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iSPECIAL ARTICLES! I BY THE LEADING \4mL| <Ag COPpctnrt"f""Tj^g WACS Sail for England By Doris Fleeson (WNU Foaturo?Through apodal arrangomont with Woman's Homo Companion.} There were 650 American girls in the First WAC Separate Battalion with whom I sailed to Europe. As we boarded the transport, each girl wore, a tin helmet, dress uniform, utility coat, pistol belt with first-aid packet and canteen, shoulder bag, mask. Shoulders bent under the heavy musette?but hours of hik ing had enured the girls to this bur den. Each WAC carried over her arm a heavy topcoat, hiding within its folds heaven knows what of last-mln ?ute impediments. "Forward march I" Capt. Mary A. Hallaren, commanding the bat talion, barked from the dock as she set off at the head of the column, carrying her full pack as easily as anyone in the ranks. WACs are on the average huskier than American girls used to be, but for a leader they have gone back to the Napo leonic tradition. Once I asked Captain Hallaren her height. Her demure answer was: "You must be five feet to be a WAC." Her troops call her Captain Peewee or Captain Five-by-Five. It has been suggested that Captain Hallaren'a small size disarms men, helps her to get along with them so well. Though small myself, I've never noticed it makes any difference. Precise Rhythm. The troops' backs looked grim as they swung along in precise soldier ly rhythm that makes all men of ficers jealous. Captain Hallaren never doubted that her troops would stand the test of the ocean voyage with its close quarters and possible hazard. Since March, she bad been commanding her battalion, preparing it for its task. The troops gave her a shil lelagh to celebrate her appointment. Her five companies were formed in obedience to a request for clerks, stenographers and telephone oper ators to serve with the air force. The average age of the auxiliaries is about 25. They are pretty, homely, fat, slim, blonde, brunette, Protes tant, Catholic, Jewish?a cross sec tion of America. Nearly all are high school graduates, a few are college graduates. The officers are drawm chiefly from colleges and the aver age age is 33. Captain Hallaren is 36, comes from Lowell, Mass., and is a gradu ate of Massachusetts State Teachers college. She also studied 'at Har vard university. The fact that she had traveled for 15 summers in Europe, Latin America and the Near East?often with a pack on her back ?was a help, she thinks, in prepar ing her for the job with the WACs. Sunday services aboard ship were well attended by the WACs. Officers who censored their mail reported uiai uie gins wruie meir lammtra that the services seemed like a link with home. It was strange to realise that this transport of good-tempered friendly people was actually a task force and as each a rich prise Inviting to the enemy; that the sea was the haunt of killers who would destroy us In stinctively as wolves tear dogs in the forest. The transport was crowded to a point that no self-respecting sardine would tolerate. Each voyage is such a tremendous enterprise, so expen sive to arrange, that it must pay off In manpower. Eighteen WACs slept In one cabin. The approach of debarkation time was easy to recognize. An attrac tive young American, Captain Sher man, came aboard ship to welcome us with good news from Sicily, and gave us the first of the security lec tures that began to bombard our ears with increasing frequency. Step oo British Soil. The sun was in their faces when the WACs first stepped on British soil. The honor of being the very first went to Sergeant Rosekrans. In the train shed the Royal Scots Fusiliers' band struck up Sousa's "King Cotton" march. Then once again we were on a troop train. The train moved and the WACs sped through a pleasant green coun tryside that may long be their home. After the train Journey of several hours was over, the WACs shoul dered their musettes and marched two miles to a replacement depot A cheerful Baptist chaplain, C. G. Strippy of Wollaston, Mass., gave the girls their favorite hands-across the-eea story. He told them about the recently arrived private, dizzy with orientation, who was asked by an officer how he liked the British. The private replied: "Sir, we like the British and the British like us, and them's orders." The chaplain Joked that yesterday was the first cheerful baggage de tail he ever saw. He said be wag admonished to look after their spir itual welfare and ha was going to do it, "no matter what the odds." W * ' . Marines Celebrate 168th Birthday?Fighting "tn the air, on land, and sea" the men of the United States marine corps are fighting at America's batUelronts over the world as they celebrate their 168tb birthday. Left: On Guadalcanal marine artillery ex perts shell a Japanese position. Their weapon is a 75-mm. pack howitzer, a favorite with marines because of its mobility. Center: Lieut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, the highest ranking officer ever to command the marines. Be served in much of the heavy fighting of World War I. Right: On a lonely bill overlooking one of the numer ous Alaskan inlets, a marine machine gun crew is on the alert for any attempted landing by enemy troops. 'Khaki Farmers' Help Gather Matanuska Harvest The American spirit of eo-operition Is clearly in evidence at Matannska Valley, Alaska, where soldiers from nearby camps are helping farmers harvest the bumper 1943 potato crop. Top left: Soldiers operate the community's unique digging machine designed by the farmers which digs potatoes, sorts them from the dirt, and drops the spuds in sacks. Top right: Two soldiers aid a farmer load sacks of potatoes onto his truck. Bottom: Nestled in the valley Is the town of Palmer. Its main street is pictured here. New York Yanks Vote in Panama Jungle Bill LTal'S <i New York troops take time oat from jangle mkaeavtts to re to the polls. In their camouflage salts they mark ballots which were returned in time to be recorded in the election returns of their home town. Loft to right: Pfe. Lewis Tnnkel, Bronx; Gorp. Leo Klrshenbanm, Brooklyn; Private Thomas Mitelli, New York City; Corp. Frances J. Barley, Brook lyn; and (on tree) John D. Alexandre, New York City. Von Csata of Hungary on the Spot r : ? "': _ M Ike Catted Nations press tack -Genua tree pi ea all beats, as Anted raids eeer Nastlaad increase dally, aad as aattre pspalsllwii el Bitter's satellite enables resell epealy, peppet leaders at these Wile as ttsas are eeastaatly ea the spet. Gee. Ladwif sea Csata of Hanyary ti Fancy Telephone Pole HIIMIHHIIfll????Hill IMIIMI1IH1HIIMMHII?I??!?Mil l?l IIIM milllll W A its toe on the estate ot the queen at Italy serves a practical purpose a* Corp. Melvin Jewell uses Ha hand to support a telephone line. The next day Jewell waa fifhtinf with the troops that forced the Germans across the Votturao river. Hero Salutes Hero a?'?miiiiB?ii imim mm Private George Moorfeot, as Ans 1 trallaa who fongbt with Americans ' at Bnaa, New Goinea, kneels at the i grave of Yankee baddy located near their tenner battleAeM. Washington, O. C. RUSSIAN RELATIONS IMPROVE The diplomatic grapevine reports that inter-Allied relations with Rus sia are going pretty well now. This is certainly true on the surface, and while some irritations have occurred below the surface, both sides have shown a real tendency to try to get along. Most serious sub-surface irritation was over the Mediterranean Council, through which Russia, the United States and Britain were to confer re garding Italy, North Africa and the Balkans. The Russians, snubbed earlier in the summer regarding preliminary Italian armistice terms, took the Mediterranean Council seriously and appointed as their representative An drei Vishinski, the famous prosecutor in the Russian purge trials. This was the equivalent of sending the most outstanding member of the U. S. Supreme court or the leading lawyer of England. Vishinski is a man of national stature, capable of making Mediter ranean decisions without consulting Moscow. But to represent the Unit ed States on the Mediterranean Council, Secretary Hull sent Ed Wil son, U. S. ambassador to Panama. Wilson is a thorough-going, compe tent diplomat who can handle any routine job and handle it well. But almost no one outside diplomacy or Panama has heard of him. He has no national stature and he cannot act on his own. Immediately it developed that Wil son was to act as a glorified mes senger and report everything back to Washington. The British repre sentative was to do the same. In other' words, Churchill and Roose velt were to make the decisions, and the much publicized Mediterranean Council was to be a mere reporting agency. This immediately roused Russian wrath. They had welcomed the Council, appointed a top man. So for a moment they considered with drawing. However, for the sake of Allied harmony, they stayed on and are giving the Mediterranean Coun cil a trial. ? ? ? POOR 'PA' WATSON Toughest job White House Secre tary Maj. Gen. Edwin ("Pa") Wat son of the White House secretariat has to tackle each day is keeping the President's appointment sched ule on time. Frequently FDR will sit talking to an old friend for 15 or 20 minutes over the allotted time, and that snarls the White House schedule for the rest of the day. This is hard on the general's nerv ous system, especially when bigwigs from the war or navy departments are waiting to discuss military mat ters. On such occasions Watson is not above barging in and breaking up the conference. . The other day when the Presi dent's old friend, Governor Bob Kerr of Oklahoma, was overstaying his time?through no fault of his own? Watson walked in and began to pa rade nervously about the room. "Well, here's the undertaker, Mr. President," grinned Kerr, catching the hint. "If one of your callers gets so he doesn't move, 'Pa' will move him." Roosevelt laughingly motioned Watson to a chair. "Sit down and talk to us for awhile, general," he said. "We're having a very interesting conversa tion." With a sigh, Watson took a chair. ? ? ? * BACK TO NORMALCY Industry's eagerness to get back to peacetime operation is seen in the dehige of mail received by the chemical division of WPB. Theme of every letter is: Unlace the straightjacket and give us a chance to expand. * This pressure hits the chemical division more than any other because of the tight control which that divi sion has exercised over the industry, and also because of the tremendous future of plastics and other develop ments in the chemical field. Controls are so tight that no ma terials may be bought or sold with out clearance with WPB, and 16 the course of getting clearance, the ap plicant must state a lot of intimate facts about his business, including buying price, selling price, profit, and inventories. The real meaning of the complaint la that the industry is not worried about paper work so much as it is worried about limitation on profits. Under government control, prices are held down by the fact that sales are limited to war needs, but when this restriction is removed, the de mand for chemical materials will be terrific, and profits will go through the ceiling. ? ? ? CAPITAL CHAFF C The Argentine government had al ready retracted its ban on the Jewish press even before President Roose velt denounced the ban. C Foreign Economic administration, which does a lot of business with Latin America, is worried over the fact that its initials, FEA, mean "ugly" in Spanish. C There's a new breath of life in state department press conferences sines Ed Stettlnius took charge. ?. Jesse Jones hasn't held a press conference for mors than a year. Who's News This Week By Delot Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Feature!.?WNU Release. ^EW YORK.?Some years ago a ^ few vice presidents were whoop ing it up in the General Electric company's camp in Ontario when _ ,. _ one of the EverythingSeemi boys sug To Come Out All gested ser Right With Reed ^ent So they toted their eyedropper piano close to the imperial tent and roared: "Hail, hail, the gang's all here," into Gerard Swope's ear. The piano player was Philip Dunham Reed who next day wrote his folks in Wisconsin his regret that he ever had taken a lesson. But everything came out all right. In a few years Swope was gone and Reed was chair man of the board. Now at 44, Reed is taking over the United States Mission for Economic Affairs in London as W. Averell Harriman moves on to our ambas sadorial mansion in Moscow. Reed figured first to be an en gineer, studied at the University of Wisconsin, but he switched to law at Fordhara and that came out all right. Soon he was earn ing $12,000 a year in New York. Although he had a wife, son and daughter, he boldly resigned to take $4,500 ? year in the law department of General Electric, and that came out all right, too. It led to that chairmanship of the board. He resigned to work under Harriman whom he suc ceeds and nowadays he doesn't even worry about when to have his hair cut. His secretary tells him and he marches obediently to a barber. Properly trimmed he is tall, with an air so handsome it is easy to believe he had a big part in a class play at Wisconsin along side Fred M. Bickel, known now on Broadway as Frederic March. ? A MONG the waitresses in the most crowded service canteen in Washington is a slender matron with lively blue eyes and a dark il u o u _ curly bans Ike Han Been Her who doesn't Career Since She look her 46 Wan but Eighteen yefrs ? ? ? not by quite a tew of 'em. She will admit though, freely, that she has a son 21 years old, her only son, in West Point. Her husband has been overseas for 15 months. That's why she gives all the time she can to the canteen and to Red Cross work. It is Mrs. Ike Eisenhower speaking. She first met Ike when she was but 18. She was Matmie Doad, a doctor's daughter, of Denver, Colo. With her parents she vis ited an army camp in Texas. At the officers' mess, she met the future Allied commander in the Mediterranean area. He talked her out of a date she had in town, talked her into becom ing engaged two months later. She's been seeing to it that his uniforms were pressed ever since, until June of last year at Fort Meyer, Va. Pictures of him are found at every turn in the suburban Washington apartment where she waits for him to come home. The one on the piano came from North Africa. There is a complete scrap book of his doings, too. Their home used to be known as the Club Eisenhower. She is hos pitable and friendly. She strikes up friendships with butchers, bakers and neighbors, especially when . . . like herself . . . they are waiting for some one to come home Her eneee tors fought in the Civil and Revolutionary wars and she knows how their wives felt. ? rOO'.STUFFS in Britain are st *? well distributed that although quantities are far below normal, Britain is better fed than before the Hereof a Bachelor *^ ?Wil Who'i Done Good liam Ma Job on Foodetuffe J?ane. Par liamentary secretary to the ministry of food. Under Lord Woolton, Mabane can certainly take part of the credit, and it doesn't seem strange to him that a bachelor like himself should do a good job with anything pertaining to food. He believes that men can outcook women every time, but that this is no reason why some women should cook so badly. Tail, thin, gray-blond and sat urnine, Mabane has been an M.P. since 1931. His voice with its Yorkshire accent is often lift ed on food topics. It was he who startled the treasury benches daring a report on the point sys tem of rationing by quoting Marie Lloyd "A Little of What yon Fancy does yon Good." He was not nourished by a family of restaurateurs, bill by the boot and shoe business, and took a fling at it himself after Cambridge univer sity where he was distinguished as a runner. There seems to be some connection there. In the First World war he fought his way up to a captaincy and was wounded. He tried social service; and in 1929 worked his way around the globe, visiting the United States which he has since revisited. He likes to travel, golf, ski and play ?fox and geese" oe a checkerboard. Be likes to garden, too. Pwfsr"~51 ANOTHER I > ' A General Quiz 1 ' The Qaettioru 1. What river flows through three European capitals? 2. What is a quern? 3. What are the national colors of Mexico? 4. In diplomatic service which is the highest rank, ambassador, minister or consul? 6. Which two countries of South America do not touch Brazil? 6. If you are served pomme de terre in a French restaurant you would be eating what? 7. How many presidents of the United States have been army gen erals? The Answert 1. The Danube flows through Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade. 2. A small hand mill for grind ing spices. 3. Green, white and red. 4. Ambassador. 5. Ecuador and Chile. 6. Potatoes. 7. Seven?Washington, Jackson, W. H. Harrison, Taylor, Grant, Hayes and Garfield. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT ; BIRTH CERTIFICATES Birth Certificate?. Send 50c for blank and (all Information for any state in the Union. United Birth Certificate Service, SOO-SL Riegler Building, Little Reek, Arkansas. Dog's Parasites At least 500 kinds of internal parasites infest domestic dogs and cats, and many cause marked in jury and death to their hosts. Not infrequently, the eggs of some of the parasitic worms even find their way into the animal before it is born. 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