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Browning chief., 1943-10-22
Happenings Of Local Interest

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Douglas,
who are residing at Everett,
WASH, arrived this week for a
visit.
For Sale or Trade-Hereford
bulls, all ages. J. H. Luther,
Box ALI. Browning, Montana.
31-2tp
Fascinators. S1.00 to So. 49.
Economy Shop.
Leo M. Kennerly is making
favorable recovery from a recent
operation performed by DR..
huRgins, Kalispell eye. ear and
nose specialist. The operation.
a very delicate one, was for the
removal of a nasa growth,
which had troubled Mr.. Kennerly
for the last year. He plans to
return to have che specialist per-
form a second operation, which
he is assured will affect his com.
plete recovery.
Will pay cash for used furni-
ture at Gamble Store every Fri
day. 29-1tf
Pvt. Earl A. Silvas, who is sta ,
toned with the Marines at San
Diego, Calf. left yesterday after
an enjoyable visit wi h h 9
mother.
New dresses in sizes 9 to 20.
Economy Shop.
Found-Pair of good overshoes;
owner may recover by indentify-
ing and paying for this a d..
Browning Telephone Company.
31-1tc
Seaman SC James W. Duncan.
who is attending the storekeep-
er's school of the Naval Training
Station at Farragut, Idaho, made
a lightning visit home between
trains last Sunday morning.
Bird cage for sale. Inquire at
Economy Shop.
John Gerard, who has been
playing guitar n d saxaphone
with a night club orchestra at
Shelby for the la It several
months, returned home Monday
and will remain several weeks.
after which he plans to 20 to the
coast to follow musical work.
Lace trimmed satin slips. $l.S9.
Economy Shop.
Dick Taught. Buttreys local
manager, attended a meeting of
directors of the firm at Havre
this week.
Mrs. Abbott will leave today
for Bozeman to be at the bed
side of her mother, who is SER
iously i'll.
Pvt. Ernest Barlow arrived
Saturday from Camp Swift, Tex.
on a furlough.
Browning chief., 1943-10-22
Duck Shooting Hours

Following are the hours for the
period from Oct. % to Nov. Is in.
elusive, to guide duck hunters,
who. under the law, have from a
half hour before sunrise to SUM-
set to hunt:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08

firing, but Porky should keep on
shooting 10 cover me, and / got
on my belly and crawled to
Whitley.
But / had to hold my head
down, or il would have been blown
off, and / called, Come on,
Heavy" 'and this big, 225-pound
Atkins crawled over too. and be-
tween us we pulled Whitley back
TO cover.
Well, Whitley kept saying:
I'm all right fellows. Don't
worry about me-"
Then firing Stacked, and the
army began coming up, the ma
rines started back, and it was
about 4 p. m. when Atkins, a fell
low named Monak, another marine
named Freeman and myself got
ready to carry Whitley back.
We walked exactly two yards
down the little road with the lit
ter, then hell happened.
The Japs had posted machine
guns commanding everything, and
they all let fly.
Heavy. Monak and Freeman
were instantly cut down. Poor
Whitley was hit again, and his
troubles were over.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
He Detects Japs
Only Is Yds. Away

Our part Of the drive was done
and our orders were to wait there
for the army to come up, relieve
us, and hold the gain. We were
to head back TO our bivouac area
Ii was toward p. m.
Then everything changed
One fellow named "Porky.'
about 20. and the smallest man
in our company-he was a B. A
r. man-started shooting.
Porky was on my left. Heavy,
whose real name was r. c. Atkins
a fine golfer from Rome, Ga, and
best known and most popular man
in our company. was on my right
Heavy was Bar Man" also, 3
A. r., meaning Browning Auto
matte Rifleman. The rest of our
formation was all strung along.
We turned to Perky and / said
"Porkey, what In hell are you
firing at?"
He made a face and pointed and
hollered. The Japs." But he
doesn't stop shooting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Monak's Life Saved
AS 2 Others Were

The captain said we would have
to leave Monak till later. but an
army hospital unit brought him in
and, like Freeman and Heavy, his
life was saved.
With the captain leading the
way and covering us against Jap
snipers. we carried the stretcher
partly through the brush, and some
of the way we waded in the ocean
for safety, up to our own necks
but holding Freeman above US.
1 kept getting dizzy and was
thirsty. 1t was the malaria, but
l didn't know il, and / got foolish
and one time in the ocean | opened
my mouth and drank sea water.
That was a mistake.
We stumbled into sick bay
finally.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Heavy Hit in Thigh
Freeman in Stomach

Heavy and Freeman slumped
off 10 yards to the left, into a
shallow depression. Monak hit the
ground. There was a big log be-
hind me, a foot and a half in
diameter, and in one jump / was
over the log and my luck landed
me in a shell crater behind 1t.
Monak inched around the log
.hugging the ground, bullet in his
left thigh.
pulled Monak down into the
hole, and then CHANGED look al
Heavy and Freeman.
They weren't lucky like we were
Freeman had got hit In the
stomach. Heavy was badly hit ir
the right thigh. Their hole wasn'l
deep enough to bring them below
ground level. Bullets tipped con
stantly an inch above them
Neither of them could raise up
turn over, or bulge. That's how
hot and steady the fire was.
In the meantime two soldier.
coming up with the army leapet
into the hole with Monak and me
The Jap machine guns were 60
ing Observation-Disclosures a mile min
ute. Our soldiers. trying to scat
ter, were going down right ant
left. The ambush was deadly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Crawl Up Hill,
Look Like Rats

7 looked where he pointed. and
fry me if those devils weren't
crawling up this little hill. through
the brush and the vines and
shadows between trees until they
were IS or 20 yards in front OF
us. We could barely see them.
II was like rats, or snakes, COM
ing at you.
One fellow from our company
named Whitley. about 10 and a
fine kid, was about seven yards
in front of us. He was our first
to get nailed.
He got it through the lung. AS
he Slumped he got another bullet
through the back.
So Heavy and I yelled The
JapS," and began shooting. Then
the whole line took il up.
They were only 20 yards away
so we sliced them down.
Then / yelled TO Heavy TO stop
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Young Soldiers Ask
What's Coming Next

When I threw the 21st grenade,
the young soldiers said:
what Is going TO happen
now"
/ fixed their bayonets. / was
praying and so were they.
Then il started TO rain. II rains
there like a torrent
We took one OF the shelter
halves that the soldiers keep In
their pack, and covered our hole.
II protected us on top, although
water ran down and half filled the
hole.
The bullets kept whistling and
the mortars doomed, but the Japs
never came.
Finally IL got light.
About 7 a. m. a shell hit in front
of our hole. and l told Monak;
I'm going back to get some
help"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08

His First Experience

Something was the matter with
me, but / didn't know what II was
until later. There in that crater,
with the rain. the shock, the ex-
haustion and the shrapnel, malaria
had come on me. 1t was my first
experience with malaria.
l didn't expect TO make ii, but j
lay down and tried 10 get Heavy'S
body on my back. AS / lay on the
ground, dizzy as pinwheel. hap
pened to look up.
1t seemed like a vision of the
Lord, but there stood my captain
Capt. O. K. Leblanc of Louisiana,
and my lieutenant. John Murdock
of Boston. and one of the Stretcher
bearers named Taylo., and a corps
man.
When we four with Whitley hao
not reported back the preceding
afternoon. the captain decided tC
come out and get us if anything
had happened to us.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Some Japanese Beg
to Be Taken to u. S.

Some begged 10 be taken 10 such
a country as America, even if they
had 10 60 as slaves. They said
they could not return TO Japan, no
matter what happened.
There was one odd thing. The
difference i'm race. or eating GUS
toms, or habits or personal cleanli.
ness made the Japs have p smell
we could recognize. In the lines al
night our nostrils sometimes said
laps are near
The Japs wore rubber sneakers
of good quality. These enabled
them TO stink around like ferrets
But they impressed us as cowardlS
about fighting. man to man. They
regarded it as distinguished tC
shoot a man in the back, rather
1 than face him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Ross Sees Prisoner:
Fairly Tall, Well Built

only saw one Jap prisoner
being brought in. He was a fairly
tall. we'll built fellow with silly
grin, but not as tall as the picked
imperial marines who were there
when the first marine waves
landed, but who got annihilated in
the next few weeks.
Later l saw Jap captives in a
stockade and about 25 of them
seemed to be poised and intelli.
gent. I was told they were filters
One thing the Japs did was al.
most unbelievable. They baited
BOBBY traps under Jap bodies, with
live wounded lying around.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Dead Jap Women
Among Mems Corpses

7 saw no dead japanese women.
but il is accepted marine knowl-
edge that some were among the
corpseS.
One thing the Japs do, and we
don't do, is mistreat their lower
ranks,
/ have seen the pitiful rations OF
dead young Japs. They had been
eating fish heads. and spoiled rice.
Then l saw some of the few
JapS who were American prison
ers. They were behind barbed wire
and seemed dazed at their treat
ment. They got food similar 10 the
American soldier, but seemed un-
believing when served with ciga-
rets every day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
If They Have
Honor Code
IFS Hidden
CONTINUED from Page One)

AOOniuucu iIOin oko wv
lines al night. how the Japs jabber
ceeselessly AZ some distance. and
then a voice in English from some
whore much closer 10 our lines
viii yell or ask a question. This
tries to mislead Americans into
thinking they hear the voice oil
another American.
Marines get wise TO these things
fast. They'd hear a voice express
something slangy and wind up
with a question, and then the ma
rinc would seattle the talker with
some remark like:
"You dirty So-and-so, Ill feed
YOU 10 the land crabs"
The Japs run out OF patience IN
a talking duel and try TO taunt
back.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Bullets Cut Into 6g;
Jap Guns All Around

Bullets cut into our log and
bounced. The machine guns
seemed all around us.
There was room for only one on
the rim of our hole. / got them to
push all the rifles up TO us behind
the log. and begai. 10 shoot. We
had to hold those Japs off.
1 My head kept bobbing too high
when L shot, and thank God the
American steel foundries are MAX
ing hardy steel, because bullets
kept bouncing off the log and
Iricocheting and glancing off my
helmet. About 80 slanted against
that helmet and didn't rip it. Not
a one hurt me.
Can any one tell me why that
was?
After I fired all my rifle bullets
I took the two Grands the soldiers
brought. There were 200 rounds
between the two Grands. / fired
them.
called to Heavy and in spite
Of the pain and danger he slowly
and painfully rolled me his hand
grenades, one at time. Finally
with the grenades Of all the fell
lows in the two foxholes, l had II
grenades.
The Japs were putting down a
pattern of mortar fire. Our log
was a threat and they meant to
wipe il out.
l used the grenades to keep
them at a distance.
1 wasn't able to throw the
lgrenades more than about 25
yards, which wasn't enough dis
tance to hit any Japs, but it kept
them from coming up.
Finally 1 had thrown 20
grenades, and l saved the last one
for a pinch.
One mortar hit within five yards.
and fragments punctured my right
forearm. Another hit close and
l got pieces in my left hand. None
OF these was an important wound.
Then a piece buried into my left
instep and / had to take my shoe
off because il got full of blood.
We worried about Heavy and
Freeman, because ii seemed inn
possible to live through the NOR
tar fire, exposed as they were.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08

From the Matanikau River section
we were showing the Japs toward
the ocean at Point Cruz.
Not Jap could be seen. The
sky was blue, the sun was warm
Our fellows in broken formation
were sitting around, talking TO one
another and smoking. The slope
we were on was broken terrain
not far inland from the beach
Brush and tangled growth was
everywhere.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Wife Wins Relief
From Neuritis Pain

Thousands ot sufferers from the tc<turinE
rpins Of rheumatism. sciatics, lunbago, neu-
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for NURITO on thn guaranteA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08

often had vicious hooks up near
the gun barrel. With these they
used TO drag men they had
downed. with the hooks in an ear,
the neck or nose. -
Some of them nick their bullets,
have seen our wounded. whose
wounds were small round bullet
holes from their .25s where they
entered the body, and gaping,
Jagged holes where the bullet
emerged. When this happens many
times. you know you are facing
dum-dumS.
While l was on "the canal
(GuadalcanaD no marine was
taken prisoner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Jap BOBBY Trap Blast
Mangles Own Wounded

Then if our men tried to touch
the bodies TO bury them, the ex-
plosion would mangle their own
wounded.
The Japs practiced marksman-
ship at first on our officers, but
these took off their markers and
then. while was there. the snipers
kept trying to get our medical
corps men because they could see
the little red crosses on their
sleeves.
That's the Jap for you and this
war Anything honest, humane oil
trusting costs you dearly as we
quickly found out.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Bnrney Ross discovers .Jnps Excel in 7reackter!


II was the greatest sight of my
life.
1t. Murdoch and two men took
Heavy away in litter.
/ heard later Heavy was flown
away, operated on. and Ill bet he
becomes the greatest peg-legged
golfer in the world, because he's
only % and golf was his greatest
love-outshde the marine corps.
Capt. Leblanc and and two
others made a stretcher to take
Freeman. but the skipper removed
his dungaree jacket. the flash OF
his white undershirt gave Jap
sniper target, and he nearly lost
his life
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Japs' English lnvective
Inferior to Marines

OF course their English invec-
tive is inferior TO a marines.
Many stories of the Japs
strange customs are current.
Dozens of their snipers were
tied into the tops Of trees and died
there. Some took a sack OF crack
ers. or rice, to stay for days in the
chance of getting a sneak shot al
some American.
Most Of these died because ma
rines started walking around blast
ing with tommy guns at the
clumps of leaves in the tops oil
every suspicious tree.
Many good coconuts wer
spoiled, but so were number ol
bad Japanese.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
SHIPPER Turns Out
to Be a Jap Woman

When our Eighth Marines went
in. we heard from those there be-
fore us how one Jap sniper brought
down out of a tree turned out to
be a woman. She had even visited
the United States. There have
been several stories about women
snipers, not all of them in the tree
tops.
1t seems that Geisha girls ac-
companied officers of certain
rank when the Japs moved in.
Others, although not many, were
said to have come in later.
Sometimes the Geishas lose ia
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Captain Tells Ross
of His Promotion

One shot of il sort OF made me
blow up. Everything began 10
swim around me. remember MOTH
ing but Capt. Leblanc saying:
Gross, you are Cpl. Ross now"
That was Nov. 20.
Next thing / knew I was in q
cot, and il was Nov. 30, and they
told me malaria had me out Of my
head 10 days.
II was the longest stretch Of
sleep any marine got on Guadal-
canal. 1t was only part of the
unusual adventures there.
% e urring at the title
"Fightingest Marine" bestotOsd
on himself, Barney Ross an to-
u,orroD's instGirnsnt in the Times
nominates "Skse" Whisky, the
ons-man army, or "HeaUy' At
kins, Dho sacrificed a leg for
comrade; and relates exploits
by other "eUeryday" marines
Which caused eVen their hardy
comrades to sosp.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08

they were not harmed by the
nights fusillade.
But Heavy was a pitiful sight
Freeman with his hand was hold
ing the hole in his stomach.
Heavy seemed TO have lost lOt
pounds. His leg was up like q
balloon. He didn't have chance
for his leg, with gangrene already
set in.
He said:
Barney, get me 20 the river"
Back al the river was where
orr hivOllac was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Crawls From Hole


The soldiers saw their men
moving into different positions and
crawled from our hole and joined
their own men.
l crawled toward Heavy and
Freeman. / was amazed 10 see
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
If you didn't read Chapter One
of Barney Ross OlUn story, read 1t
here, then go back to Page l and
read Chapter TUO.

THINGS seemed be going great the afternoon of Nov
| 10. 1912 West Pacific Tme), on the Island OF
- Guadalcanal.
Our company had taken 800 or 400 yards from the
Japs the 18th We had spent the night In oxholes anc
with morning pushed ahead again. 100 100 yards more
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08

vor. or they get a desire to fire a
shot at their enemy, or maybe Jap
.manpower ran low and the women
were told TO begin fighting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Captives Beg
TO Be T AIKEN
TO America

They took Freeman. Then they
gave me some brandy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Men Over 3S
Put in Glasses
Subject TO Draft

WASHINGTON. March s (UPl.
A selective service directive or
dering Reconsideration Of over-age
men indicated today that the pres
ent draft age maximum Of 81 may
later he lifted 10 obtain men for
limited service and 20 force others
into essential occupations and
agriculture.
The broadest hint was found in
the order that al Ill registrants
who have no claim 10 deierment
other than age are to be classified
la so that they VIII be the first
men over IS indicted il and when
the armed forces determine they
can be used in the military estab-
lishment.
BY using the term military
establishment. selcCtive service
gave the inference that these men
would be used az desk Jobs and in
other non-combatant duties. That
would release younger men for
combat.
AID TO FARMS
Selective service and War Man
power Commission officials would
not comment on the fun meaning
of the move. but one said It's first
objective was 10 help ease the
farm labor problem. II also was
said that the move would serve Il
attract men in nondeferable jobs
TO jobs contributing TO the wal
effort.
Under the selective servict
directive. local boards were in
structed:
NO more men rs years OF
Il age or older are 10 he CLASH
fed All, the class for registrants
over the present military age
limit.
C-Prior TO May !. all All reg
- iStrants engaged in an agri-
cultural occupation or endeavor
should be Classified &c or sc.
depending on whether they are
single or have dependents.
IN OLD CLASSES
C-Beginning May /, all other
- All registrants are TO be
placed in the classes TO which
they properly belong by reason
of occupational, dependency, or
other status.
In order 10 distinguish men oi
80 or older from those under 3S
the new regulations provide that
the new classification be followed
by the letter H.
In the case Of a Ia. for ex.
ample. the full designation would
ae 1-A-H.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Bayonets Long, Thin;
Hooks Drag Corpses

Their bayonets were long a
thin, sharpened to a point, a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08
Deep CRIME gone
i'm 80 to 50 seconds!
yet it's
amazingly GENTLE!

GEE for yourself! Stubborn, ground
~ in CRIME - that ordinary toilet
soaps n1iss-is licked quick by LAVA
Soap >. in 80 TO 50 seconds!
LAVA goes Geep-chases that deep
dirt out of skin creases, around nails
and knuckles &. down the drainl And
no wonder It cleans fast Look
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-08

ADVERTISEMENT
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-05-07

The wife OF a newly arrived
army officer was talking to one OF
Main Streets old timers. as they
had their cars serviced Friday
This Is terrible" she said mop
ping her forehead. with an made
quate wisp OF her lace handker-
chief Does il get any hotter
than this?" Yes. ma'am. II
does drawled the old timer.
Come July an August, it'll be
around 800" "A. hundred and
twenty" gasped the officers
wife. How do women stand it?"
WALL. some OF EN- grunts
right smart bout it. ma'am, but
they got TO have somethin' 10 grunt
bout. / reckon"
Main Street read in Fridays
news something that makes even
this high-geared generation gasp
Captain william S. May flew
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-05-07

Gates. of Phoenix, at a special
gathering wednesday afternoon at
South Grammar School auditorium.
Mrs. Clyde S. Christopher of Phoe-
nix. executive secretary of Mari
copa Council of Girl Scouts, &C
companied Mrs. Gates.
Roger Gates, former Coolidge
highway patrolman, now serving
in the Navy, and Mrs. Gates are
giving a weeks vacation to Girl
Scout Rita Baker. at Groom Greek,
Girl Scouts summer camp near
Prescott. Rita was selected as the
girl who would go, by her compan-
ions. Mrs. Christopher gave the
Scouts information on the sum
mer camp and told them of the
necessary arrangement TO be made
by those who wish to go.
A swim party at Waikiki Inn hon
oring Mrs. Gates and Mrs. Christie
pher followed the meeting.
Mrs. Nancy Baker Douthett,
Coolidge Girl Scout leader. and
Mrs. George Jellison, assistant
leader. were hostesses for the af-
ternoon.