is there any sweeter sound in the whole wide world than the smooth sliding action of a Remington 870? Shoulder a Remington 870 " Wingmaster". a solid block of steel. The breech block low as $99.95*. It's tailored for your par- Work the cat-smooth action . and hear locks solidly into the barrel. All the parts ticular type of shooting— with over 49 bar- the soft "shuck-shuck" that tells you the of the action mechanism are made for rel, choke and gauge combinations. In- empty shell is long gone and there's a each other . work together as a team. terchangeable barrels, too. Write for free fresh load in the chamber. A sweet sound Smooth. It doesn't make a bit of difference Guns and Ammunition catalog to Dept. if ever there was one! what kind of fodder you feed a Remington CB-9, Remington Arms Co., Inc. Solid. There's no clatter and rattle with Model 870. Whether you're pumping a a Remington 870. That's because it has second load of No. 4's for a wide-flaring I gton, precision-built double action bars that pre- mallard or sliding home a powerful rifled fymin (SPflRt) vent twisting and binding. Shooters tell us slug to down a big buck . it's smooth "Wingmaster" is Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. by Remington Arms Com- that an 870 action feels as if it slides on and quick. pany, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn, 06602. In Canada: Remington Arms of Canada Limited, 36 Queen Elizabeth Blvd., Toronto, ball bearings. By the way, the Remington 870 is still at Ont. "Fair Trade retail prices in states having Fair Trade laws. Strong. The receiver is machined from prices that won't make you flinch ... as Prices subject to change without notice. ; The American SEPTEMBER 1964 LEGION Volume 77, Number 3 POSTMASTER: Send Form 3579 to P.O. Box 1055, Magazine Indianapolis, fad. 46206 The American Legion Magazine Editorial & Advertising Offices 720 Fifth Avenue Contents for September 1964 New York, New York 10019 Publisher, James F. O'Neil Editor Robert B. Pitkin THE FUTURE—AMERICA'S AND THE LEGION'S 4 Art Editor BY NATIONAL COMMANDER DANIEL F. FOLEY Al Marshall Associate Editors In his message on these pages as National Commander, final John Andreola Mr. Foley looks ahead. Roy Miller James S. Swartz Production Manager Art Bretzfield HOW SATELLITES ARE CHANGING YOUR LIFE NOW 7 Copy Editor Grail S. Han ford AN INTERVIEW WITH RUSSELL C. TORNABENE Contributing Editor NBC Manager of Neios Operations Pete Martin It was only two years ago that Telstar I went up, to public applause Circulation Manager and headlines. Now read what has quietly happened Dean B. Nelson Ind. in space since then to affect your life. Indianapolis, Advertising Director Robert P. Redden Chicago-Detroit Sales Office WHEN VILLA RAIDED NEW MEXICO 10 Bart J. Burns 35 East Wacker Drive BY TOM MAHONEY Chicago, 111. 60601 The detailed story of the "Mexican Border Incident" of 1916, the CEntral 6-2401 last armed invasion of the United States. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Notify Circulation Dept., P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind., 46206 using Post Office UNCLE SAM IN RUMANIA 12 Form 3578. Attach old address label and A PICTORIAL FEATURE give old and new addresses and current member :«hip card number. Also be sure to How Rumania uses highway billboards to ridicule the United States. notify your Post Adjutant. The American Legion TIBET—WHERE A FORTRESS GROWS IN BLOOD 14 Publications Commission: Dr. Charles R. Logan, Keokuk, Iowa BY CHARLES W. WILEY (Chairman); Adolph F. Bremer, Winona, Minn. (Vice Chairman) ; Lang Armstrong, Red China is turning a "forbidden land" into a great military bastion Spokane, Wash.; Charles E. Booth, Hunting- on the backs of an enslaved and tortured people. ton, W . Va. ; John Cicero, Sivoyerville, Pa. E. J. 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ROD & GUN CLUB 24 PARTING SHOTS 5fi Seattle, Wash. 98101 Southeast Manuscripts, artwork, cartoons submitted for consideration will not be returned unless a self-addressed, The Dawson Co. stamped envelope is included. This magazine assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Miami. Fin. & Atlanta, Ga, THE AMERI CAN LEGION MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 1964 —— ican citizens' military intelligence serv- ice in the Pacific in WW2? Mr. Hosokawa LETTERS TO THE EDITOR generously credited Col. Kai Rasmussen and myself with the establishment of the Nisei Language School. There were other officers involved whose work Mr. Hoso- Letters published do not necessarily ex- at Netley. If any American veteran has kawa did not and could not have known. press the policy of The American Legion. Keep letters short. Name and address must any knowledge of these clams, or can Before the war two Regular Army of- be furnished. Expressions of opinion and affirm the rumor, I would be very much ficers were regularly sent to Japan to requests for personal services are appreci- ated, but they cannot be acknowledged or interested in hearing from him. If some study the language and to serve an at- to magazine staff answered, due lack of for GI did this, he might be interested to tachment of duty with the Japanese these purposes. Requests for personal serv- ices which may be legitimately asked of learn that there is now such a flourish- Army itself. The tour of duty was for should be made to The American Legion ing colony of the American clams in four years. Except for Col. Wallace your Post Service Officer or your state (Department) American Legion Hq. Send Southampton Water that it is beginning Moore, all the officers I will name—in- letters to the editor to: Letters, The to support a small shellfish industry. cluding Col. Rasmussen and myself American Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave- nue, New York, N. Y. 10019. A. D. Ansell, Biologist-in-Charge were graduates of this system. Plankton Laboratory In the summer of 1941, while serving CUBA c/o Poole Power Station in the Panama Canal Department, my sir: If all history books were written, Rigler Road views were asked on the feasibility of with the lucidity and readability of the Poole, Dorset a Nisei Language School, and I strongly July article about General Leonard England concurred. The concept of the school did Wood in Cuba, more young people wou'd not originate with Col. Rasmussen and love our own history. This is only one DALLAS myself. Col. (then Major) Carlisle C. of many articles from your magazine sir: My brother, now 91, who was a Dusenberry and Lieut. Col. Wallace that has been well written as well as in- Dallas businessman for 65 years, says Moore, a reserve officer whose mis- formative. More than once I have taken that your June article "A Look at Dallas, sionary parents had been stationed in your articles and reduced them to Texas'' was the best write-up of Dallas Japan, were primarily responsible for simpler terms so that I could tell them he has ever seen. the concept of the school and planned to my fourth graders. Furman Teal its organization. They were attached to Colette Wallace St. Petersburg, Fla. the Far Eastern Section of the Intelli- Austin, Minn. gence Division of the War Department in sir: A neighbor, who is, like myself, a General Staff Washington. I was sent to San Francisco in Sept. sir: The true failure of the U. S. govern- transplanted Dallasite, handed me your 1941 to organize the school, and Col. ment in Cuba hardly comes through in June issue to read your article on Dallas. Rasmussen served with me. Shortly the story of Leonard Wood and the end- I almost felt as if I were there again. I thereafter I lost his valuable services ing of the occupation in 1902. The U. S. am so tired of having people point their when he was assigned to work on in- supported men like Machado and Ba- grubby fingers at the city—and at me, stallation of coast artillery defense on tista.