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jUp Front With Fighting Leathernecks on Okinawa
Ltitbmecki, coordinating with army troops, arc shown In action hi the final stares of the fierce battles
that raced to every section of Okinawa island. Island spotted with reaves and fallen heroes attests to the
hirh price paid.
Carrier and Its Heroic Crew That Never Quit
A ghastly bat unforgettable memorial to the herelsm of those who maa the nary's ships and the skill of
Ban who baild them, waa again shown whan the carries CSS Franklin an load in Brooklyn Nary yard under her
own pnnei. Hit by Jap dire bombers, afire and her awn bom be erpledlng and one-third of her crew killed,
trans Jap waters to Brooklyn she returned unaided. Lower left, officers of carrier. Lower right. Chaplain
Joseph O'CaBahaa, ana aI heroes during battle, and trip home. Right shows how she limped Into port.
Youth Has Their Day at Zoos
Ban !? Ike early sprtac al Ftttsbarfh M, this rtrade (left) already
haa (rosea eat af ka by head. His mother was shopping when this photo
seas taken. Lower right, Lady Llama at San Fraacisce with her sob V-E,
knew as Ikat treat day. C?? rifht. there sras mneh ado at tke Bronx
aaa when far tke Srst time In erer three years a bahy sehra sras barn.
No Time for Celebrating
I Farming War Fields
While plowing his held the Freach
farmer leaves a tiny til sad la the
center of the fht rsatilniat the
rriri of a British soldier killed ia
the early days at invasion at Nor
maady aha, like thnasaads at eth
ers, win remain la temporary plata.
Radio for Firemen
Army Sending
> War Dogs Home
Owners Get Trained Pets
All Ready to Resume
The Prewar Life.
FORT ROBINSON ?When Rover
comes prancing home from war
and his service star is removed
from the kennel, he will be in the
best possible condition to lead a
dog's life again, says the Chicago
Tribune.
The army quartermaster corps is
making certain of that at Fort Rob
inson in western Nebraska. This is
its only war dog reception and
training center, where thousands of
veterans of the K-9 corps are under
going a "demilitarizing" process to
readjust them to civilian existence.
All of these are sentry dogs, trained
for duty in this country. There have
been no releases of dogs qualified
for overseas combat duty.
Eight weeks are required to train
a sentry dog, two weeks is the aver
age length of time needed to de
train him. The actual period may
vary, however, with the individual
dog, the type of handler, and
the exigencies of the duties to which
he has been assigned. Many dogs
have become virtual pets and little
detraining is necessary.
Reverse War Program.
The detraining process reverses
the training program:
Handlers seek to convince the dog
that every human is his friend. They
talk to him gently, play with him,
and give him friendly pats every
time they pass his kennel. Every time
he is taken out he is given a lesson
in obedience.
Some dogs, like Butch, take time
to control. A black and white mon
grel of 40 pounds with the heart of
a giant. Butch was hard to break of
his aggressive attitude.
Long after huge, rough war dogs
were judged safe to send home,
Butch still defied his trainers. He
refused to be crowded by any one,
man or dog.
But the trainers stuck to their
task. Unlike other dogs, Butch was
taken to the training area twice a
day. Gentle handling gradually broke
Butch's shell. He lost his suspicion
but never his dignity.
Some war dogs, like soldiers, nev
er lose their attachment for the
army. Duke, a Dalmatian, was re
processed and returned to his own
er, Maj. Ralph C. Kerchaval, com
manding officer of the Robinson
quartermaster depot.
Living only a half mile from the
area where he was trained as a war
dog, Duke made frequent visits to
the dog barracks. Hardly a morning
passed without his being on hand
to trot ahead of the troops march
ing to the kennel area, where he al
ways tried to bluff his way through
the open gate.
Trained by Owners.
The detraining was started as the
need for sentry dogs lessened.
Some were retrained for overseas
duty, although the majority were
too old for combat operations.
The estimated 20,000 war dogs
, have been received by the quarter
master corps for processing and
more than 10,000 were trained for
sentry, scout, and messenger duty.
In January, 202 detrained dogs left
Fort Robinson.
Fort Robinson has files filled with
letters from appreciative owners
after completion of the detraining
program.
Mrs. Herbert C. Allen, Seattle,
Wash., wrote that "at the time Her
bie (her son) gave his dog to the
i armed forces, it was a genuine sac
rifice. But now he is reaping the
harvest of his unselfish act by re
; ceiving back a beautiful dog. more
wonderful than he dreamed possible.
Thank you for the fine job of train
ing and caring for our dog."
Queenie, a German shepherd,
owned by Mrs. C. A. Pryor, Monte
be Ho, Calif., was "exceedingly hap
py to be home and doesn't want me
out of her sight," Mrs. Pryor wrote.
"It took just an instant for her to
recognize each of us and she is so
affectionate. She certainly shows
wonderful care and splendid train
ing."
'Human Bombs' Hurl Selves
At Yanks on Ie Island ,
IE ISLAND.?Fanatical Japanese
tactics which included one-man i
charges by "human bombs" are
making fighting on little Ie more
j bitter by the hour,
i Enemy soldiers with satchels of i
| explosives strapped to them fre- |
quently have rushed headlong to our i
lines, blowing themselves to bits, I
and counter-attacks have been made <
by Japanese armed only with rocks
and pieces of broken glass. I
There even have been instances 1
of Japanese throwing mortar shells <
with their hands. I
It is cave-to-cave, pillbox-to-pill- l
box warfare for men of the 77th divi
sion as Japanese are rooted out. <
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Ballet Is Removed
From Heart of Girl
PHILADELPHIA. ? Ruth Sum- ?
mers, IS, was in an improved coo- 1
dltion recently after a .31 caliber <
bullet was removed from a heart 1
muscle in a two-hour operation. '
! Physicians said she had better >
than an even rhanre lor recov- <
ery. She was shot accidentally at
tt? home ^. m?d while the | J
Iceberg Season Is
Tough for Patrol
Coast Guard Must Maintain
An Alert Vigil.
WASHINGTON. ? Greenland'i
mammoth Icebergs are starting
their seasonal drift toward At
lantic steamship lanes, where X
years ago one of them caused th<
greatest disaster in the history a
ocean travel.
Fifteen minutes before midnight
on Sunday, April 14, 1912, the Brit
iah liner Titanic, speeding frorr
England to New York on its flrsl
voyage, collided with a large ice
berg. Two and a half hours latei
the ship sank with the loss of 1,513
lives.
The disaster shocked a compla
cent prewar world into successful
concerted action. Under interna
tional agreement, the United States
coast guard in 1914 took over the
job of guarding North Atlantic ship
ping against the iceberg peril. Thai
service is famed for, a record of not
a single casualty in the patrol area
since its inauguration.
The regular international patrol
has been suspended because of the
war. However, the coast guard is
helping protect Allied ships this
spring from "ice dreadnoughts"
as well as from Nazi submarines.
Coast guard combat cutters and
planes patrol parts of the ice area
and send out radio reports.
The electronics people say that
postwar liners probably will be
equipped with radar to help detect
icebers. Passenger planes flying
the Atlantic also will broadcast
weather conditions.
The iceberg season usually be
gins in mid-March and is over by
the end of June, but in 1939?for
the first time in the history of the
patrol?ice was a menace in Au
gust. The icebergs are formed by
large fragments breaking oil Green
land's glaciers. Some are 500 feet
long and tower 300 feet above the
water.
Plane Production Will Be
Cut Back 2,000 a Month
WASHINGTON. ? A "one-front"
airplane production schedule which
may cut monthly output by as many
as 2,000 planes by the end of this
year has been drafted by the army
air forces. About 7,000 craft now
are being turned out each month.
The revised schedule, it was
learned, has been submitted to
WPB's production readjustment
committee for approval.
In effect, the new schedule writes
off the European war so far as plane
production is concerned. It involves
only estimated army needs in the
Pacific.
With the exception of the two
giant bombers, the Boeing B-29 Su
perfortress and the Consolidated
Vultee B-32, virtually all AAF com
bat planes are affected.
Special Diet Gifts Are
Sent to Starving Dutch
LONDON. ? The 4,500,000 Dutch
sealed off in the "hunger" provinces
west of the Ijssel river are so nearly
starved that special diet parcels
must precede shipments of ordinary
food as the liberation of Holland pro
ceeds, it was reported.
Dutch quarters here believed that
wholesale starvation will occur un
less liberation is accomplished soon.
Reports here said the Germans
were taking what food remains. Ra
tions for the Dutch have been halved
again, leaving theoretically 14
ounces of bread and 18 ounces of
potatoes weekly per person.
'Fight After Death,' Jap
Minister Tells Soldiers
WASHINGTON. ? Gen. Korechika
Anami, Japanese war minister, in
structed Japanese soldiers to fight
"even after death to defend the Im
perial land with your souls."
The war minister ordered all
troops to believe in the indestruct
ability of their "divine land," train
themselves rigorously, defy death in
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uieir ugnung ana nil an; enemy
who lands an Japan.
Ana mi's instructions, broadcast by
the Domei agency, were recorded by
the federal communications com
mission.
Captured Nazis Are Huge
Problem for Yank Armies
TWELFTH ARMY GROUP HEAD
QUARTERS.?With prisoners rolling
in by the hundreds of thousands,
the most pressing problem of Gen.
Omar Bradley's armies is?what to
io with them?
A high army official said prisoners
now remain on the continent, no
longer being transported to the Unit
ed States and England. This de
itroyed the dream of many who con
fessed to a hope of seeing America
'where we understand the prison
ers have a good life."
New "Chemical' Torpedo
U Ruled a War Secret
WASHINGTON. D. C. - Existence
>f a new, top-secret "chemical tor
>edo" In the navy's arsenal has been
tfflcially disclosed, but requests for
iirther information on the weapon
nought no information from the
lavy except that the subject is "se
re t."
Such information as was released
? congressional hearings gave no
MBM of the |
, Kathleen Norris Says:
The Other Woman*s Child
I
Ben Syndicate.?WMU Features.
"Austin will gradually be restored to normality if all causes of friction are re
moved from the domestic scene."
By KATHLEEN NORMS
"?V jrY HUSBAND came
\ /I back from air service
IV I in England three
months ago," writes Margaret
Jones from Canada. "He was
four years in active duty and
eleven months in a hospital. His
injury was cranial, and is entire
ly cured. When he left, his son
by a previous marriage, David,
was two years old, and I was ex
pecting my first baby.
"I was my husband's office nurse,
at the time of his first wife's death,
and we had discovered a deep af
fection for each other. This was,
however, kept completely under con
trol. I am telling you the exact
truth when I say that, after the one
first talk when we admitted our feel
ings, not one word or look passed be
tween us that could be criticized.
His wife was a delicate and nervous
woman, and whether she actually
took an overdose of sleeping tablets,
or whether a normal dose was too
much for a weak heart, never was
ascertained. The coroner called it
death from accidental causes. A few
months later Austin and I were mar
ried, little David accepting his new
mother very placidly.
"Then Austin went off to war and
Deirdre was born?a lovely, sweet
tempered little girl and I lived very
quietly during the first war years,
I managing to dp part-time work,
and to clear the mortgage from our
little home and Austin's mother liv
ing with us and managing house
and children. She has now gone to
live with a daughter.
Unmanageable David.
"There was the usual rejoicing
I when Austin returned, and he was
fortunately able to assume his old
work at an even higher salary, so
that we could be quite comfortable
if it were not for David, now nearly
seven. He is a strange, unmanage
able little boy, with something un
canny in his instinct for annoying
and outwitting his teachers and my
self. I seem to be eternally cor
recting him, or complaining of him,
a position in which I hate to find
myself. I've always liked children,
and for our two I've always tried
to plan intelligently, forgiving much,
not bearing impudence, not forcing
issues, substituting the pleasant pos
itive for the disagreeable negative
when I could.
"Austin criticizes my attitude to
ward David. Austin has come back
in a nervous, irritable mood hard
to endure, but it is mostly where
David is concerned that the trouble
arises. David will not eat his din
ner, do his homework, go to bed. take
his bath when I ask him to. I try
good-natured coaxing, give him five
more minutes, remind that he can
float his submarine in the bath, cook
what he likes. He will never co
operate, and Austin blames me, and
sides with the child. To make it
worse, my husband reverts to the
past, thinks that perhaps Elsie did
kill herself, perhaps she discovered
the affection between us, perhaps
he was the real cause of her death.
"All this has turned our home into
a place of discomfort, petty quar
rels, carping, nerves. I want to do
my duty by all three, but when I
A STEPMOTHER'S WOES
The second wife's position?al
most always delicate, is especial
ly difficult when her war-weary
husband comes home to stay. Ev
ery returned soldier goes through
a period of irritability, fault-find
ing and restlessness before he set
tles back into the old ways again.
When there is a child by the
first marriage in the situation,
the unhappy stepmother has a
hard time indeed. Whatever she
does is wrong. She is too strict or
too lenient, or she feeds the child
improperly, or sends him to the
wrong school, her neurotic hus
band complains.
The best way out of this prob
lem, Miss N orris advises, is to let
this father take entire charge of
his son for a while. He will then
find out what a hard job it is to
rear a willful little boy. This re
sponsibility will help the veteran
to forget himself and to recover
his sense of proportion.
see Austin spoiled and good little
Deirdre ignored, when I hear noth
ing but criticism, it is really hard
to bear. Austin takes the attitude
that a wiser mother would not have
these troubles, and perhaps he is
right. I want to show him every
consideration, but I confess I am a
failure, and stumped, and don't
know what to do."
? ? ?
This is one of the many postwar
cases that demands the ultimate in
self-control, patience?and humor.
Yes, I mean humor, for Margaret
is taking this much too hard. It is
uiipubsioie 10 undo In a day or a
week, or even a year, the mischief
done by war conditions and home
compromises.
Let Papa Deal With Son.
Austin will gradually be restored
to normality if all causes of fric
tion are removed from the domestic
scene, and the easiest and quickest
way to remove them is to surrender
to his father full responsibility for
David. Reduce yourself to an ami
able onlooker. If David won't eat
and won't go to school, don't even
report it to Austin; let your hus
band see it for himself. Let the child
sit up as late as he likes, always be
ing amiable and kind, and wait for
the first corrections to come from
the man of the house. Let him play
hookey until the teacher comes to
complain. Ignore his affection of
not having any appetite at meals,
and reduce your relationship with
him to amusing and affectionate
companionship.
Several other cases of exactly this
type have come to my notice in the
paist few years; the prevalence of
divorce of course has created many
of them. In every case which I
have known, this aloof, friendly, un
concerned attitude taken by the step
mother happily solved the problem
for all concerned. In most cases
the right school was found for the
difficult child.
"He's your son, Austin. I only
want him to love me,"- is the un
answerable argument.
Europe Needs Oar Old Clothes
Millions of people in war-devastat
ed areas are in urgent need not
only of food but of clothing. Until
factories can be set up in these na
tions, we in this one country that has
not suffered devastation must give
of our surplus. Infants' garments,
particularly knit goods are urgently
needed, as well as serviceable
blankets and quilts. It is suggested
that pieces of matching cloth and
s spool of thread be incloded with
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