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Cod’s Purpose for Abraham.
i lesson for July IS: Genesis 12:1-9.
r Memory Verse: Genesis' 12:3.
The lesson concerns one of the
yreat men of the world—Abraham,
the “Friend of God,” the “Father
a£ the Faithful,” and founder of the
’Bebrew race, who has bee;, distin-
; gjicshed through all time as a man
j ef faith. Native ef, Ur of the Chal
dees, he was 75 years old when God
called him at Haran. Thereafter
Wus city dweller became a nomad,
r dwelling in tents, and growing rich
! Jd flocks and hei<is.
But no man ever contributed
, snore to permanence—in the home,
J in religion, and in the nation. Wher
ever he camped, he' built an altar, (
; which remained. .Though having no
ilwrmanent home, he gave much to
;tae permanence Of all homes.
; Though never seeing the nation of
wbich he was the founder, he gave
} Sc it the finest of all stabilizing in-
’ fiaences—faith.
His glory was that God worked
< MB purpose through him and his
posterity—to “bless all the families
, efi the earth.” We dream of the
■ time when all ifhtions shall be
jliessed. But this consummation
' wffl be realized in its fullness when
families have been blessed.
Beyond necessity in the case and
}tar need of right procedure, there
* m need of religion and righteous-
! nrss in the home — for its own
'Messing. Let us be thankful that
»*was God’s purpose to bless “all
1 tae families of the earth.”
f May our families be blessed in-
idteed, as the inmates are led into
permanence of spiritual reali-
which Abraham found for him-
«seif as in faith he reached that city
E “which hath foundations, whose
er and maker is Cod.”
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By ELLIOTT PINE
Wfte of New York's top ring
dbpesters, Jimmy Johnston, doesn’t
believe that Joe Louis and Billy
Cbm? will dominate the heavy-
weight field long after they return
fton. service. The reason—they
witt be too old. Another year or
more will take off what edge they
Have left, Johnston thinks. Some
young serviceman, now getting
training and experience in camp
fights, will conquer these two in
postwar contests. Incidentally, Joe
Louis is developing his golf game
near-championship class. . . .
He shoots in the low 70s, even in
tournament play.
Bookies on the Pacific coast
V have thonght up a new variant
1 —they will bet you 5 tr 1 that
you can’t pick eight horses at
any track that will all run out of
? the money for the day (that
io> one horse in each of the
I day’s eight races). One of the
piugs is almost sure to come
In .bird, it seems. You've got
tb be smart even to pick sufe
losers.
Capt. Buddy Lewis, formerly of
Me Senators, is one ball player
wbo didn’t do much playing during
Ii» service in the air corps. . . .
Muring 15 months in the China-
Burma theater. Captain Lewis flew
I6S> missions over the Hump. . . .
He has won the Distinguished Fly-
aig Cress, the Air Medal and the
*ak Leaf Cluster.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have
signed up 39-year-old Walter
♦ ‘Boom Boom”) Feck, a replace
ment pitcher. They passed on an-
wJher veteran hurler, Ray Starr,
*> the Chicago Cubs on waivers.
E/s the war. . . . few players in
iStt upper age brackets stay
wound in the big time except as
xaeches or managers. Pitching is
young man’s game.
Volley ball is fast becoming
the national game in Russia.
... It is also quite popular
with the U. S. armed forces.
The first time admission was
charged at a college football
game was in 1874, when Har
vard and McGill clashed.
Frank Danneker, Minneapolij
iub second baseman, leads all
orseball plavers this year in stolen
ases—31. This is more, in fact.
Plan for any entire team except-
ig the Louisville outfit, which has
I. The New York Yankees, once
*mous for their airtight defense,
eve made 70 errors in their first
B games this season. Pete Gray,
;»e one-armed Brown outfielder, it
atting .222 so far. ... It was pre-
icted that he never could stand uj
» big league pitching. . . • and,
-bile Pete is a big drawing card
>r the Browns, the Memphis club i
•ttendance has been slumpini
mce they released their handv
capped” star.
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By-Passed \Vake Wot i or ih ;>h
When the Allies by-passed Wake Island, they had no intention oi
leaving this group of islands in the hands of the Japanese. Recent
reports indicate that Allied activity Is again headed toward Wake and
adjoining islands as shown on map above.
Bordagaray Assists Bordagaray /
If Frenchy Bordagaray Is called on for any infield play with the
Dodgers', he plans to use an assistant for anything that gets by him.
Here’s Frenchy’s young son, Kit, showing how he would back up his
famous Dad when a hot grounder comes their way.
Time for Dinner at Bronx Zoo
Bringing delight to the thousands of children who visited the Bronx
zoo was this baby antelope, especially when he decided it was time for
dinner, and dinner came often as Mom was always handy.
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The Middles By Bob Karp
‘Little Boy Blue—■’
U
mo THOUSAND m HEROES mil BV AIR
Air Transport Command at
Casablanca Conducts Big Business
By Pauline Frederick
(Spe.clal Western Newspaper Union War Correspondent.)
CASABLANCA.—I have just seen Casablanca beginning
to unfold the biggest story since V-E Day. This ancient
Moroccan city where American boys came ashore in Novem
ber, 1942, to start the liberation of the Western world, where
Roosevelt and Churchill met in January, 1943, in the Anfa
hotel where I am staying for two days before continuing on
to the Far East in a four-motored C-54, has just become the
gateway home for 600,000 American boys who fought the
war in Europe.
Converted bombers with loads of
American soldiers flying in from
Europe. Every six minutes a C-54
starts home with a load of Amer
ican veterans. When they get back
home, whether they stay there or
go on to the Pacific is a matter
with which this base is not con
cerned. The Air Transport Com
mand’s sole concern at Casablanca
is to get the boys back as quickly
as possible.
I talked with Brigadier General
Stowell, commanding general of
the Air Ti ansnort Compnand’s
North African Division—who has
charge of this task—it’s called the
Green Project. He’s done a lot of
important jobs—such as getting the
VIPs — very important people —
through to the Yalta conference.
But he’s never had a bigger mission
than this one. He told me that by
August the ATC would be carrying
home 40,000 boys a month out of
Casablanca.
Here is how the project works as
I saw it at first hand. I went out
to the airfield this afternoon. It is
a single strip more than a mile
long, with unused French and
American fighters stacked up along
the sides. As I saw the great
amount of traffic with the planes
going and coming I marveled the
more at our skillful crew which
brought our big ship with the 110-
foot wing span in which we had
flown the Atlantic from Bermuda
to the Azores in 9 hours and 15
minutes down here in all the traf
fic. The car in which I was riding
dodged in and out to avoid going
and coming planes like an ant try
ing to keep out of the way of a
flock of eagles.
A B-17 rolled up in a cloud of
sand that must have been some
thing like a minor storm in the
Sahara. For Morocco is having its
worst drouth in years. And the
famine that threatens holds, in
the opinion of seasoned observers
in Casablanca. At the Anfa hotel
the water and electricity are
turned off until six o’clock at night.
As the motors of the big B-17
came to a halt, sunburned and
weary veterans from Italy piled
out. They had been sitting on seats
where turret guns had once been.
Their baggage was stowed in the
bomb bays. Over the door of their
silver ship was painted “Home
Bound Airlines.” Around the door
were names of the eight cities this
now peaceful ship had bombed—
Berlin I, Vienna III, Verona II,
Salzburg II, Belgrade II, and so
on. The ships without the turret
guns can carry 15—the others 10.
I talked with several of the boys
as they got off. One was husky
Elzy Youngkin, T/5, of Monroe,
Iowa. He’d been up around Pisa.
And when he gets back home he
said he’d probably marry his best
girl, Bernadine Smith. Then there
was Sgt. Blevin White of Char
lottesville, Va., who had been in
the 34th Division and had been up
around Milan. He’s been overseas
33 months, and when he gets home
he just wants to do nothing for a
while. Most of the boys had just
had their first flight as many of
them are foot soldiers.
The pilots of these converted tac
tical ships do not even report to op
erations. They stay aboard and
are handed their instructions. As
soon as the last boy and his lug
gage are off. they wheel back into
the runway and are off. They fly
down to Marakech, some 100 miles ,
to the south, where the ships are
serviced and refueled and stay ;
overnight. In the morning they
start back again to Europe to pick
up another load.
Meantime, the boys who are ‘
flown in are taken to Camp Du-
shane adjoining the airfield to
await transportation home. I went *
out there to see them arriving in
trucks and buses. There, their .
baggage is weighed in to make
sure they don’t have more than 35
pounds. They are told whether
they are going home —and how —
and why.- 1 say whether they are
going home—for just now some of
the boys coming through here are
stopped, if General Stowell needs
their technical skill to carry out
this biggest transportation job in
history.
The boys are housed and fed—
and I can testify to the food. When
the mess sergeant offered me a -
drumstick out of one of the vats
of succulent fried chicken, I tell
you it was an experience out here •
in North Africa. There is a Red
Cross quarters on the Post known
as the Stop-Over Club, and a per
sonable young lady from Detroit ,
was in charge when I stopped in.
Here the boys can find recreation
while they wait.
The boys are sent out to the ‘
States any hour of the day or night , -
when a 13-54 is available Every
effort is made to t.y i? get them .
out within 24 hours after they ar
rive from Europe. There are no
priorities about that homeward »
takeoff General 4 Stowell told me,
it’s “first come, r ,flrst served.” The
giant C-54s that come in from the
States are on the ground an aver- -
age of four hours before starting
their return trip with a shipload of
boys. \
If weather and facilities permit, .
giant ships go by way of the
Azores, across the mid-Atlantic— ,
a 20-hour hop. Otherwise, they go
by Dakar and Natal, a matter of ■
several days.
Already the North African divi- ,
sion ATC has more planes than all
the domestic airlines of the United
States had in operation before the
war. It is estimated that carrying
the boys to the States this way will
save 600 liberty ship crossings.
And so Casablanca, in spite of
its native destitution, and the dev
astating drouth and impending
famine, is a happy place for a loi*
of American boys. For when thej
arrive there, they are pretty sur# ,
they are going home.
July Livestock Notes
In midsummer livestock need
careful attention, says County
Agent G. W. Bonnette, who makes
these timely suggestions for July. I
Animal Husbandry
Keep hogs grazing on green for
age.
Arrange to turn hogs on corn
when it is in the glazed stage.
Reserve some permanent pas
ture to be grazed by beef cattle in
late fall and early winter.
Creep-feed the beef calves, using
threshed oats and other home-
raised grains.
Feed the workstock three times
a day.
Change pastures for livestock if
possible.
Provide shade and fresh water
for all classes of livestock.
Observe the livestock for screw-
worm infestation and give treat
ment, if necessary.
Dairying
Mow pastures frequently.
Destroy breeding places for flies,
and use skimmilk-formaldehyde
poison (1 gallon of skimmilk, 1
pint of 40 per cent formalin, 1
pint cf molasses) in shallow pans
to kill flies.
As milk production falls off,
supplement pasture with hay cr
ilage and balanced grain mix
ture.
Feed up to two pounds of grain
daily to maintain normal growth.
it helps to keep their bodies ccol
and stimulates egg production.
Reduce feed cost by culling non
layers and not by reducing feed.
Keep a grain feed before the
pullets and don’t start feeding a
laying mash until the birds are at
least five months old.
If troubled with roup cr chicken
pox in past years, vaccinate pul
lets when they are two. to four
months old.
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For sale, cheap: One misused
idea that “book farming won’t ev
er get you anywhere”.
Keep milk or cream sold for
manufacturing purposes in barrel
or tub of cold well or spring wa
ter.
Get extension Circular 157, The
Family Dairy Cow, for use in pro
duction of home milk supply.
Poultry
Keep mash before laying hens;
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