy.
formerly coiffured The hero himself
by the actual use simply climbs into
of the utensil from the chair, drag-
which it takes its ging his sideburns
TV, \ name. Modem sci- behind him, the
*^Jj^ , \ ence, however, has reaper holds his
//]' developed a sim- clippers beside the
( j. pier technique. right ear for five
M The barber simply minutes, the left
places his clippers e a r for a n o t h e r
against the vic- five, caresses the weldingl"
I's right temple, gives the chair mess with a light comb, and keeps
) complete whirls, clicks his scis- the change.
s deceptively, and announces: by Cpi. Larry Reynoldsi
:XT!" No. 5—This is a
No. 2—The tech-
clipper-dipper. The
r e c i p i e n t of t h e
V
nique of creating Sanitary Scratch
the P a r a t r o o p e r merely settles
cut is also quaint. down to a com-
A slight amount fortable snooze
of voltage is ap- while the operator
plied to the pa- clears away the
tron's posterior, tall timber. Then
followed immedi- comes a pleasantly ticklish sensation
ately by a healthy as the barber licks the pate, so to
hack at his locks speak. A clever patron begins with a
with a Maori'ma- mouthful of gin, lime juice, sugar
chete. Occasionally and soda—the vibration of the clip-
barber's aim is poor—but those per produces an excellent Tom Col-
tomers never complain. lins!

No. 3—The devel- No. 6—The opti-

o p m e n t of t h e mism of this soul
Cherokee Charm- is something to be-
er is undoubtedly hold. The barber
unique. Once upon usually looks at
a time, a barber him incredulously,
got his hand politely inquires,
caught in a cus- "Which one?" and
tomer's shock and then gets out the
bluffed it off by microscope. Our
iply mowing all around himself, hero sits quietly
nebody must have liked it—but for tVo minutes and then leaves the
1 couldn't give ii back to the In- barber shop looking exactly as he
ns. did when he came in. 'Lucky I don't believe in rope trielis, Mulligan, or I'd bawl bell outa you."

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out camouflage for the submarine and determination he could not hav

Blow It
that would make her look like a braved the dreadful propaganda no
mermaid, but her bumps are in the waded through the marshes of scare
wrong places. Therefore we humbly talk to get into the sub service. A.
submit to the Navy the suggestion of this he did, really thinking all th
that a bit of paint could make her time that he was getting into a toug
look like a 5-cent cigar, in which life.
case nobody would give her a second After finishing boot camp (if h
OUT YOUR look. survives it), the submarine sailc
comes here to New London to th
training school, where he learns th

BALLAST TANKS intricacies of the hydrophones, th

periscopes, the thousands of littl
gadgets and the John. Then he goe
through several chambers of horro
Calculations by Periscope Views by The first of these is the pressur
MARION HARGROVE, RALPH STEIN, chamber, a combination sewer pip
Corporal Junior Grade Abie-Bodied Sergeant and pressure cooker. Instructors tuc
the men safely in and then turn u
the air pressure until the recruit
hair curls. Then he tells them t
keep swallowing. They do. The
swallow lumps in their throats. Aft€
an incredibly long time, the in
structor sticks a fork in them to se
If they're done and lets the air oi
of the chamber. Then he lets th
men out.
Wherejis men of the surface fleets The hapless victims are then fitte
usually occupy their leisure hours by with Momsen lungs. A Momsen lun
going on deck and frivoling around, is a canvas breathing-bag filled wit
submarine sailors have found that chemicals which convert a man
when their sub is under water, walk- natural halitosis into mountain-fres
ing on deck is chilly and often fatal. oxygen which he breathes back i
Therefore they stay below and get again. Its practical purpose is to kee
acquainted with each other. a man alive under water.
This results in a remarkable com- Fitted with a canvas lung, eac
radeship in which the usual naval man goes to the famous divin
formality is forgotten. Apprentice tower, a vertical pipe 135 feet higi
seamen sometimes address chief with enough water in it to make
petty officers as "Mac" and quarter- geyser out of every toilet in Cor
masters second class have been necticut if hooked up properl;
known to give their captains a hot- (This, however, is not under cor
foot. This latter prank, however, sideration).
does not go unpunished. As soon as By entering the tank at a level (
the captain gets a chance, he gives 12, 18, 50 or 100 feet and then wori

People think submarines look like this f but . . . they're really like this T

N EW LONDON, CONN.—^To read

articles about submarines,
you'd think they were about
as big around as a small beer keg and
won't drown out the swapping of
lies, and trimmings of aluminum and
stainless steel that please the most
aesthetic sailor's eye.
the quartermaster a hotfoot in re-
turn.
In the submarine fleet, men never
get the rough talk, even from the
ing one's way slowly up to the sui
face, the recruit learns the techniqi
of under-water escape. The 18-foi
escape is required, but many me
that the men worked curled around Instead of hairy-chested Victor brass, that soldiers and marines get make deeper ones until they'\
each other's elbows. To see sub- McLaglens wrestling with monstrous from foul-mouthed first sergeants. flnaily come up from 100 feet. Th
marine movies, you'd think the wheels and levers, today we see neat A typical order from the diving of- they do because 1) they want to se
sailors spent their time bailing and sober youths turning off their ficer might go: "Gentlemen, as a the pretty mermaids painted on th
water, gasping, sweating, hammer- phonographs, putting away their al- favor to the captain, who is having sides at the lower levels, 2) the othi
ing on jammed doors and getting on bums of Beethoven records and a hard time finding his mouth with fellows would call them sissies
each other's nerves. sauntering to the control room for his fork in this choppy weather, I they didn't. 3) they get a certifica
This is really a lot of Navy propa- their turn at reading the streamlined suggest that we descend to approxi- for doing it, and 4) the other fellov
ganda, designed to keep surface gauges and pushing the pretty little mately 60 feet, where absolute calm would call them sissies if they didn'
fleets from being stripped of their rows of red and green buttons. prevails and the captain may eat his Having gone through these oi
personnel by a rush of volunteers This luxurious craft has only one breakfast with equanimity. Flood deals, the submarine sailor can r(
for submarine duty. drawback, so far as our astute army main ballast tanks, set bow planes tire to the quiet and easy-goir
Although older subs have few eye can see. It looks like a subma- at five degrees." submarine life, enjoying the soci:
modern conveniences, the latest rine. In modern warfare every com- This is not to say that the sub- routine, doing his work unhurried!
models are equipped with air condi- bat vehicle is carefully disguised. In marine sailor is a softie. On the con- as he awaits the joys of the glorioi
tioning, silent electric motors thai our modest way wp tried to figure trary, without superhuman courage post-war world

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W o r d s Across
MESSAGE
CENTER "^DODBLE mm The § e a
S/Sgt. George H. Mohler, 80th r^^**ii«iS*V^ Virginia Gundaclcer, Y3c, of Flor
Base Hq., Enid Army Flying Sch.. Park, N. Y., is the first WAVE 1
Okla., wants to get in touch with First solve the Picture Puzzle b e l o w . Do this b y a d d i n g a n d subtracting the M H H H m H H M grace this colum:
Richard L. Lecky, somewhere in the letters w h i c h spell t h e names of the objects shown. The a n s w e r w i l l be t h e name
Pacific. Will readers please tip off j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ B and she dees
o f one o f the United States. Fill this i n t o the Crossword Puzzle (S2 Across). Then
Mohler?. . . Sgt. W. C. Keim has lost proceed with the rest of the Puzzle.
^ ^ ^ ^ P I P ^ ^ ^ I handsome i
track of his kid-brother, Richard. If ^ ^ ^ H '^- V i r g i n i a hi
you know where he's stationed write ^ ^ V . ^ . £ . ^ H been in the Nav
Keim at Hq. Batry., 25th F.A. Bn.. ^ H - ^ *• ^m for n e a r l y foi
APO 847, c/o Postmaster, N. Y. . . .
Friends of Pfc. David W. Bennet H^k s. ^ H months and is no
please write to his mother c/o Sgt. S^^k -rsf^ ^ H stationed at tl
Ed. Ckioley, Quartermaster Corps, ^ • • ^ r / ^ H Third Naval Dit
1231st SCSOS, Fort Du Pont, Del. ^ ^ a r V M ^ H trict Public Reh
Bennet was reported wounded in
Western EuroF>e and is probably re- DOWN ^ ^ B A A j B l tions Office. H<
1 a . 3 4 HH||6 b 10 II
^ ^ ^ B M ^ ^ K greeting goes
cuperating in a base hospital in Eng-
land. . . . Cpl. John A. Joyce, Eng-
1. H i g h l a n d e r
2. Volcaruc a ' ° l' ^ ^ ^ ^ • ^ ^ ^ ^ " her regular be
land, write to S/Sgt. Harrison Prich-
W '
.. 1I
fluid rock friend, William Sexton, AMM2c, '
ard, Hq. Co., 823rd TD Bn., Camp 3. Affirm 1^
Bridgeport, Conn., who is now at
Livingstone. It's urgent. . . . Pfc.
Pedro L. Flores. Med. Det. Tech.
Sch., Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind..
is anxious to get in touch with his
4. T o h a v e ref-
erence
5. F o r m of a d -
dress to
commis-
'8
••^HHHa
n •^A TT
•'
Naval Air Station in the Caribbea
Says she: "Wish you could get honr
for your sister's wedding in F e b n
brother, Pfc. Mickey L. Flores. . .
S/Sgt. Harry L. Pagh saw the names
of Pvts. William Breed and Albert
Henley in YANK. He wants them
sioned offi-
cers (plural I
6- Before
7. D e a d l y
xf 25 26
: i"^ iS 10 Ji ary." And here's a new note in th
masculine, hard-hitting publicatic
—"lots of love," she concludes.
Albert A. Malat«sta, S2c, five montl
" 1V J
to write him c/o 161st Chem. Co.. 8. E m a n c i p a t e d
Camp Shelby, Miss. . . . Pvt. I. Glass-
man, 48th Gen. Hospital. Camp
9. F o p
10. M a k e sales
11. Musical s y m - 39 <V
9- 1
in the Coast Guard, was a barter
der at Malatesta
Parkway Villa, h

i
Rucker. Ala., wants to hear from his bol
^•41
brother. Izz. somewhere in Australia. 43 old-man's place :

wr
13. 4.841 s q u a r e New Jersey, t
yards
14. D e p r i v e of
•IMH^ sends a messai
weapons to Albert Koeni
COMPANY STREET 19. L i a b l e 49 » SI t 47 S3 f 4 55 a bartender p
21. Stiff
23. N e g a t i o n
Sb _ 1 59
now in the Pars
troops. The nig]
Men at the Seabee Training Center
24. G a t h e r a
great quan- bO I _•
^H*^
before t h e y er
listed they tourt
at Davisville, R. I., trooped out to
the movies after suffering through a
tity
25. W o r n for fa-
" H^^H^ - JP- New Jersey's pre
zel circuit, eras!

m-
tigue duty
meatless Tuesday. What was the 26. Divine food ing their car into a telegraph pole :
show? "The Man Who Came to Din- 27. L a t r i n e 55. O t h e r small 18. W h a t H i t l e r 42. Spill liquor the end of the evening. "Tell Koen
ner." m o d e l s of caught when upon the pole is still there and we'll tal
29. F r u i t , m u c h industry he tackled
Second member of the famous Fly- polished at 58. F e m a l e deer; the Russians 43. Wee another crack at it •after the war."
ing Tigers to begin training for avia- camp 44. Major t r a v e l Cyril Twe«d, ordinary seaman, fro
also, a n o n y - 20. To w h o m
30. T y p e of sin- mous John impediment Barking, London, has been in H
tion pilot status at Athens Pre-Flight gle-mast does G e r -
in N e w

P
School, Ga., is Ralph Locke of Fres- many dis-
vessel
ACROSS t r i b u t e occu- Guinea ^m Majesty's Servii
no, Calif. Locke saw service under 31. Oozes pied c o u n - 45. Foot m o v e -
Gen. Chennault in China for a year, 33. L o n g flsh 1. that Jap I t r i e s ' food ^ m e n t s in
product-s? ^ dancing
^y. f o r 16 m o n t h
doing dcmgerous convoy work along 34. A c c o m - 5 Ego .^imk When his ship w:
plished 9. Distinguished 22. I m i U t e 46. E q u i p p e d for
the Burma Road. 23. G i r l ' s n a m e rowing off the west coa
36. Rich p e a s a n t Service
A seaman who returned to the 37. Possessed Cross 24. A c k n o w l - 48. S t a g e of his- of Africa someoi
Armed Guard Center at South 40. M u l t i t u d e s (abbr.) edge tory left a magazir
Brooklyn, N. Y., found 90 letters 41. Cow c h e w 12. C h u n g k i n g 27. C h i c k e n 49. Loosen hatch open ar
from the same girl waiting for him. 42. P a r t of a u t o - air-raid claws 52. (Solve t h e the poor blol
He tore open the first and the last, shelter (abbr.) Picture slipped 14 feet ar
mobile Puzzle)
and tossed the rest away. Then he 13. F r a m e for 28. Cow c h o w smashed his toi
44. T h r e a t e n 56. C o n n e c t
went and married the girl. drying 32. C o n t e m p t i b U Put ashore in tl
45. S t a n d i n g clothes 57. P o l i t e a d -
33. C o n s u m e
Two amateur barbers plying their Room Onlv 14. C o m b a t b e - 34. D e p r e s s i o n dress to a Virgin Islands, 1
trade at the Sampson Training Sta- 47. S e n d b a c k tween two on c h e e k or lady spent the last f oi
tion, Ithaca, N. Y., recently stuck out 48. K i n d of t r e e persons chin 59. Ripped months in a U. S, Marine hospit;
their necks when they set up shop at (plural) 15. A b o v e 35. Girl's n a m e 60. Deeds
49. P i t c h e r ' s 10. M e d i t e r r a - 36. K n o w 61. Religious He sends a message to his famil;
25 cents a clipping. Business was bet- n e a n island images "Having a topping time here, b'
ter than the results, but authorities plate seized by 37. Concealed
50. Cooties 17 Nazis 38. A u t h o r of 62. S t a t e hope to be home soon."
ruled that their profits of $2 would 51. P l a y e r ' s Goldbrick- (French)
"The Raven" Gus PashofF, Sic, for eight yea
have to go to Navy Relief because of s t a k e in ing 39. Wicked 63. Small m o d e l
regulations forbidding business en- poker (Solution on 41.
PageB o u23.)nder
the New York Yankees' bat boy.
of i n d u s t r y
terprises by bluejackets. 52. S t r i k e s out 64. Golf devices
now striking t
A r t h u r Kane, CSP, of the Great 53. S m a l l q u a n - 65. T a t t e r s
g u n n e r ' s mai
Lakes Training School, 111., is the tity aboard a destroy
original Killer Kane of the Buck 54. Puff of a in the North A
Rogers comic strip, not because of cigarette lantic. "I wasn't
his villainy but because of his ad- fan; it was strict
ventures. Chief Kane reversed the from hunger," ]
usual procedure and saw the world replied whe
before joining the Navy. He was a questioned abo
noted world traveler before the du- his civilian care«
ration. To show his in
R. J. Collard, CM3C, was a mem- partiality he sem
ber of the crew of the Wasp when she his regards to Dc
was sunk ft the Solomons. The day Gutteridge, utility infielder for tl
the ship sank was his birthday. Some Cards, and Cookie Lavagetto, Brool
time after he got a long delayed ca- lyn third baseman: "Hope to see y(
ble from his wife. It read: "Happy guys back in the big league soon
birthday, darling." Both ball players are flying for tl
Theodore Simpkins, F2C, back Navy.
from the invasion of Africa, says Richard Anderson, AS, who has bei
American gunners know how to in the Navy a month and a ha
shoot. In fact, so good was their fire sends a messaj
that French ships in the harbor-w^ere to EJddie Harris,
sunk almost without damage to the sailor he met
docks, wharves, and other harbor fa- S m a l l ' s Paradi:
cilities next to them. Simpson was in H a r l e m t i
aboard a transport during the attack. night before i
enlisted: "He sa
the Navy was
nice place whe
Jane Russell you didn't get \
u n t i l 7:00 c
TMs kebtg « M«vy taau* cf YANK, H seMMtf march or exerci
e i ^ fh^ to «» down totkosoatUs wook to in t h e m o r n i n
AMI Motwtef for MM pog* «vor rib«f» on Hb« Tell him he was lying." Anderson
Mf. imtUoHkMy, Jano's pkture, "Tlw Out- N o , no, Bucky—first the Japanese." ! ra n > 19 and was a clerk for the Edis(
prarfwcMf by Nowonf H«i^B, is atlH Telephone Company before he m
Eddie Harris.
Uod ^mtko Hvytf offic*.
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 rmy Weekly • JANUARY 6

When t h e crew is v e r y needy

THE POETS COR^VERED Of a meal, they get us r a w ;
For w e ' r e on t h e Shenandoah,
Nor all your piety and wit And t h e lowly s u b m a r i n e s .
And n o t a gob h a s pushed a s w a b
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Who h a s n ' t e a t e n beans.
Omar K., Pfc. 1st Pyramidal Tent Co. Here's health to you a n d all ship's

--^-nra - ^ cooks
Whom w e a r e proud to serve;
We get t h e m m a n y dirty looks
A BROTHER'S COMPLAINT When p a p p y goes to work j u s t HERE COME THE WAVES And y e t they keep their n e r v e .
If t h e A r m y o r M a r i n e Corps
Sis is going w i t h a sailor, now. "Anthors Awigh," ffc* Movy's lfc*m« img,
has cfcoiHTcd from bass fo soprano sine* five Ever look on heaven's scenes,
At first it d i d n ' t faze u s ; We say h e ' s " t u r n i n g t o " ; WAVES tmminixoii it Inio a WOJIICB'S marthiag They will find t h e tables loaded
But n o w t h e family's talk is full Whilst Mother " s w a b s " a n d never song a< thm University of Wisconsin's Kaval
With those U. S. Navy Beans!
Trainhig SsHool a1 Alcrdison:
Of sailors' salty phrases. scrubs,
As once she used to do. U S S MOFFETT Bozo
We found it r a t h e r h a r d at first Dressed in our Navy blues.
To follow all his speech. The place s u r e h a s gone salty. H e r e comes t h e WAVES. THE FIGHTING YEOMAN
Since t a l k is different on board Which m a k e s m e lots of Each h e a r t is Navy t r u e . T h e y e o m a n boy to t h e w a r is
ship trouble; W e ' r e loyal all t h e w a y . gone,
T h a n it is "on t h e beach." F o r w h e n Ma says, "Come h e r e , No job's too great a task. In t h e r a n k s of desks you'll find
When talking d u r i n g dinner, 'Chop-chop'," We're h e r e to serve. him,
I go t h e r e — " o n t h e double." Each lass is proud to be, With p e n i n hand and clips beside.
He talks like other boys;
Except h e calls t h e lettuce "grass," I wish t h a t " t a r " would "weigh A m e m b e r of t h e USN Reserve. And a blonde who's t h e r e to guide
his anchor," Heave ho! t h e r e sailor. him.
And celery just plain "noise."
And do w h a t I oft' t h i n k ; Everybody " h u p t w o , " while you
His "salty" talk is slangy, "Down w i t h Adolf," t h e w a r r i o r
And h a r d t o u n d e r s t a n d ; "Point h i s b o w " a n d " t r i m h i s may, said
He calls t h e canned milk "iron jib," Heave ho! t h e r e sailor, As h e boldly checked a file;
cow," And go j u m p in t h e "drink." Everybody u p a t b r e a k of d a y . " T h a t goes for Hirohito, too,"
And sugar h e calls "sand." The Bulldozer Roll along, sing a song, though And leered a t leg-filled lisle.
T h e spinach h e calls " P o p e y e , " USN TRAINING CENTER you're Then c a m e t h e bill a n d c a m e t h e
And G r a n d m a always s q u i r m s C A M P ENDICOTT, R . I. Up at b r e a k of day—hey! girls
For w h e n w e h a v e spaghetti, We'll h e l p to w i n this w a r , To t a k e o u r hero's place,
He says, " T h r o w m e t h e We'll d o o u r share. And o u t to sea w e n t t h e y e o m a n
YOU'RE ON REPORT Backing o u r Navy men, on land,
worms." bold
He sat beside m y father. You're on report, t h a t ' s all they at sea,
say, W i t h a sick smile on h i s face.
And needed elbow r o o m ; And in t h e air. T h e bos'n piped his shrilling t u n e .
H e looked at d a d a n d said: " S a y , You're o n report, d a y after d a y .
O u r course is c h a r t e d now, T h e deck b r o k e into life;
Mate, You shine y o u r shores, y o u clean
your h a t ; We'll never swerve. And while t h e sailors m a n n e d t h e
Rig in your starboard boom." W e ' r e v e r y p r o u d to be.
We hnally caught on, t h o u g h , B u t even so, in spite of t h a t : guns.
" Y o u ' r e on r e p o r t , " it gets y o u T h e w o m e n of t h e U S N Reserve. T h e y e o m a n geared for strife.
And n o w a r e doing fine;
We say "six bells" for 3 oclock mad! The lyrics worm wtitlon by Mary Carpcntor, He checked t h e files, h e checked
fas« Ctcvelond, Okio, with tho bolp of Rtifk
When w e a r e telling time. But it's n o fun, it's really sad! Nindon/ong. East Orango, N . J.; Etb^fWcncfctM, t h e forms;
W h e n Ma goes to t h e city. T h e y give y o u w o r k detail, K P , Union City, N. J.; Calista Halstod, Kingston. T h e office, it w a s clean.
N. Y., and Hoimn Boycor, Cbicago, I I I .
Or r u n s d o w n to t h e store, fire w a t c h a n d such; H e even checked t h e m u s t e r roll
And someone asks us w h e r e she is, In fact t h e things they m a k e y o u And found it " o n t h e b e a m . "
do is just too m u c h . THE U. S. NAVY BEAN T h e n came a crash of d y n a m i t e .
We say she's "gone ashore."
Sister calls a floor a "deck," Although you t r y to be "on the F r o m t h e mess halls of t h e boot Amidships it exploded.
To h e a r h e r t a l k is sport; ball," camp T h e poor ship cracked—a fearful
To her, a r o o f s a n "overhead," T h e r e 11 come a d a y y o u ' r e bound To t h e d r e a d n a u g h t Tennessee, sight—
A window is a "port." to fall, We feed o u r country's Navy With sea, soon overloaded.
Then, too, if someone gets "fouled And t h e n you'll h e a r t h a t sweet On t h e land a n d on t h e sea. And t h e n w i t h hope all gone a w r y ,
up," retort: F i r s t t o greet t h e gob a t breakfast A m i d t h e wails of dying,
Or some n e w t r o u b l e comes; "You're on r e p o r t " ; "YOU'RE ON With a n appetizing scene, A feeble voice w a s heard to c r y ,
And D a d s t a r t s to complain. Ma REPORT." We a r e proud to claim t h e title "Tell Mom I w e n t down filing."
says: ALFRED M C N U L T Y . S2C Of t h e U. S. Navy Bean. The Pelican
"Now, P a , don't b e a t y o u r USCG TRAINING STATION W e ' r e a pest in old Cavite, U. S. NAVAL S T A T I O N
gums." MANHATTAN BEACH, N . Y. Or t h e ditch a t P a n a m a ; N E W ORLEANS, L A .

Dear YANK:
1 think the Navy m e n need a
/ 0 "f^^,
new approach to the WAVES, of
which I am one. Navy men really
needn't be afraid of us when they Blail Call
see us for the first time.
Here is the way it is now: A sailor
spots a WAVE hard at work. He
doesn't use the direct approach with
us, as he does with other girls. No,
Dear YANK:
A sailor has lots of fun (people
think!) answering questions about
Dear YANK:
I got my first taste of Navy life
while being indoctrinated at Okla-
"Pm
he acts as though we were an enemy naval procedure aboard ship. People homa A & M College. Just about the
he h a d seen b u t who h a d not seen have been asking m e such questions most difficult thing to remember was
him. He begins to circle around the for a long time now, and here is the that we were living on board a ship
WAVE in question, careful to keep blanket answer I've worked out. The and nautical terms applied to every-
a good distance. Then, when h e has spelling is phonetic and t h e only guy thing. Floors become decks, walls
circled enough to grab the WAVE's who can deliver it better than I can are bulkheads, windows are ports, Dear YANK:
attention, h e just looks at her with is that little guy in the movies: and your roommate is your mate. Enclosed is a copy of our current
an I-can't-beheve-it look on his face, A WAVE apprentice seaman r e - New Year card, made by and for our
an embarrassed as a kid bringing a n On coming aboard ship, face aft, ported to the officer of the deck, sa- Regimental Photo Section. The a m -
apple to teacher. solome the colors cromely, render a luted and sounded out: "Simmons, bitious dogface is me, Pvt. John A.
A N N E LEHR, Y 3 C snappy salute to t h e officer of the Apprentice Seaman, requesting per- Schrader. The photo was set up and
STILLWATER, OKLA. deck and say: "Permission to raven- mission to go ashore." taken by myself and Pfc. Dick Rus-
scritt abahm, sir." He will imdeckle The OD replied: "Does your mate sell. We're both from Detroit, Mich.,
Dear YANK: graciously a n d permission will be know you're going ashore?" and both in the Regimental Photo
granted. This is really the hardest Apprentice Seaman: "Oh, yes. He's racket here.
After many months in the Navy part of going on board ship. waiting outside." PVT. J O H N A. SCHRADER
I've only just today come across a Now comes the most important PEGGY KERCHMAR, P03C ALASKA
copy of YANK in t h e P X on this sta- part of ship etiquette. When called
tion. I'm very enthusiastic over its up to the mast keep your head. I n - Dear YANK: Dear YANK:
exciting makeup. I should very much quire as to probabilities of cloining You guys make this gang laugh, When you ask for a r u m coke in a
like to know how I may obtain all the doublerab or leman t h e captain but loud. Being in Labrador for a saloon in Honolulu, they give you a
past issues as I should like to make and ascertain the unduble facts. R e - grand total of four great big, long glass of colored soda with a little bit
a little side hobby of collecting a member that t h e captain must learn months must be tough on those guys. of whisky sprayed on top to give it
complete file of YANK. Looking for- the aurican frott of the entire masur- [YANK, Oct. 21]. We have been here a smell.
ward to an early reply. can. If you have learned that, then for one year on Dec. 5, and before Coca-Cola may have t h e biggest
W I L L I A M GREEN, P H M S C that were in Bio Hato, Panama, for
this storrtentous lecture will have soda company in the world but Aqua
CHERRY P O I N T , N . C . 10 months. Incidentally, it was only
been worth a hundred dorretrops to Velva is the biggest seller down here,
Yov coo swbscribe as o l now, got any or oil the rilleroh. 135 in the shade on Nov. 15. with Mennen's a close second.
bock issiMS at S coots a copy, f o r a contplolo back
issue file send SI JO i>l»s your sobscriptien for HAL DAVIS, Y 3 C S / S G T . RAY PORTEUS PVT. JOSEPH A. O'DONNELL
tbe futur: BROOKLYN, N . Y . CARIBBEAN COMMAND HAWAII

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 YANK The Army yNeekly * JANUARY 6

YA N K
THE ARMY WEEKLY

W h e r e t h e H e l l ' s »he N a v y ?
EMEMBER that phrase? It was on the lips of a lot of people a year
R ago. After the terrible pounding at Pearl Harbor, a lot of us said
the Navy was primarily a bunch of snobs who wouldn't cooperate
with the Army or anyone else, and now it was knocked out of the war
on the first day. The Navy didn't take time to answer this accusation; it
was too busy.
What happened was interesting. Having taken a terrific wallop on
the ego as well as on equipment, the Navy didn't quit. With inferior
power it went out after a very smart, utterly unscrupulous Jap who
had everything on his side: the momentum of victory, surprise, con-
fidence, superior striking power. With the wily toughness of old John
Paul Jones and old man Farragut and others who have won us sea
victories against mighty long odds, our Navy did its job. Lord only
knows how it did what it did with what it had remaining.
The latrine strategists who had been asking where the hell was
the Navy got their explanation from the Coral Sea, from Midway,
from Guadalcanal. The answer was in enemy ships and planes de-
stroyed, the enemy's rush toward Australia stopped, the safe convoy
of our troops to every danger spot in the world. A year after being
kicked out of the war at Pearl Harbor, our Navy was safely convoying
an invading force into Africa while going on with its job of drowning
Tojo 7,000 miles away.
That ought to answer for this war where the Navy is.
Maybe we sound all steamed up about the Navy. If so, it's the result
of study. When we started this Navy Issue, it was a gesture to acquaint
sailors with The Army Weekly. But the farther we went in boning up on
the Navy, the farther we travelled in Navy ships, the more respect
we got for what our sailors have done in this war.
Army at-ten-shun. Present arms. Commence firing, 17 guns. Sound
off, four ruffles and flourishes. Band strike up "Anchors Aweigh."

Regulation
T
HE Navy equivalent of Strictly G.I.
is "Regulation." And an officer who
is G:i. (if that's possible) is a "Regula-
tion Gold Braid" who "runs a tight
ship." If the Gold Braid isn't too strict
•(('iiiM That Ke«|iiirc; I^'o Editorial fJonimeut
he runs a "happy ship." If the Gold
Braid is a really tough, hard-bitten old Sensitive Himmler What's in a Name
salt who allows no liberties, he gets called exactly what you and you Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler A Brussels (Belgium) man has
call a tough colonel—in clipped, uncomplimentary, unprintable words. is fussy about the kind of pic- been imprisoned because of the
tures his admirers buy. The Nazi name he chose for his newly-borri
Thai Sailor Suit policeman has banned the sale of son. The name—WINSTON.
A good way to start an argument in the Navy is to speculate on how all photographs of himself now in APPREHENSION
the sailor suit originated. If you have a better story than ours, send it in. circulation on the ground that "Twinkle, twinkle little SPAR,
Here's ours. The 13 buttons are for the original 13 states, collar is a they are either "bad" or "obso- I don't wonder who you are.
hangover from the days when sailors tarred their hair and wore it in lete."
dirty braids that needed an apron. The neckerchief is for the black rag You are out to get my job."
stokers wore to wipe sweaty faces. Bell bottoms are practical, so they Said the nervous, typing gob.
Mythology to History ROBERT E . VIANO, S K 2 C
can be rolled above the knees when you swab down decks, or (second
version) so you can take your pants off without removing shoes (if In discussing Field Marshal COAST GUARD TRAINING STATION
you're washed overboard, naturally). The three stripes and stars on Rommel's retreat across Tripoli- MANHATTAN BEACH, N . Y .
the collar make you look pretty and mean nothing. Sailors are proud tania, Samuel Marshak, the Rus-
that their uniform is impractical and outmoded. They've got tradition, sian children's writer who in re- YANK is published weekly by the Enlisted
Men of tfie U. S. Army, ond is for sole
but probably fe(;l just as silly in their pajamas as you'd feel in that cent years has penned war and enlv to those in the Armed Sorvicas.
high-collared job your pappy wore in the Argonne forest. political verses, compared Rommel
with Romul (Romulus), mytho-
Cablese logical founder of Rome, and
Because most Navy communications are sent by wireless or cable, quipped: "There's this difference - - - = ^
the Navy has evolved a cryptic abbreviation system. CINCPAC is, of —Romul founded Rome; Rommel
course, Commander-in-Chief Pacific, COMNINE is Commandant, Ninth will destroy it."
Naval District, COMDESDIVFIVE is Commander, Destroyer Division
Five, BUPERS is the Bureau of Naval Personnel. Wanted: Dead or Alive YANK EDITORIAL STAFF
The only recent change in the system came when the Commander-
in-Chief, U. S. Fleet, changed his title to COMINCH. It used to be Charles E. Lee of London has Editors, this issue: Y3c Robert L. Schwortl, Y3<
Allen Churchill.
CINCUS but Admiral King didn't like the phonetic implications. Battle- offered the price of $40,000 for the Managing Editor, Sgt. Joe McCarthy, FA; Lay
ships are called BBs, carriers are CVs, heavy cruisers CLs, light cruisers head of Field Marshal Rommel, out, Sgt. Arthur Weithos, DEMI; News Editor, Pvl
Justus Schlotzhauer, Inf.; Pictures, Sgt. Leo Hofal
CAs, destroyers DDs. dead or alive. lar, Armd.; Features, Sgt. Douglas Aorgstedt, SU
Cartoonist, Sgt. Ralph Stein, Med.
The offer was telegraphed to
MP Barrage Lee's grandson, Capt. Edgar Lee London: Sgt. Bill Richardson, Sig. Corps.
Cairo: Sgt. Burgess Scott, Inf.; Sgt. Gaorgi
From now on keep a sharp eye for all brands of MPs. Since Dec. Gibbons, whose unit has been Aarons, Sig. Corps.
North Africa: Sgt. James Burchcvd, Inf.; Sgt
15, an MP in one branch of the service is allowed to arrest men in any chasing Rommel's Afrika Korps Robert Neville, AAF; Sgt. Peter Paris, Engr.
other branch if the situation warrants it. In addition, officers, petty offi- across Tripolitania. Lee said the North Atlantic: Sgt. Gene Graff, Inf.
Akisko: Sgt. Georg N. Meyers, AAF.
cers and noncoms can take the same measures as MPs in case of brawls offer was good for any man in his A k a n Highway: Pvt. Donald Seely, Engr.
or kindred disorders. grandson's battalion. Australio: Sgt. Dove Richardson; Sgt. Cloudi
Ramsey.
I-B-C Command: Sgt. Ed. Cunningbom, Inf.; Sgt
Explosive Literature Greater Love Hath No Soldier John T. Barnes, AAF; Sgt. Robert Ohio, MP.
Southwest Pacific: Sgt. E. J. Kahn, Jr.; Sgt. Mod
Navy men stationed in the new boot camp at Farragut, Idaho, were The lady in the dining car didn't Morriss, Inf.; Sgt. Howard Brodie, Sig.
surprised to find "No Smoking" signs suddenly posted in the library. care who heard her when she told Caribbean: Sgt. Robert G. Ryan.
Nassau: Cpl. David B. Fold, MP.
Investigation disclosed that a new recruit had read the executive order off the waiter who refused to get Hawaii: Sgt. Merle Millar; Sgt. John Bushami, FA
about no smoking near the magazines. her a second cup of coffee, A sol- Trinidad: Cpl. Frank H. Rica, Inf.
Marinas: 1st Sgt. Riley Aikmon.
dier, sitting nearby, arose and Navy: Y3c Robert I . Scbwortx; Y3c Allei
Entir* l«uic Copyright, I M 2 , by 12, lop. Acme, U.S. Navy, INP; iwttam, U.S. Navy.
handed her his coffee, remarking: ChurdiiH.
Officer in Charge, I t . Col. Franklin S. Forsbarg
13, top left. Acme; top right, U.S. Navy; bottom, "Madam, here's one more thing Editor, Major Hartzall Spenca; Detachment Com-
YANK, The Aniiy W M k l y . PrinMd in U.S.A.
U.S. Navy. U , Ruuell K n i w a l l . 17, YANK Staff. I can do for my country." mander, Copt. Sam Humphfus; Officer in Chorg)
Pictures: Covar, Acma. 2 S 3, U. S. Navy. 5, top for Engiond, LI. Col. Egbert White.
23, PA. She took the proffered Java and EDITORIAL OFFICE
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 By ROBERT-'l. SCHWARTZ Y3e They were quiet for a while whistling softly through his teeth.
YANK Staff Writer longer and then a yeoman said, "It The captain asked me for the
wasn't like this the first few times phone set and I gave it to him. He
Destroyer Sketches we came out here." He laughed and talked in it to all t h e gun crews.
By Cpl. ROBERT GREENHALGH the other men laughed with him, "Fill your loading lines and load
and then he went on talking. your guns," he said quietly. "The
FTER evening chow on the de- chief signalman will turn on the

A stroyer the men sit on the fan-

i tail and tell tall stories. Most
)f the crew come to these bull ses-
The Yeoman's Story
Do you remember the time we
spotted the first sub? I was on the
main searchlight when the sub is
within range. Do not fire when the
searchlight goes on. You will be
given the preliminary command
ions and in the two hours before bridge as a "talker" that night. It 'stand by' and then the command, The men shook theirl heads when
lark they tell tale after tale of was warm and very dark; you 'fire.' I repeat: do not fire when the the yeoman finished, e»ch remem-
)oudoir experience. couldn't see your hand in front of searchlight goes on. You will be bering his part in the Engagement.
But one night was different. We your face. I was nervous. It was my given the command 'stand by' and The radioman came away from the
lad been out for 18 days. Maybe the first trip to sea. then the command 'fire'." rail where he had been standing
nen were tired of bedroom stories Besides listening over the phone I He gave me back the phone set and joined the circle. He was blond,
would take the captain's commands and I hung it around my neck again. thin, about 23. He had left Massa-
)r maybe it was the weather, which and call them out over the phones The captain went back to his low
lad turned sharp and cold, but any- for the men on the guns and in the whistling. It was a thing called chusetts to join the Navy three
vay they stopped talking after a lookout posts. The job wasn't hard, "Lady Be Good." years earlier. Before the war he had
ew stories had fallen flat. but I was new at it—and all of a The port lookout shouted, "They're spent his shore leaves visiting m u -
One of the sailors sitting on a row sudden the p o r t lookout calls in t h a t loading their deck gun, sir." The seums a n d going to concerts.
»f depth charges sighed and said, he spotted a periscope dead ahead searchlight came on. Out on the
on the surface. water was a vague gray object, low The Radioman's Story
'It's too damned quiet these days." in the waves.
The other men nodded. "Two thou- I was so damned scared I didn't That reminds me of a trip we
know what to do. Only the captain The captain stopped whistling. He took with a lot of new recruits. They
iand miles this trip," another said, was calm. I never saw anyone so pointed to me and the phone set, were good guys and good to talk to,
'and we didn't even hear a sub on calm in all my life. My hands were motioning for me to repeat his com- probably nervous, but they never
:he sound gear. That's what comes sweating like I'd dipped them in mand: "Shoot it," he said. "Shoot it! showed it much, and they spent most
Tom cleaning a place out too good." water, and he was just standing there Shoot it!" of their time in small groups up on

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the foc'sle watching the bow cut gunner's mate was another old navy
through the water, like all new man; he was short, Irish and bald.
sailors seem to do. He had served in the last war and
I was up gassing with them one loved to tell stories. Now he packed
day when suddenly a big column of his pipe down and settled back to
smoke shot into the air up ahead enjoy the respectful silence he al-
on the horizon. A tanker had just ways got.
been torpedoed. We shot up to full
speed and depth-bombed the whole The Gunner's Mate's Story
area. Some smaller ships came up
and picked up the survivors aqd we Our strangest rescue, if you can
went back to join them after we call it that, was one day up around
finished. Newfoundland. It was a dark, gray
All the freighter men thrown in day, like they always are up there,
the water had life jackets on, but when we suddenly heard a plane up
most of them were dead and their above. It was one of our planes and
jackets had slipped down around it signalled that there was a raft
their waists. They just floated around floatin' around with some one on it, Crapped out below.
with their heads under water and just like you told about, and it was
their butts sticking up. about 10 miles back of us. So- we The men all shook their heads at on this little raft for two days, and
turned around and headed back for this and some them laughed. he was perfectly okay.
When I finished my work I went it through an ocean that looked like I still wonder about that some-
back up to the foc'sle to see how the "I remember," the seaman started
one of them new cocktails—full of to say. times. It seems funny that this dumb
new guys were taking it. I walked slush and chipped ice. seaman knew enough to walk back
clear up to them before I noticed "My God!" said the gunner's mate.
they were all crying. Their fists were It was snowing by then and we "There he goes again." and forth while the professor just
clenched so tight you could see their had a hard time findin' the raft. sat there and froze.
When we finally made it out, there "I remember—" the seaman said,
veins standing out. didn't seem to be no one on it. There but the gunner's mate reached over There was little talking after this
were footprints in the snow on the and put his hand over the seaman's story until the silence began to work
The Bosun's Mate cleared his raft, but not a soul aboard. The new mouth. on the coxwain, a kid of 20. He was
throat and spat into the sea. He was snow hadn't even covered the foot- "Hush now," the gunner's mate
prints up yet. staring at the deck, and finally
a regular navy man of many hitches. said gently. "Hush now before poppa
We sank it with our machine guns. looked up.
Before joining the Navy he had spank."
shipped as helmsman in the Mer- The Coxwain's Story
chant Marine. "Sometimes you get a queer one," The Fire Controlman's Story
the torpedo man said. He was a You know, I had a good friend
You know that nothing scares you once on a destroyer. He was a fire-
The Bosun's Mate's Story short, dark Italian who had once so much as sitting still in the water man and we were in boot camp to-
I remember that rescue. There was fought in the Golden Gloves. when you know there are subs gether. He was on duty in the fire
a small raft with a little pole on it around. Sometimes we lower a boat room during a sub patrol. Another
floating around in the wreckage. The Torpedoman's Story when we have to rescue people and fireman, who was off duty, came
Two guys were on the raft and the We were out with some other keep the destroyer circling around down to get a cup of coffee. Usually
damned thing was burning like a ships and an American sub, just so they can't line us up for a tin there's a coffee pot in the fire room,
son of a gun. We launched a boat practicing. The sub would go under fish. We did that once up north when but this time they had run out of
and went to take them off. Just b e - and we would listen for it with our we picked up three guys from a grounds for making more. My friend
fore we got to them one of the guys sound machines. When we found it raft. That was one of those peculiar and this other guy flipped to see
jumped off. He sank before we could we'd blow our whistle and then the experiences, not the circling around, who'd go up and get some more
get to him. sub would move off somewhere else but those men on the raft. One of from the galley. It was good and cold
I was helmsman of the boat and and we'd do it all over again. There them was a British professor who out and none of them wanted to go,
I didn't want to steer too close to were five of us there: three PC was going to America to teach in but my friend won and the other
the raft because it was burning boats, a Canadian corvette and us some college. Both his legs were had to go up. My friend stayed down
pretty high now. I pulled up near on the destroyer. frozen when we picked him up and on duty.
the thing and told the other guy to Finally, after we'd found it a few they had to be cut off. One of the While this other guy was up in
j u m p off and swim over. He wouldn't times, the sub starts to surface. Our other men lost one of his legs, too. the galley a torpedo hit right smack
move. The raft was burning, the starboard lookout says, "Periscope But the third man, a merchant sea- in the No. 1 fire room.
guy's clothes were smoking and the at oh-four-five, sir." About two sec- man, had just walked back and forth
Nobody got out.
little mast he was hanging to was onds later the port lookout says,
all on fire. But the damned fool "Periscope at two-six-oh, sir." No-
wouldn't let go. We could see his body knew what to make of it. We
hands getting burned and he just weren't sure which sub was ours and
stood there and stared at us. Finally nobody believed a Nazi sub would
our ensign jumped overboard as I come right up among five of our
edged in close, grabbed the guy and ships. We waited and waited, not
threw him aboard our boat. Two knowing what the hell to do, and
hours later, back here on the de- finally the port sub came clear out
stroyer, the guy was perfectly all of the water and we saw it was ours.
right except for the burns on his hand. Well, we started after the other
one, but it pulled down its periscope
"That's the way it goes," the yeo- as soon as it saw where it was and
man said. "They go right out of their disappeared.
head sometimes." Tlie American sub came up, saw
"Yeah," a seaman said, "I remem- what was happening and ran like hell.
ber once—" You won't believe this, but with
five anti-submarine ships against
"You remember," the gunner's one lousy sub, we never got the guy.
mate said scornfully. "You ain't old We had to be careful not to sink
enough to remember anything." The our own sub.

Bridge watch, moderate sea, slight roll. Fire room—cutting iit a new burner.

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Pipe the P-38 ARMY WIfE

Oh, for the life
Airplane identification isn't so hard Of an Army wife.
if you use our simplified system. Full of such fun and glee.
After all. there are really only two You plan a week-ender
kind.s of airplanes. These are the On a riotous bender
P-38 and the other kinds. And your private gets Sunday KP.
Today we will take up the P-38. You do lots of knittin'.
We may never take up the other Your nails are all bitten.
kinds, which will probably be just You read magazines cover to cover.
as well. While your eyes become bright
The P-38 resembles a kite with the Nearing Saturday night
paper torn off. Its di.stinctive feature Then guard duty snatches your lover.
is its fuselage. Or fuselages. Experts PFC. ROBERT MYERS
have not yet decided whether it has C A M P CLAIBORNE, L A .
a divided fuselage, or two fuselages.
Some people say it is built that way OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS
to allow antiaircraft flak to pass An officer's a .soldier and a gentle-
through. This is not true. It is built man
that way for quite another reason—
a military secret known only to a Made so by Congressional nod.
A noncom's a soldier and otherwise;
major general, a T corporal in the Some normal, some not, some odd.
A private's a fall guy named Joe,
A sucker, a plaything.of the war
god.
But the end will find 'em all like
peas in a pod.
On a level—beneath the earth's sod.
1ST SCT. LUMAN S . NUTTER
C A M P PENDLETON. VA.

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that it was too late to give him serum;

Army Jokes he had contracted hydrophobia.
Muttering a "thanks, doc," the
(If these Army jokes don't make you
rookie seated himself immediately at
laugh, send in some that do.) the officer's desk and began writing.
The P-38 is maneuverob/e.
The soldier appeared before the Trying to be comforting, the doctor
mimeograph department, and m y - company commander, accused of using consoled:
self. insulting language to his sergeant. "Maybe it won't be so bad. You
When it flies the P-38 makes a "Please, sir," he protested. "I was have a slim chance of pulling
whistling noise, similar to the noise only answering a question." through. I wouldn't make out my
made by a broad-billed swamp •'What question?" asked the officer. will just yet, if I were you.''
heron. Sometimes a mother swamp "Well, sir, it was like this: the ser- "Will, hell," snorted the rookie. "You'll be OK, pal, once you get your
heron is killed while sitting on eggs, geant says, 'What do you think I "I'm making out a list of officers I'm sea legs."
and then a P-38 will take over and am?' and I told him." going to bite." AUSTRALIA SGT. B . CRANE
hatch them out, treating them like
her own young. When this happens An MP pulled a plastered G.l. out A civilian told a soldier he'd just
there are pictures in the Sunday been put in 4-M in the draft. "I never
papers.
From a head-on view the P-38 can
oj the ocean at an Australian
"What are you trying to do?" asked
the MP. "Commit suicide?"
port.
heard of such a classification," said
the soldier. "What's 4-M?"
CAMOUFLAGE
be recognized by the engine nacelle. "No, I was only trying to swim to "Well," explained the civilian,
Nacelle Higgins was the name of a San Francisco." "they found out I'd been married All ileitis eamou-
fiaged in the sen-
girl I used to know in Indiana. She "Yeah? Why didn't you take off four times and figured. I didn't have tences below have'
was fast and maneuverable. your clothes to swim?" any more fight left in me." a salty tang, so
After all, if you want to know "Becarise." replied the soldier, think of the Navy
when trying to
what a P-38 looks like, just study •'wouldii't I look like the devil land- Making the rounds, the OD came uncover thein.
the next one that flies over. ing on a U. S. beach without clothes?" upon a rookie on guard duty. The If you haven't
CPL. RAY DUNCAN OD asked the rookie, "What is gen- played Camouflage
SANTA ANA AIR BASE, CALIF. A yardbird had been bitten by a eral order No. 6?" before here's how;
The word "ship"
vicious dog but didn't give it much "Don't know," replied the rookie. is camouflaged in
this sentence:
Salvage thought. However, when the wound
failed to heal, he got worried and
The OD tried again: "What is gen-
eral order No. 4?"
"Hash is a dish
1 positively could
You are told when you come into dashed to the Medical Department. "Hell, I don't know." do without."
the Army that you may submit those The medical officer took one look at "What did the corporal of the Par Jor the
articles of clothing that have become the rookie and immediately put out course: 15 min-
guard tell you?" asked the OD. utes.
worn, torn or otherwise rendered a call to pick up the dog. It turned • "He said, 'Watch out for the OD., 1. Some of the boys used pens,
unfit for human use to the supply out the dog had rabies. he's a louse'."—[Sent in by Law- ignorinK the i n s t r u c t i o n s
sergeant, who will promptly give The MD explained to the soldier rence E. Bord, in Australia.]" which read, "Write in pencil
you new ones. But this is how it only."
2. As soon as I sighted the mu-
works: nitions dump. I let 'er go.
First you must locate the supply Zowie, a bull's eye! O man.
sergeant. This can be done on alter- what a grand and glorious
feeling!
nate Thursdays between 300 and 301. 3. That's an outmoded tabu;
He then commandeers the shirt, or o v s t e r s a r e O.K. in a n y
what was once a shirt, offering not month, whether or not it has
an R in it.
the semblance of a receipt, and grunts 4. He had often sailed through
something that sounds like, "Be lucky the Baltic on voyages as dan-
to get that back, let alone a new one." gerous as they were impor-
tant.
Then you wait, and wait, and wait 5. Can you tell me from what
—until in desperation you approach vitamin energy is obtained
the sergeant timidly, hand him a for the body?
6. Hat on the capstan, kerchief
written note inquiring as to the and sword on the deck—that's
whereabouts of your shirt, and run all tliat was left of the pirate.
like mad. 7. Back home on our ranch,
oranges and lemons grow by
Because you know he'll say: the thousands.
"What do you want from me? 'You 8. The usually t a c i t u r n and
modest Roy erred this time
think that all I got to do all day is by boasting too much.
worry about your shirt? I got 120 9. I wish he'd call "at ease"—a
blankets to check in. I got 75 rifles man can't keep this pace up
to get over to ordnance. I got 47 all day.
"Maybe this isn't one of those 'sea- "Any more bets, fellows? Australia pays 10. As soon as I get to my home
pairs of OD slacks and shirts to go town, I'm gonna hop a trolley
to the cleaners. Get the hell out of going' tanks." 8 to 5, England 3 to I , Africa 6 to 5 . " and ride out to see my girl.
here." P r e . NORMAN KATKOV (Solution on Page Z3.)
SGT. DON MACLAUGHLIN PvT. A L WEINBERG
FORT SNELLING, MINN. MiNTER FIELD, CAL. C A M P SUTTON, N . C .

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^ n ^ n q p ^ ^ NAVY DEALS WITH NOTHING LESS THAN CHAMPS,

A N D THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
By Sgt. Walter Bernstein
s IN EVERYTHING ELSE, the Navy has only Earnshaw, Ted Williams, Mickey Cochrane,

A been satisfied with champions for their

k athletic program. T h e y have swiped the
cream of the sports world as physical e d u c a -
J o h n n y Rigney, Dom DiMaggio and old-timer
R u b e M a r q u a r d , n o w pitching depth charges.
So far as football is concerned, too m a n y
tion instructors, with enough left over for college teams r e m e m b e r the Great Lakes N a v a l
ordinary, or front line, duty. The Navy w a y Station and all the Naval P r e - F l i g h t monsters.
of doing this is apparently very simple, i n - These employed mostly e x - A l l - A m e r i c a n s who
volving nothing so crude as indiscriminate i n - had joined the Navy to m a k e good, and w e r e
vitations m a r k e d "Greeting!" T h a t method coached by Lt. Comdr. Jock Sutherland, J i m
would be taboo if only because of the e x c l a m a - Crowley, Dick Harlow and other old salts.
tion point. The Navy never uses exclamation We could only find a single s w i m m i n g c h a m p
points. Semicolons, yes, but nothing more in the Navy, which is another one of those
blatant than that. things. This was Bill Krauss, holder of several
The Navy method seems simply to announce national A.A.U. s w i m m i n g titles. On the other
t h a t the highly exclusive naval force of t h e hand the A r m y is full of swimmers, most of
U.S.A. will condescend to admit a limited n u m - t h e m far inland. This is probably an indication
ber of brave, intelligent, handsome, socially- of something, probably t h a t Gen. Hershey was
p r o m i n e n t and photogenic champions, and t h e n quicker t h a n Comdr'. T u n n e y .
call out the Shore Police to handle the mob. T h e r e is also a variety of miscellaneous Navy
The results speak for themselves. T h e champs, among t h e m Freddie Cochrane, w e l -
N a v y now handles more champions t h a n Mike terweight titleholder; Billy Brown, national
Jacobs. And it has naturally chosen an u n - A.A.U. track champion; Les MacMitchell, star
defeated champion to head its athletic p r o - miler from N.Y.U., and Emilio Bruno, a judo

-^sf-
gram, n a m e l y Comdr. Gene Tunney. expert.
Actually, just being the best of some muscle Not all of the athletes in the Navy are in-
m o v e m e n t is not enough to get a job w i t h structors. A lot of them are ordinary seamen
or flyers or w h a t e v e r else in the N a v y cor-
The Greaf Tunney Fish
responds to the A r m y dogface. Those who do
instruct h a v e no cinch and frequently c a r r y
on his ear any seaman who actively dislikes their physical c u l t u r e right into battle. The
the w a y Soose builds bodies, but t h a t is a nega- proof of their efficiency is t h a t you see few
tive virtue. sailors walking around with concave chests
As a m a t t e r of fact the Navy seems to have and hollow cheeks, and none collapsing from
a fondness for middleweights. They also have over-exertion in the middle of a battle. It
Fred Apostoli, another former champ, Tony would seem that t h e Navy, with t h e help of
Zale, the present champ in certain states, and some h i g h - g r a d e talent, is t u r n i n g out men.
Georgie Abrams, holder of the sometime dis-
tinction of having beaten Soose a couple of
times. T h e r e is probably a good reason w h y
middleweights gravitate to the Navy while the
A r m y attracts heavyweights, but it is a m y s -
tery which will have to wait until the end of
the w a r for scientists to solve.
There are other boxers in t h e Navy proper,
but the Coast G u a r d is the outfit with more
than its share of leather pushers. Lt. Comdr.
Jack Dempsey heads the former fighters who
are in the Coast Guard, with Gus Lesnevich,
the l i g h t - h e a v y king, Marty Servo and Lou
C. p. O. Bob Feller Ambers a few of the others.
The Navy boasts several champion golfers,
Comdr. Tunney. The fact that Billy Soose among t h e m S a m m y Snead and J o h n n y
once held the middleweight title means less Fischer. Baseball players also seem to h a v e a
t h a n the fact that he can teach body building fondness for life on the deep. C.P.O. Bob
to other guys in a clear and simple m a n n e r . Feller is practically on his second hitch by
Of course it comes in handy that he can bounce now, and the service also n u m b e r s George Champion Freddie Cochrane

Yonks Grab Fielding Title, Death Claims Red Cagle PUZZLE SOLUTIONS CHECKER STRATEGY
Red moves 13 to 17. Black jumps 32 to 23
Red moves 31 to 26. Black jumps 23 to 30
DOUBLE PUZZIE Red moves 17 to 21. Black has only one
Injuns Had Three Leaders And Track Ace Borican • E plus FLOUR plus BRIDE plus TANK
minus T R U N K minus BEE -• FLORIDA.
move on the board, 30 to 26.
Red jumps 21 to 30 to 23, and WINS be-
The New York Yankees won team The sports world last week cause the Black king on 29 must get pinnec
fielding honors in the American mourned the loss of two of its great- SLAP SELF DSC in 2 moves.
est headliners—Christian (Red) Ca- CAVE AIRER DUEL
League in 1942 but individual honors OVER CRETE IDLE
went to the Boston Red Sox and gle, captain and AU-American half- CRASS-WORDS
T_jy_2__E
back of Army's 1929 football team, TARTARS HERSELF
Cleveland Indians. and Long John Borican, the record- APE NADIA
The Yankees fielded .976, only two smashing New Jersey middle dis- ADMIT COL GRASS L-LZ. J
points ahead of Cleveland and Bos- tance ace. MEAN EAT DIMPLE
ton, who tied for second. ANN KEN HID POE T__Y__P_ J
Cagle died in a New York hospital
The Red Sox and Indians domi- when he contracted pneumonia after SINFUL CAD SLOP T Y P E
nated the all-star individual defens- a skull fracture. Three days before SMALL MUD STEPS
ive lineup. Boston had six men his death, he staggered into his Jack- OARED l^RA GENERAL M I X U P
SLACKEN FLORIDA 1. South China Sea. 2. Meditelranean Sea
among the top players while Cleve- son Heights apartment mumbling 3. Persian Gulf. 4. Arctic Ocean. 5. Cora
land put five in the upper bracket. that he had been "kicked in the LINK MADAM TORN Sea. 6. North Sea. 7. Baltic Sea. 8. Indiar
New York, St. Louis and Chicago ACTS ICONS ETAT Ocean. 9. Atlantic Ocean. 10. Pacific Ocean
head." It later was learned that BEE TEES RAGS
each had one. Cagle fractured his skull when he
Les Fleming, Cleveland rookie, fell down a flight of subway stairs. THE W A Y OF A W O R M
CAMOUFLAGE
was the best fielding first baseman Exactly one quarter of an inch. Stand I. ensign. 2. yeoman. 3. buoy. 4. convov
Cagle resigned at West Point in 5. mine. 6. tanker. 7. anchor. 8. destrover
with .993. Bobby Doerr of Boston led 1930 under circumstances which two books on a shelf next to each other. 9. seaman. 10. patrol.
You'll see that page 1 of the left»hand
the second sackers with .975 and Ken were tantamount to dismissal after it book, which would be Vol. I, adjoins the
Keltner was the top third baseman was learned he had been married in last page of the second volume, separated KNOTS TO Y O U !
for the second straight year with 1928 in violation of regulations. only by the thickness of two covers.
Yes: A, C, D. No: B. E. F.
.945. Lou Boudreau, young Cleve- The long-striding Borican, the na-
land manager, won the shortstop tional indoor 1,000-yard and outdoor
race with .965. 800-meter champion, died following
Walter Judnich of the Browns,
Roy Weatherly of the Indians and
three months of illness. A superb
170-pounder, Borican had wasted
Not Just This Week...
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fielders. New York's Buddy Rosar
was the leading catcher, although no IT'S SEAMAN 5YKES NOW of. our N a v y . Two yeomen on YAlNK's staff
b a c k s t o p c a u g h t m o t e t h a n 100 Art Sykes, the former heavy- assure Navymen of news, pictures and fea-
games last season. weight contender who survived eight
High mark for pitchers, .987, was rounds with Sergeant Joe Louis, has tures on our sailors tlirougliout tiie world.'
made by Tex Hughson o'f the Red just signed up for a fight-to-the-fin-
Sox. ish with the Navy.

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