Evening star., 1941-02-23

when you're needed the way you But I'll wait
Some guys" voice said from the doorway get all the
breaks"
Mary flushed as she jumped back The Shadow! she mur-
INJURED
Sergeant Dooan scowed at the grinnng features of Cor
poral Burke who had been his gunner. Whaddaya WANT
Burkes grin spread. 81 could want to be your shoes
but I'll settle for hamburger"
You paid up your bill here yet?'
Corporal Burke wnked Mary THE older he gets the
sweeter he gets"
He's got Worries" Mary said over her shoulder as she
dropped a square of hamburger on the stove
Yeah SO hear They took away his brass knuckles and
told him that the rockies wrote home to mother
night I'm going to get him an apron.
Doolan considered his gunner thoughtfully. You'd
think Mary, he said that in three bitches guy would
learn how easy stripes off sleeve Maybe he thinks
because he amt my section any can't reach him."
Corporal Burke grinned some more. "Okay firing
and pull your influence But honest it's dirty DEAL Build
up the best firing section this battery had and -
booey!w get scattered and Dooan gets bunch of left
footed clucks to start all over with
Mary smiled That's because when Doolan gets through
with them they re not CluCks.'
JOHNNY PENDIEroN III had paid very little heed all the
sound and fury which preceded the Selecve Service Act
Because, after ALL he was Johnny Pendleton ILL., and such
matters did not him The Pendetons did not in
the army They went to Miami in the winter and north in the
He mildly annoyed when he had to register
and he thought something of writing line to his Congress
about it. Then. suddenly to his complete amazement
he found himself in the army. More exactly, he found himself
in Sergeant Doolans section along with other drafees
There small Greek with long down cheek
and defiant glitter in his eyes TALL rawboned young farm
hand from Iowa who chewed monstrous cuds of tobacco
There thn-chested New York clerk with bad
pexion and four lean mountaineers from Kentucky BY the
time Johnny discovered that these his fellow country
and his equals under the Bill of Rights they had started
to call him Pretty Boy He had to lick the Iowan ard of
the mountaneers before they stopped it.
Johnny had fought anyone before except under the
gentemany rules of intercollegiate boxing Johnny
psed his prowess Without being his walk
became something of swagger and his slightly
overbeang than BEFORE of which escaped the eye of
Sergeant Dooan Adding two and two along with the Iowans
black and the baeu gaes of two somewhat battered
mountaneers Sergeant Dooan to the conclusion that
he had section divided And section divided could
achieve the smooth efficiency which Sergeant Doolan
dearly loved to
Johnny not conscious of the thoughtful manner with
which Sergeant Dooan watched him. AS Number One Can
noneer he stood the right of the breeh of the big howzer
and went through the motions of simulated firing with breezy
nonchaance The army he thought not bad after ALL
1t brought out mans vriy Why, he might have gone all
his life without finding how we'll he could handle himself
in the rough places Of that he had found out
bad he would have remain the rest OF the
year. Probably it would become pretty boring
On the other side of the breech the little Greek acting