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bonus. If the opponent was unable to
win one or more boxes, the victor gets
another 100 points The total scores are
substracted and the winners net total Is
the margin of victory.
Now let's deal hand. Low cut deals
the first hand and the victor of each
box deals thereafter. Then cards are
dealt alternately to, each player and the
21st card Is turned face up alongside the
unexposed balance of the deck.
Drawing Cards.
If the opponent doesn't want the exc
posed card, the dealer may pick it up.
If neither wants it the opponent draws
the top card from the closed deck, dis
carding a card from his hand face up.
Each player then alternstes in taking
either the top exposed card or the top
one from the deck, always discarding a
card from the hand in exchange. If
neither player is able to knock by the
time two unexposed cards are left, those
two cards cannot be drawn and the deal
Is a draw.
And that's all there Is to two-handed
gin rummy. II three persons want to
play, the two who cut highest play the
first deal. Thereafter the winner of each
hand plays the person who has been out.
The first person winning 100 is the win
ner, scoring being the same as for two
handed
Four-handed gin is played by teams Of
two with each partner playing alternate
deals with each of the opposing players.
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BY Bill Glover.

Gin rummy is cinch. If you ever
hello hand of playing cards and learned
to count to 100, you're practically playing
already.
It's the fastest growing sprout on the
rummy tree but isn't new. Edwood T.
Baker thought it up IS years ago in the
Knickerbocker Whist Club of New York.
People have found out only recently what
fascinating game 1t is and how it ends
the old hunt for fourth at bridge.
From two to eight persons can play
and it fits readily into wartime social life
and gas-rationed vacations. incidentally,
gin was tagged onto the name just be-
cause it's different kind of rum or
rummy.
Here is the basic play: The objective is
to score 100 points game before your
opponent. (You only play one person.
Well take up the scoring as we go along.
Building the Hand.
Like all games Of rummy, you clean up
your hand by acquiring sets of three or
four cards with the same face value
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17-Year-Old Veteran.

1t was there, on last June 8, that Leon
Bowler, then 17-years-old but already
a veteran of this war, was wounded-one
arm stump, and the remaining hand so
injured that he retains the use Of but
three fingers.
In the official record of the Fighting
French defense of Biz Hakheim, battle
which lasted IS days, May u to June II,
there is a factual, impersonal entry:
Monday, June 8: A convoy arrived this
morning at. am. The trucks were
driven by French drivers of a transport
unit; all volunteers for this mission"
Bowler, then driver of Bren gun
carrier, had set out with that mission
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somewhat as do the few we see today,
but not the same type by any means.
Then 1t was common to see some old
nanny, with basket on her head and a
clay pipe in her mouth, trudging along,
but just as happy as if she were worth
million dollars. Some wore bandan-
mas to cover their hair, giving them an
appearance not soon forgotten.
OF course, with all our drawbacks and
hardships, real or imaginary, We OF this
generation do have 1t on those of the
older days who had to thaw out the
pump in winter break the Ice in the
rain barrel to get water to wash our face
in, tote the tub and the water upstairs
TO take the customary Saturday night
bath, and do thousand and more other
things we do not have to worry about
now. Yes, there are two sides to every
question, and in this case 1t is choice
between conditions past and present.
What would you choose2
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Republication Is also an interesting
thing, especially at the present time, to
any one who has been so unfortunate
as to need treatment in recent months
For at least it might comfort them to
know that in 1866 private rooms in
Providence Hospital could be obtained
for from 81 to $40 week, according to
the nature of the disease and the at
tendance required. Comparing this with
present rates, it will be seen that the
price per day now is about twice what
1t was rs years ago for a week.
Hospital Costs.
The charges for medical treatment
have also greatly increased as one
might we'll assume when the physicians
fees of today are compared with those
of 1916, when at Alexandria a doctor
charged 81 for visit, and would go
anywhere within the distance of 10
miles for SIS.
However, all Of this does carry us
back to the good old days of yore, and
makes us long for the return of the
A'AoA Oh AsAtA hCV Ntoii 40 otdAlo liiCo Will
meats and vegetables of all kinds, and
to recall the butchers and the other
hospitable market people in general,
many of whom we learned to know, and
miss more and more as time goes on.
In the early days of Washington it Is
surprising how many really important
people did their own marketing, and, if
anything, the men were in the majority.
Senators, Representatives, cabinet Of
1cers, foreign diplomats were frequently
to be seen at the Center Market, laying
In a supply of meats, game and vege-
tables for their tables, which seem to
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Gin Rummy-in One Easy Lesson

A hand such as
this calls for q
quick decision By
the player as to
1Uhether he should
lag do1Un at once
with an unmatch-
ed total of z, or
hope for q third
deuce to giUe him
gin. Determining
factors are OBJ
serDation of What
the opponent is
doing, by noting
pickups and dis
cards, nd the
stage to Which
h an d has pro-
crossed.
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Living Was Cheap in Washington "A Long Time AGO

advertisement dated December 2, 1895,
reads:
Wanted for the present year at the
public work in the City of Washington,
a number of laborers for whom seventy
dollars per annum will be given, or fifty
dollars from the LIST of March to the
goth of December next They will be
found with everything but clothing, and
attended by physician at public ex-
pense when necessary.
tSigned) ELISHA o. WILLIAMS"
Mechanics and laborers were Just about
as independent in 1894 as they are today,
and this thought is certainly justified
by notice that appeared in the Wash
1ngton Gazette Of May Is, of that year,
which records what was likely the first
strike in Washington, and that one on
the White House. The item states:
"Masons and bricklayers to the number
OF forty ask employment, for they have
determined not to work any longer on
the Presidents house because of Ill
treatment by the commissioners and the
employment of men previously dis
charged"
Intoxicating liquors, though one of the
worlds greatest curses, has also had its
change in prices, and in the early part
OF the last century, cider (probably hard
CIDER sold for II cents a gallon, while
whisky brought SO cents a gallon in
Bladensburg.
Tavern Prices.
Out in illinois, when Berry and Lincoln
took out license, on March 6, 1888, to
conduct tavern in New Salem, they
were allowed to charge the following
rates: French brandy, per pint Is cents;
peach, 1894; apple, IL; Holland gin, 1884,
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A Soldier Who Deserted to FIGHT

OF relief for the encircled, embattled
defenders of Biz Hakheim. He was to
have escorted the trucks, IS in all. loaded
with explosives and other supplies, into
Biz Hakheim, He never did. But let
Bowler tell the story:
1T was getting on toward the end for
Biz Hakheim. The Germans and Ital-
ians had thrown complete ring about
the place. Biz Hakheim is nothing,
merely a geographical point in the
Libyan desert. Do you know what Biz
Hakheim really is? It's just two rain
barrels set one on top of the other. There
Is not even we'll there. We had to be
supplied with everything, even water
Il was driving a Bren carrier. We
came up at night with ITO trucks, arriv-
ing outside the German lines at IL
o'clock. We had rendezvous with
Second 1t, Jean Belize and two soldiers
from inside Biz Hakheim. They had
come through the enemy lines and were
to lead us in.
Call for Volunteers.
ohG 14ACtC WcAc tOo many JIuChS anu
Belize said that not more than Is could
be taken in, and even then only If we
proceeded slowly and carefully and as
quietly as possible. They called for VOL
unteers to drive. I volunteered to go
along in my Bren carrier and took with
me Belize and one of the soldiers who
had come out with him. We had three
miles to cross.
Our column crawled along stopping
often in the dark. At am. all hell
broke loose. We were attacked by
StukaS which dropped fares We were
in the middle of the German lines and
they opened up with everything they
had. We were in cross-fire of ma
chine guns. Tracers were everywhere.
"One of the trucks was hit somehow
and the fuel tank took fire. My Bren
carrier was close. knew that the truck
was loaded with 20 cases of mines and
that there also was one case of fuses for
them. I knew that If the fire ever
reached the fuses the mines would be
set off and I was sure the explosion
would destroy us all.
$50 took the fire extinguisher from
my Bren carrier and ran to the fire to
put it out. 1t was already eating into
the cases of mines. I was there in the
light of the fire and I knew was ex-
posed, for bullets were striking all around
me. I actually put the fire out.
But at that moment, just as I was
leaving to find cover, something must
have hit the box of fuses 1t might
have been machine gun fire. The truck
blew up. There were, as 7 said, 20 cases
of mines, each with 20 INFUSED mines
in it-400 mines in all.
II was blown I don't know how far,
but a considerable distance. I could
feel myself flying through the air.
Most of my clothing was ripped off
When I picked myself up the lower half
of my right arm was gone and was
bleeding horribly. There was no one
around. 1t was dark. l feared to call
for help for I knew would be captured
My left thumb was shoTn off at the
first joint and the tendon of the fore
finger was cut. I had burns on my arms
and body. The hand hurt fiercely.
had great pain in the back of my head
but could feel no pain in the stump of
my right arm. I knew that I would
bleed TO death in few minutes. I felt
faint. I was covered with blood from
head to foot.
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have been Of greater consequence and
Importance formerly than our menus of
today.
Though President William Henry Har-
rison lived but month In the White
House before he died, in that short
space Of time he was frequently seen at
the Center Market.
Another thing the boys OF the city did
at the market was to grind coffee for
the coffee merchants. Sometimes they
would grind a whole sack for Is cents,
and in this way they picked up as much
as half dollar or more on Saturdays.
Though quite number of farmers still
bring their vegetables, chickens and
other farm products to the city markets,
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(treys, Jacks, aces etc. or building Sc
quences of three or more cards five, six
and seven of hearts,. You lay down your
1o-card hand Cknock) when the total
value of unmatched cards b 10 or less.
All face cards count 10 each, all others
count the number of pips, down to aces
counting one. Of your unmatched total
is more than 10 you are penahzed 10
points and must resume playing the
handy
After the knocker lays down his hand
the opponent lays down his melds and
may play off unmatched cards on the
knockers sets. The score for that hand
Is the difference in value of the knockers
and opponents unmatched cards, with
these added regulations: If the knockers
unmatched total is more than the oppo-
nent's final unmatched total, the oppo-
nent is credited with the difference plus
a 10-point bonus; If the unmatched cards
in each hand total the same, the oppo-
nent gets 10 points.
A hand is gin" II the Knockers 10
cards all match, and he gets a 2o-point
bonus plus the opponents unmatched
total. The opponent again has the right
to lay of unmatched cards on the gin
hand.
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Prices to Compare.

a COrd Tor hickory, curing the years
from 1925 to 1929, and from S. to 81 q
cord in severe weather. However, by
1881. anthracite coal was coming to
Washington, and taking the place of
kind of coal brought from Richmond
by water.
The first load of anthracite coal, ac-
eording to w. B. Bryan, arrived at Brad
Iev's coal wharf next to the Long Bridge,
IN June, 1881, and since the public was
not familiar with its use, it was accom-
nanied with a detailed account Of how
IN use 1t. Cumberland coal followed
some years later, by way of the Chesa-
peake 81 Ohio Canal, but not until 1850
ayhen the canal was opened through to
cumberland, was this coal brought here
In considerable quantities. The writer
bss not Immediately available the price
If coal In the early days, but he does
vacall in his own time when hard coal
was from SIS to $6 ton.
Salaries.
The salaries for clerks in the Federal
senartnents in 1863 averaged about S65
month, while boarding was $2l
,,onth. and If you cared to go to
proun's Hotel, later the Metropolitan,
- the time was between the years
,oos and 1929, the charges for day
-.a,,Id he sI.75; for week, $40, or $35
a month. $780, ..-,.s !.
A. 70 mechanics, those employed in
sonstrftting the Capitol worked from
YIN to 6 pm, and after 1914, for 10
Sours a day, except during the short
. u months when they worked from
49, n shutdown. Along this line an
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Keeping score - tabulatioa
should folloD GboUe method.
In third bon for "nae" 10 points
represents penalty against OPP
ponent for laying doa0n before
he should haze. In fifth bon
the 20 is gin bonus, balance is
opponents unmatched total.
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BY Clyde A. Farnsworth,
Associated Press Staff Writer.

~N~N@
CAIRO.-This was the soldier Bowler
who once went AWOL to fight for
France, as brave a lad as I have ever
met, q mere boy with his decorations
and his empty sleeve.
tered into the lounge of Cairos principal
hotel Without even first-class privstes
chevron, he ignored the posted notice
which attempts to keep this place out of
bounds to "other ranks"
He looked so young, even younger than
his bare Is years, but he held himself
so straight. His dark hair was parted
and slicked to schoolboy perfection. His
face, with its easy. eager smile, had the
pink beardlessness of adolescence, yet
there was strange adult light in his
eyes when he looked at you
Swiftly you took in the boyish face and
the crossed cannon and medieval helmets
on the lapels of his khaki blouse insignia
of the Fighting French armored forces,
and then you saw the empty sleeve
tucked neatly into his right-hand pocket,
and the odd stiffness of his left hand
with which he shook hands.
His Decorations.
Last Of all you studied the row of rib
bons over his heart There was, first of
all, the ribbon standing for the Cross of
Liberation, highest award given by the
Fighting French, and in this case the
only one held by a common soldier.
This rectangle Of ribbon is pale green,
crossed by two diagonal black bars
green for hope in the future of France
and black in mourning for the past. 1t
is the same kind of ribbon which carries
the bronze cross, not always worn but
which Bowler later showed to me. The
cross is sword mounted on square of
bronze, the blade of the sword with the
cross of Lorraine superimposed on it.
On the reverse side is written:
"Patrtam SerUando Victorian Tuht"
Serving the fatherland brings VIC
tory.)
Next to the ribbon for the Gross of
Liberation, Bowler wore one standing
for the CroiX de Guerre and against its
gray field lay tiny bronze palm. In
the same array of decorations were rib
bons for the Medaille Coloniale, the
Medaille de Blesse for those wounded
in the service of France and, last of all,
one with a tiny bronze plate superim-
posed and engraved:
"Bir Hakhetn1,
1892"
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One Demerit.

There is one forgivable demerit in the
military record Of the soldier Bowler.
He was with the Fighting French in
Syria when the rumor spread around the
camp that Gen. Koenig's brigade, the
troops which later were to defend Biz
Hakhein, was to move into Libya
It went first to my commanding officer
and asked if I might be transferred so
I could go along" Bowler related. THE
c. o. told me there was nothing official.
So went to Gen. Koenig. He told me
that if I wanted to go I should merely
get aboard one of the trucks when the
brigade left That is what I did"
Weeks later when Bowler, by that
time a clerk in Koenig's mobile head
quarters, had moved up to Halfaya Pass
near the Libyan border of Egypt, letter
came from general headquarters asking
Koenig for information on 'the deserter
Bowler"
The general had others who could
have typed the answer for him but he
dictated it TO me instead" the boy re-
called. Il remember so we'll He stood
beside me and dictated: The soldier
Bowler has deserted to fight"
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II had nothing to make a tourninuet
except the knife chain which I carried
from my belt. With the three good
fingers of my left hand I took it off
There was a leather loop at the belt
end of it. managed to get the chain
through this loop and fastened 1t
around what was left of my arm 7
pulled it tight with my teeth.
Il tainted as soon as did this but
somehow managed to keep the chain
pulled tight I clamped my jaws on 1t.
Even when was unconscious I kept the
chain drawn tight. If the chain had
loosened or broken I would have died,
Thought Germans Had Come.
IT don't know how long I lay there
but it was still night when I heard
voices. I thought the Germans had
come. I was ready then to surrender.
I grunted or moaned for help. I could
not open my mouth to cry out for the
chain would have loosened. But they
were not Germans; they were a Scottish
patrol of seven men who had seen the
bombardment and the fire and had
wormed their way into the place to in
vestigate. The rest of the convoy had
moved on.
They gathered me up like baby and
carried me back to an ambulance. From
there on I do not remember much. They
cut off some of my right arm in a field
hospital, I know. They were constantly
giving me morphine injections. The
retreat from Libya was now fully under
way. Biz Hakheim was evacuated while
was being moved back for treatment.
They tried to get me into an am
bulance plane once but there was space
for only one man. 1t was given to a
wounded officer. I was given over to
an ambulance driver who was instructed
to carry me back until he could find a
hospital for me. We did not find it until
We reached Alexandria. I spent seven
days In the ambulance"
Bouvier paused. The story was nearly
ended. He glanced at his empty sleeve
and the medals which he wore like a
Boy Scout proud of his merit badges.
He grinned. II always wanted to be a
hero" he said. Il have been kissed now
by five generals"
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The Bonus.

The deals continue until one player &C
cumulates 100 points. Then comes the
final scoring for the game. Each player
gets 20 points for each deal C'box') he
won and the victor gets a Hotpoint
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-04-17
Kinds County
War Savings Plan
April Drive

The Kinds Negro War Saving
Committee has completed its plans
for the war Stamps and Bond drive
looking forward TO playing a great
er part IN raising the April Quota
of S2,792,000 for Kinds County.
AT the monthly meeting of the
Kinds County Staff held in the
Capitol National Bank Building at
tended by chairman E. w. Banks
and Publicity and Speakers chair
man Percy Greene, chairman Carl
Farest, commencing the fine con-
tribution of time and talent given
by scores OF patriotic volunteer
works, also pointed out that Kinds
had failed for four successive months
to reach its quota and is now short
by $138,637.75.
Chairman Banks is urging all
members OF the committee to attend
each meeting, during the month
ana also urges that the chairman
OF the various committees call
their group together for the DUR
pose OF joining in the April cam
palgn and Second War Loan Drive
The chairman urges the sale of
stamps from the Street Booths
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-04-17
The Magic Piper"
TO Be Given AT
Jackson College

The Magic Piper an operetta in
three acts will be presented by the
Community Laboratory School at
Jackson College in the College
auditorium, Monday, April Is. at
8 o'clock p. m.
This operetta based upon Robert
BroWning's pied Piper of Han,e-
lin" promises to thrill its hear
ers.
N. Mitchell Hubrick and Carol
Christopher have combined their
talents and experiences to make
this one of the finest operettas
published by the Raymond A.
Hoffman Publishing Co., Chicago
The music is under the direct.
ion of Mr.. A. M. Lovelace and
Miss Elizabeth Strain. Costumes
are being designed and made bv
Mrs Juanita Jackson.
The pupils in the Laboratory
School are working with Mrs.
Blackburn to develop a verse
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-04-17
Tank Busters In
The Groove Show
hit AtCamp Bowie

CAMP BOWIE, Texas - (SNS)
Featuring cast and chorus of
90 Tank Busters in the Groove" a
variety show presented by the COL
ored troops of the 614th Tank De-
stroyer Bn., Camp Bowie proved a
smash hit when it played six per-
formances recently, including show
ings at the downtown USO Clubs.
Camp Bowie's Service Clubs. and
the American Red Cross Auditor
UNI at the Station Hospital. The
show was under the direction of
S-Sgt. William Stanley Clark.
Highlights of the show were the
Harmony Boys Quartet, who gave
out with musical number entitled
Hitler" Another top feature was
Sgt. Watson Worlds singing "This
Love of Mine. A hot band. made
up OF soldiers, took off with their
own arrangement of the 'St. Louis
Blues" Soldiers claimed Pvt. Chico
Robinson is tap-dancing in the
footsteps of the famous "Boiangles. :"
His tap-dancing Ts.s a repeated hit.
S-Sgt. Clark emceed the show
ana pulled the numerous acts to-
gether. In civilian life. Sgt. Clark
was a musician and before coming
to Camp Bowie organized the 366th
Infantry Glee Club at Ft. Devens,
Mass.
Col. B. o. Kennon, battalion
commander, and 1t. Becker special
services officer, expressed great sat-
lstaetion on the many presentations
OF frank Busters in the Groove"
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Fortunately, I was able to catch
one of them before they left last
Thursday night on a tour which will
put them in San Francisco. Their
first stop is at Waterbury, Conn,
and then on to New Haven and
Boston
The youngest, who acted as
spokesman for the duo, is Freddie
Douglas, and he's been in show
business nine years. His brother. Al
has been dancing fifteen years.
starting when he was about twelve.
1t was surprising, at least to me.
to see how different Freddie's per-
sonality was from the one he uses
on stage.
When they come on at the Apollo.
their dancing was good, they dress
appropriate and their comedy was
really funny So, naturally. ex-
pected a back-stage personality of
the same full-of-fun gestures. In
stead. I saw a nolie too cordial
snowman VINO greeted me with non
chalance and then sat and stared.
but evidently waiting for questios
to be shot his way. Very seldom did
he even smile. Maybe this is a new
way Co give out interviews!
From what could gather, both
he and Al are two boys devoted to
their work and who love dancing.