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HOUGH VV HEN Hyder fumbled his rifle and dropped it, that first morn- ing at drill, most of us recruits and some of the older heads snickered. 'Silence in the ranks," Sergeant Kane. * Hyder made no move to recover his rifle--just stood staring down at it in trancelike horror. "Don't be afraid of it, guy," Kane said. "It won't bite anybody but them Axis bums."' But Hyder was afraid of a gun; all guns, as we learned later. His hands would tremble every time he touched one. So, naturally, he drew a low rating in: rank-and-file judg- ment. His only champion was Bar- ry, another rookie. 'I know the guy. You fellows don't," Barry told us in the squad room. "We know he's afraid of guns. He must be yellow," came the answer. "*You're wrong, all of you," Barry 'argued. "Hyder and I were raised jin the same town, on the same block. He's no coward--just gun shy. Born that way, same as some people are born with blue eyes, others brown."' Someone said, "Bah, he's . . ."' and cut the speech short. Another glanced toward the door but imme- diately looked' away. Hyder seemed rooted on the threshold, towhead thrust forward, eyes squinting, his squatty body taut, hard. "y For a moment, he held his bellig- erent pose and then, eyes straight ahead, he walked slowly and delib- erately down the aisle between the two rows of cots. He stopped be- fore his friend. "Thanks, Barry," he said, and turned and left the room. 'Well, guts or no guts," said Ser- geant Kane, "'no gun-shy son will Na I saw a towhead weaving. - bobbing and ever be any good in this man's army."' "Hyder could be," Barry contend- ed. "He was a hotel cook before the draft got him. A good one, too, and he likes the work." "A cook, huh?' Kane' mused. *"That's a way for me to get him off my hands. Think Ill see the mess sarge about it." ' That was back in barracks. Now _ this was Bataan and the jungle and at . yee: thundered ° wre INIPS. We were on outpost duty, Barry and Hyder with us. Sergeant ~ Kane was in charge. Eight of the men rested in pup tents while four others watched from foxholes out front. @ Behind the tents, in a tiny clearing where we'd chopped away the creepers and the thick bush, Hy- © der was cooking our noonday meal. Yes, Barry had been right. The gun-shy lad could really cook and he loved the job, too. I watched him now, bending over the stew pot, pouring in special seasoning he'd concocted from native spices. As he stepped back from the caul- dron he nodded at me and yelled, -- "Come and get it." But right then things happened all at once. The little monkey men swarmed out of the jungle. No noise, no warning till the bullets whistled through the mist. "Rush for the tents and grab a Garand,'"' I shouted at Hyder and acted on my own advice. The next few minutes were a mad whirl-- shots cracking, bayonets twirling, men reeling, going down. My arms were weak from the shock of thrust and parry. Then suddenly the surg- ing tide of Nips swerved and we stood in the clear. I glanced toward the cook pots and saw a towhead' bobbing and weaving, surrounded by, Japs. The squatty body and heavy shoulders heaved to the swing of a baseball bat. I moved fast, Barry and Sergeant! Kane running beside me. We hit: that circle and speared us a Nip apiece; Hyder was still swinging.' We got through to him and the yel- low boys scattered. Barry and Kane. carried him to a tent and I looked at the red-smeared weapon lying on -- the ground. There were eighteen dead Japs sprawled one upon an-' other--every head busted by Hyder' . favorite instrument. . In the tent Sergeant Kane was; swabbing a wound in Hyder's thigh.! A bayonet thrust had got him. His: shirt was off and there was a long: slash across his ribs. . I said, "You did wrong, buddy.! According to rules, you should have!, ducked those Nips and joined the rest of us, back to back. How come "But they were after our chow," he protested. "They hooked that pot of stew and tried to run with it. How could I let them get away with it?" Icing the Cake Moisture in the air on a damp or} rainy day may make icings and other sweets soft and sticky. To offset this tendency, icings and other sirup products need to be. cooked slightly longer on damp days. New Fish Finder L A new sensitive echo-sounding de- vice for use on surface vessels will enable fishermen to not only locate schools of fish, but even to deter- mine the size and direction of the) -- school, She--"Where were you last night?" He--"Well, in the first place--" She--"I know all about the first waa: place -- where did you go after t 2 iday, May 11, 1945. oe ay "THE STRATFORD MIRROR - ---- ite Thing chose] HE STARS | '© By GEORGE LILLEY NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Next to srooners, comedians are show business' loudest dressers. Only funny fellow we know of who al- ways is conservative is the 25- tyear-old newcomer, Alan Young. i That may. be because he was born in Eng- land. But then $0 was): Bob Hope! Fred Allen says Young is the "funniest com- edian I've ever heard." This wistful "every- thing happens Alan Youn to me" type sd Te sida ¥ ¢ ...Allen raved nishts, Blue network) a few years ago was making $40 a week on a small Canadian station; now he resides on Park Avenue. His thrill liv- ing among the elite is an unique one: He can use the dark room of singer Bea Wain (who with hubby-announcer Andre Baruch live across the street) to develop scores of candid camera pictures he takes each day. ey DON OR JIM? Were it not for a fuller face, few could tell apart young Jim Ameche (30) and his older broth- er Don (37). On the air they sound identically. Jim is 5-11, weighs 165 pounds; Don's six foot, 170. When he was a. serial actor in Chi- cago, Don got Jim his first radio work, bringing him in from home- town Kenosha, Wis: For. five 'years Jim was 'radio's "Jack Armstr ong;" now he has his top air job: 'Emcee of CBS's popular Tuesday - Wednesday 'Thursday "Music That Satisfies," lithe program that, with singers Johnnie Johnston and Monica iLewis, specializes in discovering new hits. In this effort: the show jhas done pretty good recently: "Just a Prayer Away," "After a While," "I'm Beginning to See Jim Ameche .. «Don helpet = BATTLE OF AGES - @ _% Those Bennett sisters--Joan,| Constance and Barbara -- are feuding again, this time over ages. "I started out the youngest,") cracked Joan on Broadway col- umnist Earl Wilson's radio broad- " cast (Sunday, ights, tual), sisters are knocking off years so fast I am rapidly be- coming the old- est." Columnist » Wilson, ex- - Rockford, Ohio, farm boy, has a : habit of stir- a 'ring up dissen- Connie Bennett sion among the .. $1000 soothes Coleprities (he said Greer Garson was bowleg- ged). Result of his latest is that Constance Bennett gets the guest spot on Wilson's show May 6 (along with the $1000 fee that goes with it) to defend her age and that of older sister, Barbara. (P.S.: Joan admitted to 35). -PAYS TO BE WACKY Garry Moore: One-half of the slam-bang Moore-Jimmy Durante show Friday nights, CBS. Pint- sized Moore (5-6, 140 pounds) was born 30 years ago in Balti- more Thomas Garrison Morfit. He used to be a sports an- nouncer in St. Louis, which may. account for his knack at rapid speech. He can reel off 280 words a minute, faster than he can read (he mem- sill gd Dp parts). t e SS irs air, Moore is Garry Moore , much his radio '°° quite natura character: bouncy, quick witted, according to some friends, a little "wacky." But to loud dressed (slacks, showy sport coats, thick soled shoes) Garry Moore, "'wack- iness" pays off (about $39°" lthe Light." - week). PIOUS GIL DODDS For eight seasons, short, bespec- tacled Gil Dodds has been something of a track oddity. He usually knelt and prayed before each race. On trips, he often carried bread and honey sandwiches in a paper bag. His awkward running style -- arms thrashing like windmills -- outraged the copybook but set a world's indoor mile record of 4:06.4. Recently, just 'after his coach predicted that he would soon smash that record by as much as two seconds, Dodds said he 'was through with track forever -- he had received the Call to begin full- time gospel work. The news knocked the breath out of indoor track. Pole-vaulters, shot-put- 'ters and sprinters come and go, but 'tthe mile goes on forever as the back- bone of the sport. With Dodds out of the running, all present thought of the dream (4:04) mile vanished, and with it the "marvelous mile" that might have been, between Dodds and Sweden's great Gunder Hagg. _ Before he donned the cloth, Boston +, | [Mirror Sport Spots ye jgot one final look at the Flying Par- son in motion. He gave his schoolboy rivals handicaps up to 90 yards in the Boston Y.M.C.A. two-mile, then won going away in slow time (9 min. 584 sec.) . Dodds' unorthodox style had changed little since he ran his first (and invol- untary) race. As a boy in Falls City, Neb., he threw a stone at Lloyd Hahn's passing automobile. When the then great runner stopped to give chase, he could not catch the chunky culprit. But Hahn recognized a future cham- pion when he saw one, made young Dodds his protege. In Chicago last year, Hahn and Dodds--with the Lord's help--ran the world's fastest indoor mile. Hahn plotted the race, lap by lap, eleven of them, scribbled the fractional times on paper. Dodds studied them reli- giously. Then Hahn stood at the starting line in Chicago's Stadium, stop watch in hand, yelled out the runner pounded past. At the start of the final lap: 'Three-forty-four. ' ig eh s adare y. 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"t must catch a train," he said, "I'm really excited -- I'm to preach a ser- mon tomorrow." = ZaSu Pitts tells it on herself. A Marine walked over to her at the Hollywood Canteen one day and said, "Hiya Beautiful!" ZaSu smiled and said, "I know why you're calling me that. I've spent six hours in parlor." "No," the Marine countered. because I spent six months in the Solomons."--Harold Irving. the beauty --» CHINA HALL. + / 84 Ontario St. ; Enjoy A Good Cup of Tea Use "FLOWERDALE" L Our customers have been using it for yearson account of it's un- usual fine favour. Just try it~-you'll like it too ! J. L. BRADSHAW _ Phone 179 a oe It's because bed oy <r