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Show THE SENTINEL, MIDVALE, UTAH Page Six Friday, April 23, 1943 Something Wrong if RAF Pilots 'Put Up a Black' War's End for These Italians in Tunisia ,. Note!J of an Innocent Bystander: The Intelligentsia: Fred Allen has .. '' decided not to do a column. But he is quitting radio in June • • • Lucius Beebe admits clowning in Chkago about getting a priority on a west-bound train "as a lathe worker," but points out that you need no priority for train-riding. Eavesdroppers took it to heart, and so Beebe has the final titter . • . Ben Hecht is making the slick mags again with his first-rate stories . . • John Briggs, the N. Y. Post music man, has quit to join OW! and hopes to be in Africa shortly. The Wireless: The Berlin braggarts, according to the short wave listeners, skipped all reference to the Tunisia runaway. Rommel qualillfd for the master race by putting on a masterly race of 1,430 miles away from the scrapping • . • Goebbels probably regards the twin bombing of Berlin as a blessing. It smashed the radios and prevented the groggy citizens from hearing the bad news from Africa . • . R. White flags held high to prove that there no longer is a combat G. Swing made a point for wide against them, these Italians surrender to a Highland officer as Gabes, in open info on the submarine sinkTunisia, fell to the British Eighth army in command of Gen. Bernard ings. It will be harder to take, he Montgomery. This is a radiophoto from Cairo. warned, when the total losses are discovered. Besides, the truth would cure us of some of our cockiness, which isn't stylish when there's a war on. Jap Prisoners Leave South Pacific for Duration Appearing quite happf, and with a definitely well-fed look, these Jap prisoners while away the time aboard the ship which is transporting them out of the South Pacific war zone for the duration. Chinese checkers amuse the pair on the mattress on the deck, while at the right the lad with the bandaged toes grins broadly for the cameraman. Putting on the Heat in a Cold Country The R_.u' has developed a language all its own. Many of the terms, such as "Browned off" for bored, and "Put up a black" for doing something wrong, have been adopted now· into common usage. Some expressions have been borrowed from the United States, including "Flinging a woo," which means to have a date with a girl, and "Roughneck" which, in the RAF does not mean a tough guy, but an unlikeable person. "Gen" means the real, inside information on anything, and, >imilarly, "duff gen" means wrong information. A "flap" is a sudden operation. To be in a "flap" or in a "fiat spin" means to be busy on a job, too busy to do anything else. The "Chief . Plumber" is, of course, the Chief Engineer; the "Quack" is the doctor; the "Second Dickey" " is the second pilot, and a stickyback is an RAF photographer. Pilots who go "dicing" or on a "shaky-do" are attacking a difficult and dangerous target; if it's an easy target it's a "piece of After they drop their cake." bombs they sometimes "stooge aroufld to take a beaker," meaning to hang around to have a look. To "carry the can" is to "hold the baby" or to be the scapegoat, while pilots suffering from that morning-after feeling are "newted." Half of World Doesn't Know What Other Thinks Don't They? Sad Conclusion Teacher (to new pupil)-Do you "Henry, honey, I'm to be in our know the alphabet? What letter club's amateur theatricals. What comes after A? do you think people will say when New Pupil-All of them. they see me in tights?" "They'll probably say I married • They're Even you for your money." "I'd fire you in a minute," cried the irascible manager, "if I A milkman, inducted into the thought I could get another man army, wrote back home from to fill your job." camp: "Bessie, I sure do like "And I'd quit in a minute," this army life. It's nice to lie sighed the weary bookkeeper, "if abed every mon1ing until fiveI was through with my night thirty." course in welding." From an old French word "mes" Frightful derived from the Latin word "mis"What's that ugly insignia on the side sus" meaning a course at a meal, of the bomber?" comes the Army's name "mess" "Sh.h-h.h. That's the commanding for its breakfast, dinner and supofficer looking out of a port hole." per. Favorite meal with the soldier chicken dinner-his favorite is Seat of Learning CameL (Based on actual cigarette, The lad was dull at school you see; from service men's records sales His dad took things to heart. carton of Camels, A stores.) own He took the lad across his knee gift that's always a is way, the by And there he made him smart! welcome. And though there are Judy, aged two and a half, had Post Office restrictions on pack· had a great deal of hard toast ages to overseas Army men, you from babyhood on. Only a few can still send Camels to soldiers times had she had fresh bread. in the U. S., and to men in the At supper one evening she said: Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard "Please, Mummy, may I have wherever they are.-Adv. some bread without any noise in it?" Loved But Not Lost He-Have you ever loved and lost? She-No, the jury awarded me $10,000 heart balm. • The Magazines: Otto Kruger's letA commercial traveler put up ter to his daughter on her 16th birththe night at a small country for day in Cosmopolitan is grand. By In the breakfast room the inn. all means clip it and show it to morning he was asked following yours • • • "Hospital Ship" in the how he had enlandlord the by Satevepost, by Comdr. M. Lewis and playing in the cornet the joyed J. Israels, II, is eye-arresting • • • the night. during bedroom next Those who deprecate the power of "Enjoyed it!" was the reply. ridicule and words should dip into should think not, indeed! Why, "I rewhich World, a piece in Free half the night pounding on spent I concerned so is veals that Goebbels to make that cornet playwall the anti-Nazi of about the epidemic stop." er sock to Nazis urged quips, he has "I'm afraid there's been a misnoses of those who tell them . • • said the landlord, understanding," Atlantic in says Gerald W. Johnson player told cornet "The stilfly. Monthly that we are at war bethe next in person the that me cause the Axis thought we wouldn't that heartily so applauded room fight, which gave them' the idea they knew he piece every played he could push us around. In fewer five times over." words-the trouble was they believed ostriches instead of Americans • • • Sir Cedric Hardwicke in This Week relates a Shaw gag. The Eat WeU hostess cornered Old Whiskers at mgher prices and the scarcity of her party and inquired if he was enaome food commodities did not pr• joying himself. "Madam," he said, vent the average American civilian ! "that is all I'm enjoying!" from eating almost as much in 1942 as he did in 1941. The average The Big Show: civilian used 2208.8 pounds of the Sallies in Our Alley: Sgt. Soupy food commodities last year •• major Campbell, former actor, who is back to 2231.9 in 1941, while compared from the Solomons, swears this hap. the yearly averaa:e for was 2145.1 pened • . • A J ap acrobat, who bad five-year period. previous the returned to Japan in time to be drafted, was found alone frantically Exercise Brood Sows waving a white flag in surrender. days of rain and snow this Many In perfect Americanese he greeted induced farmers to perhave winter the marine with: "Fergoodnesto avoid exercise. sows brood mit sakes-where the hell have you experts say the husbandry Animal been?" • . • Two gents were disto get compelled be shQuld aowa cussing the wife-problem last night. be can this and daily, exercise some "Mine is really strange," said one. some at feed placing by done "She has the constant fear somedistance from the shelter. one'll swipe her clothes" • • • "Well," suggested the other, "why don'tcha have them insured?" ••• "Oh, I did, I did," was the reply, "but she still worries. Now she has some guy stay in her closet and watch them. I happened to find him therE! last night." NOW lidded Stillings ~:;,· •• In U. S. infantrymen unhesitatingly leap (top) into the icy waters of a mountain stream during maneuvers in Alaska. Below: A machine gun crew takes up position on a snow-covered, wind-swept elevation. ScrambUng through snowbanks and wading through icy streams soon. makes tough soldiers of these boys from offices, shops and farms. They become just as tough as the country. Sound and Fury for the Enemy. The Magie Lanterns: The newsreels, which are working on a good story these days, put it all over the fiction dep't. Best of the newsies shows the Nazi defeat at Stalingrad. You'll never get the glow out of a scenario that comes with a gander at Marshall von Paulus, jittery as a hophead, reporting to the Russky leader to take what's coming to him . . . The long lines of German prisoners against the snow also make a pretty picture. Shakespeare wrote of sound and fury "signifying nothing," which Is quite the opposite of the sound and fury depicted here. Navy 16-inch guns are letting go with a thunderous roar during powder tests at the Dahlgren naval ordnance depot, at Dahlgren, Va. Powder tests determine some of the factors which go into more emcient firing of these big berthas. The Front Pages: Jonathan Daniel, the North Carolina editor, just added to the President's staff, is one of the nation's ablest. Good enough, in fact, to bring the axswingers down on him . . • Rommel's plastering in Tunisia found the opinion gents reveling in delight-even those obdurate fellows who whimpered we could never lick the Nazis . . • This gives you an idea of the way some legislators think. The fight over the Ruml Plan in Congress had them more excited ~han Rommel's defeat. 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There was a knock on the door, and both cleared the decks for their first action . • • Was this their first big client? . • • Well, let's be ready, anyhow • • . She opened the door and let the stranger in-the cue for the new attorney to put on his big act . . . "I'm sorry, Mr. Ridgeway," he said audibly, "my fee is still the same-$10,000. Good day!" . . . Picking up another phone he boomed: "I'm very busy these days, but I'll take your case" • • . The visitor was in the doorway by this time ••• ;rhe new counsellor, with a dramatic gesture, asked: "My good man, what can I do for you?" . . . "Not a thing," was the reply, "I came to connect the phones!" -Buy War Sarlrlgs Bonds- YOU SAID IT, RANGER-CAMELS HAVE GOT WHAT IT TAKES! they say: ''CAT CRAWLn for an advance hugging the ground "BUSHMASTERS" for Rangers trained in the Caribbean area for tropic jungle-fighting "MINSTREL SHOWn for an attack at night with faces blacked up "CAMEL" (or the Army man's favorite cigarette ' CAMELS ITS FIRST IN THE SERVICE The favorite cigarette with men in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard is Camel. (Based on actual sales records in Canteen~ and Post Exchanges.) WITH ME_I LIKE ffHAT E'XTRA MILDNESS AND FULL FLAVOR COSTLIER TOBACCOS 6olter Health Menace Goiter is a serious health prob· Sap Bucket Paint lem, related to a lack of iodine in paint cannot be used safe· lead As the water and soil, in the territory and water pails or poultry feed on ly surrounding the Great Lakes and and water fountains, hoppers feed parts of the Rocky and Appalachian to prevent rust on paint best the mountains. this galvanized metal equipment il sap-bucket paint. Potatoes Compressed A one-pound brick of compressed Busy Canning potatoes-the new-type "nutritional operators in Q;io, Infarm Small ammunitlon"-is small enough to Iowa and Missouri Illinois, diana, slip into a soldier's pocket yet when quarts of vegemillion 25.6 canned crumbled in water, makes 24 aerv· pickles, jams meats, fruits, tables, ings. and jellies during 1942. Raid CostlJ Trees In Texas A single British raid ot 1,000 trees on the high plains best The bombers over the Rhineland coat grow along the riv· Texas west of close to 14 million dollars, the Jargand willow have cottonwood and en, ~ile item being the c:oa\ ~ tb.e adapted best the be to ve4 .......... wer-' .~Jl:. ..~. . ..; ------ .,~ 1\lobile Optical Units American soldiers needing glassea are provided such aids to vision without charge. Men in the field are provided ophthalmic service by mobile optical units mounted on apec:ial trucks. Cold Weather From Aleutians Weather in the northern half of the United States is largely deter• mined by the great low pressure atmospheric area south of the Aleu· tians. 'Philosopher's Wool' Zinc oxide, obtained by roasting zinc ores with charcoal, was known as "philosopher's wool" and was used for paint as far back as the beginning ol the Christian era. |