The American Legion Magazine [Volume 32, No. 6 (June 1942)]

THE AMERICA\ LEBIONf MA GAZII\E

JUNE 1942 "Alt !

Strength for Victory

is forged from Steel

DID you know that approximately- reservoir of skilled workers — its one out of every five industrial extensive research which has de- workers in America is engaged in the veloped steels for building the most production of steel ? potent weapons of war the world has ever seen. Or that they are producing, today, more steel than any four nations you Steel, the very bone and sinew of can name? Almost as much as all the American life in peace, is its strong rest of the world right arm in time of war.

These are heartening facts. For Will there be enough — and in wars are won by the armies and time.' 1 he men of steel say they can navies best equipped and fortified produce it — and zvill. From thou- with materiel of steel — the guns, sands of chimneys pours a perpetual ships, airplanes, tanks and the count- promise of supply. Already, over less supplies to support them. many of tVieir plants proudly floats the coveted for Excellence" Now, we can be doubly thankful "E emblem, won for surpassing results for the foresight of the steel indu,strv from a grateful nation. in keeping ahead of the nation's needs in times of peace — for its courage and Watch the men of steel — the great enterprise during the dark years of army on the "home front." They are depression when it spent ^1,500,- forging the strength for a victorious 000,000 for plant expansion and democracy. modernization — its training and ap- (This aeii-ertisement prepared by prentice programs providing a vast Batten, Barton, Ditrstiiic & Oshorn, Inc.) Drowing by Herbert M. Stoops

FLAGS OF FREEDOM, standards of the United Stales of America and the Philippine Commonwealth, they will fly again over Manila, Bataan, Corregidor and the rest of the Philippines, until the day when the Islands become independent, in 1945. Old Glory will then retire, but the Filipino people will ever hold it in loving remembrance.

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JUNE, 1943 s One of the shark-painted planes which with American flyers brought fear and havoc to the Japs

DECEMBER 21, 1941, ONseven Japanese planes took off WILLIAM In ninety days following December from their base in Indo-China 21, 1 94 1, these Flying Tigers were cred- to raid the Kunming terminus ited with having destroyed four hundred of the Burma Road. They expected no CLEMMENS and fifty-seven Japanese planes—thirty difficulty. Had not the air force of the for every A. V. G. plane knocked out; Rising Sun dominated the eastern skies In less than one minute, eleven Nip- ninety-two Japanese airmen killed for for four years? ponese pursuit ships and eight bombers every A. V. G. pilot lost—a record un- Suddenly three pairs of planes ap- were plummeting down in flames. The rest equaled in this or any other war. peared out of the clouds and swooped scattered and fled. The secret of their amazing victories down on the Japs, each pair weaving and The Japanese High Command was against superior force lies in a new tech- twisting as though tied together. They baffled. Who were these mysterious and nique of air fighting taught them by flashed through the startled Japanese terrible air fighters? their dogged, weatherbeaten leader. In- formation, firing from twelve machine They were the "Flying Tiger Sharks." deed, the story of the Flying Tigers is guns. In twenty seconds six of the raiders a band of young men making their essentially the story of Chennault. fell in flames. The frightened survivor, initial appearance as the American Vol- Born in Texas, the son of a cotton when he reached his base, could report unteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, planter, Chennault was brought up in little except that on the prow of each led by tall, wiry 51 -year-old Claire L. Louisiana and attended Louisiana State fighter plane was painted the head of a Chennault, an ex-school teacher from University. He was a rural schoolmaster grinning, sabre-toothed tiger shark. Waterproof, Louisiana. Their effective for seven years, and was the father of Three days later eighty Japanese air- fighting force—until recently—was never three boys when he enlisted in 191 7. A craft set out to bomb Rangoon. They more than forty-four pursuit ships. second lieutenant in aviation when the -knew that the British there had only Starved for equipment and supplies, they Armistice came, he stayed on to become thirty-six pursuit ships. Furthermore, it have had to borrow gasoline and even one of the Army's best pilots, and as was Christmas Eve and the Christians ammunition. Yet the A. V. G. turned commandant of the Nineteenth Pursuit would be celebrating. The leaders were what Japan planned as a blitzkrieg of Group in Hawaii in 1925 he began an nearing their target when eighteen Burma into a more arduous campaign exhaustive study of aerial tactics. "shark" planes appeared out of nowhere. than that which conquered Singapore. When Captain Chennault demonstrated

6 The AMERICAN LEGION iMa-.a-ine Ground-crew men of the Tigers load machine-gun ammunition into an American fighter plane in Burma

Madame Chiang Kai-shek that they had tour the country to promote enlistment the man for the job. in the Air Corps, putting on a "Three Shortly after Chennault's arrival, in Men on a Flying Trapeze" act. Retired July, 1937, China was attacked by Japan in 1937—the record says it was because and her force of less than 100 combat of deafness incurred in flying open planes was soon wiped out. Discouraged, planes—Chennault settled down with his McDonald and Williamson resigned. But wife and their eight youngsters in Chennault would not give up. He trained Louisiana. the few pilots for whom China had The Old Man—Colonel Claire L. His teammates also retired and went planes. He studied the strength and Chennault, Commander of the to China to help train native combat weakness of Japan's aircraft, pilots and A. V. G., now Colonel, U. S. Army pilots. When they heard that an Ameri- tactics. He pleaded with all the agencies can air adviser was to be brought to {Continued on page 56) a revolutionary idea—dropping troops, China, they convinced Generalissimo and light tield guns and equipment by parachute—no one except three Russian observers was interested. He wrote a text- book in which he described another revolutionary concept of aerial tactics. The traditional method, in which two adver- saries fought a dog-fight duel, was out- moded, he said. If two planes flew together as a team, weaving their way through an enemy formation, they could concentrate double fire power upon one enemy plane after another. To show Air Corps officials what he meant by teamwork, he and two of his wingmen performed banks and dives and even loops while their planes were tied together with thirty-foot ropes. But the brass hats viewed this demonstration merely as a stunt. Chennault and his The inscription on an American's jacket back announces, teammates, Lieutenants J. H. Williamson "This foreigner has come to assist China, and all Chi- and W. C. McDonald, were ordered to nese people should afford him the utmost cooperation"

JUNE, 1942 7 once more, to ask himself again those bothering questions. The whole business, so far as it concerned Casey, began at eleven o'clock this morning. At that quiet Sabbath DETECTIVE SERGEANT JIM hour he happened to be sitting alone CASEY, Michigan State Po- at the watch desk in the Traverse City lice, halted at the crossroad post, reading the morning paper while and drove his car into a small KARL he filled in for the trooper on duty, thicket of willows and kinnikinik. The gone out for ham and eggs. He planned March thaw had taken most of the DETZER to start back at noon to his headquarters snow but the evening air still bit with at East Lansing with the report that a wintry tooth. Daylight was draining he had wasted four days . . . there fast as Casey snapped off his radio, soon be hollering for new tires. Then weren't any Germans or Japs that he took flashlamp and ignition key and he turned into the sideroad and tramped could find up here in the woods send- stood a moment in the car's shadow, down the steep, rutted grade. His step ing radio messages. turning over in his mind the queer was both heavy and unhurried; a man Then he heard the jaloppy with one business that brought him here. learns after twenty years on the force broken tire chain rattling against a "If it's a wild goose chase I'll bat that you meet up with trouble soon fender, saw it stop at the front curb

the ears off that kraut," he told him- enough without running toward it. and the driver climb out of it. self glumly, but added at once, "only Besides, there was good reason not to "Um," Casey grunted, "poor guy's in it can't be. It adds up too nice. It's the hurry. He had a mile to go and a full trouble." For the man was standing real thing." half-hour to cover that distance. By looking in at the post as if half afraid A car whirred past on State Road 22 then it would be dark enough to walk to approach the door, half afraid not to. and skidded around the bend. Casey right up to Bohne's farmhouse with- Finally he came forward uncertainly, glowered after it and remarked to the out anybody seeing him. Meanwhile pushing his galoshes reluctantly along willows that there was a baby who d there was time to go over his plans the walk.

8 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine the potato forty he comes. He has not the politeness to knock, just go up step and in door." "Thursday evening?" Casey repeated. "Where's this farm of yours at, anyhow?" "By Gumpert's Lake," Bohne said, and Casey's eyebrows started to lift but he held them firmly in place and looked blandly across the desk. For Thursday evening he'd been over in that neighborhood himself. And this story, so far, sort of fitted into the job that had brought him north in the first place. Federal radio listening posts, over several weeks, had been hearing short bursts of dots and dashes on the air, like code tapped out on a crude wireless set. And although they could not be sure, they guessed that the sound came from somewhere in this part of Michi- gan. There certainly wasn't much any Jap or German would want up here. Of course, a small concentration camp of enemy prisoners was hidden in the

woods near Houghton Lake, but if anyone besides the Army and the police knew just where, or how many prisoners were there, Casey would be surprised.

There'd been no escapes from it, either. {Continued on page 48)

Illustrations by MEL PHILLIPS

But the sergeant was not prepared "What stranger, sir?" for the kind of trouble the fellow "His name it is Friederich," the other brought. He stood in the door, holding said. "He is German. I see him first four ." his black hat in both big-knuckled days ago. He comes by my house . . hands while Casey quickly sized him up. "Wait a minute," Casey said. He was past middle age, under middle "Let's get this straight. Where height, a steady, hard-working sort who'd did he come from?" been hungry more than once. His clothes "First I see him were neat but well worn and he was from woodlot when freshly shaved. I go to feed the "What can I do for you, sir?" Casey stock. Ja, that is asked. the Thursday night, "Mister, I got to speak with a police- before dark. Straight man," the caller said. His accent was Ger- across the corner of man, his voice rusty as if long unused. "That's me, sir," Casey replied. "Fm ?" a policeman. What can I. . . Golly, this guy was scared! You could almost see him tremble. Casey pushed over a

chair but the caller ignored it. Instead he eyed Casey's civilian clothes dis- trustfully a moment before he spoke. "Mem name, it is John Bohne. I am much needing help. It is about the stranger by my farm." Casey carefully folded his newspaper A pair of boots, toes up, and sat down on it. sticking out from behind the cloth

JUNE, 104'- 9 Rear-Admiral David Stockton Mc- Dougal, who as a Captain commanded the U. S. S. Wyoming

ice which had its beginning back in the days of the Revolutionary War. Occurring on the opposite side of the globe while the United States was occupied with a civil war at home, it created little or no excitement at the time. In fact, beyond a few paragraphs in the newspapers the country knew little or nothing of McDougal's exploit. The commander's report to his government, con- sisting of only a few hundred words, conveyed no idea of the real splendor of the achievement. Early in the Civil War the Wyoming was detached from the Union blockading squadron and ordered to Panama, where she received a new complement of officers and men. At this time the regular captain of the Wyoming was assigned to other duties. He was succeeded by Cap- tain David McDougal, an efficient and conservative officer who had seen service on many seas for thirty-two of his fifty- four years. He was regarded in naval circles 'as man upon whom great re- sponsibility might be placed with confidence. Among his officers were George W. Young, who subsequently became a commander; William Barton, afterward president cf the Mar>4and National Bank at Cambridge, Maryland, then a young man

in charge of the forward division ; Master John C. Mills who was in charge of the after guns; Surgeon E. R. Denby, Pay- master George Cochran, Phillip Inch and Ensign Walter Pierce. While at Panama the Wyoming received orders to cruise in eastern seas, OF

keeping a strict watch for Confederate privateers, which were raiding Federal commerce so successfully that American years ago a Japanese states residents in Japan felt hopelessly cut off SOMEman, in conversation with a United from Uncle Sam's protection. States naval officer, made this The Wyoming reached Hong Kong startling statement: HARRY early in 1863, having encountered no "On the day Commodore Perry sailed enemy vessels, though it was afterward into our harbors in 1854, we decided to VAN DEMARK learned that she had narrowly missed the be a sea power. We studied every form Confederate raider Alabama. of government. Then we took Bismarck's At this time Japan was a hotbed of as our model—only with us, instead of a but one, strangely, of which most Amer- revolution. The armed forces of the gov- Prussian army, the navy, with its con- icans are in ignorance. ernment and the revolutionists confronted trol of the seas, will be our tool for No United States history mentions each other in and about the city of expansion." that the U. S. S. Wyoming, commanded Kioto, at which place the disturbance But years before this the Japanese by Captain David McDougal, fought a centered, Tokio having long since lost had decided to be overlords of the daring and successful engagement in the its prestige. Orient, and to exclude all Western powers. Straits of Shimonoseki, off the southwest They were eager to dispel from the It was because of this policy, back in coast of Japan, thus adding another chap- "land of the gods," as they termed Japan, 1863, that the Japs received their first ter to the glorious record of the Stars all "ugly barbarians," a title lavished licking from a United States naval unit and Stripes on foreign seas, and uphold- upon all foreigners, and an imperial edict —a bright chapter in our naval history. ing a proud tradition of our naval serv- had been issued that all such persons be

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazin: at once expelled from the country and from two to seven guns, ranging from places and having a boat which was her ports closed to foreign commerce. twelve-pounders to eighteen-inch Dahl- lowered to inquire into the cause for the (Though a peaceful settlement of the grens. hostilities smashed by the prince's gun- difficulty was anticipated, the revolt then Not yet satisfied that he had estab- fire, causing several deaths, the Kieyi- in progress was a forerunner of the Jap- lished himself lord of the neighboring Chang made all haste out of the straits anese civil war of 1868, when feudalism seas. Prince Mori purchased for $160,000, and arrived at Nagasaki in a sinking con- and old Japan sank into oblivion and $45,000 and $2:; ,000 respectively, the dition. the new era that eventually made Japan iron steamer Lancefield, 600 tons, the There her captain informed the cap- a formidable power was born.) clipper-built brig Lanrick, and the bark tain of the Dutch frigate Medusa of In April, Captain McDougal received Daniel Webster. On the steamer he what had transpired. The latter immedi- word from the Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, mounted a battery of twenty-four ately raised anchor and departed for American minister to Japan, to bring the pounders. The brig received an armament Shimonoseki, well prepared for war. After Wyoming to Yokohama. American lives of ten and the little bark came in for engaging the prince's fortifications for an were in a precarious situation as long seven. hour and a half, the frigate was forced as incendiarism and assassination reigned. At the mastheads of his fleet the prince to withdraw, having been hit thirty-one At Yokohama the Wyoming took on hoisted the flag of Japan. Having satis- times by large shells. board all Americans residing in that city fied himself that he was at last master Shortly after this the French gunboat to await a time when shelter ashore un- of the situation, he ventured to fire upon Tancrede was hit in three places while der the warship's guns could be assured. the American merchant steamer Pem- steaming peacefully through the straits. No sooner had the barbarian-expelling broke, which anchored in the straits one Then the prince mistook a Satsuma edict been issued than Mori, Prince of night to await slack water. No one was steamer for a hostile warship and sank Nagato, who was guardian of the Straits injured. But as a result of this little her with a big loss of life. By this time of Shimonoseki, decided to begin a war frolic of one of his subjects the mikado, it was painfully apparent that Japanese on his own account. In a short time he upon complaint of the United States marksmanship was not to be despised. had gathered near the town of Shimon- Government, paid an indemnity of Before the news of these hostilities oseki, a place of some 18,000 inhabi- $1 2,000. reached Yokohama, Captain McDougal tants, a force of workmen who, under The next vessel to be honored with was ordered to return to the United the supervision of native engineers, threw attention from the prince was a French States s'ia the Straits of Sunda. Thus, on up strong earthworks commanding the dispatch boat, the Kien-Chang, which July iith, when the Japanese govern- straits. Behind the earthworks cannon also anchored in the straits to await the ment gave out the true facts regarding platforms were erected, each mounting turn of the tide. After being hit in seven {Continued on page 46)

During the battle of the Straits of Shimonoseki, Japan, the U. S. S. Wyoming blows up the Japanese ship Lancefield. The scene as depicted by a Chinese artist

JUNE, 1943 Special agents of the FBI get- SITTING across from the desk of ting the feel of the Thompson J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FRED B. sub-machine gun on the range Federal Bureau of Investigation, I noticed that while he looked and acted as when I had seen him two years BARTON encourages the spread of hysteria. Every ago, there was more grimness in his country that Hitler has invaded and speech. The head of the nation's G-Men conquered he first rotted away by enemy has watched the building of this coun- agents and spies, followed up by every The head of the world's greatest in- try's war preparations and knows Amer- known device to spread terror and telligence service operating without the ica is fighting for its very existence the weaken that country's faith in its own — use of subterfuge or coercion nodded existence of all the democratic principles defenses. The belief sprang up that Hit- thoughtfully and commented: "You of a free people. ler's armies were supermen, endowed men can do one big thing in your home I was grim, too. I was there to find with fiendish abilities, and that noth- communities and that is, help the coun- out just what we Legionnaires and other ing human could stop them. That fear try keep calm. Don't be hysterical your- citizens might do in the war effort, since was a big help to Hitler. We must make selves and don't do anything that most of us are beyond the age limit for up our minds not to repeat ever>' rumor active militarj' service. we hear—not to be needlessly terrified. "Mr. Hoover," I began, "I'm one of While we should not let ourselves be maybe a million Legionnaires who ar« full lulled into a false sense of security, we of patriotism but who have been told in must not become hysterical. one way or another that we're too old "Fighting this war is a business, and to help win this war. We understand that we must do it in a businesslike way. only a young man's kidneys can stand the The actual fighting itself is done by shaking and jolting inside a tank. We men in armed forces. We who stay at know that modern mechanized war de- home have just as big a job to do. It is mands youth; that a modern flyer is 'too not always exciting. It is not glamorous. old' almost at 25, let alone 45 or 55. We can help win the war by doing our But we want to do something. Of course day's job a little better, by helping those we're buying and selling V/ar Bonds and about us keep faith in their constituted Stamps, we're active in the 0. C. D. and authorities, and by refraining from gos- we're doing a lot of other worthwhile sip-mongering." things. But we're not satisfied, and we A relatively small number of the fires won't be satisfied so long as we don't and explosions which have been reported se6 our side winning. So I wish you'd in the papers thus far have been the tell the whole million of us, Mr. Hoover, result of sabotage, Mr. Hoover ex- this one thing: WHAT CAN WE DO plained. The men of the FBI have been TO HELP explosion and fire WIN THE WAR?" Director J. Edgar Hoover investigating every The AMERICAN LEGION Magaiin: and the majority of these have been due to the fact that industry has been rapidly speeding up to meet the war demands. New and inexperienced employees in some of the nation's defense industries have been necessarily assigned to technical jobs, and safety precautions in some instances have been overlooked or ignored. So far the FBI has found no evidence of foreign-inspired sabotage. There have, of course, been some acts of sabotage. The FBI found some per- petrated by employees in an attempt to get even with unpopular foremen, fellow workers or the company. Others were the result of plain carelessness. During March, 1941, a large foundry handling several million dollars in defense contracts was swept by a fire which gutted its pattern shop and caused a loss of $1,500,000 and a serious delay in time. The immediate supposition was The fingerprint files of the F.B.I.'s Identification that this fire was started by enemy Division, a godsend to local and state police agents. Actually, a little searching airplane plant soiled identification tags. In fact, one brought out the discovered that employee kept at his bench two one- information that a one of its lathes gallon cans, one containing lubricating group of small was frozen tight oil and the other water glass. boys had been because water It developed that on the day of the playing with fire glass had been accident the workman having charge of around the pat- smeared over the the lathe went to these cans containing tern shop and had joints and had the soiled tags and fi-lled his own oil can. actually carried hardened. It This employe admitted that he did not into the building looked like sa- observe the difference in the tags and tin cans contain- botage. Inquiry^ was not sure which can contained the ing burning scraps however, brought lubricating oil. It was apparent that of paper. The forth the infor- what had been reported as a possible act wooden patterns mation that wa- of sabotage was merely due to the care- easily caught fire, ter glass was lessness of the company in placing oil and the blaze used for certain in a can similar to that containing water quickly got out of purposes in the glass. control. The chil- vicinity of the Mr. Hoover mentioned some other dren were fright- lathe and that mysterious events which were very easily ened and ran, both water glass explained causes once someone had without turning in and oil were checked into them. Stupidity and negli- a fire alarm. kept in identical gence had been apparent in some cases, In June, 1941, The X-ray disc losed this bomb cans, which were and these had been costly and regret- for instance, an planted in a wooden box marked with {Continued on page 36)

Tracer bullets in night firearms training show the agents are on the target

JUNE, 194: 13 Swooping down on the tiny skunk and getting well away be- steep side of the gully, clad ancient beech a small round tunnel fore the mother could intervene THEirregularly with tree and bush opening showed black against the growth and showing here and browns and greens of the slope. At its

there water-washed patches of lip the soil that had come from it the nose was parted in the middle, so naked earth, had greened miraculously formed a tiny hillock, long since beaten to speak, by a narrow white stripe be- during tl:2 first few days of the early smooth and firm by busy trampling tween the eyes, and the body that spring warmth. The leaf mould was fset. Its excavator had been a wood- followed was of a glossy black except dotted thickly with anemone and dog- chuck, but a year or more ago he had for the pure white band running from tooth violet, with now and then a patch abandoned his home, which another the nape down either side to the tail. of peeping grass; and high denizen of the gully now The tail formed a graceful plume, which over all the livening occupied. was carried proudly maples and poplars draped In the dusk of the day aloft, its long hair their misty pink and silver a little ebon piglike snout black on top and canopy. poked itself out of the hole. white on the under Near the roots of an The face that came after side and at the tip.

More danger for the youngsters in this craftiest of the woodland folk

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Masa-Jne The animal walked llat-footcd, like a rustling of their own snugglings and This habit of refraining from any bear or raccoon, and the short fore- the patter of their mother's feet as evidence of alarm at the approach of legs and longer hind ones gave the she left and returned to the nest. foes brings into his existence what may back a rather high arch; and this They had no acquaintance with their be either a pleasurable spice of combat, structure was the cause of its droll father. He had left his mate some- or the performance of an unpleasant mincing gait as the little beast ambled time before their arrival, not as a base duty—on this point naturalists are not forth. No hesitancy marked its de- deserter of family ties, but strictly ac- wholly agreed. For once in the lifetime meanor in coming out into the open; cording to skunk etiquette, which de- of nearly every animal—again including calmly confident of its ability to take crees the paternal parent's absence prior man— that lives within measurable dis- care of itself, it disdained the pre- to such an event. His leave-taking had tance of a skunk's home pastures, there cautions of sniffing the breeze and been unmistakably encouraged by his arrives the educational experience that searching the surroundings with ap- spouse shortly after the awakening from acts as certain insurance against a prehensive eyes for enemy signs, as their uneasy winter slumbers in the repetition of rash action. is the custom of most four-footed wild- hollow beneath a stone wall. Later on, Young wildings, puppies, small boys, ings, before crossing its threshold. in their children's adolescence, he prob- upon their first sight of the trim little It was breakfast time for the mother ably would join the circle; but for the peddler of essences are, unless warned skunk. Back there in the den were present the mother would undertake by an older and wiser guardian, im- her seven hungry babies, naked as yet the responsibilities of their infancy, pressed either by the apparent defense- of fur, but marked with the pattern rearing them in the snug quarters she lessness, friendliness, or innocence of of the black and white coats they soon had discovered during her house-hunt- the creature, and are impelled to such would be wearing; and their eyes and ing to which she set herself once he advances as their respective natures ears were not yet open to the sights had gone about his business. dictate. And the result of this indiscre- and sounds of the woodland world to About the time the babies' eyes tion is inevitably that whole-souled which they had been born only a few opened the skunk mother suffered a respect for the skunk's desire for un- days before. misadventure which came very near to opposed thoroughfare that guides them The skunk's appetite was keen, for proving fatal in its effects upon her- in future meetings during the balance the drain upon her body by the seven self and her young. of their lives. growing youngsters kept her in a con- At dawn one morning on her re- And second in superciliousness and tinual state of hunger. At the edge of turn from a night of foraging she was demand for the freedom of the forest the rivulet that ran through the gully ascending a gentle declivity, when she is the porcupine, that querulous little she pounced on a lethargic frog just espied directly in her path an animal bayonet-clad disputant of four-foot emerged from its winter hibernation that seemingly possessed much the same trails. The bristling array of barbed and ate it greedily. A few scurrying views as herself concerning the in- points which he wears upon his coat crayfish were drawn out from among violability of one's right-of-way. The brings to him a comforting sense of the pebbles and crunched, and the shells skunk is the most supercilious creature safety that is seldom misplaced—though sucked dry of the sweet meat. Several of the woods and fields; cocksure in it is true he has his vulnerable spots. grubs unearthed from beneath stones his awareness of the deference his Serenely confident of his claims to the which she turned over with her handy peculiar means of defense has bred middle-of-the-road, he enforces them forepaws joined the repast; but her through the animal ages in all the in- among his less active enemies with a needs were not satisfied until she had habitants of his domain—not excepting splendid arrogance. seized an unwary mouse that was seek- man himself—he is not of an inclina- The animal that the mother skunk ing its own breakfast in a clump of tion to run from any living thing. discerned in her path, descending it rustling last year's grass. Its life ended And only when prudence seems ad- as she was making the ascent, was in a squeak of terror as the needle visable will he deign to alter his course, a porcupine. At first sight the two teeth met in its neck. When she had and then in a manner dignified and forces of a like ancestral principle con- added it to her menu the mother skunk slow, alert to resent further interference. tinued to advance upon each other was ready to return to her family. without a shade of hesitancy in the Tiny as mice when born, the baby gait of either; though in the eyes skunks grew amazingly with the ample of each grew a baleful Hght kindled by nourishment and unceasing care lavished WILLIAM the same impulse to pursue the direct upon them. Soon their eyes opened to line of its progress. The beady, stupid the dim lights and shadows of their GERARD eyes of the porcupine glittered with burrow home, and a little later they resolution, while those of the skunk became aware of the slight sounds reddened and flashed with fury as she about them—not much else than the CHAPMAN {Continued on page jp) UIV UITSU HOOEY

CHARLES B. ROTH

SINCE the advent of war with Japan there have been a good many curious misbeliefs about the enemy adduced and championed in this country, but I think the most

ludicrous one is that the Japanese are a formidable people because they have a mysterious super-science in their jiu jitsu. That very word strikes fear into the heart of many Americans, because for the past forty years there has been a carefully-built-up belief that the little yellow man has discovered a great secret about self-defense that no one else has ever been able to fathom.

As everyone knows jiu jitsu is the Japanese system of defending oneself without the use of other weapons than the bare hands. It consists of a science of trips, falls, jerks, wrenches, twists and blows. It is the national sport of Japan. The tradition of the invincibility of jiu jitsu sprang up more than forty years ago when some promoter brought a troupe of Japanese jiu jitsuans from Japan and sent them around the country giving exhibitions. A big fanfare of press agentry went ahead of these matches and the mystery of the secret science of the Orient was not suppressed. Ameri- cans became goggle-eyed as they read that an adept in this science, though he weighed no more than icq pounds, could easily with a simple twist of the wrist unman a 200-pound American athlete—<:ould even kill him if he chose. With just a twist of the wrist! The matches which the public beheld were spectacular, for the jacketed little athletes threw one another around with abandon. No one was hurt. But it looked awfully dangerous to the spectators. Wherefore arose the tradition that this jiu jitsu was a super-system, that jiu jitsuans were supermen and dangerous, that all Japanese were jiu jitsu experts A Los Angeles Jap, flat on his back, tumbles a fellow and that against the jiu jitsuan, guns countryman who thought he was winning the bout and knives and clubs and machine guns and poison gas were impotent.

Jiu jitsu traces back centuries. It was The science of jiu jitsu itself is not sion of a racial genius as yet but faintly devised by the ancient commoners of fathomless or difficult to understand, is perceived by those Powers who dream of Japan. As I understand the story, these not even interesting, but the philosophy further aggrandizement in the East." commoners were not allowed the use of behind the science is. Lafcadio Hearn What he meant by calling it a philo- weapons but their aristocratic enemies pointed out in 1895 that, "Much more sophical system is that the principle had swords and clubs. To compete on than a science of defense is this jiu behind the science is the national philos- even terms they had to devise a bare- jitsu: it is a philosophical system; it is ophy of Japan—or was, because the handed defense against armed men. Jiu an economical system; it is an ethical philosophy has changed of late. For the

jitsu was their solution. system; and it is, above all, the expres- word "jiu jitsu" means "conquer by

i6 The AMERICAN LEGION 'Magazine yielding." And the trained jiu jitsuan York City. For years Bothner was light- me that he had wrestled over a hundred yields to his enemy's thrust or blow and weight wrestling champion of the world. matches with jiu jitsuans during his long then uses the enemy's own strength to An invading Japanese champion came career of 7,000 matches. undo him. to America and the two met. Bothner "Ever lose one?" In Japan much is made of jiu jitsu was under the handicap of entering a "I should say not! I never even lost training and boys are sent to school for strange element, for the Jap insisted on a point." four years to perfect their skill. The using jackets, and Bothner hadn't ever "How come? I thought these Japs fortunate ones who survive and pass seen, let alone worn, a jiu jitsu jacket. were full of tricks and very strong and difficult tests become members of the or- Even so it wasn't much of a match. The skillful." der of the "Black Belt," a signal honor Jap got a foul stranglehold on Bothner "These matches I had with 'em were in any Japanese boy's life. The jiu once and had him in trouble, but Both- under the rules of nothing barred," said jitsuans compete on a mat. They wear ner wriggled out and threw the Jap on the venerable old American champion, heavy canvas jackets with long flowing his back and held him there helpless. "not even their so-called deadly throttle sleeves and a strong canvas belt. The This put a temporary crimp in the and strangle holds. But I never had the jackets are open in the front, and the superman myth, but it soon bobbed up slightest bit of trouble beating the best contestants take hold of each other again. It has been bobbing up ever of them. Shucks, they are easy to the with one hand on the belt and the other since. man who knows how to mov'e around on the lapel of the jacket. Then they The late Farmer Burns of Omaha, un- and take care of himself." twist and trip and throw each other doubtedly the greatest wrestling virtuoso Burns wasn't boasting. He wasn't that around. That is jiu jitsu. the world has ever known, was telling kind of man. The fact about the science, however, is that while it is a very effective system of attack against an untrained man and that a jiu jitsuan can easily over- come a much larger man if the much larger man isn't schooled in taking care of himself in personal combat, there is nothing which a trained boxer or wrestler, particularly a wrestler, needs to fear at the hands of any jiu jitsuan. I know that when I make a statement like this a good many uninformed people will repeat old saws about how one little Jap can put away half a dozen big Americans, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. But the facts show that in actual combat an American wrestler can beat a jiu jitsuan easily. They've been doing it for years. First man to venture on the mat with one of these supermen was grand little George Bothner, still living in New

Wrestler George Zaharias clamps a headlock on a Jap who tried to prove Jiu Jitsu was good, but wound up biting his tongue

I also remember a match held in Denver between Frank Gotch. heavy- weight wrestling champion, and five Japs. Read over the number again— I want to make sure you understand Gotch's handicap. There were five against one, about the same ratio General MacArthur had in the Philip- pines. Gotch weighed 215 pounds; the Japs' total weight was 630 pounds. Gotch, fast as lightning, strong as a water buffalo, came out of the corner and the little Japanese army came out of their comer. Two Japs attacked him at once. One he picked up bodily and threw over the ropes, the other he slammed down so hard he lay unconscious in the center of the ring. The other three Japs mixed in the affray. No U. S. Army M. P.'s getting instruc- one could describe afterward just tion in the holds the Nipponese use (Continued on page j8)

JUNE, 1942 17 A T FOURTEEN thousand feet alti- /\ tude, in the little mining camp / % of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, even life itself was sometimes a dubi- ous break. Men faced death in a dozen JOHN K. ways in the big copper mines under the frozen rocks, as some of them had eyed him face to face at St. Mihiel and in WALSH the Argonne. Lonesome perhaps and not unmindful of old memories, fifteen veterans in 1921 established the first Legion Post in Peru.

They called it "Top o' the World Post No. I." Men far from home and paved streets and things of civilized life shook hands and asked few questions. Honor- able discharges, service records, com- missions were scarce in a land where a pair of saddlebags, or at best, a battered suitcase was home, sweet home with all the trimmings. An ex-serv'iceman's statement as to service was enough. A speaking acquaintance with Generals Vin Blanc and Vin Rouge or an assortment of French post- cards established A. E. F. service beyond all shadow of doubt. The mining company furnished a snug dubroom for employes whose organization and existence meant added insurance to an immense investment in a foreign land. Old timers "on the hill," rugged rem- nants of Panama Canal days, drifters from "Chookie," remittance men, beach- combers, miners, starry-eyed young engineers—fresh from college—they all regarded with added respect the little group of veterans, v/ho met twice a month, grim- eyed and serious. To the Legionnaire, the Post was a sort of shrine or home on the long dreary nights when the wind came down off the Andes cold enough to freeze the feathers on a brass monkey. Friendships began at Cerro — friendships that couldn't be broken at the mere frown of conventionality. "For God and In 1 92 1 an airplane arrived by freight Country we associate ourselves together" O. F. SCHMIDT on the old Ferro Carril that slowly

. . . and yet. . . . crept up the standard gauge to Cerro. The caboose unloaded a fiery little French olhcer who, in eloquent GalHc, punctuated with groans caused by the Soroche, or mountain sickness, explained that he would win the Grand Prix, offered by the West Coast Leader News to the first aviator to take off at ten thousand feet and fly over the Andes down to Lima. The Post welcomed him with appropriate ceremonies. Pisco was recommended as a cure for Soroche. It was a big day in Cerro when, after a dozen fruitless tries, his unwieldy crate finally gripped, wavered, slowly mounted, and then circled the town. Cholos in the hills flopped to their knees. Even some of the older hard-boiled gringos, who had not been back to the States in thirty years, or seen an airplane, watched the foolhardy devil with bulging eyes. When he had disappeared over the horizon, they returned with renewed fervor to the nearest cantina. It was a big day in Cerro when, after a dozen fruitless tries, the All afternoon there was a fever of little Frenchman finally got his unwieldy crate off the ground anxiety in Cerro. Suppose the motor

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failed? Suppose ice muffled the flimsy "This man is a deliberate liar! I wings? Suppose—in the fog and mist of charge that he never was a sol- the Rimac valley, the lone flyer lost his dier, a sailor or Marine in the way and crashed into the silent, eternal service of the United States" hills. Down, and he would be forever lost. There were no paths, or roadways; a landing within sight of the railroad might only be a slower death, with yawning chasms interven- ing between shelter and food, and aid. The Frenchman had

his slicker he produced the expected car- tons of American cigarettes that every exile on the hill immediately purchased from any Yankee ships that were in Callao Bay. The tax on tobacco, except what was grown in Peru, made Camels, Chesterfields and Luckies a princely luxury, obtainable only by smugghng. In fact, that w'as one of the main reasons for a vacation; go to Callao, and stock up on tobacco. Doc Crane, probably sniffing the breeze as he came by, entered the room. "Glad you dropped in, Doc," said Warne, eagerly. "I was just going to call you." "What's the matter? Soroche?" "No—no— "What th'—don't tell me you've got yourself in trouble." "No, Doc, I want to see you as Com- mander of the Post, not as a medico." "Well. Gimme a cigarette." Warne tossed him the open pack,

struck a match, held it for him. Both men sucked hungrily, in silence. "Did any of you birds here in the Post ever think that some of us, or even several of us, might be phonies?" began Warne, suddenly. "Whaddaya mean?" "Well, that we could be having someone in the Post here who was not elif^ible, who was not a veteran?" "Yes—that might be," rephed Doc, known this, had taken no food, no bining this opportunity with a long de- slowly. "Yet, why would anyone join supplies. Either he would cross over the ferred vacation, went down the hill. like that? What could he make out of it? Peaks and slide down the West Coast About a week or so later, the midnight It doesn't make sense." with no trouble at all, or else ore train puffed up the tracks, and with Warne continued. "I went over a list At four o'clock, a telegram came up screaming wheels circled the bodega and of all the members—those of us that had the hill; the plane had arrived safely. headed for the roundhouse. Ordinarily, it shown honorable discharges, I eliminated. Top o' the World Post was justly carried no passengers. Tonight it eased The rest I checked with the company proud. Not that the Post had sponsored up as it passed the clubhouse. Warne got records at Lima—when they were hired, the event, or had even aided. But, after off, and came directly to the Legion where they came from, recommendations, all, the little Frenchman was a war serv- rooms, where he knew, by the light in previous occupations, and so on. I sent ice flyer, a brother-in-arms, and the Post the windows, that some of the boys were this revised list to the Legion national had seen what theretofore no one else in still wooing the goddess of chance. headquarters, and asked that they, in the world had ever seen—a take-off at As he entered, he glanced quickly turn, check all names with the Adjutant 14,000 feet altitude. The West Coast about the room—only MacHardy, Fen- General. I got his answer today. That's Leader invited a representative of the wick and a few more were there. He why I came up the hill tonight special, Post to come down to Lima for a cele- answered the usual wisecracks about the on the ore train." bration. It was tall, taciturn, thoughtful fleshpots of the big capital in a rather "What did it say?" came several eager Warne, the company auditor, who, com- vague, preoccupied way. As he took off {Continued, on page 54) JUNE. 1942 19 The plane taxied to the ramp; came kisses and clinging arms

GEORGE E. MAGEE

SHANE, fifty, retired broker JOHNand a widower, had a problem. It Jane stuck out her tongue. The tele-

concerned himself, and his daugh- jumped as it always did when her voice phone rang. Her face lightened as she ters who would be coming home at sounded like her mother's, but he noted answered, "Oh, hello. Bill. No, he can't almost any time now. that the greeting was automatic, as if come. Sure. Seven-thirty. See you." Indeed, he already heard his eldest, he might have been a well-loved servant. She turned from the 'phone. "When Sybil, laughing at something Ralph Sybil called over a rounded shoulder we eat? Bill's asked me to the school Moore shouted as he roared away from as she turned into the hall, "Hold every- dance." the curb. thing; I got to fix my hair. I'm going "I'm ready," said Pops, wanting to eat Kit, who worked for a dentist, would in to Los to a show with Ralph." while the steak was still juicy. be coming next. He wondered what had He picked up the evening paper with After dinner, Jane planted a kiss on happened to Jim Potter who hadn't been a little sag in his shoulders. The steak the top of his reddish, slightly waving around lately. would grow cold. If the girls were ever hair. "Buy you a lollypop, Pops," she Jane, senior in high school, dreamy- to learn anything he'd have to get out promised, laughing. eyed and in love with a nice boy learn- from under. His thought went back as he pottered ing to be an aviator, sometimes forgot He heard Kit tap down the hall and about. He had made enough money at about eating when she got a letter. call through the bathroom door to Syb. forty-five to retire. Life had been very John Shane smiled through steam as "I know where you're going. You prom- good for a couple of years. The itch to he shook the potatoes sharply and de- ised if you could wear my green dress, write came strongly on him, and he cided to mash them. It was nice to be you'd make Ralph take me. I'll pqy my had sold a few stories. Stacking the in love. way, honest!" dishes automatically, he planned to get

. The door slammed. Sybil, her brown Girls seemed in no hurry to get mar- away. eyes sparkling—she looked a lot like ried now. So he found a place for Jane in a good her mother—ran into the kitchen. "Hi, Jane came in. "He can't get leave family, the Selbys, got a director's job Pops," she cried. "Smells good!" this week end," she wailed. in a C. C. C. Camp, and after seeing Pops grinned. "Apple pie." His heart "Too bad." Sybil and Kit settled in a small apart-

20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine mcnl, took up his work with the eager "I want you to keep the house going," boys. The first few weeks were bad. he wrote. "Judge Carter will have my Probably some of his loneliness got into address. I can get home in a few hours his early letters. But in six months he by plane if anything happens. Love to was so satisfied that he felt guilty. you all. I'll keep track of you and come There was one thing that worried him. Finally came a joint letter from the girls in which they had it all planned. He must come home. They would open the house again. "I get so lonely for you, Dad," wrote Jane. "Mr. Selby doesn't like poetry. Could I come up and see you in vacation?'' Tears burned in his eyes. It was the cry of a lost child. He could write and run the house. With sudden understanding, he telephoned that he was coming. The gladness of their voices as they took turns at the "phone shook him. There had been no doubts in his mind then. But that was three years ago. Three happy years, but three very wrong years. If he had stayed away, Sybil would now be making a home of her own. Kit would probably be married to Jim Potter. Jane would have learned enough of men to know that her young aviator was exceptional. But as it was, none of the girls knew or appeared to care about learning to manage a home. They wouldn't make good wives. He was knocked back as IT WAS going to be hard to leave this the door was banged open time, but he knew he had to go. by a pajama-clad figure A car honked at the door as he wiped the sink. Sybil and Kit ran out. He went to his room to type off a letter of farewell. Another horn sounded. Jane poked her back in a year or so to see how you are his trunk, called a taxi and went to the yellow head in the door. "See you, Pops," doing." He'd mail the letter on the train. depot to buy his ticket for Taos. she promised. He got an extra good breakfast for He certainly didn't feel good on the "See you. Pops," she always said as them next morning. But of course they train. A man doing the right thing ought

if wanting assurance that he'd be there didn't notice. He gave Jane an extra dol- to feel free and gay. He didn't. He kept when she returned. He had a moment lar for lunch money, pretending that he hearing "See you. Pops," until the rising of weakness. "Don't let Bill drive too had forgotten. inflection became a torture. He smoked fast," he warned. Bill had too much "See you. Pops," she cried as she too much. Finally he joined a bridge money; too much car for a boy. He gathered her books. game and lost three dollars. He read over wasn't solid like the young aviator. Per- "See you," he assured, adding men- the story he was working on. It wasn't haps he ought to explain to her. He tally, "in a year."' good. He wanted with all his heart to hardened his heart. They must learn to He fought down a queer hope that go back. stand on their own feet. The horn tugged they couldn't get along without him, at Taos the sun was very bright, Jane out of the room. He began to write. that they'd track him down. He packed BUT the tourist court where the taxi driver dumped him, clean and attrac- tice. A woman ran it. "I'm Mrs. Murphy," she twinkled, her full breasts shaking with an inner laughter caused by Pops' muddled glance, "by the grace of God, widow of the late James Patrick Murphy, who, God save him, was a devil and—" She read his name on the register. "It's John Shane >ou are. And an author, no less. And wanting to pay six months in advance. 'Tis few of your tribe can do that. Many a one I fed through the winter. And are you married at all?'' "She died," said John Shane. "She was a good woman.'' "No need to be telling me," cried Mrs. Murphy. "It's in the face of you. You've been a very happy man, John Pops learned more about Mrs. Murphy in the Shane. I ll be giving you a cabin that's {Continued on first evening than for a long time afterwards page 5p)

JUNE, 1943 21 Illustrated by Gene Carr

Treatments can be taken at home when cooperation is assured

FREDERICK C. PAINTON

YOU ever go to Arkansas remem- grandparents were old—her parents were IFber two facts. They are a shy, dead—and they all lived, somehow, on warm, friendly folk intensely loyal five dollars a month. She was eleven to their State; and they are not years old, but she had been too blind for black-bearded, ragged people sleeping six years to go to school. So she could with a whiskey jug under a tree, the neither read nor write, and she lived in only sign of life being when a slab-sided a darksome world painted by her grand- foot waggles feebly as a horsefly drones mother's voice. by. If you bear that in mind and listen Lucille's was not too unusual a case. quietly, you'll hear some remarkable Those counties on both sides of the Ar- stories. kansas-Missouri line have been known As for instance, the amazing tale of for years as the Trachoma Belt. Thou- little Lucille Cheatham. sands of men, women and children knew Lucille lived in a wooded valley be- the agony of inflamed, suppurating eyes tween two mountains not far from the that inevitably ended in the helpless tiny hamlet of Cricket. In the Ozarks a groping of the blind. The mountain folk sunset can be breath-taking in its flaming called it "sore eyes," and they knew if glory. But Lucille Cheatham never saw you were around somebody who had it one because she had been practically you were very liable to get it yourself. blind for six years. Like so many among But they didn't understand isolation, and the mountain folk she suffered from so it spread. trachoma. There are beautiful sounds in Very little is known about trachoma. the wooded grandeur of the peaceful It's infectious, highly so, but the virus valley, but Lucille never heard them. An has never been identified. The constant ear infection had impaired her hearing. "She's been kicked around inflammation produces scar tissues on the She wore only cotton rags because her long enough," said Korpnik lids, and finally on the cornea and when

22 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-.ine that happens blindness follows. -About this time the mirac- But the State knew something ulous results of sulfanila- had to be done; the growing mide in treating pneumonia number of blind taxed the slim had been reported through- amounts of relief money. A ' out the country. Dr. Cos- hospital at Russellville was grove pondered; what effect started, and silver nitrate solu- might the drug have in tions used. These could produce treating trachoma? Sulfan- a cure, but the process was ex- ilamide attacked inflamma- tremely painful and was drawn tion; trachoma was inflam- out over six months. The mation. Why not? He was mountain people couldn't take the kind of death-fighter that time off; so, mostly, they who dared to take a risk. never came back. And finally, Lucille Cheatham became without funds, the hospital was the human guinea pig to sec closed. if sulfanilamide would turn Of all this Lucille Cheatham the trick. knew nothing. Her animal-like The result has made med- world consisted of food and ical history in Arkansas and warmth and sleep, and her elsewhere in the world. grandmother's voice; and, of Dr. Cosgrove adminis- course, the pain that made her tered orally one-fifth grain cry in agony. She existed with- of sulfanilamide per pound out having ever lived. of body weight for five days. On a night in April of 1938, After a two-day rest he gave a thin little man, crippled in another five-day treatment. his hip by the war, sat quietly Meanwhile, a five percent through the regular meeting of solution bathed the eyes and the Roy Allen Post of The ' inflamed lids. American Legion at Harrison, Lucille Cheatham, who Arkansas. could scarcely distinguish The Post Commander said, daylight from darkness, "An>-body got anything they might want Soldiers on maneuvers last sum- found her sight. The trachoma disap- to say before we adjourn?" mer enjoyed Legion-built showers peared; the ear infection healed. Dr. The thin crippled man rose. "Mister in the State of Arkansas Cosgrove performed an operation to turn Commander?" out her eyelids—distorted by scar tissue "Go ahead, Comrade Korpnick." And Judge Penix, close to tears, brought —and he had her fitted for glasses. She Jack L. Korpnick was Chairman of Lucille Cheatham to Little Rock. had normal vision in one eye and seventy the Post's Child Welfare Committee. To- Here the case took a strange turn. Dr. in the other—the doctors write it 20-70 night he was pale, face tight, and his Cosgrove was consulting ophthalmologist —and she at last kn?w the beauties of eyes blazed. He began to talk about Lu- to the State Health Board. He had long the world. To complete Lucille's Cin- cille Cheatham. How County Judge been interested in the problem of derella tale, I can add that she was Peni.x, torn by this pitiful case, had in eradicating trachoma from the Trachoma adopted by a prcsperous family in Mich- his desperation written to Korpnick to Belt. He didn't think the silver nitrates ican. She attends schocl, lives as a nor- see if something might be done for the were the answer although they helped. {Continued on page 35) doomed child.

"I don't care if she isn't the daughter of a veteran," shouted Korpnick. "She's been kicked around long enough. Some- thing has got to be done to give her her chance." The Post sympathetically agreed, and at that moment was born the fight to give Lucille Cheatham sight. And, though they didn't know this, The American Legion then launched the movement that was to give clear vision to thousands. Not only in Arkansas, but throughout the nation—throughout the very world itself. Six months passed while bureaus worked over the case. Scar tissue was forming; when the cornea was covered no medicine, no aid in the world could give Lucille Cheatham sight. Korpnick wrote to the governor; he besieged men of influence. The State Legion got busy. Then came the glad day when Dr. K. W. Cosgrove of Little Rock said he would cure Lucille if arrangements could be made to house and clothe her. Scraping up five dollars here and five there, Korp- nick and his Post raised the board The National Duck-Calling Contest told the money. They got together decent clothes. world that Arkansas is a hunter's paradise

JUNE, 1942 23 Illustrations by V. E. PYLES Eu FELIX W. KNAUTH T/t£/VCJH Mi/t/tOiR

that it fell off its nail and got some scratch- es, like service stripes. Then we moved into an abandoned French position where the dugouts were full to the roof with rain-water. We pumped them out, and moved in; muddy water trickled across the face of the mirror, and my wipings only dulled it more. But still I could see enough for shaving.

Sometimes it glinted in the sunlight of bright spring days; it caught the re- flection of the merry meadow blossoms DEAR Uncle Joe: Do you Channel—just a few stormy hours during which bloomed on the thick covering MYremember the trench mirror which those of us who had been there of our gun positions, unmindful of the you gave me in 191 7? before slept soundly, though the letters perils of war. So Nature had often be- It was a steel plate about we later censored were full of the dan- fore gaily painted the grim fields of three by four inches, nickel-plated, and gers of the night, with lethal Zeppelin: human battle, with mid-summer blos- you had my name engraved across the overhead, and U-boats shooting torpe- soms at Marengo, with tasseled oaks at top. does which missed us by inches! It hung Appomatox, with scarlet poppies in You gave similar ones, I believe, to in an Adrian Barrack at Coetquidan Flanders. But whereas long ago the sol- all your nephews in the service—and while we were getting used to the "soix- diers competed with the wild-flowers there were a lot of them—and maybe ante-quinze" and the decimal system. in the brightness of their equipment, some of these also went through ad- And late in January, it went to the my mirror reflected the dullest, and ventures; here is the story of mine. Front with me. the most serviceable, of uniforms.

I used it of course, every day; it Six weeks in snow and ice on the Sometimes it fogged over as rain and swung to the slow heavy roll of the Ch:min-des-Dames; then to the sector mist dampened everything we owned Adriatic as we sailed along the coast beyond Toul. When my Battery laid and used. The cloth slip-cover got wet from New York to Halifax, and then in down its share of the barrage around through, and it became harder to main- convoy to Liverpool. It crossed a choppy Seicheprey, the little mirror rattled so {Cont'.nued 07i page 48)

24 The AMEraC.^N LEGION Magazine ALL-OUT and NO FOOLING

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you feel just bit PERHAPS a Here's the job we civilians must sacred than the lives of our sons. squeezed by the sugar ration- do in this all-out war, as stated su- "Soldiers on the battle front must ing, the tire and gasoHne restric- perbly by Warren H. Atherton, devote every moment of time, every tions and the numerous departures Chairman of the Legion's National ounce of energy, every thought in from business-as-usual Uncle Sam is Defense Committee, in his report their brain to winning the war. Slow- insisting upon for you and every other to the National Executive Commit- downs, sit-downs, and lay-downs American not in the uniform of the tee: there are paid for by death and de-

armed services. We Americans, heirs "For us to keep democracy our feat. Neglect of duty is treachery;

to a civilization of plenty that has Army and Navy must win. To help desertion is treason. no parallel in history, are "Profiteering, racketeer- learning that sending the ing, hoarding, gouging, strongest and best of our gypping, THE NATIONAL striking, and youth against the enemy CONVENTION slowing down are treach- in a showdown fight isn't The Twenty-Fourth Annual National Con- ery and treason. They have going to be quite enough. vention of The American Legion will not be already cost the lives of Those youngsters, fac- held at New Orleans, as planned since last thousands of gun-less, ing a strong, resourceful, September, when the Crescent City won out plane-less soldiers and superbly armed enemy, in the competition at Milwaukee. The United sailors. If continued they are going to pay a heavy States Government asked that the conven- will be paid for by death price for victory in a strug- tion be held at a "gateway city" in the Mid- and defeat! gle they had no part in dle West, because of transportation diffi- "The Legion should bringing on, but they trust culties, and New Orleans graciously with- ride on a rail the business- us of 1917-'18 and the drew. By the time you read this the National men who take bonuses older generations when Executive Committee will have informed you, and high profits on war we tell them that anything through the newspapers, which city is to production! short of victory for the have the National Convention, which will be "The Legion should United Nations would held on September 19-21, a three-day con- brand a traitor's cross on mean slavery for all na- vention instead of the customary four. the men who hoarded tions, including the Ger- their junk while blast fur- mans, Italians and Japs. naces closed! While our youngsters "The Legion should bear the brunt of the struggle we on them win citizens must give democ- blacklist the shipyard workers who the home front must sustain them by racy as efficient an Army behind the work Saturday and Sunday on over- proving that no sacrifice necessary to lines as the Axis has. time, then lay off to loaf on Monday deliver the materials to the fighting "Suspension of democratic rights and Tuesday at straight time!

front will be too much for us. If our and freedoms for the duration is not "Legionnaires should see that six- standard of living drops down to too great a price to pay to save them week wonders welding at the highest

what it was fifty years ago, a hun- forever. . . . pay of their lives who refuse to work dred years ago, so let it be. Victory in "All wealth, labor, industry, and on a synthetic holiday are put to this war is the only must we shall agriculture should be immediately work on the 'honey wagon'! recognize in the coming months and mobilized for service under a uni- "Legionnaires should run the years. And if in the fulness of time versal service act. Then all should racketeer who demands excessive pay it becomes the high privilege of the serve under such an act as a soldier for jobs in defense industry down the veterans of 1917-'18 to come to grips serves, loyally, continuously, and gauntlet of public castigation!"

once again with the foe that too will without profit! Wealth and wages There's a program for victory, all- be undertaken. and welfare must not be held more out and no fooling.

^or Qod anil Qounlry, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America: to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism; to preserve the memories and incidents of our association in the Great War,- to inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation; to combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses; to make right the master of might; to promote peace and good will on earth; to safeguard and transmit to posterity

the principles of justice, freedom and democracy ; to consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness. — Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion

JUNE. 1942 Massachusetts passes

NE of the greatest forces in the United States o today working in defense of right and truth and justice is The American Legion. It stands firmly pledged to the per- petuation of liberty under the Constitution and the laws of our country. The great national organization came into being at the close of the World War, just as the Grand Army of the Republic followed the Civil War. It is destined patriotic to give long and Brookline Post parades its World War tank before offering it for sale service to the nation, just at auction on Boston Common. It is being recast into guns and shells as that Grand Old Army, now all too rapidly fading away, has served with honor and distinc- eligible veteran goes a long way *-i Sand - in the historic old State House tion during the most important era of to explain why, in the course of at Boston. There, under the di- our country's history."' years, the old Bay State has rection of Department Comman- That is the opening paragraph of the maintained such a uniformly der Richard F. Cunningham and proclamation of Legionnaire Leverett high standard of Legion mem- Department Adjutant Coleman Saltonstall, Governor of Massachusetts, bership and a Legion program of F. Curran, the thousand and one designating the week of April 5th to nth service that has made it the force details that go to make up the as American Legion Membership Week. in the Commonwealth and com- work are coordinated and welded Such a proclamation urging the people munity life. into a pattern that has for years of all communities to lend a hand in the The nerve-center of this unit given distinction to the Depart- enrollment or re-enrollment of every of the national organization is ment and to its leaders.

Massachusetts is a compact Norfolk County Posts put up a common fund to fully equip a unit with an average membership fourteen-bed ward in the Soldiers' Home hospital at Chelsea of around 45,000, and with a high comparable standing of the affiliated or-

ganizations. Here, then, is a service unit made to order for prompt action and

quick accomplishment. And that is just what is happening in Massachusetts now in this great national emergency, though

the Legion is not forgetting community 1^ needs and community service. A pioneer among the schools for the training of air wardens under the national plan to provide more than a million aircraft spotters in the civilian m defense system, was the one in Massa- chusetts, held at Lowell, under the direction of National Executive Committee- man Stephen F. Garrity. Though long before the schools were planned, Legion -HmcrKan Um Posts in various sections had set up, at their own expense, a series of air warning stations, with a corps of spotters

enrolled. Here is just one report, one that comes from Attleboro Post: "Our air warning tower was con-

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structed on top of a man guns and tanks were offered—and ^r^T barn," writes Comrade sold. In all the collection of war relics, mm^^ Mm George A. Courtman- which will be recast into 1942-model che, "and is complete guns, tanks and shells, brought $1 .960.50. in every detail, enclosed The affair was made the occasion for a on all sides with large windows and great patriotic demonstration, preceded equipped with electric lights, telephone by a parade of the several pieces and heating system. The post is manned brought in by Posts at Maiden, Pitts- twenty-four hours a day by a corps of field, Brookline, Lexington, Revere, Need- eighty volunteers, half of which are ham, Mattapan, Everett, Sharon, Saxon- Legionnaires." ville, and other towns. Acting Mayor But air raid warning, important as it Thomas E. Lineman wielded the hammer.

is, is but a very small part of the war Another practical work was the cam- effort. Lieutenant Commander Frederick paign conducted by Crosscup-Pishon D. Powers, in charge of the Navy re- Post, of Boston, for the loan of high-power cruiting station at Boston, strongly binoculars and field glasses for use in the commends Old Dorchester Post for the Legion-operated observation posts. More efficiency of its plan than $8,000 worth were of recruiting. "On De- secured in less than a cember 8th," says month through the coop- Commander Powers, eration of the Boston

"over 3,000 young Post. A total of 1 88 pairs men applied for en- of fine imported and listment. From that American-made optical time on for six weeks instruments were turned Old Dorchester Post over to Department furnished Legionnaires Headquarters for issue who maintained a to chief observers in such twenty-four-hour day of the 256 active obser- service, including vation posts as were un- Sundays, and who able to obtain the neces- must have been re- sary glasses required for sponsible for the re- fast work, cruiting of I. 000 of "These glasses were the 4,000 men during loaned for the duration that time. The Post by patriotic civilian maintains an informa- owners," reports Legion- tion bureau for the naire H. L\Tnan Armes. Navy Recruiting "They came to Crosscup- Service at their hall, Pishon Post headquarters Crosscup-Pishon Post of Boston campaigned for to which I send a by mail, express and binoculars to equip the aircraft warning sta- recruiter on two nights messenger eighty-seven tions. Above, citation awarded to all contributors ; a week. The Post does percent of them from the recruiting. If Posts within fifteen miles of generally did what Old Dorchester is assembled by Legion Posts on Boston Boston. The expense of

doing, the Navy Department would be . Common, late in March, and sold at minor adjustments and able to send many of its present recruit- auction for scrap. Crusted iron pieces repairs was borne by the ing force to sea." that once spoke from the deck of the Post, which is also paying Cannon that thundered at Ticonderoga frigate Constitution—"Old Ironsides" for a blanket insurance and on the battlefields of France were along with Civil War cannon and Ger- policy covering all loaned binoculars against the perils of fire, theft and transportation. As a further safeguard a registration number was engraved on each pair of glasses and filed with Department Headquarters and the insurance company, together with a detailed description and the name of the owner. A specially de- signed 'Citation for War Ser\'ice,' signed by Post Commander George G. Wiswell and Post Adjutant Cyrus Barnes, was sent to each binocular volunteer." Another work that can appropriately be classed as either war work or community service is that of enlarging the hospital facilities of the various centers, such as that reported by Dedham Post through Department Conmiander Cun- ningham. In this town, because of its close proximity to Boston, a local hos- Dedham Post's gift ambulance which serves the community pital had never been established. Com- and the emergency hospital established in the Post home mander Franklin DeLance, after a survev

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Cagley Post of Clark, South Dakota, has more than half of its members in Legion uniform. A plan has been worked out to uniform all members, the Post paying part of cost

of the situation, recommended to Ded- men in the uniformed services, some to a instances they are so similar as to fall ham Post that the second floor of the greater extent than others. Dozens of into the nation-wide pattern. Here is a Post home, a fine old mansion, be reno- reports of farewell parties of different report of the plan carried out by a small vated and equipped for this purpose. kinds have been sent in. but in most unit—Oscar Smith Mitchell Post of Hull The funds were raised by appropriations —with a membership of fifty-five. The from the Post's Drum and Bugle Corps, VeW- kteeptiA' us f^f Post provides a gift box for each lad is puHiViq as alt t>acK itVv PeeHoor-K -Vite - the Post's qofci tje in sViape the Sons of the Legion and "~ who enters the service. The box contains 0^, ote Artier- treasury. a razor, razor blades, fountain pen, Twelve hospital cots, with bedside cigarettes, comb, postage stamps, paper, tables and other hospital equipment, envelopes, and a copy of "Fall In," the were placed in service within a week Legion's service manual. Commander after the hospital committee had been Joe Brest sees to it that the presenta- named, and within two weeks the tion is made before the Hull boys leave American Legion Emergency the home sector, and a "keep-in-

Hospital No. i was dedicated to touch" service has been organ- public service. An ambulance ized by Service Officer Fred E. was donated by Miss Katharine Cox, who arranges for personal Endicott, and under Dr. Arthur contact through Legion Posts F. Worthington, World War sur- nearest to the place the boys are geon, a corps of nurses and stationed. In addition, Oscar volunteer workers has been or- Smith Mitchell Post has invested ganized. Dedham now has a hos- $2,000 in War Bonds. pital that will take care of thir- To make sure that the boys ty-two bed patients in any emer- in service are not forgotten, gency. Ludlow Post revived the custom Another contribution to the of presenting Service Flags away public welfare along the same back in the spring of 1941 line was the dedication of a four- long before actual war came to teen-bed ward at the Soldiers' us, but at a time when hundreds Home at Chelsea by the Norfolk of thousands of young men were County Council. Every one of being sent to training centers for the twenty-eight Posts in the preparation against any emer- county contributed to the hos- gency. The first presentation pital fund, writes County Chap- ceremony, says Adjutant George lain Henry Wellington Tuck, Martin, was held in the High who was also Chairman of the School Auditorium on May 2,

Committee. 1 94 1, when 164 Service Flags of Nearly every Post has inter- Aircraft Warning Tower built and oper- the World War design were pre- ested itself in the welfare of the ated by Harrisburg (Pennsylvania) Post sented to the families of men in

28 The AMERICAN LEGION Maea-Jnt service. An Honor Roll was pre- copy of his birth certificate. Then pared, painted by Past Comman- it was discovered that Dr. J. A. der Sydney Ingham, for display at Ilielscher, born October 21, 1864, the same time, bearing the names oldest member of the Post, had of- of the service men. Since that ficiated at his birth. Major Hicl- date, more than a year ago, other scher's late wife, Dr. Helen Hughes Service Flags have been presented Hielscher, presided at the first and the list of names on the Honor National Convention of the Amer- Roll has lengthened. ican Legion Auxiliary at Kansas Albert T. Wood Post of Long- City in 1921. meadow held a similar service on April loth when 128 Service Nice Little Blaze Flags were presented, together with a certificate of appreciation, UCK KEYES POST of Quan- to the families of all men from B' tico, Virginia, is made up for that town now on active duty, most part of Marines who remained reports Commander H. Hayes in service after the World War, Landon. A Service Flag for the and it is also the home Post of town of Longmeadow, with 131 Marines, still in service over the stars, was presented at the same entire globe. It is a boast that the time. The ceremony was a colorful sun never sets on the membership one. Governor Saltonstall, De- of Buck Keyes Post. So, there was partment Commander Cunning- great rejoicing when the Gyrenes ham, and distinguished represent- of Quantico raised enough cash atives of the Army, Navy, Marine money to retire the mortgage on the Corps, and city and county gov- Clarence G. Graeber, youngest, and club home; a big party was held, ernments were guests of honor. attended by District and Department Dr. J. A. Hielscher, oldest member of Lorentz Post, Mankato, Minn. brass hats. In a formal ceremony the A Uniformed Post old plaster was reduced to ashes. mander George H. Morgan and, right, CAGLEY POST of Clark, South Past Commander Harry E. Stoner." Third Illinois District Dakota, is working on a plan to put all of its members in uniform. This Third District of the Depart- Youngest THE four-star Post has been Oldest and ment of Illinois," writes Adjutant William H. Kammert, "has the distinc- active in Junior Base- Houj do mou m>/ HmH Afo lopels - no CURIOUS fact pccket-s - «3 cuffs on A district in point ball. Scouts tion of being the largest Boy and s'a^S^^;.^'^'^ parts UUJell.WisSuif came to light at civic programs, and in wa^ be Stream of membership in the Department and *'^c3>"'*""^'^ Mankato, Minnesota, addition has earned reports Publicity Chair- possibly the largest in the entire Amer- enough money to buy man Al Pearson, when ican Legion. Through having 7,129 and pay for one of the Clarence G. Graeber, members it is bigger than the Depart- best business blocks in born August 12, 1902, ments of Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, its home town. More youngest member of Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, than forty of the sev- Lorentz Post, applied Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont or Wyo- enty-five members have to the Clerk of Blue ming, and it has more members than uniforms; now a plan Earth County for a {Continued on page 54) has been worked out by which the Post kicks in on each one purchased, the amount of Post help being graduated by the number of years the member has paid dues. A very large percentage are old timers, dating their membership back more than twenty vears.

Pennsylvania Spotters

''TN addition to being the second X largest Post in Pennsylvania and one of the ten largest in the country," writes Legionnaire D. G. R. Henderson,

"Harrisburg Post is truly civic-minded and is always on the alert to be of service to the community and to the nation. I enclose a picture of our aircraft warning tower, dedicated on March 8th, which is manned by members of the Post on a twenty-four-hour basis. The observer on the tower is Past Comman- der William L. Windsor, 3d, Chairman of the Aircraft Warning Service Com- mittee, and, incidentally, Sheriff of Dauphin County. Gyrenes of Buck Keyes Post, Quantico, Virginia, hold a jubilee On the steps at the left is Com- meeting to burn the plaster that stuck to the old homestead for years

JUNE. 1942 29 The Last CoiMFEDERAn

now! An' have yez not shtopped in any Ploughing south through port since yez left there?" calm seas, the Shenandoah The captain shakes his head. "No, nor captured one Yankee ship been in sight of land either. What late after another. Most of news have you of the war over in Amer- them she burned, taking ica, suh?'' their crews aboard the Looking quizzically at his questioner, raider the Irishman hesitates a moment before replying. "Sorry Oi am to tell yez this, Cap'n, but that war's been over so long, sure people have got through talkin' uv it, and owld Jeff Davis is locked up tight in Fortress Monroe. 'Tis now me sad duty to tur-rn yez over to the Port Authorities as required be law." So, in a foreign harbor and with a foreign hand at her wheel, the C. S. S. Shenandoah reaches the end of an in-

lllus+ratlon by

W. J. Aylward

IS a little past the foggy midnight "This, suh," comes the reply in a soft credible odyssey that had begun from of November when the drawl, "is the Confederate steamer Shen- self-same harbor two years before. IT 5, 1865, that Irish pilot boat lying off Holyhead andoah !" in St. George's Channel answers a "The hell ye say!" The pilot's surprise ON ANOTHER foggy night, this hail from the dark bulk of a ship that is breaks the bounds of the etiquette of time in October of '63, there was cautiously feeling her way towards Liv- naval conversation. "Where the blazes sudden and unwonted activity along a erpool. have yez lads come from?" deserted portion of the Liverpool water- "Good momin'," says the pilot as he "The Arctic Ocean!" front. Earlier that evening a mysterious clambers over the rail and salutes the "Howly mither! The Arctic Ocean is messenger had paid a series of visits to new arrival's captain. "What ship?" ut?" gasped the other. "Think uv that the sailors' boarding houses that lined

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne the cobbled streets near the wharves; from a Clyde River shipyard twelve scurr>'ing figures, well-muffled against months previously as Her Majesty's Ship prj'ing eyes as well as the chill air, were Sea King, her maiden voyage being to now hurriedly converging towards a New Zealand as a transport for British landing stage where a darkened tug troops. She was 220 feet long, of 790 A. C. strained at her moorings. There was no tons register, and was a full-rigged ship M. word of greeting exchanged between the with iron masts, bowsprit and lower AZOY members of the group that huddled to- yards; in addition she carried a steam gether on the tugs afterdeck, nor was auxiliary engine of 220 horsepower and any word spoken when the tug cast off was equipped with a single screw. On her sel, the Sea King, has been purchased and brought her passengers alongside the passage to the Antipodes she had shown by the Confederate government, and steamer Laurel, waiting in mid-stream. unusual speed, at times logging 320 will hereafter resign her peaceful Here, as each man left the tug for the miles in twenty-four hours, and the Con- character as well as her name. Hence- larger vessel, he was required to show federate agents in forth she will be known as the cruiser special credentials, every one identical England recognized Shenandoah, and I have been assigned with the others: "Received from Mr. her as the answer to command her. It is proposed that John Doe, thirty-two pounds for his to their prayer for she will sail at once to prey upon the passage in the cabin of the steamer a formidable and > commerce of the government with Laurel from this port to Havana." That which we of the South are at war, was all, yet those slips of paper marked thus rendering what service she can their owners as enlisted in one of the to our unfortunate country. Besides great adventures of all naval history; an those who have already signified their adventure that had long been plotted so willingness to enlist in this righteous carefully that it no hint of had leaked to cause, I am glad to offer to any of unsympathetic ears, still and was such a the rest of you who may wish to secret that its sharers feared to speak join the ship in her new character, a aloud after boarding the Laurel but went bounty of fifteen pounds, and wages silently their assigned to staterooms as of four to seven pounds a month ac- the steamer weighed anchor and headed cording to your capabilities. Now for the open sea. then, lads, who is for it?" The next morning, when XT For a moment no one spoke. The the ship's company assembled European seamen who had sailed the on deck, all pretense of further two ships to their rendezvous gazed mystery was abandoned and irresolutely at each other; a fifteen- the traditional ceremony of pound bounty was a fifteen-pound "splicing the main brace" was bounty, but on the other hand a dedicated to the successful Yankee bullet was a Yankee bullet, and its lead could easily nullify the advantages that might accrue from Confederate gold. At length one man stepped bashfully forward, then two more; a few larger groups followed, until twenty-three stood bareheaded before Waddell. The captain showed his disappoint- ment. "Is this all—just you few out of eighty? No more of you want to come along? Very well then; all hands stand by. I hereby commission this ship the Shenandoah of the Confederate swift corsair that would be a serious States Navy!" A bosun's pipe whistled menace to Federal merchantmen. Nego- shrilly, and England's "red duster" tiations for her purchase by the Con- dropped from the main truck as the federate government were quietly con- Stars and Bars rose in its place. Over summated, the necessary stores and the side to the Laurel went the non- personnel were assembled without the volunteers, lustily cheering the comrades completion of the perilous watchful United States consular agents they were leaving on the cruiser's deck. tasks that lay ahead. For in England being any the wiser; and Captain Waddell ordered the anchor despite the Laurel's inno- when the Laurel swung into the lee of weighed immediately, and under the cent appearance and her Desertas Island, off Madeira, the Sea power of her auxiliary engine the re- announced destination, the King appeared from nowhere and slid christened Shenatidoah slipped slowly purpose of her voyage was into the roadstead behind her. away on a voyage that would take her not at all the transporta- In thirty-six hours of unremitting toil around the world in raiding exploits that tion of ordinary travelers to Cuba. In- all the extra cannon, small arms, am- have never been surpassed in all the ex- deed, she was not even going to Cuba but munition, food and other supplies carried citing histor\' of that romantic form of to Madeira, and there her passengers by the Laurel had been transferred to marine activity. would be transformed into officers and her consort, and the crews of both Officers and foremast hands totaled seamen of the navy of the Confederate vessels were assembled on the quarter- only forty-two—not quite half of the States of America, to man the Shenari- deck of the Sea Kitig. To them then ap- vessel's regular complement—and it was doah, newly-commissioned as a cruiser peared North Carolinian James I. Wad- a lucky thing for all concerned that the for the sole purpose of raiding Yankee dell in the gray and gold of a captain in weather stayed calm and no enemy ships shipping on the high seas. the Confederate Navy. were encountered for the first few days This cruiser had first taken the water '"Gentlemen," he announced, "this ves- {Conti7iued o?i page 42)

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Signal Corps photog- E FREELY raphers in simulated admit that action at Washington our knowl- Barracks, D. C, in 1917 w edge of cin- ematography is practi- shall. President of the Portland cally nil and that what Engraving Company, Portland, smattering we do have of Maine, Legionnaire and ex- it has been acquired photographer of through seeing a motion picture or two graphic section men are some real the A. E. F. and Berlin, in which the workings in a movie studio notables from the Hollywood studios, Germany. Our space per- were portrayed—scenes behind the not a few of whom are movie stars or mits us to use only a short scenes, as it were. No doubt ardent movie near-stars who instead of facing the extract from his interesting fans will question the order of command lens are grinding out the film. account of his World War words in the title. How do they run? For this flash-back and for the picture experiences Lights! Action! Set 'em rolling! or of men enjoying some much-welcomed "In the February, 1941, something to that effect. But in the boxes of good things from the home issue you published an ar- movies in which we are presently in- folks, we are indebted to John A. Mar- ticle 'Taps for the Army terested, the action had to Mule,' by Robert Gins- come first and it was up to burgh, of which one of the the operators to take care illustrations was a photo- of the rest. We're talking graph of a balky mule not of staged movies, but team. I made the original movies of actual fighting photograph while a mem- which were taken during ber of the Photo Section battles of our World War. of the I St Division during Movies hadn't advanced the St. Mihiel Drive. The too far in 1917 and 1918, as soldier trying to pull that mule team out witness the picture at the of a hole was Private H. D. Shook, top of the page. The signal i66th Machine Gun Battalion, 42d Di- corpsmen of today, with vision, and it was taken near St. Baus- their up-to-the-minute still sant on September 13, 1918, the second and movie cameras, film day of the drive. laboratories and what have "Incidentally, that picture, along with you, will get a big laugh out four other of my shots, was published of this photograph of a in Leslie's Weekly of March 8, 1919, as simulated action scene taken 'The Five Best Shots of the War.' back in 191 7. And among Embryonic photographers at Washington Bar- "I also had the pleasure of taking our present-day photo- racks welcome a change from army rations pictures in Berlin, Germany while sta-

32 r/if AMERICAN LEGION Magazine volved in some situation when he tried to cut army red tape and was replaced by a tough old sergeant from the Philip- pines who was commissioned a captain, but knew nothing about photography. "To the best of my knowledge, but few of these men got overseas. At the Photo Laboratories in Paris I did run across several, including Norman Alley (the Panay, author of / Witness), and tioned there with the American Detach- Goldberg, who is now a cameraman on ment in 1919. In the detachment were the Boston Post. There was an entirely G-2 officers and men, and foreign cor- different gang in Paris but I did not respondents. Major Charles B. Gannon stay there more than a week or so be- was my superior and I believe the rank- fore joining the ist Division. ing American officer in Berlin at the "Just as a reminder that the boys who time, while Captain Sprinkle was in command of the enlisted men. It would be interesting to learn what became of these men who were lucky enough to get to Berlin. I had been in Cochen in the Occupied Area on detached service A fighting family from the ist Division, when I received from Down South. orders to proceed to Berlin to take pic- Above, Mrs. Russell tures of Russian prison camps, etc. We F. Whiting, were headquartered in the Hotel Adlon. Army Nurse, right, "Now to go back to the beginning of 1918; sons the Photographic Section with which I Donald and James, present served, I am enclosing pictures taken Army Air at Washington Barracks. One of the Corps; below. Dad Whiting, Army photographs I am sending I think is really a masterpiece. It shows how Cap- Ambulance Corps, tain Dawson trained us in the art of 1918, in Italy war photography. It was taken on a are now in our Army shouldn't be for- field just off the parade grounds to the gotten by the folks back home, I am left of the War College in Washington, sending a second photograph showing D. C. This field looked more like a some of our men at Washington Bar- dump and was used by the Engineers, racks after a particularly good shipment who had their building right next to our had been received. Food, cigars, cigar- laboratories. ettes and candy were mighty important "As I took this picture, I am not in items to our gang. Every one of those the group. In some way. Captain Daw- guys had folks who sent packages son borrowed some motorcycles with of grub and you can see by the stock on sidecars and we were bundled into them hand that no one ever ran short of with our cameras and roared up to an extras. imaginary battle line, dashed out with "In the group, Private Moroski, a our cameras and photographed an im- cracking good shortstop, by the way, is aginary battle, under the direction of the opening a jar of preserves, v.hile Private captain. You will notice the captain with Alley is passing the cigars to Sergeant his gloved hand high in the air, pre- Fritch who is holding a chocolate cake sumably holding up the battle while the being cut by Private Jones. Sergeant pictures were being made. Then we had Hilbert is passing pie to Private Gold- to grab our cameras, dash back to the berg, while Sergeant Ryden, upper right, motorcycles and were whisked away to another point of action. This maneuver still gives me a laugh, particularly Vbo) cowe ikese Oh. X Vôac{M- if- when I think of what we actually had Spads a\A-\- bin would be nice iPî to do overseas when our Division was p^led ê+, I," oje had baked qfea'ieba.W in action. newspaper experience, I was kept out- "Our training as cameramen could side with the Graflex covering all sorts hardly be called just that. Most of the of assignments in and around Washing- boys had had some photographic ex- ton. Of course, this was right up my perience before they came into service, alley and I found it extremely interest- but when they found themselves in the ing trailing along with President Wil- Photographic Section, they were put to son's activities and with a lot of Allied work cleaning ferrotype plates and missions that came to Washington on dousing prints in the hypo. We used to all sorts of expeditions and tours. get a lot of prints from the office of the "Captain Dawson had had consider- Committee of Public Information (under able war photography experience before George Creel's direction) and these our country entered the war. He was in prints were re-photographed and our some way connected with the German men turned out hundreds of copies for army to take photographs and that of release. course qualified him as an organizer for "Due to the fact that I had had some our group. Later, by the way, he got in-

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ing called to active duty from the Re- serve Corps or through outright enlistment. So, in many instances, father and son or sons are in the fighting forces. A roster of such father-and-son service-

men would fill many pages. But down in Alabama we find an outstanding example of a Legion fighting family and we are proud to introduce them to the Then and Now Gang, although we are somewhat slow in doing so. Some months ago, this department found in its mail a letter from Mrs. Russell F. Whiting, Historian of Huey-

town Post of the Legion, whose home is at 891 Fifth Place, West, Birmingham, Alabama, and with the letter came the three pictures which we display. Mrs.

Whiting is not unknown to us, as in the June, 1938, issue of this magazine she Gobs aboard the U. S. S. Olympia show off their permitted us to use a picture of nurses ship's mascots—a salty pooch and a kid. Harold of Base Hospital No. 102 leaving the Morine holds the baby goat. Who are the other two? A. E. F. for home and a snapshot of the military burial of Charles Holden, ambulance corpsman, in Italy. looks on. Below, on the right is another in Germany. Wonder how many of them And now for Mrs. Whiting's letter in pie-eater (name forgotten.)" remember the 4 th of July party in Frank- which she tells of her family's outstand- fort. Boy, did we have fun! ing record of service: STRANGELY enough, dur- "Headquarters were in the "Here I am again—^but I really do ing the same week that we Hotel Adlon in Berlin, which think I have an exceptional 'then and heard from Comrade Mitchell, wasn't far from Frankfort now' item for you. who supplied the pictures and (there is another city by that "As you may recall from my previous story about his photographic name on the Main River) and contribution to your department, I experiences and mentioned the we had a regular army com- served in the A. E. F. during World War fact that he had spent some missary of the Q. M., which I as a member of the Army Nurse Corps time in Berlin, Germany, a handled our rations. The and was stationed at Base Hospital No. letter came from R. W. Free- headquarters for the enlisted 102 at Vincenza, Italy. At that time my man, member of Lennox personnel were in a hotel on name was Ruby Jolly. Mr. Whiting was (California) Post of the Le- Anhalt Strasse in Berlin. also stationed at Vincenza with the U. S. gion, who lives at 904 Alpha "I'd like to hear from vet- Army Ambulance Corps. He was in the Street, Inglewood, California erans who served in Berlin headquarters section, Section 529. The "I recently had occasion to Detachment #2. enclosed snapshots of Mr. Whiting and apply for admission to the of myself were both taken in Vincenza. Veterans Hospital at Saw- SONS of the Legion by the "As you can see from the third snap- telle, California. When the thousands are now sons in shot print, I 'did raise my boys to be sol- Legion comrade at the Le- the service and we veterans of diers,' and am proud of it. At the first gion Service Bureau saw the war of a generation ago hint of a national emergency in 1940, my discharge he said that out therefore have a tenfold m- these two of our three sons enlisted in of many thousands he had : ,^"^1 terest in the present 'round- the Army Air Corps. The picture was handled, he had never seen the-world conflict. And the taken on July 4th last at the first re- one like mine. It shows serv- names of Sons of the Legion union of our family after the boys en- ice with Berlin Detachment #2. I was in are already being added to the roster of tered the Army. a detachment stationed at Frankfort-on- our heroic dead. "Donald, on the left, was Junior the-Oder in the interior of Germany. Thousands of fellow Legionnaires, too, State Captain of the Sons of the Legion Men of this organization will know that are again in uniform, either through be- {Continued on page 61) there were several such detachments on duty at various Russian prison camps in Germany. "Our headquarters were in Berlin under command of Brigadier General Harries. The work of these special detachments consisted of supervising the distribution of food and supplies sent by the Ameri- can Red Cross to the Russian prisoners. We went into Germany unarmed before the peace treaty was signed, and left for the States the latter part of August, 1919.

- "Our detachment was under command of Captain J. M. Lloyd, who had been Operations Officer of the 64th Infantry, 7th Division. I cannot recall names of many of the men but I know they were all from different combat Divisions and General Pershing takes the salute of Major Lucas at an inspection of had volunteered for this special service the personnel of Base Hospital 89, Mesves Hospital Center, in France

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"The only time you hear from half That Thousands May See the Posts," said Bert, "is when they send in their membership cards and checks. They think that's the main job; (Continued from page 2j) had hit the towns of Hamburg and Dar- the rest just comes natural. They go to mal child, and has a life-time of useful- danelle. The tornado had done a lot of town on membership. We had twelve ness before her. wrecking and taken life. They both knew thousand 'Eleven-eleven' pins in red and But the story does not end with Lu- that the local Posts had turned their blue printed for those birds who paid cille Cheatham. What the Roy Allen community huts into feeding stations for their dues before November 11. Got rid Post had begun went on. Was this only the homeless, that Legionnaires had of all of them, too. We had five hundred a chance cure? Would it work on other risked life and limb to pull out the hurt. at the Go-getter's Banquet for those who trachoma sufferers? Quietly Dr. Cos- "But try to get those birds to write got five or more members. But after that grove began treating, not hundreds, but in," moaned Bert, who also edits the they just go about their business." thousands with the sulfanilomides. Arkansas Legionnaire, the only weekly The said "business" seems to be per- If you can stand a few figures consider Department Legion publication in the forming an enormous amount of work these: of 1866 trachoma cases treated nation. "I'd like a picture, but those to promote Arkansas. only ICS failed to respond to treatment. dingers just take it in their stride." "Nobody but me would tell you," said Only five and a half percent. And Dr. "Yes," said Neill Reed, "I was think- Neill, "but the Dud Cason Post of Cosgrove has an explanation for this. "I am quite positive in my own mind." he told me, "that the five and a half LIGHTEN HIS to failure PACK! percent failure was not due of the treatment but failure of proper diagnosis. These particular patients did TAKE 1HE LOAD not have trachoma. It is quite possible in eye infections to have a five and a half OFF HIS MFAI5T- percent error in diagnosis." AND THE WEIGHT Of those treated more than a thousand regained 20-20 (or normal) vision. In OFF HIS MIND all but 250 cases improvement in vision was noted. "And in these cases," Dr. Cosgrove See iha^ he said, "the vision may have been im- does-ni have paired other causes. Remember, the by uiorr-q vision can only be restored to what it was. And in the case of scar tissue on about uihat the cornea that cannot be removed, the ma\i happen disease of trachoma may leave some \o his" uiife. after effects. Our best successes have and family been obtained where the disease has not been of long standing." "m case^- In Arkansas to-day trachoma clinics and painstaking State Health nurses are searching out all cases of "sore eyes." Pack him up & The time is not far distant when the Buck him up.'!' mountain folk will be rid forever of the disease that has afflicted them for generations. Dr. Cosgrove lectured on his method before the Southern Medical Support Army^ Association, and trachoma throughout the nation is doomed. The treatment is EMERGENCY RELIEF painless, and can be taken at home when TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT patient cooperation is assured. You can learn that kind of thing ing the same thing. Remember, during Blytheville scouted up a thousand dol- about the Arkansas Department if you the army maneuvers, the Leslie Huddles- lars somehow, and offered it as a prize stay around long enough and listen care- ton Post built showers for soldiers in the to the champion cotton-picker. Now fully. Hempstead County fairgrounds? Crim- like that trachoma thing—the National Arkansas isn't a big Department. Its iny, those soldats after fighting and Cotton-growers Association have taken it peak year of 1941 saw 14,110 members, scrambling over half of Arkansas used over, and you see the National Cotton- and they're shooting for 15,000 this year. to moan in joy just to feel the beat of picking Championship in the movies and

And this is good out of a potential of those water needles. They'd walk ten hear it on the radio, and it's a big na- 42,000. Yet each year has seen Arkansas miles to get one of those baths." tional event. All Dud Cason Post wanted up there among the Big Ten, and this "Don't remind me," said Bert. "I to do was tell the world Mississippi year they won for the third time in a row tried to get a picture. If the soldiers County grows more cotton to the acre the Henri Gouraud Trophy for early en- hadn't been shouting anthems of thanks, than any other spot in the world." rollment; and nobody even won it three we'd never even have heard about it." "We still have the National Duck- times before. They talked for a while about the job calling contest to tell the world Arkansas But they do everything so darned of finding out the Posts' excellent work is a hunters' paradise," said Bert. "The quietly. in Americanism in the schools, the 1600 Legion started that. Sure, Fred, you've The other day I sat in the Department packages donated for the Christmas of heard Sam Dudley and Sam Crawford Headquarters with Neill Reed, the Com- the many disabled veterans hospitalized at the National Conventions. They can mander, and Bert Presson, the Adjutant, in the State because of its salubrious really blow those duck calls. Go out and we were talking about a twister that climate and springs. and see how the ducks come when called."

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"There's a real reason behind that be- "Oh, they're busy all the time," said "That's quite a thing—a governor besides boosting the State," Neill said. Neill. "Look at—all the squirrel mulligans ing Membership Chairman," I said. "Like any other Department we got and barbecues "Who's being casual about it all now? plenty of card-carriers. You know, the "Squirrel mulligans?" I repeated. You're like the rest of the Arkansans business men who pay dues year after "Sure. Three-four Legionnaires get you've been howling at." year but never attend meetings or be- their rifles and shoot a lot of squirrels. He grinned. "I guess we are kind of come active. We show them that we And then three-four more sit up all night calm. Reminds me of a story—sort of to really boost business in this State by cooking them. Hot dog! Do they sea- prove we don't gef excited much. I had putting Arkansas on the map." son, those guys? You get three varieties, to attend a Legionnaire's funeral once Once more the two old-timers—Neill one is medium, two is hot, and three is —up in the Ozarks. They had the church 9 Reed joined the Legion in 191 — fell to red hot and I mean red hot. But you service, and then we all filed to the grave. talking about the small Posts, most of have never tasted anything until you All the family was there, from grand- them with fifteen to twenty-five mem- surround a squirrel mulligan. The Posts mother down to the littlest boy. Finally bers, and they mentioned the 103 Legion give them, invite the townspeople so the it came time to shoot the volley, and Community Huts that Charles Q. Kelly Legion can thank them for what the sound taps. built with WPA funds and labor way townsfolk have done. Same with the bar- "The firing squad was there all right, back in the bad old days. These are still becue. some in uniform, and mostly not. And used as baby clinics, hospitals, refuge "Then every so often they hav a dis- the acting corporal called, 'Ready!' The centers, sewing rooms, public libraries, trict meeting and 'pot-luck' suppers. guns came to port. 'Aim!' The squad forums. Boy Scout headquarters, lunch- You know, Fred, the wives just bend aimed skyward. 'FIRE!' yelled the cor- eon clubs, lodge meetings and village over a stove and whip up a lot of food, poral. centers, and take it to the meetings. There it's "The explosion roared and echoed in "It's the one thing they've got," ex- all mixed up and served out, and it's as the quiet valley. And at this instant, the plained Bert Presson. "They depend on pretty a piece of eating as you'd like to strain being too much, the old grand- it like they depend on the weekly Arkan- know." mother keeled over in a faint. sas Legionnaire. Maybe that's the only Neill reminded me that the Governor "The youngest boy was leaning against paper they read, but they sure read it of Arkansas, Homer Adkins, was not only a tree. He looked at the squad, then from cover to cover. I get ten-twelve a Legionnaire—as is his wife—but is also down at his grandmother and said calm- letters a week to run on the backpage Chairman of the Membership Committee ly, 'Well, I'll be doggoned, they up and " when those boys sound off. We get a lot of the Little Rock Post. "He's shooting shot grandmaw!' of good ideas out of the controversies for 1800 members and I reckon he'll get That's what you hear around Arkan- too, sometimes." them," chuckled Neill. sas—if you listen quietly.

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(Continued from page ij) ways to try to outwit us. But we have to make that job almost an act of mili- table. They were in many cases the nor- some tricks of our own. And I have every tary necessity, as indeed it is. mal result of quadrupling a company's assurance—and it comes in every day's "What's more," he went on, "the output in a hurry and putting green mail—that our men are as smart as any Americanism Division of the Legion, hands to work. of them." which has fought diligently against sub-

Fortunately, management is working I asked Mr. Hoover regarding the ad- versive teachings in this country, is doing intelligently to prevent this type of in- visability of groups of citizens through- a job that should not be stopped because terruption to production. Mr. Hoover out the nation organizing to help investi- of the war. We need true Americanism went on, "The FBI has rendered every gate these matters. The Director of the now more than ever. We need to heal assistance through its preventive pro- FBI was quick with his answer and factions to obtain complete unity in the gram by making suggestions and recom- pointed out that this suggestion had country. The way to do that is not to mendations to officials of industrial con- come from every section of the land. He sell out to a totalitarian enemy who cerns. In 1939, at the request of the feels, however, that there is no place in would beat everybody down to the same Army and Navy, trained Special Agents America for vigilante groups going heartless level, but lift those who are began a program of surveying the facil- around investigating. worthy of the privilege to an under- ities of plants engaged in war production. These m.atters are nationwide in scope standing of the duties and responsibil- The FBI's part in this program was and require investigation by trained and ities of being an American citizen." completed January 5, 1942, at which experienced men. The citizens of the na- He paused to answer a signal light on time 2300 major industries had been sur- tion can better assist in this cause by his desk and spoke briefly into a tele- veyed and recommendations furnished furnishing information of importance phone. If a certain enemy agent whose officials of plants to assist them in more pertaining to national defense imme- name I didn't catch was arrested on the complete protection against espionage diately to the FBI, afternoon of this interview, I am happy and sabotage. This is one reason there In this connection Mr, Hoover stated, to say that I knew about it a few min- have been few acts of actual sabotage. "The members of The American Legion utes before he did. "The othei reason," Mr. Hoover said have been of immeasurable assistance to Mr. Hoover got back to the problem in answer to my inquiry, "is that the the FBI by being organized and trained. of us Legionnaires quickly, "I am not worst enemy agents and would-be sabo- Theirs is not an easy task in this war, giving you the run-around when I tell teurs were quickly locked up the night and I know it. Instead of jumping on you and other men of the Legion to of December 7, 1941, immediately after a white horse and dashing off to war you cooperate with your local law enforce- Pearl Harbor, In that one night the FBI have to stay home where your services ment agencies. Most of you are already house-cleaned a full thousand of these are more valuable." He went on: doing this. When something mysterious rats. Many of them we had tracked re- "The greatest service and the greatest comes up, don't spread rumors, but go lentlessly for many months." I asked if effectiveness of Legionnaires have largely to your law enforcement officer and get he thought the FBI had caught them all. come about by your spirit of self-sacrifice the matter straightened out," "No," he said, "and both the Nazis and in keeping in the background and doing Mr. Hoover told me of a case in the Japs are fully able to think up new your day's job, whatever it is, in a way Texas. There were the makings of a con-

36 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Masa-Jne sidtrable spy hunt in Texas some time to know the ins and outs of intrigue as patient work, anyone who has ever vis-

ago. Several empty fifty-gallon oil drums practiced by modern spies. The FBI has ited the FBI can assure you. It is rarely were found on Padre Island, which is such men. The FBI is a civilian organ- as dramatic as your imagination pictures located off Corpus Christi. A rumor had ization, built up in a non-militaristic it. It's a job for an organization, not an it that German submarines were being nation, but the FBI long ago started its individual; most of all, not a job for an re-fueled there. Air patrols immediately war on the foes of America. amateur. There is still a lot of the hunt- went on the alert —and properly so. No "In that respect the U.S.A. is better ing instinct in all of us, and we would submarines were located. Investigation prepared in this war than we were in all like to catch a spy. So it is with the revealed that the oil drums had been World War I. In 191 5, constant waves average patriotic citizen. Mr. Hoover washed ashore from the British steamer of sabotage broke out and continued right spoke in a commendatory manner of the Register. up to our own country's entry into the splendid assistance w-hich citizens gen- In this case whoever first observed war, and beyond. Protection against erally have given. "The mere fact that the dangerous symptoms of empty oil spies and saboteurs then was divided there has not been a wave of hysteria drums in an out-of-the-way place did a among approximately twenty different and an outbreak of mob violence and service by reporting the matter instantly agencies. When war was actually de- vigilantism is a tribute to the confidence to the authorities. Rumors were spiked that citizens have in the FBI and all law and any possible hysteria immediately enforcing agencies," he told me. put to an end. That is the program, Mr. The war makes it more than ever im- Hoover made it clear, all of us who are portant that we know in whom we place not actually in uniform should follow. confidence. The FBI has in its Identi- And we're doing it. fication Division the fingerprints of over Of course, Mr. Hoover went on, many 35,000,000 persons, the great majority

Legionnaires will undoubtedly become of them in the non-criminal file. Over active in law enforcement work as aux- 11,500,000 fingerprints of persons who iliary police, civilian defense workers, or have been arrested for crimes are on patrol guards. The responsibilities of file. Today these files are rendering a these positions should be carried out valuable service to the Government. Ap- with dignity and sincerity. If suspicious plicants for positions of trust with the acts indicate espionage, sabotage or any Government, for positions in vital indus- other violations of American laws, re- trial plants manufacturing war supplies port the circumstances immediately to are fingerprinted and their fingerprints the nearest FBI ofhce. are searched through the files of the FBI I asked Director Hoover about other to determine any prior record which cases which have been handled by the would reliect upon their loyalty and FBI. He told me about a case at Balti- "Excuse, please, but is honorable credibility. more, Maryland, last year. Inspectors in spider weaving halo over great Fingerprints are received from all over an airplane plant making bombers found one's head?" the nation. The WPA in New York City that 34 acts of sabotage had been com- required that all persons in a position of trust with that organization mitted on 24 bombers. On one occasion clared these twenty agencies arrested a be finger- small printed sign printed. Since out of a was found on a total of sixty-three known enemy agents 1939, a total of bomber which read, "B-26, Martin's 58,240 prints received, the FBI found within the first twenty-four hours—only persons death trap—Heil Hitler!" There was a sixty-three. In the twenty-four hours 5,382 with arrest records. thorough investigation. following Pearl Harbor, the FBI appre- The city of Richmond, Virgina, finger- First FBI men made a scientfic anal- hended a thousand enemy agents; to prints transient applicants for relief. In the last ysis of the damaged parts and all the date we have arrested a total of 5,312 three months Richmond has suspected tools. Handwriting examina- known alien enemies for safekeeping." sent the FBI ninety-one prints of per- tions in the FBI Technical Laboratory In this war the FBI serves as the sons seeking relief, and there were thirty- were also of assistance. The growmg mass coordinating agency, working with Naval seven identifications made of persons of evidence pointed to a young twenty- Intelligence and Army Intelligence and having prior criminal records, or 40.65 two-year-old German named Michael the police departments everywhere. A percent. In thirteen of these cases, the William Etzel, who had worked in the great deal goes on which unfortunately arrest was for a major offense, such as Glenn L. Martin plant for two years, the FBI cannot talk about. You may bank robbery, kidnaping, burglarly, but who had relatives in Germany. have noticed one case, however, which arson and rape. Though himself American-born he said, reached the newspapers. A loyal Amer- The compulsory registration of aliens in admitting the crime, that he did not ican citizen of American birth was co- within the last two years has brought want the Martin bombers to be used erced against his judgment to do spy to light numerous fugitives from justice against the German people, who, he duty for the Nazis. He did not want to wanted by the police here and in other claimed, were without fault but were be disloyal to the U.S.A., and upon his countries. under the oppression of the German return from Germany he came to the More to the immediate point perhaps

dictator. The man was brought to trial FBI. is the way in which fingerprinting is in the Federal District Court in Balti- The FBI with his help kept check helping protect defense industries against more and was sentenced to fifteen years upon Nazi activities in America and hiring some smooth-talking double-dealer in prison. finally arrested a ring of thirty-three who might otherwise work himself into After another interruption from the active enemy agents. Under the guise of a position of trust. restless signal light, and more low-voiced enemy agents themselves, FBI agents For instance, a man applied at the talk into the mouth piece from the dy- operated for over a year a short-wave North American Aviation Corporation namic man at the big desk, Mr. Hoover radio station sending supposedly con- for work on March 27, 1941. He was said calmly and directly, 'T don't think fidential messages to Germany. All fingerprinted and the card sent to the for a minute that we have seen the last thirty-two persons were convicted and FBI. It was found that in August, 1935, of enemy efforts toward espionage and received total sentences amounting to he had been sentenced at Chanute, Kan- sabotage. We of the U.S.A. are up more than 320 years, and $18,000 in sas for a felony; arrested again in May, against professionals who stop at noth- fines. 1937, in Kansas City for robbery; ing. To meet their menace, someone has Catching enemy spies calls for slow, caught in August, 1937, and charged

JUNE, 1942 37 with rape. He had escaped but later was print cards, both criminal and civilian is due to those men of The American apprehended and sent to the state peni- identification. One year later, on Jan- Legion who have rendered untold assist-

tentiary at Lawrence, Kansas. All of this uary 2, 1942, our files held 32,308,634 ance during the past." information was furnished the War and sets of prints. At present, we have more As I stepped out into the reception Navy Departments, which were inter- than 35,000,000 sets." room and the door closed behind me, ested in the products of the plant. Along with the increasing war work, two women school teachers were asking Another man who tried to hire in as the FBI receives thousands of finger- permission to see how fingerprints are a special guard at a defense plant at print requests from local police, asking filed. "Sorry, ladies, but the visitors' Edgemoore, Delaware, was found to that the record of some vagrant or mys- tours have been discontinued during the have been arrested August 3, 1940 for terious character they have picked up war," said a clerk courteously. Another a crime against a soldier of the United be checked. It is a job to classify so visitor, a young man fresh out of law States Army. His previous record showed many prints and a job to make a search, school, was there to see someone about he had been arrested September 5, 1929 but busy as the FBI is it tries to main- a job in the FBI. He was given an inter- at Hammonton, New Jersey, for arson, tain thirty-six-hour service on all police view with one of Mr. Hoover's assist- and on July 10, 1937, at Wilmington, inquiries. Mr. Hoover feels that if the ants. Any casual visitor to the FBI Delaware, on another charge. Obviously response to local police is delayed it may might have said, "Why they're beauti- he was not the type of individual who be detrimental to the safety of some fully calm, complacent even. To watch should be employed as a special guard. plant, or a fugitive may be released be- them you wouldn't know we're at war." Another would-be defense worker ap- fore the report gets there. Calm, yes, but no smug complacency. plied in July, 1 94 1 for a position as an The Federal Bureau of Investigation I checked back into the FBI several days electrical crane operator at the United is today engaged in an all-out fight later and found Mr. Hoover had called States Fleet operating base at Long against the foreign agent working to un- a special meeting of his six assistant di-

Beach, California. Although he is only dermine and destroy our democratic rectors, at midnight the night before. 36 years old now, he had been arrested way of life. Led by Mr. Hoover, the All six came. What might look like com- at San Diego in 1922 for larceny, and Special Agents of the FBI have been placency to an outsider was a carefully on April 26, 1923 had been charged with doing an excellent job—working cease- maintained calm in the face of a very kidnaping a minor girl. In February, lessly, in every section of the country. real and ever-present danger. 1940 he had been arrested again for The force of Special Agents has grown I carried away with me Mr. Hoover's rape. This man's identity would never from around 800 in the fall of 1939, to parting message. "Tell the Legionnaires have been challenged if the present sys- nearly 3,000 today. Work has increased to see that their neighbors keep calm, tem of fingerprinting had not been in many times. In 1939 exactly 1,651 na- avoid hysteria and vigilantism, refrain effect. tional defense matters were reported to from spreading unverified rumors, and I asked Mr. Hoover how many new the FBI. In 1940 the total jumped to have confidence in our own Government fingerprint cards come to the Bureau 16,885 ^rid in 1941 it was 68,368. and our armed forces. The war is just daily. "Our daily average receipt of In answer to my inquiry Mr. Hoover starting. fingerprint cards right now is over 60,- stated, "Whatever success we have had "For the rest," he said over the final 000," he replied promptly. "Before the is due not alone to the efforts of our handshake, "every one of us needs to attack on Pearl Harbor we were receiv- own employes, but as well to those loyal do his day's work, whatever that work ing an average of 29,000 a day. This Americans in every section of the land is. more diligently than ever before. therefore represents an average daily who have reported information to us, This is a war in which every one of us increase of more than 31,000 prints. who have cooperated when called upon, is a fighter. Don't let the war suffer for "A year ago, on January i, 1941, the and who have done their part in main- want of something you can hslp supply. FBI files held 15,023,719 sets of finger- taining a calm America. No little credit Goodbye, and good luck."

Jiu Jitsu Hooey

(Continued from page 17) him, but when we took the jackets by a trained man. Main Japanese blows what had happened but they all saw the off and went to it I didn't have much are aimed at the back of the neck or result in the ring. Three of the Japs trouble with him. either side of the neck; at the forearm were unconscious and two were writhing He knew a lot of mean little tricks between hand and elbow, at the leg be- from the pain of broken limbs. That and digs, such as rubbing his knuckle tween knee and ankle, and across the isn't the way the books say these things up and down one's backbone, pressing small of the back or over the kidneys.

turn out : they always have one diminu- the nerve centers just behind the ears All there is to their so-called "death tive Jap handling five husky Americans and under the nose and taking hold of art'' is knowledge of where to strike with ease. one's foot and separating the toes; these edge-of-the-hand blows to bring I've had a little personal experience painful and dirty little tricks but noth- about unconsciousness or, they say, with jiu jitsuans—enough, I hope, to ing that a wrestler doesn't expect and death. This "death art" was guarded qualify my knowledge as more than nothing that he isn't able to return with with the professional press agent's finest that of a bystander or an academician interest if he wants to. skill for years, but anyone who wants who read a book about jiu jitsu once. The only new ideas which jiu jitsu to, can buy a cheap book exposing the During the first year I was interested introduced into the American science of vital spots of the human anatomy. in becoming a wrestler, when I was a wrestling was the use of strangle holds, A book I own lists eighteen of these tyro at the art, I met a Japanese named a few wrist locks and blows struck with "death" spots on the front of the body;

Professor Takahashi. He invited me to the side of the open hand. Using the fist sixteen on the back, in addition to work out with him. I did it two or three doesn't come natural to the Japanese, thirty-seven parts of the bony structure times a week for a year. He was a so they do their hitting with the side which can be broken if the blows are "Black Belt" man and considered very of the hand. struck right. That is all very well—on good. We worked both with jackets and, A jiu jitsuan will spend hours strik- paper. But it doesn't work the way the American style, without. When we had ing the edge of a board to toughen up book says it will when you get an jackets on he could throw me about at his hands, and it cannot be denied that antagonist who is as tough and resolute will, for I was playing his game with severe and stunning blows can be struck as you are.

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While I think that any American with jiu jitsu and use it in their daily work, handled in a way not included in the the rudiments of wrestling can more policemen in large cities, peace ofilicers jiu jitsu curriculum, the Chief called the than hold his own against a jiu jitsu of various kinds, but usually when it inspector in. performer, I don't think a good Ameri- comes to a hot time Americans prefer "How is it the prisoner is so badly can boxer has very much to fear either. to rely on their own traditional weapons beaten up?" he asked. I was reading just a few months ago also. A few months ago I was in head- "I had to hit him. He came after me of a test made in Japan of the relative quarters of the U. S. Border Patrol in with a knife," was the answer. merits of boxing and jiu jitsu. At the El Paso when an inspector brought in "But why didn't you use jiu jitsu on request of the Emperor, an American an alien suffering from a badly broken him? Did you forget what you learned?'' army captain and amateur boxer met jaw. There had been a fracas along the "No, Chief. I didn't forget. I thought several picked jiu jitsuans, he boxing, border and the Border Patrolman hadn't about using jiu jitsu on him, but v\hen they using their "soft art," as they af- been the runner-up. That much was evi- he pulled a knife on me it seemed a fectionately refer to jiu jitsu. dent. little better to be sure and sock him One by one he took three of them on, At that time the Border Patrol had on the jaw." knocked them all cold in the good old- just invested a good-sized sum in learn- When American soldiers come into fashioned American way. The Emperor ing a system of police jiu jitsu from an hand-to-hand conflict with the Japs, it forthwith ordered that Japanese soldiers eminent practitioner of the art. So when will be the American system against jiu learn how to box. the inspector brought in an alien who jitsu. My money is on the American A good many Americans have learned showed the unmistakable signs of being system.

Mrs. Piebald

(Continued from page 15) occasion proved no exception to the the nesting chamber in her squirming realized the obstinate purpose of the rule. At the exact moment that the efforts to relieve herself of the torturing other. About equally matched in wit skunk ejected the pungent, strangling spines. Most of them she reached with of which neither creature has an effluvium of her scent-glands at her her teeth and pulled out, though the abundance—a dim understanding came antagonist, the round, quill-studded form fine-barbed points hurt cruelly as they to them that a test of their established bumped into her. were withdrawn. A few she bit off in rights impended. The result of the engagement was her endeavors, and the remaining por- As they drew closer they gradually without any doubt a draw. Neither tions gave her keen agony as they drove slowed their steps, until with only a contestant showed any desire to con- deeper into the muscles of her legs. scant yard separating them they came tinue the dispute. Each departed from But fortunately none penetrated her to a halt, eyes glaring into eyes with the scene with no further wish to follow vitals and in the course of time they stubborn resolve. Inferior in courage the original path, seeking any direction either worked themselves out or became to the skunk, the porcupine felt the that offered the fewest obstacles, though encysted. first tremors of doubt. His slow brain the disgusted "quill-pig," having un- During the period of her distress perhaps remembered at this stage that rolled and exposed his eyes «nd nose the inflammation of the embedded quills his body was not entirely covered with to the heavily charged atmosphere, was drew heavily upon her strength. She protecting quills; his tender nose and instantly blinded and ran head-on into had no appetite for even the small his belly offered a chance for swift- trees and rocks as he tried distractedly amount of food she was able to secure, darting claws. Still he was not minded to get away from himself. and in her weakened state the supply to give ground to the arrogant creature The skunk retired quickly in the of nourishment for her babies was low- that dared to block his way. direction in which she was pointed, the ered to famine rations. But the in- The skunk's lips lifted, revealing her domitable mother-will and the healing sharp white teeth, and she expressed influences of her environment and her her anger by a vicious "chirring" and unsullied blood brought about eventual a stamping of the ground with her recovery, and the family survived the forefeet. Here was that premonition ordeal. With returning strength as her of a raking stroke at the porcupine's tissues mended she hunted industriously, nose, and to protect that sensitive mem- and as her powers gradually were re- ber against the expected onslaught, he stored the tiny forms dependent on tucked his head in under his forepaws. her were quick to respond and soon And having made the initial movement regained their plumpness and well-be- in his mode of defense, his muscles ing. responded to the urge and he suddenly — Early summer had come and the folded his length upon himself until l.illside wore its full sheath of green, he resembled nothing so much as a accented with the purple of wake- gigantic grizzled chestnut burr. r.bins and the varying shades of violets, At this puzzling action of her op- v.hile in the moist, shaded places about

ponent, which she interpreted as a its base little clusters of valley lilies definite move toward hostilities, the X..6E_ V ere putting forth their snow-bells. The skunk whirled herself about, laid her ^ tardy beech that overshadowed the featherly tail over the arch of her back burrow had at last opened its leaf buds, and the fur of her thighs close to the and the foliage of the earlier trees had skin, in preparation for her own extraor- stinging quills she carried as a memento turned from the first flush of variegated dinary method of attack, which must of the affair impelling her to an un- color to vivid emerald. With the quicken- leave no taint upon her cleanly person. dignified and awkward speed. She circled ing of the trees and bracken came better As has been said, the porcupine was about shortly and reached the burrow hunting, for all about were the increased the uppermost on the slight grade. It in a torment of outraged feelings and families of mice and the nests of ground- is the proclivity of a ball to roll down- physical pain; and here she scattered birds harboring eggs or fledglings, while ward when on an incline, and this her flock into the farthest recesses of the growing insect life was everywhere

JUNE, 1942 3Q evident by the hum and rustling of tiny truant did not heed it. Before she squatting at the margin of a pool came wings. could run out to bring her rash off- to a gurgling end as its musical career The young skunks were now well spring back to the fold, there came was cut short under her swift leap. developed, and in their sleek black and a soft rush of wings as a shadow passed Here was a favorite food, succulent and white-streaked coats they were pictures across the field and settled swiftly sweet, and judging by the volume of in miniature of their mother, though in the fugitive's direction. Then came a sound, the expectation of a gorge was the white bars varied somewhat in thin, agonized squeak and the shadow well founded. But while the mother was prominence in the different members rose and floated off into the darkness fairly successful in her foray upon the of the family. They were very lively of the trees with a limp form in its musicians, the young ones found their youngsters and during the period of talons. The mother knew what had hap- endeavors rather disappointing. The frogs their weaning they began to find the pened. She stopped in her rush, for had an irritating habit of jumping out hillside den too narrow for the full nothing she could do would avail against from under the blundering little paws expression of their spirits. While the the ruthless owl murderer. For a mo- just as they were about to descend upon mother was absent on foraging expedi- ment she stamped the ground and the mottled green backs, and disap- tions they formed the habit of frisk- chirred her impotent fury through bared pearing in the water with a contemptu- ing about the mouth of the burrow. teeth at the sinister thing as it disap- ous plop; and the chagrined hunter was Here on her return she would give them peared soundlessly into the gloom, then likely as not to misjudge his spring first lessons in pinning down the grass- returned to the frightened, wondering and get a wetting for his pains. Frog hoppers and beetles and mice she brought group. meat seemed to lose its savor for them and in trying their pinpoint teeth on Carefully picking a path through the on this first attempt to secure it by solid food. denser growth she drew them away their own efforts, and they soon were Finally the time arrived when the from the threatening neighborhood, and content ti draw back into the shadows mother realized that the younglings did not halt until she had put a con- and watch ihe mother's expert stalking should be given opportunity to acquire siderable distance between them and of the game. a wider knowledge of their world. On the keen-eyed despoiler. She was well The moon had been waning during a night when the moon rode full and aware that one baby skunk would only the frog hunt and the lighting of the benign in an unthreatening sky and the day's summer breezes had tempered the chill of late evening, the skunk led forth her brood. In single file, herself at the head, the little band fared away from the gully to the fields where education and adventure awaited the rising generation. Once in the open the mother led the procession into the shadow-lee of briar thickets and brush heaps, where prying hostile eyes were less likely to discover them. Here, protected from the moon's glow, she sought the run- ways and shallow tunnels of field-mice and gave the children instruction in stalking the busy Httle rodents. On this bright, balmy night the mice were everywhere about, and as her lightning- swift pounces were generally successful, the entire family partook of a satisfying breakfast. Sometimes a mouse, escaping by a lucky chance the sharp claws, would jump panic-stricken before the quiver- ing muzzle of an alert pupil, and that elated youngster would be quick to emulate its mother in a nimble swoop on the quarry. Occasionally one would elude the inexperienced paws and immediately become the center of a squirming, squeaking mass of small black-and-white bodies, to succumb almost instantly to the v/orrying teeth of serve to whet the owl's appetite, and night devolved upon the myriad stars

tiny mouths. At these times the old that it would soon return on its quest that twinkled into radiance with its one stood quietly aside, viewing with for another. setting. But while they made brilliant maternal pride the result of her teach- They threaded the tall grass and the ceiling of the world they did not ing as they mauled the unresisting body briar-stalks until they came to a swale dissipate the carpet of darkness spread in an ecstasy of excitement. surrounded by a tangle of hazel and over its floor by the lengthening shadows

With the edge gone from their chokecherry, and with memory of her of the moon as it sank behind the dis- hunger as their skins grew tighter, they bereavement already dimming according tant wall of the spruce forest. The became less sure in their pounces, and to the merciful philosophy of the wild- little company could now dare the open, a mouse, breaking through the cordon, wood folk, she became immersed in and through this friendly cover of gloom darted out into the open, pursued by this new prospect of savory spoil. The the mother led the way into the clear- one of its less surfeited tormentors. chorus that arose from the marshy dip ings when the appetite for frogs was The mother chattered a warning of land quickened her approach, and sated. Ranging at will among the stumps against this perilous exposure, but the the croaking obligato of a big frog and brush, they found tasty picking

40 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine whenever the inclination moved them caught the almost soundless approach they would be routed out unwillingly to seek the beetles and grubs and other of the fox, whom in a moment she saw to begin the day's work of stream- small-life that abounded. skulking in their direction. A crevice driving the last logs of the winter's As they were skirting a copse of showed in one of the straight sides of cut. A cool draft blowing across the second-growth timber the skunk mother the log heap and she made for it. face of Uncle Henry, who as cook was became aware of an ominous padding Whether or not it harbored a worse a light early-morning sleeper, caused at the rear, almost once heard foe her and at dim powers did not stop to him to lift his head to discover the a terrified squeak, suddenly stifled. She consider; here was a possible refuge, reason for it. Apparently the door had wheeled and ran back, and at a little not been properly latched the night be- distance shape of saw the dim an fore, for it had opened a few inches animal; it was sitting on its haunches, to the morning breeze. As he looked, facing her insolently, and something his sleep-clouded eyes widened with a dark and flabby and lifeless hung from jerk, and he became instantly awake. its jaws. Instantly she sensed the To his astonished gaze a furry black calamity that once more had overtaken and white-striped "woods pussy" ap- her, and she flamed with anger at the peared on his threshold. It halted for big red desperado who had snapped a moment to look back, then with a up the lagging member of the proces- chirrupy sound from its throat entered sion. At her command the remaining with a self-possessed tread. His amaze- five huddled together, and she advanced ment increased as a tiny image of the upon the ruffian fearless of herself in interloper followed, and his staring eyes her mother-rage. The fox arose slowly bulged further as they beheld another and backed off, his mouth watering and another coming through the crack with the thought of the delicious repast until he counted five. of several courses that would be his His first feeling was of indignation could he outwit the parent; but he was "Keep away, Marmaduke, that's that his cabin had been invaded by a not of a mind to engage her in combat, not a tunnel, it's a trap!" smell-cat and her htter. Only horror for he well knew the nature of her of the contamination of his abode that armament. With cunning as his weapon and through the narrow opening she would result kept him from yelling to he would garner the rest of the tender brought her charges. Over her shoulder them to "Scat!" or springing from morsels, which were not yet capable as she entered she had a last glimpse his bunk and chasing them out with of his nostrils offending and eyes and of the fox; he had come to a halt, and a broom. Suppose one of the sleeping besmirching his coat with the ammuni- after a few seconds' wary observation men should waken suddenly and dis- tion he dreaded. turned and trotted off on other affairs, turb the serenity of the room! He The fox's retreat was drawing the as though realizing that his intended must find a means of bringing them mother away from the helpless little prey had found sanctuary. out of their slumber quietly and warn- ones, and realizing this and the use- Her composure restored, the skunk ing them of the visitors. lessness of seeking revenge upon the mother studied the interior of this Carefully Uncle Henry reached into miscreant, she conquered thirst for her enormous den, circling about to examine the adjoining recess and touched its battle and returned to them. As fast the queer muddy objects lying around, snoring occupant on the shoulder. "Sh- as they could travel she took them her children follow-ing after. She as- sh!" he whispered tensely as the snores away from the scene of the tragedy; sociated the scent of each article with gave place to profane grumbling. "Keep but her instinct warned her that more an alien kind she occasionally had met, quiet, you! Look what's come to call evil impended from the same source but who had never happened to prove on us!" Thin streaks of light were appearing of greater annoyance than to cause Bewildered, the man peeped over where the sky met the ragged crest her to turn a trifle out of her path, the edge of the bunk. His sleepy frown of the trees, and the stars were being even as they had turned from theirs. gave way to an open-mouth stare, fol- snuffed out by the reaching fingers of So she did not greatly fear her surround- lowed by a slowly spreading grin. morning as the apprehensive mother ings, in spite of the strange choking "Consarn ye. Uncle Henry," he hastened her flock onward. Could she sounds that seemed to come from hol- rumbled hoarsely, "why ain't ye out 0' gain the hillside burrow before the lows at the sides. Doubtless the creatures bed on yer job, cookin' grub fer us? marauder had devoured the one he that occupied this lair were no more Since ye ain't, reckon I'll finish up me had seized and returned for a further to be feared than her previous meetings sleep." Whereupon he burrowed back levy? They were a long distance from with them had led her to believe; be- under the covers, chuckling. home, and the rush from danger had sides, she had her quiver full of liquid Uncle Henry snorted, then checked taken them into country wuh which darts, which should afford ample pro- himself and glared at the humorist she was unfamiliar. The younglings were tection in event of any affront from through the partition. tiring fast, and sunrise was their bed- them. For an instant she was startled "You git to snorin' agin like a cross- time; they probably would be unable into a defensive attitude by an abrupt cut saw an' I'll—I'll put salt in yer to continue the pace long enough to noise from somewhere above her; but coffee, ye dumbed lazy river-rat!" he reach the den before being overtaken dead silence ensued and she fell back growled. "Reach over an' wake up Red the red by glutton. She heard the tiny into her former indifference. Her in- Mike; an' tell him to hold his jaw, squeakings that betrayed their desire vestigations completed, she stretched her too!" he demanded. for rest and the comfort of nourishment tired muscles comfortably on the smooth The cook's word carries w-eight in from which even the bountiful toll wood, and the sleepy youngsters crowded the lumber camps. Big Jack Guinness upon the fields had not entirely weaned contentedly against her warm body and meekly did as he was bid; and so the them; but no haven could she find in nuzzled at her breasts. process went on, until all the somnolent the bare flat ground to which they now company was aroused and cautioned had come where she could gratify their THE cabin of Uncle Henry, veteran IN against exciting the intruders. Soon two wants in safety. tender of Lower Post dam on the rows of tousled heads were raised—not A strange appearing formation that Swiftwater, there drowsed in the double too high—to watch with mingled feelings resembled a heap of tree trunks came tier of bunks built against the walls of wrath and amusement the obnoxious into her vision just as her sharp ears an even dozen husky rivermen. Soon guests. JUNE, 1942 41 The unconscious focus of a ring of noxious perfume from their nostrils once the furry, piebald heap brought the fascinated eyes, the skunk mother made it was loosed on the atmosphere. As mother finally to her feet. She poked the circuit of the bunk-room, sniffing their eyes sought the doughty little her black muzzle commandingly among inquisitively at the disorderly array of invader, they saw her stretched out on the drowsy youngsters, stirring them brogans and garments on the floor, her her side in the middle of the floor, to wakefulness. The babies in her train, babies trailing after her, sniffing in the five nurslings snuggling close, busily once more she slowly circled the room, their turn. engaged. sniffing at every article in passing, each A sudden explosion shattered the Twelve specimens of the genus lumber- follower imitating her; then across the stillness of the cabin. It came from jack—and a famous cook of the timber threshold she led the file, plumed tails Big Jack's bunk—stifled in the middle regions—averaging six feet of brawn, defiantly erect, into the glare of the as he ducked his head under the blankets. kept to their bunks while a long un- outer world. His mates were nearly sent into un- comfortable hour passed, permitting Thirteen pairs of feet thumped the controllable guffaws by his muffled themselves little more movement than floor as the last white tail-tip vanished paroxysms, abetted by Uncle Henry's the batting of eyelids while the mother through the door-crack. Arms stretched dismayed expression and horror-stricken skunk rested and refreshed her young. and threshed about to take out the "Oh, Lord, she's goin' to shoot!" For The sun rose higher, and still the kinks to the accompaniment of a volley the mother skunk had stiffened in her boom on the river groaned with the of remarks of varying tenor. Big Jack tracks at the sound, laid her tail over pressure of logs which should by now reached for a chunk of stove-wood her back and twitched herself in the be on their way down stream. Twelve and strode toward the door. alarming manner they all knew so well. ravenous, impatient loggers—and a But Uncle Henry was quicker. He But the heavy silence that followed her fuming cook^—awaited the end of the sprang in front of the towering woods- threat as heads were drawn hastily nap which had overtaken the striped man, slammed the door shut and stood under the coverings reassured her, and family at the conclusion of their morn- with his back against it, confronting she thought better of it. ing meal. the volatile Irishman.

Cautiously the heads were withdrawn The mutterings of discontent that "Drop it, ye big divil!" he shouted. after a suffocating period of waiting. floated about the room did not seem to "Ain't ye got no sportin' blood? Let They knew that not even the closely disturb the dozing group on the floor; the little cuss take her young ones off. held woollen folds could keep the but a shaft of sunlight falling athwart It's comin' to her!"

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(Continued from page 31) craftily transferred her to British reg- rate, and several of them did so, while of their adventure. Not only did the istry, so there was nothing to do but the rest were slapped into single irons .S/;e«aHrfoa//'i inexperienced skeleton crew let her go her way. and put in the top-gallant forecastle. Her have to perform double their regular Two days later the raider gave chase officers fared better; they were paroled tasks in working the ship but they needs with sail and steam to another barque, in the freedom of the ward room, where must finish preparing her for the work and upon overhauling her discovered her the Aline's hard-bitten Down East skip- that lay ahead, and this was a job that to be the Alijia from Searsport, Maine, per freely admitted to Waddell that he would have given pause to a full staff bound for Buenos Aires. Her captain damn well hoped he would "have a of experts. Dismounted guns, ammuni- and crew were taken off, and as she had chance of returning your polite attention in casks and boxes, cordage, chain, a value of close to $100,000 she was tions before this muss is over, that's aU!" blocks, and spare canvas were all piled immediately scuttled, lest she ever again Ploughing south through calm seas, above and below decks in promiscuous play a possible part in enemy commerce. the Shenandoah captured one Yankee heaps; how the task of putting every- Her Yankee company was given the op- ship after another. Most of them she thing shipshape was to be finished seemed portunity of signing on the Shenandoah's burned, taking their crews aboard the of far less immediate concern than how crew at the regular fifteen-pound bounty raider until the opportunity of putting it was to be begun. But a week of work that took no account of time slowly brought a sem- blance of naval trimness to the Shenan- doah. Magazines were built for the ammunition, the four 8-inch guns and two 32-pounders were set in their carriages, ports were cut for them, all surplus gear snugly stowed away, and the metamor- phosis of man-o'-war from merchantman was well-nigh complete. And just in time, for on October 28th the lookout raised a sail to leeward and the Shenandoah dropped down the wind to investigate. The stranger was a barque, flying the English flag, but the cruiser was not to be put off by that. She was flying the English flag herself, to disguise her identity, and as the others lines bespoke American designing the Shenandoah fired a blank shell and signaled the other to heave to. A Confederate officer boarded her and found that while she was in- dubitably American-built her owners had 42 "

them on a neutral ship should come up, but the Kate Prifice, out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, she allowed to ransom herself by paying $40,000 in Yankee money. After leaving a number of prisoners at the little island of Tristan da Cunha and rounding the Cape of Good Hope in a storm that all but sent their ship to the bottom, they made the placid waters of Hobson's Bay, two miles from Melbourne, Australia, on January 25th. They had left Madeira ninety days before that. Here followed three weeks of gratifying surcease from the rigors of maritime marauding. Crowds of visitors thronged the ship from morning to night, loudly crying their sympathies with the Con- federate cause; there was a minority report from a colony of disgruntled Yank- ees who threatened to blow up the vessel; there was a lovely free-for-all with guns, knives and bung-starters in one of the waterfront taverns between these same Yankees and the raider's crew; there were countless volunteers fcr enlistment on the Shenandoah, and there was a guard of Royal Artillery sent by his excellency the governor to prevent any of Her Britannic Majesty's subjects from thus forgetting their official neu- trality. Lastly, while the cruiser was un- dergoing some final overhauling in the drydock at Melbourne, there was a grand ball during which the younger Southern ofificers unanimously lost their hearts and the golden buttons from their gray jackets to the Melbourne maidens; and at eight bells in the morning watch of February 17th the Shenandoah catted her anchors and pushed her forefoot gurgling past Port Phillips Heads to sea. The first muster of the crew after leaving port had startling results. Where once scarce sixty men had answered the bosun's summons, nearly a hundred now stood in the swaying line along the deck, and more were mysteriously appearing each moment. Fourteen stowaways crawled out of the foot of the hollow iron bow-sprit; twenty popped up from unused water tanks ; and when the chagrined officer of the deck sent a party in frantic search below decks, it returned with another group in tow that had been routed out of one of the holds, bringing the total of unexpected guests up to forty- three. Captain Waddell was called, and when he came forward to view this mass visitation it was with difficulty that he concealed his joy over so many new recruits, under the cloak of outraged dignity that was expected of him. "I can't throw you scum overboard," he roared, breathing a silent prayer of thanks that he was out of range of the recent Royal Artillerymen, "and I'm damned if I'll turn back with you. But by God! I'll put you all in the brig in irons unless you can give me a right good excuse for being on this vessel ! In harsh Cockney accents, in the rich brogue of Ireland and the rolling burr of MILLER BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUK

JUNE, 1942 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine Scotia's highlands, in broken French and German and Italian, the newcomers to a man solemnly protested that they were native-born citizens of America's South- ern States and desired nothing more than to fight for the Confederacy; surely the captain wouldn't turn down his own dear countrymen in their laudable ambition to be of service to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee? Snorting his lack of en- thusiasm for this preposterous pro- nouncement—or possibly to stifle his laughter—the captain ordered that the visitors be at once enlisted, and the Shenandoah for the first time faced the future with an adequate complement of men before the mast. For several days the cruiser headed towards New Zealand, but encountering no other ships, abruptly swung north towards the happy hunting grounds of Yankee whalers. Week followed unevent- ful week; Drummond's Island was sighted and circled—and no sign of a Union craft; Strong's Island—and no better luck. Then on April ist the Shen- andoah entered the harbor of Ascension Island, and for once All Fool's Day belied its tradition of whimsy in favor of Waddell's anxious crew. For there, snug in their green-bowered haven were

four " whaling barques flying the Stars and Amy EMERCENCy relief WILL APMINISTEREP By "^E VS/AR OEPT Stripes. At once the Shenandoah broke out the cross-barred banner of the Con- ish navy, got her back on an even keel the Shenandoah's history. The liquor was federacy, fired a blank shell, and dis- and swung her off to race before the carefully stowed away on board the patched heavily-armed boarding parties wind. Sails blew out and somehow were cruiser for future medicinal use, but the to seize the astounded Yankees who, it replaced and reefed and reefed again, forecastle gang diligently effected access was later learned, had been laboring un- royal yards were sent down and secured, to its hiding place and the subsequent der the impression that this new arrival one mighty wave forced the deck ports nocturnal hilarity brought out the of- in their midst was a harmless coastal to be re-opened, another comber swept ficers on the run. surveyor. Nor was that the end of the a seaman from the forecastle whither he The deck watch was hastily ordered to surprise party. The whaling skippers had was returned—pleasantly surprised but round up the roystering seamen but in gone ashore for a day of festive partici- unharmed—by a succeeding sea, and no time at all the deck watch was adding pation in the native social life, and the after eleven hours came at last a pelting its mouths to the bottles and its voices reception they received upon completing rain to beat down the angry crests and to the general uproar. Horrified petty their unsteady return to their charges permit the Confederates to retrace the officers, bent on restoring order, disap- was a nerv-e-shattering dampener to their hundred miles they had been blown from peared into the melee only to reappear merry mood; their subsequent demeanor their course. with more roll to their walk than was was marked by an excess of sobriety, in The Shenandoah's route now lay due their habit and caroling ribald songs to nowise dissipated by the destruction and north for the Arctic Circle whaling the moon. Not to put too fine a point sinking of the four prizes. grounds, and on May 20th a snow squall on it, the entire enlisted personnel of the During the next fortnight the raider presaged the approaching goal. The next ship was as tight as so many proverbial rested in her island retreat, taking on dawn brought Kamchatka and the first owls; with ropes' ends and belaying pins fresh water and foodstuffs while liberty ice fields into view, and at noon was the officers worked till sunup before the parties went ashore and took on personal sighted the first sail in nearly two last giggling votary of Bacchus was cargoes of gorwa, a local distillation of months. Drawing near, Waddell hoisted tossed into irons to sleep off the effects a variety of fermented roots that had the Russian ensign to which the other of one of the most stupendously success- a distinctively negative taste but an replied with the United States flag; the ful sprees in naval annals. equally positive reaction. Then a call of Czarist emblem was then changed for As soon as the cruiser's crew could ceremony was made upon the islands the Stars and Bars and the usual rou- again understand orders the journey cannibal king, the prisoners were given tine of capture indulged in. A blank shot toward the midnight sun was resumed. a store of reserve rations and com- from a 12 -pounder ... a boarding party Siberia was sighted and plans made to mended to the unappreciative chaperon- . . . the transfer of Yankee skipper and raid the headquarters of the whaling age of the resident Methodist missionary, crew and provisions ... a torch applied fleet at Jones Island in the Sea of and on April 13th the Shenandoah left below decks . . . and the Shettandoah had Okhotsk; but two jams in ice fields and peaceful Ascension to run into a tropical logged her fourteenth victim, the whaler the recollection of what had happened hurricane. Abigail, out of New Bedford. to Dr. Kane not so long ago under

• Rushing unheralded over an ominously Although she had in her fifty-year-old similar conditions prompted Captain calm sea, the first furious burst of wind hulk only a few barrels of sperm oil, the Waddell to shift his course for Bering heeled the cruiser over until she wet the Abigail's hold yielded more than thirty Straits and the Arctic Ocean. tips of her lower yards. With rare sea- barrels of whiskey, a circumstance that In this endeavor he received the expert manship the bosun, a "Southerner" by turned her otherwise conventional cap- assistance of the second mate of the late adoption from twenty years in the Brit- ture into one of the merriest events in Abigail, one Thomas S. Manning. At-

44 The AMERICAN LEGION' Magazine scribed by a shipmate as "a Baltimorean by birth and a reprobate by nature." Though he once voted for Lincoln, this individual begged to be allowed to join the Slienandoali's crew and promised to guide the raider to the whaling fleet she sought. He was thereupon freed from his irons, appointed to the indefinable rank of "ship's corporal, " and despite the dis- taste with which the rest of his asso- ciates looked upon his traitorous actions, quickly made good his boast. Cape Thaddeus on the coast of Asia was raised nine days later, together with two more ships from New Bedford; these were quickly destroyed, and on June 24th the Shenandoah n )sed her way through the Arctic fog into the very center of the Bering Straits whaling fleet. On every side the unsuspecting vessels drifted idly about their oleaginous business and to the nearest of these, the Milo from New Bedford, the raider made her way through the seal- and ice-infested waters. Quickly arrangements were completed whereby the Milo ransomed herself for $40,000 and the promise to take the Shenandoah's current captives to San Francisco, and it the Confederates then You couldn't choose a better hero, lad, turned their attention to two neighboring ships which had apparently sensed than the American frontiersman!" that something was amiss and were trying to get away as fast as possible. But neither of them could match the The Dan Boone Tree still stands in Tennes- Today, the technical skill and competence see, a unique monument to a great Ameri- with the exact- combined speed of the Shenandoah's sails which Remington has met can. Its inscription was carved almost two and screw, and in a couple of hours two centuries ago by Daniel Boone himself. more Massachusetts hulls the Sophia — Dan may have been a little weak on spell- Thornton and the Jireh Swift—had ing, but he was strong on character. Fron- added their fine old Yankee names to tier life developed in Americans the love of Davey Jones's roster. liberty, the self-reliance and the resource- The following day the gray raider fulness which constitute our greatest seized and sank the brig Susan and Abi- strength today. The sport of hunting has helped keep those qualities alive, genera- ing requirements of sportsmen are applied gail—from San Francisco, by way of vation after generation. to the achievement of our common goal riety—and the day after that the General —victory for our country. And every Amer- Williams from New London; then New When Eliphalet Remington wanted a rifle, ican sportsman, every hunter, trap, skeet or Bedford got into the proceedings again 'way back in 1 8 1 6, he made it target shooter, can take pride in the fact via the prizes William C. Nye and himself. It was such a good that it was his support which built up and Catherine. The Shenandoah's roll of pris- rifle that his neighbors asked sustained the sporting arms and ammuni- rifles for them. oners now numbered over two hunclred, him to make tion industry, which is now performing so In this typically American so the last instalment was herded in valuable a service. way the Remington Arms twelve whaleboats which were towed Company came into being. FOR THE FUTURE .There is one thing astern as the Confederates made off^ after For 126 years, Remington has ^ which the sportsmen of this country can do five more sails which had lifted over the been serving the sportsmen of this country, now that will assure better hunting in the horizon. leading the way through research to ever future. That is to support the cause of wild- The nearest ship turned out to be New better products. That research is respon- life restoration in every possible way. This Bedford's General Pike, ransomed to take sible for the walloping power of Klean- will ensure the opportunity to follow a

.22's and Nitro Express rabbit hound across a frosty cornfield . . . home the prisoners for $30,000. Of the bore Hi-Speed shot shells; the tremendous stopping power to thrill to the explosive whir of a covey of remaining vessels two escaped, but the of Remington center-fire cartridges with quail ... or to wait in a dawn-hushed raider got the others and on June 28th the new Soft Point Core-Lokt bullet; the blind for the beat of a mallard's wings. accomplished what was to be her last accuracy, sturdiness and reliability of Rem- Remington Arms Company, Inc., Bridge- and biggest haul for the Southern cause. ington guns. port, Connecticut. Beginning early in the morning with the Member of the American Wildlife Institute "For a more abundant game supply' scuttling of the New Bedford barque Waverly, by noon the Shenafidoah had stumbled on a group of ten whalers gathered to give assistance to one of their number who had been stove.

To Waddell and his companions it seemed too good to be true. Systemati- cally the prize crews from the Shenan- doah went to ship after ship, and from ship after ship as systematically returned with their prisoners of war. It was as "Kleanbore," "Hi-Speed." "Nitro Express'" arc Re?. U. S. Pat. Off. "Core-Lolrt" is a trade marh of RemiagtoD Anns Co.. Inc.

JUNE. 194:! 4S When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine easy and unexciting as shooting at sitting lantry was no empty boast. On one of the expedition and to the British Isles ducks until the last of the ill-starred their prizes, the James Murray, was he would return it, come hell or high fleet, the Favorite, was reached. Then found the widow and three small chil- water. So in keeping with the changed the picture surprisingly changed. dren of her captain, who had died at status of the Shenandoah the guns were Standing grimly on his quarterdeck, a sea. All four were hysterical with fear dismounted and stowed below, the ports cutlass in one hand and a huge navy re- of the fate that would befall them at boarded up, and the long and dreary volver in the other, the Favorite's hardy the hands of the dreaded enemy, but return journey—one begun under such old master eyed with high contempt the Captain Waddell at once ransomed the happy auguries—was continued. Down Confederates who were rowing towards Murray and started her off for 'Frisco and around Cape Horn, through the ice- him. with as many prisoners as she could hold, berg lanes, past the Azores; for ninety- "Ahoy there!" he peremptorily chal- in convoy of the Nile, also ransomed odd days and nights the raider slogged langed. "What boat is that, and what and loaded with captive Yankees. The south and east and north, dodging every do you want?" eight remaining prizes were then fired distant sail towards which she once The Southerners rested on their oars and the Shenandoah came about and would have proudly sped with every in surprise. "We come to inform you that stood for southern waters, having almost stitch of canvas drawing, and every man your vessel is a prize to the Confederate completely wiped out New Bedford's at battle stations. steamer Shenandoah!" whaling industry. And then at last the Irish coast, and

"I'll be damned if she is! Keep off, or Alone on the bosom of the mighty the pilot who confirmed the Barracouta's

I'll fire into you!" The white-whiskered Pacific the Confederate raider sailed for story, and Liverpool. shellback patted the barrel of a harpoon a month into ever warmer weather. Then H. M. S. Donegal sent over a prize gun near him, and nodded significantly the English barque Barracouta was crew to walk the deck whence so many towards his crew who were carrying spoken, and a boat sent over to her to prize crews had themselves once gone muskets. The small boat backed water get the latest news of the world from forth to glory; the last Confederate flag in consternation, and the Shenandoah which the Shenandoah had so long been still flying anywhere in all the world herself ranged up within hailing distance, out of touch. When that boat returned came down for the last time; the day of to assert final authority. it brought the worst of all possible tid- the Shena?idoah, sole survivor of a

"You, sir, haul down that flag!" bel- ings. Vicksburg had fallen . . . Richmond bravely-lost cause, was done. lowed the officer of the deck. "Haul it had fallen . . . Sherman had marched In the fullness of time Her Majesty's down, I say, and be quick about it!" from Atlanta to the sea . . . Stonewall minister of foreign affairs was graciously

The other directed a stream of tobacco Jackson and Jeb Stuart were dead . . . pleased to~ grant their freedom to all juice casually over the rail. "Haul it Lee had surrendered to Grant! The war members of the raider's company. The down yourself, damn you, if you think was over, the Southern cause lost, Jeff Shenandoah was turned over to the U. S. it will be good for your constitution!'' Davis in prison—and Lincoln assassinated. Consul at Liverpool. She was later pur- "If you don't haul it down, we'll blow Stricken speechless by this ghastly chased by the Sultan of Zanzibar, and you out of the water!" raged the officer, news so cruelly broken to them, the met a fitting death in a gale. while a snicker ran through the ranks Southern men on the raider were tor- Of the doughty mariners who sailed of the gray crew. tured by feelings that can better be the Shenandoah to capture 38 prizes with Th3 Yankee skipper did more than imagined than described. Their dreams a total value of $1,356,123, to seize 1,053 snicker; he laughed outright and made of certain conquest shattered, their own prisoners and to obtain ransoms of $166,- rude gestures with thumb and fingers. record of success meaningless now—at 100, little more is known. Some of the "Blow away, my lad, but I'll be eternally one sudden blow they found themselves officers eventually found their way back damned if I haul down that flag for any without a flag, without a country'. Nor to the States; most of the men slipped blasted Confederate pirate that ever was their situation made less onerous by away into the waterfront anonymity that floated!" the knowledge that they had unwittingly had produced them. Captain Waddell War was war, but the cold-blooded been destroying United States shipping went from Liverpool to Paris, and then destruction of an unarmed whaler was for at least three months after hostilities came to New York, where he entered not in Captain Waddell's book of tactics, had ceased, and the certainty that their the service of the Pacific Mail Steam- so he smilingly ordered out an armed Yankee foes would now regard them as ship Company-—a dull and prosaic ex- boat's crew for final persuasion of the no better than pirates and treat them istence to which he never could accus- valiant old man, who eventually capitu- accordingly. tom himself after his service on the lated—but still left his captors to lower A round robin, signed by officers and Shenandoah. And in 1886 he left it for his flag themselves. Everything was over crew, was at once presented to Captain that marine Valhalla where his old com- by five o'clock. Waddell, urging that he sail for Australia mand had so long been waiting for him Flushed with unprecedented success or Africa where ship and men could be with steam up, sails set, and the ghosts though they were, the Southerners could safely interned. But he would have none of Yankee square-riggers to board and still remember that their traditional gal- of it; from the British Isles he had led capture.

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(Continued from page ii) would if invested with the proper au- of the Wyoming, and knew that wher- the attack on the Pembroke, the Wyo- thority. He was immediately given carte ever his enemy went he could safely ming was ready to clear for home. blanche to settle accounts with Prince follow. When the news of the other engage- Mori for the combined nations. The Wyoming reached the eastern end ments came in there was a combined McDougal ordered coal and stores of the straits on the evening of July 15th. protest from Great Britain, France, the aboard, borrowed two pilots from the There McDougal anchored to await a Netherlands and the United States. But Japanese government and weighed an- favorable tide. The crew, wild with ex- it soon became evident that the mikado chor. citement at the prospects of a fight, was would take no decisive steps in the mat- He had no chart of the Straits of aroused at five the following morning ter, so McDougal told the representa- Shimonoseki, but he had learned that and the warship moved slowly up the tives of the offended powers that if the the draught of the prince's largest vessel, straits. Tiikado would not act, he, McDougal, the Lancefield, was no less than that As she rounded the Shiroyama prom-

46 Tlu- AMERICAN LEGION! Maga-ine ontory and came in sight of tlie shore fire upon her. Once she grounded, but put a shot through her hull just above batteries, signal guns were fired by the her powerful propeller worked her out the water line, piercing her boiler and Japanese, the signals being repeated of the mud. setting her on fire. The shot passed on farther up the shore. A few minutes McDougal soon had the brig in a into the town and exploded among the later the first shot struck the Wyoming, sinking condition and unheeding the hot houses. cutting away her windsail halyard. fire from the batteries and the Daniel The guns of the bark were still being The crew was beat to quarters. Before Webster, he gave his undivided atten- fired as fast as they could be loaded, the Wyoming's guns could swing into so McDougal placed the Wyoming across action a second shot hummed over the her bow and raked her until she was a ship and fell into the sea beyond. Two floating WTeck. Then, turning his atten- of the prince's war vessels immediately tion to the shore batteries which were showed up and soon the third was dis- still firing spitefully, with unerring pre- covered lying half-concealed by her con- cision he dropped red-hot shells into sorts. the earthworks. They were soon ablaze, McDougal ran up the Stars and Stripes the occupants fleeing back into the town. and headsd for the prince's fleet under At 7:30, when every Japanese gun a shower of shot and shell from the shore ashore or afloat was silenced, and the batteries. All hands were ordered ready prince's vessels either sunk or in a sink- for boarding, but when he saw that the ing condition, McDougal drew off to de- Lancefield was getting up steam, Mc- termine the extent of his injuries. Dougal beat his crew back to quarters, The Wyoming had been hit by twenty opened on her with his starboard bat- shots, half of which had entered her tery of thirty-two pounders. Soon his hull. But she had been struck in no vital big eleven-inch Dahlgren pivot guns spot, was still in good fighting trim. joined in. McDougal made a final check-up of In a short time the four vessels were the situation in the straits and on the circling about each other, working every * shore, decided that further action would gun to its fullest power. The Wyomitig tion to th3 bigger Lancefield. Out-ma- mean useless slaughter, and stood out passed clear through the Japanese fleet, neuvering her from start to finish he of the straits to make his report to the seemingly wrapped in sheets of flame. raked her unmercifully. Soon she was representative of the allied powers at Nearly all her shots struck the prince's ablaze from stem to stern, her crew Yokohama. vessels with telling effect. jumping frantically into the water. McDougal received a promotion as a After making the passage between the At this time gunner Peter King, in reward for his gallant action, and upon enemy vessels the Wyoming found her- charge of the forward Dahlgren, saw his retirement at the age of sixty-four self near the southern shore where six the prince's private steamer Koshin he was made a rear-admiral. His death batteries and the bark concentrated their Mani west of the shore batteries. He occurred at San Francisco in 1882. @ THE 5 CROWNS BOOT OUT TOUGHNESS

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47 JUNE, 1943 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine pajamas, and silently handed me the That Trench Mirror little mirror. I asked him to rummage through the kit under my bed; he found (Continued from page 24) again to a concealing hedge close to the case, and slid the mirror back into tain the polished surface. It certainly Belleau Wood. the slot from which it had been missing took a beating. It was near here that I lost my mirror. for so long. All of our equipment, including the Our rapid movements had taught us He had found it by the side of the little mirror, was thrown into disrepute to carry whatever we needed with us, road which leads from Lucy-le-Bocage at Apremont by the arrival at our posi- and the mirror was in my pocket. Some- to Bouresches, lying at just such an tion of a lieutenant coming direct from how, it fell out, leaving its case behind. angle that it glinted in the sun; and he GHQ at Chaumont. His boots were pol- I did not miss it at once, for after too- had picked it up and slipped it into his period it, pocket. ished ; ours were muddy. His uniform was busy a for using I was hit and clean and pressed ; ours were stained and carried to a first-aid station and then Now, the countryside thereabouts was wrinkled. His mirror was untarnished; back to a field-hospital at la-Ferte-sous- covered with equipment of every variety, mine was getting dull. He was a gallant Jouarre. My blouse had to be discarded, and he could have stuffed his pockets soldier who had asked for a transfer and in emptying the pockets—and what with all manner of military parapher- because he wanted to fight, and in a an odd assortment t/iat produced! —we nalia. What he did stop to pick up was fighting Battery he soon found that he found the empty case. I kept it. Why? my mirror, and he brought it, through couldn't hold to his sartorial standards, Premonition, I guess. all the chances of war, to Base Hospital and that we wouldn't lift ourselves to All through my hospitalization, this No. 10. them. Soon we were sloshing around empty case kept turning up, and each Strange, isn't it? After service with together, and my mirror felt better! time I handled it, I wondered where my me in the Artillery, the little mirror In June, we came to Chateau-Thierry. mirror might be and what it would be transferred to Infantry, and went This was a different kind of fighting. reflecting; and then I always packed through the last gruelling months of the No trenches, no prepared gun-positions, the case away again. War. I wish some magic rubbing might and well cov- I came finally to Base Hospital No. it deeply sunk underground ^ 10 re-enact some of the scenes reflected ered overhead. Once, the guns stood in in Boston; and one evening the Coburns —the long marches, the crawling through an orchard, each piece sheltered by the brought "The Better 'Ole" to our recre- underbrush, the quick digging of fox- arching branches of an apple tree. The ation hall. Three beds were set up close holes, the dawn charges over the top. location had been selected from a near- to the stage, and I was in one of them. Then it saw the agony of a wound, and by hill-top, and when we reached it, Someone in the audience behind us the long series of first-aid station, field we found that the ground was covered asked the names of the men in the beds, hospital, base hospital, and another At- with a closely-planted crop of onions. and so he learned mine. lantic crossing. And so to Boston, and Then there was "weeping and gnashing The next morning, a nurse told me back into its case in my kit. of teeth!" Shortly after, we moved to that a patient from another ward wanted And now it's ready for another war! the edge of a wood; and then forward to see me. He came in, wearing hospital This time we'll finish the job!

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(Continued from page 9) Casey's red face grew redder and he And now it was evening and he was "You say this guy just walks in on swore quietly, then reached for his hat. walking down the side road, following you, without if-you-please or go-to-hell "We'll go get this guy," he said. "I Bohne's directions. He came to the or anything?'' need him in my business." mailbox nailed to a pine stump, and "That's right. He must hide, he say But Bohne protested nervously. Frie- fifty paces beyond it he crossed the to me. He sit in meiti good chair, mis- derich could see anyone approach by day- little culvert. After that he slowed ter, in front of mein stove. He smoke light, could escape through the woods down, keeping a sharp lookout to the mein tobacco, eats five, six eggs every behind the house. Casey should wait north. day. And always in German . . . good till dark. Bohne's lane cut off through the high German like Preacher Vogel's ser- Casey agreed; he'd arrive at seven woods without calling attention to it- mons ... he say I must help him for o'clock. "One other thing," he asked. self. Casey turned into it. Under the Hitler." "Does this Nazi say what he's been do- overhanging branches it was quite dark "For Hitler?" Casey repeated, standing or where he's been or where he's now and snow still lay here in deep ing up. "He told you that?" going?" moist ridges. Walking carefully, Casey "Ja." Bohne nodded soberly. "I must "He tell me it is none of t?iein busi- unbuttoned his overcoat and pulled the make sure nobody finds this Friederich, ness. What he do is for the leader, he .38 police model part way out of his I must feed him, I must leave him tell me. My job is to obey." shoulder holster to make sure it would sleep in my bed, I must give him to- "He didn't bring anything like a radio lift quickly. bacco ... all for Hitler. Only me, I with him when he came?" The lane left the woods at the edge don't like Hitler. Not very much, mis- "Himmel, no!" Bohne shook his head. of a field, just as Bohne had said, and ter. Me, I'm good American. I got first "He have nothing." Casey, following directions, turned papers. But Friederich is bad man." "Has he gone out nights?" sharply to the right across the frozen - "Why didn't you conk him and toss "Not nights or days." stubble. This would bring him to the him out in the snow?" After the farmer left, Casey called kitchen door. He walked a hundred "On account mein brother. He is yet the Federal Communications Commis- yards, keeping to the heavier darkness in Germany. This Friederich, it seems, sion office downstate. He spoke crypti- on the edge of the poplar woods, then he knows all about mein brother Paul. cally. No, the mysterious radio signals paused and strained his eyes, tr>'ing to

In Ansbach . . . that is in Bavaria . . . had not been overheard since Thursday. make out the house, which should be where also I come from, Paul lives. If For a minute Casey sat thoughtfully. straight ahead. Bohne had promised I do not help this Friederich, he say It sort of added up. He might take a light in the kitchen window. But Paul will be in trouble. Him and his something worth while back to head- there was no light. Casey felt a sudden wife and babies." quarters after all. uneasiness like a gust of cold wind. What

48 Tlu- AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne if . . . he started on again more rapidly. A little animal in the brush startled him. "Skittish as a recruit, ain't you?" scoctr- he complained to himself. Then far off BsA eooD to the east a dog barked and just as far in the other direction some farmer's jaloppy was panting and backfiring on uBiPAmscoar/ a hill. The house loomed up suddenly. Yes, it was straight ahead of him as Bohne had said. But still no light burned in any window. Casey checked back on the

farmer's description , , . house here, down that way a comcrib—over there under the big hemlocks that darker blur

must be the barn. Behind it the land fell away through cedar woods to the river bottom where a branch of the Manistee drained out of the hills. But still no light showed at any window in the farmhouse. Casey started suddenly toward the house, making no more effort at secrecy. The four wooden steps creaked under his weight and when he rapped the thin door panel gave off an empty echo like a drum. There was no other sound. Holding his gun in front of him, Casey gave the door a mighty kick. It crashed inward and he dodged aside, yelling, "Come out of there, you!" Still no sound. He turned on his flashlamp. Its bull's-eye first touched an old wood stove with a tin coffee pot upset on it and a pair of socks drying behind the water tank. The light moved to a cupboard painted light blue, then to Want to be a swell the picture of an angel on a calendar, then a table with checkered a cloth and to some unwashed dishes. Then beyond guy a SCOUT? the table, on the floor, a pair of boots close together, toes up, sticking out All you have to do is save your Schick Injector Razor from behind the cloth. They were mo- tionless. Blade Cartridges and give them to a Boy Scout. Scouts Casey slid into the room, keeping his all over the country are collecting these empties to back to the wall and sweeping his flashlight once around the four sides. But save valuable metal. They w^ill be paid cash by us for he knew that was unnecessary. There every one they turn in. was no other living thing in the house. He leaned across the corner of the table You couldn't pick a finer bunch of boys to give and looked down. Yes, it was Bohne the farmer on his back there. He was a hand to than the Scouts around your neighborhood. dead, of course. Beaten to death. Be- They're the Legionnaire type! So how about it.** Will side his head lay a short, smooth billet of stove wood. One end of it was you save your empty Schick Injector Blade Cartridges stained. No need to search far for the and give them to a Scout.'* He'll get paid . . . 2itid you'll weapon. The beam of the flashlight wavered. Casey heard himself swearing. get the satisfaction of knowing that you've done a He looked again and looked away. Never turn. before had he seen a man with his good tongue cut out. "Nice people, the Nazis," he said furiously.

He was angry at himself, too. If he had come out here at noon as he wanted, instead of letting the old farmer talk him into waiting for dark, this, at least, Your Empty Schick Injector Blade wouldn't have happened. The question was, how had the German discovered Cartridges to a BOY SCOUT that Bohne had gone to the police? And when had he discovered it? Hunting the answers, Casey once SCHICK INJECTOR RAZOR more poked his flashlight up and down, MAGAZINE REPEATING RAZOR COMPANY. BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT

JUNE, 1942 49 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine left and right. Bohne had left the po- south. On poor farms like this such a He had finished and was wiping his lice post at half-past eleven. It was an shed usually did for a garage. hands carefully on his handkerchief hour's drive here in that jaloppy. That Here in the open where the sun had when Casey asked how long Bohne had would have brought him home at twelve- shone this afternoon, there was no snow been dead. thirty. He'd worn his best Sunday on the ground but the surface was "Can't tell. Room's too cold. Maybe clothes to town; now the body was frozen. No tire marks—the shed empty. a couple of hours, maybe all day. Sure, dressed in patched overalls and a torn Any car, even a jaloppy like poor he was killed instantly. You see . . . the work-shirt. old Bohne's, could add up a lot of miles left parietal is crushed just above the .'' Give him fifteen minutes to change in six hours. From one o'clock to seven lambdoid suture. . . his clothes, a few minutes more for . . . a fellow could be almost to the "How about talking English?" Casey Friederich to needle the truth out of Ohio line by now. That probably was asked. him ... at very earliest the battle had what the Nazi had figured, too. Unhur- The coroner frowned and said, "Okay, been at a quarter to one. Casey swung the flashlight down, then went to his knees. Under the trailing edge of the tablecloth was an alarm clock. Its glass

was broken and scattered; it had been knocked here in the fight and stepped on besides. The hands had stopped at three minutes past one. "May be a clue," Casey told himself, then added, "And maybe not."' Whether or not, he'd better get help and get it quick. He'd screwed up the case enough already. But before going to a telephone, he'd get this picture fixed in his mind. Troopers and sheriffs sometimes tramped out good evidence.

Seemed to be plenty of it lying around, too. Bohne's house had only one room. From where he stood Casey could see it all. The other end, with an iron bed and a make-shift cot, served as sleeping quarters. The weapon had come from the wood-box beside the stove. It was light, dry poplar, the kind most farm- riedly Casey started for his own car if you want it in A-B-C. He was hit on ers burned hereabouts. Friederich had at the crossroad. If the brass hats at the back of the skull . . . left of the swung that chunk viciously and dropped headquarters would only issue him a middle, fairly low." it beside the body. new two-way radio, he'd save a lot of "Back?'' Casey repeated. Casey looked further. There was the rubber. He backed his car into the high- "That's right. The fellow must have coffee pot, turned over on the stove, way, had driven nearly a mile before he stood behind him. Blow probably de- ." showing that Bohne had struggled for found a lighted house. From there he livered upward .... I'll show you. . . his life. And the trampled clock on the telephoned to Traverse City post. He picked up the piece of firewood, floor, pointing to three minutes past one. "Listen, Sarge," he said. balanced it a moment, shifted it to his If that was when the murder happened, He told briefly what he knew, kept left hand, then swung it slowly at an the German had six hours' start. Casey to himself what he guessed, waited imaginary victim. "One blow was got down and stared at the clock again, while the sergeant established the li- enough. Cutting out the tongue was an still without touching it. That looked cense number of Bohne's missing car, afterthought. The Nazis have a word like a bloody thumb mark on the nickel- RZ 40,600. On the way back to the for it. Schrecklichkeit, is what they call plated bell. Yes, a thumb mark, dark crossroad, where the Traverse City ser- it." brown. Something for the laboratory to geant had promised to meet him in fifty Casey stood the stick of wood care- check. minutes, Casey heard downstate patrols fully near the door. It was evidence He glanced at the old stove and getting their radio directions. of a sort, even if the surface was too touched it with his hand. It was not "Car 21," the dispatcher was order- rough for fingerprints. hot, only slightly warm; he lifted a lid ing, "cover U.S. 131 Grand Rapids to "What prints you find on the clock?" and looked into the fire box. Two or Kalamazoo. Car 88, take U.S. 27, Mar- he asked the district detective. three sticks of half-burned dry poplar shall to the state line. Watch for RZ "Just the one latent. It's blood, all .'' lay on the grates. The drafts were open. 40,600. . . right." He shook his head uncertainly, then Casey listened uneasily. It might take "Um," Casey said, and followed the carefully lifted the top of the old- more than holding down crossroads and coroner out of doors. fashioned water heater at the back and patrolling highways to catch up with "Where you think you're going?" the dipped his finger into it. Friederich. district sergeant asked.

"Stayed hot," he commented to him- The cold floor of Bohne's little house "Bed," Casey said and pretended not self, and muttered again that six hours creaked under the tramping of heavy to hear the sergeant scolding about was a long time. men, troopers and deputy sheriffs, a plainclothes men have a snap in this

• After twenty minutes, he closed the district detective with his fingerprint kit, man's force. door carefully behind him. Down at the coroner, finally the undertaker and But there wasn't any reason for stay- the barn a dog began to bark and his assistant. The undertaker brought ing out all night, Casey argued. If Casey turned in that direction, keeping a gasoline flare that threw a white, un- Friederich had got safely away with all his flashlight pointed down at the path. sympathetic light and with its help the afternoon to drive downstate, the patrols As he expected, there was a lean-to coroner made his examination. He might pick him up; if he hadn't gone against the side of the barn, facing didn't take much time. that far, you certainly couldn't find him

50 The AMERICAN' LEGION Maga-Jni in the dark in this wilderness. Riding "I expected as much." shoulder and was starting away when back to town Casey picked up the radio "The guy got through before we put Casey halted him again. dispatches to police cars watching for out the blockade." the sergeant added. "How do I get to that station?" he the Nazi south of Grand Rapids. "We notified Indiana and Ohio . . . after asked, and the lineman looked hard at "Car 43," he heard, "man in model you went to bed ... to be on the look- him. A Ford driving west on Route 60 from out." "What's it to you?" he wanted to Concord five minutes ago. Answers de- Casey said pleasantly, "Well, I'll be know. Casey opened his palm, show- scription in Dispatch 873. Look him seein' you," and after breakfast drove ing his badge. "Oh," the fellow said. over." slowly toward Bohne's farm. At the last "Had quite a killing last night, I hear. Three minutes later, while the dis- crossroad, he halted. A big truck with Why, this power plant, it's over past patcher was sending Car 109 to check coils of \ ire hanging to its sides stood on that farmhouse where the killing was on an abandoned machine at Battle the shoulder of the highway and a line- and down through the woods at the Creek, Casey suddenly slapped on his man with climbers strapped to his legs dam. Gumpert's Lake backs up behind 0 vn brake. was getting out. Casey glanced at the the dam and that fellow Bohne's farm

A peculiar sound was sputtering in his truck. Yes, the sign on its side said it was along the edge of it. Only you can't radio receiver. It might be dots and belonged to Michigan Public Service. see it on account the woods." dashes, might not. Whatever it was, it Still, he'd better check. "Thanks, buddy," Casey said, and lasted only three or four minutes. In "Putting up a new line?" he asked. got into his car. He drove on to the Traverse City, Casey called the Fed- "Just stringing new wire," the line- farm. A sleepy trooper was on duty. eral listening post again. man answered. He waved across the hills From the field a dozen neighbors were "Anything from up north tonight?"' in the general direction of the dead staring at the shabby little house. An- he asked. Bohne's farm. "Power line was in bad other farmer was down at the barn "About ten minutes ago," came the shape from the old hydro station at taking care of the stock, the trooper reply. "Code message. We don't seem Gumpert's Lake dam. Haven't been said. able to translate it. A spark set. Pretty using that station for quite some time, None of the neighbors had ever heard ." broad spark, I'd say." but with defense and everything. . . of Friederich or any other stranger in "Um," Casey answered. "Didn't know there was a power the hil!s. They were dull folk, except He went immediately to bed. In the plant back there." Casey offered a cigar- one. That one lived on the next farm morning when he tramped downstairs, ette and held a match. and got Casey's ear, to say insistently the district sergeant was still up, sitting "Not much of a plant, I got to say." that this guy Friederich couldn't have glumly at the watch desk. the lineman answered. "Take plenty of got away last evening without him hear- "Hope you had a nice sleep," he said. money to put it back in service. But ing the car climbing the hill. "Sure did." Casey pretended not to the old high line from across the county "John Bohne's car was kind of on the know irony. "Any news." runs through it and that's what we're noisy side," he said. "I always knowed "Bohne's still dead and from latest fixing up." when he went to town and come home reports, Friederich's still missing." He threw a coil of wire over his again. I heard it yesterday noon. We THE FRANKIE FROGS ARE HERE TO STATE WHY CALVERT'S FAME HAS GROWN SO GREAT

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JUNE, 1942 51 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine was eating dinner. It was around one where a clay bank dropped off sharply "You're only guessing," Gagan said. oxlock, new time." to deep water. The supply pond be- "Um." Casey started up the hill. "Um," Casey said, and left them and hind the dam broadened to a hundred "This kraut, he leaves a thumbprint on went into the house. He came out after yards, but only little islands of floating it. Happen to notice it was bloody? a moment and stood looiiing across ice spotted the surface. Keeping inside Okay, he's touched it after he yanks out fields. There was only the one road the screen of woods, Casey studied the Bohne's tongue. Fixed it for one o'clock. into the place. opposite shore and down river made out But at seven when I get there, the "Well, how could this Nazi get out the small, square brick box that must water in the stove tank is still pretty then," he asked the neighbor, "if he be the old power house on the dam, and hot. It would cool in six hours in that didn't drive up your hill? Across fields?" the electric wires stretching from it. cold house. So what?" "Not with no car. Not a chance, mis- Closer at hand, the edge of the bank Neither man answered him. ter. There's the lake down that-a-way had recently been broken away and a "So the fire hadn't been out six yonder of the woods, and over there's willow sapling, uprooted, tilted its head hours," Casey said. "He kept it stoked the river and on the other side the into the water. Keeping to the heavier till dark, when it'd be safe to push the swamp." woods, Casey returned to the barnyard. car in the river. That was dry poplar. "How about the dam at the power "Find anything down there?" the The drafts were open, but the wood house? Could he have driven across it?" young trooper asked. He even had the hadn't burned out, the way it would "Nope. Roadway's been rotted out for nerve to smile and Casey looked at him naturally. It only half-burned, like he'd years." hard before he replied, "Why, yes, wet it down. Why? Well, if he can "How about the lake? Could he have youngster, I found quite a bit. I'm a make us think he lit out at one, then crossed the ice?" great lover of nature." we'll figure he's had time to go a long "Ain't thick enough. Most places From the neighbor's house he called ways and we'll act according. Hunt there ain't no ice, anyhow." district headquarters again and asked downstate, instead of 'round here," "Well," Casey growled, "if he couldn't for a couple of good men and a stout get out and he's not here, where is he?" bamboo pole. THEY came to the fence. "Right away," the sergeant agreed. "Took too much trouble," Casey THE farmer took a mouthful of scrap "Oh, no," Casey said. "No hurry. Not said, "that's his failing. Like cutting the and chewed hard, and Casey left him. till dark." fence here and nailing it back after he He spent three minutes in the barn, less "He'll get away again," the sergeant got the caf through." than that in the barnyard. Lighting his objected, "waiting till dark." "How'd you know it was him cut it?" pipe in the shelter of the corncrib, he "He ain't going anywhere," Casey Perch challenged. thought over the clues that so far he said. "Thought that last night. Know it "Left-handed," Casey said. "A left- had turned up. There weren't many of now." handed man cuts at the right side of a them and they weren't very clear. The sergeant sighed. "Have it your post. See? And the Nazi was left-

But they did point in one direction. way. I'll send Gagan and young Perch." handed. You couldn't sock a guy the He crossed the edge of the frozen po- The two troopers arrived at dusk. way he did Bohne with your right hand. tato field toward the woodlot. It was Casey led them to the river bank. Coroner proved that, only didn't notice from there the stranger had appeared "Bohne's jaloppy, it's in that deep what he was proving." He glanced back when he first knocked on Bohne's door. hole," he said, pointing. "See where it toward the powerhouse. "We'll go sit in At the edge of the woodlot, which served was shoved over the bank? Took the my car," he told the bewildered troop- also as a pasture, a new woven wire willow bush with it." ers, "and wait till it's good and dark." fence topped by one barbed strand ran He edged forward and looked down- But Gagan, who was smart, had along the edge of the potato field. stream. As he'd hoped, it was too dark caught the direction of his eyes. "You Snow remained only in small patches to see the powerhouse. He reached for think he's hiding now down in that and the earth was hard with frost. Casey the bamboo pole the troopers had power house?" started in at the fence corner and brought and probed the water with it. "Said we'd wait a little while and see, walked along it slowly, examining the "There it is!" he said triumphantly. didn't I?" Casey repeated. wire. After some ten rods he found a "There's the car! Want to poke at it He turned on his car radio. It was place where the woven fencing had yourself? It's on its side. I'm touching 8:45. The evening grist was coming in, been cut and re-stapled to a post and a wheel now." an accident on U.S. 2 7, a runaway girl he stopped to examine the break. It "Killer's in it, too?" Trooper Gagan from Pontiac, a fight near Flint. The was made at the right-hand side of a demanded. He seized the pole. nine o'clock time report just had sound- stretch between posts. Casey grunted "No, no," Casey said. "No, he's up ed when unexpectedly the illicit signals and went on. and around." sputtered again. He followed the line into the woods "There it is," Casey cried. and found a second cut in the wire, this YOUNG Perch objected. "Who'd be The slow dots and dashes were louder time beside a left-hand post. Again it that screwy, to toss a car in the than they had beeii last night, but still had been stapled back in place. Casey river when he could lam off in it?" not clear-cut. They faded off and on examined the frozen earth. There were "This kraut was," Casey said. "Krauts with the frying sound a wet branch, no tracks. But he took off his overcoat, is very thorough. They go to a lot of scraping a high-tension wire, sometimes folded it, and dropped it on the other trouble with psychology and sometimes makes in a receiver. side and climbed over. The woods slanted it don't get them anywhere. This one Casey started running for the woods. sharply down the hill. Before he moved figures, if the car's gone, we think he's "You, Gagan, slip across the dam," out of sight of the barnyard, he looked gone, too. Only he outsmarts himself. he directed. "Watch the planks. They're back and grinned. He knew what the He poured it on too thick." rotted, the lineman said. Head the fel- trooper back there was thinking: Trust Both men looked at him doubtfully. low off that side. Perch, you stay this a crazy dick from headquarters to go "Like that alarm clock," Casey said. side. I'll try to get in." off half-cocked! What did he expect to "It was planted, too. He not only wants Perch argued, "You're sure, Sarge, he find down on the river bank? us to think he's took Bohne's car, but ain't drowned a-ready, back in that Casey found what he expected. The that he took it 'round noon. Three car?" woods were open from much grazing, minutes past one. So he smashes the "Will you do what I say?" Casey trees far apart, with little underbrush. clock, like it was busted in a fight, and thundered. They fell away to the edge of the stream sets the hands back." Water, rushing through the sluices,

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made enough noise to cover the sound of feet. Casey stooped low, taking ad- J^d t^ute. witat tltedf. aMxuU vantage of bushes. He saw Gagan start U across the dam, a running black shadow quickly lost in other shadows on the far side. Casey walked rapidly toward the FRISE TEETH? powerhouse. In spite of darkness, he could see its (Oft) HOW BUSINESS GIRLS square silhouette midway across the dam GET RAISES and the tall double poles and cross-arms

wires it. tried of the lead-out above He Kate McCarthy, sad to state, to carefully on the rotted planks. step Was about to "get the gate". The darker rectangle on the wall would be a window and beyond it a door. Why? Her FALSE TEETH were a "sight He was ducking past the window Scrub and rub them as she might; plank shifted under his weight. when a "Denture Breath" also assailed her; tried late to jump aside. The He too Poise and pleasant manner failed her. heavy end lifted and dropped with a thud. Even above the rush of water the sound was audible. He flattened against the wall and cursed himself for a big- footed cow. Said her dentist: "Polident He had started forward when he heard Spai-es you this embarrassment. a shout, saw a flash, heard a shot. It In its no-brush, no scr^ib action, came from the brush where Perch was You'll find instant satisfaction." hiding. Then Perch yelled, "Quick, Sarge! In the river! He went out the Kate tried POLIDENT . . . and, lo! ."' window. . . TEETH and SMILE now gleam and glow. Gagan, too, was running, the beam of In return, what did she get? his light streaking up and down the Fired? Oh, no! raise? bet! white water below the flume. The stream A You was narrow here, between stone retain- MORAL: If your plate's distressin', ing walls. Twice Casey fell before he Profit by this object lesson got to level ground where the river widened. He had his own flashlight out. But CLEAN PLATES, BRIDGES WITH it was Gagan who first found the man floating. The beam settled on the fellow's head, let it escape, and Casey's, POUDCRT too, touched it, lost it, touched it again. ALL DRUG STORES, ONLY 30c And then he found himself knee deep in the swift water . . . waist deep . . . and suddenly he clutched the swim- DICE • CARDS mer's wet coat tightly. FISTULA FACTS Perfect Dice, Maqic Dice, "Should of let you drown," Casey you suffer pain, torture and broken FAMOUS Magic Cards—READ THE Do BACKS — Inks, Daubs. panted, dragging him ashore. "Ruinin' health of neglected Piles, Fistula or re- Poker Chips, Gaming BLUE BOOK Layouts, Dice Boxes, my best suit o' clothes . . . come along! lated rectal and colon ailments? Write Counter Games, Punch- CATALOG boards. WRITE FOR Spit out some water and get ready to today for 122-page FREE BOOK. Learn CATALOG TODAY, facts. The McCIeary CLnic, C1866 Elms talk! Put them bracelets on him, Gagan. K. C. CARD CO. 1247 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III, Blv-1.. Excc^_siov Springs, Missouri. That's better!" In the power plant Casey studied the sending set the man had built. With an old carbon lamp for a jump spark he'd wired a jack-knife into the highline; by opening and closing, it could send ragged dots and dashes to blanket half the broadcast band. Beside it spread a map of the State. Casey examined it under JOE DIMAGGIO A strong healthy nation demands strong healthy nnen and his flashlight, near Houghton Lake found boys—so take N, Y, Yankees enough time out for healthy relaxation and rest from your work to keep a penciled circle. Voted the A,L,'s Most Valuable physically fit. There is no substitute for Baseball, the great Ail-American "Um," he pointed to it. "So you got Player in 1941. game. Remember, too, it pays to play with the best—so when you buy the detention camp located, have you?* your baseball bat make sure it has the signature of your favorite baseball And that's where you send messages?" player and the Famous Slugger trademark on the barrel end. Your sporting To himself he muttered, "And we goods dealer has them. thought nobody knew where it was at!" PLAY BALL! — KEEP FIT! 'T do not speak," Friederich said. Ask your dealer for your FREE copy of the "You've got a second guess coming," "Famous Slugger Year Book for 1942." He has your copy for you, or send 5c in stamps Casey answered. "You still got your direct to Department L-2). tongue in your head." pERimAOSBYC^ It was morning when Casey went to bed. He met the sergeant on the stair, and Casey remarked: "It was my turn to stay up. Oh, sure, the Nazi talked.

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Told everything . . . how he's been farmer puts a lamp in the window to crew to string wire, so Friederich needed over here fifteen months working for guide me by and Friederich notices how a new hideout for a few days. Trouble Hitler. His job was to try to spring careful he is to set it just right. So he was, when he starts covering his tracks, any Germans we interned. He was signal- gets the old man in the corner and he takes too much trouble and invites ing Houghton Lake." worms the truth out of him. Yeh, with suspicion." "And they heard him?" the sergeant a knife. Bohne's so scared he talks him- "Mighty good job you did," the ser- asked skeptically. self to death." geant said. "Easy, I guess. I phoned right away. "If this Nazi had a good hideout in "Um," Casey rubbed his chin. "Got Commanding officer there found the re- the powerhouse why'd he go to the one regret. Sorry it's Friederich we got ceiver, finally. Guy from Detroit, been farm in the first place?" the sergeant and not his big boss over in Berchtes- there a month, smuggled it in. And I objected. gaden." was right about when the Nazi killed old "That's the accident," Casey said. "We'll be gettin' him, too," the ser- Bohne ... six o'clock, not at noon. The "Thank Public Service for it. Sent a geant said. Judgment

(Continued from page iq) thoughtfully into the embers. reached me just as I was coming down questions at once. "Anything wrong?" Doc Crane, telegram in hand, was to the club. It's from the American Con- "Wait, just a minute," Warne urged. whistling soundlessly to himself. Doc had sul at Lima—It says 'Passport of Marcel "Lemme tell you something— else. We a habit of doing that, of puckering up his Barsac bona fide Stop no reason to sus- may be dealing with r.ps. But nobody ever heard a tune pect'—now, where do we stand? Warne." "What made you suspicious in the first emerge. Warne glanced at his notebook. "Ac- place, Warne?" interrupted Doc Crane— "This is more serious than mere mem- cording to company records, Barsac was shrewdly, "you musta had a hunch bership in the Legion," he finally re- working at the Holt Tractor Company "Yes, I did. When I got to Lima for marked. "I see something else—we will in Illinois at the time he was supposed the celebration, one of the Peruvian of- have to go slow, carefully. Meantime, to be sailing for the A. E. F. Somebody's ficials took me aside, with the aviator, Warne, you have access to company cockeyed as hell!" and told me that someone up here at files?" A week later. Commander Crane Cerro was very much interested in the Warne nodded. pulled a special meeting of the Post. airplane motor, and particularly in some "All right, you quietly get Barsac's Everybody was on deck. Only a few little carbureter gadgets the Frenchman passports, and all the data—and send men were in the know. Doc whispered had rigged up, to take care of the low them to the American Embassy at Lima, them and Barsac aside. air pressure. confidentially. I think you should state "Listen, you eggs! We are going to "Complete plans of the motor had that we are checking up on membership, have a mock trial tonight. Everybody been mailed from Cerro to a certain and in view of the general's letter, we'll is present. You, Jake—you had some address in Lima, where a suspected inter- need some help. Meantime, not a word to law training before you were kicked out national spy was living. These sketches anyone else." of school—^you be prosecuting attorney. were mailed in an envelope, bearing on A few nights later Warne got Com- Marcel—you be the fellow charged. The the outside our Legion insignia. There is mander Crane and a few of the gang rest of you manufacture evidence, and only one man in our Post who knows that together. salt the jury— I'll be the judge." ."' much about gas engines . . "Thought you might want to see this "What will I be charged with?" asked The boys exchanged glances. Surely, letter that just came up the hill," began Barsac, just a little too nonchalantly. surely, it couldn't be—and yet? Warne. "It's from the Peruvian official "Hell—we'll make it embezzlement of "I felt just as you fellows do," Warne who tipped me off about that airplane post funds, or malfeasance in office—you continued, "until today, when I got this spy angle. He clears Barsac of all re- play along, eh?" said Doc. Barsac cable from the Adjutant General. You sponsibility. Says that a young Spaniard, grinned. can read for yourselves." He tossed a working in the company garage—under In the course of the trial, an hour telegram over to Doc Crane. "You see Barsac, by the way—has confessed not later, Jake was cross-examining the de- what he says: there is no one by the only to sending the information, but also fendant. name of Marcel Barsac in the official to stealing some of Barsac's Legion let- "You state, Mr. Barsac, that you were record of the American Army." terheads, and envelopes. Here, look it in the Tank Corps of the United States The gang crowded behind Doc as he over." Army during the war?" read the cable—then one by one they Doc Crane read the letter carefully, "I was." strolled over to the fireplace, to gaze grunted, then produced a telegram. "This {Continued on page 58)

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only half a hundred bombs on Rangoon. Can't Hold Those Tigers! Outnumbered, the little band of Amer- icans became the sparkplug of Allied resistance {Continued from page 7) the Flying Tigers made no bonus claim. all over the Asiastic mainland. he knew for American planes and equip- Since the superstitious Japs fear sharks, By mid-January enemy air forces on the ment. But aid to China at that time was the Group painted a shark's head on the Burma front were reduced to half their merely a subject for political debate in snout of each plane. When they learned original strength. But Chennault himself

Congress. Then came the Lend-Lease Act, that the tiger is a favorite deity in had only forty-four planes left. The with priorities for Britain, our Army China they called themselves "Tiger A. V. G. were sure that if they had had and Navy, the Netherlands East Indies, Sharks." But "Flying Tigers" is the name more ships they and the R. A. F. could Australia, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, by which they became known to the have wrung mastery of the air from the Russia—all ahead of China. Finally, in world. For every Jap he downs the Japanese. December, 1940, 100 obsolescent Curtiss A. V. G. pilot is awarded a small Nip- Ironically, while Chennault was pray- P4G pursuit ships, originally allocated to ponese flag with which he adorns his ing for new ships, forty Vultee fighting Sweden, were sent to China. ship. Every one of the Group except the planes were on the docks at Rangoon Chennault's troubles really began at latest recruits has earned at least two; still in the crates in which they had ar- that moment. He would have to keep "many have half a dozen, and the late rived from the U. S. six weeks before. half of the planes in the shops to supply Squadron Leader Jack Newkirk's plane But he couldn't have them—they were spare parts to keep fifty in the air. He bore twenty-eight. consigned to someone else. had no skilled mechanics, no ammuni- By November,' 1941, Chennault had He pleaded with Washington for tion; high octane fuel was as rare as two fully-trained fighting squadrons of twenty-four bombers. These, with a gold. Worst, China had no pilots to fiy eighteen men each and a partial squad- protective escort of his fighter planes, the P4o's. In a desperate effort he re- ron of eight. At last he was ready to could make "confusion raids" on Japa- turned to Washington and last summer strike a blow for China. But at the very nese bases in Indo-China and thus slow obtained permission to recruit pilots moment the British in Burma called for down the yellow men's invasion of from the United States. As a result, a help. Chennault had come to fight for Malaya and the Philippines. Washington group of young airmen applied for leave China. But this was America's war now could make no bombers available for and, with 200 mechanics, followed him —and Rangoon was vital to the free flow such a side-show. It was more interested to China. of war supplies into China over the in plans for hurling, some day, masses The Chungking government provided Burma Road. So Chennault sent his First of planes, guns and tanks that would an operating base at Kunming, the Chi- Pursuit, headed by Arvid Olsen of Los crush the Japs in one mighty offensive. nese end of the Burma Road. An agri- Angeles, winging down the road to Man- Chennault somehow got hold of twelve cultural college building became their dalay. It was men of that squadron who obsolete Russian bombers. Using these barracks and mess hall. Madame Kai- blasted nineteen Japanese planes out of slow, cumbersome death traps, A. V. G. shek's New Life Movement established the sky last Christmas Eve. fliers put Hanoi, largest Japanese air a canteen and recreation center. The base base in the southern Pacific, out of com- was equipped with hospital and medical ALL through Christmas Day the Japs mission for three days. Even this dem- staff. Hundreds of coolies surfaced run- A. sent wave after wave of bombers onstration went by the board. When ways, built hidden shelters to protect the with escorts of fighters. In relays the Fly- members of the A. V. G. begged for the planes and shops from bombs, buried ing Tigers and two R. A. F. squadrons loan of just one U. S. bomber jar one huge fuel tanks—and laid out a baseball rose to meet them, knocking eighteen week, no one heeded them except Chen- tield. The "Old Man," as the A. V. G. enemy planes into the bay off Hada- nault's former neighbors in Louisiana. calls Chennault, insists on physical fit- waddy. At dawn on the 26th the enemy They started a collection to buy him a ness and his men spend many free hours was back again. Of the eighty which at- bomber—with which to attack Japan on the baseball diamond. If an alarm tacked Rangoon that day, 22 were blasted The battles that followed each other comes they drop bat and gloves, climb out of the sky. The assault on Burma was in unending succession took further into their ships, tackle the enemy, then halted. The A. V. G. First Pursuit had toll of his P4o's, and Chennault had rush back to the field to pick up the only twelve shark-nosed planes left; not coolies search the jungle to recover bits game where they left off. He sees, too, a single ship was whole. But fifty-nine of planes and motors with which to that they get such treats as ham and Jap aircraft—one-tenth of all the combat patch his battle-scarred ships. Less than eggs, good coffee, white bread, ice cream air force the invaders then had on the two squadrons were in flying condition. and chewing gum. mainland—had been destroyed in three Letters, cables, radio messages and emis- Chennault taught his men all he had days. saries pleaded with Washington in vain. learned about the Japanese. Then he The Old Man wired them, "I knew In February of this year came a wind- drilled them in his own method of air you would, God bless you. " Tokio broad- fall. The Pan American Airways manager fighting. The only rules he insisted upon cast a formal complaint: "The American of China's wartime airline chanced to were: "Never fly alone, always in teams Volunteer Group will, unless they cease discover on the Calcutta docks, among of two; make your ammunition count; their unorthodox tactics, be classed as lend-lease supplies from the United don't try to get every one of the enemy guerrillas, and the Japanese will there- States, some cases of parts marked P40. —strike hard, then head for home." fore show this irregular force no quarter." He convinced the British that he knew Though civilian in status, A. V. G. But Japan came back with a second air where they were to go and signed a pilots wear uniforms similar to those of offensive against Rangoon. Chennault receipt. Before the papers could catch up U. S., except for insignia and buttons. sent his Second Pursuit squadron to meet with the shipment, relays of Chinese Over their U. S. pilots' wings they wear them, led by Jack Newkirk of New York. planes had rushed these parts for the the gold wings of the Chinese Air Force. The R. A. F. were busy attacking enemy planes to Chennault. In a day and a half, They are paid $600 a month, plus a bases in Thailand, so that the air defense three full squadrons of P4o's were ready bonus of $500 for every Japanese plane of the Burma Peninsula was left to the for combat, and twelve hours later the brought dc'vn, provided that it can be A. V. G. Newkirk's squadron shot down A. V. G. had downed twenty-six more found and identified by checkers. In the twenty bombers and forty-two pursuit of the enemy. defense of Rangoon, some fifty Japanese planes—twenty of the enemy for every Chennault's ability to get fuel for his aircraft fell into the water, and the A. V. G. pilot lost. In two weeks, less fighters is uncanny. Part comes from A. V. G. has destroyed more than 200 than a score of Rising Sun fliers pene- the Japanese! 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enemy aircraft on fire—is equally mys- filled by coolies, who consider it an terious. By one means or another, he honor to lift a clump of dirt for the maintains a slender store of equipment. A. V. G. A '"lost" truck here, a stray consign- Often the Tigers get away without a ment of engines or parts there, a cargo casualty, thanks to Chennault's combat of ammunition "borrowed" from some- technique. But all of them cannot get where else, have kept the A. V. G. flying away all the time. John V. Newkirk, and fighting. who on his twenty-eighth birthday When hoped-for aid from the United knocked down his twenty-eighth plane, Nations failed to appear, Chennault took was sent to his death by a ground-based the offensive. The A. V. G. began to machine gun. How many other Flying attack the Japanese on their own air- Tigers have been killed and how many dromes. For this he devised a new are in Japanese prisons are military technique. Three pilots, instead of teams secrets. of two, would maneuver together. Two One, limping home from a fight, was P4o's, moving wing to wing, would at- forced down by five Zero fighters and tack. High above them, the third would machine-gunned where he fell. Another, stand by, ready to dive in if enemy whose engine was shot to pieces, bailed planes got on his team mates' tails. out; the Japanese followed him down Somehow the Old Man obtained demoli- and shot his parachute to ribbons. Since tion bombs, which some of the Flying his death, A. V. G. pilots convoy any Tiger pilots carried in their laps. parachuting teammates safely to the On February 9th a full wing of ground. forty-two Japanese bombers lay in an Losses have thinned the A. V. G. airdrome camouflaged by mango trees. Often only two Flying Tigers challenge Flying at 18,000 feet, Newkirk, Charles three Jap squadrons—a job for fifty Bond of Dallas and Bob Little of Spo- fighters. Yet they keep on—writing in "He says it's his patriotic duty kane spotted the planes by the flames blood and courage an epic chapter in from their exhausts, as the bombers America's history. They have bolstered to clean out the radiator were being warmed up preparatory to the morale of weary China. From the with Sani-Flush" taking off. Bond and Little dived, raked exploits of Chennault's heroes China sees Don't risk damage due to car overheat- the airdrome with their machine guns what 100,000 Americans, with such ing. Sludge and rust clog the radiator and demolition bombs, leaving behind leadership, could do. may lead to expensive trouble. Sani- Flush cleans out impurities. sixteen flaming wrecks. Three Jap pur- Chennault is regarded by many as the Does it quickly, easily. Costs only a few cents. suits took off to give battle, but New- most brilliant air strategist of all time. Don't take chances on just flushing kirk, on guard aloft, sent two of them It is said many among our Air Forces with water. Sani-Flush is thorough. Use crashing and the other fled. That same would like to see him placed in com- it yourself, or ask your service station. day, six other Flying Tigers similarly mand of all the United Air Forces in Sani-Flush is absolutely safe in auto cooling systems, destroyed thirteen Jap bombers in an- the Far East. Until President Roose- when used according to directions on can. It's in most other airdrome. velt in April sent his name to the Senate, bathrooms for cleaning toilets. Sold in The enemy struck back at A. V. G. to be advanced to the rank of a brigadier grocery, drug, hardware and 10c stores. bases but the Americans were notified general on active duty, the Old Man The Hygienic Products Co., Canton, O. of their approach by Chennault's Chinese (although a general in the Chinese Air air raid warning corps with their little Force) was only a captain on the U. S. portable radios. Hence the Tigers were Air Corps retired list. But, like the in- seldom caught off-guard. "Our success," domitable, gruff old soldier that he is, CLEANS OUT RADIATORS Chennault has said, "is partly due to our Chennault fights on and awaits his orders. mobility; the Japanese never know Like those that gave General MacArthur where we are." When bombs damage the recognition due him, they may some their flying fields the holes are quickly day come. CORNS FAST! YOUR LATEST ADDRESS? Is the address to which this copy of THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE was mailed correct for all near future issues ? If not, please fill in this coupon and mail to THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE, 777 No. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind.

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gaiety. "I can take it. I have it coming." Judgment Commander Crane was whistling noiselessly. Finally: "Barsac, the boys {Continued from page 54) doubt, let me read this cable from the were pretty sore tonight. You know Office: 'Confirming "And you saw service in that branch Adjutant General's that. Some of them . . . would have been of the U. S. Army, overseas?" previous letter, no name Marcel Barsac a bit hasty. The majority of them hated "Yes." United States Army.' Mr. Commander, like hell to take any action at all. Fal- "Where did you land overseas—what members of the Post, this man is a de- sifying your membership in the Post was port?" liberate liar. I charge that he never was not so serious. That can be remedied. "Er — Bordeaux — yes, Bordeaux, in the service of the United States!" That draft evasion that you mentioned France." Commander Crane leaned over and is pretty bad. Your talk about the flag "You landed at the seaport of Bor- whispered to the defendant. "Do you kind of got 'em going. They know damn deaux? When was that?" want to say anything?" he asked. well you weren't faking on that part of "Spring of 1918—just before St. Mi- Barsac nodded—then slowly arose and it. So, here's the verdict. The Post voted hiel." stood, head bowed, before the Post. to publish on every bulletin board in "You were in the St. Mihiel drive? "The charges are true," he said slowly. the company's offices that you no longer what town, or towns?" "I never was in the Army. I don't know belong to the Post— "Oh—I can't recall, they were all why I—lied. It came easy. I—I wanted Barsac, paled, but smiling grimly, French names—Thiaucourt, Bantheville." companionship. nodded. "Were you acquainted in Bordeaux "You fellows can get me kicked out "Then—they are not going to tip off do you recall any streets or buildings?" of camp, make me lose my job, but the Consul about your passports, or "No; you see, we just landed and here's something, something, you could about your evading the draft. They are blooie, next day, you might say, we never pin on me, except that, I will put going to mail your passports, after three were on the way." my freedom, my life, in your hands, to months, to the American Consul at Para, "Way where?" show I am sincere. I will shoot the Brazil—to be held until you call for "Why, to St. Mihiel." works! My passports are forged! Oh, I them in person. They figure it will take "You landed practically in the heart know they will pass inspection. They you six months to get to Para. At the of the war zone and next day or so you were made out for a younger brother, end of that time you are free to live were under fire, ehi^" who looked like me. His name was Mar- your life as you see fit, or use the pass- Barsac nodded. He wet his lips. cel. Mine is—well, let it pass. Tell that ports to go back home to the States, "Where and when did you go into the to the Consul at Lima—and I will be and take your medicine. They figure service?" under arrest, by return wire. that six months in the jungle will be "Jefferson Barracks, August, 1917." "I am telling you this, not because I the equivalent of the regular war you

"Is Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis?" want, or expect, pity. I feel I owe some- missed. If you make good, the score is "Yes! Sure!" thing to you and I owe something else wiped out. Take it—or leave it. The ver- Jake eyed the defendant sternly then to our flag. dict of the Post is rose from behind the table, strode dra- "You fellows may not have noticed, "That I leave Peru, by the back door, matically to the center of the room, and but I have taken good care of that flag. by the trail down the Amazon to Para?''

faced the chair. I have read and know all about how it said Barsac quietly. The two men nodded, "Your Honor—Mr. Commander, every should be hung or stood. I have gotten and got up. statement that the defendant Barsac to love it, as a mother her child. Taking "It's a break! A break I don't de- has made, upon cross-examination, is a care of it has been a sacred ritual to me. serve! The fellows treated me white! I'll deliberate falsehood; I demand, in the "At first, handling the flag seemed like make that trip. I'll hit the trail in the name of the Post, that you, as Com- a sacrilege. Then it sort of became a morning.—It's a chance to make good mander, take official cognizance." special right or duty. Taking care of it, to prove

The room hushed. Small talk stopped. saluting it became a religion. God bless Blustering, swaggering Barsac was

Up till now it had been all sport, fun. a that old flag! It is the same flag I dis- sobbing like a kid. The three of them mock trial. Something about the way the honored, I laughed at it, in nineteen- shook hands—goodbye. Commander was taking it showed plainly seventeen when I—stole my brother's that the trial was now real, tragic. passports, skipped over the border and DOC CRANE got a brief letter from Marcel Barsac, white-faced, turned evaded the draft. Do your duty! I am him—ten months later. It was appealingly to the chair. "I protest wanted at Leavenworth Penitentiary." postmarked Para, Brazil. It was stamped this is a farce. I was clowning— He turned stiffly and looked tenderly with the seal of the American Consul in "No," Jake interrupted. "These state- at the flag. His hand started to salute, that city. "I am on my way back to the ments you have just made have been then dropped hopelessly. Without an- States to take my medicine. Remember made by you on many occasions, in the other word he walked out into the night. me to all. God bless you—every one!" presence of witnesses. As a matter of At two o'clock in the morning, when It said nothing about the miles of fact, some of them are written in your the Post meeting finally adjourned. Doc travel through the Peruvian jungle, from own hand, on the form you submitted." Crane and Jake slipped quietly around Tarma to La Merced, to the Pyrene

"All right," Barsac challenged, "what's to Barsac 's quarters. They knocked. Colony on the Chanchamayo. It did not wrong with them? I still stand by them." "Come in." mention that the rainy season must have Jake picked up a bundle of papers. Barsac, dressed, was sitting on his caught the lone occupant of a native "You stated, Barsac, that you landed bed, trunk half packed, open before him. canoe that paddled down the Pichis, to at the seaport of Bordeaux, in spring He arose, gave them a questioning look. the Pachitea, to the Ucayali to the and next day you were in the battle of "Aren't the others coming too?" Maranon. Malaria, floods, starvation St. Mihiel. Bordeaux is not a seaport; Crane shook his head. were not included. Something must have it's sixty miles from the coast, up a river. "The tar and feathers come later in happened in that thousand-mile struggle St. Mihiel was not fought in the spring the morning, eh?" he asked. for existence. Certainly a man's will and —you couldn't have been in it 'the next "Nothing hke that, Barsac. Listen, sit courage had persevered. A man's soul day' as it was three hundred miles away. down, over here by the fire. We want had been found in the tangled morass. Jefferson Barracks is south of St. Louis." to talk to you," said Crane quietly. An American citizen was made! Barsac flushed, head bowed, was silent. The hapless fellow pulled up two Top o' the World Post of The Amer- Jake held up a telegram. chairs, but remained standing. ican Legion has canceled the debt. The "Jf aro" of you men of this Post still "Shoot, Doc," he said, with assumed books long ago were closed.

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{Continued from page 21) The room was shining clean, the wall cool and comfortable come afternoon." high with books. He felt a great curi- ?" "Thanks," said Pops, liking her, and osity. "You—a— he began. feeling that he was going to be taken "I taught school two years before I America's Most Honored care of. Sympathy, kindness and laugh- met James Patrick," she supplied. "But ing humor flowed warm from her. He the spaleens led me a life and so I was Name in WINES suddenly wanted to tell her his problem. glad to marry. Once I spoke English He shut off his thoughts as she bustled clear as lark's song. But what with James, about the cabin with the three windows and finding that a bit of the brogue was looking east on the mountains. He felt a help in my business, I fell into me mothered. He hadn't realized how the natural way of speakin'." housework, the planning of meals, had '' 'Tis music to the ear o' me," vowed etched into his mind. "Do you board Pops, his tongue turning to the way of people?" he asked suddenly. his grandfather. "The words have the The widow set firm hands on her hips twang of Tara's harp, the fiavor of a to look at him through narrowed, twin- burning bog." kling eyes. "Sometimes. For it's a sad "My name is Eileen," offered the thing for a woman to eat alone. But Til woman without reason. "And I'd thank be knowing you better before I answer you to be off and take your blarney that. There's a good place across the with you. You have the wicked eye of street. Do you eat there for a fortnight, the late Murphy. I could do well without and we'll see." you. But be back for tea. How long has John had a little trouble getting to your wife been dead?" sleep that night. They would have his The question with no touch of brogue letter. He wondered what they thought. brought Pops back abruptly. "You're a The air was cool and crisp when he knowing woman, Eileen Murphy,"' he awoke. He shaved, showered, and went grinned. "When I come for tea, I'll fix to get coffee. The eating place was good. that leaking faucet." He came back, got out his story and 18% Ale. J9-21%Alc. by Vol. by Vol. worked for three hours. But he couldn't JOHN SHANE fell into a habit of lose himself. He went out to walk. morning work on stories that almost Ask for it by name! Mrs. Murphy was on the screened wrote themselves, and then afternoons Specify "Greaf Western"; it assures you porch, evidently in trouble with an iron. spent puttering about the twelve houses of getting the -finest wines obtainable. He watched her try a new cord, snap of the court. He was by turns, plumber, New Leaflet of wine recipes, "Enioy these Wine Classics", sent on request. lights off and on; test the iron with a electrician, carpenter, earning his dinner ^ h PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., RHEIMS. N. Y. \ wet finger. and a pleasant evening on Eileen's porch Grinning, he climbed the steps. "I'll afterward. fix it," he offered. Gradually Eileen seemed to grow " 'Tis an invention of the devil," ounger. She was almost shy at times. > Men> Women Over 40 laughed Mrs. Murphy. "The little juices It made Pops feel very masculine. She will not run into it. 'Twas in my mind put a very definite limit to their in- Don't Be Weak, Old to bash it around a bit." timacy. He learned more about her in Feel Peppy, New, Years Younger Mrs. Murphy watched doubtfully, but the first evening than for a long time Take Ostrcx. Cuntiiins Kcm-ral tnnirs. stimulaius, often needed after 4n —by bmlies larliiii^ iron, ealeium phosphate smiling, until he found a broken contact afterwards. She could talk of books, and and Vitamin A 73-year-old dmtor writes: "It did so mui h fur |)atieiiis, I took it myself. Results were fine." Spe- set it in order. "Praise it and God, men, and of London. cial intriidiHtory size Ostrex Tonie Tablets cost onij/ 35c. Start teiliriK iiciipier and years yoiinKer, this very day. works," she cooed in delight. "Now if told her in detail of his daughters. He For sale at all auuj druj; stores everywhere. I had worked in a Dublin factory as did Of his mistake in going back home the my sisters, instead of being filled with first time. Her blue eyes glinted, gleamed, fine learning in London Town, I might and sometimes her lips twitched in hu- have done it myself. My thanks to you, mor. But she said nothing until one PULVEX John Shane. And I'd be honored if you'd evening in June when the sunset was FLEA POWDER " -also kills Lice and Ticks take tea with me. very beautiful. "School's out," she sug- 25( AND 50< Pops looked through the open door. gested. "Probably all of the girls will

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JUNE, 1942 59 Whfn An.s-wtring Advertisements Please Mention the Americ.in Legion Magazine have a vacation. Why don't you have kisses and clinging arms for a few sec- 0-00 ©MY FEET/ them up here? You're aching for them." onds. But he managed to catch a glimpse That, realized, was exactly what of a in a brown traveling suit and WHEN YOUR FEET HURT. YOU Pops woman HURT All OVER /TIRED, BURNING, he wanted to do. "I'll telephone right a perky hat who took a cab before he TENDER, ITCHING, PERSPIRING now," he cried, figuring quickly that could reach her. His heart performed FEET OR CORNS AND CALLOUSES with the difference in time, he ought to again. PUT LINES IN YOUR FACE. catch them at dinner. "There was the nicest woman on the QUICKRELKH Eileen stopped him with a motion. plane," gushed Jane after they were "Before you do," she said simply, "I crowded into the taxi. "She kept look- CET PROMPT RELIEF WITH something to tell you. You're in ing at us. She looked as if liked us." EFFICIENT, SOOTHING JOHN- have she SON'S FOOT SOAP. SOFTENS love with me, and I with you. But say "Probably Mrs. Murphy," explained CORNS AND CALLOUSES. nothing to them of that. I want to meet Pops in what he thought was an easy ^ AT All DRUGGISTS SINCE 1870 them with nothing between us." manner. "She runs the court where I JOHNSON'S FOOTSM/' Pops looked at her only for a swift live." .BORAX IODIDE AND BRAN. moment before he knew she spoke truly. A sudden, tight silence gripped the "It's God's truth," he vowed. "God's taxi. Try this Wonderful truth, and I never knew. I never thought He knew what that meant. They were Treatment for —I'm so happy here. That's the reason! afraid he'd met a woman he could like. Pile Suffering FREE ILES You will—you will marry me, Eileen?" They wanted him back. If you are troubled with itching, bleed- "Of course," said Eileen softly. "Of While the girls were getting settled in PH ing or protruding piles, write for a course, if the children don't object." their cabin, he ran to see Eileen. "How FREE sample of Page's Combination — Treatment and you may bless the day you "What have they " began John do you like them?" he asked, grasping read this. Don't wait, WRITE TODAY. Shane. She put a hand over his lips. her hand with the ardor of a young man. E. R. PACE CO., Dept. 471 -H-5 Marshall, Mich. "Kiss me," she ordered, "for it has been "Golden darlings, every one," she whis- a long time." Her lips were soft and pered against his lips. "How could you

' moving under his. She pushed him away leave them? FAST' gently, breathing quickly. "Go and tele- "I love you," said John Shane. phone now." He saw tears in her eyes. "A queer kind of love that never no- SAFE/ He stood shaking before the 'phone. ticed I took off six pounds," laughed He heard it ringing, ringing. Where were Eileen, low. "Now, away with you. And lOiyPR/CED/ they? Suddenly Jane's voice, "Hello! no work on the cabins, or no word to couldn't speak. grasped me. Let me have my way." Canoes, Rowboats. Outboard Hello!" He He Motor Boats. Olympic. Snipe, the receiver hard. He gulped. "It's me In three days the girls were under Comet and Sea Gull Sail Boats CATALOG FREE father. Pops," he shouted. Eileen's merry spell. They spent Save Money-Prompt Shipment—Two —your "How most Factories. are you. Kitten? I want you all to come of their time in her cabin. They were THOMPSON BROS. BOAT MFG. CO. (1161 216 Ann St. ( Wrtteto \ IIG El St. up here on a vacation. Is Sybil there, loud in her praise. "Don't you think PESHTieO. WIS. \eilh^T place/ CORTLAND, N. V. and Kit?" she's wonderful?" questioned Jane. "Oh, Pops, Pops," choked Jane's voice. "Very," said Pops, veiling his eyes. "Oh, Pops, I'm so glad. Oh, Pops, where Jane questioned directly. "You going are you? We've been so worried." back with us. Pops?" "At Taos, Sunshine Courts," he fin- "If you want me," he assented. THE HOME FRONT ished. He could hear her voice shrilling. Jane's arms quick about his neck were "Kit! Kit! Syb! Syb! It's Pops!" his answer. We're home for the duration this time. True enough, that a few of us "I'll send you enough money to fly," That night his determination weak- Legionnaires are trickling into the he stuck in." ened. He tossed for an hour and then armed forces but for ninety-nine They all talked, questioned. "Come slipped on a robe and went like an amor- percent of us—it's the Home Front and see," he said, refusing to tell much. ous boy to Eileen's back door. He was in this war. It was arranged. about to knock softly when he heard But not with the pipe and slippers, "See you, Pops, see you soon," husked voices. Eileen's and Jane's. because there's active life to an be Jane. "I got a million things to tell you!" Jane, evidently in bed with Eileen, lived on the Home Front these Eileen heard the news with calmness. wailed a protest, "But you don't under- days. "I'll go down to Phoenix and buy some stand at all, Eileen. Kits wants to be are Air Raid Wardens or Re- We clothes, and fly in with them. That will married. So does Sybil. And I in a year serve Police or Firemen (and we're give me first look," she planned. or so. But we've all stayed at home be- Pledging War Bond purchases) or "It won't make any difference whether cause of father. didn't dare even spotting planes or drilling prospec- We tive draftees or walking post guard- they like you or not," he assured, and learn to cook for fear he'd feel hurt. ing bridges. The Home Front isn't took his reward. Oh, he's so nice, Eileen. What we want the quiet sector it used to be. John Shane didn't work much in the you to do is to marry him. We just

And when we do get a night off next few days. He had care of the courts, can't scatter and leave him. Don't you from our Home Front war duties and he was filled with a shaking eager- love him just a little?" we pull out The American Legion ness. And nagging doubts. Of course they A moment later he was knocked back Magazine to relax a little and in- couldn't stop him, but they could make against the wall as the door banged cidentally see what new war activ- things unpleasant. open and a pajama-clad figure ran across ities are being planned for us able- Down at the airport he sent his the yard to the girls' cabin. bodied Home Guards. thoughts out to pull in the plane when He suddenly felt very small. He had Somebody's got to keep this grand it was just a speck. A newsboy whis- to do something. He marched straight and glorious country going while pered loudly to his freckled into Eileen's room. "You knew all the the lads are fighting beyond our companion, shores as we did in 1917-1918. "Ole goat must be waitin' fer his gal. time," he accused, as she sat up. Lookit 'im dance." "I knew nothing at all," laughed Ei- The Home Front really isn't such Pops stopped dancing. Girl! was leen, stretching out her arms. "Nothing a bad place to be in 1942. And it's He a man-sized job to keep it nice for waiting for four of them. at all, except that a man is never quite the peace that's bound to come. The plane came swinging down to taxi so important as he thinks. But you're to the ramp. Pops' heart choked him. very important to me, John Shane. Come Things were pretty much of a blur of here quickly. ' 6o The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazini; Action! Lights! ThisYear, Discover Camera! a New Vacation! {Continued from page 34) ida, to board the U. S. S. Illinois that LAi^S^INCE DE in 1941. He enlisted in tlie Air Corps in brought us back to Norfolk, Virginia. June, 1940, just after he had passed his Then to Philadelphia and three weeks

1 8th birthday. At the time this let- later we were shipped to Naval Base W CANADA ter is written, he is stationed at Max- No. 6 at Queenstown, Ireland, aboard well Field, Montgomery, Alabama, and the U. S. S. Cuyatna. Through Scotland, due to his S. A. L. Drum Corps train- England and Ireland by rail and boat ing, he was placed in the Southeastern and on an English transport, which we Division Military Band at the Field. The boarded at Leith, Scotland, we shipped other son James, enlisted in August, to Murmansk, (that port of entry in 1940, at the age of 19. He was sent to North Russia through which our supplies the Air Corps Bombardment Squadron are being sent in this war to the Soviet ^mon Wi'.Ke Ur.i««'* n""* Quebec Is at Orlando, Florida. army). l-* '="7^cT»,»"'i,l ''e/fort. "The flag in the background of the "Boarding the U. S. S. Olympia at e»«»«^.^, to'k ch»"«,:^t the picture was the U. S. Army Ambulance that port, Morine and I finally became Corps' flag over in Italy. Don't ask me members of the ship's company—the f'^r^th of "^Il^o.o'lS*'"?" o"' how that flag traveled back to America first time we had been part of any with my husband, but he and most any ship's company! Took a lot of traveling. veteran of the A. E. F. would probably Our time on the Illinois was for training

know how it was done! The 'chemical only and on the trip across the big pond Come this year . . . tarry awhile in Les Trois affinity' of that flag and a soldier was we were passengers on the Cuyama, al- Rivieres, deep in the French Canadian country. Contrasts? Here are centuries-old houses just as natural as our sons fol- though we did stand lookout much a watches rubbing shoulders with structures of today lowing in the footsteps of their Pop and through the danger zone as we neared . . . shrines as old as our civilization. Lavio- lette, founder of the city, journeyed west Mom. Scotland. from here to discover the Rockies ! No passports require were sent to San Diego for our prelim- est—or is it just plain laziness? —of our inary training. Thence to the East Coast fellow Legionnairesses when it comes to REEVES BROS., INC. .frjj; by rail and shipped to Pensacola, Flor- sending pictures and stories for the en- 54 Worth Street, New York City * 'A

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THE How about it, girls? Certainly former September 19th to 21st. Nurses, Yeomen (F) and other women The following veterans' organizations Legion Magazine American veterans have snaps of unusual or amus- which had already planned to meet in INDEX of ing or interesting incidents of service New Orleans are requested to report to about which they can tell a story. But The Company Clerk when and where ADVERTISERS no posed group pictures, please! their reunions will be held. Announce- This month we seem to have struck ment of the National Convention city the jackpot two Legionnaires of the will be made in the July issue. fair sex are represented. The picture of American Legion Magazine, The. .Cover II Natl. Assoc. Amer., Balloon Corps Vets.— General Pershing at a review and in- 11th annual reunici in conjunction with Legion Appleton, D.-Century Co 2 spection came from Miss Ida E. Ger- National Convention, wherever held. Harry S. Resing, 1512 Wedgewood Dr., Wichita, Kans. man of San Francisco Nurses Post of the Natl. Amer. R. R. Transp. Corps—Southern Legion, whose address is Post Office district reunions. New Orleans, G. J. Murray, 51 Calvert Distillers Corp Box Sacramento, California, with natl. adjt., \\2i\', W. Locust St., Scranton, Pa. 94, Siberia, A. E. F.—5th annual national re- this brief note: union. L. A. McQuiddy, natl. adjt., 1112% Menlo Av., Los Angeles, Calif. "Having two of these pictures, Chem. Warfare Serv. Vet. Assoc.—6th an- Doan's Pills 55 thought you might like a print as Gen- nual reunion. George W. Nichols, secy.-treas., K. R. 3, Box 78, Kingston, N. Y. eral Pershing appears so plainly. The World War Tank Corps Assoc.—Annual reunion. Chas. C. Zatarain, 5910 Pontchartrain officer saluting is Major Lucas of Base Greyhound Lines Cover III Blvd., New Orkans, or E. J. Price, natl. adjt., 89, Mesves (France) Hospital Center, 130 N. Wells St., Chicago, 111. World War Navy Radiomen—Annual natl. of which I was Chief Nurse. The nurses reunion and All-Navy headquarters. Mark are of Base 89." Feder, yeoman, 132 S. George St., York, Pa. Hillerich & Bradsby Co 53 Natl. 4th Div. Assoc.—Annual reunion- Inviting Comrade German to tell us dinner and business meeting. New Orleans. Theo. F. Tolzman, pres., 2234B North 23d St.. more of her experiences at Base 89, this Milwaukee, Wise. 7th Eiv. World War Vets. Annual natl. re- International Business Machines Corp... 3 further report came to us: — union. Ralph R. Conner, adjt.-fin. offer.. Box "There was no outstanding event con- 693, Riviera, Fla. 12th (Plymouth) Div. Vets. Assoc.—3d nected with the inspection by General annual reunion. Harry Berg, natl. adjt., 3146 Johnson's Foot Soap 60 Pershing, shown in the snapshot print. 15th Av., S., Minneapolis, Minn. 20th Div. Assoc.—Annual reunion. Harry "When I entered the Army Nurse McBride, 1234 26th St., Newport News, Va. Dixie (31st) Div. Assoc.—Natl. reunion- Corps in I 1911, met a nurse on the dinner. Walter A. Anderson, secy.-treas., 4913 53 K. C. Card Co train en route from Chicago to San Fran- N. Hermitage Av., Chicago, III. Co. E, 16th Inf.—Reunion. F. H. (Cpl. Red) cisco, who had had service in the Span- Ashby, 612 Av. E., Ft. Madison, Iowa. ish-American War. She was Miss Caro- 15TH Engrs. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion. R. L. Magazine Repeating Razor Co 49 Knight, 224 N. Aiken Av.. Pittsburgh, 6, Pa. line Foote of St. Luke's Hospital in Chi- 21st Encrs. L. R. Soc.—Annual reunion. Chas. L. Schaus, secy.-treas., 325-47th St., McCleary Clinic 53,63 cago. I had known no one in service and Union City, N. J., or J. M. Kellner, pres., R. 7, she did much to allay my feeling of Oakwood Manor, Pontiac, Mich. Miller Brewing Co 43 23d Engrs. Assoc.—Annual natl. reunion. uncertainty in my new undertaking. For copy Highiray Life, write Jim P. Henrik- sen, 2922 N. Kilbourn Av., Chicago, 111. "The night before the snapshot was 26th Engrs.—Annual reunion. Write to Lt. made, the nurses of Mesves and Mars Lucien G. Hughes, Box 252, New Orleans, La. Ostrex 59 1st Gas Regt. (30th Engrs.) —Annual re- Hospital Centers had been invited to a union. Write A. William Tiemann, chmn., 401 Decatur St., New Orleans, La. dance given by the officers of the Motor 56th (Searchlight) Engrs.—Annual reunion. W. B. Bobbins, secy.-treas., 80 Centra] Pacific National Fire Insurance Co 4 Transport Corps in Nevers. During the St. Hudson, Mass. evening I noticed a nurse sitting apart Cos. D & E, 114th Sup. Trn.—Reunion. W. Page, E. R ..60 Co. D, Batesville, Ind. from the others. I went to speak with W. Bloemer, Co. Clerk, Motor Transp. Co. 389 (formerly #18 Train) Pleasant Valley Wine Co 59 her and there being something familiar —Reunion. Write Lewis Kibbard, 612 W. Wash- ington Av., Ionia, Mich. about her, I inquired if she was Miss Reunion and lunch- Polident 53 Scott Field, Sqdrn. D— ion. Orleans. J. E. Jennings, chmn., 909 Foote. She looked surprised until I New Main St.. Texarkana, Tex., Ark. Pulvex 59 asked if she remembered a frightened Club Camp Hosp. 52—Reunion. Mrs. Estelle Swanton, chmn., 2100 Adams St., New Orleans, nurse on a train in 1. replied 191 She that La., or Albert I. Almand, pres., 333 Holderness I looked anything but frightened at our St., S. W.. Atlanta, Ga. Quebec Tourist Bureau 61 U. S. S. Charleston—Reunion of crew. O. D. second encounter. Turner, U. S. Naval Base, Algiers, La., or A. H. Russell, Three Rivers, Tex. "I recall, too, that a group of enter- U. S. S. DeKalb Last Man's Club—Reunion, tainers was due to arrive at Base 89 to New Orleans, Sept. 21. Ted Stolp, secy., 5404 Rain & Hail Insurance Bureau 61 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa., or Claude Mc- put on a show. While I was making my Clintock, 4320 Tennyson St., Denver Colo. S. S. Presidetit Grant & U. S. S. Pequot— Reeves Bros., Inc 61 rounds in the afternoon, a soldier went U. Reunion of crews. A. M. Walker, 122 Union St., to the Red Cross hut of our Center and Bay St. Louis. Miss. Regalia Mfg. Co 59 U. S. S. Nashville—Reunion of crew. New asked if the leading lady was there. Orleans, Sept. 21. Floyd Terry, DeRidder, La. Jackson Barracks (New Orleans) Pro- Remington Arms Co 45 He was directed to my office, where — posed reunion of 1916-17 vets. Write Louis C. he repeated his inquiry. It developed that Schulte. Dept. Treas., 814 Mercantile Trust R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. he Bldg., Baltimore, Md. Camels Cover IV had been told to ask for the Chief Canadian Soldiers from U.S.A.—Proposed Nurse to get something he wanted—but reunion and organization. L. M. Evans, Moore's Bridge, Ala. he asked for the 'leading lady' instead! That title of Leading Lady remained Sani-Flush 57 REUNIONS and activities at times and with me during the remainder of my - places other than those at the Scholl Mfg. Co 57 service in the A. E. F." Legion National Convention, follow: Seagram Distillers Corp 47 ANNOUNCED in the Editorial Soc. OF 1ST Div., N. E. Branch—25th anni- State of Tennessee 63 AS versary reunion and dinner, Westboro Country . Page, the Legion National Con- Club, Westboro, Mass., June 27. Henry J. Gro- vention for 1942 will not be held in New gan, secy., 73 Summer St., Hyde Park, Mass. Soc. OF 3d Div.—Annual national reunion, Orleans, Louisiana, Thompson Bros. Boat Mfg. Co 60 but in some Mid- Rochester, N. Y., July 9-11. Ted Dash, chmn., Western city that was to be selected by 2493 East Av., Rochester. Soc. OP 5th Div.—Silver Jubilee reunion, a telegraphic poll of National Executive Akron, Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Elmer Taylor, secy.- treas., 2124 18th St., S. W., Akron, will furnish Western Cartridge Co 55 Committeemen on May 9th. The con- details and copy of regimental roster.

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Yankee (26th) Div. Vets. Assoc. —Annual 56th Pioneer iNF. Assoc.—11th annual re- national convention-reunion, Springfield, Mass., union, Smithfield, N. C, Aug. 1-2. James K. June 25-28. Dennis J. Brunton, ehmn., 42 Dunn, secy., 723 Uth St., New Brighton, Pa. Ranney St., SprinRfield. Co. F, 2d Pioneer Inf.— For company roster, Soc. OP 28th Uiv.— Vets of Keystone Div. brief history and reunion plans, summer 1942, contact old friends through joining your So- write F. M. Colvin, 529 Broadway, Albany, ciety. Lambert J. Sullenberger, natl. V. P., 535 N. Y. S. Lime St., Lancaster, Pa. 139th F. A.—21st annual reunion, Evansville, 29th (Blue & Gray) Div. Assoc.—Annual Ind., Oct. 3-4. Banquet, Oct. 3, at Funkhauser reunion, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 5-7. For details, Post (A.L.) Home. Floyd Anderson, secy., write Wm. C. Nicklas, 4318 Walther Av., Bal- Elizabethtown, Ind. timore. 1ST Corps Art. Park Vets.—Annual reunion, 29th (Blue & Gray) Div. Assoc.—For mem- Pittsburgh, Pa., July 4-5. Emory Jamison, 1905 bership, official publication and information Charles St., Wellsburg, W. Va. about 29th Div. Medal, write Earle McGowan, Natl. Amer. R. R. Transp. Corps, AEF nat. adjt., 1383 Rittenhouse St., N. W., Wash- Annual reunion, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 1-3. G. J. ington, D. C. Murray, natl. adjt., 11231A W. Locust St., Scranton, Pa. Vets. 13th Encrs.—Annual reunion, St. Joseph, Mo., June 19-21. Jas A. Elliott, secy.- treas., 721 E. 21st St., Little Rock, Ark. our' Aiof m 15th Engrs. Mothers and Wives—25th re- p'l^oa mean \?'a dm , sadof union and picnic for 15th Engrs. vets and families. West View Park, Pittsburgh, Pa., Not in ouf YOUnSELF Sat., June 27. Free eats—supper at 5 P. M. Mrs. mdMer uuair Neda M. Duncan, secy., 1238 S. Braddock Av., Swissvale, Pa. IN 19th (Engrs. Ry.) Assoc.—Annual reunion, nE'CnWATiONAL Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 12. Write Francis P. Conway, 4414 Sansom St., Philadelphia. 23d Engrs., Central States—Stag reunion. ^NESSEE Lemon Park, Indian Lake, Vicksburg, Mich., June 20-21. R. S. Cowan, 12715 Northlawn Av., Climb the mile-high peaks of the Great

Detroit, Mich. Smoky Mountains . . . ride Tennessee 26th Engrs., So. Calif. Branch—Annual re- Walking Horses through bluegrass hills union, Los Angeles, Calif., in Dec. For date and and peaceful valleys . . . visit shrines other details, write Sgt. Alvah B. Dean, 2022 and battlefields that tell of the great- W. 82d St., Los Angeles. ness of the Nation. Fishing, swimming, 34th Engrs.— 14th annual reunion, Dayton, boating, camping, hiking, riding—what- Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Alfred Koch, pres., 257 Vir- ever your preference—you'll find it ginia Av., Dayton, or George Remple, secy.- ideal in Tennessee, and economical. treas., 2523 N. Main St., Dayton. State-inspected accommodations every- 37th Engrs., San Francisco-Oakland Chap. where. Send for the big, free, colorful —Annual banquet, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. book illustrating and describing re- 14. G. J. Vergnes, Room 347, Blake Block, 1121 creational Tennessee. Washington St., Oakland. (Motion pictures in 16 mm Kodachrome 52d Engrs. Assoc.—6th annual reunion, available to cluhs and organizations.) Penn-Beaver Hotel, Rochester, Pa., July 25-27. J. A. Bell, 412 E. Leasure Av., New Castle, Pa. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 61ST R. R. Engrs. —5th annual reunion, 857 State Office Bldg., Nashville Louisville, Ky., June 19-21. E. M. Soboda, natl. secy., 932 Roscoe St., Green Bay, Wise. 308th Engrs. Vet. Assoc.—22d annual reunion, Newark, Ohio, Aug. 1-2. Write Lee W. ^e^^^^ TENNESSEE Staffler, secy., Sandusky, Ohio. 320th F. S. Bn., Cos. A, B & C—Annual reunion, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 14. Write A. 32d Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, W. Ward, Rm. 312, 564 Market St., Morrison Hotel, Chicago, Sept. 5-6. Lester San Fran- 111., cisco. Free Book On Benston, chmn., 205 Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Air Serv. Vets. Assoc. Annual reunion 33d Div. War Vets. Assoc.—Annual reunion, — of vets of all Air-Service branches. Hotel Kenmore, Many Ailments Morrison Hotel, Chicago, 111., June 19-21. Write Boston, Mass., June 21. (Transferred from New John H. Plattner, secy., Morrison Hotel, room is good news. 122-page, Orleans.) Claire W. Britton, chmn.. St., Here A new 508, Chicago. Ware Mansfield, Mass. up-to-the-minute book Piles, Fistula 37th Div. A.E.F. Vets. Assoc.—24th annual on Natl. Assoc. reunion, Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 5-7. Write Jas. USAAC —Silver Anniversary and other related rectal and colon ail- convention for USAAC'S and A.F.S. vets, A. Sterner, 1101 Wyandotte Bldg., Columbus, ments—will be sent free for the asking. Ohio. AUentown, Pa., July 30-Aug. 2. Walter H. Davison, chmn., 526 N. Berks St., AUentown, It may save you much suffering, as well Rainbow (42d) Div. Vets. —Natl, reunion, or Wilbur P. Hunter, natl. adjt., Orlando, Fla., July 13-15. Barney J. Sullivan, 5321 Ludlow as time and money. Write today—nam- reunion chmn., Court House, Orlando. St., Philadelphia, Pa. Ask about free USAAC McCleary Clinic, Referencf Book Directory. ing ailments—to The 77th Div.—For information about 77th Div. & Base Hosp. 65 (Kerhuon Center) C666 Elms Blvd., Excelsior Springs, Mo. World War Serv. Medal, write Walter J. Bald- —Annual reunion, Greensboro, N. Sept. win, secy., 28 E. 39th St., New York City. C, 7. Roy C. 80th Div. Vets. Assoc.—25th anniversary Millikan, Greensboro, N. C. Ex-patients write also. reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 6-9. Mark R. Med. Dept., Hosp. The American Legion Byrne, natl. secy., 212 Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh, Base Trng. Center, Camp Lee, Va. Annual Pitt Hotel, Pa. — reunion. Fort National Headquarters 89th Div. Soc.—Reunion, Wichita, Kans., Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 9. H. W. Colston, secy., 1357 New York Av., N. E., Washington, D. C. Sept. 5. H. N. Wallis, pres., 3402 East Elm, Indianapolis, Indiana Wichita. Evac. Hosp. No. 13, AEF—23d annual reunion. Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Md., 89th Div. Vets. Soc.—Annual reunion in con- Financial Statement Sept. 5-7. junction with Calif. Legion Dept. Conv., Los Write Chas. P. Sohn, pres., 417 W. Conway St., Baltimore. Angeles, in Aug. For date and details, write March 31, 1942 Comdr. Sidney M. Schallmann, 1106 S. Broad- Pasadena Amb. Co. 1 (Sec. 563-4-5-6, way, Los Angeles. USAAS) —Reunion, Pasadena, Calif., June 13. D. 60th Inf.—Reunion, Akron, Ohio, Sept. 5-7. C. Clearwater, Pacific Palisades, Calif. Assets A. L. Bradbury, 478 E. Exchange St.. Akron. 349th Amb. Corps, 88th Div.—25th anniver- 309th Inf.—Dedication 309 memorial win- sary reunion, Denver, Colo., June 27. Vets of Cash on hand and on deposit "> 633,235.64 dow, Ft. Dix chapel, June. For details, Walter 313 S. T. also invited. Frank Morris, 203 Accounts receivable 66,181.14 G. Bennett, 410 36th St., Union City, N. J. Guardian Vault Bldg., Denver. Inventories 120.142,15 314th Inf. Vets. AEF—Annual convention, 118th Amb. Co., 30th Div.—Annual reunion. Invested funds 2,679,029.65 Scranton, Pa., Sept. 25-27. G. E. Hentschel, Canton, N. C, Aug. 6-7. Mrs. Chas. Mease, Permanent investment: secy., 1845 Champlost Av., Philadelphia, Pa. secy.. Canton. OvcrseasGraves Decoration Trust Fund 2 13,998.75 Also annual Summer Family Picnic, Palisades North Sea Mine Force Assoc.—For mem- Office Building, Washington, D. C, less Inter-State Park, in Aug. Chas. M. Stimpson, bership and details 1942 reunion. New York depreciation 125,304.31 secy., 1670 Sheepshead Bay Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y. City, in Oct., write J. Frank Burke, natl. secy., Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less 332D Inf. Assoc. (incl. 331st F. H.) —21st 3 Bantror Rd., West Roxbury, Mass., or Arthur depreciation 44.462.43 annual reunion. Canton, Ohio, Sept. 5-6. A. A. J. Pertsch, chmn.. Cotton Exchange, 60 Beaver Deferred charges 48,347.52 Grable, secy.. Canton. St., New York City. 353d (all Kansas) Inf. Soc—25th Anniver- U. S. S. Burrows W. W. Assoc.—Annual re- 3.030.701.50 sary Reunion, Wichita, Kans., Sept. 5-6. For de- union-dinner. New York City, Oct. 11. P. E. taila, write John C. Hughes, secy., 329 East Cocchi, secy., 25 Maiden St., Springfield, Mass. Avenue B, Hutchinson, Kans. Natl. Assoc. U. S. S. Connecticut Vets.—6th Co. F, 311th Inf.—Biennial reunion, Buffalo, convention and reunion-dinner. New York City, Liabilities, Deferred Revenue N. Y., Sept. 19. For details, write H. W. Oct. 3. Fay Knight, shipswriter, 22 Jane St., Flckenscher, 57 Cambridge Av., Buffalo. Closter, N. J. and Net Worth 108th M. G. Bn.—Reunion, Pine Grove, Pa., U. S. S. Iowa—6th reunion. Lake Aquilla, Chardon, Ohio, July 26. Wendell R. Lerch, July 25-26. Phil Howard, actg. secy., 322 S. 17th Current liabilities f 68,261.09 secy., 348 Front St., Berea, Ohio. St., Reading, Pa. Funds restricted as to use 33.227.39 Marine Corps League Natl. Convention, 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Annual re- — Deferred revenue 570,368.48 Chicago, 111., Sept. 2-5. Hq. at Hotel Sherman. union, Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. Permanent trust: conv. 1450 Jack- 6. Joel T. Johnson, secy., 411 Essex Bldg., Anthony J. Marchi, chmn., W. OvcrseasGraves Decoration Trust Fund 2 13,998.75 Minneapolis. son Blvd., Chicago; Mrs. Olyse Marchi, Aux. chmn. Net Worth: 51ST Pioneer Inf. Assoc.—19th annual re- Restricted capital |2,645,681 .00 Reserve Mallet, Vets.—6th annual reunion, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Sept. 13. Write AEF Unrestricted capital... 399,164.88 3,044,845.88 John G. Buckley, Vassar Road, Wappingers union, in Ohio, June 13-14. For place and other Falls, N. Y. details, write Paul C. Maroney, natl. secy., 3.030.701.59 52d Pioneer Inf., AEF—Annua! reunion. Chelsea, Mich. Hotel Governor Clinton. New York City, Nov. John J. Noll 14. Write Edw. J. Pollak, 331 Tecumseh Av., Natio?tal Adjutant Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The Company Clerk Frank E. Samuel, 63 lULY, 19+:: Whtn Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Legion Magazine conclavination. You see, our Grand All- grim and morose. He was usually a Powerful Invincible Most Supreme Un- cheerful chap and the boys from his conquerable Potentate done got beat up home town knew there was something by his wife." out of joint. In answer to their questions he told them that his family was ABIG motor car purred down the okay, but that he'd had a bust with his highway. A group of soldiers were best girl. "I found her at church with huddled at the roadside. Daylight was another fellow," he said. "That was all waning, fading into deep dusk, but what- right, but the thing that burned me up

Alabama, who is also chainnan of a Local Draft Board, had a knotty puzzle when he came to look over the ques- tionnaire of a registrant marked single, married, widower and divorced. Calling the prospective soldier for examination, he wanted to know how come? "Cap'n, that's correct, true as I'm born," insisted the registrant. "I'se been single, I'se been married, I'se been divorced, I'se been married again, and now I'se a widower. Every word is right as can be."

PAST Department Commander John C. Vivian, now Lieutenant Gov- ernor of Colorado, got a chuckle out of the story of the henpecked husband who evaded his wife long enough to get into the Army. In this case, however, absence did not make the heart grow fonder: the wife continued with a long series of letters, each one filled with advice, admonition, complaints and criticism. Then his outfit was moved to France. Feeling a greater safety in distance, the soldier looked over a dozen or more unanswered screeds and, in a burst of bravery worthy of a better cause, he sat himself down to answer all at once. "Dear Lettie," he wrote, "don't send ever it was these were engaged in was she was sittin' close and he was me no more naggin' letters. They don't men it held their complete and undivided fannin' her with his exemption papers." do no good. I'm 3,000 miles away from attention. The lone occupant of the car, home and I want to fight this war in a portly bursts, wife peace." man of evident means and a "T HOPE you like my my philanthropic disposition, ordered the JL would like some new duds," wise- chauffeur to stop. cracks Len Williams of Cordova, Il- ""VTO, SAH! I didn't go to no lodge "Can I help you, boys?" he asked. linois, when sending in a few oldies. Jl\| meeting last night," announced "Anything I can all out for the Sub-Grand Kingfish as he started to do? I'm defense, you know." story of the Three Bears is as wash a car. "We had to postpone dat THE "That's swell, buddy," answered one old as any bedtime stories, but here of the lads. "Come over here and bring is a streamlined version from Oklahoma. your flashlight with you, if you want The three bears were traveling from to help defense. Just hold that light Oklahoma to Texas. A big cactus had steady while we go on with this crap grown up in the pathway. Mother bear game." tried to jump over it, but fell right on the toughest, stickiest part, and before she rEGIONSON Elmer Schiefer of Sag- got up she said "Ouch!" Father beai jnaw, Michigan, opines that the tried to jump over the cactus. He fell meanest man he ever heard of was the on it, got stuck by the long needles and one that put a thumb-tack on the seat yelled "Ouch!" Baby bear fell on the of an electric chair. cactus, but he didn't say "Ouch" at all. So mother bear said: "I guess he must AYOUNG man got part-time employ- be one of these dead-end kids." . ment at Skinner's Mortuary in a neighboring town, writes F. E. Breeding ""VTOW, there has been a lot of talk of Loyal Service Post, McAlIen, Texas. J.\| about hoarding food supplies," His mother had forgotten the name of casually remarks Kendall Bass of Cas- the outfit, and she was horrified when sadaga (Florida) Post, "but what are he phoned: "Mother, I'll be pretty late you going to do about this: There's a gettmg home tonight. A lady just died store in a neighboring town with a sign here and I'm going to help Skinner." on it: W. E. Hyde, Meat and Gro- ceries." And here's one that comes from W. xA. S. Hughes of Goad-Ballinger Post, YOUNGSTER from the city, vis- "Instead of being allowed to go A Springfield, Missouri. A young soldier iting his country cousin, saw his fight in the war I have to stay wangled a furlough for himself and, first chestnut burr. "Lookee," he yelled, home and hear pop analyze it" after a few days, returned to his station, "here's a porcupine egg!"

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GERMANS OR JAPS, storms or ice . . . you've got to be ready for anything when you're flying the big bombers across the ocean to the battle-front. You bet you want steady nerves. These two veterans above are Camel smokers. (Names censored by Bomber Ferry Command.) The captain (nearest camera), a Tennessean, says: "I smoke a lot in this

job. I stick to Camels. There's less nicotine in the smoke. And Camels taste great!

STEADY SMOKERS STICK TO CAMELS There's LESS NICOTINE in the smoke

The smoke of slower-burning Camels contains 28% less nicotine than the average of the 4 other largest- selling brands tested— less than any of them—according to independent scientific tests of the smoke itself!

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company IN My NEW Winston- Salem. North Carolina WITH THESE MEN 'WHO FLY BOMBERS, it's Camels all the DEFENSE JOB, LESS time. The co-pilot of this crew (name censored), (second from NICOTINE IN THE left, above) says: "I found Camels a milder, better smoke for SMOKE IS IMPORTANT me in every way. And that grand flavor never wears out its wel- TOME. I STICK come." Yes, in times like these when there's added tension and TO CfKtV^ELS strain for everyone, steady smokers stick to Camels—the cigarette with less nicotine in the smoke.

FIRST IN THE SERVICE- The favorite cigarette with men in the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and the Coast Guard is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in Post Exchanges, Sales Commissaries, Ship's Service Stores, Ship's Stores, and Canteens.) -AND THE FAVORITE AT HOME!