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Show Church Edition THE- - DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, 28, 1942 NOVEMBER 7 Missionary News and Messages Former Missionaries In Uniform Jojn With Elders In Street Meetings structed so that the hangar can be converted into a boxing arena in which both sportsman and spectator sportsmanorthe fnanly art of fisticuffs can enjoy themselves to their hearts said. You can put me down as a sdap and water advocate. Jeannette McDonald singing star. We bayoneted the guard through the bars, hooked him content up to the window and found For the soldier who wants to the key in hiis pocket. Two brush-ufor that radio or pho- American soldiers describing tography course that he plans escape from Jap prison in Philto take and for the man who ippines. merely wants to spend a couIn the long run Japan is not ple of hours wrapt up in a a good enough associate even good-boo- k. Special Service for Germany. There are de-A-n maintains in its building a liattendant at an American brary with over five thousand Red Cross Canteen in St. PauL volumes for the use of all men has learned that RAF between the hours of 11 a.m. Minn., Pilots are not jitterbugs, thpt and 10 p.m. Corp. Jack Rice two who visited her canthe is, of this teen is the guardian angel are not. Amerihaven and will b more than can recently are prettier, better girls glad to help you find the book dressed and have more "go" youre looking for. No classes will be scheduled for December 24 and 25, 1942, and January 1, 1943, at any of One of the most important the service special Army functions of Special Service is schools, the Wnr Department administering the services of has announced. the Army . Emergency Relief. Schools affected include all Should a soldier be in need of Officer Schools and some money in a hurry to Officer Training Candidate Schools of cover the cost of some family the Air Forces, Ground Forces, illness, Army Emergency Re- and Services of Supply, as well lief will try and loan him the as civilian schools conducting among both American and training programs for the the is that English flyers Army. with the Merlin engine, known as the Mustang, to the British will be the best fighter plane for 1943, Major Thomas Hitch- can be carried in the pocket without danger of breakage. cock, World War flyer recentThe clear lens is for protecly returned from active duty tion only, and does not affect said in the European theater, vision the of mechanism of the in an interview released today The amber light, designeye. War Department by the ed to pierce haze is especially Major Hitchcock has just to fliers seeking to pick useful in seven months completed out military objectives. The as Assistant Military England green lens is polarized and is valuable to aerial observers Current opinion in England when going into bright sunAttache For Air in London, light or the beam of a searchand is engaged in a compara- light The light red lens is used as tive study of fighter planes a "dark adapter. By donning dein action and those now in a soldiers eyes become imit velopment The youngest member of the mediately adjusted when he famous Lafayette Escadrille of goes from light to a dark area. the World War, Major Hitch- Normally it takes 20 minutes cock flew the Mustang shortly for eyes to become adjusted to such a change. The dark red before leaving England. lens is of particular benefit to as a pidescribed Its best lots airplane, Major Hitch- gunners firing tracer bullets. cock said. "Its very fast and It aids the eye in following the $ V n&iWZX p.ti p W - An Experience P-5- 1 Goodwill A Conversion beautifully at high Flyers feel that they have always known how to fly the plane after theyve been in it only a few moments. "Our flyers are good and are giving All they have to keep control of the air for us, he handles speeds. Aaronic Priesthood boys of Mt. Tabor Ward display their Welfare Project chickens from which $106 was realized. ly was tried by the Quartermaster Corps. Several thouAnd it is sands men, representing a inof sets five with Goggles traits ican were of cross section the Army, terchangeable lenses which has it that in to fill asked questionnaires dust provide protection against used on what they thought of their first class are now and Healed By Faith glare, being Designed by-- the Quartermaster Corps, Services of Supply, the goggles are close fitting and the soldier can insert the type of lens needed within a few seconds. The lenses provided are clear, green, amber, light red and dark red. The frames are of reclaimed rubber and an artificial rubber of qualities. They fit close to the face and are so flexible they long-wearin- g Included are Equatorial Africa, Cameroon, Tahiti, New St. Pierre and Caledonia, Miquelon and five harbors in India. They also control Syria and Lebanon and strategic routes from the U. S. to Australia and to the Middle East. Dispelling the notion that the Free French are an insignificant ally The Fighting Free French control more than seven million people, living in an area of more than one million square miles. A visiting Britisher says tracers. use bad English. Americans aviators, by Army Some of Scotch is terrible, the gun crews, tank drivers, tank too. of other and soldiers operators How do style changes in unidetails where clear vision, day come to be made? form or night is essential, the War lots of ways, but the best recentIn announced Department one weve heard about recent ly. anti-aircra- New Opportunity uniforms. A widespread ment was: The pants are too D tight! Result: Future GI com- trousers will be roomier in the seat. Spirit north and south, east and west farmer, white collar worker, mechanic, laborer, young and old male apd fewho are producing male fighter and transport planes at the rate of per day, who are building ships, cargo and per military, at the rate of day who have transformed waste into bullets and guns, turned hundreds of factories over to the rush job of manufacturing for war! At Army Camp these totally Amerthis Fighting Spirrapidly whipped a fighting army of men into shape that, in less than a years time has increased their air power . . . into a formidable weapon of . . . gunners, navigators, pilots, armorers, radio mechanics, men and the various other specialists who, wfclded together, spell Death to the Axis." It is American Fighting name which the Axis will wish had never existed. There is no denying the fact that we were unprepared at the time. Lacking men, modern aircraft and ships, with outmoded equipment both at home and in 9ur outposts, with the supand other ply of rubber, vital war materials extremely Limited we were definitely not, according to down to earth logic, prepared to declare war. have then "Yankees . But never been noted for strict adherence to down to earth logic. American enthusiasm, determination, intelligence, education, resources and FIGHTING SPIRIT long ago took over the task of guiding American destiny. The monthly pay of the Japa- It is the American Fighting Spirit which has invented and t put to use the Norden the world's finest the Lokheed "Lightning, A 20, B 17 Flying B 26 and the Fortress, scores of other superior aircraft designs which we possess, which we are using, and supplying to our fighting allies. It is the American Fighting nese soldier is about $2.36 in Of this money. Spirit which will win this war American and make Pearl Harbor a amount, however, $1 89 is sent bomb-sigh- P-3- 8 P-3- JWni ! jF ft "A G OQ J r )0 n Mission. The conference was attended Missionaries in the West Texas District meet in conference with missionaries of the Council of Seventy. First the R. Ivins of Antoine by Eldrs Harold B. Lee of the Council of the Twelve, and Elder Spanish-America- |