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Personalities on Day's News Front Shown at left is Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a "native son" of California, who is a crack shot with a pistol. General Patton's armored forces have been giving Gen. Erwin Rommel's desert army in Tunisia some thing to think about. Center: Petite, attractive Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of China, who has become the American spokesman for China's fighting masses. Mme. Chiang thrilled great audiences here. Bight: J. Lester Perry, president of the Carnegie-Illinois company, a subsidiary of D. S. Steel, shown as he appeared before the Truman committee investigating war production. Charges were made that false tests were made on steel which was being used by the navy. Teamwork Keynote of Anti-Aircraft Artillery Success In few branches of onr armed services are teamwork and co-ordination more important than in the anti aircraft artillery. Pictures shown here were taken during maneuvers at Camp Davis, N. C. Upper left: When the alert sounds, anti-aircraft crews mast reach their stations in seconds. Dress is of slight importance, bat they mast have their rifles, cartridge belts, gas masks and helmets. They race to their posts. Right: This picture was made while the 90-mm gun was actually in full recoil. Lower left: Captain Rousseau peers through a slit in the battery commander's underground station to check en the operations of the crew. Sends Son to Fight Against Homeland I Shamed by the Jap attack npoa Pearl Harbor, Jamee S. Hondo, SI, a Jap-horn resident of the Hawaiian Islands, was rratified when the army permitted his son, Herbert, 18, to Join a special combat refitment made np of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Herbert is shown in the center with his mother and father, who wears his American Lefiion eap. He is n veteran of World War I. This Wildcat Is a Real Jap-Killer Nineteen stenciled Jap Up mark the acore of tlili Grumman Wildcat ! ?hewn en taaaena Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, the score was made 1 hy several different pilots, et which Tech. Serpt. R. W. Greenwood, a l Marino from Jamesport, Mo., la plane captain. He b shewn hi cockpit. 1 A Visits Home Fleet Prime Minister Winston Churchill Is helnf piped over the side as he leaves a destroyer depot ship while risiting the British home fleet. Lead ing the prime minister down the lad ler is Vice Adm. Sir Brace Austin Fraser, whose appointment to com mand the British home fleet was recently announced. 'Shots' for Dogs It'i Inoculation day at Sao Anfelo, reams, army air deld, where bom bardier school mascots (it immu nised hy yost veterinarian Capt. H. R. Collins, against rabies. I (SPECIAL ARTIClfcs\"^^^ BY THE LEADIN ? A Yank's Life In India By William Chaplin (WNU Feature?Through special arrangement with Woman's Home Companion.) In the heart of New Delhi, capital of India, you will find the headquar ter* of the Tenth Air force of the American army. It is really a city of its own. Before this war, there have been eight Delhis, sis of which crumbled away with declining civilizations. Beginning of the war found still in existence the seventh Delhi, a typ ical teeming eastern city of rickshas, sleeping coolies and wandering cows; and the eighth Delhi, a gov ernmental suburb of broad streets and fine buildings known as New Delhi. Now that the tanks nave come to India, there has come Into being a community which may well be called the ninth Delhi. When my plane arrived in India I drove to the Imperial hotel, then the American headquarters, along streets my taxi shared with camel caravans, bullock carts, motor buses, bicycles and pony carts. On broad tree-lined Queensway we ran between empty lots where ground was broken for construction projects. Already masons were at work on fresh foundations and loose limbed hill-women with rings in their noses and heavy silver anklets clanking above their bare feet were carrying bricks on their heads. I stayed in India six months and long before I left the ninth Delhi was completed and occupied, with the American flag flying before the headquarters building and thou sands of American soldiers comfort ably installed in their new quarters. Bomb Japs in Burma. As I write, British troops are still pouring across the Burma border and members of the American Tenth Air force are bombing Japanese in stallations in Burma. America didn't get into the war in time to give mass aid to preventing the loss of Burma, but by wise planning they got there in time to take part in its reoccupation. Theirs is des tined to be a vital part in turning the tide of war in Die East. The ninth Delhi, spread along both sides of Queensway for half a mile, comprises two-story barracks, of ficers' quarters, office buildings, hospital and post exchange. Last but far from least are the mess halls, where Yank soldiers eat as do few armies on either side of this war. While the barrack room bearers are making the beds and comparing admiring notes on their new mas ters, the boys themselves are eating a breakfast that might just as well have been prepared in East Orange, N. J., or Terre Haute, Ind. Fruit, eggs, much of the meat and all the fresh vegetables are purchased lo cally, but there's a good sprinkling of canned and packaged goods brought through half a dozen sub marine zones so the boys can have ! the kind of meals that mother used to make. Tanks Eat American Style. The American soldiers in India are eating American style in the army mess halls, but healthy curi osity has led them to make a thor ough investigation of Indian food as well. The little restaurants are always crowded with them, nibbling strange curries, savoring hot spices, perhaps even trying a chew at the red betel nut the Indians think good for their digestion. And a particular favorite is a rich pastry covered with real silver leaf. The Indians think silver is good for their insides. The Americans don't take mnch faith in that, bat they do get a kick oat of eating real silver. Soma of them are writing home warn ing the folks to lock np the fam ily silver after the war; they say they might forget where they were and chew np Aunt Loo's best creamer or swallow those souvenir spoons from the World's fair. These men of the Indian AEF are mechanics, clerks, cooks, techni cians of a hundred different kinds, and they put in a full day at their appointed tasks unstayed by sun or dust storm or monsoon. But they have their fun while they can get it A tonga is a two-wheeled cart drawn by an undersized, mangy but spirited Indian pony. There is one broad seat, separated into two by a back rest running from side to side. Thus two passengers can ride facing forward and two facing backward. The man who invented tongas didn't know much about the laws of balance. If two passengers take a tonga and sit in the back seat, the shafts go up in the air so high the pony has to walk on tiptoe. To counteract this the driver crawls out on the right shaft and operates as a sort of off-side Jockey. Synthetic Bombing Aid to Uncle Sam's Bombardiers Something new has been added to the training of Uncle Sam's bombardiers. It is "synthetic bombing," which is the technical term for use of models and gadgets to simulate, on the ground, the procedures of actual bombing. At the world's largest bom bardier school, Midland, Texas, synthetic bombing has been de veloped to a point where everything but the explosions of real bombing can be duplicated in classrooms and huge training hang ars. symnenc DomDing is planned to enable stu dents to gain experi ence in use of the secret U. S. bombsight before they actually go aloft on practice missions over the vast nearby target ranges. It is used to teach them, in graphic detail, the principles of bomb loading, bomb tra jectory and the complex theories on which Amer ican precision bombing is based. Right: Using a class room model of a plane's bomb bay, cadet bombar diers learn how m "big boy" is hoisted to its plane in the bomb racks. * - . .*;?<? /Victory\ I Parade/ * / ?r. . Synthetic trainer. Miniature plane slide* along track at top, releas ing toy bombs along wire tangents to illustrate the law of falling bodies. This is Uncle Sam's bombsight, 1918 model. Sighting through it, ? cadet bombardier at the AAF bom bardier school learns basic princi ples on which all bombing is based. Bombing trainer shown under guard. This device enables bom bardiers to gain practice in use of the secret U. S. bombsight without leaving the ground. Bombsight class. Learning the principle* of the secret U. S. bomb sight, cadet bombardiers at the Midland AAF bombardier school study the principles of a gyroscope. Oversize model shown above is one of the "gadgets" used in synthetic bombing. In closely guarded classrooms, student bombardiers see in operation enlarged models of parts of the famous American bomb sight. Studying these models, they rapidly learn both operational and maintenance problems connected with their deadly instru ment. Once familiar with the sight's operation, they put their knowledge into practice. Synthetic bombing, developed almost from scratch during the past year at the Midland bombardier school, is principally the work of a group of ex-university science professors who make up the ground school faculty of the West Texas bombardier college. According to the director of training, synthetic bombing has great ly speeded up the preliminary phases of bombardier training. Measuring for Slip Covers Made Easy yOUR tape measure and a little I figuring can help you save ma terial when making those new slip covers. In estimating goods remember that the- length and width of each section must be the same as the widest and long est measurement of the part of the chair to which it is to be flt I ALLOW r AT ALL MAM UNES ...... 1 'AMD A" TO TUCK IN PWECE FCM MCX wecff \j/f \ - [/-wTjgsca PIECES^ PIECE CUT FLOUNCE OF CROSS W10THS ALLOWING SE API \ FULLNESS AND HEPt ORTSot STEBf ted plus seams, seat tuck-in and flounce fullness. The method at measuring is shown here. Slip cover material usually comes in 36 and 50-inch widths. Frequently a narrow chair back may be covered by splitting a 50 inch width of goods. For other chairs 36-inch material might be cut to better advantage. If the material has a large figure an ex tra yard will be needed for match ing and centering the design. De cide in advance which, seams, are to be accented with welting or trimming and measure them to determine the amount needed. ? ? ? NOTE?Do the springs In your chain need fixing? Mrs. Spears' new BOOK 9 gives illustrated directions for doing this. This book also contains more than 30 other thrift ideas for keeping your home attrac tive in wartime. Copies of BOOK 9 are available at 15 cents each. Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford New York Drawer II Enclose 15 cents for Book No. 9. Name ..?? Address fSHAVE with SHELBY imrwM hfiwl lirMa? C?.# H. T. 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