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Everyone knew that retired Brigadier General Evans F. Carlson was a Marine, and a good one. In the early days of the Pacific War, his Gung Ho Raiders wrote heroic headlines at Makin and Guadalcanal. Not so many U.S. citizens knew that General Carlson had also long been an apostle of Communistic causes and Communist-fringe groups. In 1939, after traveling 2,000 miles as a military observer with China's Communist Eighth Route Army, he had resigned from the Marines to push his crusade. Last week Old China Hand Carlson made his ideology perfectly clear to everyone...
...discovery that he could write "bomb" only 18 times a minute and "bom" 23 times. Stormed Shaw: "The extra sign is entirely senseless, it not only wastes the writer's time, but suggests an absurd mispronunciation, as if the word 'gun' were to be spelt 'gung...
...older generation have learned a patois that passes for English, but they retain sentence structures from Yiddish (Pa Gross, protesting a torrent of talk: "Like a machine is gung the tunks. Like a sobvay is coming the woids-tukk, tukk, tukk!"). They put extra consonants in certain words-"udder" for or, "paintner" for painter, "finndish" for finish. They say "chonging" for charging, "serrisfied" for satisfied, "tenner" for tenant...
When the Examiner promised more details in its next Sunday edition, the Tucson Star did publish an interview with former U. S. District Attorney John Gung'l, which said that the Examiner's story was substantially correct. This was the only indication that Arizona's Press knew it was being scooped. Last week, the Examiner printed more stories on the scandal, reported that U. S. District Attorney Clifton Mathews was investigating the matter...
...When her disappearance was first reported he was arrested and jailed on a charge of selling beer. He said he knew nothing of the girl's fate. Attempts to obtain information from two other taciturn Indians who were held, were equally fruitless. U. S. District Attorney John C. Gung'l went from Phoenix to White River. Friend of Indians, he announced: "It is unfair to condemn the Apache tribe because this brutal killing took place on its reservation...