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PAGE FOUR THUNDERBIRD. SEPTEMBER 14, 1943 F2A-Buffalo wry hk WHY, MISS U-Boats Claim Few Americans Washington, Sept 14 Two million men have already been transported overseas, Speaker Rayburn, announced recently, and there have been fewer than 700 casualties from U-boats, In a speech that was packed with revelations, Rayburn said that the army is so well outfitted that there is one piece of artillery for every 46 soldiers. Since the outbreak of the war America's ordnance industry has turned out 160,000 large-calibre artillery pieces for the armed forces, nearly 1,300,000 machine guns and five million rifles and submachine guns. Small arms ammunition has reached the figure of 22 billion rounds, enough to fire 1,500 MBWMWm Change Made In Code Speed Sioux Falls, Sept. 14 Code speed qualifications were changed last week at the AAF training command radio school here so that students must now copy code from two to four times longer before being per-mitted to advance to the next higher speed.

"The reason for adhering to such stringent standards is to assure the men that they will be able to copy code at the speed for which they have been credited," stated Capt. S. Patterson, chief of the radio operating division, "We want to make sure that our operators will be able to copy their messages under adverse conditions." Formerly, students were required to copy one minute out of a three minute code check with no mistakes, but now code checks must be copied in their entirety with a minimum of errors. Students are allowed three errors in passing a four-minute code check and five errors on alt other speeds up to 18 words per minute. Above 18 words per minute, seven mistakes are allowed.

Code checks above the speed of 18 words per minute are four minutes long. Under the revised check system, students are automatically failed if they miss one letter consistently. It was pointed out that many students have developed habitual errors when they rose too quickly to the higher speeds. i i This it Misi Jane Russell, boys. How about her for a pin-up.

"Yank" printed a little poem under her picture. It said: "Why, Miss Russell Can that be muscle?" Wounded Sergeants Save Their Fortress BREWSTER FIGHTER Single-seat carrier or land based fighter which has seen action over Near East, East Indies, Egypt, Europe, Midway. Hits 400 m.p.h., climbs 3070 ft. per minute, ranee 1472 mi carries two 100-pound bombs I oiiu mounts iour ou-cai. machine guns.

No longer in production, the Buffalo is being used in training and will be replaced by the F3A-1 Battler. Gunner Dangles By His Toes From Bombing Plane London, Sept. 14-Sgt. A. R.

Bartholomew, 27 years old, Danforth, knows what it feels like to dangle head first from the ball turret of a Flying Fortress thousands of feet above the earth while enemy fighter planes are attacking. He had that experience in the recent American raid on Regensburg, Germany, and lived to tell the tale. "There was so much shooting going on," he related, "that I don't know exactly what hit us, but something rammed into my ball turret and knocked off the door. Before I knew it I was hanging out in the air, but as I slipped out my toes caught on the range pedal of my gun and-there I was. "At least 100 nazi fighters were dashing about, shooting at us and everybody else.

I don't know how I did it. but I literally lifted myself back into the turret by my toes." Lieutenant Backs Away From $17 Salt Lake City, Sept. 14 Throwing down a $5 bill, a second lieutenant asked for movie tickets for himself and his girt. "That'll be $17 more," said the ticket seller. "Ten dollars each for the ducats and two dollars tax.

It's premier night you know. This Is the Army. The lieutenant scanned his wallet then beat a retreat. Harms Studio Portraits Block South of Alex Johnson Hotel Floral Service Plants end Flowers WE TELEGRAPH FLOWERS JLJ FLOWERS iM st st "IN or OUT" 2 pairs $1 (and up) WALTER F. bullets at every soldier in the axis armies.

There has been a Increase in the army and navy air forces in the past 12 months. The armed forces now have "a transport vehicle and an air umbrella to match the greatest overseas force the world has ever known." The fitness of our fighting men, as reported by experts, Speaker Rayburn said, surpasses that of any other fighters, including those of the United States in past wars. The average American soldier not only eats better, sleeps better, hears, sees, marches and breathes better, but is almost an inch taller and nearly 10 pounds heavier than he was in 1917. Civilian Wins A Medal For Deed In An Airplane Hamilton Field, Sept. 14 John S.

Cameron, 30, aircraft inspector at Hamilton field, last week became the first civilian employee at the Northern California army air base to win the award of merit of the air service command since establishment of the awardn March of this year. The award is given by the ASC to civilian employes who give "meritorious service beyond the call of duty." According to the citation accompanying the award, Cameron, during a routine flight of a plane, "located and corrected a mechanical defect which prevented the locking of the landing gear in their down position. This repair work was performed under extremely hazardous conditions and required a complete presence of mind and utilization of thorough technical knowledge." The flight occurred April 24 and the plane carried four persons. Because it was at the end of its mission, the gas supply was low and had it not been for Cameron's quick action, a crash landing would have been necessary. He dismantled a unit of the landing gear, made his repair with the only available tool, a pocket knife, and reassembled the gear.

Forgets-Nothing Forgets His Exam Denver, Sept. 14 Melvin Forgets-Nothing, 17-yearold Sioux Indian from a reservation in South Dakota, registered at a Denver hotel pending an army physical examination. Recruiters waited past the scheduled examination hour. Finally Melvin showed up and explained he "forgot." FINE DIAMONDS. WATCHES.

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Says Cpl. Russell: "It sure is safer in Guadalcanal than in Chicago Sia 1070 The Serviceman's Travelers Cheques Buy Them At Your Airbase Office Next Door to Finance Bldg. Rm National Bank I OP Til BLACK HILLS of the ARMY they BOTH wear Interwoven Sox Correct Colors for All Branches of The Service WHITE, INC. Mt IfllKSI ItUtlll IMtlllia altflll mutm ma oMimrtR iimmioxiwnn mmm muu mom mm iniwm Roosevelt Subject Of Marine Echo To Japs' Blood Motto Washington, Sept. 14 (Science Service) If Franklin Delano Roosevelt is identified with a blood-drinking orgy by future generations of Japanese children, don't hold the republican party responsible.

Give the credit to the United States Marines' catch-as-catch-can variety of psychological warfare. A hard-bitten colonel of marines (name not disclosed) reports in The Infantry Journal that during close, quarter fighting on Guadalcanal the Japanese would yell, "Marines, we're going to keel you! More blood for the emperor!" Whereupon the marines would return the compliment, with interest: "You (three words deleted)! We'll kill you Japs. More blood for Franklin!" This yelling, in hand-to-hand action, is important," the officer comments. "It is like a football team talking it up." Trick Of The Trade Other rough-and-ready psychological lessons, learned the hard way in the jungle, included not getting jittery over night noises, especially mysterious-sounding cries of birds and lizards; refusing to be tricked into firing prematurely by noises purposely made by the enemy, patiently ouf-waiting even the patient Japanese. One sergeant of marines scored one on his enemy by a quick-witted variation in grenade technique.

The "natural" way of fighting with grenades, of course, is to pull the pin, wait a couple of seconds and heave. This sergeant, in a foxhole, was suddenly joined by a Japanese. He pulled the pin from the grenade and heaved himself out of the hole. The Japanese, less quick on the uptake, stayed there with the grenadebut only for a few seconds. Then he went to his ancestors.

The Mount Evans highway in Clear Creek county. Colorado, is the highest automobile road in the United States. Howdy, In making the rounds be sure to drop in to the "friendly" 7 th AVE. BAR and LOUNGE "Where your business is appreciated." Washington, Sept. 14 How two wounded sergeants aboard a severely damaged B-17 Flying Fortress of the United States army Eighth air force stood by their guns and beat off a swarm of German fighter pliines until the crippled bomber, vn its way back to England from an attack on the German submarine pens at St.

Nuzaire. France, could make a successful landing at sea, was disclosed by the war department. The men are S-Sgt. Edward F. Clements, Washington.

D. a waist gunner, and T-Sgt. Edward W. Maslowski, Cloquet, radio operator, members of the crew of the Flying Fortress, "Myrtle." Other members of the crew gave them full credit for preventing the enemy from destroying the American bomber in the air1, which probably would have resulted in the death or capture of the entire crew. The Fortress came down in the sea near England soon 'afterward and although the rubber life rafts had been damaged by shell fire they were patched up and held together for hours, until rescue boats' an ived.

Headed Horn The "Myrtle" had made its bomb run and headed back to its English base when flak struck its control cables. It soon became apparent that a landing at sea would be necessary, but to get as near as possible to England, the pilot, First Lt. Sell W. South, Birmingham, gave orders to lighten the load. "As we were busy tossing overboard everything we could get our hands on, the Focke-Wulfs swooped down on us," said First Lt.

John W. Hargrove, Talco, Texas, the copilot. "Actually the first we knew of them was when their tracers started whizzing past the bomber." The two gunners were wounded in that attack. But when the nazis struck again they were still at their posts. Sgt.

Maslowski fended off the Focke-Wulfs until he collapsed. Sgt. Clements, severely wounded in one arm, kept a stream of bullets on the attacking planes. Major, Declining To Relax, Wears Out His Aide U. S.

Army Headquarters. South Pacific, Sept. 14-In the final drive on Munda Maj. Gen. Robert S.

Beighter refused to rest, so a higher officer detailed an aid to Beight-ler's dugout with orders to see that he stopped worrying and slept Next morning the aide, his eyes 1 uking like holes burned in a blanket, reported to the top officer: "Sir, General Bcighter kept me up all night" 1.