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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW
ENLISTMENT PROGRAM

l. Enlistments for IA, 2 or 3
years. (1-year enlistments permitted
for men with months service.)
2. Men reenlisting retain their
present grades, if they reenlist with
in 20 days after discharge and before
Feb. /, 1916. The same applies to
men discharged between May IL and
Nov. l, 1945, who reenlist before
Nov. 81, 1945.
8. An increase in the reenlistment
bonus to $50 for each year of active
service since the bonus was last paid,
or since last entry into service.
4. 2O% extra pay when overseas.
S. Paid furlough, up to 90 days,
depending on length of service, with
furlough travel paid to home and
return, for men now in the Army
who enlist.
6. Mustering-out pay (based
upon length of service) to all men
who are discharged to reenlist.
7. Option to retire at half pay for
the rest of your life after 20 years
service - or three-quarters pay after
80 years. (Retirement income in
grade of Master or First Sergeant up
to $15S.25 per month for life.) All
previous active federal military ser
vice counts toward retirement.
8. Benefits of CT Bill of Rights.
g. Family allowances for the
term of enlistment for dependents of
men who enlist or reenlist before
July /, 1916.
10. Choice of branch of service and
overseas theater in Air, Ground or
Service Forces on 3-year enlistments.
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NOV. q, 1945
AN IMPORTANT DATE FOR
THOUSANDS OF ARMY VETERANS
NOW IN CIVILIAN LIFE

between now and November 81,
thousands of Army veterans will
reenlist in Uncle Sans new volun-
teer peacetime Army. Because -
men who have been discharged be-
tween May II and November Of
this year and reenlist on or before
November q will be able to return
to the Army with the same grade as
they held when discharged.
Men with six months of satisfac
tory service discharged as privateS
will, on reenliStment before Novem-
Der 21, be given the grade of private
first class.
Men now in the Army who apply
for discharge after NOVEMBER l
for the purpose of reenlisting in the
Regular Army will also retain their
present grades, if they enlist within
20 days after discharge and before
FEBRUARY l, 1916.
BEST JOB IN THE WORLD"
These special privileges are typical
of the new law recently passed by
Congress. Few opportunities for a
lifetime career offer as many attrac-
tive advantages.
Can you think of any other job
that would give you good pay, your
food, clothing, quarters, free med
ical and dental care, worldwide
travel, 80 days furlough every year,
education and training in any of
nearly 200 skills or trades, and
enable you to retire 1Oith a life IN
come any time after 2Oyears' service?
There isn't any! That's why a
job in the Regular Army has been
called "The Best Job in the World"
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Ermine Hall Allen
Active Member of
Schubert Club

Mrs. Ermine Hall Allen, st. Paul
contralto, was one of five members
admitted to the active section Of
the Schubert Club, noted musical
organization, it was announced
Thursday by Mrs. John Neimeyer,
chairman of the additions commit
tee.
Additions were recently held at
the Women's City Club. The four
other members admitted to the club
were MAXINE Ingmundson, pianist;
Mrs. Glenn Ohmstead, soprano;
Louise Stuch, violinist, and Helen
Sorenson, pianist.
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Wooten, Sallie Wellington, Ann
Travis, Myrtle Ross, Helen We'd
dington, Ada Gates, Betty Reddicks,
Esther Roseby, Mr.. Humphrey
Wooten, Mr.. Harold Holland and
Peggy Aparicio.
Rev. John r. Brooks, formerly of
Silver Springs, Nd, now residing
in st. Paul, was recently appointed
director of the ODER Boys Club.
TwO-weeks visit: Mrs. Mae Anna
Jackson, of Durham, North Caro-
lima, arrived in the city Thursday,
November 1, to visit for two weeks,
at the home of her sister-in-law,
Miss Virginia Jackson and other
relatives, at 426 St. Anthony Ave-
nue.. On June 80, of this year, Mrs.
Jackson's husband, Leo, was killed
in France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie James, who
have been living in st. Paul for the
past year, have returned to their
home at 4O12 Clinton Avenue South,
Minneapolis.
Miss RevOida Wright, niece of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Smith, 1853 St.
Anthony, returned home Saturday,
November 81 after a year assign
ment overseas doing Red Cross Club
Recreational work. Miss Wright
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Social and
Personal

Home on furlOugh: Cpl. John
"Bud" Murphy, arrived in the city
October 20, on a furlough, from
Camp ANA, Riverside, California,
to visit his mother, Mrs. Ida Muir
ply, and wife, 1854 Thomas Avenue.
Cpl. Murphy's sister, Janeabelle
Murphy, who is head-lady at Com
munity Center of Peoria, Illinois, is
expected to visit in the city, over
the weekend, before the departure
of her brother Sunday, November
II.
Dinner and Theatre party: Mrs.
Roberta Lewis, 759 Rondo Avenue,
entertained Mrs. Sadie Robinson of
Boston, Mass, and her cousin, Mrs.
Henry Johnson, at a dinner and
Theatre party Monday, October 20,
Mrs. Robinson left for her home
October 81, after visiting her cousin,
Mrs. Henry johnson.
Mrs. Harold Brown, ST., 405 St.
Anthony Avenue, recently received
long distance telephone call from
her son, Harold Brown, Jr., a Mer-
chant Marine, after his arrival in
the States from France, on the
transport, Pittston Victory. Also
on the transport, which locked in
New York, was Alex Jordan. Sea-
man Brown left several days later
to return to France.
Mrs. William H. Ridley, 815 St.
Anthony Avenue, entertained Cpl
and Mrs. John Murphy, 1854
Thomas Avenue, to dinner, Satur-
day, Nov. 8.
Mrs. Samuel Ransom, 1O47 East
Rose, entertained at a get-together
Thursday, Nov. 8, in honor of Cpl
and Mrs. John Murphy, Miss Cor
rine Powell and her fiance, Mr..
Carl Herbert Griffin.
Second Wedding Anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam ]. Hall were
honored with a turkey dinner, cele-
brating their second wedding ami
versary Sunday, November A, Civ
en- by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H. Raw
lings, at their home, 925 Marion
Street. Other guests were: Mrs.
Alice Jackson and Mrs. Alice Curry.
Dinner guests: Mrs. Caroline l..
McWatt, 726 Sherburne Avenue,
had as her dinner guests Sunday,
November a, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Foster. Mrs. Foster has been presi-
dent of "The Ladies' Aid Society,"
of the Pilgrim Baptist church for
the past twenty-five years. Mr..
Foster, a veteran railroad man, has
the distinction of being the only
man in the 'Twin Cities Division of
the B. S. C. P" who carries an
honorary gold membership card.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster, pioneer citi-
zens, have contributed much to the
good and welfare of our community.
Pfc. Charlie ScrOggins received a
discharge from the Armed Services
October %, after three years of
Army duty, having entered the
Service May, 1941. Charlie Scrog-
gins, son of Mrs. Anna Scroggins,
22915 Rondo Avenue, is now at
home with his wife and three chill
dren, at 500 st. Anthony Avenue.
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had assignments in Calcutta, and
Dunn Dunn, India. Before entering
Red Cross work, Miss Wright was
school teacher in Towson, Mary
land.
Attended convention: s. Vincent
Owens, executive secretary of the
st. Paul Urban League, returned
home Saturday, November 8, after
attending three days Minnesota
Farmers Union Convention, at
Willmar, Minnesota.
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Social and Personal
Q ST. PAUL .

Turkey dinner Mr.. and Mrs Overton Wycough, TOY
Carroll Avenue entertained at turkey dinner Sunday Oco-
Der 49, honorng their Lawrence Wycough who recently
received discharge after spending four in the armed
forces Guests included Mr. and Mrs. j. Aparco Mr. and
Mrs Ace Grgsby Mr. and Mrs George Daley; Mines Anna
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PAY PER MONTH
ENLISTED MEN
In Addition 10 Food, Lodging,
Clothes and Medical Care

(a)-Plus 2o% Increase for
Service Overseas. (b)-Plus
500 if Member of Flying
Crews, Parachutist, etc. (c)
Plus SO Increase in Pay for
Each 3 Years of Service.
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forces is another problem that fire.
quently comes up.
The war reading room chief said she
receives a lot of calls from womens
groups, club members and community
planners who want to inform themselves
and other citizens about Dumbarton
Oaks, Breton Woods and UNRRA. The
war is also responsible for interests in
social service foreign languages and
politics. as we'll as in new ways to fix the
refrigerator and entertain the baby she
said, and added:
"Also, great interest in postwar build
ings of all kinds-homes, schools, pub
lie buildings-is shown" she added, I'm
ternational planning is of first interest
to lot of readers"
Interest in books dealing with war and
war heroes dropped in 1914, and trend
toward escapist books was noticed, the
city librarian said Before the war, the
readers sought romantic reading, and
other types of light reading.
I'm 1886 Gone With the Wind was
so popular that nothing else counted"
she said.
, "'The Robe Is still widely demanded"
she pointed out. "It has never been
of the reserve list. Other requested
books are 'Rebecca,' Northwest Pas
sage and 'Ot Mice and Men," She
said more serious reading is noticed
and the people generally are reading
with some individual purpose In mind.
Educational Subjects
Capital readers are forever seeking
material of self interest" value-books
on hobbies, farming, independent bust
ness, books that will give them back
ground on their jobs. Many high
school graduates who didn't 60 to COL
lege seek books that will help improve
their education. The librarian empha-
sized that information on prospects for
small farms and independent business
remains high.
Mothers, wives and sweethearts of
soldiers away from home are doing
lot Of reading on foreign lands" the
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WAC Corpl. Margaret Lee
Nanney measures Pit. Wesley
A. PhiIbrick for an artificial
arm belt at Walter Reed Hos
pital.
hospital is highly specialized, scien-
tific institution where infinite types OF
skills and training are employed.
Some keep the hospital machinery
rolling smoothly by recording the phys
ical condition Of patients on charts,
taking temperatures, serving meals and
doing other routine tasks necessary to
restore the wounded to health.
Specialized Training
Others have more specialized assign
ments, requiring particular training.
There are. pharmacists, psychiatrie social
workers, dental laboratory technicians,
dentists assistants, x-ray technicians,
medical stenographers and clerks.
The WACS can find use for a wide
variety of specialized training.
Physical therapy students all are
women who have college degrees either
in physical education or in one of the
sciences. Upon completion of nine
month course at Walter Reed they
receive commissions as second lieuten-
ants in the Army Medical Corps. 1t is
thay who will assist In the vital task of
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Shutting back and forth across the
oceans, crews have occasionally spotted
and reported enemy submarines. Ono
crew had the satisfaction of learning
two subs they reported were later sunk.
Another pilot noticed a U-boat trailing
a convoy He dived on it and frightened
the commander into submerging, PROB
ably saving the convoy from damage.
Capt. Don Terry. who recently trans
ferred back to the domestic division
of TWA after more than 100 Atlantic
crossings. spotted British merchant
ship locked in ice foes of the coast Of
Greenland. where it had been marooned
for months He led surface ships 10 its
rescue.
Planes Under Fire
Several planes have been damaged by
gunfire, but were able to reach their des-
tination without injury to passengers
or cargo Not all the adventures have
ended as happily. One sykmaster was
shot down in the ocean by British fight
er planes that failed to recognize 1t as
friendly Three other crews have been
lost under conditions that lead COM
pany officials to believe them the victims
of enemy action.
Although disabled >servicemen had
been occasional passengers since some
of the original Tokyo bombings, men were
YIofc otrxy iy,s tn1fnare
regular service having started last May.
Some 10000 wounded soldiers have rid
den across the Atlantic since then on
ATC planes flown by TWA crews. Pilots
like this part of their work, for the lit
ter-bound soldiers are quick to express
their pleasure at getting home so quickly.
Famous Passengers
Such famous passengers as Gems.
Marshall and Eisenhower, Admirals King
and Hart, Queen Wilhelmina Of the
Netherlands. King George of Yugoslavia,
President Vargas of Brazil and Gen.
de Gaulle have ridden the line. One TWA
crew, which few Nine. Chang Kai-shek
between China and the United States on
two occasions, was decorated with the
Order of the Clouds by the Chinese gen.
eral, p T. Now.
Three years of ocean pioneering have
brought excitement to the 1,700 local
TWA employees, but principally they
say, the years have brought satisfac-
ton in doing an urgent and vital war
job and in doing 1t well.
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restoring manned soldiers to lives OF
useful civilian activity.
The WACS at Walter Reed are grow
ing unit in rapidly-growing institution,
for the small hospital which was estab-
lished by Congress in 1905 on 43 acres
of land and with modest appropriation
of only 100000 today has grown to be
one of the greatest in the Army's ma
tional chain of so general hospitals in
this country. 1t covers ITO acres, has
scores of buildings and maintains re-
search laboratories and schools for viz
tually every branch of medical science.
Hospitals Understaffed
Today Walter Reed, like other Army
hospitals throughout the United States,
is drastically understaffed.
The reason can be found readily in
the casualty figures now pouring in daily
from the blood drenched battlef1elds of
Germany and the Pacific. For example,
in the two and one-half years of war
until the invasion of France last June,
American casualties had been held to
224. 500. But from D day, June 6, 1914,
until January l, 1945, casualties on the
western front in the ground forces alone
totaled 1892, of whom 232,672 were
wounded.
Casualties Increasing
Sick and wounded from overseas are
now being returned to the United
States, according to War Department
figures, at the rate of 10000 men per
month. That, the Army points out,
means an average of 1000 per day are
streaming into the general hospitals
of this country. On the average they
spend five months recupersting. Some,
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Women's Army Corps Unit Wins High Praise
In Care Of Wounded at Walter Reed Hospital

much as year in hospitals to receive
full benefit.
Battle casualties, the War Depart
ment says, now are totaling around
100, 900 per month and there is little
hope that they will decrease until the
war Is over.
The meaning of this is obvious. The
Armys hospitals are being taxed to the
limit And the comfortable care which
each soldier receives depends largely
on the number of attendants ready to
minister to him.
To meet this drastic need for hospital
attendants Gen. George c. Marshall,
Army chief of staff, has assigned to
the WACS the job of recruiting 103
medical units for the go Army general
hospitals. To have them functioning
by midsummer, he points out, it will
be necessary to recruit and train 6,l70
women by May / for assignment to
particular hospitals.
Assistance Greatly Needed
OF the 100 women to compose each
WAC medical unit the large majority
will be medical and surgical technicians,
trained to assist Army doctors and
nurses in caring for the sick and
wounded. Others in each unit will be
technicians skilled in X-ray and labora-
tory work.
The greatest need, however, the Army
says, is for assistants to the graduate
doctors and nurses who are being over
whelmed with work as the tide of
wounded from the battlefield flows in
daily.
So acute is the shortage now that in
many hospitals convalescent soldiers are
helping to care for their sicker com
rades. To relieve this situation women
from 20 to so are being urged tn enlist
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"Washingtonians are also taking
deep interest in what is going to happen
to the veterans after the war, by read
ing books on Rehabilitation and re-
Mobilization" she said.
According to the librarian, three OF
the books most popular today, each
having a reserve list mile long, are
Willard Walters "The Veteran Comes
Home" Dickson Wecters when Johnny
Comes Marching Home" and Soldier to
CiDilidn.''
Older people are doing much light
reading now, according to Miss Athea
T. Anderson, fiction room chief.
They want material with historical
and religious angle, and mystery and
detective books are very popular" she
said.
Della Oates, chief of the sociology
division said: There has been a great
increase in the calls for books on child
care and training and sex education
and problems of the family. Not only
have the parents requested this ma
terial but the volunteers taking courses
in child aid and the personnel of agen-
cies establishing day nurseries have also
called for material on child psychology
and allied topics. Parents now also
seek help from books in telling children
about war, death and other matters
which some children have been forced
to face at an early age.
Ministers and speakers seek books
and material on war marriages and
their effect on society. Parents want
to know what is happening to their
children in schools with unframed or
inexperienced teachers. A trend is
noted toward more interest in social
problems. An American Dilemma and
books on juvenile delinquency are al
ways on the reserve list"
AS for the music division, the chief,
Catherine v. Nimitz, said:
Il wouldn't say the war has increased
interest in music, but emphasis has GER
tainly shifted. Much interest is shown
in the role of music as an aid to morale.
Washington Government agencies train
ing personnel to be sent abroad try to
tamiliarisa them With the musical cui-
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officer was slightly hurt when hit by
streetcar in Cairo.
Expanding the Fleet
From the original five Stratoliners
assigned for Army operation after TWA
had removed them from domestic serv-
ice, the contract feet expanded to in
clude Liberator bombers converted to
cargo use (C-87s) and Skymasters. The
C-87s were returned to the Army after
a few months use to enable the line to
standardize on its equipment. Strato-
liners were removed from service last
year after having compiled $4,000 hours
Of fight and more than 1000 900 miles of
globe trotting. The remaining fleet Of
Skymasters is flying an average OF 1O1a
hours per plane per day, a figure COM
parable with that of domestic airlines.
Experience and the growth Of its fleet
of ,ATC planes has enabled TWA to
turn in larger performance figures each
year. Miles flown jumped from 500 900
in 1912 to $500, 900 the following year,
and 100000 last year. Routes, though
variable with changing needs OF the Air
Forces, have been fairly stable. The
southern route from Washington to
Cairo by way of Natal, Brazil. and Gen.
trail Africa. has been terminated, and
full concentration is given to the North
Atlantic routes to Scotland France and
Casablanca.
Accent on service to Africa in 1912 was
the result of Rommels pressure on the
British, and later, on the needs Of our
forces in overcoming resistance on that
continent. In one period of frantic
activity to deliver supplies to the British
at Ell Alamein, one of the Stratoliners
made IT round trips over the South At
lantic in three weeks. The supplies
were transshipped at Accra, Gold Coast,
for the fight across Central Africa.
New System of Navigation
During the winter 1884 TWA parti-
cipated in weather research sponsored
by the North, Atlantic Division of the
ATC Flying both east and west over
the Atlantic in an especially equipped
plane, TWA crews developed a new sys-
tenn of navigation called pressure pat
tern" flying. BY means of the system,
pilots are enabled to make use of large
scale storm areas to help, rather than
hinder. their flights. This was partly
responsible for the ATC's ability to re-
turn all transport flights across the
northern route this winter, rather than
send them on the circuitous routing
through Africa and South America,
saving time and money and contribut-
ing to better utilization of the airplanes.
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librarian said. "They read because they
are lonely and because they want to
learn something Of the locale in which
the soldier now lives"
The central library's technology divi-
sion chief Miss Ruth H. Todd, said that
the most obvious change in reading In
her section was the drop in demand for
books on machine shop practice and
allied subjects.
industrial workers who were fitting
themselves for war jobs by reading are
now trained, and industry has devel-
oped its own methods of training" she
said.
Special Fields
However, interest in aviation, radio,
electronics and mathematics continues
to increase" she added. Continuous
calls are received for books on small
farms and how to make living on
small acreage. Six copies of 'Five Acres
and independence by Maurice G.
Kains, originally published in 1885 as
Fine Acres, are kept in constant circu-
lation Interest was also aroused by
Edward H. Faulkner's 'Plo,Dman's Folly
a controversial book on a new method
of farming. A strange interest in
mathematics for recreational reading
has sprung up, apparently fostered by
Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the
Million" she said.
The veterans themselves already are
showing some concern for their future,
the librarian said "A lot Of requests
are received from servicemen and vet
Grams all over the world for information
on the CT Bill OF Rights, and how to
take advantage Of Government educa-
tional opportunities, how to get loans
and how to get full value Of the benefits
at their disposal. Many servicemen
overseas are writing back to the library
for information about jobs. A lot of
them are studying in foreign countries
for degrees. One soldier In Alaska is
studying for his law degree; another in
New Guinea is preparing for job as
railway station agent. Inquiries about
postwar education from all theaters of
var ars rscsivsf at the library"