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Detroit evening times., 1943-06-25

She can seek the services of
a hair styliSt who Will know
what arrangement Will bring
out good features, shadow The
poor ones.
SkiIIful Makeup
Much can be done by SkllIful
makeup. The skin can be kept
Ia ton form -hl.- l+t.lll- ll,t----r--
work and regard for eating
habits
As for dress. there She has
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-25
nv HELEN FOLLETT

TT HAS happened often that
a plain woman has suddenly dis
covered good looks possibilities.
She has taken II for granted
that fate never intended that
she should stand in the beauty
chorus. She lacked symmetrical
features. bclbved that 10 be a
-rTdrTuTCdp. TT IS, IN a way, Dur
nobody notices tn EN- If the
woman has style, manner and
grace.
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-25
MUFFIN HINT

HALF A prune pressed into
the top OF each muffin before
baking makes them pretty TO
look at and extra good 10 eat.
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-25
Elsie Robinson
S~~---~---~--~-u--u-~----
Dawn Comes
For Women
On Ba+aan

SHE'S A tiny thing, this
1t. Juanita- Redmond, A. ~. G.,
whose book, Il Served on
Bataan," has just been published
by Lippincott. Looks more like
somebody's kid sister than one
OF those stout-hearted AmaZons
who fought beside our men in
the hell that was Bataan.
There you are-you big panty
waist!-trying to muster up
enough courage TO get through
those brief but dreadful pages.
Yet this stout-hearted scrap
lived it all, minute by minute
.. stumbling ankle-deep in
the blood, bone and mangled
meat OF bomb struck men /.
feeling her way through the
blackout TO the source of some
hidden groan gagging
against beastly stencil OF gas,
gangrene and pus.
Couldn't Stop
SpineS without heads. Torsos
without arms or legs. A lump
that whimpered, Nom! Oh
Nom" But you couldn't stop.
You had to keep going. Going
on. Not daring 10 look back.
Going on. though, from the first,
there'd been no hope. Fleeing
from Manila, watching Cavite
bombed staring, unceas-
ingly through the jungle'S
tunneled black kness for the
planes that never came. With
the food giving out. And the
m dicine failing. And the
bandages stiffening 10 bloody
crusts which they used again
and again.
You're not a nurse after
days like that You're not
woman even. You're just some
thing that moves. Drools.
Sprawls into instant. helpless
sleep beside the man who'd died
at last. Waking, blankly, try
ing 10 remember who or where
you are. Looking at the hand
you've held. Finding it was a
lepeTs.
Pictures OF Incredible horror.
Picture of unforgettable beauty.
10 hang forever against the
Spewn insanity OF night.
The Bombers Came
That Easter Monday morn
ing when the bomberS struck.
Planes overhead" somebody
yelled-but they'd heard that
call too often 10 feel much
alarm One moment she was
going on, pouring indications.
The next she was staggering 10
her feet--helping 10 carry the
first casualties. Pieces Of things
were dropping through the air.
Men trying, tonelessly, monoto-
nously. like a beaten child.
Another yell. They're very
near" Stiffness. Father Cum
Minis had come in. He was
standing in the middle Of the
shed where all the boys could
see him. He asked us TO repeat
the Lords Prayer with him.
Our Father Who art in
heaven far, very far away,
a bomb begins 10 fall. The
jungle seems 10 gulp that fall
ing shrek. The quiet voice goes
on Give us this day"
No Time for Quiefnen
The bomb has hit. 1t hits
the mess. the doctors and
nurses quarters. When the rip
and tearing sound of crashing
wood diminished. / could hear
shrieks of pain outside, the
helpless sobbing Of the men in
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-25
No Time Tor Cuietnsn

The bomb has hit. 1t hits
the mess. the doctors and
nurses quarters. When the rip
and tearing sound of crashing
wood diminished, / could hear
Shrieks of pain outside. the
helpless sobbing OF the men in
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
END CONSTIPATION
This NATURAL Way!
Millions now take Simple
Fresh Fruit Drink instead
of Harsh Laxatives!

It's lemon and water. Yes!-just
the juice of 1 Sunkist Lemon in a
glass of water-first thing on
arising.
Taken first thing in the morning,
this wholesome drink stimulates
bowel action in natural way
assures most people of prompt,
normal elimination.
Why not change to this healthf,l
habit? Lemon and water is good
for you. Lemons are among the
richest sources of vitamin c, which
combats fatigue, helps you resist
colds and infections. They also
supply B, and P. They alkalinize,
aid appetite and digestion. Lemon
and water has fresh tang, too
clears the mouth, wakes you up!
Try this grand wake-up drink
10 mornings. See if it doesn't help
you! Use California Sunkist
Lemons.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30

"Hargrove," said Simmons, twill
you please stop looking at my hair?
can't go ten feet without being
reminded to get haircut. As soon
as I can find a minute, I'll get it
cut"
"Are you really having a hard
time of it?" I asked him.
"Well, after that talk I got from
you before was inducted, thought
I would be going through hell for
the first three weeks. The way you
talked was terrifying, to say the
least. So I prepared myself for a
much rougher time than I'm really
getting.
''The drilling isn't bad at all. I
suppose my dancing has helped me
there. Anyway, even surprise my
self at it.
"But the getting up and dressing
in ten minutes! I'll never be able to
do it. Everything is all right until
it comes to the leggins. I struggle
with those things until I'm limp,
and I never do get them on in
time. Yesterday just tied them on
for reveille and sneaked back and
put them on properly later. I've
tried every way possible, but just
can't get anywhere with them"
"How are the fellows?" I asked
him. ''Nice bunch of boys?"
81 was surprised at them," he
said. People I've never seen be-
fore, and they all go out of their
way to help each other. When we
were first inducted, there were a lot
of fellows I'd seen possibly once or
twice before in my life and we all
acted as if we'd known each other
since we were babies"
"Then, too, I've already run
across some of the boys I know.
Johnny here is attached to our bat
terry for rations and quarters, and so
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The Questions

/. What war was being fought
when the "Star Spangled Banner"
was written?
2. The name Euclid calls to
mind the science of what?
8. Do radio waves pass through
wire as electrical waves do or
not?
4. When Lincoln was reelected
President in 1864, who was his op-
ponent?
5. A garrulous person is one
who does what?
6. What does the infantryman's
full personal equipment weigh?
7. What did the North American
Indians mean by the word "pem-
mican"?
8. When William the Conqueror
invaded England in 1865, he and
his troops were known as what?
9. What is the minimum age for
representatives in congress?
10. What new medal, rated be-
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
CHAPTER XI

It's enough to drive a man to
drink. You get ten-day furlough
and head for New York. You mooch
due bill on an ultra-swank hotel.
You say to yourself that for those
ten days you will be an all-out civil
ian, you will squander your sub
stance in rioutous living, you will
forget altogether the fact that you
are soldier. And then what hap
pens?
You wake up at six o'clock, no
matter how late you stay out the
night before. Then you can't go
back to sleep. You have to buy enor-
nous quantities of civilian food to
keep up with your Army appetite.
You look in shop windows and see
books you'd give your wisdom teeth
for, but you think of your purse in
terms of $36 a month and the inner
man convinces you that you can't
afford them.
You'd like very much to put on
your civilian clothes, just for a
change, but your friends think you
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is Buster Charnley. They do as
much as they can to show me the
ropes and help me along during this
awkward period"
''Well, Simmons" Johnny said,
''it's like they told you before you
came in. The Army will certainly
make a man of you. Look at Har-
grove there. He'd never done a
good days work in his life before
he got into the Army. Now he's the
potato-peeling champion of five reg
iments."
"Private Lisk," said coldly, "let
us not bring personalities into this. -
Fortunately, Miss Scarborough,
senior hostess of the Service Club,
passed by and I was able to yank
her into the company. The discus
sion was avoided.
-
Reading through the camp news
paper the other day, I noticed sto-
ries written by Pvt. T. Mulvehill,
Private Thos. Mulvehille, Pfc. Tom
Mulvehill, Thomas Mulvehiu (pfc. }
and various other authors whose
names bore startling resemblance to
Thomas Mulvehill, Pvt. or Pfc.
The collection of literary and
journalistic contributions to the Fort
Bragg Post were all marked by the
same flair for rhetoric, the true gift
of CAB, and a certain rich and gor-
geous sentimentality. In the midst
of factual story about a group Of
college girl choristers coming to
Fort Bragg for concert, the steady
journalistic strain would suddenly
burst into brilliant and majestic
phrases such as ''The Blankth Bat
talon recreation hall will burst into
golden sound next Tuesday nigh
when the angelic voices of thrill
lovely Zilch College young ladie.
present recital :" or "the Cen
erals little eight-year-old son, awed
by the solemnity of the occasion,
clung to his daddy's hand through
out the impressive ceremonies.
This is what is known as the Null
vehill Touch.
The Mulvehill Touch is supplied al
Fort Bragg by the Public Relations
Offices irrepressible and inirnit.
able whirling dervish, Black Tom
Mulvehill, fantastic and unbeliev.
able Irish tyro, who came from New
York City by way of Salt Lake City,
Utah. Mulvehin of the great head
and the shaggy locks, Mulvehill OF
the numbering walk, the man of a
thousand faces and a thousand
voices-Mulvehil is the Public Re
lations Offices one spark of true
glamour, our hope of Immortality.
Mulvehill is everywhere at all
times. Out of every hundred photo
graphs taken at Fort Bragg-offi.
cial or personal, professional or am
ateur-it is safe to say that the
flexible face of Private MulvehiIl
will beam out at you from ninety
five of them. Photographers have
no idea of how he gets into the
pictures, but a picture of any "Rec''
hall in the Center will show Mulve.
hill playing ping-pong. (He's the one
nearest the camera.)
Mulvehill's next greatest talent is
his ability to create wildness and
confusion at will. His desk drawers
bulge and spill great quantities oi
unrelated papers, old notes, news.
paper clippings, and weird personal
effects. His working schedule and
methods are chaotic and unfathor.
able. He can write six stories 4.
once, using every needed Typewriter
in the building.
~ 'TNUEDl
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30

fruits, its candies, and free clga-
rettes-was just another day to me.
Phooey to it.
Our mess sergeant, one Orville D..
Pope, was disgustingly cheerful
when he awoke me in the morning.
"Come, Private Hargrove," he
yelled gleefully, ''the Day is here!
Boy-o-boy, are we going to give those
hash hounds holiday treat!"
"Please go away" I said. "Just
go away and let me gently curse"
"Oh, Private Hargrove," he
crowed, "we have so much to be
thankful for. So very, very much!
We have food, and warmth, and
freedom!"
"Food, we've got" growled. SIN
cluding potatoes, with peelings to
peel. This is my 678th potato this
morning. I don't need coal for
warmth when I'm bathing myself in
sweat. And freedom? See, am
laughing bitterly! 1t is Thanksgiv-
ing Day and I am peeling pota-
toes and washing dishes for the
orgy. Phooey to Thanksgiving!"
Sollie Buchanan, the cook, who
was a student with me in Battery A,
strobe up humming that maudlin
old grammar-school song about
lover the river and through the
woods, to grandfather's house we
co."
''It is glorious day." drooled Pri-
vate Buchanan. ''It does my old
heart good to think of the expression
on those boys faces when they see
that Thanksgiving dinner"
"Repress yourself, Pappy," I
asked him. 'It is not to think of
the dinner I am thinking of the
sinks overfowing with dirty dishes
left by those gluttonous hogs. It
was not enough that we had trays
to wash. Now we have to have
improvements. Now we have to
have china plates. And cups. And
soup bowls. And silverware. hate
progress!"
"Better leave the lad alone, Pap
py," sighed Sergeant Pope. "He is
pouting and will not enter into the
spirit of the day. He has done wrong
and is paying for it now"
Private Buchanan and the mess
sergeant busted themselves at the
ovens. I sat there ferociously jab-
bing at potatoes and muttering
wildly. Three times I scowled at
the sergeant, but he wasn't looking.
Maury Sher, my bosom compan-
ion from the cooks battery, came
racing in through the back door.
Maury was slated to be transferred
to cooks job at Madison Barracks,
New York, and would be leaving the
following day.
eff you have come to extend the
seasons greetings, comrade," told
him YEARLY, ''kindly do not trouble
yourself. To paraphrase Dickens,
any fool who goes about with Happy
Thanksgiving on his lips should be
boiled in his own slumgullion and
buried with a CT breadstick in his
heart. Do not attempt to cheer me-"
'T'm not going to Madison Bar
racks" he shouted. "I'm staying
here. Right here in the Replace
ment Center! Pm going to be mess
sergeant in the antitank battery. A
mess sergeant!"
IA
was dawdling over huge choco-
late nut sundae the other night at the
Service Club cafeteria when John
ny Lisk walked in with someone
who was a dead ringer for Simmons
Jones of the Charlotte News staff.
Anyone who is a dead ringer for
Simmons Jones can't be anybody
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| SuOWS COChkdu
but Simmons Jones, I decided, so
I gave the low whistle. The two
saw me and came over.
It was Simmons, all right. He
looked as if the two things he needed
most at the moment were a haircut
and kind word of sympathy. He
had the look of utter futility known
only to those who have been in the
Army for less than ten days. Poor
Simmons was in bad shape.
"Well, boy" I asked him, show
do you like the Army? And you
don't need to lie about it."
ST don't think I'll ever get used
to it," he said. "I've been pushed
and crowded and yelled at for a
week now, and it doesn't get any
better. Maybe I was just born to
be a civilian"
"You should have seen Johnny
and me when we got in," ! told him.
That's been only four months ago,
and here we are being condescend-
ing and fatherly already. Them
were the days, weren't they, John
ny?"
Lisk sighed deeply. Simmons
don't know the trouble at ALL" he
said. ''When Hargrove and I had
been in three or four days, they
slapped us on KIP and almost killed
us first thing. Then, the next day,
they put the two of us to cleaning
and painting CT cans until past sup
per time"
Simmons knocked on wood. "Well,
they must have forgotten me. I've
been in the Army a week already
and I haven't been on KIP yet"
"You will, brother" said Johnny.
| "You will"
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Reached Only by Air

Wau, a gold-mining town in the
New Guinea mountains, lombard
ed by the Japs for months, is the
one Allied base that can be
reached only by air.
Since its founding in 1927, every
person and every article has been
flown in by plane, including
dredges, building materials, war
equipment, food and various ami
mails, even several race horses.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
Canada Issues Five-Cent
Piece Having IL Sides

Canada has issued a new FIVE
cent piece which is 12-sided rather
than round. 1t is definitely a vic
tory model and has already been
christened "Blackout. On its face
is the Roman V, symbolic of vic
tory and the torch of sacrifice.
Around the border appears this
telegraphic code: "We Win When
We Work Willingly"
Made of tombac alloy, this new
coin will save about go tons OF
nickel annually.
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|QhMQhM|Ha9
||U1h - IS

Handle fruits and vegetables
gently. Do not bruise.
Store berries, grapes and other
delicate fruits unwashed in a cold
place.
Common table salt is the best
cleanser for milk strainer. Rub
both sides of the strainer vigor-
ously with the salt.
To cut fresh bread, dip knife in
boiling water and slices may be
cut as thin as desired. A piece of
apple in the breadbox will keep
bread and cake fresh for days.
Soft water, or rain water, should
be used in the cooling system of a
tractor if possible, say agricul-
tural engineers. Hard water will
cause lime deposits on the walls of
the water jackets and in the cylin-
der head, and also in the radiator.
These deposits hinder the transfer
of heat and may cause serious
overheating of the engine.
A bit of wax rubbed on the bot
toms of rockers, will prevent them
marking even the glossiest of
floors.
A cloth dampened with vinegar
or coal oil and rubbed over the
windows before washing, will re-
move the smoky look.
After butchering and cooking all
the bone meat, there is always
much greasy broth left. This can
be canned. 1t is fine for seasoning
beans, green's, cabbage or other
foods. Save the broth for a day or
two, then put in pint jars in hot
water bath. Boil for 20 or 30 min
utes.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
Gems of Thought

The press is the best instru-
ment for enlightening the mind
of man, and improving him as
a rational, moral, and social
being.-Thomas Jefferson.
The soul of man is audible,
not visible.-LOngfellOw.
Trust no future, hotoe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act-act in the Huing Present!
Heart ,Uithin. and God o'erhead!
H. W. LONGFELLOW.
Employment, sir, and hard
ships, prevent melancholy
Samuel johnson.
It matters not how long you
live, but how weu.-Publius
Syrus.
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To Prosper and Live

To live, to work, to help and to
be helped, to learn sympathy
through suffering, to learn faith
by perplexity, to reach truth
through wonder,-behold; this is
what it is to prosper, this is what
it is to live!-Phillips Brooks.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30

cover the scalp ana
the winners end
which they lost a
year ago.
Here they are
l. Last fall, I'll
admit, we had them
badly underrated.
They were a better
ball club than we
expected to meet.
This time We'll be
set and ready"
3 HTha Cardinals
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
BdsebaII's Var Trip


Branch Hickey has the best all
around suggestion for baseball's pro-
posed all-star war tour that I have
run across.
His idea is to have two representa-
tive outfits from both big leagues
tour the home camps of the United
States with some form of pennant
emblem at stake-where each con-
test will be real game, fought to
the limit, and not an exhibition
scramble that will mean nothing to
anyone, including the camps and
the ballplayers.
There are heavy handicaps in the
way of Transporting any teams over
seas. For instance:
1. The weather. England is now
out on this account and North Al
RIGA soon reaches her rainy season.
2. Scarcity of suitable ball parks
where a first-class game can be
played.
8. The competitive spark that
means action and not exhibitions.
This leaves Australia as the only
available spot and this would be a
doubtful tour. Australia is a long
way off, needing more fighting men,
planes and supplies than baIlplay-
erS.
whats the matter with supply
ing entertainment and recreation to
the millions of service men we have
at homer" Mr.. Hickey asks.
'tMost of these men are camped
far from home. They could also
use entertainment and recreation.
"But it would have to be the real
stuff. No mere exhibition Offering
would ever get by. These troops
know what real baseball is and they
wouldn't stand for anything but the
best type of competition.
eff such a series was played a
complete record of all games should
be kept with the club standings car
ried. Also there should be some
form of emblem or trophy to be
awarded"
I agree with Branch Hickey. I
doubt that any overseas exhibition
would work out. 1t would be better,
for overseas work, to use such men
as Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Walter
Johnson, Frank Frisch and others
well known wherever the old flag
flies.
The Master Motion
Carl Hubbel is still talking about
Walter Johnson's pitching motion.
johnson must be around 81
now," he said. "But when I saw
him warming up with Bresnahan
and pitching to Ruth few days ago
he might have been around %. What
impressed me was the free and easy
motion of his arm. As you get
older, especially after you've passed
40, the old wing begins to tighten up.
1t must be worse after so. But not
for Walter. He still has a pretty
fair share of the old speed Left
Turning Rabbits
You'll find the football map stud
ded with upheavals this season.
Many former football hamlet, sud-
denly reinforced with navy students,
will at least have its chance against
classic gridiron names. Small col
leges are pitted against great uni
| versities. The worm will turn-and
so will the rabbit. As the late Mr..
Gray, the poet, might have put it
Full many a back will no more
buck unseen
And waste his rushes on the
sank-town air.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30

THE STORY so FAR: Private Marion
Hargrove, former feature editor of a
North Carolina newspaper, has been In
Quoted into the army and Is receiving
his basic training at Fort Bragg. He has
been classified as a cook and this coupled
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
See Here,
Private Huf'grove!
bu Marion HurQrove ..xs;e.

with his frequent assignment to KIP have
made him quite familiar with the Com
pany kitchen. He has also learned lot
about the finer points Of "goldbricking"
and of other favorite soldier pastimes.
He has learned all of the popular army
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
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l6oil!!li3I 4

A YANKEE veteran was talking
"A about the next world series with
the Cardinals.
The veteran gave me three rea-
sons for picking the Yankees to re-
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slang expressions. He has become wen
acquainted with a number Of other
roolsies-as the first training period draws
toward its close this gang starts to break
up. Hargrove himself is just starting
his first ten-day furlough.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30
The Ansuers

/. The War of 1872.
2. Mathematics.
3. No, they pass along the out
side of wire.
4. Gen. George B. Mcclellan.
5. Talks much.
6. Sixty three pounds, eight
ounces.
7. Dried meat.
8. Normans (from Normandy.
9. twenty-five.
10. The Legion of Merit, awarded
to members of the armed forces
for exceptionally meritorious con-
duct in the performance of out
standing services.
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Oldest Assembly

The parliamentary assembly of
Iceland is lob years old, the old
est in the world.
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30

Party FrOck
YOU'LL look so charming and
1 feel so cool in this lovely frock
with eyelet embroidered yoke.
Perfect junior fashion.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1766-B de-
signed for sizes II, 13, Is, II and 10. Cor
responding bust measurements %. 81, 33.
IS and 81. Size 13 (31), short sleeves, re-
quires 314 yards 39-inch material; IS yard
eyelet embroidery.
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tween the Silver Star and the Dis
tinguished Service medal, is be-
ing awarded to our servicemen?
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have suffered much heavier losses
than the Yankees have. The three
men that fed us poison last fall were
Johnny Beazley, Terry Moore and
Country Slaughter. Pollet would
have bothered us a lot. We've lost
DiMaggio and Ruffing, while Etten
has filled up Buddy Hassett's spot.
Beazley, Moore and Slaughter could
make a big difference.
8. with Spud Chandler working
as he is, with Bonham and Wens-
loft ready, we'll have big edge in
pitching. Chandler is hard for any
team to beat. Against this Mort
Cooper has never been good throw
ing at our league. Cooper is a
strong, winning pitcher. But he's
sure to remember what happened in
his four American league crashes. !"
The Ely miner., 1943-09-30

Matched ensemble
RUILD your fall wardrobe
- around jumper and jacket!
This princess cut jumper fits with
f1attering, slim lines; the jacket
is shaped to minimize your waist
line.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1821-B is de-
signed for sizes 10, II, IA, 16, 18, 20. Cor
responding bust measurements %, 80, 80,
"a, SO, SO. Size IL (30) ensemble, with
long sleeves, requires 42s yards 39-inch
material.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions, slightly more
time is required in filing orders for a
few of the most popular pattern numbers.