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...Author. James Norman Hall, native of Iowa, enlisted in Kitchener's First Hundred Thousand at the outbreak of the War, went to France in 1915 as a machine-gunner. Transferred to the Lafayette Escadrille in 1917. Hall met there Charles Nordhoff of Philadelphia, Mexico and California, discovered a mutual enthusiasm for the history of H. M. S. Bounty. Shot down behind the German lines in the spring of 1918, Hall spent the last months of the War as a prisoner. After the Armistice he collaborated with Nordhoff on a history of the Lafayette Escadrille. Both were tired...
...will learn the duties of an officer of a ship. The itinerary calls for stops at Miami and Jacksonville, where liberty will be given and where the units present will have a boat race. During the first part of the cruise the students will be trained by Chief Gunner's Mate Stevens and Lieutenant Wellings of the Harvard Unit, and by the Manley's officers under her captain Commander Gillette for the big event of the cruise, the battle practice fired in competition with the other ships...
...organized the Air Line Pilots Association is a big, fiery six-footer named David Louis Behncke. He was born on a Wisconsin farm. During the War he was a crack bomber and machine gunner. Today he holds every possible military and civilian pilot's license, has some 8,324 hr. on his log with never a serious crackup. For five years he flew the mail west out of Chicago for United Air Lines. Two years ago Pilot Behncke whipped the pilots' union together from the ranks of the ineffectual National...
...commissioned officer receives his commission from the President, ratified by the Senate. A warrant officer receives his warrant from the President without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps...
...Many a new York farmer is doing a nice business at $6 to §15 per gun per day. Texas, where gamewise farmers have been compensated for nine years, this year has 3,700.000 privately-owned acres open to hunters of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys. The gunner pays the farmer not more than $4 a day or 25^ per acre per season. Georgia's game commission has begun sending out lists of game farms. - Nebraska and Colorado have a scrip scheme whereby hunters pay farmers one coupon for each bird shot, the coupons being sold and cashed...