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...forces that had taken over the South Seas island were in a hurry. An airfield had to be built and there was a lot of work to do. Native labor on the island was short. So Captain Martin Teem sent a sergeant of Massachusetts infantry to a nearby island to round up help...
Next delighted listeners heard wavy-haired Marine Sergeant Leonard Wheeler try to telephone his boyhood hero, ex-Sergeant Alvin C. York, in Jamestown, Tenn. (It had to be solo because Major York was chinning with the boys in a local barbershop and forgot to be at home for the call...
Corporal Ben Effros brought the house down. He phoned Mrs. Michael Sharlitt, director of Cleveland's Belle Faire Orphanage. Talking a bluestreak, he reminded "Mother" Sharlitt how she used to wash his mouth out for using cuss words, told her he had a sergeant "who would run her clean out of soap...
...Staff Sergeant Kenneth J. White, Sergeant Major of the Harvard ROTC from August, 1938 to September 17, 1942, was promoted on the latter date to a second lieutenancy. He is now at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in service with an MP battalion. Sergeant J. W. Parry has replaced him as chief clerk of military affairs here...
Just when the fight fans had about given up hope, the Big Fight got a green light. The War Department last week sanctioned a return match-at Yankee Stadium Oct. 12-between Sergeant Joe Louis, world's heavyweight champion, and Private Billy Conn, the Pittsburgh toughie who, a year ago last June, succeeded in confounding the champ for a good part of twelve rounds before going the way of all challengers. Beneficiary of the fight: Army Relief. Neither fighter will collect a cent...