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OF MAKING YOU TALK C.ROSS-WORD
Western Front (CNS)-Here's a
ACROSS DOWN
new wrinkle in German methods of
1-Belts 1-Stream bank
extracting information from Amer-
7-Fondle 2- Vibration
icans who are taken prisoner. They 13- Journey 3- Plunder
Mighty Naval first strip their c~ptives of all 14-Beast 4- Salutation
Bombardment identification, including passes, 15-Honor 5- Officious
6- Killed
dog-tags and identification cards. 16- Coal-screening plant
Precedes 17- Ancient wine chalice 7- Slyly spiteful
Then they set up an opening for 18-Reproach 8-Cuckoo
Invasion an escape. When the American 20-Location 9- Tears
takes advantage of the opening, he ' 1-,,,...+--+---,~- 21- Wooden blocks 10- Domain
23- Cereal grass 11- Seasoned
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 is "tailed" and recaptured before 25-Steep 12- Icy rains
he can reach his own lines. Then 19- Emerald Isle
BY ERNIE PYLE 26-Formulated
the Nazis threaten to shoot him as 27-Violent whirlwind 22- Floated
OKINAWA (Via Navy Radio).- a spy unless he gives them the 28-Nourishes 24-Newt
30- Muscular person 27- Interjection
An hour and a half before H-Hour information they want.
33-Setting 29- Elongated fishes
at Okinawa, our vast naval fleet 36-Exist 31- Golf mound
began its final, mighty bombard- on its way before- Wave one ever 37- Endure 32-Printer's measure
33-Blazer
ment of the shore with its big guns. hit the beach. Wave 15 was moving 41-Conducted ·34-Rekindle
They had been at it for a week, up before Wave six got to the '12-Sea eagLe 35-Worships
44-Pack
but this was a concentration whose beach. That's the way it went. 45-Admit 38-Raiment
fury hadn't been approached be- We were on the control boat 47-Blissful region 39-Stainer
fore. about an hour. I felt miserable and 50-Cravat
51-Optical 40- Suit fabrics
The power of the thing was that awful weight was still on my phenomenon 43- Pastoral pipes
ghastly. Great sheets of flame heart. There's nothing romantic 53- Towardly 46-Slacken
would flash out from a battery of whatever in knowing that an hour Courtesy Harle Publications, Inc. 55- Leveled 48- Brim
guns, gray brownish smoke would from now you may be dead. And 56-Harnessed 49-Christmas carol
57- Puts into type
puff up in a huge cloud, then the the fury of our bombardment was ( Solution on Page 4) _ again 52- Obtain
crash of sound and concussion in itself horrifying. 58-Forefathers 54- Social bounder
would carry across the water and So Far, So Good
hit you. Multiply. that by hundreds Some officers I knew came
a battlewagon would come out in a talk. I simply couldn't carry on a [?!~~~~~l?.~!.!!f.~~!~!:~~!!~] ~~N~:s ~~~~or?
and you have bedlam.
aboard. They weren't going ashore
Now and then the smoke from until afternoon. They wanted to
smoke ring, an enormous one, 20 conversation. I just couldn't talk·. The mascot situation at th-e 111
or 30 feet across-, and float upward I went below to use a civilized Sports Advocate Etiquette for Dogs O'Farrell street USO is again be-
with perfect symmetry. toilet for the last time in many Sports in wartime come strongly The girl to ask about hunting coming acute. Their supply is ex-
Then came our carrier planes, days. I got a drink of water, under the heading of "essential" dogs is Dorothy Pangborn, Slc, ceeding the demand by a wide mar-
diving on the beaches. And torpedo th~ugh I wasn't thirsty: Then one with Major Joseph J. Foss, the part of the staff at Public Works. gin.
planes, carrying heavy bombs and sailor came up and introduced Marine Corps' 29-year-old holder A year or two before joining the If your outfit wants a mascot,
incendiaries that spread deep red himself and said he read the of the Medal of Honor and the Navy Dorothy spent her time train- then look no more. Just call
flame. column. Then a knot of sailors first American of this war to equal ing these animals for annual field GArfield 7377, Ex. 17 (information
Smoke and dust rose up from the gathered around on deck. Eddie Rickenbacker's record of 26 and water trials both in the United desk) and tell whoev,er answers the
shore, thousands of feet high, until One sailor with black, close- planes shot down. States and Canada. Time was when telephone the kind of pet you
finally the land was completely ~ropped hair and glasses offered Sports of all kinds-bowling, pointers, setters and retrievers, all would like.
veiled. me a cigar. I didn't even have the
swimming, boxing, hunting-are gun dogs dear to the hearts of men Although the USO has occasion-
· Born bs and strafing machine guns wit to put down his name.
and roaring engines mingled with I told him 'I didn't smoke cigars, one of the prime considerations in and women who hunt for sport, ally received requests for such mas-
were judged at bench trials which cots as parrots and turtles, fo·r
the blended crash of naval bom- but I would take one for our regi- the p r o g r a m of
bardment and seemed to drown out mental colonel who practically lives training and recon- were really indoor dog shows. the most part the material is con-
About fifty years ago hunting en- fined to the quadruped variety.
all existence. on cigars, and was about out of ditioning Marines
thusiasts realized that the merit
Turmoil of Movement them. under observation of a hunting dog
The ghostly concussion set up A few minutes later the sailor for recurring ma- Send The Masthead Home
could only be proved ·
vibrations in the air-a sort of came up with five more cigars to laria at the Marine
by his behavior in
flutter-which pained your ears give to the colonel. They wanted to Barracks, Klamath
the field and water.
and pounded upon you as though give me candy, cigarets and Falls, Ore., the Pa- ,, ·
This saw the birth of
some Almighty were beating you cookies, but I told them I already cific air ace told a what is now known
with invisible drumsticks. had plenty. gathering of Bay Area sports as the field and
During all this time the waves Word came by radio that Waves writers in San Francisco recently. water tri'al, and that
of assault craft were forming up one and two were ashore without Major Foss now commands a bat-
is where Dorothy
behind us. much opposition and there were ta.lion of Marines at Klamath Falls,
comes · into the story. Good field
The water was a turmoil of no ·mines on the beach. So far, so where he, too, is fighting off the
qualities for hunting dogs are *
movement. Dispatch and control good. effects of malaria. BANKING FACILITIES
speed, endurance, a good nose and
boats were running about. LSM's We looked at the shore through Recalling the days when the air
a good disposition. Breeding lays WESTERN UNION
and LST's were moving slowly for- binoculars. We could see tanks over Guadalcanal was filled with the groundwork and training com-
ward to their unloading areas. moving across the fields and the zeros, the major said: "We used pletes the job of making a cham- PosT OFFICE
Motor torpedo boats dashed men of the second wave walking to move in on them and fight it out pion, the aim of every owner, WAR BoND OFFICE
around as guides. Even the de- inland, standing upright . . There on a man to man basis. You had to breeder and trainer. Properly bred
All 4 services located in Bldg.
stroyers moved majestically across were a few splashes in the water keep cool, never get mad, or you and trained these animals lack only 258, Ave. H, near 4th St.
the fleet as they closed up for the at the beach, but we couldn't make speech to make them practically
might lose your head in more than
bombardment of the shore. out any real fire coming from the human. *
shore. one way. That's something you SMALL STORES
From our little control ship and Dorothy says that patience on
the scores like it, waves of assault It was all very indefinite and yet learn in sports- and something you the part of the trainer is the one Bldg. 215, 10th St., between
craft ·were directed, advised, hur- it was indicative. The weight began are glad you learned later." great necessity. She learned the Aves. M and N.
ried up, or slowed down. to lift. I wasn't really conscious of "Those islands, almost all of them, do's and don'ts of training gun *
H-Hour was set for 8 :30. By 8 it. But I found myself talking more are covered with fowl," he said. dogs by serving an apprenticeship, TRAVELERS' Arn
a. m. directions were being radioed easily with the sailors, and some- "The pigeons have dark blue bodies and finally fQund herself following
RAILWAY EXPRESS
and a yoice boomed out to sea to how the feeling gradual!~ took hold with slate gray heads and are a the hunting season across most of
form up Waves One and Two, to of me that we· were to be spared. little larger than those in Cali- the United States and Canada. She Both located in Bldg. 221, 11th
hurry up, to get things moving. -The seventh wave was to pick us fornia; and the chickens are like a is from Minneapolis, Minn., and St., between Aves. G and H.
Our first wave consisted solely of up as it came by. I didn't even see bantam only with a longer tail." when asked if she would go back *
heavy guns on amphibi_ous tanks it approaching. Suddenly they cal- The major comes by his interest to training dogs after the war she SmP's SERVICE No . I
which were to wade ashore and led my name and said the boats _in sports and the outdoors natur- answered that her ambition was to Bldg. 152, 9th St. and Ave. C.
blast out the .pillboxes on the were alongside. ally, having been born on his par- go back to school and study interior
beaches. One minute behind them I grabbed my pack and ran to ents' farm, near Sioux Falls, S. D. decoration, leaving guns and dogs *
Smp' s SERVICE No. 2.
came the second wave-the first of the rail. I'm glad they came sud- His father taught him to box, ride for her favorite hobby. In the
our foot troops. denly like that. The sailors shouted, horseback,- shoot and hunt. Skunks meantime she is happy in navy Bldg. 8, 5th St., between Aves.
After that, waves came at about "Good luck," over and over and and weasels were the game in those blue, likt>s her work and feels her M and N.
10-minute intervals. Wave six was waved us off. We were on our way. youthful days. time as a Wave well-spent.
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