The American Legion Magazine [Volume 67, No. 1 (July 1959)]

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nylon and ordnance FOUR DECADES 1919-1959 OF DEDICATED SERVICE steel Vol. 67, No. 1; July 1959 design gives THE AMERICAN new 22 autoloader unsurpassed LEGION accuracy MAGAZINE Contents for July 1959

Cover by Beattie Assoc. • Weighs just 4 pounds

• Chip-proof, warp-proof RIGHTS VS. RESPONSIBILITIES 9 OUR FOUNDING FATHERS RECOGNIZED A RELATIONSHIP • 3-point bedding WE OFTEN FORGET.

• No lubrication HITLER'S LAST DAYS by Lawrence Sullivan 10 WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN THE BUNKER WHERE THE FUEHRER MET DEATH.

NICE WEATHER WE'RE HAVING by Larry Slegel 12 Here's a major advance in rifle THE AUTHOR TALKS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER. making. The same structural- nylon used in industrial machin- A TALE OF TWO CITIES OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO LEGIONNAIRES. . 14 ery has been used to create a gun WHAT TO SEE IN MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL DURING THE stock that is chip-proof, water- CONVENTION. proof, oil-proof and warp-proof. WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT CANCER by Tom Mahoney 16 Revolutionary integration of ARE WE HEARING A BREAKTHROUGH IN THE FIGHT AGAINST stock, ordnance steel barrel and THIS KILLER? nylon receiver means friction- free steel parts ride on nylon PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN BOY by Cornell B. Blanding 18 bearings. There's no break-in WITH MILLIONS OF YOUNGSTERS LIKE THIS, THE FUTURE ISN'T BLEAK. period, no need for lubrication. The resulting accuracy and effi- THE AMERICAN LEGION AND THE DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES ciency has never before been ob- by Robert B. Pitkin 20 tainable in an autoloading 22. HOW THE LEGION TRIED TO PREVENT WORLD WAR II. Mohawk Brown and Seneca Green siocks have clean, sharp NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 25 checkering, white inlays. Maga- zine holds fourteen 22 long rifle cartridges. At your dealer's now. Features

SOUND OFF 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB. . 8 ABOUT BOOKS 8

EDITOR'S CORNER . . 6 AMERICAN LEGION PRO & CON 22 PERSONAL AFFAIRS. 8 SHOPPER 52 NEWSLETTEft 23 PARTING SHOTS 56

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Afld ress- -Age- THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE AIRMAN City. -Zone State- trio might be added the name of Earl publicizing to counteract what many Warren, Chief Justice of the U. S. w ould consider an undermining of our Supreme Court, who, as Governor of State Department's good work. It California, blocked the lo>^alty oath for needs publicizing for the encourage- teachers. The amazing thing is that ment of your readers by the assurance Americans should place such people that while the Council for Christian in positions of influence. Social Action of the merged Congre- R. M. Norriiigton gational and Evangelical and Re- Pasadena, Calif. formed Churches, and the World Order Study Conference sponsored by FLAGS the National Council of Churches of Christ (Protestant interdenomination- Sir: In regard to the letter in "Sound al) are recorded in favor of welcom- Off!" on the lack of display of the ing Red China into the fold, a fair American flag, I wish to commend cross section of Protestant clergy men, Post .^9, of North St. Paul, ,Minn. This 87 percent of nearl\- 9,000 polled, Post purchased enough flags so tiiat frown upon barbarism instead of re- they are flown three to a lamppost for warding same. six blocks along our main street. Fur- J. Ellis Bowen thermore, the members see to it that West Neu-ton, Mass. they are displaj'ed on all possible oc-

casions. And it is a fine sight to mount PENSIONS the hill leading into the village and see the view. Sir: How can Congress justify taking CLEAN OUT RUBBISH! Mrs. Harry Lyon, Jr. away a veteran's pension if the com-

Sir: Our position is much like that of North St. Paul, Minn. bined income of the veteran and his a man who sits in front of his iiome wife exceeds $2,700 a year? Congress with a loaded gun to ward off anyone SMALL WORLD has awarded past Presidents $2.5,000 who may seek to destroy his home a year plus office space and clerical Sir: A paragraph in Clarence A\'ood- \\ hile a fire smolders unknown to him help, their ^vidows $10,000 a year, re- l)ury's story, "They Fought \^'ith inside his house— a fire that was caused gardless of other income. These folks Picks and Shovels," in the .March issue by spontaneous combustion in a pile need this pension as much as they need mentioned a Sergeant Frank Haley, of rubbish that he neglected to clean a hole in the head. Can any Congress- w ho, after being hit by a shell frag- out. Our nation is much like th.at man's man maintain a home on $2,700 a year? ment, was wounded again by a bullet house because we are neglecting to A veteran also has to eat and pay rent. from a plane before he could be carried clean out the "rubbish" in our coun- ^^'e have billions to pour down the to safety. An entry in my old Mar try. Our "rubbish" consists of \ arious ratholes of the world but nothing for diar>', dated February 28, 1918, written people ranging from the lackadaisical those who preserved the Nation. at the Savenay Base Hospital, France, citizen to the out-and-out subversive. Chris Buehrer reads as follows: "A fat gentleman in a I am happ\' that The AviericiW Lefiio/i Union, N. ]. > ellow bathrobe is in our ward. He is a Miiirnzine is tloing such a good job of Sergeant Haley. He \\as at Cambrai alerting its members to the menace of SNIFFED SNAKES and received three bullet wounds in communism, and I wish to say that \-ou his back and one arm. A couple of Sir: In the April issue of The Ameri- have my full support in your efforts. Tommies were carrying him on a can Legion Magazine, /Mr. George E. Would offer one suggestion: Run J. stretcher when a plane flew over and Huddle, of AVhistler, Ala., wrote that Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit as a fired on the ambulance and Red Cross his ability to detect poisonous snakes serial in The American Legion Maga- men. A bullet struck Haley's head, by smell sa\ ed his life. After detecting zine. glanced off and hit a stretcher bearer. two cottonniouths huddled in the Leroy H. Schneider Haley's picture was in the London back of his skiff, he shot them. His Spencer, S. Dak. Daily .Mail." I wonder if Sergeant sensory ability is to be congratulated,

his but I am awaiting the second article— CAUSE AT HOME Haley sunived wounds, the depression, and inflation. the one that tells what happened to the Sir: In the article "How The Reds Calvin H. Lambert bottom of the skiff!

Wage Their Global Trade A\'ar, " in En/poria, Kans. Harvey Hafenitister

the April issue, you say that in recent Evavston, 111. years the reds have been dumping THE FACTS slave-made goods on the world market ON PANHANDLING Sir: Last November a resolution was and successfully undercutting the adopted by the AA'orld Order Study Sir: .Mr. Gamagc rcall\- hit the spot in prices of our goods while doing so. Conference, sponsored 1)>" the National his letter \\ hich > c)u published in iMay. What ) ou failed to state in > our article Council of the Churches of Christ in Our Post is a small one in a town of is that tile vital cause of all this is right the U. S. A., proposing that Red China man>' organizations, all of whom ha\ e here at home. Due to the ambitions l)e granted diplomatic recognition and a rather difficult time raising enough and human greed of labor leaders w ho admitted to the United Nations. This mone)' for their various projects. Sel- are overzealous in their perpetual de- action received wide publicity. The dom does a week go by without some mands, American goods are being ver>' U. S. Neivs and World Report for undeserving transient attempting to effectively priced out of the world January 2.i, 19.>9, pointed out that the make a loan on one pretext or another. market. This is also the most important resolution was passed, and not unani- A classic example is the man who lost cause of inflation iicre at home. I have mously, by a group of 600 delegates his wallet on a train and w ho only traveled and worked in several differ- only. In a subsequent poll of 8,752 wanted enough money for a trip of ent industries; so I should know what Protestant clergymen, taken by the about 200 miles for himself and his I am talking about. of Alillion Against family. Of course, we being gullible William Stewart Committee One Admission of Red China to the United suckers, he went aw ay with lO of our Neiv York, N. Y. Nations, 87 percent were opposed to hard-earned bucks as a loan. Naturally either diplomatic we didn't even receive a thank-you POSITIONS OF INFLUENCE recognition or admission to the U. N. Ele\ en percent note. This gent taught us a lesson that Sir: In a recent "Editor's Corner " >-ou approved, and 2 percent had no maybe other Posts could use. The ex-

mentioned three officials at Yale, Har- opinion or failed to answer both ques- tent of our gifts to transients now is a \ard, and Princeton who objected to tions. It seems to me important that meal and a wire to his home Legion the loN'alty oath as humiliating. To this this record be kept straight. It needs Post. \A'e do not hesitate to help any

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of our members stranded in a strange place. Tick-tock. . tick-tock. . D. Harold Smith Sini/iiiL'rvillc, S. C.

THANKS FROM THE 8TH

Sir: The members of the 8th District. American Legion, Department of the whiskey Alinnesota, representing nearly 10,000 members, met in Duluth on April 4. At this meeting a motion was made and unanimously carried to send a to that didn't watch the clock \\ell-deserved thank-\ou The Aiiierican Legion Magazine for the excellent article "iMinnesota, Promised Land for Fishermen," w hicii appeared in >'our April issue. The members of ...seven loiig years! the 8th District are confident that w hen the National Convention is held in .Minnesota, many Legionnaires will

learn that Minnesota truly is the promised land for fishermen. Alaiu' thanks from the Legionnaires of the 8th Dis- trict. George ^Va^mall Proctor, Minn.

AIR DIVORCE EVILS

Sir: 1 have been reading your publica-

tion for a long time and have alw a> s

found it to contain many interesting

articles on a variety of topics. Vet 1 w ould like to emphasizx the greater need for the airing of tiie evils of di-

vorce. Here is a scourge that is over- whelming us, and yet for the most part

we have chosen to ignore it. Divorce is as great an enemy as any outside

threat; in fact, in some respects it is

deadlier, because it w orks from w ithin to sabotage the American home and ail the strength and ideals that the home imparts to the future generation. It occurs to me that tiie pattern wc seem to be following is similar to tliat of the Roman Empire in that just as the de- generation of the Roman family circle was one of the significant reasons for the fall of Rome, so in our case can w e suffer a decline because w e are allow - ing divorce to become the serpent in our breast. Michael Ozella Loveell, Miiss.

FORGOTTEN CITATION

Sir; I am another forgotten Seabee. I was with the Seabees in the invasion FRENCH CALENDAR CLOCK. Shows months, days, dates, phases of moon. From the famous Old Charter Collection. of Normandy, follow ing in a wave of Rangers at 7:30 a.m. Except for the battleships Texas and Rodney, no one Old Charter goes into the cask a superior ivhiskey. Long, quiet years w ould have made it alive. We spent of aging mellows it to rare magnificence. These t;vo simple, but vital, 16 days on the beach w ithout taking factors are behind the superb flavor that is Old Charter's alone. Long off our shoes or having a bunk to sleep a bourbon drinker's premier whiskey, Old Charter's superb quality in. A\'e w ere recommended for a Presi- and rare smooth llavor have actually won over many Scotch, Canadian dential citation, which has never made and Bonded whiskey drinkers. It has become one of the leading an appearance. Like myself, most of quality whiskies in America. Try it yourself. You'll see wliy. the Seabees were men pushing 40 to 50 years of age. If citations are forth- coming, I would like to see mine while still li\ ing.

J. J. Gallagher Troy, N. Y.

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A LITTLE GIFT OF ROSE'S

NOT LONG AGO a press agem w ork- ing for the New York State Teacii- crs Association, one Clayton E. Rose, delivered what tlie Nt"iL-l)iir

. of the American Revolution. . . " In the course of his speech ar a dinner in New- burgh he suggested that Lhe American Legion should stop publishing this magazine since "most Legionnaires don't read ." it anyhow AVe think they do, but we'd like to

prove it to Mr. Rose's complete satisfaction. Wc assume that Mr. Rose's iob is to get free editorial space for variotis and educational projects, so w e intend Bell Telephone scientists working on Nike-Hercules missile guidance system. sundry to oblige him by scheduling an article at the earliest possible date. It will deal w ith the cost of "school plant," as the educa- tionists like to describe school buildings. Where do guided missiles It will tell why such costs are fretiuently out of line, and it w ill tell w hat \ (>" can do, as taxpayers and parents, to keen such get tlieir "BRAINS"? costs within reasonable limits. W ith these facts you should be able to take a greater personal interest in your public schools Bell System-designed guidance systems give so that your children can get a proper education witiiont l)anki-npring the com- pinpoint accuracy to many of the nation's missiles munity.

Guiding a surface-to-air missile to Under development is Nike-Zeus, IT'S ONLY MONEY its quarry, or an intercontinental designed to destroy enemy missiles PEOPLE at home and abroad ballistic missile to its target area, calls approaching at fantastic speeds. MANY have fantastic notions about U. S. for communications that ri\'al the In addition, a radio-inertial guid- dollars. They seem to think that to get a human brain and nervous system. ance system for the Titan intercon- billion dollars for domestic pork-barrel Because of our experience with tinental ballistic missile is being projects or a few billions more for "for- complex communications systems, de\'eloped by the Bell System. In a eign aid" to prop up such worthies as Tito, Nehru, cf al., we were asked, in 1945, to study the recent test of this guidance system, a Gomulka, Sukarno, merely means speeding up some kind of problems of creating guided missiles. missile nose cone was recovered in moneymaking machinery operated In- the The result was Nike-Ajax, the first the South Atlantic only hours after U. S. Treasury. successful guided missile for defend- firing from Cape Canaveral, Florida, billions ing the nation against aircraft. 5000 miles away. It isn't quite that easy. Those are not made by the Treasury, but come Next came Nike-Hercules, Ameri- We are proud that our experience from the collective efforts (and taxes) of ca's newest surface-to-air guided mis- in communications serves the na- all Americans, most of w hom put in long sile (shown in laboratory above), tion's defense. That experience, plus hours in factories, offices, and on farms. which has already demonstrated its continuing research and develop- The money comes from the things they ability to destroy supersonic targets ment, is also at work every day im- produce. flying faster than 1500 miles an hour. proving telephone service. As in the case of indi\ iduals, corpora- tions too have to produce for the money they get, and it takes a lot of collective effort to make and sell enough steel, au- BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM fm tomobiles, gasoline, and appliances to clear a billion dollars. To give you an

^ • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 idea, here arc the earnings of some of our ...TO PROVE TO YOU HOW EASY IT IS TO MAKE largest industries for all of 1958: ATGmficBaraain! BIG MONEY JUST SHOWING THESE DOEHIA CARDS General iMotors $633.6 (millions)

Standard Oil of N.J... 562.1

U. S. Steel 301.6

General Electric 242.9

Socony Mobil Oil . . . . 156.7

Gulf Oil 329.5

Bethlehem Steel 137.7

Ford .Motors 95.7

DuPont de Nemours. . 341.2

Union Carbide 124.9

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MACiAZlNE • JULY 1959 • y ? A SHORT CUT TO THREE SPECIAL-INTEREST TEATVRES. Your Personal Affairs Information that can help you ivith everyday problems.

Now that the hot months are upon us, there's almost sure to be a rise in hotheaded crime, particularly among young people. In stressing the moral and physical penalties of wrongdoing, you might add this semihidden one: Serious crimes result in the loss of a long list of the liberties we com- memorate on the Fourth of July. A felony, penalized by a sentence of more than a year, additionally involves: "7 ' ONkii Loss of right to vote, hold public office, serve on a jury, or act as executor BRAND or trustee under a will. NAMES Job opportunities are affected too. The offender can't qualify for government employment, practice a profession, or be associated with a business requiring a license — liquor, cabs, and some types of music or entertainment. The various States have theii' own versions of the foregoing restrictions. But all are so tough that jumping State or city lines brings only partial relief. Fortunately for the fellow who wants to go (Continued on page 45)

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is unusually well made and reversible. I fitted several glass rods of various Brand Names are built on your sizes, including fly rods, with ferrules to fit the handle. Now I only have to confidence. You and your neigh- take along handle to have variety of rods. This also saves changing bors dictate the standards a one a Brand Name product must meet reels when you want to change rods." to consistently deliver the value and service you want. Bob Tribble, 3945 Concord Road, Beaumont, Tex., believes in catching fish the inventive way. He says: "When you find that fish won't hit anything else, A respected Brand Name is a manufacturer's most valuable try this plug made from things you find in your tackle box. Use a split ring to asset and he spares no effort to fasten a treble hook to a beer can opener; fasten a skirt, hackle, or any other protect it by constantly bettering kind of fly you have handy. A series of beads or any type of swivel should be his product. used on the front end, or the plug will twirl and twist the line. Once assembled,

A Brand Name is the maker's cast out and let the plug sink, then flip the rod tip, (Continued on page 40) guarantee of satisfaction which is doubly endorsed by the dealer who sells it. For dependable quality and con- Briefly Aboul Books sistent satisfaction you do betler Readiufi matter that rmty interest you. with brands you know; get to those see advertised know you in War Is a Private Affair, by Edmund G. Love. Harcourt, Brace & Co., $3.75. this magazine. Tales of 10 men who made World War II a private affair. They fought the To get the most for your money enemy, but they were more preoccupied with their campaign against army buy by Brand Name and be sure! discipline. Can Capitalism Compete? by Raymond W. Miller. Ronald Press, $4.50. A A Brand Name is a study of what the world thinks of Amei ican capitalism and what we can do to make the free enterprise system work better. maker's reputation Prayer for an Assassin, by Igor Sentjurc. Doubleday & Co., $3.95. A novel whose setting is the Hungarian Rebellion of 1956, when the Russians embarked on another of their cultural exchange missions. The Warriors, by J. Glenn Gray. Harcourt. Brace & Co., $3.95. A philosophical infantryman of World War II kept a journal which became the basis for this book on war and what it does to men. The Silent Investigators, by John N. Makris. E. P. Dutton & Co., $4.95. The U. S. Postal Inspection Service opened its files (Co7itinued on page 51) BRAND NAMKS rOUNDATION, INC. 437 FIFTH AVENUE. 16. N.Y. NEW YORK OTHE!? FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE: SOUND OFF: P. 4 • NEWSLETTER: P. 23 PRO S CON: P. 22 • EDITOR'S CORNER: P. 6 • PARTING SHOTS: P. 56 g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 1 1\ CO iV G R ES S, July 4, i//6\

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There is hardly an American who is Happiness" bequeathed to them by our and the pursuit of happiness in a bitter not keenly aware of that part of our Founding Fathers. war in which they pooled their lives, Declaration which is shown above in But what many Americans regrettably their fortunes and their sacred honor. bold script. All Americans know that a overlook is another part of the Declara- Today the way of life established by the bitter and bloody war was fought and tion, shown below, which reminds us Founding Fathers is threatened. If we won to obtain "certain unalienable that with rights go certain responsibili- are to keep it, we must subscribe anew Rights," and they properly insist on the ties. With the help of divine Providence to the solemn pledge that was made and right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of our fathers won the right to life, liberty signed in 1776.

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6tc By LAWRENCE SULUVAN to rule from Berlin, he was prepared to rule from Berchtesgaden in my place." Lawrence Sullivan is Coordinator of Informa- tion for the U.S. House of Representatives. Hanna related that there were tears in Hitler's eyes as he told of Goering's PRAEULEIN HANNA REITSCH, a beau- treachery. His head sagged, his face was tiful and daring 33-year-oid Luft- deathly pallid, his hands trembled wildly waffe test pilot and aeronautical as he handed Goering's telegram to von research expert who had been decorated Greim. in October 1944 with the Iron Cross, Hitler's face was frozen in a bitter gave Allied Occupation authorities their grimace as von Greim read the message. only continuing narrative of Adolf Hit- Then every muscle in der Fuehrer's face ler's last days in his Berlin air-raid began to twitch, and his breath came in shelter. explosive puffs. Only with great effort This hour-by-hour story of Hitler's did he at length gain sufficient control to physical disintegration, April 20-30, shout: Wedding jihoto of Hitler and Eva Braun. 1945, is told principally in Hanna's "An ultimatum! A crass ultimatum!

words, supported by the recollections of Now nothing remains. Nothing is spared Erich Kempka, Hitler's personal chauffeur, who carried 200 liters of gasoline to the shelter for the cremation pyre of Hitler and Eva Braun. Hanna arrived at the shelter a few minutes after 6 p.m. on April 26, 1945. With Lt. Gen. Ritter von Greim. who had been summoned for a "highly urgent conference" with Hitler, she had flown in from Munich under heavy Rus- sian ack-ack fire. In the last stretch of the treetop flight toward Braiulenhurfier Tor, ack-ack tore a small gap in the bottom of their light plane. Von Greim The burned body of Dr. Joseph Goebbels. suffered a severe injury to his right leg. In the rear is the body of Frau Goebbels. Reaching over the general's shoulder. Hanna took the controls and maneu- vered the craft to a routine landing within scampering distance of the Hitler dugout. First to meet them was Frau Goeb- bels. She fell upon Hanna with tears and kisses, expressing astonishment that anyone still possessed enough courage and loyalty to come to the Fuehrer after so many had deserted him. Von Greim was taken immediately to the operations Martin Ritter the bunker room, where Hitler's physician tended A GI inspects the wreckage of Bormann von Greim the ugly leg wound. Hitler soon entered the sickroom, his me. No allegiances clare you Goering's successor and Oher- face showing deep gratitude over von are kept, no honor hefehlshdher der Luftwaffe. In the name Greim's coming. He remarked some- lived up to, no dis- of the German people I give you my thing to the effect that even a soldier ap ointments th it I hand." has the right to disobey an order when have not had, no be- Both von Greim and Hanna were everything indicates that to carry it out trayals that I have stunned by the news of Goering's de- would be futile and hopeless. Von Greim not experienced. And sertion. As with one mind both grasped then reported his presence in the official now this, above all Hitler's hands and begged to be allowed manner. else. Nothing re- to remain in the bunker. Hitler agreed. "Do you know why I have called mains. Every wrong Later that evening Hitler called you?" Hitler asked. already has been Hanna to his room. His face was deeply "No, lueiu Fuehrer." von Greim re- done me!" lined, and a heavy film blinded both I I.tnna plied. Reitsth Hanna remained eyes. In a very small voice, he said: "Because Hermann Goering has be- silent. It was several "Hanna, you belong to those who will trayed and deserted both me and his minutes before Hit- die with me. Each of us has a vial of fatherland. Behind my back he has es- ler could gather sufficient control to con- poison such as this." Handing her a vial tablished connections with the enemy. tinue. With eyes hard, and half-closed in for herself and one for von Greim, he His action was a mark of cowardice. And bitter rage, and in a voice unusually low, continued: "I do not wish that one of against my orders he has gone to save he went on: "I immediately had Goering us falls to the Russians alive, nor do I himself at Berchtesgaden. From there he arrested as a traitor to the Reich, took wish our bodies to be found by them. sent me a disrespectful telegram. He said from him all his offices, and removed Each person is responsible for destroy- that I had once named him as my succes- him from all organizations. That is why ing his body so that nothing recogniz- sor; and that now, as I was no longer able I have called you to me. I hereby de- able remains. Eva and I will have our 10 m 4

1' The record is now complete, and it shows

how the Fuehrer came to his ignominious

Cast Bags end in a Berlin air-raid shelter.

Hitler's shelter with conical ventilating tower blown Irom it.

room in \vlutli Hitler and his wiie died. JJitth outside liie slielier in whitli the bodies ol AdoU and Lva were burned.

bodies burned. You will devise your own his face showed that the war was over. bels, and the doors were usually open to method. Will you please so inform von Returning to General von Greim's afford ventilation. Through the open Greim?" bedside. Hanna handed him the vial of doors, Goebbels" oratory would be heard Hanna urged Hitler to flee Berlin. poison. Should the Russians penetrate at any hour of the day or night. Then,

"My dear girl, I did not intend it so. the bunker, von Greim and Hanna as always, Goebbels performed as if he

I believed firmly that Berlin would be agreed, they would quickly drain the were speaking to a legion of historians saved at the banks of the Oder. Every- vials and then each pull a pin from a who were avidly awaiting and recording

thing we had was moved to hold that heavy grenade and hold it tightly to the every word. After listening to these hys- position. You may believe that when our body. Late that night the first heavy terical tirades, she and von Greim shook best efforts failed, I was the most horror- artillery barrage hit the chancellery area, their heads sadly and asked each other:

struck of all. But, my Hanna, I still have ploughing deep furrows within a few "Are these the people who ruled our hope. The army of General Wenck is yards of the bunker exit. The crashing country?" moving up from the south. He must and of debris directly above heightened the Frail Goebbels was described as a will drive the Russians back long enough nervous strain in the shelter. Here and very brave woman. Much of her day was to save our people. Then we will fall there deep sobbing echoed through the occupied with keeping the children's back and hold again." corridors. Hanna spent the night tending clothes clean and tidy. She stated that if It appeared, Hanna narrated, as if General von Greim, who was in great Hitler's Third Reich could not live, she

Hitler almost believed his own last illu- pain. The population of the shelter was preferred to die with it; nor would she sion. As the conversation closed, he was 30 people, including Goebbels and his allow her children to live. In Hanna's walking about the room with quick, wife and six children; staff representa- opinion, Fran Goebbels probably repre- stumbling .strides, his hands clasped be- tives of the army, navy, and air force; sented the epitome of Nazi indoctrina- hind him, his head bobbing. Although secretaries; orderlies; and messengers. tion. In recognition of her attitude in his words spoke of hope, Hanna insisted Hanna's room adjoined that of Goeb- (Continued on page 36)

11 Nice Weather;

Those TV wea I Ii- er dames know as imich about the weather as 1 do about Sanskrit.

By LARRY SIEGEL tax situation?" He shrugs his shoulders got to know how to dress. Should he and grunts. You mention the housing wear just this old lumber jacket? or There's a famous old saying which problem. He's living in an oversized should he insulate it with newspapers? begins: "Everybody taltcs about closet, but all he can manage is, Next, this guy's brother. ." sure the weather . . . . mumble mumble ... So what? . . . He's the weather statistician. I'm ." fellow who's Everybody, that is, but me. I'm not mumble mumble. . . you've met him. He's the going to talk about the weather. What You might even give him this: "I got all kinds of weather data at his

I'd like to talk about is how other people heard that the Russians landed in New- fin^ertios. talk about the weather. ark today. Khrushchev is setting up a Since time began, mankind has been command post in Bamberger's depart- obsessed with the weather. No other sub- ment store right now." ject has been kicked around so much or He'd never even open his eyes, just

at such length. Every nut and his brother mutter: "Hmm, yeah, Newark . . . mum- has ridiculed yesterday's weather re- ble mumble . . . nice town ... I was '49 ." port, commented on today's, or spoken there in . . . mumble mumble. . . longingly or fearfully of the morrow's. That's it. As proof positive of this universal inter- Two minutes later the weather report est, one of the credit card outfits is now goes on the TV set, and the guy becomes offering subscribers a choice of person- a different man. His eyes open all the alized weather reports at prices ranging way and light up, and he's got the eager, from $35 to $115 a year. Your credit is intelligent look of a scientist counting of course good, come rain or shine. down at Cape Canaveral. in It goes without saying that there are "Excuse me," you say to him, "would So who cares whether they have snow Sandusky if you don't live in Sandusky? many kinds of weather fanatics around you please pass that plate of pretzels?" these days. I'd like to talk about some "Shaddap!" he screams. "Shaddap, extreme cases. you idiot! You made me miss tomor- "Hi, Charlie," you say to him. "A Did you ever sit in a bar and try to row's temperature." little nippy today, eh?" start up a conversation with the guy next If nothing else on earth counts, the "It was 28 degrees at 4 a.m.," he re- to you? No matter what you say to him, temperature is important to this guy. cites. "It went up to 3 1 at 6 o'clock. he grunts and looks at you through half- Why? Take tomorrow's momentous Right now it's around 34. But it should shut eyes. You say: "How do you like the event. He is making a trip around the reach a high of 40 by 2 o'clock this ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAVID PASCAL corner to the employment office and he's afternoon."

12 Among the greatest weather discussers of our time

are elevator operators. I suppose you can't blame We re Having them. They only spend about 20 seconds at a clip with people, which hardly leaves time for a critique of Doctor Zhivugo. But some operators are really rare cases. Since time began, weather has been I once worked in an office building for 5 years.

During all that time whenever I was in the elevator

I got nothing but the weather business from that oper-

the main topic of conversation even more ator. You know: "Looks like it may come down any

minute." "It's cloudy now, but it should be nice later." "A real scorcher today, eh?" Things like that. popular than girls or baseball. Once when the elevator was stuck between floors for half an hour with just the two of us aboard, he spent 30 minutes discussing the difference between small craft warnings off Montauk Point and those off Sandy Hook.

Welt, one day I decided once and for all to see if this guy could talk about anything else besides the

weather. "How do you like your job?" I asked him. He half smiled. "Fair," he said.

1 thought for a while. "How's your boss?" I tried. "Is he an excitable person?" He shook his head. "Mild," he replied.

Oh I got it. I thought. "My little nephew's been laid up for a week now

with the measles," I said. "How do you like that?" He shrugged his shoulder: (Coiitiinwd on page 50)

My dear old aunt has taken to isobars and h)grometers.

"Is it supposed to rain?" you ask.

"Well," he says, "right now the barometer is 28.3 and steady, ." but by 3 p.m. it should. . .

And on and on it goes. Actually. he"s not a bad guy so long as somebody doesn't try to cross him. Then looiv out! For example. he"ll be calling the Weather Bureau (he usually has a direct line) and the droning nasal voice will be saying to ". ."' him, . . . Wind from the west at 18 miles an hour. . . Then he blows his top. "Whaddaya mean— 18!" he screams into the speaker (forgetting

he's talking to a recorded voice). "At 11:31 you told me it was 16 miles an hour! What's your name? I'm turning you in to Washington!"

It's of vital significance to this guy whether the wind is 18 The world s greatest weather experts are the miles an hour or 16. He's flying a balloon to Portugal that after- men who provide vertical trans])ortation. noon.

13 Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium, The parade will pass here Voull hiid this >\ithin the Minneapolis city limits. scene of the business sessions.

A The Twin Cities are a cattle center.

Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. A Tale of Two Cities of Special

This year from August 22 to August 27 the center of The

American Legion world will shift to Minneapolis and St.

Paul when the National Convention is held. A center of activity will be Hotel Lciiiiiington. The Minnesota State Capitol at St. Paul. St. Paul Aiulitoriiini, where Vuxiliarv lunrtions will be held. TV Pi DOWNTOWN ST. PAUL

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jf J HEN LEGIONNAIRES assemble in the Twin Cities, Minneapolis I l( 11 and St. Paul, for the National Convention, they will be ^'^M^ following a tradition that is centuries old. Visitors have been enjoying Minnesota hospitality for almost 600 years, Minnesotans say, and they base their contention on a rune stone dated 1362 which indicates that the Vikings hunted and fished there a century before Columbus crossed the Atlantic. The Twin Cities, only 10 miles apart along the upper Mississippi River, form a sprawling metropolis with a population of approximately one and one-quarter million. At the front door of downtown Como Park Conservatory iu bi. Paul. Minneapolis the river drops 65 feet in three (Continued on page 42) 15 .

By TOM MAHONEY

,NE OF THE most tragic nights for O' American arms in World War II was lucky for cancer research. On Dec. 3, 1943, the port of Bari, Italy, was jammed with ships unloading supplies for our forces which then had a tenuous foothold on the southern third of the country. In the center of the vessels was the John E. Harvey, a Liberty ship loaded with high explosives and also 100 tons of nitrogen mustard gas in aerial bombs. At 7:30 p.m. enemy bombers struck. Six- teen ships blew up and sank. Though not hit directly, the Harvey and all her crew dis- appeared in a gigantic explosion which sprayed poison gas over the harbor which was already covered with burning oil, smoke, flames, exploding munitions, and sinking ships. Medical officers who treated survivors observed that one of the effects of the mustard gas was interference with the body's mechanism for producing blood cells, especially white

blood cells. As this is exactly what is needed to control the form of cancer known as leu-

kemia, it pointed the way to the development of nitrogen mustard compounds and other chemicals for at least the temporary control of certain forms of cancer. Col. John A. Alexander's report on the Bari injured was termed "a classic medical paper" by Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, director of the Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Since then thousands of chemicals, 40,000 in 1958 alone, have been compounded, principally by pharmaceutical companies, as

potential anticancer weapons. It is an extremely difficult task. The drug must combat K.idi.i I ion iicatiiR'iu using tremciidous \oltages is becoming more prevalein. FIGHTING ONE OF MANKIND'S DEADLIEST ENEMIES

Dr. Wendell Dr. Arthur J. Dr. George N Dr. Charles B. Dr. Steven (). Stanley Vorwald Papanicolaou Huggins Schwartz

cancer and at the same time not do too other disease) are being prolonged after childbirth, are alive and 1 1 are free much harm to the rest of the patient. As months and sometimes years by chem- of symptoms and living normally three

one scientist explains, it is "like finding icals pioneered by American Cyanamid's years after treatment. Dr. Roy Hertz of something that will take off a rabbit's Lederle Laboratories at Pearl River, the Institute received an award from the right ear while leaving the left one un- N.Y., and Burroughs Wellcome & Co. at American Association for the Advance- harmed." Tuckahoe, N.Y. ment of Science for his work with this Ninety-eight of these drugs have sur- National Cancer Institute researchers drug. vived animal tests and now are being recently found that, for the first time in Promising anticancer 'drugs, some of used in the treatment of human patients medical history, a rare but previously in- entirely different types, also have come in some 150 hospitals including many of variably fatal solid human cancer, cho- from Parke, Davis & Company in De- the Veterans Administration. The lives riocarcinoma, can be suppressed by troit, Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Abbott of many children suffering with leukemia methotrexate, one of the Lederle drugs. Laboratories in North Chicago, Upjohn (which takes a greater toll of children Fourteen of 16 women with this rare in Kalamazoo and Merck in New Jersey. between the ages of 5 and 14 than any cancer, a tumor in the uterus before or E. R. Squibb & Sons opened a new lab- 16 response to treatment — are essentially the same, and that all cancer cells have a similar submicroscopic chemistry. There

is, of course, no generally accepted ex- planation of why the body's cells become cancerous and run wild to invade and destroy other tissues.

Cancer is increasing, not declining.

Among children, it is second only to

accidents as a cause of death. But it strikes most frequently among adults and often at the peak of their careers. Some of the best known recent cancer patients have been Arthur Godfrey, former Sec- retary of State John Foster Dulles, Sena- tor Richard L. Neuberger, and Senator Robert A. Taft. It also hit Generals Hoyt S. Vandenberg and Joseph W. Stilwell, Gertrude Lawrence, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Duchin, and Babe Ruth.

Most experts agree that cancer is on

the rise because it parallels the lengthen- ing span of life. By reducing deaths from infectious diseases, we actually have increased the amount of cancer among us. If the present rate of increase continues, the annual death toll will double in the next 50 years. Massachusetts has the highest cancer death rate. New Mexico, people are dying from cancer, More Utah, and North and South Carolina have the lowest.

but progress is being made against it.

N.J., and Bristol Laboratories at Syra-

"Cancer is no longer a hopeless cuse, N. Y., also have cooperative Gov- disease. A few years ago one can- ernment research contracts. cer patient in four was saved. These and other developments since Today the figure is one in three. the Bari disaster cause Dr. Rhoads, Dr. And with presently available knowledge it should be possible to John R. Heller, director of the National cure one in two. For the other half Cancer Institute, and other cancer lead- — 225.000 per year — hope depends ers to be cautiously optimistic. Some upon the promise of research. leaders of the American Cancer Society This valuable article highlights important steps toward the fulfill- expect cancer may be controlled within ment of that promise. It also shows our lifetime. In a Chicago address this the continuing interest of The year a Pfizer executive went so far as to Iuiii(»is lakt-n Iroin nii(f. 1 iu' sinaller they American Legion in the fight predict a cancer cure by 1965. have shrunk, the more effective tlie drug u.sed. against disease. I learned about But there are serious hurdles. Cancer this at firsthand when I was dean of the University of Minnesota has been recognized and studied since While the death rate of women from Medical School. The Minnesota 400 B.C. when Hippocrates observed the cancer has declined 15 percent in as Department of the Legion at that often crablike appearance of the spread- many years, the death rate of men from time raised a half-million dollars for the endowment of a research ing lesions and gave the disease its name. cancer, especially lung cancer, has in- professorship in rheumatic fever Though more has been published about creased. Perhaps because of greater ex- and heart disease in children." cancer than any other disease, our posure to X-ray equipment or, as some Dr. Harold S. Diehl knowledge of it still is appallingly small. theorize, from increased radioactive fall- American Cancee Society Sir Winston Churchill's words '"a riddle out from atom-bomb experiments, there wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" also has been a sharp rise in leukemia. are more applicable to cancer than they This hits adults as well as children. oratory in New Brunswick, N.J., last are to Russia. Cancer kills about 700 Americans a

year and will spend $7 million on cancer Researchers cannot even agree as to day. Unless something unforeseen is dis- studies in the next five years. At its John whether cancer is a single entity or sev- covered, 40 million persons now living L. Smith Memorial for Cancer Research eral diseases. Pathologists incline to the will develop cancer and 26 million of

in Maywood, N.J., Chas. Pfizer & Co. latter theory and say some cancers are as them will die of it. As a cause of death this year is spending $800,000 of its own different as such diseases as smallpox, in the United States cancer advanced and $1.2 million in Government funds diphtheria, and malaria. Many biochem- from seventh place in 1900 to second screening antibiotic broths for anticancer ists, however, believe that all cancers — in 1938 and continues to hold this rank. activity. Schering Corp. at Bloomfield, despite their variety and their different (Continued on page 42) 17 By CORNELL B. BLANDING

THIS IS A PORTRAIT of an American boy. This is a description of a junior jet pilot—Red Grange 2d— the fleeting shadow of a pint-sized Joe DiMaggio— Glenn Cunningham with untied shoes—the streak of light- ning that dashes through the kitchen, grabs a piece of bread on the run, hurls himself up the stairs, and dis- appears into that dark, littered (with planes, ships, treas- ure, and clothes) cavern known to his mother as his bedroom. This is the Perry Como of the bathtub, the Art Carney of the Scout troop, the George Gobel of the gram- mar school. This is Junior von Braun with all the knowledge of the world we live in, and for whom all the world is a bright, new, shining, and promising stage.

Yes, this is an American boy. AGE: Unimpor- tant. SIZE: "^ell, sometimes a giant and

sometimes just a little boy. HAIR: No part, no comb—and a cow- lick like the stalks of com in a November

field. EYES: Not too good — somehow incapable of finding anything you send him for, but always He has a dark, littered cavern that serves as his bedroom. able to find the hidden Christmas presents. world a better place in which to live.

EARS: Never hear you call, but always hear your HONESTY: Which brings the world soundness and secrets. stability. NOSE: Running. IMAGINATION: Which conceives of a better future MOUTH: Continuously moving. and leads man to search for new horizons. TEETH: Here today, gone tomorrow. FRIENDLINESS: Which banishes men's anger and ARMS AND LEGS: In perpetual motion. unites them in peace. HANDS: Always in- AFFECTION: Which engenders good will and stead- to something. fast loyalty among men. FEET: Off the couch, PRIDE: Which nurtured, leads please. men to strive to build from dreams

This is an American they cherish in their hearts. boy—sometimes only a REVERENCE: Which will har- boy but more often now monize his ideals and the dictates a man developing, be- of God. ginning to show more But what does he say of himself clearly the qualities and of his ambitions? What does he which forge his future say he'll be when he grows up? and thus the future From ages 10 to 12, he says suc- of America. cessively: Animal trainer, banker, ENERGY: That baseball player, comedian, doctor, boundless power which dentist, engineer, entomologist, builds a stronger, great- farmer, paleontologist, pilot, phi- ^here is the time that hi» At least his dog loves him. er Nation and makes the latelist, psychologist, and clergyman. team doesn't win the game.. 18 But there is another side to a boy: the experiences, which describe him—which describe his qualities, charac-

ter, emotions, and personality.

There is the time that his team doesn't win the game. There come moments of defeat and despair, of learning the hard lesson of how to be a good and gracious loser.

There is his own little world of worry and anxiety which he tries valiantly to hide from Mom and Dad.

There is his fear of the unknown in life—as in his night- mares, the visit to the hospital, the next day's test in school.

There is the time of his disappointment—when he fails to make the team, when he doesn't get to go on the fishing trip with Dad, when he misses the big football game because of illness.

There is his time of tears—because of what Dad said (though he couldn't possibly have meant just what

he did say ) or the punishment with an angry rebuke or

when he seems to hurt all over because no one except his dog loves him anymore.

There is his loyalty to his family, his friends, his school, and his church.

There is his wonderful, expansive, and always forgiving love for Dad and Mom, for his dog, and for his precious treasures.

But there is yet one experience which more correctly

describes this American boy. Yes, it even describes the

ortrait hopes of all good men—the time he proudly walks down the aisle of his church, dressed in a white surplice, bearing manfully and with a shining light in his eyes the flag of

01 an He bears the flag to its place beside the altar, then kneels.

In this study of a bov vou will find most American youngsters, our Nation. And a wonderful little smile creeps across his face as he catches sight of Dad standing there in the congregation. He bears the flag to its place beside the altar including your own. and then in the simple, eloquent reverence of a child's heart he kneels in prayer before your God and mine.

Yes, this is an American boy. This boy lives in my heart.

Illustrations by Paul CrowUy This is my son. the end 19 A 40th ar ANNIVERSARY The American Legion FEATURE

The story of the nightmarish decade when the Legion strove

to head off World War Two and the present mess—and was licked.

By ROBERT B. PITKIN

HE BIGGEST FAILURE of the first T forty years of The American Legion was its inability to head off the suicidal defense policies and international attitudes of the United States in the 1920's that led directly to disaster. The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. Bet^ween 1920 and 1930 the United States tried to lead the world to disarmament. We gallantly set the example ourselves in the belief that we were promoting peace. Every step of the way, our good in- t.tii. Kilh Mitiliell (left), coui iniai tialed ioi his outsi)oken airpower advocacy, tentions literally took us down the road joined the Legion's defense planners. Legion rejected his anti-Navy views, sor- to the hell of World War Two and Korea rowed as we sank our best ships under the 1921 treaty. Above. U.S. planes send —and perhaps other hells yet to come as the U.S.S. New Jersey and the U.S.S. Virginia to the bottom to "promote peace." the result of Soviet and Chinese communism vaulting themselves to world power out of the ruins of the war we set off with our pacifism. America's disarmament policies of the Twenties were a principal cause of

the second great war and its still un- finished aftermath. The weakness of the United States,

and the things it agreed to in disarmament conferences, pushed Japan into the Pacific war by clear and definable steps. Germany was building for a second war — whenever the prospects should look good — from the moment that she signed the World War One Armistice in In 1928, the Legion ])redicted a "bitter awakening" from our pacifist 1918. policies. Tojo (left) fulfilled proi)hecy at Pearl Harbor, while Hitler (right) It entirely appropriate the was to relied on U.S. weakness as he sent troops into Poland in 1939 to start WW2. times that a disarmament conference sponsored in 1930 by President Hoover and British Prime Minister Ramsay Panzer units with Mr. Neville Chamber- and Navy down and down and down in MacDonald was the direct and specific lain's umbrella. Figuratively, that was response to cries of "disarm for peace" cause of delivering the Japanese Govern- all that they had ready to discourage the from amateurish schoolmen, church- ment into the hands of its ambitious, Prussian machine—and far from enough. men, commentators and foreign propa- cocky, power-mad army. It was The American Legion's un- gandists. Their good intentions—except The United States and Britain virtu- happy lot to see what was coming from for the latter— ruled the day until the ally rushed to make war prospects look 1922 onward, and to have its head blood- world was undone by their ignorance of

good for Germany. ied year after year as it cried out that the kind of fire they played with.

In their passion to prove the error if we were not strong Armageddon Today we can look back and separate that peace comes from weakness they so would come again. the pacifist dream from the cruel reality

blinded themselves to events—and to all For its attempts to avert the second —and wish perhaps that we could have the lessons of history—that Germany war by making America strong, the those years back to turn the course of armed herself to the teeth without even Legion earned the title of "warmonger," history. being noticed. "sabre-rattler," and "militarist," while Who, now, if he could have 1928 Her last hesitation to start the shoot- our country went the other way. back, would oppose strengthening our ing ended when the Allies met Hitler's Year by year we whittled our Army Army and Navy so that in the few fate- 20 "A strong America does not imperil peace, but a weak America surely will in due course. ..." THE DEFENSE AMERICAN LEGION NAT'l CONVENTION, 1928 of the UNITED STATES

Legion com ciitions aniitialh urged sdeiigl MacNIDER KNOX STIMSON JOHNSON

The Legion hel])ed win the war it failed (o stop. Hanford ISIacNider began

U.S. ( iviliaif" ^val plans in 1925, led troops in the Pacific in VVVV2. Frank ful years of choice still left the Kriipps Knox was Naw .Se(rciar\ and Henr\ L. Stimson War Secretary in VVVV2. Louis and the Junkers would shake their heads Johnson luriiicred honielront planning in 1!),'57, was Defense Secretary dur-

and decree it dangerous to let mad Hitler ing the Korea fighting. All four Mere earh Legion preparedness advocates. have their backing? President Coolidge saw the danger in 1928. He asked Congress to authorize 77 new ships for our depleted Navy. A massive and maudlin barrage of highly organized pacifist propaganda promptly went to work on Congress and not a single ship was authorized. The American Legion, which had led the fight for Coolidge's new ships, con- vened in San Antonio. Texas, that sum-

mer. There it spelled out the doom that lay ahead. "Deliberately to strip ourselves to

helplessness is to invite utter destruc- tion," said the Legion's 1928 naval aflairs report. "The state of the world today makes this sheer madness. If we persist in this we shall be living in a fooFs para- dise, with an awakening ahead of us President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge with Nat'l Commander James A Drain more bitter ." (ceirter) at Legion Omaha convention iir 1925. Coolidge bought Legion's idea than that of 1914 . . The Legion's San Antonio report told lor achaiue liomelront war-planning. Later the Legion and Coolidge took a licking together as the\ fouglu to safeguard America by strengthening our Navy. how the Congress had been pressured to ignore Coolidge's naval building pro-

gram : navy under the [Washington! treaty received over 2,000 letters alone asking "Congress was asked for 77 ships and |of'l921]. him to vote against any proposed in- [we| got ". none. 15 cruisers sought were . . The (Senate Naval Aff'airs] Com- crease of the Navy. Another Senator re- not authorized. Japan and Britain are mittee received 5,000 tetters from school ceived over 500 letters and 50 telegrams both building ships that can both out- children from Iowa alone requesting no asking him to vote against it." range and outrun U. S. ships. In the ships but instead another disarmament To the pacifist lobby the irresponsible seven years since the Washington agree- conference. This is the so-called interest organization of innocent school children

ment the U. S. laid down 19 warships. of peace . . . Pacifists traveled through was as legitimate as it was to the school

Great Britain 55. Japan 1 27 ... the Iowa lecturing to schools, churches and officials who allowed it. This sobsister U. S. sank the most modern part of its other organizations. One Congressman (Continued on pcise 46)

21 iSfSi FiOi"®^

PRESENTING BOTH 5IDBS Of BIG ISSUES FACING THE NATION

THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT: Should We Continue Foreign Aid?

Mutual Security, or foreign (CON) This statement is not in- aid, although costwise a very small tended.fended, and should not be taken, as a part of the Federal budget (less than blanket indictment of the entire Mu- 5 percent), is a most effective arm of tual Security Program, more popularly foreign policy. known as foreign aid. Many parts of United States foreign policy must be the present and of past programs may viewed in the perspective of the be needed because of the present in- emerging, continually changing world ternational situation between our- of today — not the world of yesterday. selves and the Soviet Union. However, With the atom, the conquest of space, together with the proi^ram should be thoroughly re-evaluated. the political, economic, and social forces of ferment In the first place, it has been an expensive affair. increasingly at work, it can easily be seen that the fate As of June 30, 1958, the cumulative totals, beginning of our own Government is inescapably bound up with in 1948, were nearly $23 billion for military assistance that of the world. and more than $25 billion for economic assistance — a As long as we rely so heavily as at present on the grand total of roughly $48 billion spent on foreign aid powers of military force, both to deter and to defend, during the period 1948-58 inclusive. This is, of course, it does not make much sense to go all out in support in addition to other programs, such as loans through of our own military spending ($42 billion a year) international financial institutions, local currencies which is appi'oximately 60 percent of our total Federal generated through sales of surplus agricultural com- budget, and at the same time bitterly oppose foreign modities, etc. These are also large programs in terms aid which is also largely military with the military of money expended or generated; but they are not part costing about $2.3 billion annually (about 3 per- really a part of the Mutual Security Program. cent of our total Federal budget). More important than the amount of money expended Of the total noncommunist military manpower is, of course, the results achieved by the programs in forces of the world at the present time, our own terms of security for this country and for the free United States military forces constitute about 25 per- world. In Western Europe, the program has succeeded cent. Such forces of other countries outside the Sino- in preserving freedom and democracy. Soviet bloc who, like ourselves, are striving for na- The picture, however, is not as bright when we turn tional survival, constitute about 75 percent. We spend to the Near East and the Far East. The communists approximately $42 billion a year equipping and main- have successfully penetrated the former area by tak- taining our own 25 percent. Our contribution to the ing advantage of the overthrow of a friendly govern- remaining 75 percent of the military forces of the free ment in Iraq; incidentally, that nation has been a sub- world costs us about $2.3 billion a year. stantial beneficiary of both military and economic aid. Facing the challenge to remain free, and with the As a result, we have been forced practically to ter- knowledge that the cost of adequate defense is un- minate our programs to that country. The apparent avoidably heavy, it is exti'emely dangerous to assume defection of Iraq jeopardizes other Mideastern govern- that if we alone are vigilant, prudent, strong, and mind ments and has already resulted in calls for increased our own business, we will be permitted to determine foreign aid expenditures in that area. our own destiny in peace. We must recognize that In the Far East, our cumulative military programs actions taken by other nations, even though entirely since 1950 have totaled $5.7 billion and our economic without hostile intent on their part, may have the most aid programs have exceeded $5 billion, merely to at- serious consequences to our own well-being. tempt to "contain" Chinese Communist aggression. Confronted by this situation, it is only common There is no prospect of being able to improve our po- sense that we do everything we can to work with other sition noticeably here in the foreseeable future. nations. When foreign aid programs can be directly tied to Opponents of foreign aid consistently exaggerate the our own national security, they must be continued comparative cost. The President's current request for while we live in a state of cold war. We have, however, foreign aid, both military and economic, is $3.9 billion. no obligation to provide for the general welfare of This is well under 1 percent of our gross national prod- millions of people throughout the world. A new look at uct and is about 5 percent of our national budget. Our our foreign aid program is long overdue, especially in very survival leans heavily on the 5 percent of our view of the tremendous demand for economy in gov- national budget which is used in implementing our ernment spending by the American people. foreign aid program.

A. S. J. Carnaha.T ( D) Alvin M. Benlley (R , Member of Congress from 8lh District of Missouri Member of Congress from 8th District of Michigan

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SPECIAL FOR AMERICANS N. Y. BENEFIT Magazine , 720 5th Avenue , New York 19 ,

WHO SERVED WITH CANADA IN WW2: . . . A statement that they were present, Many U.S. citizens who served during WW2 naming the state they represented, and with the armed forces of Canada may not giving their present address and post iden- know of a Canadian veterans' benefit for tification would be appreciated for his- which they may be eligible . . . The Canadian torical purposes . . . Total delegates at government awarded a WW2 cash "bonus" based the St. Louis Caucus numbered about 500. on length and type of service, ranging INSURANCE SERVICE: from $7.50 to $15 a month . . . Called "Re-es- VA TO IMPROVE

, tablishment Credit " it was awarded to res- Veterans Administration will give its

idents of Canada on discharge . . . But by law contact officers from across the nation it was not payable in cash to non-residents specialized instruction in veterans' gov't of Canada . . . However, it i^ available to life insurance in Washington, D.C., and San non-residents of Canada in one form . . . Francisco . . . The Legion's Insurance Namely, as payment of premiums upon Canadian Advisory Board, headed by Past Nat'l Cmdr

Government life insurance policies, which Milo J. Warner (Ohio) , recommended such are issued without medical examination in training last March ... It noted that more amounts up to $10,000 . . . This credit, and "complete and accurate information" on the issuance of such insurance, is still their insurance is especially needed by available , and will be for the balance of this veterans in rural areas. year, for U.S. residents who served honor- ably with Canada's armed forces in WW2. THE LEGISLATIVE FRONT: Deadline is Jan. 1, 1960, or 15 years Here are some federal bills that The after discharge from Canadian armed forces, American Legion has recently prepared: which ever is later . . . Potential eligibles The American Legion has drafted a bill should write for application form or to remove time limitations for applying for further details to: correction of military records, reviews of - Department of Veterans Affairs , Re-es discharges, and decisions of military re- tablishment Credits Division , Ottawa , tirement boards . . . The bill is based on

On tario . . . "Newsletter" is indebted to the hardships noted in American Legion service Minnesota State Legislature which, by a casework for veterans. (HR 7354, intro- special act of last March, called this duced by Rep. Huddleston, Ala.) Canadian benefit to the attention of eligi- The American Legion has drafted a bill to ble American veterans of the Canadian recognize adoption of a child for VA benefit forces purposes, in certain cases not now recog-

nized . . . where the adoption has been NEWSLETTER WANTS TO HEAR FROM applied for, and the child has become a ST. LOUIS CAUCUS DELEGATES OF 1919: member of a veteran's household, and the According to the national archives of only remaining obstacle is the completion of The American Legion, 390 of the men who were adoption technicalities (at the time the present and signed the official register veteran dies) , then the Legion asks that the at the St. Louis Caucus in May 1919 are child be recognized as a dependent known to be living . . . The record, however, provided further that the surviving spouse is known to be incomplete, and some of the completes the adoption within two years . . . names are known to have been transcribed The bill is based on hardships noted in incorrectly from the signed register . . . American Legion casework for veterans It would be an assistance to the keeping of families. (HR7427, introduced by Rep. the national records if surviving delegates Boykin, Ala.) to the Caucus would write a brief note The American Legion has drafted a bill to "Newsletter, " The American Legion to remove an unintended injustice to certain

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 23 : s " . widows of men who died of war disabilities Conservatory of Chicago, of 200 South

. . . Widows' compensation is now based in Michigan Ave . , Chicago 16, 111 Dr. part on the last military paygrade of the Ervin H. Kleffman prepared the course and deceased husband . . . Where a commissioned will supervise it, says the announcement. officer reverted to enlisted or warrant status before discharge to protect his re- * KOREA VETS URGED TO LOOK CLOSELY tirement rights, the widow does not get the AT THEIR NEW INSURANCE PRIVILEGES: benefit of the commissioned paygrade he The American Legion urges all Korea once held . . . The Legion' s bill would award veterans who are carrying gov't insurance her compensation based on the highest pay- policies to take a good look at the new grade held satisfactorily for six months, privileges that have been theirs since the rather than the last one . . . The bill is first of the year . . . Korea vets whose based on hardships noted in American Legion policy numbers begin with RS (as most do) service casework for veterans' survivors. have two new advantages open to them which . . . Introduction pending at presstime. should be understood now. The American Legion has drafted a bill to First, they may convert their present restore th e authority of the Veterans Ad - term insurance to any one of the permanent ministration to contract for the use of plans that have been available heretofore to private facilities for veterans' care in WW2 vets but not to Korea vets. Hawaii and Alaska . . . There is no VA hospital Second, and most unique, those who don't in either state . . . But when those former feel ready to convert to a permanent plan territories became states, the VA lost its yet may swap their present term policies authority to continue the needed leasing of , for new term policies at a m.uch lower rat e , private facilities . . , The bill is based with the idea of converting to a permanent on the continued need for private facilities plan before age 50. for VA use in both states, though they are The American Legion's service casework no longer territories . . . Introduction with war veterans and their families over pending at presstime. 40 years has revealed many sad experiences The American Legion has drafted a bill of veterans of WWl and, increasingly, of to make several changes in veterans ' burial veterans of WW2, who have let their gov't provi s ion s . . . Most of these changes, insurance drift along in its original term though needed, are essentially technical in form, only to regret not having checked up nature . . . One of them would broaden the on the other opportunities available to them burial "benefit." ... It would authorise early enough to have chosen a better course the Veterans Administration to ship the body The new advantages Congress has given of a veteran v/ho dies in a state veteran' insured Korea vets are among the most remark- home to the place of burial, as is presently able ever offered . . . They can only fail to done when a veteran dies in a VA hospital. benefit those who do not look closel y enough . . . Introduction pending at presstime. at their new rights soon enough to do the The American Legion has drafted a bill to most good. ^i2S tnidni ght as the effective ti.me of discharge s from the Armed Forces on all dis- CLERGYMEN CAN GET SOCIAL SECURITY: charges issued before Jan. 1, 1957 . . . The exact hour of discharge sometimes determines Clergymen who wish to be covered by eligibility for benefits for veterans and Social Security can apply for such coverage under the facet of Social their survivors . . . Before Jan. 1, 1957, "self-employed" the branches of the Armed Forces did not use Security .... This is so even if the the same system for determining the exact clergyman's income may be a salary paid him by the religious hour of discharge . . . The bill is based on congregation or order he a few hardship cases noted in American serves .... For details, a clergyman should Legion service casework for veterans (HR ask his nearest Social Security office 7404, introduced by Rep. Haley, Fla.) for the booklet "Social Security for Clergymen . CORRESPONDENCE COURSE IN MARCHING BAND MUSIC: *Posts are encouraged to put items marked with an Musical outfits note . . . .A correspond- asterisk (*) in their local papers or on the air, ence course called "how to compose and as a statement of the Post Commander, adding a final arrange a march for a marching band" is paragraph telling local veterans how to contact the announced by the University Extension Post Service Officer for more details.

24 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 . , NEWS /^^^merican Legion and Veterans' Affairs

Nixon, Truman, Hoover, Norstad, Meany, won tliat honor by having 118.66'i of its previous four year membership aver- To Head Legion Convention Speakers age by May 1. The Missi-ssippi Legion- naires have promised to put Miss Ameri-

ca at the head of the delegation. She is A galaxy of leaders of American Legion convention officials forecast Miss Mary Ann Mobley of Brandon, affairs will speak at The American Le- that it will be one of the biggest parades Miss., who won the Atlantic City Miss gion's 41st National Convention in Min- ever as it swings down Minneapolis' America contest hist year. neapolis-St. Paul this August 25-27. Nicollet Avenue on Monday August 24, Keynote speaker on opening day following the route of the very first # Eight departments of the Legion Tuesday, will in August 25, be the Vice American Legion Con\'entin'n parade had exceeded 100% of their four year President of the United States Richard 1919. a\erage by May 1st, and are entitled to Nixon. for M. Housing plans the 50 American head up the big parade in this order: Top speaker slated to address the del- Legion state delegations that will be in (1) Missis.sippi; (2) South Dakota; (3) egates on the following day is former the Twin Cities from August 22 to 27 New Mexico; (4) Louisiana; (5) President Harry S. Truman. were expected to have been completed Ala.ska; (6) Rhode Island; (7) Minne- A. Other featiue convention speakers in- by June 1, housing chairman Col. H. sota; (8) North Dakota. Minnesota as Rossberg announced in mid-May. clude J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director the host department will give up its Other pre-convention notes and high- and George S. Meany, head of Ameri- seventh position and luarch last, as is the ca's biggest labor group, the combined lights include the following: custom. AFL-CIO. # Many posts, districts and depart- In addition, the National Command- # The six foreign departments (also ments of the Legion plan to enter floats er's Dinner will be highlighted by a according to custom ) will march in a in the parade, and have been arranging major talk of Gen. Lauris Norstad, since block ahead of the state delegations. to have them made in the Twin Cities 1956 the Supreme Allied Commander They are: Philippines, Mexico, Ital\ through the Float Division of The in Europe and Commander-in-Chief of Panama Canal Zone, France and American Legion 19.59 Convention Cor- the U. S. European Command. Canada. poration at 14 South 9th Street, Minne- Representatives of the American Red apolis 9, Minn. # The annual States Dinner of The Cross and the National Education Asso- American Legion Auxiliary, to be at- ciation were also being scheduled for # The three Seagram Posts of The tended by some 1500 persons including Convention appearances as these words will, for 13th American Legion the year Auxiliares and their guests, will be held went to press. in a row, give away four free auto- Ford in the St. Paul Auditorium on August 26. Meanwhile, plans for the annual Na- mobiles to lucky winners of a drawing. tional Convention Parade promised to The drawing will be at half-time of tlie 9 Two blocks away, the 4()&8 will make it Minneapolis' biggest. In addi- Nat'l Drum & Bugle Corps Champion- hold its annual bancjuet the same eve- tion to the marching of Legionnaires, ship finals, Sunday evening, August ning at the St. Paul Hotel. and their Junior and Senior Bands, 23rd, at the University of Minnesota Drum & Bugle Corps other special # The 40&8 parade will take place and Stadiimr. Entry for the drawing is b\ marching in St. Paul and its colorful locomotives groups, the parade will Ije coupon, available in this issue of this swelled and boxcars will also be parked for pub- by some 2,000 troops of the magazine, and the only qualification a U. S. lic display on the wide approaches to Armed Forces and the Minnesota 1959 or 1960 American Legion or National the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. Guard. American Legion Auxiliary membership. The military portion of the parade, The 40&8ers will march on Tuesda\ including tanks, mounted guns and other # Leading the U. S. departments of evening, August 25 at 8:00 p.m. St. equipment will be nearly an hour long the Legion in the convention parade will Paul Time, forming at the State Capitol bv itself. be the Department of Mississippi, which approach

THE TOP SPEAKERS AT MINNEAPOLIS

RICHARD .M. M\{)N H AKK^ .S. IKliMAN i. EDGAR HOOVER GEN. LAURIS NORSTAD GEORGE S. MEANY

FHE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 25 .

CHILD WELFARE: ber of your wonderful American Legion, Detachment Special Troops, Eighth Three Letters who has told us all about you, and your Army, Korea: interest in this Httle Korean orphan boy, "Dear Sir: Sgt. Thomas Quinn, a member of is an act of providence. "I am writing to thank you and your American Legion Post 245, Lake Hopat- "Sergeant Quinn has had this boy ex- committee for bringing sound to a little cong, N. has been miHtary duty in J., on amined by the military medical authori- 6 year old Korean boy. Chung Im has Korea. ties, who have the necessary equipment spent his life in a dead world, dead un- Recently he wrote to members of his to make such examinations, and it was til his ear was fitted with a hearing aid post that he had inspected a boy in an discovered that he has a slight hearing > on sent. I wish I could have been pres- orphanage in Korea who needed a hear- in his right ear, a fact we did not know ent when he heard his first sounds, but ing aid. or suspect, for since we found him four I was not. I did receive a first hand de- Last winter, Legionnaires in Morris years ago, wandering the streets, he has scription and it makes my heart feel sent the hearing aid to County, N. J., been deaf and dumb like a poor little good. Korea as a Legion Child Welfare ac- beast, an aftermath of the war. "First, after the hearing aid was fitted, tivity. "The medical authorities were con- he was asked to repeat sounds and these Shortly thereafter, the following three vinced that if he could hear he would were in English (he had been unable to letters from Korea were received in New learn to speak, that his condition was speak before) Jersey by County Child Welfare chair- apparently caused by a shock too great "He repeated the sounds without dif- man Herbert Rowe. for his little capabilities at the time, ficulty. Letter Translated from the causing the mental block. "Then a radio playing music was put Korean of Mrs. Chai, Kee Suk, Orphan- "They felt that a hearing aid, lo\e to the hearing aid. age Director, Police and Soldiers Or- and attention would open this block and "A smile of pure joy lighted his face, phanage, Seoul, Korea: soon he would speak. You, The Ameri- and he was extremely reluctant to re- ' Dear Sir: can Legion, have provided the hearing move the ear plug. "On behalf of . . . fm Chung Kyung, aid, the love and attention. "He has a slight ear infection at pres- who is 6 years old, we . . . express his "More than the monetary value of ent, and the ear plug has to be adjusted, heartfelt thanks to you and The Ameri- these otherwise unobtainable gifts and and then he will be able to hear and we can Legion for the priceless gift of hear- what they will do for this bright, intel- hope speak. ing. ligent but handicapped boy, we are "T add my personal thanks to you, "To be an orphan boy is a great dis- sure the knowledge that there exists in your committee, and The American advantage. to in But be an orphan boy this troubled world such a vast organi- Legion for bringing life and joy to a this poor, war-ravaged, divided land of zation that would concern itself with little Korean boy. limited opportunity, and to be unable just a poor unfortunate boy, an organi- Sincerely, to speak or hear assures such a little boy zation that reaches out across the thou- James M. Hearn" little or education, therefore, no no op- sands of miles with its heart and its hand Letter ;^3. From Sgt. Thomas Quinn: portunity to qualify himself for decent to help him, will strengthen his deter- "Dear Sir: employment or a normal life. mination to grow to be an honorable "I wish to extend my personal appre- "To be unable to defend himself in man and an outstanding citizen, a man ciation to \ou and the Morris County this highly competitixe business of try- who will consider the Lhiited States and [N. J.] committee of The American ing to earn enough to keep alive, to be its wonderful American Legion his per- Legion for the hearing aid you donated unable to express his pain when hurt or sonal friend for life. to the little Korean boy Im Chung his joy when happy, surely is a burden Sincerely, Kyung. we are convinced God did not intend. Mrs. Chai, Kee Suk" "This donation has been accepted as "Therefore we are convinced the in- Letter ^2. From James M. Hearn, more than a gift. terest of Sergeant Quinn, a proud mem- Jr., Commanding Officer, Headquarters "All the Korean people who have

THIS OLD LEGION x^lioto shows the first Legion military policy to right, these Legionnaires arc: D. J. Hard, Ohio; Ji. \\ . Thomp- committee as it thrashed out the National Defense Act of 1920 at son, Alabama; L. R. Cignilliat, Indiana; J. W. Young, Texas; Indianapolis, Feb. 19, 1920 (see also page 46). It was tlie second Albert Greenlaw, Maine; D. W. Goodrich, New York; J. H. Sher- major national law The American Legion fronted for. From left bourne, Massachusetts; M. J. Foreman, Illinois; R. C. Calhoun,

25 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 heard of this gesture are overwhehned Each member anted up the trivial sum its own ranks by being a little last man's by the generosity of The American Le- of less than the cost of two packs of club. Big membership did it. gion and consider your attention and cigarettes a year at today's prices, and Nobody is less bashful than a 4()&8er concern for this boy a benediction as they raised $1,116,608.03 between in seeking a new member for the 40&8, from a sympathetic, compassion guar- 1923 and 1959. or the Legion, or the Auxiliary. dian. The history of the parent American One of the 40&8's self-imposed jobs "For after all, the sense of hearing is Legion and the Auxiliary, no less than is to get new members for the Legion. beyond cost and is priceless. the 40&8, is loaded with other wonders By its own example the 40&8 has just "Sir, I have always been proud to be worked by the same "do it yourself" proved again the great good that a big an American Legionnaire, but never as formula. membership can do in organizations like proud as that moment, when I stood Many hands make light work. The the Legion, the 40&8 or the Auxiliary, representing the Morris County com- 40&8 didn't get more than two million where each member does a little of the mittee, American Legion, and watched half-dollars for needy kids from within pulling. the expression on this boy's face as he heard his first sound. Yours For God and Country, Sgt. Thomas Qiiinn" Dulles Set Example of Courageous THE 40&8: Leadership in 1953 Talk to The Legion 50c X 2 Million Ray Marshall, of Penns\'lvania, cur- John Foster Dulles, who died on May Dulles used the Legion's platform on rent head of the 40&8 and thus its Clief 24 at 71 of an illness which earlier this that occasion to warn Russia and Com- dc Chemin de Fer for 1958-59, stepped year forced him to resign as Secretary munist China against trying another to the rostrum of the Legion's Nat'l Ex- of State of the United States, was for "Korea". ecutive Committee on April 29 and gave many reasons The American Legion's Excerpts from Dulles' talk to the 1953 to National American Legion Com- kind of Secretary of State. American Legion Convention are worth mander Preston J. Moore a check for To Dulles, as to the Legion, it was remembering. $50,000 for the Legion's Child Welfare better and braver and more honest and He said: ". work. far safer for our country in the long run . . If e\ ents are likely which will in That check brought the total of such to face up to a hard truth than to be- fact lead us to fight, let us make clear gifts from the 40&8 to the Legion to come involved in dangerous deceits our intention in advance, then we shall exactly $1,017,932.13 since 1923. chasing dreams. probably not have to fight. How did the 40&8 raise more than a John Foster Dulles was for thirty "... Aggressive despots think that million dollars for this purpose in 36 years a member of Lexington Post 108 they can make a grab, unopposed, or years? By appealing to rich donors? By of The American Legion in New York opposed but feebly. So, they grab. And hiring a slick fundraiser to peddle ball- City, having served as a captain and a to their surprise they find themselves point pens for a big cut of the returns? major in the U. S. Army in World War invoKed in unexpected opposition By taking on a big staff of $20,000-a- One. which means major war. year men to weep in public? When he became Secretary of State "Many believe that neither the First Not on your life! he caused to be formed in the State De- World War nor the Second World War In 1922 the 40&8 — whose correct partment American Legion Po'st 68 of would have occurred if the aggressor had name is La Societe des Qnaiante Hom- the District of Columbia, and lie trans- known what the United States would ines et Huit Chcvaux (The Society of 40 ferred his membership there. [actually] do." [See "The American men and 8 horses) voted to sock itself a Dulles' speech to the St. Louis Con- Legion and the Defense of the United half-buck a man each year "to provide \ ention of The American Legion in 1953 States," page 20 this issue]. emergency aid to children of veterans is a classic of fearless, honest and forth- in their homes." right statesmanship. (Confuiucd oil ]Hi

\\>(jnnng; M. L. Sliade, South Dakota; Lemuel Bollcs (Natl Currier, hid.; D. J. Markc^y, Md.; 11. L. Opie, Va.; G. F. Tyler, Adjt); F. J. Tobin, Michigan; C. H. Callan, N.Y.; H. H. Gansser, Penu.; R. B. Andrews, Arkansas; Albert Liu\\\i1Ier. Missouri; Dr. J. G. Emery, Fred Zuin, and P. H. Martin (all Mich.); W. H. Un- T. V. Kecne, Indiana; F. W. Galbraitli, Jr.. Oliio; T. W. Miller, versaw, Ind.; T. A. Lee, Kansas; C. O. Milligan, Tennessee; C. L. Delaware and Nat'l Commander Franklin D'Olier, Penns\'l\ ania. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 27 SEAGRAM POSTS OF FOUR 1959 FORDS-FREE POST No. 807 Here's your chance to win a powerful 1959 ILLINOIS Ford Convertible just for being a Legionnaire!

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FOLLOW THESE 3 ENTRY RULES! ( Please Print 1. Send in official coupon or mail a postcard or letter HOME ADDRESS. using this coupon as a guide. 2. Sign it— your coupon, letter or postcard must bear your signature. 3. All entries must be received no later than midnight, SIGNATURE. ( Please si-^n here) August 21, 1959. POSTS IN ACTION DULLES At that time Red China was con- (Continued from page 27) templating sending its own troops into Items from out 17,000 posts. Those of most general interest and widest geographical spread Indochina as it had in Korea. In a voice "It is even more probable," said Dul- are selected, with apologies for the hundreds clearly heard around the world, Dulles not reported to the les, "that the Korean War would of others that are so kindly said to the Legionnaires in 1953: "The have occurred if the aggressor had editors. Chinese Communist regime should real- known what the United States would ize that such a second aggression could Talk about baseball — The citywide do." The Korean War began, he said, not occur without grave consequences Junior Baseball program of Louis E. because "The communists thought, and which might not be confined to Indo- Davis Post 56, Bloomington, 111., is had reason to think, they would not be china. in probably the biggest such program opposed, except by . . . South Korea." "1 say this soberly in the interest of the land. This summer, about 1,200 Too often, said Dulles, people "think peace and in the hope of preventing boys play on 90 teams under 16 coaches. peace is won by mere pacifism." another aggressor miscalculation." The The cost of this one post's boys' baseball "They should know by now," he said Red troops stayed home. program this summer will be about from the Legion stage, "that peace is There is much talk, he said, about $12,500. not had merely by wanting it, or talking "the increased responsibilities ... of the about it, or seeming to accept the role United States. That responsibility is a Get 'em dressed — Post 738, Cleveland, of a door mat ... to win peace is as reality. Ohio, has a post and unit uniform subsidy program. A member who will get FEARLESS WORDS "But we do not have to be constant- himself or herself a Legion or Auxiliary ly taking international public opinion uniform puts up $10, the subsidy pro- polls to find out what others want, and then doing it will us gram pays the rest. what seems make most popular.

The thread of life - Since 1955, the "Leadership won in this way is bloodbank of Post 216, Atlanta, Ga., has shabby and fleeting. supplied 96 pints of blood to veterans "Our present duty," he said, "is rather and their families, 36 pints to Atlanta to adhere, with increased loyalty, to VA Hospital, has come to the rescue what in our past has been found tested with blood in 2 heart operations and 5 and worthy. accident emergencies. In other dona- "For more than a century our con- tions it has brought its total of blood duct and example won for us world given to 383 pints. wide respect and prestige.

"That is the only kind of leadership Minn., No stopping— Post 113, Marshall, worth having." hasn't stopped growing since the rush of There were those who trembled when WW2 vets entered the Legion in 1946. DULLES at St. Louis, 1953 he promised "massive retaliation" to any Its present 677 members for 1959 are a winning a war new communist aggression. There were new all-time high, the 14th straight. hard, if not harder, than those who cried out in fear when he an- . . . rugged . . . it is a difficult and nounced that we had been for some time Perseverance — Post 962, Locust Valley, science. . . . "on the brink of war." N. Y., has completed a handsome new "Some persons seem to feel that O'ur But these stern and fearless words home on a bit-by-bit, pay-as-you-go men who fought in Korea fought use- for understood the schedule that has taken eight years of lessly. were meant and by work by members, and repeated small • "That is a cruel misjudgment of the commimists. fund drives — and has ended with a situation. While he was Secretary of State, Dul- the military finished product that is mortgage free. "Those who rolled back les' voice alone had the sobering effect aggression in Korea checked forces of ten armored divisions on foreign ag- In retrospect — Post 39, Vero Beach, which, if unchecked, would have gone gressors; no Americans had to fight in

Fla., has published a handsome history on to imperil the United States . . . Be- fresh conflicts on foreign soil; the free of the growth of the post and its Aux- cause of what they did, we today live world lost no inch of territory. iliary unit along with their community, more safely." America's foes respected him, and possibility since the post was first formed in Sept., In 1953 there was a real some of that respect rubbed off on our 1919. A fine record of carrying out Le- that the Chinese Communists might re- country—again. new the Korean War. Dulles said, for gion programs is described, and the pro- America will need more such men as grams themselves are made clear and all the world to hear: "If they do, they leaders if she is not again to sacrifice know now that they could no longer understandable to all residents of \'ero thousands of them as followers. Beach. The history notes that this is the count on the 'privileged sanctuary' [of si.xth year of the \'ero Beach American the land behind the Yalu river]." There LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: was no more war in Korea in Dulles' Legion Fair, a non-profit project for the The citation of an indi\ idual Legion- promotion of agriculture in Ind'an Ri\ er time. naire to life membership in his Post is a The communists were then dragging Count\'. Florida. testimonial by those who know him best out the Korea peace talks, making of that he has served The American Legion Cleanup — When the snow melts in the them nothing more than another big well. Stowe, Vermont, ski area, the litter of a propaganda stage. Dulles told them Below are listed some of the previ- whole winter's "picnicking" covers the bluntly from the Legion platform in St. ously impublished life memberships that landscape. This year for the second Louis: "We shall not sit in [the talks] have been reported to the editors. They

. with com- straight time Post 64 of Stowe has indefinitely . . negotiations are arranged by States. spruced up the entire landscape in a munists should always have a terminal James P. Giacoma and Bradley Smith (both "spring thaw cleanup." point." There soon was one. 1958), Post 24, Tombstone, Ariz.

30 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1059 Vincent F. Rebeck (1958), Post 87, Huntington Gilbert S. Hampton (1959). Post 300. Newark, Park. Calif. N.J. Otto C. Meeks (1956), Post 129, Banning, Calif. Fannie Gerson (1959). Post 447. Trenton. N.J. N. Cliff Betts (1958) and Al. T. Housman and Clark A. Briggs and William H. Countryman and Vernon H. Selvester (both 1959), Post 197. Red- Joseph A. Denny and Frank W. Ewart (all 1959), ding, Calif. Post 69, Ogdensburg, N.Y. John H. Jaske and Frank O. Johnson (both 1959), Sydney K. Johnson (1959). Post 189, Norwich. Post .168, Los Angeles, Calif. N.Y. Thomas J. J. O'Brien (1959), Post 527. Los An- Joseph J. Hannan (1959). Post 233. Glens Falls, geles. Calif. N.Y. George R. Woods (1959), Post 575. Los Angeles, Herbert Long and J. Norman MacKenzie and Calif. Otto Milius and Barclay Potts (all 1958), Post 264, H. O. Tredway and C. A. Miilloch (both 1958). Tonawanda, N.Y. Post 815. Leggett, Calif. Frank McNicholas (1959), Post 349, Mineola, W. Steward Willis (1959). Post 131. Center. Colo. N.Y. Claude Hebb (1959), Post 24, Bradenton, Fla. Francis J. Heaney (1959). Post 396. Geneva, Jesse O. Anthony, Jr. (1958). Post 11. Chateau- N.Y. A NEW HOME is a big event for any Le- Albert Latimer (1959). Post 489. Cortland, for roux. Indre, France. W. gion post. . . . May 23 was the big day James M. Hrabe (1958). Post 422. Berwyn. III. N.Y. Post 263, Carteret, N. J., as it dedicated this Ralph B. Gregg (1959), Post .1, Indianapolis. Ind. .\rthur F. O'Malley (1954) and Tally T. Tren- stone's Thomas S. .McConnell (1959), Post 57. Fowler. holm (1955) and George Lownes (1956). Post 854, tidy looking, flag-bedecked home a Ind. Vallev Stream. N.Y. throw from New Jersey Turnpike Exit 12. Augustns DoH and Joseph H. Nadean and Alfred Edward Heenan, Sr. (1959), Post 951. Ozone D. Soiicv (all 1959), Post 133, Fort Kent. Maine. Park. N.Y. Ronald C. Weller (1954), Post 261, Silver Spring, George Libonati and Frank Musante (1959), Post Md. 1212. New York. N.Y. Frank Burnett and Manus Getchell, Sr. and Carl M. Bovlan (1958), Post 1246, Oceanside, Frank Harrington and Lawrence Keevey (all 1959), L.I., N.Y. Post 22, Whitman, Mass. Thomas Sinionson (1952) and Olilius A. Enge- Rudolph C. Giamarco (1959), Post 89, Stoughton, ness and Elmer T. Meldahl (both 1958), Post 13, Mass. Finlev, N. Dak. Kenneth P. Harrison (1957), Post 307. So. Dart- Howard Ramsey (1957) and William Devore and mouth. Mass. Leopold Higy (both 1958). Post 436, Greentown, Arthur L. Edwards and Thomas F. Harrison and Ohio. John R. Nelson and Nathan L. Schwartz (all 1959). Jack M. Larson (1956). Post 40, Springfield. Oreg. Post 120, Highland Park. Mich. Otis C. Myers (1959). Post 1, Panama. C.Z. Leo Worthy (1953)and Renan Barclay and Albert William J. Huston (1954) and Clarence R. Mur- Fischer (both 1958), Post 135. Imlay City, Mich. phy and Frank H. Reese (both 1959), Post 28, Fred Seybert, Sr. and Clarence Spore and Orrin Monessen, Pa. Wade (all 1958). Post 138, White Pigeon. Mich. Edward Day Harris (1959), Post 43, Camp Hill, Lucille A. Mader (1958), Post 470. Lincoln Park, Pa. Mich. George F. Burke and Oren S. Cowen and Dr. Joseph DePetro and Samuel Saccoman and Louis Wilbert L. Grounds and Allen Helsel (all 1959), Sella (all 1959), Post 307. Nashwauk. Minn. Post 147. Roaring Spring. Pa. George Loose and Joseph Lupinetti and John Arthur Olson, Sr. (1959), Post 4, Keene. N.H. public Legion otii- (all Post Annville, Pa. CITY AND STATE and Cyrus N. Chase and Henry B. Dow and Stanley McClure 1957), 559. Paul Boord and William Boran and John Breslin, cials; foreign dignitaries; members of the M. Goodrich (all 1959). Post 70. Seabrook. N.H. Sr. and William Clements (all 1954). Post 677, New Walter Borgmann and (both 1956). Armed Forces snoke at ceremonies, paraded Frank Meyer Philadelphia, Pa. Post 77. Palerson. N.J. wliile tiie e\ er-faithful Auxiliary members Nils Widstrand (1959), Post 1. Stockholm, Swe- W. Thomas Montgomery and Raymond E. Parker den. prepared for a big dedication dinner in the and J. Howard Pew (all Post Burlington, 1958), 79. Frank Erspamer (1958). Post 58. Hurley. Wis. new post headquarters" modern kitchen. N.J. Post Commanders or Adjutants are asked to re- William T. Castlelon and Van Buskirk Demarest port life membership awards to "Life Member- and M. Clinton Hanser (all 1957), Post 111. Closter, ships." The American Legion Magazine, 720 5th N.J. Ave., New York 19. N.Y. Date of award is re- Harold B. Davis and Elmer J. Hough (both 1959), quested in all cases. Receipt of names cannot be Post 183. Verona, N.J. acknowledged.

How Posts Can Get Old Rifles and Other Military Items from the Army

The Ordnance Corps of the Army re- Any posts desirous of obtaining an ceives the vast majority of requests for item of obsolete combat equip)ment for items from various veterans organiza- decorative or monumental purposes SPACIOUS main hall belies modest appear- tions because it is responsible for sup- should first consider the expenses of de- ance of exterior. ... It will serve Carteret as as ceremonial militarization, handling and freight plying such popular items a civic gathering place for years to come. rifles, drill rifles, and demilitarized charges which they must bear. Costs of "trophy" items. several hundred dollars for artillery Until recently the exact procedures pieces are not uncommon and a thou-

for obtaining this type equipment was sand dollars is sometimes spent before a

not common knowledge. The Army has "trophy" is placed permanently in dis- now released information which will play position in front of the post head- assist recognized veterans organizations quarters. in obtaining authorized items. Army regulations prohibit the sale or Posts having a uniformed drill team donation of Garand (Ml) rifles, bay- may obtain drill rifles for a nominal onets, .45 caliber Colt (M1911A1) au- charge, which presently is $6.00 per tomatic pistols, carbines, jeeps, heavier rifle. One rifle may be obtained for each trucks and tractors to veterans organi- member of a uniformed drill team. zations. These rifles are demilitarized and can- All requests for donations and sales not be fired, even with blank ammuni- should be sent directly to: Command- tion. ing Officer, U.S. Army Ordnance Major Only ceremonial rifles are available Item Supply Management Agency, for donation at the present time. The Chambersburg, Pa. Attention: ORDSM- rifles are the caliber .30, Springfields, WY. AT THE CLLMAX of years ot planning. MI903 series, and are suitable for firing Blank cartridges for the caliber .30 Post Building Committee chairman Frank Tomczuk (a schoolteacher) rests between blank ammunition only. A maximum of rifles Enfield M1917 or Springfield afternoon and e\'ening ceremonies in post's 10 such rifles are authorized for each M1903 are also available at no charge covering private meeting hall. . . . Fireplace post. Packing and handling costs of to posts. Some Ordnance depots still whole waU is project Tomczuk and his father $4.50 per rifle must be paid. (Continued on next page) personally pledged for the new post home.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAOAZINE • JULY 1959 • . . .

THE LEGION'S VOICE ARMY EQUIPMENT 1,179 Cub Scout Packs and 807 E.x- (Continued from page 31) plorer units. Brief digests of some remarks hij na- ha\e blank cartridges for the M1898 showed the biggest gain tional American Legion spokesmen in The Legion Krag rifles which are also free while the York recent montJis. in sponsoring Scout units in New supply lasts. (+32); Ohio (+22); Indiana ( + 18); Only one full case of blank ammuni- Illinois "If local and state authorities knew Florida ( + 17) and ( + 11). tion will be issued to any post at any the full scope of the peddling of obscene one time. Case lots usually run 1000 to BRIEFLY NOTED: literature to our children they would 1200 rounds per case. Packing and han- Thirt) -eight founders of The Ameri- take greater steps against it. ... A fed- • dling charges of 50 cents per case or 75 eral report on this evil would help alert can Legion from 15 states gathered in ." cents for less than case lots must be St. Louis, Mo., on May 9 to commemo- them. . . Randel Shake, Nat'l Child paid b\' the ordering post. Shipments Welfare Director to a Congressional rate the fortieth anniversary of the are made collect and transportation and committee. founding (^f the world's largest veterans insurance charges from the dejDot must organization at Tlie American Legion also be paid by the post. St. Louis Caucus in May of 1919. Nat'l "Discrimination in employment be- Orders stating the amount of lilaiik Cmdr Preston Moore partic.pated in cause of age [alone] is contrary to Amer- J. ammunition must be submitted to the the cerem;/.iies rededicating a plaque on ican principles. . . Nat'l Cmdr Preston depot on official post stationery and the Union Square Building, site of the }. Moore on the first observance of "Em- signed b>' an elected officer of the post. old Schubert-Jefterson Theater, where ])loij the Older Worker Week," May 3-9. His title must be included. the Legion's first organization meeting A period of appro.ximateh' 30 da\s in the U.S. was held. "Permanent programs of federal aid to is required to process requests and posts the pul^lic schools must result in growing are requested to refrain from sending a • The National Guard Association dedi- federal control of the schools, opening follow-up on requests as supph' to cated a new National Guard Memorial the door to centralized thought-control. priority. Building on Massacliusetts A\enue in ." troops has . . James F. Daniel, Jr., Nat'l American- Posts should place orders for ammu- Washington, D.C. on Ma\ 3. ism Chairman, to a Congressional committee. nition to the depot as indicated below: • Twent\-fi\e minutes after he was Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, born on May 12, his prrmd father en- New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Is- "America must get off the defensi\ e in rolled John Eric Brinkman in Scjuadron land, Vermont (Seneca Ordnance De- the cold war. We must set goals of our 252 of the Sons of The American Le- ." pot, Romulus. N. Y.). CAvn . and pursue them. . Nat'l Cmdr gion in Greenwood, Ind'ana. Moore, to New York State Legionnaires. Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsyh ania. \'irginia. West \'ir- • Your post can now secure a fine ginia ( Letterkenn\ Ordnance Depot, "If gov't agency heads are to have American Legio-n film for booking in any Chambersburg, Pa.). greater power to fire federal employees theater in the United States, at a rental on security grounds, provisions for ap- Kentucky (Blue Grass Ordnance De- of only $1 to cover handling and ship- ." pot. Richmond, Ky. ) peal must be included. . . John S. ping costs. The film, "We Who Ser\'e"

Mears, Nat'l Legislative .staff, to a Con- Alabama, Flc ^a, Georgia, Missi.s- in either a 28-minutc or a 10-minute gressional committee. sippi. North Caiuiina, South Carolina, version, is axailable in 35iTim prints by Tennessee (Anniston Ordnance Depot, writing Films, American Legion Nat'l "It seems inconsistent that we are cut- Anniston, Ala.). Hq.. P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, In- ting back our active and reserve military Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, diana. strength while at the same time failing Oklahoma, Texas (Red Ri\er Arsenal, flag to make an all-out missile production Texarkana, Tex. ) © Spot announcements urging dis- .'" play on patriotic holidays for your radio effort. . . Nat'l Cmdr Moore, to a Con- Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Michigan. gressional conimittec. Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin (Sa- and T\' stations can be had from the Division, vanna Ordnance Depot, Savanna. 111.). Nat'l Americanism as can 35mm paper mounted slides for use by "The Legion is against a proposal to Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, North T\' stations in j^romoting flag display. take away the right of federal employ- Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming (Pu- Write the Americanism Division at ees to appeal job-.suspensions to the Ci\ il eblo Ordnance Depot, Pueblo, Colo.). ." Nat'l Hq. P. O. Box 1055, Indianapofis, Service . Commission. . Austin E. Ker- Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Indiana. Inj, Ass't Nat'l Economic Director, to a Ne\'ada. Oregon, Utah, Washington Congressional committee. (Sierra Ordnance Depot, Herlong, • The P. J. Ritter Company of Bridge- Calif. ) ton, N.J. has recei\ ed a national Ameri- "New laws to put teeth in the Smith can Legion Award for employing the Act are badly needed as a result of Su- BOY SCOUTS: handicapped. One such national award preme Court decisions freeing com- Ro|K)r( io is authorized for each state annually, munist leaders convicted under that act, Tlic Legion plus one for a firm operating in many ." . . Lee R. Pennington, A.s.s't Nat'l A new Iiigh in American Legion posts' states. Americanism Director, to a Congression- sponsorship of Boy ScO'Ut units is report- al committee. ed by the Boy Scouts of America in a • New Jersey Legionnaires held their report thanking Sco'ut the Legion for its fifth consecutive American Legion Col- "More federal research into juvenile work. lege—for training future Legion leaders delinquency would be a help to the Legion (and Auxiliary) sponsored -at Fort Dix, May 15-17. About 150 states and cities in dealing with tliis Scout groups hit a total of 4,333 during Legionnaires received the training. ." problem. . . Arthur W. Wilkie, Nat'l 1958, embracing more than 182,000

Child Welfare Chmn, to a Congressional boys. The breakdown shows Legion • The Minnesota American Legion is committee. sponsorship of 2,347 Boy Scout Troops; the third Department to set an all-time

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JU LY 19.^9 meinbersllip high this >'ear. It is the eighth straight year of increased growth for the Minnesota Legion and the tliird HELP US KEEP straight all-time record. Lonisiana and the Philippines also ha\e set all-tinie highs this year. THE THINGS • No less than 33 of The American Le- gion's 58 Departments had more members on May 21, 1959 than on May 2], WORTH KEEPING 1958. Thirty-six had exceeded 90% of their membership goals for the full year, of which 11 were over 100/?. North Dakota led, goal-wise, witli 156.22'i ot its full year's assigned membership aim, and had only 361 to go to break its all- time record.

• Mississippi's membership resurgence after a number of weak years saw it with 113.37* of its year's goal on May

21 and 9.6 J 8 short of its all-time record set more than a decade ago.

• Ele\en departments were ahead of their total 1958 membership in May 21. They included South Dakota, Philip- pines, Nebraska, Mississippi, Louisiana, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Panama Canal Zone, South Carolina. North Carolina and Colorado.

® Total national membership in May 21 was 12,154 ahead of the same date last year. It was 2,557,025 with seven months left.

• Membership goals for I960 have been assigned all departments of The Ameri- can Legion, based on year-end figiues for 1958. Here's how xour department

goal is assigned:

1. Normally your goal is 2% more Commander W. R. Anderson Conmiandei- of the 1st Atomic Submai ine than the last year-did figures. 2. If you set an all-time high at the last year-end, that figure, with no in- Here is a man who sees the need for peace firsthand. crease is your goal. As commanding officer of the Nautilus, he knows peace 3. Your goal will never require you is a matter of life or death. And he knows it doesn't come to enroll a higher percentage of eligible easy or cheap. Peace costs money. veterans in your state than twice the national average of eligibles enrolled. Not only money for strength to keep the peace. Money Between 13% and 14% of all eligible vet- for science and education to help find lasting peace. And erans in the country are Legionnaires, so money saved by individuals, to keep our economy sound. your goal cannot exceed 26% to 28% of the eligibles in your state. The Veterans We can't all be Sub Commanders. But v/e can all help Administration figures of eligible vet- strengthen America's Peace Power, simply by buying eran population are used, where this Bonds for a stronger, safer America. Every Bond you rule applies. buy helps. Couldn't you buy a few extra?

• The combined veterans organizations of Cook County, Illinois, have under- HELP STRENGTHEN AMERICAS PEACE POWER taken to raise $105,500 for the third quadrennial Pan-American Games, to be held in Chicago this Aug. 27-Sept. 7. These Western Hemisphere Olympics BUY U.S. ha\ e been held the year preceding each world Olympic Games, starting in 1951 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. John L. SAVINGS BONDS Paukstis, Commander of the Cook County American Legion Council, is 7*/ie U.S. Government does not pay for this advertising. The Treasury Deportment ^i^^jik% chairman of the veterans' fund raising thanks The Advertising Council and this magazine for their patriotic donation. ^^^P ^ committee

THE AMERIC.-^N LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 33 .

Max Greenspan, one of our outfit's medics. for future Le- EDWIN w. THORN, Past Dep't Cmdr of • A training conference Now need to learn his whereabouts. Also need gion leaders in Indiana resulted in 250 France (1926-27). to hear from anyone who remembers me. Write me, George Stillman. 209 Boston Ave., Hill- members of different posts getting two WIN CLARK, member of Post 67, Nor- side. N.J. Claim pending. days of orientation in making the Le- folk, Va., and secretary of the Profes- Navy gion click, at meetings in Indianapolis. sional Baseball Players of America; of a USS TaluKa (AO-62)-During the period Feb. To concentrate on future leaders, pres- heart ailment; in Los Angeles, Calif. through May 1946 my eyes were affected by an arc from a welding torch. In order to establish ent and past post commanders were WILLIAM D. KNIGHT, PaSt Dcp't VicC claim. I need to locate Boatswain's Mate John- barred from attending. Cmdr of Illinois (1922-23). former son, of Manchester. N. H.. and a boatswain's mate called "Red." Also need to hear from president of the Illinois State Bar Ass'n. anvone else who remembers me. Write me. and longtime Big Ten football official. Donald Walker, .17 Pleasant St.. Whitinsville, • 34,000 dry cleaning firms that are Mass. members of The National Institute of VC-ll— In order to establish claim, need to hear from anyone who served with Marion D. Dry Cleaning again offered to clean "Dusty" Peterson at Ream Field. Calif., in 1944. Especially need to hear from Delton E. American flags free from 1 to June June COMRADES Kennedy, and O. D. Graves. Write Keith 12 this year, preparator\^ for Flag Day Bryan. Veterans Service Officer. Court House. Columbus. Nebr. and Foiu th of July displa> IN DISTRESS Air Readers who can help these comrades are 348th Fighter Group—Need to hear from anyone PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: urged to do so. who served with me in this outfit. Also need Notices are run at the request of The to hear from anyone who left Oakland aboard VICTOR F. WHITTLESEA, Dcp't Adj t of the SS Sea Bass on July 12. 1944, especially American Legion Nat'l Rehabilitation Com- Nevada, elected president of the Nevada the acting 1st sgt of the Air Corps contingent mission. They are not accepted from other of this shipment; and Maj Kaplan, medical offi- Safety Council. cer at Camp Sloneman, Calif., in July 1944. sources. Write me. Clarejice H. Mctzser, 4606 Hackett JAMES D. HILL, Vicc Chmu of The Readers wanting Legion help with claims Ave., Lakewood. Calif. Claim pending. SS Marine Serpent-On Feb. 1. 1946. Richard Earl American Legion Child Welfare officers. Com- should contact their local service Allen boarded this ship at Manila for return to mission, appointed associate counsel Service officers unable to locate needed the States. On Feb. ,1 he was injured and was treated by Capt. Kurt E. Ron. an Air Corps witnesses for claims development should general of the Federal Aviation Agency. medical officer, and was placed in sick bay. Af- refer the matter to the Nat'l Rehabilitation ter the ship docked at San Francisco, Allen was ALFRED p. CHAMIE, Nat'l E.XCCUtivC sent to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., where he was Commission through normal channels, for Committeeman from California, elected discharged on Feb. 26. 1946. He now needs to further search before referral to this column. locate Capt. Kurt E. Ron and anyone who re- secretary and treasurer of the Ass'n of members him, especially those who were in sick bay with him. Write Frank Webb. Adju- Motion Picture Producers. He succeeds Army tant. Post 496. The American Legion. 1002 E. s. Pine St., Mason City. 111. Claim pending. JAMES HOWIE, a member of The 8lh Div, 28th Inf, Co K. 3rd Platoon-On Apr. 14. American Legion Public Relations Com- 1945. I was wounded when our platoon was at- tacked near Schwerin, Germany. Now need to mission, who retired. hear Ironi Dagoberto R. Sanchez (El Paso. Tex. I. Donald Scheeler (Peoria. 111 ). Milo MAURICE E. DRUHL, appointed Dep t Spartaye (Barberton. Ohio). Jack Riff (San OUTFIT Adj't of Oregon, succeeding Joe McDon- Antonio. Tex.), or anyone else who remembers me. Write me. Louis LaTorre, 7-C Porter ald, resigned. Place, Key West. Fla. Claim pending. REUNIONS 445th AAA AW Bn, Blry D-In Aug. 1944 1 suf- F. HERMAN- LUHRS, former Chmn of fered a severe head injury near Avranches, Reunion will be held in month indicated. France. I was given Pfc The American Legion Public Relations medical treatment by For particulars, write person whose address Commission, retired by General Motors is given. after nearly 40 years, has opened a pub- THE AMERICAN LEGION Notices accepted on official form only. lic relations firm with offices in Birming- NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS For form send stamped, addressed return envelope to: O. K. Form, American Legion ham and Lansing, Mich. APRIL 30, 19.59 Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 19, Died: ASSETS N. V. Notices shoidd be received at least Cash on hand and on deposit S 301,796.62 WILFORD S. ALEXANDER, PaSt Dcp't 282.213.40 foiH' months before scheduled reunion. Cmdr of Connecticut (1929-30). Inventories 536.409.83 1.45G.672.94 VAYNE M. (army) ARMSTRONG, Past Trust Funds: All Services Overseas Graves Decoration Nat'l Vice Cmdr of The American Le- Trust Fund $ 257,352.09 CBI Vets Ai,:.:i-(Aug.) Haldor Reinholt, 6803 N. Broad St.. Philadelphia 26. Pa. gion; in Indianapolis. He was the initia- Emv>loyees Retirement Tru.st Fund 2.7 '1,753.89 2,999,105.98 tor of The American Legion Ccllege, a Real Estate 804,990.15 Army leadership training course conducted at Furniture and Fixtures, less Depreciation 335,276.43 2d Ensr Special Brigade— (July ) Mrs. Robert R. Nat'l Hq in the years following WW2. 177,446.01 Dyer. 1 100 Ottillia St. SE., Grand Rapids 7. Mich. 3d FA Observation Bn— (Sept.) Louis Jenkins, 260 $().893.911.3() JOE c. JENKINS, Past Dcp't Cmdr of Carter St.. Rochester 21. N. Y. Florida (1954-5.5); at Mount Plvmouth, LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE 5th Cav-(Sept.) Hugh Robertson, 7527 Rugby St., Philadelphia 50. Pa Fla. AND NET WORTH 5th Div-(Sept.) T. Earl McNaney. 1305 College

Current Liabilities ! 375.042.56 Ave.. Elmira. N. Y. w. f BURR cuLLOM, editor of The Ten- Funds restricted as to use 22.492.77 6th Div-(Aug.) James E. Wittstruck. 4201 B St.. nessee Legionnaire; of cancer; at his Deferred Income 1,760,501.42 Lincoln 10. Nebr. Trust Funds: lllh Airborne Div— (Oct.) Seymour Silverman, 68 home, in Nashville. Overseas Graves Decoration Lexington Ave.. New York 10, N. Y. Trust Fund $ 257,352.09 19th Ensrs (Ry)-(Oct.) H. R. Jefferson, 5706 ERNEST GAUJOT BIAS, Past Dcp't Employees Retirement Woodland Ave., Philadelphia 43. Pa. Trust Fund 2,741,753.89 2.999.105.98 21st Evac (WW2l-(Sept.) E. Cmdr of West Virginia (1953-54); in Hosp Floyd Kunz, Net Worth: 523 W. .Seventh St.. Rushville. Ind. Williamson, W. Va. 22d, 227lh, and 229th Sig Operations Co:i (WW2)- (Sept.) William E. Loeffler. 108 Edgewood Ave.. T. T. Restricted Fund . . 20,424.33 (tip) TYNAN, Past Dcp't Cmdr Springfield. N. J. Real Estate 804,990.15 23d Armored Engr Bn, (Oct.) Leonard of Wyoming (1937-38); in Sheridan, Reserve for Reha- Hq Co— Marron. Newcastle. Nebr. bilitation 415,297.63 27th Div-(Sept.) Wyo. Reserve for Child Lawrence Reagan, P.O. Box 140.1. Albany 1. N. Y. CHARLES R. MABEY, Past Dep't Cmdr Welfare 45,796.62 Reserve for 28th Div (AEF)-(July) Jacob H. Patches, Neffs- of Utah (1932-33), and a former Gov- Convention 30.000.00 ville. Pa. 37th Div-(Sept.) Jack R. McGuire. Room 1101. ernor of that State. $1,340,693.84 21 W. Broad St.. Columbus 15. Ohio. Unrestricted 38th Engr Combat Regt-(Sept.) Larry Buffington. GEORGE woRTHEN, Past Dcp't Cmdr Capital 396,074.79 1,736.768.63 P.O. Box 4554. Baltimore 12. Md. of Utah (1935-36), and an associate $6,893,911.36 39th Engr Combat Regt-(Sept.) Thomas & Hazel Sweares, 2217 E. Raymond St., Indianapolis 3, justice of the Supreme Court of Utah. Ind.

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41st Div-(July) Joseph Poslika, 20 N. Wacker Unit 9)-(Aug.) William H. Barley, Box 222, USS Kidd-(Aug.) Harrold F. Monning, 310 E. Drive, Chicago 6, 111. R. D. 4. Rockvillc. Ind. Eighth St.. Kewanee. 111. 51st Pioneer Inf (WWl)-(Sept.) Otto Ranch, 186 World Wars Tank Corps Assn-(Aug.) John J. USS The Suliivans (WW2)-(Aug.) Robert R.

Adams St.. Dclmar, N. Y. Conlon. 9S-1 1 (Queens Blvd., Rego Park 74, N. Y. Sander, 325 Thatcher Ave., River Forest, III. S4th Pioneer Inf-(Aug.) J. R. Fitzsimons, 4005 N. WAVES-(July) Lt. Comdr. Eunice A. Home, Washburn Ave.. .Viinneapolis 12, Minn. Navy Box 665, Jacksonville 1, Fla. 63d Kngr Combat Bn, Co A-(Aug.) Clare. h, Patterson, 711 Indiana St., Zanesville. Onio. 33d .^eaJiees— (Sept.) George M. Daumen, 79 Earl 66th Sig Bn, Co C-(Aug.) Oscar E. Jones, 319 S. Place. Buffalo II, N. Y. Air Lew St., Piano. 111. 63d Seabees-(Sept.) L. H. Clausen, 2932 W. 81st Div-(Oct.) James E. Cahall, 1325 W. Wilson Belden .Ave.. Chicago 47, III. 14th Air Force and Flying Tigers— (Aug.) B. C. Ave., Chicago 40, 111. 66th and 1022d Seabees-tSept.) John E. Chandler, Freeman, 216 S. Fourth St., Steubenville, Ohio. 81st Div, iNofih Central States District-( Aug.) R. Box 1(10. McLemoresville, Tenn. 22d Bomb Group— (Aug.) Milton Weiner. 635 Donald Ray, 126 Burke Dr., Monroeville, Pa. 80th Seabees-(Sept.) Gilbert S. Hampton. 60 Madison Ave., New York 22, N. Y. 82d Div (WVvl)-(Oct.) tdward C. tlnnger, 2o E. Stratford Place. Newark 8, N. J. 96th Aero Sqdn (WWl)-(Oct.) C. C. Blanchard, 39th St., New York 16, N. Y. F Assn (Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Farmington. N. H. 84th Div-(Aug.) Lee C. Allen, P.O. Box 141, Firefighters)-(July) L. B. McGurk, 414 Wood- 386th Bomb Group-(July) John J. Laskowski. 2015 Canton 1, Onio. lawn Ave.. Streaior. 111. Gerritsen Ave.. Brooklyn 29, N. Y. 85th Chem IVIortar Bn-(Aug.) Edward F. Starr, LCI (L) Flotilla 24-(Sept.) Milton B. Kirbv, 555th Bomb Sqdn-(July) John J. Laskowski, 2015 3416 Arlington St., Laureldale, Pa. WoodrulT Bldg.. Springfield. Mo. Gerritsen Ave.. Brooklyn 29, N. Y. 91st Chem IVIortar Co (Motorized) (WW2)-(Sept.) SACO (Sino-American Cooperative Organization) 840th Aero Sqdn-(Sept.) Joseph D. Smith, Sr., Rodney D. Jacobson, R. D. 4, Oskaloosa, Iowa. -(July-Aug.) George D. Crowley, 135 S. LaSalle 200 N. Houcks Road, Harrisburg, Pa. 100th Div-(Sept.) Thomas C. Burdett, 114 S. Main St., Chicago 3, III. 523d (17th) Fighter-Bomber Sqdn-(Aug ) T R. St., Taylor, Pa. USS Black-(Aug.) Stanley Sward, 411 N. Ridge Vandervort, 18970 Lorain Road, Cleveland 26, 102d Div-(July) Ray J. Krajewski, 5435 White St., Cambridge. 111. Ohio. Oak Ave., East Chicago, Ind. USS Charleston (WW2)-(Aug.) J. F. Chmielewski, 1880th Aviation Engr Bn-(Aug.) Albert C. Taylor, 109ih tngrs (WWl)-(Oct.) E. W. Rockwell, 1815 314 Victor St., Westville. 111. Jr., 2 Plymouth Ave.. Franklinville, N. Y. Ave. E, Council Blurts, Iowa. 114th MG Bn, Co B (WWl)-(Sept.) Sam P. Dia- mond, 824 Cherry St.. Chattanooga, Tenn. HALF HIS CREW LOST... HIS SHIP IN FLAMES AND SINKING— lljth Inf, 1st Bn, Hq Co (WW2)-(Sept.) Ronald BUT WHEN THE ENEMY DEMANDED SURRENDER HIS REPLY RANG OUT L. Daney, 810 Conkiin Koad, Binghamton, N. > . 128th Inf, Co A (WW2)-tAug.) Ken Drake, 1508 Broadway, Menomome, Wis. '7 128th Inf, Co l-(Sept.) Harry V. Peplin, 2104 W. have not yet begun to fight!" Marne Ave., Milwaukee 9, Wis. 133d Engrs, Co E and 223d Combat Engrs, Co B (V>W2)— (Sept.) Kalpn stottler, ls.erknoven. Minn. 134th Inf, 2d Bn, Hq Co-(Aug.) Ralph D. How- erter. DeLong, 111. 137th Ord vlaint Co-(Sept.) J. A. Maples, 3214 Kenilworth Lane, Knoxvilie, Tenn. I42d lien Hosp— (July) Mrs. Elaine Mehalko Nolen. 1516 NW. 39tn St., Oklahoma City, Okla. 142d Inf, Co H (WWl)-(Oct.) Harry 1. Boothe. Lniiiicothe, Tex. ISOlh lnt-(Aug.) Daniel Maroney, P.O. Box 303, Charlesion, W. Va. ISlsl Inf, Co H-(Aug.) Cecil Haupt, 645 Linlawn Drive, Wabash, Ind. 151st Ord Bn, Hq and A & B Cos-(Sept.) Robert Heckard, R. D. 2. Logansport, Ind. 157tn Inf, Co G-(Aug.) Vernon D. Reyer, 1124 Collyer, Longmont, CoiO. 282d FA Bn-(Sept.) Charles Glass, 1340 Lydia, Louisville 17, Ky. 304th lnf-(Aug.) Edward Cain, 45-09 159th St., Flushing 58, N. Y. 308th Engrs (WWl)-(Aug.) Leo C. Brown, 49 Drurv St.. Dayton 3, Ohio. 309th Ammunition Train (WWl)-(Sept.) H. E. Stearley, 403 N. Meridian St., Brazil, Ind. 309th Engrs & Auxiliary— (Aug.) George Stoner, P.O. Box 52, Manchester, Tenn. 310th Engr Bn, Co C-(.Kny) John Klinsky, 735 Cadmus St., East Liveiic-oi, Ohio. 311th FA, Btry D (WHi)-(Aug.) Hugh Coll, 569 N. Laurell St., Hazelton, Pa. 319th Field Sig Bn (WWl)-(Sept.) Joseph W. Robe, 6U5 S. River St.. Newcomerstown, Ohio. 326th FA, Btry B (WWl)-(Sept.) Cnester Brown, P.O. Box 112, Cynthiana, Ky. 338lh Engr Regt-(Aug.) H. L. Weis, 335 N. Rob- ert Blvd., Dayton 2, Ohio. For the first time a star-spangled motion picture captures the real-life excite- 3S9th Engr Regt, Co B-(Aug.) Bud Spillers, 5610 Decatur Road, Fort Wayne, Ind. the sailor-of-fortune the world has known . . 362d Inf (WWl)-(Sept.) Albert F. Carlson, Box ment of most incredible 108, Basin, Mont. 366th Ord Mainl Co (AA)-(Sept.) Lonnie E. America's JOHN PAUL JONES- who inspired a mighty Navy into being! Baker, Westtleld, 111. 389th FA, Btry C-(Oct.) G. Melvyn Goetze, Charlotteville Road, Newfane. N. Y. This was a man! Range with him from George Washington's Virginia to 410th lnf-(Aug.) Walter R. Dressier, 24 Wild- wood Ave., Burtalo 10, N. Y'. Louis XVI's Versailles; from Jamaica's burning shores to 483d AAA AW Bn-(Sept.) Lester Little, 737 Hanover Road, Meriden. Conn. Russia's frozen steppes to Europe's coasts— as this fighting 524th MP Bn, Cos A & B-(Aug.) Charles Knox, 1725 Runyard Place, Waukegan, 111. leader and fiery lover conquers in battle and in boudoir! 555th Engr Heavy Pontoon Bn— (Sept.) Donald Krawczyk, 719 llth Ave., Green Bay, Wis. 567th AAA Bn-(July) Floyd G. Shelton, P.O. Your whole family should see—and we weigh every word— Box 551. Williamsburg, Va. 572d AAA-(Oct.) Norman E. Evans, P.O. Box pictures ever produced . . 241, Scranton 1. Pa. one of the most important motion 593d Engr Boat & Shore Regt, Co D-(Aug.) Bob Ellis, 400 Grand Ave., Johnson City, N. Y. JOHN PAUL JONES— a film worthy, if any can be, of the red-blooded era 691st TD Bn-(Sept.) Frank Zielinski, 5146 Medill 111. Ave., Chicago 39, it spans . . . when a proud banner was raised and a proud nation was born! 725th Ry Operating Bn-(Sept.) Fred L. Rice, 2301 N. 43d Terrace, Kansas City. Kans. starring 728th Ord Co and 103d QM Regt, Co E-(Aug.l Vernon Miller, R. D. 5. Gettysburg, Pa. ROBERT STACK -MARISA PAVAN 900th QM Laundry Co. -(Aug.) Wardell Henry, Maf s» ^"'^ ^ Special Appearance 5713 Walton Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. CHARLES COBURN • ERIN O'BRIEN 1572d Heavy Shop Equipment Engrs— (Sept.) llfc^ll Guest Stars m!ff James E. Parkhurst, Box 115, Lisbon. Iowa. f "A A 1 BETTE DAVIS as 24S6th QM Truck Co-(July) Charles W. Mills. • Caltierine the Great R. D. 3, Noblesville, Ind. MACDONALD CAREY JEAN PIERRE AUMONT 7703d Transportation Major Port (France)— (Sept.) Paul Seidenberg, 1560 Selwyn Ave., Bronx 57, DAVID FARRAR • PETER CUSHING • SUSANA CANALES N. Y. Ambulance Co No. 333 (WWl)-(Aug.) Joseph H. by SAMUEL BRONSTON Direcleii by FARROW Screenplay by JOHN FARROW and JESSE LASKY, Jr. Produced | JOHN Farmer. 3114 State St., Saginaw, Mich. | Music by Max Steiner Warner Bros. Records the original music from the sound \ n n °" \ Base Hosp Unit 108 (WWl)-(Aug.) Ralph F. TrpuMlf^ni f\D® I

I tl/rlNIOULUK | track of Paul Jones 'available at yourfavorite record dealer Jackson. 102 S. Elm St., Glenwood, Iowa. FllmeiJ in TECHNIRAM** I OOlOr by "John POW Command Units, Pongamdo, Korea (42d Distributed by WARNER BROS.^ MPEG Co, 9th MP Service Co, and PW Service THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 35 HITLER'S LAST DAYS -(Continued from l>(ige 11)-

the shelter, Hitler, in the presence of all would visit this person or that to demand war council. On that occasion the the occupants, presented her with his scowlingly Hitler's exact parting words Fuehrer was reported to have been so personal golden party insigne. Fran to the most recent visitor. This docu- thoroughly overcome by the persistently Goebbels often thanked God that she ment, Bormann planned, was to be hopeless news that he completely broke was alive so that she could kill her chil- spirited out of the bunker at the very down in the presence of the entire gath- dren to save them from whatever evil last minute "to take its place among the ering. The talk in the bunker was that would follow the collapse. To Hanna greatest chapters of German history." with this display even the most optimis- she once said impulsively: "My dear But this voluminous diary of despair tic of Hitler's cohorts tended toward the Hanna, when the end comes, you must carried no mention of the death of conviction that the war was irretrievably help me if I become weak about the Franklin D. Roosevelt at Warm Springs, lost. Hanna expressed the opinion that children." It was Hanna's belief that in Ga.. on the afternoon of April 12. Nor Hitler never recovered, physically or the last moment she was not weak. The did it note the death of Benito Mussolini mentally, from this conference-room Goebbels children were Hela, 12; Hilda. at the hands of an enraged mob outside collapse of April 20. 11; Helmut, 9; Holde, 7; Hedda, 5; the Italian village of Dorgo, near Como, Late in the afternoon of April 27, Heide. 3. on April 28. Nothing could illustrate SS Group Leader Fegelein (he was the

Eva Braun likewise exhibited fanati- with greater force Hitler's complete iso- husband of Eva Braun's sister ) disap- cal loyalty to the end, but her life in the lation in the final roaring climax of the peared from the shelter, where he had shelter was far less troubled than that great war. In the bunker fire much of been stationed as liaison officer between of Frail Goebbels. Studiously true to her Bormann's diary was destroyed; al- Hitler and Himmler. Within a lew hours role in the Fuehrer's circle, she occupied though significant sections, including word came back that Fegelein, wearing her time in fingernail polishing, chang- Hitler's last will and testament, fell later civilian clothes, had been captured on ing clothes several times a day, and into the hands of the Allied Occupation the outskirts of Berlin. To the capturing other little feminine tasks of grooming, forces. Russians, he posed as a civilian refugee. combing, and primping. In Hitler's pres- Throughout Hanna's stay Hitler's When this news was brought to the ence she was always charming, and manner and physical condition sank to bunker. Hitler instantly ordered Fegelein thoughtful of his every comfort. She lower and lower depths. At first he shot. But the deserter had long since seemed to take the prospect of dying seemed to be playing the proper part of been taken by the Russian troops, and with him as quite matter-of-fact, with leading the defense of Berlin. Until was far out of reach of Hitler's firing an attitude that seemed to say: "Had April 24 this was in some manner pos- squad. During the remainder of the eve- not the relationship been of 12 long sible, as communications were quite re- ning, however, Fegelein's desertion ap- years' duration, and had I not seriously liable. Messages were telephoned to a peared to weigh heavily upon the Fueh- threatened suicide when Hitler once flak tower at the edge of the bunker rer, and his conversation indicated some wanted to be rid of me? This would be compound, whence they were dispatched halfway doubts of Himmler's loyalty. a much easier way to die, and much by means of a portable radio suspended Occasionally he seemed still to hold more proper." from an invisibly anchored balloon. But the hope of General Wenck's success in Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Hitler's day by day communications became in- breaking thiough from the south. He right hand in the chancellery, remained creasingly difficult. In the late afternoon talked of little else, and all day on both close to his writing desk, recording for of April 28 all communications were the 28th and 29th he was vocally plan- posterity the momentous events taking broken. ning the tactics that Wenck might use in place in the bunker. Every word, every Hanna learned in the bunker that on freeing Berlin. He would stride about action went down on his paper. Often he April 20 Hitler had presided at his last the shelter, waving a roadmap that was fast disintegrating from the sweat of his hands, and planning Wenck's campaign with anyone who happened to be in the room. When he became overly excited, he would snatch up the map; pace with a quick, nervous stride about the room; and loudly direct the city's defenses with armies that no longer ex'- isted. For even Wenck, unknown to the Fuehrer, already had been routed and destroyed.

Hanna described the last two days in the bunker as a picture of a man's complete disintegration— a comi-tragedy of frustration, futility, and uselessness: the picture of a man running almost blindly from wall to wall in his last retreat, waving papers that fluttered like leaves in

his nervous, twitching hands; oi' sitting stooped and crumpled before his table, moving buttons representing his non- existent armies back and forth on a torn and tattered map, like a young boy playing at war on a rainy afternoon. Hanna's high opinion of Hitler and his staff sufTered during the final days in

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY I9.>y the bunker. Berlin had been drained of up by daylight," he began, pointing his wheelchair, thought differently. arms for the defense of the Oder Line. words in the general direction of von "Hanna," he said, "we are the only

When that salient collapsed, it appeared Greim and Hanna. "Therefore it is my hope for those who remain here. If the that there was no coherent plan for the order to you to return to Rechlin and chance is just the smallest, we owe it to defense of Berlin. Only at the last mo- muster your planes from there. It is the them to take it. Not to go would rob ment did Hitler decide to direct the task of your aircraft to destroy the po- them of the only light that remains. battle from his shelter, but he then had sitions from which the Russians will Maybe Wenck is there! Maybe we can no tools of command—no communica- launch their attack on the chancellery. help. But whether we can or cannot, we tions, no maps, one telephone to the flak With help from the Luftwaffe, Wenck will go." tower, and only a hastily improvised may get through. That is the first reason Von Greim bustled about clumsily in messenger service of SS troopers. As a why you must leave the shelter. The sec- preparation for a departure; but Hanna, result, he was a prisoner of his own ond is that Himmler must be stopped." still convinced of the absurdity of the safety and security, sitting helplessly in Here Hitler's voice choked with rage attempt, hastened sobbing to Hitler's his last shelter, playing a table-top war. and frustration, he became unsteady on room. Hanna concluded, but still with a faint his feet, his lips and hands trembled. At "Meiii Fuehrer, why, why don't you touch of allegiance, that Hitler was in- length, summoning a last burst of energy, let us stay?" finitely incompetent to rule the country, he cried in shrieking tones: "A traitor Hitler looked at her for a moment and and that his greatest fault was in evalu- must never succeed me as Fuehrer! You said: "God protect you." ating the character of people gathered must get out to insure that he will not." Preparations were made quickly for about him, which led to the selection of Von Greim and Hanna protested the leave-taking. Everyone gave the de- persons equally incompetent to fill im- vehemently that any attempt to leave the parting duo some token, something to portant positions in the government. shelter would be futile; that, in any take back into the world they were leav- Goering, to her mind, was the conspicu- event, it would be impossible to reach ing. Everyone wrote quick, last-minute ous example of this weakness in Hitler. Rechlin airport. They insisted they pre- letters to be carried out; all but two of "Never again in the history of the ferred to die in the shelter. these were subsequently destroyed. " world," she said, "must such power be "As soldiers of the Reich Hitler ex- Those saved were from Goebbels and allowed to rest with one man." ploded, "it is our holy duty to exhaust his wife to Frau Goebbels' eldest son by On the night of April 27 the Russian every possibility. That is the only chance a former marriage, then an Allied pri- It is bombardment reached a still higher of success that remains. your duty soner of war. Frau Goebbels also gave pitch, and almost every shell was land- and mine to take it." Hanna a diamond ring from her finger, ing squarely on the chancellery. As this "No, no," Hanna screamed. "What to wear in her memory. Thirty minutes indicated that the Russian infantry might can be accomplished now, even if we after Hitler had given his last order of overrun the entire area at any moment, should get through? Everything is lost; the war, von Greim and Hanna left the another suicide council was called by to try to change it now is insane." shelter. the Fuehrer. All plans for the destruc- But von Greim, from an improvised Outside, the city was in roaring flames tion of the bodies were gone over again. The mass suicide was to begin as soon as the Russians reached the chancellery grounds. ild, cool smoking... Throughout the 28th the intensity of the Russian fire mounted. In the shelter below the suicide talk quickened with naturally tasty... the shelling above. On the 29th a telegram arrived indi- cating that Himmler now had joined always fresh!

Goering on the "traitor" list. It was like a death blow to the entire bunker as- sembly. Men and women cried and screamed with rage, fear, and despera- tion all mixed in one wild emotional spasm. Himmler, the protector of the Reich, now in contact with the British and Americans, through Sweden, to pro- pose a capitulation to the San Francisco Conference of the United Nations! Hitler raged like a mad man. His color rose to a livid red, and his face was virtually unrecognizable. After a lengthy outburst he sank into a stupor, and for a time the entire bunker was silent. Later in the day came news that the Russians would make a full-force bid to overrun the chancellery grounds on April 30. Even then, small-arms fire was beginning to sprinkle the area above. B. J. Reynolds Nature put the flavor in P. A.'s tobacco. Tobacco Company Reports said that the Russian infantry Winston-salem, N. C. Prince Albert's special process keeps and improves this wonderful flavor. was nearing the Potsdaiuer Platz. Every- one again looked to his poison. Revived from his stupor of rage, Hit- ler soon began to scream orders again. "Every available plane must be called PRINCE ALBERT THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 37 Small-arms fire was audible from the aircraft to the aid of Berlin. He then or three men to carry the cans. More chancellery gardens. SS troops assigned ordered Hanna to fly him to Kiel so that men were following, because it took to guard the shelter to the end drove up he could learn what information Ad- some time to collect 200 liters of gaso- a small armored vehicle and took Hanna miral Doenitz might have of Himmler's line." and von Greim to Brandenhurger Tor, peace negotiations. By order of Guensche, the cans were where an Arado 96 was hidden. Several In these movements Hanna learned carried to the entrance of the bunker, hundred yards short of the revetment that the last great German plan for de- which was about 20 meters from which concealed the plane, the vehicle fense from the mountain redoubt near Kempka's quarters. was knocked out by heavy artillery. Berchtesgaden had been in readiness as "I then went into the antechamber of The takeoff was under hailing Rus- late as April 15. All headquarters bu- the briefing room. There Guensche told sian fire. As the plane hit roof-top level, reaus in Berlin then were on a constant me that the Fuehrer was dead. He did it was picked up by several Russian 2-hour alert. But final orders for this not tell me any details about the death searchlights and at once bracketed by retreat were to have been framed in the of the Fuehrer. He only explained he a barrage of ack-ack. Repercussions historic war council of April 20, in which had got the order from the Fuehrer to from heavy artillery tossed the light Hitler's explosion and collapse marked burn him at once after his death—'so plane like a feather, but only a few frag- the end of organized German resistance. that he would not be exhibited at a Rus- ments hit the craft. Hanna circled quick- At this conference Goering had insisted sian freak show.' ly to 20,000 feet. Below, Berhn was an vehemently that the redoubt was in "A short time after that 55 Sturni- unbelievable sea of flame. It was this readiness; Hitler had responded that it bannfuehrer Linge, the Fuehrer's valet, last-minute plane departure from the could not be made ready in time. Hanna and an orderly [later identified as Dr. Hitler bunker area on the night of April expressed the belief that this forced Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal physi- 29, 1945, that gave rise to persistent abandonment of the redoubt plan was cian] came from the private room of the rumors that Hitler had escaped alive. the immediate cause of Hitler's crackup Fuehrer carrying a corpse wrapped in an Moscow did not acknowledge Hitler's on April 20. ordinary field-gray blanket. Based on death until June 1952. Early in the evening of April 28 Erich the previous information from Guen-

And not until October 25. 1956, did Kempka, Hitler's personal chauffeur, sche, I at once supposed it was the the Berchtesgaden Civil Court officially received an order from Fegelein to re- corpse of the Fuehrer. One could see and formally declare Hitler dead. port to the bunker after dark to receive only the long black trousers and th? "There can no longer be the least important papers concerning the Fueh- black shoes which the Fuehrer usually doubt that Hitler took his life by his own rer. These were to be destroyed in the wore with his field-gray uniform jacket. hand on April 30, 1945, in the Fuehrer- event the Russians should take the Under these circumstances, there was no bunker of the Reichskanzlei in Berlin, chancellery area. When he reported, he doubt that it was the corpse of the and that he did it by a shot into his learned that Fegelein already had fled Fuehrer. I could not observe any spots right temple," the official court bulletin and had been captured and shot. of blood on the body wrapped in the declared. "I spoke to the Fuehrer for the last blanket. Eva Braun, who had been united in time on April 29," Kempka relates. 'T "Thereupon came Reichsleiter Martin marriage to Hitler in the bunker the day reported to him that I was engaged in Bormann from the living room of the before, took poison. bringing food into the inner part of Fuehrer carrying in his arms the corpse ^. Heading north, Hanna and von Berlin. . . of Eva Hitler, nee Braun. He turned ths Greim were in Rechlin in 50 minutes. "On April 30, SS Sturiuhauiifuehrer corpse over to me. Frau Hitler wore a

There the landing was made through a Guensche telephoned me and asked me dark dress. I did not have the feeling screen of Russian fighters. Assisted from to come to the bunker. Besides, I was to that the corpse was still warm. I did not the plane by German troops, von Greim take care that five cans of gasoline were recognize any injuries on the body. The at once gave orders calling all available brought along. I at once took along two dress was slightly damp only in th^ region of the heart. Behind Bormann there came also Reichsnunisier Dr. Goebbels. "Linge and the orderly now went up- stairs with the corpse of the Fuehrer to the bunker exits facing towards the gar-

den of the Reichskanzlei. I followed with the corpse of Frau Hitler. Behind me came Bormann, Goebbels, and Guensche. It was shortly before 7 p.m. "Linge and the orderly carried the corpse of the Fuehrer from the west- wardly directed bunker exit in the tower- house and put the wrapped corpse on the flat ground in a small depression about four or five meters distant from the bunker exit. There was no lawn, rather bare sand. Guensche then put the corpse of Frau Hitler next to the Fuehrer's. Immediately Guensche poured the complete contents of the five cans over the two corpses and ignited the fuel. Reichs- leiter Martin Bormann, Reichsininister Dr. Goebbels, 55 Stunnhannfuehrer "He's frightened — he thinks he's surrounded by Guensche, 55 St urmhannfuehrer Linge,

cereal and he'll have to eat it all!" the orderly, and I stood in the bunker THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE entrance, looked toward the fire, and all

3g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 saluted with raised hands. The stay in Keitel had sent word to this effect to the bunker exit lasted only a short time, Hitler the day before, April 30—the day because the garden of the Reicliskcmzlci Kempka witnessed the cremation in the was under heavy artillery fire." chancellery yard. Upon returning to the bunker, no Hanna and von Greim now "knew words were exchanged. that Hitler must surely have given up all Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, "i followed Guensche and Linge into hope." and both fully expected that the Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, the living room of the Fuehrer. Opposite well-rehearsed suicide plans already had Nervousness, Tiredness. the entrance stood a narrow sofa. Be- been put into operation. If you are a victim of the above symptoms, the trouble may be due to Gland- fore the right front leg lay a Walther Next day. May 2, the Berlin radio ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- pistol, 6.35 mm. caliber, which, as I announced Hitler's death. ease for which it is futile for sufferers knew, belonged to Eva Braun. Also on Questioned on the possibility of Hit- to try to treat themselves at home. the floor approximately before the mid- ler's having escaped after her own de- To men of middle age or past this type of inflammation occurs frequently. dle of the sofa lay a Walther pistol, 7.65 parture, Hanna said: "Had a path been It is accompanied by loss of physical mm. caliber. I supposed that this pistol cleared for him from the bunker to vigor, graying of hair, forgetfulness and belonged to the Fuehrer. I myself did freedom, he would not have had the often increase in weight. Neglect of such Inflammation causes men to grow not touch anything in the room, but strength to use it. . . . The man I saw old before their time—premature senil- silently stood there for a few seconds. in the shelter could not have lived." ity and possible incurable conditions. I did not put any questions, and no one On May 2 Hanna and von Greim Most men, if treatment is taken in spoke to me. According to the situation, witnessed establishment of the new Doe- time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- it was clear to me that the Fuehrer and nitz government at Ploen. where they mation. If the condition is aggravated Eva Braun had killed themselves. From confronted Himmler for the first time by lack of treatment, surgery may be the location of the two pistols, 1 con- since his abandonment of Hitler a week the only chance. cluded that the Fuehrer sat at about the before. This first war council of the new middle of the sofa before firing the shot, government decided only that com- NONSUR$/CAL TReATA/lfm and that Eva Braun sat on the right part manders should resist as long as ammu- The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat- of the sofa. [The fatal shots had been nition lasted "to enable as many civilians ments used at the Excelsior Medical fired at 3:30 p.m.] as possible to flee from the Russian Clinic are the result of discoveries in recent years of new techniques and "After returning to the garage, I noti- advance. " This was the actual end of the drugs plus over 20 years research by fied my men that the Fuehrer was dead. war. although scattered fighting con- scientific technologists and Doctors. A ceremonial was not held." tinued for six days on several isolated Men from all walks of life and from Next morning. May 1. Kempka was fronts. over 1,000 communities have been successfully treated here at Excelsior to the bunker to take away the ordered That night Hanna and von Greim Springs. They found soothing and com- bodies of the six Goebbels children and flew to the headquarters of Marsha! Joer- forting relief and new health in life. their nurse. At 9 p.m. that night the re- ner, in Silesia. On this flight von Greim's maining occupants of the bunker and foot became so troublesome that he had RECTAL-COLON EXAMINATION Are often associ- all those remaining in the main chan- momentary lapses of consciousness. ated with Glandu- lar Inflammation. cellery buildings, perhaps 500 persons in Von Greim wanted to fly to see Field AT LOW COST When you arrive These disorders, we all, attempted a concerted escape. They Marshal Kesselring, at Graz, to convey can successfully here our Doctors who treat for you, at scattered at will after the first break- the agreed surrender instructions; but are experienced spe- the same time we through, in which about half were killed the condition of his injured foot now cialists make a com- treat Glandular In- plete examination. flammation. or wounded. On the morning of May 2 put further movement out of the ques- Your condition is Storm Trooper Schwegermann, Goeb- tion. So he remained in Joerner's head- frankly explained REDUCIBLE bels' adjutant, told Kempka that Goeb- quarters, in Koenigratz, under Hanna's and then you decide HERNIA if you will take the is also amenable to bels and his wife had died in the bunker. care until May 7. That night they flew treatments needed. a painless Non- "I did not ask any further questions, to Zell-am-See, where Kesselring's ad- Surgical treatment Treatments are so that we have de- but 1 suppose that Dr. Goebbels and his jutant informed them that the formal mild hospitalization veloped. Full de- wife committed suicide." [Goebbels had capitulation was being arranged for mid- is not needed— a con- tails of this treat- siderable saving in ment given In our ordered an SS guard to shoot his wife, night on May 8. [The surrender terms expense. Free Book. then himself.] were signed at Reims. France, at 2:41 Write Today For O Before his death, Goebbels gave or- a.m. on May 7. These terms specified The Excelsior ders to have the bunker saturated with that the German High Command would Med leal Clinic has pub gasoline and ignited. This command was at once order all German forces "to lished a New FREE i U JUUSTRATEdT BOOK carried out by General Burgdorf and cease active operations at 2301 hours Book that deals with diseases peculiar to Storm Trooper Schaedle, who remained (11:01 p.m.) Central European Time men. It could prove ."] in the Reichskanzlei after the main on 8 May. . . of utmost importance to your future life. evacuation on the night of May 1. Just before the capitulation they flew Write today. No ob- "Schaedle told me that he would to Kutzbuhl. where they surrendered ligation. shoot himself if the Russians pushed themselves to the American military au- EXCELSIOR through. So far as I know, thorities on the morning of May 9. additional MEDICAL CLINIC members of the Fuehrer Escort Von Greim was hospitalized until Com- i Dept. B1151 mand did not remain there, but it is pos- May 23, when he was taken to Salzburg Excelsior Springs, Mo. I sible some returned after futile break- as a prisoner of war. On the night of I Gentlemen: Kindly send me at once, your I New FREE Book. I am interested in full through attempts." committed suicide in Salz- May 24 he I information (Please Check Box) After conferring with Grand Admiral burg with the poison capsule given him ' Hernia Rectal-Colon Glandular ' Inflammation Karl Doenitz at Ploen, near Kiel, late in by Hitler in the Berlin bunker a month I the night of April 30, Hanna and von before. I NAME Greim caught up with Marshal Keitel Hanna and the chauffeur Kempka sur- ADDRESS. early in the morning of May 1. Keitel vived to be taken as prisoners of war in TOWN informed them that Wenck's army long the American Zone, at Salzburg. STATE- since had been destroyed or captured. THE END I

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JOHN V. CANTWELL, R. D. 5, Searcy, are still being fashioned in the careful, bait is gumdrops, Nash says. Ark., tells us that one of tiic handiest pieces knowing way.

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inquiries about it that we think a repetition his mouth, he will take out line without HENRY TALLIER, U'abeno, Wis., tells may be helpful. Each year from September feeling the pull of the sinker. The tooth- us how he distinguishes pickerel, northern through mid-November more than a mil- pick keeps the sinker from going up on the pike, and muskie. "The cheek of the pick- lion blue geese feed and rest near James hook while casting." Clear? erel," he writes, "is fully scaled, but the Bay before taking the last long flight to

cheek of the northern is scaled only half- our Southland. This great flight passes close HUGH KLAPPERT, 48 Duttenhofer BIdg., way to the eye, and the muskie has no to the goose club where we shot last year. 229 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati 2, Ohio, has scales at all on the cheek." As the season gets under way in early Sep- found a way to preserve bait-shrimp, one Henry says that very often he can catch tember, it is wise to write now for infor- of the most effective of live baits. He puts perch on flies when they won't take bait. mation and resen'ations. We suggest that them in a wideniouthed Mason jar; then He uses brightly colored trout flies and you write Alex Hennessy, managing di- places them in layers, covering each layer

puts a sp\k shot above the fly to sink it rector, James Bay Goose Club, Ltd., Suite with borax. He then refrigerates the shrimp, about 2 feet below the surface. After the 805, 347 Bay St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and he tells us that there is no odor and cast he reels the line in with easy pulls. for full particulars. that they will last for 3 months.

4Q • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 DR. DANIEL M. LONBERGER, of 234 WE LIKE THIS suggestion from Ray S. Gill St., State College, Pa., sends in a Lcssard, 18 Kersey Rd., Peace Dale, R. I. of good ideas for fishermen. couple He ad- "Last year when I went hunting in New ATTENTION vises: "To prevent slipping on certain Hampshire," he says, "I bought a topo- stream bottoms, get some thick carpeting, graphical map of the area 1 intended to and cement carpet soles on your fishing hunt and fish. Due to constant use and rain LEGIONNAIRE boots." And for a fishing-rod ferrule that and snow, the map became worn. Some of has worn loose he offers: "Take some fine the contour lines, logging trails, and so SHOPPERS sandpaper and rub it on tlie male end. Then forth rubbed off. I took a good-sized card apply liquid solder with the fingers. When from my billfold and traced the area I in- this tlie solder hardens in about 20 minutes, try tended to hunt this coming year. I cut this Wherever you see emblem pushing the male ferrule into the female section of the map out, and on the opposite displayed in a store window, part. If it doesn't fit, sandpaper it till it does. side I placed the mileage scale, a magnetic

Make sure to apply the solder thinly." north line, and a true north line. I also it means the shop is owned by placed arrows showing the direction of the

nearest highways and towns. Then I had ROBERT PRINCiPATO, 201 Park St., a fellow American Legionnaire the whole thing laminated. Now I can even West Roxbury, Mass., offers: "I prize dis- carry it 1 swimming it will who is cooperating in important carded window shades and always carry when go and still show me the way home." tiiem rolled up so that they take little space Legion activities and is one of in the trunk of car. 1 place one under my ROBERT E. MARKS, of Bennett, Iowa, my sleeping bag, and there's no chance of . . . has a simple idea for handling zippers while the 25,000 members of uncomfortable dampness. if I And need a wearing gloves. He says: "Equip the slide tire change on the road, they serve as ex- fastener on your zipper with a teardrop cellent roadside mats." lead sinker. When you want to unzip your The American Legion Magazine Jacket, you won't have to take your glove off." Retail Advisory Council

HENRY JACOBSON, Argyle, Minn., tells us that by cutting a synthetic rubber inner tube into small pieces and dissolving TnoWtae folding it in boiling linseed oil, you can make your BANQUET own wood preservative and waterproofcr — good for boot bottoms, or your hunting TABLES] or fishing cabin roof.

MRS. JOHN McMICHAEL, 131 West JOHN KING, of 25 W^arren St., Spring- E St., Springfield, Oreg., has what she calls field 8, Mass., hunts partridge and pheasant Factory prices and "hints" for outdoorsmen. "Next time with his back to the sun. He faces west in discounts to this moden you ctiurches. sctiools. Foldinq Bar^quct drive into the morning and east in the afternoon. He clubs, etc. Write for Table. America's a gas station," she sa\ s, "pick up Catalod of Tables. greatest line. Ctiairs. Trucks. a couple of discarded automobile oil-filter says it gives him better and clearer shots at Monroe Co., 69 Church St., Colfax, Iowa cartridges. They make \vonderful fires on a flushed game. Shooting into the sun causes camping trip and burn with an even flame him a lot of misses. for 3 hours." She also sa\'s that a few sacks MISSOURI HAS COME up with an idea YOUR SAVINGS EARN MORE! silica of gel, \\ hich is used to protect motor ALSO! LIST OF that we think other States should copy. parts, will help absorb moisture and stave 50 HIGHEST-RATE Called the "Show-.Mc Sportsman's Map," FED. AGENCY INSURED off mildew in the tackle box. "Tape in each is is in 4 colors, is 25 x 35 inches, and SAVINGS ASSNS. end of the Vi tackle box," she suggests. "You Mailidlorielails -Idsl call! shows the road system of the entire State. can reuse the sacks by drying them in an INVESTORSERVICE Symbols on the front locate 77 different 11 W, A2n6 St.. New York oven. This reactivates the crystals." 4-7665 • FREE service areas open to the public for hunting, fish- LA a Free gifts! DD* commercially ing, and other outdoor activities. ARTHUR BOTT, 334 S. \^almar St., Little Rock, Ark., sends a valuable suggestion, IF YOU GUN enthusiasts haven't seen one that he used to avoid getting lost in The Shotfiitij Neivs, you ought to get a VISIT ONTARIO the woods, and which applies to both hunt- copy. It calls itself the "Trading Post for ers and fishermen. "Buy a small can of Anything that Shoots." The May 1959 edi- THIS AUGUST! spray paint-yellow is a good color-and tion contains 52 pages, tabloid size. It's on when you enter heavy, virgin timber, spray newspaper stock and is packed with clas- if you are attending the American Legion Con- the back side of trees at intervals of about sified and display ads covering guns and vention in Minnea- 20 feet or so. Use your own discretion as to accessories for sale or trade. Also lists items polis this year, plan distance. On returning through those wanted. Write to C. G. Snell, The Shotgun a few extra days to visit Ontario. Pic- woods that you aren't familiar with, all you News, Columbus, Nebr., for a free sample ture a vacation have to do is follow the paint marks. "V'ou copy. area with over can't get lost. I always use this system on 250,000 lakes, TIP I. F. Hubsmith, Richfield, entering deep, bottom timbcrland while THIS from vast acres of un- squirrel or deer hunting." Idaho, has to do with a pest that plagues spoiled woodlands and fishermen everywhere. "When a wood tick complete resort facilities- just across The Great Lakes. puts the bite on you," he says, "dab it with JOHN CHRISTIAN DOCTER, M.D. Here you will find all-new vacation adven- turpentine. It will soon turn up its toes, and tures. Come to Ontario, Canada's variety vacationland. (that's no gag), of 610 Sixth St., Racine, you can get it out without leaving its head Wis., says that he likes smoked fish but that For this big, FREE, colourful booklet, just mail coupon: imbedded. Turpentine also serves to soothe he used to travel 4 miles to a farmer who the irritation from the tick bite." i had a smokehouse to get his fish smoked. Province ol Ontario, Dept. of Travel and Publicity,

One day while passing the town dump, 2. he — Jack Denton Scott Room 430, Parliament Buildings, Toronto noticed a discarded refrigerator. He re- Please send me full information on vacation adventure

in Ontario camping lishing ( ) hunting ( trieved it to use as his own smokehouse. If you have a helpful idea that pertains ( ) ( ) ) summer resorts ( ) signtseeing ( ) boating First, he put a fireproof wire on a plate, and to hunting or fishing, send it along. If \

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CONVENTION CITY

( Cditlhiinil jioiii l^age 15 steps over the Falls of St. Anthony. In- Minneapolis Grain Exchange, on the ings dominate the residential district deed, the city owes much to the falls, south edge of the downtown district, the southeast of St. Anthony Falls. which generated power for the mills world's largest cash grain market. The Minnesota State Fairgrounds, to that made the city famous. St. Paul's Science Museum, just north the east of the agricultural campus of Many of Minnesota's thousands of of downtown St. Paul. the University of Minnesota. lakes can be found in the Twin Cities The capitol, at St. Paul, designed by Southdale, on the southwestern fringe area. The largest is Minnetonka. with Minnesota architect Cass Gilbert, cred- of the Twin Cities, described as the na- 200 miles of shoreline. From the eastern ited for his development of the modern tion's most spectacular shopping center. end of this lake a creek named Minne- skyscraper. Such well-known manufacturing haha spills eastward and tumbles into Como Park, which has excellent zoo- plants as those of Minnesota Mining and the Mississippi gorge to create the falls logical gardens and a conservatory. Manufacturing Co., the home of Scotch immortalized by Longfellow in "Hia- Minnesota Historical Society, where Tape, located in St. Paul; Minneapolis- watha." you can see a collection of priceless doc- Honeywell, known for electrical control Visitors will find the following places uments and photographs. apparatus; Brown and Bigelow, the of special interest The "God of Peace," a slowly revolv- world's largest calendar publishing house Fort Snelling. the oldest landmark of ing giant marble statue of an Indian, in in St. Paul; Toro Manufacturing Corp., white settlement in the Twin Cities, built the St. Paul courthouse lobby. makers of power mowers in Minneapo- in 1 S 1 9 at the junction of the Minnesota University of Minnesota, one of the lis: Pillsbury's and General Mills, world and Minneapolis Rivers. world's greatest universities, whose build- famous for flour. the end

WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT CANCER (Coiiliiitied jrotn poge 17)

One out of six deaths is now a cancer 4. Radiation, used against cancer since 000. The next year it raised $4 million, death. Only heart disease kills more. In 1899, now is more effective than ever and since then $250 million.

3 I foreign countries cancer is the lead- thanks to multimillion-volt X-ray ma- Moved by the fate of his friend ing cause of death. chines, betatrons, and the peacetime by- Damon Runyon, who first lost his voice

Fortunately there is another side to products of the atom bomb. The last and then his life from a throat cancer. the picture. More has been learned about include radiocobalt, radioiodine, radio- Walter Winchell, the columnist, in 1946 cancer and more progress made toward phosphorus, and radiogold. Radiation started the Damon Runyon Memorial its control since World War II than in supplements surgery and also is used to Fund for Cancer Research. It has since all previous human history. In 1938 one treat inoperable cancers. raised $13.5 million, nearly $1 million out of four cancer patients was saved. 5. New chemicals useful against can- from the Fraternal Order of Eagles

Last year it was one out of three. Some cer, in addition to those named, include alone. All of this money has been de- definite gains are these: the synthetic adrenal hormones of the voted to research. Runyon's de ith. in- 1. More than 800,000 Americans who cortisone family and the synthetic sex cidentally, was an example of the trage- have had cancer are now alive and free hormones which are of definite value in dy of unsuspected cancer. He learned from it five years or more after its diag- cancer of the prostate in men and breast of it from a veterinarian who noticed nosis. Half of the 450,000 new cases of cancer in women. Dr. Charles Huggins. his speech when he brought a dog in tor cancer that will be found this year can of the University of Chicago, and others treatment. be saved by treatment now available if have found that administration of male The personal element also figured in it is obtained promptly. hormones helps control the latter and several other anticancer projects 2. Tests now detect early cancer with female hormones help control the launched at the time. The late Charles greater accuracy than in the past, and former. F. Kettering, whose wife and two sisters new electronic devices for swilt and pre- 6. Funds for cancer research have in- died of cancer, joined his General cise identification of cancer cells are be- creased a hundredfold since 1944. While Motors colleague Alfred P. Sloan in es- ing developed. The vaginal smear test more money can still be used, $76 mil- tablishing the Sloan-Kettering Institute of Greek-born Dr. George N. Papani- lion a year in public and private funds is for Cancer Research in New York as colaou has saved the lives of thousands now being spent on what the American "a cancer university." It was started of women with unsuspected uterine can- Cancer Society terms "the greatest and with a $2 million building and the same cer. At 75, he is still studying cancer at costliest single undertaking in medical amount to finance its work for a decade. the Cornell University Medical College history." The institute soon will have, at Rye, in New York. Although the Roswell Park Institute N. Y.. a new $4 million building for re- 3. Surgery, the principal answer to at Buffalo, Memorial Hospital in New search in chemotherapy. Called the cancer since Galen, is safer than ever York, Harvard University, and a few Walker Laboratory, it was built with before thanks to infection-preventing other institutions had research programs, Government assistance. In Newark, antibiotics, improved anesthetics and there never was as much as $1 million N. J., eight women friends of a young blood transfusion techniques. Removal a year available for cancer research be- woman who died of cancer at 28 formed of a mouth cancer in a secret operation fore World War II. The American So- the Ruth Estrin Goldberg Memorial for saved the life of President Grover Cleve- ciety for the Control of Cancer, a medi- Cancer Research and raised $100,000 land in 1893. In recent years better sur- cal-lay organization dating from 1913, for it by stunts such as running a filling gery has greatly reduced abdominal can- had less than this for all its activities. station for a day and soliciting funds in cer mortality. A new operation which Under the leadership of Elmer H. burlesque shows. has restored speech to some people Bobst, Emerson Foote, the late Albert Pursuit of research related to but in- whose larynxes have been removed be- Lasker. and others, this group was re- dependent of the explosion at Bari led cause of cancer was revealed this year organized as the American Cancer So- the private pharmaceutical industry to by Dr. John H. Conley of New York. ciety in 1944. That year it raised $850,- invest millions in cancer work. On the

42 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 decision of its late President William B. animals. Antibiotics as well as synthetic I Bell, a Quatcer wiio believed in bold re- chemicals are being tested. In addition .RUPTURE search, the American Cyanamid Com- to numerous university and hospital con- pany began a program on which it has tracts, the Government has contracts RELIEF 1^ ' spent more than $5 million. In the tra- totaling more than $1 1 million with more Amazing dition of its American-born founder. Sir than 100 private companies for labora- Henry Wellcome, who kept a research tory work of this sort. The program is ELASTIC TRUSS laboratory "much as another man might handled by the Cancer Chemotherapy Compares in Qualit.v and $7.50 c imi f o r t with elastic like to support a racing stable," Bur- National Service Center, set up in 1954 post- trusses costing dollars paid more! Highgrade surgical roughs Wellcome & Co. has conducted at Bethesda, and is guided by a commit- elastic body band expands costly cancer research both in America tee which includes top Government and and contracts with each body movement. DROPPED-FRONT design keeps broad, flat foam industry researchers. and England. A 1958 decision of rubber pad low and in place. Pad can't slip, slide, Drs. R. B. Angier and Robert Stok- the Department of Health. Education, gouge. No fitting—easy one-buckle adjustment. Padded, adjustable leg straps. Balanced support stad and other Cyanamid scientists iso- and Welfare allows a company patent for single or double reducible inguinal hernia. Washable. F.jr men, women, $7.50 postpaid except rights cancer drug it lated and in 1945 synthesized folic acid, on any discovers on CCD's. Send hip measurement. :iO-day money- a vitaminlike material found in the foli- in the course of the program as long as back guarantee. age of certain leafy plants. A daily sup- it can produce it economically and meet Kinlen Co. Dept. AL-79P all ply of folic acid is vital for the growth demands. 809 Wyandotte Kansas City 5, Mo. and survival of all cells. Many more projects are concerned This led students of cancer, such as with the basic enigma: why some of us "25 ••'250 Dr. Sidney Farber of the Children's Hos- develop cancer and, equally important, CAN lARN "Giving Away" Imported Gifts pital in Boston, to believe that a varia- why some of us do not. "We want to find 'It's Fun—Not Work I tion of folic acid might starve, poison, what makes cancer cells tick," explains Introduce lovely new Christmas Cards by privin friends fine imported ceramic gifts for only 3'.)c. or otherwise halt the growth of cancer an Eli Lilly researcher in Indianapolis, You make 50c to $1.25 cash profit per item on 260 newest Assortments of Ureeting Cards. Stationer cells. By substituting other chemicals for "and where to throw the monkey wrench & tiifts. No experience needed. Write for Free Gift Kree Personal Album & 2 Ass'ts on approval NOW I various parts of folic acid, researchers to make them stop ticking." A National —^j^jjim-jj^j^ MIDWEST CARD CD.. 1113 Washlneton, Dept. 404-J, SLlOulsl. Mc. of Cyanamid's Lederle Laboratories pro- Cancer Institute scientist explains that a duced a series of folic acid antagonists. cell is malignant because of an added These function by displacing or prevent- "something" which it didn't have be- Tortured 7 Years by ing folic acid from acting in living cells. fore, or the lack of "something" which

formerly regulated its growth. The prob- One folic acid antagonist is Aminop- ITCH-SCRATCHY Skin terin, first made in 1947. Dr. Farber lem is the "something." "/ nearly itched to death for 7} > years. Then I found that oral doses of it temporarily The mass efi'ort to find it involves sta- discovered a neiv wonder skin crenie. Now I'm halted the advance of leukemia in chil- tisticians; convict volunteers in Ohio happy," urites D. Hotvard of Los Angelet Here's blessed relief from the itching tortures and dren. In one remarkable case it was given State Prison and elsewhere; mice breed- misery of rash, eczema and skin irritations with an for 6 years to a boy with an apparent ers and millions of mice; and hundreds amazing new scientilic formula called LANACANE. This soothing, stainless medicated creme kills intestinal cancer. He grew up to be a of chemists, pathologists, physicians, harmful bacteria germs while it softens and dissolves infected skin tissue. Stops scratching and so speeds 6-foot, 4-inch National Guardsman with surgeons, and others in scores of institu- healing. Don t suffer! Get LANACANE today. no further trouble. Methrotre.Kate, al- tions. It involves the Sloan-Kettering ready mentioned, was developed the Institute and the complex of hospitals next year. Other companies have since and laboratories forming the Memorial as TAX EXPEItT developed many other drugs to fight Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases Our students earn as much as $3,000 in 3 short months preparing income operate cancer. in York; the Atomic Energy ta.\ returns in spare time —also New Com- lucrative Business Tax Service yield- The American Cancer Society mean- mission's great Argonne Cancer Re- HOUR ing steady monthly fees of $10-$50 per client, year round. Enjoy profes- while has raised increasing amounts for search Hospital at the University of sional standing in dignified home-office business. No experience necessary. We train you at home and help you start. Write todav for free literature. No its work, and Government appropria- Chicago and installations at Oak AEC agent will call. Approved by New Jersey Dept. of TRAINING, tions for the National Institute Ridge Brookhaven; Dr. Paul Burk- Education, UNION INSTITUTE OF TAX Cancer and Lakewood, 17A, New Jersey. at Bethesda, Md., have been increased holder's antibiotic laboratory at the sharply. The Society's contributions in- Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which has creased to $13.25 million in 1948. The screened 100,000 molds; and the Na- • • • Institute's appropriation rose from $548,- tional Cancer Institute's own laboratory LAW 000 in 1946 to $14.5 million in 1948. and hospital at Bethesda where 500 sci- CTIinV 4T UnMF Legally trained men win higher posi- OIUUI HI nUmt tions and bigger success in business The -Society now raises about $30 million entists, technicians, and laboratory as- and public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. 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Nearly $1 million of the of cancer. As far back as 1775 Dr. Per- Veterans Administration's funds and cival Pott, a surgeon of St. Bartholo- Uy them FREE $3.4 million from the Atomic Energy mew's Hospital in London, observed Asthma and the dis- Commission also are being used for can- that chimney sweeps developed cancer Sufferers from comforts of excessive secretions in the cer research. The funds available for of the scrotum because some of the soot nasal passages associated with Hay Fever have, for over 60 years, found research in this field are greater than in which they worked became lodged in quick, temporary relief by smoking PAGE'S INHALERS. Pleos- ever before. this part of their body. Later it was ant, inexpensive. Much of the money is going into the found that soot contains a cancer-caus- For free samples, write search for chemical compounds that will ing chemical. 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THE .A MERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY l'J5') • 43 at an Orange, N.J., plant later died of All 171 VA hospitals have begun a lipin H. This has been isolated from more cancers of the blood, bone, or brain. long-term survey to provide information than 20 different specimens of human This established radium paint as a cause on cancer patients. The data will include cancer. It was found in trace amounts in of cancer. Certain coal tar chemicals, material on diagnosis and results of treat- only one normal tissue, the spleen. A excessive sunlight. X-rays, radium rays, ment for cancer, clinical information related substance, malignolipin, also iso- certain compounds of arsenic and anilin needed for research and epidemiological lated last year, has been found only in dyes induce cancerous growths. studies, and statistics useful for planning cancer tissue. Whether the tars and nicotine of ci- purposes. The hospitals will report fol- Evidence of natural resistance to can- garette smoke are to be added definitely lowup studies of discharged patients. cer was uncovered with verification of

to this list, of course, is a matter of VA hospitals are admitting approxi- 30 cases of "spontaneous regression," the heated controversy. The American Can- mately 35,000 cancer patients yearly, disappearance of cancer for no known cer Society and investigators such as and have an average daily cancer pa- reason. These were added to 47 cases Drs. Alton Ochsner of New Orleans and tient load of more than 4,000. A con- previously identified, and they repre- Ernest L. Wynder of New York believe tinual increase in the number of cancer sented a wide variety of cancers. the facts implicate cigarette smoking in patients admitted to VA hospitals may Studies were made of properdin, the rise of lung cancer. Evidence for which occurs in the blood and appears

this is strong enough to have popularized to be deficient among persons with ad- filter-tip cigarettes. Some eminent medi- vanced cancer. The question now to be

cal men say that the case is unproved. answered is whether the cancer depresses They point to the fact that Senator Taft, properdin production or whether lack of a nonsmoker, died from lung cancer and properdin permits the cancer to grow. add that the majority of smokers do not Volunteers among prison inmates who

develop it. Dr. Arthur J. Vorwald of De- permitted themselves to be injected with

troit is one of the researchers doing im- live cancer cells, which they promptly portant work on lung cancer. rejected, showed high levels of properdin. Because lung cancer seldom is diag- Advanced cancer patients who also nosed in time for cure, and only about volunteered for similar experiments re- 5 percent of all cases are saved, the Vet- jected the cells slowly, if at all, and had erans Administration and the Cancer extremly low levels of properdm in their Society last November embarked on a blood. new $2 million study designed to im- With so many projects involving so prove diagnostic procedures. The study many scientists, including many elderly will last for at least three years in VA investigators who are desperately anxious Domiciliaries in Los Angeles, Calif.; to achieve something noteworthy before Dayton, Ohio; Wood, Wis.; Biloxi, Miss.; their careers end, there may be early Bay Pines, Fla., and Martinsburg, W. breakthroughs. Then again, there may Va. These centers house approximately not; and some of the 1,000 investigators "I fired the sitter." supported by the American Cancer So- 12,000 men during a year. The vast ma- THK AMKRK'AN LEGION MAGAZINE jority of the men are over 50— in the ciety in 117 research centers are work- "lung cancer age." ing on very long-range projects. Dr. James Melford Price, of the Uni- All admitted to the centers during the be expected as the veteran population versity of Wisconsin, received the So- first three years will be studied semi- ages. ciety's first lifetime grant of $392,296 to annually. Every six months each will Dr. Ludwik Gross, of the Bronx VA have a chest X-ray examina- study metabolic disturbances of cancer and sputum Hospital, is one of the foremost scien- radiologists will patients. The Roswell Park Memorial tion. Three examine tists gaining research support for the X-ray, four of the best pul- Institute this year received $188,510 to each and idea that cancer is caused by viruses. He support the epidemiological research of monary cytologists in the country will was able to induce leukemia in mice with Dr. Morton Levin for 10 years; Harvard, receive the sputum preparations for a filtrate containing no cells but possibly $201,400 for the biochemical work of study. This is the first program of peri- virus particles. Dr. Wendell Stanley, a Dr. Lewis L. Engle for 17 years; and odic cytologic examination for lung University of California virologist who ever Vanderbiit University, $432,000 for cancer undertaken. received a Nobel Prize, believes it im- work in the same field by Dr. Sidney P. Dr. Dean F. Davies, the Cancer So- portant to learn more about the relation- Colowick. These grants compare with ciety's administrator for research on ship of viruses to cancer. So does Dr. invested earlier in the work of lung cancer, said that all residents in Steven O. Schwartz of Chicago's Hek- $500,000 Dr. Papanicolaou and $900,000 in that these centers will be given the best lung toen Institute. As early as 1911 Dr. of Dr. cancer detection, diagnostic, and treat- Peyton Rous, of the Rockefeller Institute Huggins. ment services medical science has to for Medical Research, proved that a The World Health Organization and offer. virus caused cancer in chickens. Dr. most foreign countries, including Russia, "The study will teach us several Ferdinand C. Helwig, of St. Luke's Hos- also have cancer research programs. The things," Dr. Davies said. "We should pital, Kansas City, Mo., reported finding next meeting of the International Cancer learn whether chest X-rays or sputum viruslike particles in human cancer of Congress, at which researchers from all tests can dedect significant numbers of the colon. If viruses are responsible for parts of the world exchange information,

lung cancers before symptoms appear. cancer, and if they can be isolated, there is scheduled for Moscow in 1962.

If the symptomless cancers can be de- is hope of a vaccine for cancer. In fact. "If we were to find a cure for cancer," tected, we should learn whether they are Dr. Charlotte Friend of the Sloan-Ket- said a scientist recently, "it would be as curable. We will look for evidence on tering Institute and others have devel- much a propaganda victory for the the role of environmental factors such as oped vaccines for certain mouse cancers. United States as the pioneer moon smoke, atmospheric pollutants and in- The search for something unique in rocket." The speaker was not a medical dustrial wastes, clinical histories of ear- cancer tissue which might be used to en- man but Dr. Simon Ramo, one of the lier diseases, and other factors among hance the body's defenses against cancer foremost developers of space missiles. these populations." has turned up a compound called cyto- THE END

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THE AMERICAN LEGION AND THE DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES

( Coiiliniicd frotii l>age 21

demagogueiy was based on an inward President Hoover, despite urgent pleas forces after training. The trainees would conviction that their notion of how to to him from Legion National Com- go home and take up their private affairs, preserve the peace was absolutely cor- mander Paul McNutt, suspended the only to be called to active duty in an rect. ship-building pending a new naval dis- emergency. The fact that they were The 1^28 American Legion Conven- armament conference in London in trained and ready would help discourage

tion, as it warned of the "bitter awak- 1930. other nations from making emergencies. ening" that was ahead, had a more cor- The London Conference only hast- The Army had other ideas. Stimulated

rect notion of how the peace might have ened the rush of Germany and Japan by its recent wartime importance, it been saved, and perhaps .some of the toward the day of the West's "bitter came into Congress with a bill for a big school children too. awakening." It was nearly the last chap- army and a negligible reserve. "A strong America," said the 1928 ter of the fatal course of unpreparedness The American Legion teamed up Legion, ""does not imperil peace, but a that began in 1921-22. against the Army bill with James Wads- weak America surely will in due course. That reasonable Americans could be- worth, House military affairs chairman. Unless America is adequately prepared lieve, in the face of all history, that One of the first two important laws to insist on peace there will be no peace. peaceful nations preserve world tran- the Legion ever lobbied was the National 'if adequately prepared for our own quility by disarming themselves came as Defense Act of 1920. Known as the defense, no conibinalion of powers will a surprise to the Legion in 1921. Wadsworth Bill, devised by Congressman have the hardihood to force us into When the Legionnaires of World War Wadsworth from the Legion's construc-

war . . One came home in 1919, they assumed tive and ready-made plans, it called for No prediction of the future in 1928 that their country had learned its lesson. a small army and authorized a big re- was more exactly correct. America, a great moral force for peace, serve. But while the Legion saw the truth would—they supposed—henceforth keep Congress did not go so far as to in-

it could not sell it. enough strength to make any war- clude UMT in the bill. Nor has it yet.

That same year .Secretary of State minded nation think twice. And in the years to follow it did not Kellogg arranged the Kellogg-Briand As a group with war experience, the provide the big reserve from year to Pact "renouncing war." It was a beau- Legionnaires staked out for themselves year that the Wadsworth Bill authorized. tifully poetic idea, but fatal as a substi- a civilian interest in our future defense. Mounting forces of economy and tute for intelligent national policy. On In 1919 they thought only of how we "pacifism," and indilTerence to a reserve

analysis it could only mean instant sur- would henceforth be strong, never ques- in the regular Army, kept the annual ap- render to anyone who would make war tioning that we would. propriations so low that the big reserve on us. The early Legion wanted no part of was more "authorized" than real. The Kellogg Pact greatly strengthened a big, permanent standing army; of the Thereafter, year after year. The Le- the pacifists" lobby in 1929. Now we creation of a "military caste;" or of a gion went into Congress and battled to

don't need any arms at all. they said. peacetime draft. So in 1919 it called for win slight increases in appropriations for But a desperate light in Congress that a small standing army and a big reserve a miniature reserve attached to a mini- year finally resulted in a modified naval made up of young men who would be ature Army and Navy. construction bill. Senator Hale, of trained under compulsory universal mili- Presidents, "pacifists," successive Maine, Senate naval chairman, credited tary training (UMT). budget directors, tax-conscious business the Legion with that apparent success. Compulsory training definitely did not groups. Congressional appropriations

But it was a hollow victory. mean compulsory service with the armed committees and the Army itself were all obstacles that brought America down to World War Two with a trained civilian reserve incapable of frightening a Hitler or a Tojo. In the early Twenties everyone in America wanted peace, even as now. The veterans had seen war more inti- mately than any others, and the Legion wanted peace perhaps a little more than anyone else. The way to keep the peace, said the Legion, was to be strong. President Woodrow Wilson, inventor of the League of Nations, whose passion for peace was unchallenged, agreed with the Legion. He had started building the biggest navy in the world in 1916, to safeguard America. When World War One ended, he went right on building our Navy to insure the peace. That America should continue after

the war to build up its Navy dismayed England, long accustomed to ruling the waves. She began to send out feelers for an agreement to limit the "allied" navies. many educators, religious leaders and British lecturers started touring editorial commentators foolishly, though WHEN FAISE TEETH American schools, universities, churches sincerely, repeated until they thought it and civic auditoriums urging that arms their own. CAUSE SORE GUMS (and especially navies) be reduced "as No less did our many vocal socialists Vou get undreamed of relief in \l ly J | seconds! Medically-formulated j /vi y\ to sincerely believe whatever the Bolshevik / the only road peace." NUM-ZIT Adult Streni/th has From platforms, head tables, pulpits, cunning decreed. The communists knew ilieady broufjht ble-ssedble-sseu reliefreliet to \y >— ,y thousands. Reccommended by \J' stages editorial columns the cry was the socialist mind and could twist social- ^yC. and •ientists everywhhere. Pleasant- ^ T^~W taken up. "Arms are the cause of war. ist brains with consummate ease. tasting . . . eases discomfortd while / \ you brealc in new false teeth. For peace, disarm. Let America set the Germany, planning to fight another Works wonders, too. for relief of toothache. neu« ralgic pains. Keep it handy for quielt first example." war all along, did what she could to aid. At alt drufi counters. "One could be forgiven for wondering help the disarmament hysteria along. ." Japan's why we were such dupes . . says Prof. army, already dreaming of ZIT Ad^ff strength Samuel Eliot Morison in his great U. S. Asiatic conquest, could do little to Another fine Purepac product naval history of World War Two. American public opinion, but liked what One of the chief reasons, he says, was it saw and looked upon the American DRAINS cellars, cisterns, wash tubs; "the flood of distorted misleading pacifists as allies, as did Hitler later on. and IRRIGATES - CIRCULATES - SPRAYS propaganda that swept the country. The All through the Twenties, U. S. tor or larp:er...34 HP for up to 30OO great theme was the furtherance of schools and colleges succumbed to the GPH; 450 GPH 80' high; or 1800 «PH from 25' well. 1" Inlet; 3,4" outlet. world peace. This met with an irresistible exotic notion that the best wisdom is 'Coupling Included free $7.95 3vy Duty Ball -Bearing Pumn- l-'P to " 00 GPU. 1 1'4" Inlet; 1 outlet . $12.95 . veritable ground swell of popular support. . . imported, and went on a spree ;tpnld If cash with order. Money Back irnntee. Also other sizes, tvpe*;. Emotion surged over reason." of scheduling foreign lecturers who ^^LABAWCO PUMPS. Belle Mead 56. N.: When it came to propaganda, most preached American disarmament. of the world was anxious to encourage Our traditional pacifist churches, such /j^^g ^ Is Yours On Only 100 Boxes of '\ us to disarm. as the Quakers, naturally favored the V, #3 f^^^^ CHRISTMAS CARDSJ Our pacifists were blind to the host of elimination of arms. To them were added Make Extra Money SO% Faster! foreign motives that worked on U. S. the militant forces of the Methodist Show friends lovely 21-Card $1.26 Assort- ment in spare time. Keep 75c profit per public opinion, to which the word church with its active lobby in the box. Make more with big line new Christmas

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 47 Evans Hughes, the American delegation The Legion urged Congress to bring the the "boche" didn't look like a whipped signed an immensely popular agreement Navy up to full treaty strength. The New army and would be heard from again. with England, Japan, France and Italy. Orleans Convention pointed out that "in They continued to say so in the Legion The meaning of the Washington treaty the event of a war in the Pacific" we later on—with good reason. to America was concealed from the would have no naval base there. The From 1920 on, Germany secretly and public. The U. S. conferees "protected Legion urged that one be built at Ala- feverishly built for the next war. A se- the negotiations" by making no state- meda, California immediately. cret general staff planned an army of ments to the press. "Good intentions'" To the despair of the Legion, in the 35 divisions, and built little "treaty- decreed secrecy. Our press got its version years that followed our Navy fell far be- sized" regiments made entirely of lead- from the British pressagent. Lord Rid- low the strength permitted by the Wash- ers which later blossomed into divisions dell, who talked freely and naturally ington Conference, while the other sign- over night. gave the agreement the British twist. ers went on a binge of building light Russia, anxious for the western na- At Washington, the five nations cruisers (not restricted by the treaty) tions to eat each other up, sold "peace" limited capital ships (battleships and of such speed, design and fire power as in U. S. while it helped Germany arm. heavy cruisers) to a ratio of five tons for to put both the United States and the The same year that the Washington Britain, five tons for the U. S., three tons "spirit" of the Washington Conference Disarmament Conference met, Russia for Japan and lesser ratios for France of 1921 to shame. agreed to let Germany develop arms for- and Italy. By 1927, the light-cruiser navies bidden by the World War One Peace

To the public it looked like mutual abroad had so completely made a sucker Treaty behind the unnamed iron curtain disarmament, but it substantially weak- and naval weakling of the United States of those days. ened the U. S., particularly in relation that President Coolidge called for a new Starting in 1922, German airforce and to Britain and Japan. conference at Geneva to remove the chemical warfare experiments were con- We sank more than 800,000 tons of light-cruiser loophole. When the other ducted near Moscow. Advance work on warships, of which more than 500,000 powers politely declined to sign, he went German armored units that later over- tons were Mr. Wilson's big, new, modern to Congress and asked for the additions ran France was centered near Kama, in navy. Britain sank old ships and to our Navy that were beaten to death Russia's Ural mountains. scrapped some paper plans for new ones. at home in 1928. Of such facts, the pacifists who or- Japan's position in the Pacific was A brief look at Germany during all ganized school children to instruct our mightily strengthened. The U. S. had this time is enough to show how the government on defense policy were as two oceans to cover. If she split her fleet, military theories of the United States and ignorant as the children. then the Pacific ratio of capital ships Britain were doomed to a tragic end by General Hans Von Seeckt carried out was three for Japan and two and one- fundamental errors on both sides of the German military build-up until 1926. half for America. the Atlantic. A further look at the elTect General Heye took over until 1930, and To get Japan to sign at all, we agreed of our Pacificist Decade on Japan is little General Hammerstein-Equord until with her not to fortify our Pacific islands. short of horrifying. 1934, when Hitler had come to power Due to this latter agreement alone, Germany was left out of everybody's and showed the German military ma- to as there is many a widow in the United calculations until it was too late. As a chine the world a fact that the States today. result, the only things said about dis- western weaklings could make of what If the highly propagandized public armament throughout that whole era that they wished. cheered. The American Legion did not. made any sense were the annual and fu- Hitler is supposed to have vaulted At its New Orleans Convention of 1922, tile protests of the Legion and its few himself to power with his street corner a Legion report "condemned ourselves" preparedness minded friends. orations and then quickly armed Ger- for neglecting our "first line of defense." Privates on occupation duty in the many with his military genius. Nothing Dismally accepting the treaty as fact, Rhineland in 1919 had remarked that could be further from the truth. As a matter of fact, he had both the consent and support of German business, financial and political brains and power. The transition from von Hindenburg to Hitler in Germany marked the decision of Germany's most influential leaders that the time had come to flex the Reich's muscles. Not German strength alone, but western weakness made the time right. "Hitler's military machine" had been eleven years in the building before he became the Feiihrer, and for exactly that number of years the intended victims had been di.sarming themselves. The two factors combined to bring Adolf Hitler to power. The effect on Japan of the failure of

the Legion to sell its policy of prepared-

ness is like a bad dream come true. The war policies of Japan were the policies of the Japanese army. Until 1930 the Jap army could not find political support at home for its belligerent as- next. hasn't so heartily since the time she broiletl "Try these Mother laughed pirations. you that rubber steak." All of that changed when the conserv- THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ative Japanese government came back

4g • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 Afffr THE WINNER ALMOND E.FISHER colonel in the N.Y. National Guard, he is the Inspector General of the 27th Ar-

A LMOND E. Fisher, of Tonawanda, mored Division. He is an active Legion-

-'^N.Y., who won first prize in the re- naire, a member of Troop I Post 665 in cently completed American Legion Au- Buffalo. tomobile Identification Contest, is no or- Fisher"s hobby is automobile mechan- dinary guy. The fact that his entry was ics, and he has always been interested in the best among the tens of thousands cars. A few years ago he helped organ- submitted in the contest proves that. ize the East Aurora (N.Y.) Custom But long before — in a much grimmer Car Club, a youth group whose members contest — Fisher had demonstrated con- devoted considerable time to the care clusively that he is a man among men. and coddling of cars. He served as a That was in 1944. when he was a 2d Lt., Today Almond Fisher is a soft-spoken, counselor of this group for two years, in Co. E, 157th Inf., 45th Div., and was quiet suburbanite. He looks for all the chiefly to. as he puts it, "work with leading his platoon in an attack against world like the average husband and young fellows and kind of help keep a strongly defended hill position near father. He and his wife Jeanette have them on an even keel." Grammont, France. The series of almost two children. With the $2,500 credit that he won. unbelievably heroic acts that he per- He is chief of the Contact Division of Fisher bought a 1959 Rambler station formed that night won him the Congres- the Bufialo Regional Office of the Vet- wagon from George Johnston Rambler sional Medal of Honor. erans Administration. Now a lieutenant in Lancaster, N.Y.

(Continued from page 48) Japan, led by elderly generals and ad- Nebraska, that he bought homefront war from the Hoover-MacDonald 1930 Lon- mirals, tried for the last time to restore planning lock, stock and barrel. don naval conference with the short end the government to the people. That same year, he named Past Na- of a new 10-10-7 naval strength treaty By then the army was so dizzy with tional Legion Commander Hanford (and an end to the light cruiser gimmick power, and so certain that no force MacNider, of Iowa, to be Ass't. .Secre- Japan had enjoyed up to then). This existed that could resist it, that a group tary of War to draft war-production was the treaty which blocked the U. S. of young officers simply assassinated the plans. naval building program that the Legion conservative leaders. In 1937. with the new war already in had won from Congress in 1929. For all that led up to and followed sight. President Franklin D. Roosevelt In Japan, the army appealed to na- this last dying gasp of common sense called in Past National Legion Com- tional pride. It inflamed the public in Japan, American "good intentions"— mander Louis Johnson, of West Virginia. against a government that took the which The American Legion correctly Johnson was named Ass't. Secretary of inferior end of an international treaty. branded as suicidal—bear a heavy re- War to pick up war-production planning As a result, the Army got control of the sponsibility. where MacNider had left off earlier. Japanese government at last— and only If The American Legion was entirely Out of this activity, inspired by The let go of it under U. S. atomic bombing frustrated in its efforts to head off World American Legion years before World in 1945. War Two. the early Legion did succeed War Two, came the industrial mobiliza- In 1931, Japan's Kwantung army in rendering a host of services that tion: the war transportation; the ration- seized Manchuria without even consult- helped us to win the war when it inevit- ing; the price-rent-and-wage freezing by ing the home government, and started ably came upon us. which America speedily converted to a the series of conquests by force that Blessed with able and sincere men, war footing after Pearl Harbor — with brought war to the whole Pacific. with many different specialties, the early Baruch again in the saddle as head of a Our 1921 agreement not to fortify Legion was a force in such planning and far more efficient war production than our Pacific islands, and our shortage of development as America had in all the he had presided over in World War One. heavy naval ships, secured Japan's flanks myriad things it would need if war came And when the next war came, all the way to the California coast, mak- again. America looked to the Legion's top de- ing the Manchuria seizure an adventure In an age when few others cared, the fense thinkers to provide its highest without risk. Legion stirred up interest in— and helped civilian leadership. Henry L. Stimson Even worse, our military weakness secure annual appropriations for—such was Secretary of War, and Frank Knox deprived conservative Japanese, of things as merchant shipping, the devel- was Secretary of the Navy in World War whom there were many, of grounds on opment of aviation, the maintenance of Two; and Louis Johnson was Secretary which they could convincingly urge cau- Army and Navy reserves and the Na- of Defense in the Korean "conflict". tion, while it inflamed the military to tional Guard. All three had been leaders of The even grander schemes. Each of these is a very large story in American Legion's unheeded "peace Henry L. Stimson, U. .S. Secretary of itself. Perhaps the most important was through preparedness" policies in the State in 1931, had been one of the Le- the Legion's effective agitation for what earlier years. gion's early preparedness it advocates. He called "universal service." Looking at the defense policies the sent strong words to Japan over Man- As early as 1924, The Legion suc- United States is compelled to follow to- churia. cessfully sold America on peacetime day. Legionnaires can ruefully note that In the absence of any U. S. power to planning for home front mobilization if one of the biggest difficulties during the give Stimson's words meaning, the Jap war should come again. Legion's first forty years was that it was army literally thumbed its no.se at him It mustered a vast array of star wit- twenty years ahead of its time. and the United States. nesses at congressional hearings— includ- Back then, it would have been cheaper When the League of Nation's Lytton ing Bernard Baruch, who had struggled in money and lives and better in hopes Report branded Manchuria an "aggres- with our industrial unpreparedness in for the future to have kept America sion" the Jap army thumbed its nose the First World War. strong when we still had a choice in the again and got out of the League. In 1925, President Coolidge told the matter. In 1936. conservative elements in Legion's national convention at Omaha, THE END

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JULY 1959 • 49 .

NICE WEATHER WE'RE HAVING (Continued from page l^j

." "Should clear up by tomorrow," he said. dicted a high of 31 degrees for today. "The rain in Spain falls mainly on . . too Well, I decided I was getting nowhere; How do you like that?" "No, I'm sorry. I'm afraid you're so I reached way out in left field for a This, of course, is top secret stuff. articulate." of final try. '"You know," I said, "I bet So I make her feel good by pretending Have you ever noticed how some Walt Disney must have grossed more we're both sharing some great historical the really emotional people watch TV than $10 million on Donald Duck." event. "You don't say!" I reply, giving weather reports? It's as if they're spec- He nodded. "Yep," he said. "Good her the Hollywood look. You know, the tators at the old Roman games. They day for ducks." one Jimmy Stewart uses just before he cheer barometric pressure reports; they off Hatteras. Next to elevator operators, elderly says: "You mean, sir, I am to fly over hiss storm warnings Cape women are the biggest weather nuts. Hiroshima and drop this bomb?" And when the announcer says the tem- leap to their feet Take my aunt for instance. Unfortunate- But she isn't finished yet. Again she perature is falling, they start motions ly, she's not too well these days. But grabs my ear. "They predict a high of and making downward here's an amazing thing. When she was 34 for tomorrow. How about that?" with their thumbs. the thing that really gets me is younger and feeling better and able to Well, what else can I do? I write down But sitting watching go out in the street often, she never 22, 31, and 34 on a piece of paper; study that you can be and noticed the weather. the paper for 10 minutes; and then, like television in New York and the local announcer will say: "Up to 5 inches of But now that she's only allowed out- a good secret agent, I swallow it. snow is expected today in Sandusky, side about three times a year, she's a You know, I have nothing against TV Ohio." regular weather-tracking satellite. She's weather programs. But I do resent those Of course, this is invaluable informa- got the radio on all day—tuned to weath- curvy, doe-eyed, incoherent dolls who tion to pass on to a guy in New York. er reports. She has a huge map on her do the commentary. Now don't get me As you know. New Yorkers are always living room wall with all kinds of iso- wrong, I like a well-turned ankle as saying to their wives: "Say honey, what bars. And she stands at a window with much as the next guy. But not in front do you say we take a spm out to San- a pair of long-range binoculars, scanning of weather maps. Those girls know as dusky this evening for some pizza?" Or: the skies (for her next birthday I plan much about the weather as I do about "They've got some great supermarkets to get her a helmet liner). Every once Sanskrit. And when they talk, they might in Sandusky. Grab the kids and we'll in a while she likes to ham it up, as a as well be reciting Latin conjugations. buzz out there for a quart of milk and breather from her weather checking. Can't you see a TV producer inter- a can of string beans." For example, when a plane goes by, she viewing a prospective weather an- I think I know why television net- tracks it for a while with her binoculars. nouncer? works give the weather such a big play. Then she puts down the glasses, purses "Okay, honey, lift your skirt a little It's safe. After all, almost everything her lips, smiles grimly, and says reassur- above your knee. Good. Now walk else is too controversial for TV. ingly, "One of ours." around a bit. Good. Now let's look into But you know what's going to hap- Whenever I visit her, before I have your weather background. Hmm, your pen soon? Even the "safe" programs are my coat ofT she's on top of me, jabbing resume says you've been in show busi- going to start dropping off TV. One night an elbow in my ribs, winking, and bark- ness. Good. Let's see, you carried a stone on one of the 246 adult westerns, the ing the temperature. "Twenty-two," in The Ten Commandments. Good. You outlaw is actually going to be idl bad, she'll snap, as if she were a quarterback gave voice lessons to Harpo Marx. Fine. get caught, be put on trial, and go to calling signals. And, oh, I see you wrote English sub- jail. This'll bring a barrage of mail from Next she maneuvers me into a corner, titles for the Lawrence Welk TV show. pressure groups in San Quentin and looks around to see if anyone's listening, Wonderful. Wonderful. Now let's hear Sing Sing. That's the end of adult west- and whispers in my ear: "They pre- you speak." erns. Those afternoon teenage dancing shows are also living on borrowed time.

You know the ones I mean. Those where the kids in leather jackets walk around the dance floor with switchblades, say-

ing, "Excuse me, may I vut in?" (Slash!) Did you ever see the hair on those kids? Any day now the barbers of America are going to get together and knock those shows off.

So what'll happen is that there'll be nothing left for TV but the weather. Therefore the TV producers will all band together, take over all the channels, and combine all of TV's weather shows into one 24-hour weather spectacular. They'll

call it a Weatherthon. All the weather . dolls will take turns with map readings • and forecasts; and perhaps every three hours or so, just for a change of pace, they'll slip into bathing suits and compete in beauty contests. Stars of stage and screen will appear on the show to say nice things about the weather—and

50 • THE AMERK \N LEG ION MAG AZINE • JULY I95y also aluHit ihoir films and ihcir plays. put to work to cart the cash to the bank. Then a group in Pierre, S. Dak., which

The Weatherthon might even solicit Since ifll be the only TV show on the is not necessarily happy about the weath- money from the home audience. You air that day, the Weatherthon will get er but which despises antiweather groups know, the way they do lor those charity the greatest rating in television history. will demand, and get, equal time the next shows. Only this money will be used to Something like 99.8. Not quite 100. day for a 24-hour Anti-Anti-Weather- train future weather commentators and (Two contrary characters in Punxsutaw- thon. perhaps to build monuments for the ney. Pa., will be watching a test panel.) Well, this will go on for a few weeks great weather appreciators of our time. Everybody connected with the show and get awfully messy. Which is why For example, the funds may be used to will be deliriously happy, and the pro- I'd just as soon drop the whole thing. carve the heads of famous elevator ducers will start planning Weatherthons Personally, Fll leave the weather dis- ooerators or elderly aimts in the sides of for every day in the week. cussing for the dull, unenlightened mountains. Mig, important things like But then it will happen. Somebody people who are too lazy to read books, that. from Fishtiiii, Mont., who was badly go to museums, attend plays, and im- The first Wealhcrlhon will run nonstop sunburned in 1909 and severely fright- prove themselves culturally. for 24 houis, and the results will be tabu- ened by a thunderstorm in 1911 will What I could use now is a breath of lated on a big blackboard while the write in to say that he saw the Weather- fresh air. 1 wonder how it is outside. studio and home audiences applaud vig- thon on his TV set, and he's infuriated. They predicted rain for today, but orously. And as the money starts pour- He hates all kinds of weather, and he then again they said it would rain yes- ing in, the Weatherthon will be helping wants to tell the country why. terday and it didn't, although the wind immeasurably in licking the current tight Which means, according to FCC reg- was from the east at 34 miles an hour enTjiloymcnl situation. Remember those ulations, that he'll have to get 24 hours and the barometric pressure was 28.3 guards who have been out of work since of TV time the next day to explain his and. . . . the telc\ ision quiz scandals? "1 hey"ll be weather views, on an Anti-Weatherthon. THE END

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • lULY 1959 • End of Torm

The fellow in our office who boasted that he is the master of his house is getting' married next week. —Walter Streightiff

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Choose mountains or seashore, I think you Are gonna spend all of your chink—you Will find mountain bills Higher far than the hills, And the bills at the seashore will sink you. -Howard \\'inley

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