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Dear Sir:
A friend from out-of-state sent me a small paper in which the
following appeared. AS we are now engaged in the Fourth War
Loan drive, I thought it rather timely and hope you will use it.
Sincerely,
Charles Clement.
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RUSSIA:
Baltic Push

Preceded by a thunderous barrage
of heavy artillery. Russ infantry
pushed into German lines below Len
ingrad, and cut the enemy's rail
communications farther to the south.
10 miles from the Latvian border.
The Reds were reported to have
thrown $50, 900 men into the battle
on a $50 mile front. and units of
Russia's Baltic fleet stationed near
Leningrad were said to have par
ticipated in the bombardment of
German positions prior to the big
push.
Stiffening German resistance
slowed the Reds progress on other
fronts. with the Nazis reporting con.
%tinuance Of Russ efforts to break
through in the prewar Polish area
Of White Russia.
Peace RunOrs
With the Allied world still wonder
ing owe Russia's semi-oficial pub
LEGATION Of a rumor that two former
British statesmen had discussed a
separate peace with German Foreign
Minister Won R%ibbentrop. Stain per-
mitted reproduction of a London
newspapers story that Britain had
received specific peace terms from
Hitler under which the Nazis would
withdraw to their 1889 prewar pound
aries.
Although Britain remained indig-
nant over the Reds implication that
she was double-dealing. and the
U. S. continued puzzled over why
Stain should have allowed publica.
ton of the rumor, Russia's man in
the street was led to suspect British
ipfontiops
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OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Big Horn County.
Stote OF Montana.
REGULAR
JANUARY 2 1odd


JANUARY 3, 1914
The board met this day in reg
ular session, the following mem
bers being present: B. H. Nc
Carly Chairman; Thomas Mac
Leod and H. E. Clifford, men,
bers; together with the County
Clerk.
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approx
ed.
The following claims were ex-
amined and approved, war
rants having previously been is
sued in payment of the same:
GENERAL FUND
December Pay Roll........$2, $780, "a
ROAD FUND
December Pay Roll $500 90
POOR FUND
December Pay Roll .........$1O0.0 90
LIBRARY FUND
December Pay Roll .......$275.O 90
The following claims were ex-
amined and approved and war
rants were ordered drawn on
their respective funds in pay
ment of the same:
GENERAL FUND
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Evening star., 1944-01-30

A party for 500 half dressed and
undressed Indian children-most of
them wore only shirt-was one
Christmas function presented in
India by an Army Air Force out
fit to which 1t. Fred E. Robins
is attached. Mrs. Robins lives at IA
Sherman avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
Among all the children, perhaps
the most unusual costume" was
worn by a boy of 6 and consisted
entirely of a small, silver bell.
The children came from as far
away as 6 miles, 1t. Robins wrote.
They were of all sizes and ages
from few months to older than
but the majority were under Z.
I'VE had a tree that looked like
a Christmas tree, even had some
decorations ,on it," the letter said.
There were two huge snowmen
made of bamboo and covered with
cloth and burlap painted white
Each child was given five kinds
of Indian candy. I didn't taste
it but it was made by an Indian in
a nearby town and the kids liked it.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Courses COMPLETED

Mrs: Hymen Goldman; 300 Fourteenth
Ftreet For, KrNy NV; radio electricians course
Robert c. Wolf, son of Robert Wolff.
1904 Second street Sc, naval training
sch school for storekeepers, Toledo (ohio) Ma
Pfc. Clarence M Cook. jr.: wife, Mrs,
Jane Cook, 1907 Irving street NV, air
plane mechanics course, Sheppard Field,
First III 1t; Charles /, Moore, son of Mrs.
arlnstons asIn,s n0, Va aerial navigation course,
Pfc; Howard Hungerford Sypher, Sd,
son Of Capt; Howard H.. Sypher, jr, U S.
M; c. 626 North Dinwiddie street. airing
= Py1. Aeness Moore. 1928 Park road
NV Parachute School. at Fort Benning,
avenue, Takoma psrE aushni Nd NJ parachate nln
training, at Victory Field, Tex. '
rosa ead Glen D0Hsss Esho hss Ii asah M
flight training, at Chickasha, Okla.
=. Fireman Fir .,,5 first class Elvin Darwin
Training Station. Ill
PVT; Pvt; Richard % P, Henderson, 3als
teletype maintenance course. at chanutt
- John E. Hartshorn, 10 Dresden street
Kensington, Md, first phase flying train.
Seaman Ifirst class william clihore
Hack. 1872 Ingleside terrace NV. avia.
tion machinist's mate school, Jacksonville
Fla.
| Cadet Donala c. Schertz, son of Capt
and Mrs, Frank M. Schertz. 1905 Farra,
gut street NV, basic flying school
CORTLAND Field. Ala.
Pfc. Thomas L. Reese. son of Mrs. Anr
T. Reese, II w street NV. BOA Liberia.
tor bomber mechanics school. Keeslel
Field. Miss
Pfc. Calvin L. cookman. son of Mr.. anc
Mrs. L, j. Goodman, IA Anacostia roac
Sc, aircraft mechanics course, Seymour
johnson Field, NJ c.
Herbert T. Foss, son OF Mrs H. Foss
I'LL q street Sc, parent radio school
J Scott Field, III.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

apparently, made from sandstone
and whiteWaShed, both many years
old. BY now they were drab and
colorless locking.
The streets were narrow, merely
alleyways, and filthy dirty. Arab
villages in North Africa had been
unattractive and had even smelled
bad, but this was worse. Stencil is
the only word that know that can
describe the malodorous smell, and
it was the stencil of filth, long
accumulated filth, and not the smell
of dead and purifying flesh.
Later on in the campaign, in other
towns, we were to frequently smell
the penetrating odor of decaying
flesh, both animal and human, but
every town that we passed through,
especially the southern ones. had
the stencil of filth that acted as a
backdrop for the sharp acidrous
smell of that dead flesh
1t was here that I first really saw
the SicilianS. 1 had thought that
they would all be brunettes and the
ignorinas-they would all be sloe-
eyed, raven-haired beauties dressed
in colorful clothes. Never have
received such rude aWakening-I
honestly believe that, as whole, the
Sicilians are the ugliest people that
l have ever seen. Amazingly, they
are not all brunetteS, in fact, only
about half of them are. There are
blonds, brunettes, red heads and all
the in-betWeens and mixtures Nor
did they dress colorfully-the wom-
en-, both signoras and signorinas
wore black or drab gray dresses and
the men wore European-type clothes
that had been patched many times
Evening star., 1944-01-30

Higher authorities had felt that
this campaign would be fast
moving one, so we had left rear
echelon in North Africa, which was
to come over later. This was the
Service" part of our battery, in
cluding such parts as the kitchen,
supply section, etc. At the same
time that we received the two guns
we also received the balance of our
equipment. We carefully combed
through all of the equipment that
we now had in Sicily and eliminated
everything that was not absolutely
necessary, sending it to dump that
we established in Sicily. Thus, the
battery was now split into three
parts-the forward echelon, the rear
echelon and the rear-rear echelon.
This move carried us to a fighter
plane landing strip, and for the first
time I passed through an Italian
town-Gela. To say that was dis
Evening star., 1944-01-30

Most of these carts have the sides
and tail gate each split into two
panels by center upright and each
panel is highly and colorfully deco
rated. Almost invariably the back
ground Is yellow, but the decora-
tions are painted in every color ever
dreamed up by paint manufac-
turer. Usually the panels of the
tail gate are religious scenes, one
of Christ on the cross and one OF
Christ before Pontius PLATE, or
scenes with the Virgini Mary; one
side has panels depicting the glories
of the ancient Roman empire, COM
plete with scenes of the Colosseum
and other famous buildings of that
period, and the other side is of the
Crusade period, with knights in
armor, mounted and unmounted.
The shafts are highly carved with
figures in bas relief accentuated
by brilliant colors and the rear
header bar between the shafts is
also carved in the same way. Be-
tween the axle and the wagon bed
is iron filigree work of leaves and
flowers. also brilliantly painted, and
even the spokes and the wooden
rims of the wheels are intricately
carved. This work is all done by
hand; each cart Is different, il in
the scenes only, from each other
cart, and apparently the Sicilians
take great pride in their cart keen.
ing it clean and the paint bright.
Nor are they content with having
only resplendent cart, they also
bedeck their horse or mule with
brilliant appurtenances, feathered
pompom between his easr and very
tall pompom on his back in addi-
ton to brightly colored harness
work. and taSselS.
This was the Sicily that I had
Evening star., 1944-01-30
transfers

To Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tenn.
F A. Smith. John w O. Crocker, william
r. Newman. John D. Rule, Artis H Waters
Ton. snd JOHN VI hsoR Nas IT, Of Of Chevy q chase
To Naval Air Station. st. Louis. Mo.
John r. Cooper. james o. Kowalski and
Richard c. Grimm.
Hampden- sydney College. Va.
Harry Isaiah A7s Bond; j.; Jack william william
lssas 5sef sm Stsvsns and Aen
Gardner weise. all Of Washington. and
To Aberdeen Proving Ground.
Lawrence w. Borroughs, John E. Cum
minss, Victor r. Delisi, Stanley Selig
yi krsm. Ii a9y and and
William sturner. Hyattsville, and James P.
Stewart, Mclean, Va.
To Alfred University, N. Y. Under Asst.
Philip Fowler, Gerre Jones. Israel War
shaw and William Schmidt. all Of Washing
to~ and Arthur Lachenbruch. Bethesda.
To Keesler Field. Miss. for Prenisht Cadet
Training.
PVT Waitman T. Allen. Corpl. Norman
pvt. David c. Pratt for B-S4 Liberator
bomber mechanics.
Holy Cross CeIlere, Worcester, Mass,
Navy v-12.
John Anthony Fernandes. John William
Fitzeerald and BENJAMIN Francis Homan,
all Of Washington, and Edward John Erwin,
jr.. of Hyattsville
To Maxwell Field. Ala, for PrediEht
Training.
JACK I; Bailey. James E. Ballard. Benja-
min P. Blaine, jr.: John C. Brady. jr: Don
N: Fsustman. Harris J. Genarie,, David
Keister III. John p. Liposky, Joseph l..
Marshall, Ashby NJ Musselman. George A.
slmms. Edward F spraitz. Richard E.
Tunomas' Torna 3 Weinrich, Earl M;
1t. Charles Hubert Alyord, jr., Arlington.
To Navy Via OAicer Train nr Program,
Bethany College, w. Va.
Karl Joseph Berg, William Clifton Dor
Joseph Gordon. Arthur Robert Hartman,
George. Eston Morris, Joseph Benson Nor
rison, James Ward Mundell, LEONARD Theo-
dore Oliver and Robert Ross Reeves, all Of
WashinEton, and Roderick Dhu Atkinson
and Eichard Porter Ayers from Airing.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Walter Reed Chemist
Is Soldier of Week

Soldier of the Week" at Camp
Grant. H., recently was Pvt. Michael
]. Rinaldi, 1904 Piney Branch road,
Sligo Park Hills, Md, who for two
years was an analytical chemist at
Walter Reed Hospital.
One of his outstanding qualifi-
cations he says, is that he knows
exactly what he is eating when he
sinks his teeth into &C" rations.
His job has included running tests
on all types of foodstuffs.
Pvt. Rinaldi received the bachelor
of science degree and took two years
advanced work at the University
of Indiana He then was employed
by the Civil Service Examining
Board in Washington. and soon got
into the Army Medical Center at
Walter Reed. He also worked for
two years with the District Health
Department as bacteriologist. He
has applied for a commission in the
Army Sanitary Corps.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Sabatini Brothers Meet
In Africa First Day Of Year

Five days after First 1t. Norman
L. Sabatini LANDED in North Africa
he met his brother, Pfc. Otis N.
Sabatini-on New Year Day.
They are sons of Mrs. Joseph Sab
atini. 4402 Kansas avenue NV, and
Otis N. Sabatini of New York. 1t.
Sabatini, 26. husband of Mrs. Eliza
beth j. Sabatini, was employed in
the public relations section of the
Washington Gas Light Co. before
entering the Army in September,
194l. He has been overseas since
the last week of December and
has a 2-month-old daughter, Car
olyn An Sabatini.
Pfc. Sabatini, %, husband of Mrs.
Laura c. Sabatini of 291l Kennedy
street. HyattSville, Nd, has been
overseas seven months. Prior to en-
tering the Army Postal Service last
January, Otis Sabatini was WASH
ington mail carrier.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
D. {. Mechanic HELPS.
Keep Fortress in Air
From British Base

AN AMERICAN BASE IN ENG
LAND.-Sergt. Joseph j., Pilla, 73O
Quincy street NV, is a member of
the ground crew which has piled up
q string of 26 straight combat mis-
sions for its ship without rnechan-
ical failure and is shooting for an
Air Force record. The ship is the
Flying Fortress Idiots Delight"
The crew took one of the most
shotup planes and made her fly
again and again. Sergt. Pilla is a
former painter and decorator.
"Its more than just ship to us"
he says. "A while back we were as
signed another ship. to take care of,
but somehow the other one was just
piece of machinery. The idiot
really means something. We've been
with her so long there's a lot of
personal feeling in it. Every one
of the ground crew. has flown in
her, AS a matter of fact, you can
say that after the, wars over in
stead of so acres and a jeep, We'll
all take the plane"
Two hundred of the Forts total
of 800 holes were received during
one engagement, the bombing OF
Schweinfurt. d.
Rescued From Channel. 9
Tech. Sergt Eddie S. Winstead of
Washington is radio operator in a
crew which was aboard the Flying
Fortress "Superstitious Aloysious''
Evening star., 1944-01-30

"The plantation police in uni
form were out to help but I never
have seen a better behaved crowd
of children anywhere. Motion pic
lures were taken and you may have
seen them"
A Christmas program for the men
of the Air Forces was presented
at the base and from to O'Clock
dinner was served, with the follow
ing menu:
Cocktail fonda Pineapple
Teaki Turkey dAmreeka
.Subcheese Stuffing
Salaami Gravy u.
Cranberry Sauce de Pate
Potatoes a la Travitz
Buttered Chota Peas
Creamed Burtonaise Corn
Fresh Tschann baked Rotee
Iced Spice Cake de Baboo I'm
derhill
Garm Apple Pie awr Amreekan
Cheese
Tangerine a Phal Walla
Kitna Kaafeekee au Doodh e..
Paanee de Chlorine
Baksheesh Hard Candy
Evening star., 1944-01-30

expected to find, but the people no
longer wear the complimentary
clothes that probably they once
wore and the. buildings do not have
the color that their carts would lead
you to think they should have.
Near one of my gun positions here
some Sicilians were threshing their
wheat. (This landing strip only
shortly before was a wheat field.)
Their methods cannot have changed
in many centuries. The wheat was
spread o nthe ground in a circle
about 40 feet in diameter, in the
center of which was a pole. To this
pole was fastened, by rope about
10 feet long, two horses side by side,
which were driven around the pole
by man who also sang to them
In high, almost, monotone. It
sounded like Arabic singing. An
other man welded a pitch fork "a
crude, two-pronged, homemade af-
fair), with which he threw the
tramped upon wheat about feet
into the air; the kernels fell in one
pile and the wind blew the chaff
into another pile. Doesn't the
Bible mention Throw your chaff
to the wind.'D
Considerably later during the
campaign found out what they did
with this chaff; they make a straw
stack about 20 feet long by about
S feet wide. One man fills bucket
from the chaff pile, which he dumps
on the stack; the other man, using
homemade wooden rake, spreads
the straw, working it together to
form tight stack, the while walk
ing on 1t to pack 1t together. Usually
these stacks are built to a height
OF approximately 10 feet and the
Sicilians very carefully work the
sides to keep them straight and the
corners square. When the stack is
Evening star., 1944-01-30

Machinist's Mate School. Naval Training
Station, Great Lakes, Ill.
William T. HAYDEN, IS, wife. Mrs. Mil
dres SaI. E; H Hayden, ,l5 iih7 Park pl. NE. ~
Fred s zso q Tehth Nh
JACK L. L. R. Hutcheson, Is. son of Mr..
aesota aea mrs; ave1n. 4 F. Huteheson' 1917 Min
Evelyn Keranon. 1s5 Thirty-ifth street
Teskexee tAIa.l Preairht Course.
Charles J. ouander. 422 Twenty fourth
James H. Shepherd. 7s2 Lamont street
Ronald W. Reeves. 1894 Edgevale ter
race NV.
Navy Prefight School, Chapel Hills, N. C.
Cadet William North Sturtevant jr, son
OF 1t and Mrs. William North Sturtevant
Cadet Charles Cecil Julion Kellam. jr.,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Kellam
I751 street NV. transferred to Peru
~ csdet ed He Herbert , Allan Ehrmsn. il. son
wash Street herefrs esevy Ash hass Ehmn Ma
transferred to Glenview, III.
NaviTation School. San Marcos, Tex.
Second 1t. James L. Diggins. 19, sor
Fifth street NV
\, Flight ofiicsr James 8; Long, %, son o.
Mrs. Carrie 8. Long, BOIL Porter street
NV.
Flexible Gunnery School, HarIinEen Field
| Tex.
Sergt. Charles W. limbaugh, son of Mr.
and and Mrs; Charles T. limbaugh. 1922 Sec.
Corpl. Alfred j. DAmbrosio. son of Mr.
and Mrs John DAmbrosio, 1858 Sixteenth
street NV
Corpl. James c. Turnburke, formerly OF
32S Ridge road Sc.
| Miscellaneous.
| Aviation Cadet Richard T. Sterling, p
| son of Mr. and Mrs. p A. Sterling, 1890
Brandywine street NV. basic flight train
! Pvt. Bsifour b. Goldman. son Of Nj. and
Evening star., 1944-01-30

All in all, they looked much like the
residents of any tenement district
of large American city. They were
far more unattractive than the
Arabs had been; every now and
then we did see an aristocratic-
looking old Arab man; the kids,
like pickaninnies, were cute, and
the women-well, We could always
imagine that, under the ever-present
veil, the young ones anyway, were
pretty.
Around Celia. and at this loca-
ton, I first saw the famous Sicilian
carts. These are two-wheeled af-
fairs, pulled by horse. mule or OK,
but there ends the similarity to any
cart that you ever see in the States.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

-. EnsiSns.
- Jess d. Green. jr., Arlington, Va, at
Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School, Uni
versity of Notre Dame. Ind.
= Clarence Henry Kelley. jr., 1875 Fendall
street Sc. at the Naval Air Training
Center. Corpus Christi, Tex.
Master Sergeant.
James r. Fsgan. $3.50 9 street NV: at
the Ashford General Hospital White
Sulphur Springs. w. Va. ..
STAFF SerEeants.
Victor J. Orsinger, 5607 First street E..
at an Air Transport Command base in
West Africa.
Frank R. Desiderio, 1901 Branch avenue.
at Fort Benning. Ga.
Richard w White. 1921 NorthN Troy
street. Arlington, Va. at Fort Benning, Ga.
Technical Sergeant.
Miles D. Orr. 1898 Park road NV, in
the Mediterranean theater.
Corporals.
Frank B. Bush, 416 High street, Chevy
Chase, Md. at Greensboro. N. c.
Robert K. Balm. 1902 Geranium street
wv, at the Army Air Base, Blythe, Calf.
Corporal Technicians.
Thor Hoffman, 1908 Fifteenth street
NV: At BOILING Field; 2; e;
NV. at Boiling Field. .. e.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Six D. {. Area MP's
Help Control laps
Captured in Solomon.
BY SERGT. S. E. STAVISKY

BY SEkGT. s. f. STAVISKY
OF Washington, q Marine Correspondent.
SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
WEST PACIFIC Delayed.-Ha
ding Of Jap prisoners is a simpler
matter than Washington's traffic,
according to six District area resi-
dents-a lawyer, law student, high
school senior, farmer, greenkeeper
and truck driver-serving with a
marine combat military police unit
at this forward base.
Their only problem on Guadal-
canal, say these MP's, was not the
captured Japs, but the Japs who
were still loose-in dive bombers,
behind sniper rifles and the like
Four are veterans of the Guadal-
canal campaign.
Platoon Sergt. Edward M. Allen,
%. of SGT South Lee street, Alex
andria; Sergt. Conrad N. Cardano,
"a, of l720 A street Sc: Corpl.
Lloyd o. Allen, 27, of 1919 North
Van Buren, street, East Falls Church,
Va, and Pfc. Louis H. Cohen, 81. Of
7l3 Otis place NV.
The two others whose assignments
kept them at rear base throughout
the Solomons hostilities, are:
Platoon Sergt. Alvin E. Bernstein,
%, of 4415 Georgia avenue, and
Sergt. Jesse r. Cissel, 25. of 1413
Forest Glen road, Silver Spring, Md.
Blitzed on Return Trip.
Although they made the initial
landing on Guadalcanal with shock
troops and later served on beyond
the-lines listening posts, the MP's
on Guadalcanal did not get real
taste of blitz until they were return
ing to the Solomons for a second
time, after removing batch of pris-
oners to a safe base in the rear.
Our ship was in small convoy"
the boys relate. "and we were day
or so out of the Canal, when we
were attacked simultaneously by
subs and dive -bombers. Some of the
MP's were below and were almost
drowned when a bomb fell close by
the ship and drenched it with a
huge gusher. Another bomber dived
at the fantail but the bomb missed.
After that we succeeded in driving
them off.
Ketchup-Not Blood.
1t was on Guadalcanal that Sergt.
Cardano developed his present dis
taste for ketchup. He describes the
incident:
Il was lying in a foXhole with an
officer during an air raid when a
bomb fell some Is yards away-a
direct hit on a food dump. I felt
something strike my leg. You've
been hit cried the officer. I looked
at the leg and almost passed out.
1t was covered with red goo 1t
took me some time to realize it was
ketchup."
Among the duties of the military
police was that of securing the bat
tlefield after the fighting and super
vising the digging of graves for the
Japanese dead by japanese pris-
oners.
With one exception, the boys were
members of the Washington Reserve
Marine Battalion, called into active
service in November. 1910. The bat
talon was sent out for advanced
training, and five were selected for
M. P. assignments, which have taken
Evening star., 1944-01-30

SOis" pOl tdllG SCi AAoii
submarine center, and Osnabruck.
A former powder factory attendant,
Sergt. Cockerham entered the Air
Forces in November, 1912.
Curradi at dwellings.
Mai. Alfred D. Curradi, 1906
Thirty eighth street NV. took part
in ceremonies here when six gigantic
airdromes were unveiled" recently
and turned over to the American
Air Force in England in one day by
United States Army aviation engi-
nesrs. Four of the airdromes are
heavy bomber bases and the other
two are advance repair depots, one
for fighters and the other for
bomberS.
Mai. Curradi has been with the
Army Engineers in England almost
a year and a half. He formerly was
an assistant engineer with the Ma
tional Park Service in Washington.
Eackloff's Outfit Commended.
Sergt. Sidney Eackloff, %. of 939
Longfellow street NV. Is member
of an American. ordnance battalion
recently commended for meritorious
service. Sergt. Lawson w. CARLYLE,
908 First street NV, has been
awarded the good conduct medal.
He is stationed with signal service
detachment: