The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 26, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO Almost Unbelievable, Good News | RUBBER FOOTWEAR Yes, it's like an item in “Believe It or Not,” a new shipment of Rubber Foot- wear. Ladies’, men's and children’s rub- bers, galoshes and arctics. They're all staple styles, with no frills, but a real blessing to keep your feet warm and dry. ] ) NURSES’' AIDES BALL Fo a Gala Evening SATURDAY, APRIL 3RD, attend the NURSES' AIDES BALL. Proceeds to American Red Cross. pa Sy e R By GLADWIN HILL AP Features AT A U, S. BOMBER STATION SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, - |This is a piece about ball-turret Isunners~—those bland midgets who |bowl under the belly of a Flying Fortress, banging away at the enemy with a gun in each hand It is written by request—a kind of "Three heel heights—low, medium, {indirect tribuke from the Fortress m cuban. | 50 ! Ladies’ Galoshes I]?l% We were sitting .around the of- | ficers’ club stove—a co-pilot, a icouple of navigators and some ground . ofiicers—talking about fly- ing the Fortresses, and finally they |said almost in unison, “¥You ought to write a story about ball-turret | gunnegs. ., . . | . “It's the toughest job on the ship {in some ways. The ball-turret gun- Iner doesn't get much u—cdu He's ;a lonely son of a gun.” | Job Has Unique Lore In the Fortresses' relatively shor }hlstory of American operation i |the European theater, the ball |turret job already has begun t |’cquire its own unique character jand lore. It is not notably jous tban the. four other {gun jobs- twWo we unner: {the top-turret man, and the tail |gunner. There is not excep- | tionally high casualty rate among !ball-turret gunners. But the job| {has many unique features. Its vparlkulax hazards are mainly men- | tal. | Being held by a blob of is not exactly “I remember Ladies’ Tip Toe Rubbers 115 Men's Rubbers \ heavy weight storm.and also a dressy British style. 2.00 — 2,50 Chil drm Galoshes and Arctics Two snap galoshes for small children and growing girls, and a dandy boys’ 3-buckle arctie. 2.50 — 3.95 QUALITY SINCE /887 more danger princip: he. an oniy ur a plane transparent plastic reassuring in 1f. when I was doing’ ? L e e [ pal-turret training L home,” SANITAI'ON (HE(KUP dling establishment inspections ‘,('" one of the navigators id, “I was| up by the Alaska Territorial D"'\lO(Al woMAN |scared stiff of falling, right there| “‘o BEGI“ SKAGWAY partment of Health, Richard Green, | . on the field--three feet above the ’ ' sanit engineer, will leave for | DIES ‘_o“ 4 w‘v | grouna.” Also |N KEI(H'KAN the \\(stwam within the next day | » Y | «The ball turret is no spot for a or two. | larxlsh guy with any tendencies | e . ‘ S Assisted in the initial stages of | ward claustrophobia, because the n order to inaugurate . = 5 : ‘«‘ (.,A.‘ R _“,,, ‘1: )T”” the inspection program by Mr. Lunx\cx has to work for hours in am ¥ R 1d drink han- | Green, the three trained sanitary ‘;\ space too small for him even to : - pectors of l)‘v Skagway district | On her way to St. Ann’s Hospi- 5it up properly. If they made the New Under-arm will at once begin the work to pro- |tal this forenoon shortly before twrTet any bigger, it would offer tect the health of civilians and men |noon, Mrs. Gladys Lamb, aged 48, too much wind resistance. He has Cream Deodorant of the armed forces, through the|lost consciousness in the car driven | to hunch, half-sitting, half-lying, safely enforcement of minimum sanitation | by Mike Fox, which was transport- [On the end of his spine, in a po- | requirements in all food and drink {ing her, and upon arriva {sition that has been most aptly S"Ops Persplruhon handling establishments found to be dndf)0 o gl compared to that of an embryo in| On the same trip Mr. Green ex-| As an aftermath of the flu|& Womb. Oddly enough, ball-turret pects to investigate the water sup- :“hlch Mrs. Lamb had two or m,—e,.wgunners seldom get cramps or tot- ply in Haines, and will also prob- |weeks ago, pneumonia developed, iter out of their posts at the end ably be able to investigate to svme‘ L. P. Dawes said today. Called|of 2 flight like kinked-up rumble- extent the conditions for saninuon‘m on the case this morning, he S€at victims. on the Haines spur to connect with \usnwd the womas . at- her - homio No Room to Roam |the Alcan Highway at Champagne. |near Lemon Creek and found im- It's infeasible for the ball-tur- Also leaving almost immediately | mediate removal to the hospital|¥et man to climb up inside the Al ‘“;u crigr for K.(“t_]ukun is public health en- |advisable. The fatal condition re- |Plane and circulate around as do i B i gineer John Hall, who will super- | sulted before proper care could other members of the crew; once 2 Mol Mot 88 i 0 Be ilked vise there the inauguration of the |pegin, “he gets in there, he usually stays.| sTihit ShaviAg anitary inspection program Mr. Ed Lamb is believed to be| What room he doesn't occupy 3. Tnst s perspiration for - e a in Anchorage at the present time, | himself is taken up by breeches of J, “>v‘\' ‘l"‘u"\\&\ odor 6 000 c 006 s o e e o Where effors are being made Lnfz‘“h::°'g“"f~ to _“’“[i"“l are “"_ 4. A pure white, greascless, swio- 1% WEATHER REPORT o |reach him. The Lambs have been |tached the controls of the power FRe b 3 0.8 Sy o fesidents of the Juneau area for |Mechanism by which he whirls the has been awarded the ¢ Temp. Thursday, ' o | Fevoral: vagts, Furret T, He l.msn't even room | w1l Seal of The American s Maximum 34, minimum 26, e Mrs:Lamb was born February 20, {in: the globe for his parachute. He Jtistitute of Laundering, for be- o Precipitation .33 o 1895, at Berkeley, Calif. has to legve that up inside the to fabrics o Bava decth: 71 o Funeral services will be announc- Fortress, in the optimistic hope Axrid is the largest selling § e el ed later by the Charles W. Carter |that if the plane starts falling, he'll 7y a jar today! pebt: ® | Mortuary, where the lemams have | have a chance to climb up and get i e been taken. it. aint 15 now bcmy, )mckcd in P e o } Where the other gunners are, | because of the BUY WAR BO! leral sides, the ball-turret man has OH-DADDY- MOTHER'S BROTHER BIMMY IS HERE-HE 1S OUT IN THE YARD BEATING RUGS FOR MOTHER- & ITHOUGHT HE wasS HERE! JusT L_OOKED IN TH’ ICE-BOX- ! turn the turret so that it fires in an ! opens into the plane, and the gunner can crawl into it while the fortress is in motion, { men who are not ball-turret gun-' | control THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA Fighting Men in Flymg Fishbow! direction. The turret can also be it in only one place, above hlm. there is not much danger Otherwise, he is right out Im the open, protected only by a Ithin layer of transparent plastic, which is supposedly shatter-proof, but no protection if a big enough | | where lanyway whirl around in a three-foot fish-|bullet comes his way. Actually he‘ | is rly well protected from enemy shooting by the area of fire of the |Fortress’ other guns, except when it noses up, exposing its belly. Then Ihe is an excellent target, and has Ito shoot or be shot The turret is located right under and there are down into the turret. Sometimes ball-turret men have landed to find their jackets frozen stiff in places from chilled oil Then there's the door. Besides the aperture into the cabin of the | plant, the b: turret has a panel | about 18 hes across, offering theoretical egress into the wide ‘lopen air. | ©On a raid a few days o a ball- turret man felt his back getting very cold. He felt around to dis- cover that the door had fallen off and he had been leaning back! against empty space, only his bulk holding him in *You can bet he held onto those handles plenty hard for, the rest of the trip,” somebody remarked. 23 et il ‘Margaret 0'Neill Commissioned in Army Nurse Corps O'Neill, the Juneau Mar who has the staff of ment Hospital last September, |sioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U. 8. Army Nurse Corps and is to| report for duty at Fairbanks, it | was announced teday by the Office {of Indian Affairs Lieutenant O'Neill has been with the OIA in Alaska wce 1940 and before coming to Juneau, was with Miss been aret in since the Indian Service at Tanana. She | had been with the Indian Service in the States and decided, after a vacation in Alaska, that she wished to return to the Territory so re- quested a transfer. | TRAILBLAZING - COWBOY OF OLD . KLONDIKE DIES CASPER, Wyoming, March 26.— Byron F. Wickwire, aged 80, pioneer Wyoming cowboy who once at- |tempted to trail a herd of 80 horses from Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin to the Klondike, died here today. keing paid for gold seekers, Taylor started for Dawson, driving their dian wilderness. The trip proved tdo difficult for | (the men themselves and they (reached Dawson nnly arm extreme hmdhhxps THAT'S HIM-IF YOU JUST COUNTED TH’ DAYS IN HIS LIFE THAT HE'S BEEN AWAKE - HE WOULD BE ABOUT TWO YEARS OLD- Isome of the hydraulic mechanism, ! inevitable oil leaks' Govern- | has been commis- | | Hearing that fabulous sums were | horses by Klondike Wickwire and Lon | animals through the Cana- | { “Curled in this position, “he can } swung around so that the hatch NEVER QUIT 'BASEBALL IS UMP’S STAND \ Idea of Temporary Aband- onment of Game Would | Give Japs Incentive | | SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March | 26—-A plea is made that baseball | should be retained because of its| ucab morale uplift value to Ameri- | cans, Umpire Hap O'Connor con- \ tends, and its abandonment now | would bolster the morale of the | | Japs. | O’Connor ¢ 1t to know as he has umpired games in Japan. O'Connor sums up his opinion like this: “The Japs so envy us our base- ball prowess and intense love of the game, that to call it off in wartime would be like a tonic to them. They would think and A~ strue abandonment of the game as to mean we are becoming panicky something like that in this| | country.” i Lefty O'Doul, San Francisco Seals’ manager, lines on the | same side as O’Connor. is one | |of the cutstanding figures in the | | baseball tours of the American All- | Star teams in the. Orient .in. the | off-season. He remarked that the | s aped everything we did, in- | cldding our walk and gestures wh\!e:! on the diamond. I never saw. one of them hit a home run, however. e great for the old squeeze bunting, , and have more} for plays for the men at bat on bases than there are on of our national mghv"\ys" % CARA NOME GI.EAIISIIG CREAM This high-quality liquefy- ing cream quictly softens dust and make-up 5o they are easily removed, Helps 1o keep your skin clean and flower-fresh. 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