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ait Until 'Uncle’ Calls | Veteran of 30 Years Givus Pointers To Son, 18, Who Wants to Join Army % “Everybody in wr) here Army ain eroe AR Hi ere , Son, ain't goin’ to be heroes.” The old sergeant, veteran of three campaigns and with service esignating 30 years, settled himself in a canvas camp chair in front of his Ft. Benjamin Harrison quarters. He was addressing his 18-year-old son, Tom. The youngster, fresh out of high school and Army-bred, was having a spell of old-| fashioned, brass-band patriotism.| He wanted to join the Army and Son's shdlilder proudly as he had asked his Dad about it. {passed toward the house. i “No, sir,” the old veteran/ "You are a good 'un son” he drawled as he bit off a great remarked “but there are a heap chew of eatin’ tobacco and of young fellers like you who is pushed his old campaign cap to] Want to be heroes too quick. You = the back of his head, “this Army| Just wait till Uncle needs you. ain't all glamor and it aint alll He'll let you know.

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fightin’ and marchin’ in parade. The boy didn't answer. After mighty proud to hear you ’ - Army.” | i The youth didn't say much, i Ne ngine The sergeant took careful aim,| TION, Cal, July 15 (UP)—The| “You see, son,” he continued, | Staggering in from 400 miles at| | followed explosion of a petroleum storage tank early yesterday in |

Makes Hifi Proud {all his old man did know the “You know, son, I'm admirin'| TY well—he'd been in it 30 your spirit fine, It makes a ] wantin’ to follow the old man's! : . 1 footsteps. An’, too, it's down-| ars im S n HEE 2 right certain that Uncle could be ! usin’ you somewhere in his! just stretched himself out on the well-cut grass of the lawn. He| . was used to Army life, his big Fiying Boat father's discipline and was re-| arri gigned to hear the oid man's com-| 18 Aboard ment. | ALAMEDA NAVAL AIR STA-| Suinted weather-worn ever And) Caroline Macs. with 18 psceoms| Tr i ' L a arent hod a firefly| aboard, limped to a safe landing | unaware. on San Francisco Bay today after| “I've seen a heap of this here 56a on one engine. Army and I know how Uncle| The Mars set down at 4:17 pm..| Terre Haute. Hours later firemen brought under control the likes to operate. If'nm he gets a) Indianapolis time, after a worried notion to draft young colts like Navy and Coast Guard followed dollar he'll be doin’ it. | more than two -and -one- halt] center of town, No serious injuries were reported. > i “Right now, son, he wants yore hours. ; | . a | whiskers to git a little tougher | Her commander, Lt. Cmdr. sl love's Wonderful Identify Stab Victim |

and wants you to be a little bit! C. Snyder, Hayward, Cal., had re- : a i older before you take up fightin’ ported her in trouble on a routine DETROIT, July 15 (UP) At Indiana Harbor —James C. Smelser, 44, INDIANA HARBOR, July 15

as a career.” {flight from Hawalii' with a crew, a The old gentleman mopped Of 15 men and three passengers. today asked the prose- |! UP)—The body of a man found sweat from his balding brow and, A flight of five air-sea rescue cutor's office to stop his | tabbed to death early today in worked his tobacco around to the planes from Hamilton Air Force p {a vacant lot here has been den-| other cheek. The boy listened, | Base had flown out several hun-| ©Stranged wife, Grace, 38, [tified as that of Major Cornett, | “Fightin’, my boy, ain’t all of dred miles to escort the Mars on| from: | 34, tractor operator at the Inland | Army life,” the old sergeant| its race against loss of altitude. | Dumping pails of water |Steel Co. plant, police said. drawled. “That is 'specially true| At 4:03 p.m, Lt. Cmdr. Snyder] on him while he slept. They were attempting to learn with you youngsters, Why, son, radioed that he was within sight| Hitting h : the motive for the slaying. I can remember ‘way back 30 Of the fog-shrouded Golden Gate] ng him with empty years or so when fightin’ didn’t|at an aititude of only 1200 feet.| Whisky bottles and stewhardly occur to me. Earlier, at 3:45 p.m., he had| ing pans. Heap of Laborin’ radioed from 40 miles at sea that Throwing clocks and ash“In the Army, ya' know, there's me Mtitude Yas 3000 feet. trays at him heap of hard, laborin’, toilsome| * plane had slowly settled to| J : oh Ant most of the time the| that Altitude from about 8000 wiping him 'n the arm a eau! suall shang (feet, its altitude w \ : a chen knife. i { newcomers get the big end of It. hen she first Kicking him in the ribs, | 8round nearby. : | ‘His wife, Mrs. Marie Cornett, | said he had not been home since |9 a. m, Friday.

with two stab wounds, one in the { chest and another in the back. Deputy Coroner Richard Callahan | sald he apparently died about

You'd be surprised, son, how well| Fan into trouble. Ricking » ow'!l learn to. dig latrines, peel Re | ir. Smelser and Mrs. Er an’ police company PIGGEST HYDROELECTRIO | Smeiser filed separate suits streets in these here Army posts, Grand Coulee Dam, on the Co-! for divorce last October. | Pe. Lo Jong ‘fore you ever git to know/lumbia River, Washington, cre-| Since then he has lived in [GRINDSTONE INDUSTRY the business end of a gun or even Ates the largest source of hydro- the front of their apart- | A major industry at Marietta.

Jearn how to avoid salutin’ sec-| electric power in the ‘world, ment, she in the rear, | O0., is making grindstones. ond lieutenants. AIR ‘ EE ——— is “Why, son,” he kept on in a ——

sort of dull monotone, “like as not yore uniform wouldn't fit, the| géat of yore pants would be draggin' the ground and you'd look like anything else but a hero, “Then there's allus the danger, the great danger, son, you might even be assigned to some work company an’ have to build roads, dig ditches, paint barracks. Worse yet, you might even have to do office work along with all these here WACSs, thése wimmin in the Army.” , The oldster stretched and watched his young son from beneath the visor of his cap. Unconsciously perhaps, a big, rough hand sort of covered the service

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ribbons from two wars some of them the decorations worn only by heroes. “Yes, sir, there's a heap of time for you and the lkes of you,” the sergeant said with a knowing grin. “If Uncle wants you he'll be sendin’ after you and you won't have much choice. | "Till then I'd advise you to let] your whiskers get a little tough-| er an' git a little more breadth between ‘the shoulders. - In other words, grow on up a little more. The Navy—No, No | “Course, though, son,” the old man hastened to add, “you can allus depend on me I ain't gonna let nothing awful happen to you like gettin’ in the Navy or gettin’| in some of these high falutin’ services. If'n things git hot I'll] want you in the Army." | The old sergeant left his easy, chair and ridded his cheek of the bulging tobacco. He patted his

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