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The Apache sentinel., 1944-03-10
Special Service Gift
To South Side Club
Stirs Deep Emotions

Genuine pleasure and gratitude
for the gift of $61250 sent to the
South Side Boys club of Chicago
was conveyed to Colonel Edwin N.
Hardy, Post Commander of Fort
Huachuca, in a letter recently re-
ceived from Mr.. B. B. Church, di-
rector of the club.
Mr.. Church's letter, after ac-
knowledging the contribution, stat
ed: "We have received good many
donations during the II years I
have been here, but considering the
circumstances surrounding this gift
I can say that have not been more
deeply stirred by any gift that we
have ever received. It is challeng-
ing thing to think of you men out
there busy preparing for the great
est adventure of your lives and still
having time enough to care about
the welfare of the boys I represent.
ssThat Special Service group
which you organized must be a fine
organization. I wish it could be my
privilege to hear them sometime"
In his letter of thanks, Mr..
Church Stated that he would like to
give the donation of the gift wide
publicity, inasmuch as he felt that
everyone should know g. :. how our
soldiers think of others even though
deeply engrossed in their own af-
fairs"
In answering the letter, Colonel
Hardy expressed his own and his
fo@s 80. ~ II n
remarks of the boys club director,
and stated that he had no objec-
tions to giving the donation public
ity as long as the fact was stressed
that the donation comes from a
group of Negro soldiers in training
at this station.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-03-10
Medical Detachment Members
Buy Over SIS, 900 Worth Of
Extra Bonds During Drive

The members of the Medical De-
tachment recently finished among
the most successful units participat-
ing in the Fourth War Loan Drive,
at Fort Huachuca. The MedicS pur-
chased extra War Bonds totaling an
amount of $543125, for a War Bond
maturity value of $737500. Credit
for the highest individual War
Bonds purchased during the drive
went to the following men: Pvt.
Lonnie w. Johnson, Reno, New;
TI5th Rupert Smitz, Chicago, ILL.,;
Ti4th Ulysses Srnalls, Hampstead,
LII, NY; and Pfc. Harold j. Col.
Inns, of Nassau, Bahamas.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-03-10
Tom S. Erwin Leaves Fort
!. For Hickam Field, Hawaii

Overseas service as a civilian en-
ployee in the Army Service Forces
has presented such tempting pic
ture to Tom S. Erwin that he re-
signed his job at Fort Huachuca's s
Post Ordnance warehouse to take
another job at Hickam Field Air
Base in Honolulu, TIL. Erwin, who
has been, at Fort Huachuca since
May IT, 1943, was originally en-
ployed at the Quartermaster ware
house No. 1868. He had been at the
ordnance warehouse only four
months.
A native of Lubbock, Texas, Err
win was formerly in the sheet metal
construction business.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-03-10

tort.
The 827th is the oldest col
ored tank destroyer battalion
in the country, tracing its acti-
vation back to April, 1912.
That date is a very old one as far
as the history of tank destroyers is
concerned because the tbs them
selves are not much older Boast
ing number of officers who we're
on the original Tank Destroyer In
auguration Board, this outfit was
one of the first activated as a new
branch of the Service-tank busting.
Cadres Formed by Cavalry
Camp Forrest, Tenn, was the
birthplace of the group with the
cadre furnished by the 9th and 10th
Cavalry units. In the fall of 1942
they were transferred to Camp
Hood, Tex, for advanced unit train
ing. Upon completion of their train
ing they were assigned to the Tank
Destroyer Center Training Brigade
at Hood Since Hood was the home
of the Tank Destroyer School the
battalion acted as school troops in
purpose of demonstrating the prop
er use of weapons and equipment.
When school troop duty was COM
pleted the battalion was again
scheduled for advanced unit train
ing at Hood. Came Oct, 1943, and
the outfit left Texas for the great
open spaces of the California -Ari-
zona desert. That desert training
was climaxed last week when the
tbs moved into Fort Huachuca.
Seek. Strike and Destroy - a
rough phrase but one by which all
TD.erS strive. The hard working
827th wasn't satisfied with that
alone so they created their own
motto-"We Strike the Final Blow"
Well Trained Officers
Major Lyons, the battalion COM
mander, is a, national guard officer
of many years experience. He Is a
graduate of the officers advanced
tactical course at the Tank Destroy
er Center as well as graduate Of
the Command and General Staff
School. A former Kansas City,
KanSan, his experience in the army
has been wide and diversified. He
spent number of years in the 114th
Cavalry. In May of 1912 Major Ly-
ons attended the first Tank De-
stroy Orientation Course at Gates
vile, Texas. This group was the
nucleus of the present day set-up
of Tank Destroyer units ~
In an interview with the battalion
commander it was revealed that he
is extremely pleased with Fort Hua--
chuca and particularly with the
Special Services offered right on the
post.
"Of all the army posts I have
been on I have never yet seen a post
go so far for the betterment and
entertainment of enlisted men.
There is no reason why they
Continued on Page Eight)
The Apache sentinel., 1944-03-10
Transfer Artillery Officers
To 92nd Infantry Division

WASHINGTON, DC. = Secretary
of War Henry L. StimSon announce
ed at his regular press conferences
March 2, that the field artillery Of
ficers Of the 930th and 931st Field
Artillery battalions will be trans
ferred to the 92nd Division to re-
place white officers now in COM
mand of the artillery battalions of
that division.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-03-10
Tank Busters of 827th I'D.
Battalion Arrive, ReveI In
Services, Hospitality Of Post

The tank eating tigers of the 827h Tank Destroye. Bat
talon roared into Fort uachuca last week under the able lead
ership of their commanding officer Major Harry L. Lyons
9he battalion completed successful road march arrive
camp February 49, and settled quarters
the After spending number Of months
The Apache sentinel., 1944-03-10
Nursery Rhyme, "a Style

Little Boy Blue come blow your
horn,
The sheep are in the meadow,
The cows are in the "black market" !"
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04
Famed Visitor Looking Kodiak Over

Mary Joyce, owner of Taku Lodge near Juneau, arrived in Kodiak Wednesday after travel ing by Alaska Steamship to Seward from Juneau, and from Seward in small boat.
 Miss Joyce said she had "been in all the other towns in Alaska and that she wanted to see what Kodiak was like" and that she planned to stay here for while
 Mary Joyce achieved na- tional fame when in the dead of winter 2he left Taku with a team of 5 dogs and headed for the ice carnival at Fairbanks She finally completed the jour ney of almost 1000 miles Tn 52 days and walked all the way. Another incident was her res cue of Father Hubbard after he became marooned upon rock in Twin Glacier River.
 She IS reported to be the first woman in the Territory to re- ceive a radio operators license and is licensed pilot. In 194O he became stewardess on the Northwest Air lines regular run to Chicago and the Pacific coast, a position she held for : Iyears.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04
Seattle Representative The Alaska Newspapers,
 All Fourth Avenue Building Seattle, Washington.
News Highlighfs
(continued from page l


 rounded on all 3 land sides by ~ determined American forces & shipping in the bay is hammered ceaselessly by fighters & bomb CTS.
 Washington-Carrying record bomb loads Superforts attacked railroad marshalling yards at Rangoon. Preliminary estimates of damage "are good". The giant craft took off from bases in h. ,,dia with Largest bomb loads per Rafrcraft so far known to be listed ssu aerial warfare"
 London-British Commandos & infantry overran the ancient Dutch port of Viissingen (Flush- ing) iu a bitter fight through blazing streets as the month long battle to open Antwerp is just about over Few German guns remaining on flooded Walcheren island are rapidly running out of ammunition. Southeast ol Aachen U. s lst Army continu- ed advance against increasing resistance.
 London-A thousand British heavy bombers laid 4480 tons of explosives & fire bombs on Ger many's greatest arsenal of Dus- seldorf. A special communiQue from U. s. Strategic Airforct told of destruction of POS Ger man aircraft over the syntheti oil center of Merseburg. Amer ican losses were 40 heavy bomb CTS x l9 fighters.
 Moscow-R Russian tanks, gun' < men rumbled toward out skirts of Budapest where front dispatches said panic prevailed as noise of battle swelled 23 miles away The Red Army is already smashing into outer de- lenses of the ancient city.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04
Man Burned In Freak Mishap

Clyde Galbreath, owner of the Economy Transfer, was at home today under doctors ord CTS following a freak accident in which he was burned about the face and neck Tn an explosion in his Ford tr'Sk.
 He was driving Thursday af- ternoon near the Russian par. sonage when the motor died, ap. parently from a plugged gas line Galbreath removed the cap on the gas tank to blow into it in an effort to clear the line but just as he bent over the tank an explosion occurred and flames shot out, singeing his eyebrows and the hair as far as the back of his neck and burning his face,
 The freak accident was be- lieved to have been caused by an accumulation of gas fumes from spilled gasoline around the tank, probably ignited from short in the ignition system. Although the gas tank was open at the time it did not ignite from the explosion.
 Galbreath received medical treatment from Dr. A. Holmes Johnson following the accident.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04
To Elect Officers

All members of the Russian Greek Orthodox church are to attend meeting to be held this week for the purpose of electing new church officers and commit tees.
 They will meet next Thursday night at the Union hall at 7 pm sharp, Rev. Gregory Gleboff an nounced.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04
Hospital
(continued from page D

ature.
 "The Nuns will leave Juneau by plane Friday. Copies of lease, Territorial inventory and other data forwarded via air mail. !"
 The wire did not state wheth- CT the features of the contract objected to had been changed. The clauses in question pro vided:
 1. "The medical director. :. shall be the sole judge as to the admissability of patients to said hospital"
 2. The medical director will accept, if and when rendered, appointment as (a) acting assist antsurgeon of the O. s. Public Health service; (b) physician and surgeon for the Alaska ln- dian Service, Department of the Interior; Co city health officer of the Town of Kodiak; (4) re- presentatile of the Territorial Commissioner of Health. A spokesman for the board said it felt both clauses were too strongly restrictive and so ann biguous as to intent as to indl- cate a possible application to the detriment of wider medical ser vice for the community in the future.
 After conferring again yester day morning the board decided to refuse to turn the hospital over unless objections to the clauses are met, after receiving legal advice to the opinion that only the Legislature has the right to make the hospital con- tract
 Officials at Juneau were so ad- vised in a wire sent by the board yesterday morning. The wire follows:
 Unless objections to lease as outlined our wire are deleted will refuse to turn hospital over to organization.
 Have legal opinion that nc body other than legislature has right to lease hospital.
 Paragraph 2 & 3 eliminate al hope medical attention othel
 than organization doctor anc
 consider it detrimental to welfare
 of the. community.
 Furthermore, in view of de velopments, all help was assuIec employment until legislature meets. Cannot vacate on 3 days notice"
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04
Alaska Airlines
INCOMING

lNCOMlNG : Gery Rosi, Jack Pardieu, Captain Crawford, Kenneth Knight.
 M. W. Benson, Virge Ander- son, Hllda Bauer, o. A. Torger- son, G A Triber. OUTGOING
 Hazel Zaworski
 A. yerle Collar J. B. Sledge, Richard M. Andrews, Chas. Rutkowski, Mildred Davis.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

MT. and Mrs. Marten Jensen left yesterday by Alaska Airlines for Anchorage where they ex- pect to spend a week vacation ing
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

A car belonging to Art Deering was found Tuesday upside down in a small stream along Brooklyn avenue, ab' ut 85 feet from where 1t left the thoroughfare. The owner reported the car was taken without his permission the night before and it is not known who was driving it at the time of the accident. The car received coli siderable damage.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

Jack King, former fife chief Of Kodiak and now a member of the police force at Fairbanks, arrived yesterday by Alaska Airlines to visit his family here.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

James Williams, ? years o'd' son of Mrs Anne Williams, was admitted to the GM hospital yesterday
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

FUR5 Repaired, cleaned ( glazed. Fur coats altered. Ex. perienced work See Mrs Clara Blinn, 3rd house behind bank. 11-4
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

FOR TRUCKING of all kinds watch for the white trucks We deliver Fuel Oil any place at any time We specialize in Prompt, Efficient & Court. eous Service. Patrick Lynch < Co.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

FOR SALE-Burroughs Adding Mach. Large National Cash register. Both like new. h.. quire at Totem Igloo Cuno Shop.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04
clossifieds

FOR SALE-Partly furn. well insulated house, corner Mis-. sion I'd. & Spruce St ? bed. rooms, bath, fin room in base. ment, lights, water, sewer, Inquire Max Folsom, Erskrne addition. 1l-1l
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

FOR SALE-Severa pair of new & slightly used high cut shoes & several other styles. Kodiak Shoe Shop.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

RADIATOR REPAIRING-AIl makes cars, work guaranteed. CIark's Garage, Brooklyn Av. enue II 25
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

FOR SALE-4OO ID. safe on rollers. Pinch Jewelry com. pany.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

WINDOW WASHING and ian. itor work. F. L. Brown. Leave orders at Kodiak Shoe Shop.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-11-04

FOR SALE - Lady's clothing, sizes 38 & 40. Apt. 26, Fielder bldg, evenings
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Russian Front
Remains Quiet

LONDON, May %. -(P)- Con.
tinuance of the lull on the Russian
front was reported tonight by both
the Soviet and German commune
cues.
The brief Russian announce
ment said there were no i'm
portant changes at the fir. mt but
shat IA German planes were shot
down Saturday and that recently
Soviet Baltic fleet force sank a
German submarine in the Gulf of
Finland.
The Germans reported local
fighting on the Carpathian sector
and said they had dispersed strong
Soviet bands in 'the rear area Of
the central front" with $500 pris.
oners taken. This apparently refer.
red to Russian guerrilla forces.
The Germans also said they
bombed Rovno and Sarny Saturday
night.
(The Finnish communique as re-
corded by the U. S. Office OF War
Information said Soviet forces had
attacked fiercely at several points
on the long-quiet Finnish front, but
had been repulsed with consider.
able" lossesa
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
Allies BeatOff
Jap Night Lunge

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAQQUAR-
dERS, Handy, Ceylon, May %
IA desperate Japanese night
luhge against Maya village. north
Vi Aohlma and on the road to the
vital Dimapur railhead in India.
mas been beaten off with heavy
enemy losses. Allied Headquarters
announced today.
Inc surprise assault, supported
ny artillery and mortar fire, crum-
Ged at dawn Thursday after the
japanese ran into whitening fire
ION the Allied defenses. 1t APP
Iparently was desperation attack
9y enemy forces whose strength
Nas been steadily Whitfield down
SINCE their Indian offensive failed,
ana whose supply lines are now
e'noahgefed by Allied thrusts and
rains.
The headquarters announcement
lalied to mention the American
NnloeSe forces alta cking the Jap
a@ese north Burma base of Mylt-
MS4ha' Tor the first omission since
yae enemy airdrome north OF the
N''S Was captured on May ID.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
MurderMysteryTak esNewTurn

if an attempt was made to push
them overheard.
King said Identification Of
the body might be difficult be-
cause of its deterioration.
A new development came to-
day when an automobile floor
rug, stained and ill-smelling,
was found eight miles away on
the old Raleigh road. King said
nearby automobile tire tracks
were similar to those made by
a car driven by Martin. Gray
hairs, King said, also were
found on nearby weeds.
1t was the odor rom a car
a garageman said. Martin had
parked that led police to ar
rest him May 20 on an open
charge. His indictment came
five days later. King said
blood-stained clothing, a wo-
mans artificial teeth. a broken
wrist-watch, and other items
were discovered in his quarters
and automobile.
Police said Martin drove Mrs.
Jewett from Charlotte to Boon
vile. They stopped at a hotel
there May 8 and Mrs. Jewett
has not been seen since May 10.
No comment was made by
Martin or his attorney, victor
S. Bryant
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
DECISION DUE
ON SUBSIDIES

WASHINGTON, May %. ~
A decision on subsidies by degree
confronts the Senate banking COM
mittee tomorrow when it attempts
to complete a bill extending price
control another year beyond next
July l.
An amendment by Senator Taft
lR-Ohio) would forbid the payment
of any subsidies after next April l
except where Congress had made
specific appropriations for them.
The proposal was discussed at in.
tervals last week without defini-
tive action.
The committee also must dis
pose of another amendment in
structing OPA to give special con-
sideration to hardship cases in
volving rent control, and there was
talk that administration forces
might try to upset the vote by
which the committee adopted the
so-called Cotton Escalator" am
endment of Senator Bankhead Cd
Ala). The amendment, which ties
the price of raw cotton to that of
finished textiles. has been de-
Continued on Page Five; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29

Indications that the Germans
may retire from the Eternal City
without a fight, and thus spare it
the devastating ravages of great
siege. are being studied avidly in
military and diplomatic quarters
here, and there is some hope among
informed officials that developments
here, and there is some hope among
informed officials that develop
ments will prove favorable.
The American attitude, as an
nounced by President Roosevelt,
is that the safety of Rome rests
with the Germans in whose power
it has been since the fall of the
Mussolini government. To the ex
tent that the enemy made use Of
the city for military purposes, the
President has argued, the Allies
have been compelled to attack it.
Whether the Chief Executive will
restate this position to fix public
attention anew on the responsible
lily of the German high command
in the critical days now at hand
remains to be seen. His decision on
this point may be influenced by
military events.
The main fact of these events to
date now threatens to envelope the
Nazi divisions South of Rome in a
thanking movement by the Anzio
bea chhead forces.
To military men. it now appears
that the only way the Germans can
extricate a part of their forces is
to flee with all possible speed into
the hills north of Rome and make
no attempt to defend the city.
That such withdrawal actually
has been considered by the Ger
mans is shown in Nazi propaganda
broadcasts attempting to minimize
the Importance to the Allies of cap
turing Rome and at the same time
discussing creation of new de-
tense line north of the city.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
YankInvaders
81 Toward
!; Biak Isle
81 RS FIGHTING HARD
distance Increasin ny
; AS Americans Near
Mokmer Airfield

ADVANCED LIE D
HEADQUARTERS, N e W
Guinea, Monday, May 29-R'
Tough American Sixth
Army invasion veterans have
solidified their positions on
Biak island, less than 900
miles from the Philippines,
and Mokmer airfield is only
two and one-half miles away,
headquarters reported today.
Japanese resistance on the larg-
est island in the Schouten group
at the mouth of Geelvink bay was
increasing as the Yanks famed
out from captured Bosnik on the
southeast coast and pressed to-
ward the airdrome, one of three
on the island.
SHIPPER fire was taking a heavier
toll of the invaders who had ex-
tremely light losses during the
landing Saturday despite tougher
Japanese resistance than had been
faced in previous amphibious OPP
erations up the New GUINEA coast.
Only a few Americans were wound
ed and none killed in the original
landings a mile east and mile
west of Bosnik.
While the invaders fought on in
a two-pronged offensive-one east
ward from Bosnik, the other west
ward-12 enemy planes attacked
the Allied invasion fleet under COM
mand of Rear Adm. R. M. Fech-
teller of the U. S. Navy, the after
noon Of the invasion. His ships
antiaircraft accounted for four
japanese bombers.
One of the plunging enemy planes
made a suicide crash into an Am
erican subchaser, causing nine
casualties and some damage to
the little craft.
A Thunderholt fighter plane shot
down four Zeros and one bomber
of an enemy air group attackins
American ground troops. 'sN's's
Aided by big American Liber-
ators, which doused Blak with 700
tons of bombs, the invaders drlv-
ing toward the Mokmer field made
contact with the enemy at Paral,
approximately four and one-han
miles from the original beachhead.
The eastern prong was fighting at
Soriari about a mile and a half
east Of Bosnik.
Many Japanese troops, appar'
emily surprised by the invading
and were being hunted down and
force, fled to caves around Bosnlk
killed.
Two six-inch, four five-inch and
three-inch guns were captured by
the Americans in the Bosnlk de-
lenses.
In addition to the blasting OF
coastal installations and strong
points by the Liberators, the Am
erican troops were getting close
cooperation from strafing fighter
planes. One Allied plane was shot
down by enemy ground fire.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-05-29
BILL PROPOSES
JOINT COMMAND

WASHINGTON, May %. -(P)-
Postwar consolidation of the army,
Navy and air services under a
single secretary of the armed for
ces'' was proposed tonight by Sc
nator Hill of Alabama, the De-
mocratic whip, in a bill he will
introduce in the Senate tomorrow.
Patterned after suggestions by
Lieut.. Gen. Joseph T. McNarey,
deputy army chief of staff, in tes-
timony before a House special
committee, the Hill measure also
conforms with the ideas presented
before the same committee by
Harold D. Smith, director of the
budget.
While Hill told a reporter he was
acting entirely on his own respon.
sibility as a member of the Sc
nate military committee, it seem.
ed evident the measure has the
tacit approval of the War depart.
meht and other agencies, if not the
Navy.
Secretary Of the Navy Forrestal
recently opposed immediate con.
solidation of the military services
in an appearance before the House
group, adding that he was not pre-
pared to say whether he thought a
postwar merger was desirable.
The Hill measure proposes crea-
ton of new department of
armed forces headed by a secre-
tary chosen from civil life by the
president and confirmed by the
Senate. The president also would
be authorized to appoint civilian
undersecretaries for the Army,
Navy and for air at $4,000 annual
salaries. Each would be given two
a assistants paid Sc. 900 yearly.