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Tetched-nition Fifth Grade
ight 1944 by Milton Caniff, distributed by Cair.p Newspaper Service
1ED CROSS
HI-LITES
CLUB 14
Sunday
1015—Skiing Party
2030—Air Corps Band
Monday
2130—LAC Pyatt, Pianist
Wednesday
1900:—Skating Party
2130—“Kentucky” and his
Hill Billies
Thursday
1500—Weiner Roast
Friday
2030—Camp Night
2130—L. S. Robertson, Piano
Saturday
2130—LAC Weightman,
Piano
CLUB 23
Tuesday
2030—Music in Lobby
Wednesday
2000—Masonic Meeting
Thursday
2030—Square Dancing
GALLUP ADMITS
HE ‘WEIGHTED’ POLL
Dr. George Gallup, head
of the Gallup Polk admitted
last week that his survey de-
liberately boosted the anti-
cipated polling strength of
(Governor Thomas E. Dewey
because he expected a light
Presidential vote and be-
cause lie found “an unmis-
takable Dewey trend” in the
iStates.
Gallup testified before the
House Committee investigat-
ing charges that his poll “has
been weighted and has be-
come a propaganda arm of
the Republican Party.”
SUPCRFQRTS CARRY
TEN TON BOMB LOAD
According to a recent an-
nouncement by the Army Air
Forces, a Superfortress can
jearry at least ten tons of
bombs. Previously, the high-
jest reported bomb load ever
carried by a plane was for
the RAF’s Lancaster bomb-
ers which carry, about nine
tons on short missions and
five tuns on longer strikes
(deep into Germany.
i. ’ —L——~
Half-Million Privately
Owned Airplanes Envisioned
For U.S. Citizens After War
Above map indicates targets in the Japanese capital
now under a steadily mounting aerial onslaught by U.S.
Superfortresses.
Pay-Dates
IT'S HANDY, simple, and pays
off handsomely. Not the gal
holding the piggy bank—the Sol-
diers' Deposits system. It pays
4% interest, which is better than
civilians and officers can get.
You can make deposits any time,
or systematically by a payroll,
deduction plan. Five bucks is the
minimum deposit but there's no
top limit. You collect your money
with your discharge—or if you
need it before that, whenever
you put in a request approved
by your C.O. In Soldiers' Deposits
your money is exempt from all
liability; in case of death, money
and interest go to your heirs.
$ee your C. O. about "S. D."
$ 6.66 Fes Month
When GIs wonder: “What
did I do with my money?”
they have a problem which
couldn’t have been much of
a bolher to GI George in the
American Revolution.
In 1778 the monthly pay
for fool soldiers was $.6.66.
But even the soldiers who
got the $6.66 rate were in
the chips compared to the
soldiers of seven years later.
In 1785, privates received
$4.00 a month, corporals
$5.00, and sergeants $6.00
-— which is probably the
time when the American
sergeant began yelling.
| A Dept, of Commerce of-
| ficial predicts that a half-
million Americans will own
their own airplanes five
years after the war — and
leading cities across the
country are already working
on methods of taking care
of the traffic.
St. Louis has plans for a
dozen airparks serving vir-
tually every neighborhood,
including two landing fields
right downtown. Nashville,
Tenn., has actually begun
work on a long airpark in
a residential section.
Industrialist Henry J. Kais-
er has proposed a national-
ly-sponsored network of
5,000 fields and landing
strips.
Filene’s department store
in Boston says it will make
daily deliveries by helicopter
from its roof to Springfield,
90 miles away. Atlantic
Greyhound Corp. plans heli-
copter service among the
Pvt. John A. Campbell and
Cpl. Robert J. Rollinson,
clerks in an Air Warning
unit here, have constructed
their own photographic
darkroom for printing nega-
tives. Starting in November
with a minimum of materi-
downtown districts of more
than 1,000 towns and cities,
and aviation fans in New
York City, envisioning 50,000
als and funds, they built
everything in. their spare
time. But their results have
been so successful that since
finishing their “lab” last
month they have been kept
busy every night since then
grinding out prints not only
private planes within the
metropolitan area after the
war, are pressing for land-
ing strips in Central Park.
for the men in their own un-
it, but for the whole* batta-
lion.
Already “branching out,”
John and Boh are in the
midst of constructing an en-
larger. Using a 20-year old
camera as a bellows, they
have used an eyeglass from
an extra pair of glasses don-
ated by an officer to enlarge
the focus of the lens of the
ancient camera. They antici-
pate “astounding” results
when it is completed. Such
ingenuity is their stock-in-
trade.
Pvt. Campbell, a native of
Front Royal, Va., comes by
his photographic ability
somewhat naturally, having
been a reproduction special-
ist with the Food and Drug
Administration in Washing-
ton prior to joining the Ar-
my. Cpl. Rollinson is from
Detroit, Mich. Photography
is entirely new ‘to him, but
as lie says, “I get a kick out
of it.”
Cpl. Robert J. Rollinson (at left in photo) and Pvt.
John A. Campbell are seen here as they work cn the en-
larger to be used in the Photo Lab of their AW unit.
Clerks In A.W. Unit Here
Construct Their Own Photo Lab