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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1944
OLD NAMES RECUR
The old A. E. F- routes
are being retrodden. Cher
bourg in the last war saw
many American soldiers
arrive, St. Naizaire, and
above all, Brest, now promi
-nently in the news and
even more Le Mans, safely
held, with all the great net
work of railways and high
ways centering in it, are
names repeated day after
day in dispatches.
Le Mans was a great
American replacement
camp in the last war. All
through that area soldiers
flocked to Le Mans when
relieved from duty, and re
lieved their homesickness
by sight of American loco
motives and freight cars,
towering above the dimin
utive but effective French
rolling stock.
Tours is mentioned often
in war communiques now.
That is still remembered as
the behind the lines head
quarters of the Service
Supply, which evoked the
quip, “Mother, take down
your service flag. Your
son’s in the S. O. S.”
One by one the old
names recur.—(Fairbanks
News-Miner.)
THE TRAGIC
NECESSITY
Every humane person
must deplore bombing
from the air just as every
humane person deplores
war itself. To that extent
we must all sympathize
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with the appeal of four 1
eminent members of the
French clergy that “the i
civilian populations of j
France and Europe be spar
ed as much as possible,”
and that care also be ta
ken to avoid hitting
churches, schools, hospital
and “humble dwellings in
neighborhoods sheltering
women and children.” No
Allied flier wants to hit
such marks. The terroriz
ing of civilian populations
has never been an Allied
aim. The Axis Powers
alone have followed such a
policy; the Japanese in
China: the Italians in Ethi
opia and Spain; the Ger
mans in Spam, Poland.
Norway, Belgium, the
Netherlands, France and
Britain.
The French appeal asks
for “more care.” This re
quest is legitimate. Our
fliers made some tragic
mistakes in Italy and oth
ers elsewhere, apparently
because of inadequate ad
vance information. This
situation is being remedied.
But the danger to civilians
in the kind of fighting that
has been forced upon us is
inescapable. Our enemies
chose total war, and total
war it is. If the United Na
tions w'ere not strong
enough to destroy key
German cities the Ger
mans would now be des
troying British cities and
probably trying to destroy
American cities. The air
war is intended to save the
lives of soldiers by making
their task easier. The way,
to end it is to end the war,
as is well known in Ger
many and in the satellite
nations. And the way to
it forever, after the armis
tice, is to keep down the
aggressor and the aggress
ive spirit—forever.—(New
York Times.)
Difficulties m obtaining tung
oil have spurred production in
Brazil of castor oil for paint and
varnish manufacture.
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HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT, Sept. 20 —3t
still may be sweltering in the
East and Middle West, but it is
Christmas time in Alaska and the
Aleutian chain which points its
arrow like a ('art at the heart of
Japan.
The folks in the States who
have sons and husbands serving
in Alaska and Aleutian posts
shouldn’t plan on buying flow
ers to add to their Christmas dec
orations—for that is the number
one choice of the men for* the
Christmas present to send home.
This was revealed by checking
every Post Exchange in the de
partment clear out to the tip of
the Aleuians.
The specially designed cata
logue put out by the parent Ex
cange, originated a year ago to
fill the needs of the men serving
overseas, is chuck full of gift sug
gestions for every member of the
family.
Each PX here designates a per
son in the organization to be
available during certain stated
hours to fill out the orders of the
men. The orders are sent to New
York and the gifts, bedecked with
Christmas wrapping and contain
ing an appropriate card bearing
the sendee’s iame, are mailed
from there.
Orders are being taken until
October 1st, with a guarantee of
delivery in time for the Yuletide.
Some orders will be taken after
that date, without the delivery
guarantee.
The number one item of flow
ers can be cut flowers, corsages or
plants. The orchid corsage
which sells for $9 has been popu
lar with the men who have a girl
friend back home.
Other items listed in the cata
logue are jewelry, compacts, per
fumes, men’s toilet sets, cravats,
mufflers, gloves, billfolds, lug
gage, games and toys for child
ren, books, magazine subscrip
tions and candy.
At the Ft. Richardson PX, Mrs.
Edward L. McClure, of Dallas,
Texas, regular office employee,
has taken over this Christmas or
der* set-up. She has a desk in the
main PX building from 12 to 2
every afternoon and from 7 to 9
every evening.
Besides this Mrs. McClure vis
its every place on the post where
the men might congregate. The
catalogue and order blanks are
also taken to the men in the sta
tion hospital and it was here that
Mrs. McClure received an order
ifrom one of the patients for 15
boxes of candy, all going to dif
ferent addresses, with the grin
ning remark that “it will be good
for the same number of dinners
when 1 get back fco the States”.
Mrs. McClure reports that one
of the pages in the catalogue
which always draws attention is
the one which lists comic books
and is captioned as the “Ideal Gift
for Children from three to 90.”
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One more tip to the folks back
home—get your orange squeezers
and menus for orange salads
ready. For the number tfwo
choice as a gift in this command
is the full crate of oranges which
is being offered at $7 delivered to
any city in the States.
ALFRED LOMEN
ARRIVES IN NOME
Alfred J. Lomen, of the Lomen
Commercial Company, arrived in
Nome Monday to assist in the af
fairs of the business of the com- ^
pany. Mr. Lomen was formerly
manager of the lighterage com
pany.
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