HiiiMHiiiiMimiB m iiiiinu^TTnTr-imniT? rv" * The Alamance Gleaner V?L LXXI GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945 No. 39 Thousands Greet Hero Who Looks like a Boy Scout Fighting Texan Won About Every Decoration for Ws Achievement*. SAH ANTONIO, TEXAS.?A freck led Cm* kid, fresh from European battle fields, limped down the ramp . Ave a C-54 transport at the air field here. There were about 20 G.I.s with him and he could have been their mascot. He was 5 feet T inches tall and weighed 134. He looked about 17. When he started down a long re ception line at waiting notables he didn't give his name to a single member of the welcoming commit tee. This was Lt. Audie Leon Murphy, who held fcist about every combat oecorauon in me dook, including me Congressional Medal of Honor. This was the Murphy who made a lone stand against 250 German in fantrymen and six German tanks; the kid vtu ran through a hail of machine gun fire and single hand edly cleaned out prepared enemy positions; the 20-year-old youngster who came up the hard way to a battle field commission. ?e Steals the Show. This was Murphy, back on his na tive Texas soil, but he looked like an Eagle Siout. Texans gasped with surprise. There were 13 generals in the group that landed at the air port. Murphy stole the show. Delighted reporters pounced on him. In amazement they wrote down the long list of awards. "I'd like to know every detail about how you won the Congression al Medal of Honor," a girl reporter said. Murphy's cool green eyes studied the girl. ' 'There wasn't much to it," he said. Hot much! It was a January morning 01 uus year ana me wooas outside of Holtzwihr, France, were heavy and silent with bitter cold. There were 3d men, all that were left of a company of the 15th "Can Do" regiment of the 3rd division, 7th army. In command, succeeding the leader who had fallen the day be fore, was 2nd Lt. Murphy, who didn't drink or smoke and whose strongest cuss word was "gosh." Valor had boosted him from the ranks. He had become a private first class in Africa, a corporal in Sicily, a sergeant and staff sergeant in Italy, a second lieutenant in southern France. Now company command was handed him by field telephone at 3 a. m. on a freezing morning. Left All Alone. Hours crawled by. The company, scheduled to attack, awaited ammu nition. At 10 a. m. Murphy raised Us field glasses and took a long look. His mouth went dry. The enemy, camouflaged in white sheets, was attacking over the hard packed snow with 250 infantrymen and six tanks. Murphy ordered his men out of the woods. Then he ran to his field telephone and called for ar tillery fire. Shells began bursting in the German ranks and Murphy dropped his telephone often to fire his rifle. The Germans came on. An artil leryman yelled into a telephone. "How close are they to you?" "Just a minute," Murphy replied. ?Til let you speak to them." An American tank destroyer ap proached the young officer's posi tion and a German 88 shell set it afire. Two men lay dead in the tur ret. The others bailed out and went h?4< That left Murphy alone with a rifle, a telephone, and a burning tank destroyer loaded with ammuni tion and gasoline and likely to blow sky high at any moment. In all, he killed or wounded 50 Germans with the machine guns. The Nazi infantry was stopped, ?kkoot the infantry, the whole at tack collapsed Only then did Mur |Wv drop wearily off the destroyer (rand fimp back to his company. He IpnAmed treatment for his shrapnel ! waned. reorganized his company, . and led it in an attack that routed C*k?llin of British Empire Total 1,427,634 _ Uaiuw. ? Total casualties to WBd commonwealth and empire ffieem In the Ave and three-quarter jwaee af war up to May 31 were H was officially announced. * WM,W ? . ARITHMETIC CLASS Two volumes of an encyclopedia were standing next to each other on a shelf. Each book was 1 Vi inches thick, includihg the book covers, which were one-eighth of an inch thick. A bookworm burrowed its way from the flrst page of Volume I to the last page of Volume II. How far did the bookworm go? WHIFFLETREE DICTIONARY CAFFyNITIOMS Of THE WEEK 1. Feeling*?what the dentist puts In de cayed teeth, t. Chicken?place where you cook: as "Go to the chicken and cook sup per." t. Peas?when you ask a favor you should always say "Peas." 4. Btatae?form of address; as "Statue. Sharlte?" 6. Cattle? what you boll water in. ?. Oily?opposite of late. SPHINX MYSTERY How's your sweet tooth? Feel like stirring up a pan of fudge? Well, in case you don't know the recipe, here it is. See if you can unscramble It. t rUCI RL'GAS 1 NABTELPOOR TURRET V* OPANTSOS NAILVAL S 8T0NF.B08I.AP AOCOC IV* PUCS LINK ?B7 M?h >?bb ?*?r ihrti tlan bs (Bit bb 7? bbs. Better fly, butterfly, better fly high. Flutter by, butterfly, flutter or die. She sav/ six short soldiers with thick sore shoulders. Patsy, pass the peanuts, peaches and peas, please. That tenth tinker thought Thelma told Tim to tramp toward the the ater. Kate keeps her cuddly kitty curled cutely in u comfy corner. TONGUE TWISTERS GRAMMAR LESSON There are several mistakes of grammar and spelling in the fol lowing paragraph. Prof. Whiffletree would like to have his pupils straighten it out, by translating it ? into correct English. If the train hai Wen ranning as slew an It artn Man ran. if the bell ha4 Men wrang ing na it artcr Man wrnng. if the whistle hal blawatf ns tt arte baan blew?nana af which wna 414, ear taw wan!4n't be na 4es? na aha are. PIG LATIN ? Only foreign language la Whiffle tree's school la Pig Latin. Here's how: Juat tako the flrat sound of a word and Uck It so tho end. adding "ay." One exception: If a word begins with a vowel, leave It alone and add "way." Now translate this beautiful P. poem: Ideray away ookcay oraehay otay Anburybay Osacray, otay eesay away inefay adylay uponway away itewhay orsehay. Ingsray onway erhay Ingersfay, ellsbay onway er hay oestay, Eshay a Us hay avehay usicmay erewhay everway eshay oesgay. DRAWING CLASS Conducted by Dyblen Dabb C?pj IkiM illhnitiii m wall u pM iu, ul tfc?a make mhi mii Uka (km. Tell me a Bedtime Story Br THORNTON W. BUROE8S PADDT THE BEAVER HAS MANY VISITORS DADDY THE BEAVER knew per- | 1 fectly well that he would have vialtora Just as soon as he began to build hia dam. He expected a lot , of them. You see, he knew that none of them ever had seen a beaver at work unless, perhaps, it was Prickly Porky, the Porcupine, who also had come down from the north. So as he worked he kept his ears open and he smiled to himself as he heard a little rustle here and then a little rustle there. He knew just what those little rustles meant. Each one meant another visitor. Paddy chuckled. "Seems to me that you are dreadfully afraid to show yourselves," said he in a loud voice, just as if he was talking to nobody in particular. Everything was still. There wasn't an much as a rustle after Paddy spoke. He chuckled again. He could just feel ever so many eyes watching him, though he didn't see a single pair. And he knew that the reason his visitors were hiding so carefully was because they were afraid of him. You see Paddy was much bigger than most of the little meadow and forest people and they didn't know what kind of a temper he might have. It's always safest to be very distrustful of strangers. Of course Paddy knew all about this. He had been brought up that way. "Be sure and then you'll nev er be sorry" had been one of his mother's favorite sayings, and be had always remembered it. Indeed it had saved him a great deal of : trouble. So now he was perfectly willing to go right on working and let his hidden visitors watch him until they were sure be meant them no harm. Now, when the little people of the Smiling Pool, who were the first to find out that Paddy the Beaver had come to the Qreen Forest, had start ed up the Laughing Brook to see what he was doing, they had told the Merry Little Breezes where they were going. The Merry Utile Breezes had been greatly excited. They couldn't understand how a stranger could have been living in the Green Forest without them knowing it. You see, they quite for got that they very seldom wandered to the deepest part of the Green Forest. Of course, they started at Dnce as fast as they could go i? tell all the other little people who lived on or around the Green Meadows, all but Old Man Coyote. For some reason they thought it best not to tell him. They were a little doubtful about Old Man Coyote. He was so big and strong and so ?ly and smart that all his neighbors were afraid of him. Perhaps the Merry Little Breezes had this fact Anyway, they simply passed A* time ot day aad harried ea. in mind, and knew that none would dare go call on the stranger it they knew that Old Man Coyote waa go ing, too. Anyway, they aim ply peased the time of day with Old Man Coyote and hurried on to ten everyone elae, and it ao happens that the very laat ana they met waa Sammy Jay. Sammy was terribly put out te think that anything should be going on that he didn't know about first. You know, he is great for prying into the affairs of other people, and he loves dearly to beast that there Is nothing going on la Green Forent or on the Green Meadows that hn doesn't know about. So now hte pride was hurt and ha was la a terrible rage as ha started attar the Merry Little Breexes tor the place deep in the Green Forest where they said that Paddy the Beaver was at wort Ha jBdnjt beheve^a word ad