The American Legion Magazine [Volume 55, No. 6 (December 1953)]

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Cover by JAMES BINGHAM Contents for December, 1953

MAGI IN BATTLE DRESS (fiction) by William Chamberlain 11 A 20th CENTURY VARIATION ON AN AGE-OLD THEME.

RUSSIA'S BIG BLUFF by Harold Lord Varney 14 HOW A SECOND-RATE NATION HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH MURDER.

THEN & NOW, WW2 by Angela Calomiris 16 THE TROOPS HAVE LEFT BUT THE BATTLEGROUNDS LOOK FAMILIAR.

BASKETBALL HASN'T LEARNED ITS LESSON by Bill Miller 20 WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE REFORM MOVEMENTS?

TURKEY, AN ALLY WE CAN TRUST by Henry C. Wolfe 22 THE REASON IS THEY DON'T RAISE SISSIES THERE.

LAS VEGAS'S GOLDEN BOY by Joseph Stocker 24 LADY LUCK WORKS 24 HOURS A DAY FOR WILBUR CLARK.

THE LEGION IN PICTURES 26 TRACTION CONCERNING SOME BIG FISH AND SMALL FRY. YOU CAN NEWS OF THE LEGION 33 Features

TRUST SOUND OFF! ... 4 PRODUCTS PARADE NEWSLETTER . . . 43 EDITOR'S CORNER 6 ROD AND GUN CLUB PARTING SHOTS 64

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RESPECT FOR THE DEAD communities by people in their midst who pushed the veterans around. My smoke Sir: I was at Martinsburg, W. Va., / nomination for the best— Chicago and last fall when the body of a soldier Milwaukee. w as taken from the car, evidently for Edwin Huelil reburial. The flag-draped coffin was Detroit unloaded onto the truck on the plat- form, and wheeled into the shed. Not a single person w as there to meet it — not a hat was lifted while the casket was w heeled into the shed, and until

I protested, packages were being loaded onto the same truck. It was necessary to show my credentials as NICE PEOPLE Service Officer and threaten to raise Sir: I'd like to commend Post 24, Rock- the roof to get the other parcels un- Springs, Wyoming. We were forced loaded from the truck anil the truck down at a landing strip about ten wheeled into the baggage room pend- miles out of Rock Springs w ith one ing the arrival of someone. engine out on our C-47 on December eakes Yello-Bole Edgar P. Paulsen N, 1952. That evening another sergeant Lebighton, Pa. imported briar far faster and myself visited the Post there and never have I felt more welcome in a than ftittf pipe at any price! strange place in my life. The people just took over and made it impossible to remain a stranger. They offered to give us a place to spend the night and in general w ent out of their way to make us feel at home. We were on A RACER'S TROUBLES our w ay home after spending two and a half years in Korea and Japan and it Sir: Thank you for the article Stock certainly made one feel good to know Car Racing Proves What? As an own- that the people back home w ere back- er of a stock car 1 might add to ing and thinking of us all the time. James C. Jones' article that a stock car: Gerald L. Chafin (1) gets your neighbors to hate you; Morgantovm, W. \ 'a. (2) gives you ulcers; (3) makes you go broke; makes you stay up until (4) WHAT'S WRONG 3 A.M. getting your ear in shape so The yellow in Yello-Bole is real honey you can race, only to have the car Sir: Our country' is rapidly being bled — and honey cakes faster! This great blow up on the second lap; (5) has to death for the benefit of deadbeat Yello-Bole exclusive builds up "cake" relatives give you that "I told you so" countries in Europe, w hile at the same

from the first puff . . . holds the cake routine. But all in all 1 wouldn't give time subversives and do-gooder egg-

fast to fine imported briar. One pipeful up being a stock car owner. While it heads in this country ballyhoo and and you're smoking cool and sweet. provides a lot of headaches, it really eulogize the United Nations. The idea No break-in. No tongue sting! It's the provides a lot of pleasure for racing that the UN can prevent war is too pipe that takes the cake! fans. foolish to be called an idea. Even the G. L. Trippon government of the U.S.A. failed to

Aurora, III. prevent one of the bloodiest of civil PPnflC 7 YelloBole is the world's wars between its own States. Name Withheld I If UUl . largest selling pipe, BY FAR! GOOD AND BAD El Paso, Texas Sir: When veterans get together they

relive w ar da) s and the pattern is WITH APOLOGIES always the same — picking out the cities that were good to them when they Sir: William A. Ulman's article 117.'.?/ w ere in sen ice and the ones that were Will You Do With Those Added $100 not. The former are lauded and you Years? in your August issue contains would be surprised how it has paid a fantastic misstatement concerning TO off for those communities because of our company and the Western Electric $250 the good w ill show n to the vets, and Company. The statement is as follows: how much harm has been done to < Continued on page iSi

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SHOPPING HINT WALTER ULBRICHT, red boss of East Germany, has given the word to the happy slaves of the Soviet there

that they w ill be expected to meet higher production quotas — or else. This comes just in time for the happy holiday season. Now you can he assured of a plentiful supply of such things as Christmas tree ornaments, cameras, binoculars, shotguns ami other products manufactured in the Soviet /one of Germany. Full of the Christmas spirit, the Soviet Politburo and Good Old Uncle Gcorgi Malenkov want to be sure that the deca- dent bourgeoisie and w armongering capi- talists aren't deprived of the opportunity to buy merchandise made under the eyes of Soviet commissars. Certain importers and dealers in this

country feel the same way about it. They too want everyone to be happ) tins Christmas, whether they live in the Kremlin or just off Main Street. And of course they don't mind being made happy themselves, since there's money ro be made out of such Soviet products. So, to bring a smile to the face of Good Old Uncle Gcorgi, Good Old Uncle Andrei Vishinsky, Good Old Uncle Walter Ulbricht, and every Uncle Commissar, shop carefully. Make sure Soon it will be the night before so extra-special when a young fellow that what you buy bears the (figurative) Christmas. And many an excited is far away from home. hammer and sickle and red star. Other- little girl will be nestled all snug To all of you, from all of us in the wise you might rind your Christmas in her bed, to dream of sleigh bells telephone business, we send best spending money going to American man- and reindeer and a cuddly doll be- ufacturers. wishes for a Merry Christmas. neath a tree.

Santa Claus is such a jollv fellow VICTIMIZED TEACHERS that he wouldn't want to miss any- you are interested in the plight of our one. But it IF could happen and that public school teachers we'd suggest would be very sad indeed. that you read a new book, Quackery in the Public Schools, written Albert So again this year, telephone girls by Lynd, published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in many communities will be help- &Co. ing Santa get around. For weeks As everyone knows, a teacher's lot is they have their spare been spending usually nor an easy one, and lew com- time dressing dolls for little girls. munities properly rew ard their teachers, know n Throughout the country thou- salary-wise. What is not generally is the way in w hich teachers are victim- sands of other Bell System men and ized by "one of the neatest bureaucratic women arc collecting baskets of machines ever cl eared by any professional food, candy, toys and dollars for S WT VS HELPERS Some of the group." The quotation is Lynd's, describ- dolls from telephone in 1 1 lose less employees just fortunate than themselves. ing a tight lirrle group of "superpro- one city. Rat; dolls, fancy dolls, teddy fessors" operating in certain leading And remembering their co-work- bears and pandas — of kind dolls every teachers' colleges. ers in the armed sen ices with the and joy into shape— to help put manv The book shows how the "semi-racket" letters and holiday packages that are a Christmas stocking. operates. The "superprofs" set up reach- ing courses. Before a person can teach he BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM has to buy a certain amount of this Kul- rur from these pundits. After he becomes Local to serve the community. Nationwide to serve the nation. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAG \ZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 a teacher he has to keep coming back Adverlitemrnt for more of their mental merchandise.

If he doesn't, he is stymied in his job and salary. To make the operation even more reprehensible, the "superprofessors" are also super-personnel agents, serving From where I sit as a clearing house for the best jobs in teaching. It may reasonably be assumed that their eager cash customers arc not forgotten when there arc plums to be Joe Marsh handed out.

However, the book is not entirely grim. It becomes amusing when the author discusses some of the windbags who peddle The New Education, the current alias for Progressive Education. The book becomes downright hilarious when he quotes the disciples of Dewey in their strange patois, a curious jargon you might call Kilpatrick-ese. Sheriff's "Push"

WHO STRUCK SARAH? Pulls a Vote THE cause of academic freedom received a severe setback recently when porters, janitors and other custodial em- Was talking with our newly elected ployes w alked off the job at Sarah Law - rence College. This is the oh-so-liberal Sheriff Williams the other day. He ladies' seminary in Yonkcrs, N. Y., where told fellow the distinguished educator Harold Taylor me about a who stopped holds forth when he isn't talking before by his place real late one night just various ladies' clubs. Sarah Lawrence has before election. also been of more than passing interest to Congressional investigators, as you have a knock at the door," he no doubt read. "Heard Anyway, the A.F. of L. union whose said. "Fellow I never saw before. Told members lug baggage, heat the buildings, wash the dishes and maintain the grounds me his car went dead down the road stopped doing those things just as the girls and would I give him a shove. boy, romped back to the campus after the My summer vacation. Crossing the picket Flip, and I went out to his car with lines, the girls and the faculty pitched in and did the chores themselves. him. We're all set to push when he Prexy Taylor just couldn't understand steps on the starter and the motor why the union went on strike. He pointed out that he had been real nice to the turns over. "menial employes," as the New York Times neatly put it, and had even given "Flip and I just stood there and the them a dollar-a-wcck raise in pay not fellow leans out the window and says, long before. Sheer liberalism! 'Just wanted to make sure you're the right man to vote for'." LET THE KIDS KNOW From where I sit, the fellow who's NOW and then sirens blow, bells clang and everyone takes to cover for an quick to lend a hand makes any com- air raid drill. Grownups, of course, know munity a better one. But you don't why they have to do this, but do the kids? How about letting them in on the have to run for office to prove you're secret — not just that air raid drills are necessary but why they arc necessary? a good neighbor. One way I know is We'd like to suggest that in every class- just to have a little regard for the other room, either just before or just after a drill, teachers explain to the youngsters fellow. Whether your neighbor likes that the drills must be held because of the beer or buttermilk, don't try to push threat of world communism. We don't recommend this to terrify youngsters, but him to your choice. Just give him just to let them know that the Soviet Union hopes to conquer the United your "vote of confidence." States just as it has enslaved many other once great nations.

And while they're at it, teachers might as well inform the children that there are certain people in the United States who are working w ith the Soviet to this end. This unpleasant fact is usually ignored if not scoffed at in many institutions of higher education. Copyright, 1953, United States Brewers Foundation THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 • 7 Products 1*aradi;

A sampling of items which are in process of development or are coming on the market. Mention of products in no way constitutes an endorsement of them, since in most cases they are described as represented by manufacturers-

Talking Santa Love That Dog

The kids will get a kick out of an in- How about a set of overshoes to protect expensive novelty, a Santa Claus head the paws of your pet? Called Rover Shoes, GET WILDROOT which says "Merry Christmas" when the they are made of rubber, with heavy tread thumbnail is drawn along a tape extending and wrap-around strap for snug lit. Price CREAM-OIL CHARLIE from Santa's mouth. Made of vinyl plastic, $2.95 for a set of four, from kennel Wear the head serves as a sounding board. /Made of America, 1317 W. 24th St., Los Angeles 7. by Borkland Manufacturing Co., Marion, Send tracing of dog's front paw. Ind., the toy will sell in department and variety stores for a quarter. Home Shooting

Everything for converting your cellar, If You Smoke attic or even your living room into a shoot- An attractive china cigarette box, suitable ing gallery is contained in a Home Shooting for any home, has an added feature that Set being offered by Crosman Arms Co., makes it add up to a good gift— a lighter Fairport, N. Y. The set contains a high- built into the lid. The lighter is streamlined powered pneumatic pistol, holster, sreel into a gold band around the lid, dressing up bell-ringing target, 100 target inserts and

the ivory-colored box. The manufacturer is a carton of .22 calibre Crosman Super Pells, the American Safety Razor Co., of Brooklyn, all for $14.95. and the price is $9.95. Highway Navigation

For the Photo Fan Now you can make sure your car is headed in the right direction without spend- If you have a photographer in the family ing a lot of money for a car compass. there's a new kind of electronic photoflash There's a new low-priced compass called that will make an ideal Christmas gift for the Air-Way now available selling for only him. This is an extremely compact unit $2.25, and available from Hugh Clay Paulk, contained in a case only seven inches high 304 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. and weighing only 27 ounces. Employing an improved circuit this unit uses the new Album on Your GE flashtube which is capable of more Arm than 10,000 flashes. It works on AC cur- A new kind of identification bracelet, rent, and can also be used with a battery whose clasp opens up to hold photographs, pack. Called the Minitron, it is made by has been announced by Flex-let, 580 Fifth Radio 8 State St., Engineering Co., New Ave., New York City 36. An expansion York City 4. The price is $59.95. type, this rugged sterling silver bracelet sells for $14.95, tax included. A more dainty You Can't Forget model for women sells for $13.95.

An ingenious way of remembering things Car Light has been developed by Joe C. Jenkins, P.O. Box 250, Gainesville, Fla. Called the Can't- A two-in-one light and cigarette lighter is

Forget-Er system it consists of memos with being offered by Windsor's, McRae, Ga. perforated tabs, a plastic holder for pocket Their new Spot-Liter plugs into the dash- use, and a binder which serves in effect as board lighter outlet, and when you need a your idea headquarters. The notes you make light inside the front compartment you

are transferred from holder to binder, and switch it on. To make it serve as a cigarette

the lab is removed when you've taken the lighter you merely push it in. The price is necessary action. Price of the outfit is $8.95. $2.25 postpaid.

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A year's supply of suggestions and plans A new place to wear a watch has been for the home craftsman can be had for discovered 1>\ George Olton, 242 E. Madi-

only a dollar from the Delta Power Tool son Ave., Collingsw ood, N. J. The place Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., is on the belt, anil the reason is so the Pittsburgh 8, Pa. All this how-to-do-it help watch isn't jarred by golfing or other comes in a bi-monthly publication called strenuous sports. The specially designed the Dekagram, worth its cost many times w atch with a double case, and metal loops over. to slide on the belt, sells for $29.95.

When writing to manufacturers concerning items described here kindly mention that you read about tliem in The American Legion Magazine

THE A MLR RAN 1 hCilON MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1953 After all...

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Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee, Wisconsin "FILL'ER UP" — SOVIET STYLE. Hare photograph shows Russian driver attendant offers no service — just collects rationing coupons. Sign on state-

tilling own gasoline tank at one of Moscow's 5 "service" stations. Station owned station doesn't announce a brand oi gasoline. It just says : No Smoking.

From behind the Iron Curtain come recent photographs of a THIS IS A MOSCOW typical Moscow "service" station showing what the Russian motorist is up against. American editors who recently visited Russia report that even the fortunate few who do own cars have serious motoring prob-

"SERVICE" STATION lems. ( Only 1 out of every 3.000 Russian families owns a car, while America has more cars than there are families.)

At the few filling stations service is non-existent — gasoline is Unretouched Pictures Show Conditions rationed. Black market gasoline costs $1.00 a gallon. Travel outside cities is almost impossible if you aren't a party official. Conditions like these are what you can expect under a system Motorists Face Today In Russia where all industry is controlled by the State and where there is

no competition for the motorist s business.

It's far different over here! Americans are used to having many independent service station operators compete for their

business by offering them the world s finest oil products at reasonable prices. U. S. gasoline today, for instance, costs about the same as gasoline did in 1925 — only the taxes are higher.

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i ANOTHER VIEW OF same "service" station shows Russian motorist's daily problems. Car in foreground has broken down — owner usually must lis il himself. With only 5 Idling stations lor Moscow's 5 million inhabitants, cars must wait in line. J in

AMBERLAIN

A Christmas story that may remind you of another you have heard.

The Chinese attack had hit just after mid- were phantoms and those which were the night — coming in with a screech of horns Chinese storming up through the gullies in their and a blare of bugles which drifted with an padded coats. eerie cacophony up to where Easy Company As the dusk came down, Captain Edwards — lay. There was a crest here — Hashmark Ridge who commanded Easy Company — got a message. — and, in front and behind, the ground fell away It told him that he w ould abandon Hashmark into steep ravines which were shadowy in the Ridge after dark and make his way back to starlight. It was a bad time for Easy Company where the rest of the battalion waited. Simple for a new ROK outfit had given way on the orders. A child could understand them but hard right and presently the company was alone on orders for Easy Company to obey for they were Hashmark Ridge and the Chinese were cutting- leaving men — a lot of good men — on Hashmark it off from the rear. Ridge. Still, the thing had to be done. That was the way that it went through the But this is not the story of Easy Company. night and through the next day — which was the It is the story of three men who became sepa- day before Christmas — and into the beginning rated from the rest of the company on that of Christmas Eve. Cold and with a wind which snowy Christmas Eve. Sergeant LeRoy Grimes. whipped the snow into dancing ghosts so that Private Willie Hayes. Lieutenant George Carl- it was hard to distinguish between those which mark. They had been outposting the left flank

11 (continued) Magi in Battle Dress at the time that orders from battalion had reached Captain Edwards. He had sent a runner to tell them to come in but the runner had never gotten there. A mortar shell had taken care of that. So, after a while, the three saw the dim shapes of the Chinese filtering past in the snow along the flanks of the little knob where they lay and they began to realize that the rest of Hashmark Ridge was strangely silent. The machine guns and the BAR's no longer yam- mered over to the right; rifles no longer cracked spitefully in the darkness. And the dim shapes, in padded coats, kept ghosting by like hyenas slipping through the storm. "It's no good," Carlmark said, keeping his voice low as he beat his hands to w arm them. "Either the rest of the corn- pan)* has pulled out or is dead." "Or prisoners," Sergeant Grimes added. He was a man past forty with the marks of long soldiering laid deeply on him. Lean and tough and a little afraid now. "What do we do, Lieu- tenant?"

Lieutenant Carlmark rubbed a hand slowly up and down the stock of his carbine and peered off into the darkness. He was half Grimes' age and this business of war was new — too new — to him. "We can't stay here," he said. "No," Sergeant Grimes agreed, his voice a little grim.

"Maybe the company is just lying low," Carlmark suggested uncertainly. "Maybe they're holding their fire for some reason." Sergeant Grimes grunted softly. "Easy Company's holding its fire," he said, "but not along Hashmark Ridge,

Lieutenant. I that think w e're stuck out Before they started. Private Hayes laid a small object beside the woman. here alone like a thumb in a cup of coffee." Lieutenant Carlmark thought that boy, roustabout in a two-bit circus, Army. It gives you stockings, anyway." over for a little while. "Maybe we'd hobo. "You won't hang up one tonight," ought to work back along the ridge But a good kid. The rest of the men Grimes said. and see if we can contact them," he in Easy Company liked him— even Ser- "I won't, at that," Private Hayes said finally. "What do you think?" geant Grimes. Red- headed and w ith a agreed. "You believe in Santa Claus, "We've got to do something," Ser- grin which w as cheerful and impudent. Sarge?" geant Grimes said. A kill who could raise a laugh when "Sure, I believe in Santa Claus." Private Hayes hadn't been saying the rest were cold and hungry and wet Lieutenant Carlmark said, "Cut the anything. He had taken over the BAR and tired. talk. Let's go." when Mike Donelson had gotten a bul- Now he said, "Wonder what I'd be They moved out cautiously and the let through him when the attack started. doing if 1 was back home." snow was coming down harder now

In some ways, Private Hayes was tough- "Hanging up your stocking," Ser- so that it w as a w hite curtain through er than either of his companions al- geant Grimes said dourly. "Where's which they felt their way. The sound though he was barely nineteen and home, kid?" of the bugles and the whistles had died didn't shave regularly yet. Orphan at "Chicago, St. Louis, Mobile," Hayes down but suddenly a little knot of men, three. At the Home — a misuse of the told him. "Any of 'cm. It don't matter. grunting back and forth to each other word — until he was twelve. Industrial You know. 1 never hung up no stocking in Chinese, loomed dimly ahead. They

School — a polite name for reform school in my life. Most of the time when 1 halted suddenly and a burp gun began in the state in which he lived — for a was a kid I didn't have no stocking to to stutter, kicking up little white geysers year w hen he was fifteen. Then, prelim hang up. That's what 1 like about the and zinging slugs off the rocks beneath.

12 ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK MCCARTHY wasn't a soviet. You didn't vote on Cathy standing there beside the tree in Then Hayes' BAR took up its deep- things in this army. his father's big house in Evanston. mouth song and the group in front of For some reason the idea warmed him Cathy with her eyes shining happily the three melted away into the night- a little. He thought back to that day— and her hair making a soft halo about except for the few who made untidy not too long ago—when he had stood her face. And his father standing near- rag bundles on the snow. with the rest in the Kansas sunshine and by, a glass in his hand and his eyes "The company's pulled back all had repeated the oath. Not just words proud. right," Crimes said hoarsely. "We bet- —that oath. It meant something. But he Lieutenant George Carlmark put ter get out ourselves! Those birds'll be had had to come up here to Hashmark those thoughts angrily away. They had back!" Ridge to really learn what that some- no place here. They left the ridge and went down thing was. Hayes said then, "Kind of funny to a gully, stumbling in the snow and slid- He squared his shoulders and a new think that this is Christmas Eve, ain't ing across the buried rocks. Branches note had come into his voice now. A it? Holly and tinsel and people singin' of the leafless scrub raked at their faces; thing which was firm— more sure. Ser- Silent Night and things like that." and fallen trees, shattered by the shell- geant Grimes noted "We haven't got none of that here," ing of the past weeks, caught at their that with satisfac- Sergeant Grimes said. "You want to ankles. The gulch tw istcd away to ention. It was some- sing a Christmas carol? Forget it, boy," ter a larger gulch and they went down thing that even an and Hayes lapsed into moody silence. that, moving cautiously through the old soldier could snow which came down in soft, feath- take hold of and it was an hour later when Lieuten- ery flakes. grip and feel better ant Carlmark said, "Snow's about After a quarter of an hour, Grimes— about. stopped. We better go on again. Either who had been scouting a little in the "We'll go back of you know which way is front and lead—stopped and called a low warning. and try to work which way is rear? I don't." The other two came up to stand with our way around Sergeant Grimes shook his head. "We him w hile they listened. Then, through them," Carlmark twisted and turned so much in that the snow's curtain, they caught the faint said. "It's our best damn snow that now I don't know my gleam of fires ahead. chance, I think." left hand from my right. Maybe we "Chinks," Crimes w hispered hoarsely. They struggled better just keep on goin' down hill- "We've run into a whole mess of 'em. back to the crest that ought to bring us out someplace, I Regrouping, maybe. Taking on chow." of the ridge; faded guess."

"Maybe they'd like guesi ; for dinner," down the far side They started out again, floundering Hayes whispered. into a gulch no dif- through the new drifts and stumbling "Shut up," Grimes told him but his ferent from the in and out of the scrub. Starlight lay voice wasn't angry. "We sure can't get one that they had palely ahead of them now— a faint ra- through this way, Lieutenant." left. It became another gulch—a maze diance which caressed a land covered "Doesn't look like it," Lieutenant of gulches—and presently they were with a white softness. Twice they tried Carlmark said, despondency heavy in his lost. Four times in an hour they had to turn in the direction in which they voice. "And we can't stay here. What to detour widely to avoid voices w hich guessed the American lines lay and do you think. Sergeant? Go back? Try came—muffled but jabbering like mag- twice they were turned back by parties to get around them?" pies—out of the snow and the darkness of Chinese, jabbering in their padded

"If I could think I probably wouldn't ahead of them. coats. Then, at last, the hills fell away be in the Army," Grimes replied sourly. Carlmark halted them finally with into a valley through which a dark "I'd be back in Fresno. You're an officer. that new crispness still in his voice. "No stream ran. Lieutenant. I guess it's up to you to say use going on this way," he said. "We A wide valley. Carlmark halted them the word." could run into anything. We'll hole up there, crouching in the shadows while He was sorry that he had said that, until the snow stops." they looked down. Excitement sudden- Sergeant Grimes thought then. Hell, the Sergeant Grimes grunted, "Makes ly gripped Sergeant Grimes and he Lieutenant was just a kid, scared like sense. We're as well off here as we'd be reached out to touch Carlmark's the rest of them were scared. He didn't any place else, I guess." shoulder. know what to do but who the devil did "Except back in Fresno," Hayes said. "I know this place. Lieutenant," he w hen you found yourself in the middle They squatted in the shelter of a little whispered. "Anyway, I think I do. It's of a bunch of Chinks on Christmas Eve? outcrop, shivering as they pulled their the Chipyong Valley and our line bends He started to say something like that battle jackets more closely about them. north here. There ought to be GFs on

. . . didn't do it. The night had suddenly gotten quiet those hills across that little river!" For his words had done a strange except for the far-off bicker of artillery "And on this side of the river?" Carl- thing to Lieutenant George Carlmark fire; the occasional crump of a mortar mark asked softly. who stood there silently for a long mo- round. "We don't have to guess about that," ment; turning them over in his mind. They didn't talk much and Lieutenant Sergeant Grimes answered in a sour "You're an officer, Lieutenant." That Carlmark started to wonder how it voice. "We know. Chinks. Lots of 'em." was what Sergeant Grimes had said. would be at home now. Christmas Eve! "I wish that I had never heard that What Sergeant Grimes had meant was: He had had only one Christmas Eve word," Hayes said, spitting into the

They didn't put the bars on yon just with Cathy so far—never a one at all snow. "Before I came here I always because they liked your rosy cheeks, with the little Cathy who had arrived thought that Chinks were people w ho Bud. When you accepted those bars, after he had come out here. ran restaurants and laundries." you had to accept the responsibility that His Cathy would have hung up a wee "You know better now," Sergeant goes along with them. That was about stocking in the apartment by now, he Grimes said. "Do we go across the the way of it. guessed; would have started to decorate valley. Lieutenant?" And Sergeant Grimes was right, the tree. Something stabbed sharply at "We go across," Lieutenant Carlmark Lieutenant Carlmark thought. Some- Lieutenant George Carlmark as he re- answered soberly. "What have we got body had to give the orders. This membered that other Christmas Eve. (Continued on page 54) 13 Russia's Big Bluff

The Soviet controls a lot of land and people but otherwise she is a

second-rate nation whose greatest asset is our fear of her "invincibility."

By HAROLD LORD VftRNEY

Ark we panicking ourselves into an unreal and politically Because we believed this, with an almost hypnotic un- dangerous attitude toward Soviet Russia? reason, we and our allies halted General AlacArthur at the The question rankles as our alarmists fill the atmos- Yalu River, when a landing operation beyond the river, phere with their incessant talk about a Russia ready and accompanied by an all-out bombing of Sinuiju, Antung willing right now to unleash World War III. All major and Mukden, would have put China out of the war. Be- American foreign policies since 1945 have been framed in cause we believed this, American naval and air forces were the shadow of this fixed idea. All the sick retreats and stopped from clamping an effective blockade upon Red placations and compromises, vis-a-vis Russia, w hich w e have China, including the Pohai Sea. Because we believed this, made since V-J Day have been defended by this thesis of our air forces were restrained from dropping the atom bomb a prepared Russia w hich, if angered, was ready to spring upon Chinese staging and transportation centers, a step with stupendous might upon the Free World. which would have paralyzed the Chinese "volunteer" forces

And the terrifying thought is that none of us has the in North Korea. haziest notion whether or not the thesis is true. America And thus a war which could have ended in ringing is gambling its whole future security upon the hazard of military triumph for America, with heightened American an unconfirmed guess. prestige throughout Asia, has been forfeited because of this We have just concluded a humiliating truce in Korea for obsession with Russia. a war which, on form, we should have easily won. The If we have guessed wrong on this thesis — and there are rliing which stalemated us in Korea was not North Korean staggering evidences that we have — then the whole course fanaticism nor Red Chinese numbers. It was the haunting of American foreign policy since 1945, from Potsdam to fear, which palsied our hand at every decisive moment, that Panmunjom, has been a tissue of blunders. Soviet Russia was ready to fall upon us. No informed person seriously questions that the Russian 14 WHERE THE RUSSIAN BEAR TURNED TAIL

II the Kremlin really dared to fight, we gave her all the excuse she needed when we foiled her blockade of Berlin b) running an air lift.

Intelligence experts warned that Russian help would have dire consequences but at Yalta our diplomats pur sued a strange course which has had the results predicted.

menace is a hideous reality — a reality which darkens the whole American future. Where we differ is on the showdown date. As we shall show, all indications point to 1970 or thereabouts as the Armageddon. The show-down will come when Russia, having engorged 600,000,000 new subjects, will have integrated its bloated Russian- Chinese-satcllite empire into a Eurasian powerhouse, manned by a technically trained working population and interlinked with modernized transportation. It will come when the vast unexploited resources of Siberia and Red China have been unlocked for Russia's war industries. It Russia has long eyed the Dardanelles with greed, but in 1947 we served is difficult to see how this can be consummated in less notice that we were backing Turkey and the Red Bear backed down. than 20 years. When it is achieved, unless we have made equivalent progress, the United States will indeed be in desperate danger.

But this is quite a different thing from affirming that

Russia is ready and prepared to fight now. And yet, in the name of that illusion, we have successively acquiesced in Russian seizure of Poland, East Germany, Czecho- slovakia, China and now, apparently, North Korea to "avert World War III." The irony is that we have made these retreats at the precise moment when our power w as at its maximum, and we alone were ready for atom warfare.

What is behind this national fixation on Russia?

An oversimplification would be to ascribe it to Soviet psychological warfare. This has been a factor. Certainly, if Russia's psychological staff had started out to decoy America, it could not have hit upon a better trap than to implant the belief that Russia was ready to fight. While we prepared feverishly for war in 1953, we would take our sights off the real target, which is war w ith a much greater Russia in 1970. The creation of an emergency mood in America would keep us permanently off- balance, and would preoccupy us with costly and inde- In 1945 the Kremlin moved against Iran, to get that country's oil. Tn cisive holding operations throughout the globe. 1946 the U.S. and Britain ordered her to get out and she got out. But Russian propaganda could have made little impress

upon the American mind if the idea which it has been selling since 1945 had not coincided w ith a deep Ameri- upon nothing more substantial than guesswork and appre- can mood. In a sense, we have mesmerized ourselves into hension. the belief in Russia's super-strength. American statesmen, A humiliating instance was Yalta. A great body of Ameri- tortured by indecision, have found in the Russian ogre can opinion allowed itself to be convinced early in 1945 that an easy rationalization of their own unwillingness to take Russian help w as needed to w in America's w ar with Japan. risks. By dangling the Russian immediate peril before a Against this was the fact that Japan, as early as January, peace-craving American public, they have been able to 1945, had put out feelers for surrender. After Yalta, but a full get popular support for a series of indefensible appease- four months before Russia's eventual entrance, some 50 spe- ments. Few Americans have realized that the dark warn- cialists in War Department G-2, under command of the late ings of a Russia armed to the teeth which have come Col. Joseph A. iYIichela, made a searching study of the ad- to them from both press and Pentagon have been based visability of Russian intervention (Continued on page 50)

15 The training and massing of millions of men. supplying of only preliminaries to the invasion of the Continent. The mountains of equipment and years of planning culminated on Germans were confident, however, that they could prevent

Omaha Beach. June (i. 1944. The campaigns — difficult and any landing in Europe and their defenses were indeed for- important as they were — in North Africa, Sicily and Italy were midable barriers for the Allied Forces to overcome.

THEN « NOW

Salerno marked the first toehold in Europe for American and Armies by October had established a battle line north of British forces. On September 9, 1943, the Allies fought their Naples extending across the Italian peninsula. Foggia, and way ashore to begin the long Italian campaign. Nearly driven its group of air fields, was part of the territory captured and off the beach in the early fighting, the Fifth and Eighth it provided an air base closer to Nazi factories and oil fields.

CROWDED SALERNO 1943 ALONE AND QUIET 1953 A rough field grave of an American who died in Nor- America's industrial might poured forth ships, planes, tanks, guns and mandy. A permanent cemeterv in St. Laurent now holds shells. Behind the infantry spearheads, the ships of the invading fleet the hodies of those who died on Omaha Beach, where dumped the equipment on the beaches. Today, nine years later, sal- the 1st and 29th Divisions assaulted the "Atlantic Wall." vage crews still find the debris floating ashore or buried in the sand.

The i.\xn war in Europe which be- and equipment—both government and Groups of Armies were commanded by gan in September, 1943 at Salerno private contributions— have helped in General Eisenhower and in addition he and ended less than two years later the work. controlled Air Forces capable of mount- at Rheims, France, in May 1945, w reaked No amount of reconstruction, how- ing thousand-plane raids against the more damage than the four long years ever, will completely eliminate the scars. Axis. of WW 1. Our photographer, going back to the Science and the equipment it de- Modern warfare with its mechanized scene of the struggles, found that at signed; the factories ami their output; forces, air bombardment and tremen- every point some trace of the GIs' tight the plans of the generals of every coun-

dous armies razed France, Italy and could still be found. try all contributed to the eventual vic- Germany. The contrast between the forces of tory, but as always it w as the foot sol-

Today, eight years after the last gun 191S and 1945 is best shown in their dier who fought and won the war. job was fired, Europe is rebuilding the cit- size and organization. The AFF by In these pictures you can sec the ies, farms and historic buildings which November, 191 s had formed but two he did. were once its pride. American money armies. For the invasion of Europe, ALL 19S3 PHOTOS BY ANGELA CALOMIRIS

MONTE CASSINO AFLAME 1944 | RESTORED 1953

The historic Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino dominated the approach to Koine. Used by the Germans as an observation post, it completely stopped the Allies' north ward offensive in January, 1944. A full German division of experienced and

battle-hardened troops held the hill in i he- face of tank, infantry and air attacks. The Abbey itself was reduced to a pile of rubble which made still easier its defense.

continued on next page 17 continued THEN * NOW

FRANCE, GERMANY

YEARS AFTER WW2

Once securely ashore, the Allied plans tailed lor a wide sweeping movement south from the Normandy peninsula and then east toward Germany. In July the Allies moved to get the positions from which to launch their offensive. Determined German resistance behind the densely woven hedgerows caused 60,000 Allied casualties in three weeks. Finally, on July 25 the breakout at .St. Lo began.

PEACEFUL 1953

The earlv winter of 1944 brought the All along the Rhine, the Germans destroyed war to German soil for the first time (he bridges. The) hoped to re-group their in three wars. Untouched in 1870, and battered armies behind the river and stop again in 1*MK, the land west of the the Allied advance which threatened to be- Rhine was invaded by the 6th, 12th come a rate across German soil. Typical of .ind LMsi Army Groups. The Germans the crossings was (he one at the historic fighting now to defend their homeland German city of Worms. The American fought for every city and contested soldier above Mas one of (he many casual- every point. Cologne was battered as ties suffered by the assault fortes gathered the Germans, along a 100-mile front, lo attack (he last German defense line. were pushed lo the Rhine River, which had not been crossed by an invader since Napoleon's time.

18 The Bulge, as the last German offensive was called, came in mid- demand for surrender with one word — "Nuts!" As the British December, 1944. The First Army took the impact of three German on the north and the Americans on the south struck hard at Armies as they gambled their last reserves in an attempt to breach the German flanks, the weather cleared and the Air Forces the Allied front. Major General McAuliffe answered the German began their destruction of the panzer armies inside the Bulge.

EMAGEN BRIDGE 1945

In March, 1945 the guarantee of victory came when the Remagen then the engineers had thrown a pontoon bridge across the river. bridge was captured. Weakened but still standing, the bridge To stop the advance at Remagen the Germans had to weaken gave the American First Army a foothold on the east bank of themselves elsewhere and the Allies quickly exploited the situa- the Rhine. Five Divisions crossed before the bridge fell and by tion. By April 1st, seven Allied Armies were east of the Rhine.

Stavelot in the Bulge was the last battle for this German soldier. One of the 90,000 casualties suffered by the forces under von Rundstedt, his fall also marked the end of the German hope for victory. The nazi dream of world-wide conquest with their panzer armies dissolved into a piece-meal defense of their own country, which was in ruins. Basketball hasn't lear ITS LESSON

College basketball is still playing with fire despite

the warnings of collegiate investigators and advisers.

Three years ago next month college basketball was dealt a vicious upper- cut with the disclosure of the acceptance of bribes by two players. The blow sent the sport reeling on its heels. But before the end of 1951 had rolled around, basketball was to experience a series of even more damaging blows. More than two dozen players from such basketball powerhouses as Ken- tucky, Bradley, Toledo, and four colleges of metropolitan New York—City College, N.Y.U., L.l.U. and Manhattan —admitted "throwing" games or "shav- ing points" for the "glory of the gamblers" and money. These ugly revelations gave basket- In a Police left ball the dubious honor of having New York station in 1951 were, to right: Ed Warner, Al Roth of CCNY; Harvey sport's worst scandal, overshadowing Schaff, NYU; a detective; Salvatore Sollazzo, even baseball's infamous Black Sox bending down; Robert Sabbatini, head down, shocker of 1919. and Ed Roman, CCNY. The players were Two full basketball seasons have booked on bribery charges while Sabbatini passed since and another is currently was booked as a material witness in the case. underway. What, in a concrete way, has basketball done to w ard off the pos-

sibility of another such black mark? Has It urged among other things:

it learned its lesson? As the old Happy 1. Member institutions should hold Warrior, Al Smith, used to remark: their athletic competition on campus "Let's look at the record." fields and in campus buildings. alumni had seen nothing wrong in play-

Actually, the guiding officials of bas- 2. Where such facilities are not ade- ing in the Garden and had been anxious

ketball and those interested in the sport quate, it is recommended that institu- to gain national status by so doing. spotted its deficiencies and drawbacks tions play only on fields or in buildings This "unwholesome" atmosphere

almost immediately after the eruption. over which the collegiate institution has paid big checks. And even now , w hile But one would hardly call this fore- effective control, management and su- the Garden has curtailed its basketball sight. It would have been had they pervision. program, the big arenas in Chicago, St.

acted immediately after several rumbles 3. Much of the increased emphasis on Louis, San Francisco, Kansas and Los of bribe scandals had been aired in the the sport has been brought about by Angeles still offer college basketball. four years previous to 1951. Among overlong seasons. There is nothing The NCAA which formulated item these were the Brooklyn College wrong with intercollegiate athletics that two above has itself scheduled its re-

"bought" players in 1946 and the at- a release of the pressures upon it will gional post-season tourneys in public- tempted briber)' of Dave Shapiro of not cure. arenas such as the Chicago Stadium and George Washington University in 1949. The first tw o points w ere obviously Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium. Shocked into definite action by the aimed at the "whipping boy" of basket- The facilities of almost any of the Big- mushrooming scandal of 1951, the Na- ball—Madison Square Garden. When Ten field houses and many other Mid- tional Collegiate Athletic Association, the scandals broke, cries of anguish and west colleges would be adequate for the the ruling athletic body for more than rage were directed at sinful old New crowds that witnessed the contests in 300 colleges ami universities, issued a York w hich had corrupted their boys' public arenas in 1952 and 1953. If report by its Council in March that year character. Many schools cancelled their NCAA won't follow its own recom- which listed recommendations designed Garden dates. Yet for years before, these mendations, why should the schools? to curb any future scandal outbreaks. same colleges, coaches, directors and Point three is without a doubt the 20 athletes to the directive: "Please an athletic program. The sad truth list any benefits or detriments seems to be that many institutions ap- which you believe are derived pear to be cither satisfied with the status from participation in football quo or unable to cope with it." The bowl games, NCAA champion- pressure to win, plus commercialism, ships, Conference meets or based on this report by a NCAA official, tournaments, or Invitational still form an integral part of the col- meets or tournaments." The lege athletic program. These evils following statements are among haven't been eliminated. the recurring detrimental an- Two other areas that came in for swers given: heavy criticism as a result of the 1951

1. Provide opportunity for scandal — recruiting and subsidization — gambling and bribery. have continued to flourish despite the 2. Too much emphasis on proclamations of the NCAA and other winning. bodies. One need look no further than

3. Too commercial. last August for definite proof. 4. Interferes with academic At that time it was revealed that activities. North Carolina State, one of the na- 5. Extends season too long. tion's top basketball teams year-in and 6. Too much emotional strain. year-out, had been put on probation 7. Does not decide a true for one year by the newly formed At- champion as the best team lantic Coast Conference for violating can fold up under pressure. "the try-out rules of the Conference 8. Places too much stress on and the NCAA." State, it seems, in- sports at expense of educa- vited 14 high school stars to its campus, tion. at the College's expense to and from, for These are the replies of the the purpose of "trying out." College athletes, the people most di- officials, including basketball coach rectly affected by the partici- Everett Case, admitted the illegal re- pation in the events. Their an- cruiting. swers, frank and to-the-point, This is the same type of rule-flouting should make college athletic and underhanded methods used by officials think twice about ex- some colleges to get basketball players tra events on their schedules. that was so sadly commented on by Judging from the increase in Ralph Beard, Kentucky star who ad- basketball tournaments, they mitted taking bribes, back in 1951. He haven't even thought once. said: "Recruiting. That's the start of The foregoing recommenda- it. How they went out and got us to tions and others made by the play. It got so big. We got big. Too NCAA later have done little big." And it prompted New York Gen- to clear the beclouded atmos- eral Sessions Judge Saul Streit, who phere surrounding the sport. presided at many of the basketball bribe Primarily because the NCAA trials, to remark bitterly: "The chronic prides itself in Article III, Sec- evils of basketball recruiting will 'ex- tion 2 of its constitution which plode into an atomic athletic scandal' reads: "The control and re- unless the evils are corrected." sponsibility for the conduct of The loud cry that went up three intercollegiate athletics shall be years ago concerning the fact that col- exercised by the institution lege officials should be held liable for most flouted of all. Seasons are just as itself, and, in the case of institutions such illegal practices seems to have long and, in fact, longer with a new having a membership in a regional ath- faded into whispers today judging from "gimmick" called the Christmas Tour- letic conference, by such conference." the North Carolina State episode. The nament. Last season there were no less This, of course, is the ideal, but is it biggest sufferers were the 14 high school than 22 of these tourneys. There doesn't practical? Here's a segment of a re- kids who were banned permanently seem to be much reason to stage one port made for the NCAA Eighth Dis- from competing in intercollegiate ath- except for the added revenue they pro- trict (embracing California, Oregon, letics for State. No action, not even vide. They certainly don't build char- Washington, Idaho, Nevada and the from State officials, was brought against acter in young men by keeping them Territory of Hawaii) by John B. Hurl- the coach or the athletic department for away from home at Christmas time. but of Stanford University just this deliberately violating the rule. Added to the 27 other tourneys and year: "There seems to be general agree- The North Carolina State incident three big national events — NCAA, ment that the basic responsibility for is not an isolated one. Just this past NAIB and NIT — in post-season play the solution of the athletic problem summer Notre Dame, Michigan State you have not less than 52 tournaments rests upon the individual institution. and Arizona State at Tempe were all each year, making football's bowl games But bold statesmanship by the indi- reprimanded by the NCAA for illegal small potatoes by comparison. vidual institution is difficult when the recruiting practices in football. The Along these lines, the NCAA re- institution is a member of a conference crux of this situation was amply summed quested of its Extra Events Committee and a strong position independently up in another report at the 1953 con- in 1952 that a survey be taken on post- pursued will drastically weaken its com- vention of the NCAA. season college athletic events. One of petitive position. Also, it may be impos- A part of this report for the Fourth the more interesting sections of their sible if boards of regents and trustees District (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michi- report was a summary of answers by are unwilling to financially underwrite ( Continued on page 56)

21 — I fa Turkey an it 1 1 v ne can I ru %

Concerning a country which knows how to stand its ground

.iihI how in s(an

By HENRY C. WOLFE

any nation the courage to stand up to H\s\'i Russia? In tin's Soviet-appeasing era, discour- aged Americans keep asking that question.

The answer is that Turkey has the courage. In 1945, when her colossal next-door neighbor demanded three Turkish provinces and Dardanelles bases, little Turkey said No and made it stick. Before the Turkish David's "Only over our dead bodies!" the Soviet Goliath backed down—and has stayed that way. In Turkey's refusal to concede an inch, there is a priceless lesson for the big Western democra- While more powerful allies dragged their feet, Turkey came to our aid cies. The Soviet leaders, veteran No-men them- in Korea. Here a group of 1,200 Turkish soldiers embark at Istanbul. selves, understand a forceful Nyet in any language.

It is the kind of talk they respect. And it is the kind of talk that saved the Turks their freedom. Undoubted- nations and parts of two others newly swallowed by the ly some of the Soviet satellites would be free nations today Soviets, the challenger was more than twenty-seven times

if, like the Turks, they had faced up to the Kremlin's aggres- bigger than the defender. sion. And if the big Western democracies had stood their Outmatched, that is, except in the courage to stick up for ground as the men of the crescent and star did, the USSR its rights. It is not for nothing that the Turks have been would not be calling the turn in world affairs. centuries-long neighbors to the Russians. In the struggle for In Turkey's defiance of the USSR, perhaps the most heroic national survival, strategically-located Turkey has fought feature is the fact that in early 1945 the little republic stood some thirteen wars with the aggressor next door. From age- alone. This was the Yalta period. The United States was old experience in diplomacy and war, the hard-bitten, still at war with Japan. Washington and London were going steady-nerved Turks have learned how to handle the im- all out to court Moscow and selling the Chinese down the perial colossus. If they started appeasing the Kremlin, they Volga. When the Russians demanded Turkish territory and realized, they would lose their independence and who knows bases, they were moving in for the kill. The USSR was how many Turkish lives. They set out to defend their terri- flushed w ith territorial gains and the Yalta diplomatic victory and independence at all costs. Had they surrendered to tory. W ar had destroyed her principal rivals in both East the aggressor's demands, the aftermath would have been and West. Thariks to more than eleven billions of American catastrophic for the Western world. With the red army, lend-lease, the Kremlin had not only a gigantic army but a air force and submarines in the Mediterranean, the Soviet great deal of the most up-to-date fighting equipment. would have been perfectly based for conquest of the Middle Turkey, on the other hand, had neither dependable allies East, Africa and Southern Europe. nor any source of strong diplomatic or even moral support. In preferring to die as free men rather than live as Soviet The little Straits country, about as big as Texas and Maine slaves, the Turks had one supremely important asset. They combined, had only a small army, virtually no modern arms were a united people—none more so against communism. and almost no air force or anti-aircraft defense. Its twenty There was no communist fifth column, virtually no com- million people faced the red armv on two hostile borders— munists among the republic's population. No political party 367 miles of Soviet frontier and 124 miles of puppet Bul- in Turkey favored appeasement. There were no newspapers garian frontier. Moreover, with only minor naval forces, or magazines which spread Soviet propaganda. The Turkish the Turks had an exposed 966-mile Black Sea coast facing government was, therefore, solidly backed by the people.

the USSR. Any way you look at it, Turkey was over- Actually^, the Soviet campaign to destroy Turkey began whelmingly outmatched. The population odds were over in earnest in September, 1939. Geographically and strategi- nine to one. Territorial!) , not counting the ten European cally, Turkey occupies a location of highest importance. It 22

i failed to bluff, cajole or out-maneuver the indomitable Saracoglu. During the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact (August, 1939, to June, 1941) Hitler and Stalin bargained over deals involving Turkey. Since each partner distrusted the other, however, neither was willing to help the other get control of the Dardanelles and

its Balkan approaches. Here again, it should be emphasized, the determining factor was Turkey itself. Stalin found little Finland, with only four million people, a tough nut to crack. He knew that Turkey would give battle and that the Turkish soldiers—as Americans learned some eleven years later in Korea—were the peers of the world's best righting men. Stalin had no stomach for such a conflict. But once Hitler attacked Stalin, the Kremlin was quick to re- Turkish soldiers such as these won high praise for member that the USSR and Turkey were old friends, that they their exploits against the communists in Korea. had treaties of friendship and non-aggression. By the Montreux Convention, the Soviet Union was, in effect, protected from attack through the Black Sea by a non-Black Sea power. On August 10, 1941, the Kremlin sent Turkey a note reaffirming devotion to the Montreux Convention and promising to make no aggressive ges- tures against the Dardanelles. The Soviet would scrupulously respect Turkey's territorial integrity, Stalin promised. The Turks, by this time, understood the Kremlin's tactics too well to be taken in by such sheer opportunism. It was no surprise to the Turks, therefore, when in March, 1945, the Russians suddenly denounced the 1925 treaty of friendship with Turkey. A furious propaganda campaign from Moscow accompanied this act. This w as all timed, of course, to synchronize with the defeat of Germany. Now that vast territorial gains and the Yalta diplomatic prizes were in his pocket, Stalin was readying

his next move against Turkey. It came on June 7, 1945, when SUEZ CANAL Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov notified Turkish Ambassador Forming a land bridge hetween Europe and Asia, Turkey has long been coveted by the Russians.

1. There is political stability. Here the Turkish Parliament votes.

2. A Elack Sea harbor is improved to handle greater coal production. Sarper that the Kremlin wanted a slice of territory in east- 3. Primarily an agricultural country, Turkey adopts modern methods. ern Turkey and bases in the Dardanelles. Here was the showdown. In Turkey's blunt refusal Stalin met his first

,is an historic land bridge between Europe and Asia, a short post- Yalta defeat. cut from the Soviet Union to the Mediterranean basin. Its But the Russians w ere not staking their Turkish campaign Bosphorus and Dardanelles would afford the USSR long- on a single diplomatic battle. They were laying siege to the coveted access to the warm waters of the Mediterranean. courageous little republic. To the west of Turkey a com- Under cover of World W ar II. Stalin w as setting out to take munist-inspired civil war was raging in Greece. To the over as much territory as possible. He was engaged in his north, Bulgaria w as in Sov iet hands. To the east, the Rus- successful move to seize Estonia and Latvia. In a little over sians were attempting to get control of Iran, with which two months he would attack Finland. Turkey has a 290-mile frontier. It was obviously the Krem- Less than four weeks after Hitler plunged Europe into lin strategy to isolate Turkey, wear her down, break her w ar, Stalin "invited" Foreign Minister Saracoglu of Turkey morale and annihilate her. The unequal contest went on to visit Moscow. For three weeks the Soviet dictator tried till the spring of 1947. to force the Turkish diplomat into making concessions that Then came help from the United States. Washington at would lead to Russian control of Turkey. But Stalin was last saw the light— Greece was being destroyed by the Krem- not dealing with a Chamberlain or a Daladier. He completely lin's fifth columns and the Soviet (Continued on /wye f>D) 23 How part of the Desert Inn looks from the fabulous Sky Room.

I t* VEGAS' Golden Boy Wilbur Clark

The hottest personality on the Nevada desert is Luck) Wilbur (lark. By JOSEPH STOCKER

_ \s vkgas, :i burgeoning, bespangled port, Illinois, a chap named Wilbur Clark. Wilbur Clark's contribution, at about citadel of sin in the middle of the Senator Kefauver's contribution was the same time, was to open a new Las L Nevada desert, was grateful not to plug up the wellsprings of gambling Vegas luxury gambling hotel, splashier long ;igo for two wondrous blessings. —for the time being, at least—in 47 of than anything of its kind built to date. One was bestowed by a young U. S. the States. This impelled the gaming It was a $3,500,000 homc-away-from- Senator from Tennessee named Estes gentry to betake themselves to No. 48, home known as Wilbur Clark's Desert Kefauvcr. The other blessing was dis- which happens to be Nevada, where Inn. This made available some 300

pensed by a former bellhop from fveyes- gambling by a lucky chance is legal. voluptuously-carpeted rooms to ac-

One cornet <>l the Casino where patrons After a hard night spent slaving over Or they can play a bit of golf on the are encouraged (<» pa) court to Lady Link. dice or cards, guests go in for pool. excellent 18-hole course for guests. )

One of the three roulette tables which give Name entertainers such as These ladies are trying to run modest the desert resort a touch of famed Monte Carlo. Ted Lewis provide diversion, stakes into a million dollars, more or less.

commodate craps-hungry refugees from unprepossessing young man wearing a glass-enclosed Sky Room. The Sky the 47 States. It also advertised Las sweater made 28 consecutive passes with Room is a cozy, third-story vantage Vegas wherever in the world people the dice and rolled up Wilbur's biggest point whence you can gaze meditatively read the printed word. For Wilbur single loss to date—$150,000. If the out over your cocktail at most of Las spent $150,000 on a grand opening young man had let his w innings pile up, Vegas and any atomic test explosions which was only slightly less spectacular he could have amassed a total of ex- occurring at the moment. When the than Pearl Harbor and was reported actly $268,435,456, assuming the casino's Atomic Energy Commission stages its with great fidelity to detail in the bankroll held out that far. As it was, he big shows 70 milts north of Las Vegas world's press. won only $750. The rest of the $150,000 at Frenchman's Flat, the Sky Room is That took place on April 24, 1950. was distributed among a clutch of slick the scene of gay "atom parties." Gam- In the intervening three years and some gamblers, including one of Wilbur's blers swap bets on the exact moment of odd months, Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn competitors, who kept placing side bets. each blast. If there's a strong southerly- has enjoyed an unparalleled success (a As the astonishing l-hour-and-20-min- breeze, the remnants of the mushroom- reported 12-month gross of $5,000,000). ute run of luck wore on, customers shaped cloud are wafted right over "It's easily the best money-maker in piled 15 deep around the table. People Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn. town," observed a close student of big on the outside were offering as high It wouldn't surprise Las Vegas to see Las Vegas money-makers. As many as as $500 for a place at the table. the cloud pause at exactly that point 75,000 people have passed through or The lucky dice are now enshrined and rearrange itself to form the letters tarried in the hotel during a single in a glass case near the front door. Wil- of Wilbur's name. For Wilbur is re- month, according to Wilbur's own bur knows good advertising when he garded, among a people who are experts measured estimate. And Wilbur, in the sees it. on the subject of luck, as a very lucky process, has become a legend—the hot- The casino is patrolled by 15 uni- man. test personality to show up on the Ne- formed cops and an assortment of eagle- He launched the building of his Desert vada desert since Bugsy Siegcl, whose eyed "pit bosses" whose job is to sec Inn shortly after the war. It was to be fame was mostly posthumous anyway. that the customers don't cheat and there his dream hotel, and Wilbur had been

The hotel itself is responsible in part is no dealer-player collusion. Collusion dreaming about it for years. But that for the legend which has earned Wil- is practically non-existent, says Wilbur, was a time when the cautious money bur Clark such sobriquets as the Bonan- since the dealers are paid well (upwards of Las Vegas was saying that the war- za King, Little Caesar II and Las Vegas' of $35 a day) and tips range from gen- swollen town was headed for a reces- Golden Boy. In a town where big gam- erous to astronomical. A Texas oil man sion. "I either had a lot of guts or I was bling hotels are the last word in ele- won $50,000 during a night's play and crazy," Wilbur says. His competitors gance, extravagance and creature com- handed out $4,000 in tips to five dealers. surmised that it was a little of both. forts, the Desert Inn is the last word The bar is 90 feet long and each Some of the outlying units were up plus one. stool has a number. Every hour on the and the foundation for the main build- It occupies 16 acres of plushy grounds hour a giant roulette wheel is spun being was dug when Wilbur ran out of and is done up in a fetching combina- hind the bar and a nude figure of Lady money. For a year the Desert Inn stood tion of Bermuda pink and dark green, Luck lights up. The wheel stops and there, more desert than inn, and the with a tile roof composed of a quarter- the bartender presents a silver dollar to weeds grew up all around. "All Wilbur

r million pieces set in by hand. It has its whoever is squatting on the stool with had to show for his money was a hole own golf course and a 35-foot water the lucky number. This doesn't cost in the ground," says one of his associ- fountain. It claims the largest hotel ca- Wilbur very much, however. For he ates, "and that's the biggest nothing a sino in Nevada— five crap tables, four usually can count on the dollar being man can own." blackjack games, three roulette wheels, chucked right down the gullet of one Wilbur went looking for angels and a turf-betting department and 75 green- of his 75 green-neon slot machines, in found them, although they turned out neon-lighted slot machines. fulfillment of a quaint American folk to be slightly less than angelic. They Here, one night in June of 1950, an custom known as "Easy come, easy go." were a syndicate of Cleveland and De- all is 46 PHOTOS BY DAVID SUTTON The frosting on this cake the ( Continued on page 25 THE LEGION IN PICTURES

At this season thousands of Legion Posts are planning dren. Above is scene as Easton (Pa.) Legionnaires visited Christinas parlies for orphans and underprivileged chil- Count) children's home, bearing gifts, last year.

Paris Post I purchased and maintains this quiet, lovely Nat'l Cmdr. Arthur Connell shakes hands with spot at Pont Neuilly, five miles from capital. Any Ameri- Yakima (Wash.) champion Legion Junior Base- can Legionnaire who dies in Europe may he buried here. bailers, guests of the Legion at 1953 World Series. 26 A LEGION POST HOLDS A SALMON FISHING PARTY

Hundreds of boats dot water, patrolled by Coast Guard. More, on beach, come and go. More than 1,000 kids were led by Auxiliary's hot dog, ice cream and milk bar (near foreground) in all-day line-up.

It was a party for children only, and 13-year-old Fred Meyer (left) took top honors with his 12 \h.-lVi oz. Chinook salmon. He is shown getting bike and $50 Defense Bond he won. Twelve others won bikes too.

When you throw a party for 1,000 young fishermen, you have to take care of the small fry and tag-alongs too, or mother might as well stay A BIG DAY FOR KIDS home. Here's first heat of small-fry 50-yard dash, an added attraction. AT PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON

When the Chinook salmon run in Juan de Fuca Strait, Walter Akeley Post 29, American Legion, and most of the citizens of Port Angeles, Washington, declare a holiday. Shown here is the 14th annual Junior Salmon Derby, sponsored recently by Akeley Post. It was an all-day affair. Nine hundred twenty-three youngsters fished in two shifts, caught 189 salmon and 60 other fish. Fishing clubs, Coast Guard, sheriff's office. Sea Scouts and others joined to help make it a big and safe day for the kids. The 33 biggest salmon won handsome prizes for their captors. Of several other fishing parties sponsored by Legion Posts, biggest is Gulfport (Miss.) fish- The salmon were no respecters of age or sex. In line-up of 13 top win- ing rodeo for all comers, sponsored by Joe ners with their fish and new bikes, nearly half are girls. One of 3

Graham Post 1 19. salmon over 12 lbs. was taken by Anna Simonson, age 10, of Agnew, Wash. 27 Truett I). Frazier of the Sevier County By JACK DENTON SCOTT leasing them for public shooting, but with- News-Record in Sevierville, Tennessee, out marked success. Now Oregon, after seems to like the Rod & Gun column to the your scent to the ground. Then remove an many months of experiment, has released extent of his dropping personal pearls: article of clothing, place it on the ground 10,000 of the exotic birds. There are high "As is often the case," he avers, "I learned and continue to scuff the general area hopes in that state that they can do with follow trick the iny the hard way. Perhaps thereabouts. Continue to call your dog. If the chukar what the Dakotas have done it w ill he of to value other coldweather he still doesn't return, go back there early with the pheasant. hunters. the following morning. In nine cases out of "1 his frigid month calls for attention to ten you'll find your lost dog curled up on the of type lubrication used in your fa- the article of clothing you left behind. He vorite gun. Oil gets stiff in zero surround- found your scent and stav ed there, hoping ings and w ill cause slow action or even you would turn up. complete misfire. There arc several gun oils that combat this tendency, hut one is We don't know w ho has all the imagina- not always handy to a sports store. tion in Michigan, but they sure come up Charles R. Steitz, Jr. of Pennsylvania, has "A good lubricant for arms can he made with some lulus. Now the Conservation a simple but useful tip for December hunt- by diluting valve oil (sometimes referred to Department has decided to give trout sleep- ers. "It's quite a job to keep matches dry in as upper cylinder lubricant) w ith two parts ing potions. The theory is that trout being wet winter weather," he says. "I've found kerosene. Apply this with a soft cloth, so frisky, take up lots of room when they that by inserting an empty 16 gauge shot- just enough to lightly coat the working- are put into the transport truck tanks to gun shell into an empty 12 gauge shell parts. This solution w ill prov ide a thin film, be taken to streams and planted. Put asleep, these sizes just naturally tit tightly together. hut no heavy, sluggish deposits." they can be literally sardine-packed in the The cases arc heavily waxed and completely tanks, thus saving the state money and giv- waterproof. My homemade matchbox holds ing the sportsmen more fish in their streams. about ten "strike anywhere" matches. Sim- Sodium amytal is mixed with water in ple, but it works." the transport tank to convert the vehicle into a trout Pullman. Lulled to sleep the For your outdoor reading in 1954, Green- trout snooze until they reach their destina- berg Publishers have placed on sale The tion. Modern Colt Guide by Burr Leyson; sell-

We can't give Michigan all the credit, ing for Sl-00, it contains complete informa- however. We remember that the state of tion about modern Colt handguns, ammu- California actually pioneered the method nition, accessories and parts. Not to he with the result that they reported they were outdone, High Standard Manufacturing able to carry as main' fish twice as far. Connecticut, has All Stares report deer herds on the in- twice Company of New Haven, Returned to the clear, sw ift water of one-tenth that crease this year. So get set. Hut remember, put out a little booklet for more hunters are killed deer hunting than streams the trout are brought out of their amount, called Smallbore Handgunners any other way. So bring your caution with sleep — with no bad aftereffects. Guide. Both are worth the space on your you. W ear red. Shoot only w hen you are bookshelf. \nd I". M. Stevens from the Buckeye certain. state has a simple one that may make taking I ed Keller of Seaford, Delaware, is an

your gun apart a trifle easier: "When clean- ingenious guy. I le sent us a black-and-white Michigan, always an interesting outdoor ing and oiling my gun," he says, "I put all photograph of his gun rack that made us Siate, has come up w ith a neat gimmick to small parts in sequence on a strip of cello- drool. Here's what he has to say about help in tabulating game-especially pheasant phane or Scorch tape. That way you can't improving the looks of that homemade or broods. She tabbed her rural mail carriers go wrong in replacing the parts or losing storebought rack: and asked their help in reporting birds them dow n a warm-air register." "For a novel and rustic appearance, hang seen, numbers of nests-that sort of thing. your guns on crotches cut from trees. I cut Mote than 585 mailmen responded. And the Landis Blake slides in w ith a tasry item: a number of crotches and left them to dry figures they brought in w ere encouraging. "Rabbits seem to he on the upgrade. If you for six months in the garage. Then I peeled They counted ?2 more broods than last had a full hag of them rh is year, try a the bark off with a knife and cur a flat sur- year. I hey kept their records from July cooking tip that will make them your fa- face on the back side with a saw. Drilling 27th to August 8th, in ?8 counties of the vorite game food. Stuff that cottontail w ith two holes for screw s, I varnished them and southern lower peninsula. A total of 5,000 a good tangy sausage and hake in a slow later pur them in place." broods of pheasant were seen. An interest- ov en. The rabbit will emerge from the oven ing experiment. II you have an unusual idea that pertains a golden brown and w ill hit the table juicy or one that is helpful to and delicious." to hunting fishing; II you've had lost-dog trouble while fellow readers ol this column, send it along. hunting this year, here's a little nick to Something new is being added to the II we can use it, we'll reward you with a remember: Walk into the center of the game bird list in America. lot years the hunting or fishing accessory. Address: OUT- area where you were hunting ami where colorful hardflying chukar partridge has DOOR EDITOR, Rod and Gun Club, The you believ e the dog may be lost. Scuff your been successfully raised on wire in many Imerican Legion Magazine, 580 Fifth Ave- feet around the ground. This helps impart preserves. \nd some States hav e tried re- nue. New York New York.

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DECEMBER 1953

4. The Soviets must never doubt our Civil Defense Crisis Gets Top preparedness, and the time to prepare against the likelihood of attack is now. Billing in Busy Legion Month 5. Business as usual today could mean utter ruin. 6. Cole, personally, would ignore ex- America's Civil span, national preparedness, especially The inadequacy of pense in H-bomb production today, Civil Defense preparedness got major atten- Defense, was most emphasized. launch an H-project on a scale with our tion in an event-packed 13 days of con- Cmdr Connell discussed Civil Defense WW2 atomic project, for "if I face the activity on national Legion weaknesses at length with the centrated the some choice, I'd prefer financial ruin to atomic 5-17.' level, Oct. President on Oct. 5. Connell emphasized ruin." that span of days, four major the need for better Civil Defense again During 7. We must rely, for safety, on respect Legion events of the year occurred. The in his major address, broadcast from for our powers of retaliation, since our to coast, at of four events: coast the wind-up the big defenses in depth are far short of what Arthur Connell his }i Oct. 5, Nat'l Cmdr J. Homecoming that home town of they should be. In a large-scale atomic visited the President of the U. S. and Middletown, Conn., gave him Oct. 10. Pearl Harbor on our continental interior, matters of laid before him the chief On Monday, Oct. 12 and Tuesday, most enemy planes would reach their Legion concern in Federal policy; Oct. 13 the Legion's conference of De- targets.

]) Oct. 10, the city of Middletown, partment Commanders and Adjutants

Conn., staged a huge celebration on the heard two frank, uneasy talks about ( 1 Dangerous apathy occasion of Nat'l Cmdr Council's Home- our national vulnerability to destructive coming, following his election as Legion attack and (2) the sorry state of Civil The following day, Val Peterson, ex- head for 1953-54 at the St. Louis con- Defense. Gov. of Nebraska and present U. S. Di- vention; Rep. W. Sterling Cole (N. Y.), chair- rector of Civil Defense, spoke to the to his ]> Oct. 12-13, the commanders and ad- man of the Joint Congressional Com- conference. Peterson stripped jutants of every Legion department held mittee on Atomic Energy, flew from shirtsleeves and spoke extemporaneously their annual nat'l conference at Nat'l Washington to Indianapolis, and on Oct. for nearly an hour. He found our Civil HQ in Indianapolis; 12 he gave the Legion state leaders a Defense sadly wanting in view of Rus- to deliver atomic ]i Oct. 15-17, the Legion's Nat'l Execu- somber picture of the atomic armament sian capability weap- tive Committee held its annual fall meet- situation. Cole called for an all-out ons to "all or nearly all of our metropoli- ing at Nat'l HQ in Indianapolis, re- H-bomb production program and ticked tan industrial centers simultaneously" viewed all nat'l Legion programs for the off these points: with a possibility of nine to twenty mil- coming year, cleaned up work left for 1. Russia, once assumed to be well lion casualties, according to some esti-

it by the nat'l convention, appointed behind us in fission research, exploded mates. major non-elective administrative officers an H-bomb 9 months after we did. Peterson reported widespread apathy

and confirmed the Nat'l Cmdr's appoint- 2. Hydrogen energy, it now seems, is toward Civil Defense, clue, he said, to ments of all members of national com- much easier to harness for. war than we (1) inherent human laziness; (2) wish- missions and committees for the com- once thought it would be. ing so hard that there won't be a war ing year. 3. The Soviets have the capacity to that the wish is fact in many minds; (3) Of hundreds of subjects that got top outstrip our thermonuclear program if shrugging off atomic destruction as Legion attention during the busy 13-day we falter in the least. something nobody can do anything WORRIED GUESTS AT NATIONAL LEGION HQ

Shirtsleeved Peterson Get our people ready Senator Kennedy More big bombers

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50% or more the damage that would be tense job had been asked of the Legion terest when it was pointed out that wrought by air raids on an unprepared since WW2, and was welcomed. Three UMT would go far toward providing a populace. On the other hand, he said, days later, the Legion National Execu- background ol trained manpower which amateurs and untrained people can be tive Committee endorsed the general would also be of use at home for the worse than no help at all in a disaster. idea ol trained, Legion post rescue acute Civil Defense situation. Peterson urged that Legion state offi- teams. The originally brief appointment with cials do all they can to help bring about the President ran over 40 minutes. Be- better civilian preparedness. "You can- The Big Stick fore it was over Ike received from Cmdr not wait," he said, "until the Connell a new Legion cap and his mem- bombs are Boyish-looking Senator John F. Ken- lulling the or- for 105 I. upon United States to nedy (Mass.) came before the Nat'l bership card ganize these people. They must be Executive Committee on Oct. 16 — in- trained in advance for the and ready terrupting his honeymoon and bringing A Big Parly Civil is job." Defense, he said, mostly a his petite bride. Middletown, Conn., and its Milardo matter of training people to be auxili- Kennedy, too, voiced the growing Wilcox Post 75 did themselves and aries, in time of need, to existing services concern for national strength to offset Arthur Connell proud as they gave — such as police, fire J. fighters, medical the threat of increased Soviet military the Nat'l Cmdr a Homecoming on Oct. and first aid units. potential. for He spoke a vastly increased 10 to rank with the best. Although the "It is a difficult assignment," he strategic air force "with sufficient retali- city on the banks of the Connecticut added, "to attempt to arouse people to atory power to threaten a potential ag- River is a substantial one, the Home- the point where they will take the action ." gressor with havoc and ruin. . . coming was of such proportions that that is needed to defend themselves and Said traditional ad- Kennedy, "The traffic was tied up to the extreme out- our country against this kind of attack." initial vantages that the attack has skirts of Middletown long before noon. always given an aggressor will be It was a perfect Fall Saturday, clear A J oh for The Legion multiplied a thousand-fold by the de- and blue, and visiting Legionnaires struetiveness of atomic fire power." Peterson did not stop at asking gen- poured in from as far away as New should therefore, he added, eral support from the Legion. He offered We Mexico and Wisconsin, with large dele- ". . . concentrate all our ability on a the organization a specific Civil Defense gations from nearly all of the eastern strategic air force containing such re- job. "I would like to suggest to The states. Nearly 75,000 people were pres- taliatory powers that the Soviets will be American Legion," he said, "that each ent when the impressive 3-hour parade impelled to hold their hand." of the 17,200 Legion posts sponsor a began at I p.m. Merchants closed their volunteer eight-man rescue team, or a stores and the lestinionial to Connell Talk with Ike squad of three 8-man teams, in coopera- A continued for nearly 12 hours — did not tion with their local civil defense organi- Civil Defense had come up also in end until alter midnight following a zations." The teams and squads could Nat'l Cmdr Council's talk with Pres. dinner in Council s honor attended by be organized, he said, in accordance Eisenhower on Oct. 5. It was a good I 100 people, and a free public dance with Federal Civil Defense Administra- talk, a long talk, and the President put in Middletow n s armory. tion Advisory Bulletin 152. Though they nil another appointment to keep it go- Manx distinguished citizens of Con- would be subject to local civil defense ing. Ike, also disturbed by general Civ il necticut and the nation joined the citi-

PHOTOS BY THE HARTFORD COUKANT

Connecticut's Gov. Lodge & Cmdr Connell. .They salute Middlctown's salute

32 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1953 zens of Middletown in their tribute to }] Exemption of American Legion Junior sheet on trends in Congress, is again Connecticut's first National Commander Baseball games from admissions tax. available.

of the American Legion. Participants in- j) Any program to increase efficiency in It is one of the most informative and cluded Connecticut's Governor & Mrs. administration of veterans affairs, pro- least expensive of all Washington news- John D. Lodge; U. S. Senator William vided there is no loss of benefits and letters ($3 for entire session of Con-

S. Purtell; Stephen K. Bailey, Mayor of services to veterans. gress. ) Middletown; five Past Nat'l Cmdrs Bulletin, offered for subscription Oct. (Harry Colmery, Kans.; Paul Griffith, Oppose 15, has new, improved format. It carries Pa.; Iowa: up-to-date reports on all Washington Ray Murphy, James O'Neil, Some of the high priority mandates N. matters in which Legion has expressed H. and Edward Scheiberling, N. Y.); called for opposition to existing or pro- interest. Analyzes position, support ot and entertainers Morton Downey, Con- posed Federal policies or legislation. rad Nagel, and opposition to bills in Congress, Edward G. Robinson and The included opposition to: Marylin Stone. reports Legion Legislative actions to i> Any change in basic law affecting hospitalization of non-service-connected all subscribers and traces Washington LEGISLATIVE: veterans. events that control pending bills. Because of tremendous value of this ]> Any dismemberment of the VA, with The 1 954 Program bulletin abreast special emphasis on opposing separation in keeping Legionnaires of the twists and turns and pace of leg- Early in Oct., the Natl Legislative of VA medical services and establish- islative and administrative affairs in Commission reviewed the Legion's leg- ments from the VA. Washington, subscription coupon for islative program for 1954. On the 16th, }i Any proposal that would weaken the is published on Chmn Jerome Duggan (Mo.) reported Veterans Preference Act of 1944, as readers' convenience this page. to the National Executive Committee a amended. summary of some 204 Legion legisla- ] Any changes in the McCarran-Walter REHABILITATION: tive mandates now in effect through Act (PL 14, 82nd Congress) that would action of various nat'l conventions and rescind or materially weaken it. AMA Plays a Lone Hand the Executive }} Admission of displaced persons over Nat'l Committee. Involved The Legion had definitely lost pa- were 43 bills & resolutions now alive in and above the current quota. tience with the American Medical Asso- the Senate, 91 in the House and more ciation's weaving, twisting, opportunist It is Done than 60 others in a pending status. Also How attacks on the Federal system of medi- involved were 113 Legion legislative Legion influence in Congress is no cal care for veterans. On Oct. 17 the mandates for which no legislation has hit or miss affair, according to the re- Nat'l Executive Committee called a drafted. been port given the state Legion officials in spade a spade. So that the Legislative staff could Indianapolis, Oct. 13 by the Legislative There remained no doubt that AMA its intelligently in handle job the face staff. Policies come directly from con- bigwigs had never had a case to back of 204 mandates, the Nat'l Executive vention and Executive Committee ac- up their former claims of widespread Committee pondered a system of priori- tion, after having originated, for the abuse in veteran care. ties. Oct. On 17, the Nat'l Legislative most part, in Post or Department reso- Every past AMA claim had crumpled priorities for established. 1954 were lutions. "Success in this field," said Di- into nothingness. Last spring, AMA wit- rector Miles Kennedy, "depends wholly nesses before a Congressional commit- Support on the fairness of the proposition, skill- tee beat a hasty retreat. They declined ful legislative maneuvering, thorough to give a shred of valid evidence to back Some of the high priority mandates knowledge of the subject, numerical up the most serious charges that they called for support of existing or pro- strength and sustained organized effort." had given to newspapers and hurled posed Federal policies or legislation. Actual foundation of a sound and effec- from public platforms — charges which They included support of: tive program, he emphasized, is based claimed that well-to-do veterans in great ]) More funds for service-connected on the knowledge of individual Legion- numbers were getting VA care for non- medical and dental care for disabled naires. service-connected disabilities by lying veterans; and for the administration of To help Legionnaires keep abreast of about their ability to afford private care. VA medical, hospital and domiciliary the legislative Congressional hearings on vet- care. program, the Nat'l Legis- The lative Commission announced that its erans hospitalization last spring filled ]> Removal of inequities whereby com- Legislative Bulletin, bi-weekly dope 2,909 pages of testimony and evidence, pensation and pensions for veterans and their dependents are awarded on different bases, depending on which war the I I National Legislative Commission Date veteran served in. The American Legion ]> The bringing into being of Universal 1608 K Street, N.W. Military Training. Washington 6, D. C.

!> Development of an expanded and Attached find check (money order) for three dollars ($3.00) for which enter more effective Civil Defense program. subscription to the National Legislative Bulletin of The American Legion for the entire 2nd Session of the 83rd Congress which convenes January 6, 1954. ]> Continued funds for the Veterans Send same to: Employment program.

]> Extension of VA direct loan program to Jan. 1, 1955. Name ]> An Amendment to the U. S. Consti- I (please type or print)

tution to prevent treaties and agree- I ments with foreign powers from legally Address. getting around the Constitution in their (please type or print) effect on U. S. internal affairs.

]> Increase of Social Security wage- credits Subscriber is member of: Legion; Auxiliary for the military from $160 a | month to $250 a month.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1953 • 33 in which Congress — with the strong the will of the American people as ex- away at the bargains servicemen get in approval of the Legion — sought to get pressed in Congress." commissaries and post exchanges; ar- at the facts behind long years of claims AMA had trouble with its campaign bitrary limitations have been imposed and counterclaims regarding widespread on other fronts too. Member physicians, on opportunities for promotion in serv- abuse of the veterans hospital privileges, engaged more in healing than in power- ice; income tax exemptions on service in which AMA leaders had played a seeking, were beginning to squirm at pay have been reduced and limited; large part. the growing fiasco committed in their military pay scales have gone up, but Given their day in court, and asked names by zealous leaders, as more fin- not in proportion to the cost of living; pointblank on the witness stand to give gers began to point at the falseness of four years enlistments have had four Congress tangible evidence of the the AMA position. additional years of compulsory reserve abuses, the medical leaders gave ex- VA Medical Director Joel T. Boone service tacked onto them. actly none. told the NEC on Oct. 16: "I would be Too often, public discussion of these Not only the Congress, but the Legion unworthy of my degree of Doctor of many reductions in the benefits of vet- and the VA had taken the charges seri- Medicine if I did not have the courage erans and servicemen, or impositions ously. The Legion, in cooperation with to stand up and declare those of my upon them, are based "on the merits of the VA, had investigated nearly 5,000 profession wrong in this issue. ... I am the ease." That is, each is discussed non-service-connected cases in VA gen- proud to be a member of the AMA and singly, in a vacuum, without regard to eral hospitals, where most of the wealth}' I have been in the House of Delegates the public policy that relates to all of veterans were alleged to be reclining. for two years . . . but not one president them, or to the fact that servicemen's & The result was recorded by the Nat'l of the AMA in my time or that I can veterans' rights and benefits are part of Executive Committee on Oct. 17: "The find out, or a president-elect, or a single a contract.

American Legion's searching inquiry . . . member of the board of trustees, or an It is by ignoring the public policy finds no material or significant evidence executive, has ever been in the Veterans that many benefits have been whittled, to support ." either the contention that Administration to find out the facts. . . or stand in danger of being whittled. they (non-service-connected VA pa- Meanwhile, in a large midwestern The public policy, since the nation be- tients) had ability to pay or were other- city, executives of a radio station took gan, recognized the need of the nation wise unworthy of hospital care as pro- one look at specimens of the canned to enlist men to give extraordinary serv- vided by law." AMA attack on veterans medicine that ice in the military — to lay aside their In the past, the Legion had attempted they were asked to broadcast and flatly civil liberties and take up employment to cooperate with the AMA. Now the rejected it. in which they could be ordered to their Legion's Nat'l Executive Committee put AMA officials were, in fact, courting deaths. The nation, from its beginnings, an abrupt end to polite language. Writ- the worst disaster in history for the heal- recognized that there was no pay scale ten into the official Legion record on ing profession. Their canned handouts that it could afford which could be con- Oct. 17 were these words: attacking veterans medicine insisted sidered adequate pay for such extraor- "National organizations embracing that care for veterans under existing and dinary service. the medical profession have repeatedly ancient policy is a hidden stepping stone Hanson Baldwin, in the Oct. 13 Sat- made public statements that there is to socialized medicine. They urged that urday Evening Post, quoted General widespread imposition upon the Federal indigent, disabled veterans be thrown Omar Bradley as saying that the erosion government by veterans seeking care . . . back upon their communities for indi- and chipping away, piece by piece, of by falsely swearing . . . gent care in order to save the country the traditional advantages offered to "When opportunity was extended to from socialism. men when we recruit them amounts to: these organizations to submit evidence Never before had the AMA defined "Changing the rules in the middle of to the Congress, this resulted either in "socialized medicine" in such a way as the game." the presentation of material which to compel America's war veterans to be It was the nation, and not the service- proved to be false or inaccurate, or they for it. men or the veterans, that initiated the declined to cooperate with the Com- policy of special benefits and privileges mittee by refusing to give the evidence Breach Of Contract for servicemen and veterans so that, for they ." contended they possessed . . The AMA is, of course, urging that comparatively niggardly pay, men could But the AMA leaders were undaunted the United States engage in a breach of be induced to surrender themselves to by their embarrassment in Congress. contract. assume special risks to protect the whole They simply hoisted a new flag. Early Readers of this magazine have read, of society. The nation could not pay in the summer they declared war on over and over again in recent years, the what such service was worth. So it said veterans medicine, abuses or no, and protests of the Legion against moves to it would give, instead, certain guaran- switched to an organized campaign of restrict the rights and benefits of vet- tees which no other men could buy. The attack on the principles of veterans erans in the name of economy; to reduce early colonies gave veterans preference medical care. Suddenly the whole pro- veterans' medical care; to subtract from in state jobs. Soldiers' homes were estab- gram was wrong. pensions and compensation; to lop oft an lished, and the soldiers were told "We AMA word artists got busy and "inconsequential" benefit here and an- won't pay you much now — but so long ground out hysterical canned speeches, other there; to impose a new "good and as you live you will always have a roof editorials and letters-to-the-editor which sensible" limitation in one instance, and over your head and three meals a day — working physicians were supposed to again in another; to hedge on , refe ice no matter what misfortune befalls you." parrot in their home towns. They chal- in government jobs for veterans a bit In the years that have followed, near- lenged the entire framework of public this way and a bit that way. ly every advantage offered to service- — policy of medical care for veterans. There is also another area of protest. men and veterans has been a tacit part On Oct. 17, the Legion's Nat'l Execu- What has been happening to veterans' and a most substantial part — of the tive Committee had words for that, too. benefits is also happening to the tradi- contract signed by the nation to recruit "This campaign, opposing the care of tional conveniences, rights and benefits men into its service. veterans as a class, is entirely false in of men in the services. "Sound dollar Today, with reductions of these guar- premise and is in direct contradiction to measures" have whittled and chipped antees on every side, and vast pressures

34 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 for more reductions on every side — no told this magazine on Nov. 4 that his specific reduction can be considered in- firm faces a lawsuit from financial back- dividually. Each proposed reduction is ers of the film in Italy if it does not live something larger than itself. It is to pro- up to its contract. Krim reports that pose a breach of contract by the United United Artists is at present taking con- States. It is to ask that we take away siderable pains to avoid contracting for from a man, after he has signed himself the distribution of films in America that to our service, what we offered him are made by European or American when we sought to gain his service. communists abroad, and is consulting The willingness of important segments with non-communist film unions in of our society (like the AMA under its Europe for guidance. present leadership ) to press for breaches Krim did not object to publicizing the of faith with our servicemen plays no change of screen credits. It was not done small part in the present grave difficul- to deceive audiences, he said, but at the ties we are having in recruiting volun- request of the Italian gov't which owns Higley at Meeting. teers for the armed forces and the NEC an interest in the film and objects to reserves. publicizing Weber, Vorhaus, Losey and American Legion is committed to the Barzman. preservation of the basic law establish- Higley's Solution The Italian gov't, said Krim, is now ing veterans' hospitalization. Moreover, Harvey Higley, Administrator of Vet- working hand in hand with United its policy is to support any procedure erans Affairs, thought he had a solution Artists to keep communists out of films that will insure the utilization of the to the bickering over hospitalization of made in Italy for American audiences. limited number of beds available in the non-service-connected veterans. At the But it insists that United Artists live VA system." end of September he drew up a new up to its contract, Krim said, because people have been paid form for veterans to sign in applying for MOVIES: the objectionable such care. Instead of simply saying that their salaries and withholding the film they were unable to afford the care for Strange Encounter now would injure the non-communist backers of the film who were hood- which they applied, veterans making out Scheduled for release by United winked. the new form would give a detailed ac- Artists at the World Theater in New "This is the last chapter of our mess count of their personal finances and York on Armistice Day was the made- with red film artists," said Krim. "We worth. (See these pages last month.) »in-Italy film, "Stranger on the Prowl," are now getting so much cooperation For a month, the Budget Bureau held starring Paul Muni. abroad to keep communists out of those up Higley's new questionnaire, but on Query to United Artists, which does of our films that are made there that we Nov. 5, final approval was given the new not produce but distributes films, reveals feel obliged to keep our contract with form and it went into effect. that this is the film Encounter, with the the people who are now cooperating Higley told the Legion's Nat'l Execu- title and some of the screen credits tive Committee in October that he felt changed. with us." the questionnaire would: Release of Encounter was voluntarily 1. Arm the VA with sufficient infor- held up late last year. EDUCATION: mation to permit it to scotch all false Last December, this magazine dis- Closer Together reports about the ability of veterans to cussed a letter which the Hollywood pay for their own care. American Federation of Labor Film The week Nov. 8-14 was American 2. Remind each veteran applying for Council had sent to Congressman John Education week. Purpose of the Week non-service-connected care of the mean- Wood of Georgia regarding Encounter. was to draw attention to fact that schools ing of his statement that he cannot pay. Discussing that letter we said: "The and adult community should keep in Commenting on the questionnaire, Council's letter to Representative Wood close touch with each other. On the na- Nat'l Cmdr Connell said on November reported that 'United Artists is contem- tional front, the Week was well ob- 10: "The policy of The American Legion plating release' of Encounter in America. served. President Eisenhower proclaimed is to support the program of hospitali- The letter took no exception to Muni but it. The Nat'l Education Ass'n, the U. S. zation of veterans who (1) need such said: 'This picture was produced by Office of Education, the Nat'l Congress care for service-connected disabilities, John Weber, identified as a full-time and of Parents and Teachers, and The Ameri- and (2) are in need of this care for ail- long-active Party functionary in New can Legion and radio networks boosted ments not adjudicated as due to service York and Hollywood; and Bernard Vor- it. and who are unable to pay for hospital haus, also identified as a communist. It In a radio broadcast, Nat'l Cmdr Con- treatment. was directed by Joseph Losey, a fugi- nell pointed out that American Educa- "The Administrator of Veterans Affairs tive from a House Un-American Activi- tion Week was initiated by The Ameri- has taken steps to tighten the procedure ties subpoena. It was written by Ben can Legion in 1921. Then, as now, the and protect those who have entitlement Barzman, who also has been identified Legion wanted to focus, once a year, to hospitalization. as a Party member. We urge you to take public attention on the problems, needs "There is nothing in the addendum immediate steps to see to it that this and accomplishments of American to the application for hospital care that picture is not shown in an American schools — with broader aim of stimulating changes the eligibility. The Administra- theater.'" more all-year contact between citizens tor has stated that the use of this addi- The names of Weber, Losey, Vorhaus and schools. tional statement should cause each ap- and Barzman have been removed from Whether the special week was well- plicant to focus his attention on his tht screen credits of the film under its observed locally was not evident at financial status 'and thereby give him a new title of Stranger on the Prowl. presstime. But better liaison between clearer understanding of the propriety Arthur Krim, one of the directors of laymen and their schools was, and would of signing the oath of inability to pay.' United Artists, says that his firm con- remain, as important as ever for several "As Nat'l Cmdr of The American tracted for the distribution of the film vital reasons:

Legion I believe the new procedure before it discovered the record of the 1) To stop the trend in recent years should be given a reasonable trial. The producers, director and author. Krim toward "resolving" conflicts in education

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1953 • 35 by dividing America into "friends" and The Legion will share in proceeds from EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: "enemies" of education. This dangerous the sale, using them to further its splen- piece of mischief tends to put teachers did programs of Americanism. Some Other Actions and citizens at each others' throats. It "We intend to do all we can to see In addition to the several matters fea- cannot survive close contacts on the that the sale is large. tured at some length on these pages, the community level which give educators "These pages stir one's pride of coun- Nat'l Executive Committee dealt with a and citizens a decent respect for each try. They affirm loyalty, courage and host of other matters at its Oct. 15-17 others' opinions and a common view of patriotism. meetings. Among these were the fol- problems. "We thank heaven that in a time of lowing :

2) New school loads, now in the off- soft internationalism and foundering ]) Nat'l officers were authorized to es- ing, require close understanding of values, The Legion stands foursquare tablish an American Legion Child Wel- school problems by all. Nat l Legion for those simple inspiring virtues — age- fare Foundation, and to accept as its Child Welfare Division reports that 1960 old but never old-fashioned!" initial source of funds a gift of mineral will see half again as many teen-agers and oil rights in 364 acres of land in the as 1950, while heavy birthrate keeps INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Williston Oil Basin of North Dakota and crowding primary schools. These and Montana. The donor: a WW2 vet long other factors will bring controversies in- Legion College Again active in Legion Child Welfare, not stead of solutions unless schools and After 7 years, The American Legion anxious for publicity. citizens face together. ]\ problems college will reopen at Legion Nat l Hq Rules and regulations for conduct •3) Attempts to subvert school pro- in Indianapolis for a one-week term of Nat'l Conventions were drastically grams and teaching philosophies will January 17-23. A special school for amended; plans for 36th Nat'l Conven- continue as long as a communist remains training Legionnaires in Legion and civic tion in Washington, D. C. next Aug. 30- on earth. As educators are a prime tar- leadership, several sessions of the col- Sept. 2 were approved. Report that get for subversion, they need all the lege were held in the years following housing would be adequate was re- strength they can borrow. A sense of WW2. The last was held in 1947. Gradu- ceived. community wishes gained through close ates of the earlier colleges include a ]> Budget for fiscal year 1954 of $5,545,- and friendly contacts with citizens is a host of Department and National Legion 831 was approved. frame educators need to evaluate any officials of today. ]) Employees retirement plan was sort of doctrine that is proposed to them. A class of at least 49 was immediately amended to bring 16 former employees, assured when, at its October meeting, retired under old plan, under new re- BOOKS: the Nat l Executive Committee author- tirement plan.

Legionnaires were not alone in think- ized re-opening of the college. The ac- ]> Three nat'l administrative employees ing their new book was a good one. On tion included sponsorship by the na- were re-appointed: Henry H. Dudley, Nov. 2 the New York Daily Mirror tional organization of one candidate Nat'l Adjutant; Ralph Gregg, Nat'l moved its book-review up to the edi- from each of the continental depart- Judge Advocate; Neal Grider, Nat'l torial page and said the following under ments, defraying all expenses of housing Treasurer. In the 4th annual appointive the head "The Legion's Inspiring Book:" meals and text materials. office, Robert T. Fairey, 35, of Colum- "A significant book for all who love Nat'l Cmdr Connell urged at the time bia, South Carolina, was named Nat'l America will go on sale Armistice Day, that each continental department spon- Historian. Fairey is a member of Rich- Nov. 11, and we take this opportunity sor at least one candidate itself, and mond Post 6, was winner of 1952 De- to recommend it to our readers. invited individual posts to do the same. partment History Contest. Fairey suc- "It is 'The American Legion Reader' An enrollment of approximately 140 ceeds Monte C. Sandlin, of Florence, (Hawthorn Books, $4.95), a compila- could be accommodated, though there Ala. tion of the excellent material that has would be some flexibility. ]> Winners of the 1953 Post History Con- appeared over the years in The Ameri- President of the college will be V. M. test were announced by outgoing Nat'l can Legion Magazine. (Army) Armstrong of Indianapolis, C. Historian Sandlin. Winners in Type I "The latter publication is devoted to M. Wilson, of the Nat'l Membership and (Posts chartered before 1943) were the Legion's ideals of Americanism, and, Post Activities Section, will again serve (1st) Ray Henry, Historian, Post 100, in addition to being a patriotic journal as director. Rogers, Ark.; (2nd) Raymond A. Gray, in the finest sense, contains some of the The college will have a faculty of 15, Historian, Post 17, Greenville, Tex.; best writing on sports, humor, adventure, selected from division heads of The (3rd) J. C. Hambright, Historian, Post international affairs, etc., to be found American Legion in Indianapolis, Wash- 50, College Park, Ga. anywhere. ington and New York. Winners in Type II (Posts chartered "Victor Lasky, co-author of the best- The curriculum will be aimed at de- in 1943 or later) were (1st) Virginia J. selling 'Seeds of Treason,' the expose of veloping leadership, and will include Phelps, Historian, Post 49, Albuquer-

the Alger Hiss case, has edited 'The American Legion history, finances, in- que, N. M.; (2nd) J. Harold Byrd, American Legion Reader,' and has filled ternal structures, law, accomplishments, Historian, Post 233, Loganville, Ga. its 512 pages with exciting and inspiring policies, program activities and public Honorable mention to James E. Marion. works of lasting importance. speaking. Emphasis will be placed upon Historian, Post 216, Atlanta, Ga.

]> Executive Committee approved all "We are happy to see that some of ( 1 ) the background, information and our own ace writers, including Walter inspiration to assume leadership at dif- standing commission and committee ap- Winchell, Victor Riesel, James Win- ferent Legion levels and (2) a broader pointments for the new Legion year. chester, Billy Rose and Grantland Rice, understanding of our constitutional form Total appointments are far too numer- are contributors to the volume. of government and living American tra- ous to list. Chairmen are as follows: "Its publication will add to the high ditions. National Commissions: Americanism, Battle Creek, prestige of the American Legion. We Cmdr Connell has written all depart- J. Addington Wagner, suggest the 'Reader' is a work most ment commanders and adjutants asking Mich.; Child Welfare, George Ehinger, Americans will want to own. Many also their cooperation in sponsoring The Dover, Del.; Convention, Harry L. Fos-

will wish to purchase it for gift purposes. American Legion College. ter, San Diego, Cal.; Economic, Wilbur

36 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 C. Daniel, Danville, Ya.; Finance, Wil- ™* POST DOINGS: liam Dwyer, Cortland, N. Y.; Foreign J. Service Relations, Rogers Kelley, Edinburg, Community Tex.; Internal Affairs, Charles L. Lar- S for community .1 . *JHlir ... Legion enthusiasm son, Port Washington, Wise.; Legisla- service program is reflected in steadily tive, Dnggan, St. Louis, Jerome Mo.; mounting number of new projects re- Publications, Stelle, Brazil, Ind.; John ported to Nat'l Hq. Public Relations, Thomas Paradine, E. In Texas, 21st District gave seven TV New York City; Rehabilitation, Robert sets to State School for Deaf with funds M. McCurdy, Pasadena, Cal.; Security, contributed by 16 Posts. In Stanton, Seaborn P. Collins, Las duces, N. M. Tex., Post 249 gave local school $227 National Committees come under worth of intercom speakers to complete Commissions. Chairmen of committees school communication system. are as follows: New York's Bronx County put Legion- Under Americanism: naires on street intersections with Police Accident Prevention, Sam Rubin, cooperation to distribute 50,000 traffic Monroe, La.; Roys State, Harry M. safety leaflets. In nearby Brooklyn, Post Gambrel, Kansas City, Mo.; Marksman- 1060 started first drive for "Orphans ship, Ben T. Watkins, Macon, Ga.; Re- Birthday Fund" to be given four orphan- ligious Emphasis, Dr. Tom B. Clark, ages sponsored by major religious faiths. Buffalo, Okla.; Sons The American of Post says everyone remembers orphans Legion, Dorian E. Clark, Nashville, Nat'l Comdr Arthur Connell with Thanksgiving and Christmas, forgets Tenn.; Un-American Activities, Dr. E. J. J. Henry Ford II, Chairman of "Crusade them rest of year. Martie, Reno, Nev. for Freedom" before mock tank in which Forreston, 111., Post 308 played host Under Child Welfare: eight Czechs escaped from reds. Connell to 35,000 visitors who ate three tons of Education Orphans Veterans, of of was attending Pentagon briefing, on franks and kraut on 34th annual Sauer- Henry Sherritt, Albuquerque, N. M. conditions behind the Iron Curtain. kraut Day. In Iowa, Albert City, Post Under Convention: 299 with less than 100 members pledged Contests Supervisory, Norton R. Gan- NAUGHT LEFT OUT: $1,000 to community swimming pool ger, Miami, Fla.; Distinguished Guests, A typo error on p. 26 of our Nov. building fund. A. L. Starshak, Chicago, 111.; Transpor- issue left out an important naught. Item In Marathon, Fla., Post 154 and its tation, W. N. Pippin, Wilmington, Del. said 215 U.S. radio stations cooperate Auxiliary, which built Youth Center, got Under Economic: with Legion's Hometown USA program. enthusiastic reception at opening clay Agricultural and Conservation, Elbert Figure should have been 2,015. (Continued on page 38) S. Rawls, Lewiston, Idaho; Employ- ment, J. Ross Foust, Greensburg, Pa.; Labor Relations (to be named); Hous- IT SMELLS GRAND IT PACKS RIGHT ing, Tom Moses, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Veter- ans Preference, Raymond R. McEvoy, Stoughton, Mass. Under Finance: Emblem, Julius Levy, Uniontown, Pa.; Investments Policy, A. E. McCor- mick, Mountain Lakes, N. J. Under Foreign Relations: Inter-American, Warren H. Ather- ton, Stockton, Cal.; Special Committee on Covenant of Human Rights 6- United Nations, Ray Murphy, N. Y. Under Internal Affairs: Constitution and Ry-Laws, James F. H ERE S THE SEASON S THERES LOTS Green, Omaha, Neb.; Graves Registra- , FRAG-RANCE HIT! OF FUN IN LOADING IT! tion b- Memorial, Mancel B. Talcott,

Waukegan, 111.; Membership

Pilgrimage, James J. Murphy, Washing- ton, D. C; Trophies, Awards ir Cere- monials, Donald Johnson, West Branch, Iowa; Resolutions Assignment, Charles W. Griffith, Manning, S. C. Under Security: Aeronautics, William C. Doyle, Bur- lington, N. J. ; Civil Defense, Niel R. Al- len, Grants Pass, Ore., Merchant Marine, Henry C. Parke, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mili- tary Affairs, William S. Todd, Kings- SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S BLEND OF CHOICE port, Tenn.; Naval Affairs, Arthur F. KENTUCKV BURLEyS IS EXTRA-AGED TO Duffy, Queens Village, N. Y.; Law I? GUARD AGAINST TONGUE BITE. THE LARGE — Order, Col. George Mingle, Columbus, SIZE CANISTER OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND MAN -WHAT PLEASURE IN A BEAUTIFUL VOLETIOE PACKAGE — Ohio; Security Training, Granville S. WHEN IT'S LIT / MAKES THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT.1 Ridley, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 • 37 iWTVTT Styles in Legion Post Homes

Post 71, Lake Wales, Fla $40,000 Spanish modern Post 47, Havre de Grace. Md Built 1737

enthusiasm, Nat l Public Relations Div. urged Posts and Depts. to forward details to them. Continuing publicity on community service projects tends to spark new ones by other Posts looking for way to help. Building' Boom

As 1953 drew to a close, steady three- year rise in Legion membership was reflected in rash of new Post homes. Across the country the Legion was building to care for its own and community needs. Most recent report showed wide range of plans and costs for new Post homes. In Urbana, Ohio, Post 741 bought an old mill building for conversion, while Post 156, Choccolocco, Ala Home-built for $18,000 in West Milton, Ohio, Post 487 started on a Quonset-type structure. Post 115, Hettinger, N. Dak., completed new home and Post 33, Biloxi, Miss., approved final building plans. Post 169, Tiffin, Ohio, dedicated new $65,000 home and Post 240, Martin, S. Dak., awarded $110,000 contract for its new building. Post 26, Hobbs, N. Mex., decided on a brick home. At Logan, Utah, Post 7 planned to build against the south wall of Logan Canyon. Eden Prairie, Minn., Post 409, and Post 47, Calhoun, Ga., came through with plans for new structures. From Puerto Rico came news of the first American Legion clubhouse on the island — built at Humacao by Post 7 for $15,000. Members of Post 126 in Cliff-

Post 7, Humacao, P. R $15,000 Modern tropic side Park, N. J., were finishing a new Post home with their own labor.

(Continued from page 37) Post 105, Decatur, 111., provided ev- In late Oct., Post 210, Danville, 111., ceremonies from civic and Naval offi- ery school in its county with patriotic dedicated its $75,000 home. Guests in- cials for their contribution to community plaques and copies of the book "You and cluded Past Nat'l and Dept. Cmdrs, life. the Constitution." Mercer County Amer- congressman, state and local officials. In October 30 members of May wood, ican Legion in New Jersey made a com- Most ambitious of new buildings re-

\. | Post 142 painted uniform, white- munity service project out of a drive to ported and one designed to fill a com- on-black house numbers on the curb in deactivate war trophies brought home munity need was the Greenport, N. Y., trout ol each of Maywood's 3,000 homes by vets. Cooperation of Trenton, N. J., Post 185 American Legion Hall built for and received loud approval from local Police Department has been given by $150,000. Dedicated on Armistice Day, populace and everyone looking for a city authorities. the building serves as community rec- street address in that suburban town. As projects mounted in numbers and reation center.

38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 195?

' M li & -, % 1954 ROSTER OF DEPARTMENT OFFICERS

DEPARTMENT COMMANDER ADJUTANT NAT'L EXEC. COMMITTEE ALABAMA Charles W. Eiland Joseph M. Dickcrson Hugh W. Overton Andalusia, Alabama Box 1069. Montgomery, Alabama Wadley, Alabama ALASKA Foster R. Sims Alfred L. Zenger, Sr. (Temporary) John Van Horn

P. O. Box 1853, Palmer, Alaska P. O. Box 2317, Juneau. Alaska Box 3, Sitka, Alaska ARIZONA Timothy R. King Clayton B. Orth John R. Stillc 1620 E. Linden, Tucson, Arizona 723 W. Polk Street, Phoenix, Arizona P. O. Box 1511, Tucson, Arizona ARKANSAS G. M. LaMarr John L. Yance Sam Rorex Fayetteville, Arkansas 202 Glover Building, 2006 Fair Park Boulevard, Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas CALIFORNIA William R. Burke Gordon A. Lyons Jack Ahem 403 West 8th St., 117 War Memorial Bldg., 839 Talbert Street, Los Angeles, California San Francisco, California Martinez. California CANADA Paul Wcndt L. O. LaPlante John B. Finucane 235 Alderbrea Ave., Alderwood, Room 320. University Tower, Room 12, Dom. Sq. Bldg., Toronto 14. Ont., Canada Montreal. Quebec, Canada Montreal, Que., Canada COLORADO Ward Rogers M. L. Lyckholm William R. Egan Estes Park, Colorado 116 State Office Bldg., 1102 Racine, Denver, Colorado Denver, Colorado CONNECTICUT James H. Steinson Charles L. Parker Joseph G. Leonard Westbrook, Connecticut State Office Bldg., 32 Maher Rd„ Stamford, Connecticut Hartford, Connecticut

DELAWARE Thomas W. Miilrooney Thomas B. Egan Dr. Carl J. Rees 511 W. 8th St., Wilmington. Delaware P. O. Box 1186 (Dravo Bldg.), R. D. No. 2. Christine Manor, Wilmington, Delaware Newark, Delaware WASHINGTON, Dr. (Rev.) William F. Adams Byron E. Dunn Lee R. Pennington D. C. 433 3rd St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 433 3rd Street, Washington, D. C. 4720 Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D. C. FLORIDA Joseph A. Boyd, Jr. Ernest A. Rowton E. Meade Wilson 166 Hialeah Drive, Hialeah. Florida City Adm. Bldg., P. O. Box 726, Mulberry, Florida Tallahassee, Florida FRANCE Lloyd H. Cornwall Johri K. Kingslcy Sedley Peck 49 Rue Pierre Charron. 49 Rue Pierre Charron, Paris, France Azusa, California Paris 8e, France GEORGIA A. Sydney Dodd. Jr. Robert M. Joiner Guy O. Stone 23 N. Main St., Statesboro. Georgia 1428 Ponce de Leon Ave.. N.E.. Glenwood, Georgia Atlanta, Georgia HAWAII Fred W. Carter, Jr. Harold C. Hill (Acting) Phillip M. Carboy 612 McCully St., Honolulu, T. H. 612 McCully Street, Honolulu 14. T. H Room 402, Dillingham Bldg., Honolulu, T. H. IDAHO Austin G. West Samuel E. Vanee, Jr. Sidney E. Smith Plummer, Idaho 204V2 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise, Idaho 214 Powell Bldg., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ILLINOIS Edward Dreimcyer Leonard W. Espcr Perce F. Brautigam 201 W. Herrin St., Herrin. Illinois McBarnes Building, 7306 Oglesby Ave., Chicago 49, Illinois Bloomington, Illinois INDIANA Roy M. Amos Frank J. Myers John C. Wilson 777 N. Meridian St., 777 N. Meridian Street, R. R. 9, Bloomington, Indiana Indianapolis. Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana IOWA Robert H. E. Lounsberry R. J. Laird Theodore Murphy McCallsburg, Iowa Argonne Armory Building, Ida Grove, Iowa Des Moines 9, Iowa

ITALY John J. Fornacca Carmine Casolini H. Armand deMasi American Express Company, Via Sistina 30, Rome. Italy New York Journal American. 210 South Rome, Italy St., New York, N. Y. KANSAS John P. Nation Irvin L. Cowger Guy E. Holt, Jr. 20 S. Larson. Chanute, Kansas Memorial Building, Topeka, Kansas 124 E. 4th, Hutchinson. Kansas KENTUCKY George D. Miller T. H. Hayden Charles M. Blackburn Bardstown, Kentucky War Memorial Bldg., Versailles, Kentucky Louisville, Kentucky LOUISIANA L. W. Dawson Matt Monaghan Dr. A. R. Choppin 442 Canal St., New Orleans. Louisiana 720 Union Street. LSU, Baton Rouge, Louisiana New Orleans 12, Louisiana MAINE Ralph M. Merrow James L. Boyle Peter A. Thaanum 23 Main Street, Newport. Maine 104 Main Street, Waterville, Maine 32 Bowdoin St., Winthrop, Maine

MARYLAND J. Edward Walter Daniel H. Burkhardt Frank T. Powers War Memorial Bldg., War Memorial Building. 114 Wood St., Frostburg, Maryland

Baltimore 2. Maryland Baltimore 2, Maryland MASSACHUSETTS Coleman L. Nee A. Leo Anderson Frederick L. Mellin 32 Walton Street, Room 159, State House, 74 Fletcher St., Roslindale, Mass. Dorchester, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts

MEXICO Norbert W. Schmelkes Bruce D. Knoblock Andres J. du Bouchet, Jr. Francisco Diaz Covarrubias 5, Apartado Postal 107, % General Mtrs., Apartado 107 Bis., Mexico City 4, Mexico Bis., Mexico City, D. F.. Mexico Mexico City, D. F., Mexico MICHIGAN Billy R. Wickens Lisle H. Alcsander Arthur H. Clarke 2491 Sasse Rd., Midland, Michigan 422 Veterans Memorial Bldg., 151 W. 268 Center St., South Haven, Michigan Jefferson, Detroit, Michigan MINNESOTA Nate V. Keller Carl Granning Carl L. Lundgren First Natl. Bank Bldg., 600 Shubert Building, 2870 Holmes Ave. South, Virginia, Minnesota St. Paul 2. Minnesota Minneapolis 8, Minn. MISSISSIPPI Sam W. Waggoner, III Frank W. Chambers R. D. Morrow Newton, Mississippi Box 688, War Memorial Bldg., Brandon, Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi continued on next />age

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 195.1 • 39 DEPARTMENT COMMANDER ADJUTANT NAT'L EXEC. COMMITTEE

MISSOURI James B. Kerrigan James S. Whitfield Truman L. Ingle 235 Ward Parkway, 314 Madison Street, Fulton, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Jefferson City, Missouri MONTANA W. Charles Wallace Herbert Kibler Walter Barnard 903 West 3rd, Anaconda, Montana Box 1147, Helena, Montana 223 Medical Arts Bldg., Butte, Montana NEBRASKA Clark O'Hanlon R. C. Patterson John E. Curtiss Blair, Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska 1401 O Street, Lincoln, Nebraska NEVADA Ed M. White, Sr. Victor F. Whittlesea Thomas W. Miller Wells, Nevada 136 Pine Street. Reno, Nevada P. O. Box 1786, Reno, Nevada NEW HAMPSHIRE Walter Johnston Frank N. Sawyer James W. Doon 781 Sagamore Avenue. Room 407, State Office Bldg., Henniker, New Hampshire Portsmouth, New Hampshire Concord, N. H. NEW JERSEY Raymond Clyons Morris W. Ku/byt William G. McKinley 1042 Bloomfield St.. Memorial Bldg., Stacy Park, 44 Kensington Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Hoboken, New Jersey Trenton 10, N. J. NEW MEXICO James A. Tadlock Robert M. Marr Reed Mulkey P. O. Box 475, 3205 Central Avenue, N.E., Box 895, Roswell, New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico NEW YORK Paul S. Samuels Maurice Stember Leo V. Lanning 54 Market St., 31 Chambers Street, 112 State Street, Albany, New York Poughkeepsie, New York New York 7, N. Y. NORTH CAROLINA W. L. McMillan Nash D. McKce Robin S. Kirby 1208 Beal St., Box 2509, Raleigh, North Carolina Box 1086, Charlotte, North Carolina Rocky Mount, North Carolina NORTH DAKOTA Howard F. Dohcrty Jack Williams William Stern Killdeer, North Dakota Box 1748, Fargo, North Dakota Box 671 Fargo, North Dakota OHIO Howard C. Kingdom Joseph S. Deutschle Rossiter S. Williams P. O. Box 37, Conneaut, Ohio ±373 E. Broad St., P. O. Box 57, P. O. Box 361, Oak Hill, Ohio Sta. E.. Columbus, Ohio OKLAHOMA James W. Rodgers, Jr. Elmer L. Fraker Ike Crawford 121 N. Lowe, Holdenville, Oklahoma Box 3037, State Capitol, 130 W. Randolph, Enid, Oklahoma Oklahoma City 5, Oklahoma OREGON Dallas E. Nollsch Joseph P. McDonald Hollis C. Hull Route 1, Box 114 D, 429 S. W. Fourth Ave., Gen. George A. Box 366, Albany, Oregon Portland 9, Oregon White Bldg., Portland 4, Oregon PANAMA, C. Z. John L. MrDcrmott Alfred Hansen Nelson W. Magner Box 583, Gatun, C. Z. Box 553, Fort Davis, Canal Zone Box 373, Margarita, C. Z. PENNSYLVANIA Paul R. Selecky Daniel W. Shaub William L. Windsor 16 N. Franklin St., 1825 N. Front Street, 1222 North 3rd St., Harrisburg, Penna. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Pennsylvania PHILIPPINE IS. Sherman W. Jones Andrew D. Gruber Andrew R. McKelvie ACAN Primary Relay Station, 8243rd Rm. 215 Calvo Bldg., 60 Escolta, So Army-Navy Club, Manila, P. I. Army Unit, APO 928, % P. M., Manila, P. I. San Francisco, California PUERTO RICO Eduardo Cuchi Coll Jose M. Pizarro Ramon R. Guas P. O. Box 1889, P. O. Box 1889, Box 811, San Juan, P. R. San Juan 9, Puerto Rico San Juan 9, Puerto Rico

RHODE ISLAND Robert J. Bergeon Lee A. Lemos John A. Ryer 118 Pinehurst Avenue, 42 Smith St., 22 Walnut St., Providence, Rhode Island Riverside 15, Rhode Island East Providence 14, Rhode Island

SOUTH CAROLINA Martin K. Kosefield J. J. Bullard E. Roy Stone, Jr. Sumter, South Carolina 1705 Hampton St., Box 355, Woodrow Box 444, Greenville, South Carolina Wilson Home, Columbia, S. C. SOUTH DAKOTA H. A. Nielson Walter Travis Claude A. Hamilton 803 Kansas City Street, Watertown, South Dakota 512 Security Natl. Bldg., Rapid City, South Dakota Sioux Falls, So. Dakota

TENNESSEE John J. Duncan W. R. "Bob" Looncy Bert B. Barnes, Jr. 204 Flatiron Bldg., 323 7th Avenue. Bells, Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee N. Nashville, Tennessee

TEXAS L. E. Page G. Ward Moody H. J. Bernard Box 485, Carthage, Texas 1500 N. Congress Avenue, 549 Esperson Bldg., Houston, Texas P. O. Box 2206, Austin, Texas

UTAH William Sutteer J. Lloyd Wignall Victor J. Bolt Roosevelt, Utah 115 State Capitol. 325 East 4th North, Brigham City, Utah Salt Lake City, Utah

I VERMONT Edward H. Giles mill. i S. Iglesias H. Nelson Jackson Hartland, Vermont Box 396, Montpelier, Vermont 158 So. Willard St., Burlington, Vermont

VIRGINIA Dr. Thomas S. Ely Charles L. Kessler Lemuel W. Houston P. O. Box 115, Jonesville, Virginia Broad-Grace Arcade, Postmaster, Fredericksburg, Virginia Richmond 19, Virginia WASHINGTON Jasper A. Reynolds Fred M. Fnecker Frank O. Setber 1144 Alvorado, Legion Memorial Bldg., P. O. Box 747, Olympia, Washington Walla Walla, Washington 620 University St.. Seattle 1, Wash. WEST VIRGINIA E. Gau jot Bias Tommy E. Jones Dr. P. E. Kerchival P. O. Box 619, P. O. Box 3191. Kingwood, West Virginia Williamson. West Virginia Charleston 32, West Virginia WISCONSIN Gordon W. Rosclcip Robert G. Wilke Kenneth L. Greenquist Darlington, Wisconsin 812 East State Street, 510 Monument Square, Racine, Wis. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

WYOMING Charles E. York, Jr. W. W. Hale, Jr. Lyle Poole 139 N. Second, Douglas, Wyoming Box 555, Cheyenne, Wyoming Torrington, Wyoming

4() • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 AVAILABLE SERVICES: in full color and sound by Schenley Posts NEC voted unanimous approval of Posts will find the many publications in cooperation with Nat'l Public Rela- the resolution introduced by Nat'l Chap- and other aids issued by Nat'l Hdqs. in- tions Division has just been released. lain Tom Clark to support the Crusade valuable in explaining Legion programs Posts and Depts. can get film from and this was followed immediately by and policies to membership prospects. Gerald Kirshbaum, Schenley Distribu- the Cmdr's appeal. Emphasizing the To Post officers with a job to do, the tors, Inc., 350 Fifth Ave., New York, close link between help to the spiritual material provides the combined experi- N. Y. No charge for picture but Posts welfare of non-communist West Ger- ence and knowledge of the Legion's ex- remote from company's field offices must many and the Legion's own Back to perts in complex and difficult fields. pay shipping costs. God movement, the Cmdr asked for Information and help on American- Requests are filled in order received funds to build at least one church in the ism, child welfare, rehab, national se- and should include two or three alter- name of The American Legion. curity, publicity, membership and Post nate elites. Legion's more than f7,000 Posts and individual Legionnaires can activities can be had without cost or for Posts will share 125 available films. send their contributions to the National a nominal charge. The list includes: Treasurer, The American Legion, P.O. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: National Security Newsletter. Published Box 1055, Indianapolis 6, Ind. for for- Jobs, honors, activities: To Past Nat'l monthly by National Security Commis- warding to the Wooden Church Cru- Vice-Cmdr Adolpli F. Bremer, city edi- sion with special issues from time to sade. tor of Winona, Minn. Republican- time. No charge. Write National Secu- Herald, Award of Merit from Inland rity Commission, The American Legion, Daily Press Assoc. for coverage and 700 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis 6, COMRADES

handling of local government news . . . Ind. VA appointments; Ralph H. Stone, Past The Firing Line. Background material, IN DISTRESS Cmdr of Ohio, 1940-41, to be Deputy news and latest developments on anti- Administrator for Veterans Benefits; subversive work throughout the world. Army Henry W. Longfellow, Past Cmdr Prepared by National Americanism Di- Co. M 17th Signal Operations Battalion — M Sgt. George Washington Post, Washington, Regular Army, retired May vision. Andrew E. Doyle. Issued twice a month. $3.00 for unknown. Sister re- for this year, present address D. C, to be Assistant Administrator lead as to his a year's subscription. Write Nat l Ameri- ceiving his mail would like some Write Mrs. Raymond E. Adams, Administration . . . General John E. whereabouts. canism Commission, The American 2929 Cottman Street. Philadelphia 24, Pa. with Post Greenfield, Legion, Hull, member 298, any information you have. 700 N. Pennsylvania St., In- - Bubenik. formerly Ohio, new UN chief in Korea and Cmdr World War I Frank J. (Vita) dianapolis 6, Ind. of Moulton, Texas, wanted lor settlement ot in Fresno, Calif, in United States Far Eastern Command . . . estate. Last known to be Programming for Legion Leaders. Help 1922. Write Mrs. Mary (Vita) Palla, 304 Oscar New Dept. Adjutants; John L. Vance, for Post officers in planning activities Street, Taylor. Texas. 66th A. I. Bn. Arkansas; Josepli P. McDonald, Oregon. 12th Armored (Hellcat) Div., Co. C, and meetings and keeping abreast of — Need to contact doctors, nurses or service- Died: Sept. 5. James B. Drew, Chief men who remember me in hospital in Nancy, current Legion work. Issued monthly to France. Feb. 1945 or Lincoln. England. April Justice Penna. Supreme Court and leg. Need help all Dept., District and Post Cmdrs. 1945 with bullet wound in right Write Ervin Floyd Cheatum, charter member, Post 5, Pittsburgh, to establish claim. Help for the Post Publicity Officer. An R.R. #1, Effingham. Illinois. - ol Penna. . . . Sept. 30 at Ripley, W. Va., Rough Riders, Spanish-American War Widow outline of elementary publicity proce- Hugh Wilson Howard who served with Teddy Marion Past Vice-Cmdr W. Va. dures which every Post should have. Pfost, Roosevelt after enlisting at Corner, Texas, needs help from those who served with him to Dept. 1935-36 . . . Oct. 4, Charles E. Available for 10 cents from National establish pension claim. Write Mr. K. R. Biggs, Morris, Dept. Adj. of Hawaii and Past Rhyne, Booneville. Arkansas. Sales, 307 Emblem The American Legion, 679th Medical Collecting Co., ATF #9 - Need to Dept. Cmdr 1943-44 . . . Oct. 12 at formerly of 700 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis 6, hear from Lt. Millard F. Norris, Caspar, Wyo., Oscar B. Rohlff, Past Huskies. 111. \0m> knew ol nn arthritic condi- Ind. tion while in the Aleutian theatre. Claim pend- Dept. Cmdr 1943-44, member NEC ing with VA. Write Melvin A. Maltson, 474 Post Service Officer's Manual. All the Paul 6. Minn. 1946-48, Nat'l Vice-Cmdr 1951-52 and Earl St.. Saint information and data needed by service Ft. McClellan, Ala. — Anyone who remembers my currently member Nat'l Foreign Rela- falling from a rope on an obstacle course in officers. Available without cost to Posts March 1945, please write Lyubomir J. Skra- tions Falls, R. 1. through their Dept. Hdqs. Comm. bonja, 121 Garfield St.. Central claim. Oct. 27 at Delphi. Ind., John A. Cart- Need affidavit for Child Welfare Guide. Published annual- Co. A, 370th Combat Engrs. or 343rd Engrs. wright member of Nat'l Public Relations (Africa or Europe) — Anyone who served with ly and available without cost from Nat'l Charles Meade, please write Mrs. Charles M. Cox on Oct. 29 at Iron Gardens, Muncie. Ind. Child Welfare Commission, 700 N. Comm. Guy Meade, 161 Middle-town River, Mich. Member of NEC 1949-51 Need help with claim. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis 6, Ind. 5th Field Artillery, Battery C (WWI) - Need to and currently member of Liaison Com- contact Mr. Botella who was in same unit with Lift? list Need a A of scholarships avail- me in France, 1918-19. Claim pending. Write mittee for Publications. Little- able to orphans of vets and information Flovd A. Davison, VA Hospital, North Critically Injured: Ramon Guas, NEC Rock. Ark. on promotion of education for them. No 276th Inf. Regt. Co. F France, 1945 - Need to member from Puerto Rico, in air crash contact Sgt. Fomash or anyone knowing his charge. Available from Child Welfare present address. Have epilepsy from head in- at New York's Idlewild field while re- Commission, The American Legion, 700 jury. No record on file. Write Allen H. John, turning home from NEC meetings. 136 E. Ave. 45. Los Angeles 13, Calif. N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis 6, Ind. 35th Div., 134th Inf., Co. K — Will anyone who knew Leo P. Bergstreser overseas, knew ol his Rehab Leaflets. Three leaflets giving RELIGION: shrapnel wounds, and his being in hospital in membership workers information on Le- England, please write his widow who needs Nat'l Cmdr Council on October 17 ap- help lor widow's pension. Mrs. Dorothy Berg- gion's rehab work. Available to Posts streser, Box 212, Flaxton. N. Dak. pealed to the Legion's 17,196 Posts to through their Dept. Hdqs. at no charge. contribute at least two dollars each to News Clipsheet. Issued monthly with the program to build a "spiritual wall" Navy special issues from time to time. Con- of wooden churches along the commu- 25th Special INCH — Former Sea Bees who served tains material for Post papers and com- with me at Milne Bay. New Guinea, summer Iron border in Europe. nist Curtain of 1945 and remember my being knocked over- munity newspapers together with other Non-denominational, non-profit, the board while unloading a Liberty ship. Espe- publicity aids. Available without cost cially shipmate knocked over with me and Wooden Church Crusade is designed to boom operator. Need assistance vviih claim. from Nat'l Public Relations Division, Marlon, 1405'; Monroe rebuild the West German chin ches de- Write Harold R. South St., Muncie, Ind. 700 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, stroyed by the war. The organization, U.S.S. Simpson, Destroyer itll\ — Need to locale Ind. shipmates who remember my injury aboard headed by radio commentator Fulton ship. Claim pending. Write James Joseph Du- gan, 2X21 West Minnezona, Phoenix, Ariz. Convention Film Lewis, Jr., proposed to construct new U.S.S. Bremerton, Camp Parks, Calif, and A BR B The fast-paced, newsreel presentation churches at a cost not to exceed $25,000 Port Hueneme, Calif. — Want to locate following men who remember my nervous condition of the 1953 St. Louis Convention filmed for each. (Continued on next i>age)

THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 195.! • _J | (Continued from page 41) information concerning him please write Mrs. Korea since Dec. 2. 1950. Will any returned Fort, 1841 Ave.. III. of him please write and malarial effects as well as fall down ship's W. H. Lincoln Chicago. POW who knows anything 9th Inf. Regt., - Smith F. Davis. Rt. Benton, ladder. Last known addresses William J. Ware. Co. K Corp. Allen W. his mother Mrs. H. #1, Frosburg, Md. and George H. Wagner, Read- missing in action Feb., 1951 in the vicinity of Miss. Div., 19th Regt.. Co. - like to ing, Pa. Please write Mr. Lewis F. Williams, Chowon-ri, South Korea. If you knew or served 24th Inf. H Would with him will you write his mother Mrs. Albert hear from anyone who served with my son, 107 East Fifth Street, Tilton, 111. was missing U.S.S. Hyman & S.S. Cape Sandy - Will any of Smith. 733 8th St., Waupaca, Wise. PFC Wayne S. Radehaugh. He 1950 three the following contact me to help establish 7lh Cav. Regt., Co. A - Pvt. Ralph H. Davidter in action near Taejon. July 20th. and missing in action. Any claim lor transfer to VA hospital. Lt. Robert in action since Nov.. 1951. Any news months later reported as killed Dames, Richard Silvestro RM 3/C. Los Ange- would be welcomed by his mother Mrs. Henry information would be appreciated by his Jacobs, R. Fults, 111. parents, Mrs. S. Radebaugh, 323 les; Barker CM. I/C, New York City; Robert 2, Mr. & W. Patrica RM 1/C; Donald Harlan S 1/C (RM) 2nd Div. or 229th Signal Operations Co. - PFC N. Adeline St.. Bartlesville. Okla. Texas; Kyle Stevenson, North Carolina; Rob- Marvin G. Hamelin while on temporary duty 65th Inf. Regt. Co. L - My son Sgt. Alisanto with "Charlie," was ert Caraway, South Carolina. Write Peter B. Turkish Brigade in North Happocham. Matos Santiago, known as Korea reported missing in "Kelly" mountain. Will Smyth, 96-17 221 St., Queens Village, L. L, action June. 1951. killed Sept. 21. 1952 at New York. Anyone who knew him please write Mr. & Mrs. anyone having information concerning him Hamelin. Santiago, U.S.S. Tumult — Anyone who knows circumstances North Troy. Vt. please write his mother. Mrs. Aurora of death of James Harold Fletcher aboard ship 2nd Div., Hq. Co., 9th Inf.-Sgt. Roy C. Johnson Rosario, Puerto Rico. - John (Jack) in Adriatic Sea. Nov. 1952, please write. Wid- missing in action Dec 1950 later. Aug., 1953. 7th Div., 32nd Inf. Regt., Co. C PFC owed mother needs help for claim. A. V. Akin, declared dead in POW camp. Will anyone who H. Ramaekers reported missing in action while patrol. Jr., Veterans Service Officer, P.O. Box 534, knew him or circumstances of his death, please March 25. 1953 on Old Baldy on Tilton, Ga. write his parents Mr. & Mrs. Simon Johnson. Nothing known of him since. If you have any P. Biddle — who knew R. 4, Locust St., Ottawa. III. information will you write Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph U.S.S. William Anyone - Kenneth Otis Bridges in 1943-45 write Shelby 2nd Div.. 38th Inf., Co. A Sgt. Neal P. Cantrell Ramaekers. Genoa. Neb. A. Woodward, Allen Post No. 62. Louisville, Miss. was reported missing in action Feb. 12. 1951 2nd Div., 3«th Inf. Regt., Co. A - PFC Frank Need help on claim. and in August, 1953 reported as having died Dillon. Jr. missing in action the night of Feb. V-12, U.S. Navy, But knell University, Pa. - Need in POW camp. If any returned POWs knew 11-12. 1951. Anyone who knew him or cir- to locale Steve Trinkle, Carl Van Hoozen last him or have any information please write his cumstances of his disappearance, please write stationed there for help in claim now pending. mother. Mrs. Al'ta Cantrell. Galatia. 111. Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Dillon, 436 Brattle Road, Write Melvin Weddell, Box 238, Medora. Ind. 23rd Inf. Regt., Co. A-PFC Donald H. Johnson Syracuse. N. Y. missing in action near Chorwon. N. Korea 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Regt., Co. A - Cpl. Daniel E. since Aug. 1952. Will anyone who knew him Cahalan missing since Feb. 12. 1951 in the Air please write Mrs. David Z. Johnson, Long- vicinity of Hoengsong. S. Korea and later re- mont. Colo.. Route 2. ported a prisoner in a North Korean camp. 93rd Bomb Wine (1947) - S/Sgt. Gardner F. Kitt- 2nd Div.. 2nd Chem. Mortar Bn., Co. B - Will any Would like to hear from any member of his ridge who was in Hq. & Hq. Sqdn. at Merced. men who knew Lt. William L. Bengtson miss- unit who knew him and from his chaplain, Calif., is needed for help in changing character ing since Nov. 2. 1950 2 or 3 miles north of Father James Carroll. Mrs. Margaret Cahalan, of my discharge from Air Force. Believed to Unsan. please write his sister Mrs. Bernard E. P.O. Box 502, Rockwell. Iowa. live in Flushing, New York. Write Howard E. Hill. 201 W. Abbott St.. Lansford. Pa. 7th Div., 17th Inf. Regt., Co. E — Cpl. Delbert J. Smith, 1256 N. Gardner St., Hollywood 46, I8nth Inf. Regt. Co. K - PFC Leonard D. (Bud) Whalen reported missing July 8. 1953. Will Calif. Carlson missing in action July 15. 1953. Will anyone who knows details of his disappearance 336th Bomb Group, 478th Bomb Sqdn. - Need to anyone who has any information please write please write Mary J. Murrary, Court House, contact Capt. Neighbors, Medical Dept. with his parents. Mr. & Mrs. Leonard B. Carlson. Darlington. Wisconsin. Box 46. Carey. Idaho. 2. Korea - Cpl. James H. whom I served as ambulance driver from Jan., POW Camp No. N. 1942 to May, 1943. Also anyone who remem- 7th Cav. Regt., Hq. & Hq. Sq. - Our stepson. Balls died July 14. 1951 of pulmonary tuber- bers me as the only Indian in Group at Fort Frank W. Conarro, was killed in action Sept. culosis. Will any returned POW from this Meyers, Fla.; Page Field. Tampa; MacDill 3. 1950 near Chicho, Myron, S. Korea. Will camp who remembers Cpl. Balls please write Field, or Avon Park Bombing Range. Known anyone who knew him please write Richard M. his mother, Mrs. Melinda Balls Higby. 660 as "chief" or "smithy." Write Mr. Merinus Robinson. 5454 N. Paulina St.. Chicago 40, III. Second St.. Phillipsburg, Kans. Andrew Smith, R. 2. West DePere, Wise 38th FA Bn. Battery C - Pvt. Ewin Patten missing 2nd Div., 9th Regt., Co. F - Sgt. Willard M. Gib- in action since Nov. 30. 1950. Will anyone who son missing in action Dec. 1950. One letter knew him or returning POWs who may know received from him in Aug.. 1951 but no word something of him please write his mother Mrs. since. Reported as dead by communists in Helen L. Patten. Cornell, Wise. Aug.. 1953. Would anyone who knows cir- 2nd Div., 38th Inf. Regt., Co. G - Cpl. Edward H. cumstances of his death in POW camp please MISSING Davis missing in action near Kunu-ni, North write his mother Mrs. Cecil Gibson, RR2, Terre Haute. Ind. 2nd Engr. CBN, Co. B - Cpl. Daniel U. Dunn IN KOREA River in the missing in action on Chongchon vicinity of Kiyang Dong, N. Korea since Nov. 38th Inf ., Co. - Cpl. Marvin Shirer missing THE AMERICAN LEGION F M. 28. 1950. Wili any member of his unit please in action Nov. 27, 1950. Will anyone who has NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS write his mother, Mrs. Mary M. Dunn, Silver any information please write his mother. Mrs. SEPTEMBER 30. 1953 Point. R. 2. Tenn. Shirer, 214 St.. George North Lincoln Aber- 25th Div. 35th Inf. Regt.. Co. A - PFC Richard deen. So. Dak. ASSETS P. Swanson, a POW since July 20. 1950, re- 7th Inf. Div., 31st Inf., Rest. Co. I - My stepson ported to have escaped. No word ever received PFC Jimmie L. Dorser missing in action Nov., Cash on hand and on deposit. . . . if 214,674.27 from him. Will anyone who knew him please 1950. If you have any information concerning Receivables 385,687.69 write his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Peary Swanson. him, write Owen B. Hurley, Corps of Engi- Inventories 348,866.05 2nd Engrs. (C) Bn., Co. A - PFC or Cpl. Paul E. neers, U. S. Army, 1709 St.. Jackson Omaha, Invested Funds 758,338.03 T. McCoy reported by the communists as hav- Neb. Permanent Trusts: in died while in their custody but not verified 5th Cavalry Reg. — Pvt. Donald R. Niillmeyer Overseas Graves Decoration by U. S. Army. Missing since Dec. 1. 1950: missing in vicinity of Mago-Ri. N. Korea Trust Fund $ 255,965.89 last seen at road block near Kunu-ri. Will any since Nov. 5, 1951. Any information would be Employees' Retirement returned POW who knew him please write appreciated by his mother, Mrs. Ha/el Niill- Trust Fund , ., 1.271.363,15 1,527,329.04 his mother. Mrs. Louie Dell McCoy, Rt. 2, meyer, 622 Laura Ave., Peoria, III. Real Estate 973,972.65 Ravenswood, W. Va. 24th Inf. Div., 21st Inf. Rest. Co. L - Cpl. Charles Furniture and Fixtures, 2nd Div.. 38th Inf. Regt.. Co. G - Have received K. Boyer missing since July 11, 1950. Will any- less depreciation 264,379.79 no official word about my son. Cpl. Maxie L. one who knows the circumstances of his dis- Gibson, reported missing Nov. 28. 1950 near appearance Deferred Charges 67,929,46 or has any information about him Un-bong-dong. N. Korea. Will anyone who please write his mother Mrs. Olin Boyer, 553 $4. 541. 176. 98 knows anything ol him please write his mother, So. Fair Ave., Benton Harbor, Mich. Also Mrs. Thedo Gibson. R. 2. Mullins. S. C. would like to contact parents of in the men Div., 19th Inf. Regt., Co. K - In two years same company. LIABILITIES. DEFERRED REVENUE 24th since he was killed in action we have never 25th Inf. Div., 35th R.C.T., Co. - son G Our AND NET WORTH heard from anyone who knew my brother. Cpl. Pvt. Lyman LeRoy Wilcox was killed some- Robert W. Manly. Reported killed June 27. where in the Sonjan area on 1952. Current Liabilities .$ 358.979.62 March 21, 1951 near Chokkun-San. N. Korea. Will any- Will anyone who knows the Funds restricted as to use 75,348.81 circumstances of one who knew him please write Mrs. Mary L. his death please write Mrs. Lyman B. Wilcox, Deferred Income 867.060.75 Duras, 1742 Rosehill Drive. Chicago 26, III. 935 Gardner St., Poplar Bluff, Mo. Permanent Trusts: This notice originally ran in Sept. issue but 9th Inf. Rest., Co. H and 23rd Inf. Regt. Co. Overseas Graves Decoration G address was incorrect. II your letter was re- - Corp. Donald Becker and Trust $ 255,965.89 PFC David F. turned please mail again to above address. Blosser respectively of these units. Corp. Employees' Retirement Becker missing since Nov.. 1950 and PFC Trust 1,271,?'-3.15 1,527,329.04 Blosser missing since Feb., 1951 are old friends. Net Worth: Anyone who has any information please write Restricted Capital:

Robert 1 Utter, 1539 Yale Ave., Chicago, III. Reserve Fund . . 23,852.30 or Mrs. Margaret Becker, 6554 Aberdeen, Chi- Restricted Fund. 17,978.73 cago, 111. Mother of Corp. Becker. Reserve for construction OUTFIT 45th Inf. Div., 245th Tk. Bn., Co. B - Cpl. Walter Wash. Office.. 44,699.18 C. Seott, Jr. killed in a jeep accident in or near Real Estate 973.972.65 Kundae-Ri, Korea. II you have any informa- Reserve for Rehabili- REUNIONS tion please write his brother-in-law, Mr. Don- tation 317,941.07 ald .1. Davis, 28 Webster St., Lewiston. Me. Reserve for Child Infantry (All Wars) — Reunion. Chicago, 111.. 82nd A. A. A. Auto. Weapons Bn. (Self-Propelled) Welfare 20.627.54 131st Dec. 4; Chicago Avenue Armory. Information — PIC Gene D. Kingston, missing in the vicin- 1,399.071.47 from Jack Richmond, Veterans Corps. 131st ity of Changdong-ni, S. Korea when his battery Unrestricted Capital: Infantry, Chicago Avenue Armory, Chicago encountered enemy roadblock on Feb. 13, 1951. Excess of Income over 11, 111. If you have any information please contact his Expense . 313,387.29 1,712,458.76 U.S.S. Dixie (WWI) — Annual Reunion and ban- parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Kingston, Star $4,541,176.98 111.. April 7; Wolford Hotel Route, Kermit, Texas. quet. Danville. Robert O. Levell. Box 163, New Cas- 2nd Div., 38th Regt.. Co. C - Walter C. Fort miss- Contact tle, Ind. ing in action since May. 1951. If you have any 42 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. :953 SPECIAL USGLI DIVIDEND NOT TAXABLE: schedules to permit short leaves for trainees during the WW1 vets who shared in the $64,000,000 special USGLI holiday season. dividend melon cut by the VA beginning on October 15, get a break for once — they need not report such payment NSLI DIVIDEND FOR 1954 COMING UP: as income when they file their 1953 income tax report. . . . While completing payment of the 1953 regular NSLI

Dividend was paid to approximately 380,000 WW1 vets dividend, VA Insurance Section is planning for the distribu- who held their 1 have War (USGLI) insurance in permanent tion of an increased dividend in 1954. . . . Two special type policies. . . . Amount of special dividend (in addition dividends have been declared, the 1954 payment will be the to the regular 1954 dividend now being paid) averaged about third regular annual dividend. . . . 1953 slice for WW2 vets $168, but the amounts paid to individual vets varied greatly who held the maximum $10,000 for the full 12 months depending insurance, upon plan of age at time policy was averaged $60. . . . 1954 share is expected to be increased for issued, length of time policy has been in force, and the the reason that some 1,200,000 NSLI policyholders waived amount of the policy. . . . Thus some shares of the melon their premiums while serving in the Korean War — and thus

were low, others ranged up near the mark. . . . Vets $375 who were not eligible to get a check in 1952 and 1953. . . . With have hung on to the 5-year term USGLI policies (and are their return to civil life, and conditioned on resumption of now paying through the nose for their oversight in not payment on their policies, these vets will get their share in

converting) do not share in the special dividend. . . . Others 1954. . . . WW2 and Korea vets hold approximately 6,500,000 excluded are holders of USGLI policies in force under NSLI policies. . . . Check is forwarded for dividend payment extended insurance, and holders of permanent type policies after the anniversary date of the policy, thus making the issued during the 5 years prior to January 1, 1953. . . . Same distribution a full-year program. tax exemption applies to dividends paid on WW2 insurance (NSLI) held by War 2 vets. VA HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION: VA has received approval of limited hospital construc- DENTAL CARE FOR COMPENSATED VETS: tion plans which will permit the use of "no year" items in the

Another tightening of vet benefits becomes effective appropriations for the current and previous fiscal years. . . . with the announcement by VA that only one-time dental Bureau of the Budget has given green light on construction treatment will be given to vets who have service-connected of hospitals at San Francisco, Topeka and Cleveland. . . An dental conditions or disabilities that are not severe enough to increase in the funds for the Los Angeles (Sepulveda) rate disability compensation. . . . However, limitation does hospital, now under construction, also was approved. . . . not apply to veterans receiving disability compensation Addition of these four 1,000-bed hospitals to the VA system

for service-connected dental troubles. . . . Nor does it apply will make big dent in problem of providing care for mentally to vets who require treatment for dental conditions, whether disabled vets, since each of them is to be basically an NP or not service-connected, which are found to be aggravating hospital. . . . Sepulveda hospital has been under construction another service-connected disability. . . . Vets whose for about a year. . . . Approved estimated cost is $22,179,000.

treatment for non-compensable dental troubles already has . . . Topeka hospital will replace one now in operation. . . .

been completed will not be eligible for further treatment. . . . San Francisco hospital project calls for use of $7,312,000

However, VA makes an exception for former prisoners of from current appropriation. . . . Site for Cleveland hospital war. . . . POWs will receive as many dental treatments as has not been selected; approved estimate of cost is $23,352.- needed to care for disabilities found to have been caused by 000. . . . Budget Bureau approval does not cover plan to their imprisonment. . . . One-time treatment for non-com- add a 250-bed NP unit to the Houston, Texas, hospital. pensable service-connected cases may be provided by VA dental clinics, or VA may authorize fee-basis dentists to COURTS HAVE "WAS IT WAR" HASSLE: provide it. Though the shooting hostilities in Korea have ceased,

question of whether or not it was a war is still being battled

ARMED rORCES TO GIVE CHRISTMAS BREAK: in the courts. . . . Issue for most part involves payment by Army will suspend all activities, except basic training, life insurance companies on policies carried by men who died for draftees from December 21 to January 4 to permit a in Korea. . . . Legal disputes arise because Congress never maximum number of personnel to go home for Christmas and declared "war" in Korea. . . . Insurance companies, some of

New Year's Day. . . . Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force which had a "war clause" in their policies, say the Korean

will follow a similar policy. . . . Newly inducted draftees in action was a war; the families of deceased policyholders basic training will have the holidays at camp for most part, contend that it wasn't and demand full payment under the but commanders will be authorized to adjust basic training insurance agreements, including in some cases double in-

43 demnity, when the policy carried such a clause, for accidental have not been so reported thus far because of strict require- death. ments that there be reasonably conclusive evidence of the fact

In early October United States Supreme Court refused before a man is reported as having died." ... It was to review a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that the emphasized that the conditions of battle in Korea made it Korean hostilities did not constitute a war in the "legal" impossible to recover and identify many of the battle dead.

sense. . . . The Pennsylvania high court ruling ordered the . . . No assistance was received in this respect from the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company to pay opposing forces, which explains the very high "missing in beneficiaries of one deceased soldier double indemnity, and action" figure in the Korean conflict.

another the full face-value of the policy. . . . U. S. Supreme Court's refusal to review this decision leaves the situation UPSWING IN GI HOME LOAN APPLICATIONS:

more confused that ever. . . . Lesser courts in California, VA reports a sharp increase in applications for GI home Texas and New Jersey have ruled in favor of the insurance loans in August and September — but appraisal requests for companies — that the fighting in Korea was a "legal war," and proposed dwelling units showed a decline during the same

therefore voiding policies which had a war clause. . . . Many period. . . . 34,084 home loan applications were received in

such cases are yet pending in courts in several States. . . . September, highest since April, 1951, reflecting an easing of The issue will in all probability confront the U. S. Supreme the money market for GI loan mortgages, since under the

Court again. . . . Meanwhile, until the hassle is straightened program, a lending institution agrees to make the loan before out the contrary rulings in the separate States prevail — not submitting a loan application for guaranty to VA. . . . a war in Pennsylvania and other States, but a "legal war in the ordinary and usual meaning of the word" in California, Texas and New Jersey. LEGION POSTS PRESENT SCHOOL MEDALS: A total of 18,559 School Award Medals were presented by Legion Posts to pupils of public and parochial schools AID TAX LOST TO NUTMEG STATE VETS: during the year ending July 31, according to a report of Some thousands of Connecticut servicemen served who Allen Willand, Director of the Legion's Americanism Com- in the Armed Forces since the start of the Korean hostilities, mission. . . . The Department of Mississippi topped the list of but not in Korea itself, will not get the $1,000 local property donors, with 1,144 Medals presented, and was awarded the tax exemption other veterans of all wars receive in that State. Ralph T. O'Neil Trophy for 1953. . . . Director Willand urges

. . . Intent was to abolish present law which provides for the that plans for the presentation of school awards for the property tax exemption to those served "in who the Korean 1953-54 school year should be started now. ... A pamphlet theatre of operations" and substitute a clause extending the has been prepared giving full details of the operation of this benefit to all who served in the Forces after Armed June 25, excellent youth Americanism program, free to Posts and

1950. . . . Snafu occurred in committee in not inserting Departments. . . . Write National Americanism Commission,

clause. . . . Action to care for excluded vets is promised for The American Legion, Box 1055, Indianapolis. Indiana. next session of Legislature. WW2 VETS HOLD LEAVE BONDS: NAVY SHIPS HISTORIES READY: Treasury Department says WW2 vets are holding on to Navy Department announces histories that short of $51,1 16,175 in uncashed terminal leave bonds. . . . First issued about 1,500 of the Navy's ships active in WW2 are available in 1943 and continued until 1946, the bonds paid 2Vi percent

for free distribution to . . . former crew members. An interest and were scheduled to mature in 5 years. . . . Last

additional 2,500 remain to be written. . . . Requests for his- issue matured on October 1, 1951, when they ceased to bear tories not yet complete can not be acknowledged, but the interest. . . . Holders of the bonds may cash them at any

request will be kept file filled is on and when the story bank, building association or similar agency. . . . But they

written. . . . More than three histories can not be mailed to must be presented by the owner with proper identification. . . . any one person. ... It is requested that once the request is Treasury recommends that these bonds be cashed and the made, the applicant refrain from writing about it — corre- amount reinvested in U. S. Savings Bonds. spondence will only result in unnecessary paper work and will

slow up deliveries. . . . Write Chief of Naval Operations, Division of Naval History (Op-29), Room 1534, Main Navy DO YOU WANT AN OVERSEAS JOB? Building, Washington 25, D. C. Vets who want to get into Government service in jobs overseas can get full information on places open, and where to apply for them, in a pamphlet issued by the Civil Service STATUS Or K-VETS STILL MISSING: Commission. . . . The booklet tells of Civil Service jobs only. Department of Defense has clarified the status of . . . Most Government jobs are filled by the agency needing American servicemen who were still unaccounted for when the employe. . . . Write Civil Service Commission, the exchange of prisoners in Korea was completed on Washington 25, D. C, and ask for CSC Pamphlet 29. September 6. ... In this category are 6,713 Army personnel, 78 Navy, 671 Air Force, and 493 Marines - a total of 7,955.

. . . "All possible efforts are being made to obtain information NAVY-MARINE VETS OCCUPATION MEDAL:

as to their fate or whereabouts. . . . Such efforts include Navy and Marine vets with service in the Mediterranean communication with the communist forces and interrogation and Eastern Atlantic area during the last 18 months will get

of recovered prisoners," says the statement. . . . "In the light their Naval Occupation Service Medals soon. . . . Though

of casualty reporting experience in Korea, it is now the eligible personnel rated the ribbon and medal, they were considered opinion of the Department of Defense that most unable to get the issue for lack of an official document

of these men must eventually be presumed dead. . . . They authorizing it.

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troit gamblers with a wistful yen to go "legit." They put up the dough to finish the Desert Inn. "1 That provides the only dissonant note in Wilbur's symphony of satisfied am- F ^^^^^ bition— a slight feeling of discomfiture over being allied with some people of cloudy repute. "It w as embarrassing at first," he says. "But they're nice guys, so what the hell." The fact that Wilbur did a spate of illegal gambling himself in his early days may also account for LEGION his gentle tolerance. He still remains the largest single MAGAZINE stockholder, president, general manager RETAIL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Do You Believe In Signs?

Well here's one sign you can really count on. It's the official emblem of The American Legion Magazine

Retail Advisory Council. You will spot it in thousands of store windows in your home towns all across

America. It means the shops displaying it are owned and operated by fellow Legionnaires.

"Couldn't you hear me yelling at you that You can shop with confidence wherever you see this Norvell's here?" AMKRJi AN l.KCION MAGAZINE colorful red, white and blue shield . . . it's your assurance of honest and friendly service. The Retail Advisory and official host of the Desert Inn— Council is designed to help Legionnaires everywhere. sort of Sherman Billingsley of the crap tables. And he plays the role of impre- So band together now in this nation-wide shop- sario with delight, verve and a cagey ping service and shop the Legion way— every day. eye out for maximum publicity possi- bilities. This has prompted some of his detractors to regard him as a "grand- stander." But Wilbur insists that "every- And remember, ask for brand name products that thing I do is good for the joint, even you see advertised in your American Legion Magazine. if it has my picture on it." He sports a $15,000 diamond ring, These are the fine national advertisers who make this wliich he bought "very cheap" off a service possible. busted gambler. He also wears a $4,800 platinum watch which lie designed himself and had seven separate jewelers assemble for him. The links in the band represent each of the four aces and two sides of the dice—the five and the "Retai six, adding up to lucky 11. Silver dollars are embedded in the handles of his THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE desk drawers and the knobs of his office Advisory 580 Fifth Avenue, New York 36, N Y. doors. Silver dollars, in fact, are a kind of Wilbur Clark trademark, as well as a Council commodity which he has shown a dis- tinct talent for accumulating in substan-

tial quantities. Some > ears ago, while he

' I 46 THE AMERK AN I GION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1953 was proprietor of another of Las Vegas' mistaken for Hoppy. That happened luxury hotels, El Rancho Vegas, he had when Wilbur dressed up in western 3,500 silver dollars struck off with his gear, and, carrying sacks of silver dol- likeness on them. They cost him $3.10 lars to give away as souvenirs, flew east apiece. He distributed them among to spread the good word about the friends, celebrities and just plain people. Desert Inn. "Oh, Mommy," said a little plane He says Harry Truman still carries one boy as Wilbur emerged from the for luck and claims that a sick girl sold at Washington, "there's Hopalong Cas- her Wilbur Clark dollar for 200 bucks sidy." Wilbur wasn't at all displeased. attention, and paid off a hospital bill. "I later gave He loves nothing better than her another one," Wilbur says. even if it has to be a case of mistaken Lately he has been giving away rou- identity. his lette tables. They are foot-and-a-half He is still a little sensitive about working models of the table he designed name, which he considers to be as bad especially for the Desert Inn. He has as Elmer. "Up to the time I was 20, given miniature roulettes to such people people would ask me my name and I'd as President Eisenhower, Justice Tom sputter and stutter before I could get it Clark, Senator W. Stuart Symington, out," he says. The fact that Lew Lehr Louella Parsons and Westbrook Pegler. called all his monkeys Wilbur in the Pegler, in his thank-you letter, remarked newsreels only enhances Wilbur's em- that "this will be the first time I have barrassment. been on the right side of the table." His free-spending qualities (some of "Nevertheless," Peg concluded sadly, his friends call it downright gullibility) "I probably will get mangled in the have moved Las Vegans to describe him spokes." as "one of the easiest touches in the Wilbur sent another table to the late business." These qualities also have pro- Generalissimo Stalin "to give him some- voked some interesting stories. thing to gamble with besides lives." But One concerns the time when a for- he thinks he recalls that the package eign correspondent who was an old EACHERS came back unclaimed. friend of Wilbur's cabled him from Ti If all of this conveys the picture of Hong Kong asking for $1,800. He said HIGHLAND CREAM a flashy, free-spending, swashbuckling it was to finance an operation. Wilbur 86 PROOF • BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY king of the gambling halls, the picture sent the $1,800, although he remarked is accurate only to a degree. Wilbur thoughtfully to an assistant, "You know,

Clark is flashy enough, in a restrained I'm afraid that boy is gambling." Schleffelin & Co.. New York sort of way, and certainly free-spending. A short while later came another But he is about as swashbuckling as the cable, this time from Monte Carlo. The corner druggist, and looks more like supplicant now wanted $2,000. He said the corner druggist than a king of the he needed another operation—the first gambling halls. one hadn't been successful. Wilbur put He is 45 years old, of middling height, off a decision and flew to the Coast. has silvery hair and an engaging smile, When he returned, the assistant asked and wears only white shirts. Actually him if he wanted to do anything about he bears a curious resemblance to Hop- the sick friend in Monte Carlo. NEW MOSSBERG along Cassidy and has, in fact, been "Well, I'll tell you," said Wilbur, a CATALOG To make your Christmas selection easy

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE DECEMBER, 1953 47 trifle sheepishly. "1 got to worrying he opened the first of a succession of cocktail bars in San Diego. Two or three

;il)out that boy. I figured maybe he does cocktail bars. In 1938 he made his initial of my friends got me some money, too. need the operation. So, while I was on incursion into Las Vegas, buying a piece Then I started winning again. The the Coast, I sent the $2,000." of a modest gambling hall on the edge angels had their arms around me." This jaunty open-handedness of Wil- of town. But the town was small and In 1946 he sold the Monte Carlo and bur's may be a compensation deriving showed little promise of ever becoming his interest in the Rancho Vegas. Then from the fact that he never had much otherwise. There wasn't any air condi- he sank the money into the hole in the of anything to be open-handed with tioning to speak of, and Wilbur could ground which, with a timely assist from \\ hen he was a boy. His father was a see no future for a desert community the syndicate, became Las V egas' cost- mail carrier in Keyesport, a town east without air conditioning — legalized liest, most-talked-about palace of sport of St. Louis with a population of 400— gambling or no legalized gambling. and the realization of a dream for Las approximately the size of the Desert He went back to California and Vegas' Golden Boy. Inn's present payroll. worked the gambling halls and gam- With the possible exception of the

But Wilbur had, if not delusions of bling boats up and down the Coast. He Atomic Energy Commission's recent grandeur, certainly premonitions of it. "got pinched a few times," Wilbur says, fireworks displays, the opening of the He gravely promised his mother he but it w as nothing very serious. That's Desert Inn was the biggest thing that would become a millionaire. a normal occupational hazard of a non- ever happened to Las Vegas. Wilbur

He says now, however, that his most Nevada gambler, even when there is no issued special invitations to 150 of his immediate ambition was just to "get out Senator Kefauver around to stir up the fellow Las Vegans, all of whom had of that town." This he did by going to dogs. credit ratings of $10,000 or more, to nearby Alton, 111., where he worked Wilbur still hasn't been quite able to come and try to take his money away briefly as an office boy. He left Alton break himself of his old pre-Nevada from him. That they were something in somewhat of a hurry, under circum- gambler's habit of referring to anyone less than successful in the undertaking- stances which he cheerfully acknowl- who isn't in the gambling business as is indicated by the fact that the Desert edges to having involved an irate hus- "legit." It is a habit w hich evokes small, Inn did a $750,000 gross business one band, and started thumbing west. nervous duckings from his more pol- night alone during opening week. At Topeka, Kan., Wilbur went broke. ished associates at the Desert Inn. Senator Kefauver did his bit to guar- At Las Vegas, N. Alex., having gone In 1944 he returned to Las Vegas, antee Wilbur's immediate success in the without food for three days, he found f inding the air conditioning problem Desert Inn. He came to Las Vegas with a kindly hash house proprietor who whipped and the joint jumping under members of his committee soon after fitted him out for a steak and sent him the impact of w ar, he bought an inter- the opening and called several of the on his way with a shiny silver dollar. est in the Rancho Vegas with the profits local gambling satraps in for question-

At Los Angeles, Wilbur flipped the from his cocktail bars. Later it became ing, among them Wilbur himself. silver dollar to decide which way he a controlling interest. He also opened "I was very dumb," says Wilbur, would go next. Tails it w as south, and a gambling hall called the Monte Carlo straight-faced. "And then at times 1 was he headed for San Diego. on downtown Fremont Street — Las very smart. But it was wonderful for

There he toiled successively as a bus Vegas' famed "Glitter Gulch." me. I made the front pages, and every boy, an elevator operator and a bell It was at the Rancho Vegas that Wil- time they printed my name they said hop. He says he earned SI, 00(1, his first bur had his closest brush with bank- I was from Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn." month as a bell hop. That being the ruptcy. A two-weeks' run of bad luck Kefauver w as "very nice" to him, re- time of prohibition, Wilbur admits his in the casino chewed his bankroll down ports Wilbur, but Senator Tobey of services were not entirely confined to to SI 4,000. (Normal working bankroll New Hampshire w as "a little rough- hopping bells. He says he not only de- of a big gambling hall is in the neigh- he made some pretty bad remarks about livered the stuff but even blended some borhood of a quarter-million.) my partners." of it in his own bathtub. "I was busted," says Wilbur. "Next "They've got it in their minds that

At Mission Beach, near San Diego, morning 1 went out on the hustle selling a gambling man is a hoodlum," he protests, in tones of offended righteousness. "But Senators themselves must go to the race track, and play poker." In spite of being endow ed w ith more than his share of gambler's luck, as witness the coincidence of the Kefauver hearings and the Desert Inn's opening, Wilbur does little gambling himself nowadays. But, from an impresario's observation post, he watches the gamblers come and go, and he's convinced that the average man knows very little about gambling. "He may win $50 a day for 10 days," says the impresario. "But in the long

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 • 49 RUSSIA'S BIG BLUFF (Continued from /xige 15) in the Far East, and advised strongly there was still a chance to save all cen- would deliberately wait until 1970, or against it. Their report, submitted to tral and south China below the Yangtse, thereabouts, simply doesn't hold water. the War Department on April 12, 1945 if the United States had been willing Even dictatorships are not capable of warned that Russian help was not to make a firm announcement of such self-control. Certainly, not ideo- needed and that "if Russia enters the American guarantee of the Yangtse logical dictatorships.

Asiatie war, China w ill surely lose her River line (similar to subsequent guar- As a matter of fact, Russia's w holt- independence." antees which we gave to South Korea course since the beginning of the Cold Ignoring its own experts, the United and to Indo-China). Both of these his- War has been that of a nation guardedly Stares spent the Spring months of 1945 toric opportunities were lost as a re- careful to avoid a military collision in continued beseechments of Russia to sult of the shrill cry of both statesmen with the L'nited States. She has ac- march its troops into China—something and journalists that we couldn't do this cepted a painful series of rebuffs and which American Far East policy had because it would bring Russia into the challenges, at the hands of America and schemed to prevent for fifty years. The war. its allies, and although, she has talked Russia-firsters who were then deciding At the time, Russia had about as much sulphurously, she has backed down in our China policy justified this curious intention, or ability, to enter the China every instance. There has been a pre- course by arguing that w e couldn't keep war as to attempt a trip to the moon. text for World War III in a dozen Russia out of the Japan war, anyhow, But we allowed our phobias to frighten situations which have flared up lividly so great was the strength of its Far us into the belief that she w ould do so. since 1945. Fast Army. W hat they did not disclose, The whole ghastly "Hands off" China It has been commonly assumed, be- until after the war, was that Russia policy was supported until after the cause of its spectacularity, that the would have had no Far East Army at Korea eye-opening by an American American interv ention in Korea in 1950 all if we had not equipped it to the public w hich had been drugged by the was the incident w hich has brought us tune of $1,500,000,000 Lend-Lease un- editorial, radio and Washington chatter nearest to war with Russia since 1945. der the agreements reached at the .Mos- that any other course would involve us What is not generally realized is that cow Conference of 1944. in immediate shooting war with Soviet the United States has repeatedly clashed

In the end, Russia came in for a rive- Russia. Communism reaped an unex- with Russia since Y-J Day at friction day war with Japan, after we had pectedly rich harvest in China from our points far more vital to Russian inter- dropped the Hiroshima bomb, and set gullibility. ests and security than Korea, and the in train a series of events which finally But it will be asked, when we ques- Kremlin has consistently backed down. delivered China to communism. And tion Russia's readiness, what are the Fet us cite a few.

( ) Berlin. Russian interests yet American public opinion — wrong evidences for our doubts? How can we 1 in Ger- many are about Russia then, as it is now — ap- be certain that Russia is not planning many times greater than plauded this epochal disaster to the war now ? The gravity to America of any interest which she possesses Free World, w hen it happened. a mistake on this issue compels the in the Far Fast. If Rus- sia could The same vicious circle operated in most careful consideration of the known be tempted to fight for any immediate objective, tlie China tragedy. In 1947, w hen Gen- facts. Ger- many, with its eral Wedemeyer made his long-sup- Probably the strongest indication ol Ruhr, would be the first lure. Hence, the pressed report, China, outside Man- Russia's unpreparedness is the fact that Ameri- can defi the Berlin churia, could still have been saved by she has not already started war, even m airlift touched .Moscow American intervention. Again, in 194S, under extreme provocation. The sup- at a raw point. That the when President Chiang made his No- position that a nation w hich w as strong United States walked vember appeal to President Truman, enough to seize her objectives now, up to the very brink of war in Berlin and emerged nnattacked is the tip-off to Russia's real state of preparedness. In accepting defeat in the Berlin airlift, Russia probably lost the w hole psychological campaign for the Ger- mans. The legend of Russian might, hitherto the decisive factor in the German mind, was debunked finally. And yet the Russians didn't fight—an incredible fact if they had actually been ready. (2) The Dardanelles. To control, or to have free transit through the Dardanelles has been Russia's persistent goal for a century. Under the Romanoffs, Russia fought the w ars of 1855 and 1877 primarily to win this prize. In 1940, she demanded the Darda- nelles of Adolf Hitler as the price of alliance, and defied him, in the full know ledge of the horrors "One thing's sure. He wasn't hiding in the refrigerator." of invasion which were ahead, AMERXC'AN LEGION MAGAZINE w hen he ret used it. Certainly, a

50 Till Wll.KK VN LEGION MAC. A/INL • 1)111 Mill k l'>5.i Russia able to enforce its will by munist edifice collapsed almost military pressure, would not now overnight: the Russian occupa- sit idly by and see this Darda- tion armies withdrew and the mm MASTER SNOW BLOW nelles ambition permanently puppet governments fell. Certain-

thwarted. And yet that is pre- ly, the Kremlin would not have cisely what we did in 1947 in accepted such a ruinous prestige enunciating the Truman Doc- blow in an area which it had trine, and in underwriting Tur- marked out for its own, if it key. Worse, for Russia's security, could have resisted. America's alliance with Turkey The logic of these separate events is meant that Russia's precious Cau- crystal clear except to an egghead. Rus-

casus oil fields, without which sia is not ready. Had we heeded the she couldn't wage major war, guideposts of Berlin, Turkey and Iran were brought within easy bomb- in our foreign policy in the Far East in ing range of Turkish airfields. 1948-49, history would have taken a different direction. We would have realized that a Russia which would not go to war for its major objectives, where

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past, the post- 1940 Russian economic AUTHENTIC MODELS FOR XMAS gains have been striking. But to com- GIFT • DEN • DESK • TV SET USA Patton "49" IIVi-IN. "Yes, VVilkins, I realize you're starving to USA Gen. Sherman pare Russia, even after four completed USA Gen Patlon 13 IN. death on what I pay you— it's taking longer USA Walker "Bulldog" 12-IN. Five-Year Plans, and part of a fifth, RUSSIAN "Statin" UVj-IN. than I anticipated, though." CCRMAN "Tiger" 12-IN. AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE with such an economic colossus as the S*nd Jl 95 plot 2S< poitogf Writ* to MERCURY MODEL United States, merely highlights her That Russia would have submit- raw backwardness. ted to such a hazardous weaken- Russia, as Winston Churchill said, ROLL OF HONOR ing of her position if she could may be "a mystery surrounded by an ND WAR MEMORIAL have done anything about it enigma" but some rather revealing fig- DEAS SENT ON REQUEST seems inconceivable. Neverthe- ures about her economy have seeped SPECIAL DESIGNS— NO OBLIGATION through Curtain. figures less, she submitted. the Iron These WRITE (3) Iran. Scarcely second to Ger- prove beyond denial that Russia is years, FLOUR CITY ORNAMENTAL IRON CO. DEPT. L MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. many's Ruhr as the prize of the probably decades away from the time war was Iran, Russia's barrier to when she could oppose the United the Indian Ocean. To oil-hungry States (even without benefit of allies) Russia, Iran's annual 31,000,000- on equal terms. ton oil output could mean the Modern wars become, more and margin of success or failure in its more, brutal endurance contests be- world plans. Since the days of tween technologies. They are fought, the Czars, Russia has been reach- not alone with manpower; they are ing for Iran, halted only by the fought with mobilized economies. They

opposition, at first, of Great Brit- are fought with kilowatts of electric AA EDICAL science is LET constantly striving for ain. In 1945 Russia's opportunity energy, with oil to fuel planes and DON'T a "wonder drug" to seemed to have come. Her ar- tanks and trucks, with steel for materiel, BRONCHIAL cure bronchial asth- mies were in occupation of North- with rubber to keep transportation roll- ma. Meanwhile — try Dr. R. Schiffman's ern Iran. Her Iranian Fifth Col- ing, with railroads to move men and ASTHMA ASTHMADOR for umn had carved out puppet states machines and food, and with bristling soothing relief. Just inhale the aromatic, in Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. hosts of revolving machine tools. How GET YOU medicated fumes from Three Tudeh (communist) min- does Russia stand today in such a test powder, cigarette or pipe mixture. isters were in the Iranian national with the United States? So con- venient — so easy — cabinet. And yet, in 1946, with The No. 1 yardstick of an industrial- DOWN! so economical. At all an assist from the U.N., the ized state is the mechanical horsepower drug stores in U. S. or Canada. United States and Great Britain at its command. Specifically, this can virtually ordered Russia out of be a decisive factor in atom bomb pro- USE Iran. The whole pretentious com- duction. How does Russia stand, in ASTHMADOR THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER. 1953 • gj[ contrast to America in this category? An economy is only as strong as the Could Russia win a war with the Russia's mechanical horsepow er in 1950 transportation networks which inter- United States by such an unannounced was 984,000,000: America's, 6,452,000,- connect it. Russia, with two and a half terror attack? 000. times our area, had 71,790 miles of rail- Science fiction addicts and Captain In a war w hich would probably be ways in 1950. American railway mile- Video cultists will say positively that decided in the air, any marked inferi- age was 396,380. Russia had 480,000 she could. Chronic viewers with alarm ority of cither nation in oil supply miles of surfaced roads and highways. have already conceded defeat. A sober- would doom it. Russia's deficit in oil is The United States had 2,069,820. er view of this threat, however, must notorious. Best estimates show that All these American figures include seriously' question whether Russia either crude oil production in Russia is now- only our own output. In no case have has the long range, non-stop bombers running at the rate of 750,000 barrels we included output of our so-called per day. In the United States, daily pro- allies, which would also be available to 1970-1980 duction is 6,200,000 barrels, a ratio of us in most part in the event of war with eight to one in our favor. Russian re- the Soviets. Inclusion of such available By PAUL SOUTHWICK United Press Staff Writer fining capacity is 575,000 barrels per allied goods w ould swell the ratios even - day, compared with United States ca- more disproportionately against Russia. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 S. Korowicz, who es- pacity of 5,400,000 barrels. It is not necessary to labor the point. Dr. Marek from the Communist Polish Steel production is the traditional Russia is hopelessly outclassed by the caped Nations barometer of a nation's preparedness for United States in every category vital to delegation at the United the Russians war. In 1951, Russian steel output was modern warfare. In some instances the last w eek, said today conquest 1970 35,502,000 tons. American output was disparities are so extreme as to suggest aim for world by 1980. 105,140,000 tons. that Russia is permanently fated to the or "This plan is based on the pro- Coal production is a preparedness in- status of a second-rate power. Those gressive destruction of the cul- dex. Russian coal production in 1951 who talk irresponsibly of Russia as a political was 285,000,000 tons: American produc- present threat to American survival tural, economic and foundations of the free world," tion the same year 559,976,000 tons. blindly ignore these glaring facts of he said. Rubber is an extremly important w ar Russia's halting economic inferiority. Dr. Korowicz told an extraordi- commodity. Russia, like us, has no The Russia of their fears is a figure, not nary session of the House Un- natural rubber but she has developed out of statistical tables, but out of a American Activities Committee a costly synthetic rubber industry with Superman comic strip or the saga of a that everything the Soviets do is an annual capacity of 125,000 metric Paul Bunyan. As this is being written, aimed ;'.t furthering that goal but tons. Against this is American domestic painful point is given to these truths by "they know in Moscow that under production of 1,211,000 tons (in 1950), the circulation by a Congressional com- present circumstances war is not 845,155 synthetic. mittee of a pamphlet titled, Soviet the best and safest way to achieve Uranium is a must commodity in a Schedule for War, 1955. their aims." war fought by atom warfare. Figures But there is a sizable body of public on uranium are hush-hush, but Russia opinion which w ill contend that Ameri- is limited almost entirely to the low- ca's peril does not lie in these facts, but to deliver the bomb over American tar- grade output of Czecho-Slovakia and in the possibility of a sneak Russian gets, or the stockpile to sustain the Saxony, w ith some small sources in Si- atom bomb or hydrogen bomb attack stupendous follow-up duel which would beria. The United States, on the other upon American cities and industries. We come with our counter-attack. If Rus- hand, has access to the Canada, Congo, cannot wave aside such a possibility, sia attacked now—and it is the present Colorado and other major producing although it leads us into a realm of ad- we are talking about—she would unques- areas, as w ell as the new sources w hich mitted conjecture w here provable facts tionably hurt America terrifically, but are being developed in South Africa. are non-existent. enough of us would survive to stage a deadly reprisal. When that second phase developed, Russia's fearful inferiority would immediately become obvious. Her only hope of crushing us would be through a one-shot operation, which could not be repeated. Without stock- piles for a second assault, she would quickly succumb to the terrific attack which our B-47s could make upon her 70 major targets, from all or most of our surrounding ring of advance air bases in England, continental F.urope, Morocco, Libya, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iceland, or by our 4,000-mile non- stop B-36s, taking off from United States bases. Russia, despite all her propaganda, knows with painful clearness that she

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MAGI IN BATTLE DRESS (Continued from page 13) — to lose, with things the way they are?" reached the sad trees which lined the back that cold which was becoming a "I wish we had a compass," Grimes banks of the black stream and Carl- lethal thing as the wind bit at their wet said with a faint anger in his voice. "If mark halted them there. A shallow clothes. we get down there in those rice pad- stream and not too wide but the water Sergeant Grimes was thinking the dies where we can't see anything, we'll ran swiftly. Carlmark studied it for a same thing. "Goin' to try it, Lieuten- be following ourselves around in a cir- long time, the other two lying beside ant?" he asked softly. cle in ten minutes. I used to have a com- him. Carlmark nodded. "We try it." pass. Why in hell is it that a man never He said finally, "It's going to be nasty They moved on until they were close has what he needs in this fouled-up to cross. We'll ford it just the same." enough to make out details. One big war? Sergeant Grimes nodded to himself, building; two sheds. They would go Hayes asked softly, "What you want chin brushing against the snow. That, into the big one, Carlmark decided- with a compass, Sarge? See that bright he was thinking, was the way that then stiffened as a thin wail reached his star over there just above the hills. We things should be. He had misjudged this ears. It was followed by Chinese jabber can follow that just like them guys in lieutenant—but then you never really and Carlmark swore. the Bible did on Christmas Eve." knew about a man until the blue chips "Well, there goes that idea," Ser- Lieutenant Carlmark looked up and were down. geant Grimes mumbled sourly. "The noticed it, then— a star which winked "You want me to go first, Lieuten- damn place is full of Chinks!" with a blue light above the ragged out- ant?" he asked. A dark figure burst suddenly from lines of the mountains across the river. 'Til lead," Carlmark said. "Follow the doorway of the house and a burst of Hayes was right, he thought. They me." burp gun fire followed, punctuated by could guide on that. Three men, not so Water came to their waists; crept on shrill, foreign laughter. A man came wise, who had gotten cut off from their up until it was armpit high. The icy running—zigzagging toward where the company and who now wandered current lashed at them, trying to snatch Americans lay—and the gun fire stopped around on Christmas Eve. them away but they clung to each other but the laughter went on as he stumbled "The star will do to guide on," he and when one faltered the others helped and fell. He was a dozen yards from said curtly. "Let's go." him. Then the water began to get more Carlmark and he made whimpering The steepness of the hills dropped shallow and presently they were across sounds in the snow. A dry sound which gradually away to become flat land- and shivering on the far bank. rasped Carlmark's nerves. rice paddies once but now devoted to They stumbled across faintly rising He whispered, "Cover me," and the harvesting of crops which were ground for a half mile and then a few wormed his way to where the man more grim. The three plodded on, shadowy buildings lay in a little hollow huddled. A Korean, he sensed rather tiredness beginning to pluck at the mar- in front of them and Carlmark turned than saw. South Korean, probably, for row of their bones and hunger biting that way. A deserted farmhouse, he the Chinese had been firing at him. keenly at their stomachs. There was a thought. No lights showed. Nothing Carlmark asked, "You hurt, Mac?" supply road and they dodged across it moved there. Perhaps they could make and saw the man lift his head. The star- and went on. a very small fire there; warm themselves light was dim but there was enough of It was close to 2300 hours when they for the space of a few minutes and drive it to show him the swift relief which flowed over the man's brown face. "Americans?" the other asked softly. "Americans, Mac," Carlmark told him; asked again, "You hurt?" "I am not hurt," the Korean said in his soft voice. "It is my wife, American

sir. I have prayed so hard that you would come." Sergeant Grimes and Hayes were crawling up now, a fold in the ground screening them from the view of the house. Grimes began, "What the ." hell . . but Carlmark stopped him with a curt gesture. "Go on," he said to the Korean. "What about your wife?"

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54 • THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 doing, he got to his feet and started It was in the blackest hour before across the snow, his carbine held in morning— that ghostly hour when life is operation" Easy Street"

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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 • 55 BASKETBALL HASN'T LEARNED ITS LESSON (Continued from page 21) gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota) by leagues and teams which represent in- Professor Ralph W. Aigler of the Uni- dustry or hotels. Also banned were intra- versity of Michigan stated: not un- murals, exhibitions and other organized "A "Just what I wanted, Dad" common opinion is that conditions in play by athletes who were still eligible intercollegiate athletics, particularly in for collegiate court competition. This ...and she meant it! recruiting and subsidizing, the twin was a direct slap at the famous summer areas of the most outstanding abuses, resort or "borscht circuit" basketball in Startling, men? Not a bit. It can have been growing worse rather than New York State's Catskill Mountains, happen . . . and it always happens better. A view frequently expressed is tabbed as one of the evils leading to when your gift is a United States that fewer and fewer young men of the bribery of players. Savings Bond. athletic promise are selecting their col- What has been the net result? Evasion And no wonder. Everybody wants lege without regard to pressures and fi- and soft treatment of violators. A well- Savings Bonds — your wife, your nancial returns. known sports columnist re- More and more of those New York daughter, son, grandchildren — ported following this young men in interviewing college ad- the past summer: everyone whose future is impor- ministrators and staff members want "Owners in the Catskill area are tired tant to you. A Bond is the perfect to know, "What is the deal'?" of the ECAC ban, which has deprived gift — the gift that grows witli the It's common knowledge around eastern college boys from participating years. many of the campuses of our land that in the mountains, and are particularly You can't go wrong — no styles, "the deal" in many instances is a very annoyed over the fact that ECAC play- sizes, or shades to worry about. attractive and lucrative one. The story ers are performing in areas other than No question of fit. No question of plot is the same as before 1951—the only the Catskills and are getting away with whether they can use it. Savings changes have been in the cast. it because the areas involved are not Bunds make the future worth One conference that has taken defi- scrutinized for violators as closely. waiting for! nite steps to correct the evils associated "It is an open secret for example, that Your hank or postoffice is shop- with 1951 is players are performing in a city along the scandal the Eastern Col- ping headquarters for Bonds. And the eastern lege Athletic Conference, which is sec- seabord on a regular basis while you're there, ask for the at- ond in membership only to its big without any policing effort made by tractive new Savings Bonds gift brother, the NCAA. But, it too, like its the ECAC to curb this violation of its folder that's free with every Bond frere, has been handicapped by the lack ban on outside basketball." you buy. of "teeth" in enforcing its official pro- The soft treatment for detected vio- A Savings Bond is a share in nouncements. Some of its 98 lators of the regulation occurred in the member America — a head start on happy, colleges and universities circumvent case of Ail-American Larry Hennessey secure tomorrows. So for those rulings or are lax on violations with the of Villanova two years ago. Following important names on your gift list same disregard as perpetrators in other the close of the regular collegiate sea- — the ones you really care about parts of the country. son, Hennessey played under an as- — make this a Bond Christmas. For example. In A4ay 1951, the ECAC sumed name in a Church tournament Give them the present with a passed a regulation banning collegiate in a city bordering New York. He future . . . basketball players under its jurisdiction thereby not only broke the ECAC rule from competing at any time in or for but the foremost rule of an amateur II. S. SAVINGS MINDS

athlete "not to play under a false name." Punishment for the latter is automatic expulsion from amateur athletics. The case was reported and turned over to the authorities at Villanova. The outcome? Hennessey was severely reprimanded and suspended from competing for Villanova for HALF of the season of 1952-53. What is the natural effect of this evasion and soft treatment? Other eastern collegiate players, straining at the bit to play in organized basketball during the summer and off-months, will more and more attempt to "get away with it." Thus, ineffectively enforced, another well-meaning regulation becomes but mere words on a paper. The emergence of little Rio Grande College in Ohio from basketball ob- scurity to national prominence last season based on the spectacular scoring feats of its freshman giant, Clarence (Bevo) Francis, is another indication that the sport's belt, never really tight-

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All of the evil symptoms attributed to the game 40 ACRE GOVERNMENT the result has been outright violation two years ago can be reaffirmed today or as in some unexposed cases, secret OIL LEASES-$100 despite the protestations of the NCAA, You do no drilling, pay no taxes, may realize a disregard. king-size profit without ever leaving home. Write the Conferences and basketball officials for free map and literature. Though perhaps they won't admit it, in general. An editorial in The New American Oil Scouts, Dept. L, 7321 Beverly Blvd. the biggest problem for such athletic York Times in February of 1951 is just Los Angeles 36, Calif. bodies as the NCAA, the ECAC and as pungently true now: other organized groups, is the strict RADIO & TV NOISES "Proselytizing of good players; the enforcement of these rules by the in- INSTANTLY ! soft campus job for the star who stitutions themselves. It is here, in the NEW ELECTRONIC DESI6N can produce STOP on the court; the matter of institutional control, where "Bell-Tronic" line filter eliminates noisy interference! caused by all motor appliances, autos, oil building-up by dubious means of a these bodies flounder and it is here burners, etc. Simply plug radio or TV cord into 'name' filter and filter into wall socket. $ m ppd team (or player) for the where the strongest measures should be Enjoy "Bell Clear" reception. I aggrandizement of the college; the taken through a strong enforcement J No C O D. Try 5 days. Money back guarantee. Wholesalers Box 364-AL 2 Rockville Center, N. Y. unearned passing mark on the re- agent or agency. Tube port card; the glorification of a However, it is at this point that the Help Fight TB game and the devaluation of prin- colleges and universities are their ten- ciple — these are the crimes that derest. Whenever the mention of a na- finally beget crime." tional athletic enforcement agent or Is basketball heading for another agency is made, the institutions cry scandal? Could be. Perhaps not of the "Foul!" It is their belief that this usurps bribery type but, if certain conditions their power or implies that they "can't continue to prevail, it's headed down clean their own house." the same pike. The diagnosed evils of Nonsense. Most of the colleges and 1951 — pressure to w in, commercialism, universities of our land are members recruitment and subsidization — are still of an accrediting agency which peri- with us. odically checks their records for aca- What's the answer? Certainly not the demic and admission procedures and abolition of basketball or some of the ( Continued on page 59 J Buy Christmas Seals THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 57 (Continued from page 4) from communist prison camps ought who fail to look at the present situa- "Take a company like Western Elec- to see how right the Legion has been. tion in its true light. tric, which has a firm and long-stand- They may comprise a body of men S. S. Schier ing policy of arbitrary retirement at that will add a new force. Fall Brook, Calif. age 65. There are just no exceptions. R. W. Clark But this is just another example of the Cleveland TICKLES EM PINK old saying that it is an ill wind which Sir: One thing I've learned in more blows no good. Nearby in Illinois is THE FLAG WENT BY than twenty years of fighting commu- the Automatic Electric Company, a Sir: On page 34 of your October issue nism is that the real reds are delighted smaller concern manufacturing tele- there is a picture showing a color Legionnaires like Charles Hay- phonic equipment, which has an when guard passing a group beside a truck. others share his views) equally firmly established policy of ward (and who Close inspection will reveal only two to "put its time and hiring recently separated W.E. over- urge the Legion of the group saluting. gross bit of A into socialism as age personnel on five-year contracts energy opposing disrespect, I would say. such." They know that it takes the and frequently at more money." G. F. Smith edge off our real attack and they're W here your writer got his informa- Danville, 111. tickled pink if they can get us to tion I cannot imagine, but the fact is scatter our fire. They also know that that our Company does not now, and AFTER THE PIGMIES it causes genuinely patriotic never did have, any such policy. Since many Sir: In almost every issue of The Americans to distrust our main effort. none of our own employees are ever American Legion Magazine I find a Let's don't get mixed up. Communism accorded the privileges referred to in letter revealing another inane effort to is which the statement about "W.E. over-age a dangerous conspiracy, smear or discredit Senator Joseph R. should be outlawed. Socialism is the personnel," you can imagine the tur- McCarthy. 1 am proud to be among doctrine of a legitimate political party moil which your article can create in those who feel that Joe McCarthy is (with incidentally I have no our organization, to say nothing of which one of the greatest living Americans. whatever) that seeks to W estern Electric. sympathy His name will live in history as an H. F. 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Only those who have put He also expressed a wish that his name Sir: I know that there are those even in as much time, or any time, in a be added to a certain list. As one of in our membership to whom the ap- concentration camp realize the capac- the "stupid peasants" referred to by palling record (of subversion) seems ity of our enemies to put on the heat. Matherly, I strongly urge that such a to carry no message, for occasionally Today we are in a war with an equally list be produced and that his name be letters from such people are in the ruthless enemy. There is no depravity added to such as Alger Hiss, the magazine. But it has occurred to me which the enemy would not under- Rosenbergs and other weird intellec- that there might be just one decent take if he felt he could get away witli tuals- turn to come out of the Korean affair. it to attain victory over us. Senator George A. Novitske

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IZVESTIA COVERS THE NATIONAL CONVENTION

In our October issue we presented a est violence against the democratic Feeling itself safely under the pro- Report from St. Louis, describing the forces of the American people. Thou- tection of the Washington authorities

National Convention. This is another sands of Legionnaires ride around the the fascist fellows of The American report of the Convention, as translated country and terrorize the population. Legion carry on criminal propaganda its constant for a new world war and on an even- from the Russian newspaper Izvestia, The American Legion made business the breaking up of meetings, greater scale they organize fascist law- September 10. It is condensed, but the raids on the premises of democratic lessness. line Kremlin flavor has been retained. organizations and mobbing of people The convention of The American who came out in favor of peace and Legion this year was no exception in A convention of The American Legion democratic rights. To crush strikes, the this regard. Its rostrum was used for the took place recently in St. Louis. Thirty- Legion sends to factories detachments basest insinuations against the camp of five thousand members of this fascist of goons who, in the words of one New peace and for praising the policies of mob listened to tens of speeches and York newspaper, break open with clubs imperialist aggression in the U.S.A. Be-

adopted many resolutions . . . fanning the skulls of the American workers. fore the fascist mob appeared Secretary war hysteria in the U.S.A. and heighten- The American Legion carries on its of State John Foster Dulles who called ing the pogrom-like activities of Amer- pogrom-like activity in closest contact for broadening the aggressive action of ican reaction. with the FBI and the notorious com- the U.S.A. in Asia. U.S. Vice President The American Legion was founded mittee for investigation of "anti-Ameri- Nixon and Minister of Defense Wilson during the years of the first World can" activity. The Legion's American- greeted the band of ruthless robbers. War, anil its organizers set before them- ism Committee set up a vast card index Honest, freedom-loving Americans selves the task of putting into the hands where they put the names of all pro- hate and despise fascism and its shock of magnates of great capital yet another gressively-minded Americans. In order brigade—The American Legion. There- weapon in their fight against the work- to gather (such) information the Amer- fore ever more frequently and ever ing class, progressive individuals and icanism Committee has a network of louder are heard the voices which reso- organizations. The Legion assumed the agents throughout the country. All ma- lutely condemn the criminal actions of role of watch dog of Wall Street. terial gathered becomes the property of the Legion and its Washington pro- Legionnaires don't stop at the rough- the FBI. tectors.

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Continued from page 51 ly administered, what would be the ( requirements. Why can't the same set- effects of such an authority? College up apply to the institutions' athletic administrators would take more inter- AT LAST! A WATCH departments? est in the policies of their athletic Although he is not exactly the pro- departments; athletic directors and WITH HIS NAME ON totype of all that is good and wonder- coaches would think twice before em- ful in the intercollegiate athletic world, ploying any underneath-the-table meth- THE DIAL- FREE! Phog Allen, Kansas U.'s publicity- ods because of the dire consequences minded basketball coach, came up with personally; the high school athlete an excellent suggestion along about would be less demanding because the March 1951. He proposed that basket- illegal subsidization offers would not be ball have a national commissioner (of forthcoming, due to closer college

the stature of a J. Edgar Hoover) scrutiny; alumni would become less whose duty it would be to stop prose- aggressive (financially and physically) lyting in college ranks and force com- in athletic recruitment due to the pub- pliance with the rules. It would be with- licizing of names responsible for the vio- in his power, the Phog bellowed, to lation; admissions departments of insti- fire coaches and athletic directors tutions wouldn't cooperate so readily where and when needed. Phog's sugges- with the forging of admission credits tion was laughed at by basketball people l>y athletic departments; and finally, fans and was abruptly labeled as "absurd." would be witnessing honest basketball But is it absurd? Why not a com- played by teams w ith athletes w ho se- missioner or commission for basketball? lected colleges on academic and athletic Other amateur sports such as swimming, reputation rather than by what they tennis, golf, etc., support regulatory received for entering. bodies that have the power to go into This does not imply that this method the records of individuals for rules vio- is the final cure for all of basketball's lations. problems. There would be much bick-

Would it be imw ieldy to administer? ering, criticism and frustration at first Not at all. The commissioner or com- —there always is in the initial steps of mission (whichever is adopted) would organization—but, once conquered, the have one agent (having no employment foundation will have been laid and the connection with any college) in each tottering structure of intercollegiate of the eight districts of the NCAA. basketball, tophcavy from scandalous These agents w ould be the leg-men for conduct, fiery attacks and rule-enforce- Any child loves a real watch of his own. His name (or hers!) right there on the the main body—gathering information ment laxity, will once more be firm at watch face doubles the thrill. This is an and conducting investigations at the its base. excellent time-piece— an excellent value. scene of violations or uncovering There's nothing wrong with growing When you send postal money orders, wrong-doings either themselves or from "big" so long as you don't try to keep please print name desired. $5.00 deposit required on C.O.D. orders. reports of members of the district. The wearing the same clothes in the process. findings then would be forwarded to Then you start looking ridiculous. HAWTHORNE WATCH COMPANY headquarters for action. W hen collegiate basketball realizes this 60- Mission Sin et, Dept. L, San Francisco, California Given the proper power and strong- it will have learned its lesson, the end ACCORDIONS DISCOUNTS

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1239 3 Foley Bide., Minneapolis IB, Minn. THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • DECEMBER, 1953 • 59 TURKEY — AN ALLY WE CAN TRUST •(Continued from page 21)-

would soon able be to establish bases .Mongols, came to Asia Minor seven into decline that it could not survive on the Aegean. Our policy makers real- centuries ago. Toward the end of the defeat in World War I. Ambitious ized that Turkey am) a Greece were 1 3th century their leader Osman neighboring powers saw a chance to basic parr of the free world's wall of founded the Ottoman Empire, which gain territory at the expense of the defense against Soviet aggression. became one of the world's great pow - prostrate country. In 1922, Greek ar- Hence the Truman Doctrine of mili- ers and lasted till the close of World mies w ere deep inside Anatolia; Constan- tary and economic aid to Turkey and War I. During the height of its domi- tinople was occupied by British, French Greece. In this case our policies were nance this Islamic empire extended deep and Italian forces. Mussolini, about to successful. into w hat is now southern Russia, into come to power in Italy, cast an ominous Today, Turkey and Greece are mem- Central Europe as far as Austria, along eye on a substantial chunk of Turkish bers of the North Atlantic Treaty Or- North Africa into Algeria. Except for territory. ganization. Each has a strong military tiny (Montenegro, the Turks held all of Then came the great, the amazing, force. Yugoslavia, once in a virtual state the Balkans. To the south they con- renaissance. Under their George Wash- of war with Greece and a base of com- trolled w hat is now Iraq, Syria, Leba- ington, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the munist operations against the Hellenes, non, Israel, Trans-Jordania and north- Turks drove the Greek armies out of is now aligned with Turkey and Greece ern Arabia. At one time Turkish armies Anatolia. Through diplomatic negotia- in the Balkan Entente. American help fought their way to Lublin, in central tions they succeeded in evacuating the to Turkey and Greece was influential Poland, and near the close of the 17th occupation forces from Constantinople. in erecting this "solid citadel of peace" century they besieged Vienna. It took By drastic reforms (best symbolized to on NATO's right flank. But the major an alliance of Austria, Venice, the Vati- Americans in the banning of the color- share of the credit goes to the Turks. can, Malta, Tuscany, Poland and Rus- ful red fez), Ataturk reorganized all Had they not stood up to the Soviets sia to hold the conquering Turks in branches of the government, education back in the dark days from 1941 to check. and the Turkish way of life. He turned 1947, NATO would today have no The Ottoman Empire was not only his country's face away from the past southern bastion. Indeed, it may even a fabulous military pow er, however, but, and toward the future. It is on the basis be doubted that there would be any- during its prime, had an advanced civi- of his strong. Western-minded admin- continental European line of defense at lization and perhaps the best adminis- istration that today's progressive repub- all against Soviet imperialism. The trative system in the world of that era. lic w as built. I urkish role w as that important. Suleiman, renowned in the Western For those of us w ho, like the writer, In fact, important is a word that, world as "the Magnificent," was hon- were in Turkey in 1923, the year Ata- from the dawn of history, has charac- ored by the Turks as "the Law-Giver." turk began to build his new nation on terized the land that is now the Turkish 7 urkish historians maintain that, at a the ruins of defeat, the little Straits re-

Republic. Here are Paul's Tarsus, time when Christendom still believed public is a modern miracle. Tractor Helen's Troy and Noah's Mount disease to be caused by evil spirits, and airplane are at home there today. Ararat. This was the center of Hittitc 1 urkish doctors had discovered small- Intelligently and zealously Turkey is culture, Graeco-Roman civilization and pox vaccine. forging ahead—building roads, modern- the Ottoman Empire's world sway. By the close of the 19th century, the izing farming methods, improving mar- Near practice bombing runs of Tur- Ottoman Empire had lost much of its keting and distribution facilities, ex- key's powerful Thunderjets Hows an- former territory, its civil service had panding industry, raising health levels, cient history's venerable Tigris. become corrupt, its attitude tow ard the upgrading the standard of living. She- The Turkish people, descendants of people contemptuous. Despite reform has modern airports and excellent tribes driven from Central Asia by the movements the empire had gone so far schools and colleges. There is political stability and high public morale. Tur- key, moreover, has enough public spirit left over to act as a good neighbor to the nations around her.

Turkey today is enjoying an eco-

nomic boom ami it couldn't happen to

a worthier people. Here is one place w here every American dollar of aid has

been pur to good use. It has gone into improvement of the national economy and national defense. The Turks wel-

come our know -how . They are eager to have American help in learning to get the most our of their soil and develop- ing their mineral resources. A few months ago Turkey invited American capital to bring her oil deposits into production. Besides oil. the Turks have coal, lignite, iron, salt, chrome anil cop-

per. Their chrome production is one ol the four largest in the world. There are smaller deposits of mercury, manganese, asbestos, sulphur, emery ami antimony.

But Turkey is primarily an agricul- " I here! Now lay oli the peanuts for a while! AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE tural country. Four-fifths of the people live in rural areas. Seventy-five percent

6() •llll AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZIN] • DECEMBER, 1953 of the population are peasants and they one cup a day. The Turkish troops WILL YOU BREAST-FEED largely own the land they work. Wheat, often threw leather bags of water across YOUR BABY? cotton and, of course, tobacco are the the trenches to their thirsty enemies. If you can't, get breast- chief export crops. Other farm products As for the sons and grandsons of those shaped Hygeia nipples. No-clog vents insure non- are oats, barley, rye, corn, rice, millet, chivalrous troops, it is reported that, interrupted feeding. Finest you can buy. replacements were nursing bottle the citrus fruits, wool, cheese, honey, w hen 1800 Korean i:-m Main St., Buffalo it. N. Y. olives, olive oil, figs and nuts. Angora about to embark from Turkey, they LtURAl SHAM

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