The Daily World from Helena, Arkansas • 3

TUESDAY MAY 18 Graduation Dance OURTEEN NEW uWu uance muotn new 1 A DTiTr's diat on Class 44 1 pEAMS RIVAL ORIAL Planned Pot Sat IN S0LL They were Classes 44 1 Class 44 1 should Set th A ThrnrH toes the GREMLINITIS the 5: Aero writ! ij PERSONALS Lt saw or the women Captain A tiolandcr visited i evident high 4 in 1 2 lbs all il fi OICERS AND TO PLAY CLARKSDALE DECISIVE CUT IN RECORD ESTABLISHED BY YER LN 51 tvis ser United in the mailing without errors it that competition Surprisingly the all week and no Paj light ti this superior manuscripts submitted in the OVERSEAS area of com petition Awards and judging in the five classes are separate ror tne two divisions Interested men and should write to the National Theatre Conference Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio for a copy of the terms which govern the Contest and dictate to iier militant sub jects as she may Guests of the graduating cadets will be offi cers tmd enlisted men of the post and flight instructors of the upper class The dance be formal and an enjoyable evening is ex pected to be had by the freshly Khakled Cadets and their new ly musllned maids OICERS Capt Gray Lt McGovern lb Capt Smith 2b Lt: ss Lt Yandziak 3b Capt Laster gf Lt Robertson If Lt Stephens cf Lt McManus rf Lt Simone The enlisted men will VOLUME 2 the Softball Championship at Helena Tech other bracket the of Section bow Screaming Demons 11 to 8 The La ji paji fui Nev lying in" a 51 Mustang Col Clair A Peterson set a new transcontinental speed record last week He raced across the continent from Los Angeles to Nei York in six hours thirty iwu uuu a nan minutes Exact ly seven minutes later another Mustang piloted by Col Carter landed at La Guardia ield While both planes had left Los 'Angeles within one minute of each other Col Car tels comparative slowness was due to the added weight of the gasoline necessary for the trip The new time shattered the previous record set by Howard Hughes in an Army constella tion Hughes made a flight from Burbank Calif to wasli hiBtpn In six hours and fifty eight minutes Lt George Plosser and Gallagher of Columbus Army Air ield visited this sta tion last Tuesday Lt McManus has re turned from leave in Wilwaif kee Wisconsin Lt Jarrett has gone to Scottdale Pen to pick up his wife son who will ac company him here to make their home They will reside in West Helena Lt Jack McHancy and Lt Moss spent the week end in Pine Lt' Louis field ness Lt arc spending ten day leave in New Orleans La Mrs Katharyn Otis spent Mon day In Memphis The field was visited by Col I Chctlaln and Lt Young representing the Eighth Service Command Col chet laln Is Air Llnslon Officer of Ihv Elyhlh Cervlco command Bluff Ark Paul Hanks of the St Medical Depot visited 'the last Thursday on busl 7 and Mrs A Poulton close contest is expected i tentative line up for the II II Patrick ravel get in (' MOVIE THE WEEK "THIS GUN OR HIRE" with erioica Lake Robert Presto i and Alan Ladd Thursday May 103d Ground Nrlicol Auditorium 4 CROSS COUNTRY AIR RECORD TS' BROKEN AGAIN and also a the Brooklyn jange captain Walter Gray flew cairyito Longansport Lu to upend 1 Day In order to make the' com" petition more equitable the Second NTC Contest oj ing May 1944 will have two ions Material mailed viccmen within the States will be CAMPS division Tho deadline for this divsion is 1 November 1944 Ma crial mail ed by military on duty outside of the United States will be entered in the OVERSEAS division the mail ing deadline of which is 1 De cember 1944 Of the total 7 Wfcv vat V' I orjil 'll and was sworn in the Army on the 9th of June 1943 He has had many times since to use his ability While at Maxwell he led Squadron 5to the ootball Corps Champion ship and is now leading to Cadet News fa not an War Publication and no article should representing the opinion of the War Denari 1es matter pertaining to the 2158th Prfnen ed by he )uflic 1111 and is available for general OBSERVATIONS OPEN POST Wt hear it was nice on the Uvt Saturday night Winpen Tie boat was pretty wasn't Jo Anne in orrest city ths ckend Mr" Semite and Taker had one dc time And hear about you notto get back in time for Vaughn? Maybe a men: ENLISTED MEN Peffer ss Barnett Walker lb Hastings 3b Barrel cf Owens 2b Smith rf Smith rf Leuken If Wycherley sf Loggins With these records in its Class 44 1 should very set the record for classes ing the school INTEREST MOUNTS IN SOT HALL TOURNAMENT AT AERO TECH 5 ricW the I Am 1 field Wednesday noon in ned by the for the com incr 1 it ink iiain i i 1 1 i i i mi i a ening's enterjalnmeht be XmarHrn rcdde 4 Vi A anaenno is a 21 VMr uv vxvwwub ui a Mueen to lie rrfm chosen by a nominating com Jersey and mitfee this week The young inchps ls 5 ft 9 lady will reign for the evening ant wcfShs 190 anadino is almost around athlete but has spent most of his time with football and baseball He started his career at Soctt High School in East Orange New Jersev attended Scott just one year but built himself up for his next year at Verona While there he was captain of the I PnbURhed every Monday by The Hei tWII enleroriw te or Ue military pn lhe 2M Assembled from the corner drug stores all over the East we have ten men under the leadership of of Palladino who look hot for the for men and softball tournament What Armed orces cadet from 2 flew' for two and a half with his in structor using only one quarter of a tank of gas? High lights of Wednesday night: Richard marriage Jim celebration Red McElwee losing a fight with a steak Rip VanLittler was seen doing a double ground loop on his first solo Tch Tch Recipe comedies and radio plays Roast PieGeneral" T7T Instructor Bob Hall says that the only pepole who get the A A news before Hap Ar nold are the young ladies of Helena Bernie Lapul: bet ter do some pretty hot flying to appease his instructor whom he left on the east boundary of the field after a solo hop The timely arrival of some livened nn things Sat urday night Quite a few gad I gets used Dale 21st birthday as an excuse to cele brate furthest gone of them all was Jim Lamade Cadet amount set aside for prizes Spencer is still courting $1000 will be reserved for bweetbrier 1946 We demure Walter McCarthy get out of a car occupied by two young ladies in front of Cadet when asked about the females Walter dismissed them witly a naive shrug McKinney lived up to his promise and managed to EPt I McCormick and A McKinney plenty happy about his first solo" 0 Mace celebrated ids solo by dancing for tlie first time with a real SIH Morin Is still Coing with the same girl after three weeks It must be Jove smos As in the first NTC Contest flying and the Air Corps' ciasses of competitive are five: long plays one skits and blackouts musical weight championship reddie spent his next two years in Bordentown Military Academy While here he made a very good reputation as the star of Hie football and base bal Reams At the end of nis prep school career he is of feerd a football scholarship to LiiiKe university contract with Dodgers baseball team Natur ally he was seriously interested in both oflersK but Uncle Sam pass next week end made the for You certainly did I jnm reddie joined the Cadets yourseii this Sat I rog" SOTBALL GAME PLANNED with neighboring school max 28TH The Clarksdale orticers and enlisted men nero Tech on Sunday representing the two stations engage in tneir first In ter post competition in the games played last year the Clarksdale school eked out a 7 6 and 6 5 decision over the team This ear with the addition of new players a Ths offi next few school of Aviation will play host to the of he members giving thorn Of a'l armv check ride and Lieutenants i icfftu picked at" 1 for ialqable post war scholar Picture of the view and opl'n shins linns fh i 3 vttuvw i' vu Lnfii 1 1 mhv ciu nil in general Commenting on the closing of the school scheduled for Au 4 Bust 4111 made the following statements: lhe closing of Helena Aero Tech together with other Pri mary School in the Training? Command marks another step Sin the normal curtailment of the Pilot Training Program With the attainment of our goal in pilot requirements and the stabilizing of the pilot pool needed to carry on the war effort the Air Corps will con tinue to taper off and will con centrate only on replacements and the further improvement of already established person ixci Asnru wxiemer me reia tionshlp between the contractor a and the Army had played any 1 I On part in the closing General Williams replied not! The job done at Helena and the results attained here in producing competent pilots for combat has beep one of notable This was the second such Inspection visits made by Gen eral Williams to this ield and he 1 expected Jo return once again before the closing of th? school We hope' arcl 'l Sure tliat the Genrrnl brand tilings as he oiikl liave inem and tlut tin an additional rea son for him to have faith In the kind of pilots being grad uated today and tomprpw The softball tournament got off to a flying start this week and from the looks of things it oe a close race to deter mine the victors ourteen teams consisting of the uppe andlowrr ClassCadets Enlisted Men Officers and Civilian In structors form the league and' after two weeks of hard prac tice they swung into the pre liminary contest As is! always true makes per and although they were not entirety was was weather held was lost in running off tlie first rounds of the tourna ment The first games in the elim ination series were played Wed nesday with the Section Sad Sacks beating the Section Thunderbolts' 4 to 0 The Mustangs Section typical style strafed the Sec Liberators 12 to 5 which put them in line for the Semi i nals In the same hrnrkt thn football team and also played I Sec Lightnings swamped the the hot corner for the baseball Airacobraa of Sec 15 tn 1 team This year bv the wav The Liehtnlnes then steoned nn he also went in for boxing and land took the initiative with the won the High School heavy 1 Bombers 10 to 3 The Bombers the M's team had previously i drawn a bye The Lightnings now meet the Mustangs in the Semi that should settle once and for all any doubt as to the best of the two You twin engine boys better be on your Ini Boris' Boys ed to Section Savates mystery team tin name only) closed on the Section A Havocs 10 to 6 The LaSavates then moved in the Semi inal position by beating the 'Scream Demons 9 to 5 Section sent the Black Widows against the Section A Blue Jays won 7 to 6 They lost fol 1 lowing day to the Officers 12 to 5 who had previously met and defeated the lying In structors 3 to 0 Semi inals are sched uled weather permitting for Monday afternoon and they 'should provide some slam bang ball games The date of the finals as yet been set but will be announced later in i the week New Play writing Contest Announced Having concluded its initial I competition for playwrights in I rom the lying and gr ound uniform the National Theatre facilities to the niess Conference with the War De 1 haI1 barracks and Administra partments approval announces Department Several of tlie the Second Playwriting Contest I insPecting officers: tin Tin women oi the a Jew or The New Con the Upper Class i test which invites the entrance equivalent of all ranks and branches of service offers as awards cash Brake and Welsh interviewed prizes totaling $1500 and thefinre2 of Cadets opportunity to be recommended 1 "'dom to obtain a Queen of the Ball To Be Sleeted By Cadet ball were begun in earnest this Anil) AV II II IA weqjc when the dance commit llKIO STAR IQ teemen met to arrange details 1 IV NOWf LAYING 20 and is to be held at the II1U for tlip affair will bp ably fur Vjl ilC I rllM nished by the Greenwood Army Air Base orchestra which has aviyhov been enthusiastically received at LAmvn ntEn all ol Ils past porlormances I T'K here LhCLE Sam Something newls being plan This wpp A another sports star for our Cadet per I) lad wecktiir! nus Miss the matu men Triy Underclass: son is on the warpath One of your certain members sees a ionde in West Helena much too often is that nice Bob Williams was out wolfing as usual It the ladies Htcjena read last is SUP nnrf ti uuucea mat Thompson had been eliminated from the'onian Union They put hlm incirculation1 How did the tqg of war PT on Perry and Cherry Sts "ccn cave men Jimmy andar low why is Walter arren waling around a these days? Could it be a 'tain fair Miss air? lcker tlie t' Jj furnish you with 'all thoseJt smelling handkerchiefs that 1 has to the dogs Thn lat Moon IS suit looking 1 car with a and a ip ino don't you give a kals a break stauf slim Vhnderbough recoverlfag fr01n tjie i Wc your Pr eot But Lou as isunl Sat out me Canr be truo nneh for lien first Pio and to at A' 4 'll calus andA'nlcr the Jklia ra I ops Tlc rlirl lank moie tommy guns more ninmunillun aul Question Of The Week hat are your post plans? 'll living ior me 1 believe air will smother he automobile industry and 1 want to on the ground i'loorj nndV1irSlC1'7rIe (o Washington' anil aii conditioning engineerin'' Williams nmreA 1 1 Uiy 1IISI UlOUgllt IS to L'Cl buck Io lexas and lake a kjng rest After that decide im diP imlHstiy for me whal 1' i school and prepare myself for "liat i head probably lhe engineering field lhe Vnvv oil nii'lough from my old job wilh iv A 1 in anxious io gel back ni definitely go back Io school and 11 nr or (1 decide I resl up back in Great Barrnigloih Peimsv VnilHI Mil Ilin nioani: I'll 1 11 niv nit uiiiniiv 1 11 lhe nircraft lield and see what all about G' I'hitby Sall Lake City will look good Io me and I expect Io go back Io lhe railroad job I fl I'm sticking Io lhe Armv and Irv Lnelo Sain'N relireineiil plmi II Wolford A Ivny hogs few ciiiekena 1 cow 11 vu IUIVH 11 I ito I Sviiuuiii C'lUiilv (Jkliilioi)ni beici Thursday from camp lloblnson Ark General millions Visils 2158th 'X)n luspection lorn Commanding Officer of 29th lvin PR TESTS TO I fi ttmt QluJyednesdayandThnMfrtm 10th and Hth Britta General JohA Williams Gen era! of the 29th Training and his staff made an inspi: tion tour of the 2158th aa Base Unit here at Helena Aer Tech The 29th Training Win: which is inclusive of a the Primary Schools': in th' Eastern lying Training Com mand was just recently set up Training Wings prior to hk having been established on geographical basis And madp 1" include Basic arid AdvancT Schools as well as PrimarieB vxuuuu JO Party which arrived AT 11 twin engine planes Aver I tn Aavn riIn is 7025While Class 44 with an average of 7125 Moreover classes have reached the 70 mark upon leaving Hel did and 44 whose averages were 1 '13S and 7009 respectively favor likely deav Major Undercoffer Train ait inspector Train ing Major I Howell Adniin Astratfve Inspector Captain Harry A Wills Air Inspector Technical and Second Lieu retreat thru A' I nilliue an vrdnv ijThaijjc uu connection with Russia ms usual self this though he was mi JTach I Tharpe Underclass Attention Thomp dE HELD OR CLASS 441 02a TO HIGHER MARK i 44 1 shipping iihin H'r rtkrr test wm be given so thne during the week The tests will consist of the usual endurance est exercises sit ups chin ups and the three hundred yard shuttle run Unrfpr it imones direction the UpperclasslhnWe the tests I having been under rigid prac tice during Incidentally class 44 cCud irom Maxwell with I vuuwvwwr rram takn the second hicrHae Brm png Executive: Mainr TaHh the field with nlacc A a OI any prodeerfi Air XVAAVWLlJg WLUlUg INVASION DAY years the AiriLniris'Jv i and a im more for the proposed Emoix h'' more of Invasion predominates the anxio inpic 'ar mmded individual EJi i of lhe cxlensiye pictorial sections lell of U'ds show lhe endless lines of li News 111 England set for the conquest rd lin llluilili('ns Seeinu miiv 01 llc continent be" public increases its Bui arm chair generals do not I' now sons for slavim' off 7k dlli realize lhe rnn Iralegie rk lailsNoMhepnlTr kiry they cannot know the eci Hea in Jiis bombmgs will have softened Enr 7 wilen Allied "nt punch ope fvor the final knock ed' public By their increasing insistence ruon Ai'l leaders entirely impossible that tlie ini lv it is notllamely an perha be force of )d n' hi other rm upmioil lias Iieen 1 i the bin be as foliows: would be far better Io triisl 1 ti i Europe It IIkhi bv increased Idlers cordance with public 'se' ir niciin that all fdV nJ oiiise: tins docs not fill coKlruclie lnrhl nid die sureess or toe'vasio He To ight! taAtoCnmredtoor doore to first Congressional Medal of IL aier breed that the "id in Worll loimiiv gun ivij1 cvv ilIlk al thirty yards with a 'd Iroiu 11 Cidif est honor for valor Ic high SicilyUcnr four' aiSSaICe mm (rrnmimf aks cllt his e6l bridge and high canyon walls a blown out omeer'dS'to Tlie 2lyeer0ld exhausted ivb 1 aniliamlion was to l' toe tot tok vlid eareen tenant rank Cassidy Aide DrPKPnt Worn I Lieutenants Drake Welsh Commandant of Cadets 1 and Air Inspector respectively i at the 5259th AA Base Unft 1 Jackson Tenn who fley here I in a Basic Trainer to be present I at the Inspection Upon arrival the his staff began a thorough and searching tour Of the fenfire ield including everv fhinn the flying and nnni inwmn wwa I I 1 I I Ir II I 11 Vi I A 'X 7 Ar wi i I Um ML.