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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1943-01-13

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uns penigItens nidt auf sic Siibner-
eugen fallen fann.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1943-01-13
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tes?
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fei1 anoer 0rellOe iiber bic Hanfen
unb 8lnmen, momit bie 2egenbe bas.
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rem gegeniiberitanoen, benl l1num-
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ct. 5. g.-8.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1943-01-13
Sbereie Nenmanns Standardization

SIN &onnersreutber Sabrbud bat
Sitter bon 2ama Die @eibnabtspiiion
Der begnaoeten Ebereie Neumanl1, Der
itigmatiiierten sSlngfrau bon &onners=
reutb, in folgenoen &orten aufge=
sei6net:
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Sbereie Neumann allm erIten Oealc
Die 0eibnn6tspilion.
Sn Ebereiens 3immer befano iid1
ibr 8ater unb las, iiber Sen @offi11,
gebiidt, bas misunderstanding.
Sbereie borte id)meigeno 5l1. gs tpar
Gin 8reitag 1nb ite NOR bon Der Bai
iionsefltaie eri60pft. ga braden oie
@lofen Ser 8anolung oas Sbtpeigen,
oas iiber Dem Dorfe lag. gs ipar ellie
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gerlorenbeit.
Hl0blib i6redte Sbereie alts ibrenl
Sinbriiten altf. Sic slugen iparen ge=
offnet 1no blidten in oie Serne, ipie
bon einem 3auber gebannt. Gin lau
Ter 9fuf lbrefte oen Gater altf uno
9bereie erbob 1t6 int 8ett in balG
iisel1oe Stellltng. 60 blieb lie lange
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ber. Sic ipnBte allnd6lt bon l1idts,
ipeber bon @eibnabten nod bonn 81.
slbero nod bon Ser Gbriltnette. Grit
als Ser Bfarrer iaete: uDas Gbrilt-
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oas gbriltfino gepeien!'
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ten @eiie bes Sirtenliebes in Ser
Na6t Ser gottlihen @ebllrt entltron1t.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1943-01-13

Ser ein5ige fatbolil6e Yrieiter, Ser
einit einen Sit inn &ongreb innebattc,
tpar Sobw. Bater Gabriel Stidaro,
S.S., bon 0etroit. Seine Statue
itebt nabe Dem 3ugane sur Belle SSsle,
8riide III Detroit, in Ser geGbe, ipo
CT Dor mebr als 100 Sabren feline er.
ite fl. Meiie gefeiert bat. -.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1943-01-13
Nenes &lei6

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gen 8irfe,1tpalo.
uSeoer Baum .befonmt inn sSriib=
iabr elm neues &leib, 2ieblter."
Der Mann meutert: uSSSo, ct mod)t
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1943-01-13

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Sic neue nllnmebr Der. Gollenbung
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bon 2ongnieip, Seras, bis Morrls
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1943-01-13
Gin @obnnngsinIer

Stiae Sanilie ipiinl6t cine 9rei-
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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26

ISIllly Mllh pIOBI dlll IL q real
community project of which the
county can be justly proud.
Following is list of contribu-
tors since the list was published
on Jan. 13:
MONTHLY DONATIONS
Lions $25
ST Vincent DePaul 5
Knights of Columbus 5
Wilson PTA 5
Lincoln PTA S
Lady Margaret Knitting
Group / /
Lady Margaret Knitting
Group 2 1
Kings Daughters Circles:
In His Name Circle l
Whatsoever Circle 1
Shining Star
Girls Own I
Golden Rule 1
Ever Onward 1
Silver Lining I
United Workers
FLAT GIFTS
Creative Writing Club
(MCHS)
VIEW Auxiliary 10
FideliS Circle of Zion
Church
Trinity Mems Club
Young Women's Epis-
copal League s
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Sa|ad-B Bridge
.P ans Complete

PLANS for the ST. Patrick ;
salad bridge on Tuesday, March
9. were completed yesterday at
the meeting of Margaret Bot
tome Circle of Kings Daughters
held at Mrs. Howard Groat's
home.
Mrs. David Rouleau is chair
man of the event, to which the
public is invited. Her commit
tee includes Mrs. Edward Du-
prey, Mrs. Edward c. Caster,
Mrs. Julia Huebner, Mrs. John
Jachow, Mrs. Emma Rucker,
Mrs. c. Edward Willert, Mrs
Oscar Watz, and Mrs. Anthony
Ullrich.
Already 20 tables have been
reserved for the party. which
is to begin at 100 o'clock.
Mrs. Wayne Adair was wei.
coined as a new member al. the
meeting yesterday, when a
"bakeless bake sale" was held
members contributing money ir
lieu of holding the sale. Mrs
Willert gave a group of readings
Next meeting will be March IL
with Mrs. Martin Hoffman.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26

Banquet Set

TUESDAY, March 2 is the
date for the annual Father-and-
Son Banquet in the Presbyterian
church parlors.
Since so many young men are
In service, the event will be
known as Mems and Boys BAN
quet, and the men of the church
are urged to invite boys who
otherwise would not be able to
attend.
The feature of the evening
will be magic by Guy Stanley,
preceded by short talks and
musical numbers by local tai
ent. Mr.. Harold West will lead
the singing, accompanied by Miss
Pansy Bell. The men of the
church are sponsors with the
dinner, to be served by men,
bers of the Philathea Glass.
Reservations must be made in
advance by calling Charles
Mikelait or Robert Beal. Din
ner will be served at $50 pm.
MRS. AUGUST MILLER en-
tertained the St. Louis Holly
hook Club yesterday afternoon,
with five daughters and two
daughters-i n-law as guests. They
were Mrs. Robert Miller, Mrs.
Mark Smith and son Michael,
Mrs. Frank Martin and Mrs.
Clarence Miller of Mount Glenn
ems, Mrs. Harold Steinmetz of
Marine City; Mrs Frank For
gette and Mrs. Robert Jump
Of Detroit, Mrs. Henry LaCroix
will be hostess March 3.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Congratulations

ROBERT DUPREY, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Duprey of 81
Leonore street, who is II years
old today.
ARON LEE SHOUP,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Roger
Shoup of 102 Grand avenue,
whose sixth birthday was FRI
day.
BARBARA JEAN PARK,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
A. Park, Harrington road, who
is eight years old today. Bar
bara will entertain her little
school friends from 3 to 5 o.
clock Saturday afternoon at the
home of her grandmother, Mrs.
Merritt M. Willmarth, ITO South
Wilson boulevard.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26

LIEUT.. AND MRS. ROBERT
WILLIAM YOUNGER DEITY
Jane Walters), who announce
the arrival of a daughter Linda
Jean, born this morning in st.
Joseph's hospital. Mrs. Young
er who has three brothers in the
armed forces, is making her
home for the duration with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Walters, Grand avenue. Her
husband, who enlisted in the U.
S. Army Air Force in l940, IS
on foreign duty.
CORP. HAROLD WICK, who
is stationed at Camp Maxey,
Tex, on his 21st birthday ami
versary today. He is the son of
William Wick of 9 Cross street.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Service Staff Writer

DESIGNERS certainly have
spared the bolt in making spring
clothes, and, lady, the dresses
won't spoil fine feminine form
but neither will they hide your
figure faults. This fact, together
with the new necessity for wear
ing out last springs clothes
which may not fit figure that
has expanded during fall and
winter, inspires renewed popu-
larity for dieting.
Why don't you try it, If you
can't get into your favorite
clothes? Everybody knows about
dieting. 1t does require power of
will and it does do the job. Fifth
Avenue salons accent sane and
sound dieting, usually combined
with exercise and supervised by
a physician, in home care beau
ty training courses. One of the
leading houses starts you off on
its five ebay wonder course by
sending you to a woman staff
physician who checks your
measurements and physical con-
dition, and if a diet is necessary,
makes up an individual one for
you.
If you possibly can, see your
physician before embarking on
a home dieting course designed
to take off any large amount OF
weight. However, if you are in
good health you will not be
harmed by eating less, and also
eating all the necessary foods.
There is one diet, for instance,
which takes off an average of
two pounds a week, and may
lop off four pounds il combined
with exercise. And yet it con-
tains all foods essential for wo-
man who does desk job, or one
requiring equivalent expendi-
ture of energy. The menus con-
tain meat on six days; you may
safely substitute lean fish like
sole or haddock. Here's what you
eat:
Breakfast every day: " grape
fruit; slice Melba toast, cof-
fee or tea.
First Day
Lunch: Fresh fruit salad with
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Recent Contributors
to Project Listed Today

EVERY SCHOOL in the city
Of Mount Clemens is now COW
cred by the Penny Milk pro-
gram. Grade schools are nearly
100 percent Penny Milk drink
ers, and in Mount Clemens
High school the daily consump-
ton of one-half pint bottles of
milk has risen from $50 to 1900.
Organization in the high
school was more difficult than
in the grade school. 1t was ex-
pedited by the efficient help of
Civilian Defense Nutrition work
ers under the direction of Mrs.
c. Harry Malbin, who distribute
the milk, and of Francis Rallen-
tine, who manages the general
milk schedule. The program is
now running smoothly, consum-
ing a minimum of school time.
The whole-hearted participa-
ton of students, parents, and
teachers is evidence of their APP
probation of the community
effort.
MONTHLY TESTS
DR.. William Kane, Mount
Clemens Health Officer, is pro-
curing monthly tests of the milk
used in the schools. Procured
from the four diaries paying To-
cal taxes, the milk of the three
local diaries is found to contain
more than $50 butterfat, and
under 10000 bacteria count. The
fourth dairy operates under De-
troit examination regulations.
The Milk Fund Committee
headed by Miss Margaret Nc
Call. school nurse, today thank
ed the many local clubs who
have so generously given finan-
cial assistance. BY their help the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Clemens School NowBene PennyMk Program
Red Cross Drive
in Chesterfield

DISTRICT CHAIPMEN Of the
Red Cross War Fund Drive for
Chesterfield township were 10
meet this afternoon with their
general chairman, Mrs. Vernon
Kerwin, to complete plans for
the drive which opens Monday.
The district chairmen are
Mrs. c. H, Meyers, Mrs. Joseph
Rahbine. Mrs. Leo Blakeley,
Mrs. Arthur Swain, Mrs. Sus-
ana Smith and Mrs. Gary Lor-
enZ.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Calendar ofConing Events
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26
ANNUAL PAST NATIONS and Past Patrons dinner and
celebration of 44th birthday of OES, in Masonic hall,
at $50
I. O. O. F., initiation in Barron hall, at
PUBLIC CARD PARTY Trinity Lutheran seheolr-Spon.
sored by the January February and March Birthday
Group of Ladies Aid, at p.
PRESBYTERIAN Choir practise the church, at 1880 m.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY q
JUNIOR MACCABEES, pdancng and meeting in Barron
hall at p. m.
DANCE at Masonic Service Center, at $50 p. m.
PUBLIC DANCE in Dopps Hail. Waldenburg, sponsored by
United Dairy Farmers at $50
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transferred
Board Meeting

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the
Kings Daughters will meet at
the Home at 230 o'clock on
Monday.
LOIS LINDSEY is expected
home from Dennison University,
Granville, o., to spend the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Lindsey.
MRS. ERVING SIMMS, 1929
Clinton River road, entered ST.
Joseph's Mercy Hospital, De-
troit, yesterday for an operation
today.
CLARETTA ANN JOCK, 49,
year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Jock of 9 Fessen-
den street, underwent an emer-
gency appendectomy at st. JOS
eph's hospital yesterday after
noon.
MIR. AND MRS. JOHN K.
ULLRICH are entertaining their
supper club tonight at the Me-
dea.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Spring Clothes are ScantX
Diet TO Ease Figure Faults

lemon juice, l tbs. cotta & e
cheese, Melba toast.
Supper: carts of lettuce with
lemon juice, l cup clear soup,
2 broiled lamb chops (no fat J.,
Julienne carrots, string beans,
Melba toast.
Second Day
Lunch: Mixed green salad
with lemon juice, slice Melba
toast.
Supper: Pineapple juice. cup
clear soup, broiled fish, stewed
tomatoes, spinach, Melba toast,
" grapefruit.
Third Day
Lunch: Fresh fruit salad with
lemon juice, ! tbs. cottage
cheese, Melba toast.
Supper: Small tomato salad
with lemon juice, cup clear
soup, roast beef, beets, broccoli,
fresh fruit cup, Melba toast.
Fourth Day
Lunch: Salad bowl of grated
raw vegetables with lemon juice,
cream cheese balls, M b a
toast.
Supper: Small romaine salad
with lemon juice, cup clear
soup, calves liver, / grilled to-
mato, peas, apple juice Gum
sweetened).
Fifth Day
Lunch: Fresh pineapple salad
with 2 tbs. cottage cheese, two
slices Melba toast.
Supper: Celery hearts and
radishes, l cup clear soup, ten
derloin steak, carrots, spinach,
" grapefruit.
Sixth Day
Lunch: Hot vegetable plate
Ono potatoes or rice), l slice
Melba toast, l raw apple.
Supper: Small cucumber sa-
lad, lemon juice, cup clear
soup, 2 lamb chops Ono fat), new
cabbage lightly boiled), lima
beans (small portion), fruit COM
pote.
Seventh Day
Lunch: Tomato juice, l cup
clear soup, celery hearts and
crisp carrot fingers, n broiled
chicken, cauliflower, fruit cup.
Supper: Mixed green salad
with lemon Juice, 2 slices Melba
toast, small square cream cheese.
Bedtime every evening: One
glass milk or fruit juice.
MRS. WALTER ALLOR en-
tertained members of the Car
nation club of st. Louis parish,
with five guests, last evening.
Card prizes were won by Mrs.
Fred Rickert, Mrs. George
Ballantine, and Mrs. Ludwig
Gruenauer. Mrs. Arthur Esch-
enburg will be hostess March
IL.
MRS. WALTER MELDRUM
was hostess to members of the
ST. Louis Lily club last night,
card prizes going to Mrs. Her
man Rick, Mrs. George Tebo,
Mrs. Glenn Rick and the host
ess. Mrs. Solomon Deachard
will entertain the group on
March 4.
GARY LEE JASMUND, five
year-old son of Mrs. Geraldine
Jasmund of AZ Hollywood court,
is convalescing from a tonsillect-
orny performed Wednesday.
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7 transferred

PAUL WESTENDORF, petty
officer, third class, USNR, has
been confined at the Naval Hos
pital at Portsmouth, Va. for the
past two weeks with a severe
bronchial condition, which will
keep him there at least two more
weeks.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26

Promoted

MIR. AND MRS. FRANK PRE-
VOST of North avenue, have re-
ceived word that Pvt. Mack Pre-
vost, who was indicted into the
army three months ago, has been
promoted to the rank of corpor-
al, at Camp Adair, Ore.
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Visits Husband

Visits Husband
MRS. RUSSELL F. SALOT
left this afternoon for San Diego,
Calf. to visit Lieut.. Commander
Salot, who has returned from a
tour of duty at sea.
Promoted
PVT. LEONARD H. BAT
KINS, who is stationed at Camp
Maxey, Tex. has recently been
promoted TO the rank of private
first class. He entered service
Nov. %, 1912. and lived at SD
Ahrens street, where his wife
and son are still making their
home.
Transferred
PVT. RAY ROCKER, who has
been stationed at Chanute Field,
Rantoul, H., is now stationed
at Ypsilanti, Mich.
III in Hospital
PAUL WESTENDORF, petty
officer, third class, USNR. has
been confined at the Naval Hos
pital at Portsmouth, Va. for the
past two weeks with severe
bronchial condition, which will
keep him there at least two more
weeks.
Graduates
CORP. PAUL GIAMMARIN-
AFRO, son of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Giammarinaro, 325 Euclid ave-
nue., was graduated from the
Fort Crook Ordnance Automo-
tive school, Fort Crook, Nebr.
recently, according to an army
release received today.
Promoted
MIR. AND MRS. FRANK PRE-
VOST of North avenue, have re-
ceived word that Pvt. Mack Pre-
vost, who was indicted into the
army three months ago, has been
promoted to the rank of corpor-
al, at Camp Adair, Ore.
Now q Captain
CAPT. ALFRED A. BLOM-
BERG, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
A. Blomberg of Route 3, Mount
Clemens has been promoted
from the rank of lieutenant ac-
cording to word received today.
Capt. Blomberg, a graduate of
Mount Clemens High school, at
tended Detroit Institute of
Technology and Wayne Univer-
sity and was graduated "cum
laude' from the Detroit College
of Law in June, 1941. He was
admitted to the Macomb County
Bar Association on Aug. 10,
1941, and practised law in Mount
Clemens, as an associate of Ray
H. Callens, until November of
the same year when he was ac-
copied as a flying cadet in the
u. S. Air Force. After flight
training at Randolph Field.
Tex, he received his wings and
commission at Brooks Field,
Tex, on May 20, 1912, and is
now stationed at Myrtle Beach,
S. c., as assistant group opera
tions officer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
In California

IN AOIlIOrnIO
PVT. JAMES RANDOLPH,
who entered service on Feb. 5. is
now stationed with the Signal
Corps at Camp Youngs, Calf.
He is the l9-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. R. S. Randolph, 1919
Moross avenue.
Transferred
PVT. KENNETH w. HAIR
DER, USAAF, has been trans
ferred from jefferson Barracks,
Mo. TO Charlottesville, Va. He
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Harder, ia Clemens street
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X Ukh the Color, X

EDITORS NOTE; For reasons Of Sc
snrity and because Of lack Of space, full
addresses Of those In the armed forces
cannot be printed In this column.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-26
Check Mp

FIRST STEP to beauty in 1943
clothes: measure to determine
how much excess flesh comes
off with dieting and exercising.
Here, a physician checks before
drawing up individual menus.
Evening star., 1943-04-22
Attock- Vengeance! The Story Of Torpedo

| until finally leveled the night OF
October 13.
The airfield ran pretty much from
east to west and plunged headlong
into jungle at either end. To the
south, the soggy, densely overgrown
earth heavedd upward like an ami
NAL into mounds and ridges and
hills and finally into full -bosomed
stony mountain range 5000 feet high.
In the mountain range shacks,
sluices and shafts that looked like
mine working could be picked out
with glasses and the story the men
heard at once and heard through all
the days of fighting that followed
was that this was actually gold
mine run by Australians. When the
JapS had landed on Guadalcanal, the
Australians and their native labor
had been cut off from escape. But,
while they couldn't get to the sea to
escape because of the Japs, the Japs
couldn't get to them without con-
siderable difficulty because Of the
terrain. So the Australians. with
out anything better to do, had SIM
ply gone on taking gold out of the
mountain and piling it up. They
were not sure whom they were pill
ing 1t up for and were not yet sure,
even after the Americans had land
ed, so they just went on taking it
out of the earth and piling it up,
work being very handy thing. to
have to do when trouble is around.
To the south Of the airfield was
coconut grove, about mile wide
and ending on the shore of that
nearly round basin Of water between
Guadalcanal and Tulagi which had
already started earning it's names Of
Iron Bottom Bay" and "Sleepless
Lagoon"
At night, Guadalcanal, even at it's
most peaceful, looked ominous.
There were so many men there and
they were all SO quiet. They lived
in holes and in tents beside their
guns and they all seemed to be hold
ing their breath, even when they
were not. There was a simple rea-
son for this. Men habitually spoke
in low tones on Guadalcanal and
even laughed in low tones because
everybody knew how important the
sleep of others was, not only to the
men sleeping but to those around
them. For on Guadalcanal, more
than on any other place on earth
Evening star., 1943-04-22

realize on any sea victories he might
achieve so he broke off his attempts
to gain them. And that was enough
for us in the very desperate days
of 1912 when our Navy had had its
back thrown up against the wall at
the outset and had to fight from
there with fingers instead of fists
Arrive Too Late.
Late in the afternoon of August
%, Sunday, a search plane radioed
a report that Jap ships were only
275 miles away from our force. Our
planes got into the air at once
among them six from Torpedo
with Swede leading, but by the time
they got to the designated area 1t
was almost dark and no ships could
be seen. The weather threw the
planes around and hid the sea more
often than not. The planes searched
until it was too late to go back to
the carrier. Night landings on a
carrier are not anything man
makes unless he had to, and this
time, because we held Guadalcanal
the planes did not have to.
They headed, instead, for Hen
derson Field and became among
the first American squadrons to use
Guadalcanal for the purpose for
which it was taken-as an unsink-
able aircraft carrier anchored in the
throat of Japan's South Pacific con-
quests.
The first time Swede saw what
was to become 1925 most famous
airport, Henderson Field, it looked
to him like a strip of lumpy tape an
inch wide and five inches long
Landing lights were sputtering along
it's edge. They consisted of Jap
mineral water bottles filled with oil
and rags that had been set on fire.
The earth of the airfleld was soft
and muddy and a brownish black.
1t had been a grassy plain before the
Japs had leveled it off and high,
wiry grass still lay in patches be-
tween installations. There was a
mound on the edge of the field,
about midway down it's length, with
a crazy looking house set crafty on
its top. Everybody called the house
the Pagoda and, although the Japs
shot at it lot and it sagged and
tilted after every bombing and she'll
ing, becoming more Pagodaed with
each conclusion, it was to remain
there in all its shuddery bleakneSs