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Show oni Bombing Crews From Texas, Oklahoma, Based in England, Pound Hitlers Europe U. S. Farm Expert Gives Friendly Advice to China Southwestern Boys Eager to Finish Job And Get Back Home Department of Agriculture Officials Visit Chinese, Suggest Practical Methods Of Increasing Food Production. d Facts The Chinese which we dont has put between the covers of a book now being printed in China, a lot of things that the Chinese never knew before. He got his facts first hand, traveling over most of the unoccupied parts of China with the Chinese Minister of Agriculture and a good interpreter, and collated them against his own expert knowledge of animal husbandry. But as he said to me, if you know anything about a cow, a sheep or a horse, you don't need an interpreter to tell you whats the matter with it It was a hot day in Washington when I interviewed Dr. Phillips and he had his coat and vest off. Im a shirtsleeve diplomat, he said to me. When I learned a little more of the details of his particular job, I realized that it was one in which you had to take off your coat and roll up your sleeves. Among other things, he rode several hundred miles over what the Chinese laughingly call roads, in ancient automobiles, and a good many miles on the back of a very tough Mongolian pony. This friendly, shirtsleeve scientist typifies a new order he Is part of a new, honest effort (as one member of the State department said to me) to establish a relationship of people to people rather than a relationship of diplomat to diplomat, or government to know many things know, but Phillips u. tough-mouthe- d, d inter-breedin- No Ordered Effort with countless citizens of Tyler from behind the counter in "Mens Clothing at a local department store. Today he is a veteran tail gunner with 39 missions over France, Holland and Belgium to his credit. And he wears the coveted Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and five Oak Leaf clusters. What does the Big Show mean to Alex Owen? Ask him and youll get an answer as honest and straightword of forward as a fellow-Texahonor. I wouldn't miss it for one helluva he told me that day. Sure, lot, its rough. We're not fighting a war with kid gloves on, man." Back to Tyler.' That was Alexs story, and its much like the one I heard from another Southwestemer that day at this American bomber base in rural England. His name is Joe Shouse, an engineer-gunne- r from Coweta, Oklahoma, a small, friendly town 30 miles from Tulsa. Joe (officially, he is Staff Sergeant vetJoe W. Shouse) is a eran of 35 missions, and he says the coming invasion cant start too soon. Back in 1941 and part of 1942, Joe was a sheet metal worker for the Spartan Aircraft company, in Tulsa. But when you mention postwar plans to the young Oklahoma gunner he says he has put them all on the shelf for the duration. Im too excited about the Job Ive got now, Joe told me that day In his Nissen hut home at this Marauder base. His and fellow-gunnelike to tell you how cool Joe is under fire, and after a brief conversation with him you agree with them. And when I left Joe that day I figured Id met the typical fighting man from the Southwest. Then, a few minutes later, in another Nissen hut, I met other air men force from your home d hut-mat- rs g vacant lots utilization program under which the land along railroad lines and highways, as well as other available vacant areas, will be put to use for growing pumpkins and soybeans to help solve Japan's war food problems. The plan is quite reminiscent of our own victory gardens. THE CREW of a medium bombing plane Is a strongly welded five-lin- k chain, In the conception of Sergt. W. D. Morey of Kelly Field, Texas. The five men navigator, mechanic, pilot, bombardier and gunner train, fly and fight as one. home-tow- n ing, one of the first things to do it to teach the Chinese peasant that il gives milk and that milk is a pretty good food. And then to improve the breed so that it will give milk. At present, the cow is a beast of burden, a draft animaL However, it isnt even as good a draft animal as it could be. It will not be difficult to improve the breed so that it will be more efficient as a beast ol burden and as a milk giver at the same time. Of course, the Nomadic people who live on the great plains ol northern China, who live from their herds, use the milk as food, mostly dried in the form of casein. They also store butter. They have the yak and a hybrid animal, a cross between a yak and a cow, which is called a pian-niThe chickens in China aren't much to crow about either, I take it, from Dr. Phillips' description. Il they lay only 50 to 60 eggs a year, There, too, nobody complains. breeding from selected types that China already has would be a great help. Dr. Phillips likes the Chinese donkeys and in spite of personal experiences on their backs, thinks Mongolian horses have possibilities. Very good mules are produced by crossing the Mongolian mare and the donkey. But the Mongolian horse is a little, crooked-leggeanimal which could be greatly Improved with g with a good saddle horse strain. HI iMBi and homepudding, made scones, while British customers have taken to traditionally American dishes such as cheese with apple pie, and fried chicker and waffles, the British Informatiot services report. The war may lea-tan exchange of cooking recipr as well as an exchange of ideas FLYING CADETS at Ellington Field, Texas, practice their radio code sending and receiving with the rear of tbc great motors thundering in their ears. These future bombardiers and navigators know that when they are in air combat they will have to hear above the crash of bombs, crackling of machine guns as well as and booming of ack-ac- k the hum of the engines. The flying schools of Texas are turning out thousands of air corps men monthly. missions without turning and the Chief, who is a former oi) field roustabout from Dewey, Okla- pot-belli- Yanks on leave in British restau Premier Hidekl Tojos government has announced details of a rants ask for roast beef, Yorkshire countrywide 53 e Dr. Phillips had first-hanexperience with these little animals whose ancestors were tough enough tc carry Ghangis Khan across Asia but are too tough to follow the bridle if they get other Ideas. Up until now, there seems to have been no ordered effort by the representatives of any other foreign country to assist in the improvement oi Chinese livestock. Missionaries here and there have introduced better grades which have had an influence in the immediate vicinity, German missionaries brought in some nice fat pigs. Others introduced good chickens and cows. But these were only a drop in the bucket. The Chinese Department of Agriculture itself is a new thing and has very little background of training or experience. Perhaps the one most Important influence has been the exchange established between Cornell university and the University in Nanking. A number of experts in FRANCE agriculture have been trained at , fit AM Cornell and have gone back to China. V SI , Naturally with such a large proof the illiterate, population portion it will be exceedingly difficult tc government Dr. Phillips witnessed the effects spread the information even when FROM BASES In England, meof the great migration of the the Chinese leaders themselves are dium bombers range deep Into GerChinese government followed by its trained. many, France and Norway, wreckThe present Chinese government, ing enemy factories, harbor Instaluniversities, its people, its industries. This great movement en- despite the fact that almost every lations and railroad yards. forced by the Japanese occupation, ounce of energy has to be turned opened up vast territory in western toward fighting the war, has shown towns . . . and their stories are the and northwestern China about which an interest evidenced by the wel- kind you like to hear, too, because very little was known and with come reception given the various these neighbors of yours will all be which the rulers of China heretofore American representatives, and the in the aerial front lines when the have been very little concerned. For United States on its side has sought big fight comes home to the Nazis. the sake of this discussion, China to improve its relations between There were three Texans in that can be roughly divided into two people and extend its influence by Nissen hut, and as you approach its quite different agricultural domains. this activity which is a part of the front door you see this sign overIn the crowded eastern provinces. cultural relations program. head: "The Gangsters Roost: Texi-can- s Included. easy-goin- as hes known Chief, at this field) is one of the crack I talked to a score of these fliers that is, increasing and Improving a Marauder bomber station in at oi in western the part production rural England. I heard them Inside, around a warm, the country and breeding for rein the skies over stove, there is Ramon Western, a experiences past be which will in the areas stocking when the Japanese art Europe , . . spin their dreams of crew chief from Alvord, Texas. victory . . . and plan for a peaceful And next to him there is a young driven out back in their home towns in mechanic by the name of Tommy future The heavy demands for food by the Southwest. Busselle, a Houston youth who used the American military, to say nothAnd I saw a look of determination to play a saxophone in a il own make of China's soldiers, ing on the faces of these men that made orchestra. Then, to round out the innecessary for the Chinese to one of the Texas trio, there is Bob Allen, crease food production to tht me glad I wouldnt beYanks from another Houstonian and an aircraft utmost. At present, however. Dr. enemy when these their electrician. and Texas take Oklahoma Phillips reported that except for tht front I wondered about that legend on famine areas where drouth or in- bombers to the Nazis invasion the door, and Tommy Busselle gave sects have affected the crops, tht yard. Alex Owen is one of these fighting me the details. Chinese people have more fooc all the We call it the Gangsters Roost available than is popularly believed. neighbors of yours. He came way from Tyler, Texas, to man a because that explains how some of But they arent making the most . gun in this war, and hes us ground crew chiefs get our equipof their cows and pigs and chickens. the kind of lad youd like to know. ment. (This with a wide grin playAs to the Chinese cow, about which Alex enlisted in the air forces ing across Tommys face.) And as Dr. Phillips spoke with great feel- back in 1941, after making friends for the word Texicans, that was re-liv- HOME FRONTS RUTHjwYETH SPEARS 0 YOU have a large space somewhere in .w,n house that looks rather bare n?y not fill it with a group of Tales of the Big Town: brackets on which you may S? WUllston Rich of the Time mag an attractive arrangement of convince to tried for years factory his colleagues there that Bob Hope X and trailing vines? This sketch shows a set of would make an Interesting profile brackets In a . . was always heart design over a davenport crew chiefs in his group. His ship. . . . But he and short a went on holiday, So he the living room. The center Baby Bumps, has gone out on decided that b3j back, the bosses suddenly pig. Walt (or By SGT. JIM SWARTZ JR. The tender beauty of an English spring surrounds this American medium bomber Newt Analyst and Commentator. station, but the fighting men WNU Service, Union Trust Building small farming and very small farm from the U. S. A. are too busy lng, indeed, is the chief activity. In with their big job to notice it. Washington, D. C. the west, there are great grass- Most of these fellows come Out in Falls Church, Virginia, a lands better adapted to the raising from the Southwest Texas there little way from Washington, of stock. Oklahoma from the catand lives a friend of mine who was Animal in China musl tle ranches and oil fields. brought up on a farm. Last year, meet one husbandry Immediate problem, and First-Han- three-fourth- Released by Western Newspaper Union. By BAUKHAGE some new neighbors moved in next door city folks, you could tell by looking at them, but full of pep and vinegar and very patriotic. They started out to make a victory gar den. My friend could tell by the way they handled their hoes that before adlong, theyd be asking him for vice. Hes a good neighbor, but he Isnt nosey. So he Just waited. Well, it wasnt long before the man next door came up, leaned over the fence, and said: How is it your garden is coming along so good and mine aint? My friend smiled, and then he pitched in and told him some of the facts of plant life. It isnt going to benefit my friend even if his neighbors garden is a record breaker but hes a typical American and hes doing what we all used to do back in the old days when neighbor depended on neighbor giving a helping hand when it is needed. Last week, I sat down across the feldesk from a big, black-haire- d low, who looks a lot younger than he is in years and wisdom. His name is Dr. Ralph W. Phillips. When I talked with him, he had Just returned from giving a little neighborly advice over the back fence to our Chinese neighbors. Hes in charge of genetics investigations for the Department of Agriculture and he was loaned to the State department, along with some 21 other experts, to go over to China (at the invitation of the Chinese) to look around and see what ought to be done to Improve their stock. For you and me and most Americans, even those whp don't know any more about a farm than to think shorts are just underwear, a cow that doesnt give milk wouldnt be much of a critter. But believe it or not, one of the results which it Is hoped Dr. Phillips trip will achieve is to explain to the Chinese why cows have ydders. robust youth who proudly boasts s Indian (Semithat he is nole and Delaware tribes) and then The other 25 per adds, grinning: cent of me is as Irish as Paddys ON THE homa, is plenty proud of that record. Walt likes to talk about such things as the coming invasion, and the day when he can go back to the Oklahoma oil industry. Well, I volunteered in this mans army, didnt I? the Chief blasted out. And until this wars over in both leagues Im goin to stick it out. When the war in Europe is all wrapped up, the Chief wants to take his Marauder over to the South Pacific (with Ramon Western, his crew chief pal from Alvord, Texas) and send it out against the little yellow men. Then Walt says hell be ready to head back to Oklahoma. Is he going back to the oil fields? Hell, yes, is the Chiefs reply to that one. As I was leaving Walt with his second helping of steak and potatoes that day, he told me that I should have met the real hero of the Scott tribe. Hes my kid brother, Yoeman, Walt said. Right now hes finishing up aviation training back home, but one of these days youll be hearing nh-nh- ac d . Hope should be given a salute . . The piece was prepared by the guy So for Mr. Rich pinch-hittin- g Reader's So Digest what? picked it up and sent the pinch-hi- t ter a check for $1,0001 ... ... Some of the men from a redistribution center were entertaining at the Latin Quarter the other midnight . . . When they finished they tipped the waiters lavishly and to hand him called over a bus-bo- y a few dollars . . . Thank you. Lieutenant, he said, but I couldnt accept any gratuity. Just waiting on you has been a pleasure. You see, I was wounded in your sector, discharged, and Im now back helping the war effort by serving you and all other men in the war . . . Then he opened his white coat and displayed his campaign ribbons . . . The officers stood and saluted It was all very the and thrilling. lumpy-in-the-thro- at bus-bo- A group of mldtowners were gabbing about charges of innuendo et is fourteen inches wide with one of the matching smaller brackets on each side. The sketch also shows how easy it is to cut out he heart design with a sharp knh after boring holes with a brae-anbit. Any school boy who ha( the use of a coping saw or maybe a jig saw may make these graca ful brackets. NOTE Mrs. Spears bas prepared u actual size pattern for all the pieces ot this set of waU brackets, with complete directions for cutting, and fin. over the radio, and a veteran re- lshing. The lines of assembling these brackets are called this Jimmy Walker story . . . so well proportioned that you will be proud to own Ask for Pattern 263 and During his first campaign for Mayor close 15them. cents, which covers cost a of New York, LaGuardia charged mailing. Address: the popular Walker with all sorts of corruption, and Walker never anMRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS swered. Bedford Hills New York Drawer 10 Why should I make his camEnclose 15 cents for Pattern No. 263. paign for him? he said to a pal. I wont build him up. It would Name be fun, though, to ask him one quesAddress tion. What was he doing in Water-bur- y on July 16, 1928? there then? Was LaGuardia asked the friend. I dunno, replied Walker, but if I asked that question he could deny it until he was blue in the gills. A ASPIRIN WORLD'S LARGEST SUUMIW lot of suckers would still believe there was something fishy about him and Waterbury!" States StJoseph Judge soars through fleecy clouds over the patchwork English countryside, en route to a bombing mission on the continent. The 6 is the fastest medium bomber in the world, with a speed of more than 350 miles per hour, delivered by its two engines. (All pictures official U. S. Air Force photos.) A MARAUDER B-2- er the brain child of a sergeant from New Jersey who doesn't know how to spell Texans. These foreigners hand us a lot of laughs, he told me. Ramon Western is a Texan with a clear-cu- t idea of what hes going to do to help win this war. A crew chief, he sent one bomber, Damita, on 40 missions to Hitlers tottering European fortress. Then, when the trim Marauder went down one day, Ramon took up the fight with a successor, Damita II. He has been in England since June, 1943, and he'd be as happy as a in bomber mechanic knee-dee- p grease if the invasion started tomorrow morning. Before the war, Ramon worked his way through three years of school at John Tarleton Junior college, at Stephensville, and Texas A. & M. college. He lacks only a few hours credit for a degree in agriculture, and when he gets back to Texas he wants to go back for that sheep-skiOnly this time he wont have to work his way, because hes bought a pile of War Savings bonds for that education. Wants to Go 'Jap Hunting. And when the war in Europe is won, Ramon says hed like to take his Marauder (always a crew chief calls the ship he works on his ship) to the South Pacific and send it out The two Houston youths in that Nissen hut told me that those sentiments were theirs, in spades! Bob Allen, for example. Bob is an electrician for several ground crews at this field, and he doesnt kid himself about his summer sleeping schedule. These summer nights in England dont start till midnight . . . which means well darned near work the clock around, I gut.s. But I'll just put off until I get back home. the shut-eyAnd when he gets back, he says hell probably finish this education at the University of Texas. Then he wants to take up where he left off as a field salesman for a heating system firm in Houston. One of the most colorful characters at this station is Whiter Scott, a n. e big things from him. No, hes no lousy grease monkey like me . . . he's a bomber pilot, de luxe. And thats the story, as I heard it, of the Scotts personal offensive against the Axis. Two McKinney Boys. Sid Sheldon reports that a company of boys from the Army Signal Corps were sent to the induction station for overseas physicals. One of them (in the army three years) wandered into the wrong line and wound up being examined with selectees. The final doctor told him he was But, protested the soldier, "Im already in the Army! Nonsense," snapped the medico, get dressed and go home! The poor soldier got back into uniform, returned to camp and said nothing. How do you explain to Top Sarge that youre All of the 83 past and present justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. have come from 26 states, and 42 have been from only 6 states: New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia, 4-- 4-- Congress refused to put another heavy tax on horse racing. It imposed 30 per cent tax on night clubs where servicemen get real recreaBefore I left this Marauder station that afternoon, I happened tion. Racing has a powerful lobby across a couple of aerial gunners in Washington, and the night club who made me wonder if I were owners (with a 600 million dollar industry) had a very weak lobby. standing on Main street in McSome Chicago cafe people, howKinney, Texas. First, there was a fighting son of ever, sent the members of the Ways the Lone Star state by the name of and Means Committee (and the SenForest (Staff Sergeant Forest C.) ate Finance Comm.) large posters, Board, and before I had even gotten which burned the legislators to a his name, I was introduced to crisp because they know they are Jimmy Ashley, another true. The posters show thousands staff sergeant gunner. Both of these of people throwing away their money air force fighting men came from at race tracks. The caption: No McKinney to fight their share of tax here! They had a powerful lobthis war, and because their thoughts by! The opposite side shows men in on this Invasion Eve are as genuine as a Texas handshake, I thought uniform in night clubs enjoying themselves dancing, etc. The capyoud like to know them. Forest is a veteran of 35 missions tion: These boys are giving their over enemy territory, and hes blood 9nd had no lobby. They pay 30 per cent extra for their fun! daddy of the McKinney duo, at That tax is the highest on anything 33. the age of Back home, he was a in our history. traveling salesman for a company,' with a territory that The Intelligentsia: Tommy Harstretched across Missouri, Arkansas, western Tennessee, Louisiana mon, the hero, will do a book on his war adventures for Crowell . ... and Mississippi. Poet Joseph Auslanders Then came the Fourth of July, The 1942. The McKinney flier says it was (poetry in epic form) nothing more than a coincidence is his best . . . Senator James A. that he enlisted on such a patriotic Meads book, Tell the Folks Back will arrive May 8th via occasion but when you talk to him Home, . . Kyle Crich you get the idea that it shouldnt Appleton-Centurton of Colliers once wrote the novhave happened any other way. Lets get the job over with, el is a dying literary form. Stories the likable Texan told me, "because are best told via straight reporting Im anxious to get back on my old or biog . . . Kyles first novel, The Proud People, is in its 3rd job. Heck, Ive still got my sample case . . . and a list of my old cusprinting . . . Eighty-seveyear old S. S. McClure (founder of tomers. the old And there you have the real story McClure's mag) will receive the Order of Merit plus $1,000 cash of how these fighting sons of Amerprize icas great Southwest are meeting from the Natl Institute of Arts and the great challenge. Theres a gleam Letters . , . Stanley Richards' new in their clear, straight-lookin- g eyes. play script (a cartoon in three acts) And theres determination in their is titled: Marriage Is for Single People . . . When Billy Rose hears hearts. Texan and Oklahoman tod gether, theyll be over here until its about some heel or he time to make the welcome trek back marks the name down on his very home. long Drop Dead List. bill-fol- d STOP OB 00 Tli comedy quiz starrim f jot THURSDAY 10:30 NIGHTS P.M. E.W.T. on the entire BLUE netwoit CONSULT YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER McKesson BEXEl t bobbins, inc TOOTH POWDER VITAMIN B COMPLEX CAPSULES CALOX Shroud Is Bridal Gown In Japan it is the custom for an burial engaged woman to make a shroud for herself. She wears it first when she is married, then when she is dead. y n After a recent raid in Italy (according to Irv Hoffman) an Army surgeon told the c'napiain that one poor fellow was beyond hope. The chaplain leaned over the wounded man and said: My dear fellow, you are badly hurt. Have you anything to say or any word for your family? "My inside coat pocket," moaned the soldier, painfully. The chaplain felt the pocket and removed a wallet. 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