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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
State Club Women
Responding To
$4,000 Budget Fund

The club women of the Mississip-
pi State Federation of Colored Wo-
men have responded enthusiastic
ally to the request for a $3,0000(
budget submitted several weeks
ago. According to Mrs. Ruby E
Stunts Lyells, the president, favor
able reports have been received
from clubs in Yazoo City, Prentiss
and Jackson.
In recent letter addressed to
clubs, the purpose for which money
was needed were set forth. These
included the Clinton Recreation
Center, the Oakley Delinquent
Home and the National Associa-
ton of Colored Women. In the
same letter club quotas were set al
from $500 for affiliated organiza-
tons to $4,000 for adult clubs.
Mrs. Lyells has just returned to
the State after two months of what
she terms "a very pleasant and
profitable experience" as Special
Assistant at Iowa State College
Ames, Iowa.
During the absence of the pres
ident the work of the State Fed
Grafton was carried on under the
leadership of the Vice President
Miss F. 0. Alexander of the State
Department of Education.
Mrs. M. M. Hubert, Chairman OF
the Board of Directors of the Gin
ton Recreation Center, reports that
development plans are being car
ried forward. The usual camping
program has been expanded to in
clude Boy Scouts, Extension Ser
vice groups, All clubs, Fellowship
of Reconciliation work camp
church groups, and welfare organ
izations. Upon the completion OF
the water system at the Center
Mrs. Huber states that there will
be a special Federation Day.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
Negro Troops to Form 1914
Percent Of U.S.. Army Of
Occupation in ETC.
Majority Will Be Members of
Service Units on Primary Missions
By Allan Morrison


Negro troops will comprise 1914
percent of the u. S. Army of Oc-
cupation in Germany, it was learn
ed from ETOUSA Headquarters.
The great majority of these
troops will be members of service
units performing their primary
mission" it was revealed, though
it has not yet been determined
which Negro units will remain as
occupation forces.
This will be decided when the
War Department instructs this the
alter of the types of units it desires
to retain in Europe.
The 10.4 per cent is the standard
one, set by Congress, and used by
the War Department in computing
the proportions of Negroes in the
u. S. Army. The proportion is not
standard for all theaters, however
Since the AEF arrived in the
ETC the proportion of Negro trops
of total U. S. forces averaged 8.4
percent and that percentage has
been maintained, with small fluc-
tuations, to the present time.
AS of May Is, there were in the
ETC 259,173 Negro troops of a
grand total of 3,002,142 U. S. per-
sonnet here at that time.
This figure was broken down as
follows:
Field forces, 1851.
USSTAF, II, 867.
Com T., 155,530.
Incorporating, 1905.
Incorporating includes patients,
PWs and casuals, while field forces
includes Army Groups, armies
ETOUSA and SHAEF Hq. person
mel.
Until recently, approximately 25
percent of Com z troops were Ne
gro, while field forces were made
up of four percent Negro person
mel.
These figures do not include the
Mediterranean Theater where
there was higher percentage of
Negro combat troops, including one
Infantry Division, the 92nd.
Under redeployment plans, the
Army intends that 1914 per cent Of
all U. S. personnel returned to the
U. S. for rehabilitation shall be
Negro troops.
We are striving to send a Ne
gro total of 1914 percent CT all
troops returned to the States FOR
eventual discharge" stated Col. C.
w. Powell, head of Troop Division,
Redeployment Branch of CD at
ETOUSA. 1--WE will not necessarily
reach this figure, but we are aim
ing at it."
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
Former Tennessee State
Professor to Head Agricultural
Division at Alcorn A. and M.
Board Approves President Pipes
Faculty Recommendations

Alcorn Miss.-The Board of Trus-
tees of Institutions of Higher
Learning of the State of Mississip-
pi met in Jackson last week and
approved faculty recommendations
for the Alcorn A. & M. College for
1945-46, according to President
Elect William H. Pipes.
Of the old faculty no one was
discharged. Two persons were not
rehired because the administration
of President Bowles failed to re-
common the rehiring of Mr.. Chas.
Wilson and Mr.. H. M. Thompson.
Both of these persons were asked
70 resign.
Several members of the present
faculty will study during the year
1945-46. Mr.. Robert Hurst, who has
not done advanced work for seven
years, will study. Mr.. M. ]. Lyell'S
will go away to earn his M. A. de-
gree, Mr.. J. H. Mosely will earn
the M. A degree from an accredit-
ed university and Mrs. J. H. Nose
ley will earn her B. S. degree.
Dean w. B. Nelson, whose train
ing is in industrial education and
who has not done advanced work
for IL years, will begin study dur
ing the year 1945-46 and will earn
his M. A. degree in administration.
Mrs. Ruby Lyells, who is on
leave working at the Iowa State
College, will be allowed to remain
away from Alcorn during the next
year.
dta
President P. S. Bowles who be-
comes president emeritus ON July
/. has been asked by the Alcorn
College Board of Trustees and the
new administration to remain in
the service of Alcorn College The
board has asked him to begin a
work which promises to become
one of the colleges greatest fea-
lures 1t is the hope of the school
that the campus of Alcorn College
will become the entire State of
Mississippi; extension centers are to
be established in various parts of
the state.
The trustees think that President
Bowles, due to his long years of ex-
perience and contact in the state,
is ideally prepared to initiate this
great work He has been asked by
the trustees to establish the first
center in his native town of Column
bia, where he has recently built
home for his retirement.
Several new appointments have
been made to the Alcorn College
faculty for next year. Prominent
among these is Mr.. E. S. Burke,
now professor of Agriculture at the
Tennessee State College of Nash
vile. He will become director of
the division of agriculture at AL
corn College, beginning August l,
1945.
Mr.. Burke earned his B. S. de-
gree at Tuskegee Institute and his
M. S. degree in agriculture at the
Michigan State College. He has
worked at Southern University in
Louisiana and at Alcorn A. & M.
College and is regarded as one of
the best poultry men in the coun-
try.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to our many friends
and acquaintance for kilograms,
condolences and other kindnesSes
extended to us during the death of
our late husband and father, Mr..
Thomas Randell.
Signed: Mrs. Lille Randell wife,
jackson; daughters, Mrs. Frieda
Powell, Jackson; Mrs. Grace White
Detroit; Mrs. Thelma Yates, De-
troit; Mrs. Ernestine Suits, Jack
son.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
Col. Davis To
Command 477th
Composite Group

Col Benjamin o. Davis, Jr, for
mer commanding officer of the
332nd Fighter Group in Italy, has
assumed command of the 477th
Composite Group, formerly the
447th Bombardment Group (Medi-
um), at Goldman Field, KY, the
War Department announced.
The 32-year old West Point grad
uate of 1886 earned his pilots wings
at the Tuskegee Army Air Field,
Alabama, in 1912. Placed in COM
mand of the 99th Fighter Squad
ron, he went overseas with it in
April, 1943. The colonel, then a
lieutenant colonel, served as COM
handing officer of the 99th in the
North African, Sicilian and Italian
campaigns.
On October 5, 1943, Colonel Da?
Wis, a native of Washington, D. c.,
returned to the United States and
assumed command of the 332nd
Fighter Group, which was activat-
ed October Is, 1912. The Group
trained under Col. Davis until Jan
uary Is, 1914 and then went over
seas and into action against the en-
envy as a part of the 18th Fighter
Command of the Mediterranean
Allied Air Forces under 1t. Gen.
Ira E. Eaker.
Flying the sturdy P-40 Warhawl1
and P-47 Thunderbolt with the
18th Fighter Command, the Group
strafed enemy shipping and did
low level skip bombing at Casino,
Anzio and other points in Italy.
They were later assigned to the
18th Air Force and equipped with
P-51s. The Mustang became fav-
Orlte With the pilots.
On February %, 1916, Col. Davis
Group had completed 200 combat
missions with the 18th Air Force
and had served as escort to heavy
bombers without losing a single
bomber to enemy fighters. Up to
that time, members of the 332pd
Fighter Group had been awarded
63 Distinguished Flying Crosses,
and had completed 5000 sorties
while destroying more than 200 en-
envy aircraft in aerial and ground
strafing assaults.
Working in close cooperation
with the U. S. Fifth Army and the
British Eighth Army, the fighter
group performed all types of mis-
sions, ranging from escorting heavy
bombers over the Ploesti oil fields
to low level strafing raids on re-
treating Germans in Northern IL
al. Yugoslavia, Austria and finally
over Germany itself.
Col. Davis has been awarded the
Legion of Merit, Silver Star, Dis
tinguished Flying Cross and the
Air Medal with four Oak Leaf
Clusters.
He recently returned to the
United States to take command of
the reconstructed filth Bombard-
ment Group, which will be known
as Composite Group. Elements
of the 477th will include two
bomber squadrons, and one fighter
squadron from the 332nd Fighter
Group. The remaining elements of
the 332nd Fighter Group will oe
held in strategic reserve.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
DR.. S. D. Redmond
Receives 9Th
Degree

Jackson, Miss.,-The degree of
doctor of laws was &c -ertly con-
ferred upon DR.. S. D. Redmond of
this city by Rust College. It mark
ed the sixth time he has received
degree.
During large part of his early
boyhood days, Redmond had to
walk IA miles each day to and from
school across fields and canebrakes
He was Is years old before he
could write his name.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
Rev. Lee To
Assist Pastor of
Meridian Church

As the results of a request made
Ky Elder G. A. Thomas. Pastor of
the Church of Christ Holiness, Me-
ridian, Miss. Rev. T.. c. Lee, has
beer appointed to the assistant
pastorship of the church, the APP
pointment becoming effective June
26, le45.
Rev. Lee, who is principal of c.
NJ. & l. College located near Jack
son, has done an outstanding job
at the school for the past years. He
is also vitality interested in all
things that tends to uplift the
youth of his race.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30
Construction Order Revised

Construction Order Revised
Up to $1,000 may now be spent
during a calendar year on an in
dividual farm for the construction
of farm service buildings and ia
cilities. This slightly higher dollar
exemption for farm construction
is permitted by a recent amend
ment to WPB's order L-4l. Main.
tenance and repair costs on farm
service buildings remain unlimited
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30

Increased funds will be available
after July l for farm purchase
loans under the Bankhead- Jones
Farm Tenant Act, it was announc-
ced here by r. D. Alliston, super
visor of the Farm Security Admin
istration.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30

Selective cutting of sawlogs and
thinning timber stands for pulp
wood will help the war effort and
improve the remaining stand Of
wood, foresters of the Mississippi
Agricultural Extension Service
point out.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30

American women are pretty,
But Russian women are really
beautiful. Harry Hopkins in
Moscow.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-06-30

IS
LOUIS ARMSTRONG; worlds
for Of the South
Theatre IN Philadelphia Musical
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Carolina South Carolina
'ssisspp and Texas enroue to the coast The film
nationwide
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booked them all he
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suHok vaJune IS; Township Auditorium c. June 20
following the German affair."
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Louis Armstrong will at the Coored Skating Rink
paper publicity concerning hgge
tsss
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A. D. scarborough
cooperating In
Jackson Hospital

Foster General Hospital, Jack
son, Miss, Aug 2.-Technician
Fifth Grade A. D. Scarborough,
brother of w. c. Scarborough of
Pascagoula, Miss, who fought in
Normandy, North France, Rhine
land and the Ardennes with the
4th Infantry qvy) Division, is
now recuperating at the Army's
Foster General hospital, Jackson,
Miss.
TVS Scarborough, who has been
in the Army since March, 1941,
wears the European Theater of
Operations ribbon, with four
battle stars; Good Conduct Med
al and the Pre-Pearl Harbor
ribbon.
Prior to entering the Army, TVS
Scarborough was a carpenter.
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3 Pascagoulans
Take Part In
Mindanao Drive

With the Dixie Division in Min
danao-(SpeciaD-In the longest
inland water thrust of the Phil
ippines campaign, seven Gulf
Coast infantrymen were among
126 Mississippians who were ar
ried eighty miles up the twisting
Agusan river and its tributaries
with their 31st Division unit to
deny the Japs a place of refuge
even in Mindanao's mosquito-in-
tested swamps.
In less than two weeks their
combat team had killed more
than 100 of the enemy in scat
tered contacts.
Three of the men were from
Pascagoula, SiSgt. Floyd H.
Smith, son of Mr.. Glen Smith of
sol 9th street; SfSgt l.. D. Myers,
brother of Jessie Myers of 1908
Convent avenue; and Pfc. Ted
Williams, son of Mrs. Emma Will
liams of 829 S. Pascagoula street;
from Ocean Springs was TVS
George w. Carroll. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Tony Carroll; from Gulfport
was T/5 George Purchner, Jr.,
son of Mrs. Blanche Levens; and
from Picayune SlSgt. John R..
Cameron, $40 Mill street.
The Mississippians found no
head hunters or crocodiles as
they had been led to expect; in
stead there were hundreds of
organized guerrillas, eager to aid
in killing Japs. Artillery pieces
were hauled off barges up the
steep river bank. tons of sup
plies were unloaded by hand,
and a muddy banana grove was
transformed into a base camp.
While 20 shallow-bottom sup
Ply barges piled the sometimes
even shallower river, needing
rain almost daily for navigation
of its upper reaches, the mission
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Departure Of Mr.. And
Mrs. 7. c. Fullilove /.
Is Being Regretted

The departure of Mr.. and Mrs.
T. c. Fullilove from Pascagoula
after almost four years Of resi-
dence is being greatly regretted
in a large circle of friends.
Mr.. Fullilove was indicted into
the Navy at Shreveport last week
and was Immediately transferred
to San Diego.
At present Mrs. Fullilove is
with her sister in Bunkie, La,
awaiting news from her husband
as to where he will be stationed
If he will be at one base long
enough to make the trip to Cali
fornia worth while Mrs. Fulli-
love will join him there.
While here Mrs. Fullilove idep-
titled herself with many worth
while civic and club activities and
her loss will be definitely felt both
socially and in church work.
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Hurley

Mrs. Susanna Jones and Mr..
and Mrs. j. B. Jones and daugh-
ter were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Golf and
family of Wader
Miss Olga Hamilton, cadet
nurse, at Mobile Infirmary, Wis
tied with her family in Hurley
over the weekend.
Mrs. Margie Jones returned
Saturday to her home in Hurley
after working several months in
Panama City, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack King and
son, Carl, spent Sunday visiting
relatives in Agricola, Miss.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Green
and Mrs. M. c. Crawford visited
Friday evening with Mr.. and Mrs,
Cecil Tilley at Agricola, Miss.
Mrs. Homer Jones and daugh-
tiers were business visitors in Pas
cagoula Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Williams,
Jr., motored to Tanner-Williams
Sunday to visit with Mrs. Gin
sons nephew, Pvt. Harold Tan
ner, who is home on furlough
from the u. S. Army.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. v. Addison OF
Wade visited in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. M. L. Hamilton.
Mrs. N. l. Lyons made a bust
ness trip to Moss Point and Pas
eagoula Friday.
Miss Mary Ruth Jones is re-
covering from a tonsillectomy
which she underwent Friday at
the jackson County hospital.
Friends of Miss Juanita Jones
regret to learn of her serious ILL
ness and wish for her a speedy
recovery.
Charles Stone of the U. S. Navy
is enjoying a leave of absence
with his family and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. l.. Hamilton,
Sr., and daughter. Jeanette, of
Mobile, were guests in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Parker of
Wade Wednesday.
Mrs. Marvin Green, Mrs. Ce-
Gil Tilley and Mrs. Eugene Flur-
ry, teachers at the Hurley Con-
solidated school, are enrolled in
the special summer school for
teachers being conducted at the
Pascagoula High school.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Mizelle have
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DFC Is Awarded
1t. Furnsworth
For Second Time

That 1t. j. G. Robert Farms
worth, Jr., has been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross for
the second time, has been learned
during the brief visit of this
intrepid flyer to his home city
the past week.
The award will entitle 1t.
Farnsworth to wear the gold star,
which is representative of two
Dies.
1t. Farnsworth received the
award at Santa Rosa, Calf, a few
days before he came to Pasca-
goula. The citation accompany
ing it stated that he was pilot
on one of six American planes
which encountered 16 Jap air.
ships and that in the combat
which ensued he succeeded in
downing two of the twelve enemy
ships that were destroyer.
After a short visit with his
father, Robert Farnsworth, Sr.,
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and other relatives, he has re-
turnea to Santa Rosa whence he
will soon again be assigned to
the Pacific Theater of Opera
tions.
His mother, Mrs. Robert Farms
worth, Sr., and Mrs. T, d. Hib-
Ter, shreveport who were in
Santa Rosa at the time the award
was made, will remain with him
until his departure overseas.
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Womun's Auditory
To Honor Mrs. Jones
Cogswell FridcY

A
The Woman's Auxiliary to the
First Presbyterian church of Pas
cagoula will give a reception in
the church house on Canty street
Friday afternoon from 400 to
500 honoring Mrs. James Cogs-
well, a recent bride.
All women of the First Church
and of the Eastlawn Presbyterian
church are invited to be present.
In the 10th century, supersti-
tious persons believed comets to
be heralds of evil. portending
flood, famine, earthquake, war
or pestilence.
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Big Point

A number of people from here
attended the singing convention
in Hurley, Sunday.
Mrs. w. H. Nelson and daugh-
tiers, Dolores; Mrs. Hubert Golf,
and Miss Doris Young went to
Mobile, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Parkhurst
of New Orleans spent last week
in the home of Mr.. Parthurst's
mother, Mrs. Parthurst.
Mrs. L. M. Brown and son,
Manuel, made a business trip to
Pascagoula, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cochron
from Jackson spent a few days in
the home of the formers son
and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Homer Cochron.
Velma Wilmington visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Whit
tington, recently.
MI. and Mrs. w. T. Golf and
sons made a business trip to Pas
cagoula and Moss Point Friday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs, Brown of Esca-
tawpa spent Sunday in the home
of their son and daughter-in-law,
MIR. and Mrs. Lyle Brown.
Mrs. Lena Parkhurst of New
Orleans is spending a few days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. S. Long.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Gill
bert Nelson are sorry to hear of
the Illness of their baby and hope
that it will soon be well.
MI. and Mrs. Norris Roberts of
Vancleave spent Sunday after
noon in the home of Mrs. Rob-
erts' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Err
vine Nelson.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Whiting and
Mr.. and Mrs. Rollin Colman and
Mrs. Coleman's sister and broth
er from Kentucky enjoyed an ice
cream supper Monday night.
Mr.. Freddie Nelson left Tues
day for Camp Shelby where he
will be examined for the Army.
MI. and Mrs. Summerald, who
lived here twenty years ago,
came down from Hattiesburg on
Wednesday to fish after visiting
q few of their old friends.
The new church will be OPEN
led for Sunday school Sunday
morning and all are invited to be
present. Also, plans have been
made for a song service Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. w. T. Golf has been on
the sick list for a few days.
MI. Hubert Golf made a bust
ness trip to Pascagoula and Moss
Point SATURDAY..
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Four jackson County Men On Board.
California During Kamikase Attack

Four Jackson county men, Lee
roy Under, Route l., Willie d.
Lowrey and Edward Peters. Route
| of Pascagoula and Coxswain
Henry Young of Moss Point
came through the Kamikase at
tack on the destroyer "Califor-
MIA" without a scratch according
TO letters received by Mr., and
Mrs. Louis Under Monday.
The association of these four
men is almost epic in quality as
they entered the Navy as APP
proximately the same time, were
sent. to the same training centers
and have always been stationed
on the same ship.
And the California has seen
plenty of action since she was
raised from the mud of Pearl
Harbor after the Jap attack, and
put into commission. She has
sustained major damage in at
least two battles, and has been in
the fray at Guam, Saipan, Tinian
Bay and the Philippines.
AS released to the world last
Saturday the California" was
attacked by suicide pilots in Jap
planes while she was in Lingay-
en- Bay, January 8, 1945.
Six officers and 26 enlisted
men were killed and 155 wound
ed was the result of the %encount-
er.
Two of the "kamikase" planes
made the attack. The first was
downed by AA fire. The second,
which appeared to have been hit
was passing the starboard side
when it banked suddenly and
roared in upside down to crash
against the tower.
Firefighters and damage con-
troll personnel went to work on
the resulting fire, while others
took up the work of ~rescuing the
gunners and others trapped in
the stricken area.
Under, who has the rating OF
seaman first class is the son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Under, Route
/, Pascagoula. James Edward
Peters was a neighbor of the Lin
ders and his wife, Mrs. Jennie
Lou Peters, still resides on Route
|. Both Peters and Willie d.
Lowrey are seamen second class.
The latter's mother, Mrs. Mary
Montgomery, resides at Delmas
Trailer Court, in Pascagoula.
Coxswain Young is a resident of
Moss Point.
In writing to his parents, young
Under says, I'VE home boys are
in good condition and not grumb-
ling. And the Japs are taking a
terrific beating"
of CHS and their Filipino COM
rades-in-arms in this remote spot
remained the same.
1t was, in the words of theiI
Clarksdale colonel, ito stay here
until mn kill all the .1anSn
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Sunset Crater in Arizona Is
a prehistoric eruption dating e
ss5 A. D.
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Thomas Edison was a pioneer
in the use Of electricity for trac-
tom
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been seriously i'll for the past
few days. Their friends wish
for them both a speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Honor Jones had
as their Sunday dinner guests
Mrs. Jones' parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Neal Parker af Wade.
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of CHS and their Filipino COM
rades-in-arms in this remote spot
remained the same.
1t was, in the words of their
Clarksdale colonel, ito stay here
until we kill all the Japs."