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THE CORRIGAN PRESS
This Is the Army!
(A contribution by the all-soldier cast
of Irving Berlin's great hit show at the
Broadway theater—for the army emer-
gency fund.)
When one of the boys gave his
regimental pin to a girl she demand-
ed to know what the motto “Volens
et Potens” meant ... He ex-
plained: “Willing and able" . . .
She returned it pronto . . . The
33rd Armored Regiment at Camp
Polk coll their tanks "Hitler
Hearses" . . . The Yank of 1942
Isn't called a doughboy . . . He’s
"Red Legs" . . . There’s a 50-Year*
Old Club at Camp Roberts. The
men in it are over 50—all volun-
teers since Pearl Harbor—going in
as buck privates, although many
were former officers and non-coms. |
Soldiers purchase lots of finger- ■
nail polish—but not for their nails
... It keeps their buttons shiny
and is the perfect remedy for chig-
ger bites ... At the Indio Desert
training center the lads are often
rationed only one gallon of water
daily for all purposes, including
drinking, washing, bathing. To con-
dition them for the real thing.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Red Communiques Admit Grave Peril
As New Flank Attacks Harass Nazis;
CIO President Proposes Peace Plan;
Cargo Planes Get Qualified Approval
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Personal checks cannot be cashed
in the Army without the company
commander’s okay . . . When Paul,
the son of the late financier, Andrew
Mellon, went to the c. o. at Fort
Riley to get approval for a $100
check, the c. o. said: “This is a
pretty big check for a private to
write. How do I know it is good?”
. . . “It oughta be,” said Paul, “I
own the controlling interest in the
bank.”
The Indians have supplied more
rolunteers to the Army than any
other racial group . . . When they
first learned of selective service
they came to register with their own
weapons . . . The average soldier
drinks four cups of coffee a day . . .
G. W., who fathers the "Our Fight-
ing Men” dep’t in Collier’s, calls the
U. S. Armored Division the Anzers
. . . Because they are the answers
to Hitler’s Panzers ... A jeep is
also a nickname for a rookie.
Field Marshal Herman Goering’s
kin is Werner George Goering of the
U. S. Army . . . Can’t wait, he
says, to drop a bomb on his rela-
tive ... In our Army a private can
prefer charges against a colonel,
and if a corporal sees a captain con-
ducting himself in a manner “un-
becoming an officer and gentleman"
he can have him put in the guard-
house . . . The name for woolen
underwear is “superman drawers.”
When a private at Randolph Field
comes to a non-com with a com-
plaint he is handed a mourning-bor-
dered card which says: “Your trials
and tribulations have broken my
ieart. They are unique. I have nev-
it heard of anything like them be-
fore. As proof of my deepest sym-
pathy, I give you this card which
entitles you to one hour of condo-
lence.”
Fort Riley’s newspaper, The
Guidon, has an advice-to-the-love-
lorn column. "Betty Lou” signs it.
Betty Lou is the nom de plume for
a pair of privates . . . For every
fighting man in the Army there must
be five other soldiers to feed, clothe
and supply him . . . Unless a
rookie is smart, he can be trapped
into volunteering for unpopular
chores. The big gag in the Army
concerns the sgt. who approached
a bunch of men at play and asked
them if any were good at shorthand
... A dozen newcomers, angling
for soft snaps, eagerly stepped for-
ward . . . “Fine,” said the sarge,
“report to the kitchen, we’re short
of K.P.s!” . . . The phone number
of the Negro Enlisted Men’s Service
Club at Camp Bowie is, oddly
enough—711.
Army men always titter derisively
When in the movies a sentry soys:
“Halt! Who Goes There?” . . .
The correct challenge is: “Halt!
Who’s There?” ... A letter from
a girl is called “a sugar report" . . .
There’s no favoritism in the Army
. . . Even chaplains must undergo
five weeks of training at Fort Ben-
jamin Harrison, Indiana.
Contrary to popular legend, it is
against Army regulations to give a
soldier K. P. duty as punishment
... At Camp Barkeley the chap
who instructs in the art of jiu-jitsu
Is Harry Morimoto, an American-
Japanese ... In the Army nurses
are known as Snow-whites . . . Sol-
diers insist that uniforms come in
only two sizes—too large and too
small.
One of Uncle Sam’s newest weapons for the armored force, the M4
tank, Is shown on special demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Here the 28-
ton tank plows through a barn to demonstrate its ability to negotiate
obstacles. It has a 75-mm. cannon in a revolving turret and a completely
welded hull.
RUSSIA:
Flank Tactics
While Moscow’s official radio was
telling the Germans in their own
language that the United States and
Russia had come to their agreement
on the creation of the second front
in 1942, Soviet troops were busy with
flank attacks on the Nazi forces all
along the 300-mile Don river front.
German drives had pushed far be-
yond Rostov, toward the Caucasus,
but the Russians were claiming that
their new flank attacks were netting
a terrific toll of Nazi tanks and men.
At Voronezh, northern anchor of the
Don front, the Russians had been
holding out doggedly while their col-
umns were being pushed back in the
other sectors.
If Germans in the homeland had
been listening to the Russian radio
tell of the coming of the second
front, they heard too that their coun-
try would be confronted with 15,000,-
000 men, 85.000 tanks, 100,000 guns,
and 50,000 airplanes. But this was
brave talk for even the official Rus-
sian communiques admitted the
gravity of their nation’s peril. Most
feared was a Nazi break-through in
the center of the Caucasus front.
This would more than likely mean
that the so-far orderly Russian re-
treat would stand a chance of being
turned into a rout—a result that
would be disastrous for the cause of
the United Nations.
Soviet officials had other troubles,
too. There were reports out of the
Don valley that large rings of fifth
columnists had been uncovered.
Many of the spies in these groups
were quickly executed as they were
caught trying to co-operate with Nazi
parachute troops who were dropping
behind the Soviet main lines.
Meanwhile, through England and
the United States the cry was get-
ting louder for military officials to
establish the much-discussed second
front. From widely diversified
groups and sections came the urg-
ing. There was considerable agita-
tion for this move for many people
feared the United Nations would suf-
fer a most severe blow should Rus-
sia fail to last the year on the Euro-
pean side of the Ural mountains.
ALEUTIANS:
10.000 Japs
Breaking an official silence, a
navy spokesman officially estimat-
ed that the Japanese have succeeded
in putting “not more than 10,000“
troops into the Aleutian island area
and at the same time announced
there was no evidence that the
Pribilof island to the north had been
occupied by the Nipponese.
The statement came in answer to
a report made by the Alaskan dele-
gate to congress, Anthony J.
Dimond, that between 20,000 and
25.000 Jap troops were on the Aleu-
tians and that the Pribilofs had been
occupied.
Questioned about Dimond’s re-
ports, the spokesman said that "we
believe that not more than 10,000
Japanese are in the Aleutians, prob-
ably one-half ashore and one-half
afloat.”
The Japs gained a foothold in the
Aleutians on June 3. So far, the
navy has confirmed the presence of
Japs only on three of the islands:
Attu, Agattu^nd Kisko, at the west-
ern end of the chain. The Pribilofs
are in the Bering sea, and consist of
four islands: St. Paul, St. George,
Otter and Waldrus. The latter two
are small and uninhabited.
PEACE PLAN:
For CIO-AFL
A proposal that the Congress for
Industrial Organization and the
American Federation of Labor “ini-
tiate discussions regarding possible
establishment of organic unity” was
made by Philip Murray, CIO presi-
dent, in a letter to William Green,
AFL chief.
Peace proposals between the two
organizations have been discussed
for several months as a step toward
speeding war production. In his
letter, Murray proposed the estab-
lishment of a committee composed
of representatives of both organiza-
tions, with an impartial arbitrator,
to settle all jurisdictional disputes
between the two groups.
Murray named a committee of
three to discuss the problem of “or-
ganic unity.” He named himself,
R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO
United Automobile Workers, and
Julius Emspak, secretary of the
United Radio and Machine Workers
union.
BEEF:
Ttvo Varieties
In butchershops from the Bronx to
Boise there was considerable beef-
ing about beef. Beef was high. Beef
was hard to get. What was the
trouble?
President Roosevelt told his press
conference there were three main
reasons for the current meat short-
age: (1) this is the off-season for
beef; (2) people have more purchas-
ing power now, with which to buy
better cuts of meat; and (3) around
4,000,000 men under arms are now
eating much more meat than they
ever ate on their own dinner tables
at home.
Meanwhile Agriculture Secretary
Claude Wickard reported that there
may be some relief in the temporary
beef shortage this fall when more
cattle are brought in off the range.
But other sources looked with dis-
favor on what effect this would have
on the normal spring beef market.
GIANT PLANES:
From Shipyards
There was a new answer to the
shipping problems of the United Na-
tions looming on the horizon. It
was an unofficial agreement from
the War Production board to give
the “green light” to plans of Henry
K. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder,
to build giant cargo and troop trans-
port planes in nine of the nation's
shipyards.
First hitch to be overcome in the
suggested set-up was the granting of
authority by military officials to re-
lease engines and other parts need-
ed in the building of aircraft for
the army and navy.
Donald Nelson, WPB head, ap-
peared to be willing to proceed with
the plan if these materials could be
obtained without hampering the war
effort. This came as a surprise as
WPB first voiced skepticism on the
plan.
Kaiser’s idea calls for the conver-
sion of three shipyards on each coast
to produce 5,000 flying boats a year.
The ships would be of 100-ton de-
sign fashioned after the 70-ton fly-
ing boat Mars, now in active use.
Support of Glenn Martin, Baltimore
bomber builder, Tom Girdler, steel
magnate and all others with knowl-
edge of production problems of
plane building would be sought, ac-
cording to Kaiser.
AIR MONSTERS:
Things to Come
Reading like a tale from the pen
of Jules Verne, the story of two
super-gigantic cargo planes was un-
folded in Washington by aviation en-
gineers. Senate committees heard
the stories.
Details of a huge plywood plane
were disclosed by Dr. W. W. Christ-
mas, technical aviation engineer.
The plywood carrier, weighing
1,120,000 pounds, would be both a
cargo and battle plane. It would be
a 60,000 horsepower, two hull plane
with 400 foot wingspread and with
wings 16 feet thick, with a speed of
about 350 miles an hour. It would
carry 3.000 men. It would carry a
rack of torpedoes weighing 20.000
pounds. Dr. Christmas pointed out
that the torpedoes would have a
striking force of 19,000,000 pounds
when dropped. "A battleship deck
would be like wet paper when one
of these bombs hit it,’’ he said.
The second plane was a revolu-
tionary type of amphibian flying
cargo plane, which would be lifted
and propelled by a combination of
engines, helium gas and air tunnels.
The engineers are Horace Chapman
Young and Eric Langlands of the
Aerodynamics Research corpora-
tion.
A single wing combination cargo-
fighter-carrier, the plane would have
a flying deck of approximately 200
feet, from which 12 fighter planes
could take off. It would carry
enough helium gas to lift 36 tons
and with its engines could lift 70
tons. Four tunnels would run
through the wing. Engineers in
these tunnels would create a semi-
vacuum, whose suction would sup-
ply pulling power while the propel-
lers gave it thrusting power. Its
speed would be about 200 miles an
hour.
LADIES:
Of the Navy
“Waves” is not a new word to
U. S. navy men but in the future
sailors will have to think twice be-
fore using it. For this is the name
being given to the Navy’s woman’s
auxiliary, counter-part of the army’s
WAAC.
Now officially organized, the
Waves plan to enlist 10,000. First
call was for 1,000 women, prefera-
bly bachelor girls, to volunteer as
officer candidates.
Miss Mildred McAfee, 42, presi-
dent of Wellesley college, Wellesley,
Mass., is being chosen head of the
feminine navy unit and will hold the
rank of lieutenant commander.
While there appeared to be a pref-
erence for single girls, married
women are not prohibited from vol-
unteering. Unmarried women will
have to agree not to marry while in
training—a one-month period.
Waves will be assigned to desk or
administrative jobs to release men
for active sea duty.
Rationing Student
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
VIEW YORK.—It would appear
that the blizzard of report
forms with which war agencies snow
under business isn’t entirely pre-
cl- . . meditated
Seeking to Check andsome-
Report Blizzard body ought
i) u/ a • to do some-
By War Agencies thing about
it, if anybody can. At any rate, the
War Production board co-operates
with a committee of business men
who will try to cut down the paper
overhead, by evolving simplified
systems of reporting and account-
ing. They are waist deep in gov-
ernment blanks and battling their
way out. The government seems
sympathetic.
Hearing the newly organized de-
fense forces against the paper blitz
is W. J. Donald, president of the
American Trade Association Execu-
tives. He is chairman of a special
advisory committee which will work
with the WPB, a King Canute wield-
ing a valiant broom against the pa-
per inundation.
Possibly this is the “mana-
gerial revolution,” which young
Prof. James Burnham described
in his provocative book of a
year or so ago. At any rate,
Mr. Donald is a fair laboratory
sample of the oncoming men of
management of the professor’s
discourse, a John the Baptist in
the managerial wilderness for
many years, urging the man-
agers to shake a leg and do
something on their own account
before being swamped by the
bureaucrafts. He was director
of the American Management
association from 1921 to 1932,
scolding the managers, during
this period for being “too
smug” and not considering what
might happen to them unless the
metes and bounds between man-
agement and finance and finance
and management and govern-
ment were more clearly defined
and regarded.
Mr. Donald, Canadian born, natu-
ralized in 1923, naturally will have
to use up a lot more paper In his
educational and explorative cam-
paign among the individual mem-
bers of 1,200 trade associations,
whom he will consult. He wants
comments and suggestions. In Sar-
nia, Ont., where he was born in
1890, he attended the Sarnia Colle-
giate institute, and later was gradu-
ated from McMaster university at
Hamilton, Ont. He came here in
1911 as manager of the installation
staff of the American City bureau,
making his U. S. A. career in busi-
ness economics.
"VIEWS values shrink like depre-
ciated currency in time of over-
issue. Col. Robert L. Scott Jr.
caught eight or ten lines in the pa-
per when he
flew over Mt
John Leigh, gas station attendant
in Washington, is pictured studying
rationing rules. When Price Admin-
istrator Leon Henderson ran out of
gas, Leigh refused to fill a ran for
him. Henderson later proved that
such an act would not be a violation
of the regulations, but his proof
came too late. lie already had
been forced to take a taxi.
MISCELLANY:
COUSINS: Conklin Mann, New
York genealogist who discovered
last month that President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill are
eighth cousins once removed, an-
nounced that he had found the Presi-
dent to be a sixth cofisin once re-
moved of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
MARKETING: U. S. farmers in
the first half gf 1942 marketed prod-
ucts totaling $5,773,000,000, accord-
ing to a department of agriculture
estimate. This compares with $4,012,-
000.000 for the same period in 1941.
Routine These
Days Outruns All Everest,
Previous Stunting H**,""*,
mountain in the world by a full
mile. For the young colonel, this
was a detail of a work-a-day hop
from India to China.
War reputations build like a coral
reef. Off and on for the last few
weeks there has been a dribble of
news about the long, lanky, Colonel
Scott of Macon, Ga., working him-
self as a “one-man air force” in
Burma and China. On June 26 he
succeeded Col. Caleb V. Haynes as
chief of the India-China air com-
mand. That means that he and the
21st pursuit squadron, which he
commands, are the heirs of the
“Flying Tigers,” or the American
Volunteer group which bombed its
way to glory along the Burma road.
Early in this encounter, Colo-
nel Scott demonstrated what we
have fondly supposed to he our
national aptitude for quick and
resourceful action. A troop of
Japanese was moving steadily
up the Chindwin river in West
Burma. The colonel had only a
small pursuit plane. He swung
a 550-pound bomb in it, and with
it scored a bulls-eye on the ad-
vancing troop. These and simi-
lar exploits won him a silver
star.
He is a former West Pointer, 34
years old. indentured in rough and
tumble flying, when, with Colonel
Haynes, he flew the mails, in 1934.
He later commanded the 78th pur-
suit squadron in Panama.
THE CHEERFUL CHERU&
I ht.d a. sorrow in rr>y
hea.rt.
I wa.tc.hed my brave-
Faced countrymen
And thought "They
each hide troubles too—"
Love crowded out my
sorrow then.
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From an old French word
“mes” derived from the Latin
word “missus” meaning a course
at a meal, comes the Army's
name “mess” for its breakfast,
dinner, and supper. Favorite meal
with the soldier is chicken dinner
—his favorite cigarette, Camel.
(Based on actual sales records
from Post Exchanges.) A carton
of Camels, by the way. is the gift
he prefers first of all from the
folks back home. He’s said so.
Local tobacco dealers are featur-
ing Camel cartons to send any-
where to men in the armed forces.
—Adv.
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today. Us© only as directed. Pur-
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