North Carolina Fires Broadside Lad of Dunkirk
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Page Foiff Beasley’s Farm and Home Weekly, Charlotte, N, C., September '4, 1941. Page Four 1 farmer in this situation is to let him Oahu, Tiny Pacific Isle, share in the iiiHation. Pul NORTH CAROLINA Let Congress provide 32c for cot LAD OF DUNKIRK Has U. S. Military Value *FIRST-AID* Tripping Feet lott ton, $2.19 for wheat, etc. Modern military history has a Meat and Drink Cor Let it provide for relative prices strange chapter for the quiet, al to the FIRES BROADSIDE between what the farmer sells and THUMBS A RIDE most primitive, northwestern shore Bt CLAUDIA MAY FEHHIN Ent what he buys. line of Oahu, now considered the AILING HOUSE By OSCAR EKLUND By ROGER B. WHITMAN S) McCluie Newspaper Syndicate. of t Great New Battleship Turns In this way only can national de Curly Headed Boy Who Went United States’ outflung barrier WNU Service. (Released by Associated Newspaper* fense be achieved. against any attack upon tlie main WNU Service.) Loose All Guns and One Through Hell in France Gets land. {© Roger B. Whitman—WNU Service.) Eas Salvo Cost $23,000 Educating Fish to Run Over the a Lift to Americus Almost untouched by the- moder Digging a Cellar. LZENA STOKES was proud of Big River Dams nity of Honolulu, 30 mile^ distant, UESTION; I intend digging a cel A her record as a dancer. Light T UCIA simply couldn’t resist the Sut the people of this strategic military Q lar under the kitchen. The of foot and apt in rhythm, she was ^ temptation to stand for a while , When the first salva was fired from Henry McLemore, in the Atlanta sought as a partner by many whose before the gorgeously decorated win the great new battleship, the North STARTS ON PAGE ONE Journal, tells about picking up a boy tangent are peaceful fishermen and bungalow is supported by eight con I crete piers. The plot is near a lake social rating set the dows of the building which she had Thi Carolina, somewhere out at ,§ea, the on the road as he was driving towards small farmers. They include vir Associated Press had one of its crack gress wasn’t sure and insisted >on ele Americus, Ga. It was, he says, a tually aU of Hawaii’s varied races. and composed entirely of sand. pace of the country been in such haste to reach. She Cha vators to haul up the fish who would SHORT side. Among these had boarded the 7:30 downtoAyn car ten writers there to record the event. hot afternoon, even for South Geor Tht military’ important “north Would you suggest concrete block or He was John A. Moroso 3rd. not go up under their own power. gia. The sun had driven the field poured concrete? Would the caving were the Norths, a in order to be among the first to serl Well, the fish go up—both ways. They shore” lies on the windward side of SHORT family boasting enter the doors, yet here she stood Standing on the windswept fore hands to the shade of the trees, and the island, a low coral-sand shore in of the sand be too much of a haz rec< castle of this mighty ship, he writes, have the homing instinct of college the hound dogs curled under the cab three young people, transfixed as usual by the beauty alumni. Jim hauled up a load while I line, sometimes bitterly lashed by ard? Do you think the cellar would I saw and heard Uncle Sam’s sailop ins, panting out loud. be too damp to use? Would like in STORY with easy money to displayed in the windows. Stand E fire the greatest salvo from one ship was there for my special benefit. The corn stalks looked too hot to heavy seas. l*^o the westward, the keep the trio moving ing in bold relief was an old Chi fan 3,800 an Hour extreme tip of the island, Kaena formation on the easiest and cheap in naval history—a collective blast touch, and the dust lay heavy on est way of doing this. forward. nese vase; Lucia knew nothing of its and that sent more than 20,000 pounds Fish are tricked into the elevator trees and bushes. The boy was five point, is a blunt green cliff. Scho- It was a privilege unusual to value—that its reign mark showed Cha of metal from the flame-belching through their instinct to head up miles short of town when I picked ^eld barracks, the country’s largest Answer: My preference is for a dance with Willard North. He was it to be a genuine Ming—but she beli muzzles of 19 glistening grey guns. stream. They get into the elevator, him up. He was trudging along the jhiilitary post, isf located a few miles poured concrete cellar. If there is a splendid fellow on his feet, pre did know that its old green enamel thrc Making a new era in the hitting wonder what it’s all about, and then clay road all buttoned up in the any danger of the sand “caving in,” sumably because so much leieure against that background of dark blue tues power of fighting ships, this terrific the rear is closed and they are hoist heavy khaki work suit of a Royal Military officials decline to specify the sides should be shored up with and salvo sent men reeling blindly across Air Force cadet. and hilarity since boyhood had giv drapery was a thing of beauty which ed. Salmon have gone over Bonne ithe sections of the island considered boards. As to dampness in the cel en him little else to think about. satisfied some need within her, A COW! the slippery, spray-drenched deck ville at the rate of 3,800 an hour. In He was a curly-headed boy, about most vulnerable to invasion, but the lar, much will depend on the quality stuf while I clutched my cotton-padded my load Jim pointed out two kinds of 20 or 21, with red cheeks and a shy Alzena experienced a thrill of de jolly, fat, round pewter bowl, of proximity of Schofield barracks and of the concrete and the drainage light every time he requested a which she .was particularly fond, ears and thought of hell and heaven. salmon, a big carp, a cod or two. Al grin. He said his name was Maurice qualities of the soil. The Portland ' Rccoil Jars Ship so a big eel who obviously didn’t Latham, and that he came from a the location of tactical exercises in number. was still there, and a duck of an* NO dicate the importance of the “north Cement association, Chicago, lU., The majestic bow of the 85,000-ton like the experience at all and resent farm just outside of Oxford, Eng The outstanding difficulty was of old tea-caddy with brass handles ed the lift. There are some people land, and that he wondered how his shore.” can furnish you with printed matter a peculiar nature. There were more and an ivory knob; some wonderful' A1 North Carolina—one of the Navy’s on this subject. flict two newest and largest battleships like eels. This one threshed around a family was getting along, because he Other low sections of the island, women than men in that locality, goblets—Jacobite had she but known l>rou. —quivered sharply to port and star- while and finally made its way off at hadn’t heard from them since he some virtually uninhabited, were Removing Wallpaper. three to one. If a half-dozen young it—a pink luster tea-set and an old* ' board, the ship gave a slight list and the upper level, threatening to write came over with 50 other English similarly “protected” by mobilized Question: I should like to have fellows from a near-by village sampler with exquisite stitchery., ly th settled quickly as the shells scream a letter to its congressman. Salmon boys to train for combat fighting. Iroops during war games. your formula for removing old wall chanced to drive across country to How she .loved them all! She had tian won’t travel at night, so Jim gets A half-mile of silence. “Think you ed into the night air. The “north shore” fronts steamer paper. one of the parties, the anxieties of formed the habit of coming to these ly th some sleep. will like fighting?” I asked. “I’m the hostess were lightened ten-fold. Crew members and guests sent up So much for the elevator. A little quite sure I won’t, but I’d like an and airship lanes to the Orient. Its Answer: Old wallpaper can be re windows every time she had occa been a mighty cheer when they learned farther along the .dam there is a sort other try at it.” residents, including many of Orient moved by a thorough soaking with Some of the girls were sufficiently sion to visit this downtown section.: year; that the North Carolina had passed of box, like a large telephone booth, War Not New to Him al descent, long have been accus warm water to soften and free the accommodating to dance two by Time had flown faster than sh® her tests. No one had known how she built over the “ladder.” A sign says— paste. A handful of washing soda two; but the love-lorn pined, and realized and so it was that upon has I would react because never had such “You’ve fought before, then,” I tomed to military activity.