-· I! Regimental Command Changes Hands in 254th Infantry Learn Army Page Eight Slarig From Carries News Yardbird Of Sports Snafu, Story And Sporting On Page Two Celebrities VOL. 1, No. 3 63D INFANTRY DIVISION, CAMP BLANDING, FLORIDA July 2, 1943 $71~-Billion War Bill Passed News From Your Col. Baker Leaves 254tl1, Legislation Provides Own Home Town Regiment Goes to Gordon Brooklyn, N. Y. (CNS)-Abram R. Morrell was dismissed from a Change in command of the 254th Inf. Reg't. was an­ For Huge Air Armada, murder jury when the defense at- nounced by Brig. Gen. Louis E. Hibbs at the opening of the torney learned he was a salesman 1th I f N C O CI b tl G J p l T B k - of tombstones and mausoleums. 25· 4 n • - • • • u recen y. ,o. au . a er gave up command on orders of the medical department. Lt. Col. Ran­ Chicago (CNS) - Triethylene dolph Gordon, former executive officer of the 255th Inf. was All Branches of Army glycol is the name of a solution appointed by. Gen. Hibbs to succeed Col. Baker. The com­ which wlll kill common cold ' germs when they are sprayed mand changed hands June 28. CHOP-CHOP with it, according to claims. It Army, Navy Recom­ has been developed by Dr. Os­ Pvt. Chin Mow, cook for a wald H. Robertson af Chicago Signal Company at C a rn p mend Higher Allot­ University and kills pneumonia, Blanding, received a present flu, and strep germ:3 as well. It from admiring relatives the ments For Kin of has been turned over to the Army other clay-a meat cleaver, hun­ Service Men to see what else it will ldll. dreds of years old. On the sides of the wide blade are Chinese Denver, Col (CNS)-The first inscriptions cut deep into the . Clearing both houses decisively, surprise trial blackout here was metal. I the mammoth $71,510,438,873 war 20 minutes late because no one Chin Mow says it comes in bill which will be used to run the could find the key to the master handy around the kitchen and if Anny and War Department this siren. he ever gets near enough to a coming fiscal year has received its Jap-"I'll mow 'em clown!" official blessing with only minor Idaho 1''alls, Ida. (CNS)-Hired adjustments remaining to be made ~s sugar bed workers, several in the Army appropriation. hundred Mexica.ns found snow on BROTHERS OF Terming cost of the present war the ground when they a ryived i as "frightful," Congressmen pointed here, They promptly took off'( JIERO SOLIDER out that this bill, making appro­ t•,,•i· ·',:•.:3 .''d went w·11.lfog in p1iatk,n;i for one , year, carri<:rec& .• , ~~~·\s,,• -;irif~:3. ,I more than thrc•e t1'mes· C:,e totai.. -·- - IIV ENG'R lJ-N. outlay of the War Department dur~ Indianapolis, Ind. (CNS)-Jl.1k-s. ing World War I. A. C. Stewart went into the kitch­ Brothers of the first American All told the funds provide $59,. en to light the stove. Something Paratrooper to be killed in action, 000,000,000 in new appropriations hissed at her from the wastebas­ Pvts. Gerald and Robert Mackall and reappropriations totaling $12,- ket and scared the hell out of her. have been assigned to the 263d 000,000,000. Of this amount, the Closer inspection disclosed two Engineer Bn. air corps fund will provide a fight­ baby opossums in the basket. Their brother, Pvt. John Thomas ing air force of 273 groups, 3,000,- Col. Baker Lt. Col. Gordon Mackall was wounded November 000 ground troops, 36,000 bombers, Kansas City (CNS)-For years Due to an increasing arthritic Born in Forest City, Ia., on Oc­ 8, 1942 in the Battle of Oran when 38,000 fighters, 12,000 transports Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Diebold, condition Colonel Baker will go to tober 25, 1895, Col. Gordon claims the plane in which he was flying and 9,000 training planes, with who have three sons, have want­ the Lawton General Hospital in Madisonville, Ky. as his home was attacked by an enemy plane. spare engines and parts to keep ed a daughter. Recently they got Atlanta for treatment. town. He studied law at the Uni­ Pvt. Mackall lay critically wound­ . them in action. At the same time their wish multiplied by three. The news was heard with sin­ versity of Michigan and had finish­ ed with a stomach injury for sev­ some 300,000 technicians, 80,000 Mrs. Diebold gave birth to trip­ cere regret for in the short time ed his junior year when he joined enteen hours while the remainder pilots, 12,000 bombardiers and 18,- lets-all girls. he had been in command of the the Kentucky National Guard in of his Company was accomplish­ 000 navigators will be trained ac­ 254th Infantry, he had thoroughly June, 1916. ing its mission. He was then taken cording to budget estimates. Los Angeles (CNS)-Mrs. B. J. gained the respect and confidence He saw his first service with to a base hospital at Gibraltar and In addition maintenance is guar­ Wharton kept a firm grip on her of his cadre. Each and every man the Guard, going to the Mexican died four days later. anteed for more than 900 airfields, reluctant 11-year-old son Jerry in the regiment wishes him best border in 1916. In April, 1917, Private Mackall was posthum­ 4,500 Army posts and 700,000 until they reached the door of the of luck and best of health. with the Guard, he was mustered ously cited by the President and hospital beds and interment camps dentist's office. Then Jerry broke A veteran of overseas service into the Federal Service as a 2d on May 1, 1943, Camp Mackall, for 350,000 prisoners of war. and ran. He stayed away two during the last World War, Col. lieutenant and served in that grade North Carolina, was dedicated and Among deletions made were days before he returned to his Baker has traveled extensively and as a 1st lieutenant in the 149th named in his honor. $125,000 for an art project by soldier-artists to depict battle home. since then. He spent about three Inf. His mother was present· at the years in China and the Phiilipines Transferred to the 67th Inf. at ceremony and expressed the wish scenes and a ten percent reduc­ Camp Sheridan; Ala. in September tion in the request of $800,000,000 Marshfield, MIISS. (CNS) - For in the early 30's and made a tour that her other two sons, Robert of northern Africa and southern 1918, at the termination af the and Gerald, be assigned to ground for "travel of the Army." 20 years Dave Brown, town black­ war he was commissioned a 1st While the War Department ap­ smith, has been insisting that the Europe in 1938. troops rather than the Airborne In the spring of 1942 he was as­ lieutenant in the Regular Army. Engineers. Her request was grant­ propriations bill was under consid­ automobile was just a passing Subsequently he attended the eration, the Senate passed and sent fancy. Today Da.ve says his horse­ signed to the Services of Supply ed and her sons were transferred in the European Theatre of Op­ Company Officers' School at Fort to the 263d Engineer Battalion of to the White House for signature shoeing business has reache<l an Benning, later serving with the the largest naval appropriations all time high. erations and was sent to. Eng­ the 63d Infantry Division. land where he remained until 42d Inf. and the 20th Inf. Brigade Gerald was first assigned to bill in history-$27,600,000,000. March of this year. in Panama from 1923 to 1926. basic training in the Quarter­ Meanwhile higher allowances for Minneapolis (CNS)-Mrs. Mar­ Returning to the States, the Col­ masters at Camp Young, Cali­ dependent children of men in the garet Miterko was talking on the onel spent four years as an in­ fornia and his brother, Robert lower ranks of the armed forces WAGON SOLDIERS structor with the New York Na­ were recommended to Congress by telephone with her neighbor, I started his basic at the Engineer Mrs. Gertrude Grochowski, "The DO O K ON RANGE tional Guard, took the advanced Replacement Training Center, Fort the Army and Navy. Under the children have just passed out," course at the Infantry School, and Belvoir, Va .. Later they were both proposed set-up, a wife with one said Mrs. Miterko, "and I think The boys in the 863d Field served with the 23d Inf. child would get $68 a month, a six­ Artillery Battalion can afford to transferred to the Airborne En­ I'm going to faint. Better come In 1934 he was assigned to· or­ gineers at Camp Mackall, North dollar increase over the present over." Mrs. Grochowski did - in do a little gloating these days ganized reserve duty in Los An­ amount, with $11 a month for each -and the boys in the Infantry Carolina and from there to Camp time to save Mrs. Miterko and geles and in 1939 became com­ Blanding. additional child, instead of $10. her two children from asphyxia­ Regiments had best sit up and manding officer of the Arizona An enlisted man's wife without take notice. The Mackall brothers are natives tion. The three had been overcome CCC District. It was during this of Wellsville, Ohio and were gra­ children would continue to receive by gas leaking from a heater.