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“NOME TAILINGS”
For the benefit of the citizens
of Nome and the soldiers at the
post, we are starting a campaign
to get more thoroughly aequaint
1 cd with the officers here by print
mg a series of life sketches of
them.
Captain Garnett W. Martin,
[lost commander of Nome Land
ing Field, was born October 4,
1901 i:n the state of Arkansas.
His early life and schooling were
spent in Arkansas, at the age of
15. he moved to Texas where he
finished high school. In Texas he
also went to business college and
launched upon a business career.
Aft3r spending a few years as a
wholesale grocery salesman and
automobile salesman — his busi
ness carrying him through the
states of Texas, Arkansas, and
Missouri — he sett ed in Hope,
Arkansas, and for 13 years was
employed by the Citizen’s Na
tional Bank of that city. His po
sition with the bank terminated
with the mobilization of the Na
tional Guard.
According to Captain Martin,
the banking business is not the
■‘bed of roses” it would seem to
be. As a point for his argument
; he recalls the years of depression
I which hit the banking business
! rather hard. There was one per
iod during that time when depos
itors were allowed to withdraw
on y a certain percent of their
accounts. Then with the entrance
of the new administration, he
saw business and finance stead
ily climb to enjoy the benefits of
the national defense program.
Captain Martin’s entrance into
| military circles dates back to May
' 1921, when he joined the Nation
al Guard as a buck private. Since
! then he has been on maneuvers
with several different units in ddf
ferent states. He has the enviable
distinction of having worked up
through the ranks from a private
to his present capacity as post
commander. He received his com
mission as a second Lieutenant
in 1928.
This being his first trip to Al
aska, Captain Martin remarked
that he enjoyed it very much.
He preceded his unit by several
weeks and saw such interesting
and scenic places as Sitka, Yak-1
utat, Seward, Anchorage, and.
Finally, Nome.
For those who would find their
stay here a bit on the disagree-'
able side, Captain Martin recalls'
a few experiences in his early
life in Texas. There were sand
storms of such ferocity that one
cou d see only short distances.!
The sand would sift into the
houses no matter what their con-!
struction. Then, too, there were!
hot winds which would burn gar
dens so dry in 24 hours that one
could set them afire by applying
a match to them. About cold wea
thcr—he said that drop in tem
perature from 70 degrees to 0
was a rather commonplace occur!
rence. During one of the droughs
water was precious and none was
available for bathing purposes.
All water had to be hauled great
distances and was used only in |
the barest of necessities.
In answer to a query as to our
position, he remarked: “I think,
that we are well established here
and I am very well pleased with
the situaton.”
Here’n There
Probably one of the hardest J
jobs Sgt. Herman Wilson has
had since he was inducted into ]
the Army was the one given him
by Captain Martin: that of tak
: ing care of the Selectees as they'
i came into the army. Sgt. Wilson,
a natural-born fast talker could- [
n't seem to make his tongue
function fast enough when he
j tried to pronounce some of the
; names of the Selectees. The
name, being entirely foreign to
his repertoire, were as hard to
spell as they were to pronounce.
They were such tongue-twisters
i that Sgt. Wilson made up names
of his own for them and is stiill
■struggling along trying to find a
better solution for his problem.
Packages from home are com
ing in fast and at the right time
now, Christmas packages and
what-have-you coming in every
week.
Chief pastime of the “non-pack
age-getters’’ is to sweat the more
fortunate ones and their packag
es. Cpl. Thomas Franks seems to
be leading the post in number
of packages received with three
packages and the expectations of
many more (he hopes!).
Since the doctor threatened
those chronic sick-call makers
with permanent k. p., the num
ber has fallen alarmingly. They i
must be feeling better in the hos
pital, too, and according to some
of the inmate’s antagonistic feel j
ings toward one another—name-j
ly. Cpl. Chamblin and Sgt. Tay-1
lor.
Now that Sgt. John Wilson is j
confined to the hospital with an |
•enlargement of the neck and !
jaws commonly referred to as j
the mumps, his chief hobby and j
pastime—that of taking care of
the cat and her famliy of six
kittens—seems to have gone to
the dogs (or should we say cats).
None of the boys in the barracks
seem to take the same maternal
interest in the famly a did Sgt.
Wilson, but the latest bulletin
concerning the cat family iis,
“All alive and doing nicely.”
We are informed that Sgt.
Hughston Kitchen, post mess ser
geant, met with disaster as he
and one of his rug-cittin’ k. p.’s
were on their way home from j
town last Wednesday night. It
seems as though the good bene
dict of the kitchen and his co
worker wandered off the road
and fell into a snow drift up to
their necks.
The third platoon of company
“A” is breathlessly anticipating
a forth-coming sermon by Rev
erend Pfc. Benjamin F. Rudd, to
be given Sunday, November 30,
the subject being The Proper
Way to Goldhrick.
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Sailors Not
To Write Of
Su!) Sinkings
WASHINGTON, Nov, — The
Navy emphasized today that of
ficers and men are prohibited
from reporting. even to their
own families, whether their ships'
have sunk any Gorman submar
ines.
The Navy’s announcement fol
lowed the statement of Senator
Burton K. Wheeler that a letter
to him from a seaman on the
cruiser St. Louis had indicated
the "U. S. Navy is engaged in ag
gressive warfare in the Pacific,
as well as the Atlantic.”
The announcement also follow
ed tire publication of another let
ter from a seaman w'ho reported
one submarine sunk and two cap
tured by American warships in
the Atlantic.
Wheeler made public a letter
he said was sent by a seaman
from the St. Louis, mailed from
Honolulu on October 25 to the
I
man’s mother in Tennessee. The
seaman reported taking a convoy
of oil tankers to Vladivostok.
This Sailor Tells
SHREVPORT, La., Nov. — At
least one of the submarines that
torpedoed the United States des
troyers Kearny and Reuben
James “will never attack another
convoy” said a letter received by
the sister of a Louisiana seaman.
“One of the submarines was
blown to the surface, bottom side
up, and blown to bits by gun
fire" wrote 20-year-old D. W. La
cobee, Jr., of Stonewall, La. The
letter was mailed to his sister,
Mrs. L. G. Powell of Shrevport,
who disclosed its contents
Young Lacobee, operator of an
underwater sound-detection de
vice, w'rote tihat he was aboard
a United States destroyer on con
voy duty, and that:
“Coning back with our last con
voy, the Reuben James and the
Salinas (an oil tanker) were
sunk just behind us and the
Kerny just ahead.” (The Salin
as and Kearny, while torpedoed.
w‘*re able to make port. Appar
ently Lacobee thought they had
been lost.)
After the convoy on which the
James was lost reached its
destination, Lac bee wrote, his
ship stayed in port only one hour
when “we were called out at 1
full speed to help some of the j
ships that were being attacked.”:
“After we gat to them we j
were attacked for ten hours!
straight until 3 o’clock in the
morning.
“Believe me, we left some subs
on the bottom—number undeter
mined.”
At the end of the letter, young
Lacobee said: "We captured two
subs."
“Whether the people know it or
not, we’re at war," young La
coibee’s letter began.
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Gold Bricks, won 2. lost 0: Old
Folks, won 3, lost 0: Kenn’s Bak
ery, won 1, lost 2; Mule Riders.1
won 1, lost 2; Southerners, won 1
lost 2: Aces, won (). lost 3.
FINLAND TO CONTINE FIGHT
Finland rejected a U. S. warning to cease fighting Russia and in
sisted she still was waging a defensive war. Map shows Finn)
territorial losses (dotted areas), in the 1939-40 war with Russ i
Finns said they had regained most of the territory except tv
vital areas, the F’isher and llago peninsulas (circles), which still
are |n Russian hands. Black arrows indicate directions of Axis
drives on Leningrad and Moscow'.
SOVIET REPORTS COUNTER-ATTACKS
In the battle of Moscow, the Russians asserted they had encircl
ed large German forces at Volokolamsk, northwest of Moscow,
and that they were counter-attacking south of Moscow in the Ser
pukhov, Aleksin and Tula /ones. Northwest of Moscow there had
been continuing warfare in the Kalinin secotr. Germans said their
air force had bombed Moscow.
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REPORT NAZIS STORMING KERCH
The German high command reported that Na/i tttiujw were storming the fortfications of Kerch,
gateway to the Caucasus oil velds, in their Crimean drive. Shaded arrows in Crimea indicate
course of German pushes, one of which is aimed at Sevastopol. Further north, Rostov was s'
German objective.