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VOL 2, NO. 3
By the men.. for the
men in the service
HE ARMY! WEEKLY
Pfe. K«tfc Pefdianf of F«nh Amboy, N. J., drives a jeep on tiw headquarters
oir-cowrier nra. Here she tolfcs French to mechanics of the French Air Force.
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Pfc. Ethel Fonder of Sulphur Springs, Tex., gives the motor of her feep the "Come and get ^f screams Mess Sgt. Gertrude lund of los Angeles, CaKf., a
once over with a grease gun. She was formerly a oiorticiaa's assisfant. sounds off with q-^MKl noontime chow calf. She knows how to moke herself h
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By Sgt. PETE PARIS first-aid station. The Waac never said a word of Bethsada, Md., CO of the American Motor
about the incident, which would have been for- Transportation Company, for example, is com-
YANK Staff Correspondent pletely sold on them. He has six Waacs assigned
gotten if Lt. Mayfield hadn't turned in a report
LGIERS — The first Waac commended for 10 days later when he was released from the hos- to him as jeep drivers and he'd like to have a
A gallantry under fire in this war didn't do
' her stuff as a sniper or half-track driver in
the front lines. She is a private first class named
pital. Col. Eklgar W. King, comma'nder of the lieu-
tenant's Coast Artillery outfit, sent an oflScial let-
ter of commendation to Capt. Frances Marquis,
whole company. "We need them here," he says.
"They can take care of all the headquarters driv-
ing while our boys make the long hauls."
Mary L. Taylor from Lake Charles, La., who the former New York business executive who The jeep-driving Waacs get no special favors
pounds a typewriter for the North African Eco- commands the WAAC company in Algiers. When or courtesies. When their buggies get dry or
nomic Board. Pfc. Taylor was questioned by her astonished dusty or need a new tire or a grease job, they
Pfc. Taylor was walking home alone to the friends, she merely shrugged her shoulders and haul out fatigue clothes and do it themselves.
WAAC barracks from her desk at the Economic said, "I just got caught in a blackout." She They eat lunch at the GI mess hall with the
Board one night during the black-out when enemy wouldn't go into further details. other drivers, using their own mess kits and
planes came over the town and rained bombs Like Pfc. Taylor, the Waacs in North Africa sweating out the line to wash them afterwards.
on the streets. Lt. Earnest R. Mayfield, a Special are good soldiers, even though they don't pack a One of the Waac jeep drivers is Pfc. Ruth Perch-
Service officer in an antiaircraft outfit, yelled gun or sleep in foxholes. They realize that it ard of Perth Amboy, N. J., who wears pants, has
at her to get under cover. As they ran for a is a man's war and they have withdrawn dis- a boyish bob and a sun-burned face full of
doorway, a piece of shrapnel plowed through the creetly to the side lines, cheerfully accepting the freckles. Ruth is a graduate of Russell Sage and
calf of Lt- Mayfield's leg. many overseas jobs that men hate. The girls in worked for nine years as a social investigator for
The Waac took one quick look and stooped uniform have not had an easy time in this over- the State of New Jersey before joining the
down and did a cool-headed bit of first-aid work. seas theater. They live under strict military dis- WAAC. She was qualified for a commission but
She applied a torniquet to the wound and cipline and they found plenty of Old Army men turned down a chance to go to OCS when she
stopped the flow of blood. who resented their arrival in North Africa. "Let heard about the formation of this overseas com-
•'I don't know what she made it from—perhaps 'em stay home and do the house work," these 30- pany. Another driver, Pfc. Mary Helen Lovell of
her slip—but, anyway, she did a good job," Lt. year men muttered. Curtis, Ohio, used to be a short-order cook. "I
Mayfield said later. However, the Army soon found that the Waacs don't see why we can't do more night driving,"
Then Pfc. Taylor and the lieutenant's driver were doing a superior job with the few oppor- Mary says. "Of course we are not allowed to
took him 20 miles in a jeep with a flat tire to a tunities opened to them. Capt. Robert Seckinger carry arms. All I have is this GI billy club."
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Two of the girl drivers, incidentally, act as she landed in North Africa but now she is a kitchen and doing their laundry. The money
chauffeurs for Gen. Eisenhower's staff officers. T-4, thank you. She works hard from 8:30 A.M. they earn that way goes into a church charity
Since they have been handling Army cars in to 6 and' sometimes 10 P.M. fund.
North Africa, the Waacs have not been charged These girls, the first WAAC company to ar- The Waacs sleep under mosquito netting in GI
with a single MP traffic violation, which is quite rive overseas, crossed the Atlantic in January cots, hospital bunks and some beds that the nuns
a record. after training at Fort Des Moines and Dajrtona gave them. They sleep in pajamas—GI issue—
The rest of the Waacs—^there are 195 of them Beach, Fla. Arriving here, they were quartered blue and white checkered in the winter and
stationed here in Algiers — work as typists, several miles from town in an old convent which peach or blue seersucker in the summer. Just as
switchboard operators, cable clerks and teletype they share with several nuns and French refugee you can tell a soldier who has been in the Army
operators not only for the Army but also for the children. The only males permitted near the a long time because the fatigue clothes are blue
Navy and British, French and civil agencies. The convent a r e t h e MP guards, one during the day instead of green, you can spot an old-time Waac
roster also includes a couple of draftsmen, or and two at night. Occasionally some of the local by the color of her summer pajamas hanging on
should we say draftswomen? The Waac with a n GIs from the Quartermasters get a close look at the wash line. Peach seersucker is the old issue.
especially interesting job is Sgt. Nan Rae, who is the place while delivering rations. The first sergeant of the company is Elaine
a stenographer assigned to Gen. Eisenhower. She The convent is a pretty building, covered with Olmstead of Phoenix, Ariz., a former physical
was a stenographer in New York, her home bright red poppies. The monastery, where it is ed instructor at Arizona State College with five
town, before going into uniform and previous to located, owns its own cows and chickens and brothers in the Army. She clips her hair short
that worked for t h e Vacuum Oil Company in grows its own vegetables. The nuns get along and wears pants, but the girls say she isn't too
Glasgow, Scotland. Nan was an auxiliary when fine with the Waacs, working for them in the tough. Your correspondent had a hard time get-
ting her to pose for a picture and the only quote
she gave was "This French plumbing is terrible."
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YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9
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who Is Artie Greengroin?
P FC. ARTIE GREENGROIN, whose adventures in England
appear on the same page with The Sad Sack, is o new-
comer to this edition of YANK although he has been a mem-
ber of YANK's British Edition for many months. We've h a d a
lot of questions about him. " W h o is this jerk Greengroin?"
most readers inquire. "Is he a real Gl? Give us some proof.
Either put up or shut u p . " So we asked our British edition to
send its photographer, C p l . Steve Derry, to hunt up Green-
groin a n d send us some proof. Artie kept Derry in a pub f o r
three days a n d then produced these pictures from his own
scrap book, thus saving Derry a lot of work a n d film.
Captions are by Artie, too.
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Air Force veterans, returning to watch tJbe flying Train-
ing ComfnofKfs new metfcods o# tBtxhii^ fvmkunentals
to jbemJbonfier%r nawigtOors and goiNietri, ah^ays say,
By Sgt. H. N. OUPHANT
YANK Staff Writer *'i ¥^tk we had fids stu& ktst ym*"
YOUNG gunner, back in the States on fur-
A lough after 11 months of action in a B-17
in the South Pacific, recently paid a visit
to the Flying Training Command's Flexible Gun-
ishment is understandable. The Flying Training
Command's new course in gunnery, revised with
you"ve got a proper range and lead, then go to
work on him with short bursts, you'll get a better
nery School at Harlingen, Tex. Escorted by non- thorough streamlining, is hardly recognizable to mission—and you'll live a lot longer."
com guides, he toured the pleice, from skeet a gunner who took his training a year ago. The student gets a 16-hour course that teaches
ranges and synthetic trainers to Laguna Madre, Student gunners used to get little ballistics in- him how the approximately 200 parts of a .50-
the rugged sub-depot on the Gulf of Mexico struction, little maintenance. Often they had fired caliber machine gun tick. He devotes five more
where GIs fire from the Sperry Ball, the Con- only a few hundred rounds before heading for hours to the secret sights. He gets 15 hours on
solidated and other turrets. After he had seen their first combat assignments. sighting and sight harmonization, learns how to
the works, the gunner said, "This is the damned- It's not that way now—by a long shot. sight a spot through the gun barrel, finds out
est place I've ever seen. P a r t of the joint is like During his 12 weeks at Harlingen, the student how to estimate the drop in the trajectory of a
Public School 20 in Brooklyn, another part is gunner spends 12 hours in a classroom learning bullet and masters the various sight adjustments.
like an alley of shootin' galleries in Coney Island ballistics. ("Ballistics," an instructor explains, "is Meanwhile, he learns the importance of lead-
and that range down on the Gulf is like Guadal- what makes a ballet go here, instead of there.") ing a target by firing a shotgun at clay pigeons
canal. It's screwy. But I wish to hell some of us He listens to confidential reports from the battle on the skeet range. After 500 rounds or so, he
early birds coulda had training like this." zones and studies letters from gunners at all goes to the GI shootin' gallery, a Coney Island
Harlingen, one of the Army Air Force's four fronts. For example, a tail gunner from North sort of a building in which flexible air machine
flexible-gunnery schools (the others are at Fort Africa writes: "A lot of us out here have had to guns are fired at moving miniature enemy-plane
Myers, Fla.; Las Vegas, Nev., and Tyndall Field. learn the hard way that ammunition is precious models. During tiiis period, he spends 12 hours
Fla.) contains such a variety of newly developed stuff, not to be thrown away every time you see learning how to spot Axis aircraft.
training devices that the young veteran's aston- an enemy plane in the sky. If you'll wait until To develop his sense of range and distance, the
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YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9
student peers through regular sights mounted on "It's basically the same course," he said, "al- tory is flashed on a screen for an instant and
aji electrical device at moving silhouettes of though combat experience has dictated several then removed. By consulting his map, the navi-
enemy planes. He learns to judge a plane's dis- shifts of emphasis on certain subjects. For ex- gator is supposed to be able to identify the sec-
tance by its size and position in his ring sight. ample, observers at the front reported to us that tion he has seen. This system is being installed
Later at Laguna Madre, he gets important prac- a number of missions had failed because of vari- because many pilots in England reported that
tice at range estimation by looking through his ous forms of mechanical failure, such as fuse, quick recognition of landmarks was often the
sights at AT-6s, which swoop at him from all shackle or sight troubles. At once we increased only thing that saved them when flying over fog-
directions, sometimes streaking less than 20 feet the maintenance course from 4 to 34 hours and bound areas where only small slits of land were
above his head. intensified the training in actual repair work. visible for an instant at a time.
The trainees begin firing with .22-caliber Our cadets now learn their equipment from the 4. A great deal more stress is being placed on
machine guns. Then they go to the malfunction littlest bolt to the mechanism of a blockbuster." aircraft identification.
range, where deliberate sabotage is practiced. There have been few changes principally be- 5. Increasing attention is being paid to teach-
There are fifteen .30-caliber machine guns on the cause AAF bombardier training has always been ing code by lights as well as by sound. This has
rsyige in carefully adjusted, nonworking condi- built around the Norden and Sperry'bombsights, been done because it is essential for the navi-
tion. The GIs have to find out what's wrong and still the deadliest instruments of their kind in gator to be able to use light beacons flashing in
the world. Learning those sights was the cadet's code to take bearings.
fix it, pronto.
job a year ago, and it's his biggest job today. 6. A year ago navigation equipment at the
Letters from gunners in combat zones empha- Cadets, however, get considerably more gunnery
size the importance of maintenance. One gunner, schools was not identical with that used in com-
instruction than a year ago, and they have to
writing recently to an instructor at Harlingen, learn blinker code. bat. In the case of sextants, the lightest and most
said: "Thank God I got plenty of maintenance Most bombardiers, after completing the 12- easily manipulated were reserved for combat
before I was sent over here. On my last trip, I week course at Midland, go to navigation schools navigators. "The bulky hard-to-work ones were
had 'jam' trouble, and the trouble came at a now. The AAF intends to have in the future only used in training. As a result, navigators had a
damned unfortunate moment, with about 20 combination navigator - bombardiers. Reports tough time adapting themselves to the new
Zeros burning hell out of my tail. It was a jammed from combat zones show that on long missions equipment when they got to theaters of opera-
ejector. I spotted it and fixed it in a hurry. If I navigators wear themselves down to a frazzle, tion. Now the equipment at the schools and in
hadn't, those Japs would have ripped my stinger while bombardiers, save for 20 odd seconds on combat theaters is identical.
off in nothing flat." the target run, do nothing but cool their heels. Instructors W i t h Experience
Gunners Learn Their Turrets While the collective AAF experience in com-
bat has produced few changes in U. S. bomb- Many men with extensive combat experience
Other combat experiences have shown that ardier training, the FTC's new 18-week course are on duty as instructors at various AAF navi-
some missions were failures because gunners in tactical and combat navigation is based almost gation schools, guys like Lt. Everett S. Turner of
didn't know the mechanism of their turrets. "A wholly on procedures proved under fire. Binghamton, N. Y., who teaches tactical and
ship, for example, would be over the Channel en Nowhere in the AAF is.there a closer bond be- combat navigation to the cadets at Hondo Field.
route to a target in France," says Maj. Wilson J. tween the fronts and training school than at the Lt, Turner was stationed at Hickam Field, Ha-
Selden, Harlingen's director of training. "The FTC navigation centers. The AAF Navigation waii, when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor. For the
tail gunner would test his turret and discover School at Hondo Field, near San Antonio, Tex., next 15 months he was busy guiding a Flying
that it wouldn't work. He would notify the pilot for example, keeps the addresses of all its grad- Fortress all over the South Pacific on J a p - h u n t -
over the intercom, and the pilot would nose the uates, who report on their missions. At the s£une ing expeditions. During that time, he says, U. S.
ship around and head for home, relinquishing time, new ideas developed at Hondo are mailed map markers had to learn combat navigation
the mission. Gunners trained today know their to the men at the fronts. largely by trial and error.
turrets as well as a good dogface knows his Ml, In the early months of the war, Turner and
and if anything happens during a mission, they Lessons Learned Part of Program his crew were flying in a ship with no astro-
can usually fix it in flight." Lt. P. P. Dawson, of the navigation section of compass. In fact, they didn't even know there
After three weeks at Harlingen, the boys move the Flying Training Command, who saw plenty was such a thing. But they did know they needed
down to Laguna Madre on the desolate mudflats of combat while stationed in England, lists these something which an astrocompass would one
near the Gulf. Here they fire shotguns and sub- combat lessons learned by the AAF that are now day supply. So they took a little strip of sheet
machine guns from moving trucks at various a part of the training program in U. S. naviga- metal, a torn piece of negative film and some
kinds of moving and stationary targets, and they tion schools: ordinary red paint and made a crude but effec-
begin an acquaintance with a gun turret that 1. A year ago practically all navigation train- tive contraption of their own. The strip of sheet
ends, as a sergeant puts it, by being "downright ing was done in 5-place trainers, Beechcraft metal, 1 inch wide, was attached to the circular
indecently intimate." Then they climb into me- AT-7s. Now, in addition to the AT-7s, the schools edge (360°) of the top revolving gun turret. The
dium bombers and fly out over the Gulf to fire are using considerable numbers of tactical bomb- film softened the sun glare and the red paint
at tow targets. Finally, if the student passes a ers, notably B-24s and Venturas, \yhich the indicated the azimuth. The pilot could take a
tough examination and makes a qualifying score RAF has been flying lately in its raids on Germany. reading by simply looking over his shoulder.
on the ground and in the air, he gets a staff 2. They're teaching far less theory than a year "It got us to plenty of shows," Lt. Turner said.
sergeant's rating and his gunnery wings. ago, concentrating on the practical aspects of "And, equally important, it always got us back."
Flexible gunnery has at least one advantage navigation. For instance, the schools are now Perhaps the best way to sum up a story on the
over fixed gunnery. In a bomber, a gunner can experimenting with low-level tactical missions, new training which the FTC is dishing out to
swing his turret and guns on the target while which they would never have thought of doing our pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners
his ship keeps on course but a fighter pilot has a year ago. These flights, at an altitude of a p - is to quote a recent U. S. communique from Eng-
to swing the plane .itself to the target. The funda- proximately 100 feet, provide tough navigation land: "Heavy and medium bombers, with fighter
mentals of both, however, are identical. At Foster problems, since the air is almost invariably escort, raided certain points in France yesterday,
Field, the AAF Advanced Single-Engine Flying rough, and the pilotage points, which the student smashing wsrehouses, dock facilities and rail-
School near Victoria, Tex., future fighter pilots h^s to check, flash by in split-second succession. road yards with numerous direct hits. All our
get essentially the same preliminary training that 3. The navigators are now experimenting with planes returned safely."
bomber gunners get at Harlingen. "grope," a system of landmark recognition in A lot of the airmen on that raid were training
When cadets leave Foster, they get 14 days of which a photograph of a given portion of t e r r i - over the bondocs of Texas only a few weeks ago.
fixed gunnery at a God-forsaken strip of sandy
Texas soil in the Gulf of Mexico called Mata-
gorda Island or on nearby Matagorda Peninsula,
equally desolate. Here, under experienced com-
bat pilots like Maj. Paul Greene, who was with
the AVG in China, they first learn to "fire in"
and harmonize their guns. They learn how to
disassemble, clean and reassemble their pieces,
and how to load them with belts of ammunition.
They fire several times each day at a tow
target, peeling off and diving at a long strip of
meshed wire which is pulled through the air on
a prescribed course by another plane. (The tips
of their bullets are painted in various colors so
a record can be kept of their hits.) They swoop
in low, strafipg specially constructed ground
targets. They learn the intricate business of com-
pensating for cross winds close to the earth.
Upon completion of their course here, the
cadets return to their advanced schools where
they get their silver wings, additional transition
training and finally assignments to combat.
Lt. Col. C. A. Miller, CO of the Matagorda
base, summed up the course: "We teach pilots to G l I N V E N T O R S . Sgt. John Cable (left), MilvMoukee, Wis., poses by section of "Scenic Trainer" he
use a ship just as if it were a gun turret." dreamed up for gunnery students at Harlingen Field, Tex. Models of enemy planes, set on steel rods, speed
in and out of " p e a k s " and " c l o u d s " while trainees pepper 'em with BB shots from flexible air machine guns.
URING the past year, according to Lt. Col.
D John D. Ryan, assistant director of training
at the AAF Bombardier School near Midland,
Cpl. Dick Sanders (right), ballistics expert of Denver, Colo., looks through sight of synthetic trainer he helped
develop at Foster Field, Tex. Device consists of Link Trainer and fixed air machine g u n . Cadet fighter pilots,
firing from pitching cockpit at moving targets, learn lead and alignment.
Tex., there have been no significant changes in
the FTC program for bombardiers.
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By Cpl. RICHARD PAUL
YANK Washington Bureau Neiv on income over $2,124—^your $1,500 service pay
exclusion plus the $624 Victory-tax exemption.
Not many GIs will have to file declarations or
T HE new pay-as-you-go tax law, signed by the returns from now on. The act provided that
TAX
President last month, does practically every- everyone would have to pay both March and
thing for men in the armed forces except J u n e installments this year under the old sys-
serve them their breakfast in bed. In fact, it's so tem. But the Bureau of Internal Revenue noti-
liberal that unless you made a big pile of dough fied commanding generals of the service com-
with investments, dividends and the like in 1942, mands that servicemen whose March payment
your tax problems—for the duration, at least— took care of their whole liability under the new
BILL
will be as scarce as Japs on the island of Attu. law would not have to fork over a J u n e install-
In this new bill, the soldier's exemption for
service pay is $1,500 as compared with $250 or
^ 0 0 under the old law. This is in addition to the
personal exemptions to which every one is en-
titled. Thus a single soldier gets a $2,000 exemp-
tion from taxes, a married soldier $2,700. And
each child adds $350 more exemption. It Lets Servfcemefi
A married soldier with a working wife may,
however, want to apply the personal exemption OffEiasy
to his wife's salary. Married people are entitled
to $1,200 personal exemption between them, and
they can split it up however they see fit. Take
for example a sergeant in the U. S. who is pulling
down $936 a year and has a wife who works. His
$1,500 service-pay exclusion will keep him out of
the tax brackets, so he can permit his wife to
use the $1,200.
Remember, however, that this $1,500 exclusion
covers only service pay. It doesn't apply to
money you made outside the Army. You can't
apply it to stock dividends, money from the old
company that still keeps you on its pay roll or
gambling profits. But you can apply it to such
items as overseas pay, flight pay and so forth.
The next biggest feature of the new tax bill
is that it puts taxpayers on a current basis. In
other words, they pay taxes on their 1943 in-
comes in 1943, not in 1944 as would be the case
under the old system. However, the withholding
provisions, by which civilian taxes will be col-
lected at the source, do not apply to service pay.
The soldier will be unaffected by withholding
unless he is still on a civilian pay roll.
In getting on this pay-as-you-go basis Con-
gress had made provision for taking care of two
years' taxes in one year. It provided that:
1. Civilian taxpayers pay during 1943 the full
amount of the larger of the taxes for t h e years
1942 and 1943. - >^
2. The Government cancel $50 or 75 percei^tVv
(whichever is greater) of the smaller of the taxes '
of those two years.
3. The remaining 25 percent of the tax for the
smaller year be spread over the next two years,
with 12'/^ percent payable on Mar. 15, 1944, and
the rest on Mar. 15, 1945.
For soldiers, however, there is special relief in
a provision concerning earned income. Earned
income means the first $3,000 of a man's income
regardless of source and any above that amount
received as compensation for services. Unearned The only Gfs w i t h f a x problems now a r e those w h o
income means any income other than compensa- m o d e piles of dough from investments in 7 9 4 2 .
tion for services that is not included in the first
$3,000. All service pay is earned income. the tax was based on earned income, as a soldier • ment, saving the headaches cf a lot of refunds.
he is forgiven that tax, and also 75 percent of his Next Sept. 15 most civilians will have to file a
If a serviceman's 1942 tax exceeds his 1943 one, 1943 tax, which is nothing. In short, he doesn't
the earned-income provision in effect forgives 75 declaration of estimated income. There are three
have to pay a cent of tax for either year. classes of soldiers who must file the declaration
percent of the 1943 tax and as much of the 1942
tax as results from earned income. In a case Again, take the case of a soldier who had both also, but not many fall in those classes. If you
where his Army pay was his only source of in- earned income and income frorri investments in filed a 1942 return and had a gross income sub-
1942. His 1942 tax, after eliminating his earned ject to withholding greater than you expect in
come during the whole year, this means that the income, is $80. In 1943 his earned income is all
whole year's tax is canceled. A couple of e x - 1943, you file. Service pay, remember, isn't sub-
service pay, and the tax on it is wiped out by the ject to withholding. Of if you filed a 1942 return
amples may make this a little clearer. $1,500 exclusion, but he still owes a $75 tax on
Take a soldier who had only earned income in or expect to file a 1943 one and had or expect to
investment income. This year he must pay the have more than $100 investment income in 1942
1942 and owed $100 tax on it, and, with the new 1942 tax of $80. He is forgiven 75 percent of his
high exemptions, doesn't owe any t a x for 1943. or 1943, then too you must hand in the declara-
1943 $75 tax, and pays the other 25 percent of tion. Finally, you must file if you made in 1942
His greater tax year was 1942, and he would pay that tax in 1944 and 1945. For his earned income
that tax in 1943 if he were a civilian. But since or expect to make in 1943 more than $2,700 if
he doesn't owe anything, being in the same posi- single or $3,500 if married (including your wife's
tion as the first soldier. income). Otherwise, forget it.
In the declaration you figure what you think
CHANGE OF ADDRESS «/;;; "^^^^
scfib«f, ami hov* changMi your address, <»• iMs ca«pen
to notify ut of the dions*. MaH it to YANK, Hw Army
T HERE'S an exception to this complicated busi-
ness when a man's 1942 net earned income
was over $14,000, but anyone who made that much
you will make for this year. If you owe any tajt
on it that you haven't already paid in the first
two quarterly installments, you pay the r e -
Weokly, 205 East 43d StrMt, Now Yotlt 17, N. Y., and money can afford to hire his own tax lawyer. mainder in Sept. 15 and Dec. 15 of this year..
YANK will follow you to any port of tite world. These forgiveness provisions a r e most impor- One wrinkle of the new tax bill has escaped
' t i n t to men who entered the Army in 1942 or much comment. It is the provision for abatement
1943, especially if they made a lot of money be- of servicemen's taxes in case of death. Anyone in
fore they were inducted at $50 per. Without any of the services who dies while on active
F U U NAME AND RANK SERIAL N O . these provisions, a buck private's pay might not service will have all his unpaid taxes canceled.
be enough to take care of all his tax on his This applies to anyone who died after Dec. 7,
civilian pay, but with them the chances are that 1941, and will be in effect until the end of the
OLD MIIITARV AIMMIESS the tax will be forgiven. They apply to anyone war. The cause of the death doesn't make any
entering the service at any time in 1942 and 1943. difference. If your estate paid the taxes by mis-
All this forgiving of taxes doesn't have any- take, the money will be refunded. And it doesn't
NEW MIIITARV ADDRESS thing to do with the Victory tax, which you still matter how long you have owed them or how
owe and still have to pay on Mar. 15, 1944, unless big they are. If you want to get out of any taxes,
you are overseas. However with the new high just get in the way of a Mark VI. Or just spend
exemptions you pay a 5-percent Victory tax only a few days trying to figure out the new tax act.
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8y the met* • • for the
men in the service
Discipline
are stationed near home. If they are sent back to This Air force musical comedy t r o u p e flew f r o m W a l l e r Field, T r i n i d a d , to e n t e r t a i n so
the States for f o r e i g n duty at Fort Benning, Ga., diers in British Guiana at their jungle bose. At the r i g h t , t w o of the stars in the C
they lose t h a t e x t r a m o n e y . Don't ask us w h y . show, Pvt. Phil Ducat of N e w Y o r k , N. Y.. ond Sgt. W a y n e Freitag of Wauwatosa, W i
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If anyone knows where He. WMnd Uciw, overseas wants his friends in the armed forces from St.
in the Field Artillery, is stationed, will he write to Louis, Mo., to write him. . . . Sgt. Douglas McLeod
Pfc. H. T. CoMim c / o YANK'S Message Center? . . . Cpl.
John 0. Skally wants to hear from Cpl. WMtam T. Enkin*.
overseas in the Engineers. . . . Pvt. s. FrMnmrdii wants
MESSAGE wants to get in touch with KoneU Wondling, who
took a gunner's course at Fort Monroe. Va.. in De-
cember 1941. . . . Pfc. John (High PockeH) Fitihugh
news from 2d It. Jo* Gromko, somewhere in the has some important news for Cirf. Grondville E. Sturm,
States, and p»t. John SIMI*, somewhere in Hawaii. . . .
Pvt. Ed. RWMION wants letters from Pv*. JanMs Picote,
CENTER a marine in the S. Pacific. . . . Pvt. Cliencs Steveoeon
wants to hear from his St. Louis. Mo., friends now
Pvt. Robert Parra and Pvt. io» RoHMra. . . • Sat. Ridiard in the service. . . . Pvt. Andy Folio. India, wants news
Cibbem wants the address of S«t. OwMid MUrdioni, Th« centof won't M vt print the full o d d r a u of indiriduol from Pvta. tesGe Tobits and Josapb M. Bibbio. who were
who was in Btry. Co. 338th FA in Oklahoma. . . . mwt ovarseos. All the messages fhis week come /rom~ men
l>oth stationed at Drew Field, Fla. . . . Sgt. Wilbur E.
Will M/Sflt. GMrga P. ThenM, N. W. Africa, write to Walls would like to hear from his brother, Pvt. leon
Pfc. Murray C. llienM? - . . T/Sflt. C. J. Meoacetl wants overseas, so if you wanf to get in tovdi with a friend men- I. Walts, at Fort Clark, Tex., and his friends of St.
U. WiKoOT E. SIraa to know bis letters, in reply to tioned here, address your letter to him c / o Messoge Center, Louis. Mo. . . . Cpl. Ralph Reedy wants to hear from
those received in June and July, were returned. YANK. 2 0 5 £. 42<f St.. N e w York 17. N . Y. Well forward ». his cousin. Roland Simpfcins. . . - Pvt. Mike (Tioy) Kobon
Shea should write to Monacell c / o YANK'S Message of Aliquippa. Pa., wants to get in touch with his
Center. . . . Sgt. Jock WootMr wants mail from BvriMll sister Pearl, a Navy nurse. . . . Pfc. Gerald E. Dietzman
Hymmi. somewhere in the Navy. . . . pfc. Uiii»»tt« wants to hear from j . D. Tinec, who was stationed wants to hear from Pvt. Alvin E. Sdiultz of Milwaukee,
CwMowx has lost track of Pfc. H. J. GfriHiun. . . - at Camp Edwards. Mass. . . . Pvt. WJUMM Warren Wis., who was stationed at Tyler. Tex., when last
Pvt. Stoniav R. Monro*, an infantryman in the S. Pa- wants news from Pvt. WiHiam Omer in Hawaii. . . . heard from. . . . Lt. Byron S. Block wants to make
cific, should write to Pvt. Roboit A. Ryan. . . . Sat. Jodi Pvt. Frcmklin W. Thomirfiim wants mail from Gordo* contact with his brother-in-law. Moj. Joseph Bitmon.
Y. GraMbora wants a few words from Hcwry Roth, and Freeman ThompUm in the Navy, somewhere in . . . Will aorence S. Dawson, who was in a medical
formerly of Detroit, Mich. . . . Pvt. Horry DmrtMh the S. Pacific. , . $gt. Scwfnea i. VoSno has news for detachment at Camp Roberts. Calif., write to Pvt.
wants to hear from two friends with the Biigineers- WoHy Sloyton, Australia, if he will write. . . . Sgt. Joe Daniel W. Webb? . • • Will anyone knowing the where-
in N. Africa: Konnoth Brwdiaaor and M M Bicfcina. • - Oovn wants mail from Johmry Harmon, with whom abouts of William Camn get in touch with Pfc. Francis
Cpl. Looi* E. Todoro wants news from his brother in he enlisted at Pensacola, Fla., June 1923. . . . It's J. Maguire. . . . Pfc. Lester Gates has a message for Sgt.
the Navy, Joo Todoro SKlc, and Pvt. rmwlhy C. Skonnan. urgent that Frank Tolh of Brooklyn. N. Y.. ^ t in Robert Krogh. stationed in N. Africa. . . . M/Sgt.
once at Fort Meade, Md. . . . Pvt. V««o Sov«M wants touch with Cpl. Mick Klem. . . . Will S/Sot. Irwin P. Charles W. Coprono is anxious to get in touch with
his three brothers, JanMs, Donwt and WHUom Sovall, Shorpe and Sat. Jolie Kanon get in touch with Sgt. S/Sgt. Charles Snyder. . . . Sgt. Richard M. Griswold would
to know he's been fighting in New Guinea and won Harold Tunick? . .,. Lt. Thomas A. Herring wants his Old like to hear from someone who knows the 'address
the Silver Star. He's in the hospital in Australia friends, and especially Sgt. E. A. Volenttne. Sig. Corps, of S/Sgt- Paul Gollippio. who was at the Salt Lake
now and wants them to write. . . . Cpl- Uroy MHUr and Sgt. Clarence Collolian, Paratroops, to write him. City Air Base,
. • . Cpl. James L. Durham, somewhere in New Guinea,
AlailCall
YANK] carried a yarn about P v t Mar- anniversary issue on June 25. 1943, be-
vin Rubin of Fort Slocum, N. Y , cause that is the date of my birthday.
spending 11 hours telephoning from It was also Gen. Henry H. Arnold's
New Rochelle to Brooklyn in order to birthday and Lord Louis Mountbatten's,
get his girl to agree to a wedding date. chief of the Commandos,
You mention he was armed with plenty - P f c , GEORGE LEO RESH
of nickels. Brother, he had to have Dear YANK: Dear YANK: Lowry Field, Colo.
plenty, because it costs considerably In a June issue of YANK there was a I offer this challenge to any member
more than a nickel to call Brooklyn picture of a staff sergeant firing a ma- of the armed forces: Eddie Shaboo
from New Rochelle, As a matter of fact chine gun at Harlingen (Tex,) Gunnery CMlc, former US Navy's welter wres- Dear YANK:
it's a 15-cent call, so if he made 140 School range. The caption refers to the tling champion during World War I In Compony Street (in a May issue
calls as you stated it cost him $21, To machine gun as a 50-mm, but I think and at present the Seabee's proud Judo of YANK] Pfc, Victor Sali of Camp
me the item smells fishy. If brother you'll find it's a caliber .50 machine instructor at Camp Peary, Williams- White, Oreg.. said his engineering unit
Rubin had the time to spend 11 hours gun. Tish. Tish, built a ponton bridge, 369 feet long,
in a phone booth, why didn't he get a - P v t . BILL SALT in one hour and 27 minutes. He claims
pass and go to Brooklyn, It's only an Miami Beach, Fla.
this is a record for portton-bridge build-
hour on the subway, ing! You weren't taken in by this, were
• T o Bill Salt a n d others: Sorry w e you? Because a year ago my regiment,
- P v t , f. E, KENNY the n t h Engineering Battalion, put up a
slipped up, but y o u made an error,
lacirbourne Army Air Base, Ohio too. T h e gun is a caliber .30. Tsk. light ponton bridge, 1,080 feet long,
• Maybe he w a s afraid he'd be Tsk. . . . in 1 hour and 35 minutes. I don't think
bounced d o w n the steps by her old that record has been beaten.
man. -Pvt, C H A R U S STRICKER
Dear YANK:
I have a request to make. Your story Panama Conaf
Dear YANK: [in a May issue of YANK] called "How
Here is evidence that irritating ininj^s to live on a Desert Island" has me Dear YANK:
are not always lousy (see photo beloic). burg. Va., challenges any wrestler at I can tell you the origin of the Kee
thinking. How about printing an article 148 pounds for a $1,000 side b e t My
-Pfc, BERNARD AUSTEIN called "How to Live in Elizabeth address is: Area A. Bks. 104, Camp Bird yarn which appeared in Poets Cor-
Gulfporl Field, Miss, County. Va."? That's where I'm sta- Peary, Williamsburg, Va, nered Tin a May issue of YANK], My
tioned and if .something isn't done soon. brother, Lt. Col, Dick Kight, was Wen-
—EDDIE SHABOO C M U dell Willkie's pilot on his round-the-
Congress will have to pass a bill giving Comp Peary, Ya.
all men down here an additional 20 per- world hop. When they were flying over
cent for foreign service. Siberia, the heating unit in.the GuIUuer
Dear YANK: went out and Mr. Willkie was standing
-Sgt, I R V I N G E. KAUFFMAN
Your sports editor proposed tin a in the aisle slapping himself trying to
For! Monroe, V a . June issue of YANK] the formation of keep warm. M S g t . James Cooper, a
an all-Army baseball squad, composed member of the crew, told Mr, Willkie
Dear Y.WK: of teams picked from the Air Forces he looked and sounded like the Kee
Would it tje possible for Sgt. George and the Ground Forces and operating Bird who sits on the North Pole slap-
Baker to promote poor old Sad Sack to like the East and West football teams ping himself with his wings, crying
Pfc." He's not the most brilliant soldier last fall. I hope this deal goes through, "Kee-Kee-Keerist but it's cold." How-
we've seen but he tries to the best of his because we'd like to propose a trainer ever, there is bad news for the GIs who
ability. for the Air Force team. How about P v t are writing more Kee Bird poems for
-Sod Sock for Pfc. Committee* Joe Doller, who in our estimation is you. An unidentified aircraft was
Camp Swift, Tex. the only big-time trainer in the AAF7 spotted by crack-pot (pardon, crack-
•Committee 1st Sgt. Elmer S. Bodi, He was trainer for the Chicago Bears shot) antiaircraft Joes off the West
S/Sgts. William H. Pantoplas, Jack C. Lun- football team and assisted the trainer Coast, They cut loose, and bingo, no
nen Wilfred Farley and Sgt. Merle L. for the Chicago Cubs baseball club last more Kee Bird, I hope your poets will
Derby. season. At present he's an aviation let him die in peace.
• Ratings are pretty damn scarce cadet here _ $ , , . RAY REITER -Pfc, EUGENE R. KIGHT
around here. Fresno, Calif. and the Men at BTC No. 8 Frederick, Okla.
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tions of first call and reveille. . . . On the way state?
to raid over Antwerp, the crew of a Flying T h i s is a lot e a s i e r t h a n T U "s"
it m a y look. A little e x a m -
Fortress asked Brig. Gen. Heywood S. Hansell, ination a n d y o u ' l l b e s p o t -
T T T
Grace AAcDonold who was a guest on the ship, to sing them a song.
He sang "The Man on the Flying Trapeze."
ting clues. F o r example:
Since T times N O equals
"They didn't think a hell of a lot of my singing," NO, t h e n T m u s t e q u a l 1.
7ke amsMir Uomd across the way h «m oefrass Fill t h a t in n o w , a n d tr-' T I E
who con A Iber mood fo ffce mtomMmt. Or Jber said Gen. Hansell. t o solve for t h e o t h e r n u m -
bers. T I E
chahoM fo fhe soaaom. Wfcof tooU be more RECORDS. Waac Rita Smith broke popularity (Solution on Page 22)
eomiotUAle during a JtOy mthe U. 5. A. than records at Fort ICnox, Ky. In one week she was
the dcrttOM sfce is oof wearmg? Grace's IcrtMf
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YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9
By Sgt. BILL DAVIDSON Hatt'ie Doolittle, still look down in Gothic maj- in his eye. On such occasions, his wife sends him
esty from their vantage point on the corner of upstairs, locks the door and hides the key.
YANK Staff Writer Front and Spring Streets. Beaver Dam River The only way you can get to Madison and Mil-
EAVER DAM, WIS.—-This is a perfectly normal rushes cool and green and wild through the cen- waukee now is by bus, so nobody goes to the
B town with a main street, an Elks Club, tav-
erns, a war plant, roadhouses and a cheese
factory.
ter of the town. In spring, kids sneak away from
school and pull a mess of Ijullheads out of Beaver
Dam Lake, which is practically in the town's
University of Wisconsin and Green Bay Packer
games any more. Instead, the town jams the lo-
cal high-school games. This unexpected attention
It differs from the average, however, in several back yard. And Griff Jones (who claims the title completely rattled the Beaver football and bas-
minor respects, typical of which are the follow- of the world's champion bullhead skinner and ketball teams, both accustomed to performing in
ing: (a) At the age of 6, little boys have shotguns whose tavern is decorated with a plaque credit- relative obscurity. It affected them, however, in
placed in their hands and are sent out to h u n t ing him with the denuding of 2,150 pounds of different ways. The football team lost every
ducks in the wild Horicon Marsh, (b) citizens of live bullheads in a competition held at Browns game. The basketball team lost only to Horicon
70 take pleasure in ice skating and fishing on Valley, Minn., on Oct. 16, 1915) still rents his and ran away with the Little Ten Championship.
Beaver Dam Lake, and (c) the rabbits, possum summer cottages up the lake with a stipulation
and deer of the neighborhood are so bold they that no rent be paid on any cottage unless the
come right up into the back yard.
In other words, Beaver Dam is a community
tenant thereof pulls in a certain number of fish.
The Odeon Theater is still jammed for every
T HE American Legion waged a campaign
against Clarence Keller in 1942, charging him
with misuse of public funds. Notwithstanding,
made up principally of rugged German, Polish change of feature. The town's 42 taverns are Keller was re-electe.d mayor. Emil Drews, the
and Irish stock, schooled to absorb the hard testimony of the beer-drinking capacity of the town constable and taxi driver, was elected dog
blows of man and Nature. When a tribe of forebears of the citizenry. The high-school kids catcher. This posed a serious "problem for Emil,
skunks invaded the cellar of St. Mark's Luth- still go to Schwake's drug store for cokes. The since the town had no dog pound. He has solved
eran Church a few years ago, Bill Field, the boys go into the armed forces as soon as they the problem, temporarily at least, by running the
conservation warden, calmly proceeded to trap graduate from school. The girls go away to work. captured muts into his taxi stand. Sometimes
them while his wife sang "Nearer My God to Maddy Horn, once the world's champion speed when he has a particularly vicious prisoner, Emil
Thee" to the congregation upstairs. skater, is in a war plant at Oshkosh while her is afraid to enter the taxi stand to answer calls,
So on the whole, the town has been able to medals and trophies tarnish in the attic of her further complicating the transportation muddle.
take in stride the changes brought about by the home. The few remaining girls spend most of The transportation muddle is really a muddle.
war and the loss of most of its young men. their time in Adlon's Circus Bar. You can't get out to Crystal Beach — either for
The Weyenberg Shoe Factories, the Kirsh There are a lot of gold stars arounjl now, one swimming or parking. You can't get out to the
Foundry and the Monarch Malleable Iron Range of them for 1st Sgt. Lester Brown of the local Friday night pick-up dances at Fox Lake and
Company (now making shells for the Army) are National Guard outfit, killed in New Guinea; an- Horicon, or the Sunday night pick-up dances' at
going full blast. But, as Bert Schwake puts it, other for Windy Braun, buried on Guadalcanal. Burnett. You can't get out to Alice King's at
"You can roll a bowling ball down Front Street On the lawn in front of the library, there's a Minnesota Junction. Besides, it is reliably re-
any night after 9 P.M. without hitting anyone." big honor roll bearing the names of all the men ported that blond Alice, a very smart business
Everybody's got money, but there's no place to in the armed forces, and there's a wall filled with woman, has packed up her entire entourage and
spend it except at the local shops on Front Street, servicemen's photos in Tommy's Tavern in South moved them to Merrimac, where the huge new
like Newton and Wenz's, Maier and Zahn's, and Beaver Dam. The proprietor. Tommy Ellen powder plant is now running full blast.
the Model Exclusive Apparel. The women are (ne Xtopolous) turned out to be the town's only But most important of all, you can't get out to
gettiJig bored with bridge, so they've taken to hero of the first World War—despite the fact the fields and the woods.
knitting face masks for Coast Guardsmen. The that he could hardly speak English—when he Muskrat pelts are selling for $2 apiece. The
men are getting bored with scat, keeno and got lost in the Argonne Forest and captured lakes are alive with perch and pike. Horicon
schafskopf, so they've taken to hanging around something like 97 Germans in a cave. He still Marsh is crowded with pheasant and duck and
their lodges where they figure out ingenious new knows more about the war than anyone else in fox and mink and deer, none of which can quite
methods of invading Europe. town. And when the troop trains stop just out- comprehend what is going on.
The library and 82-year-old librarian. Miss side his tavern, he gets a strange, far-away look There is hardly anyone to hunt them.
HOME TOWNS
IN WARTIME BEAN^ER DAM, Wis.
Continuing YANK's reports on wartime changes
in U.S. communities. Watch for your
town. It may appear here soon.
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for holding up all that fire power is Pvt. a ride into town, but Love Field at Dallas, ceiving the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air
George Puglise, 19. The performers belong to Tex., is doing its best for them by providing Medal and the Silver Star for gallantry in com-
the 422d Regiment at Fort Jackson, S. C. this bench and sign for all drivers to see. bat as a U. S. aerial gunner in the Middle East.
YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9
From Home
Chief Prentice with "willful disobedience of or-
ders" by refusing to patrol a beat assigned to borne citizens an east mail each morning. Cold
him. Died in Hazardville: H. Stephen Bridge, 80, and rain delayed wheat harvesting in south Kan-
business and civic leader. sas. Three long-term convicts at the State Peni-
tentiary at Lansing were wounded and recap-
DELAWARE tured trying to escape from the prison mine.
At Wilmington, four officers of the Mantle
Club, which for 15 years had preached business KENTUCKY
ethics to its 30,000 members throughout the U.S., Mayor Weir and other Owensboro public of-
were convicted of using the mails to defraud and ficials headed a large group of volunteers who
faced possible prison terms of 97 years. Cigarette gathered the Daviess County tomato plants to
smokers laid in a stock to beat the state's new save the crop. A Federal Grand Jury invest!-,
2-cents-a-package tax. A Liberty ship launched gated last Novenit)er's election in which Senator'
at Baltimore was named for the late Senator Chandler received 93 percent of his majority in
T. F. Bayard. Girls from Wilmington junior high Harlan County in only 42 percent of the pre-
schools went to Bridgeville to pick strawberries. cincts. No school busses were to be operated in
Allen County this year. Ashland liquor and beer
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA dealers favored a 10 P.M. curfew as a curb
Federal officers sought to halt suspected espion- to juvenile delinquency. Elkton suffered its
age activities by clamping down on vice in the worst rabbit plague in years. Mayor Wyatt was
District as "Dr." Anna May Swift faced trial for the first donor at Louisville's new Red Cross MISSISSIPPI
operating alleged deluxe call houses in Chevy Blood'Donor Center. The State Railroad Commis- Picayune growers shipped 56 carloads of vege-
Chase, Md., and Washington. District druggists sion denied a petition for a 33 1/3 percent in- tables this season for a new record. Thieves loot-
closed their 91st annual meeting by donating crease in day-coach fares in Kentucky. ed J. R. Jackson's jewelry store at Waynesboro
their extra quinine supplies for use by GIs in of several hundred dollars worth of gems a n d
the Tropics. The Potomac Electric Power Co. LOUISIANA watches. At Natchez, Rabbi Meyer Marx r e -
appealed the $310,408 rate reduction ordered for C. B. Turner resigned as superintendent of signed from Temple B'Nai Israel to head a con-
its consumers for this year by the Public Utilities schools in East Baton Rouge Parish. New Or- gregation in Lincoln, Nebr. West Point victory
Commission. A shopping service opened for e m - leans taxi drivers were forbidden to wear zoot gardeners were given a 50-percent cut in their
ployees in the Pentagon Building. suits. John McNeese Junior College at Lake water rates for three months. At Jackson, 150
Charles was transferred to LSU. "The Morgan students had registered in advance for summer
FLORIDA City Civic Club urged Gov. Jones to provide a classes at Central High.
The Legislature voted a tax of 3 cents a pack special fund to develop the state's oyster indus-
on cigarettes before ending a 60-day session. A try. War Bonds and stamps were offered as MISSOURI
state-wide liquor curfew went into effect with prizes by the New Orleans Sportsmen League Herman McKinney's day-and-night restaurant
liquor stores closing at 8 P.M. weekdays and all for the biggest black bass caught in city parks. in Jefferson City closed for the first time in 33
day Sundays. At St. Petersburg, a $200,000 fire The State Board of Liquidation voted $10,000 to years to give employees a week's vacation. From
wrecked the Broquinda plant; a dozen women the State Mineral Board to investigate oil leases Albany 50 residents traveled 125 miles in a school
were driving city busses and trolley cars. Dune- made on state-owned land during the adminis- bus and a cattle truck to donate blood to the
din needed city employees so badly it advertised trations of former Govs. Allen and Noe. Red Cross in Kansas City. At Springfield, a jury
in newspapers for them. Mitchell Wolfson was awarded $500 to Mrs. Mildred Howard, Brook-
elected mayor of Miami Beach. The mercury MASSACHUSEHS line teacher, in a slander suit based on a letter
touched 100 in Jacksonville, which experienced The Valley Arena, Holyoke fight club, was labeled "Dynamite—for Your Eyes Only," which
the hottest J u n e in 29 years. Walter R. Clark, destroyed by fire. Favorite new sandwich of Bos- Ross Sparkman, former school-board member,
sheriff of Broward County before his suspension ton war workers was a mixture of peanut butter wrote to her. A St. Louis committee, authorized
last year, won a plea for reinstatement before and raw onions. At Springfield, the Advertising to pick names for 25 Flying Fortresses, included
the Senate. Club's annual Pynchon Medal awards for civic "St. Louis Cardinals," "Wings of St. Louis" and
service went to Edward H. Thomson, president "Show-Me" on their list. St. Louis University
ILLINOIS of the Federal Land Bank, and Mrs. Margaret gave up football for the duration.
The Senate passed a bill giving women equal C. Ells, assistant principal of the Trade School.
pay with men. Heavy rains had delayed corn Lawrence was to have a $7,500 war memorial NEBRASKA
planting and farmers were working from dawn on its common. Thomas J. O'Brien, teacher-coach Heavy rains created flood conditions in Peony
to dusk to catch up. The bass fishing season at Athol High for 12 years, received a Navy Park near Omaha and in the Blue River and
opened. A new airport will be constructed at commission. Cathedral High defeated Tech 5-2 Indian Creek sections; at Auburn, the Nemaha
Quincy next spring. At Lewiston, thieves stole for the Springfield baseball title, then lost to River was a mile wide after a flash flood. The
gasoline-rationing coupons worth 3 million gal- Dalton 10-5 for the Western Massachusetts cham- Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Omaha
lons. At Chicago, Mrs. France Dyke, 43, mother pionship. Danvers Junior High students are dis- was to close. The Scottsbluff Junior Chamber of
of 10 sons in the armed services, became the missed at noon to allow them to help farmers Commerce favored drafting fathers. Norfolk wo-
mother of another son, her fifteenth. The Army weed th^ir vegetable crops. men sought a 9 P.M. curfew. Bob Korte of Fair-
FAlSe 20
YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 9
bury was named Nebraska's No. 1 all-star ath- canned a ton of cherries that were going to TEXAS
lete of the 1942-'43 season. Mayor Klingman waste on trees owned by C. R. Hasket. Henryetta Fire swept the original J. Weingarten, Inc.,
of Gering was elected state president of the VFW. established a 9:30 P.M. curfew for children under grocery on Main Street, Houston. Rio Grande
A survey showed that Nebraska motorists had 16. State traffic accidents dropped 40 percent the Valley tomato shipments broke all previous rec-
slowed their average driving speed from 46 to 39 first three months of 1943 compared with the ords for volume and price. A $125,000 Methodist
miles an hour. The Grand Island air base was same period last year. Church chapel was proposed for the A. & M. cam-
opened. pus. At Galveston, Dr. Henry Cohen, rabbi of
PENNSYLVANIA Congregation B'nai Israel, was honored on the
NEW HAMPSHIRE Peach production was expected to be 25 per- 55th anniversary of his tenure and the 75th a n -
The Legislature ended a five-month session by cent under last year's. At Norristown, William niversary ot the founding of the congregation.
voting a $100 bonus for every New Hampshire Roosevelt, 10-year-old grandson of the President, C. M. Francis of Stamford was elected president
veteran of this war. Lack of help brought Arthur was absolved by a coroner's jury of responsibility of the Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association.
Bushwa, 71, out of retirement to join his son in the fatal shooting of his playmate, A. Lewis At Dallas, women were being trained as mechan-
and grandson in their barber shop at West Man- Hutchinson, 11, of Ardmore. Philadelphia hotels ical inspectors by the National Cash Register Co.
chester. George M. Hutton, Hopping farmer, was abolished room service, linen naplcins and fresh
awarded the Charles Holme Petty Memorial sheets daily in a move to conserve manpower. UTAH
Medal by U. of N. H. alumni. Mrs. Maude Bick- Two persons were killed and 69 injured in a Scores of first offenders are being placed on
ford is on 24-hour duty as a plane and forest- crash before daylight between a Philadelphia- probation and given a chance to enter the Army
fire spotter atop Black Mountain near Tilton. Pittsburgh bus and a streetcar at Baum Boule- rather than a prison. The WLB authorized wage
vard and Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh. Died at adjustments for 6,000 Utah cannery workers.
NEW MEXICO Waynesboro: Dr. J. Burns Amberson, 98, oldest Walter Stevens, who escaped recently from the
A 9-hour workday became effective in Santa Fe graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, just Salt Lake City jail, wrote and asked Police Chief
shops. Loretto Academy at Las Cruces, oldest before publication of his article on "How to At- Vetterli to send his belongings to Las Vegas, Nev.
educational institution of southern New Mexico tain a Happy Old Age" in the University alumni South High won the Salt Lake City track and
or west Texas, closed its doors after 73 years. magazine. Levi G. Lichliter of Boswell resigned baseball championships by defeating East, but
At Cimarron, Ed and Ralph McDaniel paid $1,- as chairman of the State Labor Relations Board East took the tennis title from South. A 450-unit
300,000 for the last piece of Waite Phillips' ranch and Leo C. Abernathy, Pittsburgh labor leader, housing development was nearly completed at
property. Poisonous home-canned pumpkin was was expected to succeed him. Drager in Carbon County.
blamed for the deaths of four persons at Santa
Rosa. State Guardsmen were to help fight forest RHODE ISLAND VIRGINIA
fires under a new contract. Gov. McGrath appointed a seven-man commit- Virginia's potato crop is expected to r u n 68
tee to study a bonus plan for Rhode Island's 50,- percent ahead of last year. "The Civil Service
NEW YORK 000 soldiers. Mrs. Thais L. Robertson, mother of Commission started a drive to enlist 8,500 Twork-
Gunnar and John Lundstedt netted $6,000 two, received the first taxi license granted to a ers for Hampton Roads shipyards. At Danville,
apiece from a 100,000-pound haul of porgies and Newport woman. The Peace Dale fire station was 120 textile-mill employees were hospitalized
sea bass, the largest single catch of fish in one damaged by a $10,000 blaze before Wakefield fire after eating contaminated food. Sixty persons
net ever reported off Long Island. Jamestown's fighters could bring it under control. Providence were injured, none seriously, in a collision be-
hotels Samuels and Jamestown were sold to Ray- College reported 1.300 alumni in uniform. Air- tween a Floyd bus and a Greyhound bus at Sec-
mond Grinstead of Seneca Falls. Animals in raid wardens Grandchamp a n d Lozoena of Gas- ond and Grace Street, Richmond. Dr. Robert S.
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U. S. Army f ngineers f r o m C a m p McCoy, Wis., built a Joan Leslie is a student as well as a star. She real- This is a detail that won't be stopped before the
ponton bridge across Chicago River in (ess than an ized a big ambition when she w o r e this cap and end of the war. The men are Italian prisoners, in-
hour and dismantled it in another hour—a demon- g o w n as a member of the graduating class of the terned at Camp Atterbury, Ind. They e a r n their keep
sfration celebrating the Engineers' 168th Anniversary. University High School at Brentwood, Calif. by working on routine camp jobs.
Buffalo's zoo were fed 150 pounds of meat con- pee Point, Warwick, who saddle horses and ride Perkins, Norfolk's oldest practicing physician,
fiscated from restaurant proprietor John Lindner, the sands when the sirens blow, were believed who visited patients by horse and buggy for 71
who was accused of smuggling it from Canada. to be Rhode Island's only mounted wardens. years, died at 95.
A deer raced through downtown Rochester, Thieves ransacked two offices and took valuable
leaped through an Elast Avenue restaurant win- machine parts from the basement workshop of WASHINGTON
dow and died from cuts. The state's prison popu- East Senior High in Pawtucket. Plans were announced for helicopter air-mail
lation was found to have dropped 17 percent since pick-^up service from Seattle to Kent, Auburn,
Pearl Harbor and a new parole-draft plan was SOUTH CAROLINA Puyallup, Tacoma, Olympia, Centralia, Chehalis,
expected to hasten a further reduction. A movement was under way to name Darling- Raymond, South Bend, Aberdeen and Monte-
ton County's new airport for Lt. Billy Farrow, sano. Delta Smyth's water-front machine shop at
OHIO who piloted a bomber on the Tokyo raid. A p - Olympia was damaged by a $10,000 fire. Sixty
The General Assembly ended its session after proximately 20,000 copies of the new metropoli- families in the White River Valley near Auburn
appropriating $400,000 for four new state parks. tan-size Charleston telephone directory were dis- must move because the Government is to build a
WLWO in Cincinnati will become the world's tributed. Three trainmen were killed and three 11-million-dollar lend-lease storage depot on
most powerful short-wave station after instal- injured in a head-on collision between two Sea- their land. Seattle's gambling houses were shut
lation of transmitters with power totaling 750,000 board Air Line freight trains near Clinton. At tight by a police drive. Wooden bodies for Army
watts. With Morrow County's relief rolls the Charleston, bids were about to be opened for trucks manufactured at the Northwest Chair Co.
lowest in a decade, office personnel was reduced construction of an $800,000 seven-story addition of Tacoma are being used successfully on world
to one clerk. So as not to interfere with war p r o - to Roper Hospital. battle fronts, the OWI revealed.
duction, the GAR, at its annual encampment at
Columbus, voted to call off its parade for the TENNESSEE WISCONSIN
first time in 77 years. Youngstown's Mayor Spag- Memphis placed a midnight curfew on juke The Legislature passed a bUI providing for a
nola fired John R. Elliott, manager of the m u - boxes and pinball machines and limited one of five-man board to supervise hospitalization and
nicipal airport, and named Joseph J. Smith his each to an establishment. A sale of 54 Jersey medical aid for returning war veterans; a bonus
successor. Ohio's new liquor-rationing plan per- cattle at the Tennessee State Fair Grounds, Nash- feature of the bill was dropped. A tornado swept
mits soldiers to receive their ration allowance ville, set a national record for sales of this breed northern Polk and southern Burnett Counties,
upon proving their Ohio residence. with a high of $3,000 and an average of $607 per killing two men and causing heavy damage.
head. Tom McKinney, former janitor at Sunny Eugene Sieger of Milwaukee was accused of
OKLAHOMA Side School and the Brainerd Methodist Church stealing a freight engine in Waukesha and driv-
At the request of Gov. Kerr farm-machinery- at Chattanooga, celebrated his 101st birthday. At ing it to North Prairie, 15 miles away. Rufus King
rationing boards acted to give quick relief to Dayton, Roy Denton, rural-mail carrier of Rhea and East tied for the Milwaukee high-school
farmers whose equipment was lost or damaged County for 27 years, retired. Heavy frosts cut the track championship; South was third, Washing-
by the recent flood; meanwhile the OPA cut red east Tennessee peach-crop prospects 75 percent. ton fourth and Bay View fifth. At Milwaukee,
tape to release badly needed rubber boots and Gas rationing was so severe that bus-line officials Principal Knoelk of West Division High was
new ration books to replace those lost in the at Chattanooga promised transportation north cleared by the school board of charges brought
deluge. High-school students at Noble picked and only as far as Bristol. by 38 teachers that he had belittled students.
MGE 21
YANK The Army Weekly * JULY 9
OST P
FREELY'S LAW AMENDED
CHANGE
TKi* Pott Exchang*, lik« Y A N K itself, is w i d «
of when it is safe to ignore nature's call, is def-
initely open to further speculation and develop-
ment—especially in its application to soldiers.
The law per se is valid. Who can gainsay that
"resistance is directly proportional to the s u m of
urgency and distance, and inversely proportional
open to y o u . Sond yo«r cartoons, poems a n d to atmospheric temperature"? But we must r e -
stories to: The Post Exebange, Y A N K , The A r m y member that the factors tend to be variable and
W e e k l y , 2 0 5 East 42d Street, N e w York 1 7 , N . Y . thxis we cannot establish a hard and fast prin-
ciple of action.
If yovr contribution m i n e s the mark, you Pfc. Holland, for example, applied the law
w i l l receive YANK's special d e luxe rejection only to beer-drinking soldiers. But what of that
slip, that w i l l inspire a more creative mood. rare soldier, the teetotaler? What indeed? Or
.suppose that the soldier (hereinafter to be called
Pvt. Q) is in one of those localities, not uncom-
mon, where beer is beyond the realm of reality.
To M a r y WIfh Love What, in such cases, will determine urgency, or
treelies?
/ / • LOVE you .so much, darling." It is my contention that in such cases Pvt. Q
I Joe stopped pecking at the typewriter and will have to determine the number of freelies in
puffed his cigarette nervously. "Junior's been growing like a weed terms of beans (ounces or pounds), prunes or
It was a good letter so far, he thought. Not too since he got in the Army, Martha,'" other laxative-quality nutriments.
much goo. But solid enough to let her know she —Sgt. Howard P. Sporber, Miami Beach, fla. Suppose, again, that Pvt. Q finds himself in a
was important—and loved. combat area where snipers are a great menace.
This was the fourth letter to Mary this week. bunk. He perched the typewriter on his lap. He Peering out into the darkness, he sees that the
It was damned tough finding new words of en- continued. distance is 300 feet. On the other hand, he must
dearment and new words of love to write her. •'Every time I look at your picture, the thought reckon with the snipers. Using a chart which I
There was nothing wrong with the old stand- of your beauty runs through my blood like sweet have prepared and will send to any soldier in r e -
bys, of course. wine. Your name is like a golden bell hung in turn tor the left wing of a Junkers-88 and two
"I love you madly—I think of you from reveille my heart and when I think of you it rings and pin-ups of Carrie Nation, he discovers that the
to taps, just like the song says." That was good sings, 'Mary, Mary!' " distance value of snipers is 500 feet, makmg the
stuff, especially from a soldier. Women went for The last line was a steal from Cyrano, but she total distance 800 feet. He also discovers that the
it. Mary did, anyway. wouldn't know the difference. temperature is 140 degrees. (Pvt. Q seems to have
Joe frowned in concentration. Damn it! Why "I love you, I adore you. What more can I say?" got himself sent to one of the less desirable
hadn't he picked up those poetry books from the As a matter of fact, there was damn little more rronts.)
library yesterday? Edna St. Vincent Millay and he could say. He was running dry. Since beer is unavailable in this godforsaken
Shelley. They made plain words sound beautiful. "Just remember it is you I am fighting for. area, Pvt. Q immediately recalls that h e con-
Oh hell, she'd have to be satisfied with Xs and You are my war aims, my memories, my hopes. sumed 16 ounces of beans and 8 ounces of dried
the same kind of love words dames all over the prunes, making a total of 24 freelies.
world were getting from guys all over the world. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx We now have the following formula*:
Soldiers weren't supposed to be poets anyway. With love," / + d 24 4- 800 824
He crushed his cigarette butt, lifted the port- Joe closed the top of the typewriter with a = 6
able typewriter from his lap and -went to the foot bang. t ' 140 140
locker. He opened it and looked steadily at "The hell with this," he swore to himself. Resistance, therefore, is equal to six "urgens,"
Mary's picture pinned on the inside of the lid. "These letters are getting too tough. It'll cost the one "urgen" being equal to 15 minutes. Pvt. (oj,
It was 8-by-10, colored. sergeant 10 bucks next month, or he'll have to consequently, has exactly one hour and 30 min-
"Jees, she's beautiful," he whispered and write his own love letters." utes' resistance. If he has to fall out before that
looked around guiltily. Nobody was watching. -Pfe. 40E WESTON time is up, he may retire confidently. If not, it is
Joe closed the locker and went back to his Camp Whit; Orcg. incumbent upon him to answer the call to
urgency. Of course, there is still the possibility
that Pvt. Q may use the immediate vicinity of
AN MP'S LOT his shelter as a repository. This is not sporting
Oh, doggedly from dusk to dawn and virtually repeals Freely's Law. But it will
He watches other guys have fun, toil the snipers.
Playing mother, brother, father; - P v t . EMIL WEINSTEIN
Nothing is too great a bother. Canada
Enters room and all is quiet •Definition of symbols, according to Holland's original
Where before there was a riot; treatise: j equals urgency measured in freelies (tiie ireeiy
is an arbitrary unit lor the measurement of urgency); r is
If the riot' isn't finished, resistance measured in time; d is distance m feet; ( i:>
While he's there, it's quite diminished. temperature.
An MP lives and loves, but none
Can ever have a little fun,
'Cause if he tries to play or sin P^ZMM I^OLUTMBiS
Another MP pulls him in.
- P v t . JACK LUSTIG CHECKER STRATEGY DIVISION
ODE TO THE SIGN IN THE PX . . . Camp Maxey, Tex. Wliite king moves 6 to 10. 1235
which reads: We reserve the right to limit the Black king jumps 28 to 19. . .
sate of condy better to serve the enlisted man. 37 45695
CADENCE White moves,20 to 16—the key 37
It happens just once in a lifetime to the draw. . . . Now Black is
There was a drill sergeant named Crumbers on the spot. If he moves his 86'
(Believe me if I say it's t r u e ) , Who studied his men in their slumbers, king (19 to 23, or 19 to 24), he 74
And don't be a skeptical soldier— loses by White's 16-to-ll reply 129
And it worried the guy— So, Black must pitch 8 to 11 111
It might even happen to you. He was so damned GI— and accept a draw.
• 185
The ice cream was high as the mountains, That his men wouldn't snore by the numbers. 185
- P v t . WM. CAHN
The soda was deep as the seas, Tee-Total Winners
fort Rosecrani, Calif.
The clouds, which were puffed full of whipped Puzzle Kit winners in the Tee-Total contest for May 28.
cream, and their scores, are George Bateman, BoHing Field, D. C.
BTOIBIBTYI (467); Pvt. J. G. Yomner, Camp Pjnedale.
Floated down on chocolate trees. ~ - Calif. (456); Sgt. Alfred Burger, Aberdeen,
The girl friends were all made of sugar, Md. (455); Pvt. John Nizich. Fort Ord. Calit
(453); Sgt. Lloyd Waldron, Dale Mabrv Field,
Each redhead, each blond and brunette: Fla. (451); S/Sgt. A. L. Bronstein, Camp For-
And they laughed, and they sang, as they whisp- rest, Tenn., and Pvt. Stanley Baum. N. Camp
ered: _ _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Hood, Tex. (both 450). Bateman's solution is
LKINFOIB.LBIY' shown here.
"Oh darling, we'll all get you yet." Three officers also were among the winners. They are
w o Robert Scherer, Fort Devens. Mass. (463); Lt. K. W.
The music was so soft and swingful, Swayne, Camp Gordon. Ga. (456), and Capt. D. R. Kinney,
And the breeze blew of Nuit d'Amour; San Francisco (451).
"What a life, this is living!" I shouted, Congratulations to P v t . Yomner and WO Scherer; this
is the second time you've hit the jack pot. If you want
'No artist could write such a score." another Puzzle Kit, write us. Or you can send us the name
and address of a friend and we'll send your prize to him.
1 slept on the grass made of candy.
And voices .sang sweet in the air: PHOTO CREDITS; Cover—Cpl. Ben Schnall. 2. 3 4 4—Sgt. Pete Paris.
I smiled, so I guess, in my dreaming, 5—PA. 6—Buster Blundell. 7—Cpl. Steve Derry. 8. 9. 12 & 13—Schiull.
18—Univerul Pi<ture>. 17—Top left. NBC; center left. MGIN; rl«lit. Four
For I had not a worldly care. Commanilos, North Africa. 19—Upper left. AAF: upper center. USA Sig-
-Pfc. MAX KORASHAN 'And what would y o u like to have?" nal Corps; upper left. Acme; lower left. PRO. Fort Jackson. S. C ; lower
tenter. AAF Ferrying Command, Love Field, Tex.; lower right, U. S, Army.
Wiliiami field, Ariz. -Rvt. f. A. Bernard, North Africa 21—Left. Acme; center, INP; right. Acme, 23—INP.
PAOt 32
W HEN Branch (Trader) Rickey heard
that Boyd Owen Bartley, a genuine
cultured shortstop, was graduating
from the University of Illinois, he dispatched
one Mr. Henry Schultz to Chicago with in-
structions to bring the kid back to Brooklyn
come hell or the Chicago Cubs.
The fact that the Chicago Cubs had paid
Bartley's tuition at Illinois in exchange for
his solennin promise to sign with them after
graduation was of no interest to Trader
Rickey. Nothing interests the Trader when
he sets out after a player except the player
himself. Rickey e v e n forgot that he had once
subscribed to a gentleman's agreement with
the Cubs whereby he would recognize their
ownership of Bartley even though a contract
had not been signed.
The Trader wasn't fooling anybody, except
maybe the Cubs, when he gave his hand on
this deal.* "Die truth of the matter was the
Trader didn't want any truck with Judge
Landis. The Judge had already laid the law
down to his major-league moguls about con-
tracting college players until after their
graduation, and nobody knows any better
than the "Trader what it means when the
Judge cracks his whip.
The last time the Trader ran afoul of
Landis, the old man threw the book at him.
Those were the days when Rickey was over-
lording the vast Cardinal farm system and
SPORTS
By Sgt. DAN POLiER
.Back in 1907, Jim Farley took a semi-pro base- President at his Hyde Park (N. Y.) estate.
ball team down to West Point to play one of During a big Navy picnic somewhere in the South
the best cadet teams in years. Catching for West Pacific, Admiral Chester Nimitz challenged Bill Scog-
Point was one Cadet Ike Eisenhower, and Farley's gins SM I d to a horseshoe-pitching duel, and then
first baseman was a slick fielding Harvard un- proceeded to beat the pants off Scoggins, 21-15.
dergraduate named Ffcmklin D. Roosevelt. Army . . . At Fort Sheridan, 111., two Waacs, Edith DeWitt
won 8-5 Pvt. Harry Danning, the Giants' catcher, and Sally Oigley, entered the post tennis tourna-
has been selected for OCS. . . . Baron Gottfried ment and went all the way to semi-finals before
von Cramm, the German tennis champion who they were eliminated. . . . Atiey Donald's draft
was jailed by Hitler because he swished every number is up and so is that of Anton Chrittoforidis,
time he took a goose step and later was released the ex - light - heavyweight champ. . . . Bom-
to fight with Ronunel in Africa, is back in stir bardier lou Zamperini, the former USC intercol-
again. He was collared by the Allies in the big legiate mile champion, who was reported miss-
Tunisian clean-up. ing in action in the Pacific, never lost his en-
You GIs overseas, who have been using roUed- thusiasm for running. Between bombing mis-
up coveralls for basketballs and pickax hamdles sions he kept in shape by running around -the
for baseball bats, will soon be getting regulation airfield. . . . Helen Rains, one of the country's top
sports equipment from. Special Service. The War swimmers, is sweating out her costume jewelry
Department has already ordered $4,000,000 worth (bars to you, Joe) at the WAAC OCS at Des
of recreational supplies, including everything Moines, Iowa.
from fishing tackle to bingo and chess sets. What's this we hear about Sgt. Zeke Bonura,
. . . l*. Bob SoggoVf one of Notre Dame's greatest the former big leaguer, trading baseball lessons
quarterbacks, now calls signals for a Navy dive- to an Arab in North Africa, for the use of his
bombing squadron in the SoUth Pacific full-blooded Arabian horse? . . . The fabulous
Ffonkie Kovacs has turned up in Australia with Phillies are now in the newspaper business,
the US Army. . . . Pvt. Harry Boykoff, St. John's printing a weekly, the Scoreboard, for servicemen.
Chester Hajduck of Great loices slides home to start high-scoring basketball star, has been assigned It tells of the PhilUes' progress and is available
a triple steal against Chicago- Cubs. McCullough to the "King's Guard," an exclusive detachment for the asking. . . . Willie Pep, the featherweight
ccrtches; llcyland's the batter. Great lakes won, 4-0. of MPs all over 6 feet tall, who will guard the champ, has signed up with the Navy.
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