The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-10

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 read to date is Bill 0arrigus written by the
 long-nosed geh- try for New York consumption. but we're mad, just the same. Percy Beardsley rates more at- tention in that film and in the nitwit chatter that goes with 1t.
 "In the Valley Oe the Airs" Is the caption on one blurb by . New York columnist. It's supposed to bc am interview with the Big Here, 27k pound Sergeant YoEk. It would gag b hired man.
 This columnist probably received heavy dough for that blurb, but If he wants the real story of Ser- geant York, he won't get 1t at some sidewalk cafe in Noisy Town but right up here on Good Hill. where perce pouYs elder and trains Devon calves for the fair. Beardslev ran the automatic rifle in that episode that brought the one-time cry-baby York into national headlines. Perce did the major share of the killing. York used 6 pistol, and the use of a pistol alongside the mad chatter of a Chauchaut reminds us of a dime firecracker trying to make itself heard beside . 10 inch rifle. York even told the columnist publicity writer that his weapon was e Mauser pistol.
 Right there's c mistake that wouldn't get past most people. We're not saying that York didn't take a Mauser eff that captured German major, but every Tank on the Western Front knows that . Luger is the Issue arm of the first class troops In the Hun military establishment. MauseFs were sel- dom used The Maussr b an infe- riOr plsteL
 York talks just enough, not too much. Beardsley doesn't talk at all Sergeant Early, the New Hav- en lad who led that platoon out, gets mad everytime anyone men. tions York. To Early, this Corporal York, sandwiched between two stripes because he was c land- shaker, always looked like . dog robber. York gets the headlines and both Early and Beardsley draw @ pittance for the use of their names and Mkenesses' in the film.
 The oolumnlsE that brought York drinks and get him unlim. bered, told of the great mark. manship displayed by the biz boy from Tennessee. An York seemed to need was a Huns address. Give him Q Mauser, (nOt . Luger), and he could shoot around corners into the dugouts. Nobody thought to look over those stiffs, after YOrk's amazing feat. If they had, most of the deaths would have been found to be duo to lead poisoning from the 90 calibre slugs spat across the. Valley of the Aire from an ugly, brOadcasting Chau- chaut rifle. Chats right, Mister. We used French guns in the last war because American industry couldn't make any, of our own pattern in time to have 8 supply t0 go arOund.(
 The columnist lays another major egg when he relates the conference at Yank headquarters where he has 8 Yank major ad- dress Corporal York as Ser geant." Alvin hadn't won his third stripe. He was still a two-striper, and not a very efficient one at that. As Corporal York was bow- ing and scraping in the lime light while the amazed American staff mob checked off the Huns, Percy Beardsley, Mechanic, was woifing a sandwich from Spider Johnson'g kitchen. lSpider wants to know if he's in that pic. He amt but he should bel When . Hun got out of line. all Mechanic Deardsley had to do was to just wiggle that Chauchaut a little to port and that Hun just galloped back to his place. Right here we want to say that at that kimo, Mechanic Reardsley actually ranked Corpora YoFkl
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