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The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30

tion is the first of a monthly series
of legitimate plays to be presented
by the group. They are being di-
rected by Captain Edmonds. All
subsequent performances will be di-
rected by members of the group,
however. Most of the other presen-
tations will be free. A charge for
this opening performance is being
made to establish fund for the
purchase of incidentals connected
with staging of the plays.
The president of the reorganized
group is Pvt. Reginald Henderson
who has had extensive experience
playing in moving pictures in Hol-
lyWood.
Casts of the three plays are as
follows:
"Gangsters Over Harlem earl .
Pvt. Edward Bryan; Frank" Eu-
gene Jackson; "Trixie," Henrietta
Brown Franklin; Harry" Sgt. Noah
Croft; "Blackie," Pvt. Reginald H.
Henderson.
"The Man In The Stalls" "Hec-
tor Allen" Sgt. Lawrence Whiso-
nant; Elizabeth Allen (Betty),' .
Thelma Batiste; walter Cozens, .
Pvt. Reginald H. Henderson.
"The Obstinate Family" Mrs.
Harwood," Mrs. F1etty Williams;
''Mr. Harwood," Pvt. Maceo Ander-
son; Henry Hartford" Guadalupe
Martins; "Jessy Hartford" Geraldine
Nicholas; Lucy" Afc. Ann Jones;
James," Pfc. Estrica Mczekkash-
ing.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
Chaplain Mays Two Sons
Now Officers In Air Corps

Post Chaplain Ernest v. May, to-
gether with Mrs. May and daughter,
Ell Louise, last Wednesday witnessed
the happy and proud ceremony of
"Wings" and commission (2nd LTD
for Bill Joe May, younger son, at
Luke Field, Phoenix.
And, exactly two months ago last
Wednesday (May 28th), Ernest v.
May, Jr., got his "Wings" and End
1t, at Craig Field, Alabama, and
present were his father, mother
and sister, Ell Louise.
And, as Chaplain May expressed
it: "That's all there are. There are
no more Mays to get wings" and
Commissions in the Army of the
United States
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
MILITARY PERSONNEL IS
JOB WITH NO FLOWERS
Not An Elaborate Chore, But Exactng-Aso Interesting"
Says Captain Stewart Director

tanning to officers.
The Petitions and Reports sub
section includes morning reports,
reports of charges, ration returns
and monthly rosters.
Similar items that affect the
functioning of Military Personnel
are handled in the Correspondence
and Orders Section. Nothing is left
to chance or gueswork Everyone's
job is pretty well cut for him and
the interest Gf any exist is created
not in the doing of the job but in
the doings of the persons involved.
That's why Capt. Stewart says
There's no flowers or fancy busi-
ness about Personnel. We do our
job or we don't, and if we don't
we'll hear about it. That's all there
is to it."-T. T.G.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
Second Educational
Tour To Mexico Sunday

The second in series of tours
being planned by the Education
Office, Post Special Services, will
be made. to Old Mexico next Sum-
day, August /.
Nogales, Sonora and Tumucacari,
Sonora are the points which will
be visited. There will be swimming
and luncheon on the American side
at the Army recreation camp in No
gales, Arizona.
If you want to see the bull fight,
plan to spend $1.50 for a seat on
the sunny side or $500 to sit on
the shady side. Round trip by spec
tally chartered bus will be $500. In
budgeting yourself for this trip,
also make allowances for what you
may spend for Mexican curios
and stuff.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
Huochuco Players To Give
Opening Shows August 5, s

Those who have expressed de-
sire to see legitimate drama on the
Post will be rewarded on August
5 and 6, when the Huachuca Play
ers make their debut in three one
act plays at Theatre No. L. Since
the theatre is small, the first per-
Torrance will be given for officers,
their wives, and civilians. The sec
ond performance will be for enlist
ed personnel. A reception will be
held in the Special Service Build
ing after each performance for all
those who attend the opening per-
formanceS.
Constituting the opening bill will
be: "The Man In The Stalls" by
Alfred Sutro, comedy drama deal
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
A Letter of Appreciation
Hnodn11artnrc


929th Engineer Aviation Regiment
Davis -Monthan Field
Tucson, Arizona
% July, 194S
Subject: Appreciation.
To: Commanding Officer, Fort
Huachuca, Arizona.
1. AS Commanding Officer of the
929th Engineer Aviation Regiment
to which the 1872nd Engineer Avia-
tion Battalion is assigned for trairl-
ing, wish to express my full appre-
citation for the active assistance and
aggressive cooperation extended by
yourself and members of your staff
to 1t. Colonel Lyon and his battal-
ion during their recent nine day BIZ
vouac for range practice and field
training at your station.
MARK L. HARMED,
1t. Col, G. E.,
Commanding.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30

ing with the eternal triangle; "The
Obstinate Family" author unknown,
hilarious farce comedy; and
"Gangsters Over Harlem" a melo-
drama written by Capt. Edmonds.
Theatrical Advisor. All were Sc
lected because they are types OF
plays soldiers enjoy, judging from
performances in many camps.
The Huachuca Players is an all
post Little Theatre group. Soldiers
WAACs, and civilians who are in
terested may join. This presenta-
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30

AS IOllS DIS everything SOSS dlO1lS
smoothly, nobody knows we're here,
what we're doing-and nobody
cares. But as soon as something
goes wrong, if the job isn't being
done for half a second, everyone
knows it. The cry goes up, What's
the matter with the PersonneP?"
One of the hardest jobs on the
Post and one of the most thankless
that's the general impression that
one gets of Post Huachuca military
personnel duties.
"It's not an elaborate job," Capt.
w. K. Stewart, director of person
mel, assures the inquiring reporter,
cts more or less cut-and- dried"
but it is an exacting job. The first
time something goes wrong, every
one wants to know what's happen
ing to personnel"
For a definition of personnel,
Capt. Stewart likes to pass on a
phrase that major on the Post
once quoted to him, Personnel is
anything that pertains to persons
Capt. Stewart on whose young,
but capable shoulders, almost every
thing pertaining to personnel comes
to rest, disniSses his multitude of
duties lightly. "I'm sort Of rub
ber ball to absorb the shock when
something goes wrong in taking
care of the officers work, in chang
ing the status of civilian employee,
or whatever might come up. have
finger in all of the pies.
Interesting Duties
There is very little that is exciting
in routine personnel work, although
most of the persons who work in
Personnel do find their duties in
teresting The War Department =
Washington, D. C. and Ninth Ser
vice Command hand down the reg
ulations which state how the jobs
are done. Minds working with per-
sonnel must be keen, alert and
strictly ION the ball." They find
interest in their jobs because they're
working with persons and persons
can be interesting in while.
Usually, though, there's little glamor
in dealing with enlisted mems rec
ord, Strengthening out their problems
lat home relative to allotments, or
Keeping the men themselves straight
| in their military environment; or in
recruiting employees and processing
civilians for Civil Service jobs.
Personnel work on the Post is
performed in two offices Military
Personnel and Civilian Personnel.
| Chief of Military Personnel is Capt.
~. D. Poage Gnfantry), who is re-
sponsible for everyone from the mil
itary personnel side of the picture.
Second 1t. Henry E. Landolt (AUS)
works in dual capacity, handling
half of the enlisted mems subSec-
ton and the classification of Of
ficers. The other half of the en-
listed mems subsection is taken
care of by w. o. Wendell o. Gray.
Sergeant major in the military per-
sonnel office is M/Sgt. Delaware
Greene.
The WAAC personnel section is
under the direction of Capt. Nat
allie F. Donaldson. Morning reports
and strength section is also directed
by the WAAC officer
Many Phases
In the enlisted mems subsection
work involves allotments, pay al
lowances, payrolls and vouchers,
statements of charges, transfers, as
signments, courts martial, A. w. o.
LIS, discharges, final statements,
claSsifications of enlisted men, main
tenance of 2O1 files, and furloughs.
Work of the Officers Section in
cludes 2O1 files, qualifications Of
ficers' leaves, and other things per-
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
Captain Reeves, 734th M.P.s,
Doing Second Tour Here

While paying his respects to Post
Commander, Colonel Edwin N. Har-
dy, on a recent day, Captain Mel
vim M. Reeves of the 734th M. p
Battalion and Preston, Idaho, told OF
his having served at Fort Huachuca,
with the 18th Infantry, in 1915 and
1916.
Captain Reeves, who served in
France in World War No. for
more than year, is a horseman
par excellence, being the owner of
large breeding, raising and selling
establishment in Preston.
The Apache sentinel., 1943-07-30
Mrs. 'Rube' Foster Feted
During Visit On The Post

During her visit on the Post last
week, Mrs. Sarah Foster, wife of
the late Rube Foster, was house,
guest of Chaplain and Mrs. Grant
Reynolds. Among those who enter
tanned in her honor were the COM
manding officer and medical officer
of Station Hospital No. /; nurses
of Station Hospital No. l and mem
bers of WAC Section 1922.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Government Forces
MarshaIed in Drive
On Black Market
OPA Chief Recommends
Price Ceiling Be Placed
On Cattle and Hogs
By ALFRED TOOMBS.

OPA Administrator Brown an
nounced today he was marshall
ing all forces of the Federal Gov
ernment for a smashing drive
against the black market in
meat.
At the same time the price ad-
ministrator said that OPA is recon-
mending to the Agriculture Depart
ment that a price ceiling be placed
on cattle and hogs. Thus far any
attempt at price freeze of live
stock has met the opposition of
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
and farm groups, although some OBJ
servers maintain this would be an
important stoppage in black market
dealings.
Mr.. Brown said that half the
OPA investigative staff, along with
operatives from the Justice Depart
ment and other Federal agencies,
have been put in the field in an
effort to break up the racket in
meat. He said that OPA feels that
Jail sentences rather than fines are
needed to discourage black mar
keting'
Appeals to Public.
The price administrator appealed
for public support In the drive and
announced a program which will
make it easier to combat the racket.
He said that meat rationing and
simple price ceilings for meat would
be put into effect as soon as pos
(See BLACK MARKET, Page 2-x.)
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Marine, Killer Of 200 Japs,
Decorated With Navy Cross
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-Ma-
rine Pvt. Albert A. Schmid, credited
with killing 200 japanese In repelling
a night attack on Guadalcanal last
August 81, was decorated with the
Navy Gross today for extraordinary
heroism"
In brief ceremony at the Navy
Yard, Col. A. E. Randall, command
ing officer Of the Marine Barracks.
pinned the medal on the 23-year- old
Philadelphian after an honor guard
Of 100 marines paraded in Pvt.
Schmid's honor.
This is as great thrill as shoot
ing those Japs," said Pvt. Schmid,
who, manning a machine gun alone
after one companion was killed and
second wounded, stopped onrush-
ing Japs in their tracks as they tried
to cross the Tenaru River. A hand
grenade thrown into his sand.bagged
hole finally knocked the gun out of
commission, blinded him in one eye
and partially blinded him in the
other.
The companion killed was Pvt.
Johnny Rivers, former prizefighter
from Quakertown, Pa.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Senate Removes
Farm Benefit
From Ceilings
Payments Deduction
Under RooseveIt's
Order Thrown Out
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
With the support of admins
tratiOn leaders, the Senate passed
today, by vote of 78 to 2, legis-
lation nullifying that portion of
President RooSevelt's stabiliza-
ton order which requires deduc-
ton of Government benefit pay
ments in establishing farm price
ceilings.
Only Senators Gerry, Democrat,
OF Rhode Island and Green, Demo-
crat, of Rhode Island opposed the
measure on the final vote.
The measure. which would affect
price controls on major farm crops,
now goes to the House Senate ap-
proval came after less than two
hours debate.
Barkley Backs Bill.
With indications pointing to an
administration compromise, Demo-
cratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky
supported the bill with what he
said was some trepidation' and the
hope that its passage would not
raise farm prices to the point where
such action would contribute to
runaway imitation"
The majority leader defended
President Roosevelt's directives au-
thorAing inclusion of benefit pay
ments in freezing agricultural prices
since Congress had not written leg
lslation making its position clear
The President, he told the Sen
ate, has been consistent In his at
titude on the subject, and when
Congress left the matter in doubt
he had right to put his own inter-
probation on it."
Endorsed by Farm Groups.
Earlier the bills author, Senator
Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama
called up the measure and immedi-
ately offered Endorsements from
four large farm organizations. The
Senate agreed without debate or
audible objection to consider the
bill.
Senator Bankhead had a Senate
clerk read letters favorable to the
legislation from officials of the Ma
tional Grange. the. American Farm
Bureau Federation, the National
Council Of Farm Co-operatives and
the National Cooperative Milk Pro-
ducers Association.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Brown, Byrnes
Ca||PepcoRat
Federal Heads Plan
Intervention in
PUG Hearing
Earlier Story on Page A-l)

Earlier Story on Page A-l.)
Price Administrator Prentiss
Brown and Economic Stabiliza-
tion Director James F. Byrnes
took steps this aftesnoon to in
tervene in the public hearing
scheduled for 10 am. Tuesday on
the rates of the Potomac Electric
Power Co., terming existing rates
excessive and unreasonable"
Earlier In the day Treasury De-
partment officials intervened with a
demand for rate reductions for Fed
eral buildings in the Capital, sug-
costing public ownership or "other
remedies" If lower rates failed to
result from next weeks hearings
before the District Public Utilities
Commission.
The OPA petition, filed for Mr..
Byrnes and Mr.. Brown, declared:
"A re-examination must now bs
made OF what income taxes are
properly allowable as an operating
expense, of the proper charge to be
made for depreciation expense, what
Is a fair rate of return in the light
Of existing economic conditions, and
OF the Governments program to
keep down the cost of living and to
stabilize commodity prices. and Of
every other important factor Affect
ing the reasonableness of the rates
charged by the company,
BY following this procedure,
substantial rate reduction can be
made to residential, commercial and
industrial consumers, as well as the
Government"
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Missing Army Plane
Found in Canada
Pilot and Co-PiIot Killed
Two Passengers Injured
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
EDMONTON, Alberta, Feb. Is
United States Army Air Force off,
cials today announced the finding
of one OF two planes which had been
missing in the north country since
February and said the pilot and
co-pilot had been killed in crash,
but that two injured passengers had
been rescued.
The dead were identified as Pilot
John Hart of Minneapolis and CO.
pilot Kenneth Jones Of Elida, Ohio,
members OF commercial airline
crew under contract to the Air
Transport Command.
The injured passengers were Staff
Sergt. Edwin Wilczynski OF the
United States Army Air Forces and
Rupert Alexander, a civilian, both
of whom had suffered leg fractures.
Their addresses were not available
to Edmonton sources.
Air Force officials said the wreck
was located last night and the in
jured had been removed from the
crash site.
No trace has been found of a
United States Army transport plane
piloted by 1t. Col Anthony r.
Mensing, jr., of Spokane, Wash,
which also has been missinb since
February S, officers said. 1t bore II
persons.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
0'DanieI Would Can
CAPITAL Bureaucrats
To Prevent Famine
Senator Tells Baltimore
Club Thot Form Price
Ceilings Should Be Ended
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. Ex-senator
ODaniel, Democrat, of Texas
declared today that "the only
thing now that can prevent a
real food famine is to can the
Washington bureaucrats, remove
all price ceilings on farm COM
modities and all restrictions on
farm paintings and production. p"
Some economic theorists will say
that action would cause food prices
to skyrocket," Senator O'Daniel
added in an address prepared before
the Baltimore Kiwanis Club. But
maybe when we get right down TO
the place where the gnawing under
our belts gets painful enough, we
would rather pay little more money
for food than to starve to death"
Senator ODaniel, who attacked
several administration domestic pol
cies, singled out the 48-hour week
and what he called "a monopoly ex-
ercised by irresponsible labor Lead
ers" for particular criticism.
With regard to food, he asserted
that short hours and fabulous
wages in factories, compared to long
nours and near starvation wages on
the farms, have attracted our intel
ligent, working farm men and
women to the factories and thereby
almost depopulated our farms and
ranches of labor and now we are face
to face with serious food short
age
| Saying he had been sounding
warnings about food for more than
year, Senator O'Daniel COM
mented that unfortunately, the
| bungling buIeaucrats '** couldn't t
understand what food shortage
means until they go to the grocery
store and find the shelves as bare as
Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard"
After recommending the removal
of price ceilings on farm commodi-
ties, Senator O'Daniel went on to
| say that If the farmers should, per-
chance for change, make a profit,
am sure Mr.. Morgenthau can spare
| them one Of these little printed
forms that will offer some means of
! getting rid of most of their profits. a"
I've never seen any plague as
/ dangerous TO agriculture as the 'Po-
tomac plague" the Senator added
Evening star., 1943-02-25
AIcoa Drops $50 Men
For Failure 10 Work
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 25.-Aluminum
Co. of America announced today $50
striking smelter plant workers who
failed to return to their jobs under a
War Labor Board order no longer
were considered employees of the
company.
An Alcoa spokesman said this
position was based upon the WLB
order for $50 strikers to resume work
or be discharged automatically.
Forty eight of SO men regularly
employed on the 7 am. shift re-
ported at the smelter plant but this
group failed to work, the spokes-
man added. Fred H. Bullen, director
of disputes for the WLB, said he told
the men the order explicitly de-
manded they resume operations.
AS the board considered this new
development, Alcoa's ingot produc-
ton remained at a standstill. The
boards ultimatum, issued last night,
followed the strikers failure to COM
ply with a previous order threaten
ing prompt and vigorous disciplin-
airy action unless work was resumed.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Wickard Fears 80 PET,
WAGE Increase Would
Make for Initiation
Says He Wosn't Informed
48-Hour Week Means
Such q Boost
By the Associated Press.

Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard told the House Agriculture
Committee today that if the 48-
hour week means a 80 per cent
increase in wages "it will tend
to cause imitation.
But he added he had mot been
informed" that the recent proposal
for the work-week in certain areas
meant a 80 per cent increase IN
wages.
Il do not know how much of an
increase the 48-hour week means, -
he said.
Representative Gilchrist, Repub-
lican, of Iowa brought up the sub
ject, saying: We've heard SO much
about imitation because of any in
crease in prices and I think we
should know whether a 80 per cent
increase IN wages under the 48-hour
week with time and half overtime
after 40 hours has any effect on
imitation"
Sees Imitation Tendency.
IF it is true that labor is getting
80 per cent increase, will that
have tendency toward inf1ation?"
YES" replied Mr.. Wickard,
"Yet you don't want the farmer
to get any increase" Mr.. Gilchrist
continued.
1T wouldn't be so bad if the action
stopped there" the cabinet member
said. "A substantial increase in
farm prices and food costs even-
tually will lead to an increase in
wages"
At lis Per Cent of Parity.
Mr.. Wickard said that farm prices
as of January Is were at 1l5 per
cent of parity, compared with 102
per cent a few months earlier.
parity is formula designed to give
farmers the same relative purchas-
ing power they had in a base period
usually 1909-14)
There are only two farm COM
modities below parity" Mr. Wickard
said. They are corn and wheat:
corn because of the corn ceiling and
wheat because of the vast quantity
of wheat being marketed.
I'D like to see farmers get parity
for their products, but you must re-
member that we're also acting under
a price-control act enacted by Con-
gress. If we let prices go uncon-
trolled the results will be bad"
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Japs Press Arrives
In Yangtze Valley
Most Stopped or Turned
Back, Chinese Declare
Earlier Story on Page BIS.
By the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, Feb. 25. - The
japanese are pressing their local
offensives in at least four theaters
in the Yangtze Valley and in the
far southwest, but most of these
have been held or turned back, the
Chinese high command announced
tonight.
It's communique told of japanese
attempt to cross the YangtZe in
Central Hupeh Province which was
turned into a costly failure by Chi
nese artillery fire and air bombing
Other japanese attacks elsewhere in
Central Hupeh were noted, but re-
suits were not announced.
In Western Hupeh japanese at
tempt to advance from Tangyang,
northeast Of Ichang, was said to
have been defeated
The communique asserted that a
japanese column had been routed
northwest of Kaoan. in Northern
Kiangsi, also in the Yangtze Valley
In Yunnan Province, near the
southwestern border, japanese at
tempt TO advance northward west
OF the Salween River was hurled
back, the communique said.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
By the Associated Press.

by lhe Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. 25.-The
Distinguished Service Medal was
conferred today on Maj. Gen.
James E. CLANCY, commanding
the 1st Air Force, for "excep-
tionally meritorious service in a
position Of great responsibility"
in the establishment of the Eu-
ropean theater of operations.
The decoration. ordered by the
President and exceeded in Army
precedence only by the Congressional
Medal Of Honor and the Distin-
guished Service Cross, was presented
by 1t. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, COM
manding the Eastern Defense Com
mand, in ceremonies at Governors
Island.
The citation also credited Gen.
CLANCY, native of Chaney, Nd,
with meritorious service in the plan
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Hudson Jail Payroll Carried
4 Orgonists, Edison Charges

Gov, Edison, elected with the Jer-
sey City Mayors support, broke with
the Democratic national committee
man over railroad tax compromise
and since has ousted a Hague
appointed Hudson County tax board
and. because of deaths, has been
able to appoint men of his own
choosing to Hudson County registrar
and clerkship posts
Il want to destroy" Gov Edison
said last night, mot Hague and his
henchmen as individuals, but the
things they stand for, the tyrannies
they promote and the sitting of
democracy they FOSTER
Supporters of Mayor Hague are
sponsoring a series of rebuttal radio
talks to answer remarks made by
Gov. Edison. Mayor Hague is va
cationing in Miami Beach, Fla.
Evening star., 1943-02-25
Brown Outlines Policy
OF Easing Ration Rules
BY the Associated Press.

os VIC ASSOSidtSu EEtSSs
Price Administrator Brown today
outlined a policy of changing OPA
regulations ''for the benefit of the
public as rapidly as circumstances
permit"
In this connection, he cited two
recent OPA actions. One provides
c gasoline rations for those who
cannot get to their jobs on B ra-
tions. The other removes restric-
tions on tire recapping with re-
claimed rubber for passenger cars
and light trucks.
War is going to be tough enough
on civilians without adding any un-
necessary burdens" Mr.. Brown said
in statement. Il have instructed
the staff of OPA to keep alert to
changing conditions and to relax
any .rationing rules without delay
whenever it becomes possible to
do So"