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flown regularly il not continu-
ously.
Nor has his flying been mere
! ly pro forma. He never goes out
now without a co-pilot. In that
he is obeying his own order, is
sued when the death of Gen. OS-
car Westover, in crash at Bur-
bank, Cal, vacated the office of
Chief of the Army Air Corps, to
which Arnold was promoted.
But his early record demon
strated that he is a topnotch
flier in his own right. ---
SET RECORDS
In June 1911, Immediately
upon graduation as a pilot, he
became an instructor at the
Army's new 1000-acre field at
College Park, Md.
A year later he set an altitude
record of $40 feet in a Bur
CESS Wright plane. In July and
August, 1912, he made several
records in Army Northumberland
maneuvers in New York and
Connecticut. In October, 1912,
he won the first Mackay Tro-
ply for the first reconnaissance
flight-a 30-mlle round-trip in
a 40-horsepower Wright BIZ
plane. The planes. two propel-
lers, in tandem, were operated
from the motor by chains and
sprockets like a bicycle and
achieved the cruising speed of
43 miles an hour. Arnold sat on
the wing. The air was so bumpy
that part of the time he couldn't
look at his map. The feat was,
in its time, an epic.
He was the first man to fire
a machine-gun from the air; Me
was the first pilot to fly air mail
"a five-mile hop between two
fields on Long Island; he was
the first man TO direct artillery
fire by observation in the air
over a plane-carried radio; he
was to have been the first man
TO drop a bomb from a plane,
but the craft wouldn't lift both
hap" Arnold and the bomb, so
he had to give way to lighter
pilot.
That small scar on his chin
was received on a flight from
Salem, Mass, TO Bridgeport,
Conn, in 1912, where he crash
landed on the ocean near
Plymouth Beach. While he hung
onto the wreckage he saw a
volunteer rescue party of two
old men in Civil War uniforms
turn back because, they NUT
tered, anybody foolish enough
to try to fly wasn't worth res
cuing.
In 1884 he received second
Mackay Trophy for leading a
flight of 10 Martin bomberS
from Washington to Fairbanks,
Alaska, and back, demonstrating
that this country could be
bombed from Alaska if we were
careless enough to lose that
outpost. He has a DISC. for the
ord-breaking 77-hour and
l1-minute flight from Brisbane
TO San Francisco, in September
1912, after he had completed
tour of the Pacific war zone.
He never has flown in COM
bat, because his organizing and
administrative ability was. vital
ly needed. When World War |
broke, he was one Of only 80
Army officers qualified to fly
our SIS obsolete military planes.
But he was sent to the Canal
Zone TO organize air defense
there, and thenceforth was kept
in Washington until hostilitieS
were over.
SUPPORTED MITCHELL
Inevitably, Arnold was a sup
porter OF Gen. Billy Mitchell
L 20 ANN DAVrNh
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"shoII the Township Boord be authorized
to purchase and house fire extinsuishins
apparatus and equipment ond an oppropri-
alton Of Ten Thousand ($l0,000) Dollars
be mode therefor?
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-28

call from reveille to reVeille.
The new wonder drug of World
War II is being used at Fort Hua-
chuca and its use is keeping person
mel of the Station Hospitals medi-
cal section very much on the ball.
Capt. w. A. WetherS, who shares
the load of administering the drug
with Major Harold Thatcher, finds
himself Short-handed these days
Capt. Lowell C. Wolmley is the only
other officer left in the department,
now that Capt. Carl M. Basnett is
gone. -.
One of the best radio quips heard
recently was that made by Roches-
ter, Fort Huachuca's favorite come
dian of the radio and screen, last
Sunday; my cousin has been ship
ped to Guadalcanal," the hoarse
voiced little man informed Jack
Benny and everyone else listening
in 49,. "My! My The Rising Sun
don't know it, but dark cloud is
sure going to cover It'll"
1t looks as if singing is going 70
become a part of the regular train
ing schedule of Fort HuachucanS.
Ideal of the Post Commander is to
have nucleus choral group of not
less than so we'll trained voices.
Purpose of the choral group is to
form the basic unit for mass singing
of religious songs, Negro spirituals,
dance songs. traditional folk songs
and plantation music at this Post
and in nearby communities.
WACs and enlisted men with good
voices will be drawn into the pro-
posed singing group, which will be-
gin with SOU personnel and draw
unto itself personnel of units at
tached to the Post. A polished,
well-integrated song festival is the
ultimate object--when Capt. (rtd.)
Joe Jordan has brought the singing
groups up to the highest standard of
choral proficiency.
Orchids to the Sentinel! From
Mr.. Thomas O'Neil,, editor of The
Philadelphia Record, one of the lead
ing dailies of the City of Brotherly
Love, comes a little compliment,
which we feel should be shared by
readers of the Apache Sentinel as
well as its staff. In letter to Sgt.
Anna r. Russell (who sends copies
of the Sentinel to friends in Philly},
Mr. O'Neil writes that the Apache
Sentinel is one of the best Army pa
perS he has ever read and he feels
that the staff is due his highest
compliments for its work The
Apach Sentinel (staff n alb thanks
Editor O'Neil for his compliments
and promises to. keep up the good
work-in fact to make (if our ef-
forts can achieve it, it better and
better Sentinel as time goes by
The Post Scribe, TRTG.
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tainers in the world, including the
late Ted" Lewis, Harry Richman
and James Barton, as well as out
standing figures in the music world
Just a year before he entered the
army, he got his break in pictures
playing a featured role in Hi, Bud
dy," "It Amt Hay" with Abbott and
Costello, and Rhythm of the Isles,
with Allen Jones and Andy Devine
Multitude of Friends
Pvt. Anderson has met and be-
come intimate with many of the
outstanding celebrities of the day
Two old friends of his were re-met
at this post. They are CPL Fayard
Nicholas, who as child played the
Cotton Club with his brother when
Pvt. Anderson was on the same bill
and Pvt Eugene Jackson, who
stomped the Shorts" of Hollywood
with Anderson in the palmy days
when both were making pictures.
PvtS. Jackson and Anderson have
become "buddieS" in their army ca
reerS and plan to work together in
show business after the war is won
The Ink Spots, The Mills Broth
erS, Ethel Waters, Ivy Anderson, FL
la Fitzgerald, all have contributed
to Pvt. Anderson's three scrap books
Continued on Page Eight)
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Steps Of Pvt. Moceo Anderson
Are Now Done to Army Cadence

Not so many moons ago, a tall
slim lad named Maceo Anderson
would glide out on the waxed floor
under the impetus of Duke Elling-
tons music and proceed to delight
many hundreds of Cotton Club pa
irons with his interpretations Dance
Harlemese" 80,
Pvt Anderson was the lead
off man of the famous dance QUAR-
tet, The Step Brothers, which OPEN
ed the New York night club nine
years ago, with Duke Ellington, Eth
ell Waters and show which brought
international fame to it; and he and
his buddies remained there for every
season when they were not on tour
with the Duke, Donald Redman, or
some other top band in the enter
tainment field, or in Hollywood,
making pics.
The scene has changed and the
original Step Brothers in public en-
|, ,tertainment are but two. Pvt. An
derSon finds himself here at the
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"Whither Thou Goest"

I'm beginning P.S. this week about
soldier, a woman soldier. No, she
doesn't belong to the WACs or the
Red Cross, or the USO.
She is a member of that older
and more distinguished sorority, an
army wife.
Like, Ruth, in the Bible, she has
cut all the ties of her former life
to be with one whose happiness she
cherishes more than her own COM
fort
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that the dogs here lead quite a life,
what with no meat stamps to worry
about and with thousands of men
around with tender spots in their
hearts for some far-off Brownie,
Rags, Or Muggles
Speaking of Soldering
The new regime is begun and the
SCUers are being prodded to the
"balP' with the expectation that
they'll get on it.
It's like the sergeant told the 'cruit
who said he was @on the ball" "Sure
you are, the sergeant said, "but
you're sitting on it,
Reveille isn't. so enthusiastically
received, however, by the Special
Service boys who have particular
jobs on which they work for IL and
Is hours. a day and night not to
speak of all day. on Sunday. And it
looks sorta ridiculous to see old SOL
diers with hash stripes all UP and
down their arms repeating the
formulas of basic training for the
umpteenth time 8some were being
taught Salutes and facingS).
However, everybody goes when the
wagon comes and the army believes
in "hipping 'em' before shipping
'em."
Perhaps the Tightening up of dis
ciplinary measures will be accom-
panied bysa looSening up of the rat
ings, SO that the men who labor in
the vineyard will receive the reward
therefor.
See yousnext week (possibly).
1T f7th Art Randall.
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For Is months, Mrs Claire E.
Mitcham has journeyed to various
camps in the west in order to give
companionship and affection to Sgt
Grin Mitcham of the old 1873 MP.
Battalion.
She has lived the life of a soldier,
sleeping in tents, barracks and. trail
-ers, and riding on trains, busseS and
trucks in order to be close to her
husband
Sgt. Mitcham was cadreman dur
ing the formation of the 733rd and
Mrs. Mitcham unofficially joined
the outfit as his orderly" She has
worked to supplement his army wage
at various jobs, at present being
cashier at PIX No. l, and she has
stayed with Sgt. Mitcham constant
ly until he was recently sent away
on cadre to Fort Lewis, Wash.
Mrs. Mitcham thinks like a SOL
dier, talks like a soldier and is, in
effect, soldier.
She is leaving Fort Huachuca to-
day, to go to her home in Los An
geleS, in her own words, ION fur
lough."
What will she do after that? Why,
join her husband, of course!
Women, unafraid to face hard
ships like Mrs. Mitcham, made
America great by caring for and in
spring her men. ;t
Women like Mrs. Mitchan, are
keeping America great in these days
of domestic dislocation, by keeping
army morale at high pitch. !,
Our hats are off to the sergeant's S
wife. She's real soldier. We hope
she enjoys her .furlough."
A Dogs Life
Dogs seem to be a necessary part
OF military impedimenta and Fort
Huachuca, like every other military
post, camp, or station I've been to,
abounds in them.
Soldiers like dogs and dogs like
soldiers.
I've never seen a dog bite a SOL
6ier, nor soldier. abuse a dog.
The Fort Huachuca dogs are more
nonchalant than most I've seen.
They demand the right of way on
the streets and roads and will not
deign to bestir themselves from side
walks or building entrances for any
mere pedestrian. They are not a
rowdy bunch, being quieter and
more dignified than other members
of their species elsewhere and they
have. a strict regard for "taps."
Then, too, they are quite demo-
cratic, displaying as frantic enjoy
inent from pat on the head by a
buck private as from caress of a
soldier whose collar is loaded with
silver or gold
When I've become better acquaint-
ed with some of Fort Huachuca's S
dogs, I'll give you some thumb
sketches of them.
Suffice it, for the present. to say
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Teaches Dance at Fort

wounded in action.
Teaches Dance at Fort
Pvt Anderson was indicted into
the army in April, 1943, and was
assigned to the Special Service Di-
vision at Huachuca. He is assistant
to Capt Edmonds in the production
work, as well as in giving dancing
lessons for the children of Huachuca
from 10:0O to 1900 o'clock Satur-
days and from 600 to TOO O'Clock
on Thursday nights.
He has participated in every show
that has been given since his arrival
here, exhibiting not only his superb
dance form and tutoring but giving
eloquent demonstrations of the art
of comedy which had caused him to
be signed up for Universal Pictures
for long term contract.
Featured in Pictures
The directing and acting genius
that Pvt. Anderson has shown here
has been breWed in the kettle Of ex-
perience, for he has been entertain
ing for Is years and has worked
along with the best current enter
d
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Fort in the oasis. Another of his
dance mates, William Walker, SER
geant in the army, is confined to a
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-28
S~-w-M

Two personalities
pictured left
of Angeles
Sgt Jackson
the has the three
platoon blows bit
Army Sgt jackson soldiered Fort
Camp Claiborne uachuca
soldering at S Okla,
Both highly being
the week.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-28

The new trend in soldering at
Fort Huachuca is noticeable in a
number of ways: The absence of
'hep-cattish" uniforms. :. Smarter
salutes from both officers and en-
listed men. . More overcoatS but
toned up or left off More soldiers
ION the job" and fewer "on the
streets"
Also indicative of the new trend is
the reply of quick-thinking Gil
when a truckload of fatigue-attired
WACs passed the Apache Sentinel
office Sunday afternoon: wonder
what they've been doing" someone
Thought out loud. The CT. thought
up an answer quickly, 'Must've been
out on the field-now that every
ones soldiering!"
In giving credit where credit is due
to Sgt. Claude Andrews and men of
the Post military band, Col Hardy
likes to reminiSce about the time
when there was no one on the Post
to blow reveille or taps. . Recent
ly he added new note to that rem
iniScence: "Some of our men don't
know the difference yet" he stated,
between taps and retreat Not
long ago he queried a recent conner as
to the hour of the day Il just heard
taps blown" the man stated, 'it
must be little after $780,"
AS the Posts new training pro-
gram progresses, however, there will
be few men in SOU who will not be
on familiar terms with every bugle
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DANGER OF Sill
in BRITAIN SEEN
Members OF Minority
Party Threaten To Adopt
''Hands-Off' Stand

LONDON, Dec. 9.-LP1A poten-
TALLY serious division among sup
perters of Britain's coalition gov
eminent became apparent tonight
despite the House of Commons
vote of confidence yesterday on
Prime Minister Churchilrs deter
mined policy of Intervention to
keep peace" in liberated Europe.
The rank-and-file of the strong
minority labor party threatened to
adopt a 'hands-off' attitude on
ChurchilPs handling of the rebel
lious factions in Greece and on
his denunciation of Count Carlo
Sforza of Italy, although few ap-
peared ready to break entirely
with the coalition.
In an effort to relieve persisting
tenseness, created by the confus-
ton of the Greek fighting. Church
i'll was reported planning to send
to Athens one of his ace trouble
shooters, Richard Law, minister of
state.
Even as the British press took
sides vigorously supporting the
prime minister or voicing increas.
ed anxiety over Britain's policy
the London trades council this at.
ternoon adopted a resolution ex.
pressing alarm at British arm
ed intervention.
The Manchester guardian, call
ing Churchills denunciation OF
Count Sforza 1.-The worst passage
in his speech said reluctantly
we shall have to assume that he
may be an uncertain. even a dan
gerous guide in our passage
through the European maelstrom.
Let us hope he does not wreck
u.s."
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Peace May Be
Restored To
Athens Soon
, moral Of Fighting ELIAS
T C,,ces Reported To Have
Surrendered
LIBERALS BUSY
,,,,s Efforts To Stop
flashes And Find Solu-
t;ou To Problems

,rHENs. Dec. SPA general
A ~ Elias forces, whose con-
d u" 9th the regular government
Dict u urir troops turned Athens
'na - Evil war battle-ground, was
ITO .,ts d to have surrendered to-
feP ,4 While liberals who have been
rl e., G ,s mediators indicated that
'cps vi m9ioht be restored to the
FM NV, Nv tomorrow or Monday.
'a Tso name of the surrendering
lns ro, was not announced. The re-
'Vit ~ his capitulation came even
po y. s,d a ELIAS units were mas
sins outside the city.
SIZE w. intermediary
nimitri Lambrakis. an indepen-
,..+ liberal and publisher Of the
..m,naner, Eleutheron Vina, said
~ had been consulting all day as
Inv ntsrmediary between the moder-
.-es dissenting extremists ana
e0yPmment leaders in an effort to
s,on the armed clashes and find a
.oh,,ion to the nations political
problems
Lambarkis said;
efforts have been made in all
5,pctions and hopes are entertain
si,hat favorable solution may be
rpsched Sunday or Monday at the
atest OF course. the British can
MT weld. but. nevertheless, a So
luton might be possible through
hmation of a national government
Under Themistokles Sophoulis, with
The other parties participating and
including premier George Papan-
dreOu"
Sophoulis is the S5-year-old dean
Of the liberal party.
A communique from Maj. Gen
R. NJ Scobie, British commander
Continued on Page Four; Col. a.
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Drafting OF Older Men
Is Ordered Stepped Up

plants and that the demands for
such releases were increasing.
in order that these men may
be replaced" he said, cit is deem
ed necessary TO- increase the num-
Der of calls by Selective Service
for men between the ages of 20
and 81 who are not now doing their
part to contribute to the war eff.
FORT
Consequently he said, he had
asked Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey to amend his
regulations to provide for induction
of such men and also to provide
for reclassific alton of those in the
1851 age group who now have oc-
cupational deferment and who
leave essential industry.
Draft boards never have been
Continued on Page Nine; Col. A
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PAPER COLLECTION
SCHEDULED TODAY
Residents Are Urged To
Place Pundles On Curb
For Jaycees

Laggard residents of central Will
ming on who have not yet put their
SCRAP paper on the curb for col
lection may have. time to do so
this morning. since Junior Cham
Der of Con- nnerce officials explain
ed yesterday that he 18 trucks
loaned for. the drive will start IN
the QUILTING. dis ricts at 9 a. M.
ord work inwards. go
The volunteer drivers. the Jay
Gee collectors and their High
school associate workers will bring
paper from points as dis ant as
Wrightsville Peach and Harbor Is
land to the depo- at the Springer
Coal company. At he depot an
emergency truck will remain on
duty. Residents with reasons to
think the dispat cher has missed as
igning squads to their street may
call 6261 by telephone.
Telephone calls already received
by the Jaycee headquarters lead
to the belief that the drive will be
CONTINUED on Page Four; Col. s.
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u. S. Budget Will Total
500, 900, 600, 600 In 1915

Around $4,000, 100000 will be la
beled war spending, compared
with nearly $4,000, o0o,o00 this
year. The rest will go fol- normal
government expenses aud interest
payments on the public debt.
By the end of the next fiscal
year. the debt will be upwards Of
$500, 900, 900, 900.
The budget bureau asked the fl
nancial cla:rvoyants of the govern
meats myriad agencies to esti-
mate expenses on the basis of four
assumptions:
: That the country will be fighting
total war. against both Germany
and japan. .
That it will be fighting Germany
only.
That the war will end in both
Europe and the Pacific before next
CONTINUED on Page Nine; Col. y
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WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: Partly cloudy and
slightly warmer in south, continued cool
in north Sunday. Monday increasing
cloudiness and cool with rain beginning
in south in afternoon. r.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 pm. yesterday.
Temperature
1870 am, 46; 1870 am, 81; 1880 pm, so;
1870 pm, At.
Maximum SO; Minimum SO; Mean "A;
Normal so.
1870 am, "a; 1880 am, IA; 1870 pm. So;
7:30 pm, 86.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 pm
600 inches.
Total since the first of the month
1873 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
u S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Wilmington -------------- S:45a l2:3ls
scoop 12:54r
Masonboro Inlet -------- 3:49a 9:55s
3:55p 10:13r
Sunrise. TOT am; Sunset, SOB pm.
Sunrise, 7:O7 am; Sunset, SOB pm.
Continued on Page Nine; Col. l.
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WORKERS. BONUS
PLAN BOCS DOWN
Several Congressman Be-
lieve 1t Smasks OF
Paid Patriotism

WASHINGTON, Dec. ST.
The bonus plan for war workers
who stick to their jobs appeared
to have begged down.
Without committing themselves
officially, several members Of Con-
gress have voiced the view that
it smacked of paid patriotism"
and would not sit well with G.. l.
Joes who have no choice but to
fight it through to the bitter end
at $50 a month.
Chairman J. 4. Krug Of the War
Production Board, who endorsed
the scheme a fortnight ago as the
''plan I prefer most to halt
troublesome labor turnover in wal
plants, this week disclaimed spon-
sorship. He called it ''just one Of
many suggestions on providing
incentives for staying on war jobs
AS sketched by Krug, the plar
would add a small percentage to
the wage of each munitions work.
err, to be withheld for payment in
a lump sum when the plant drop
ped out of war production and laid
off its employees.
The War ManpoWer commission
favored the idea but a canvass Of
other civilian agencies w h
would be concerned in establish.
ing the scheme the war labor
board, office of economic stabili
zation and office of war mobiliza.
ton and reconversion - produced
no statement Of advocacy. 1t elicit.
ed several objections on grounds
of practically.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 -lR-
Drafting of men aged 26 to 81 was
ordered increased tonight to pro-
vide requirements for soldiers and
sailors released to man-poWer-short
war plants.
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes asked this step as the
government drove to get 300,000
needed workers into war industries
and bring tagging production OF
critical materials up to schedule.
In another move, the Army asked
and secured an agreement for a
7-day work week fo- four months
in plants manufacturing truck
tires and tubes, products which the
army lists~among its most import
ant shortages.
Byrnes said in a statement that
the Army and Navy had released
several thousand men to war
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Anglo.Amencan Clash Believed
To Haze Cleared Air For Farley
MEET NEXT YEAR
U. S. Placed On Record As
Champion OF Small
Nations Rights
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. = (P) =
The Ang o-American clash over
Greek and Italian politics is. re-
garded here as having cleared the
air considerably for the meeting
early next year of Roosevelt,
Churchill and Stalin.
By action IS well as words it
has put Washington on record more
definitely than ever before as a
champion of the right of small
nations and weak peoples to full
political freedom.
At the same time it has indicat-
ed an increasing willingness here
to take direct hand in European
politics in order to bring about
conditions which American Off
Gals believe will contribute to a
more stable world.
Assumes Responsibility
1t is conceded by officials here
that when The United States told
Britain it objected to turning
thumbs down on Count Carlo Sfor-
"a in Italy the United States as
sumed responsibility for a policy
of non-intervention.
Thus Washington displayed will
lingness to go to bat for the be-
lief that sma nations must be
allowed to work out their own des-
TIMES without direct interference
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81