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Contents for February 1961

LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION 11 A FAMOUS DOCUMENT THAT MARKED THE START OF THE CIVIL WAR.

FOREIGN INTRIGUE IN FLORIDA by Edwin W. Hullinger 12 MIAMI IS HEADQUARTERS FOR CLOAK-AND-DAGGER ACTIVITY CONCERNING CASTRO.

AMERICA'S CHURCHES by James F. White 14 YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO ABROAD TO FIND HISTORIC CHURCHES.

HUNTING KILLERS IN UNDERSEA JUNGLES by Gerald R. Hunter 16 AN ACCOUNT OF A FANTASTICALLY DIFFICULT NAVAL EXERCISE.

20 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR GARAGE by David X. Manners 18 AN IMPORTA SOME IDEAS FOR HANDYMEN OF ALL GRADES.

THE ERNIE PYLE I KNEW by Ollie Stewart 20 STATEMENT T A FELLOW WAR CORRESPONDENT DESCRIBES THE Gl's FAVORITE AUTHOR. EVERY MAN 0 MINNESOTA'S REMARKABLE SCHOOL SAFETY PROGRAM HIS FEET A LOT by Robert B. Pitkin 22 THE STORY OF A UNIQUE AMERICAN LEGION PROJECT.

NEWS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION 27

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^ Fascinating New Way for Boys and Girls to"Relive" the Most Thrilling and Inspiring Days of Our Nations History

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these brave words echoed throughout th> As struggling American colonies, the flicker- ing light of liberty flamed anew and men took heart from the example of Nathan Hale's courage. Washington's beaten army rallied as volunteers poured in and vowed not to go home until independence was won! Send for this Exciting Historical Album Set mail THE STORY OF NATHAN HALE at no extra charge AMERICA'S FIRST ESPIONAGE AGENT Your Choice—Cither of These Valuable Collectors' Items:

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Imagine "being there" as young nificant moments in the life of our Nathan Hale sets out on one of the nation! or most famous spy missions in our You will see the landing of the Pilgrims nation's history! at Plymouth Rock . . . you will be part of Traditional INDIAN the Lewis and Clark expedition as it You'll see him first as he answers RITUAL FIGURE blazes the Oregon Trail . . . you will be an call for a lone volunteer to the go eye-witness to the great battles of the Weird and primitive, hand carved and painted in bright colors by behind the enemy's lines in Long Revolutionary and Civil Wars... you will Indian tribes of today such as the Island .. .with only a thousand to be on the scene at the Chicago fire and Navajos and Zunis of New Mexico. one chance of getting back! the San Francisco earthquake. You will No two alike! Quantity limited. You'll see him, disguised as a go along with Charles Lindbergh on the schoolmaster, witli a Yale diploma in first solo flight to Paris. You will be present at the victories of World his pocket, skirting enemy ships in great War II. the dark waters of the Sound, seek- MAIL THIS COUPON WITH ONLY A DIME ing a landing in Redcoat territory! Living Words— Colorful Pictures! Included FREE You'll look on with amazement as All this for only 10<: while supply lasts All the drama and spirit of America's — beautiful wait he wanders through the camps of great heritage is brought to you in a 1. 8,000-Word Illustrated size hlstorl map of U.S. General Howe's army, calmly mak- Series of illustrated monthly albums by Album: NATHAN HALE, Espionage Agent. ing notes in his little black book, writers specially chosen for their ability while unsuspecting enemy officers do to make history exciting to read. Accom- 2. Set of beautiful full-color prints for mount ing in Album nothing but jibe at his appearance. panying each Album is a group of beau- The fate of our young nation hangs tiful original paintings by a leading his- 3. Full-color, wall-size his- torical artist, reproduced in full color. torical map of U.S. on his dangerous mission. A ragged These prints are gummed and perforated 4. Handsome library case for American volunteer in army Man- for easy insertion in the album. Fre- storing Albums. hattan awaits the information quently there will be large fold-out paint- 5. Extra Gift: (check one) Nathan may bring back about the ings twice the size of the Album itself, as Indian Arrowhead Redcoats' numbers, troop locations, well as attractive reproductions of famous Indian Ritual Figure armaments, and intentions. maps and documents. This drama from our country's Reading the exciting text and mounting the prints in the places pro- early years becomes vividly alive for full-color Doubleday Living History Program, vided, you and your family will feel new Dept. Garden City, New York you through the marvelous history l-Al-2. pride in your country's greatness. What a Please rush my introductory package described above for package, Nathan Hale, Espionage marvelous way to learn American history which I enclose 100 to help cover shipping. Also enroll me as Agent—yours for only KV to intro- at first hand—and what a wonderful help a member in the Living History Program and send the cur- duce you to the Doubleday Living to children in school! rent Album Set with a bill for only $1 plus shipping. History Procram. Mail Coupon With Only 10< After examining this package, I may cancel membership Now. ..Relive, Enjoy the Great simply by writing you within 10 days. In this case I may Receive your introductory Nathan Hale Events of Our Nation's Past! return everything and owe nothing. As a member I will re- Set now for only 100. With it will send we ceive a new Album Set every month for only $1 each plus Here at last is a simple, exciting way your choice of Indian Arrowhead or Ritual shipping. 1 do not have to take any minimum number of to recapture the stirring Figure at no extra cost; and a beautiful years of future Sets, and may resign any time I wish. Offer good in historical American history—and at the same wall-map of the United States, U.S.A. only time help children develop a greater also free. We will also include in this shipment the current Living HISTORY understanding of their country's past. Name Each Album Set for which you will be billed Please frlnt month the Living History only $1, plus shipping. You are under no Program, through its unique series of further obligation. If you continue, pay history album sets, takes you on a only $1 plus shipping for each monthly new "journey" of adventure, where set. You may cancel at any time. City. you meet the great leaders, see the Doubleday Living History Program, .Zone. . . .State. dramatic events, relive the most sig- Garden City, New York. growth and spread of communism all Lumumba and others of his ilk sitting over the world. in all their glory to rule on interna- Mrs. Warren L. Dcano tional law. Were such a Court to fol- Arabi, La. low the tactics of the U.S. Supreme Court, we could expect it to rule that

Sir: From comments printed in The anything it wished to consider w as American Legion Magazine, it is ap- international and, therefore, subject to parent that the public does not realize its jurisdiction. Only the Connally the progress the communists are mak- Reservation would protect the United ing in their goal to "bury" the United States in such an event. States. Every Legion Post should buy John E. Waters, D.D.S. the HUAC film showing on-the-spot Corovado, Calif. action by communist-led students that caused riots and blocked efforts of the SELFISH OR SMART? United States through the House Com- investigate in mittee to communism Sir: We arc reading about the unsuc- San Francisco. cessful effort of the Administration to A. I). Sutherland get the West German Government to Fonci dn Lac, Wis. shoulder sev eral hundred million dol- lars of "foreign aid" which we have

WANTS HISTORY TAUGHT been carrying. But I have never seen just w hat arc the details of that "for- Sir: Courses in "remedial reading." eign aid." So I have no way of know- which try to make up for what the ing whether the Germans arc being schools failed to teach, arc quite com- selfish or smart. Perhaps our Uncle HELPING HAND mon. A person might ask why did the Sam should take a hint about practical schools fall short in this respect, but Sir: The American Legion Magazine economic sense from the West Ger- that's another story. Recently I read carried a very fine article in Septem- mans. Can we find out w hat is being of the lack of interest in patriotic mat- ber about Dr. Robert H. Goddard and asked of Bonn and w hat Bonn is de- ters on the part of students. A survey bis pioneering in rocketry. It ought to clining? showed that a large member knew be of interest to Legionnaires that Col. Cassius Mcknight, Pastor nothing about this country of ours and Edwin F. Aldrin, t'SAF (Ret.), Past Gibson, Iowa seemed to care even less. Maybe the Commander of Air Service Post 501, time has come for the schools to start New York, was an important factor giving courses in "remedial history," EATON AGAIN in arranging for Dr. Goddard to con- or maybe it would be enough if they tinue his experiments in 1929 and right Sir: I hear Cyrus Eaton has paid an- just started giv ing courses in history. into WW 2. Back in 1914, Col. Aldrin other visit to Moscow . Who is this How about it. National Education w as a student of Dr. Goddard's study- fellow Eaton? What's his background .'' Association? ing physics at Clark University, Wor- Name Withheld What motivates a man of his wealth to cester, Mass. In 1920 and 1921, Dr. hobnob with those who would ulti- Stamford, Conn. Goddard wrote to the then Lt. Aldrin, mately despoil and kill him? What do .u McCook Field. Dayton, Ohio, sug- CONNALLY RESERVATION the patriots of Cleveland think of him? gesting various applications of rockets I keep reading of his bootlicking of the —one to obtain daily weather informa- Sir: Senator Humphrey, in "Washing- Kremlin masters and think an informa- of tion, another to improve bomb guid- ton Pro & (Jon," advocated a repeal of tive article about him would be ance. These original letters are now in the Connally Reservation. But in his great interest. Louis Rosenberg the Library of Congress. In 1929, Col. argument he is guilty of telling a half- Aldrin flew to visit Dr. Goddard at truth. He misleads readers with his Lincolnwood, III. Clark University and learned that the ". statement: . . the Court is without Smithsonian funds which had carried power to intervene in domestic mat- TIMEX him thus far were being cut off. He ters." Actually, the World Court could attention offered to help him and on his return declare that U.S. internal matters were Sir: I want to call to your — to New York, he talked to Adm. Land, really international and thus take juris- the program sponsored by Timex then with the Guggenheim Fund. As a diction. Mr. Humphrey should be U.S. Time Corp. of Waterbury, Conn, result, Gen. Lindbergh flew Harry ashamed of such tactics. Is he such a -on Nov. 29, 1960, called "The U-2 Guggenheim to Worcester and from fanatical internationalist that he doesn't Affair." In my opinion this television then on Goddard w as financed to con- care how he gets us involved? film w as presented in a biased and un- tinue his rests right through to the American manner. It appeared to be a H. Waller Fowler, Jr. end, in 1945. definite attack on our government and New Orleans, La. John J. Hall most particularly on President Eisen- New York- City, N. V. hower. Fhe film emphasized the Rus- Sir: Why are Senator Humphrey and sian Day celebration and in my other ultra-liberals so anxious to elim- May opinion an attempt w as made to de- inate the Connally Reservation if, as to grade our country. I would like EYE-OPENER he implies, it would be ineffectual since know win this film was presented at its protection exists already in the this particular time, who wrote it. and Sir: I saw a newsreel film compiled by basic stature itself: Such protests indi- who else had a part in putting it on the the I louse Un-American Activities cate that the Reserv arion cramps some- air. I certainly believe patriotic Ameri- Committee called "Operation Aboli- ones' style, and it is not our American " can citizens — servicemen, ex-sert ice- tion This film is about the San Fran- style that it cramps. We are in a big men and civilians alike — should be cisco riots. May I960. It is eye-opening storm and the Connally Reservation given all the facts regarding this tele- and made me determined to do any- is an extra anchor to windward, a vision program. thing 1 can to light communism. Now safety factor. Let us protect and pre- Name Withheld I read that the Washington Lost is serve it. Once we used to believe that Prairie d/i Chieti, Wis. working up a buyers' boycott against we bail a U.S. Supreme Court to pro-

the film. Why? Ox do I need ask! The tect the United States and its constitu- published in Sound Off! do not NJavj ran a film called "Communism tional form of government. Who is so Letters necessarily represent tfie policy o; The on the Map" at the school my child naive as to think that that Court is still American Legion. Name withheld if re- your letters short. Address: attends. This is another enlightening interested m pro\ iding such protec- nuested. Keeo Sound Off. The American Legion Maga- ami shocking revelation of the rapid tion? Imagine a World Court w ith zine. 720 fifth Avenue, New York 19. N Y.

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I PR has announced that it is moving to Canada. The San Diego w riter suggested that they continue on to Peiping. We agree. Another letter, from Brooklyn (where else?), accused Khrushchev of being a the dope. If he had any sense he'd declare war on us, said the man from Brooklyn. Then first he would let us lick him, knowing that Uncle Sam would rebuild the USSR into Editors the mightiest industrial nation on earth, thing one that could easily bury us. cor|ne R And so they go. One of the most re- warding chores of this staff is reading to save "Sound Off!" mail. It certainly proves

that Legionnaires are alert to what is hap- pening in the world today, and not many for your LOST: A CHAMPION of them are being kidded about w ho is The millions who knew Ward Bond responsible for many of the disturbing old age as the star of TV's "Wagon Train" things facing us in this "brave new world" and innumerable motion pictures felt sad, of 1961. To those who write us, we extend

no doubt, at his recent death. Still, to most our thanks and we wish it were possible people it was an impersonal kind of sad- to express our appreciation individually ness, and the sense of loss was probably to each and every contributor. tempered by the knowledge that, thanks to electronics and optics, Ward Bond's REPEAT PERFORMANCE image will be with us for many years to come. Once again many prominent and in- With his death, however, the American fluential people are demanding that people have lost much more than an im- we admit Red China to the United age, a good actor who was beloved for Nations. Only in this way, say these de- the roles he played. They have suffered luded "gulliberals," can we get the Red the loss of a man, a genuine American, Chinese to behave, and thereby secure who loved his country deeply, and who peace. carried on a running battle with people- Since events of the past few- years— Red in and out of the entertainment industry China's purges of millions, its rape of who have shown little affection for a Tibet, and its torture of Americans— obvi- country that has given them so much. ously have no significance for these This facet of Ward Bond's character people, something that happened in 1933 was not known to the general public, but won't mean anything either. But for ra- many un-Americans were painfully aware tional Americans, who will have to with-

of it since the two-fisted actor knew how stand their pro-Red China propaganda,

to hit them where it hurt. These people here is a bit of history that is well worth undoubtedly feel a sense of relief at remembering. These are the words of Ward's untimely death but Americans Senator William E. Borah, a leading ex- who love their country will grieve at the ponent of recognition of Soviet Russia loss of a champion. almost three decades ago: "How are ive going to establish peace THANK YOU NOTE throughout the world with one-sixth of the earth's surface outside the Family the countless thousands who, over of To Nations? How can you win world peace, tlie years, have written letters for how can you restore amity and confidence "Sound Off!" we wish to express our - IS YOU! among the nations if you leave out 160 thanks. 000,000 in possession of one-sixth of the Because of severe space limitations we And since doctors estimate that earth?" are unable to run many of the letters we Well, thanks to Borah and others like one in four of trs will develop can- receive, and it is often necessary to make him we admitted the then tottering Sox iet drastic cuts in the ones that we are able cer at some time in our lives, what Union into "the Family of Nations." To- to publish. day the same type of mentality is urging better investment than to learn But don't think that your letters are the same procedure with Red China. how to guard yourself against it? not helpful. Since this is your magazine, However, we don't think that even these we try to give you the things you want More than a million Americans are people, with all their prestige, can con- to read. The letters are a source of ideas tinue to f< )1 all of the people all of the alive today, cured of cancer, be- to this end. They help us, too, by com- time. mending of" criticizing the articles w e cause they went to their doctors publish, and now and then they arc good IS IT NOW? in time . for an occasional chuckle. For instance, we liked a suggestion all the sayings of Abraham For more information, call our near- from a Rochester reader who said that OFLincoln we can think of none that President Kennedy should refuse to meet is more appropriate at the present time est office or write to "Cancer" in Khrushchev for another summit meeting than the following: care of your local post office. until after the Russians have their elec- "At what point, then, is the approach tion and choose a leader we can do busi- of danger to be expected?

ness with. "I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must AMERICAN We found merit in a letter from San spring up amongst us. It cannot come Diego that discussed the Institute of from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we CANCER Pacific Relations, the outfit that propa- must ourselves be its author and finisher. gandized for the "agrarian reformers" of "As a nation of free men, we must live SOCIETY China w ho, somehow, turned out to be through all time or die by suicide."

• • £ THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE I EBRUARY 1961 . .

Information that can help you with everyday problems.

Note that — as of now — Social Security regulations have heen extended on a number of fronts. The changes are so broad and important that you'll personally want to examine a booklet called "Your Social Security" (avail- able for the asking at any Social Security office). Here's what you'll find: • Benefit losses are milder if you continue to work past retirement. Here- tofore, you could be docked pretty sharply if your earnings topped $1,200. In fact, if they got over $2,080 on any regular basis, you might lose a whole year's pension. Now you will forfeit only $1 of pension for every $2 you earn between $1,200 and $1,500; on anything over $1,500, you'll give up $1 of pension per $1 earned. In short, the ceiling has been raised a good bit. Important footnotes: (1) After 72, you can earn all you want and still get Social Security benefits. (2) Regardless of how much you make a year, you're entitled to a benefit check in any month in which your earnings don't go over the $100 level. • Eligibility time has been reduced so that the span you must work to get coverage is considerably shorter. • Benefits for the children of some deceased workers are raised. While this won't apply to everybody, it will pay you to study the new regulations on the chance your family may benefit. • Earlier disability benefits are possible. The old rules said you had to be 50 before you could draw payments for severe disability. Now the age barrier has been removed. • Survivors of workers who died before 1940 may collect. Check the regu- lations to see whether this change applies to your situation. 4 Where the visitor is • Coverage has been widened. Certain of workers not eligible here- types always welcome as a true tofore may now get into the program. "amigo". All the wonders of Incidentally, while you're examining your Social Security status, check on the accuracy of your account. Under the statute of limitations, bookkeep- this delightful country are just ing errors needn't be corrected after 3 years, 3 months, and 15 days. So an a short distance away from inquiry every three years is advisable. you... superb climate and * * * scenery, fun-inviting beaches, Safety in the home has been the subject of so much preachment that it's picturesque expressions of a dry story by now. Here are a couple of interesting angles, though, empha- sized by the Greater New York Safety Council: Mexican folklore, all in a (1) Lack of a sturdy grab-bar alongside the bathtub or shower is a major gay atmosphere of traditional invitation to disaster. Mexican courtesy. (2) An all-too-common complication in an emergency is that nobody can find a flashlight. (3) Housewives persist in using can openers that leave jagged edges. AND NOW. COME TO MEXICO! Other risky slips: Lack of non-skid pads under small rugs; smoking in bed; too many appliances plugged into one outlet; failure to throw away old or unlabeled medicines and their containers; keeping all the windows closed w hile using a gas stove or heater. * * * It takes more persuasion to put consumers in a buying mood these days, so manufacturers are adding tempting warranties to their products. In many cases, this is perfectly safe and sane because the reliability of the products has been improved anyhow. But for your own protection, bear this in mind about warranties: (1) Make sure you know the exact starting and termination dates of the warranty. Please send me FREE descriptive material on Mexico. (2) If the warranty is prorated over a period time, find out the true 68-1-620 Name. starting price. (3) Be sure you know what's covered. Is it the total product or only some Address

components? City . Zone. (4) Check the operating conditions spelled out in the warranty. When State. . Country. is a breakdown your fault and when is the product to blame? My occupation is (5) Who will make good on the warranty — the fellow you bought the I goods from or the original manufacturer? ^ Proposed method of travel The Federal Trade Commission, incidentally, is keeping a sharp eye on this whole area. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TOURISM DEPARTMENT By Edgar A. Grumcald PASEO DE LA REFORMA 35, MEXICO CITY THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 • J :

PRESENTING BOTH SIDES OF BIG ISSUES FACING THE NATION

THIS MONTH'S SUBJECT Should Congress Curb the Filibuster?

( R0) In 1960 the world was treated (CON) For many years proposals to the spectacle of a filibuster in the have been made to make it easier to Senate. It had its comic aspects, but cut off debate in the Senate. I am op- overall, it was a sorry episode, dam- posed to these proposals. I think the aging to the Senate and Congress. right of free debate m the Senate is of the most important protections We can and should end this kind of one pro- performance. The ever-present threat to the minority which has been the Constitution. of filibustering has pernicious effects vided under on the legislative process. For example, in 1957 a pro- vision empowering the Attorney General to seek ac- Our Constitution contains many provisions de- tion to safeguard minority rights was stricken from signed to protect individual citizens— the minority for the Civil Rights Bill. The Senate leadership argued the time being—against tyranny and oppression. The against the provision, not on its merits, but on the division of the Federal Government into three ground that its retention would bring on a filibuster branches. Legislative, Executive and Judicial, the killing the entire bill. distribution of powers between Federal and State governments, and the Bill of Rights, are examples. The availability of the filibuster has also provided a tool by which a minority can defeat, delay or com- the promise legislation in fields other than civil rights, These provisions were not designed to make without submitting the issue to a vote of the Senate. central government efficient and powerful, or to will of It affects directly consideration of legislation such make it easy to carry out quickly the a ma- as housing, education and other social welfare issues. jority, however temporary. Instead, they were de- signed to protect the rights and liberties of individu- The filibuster is only possible because of Senate als and minorities. Rule XXII, which provides that the limitation of de- bate can be secured only by a two- thirds vote of those The right of free debate in the Senate, subject to Senators present and voting. In practice, it means the limitation of Senate rules, serves exactly the same that a determined minority can prevent the majority purpose— protection against hasty action in violation from ever reaching a vote on a measure the minority individual minority rights. Under existing opposes. of and Senate rules, debate can be terminated by two-thirds This restrictive provision, in is adopted 1959, a of the Senators present and voting. This provides slight improvement over the previous rule which ample protection in case of real need for action. required two-thirds of all Senators, whether present or absent, to limit debate. To get even this insignifi- There are strong practical limitations on the right cant change took a long bipartisan fight. to unlimited debate. It is physically impossible for one The fight will assuredly go on until we achieve a or two Senators to delay action for more than a day reasonable rule that permits a fair application of or so. A score of Senators can debate an issue for a majority rule as set out in the Constitution. To this long time. But the physical and personal pressures end, we have proposed amending the rule so that a against doing so are very great, as anyone who has majority of the total Senate — 51 Senators — may vote served on a court or committee knows. to limit debate after 15 days of discussion. Thereafter, each Senator would be entitled to speak for one hour, Under these limitations, if the majority of the Sen- but no more. ate is convinced the action is really necessary, free- No reasonable person can believe this is "choking dom of debate in the Senate can do no more than off debate" or "trampling on the rights of the minor- delay action temporarily. ity." Nor does it conflict with Senate traditions.

In fact, the change we urge would restore the Sen- The privilege of free debate has never permanently ate to full effectiveness as a legislative body and end blocked the passage of any legislation that was fa- the legislative frustration that mars the reputation vored by a majority of the voters of the Nation. of the Senate as the "greatest deliberative body in the world."

Clifiord P. Case (R) A. Willis Robertson CD) U.S. Senator from New Jersey U.S. Senator from Virginia

£ • THE AMERICAN I F.GION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY I'K.I A WAR BEGINS

proclamation

qalling JWilitia

and Qontoemng Congress

APRIL 15, 1861 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

with the objects aforesaid, to avoid ($ (procfamaftom any devastation, any destruction of, Whereas the laws of the United or interference with, property, or States have been for some time any disturbance of peaceful citizens past, and now are opposed, and the in any part of the country. execution thereof obstructed, in the And I hereby command the per- States of South Carolina. Georgia, sons composing the combinations Alabama, Florida, Mississippi. aforesaid to disperse, and retire Louisiana and Texas, by combina- peaceably to their respective abodes tions too powerful to be suppressed within twenty days from this date. by the ordinary course of judicial Deeming that the present condi- proceedings, or by the powers tion of public affairs presents an vested in the Marshals by law, extraordinary occasion, I do hereby,

Now therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitu- the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested tion, convene both Houses of Congress. Senators and by the Constitution, and the laws, have thought fit Representatives are therefore summoned to assemble to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of at their respective chambers, at 12 o'clock, noon, on the several States of the Union, to the aggregate Thursday, the fourth day of July, next, then and number of seventy-five thousand, in order to sup- there to consider and determine, such measures, as, press said combinations, and to cause the laws to he in their wisdom, the public safety, and interest may duly executed. The details, for this object, will be im- seem to demand. mediately communicated to the State authorities In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand, through the War Department. and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and Done at the city of Washington this fifteenth day aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, of April in the year of our Lord One thousand, and the existence of our National Union, and the Eight hundred and Sixty-one, and of the Independ- perpetuity of popular government; and to redress ence of the United States the Eighty-fifth. wrongs already long enough endured.

I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will prob- ably be to re-possess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event, the utmost care will be observed, consistently By the President

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

11 BY EDWIN W. HULLINGER

FEW minutes after a Cuban airlines turbojet took off from 3 Veradero Beaeh, Cuba, two FOREIGN pretty girls whipped .45 caliber auto- matics from holsters underneath their skirts and started to enact a twentieth century air piracy the like of which has become almost commonplace to the readers of Miami newspapers. Several scats ahead sat the uncle of INTRIGUE one of the young women, alongside the husband of the other. Both men had emerged from hiding that afternoon, to be smuggled aboard the plane, for a last-moment try for freedom from the death sentence that awaited the older man, a retired Batista commandant, in Havana. Before the passengers could catch FLORIDA their breath, Maria, one of the girls, had thrust her automatic into her hus- band's hand. Then the elder man, Rod- riguez, brandishing Margarita's gun. shouted to the alarmed passengers to Refugees from Communist Cuba have slay calm. Seconds later, the pirates were in con- trol of the cockpit, and the pilot had pointed the plane toward Florida. turned Miami into a cloak-and-dagger center. No one was hurt. No shots were fired. When the plane landed at Key West - there wasn't enough gas to reach Miami — Commandante Rodriguez sur- in the dark waters of a Cuban bay one rendered to the U.S. Customs men, un- night and 17 of the 20 passengers lost loaded the weapons, and whimsically their lives. The pilot died before yielding distributed the cartridges among the the controls. In another instance, the passengers as souvenirs. gas ran out before the Florida coast Few of the dozen-plus commercial could be reached. Still another plane planes known to have been hijacked went out of control while fighting went during the last two years could boast on up and down the aisle. It came out of feminine captors—one New York-bound a nosedive only 15 It. above the sea. plane was taken over by a 16-year-old Several planes disappeared over Cuba

( Hban and her lather and forced to land and are believed to have been hijacked. at Miami— nor did all the escapades turn A number of military aircraft and seven out so harmlessly. One plane ended up "dusting planes" belonging to the Cuban

Last October this Cuban air- liner was hijacked. Three were wounded before the plane was landed at (he Ke\ West airport.

Department of Agriculture were stolen from Cuban airfields and flown to Florida. All the commercial planes were al- lowed to proceed to their destination after the impromptu visit to the main- land. In every instance—as was the case with the Rodriguez party—the escapees received a hearing in Miami and were given political asylum. Melodramatic as these episodes may seem, they are trifling incidents in the fantastic story of international intrigue

Cuban refugees arriving at Miami International Airport. This is in the last two years that has turned a group of 21 who escaped by boat to kry West, (hen flew north. Miami, "America's Playground," into

12 ( astro claims a dozen raids have dropped incendiary bombs and leaflets on Cuba since he seized power. The U.S. State Department admitted one, last spring, and sent an apology to the Cuban government. It was a plane that took off from a private airfield at Miami and crashed while trying to set fire to Cuban cane fields. A few weeks earlier, the FBI checkmated another invasion attempt after an "army" of 75 had "mobilized" at a motel on one of the Florida keys, ready to sail for Cuba. The FBI had planted a spy among the conspirators. Two "boot camps," where recruits were being given mili- tary training, were broken up last fall, one 10 miles from Homestead Air Force Base, the other on No Name Key. Operations have also encompassed: The creation of a multimillion-dollar gunrunning business, operating by both air and sea, and a chain of clandestine factories and workshops in Miami where the equipment is assembled. The parts are shipped in from a supply network extending over the eastern half of the United States. The smuggling of revolution fugitives into Florida — ultimate destination, Miami — by sea and air on a

regular basis over the last two years. It is estimated that at least 150 are entering Florida every month illegally to seek political asylum in U.S. territory. And completing the (Continued on page 35)

Anxious to arm anti-Castro elements in Cuba, Cubans use all sorts of smuggling dodges. Here are arms found in a shipment of ranges.

Cubans who escaped Castro's red terror broke into the Cuban consulate in Miami, wrecked the place and beat up the consul.

an involuntary Casablanca of Latin supposed to become a key person in an American skulduggery. Although most of anti-Castro revolutionary army. Twenty- the action has centered around the explo- seven managed to land in Cuba, but all sive Cuban situation, nationals of practi- were captured by Castro's soldiers. Fif- cally every Caribbean nation have par- teen, including three of the Americans, ticipated in the shenanigans, to the ex- were shot by a firing squad. treme annoyance of the Miami police, the The fourth American, the boat's pilot, U. S. State Department, and. of course, tried to bring the boat back to Miami the governments of the countries involved. but ran aground on one of the Bahama The pattern of scheming has included islands. After he finally reached Miami, several actual invasion attempts, notably he induced a friend, who was an airline one last fall when a boat loaded with 28 pilot, to join an attempted bombing raid adventurers, including 4 Americans, got over Havana, to avenge the death of his away from Miami looking very much friends. They stole a Beechcraft Bonanza like the hundreds of fishing parties that from a Fort Pierce airfield and flew off in- Sheriff Tom Kelly of Dade County go out continually and require no cus- to the night a little after midnight. Noth- displays some weapons for Cuba toms clearance. Each passenger was ing was ever heard of them or the plane. which were found in a bungalow.

13 America's Churches

This country has many fine

old churches that are historical

shrines as well.

.! I—

St. Paul's in downtown New York City served as a background when the Declaration of In- dependence was read to the troops in 1776.

Old North Church in Boston is famous as the place where signal lights were hung which started Paul Revere on his ride.

By JAMES F. WHITE

a quiet country crossroads in Virginia's Tidewater region stands a magnificent wit- w-.ness to a bygone era. Christ Church, near Irvington, was a remarkable building when finished in 1732 and the intervening centuries have made few changes. No less extraordinary was the man re- sponsible for the structure's existence in this remote spot. "King" Carter he was called, and Robert Carter with his thousand slaves and quarter of a million acres of land lived up to this title. Such a man could not be expected to stint himself when it came to building a chapel for himself and his family.

Christ Church is witness to the fact that "King" Carter's means were matched by his taste. The beau- tiful black walnut furnishings, the huge Carter family pew, the stone paving and the imported font reflect the elegance of the plantation period. Built with brick walls three feet thick, Christ Church was meant to endure and in fact has outlasted Carter's plantation house. But one can still imagine the grandeur of the Carter's weekly procession down the landscaped avenue leading from the mansion to the church.

The plantation era is past now, but the buildings wherein the planters worshiped bear eloquent testimony to this period. Many old churches reflect others which also contributed to our national have marked them well. But getting there, as the ads say. is half the fun. Once while trying to locate the key to an old

church in South Carolina, 1 was invited to lunch at one of the oldest rice planta- tions on the Cooper River. The trail need not lead one far from home though. Within the bounds of large cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Charleston, one can see dozens of old churches and meetinghouses which com- bine the attractions of history and beauty. New Yorkers need go no further than Broadway to see one of the best Geor- gian churches in this country-St. Paul's Chapel, built in the 1760's. During the

Revolution it was the chapel of the Brit- ish occupation forces, and afterwards, for several years George Washington at- tended this church. Perhaps he even dozed here— 18th century sermons were notoriously long. Evidently Washington didn't notice the three feathers, symbol of the Prince of Wales, for they have remained perched on top of the sounding board to this day. Only a little further afield, and still well within New York City limits, is an ecclesiastical scene which might easily pass for an English village church. This

is St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Richmondtown, Staten Island. The

church itself is old — there was a short

battle within its walls during the Revo- lution—but the really delightful feature

is its rural situation in a quiet willow- sheltered churchyard. Some of the most interesting churches in this country are located along the banks of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers in South Carolina. Built by the owners of rice plantations, many of these build- ings seem as remote today as ever. For the planters went to church by boat, the slaves singing spirituals as they rowed down the rivers. By following roads along the east bank of the Cooper River one comes to several old churches, all well-marked. Not far from Cordesville stands the charming Strawberry Chapel, San Miguel Mission Church in Santa Fe, N. M„ dates from lf>21. Parts of the old building antedate any other American church. built in 1725. Along the road to Straw- berry one glimpses oak avenues leading to plantations, or more often, to their heritage. When one thinks of how many churches so fascinating can be discov- sites. Now their builders repose in the Americans each year explore the won- ered here also. quiet churchyard clasped by the spread- ders of Europe's churches, it seems Naturally, none of our churches are ing oaks with their festoons of Spanish strange that so little attention is shown as old as Europe's medieval buildings, moss. to our own historic churches. though several have begun collecting Between the Ashley and the Cooper During the summer months one can their fourth century of history. But these lies the hamlet of Goose Creek with its hardly go into a famous church in have been busy centuries, both for the quaint old church built in 1711. British

Europe without encountering a crowd of churches and for the new nation which soldiers spared it, according to legend, American tourists. A small fortune is grew up around them. Few of these old because of the royal arms over the altar. spent on film each year in attempts at churches arc without their histories: Probably no other church in the coun- capturing the charm of European Pilgrims worshiping with their guns by try still displays the arms of the British churches— frequently minus their steeples their sides; struggling pioneers, tough as monarchy. or at an angle rivaling that of Pisa's the heft of their axe; friars barefoot in Charleston itself is especially rich in tower. Yet once back in this country, teu the California sun — all come to mind old churches. One can hardly walk down Americans bother to seek out old and when visiting these buildings. a street in old Charleston without en- interesting churches, though many of Locating old churches isn't always countering churches which were vener- the qualities which make European easy, though in some areas civic groups (Continued on page 45) IS By GERALD R. HUNTER

restless, dirty green sea slides Thechoppily by the contoured grey hull of the aircraft carrier USS

Randolph tonight as it steams through dark waters. Tiny wrenching sounds of

the ship frame, groaning its 38, 000-ton protest of rapid movement, echo through the dim red-lighted passageways. And that soft shuddering, characteristic only

of the big flattops, really makes it a cradle of the deep.

But as I lay in my stateroom shortly

before dawn recently, I was far from

sleep. How could I slumber, recalling what the admiral had told me at dinner the evening before? RlllillllWI. "Imagine a weedy, grass-grown vacant lot, preferably one littered also with junk and garbage. This will represent the ocean. Now turn your back while some- one releases in that vacant lot 500 fleas infected with bubonic plague. The fleas represent hostile, missile-launching sub- marines. Give the fbas a while to scatter. Now walk into that lot blindfolded and, purely by feel and sound and smell, UNTING KILLERS catch for me one single flea before a

dozen of them bite you. . . . Your chances are still better than ours are at if* antisubmarine warfare, this country's Number Two major threat."

Frankly, at first I pegged the admiral's dramatics as just another typical dragon he had conjured up to help sell the im- Undersea Jungles portance of his special little project, a traditional maneuver with which we all have become sick- eningly familiar in recent years. Then slowly I learned that, if anything, he had under- stated a situation which launched the Randolph, as every major east took to sea Apr. 1, 1958, commissioned flagship of Task coast city and in- as an experimental "cruising laboratory." Group Alfa, on a dustry within three Headquartered at Atlantic Fleet, Nor- mission that is hours." The 1,500- folk, it was put under command of one unique in history. mile Polaris-type of the Navy's greatest innovators of all Admiral That mission, as missiles, which we time. Rear Adm. John S. (Jimmy) Arleigh A. Burke stated in print, is think Russia now Thach. It was given a 15-year-old air- only "to accelerate the development of has, launched from craft carrier (USS Valley Forge, re- antisubmarine warfare tactics, doctrine their subs, could de- placed later by the Randolph) , 7 de- and equipment in order to improve the stroy any desired stroyers, 2 submarines, a detachment of

ASW readiness of the fleet." What it place in the United 4 single-engine radar search communi- actually means is to find - in a frenzied States. cation airplanes, a squadron of 20 twin- hurry — an effective way to prevent the Hitler began engine tracker planes, a detachment of 500-strong Russian submarine fleet from World War 11 with 14 specialized helicopters plus a plane launching a coordinated, paralyzing nu- 57 old-fashioned, mostly surface-running guard helicopter, and the loan of a few clear missile attack on the U. S. conti- submarines, and with them was able to large land-based, patrol-bomber types. nent. put the fear of hell into the Atlantic mer- It was furnished search equipment con- The Russians are almost — or already chant fleet. Today the Russians have 10 sisting of radar, sonar and magnetic de- — capable of this. times that many new or almost new tection gear. Of the entire issue, only its As Adm. Arleigh A. Burke. Chief of snorkel submarines plus some nuclear- weapons were considered adequate. It Naval Operations, stated it: "Even with powered ones, and they are building is no wonder that the project then re- the old 200-mile nuclear missile that we many more. ceived — and wanted — no publicity. know some Russian submarines have, a In an attempt to find an effective an- The first thing Adm. Thach did, upon dozen such submarines could wipe out swer to this threat, Task Group Alfa taking command, was to give the group Helicopter employs sonar detection method while planes, destroyers and a surfaced submarine team up in an exercise to locate a hidden sub.

a typical "Thaching over." He initiated a system he called "cross-pollination" in which he ordered aviators, submariners, destroycrmen and carrier personnel to spend considerable time aboard each other's vehicles to learn all of their mu- tual problems, capabilities and limita- tions. This they did and still do. If Task Group Alfa had never progressed be- yond this point, the innovation achieved a mutual appreciation of specialties, re- spect for colleague personnel and a group rapport the Navy had never known. The task group set up its grim labora- tory as a 10,000-sq.-mile chunk of ocean several hundred miles east of the New

York-Norfolk area, and here its poly- morphous vehicles have virtually worn

Missile- launching submarines can

blast us into oblivion. Here is what we

are doing to prevent such an attack.

Grumman S2F-1 making a simulated torpedo run on smoke flare. This is one method of lighting subs.

out the water with never-ending experi- mentation. With each improvement or

variation of its equipment, personnel or tactics, the force conducts a thorough series of exercises in which each compo- nent learns what the new theorum will

do and its place in the picture. If it's a

dud, the idea is scrapped. If it appears

to have possibilities, it is integrated into the operational picture for more exhaus- tive evaluation. And always the testings go on, in good weather and bad, morning and night around the clock, day in and day out,

week after week. There is no stopping, for there isn't enough time. A Russian submarine photographed by the Navy off our shores. It is be- No one can lieved that this Zulu class sub is capable of firing nuclear guided missiles. (Continued on page 39) 17 20 Ways to Improve TOUR GARAGE

While making it more attractive you can also make it a lot more useful.

By DAVID X. MANNERS buy prefab plastic ones. They're durable, Set a 2x4 on edge across the top of economical, easy to install. the cabinet opening to support the track \0 you want a workshop, but Keep storage cabinets shallow. It's best for bypassing sliding doors. Doors can be XT think you have no space for not to have to store one thing behind %-in. plywood or Novoply, a type of one? Need a rough-and-tumble another. You can use 1 -in. shelving composition board. The latter is lower playroom for the children? A sheltered boards for cabinet sides and partitions, in cost and easier to paint, but its edges patio? Are you cramped for storage, with as well as for shelves. They come in are going to need protection with wood no place left to put things? Look again. widths to 1 2 inches. If you need wider strips. The garage may be your answer. boards, fasten two or more widths to- 2. Use the deck for storage. The mini- The garage, almost without exception, gether with corrugated fasteners, or use mum recommended ceiling height for a is the most wasted part of a house. If it's just a stall for the car and an attic-style catchall, it's doing only half a job. It can be a useful entertainment, recrea- tional and storage area as well. The basic structure is there. All that is required is finishing and equipping. If you do your own work, your only cost will be lor materials. The average garage downgrades a house. It can be made to improve it. Here are 20 ways in which you can turn your garage from an embarrassment into an asset you'll be proud to own.

1 . Install cabinets to conceal the clut- ter. If your garage looks something less than neat when its doors are open, a few easy-to-build cabinets can straighten the disorder. With the trend toward smaller, more compact cars, many ga- rages that formerly had no place for cabinets can now accommodate them. Here is the way to figure how much liuild indoor cabinets but get more Where it is not desirable to permit a space you have for cabinets: For your spate by providing outside access. view of i he interior use glass blocks. car, allow its full width, plus the width of one door fully opened. Add two feet to the lull length of the car. The rest is 34 -in. plywood. If knots don't matter, garage is V i feet, but you can skimp on available for your use. If garage walls save by using No. 3 shelving. this if it will permit an overhead deck. are open studs, before building any Build cabinets by setting up vertical This space below the roof can provide cabinets, insulate all wall areas they will divider panels of shelving boards every out-of-season storage for screens, storm cover and finish with Vi-'m. plasterboard. 32 inches. Nail to wall studs and/or ceil- sash, summer furniture, sleds, skis, as Design storage to accommodate par- ing joists, using threaded "Stronghold" well as dead storage for other items. ticular items. Use shelves for paints, nails. They hold like screws. If necessary You don't need full headroom in this canned goods and the like. Run vertical to fasten to masonry, use epoxy adhe- garage attic. If you have 6V2 feet at the partitions for folding chairs, or as bins sive. Run shelves between divider panels, ridge, it's ample. To support the floor, for garden tools. If you need drawers, supporting their ends with lx2-in. cleats. 2x6-in. joists on 16-in. centers are usu-

18 floor and will help support the storage structure crossing above the hood. For lockers, save swing space by using double doors. For other sections you want to use sliding panels. These can be of Va -in. plywood, masonite, or peg- board, arc easily installed with aluminum track. 5. Open inside storage to the outside. Where there would be little or no clear- ance for getting at built-in storage in- side the garage, build a door to the out-

side. Outside access is particularly use- ful for such things as lawnmowers, bi- cycles and refuse cans. 6. Modernize your old doors. Garage doors may represent Va to Vz of the front of the entire house. Improving doors that are shabby or rundown can do more to enhance a home's appearance than almost any other single project. Convert old-style hinged doors which get blocked by snow into a modern one- piece swing-up unit. If you need new doors, you can save by building and in- stalling them yourself. New doors may-

be made of %-in. exterior lir plywood, or 1x6 sheathing, and there are almost unlimited design possibilities. You'll find Shabby doors can spoil the appear- complete construction details ance of your entire property. It is included less expensive than you may think when you buy the swing-up hardware to modernize your doors and there for the doors. It's made by Stanley. are few investments that are better. For maximum convenience, add an

By opening up both ends of your garage with overhead doors you Shutters and a flowerbox or two can make get sheltered patio space as well as a convenient passthrough. a big difference in the looks of a garage.

ally adequate for a 12-ft. span. The floor Alternately, you can make an over- electronic door-opener to your plans. can be of tongue-and-groove sheathing head slatted storage platform which can Women especially appreciate the fact or sheathing-grade plywood. Use a fold- be raised or lowered by a simple pulley that they can drive into a lighted garage ing stairway for access. One can be arrangement. Use a pulley above each at night without leaving a locked car. bought for less than $30. corner of the platform, and a double- Operators are adaptable to almost any 3. Provide storage at the ceiling. Lum- sheave pulley at the wall where the hoist- track-mounted door. ber, ladders, even a small boat can be ing rope for each platform end is made 7. Customize your doors for greater stored at the ceiling. Make a pair of flat- fast. beauty. If your present garage doors are bottomed U's out of 2x3's. For a boat, 4. Build locker space over the hood. drab and ordinary, dramatize them with bolt these slings to ceiling joists about a There's valuable storage space at the end easy-to-apply decorative accessories and foot in from where each end of the boat of the garage above the car hood. Build moldings. Especially effective are match- will be. By keeping bottom crosspieces shelves or enclosed lockers, allowing 6 ing garage and house doors. A wide easily removable, you can lower a boat inches of clearance. Storage on one or variety of carved panels, rosettes and directly down to a cartop carrier. both sides of the car can extend to the (Continued on page 46)

19 By OLUE STEWART

FtW DAYS AFTER the North African invasion set us down The near Oran, Ernie Pyle I, Ernie and visiting the same quartermaster outfit, took a little time out to knock off some laundry in our helmets. It was a tricky

business and we were giving it all our The story of a attention as we squatted under an olive war correspondent who was more than a tree. Suddenly a voice behind us bel- lowed, "On your feet, soldiers!"

Ernie and 1 both jumped, and his spectator and who desperately wanted to get the war ended. helmet tipped over, spilling a quart of very precious water. We turned as one to see who had spoken. A red-in-the-face, one-star general was glaring at us. Ernie gave him that famous lopsided grin, while trying to save the last of his a Pulitzer Prize, after big money came part of American history. But success

laundry water. his way and his columns were gospel to came so fast it took even Ernie by sur-

That brought a real explosion. "Don't millions, Ernie Pyle had no time left to prise—though it pleased him. Every line you know enough to get on your feet enjoy the wealth and fame that might be he wrote was so gobbled up in America when a general officer speaks to you? his even today. War, his personal dragon and talked about, and so many soldiers What kind of goddam soldiers are you?" —the stinking, nasty, dangerous thing were writing home about him, that his

Before I could think what to say, that made him—eventually destroyed name became a magic word. In a few Ernie answered mildly, "No soldiers, him. And he died on a Pacific island short months, by the time Bizerte fell, General, goddam or otherwise. We're doing a job he hated—but couldn't leave both the warfront and the homefront war correspondents." alone. had let Ernie know that his war stories The general snorted in contempt. In his own words: "Anybody who has were "worth a couple of divisions" to "War correspondents? How the hell can been in war and wants to go back is a the war effort. you help win the war?" And breathing plain damn fool in my book. I'm going Two things pleased Ernie especially. fire, not waiting for an answer, he turned simply because there's a war on and I'm One was a letter from associate editor on his heel and stalked away. part of it and I've known all the time I Benjamin McKelway of a Washington Ernie sloshed his socks in the little was going back. I'm going simply be- paper which said, "I wish I had you on

I ." water left. Then he surprised me by say- cause I've got to, and hate it. . . the Star. . . . You are one of the news- ing in a kind of wonder, "Maybe the The saga of his success is now a solid paper people who are really making a man's got a point. How the hell can we help win the war?"

I think that's when Ernie Pyle first identified himself with the war—saw him- self not as a mere spectator but as a part of the thing, whether he wanted to be or

not. From what he'd told me. I knew he'd got this far in a sort of accidental way. He'd come to North Africa merely to have a quick look-see, get some col- umns for his Scripps-Howard news- papers, and then go on to India and several other places. North Africa was

merely a stopover and at the most he- wanted to slay only a month or two. But what he saw and heard every day had

begun to change him. and it is altogether possible that the challenge thrown by the general brought Ernie to the realiza- tion that this was his war too. Once he gol that far. the pattern of his life— what was left of it— was set. First, he set out to make a contribution in the only way he knew, which was writing; and second, he tried hard to stir people up so that they'd get the thing over with. Now, more than 15 years since his

death, it is still a strange, ironic thing that al ter becoming a hero, after winning At Anzio Cpl. Jesse Cooper and Pvt. William Bcnet show Ernie a 155-mm. rifle. 20 In a professional army, or in an army of professional soldiers, what Ernie Pyle wrote about would have been con- sidered, and accepted, as perfectly nor- mal -and nothing to get excited about. PYLE I Knew Certainly nothing to write home about. But American troops in the last war were not professionals, in the sense of the word. They were civilians in uni- form. And they were mostly boys — many who had never shaved, and many more who had never spent a night away from home until they went awav to training camp. They got hardened in the end, but when Ernie first came along, they needed a lot of attention, as wit- ness his visit to a hospital ship. "As we went around the ship," Ernie wrote, "our visit turned into a kind of personal-appearance tour. When we left one ward, the nurse came running after us and said to me. "Hey Ernie, come over here. We want to see what you look like.'

It occurred to me that maybe I should have had my face lifted. Nobody with a mug like mine has a right to go around scaring wounded men. The boys read about the proposal in Congress to give fight pay to combat troops, and they

were for it. Most of them said it wasn't so much the money as to give them some

contribution to winning the war." The repeated assertion that he "did more for other was a later report from home that soldier morale than any single individual quoted General Omar Bradley as saying. in the war!" "My men always fought better when Here's how the people at home savs Ernie was around." the war through Ernie's eyes:

Like the phantom Kilroy, Ernie Pyle "The discomfort is perpetual. You're was here, there and everywhere. His always cold and almost always dirty. transportation was the first available Outside of food and cigarettes you have vehicle. If he could get a jeep, okay. If absolutely none of the little things that Ernie asked lor no "prerogatives." not, he thumbed a ride. The infantry made life normal back home. You don't Here he dines on luscious C rations. boys were his favorites but he didn't have chairs, lights, floors, or tables. You slight anybody. He was a familiar sight, don't have any place to set anything, or recognition and distinction, and money sliding into a foxhole with his helmet any store to buy things from. There are seemed the only way to do it." askew or wearing that famous knitted no newspapers, milk, beds, sheets, radi- And nothing added to Ernie's popu- cap that made him look like an a.w.o.l. ators, beer, ice cream or hot water. You larity more than something like the fol- jockey. Talking to muddy, nervous, just sort of exist, either standing up work- lowing: "We sat there in the dugout for homesick boys— and putting their names ing or lying down asleep. There is no two or three hours, cooling our canteens in the paper when nobody else seemed pleasant in-between. The velvet is all with our hands and drinking sweet coffee ." to care — Ernie lived up to the oft- gone from living . . (Continued on page 42) 21 •Ht I DM /M£\

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Street that goes nowhere. At a paved intersection laid out on campgrounds youngsters learn how to handle auto and pedestrian traffic from State Highway Patrolman Don Johnson. Each summer week state police detail a safety officer to Legionville to train the children. .School bus pro]) shows at right.

Legion ville. at Brainerd

By ROBERT B. PITKIN PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR

""flL^ ERE YOU see one of the best and \ most unique American Legion Week's classes have ended and Patrolman Johnson gives youngsters their final \^ projects anywhere. exam in school-intersection traffic control. Each hoy and girl who passes will It looks like a summer camp tor chil- return home with official diploma certifying to special training received, dren, but it is the most unusual summer and most will be School Patrol captains. Legion certificate is official. camp in the United States. Built, owned and run by the Legion- naires and Legion Auxiliares of Minne-

sota, this 560-acrc camp is also a summer training center for the schoolboys and schoolgirls who guard school buses and street crossings at public and private schools all over Minnesota. To build Legionville. Minnesota Legion posts and Auxiliary units put up $225,000.

The camp ran for I 1 weeks last sum- mer. In that time. 1,688 Minnesota School Safety Patrol youngsters spent a week

each at Legionville. which is on North Long Lake, just north of Brainerd,

Minn., about I lb miles north of Minne- apolis-St. Paul. Mornings, the boys and girls went to School's out at noon at Legionville. The rest of the daylight hours, following classes on the camp ground and studied an after-lunch siesta, arc pure fun. Those who can't swim when they come conser- usually can when they leave. Many volunteer speakers and entertainers law-enforcement, traffic safety, from all over the- state visit Legionville to put on evening entertainments. (Continui'd on page 24) 22 Jinn., the Minnesota American Legion's $225,000 training camp for boys and girls who guard school street crossings and school buses.

MINNESOTA'S REMARKABLE SCHOOL SAFETY PROGRAM

This statewide training camp for "junior police" won the top

national award of the National Safety Council. No wonder!

School Patrollers head for morning classes after an early rise and a big Chow is good and there's plenty at Lcgionville. breakfast. Three of their six lakefront cabin-dormitories show at right. A This immaculate dining hall served three meals counselor lives in each cabin with youngsters. New group arrives each week. a day to 156 at a time for 11 weeks last summer. 23 vation, fust aid. and exactly how to do Legionville's annual operation self- be safe in traffic . . . (Youngsters) trained their own job of guarding school cross- sustaining, but many other Minnesota at Legionville have been responsible for ings and school buses correctly. civic groups help out by co-sponsoring saving millions of dollars (in traffic fa- ." Most, though not all, of the children some of the boys and girls — especially tality costs) . . were in the 6th, 7th and

Minnesota state police (State Highway The Legionville idea started about 25 and give it our full cooperation because

Patrol). years ago, and for many years the it has a safety record better than any ." School was out at noon each day at Minnesota American Legion ran it on other in the country. . . Legionville. For the rest of the long the fair grounds at Brainerd. Mark Markson, Minnesota State Safe- summer daylight hours the boys and A more ideal campsite was wanted, ty Education Director commented: "Le- girls enjoyed one of the best organized and one that could accommodate more gionville gives us the trained young and happiest summer camping programs youngsters. So, early in the 1950's, leaders we need to augment formal of games, outdoor living, and water (traffic control) by teachers or police sports that you are apt to see anywhere. officers. . . . Their voluntary work is At night, in the huge, modern barn equal to hundreds of thousands of dol- converted to a main camp building, lars spent in other states on special cross- there were programs of movies, dances, ing guards." songfests and interesting talks by guest William Proetz. Chief of Police. St. speakers and entertainers. Then the Paul stated: "The St. Paul School Safety busy youngsters bedded down in six spa- Patrol has been sending boys and girls cious, low-eaved lakeside cabins. to Legionville since the camp was first es-

The Legionville camp makes it pos- tablished. ... On their return to their sible, in Minnesota, for the state's top schools they have excelled in their patrol law-enforcement agency to give standard duties. . . . The camp itself, I think, is the training to school children who protect finest ... in the country. . . . Since St. A winning team: Willing youngsters, their schoolmates at crossings in every Paul is the birthplace of school police, we the official School Patrol, and the school in the entire state. Small wonder are to have such a as Le- volunteer Minnesota American Legion. proud camp that, in 1958, the National Safety Coun- gionville to help us train our boys and Minnesota's Legion posts and Auxiliary ." cil gave its top national traffic safety girls. . . award to the Minnesota American units pledged the estimated $130,000 Said Lt. Henry J. Winterhalter, in Legion. There has not been a death by cost of the present new camp. charge of school police for the St. Paul By the time the new camp opened and ". auto at a school crossing guarded by a Police Dep't: . . We have in St. Paul, School Patrol boy or girl in the entire was dedicated in 1957 the actual cost 103 schools which use School Patrol boys had inflated to $225,000. State Legion state of Minnesota since the patrol was and girls. . . . They guard 700 dangerous invented in 1921 at a St. Paul parochial headquarters lent the added funds from city intersections three times a school its other assets, and the posts and units school. day. . . . The several hundred boys and The Minnesota legislature has welded pledged to repay the full amount. Last girls whom we send to Legionville each all the boys and girls of the local school fall they were raising the last $30,000. year perform their duties the next year patrols into an official state organization. Few children could be accommodated with greater efficiency and confidence. Brainerd fair The State recognizes the Patrol and when the camp was at the ... I think the training 1 received as a the Legionville camp as adjuncts of the grounds, the fun side of their p-o^ram school patrol boy 30 years ago would Department of Highways and the De- was limited, camp could only be held for not qualify me to do the job in today's two weeks. partment of Education. traffic. . . . Legionville is a camp that is

It has provided in law for the creation, The program moved to the present needed, and we hope to send our boys and site in 1956. before the new quarters ." regulation, training and conduct of the girls there for many years to come. . . corps of junior police auxiliaries, and were finished. It ran for five weeks and Added Henry M. Jacobson. of Tyler, has authorized the Minnesota American had the biggest enrollment yet — 613. As Minn., whose daughter attended Legion- the Legion to certify its trained young Patrol the new facilties were completed, ville last summer: "We should commend members. length of the program and the number Robert Miller, camp supervisor, his staff, in eight The regular stall' at Legionville, not accommodated grew: 1957, and our Minnesota American Legion, counting state police on duty as instruc- weeks, 1,012 campers; in 1958, nine for a very well organized School Patrol weeks, 1.244 campers; in 1959, ten tors, numbers about 20, including coun- Camp. It is indeed something to be selors and the buildings-and-grounds and weeks, 1,527 campers (from 258 Minne- proud of." sota communities); in 1960, eleven the kitchen stall's. Most of the counselors Legionville is only one of many re- (peak opera- are Minnesota school teachers, some arc weeks and 1,688 campers markable successful undertakings of the high school seniors or college students. tion for the new facilities). Minnesota American Legion. (Con- Said Governor Orville Freeman at The fine modern kitchen, which pre- struction of the new camp followed, by the dedication of the new Legionville pared some 30. 000 meals last summer, only a few years, the endowment by the ". camp in 1957: . . This . . . center has serves up food so good and plentiful Minnesota l egion and Auxiliary of a proved that we can train our children to that the young campers rate it "excellent" $500,000 chair of heart research at the along with every other facet of the University of Minnesota.) camp's work and program. The effect of such programs— in spite DISEASE Their week at Legionville is free to HEART of the large obligations they place on the youngsters. Each is selected by his #1 ENEMY each post and unit—has been to attract school principal back home, and is spon- great numbers of civic-minded war vet- sored by his local American Legion post erans into The American Legion in the Auxiliary unit. HEART or ( state. In 1960. for the fourth year in a The local Legion sponsor may pay row, Minnesota had its biggest American FUND V history. the $20 fee per youngster that makes Legion membership in THE end

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A DIGEST OF EVENTS WHICH ARE OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO YOU

IF YOU GET A VA PENSION late to get in under the normal deadlines RETURN THAT QUESTIONNAIRE PRONTO! for PL16. All persons who draw pensions from the 3. WW2 vets whose disabilities were not Veterans Administration are reminded here, established as service-connected until too in their own interest, not to delay return- late for them to meet the normal PL16 dead-

ing their annual income questionnaires. . . lines. Questionnaires went out to all pensioners early in January, and must be returned, NOTE THIS IF YOU CARRY properly filled out within 30 days of VETERANS' TERM INSURANCE: receipt ... .As pension payments are limited Some 15,000 WWI vets and three million to persons with restricted income, the VA WW2 vets are carrying their government insur- has no authority to continue pension pay- ance on a term basis, have not converted it

ments in the absence of current income to a permanent plan. . . . Information of im- information. ... It must stop payment .... portance to them is contained in a lengthy With one exception, those who draw compen- review of WWI veterans' insurance which sation are not aff ected. ... Compensation appears on page 29 of this issue.... It is for service-connected disability or can be of great importance now to WWI vets death, and is not restricted by income.... who are stuck with term insurance at an age

Pension is for non-service connected dis- when the premiums are just plain murder. . . ability or death, and is restricted by other And it contains a general reminder to WW2

income. . . .However, dependent parents who vets about continuing too long with term in-

receive compensation for loss of a son in surance. . . .A future issue of this magazine service must also fill out the question- will take up WW2 gov't insurance in greater naire ... .Parents only receive compensation detail. if their income is limited. ARMY BOOK ON MARIANAS CAMPAIGN TRAINING FOR SOME DISABLED IS 50TH IN ITS WW2 HISTORY SET: WW2 VETS WAS EXTENDED TO 1965: Another volume has been added to the Question in the mail: "I have read that Army's enormous library of WW2 histories. the entire program of retraining disabled ...The latest volume is "Campaign in the WW2 vets under Public Law 16 ended last July Marianas" — 505 pages plus set of maps.... 25. Is this true?" It is the 50th volume to be published in the

Answer No. . .The "regular" PL16 pro- Army's series: "U.S. Army in World War gram to teach the war-disabled of WW2 new II and the 9th in the subseries called job skills has ended.... But a special ex- "The War in the Pacific" Philip A. Crowl tension was granted during the last moments is listed as the author, one of the authors of the last session of Congress .... It as- of the earlier "Seizure of the Gilberts and sures completion of the training of nearly Marshalls . all those who were in training last June 1. It is, of course, the story of the ...It extends the PL16 benefits to certain Army's part of the taking of Guam and veterans to whom their sudden end would be Saipan from the Japanese in the summer of an injustice ... .For the following veterans 1944, told with as much attention to detail the program continues until July 1965: to every phase of the operation— from big- 1. WW2 vets whose disabilities were so time planning to individual platoon actions severe that they couldn't take the PL16 —as the other volumes in the Army's fine

training during its "regular" term. series. ... In fact , because the Army com- 2. WW2 vets whose discharges were of a mitment to the Marianas was small, there's nature that barred them from PL16 training more than the usual attention to small units originally, but whose discharges were later and individual fighting men.... And of changed, making them eligible — but too course, the celebrated relief from his

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command of Army Major Gen. Ralph C. Smith "The American Legion has consistently by Marine Lieutenant General Holland Smith supported ROTC. We do not believe the sole on Saipan is given a lengthy factual account object of this program is to fill the in a chapter called "Smith vs. Smith." officer requirements of the Armed Forces. "Campaign in the Marianas" is for sale Patriotic motivation and the inculcation by the Sup't of Public Documents, U. S. of a sense of civic responsibility to the Gov't Printing Office, Washington, D.C. community, state and nation are benefits

. . .Sale price was not provided "Newsletter" derived from this training. We believe these with advance review copy. are essential qualities for the future leaders of the nation. The war service of LATEST INFO ON SURPLUS reserve officers contributed immeasurably RIFLES ARMY AND AMMO to the preservation of our freedoms. FOR CEREMONIAL PURPOSES: POST "The American Legion is prepared to Ceremonial rifles, drill rifles and support appropriation of necessary funds by blank ammunition have long been available the Congress of the United States to provide to American Legion Posts from the Army, needed facilities at colleges and uni- under certain conditions and regulations. versities offering ROTC to its undergradu- ...Latest detailed information on their ates. Further, we support revisions in the procurement is published at length in The ROTC curriculum which will make this pro- American Legion Advance for January 1961, gram more effective and comprehensive. which has gone to all Post Commanders of "The American Legion urges the Board record at Nat '1 Hq. . . . The Advance which is of Regents to continue study of military published only for Post Commanders, also science as a required course of study." contains in its January issue a complete index to its 1960 copies .... 1960 was the VETERANS ADMINISTRATION first year of issue of this detailed monthly DOING BETTER WITH MENTAL PATIENTS: compilation of important information for The Veterans Administration, which has officers of American Legion Posts.... All a day-in-day-out case load of more than Posts should maintain files of the Advance 55,000 mental patients, reports a steady rise in the rate of successful discharges. DON'T TAKE ROTC LIGHTLY ...The annual turnover rate of new psychi- NAT'L CMDR URGES U. OF CAL.: atric patients jumped from 66% in 1955 to The American Legion would oppose a 78% in I960.... More intensive work with move to abolish compulsory ROTC at land mentally and emotionally disturbed patients grant colleges, but at the same time would and highly organized exploration of new support needed federal appropriations for, drug therapies helps account for the trend. and revisions in, the ROTC program to make VA is a long way from repeating its suc- it more effective and comprehensive.... cess with turberculosis , but it is moving

Thus wrote Nat ' 1 Cmdr William R. Burke to in that direction in the field of mental Dr. Clark Kerr, President of the University illness ... .An intensive attack on TB by the of California (Berkeley) recently. VA and the Armed Forces began in 1946, The U. of C. Board of Regents is study- when TB facilities were jammed to the raft- ing proposals by part of its student body ers with long-term patients ... .Now the to do away with compulsory study of military average TB hospitalization is so short that tactics and science .... The students claim eight VA tuberculosis hospitals have been that its "only purpose" is to "fill the converted to other uses. officer requirements of the Armed Forces." In 1955, the VA Dep't of Medicine and

Nat ' 1 Cmdr Burke sent this telegram to Surgery started the same concentrated as- Dr. Kerr: sault on mental illness that had produced

"As National Commander of The American the TB results. . . .Each year since then, more Legion and a proud alumnus of the University psychiatric patients have been able to leave of California at Los Angeles, I wish to VA hospitals. . . .Result is not empty beds, express concern over proposed changes which as the waiting list has always been enor- would make the presently required basic mous.... But in 1960, VA was able to admit reserve officers training program volun- 4,283 more mental patients than in 1957 tary. The American Legion is mindful of the because of the stepped up discharge rate. very serious nature of this decision. To ...With a daily capacity of 58,000 mental decide between compulsory and voluntary patients, VA admitted 41,452 new mental basic ROTC is not a light responsibility. patients in 1960.

• Wll I • 2(f THE RICAN EOION MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 1961 NEWS "f^A.merican Legitton and Veterans' Affairs

sion met at Indianapolis during the No- Streamlined ^Little Convention" vember 1960 meetings and reviewed all of the resolutions adopted at the I960 To Be Held In Washington D.C. Convention in Miami Beach which called for legislative action in the next Session of Congress. Official American Legion meetings on on thi' Veterans Administration Auto- All of the resolutions adopted at the a scope that almost amounts to a "little matic Data Processing System and the Convention, with two exceptions, were convention" will open in the nation's VA's proposed development of a new approved by the Legislative Commis- capital on Feb. 25 and run through type domiciliary program. sion at this November meeting. March 3. It is expected that President Ken- How ever, the Legislative Commission

In one brief week, six of the Legion's nedy's Administrator of Veterans Affairs w ill again go ov er the proposed legisla- major commissions — Foreign Relations, will make an appearance to address the tive program and will also study bills National Security, Legislative, Economic, gathering. which have been introduced in Con- Rehabilitation and Public Relations — A highlight ot the whole conference gress to cany out the Legion's legisla- w ill meet concurrently to discuss current will be the appearance of Nat'l Cmdr tive resolutions; discuss same and in problems and plot the Legion's course of Burke before the House Veterans Affairs general advise the legislative staff and action for 1961 in these particular fields. Committee to present the Legion's legis- others interested as to the best method

Formerly, these same commissions lative program for 1961. This is sched- of presenting testimony and other at- met separately in Washington over a uled to take place at 10:00 AM, Tues- tendant steps to hav e the Legion's bills three-month period — usually in January, day, February 28, in the Caucus Room, approved by Congress. February and March. Old House Office Building. Members of the Legislative Commis-

It was Nat l Commander William R. This time the Legislative Commission sion will also:

Burke's idea to hold the "Little Conven- will not have to spend as much time as 1. Meet with members of Congress in tion" type of meetings as a matter ot it formerly did at the winter meeting informal sessions concerning support ot expediency, efficiency and economy. in establishing the Legion's basic legis- the Legion's Legislative program. Officially, the group of meetings are lative program from among too-numer- 2. Review indicated trends and known being called the Mid-Winter Conference. ous resolutions. This has already been developments in the Congress with a The major ev ent of the meetings will accomplished by better screening at the view toward concentrating effort on he the Nat'l Commander's Dinner to the National Convention. legislative proposals offering the best Congress of the United States given by In keeping with a new procedure chance of success. Nat'l Cmdr Burke at the Hilton-Statler adopted at the May 1960 meeting of tin 3. Confer with representatives of the Hotel on Thursday evening, March 2. Nat'l Executive Committee hav ing to do several American Legion Commissions Due to the fact that accommodations with the setting up ot the Legion's also meeting in Washington at this Con- in the main banquet room of the hotel national legislativ e program, a Subcom- ference for the purpose of evaluating am w .11 be overly taxed because of the large mittee of the Nat'l Legislative Commis- new factors that would influence the attendance of Legionnaires and members of the Congress, plans have been made LEGION SPONSORED CHILDREN'S CLINIC to use closed circuit television in order that everyone at the banquet will be \ able to see the speaking and entertain- ment part of the program. Because of this arrangement, Legion representatives can be assured of a place at the table with their own respective Congressional delegations. The full membership of the Rehabili- tation, Legislative, Foreign Relations and Nat'l Security Commissions have been called by the Nat'l Adjutant to at- tend the meetings. The Legion's other commissions and committees will be rep- resented by members of their Executive Sections.

For those interested in the Rehabili- tation part of the conference, it is antici- pated that a report will be submitted by the American Legion delegates to the White House Conference on the Aging PENNSYLVANIA'S 13th District American Legion for the ninth time since 1946 lias spon- which takes place this in month (Feb.) sored a crippled children's clinic in conjunction with the Schuylkill County Crippled Washington. Children's Society. At the last clinic held recently, one hundred children (some shown

lie - In addition, there will be a discussion above) were examined. Ot t 100 checked, 26 v, en new patients, 7-4 were re-examinations.

I • Mil VMI.KK V\ I (HON MAGAZINL I L ISRWARY 1961 • 27 legislative program of The American veteran and by the disabled veteran. 4. Agriculture and conservation — Legion, particularly in matters of Na- 2. Civil Service — with special em- with particular emphasis on service ren- tional Security and Foreign Relations. phasis on veterans preference in the fed- dered to veterans through the Farmers 4. Develop plans to effect the strong- eral civil service. Home Administration, U. S. Department est possible legislative support from all 3. G.I. loan program. of Agriculture. Departments of The American Legion and The American Legion Auxiliary. On Tuesday and Wednesday, March Million Dollar Community Hospital 1-2, the Legion's Second Mid-Winter Opened By Jennings, La., Post 19 Public Relations Seminar will meet, fol- lowed by a meeting of the Nat'l Public A remarkable venture of an American Post took the risk, the hospital, and

Relations Commission on Thursday, Legion Post hit a climax on Dec. 11 $65,000 in mortgages to buy it, as a March 3. when a new million-dollar hospital, with community service. At the Seminar, the correlation of all 67 beds and ultra modern medical fa- The Post formed a Hospital Board, public relations efforts for 1961 will be cilities, was dedicated at Jennings, revised the administration of the old organized and all plans for the best pro- Louisiana. hospital, and in six years paid off the jection of The American Legion, by The hospital — it serves all of Jefferson mortgage and built a $92,900 reserve by means of the machinery of news propa- Davis Parish (County) — is owned and good management of what is usually a gation will be reviewed, discussed and operated by James O. Hall Post 19, community white elephant. then formulated. American Legion, of Jennings. Unlike By then it was obvious that a new As at the First Mid-Winter Public most community hospitals, it is expected hospital would be needed, and the Post Relations Seminar held a year ago, the to operate in black ink. Post 19 ran the daringly conceived the present new programs of this Seminar will be star- older Jennings hospital, which the new structure. The late Fred Zigler and his studded with top craftsmen from all one replaces, without loss since 1952. wife Ruth, local philanthropists, gave areas of the Fourth Estate — newspaper, In fact it built up a nestegg of nearly radio and television. $100,000 which was the financial foun- The keynote theme of the 1961 Semi- dation on which the new hospital was nar will be "Tools of the Trade." Already, laid. Nat'l Public Relations Director James Post 19 got in the hospital business V. Day, has received enthusiastic accept- in 1952, when Drs. L. E. Shirley, Sr., ances from people of national renown and Ji\, asked the post to take over the who will attend and address the two-day ownership and administration of their symposium, each representing important big, old wooden hospital. It was on the factors of public relations. verge of closing because its management In announcing plans of the Seminar, had become too much for practicing C. D. DeLoach, the Legion's Nat'l physicians. Public Relations Commission Chmn The Shirleys wanted the Legion to said, "There can be no more important buy the old hospital for $65,000 and work within the organization of The they undoubtedly got the idea from the American Legion than a wholehearted, neighboring town of Crowley, La., concerted effort on the part of all of us where American Legion Post 15 had to make sure that the Legion gets its just years earlier saved the only hospital in and proper share in the news media of Acadia Parish, put its operation in the the nation." black, and eventually built a brand new During the 7-day meeting period, one. some 40 or 50 members of the Nat'l The Jennings Post only had $1,000. OPENING day visitors inspect a special that Security Commission will be briefed by Rut when the elder Shirley warned bed, part of modern equipment with which Jennings Legion hospital is well endowed. leaders of the Army, Navy, Air Force the hospital might otherwise close, the and Marine Corps on current problems effecting the defense of the nation. Plans have also been made for the Commission members for a 2-day visit to military installations in the Hampton Roads, Va. area. The tour will include the Newport News Shipbuilding Cor- poration and a view of the nuclear air- craft carrier ENTERPRISE; the Tactical Air Command and PROJECT MEI'vCl'KV, and to the Continental Army Command. The agenda of the Economic Com- mission and affiliated committees will cover the following topics:

I. Employment a) veterans employment service b) veterans reemployment rights c) de- tailed discussion regarding problems of employment laced by the older worker FIFTEEN-man hospital governing hoard in front of new structure.

' 28 THE AMERICAN I EG ION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1WI .

THE NEW million-dollar American Legion Hospital, owned and operated by James O. Hall Post 19 of Jennings, La.

appropriate land for the new hospital in son; James W. Bichert; J. W. Watson. reason known as the War Bisk Bureau a swap for the old hospital, made a gift Past National Commander James F. This, by painful process, eventually be- of $57,000, and offered a larger sum as O'Neil (N.H.) represented the national came the Veterans Administration, and a loan if needed. American Legion at the dedication and so did the present veterans benefit laws With these assets in sight the Jen- lauded the Jennings Post for living up to grow around the original insurance law s. nings Association of Commerce put on a the high ideals of American Legion com- Meanwhile, what has happened to hospital fund drive that raised $162,000, munity service. Mrs. Ruth Zigler, widow the WWI insurance itself? much of it to supply specific medical in- of the hospital's biggest individual bene- Starting in 1917, veterans of WWI stallations and other facilities. Having factor, formally opened the new insti- tuck out 1,058,655 USGLI policies. nearly half a million dollars in funds and tution. They had a cash benefit value of land, the Post sought the other half A guiding spirit of Jennings' Post 19 $ 1.547,000,000. Along the way some of million from a federal Hill-Burton Aet in its early days was a picturesque and the value disappeared in the form of hospital grant (and got $550,000) and dedicated country doctor. Dr. Claude lapsed term policies and permanent from the Ford Foundation (which put Martin, known affectionately throughout policies surrendered for cash. up $15,000). southwestern Louisiana as "The Cajun Now, 44 years later, the original poli- Ground for the new Jennings Ameri- Doetor." A heroic figure on the battle- cies still stand for nearly three billion can Legion Hospital was broken in Maw fields of France in WW1, the Cajun dollars of value ($2,821,595,667). 1959. Doctor did not live to see his Legion Of this, a little less than X& billion Its dedication last December gives post become the central source of medi- has already reverted to 332,946 WWI the adjoining Louisiana parishes of Jef- cal eare for the people of his parish. It veterans or their survivors in matured ferson Davis and Acadia two ultra-mod- would have done his heart good. insurance — either as death claims, en- ern hospitals, each owned and run by dowments or disability income. Total an American Legion post. LOOKING BACK: matured - $1,444,963,807. To the south, in Cameron Parish, the The remaining Hi billion is in 306,980 WW1 Vets Insurance - $300,000 Cameron hospital, now build- USGLI policies still in force. Total ing, was started by the impetus of the Veterans of World War One. World $1,367,631,860. state American Legion, which conceived War Two and Korea have something to A government program that provided the Cameron hospital and turned over learn from the history to date of the $2.8 billion of inexpensive protection the first $100,000 for it to Cameron government insurance first issued to for WWI vets and their survivors isn't Parish after the disastrous hurricane and servicemen in World War One, which to be sneezed at. The entire federal tidal wave of June, 1957 demonstrated was called United States Government budget in 1917 — a war year — did not the need for a hospital there. Life Insurance (USGLI). The later amount to that. Total government ex- When it is finished, the American Le- World War Two program was called penditures in 1917 were 81.9 billion. gion will have been mainly responsible National Service Life Insurance (NSLI) Imagine that! for three of four hospitals for 90,000 The WW1 insurance was the start ol If you think insurance is nothing but people spread over 2,764 square miles. the whole present federal veterans pro- a death claim, you may be surprised to

The fourth is a new 20-bed community gram. It wasn't invented, it just grew. It know that among WW4 v ets who carried hospital in Welch, La. started as marine insurance to protect permanent insurance, almost as much Mainsprings of the Jennings Ameri- merchant ships sailing the WWI seas has been paid out to the veterans them- can Legion hospital venture from the before the U.S. was in the war. First it selves, while living, as in death claims, start were two WW2 vets, businessman insured only ships and cargo. It was and this does not count policies sur- Martin Arceneaux and Dr. H. F. Guil- then seen necessary also to protect the rendered for cash, nor dividends. beau, dentist, who are presently the property and lives ol merchant mariners. Total death claims to date have president and secretary-treasurer of the Thus it got its first name — War Bisk amounted to $645,821,000 paid to Post's Hospital Board. Insurance. Then we entered WWI in widows and other survivors. But $638,- Other Legion leaders, who comprise 1917, and in the absence ol a veterans 120.000 have reverted to living veterans the balance of the Board, are Judge M. program of any sort at all, the marine either as endowments or as disability D. Miller, vice president; Hazard Cuil- insurance was amended to cover the payoffs. Dividends and surrenders for lot; Vincent Haydel; Vernon Jeansonne; lives of doughboys. At the close- ol cash (figures not at hand) would raise Herschel N. Knight; Pete Roll; Dalton WWI. the insurance was the chiel vet- the amount paid to the living veterans Landry; A. H. LeBleu; Alfred T. erans program then existing, and the big- well above that paid survivors of the Maund; Mayo Moore: Charles F. Nel- gest federal veterans agency was for that deceased. (Continued on next ))(igc)

HIE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 . ->y POSTS IN ACTION WWl VETS INSURANCE VA form number 9-357C for a declara- Items from our 16,753 posts. Those of most (Continued tion that you are totally and permanently g( nerul interest and widest geographical spread from previous page) disabled, and that you wish to are selected, with apologies for the hundreds cease of others that are so kindly reported to the The disability provisions of WWl in- paying premiums on your USGLI term editcrs. surance are superior to the NSLI insurance and either wish to (a) keep (WW2). Every policy provides the full amount of insurance in force, or POSTS IN ACTION WWl automatically that if the insured veteran (b) start drawing a monthly disability Memorial - Post 12, Palm Beach, Fla., becomes totally and permanently dis- payment from it. The VA will decide has been made the administrator of a abled the policy will mature. The vet- the question on the facts in your case, $50,000 scholarship trust fund, "The eran can stop paying premiums and and it is the experience of the Legion Anson A. Bigelow Memorial Scholar- either keep the full amount of the in- and the VA that the facts in some cases ship," established by Mrs. Bigelow in surance, or start drawing a monthly dis- will solve the problem for good. memory of her late husband, a member ability payment from the policy himself Make sure also to fill out VA form 2-22 ol the post. The money will be used to giving . . . There's no such automatic feature in The American Legion power to award annual scholarships to worthy NSLI. represent your interests all the way along men and women of Palm Beach County. In 45,377 cases, the permanent and the line. term policies of vets have matured Ambulance — Post 22. Thomaston, Conn., WWl for disability, with a payoff to disabled THE CASE OF CAPT. FENKER: presented a new $14,500 completely vets of $244,750,447. equipped ambulance to the town, pur- Better Late Than Never The disability provision still offers an chased from monies collected by post Here's to Capt. William Fenker! out for some WWl veterans who are members in the towns of Thomaston, It is 42 years since 1st Lieutenant caught in the saddest chapter of the Plymouth and \orthfield. The post also William Fenker was promoted to cap- history of WWl insurance — those who presented new ambulances to the town tain on Feb. 17, 1919, after 21 months still hold term insurance, without ever in 1940 and 1950. in France with the AEF as a young Army having converted it to a permanent plan. doctor. Of the total of 306,980 WWl policies Hospital Gift - Post 464, Bronxville, He was discharged from service less still in force today, 15,564 are still in X. Y., presented $5,000 to the Lawrence than a month later, on March 14, 1919. term insurance, and the 15,564 veterans Hospital in Bronxville from profits re- Notice of his promotion did not catch are paying through the nose. For the alized by a post-sponsored Sports Night. up with him until three months after his same reason that it is incredibly cheap discharge. His Army records called him in the earlier years of life, term insurance Red Alert — Post 1, Memphis, Tenn., has a first lieutenant then, and kept on call- is incredibly expensive in the later years. launched an energetic and extensive ing him that. You pay according to the death rate of campaign against communist encircle- Fenker shrugged it off. He became a insured people in your group. ment and infiltration by showing a sound own age practicing physician in Sandusky. Ohio. Veterans' term insurance leaps in premi- and color film, "Communism on the A second big war came, and Dr. Fen- um cost every five years, and each time Map," to more than 10,000 persons in ker's son, William, was lost on an Air it leaps further than it did the last time. the Memphis area, including school, Force mission in the Pacific. Permanent plans do not increase in an- church, civic and business groups. Late in 1946, Dr. Fenker got out his nual cost. premium own military records, and was reminded In 1962, half of the present WWl Life-Saver — Post 47. Chicago, 111., is of that first lieutenant business again. term policies will for an increase distributing literature on the Medic- be up His family had given much, too much, in premium, some of them as as Alert Foundation, non-profit organiza- much in two wars. The least the Army could 55%. tion, founded by a California doctor do would be to set the record of his rank lh.it promotes the wearing of "medical From age 61 to 70, a WWl vet can straight for posterity. alert" wrist bracelets, which in case of pay total premiums of $5,132 on a Dr. Fenker asked the service officer emergency warn, "I am allergic to peni- $10,000 term policy already carried 44 of Sandusky's American Legion Post 83 cillin" or tetanus-antitoxin, etc.; or "I years! After 70 he can quickly put into if the Legion helps veterans have their have diabetes" or haemophilia, etc. the policy more than its face value! military records corrected. Let this be a due warning to the ihrce "Yes, indeed," said service officer Replica - Post 155, Westby, Wise., lias million WW2 vets who are still nursing Reinhardt Ausmus, and he started the completed a project making a "Flanders term policies along, without converting usual wheels in Washington turning . . . Field" at the Coon Prairie Cemetery an them to permanent plans, and who will and then ran into one of those things. authentic copy of the famous burial site not find an out in the disability pro- To make a long story short, it only in France. vision of WWl insurance. took from 1947 to 1960 to get die There is such an out for some WWl clanged thing straightened out. For 13 Scout Camp- Post 4, Juneau, Alaska has vets. We can't say which ones. But it is a years, Ausmus, like a true American Le- presented a cheek for $6,000 to the certainty that of all the 15,564 WWl gion service officer of the old school, Southeast Alaska Council of the Boy vets who still carry term insurance some hung on to the Fenker matter like a Scouts ol America to launch its project can avoid the trap that caused more bulldog. lor the development of a Scout camp. than 84,000 of their buddies to abandon Last summer, the Washington office the insurance as its cost mounted. If of the Legion, and Fenker's Congress-

Long Wait — Post 31, Houma, La., is you are one, heed these words: man, A. D. Baumhart, Jr. (whom Aus-

building its first post home after 40 1. If you can no longer work because mus had also enlisted) and the Army years. The new home will also be de- of disability, or finally all saw eye-to-eye on the Fenker signed to be a community center. For 2. If you're over 65, have retired, affair. years, the post spent its assets building and have some disability, then: So, on Oct. 19. 1960, a letter went parks and playgrounds and reclaiming 3. See your nearest Legion service to the Adjutant General of the Army land loi community purposes. officer pronto. Tell him you wish to file from Ass't Army Secretary Dewey Short.

• THE AMERICAN I EG I ON MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 After citing due procedures and author- "to protec t the autonomous right of Con- ity, the Secretary's letter directed thai gress to inform itself and the American "all of the Dep't of the Army records ol public of the persons and practices MEN PAST40 William Fenker he corrected to show which would corrupt or destroy our that he accepted a promotion to the way of life." grade of captain, Officers Reserve Corps, The student group was organized by Afflicted With Getting Up Nights, on 17 Feb., 1919, and was honorably James and John Kolhe. brothers at Pains in Back, Hips, Legs, discharged in such grade on 14 March, Northwestern, from Arizona. James, a Nervousness, Tiredness. ." If you are a victim of the above symp- 1919. . . former page in the U.S. Senate, is a toms, the trouble may be due to Gland- It was a long haul, but here's to you. freshman at Northwestern and John is a ular Inflammation. A constitutional Dis- in Captain Fenker! senior that University's Medill School ease for which it is futile for sufferers of Journalism. to try to treat themselves at home. To men of middle age or past this U.S. STUDENTS: Their group charged that numerous type of inflammation occurs frequently. organizations which oppose many Con- Not All Eggheads It is accompanied by loss of physical gressional investigations are "weaken- vigor, graying of hair, forgetfulness and If you've lost faith in American youth ing the investigatory power by corrupt- often increase in weight. Neglect of such Inflammation causes men to grow and believe that any boy or girl who ing the conditions which are essential to old before their time—premature senil- goes to college will quickly be trained its effective and responsible use." These ity and possible incurable conditions. by the first left-wing professor he meets groups severely "distort certain provi- Most men, if treatment is taken in to start undermining America and join sions of the Constitution and totally ig- time, can be successfully NON-SURGI- CALLY treated for Glandular Inflam- any and all silly front groups — then nore the necessity for Congress to search mation. If the condition is aggravated have cheer. It isn't as bad as all that, out the facts" in order to justify their by lack of treatment, surgery may be even if it seems so sometimes. opposition to Congressional committees. the only chance. Here's the Student Committee for Communists and "many anti-Ameri- Congressional Autonomy, recently can individuals and organizations" NONSURG/CAL TREATMENTS formed by students at Northwestern would gain the most from weakening The NON-SURGICAL New Type treat- University — a national organization of Congress' investigations", said the stu- ments used at the Excelsior Medical college students to defend the investigat- dent group, because such investigations Clinic are the result of discoveries in recent years of new techniques and ing power of Congress. "have been so successful in uncovering drugs plus over 20 years research by These college students timed their anti-American operations." scientific technologists and Doctors. first major pronouncement to coincide Congress, said the students, cannot Men from all walks of life and from with the opening of Congress, when pass intelligent laws when its investiga- over 1,000 communities have been suc- cessfully treated here at Excelsior Rep. James Roosevelt (Calif.) was ex- tions are hindered by "sniper tactics." Springs. They found soothing and com- pected to call again for the abolition of The student committee had represent- forting relief and new health in life. the House Un-American Activities Com- atives on 30 college campuses by the mittee — a longtime aim of the com- first of this year, including Harvard, RECTAL-COLON EXAMINATION Are often associ- munist party USA and a lot of other Yale, Antioch, Holy Cross, Chicago, In- ated with Glandu- people who aren't quite as savvy as the diana, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Tulane, AT LOW COST lar Inflammation. When you arrive These disorders, we young men at Northwestern. Kansas, Arizona and Stamford. can successfully here our Doctors who treat for you. at The students don't like Rep. Roose- The student group plans to sponsor are experienced spe- the same time wc velt's idea at all, and aren't afraid to say showings of the movie "Operation Aboli- cialists make a com- treat Glandular In- plete examination. flammation. so in spite of the enormous egghead tion," which documents massive inter- Your condition is pressure against them. ference with House Committee Hear- frankly explained REDUCIBLE In a letter to Congress, released on ings at San Francisco last spring by and then you decide HERNIA if will the is also amenable to Jan. 3, the student organization asked dyed-in-the-wool communists and a dis- you take treatments needed. a painless Non- all Senators and Representatives to sink orderly mob of college undergraduates Surgical treatment Treatments are so that we have de- the expected bill, and to join in the fight and faculty members. The committee mild hospitalization veloped. Full de- is not needed—a con- tails of this treat- siderable saving in ment given In our expense. Free Book.

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in Wash- Pres. I left NAT'L CMDR BURKE as lie paid his respects recently to Eisenhower ) STATE ington and to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (right) in his N. V. apartment.

THE AMERICAN LEGION M\(iA/INi • ITKRl'ARY 1961 '^J will also organize support for the House ion: Department of Louisiana. Un-American Activities Committee Ford C. Frick Trophy — for home wherever it holds hearings, in a direct state of Junior Baseball runner-up: Dep't counterattack on the communist-incited of Montana. young eggheads who spearheaded the Paul V. McNutt Trophy - for Na- San Francisco riots. tional Postal Rifle Match Champion: Said John Kolbe, a member of the Post 30, Gresham, Ore. Northwestern Student Senate: "The cen- It's now a brand new year and the tral issue has now become whether or contenders are oil and running for the not Congress will continue to investigate 1961 awards. matters free of the arbitrary controls with w hich its opponents seek to shackle PUBLIC RELATIONS: it. It is no longer an attack on one or two committees. They have declared war on Passing The Word both the Congressional prerogative to There's an old saving in the Navy inform itself and on the people's right that goes like this, "there's always some- NEW TITLE for former President Harry to one who doesn't get the word". know.' By properly serving a public Tinman is now "Honorary Past Dep't educative function, we hope to bring an That could be true about the Legion Cmdr" of the Missouri American Legion. end to that war." too — at least as far as the public is con- A member sinee its founding days, he has been a delegate to all the Legion's 42 Nat'l The students use as their motto a cerned. But the Legionnaires in Minne- Conventions—somewhat of a rare record. statement made by Supreme Court sota are trying to do something about it. Justice Hugo Black in 1936, as a United A unique publicity program in that The broadcasting facilities and the States Senator: "There is no power on state, and perhaps in the nation, is now tapes, which run from one to 13 minutes, earth that can tear away the veil behind being conducted by the Department are donated to the Legion by the radio which powerful and audacious and un- Public Relations Division there. stations. scrupulous groups operate, save the Short, informative tapes containing The whole idea of this Legion taped sov ereign legislative power armed with basic data about American Legion pro- series stemmed from information ob- the right of subpoena and search." grams are being cut and distributed tained by the radio stations located in The students are not alone. Another throughout the network of radio stations rural areas. citizens' committee along the same lines in Minnesota. These were the facts: rural people, station has sprung up in Lombard, III. It is the Each is contacted by members particularly farmers, have a radio in Committee to Defend Congressional of the Public Relations committee and a many of their vehicles, in their homes Committees Investigating Communism, few volunteer members in order to sell and in buildings in w hich they do the with an address at Box 303, Lombard. the idea of the station using the tapes as daily chores. Most of these radios are

111. Its chief aim is to show massive free public service time and then to for- tuned in to the local station throughout citizen protest against any and all pro- ward the tapes, after being used, to the daylight and evening hours. posals to abolish Congressional inves- other scheduled locations. If this is so, thought the Minnesota tigation of communism. It has printed To date, 18 tapes on various subjects Legionnaires, why not saturate the air- petitions in support of the House Com- of The American Legion hav e been cut ways with good, sound information mittee on Un-American Activities and by Department Commander Eugene V. about The American Legion and its the Senate Internal Security Subcom- Lindquist and other key Legionnaires. programs? mittee, hopes to get hundreds of thou- The tapes are made up in the form of The radio stations have been very sands of signatures on them. Petitions panel interviews or as pure and simple cooperative in the promotion, giving may be had from the Committee at the statements concerning Legion programs. prime listener time to the Legion taped above address. These have been used to the extent of broadcasts. ov er 2366 minutes of free radio time for Cost of the publicity program has AMERICANISM: the first three months of the Legion year been kept to a minimal amount. The Annual Award Winners in Minnesota. only expense has been for postage for mailing the tapes from station to station. Each year following its Nat'l Conv en- To keep things rolling smoothly, a tion, The American Legion presents dispatcher maintains the library of re- Americanism trophies to its Depart- cordings and sends them out on pre- ments and Posts on a competing basis in arranged schedules on circuits ot from order to stimulate interest and activity three to ten stations. in various Americanism activities. So if you have a radio in Minnesota, Here are the winners for L960: you must be hearing about The Amer- James A. Drain Trophy - for com- ican Legion. If you haven't, then you're munity service: Dep'l of Iowa. just not getting the word. Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., Trophy — for support of Scouting: Dep't of Panama BRIEFLY NOTED: Canal Zone. Hal pit T. O'Neil Trophy - lor school • The December issue- ol \'ilal Speeches IN RECOGNITION of the cooperation medal award activity: Dep't of Penn- carries two addresses delivered at the given by the Department ol Defense to the s\ Ivania. Legion's Boys Nation Program lor the past recent American Legion Convention in

Spafford National Trophy — lor home 15 years, Nat'l Cmdr Burke ( K it) presents Miami, "What Is America?" by George state of National Oratorical Contest. tin' Legion's "Americanism Award" to out- Sokolskv and "World Power Alignment" going Secretary ol Defense Thomas S. Winner: Dep't ol Kansas. by Robert C. Hill. Gates, Jr. (center). Looking on is Army Howard 1'. Savage Trophy — for home Genera] Lyman Lemnitzer (right), Chmn state ol National Junior Baseball Champ- of the Joint Chiefs ol Stall. Defense Dept. • Some 60 members of The American

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 Commission and Ernest C. Maas (1959), Post 521, Rio Linda, Legion's Nat'l Security Calif. associated committees, as well as special William A. Cottrell (1960), Post 1, Honolulu, Looking Hawaii. guests, viewed the latest U.S. Army Clinton Tcai;arclen (19601. Post 155, Harvey, 111. (1945) and Pierce M. William- and training methods Harold X. Garman Infantry weapons son (1960), Posl 590. Albion 111. Hynes for while on a 3-day V.I.P. visit to the Army Leo T. IMuUa (1959) and Donald W. (19601. Post HO. Whiting. Ind. Infantry Center and Infantry School, Frank J. Koehler (1960), Post 156, Paola, Kans. Alexander Benn\ Chestnut (1958) and James Ga., Dec. 15-17. Fort Bcnning, Striihb (1959) and Herbert Ibert (1960), Post 63, an Franklin, La. Keefe (1960), Post 2. Augusta, Maine. Florida American Legion dedi- George H. • The J. Glenn Beall and Frank T. Powers (both 1960), Frostburfi, Md. cated its new department headquarters Post 24. Island? Ora Overholser (1961). Post 66, Bowie, Md. building in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 3. Richard L. Ilrice and Joseph A. Brown and Griflin R. Davis and Fred DeJesuS (all 1961), Post 141, Annapolis, Md. • The 6th Armored Division Association James F. Lanham (1960), Post 162, Lexington has announced a new $1,000 four-year Park. Md. Edward R. Frizzell (1959), Post 304, Cumming- college scholarship program ($250 per ton. Mass. Henry Surtees (1958) and Fred Kelso (I960), Post children, grandchil- year) for eligible 16, Lapeer, Mich. Galloway dren, nephews or nieces and stepchil- William B. Findlev (1958) and Fred S. (1959) and Roy E. Goodwill (1960), Post 253, Royal dren of Association members, commenc- Oak. Mich. J. W. Reed (1960), Post 52. Boonville, Mo. write: ing in Sept. 1962. For details L. W. Schluckebier (1959), Post 24, Fairbury. Edward Reed, Secty-Treas., 6th Ar- Nebr. Robert 1). Florv and Jacob Glur and Ben B. Mc- mored Div. Assn., P.O. Box 492, Louis- Nair (all 1959) and James L. Rich, Sr. (1960), Post 84. Columbus. Nebr. ville 1, Ky. Charles Kuehnle and Joseph A. Wennemer (both 1960). Post 158. Egg Harbor City, N. J. Russell J. Doremus (1960), Post 183, Verona, BAHAMA The 13th District of the Ohio Ameri- • N.J. can Legion has assumed sponsorship of Vincent Giannotti (1960), Post 366. Northvale. N.J. a $21,000 health center at Camp Cheer- Joseph A. McCarthy (1960), Post 84. New York. N.Y. ful, the Society for Crippled Children ... , Mitchell R. Bienen (1960), Post 102, New > ork. ACRES camp in the Cleveland area. N.Y. Gordon Alcox and Edward Schoenherr (both 1960) Post 206. Rochester 7. N.Y. Vt ACRE TRACTS © The 1961 revised edition of the man- John J. Brady and Benjamin F. Bremer and James A. Putsch and George C. Graf (all 1959), ual for American Legion post service Post 708, Buffalo, N.Y. $ Miller and Ellen M. Putnam (both 1959), officers has been distributed to all de- Anna L. Post 709. Rochester. N.Y. 395 10 Erickstad and Floyd E. partments of the Legion for further dis- T. I. Dahl and San FULL PRICE DOWN PER MO. Henderson and Lawrence Jensen (all 1960). Post tribution at the post level. 41. Grafton, N. Dak. William Metzger and George Schafer and A. H. ALL TRACTS SAME PRICE Post Euclid. Ohio. Woodley (all 1960). 343, No Interest • No Taxes • Since August 1926, Andrew G. Howard L. Brown and Dr. Thomas H. Copeland 1959), Cumps, adjutant of Post 274, Des and Albert Freda and Robert E. Hillson (all Fortunes are being made by peo- Post 350. Bedford, Ohio. ple who bought undeveloped land Moines, Iowa, has personally collected Harry S. Burr (1958) and Alex Cameron and David A. Duross and Lewis J. Mitrano (all 1959), just a few short years ago in Florida, the 24,051 dues from members of post on Post 179. Yeadon, Pa. Jamaica and the Bahamas. This, George C. Craeff and George J. Loos, Jr. and occasions. By December 1960, he had al- economists and investors agree, is Charles R. Prediger (all 1960). Post 630. Phila- ready collected 1961 dues from over 900 delphia. Pa. one of the best ways to make big Florentine) Abogado and Pablo L. Edrozo and profits. But you must buy good land members. Maloyo, Jr. (all 1960), Post 14, Pasuquin. Tomas C. in the path of progress before devel- Ilocos Norte, P.I. Joseph Phillips, Jr. (1959). Post 77, Providence. opment— when prices are low and • A $900 electric hospital bed was re- R I every dollar you invest equals ten or Post 130, Falls Church. Va. cently presented to Sgt. Alvin C. York, John M. Gait (1960). twenty later. Richard Earle Davis (1958), Post 2, Morgan- WWI hero, in a ceremony at Pall Mall, town. W. Va. - ... Now you can own pre-development George Rodak (1958), Post 10, Weirton, W. Va. Tenn., presided land in Bahama Acres on a sun- over by Gov. Buford Ben J. Huebs h (1960). Post 53, Eau Claire. Wis. Ellington, past Nat'l American Legion George B. W edin (1960). Post 185. Grantsburg. swept island set like a jewel in a tur- Wis. quoise sea. Rich in tropical island Cmdr Martin B. McKneally, and Ten- are Post Commanders or Adjutants beauty, Bahama Acres is across nessee Dep't Cmdr Rankin E. Mathis, Jr. asked to report life membership awards from southern Florida — directly in the path of profits. to "Life Memberships," The American • The latest complete information from Legion Magazine, 720 5th Ave., New For 231 years, the Bahama Islands the Department of the Army on the have enjoyed a democratic, tax-free York 19, N.Y. Date of award is requested availability of "donable surplus combat government with no income tax, no in all cases. Receipt of names cannot be real estate tax on unimproved prop- material" — ceremonial rifles, drill rifles, acknowledged. erty and no inheritance tax. Bahama standard weapons, repair parts, blank Life memberships in Maryland, Ohio progress is phenomenal! Over the ammunition and combat equipment — is past ten years, tourism alone in- are only accepted if and West Virginia creased contained in the Jan. 1961 issue of The 600%. received via the Department Adjutant, Don't miss this chance to own a American Legion ADVANCE, the Nat'l policy. in conformity with state Legion tropical island hide-away for future Hdqs monthly publication distributed to fun or profit! Get the facts today... all post commanders. NEWS: PEOPLE IN THE Member Miami - Dade Chamber of Commerce chaises l. kessler, resigned Nov. 30, LIFE MEMBERSHIPS: FREE 1960, as Dep't Adjt of the Virginia P- BROCHURE The citation of an individual Legion- BAHAMA ACRES 1 American Legion to become Director of naire to life membership in his Post is a Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Dept. 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Legion's Nat'l Hdqs staff (1948-50), dr. Joseph a. paragon, said to have Birth to Age 80 selected as the new president of base- proposed The American Legion motto, in First ball's American Association in November "For God and Country," on Dec. 10, Portland, Ore. One of the Founders of 30 Days 1960. The American Legion, he attended the 25< ONLY St. Louis Caucus in May, 1919. harry e. encelund of Palm Springs, Per Policy 1000 Calif., a vice ehmn of the Legion's Nat'l CASH FOR YOUR FINAL EXPENSES. Distinguished Guests Committee ( 1956- AVOID BEING A BURDEN TO YOUR FAMILY OUTFIT 60), named as Nat'l Sergeant-At-Arms Introductory Offer. Answer these 9 by Nat'l Cmdr questions on a plain piece of paper and of The American Legion REUNIONS mail with only 25c for 30 days' protec- William R. Burke. Reunion will be held in month indicated. tion. Regular rate shown on policy. whose address without doctor For particulars, write person Amounts usually issued (MaSS.), past examination. DANIEL J. DOHERTY is given. Ages Amount Ages Amount Nat'l Cmdr of The American Legion Notices accepted on official form only. 0 to 15 $1000 45 to 65 $1000 (1937-38), appointed new chief attor- For form send stamped, addressed reiurn 15 to 45 2500 65 to 80 500 ney for the Boston Regional Office of the envelope to: O. R. Form, American Legion 1. Print full name and address. Veterans Administration. Magazine, 720 Fifth Ave., New York 1(> HIV CPU: 1 CPU high: Or l.KOO CPU of the Georgia American Le- >m 2.v well. i" Inletj Vi" outlet. (1955-56) $1,387,434.59 upline: InrliKleil free *7.95 Unrestricted B.ill-Be

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FOREIGN INTRIGUE IN FLORIDA (Continued from page 13)- Shrinks Hemorrhoids New Way Without Surgery Casablanca parallel, Miami has its per- a well-known Miami broker-well-known political refugees, to the Miami police, that is— who had manent exile colony of Stops Itch -Relieves Pain who frequent the six Cuban cafes and worked up a lucrative gun-smuggling restaurants, talk together mysteriously, business in the days when the Fidelistas For the first time science has found a new healing substance with the astonishing return Jream of the day when they can (Castro adherents) were the buyers. He ability to shrink hemorrhoids and to relieve to power, and now and then cook up a just changed customers when Castro won pain — without surpery. In case after case, while gently relieving out. Both Dominican Republic and plot or two. pain, actual reduction (shrinkage) took place. There are five major factions of Cuban money was involved, but banks Most amazing of all — results were so thorough that sufferers made astonishing Cubans in Miami, four of them anti- in Cleveland and Miami were induced statements like "Piles have ceased to be a Castro, and all five hate all the others. to finance a pool of half a million dol- problem! The secret is a new healing substance Incidentally. Miami is one of the largest lars to buy the Globemasters, it devel- (Bio-Dyne*) — discovery of a world-famous Latin cities in the hemisphere, with a oped later. research institute. Latin American population of 100,000. In the "stuff" seized at Miami were This substance is now available in sup- pository or ointment form under the name exceed per- deactivated machineguns which had been The political exiles do not 2 Preparation H®. Ask for it at all drug cent of the total, but many of these two- reactivated by removing the solder plates counters. percenters happen to be lusty individuals. that made them unusable. The trouble Also true to Casablanca tradition, most was the process of deactivating weak- of this activity has been invisible to the ened the guns structurally so that they outsider. There have been a few street were just as likely to explode backwards LOOK FOR lights in the "Cuban district," and once into the holder's face when fired. There two Miami detectives chased a Cuban were bazookas, dismounted and recon- THIS EMBLEM arms-and-dynamite-laden station wagon ditioned fighter plane machineguns. 2 miles down crowded Flagler St. at 7 rifles, hand grenades, and a large stock o'clock in the evening, at from 60 to 70 of jungle knives. All had been freighted It is displayed only in a miles an hour. or trucked to Miami in harmless-looking Legionnaire-owned store . . . Most noteworthy of all, of course, was boxes marked "Antique Guns" or a member of when a gang of anti-Castro burlies last "Hunting Rifles." fall raided the Cuban consulate on the Incidentally, the usual profit on these THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE sixth floor of a downtown office building. contraband items was from 200 to 300 They overturned and broke up some of percent, delivered at the overseas des- RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL the furniture and roughed up the consul. tination. Leon Blanco, when he wouldn't unlock The U.S. Customs office at Miami had the safe. However, he finally did open known of the project for some time. A it and they took a number of official member of the Miami staff, on instruc- BILL STERN, papers—but no money. The consul's dig- tions from Joseph Fortier, supervising Dean of American nity was seriously impaired, but exam- customs officer, had accepted a down Sportscasters, says: ination at a Miami hospital revealed no payment of $1,400 of a proffered significant physical injuries. $100,000 protection bribe. (Fortier told "GIVE ME

Two suspicious-looking Cubans, com- me he thought the agent could have en- 1 MINUTE ing down a rear fire escape, were arrested abled the shipment to get away, if he JO PROVE and put in a lineup at police head- had wished.) A Miami policeman was quarters. But the consul either couldn't arrested — and indicted — for complicity CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA or wouldn't identify them as his assail- in the affair. The Customs people had ants. There the incident ended except followed the progress of the trail-blazing IS FOR YOU! "Use the next few seconds to fill out and mail the coupon that Blanco was recalled to Havana two Globemaster from Washington. D.C.. to below. Receive the big FREE book that gives you all the later, days and not replaced. Tampa to Miami. fabulous facts about (APE CORAL. Learn why thousands of

A downtown Cuban restaurant owned From a hiding place not far from the families have invested millions of dollars in this waterfront by Joseph Paula, vice president of the moored plane at Miami International community of Country Club luxury with its endless variety of pro-Castro "26th of July Club," has been Airport, the officers watched loading beautiful homes; miles and miles of landscaped, paved streets shot up several times, one of the bullets preparations one night. At about 2 a.m.. and wide waterways — boating, fishing, bathing — all the wonderful pleasures that moke CAPE CORAL exactly what slightly wounding Paula in the shoulder. when it looked as if the plane was almost you've been dreaming about!'' The disturbances stopped when Paula, at ready to be airborne, they rushed out. '/ acre Homesites for as little as the suggestion of the police, took down Twenty prospective passengers, of 4 many "own, a large picture taken a few years ago of them armed, were arrested. One of the $OA iV PER MONTH! - a beardless Castro. pilots was a 38-year-old Miami woman. Send for the most exciting book single The largest gunrunning job thus Frank Kappel, chief of the Dade of its kind ever written! — far uncovered was a Dominican Re- County sheriff's detective bureau, told "THE CAPE CORAL STORY" " yours for the asking , public-Cuban deal in 1959 which in- me he thought his men had grabbed at It's ABSOLUTELY FREE cluded not only purchase of more than least of arms in l£Cp^ $200,000 worth hidden Send no money, please a million dollars' worth of military attics and basements of private homes ' CHAMBER 01 (OUMtXI HfMBIIi lot (ounly. Myeis, Dode County. Hondo Voir equipment, but a fleet of 1 1 "surplus" and warehouses in and near Miami dur- . MAIL THIS COUPON TODAV • Globemasters to ferry the stuff as well. ing 18 t the months the bureau has been Gulf Guaranty land A Title Co., Depl f 57 Five of the planes were delivered. Sev- in existence. He described the many 1771 N. Tomiomi Troil, Fort My«r«, Florida - Please rush me FREE copy of "THE CAPE CORAL eral hundred thousand dollars' worth of nights he and his men had cruised " STORY" in full color arms had been brought to Miami from around, sometimes in the suburbs, N S Nam* suppliers in New Jersey. Pennsylvania watching buildings that informers had to " Addroti and Ohio. tipped them off to watch. His men never a * City Zone Stot« Starring "villain" of the adventure was encountered sunfire when thev raided.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 • 35 however. The conspirators yielded up It developed Uriballarea and two It is possible to operate out of the their treasure regretfully but without others had left Cuba a few days earlier Tamiami field for private planes in violence. in a rowboat. Police believe the boat was Miami, or even out of International Air- Capt. L. F. Napier and Sgt. Charles intercepted and Uriballarea dumped into port itself, and not be caught. Sapp, of the Miami police detective the bay to drown. Fees for this kind of job depend on bureau, experienced a considerably more Incidentally, Miami police do not be- the prominence of the person to be res- boisterous time, possibly because their lieve the tales of all the rowboat arrivals, cued. For a high-ranking personage, immediate territory included "Cuban because some of them have hands too charges have been as high as $10,000. Town," where passions were rather in- soft and white to have withstood grueling Chief Kappel said the average charges tense. Napier estimated his staff has days of rowing! The detectives think that are from $1,200 to $1,500 per person. staged at least 20 raids, netting from during several periods 50 percent of the How does Miami's exile colony keep $150,000 to $200,000 worth of loot. alleged rowboat fugitives were Castro alive?

The bulk of the illicit arms traffic has intelligence agents sent here for espio- Some are very poor and a few are very left Florida shores by boat, of course. nage. rich. It always has been that way in

Most of it went in 75-ft. (sometimes even A sizeable group, however, is arriving Cuba and in most of the other Latin in 30-ft.) boats, which put out under by air, in spite of the efforts of the U.S. countries. But there have been some

cover of night from unpoliced coves near changes in who is rich and who is poor. Mia mi -occasionally from Miami harbor A former Cuban general is earning his itself— and from lonely inlets along the living as a barber. A former Cuban Con- coast as far south as Key West. gressman, scion of one of the island's One of the most tragic of the marine wealthiest families, is a porter at the expeditions known to have left from Fontainebleau, Miami BeaclVs plush Florida was the ill-fated Haitian group hotel. Another ex-Congressman, son of

that slipped out of a cove on Marathon a once-rich Senator, is a bus boy at the Key, half way to Key West, one night Biltmore Terrace, another luxury Beach in December 1958 with the aim of over- hotel, owned by a corporation of Cubans throwing the Haitian government. who had the foresight to salt away sub- Aboard were two Miami deputy sheriffs stantial finances abroad. At the Biltmore,

whose badges were found on their desks 1 talked with a barkeep who was a high- the next morning. The other crewmen ranking Cuban police officer. My host were former Haitian officers. was a "Batistiano" (Batista adherent) The adventurers succeeded in over- who for 14 years managed the Havana powering the guard of the Presidential International Airport. He now is a cash- palace at Port-au-Prince. In fact, they ier in the hotel. actually held the palace for two hours Gen. Roberto Fernandez Miranda, an

before a counterattack dislodged them. in-law of Batista, is generally believed to All were killed, including the deputy be a member of the corporation, a rumor sheriffs. "Then for three glorious months we actually the desk clerk would neither confirm nor The smuggling of revolution-worn stayed ahead of the Joneses." deny. human beings into Florida, while not im- Former Venezuelan dictator Jimenez THE AMERICAN LEGION MAG VZINE pressive in numbers, is tops in drama. is still living in Miami—comfortably, to It has been going on. off and on, for all appearances. His extradition comes many years; police agree it has become Immigration Service, which has imported up periodically, but well-informed people more intense since Castro seized power. a hundred extra staffers from various do not think he ever will be sent back. A surprisingly large number reach the parts of the country to watch Florida's Some of the well-to-do Cuban exiles Florida coast in rowboats, the majority some two hundred airfields. are helping to support the more destitute in the vicinity of Key West. All imme- The usual method is for the Florida- new arrivals. Once there were three so- diately hunt up a policeman and give bound plane to gas up and file flight called "Batista Barracks." where refugees themselves up as political refugees. I papers for Nassau. On the return trip, were put up for free for a lew weeks— learned of only one group that was or- the plane picks up a passenger or two at sometimes longer— until they could find dered deported, and the order was not some small Cuban field, and flies back, work. There usually is at least one in carried out. All the hearings are in to deposit its human cargo on some out- operation. The sites change. Miami. of-the-way field or airstrip. The plane Shortly after the election. President More arrive in motorboats, the crew then returns to its base and checks in. Eisenhower instructed the Immigration running them to some lonely spot on the Gas consumption normally would have Service to give refugee Cubans a special mainland or to a rendezvous with row- been substantially the same as on a bona status similar to that given the Hun- boats off the Florida coast. Castro's gun- fide trip to Nassau. And unless the garian ref ugees. Escapees with no papers boats have been known to cruise about smuggler was unlucky enough to have were put on a probationary basis. Early on the lookout for the freedom-bolters. been spotted by some snooping helicop- in December, the White House an- One of the more gruesome incidents ter when he was discharging passengers, nounced the release ot a million dollars took place one night a lew miles from detection is difficult. in Federal money for the relief of the Fort Lauderdale, a popular winter resort. Florida is especially adapted to this Cuban political refugees in Miami and A Castro gunboat was seen one after- kind of operation because of the many other parts of Florida. noon hovering just outside the interna- "dusting strips"— landing strips of a hun- Senator Rolando Masferrer, leader of tional limit. Next morning fishermen dred feet or so which have been laid out the Cuban "Tigers"-a strong-arm group found the naked body of Jesus Uribal- for the convenience of the dusting planes which once was one of Batista's main- larea, former private in the Batista army working lor farmers or the Department sta\s of power— has a yacht tied up at and chauffeur of a prominent Batista of Agriculture. Most of the smuggler a Fifth St. and Biscayne Blvd. dock. He adherent, floating face down near an is- planes are small jobs-some are Piper is fix ing with his family in a bungalow land just offshore. The body was identi- Cubs—able to land and take off in small outside the Cuban district. fied by the teeth. spaces. Rumor has it he has been feeding

• 35 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • F EBRUARY 1961 and helping in various ways a number "big invasion" probably would be of hangers-on. launched from Mexico.

When I talked with him in his home, 1 found Maj. Lanz to be an extremely

I was able to see fairly concrete sub- sensitive, imaginative and idealistic in- stantiation that the rumor was true. I dividual, when I interviewed him, along SPECIAL OFFER arrived at 6:30 in the evening. During with a group of Miami reporters, the the next hour there was a steady pro- day after his release from jail and his cession of guests, seemingly showing up first extradition hearing. He was ex- to readers of lor food. They ranged from a former tremely pro-American, and expressed editor, a man of refinement and imagina- anxiety over the fact that Cuban-Ameri- American Legion tion, to burly huskies who appeared well can friendship, "so vital to Cuba," was

able to take care of themselves. While I being set back many years by Castro's

was waiting for the senator to arrive, I tactics. He said his foremost objective made friends with "Tiger," his beautiful for the present was to found a "free German shepherd, one of the most gor- Cuba" radio station somewhere on the FREE geous that I ever seen in mainland that would pump "the truth" BOOK specimens have my life. to the Cuban people in much the same helps end misery from The senator proved to be extremely way Radio Free Europe is operating near affable, a man of superior capability and the Iron Curtain. intelligence. In Cuba, he sometimes was I saw no signs, however, that Lanz ARTHRITIS, called "Batista's Butcher." "The senator has made much headway in attracting was not a butcher," one of his friends followers or substantial financial back- insisted. "But he is a man of great physi- ing. RHEUMATISM cal courage. Several attempts were made Dr. Anthony (Tony) Navaro, Prime

to kill him, but it always happened that Minister of Cuba under President Prio, A remarkable new free book describes a specialized system of treatment that the would-be killers were the one who and head of the recently formed Demo- works wonders for folks who suffer from got killed." cratic Revolutionary Front, is supposed arthritis, rheumatism, neuritis, sciatica. Masferrer is of medium height. His to have slightly more financial backing. This non-surgical, non-medical treatment brings blessed relief to those who tried broad face has regular features, and his The organization is made up almost en- other remedies without success. It bene- eyes are understanding and quick to ex- tirely of refugees from the Castro regime. fits many who had given up hope of ever press feelings. I would expect his de- In November, another attempt to pull being free from pain. cisions to be swift, and I'm sure his physi- together a "coalition" of anti-Castro cal adjustments would be lightning-like. groups was made by Dr. Miro Cordona, He impressed me as a person who could Prime Minister of Cuba after the ouster handle large undertakings easily and of Batista, who defected when he was to efficiently. be sent to Argentina as Castro's am- His enemies call him a "dangerous bassador.

man." I think he might be a bit ruthless But thus far no group has shown any in pursuit of an objective. evidence of sufficient financial or mili- He announced, to my surprise, that tary strength to mount a serious inva- he now was a "26th of July Anti-Com- sion of Cuba. It is interesting to note, however, that munist" man. (The "26th of July Club" Destroyed Joint in Miami is the most ardent pro-Castro well-informed people in Miami agree Drugs Give Only Temporary Relief group in the city. Maj. Diaz Lanz, for- there has been a decided shift of popular This fascinating free book is a gold-mine merly opinion the last year—and especially dur- Castro's air chief who lied to of facts. It explains why drugs and medi- Florida last year, has formed a "26th of ing the last six months— in the non-exile cines give only temporary relief and fail July Anti-Communist" group, which Latin American population found in to remove causes of the trouble. It re- veals how to avoid crippling deformities professes adherence to many of Castro's Florida. . . . how to save untold suffering, perhaps early liberal policies but opposes what Eighteen months ago. at least 90 per- even years of confinement. they consider to be his "sellout to com- cent—some said 95 percent—of the some munism.") 45,000 Cuban residents of Miami were FREE BOOK I did not get the feeling Masferrer had pro-Castro. Now not more than one-fil th Send for it today! undergone any deep ideological change, are still loyal, and some estimates place For all the facts about ending but that he had adapted himself to his Castro's followers at an even lower fig- misery from arthritis and present position. 1 did get the impres- ure. rheumatism, mail sion Masferrer was looking around lor Is there any end in sight to Miami's coupon for valuable FREE book. No a revolutionary buyer of his talents, and unwilling involvement in Caribbean obligation. NO AGENT WILL CALL. that he would be glad to deliver effec- affairs? Ball Clinic, Dept. 560-T tive services to a Cause that looked like I asked the question of Dade County Excelsior Springs, Mo. a winner. sheriff Tom Kelly, in his glass-walled -MAIL THIS His editor friend, also an anticommu- office on the 15th floor of the 19-story COUPON TODAY!-- Tho Ball Clinic, Dept. 560-T nist 26th of July-er, outlined a program county building. Miami's tallest struc- Excelsior Springs, Missouri of action they hoped to institute in Cuba ture. jail, in The which Maj. Lanz was YES, rush me the fascinating, illustra- to the words of which no average Ameri- confined, is on the top floor. ted FREE book that reveals how to end misery from arthritis and rheuma- can would take exception. "I can see no end," Kelly answered. tism . . . how to avoid cripping de- Masferrer expressed confidence that "I cannot foresee any very stable gov- formities. Castro's fall was not far off, and he ernment in Cuba in the near future. I opined "it would not difficult be to get think that if the Lord Himself were to ADDRESS- plenty of military equipment when the take over the country, he would be cur -ZONE STATE- time came to strike." overthrown in a year!" Incidentally, he predicted that the THE END

THF AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1061 • 37 HUNTERS WHO GO after birds can make their sport more interesting with a high-fidelity recording being made avail- able by the Ithaca Gun Co. Called "Dawn ROD in a Duck Blind," the record reproduces all AND the sounds the hunter is likely to hear when he goes after ducks or geese. Through it he can acquaint himself not only with the calls of geese and ducks of various types and genders, but with other birds that can be OUST found near water. The birds are, of course, CLUB identified. The record is one of many made by Cor- For the man with an interest in the great outdoors. nell University under the direction of Professor Arthur A. Allen, of Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology, whose records TO TRAP COYOTES, Earl C. Cowles of HERE'S A RECIPE for hasenpfeffer sent have become famous as authentic studies of

Box 79, Alilo, Oreg., used to go through in by Airs. M. N. Stringer of Rt. 1, Bay wildlife. "Dawn in a Duck Blind" is avail- the usual chore of smoking his traps to re- Springs, Miss. Ingredients: 1 rabbit cut up, able through a special arrangement with move human scent. Now he puts his traps I 'A tsp. salt, 6 tbsp. butter or margarine, Cornell as a means of making hunting more out without smoking them first. He catches 1 medium onion, 4 whole cloves, 1 cup port interesting and enjoyable. The price of the rodents, skunks, coons, civet cats and what- wine, A cup lemon juice, 12 whole black 10-in. record which plays at 33 A> r.p.m. is havc-you. Earl says apparently the traps peppers, parsley sprig, Vi tsp. dried parsley' $5.95. It may be purchased in stores han- get so full of animal smell that eventually leaves, 1 bay leaf, thyme, 2 cans (10!4-oz. dling Ithaca guns or obtained directly from the coyotes come. Thereafter it's a cinch size) beef bouillon undiluted, 3 tbsp. flour, the Ithaca Gun Co., Ithaca, N.Y. to catch them. some currant jelly. "Preheat oven to 350°. Rinse rabbit in cold water, pat dry with paper towels. Rub with

1 Vi tsp. salt. Saute in 3 tbsp. butter or mar- garine until brown, about 30 minutes. As pieces brown, remove to 3-qt. casserole. Add the onion stuck with cloves, the port and lemon juice to the casserole. Tie the pep- pers, parsley, thyme and bay leaf in a in casserole. Pour cheesecloth bag and put THE ALL NEW Bemz-o-matic double in bouillon; bake covered "SVi hours. HOW TO DEAL w ith ice troubles in cold burner propane gas cook stove is on the "In small saucepan melt the rest of the weather occupies the mind of Edward market. Nothing to fill, spill, pump, prime butter. Remove from heat; stir in flour Lawistowski of 12132 Hanson Blvd. West, or flare. Operates on safe, disposable fuel until smooth. Gradually stir in stock from Coon Rapids, Minn. He sends pictures of cylinders and costs $26.95. The same com- rabbit, bring to boil, stirring constantly. his gadgets. To chip away ice on sidew alks pany also makes the Bernz-o-matic torches Cook a few more minutes and you'll have or to make holes in the ice for fishing, Ed for paint burning, soldering and such fine gravy. takes two lengths of pipe and threads them chores. The pushbutton torch with cylin- "Serve rabbit with some of the gravy together. He welds on a heavy piece of der and burner is $9.84, and the dual-beam poured over it on a heated platter, along scrap iron to one end and sharpens it for propane gas lantern, including one cylin- with a dish of currant jelly. This is a really chopping. Then he threads on a handle to der, is $15.95. Contact Fred Dittman at delicious German dish that you'll enjoy the top and he has a handy chopping tool. Otto Bernz Go., Driving Park Ave. and serving during the rabbit season." (The center threading is for taking apart Ramona St., Rochester 1.3, N.Y.. for full when storing.) particulars. For an easy sander in slippery w eather,

Ed takes a 2-gal. oil can and punches holes SEVERAL IDEAS from Clyde J. Baldwin in the bottom. Then he fills it with sand, of Box 92, Napoleanville, La., include the w alks on the slippery area shaking the can following: "W hen your dog tangles with so that the sand spills out. a porcupine, forget about the tricks to Another neat trick: He carries a few make quills 'harmless.' Tweek 'em out asphalt shingles in his car to use under the quickly with a needlenose pliers or head wheels w hen he can't get traction on icy for the vet's pronto." He also advocates roads. A NEW TYPE of liferaft for the hunter clipping part of a live minnow's tail off or fisherman to get him out on the water so that the minnow, in struggling to right

DOES YOUR DOG kill chickens?- Bruce or into the weeds for a blind is the Go- himself, w ill attract fish. Killbourne of R.R. I, Windom, Minn., has Boat. It's propelled by oars and weighs In our correspondent's opinion, the a cure. He says: "fasten a dead chicken to about 50 lb. Cost is $44 with 3 7:60x15 best catfish bait is equal parts of peanut the dog's collar ami let him drag it around heavy-duty tubes. Write to Gene O'Fallon butter and Hour, The peanut butter helps all day. The burden w ill teach your dog a & Sons, 639 Grant St., Denver, Colo., for to hold your bait to the hook. Clyde con- lesson. He'll learn to leave chickens alone. catalog sheets, price list and further infor- tinues, "When saving night crawlers for

If he continues killing chickens, give him mation. later use. till a wooden box with rotted another dose of the same. Don't whip your leaves. Then tuck the box in a cool damp dog, li may ruin him as a retriever." HERE'S A DELICIOUS salmon recipe spot. Now and then sprinkle milk on the from Airs. Frma M. Barnes, 2422 South leaves. DID YOU KNOW the whine and howl of Watson St., Visalia, Calif. Finally, put a magnet in the loose hook- a powersaw will carry farther than a rifle Depending on how many you arc cook- tray of your tackle box. The loose hooks shot? Franklin T. Flint, guide No. 875, Box ing for, put as many salmon steaks, 'A of will cling to the magnet and won't rattle 117, Monson, Maine, discovered some an inch thick, in a shallow- pan and cover or spill.' hunters missing from the camp next to his. with sweet milk. Fet stand at room tem- Rifle shots hail not brought them in. Frank, perature 30 to 45 minutes. Then drain and If you have a helpful idea that pertains with plenty oi north woods savvy, started pat on as much rolled corn flakes as will to hunting or fishing, send it along. If we his powersaw and ran it every 10 minutes. stick. Sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice, ran use it, we'll reward you with a check for

The how I of the pow ersaw was heard by some salt and pepper and dot w ith butter. $5.00. Address: Outdoor Editor, The the lost hunters who followed the noise Broil bur do not turn. You will have a sal- American Legion Magazine, 720 Fifth back to camp. mon dish fir for a king. Avenue, New York 19, New York.

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HUNTING KILLERS IN UNDERSEA JUNGLES _(Continued from \>tige 17). NO NEED TO WEAR say how long wc have in which to try and at the same time probing a limited to get ready. depth with sonar, an underwater sound No one can even say what we must get detection system. Meanwhile, the carrier A TRUSS ready tor, because our most brilliant is deploying a big radar plane, four military scientists have learned that we tracker planes and four helicopters to must make our preparations not on the each area. The trackers use radar and FOR RUPTURE Thai Hinds. Cuts, Gouges, alleged intentions of the enemy — as we also magnetic anomoly detection Slips and Dot's Not Hold did at Pearl Harbor — but upon his capa- (MAD) gear which depends upon If you must wear a Truss tor Rupture don't miss this A Post Card with name and bilities. The Soviet capabilities are im- metallic impulse reactions; and the helos address is all vou send to YV. S. Rice, Inc., mense. Perhaps that is why a warrant have both sonar and MAD equipment. I) pt. 8 K. Adams. N. Y.. to get FREE, and w ithout obligation, the complete modernized officer I had known for five days allowed Alfa's other submarine, which is partici- Rice Plan of Reducible Rupture Control. himself four hours' sleep during the time; pating as a hunter, lies quietly below Now in daily use by thousands who say they such seeure. depend- or a commander with a still" flight sched- the surface, listening with its sonar for never dreamed possible able and comfortable rupture protection. ule is getting only five hours sleep per a sound of the enemy sub. The hunter Safely blocks rupture opening, prevents es- night: or I myself have slept 6 hours out sub has found a layer of colder water, cape, without need for bulky, cumbersome Trusses, tormenting springs or harsh, goug- of 72, at times. Like it or not, we, dog- the thermal reaction of which could ing pad pressure. Regardless of how long matic about our sleeping schedules and bounce back any sonar beams from the ruptured, size, occupation, or trusses vou have worn. TRY THIS, and send your Post unswervingly preoccupied with our TV surface and make it impossible for sur- Card today. sets and leisure, have become not mere face or air units to find a submarine un- listeners to, but a part of, the Alfa story. der it. Here in the enemy's own element, Capt. Richard E. Harmer, present down beneath a confusing thermal layer I'll Set You Up For life In Your Own skipper of the flagship, allowed me to or other static or dynamic obstructions, witness one of the "all-out" experiments. is where the hunter sub does its best BIG PAY SHOE BUSINESS He invited me up to the bridge, the work. With The ONE Shoe Line That Serves Everyone From Baby to "Pop" and "Mom' "driver's seat" from which he tools this But it doesn't hear anything. The

900-ft.-long, 15(),()0()-hp. queen bee search goes on through the night and Only 5 orders a day can make you up to around as nimbly as a child maneuvers a next day, accompanied by a rash of false $50.00aday.»250.00 a week, $1,000.00 a tricycle. Amid a gleaming complexity of contacts — for many phenomena react month. It's no trick Jpr > at all to make big polished brass steering and navigation like submarines. Then, after nearly two money full or Spare Time with Ameri- gear he said: "Next to the retaliatory air days of hunting, one of the radar air- ca's most comfort- able shoes. Amazing new program, Alfa has the highest emphasis planes picks up something, too far away "Spring-Step" cushion design Amazing I -Minute demonstra- proves it bv actual Demonstration of any of our defense plans, for our ASW for visual contact. tion. Over 240 styles for men, women, bovs. gills and in- Does Your Selling strategy is based on the recommenda- The radar plane calls in, but before are BIG repeat fants! Profits — FAST* and easy. No ex- Job for You tions gleaned from the Alfa orders sure experiments. any units can arrive at the scene, the sub perience needed. No invest- I Give Producers furnished Alfa's ment. Everything Their Own Shoes threefold experimental purpose has dived — if it was a sub. First vehicle free, incuding tincst sales out- fit and actual demonstrators AS A BONUS! includes perfection of its 'team' philoso- to reach the immediate area is one of Send today for Free Outfit. phy, better adaptations of equipment, the S2F tracker planes. From its nest of ORTHO-VENT SHOE CO. and improved tactical use of the teams sonobuoys, carried in the rear of its en- and equipment." gine nacelles, it ejects a pattern of small e°rn as TAX EXPERT It was a typical Alfa jungle hunt, floating hydrophones which drop to the Our students earn as much as $3,000 which lasts for three eyeball-reddening, surface and radio back what they hear in 3 short months preparing income 15 tax returns in spare time—also operate Business Tax Service yield- ear-pounding, triple-duty days. It be- lucrative beneath it. ing steady monthlv fees of S10-S50 HOUR profes- gins with the admiral's announcing: the big helicopters. With- per client, vear round. Enjoy Then come sional standing in dignified home-office business. No experience necessary. We train you at home and "Somewhere in these 1 (),()()() sq. miles of out the necessity to maintain forward help vou start. Write today for free literature. No agent" will call. Approved bv New Jersey Dept. of ocean, a submarine is going to surface speed, 15 ft. and let they hover as low as Education. UNION INSTITUTE OF TAX TRAINING, Lakewood, 17W, New Jersey. for 15 minutes [which is all that it needs, down, on a cable, much more sensitive these days] to try to fire a nuclear missile. sonar gear into the water. They estab-

It will occur within the next 40 hours. lish a hot contact and hold it until two Find him and stop him." destroyers come charging up to get a People 50 to 80

One of the force submarines is as- cross bearing on the sub and pinpoint it. signed to be the "enemy" missile-launch- Having positive location, the team must TearOutThisAd er, and is given 12 hours to "get lost," now make sure it actually is a sub rather

. . mail it today to find which he can darn well do. At a given than a whale, a shipwreck or something . and you can still apply hour the main exercise begins and Alfa's else. out how $1,000 life insurance pol- 5,000 men start on the "simple" problem For this leg of the problem the track- for a icy to help take care of final of converting 10,000 sq. miles of ocean, er plane extends a tail boom containing expenses without burdening several miles in depth, into a 35()-by-35- a magnetic apparatus. Reacting as it does family. ft. area which is the submarine. The sub to metal only, though in shal'ow depths, your hunters hope to catch at least a part of the MAD-bearing airplane sweeps across You handle the entire trans- the sub protruding above the surface, the area and, when it gets a reaction action by mail with OLD because only above surface is their long- proving that the target is indeed metallic, AMERICAN of KANSAS range detection gear of any value. The positively marks its progress with a CITY. No obligation. No one area is parcelled out in four 2,500-sq.- smoke bomb. The plane, joined by will call on you! mile sectors, and a Hunter-Killer team others, continues to sweep the area, fol- Write today, simply giving is assigned to each. lowing the target with a line of smoke your name, address and year In one of these sectors, perhaps five floats. It is here, especially, that team- of birth. Mail to Old American of Alfa's destroyers zoom off across the work is vital, lor the airplanes are now Insurance Co., 4900 Oak, Dept. area, raking the sea surface with radar making their sweeps inches above the L257M, Kansas City, Mo.

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elevates its periscope for the attack or "inner space" of the sea in 2.000 years lOOfC than we have learned of outer space launch, the paint imposes a sea water- colored but opaque film over the peri- since World War II. for Rupture Help scope lens. The sub commander thinks Worse, we know far less about the Try a Brooks Patented Air he hasn't quite surfaced yet, so he rises subsea right under Alfa's keels, for in- Cushion appliance. This mar- velous invention for most forms to where even the crudest deck gun can stance, than the Soviets know. While ©f reducible rupture is GUAR- ." America stared fish-eyed at the moon blast him to Vladivostok . . ANTEED to brine YOU heav- enly comfort and security Despite such experiments and their (derivation of "lunatic"), the Russians day and night at work and — devoted time to oceanography than et play—or it costs you NOTH- sometimes discouraging results. Alfa has more

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submariner the open-sesame of success- brought valuable information, but it was ful evasion or attack. the wrong sea and the wrong set of an- KNOB Alfa has learned bitterly and with al- swers. A thousand such dives off our most day-before-yesterday consternation, own shores might give us an inkling of that the "vast empty seas" theorum is a what we need to know in such a hurry. LOOSE ? cruel, misleading, outright lie. They are Among all people in every age it has vast enough. But our "empty" oceans been true that unspectacular defensive throb with frustrating displacements, measures have never enjoyed mass public with life, with sound, with confusion for support. This is true of the ASW situa-

the detection and tracking forces. tion. It is a tragedy that so few outside FIX IT QUICK! C Sharks growl, whales groan and bawl, the task group even know what Alfa is Avoid shrinkage with barracuda snarl, groupers grunt, por- supposed to do, much less realize that reliable, easy-to-use Plastic poises bark, mackerel whistle, smaller it is the tool that may save us from mass Wood. lish giggle, titter and flutter. chaos and obliteration. Won't split, holds screws Unearthly screams echo from under- Only a realistic program will enable solidly! water dungeons, and wails of the un- us to hope for control of sub- enemy For surest results always use GENUINE known lost float through the black sub- marine traffic. Alfa itself is realistic

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( Continued from page 21 / and just gabbing. The boys pumped me "You'd think," Ernie chuckled, "that retorted. about America and what I thought of the we were hell-for-leather Commandos, or They whisked us across Britain on an western invasion and what I knew about something. Hell, we can't even salute all-night, no-heat train, and dumped us the authenticity of the latest crop of without the risk of losing an eye from a aboard the British transport Rangitiki, rumors, and how I found life on the thumb being poked in it. And who the anchored off the coast of Wales. Our beachhead. . . . That's the way the con- hell's got money in the bank? Most party of war correspondents included, in versation went, in a dugout at nighttime newspaper men I know never see a addition to Pyle and myself. Will Lang, — rumors, girls, hopes of home, jokes, bank except to try for a loan!" Time and Life; A. J. Liebling, The New little experiences, opinions of their Finally one night they had us bring Yorker; Merrill "Red" Mueller, then of officers, and an occasional reference to our war bags to 20 Grosvenor Sq. They Newsweek; Gault MacGowan. New what might happen to a man in the end." locked the door and said, "Hand over York Sun; and Sgt. Bob Neville, Yank Smalltown, folksy, gossipy. Sure. It everything with your name on it." Then and Stars and Stripes. We were nursed was all of that. But it was pure Ameri- they gave each of us a card which ex- along by two Army censors, Lts. Henry can. It was also a new style in frontline plained under Geneva rules how we were Meyer and Cortland Gillett. journalism. Joe Blow was suddenly more to be treated as noncombatants in the The whole group, at last reports, is in the spotlight than military tactics — event of capture. living today—except Ernie Pyle. and Joe Blow's Mom ate it up. No other "They think of everything," I re- Because our "C" badges (for corre-

) war correspondent did it like Pyle, and marked to Ernie. spondent —which some people thought no other correspondent was so universal- "Except how not to get captured!" he stood for convict— set us apart from ly loved and prayed for. "Here Is Your everybody else, we stuck close together War," his first book from the fighting during the jittery 12-day voyage. Neville front, had the impact of a mule's hind was the only one not a civilian, but he foot upon wartime America. It got was the best newspaperman, so we made people hopped up like nothing since him editor of the ship's daily paper. "Main Street." It made Ernie Pyle an Later, as editor, he made Stars and absolute hero long before those of us Stripes the vital GI paper it became. overseas knew about it. I had to learn Mueller and Liebling. who had been in how big a hero he was in a rather curi- France, spoke French and knew some- ous way. thing about war, were the big men of By REV. LLOYD V. HARMON Coming back to the States in '44. after our group. I was a rank amateur and so I.S months overseas, I went into a book- Past Department Chaplain, Kansas was Ernie. He listened to the voices of store on 42d St. to buy a copy of "Here experience with respect, but in private Eternal Father of us all, we are Is Your War." I said very casually to he said to me, "Nobody's got a monopoly grateful that against the dark back- the clerk that I wanted to see what Pyle on the one sure way to get along in war." had written about me in his book — if ground of these tragic and uncertain "What's that?" I asked. anything. The clerk looked at me in awe, days and recent years some truths "Keep living," he said with a grin. then grabbed my hand and exclaimed I never forgot this advice. But Ernie shine forth with crystal clearness. while pumping it. •"You know Ernie did! We are convinced that there is a Pyle? My God, this is wonderful! Don't He had a cold, compounded by sea- moral law in the universe which go 'way. I want to call some people!" sickness. He was frail and had family He ran out the door and right there operates with the same undeviating worries. He didn't talk much about him- St. on 42d he carried on like a madman. effects as do the physical law s; that self, but little by little I learned that he He yelled for friends from a jewelry was born in Dana. Ind., Aug. 3. 1900; nations, like individuals, which as- shop, a clothing store and a soft drink that he attended Indiana U. and had sume that they can disregard it, go place. They all trooped in and insisted gone from there to Washington to work against the conscience of mankind on shaking my hand. Ernie, I thought to for the Daily News. Since 1935 he'd had myself, would love this. And I grinned at and are brought low and humbled. a column for Scripps-Howard, and in the idea of my being a secondhand We have learned that rights which 1925 had married Gerry Siebolds. He celebrity. When I later told Ernie that I was divorced at the time, though they are native to man, which belong to actually gave my autograph as "the man remarried by proxy during the war. J his nature, have their fullest realiza- who worked with Ernie Pyle," he told him about my paper (Afro-Ameri- tion and sanction in a society of free thought is was the best joke of the war. can. Baltimore), and about being unsure

I first met Ernie Pyle in London in men; and that no physical or material of myself in a real shooting war. He 1942 when we were being "groomed" for gains can compensate for the loss of jacked up my morale and ego by saying: North Africa-although at the time we "Don't worry about being scared. the freedom of the human spirit. hadn't the foggiest notion where we'd When things get bad. the guy next to you We now understand with in- fetch up. Ernie was vastly amused at will probably be wetting his pants be- creasing clarity the inevitability of the cloak-and-dagger secrecy that sur- a fore you do!" rounded our mysterious phone calls to family of nations, when together He was more interested in people than hush-hush offices, our coming in like there may conic a greater good for events. He laughed at himself and en-

"wanted" men to get gas masks, it. often he'd say, "What bed- all, and each will no longer hold that joyed Every so rolls and other items of field equipment. a jerk I am!" He had reason to say this sovereignty, geography, race, color But he got the biggest kick from the after he taught me gin rummy and 1 beat or creed are the ultimate tests of order one day not to draw any more him regularly. Then we tackled French monej out of the bank—a precaution ap- greatness. With Thee there is no l ast —and what we did to that beautiful lan- parently based on the assumption that or West, no North or South. guage was a crime. mass withdrawals would tip off German Amen. Later, at Rambouillet, where we spies that something big was coming up. waited two days to enter Paris, I remcm-

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bcred these sessions. The last afternoon I should knock out a sure-fire book on NO MONEY DOWN! there. Ernie came up to me and asked the war. And listening to him and his me to go buy a bottle of cognac for him. friendly drawl, listening to his calm as- HOME.

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Ernie Pyle came into his own alter we I doubted it. But 1 felt better because Wants a Mart Over- 45 hit North Africa. He became the dis- Ernie said it. WE NEED a good man at once and we are will- ing to pay top earnings. We prefer someone be- covery of the war. Quentin Reynolds Qui paths crossed but once in Sicily. tween 45 and 65 . . . who can make short auto

trips . . . call bracketed him with the jeep and the Red I tlcw over with the Air Force, and Ernie and can on small town industrial and rural property owners. Cross girls—but many people disagree. came with the Navy. Going forward one WORTH $14,000.00 With a little contriving here and there, day toward Palermo. Ernie remarked Our top men in other parts of the country draw we might have managed to come up with wryly, "If we could smell Germans as far exceptional earnings from $12,500 to $18,000 in a year. This opening is worth just as much to the something to take the place of the jeep. olf as we can a Sicilian town, we'd never right man. We pay earnings in advance. Write a confidential letter to G. J. Crawford, Vice-Pres., And with fewer "Dear John" letters, we have a surprise attack!" Texas Refinery Corp., Box 711, Fort Worth 1, Tex. just may have made it without those And in Naples, months later, after a wonderful gals who dished out dough- young Italian girl, a real doll, ran up and OUTFIT STARTS YOU IN nuts and coffee. But nothing would have kissed me smack on the mouth— but big money SHOE BUSINESS! kept the GFs in there punching—and the failed to give Ernie a buss—he said pro- lyourown profitable'shoe store' lusiness from home! Represent folks back home willing and anxious to phetically, "If give the Pulitzer they me fast growing million dollar firm in spare or full time. Wegiveyou — give them something to punch with— if Prize, you'll still be ahead of me in this FREE-complete Starting Outfit Roy Howard and Lee Miller hadn't war!" that makes you $217.00 EXTRA each month for just 2 easy or- turned Ernie Pyle stir loose to them up I had already gone home when he got ders a day. You feature 195 with his person-to-person war stories. the coveted award, but the story went fast-selling dress, sport, work shoe styles for men and women. Air-cushion shoes, many other special features! By the time Ernie reached Italy, a the rounds that when Whitehead phoned Sizes 2 '/2- 15—widths AAAA to EE EE. Draw on 200,000 pair stock. Also horsehide jackets. Start now selling to friends, Life dispatch reported, "He now occu- Ernie the news, Ernie thought a moment folks where you work. Rush postcard for FREE Outfit pies a place in American journalistic let- and then exclaimed, "Well, I'll be god- MASON SHOE, Dept. C-471, CHIPPEWA FALLS. WIS. ters which no other correspondent in this dammed! I lose a hundred dollars!" He war has achieved." had bet his boss that no Pulitzer would NEW BELSAW MULTI-DUTY POWER TOOL — PLANES — Bob Neville, one of our group, says come his way. SAWS MOLDS today, "Ernie took a great interest in the "The nicest thing," he also said, "is

Stars and Stripes, mainly because, I that all the other correspondents seem think, we tried to keep our paper pretty glad about it too, and 1 don't think any- well angled for the enlisted man. Ernie body is jealous." was nothing if not an enlisted man's re- Maybe some of the guys were jealous, porter. He came quite frequently to our but they didn't show it. And you had mess both in Algiers and in Naples." to be pretty much of a jerk to envy the use this ONE power-feed shop to turn I saw Ernie only occasionally during little guy this professional recognition. Now you can rough lumber into moldings, trim, flooring, furniture . .

. the later stages of the North African Truth of the matter is, Ernie did us—and ALL popular patterns. RIP. . . PLANE . . MOLD. . .separately or all at once with a one HP motor. Use 3 to 5 HP for campaign, and even more rarely in the profession—one hell of a big favor. high speed output. Low Cost . . . You can own this power tool for only $30.00 down payment. Sicily and Italy. But I especially remem- Officers like the one-star general who in Send posfcord today for complete facts. ber the beginning barely one night in Algiers, in the Aletti tolerated reporters, BELSAW POWER TOOLS, 9051 Field Building, Kansas City 11. Mo. Hotel, when German bombers were and said "war correspondent" as though plastering the place in a God-awful man- they had bit into a lemon, actually be- YOU'D NEVER KNOW I HAD ner. The Aletti is down by the water- came hall human after Ernie drew so front, the main target of Goering's boys. much attention. War reporting became PSORIASIS As hundreds of thousands of users I went looking for the one man I knew important— and war correspondents re- have learned, Siroil tends to re- would be hating the mess as much as I spectable people! Life on the front was move psoriasis crusts and scales on outer layer of skin. Ernie easier: Jeeps furnished was— Pyle. Eve read since that he made were with- Light applications help control once told Don Whitehead, a correspond- out begging; supply sergeants almost recurring lesions. Siroil doesn't stain clothing or bed linens. field ent and probably his closest friend. "War smiled as they handed over a new Offered on two - weeks • satisfac-

tion - or - money - refunded basis. scares hell out of me. I guess it's be- jacket or a shirt. And even cooks, who Many years of successful results. cause I don't want to die." terrified everybody, at last condescended 2£? tsU*4j to It sounds just like Ernie. But I knew to fry a chicken or scramble up the fresh it already, so on this real bad night in eggs we managed to get on our scroung- Algiers I went looking for him. Misery ing missions. Ernie did that. SIROIL sure as hell loves company. So maybe he On D-day I was at West Point, where For greater daytime comfort was glad to see me too. We had a few one of the graduates was a young man AT ALL use SIR-O-LENE Skin Softener DRUG drinks while the windows were rattling named John Eisenhower. But within 48 between Siroil applications. Sir-O-lene _ ^ is also ideal for dry and floky skin. STORES and the ground outside was jumping up hours I was back in London. Ernie and Write today- for new FREE booklet and down. But the little courage I man- most of the old hands from Africa and "sir oi i QboWatorTesT inc. I aged to muster didn't come from the Italy were already eating sand on the Dept. AL-1S Sjm.i Monici, Calif. rait booklet I ricase send me your new on PSORIASIS, bottle. I got it from Ernie. beaches of France when I got back, but j I Please rrmt I As though we were in no danger what- I caught up with them, and the war, in ADDRESS- I ever, Ernie gave me a discourse on why the hedgerows of Normandy. Ernie was |_CiTV

III! AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 • 43 CASH FILING SAWS writing with a surer hand than ever by dead man, I would go off my nut. And now. His sentences were clear sharp if I had to write one more column I'd Make from $3 to $6 an hour in your spare time. in ex- ." Start saw filing shop basement or garage. No photos of war at its deadliest-and yet he collapse. So I'm on my way . . perience needed to turn out per- found time for the human touch. At home Ernie got everything a hero cutting saws fect Just before the big breakthrough, I ran could want. He was wined and dined with machine ac- curacy of Foley into Ernie at a briefing for correspond- and applauded. He had more invitations Automatic Saw \ ents Filer. No can- given by General Bradley. Ernie was than three men could have accepted. He vassing — steady thinner and more frail-looking than ever. had writing offers in every mail. But he year 'round Cash business. But like all of us, he was full of an inner also had the urge of "a plain damn fool" Ideal for small towns. excitement when the Schoolteacher, as to go back to war. So he went off to the Free booklet we called Bradley, told us what was Pacific. — "Money Making Facts" — shows about to happen. This could be the turn- Red Mueller of NBC had dinner with how to start. Easy pay- ing of the It him in ian Francisco just ments. No salesman will point war. was! before he "de- Send postcard today. I asked Ernie if he thought they would parted westward.' Mueller says in a re- Foley Mfg., 239-1 Foley Bldg., Minneapolis 18, Minn. bring it off as planned. "If General Brad cent letter: calls the tune," he said, "you can get "Ernie had a definite premonition. He

ready to dance." ) said at dinner that he didn't want to go We danced through a lot of French —felt he had stretched his luck as far as cities to Rambouillet. We got stuck there any man should dare, and in any case, for three days— while Hemingway and felt his nerves wouldn't take much more his personal army tried to blast a way of the strain, regardless. He was, like all into Paris. There were about 300 corre- of us, facing an H-hour, scared—but as spondents milling around, hell-bent for every man must feel at sometime or

being first into the French capital. I other—more scared than normally. Not

don't know who made it first. Nobody a nervous fear, but a deep gnawing thing DIRECT TO YOU . . . EASY TERMS does. But I got in on Aug. 25 and holed he couldn't put his own abundant facili- Genuine Rockdale Monuments and up in the Scribe Hotel where we'd been ties to work into control. Don't get me Markers. Full Price $ 14.95 and up. Satisfaction or MONEY BACK. told to go. And one of the first persons wrong; Ernie, in my book, had every- We pay freight. Compare our low I thing, and he showed the kind of double- prices. Write for FREE CATALOG. bumped into was Ernie. ROCKDALE MONUMENT CO. And then came the letdown. Every- quality guts that made him famous, when DEPT. 813 - JOLIET, ILLINOIS thing after the liberation of Paris was he just grinned, cocked his hat and anticlimactic. Our armies soon chased walked out toward that unknown in the the Germans clean out of France, but Pacific which he didn't want to face!" RUPTURE-EASER nobody seemed to care — except the On Ernie Pyle's last day, he went out (APiper Brace (ffi Truss) French. Everybody was too tired and with a group to find a spot for a new had seen too much war. Like the rest command post. It wasn't a particularly of us, Ernie made a few trips forward, dangerous mission, but at a road junc- Double 5.95 but the old zest was gone. His mood tion a machinegun opened up. The driv- Right or left No came out in the following: er, John Barnes, slammed on the brakes Side til Fitting 95 Required "For some of us the war has already and fell out on the left. Ernie, Lt. Col. gone on too long. Our feelings have been Joseph Coolidge, Maj. George Pratt and A strong, form-fitting washable support for reducible inguinal hernia. Back lacing adjustable. wrung and drained; they cringe radioman Dale Bassett scrambled out on Snaps up in front. Adjustable leg strap Soft, flat groin from the pad. No steel or leather bands. Unexcelled for comfort. the right into effort of coming alive . . . a shallow ditch. Maj. Pratt Also used as after operation support. For men. women, again. For me children. Mail orders give measure around the lowest war has become a flat, was a little ahead of the others, and Ernie part of the abdomen and state right, left side or black depression double. We Prepay Postage except C.O.D.'i. without highlights, raised his head and asked him, "Are you PIPER BRACE CO. a revulsion of the 81 1 Wyandotte Dept. AL-21 Kansas City 5, Mo. mind and an exhaustion of the spirit." all right?" I saw him the day he left Paris for He never heard the answer. The gun home—the very last time I was ever to hammered again, and one of the slugs see him. caught Ernie in the left temple. And thus

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OPPORTUNITY, 850 N. Dearborn, Oept. 304 Chicago 1 0, III. to see him go, but at the same time I was Ernie was buried there close to where fell, glad that he was calling it quits. Later I he buried with his helmet on—"the ..I Was sat in my room and read his farewell way we thought he would have wanted Nearly column from Paris. It was a classic. it," said the chaplain. Jointly, the War, Itch... Itch Crazy "Undoubtedly," he wrote for his mil- Navy and State Departments gave him Very first use of soothing, cooling, liquid D. D. D. lions of readers, "this seems to you a the Medal of Merit. And General Eisen- Prescription positively relieves raw red itch- funny time for a fellow to be quitting hower declared, "The Gi's in Europe, caused by eczema, rashes, scalp irritation, chaf- "18— other ltch troubles. Greaseless, stainless. (he war. It is a funny time. But I'm not and that means all of us here, have lost 450 trial bottle must satisfy or money back. leaving because of a whim, or even one of our best and most outstanding Ask your druggist for D. D. D. PRESCRIPTION. especially friends." because I'm homesick . . . I've been 29 months overseas since the war After the war, the body of Ernie Pyle started; have written around 700,000 was finally interred in the National LAW words about it; have totaled nearly a Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, not Legally trained men win highei posi- year in the front lines. I do hate terribly far from Honolulu. And there it rests uiSTUDYulm miAT iiuitilHflMF tj ong and bigger success in business nnd public life. Greater opportunities now than ever before. to leave right now, but I have given out. today, all that remains of the best buddy Wa raid, you step by step. You ciin truin in spare time. Deirree of, I.L. K. Wo furnish nil tent mntoriul. Including nimbi. 14 -volume! . . .The hurt has finally become too great. the American GI ever had-and a man IjiW Library. LOW oust, May tonus. Got lull dotnils. "Low TiiunuiK for Leadership" and "Evidence" books FREE. Send NOW. I was proud to call ACCREDITED MEMBER, NATIONAL HOME STUDY COUNCIL All of a sudden it seemed to me that if my friend. LASALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY, 417 South Dearborn Street I heard one more shot or saw one more THE END A Correspondence Institution, Dept. 3261L, Chicago 5, III.

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AMERICA'S CHURCHES (.onlhuted jioiii ( /«/<;<' If) EAR NOISES able long before the sound of cannon in tion to the development of the Middle the harbor marked the beginning of the New Jersey and Long Island are dotted relieved! ...thousands reported. War Between the States. If one delights with the simple buildings of this group. Wonderful relief from years intriguing ruins. South Carolina has Frequently the and the women met in men of suffering from miserable more than enough, especially Prince separately and two entrances indicate ear noises and poor hearing caused by catarrhal (ex- William's near Sheldon, Pon Pon Chapel this division. The larger denominations cess fluid mucus) conditions near Jacksonboro. or St. George's in are also well represented in this area. Few of the head! That's what these folks (many past after using our simple Dorchester. churches have ever had a more distin- 70) reported Elmo Palliative HOME TREATMENT It would not be difficult to argue that guished congregation than that of Christ during the past 22 years. This may be the Church. Philadelphia, during the Revo- answer to your prayer. NOTHING TO WEAR. Here are SOME of the symptoms lution. For here the leaders of Congress that may likely go with your catarrhal deaf- worshiped until the British took the city. ness and ear noises: Mucus dropping in throat. Head feels stopped up by mucus. British The left but the patriots returned Mucus in nose or throat every day. Hear to draw up the Constitution and estab- but don't understand words. Hear better on clear days—worse on bad days, or with a cold. lish the new government. Presbyterian Ear noises like crickets, bells, whistles, click- churches abound in this part of the coun- ing or escaping steam or others. You, too, may enjoy wonderful relief if your poor hear- try, keeping alive the memory of thou- ing or ear noises are caused by catarrhal con- sands of Scotch-Irish settlers, while the ditions of the head and when the treatment Dutch Reformed churches of the Hud- is used as needed. Write TODAY for PROOF OF RELIEF and 30 DAY TRIAL OFFER. son Valley recall settlers from the THE ELMO CO., Dept. IAL2, Davenport, Iowa Netherlands. The best loved type of church in

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • 1 EBRUARY 1961 • 45 ties which they gathered about the mis- within its vicinity. The Alamo, of course, were built in what had been desert sion cross. is holy ground for Texans, but others wilderness a few years previously. Lured The Russians, too, built churches on may find the restored San Jose mission by gold, some men went west for less the west coast. A hundred miles north even more interesting. pious reasons than did the Mormons. of San Francisco stands Fort Ross, a In New Mexico the Spaniards found But even the towns of the 1849 gold Russian settlement with an extraordinary civilized Indians. Elsewhere the mission- rush in California have numerous church built about 1812 to serve Rus- aries imported architecture from Europe; churches. Such places as Sonora, Colum- sian traders. This coastal fort is the in New Mexico the native architecture bia and Downieville bear ample evidence furthest south that Russian Orthodoxy was put to use to serve the God pro- that not all the miners' wealth went into penetrated, while nearby Sonoma repre- claimed by the missionaries. The result saloons. St. Mary's in the Mountains, a sents the northernmost advance of Span- of this combination of Indian architec- Roman Catholic church in Virginia City, ish Catholicism. ture and the Christian religion can be Nev., obviously diverted some of the

California has no monopoly on mis- seen in a number of buildings still stand- miners' money to a worthy cause. sions. At one time Spanish missionary ing in the vicinities of Taos, Albuquer- There are few places in America activities reached up the east coast as far que and Bernalillo. Parts of the Church which cannot lay claim to churches as Virginia. The sites of several missions of San Miguel in Santa Fe date from which are historic shrines. Some have have been tentatively identified in Geor- 1621, antedating any American church. been allowed to decay, their long service gia and Florida but little remains. This The great inundation of settlers from forgotten. Others are the center of thriv- is not the case in the Southwest. Arizona the East left churches as memorials to ing parishes, continuing the work begun has only two missions surviving, but both the struggle of winning the West. The in the past. Almost without exception, San Jose de Tumacacori and San Xavier Mormons went west for religious rea- a visit to these old churches will be re- del Bac are impressive structures. Texas sons and their buildings are prominent warded by a vivid glimpse into the lives boasts nine missions. San Antonio is throughout Utah. It is difficult to realize of those men and women who helped especially rich, having five missions that some of these impressive structures build our Nation. the end

20 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR GARAGE (Continued from page 19) designs are available. They make it pos- look. In an area of almost identical A fence may be all that is required to sible to duplicate almost any pattern. houses it offers a good chance for variety achieve the look of a house-garage link.

8. Add some special touches Give and personalization. If you use a fence, try to make it look your garage a lift with windowboxes, It has another important advantage: like an extension of a house wall. For trellises or foundation plantings. Con- If the house-garage connection is made example, if the house is whitewashed sider adding shutters or perhaps a cu- by a breezeway or roofed arbor, you are brick, make the fence the same. pola. Cupolas are a simple handyman protected in bad weather when going to 10. Pave the garage floor. If your project, or may be bought prefab. A or from the car. garage isn't paved, giving it a permanent weather vane may also add interest. To add a breezeway. the front of the and durable floor is a necessary first step 9. Join the garage to the house. At- garage need not be on a line with that to other improvements. taching a garage makes any house look of the house. The breezeway can be ex- In most cases, a 3'/2-in. concrete slab, bigger, more expensive. It can also im- tended back or at an angle. You may placed on a well-drained base, makes a prove the house design. By stretching even want to consider moving the garage. good floor. All around the perimeter dig a little deeper so the edges of the slab the length of a house it can give a high, If it will free needed backyard space, or will be 5'/2 inches thick. If the area is to boxy house a desirable longer, lower improve its access, it may be worth it. be heated, install a 6-mm. polyethylene vapor barrier under the slab and line its perimeter with foamed plastic insulation. Set wire mesh over the base before

pouring the concrete: raise it an inch or so from the slab's bottom. The rein-

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Every week over 3,000 new resi- much less. Nature is nowhere dents move into Florida to live. And else as extravagant in her bless- no wonder! No state income tax, no ings. Water? Central Florida has inheritance tax (prohibited by the 3000 beautiful lakes! Natural State Constitution). Virtually no real beauty? The exotic foliage, estate taxes because the first $5,000 balmy climate, rolling hills can't be of assessed valuation (usually much equalled by anything on the flat lower than the actual value of your coastland. Fertility? This is the home) is exempted from taxation. orange tree country.

And all this in a paradise where a And best of all it is high land couple can live comfortably on a beautiful rolling hills whose elevation moderate income. Comfortably? What averages between 75 ft. and 115 ft. an understatement when you are talk- above sea level! ing about the only sub-tropical state We are the developers of Rainbow in the Union with its waving palms, Lakes Estates, situated in the Ocala- its sun-kissed climate, its gorgeous Dunnellon-Silver Springs area, the But you'll want to know more its Florida foliage, sparkling waters. heart of the highlands of Paradise. much more, about our hard-paved is a state so rich in all gifts, so lavishly are blessed with 3 sandy-bot- We roads under construction, our neigh- endowed by Nature, with such a spec- tomed lakes-deep, blue-watered and bors, our low humidity, utilities, tacular present and so breath-taking with our own private beaches. Fish- thousands of things. And we'll be a future that living here is pleasure- ing? Here is the banner that greets delighted to tell you the full, thrilling pure pleasure! No wonder every week you when you drive into Dunnellon: story-ABSOLUTELY FREE AND WITH someone you know or have heard of NO OBLIGATION-in our fascinating is moving to Florida for good - to DUNNELLON portfolio in full color. We repeat: really LIVE! * WELCOMES YOU' we're anxious to do this FREE and But is there a catch? Yes there can HOME OF WORLDS_ with no obligation to you— merely for be. To many people Florida means its URGKT B^S your asking. If you're thinking of coasts-its Miami, its St. Petersburg, Florida at all, you owe it to yourself its Daytona, its Jacksonville. And the Our lovely private Country Club is to read the story of the "Highlands of cost of land there is high-very high. nearing completion and you auto- Paradise." Just fill out attached free Building lots usually sell for thou- matically become a member with full post card and drop it in a mailbox. sands of dollars each in these areas privileges when you purchase a home- We'll rush you your free portfolio. -many times even higher. And the. site in Rainbow Lakes Estates. That's all. There will be no callers, please read this: Every is that coastal sections are Now home- irony no salesmen. site in Lakes Estates is on often a headache to the buyer. In the Rainbow rolling land and we guarantee that words of W. M. Gracy, District Mana- you will NEVER HAVE A DRAINAGE ger of Florida Power Corp. and PROBLEM! We say it once more! President of Dunnellon Chamber of Every homesite is high, dry and fertile ". Commerce: . . the most important with never a wet spot, and with never factor in choosing a homesite in a drainage problem. And all you have A Florida is the selection of high, dry, to do to convince yourself that well-drained land. Much of the state, Rainbow Lakes Estates is really the particularly in coastal areas, consists highlands is to inquire of any bank of low lying or filled lands which or Chamber of Commerce in the often present a permanent drainage Ocala-Dunnellon-Silver Springs area. problem to homeowners." The price of our lots? We guarantee "High and dry land"- that is the our homesite owners gracious living. secret of Central Florida -the high We won't permit overcrowding. There- lands of Paradise! The rate of growth fore we sell our homesites in parcels in Central Florida is about 15% of JA acre minimum, $695 for the ahead of the rest of the state! And full xk acre! This is it-no extras, no why shouldn't it be? Central Florida assessments, no fine print! Terms? is more beautiful, yet costs much, $10 down, $10 per month!

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ROYAL BENGAL TIGER AND ZEBRA TROPHIES—With Safari costs ever increasing, you may never actually get the chance to enter the game-filled bush of Africa or the royal game preserves in India, but you can still experience the thrill of owning a fine trophy. Selected and shipped by RUSH REPLY for your new, FREK collection of 100 this firm's agents, these are true trophies. Royal Bengal Tigers average 10 ft. long, and all are lined, all-different Worldwide stamps. Newest Issues of year — pictorials, commemorative^ — bl-colora, have claws and complete head mounts, including whiskers. color, incredible in the They are rich in mint and used. Get Togo "Summit Meeting" stamp. size and beauty. Zebra skins are of first quality. Note that head skin, mane and tail are on all skins. Netherlands KLM, Soulli African Antarctic, colorful of new Upper Volt a Republic, many more. Run 8 ft. and up in length. Soft and beautifully tanned. Bengal Tiger, $285; Tiger without head, mask stamp Supply limited, only one to a collector. Send for this $235; Zebra, $165; Leopard (not shown) skin and head, $235. Shipped exp. chg. coll. Safari valuable free collection and other stamp offers on for handling Import Co., Dept. AL-2, 509 East 80th St., N. Y. 21. approval, today. Rush reply, lue to GARCELON STAMP CO.,Dept.,\i.2X Calais, Maine. BUY REAL DIAMONDS THIS NEW WAY! SAVE 1/3 TO 1/2!

The Talk of the Country — You can now buy dia- mond jewelry by mail direct from one of America's Well Known Diamond Cutters. Any ring mailed direct for FREE 10 DAYS INSPECTION without any payment, if given. it BATTERY-OPERATED PENCIL SHARP- GIANT PLAYHOUSE is made of flame- references Even appraise at our risk. Send for FREE CATALOG. ENER is automatic, sharpens your pencil in resistant, waterproof plastic, has sloping roof, styles to two seconds. Sharpener starts up when pencil imprinted windows, curtains, shingle walls. Over 5,000 $50 $100,000 is inserted. Competely portable. No switches. Big enough for 2 or 3 children, interior is 23 EMPIRE DIAMOND CORP., DEPT. 1-9 Fine for home, school or office. Uses standard cu. ft. Pre-assembled. With free name plate, Empire State Bldg., New York 1, N. Y. flash batteries. $6.95 ppd. Empire. Dept. AL- $1.25 each; 5 for $4 ppd. Novel Mfg. Co., NAME 2, 145 Marbledale, Tuckahoe, N.Y. Dept. EP-6, 31 Second Ave., N.Y. 3. ADDRESS

I MF. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 • 53 DISCOUNTS £ 40% TO CHURCHES AND OTHERS he American

FOLDING TABLE LINE Kitchen committees, social groups, ;it(ention! Direct-from-

factory prices — discounts \\\. la 40% — terms. Churches,

Schools, < lubs. Lodges :md ;tli organizations. Our new Mon-

roe 1 I I "Id Knij folding Hiintfiii't tables are unmatched 7 MODELS. for quality, durability, conven- SMOOTH, ROLLING. ience and handsome appear- EASY HANDLING, STORAGE. ame. 68 Models and sizes. FREE— BIG 1961 CATALOG

Color pictures. Full line tables, chairs, table and chair trucks, platform-risers, portable partitions, bulletin boards. 53rd year. PIPE FROM PARIS is not just important FAMILY ARMS are emblazoned from old looking but also gives rare smoking enjoyment records filed under 100,000 British and THE MONROE CO., 69 Church St., Colfax, Iowa because leather cover prevents it from getting European surnames. In relief and full color too hot. Made by Longchamps of Paris, it's a on immaculate 7"x0" Oak Wall Shields, they

fine Algerian brier. You'll get a cool smoke. are handsome for only $7 ppd. ( Check re- $5 ppd. Apex Sales, Dept. .502, Box 167 turned if Arms cannot be traced.) Insignia Madison Square Sta., N. Y. 1(1. Ltd., Dept. AL-2, Albany Hall, York, England. $ 50 REFILLS >.. 1 Double shot, fits all standard pens. Red, Blue, Black or Green ink. BRASS REFILLS,^ 24 for $L TOP Triple shot silver tipped, fits all pens Including "Scnpto ', and ACTION "Paper Mate", over 2QC (cicept Parker) Red, blue, or green ink. PENS & BRAND X Choice of red. blue, black or green 3 MULTIPLE Add 10c shipping charge Money back guar Quantity and Imprint prices on request I VITAMINS

OCTAGONAL CARD & GAME TABLE seats SAVE up to 75'.; on purchase of vitamins GIANT f@ 8, has pocket for each player's chips, ashtray and everyday drugs. For example, a famous CA PLASTIC TARP 43< etc. Hardwood table is covered with sturdy multiple vitamin formula sells for $3.11 per Formerly $1 ,25 Each green Durahyde, measures 45", folds away LOO fair-trade price. Foods Plus similar type Huj-e 9' x 12' size covers and protects cars, lur- niture, carpets, etc. Or make into tablecloths, for storage. Free masonite top, $19.95 (exp. formula is only $1.75 per 100. Free illus- apph. covers, auto seat covers, etc. Waterproof, durable, transparent. No seams. Mm. order 2 chgs. coll.). Alexander Sales, Dept. AL-2, trated catalog. Write Foods Plus, Dept. V- tarps at 43c ea. Add 24c post Total SI 10 Money back guarantee 140 Marbledale Rd., Tuckahoe. N.Y. AL-1, 62 West 45th St., N.Y.

Exclusive 2-Way Hood or Hat HEAVY KNIT STORM HOOD Anyone who goes outdoors when it's cold and damp, needs this sensa- $2 49

tional . . new design . wear it as a Value J! hood or a hat. As a wonderfully warm I'M t hood, it protects your head, mouth, neck and ears, keeps out cutting m cold. Available only by mail; fits mei dren. Add 20c postage and handling'. Money back guarantee.

FREE! $1 Gift Certificate with your order. Apply it on any $5.50 purchase from FREE CATALOG we send you. One to a family. BARCLAY DISTRIBUTORS, Dept. 67-B 170-30 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, N.Y. REAL FUR CLUTCH of imported French GET INTO IMPORT BUSINESS at home- rabbit fur has been sheared and dyed to look- men and women, can build up a profitable like leopard, and could fool the experts. Nice home import-export business. Free book, for your favorite gal for $4.98. Solid colors, 'How to Import & Export," reveals how you seal black, ermine white or deep purple, can buy bargains (see above) abroad for Kills Fleas andB.O: honey beige. 8,3.98. Add 10';; tax. Barilen 400'.; profit sales to friends, stores, mail order. WHILE DOGS Corp., Dept. PT-25, 11 East 47 St.. N.Y. 17. Write lor book to Mellinger, Dept. T302. DOZE 1717 Wcstuood. Los Angeles 24. Calif. Rid your dog of fleas, lice, ticks! Swap his scratch- ing for restful sleep! Protect children from flea bites or snapping by tired, flea-harrassed pet. Its soft com- fort and cedar aroma entices dog from chairs and rugs, ending soiled cushions, dog hairs and odors. Attractive plaid, mothproof. Has zipper to renmvi- OWN a BUSINESS inner pad. Be a Specialist in Booming Industry Get in on the ground Moor of a boom- ing $750 million u year industry. Kill the need in your area for sate, ef- fective "on location" cleaning of carpets and upholstery. Every home houses a customer! We'll train and establish you in YOUR own r lift linie business! Start part-time Regular ^» wm^" AVw if employed. You'Ilbetrainedbya 1 dealer and at 60-hr. school 15x28in.$4.9S ,/,/.,,.vc nearby AV^ to get you quickly established. You Sup Orlon-Acrilan oo , SJ- ~ ajtfP"^^ provide 6 services to multiply prof- 28x.!(,m.$6.98 ^ soft, blanket fabric. its. Noshop needed. Just 2 jobs a NAME AND ADDRESS LABELS are handy King-Size36x48 in.$12.90 Washable, stain resistant. day nets $8,750 first year. Weback to have around, ami are perfect for such as services: counseling, Kitty Cootie Chaser-Companion flea-killing for you with 27 bed letters, cards, packages, checks, etc. Print entn. Warm Orlon-Acrilan. Catnip aroma entices pets nat'l advg . . . McCalls, Parent s, conventions, kits.ot h- oil furniture, sweetens disposition. 14x18 in. 93.95. etc., advg, your name and address carefully and send it er3. ltooklets explain everything ORDER TODAY—We mail postpaid. ^^^^ into these people ami they'll print you 1000 wlsTy / tJ^^^^BI ~no°blif?ation, no salesman will fUWnMrEKV/riEA DEDAME Monev-Back Guarantee i/ ll^^iVv^ call. Send for FREE BOOKLETS. gummed labels packed in a plastic box. $1 Box 1286. Sudbury.Mass. DURACLCAN CO.. 1-192 Duraclean Bldg.. Deerfielcl. III. ppd. Tower Press. Box 591, AL. Lynn. Mass.

• tin: . 54 American legion magazine February mm \ You Fellow Sportsmen and Veterans NO MATTER WHAT YOUR AGE

I'll Show YOU FREE by my quick SECRETS

how to GAIN or LOSE to60> HOW TO BUILD THE TOUGHEST Xegion HE-MAN BODY in 10 Minutes a day in 30 Days! says George F. Jowett World's Greatest Builder of Champ-He-Men World's Greatest Strenqth Athlete. "YES, I'll GIVE YOU GIANT STRENGTH, to buck the touqhtest trail to land the fightingest fish! IN DOUBIE-QUICK TIME YOU'LL I AND A RIP- ROARING BODY, Flat strap stomach muscles Iron arms and legs, Herculean shoulders and back. I've done

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JOWETT INST. GREAT NECK, N.Y. Dept. AL-12 All these 5 famous HONKY TONK PIANO RECORDS in Stereo 4" PLIERS SKT is German-made, has 7 PICTURE-PACKED —The 26 tunes include "St. Louis Blues," pieces, including flat nose, round nose, di- COURSES snipe and "Crazy Otto Rag" and other favorites. Choice agonal, end cutters, flat and round (formerly $5. each) pliers. All are deep-forged steel, ol three 45 rpm records, one 33% rpm record combination to make me 1 or one Stereo record. $2.98 ppd. Brigade liiglilv polished. 75', ppd. each; set. $5 ppd. 33% A SUPERMAN Alexander Sales. Dept. AL, 140 Marbledale Records. Dept. 2-AL, 330 Central Ave., Har- I enclose 10c for postage Rd.. Tiii-kahoc. N.Y. rison, N.J.

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BOTTLE POURER takes the guesswork out of mixing drinks. Called "Auto-Magic." it's a precision-built unit that automatically dis- penses a 1-oz. shot even, time. Adjusting screw permits you to vary the size of the shot. $1.50 ppd. Murray Hill House, Dept. AL, P.O. Box 251, Bethpage, N.Y.

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more dazzling than diamond* at 1/30 the cost! The american Cegion FREE BOOKLET Shows How You Can Own A CAPRA GEM For 1/30 the Cost of a Diamond! Get full facts. FREE, on the most amazing discovery bv mod- ern science—CAPRA GEMS. A miracle of science described in recent issues of Saturday Eve- ning Post and Reader's Digest. re They more dazzling than diamonds, vet coat much less. C APRA GEMS' refractive quality is actually diamonds' higher than Brilliantly beautiful, dazzling ( A pit a gems are hand cut. hand polished and hand selected . . . priced within the reach of all who love fine gems. A 1-carat diamond stone costs you approximately SI OOO. A com- parable choice selected. 1 -carat CAPRA GEM is vours for federal tax included and can be bought in small easy payments. GET THE FACTS NOW Valuable illustrated booklet shows a wide selection of men's and women's rings. Gives full details, including prices and settings . . . shows all CAPRA GEMS actual size. Limited supply, so send today without delav. No charge, no obli- gation. Get all the facts on CAPRA GEMS . . . more dazzling than diamonds. CAPRA GEM CO.. Dept. AL-21. Box 514S. Phila., 41, Pa.

GOT A KING-SIZE KING at home? Here are PERSONALIZED WINDOW M ATCH has shoes and apparel guaranteed to fit him per- no hands or dials, and it is fully automatic. FREE! U.S. STAMPS feetly — even in his hard-to-find extra-large A quick glance gives the exact time. One win- size. Big new FREE Catalog from King-Size, dow shows the hour, the other the minutes. S. PLUS COMPLETE U. CATALOG Inc. slums shoes in sizes 10 to 16, widths Initials | specify ) are engraved on face. W ith AAA to EEE. Write for FREE catalog. King- leather strap. S10.95 ppd. B-B Sales. Dept. m Size, Dept. AL, 3801 Forest. Brockton. Mass. PA-1, 56 West 45th St., X. Y. 36.

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. . to Introduce You to World's Largest Stamp Firm & America's Favorite Hobby fits electric drill, t. Genuine centennial postage stamp, illustrated, WIRE CL P BRUSH any as W 20" BOMBAY TAXI HORN first used in picturing first U.S.A. (issued 114 years ago!) scours rust, scale, carbon and grease from India in 1900, is still the favorite today. Its Big collection of 25 all different United States anything from pots and pans to workshop — Ancient 19th century, $1.00 stamp, etc. unique appearance and strident bellow will tools and outdoor furniture. Does a fast, clean Collection beautiful commemoratives: American attract as much attention as any horn made. job. A good addition to your workbench. Revolution, Wild West, 1893 Columbian, many others. Xiekel on brass; easily installed on your car. Collector's Guide; Big U.S. Bargain Catalog; ex- $1.98 ppd. Standard American Brush. Dept. K. McLean. Box citing stamp offers for your inspection. $12.95 ppd. D. Dept. AL-2, FREE Send AL-2. 1 Park Ave., N.Y. 16. 10c for mailing. ACT NOW! 991. Grand Central Sta., X.Y. 17 H. E. HARRIS & CO., DEPT. C-227, Boston 17, Mass

HAVE A PRODUCT TO SELL? You'll sell more of 'em. and faster in The American Legion Shopper than in any other magazine. So if you want to boost sales, write The American Legion Shopper, 122 East 42nd St.. New York 17 lor a rate card and full information. Do it now.

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55 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • FEBRUARY 1961 .

Here's New Hope and Help For 0hopper FOLKS OVER 35 with America's Favorite GERIATRIC FORMULA

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RAZOR BLADES which will fit all razors can be houulit from these people at excellent savings. All blades are hollow ground steel.

100 double edge blades are S 1 .50 ppd. Single edge blades are 80 for $1.30 ppd. Injector blades are 63 for S 1 .25 ppd. Barclay, Dept. 62-B. liox 45. Forest Hills 75, N.Y.

2 BOTTLES OF 100 CAPSULES EACH If your diet needs VITAMIN-MINERAL reinforcement, only ^ try this outstanding formula that supplies 28 NUTRITIONAL FACTORS BOTTLES $ Millions of these superb capsules have been sold at 2 OF 250 9.25 prices up to 9< each. At Vitamin-Quota the regular

BOTTLES $ price is less than 4< a day . . . but on this special 2 OF 500 17.50 sale you get them for LESS THAN 2« A DAY! 9 BOTTLES $00 CA OF 1000 OJ ( Jv Each Freshly-Packed, Guaranteed-Potency Seedol Geriatric

Tnii offer good on firs! order only Formula Capsule Contains: PROJECT AND MAGNIFY any printed ma- VITAMINS terial up to 4 ft. wide, and in its original Vit. B-12 3 meg. color. Handy Project-A.Scope operates on or- Folic Acid 0.4 mo. MINERALS

Vit. A Iron , 30 mg. dinary 60 watt light bulb, magnifies snap- Prjce! 12.500 USP U. Compare Vit. B-l 10 rim Calcium 83 mg. shots, stamps etc. Adjustable lenses; 12".\8"x Vit. B-2 5 nig. Copper 0.5 mg. 4%". $7.95 ppd. Alexander. Dept. AL-2, 140 Vit. B-6 0.5 mg. Iodine 0.2 mg. Vit. C 75 nin- Magnesium 3 mg. Marbledale, Tuckahoe, N.Y. V,,a Store. Mo,l Vit. D 1.250 USP U. Manganese I mg. Food Niacin Amide mg. Phosphorus r,4 mn. w H7oHh o, 50 Store Cal Pantothenate mg. Potassium 5 mg. ""I HouseHouse, Dept.v 5 Order whe re Vit. E It mg. Zinc 0.6 mg.

Inositol 15 mg. Whole Dried Liver . . . 100 mg. House-to-House thlS ^ Choline Bitartrate .... 30 mg. Betaine Anhydrous . . 10 inn. Vit. K I mg. Methionine 10 mg. Biotin 25 meg. Rutin 10 mg. SE 1 YOUR M*C "? BUY IN CONFIDENCE! For over 38 yeors. Doctors, Hospitals F THESE and more than 2,500,000 families, coast-to-coast, have saved FREE LUES money the easy, economical Vitamin-Quota way. All orders S SATI°Wpl.c2ted supervised by Qualified Pharmacists. c% b Seedol GERIATRIC FORMULA is sold only at the addresses ANYWHERE! below. We pay all postage. Order C.O.D. or save all charges by sending check or money order. Money back if not satisfied.

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largest distributors of Vitamins. Estab. 1 923. ART REPRODUCER makes it easy tor you Dept. A-232, 880 Broadway, New York 3, N.Y. or to draw almost anything quickly and exactly Dept. A-232, 1 1 25 S. Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles 19, Cal. even if you don't have a talent for it. Just r locus llus invention on a subject and then Sales in California, add 4 /c to total of order follow lines of the "picture image" reflected on the paper. Reduces and enlarges. S 1 .98 ppd. Norton. Dept. AL-21. 296 B'way, N.Y.

ALL AROUND ELECTRIC TESTER DISPLAY FLAG Shipped on Approval YOUR Tests all Electrical Ap- PROUDLY ross pliances, TV" tubes, Au- tomobile Circuits, etc. EVERYWHERE I?rager Measures A.C. and D.C. Voltages, Amperes, Re- J with emblem labels sistance and Leakage. Price complete Including NEW 50 STAR FLAG 64 page book only $15.85. Shipped on approval] 10 for $1.00. Postpaid NO MONEY WITH These self-adherinc 2^rxl%* colorful flan emblems LORD'S PRAYER CROSS is studded with stick instantly to metal, leather, pai>er, wood, plastic, ORDER—NO C.O.D. etc. Can l>e easily removed without harm lo proi>erty. 12 flashing starlight crystals against a silver Order Model 70 'on approval." If satisfac- Just put them on autos, luiijraKe, bicycles, book background and is strung on lovely pendant tory you pay $15.85 (plus p.p.) In 4 monthly covers, house, doors, gift packancs. No glue necessary. SCNO CASH, CHECK or MONEY ORDER necklace. You can see the Lord's Prayer plain- payments. Otherwise return after 10 days PROMPT DELIVERY ly through center jewel. As an added gift: free trial Moss Electronic, Inc., SATISFACTION GUARANTEED a Faith-Hope-Charity Life- Dept. D-86I 3849 Tenth Ave., N. Y. 34, N. Y. pendant. $1 ppd. MASAR CORP. ROCK VI LLE CENTRE. L.I., N.Y. Study Fellowship, Dept. A-2, Noroton, Conn.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • TEIIRI'ARY 1961 • £J , .

MAGNIFYING GLASSES The 2merican Cegion

A Blessing For Folks Over 40 Read newspapers, telephone book or bible easy. Do fine fancy work, crocheting for hours without eye strain Now, precision MAGNIFYING GLASSES (not RX) bring out detail SHARP and CLEAR. Nol for folks who have astigmatism or diseases of the eye. A magnifying lens for each eye, set in stylish amber eyeglass frame. 10 day home trial. Send name, address, sex, age. On arrival pay only $4, plus C.O.D. Satisfaction guaranteed. Or send $-1, with order, we ship prepaid. Order from: PRECISION OPTICAL CO. Dept. 34-B, Rochelle, III. CIVIL WAR FIGURINES of the Blue and alive in this new centennial set. Grey come TRANSISTOR RADIO has a built-in loud Detailed and hand-painted, each 6" china speaker, and a built-in Fitzrite core aerial, figurine is authentic in uniform, stands on its two features usually found on larger radios. own base. A fine way to commemorate the This one has a full range is powerful and has centennial. Set of $4.95 ppd. Greenland 4, a nice clear tone. Works on battery. $9.95 Studios, Dept. AL-2, 3735 N.W. 67 St., Last Week ppd. L & M Co., Dept. AL-12. Box881, St. Miami Fla. 47, Louis, Mo. IMade ^ i

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But, after an honest trial, if you're at all like the other men to whom I've told my strange plan, you'll guard it with your last breath. FAMOUS LUXURY BRANDS for women in Don'tjump at conclusions. I'm not a manufacturer of and pull in ferocious big ones while they come home shoes, bras, dresses and blouses are priced any fancy new lure. I have no reels or lines to sell. I'm empty handed. Nospecial skill is required. The met hod a professional man and make a good living in my pro- is just as deadly in the hands of a novice as in the in this clearance below wholesale, include fession. But my all-absorbing hobby is fishing. And, hands of an old timer. My method will be disclosed only famous names such as I. Miller, Maidenform quite by accident, I'vediscovered how to go to waters to those men in each area who will give me their word etc. $30 shoes are as low as $3. Big 4-color that most fishermen say are fished out and come in honor not to give the method to anyone else. of catalogue only 50<*. Maurice of Hollywood, with a good catch of the biggest bass that you ever Send me your name. Let me tell you how you can Dept. CT-33; 11 East 47th St., N.Y. 17. saw. The savage old bass that got so big, because they try out this deadly method of bringing in big bass from were "wise" to every ordinary way of fishing. your local waters. Let me tell you why I let you try This METHOD is NOT spinning, trolling, casting, out my unusual method for the whole fishing season fly fishing, trot line fishing, set line fishing, hand line without risking a penny of your money. Send your fishing, live bait fishing, jugging, netting, trapping, name for details of my money-back trial offer. or seining. No live bait or prepared bait is used. You There is no charge for this information, now or at any can carry all of the equipment you need in one hand. other time. Just your name is all I need. But I guar- The whole method can be learned in twenty minutes antee that the information I send you will make you — twenty minutes of fascinating reading. All the ex- a complete skeptic—until you decide to try my met hod! tra equipment you need, you can buy locally at a cost And then, your own catches will fill you with disbelief. of less than a dollar. Yet with it, you can come in after Send vour name, today. This will be fun. an hour or two of the greatest excitement of your ERIC V. FARE, Highland Park 43. Illinois life, with a stringer full. Not one or two miserable 12 or 14 inch over-sized keepers — but five or six real Erie V. Fare, Highland Park 43. Illinois beauties with real poundage behind them. The kind that don't need a word of explanation of the profes- Dear Mr. Fare: Send me complete information | sional skill of the man who caught them. Absolutely without any charge and without the slightest ob- legal, too— in every state. ligation. Tell me how I can learn your method of I This amazing method was developed by a little catching big bass from waters many say are | group of professional fishermen. Though they were "fished out," even when the old timers are report' public guides, they rarely divulged their method to their ing "No Luck." I A HELP for troubled adolescent complexions patrons. They used it only when fishing for their own and to a good many others as well is this I It is possible no tables. that man on your waters has Name small device, designed to remove even the ever seen It, ever heard of It, or ever used It. And most persistent blackhead in just a few sec- when you have given it the first trial, you will be as Address closed-mouthed as a man who has suddenly discovered | onds. Called Vacutex, it comes for $1.10 ppd.

agold mine. Because with thismethodyou can fish with- I Ballco Products, Dept. AL, 735 East State City . Zone State.. in a hundred feet of I he hest fishermen in the county St., Westport, Conn.

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