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Show their friends as well as their enemies. en-emies. Attacked with gas at midnight, a squadron of trainees passed a gas test very satisfactorily while on a bivouac in the mountains moun-tains recently, reported Second Lieutenant Wendell G. McKoy, chemical warfare officer at this basic training camp. 9 NEWS FROM KEARNS Many former college and high school track stars matched strides strid-es Friday night in the first track meet to be held at the air corps basic training center. Private Dave Lawyer, former NYU student, copped individual honors with three first places. In spite of a slow track, Lawyer flew down the 220 yard dash in 23 seconds flat and flashed through the 100 in 10.2 seconds. His third win was the broad jump, leaping 22 feet 1 inch. Former University of Washington Washing-ton man, Private Jack Osmond breezed through the 440 in 56.5 seconds. Private John Jones, formerly of Alabama State Teachers College, Col-lege, beat Private Clarence Loss, former NY high jump champion with a tremendous jump of 6 feet 3 and one half inches. Moss cleared clear-ed 6 feet easily but missed three tries at the winners mark. Charles Wible has been drawing draw-ing gags about "jeeps" in the army for the past few years and iow the gag is on him he's a "jeep" himself. He has been doing gag cartooning cartoon-ing for five years and has work published in nearly all of the major maj-or magazines. Keep 'Em Flying Mementoes of the smashing defeat de-feat dealt" the Japanese army by American forces on Guadalcanal are possessed by two pre-avia-tion cadets at this basic training center. Privates Robert Boardman, iof Kansas City, Mo., and Billy J. Guance, of Bonham, Texas, proudly proud-ly display a two foot Japanese flag taken from the enemy. The Japs had invasion money in bills and coins prepared for America and Mexico to be used after the successful invasion of these countries. Also in pockets of dead Japs were pictures of Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, and Lana Turner. Keep 'Em Flying In civilian life Mike Pagos, of Smithfield, Mass., tried to make respectable citizens out of tough young boys. Today, at this basic training center. Corporal Michael P. Pagos is trying to make tough young men out of respectable respec-table citizens. Formerly an organizer of boys clubs, Corporal Pagos is now assigned as-signed to the physical training department. It won't be an invasion, but members of the Utah Peace Officers Of-ficers Association will be toting their prize shooting irons to hold their 21st annual convention at this army air forces training center cen-ter on June 29. The pistols were used during the late afternoon on the famed Kearns target range, second largest larg-est in the United States, when the officers and their wives participated partici-pated in their yearly shooting contest. con-test. Keep 'Em Flying Soldiers at this Army Air Forces For-ces basic training center see what insignia their friends in the far corners of the world are wearing British, Chinese, French, Russian Rus-sian and others. Insignia and military mil-itary courtesies of allied forces are being taught. In global warfare, soldiers must know as much as possible about |