THE AMEDirA

JULY 1944 BREAKING A BOTTLENECK !

Texaco scientists found way to Break Isobutane Bottleneck

to speed Production of 100-octane Aviation Gasoline

Millions upon millions of gallons of but already vitally important "liquid fine 100-octane gasoline are required catalyst" process for converting plen- to keep America's vast air armadas tiful butane into precious isobutane. flying. A process that can operate continu-

One of the difficulties in producing ously, without periodic shutdowns. It this vast quantity of gasoline was this: requires less plant equipment than any

It takes a gallon of isobutane to pro- previous process.

duce four gallons of aviation gasoline. After the war is won, this typical And until recently, isobutane had to development of Texaco Research will be made by a slower, time-consuming put lightning getaway, smoother pick- process. That bottleneck was broken. up, unprecedented power into your Texaco Research has developed a new new car! And more miles per gallon!

Coming. . . afiner FIR£'CHI£f gasoline and afiner Ski/ Chidfgasoline because of Texacos work in this war Mr. Ford has the solution of the prob- em of the popular automobile." PRESIDENT TAFT GAVE THE STARTING SIGNAL The proof of that statement no longer rests in a single car which won a race, but in the 30 million cars and trucks Ford has built since then. And is June 1, 1909. For weeks the Itala quit the race. The others plowed IT today millions of them are providing newspapers have been full of the on. Near the summit of the Cascades reliable, economical transportation exciting story. Now, before the New they fought their way against tower- for wartime America. York City Hall five "horseless car- ing snow drifts. Meanwhile the inventive genius riages"— an Acme, a Shawmut, an Days later. Ford Car Number 2 — and the precision skills associated with Itala and two Model-T Fords— are the winner— entered the gates of the name Ford continue to serve the standing hub to hub. Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Ex- nation in the mass production of giant Anxiously mechanics make final position. It had crossed the continent aircraft and other means to victory. adjustments. Then, from the White in 22 days and 55 minutes, with New In the days of peace ahead. Ford's House, President Taft flashes the York air still in the two front tires! resourcefulness in developing new starting signal. America's first trans- he awarded the tropfiy Colonel As ideas and new methods will again continental auto race is under way! M. Robert Guggenheim said: produce soundly-engineered motor West of St. Louis, seven-day rains "Mr. Ford's theory that light-weight a cars, priced within the reach of the had turned the country roads into car, highly powered . . . can go places largest number of people. quagmires. Across the prairies and in where heavier cars cannot go, and can FORD MOTOR COMPANY Colorado average speeds were cut to beat heavier cars costing five and six ten miles an hour. times as much, on the steep hill or on At Cheyenne, Wyoming, the big bad roads, has been proved. I believe

JULY, 194+ I THE AMERICAN LEGION JULY. 1944 VOLUME 37 • No. 1 MAGAZINE

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By DANIEL J. DOHERTY LET S ASK FOR THOSE BASES ' 6 Bv Warren H. Atherton Past National Commander, Treasury National Commander National Representative AMG TAKES OVER 9 American Legion will be in the THE As lold to W. L. White forefront of the Fifth War Loan Illustrated by G. Van Wen/eke Campaign, which as these lines were written late in May was still three weeks FAITH UNDER HRE 10 Bv CHArLAiN H. M. FoRGV, U.SN in the ofifing, but which will be more Illustrated by John F. Gould than half over as you read these words. The sales period opens on June 12th, DAN TO BEERSHEBA 12 closes on July 8th. The goal for this Bv Karl Detze.r pried is SLXTEEN BILLION DOL- Illustrated by F. R. Gruger LARS, the highest yet. At the close of this report of what KHAKI CLOWNS 14 Bv I'FC Bob Ensworth the Legion did in the First Four War {Continued on page 5) "GLAMOROUS" C-B-I 16 Bv Eugene O'Connor Illustrated by Jay Hyde Darnum

A service man or woman HI, MOM! 19 would like to read this copy Bv Helen Kaye Otersen by Walter Biggs, A.N:A. of your Legion Magazine. Illustrated For overseas, seal the enve- LST: DUTY 20 cents RUGGED lope and put on fifteen Bv Robert T. Hartmann in stamps, as first class post- Illustrated by Percy Leason age is required. If you put the National Legionnaire in FATHERS AND SONS 22 the envelope carrying the Bv Paul Gallico mellow charms of great melodies Illustrated by John Cassel THE overseas, make the live on — through changing times and magazine postage eighteen cents instead tastes. HAIL OMAHA! 23 of fifteen. For the home front Bv Boyd B. Stutler So it is with Old Grand-Dad — the mellow the mailing charge for the melody of bourbon at its best. magazine and the National THAT MAN CLARK 26 Frank A. Mathews Legionnaire is four cents, in By It sings of golden grain, ripening in the Illustrated by Albin Hennin'g sunshine; of patient years spent in sooth- an unsealed envelope. For the magazine alone, three cents. ing oak; of good fellowship, good times, DOG TAG DOINGS 28 good taste — so gloriously good that the Conducted by John J. Noll tongue is loath to lose each lingering drop. Thus has Old Grand-Dad become Head of the Bourbon Family. One taste will tell IMPORTANT: a form for your convenience if you wish to have you why! the magazine sent to another address will be found on page 51.

BOTTLED IN BOND AT FULL 100 PROOF The American Legion Magazine is the official publication of The American Legion and is owned ex- clusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1944. Published monthly at 455 West 22d St., Chicago, 111. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, 1925. Price, single copy, 15 cents; yearly subscription, $1.25. Entered as second class matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Warren H. OLD Atherton, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Publications Commission; Vilas H. Whaley, Racine, Wis., Vice Chairman. Members of Commission: Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Va.; Jerry Owen, Salem, Ore.; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; Robert W. Colflesh, Des Moines, Iowa; Dr. William F. Murphy, Palestine, Texas; Lawrence Hager, Owensboro, Ky.; Frank C. Love, GRMO-DAD Syracuse, N. Y.; Claude S. Ramsey, Raleigh, N. C; Glenn H. Campbell, Cleveland, Ohio; Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Neb.; George Bideaux, Tucson, Ariz.; Le Roy D. Downs, South Norwalk, Conn.; Harry R. Allen, Brockton, Mass.; Paul B. Dague, Downingtown, Pa. Director of Publications, James F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Editor, Alexander Gardiner; Director Manacing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler; Art Director, Frank Lisiecki; As- KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY of Advertising, Thomas O. Woolf; sociate Editor, John J. Noll. manuscripts unless return postage is enclosed. Names This Whiskey is 4 Years Old TTie Editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited of characters in our fiction and semi-fiction articles that deal with types are fictitious. Use of the name National Distillers Products Corporation. N Y, 0/ any person Jiving or dead is pure coincidence.

2 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazim The courtesy born of competence and the calm, sure speed that comes from knowing how.

Learned in peace, these are valuable traits in war when Bell System people are under more pressure than ever before.

Even in today's rush and hurry, "The Voice With a Smile'' keeps right on being a part of telephone service. TELEPHONE SYSTEM

When you're calling over war-busy lines, the Long Distance operator may ask you to "please limit your call to 5 minutes." That's to help more calls get through during rush periods.

JU1.Y, 194* 3 while much general discussion is going on aboul after

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ON FRENCH SOIL THE United Nations were battling on French soil as these lines were PALMOLIVE BRUSHLESS written on the morning of June 6th. Like the fighting that developed at Salerno, and on the Anzio beach- Guarantees'^You a Glean, Comfortable Shave with head, the going was tough, with the enemy resolutely determined to wipe out our first echelons and drive the remnants of those that followed into the sea. But as in those earlier operations our stout-hearted soldiers NO RAZOR BURN and those of our allies took every- thing the krauts threw at them and consolidated their gains, at a heavy cost in lives, and went on from strength to strength. We shall take Paris as we took Naples and Rome, and press forward to the heart of Germany, while from the south and east other forces of the conquering COOL, allies tighten the cord that one day you SMOOTH. Pf/^f^^ will strangle the foul beasts of Ber- lin. There will probably be other landings from the west. All that we knew on the morning of June 6th was that our men were once again fighting on the holy soil of France. Americans and Britons and the other free peoples of the earth have joined with Frenchmen to liberate that soil from the hated invader. Palmolive Brushless Surely this June 6th of 1944 will go I lubricates your skin, in history down with those June "cushions" it against days of Runnymede and Bunker your razor edge. Hill. As our men go forward, re- membering Lafayette, Rochambeau, Foch, Pershing and Haig, they will carry in their hearts the song of France's liberation: Ye sons France, awake to glory! of 2 Result? Your razor Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise? simply g-l-i-d-e-s along, Your children, wives and grandsires hoary, without tugging — Behold their tears and hear their cries! scratching or scrap- Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding. ing. In other words, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, without painful R-A-Z-O-R B-U-R-N. Affright and desolate the land. While peace and liberty lie bleeding? To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe; March on! March on! all hearts resolved On victory or death. / France's long night is over. The bat- 3 Afterwards your face tle is joined. There can be but one feels cool, clean, com- ending—complete victory, fortable. You purr with pleasure! why don't * * * So you try Palmolive WAR BOND REPORT Brushless tonight or in the morning? ( Continued from page 2) Loans Campaigns was a chart showing what each Department had done. Then on the morning of June 6th came the story of the Allied landings in France. The table went out the window. The totals showed that 7,007 Posts around the country reported sales, that Posts bought for themselves a total of $20,784,619, and that individual purchases by Legionnaires were $607,203,- 73L I hardly need say that with our comrades facing the enemy on historic French soil in a battle that will end only when the Axis is completely crushed, the reasons for support- ing the Fifth War Loan Campaign are im- mediate, pressing, compelling.

JULY. 194+ .

LEFS ASK FOR THOSE BASES

BY WARREN H. ATHERTON

National Commanderf The American Legion

We are giving our all to secure peace on We are payirig in blood, in matepal earth and good-will among men. and in money to establish these bases, Sons, daughters, husbands and wives, Now is the time to assert the right to steel, oil, food, medicine, ships, planes, use them forever in the interest of com- tanks and guns are being poured into merce and good-will and peace.

the fight without stint. We will continue It's a fine thing to help the other fel-

to give until the victory is won. low win this war.

Victory will be ours because at every It's a fine thing to help the other fel- crossroads of the world there is an low to get on his feet. American sea base, air base or land base. It will be a better thing to make sure Our fleets sailing from these bases that we stay on our own feet. are choking the Hun and the Jap into We have built bases in Trinidad, in submission. Greenland, in Iceland, in Caledonia and Our planes flying from these bases in Africa. Americans are fighting and are blasting Nazi-ism and Shinto-ism dying and paying for them today. The from the face of the earth. Americans of tomorrow should have the Our men fighting from these bases right to use them for Americans' benefit are driving Hitler and Tojo back into and Americans' security. their cesspools. Let's stop being schoolboys, ashamed Because we have these bases and the to speak up for ourselves. Marshal Stalin ships and the planes and the men and has made it plain that he is for Russia munitions, the war will be won. ^ / come hell or high water. Mr. Churchill When the war has been won, the said that he did not become Prime Min- peace must be kept. ister to preside at the liquidation of the Those same bases which make vic- British Empire. Let us say to the world tory certain will be needed to insure in plain wordg that we are first of all for peace. ' America and that we expect to use the Our cruisers of the air and of the sea ports and bases and sea-lanes and air- must have these bases through which ways, established by the sacrifice of to exchange American good-will and American lives and American savings, American goods for the friendliness and for the benefit and protection of the merchandise of the people of the America! world.

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JULY, 1944 IT MUSTN'T bite the hand that throws it

flashed, the bad fuse was automat- became almost overnight a vital tool ically daubed with red paint, and of war production, testing for hid- finally, to make assurance doubly den flaws no human eyes could re- sure that the bad fuse didn't slip veal the metals on which the strength

through, it was recorded on the chart and endurance of our arms depend. of a photoelectric meter. Which makes the Xray another From sorting oranges for Califor- good example of the way G-E re- nia fruit growers to sorting hand search and engineering work to meet grenades is quite a step—but it is typ- America's needs — constantly, in un- ical of the new wartime jobs G-E sci- expected ways — in war and peace. HIS IS A HAND GRENADE. When entists and engineers have put X rays General Elearic Co., Schenectady, N.Y. you pull the firing pin and release to work on. It is also typical of the the lever you have only the length application of G.E.'s peacetime re- of time it takes the fuse to burn down search and engineering to war. to get rid of it or get away from there Nearly twenty years ago Dr. —and that's only a handful of seconds! William D. Coolidge, now G-E If you made hand grenades, or vice-president and Director of the used them, you'd want to be mighty Research Laboratory, developed the sure about those fuses. Coolidge X-ray tube — one of the

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The Italian head doctor arrived, wiping his hands on a bloody apron

ing. Otherwise it looked like Illustrated by G. VAN WERVEKE any other Sicilian town of 30,000 — gray -yellow and own army has gone, these people won't dirty, sitting in the middle recognize the authority of their local of a dusty plain with blue police until we tell them they must. mountains beyond. General "As we drove through the narrow Montgomery's army had streets, hunting for the town hall square,

passed through it the night the city seemed deserted except for a before, and in the distance few people despondently poking in the you could still hear their ruins of bombed houses, or holding a Takes Over heavy guns. battered family picture, or standing by "With me in the jeep a body they had pulled out in the street. As Told to W. L. WHITE was Captain Andrew Mala- All along our route there were bodies testa of Syracuse, New lying in the street. York, who is a civil affairs "When we got to the square, however, Author of "They Were Expenda ble" ofificer like myself. Andy there were several hundred people mill- was most useful because he ing around in front of the Municipio, and "Queens Die Proudly" spoke the language like a where some British Military Police, left native and understood and behind temporarily by General Mont- loved the people; yet he gomer>', were installed in the deserted never forgot that he was an headquarters of the Carabinieri, the 'E WENT into this par- An;erican officer. He and I were to stay Italian state police. These MP's told us ticular town at dawn," in the town only about a day, to organ- that the mayor, who was a fascist, had

said the AMG major* ize things generally ; then we would push skipped with the Germans, but that they W' 'and even before we got on, leaving a permanent AMG officer in had rounded up an Italian police official there in our jeeps we could see there charge. and were dealing with him. was trouble ahead, because over its roof- "Our forces had learned that it was "It was a nasty situation—those 10 tops we could count ten Lies still burn- important to get AMG into a captured fires burning, about 125 bodies swelter- • An officer of tlic American Military Govern- town quickly so that there wouldn't be ing under the rubble in that July heat, ment of occupied territories, who requests that his name be withheld. any interregnum. You see, after their ( Continued on page ji

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orders were to find the en- huddled within the shade of the protect- OURemy and destroy him. ing steel. Some lay on the deck with The navigator spotted our their brown faces turned up to the sky. objective with an X mark on Others leaned against the ready boxes and his chart, and that night a small task blankly looked down at the planks in the force of cruisers and destroyers steamed wooden deck. One lad let his fingers toy out of the harbor. Sometime the follow- with the black tar caulking the seams. ing night, we were to intercept the Tokio He rolled tiny black marbles in his hand Express somewhere in the waters of the then squeezed them flat into the seams Solomons, somewhere near the spot again. Down in the engineroom men marked X. stood by their gauges and logged read- At noon the next day our cruiser was ings in an oil-stained book. Up on the still digging her heels deep into the sea bridge the signal men sat on the rail of and lifting her bow like the nose of a the flag box. The Navigator and the hound sure of the scent. She pushed on Quartermaster came out and shot an with a smooth steady speed. There was angle on the sun and went back into the barely a trace of roll and the flat sea chart house. Below in the after mess hall caused no pitch. Save for the monoton- a dozen men sprawled out on the hard ous moaning of her turbines, all was steel deck writing letters. One lad was quiet. A thin wisp of cigarette-like smoke playing solitaire. Two others sat by rolled off the back of the stacks and watching. They made no comment. They vanished in the air. Lookouts stood mo- offered no suggestions. tionless with their arms resting shoulder The officers' wardroom was practically high on the gun shields. The gun crews deserted. Two junior lieutenants sat by

a card table smoking and mouthing their coffee. A young ensign stretched out on the long black leather couch and gazed at the overhead. A negro mess boy wiped some crumbs off a table. He looked emptily about the room and sauntered back into the galley.

I WENT to my room and tried to write a letter to my wife, but somehow I could not help writing things ominous between the lines. I tore the letter up. I wrote a brief note to her and carefully placed it in my wallet. So intent was I in this act I failed to notice a tall sailor lad standing in my doorway. It was not until he spoke that I looked up. "Pardon me. Chaplain, but I came to

see if I could have another of those lit- A blinding flash of fire roared from the great guns tle white bibles." 10 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine —

"I knelt beside many a lad I had come to love. I held their hands and listened to their words OS they passed on to that other world"

There was a slight moist redness about hard and then he turned slowly away. lllustrafed by JOHN F. GOULD his eyes. I, too, wanted to say something, but somehow it seemed as if we just had fin- seemed paralyzed. I wondered if all «rAF COURSE you may," I replied, ished a long conversation and had come through that ship hundreds of other men bending to the drawer under the to a perfect understanding, one with the were doing the same thing I was doing desk where I kept a supply of New other. thinking of home, of wife and children. Testaments, hundreds of which had been I called softly, "God bless you, lad." What would happen to them if ... ? given to the chaplains by the Gideon He paused, and looked back. His big I got up and went topside. Society for distribution to our men. bony hands held tightly the little book. The sharp prow of the sleek cruiser Seeming to think he needed an ex- He just nodded his head and walked knifed the sea and the bow wave reached planation for this request, he added, "I away. It was the last time I ever saw him. almost to the main deck. Aft the great sent the other one you gave me to my propellers churned the snowy wake level mother—I want this one for myself, if r CRAWLED up into my bunk and with the fan-tail. A thousand yards off it isn't asking too much." tried to sleep. I knew I couldn't sleep the port quarter a destroyer raced along I handed him a little pocket testa- but resting there was good anyway. I with us at high speed. Her prow was ment. His face lit up in a gracious smile, wished the day were over, and the night high and her stem bit deep into the sea. i^e wanted to say something but only were here. I shot glances at the small She looked like a speed boat. blinked his wet eyes, drew his lips in alarm clock above the locker. The hands (Continued on page 44)

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camel track dipped into a wadi and disappeared. THEBeyond the wadi the desert rose in empty, uneven folds of sand that seemed to drift into oceans in the blazing afternoon. Dan halted the jeep. "Lost, sir, but where at?" the corporal demanded. Illustrated by F. R. GRUGER Dan lighted a cigarette. There were four more in his pack. That did not worry him so much. The water did, though. There "Plenty of scenery, whichever way we go. But I've this han- was a little left in the bottom of the five gallon tin for he still kering to head on northeast. We must be about at the Pales- could hear it swish when he shook the can. There was also half tine border. If so . . . you know, corporal, Beersheba is one a canteen. of the oldest towns in history, even find it mentioned in Gen- "Not lost exactly," Dan said, hoping to sound easy about it. esis ..." he trailed off. The corporal had a two days' growth "Just plenty damn mislaid." The corporal tried to spit but of beard caked with dust. He wanted to wash and his eyes hurt his mouth was too dry. "All for huntin' 5eer-sheba! And why and he wasn't interested in Genesis, now or any other time we want 5eer-sheba?" probably. He wouldn't even be interested if Dan told him that

He mispronounced the word both times. Dan passed it up. Joan, in New York from her home in Battle Creek, Michigan, He'd tried all day to make this guy say it right. "Not Beer. had seen Beersheba bracelets on Park Avenue. The most beau-

Ber." It wasn't any use. He got out his map and restudied it. tiful bracelets in the world. And on her slender wrists. . . . He could not tell the corporal or anybody else why he had come The corporal sighed bitterly. "All right, sir, northeast, 'fore this way, but come he had, and by golly he was going on. my tongue swells big as an ox. I tell you, if I ever get out o' The idea hadn't seemed crazy at the start. Not very, anyway. this kinda country ..." And he had completed his military mission first, right quickly, "The ancient caravan route ran through Beersheba," Dan too. They had started out early yesterday to find a plane that said. "Fact is, we must be right near now where Moses stayed ." had failed to turn up, westbound from Habbaniya for Cairo. forty years . . he realized his mistake at once and to drown

The ack-ack squads along the big ditch hadn't seen it. Head- out all the corporal was saying, he put the jeep noisily into quarters checked them all, from Suez to Said. So it was down low gear and nosed into another dry wadi. The jeep complained, somewhere in the desert in the Sinai hills. Not very far east, climbing the opposite bank, and Dan added, "Tomb of Abra- either. Islamia radio had picked up the signal when the pilot ham and Sarah can't be so far, either." was no more than an hour from Cairo. "We goin' there, too?" the corporal yelled. The corporal had sighted it first, late yesterday afternoon, a "Well, I hadn't planned to, this trip," Dan said. "We can, twisted, fire-blackened mess against a desert hill. Dan sent the though, if you- insist." bad news back by the transmitter in the jeep. Then, instead of He finished the cigarette. He wouldn't smoke another till he swinging around and heading sensibly for the Canal, he'd had located the camel track again. It must be somewhere about, this crazy idea. even though he couldn't see it now. You couldn't see anything At least the corporal would say it was crazy, in harsher right here, because there was nothing to see. Except heat waves. words, of course. You couldn't tell a hard-bitten little guy like And a little camel thorn and sage scrub. And the same low hills this that you were going just a few kilometers out of the way of soft, hot sand in the same broken ranges. The jeep panted to get a bracelet. A pair of bracelets. Black, with silver stars and dug in its wheels, vibrated up a long slope and started and crescent moons and tiny silver camels. For a beautiful girl wearily down the other side and then the corporal said: named Joan. "Well, it ain't your 5eer-sheba by a long shot, but you might Dan lifted his helmet and wiped his head with his sweat rag. take a squint over to the right." "Let me see," he began pleasantly. "Isn't that fine and dandy," Dan said. "Yeh," the corporal challenged. It was a waterhole, a big, dark, {Continued on page j8) Tenderly he laid tfie bracelets in Dan's outstretched palm — .

Clowns By PFC BOB ENSWORTH

summer. Take clown Paul Horompo, who just lent us bis eyebrow stain . . . Paul spent the winter working at Drew Field in Florida on a couple of special favors for the Air Corps. No, he wasn't joking through camp shows like some of the other boys in The Alley. An army friend sent him on a special secret mission, gave him a few instructions and signed him up as a mechanic. One day the soldier brought the colo- nel out to a bomber while Paul was on the job. From where he was work- ing, the summertime clown could hear: " . . .But that plane has been grounded Author Bob Ensworth offers Legionnaire Joe E. Ward a red lipstick pencil as they for days. I thought you said to fix cock- prepare for the opening night performance of the circus at Madison Square Garden pit instruments would mean tearing out the whole nose turret. All right, where is this wonder mechanic who claims E'RE fighting the war York by personally clowning. Ringling he'll do the job in an hour?"

with Bazookas . . . not Brothers and Barnum & Bailey first- the rocket-gun kind, nighters for four seasons had also seen SAID the private to the colonel: either. Just the plain Bob me cavorting as a guest funnyman in W "Right there, sir. Inside that four- Burns variety. Our weapons are crazy center ring. Now Legionnaire Ward, foot cowling. Meet Mr. Horompo, my musical instruments, grease paint and veteran of World War I, teamed with next-door neighbor and hardly three feet fuzzy wigs." this single-striped G. I. on pass from of midget." Felix Adler, King of the Clowns, his AAF station in New Haven, and Said the colonel to the private : "Well, paused to smudge a ridiculous grin red began climbing into costume again for I'll be damned!" on his whiteface, then broke into a the '44 debut. Popping his multi-colored head up famous bucktooth smile. Upstairs, jam- "The ration board's after me," cried through a starched ruffle collar, ace packed opening night audiences filled big show comedian Lou Jacobs. "I've clown Homer Goddard chimed in: Madison Square Garden with applause. got rationing troubles like nobody's "Drew_ Field? Worked there all winter, Here, in the passageway dressing room nose," he moaned, fingering his out- myself. I couldn't fight in this one like made from wardrobe trunks and prop landish bulbous schnozzle. Lou was in I did in the last war, but I got a pretty boxes, funsters swapped makeup sticks mourning. He had been known from good taste of army life, anyway. I and strange stories of Clown Alley at coast to coast for his red rubber nose. clerked at the air base Post Exchange." War. Hard hit by rationing, today his once Goddard, member of Poppy Post of the "We're out to Battle the Blues," bounceable beak was no more. His Legion in Los Angeles, was a khaki- boomed the star wit, ringmaster style. Pinocchio appendage was now only clad comic juggler in England, France And, tonight, added to the ranks for painted putty. and Germany with the AEF. For eight the comics' campaign were two ama- Lou's "horrible loss" was one humo- months he toured with a regimental teurs—Texan Joe E. Ward and "yours rous side of a not-so-funny situation in show, serving with the Army of Occupa- truly." wartime Clownville. Try making eight tion in the Rhineland. Clowns for a Day, they called us. million kids from six to sixty laugh Twenty-five years later Goddard was A couple of ordinary circus fans who when, down inside, your heart is torn still at it—tonight pepping up the bed- quietly walked backstage and turned with worry about a wounded son or lam in The Alley. The boys were clown- performers. For five years Joe Ward had buddy overseas. Professional Pagliaccis ing off-stage and on. One half-wit, traveled all the way from Wichita Falls, "Joeys" in circus slang—are trouping gesturing with his rouge pencil, was imi- Texas, to fanfare spring in New on, though, doing their part winter and tating a soap opera radio announcer . . 14 Tht AMERICAN LEGION Magazine —

"Girls! Do you use kissproof lip- stick? Did you lose your head last night? Well, it's hanging up over there beneath Walter's makeup towel." "Get that duck out from under my feet, Harry!" "Ye Gads! Where's Matilda the

Snake? Her cage is open!" 'Mid all the uproar we drew charcoal chin lines, funny-facing in Felix Adler's mirror. Despite the excitement Felix sat in the corner quietly tearing his hair. All because of "Sweet Spirits of Nitre," his pet pig. Though a talented performer, alas, the porker is a heavy drinker. Milk from his master's baby bottle makes a hungry, trained animal quickly grow too large. For audience appeal Adler needs a new "baby" twice each season. Semi-annually Felix fears for his porcine pal. Clown Alley comics have pork chop appetites.

FELIX couldn't worry long, however, for today every Joey must keep stepping. The Victory edition of the Big Show packs more laughs than ever, more gag walkarounds for hard-worked clowns circhng the Hippodrome. Every stunt has a wartime twist. A baby buggy of quads and quintuplets is labeled "Mass Production." Seats and partitions are removed from a Plymouth coupe. Some wag named an act "Share a Ride to the War Plant," and twenty-five packed-in passengers burst from the single auto. But extra rapid-fire switches from a pajama-clad tramp to a balloon-busted female apparently didn't faze veteran It worth racing Joe Ward. was up and Paul Horompo, midget, patriot and airplane mechanic extraordinary, makes with the three-story ramp to make the down the make-up for an easy-on-the-eyes performer brass band's cues. He was a fellow from "out front" in the bleachers fulfilling

every boy's dream. Only the two of us makeup is an art. Each Joey develops chant Marine and finally talked his way in recent years have won the boss-man's his peculiar disguise, and there's an un- into the regular Navy. V-mail reports consent to clown with The Greatest written but iron-clad law in The Alley now place Starke in war zones, where Show On Earth on opening night, and that every comic owjis his individual under special circumstances he often Joe, one of Uncle Sam's civilian engi- whiteface. serves not as a bus-boy, but navigator! neers, was making the most of his Cleverly drawn diamonds and circles Ration books and counters messed up "career". Not even relatives back home are trademarks for a lifetime, and the circus mess and some say it was in Wichita Falls would recognize the no one dared imitate Louis Nagy's Starke, Navy KP, who saved the Tented one-time First Vice-Commander of Pat "patented puss" of kite-shaped eye- City of Amusement from a diet disaster. Carrigan Post of the Legion, and tonight brows and checkered cheekbones when {Continued on page 34) was his night to make thousands howl! he went off to the Army. Would-be Dab on another blue triangle under mimics would have had some fancy that left eye. explaining to do, for when the Infantry Maybe you once got the urge to run released personnel over 38, "aged" away and join the circus as a clown. Louie returned to the same dress and In your first of second childhood, look act of his clowning career. before you leap. Nagy's military engagement has been duplicated by a dozen other buffon SEE that snow white complexion every buddies who left the Ringling show, Joey wears? Twice a day you'll spend troupers who became troops. And they

an hour smearing it on, and believe it or had first class contracts, too . . good

not, whiteface is ordinary zinc oxide for the duration plus! Four Joeys sail

house paint! 'Course, it's mixed with the seas in the Navy, but stealing the olive oil and cold cream and is actually spotlight from King Neptune himself is a bleachy beauty treatment, but you'll a tiny tar Seaman Curt Starke. struggle plenty with the concoction just Midget Starke is the only Lilliputian to buffalo pleased youngsters in the ever accepted for active duty by the They don't come any finer than "blues" and reserved seats. armed forces. Little men in Clown Master Sergeant Elmer Lindquist, No camouflage expert works harder Alley proudly laud their brother mite the Army's most decorated enlisted than a circus harlequin, for clown who enlisted as a mess Hoy in the I\Ier- man, also the pride of Clown Alley

JULY, 1944 IS \

Illustrated by JAY HYDE BARNUM

Tfie Saving Grace ofRed Crossgirfs to

Yanks Who Were Beginning to Wnk

They Were Really Out of This World

IS Saturday night in a remote mountain ITand jungle section of India. Locating A this base more precisely would involve the red rubber stamp marked Secret. But looking at a map of this whole vast section of wilderness you notice that a part parallels the hidden fastness of head hunting natives, that an outermost boundary borders on Jap- held jungles. Right now it sounds like a juke box Saturday night at a cozy joint along- side U. S. I. Inside the thatched-roof basha that houses the Red Cross canteen G. I.s are making with music. Hit Parade numbers from a year or more back. The Red Cross girls are giving a dance for an outfit of enlisted men. Jive a la James disturbs the softness of the Indian night. To the natives in the cane and wattle

hovels of a nearby Indian village this is night music as weird as their primitive chanting

sounds are to G. I. ears.

Tonight Sgt. Bill Gunn is just back from the Hump, "The world's most hazardous air

supply route," they call it. That is the descrip- tion implied by President Roosevelt when he cited the entire India-China Wing of the Air

Transport Commando. It is an all too ac- curate summary of the soaring peaks, the great menacing cloudbanks. "When you get back from the Hump," says 44 V 0 ^ Bill Gunn, "the first thing you want to see ." is a woman's face. . .

This is the story of some of the Red Cross girls who have a job to do in India: an im- She optimistically paused to light a moldy portant part involves living, working, just cigarette under the shelter of her helmet being where a man {Continued on page 48)

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The words were out almost before she realized it. "Oh then I wonder if you'd care to— that is if you haven't planned to do anything, I'm having all the things BY HELEN KAYE OTERSEN Tim— that's my son — likes ." She stopped, a little breathless, her sweet mother face anxious. Then she SHE Stood at the head of the ramp, a tiny figure among laughed and went on, "What I'm trying to say is, would the mining crowds in the station. There seemed to be you care to come home to supper with me? I don't live a look of patient resignation on her face as she watched far from here?" the people coming up from the fast emptying train. This A slow, pleased grin came over the sailor's face. was the third section of the Limited — her last hope. Tim "Say, I'd like that fine," he said. "I didn't know just had told her not to count on it too much; "I may not what I'd do, I hate eating by myself." He shifted a bit be able to make it. Mom." and then added shyly, "You know I noticed you when I The ramp was almost cleared now. One last straggler was walking up, you look a httle like my Mom, she's just a sailor like Tim, and about his age too. He wasn't hurry- about your size." ing like the others but walked up leisurely. When he Her face bright with pleasure, she turned to lead the reached the top he stopped and looked around. way. He moved to follow her and then she saw him hesi- He was standing very near and she wondered if he tate. He laid his hand on her arm. "Look," he said, would mind if she spoke to him. She smiled timidly, "I "there's something I'd like to do, will you wait here a hope you haven't missed your folks— the train is awfully minute?" late. I've been here over an hour waiting for my boy" She nodded. "Of course." her voice was heavy with disappointment—"I guess he "Stand right where you were when I first saw you," he couldn't make it." said. With that he was off dowTi the ramp. At the bottom The sailor answered soberly,"I'm not expecting anyone, she saw him turn and retrace his steps, this time very Ma'am. I got a forty-eight -hour leave and just thought much in a hurry, his browi eyes twinkling, as at some I'd come into Philly — I don't know a soul here." He private joke. looked aroimd again as tho trying to decide what to do When he reached the top he grabbed the small figure and rather dejectedly hitched liis blue duffle bag higher waiting there — s^vung her in his arms and cried,"Hi, Mom on his shoulder. —I made it!"

JULY, i94i .

Illustrated by PERCY LEASON

LST: Ruaaed Dot :3V

By ROBERT T. HARTMANN !

7' I 0 4 4

is the story of an LST. THIS"Landing Ship, Tanks" or "Large Slow Target," as you pre- fer.

In a way, it is the story of every LST, Thanks to the portable bridge, the for all these ungainly "Green Dragons" the sitting for of the South Pacific have similar careers, time 395 was a duck Jap planes was very much shortened of which this is typical. There is nothing glamorous about them. They don't even rate a name, but like superlative that is not abused. And it cause of her wide beam and shallow inmates of the Big House, labor in the goes for LST craft. draft that enable her to navigate reefy cold anonymity of a number. The story begins sometime in 1942, coastal waters which would disembowel Not for them is the valiant life of an when the imagination of some unnamed conventional vessels. Targets, patheti- Enterprise, or the heroic death of a naval designer conceived a ship unlike cally unarmed and too slow and stolid to Hornet. If you were to write of them as any that ever tasted salt water, a ship dodge bombs and torpedoes. bold di'amatic components of the Fleet, large enough to cross the widest oceans, At first the Navy was dubious. Who

the crews would read it and laugh. shallow enough to set her bow on any would make them? All available yards

There is one phrase that describes beach. There would be no docks or steve- were rushing night and day to complete life on the LSTs. dores, so she must be able to unload her the two-ocean Navy and redeem the

It is "rugged duty." own cargo. And quickly, for while losses of Pearl Harbor. Who would man You hear that phrase a lot among the beached she would be a perfect "sitting them? The fighting fleet—the carriers fighting men of the South Pacific. It is duck" for enemy aircraft or artillery. and battleships and cruisers—was crying applied to the Marines in the jungle bogs The LST was the result. Large, with for every seagoing officer and man.

of Bougainville. It is applied to the tire- bridge and eng'nes squeezed back against But such craft were needed, before the less Seabees whose legerdemain makes- the stern to balance the cavernous cargo war could be carried to the coasts of the

roads and runways overnight. It is a space forward and amidships. Slow, be- enemy. So new yards and new ways were

20 •^hf AMERICAN LEGION Maeaiiv — —

The Landing Ships, Tanks, Have Written a ed to do. But more often—in the South Pacific at least —they carry trucks, bull- Lot of Colorful History in the South Pa- dozers, road-building machiner>', saw- cific Operations. Meet the 395, Which Has mills, lumber, oil, gasoline, medical sup- Plenty of "Meatballs" on Her Conning Bridge plies, food, ammunition, and men from the rear bases to the forward beach- heads—in this instance. Empress Augusta Before the war clouds gathered Cap- Bay on Bougainville Island. tain Forbes was a real estate broker. The The LST jp5 is now headed "up the Navy commissioned him three years ago slot" in convoy with a number of her and set him behind a desk in Fourth indistinguishable sisters. "The Slot" Naval District Headquarters. He soon that disconcertingly calm stretch of became impatient of card files and cor- water flanked by the islands of the Solo- respondence. He wanted to go to sea, but mons—has seen some of the most savage what could a real estate broker do on a battles of the war. Not so long ago the battleship except get in the way? famed Tokyo Express made frequent, Then, suddenly, he and a host of other and futile, runs down the slot to reinforce shorebound Reserve officers were poured and supply the Japanese forces on Gua- into the landing craft program. By now a dalcanal, New Georgia, Kolombangara, full lieutenant, Forbes had too much Vella Lavella—from which they have rank to take command of one of the smaller landing boats, so, after two days "training" at Solomons, Maryland, he found himself commanding officer of the U. S. S. LST J95, nearing completion at Newport News.

Forbes went to his commanding officer all been unceremoniously eliminated. and told him he didn't think he could do Today the traffic is largely one-way.

it. The commanding officer told him he The slot is an American canal, almost— could. That, in the Navy, was that. but not quite—to Bougainville. The crew turned out to be no saltier Even on the flank of the Japs' last than the captain. Only a dozen had ever Solomons stronghold, our overwhelming- been to sea. And certainly nobody knew ly superior air cover usually keeps the anything about an LST. enemy at a respectful distance in the Today, a little more than one year daytime. But the nights are ticklish. after her commissioning, the 395 is a Tojo's planes and submarines still try to veteran of amphibious war in the Solo- land a sneak punch in the dark from time mons, with plenty-- of "meatballs" to time. And with a hold full of aviation built, and new crews—green, landlub- Rising Sun flags—painted on her conning gasoline—well, the lookouts aren't tempt- berly Reservists—were rushed through bridge. ed to snooze. cursory training and assigned to these That same crew of bewildered novices Men who have sweated and slaved :n with untried, hastily constructed ships. —without one lost in battle—are hard- the Solomons for months are bored Take our skipper. Lieutenant Alexan- ened, seagoing fighting men, from Cap- the excitement of danger and numb to der C. Forbes, USNR, of New York tain Forbes to the ship's cook. the fear of death. It isn't the hazard they call it "rugged duty." City. He is 34, has a wife and small son More than that, they are a team, mean when they necessity to stay and daughter waiting for him. He is working together like a well-oiled ma- It's the never-ending courteous and quiet, but has a firmness chine. "on the bail," without respite or relaxa- tension in his eye and voice that identifies him LST's carr>' tanks as they were intend- tion, until nerves are taut as {Continued on page as the "Old Man." »It was 9 before Dec. 1, 1943 32) 21 JULY. 1944 The kid who betrays his father to the Gestapo is considered a hero

fathers went to France to owe it to our sons to tip them off just THEfight the German in 1917-18. how different he is from his father, how The sons of the fathers are in much more dangerous, treacherous, in- Europe on the same task, until decent and inhuman. Fathers the job is cleaned up. Our sons are entitled to be warned. Our sons don't differ much from their It may help to save their lives. They fathers. Yes, different uniforms, more should be doubly warned. It may save modern weapons, better equipment, the next generation a war. and Sons superior training. But otherwise, the son In the year the sons, German 1934 is the same slangy, good-natured, happy- and American, who face one another on go-lucky kid his old man was—ambitious, the firing line today, were on the average By PAUL GALLICO adventurous, fair-minded, liberty-loving, eleven years old. anxious to get the job done and come Bill, the American kid, was attending home to his work and his life. grammar school in some town or com- A timely warning about the job But the enemy he is fighting, the munity or city in the United States. At German son of the German father YOU Assembly, he arose, saluted his flag and facing us after we've conquered fought, is a different kind of man. We repeated the following pledge (the italics Germany. For supplementary are mine); "I pledge allegiance to the comment, see page 44 Cartoon by JOHN CASSEL {Continued on page 48)

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine —

Service Center established by Omaha (Nebraska) Post. Standing in front ore Post Commander Vincent Hascall, National Commander Warren Atherton, Department Commander Marion Shaw and Homer L Chaillaux, National Americanism Director. Inset, Norman Folda, Post's 7,000th Member

big is a Legion Post? The very respectable score of 3.462. HOWanswer is usually found in the Now in this year of grace—it is hoped Post itself; in its enrollment, the comparisons will not be odious in leadership, and in works that Omaha Post, skippered by Vincent C. make membership in it worthwhile. Hascall, has exceeded the 1943 member- Small Posts, many of them, do big ship of ten continental Departments. works, but the bigger the Post in mem- Don't believe it? Look at the record: bers the greater are the opportunities. you will find that Arizona, Delaware, Of course there are always community Idaho, Nevada, New Hampshire, New restrictions: the smaller the community, Mexico. Rhode Island. Utah, Vermont the fewer are the potential members. Omaha! and Wyoming were all under seven thou- There's Omaha Post No. i of the De- sand last year. And to go a step further, partment of Nebraska, for instance, with Omaha Post has today a membership ex- more than seven thousand members on ceeding by a small number the com- its roll for 1944. That is a Legion unit bined 1943 membership of the outlying big in membership and big in its works, Departments of with a local leadership that has for a full Alaska, Canada, quarter of a centur>' been well integrated France. Italy, Mex- into the national organization. What a ico, Panama, Phil- whopper of a Post the Omaha group is! ippine Islands and Hail Omaha! Puerto Rico. These Omaha Post is not only Number One not made a mushroom growth. It has Departments in in the Department of Nebraska, but it is been getting bigger and better since 1919, 1943 had a total

Number One in the entire American Le- when it took a flying start under Com- membership of gion. It has made substantial gains over mander .\llan Tukey. who was elected 6,943- its 1943 membership, when the total, National Vice Commander at the Minne- As concrete evi- under Commander Robert H. Storz, ran apolis National Convention in igig. In dence of its con- up to an even 6,000, but the Post has its initial year Omaha Post made a sistency in main-

JULY, ,94+ 23 records for Legion accomplishment but served simul- taneously as Direc- tor of the 1943 National Conven- tion Committee. An active and vital force within its own area from the date of organi- zation, the Post has interested itself in dozens of public-service community

projects of enduring benefit, but it has

never owned its own home. During all these years, when the income from several enterprises excluding the mem- bership fees collected, approached big business proportions, the members have been content to make public use of their funds and continue their meeting place in the City Hall. Now, with veterans of

the new war coming in, if and when the Post decides to build a place of its own, a structure of the size of the Douglas County Court House will be needed. New York's Department Commander William N. Lewis (second from Having tasted blood, it is hardly likely right), swaps yarns with wounded veterans at Sampson Naval Hospital that the membership committee will be content to let the roster stand at seven

taining its place among the stars, twelve representative on the National Executive thousand. At least, not as long as there are potential members in the neighbor- times between 1919 and 1943 Omaha Committee; Robert J. Webb, 1937 Post has stood at the head of all the Commander, is Chairman of the Na- hood, and new veterans coming home

Legion, seven times it was the runner-up tional Americanism Committee, and who have not signed up with any other for top honors, and twice it was the third Henry H. (Hank) Dudley, Adjutant for outfit. But just to keep busy, the Ad- largest Post. Omaha lost its top place in many years before becoming Nebraska's jutant's office has already collected dues 1940 (for the last time?) to Leyden- Department Adjutant, is firmly fixed at for 1945 from more than two hundred

Chiles-Wickersham Post No. i of Den- National Headquarters as Assistant Na- members. ver, Colorado, a sort of traditional rival tional Adjutant. Matt D. Jaap, who Strangely enough, the seven thou- which for years has trod dangerously piloted the Omaha craft in 1941, now sandth member is a veteran of the First close to the heels of the Nebraskans. carries the burdens of the Post as its World War, a newcomer to Omaha, who Memphis (Tennessee) Post No. i, too, Adjutant, and Robert H. Storz, who had long been a member of Albion Folda has offered a threat to supremacy; dur- commanded in 1943, not only made new Post of Howells, Nebraska. He is Nor- ing the same period that Omaha has been making its record, Memphis Post has been in the running fourteen times: four times the largest; second largest three times, and seven times in third place. It might be remarked in passing that the Number One Post does not have a Legion monopoly in its home city of ap- proximately 300,000 population. There

c:;e three other very active Posts doing

! usiness in the area: Benson Post, with about 650 members in 1943; South Omaha Post, with more than 400, and Roosevelt Post, made up of colored vet- erans, which had a 1943 enrollment of nearly 400. Taken by and large, Omaha, which has twice entertained a National Convention of The American Legion, can be said to be Legion-minded. Allan Tukey, first Commander, was one of the first elected National Vice Commanders; Sam W. Reynolds, 1922 Commander, after eleven years on the National Executive Committee, has been kept in office by successive re-appoint- ments as Chairman of the National Finance Committee, keepers of the purse- strings, for nearly ten years; Clint When the Salvation Army opened Its Red Shield Recreation Center at Brome, 1926 Commander, is Nebraska's Kansas City, Kansas, Wyandot+e Post had a flag ready for presentation

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Masazint New York, a veteran of the Southwest Pacific; Seaman First Class Ernest John Reid, Pontiac, Michigan, veteran of the Sicilian campaign; Department Com- mander Lewis, and Fireman Second Class John Begay, Syracuse, New York, vet- eran of Tarawa.

Keep It Flying WHEN the Salvation Army opened its Red Shield recreation center for servicemen in Kansas City, Kansas, a few weeks ago. Commander John A. Justice of Wyandotte Post and a corps of Legionnaires were on hand. They came to present an American flag to Adjutant William Kyle of the Salvation Army, and to assist in the ceremony of

raising it over the building. Participating in the ceremony were Carl Collins, Grand Chef de Gare of Kansas; Commander Justice, Finance Officer Charles Keil- back, and Eli Dahlin, Americanism

A new Fourth Air Force Standard flies at Camp Pinedale, California, thanks Chairman. to the friendly interest of Cecil Cox Post, The American Legion, of Clovis At about the same time, A. F. Rother- mel. Commander of Cecil Cox Post of Clovis, California, was presenting a new man Folda, an employe of the Glenn L. works wonders in perking up the old Fourth Air Force standard to Colonel Martin bomber plant at Omaha, who, morale. Hospital visits, when permitted, W. H. McDonald, WSAUTC Com- on his arrival in town, hunted up the are urged as a part of the program of mandant at Camp Pinedale, located near big league headquarters and signed on the Legion in its World War 11 liaison Fresno. The presentation, suggested by the dotted line. His old Post bears the work, and in many Posts visiting com- Legionnaire Edward L. Stoliker, a vet- name of his cousin, who was killed in mittees have been organized in addition eran of the new war, was made as a action in the First World War. to the corps of rehabilitation and service warm gesture of goodwill. Standing back One of the latest public service activi- workers. of the standard in the picture on this ties of Omaha Post is the establishment In the picture on page 24, New York's page are Legionnaire Stoliker, Adjutant of a full-time Service Center in the Department Commander William N. Ebert W. Frank and Past Commander Lewis (second from right), is shown Julius Galiana. during one of his visits to Sampson Naval Hospital at Sampson, New York. A $20,000 Light Here, swapping yarns in one of the com- fortable sun parlors are, left to right. ARGONNE Post of Elizabeth, New Department Vice Commander George xJl. Jersey, is an up and coming out- Monagan of Rochester; Sergeant Law- fit, where things are done with a flourish. rence Walter Eddy, USMC, Jamestown, (Continued on page 43)

downtown area where special services are extended to veterans of both World Wars, particularly in job placement. "The special purpose in setting up the Service Center was, of course, to serve veterans returning from service in the present war," said Manager 0. J. Frank- lin, "but we want to serve just as effi- ciently all War I veterans who may be looking for special types of employment or for special information." Omaha business firms and industrial plants were quick to list their needs with the Center, and job placements be- gan almost at the hour of opening for business.

Hospital Visits A LOT of the servicemen coming back from overseas' theaters are placed in hospitals a long way from home, and some of them become mighty lonesome and homesick. A friendly visitor is al- When Argonne Post of Elizabeth, New Jersey, does things they are d-rne right. ways appreciated, and a visit sometimes Here's Mayor Kirk, Past Commander, lighting his cigar with the old mortgage

JULY, 194+ 25 By FRANK A. MATHEWS, Jr.

NATION which forgets its business isn't all that it used to be. refused to recognize the Kentuckians as heroes cannot live. At first these Western people didn't citizens of Virginia, George would have A that stock in the Revolution. It personally responsible for the pow- If the fellow who said take much to be was a hero I hope he was a began in the East, which then was far der. George, being no industrial tycoon, foreigner, because I forget who said it. away. To them it was a little commercial was forced to decline the honor. Speak of George Rogers Clark to argument soon to be settled. There was Title to real estate then was more a many Americans in the East who haven't no gasoline rationing to rouse them to matter of might than of right. The forgotten Al Capone and they say, "Oh, reality, because there was no gasoline British claimed the Kentucky country. sure, he's the fellow who went with and no automobiles you weren't allowed So did the northern majority of States Lewis on the Lewis and Clark expedi- to use it in if there had been any gaso- in the Continental Congress. Private tion." Well, he wasn't. That was his line you weren't allowed to use. corporations and individuals horned in. little brother Willie. Mid-Westerners Even then Detroit, without any great And, of course, there were always the may be better informed on the Clarks. automotive industry, was important as Indians, who had it first. The Indian They were quite a family. The parents the center of the Western territory. claim was disposed of by ignoring it, married when the mother was fifteen. Colonel Henry Hamilton, British Lieu- which is the best way to treat an argu- Getting an early start, she racked up tenant Governor, was in command there. ment you can't answer. ten children for their proud papa, four He was a sabotage agent, buying Indians Virginia was on the fence. The asser- daughters and six sons, three of the lat- and wrapping them up in Bundles for tion of a claim to the Kentucky coun- ter, Jonathan, William and George, be- Britain. try meant defending it against all comers, coming generals in the United States People in Kentucky didn't like the including some of the colonies allied Army. That much alone entitles the looks of things. Many returned East. with her. Before the Assembly in Oc- parents to be called prolific rather than The hardy remainder needed a leader. tober, 1776, official claims to Kentucky just careless. They chose George Rogers Clark. One territory were presented by Henderson George Rogers Clark underwent the of his biographers believes he was picked & Co., the Indiana Company and an not particularly original process of be- because of his breadth of information, individual named Arthur (Long Jaw) ing born, on November 19, 1752, when superior intelligence, commanding per- Campbell. Jefferson appears to have the family lived in Albermarle County, son, engaging manner, ability to talk sided with Clark in advocating the tak- Virginia, next to the Jeffersons. Remem- interestingly, lively manner, wit and ing of the country for Virginia. But ber Thomas Jefferson? Later the Clarks natural dignity. Could be. Men have some added punch was needed. So Clark moved further West, to Caroline County. been elected President with less on the smartly told the Virginians that he would Early Americans had an aversion to ball. Anyhow, George Rogers Clark look elsewhere for both his powder and being crowded. justified the choice. recognition. That did it. On December Like Washington, this George went George, like Paul Revere, jumped on 7th (apparently a fateful day in Amer- in for surveying. Before the Revolution, his horse and rode. To Virginia to get ican history) the Assembly declared as deputy to the chief surveyor of the a load of ammunition and some official Kentucky a county of Virginia. Long Ohio Company, he barged into the recognition for Kentucky. Jaw Campbell didn't like George Rogers Kentucky country on a small salary but Virginia had a lot of other things on Clark. a swell commission arrangement. He her mind in 1776, and at first wasn't The situation in Kentucky was not could take whatever lands he wanted much interested in Clark's proposition. one to inspire optimism or brook apathy. for himself. George went into the real The Governor's Council said he could Several hundred miles from the nearest estate business, which was pretty good have five hundred pounds of powder. settlements of the newly created United when the sales price was practically one But no lend-lease business. The Assembly States, hemmed in and greatly outnum-

hundred percent profit. The real estate would not meet until October, and if it bered by Indians, now citizens of a

26 The AMERICAN LEGION Mafazint lliustrafed by ALBIN HENNING His exploits at arms almost match in their wizardry those of his fellow Virginian, George Washington, yet few Americans can tell you emy was at a place called Kaskaskia. anything about George Rogers Clark, father of the Northwest The guide lost his way. And almost lost Territory. Here in sketchy outline is the career of one of our greatest his life. Clark told him impolitely what he thought about such monkey-business. citizens The guide finally convinced the com- mander that his mistake was real and country at war with the dominating Down the Ohio River went this tiny not traitorous, and the march continued. British government, the Kentuclvians band, augmented by a party of hunters, On the evening of July 4th (another faced worse things than the problem of shooting the Falls during an eclipse of fateful date in American history) the parity farm prices. the sun, which well could have been little gang arrived a few miles from Clark dove deep into the waters of regarded as an evil omen. But, in Kaskaskia. thought and came up with a pearl of language similar to that of a later great Clark knew it would not be enough an idea: To devote himself entirely to American who was himself to write about just to take the town. He must hold it. the public interest, go right after the this same George Rogers Clark with He must make it and the surrounding British posts in the big Northwest ter- characteristic fancy touches—Theodore territory safe for Americans. So he ritory east of the Mississippi, reduce or Roosevelt—these men said, "To hell formulated a plan, complete and intelli- capture them, protect the west flank of with the omens! Where's the enemy?" gent, best disclosed in its operation. the new States and add a vast territory Thev, too, were Americans. And the en- (Contitined on page jj) to their dominion. The striking audacity of this plan, followed by its successful execution, lends considerable romance to the name of George Rogers Clark. Clark knew the supreme difficulties in- volved, and when, the following October, he again went to Virginia, this time to get Governor Patrick (Give-me-liberty- or-give-me-death) Henry to approve an expedition against the enemy posts north of the Ohio River, he did not shoot the works as soon as he got there. He first gave the Governor a great build-up about Kentucky. Then he sprang his little idea. Patrick went into a huddle with Tom Jefferson, George Mason and George Whyte. They came out with a "Yes" on the play. Any hope for success of the plan re- quired that the specific purpose be kept secret. You know, like today—military information important to the enemy. So the Assembly was induced to pass an act allowing Clark to recruit men (not more than 350; and appropriating twelve hundred pounds of Virginia paper money (face value, not weight). The men were put under such orders as Clark might give. Now a lieutenant colonel, apparently, Clark commissioned several captains and began recruiting, which was a difficult task because men wanted to stay and defend the home front then, too. If anybody wanted a fight, let him come

and get it. There was no selective serv- ice machinery. However, on Corn Island, opposite the present site of Louisville, Clark began training a diminutive army. When he disclosed his staggering plan one whole company turned pale and deserted. The rest said, "Let's go."

On June 24, 1778, Clark started with between 170 and 180 men in four com- panies commanded by John Montgom- ery, Joseph Bowman, Leonard Helm and William Harrod. Information of the treaty with France had just been re-

ceived and Clark made full use of it They could rest assured, he sa id, that no prospect of plun- with the French inhabitants of the der had brought the America ns hither. Did they not know territory. that the King of France had joined the American side?

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News and Views 0/ Today's GTs around the Globe

such liberties with him, to from one of the see his brother Merle (Red) new passengers Young giving out with a big that prompted grin. an investigation The brothers, sons of Mr. which revealed and Mrs. Phillip Young, Sr., that the laugh of Clay Center, Kansas, had belonged to held from childhood a whole- Brother Red. Y some respect for their Uncle He felt the prop- T Mose's active war record in er way to greet 1 the First World War which a brother under the circumstances was had won him the Purple with a good hearty boot. Heart. They early decided During the lengthy voyage they had that the Marines and not a fine visit and then, landing in the Dad's big farm was the States, each was given a thirty-days' furlough to visit with and Dad, place for them during this Mom their brothers and sisters on the farm, present scrap. Uncle Mose and then stopped in Topeka to see (M. E.) Harbaugh is a Uncle Mose who had just completed a Capitol Post member. rather lengthy hospital stay. They had been assigned to different branches of the The snapshot we reproduce, which Marine Corps—Red in the came with Comrade Gilleece's unusual Air Command and Bud with story, shows from left to right, Merle (or would they the Infantry (Bud) Young, Uncle M. E. (Mose) called ground troops?) be Harbaugh and Dean (Red) Young. While each knew the other was in the Southwest Pacific "TF a man can . . . make a better combat area, they had not -l mousetrap than his neighbor, though Leathernecks Merle Young, left, and seen each other for nearly he builds his home in the woods, the Dean Young, right, had a recent surprise two years until the day of the big boot aboard ship. world will make a beaten path to his reunion on a transport. Uncle M. E. Merle, while stationed on door." We're sure that most of you or Harbaugh, Legionnaire of Capitol Post, Bougainville Island, had been even all of you have at some time or Topeka, Kansas, is shown with them fortunate enough to draw other heard the foregoing epigram, of the lucky number which en- which there are several versions. But titled him to a furlough home, but his CONSIDERING the global extent here we have a mousetrap involved in a joy was clouded somewhat by thoughts of this war and the wide dis- service incident in which the denouement of his less-fortunate brother. When tribution of our troops, a story (and that's a big word for a Company Merle's transport put in at the New we received from our fellow-post Clerk) was entirely different. We'll ask Hebrides to pick up another contingent member, Frank Gilleece,Past Private William Sears, Commander of homeward-bound Marines, he was G. 4th A. B. of Capitol Post, Topeka, Kansas, sounds quietly sitting on deck reading a book. Squadron at Lawson Field, Fort Ben- almost like a Believe-It-or-Not item. We, Then he heard a voice and a laugh ning, Georgia, a staff writer on that field's at least, think it is worth swell paper, Tailskid, to Ripley's attention, and af- tell you the story as he Vr^ I'd k^vou:^ Im^qoria be ter reading it, perhaps Tda told it to us: you'll agree. Let's go, SayxbbiK checks aMM^e Frank: Corporal Norman Pickens was preparing Dean (Bud) Young our mail room lor in- of the 9th Marines was spection on a Saturday somewhat surprised morning. Sweeping his when one day this past eyes over the room just January, after he had before the inspecting landed on the deck of officer walked in, all the ship which was to seemed in spic-and-span bring him back to the order. States, he was welcomed The officer came in, aboard with a swift kick checked a few records, in the pants. Even great- then suddenly let out a er was his surprise when cry of anguish that just he turned to ascertain about blew Corporal who might be taking Pickens's eardrums into

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Eisenhower, all set at the time of this writing to start rolling on the invasion of Europe, and also General MacArthur, big chief in the Southwest Pacific. The Army Serial Numbers are authentic. Note that 057 which General MacArthur wears. Our invitation to our readers to offer constructive criticism of our interpretation of Army and Navy dog tags of the vintage of '18 and '44 which decorate the heading of this department has brought some interesting com- ment. We'd like to hear from i)TcK ^* iory i(f more of the Dog Tag gang. The Company Clerk and the Art "Slip of the pen or not—my fur- Director want to be fully en- lough paper says I don't have lightened. to return until July 22, 19451"

THOSE guys who are Seabees seem mighty elusive. They a 4-F category. The corporal quickly bob in glanced and saw the reason for the up various strange places, officer's cry of woe. take time to write a letter to this It seems Corporal Pickens had neg- department and several of them lected to replace the mousetrap in its have enclosed good snapshots usual spot after cleaning the mail room which would make keen illus- Seabee Lowell Smith displays his —he had left it on a ledge on which trations for these columns—but the inspecting officer was running his outfit's mascots in North Africa when we write them to get more fingers for dust. dope, they've been shipped some- Results: (i) An officer with two where else. At least, that has been our as new. The monkey is a native of the badly-bruised fingers; (2) Corporal experience, as, African tropics Pickens now wonders if that sergeant's for instance, with Harold and as a mascot fur- rating will ever come his way Clair AlHson, carpenter's mate i/c, of nished lots of fun for the Seabees. Company A-4, 104th Construction Bat- "In the other snap we find a Seabee YOU just bet the Big Shots have their talion (that's where the "Seabee" comes in Casablanca. His outfit helped load tags, too. In these columns you'll from, in case you don't know), U. S. equipment shipped for the invasion of find reasonable facsimiles of the First Naval ABD (and that last abbreviation, Sicily. Soldiers and sailors in that French World War dog tags worn by General we can't interpret!) The letter, with Moroccan port got quite a kick out of which came the snapshot of the the unusual guide post at the street in- baldheaded guy with the animals, tersection." and of the fellow at trick j the guide post, was written in Gulf- vets of that earlier World War I MOST port, Mississippi. But our letter who took the trip across the Big to Allison either failed to follow Pond—and particularly men who served him to his outfit's new location, with the 27th' and 31st Divisions—will or he hasn't found time to write. have pleasant recollections of the prompt At any rate, Allison told us this entente cordiale which was established much in his initial letter: between our troops and those men in "The two enclosed snapshots uniform from Down Under. Those are of boys who were with me in the 65th Construction Bat- talion in Scotland, England, Sierra Leone and French Moroc- co. We went over in 1942 and were the first battalion sent back to the States in the spring of 1943 for further assignment. I am now with a 'boat battalion,' have an APO number and by the time you get this, will probably have shoved off. "The one guy whose top- thatch seems to have slipped

down to his chin is Seabee Lowell E. Smith, SF 2/c, of Princeton, Indiana, who landed in Africa before the invasion of November, 1942. The dog on the box had his leg broken in a truck acci- dent. The Navy doctor put a "Your draft notice came today,

A long, long way from . . . anywhere! A Sea- splint on the leg and within sev- so I went right out and spent the bee in Casablanca tries to get his bearings eral weeks the pup was as good mustering-out pay you'll get!"

JULY, 1944 29 Kentucky, are already real heroines. American Army Let's take a look-see at some of our nurses in India do .\rmy nurses stationed away out in India. some primitive laun- Add to their numerous duties the job of dering, with a na- taking care of their personal problems tive audience; be- where home comforts are unknown. We low, ironing in a refer you to the photograph of the nurses crude fashion is also doing a bit of primitive laundering, of a regular chore the one nurse struggling with a real "sad"-iron, and to that of lighter vein in which some of the girls are engaged in a charitable job of local personal hy- giene. As the report which came with these Anzacs—Australians and New Zealand- n Official U. S. Army ers—as well as our Canadian neighbors Photos has it: were real guys and sort of spoke our language. American Army nurses stationed That comradeship is being re-estab- somewhere in India lished in this war. We have tens of don't get time to be thousands of troops in the far Southwest bored when off duty Pacific and in a sense they're returning —and from recent re- the call which comparatively few of our ports from the CBI Anzac friends were able to pay us on theater of operations, their way home from the ist A.E.F. they are getting plen- And those people Down Under—or are ty of additional duty they, perhaps, Up Above and consider with our men wound- Because of us the Down Under folks?—are doing leans in 1922 and continues; "Doubtless ed in the Burma fighting. the climate's effect on their clothes, more than all right by our boys. the sons and daughters of delegates on they spend a great part of their leisure There has come to our desk a booklet, that occasion are members of the Amer- time laundering. Too much dust in the "Australia At Home to the Yanks," is- ican fighting, nursing and auxiliary serv- dry season and a sea of mud during sued by the Australian Infor- ices operating and functioning in this News and the monsoon season make washing a theater during the present conflict. mation Bureau, which is being distributed continuous process. Merely the presence to all our men being sent out that way. "The entire personnel has been enthu- of these nurses has The foreword to this interesting, splen- siastically welcomed and gladly enter- been a fine morale

didly illustrated booklet, is in the form tained by the Australian people. They factor for our sol- of "Greetings to The American Legion have proved themselves worthy emula- diers, whose war in India, until re- from Its Australian Comrades," a mes- tors of the American servicemen and cently, has been, sage from Sir Gilbert Dyett, an "original women of the last war . . . and have 0 5 7 erf/ one of work, Anzac," now President of the Returned won the hearts of their hosts and sweat and wait. Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Imperial hostesses . . . ^' The girls live in League of Australia, which is that coun- "It is most gratifying to observe that ' little bamboo try's counterpart of our Legion. the deep feelings of trust, confidence, bashas (huts) with He recalls visiting and addressing the respect and admiration between Aus- roofs constructed of grass—typically Legion National Convention in New Or- tralian and American servicemen and native. women in the last war have carried on While these pictures were taken some months ago, there may have been some unchanged in this war." transfers, but we can identify these fine Copies of the booklet may be obtained, American women in the photographs without cost, the Australian from News shown. In the picture of the stream- and Information Bureau, 610 Fifth side laundry we find from left to right: Avenue, New York 20, New York. Lieutenant Edythe Husum of Aurora,

South Dakota ; Lieutenant Nelia Burd, THEY have to be hardboiled as a {Continued on page 48) top kick at times with obstreper- ous patients—but to our sick and wounded men in wartime, they are indeed Angels of Mercy, those splen- did women serving in the Army and Nav>' Nurse Corps. And don't think

that in this war they aren't taking it \ on the chin in the way of strenuous training—infiltration courses and all —for the work cut out for them in the various theaters of operations. One of our biggest thrills recently was listening to the radio accounts of nurses who were taking a special course in handling wounded men evacuated by The Army nursts, shown at top, planes. Those girls, even during their finish their washday by laun- training days down in a camp in dering the Indian children

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(Continued from page 9) little dandruff-covered bureaucrat, but door of some store and pointing at it, -!.id some 200 wounded civilians. But in- he showed some gumption—and guts say 'Fascist! Tedeschi!' meaning that stead of pitching in to clean it up, the too, because he hadn't run away during fascists or Germans were inside. The Italians asked, 'What do you want us the bombing and had stayed on after MP's would break in, search the place, to do?' They were shell-shocked, dazed, the mayor had skipped with the Ger- and find nothing. Then after the MP's confused, and waited for us to order mans. You could see he was fond of his had gone the gang would strip the them to restore their electric plant and town. And he knew where the keys to shelves. Sicilians are very poor and water system. things were, which was important to us. they'll steal anything that isn't nailed "The MP's told us the worst problem We told him his first job would be to down. was the wounded civilians in a school get food for these doctors at the hos- "Next, we broke out our proclama- building that had been converted into a pital, tions, giving them to the Carabinieri t( hospital. The Italians had left behind " 'Where?' he asked. post on whatever standing walls the} one of their medical units, but the Italian " 'Doesn't matter,' Andy told him. 'In could find. These posters explained thai army doctors were threatening to walk your cellar or somebody else's. Get it, we had come to free the people from out because they had no medical sup- fascism and give them back their liber- plies. Maybe we could get them to stay ties, and then listed our rules. The peo- meanwhile, they said they would round ple were to be free to say what they up the vice-mayor. The people had said liked and to listen to the Fascist radio he was still in town, and was a pretty program from Rome if they wished. good guy though nominally a party They must turn in arms and radio member. transmitters at the town hall. We would shoot looters caught in the act. We T'HE HOSPITAL wasn't nice. Most listed the official rate for exchanging of the patients were lying on the our money into lire, and the curfew floor or on school desks. There was no hours, which required everyone to be disinfectant, no iodine—not even ban- indoors between sunset and sunrise. dages. There was one little girl with her "Knowing that only half the people nose blown off. And a boy about five who could read, we had the town crier sing had 20 shell fragment wounds. Scabs had our proclamation in the streets, and hardened over them and the Italian doc- asked the priest to read it in church next tor was pulling them off, so infection Sunday. wouldn't start underneath. There was "The town was without water, and no anaesthetic, and I thought if he had without electricity, but the immediate something to chew on it would stop his thing was to take care of the dead screams, so I went out to the jeep and bodies. The sun was getting high an'^ brought a can of British biscuits. He already we could sniff something besidt grabbed one and stuffed it in his mouth, the normal Sicilian smells. Digging then stuck out a hand for another. I graves would require a lot of man power, wondered when any of these people had and get it now.' From experience we and we were wondering how to get it eaten last. knew that in every town all the big shot when a couple of eloquent local char- "The doctors had rigged out the teach- fascists had hoarded food. He would acters came up. er's desk as an operating table. On it an know which cellars to break into. He "They introduced themselves and told Italian soldier lay screaming, while a trotted off. Andy that our troubles were now over, doctor probed for a hunk of steel buried "By now the Carabinieri had rounded because they were the local anti-fascist around his kidneys. up the fire chief, and we told him to get leaders. They had groaned for two dec- "On another table was a woman with those ten fires out. When he complained ades under the fascist heel, they an- a bad wound in her chest. Standing all that he had no help we gave him an nounced, but they had an enormous around her were her six little children. armband marked "Civil Affairs Police" following in the town and all we had The older ones were crying because they —and boy, was he tickled! Because this to do was turn everything over to them were frightened and the younger ones made him our man and now people and they would run it for us. because they were hungry. The doctors would obey him. We told him to round had used part of an old bedsheet to up a fire-fighting gang, and if anyone " ANDY told them their groaning days bandage the place where her breasts had refused, to throw them in the clink and IX. were over, but as for the rest of it, been torn away. we'd deal with them later. we were strangers here and would have "Just then the Italian head doctor ar- "It was now pretty well along in the to find out a Httle more. W^e mentioned rived, wiping his hands on a bloodj' morning and people were streaming back the bodies and told the two men to go apron. He said his men were ready to from the hills. There may have been out and get just a few hundred of their drop—they'd had no sleep for two days 5000 milling in the town square. You'd many thousand of friends, and organii.j and nothing to eat for three; here, with see a woman with kids hanging to her into gangs to gather up the bodies before no drugs, bandages or ether, they weren't skirts, all of them bawling in front of an epidemic got started. We said that helping these people any, so why couldn't a busted house. But in a few minutes how well and fast they did this would they go on to the Catania hospital? the kids would quit crying and start show us how big their following was. "We promised supplies, and Andy told climbing over the wreckage, having a "The men went out full of enthusiasm him to tell his subordinates that this was wonderful time. and that was the last we ever caw cf their place, and there would be severe "We were sure that looting had begun. them except that two weeks later the penalties if they left. The British MP's reported that the bank local AMG man whom we left in charge "Returning to the Municipio, we had been busted wide open and bundles of the tow-n reported that he spotted found the Carabinieri had herded in the of money were lying around, so we those two eloquent characters in the vice-mayor, and after a long talk with posted a guard there. The looters had front row of a meeting, shouting 'A basso him we decided he'd do until we found several good gags. A gang of loiterers il Fascismol' and 'Viva la Democracial' someone better. He was an insignificant would beckon the MP's to the locked Evidently this was more in their line

JULY. 194+ 31 rf work than digging up bodies on a For fuel, they could use splintered beams try to tell you how to run the town. i.ot day. from bombed houses. But Andy finally located one with a "However, the acting mayor rounded "But he still hung around, and finally good English vocabulary who seemed to up some work gangs for us, then we had asked, in an embarrasscH way, 'Who's have no personal political ambitions. the priest help identify the bodies. We going to pay for all this?' meaning the "Now that we had things under con- got his permission to cremate them, for wages of the men who dug out the bodies trol, we knew our permanent AMG man he could see we had neither the labor and cleaned up the streets. We were, we could handle it alone. He was a hard- nor the time to dig graves. After the explained, and showed him the bundles working kid who'd been mayor of some priest had approved, it was all right with of clean, printed lire notes we'd brought, little town in the Middle West. He must the people. A thing like that can't wait and he trotted off. Eventually, of course, have done a good job because we heard in summer. In some towns where bodies the local people would have to pay, later the Italians got pretty keen on him. have been left four or five days you can because such costs would be charged Andy and I piled in our jeep and started smell them several miles away. against the town and collected through off to the next town just a few kilo- "The next big problem was food. local taxes. meters up the line, which our Army had Military vehicles are usually monopo- "Now we could see about getting our just passed through. Here we made a lizing the roads during the first few days, permanent AMG officer settled. The first discovery-—an Italian army cache of and you have to feed the people from necessity was an interpreter. There were antiseptics, atabrine, iodine, morphine, what hoarded food you find in the cel- plenty of volunteers, for lots of these ether and bandages. Of course we thought lars of big shot Fascists who have people spoke English, but wed found of that hospital, so we piled this stuff skipped, but this town was off the main from experience that most Sicilians re- into the jeep, drove to an American road so we permitted the acting mayor sent their smart countrymen who have quartermaster dump for some extra ra- to send mule carts and pushcarts into spent ten years in America and then tions for those hungry Italian doctors, the country to buy fruits and vegetables. come home to flash their bankrolls and then returned to the town. And were Luckily, before the Italian army skipped tell them how much better everv'thing is they glad to see us! it had locked up in the town jail a two- in the Bronx. You also have to beware "That -winds up the first day and day supply of flour, so we ordered the of picking an interpreter who will play that's how AMG goes into almost any acting mayor to get the bakeries going. his friends up and his enemies down, and foreign town."

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(Continued from page 21) Seaman second class R. E. Freling, 18, made to Empress Augusta, she got off springs and eyeballs ache with searching of Los Angeles, one of the 20 mm. gun- with only one attack. A lone Nip dive- the dark vault of sea and sky. ners, got so absorbed in his job that he bomber sneaked in out of the sun and Bigger ships have milkshakes and fired more than twice the prescribed dropped one bomb from about 500 feet movies. The LST's have only the luxury number of rounds and burned his hand at, but not on, the convoy. He then high- of a life-jacket to cushion the steel deck badly on the white-hot barrel. But he tailed it homeward. The gunners were for the off-watch sleeping by their guns. got his plane and then calmly turned a disappointed, for with one more plane And when the voyage is over, they hose on the gun. accounted for they would lead the LST load up and go back again, week after The gunners on the LST's are terrific. flotilla. week and month after month. They have to be. Originally the ships All of the last night's journey, as the Ensign Richard O. Young, USNR. of were equipped with only a few small- lumbered along off the Bougainville Columbia, South Carolina, is the execu- calibre anti-aircraft guns. Now the J95 coast, from which flashes of artillery fire tive officer, second in command. Only has about five times that many, which were clearly visible, Jap snoopers circled recently the ship's cook baked a chocolate they have begged, borrowed, stolen and overhead. Thanks to the lack of moon- cake to celebrate Young's twenty-fourth salvaged all over the South Pacific. They light, and the inaccuracy of Jap flares, birthday. But he is young. in name only, can put up a curtain of lead that effec- she was not spotted, and hit the beach at now. He can tell some of the highlights tively dampens the enthusiasm of Tojo's dawn under a protecting cover of of the ship's past. flyboys. American fighters.

"Well, there's really not much to it. Result: seven meatballs. This time was the exception, however, We came out from the States and some- "Wonder how much it costs to send and the LST's can't afi'ord to take how managed to arrive at Guadalcanal in one of those so-and-so's to join his an- chances. Their price of continued buoy- June, 1943. The next day the Nips came cestors?'' yells one gunner between ancy is constant vigilance, for the tale is over with the biggest air-raid of that bursts during gunnery drill. oft repeated that if two torpedoes are campaign, and hit another LST beached "I dunno," replies another, "but it headed for an LST, the second will pass alongside us, but we came out all right. gets cheaper every day." over the masthead. All night long officers We went into Rendova on the day after The crew gives all the credit for their and crew stood at General Quarters, and the first landings without incident. The phenomenal shooting to lanky Ensign at the end of this vigil all hands turned biggest scrap we've been in so far was at Henry Brazell King, 22, of New York to, to get the cargo ashore and get off Vella. We went in on the first day, and City. He is also a Reserve, choosing the the beach. the Japs kept after us all the time we Navy despite the fact that his father The beaches at Bougainville, like its were on the beach. We were bombed was an army officer in the last war. King jungles, are the worst in the Solomons. and strafed from morning till night, but knows guns, is cool as a cucumber, and In the early landings, trucks, tanks and miraculously nobody was badly hurt. can- tell a Jap plane from a friend when tractors drove out of the open maw of We shot down four planes sure that day. it's only a pin-point in the sky to every- the LST's and off the ramps into four "On our second trip to Vella we caught body else. You have to see him in action feet of surf, from which they had to be it hot and heavy all night enroute. but to know why the crew worships him. towed by caterpillars. This was a tedious we knocked down one dive bomber. Later Standing on the exposed conning bridge process, and every extra minute spent we sat on the beach while 30 Nips did with binoculars and megaphone, he immobilized on the beach decreases the their damnedest but the final score was seems to have pcsonal control of every life-expectancy of an LST. On this voy- no hits for them, two more planes for gun on the ship. age, four ex-captains of LST's, lost us." On this run, the third the jgs has lingering on other hostile beaches, vol-

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unteered together with 23 enlisted men Even when the ship is unloaded and Always on the go and always weary, to experiment with a portable bridge ready to head for home, the work goes the men of the LST flotillas are proud arrangement to span the few feet of surf on. For she does not go back empty. of their "rugged duty." They are proud from ramp to shore. Laboring like Tro- Hundreds of wounded men, made as of their commodore. Captain Grayson B. jans, in water up to their shoulders, they comfortable as possible on canvas cots, Carter, USN, who has an acute aversion completed the structure in one hour, and are carried back to base hospitals. To to red tape and a flair for colorful—and heavy trucks began rolling over it. tend them, the jp5 has two medical often unprintable—dispatches. The com- The officer charged with loading and officers and four corpsmen. modore puts cotton in his ears during unloading is the first lieutenant. Lieut, Lieutenant Wayne W. Waters, USN, gunnery drills, and finds it inconvenient

(jg) Theodore Pekelder, USNR, of 31, acts as mess treasurer on the way up to remove it, as a result of which his Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the ship's and as doctor on the way back. His wife orders are always heard—and always only veteran of World War I, in which and daughter live in Los Angeles. obeyed. he served in subchasers. "The thing that gets you about these The comradeship of arms is at its best "The only trick to unloading quickly," wounded boys," Dr. Waters recalls, "is on these untouted ships. Captain Forbes says Pekelder, "is to load properly. You that they won't stop fighting. I have says of his crew: "They're tops! You simply have to remember that 'the first never heard a complaint, except that can't single out one, but together they're shall be last.' they want to go back to their buddies." the best." This affection is reciprocal, He seems to have mastered the trick, No, there is nothing glamorous about and when "the Old Man" got the Silver for the 395 has unloaded at the rate of the LST's, or the youngsters of the dun- Star for his job at Vella, all hands agreed 1,000 tons an hour. garee Navy who sail them. it should have been the Navy Cross.

KHAKI CLOWNS

(Continued from page 15) tumbled, juggled and put on his complete Yes, whatever problems Hitler and He gave up center ring dumbbell jug- single-man entertainment for circus fans Hirohito tossed into the laugh-making gling to juggle point values, and now confined in St. Albans Naval Hospital. lives of Tanbarkland's humorists, the the well-fed midgets share extra coupons "Nosey" Lou Jacobs sounds off again boys met . . . with a smile. Nor was it with the always-hungry side show giants. to report he had come to the Garden always easy to pack up their troubles, Don't ask what they do about shoe straight from volunteer engagements for more than once War' Department coupons. with the U.S.O at Camp Blanding, Fort telegrams hit home with sickening force. Luckily, gorilla Gargantua is a vege- Meyers, and Camp Buckingham. Tiny or There was the kid called "Angel" who tarian, so clowns, large and small, get tall, the year round, 1944 Joeys are handled bulls in the menagerie. When their fill of muscle-building meats at launching a successful laugh blitz. he wasn't working with the elephants the circus cookhouse. In fact, they've he'd do the opening spectacle walk- even developed a miniature strong man. around with the Joeys. Not long ago They're still talking about our friend just before a matinee word came from Paul Horompo and how he became hero the European theater that in a B-17 of the home front a few seasons back . . block-busting the Continent, Angel "got "Tiger Loose! Tiger Loose!" was the his"—and will lose both legs. dreaded shout, and everyone in sight Go in for the Spec walkaround and scampered up the chandeliers. A vicious be funny? Bengal tiger had slipped free while being "Maybe at times like that we should prodded through chutes into the Gar- hate, hate and hate some more," says den's steel ring arena. Unsuspecting clown Jack LeClaire, war veteran little Paul walked up the ramp from a member of Frank Wilcox Post of the Clown Alley costume change in the Legion at Fall River, Mass. "But some- basement and right in his entrance portal how we don't. You see, on the Ringling came face to face with the snarling show there are 24 nationalities repre- beast. sented. People we live with as friends. "Lady" was a man atid midget-eating Right here in The Alley there are Joeys tiger and she prepared to spring. Paul who are French, Swiss, Belgian, Italian, was playing "Sneezy," one of the Seven German, English and American!" Dwarfs, and his prop for the walkaround The way these real "fighting fools" was a light wooden pickaxe. He blinked explain it, there's a new banner flying once or twice, then wound up and let over the Big Top. It sports the tradi- it fly at the crouched cat. "Lady" was tional colors—Ringling red and Barnum miraculously stunned—or surprised at "This cab taken?" blue—but it also boasts 874 stars. And the midget's muscle, no one knows more than a few of these soldiers on that which—and attendants soon netted the Cue for the top guffaw-getter of the service flag were from here in Clown straying tiger. Patrons sat only thirty season is, "Fireman, save my child!" A Alley. Veterans of the buffoon battalion feet away, unaware of the Frank Buck clown classic, the firehouse number to- who are now G.I. Joes instead of Joeys. catch under way, and for preventing a night featured Joe and me on the bucket Until Victory, the armed forces have panic, Horompo earned the coveted title brigade. Of course, we were a little late some of the best comics in show busi- of "Lady-killer." reaching the ringside blaze this year. ness. But, for that matter, the Army Pee-wee performers clique together in We raced to the performers' entrance always has had the khaki Clown of The Alley, and dressing next to Paul is for our usual place on miniature Engine Clowns. Master Sergeant Elmer C.

another abbreviated actor, dwarf Frankie No. 3, but no longer did the hook and Lindquist, Legionnaire and career soldier Saluto. Frankie was the one-half-man ladder's motor putt and purr comically. since 1906, now heads a rugged M.P. show who shot explosive humor among Not even an "A" card for this essential Battalion at Jacksonville, Florida. Mili- 5,000 servicemen at Fort Slocum during driving, so we tore out on the Hippo- tary policemen under him never dreamed one appearance last winter. He also drome pulled by ponies. {Continued on page 37) 34 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Here are your sons who quietly stow their civilian clothes in mothballs to step into the garb of fighting men . . . your daughters who give up Buses keep highways the pleasures of home to join their brothers in uniform. at work for victory

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Lindquist was New England-bound KHAKI CLOWNS when tragedy struck. He was aboard the ill-fated streamliner which crashed in (Continued from page 34) performing visits with any circuses play- North Carolina last winter, killing scores of their tough top kick's deep, dark ing within train or flying time of his of passengers. Hurled over an embank- secret. Yet for three decades he has been AAF camp. Where Joe Ward and I ment, the soldier comic miraculously loved by children of all ages as the leave off in the Garden, Lindquist takes wasn't even scratched. Yet, when he country's foremost amateur whiteface over under canvas as one of the nation's finally reached Connecticut, Lindquist wit. few privileged junior Joeys. wore extra wound stripes. He was prac-

Lindquist holds the honor of being A member of Edward C. DeSaussure tically weeping . . . for his bass horn a master sergeant longer than any other Post in Jacksonville, Sergeant Lindquist which he repeatedly carried in clown man in the history of the U. S. Army once was Grand Conducteur of the 40 parades lay hopelessly crushed in the and is today the most decorated enlisted and 8 for nine years in his native wreckage. man alive. To youngsters the nation Connecticut. Back home in Hartford When V-Day arrives and Joeys come over, however, his 36 medals are far less he also belongs to the Circus Fans marching home, maybe circus life will impressive than his skill for nutty antics Association of America. Outstanding be more than an off-duty hobby to us with an overgrown monkey wrench or example of his zeal for Sawdustland khaki clowns. Meanwhile, Clown Alley his hilarious hooting in the Ringling came when he decided to use his precious at War offers one small advantage. I clown band. annual furlough to attend an ordinary don't have to wear funny wigs. I've Days off, passes, furloughs all go into meeting of this circus fraternity. got a G.L haircut!

THAT MAN CLARK

{Contimied from page 27) church, took an oath of allegiance and above their leggings, above their First he divided his force in to three ran up the American flag. breeches. Ice one-half to three-quarters parts and each, in the night, approached Clark went to work on the Indians, of an inch thick around the edges. With the town from a different direction, the not with shooting irons but with sales little food and no shelter, but with Clark main body marching on the fort itself. pow-wow. Meanwhile, by clever dis- encouraging, pleading, threatening, wise- The surprise being complete, a signal semination of false reports and other cracking and always leading, the allies was given upon which all men in the devious means, he created the impres- forged ahead. three parties who could speak French sion that he had twice as large a force February 23d they came in sight of ran through the town yelling that the as he actually had. Vincennes. Rogers' navy never caught fort had been taken by the Americans Captain Helm, left in command of up with them. and that any of the inhabitants who Vincennes with only a force of local During the day, practicing every appeared in the streets would be shot. militia, was attacked by Colonel Hamil- imaginable bluff—marching and counter- The assumed ferocity of the Americans ton with 500 English troops and Indians, marching his men, parading a dozen brought, as Clark hoped, a pitiful plea including artillery. The Vincennes militia stands of colors he had lugged all that that at least the lives of the women and promptly deserted, and Helm surren- distance, in a way to create the impres- children be spared. dered. In October, 1778. sion he had a thousand instead of less Clark had them where he wanted Clark surmised that it was Hamilton's than two hundred men, using every means them. They could rest assured, he said, intention to drive the Americans from to procure information of the enemy, that no prospect of plunder had brought the territory in the spring. He knew he somehow even wangling desperately the American expedition hither. Did couldn't defend it. So, like Marshal Foch, needed ammunition out of the town it- they not know that the King of France he viewed the situation as excellent and self—he boldly demanded Hamilton's had joined the American side? Yet they decided to attack. Before spring. He unconditional surrender. were still at liberty to take whichever sent Lieutenant Rogers with 40 men "by Hamilton became worried. Negotia- side they pleased without fear of losing boat and, on February 5th, 1779, started tions began. Clark did not push his bluff their lives or property. for Vincennes with 60 French and Creole too far. He modified his first terms and All religions, Clark told them, were volunteers and 70 Americans. at ten o'clock on the morning of Febru- to be tolerated in America. Instead of Two hundred and forty miles to go! ary 25th Hamilton's force, including interfering with theirs, any insult to it Eighteen days over land mostly flooded, some of the King's Own Regiment, would be punished. through freezing and thawing weather marched out and surrendered—to a The story of Clark's magnanimity and cold rains. Water above their boots, military minority of miserable Amer- spread, as he knew it would, making icans. As the King's men discovered too friends of the French, Creoles, some of late. Never did the British regain control the Spanish, and even influencing the of the territory. George Rogers Clark Indians. He dispatched Captain Bow- had made it safe. man and thirty men to take Cahokia, Then the reaction set it. Back in the which they did. Hands down, because Virginia political center Long Jaw Camp- Clark had sent with Bowman a fifth bell and other enemies of Clark got busy. column consisting of residents of Kas- They accused him of tyranny, ambition, kaskia who had personal connections in vanity, peculation, drunkenness, idleness, Cahokia, for a softening-up process. That collusion with horse thieves—and cow- sort of thing isn't exactly new, either. ardice. When his accounts were investi- Then he carefully selected two men gated, his personal commitments for a priest named Gibault and a Dr. Laf- \'irginia's military supplies were left "future adjustment," which, on a font—and started them off for Vin- for cennes to sell a similar bill of goods. claim against the government, means They did a thorough job. In two days plenty of future and little adjustment. the emissaries of the Governor left town, Clark was financially ruined. And his the population went in a body to a "Ain't Eddie the lucky one, +ho"?" reputation beaten to a pulp.

JULY, i94t 37 He fought for land grants to his men. wheel chair, listened in silence to the He won't At that time the Government had lots presentation by the Governor's repre- of land to give and little money to spend. sentative. Then, laying the sword across Now it has little land to give and lots his lap, which was about the only thing of money to spend. a one-legged man with paralysis could dodge this In 1809 Clark had a stroke, followed do with a sword, he said, "Young man, by the amputation of his right leg, with when Virginia needed a sword, I found a fifer and drummer playing martial her one. Now I need bread!" tunes as his only anesthetic. Deprived of the use of his speech, his Virginia passed an act awarding Gen- limbs and most of his mental faculties eral George Rogers Clark a beautiful by another stroke, he died on February sword and a "princely" pension of four 13, 1 81 8. Some day he'll be in the Hall

hundred dollars a year. Clark, in a of Fame. He rates it. DAN TO BEERSHEBA

(Contifiiied from page 12) goats, but more important, a group of muddy spot in the middle of a shallow plenty tall white figures. basin and you were supposed to rejoice "We'll skirt around them," he decided. Don't you at sight of any waterhole. Only the "These tribesmen don't like folks fuss- claims on this one seemed to be already ing around their water. Captain was tell- staked out. Dan rubbed some of the ing me a story just the other day." He dust off his goggles. It wasn't a mirage. twisted his wheel and the jeep ambi- dodge this! There were at least a dozen tents, brown tiously pushed its front end into softer with stripes, a huddle of camels and sand and the motor died. There was a

IN MEMORIAM

HOWARD P. SAV. playing in the Western AGE, twelfth Na- League, the Iron Moun- tional Commander tain League, and with of The American Legion Chicago semi-professional in line of succession, died teams. at the Edward Hines, Jr., At the time he was The kid'll be right there when his Hospital at Chicago, Il- stricken. Commander Sav- linois, on May 7, after a age was serving as busi- C. O. finally gives the signal . . . short illness. Again the ness manager of the Board Legion mourns the passing of Education of Chicago, There'll be no time to think of bet- of a distinguished leader, a position he had held for ter things to do with his life. THE the ninth of its Past Na- more than twplve years. tional Commanders to pass His business career was kid's in it for keeps—giving all he's from this life. a long and eventful one, got, now/ Past National Com- and he carved out his place mander Savage was elected by dint of his own efforts. to the highest office in the Starting with the North- ' We've got to do the same. This is Legion after a memorable western Railroad as rod- the time for us to throw in everything contest at the Philadelphia man with a surveying crew, National Convention in he later became a junior we've got. 1926. Opposed by J. Mon- engineer with the Chicago roe of South Caro- Rapid Transit Company. This is the time to dig out that Johnson lina ; Thomas Amory Lee He won rapid promotion, extra hundred bucks and spend it for of Kansas, and Jay Wil- and subsequently became Invasion Bonds. liams of South Dakota, as general manager of the nominees, and with scat- North Shore Electric lines tering votes for Edward E. of Chicago; then general Or make it $200. Or $1000. Or Spafford of New York manager of the Marigold $1,000,000. There's no ceiling on this and others, the election Motor Coach Company, was not determined until and remained with that one! the 21st ballot. concern until he became 5th Loan Highlight of National connected with the Chi- The War Commander Savage's term cago Board of Education is the biggest, the most of office in 1926-1927 was as business manager in The American Legion pil- 1932. vitally important fi- 4l4 grimage to France in 1927, During the First World nancial effort of this 5"'VMRL0AN whenheled22,OOOLegion- War, Past National Com- naiies back to the scenes HOWARD P. SAVAGE mander Savage served whole War! of their battles to hold a overseas as a lieutenant National Convention in 1884-1 944 with the 55th Engineers. Paris, where the Legion He became one of the or- had been formed eight ganizers of the Chicago years before. That pilgrimage is still called the Elevated Post,. serving_^ twice as its Commander. greatest civilian movement overseas ever attempted. He was" Commander of the Cook County Council He presided at the National Convention held at the of the Legior; in 1922, and served as Department Trocadero in Paris, September 19 to 22. Commander of Illinois for the 1923-1924 term; as Remaining active in his home Department of Il- a member of the National Executive Committee in linois—he was the second National Commander 1925-1926. BUY MORE THAN BEFORE! from that Department—and in the National Organ- National Adjutant Donald G. Glascoff paid ization after stepping down from the high Legion tribute to him as "one of the outstanding leaders command. Commander Savage served as President of the Legion, and one of the statesmen impqrtarit of fhe Endowment Fund Corporation, which ad- in shaping the early policies of the organization." ministers the $5,000,000 trust fund raised in the Surviving are his widow, Lu Mary Savage, and interest of child welfare and rehabilitation. two children, Ann, 13, and Jay, 11. Funeral services Born in Boone, Iowa, in 1884, Commander Sav^ were held in Chicago on Wednesday, May 10, at AMERICAN LEGION age was sixty years of age at the time of his death St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church. National He went to Chicago at the age of fourteen ; grad Headquarters was officially represented by National uated from the Lewis Institute, a Chicago prepara Vice Commander Martin V. Coffey of Middletown,

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JULY, 1944 39 silent moment when Dan heard the cor- poral breathing. "Skirt, hell," he said. "They spotted us 'fore we left Brooklyn!" Dan climbed out and ceremoniously examined the front wheels. They had done a good job, digging in. "If we can

pr\' her up . . ."he kicked at the hot sand.

"Yeh, if and but." The corporal laughed, but not as if there were any- thing funny. "Look at 'em come!" he said. Some of the tribesmen already were mounting their camels. A dozen others were running on afoot, picking up their long robes, kicking up the yellow dust in short strides. "Keep your hand off your gun," Dan warned, "and for gosh sakes don't try to spit all the time. They don't like folks to spit." He climbed back into the jeep, with the corporal on the seat behind him. The lead camel certainly was cover- ing ground. Its rider was true Arab; Dan could tell by the two dark bands around his turban. He carried a long gun across his knees and he wasn't smil- ing. Dan brought up his hand in a friendly salute. The Arab only stared. "No keys to the city danglin' 'round his neck," the corporal said. Camels, approaching silently, were forming a swaying circle around the

jeep. Dan counted them . . . eight cam- els, eight riders, eight long Arabian rifles glinting in the sun. "Well, remember our Guide Book," he said. "We're just ambassadors. Here to bring good will." "Yeh?" The corporal gulped and Dan tried to remember the right words: "Good day" in Arabic was what? "Na- haar-something." He gave up and called out, "Hi, folks. Anybody speak English?" "Peace be unto you." the leader said. "I speak." His soft voice was both pleas- ant and musical, but his eyes remained expressionless. He kicked his camel in

the side with his bare heels and it swayed nearer. "We are looking for Beersheba," Dan said, pronouncing it correctly. He tried to smile but no smile answered him. ^^^^a^y\^ze "You no have permit here," the leader ^^^^ answered. "You no invited." "That's the truth," Dan agreed cheer- AMONG AMERICA'S GREAT WHISKIES fully. "We're lost." "Without invited,'' the Arab repeated, "I no permit. To permit, the present is Tke Old Crow wkiskey you tuy today was distilled and laid required. Understan"? Baksheesh. Pres- away to age years Leiore tke war. Today tke Old Crow Distillery, ent." He leaned over and looked into the jeep, eyeing their equipment. "The sketcKed akove, is devoted to tke government alcokol Isrogram. small pistols, no?" ^Jv^e are doing our utmost to distrilmte our reserve stocks so "No." Dan answered firmly. "We're Americans." as to assure you a continuous sujD^jly for tke duration. It had no effect. The chief only said, "For oil you come? I understan'. The

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heels. Slowly it went down to its knees, awkwardly and crying out as if the ef- fort were painful. The Arab slid off and stood beside the camel's head, his long rifle leaning against his shoulder. A knife showed in his sash. He clasped his hands behind his neck and said, "Put hands so. In this manner you be not damaged." "All right, my lad, put 'em up," Dan bade the corporal. "Remember the Guide Book. They've hearts of gold, once you know 'em." He clasped his own hands around his neck. "So," the leader said. "Now, the small pistols." "Pass out my gun?"' the corporal ex- claimed. "Damned if I will! It's charged ag'in' me. . . The Arab reached into the holster and took it, then Dan's. From the rear . . ^TuHr TIN FISH FOR TOJO! seat he also lifted the water tin. "This Until it is slammed straight for the belly of a frantical- also," he said, putting it under his arm. "Now go." He waved. "Return not." ly twisting, dodging Jap ship, a Navy aerial torpedo "But wait," cried, Dan "we're stuck! should be handled with care ! And that is the way this Look!" leaned out He and pointed to deadly pair, cradled one over the other in a huge rubber the wheels. barge, is being transported. In rearmament service these "Oh?" The leader gave a short com- big rubber boats provide their lethal loads with a mand. His men lifted, pushed, sweated. Suddenly the wheels caught. 'safety zone" a plump cushion of air that completely surrounds the "You are a friend," Dan cried. "Now, cargo, safeguarding it against the danger of shock or collision. Many where is Beersheba?" Evinrudes are used in such service, providing capable driving power The Arab pointed silently. and a high degree of maneuverability. "Straight ahead? I thank you!"' "We still goin' there?" the corporal 1 Servicing Seaplanes is another job for objected. which rubber boats are ideally Dan stepped on the gas. "Don't know- adapted. For powering big rubber boats, how I'd keep my morale up without Evinrude now produces a special model built with deep you, darling," he sighed. of its famed Lightfour, shaft, high-ratio reduction gear, and 360- At the. bottom of the next wadi, the degree steering that permits the boat to camel track suddenly reappeared among be maneuvered in any direction. the stones. The tortured jeep jolted over one sandhill and then another. At its top Dan felt justified in lighting a cigarette. "Well, I told you we'd get here, didn't 2 Up she comes, the day's work done! I?" he said. This photo shows the type of bracket widely used for mounting an Evinrude Beersheba lay, unhidden, at the end on a large rubber boat. Evinrude has of the flat waste, a jumble of mud developed many special mounting brack- houses, with here and there a short min- ets to meet the varied needs of small aret pointing hopefully toward the cop- craft used by the Army and Navy. per heavens. Dan could smell the town before he reached its untidy outskirts. It was the sweet, unwashed smell of the East, spices and dirt and age and 3 The Japs use outboards too, as is dust mingled into a single unmistakable shown by this photo of a Jap outboard odor. captured somewhere in New Guinea, He sought the narrow main street. and patched up by our boys to serve in There was a good hard road down its ferrying supplies to the beach. Perhaps, middle and the bazaars stood open by this time, it has been replaced by a sparkling Speeditwin, along both sides. Coppersmiths, saddlers, Evinrude a "popu- lar number" in the far Pacific! bakers, weavers, merchants of every sort squatted in the dark shade. "Rich town, I hear," Dan said. "Even Send for copy of 1944 "Owners' Edition" of the Evinrude News. A used to have seven wells," and then, pictorial magazine that covers out- boards in war and peace — pro- as if that were explanation enough for fusely illustrated with photos show- EVINRUDE coming, he entered the first shop. ing Evinrudes serving the Army and Navy, and pictures of happy ^^l^fe OUTBOARD MOTORS Bolts cotton cloth filled one mud of peacetime uses to follow ! V^'rite shelf, with spools of bright colored for your copy thread and baked clay bowls holding EVINRUDE MOTORS 5064 N. 27th Sf., Milwaukee 9, Wis. dusty buttons. On hooks along one wall jewelry. pointed hung ornamental Dan Ever/ Dollar You Invest Helps Speed Vicfory — Buy More Bonds to a pair of bracelets.

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"Well, for the love of Pete!" the cor- poral exclaimed, "is that what we come for?" The shopkeeper, a sad-eyed man in a dirty turban, blew the dust from one pair and laid them tenderly in Dan's palm. They were thin, flat bands of a ma- terial that looked like ebony, decorated "And the only bait he uses is Sir Walter Raleigh," with silver stars and crescent moons and tiny silver camels. "How much?" Dan asked. Smokes as sweet The merchant took the burned-out cigarette from his mouth and smiled, as it smells showing that he was mighty on teeth. "Speak English?" Dan asked. He got out his wallet. The smile broadened. /i . . . the quality pipe "Dinar?" the merchant asked. "No." Dan shook his head. He hadn't tobacco of America" known he was coming into Palestine. He had only Egyptian money. He peeled MADt UNION off a five piaster note. The merchant nodded vigorously and held up both FREE' 24-page illustrated booklet tells how to select and break in a new pipe; rules for pipe

cleaning, etc. Write today. Brown & Williamson Tobocco Corporation, louisville 1, Kentucky. hands, with fingers spread. "Holy cripes!" the corporal said. ." "Fifty piasters . . . that's . . HORROCKS "Plenty cheap," Dan said. He peeled off the small notes, counting ^hem care-

fully. Fifty piasters . . . two dollars. He threw in an extra one, just for good measure. "Now if we can find some water," he said to the corporal. There was a pump across the way. It might be dirty water, but it was wet. And he had what he wanted. Without breaking any of the Articles of War, either. Of course, they'd lost their guns, but even during that regrettable incident, they had remembered to be Good Am- bassadors. And these bracelets on Joan's wrists ... ah, wouldn't they be beau- tiful! He turned them over admiringly. On the inside of each was a fine printed inscription. He got down in the shade of the jeep and Hfted one bracelet close to his eyes. It said: "Acme Plastics, Battle Creek, Mich- igan." "Well, what's wrong now, sir?" the corporal demanded. "Nothing," Dan said. He put the bracelets in his pocket and unscrewed his canteen. "Not a thing. They'd be frying pans and cheap, at ten times the price." He bacon. Go fishing on your vacation searched around in the jeep for a clean ... and take along H-I tackle and sweat rag. "Beersheha." he said, "Battle lures. They've been proved "Best by Creek to Beer-sheha.. Corporal, do you Test" by fishermen the world over. know what? This is really a strange war. You learn wisdom in such funny HORROCKS-IBBOTSON CO., UTICA, N.YT places."

42 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jnt HAIL OMAHA! The sai/or {Continued from page 25) w/fh on/yZsweethearts A few weeks ago when the last of the /> MY FRIEND FRANK, $20,000 mortgage on the old homestead t bosun's mate first had been paid off, Argonne Post cele- class, pulled the snap- brated. The Mayor of Elizabeth, James shot out of his wallet. T. Kirk, who is also a Past Commander "Here she is," he said, of Argonne Post, was one of the cele- beaming: "Eileen." brants, and when time came to dispose "Nice!" I said. Then I noticed he'd dropped a of the plaster, Mayor Kirk nonchalantly scrap of paper. "Oh, lit his cigar with it. That was a $20,000 that's my only other light, ringing the changes on -the time- sweetheart," he said. honored ceremony of disposing of such "Look." It was a picture documents. of a shotgun! The light from that flaming mort- gage opened a new era for Argonne Post. "I FELL IN LOVE with that shotgun when the Navy issued me one for skeet "Since burning the mortgage 2 we have t shooting back in anti-aircraft training," Frank went on. "Sweetest-handling taken in over two hundred new men; autoloader I've ever come across. It's the Remington Sportsman — and believe

five pairs are fathers and sons, and the me I'm gonna get one after the war. And then . . . others are approximately eighty percent from the ranks of World War II vet- erans," writes Commander Samuel Stein- berg. "A class of one hundred and thirty-six were inducted at a special initiation at the Elks Club, of whom one hundred and thirty came from the cur- rent war. "Believe it or not, more than 350 new members were brought in to the Post by Comrade Matthew Nilsen, a policeman by vocation and a Legion

worker by avocation, who is Chairman of our Wars I and II Liaison Com- mitter." Shown in the picture on page 25 are, left to right, City Clerk Patrick Keelan, City Inspector Charles Kling, William Klug, John Frank, Joseph Lynch, Mayor James T. Kirk, L. Hoffman, Sam Reibel, James Carden; in the background, Ad- jutant Thomas F. Hunter and Com- mander Samuel Steinberg. All are Past — 5 "IF IT'S ALL RIGHT with Eileen sat in a roasting pan! You use Rem- Commanders except the present Com- t for we'll be married then, I hope ington Shur Shot shells for those, of mander and Adjutant. — I'm going to fill my pockets with course." "Look, Frank," I said as an Remington Express shells (you know, idea hit me like a 500-pound demoli- W omen's Post those long-range loads), and keep a tion bomb. "7 gotta girl I hope I'm date on a duck marsh with this second gonna marry, too. Sometime after this " /Vr THE mass initiation ceremony on sweetheart of mine. Yes, and . . . war job is done, what say we get the

L J-Founders' Day, May 7, commemo- girls together and let 'em let their hair rating the 25th anniversary of the found- X "AS FOR QUAIL, I know the place down for a few days — while we go find the fattest ones that ever hunting?" "Sold!" said Frank. ing of The American Legion, Missouri to Women's Memorial Post of St. Louis was represented by three candidates, all Remington has produced vast military War II veterans," reports Adjutant supplies —for months on end making, per day, 30,000,000 rounds of ammunition, and more Marie L. Boehm. "The new members are Remington. than enough rifles to equip an entire infantry Mrs. H. J. Wolanin and Miss Ruth Matt regiment ! And soon—we hope—we will once of the Army, and Miss L. H. Tisdale more be able to furnish sportsmen with Rem- of the Navy. The Women's Memorial ington shotguns and rifles. Remington Express Post is endeavoring to enroll all honor- and Shur Shot shells. Remington Hi-Speed .22'a ably discharged ex-service women in St. with Kleanbore priming, and Remington big Louis and surrounding territory." game cartridges with Core-Lokt bullets. Rem- ington Arms Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. /f it's Remington Send Legion Pubs it's Riff/tt PHILLIPS, NIW! Looking to- MILT Oklahoma's De- ward the day when partment Adjutant now with the we can supply es- sentialcivilian am- Seebees in Sicily, writes to urge Legion- munition, we'vede-

naires to send their Magazine and signed new , easier- pack- Legionnaire to some one overseas. "I to-recognize ages for two of your put mine in the Recreational Library' as old Remington soon as I've read it from cover to friends. cover," he says. Sportsman, Express, Shur Shot, Hi-Speed and Kleanbore are Refr. U. S. Pat. Off. Boyd B. Stutler Core-Lokt is a trade mark of Rumini^ton Arms Co., Inc.

JULY, 1944 43 • SUCCESS STORY: Germany's 80-Year Record By Alexander Gardiner, Editor

PAUL GALLICO'S Fathers and And that's not the whole story, by a Sons, which you will find on page long chalk. Time after time between 22, should be required reading in 1888 and 1914 the German emperor rat- every grammar school, high school and tled the sword, keeping the rest of the

college in the United Nations, because world in a dither. His subjects ate it up. our young people should know what we Time after time from 1935 on, as Hitler oldsters have learned by bitter experi- flagrantly broke agreements and set the ence—that Germany must be kept under stage for the fighting in which he and rigid restraint if the world is to have his allies finally forced us to hazard our peace. existence as a free nation, t/ie German Five times within the memory of men people enthusiastically supported him. now living Germany has gone to war How many times has the world got with her neighbors, on four of those oc- to smack down this bandit nation before

casions wantonly attacking. The first it can feel safe? VETERAN E. L. GRAHAM three times she got away with it, the This time has got to be the last time. fourth time she was beaten after four We of the United Nations should be MAKES OUTSTANDING RECORD years of terrible fighting in which ten telling the German people that the terms Selling STRAND million men were killed. The fifth time they'll get if they surrender by August is the present war, which once again ist will not be as good as the terms MADE-TO-MEASURE Germany will lose, after an expenditure they'd have got on July ist, but much of life and property that staggers the better than those to be imposed on Sep- CLOTHES imagination. tember ist—and so on to the end of the Ernest L. Graham, of Loris Post No. 41, In 1864 Prussia, then as now the core chapter.- If the heinies insist on making Loris, South Carolina is one of our top of German aggression, attacked Den- a last-ditch fight of it the victors will money-makers and has been for years. He makes a fine living selling Strand made- mark. have no alternative to making Germany to-measure clothes, and he enjoys the In 1866 Prussia attacked Austria, and a land of hewers of wood and drawers satisfaction of being in business for him- threw her out of the German federation. of water for at least a generation. self—working when and where he wants. Mr. Graham sa^s that his success can be In 1870 Prussia, through means of a Read, mark, learn and inwardly di- explained in just six words: Fine tailoring garbled telegram, tricked France into gest Paul Galileo's Fathers and Sotts, —satisfied customers—repeat business! war. and make a solemn vow that this outlaw their satel- YOU, TOO, CAN MAKE MONEY In 1 91 4 Germany supported an Aus- nation will, with Japan and trian ultimatum to Serbia which would lites, pay through the nose. If we go soft Full Time or Part Time. It's pleasant work— calling on men at their homes or places of have destroyed Serbian independence. and repeat the mistakes we made after business and offering them a fine selection That is the central fact of World War I's administering the thrashing in 19 18 we of made-to-measure clothes at prices that actually save them money! Whether you origin, despite the whinings of German shall break faith with those who died devote all your time to the tailoring busi- apologists in this country. turning back the menace of totalitarian- ness or whether you do it in your spare In Germany attacked Poland. ism, and we and our children will get time, you can make plenty of money. 1939 What followed is history we know only chains and slavery, which is precisely Good quick profits. Every sale you make nets you from $4.S5 to $9.25 at least. too well. what we'll deserve. And, if you are a good producer, our "Extra Profits plan" makes it possible for you to earn even more. Yet, because Strand Clothes are sold by you, DIRECT FROM MAKER TO WEARER, the prices FAITH UNDER FIRE are mighty reasonable. Do your friends a favor. When you show been able them how they can buy lOO^'o all-wool, (Continued from page 11) strapping young lieutenant had made-to-measure clothes at prices that are All night and all day the task force to do with a few honest words. even less than those of many "ready- had kept up this grueling pace. These I smiled and nodded, "A lot of us will mades," you can be sure of a hearty wel- come. Every man you know would like to ships could take it, was the proud be talking to the Man before this night for less money! have finer clothes thought that came to each of us. is over." Guaranteed Satisfaction. Every sale you make I climbed the ladders to the bridge "That's right, Padre," he replied is backed by a written guarantee of "satisfac- tion or money back." We couldn't possibly make and gazed over the starboard while talk- softly. were successful in pleasing that offer unless we ing with Lieutenant Shields, the But not every one aboard felt that it the men who buy Strand made-to-measure Jimmy clothes. And pleased customers mean "repeat Signal Officer. was necessary in a time like this to be business" for you. "Well, Padre, tonight may be it." on good speaking terms with "the Man Complete outfit free. We'll furnish you every- "That's right, Jimmy," I replied, pon- up there." Indeed, one of the greatest thing you need to start business—including large samples of hundreds of all-wool fabrics and dering and weighing the full significance revelations of my life began an hour a fine looking sales outfit. We instruct you exactly correspondent, how to take correct measurements—we even give of that little word, "it." later with a young war you free advertising material. Yes, sir, we'll Jimmy smiled and leaned closer. He whom I shall call Ralph Ewing. start you in business without a penny's cost to you. Just write us that you saw the ad in the pointed to the sky saying "I hope you've During a friendly cup of coffee that Legion Magazine, and we'll do the rest, been talking to the Man, putting in a afternoon he told me that he was the son good word for us all." of a preacher, one of six children, and Back of Jimmy's smile and his casual sketched his early life, which had been reference to God as "the Man" I knew one of hardship, as his father struggled STRAND there was a deep and sincere faith. I from one small church to another. He newspaper TAILORING CO.. Inc. envied simple faith like this and won- had worked his way up in the dered why three years of theological business, and on the way had shelved hard-boiled 2S03 iAST EAGER STREET training had failed to impress me with religion. I knew him to be a the reality of simply this sophisticate, so I asked, "Do you think BALTIMORE 3, MARYLAND God as as '44 The AMERICAN LEGION Masazi,,: BOARD OF JUDGES FOR THE PABST POST-WAR EMPLOYM1ENT CLAREKCE DYKSTRA WESLEY C. MITCHELL BEARDSLEY RUML alexand::^ f. whitney AWARDS Presi'denf, Professor of Economics, Treasurer, R. H. Macy & Co. President, Brotherhood of University of Wisconsin Columbia University and Chairman, Federal Railroad Trainmen Reserve Bank of New York

The Board of Judges Announces the Winners of the $50,000 Pabst Post-War Employment Awards

Winner of the First Award of $25,000 Winner of the Second Award of $10,000

HERBERT STEIN, 7005 Aspen LEON H. KEYSERLING, Avenue, Takoma Park, Mary- 3234 N Street, N.W., Wash- land. Since January, 1942, ington, D. C. Mr. Keyserling Mr. Stein has been Chief of is General Counsel for the the Economic Analysis Sec- National Housing Agency. tion of the War Production Thirty-six years old. Grad- uate of Columbia. Board. Twenty-eight years old. Post- graduate, Harvard Graduate of Williams Col- Law School and Columbia. Mem- lege. Post-graduate, Univer- ber of Phi Beta Kappa; sity of Chicago. of Member American Economic Associ- Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Stein is ation; American Political author of a book entitled, Science Association; Ameri- "Government Price Policy in can Bar Association. Now the United States during the engaged in planning for post- World War." war housing.

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WROE ALDERSON, Lewis Tower, MORDECAI EZEKIEL, 5000 Allen- EVERETT E. HAGEN, 7015 Fordham RUTH P. MACK, 430 West 116th Philadelphia, Pennsylvania dale Road, Washington, D. C. Court, College Park, Maryland Street, New York City Rev. Dr. JOHN F. CRONIN, S.S., JOSEPH M. GILLMAN, 5396 Earl- ALBERT GAILORD HART, Iowa ROLF NUGENT, 60 Gramercy Park, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, ston Drive, Washington, D. C. State College, Ames, Iowa New York City Maryland GROVER W. ENSLEY, 4129 North LEO GREBLER, 44 17 Warren Street, ASHER LANS, 2 1 West Street, New JOHN H. G. PIERSON, 3424 Q Henderson Road, Arlington, Va. N.W., Washington, D. C. York City Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.

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you will ever find reality in religion whole sea was lighted up for miles. I again?"' thought of the thousands of Japs swim- FALSE TEETH "Maybe, who can tell, but I can't see ming in that lake of fire. A sensation of it now." fanatic joy and a sense of sickness hit WEARERS The mess attendants came in to set the me at the same time. From the bridge I tables for the evening meal. The conver- was having a bird's eye view of hell. No

sation ended as abruptly as it had begun. longer was I conscious of the flashing roar of our guns and the flashing of Jap TWILIGHT crept softly and beauti- guns no longer frightened me. This was fully over the sea. It seemed impos- a nightmare of how terrible man's might sible that we were bent on a mission of and power can become. For this moment war. Before the last rays of the day had life was a tale told by an idiot full of died away the dim outline of the Solomons sound and fury. Were we still children of appeared on the horizon. The cruiser God? A sense of shame swept over me, How you (on Avoid headed into the evening shadows. The shame for being a member of the human The Danger of black shroud of night brought a grim race. My soul was filled with hatred DENTURE reminder of the task before us. toward one thing—mankind. BREATH That night a strong task Japanese Then overhead there was a sharp force would endeavor to effect the land- swishing. Men on the bridge looked up. A BOBBY acting up again, teacher? Maybe ing of several thousand men and tons of voice beside me shouted, "Damn close." he— and others, too— shy off at your supplies on Guadalcanal. For us the "Yeh," I replied, with my eyes ever-

. . . Denture Breath. Avoid offending in this imperative : Order to find the enemy and fastened on the long stream of fire along way. Don't trust brushing and scrubbing destroy him! the beach line of Guadalcanal. with ordinary cleansers that scratch your plate material. For such scratches help food At eight o'clock the general alarm Suddenly the cruiser rocked and a hot, particles and film to collect faster, cling sounded. My battle station was on the blinding flame swept a hundred feet over tighter, causing offensive Denture Breath. bridge where there was a small first aid the whole ship. We found ourselves in a box I hoped I would not have to use. cave of fire. We had been hit. DO im f VfRr 0>»r/ Ploy safe! . . . Soak The hours dwindled to minutes, and Was this it? your plate in Polident fifteen minutes or the minutes shrank to seconds. Men stood frozen, waiting for the next longer . . . rinse . . . and it's ready to use. A daily Polident The thin line on the navigator's chart blow. Our five-inch guns continued to bath gets into tiny reached the spot marked X. The whole fire away at the enemy. The cease firing crevices brushing crew waited as one man. Excited voices klaxon roared. Fire parties raced over the never seems to reach — keeps your plate came now from men manning the phones. deck to extinguish the flames. As sud- sparkling clean and i Somewhere a voice saying, "We've picked denly as the battle had begun, it stopped ' odor-free. ""^STL^ whole ^-"-mmr them up. A mess of Jap ships over for us. We had done all the damage we NO BRUSHING there." could do to the enemy. If there were any The long steel barrels of the eight inch other Jap ships out there the other cruis- What's more . . . your plate material is port soon do away GO times softer than natural teeth, and brush- guns swung out over the side and ers still firing away would ing with ordinary tooth pastes, tooth pow- paused in the frozen stillness of a setter with them. We limped away. ders or soaps, often wears down the delicate pointing toward the prey. fitting ridges designed to hold your plate We plugged the cotton tighter in our remaining events of the night I in place. With worn-down ridges, of course, THE nightmare. your plate loosens. But, since there is no ears, braced our feet on the deck, took a only remember now as a need for brushing when using Polident deep breath of the clean fresh air. The cries of the wounded, the smell of there's no danger. besides, the And safe A blinding flash of fire roared from ether and death. The doctors and corps- Polident way is so easy and sure. the great guns. The concussion rocked men working like men inspired, doing a the ship and we stood there rubbing our lifetime of work in one night, and I dazed eyes and coughing out the acrid blessed science. I knelt beside many a smoke now sweeping over the bridge. lad I had come to love.- I held their Red bolts of fire raced across the inky hands and listened to their words as they sky toward the enemy some thousands passed on to that other world. Unlike a of yards away. The balls of our flying Hollywood movie, all did not die calmly. projectiles arched down to the distant Some groaned and screamed their way horizon and ended their flight in a huge into eternity. They were young and did white flash. Great flames leaped into the not desire to die. Others stepped into night and spread fast from the spot of the new world with a smile on their the hit. boyish faces. "A tanker!" I heard a dozen voices Towards morning I came up to the cry out at once. welldeck for a breath of fresh air. I saw Again the roaring flash came from our Ewing walking towards me. His eyes Teacher doesn't worry about Den- Later— guns and when I looked up I realized were intent upon me and there was a ture Breath now . . . she's one of the de- cruiser in was firing hurt grimness written in his face. lighted millions who have found Polident every formation now the new, easy way to keep dental plates and salvo after salvo. The whole sky was "Padre, are you all right?" he asked bridges sparkling clean, odor-free. If you laced with flying red javelins. earnestly. wear a removable bridge, a partial or com- The whole sea out there for miles *'0K, how about yourself?" I was plete dental plate, play safe. Use Polident thinking only of his physical well-being. every day to help maintain the original away was a pool of fire. A half-dozen natural appearance of your dental plate- ships were silhouetted by the blaze. Then came the revelation I spoke of. costs less than 1^ a day. All drug counters, "Look at those Jap ships burn!" I Ewing stood before me with a look more 30ji and 60ff. shouted, and under my breath I would penitent than any man I had ever seen mutter, "Good, good, let 'em burn." kneeling before the altar.

Then, "Oh, God, this is horrible. What He spoke simply and directly. has man come to that he can manufac- "Padre, I've seen the Light." TO KEEP PLATES AND BRIDGES ture a Hell like this!" I was stunned. Here this New Yorker, CLEAN... AND ODOR-FREE* Another Jap ship exploded and the this twentieth century product of our 46 Thf AMF.RIC.AM LEGION Masa-Jnt :

sophisticated age, this writer of words, could only express his experience in hackneyed words he had heard a hundred times in his childhood. He had seen the Amo HARSH Light. Then he told me how, under the strain of the terrific battle, he felt his own in- sufficiency and his need for God. "Padre," he said, "I prayed last night." I placed my arm around his shoulder, and all I could say was, "I know, I know what you mean." In the days following that battle, hundreds of men admitted having the firtt thins same experience. The veneer of in- in gla»s our of Juice \ on arising difference to things religious and spiritual * of water \ lemon was shattered by the first salvo. During those terrifying moments been dMn. we had THU simple .run p;.;^.'";; driven back to our fundamental instincts. We had discovered our real selves, and having done that—we prayed.

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{ContUmed from page 22) despises a snitch and a tattle-tale and Makes All -Day flag of the United States of America, and that the worst thing he could do was to to the Republic for which it stands. One give away a friend. Standing Easy nation indivisible, with liberty and jus- Hans was being filled with the gospel

tice for all." that if it will help the Fuehrer, it is right On Your Feet In Nazi Germany, his opposite num- and good to snitch on one's own brother, ber, the little eleven-year-old Hans was or parert.ts and give them away to the If you are on your feet all day — walking the floor or standing in front of a machine — just pledging his allegiance, his thoughts, his police. sprinkle Allen's Foot-Ease on your feet and into life and his body, to ojie man, an abso- Bill being your shoes. This soothing powder brings quick was educated to respect law relief to tired, burning feet. When shoes pinch lute dictator. and decency, to hate a liar and a thief, and torture you from all-day standing — Allen's Foot-Ease is what you want. Acts instantly to In America, eleven-year-old Bill was and above all, to be a man of his word, absorb excessive perspiration and prevents foot learning to put a curve on a base- and never break odors. So, be sure to ask for Allen's Foot-Ease — how a promise. the easy, simple way to all-day standing and walk- ball, peg a football, hold a tennis racquet, Hans was being assured that cheating, ing comfort. Get it today at all druggists. run, jump, box and wrestle. lying, stealing and murder were admir- due to motion upsettint In Germany, at the same moment, able qualities for the advancement of the organs of balance, the young Hans was marching, marching, glory of the Fuehrer and that a promise relieved with marching. He had a pack on his back and was to be kept only as long as there was a dagger at his belt. He was learning an advantage in doing so. For land and Sea travel. ^^rAj w j rj t how to use the dagger. He took orders These are facts from the Nazi system Results guaranteed or ^t*^^ little his money refunded. from a Fuehrer in charge of of educating the young in the Nazi phil- group. He drilled and went on long hikes osophy. The A.merican Le(;ion Natl. Hdqts. and took rudimentary instruction in Hans has had ten years of this kind Indianapolis, Indiana military craft and maneuvers. He learned of education, during the ten most form- Financial Statement, April 30, 1944 how to obey blindly and without ques- ative years of his life. Subsequent young- Assets tion. still Cash on hand and on deposit |1 ,05 1 . IO?.Ort sters were indoctrinated at a earlier Accounts Receivable 99.450 30 In America, Bill was learning how to age. Inventories 151.291 03 Invested funds 3,132,164.29 keep a stiff upper lip and go on playing The entire generation of German i^ermanent Investment: Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 22 5, 181.97 the game even if he got banged up a bit. youth is as poisonous and dangerous as OtTice Building, Washington, D. C, less Germany, Hans was being submit- a puff adder. depreciation 120,942.19 In Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less ted to trial by pain and torture to prove When the war is over and military depreciation 48,631.75 learn- Deferred charges •. 81.207.

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(Ascarid) {Continued from page 16) Hannital, Missouri. An order went in TAPE, ROUND . — HOOK AND WHIP WORMS Q(Jv back from the Hump can see a woman's recently for his Air Medal "there's face. The elation of the men who dodge nothing rare about them out here," he Store Route Plan Zeros and live to tell the tale, the lives mentions. PAYS BIG MONEY of the men who service the planes, sort Bill would tell you that there is noth- the mail, serve the chow—somehow it ing unusual about the day his ship, a SELL COUNTER CARD PRODUCTS five Build » Bood-payinK fcosiness of yoar own; all becomes a part of the girls' lives. transport plane, was attacked by Call on dealers c( bTI kinds: show nationally- Bdvertised Aspirin, Vitamina, Coemetica and Bill Gunn is a tall, lean faced radio Zeros. Deep cloud banks are the only 200 other Deceeaitiee. Big 5c and lUc reUi) Sackage^. high qualit7> Attractive counter sanctuary guns of iaplaya lell goods faet. Free book eivesamaz- operator—a "static chaser"—from a from the chattering ing facta. Writel in World's PridaeU Ct., DipLH-W, tp%KV, lii town that is as American as Huck Finn: diving Jap fighter planes. They hid 48 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Masa-Jne JLTLY. 104+ 49 the clouds. Yet these clouds hold the of year. They wore' hip boots, trench equal peril of icing that may bring a ship coats and "topees," pith helmets to crashing down into the mountainside. protect the back of their necks from One night not long ago Bill came back the sluicing rains. on a ship with one dead motor and It takes a sense of humor to operate another missing. He had on his para- in this part of the world. Pat opti- chute—the ship was losing altitude just mistically paused to light a moldy ci- above the mountains, and the loss of garette under the circling shelter of her

the second engine would make it nec- helmet. essar>' to jump. They stuck with the "I don't know which brand we're sup- ship—it's bad country to walk out of. posed to be advertising," she said, "but oxford, the You know how bad the country is, we sure must look picturesque." plain -e how much it means just to be alive, The monsoons have had the best press This handsome ^^.„g Quality- "to see a woman's face," when you agent in the world you have perhaps •Legionr"'":'^ c.vle' — a shoe hear stories like Frank Cereghino's. looU for in ^^^^^.^And ..W^-' ;c;:^smanliUedeta.-;;^^;^^^^, Frank "walked out."

He is well and on his feet again now. But in the hospital the doctor remem- bers the night they brought Frank back. The doctor smiled and shook his head in wordless tribute to the guts of a tough little sergeant from Portland, Oregon, who was twenty-six days com- ing out of unimaginably hard country on a leg that was black and swollen with a fracture. Listen to the boy at the jangling, off-key piano banging out a tune—"Mr. Teagarden, you sure look cute, all ." dressed up in your Sunday suit . .

Mr. T. doesn't know it, but one of the Boys from Jack Teagarden's band "Hey! Isn't the Major's malted milk is here tonight. Another soldier did some ready yet?" pre-induction tooting for Bunny Ber- rigan. Now they play for "Sad Sack Cables' Sobbing Sahibs," a strictly un- heard the news that they have some- official name for a bunch of officers thing lightly spoken of as "The Rains." and enlisted men who are beating it out It is nevertheless a fact that'your clothes for dancing here tonight. are never dry; your shoes grow green Bill Gunn watches one of the dancers with mold. Prickly heat is not a —she swings by, following an indicated child's disease—it is an indigenously In- pattern of G. I. rug cutting. She is dian form of torture. You may take young and pretty with a freshness that a breather from army chow and try a is deceptive. It is her job to man the meal at what passes for the local vil- tent canteen, "on the line," with coffee, lage restaurant. Come the next day you doughnuts, anything in the way of food are apt to have a case of the "G. I.s" W. I. DOUGLAS /SHOE CO., BROCKTON 15. MASS., U.S.A. she can scrounge, ready when the men —a sultry combination of diarrhea and Stores in Principal Cities take off and when they return from griping stomach cramps. Good Dealers Everywhere missions. Her best "dish'' is a store of To all —of this the standard G. I. re- BUY ANOTHER BOND TODAY! feminine U. S. talk—hearing it is like action is "Glamorous India."

a shot in the arm when a man gets It is no joke, it is a fact that here back from the Hump with an adrenalin the Red Cross girls have been assigned supply that is as low as his gas tanks. to one of the strangest stretches of "People don't talk much about ideals," country east of Suez—"the wrong side," Bill said quietly. "But that girl is work- as any enlisted man will elaborately ing her head off. She is there when we let you know. These men are anxious leave in the morning. And she's right to drive the war in the C.-B.-I. to its *OCULENS there when we come back at night. She finish in Tokyo. Each and every man Scientifically processed, ground and must be traveling under some kind of is hungry for home. Home isn't New polished sunglasses filter out sun- glore without squinting, blurring or an ideal." York or San Francisco or a patch of mosking your vision— unlike ordinary girls like to sunglasses) You'll see the difference The would hear that said bottom land in Tennessee. It's any- with smartly styled OCULENS. For about them. where back in the States. sports or street wear. Get o pair todayl Two of the girls at Bill Gunn's base, That is why these girls know they "Jackie" McCormick and "Pat" Moore, have a job to do. The Red Cross gives CLEAN VISION SUNOLASSBS were in the advertising business back them a shoulder insignia that reads in New York. Now in India they have "Military Welfare Service." But in the not lost their sense of "good copy." C-B-I the girls know it simply means PULVEX Their talk is studded with astringent supplying a touch of home. cracks at the Local Color: meaning Walk over to the barracks where a FLEA POWDER mud, mosquitaes and, of course, the group of pilots are sitting on the porches monsoon. During the last rainy season in a grove of banana trees. It is morn-

they were slogging through the rich ing and the air is sweet with the smell ooze that the roads become at that time of woodsmoke from open fires where the

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bearers heat buckets of water. The Luce. It is the waking dream of every pilots who were out on night missions G. I. in C.-B.-I. land. There are women Tired Kidneys are sleeping. Others stand in the door- everywhere—women eating, women in ways, sleepy-eyed, shouting for hot wa- doorways, women in chairs, women ter for a shave. sleeping after canteen duties on the Often Bring Moments of life or death are summed "night ^hift." Blondes, brunettes, red- up in a passing sentence: heads. Mostly American girls, a few Sleepless Nights "I thought I was going to lose my British, two velvet-eyed Anglo-Indian Doctors say your kidneys contain 15 miles of tiny ." tubes or filters v.hich help to purify the blood and number two motor. . . typists. keep you healthy. When they get tired and don't have get "According to the altitude reading I At the head of the table sits Kate work right in the daytime, many people to up nights. Frequent or scanty passages with smart- should have been in the clear. But one Lawson—you have seen her face in the i.:;: and burning sometimes shows there is something wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don't neglect right of the peaks was up there be- movies. Kate played character parts this condition and lose valuable, restful sleep. ." When disorder of kidney function permits poison- side me. . . she has that kind of face. She served ous matter to remain in your blood, it may also You hear that type of talk at any in a hospital in France in the last war. cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, swelling, puffiness under of hair looks jet black has trace number posts. The three most re- Her but a the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Pills, current topics of conversation are: i. of auburn and is worn severely tight Don't wait I Ask your druggist for Doan's used successfully by millions for over 40 years. Home, 2. Leave, 3. The President's to the temples. She has snapping eyes They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from decoration and, of course, that slant slightly; with a little make- ICWATC — your blood, Get Doan's Pills. WOMEN. It is almost unnecessary to up she could pass for practically any add that these men talk, live and dream nationahty. Warns flying. While an idyllic bit of cinema witch- Doctor You hear another walk-out tale—one ery featuring the' South Seas, the last that reveals the warm appreciation of movie she made before leaving the Not To Neglect the Chinese for the American airmen U. S. is showing at one of India's larger who are risking and giving their lives cities. Kate is playing an important role Athlete's Foot to supply China. They tell you a story in an equally strange setting. Look between your toes tonight. If they itch, or if of Chinese friendliness and help, these She was the first white woman to re- skin is cracked, raw, peeling, or covered with tiny it Athlete's Take no chances. men—"Monk" Gassner (Lt. E. C. Gass- turn to Burma since the evacuation blisters— may be Foot. Lose no time. Start right in using quick-acting ner from Nashville, Tenn.), "Kennie" at least that is what they told her when Dr. Scholl's Solvex—the amazingly effective specific formulated by this famous authority on diseases and Snowden (Lt. Kenneth Snowden from she flew to an outpost of the Rescue deformities of the feet. Its effect is immediate in re- Wayne, Ohio), "Slim" Phillips (S/Sgt. Squadron. She had planned to spend lieving intense itching of Athlete's Foot. Kills the fungi on contact. Helps rapid healing. Dr. Scholl's R. H. Phillips from Chattanooga, Tenn.), the night and fly out the next day but Solvex (Liquid or Ointment) only 50c. At all Drug, .Shoe and Department Stores. Insist on Dr. Scholl's and PFC E. W. Crews, Monto, Va. she had to return because there were Solvex for Athlete's Foot. "They were really good to us," Lt. no quarters for women. It was just as Snowden said of their Chinese rescuers. well—for the next day the place was STOP Whenever the Americans tried to buy bombed. a souvenir—straw shoes and big red Kate brought Red Cross comfort sup- Mosquifo- Other Insect Bites Relieve the itching caused by insect candles—the Chinese refused plies to these men "at the end of the payment. bites, athlete's foot — other itching Their guide would point to the merchant line." When she was leaving she asked troubles. Use cooling, medicated D.D.D. Prescription. Greaseless. stain- and explain, "It is a present that he the commanding officer what he would less. Quiets itching fast. 35c trial bottle proves it—or money back. Ask wishes to give from him for you." like her to bring on the next visit. s yourdruggistforD.D.D.Prescription. Snowden has a letter written in Chi- "One blonde, one redhead," said the nese characters and the translation: major, "both small." The next plane to arrive at the out- CHANGE OF ADDRESS Dear Gentlemen: post was a hospital ship. If your address has been changed We are very pleased that at the dan- "I'll never be able to make the major since paying your 1944 dues, notice of such chahge should be sent at once to gerous you were all well and reached believe that I had nothing to do with the Circulation Department. The Amer- our Chinese inland. so glad to see it," said Kate. "Two Air Evacuation We ican Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, you and have the pleasure to ask you nurses climbed out of the ship. One Indianapolis, Indiana. Also tell your to stay here some more days. blonde, one redhead—both small." Post Adjutant what you are doing. But we are very sorry can not treat GIVE ALL INFORMATION BELOW more comfortable so you we hope that NEW ADDRESS you will excuse us. BOOKS RECEIVED AS A service to the men and women Name in uniform and to their (Please Print) (It is signed by the magistrate of C, now fami- the Secretary, the Middle School Prin- lies, as well as to the Legionnaires w-ho Street Address, etc cipal and the Doctor.) want to keep advised of this global war, When they were leaving, their Chi- we will list in this column all new books City nese hosts gave each of the men a fare- pertaining to the present w-ar (except well gift, a carved marble inkwell for fiction and verse) that are sent to our State Chinese brush writing with the inscrip- offices by their publishers. All such books

will be added to the • reference library tion: "MAKE FAST THE AIRPLANE 1944 Membership Card No TO FORCE OUR DEFENCE. WE of the Legion Magazine which com-

prises one of the most complete First '. MUST FIGHT TO THE ENEMIES Post No .. STILL THEM IS BEND THEIR World War libraries in the country.

KNEES." The Story of American Aviation 6;/ Harrv Stat« Dept Bruno. Garden City Publishing Co., 14 W. 49th said, OLD ADDRESS Snowden "The Chinese sentence St., New York 20. N. Y. $1.49 Atlas for Americans (84 new maps is not constructed like ours. What it A War and interpretative te.xt. ) Simon and Shuster, Street Address, etc means is, 'We must fight until the enemy Inc.. Publishers, 1230 Sixth Ave., New York 20, " N. Y. Paper, $1.00; cloth. $2.50 bend their knees.' America Unlimited bii Eric Johnston. Double- City Deeper back in the country at an- day. Doran, 14 W. 49th St., New York 20. N. Y. $2.50 other Red Cross bungalow is a scene Heaven Below (a story of China) by E. H. Clayton. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 70 Fifth Ave., State that is straight out of a play by Clare New York, N. Y.

JULY, 1944 51 — . . .

99 ''The Lucky Stiff

You see him . . . but you don't understand Put this down in your book: Wings never leaves him limp. Missions end with missing

him . . . He's wings, bars, uniform, youth, come cheap! ships, missing men, sleep that comes harder

high adventure, glamour to the girls, comic In the cockpit, he meets Responsibility . . . . . yet he carries on with the crudest, strip hero to the kids. His mother's friends charged with a quarter-million dollar plane, lousiest job on earth.

say it's so nice that he got a commission ! . . nine lives besides his own, kid gunners who At home on leave he gags about his job, just expect him to be God at times, a hundred For what? Hying pay, rank and ribbons good clean fun. His family finds him a little items to check before a take-off; maps, air don't mean much if you're dead tomorrow.

aloof, less talkative . . . Sometimes he shows photographs, flight plans, instructions to get But these men know, they have found a job

up a year later with a ridiculous rank for his right, and remember ... bigger than they are . . . the extermination of age, a double row of ribbons, tired eyes, maniacs who menace the whole hope and finds future all the stoppage of marked reticence . . . And some people say Eventually he himselfgarbed and of mankind ... its save lives, dirty work, enviously, "The lucky stiff" . . . Listen goggled and masked like some monster, slow war at source to

oozing oxygen . . . unnaturally alert, always materiel and time for the ground

apprehensive, incredibly lonely ... up in an forces, speed the finish fight . . . eerie world where unearthly light tries his Do you begrudge a bomber crew eyes, thin air threatens blue death in minutes, anything that will make their job ravenous cold gnaws at his gloved fingers, easier, more efTective?

fantasy tricks his senses. . .Evil black blossoms Be a patriot —buy another War Bond!

Learning to fly the Army way isn't of flak buffet the sky. Fighters close in out Sounds pretty shoddy, doesn't it? . . . For

lollipops . . . Each day he dies a little until he of nowhere streaming destruction. A bomber how much of anybody's money will you learns to put dovt'n his natural fear, forces ahead vanishes suddenly in a golden burst. match your life? Can any amount of Bond

instinct, intellect, nerves to take on hard new Another sidles down in a smoke trail, spawn- sales square one day's losses of bomber

habits . . . anticipates every possible accident, ing specks of parachutes . . . The target far crews? Lending money may hurt—but can't

conditions himself to danger . . . He grows in below is vague and gauzy, hard to certify. kill! Your pledge of a billion would still be grace, confidence, and judgment of distance The twenty second bombing run seems a small change stacked up with these boys who

from the ground. "Precision" begins to be lifetime . . sign on the dotted line with Death every

more than a word ... He breakfasts with a Sometimes the return trip is just a long mission! . . . Any way you figure it, those of bunkmate who is on his way home by night toboggan ride; sometimes a long nightmare us who stay at home, know where we'll be —in a casket ... A few short months and nagged by fighters, an anxious inching back tomorrow—and not the boys in the bombers some mighty long moments make him a with the shot-up ship hard to handle, some — are the only "lucky stiffs" in this war. And

pilot, more afraid of failure than death . . . dead props and dying men, a landing that let's not hold our luck cheap!

This advertisement for the Fifth War Loan is sponsored by

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