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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
JACK PICKERING

EDITORS NOTE-Pvt. Pick
srins. former Times eoiumnist.
Is an infantryman at Fl. Me.
Cisiian, Ala. These writings ars
excerpts from his letters to
friends at the office.
THE first day back in the fort
l. they always have little
present" for you. at least in
this company, and / guess it
holds true a lot of other places,
too. They make you CO.
When / was home I men,
toned the job of CO to several
people and they didn't know
what l was talking about. ! had
thought that il was a job that
everybody knew about, civilian
or otherwise, like K. p.
An army unit never goes fully
to sleep. When everybody else
is sleeping there's still one man
on duty. and that is the CO, or
charge of quarters"
You report for duty at $50 in
the afternoon-that's the hour
at which training ends in the
field. You take over the orderly
room, replacing the company
clerk and the first sergeant,
who theoretically go off duty,
although in practice they both
usually have enough work so
that they have to finish it up in
the evening.
The COS job is to answer the
telephone, pass on orders or
messages, see that the men 60
ing out on pass are properly
dressed and that they sign out
oh, you know the sort of rou-
tine that goes on forever in the
army.
Then you answer the various
questions that come up-when
will the supply room be open?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

What do I do about my
rifle that i broke i? gotta head
ache; may ! have some aspirin?
SOMEHOW the CO manages
~ TO keep busy all evening
until 10 o'clock and then you
puff up your lungs and 60 out
and start shouting. It's Lights
out. Turn your damned lights
out. Hey, you guys. somebody
else wants to sleep. Turn 'em
OUT And pretty soon the whole
company area is dark and quiet.
except for the day room. You
leave that open another hour.
Then you close it. The only
light in camp is the one that
keeps burning all night long in
the orderly room, and the light
in the latrine.
Well, then, the duty officer
has a job TO do. and you help
him. It's bed check, and you
take a flashlight and look into
. every blessed hutment in the
area, making sure that every
bed is occupied, that every rifle
rack is locked.
You've already carried your
mattress and blankets to the
orderly room and you make
your bed on the floor. When
bedcheck is finished, you can
catch some sleep yourself. It's
perhaps 11:30 or possibly mid
night.
Ordinarily you sleep until
about 4 in the morning. 1t was
just my luck e. catch CO this
particular NOR eng. Company B
was going out on the range
early. so they asked us to lend
them some kPs, to be at work
at $50 a. m. That meant wax
ing these men at 3, and that
meant that the CO had to get
up a bit earlier than that.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

said the major, It'll put II on .
horse for you tomorrow"
The horse won. Spooner got
$50.
Editors who tried checking
the rumor that j. Dorsey's for
mer vocalist. Helen O'Connell.
was dividing from her BRIDE
groom wasted time. Not true.
pals say.
Mrs. Lucille Burton, attrac-
tive mother of Patricia Loner-
gan murdered by her husband).
Is making appearances in public
again.
This is Friendship: James j.
Walker, former mayor, has
moved in with DR.. T. Knappen
at the latter's L. /. estate. Both
were married to the late Betty
Compton. 3
The Encyclopedia Britannica
has invited S. Billingsley TO do
its article on night clubs.
.
THE Duke of Windsor wrote
l. his first letter to publica-
ton (American Mercury to
complain Of statements about
the duchess. The mag publishes
the letter in its next and doesn't
recant.
1t. Buzz Meredith refers to
his wife as p. G. Paulette being
the boss. apparently.
Robert Lochrie. ex- flight
leader OF the Flying Tigers lin
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

This opinion is expressed
by Lieutenants l.. A. Pennington
and r. J. Mearin as the result
of study of 1000 recruits.
They found one out of four had
this habit, and in a significant
percentage of cases the nail
biters were inconsistent, ire
sponsible and usually nervous,
especially if they showed anger
when their attention was called
to the habit. Our new booklet,
THE NEW EASY WAY TO
CURE BAD HABITS, shows
how 10 knock out any bad habit.
Sent at cost, 10 cents, plus 3
cents stamped self-addressed
envelope.
PIT is terribly dangerous to
the future of your personality.
Many young people funk in
school, even children in the
grades, because both they and
their parents have set goals too
high for them. As a result they
oftep go through life with a
lack of self-confidencc. This is
especially trueNwhere slow learn
ers are put with fast learners.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
II W UAuYDu~yC On the
lie . 1DO10AA4VO Side

DEMEMBER that great
IL handicap horse, Can't Wait.
owned by Myron Selznick, the
Hollywood actors agent?
This noble animal was named
after Rosalind Russell. who was
one of Selznick's clients.
Every time MIR. Selznick
would inform Miss Russell he
would let her know definitely
about an engagement In an hour
or a day or a week she would
snap: Cant wait"
So he called her Cant Wait"
Russell and eventually named
the aforementioned horse after
her.
DEEM doing some necessary
- travelling lately and this has
resulted in some interesting ex-
periences, one of which is sleep
ing In an upper berth.
May not be so complicated for
an average sized fellow but for
a six-foot-two boy like myself it
can become a trial.
Especially when travelling on
the antiquated equipment of the
railroads of the deep South.
One early morning / was pull
ing on my pants, or trousers as
we say in Brooklyn, In an upper
berth when the engineer sud-
denly applied the brakes:
I won't bore you with the
tragic details. You can imagine
them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

MADAME FRANCES PER-
NA KINS. the keen and dis
corning secretary OF labor. held
an "imponderable" press confer
ence the other day.
Madame Perkins revealed she
is having difficulty planning for
the postwar period because
there are too many "imponder-
ables."
She must find this a great
affliction and only hope she
can do something before it
becomes chronic.
Madame Perkins, unfortu-
nately, is not alone IN her
travail. She has many fellow
sufferers here in Washington.
People are being taken down
with acute imponderability
right and left.
I thought seriously for a time
of endowing a bed for victims
of imponderosis. as / have
named the ailment. But T re-
Trained from going through with
il because the bed, unques-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
ONE of the most serious post
" war tasks will be to get the

" war tasks will be to get the
government out Of business.
Private enterprise cannot
compete with government enter
prise supported by taxes, par
ticuiariy as government enter
prise is neither restricted by
the projections Of standard
methods of accountancy nor
restrained by the laws which
Congress imposed upon private
corporations. SEC does not
apply to government corpora
tons.
In 1880, there were 10 govern
ment corporations. today there
are "a. II other federal agencies
which function like government
corporations are included. there
are today SIS governIrent-owned.
controlled and managed enter
prises competing with its own
citizens engaged in private en-
terprise. These SIS agencies have
a combined capital of So. 236,-
619.S42 and a cumulated deficit
of S.. 2S4. 191 ,744. Their borrow
ing power as of March 81, 1914
(the latest figure), was $50, 207.-
o17,o57.
THIS is a vast economic en-
l. pire whose losses are made
UP by taxes, whose activities
cover wide ranges in agriculture,
commerce, industry. banking.
insurance, real estate, shipping
and other fields They operate
anywhere in the world and on
terms not open 10 private enter
\prise. Government corporations
fare not hampered by the usual
regulations protecting the pub
lie. In fact. they function wit
out any control but that OF the
heads appointed by the Presi-
dent. so that they approach the
extremes of corporate independ-
ence now forbidden private en-
terprise altogether.
1t is difficult 10 discover. in
some instances, what right these
government corporations have
to exist and TO spend the peo-
pies money. Once govern
ment corporation is started. il
Is mighty hard 10 wind il up
even when its business has come
TO an end. The u. S. Spruce
Production Corp. has been in
liquidation for a quarter of a
century. yet, somehow il con-
tinues on.
DRIVATE enterprise cannot
i meet the competition of gov
eminent agencies whose losses
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
BEHIND THE News
-By Paul Mallon-

Burma; that the reinforcements
released from Europe will take
a couple of months to get
around to Asia; that Russia
cannot be of much help before
spring, but particularly this
the extinction of the bulk Of the
Jap army strewn through north
ern, central and southern China
must take at least year from
the conclusion of the European
hostilities, even if Jap power is
definitely broken earlier by &C.
cupation of Japan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

WISDOM teeth are vestigial
w structures, but they don't
know il.
We don't need them, but they
insist on climbing aboard and
only too often. like extra pas
sengers generally, they make
trouble.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, I
think il was, said that We are
each like an omnibus in which
all of our ancestors are riding
and every once in while one
Of them sticks his head out OF
4 window and embarrasses us.
So with these veshgial struc-
ures-the appendix and pos
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
Brain Game Answers

George III.
22(a) is correct. It is an Ital-
ian paste in the same class
as macaroni, spaghetti and
noodles.
3To jettison the cargo.
4-(a) True.
5-North.
6-(b) is correct.
Ancient gods: Tuesday for
Tiw, Germanic god of battle;
Wednesday for Wooden, chief
of the Germanic gods; Thurs
day for Thor, the Morse god;
Friday, Frigg's Day for a
Germanic goddess. and Sat-
urday for the Roman god
Saturn.
S-No. In travelling down the
Malay peninsula it would
have been necessary for you
to cross a part Of Thailand
or Siam. Z
Copyright. 1914. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

sibly the tonsils are other
examples, Of value only to un-
dertakers and surgeons.
They are as out of date as
dodo birds and fascists.
A hundred thousand years
from now wisdom teeth may be
really vestigial, like human
tails.
AS a matter of common sense
I am sorry that evolution took
the turn il did and made tails
completely vestigial structures.
/ was wrapping and tying a
package the other day and a
tail would have been very useful
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable
"1s it gone yet, Steve ?"

GASOLINE
A Coupon t1-3 gallons. Valid through
Sept IL.
A Coupon H. gallons. valid from
sept. ~ through Dec. Al
BIB and ca Coupons gallons each.
IA and ca Coupons gallons each.
Law requires state name and license
number be written on every coupon
when received
FULL OIL
Period . and Period s-valid In
definitely
Period i-vsnd through Sept. 30. is45.
LIQUOR
No. fp-vslid through Sept. 80.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

Every one should have a COM
plete inventory of his abilities
and limitations from a compe-
tent vocational counselor.
3-Extensive studies by the
University of Chicago have
shown the wife must make the
change. Most men fully expect
TO go on just abput as was,
after marriage. They do not
have to 60 into a new home
and a new kind of life nearly
as much as does the wife. They
expect her TO do most of the
adjusting and changing her
ways and plans. II would never
occur 10 a musician. salesman
or artist TO give up his work or
profession after marriage. He
expects his wife TO promote his
work. But hosts Of wives give
up their music, art and even
social life when they marry.
Sorry girls, but that's how IL
is according 10 these scientific
studies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

SHOES
AirpiAne Stamps 4 and 1-Valid indef-
initely.
PROGRESSED FOODS
Blue "A through L-s-Valid inden-
nitely
MEATS. CHEESE, PATS
Red "A through Oswald Indefinitely.
One n salvage fat good for cents
and two meat ration points.
SUGAR
stamps 10, n. "a 80 N. Book A.
Valid indehnitely
stamp 40 No. q Books lhs for can
ming through FEB as. 1875
Spare stamp II, No. Book-Valid
for maximum Of 20 lbs. for canning.
Apply local board.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21
Connolly Answers

1-c. 2-b. ga. &C. 5-a.
6-(a) furniture; OBJ rub
Der; (c) automobiles; I'D
textiles; (e) live stock.
Copyright, 1914, by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-21

The DETROIT TIMES Gil
Sept. 1914
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Sdi pon Presents
Tough Problem

the capital. and Charan-Kanoa.
These veterans will not 90 ashore
without support Powerful United
States fleet and air units will lam
baste the invasion beaches with
thousands of tons Of bombs and
shells, and it is hoped they viii
clear the air of Japanese planes.
A few nights ago the personnel
of this flagship was electrified by
the announcement of the invasion
Of Europe.
The announcement carried an
extra significance for the Officers
and men aboard these silently NOV
ing. blacked-out chips because OF an
aWareness that they might produce
the Pacific equivalent Of the Euro
pean invasion within a matter OF
days.
The commander Of this mighty
task force said.
This is one world - but were
fighting wars in two oceans and the
attack against Saipan is another
important one Of many second
fronts we've opened against the
Axis
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Officials Eve
Alcohol PI an

completed. When completed, this
plant will produce $4,000 gallons OF
power alcohol daily. Eighty per cent
of the material used in the con-
struction of this plant was from
used materials. They are using ap-
proXimately 10 carloads OF grain
daily in the production at the pres
er. time. Power alcohol is ship, ed.
in tank cars to the government pro-
cessing plants for the manufacture
of synthetic rubber and high oc-
tame gasoline.
The results of the operation of
power alcohol translated into facts
and figures indicate that 100 pouncs
of wheat, corn, barley, rice and
sorghum grains yield approximately
five and one-half gallons of 1872
proof power alcohol. Some power
alcohol production plants are oper-
ated on sweet potatoes, irish pota-
toes, sweet sorghum, sugar beetS
and citrus fruits and surplus mel
onS coulG be used, but we did not
ge. the average production per 100
pounds of these commodities. All
Of our costs and figures are based
on the use of grains. The average
conversion costs of converting grains
into power alcohol are eight cents
ner gallon. The cost of yeast per
gallon is five cents and the cost of
wheat is S270 per 100 pounds, max
ing a total cost Of 63 cents per gal
lon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
BIRMINGHAM LAUGH TONIC

There were no bright lights. no
fancy scenery. The stage Was' a
crude affair in a small recreation
hall. Everyone in the audience was
dressed alike maroon bathrobeS
over pajamas, and slippers. The
stars of the show were wearing
bathrobeS. too. one was a baby
faced 24-year- r-old who was with
the Rangers when they raided Ma
kin Island. The other was a serious
faced, youthful major from the
8th Air Force just back from Eng
land after 20 missions.
But, as the announcer said, the
pajama clad youngsters were the
stars of show bigger than this
or any other shoW-our men who
came back!
II was Birmingham ShoWtime"
at the Pacific Coasts biggest and
newest hospital. the Army's Bir-
mingham General hospital at Van
Nuvs. Calf. The hosts and the
bows supervising the weekly half
hour of fun and relaxation We're
couple of sergeants you knew
H. pre-War private life as Desi
Arnaz, actor-husband of Lucille
Ball, and Gully Richards, night
club entertainer who scored hit
in the Bob Hope pictt.e Lets Face
It"
Sergeants Arnaz and Richards
are in charge of entertainment at
the hospital and it's a great job
they're doing. Daily entertainment
for 1000 men, many confined to
bed, some in wheel chairs. others
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
so Men Killed
In Isle Blasts

PEARL HARBOR. June l6. UP
The death tell from two ammu-
milton explosions in Pearl Harbor
within the last month was set at
80 killed. with l07 men missing. and
$50 injured
The first BIAS C--urred May 2l
and spread fire through landing
craft moOred in the anchorage area
where army, navy. and coast guard
personnel and civilians either were
at work or stationed.
The second was on June II when
ammunition being unlo2ded on
Oahu exploded from an undeter-
mined cause.
An earlier report Of the May q
explosion said only that several
landing craft We're destroyed. The
preliminary report made yesterday
to Admiral Chester Nimitz by Real
Admiral J. F. Shafort. head Of The
inquiry board, discloced that 2
service men We're killed. 100 other
were missing and $50 including l!
civilians. were injured.
The Oahu explosion occurred nea
a magazine maintained by TIE ma
val ammunition depot The repor
said three men were killed ant
seven missing.
Names of casualties were not re
vealed pending notification Of mex
Of kin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
lerd.Lease Lets
India Get Silver

WASHINGTON, June l6. up
The treasury announced Friday
that the United States has con-
Guided a special lend-lea5e agree
ment to provide India with 100000
900 ounces Of silver for war pur-
poses.
The metal, to be supplied from
the treasury's free silver atockS,
will be used TO maintain an ade-
quate supply of coinage for the
large numbers of United Nations
forces in India and for midas eZ-
panded war production. 1t will be
returned in full after the war.
The treasury said the shipment
would not impair the supply Of sill
yer required here for domestic
uses. 1t estimated at 1000 tons the
amount of silver shipped to all
countries under lend-lease.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16

Supervisor Hugh T. Osborne and
B. A. Harrigan, county agricultural
commissioner have completed an
intensive stucy OF the alcolOl econ
omy, having offended a conference
and investigated The new program
at Omaha. Beth are enthusiastic in
their belief that Imperial county
has much to gain in sharing in this
new method to capture agricultural
by-productS.
Herewith is their complete re-
port on returning from Omaha:
Upon arrival we Immediately
contacted DR.. Leo Christian, chem
ical engineer, and George E. john
son, who is president of the board
of directors Of the Farm Crops
Processing corporation, and Frank
Robinson, vice -presice ent Of the
same organization, who are oper-
ating the power alcohol production
plant at Omaha. They took us al
through the new power alcohol pro-
duction plans, which cost approx
macely S5,000,000
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
Bv RICHARD w. JOHNSTON

ABOARD THE EXPEDITION
AIRY FLAGSHIP APPROACHING
SAIPAN. June 10. CUPl-CDelayed)
Veteran American and japanese
fighters were preparing tonight for
the hardest fight thus far in the
Pacific war - the conquest of Sal
pan, heart Of tie Marianas.
For the first time the Americans
will be carrying the war to the
japanese people.
The conquest Of Saipan will not
be easy.
The 72-Square-mile island is only
1,400 miles from Tokyo and the
Japs are prepared to defend it.
II is most likely that Saipan will
combine the worst features of the
two most famous battles Of the Pa
cific-T -TaraWa and Guadalcanal.
TO SURMOUNT REEFS
As at Tarawa, the United States
troops must land across a defended
reef; and as at Guadalcanal they
must subsequently fight over rolling
hills and through jungled ridges and
raYineS.
But these Americans are net oisC
mayed. They're cocky and conf
dent, for they know we are not
sending a boy to do mans job.
I have seen them in training for
this operation.
I have lived with them on ship
board as we neared this objective.
I have talked lengthily with the
officers and enlisted men.
They know the fight maY be
lCng and hard and bitter, but they
are not only ready, but eager, for
action. They are literally troops
who will fight for glory as well as
victory, and they are anxious to add
to the laurels they have already
won.
STRING TO HOMELAND
Saipan is a volcanic and noun
tain island shaped like an open
monkey wrench hanging upside
down on a thin, island thread from
the japanese mainland.
It is the greatest japanese fort
ress between Tokyo and Truk, with
an estimated island population Of
10000 persons distributed in many
villages and two cities - Garapan
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-16
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on crutches. Men who came back
from Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Africa,
India, Italy and air raids over Ger
many.
TIME AND TALENT FOR FREE
Birmingham ShoWtime,' the
weekly raCio program, is Holly
woods contribution to the hospital
entertainment. Stars donate their
time and talent. Screen and radio
writer's turn out the scripts. Leon
Leonardo and his orchestra provide
the music, Bill Kelso the announc-
ing.
The baby-faced Ranger, who con-
feSseC that he wrote poetry to his
girl, was Pfc Glen ID. Black of Los
Angeles. Glen, a former high school
football star and UCLA student,
was in the coast artillery at Pearl
Harbor on Dec 7, l941. He got to
his gun and when the Zeros leveled
off after their bombing dives he
took pot shots at them. He got
one.
Then he volunteered as a Ranger,
trained under the famous Et.-Col.
Francis DeDelesque, Glen saved q
buCdy's life when his leg was caught
between the ship and a barge when
they made a landing on Canton Is
land. On the Maxim Island raid a
Jap Sniper sent a bullet crashing
through his ankle. He's had nine
operations.
The serious-faced major was
Gale House, n South Dakota boy
who was a squadron commander
in the 9th Air Force. After 20 raids
over Germany, he has the Distin-
guished Flying Cross with one
cluster. the Air Medal with three
clusters and the Purple Heart.
Blood plaSma saved him.
The resident doctor was Maj.
Ec ward F.. Eagan of Boston, the
hospitals eye, ear, nose and throat
specialist. Major Eagan made 10
round trips in North Atlantic con-
YCys before joining the Birming-
ham staff.
One night he was watching I'm
ion Pacific" in the ship theater. He
remarked to a stranger sitting next
to him that it was a very fine pie
ture The stranger grinned in the
dark and said, Yes, I'm in it," It
was Lit Robert Preston.
ONE OF THE MITES
The Iun on the show features
Sgts. Arnaz and Richarcs and ElVia
altman, the "Cobina" OF the radio
comedy team, Brenda and Cobb
ma" in comedy skits, and the Two
Criers% in song Biggest laugh was