The American Legion Magazine [Volume 55, No. 1 (July 1953)]

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THE AMERICAN SEE PAGE 14 . . . FIFTH COLUMN LEGION IN RUSSIA MAGAZINE By EUGENE LYONS JULY 1953 .

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Three of your hair's ii:<;i<»\ CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1953 worst enemies are summer sun, wind and water. They dry your THE MAN WITH A .38 (fiction) 11 C. scalp . . . make hair BY WALTER BROWN dull, hard to keep There are times when bullets aren't important. down. But amazing V-7, new greaseless FIFTH IN 14 grooming agent in COLUMN RUSSIA Vitalis Hair Tonic, BY EUGENE LYONS guards against this Why the Kremlin fears the Russian people. damage. This month's cover portrays not just a safe and sane Fourth, MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE 16 but adds what is often BY ROBERT SCHARFF Outdates messy oils neglected, patriotism. Air conditioning is now within the reach of millions.

V-7 is a completely POSTMASTER: Please new kind of grooming send copies returned WILL THE VETERAN FIGHT THE NEXT WAR TOO? .... 18 agent. Not an animal, under labels Form 3S79 to Post Office Box BY LEWIS K. GOUGH vegetable or mineral 1055, Indianapolis 6, The National Commander discusses inequities. oil. V-7 was devel- Indiana. oped especially to overcome disadvan- The American tegion SHOOTING FOR PENNIES 20 tages of various Magazine is the official BY JACK DENTON SCOTT publication The Ameri- messy oils. of can tegion and is ov/ned Ways in which you can shoot more for less money. exclusively by The Ameri- can tegion. Copyright 1953 by The American THEY SCREAMED FOR JUSTICE 22 Your hctir stays tegion. Published month- ly at 1 100 W. Broadway, BY S. ANDHIL FINEBERG Louisville, Ky. Acceptance The propaganda for the Rosenbergs is world-wide. neater all day for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in

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a bottle of new 30, 1 948, at the Post Vitalis with V-7 Office at Louisville, Ky. under the Act of March THE LEGION IN PICTURES 38 today. 3, 1879. Non-member sub- How the camera saw your organization last month. scriptions should be sent to the Circulation Depart- ment of The American THE NATIONAL LEGIONNAIRE 29-36 tegion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. EXECUTIVE AND Ventures ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES SOUND OFF! 4 ROD AND GUN CLUB. . . 28 Indianapolis 6, Indiana 6 NEWSLETTER 41 EDITORIAL AND EDITOR'S CORNER ADVERTISING PRODUCTS PARADE .... 8 PARTING SHOTS 64 580 Fifth Avenue

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ENCOMPASSED EVERYTHING and schools throughout the Nation, (b) the Daily Worker, which used to list Sir: Warmest congratulations on The Lester Granger quite favorably, lias also Movies and The American Legion (May attacked such characters as Anna Louise issue.) 1 have often pondered the seeming- Strong and Earl Browder, and (c) Mr. ly impossible task of presenting the story Granger in his day has publicly sponsored of all that has happened (during the red not just a few but a great many of the infiltration of the movies.) I more than most dangerous communist fronts. Mr.

once . . . concluded that it was a rather Granger now makes much ado about his hopeless task. You have encompassed rather recent anti-communism; but it is the everything within the confines of a few welfare-staters of his persuasion among

pages . . . with extraordinary clarity not w hom the commies have always recruited unmixed with . . . human understanding. their victims and dupes. Like an ideologi-

. . . Nothing I have ever told our people cal dervish Mr. Granger manages to be at Columbia presents the problem as you anti-anti-communist even today, as his have written it. gratuitous attack on Joe McCarthy of May Nate li. Spingold 5, 1953 proves. You can have Lester Gran- Vice President, ger. I'll take Joe McCarthy. Columbia Pictures Corp. Felix Wittmer New York City Upper Montclair, N. J.

r JSt Sir: Mr. Lester Granger states that Felix Wittmer is not always able to recognize "other anti-communists'' because of his characterization of "Urban League." Mr. (hanger says it is an anti-communist organization. Is this the same Lester Granger of New York who was on the executive STEVE NEEDS MONEY board of "Associated Film Audiences" cited Sir: There must be some reds working here as a communist front in "Guide to Subver-

since I recently received this letter over sive Organizations and Publications"? Is

Steve Nelson's signature. I suppose you tli is the same person who was on the edi- know about this man since his name ap- torial board of the communist periodical, peared in the magazine where he was listed Social Work Today as stated in the 1948- as a spy. 4th Report of California Un-American Ac- Name Withheld tivities? I've never seen the Daily Worker Norfolk, Nebr. to which Mr. Granger refers his evidence,

1 obliged to refer to T The form Idler hearing the signature of and lacking that, am Only 'Vaseline' reports. Do my rec- Cream this notorious communist was a plea lor State and Government Hair Tonic has it ! the wrong Lester Granger? funds to keep him out ol jail. Maybe Nel- ords refer to Viratol — * the special Robert T. Porter son doesn't understand why was con- compound that makes he Sr. Petersburg, Fla. hair look, feel natural victed because he whines, "I was given a twenty-year sentence affiliated . . . stay in place for lor possessing hooks. T Lester Granger was formerly

hours. Try it today. . . . All this was done by the Pittsburgh with communist fronts. Editors You'll be amazed ." how McCarthy's . . If you want to read about long that fresh-combed this infamous red, we refer you to Steve look lasts and lasts. Nelson: Unwelcome Guest which we pub- 'Vaseline' Cream Hair lishd in February, 1950. Nelson should have Tonic conlainsTriple-A Lanolin, too... homog- been in jail long before then, and not "for enized for easy (low. possessing hooks." Editors

ANSWERS GRANGER DOGS AND HORSES Sir: In > our May issue, Lester B. Granger

contends (a) that the Urban League, which Sir: I read with great interest the article in he represents, is not powerful, (b) that the your May issue entitled Are They Ruining Vaseline Daily Worker's attacks on the League Our Dogs? Nor only are they ruining our trade mark® prove the latter's anti-communism, and (c) dogs but they are also ruining our horses.

that I am "not always able to recognize T ennessee is famous for irs Walking Horses CREAM HAIR TONIC other anti-communists." May I point our but w hen you see one with its broken tail that (a) the Urban League has sent its (to make it look stylish) you hope they VASELINE is the registered trade mark socialistic speakers to conferences, forums keep plenty of Flit handy. Why does man of the Chesebrough Mfg. Company, Cons'd 4 • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 cry to improve on the works of The Mak- themselves—but never willing to grant it. er? You would find material for a sick- Thomas E. Law ening article if you would go behind the Yonkcrs, N. Y. scenes of horse shows and witness the IT TAKES^HOLES doping, the freezing of legs, and other THE PEOPLE WHO PLUG UNESCO maltreatment which handlers employ to Sir: Please see McCaWs for May and note make horses "showy." remarks of Eleanor Roosevelt about the TOMAKEAPUNCTURE S. C. Weston UNESCO group and calling those who arc Kingsport, Tarn. against it "fascists and bundists." Or ig-

Sir: I enjoyed exceedingly your article en- norant. Do you permit that woman to call titled Are They Ruining Our Dogs? I your articles and organization such names? agree 100% with the findings of the author, She must know of your stand on UNESCO. Mr. Henry P. Davis, in that all working Her group is promoting UNESCO very and sporting dogs should be bred primarily actively through the UN Association and for their abilities and secondarily for their other phony groups not connected with beauty in the show ring. To me fine breeds the UN, and the facts on UNESCO must of dogs in this country have been ruined be shown up. Having been under attack because of overemphasis in the show ring. from that pink group I know what they C. Irwin Dunn are. I- Stanford Memphis, Tenn. Beaver, Pa.

Sir: First, let me congratulate you on the T Eleanor Roosevelt notwithstanding, The swell article by Henry P. Davis that ap- American Legion officially opposes LINESCO pears in the May issue of The American propagandizing, etc. See pages 29 and ;!0 Legion Magazine entitled Are They Ruin- for particulars. If Mrs. Roosevelt wishes to ing Our Dogs? It was a masterpiece. I have show her annoyance by resorting to what heard more comment about this article than she has described as "McCarthyism" that is any other that ever appeared in the maga- her privilege. Editors zine. W. E. LeGrande

Douglassville, I'a. THAT STALNAKER MATTER

Sir: In the May issue of our magazine there is a letter from Bill Stalnaker on religion which indicates lack of respect and ignor- • Anything that punctures your ance of the great part God has had in the tube must go through your casing. history of the United States of America You have the tube repaired, but

as well as of The American Legion. I lis- what do you do about the FIRST tened to the and "Back to God" program hole . . . the one in the casing? Never was thrilled and felt proud of our Ameri- neglect it! can Legion. It was certainly not an insult Punctures in casings — even small FAN LETTER to any intelligent man's reason! ones — suck up dirt and moisture, Emerson H. Manley Sir: I think the operators of the Legion cause rot, result in blowouts, waste Bellfloiuer, Calif. Magazine are a bunch of skunks. They are thousands of tire miles. In these not kind, Sir: If this Bill Stalnaker is a Legionnaire considerate and merciful but in- days of having to make tire mileage stead are brutal, tough, pugnacious and as he claims, would suggest that he take his stretch, it's important to you to get unforgiving. And another thing please keep current membership card and read The all the tire service you can. your big nose out of religion and politics. Preamble to the Constitution . . . "For ." It takes TWO holes to make a You'll print this of course?? Ha! God and country . . Name Withheld Edward M. Edcl puncture . . . always have BOTH (Because I'm afraid of your Hempstead, N. Y. repaired. brown, black or silver shirts.) San Francisco. NO BARGAINS IN EUROPE Sir: It was with a great deal of pleasure PR/VF tN THIS IS "ACADEMIC FREEDOM" that I read the article by Karl Baarslag,

I mtmy

ist. By keeping his cars open and asking ...... lias greater cause than I to know what the equipment and "know how." "new educators" mean by "academic free- a few questions, he can come home with Take your tire troubles to him and all the answers without even trying. dom." I am the author of a book titled Get be in dependable hands. Raymond V. Lantzy Out, Dr. Fogg. It deals with the unques- It's smart to get periodic tire Spangler, I'a. tionably socialist— and therefore pre-com- checks. Have your Bowes Dealer niunistic—essence of the "new education." Sir: Karl Baarslag should receive the thanks inspect your tires thoroughly "inside The book's publishers cannot get any ad- and Legionnaire congratulations of every and out." When he finds trouble he vertising in the magazines of the "new edu- for li is frank and enlightening article, If ' hai r will fix it and give you many added cators." A teacher organization deprived Have \\ e Bought in Europe? The fact tire miles . . . and SAFETY. of bargaining rights by the New York City that GIs in Europe have available to them Drive in where you see the Hoard of Education as communist-domi- tripe written by communistic writers Bowes

for . . . nated adamantly- refused to carry any of should raise just a few eyebrows. Our Post Emblem Safe Tire Service the book's advertising. Western and Mid- as well as many others would be more than battery cables . . . oil filter cartridges western magazines of the "new education" willing to kick in a few bucks to put The . . . fan belts . . . hose . . . spark did the same thing. This is the concept of American Legion Magazine in all Armed plugs and other accessories . . . for "academic freedom" of the "new educa- Forces information center libraries. "smoother motoring." tors." To them it's a one-way street. W. J. Hamilton BOWES "SEAL FAST" CORP.. INDIANAPOLIS 7. INO. They're always ready to bawl for it for Braintree, Mass. BOWES PACIFIC CORP., RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA The American Legion Magazine • July. 1953 • ^ Advertisement

From where I sit Joe Marsh ^ STOP BAITING TEXAS For some time now the Lone Star State has been taking an unmerciful beating at the hands of radio and television come- dians, cartoonists, novelists, magazine writers, etc. All of them, whether their medium is a two-line gag or a novel as cumber- some as a cinder block, use the same theme.

I he Texan is portrayed as a stupid sort of fellow because of his firm conviction that An Honest Night's Sleep everything in his State is the biggest, best, finest, fastest, prettiest, richest, and so on. So far as we're concerned—more power to the folks from Texas! What's wrong with Slim Johnson, just back from a busi- being proud of the place you come from and showing your pride? Too many people ness trip, tells about a hotel he stayed nowadays arc negative not only when it at one night. comes to their State but to their Nation along with it. Somewhere along the line these smart-alecks have acquired the atti- "/ hit town late and went right to tude that love of country is something the hotel. There was no clerk at the shameful. Patriotism, in their book, is "the last refuge of scoundrels." desk, but there was a sign that said: Maybe it's a mistake to say they acquired this cringing attitude. It is more likely that Tve gone to bed. Rooms are $3. it was sold to them by people much smart- Please take a key. Pay when you er than they. Possibly some of the profs who balked at the $64 question. leave. And I hope that you get a good Now, for a change, how about some jokes about spineless Americans, the crea- nighfs rest.'' tures of negative loyalty? They arc the truly droll ones, in a pathetic sort of way. "Upstairs, the room was real clean, And how about a novel dealing with such the bed comfortable, and I slept like a people? With much less to go on, Edward Everett Hale in 1863 wrote The Man log. Came down in the morning — still Without a Country.

What this country needs is more people no clerk. So I left three dollars at the with the T exas spirit. desk and went on. Can you imagine THE folks that trustful?" BIG SELLOUT

Few people realize it, but a powerful w ar From where I sit, running a hotel of nerves is starting in this country. The propaganda has already begun and it should

on the honor system shows a real trust be fully under way by midsummer. It is

directed at you. .More accurately, it is di- in people. people appreci- And always rected against you. ate being trusted. Letting your neigh- YOU are' going to be pres- sured INTO ADMITTING RED bor follow his personal preference is a CHINA INTO THE UNITED — NATIONS. kind of trust too trusting in his good YOU ARE GOING TO BE PRES- judgment. I like a temperate glass of SURED INTO PERMITTING THE UNITED STATES TO RECOGNIZE beer occasionally, you may prefer RED CHINA. If you think it fantastic that we should buttermilk, but lefs hope neither of us mention any such moves, read on. "registers" a complaint against the The arguments will be powerful. You will be told that we cannot keep the "real other. rulers" of China out of the UN. It will be argued that Great Britain and other countries recognize Red China. The propaganda peddlers will remind you that we set a precedent for this w hen w e recognized Red Russia back in 1933. You will be assured that it will be good for business.

Most potent of all w ill be the argument Copyright, 1953, United Slates Brewers Foundation that only in this way can we have peace. g • The American Lenion Magazine • July, 1953 WHAT IS BACK OF THIS PRES- SURE PROGRAM? Let us never forget that the communists always pull something like this when they are worried. They had Malik propose peace talks in the United Nations in 1951 when we had the red armies on the run in Korea. We fell for it and we know now what fools we were for doing so. Right now the reds are more worried than they were then

because Chiang Kai-shek is reaching a point where he can seriously hurt and eventually destroy the red rulers, and their bloody regime in China. The reds will do anything, make any agreement, even offer us peace on easy terms to prevent this. All we have to do is disarm and thus destroy our anti-communist friends and allies on Formosa. Keep in mind that the Free Chinese there constitute our last hope in Asia. Once they are finished we are through. Through treachery and stupidity, we almost finished the Free Chinese a few years ago. Fortu- nately for us Chiang and his army escaped to Formosa. If we fall for the new propaganda this will be the end of Chiang ami his men. It can mean our end too. Don't forget that the communist master plan has always called for Russian control over a communist China as a preliminary to ruling the world. You can stop this. Be prepared for the propaganda. Don't fall for it. Don't let others fall for it. And above all, don't let your elected representatives fall for it! When you read this red propaganda in magazines and newspapers, as you most assuredly will, protest vigorously and answer it. When the propagandists try to 'It's Uncle Bill, Mommy, and "You've got a new grandson. Dad, reach you by radio or TV, let the stations he's singing 'Happy Birthday'." and Mary 's just fine!" and the networks know you aren't buying the red line. When the lecturers reach your town don't let them go unchallenged. This, we predict, will be the biggest propaganda drive the communists have ever mounted in this country. Note the people who arc willing to shake the bloody hands of the men who have slaughtered our GIs in Korea. Note, too, the people who swing in line with them. Fight them with everything you've got!

NEW BRITISH EXPORT

We arc always impressed at the helpful way our British cousins hasten to advise us crude colonials whenever we overstep the bounds.

The latest shipment of advice from the. You save time and speed your Long Distance calls when you Tight Little Isle is in the form of a book which censures us on the Alger Hiss case. give the operator the number of the telephone you're calling. The author is a British Labor peer who used to have a job in the Chancellery or some such unlikely place, and now pre- Here's a telephone suggestion you'll find helpful. sumably is unemployed. His name escapes Write us but it's some silly thing like Jow els. down the out-of-town numbers you already know. If there's From his lofty vantage point in Albion, his Lordship took time out from problems a new number you don't have — or an old one you've forgot- of Empire to set down his opinions about the Hiss case. He found it a bloomin' shame ten — be sure to add it to the list when the operator gives it the way the poor bounder was booted to you. There's an attractive booklet for about. Done in, don't you know. Not at your telephone all sporting. But just what you'd expect numbers waiting for you at your local Bell Telephone office. from boorish Ameddicans.

Indeed, his Lordship opines that if Hiss had been tried in old limey or blimey he'd be a free man today. In view of the way BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM his Lordship's colleagues ran and run things, he can certainly say that again. Local to serve the community. Nationwide to serve the nation. '^iZz^

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for the saw. The wood to be cut is held along the outer edge of cither unit. Called

the Belruss A litre Box, it sells for $2.25 postpaid. VERSATILE LADDER NEW TYPE ATTIC FAN A new patented ladder which you can build yourself and which takes several dif- A new dual purpose ventilating device,

ferent forms is being offered by the the Attifan, has been announced by Selectric Speicher Ladder Co., of Indianola, la. For Products Co., 2803 Los Flotes Blvd., Lyn-

painting, etc., it can be set up as a flat step wood, Calif. It consists of a high speed

extension ladder. It is also a stairway lad- electric blower lilted into a right-angled air der. It becomes a stepladder, and the sec- control stack. This stack is tapped into ven- tions can be separated for use as two tilating duct which extends from kitchen straight ladders. Shipped completely fab- ceiling to roof in most single-story homes.

ricated but unassembled, the Combo Lad- . Attic air is expelled at high velocity and the der is available in four sizes 10 feet ex- powerful updraft draws stale smoky air out tended 5 feet step, $8.68; 12 feet extended of the kitchen and adjacent rooms. Com- 6 feet step, $9.95; 14 feet extended 7 feet plete kit is $24.95, cash order postpaid. step, $10.95; 16 feet extended 8 feet step, $12.95. All prices f.o.b. factory. COLD BUT COMFORTABLE

For those who like ice cold drinks but FOR HOME IMPROVERS dislike holding chilly glasses, Shoppers The Formica Company, one of the best Mart, Box 240, Fort Dodge, la., has the known names in the plastic field, is making solution in w hat are called Tervis Tum- a strong bid for the fix-it-yourself market blers. These are 10-ounce plastic glasses by means of a new fast-setting adhesive w ith a double w all, and the air space be- called Formica Contact Bond Cement. With tween the w alls keeps the chill in the drink Armstrong's handy this new wonder adhesive, anyone can add and away from the hand. Another advan- JF£££'* 88-page Road Atlas- Formica tops to sinks, counters and furni- tage is that the glasses don't sweat. A set of Radio Guide! Send 10* to cover ture, and do it with only a rolling pin. four in assorted bright colors sells for $5.00, postage. Dept. A-2. Armstrong Clamps and weights arc not required, and postpaid. Rubber Co., West Haven l6,Conn. When writing to manufacturers concerning items described here kindly mention that you read about them in The American Legion Magazine g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 What made Milwaukee change to Blatz ?

Blatz is the beer brewed to today's taste . . . today's

way of living! Completely different from the heavy,

harsh-tasting beers of the past. That's why it's the modern

day favorite in Milwaukee, year after year!

Small wonder the beer capital has changed to Blatz!

You'll wonder why you didn't change sooner!

Don't wonder another minute. Just wander

to your favorite store. Ask for Blatz. Insist on it.

( Why should you take less than Milwaukee's /

finest? ) Your first glass of Blatz will tell

you how lucky you are to be

living in today's modern world. SUITCASE ROCK

U.S. Oilmen Drilled 17,714

Dry Holes in 1952 — Yet found

More Oil Than the Nation Used

Oilmen call it ""suitcase rock," because

when they hit it they know there's no chance of

finding oil with this well. They have drilled a dry hole and might as well pack up and move on.

Last year, during the greatest oil search in

history, oilmen spent huge sums in drilling 17.714 dry holes. Yet, by expanding known fields and exploring entirely new areas, they lound more oil in the U.S. than the nation used.

To find this amount of oil involves risks un- paralleled in any other business. Can you imagine a businessman who has to build nine factories before he gets one that produces goods? Of course not. But that's what the men who drill

for oil must do because the odds againsto bring-o ing in a successful oil well in a promising but

unproven area are 8 to 1 — eight costly dry holes for every single producer.

Yet, year after year. America s privately-

managed oil businesses find more oil in the U. S. than America uses. As long as the chance to earn a profit exists, the men who compete in the search for oil will invest money, plow back earnings and take risks to assure you of ample oil supplies. Has your post seen the exciting free motion

7 picture "Crossroads, U.S.A.' ? If not. write "SUITCASE ROCK" MEANS MOVE ON and try again. J@f marks the spot where oilmen to Oil Industry Information Committee, Amer- in West Texas have just drilled a dry hole. But they won't quit. This photograph, taken ican Petroleum Institute. Box 125, 50 West from a Hi ll Helicopter, shows them "skidding" their rig to a new location where they'll try again. This persistence in the face of hig risks is one important reason why America's 50th St., York 20, N. Y. New oilmen continue to lind more ml than the nation uses.

Only 1 out of 9 wells drilled in a promising hut WHY SEARCHING FOR OIL IS SUCH A RISKY BUSINESS unproven area turns out to he an oil producer. The other 8 are costly dry holes. Odds against liiiding a new oil field are even greater — only

1 Kill of every 44 wildcat wells ever opens a held yielding oil to supply the U. S. for just

4 hours. - J-rt^w THE MAN

Larry learned the hard way

that he had not become a coward.

By WALTER C. BROWN

Along strip of white canvas above the entrance blazoned forth its greeting in huge red and blue letters: WELCOME TO THE BRUNO-BABCOCK CIRCUS THE COLOSSAL SHOW It was a lingering twilight— hot, close, and sultry with gathering storm- but every face in the drifting, slow-footed crowd seemed to be molded in lines of laughing good humor. The circus was here, with all its tinseled magic, its shining nostalgia, its last fronter of the gay, the gaudy, the romantic. Only the perspiring faces of the barkers and pitchmen looked worn and weary, flinging their tireless spiels against the noisy bedlam of the midway, the brassy bellowing of the steam calliope. Then from the hidden depths of the main tent came a new sound—the proud, sullen roaring of a lion. To the eddying mass of pleasure-seekers the harsh roaring was only a casual part of the carnival background, a vicarious thrill to be enjoyed in the knowledge of perfect safety. But to one man, walking lonely and unnoticed in the drifting crowd, the roaring lion was not merely an anonymous sound; to him it was a familiar name, a hostile personality with an evil purpose. He was a short, slim little man with an empty left sleeve, and he heard the harsh jungle call as the voice of Caesar—Caesar the untamed. The little man's head lifted as at a challenge, and his lone hand dropped to touch the flat outline of the heavy calibre automatic that sagged his pocket. The little man was "Professor" Kranzell, leader of the circus band. Kranzell had been a symphony musician, until an auto crash cost him his left arm. He had a sad, sensitive face, a sprinkling of gray in his hair, and the remains of an accent in his kindly voice. Gentle little Eric Kranzell, a most unlikely man to pick up the challenge of the sullen, untamed Caesar. A one-armed lion hunter on a secret safari, his only preparation a few hours' simple practice with a .22 pistol against the mechanical ducks of a shooting-gallery. Kranzell drifted on with the midway crowd. Along the front of the main tent a row of flamboyant posters spread out like a rainbow menu of promised delights under the Big Top. A paunchy citizen and his fat wife stood eating popcorn before the gaudily-colored poster lettered "Larry Merklc— Fearless Master of the Big Cats." It showed the handsome, blond-haired Larry in action, whip Larry darted at the beast in sudden reckless fury. Ignoring the gun, he swung the broom handle.

(ontinned) THE MAN with a .38

in one hand, pistol in the other, his "For people like that Larry must risk Opening the safety gate, Kranzell let

snarling lions and tigers posed on a row his life every day. How I like to take himself into the great, empty cage, look- of pedestals. that man by his fat neck and push him ing around him with a thoughtful air, Munching popcorn, the fat woman up to Caesar's cage—so close he can his nose wrinkled against the strong stared admiringly at the tall, handsome count Caesar's teeth when he roars!" lion odor, which he found unpleasant. figure of the animal trainer, immacu- The little man turned on his heel and He lifted the round-backed kitchen late in his uniform of gold-braided entered the main tent, an immense cav- chair Larry used in the act—the "paci-

white doeskin, a row of medals across ern of empty, brow n shadow s where a fier" as Larry called it. You kept thrust-

his chest. few silent figures were moving about ing it at an angry cat—giving him wood "Joe, we got to get good seats for the center ring—the stars and head- to chew on instead of flesh. He looked the lion act. Do you think it's safe to liners personally checking the equip- at the deep tooth-marks that scarred sit all the way down front?" ment upon which their lives depended. the chair legs. "Safe?" the paunchy man snorted. Kranzell came to the big, empty, Kranzell put down the chair and "All these lion acts are fakes. They forty-foot steel cage where Larry picked up Larry's slender whip. The get old, worn-out lions, and they put Alerkle would be putting his troupe of whip was not used for punishment, as stuff in their food to keep 'em doped mixed cats through their snarling paces. most people thought, but only to guide up. Ain't any danger to it at all." He stood looking at the little safety- and cue the animals for their tricks— They strolled on then, unaware of cage—the four-foot enclosure by which the spins and roll-overs, the hurdles, the little, one-armed man staring after Larry entered the main arena, and his hoops and pedestals. them from the shadows of the tent. sole chance of retreat if trouble broke Then suddenly the big shadowy tent "Stupid fools!" Kranzell muttered. out. reverberated with the throaty roaring

12 time, Larry's sure gonna have his hands full tryin' to keep these cats in line." "You are worried about it, Jimmy?" Kranzell asked. "Look, Professor. Larry had a tough time with 'em at the afternoon show.

It'll be worse tonight. He should've

worked on Caesar, like I told him. The guy's just askin' for trouble." Kranzell listened to Jimmy's footsteps fading off along the runway. He turned then, facing Caesar, conscious suddenly of the heavy gun sagging his coat pocket—conscious too of how puny and ineffective any bullet would be against this massive, powerful beast staring so sullenly at him from the barred cage. If you were aiming at a lion, would you shoot at the head—or the heart? Was a lion's skull too thick for pistol bullets? Was his heart in the same place as a man's? Perhaps no one but an expert marksman with a big-game rifle could drop a lion in his tracks. The Professor saw himself standing again at the shooting-gallery on the midway, heard Goldie Stover's impa- tient voice saying, "No, no. Professor— that's not the way to hold a gun! Not so stiff. Relax— take time to aim! Looks like you'll nev er learn. Professor. Guess you'd better stick to music!" Face to face with the hostile Caesar, little Kranzell felt the perspiration stand out on his forehead. But there was no weakening, no softening of his secret inner resolve. "You will do no harm to Larry!" he ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN McDERMOTT w hispered to the great cat. "I see to that! You have made Larry afraid of you—you try to break his nerve. Time,

he needs, to conquer his fear. And I of the inv isible Caes;ir. As if drawn by "Caesar!" the little man said quietly, will time— bullets, if the magnetic sound, kranzell left the and the padding beast, weaving and buy him with everything else fails!" big steel cage and crossed to a runway bobbing, let go with a full-throated Kranzell his of the under the stands that led to the place roar that made Kranzell step back hasti- made way out Big along the canvas alley where Larry's big cats w ere being kept ly, despite the intervening bars. Top and between the cluster of dressing-tents. in readiness for the next show. A round-faced young man with a ducked through flaps of 7, It was a shadowy place of pungent spiky crew -cut came hurrying toward He the No. the quarters he shared with Larry animal odors, filled w ith snortings and the cages. This was Jimmy Lunt, one snufflings and rumbling growls, and of Larry's cage-boys. Merkle. Larry was not in the tent, and with the lithe, nervous pad-pad of the rest- "Oh, it's you. Professor," Jimmy said. a quick glance back along the passage- less beasts. "I wouldn't get too close to the cage. — way Kranzell mov ed quickly to Larry's The little man w alked along the row One sw ipe of that paw "- unlocked wardrobe trunk, crouched of w heeled cages. He knew most of the "I don't think Caesar likes me," Kran- there, fumbling, and came up with a beasts by name. Empress and Queenie, zell said. brown bottle. the two tigresses. Then the lions—Nero, "Caesar don't like anybody," Jimmy Re\, Simba, Napoleon, and Charle- declared. "A real tough cat—and Holding it against the light, he shook magne, called "Charley" for short. And worse'n usual today, with this storm the bottle gently, observing the level of the liquor. Then at the sound of then Caesar. hangin' around. I told Larry he oughta Kranzell stopped before Caesar's cage, turn Caesar into the big cage and work footsteps outside, he hastily restored it looking at the great, pacing cat, the him out, soften him up for tonight's to its hiding place. snarling, tawny-maned, sulphur-eyed show. Gee! Larry near snapped my Larry Merkle came striding into the trouble-maker. head off—told me to mind my own tent. "Hi, Professor." The little Professor stood staring in business." "You're late, Larry," Kranzell said. fascination at the great beast's impos- Kranzell nodded quietly. "Don't mind "Where you stay so long?" ing bulk, at his quick, lithe movements, that, Jimmy. Maybe this storm in the Larry shrugged. "Just walking the coiled power of the flowing muscles, air makes Larry nervous, too." around, counting the house." He went the proud tossing of the massive head, "I don't know about Larry—but I do to his dressing-table, buckling on his the baleful glaring of the wild, preda- know about Caesar," Jimmy grumbled. patent leather gun holster, smoothing tory eyes. "If this storm happens to break at show (Continued on page 60)

13 Co in Russia

Stalin's death dramatized the fact that what the Kremlinites fear most are the

Russian people themselves— if we are smart enough to make allies of them. J* i

Russian soldiers, released from Nazi priso

By EUGENE LYONS sian peoples into allies in a common struggle to rid the human race of the Red incubus? The answers to such questions will of course be affected The people of Soviet Russia, 200 million of them, are a by the Kremlin's policies in the post-Stalin era. But they highly important element in the equation of world affairs depend in the first place on our own wisdom in understand- today— potentially the decisive element, in the view of ing the Soviet people and in helping them to understand us. most students of communist pow er. Because the late Stalin knew this, his propaganda was geared Foreign policy that fails to take them into its calculations to the hate-America theme, and his successors are following is driving blind. Official attitudes which fail to draw a sharp his lead. line between the regime and its subjects, earmarking the Nothing would suit their purposes better than a hate- Soviet peoples unthinkingly as "the enemy," play into the Russia campaign at our end. That would preclude what they Kremlin's hands. most dread: the spectre of an alliance, over their heads, be- The Red dictators are often described as "the frightened tween their subjects and the free portion of mankind. Those men in the Kremlin." And with good reason. Only men who Americans who proclaim that "any Russian is the enemy" feel themselves in mortal danger woidd need millions of are pathetically wrong as to the facts, and unwittingly giv- secret police agents and informers, endless purges, death ing aid and comfort to the real enemy. penalties for "crimes" that elsewhere are misdemeanors, In fashioning our policies with regard to the inhabitants concentration camps on a scale unmatched in history. With of the Red sphere, as distinct from their masters, we can every year the Red ruling clique has behaved more like an find valuable guidance in the true story (as yet largely occupying force in dread of a conquered people than a ignored) of the war between Nazi Germany and Soviet legitimate go\ ernment. Russia. Telltale facts which were carefully concealed by It took the shock of Josef Stalin's final collapse and death, the O.W.I, and other such Allied propaganda agencies are in the first week of March, to reveal ton- frightened those now available to those willing to dig for them. denizens of the Kremlin are. They show convincingly that the Germans could have From the first bulletin on the dictator's stroke to the had the enthusiastic support of the Russian peoples to over- Red Square orations at his funeral rites, his heirs harped throw the Soviet regime. Hitler and his obsessed gang, de- on the need for "vigilance" and more vigilance against "in- termined to conquer by military means alone, deliberately ternal enemies." They pleaded w ith the populace to "rally threw away this chance. By spurning honest collaboration around the Party" in the "difficult days" ahead. In explain- with the Soviet masses looking toward genuine liberation, ing the strange haste with which the top jobs were reshuffled Germany drove them to rally in despair around a regime —while the departed Leader was still King in state—they they hated—and Germany perished in the fires of patriotism

said frankly that it was to prevent "disorder and panic." thus ignited.

Their very boasts that opponents would be "routed" came The danger today is that the free world, and America as a left-handed admission that formidable opposition exists. in particular, may repeat Hitler's historic blunder. Indeed, We therefore have every right to ask basic questions we are well advanced in that direction. The policy' of so- which, we may be sure, Malenkov, Beria, Molotov and their called "containment" to which we have been committed cohorts arc asking: Will their subjects follow them blindly (at least until January 20th last) in effect rejected the Soviet into warlike adventures? Can the free world turn the Rus- peoples. It aimed at a deal with Moscow for permanent

Ml "coexistence" which would perpetuate slav- ery for its subjects with our sanction. In 1951 the United States Senate solemnly affirmed American friendship for the in-

habitants of Russia. But amazingly, its elo- quent declaration of love wound up with assurances that we always stand ready to come to terms with their slave-masters! At the same time the chief sponsor of the Reso- lution, the late Senator Brien McMahon, made speeches advocating a fifty-billion-

dollar payoff to the Soviets if only they would desist from further aggression. Friendship for the captives coupled with a live-and-lct-live proposal to their captors! There we have something like a record in confusion, on the moral and practical planes alike. There are ample reasons in common sense and common humanity for a show of fellow-feeling for the Kremlin's victims. There may be reasons of desperation or ex- pediency for seeking a status quo arrangement with the Moscow hierarchy. But the combination of both overtures in the same document by the same statesmen is illogical and self-defeating. We can't have it both ways. If the offer of a settlement splitting the world forever into free and slave sections is genuine, then the expression

of affection for the slaves is phony. Worse, to those slaves it looks a lot like trickery: an attempt to blackmail the Kremlin into agreement with us by threatening to make common cause with its restive subjects. At home we can discount such seeming cynicism as just some more political inepti- tude. But to the harassed peoples within the iron curtains it surely looks like plain hypocrisy. We have in the Soviet sphere and in Rus- sia proper millions of actual and tens of millions of potential allies— a fifth column for freedom. These millions sec their best hope for ultimate deliverance from communist bondage in the fact that we share their detestation of the Soviet regime. Every sign that the outer world knows their plight

and is resolved to help them is an antidote to despair, proof that they have not been written off as forever lost. We must not kid ourselves, how ever, that we can win or retain the trust of the captive peoples while maneuvering to buy our own security at the price of their continued sub- Believing that the Germans were going to liberate them from their jection. From the vantage point of the t communist bosses, many Russians like these welcomed them joyfully. Soviet Union's domestic enemies, an agreement for "co-existence" amounts to a deal abandoning them to their totalitarian fate. Stupidly, the Nazis disillusioned the Russian people by acts of Every American move toward a long-term 4 brutality such as this hanging of Russian civilians near Smolensk. accommodation with the Kremlin clique— a snare and a delusion in any case—smells like betrayal to the educated nostrils of the Kremlin's victims. They can scarcely be blamed for suspect- ing our motives. Too often in the recent past the free world has used them recklessly as expendables in appeasing their masters. Too many spokesmen for the great democ- racies have told Moscow in substance: "Please lay off what remains of the free (Continued on page 54)

15 MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE

New developments in air conditioning mean that in a few

years your home will be a pleasanter place the year 'round.

CARRIER CORPORATION New construction economies permitted by air-conditioning save $3000 in the cost of this under-$20,000 home.

By ROBERT SCHARFF cooled air is distributed away from the unit by the use of blowers instead of being contained immediately adjacent Year-round air conditioning in the ally misapplied or misunderstood than to the heat-extracting coils. Warm air home with a central system provid- that of "air conditioning." We talk from the house is drawn into the unit ing w armth in winter and cool, de- about shoes being "air conditioned" be- by a blower, passing through large fil- humidified air in summer is the next cause they are perforated. We consider ters where dust, pollen and other im- great advance in the American standard a house "air conditioned" if it has a purities are removed. The blower then of living. In 1951 only a handful of blower that circulates the cool base- forces this clean air through the big

homes in the $25,000-and-over class had ment air through the house in summer coil where it is cooled and dehumidi- complete air conditioning. But last year or has an attic fan to give cool breezes fied. From there it flows through the

it suddenly skyrocketed to a point at night. But true air conditioning not metal ducts to the grills that circulate

where fully air conditioned homes were only cools the air, but also heats it in it through the home. The heat that is

sold in some areas for under $15,000 winter, cleanses it by filter action, main- extracted from the warm air is picked and even below $12,000. In 1953, the in- tains a proper humidity the year 'round, up from the cooling coils by a volatile crease in home year-round comfort circulates and distributes it to all parts liquid called a refrigerant. As this re- systems is estimated to be 2Vz times that of the house in proportion to the de- frigerant collects heat, it is pumped by of all previous years. mand of any given area. In short, it a compressor into a condenser, where

The trend toward year-round air completely controls the air inside the it is cooled by air or by water and re-

conditioning, how ever, is just starting. home no matter what the outside cli- turned to the cooling coil—to start the

It is the considered judgment of both mate may be. cycle all over again. The w inter cycle home builders and air conditioning The general objective of modern air manufacturers that within a period of conditioning is to make you and your This residential air-conditioning unit takes five years, a new house priced to sell family feel comfortable the year 'round. up less space than the average refrigerator. WEST1NGHOUSE above certain price ranges will be vir- On muggy days the air conditioning tually unsalable, regardless of its other unit actually wrings moisture out of the

characteristics, if it does not have year- air to make it invigorating and comfort-

round air conditioning. They believe able. Since it is unnecessary to open the price bracket w here this will occur windows for ventilation and the air is will vary in different parts of the coun- well filtered, outside dirt, pollen and try. In the northern tier of States, the other irritants do not enter the house. price will probably be around $15,000 This means fewer doctor and cleaning ro $20,000 minimum. In the middle tier bills. Sleep is easier, because street noises

it will be at $11,000 to $15,000, and in are shut out. And most important to the the South, $7,000 to SI 2,000. Now, these little woman, the house is cleaner— less price ranges take in approximately two- dusting, less housework. This allows the thirds of all the houses being currently use of perishable pastels and whites in built each year in the United States. To her decorating scheme. These and many these are to be added the existing homes other benefits are the reason why air that will come on the market. The ma- conditioning will become an integral jority of the 46,000,000 dwelling units part of our living. now in being will by 1958 have some The basic cooling principle of air sort of year-round air conditioning. conditioning is that of the ordinary

Perhaps there is no term more gener- household refrigerator, except that the

16 Year 'round air conditioning means not only increased comfort but better designed rooms, which facilitate interior decorating.

nEMINGTON Air conditioning does more than cool. This 3-ton unit in 24 hours At the present time most people are interested in room air has removed 1 20 quart bottles of water, and a large load of dust. conditioners which can be installed with a minimum of fuss.

tioning and feeling uncomfortably cold. Most home air conditioners maintain a relative humidity of under 50 percent. In winter, when the air may be very dry, the unit automatically humidifies

it, to keep the percentage constant the year 'round. A simple control regulates the temperature, with one switch for heating and another for summer cooling. If it

is so desired, another type control can COLEMAN be installed that will regulate the inside The planting box above conceals water-saving system, consisting of two-ton temperature at all times. Thus, without compressor and evaporative condenser, replacing old-type water towers, left. further attention from the householder,

it is possible to get warmth on a cool, early morning, then have comfortable of the unit operates in the same man- could be more comfortable at 82 de- cooling when the sun's rays bring heat ner except that the cooling section is grees temperature and 40 percent hu- during the day, and finally have warmth bypassed and the air is heated by a gas midity than if it were 78 degrees—four again in the evening when it becomes or oil-fired furnace. degrees cooler—and 60 percent relative cool after the sun has gone down. This For cooling, an inside temperature of humidity. warmth or coolness is spread evenly

78 to 80 degrees has been found to Actually, it is more comfortable to a over all the rooms, making for ideal satisfy most people. Comfort, however, person in the drier air, even though the working or living conditions, no mat- is not entirely dependent on temperature thermometer figure is higher, because ter what the outside temperature may

alone. Rather, it depends on a combina- of the more effective absorption of per- be. tion of temperature and relative hu- spiration. Also, the higher temperature But, what is the cost of this weather

midity. Unless the excess moisture is re- makes it easier for the body to adapt magic? For a complete year-round sys- moved from the air, discomfort can itself to the changed conditions on leav- tem combining heating and cooling the remain high—a fact well recognized in ing the conditioned space to go outside, installation costs in a new house run the well-worn saying that "It isn't the or to enter the conditioned space from from one to two dollars per square foot heat, it's the humidity." In many areas outside. Working at higher tempera- of conditioned space. The wide price of the United States, in fact, dehumidi- ture and lower humidity does away differential arises from the climate, type fication is just as important as cooling with the experience most of us have of house construction and insulation, for summer comfort—even more im- had when going into a motion picture labor costs, design of house and size of portant sometimes. For example, you theater in the early days of air condi- (Continued on page 58)

17 By LEWIS K. GOUGH,

This month, the first wave of a brand new class of American veterans will be coming out of our armed forces. These are the men who went into military service after June of 1951, and have now served their required two years of active duty. Every able-bodied, sound-minded one of them, as he comes out, is in the reserves. Those of our new veterans who are not in the reserves voluntarily are in the reserves involuntarily. Each of them, having put in two years of active duty, is subject to military recall at any time during the next six years. Tar from all of the men who will be coming out of service from now on fully understand that— under a 1951 law —they can be involuntarily recalled to active duty at any time up to eight years from the day they were inducted. This is the first law we ever had that requires Under present law, all modern sen ice- men to enter the reserves. It applies only to veterans of active service. men are earmarked for further military I have talked with quite a few of these men, and am continually surprised to see how many of them believe that they duty if a new crisis comes. Korea vets and have completed their primary duty to defend their country during the past (heir families this. two years, and would be the last—rather should read than the first— to be required to serve if we should face a new military crisis. The truth is exactly the opposite, and the law is very clear. The applicable

part of the applicable law, passed in Many of them seem to know nothing designate each of 1 V2 million men from June of 1951, says: about it. Others have heard something those who have joined the armed forces "Each person who [after this law is about it, but believe that there is some since June 1951 to participate actively passed] is inducted, enlisted or ap- other trained group that has never seen in an organized reserve unit while in

pointed into the Armed Forces . . . shall active service that is supposed to be civilian life. be required to serve in active training called up ahead of them in a new crisis. When a veteran is thus designated,

and service in the Armed Forces . . . There isn't. says the law: "... it shall be the duty

and in a reserve component, for a total There are others now in service who of such person . . . [to join] such or-

period of eight years. . . . Each person, won't be coming out for two more ganized unit . . . and to serve satisfac- on release from active training and serv- years, who have enlisted for four years torily therein."

ice . . . shall be transferred to a reserve in the belief that only the two-year These IV2 million new veterans who

component . . . and shall serve therein draftees would have to stay in the re- can be ordered to organized reserve for the remainder of the period [the serves and be subject to involuntary re- training after completing their active

eight years] . . . and shall be deemed to call. duty would be called the Ready Re- be a member of such reserve component Not true. The law says "Each person serve, and could be recalled to active

during such period." who . . . is inducted, enlisted or ap- duty without the consent of Congress. It is important personally, to all mod- pointed" has an eight year military ob- All new veterans who are not des- ern servicemen that they and their ligation. ignated for the Read>' Reserve are in families clearly understand this law. Also, the Defense Department can the Standby Reserve, and can be recalled whenever Congress gives the nod. Veterans of present service and their families should also understand that DEPT. OF DEFENSE DEPT. OF DEFENSE they may be called to a second or third M-DAY PLANS M-DAY PLANS period of active duty, by virtue of their

NON-VETERANS . . . NONE VETERANS. . . 7 MILLION first, without reference to the system of deferments and exemptions that apply to men who have not served once. 7~T A million fathers of draft age are T \ ~T currently excused from service because they are fathers. But the new veteran- Defense plans for future military crisis Liable to orders in future crisis are like all reservists— is subject to recall earmark no non-veterans today. Failure 2 million WWII vets, VA million men without regard to fatherhood, although to pass UMT left only vets of active now in service, 1 million men a year service subject to new rescue call-ups. now coming out of active service. he has no choice about being a reserv-

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and how likely would he be to be re- lieved as soon as possible?

Major General E. C. Lynch is in charge of the Defense Department's planning for the call-up of men for an-

other military crisis, be it a new Korea 1,000,000 fathers oF draft age, with no Men now in service who are or become or a big war. The law being what it is, past military duty are draft-deferred. fathers are subject to military recall. he has plenty of veterans, plus the ro- tating standing forces of veterans-in- the-making, and nobody else to count upon for Mobilization Day. Conse- quently, that is whom he counts upon. On March 14, the United Press sent out a news story based upon an interview with Gen. Lynch. The New York Tivies labeled the story, U. S. IS HELD READY IF NEW WAR COMES. 95,000 farmers of draft age with no Men now in service who become farm- According to the Press inter- past military duty are draft-deferred. ers are subject to military recall. United view, General Lynch is counting on so many veterans of present and past and

future service that his problem is not

one of finding men. I quote the United Press story:

"What must be avoided, he said, is the 'hysterical approach' of rushing men

into service before the military is ready for them." 35,000 men of draft age with special Men now in service who acquire same General Lynch is the director of the civilian skills are draft-deferred. skills are subject to military recall. Office of Manpower Requirements. He itemized our Mobilization Day forces as follows:

1. Two million War II veterans. 2. Three and a half million men in the standing forces. 3. One million men a year who, as they now complete their military service, are "funneled into the reserves." Since it would be "hysterical" call Since Korea, four out of five men to these veterans of military age have not been in- been inducted is subject to recall for eight up too fast, it must fol- ducted. They incur no future mili- years. Millions of men now in service can low that it would be even more hysteri- tary liability unless inducted. be ordered to peacetime reserve training. cal to replace them so long as the veteran pool lasts. It is a plain fact that Gen. Lynch can only plan on the use of such men on M Day as the law allows. Unless Congress actually creates a new, trained non-xet- eran reserve—through universal military training— he must rely on an all-veteran reserve if there is a sudden demand for more men to bear arms. It's as simple as Men oyer 26 years old with no past mili- Nearly all vets of present service can that. tary duty are draft-exempted. recalled at at 33. now be age 27, some age Thus the new veterans' chances of release from being the first to serve in war again hinge on the willingness of Con- ist. Fatherhood does count as a type of reservists who have, or who develop, gress to bring universal military train- hardship in the recall of reservists. Un- the same skills. ing into being— to train non-veterans der current practices, draft deferments Today, generally, a man over 26 years now for possible future need. go to men who can prove their wives of age who has seen no military serv- What are those chances? are pregnant for the first time, while re- ice is past the draft age and cannot be On the record, our only consistent servists may be excused from recall only called up involuntarily under present manpower policy over the last eight if they have four or more children. law. But a man who is released from years has been to make as few non- There are 95,000 farmers of draft age two years active service this month at veterans liable to military service as who are now deferred from initial serv- the age of 27 can be recalled on receipt possible, even when this can be accom- ice because farmers are needed on the of military orders at any time through plished only by committing veterans farm. The new veterans who become his 33rd year. to double duty. The present law only farmers are subject to recall without Granted that the law makes the mod- strengthens this policy. regard to their occupation. ern veteran subject to recall to serv- The answers to our manpower prob- There are 35,000 men with special ice involuntarily and without benefit of lems are not simple, and they are by no civilian skills who are now draft de- being redrafted, what is the likelihood means as simple as the present law makes ferred. There are no such broad poli- that he really would be called up first them appear.

cies that interfere with the recall of in the event of a new military crisis— ( Continued on page 31

19 Future police officers at the New York Police Academy practice marksmanship with .22 caliber bullets fired from heavy frame revolvers.

Thousands of shooters today are handloading their own ammunition. The original cash outlay pays for itself in savings in short order.

HOOTING fi

Money saving methods which permit yon to shoot more for less.

By JACK DENTON SCOTT

you arf the sort of person who can percentage of these people are wealthy However, thanks to the ingenuity of

If trot out and buy a ^ 1 2,000 sports car sportsmen, and by the same token it is various unsung inventors and the ability without taking out a second mort- obvious that shooting is an inexpensive of American manufacturers to make gage on your house, or the type who pastime. More accurately, it can be, and good things at low cost, it is possible to

can count out cash money for a Bel- in this article I plan to tell of the ways shoot every day in the week without gian over-and-under or a British fly-rod, and means being employed by millions having to hock the family jewels. And this article isn't for you. of Americans to shoot to their heart's that makes a set-up that is good for This is for the man who has to count content without going broke in the everybody. his dunes and quarters, if not his pen- process. The manufacturers are assured of a nies, w hen it conies to recreation. In As a matter of cold, statistical fact, large and steady demand for their short, for most of us. most people can readily afford an occa- products. This means that the cost of

Last year approximately 14,000,000 sional day's shooting, even when they production is kept at an absolute mini- Americans bought hunting licenses and are firing 12-gauge shells or large cali- mum. The cost being low, shooters can went out with shotguns and rifles in ber cartridges. The outlay is likely to afford to do more shooting. As their hope of getting meat for the pot. Mil- be closer to five dollars than ten, and shooting skill develops, their enthusiasm lions more burned up a lot of ammuni- what other sport comes so cheap? Even for the sport grows and they become tion shooting at targets, trap and skcet, a few hours of driving, or a quick trip prospects for more and better arms, or just plain plinking. around a golf course will cost more, ammunition and accessories. In short, It stands to reason that only a small in some cases considerably more. everybody is happy.

20 the chips are down, switch to his bolt action, .30-06 smoothly without losing any skill. When you compare the 67- cents price of a box of fifty .22 long rifles against the steep tag of $3.70 for a box of twenty .30-06's you'll grasp what we're talking about. Other manufacturers have rifles with special features to appeal to the economy minded. Mossberg recently came up with a new .22 caliber tubular deluxe repeater. They claim that this rifle has the largest magazine capacity of any made, holding either thirty .22 shorts or twenty long-rifle cartridges. These new and versatile .22 rifles are a boon for shooters. It means the shooter can make the choice himself of how much he wants to pay every time he pulls a trigger. Marlin, which has always featured

lever-action hunting rifles, makes it possible for the hunter to keep his hand in economically by means of its famous 39A, a .22 lever-action rifle which permits an easy transition to a correspond- ing big-bore Marlin. Savage stresses economy in a highly practical way in its Model 24, an over- and-under which gives the shooter the choice of a .22 caliber cartridge or a .410 shotgun shell. This versatile, light- weight gun further qualifies in the economy league by its low price, $36.95. But shooting isn't just rifles. Makers of pistols and revolvers also know that financial short cuts are necessary if they

You enjoy good fun and target practice by firing the .22 caliber shot cartridge want to keep their shooting public in- from the smooth bore rifle at clay targets released from the miniature trap. terested in pulling triggers. Smith & Wesson have made an important contribution to economical The key to low-cost shooting today they put the Model 550-2G or the handgun shooting with their Master- is the .22 caliber long rifle cartridge. "Gallery Special," popular with shoot- piece Target Revolvers. The guns are Costing only a cent and a fraction, ing galleries, on the assembly line. This all made on the same frame but in three despite the fact that it contains several is an autoloading rifle which is cham- calibers, .22 long rifle, .32 Smith & Wes- rather costly components and repre- bered especially for the .22 short. When son long and .38 Smith & Wesson Spe- sents an involved and precise manu- you realize that a box of fifty .22 short cial. Known as the K-.22 Masterpiece, facturing process, the .22 is the shooter's cartridges costs 44 cents against the 67- K-.32 Masterpiece and K-.38 Master- big-bargain buy. Because of this cart- cent price of the long rifle, it's evident piece, they all weigh 36 to 38 ounces ridge, highly accurate rifles and pistols that Remington had penny saving for loaded. Thus it's a simple matter to go of reasonable cost are available for all its shooters in mind when it designed from one to the other. but a tiny percentage of the shooting these guns. Another member of the family, pop- done by rifle and pistol users. And, be- Manufacturers have also kept the big ular with law enforcement agencies, is

cause of closely matched weapons, it is game hunter and the big bore target the 34-ounce Combat Masterpiece made a simple matter to develop one's shoot- man in mind. For those shooters, who for either .22 long rifle or .38 Smith & ing skill with a weapon shooting the .22 have to develop supreme shooting skill, Wesson Special ammunition. and go from that weapon to one just Winchester developed the 52 and Rem- The K guns come with six-inch bar- like it that uses a heavy caliber cart- ington designed the Model 37. These rels, while the Combat Masterpiece is a ridge. are top-grade target rifles. Each weighs holster gun with four-inch barrel. Law Remington, like many of the major about 12 pounds, each is chambered for enforcement agencies frequently order arms companies long ago, came to the the .22 long rifle cartridge. The Rem- the .38 Special caliber Combat Master- realization that inexpensive shooting is ington 37 has the strongest action ever piece guns for actual duty, while at the the wide-open door for the beginner, built for a .22 caliber bolt-action rifle. same time ordering counterparts in the the extra push he needs to get started. The theory behind the Model 37 was .22 long rifle caliber for practice shoot- With this in mind they developed an that here was a rifle the .22 devotee ing. autoloader that shoots .22 short, long could shoot to his heart's content in A. A. Pate, Sheriff of Calhoun and long rifle cartridges, interchange- matches and target practice. Unlike the County, Alabama, explains the pro- ably and automatically without adjust- usual light-weight .22 rifle it has a sub- cedure: ment. This is the Model 550A. Then, stantial feel. The big bore man can "For six years," he says, "we in Cal- for the shooter who doesn't want to use the 37 at practice and then, when houn County have been using Smith &

shoot anything larger than .22 shorts PHOTOS BY DON ATO LEO I Continued on page W)

21 They Screamed

The amazing campaign to snatch the Rosenbergs from

Commie fronter Karen Morley, former film ac- tress, joined a gruesome group which made a tearful pilgrimage to Sing Sing where they put on an act that was as corny as a soap opera.

AS USUAL, CELEBRITIES AIDED THE PROPAGANDA

Another typically hammy red act was staged at the White House. This group of worthies ironically included a clergyman in the stellar role.

event was held, have been greatly pub- have been staged by communists, their licized. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg stooges and their dupes, to focus at- were unable to attend, being detained tention on the Rosenbergs. Impressive at Sing Sing Prison, where they were mass meetings were held in London, awaiting execution because they stole Paris, Berlin, Rome and other foreign America's atom bomb secrets for Rus- capitals. Throughout the world this sia. Mr. Silverman was likewise absent man and his wife were hailed as "mar- ALBERT EINSTEIN DR. H. C. UREY for good reason. He was refused an en- tyrs of peace." For sentencing the The well known Not the first time try visa to the United States. Rosenbergs to death the United States atomist became he jumped on a To many who attended the affair at was assailed in fifty languages as "sav- highly articulate. red bandwagon. the Capitol Hotel, the Rosenbergs had age," "barbaric" and "inhuman." become symbols of virtue and victims Millions of helpless victims have been of villainy. In a campaign to snatch done to death behind the Iron Curtain. n march 18th, at the Capitol Hotel them from the electric chair these de- Wholesale butchery has been perpe- in midtown New York, 1,100 votees had made pilgrimages to Sing trated there by planned starvation, by people ate their evening meal in an Sing Prison and to Washington, had ar- exile to frigid areas, and by overwork overcrowded dining hall where they ranged other meetings, distributed tons in forced labor camps. Hundreds of in- heard some impassioned oratory. The of literature, rung door bells, collected dividuals have been condemned to death invitations were elegant and the price funds, called on influential people, ob- for alleged espionage or to long impri- was a mere twenty-five dollars per per- tained signatures on clemency petitions sonment after farcical trials. Unlike the son. The guest speaker was to be Sidney and helped make the Rosenberg case a Rosenbergs, the suspects in Russia and Silverman, a left-wing member of the cause celebre throughout the world. its satellites did not choose their own British Parliament. The announcement The March 18th dinner was one of attorneys. The communist state assigns listed seventeen sponsors, of whom only thousands of events, ranging from par- a "defense" lawyer, whose business ap-

one, Waldo Frank, is nationally known. lor gatherings to mass meetings, and parently is to make the suspect confess. The couple on whose behalf this lavish from picket-lines to prayer vigils, that Yet barely a murmur of protest has

22 for Justice: By S. ANDHIL FINEBERG

(ho electric chair provides a lesson in how international communism operates.

NOUVELLES BREVES • NEWS IN BRIEF » HOTICIAS BREVES

NEUES IN KURZE

EDITE PAR LE SECRETARIAT OE IA FEDERATION DEMOCRATIQUE INTERNATIONALE DES FEMMES UNTER DEN LINDEN 13 BERLIN W8 TELEFONi 52111? 28th November, 1952 / So. 45 /

The notorious red agent Gerhart Eisler, who fled ROSENBERGS SAVE THE the U.S., here addresses a Rosenberg rally in Berlin.

"By defending their liberty, we defend ours, we defend peace. " war, unless we are to consider Korea a pleasant little jaunt our armed forces are taking Following the refusal by the U.S. Supreme Court to review the shocking, hysteria-ridden trial of the innocent parents, for the fun of it. One of the most absurd Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the date for their execution was aet. arguments of the pro-Rosenberg propagan- They are scheduled to die on January 12, 1953» dists is that Russia was our ally at the time But while the U.S. Government proceeds with its plan3 to information which execute these victims of one of the most heinous political frame- they obtained the atomic ups in history, the conscience of humanity i3 racing with the ex- they gave to Anatoli Yakovlev, Soviet vice- ecutioner. Pleas to President Truman for Presidential clemency have been pouring into the White House, Washington, D.C., from consul and spy in New York. That makes all corners of the world. their conduct in the matter as proper as a The W.I.D.F. has again added its voice to the millions who maid's stealing her employer's wedding ring are indignantly protesting the terrible miscarriage of justice and giving it to one of the lady's friends. The which condemns two young parents to death and two young children to misery and loifl.iD.ess. The W.I.D.F. has condemned the sentence Congressmen who wrote the Espionage Act of death against the Rosenbergs as a cruel and unprecedented ac- 1917 aware that today's friend might tion in peace time, and as an attempt to silence the peace fighters of were in the U.S.A. The following telegram was sent to President Truman: be tomorrow's enemy. The acts they forbade "SOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FEDERATION LARGEST apply to anyone performing them on behalf WORLD WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION REPRESENTING 155 MILLION of a "foreign power." Anyhow, who gave WOMEN 65 COUNTRIES AGAIN VOICES DETERMINED STAND THAT INNOCENT PARENTS JULIUS ETHEL ROSENBERG SHALL NOT DIE the Rosenbergs the right to decide whether STOP ADD DEMAND TO MILLIONS WORLD OVER FOR EXECUTIVE the Russians should have vital secrets which CIEMENCXr" the Rosenbergs could get only by thievery? -2- The Rosenbergs were discovered because This is incontrovertible proof that the Kremlin started the drive to save the the trail of espionage led straight to their Rosenbergs. It-is Communique No. 43, issued from the Berlin headquarters of door. Klaus Fuchs, when apprehended in the communist WIDF, calling upon its agents in all parts of the world to England, described a courier of the spy ring take up the cause of the condemned red spies in Sing Sing's death house. whose name Fuchs did not know. The FBI by skillful detection identified Harry Gold as that courier. Fuchs confirmed the identification and Gold confessed. come from the bleeding hearts to whom nounced by the trial judge, Irving R. Gold revealed that he conveyed infor- the thought that Julius and Ethel Rosen- Kaufman, who called the crime of these mation stolen by David Greenglass berg might die, has been unbearably seditionists "worse than murder." Nor from Los Alamos to New York. agonizing. should the furore have any influence on Trapped by Gold's confession, Green- The hullabaloo about the Rosenbergs President Eisenhower, who refused on glass admitted that he had been induced proves nothing except that a great many February llth to grant clemency to to engage in espionage by the Rosen- people, including some extremely prom- these criminals. bergs. Thus the whole story unfolded inent ones, can be led by the nose when Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were cen- and much of it revolved about the Communist schemers pluck their heart- tral figures in a spy ring that began its Rosenbergs. strings. It proves nothing at all about operation during World War II. They The guilt of the Rosenbergs was the rightfulness of the sentence pro- were tried when America was again at (Continued on page 43)

23 Al Pflueger with a few of his completed specimens. The big one is an alhacore.

Here's what happens when sportsmen make prize catches.

you've ever admired a handsome By PAT FORD these are covered with the processed Ifsailfish, tuna, shark, or other giant skins which are removed along with of the deep sea hanging on a wall, the fish's dental work. Each catch's in downtown Miami Beach, the highly it's more than likely that you were teeth are installed in the finished trophy specialized firm has built an international looking at one of Al Pflueger's master- whether it is a reproduction or actual reputation for its true-to-life specimens. ful re-creations. Thousands of his hand- hide mounting. Over the years the loosely organized some mountings are to be found in An observant visitor watching casts assembly line has developed so that a clubs, homes and Legion Posts all over being taken from moulds can see some visitor can follow a definite series of the Western Hemisphere and his cus- of the "trade secrets" in operation. On steps through the nine-building plant. tomer list includes such widely diver- sails, small metal blocks are placed in Arriving as they do from "all over," gent personalities as Herbert Hoover, the moulds to leave (when removed) as Al says, the first stop for most fish President Eisenhower, Gene Tunney, mounting spots for insertion of the is one of the huge refrigerators. The Clark Gable, Arthur Godfrey, Author bases of processed fins and sails. The actual mounting process begins in the Philip Wylie, Errol Flynn, Mickey eyes come from Al's stock of 5,000 skinning room, where the specimen is Rooney and others. plastic copies. measured for entry in the Skin Book Pflueger's sprawling plant on 155th To facilitate handling and later the and given an identifying number. Street in North Miami Beach, Florida packing for shipment, an inverted Mother Nature having made fish in is the final destination for several hun- U-shaped metal strap is attached to the a wide variety of sizes, weights and con- dred glamorous fish each year. They back side of the specimen which is struction, each species provides a spe- add up to a neat business that grosses then hung on a tagged, numbered cial problem for the various experts. $350,000 a year and provides work for "stick." Fish damaged in landing or Some, with too much oil in the skins fifty people. The 49-year-old Pflueger transit are sent to the repair section, for proper preservation, are cast in —no relation to the reel and lure com- which is divided into areas for handling moulds for museum-like reproduction. pany of the same name— built the busi- specimens according to their size. Most- For sails (sailfish) and many other ness from his boyhood hobby of taxi- ly the work is done with a special plas- varieties, casts also are made. Later dermy. tic mix, following which it is given an Starting in 1925 in a one-room shack PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS (Continued on page 49)

24 .The first step regardless of species is to bill to tail. Pflueger gets 16 dollars a foot get the dimensions recorded. Cost of for sailfish and marlin. Swordfish, tuna mounting sailfish is based on length from and blue marlin cost one dollar a pound.

Large "walk-in" refrigerators are used All damage done to the fish in gaffing and to store fish until they can be processed. landing is repaired. In this operation gauze The "sail" has been removed from bandage is being used to fix a skin tear this sailfish and will be replaced later. before the sailfish goes on to the paint room.

A last check to be sure that all repair work This dolphin is having some repair work The sails on marlin, dolphin and sailfish are has been completed. Pflueger's plant ar- done with a plastic mix. Each species of removed early in the process of mounting rangement makes certain that each of the fish requires different treatment and the fish. Ribbed plastic is used for replace- specialists has an opportunity to do his work. materials to preserve it as a trophy. ment. Size and shape conform to the original.

Painting the new sail. Since fish begin Base coats of gray paint are applied with Repaired, painted and mounted this to change color shortly after they leave spray guns. More delicate tones and colors are sail is being crated for shipment. It's the water, Pflueger's artists continually applied with artists' brushes. With fish as large ready to be hung on a wall. Properly check fresh specimens for natural colors. as this Mako shark, only the head is mounted. cared for it will outlast the fisherman. Good luck to you from

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SIGNATURE (please sign here) IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING IDEA OR SUGGESTION OUR OUTDOORS EDITOR Blood-red worms seem to be favored by CAN USE ON THIS PAGE, HE'LL PAY OFF WITH HUNTING AND FISHING ACCESSORIES fish over other worms, so make your worms The growing army Mrs. Frisco Bert (Mrs. Grace H. Couch) red. Beat up a red brick and mix the dust of outboard motor from San Anselmo, California, seems to with three times as much soil. Worms in devotees will be in- know a thing or two about a frying pan, this mixture will be blood-red within a terested in knowing a piece of fish and a man's appetite. Her week. Feed them coffee grounds, crumbs of that life is getting recipe which follows was so tempting we moistened cornmeal. Keep the brick and easier and easier for couldn't pass it. Needless to say you can dirt mixture damp. them. Recently, the use almost any species of fish you're lucky Kiekhaefer Corpora- enough to put a hook into. A handy measur- tion made mention of the fact that a new FILLET OF SOLE A LA FRISCO BERT ing rule you always type of neutral clutch, on say the Mercury carry can be your 5 horsepower motor, will permit the boat- Vi pint dry white 1 lemon, cut in hand. Measure the man to bring his boat to a stop without wine quarters spread of your hand, shutting off the motor and start the motor 6 fillets, boneless 1 teaspoon minced between the tip of fish onion while in neutral gear. It's a push button thumb and the little 1 can 2 tablespoons butter affair recessed in front of the safety-tilt of button finger. Then you can handle atop the motor. What about that? mushrooms 2 tablespoons easily measure things instantly. salt and pepper chopped parsley Mr. Frank Ashbrooke of the Fish and Lay the boneless fish fillets in the melted Worn hip boots can still serve useful Wildlife Service in Washington, D. C. butter in a baking dish. purposes. Cut off the leaky feet, pull the seems to have a hobby of unearthing items Dust with salt and pepper according to leg portion over your hunting boots and and gadgets that will aid the sportsman. taste. they will keep your legs dry in wet under- Recently he called to our attention the fact Drain the mushrooms. brush or on rainy days. Slit open, the rub- that a good bait bucket has been invented Slice thin or chop the mushrooms fine and ber will serve you for a dry seat when still that will really keep your live bait alive. sprinkle all over the fillets. hunting in damp weather' or to drape over As most of you live-bait-users know, the Sprinkle the minced onion over all. wet boat seats. great problem is transporting the minnows, Pour over all Vi pint (8 oz.) dry white worms, crawfish, hellgramites or what have wine. Don't sell the panfish short this year. you to the fishing destination. Metal buck- Bake until the fish fillets are tender and This game little character is probably ets are all right, but where minnows are done. largely responsible for the success of fish- concerned, even if you do change the Dot with little dabs of butter and garnish ing as a sport in this country. Youngsters water, the midget fish become logey, slug- with the chopped fresh parsley and serve cut their eye-teeth on the sunfish, the blue- gish and hardly the best morsel for attract- piping hot right in the baking dish or gill and the perch. And hundreds of thou- ing the big ones. casserole. sands of adult fishermen keep their lines Well, it seems that the Animal Trap busy and taut every year because these Company of Lititz, Pennsylvania, has come nota bene: The flavor of the above can be fish are in abundance in America. So treat our with the Victor Long Life Bait Bucket. altered, to be perceptibly different, merely them with respect. There's a panfish of It is made of porous molded pulp which al- by using butter for I flavor; olive oil for a some kind at the end of every bus and lows the life giving oxygen to enter but different flavor; lard or cooking oil for a trolley line. And there's always an open doesn't permit water to leak out. It is light third flavor; or ham or bacon fat for a " season on some variety. Limits are large. and only costs $1.19 in 8 14 x 9" size. fo.urth flavor. And you can make any dish Also the panfish is just as game as you Lelaud J. Steiger of Brule, Wisconsin, who on earth taste like tomato catsup if you want to make him. Depending upon your boasts a 30 year membership in the Ameri- douse on enough tomato catsup just as you tackle, the bluegill or the punkinseed will can Legion and a longer membership in can make beer or the world's finest brandy give just as much fight as a trout, a pike the fishing fraternity, sends along a sketch taste like Coca-Cola just by dunking in a or a bass. And they are good eating. of rig lie uses for successfully taking steel- surplus of Coca-Cola. In other words, any- heads, browns, and rainbows. It's a hookup body can boil a piece of meat in a pot of If you have problems or questions connected with the outdoors: hunting, fishing, dogs, etc., for a flyrod and is designed for fishing with water. But to make it savory, tasty, deli- don't hesitate to send them on to The Outdoor a flatfish lure. He also advises an 8 pound cious . . . page the chef and fire the cook; Editor, American Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, N. Y. We will do our test monofilament line of the limp Weber there is a difference between the two. best to help. Please enclose a stamped, self- variety. See diagram of rig below. G. H. C. addressed envelope for reply.

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28 " The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 The National Legionnaire

MerchantMarineSunkBelowPointofMinimum ANNUAL BOYS' NATION AT WASHINGTON, JULY 24-30 Defense Needs, National Commander Declares The 8th annual Boys' Nation sponsored by The American Legion will The United States' fourth arm of na- Russia has in operation a fleet of ap- be held on the campus of the Uni- tional defense— its Merchant Marine— proximately 400 submarines—many of versity of Maryland, College Park, "is weak and withered far beyond the them snorkel-type. adjoining Washington, D.C., on July point of our minimum defense needs," "This is a force very much greater, 24-30. Two outstanding citizens from National Commander Lewis K. Gough and infinitely more powerful, than Ger- each of the 47 of the Boys' States declared in an address before the Pro- many had at the beginning of World held in 1953 will be selected to at- peller Club, New York City, on Mari- War II," he said. "Common, everyday tend this national level youth-training program in representative gov- time Day, May 22. horse sense tells us that we had better ernment. The Legion Commander blasted mari- stock up on vessels designed and time corruption on the docks of New equipped to deliver troops safely in the York and said that the Government's face of this existing threat." ready reserve of passenger tonnage are present policy toward the Merchant Commander Gough said that almost today all but extinct." Marine constitutes a thoroughly danger- 80 percent of 1900 merchant ships now Commander Gough said that "if a ous and unwarranted breach of faith in the "mothball fleet" are Liberty ships choice must be made between subsidiz- with America's fighting personnel. "capable of speed not above 12 knots ing shipyards in Europe and shipyards "As veterans," Commander Gough under any circumstances and consider- in the United States where the issue is said, "we of The American Legion see ably less in convoy service. "Their cur- national defense, we had better look a grim and foreboding threat to our rent value to the defense of this coun- first to our own resources." national security in the present water- try has been vastly exaggerated," he Earlier in his speech the Legion Com- front corruption. Make no mistake about added, "and it is diminishing at a pro- mander castigated the "racketeering it, our maritime house must be set in gressive rate." element" which controls the Port of order. Crime such as has bedeviled this National Commander Gough admitted New York. "Not long ago we read that Port of New York, or any other port of that he Legion does not have the answer it was necessary for the U. S. Army to our great nation, cannot and must not to the problem, but said that if a work- pay tribute to a motley crew of gang- be tolerated, for it is a loaded pistol able answer is not found the United sters and hoodlums on our piers," he aimed at the very heart of our democ- States "will lose a vital and irreplace- said. "If the money hadn't been paid, racy. able defense weapon." badly-needed supplies would have been "When a racketeering element so con- "As a matter of fact," he said, "the withheld from our fighting men over- trols one of our basic industries, a city's situation today is even more ominous seas. What a sorry spectacle of our ports, so that they murder or seriously than in the years prior to World Wars Armed Forces being blackmailed by a injure workmen and their families, at- I and II. We had in those earlier years mob of vicious hoods." tempt to destroy the maritime industry a substantial reserve of troop carriers National Commander Gough asked and the community at large, and when in the form of coastwise and inter- the identity of the "unholy alliance that union and management involved are coastal passenger ships which were permits such scoundrels to remain out either unwilling or unable to correct quickly converted for emergency trans- of jail or which keeps them from being- the situation, then, as a last resort I sug- port service. The lines which were then deported. He called for positive action gest the Government not only has the in operation and provided us with this to answer this question. right but the obligation to protect the public welfare by direct intervention." Four days later, on May 26, U. S. At- torney General Herbert Brown ell, Jr., ordered a special grand jury investiga- tion of Federal law violations on New York City's piers, jury hearings to open June 9. In Washington, Attorney General Brownell advised that U. S. Attorney J. Edward Lumbard and department officials "have just completed a series of conferences with representatives of the F.B.I, and the Treasury unit to go into all details of the waterfront investiga- tion, which has become a major project of the Department of Justice. "We have been hearing for some time now from certain military quarters the assurance that our present supply of troop carriers is more than adequate," Commander Gough said. "Fully 65 percent of the fleet which that estimate en- compasses, is comprised of basic cargo ships-most of them war-built, Liberty types converted for troop use-which would be sitting ducks for enemy sub- National Commander Lewis K. Gough, (right), was the honored guest and principal marines." speaker at the Propeller Club's annual Maritime Day dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria The Commander said that the impli- Hotel, New York City, May 22. At the left is Bruce Percy, Commander of the Depart- cations "of this folly" become more evi- ment of New York; in center is Henry C. Parke, Chairman of the American Legion's dent when it is estimated that Soviet Merchant Marine Committee.

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 • 29 TO STEP UP BLOOD DRIVE Gen. Gray Resigns As Veterans Administrator FOR POLIO AND WOUNDED

President Eisenhower on June 1 ac- The same pint of blood which saves a cepted "with regret" the resignation of soldier's life in Korea may now also GEORGIA WILL LEAD BIG Major General Carl R. Gray, Jr„ as Ad- prevent a child from becoming perma- ministrator of Veterans' Affairs. The PARADE AT ST. LOUIS nently crippled. White House did not make public the This double use of blood for both war the big National Conven- exchange of letters between General When casualties and the victims of infantile tion parade steps off at St. Louis on Gray and the President, but said that paralysis was cited by the National September 1st, Georgia Legionnaires resignation had been tendered by the Executive Committee of The American the will have the place of honor at the Administrator because of ill health. He head of the continental Departments. Legion at its May 1953 meeting, in urg- had been on sick leave for two weeks. The Peach State Legionnaires won ing participation of American Legion The resignation became effective on this position by enrolling 54,999 Posts and of all citizens in the blood- June 30. members for 1953 by May 1. or 108.11 donor campaign. Acceptance of the resignation of Gen- percent of their past 4-year average. Research has found that a blood de- They will be followed closely by eral Gray left Deputy Administrator rivative known as Gamma Globulin, Louisiana, with 106.85 percent; Harold V. Stirling as the acting head when used at the proper time, helps to North Dakota. 105.26 percent, and Veterans' Administration pend- crippling effects of polio. The of the Minnesota. 102.96 percent. halt the ing the appointment of a successor to Following the custom established same pint of blood which yields Gamma the $17,500 a year post. years ago, the outlying and foreign Globulin for this purpose also provides General Gray, a veteran of both Departments will precede the con- essential blood products for the battle- World Wars, has headed the Veterans tinental Departments. They will field wounded GIs. Administration since December 31, 1947. march, as determined by member- As a result of this new development ship enrollment, in the following He is 64 years old and is entitled to the American Red Cross, in cooperation order: Canada, Mexico, France, Italy, Government retirement benefits. with the National Foundation for In- Puerto Rico, Panama Canal Zone, As an Army captain in the first World fantile Paralysis, is stepping up its Hawaii and the Philippine Islands. War he met First Lieutenant Harry S. Canada turned in a percentage of blood donor campaign throughout the Truman. Their friendship was continued 136.76 of its past 4-year average. country. This calls for a more active in the after-war years, and both were participation by every American Legion active in veteran affairs. Thus, when Post. General of the Army Omar Bradley re- "Legionnaires have always supported signed as Veterans' Administrator to PROPOSAL TO TAKE NUMBER the Red Cross blood campaign," said become Army Chief of Staff, President National Child Welfare Chairman Truman appointed General Gray. OF DPs DRAWS LEGION FIRE David V. Addy of Detroit, Michigan, A railroader in civil life, General "since we have a personal appreciation The Administration's proposal to Gray joined the Chicago and North- of the need for blood for our fighting have 240,000 escapees and displaced western Railroad at Chicago in 1928, forces. persons brought into the United States and after the recond World War was "Now, knowing that the same pint of during the next two years has been elected Vice President of that company. blood may also save a child from the labeled a "backdoor attack" on the Mc- He left the position to take up the work crippling effects of polio, we have added Carran-Walter Immigration Act by The as head of the Government department reason to cooperate with this program American Legion. which has in its charge, as a single to the fullest extent in our own com- Appearing before the Senate Commit- agency, administration of benefits to munities." tee on the Judiciary, Crete Anderson of veterans, the hospitals and homes, the Canton, Ohio, chairman of The Ameri- insurance division covering veterans of can Legion Immigration and Naturali- BAY STATE LEGION AWARDS three wars, and other affairs. zation Committee, voiced The American TOP HONOR TO BOSTON POST Legion's opposition to the bill intro- SEAGRAM POSTS WILL GIVE duced at the request of the Administra- The Department of Massachusetts of tion. Anderson said the bill would cir- AUTOS AT ST. LOUIS MEET The American Legion conferred its cumvent the McCarran-Walter Act be- Americanism award to The Boston Post, For the seventh consecutive year, Sea- fore the latter law had a chance to work. signally honoring that newspaper for gram Posts of The American Legion will He pointed out that the proposal would "patriotic action in alerting the public give four new Ford convertible cars to admit many nationals of European to the communist-planned conquest of as many lucky Legionnaires or Auxili- countries over and above the quota al- the world." ares at the 35th annual National Con- lowed by the McCarran-Walter law. Presentation of the coveted award vention at St. Louis, Missouri, August Anderson also questioned wr hether all won by the Post was made by Depart- 31-September 3. In addition to the fully subversive persons could be properly ment Vice Commander Charles N. Col- equipped automobiles which will be screened from the escapees. He said in- lates on Sunday, May 3. It was accepted awarded, the Seagram Post will make a vestigators could be "99 percent correct on behalf of the newspaper by Joseph further gift of $250 to the Post or Unit in their risky decisions and wrong in F. McLaughlin, editor of the veterans' of the Legionnaire or Auxiliare. the remaining one percent and that section of the paper.

There are no strings to the offer and would mean an addition of 1,250 poten- The award is inscribed : "To The Bos- no obligations. It is not a lottery—and tial spies and saboteurs." ton Post for its forthright policy in ad- there is no chance other than in drawing The American Legion spokesman de- vocating the American way of life—for the names from the big revolving drums. plored the practice of sending our its bold and revealing series of front The Seagram Posts—three of them, in youth to fight from San Francisco and page editorials on 'The Future of New York, Illinois and California—fully opening our ports on the East Coast to Soviet Foreign Policy.' This series has explain the plan in a double-page ad- able-bodied immigrants who will even- awakened many to the communist- vertisement on pages 26 and 27 of this tually be competing with our veterans planned conquest of the world. For its issue of the magazine. Simply fill in the for jobs and housing. daily picture page of our fighting men coupon — names drawn win the cars, Asserting that some financial experts in the Far East so that we may con- whether in attendance at the Convention have predicted an economic recession in stantly be aware of the price of the cold or not. Mail your coupon to the Seagram the event of a Korean truce, Anderson war to our own citizens. For this and Posts, The American Legion, P. 0. Box said if this is the case the people brought many other patriotic deeds The Boston 944, St. Louis, Missouri—or if coupon over here will be in direct competition Post has performed through the years, has not been sent, fill one out when with American veterans who will have The American Legion proudly makes registering at the Convention. returned from Korea and Europe. this presentation."

2Q • The American Legion Magazine • July. 1953 WWI STARS AND STRIPES Cut in Appropriations for VA Vital Service AGAIN OFFERED FOR SALE

The great soldier newspaper of the Blow Below Belt, Gough Tells the President first World War, particularly for all who served overseas, was of course The medi- A personal plea for adequate 1954 of $55,900,000 in the allocation for Stars and Stripes, put out by a salty Veterans Administration appropriations cal and hospital services. According to bunch of soldier-newspaper men from was to President on published estimates, this will a made Eisenhower, mean a central plant in Paris. Old soldiers, loss existing beds. This, added May 25, by National Commander Lewis of 4,809 sailors and Marines still talk about K. Gough. Commander Gough told the to 4,000 deferred beds, means a total Wallgren's cartoons, carried on in post- President that loss of beds. VA fund cuts recom- almost 9,000 war years in this magazine; about Bald- official that mended by the Bureau of the Budget The budget figures show ridge's sketches; the letters from would have a "devastating" effect on the reduction in personnel will mean Henry's pal to Henry ; the buck private's of veterans' medical and hospital services. a loss of an average 8,641 VA em- idea of how to win the war; gripping, Since announcement of the proposed ployees in medical, domiciliary, hospital convincing and understandable edito- cuts administrative services. these on May 20, Commander Gough said, and Of rials; the Dizzy Sector; the divisional American Legion headquarters has re- 8,641 employees, 6,817 are in the medi- histories; the columns of verse, and the ceived expressions of protest domiciliary hospital services. from cal, and down to earth columns of letters from Legionnaires and medical and civic The National Commander said the re- men on the fighting lines. leaders in 46 States. ductions would mean "grievous impair- It was a great newspaper, produced "It is disabled just incredible that anybody ment of the care provided our under the most difficult conditions both would faith ill veterans." cuts cannot be suggest breaking with the and The as to writing, newsgathering and pro- Nation's disabled defenders at a time made without reducing both the quality duction—in a French printshop. But the when battle casualties are still mount- and quantity of VA hospital and medi- tough-minded, trained newspaper men ing," Commander Gough said, "but that cal activities, he added. in charge surmounted the difficulties is exactly what the Congress is being Commander Gough expressed the be- with the same dash and brilliance that the asked to do." lief that the President had not had their comrades in the field took the Hin- called opportunity personally to evalu- The American Legion chief at time or denburg line. The Stars and Stripes be- the action in White House while VA officials were ate the Budget Bureau terms came a collectors' item soon after the appearing in disabled closed session before a of its destructive impact upon close of the war, and original, Paris- particularly casualties in House appropriations subcommittee on veterans, our printed sets dating from February 8, Capitol Hill. Budget lopped Korea. The Bureau 1918, to June 13, 1919, before 1930 sold continuing. $279,168,000 off the agency's total ap- "Casualties in Korea are at auction in New York for as much as propriation request will consider these re- approved by the The K- Veterans $1,000. In later years the price dropped previous administration last 9. ductions in benefits services as January and a to less than half that sum. Included in the revised figure is a slash blow below the belt," he stated. But the WWI veteran or Legion Post desiring a complete set of the Stars and Stripes will not have to lay out that kind of money to fill their want. Back YAKIMA POST CELEBRATES; BURNS $115,000 MORTGAGE in 1932 the entire 568 pages, exactly as they originally appeared, was reprinted and substantially bound in full black buckram. Thousands of copies were sold at the original publication price of $15, and in recent years these reprints have commanded a premium up to $30 in the antiquarian book market. The remainder of this edition has been laying for years in the storage rooms of The National Tribune at Washington. Now this space is needed for other purposes, and to close out the issue—also to get them into the hands of those who will most appreciate the WWI paper— the bound reprint edition is being offered at $5, postpaid. Address orders to The National Tribune Corporation, P. O. Box 1803, Washington 13, D. C.

Keeping Touch With Servicemen Reviving a general practice of thousands of Posts during WW2, Leonard Bronxville, New Logan Wheeler Post No. 36, Yakima, while the Post was paying on the mort- Morange Post No. 464, Washington, staged a real celebration gage, the members had not slacked in York, keeps in touch with the service- letter is sent to when they paid off the last part of the carrying out Legion programs and com- men from its area. A mortgage on their home—and thus gave munity projects. In the picture above, each man soon after induction : "The the 1,300-member Legion unit a debt- left to right, are Department Adjutant members of Leonard Morange Post No. wel- free home and club house. In the pres- Fred Fuecker; Fay Hurlbut, Com- 464 are keenly interested in your it were ence of a gathering of some 250 Legion- mander of the Post when the building fare. Each member wishes that hasten naires, the Department Commander and was purchased in 1947; Post Com- possible for him to do more to Adjutant among them, Post Commander mander William B. Hoist, ready to touch the day of your return to the com- William B. Hoist touched a lighted fire to the paid-off certificate of debt; munity," is the opening paragraph. courtesy card match to the $115,000 mortgage. "This Department Commander Lloyd B. Stod- With each letter goes a Commander Edward J. is the bigarest thing you have done," dard, and Senior Vice Commander Leslie signed by commented Department Commander Rach, who also heads the Department O'Shea, commending the holder to Lloyd Stoddard, who then called atten- Convention Committees. The Washing- Legion Posts wherever he may be station to the fact that through the years ton Department. tioned. The American Legion Magazine • July. 1953 * 21 CIVIL WAR VETS HONORED DEAN B. NELSON APPOINTED BY LEGION MEMORIAL DAY CRIPPLED CHILDREN GET ASST. SECURITY DIRECTOR WHEEL CHAIRS FROM POST Dean B. Nelson, Narrows, Vir- 1562 "Gbc CIVIL WMK 2S65 Members of Lincoln Village Post ginia, former editor-publisher of No. 833, Long Beach, California, weekly newspapers, has been named have gone into production of wheel Assistant Director of the National chairs for cerebral palsied children Security Commission by National as a continuing project. A number Commander Lewis K. Gough. He have already been completed and took over his new duties on May are in use, some dozen or more are 18 as assistant to Director James in the making. Lincoln Village Post R. Wilson, Jr., at the National Head- took up this fine community service quarters. program when other agencies failed A native of Newell, Iowa, Assist- to assist a neighbor child, for whom ant Director Nelson formerly edited the first chair was built. So over- the Albert City (loica) Appeal, and whelming was the demand for mo're the Valley Leader, at Narrows, Vir- wheel chairs, the Legionnaires set ginia. He graduated from Newell to work in earnest. The mobile units High School and attended Morning- are constructed by volunteers in free side College, and after service in WW2 evenings, on holidays and over graduated from Butler University, weekends in garages converted into Indianapolis. In overseas service workshops. with the 285th Engineer Combat Battalion he saw hard fighting, and is a veteran of the Battle of the U kt t C *J I 2u> V* : c-o you Bulge. His Legion connection goes mat performance; played professional back to 1940, before he was eligible Albert Poison football with the New York Giants, and to become a member, when he was played in 34 movies, and was a double a citizen of the Boys' We send $cst IVbhcs for this dap Wt salute ytm Hawkeye State. for Charles Laughton in "Henry VII." He holds Legion membership in the final survivor or' a am that gave the United thtsfwHte. Though he played football for five col- Giles County Post No. 68, at Narrows, Staws OheiiatioaiiididjhafitifVfrfar^c Virginia. tiw canst fot u'hich xjou and almost thm million ofhrr leges and never went to a class, he was comrades in Hue soValiamiu fouahr. graduated from the Atlanta Division of

0ur!wt indeed u'tshes you luelljfe veterans ot the the Georgia University School of Jour- thm post wars m hail y»~u the ciwmt ys sentoi meruit nalism at the age of 60. OREGON SETS A NEW DATE TO APPLY FOR WW2 BONUS •AVI GOPHER STATE POST OLDER safe Deadline for applying- for the Oregon THAN LEGION ORGANIZATION WW2 veterans' bonus has been ex- The question of just which Legion unit tended to December 31, 1953, by recent An official citation by the Legion na- is the oldest has never been settled, action of the Oregon legislature. The tional organization and messages of though claims come up from time to State Attorney General has ruled that cheer from National Commander Lewis time. Here is one that dates back to just the Oregon Department of Veterans' K. Gough went to each of the five sur- twelve days after Theodore Roosevelt, Affairs as the result of this legislation viving veterans of the Civil War on Jr., gave a dinner in Paris to twenty may accept, process and pay applica- Memorial Day. At Duluth, Minnesota, officers to discuss the organization of tions filed on or before the new dead- Albert Woolson, 106, sole survivor of the society of war veterans. The dinner line date. Union Armies, served as Grand Marshal a was given on the evening of February The previous deadline was December of the parade in remembrance of the all but vanished "Boys in Blue" and the 16, 1919. 1, 1952. H. C. (Hub) Saalfeld, Director dead all Theodor Petersen Post No. 1, Minne- of the Oregon Veterans' Department, of wars. Special attention was paid to the four surviving Confederate apolis, Minnesota, dates its organization has estimated that 2,000 veterans or veterans in their home communities- back to February 28, 1919, when men of their next of kin failed to apply in time Thomas E. Riddle, the 151st Field Artillery, 42nd (Rain- to meet the original deadline. 106, Austin, Texas; Walter W. Williams, 110, Franklin, bow) Division, got together to form a Persons who applied after last De- Texas; John Sailing, 106, Fort Black- continuing veteran society. Friendly to cember 1 need not file again. Their more, Virginia, and William A. Lundy, becoming aligned with a national or- claims are currently being processed. 106, Laurel Hill, Florida. ganization, the name of the group was Eligible veterans or survivors who have Among the tributes paid to Veteran changed to "Loyal American Legion" on not yet filed should write the Depart- Albert Woolson was a handsomely let- March 20, 1919 -three days after the ment of Veterans' Affairs, State Library tered citation (and a box of cigars) adjournment of the historic Paris Cau- Building, Salem, Oregon, for applica- presented by Liberty Post No. 779, cus. On April 17 the name was again tion forms. Chicago, Illinois. The parchment, shown changed to "American Legion," and on The Oregon bonus is paid only for above, was proposed by Post Adjutant May 22 the official name Theodor Peter- active service between September 16, Bernard E. Ingersoll. The design and sen Post No. 1, The American Legion, 1940 and June 30, 1946. To be entitled, lettering is the hand work of Robert was adopted. The Post was named in the veteran must have been a bona fide Callahan. honor of a Medical Corps Sergeant, Oregon resident for one year immedi- killed in action, who had served in the ately prior to his WW2 service; he must 151st Field Artillery with the founders. have served actively 90 days or more Man Mountain Dean Dead The first Post Commander was Dr. between the above dates, and have been Frank S. Leavitt, 63 — known the John E. Soper, who will celebrate his honorably discharged. The bonus pays world over as Man Mountain Dean — 87th birthday in July. He was recently $10 for each full month of domestic died of a heart attack at his Norcross, awarded a Gold Life Membership card duty and $15 for each full month of Georgia, home on May 29. A colorful by the Post. foreign or sea duty, up to a maximum figure at Legion National Conventions, Another distinction, says Past Com- of .$600. serving as Assistant Sergeant-at-arms, mander B. B. Belfer, is that special Survivors of veterans who died in the Man Mountain had a long and authority was granted to Theodor Peter- service or following discharge who are varied career as a football player, sen Post to retain its red artillery stand- entitled to payment include unremar- wrestler, soldier, and movie actor. He ard as the Post standard, and this red ried widows, the children, and the wrestled in 6,783 matches, at his peak flag has been shown in many National parents, in that order. commanding $500 to $1,500 for each Convention parades.

32 * The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 ;

SCHOOLMEN'S POST AWARDS SHANGHAI POST IN EXILE AVIATORS' POST AWARDS HONOR TO HIGH CHURCHMAN OPERATES AS ACTIVE UNIT TOP MEDAL TO McGOVERN

Francis Cardinal Spellman of the Though badgered and pestered by Aviators' Post No. 743, New York Archdiocese of New York received the wars and the dispersal of its members City, held an official meeting at the fourth annual Americanism Award of to the far reaches of the earth, Gen- Columbia University Club on the eve- the Schoolmen's Post No. 543, New York eral Frederick Town send Ward Post ning of May 13 to celebrate the 50th City, at impressive ceremonies held at No. 1, Shanghai, China, still maintains anniversary of powered flight. The guest Fort Jay, Governors Island, on May 9. its status as an active unit in the Legion of honor was Captain Vincent Mc- The award was made in recognition of organization. It is now operating in Govern, U. S. Air Force, who was outstanding civic contributions made by exile at Los Angeles, California, under awarded the Aviators' Valor Medal for his Eminence; his recent survey of the Post Commander C. A. S. Helseth with his accomplishment as flight commander life of American fighting men on the a total reported membership of 31 on of "Operation Hopalong," the first lines in Korea, and his leadership in May 1. For more than 20 years this trans-oceanic crossing by helicopter. the field of fine and constructive Ameri- Legion unit served as an American out- Captain McGovern led two helicopters canism. post and rallying center at Shanghai. It and three pilots across the North At- The citation for "selfless service and managed to survive the early wars and lantic from Westover Field, Massachu- noble achievement in the cause of God Japanese occupation, but was dispersed setts, to Germany in 1952. and country" was presented in the pres- when the communists came into power The Aviators' Valor Medal is a dis- ence of church dignitaries, Legion offi- in China. tinctive award made annually by Avia- cials, five members of the New York Members of Ward Post managed to tors' Post to rated Air Force personnel City Board of Education, and others. smuggle out the colors and other Post who have accomplished some outstand- Originated in 1950, the first citation property, including a treasm-y of up- ing aerial achievement. Superin- went to Dr. William Jansen, wards of $1,000, which was lodged at Presentation of the medal was made tendent of New York City schools; Ber- the National Headquarters at Indian- by Major Alexander P. de Seversky, a nard Baruch in 1951, and Judge Harold apolis. Since that time the headquarters member of the Post. Igor Sikorsky, En- Medina in 1952. of Ward Post has been wherever the gineering Manager of Sikorsky Aircraft Post Commander happened to be. Com- — known as "Mr. Helicopter" — was a mander Helseth gets out an occasional guest speaker. He lauded the pioneer UNIT HISTORIES PRINTED chatty newsletter which he sends to flight of Captain McGovern as a new OVERSEAS STILL AVAILABLE members in the homeland and to a dozen mark in aerial service, and particularly or more foreign countries—that is the in the Air Rescue Service. "The flight Several military units in service in one means of keeping contact. For old proved that helicopters, strategically the ETO in WW2 compiled and pub- members who have lost contact, the positioned, are capable of servicing any lished histories before return to the present address is: C. A. S. Helseth, corner of the globe providing proper re- homeland. A few of these are still avail- Commander, Richfield Oil Company, 645 fueling facilities are available," he said. "helicopter able from the German publishers, ac- South Mariposa Avenue, Los Angeles 5, Further he declared that cording to word received from Stanley California. crews on long overwater flights could, P. Sibley. These include: Avengers, the unlike conventional aircraft, materially Story of the 95 Armored Field Artillery aid each other in event of operational Daredevil Tankers, 740th Tank Bat- SURVEY SHOWS VETS WITH difficulties. Pilots on such flights could talion; Victory TD, 628th Tank Destroy- fly contact for as long as they wished er Battalion; 644th Tank Destroyer Bat- NO INCOME IN HOSPITALS thus enabling them to make clear obser- talion; 22nd Fighter Squadron; The vations, rescues, contacts and exchange Through its National Rehabilitation 30th in the ETO; 387th AAA Bat- of personnel with surface craft. This AW program workers The American Legion talion; Fire Mission, 71st Armored Field would render a multitude of other valu- has now compiled a report of bedside Artillery Battalion, and perhaps others. able services which no other craft could surveys of conditions surrounding ad- Stanley P. Silbey, Nahbollenbach QM perform." mittance of 1,799 so-called non-service- the 50th an- Depot, APO 34, cax-e Postmaster, New The meeting in honor of connected veterans to thirteen VA hos- York, N. Y., will be glad to give infor- niversary of powered flight and to hon- pitals. mation and direct inquirers to the pub- or Captain McGovern attracted a ca- surveys show that these 1,799 Air lishers. These pacity attendance. The Air Force, veterans had spent $959,078.51 in se- National Guard, Royal Air Force, and curing private medical and hospital care air arms of the Navy and Coast Guard, U.S.A." FILM 'CROSSROADS prior to their admittance to VA hospi- as well as officials of commercial air READY FOR LEGION SHOWING tals. Of the 1,799 veterans, income lines and aircraft manufacturing com- stopped in the cases of 963 and an ad- panies were in attendance. Commander A fast-moving, action-packed film, ditional 564 were dependent upon the James Hoskinson presided. "Crossroads U. S. A."—a drama set in income from their permanent and total country service station and featuring pensions. Eighty-three percent a disability Denmark Legion at Unveiling an all-Hollywood cast—has been made of the group hospitalized were without Twenty-five members of Denmark available for Legion showing. In the income after admission, or were depen- Post No. Copenhagen, Denmark, had person of a frustrated, confused Ameri- dent upon income from their Part 3 3, a part in the services at the unveiling can boy, the story shows what people pensions. of the Jo Davidson bust of Franklin D. say, think and do when big issues touch- Roosevelt at Copenhagen on May 5. ing their lives unexpectedly rise before Red Devil Go-Getter Legionnaires served as color bearers— them. The film was produced in 1952, in the Danish and United States flags— 16mm or 35mm, sound, black and white, Red Devil Post No. 59, Oak Hill, West during the service. The ceremony was and is timed at 25 minutes. The film is Virginia, had a membership of 44 in closed when Post Commander Munck offered to Legion Posts without charge 1952, but in 1953 the Legion outfit is Kastoft placed a wreath at the foot of other than return shipping charge. looking up. Spearheaded by Dr. G. Steele the memorial. Write Oil Industry Information Com- Callison, Assistant Post Adjutant, a mittee, 50th Street, York drive was put on for new members and 50 West New Garlands for France's Unknown 20, N. Y., giving Post number, name of revival of old memberships. At last ac- person to receive film, where to send it counts the Post had enrolled 150, nearly Memorial Post No. 206, Rochester, and estimate of number who will see double the assigned Department quota, New York, placed a wreath on the tomb the showing. Several other films are and still going strong. Dr. Callison per- of the Unknown Soldier of France, in available from the Oil Industry Infor- sonally signed up more than one-third the Arch of Triumph, Paris, on Memo- mation Committee. of the number. rial Day. The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 • 23 Isaac Gimbel Post No. 1206, New * York City, and the Gimbel store organi- * * * LEGIONITEMS * * zation paid honor to Past Commander Aaron Lief when he completed his 20th blood donation of one pint at each take. Harry F. W. Johnson Post No. 379, Florida, is a life-sized oil portrait of In addition to his blood donor work, Bethlehem. Pennsylvania, honored its George W. Cooley, Jr., for whom the Post Past Commander Lief has visited 33 Past Commanders—30 living and is named. The portrait is a recent gift of wounded and sick veterans in hospitals three dead—by award of citations at a Artist William F. Becker. . . . Earl J. once a week since 1938. . . . Billy Young banquet. Presentation of citations was Watt Post No. 638, Bessemer, Pennsyl- Post No. 158, Goodman, Mississippi, made by Past Department Commander vania, is completing a $45,000 Post home, claims a record for Legionnaire James Charles S. Cook. Posthumous awards which will be dedicated during the sum- Grady Jacob. He has served as Com- were to Caleb S. Kenney, the first Com- mer. Main hall will have a seating ca- mander of three Posts: Roy Lammons mander in 1920; Earl A. Ziegenfus, pacity of about 400; meeting rooms and No. 7, Yazoo City; Preston Hudson No. 1923, and Harry W. Bader, 1929. . . . club facilities in the basement. The 10, Durant, and Billy Young No. Angelica (New York) Post reports a "Veterans Memorial Home" will also 158, Goodman; has served as District husband and wife team directing the serve as a community center—donated Com- mander in three Districts; Department Post for 1953-54-Frank Beckwith was labor and material given by Legionnaires Grave Registration Chairman since installed as Commander and his wife, and friends saved several thousand dol- 1936; Department Vice Commander, and Kathleen, as Post Adjutant. ... In rec- lars in its construction. . . . Department has served on the National Veterans ognition of long and faithful service, of Agriculture Post No. 36, Washington, Preference Committee, the National Central North Philadelphia (Pennsyl- D. C, carries on an active blood donor and Graves Registration Committee, and on vania) Memorial Post No. 692 presented campaign as a year-round activity. Eight numerous Post and Department Com- a Life Membership card to Harry R. top donors were recently honored at a mittees. A teacher for 37 years, Legion- Fox, Past Post Commander and Past luncheon and presentation of certifi- naire Jacob has served as Principal of Commander of the 3rd Legion District. cates: Evlan E. Brown, 43 pints donated; the Goodman Consolidated school for 10 Leonard Carroway, 40; George E. Sud- duth, 28; Ralph F. Raymond, 27; Ralph Four members of Deiman-Gray Post B. Nestler, 19; Walter W. John, 20; Stan- No. 56, Geddes, Dakota — South George ley Loomis, 11, and James G. Lyon, 10. Legionnaire Tom R. Wyles, member Homier, Quincy L. Wright, Clifford G. Honor awards were presented by Post of Highland Park (Illinois) Post No. 145, Cleveland Ernest Beck, first has and Com- Commander Edward F. Seiller. National been awarded the Certificate of Ap- — mander were presented 35-year Con- Legislative Director Miles Kennedy was preciation for Patriotic Civilian Service tinuous . . . Membership cards. Past the guest speaker at the luncheon meet- by the Department of the Army. For 34 Commander Kay F. Urie, member of ing. years Legionnaire Wyles has been a Robert J. Williams Post No. 95, Frost- leading force in the Military Training proof. Florida, died on January 18, 1953. LIFE CARD IN HOME POST Association, and has served as Civilian "He would want his dues paid," said Aide to the Secretary of War. . . . Glad- Mrs. Urie weeks later, when she paid GIVEN TO FINANCE CHIEF stone Post, Chicago, Illinois, is disposing 1953 dues to Commander George L. of its drum and bugle corps equipment,

Langford. . . . When WW2 vet Robert A. drums, and cymbals. Interested Posts Francis was installed as Commander of write John M. Hough, Sr., 6328 Hunting-

St. Petersburg (Florida) Post No. 14- ton Street, Chicago 30, Illinois. . . . Vivi- a 900 member Legion unit— he announced anna Cronin Post No. 119, Butte, Mon- that the Post would actively participate tana, the only all-women Legion Post in all Legion and civic programs. He in the Department, recently initiated has had 64 active committees at work. four new members who served as nurses This Post appropriates $1 of each mem- with the United Nations forces in the ber's dues for the American Legion Hos- Korean War. Mrs. John B. McClernand pital for Crippled Children at St. Peters- is Commander of the Post. ... At its burg, in addition to other financial aid "Old Timers Night," Lowe-McFarlane and personal service on the part of Post No. 14, Shreveport, Louisiana, pre- members. sented 20 35- Year Continuous Member- ship cards to members; 15 30- Year cards; 36 25- Year, and 75 20- Year Cards, A. M. (Paddy) Driscoll, totally blind for a total of 146. Another group of WW1 vet, is one of the top membership- 2,500 whose membership range from 5 getters of M. M. Eberts Post No. 1, to 20 years will receive their cards later. Little Rock, Arkansas, and has made Present membership of the Post exceeds the Century Club-enrolled more than William J. Dwyer, Cortland, New 6,300. 100 members—for 8 consecutive years. York, (right), Chairman of the Legion's With the aid of his seeing-eye dog, National Finance Commission, was Tinka, he has enrolled 325 members for "carded" by the Cortland County Ameri- Sparked by Yosemite (California) 195.'!. can Legion . . . Unique advantages—maybe organization at a meeting Post No. 258 a drive for blood donors opportunities—seem to be offered in elec- held on May 6. In recognition of his is. an annual program, and from a resi- tion to Post Commander of Women's years of devoted labor in the Post, dent population of 1,000 in Yosemite Post No. 465, Kansas City, Missouri. County, District, Department and Na- National Park the annual take is from The Post has had seven Commanders tional levels of the Legion, his home 100 to 130 pints. Fresno send a mobile since its organization by young women county gave him a Life Membership in blood bank. The Post has 40 members, in 1946— five were "Miss" when they his own outfit — Cortland City Post No. 20 of whom live in the National Park, took over the gavel, but were "Mrs." 489. Presentation was made by County says Past Commander Leroy J. Rust.

Commander Paul L. Lang, (left, above). . . . Governor Samuel Wilder King of before their term of service expired. . . . When John Morris, Korea War vet, en- Chairman Dwyer has served as Post, Hawaii, charter member of Honolulu rolled in Edward L. Griffin Post No. County and District Commander, as De- Post No. 1, received his 35-year button 245, Fowler, California, he became the partment Vice Commander; Chairman at a gala party given in his honor by the

of . fourth Morris brother to belong— Rich- some dozens of Department Commit- Oahu County Council. . . George P. tees; Treasurer ard, Manuel, and Joe, Jr., are WW2 vets. of the Department of Dovolos and his WW2 veterans son, New York since 1945, and a member of Nicholas, owners of a restaurant at the National Finance Commission for Perry, Pennsylvania, have given free Hanging in the home of George W. six years, the last three of which he has meals to more than 4,000 service men, Cooley, Jr., Post No. 147, Jacksonville, served as Chairman. continuing a practice started in 1941.

24 * The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 Hotel Roanoke. Write H. F. Collette, Res. Secy., Co. L, 152nd Infantry,— 38th Div.— Annual re- 302 Plaza Bldg., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. union, Warsaw, Ind., July 12; Fair Grounds. OUTFIT REUNIONS 82nd (All American) Airborne Div.— 7th an- Write Clarence W. DeTurk, Box 28, Winona nual convention, Akron, Ohio, July 3-5; May- Lake, Ind. flower Hotel. Info from John J. Nero, Secy., 678 "F" Association, (Navy, Marine Corps and Shook Drive, Akron 19, Ohio. Coast Guard Firefighters)— Reunion, Muncie, Ind., Society of the 1st Division— i5th re- annual 83rd (Thunderbolt) Inf. Div. Assn.-7th an- July 16-18. Details from Wm. J. Mignery, Secy., union, 11-13, Yorker New York City, Sept. New nual convention, Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 20-22; Ontonagon, Mich. Hotel. Info Society of the 1st Div., Box from Hotel Hollenden. Info from 83rd Inf. Div. Assn., Motor Transport Corps No. 400 Co.— 18th re- 1529, Philadelphia Pa. 5, 1435 Clark St., Pittsburgh 21, Pa. union, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 18-19; Alms Hotel. reunion, 1st Armored Div. Assn.—6th annual 88th (Blue Devils) Inf. Div. Assn.-6th annual Info from Fred J. Warren, Secy., 2232 Jefferson Washington, 28-30; Hotel. D. C, Aug. Shoreham convention, Boston, Mass., Aug. 13-16, Sheraton St., Muskegon Heights, Mich. 1529 18th Details from 1st Armored Div. Assn., Plaza Hotel. Info and reservations from Joe 314th Infantry Assn., WW2-7th annual re- St., N.W., 6, D. Washington C. Cooper, Chairman, P.O. Box 156, Brighton, Mass. union, New York City, July 24-26; Park Sheraton 2nd (Indian Head) Div. Assn.— 32nd reunion, 89th (Middle West) Div. Veterans, (both Hotel. Write John Grudzien, 93-17 Roosevelt Boston, Mass., Julv 23-25. Info from Natl. Hdqrs., WWs) -Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 31-Sept. Ave., Jackson Heights, N. Y., or Theodore J. 2nd Div. Assn., 116 N. 3rd St., Camden 2, N. J. Hill, N. Y. 3, during Legion National Convention. Write Romeo, 125-03 107th Ave., Richmond Society of the 3rd (Marne) Infantry Div., Daniel Bartlett, Chairman, 506 Olive St., St. 313th Infantry Assn., 79th Div.— Annual con- (both Korea)— 34th annual convention, WWs and Louis, Mo. vention, Chicago, 111., July 24-26; Hotel Sherman. Chicago, 111., July 12-15. Contact Edward J. But- 90th (Tough 'Ombres) Div. Assn., (Midwest) — Details from Lester N. Siebenaler, Secy-Treas., ler, Hotel Sherman, Clark and Randolph Sts., Reunion, Fargo, N. Dak. Sept. 26; American RR 1, Bryan, Ohio. Chicago, 111. Legion Club. Write Thomas J. Ameson, Treas., Co. E, 145th Inf., 37th Div.-Reunion, Spring- 3rd (Spearhead) Armored Div. Assn.— 6th an- Grounds. Box 962, Minneapolis 1, Minn. field, 111., July 25-26; Illinois State Fair nual convention, Milwaukee, Wis., July 23-25. 92nd (Buffalo) Div. Vets. Assn., (both WWs) Write Charles E. (Chuck) Hart, 1125 So. Oak- Details from Paul W. Corrigan, Natl. Secy., 80 —Reunion, Chicago, 111., Aug. 6-8; headquarters dale, Springfield, 111. Federal St., Mass., or Stuart Goldin, Boston 10, M. 5745 So. State St. For details contact Jesse L. Co. H, 319th Inf., 80th Div., (WWl)-Annual Commercial Trust Bldg., Philadelphia 2, Pa. Carter, Commander, 6223% Indiana Ave., Chi- reunion, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 26; Kennywood 4th (Ivy) Div. Assn.— Annual reunion, Phila- Secy-Treas., cago, 111. Park. Info from W. B. Hayden, delphia, Pa.. Aug. 27-29; Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. 94th Div. Assn., (WW2) -Reunion, New York 44 Academy Ave., Pittsburgh 28, Pa. Contact Silvio D. D'Anella, Chairman, 752 S. 8th City, Jiriy 23-26; Hotel New Yorker. Details from Co. A, 160th Inf., 40th Div., (WW2)-Reunion, St., Philadelphia 47, Pa. Bernard Frank, Chairman, Commonwealth Bldg. Anderson, Ind., July 26; Mound State Park. Con- 5th (Red Diamond) Div., (both WWs)-33rd Allentown, Pa. tact Abbott Ashcraft, Brandenburg, Ky., or Law- 5-7; Hotel annual reunion, New York City, Sept. 95th Inf. Div. Assn.— 4th annual reunion, Mil- rence Blue, Cerro Gordo, 111. New Yorker. Info from John B. Morier, Chair- waukee, Wis., Sept. 25-27; Hotel Plankinton. Info 1721st MM and 798th ARM, Oi l Sec. Hq. Sq. Y. man. 5 W. 63rd St., New York City 23, N. from 95th Inf. Div. Assn., P.O. Box 1274, Chi- 34th Air Depot Group— 3rd annual reunion, St. 6th (Red Star) Infantry Div. Assn., (both Legion cago 90, 111. Paul, Neb., July 31-Aug. i; American 16- WWs) —Convention, Kansas City, Mo., July 99th (Battle Babies) Infantry Div.-Reunion, Club. Write Leonard F. Nesiba, St. Paul, Neb. Mrs. 18; Continental Hotel. Info from Mr. and Washington. D. C, July 18-20; Mayflower Hotel. Co. C, 805th TD Bn.-Reunion, Indiana, Pa., Phillips, representatives, 4242 J. W. Convention Info from James A. Fennie, Secy., 100 Rosary Aug. 1; VFW Country Club. Info from Francis Olive St., Kansas City, Mo., or H. A. Sauleen, Ave., Lackawanna, N. Y. Harper, Jr., P. O. Box 284, Indiana, Pa. Secy-Treas., 5325 Hiawatha Ave., Minneapolis Pa., 102nd (Ozark) Inf. Div.-Reur.ion, Chicago, 111., 761st FA Bn., (WW2)-Reunion, Irwin, 17, Minn. Aug. 7-9; Hotel Sherman. Info from Earl F. Aug. 1-2; VFW Post Home. Write Dave Vigo, 7th (Lucky Seventh) Armored Div. Assn.— An- Hooper, Secy-Treas., 51 Highland Ave., Port 220 E. Myer Ave., New Castle, Pa. nual reunion, Newark, N. J., Aug. 21-23; Hotel Washington, N. Y. 224th Airborne Medical Co., 17th Airborne Douglas. Details from J. Edward McCarrick, 55 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Div. Assn.-8th Div.— 7th annual reunion, Eldorado, 111., Aug. 2; S. Oraton Parkway, East Orange, N. J. annual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 5-7: Hotel American Legion Hall. Details from Harry Cot- 8th Herd) Div. (Thundering Armored Assn.— Hollenden. Write John J. Kristofik, Secy., 2280 ter, Eldorado, 111. Annual reunion, Philadelphia, Pa., July 3-5; Bel- annual re- W. 41st St., Cleveland 13, Ohio. American Div. Ordnance Cos.—4th levue-Stratford Hotel. Write Daniel H. Hahn, 106th (Golden Lion) Inf. Div.—7th annual reunion, Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Aug. 6-9; Chulla Jr., Chairman, 529 Forrest Ave., Drexel Hill, Pa. union, Columbus, Ohio, July 24-26; Hotel Fort Vista Resort. Contact Max H. Hange, 275 W. 9th Infantry Div. 8th Assn.— annual convention, Hayes. Contact D. B. Frampton, Jr., Chairman, Chestnut St., Akron 7, Ohio. Washington, D. C, July 16-18; Hotel Statler. 1201 Huntington Bank Bldg., Columbus, Ohio. 160th WAC Co.-lOth anniversary of going Contact Stan Cohen, Natl. Secy-Treas., P.O. Box 338th Bombardment Group (H) Assn.— 4th an- overseas, reunion, Chicago, 111., Aug. 7-8; LaSalle 428, Jersey City 3, N. J. nual reunion, Bedford Springs, Pa., July 2-4; Hotel. Info and reservations from Mildren Ali- 11th (Thunderbolt) Armored Div.— 11th na- Bedford Springs Hotel. Information from Lloyd bone, 7833 Marquette Ave., Chicago 49, 111. tional convention and reunion, York City, reunion. Indian- New Long, Secy., 383 Adams St., Tonawan'da, N. Y. 69Sth Ord. HM Co., (Tk)-3rd Aug. 13-15; Hotel Roosevelt. For details write Co. B, 540th Engineers— 8th annual reunion, 15 apolis, Ind., Aug. 7-9; Claypool Hotel. Contact Bill Peters, 97-17 129th St., Richmond Hill. N. Y. Weber Court, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, N. Y., Al Coffin, 530 N. Raines Ave., Plainfield, Ind.; 12th (Hellcat) Armored Div. Assn.— 7th annual Ave., Indianapolis, July 4. Details from Malcolm Kay, 15 Weber Ct., Bob Williams, 4515 Evanston reunion, Detroit, Mich., Aug. 27-30; Hotel Statler. Brooklyn, N. Y. Ind., or Bob Sheetz, 1129 Meade St., Reading, Pa. Write William W. Hawkins, Exec. Secy., 1086 annual reunion, 904th FA Bn.-Reunion, Chicago, 111., July 4-6; 3459th Ord. (MAM) Co.-lst Geneva Ave., Columbus 8, Ohio. Hotel Maryland. Write Eugene Maurey, Jr., Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 7-9; Harrisburger Hotel. 16th Armored Div.— Annual reunion, Cleveland, Robert Eckert, Pres., 2452 E. 72nd St., Chicago 49, 111. Details and reservations from Ohio, Aug. 14-16; Hotel Hollenden. Write Lester 4111 N. Reese St., Philadelphia, Pa., or John C. Bennett, Chairman, 5820 Recamper Dr., Toledo Floyd, RD 2, Box 110, Aliquippa, Pa. 13, Ohio. 749th Railway Opn. Bn.-Reunion, Seattle, 24th (Victory) Inf. Div.-Reunion, St. Louis, THE AMERICAN LEGION Wash., Aug. 14-15; Benjamin Franklin Hotel. Mo., Aug. 14-16. Info from Allyn Miller, Vice NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Contact Don Gothard, 84 Dana Ave., Columbus Pres.. 737 E. Livingston Ave., Cilumbus 5, Ohio. 8, Ohio. 25th Infantry Div. (all personnel) —Annual re- APRIL 30, 1953 977th Engineer Maintenance Co.— 8th annual union, Washington, D. C, Aug. 7-9; Hotel Statler. ASSETS reunion, Tolchester Beach, Md., Aug. 14-16; Hotel Info from G. J. Check, Colonel, Inf., Office Chief Tolchester. Info from Linden J. Bush, P.O. Box of Legislative Liaison, Dept. of Army, Washing- W. Va. Cash on hand and on deposit. . . .$ 770,374.36 284, Charles Town, ton 25, D. C. Receivables 269,756.21 USS Kidd and USS Black Assns.-5th annual 27th Div. Assn. (both WWs) -33rd annual re- Inventories 413,555.74 joint convention, New York City, Aug. 14-16; union, Syracuse, 9-10. N. Y., Oct. For info and Invested Funds 1 ,056,358.11 Hotel Governor Clinton. Write Harold Manning, copy of The Orion Gallivanter write Natl. Hqrs., Permanent Trusts: 310 E. 8th St., Kewanee, 111. Texas, 27th Div. Assn., P.O. Box 1403, Albany, N. Y. Overseas Graves Decoration Richfield Aviation School, Waco, Society of the 28th (Keystone) Div., (both City, Utah, Aug. Trust Fund $ 253,779.30 (WWl)-Reunion, Salt Lake WWs) -Convention, Harrisburg, Pa.. July 22-25. Employees' Retirement 14-15. Contact H. E. Bassford, 1515 Mill Creek Reservations from Robert Beigel, 312 Laskowski, 18 S. Mar- Trust Fund 1,269,207.55 1 ,522,986.85 Way, Salt Lake City, or Wm. E. ket Sq., Harrisburg, Pa. Dr., Kansas City 16, Mo. 973,972.65 Northwest 29th (Blue and Gray) Div., (both WWs)-An- Real Estate 27th Armored Inf. Bn., 9th Armored Div.-2nd nual reunion, New York City, Sept. 4-7; Hotel Furniture and Fixtures, annual mid-west reunion, Kansas City, Mo., Aug. Depreciation 274,379.10 Statler. Details from Donald N. Sheldon, 30 At- less Hotel President. Info from Phil Dunn, 800 Deferred Charges 61,745,65 22; kins Ave., Brooklyn 8, N. Y. E. 21st St., Wichita, Kans. 30th (Old Hickory) Inf. Div. Assn.-7th an- $5,343,128.67 Co. K, 22nd Engineers, (WWl)-29th annual nual reunion, Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 20-22. Details reunion, Charleston, 111., Aug. 23; Morton Park. from John P. Carbin, Jr., Exec. Secy., P.O. Box Alexander, RR 3, Ashland, Ohio. LIABILITIES, DEFERRED REVENUE Write Fay S. B, Bergen Sta., Jersey City, N. J. 309th Engineers Assn. and Ladies Auxiliary— 32nd (Red Arrow) Div. Assn., (both WWs)- AND NET WORTH 29th annual reunion, Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 28- Annual reunion, Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 5-7. Info 29; Gibson Hotel. Write George Stoner, Secy- Current Liabilities $ 299,822.18 from Walter W. Jennerjahn, Chairman, 32nd Treas., Box 52, Manchester, Tenn. or Russ Hen- Funds restricted as to use 96,810.59 Memorial Bldg., 774 N. Broadway, Milwaukee 2, Pres., 1925 Wayland, Norwood 12, Ohio. Deferred Income 1,317,033.29 derly, Wis. 537th Ordnance HM Co., FA-7th annual re- Permanent Trusts: 37th (Buckeye) Div. Vets. Assn.— 35th annual union, New York City, Aug. 22; Hotel Victoria. Overseas Graves Decoration reunion, Akron, Ohio, Sept. 5-7; Hotel Mayflower. Details from James McGrath, Chairman, 35 EI- Trust $ 253,779.30 Info from 37th Div. Hqrs., 21 W. Broad St., 1101 Trumbull 19, Conn., or Bill Lang, Employees' Retirement berta Ave., Wyandotte Bldg., Columbus 15, Ohio. 26 Lauf St., Worcester, Mass. 1,269,207.55 1,522,986.85 Secy., 41st (Sunset) Infantry Div.— Reunion, Olympia, Trust 835th Engineers Avn. Bn.-Reunion, St. Louis, Wash., Aug. 15-16. Details from 41st Div. Post Net Worth: Mo., Aug. 29; DeSoto Hotel. Info from C. H. No. 165, American Legion, 526 N.W. Broadway, Restricted Capital: (Red) Hare, 77 Wilder Terrace, Rochester 12, Portland 9, Oregon. Reserve Fund . . 23,464.13 N. Y. 42nd (Rainbow) Div. Veterans, (both WWs) — Restricted Fund. 17,939.98 American Balloon Corps Veterans—22nd annual 35th annual reunion, Chicago, 111., July 11-14; Reserve for construction reunion, Belleville, 111., (near St. Louis, Mo.), Hotel Sheraton. Contact for reunion, Sydney C. Wash. Office.. 47,901.16 Aug. 29-Sept. 1; Hotel Belleville. For details write Anderson, Gen. Chm., 3015 Thayer St., Evanston, Real Estate 973,972.65 J. Wilbur Haynes, Personnel Officer, 4007 Far- 111.; other Rainbow matters, R. Allen Gibbons, Reserve for Rehabili- nam St., Omaha 3, Neb. Natl. Secy.. Box 342, Roanoke 3, Va. tation 317,941.07 50th Inf., 13th Inf., and Camp Rochambeau- 69th Inf. Div. Assn. — Annual reunion, New Reserve for Child Reunion, St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 31-Sept. 3 during York Citv. Aug. 21-23; Hotel Statler. Info from Welfare 20,627.54 Legion Natl. Convention. Contact James G. Pierce Rice, Room 404, 109 W. 42nd St., New 1,401,846.53 Smith, 1508 Jefferson St., Quincy, 111. York, N. Y. Unrestricted Capital: World Wars Tank Corps Assn.-Reunion, St. 75th Inf. Div. Vet. Assn.—National convention, Excess of Income over Louis, Mo., Aug. 31-Sept. 3 during Legion Natl. Washington, D. C, Aug. 14-16; Hotel Washing- Expense 704,629.23 2.106.475.7G Convention. Address inquiries to Tom White, ton. Write John McBurney, Secy., 5822 E. 14th 708 Wallace St., Indian- $5,343,128.67 National Adjutant, N. St., Kansas City, Mo. apolis, Ind. 80th (Blue Ridge) Div. Vets. Assn., (both (Continued on page 36) WWs)—Annual reunion, Roanoke, Va., July 23-26; The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 • 35 Camp Patrick Henry Station Hospital, New- port News, Va., (Jan., 1944), and Co. 3, 21st COMRADES IN DISTRESS Regt., Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., (Oct. 1943)-Will MISSING IN KOREA Major Karp, orthopedic surgeon, and Lt. Evelyn Headick, who gave diathermy treatment at Sta- tion Hospital, please write. Also Lt. Helen Walsh, Heavy Mortar Co., 31st Infantry—My son, Pfc. 257th Platoon, 3rd Marine Div., (WW2) : re- helped CO WAC, who pick me up when injured Carroll Jack Simrell, was reported missing Nov. called 1950, in 1st Casual Co., Camp Pendleton, by running into stake a at Fort Oglethorpe. 30, 1950; will greatly appreciate any word about Cal.—Will anyone who remembers my late hus- help Need to establish claim. Ethel V. Hofstra, him, or from anyone who knows the circum- band, Walter P. Willig, Jr., please write; need Ward Veterans A GR. W, Administration Center, stances of his disappearance. Also would like to help to complete claim for pension. Mrs. June Los Angeles 25, Cal. hear from parents of men in same company. Wittig, Shell Rock, Iowa. Co. D, 56th Bn., 12th Regt., Fannin, Camp Mrs. Lillie Simrell, 123 West Olive St., Eldorado SS Salt Lake City-Would like to hear from Texas— Will anyone who remembers me in serv- Springs, Mo. shipmates who remember back injury suffered ice, please write. Need statements to establish Co. B, 5th Inf. Regt RCT-My son, Pvt. An- by Electrician Mate 3/c Francis Kolirosky while claim. Platoon leader was Lt. Bates, 1st Lt. thony Mattucci, missing in action, Punch Bowl ship was being repaired at Pearl Harbor in 1943. McKee was CO. Address R. L. Reeves, Box 133, area, June 20, 1952; will anyone who has infor- Write Edward F. Loughrea, County Vet. Service Mobeetie, Texas. mation about him, or any knowledge of his Officer, Grand Rapids, Minn. 43rd Gen. Hospital, Corps, Liv- Med. Camp whereabouts please write his anxious mother. Station Hospital, Daniel Field, Augusta, Ga.— ingston, La.—Must have help to establish claim; Mrs. P. Mattucci, 230 E. 67th St., Will the Chiropodist at this station between 1942 New York 21, will men who served with me above station July, N. Y. and late 1943, and First Sergeant who gave me to Bar- 1942, April, 1943, please write. George R. Co. E, 9th Inf. Regt., 2nd Div.-Will anyone a lift to allergy clinic, Oliver General Hospital, beau, 601 S. Ave., Los Angeles 5, Cal. Vermont having information as to the whereabouts of Pfc. please write. Claim pending. Francis P. Mudge, Hdqrs. Co., 273rd Infantry-Will William Fus- Joseph Cook, missing in Poyang River area since 133-20 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing, L. I., N. Y. tine, Jerry Marchese, Louis Biaggio and others Sept. 1, 1950, please write Mrs. P. McDonald, 40 813th AAF Base Unit (WAC)-Will Capt. who were in the hospital at with me Camp Arlington Ave., Newark, N. J. Dorothy McClure, formerly Warrensburg, Mo., Shelby, Miss., Sept.-Nov., 1943, please write. Help Battery C, 99th FA, or 8th Repl. Co.-Will and Mankato, Minn., or anyone who knows her needed to establish service-connection. Joseph A. present address, please write. Need help on in- anyone who has any information about Pvt. Gheri, 35 Baxter Place, Pittsburgh 21, Pa. Lewis W. Ebernickle, who was leported missing surance claim. Helen I. Ligos, 1012 Elgin Ave., 442nd QM TRT Co.-Need to hear from Capt. at Unson, Nov. 2, 1950, please write his father. Joliet, 111. Nixon, Lt. Squrnin and others who know of a Co. B, 20th Inf., 6th Div.,-Need to contact Lewis Ebernickle, Route 4, Anderson, S. C. truck wreck I had in France in 1944. Claim pend- Battery Capt. Black, former CO, believed to live in Mon- C, 38th FA Bn., 2nd Div.-Sgt. Richard ing. Monell Henrv, 1246 N. 16th St., St. Louis 6, L. Franklin was reported missing Feb. tana, and Platoon Sgt. Koons, formerly Iowa, Mo. 13, 1951, at Wonson; name was released as prisoner by for statements regarding varicose veins devel- Battery B, 133rd Bn., 36th Div.-Will FA enemy soon after capture; known to have been oped by Blaine Perkins while training at Fort Sanieski (only Polish boy in Battery) please alive in April, 1951, but name not on PW list Leonard Wood in July, 1941. Write Henry E. Cot- write; statement urgently needed for claim. C. A. given out in Dec, 1951. Any word about him tarn, 200 W. Clarendon Dr., Dallas, Texas. Hinson, 11 Conn St., Woburn, Mass. will be appreciated. Please write. Mrs. Richard Battery C, 794th AAA AW Bn.-Will anyone 118th Ry. Engineers, later 65th Engineers, L. Franklin, Route 2, Vian, Okla. who remembers Eddie L. Pruitt's leg and back (WWl)-Will Lt. M. Walsh, Co. K; John Edward Co. G, 38th Inf. Regt., 2nd Div.-Anxiously injury in France or Germany in 1944-45; also Fesden or any others who know of my late hus- awaiting word about my son, Cpl. Maxie L. Gib' being sent back to hospital at Rome, Ga., for band, Paul John Prosscr, being gassed and hav- son, reported missing Nov. 28, 1950, near Un- treatment, please write. Need statement to coming flu at Ft. Benj. Harrison, Ind., 1917-18, bong-dong; will anyone who knows anything at plete claim of widow and small son. Mrs. Fleet- please write. Statements needed to prove claim. Pruitt, 428. Mebane, N. C. all about him, or what happened to him, please wood W. P.O. Box Mrs. Teresa N. Prosser, 427 Neck St., North Johnson, who write. Any word will be greatly appreciated. Mrs. 706th EPD Co.-Will Capt. MC, Wevmouth 91, Mass. treated or of the Co. who re- Thedo Gibson, R 2, Mullins, S. C. me, any member MG Co., 4th Inf.. 3rd Div.-Will men of this unload- Co. A, 2nd Engineers (C) Bn., 2nd Div.— members injury to my right hand while company, especially Pvts. Mehan and Sullivan, ing pipe from box car at Ledo, Assam, India, Mother will greatly appreciate any information who remember when I was gassed and then please write. needed to establish serv- from men who knew or were with Pfc. Michael Statements buried by a big shell, please write at once. Need W. Flaherty when reported missing at Kunuri, ice connection. Leonard J. Quillan, VA Center, statements badly. Holloman Hastings, Mountain Dec. 1, 1950. Please write. Mrs. John M. Flaherty, Co. No. 1, Dayton, Ohio. View, Ark. until Sept., 3 Center St., North Adams, Mass. MD, NYD, "Philadelphia, Pa.- (Jan. 3rd Bn., 32nd Inf. Regt., 7th Div.-Need to Co. C, 32nd Inf. Regt.-P/c. Robert A. Best, 1926). Need to hear from Justice T. Bowling. locate Dr. Alexander Ling, Dr. Kenneth Curwin Jr., was reported missing Dec. 2, 1950, in the Elmer P. Gorre or any others who remember (Kerwin), Dr. Diamond, T/5 Medcalf or others Chosin Reservoir area; no other word; not on when I fell in barracks and injured my arm. Need who have knowledge of ambulance wreck near PW list. Anyone who knows anything about him, statements. Write James B. Giles, Ashland St., Seoul, Korea, November, 1946. Statements needed or what happened to him, will help ease anxiety Hickman, Ky. for claim of Bivion E. Murphy, Jr. Address John Truck to locate Baldini by writing his mother. Any word will be ap- 2222nd Co.-Need John N. Marbury. Adjt., Auburn Post No. 258, Auburn, and Willie Williams; stationed at Compiegne, preciated. Mrs. J. L. Thompson, 225 South St., Ky. Oconomowoc, Wis. France, in WW2. Statements needed for pending 383rd Bomb Group (H), or 540th Bomb Sq.— claim. J. Rosekrans, Hibbard Ave., Hq. Korean Military Advisory Group (KMAG), Norman 23 Will men who served with James M. Gronka in Clifton assigned to 9th South Korean Div.— We will be Springs, N. Y. England during WW2, or anyone who knows of Sq. A, 50th Air Base Unit, Hammer Field, Cal. deeply grateful to anyone who can give us word him being in Hospital 802, Salisbury, England, need hear Cpl. Charles Blum, about our son. Capt. Baxter L. Baker, Jr., miss- —Urgently to from please write to James R. Branton, Service Officer, Sgt. Phil Diebert, Lt. Wm. Little, Capt. Art Mil- ing since May 18, 1951, after roaa-block engage- VFW Post 7590, Box 65. Orting, Wash. ler, Ross, M.D., Sgt. Harry Goorabian, and ment near Hyon-ni; is probably a prisoner in one Major Co. F, 343rd Regt., 86th Inf. Div.-Will men Cpl. Wijlard Toombs. Need statements. Nicky of the Chinese or North Korean prison camps. who served with me in Germany in 1944-45 please Probably some returned soldier or released pri- Sardone, K-7 Dunlap Homes, Perth Amboy, N. J. write. Need verification of service-connection for 148th Truck Bn.-Will Frank Herget and soner can give us some information about him. claim. Joe Swinsinski, 152 S. 7th St.. Steuben- Robert Stoddard, ex-New York; Reefer or Kiefer, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Baker, Sr., 2200 Beverly ville. Ohio. ex-San Antonio, Texas, or others of the Bn. who Drive, Charlotte 7, N. C. Battery B, 41st FA, 3rd Div., (WW2 ) -Urgent- know of accident and my injury while stationed Co. F, 25th Inf.— I would like to hear from, ly need to hear from Vernon J. Hull, ex-Catskill, on Tinian Island in 1945. Please write; state- anyone who knew my son, Pfc. Earl A. Brown, N. Y., who will remember my leg wound and ments needed. or was with him when he was reported missing Ralph Franklin Ludlam, Box 32, ear trouble. Statement needed. George L. Spons- Huntsville, Texas. Sept. 3, 1950. Please write. Edwin H. Brown, 166 ler, Harrisonville, Pa. Johnson St., Pittston, Pa. USS Pensacola—Urgently need to hear from Santa Ana, Cal.—Will officers and men who 32nd Inf. Regt., 7th Div.-Cpl. J. D. (Jack) shipmates of my son, Weyman J. Maffctt, Fire- served with me. Air Force, at Santa Ana in 1944 7tuni killed McLcndon was reported missing on July 19, 1952; S/c, on board ship Nov. 30, 1942, and who have knowledge of an injury that I sustained anyone who has information about him is asked particularly those who know about his applica- while there, please write. Kenneth Gookins. (2nd tion for Government insurance. Need help to to write his father. B. W. McLendon, Morton, Lt., USAFR) , 1646 Hoge Ave., Zanesville, Ohio. Texas. prove insurance and other claim. Mrs. Adeline Leo P. Bergstreser— Will anyone who knew my Co. L, 5th Inf. Regt.— son, 1st Lt. Malcolm M. Butler, 2110 N. 23rd Road, Boise. Idaho. late husband, Leo P. Bergstreser, served with him My A. Robison, was reported missing Oct. 1952, Battery B, 178th FA Bn.-Will service com- overseas, know of his shrapnel wounds, and also 5, around Punch Bowl area; last seen on hill known rades of my late husband, Pfc. Albert L. Spenee, being in hospital in England, please write. Need as Green Knob. Will anyone anything please write; need assistance in proving service- help to establish claim for widow's pension. Mrs. who knows about him, please write. Mrs. Inez Robison, connection for window's pension. Mrs. Mildred Dorothy Bergstreser, Box 212, Flaxton, N. Dak. Box Path, S. M. Spence, RFD 1, Pink Hill, N. C. 84, Honea C. Co. A, 2nd Engineers (C) Bn.-P/c. Paul E. T. Evacuation Hospital No. 1, (WWl)-Will any- McCoy, missing since Dec. 1, 1950, unofficially one who knows the present address of Perry G. reported prisoner; last seen defending road-block Maranville, please write; need statement to sup- OUTFIT REUNIONS near Kunu-ri; will greatly appreciate word from port claim. Ralph S. White, 1765 Mt. Diablo Ave., any source about him; perhaps some Stockton, Cal. (Continued from, page 35) released prisoner has some good news for me. Write his Great Lakes Training Station and Pensacola, 144th Construction Bn., Co. D and CBMU 629 mother, Mrs. Louie Dell McCoy, Rt. 2, Ravens- Fia.. Naval Air Base, 1919-1921-Need to locate —Reunion, New York City, Sept. 4-5. Contact wood, W. Va. Lt. Harry B. Blazer, CO Training Bn.; Samuel Jess Newcomer, 142 Maple St., Manchester, Pa. Co. A, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cav. Div.—Our son, Lyons, San Pedro, Cal.; Erskin Sherrar, Jasper, USS Owen, (DD 536) -Reunion, Cleveland, Pfc. Robert E. Titus, was reported missing July Ala.; Edward DeWise, Dothan, Ala.; L. L. No- Ohio, Sept. 4-7; Hotel Allerton. Write Edward M. 16, 1950; will anyone who knows anything at all dine. Albany, N. Y.; C. B. Chandler, Birming- Ference, 5703 Velma Ave., Parma 29, Ohio. about him please write his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ham, Ala.; and Dr. Stafford, Illinois. Claim pend- Battery D, 80th FA, 7th Div., (WWl)-Re- Frank Titus. 124 So. Barclay St., Fairmount, Ind. ing; need statements. Perry E. Sperlin, Clewis- union, Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 5. Contact Co. C, 2nd Engineers (C) Bn.— Will ton, Fla. Frank anyone C. Grieves, Secy., 3931 N. Percy St., Philadelphia who knows about our son, Cpl. Earl C. Stiles, Anti-Tank Co., 422nd Infantry Regt.-Will any 40, Pa. reported missing Dec. 1, 1950, near Sunchon, service comrade of the late S/Sgt. Douglas S. 555th AAA Bn.— Reunion, Omaha, Neb., Sept. please write; name not on PW list. Mr. and Mrs. Walker who knows of operation on ear or treat- 5-7; Hotel Paxton. Info from Neal McBeth, O. M. Stiles, 501 S. 24th St., Council Bluffs. Iowa. ment for ear condition during service, please Stromsburg, Neb. Co. I, 17th Inf. RCT, 7th Div.-Will appreciate write. Statements for needed claim of widow 61st Railway Engineers Assn., (WW1)—Annual hearing from anyone who knew my son, Cpl. and four children. Address Reuben B. Garnett, reunion. Altoona, Pa., Sept. 5-7; Penn-Alto Hotel. Robert Terry, reported missing since Nov., 1951; Asst. State Service Officer, 620 University St., Write Albert P. Dively, Pres., 2000 1st Ave., Al- not on PW list. Also would like to hear from Seattle 1, Wash. toona, Pa. parents or others who have loved ones missing USS PC 1137, USS Munargo, USS Vestal-Will Co. I, 517th Parachute Inf., 17th Airborne Div. in same patrol. Please write. Mrs. Wm. Terry, of shipmates the late Ernest J. Statkus, Chief —5th annual reunion, Chicago, III., Sept. 5-7; Adrian, Minn. Boatswains Mate, who know of his injury when Congress Hotel. Inquiries to Dean C. Swem, Hq. Co., 23rd Inf., 2nd Div.—Would like to he fell down a manhole, please write. Statements Chairman, 402 Main St., Buchanan, Mich. hear from anyone who knew or has information needed to prove service-connection for claim of 489th Ambulance Co. Assn.— 4th annual re- about Pvt. Sam Nelson, Jr., missing since May widow and four children. Write Robert H. Scher- union, Boston, Mass., Sept. 5-7; Hotel Bradford. 18, 1951, near Hangye. Also would like to con- merhorn, Claims Officer, Charles Roth Post No. Contact Austin Brough, 2451 N. Franklin St., tact comrade in F ort Dodge vicinity who was with 692, American Legion, 1034V-; Lake St., Oak Philadelphia 33, Pa., or Charles Blais, 83 Loring him when reported missing. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Park, 111. St., Winthrop 52, Mass. Kelson, Humboldt, Iowa. 25 * The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 Will The Veterans Fight The Next War Too?

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Many factors of our military man- veterans for emergency military duty. When it was presented to Congress, power are often mentioned in top-level What did cost considerations have to this law (Public Law 51 of the 82nd discussions, such as (1) fairness to the do with our pre-Korea military man- Congress) contained provisions for men who have served once; (2) the power policies? We "saved money" by training a huge, non-veteran reserve cost of making and keeping and using not training new men. through universal military training. an adequate reserve; (3) the minimum The War II veterans got older, had It was understood that hundreds of size of the trained manpower reserve children. When we were finally forced thousands more young men than were that we must have to assure the national to call upon them in large numbers we needed for current military demands safety and back up our agreements with spent some very quiet billions more would be given basic training without other powers, and (4) the necessity to in dependency allowances and housing active duty, and then kept in the re- keep on the home front those civilians at U.S. military camps for their fami- serves. whose skills would be most needed at lies, than a younger reserve force of It was understood that these UMT home in a military crisis. the same size would have cost us. trainees would be subject to call to ac- The first of these we have ignored. We did no favor to our pocketbooks tive duty in any new crisis ahead of men The second and third we have gambled or to the 4V-2 million young men whom who had already served on active war- with. The fourth we apply to non-vet- we didn't train, when we failed to train time service. All of this was written into erans but not to veterans. them in peacetime. Had they been the law.

Between 1946 and the Korea war, we trained as a new civilian reserve then, And it was only with this understand- faced the vast threat of a major war they might have been a force for peace ing that man> Congressmen went along with Russia, and during all that time we —a diplomatic backbone that could have with the provisions that put all the were committed to the UN "stop-ag- prevented the Korea war. It must be re- modern veterans in the reserves too, to gression-anywhere" policy. membered that the Korea war did not be a stand-by if badly needed. We had the opportunity to train commence until we had flown every So the law went through. It still pro- 4,500,000 non-veterans reserves during pennant of weakness from our mast. vides that all UMT trainees will have an those four years. Except for a handful We were finally forced to train men eight-year reserve obligation, and will of volunteer reserves, we trained ex- we hadn't trained, to hurl them hur- be subject to call, generally, ahead of actly none. We trimmed our armed riedly into war on the heels of the men with past active duty. forces; we drafted 30,200 men to fill double-duty veterans of War II. Not But a little over a year ago, when it holes in the occupation forces, and we only did we eventually pay to train came time to create a non-veteran re- wrecked our voluntary reserve system. them, we were required to keep them serve by bringing universal military Upon whom, then, did we rely for on active war service. training into existence, a powerful bloc our clearly seen military needs, should Our pre-Korea determination not to in Congress set up a parliamentary ma- a crisis have arisen? train non-veterans could only have cost neuver that neatly pigeonholed UMT. The crisis did arise— in Korea. Then us more than it already has now cost The law was written to have two we hurriedly committed 640,000 War us if we'd had a major war with Rus- parts. The first part stated the eight- II veterans to involuntary duty and thus sia. Then it would have been utterly year military obligation of all service- escaped being pushed off Asia. But the disastrous. men from then on, and of UMT train- recall of these veterans was not a "re- Thus there was no particular cost ees. The second part was to create grettable necessity." It was a clear ex- wisdom in our pre-Korea manpower UMT. pression of our policy of the previous policy. We gambled with the civilian Without the second part, it applied four years. The North Koreans started skills of veterans and lost. We gambled only to servicemen, because there were the war. But it was ourselves, long com- with the cost of preparedness and lost. servicemen, and there weren't any mitted to a stop-aggression policy, who We gambled with the national and UMT trainees. had no trained reserves to fall back world security and got a new war. We The first part, that obligated a real upon to stop aggression except the vet- spoke loudly and carried a small stick. and a fictional group of men to future erans of an earlier war. The only consistent thread in our service if needed, was passed in June, During all those four years we said pre-Korea manpower policy, as we ac- 1951. It also provided for the second nothing and did nothing to find men tually practiced it, was that we were part. It ordered the creation of a UMT to back up our military commitments- determined to depend upon the aging commission to recommend how UMT except quietly to rely upon the vet- veterans for our national safety, and dis- should be set up. Congress required it- erans. Fairness had nothing to do with turb no others for preparedness. self to act upon the UMT Commission's our manpower policies. Today, millions of young men who plan within less than one year. How about the preservation of civil- were spared peacetime military training The claimed intent of the law, when ian skills for home front needs? This as non-veterans in a time of clear dan- its first half was passed in June of 1951, has been recognized under the draft, ger have been trained, have fought, and was to: where it applies to non-veterans. have become v eterans. 1. Guarantee our trained, national, However, during the years 1946-1950, As such, they seem earmarked for military manpower reserve; the War II veterans were acquiring in- the next action, in a greatly strength- 2. Protect servicemen and veterans creasingly the skills to man our farms, ened continuation of the pre-Korea from an unfair share of the obligation factories, colleges, drawing boards, policies. of all citizens to defend their country; mines, hospitals, railroads, etc. When The new veteran, as he ponders his 3. Create a constant, trained reserve the day came that we needed the vet- status as a civilian again, may wonder of young men that would continually erans we called upon them wholesale, if past policies are a reliable guide. May- reinforce and replace the older gen- without regard to civilian skills. We be things have changed. eration of servicemen and veterans dur- had to, because we had prepared no Perhaps a history of the present law ing the dangerous era in which we live; other plan. The proper use of basic will reveal some deeper wisdom in pres- 4. Start a cheaper system of making civilian skills had nothing to do with ent policies than a mere determination a large reserve by building a corps of the plans we had made to rely on the to rely upon the veterans. (Continued on page 40)

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 • 37 THE LEGION IN PICTURES

As result of a letter to Legionnaires in his home town orphanage on Cheju Island. Clothing was collected in city- of Mobile, Alabama, Col. J. A. Casteel, UN officer (left) sees wide drive by Mobile's Lamar Y. McLeod Post 3, shipped 4 1 2 tons of clothing unshipped at Pusan, Korea, for Korea free by Waterman Steamship Corp. on the S.S. War Hawk.

More than 100 Legionnaires officiated and 61 trophies (above) were awarded at mammoth model airplane meet held recently at Santa Ana, California, Marine Air Facility. Ten thousand spectators saw 468 youngsters from many states fly their home- made craft. Orange County Legion and Posts 765 and 350 ran the huge meet under California Legion Aeronautics Commission sponsorship.

N. Y. City classrooms were caught short of U. S. flags when Board of Ed. ^ ordered mandatory daily flag salute. Capt. Belvidere Brooks Post 450 helped All gap by giving flags for all schoolrooms between 72nd & 100th streets on Manhattan's west side. At right, Post Cdr. Edward C. Jackson; Benjamin Creenberg, Ass't Supt. of Schools, and 2 schoolgirls are on hand as Post gives 100 flags at Public School 75. V

£ Every lit match in the pic above stands for $1 for the Los has netted more than Vi million rehab dollars in paid admis- Angeles County Legion Council Rehabilitation & Welfare Fund. sions. Last year's show, above, gave customers hour of super In 19 years, the L.A. Legion's huge July 4 show in the Coliseum fireworks, then a battle staged by Camp Pendleton Marines.

s of pictures of Post homes.

Below are pix of 2 North Dakota Posts. Exterior shot, at left, is the shot, at right, is mezzanine lounge of Lloyd Spetz Post 1, in $250,000 air conditioned home of Gilbert C. Grafton Post 2, in Fargo, Bismarck. Spetz Post membership runs above 1300. The build- occupied July 1949. Post membership runs steadily over 2,000. Interior ing cost $181.000—and was occupied on March 22, 1951. j£. (Continued from page 31) Under the present half-way law, the would have completely destroyed the six -month trainees to the point where difference between the military liability entire work of the commissions and we could safely cut down on the num- of veterans and non-veterans is even committees that had labored for years ber of men whom we were maintaining wider than it appears. The liability of over the bill. The UMT program was for two years or more of active duty. non-veterans to military service is ac- inapplicable in the public high schools.

5. Permit more home front use of tually lessened because the law provides As if that were not enough, the new- veterans in a crisis, if they have vital for so many more veterans to meet fu- proposal was patently unacceptable to

civilian skills. ture military manpower needs. the House and the Senate, because it But the maneuver that killed UMT Now, the basic source of new men introduced a new issue that could take in the House of Representatives on for our reserves is the draft, rather than years, if ever, for the United States to March 4, 1952, reversed every one of a broad base of common obligation. accept— the introduction of federal mili- these points except the first. Without Draft calls fluctuate according to pres- tary training into the state and city pub- UMT the law does this: ent military needs. Whenever present lic schools. 1. Creates a trained, national mili- needs appear to be well met, tremendous The proposal to add the high school tary manpower reserve; pressures operate to cut off the draft, amendment to the bill was put to a vote 2. Builds it entirely out of veterans of and will again. While this is a perfectly at a moment when many members of active service; fair system for meeting the needs of the House were absent. There were 133

3. Provides for no replacement ex- here and now, it is both unfair and votes cast to add the amendment to the cept through the inducting of more men unwise to tie our long range reserve bill, and at that moment that was into active duty; needs to this sort of procurement. With enough. When the absent members got 4. Obligates us to pay for two years the inevitable cut of the draft, those word of what had happened, they of active service for every man trained who were called up in the past for the rushed in and 255 members then voted for our reserve. needs of that day are isolated and fro- to throw the high-school amendment 5. Continues wholesale reliance on zen for future call, and replacement out. But it was too late. The high-school veterans for military duty, regardless of stops. amendment had been added "as a sub- their civilian skills. It was the failure of the UMT bill stitute for all amendments," and the Scientists and engineers who would to pass, after the veterans had already chair ruled that it could not be con- be held responsible for keeping home- been committed, that left our new vet- sidered separately. The vote to cast it front production up in the event of a erans hanging in air as our legally es- out left the UMT bill without all other new military crisis consider point 5, tablished, semi-perpetual, involuntary amendments that had been added ear- above, to be a definite hazard to the warrior caste. lier, many of which were necessary to national security. It means that indus- On what basis was the UMT half of a sound bill. try would be stripped of its skilled vet- the bill turned into a scrap of paper? Friends of UMT had to join its op- erans in a typical non-selective call-up Let's go back to March 4, 1952 and re- ponents in voting to send the bill back of the older reserves. view briefly the rejection of UMT as it to a lingering death in committee. The Carey H. Brown, of the Eastman Ko- unfolded. carefully timed high-school amendment dak Company, is chairman of the En- On that day, in keeping with the pro- had emasculated the entire bill. gineering Manpower Commission of the visions of the first half of the law, the Said the Washington Post: "The op- Joint Council of Engineers. He re- UMT bill came before the House of ponents of UMT rigged such a parlia- ported on last Sept. 7 that his civilian Representatives. The House never got mentary snarl that the House never

commission of engineers urged that uni- to the point of debating the merits of had a chance to look at the . . . bill on ." versal military training be established, the bill. Representative Brownson of its merits . . and that the present system (which is a Indiana offered an amendment that On the following day, the late Rep. sort of half-way universal military serv- would put UMT in the public high Eugene Cox of Georgia spoke up on the ice) "... be abandoned as unsound and schools. floor of the House. He said: "I still hear

prejudicial to the National Security." If added to the bill, this amendment the roar of cannon in Korea. . . . What was done yesterday is no tribute to the realism and courage of anybody." Rep. Bill Lantaff of Florida said: "Members of this body were prevented from per- fecting a sound plan of universal mili-

tary training. . . . We owe it to our veterans, who have been called back to duty again, to bring again to the floor

a sound bill. . . . Bring back that bill . . . to the floor ... so we can discharge our duty to the veterans of Korea." The words of indignation and the editorials are dead now. A parliamentary maneuver during a moment of in- attention in the U. S. House of Repre- sentatives has placed an inequitable mortgage on the civilian careers of millions of servicemen. A year and a quar- ter has passed by and the bill has not been brought back to the floor. The men who are earmarked for the next military crisis are beginning to return

from Korea this month. It is not a pleas- "That's an old set of tracks — made at least a week ago." AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE ant duty to tell them what they have to know, or how it came about, the end

4Q • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 !

Veterans JULY, 1953

A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ABE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO TOD

BUDGET SLASHES WILL CLOSE VET HOSPITALS: discount (for $9,700) would in effect give the permanent Wholesale slashes in Federal budget for Veterans investor a higher interest rate than the 4 percent allowed. . . . will, if Congress, reflected in Administration enacted by be In most instances builders were forced to absorb this discount.

reduced services to disabled veterans. . . . Cuts will sharply VA declared that under the higher 4V2 percent rate, be most keenly felt in hospital, medical and domiciliary which took effect May 5, "there should be no need for a care of disabled war veterans. . . . All in the name of economy continuation of the discount practices." . . . Elimination of

. . . VA medical experts estimated when the proposed budget discount charges would remove pressure on builders to pass six seven hospitals figures were made public, that or would on discount costs to veterans in the form of higher prices be forced to close as a result of the cuts for 1954 fiscal year, or lower quality construction. . . . Builders will now be starting July 1. required to certify to VA that they have not or will not pay to Calculations disclosed that 4,809 beds would have or absorb, directly or indirectly, any charges or fees in

. . . already be given up. These are in addition to 2,288 beds excess of those authorized by VA. held inactive for lack of funds. . . . Budget Bureau, as part * * * * of general economy campaign, cut $279,000,000 from VA's CERTIFICATE OF ELIGIBILITY FOR GI LOANS: request before President Truman left office. . . . This slash Veterans who plan to seek GI loans from private lenders includes $55,900,000 decrease in medical and hospital funds. for homes, farms or businesses should apply to VA Regional . . . Drive to cripple VA is sparked by Representative John Offices in advance for certificates of eligibility. ... In the Phillips, California, Chairman of House Appropriations past, vets have been advised to submit their discharge or Sub -Committee, who insists that the cuts will not mean separation papers to the lending institution making the loan. closing beds or lowering of medical standards — he expects

. . . They, in turn, would submit them to VA on behalf of the savings to be accomplished in other ways.

the veteran. . . . New requirement will reduce delays in Legion vigorously protests the budget cuts. . . . National processing loan applications later, when the vet is anxiously Commander Gough pointed out that the slashes, if adopted, awaiting completion of the deal or is pressed for time to "will further intensify the need at a time when there are

close the loan. . . . Certificates of eligibility when submitted 25,000 sick and disabled veterans, already certified for with application for the loan are proof to the lender that admission, awaiting hospitalization. It is inconceivable that VA will guarantee or insure a loan if the vet meets the other the cuts contemplated by the Bureau of the Budget could usual loan requirements. be effected without causing reduction in benefits and services Since passage of the Korean GI Bill which extends the to the service- connected veterans of America's wars. loan guaranty benefits of WW2 GI Bill to vets with service "I can not believe," National Commander Gough con- since June 27, 1950, VA must have information not pre- tinued, "that the present Administration will condone using viously needed to establish eligibility. ... It must know the sick and disabled veteran as a whipping boy for unjust whether the vet served in WW2 or since the start of the attacks masked as economy. If the entire VA medical and Korean conflict, or both; what prior use of his loan guaranty hospital program were eliminated, the savings would amount benefits, if any, has been made; the status of any prior GI to only one cent of the total Federal tax dollar. I earnestly loans, and whether the vet still owns real estate purchased hope that members of the House will not vote on this with any such loans. . . . Most WW 2 vets have until July appropriation measure until they have individually satisfied 25, 1957, in which to apply for GI loans under the original themselves that the apparent injustices to our sick and dis- GI Bill. . . . Veterans with service since June 27, 1950 — the abled veterans have been wiped out . . . and that representa- beginning of the Korean War — have until 10 years from the tives of the nation's 20,000,000 veterans who are vitally declared end of the current emergency in which to apply. concerned about this matter have an opportunity to be heard." * * * * * * * * KOREAN PRISONERS HAVE RIGHT TO OLD JOB: GI HOME LOAN DISCOUNTING RESTRICTED BY VA: Department of Labor has announced that a Korean war Following the inciease to 4V2 percent on GI loan interest prisoner is not barred from re-employments rights with his rates, VA announced that it would sharply restrict "discount pre-service employer, even though his detention in an practices" in financing GI home loans by lenders and builders. enemy prison camp caused his total service to exceed the

. . . Discounting such loans was practiced under "the in- 4-year limitation in the Universal Military Training and creasingly tight money market which prevailed under the Service Act. . . . Secretary of Labor explained that an inductee former 4 percent maximum interest rate." . . . VA said is not subject to 4-year limitation unless he re-enlists or

permanent holders of mortgages were buying them from otherwise voluntarily extends his period of service. . . . His builders at less than the face value of the loan. . . . An re-employment rights would not be affected if he was involun- illustration: A $10,000 mortgage purchased at a 3 percent tarily retained for more than 4 years as a prisoner of war.

41 ... A Reservist or member of the National Guard called than 60 days service; $150 for 60 or more days stateside for active duty and returned from an enemy prison camp service, and $250 for any foreign service. . . . No deadline after 4 years of service has re-employment rights under the has been set for filing applications. . . . Bureau estimates law because his rights continue beyond the 4-year period that some 45,000 eligible WW2 veterans have not filed if he is unable to obtain orders releasing him. . . . His POW applications for the benefit. status would clearly prevent him from doing so. . . . An * * * * enlistee may serve more than 4 years and retain his re- KOREAN WAR LAPEL BUTTON PROPOSED: employment rights if the extension beyond 4 years is imposed A Korean War lapel button to be worn by actual pursuant to law. Korean veterans is proposed in a ttill introduced in the * * * * House by Representative James E. Van Zandt, Pennsylvania. SENATE MOVES TO REGULATE UN FLAG SHOW: ... If enacted, lapel button would be issued to all Armed Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill for- Service personnel, except those dishonorably discharged, bidding the display of the United Nations flag in a position who have served actively in the Korean War since its or superior to the Stars and Stripes, except at United equal beginning on June 27, 1950. . . . Defense Department would

Nations meetings. . . . The measure would make illegal the prescribe size, design and composition of the button. . . . Issue display of any national or international flag in a position would be by the various arms of service to which the service- of equal or superior prominence to the United States flag man or woman belonged. at any place within the nation or territories. * * * *

;fc 9|£ )JG Jfi FARM UNITS FOR VETS OPENED IN IDAHO: NATIONAL DEFENSE SERVICE MEDAL CREATED: War veterans are offered priority in acquiring 72 farm By Executive Order, President Eisenhower established units being opened to homestead entry in southern Idaho. on April 22 a new award for general service during the . . . Applications must be filed with the Bureau of Reclama-

Korean emergency. ... It is called the National Defense tion, 11th and E Streets, Rupert, Idaho, by July 20 to qualify

Service Medal and is to be awarded to members of the for the public drawing to determine the winners. . . . The Armed Forces of the U. S. who shall have served within 72 farm units cover 7,289 irrigable acres in the Minidoka the continental United States during any period between irrigation project and are located about 40 miles east of

June 27, 1950, and a terminal date to be fixed by the Secre- Twin Falls in Minidoka and Jerome Counties. . . . The units

tary of Defense. . . . The medal, with suitable appurtenances, go free to qualified successful applicants. . . . Veterans must is to be awarded under such regulations as the Secretaries have had 90 days or more of honorable service between of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Secretary of the September 16, 1940, and July 3, 1952. . . . They must have Treasury (for Coast Guard) may individually prescribe. had farming experience and must own assets worth at

. . . The Executive Order provides that no person shall be least $4,500 above their liabilities. entitled to more than one award of the National Defense Ifl - 3|E 9|t Service Medal, and it may be awarded posthumously. NSLI DIVIDEND COST NOT FROM FUND:

i|e $ $ Full amount of NSLI dividend will be paid policyholders

without deduction for operating costs. . . . VA has ruled POLICY FOR 1953 ROTC CALLS ANNOUNCED: that the law provides for full operating cost Govern- Army has announced policy on ordering to active duty of the ment insurance program to be borne by the Federal Gov- Reserve officers commissioned through ROTC after May

ernment. . . . No distinction is made between dividend 1, 1953. . . . Under program, officers commissioned after expenses and other costs. May 1 who have been deferred from induction by Selective

Service under ROTC agreement will be ordered to active T * l|l 1|! duty. . . . Exceptions are those eligible for classification in NO SPECIAL CITIZENSHIP FOR ALIEN WIVES: Class IV-A by Selective Service, and those already rated "Quick" citizenship for alien wives of military personnel Class I-C. ... If they desire, these officers may volunteer for is no quicker than for many other segments of the U. S.

active duty tours of two or three years. . . . Officers com- population. . . . Naturalization benefits are allowable under missioned through ROTC who have not completed sufficient Section 319 (B) of the new immigration law. ... Its pro- academic work to qualify for a degree, will be ordered to visions apply equally to all employees of the Government active duty. . . . Delay in reporting may be granted, if including service people, and to other citizens whose work

requested, pending qualification for a degree. . . . Plans requires them to be abroad for extended periods of time. . . . are to give ROTC graduates maximum advance notice so For such as these the alien wife can in some cases obtain that they can plan accordingly. ... If officers indicate the U. S. citizenship in as little as 30 days. . . . Exact time month in which they desire to enter on active duty, such depends on when the State or U. S. District Court meets requests will be honored insofar as practicable, but all are to handle the case. . . . Requirements: Citizen husband must required to be on active duty no later than June 30, 1954. be regularly stationed abroad; alien wife must declare

. . . Medical Corps, Dental Corps and Veterinary Corps before a naturalization court that she intends to take up

officers will be given priority classifications, which determine U. S. residence after husband's tour ends ; husband must be the order in which such officers are required to enter the under orders to foreign duty; immigration authorities must Armed Services. have copies of orders authorizing concurrent travel or proof

$ 3|E 3|C . $ that the wife has had a port call. . . . Normally an alien wife NEW YORK WW2 BONUS HITS $338 MILLION: may be naturalized if lawfully admitted to U. S. for perma- New York's Veterans Bonus Bureau at Albany has nent residence; if she has been living in marital union with issued over $338,000,000 in WW2 bonus checks. ... In all, an American citizen for three years prior to application

1,555,265 checks totalling $338,806,860 have gone to eligible for citizenship; and if she has resided for 6 months in the

Empire State WW2 vets. . . . Payments are $50 for less State where the application is made.

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demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt jury's verdict. Not a single prominent be "informers." The leftists call any- to a Federal court room jury which person expressed any doubt at that rime. one who divulges knowledge about heard the evidence in March, 1950. They A few people said the death sentence communist activities an "informer." By heard all of the evidence, both the was too severe, but these objections soon using that odious word they cast asper- prosecution's and that of the defense. died out. Appeals to higher courts were sions on combatting the communist con- Unlike the snivelers who weep honestly expected. But in accordance with the spiracy. The word "informer" acquired or hypocritically over the fate of the judicial system of a highly civilized na- its ugly meaning when good people in Rosenbergs, the jurors had seen the tion, the wheels of justice where moving subjugated countries were handed over accused themselves face-to-face dur- properly. by spies to oppressive regimes with ing the trial. They saw those who fur- From the time that Julius and Ethel which only scoundrels could be in sym- nished the evidence against them. These pathy. In a nation deserving the re- twelve average American citizens were spect and cooperation of its citizens,

in position to determine the credibility to conceal knowledge of a crime is of all concerned. The manner of the wrongful. Because it is necessary in Rosenbergs and their responses were solving many crimes and in obtaining anything but convincing. They refused convictions of guilty persons, reduced to answer even some trivial questions on punishment is granted to wrong-doers the grounds that to do so might incrimi- if they assist the government by fur- nate them. The most that they and their nishing helpful information. But fanati- astute attorney could do was to deny cal communists, like the Rosenbergs, everything and disprove nothing. would regard themselves as "informers" The chief witnesses of the Rosenbergs' helping an enemy government—that of treasonable activities were naturally the United States—if they revealed any- their fellow-conspirators, David Green- thing about their accomplices. glass, his wife (Ruth Greenglass) and I have an excellent reason never to Harry Gold. The espionage of the doubt the guilt of the Rosenbergs. At a Rosenbergs was not committed before meeting in a Far Rockaway, New York, a theatre audience. It was carried out hotel in May, 1952, Mrs. Morton Sobell, with only the plotters present. By the wife of a convicted member of the spy- time of their arrest in July 1950, Yakov- ring, was the main speaker. I heard her lev had returned to Russia. As the vice- assure that audience, most of whom were consul of a foreign government he could leftists, that "Julie and Ethel could save not have been required to testify, any- their own skins by talking, but Julie and how. But to the testimony of the chief Ethel will never betray their friends." "I don't care if the electric mixer witnesses there was added supplement- is broken!" Proud references to this kind of loyalty ary evidence, all of which fitted per- AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE on the part of the Rosenbergs were well fectly together. circulated among the faithful worship-

The trial revealed that the Rosen- pers of Moscow. To say that it would bergs, who lived on the border of pov- Rosenberg were arrested until their con- be "informing" if the Rosenbergs re- erty, somehow suddenly got hold of viction, no communist organization or vealed other traitors, is an insult to the $5,000, when they heard of Gold's ar- periodical suggested that the Rosenbergs United States Government, whose com- rest. This they offered to David Green- might perhaps be innocent. Quick to passion and tender mercies are being so glass, urging him to escape with his yelp frantically when anything happens assiduously besought. family. They gave him detailed instruc- in the United States that can be made The Rosenbergs were to be executed tions on how to contact soviet agents to appear a case of injustice, the Daily in May, 1951, but the long-drawn proc- from Mexico City to Prague and they Worker, the chief communist mouth- ess of appeals had begun. Four months began arrangements for their own piece in the United States, never even after they were scheduled to die a new speedy departure from the United mentioned the Rosenbergs until the version of their case was unveiled in a States. Where they secured these funds jury rendered its verdict. Then the Red pro-communist periodical published in can only be conjectured, but one does newspaper merely reported that the New York, which is called the National not have to think very hard to make a Rosenbergs had been tried and found Guardian. By that time the public had satisfactory guess. guilty. The failure of the communist begun to forget the actual details of the The jury was not impressed by the press to bark when a pair of devout evidence against the Rosenbergs. Rosenbergs' stubborn denials in the face communists were being bitten, indicates A masterpiece of mendacious false- of a chain of evidence that held them that in this instance they probably had hood about the Rosenbergs by William securely bound. Two years later when inside information about what the A. Reuben began in the National Guar- the family of Julius Rosenberg tried to Rosenbergs had been doing for their dian in August, 1951. According to the get members of the jury to ask for Russian masters. As long as there was series of articles that the highly imagi- clemency, none of them did so. When likelihood that the Rosenbergs might native i\1r. Reuben produced, the Rosen- they declared the Rosenbergs guilty, confess, it was best to write them off as bergs are models of virtue and the vil- the jurors did not know what penalty expendable. What are two lives to a lains in the case are the prosecuting at- Judge Kaufman would impose. Now tyranny that has again and again con- torney, Irving Saypol; the judge, Irving they said in effect that the death sen- demned to death some of its most loyal R. Kaufman, and the FBI. Reuben dis- tence was fully justified. servants? posed of all the testimony which The Rosenbergs were so obviously But then it became apparent that the Emanuel Bloch, the very capable at- guilty that the entire public, which had Rosenbergs were not going to speak up torney of the Rosenbergs, had failed to been reading the evidence in their daily even though by doing so they could ob- dent; he simply declared it all to be newspapers, fully agreed with the tain clemency. They were not going to false. He rewrote the case and came up

The American Legion Magazine • July. 1953 • 43 with two magnificent figures, pathetic veteran party-liner, Joseph Brainin. The there had been no violation of civil in their unjust suffering, but glorious executive secretary is David Alman. liberties in the trial and the sentencing in their martyrdom. He harped on the The sponsors whose names appear on of the Rosenbergs. Also in May, all of Rosenberg children, two boys, then aged the committee's stationery and litera- the six national Jewish community re- eight and four, and pulled every stop ture are: Nelson Algren, Emily Alman, lations agencies and all the local Jewish on the sob-sister organ. Dr. Herbert Aptheker, Ivan Von Auw, agencies denounced the committee for Reuben summarized his thesis thus: Dr. Edward K. Barsky, Prof. E. Berry attempting "to inject the false issue of "The facts of the arrest, trial, con- Burgum, Alice Hill Byrne, John F. anti-Semitism into the Rosenberg case" viction and sentencing of Julius and Clewe, Prof. Ephraim Cross, Marjorie and called it "a communist-inspired Ethel Rosenberg indicate that, at DiSilva, Dr. Katherine Dodd, Dr. W. group." It happens that the Rosenbergs

the very least, there is grave doubt E. B. DuBois, Gertrude Evans, Waldo were born in Jewish families. They were of their complicity in any alleged Frank, Joseph Friedman, B. Z. Goldberg, renegades who abandoned their religion. atom-spy conspiracy whatsoever; Shirley Graham, Nahum Greenberg, Both the judge and the prosecuting at- and at the very worst that they too Rabbi Louis D. Gross, Louise Harding torney in the case are loyal, religious have been convicted on trumped- Horr, Rev. Spencer Kennard, Hon. Jews. Nevertheless, the case was pic- up evidence—not so much to silence Robert Morss Lovett, Dr. Bernard tured as an anti-Semitic plot with perse- their own, two small voices of poli- Lubka, Dr. John Marsalka, John T. cution of other Jews sure to follow un- tical protest, but rather to implant McManus, Mrs. Bessie Mitchell, Capt. less the Rosenbergs were saved. in the public mind with savage em- Hugh N. Mulzac, William A. Reuben, The committee was energetic and per- phasis the belief that all holders of Dr. John L. Simon, Leon Straus, Lois sistent, despite all discouragements. It radical views are a menace to the Timmins, Elizabeth Todd, Dr. Leonard could count on communist-dominated

nation, and to silence through mor- Tushnet, Dr. Gene Weltfish. This is a organizations to send their members to tal fear, all who may dare to hold typical communist-front list, with old its meetings and to lure others into those views at variance with those of the reliables and some newcomers. gatherings. Within a few months meet- administration of our country. ings had been held in New York, Los "It was precisely for such a pur- The Rosenberg Committee was well Angeles, Newark, Cleveland, Detroit, pose as this that Herman Goering aware that it could not succeed with- Washington and a dozen other cities. caused the Reichstag to be set afire out the aid of non-communists and anti- Local committees were set up in a score in Nazi Germany in 1933, blaming communists. No one would be im- of cities and these committees carried it on the communists." pressed by the fact that communists on their own zealous campaigns of agi- Comparing the trial of the Rosen- condemned the death sentence of es- tation and fund-raising. bergs with the burning of the Reichstag pionage agents who stole atomic secrets Behind the scenes every communist is in the tradition of the big lie. The for Russia. The problem was how to worked arduously for the Committee to possibilities of a campagn built upon de- inveigle others into their camp. At the Save the Rosenbergs. They secured suf- ception and confusion became apparent start they suffered two reverses. They ficient funds to print new pamphlets to communist propagandists. A Com- tried to picture the case as one in which and to circulate these to many thousands mittee to Secure Justice for the Rosen- civil liberties were denied and as an in- of prospective sympathizers. Wherever bergs was created in January, 1952. Its stance of anti-Semitism. They were re- possible the committee sought to per- first task was to reprint the Reuben arti- buffed on both scores. suade listeners and readers that the cles in a pamphlet which was sent to On May 2, 1952, Herbert M. Levy, Rosenbergs were innocent. But even if thousands of persons, some of whom staff counsel of American Civil Liber- guilty, the committee argued, the death could be expected for one reason or ties Union, issued a memorandum which, sentence was too horrible, too dreadful. another to swallow some of the con- point by point, made hash out of the Other spies had received lesser penal- coction. Rosenberg Committee's major argu- ties. To the millions of people who are The chairman of the committee is a ments. The memorandum declared that opposed to capital punishment, the committee appealed to make their sentiments heard on behalf of the Rosen- bergs. Gullible members of racial and religious groups might be frightened into believing that the death sentence of the Rosenbergs was a prelude to their own doom. And the misfits who like to believe that they are handicapped by our political and economic system could be aroused to work for a cause wherein

it appeared that justice would be thwarted unless they carried on vigor-

ous agitation. Then too it was claimed that the Rosenbergs were the victims of "hysteria." Anyone against hysteria should presumably be for the Rosen- bergs.

With this six-pronged strategy it was inevitable that every expression that favored clemency for the Rosenbergs, on any ground whatever, could be made to appear another condemnation of their trial and sentence.

After some small try-out perform- ances the Rosenberg Committee made

44 * The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 its debut on March 13, 1952, in New York's Pythian Hall. A thousand generous sympathizers applauded the rabble- rousing speeches. But for the next eight months, although the fever over the Rosenbergs had top billing in the communist press, there was hardly a mention elsewhere. The agitators' chief handicap during that time was that while they had plenty of second and third string voices in the save-the-Rosenberg chorus, no non-communist or anti-communist of prominence could be dubbed in even by transcription. Typical songsters in the pro-Rosen- berg medley were an utterly uninfluen- tial rabbi of a small Brooklyn congregation, Meyer Shariff, who was billed as "world renowned," Jean Taylor, equally obscure, but described as "Negro Civil Rights leader," Ephraim Cross, an unknown in Jewish circles, whom the Committee glorified as a "leading op- ponent of anti-Semitism," Yuri Sulil, "poet and novelist," Sol Tischlcr, "East Side leader," Mrs. Rose Sobell, "mother," Professor Abraham Cron- bach, Rev. Reginald Bass, Joseph Brainin, chairman of the Committee, David Alman, the secretary, and Wil- liam Reuben. Handbills announcing the meetings contained names of persons who urged Distilled a new trial for the Rosenbergs, such as Judge Norvall K. Harris, Charles Wil- London Dry liam Campbell, Brigadier General Henry Newcomer (retired), Dorothy Day, Gin DISTILLEDUOTTLEDINTHEUSABYj Prof. H. G. Landau, Rev. Amos 1HE DISTILLERS COMPANY LIMITED Murphy, Robert Kenny, Rev. Frank UNDeN NEW JERSEV Glenn White, Rev. Mother Lena Stokes, v and Mary Church Terrell. The summer jSOWWIS Bit UH CCWsW l

*Ci>>> I iff and fall of 1952 brought other names of X H I OJKXUiA Vt similar unimportance into the committee's news releases. The committee could have used the name of any famous Red, but they took only a few, such as Rev. Harry F. Ward and Paul Robeson. The 0 most important single requirement for success was to make this entire explo- sion appear to be coming from non- communist sources.

On October 13th the U. S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Rosenberg Case. The Federal Court of Appeals had already reviewed the case without finding a flaw. On October 15th the Daily Worker raged: "The Supreme Court's refusal, with Justice Black dissenting, to review the death sentence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, is a monstrous deci- sion. It comes as a climax to a fraudulent prosecution by the Department of Jus- tice and a trial rigged in an atmosphere of hysteria." But into the ears of non- BECAUSE OF LIQUEUR QUALITY and HIGH PROOF (94.4) leftists, the commies and fellow-travelers merely purred that there was some DRINKS NEVER TASTE THIN WITH GORDON'S GIN doubt in the case as to the guilt of the Rosenbergs, but even if they were guilty humane considerations would make it inadvisable to execute them. The fact that the Rosenbergs ap-

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peared to be standing very close to voiced doubt about the Tightness of death's door furnished a melodramatic Judge Kaufman's sentence. The Brook- How atmosphere of which the communist ly Jewish Examiner on the other hand, propagandists took full advantage. More kept up a steady campaign in favor of rallies were held, but still with no more clemency for the Rosenbergs. Its editor, illustrious speakers than Rabbi Scharff, Rabbi Louis Gross, was quoted exten- HAULER MEN Michael Wollin, Mrs. Morton Sobell, sively by the Rosenberg Committee. Stephen Love, Bessie Mitchell, Octavia Using whatever quotes they could Hawkins, Gloria Agrin and William find and writing letters to thousands of keep hair neat Patterson. Big-name non-communists potential sympathizers, the pro-Rosen- still refused to shine in person for the Rosenbergs. It is notable that for this all dayl particular enterprise the entire enter- tainment field refused to perform. No stage or movie star shone in the Rosen- berg firmament. This void created quite a problem but the communist organizers knew how to take care of that. Anyone who had stated publicly that the Rosen- berg death sentence should be com- muted would willy nilly furnish grist for the communist propaganda mills. Consider the case of Mex Lerner. On April 9, 1951, he wrote in his column in the New York Post, "Judge Kaufman too did what he had to. The sentence is drastic, yet it is scarcely possible to challenge its justice, especially after reading the detailed testimony in the Atomic Committee document." Of the guilt of the Rosenbergs, Lerner had no doubt. On February 13th he wrote, "One can only feel a consuming anger against those who have coldly used "Another nice feature of this darned ." chair is . . these two who will die—used them first AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

steal . • New-formula grooming aid gives to atomic information . . then hair naturally - neater look ... used them again, in order to daub all without gooey grease or cream! over the globe the crude Red lie of an berg agitators began to strike pay dirt anti-Jewish frame-up." in November ( 1952). Clergymen, being • Removes flaky dandruff ...makes Max Lerner slipped, however. In an- men of mercy, were especially suscep- scalp feel better, more refreshed! other mood he wrote, in the New York tible and hundreds signed clemency pe- Whether you go hatless or not — follow Post, June 19, 1952, "I agree that the titions. Their support was used to give the lead of many an outdoor man. death sentence was unprecedented and the impression w hich the communist Invest seconds a day — and keep hair harsh." That one line has been reprinted propagandists wished to make, namely,

neatly groomed all day ! Free of flaky by the Rosenberg Committee more than that a grave miscarriage of justice was dandruff, too! a million times. Utterly ignoring all else being perpetrated, and that all good men See the neatest hair trick of all —as Lerner has said on the subject, they should work vigorously to prevent the Fitch Ideal's new, secret grooming have put that one sentence on a half- outrage. agent... not a grease, oil nor cream... dozen different hand-bills, including Many editors, on the other hand, makes thin hair look thicker— thick those distributed the line recognized the fraud that was being hair stay slicker! by of pickets at the White House. The same treat- perpetrated and served warning. A sig- Ideal also relieves dry, itchy scalp ment was given Dorothy nificant attempt to caution the unwary also removes loose dandruff while it Thompson, religious works its grooming miracles! who wrote on April 12, 1952, in the came in a statement by six Washington Star, leaders who on January 6th said, "The Feel its new tonic action, too "The death sentence making your scalp tingle with invigor- depresses me ... in 1944, we were not case of the convicted atom spies, Julius ating freshness! Note — there's no at war with the Soviet Union. ... In- and Ethel Rosenberg, is being exploited lingering, tell-tale odor! deed it is unlikely that had they been by typical communist trickery to de- Start tomorrow. Just seconds tried in 1944 they would ever have re- stroy faith in our American institu- massaging hair and scalp with a dash ceived any such sentence." All else that tions." of new Fitch Ideal — will pay off all Miss Thompson said on the subject has The signers of the statement, which

day . . . because you can count on Fitch been omitted. Otherwise, the commit- pointed out that "the Rosenbergs have Ideal for that smart, naturally-neater tee would be demolishing its own ar- revealed no regret for the harm which look of the man who's going places! guments. Eleanor Roosevelt became a they have done our nation," were At all drug counters — also ask Barbers E. Wilson, industrialist for professional applications. star witness for the Rosenberg Commit- Charles and tee when she said on January 20, 1953, former president of the General Elec-

"There is a great deal of hope . . . that tric Co.; the Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Poling, Get new Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will win editor of the Christian Herald; Samuel executive clemency on humanitarian I. Rosenman, former Supreme Court grounds alone." It is comforting to note Justice in New York State and former that of the hundreds of American col- counsel to Presidents Roosevelt and FITCH^cW umnists and journalists only a few Truman; Rabbi William F. Roscnblum, HAIR TONIC 4g • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 of Temple Israel, New York; Clarence munist propagandists fed the public, the signs carried by pro-Rosenberg E. Manion, professor of law and for- the most dazzling was a statement by pickets in front of the White House mer dean of the College of Law of Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize win- and before American embassies in for- Notre Dame University, and the Rev. ner and nuclear scientist. Dr. Urey was eign countries. Joseph N. Moody, of Cathedral Col- not present at the trial of the Rosen- In their propaganda efforts to ex- lege, New York. bergs. He has had no legal training. His ploit the Rosenberg case, communists In November the Rosenberg Com- competence in reference to the case and fellow travelers throughout the mittee began to report that some very is practically nil. Nevertheless he made world and particularly in the United well known persons and some organi- his own analysis of the case and wrote States labored long hours and with zations abroad were demanding clem- to Judge Kaufman on December 16, great diligence. Typical instructions to ency for the Rosenbergs. The commu- 1952 that he believed the Rosenbergs the faithful were issued on December nist international network had suc- had been wrongfully condemned. The 18 and 19, 1952: "Print two and a half ceeded in getting their friends to step Daily Worker published that letter. In million pieces of literature in the next up the campaign overseas and to stir up January, Dr. Urey wrote similarly to three weeks; begin a day and night millions of people who never heard the New York Times and said, "I found clemency vigil in Washington, D. C. anything about the case except what the testimony of the Rosenbergs more December 27; bring thousands of people the communists told them about it. believable than that of the Green- to Washington January 4th and 5th; ." Anguished cries came from labor glasses . . and again he defended the place radio, TV and newspaper adver- unions in various parts of the globe Rosenbergs. Dr. Albert Einstein, a naive tising wherever it can be purchased; where the communist control of labor signer of pro-communist and of anti- gain approval and cooperation of larg- is strong. Bitter denunciations of the communist statements, wrote to the est and most representative bodies of United States, made at meetings abroad New York Times indorsing Dr. Urey's persons; make every effort to secure and reported in the foreign press dur- letter. The genius of both Einstein and participation of religious, labor and pro- ing December, January and February Urey is limited to the physical sciences, fessional groups, whether or not they were genuinely startling. Our State De- on the study of which they have con- have spoken up for clemency; send let- partment issued a booklet giving the centrated heavily. In matters of juris- ters and delegations to every Senator facts of the case, and tried with mild prudence they are no more competent and Congressman on the weekends that success to offset the Red agitation. But than the average person, and certainly they are home; send delegations to see now the Rosenberg story was a high less competent than experienced jurists. Mayors, Governors and other officials; priority news feature. Even the name Their names are extremely impressive, urge every clergyman to give a sermon of Pope Pius XII was thrust into the however, especially in a case which in- urging his congregation to write to headlines as one who presumably urged volves atomic science. Dr. Urey and President Truman to grant executive clemency. Dr. Einstein were featured in the Rosen- clemency; visit or write to every per- Of all the tidbits on which the com- berg Committee leaflet and blazoned on son of some prominence whether REMINGTON I 'J J ii PUTS YOU IN RANGE!

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lawyer, doctor, humane leader, or other, ment which puffed their pride. What- Don't let a premature urging him to speak up for clemency; ever following they have thus gained use door-to-door, strcet-by-strect visits; within their own circles will be ex- distribute printed material and solicit ploited by front organizations which SPARE TIRE" letters and wires to the President; con- will dangle the lure of further publicity. tribute immediately to the committee's 7. The hard-core communists now make you look old! urgent appeal for $50,000 to finance last know by excellent practice how to con- few weeks of activity." duct a propaganda campaign by fraudu- Many a hard-working man develops a "pot" and All of this to save two lives? Well, and looks old before bis time. Not because he's truly fat lently playing upon the compassion or because of middle age. The reason is — his back hardly. The Reds knew well enough kindness of the unwary. With this self- and stomach muscles are constantly strained and tired and no longer support him properly. If that's that they were making it appear that if assurance the faithful followers of the

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Name Imprinted Cards 40 for SI .25 up; Many other the Rosenbergs are now potential com- mercy. items. WRITE tor FREE SAMPLES Personal Cards, and Assort- munists. Party workers will now be able ments on approval plus details on getting pin What can we do to keep communists CHAS. C. SCHWEjj CO.. 15 D Elm St.. Wettlield. Mm. to recruit them. from reaping new harvests of propa- 5. The communist schemers that man- ganda by exploiting other criminal Wake Up aged the Committee to Secure Justice cases? The answer is that all loyal for the Rosenbergs have built one of Americans should realize that there is the largest and most successful com- a psychological war being waged now To More Comfort munist front organizations ever created and that in any war it is necessary to Nagging Backache Without in the United States. Those who con- ask, "Am I assisting my own country Nagging backache, loS9 of pep and energy, head- tributed funds, services or even signa- or I helping the enemy?" 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tion starts another campaign to dis- conceivably be avoided there would be credit courts loyal wrong American no Ameri- innumerable instances where •if can should furnish moral or financial would triumph and mob rule would help. It no non-communist organiza- prevail. The chief beneficiaries of that tion takes up the case, it is proof suffi- dreadful situation would, of course, be dies younger? cient that it is a phony and does not the conspirators who want to destroy deserve support. If responsible organi- the American way of life. As an indis- the zations denounce the efforts to play pensable defense against the agents of up the case it should serve as a warn- the Kremlin we must invest faith in our AY MAN! ing that the intent is to bully the court own institutions. and the pardoning authority. How does the American public feel The ultimate task of deciding who is about the Rosenbergs? In spite of all guilty or innocent and who should re- the confusion, distortion and deception Who... ceive clemency should be left to con- that the communists have employed to stituted authorities, to whom anyone make heroes of these criminals, the overtaxes his heart? can express his views privately by writ- overwhelming sentiment of the people ing a letter. President Truman granted of the United States has not altered the clemency in over 1800 cases of individ- from that which was expressed by the uals and by amnesty freed thousands of editor of the Constitution of Atlanta, others without any public clamor on Georgia, who wrote two years ago their behalf. As Judge Kaufman rightly (April 6, 1951): "There is hope that said, "When the day comes when we Federal Judge Irving Kaufman's sen- succumb to pressure we might as well tencing of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg close the doors of justice." to die for stealing atomic secrets for Who... If the idea that justice can be se- transmission to Russia marks the end cured in America by having unin- of our soft treatment of those who are gets the BAD breaks? formed persons foist their views on our disloyal. We can no longer afford the courts, our President and the Gover- foolish indulgence of being soft with the nors of our States, then the communists traitors. Judge Kaufman is to be con- will have won their greatest victory. In gratulated for making that plain. Let FAT MAM ! that event for every wrong that might other traitors be warned." hie end

Al Pflueger and His Big Fish Stop kidding yourself about overweight! Overweight is today's (Continued from page 25) number 1 health problem. If you're overall coat of white or gray base paint mum of $20 for any specimen. Sails, overweight, you're a prime target and moved on to the paint room, where Pacific sails and white marlin are lor diabetes, heart ailments, circu- the large fish are restored to their ori- charged for at a rate of $16 a foot. latory diseases. With each added ginal coloring with spray guns. With Services for blue marlin, swordfish pound, you endanger your health. smaller fish, only base colors, or back- and tuna arc computed at $1 per pound. Don't take chances with your life! ground hues, are spray-applied. Pflueger pegged the present record for LOOK YOUNG! FEEL YOUNG! STAY YOUNG! Once dried and checked for faithful blue marlin at 742 pounds, a sizeable in- rid of reproduction and workmanship the life- vestment for any angler merely to Get excess pounds! Get the Delafield like trophies are turned over to the prove his "big one didn't get away." brand-new Reducing Plan shipping room. There by clever use of Payment for mounting, except for for Men. It's safe, scientific! You the inverted U-metal strapping mount, old and well known "credit customers," don't count calories. You don't starve. Yet the pounds slip away fish arc boxed; thus removal of the box- is handled on a strictly one-half down stay away. Start today! Your near- top allows the trophy to be extracted with the fish and the rest pay able be- est Rexall Store has the complete intact merely by loosening screws fore shipment of the finished job. Delafield Reducing Plan for Men. whose heads arc outside the carton. What do you get for the money and No description of the process, how- how long will your mounted fish last? ever, can give an adequate picture of Here's what Al says: "Given decent the highly technical skills needed to care, you can practically write your care for the 30 or 40 common varieties ow n ticket. Tested plastic paint on all handled along with the more unusual of 'em. Keep 'em dry. Don't hang 'em types arriving almost daily. in too hot a place, nor in too much Last year the (Mexican and U. S. West sun. Dust 'em off occasionally and very Coast furnished hundreds of specimens likely you'll have something for your REDUCING PLAN of sails, blue marlin, swordfish, tuna, grandchildren to argue over when set- etc. Other fish come all the way from tling up your estate. FOR MEN Canada on down through the Carib- "I look at it this way. Every fish bean, from the Bahamas, the Virgin hanging out there on someone's wall is FOR $3.50 YOU GET: Islands, and the present "hot spot," the best advertising we can get. In fact, 1. The big 100-page, illustrated AjJ'Jr^* Puerto Rico. that and fishing boat captains who men- Reducing Book for Men Even the west coast of /V v .> successful fishermen—know- South America—Venezuela, Cape Blan- tion us to 2. 10 days' supply of Appe- co, Peru and other spots know about ing anglers'll get satisfaction— is about tite Reducing Wafers advertising. Pflueger. all we use in the way of 3. 10 days' supply of It goes without saying that the big- "You can't beat that word-of-mouth Vitamins ger the fish the more you'll pay for the stuff when it's one fisherman talking to Sold at mounting. Prices begin with a mini- another." the end REXALL Stores Everywhere!

The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 • Shooting For Pennies (Continued from page 21)

AIR MOVES f ROM HEEL 10 TOE WHEN WALKING Wesson guns. The Combat A4asterpiece floating chamber which multiplies the in the .22 caliber which is identical in recoil of the .22 caliber long rifle bullet every other respect to the gun in .38 four times for perfect ejection. Here's caliber is being used by our depart- a simpler picture of what Colt has done ment for target practice and in the with this device. A box of .22 long WALK ON AIR training of new officers. This gun is rifles costs about 67 cents for fifty. accurate and gives us the feel of the Fifty .45 cartridges cost $5.00. A sav- Here's quick relief fur anyone suffering from cal- heavier caliber guns. For our men who ing of $4.33 on a single box! A good louses, Misters, spur or bruised heels, or general foot fatigue. Albin Air Cush'n Innersoles give your carry the .38 Special Combat Master- return on a $40.00 investment! feet immediate comfort. Just place in your shoes piece on duty, the .22 caliber in this The automatic target pistols in .22 and walk. moves Air thru a small channel gently model offers the nearest equivalent to caliber made by Colt's are also well massaging feet. Odorless, non-absorbent, almost the heavier gun. In addition, the great known. Among these is the "stripped weightless. Order by men's or women's shoe size. Only $2.95 a pair (No COD's, please — money back saving in ammunition in actual practice down" Challenger at comparatively low if not delighted). Albin of California. Room 107, and target use of the .22 cartridge cost for the economy-minded. 1401-65 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles 17, California. against that of the .38 is tremendous." Parenthetically, the sort of thing done When Walter W. Sanborn, service by Colt's in bringing out the Challenger A BUSINESS OF YOUR OWN manager of Smith & Wesson, attended is similar to the procedure of several the meeting of the International Asso- other companies. Knowing that not with a Money Back Guarantee ciation of Chiefs of Police in Aliami in every shooter can afford a lot of money $712 investment gives you your own independ- 1951, several of the chiefs told him that for a good gun, these concerns are lay- ent business operating a route of new money- making 5c dispensers handling new fast-moving "the saving to the taxpayer involved in ing stress on giving customers "the confections in drug stores, cafes, clubs, bus de- the use of the .22 caliber Combat Mas- mostest for the leastest." A case in point pots, etc. Route set up for you by our experts. You must have car, references and $712 which terpiece in training new officers and on is the Harrington & Richardson Model is protected by an iron-clad 100% Money-Back the target range was enough to take a 922, a 9-shot solid frame revolver that Guarantee. Devoting a few of your spare hours each week you should earn up to $80.00 weekly significant position on Annual Reports." shoots .22 shorts, longs and long rifles. spare time, full time more. Liberal financing as- is saving to the sports- versatility is found in a good- sistance to aid expansion. For personal interview And what the This write giving phone number and address to man? Pick up your pencil and work it looking weapon that sells for only SUPERIOR DISTRIBUTING CO. out. Do you shoot a .32 or .38? If you $29.95. Suite 506- D 1030 15th St., Denver 2, Colo. efficient References: Dun & Bradstreet do, you probably like the heavy and In automatics, Rugcr has an dependable feel of that gun in your pistol which is giving a good account hand. But you also know that every itself, at $37.50, with a target model Show New COLOR-CHROME Christmas Cards of time you press the trigger of the .32 at $57.50. And if you're looking for a JFf\ *ASY SALES 00 $CA it costs about six cents; on the .38 it's really pistol, a new one called bring you jU~ low-cost JV at only latest sensation in spare-time monev-makersl Show eight cents. But with the K-22 or the the S-M Sporter is available

FREE Samples of name-imprint.'. i Christmas Cards with 1'rue-l.ife OOLOIt photos of Christmas s.-en.-s. .22 caliber Combat Masterpiece you $19.95. Resembling a Luger, it is a single Make $1.00) profit on every box. Nothing like it I Up to 100% profitonSl Assortments. Secret Pal. Mag- have the same weight gun, and it costs shot .22 which does everything auto- ic Leaf polish. Clo-in-Park Ornaments. *I Gifts, over 160 fast-sellers. (Jet Assortments on approval. Glo- n-Oark A Colorrhrome samples FREE. Write NOW! a little over a penny a shot. That's a real matically but load a new cartridge into MIDWEST CARD C0..11 1 3 Washington. Dept. 60 M, St. Louis 1 .Mo saving, isn't it? With the money saved the chamber. Highly accurate, it makes SPECIAL SUMMER SALE! in actual firing you can buy a .32 or a an excellent trainer for the fellow who Gabardine or Tropical .38 and use that gun on those occasions eventually wants to shoot with an auto- DRESS TROUSERS when you feel that the heavier caliber matic. Slight Factory Imperfect is absolutely necessary. All this can be The High Standard Manufacturing SAVE MORE THAN HALF! done without any loss of skill, for you Corporation has gone right to the core c good 30 days only! One r, value SlO, only $.1.93! have been using the same weight gun in of the handgun shooting problem. 3 pairs, onlv $'J.7 5 ($2.50 [her belt with 2 pairs, free the lesser caliber. Knowing that cost is so important, they extra cost.) Any '2 colors, sizes. Imperfections very slight. to affect ear. I; i Colt's Manufacturing Company, too, have recently perfected and added abardine or rayon ool summer tropii have several items that were engineered their line what they claim is the only .Tinkles, holds pi after hours of wear, Zipper front, with more economical shooting in mind. .22 autoloading pistol made in the

roomy jiockets. Tan, 1 lue. Light Brown Hark Brown. Gray. ireen. Blue-Gray Colt's manufactures the Official Po- United States specifically designed for WAIST: 28 to 42. SEND NO MONEY lice Revolver which is popular with law the .22 short cartridge. They call this ir gabardine or tropical. 1 or 2 pai (belt free o extra cost with 2 pairs enforcement agencies. It is built on a model the Hi-Standard Olympic. It was P.iy posimai price plus small C.O.D. d price plus 23c postage save C.O.D. Money Hack heavy .41 caliber frame and chambered originally intended for the 1948 Olym- LINCOLN TAILORS Dept. AM-9 Lincoln, Nebr. for either the .38 caliber special car- pic Matches, but constant use and study tridge or the .22 long rifle. The latter is of the weapon has brought out the fact RUPTURE purchased for training rookie police and that not only is the Olympic a top tar- RELIEF.. .OR YOUR MONEY BACK for target practice. In addition, Colt's get pistol, it's also a versatile plinking Simple, easy to wear truss manufactures the world famous gov- gun; one that will pay for itself in short made by old surgical house. like this: .22 You risk nothing. Write for ernment model .45 caliber automatic, order. Figure it A box of free booklet. Don't delay. the standard side arm of United States long rifles costs 67 cents and the shorts armed forces for years. similar are only 44 cents. Every time the shoot- WEB TRUSS CO. Dept. At 7 Hagerstown, Maryland A weapon is also made in super .38 auto- er fires 50 shots with the Hi-Standard matic caliber. Olympic model he is saving 23 cents. RE£L ISvATE One of the most ingenious money- So four boxes save you almost a dollar. PAYS BIG! SEND FOR FREE, BIG. ILLUS- savers in the entire arms field is a con- From a practical viewpoint, perhaps TRATED CATALOG NOW! Graduates report making Substantial incomes. Start and run your the own business quickly. Men. women of all aKes, *00K version unit, made by Colt's, which the best picture of economy to learn easily. Course covers Sales, Property Management, Appraising, Loans. Mortgages, and mis will convert either of these heavy cali- average shooter using the .22 caliber is r.-li I Mlliie. 'Is. STUDY AT HOME or in classrooms in leadinft cities. Diploma awarded. to .22 caliber rifle in thirty painted by A. Curry, Assistant Write TODAY for free book! No obligation C.I.Appr. bers long Joseph WEAVER SCHOOL OF REAL ESTATE (EST. 1936) seconds. Selling for $40.00, it has a Chief Inspector at the New York Po- Suite 300 Law 111. I: . Dept. AL Kansas City, Mo.

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lice Academy in New York City. With firing a machine gun at a moving target. more than 19,000 graduates of this Mo-Skeet-O uses the shotgun technique Finest, rifle the SUNBURN? academy serving as New York's with the .22 smooth bore and Inspector Curry's words take on added versatile shot cartridge. significance. This lesson learned by Canada dur- Get FAST RELIEF "For the past number of years," In- ing the war is currently being put to with this MEDICATED spector Curry says, "the New York use by thousands of Boy Scouts in Powder! City Police Department has employed America and by sportsmen in many For sunburn discomfort, the .22 caliber revolver in its recruit- parts of the country. More than 300 sprinkle on cooling Ammens training program. Boy Scout camps used the Mo-Skeet-O Powder right away! "In addition to the financial saving, Trap, .22 smooth bore rifle, shotshell For Ammens contains teaching last the use of the .22 makes the system, in their summer programs three famous medicinal in- of good shooting fundamentals much year. gredients—gives 3-tcay med- easier, due to the lack of recoil and One of the finest trap shots I know icated skin care: (1) It soothes, relieves and muzzle blast which greatly affect begin- does most of his practicing with the .22 helps heal irritated skin. (2) Its extra softness ." protects and cushions sore skin, and so pro- ners . . smooth bore and the shot cartridge. He motes healing. (3) Its extra fluffy texture gives During the last war the Royal Cana- claims that it closely approximates the cooling relief. For real medicated skin care, get dian Air Force built up a solid and re- shotgun, and that if you get good at genuine Ammens Medicated Powder wherever in the air over Eng- birds, sold spectable record knocking down the clay fine drug products are sold. repu- land, France and Germany. This with the Mo-Skeet-O trap and gun, FREE trial-size can. Write today to Dept. 1—73. Bristol- tation was constructed on a solid foun- you'll have no trouble on the skeet or Myers Co., Hillside, N. J. (Offer limited to U.S.A.) dation of good marksmanship. Realizing trap range in the field after ducks or ® that the more its air cadets shot, the and geese. Guaranteed by better marksmen they would become, 80 Mo-Skeet-O trap costs The Model .Good Housekeeping AMMENS the R.C.A.F. decided to try something $16.00 and the single-shot, bolt-action MEDICATED POWDER novel. Hundreds of Mo-Skeet-O sets, rifle about $22.00. Larger trap and re- consisting of scaled down traps, rifles are peating type Mo-Skeet-O shotguns Career Opportunity! and small clay birds, were purchased also available. As for the economics— and the fledging flying boys got their box of 25 12-gauge shotgun shells re- Become an Engineer Your Military, Practical or Academic original aerial gunnery know-how by tails a at $2.50, and carton of 100 of the training evaluated for advanced credit walking the rounds of a skeet field normal size clay targets goes for $2.20. 'Major in Electronics, Power or Mechan-

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few expert WORLD'S LARGEST SELLING PLUG shooters could afford the cut, not far from Danbury, a city of hundreds of rounds they have to fire about 30,000 people. It seems that one 1k OVER to develop the skill to win matches. Burton Humphrey, who lived on the ELEVEN MILLION Milton E. Hicks, sales manager of outskirts of Danbury, interested SOLD Cap- Colt's Manufacturing Company, credits tain J. Howard McGoldrick of the hand loading with even more: Danbury police force in hand loading There is only one reason why the Flatfish "Reloading," he says, "helps to hold several years ago. It was at a time when outsells all other plugs together almost every pistol club in the war restrictions were on, ammunition jm year after year. It's be- country. Most clubs have a hard core was difficult to get and the police de- I • cause fishermen have ^^J^l found that it can be of expert shooters who want to under- partments of the country were grow- depended upon to deliver the / jL trf stand just what happens when the firing- ing stagnant so far as shooting practice Y LJJ soods. Try it and see how it \JJ will help you catch more fish. pin falls, the bullet streaks out the bar- was concerned. Humphrey had all the it at your tackle dealer's Get rel of their guns and arrives at the tar- equipment necessary to hand load. He or write for 48-page book with fishing secrets of famous anglers. get. They take up hand loading and found an avid audience in the Danbury get the answer through putting together police. He taught Captain McGoldrick, HELIN TACKLE CO. their own cartridges." the good captain passed his knowledge Catalog 3669 Meldrum Detroit 7, Mich. Hicks tells the story of an old friend around, and before long eight patrol- Veterans Records Holder of his named Jack Stiles who moved to men were gathering at Humphrey's RECORDS MEAN MONEY! Keep them handy & or- Coral Gables, Florida. Stiles decided house regularly to try their hand at derly along with your personal papers & records. Im.

Leather Ringbook with NINE 1 1x5 Envelopes. 1. Dis- he wanted to do some shooting so he reloading ammunition. charge Cert. & Service Records 2. Insurance 3. Bank Books, Taxes 4. Loans. Deeds 5. Memberships 6. loaded some empty pistol cases, cut a A few days ago, I visited the red- Photos & Letters 7. Ed & Training 8. Pension 9. Certs, path through some underbrush va- of Birth. Will, etc. Helpful hints on some. Send $4.00 on a bricked police department in Danbury, — I pay postage. If C.O.D. — you pay postage. Money cant lot near his home, pasted a paper where I met Chief of Police Faverino refunded if not satisfied TOM LENNON, Vet. WW 2 target on a palm tree and fired about A4azzia, who took me to Sergeant Willis Charles Town. JeH. Co.. West Virginia a hundred handloads at it with his pis- E. Woodin, the man now in charge of tol. His neighbor, attracted by the hand loading in the department. There, ACCORDIONS sound of shooting, came out and in a neat room dominated by a long t DISCOUNTS watched. He told another neighbor; in wooden table containing a set of re- a few months Jack Stiles and his early loading tools, I talked to Sergeant UP TO 503fo FOR spectators became a shooting club. Woodin about hand loading. The ne- ^ VETERANS SDAY Now, because of the fact that one man cessity of operating on a slim budget was interested in hand loading and desire of the Danbury police DIRECT from and the Importer to You!' shooting, Coral Gables has one of the force to become and stay expert shots, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, or your best pistol clubs in the country. Many made the hand loading endeavor a pop- money back? NOW you can save up to 50% by direct purchase from America's leading of these men are kept on the range ular one. distributor of famous genuine ITALIAN ACCORDIONS. through the economical medium of In less than a year, he said, he and Send for FREE llluitrated Catalog! hand loading. helpers had hand loaded over 25,000 ACCORDION MANUFACTURERS & WHOLESALERS OUTLET Another example of what one man rounds. The hand loading is done every

2003 West Chicago Ave. Dept. Chicago 27, III. interested in hand loading can do was Monday night from October to May pointed out to me right in my own 1st by patrolmen who arc off duty.

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able to save about five cents a round including the bible of the activity called That last point is something that the when his men hand load the .38 wad- the Ideal Hand Book on Reloading Am- enthusiast should keep in mind in case cutters they use. With a force of 39 munition, now in its 39th edition. With he is ever tempted to try to break regulars, 45 specials and 130 auxiliary inexpensive items such as their Ideal through the sound barrier, ballistically

police, there's a lot of hand loading Economy Set and the Quick Reloading speaking. He is likely to learn what hap- around Danbury. The hand loading Set, which include the Ideal Hand pens when an irresistible force, a heavy operation, instigated by a sportsman Book, Lyman has placed more hand charge of powder, meets an almost im- and brought to perfection by the po- loading equipment in American homes movable body—a gun chamber. lice of that city, is a project of im- than any other manufacturer. Serious accidents can also result from portance. In dollars and cents, Sergeant Lyman insists that there is little dan- careless measuring or use of the wrong Woodin estimates that they save about ger attendant in hand loading and offers kind of powder. For example, the fel- $60 every evening on an average night's the following suggestion to help the low who thinks that the same kind of production of 1,200 reloads. hand loader: powder that goes into a pistol cartridge paid The Danbury Police Department ( 1 ) Read and understand the entire will do for a rifle cartridge stands a for their hand loading equipment in hand loading procedure before starting. good chance of turning up in a surgery two nights (in ammunition money (2) Contact an experienced reloader ward. Gun manufacturers, incidentally, saved), and, according to Captain Mc- and watch him work. report a growing number of damaged police- Goldrick, the natural rotation of ( 3 ) Buy the tools suited to your guns resulting from careless hand load- men who assist in the hand loading needs—according to the amount of re- ing—so watch your step. Still, your operation has injected a new respect loading you plan to do. chances of avoiding trouble are prob- for shooting into the entire department. (4) Line up the sources for your ably close to 100 percent. The fact that He believes that when a man has hand components in advance. (Components you are reading this article indicates loaded a cartridge he has a new respect are empty cases, primers, powder, and that. The fellows who get themselves for it. It is his own handiwork and he bullets.) The important ammunition fouled up are invariably those who at- isn't going to do any foolish shooting. manufacturers offer component parts of tempt to do something without learning "Hand loading," adds Captain Mc- cartridges for hand loaders. Your sport- anything about what they are trying Goldrick, "brings the shooter right ing goods dealer carries them or can to do. Assimilate knowledge from re- down to basics. Teaches him about get them for you. sponsible sources first before you be- powder, primers and bullets, and if the (5) Use good judgment and ordinary gin loading your own. man has a real interest in shooting, hand care in every operation. By the same token you ought to be loading is bound to make a better shot In addition, the Lyman experts ad- able to save some money from here on out of him." vise shooters to use only guns that are out, and do more shooting than ever. The Lyman Gun Sight Company of in good condition, and not to experi- Thanks to the people who turn out our Middlefield, Conn., sell a high percent- ment in hand loading beyond the limits guns and ammunition, shooting is one age of the handloaders their equipment, of safety. sport that everyone can afford, the end

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Fifth Column In Russia (Continued from page 15) — guar- world and you can do what you please The Kremlin's policy, it is well to the nature of the case we cannot let in the rest of it. You can go on tortur- note, has never been one of contain- antee that the goal will be reached, will ing the one-third of mankind already ment. Its clear purpose has been "liber- alone hovu or when. But at least we in your power with our consent and ation"— to "liberate" us from capitalism, have set ourselves an objective worthy even our cooperation. Our trade, our from religion, from democratic free- of free, self-respecting men, one that loans, our industrial genius can be doms. Had it-wished merely to contain validates the risks and sacrifices we must short of sur- yours in payment if you cease mischief- us within present bounds, it could have assume under any policy making beyond your present sphere." had not only our enthusiastic consent render. that Does this sound like anything but a but vast bribes as a bonus. The red ob- The great virtue of such a goal is heartless sellout to the peoples of the jective has been to thrust us back, it enables us to begin forthwith the Soviet empire? The goal of contain- country by country, until one world forging of a grand alliance with the curtains, over ment, after all, is not to contract the with its capital in Moscow has been peoples behind the iron us boundaries of that empire but merely achieved. the heads of their tyrants. It compels inside the to keep them from expanding. If suc- While the enemy was thus dedicated to exploit the terrific tensions cessful, it would simply freeze the exist- to victory, we were dedicated to attain- Soviet world. the ing division of the globe. ing a stalemate, a draw. As described That the overwhelming mass of As far as the Soviet populations are by Air. Acheson and other containment humanity confined in the Red satellites, to China, is op- concerned, containment is therefore leaders, our extreme hope has been to from East Germany hardly another name for incarceration. Its suc- attain "positions of strength"—not, God posed to its current regimes of their cess would seal their doom. Not only forbid, for reducing and eventually needs "proving." The story does containment offer no threat to the eliminating the Soviet segment but to forcible enslavement is recent and fresh same holds true survival of the Soviet regime but it un- induce the Kremlin to negotiate a per- in memory. That the people in the dertakes not to interfere with its sys- manent division of the world. A sorrier for the great majority of has tem of power and even holds out the prescription for political paralysis, eco- Soviet Union itself is less obvious. It thirty-five promise of economic help to strengthen nomic self-bleeding and moral surren- been blurred by time and propaganda. For its grip. der has never before been evolved by a years of superb Soviet has swal- The first seeming repudiation of this Great Power. the most part a gullible world the policy at the highest level came on Most thoughtful Americans have long lowed the biggest of the Big Lies: February 2nd, when President Eisen- sensed the moral and practical weak- claim that the Soviet regime and its sub- hower in his State of the Union address ness of the prescription. This was a fac- jects are one and indivisible. and declared: "We shall never acquiesce in tor in the outcome of the 1952 Presi- Precisely because a more resolute the mak- the enslavement of any people in order dential election. President Eisenhower dynamic American policy is in 1 '' free to purchase fancied gain for ourselves.' has shown his awareness of the fact in ing, that lie must be exposed. The at long last It is to be hoped that his Adminis- the statement already quoted and in his world must comprehend tration grasps the far-reaching implica- further assertion that the best way to that a great gulf of mutual distrust and hierarchy tions of this principle. If honestly ad- avert a shooting war is to win the cold hate separates the Kremlin its victims, the Russian peoples. hered to, it would cancel out the shabby war— to win it, mind you, not to settle and the bargains of appeasement and the futili- for an everlasting deadlock. Soviet Russia has in effect been civil war between ties of containment. If it is not rhetoric If we renounce a deal with the Krem- arena of a continuous the ruled. In the first but reality, it means that we are through lin perpetuating serfdom for its citi- the rulers and military, there- with seeking illusory safety for our- zenry, what is the alternative goal? Ob- years it was open and passive, though selves at the expense of the Russian and viously it is a deal with the captive after mostly hidden and large- satellite peoples. peoples looking to their liberation. In marked by plenty of episodes of scale violence. Only in terms of civil war, indeed, do many otherwise strange and sinister aspects of Soviet history begin to make a pattern of sense. The continuous purges, liquidation of entire classes of the population, use of the death penalty on an unprecedented scale, intense peasant resistance to col- lectivization, man-made famine that killed millions, waves of sabotage and slow-down in industry—these can be understood only as battles in the civil conflict. The hordes starved and executed have been the casualties in the war, the millions in prisons and concentration camps its prisoners of war. Never before in history has a state been obliged to assign so large a part of its budget, brains and energies to "internal security." Never before has a nation been forced to maintain such a colossal machine of repression, terror, censorship and intimidation. Where the Tsars got by w ith a few thousand secret AMUKH'AN LEGION MAGAZINE police officials and operatives, the

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Kremlin needs nearly two million, in- we would have won the war in the East cluding a great special army for internal simply because the Russian people them- MEN WANTED! use. In its darkest periods, the Romanoff selves would have overthrown the re- V Make $15-$20 in Few Hours dynasty rarely counted more than 50,- gime. Especially in the first months of Spare Time-up to $21022 a 000 political exiles and prisoners, where- the w ar, surrenders were on a mass scale Week FULL TIME— with Amazing as those of the Soviets are estimated be- and were political, not military. At that D-FROST-O-MATIC! tween 12 and 18 millions. time 1 would go out as a cavalry officer Millions of housewives want this There we have the best measure of on patrol and would come back with sensational new Automatic Refrig- erator Defroster! No more messy the regime's obsessive fears—fears of re- thousands of altogether voluntary pri- " hand defrosting! Just plug in D-FROST-O- « MATIC and refrigerator is defrosted auto- volt and vengeance by their victims- soners." matically every night! Sales easy, sure when you leave on FREE TRIAL— housewives arid of the persistent popular resistance. Most of the German military leaders D-FROST-O-MATIC won't let you take it out! Saves money, food, time, If there was any margin for doubt on in the Russian campaigns, as well as a work! Big profits tor you — up to $210.00 a week full time—$15 to $20 in just a few spare hours! Start spare

. easily! this score it was erased when the Ger- great many occupation officials, saw in time and build bip, prosperous business . . quickly, Rush Name Today for Profit Details mans invaded the USSR on June 22, the mood of the Soviet peoples a great SELLY Of California and FREE TRIAL PLAN! 1941. opportunity. But Hitler and his inti- waiting! started in his More than 29,000,000 prospects spare time Rush your name and address today. We'll mate gang would have none of this. sure-profit and now sells airmail exciting facts, proof and Free Trial plan. No obligation. Write today. In the first months, before they dis- They did not want allies but slaves. 1500 D-Frost- O-Matics a D-FROST-O-MATIC, Dept. D-10 month covered the true nature of the foreign They did not want a liberated Russia 173 W. Madison Street, Chicago 2, 111. intruders, the Soviet peoples greeted but a vast colony for planned exploita- them with joy. They credited the Ger- tion. The very idea of accepting the man promises that Russia would be "sub-human Slavs," the Untermenschen, "liberated," not conquered or dismem- as comrades-at-arms in the struggle bered. The invaders were able to col- went against their racist grain. lect some three million prisoners in the But as the front moved eastward, the first four months because the Red forces relatively sane military men were large- How to get were fighting half-heartedly, because ly displaced by true-brown civilian oc- Red desertions were of epidemic pro- cupation officials. These knew only portions. A sour witticism had it that contempt for all Slavs, and knew only a Red trooper's most important w eapon weapons of naked terror. They began the most for was the white kerchief. The civilian to slaughter Jews and decimate non- population staged receptions for the Jews. Atrocities were the order of the Germans in a warm holiday mood and day. They brought a Herrenvolk arro- eagerly volunteered for non-combatant gance that insulted and humiliated the your money tasks with the occupying forces. conquered population. Nothing resem- Dozens of Soviet nationals now in bling real self-government or dissolu- self-imposed exile abroad have spelled tion of the hated collective farms was of well- this out in books and articles, thousands allowed. Manufacturers more in verbal testimony. It has been Of the German crimes that were also known brands must com- confirmed by German officers and offi- fatal political mistakes, two merit men- pete — they must give you cials, in documents brought into the tion. Their treatment of prisoners of consistently quality open since the war. The Germans, they war was brutally inhuman and made no better all agree, had a first-rate chance to fin- distinctions between real prisoners and and value for your money ish off the Soviet regime with the help deserters. Literally hundreds of thou- — in order to win your pa- of its first and worst victims, the Rus- sands perished from hunger and expo- sian peoples. They needed only to mo- sure under open skies in fierce Russian tronage. So every time you bilize the population for a common of- winter weather. The physical atrocities shop and name your brand, fensive against the hated Bolshevism. were underlined by systematic humilia- you better your brand of There is, for example, a top-secret tions to break men's spirits. Soon enough report from occupied Russia, as of these outrages were common know ledge living! October 24, 1942, by Dr. Otto Braeuti- throughout Soviet Russia—the Kremlin gam, of the Reich Ministry for the East. saw to that—and the flow of deserters BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED "Were the war being conducted only dwindled, then dried up. A Non - Profit Educational Foundation for the smashing of bolshevism," it says, At the same time methods reminis- 37 West 57 Street, New York 19, N. Y. "then it would have been decided long cent of the African slave trade were ago in our favor, for, as all experiences used to conscript labor for German of this war confirmed, bolshevism is mines and factories. At first people en- hated to the utmost by the Eastern listed freely, expecting decent condi- peoples, above all by the great mass of tions. Then the news came through that peasants. In the Soviet Union we found Slav workers were being treated like on our arrival a population weary of slaves, underfed, underpaid, forced to bolshevism, which waited longingly for wear odious badges identifying them as new slogans holding out the promise of a lesser breed. Enlistments fell off. The

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The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 • 57 Make Yourself Comfortable (Continued from page 17)

the unit required. For instance, a six- t< ) build and design. Houses formerly some form of cooling agent to remove room, one-story home of around 1,500 were designed from the outside in. You the heat which the refrigerant in the square feet would require a three-ton decided on what style you wanted— cooling coils has absorbed from the air. air conditioning unit and the cost for Cape Cod cottage, colonial or modern. Individual room units often are air the equipment and complete installation Then you tried to squeeze the kitchen, cooled, but for central air-conditioning would come to about $2,000. For a larg- bedrooms, living room and bath into systems water is the usual cooling agent. er, two-story home, the cost could be that shell. But in a house planned for But water can be a major problem and §4,000, because a five-ton unit would be air conditioning, you can shape your the biggest operating expense of air required, in addition to increased instal- floor plan in an economical rectangle conditioning. For example, an average lation and control needs. The term shape and design from the inside out. air conditioning system without any three-and-five-tons is used by the in- You don't need wings or jogs to get water saving unit uses nearly 100 gal- dustry to indicate the cooling effect in better ventilation and you can locate lons per hour, per ton of refrigeration. 24 hours of an equal poundage of ice. windows for a view, for solar heating The number of hours of operation of At the present time entire house cooling or for a feeling of space. You can place an air-conditioning system varies in dif- systems are manufactured in two, three them high for better lighting and ease ferent parts of the country. For and five ton sizes, but present manufac- in furniture arrangement. You can use example, in the North the air condition- turing trends indicate smaller and low - a solid wall where the view is poor or ing system will operate about 1,000 er cost units in the very near future. where you want privacy. Such a wall hours in a typical season. In the South From these cost figures, you can see gives the extra advantage of more it will operate about 2,000 hours to keep that the installation of a combination storage space and lets you place your a house comfortable. In the North then, heating and air conditioning unit while house more freely on its site. You can with a season of 1,000 hours of opera- a house is under construction currently arrange your floor plan for your con- tion and a two-ton unit, you would use runs only $700 to $1,200 over the cost venience. You can put your interior 200 gallons per hour or 200,000 gallons of a good heating unit alone. But an air- doors and walls where they function of water for the season. In the deep conditioned house plan has construction best instead of placing them to encour- South let us say that a three-ton system advantages that save enough to pay for age a draft. You can have more privacy is required for the average house. Thus better than two-thirds of this extra cost. by putting your bathroom in the in- you will use about 300 gallons per hour For example, since you don't depend terior of the house. By this you will and since the season requires 2,000 on open windows to keep the house save valuable perimeter space and a hours of operation you get a consump- comfortable, fixed-glass windows set in window that probably nobody would tion of 600,000 gallons of water. As- simple wood frames may be used instead be able to look out of anyway. suming that the 100 gallons per hour, of expensive movable window sash. Operating costs must be considered per ton of refrigeration is merely a That means you also save the expense in the overall air conditioning picture, round figure and a little high, you scale of window hardware and its installation. too. Like the initial cost of the equip- the 600,000 figure down to roughly And it eliminates the need for costly ment, they depend on a whole host of half a million gallons. window weatherstripping and for ex- variables such as climate, how cool a Where there is ample water at low pensive screen and storm sash. You can temperature is maintained, the cost of cost as from a well, a stream or even do aw ay with, too, all the old-fashioned power (electricity, gas or oil), how well a city water supply where rates are low- halfway measures to summer comfort; a house is insulated and protected from there is no problem. The compressor attic fans, louvers next to big windows, the sun and how many children run in and condenser components simply are and porches to escape from the heat. and out of the house. hooked up with the water system and An air-conditioned house is simpler All air-conditioning systems require the air-conditioning water is dumped down the sewer after it has done its job of cooling. But more and more places, because of the water shortage, are requiring the user of air conditioning to have some type of water-saving device. (The water shortage, in fact, has been gravest in some of the areas where unusually hot summers have made summer cooling the greatest need.) The trend indicates that before long virtually all home air conditioning will be coupled with some type of water- saving device. In the first place, in most areas, water is expensive in the quanti- ties required for air conditioning and the home owner will have to have such

a device, because of what it does for his pocket-book. Moreover, if he does not have it, he is liable to find his water use stopped by local ordinance just when he needs his air conditioning the most, for few places in the United States are escaping some type of water supply problem. The most common solution to the

58 * The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 water problem was to recirculate it air that is too deeply chilled and still Conditions through a cooling tower. Water that maintain comfort. One system solves circulates through the condenser is this problem by blending the chilled piped to the top of the tower and as it air automatically with room air, tem- cascades down, it gives up heat to the pering it so that it is comfortable for it grooms! surrounding air. The water sent back the occupants of the home, yet de- as into the system is generally about 10 humidifying it to the maximum degree. degrees colder than before it went Operating costs with a system like this through the tower. can be lower because comfort in the There are two types of towers—the home can be maintained at a relatively natural draft or atmospheric, and the higher temperature because humidity forced draft. The first is big and must is low. be located in an open area where natural For an average figure for a year- drafts will not be hampered by foliage round central system, the cost of oper- or other obstructions. There is 10 per- ating a three-ton cooling unit—that is, cent loss of water through evaporation a system adequate for a seven-room and if heavy winds blow some of it out house— is approximately $15 to $25 a CONTAINS LANOLIN! Relieves "shampoo- into the air, the water loss can go as month during the summer. This assumes dry" hair and dry scalp! Keeps your hair high as 50 percent. The water blown that some type of water-saving device in place. ..lustrous and well-groomed, all day! by the wind in such a system can be a will be used in the refrigerant-condens- Fitch Rose Hair Dressing now gives this neighborhood nuisance too. Dirt and ing process. The higher figure is for amazing double-action care for your hair: debris also can get in the pipes, fouling climates with long-lasting hot spells 1. FITCH keeps wild, dry hair sleekly up the condenser tubes. which cause a heavier cooling demand. groomed all day! The forced draft tower is an in- For example, in the New York area, 2. FITCH conditions dry scalp as you closed unit and it incorporates a power- using average utility rates, the annual groom your hair. Contains lanolin. driven blower to pull the air through expense would be: — 20,000,000 bottles sold every year. Get it; thus it can be located in a closed Heating $220 approximately Fitch Rose Hair Dressing at toilet-goods area concealed shrubbery or placed by Cooling 40 counters everywhere. in a basement or garage. If installed inside, duct-work must be used to pro- Annual cost - $260 vide the passage for outside air to come In the Southern states, the same size FITCH JSjjjjjjfJL into the unit. 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ducts, but it has been found that even dow" or "room conditioner" is ideal. beginning of a tremendous new devel- this application is no more difficult or These units are of small capacity; are opment in housing improvement. Eco- complicated than other remodeling made to fit into an ordinary window; nomists of national stature point out work being done on old homes today. can cool one or two rooms without that one major industry has come up It is generally more expensive to difficulty, and require no connections about every 10 years to provide a new operate air conditioning in old houses other than electricity. They work on contribution to our better living—auto- than in a new one. This is true because the same principle as the large units, but matic refrigeration in the 1920's, radio most old houses are loosely constructed are self-contained, portable and inex- in the 30's and television in the 40's. The or poorly insulated. Roof or attic floor pensive, retailing for from $250 to $400, future of the home-air-conditioning in- insulation is important in winter to save depending upon size and make. dustry is almost unlimited and appears the heating dollar, but it is an absolute The console type cooler, larger than to be the big new industry of the 50's. necessity if the house is to have sum- a window conditioner, can cool up to In some parts of the South, air condi- mer cooling. Also, in older houses there three rooms successfully. Air cooled tioning is spoken of in the same breath are seldom roof overhangs to protect consoles require a window or a wall with garages, picture windows and re- walls and windows from the summer's opening, while water cooled models can frigeration. Nor is this demand confined sun. Double glazed windows on the be located in a closet, but must have a to the Southern states. A recent survey south and west side of the house will plumbing connection. The larger units showed that 53.6 percent of Northern help to some degree to overcome this of these types can be used with ducts home owners questioned wanted sum- difficulty. Planting of shrubbery in to cool bedrooms at night and a living mer cooling. It is not hard to believe front of large windows to cut down room and kitchen in the daytime. For that a house built in the next few years on the sun's rays will also help to cut this to work successfully, units han- that does not have an air-conditioning operational expenses. dling two zones must be installed by ex- system or does not provide for simple For those whose budgets will not perts. Consoles vary in price from $600 conversion to it at the convenience of allow full air conditioning or for those to $1000. the owner, will be as antiquated as a whose present heating system cannot Residential air conditioning is not house of today without indoor plum- be combined with it, the so-called "win- just a new "gimmick," but rather the bing. THE END

The Man With A .38 (Continued from page 13) his doeskin coat, brushing his crisp, blanks, he says. Sure, the cats are valu- me how it started, or why. I don't know blond hair with vigorous strokes. able. If there's trouble, I should be a —I just don't know!" Across the tent Kranzell was putting good guy and get myself chewed up, Kranzell nodded. "Larry, when I first on his bandstand uniform— a scarlet to save Bruno the price of a new cat. come into this rough and tumble world hussar jacket and a cockaded shako. In Not me, brother!" of the circus I have a hard time. They the dressing-mirror he could see Larry Larry dipped angrily into the ward- make jokes about me, they play tricks fiddling around aimlessly. robe trunk and brought out the hidden on me. But you make them stop that. "If you're ready. Professor," Larry bottle. The cork came out with a de- I remember how you have a fistfight said, "don't wait for me." fiant plop. with Gus the Strong Man." "There is plenty of time," Kranzell "Please, Larry!" Kranzell pleaded. Larry shrugged. "Forget it, Profes- replied. Then without turning from the "You should not drink before the show. sor. Gus had it coming to him." mirror he added, "If you must have it, It is not good for your work—" "But you help me, Larry, you stand Larry—take it." "So what? " Larry snapped. "The cats up for me. Now it is my turn to help A slow flush colored Larry's checks. smell a little liquor on my breath—they you. In this mirror I have watched how "Take w hat?" won't tell Bruno." this fear grow s. First you take one drink "The bottle," Kranzell replied quiet- "They smell more than the liquor," before your show—then two drinks— ly. "The bottle you keep hidden in Kranzell said quietly. "They also smell and now real bullets for the gun. Larry, your trunk." the fear that leads you to do the drink- what happens when even the bullets are Larry sprang to his feet. "So you've ing." not enough?" been snooping?" Larry straightened angrily, then Larry drew his hand across his eyes. Kranzell shook his head. "Not snoop- shrugged. "Okay, let's face it— I've lost "I don't know." He stared off into "1 ing, Larry. It was not necessary. I have my nerve, I need a good sw ig to get space. remember what Cap Dillon seen what you do— in my mirror." through a show." tolil me when I was his cage-boy.

"All right— so I came back here for "Fear is only mental, Larry," Kran- 'Larry,' he said, 'no matter how many a drink!" Larry snapped. "I need a brac- zell said slowly. "It is nothing but a times you go into that cage, you walk er. My cats' are restless tonight. This shadow—a shadow on the brain." in shaking and you walk out sweating. damn storm—" "Save the sermon, Professor!" Larry That's normal. A lion trainer's always

Kranzell adjusted his shako. "Caesar cut in. "Do you think I started hitting scared—the big trick is never let your makes trouble again?" the bottle because I like it? I hate the cats find it out.' "Caesar always makes trouble!" Larry stuff— it gags me—but I need it!" Larry drew a ragged breath. "That's answered bitterly. "But I'm ready for He strode to and fro before the mir- what's happened to me. Caesar's found him!" He slapped the leather holster. ror in bitter sclf-mockcry. "Look—the me out. That damn cat's got my num- "I've got real bullets in here! I've been big, handsome hero, with a chestful of ber. I'm sw eating in my shoes every time loaded with lead-nosed slugs for the medals! Bought medals — pawnshop I have to walk into that cage. And last three days. I'm not taking any medals! Larry Merkle, Fearless Master Caesar knows it." chances on blanks." of the Big Cats! That's what it says on "Courage is not inside a bottle, Larry Kranzell shook his head. "You break all the pretty posters." —and not inside a bullet," Kranzell said. the rules, Larry. If Mr. Bruno find that "You look the part, Larry—why don't "Courage is inside a man's brain—" out, there will be trouble." you act it?" "Words, words! A dime a dozen!" "Listen! W ho has to walk in there Larry whirled around. "Because I'm Larry cut in impatiently. and face those cats—Bruno, or me? Use scared— that's why! Scared! Don't ask ( Continued on page 62 gfj • The American Legion Magazine • July, 1953 4

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(Continued from page 60) "Emergency signal!" Larry ex- "Larry!" Kranzell panted. "I must go

"Larry, only one thing can save you claimed. "Listen . . . one—one— three! and help Larry!" In his excitement he from this fear. Tonight you must go That means Big Trouble—Main Tent- was waving the automatic under into the cage and face the cats without All Hands! Come on, Professor, let's Bruno's nose. bullets in your gun to give you false get going! Maybe it's a fire." Stover reached out and snatched the courage—" Larry turned and ran from the tent, gun from Kranzell's hand. "Gimme that "Arc you crazy?" Larry burst out. Kranzell running after him, calling, thing before you kill somebody. You

"Damn it, just thinking about it gives "Wait, Larry! I come with you." gone nuts, Professor? There's a lion me a cold sweat." But Larry had raced on ahead, and loose! I've seen you shoot—you can't "But why is that, Larry? A thousand by the time the little Professor entered even hit a tin duck!" times you have gone into the cage. The the main tent, the center ring was "But—but you do not understand!" cats cannot know if your gun has bul- crowded with hurrying, confused fig- Kranzell pleaded. "Larry—" lets, or only blanks." ures—performers, tent-men, rousties, "Keep back—and keep quiet!" Stover "But / know!" Larry retorted grimly. barkers, guards. commanded. "We got the big cat cor- He thrust his face closer, his voice Then a whistle shrilled, and the nered. If there's any shootin' to be done angry. "Did you ever walk into a lion's booming voice of Foghorn Wallace, the around here, we got some experts to cage, Professor? Did you ever try to ringmaster, shouted, "Attention! At- do it." work a lion on a bad day, with his ears tention, everybody! There's a lion Blocked from further advance, and flat, his tail twitching? And nothing loose! Everybody keep away from the stripped of his gun, Kranzell managed between you and him but a poodle whip south runway!" to scramble up on a crate. From there and a matchstick chair? "Larry! Larry!" little Kranzell he could see what was going on around The little Professor's voice was gentle. shouted, trying to shoulder his way into the roaring, seething cages. "I speak as your friend, Larry. It is bet- the milling crowd. But Larry had dis- He saw Larry standing at the edge of ter a man should turn on his fear, and appeared from sight, and the Profes- the center space, looking up at the fugi- look into its face. In that way he can sor's voice was smothered by the gen- tive lion, crouched on top of a row of die only once in his life-time, and not eral hubbub. big crates, his tail swishing angrily. And over and over again." With desperate energy Kranzell Kranzell's premonition had been right For a long moment they stood fac- pushed and shoved, forcing his way —it was Caesar who was loose! ing each other, the little brown tent an toward the forbidden runway. Finally Jimmy Lunt the cage-boy had been oasis of silence amid the welter of fa- he reached the opening and plunged greasing the sliding door of Caesar's miliar sounds from their gaudy, make- into the passage that led to the lions' cage when the great beast made a shift world of carnival. cages. flying lunge at the opening, catching

Larry moistened his lips. "Yes—and "It is Caesar! I know it is Caesar!" Jimmy unawares, sending him flying suppose I sell myself on this hero stuff Kranzell gulped, tugging the heavy back head over heels. —and suppose those damn cats make a automatic from his coat pocket. Kranzell saw Jimmy, armed with a break for me?" He ran into a road-block then—a ram- hay-fork, crouching between two of "I think they will not," Kranzell part of crates pushed across the pas- the cages. And balanced on top of other said earnestly. "I think your cats can sage. Goldie Stover of the shooting cages, to left and right of the cornered smell courage in a man— like they smell gallery was there, armed with a big- lion, two riflemen covered Caesar. One his fear." game rifle—and Bruno, the circus owner, was Tex Johnson, the circus sharp- Larry shook his head. "No dice, Pro- mopping his pale face and bald head shooter—the other was Jud Deevers, fessor. It's too late for that now . You with a limp handkerchief. head of the circus guards. don't know the big cats like I do—" He Bruno grabbed the Professor's arm. "How about it, Bruno?" the sharp- broke off abruptly at the sudden wail- "Where you think you're going, Kran- shooter called. "Me and Jud got him ing of a klaxon siren. zell? Keep back! Stay out of the way!" lined up for cross-fire. Want us to drop him?" "Wait, Tex—hold it a minute!" Bruno T shouted back. "Hey, Larry! Listen! W e got everything blocked off! Any chance you can w ork him back into the cage?" "I don't know!" Larry called. "I don't know how he'll handle."

"Try it, Larry—try it!" Bruno pleaded. "If there is any chance, get him back alive!" Kranzell saw Larry drawing the pis-

tol from the black holster, balancing it in his hand. Larry's face looked chalk- white in the blazing glare of the dolly lights that had been wheeled into place.

"Okay, Bruno— I'll give it a try!" Larry called, moving out into the open. His head sw ung briefly, surveying the set-up behind him. "Tex! Jud! Ready up there? I'm going in close now. Keep him covered! If you have to start shooting, throw 'em in fast, and keep pump- ing!" "Keep it open ... I dropped my lit tie mirror." Larry up an old as the - picked broom AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE only available working tool and moved g2 * The American Legion Magazine • July. 1953 forward. Kicking a small wooden box shouting with relief over the vanished How to Drive into place, he used it to climb up onto danger. Unnoticed in the excitement, the plateau of crates where Caesar little Kranzell circulated on the outer waited, crouching, roaring defiance. rim, shouldered aside, moving like a Once on top, Larry paused warily, man in a daze. ' 1 . OHOil Chang* testing out the beast's temper, alert for finally came pushing through an Larry witho«t a furious charge. Then slowly, careful- the crowd, the broken broomstick still Mile* ly, Larry edged on toward the great in his hand. He spotted Kranzell and 000 cat, feinting with the broom, pistol went to him, grinning, flushed with his 900 ready in the other hand. victory, but breathing heavily. Changes Caesar snarled—roared—snarled again, "Hi, Professor! Like the show? Without the crates rattling under his shifting Turned out better than my regular act, weight. didn't it?" Larry said, then broke off,

"Jimmy!" Larry called to the cage- staring. "Hey, snap out of it, Professor! boy, without taking his eyes from the You look as white as a sheet!" nervous beast. "Open the door of Little Kranzell wiped his forehead. Caesar's cage—wide! As soon as I start "Thank God you are safe, Larry!" he working him—pound on the bars with quavered. "Now that it is all over, there your fork, try to draw his attention to is something I must tell you." the cage!" "Save it. Professor," Larry said. "This

"Okay!" Jimmy called. wasn't any hero stuff— I was shaking Little Kranzell held his breath as plenty when I climbed up on those Amazing New Larry moved in closer to the big cat, crates. I couldn't have pulled it off ex- moving with an intensity of concentra- cept for one thing—knowing I had a set Permanent Filter Cartridge tion that blotted out everything but the of solid slugs in my gun." narrowing space that stood between "But—but Larry," Kranzell stam- SAVES DOLLARS FOUR WAYS man and animal in their duel of wills. mered, "that is what I have to tell you. 1. Ends forever the expense of "old-fashioned" The broom thrust and darted, dividing About your gun. Take it out again— replacement elements or cartridges. 2. Keeps oil cleaner so you can use it longer— up to and distracting the cat's attention. look into it— see how it is loaded!" 400% longer for normal driving. Then Jimmy began his pounding tat- Larry snatched out the revolver- 3. Will not absorb valuable protective additives from oil as old type elements do. too on the steel bars of the cage. Cae- breaking open the cylinder, staring at 4. Saves the oil soaked up and thrown away in each sar's flaming yellow eyes flickered to- the six loaded chambers. old type element replaced. ward the source of the sudden clatter, "Blanks!" he blurted. "But—but I had Dirty Oil Costs U.S. Millions! then flicked back to Larry advancing bullets in here— real bullets! I put 'em in inch by inch, thrusting with the broom. myself—three days ago!" 97 out of every 100 cars are junked prematurely because carbon, dirt, and abrasive-laden engine oil With a sudden roar Caesar's anger "I know!" little Kranzell nodded. "I has ruined precision finished parts, causing power loss, gas and oil waste, and big repair bills. Only exploded. I Tired of the baiting, he see you change them, watch in my total oil fiiltration can stop this destructive wear— ordinary filters just can't do the pounced at the waving broom. There dressing-mirror. I am afraid for you job! was a brittle snapping of wood, and the then, Larry— I see that you are trapped New Scientific Development whole head of the broom went flying by your fear. Soon as you turn your The FUtcrall Lifetime Oil Filter solves the problem of clean lubri- through the air. back I take out the bullets and put in cation by passing your oil through For an instant Larry stood looking blanks again." a wall of permanent porous bronze! Pioneered for aircraft use, this helplessly at the broken shaft in his "You tampered with my gun!" method traps dirt particles as small hand. Then he sprang back, Larry's voice was harsh with anger. as 39 millionths of an inch, insur- ready to ing a flow of clean, grit-free lubri- side-step, the muzzle of his gun swing- "You had a hell of a nerve." He stood cant. Bronze cartridge never wears out; is renewed simply by rinsing ing to the pointblank target. The great silenced then, staring down at the open in gasoline. No matter what kind you have now, the Lifetime filter will perform better cat was crouching, snarling, flat- gun, moistening his lips, swallowing. ears — and lasts forever! tened, tail flicking, lashing himself for "Hey! Wait a minute! You mean— the coming charge. you mean that for the last two days FULL 10 YEAR GUARANTEE! But Larry beat Caesar to the punch. I've been walking into that cage with Save Your Car— Order Now! His own anger flaring, and ignoring the nothing but blanks?" Easily installed on any car or light truck; transfer it gun, he darted at the beast in sudden "No, Larry," Kranzell amended. to new car when you trade. 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« light, they crunched through the snow to the barn, and Hiram was told to harness the mule. Very little light from the lantern reached into the stalls and the hand ap- proached a cow. Soon he called out, "Hey! Parting Mr. Brown! I can't get the collar on this critter — his cars is froze!" Shot* — Mary Alkus

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RELATIVITY From Italy comes the story of the village priest who told his congregation one day: An optimist is one whose glass is half lull; "Tomorrow I will give a sermon about a pessimist is one whose glass is hall empty. liars. I want you all to read chapter 17 of — F. G. Kernan St. Mark's." Grumbling all around. Next day the priest asked the devout: "Those GENUINE LEATHER who read chapter 17 of St. Mark's raise "Must we lean on the button, Fedgill?" 1 he customer in the luggage shop was their hands." Almost all hands went up. proving to be most exacting and the clerk Said the priest: "St. Mark's has only 16 w ;is fast losing his patience. chapters. I will now give a sermon about JONES, THE GREAT

"Now, you are sure that this is genuine liars." — Harry Sperber No doubt the greatest man that ever crocodile skin?" said the customer, criti- lived w as Marvin Jones. Generous, brave, cally examining a handbag. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER handsome. He was always cheerful, sympa- "Quite sure, madam," replied the clerk. Lady Luck seldom waves any wand, thetic and tender. Didn't take a drink, loved "You see, 1 know the man w ho shot the his wife dearly and never opposed her. And you'll find, when the facts are all crocodile." comied, Praised her cooking. Remembered birth- "W ell, it looks of days and anniversaries. kind dirty," said the That Hard Work brings success: He never looked at woman. another woman except with orthodox eyes. (Though it helps, more or less, "Well, yes," said the clerk. "That's Jones was meticulous in small matters; If you've seen the Boss out with a blonde!) w here the animal struck the ground when — Berton Braley emptied his own ash trays, never monopo- it fell out of the tree." lized a bathroom or read his newspaper at — Dan Bennett FROZEN ASSET the breakfast tabic. His brain w as colossal— he knew every- He doubted the truth of the new hand's THAT WAS CLOSE! thing. And the sheer courage of the man! story of a rural background when a city He faced things. It never fazed him to ask / dreamt about your lips, so pale employment agency sent him out, but gave the boss for a raise. Yet softly sentimental. him a chance. Next morning, before day- He was knight-errant, a Galahad. Yet I alone knew him to be that greatest of supermen. For / married his widow. - A. \Y. Ruble

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