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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1942)
U. S. Scouts in Guiana's Jungles Protected from hordes of ferocious mosquitoes by veil-trimmed helmets, a party of V. S. troops is shown (left) scouting In the tough jungle country of Surinam, better known as Dutch Guiana, one of the places where We now maintain forces to protect American interests. Right: A D. 8. army lookout high in the trees of the Surinam brush. The keen eyes of the observers posted there spot any strange activity in the jungle. ______—mm Students Go A-Farming at Farmingdale, L. I. There is a threatened shortage of farm labor this year. In upstate New York alone 25,000 men and boy* are needed this summer, and some 7,000 boys from city high schools have enrolled for farm training. Many of these are being trained at the State Institute of Agriculture in Farmingdale, L. I. At the left you see students at work in the dairy section of the institute. Right: Some of the students who are taking a course In farming. Herring Army to Satisfy Army Appetites ' i Every year millions of herring have swarmed up the Taunton river to spawn at the headwaters near Middleboro, Mass., and have been caught by Indian traps and white men’s nets. This year, the U. S. army has put in its order. Photo shows hundreds of herring being pulled In With a dragnet. In this spot the daily catch runs up to 1,000 barrels. Hold It, Goodfellows! Aviation cadets at Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Texas, grapple with a billowing parachute on a windy day. You’ll appreciate the difficulty of their task If you have ever opened up an umbrella in a gale. Skippered Lifeboat Salter Samenov, 27, of Riga, Lat via, was a handy crewman to have on the lifeboat of a torpedoed U. S. ship. He is showing how he rigged a sail of blankets. He steered the ship by the stars and made a cam era record of their three-day expe rience. ‘Land of the Free’ Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the U. S., pays his first visit to the Statue of Liberty. Here he Razes at the symbol of freedom from the boat that took him to Bedloe’s island. ‘Abandon Ship* Drill on Vthnitir Convoy At Sea . . . Ton are somewhere on the broad Atlantic aboard a unit of the U. S. nary's Atlantic task force, currently doing a Job of convoying. What you are now looking at is an ‘‘abandon ship" drill, in which the ship's personnel go through all the motions without actually going over* side. In the background are other ships of the convoy. (Approved by U. 8. navy.) Heroes of World Battle. Front At left Is Dr. C. M. Wassell, through whose skill and courage It badly wounded men were gotten safely out of Java, in the face of invad ing Jap hordes, and safely to the Australian coast. Capt. H. T. Wbe less (right) went out to attack Jap transports off the Philippines. He was attacked by Zero planes but proceeded on his mission, emptied his bomb racks on six Jap transports, then fought off 18 Jap planes for 75 mites, bringing down II, finally making a safe emergency landing with two engines and rear landing wheel gone. Engineers Train at Fort Bel voir These future engineers are training at the engineers replacement cen ter, at Fort Belvoir, Va. Upper photo shows them, after having cut out a barbed wire obstacle, advancing under a protective smoke screen. In the photo below they are leaving their trench and advancing under a protective smoke screen to a point of combat. War Makes Strange Friendships The Australians have long been in the habit of calling the aborigines “black fellows.” American officers somewhere in the bush region of northern Australia are being palsy walsy with a “black fellow” here. ( on IttM'l* I _ This briny s war of movement, Lieut. Gen. Neil Ritchie, general of ficer commanding Britain's Eighth army in Libya, believes in mobile quarters. He has fitted out a big caravan to serve In this capacity. Above he is shown working at his 1 desk in his otfice an wheels. The whole outfit hi mounted an a track t body. Manpower Chief Panl V. McNutt, chairman eT the new war manpower commission, is shown (right) greeting Lee Knyckl, of the Amalgamated Clothing Work ers, at a victory rally In Detroit. Hint to Workers Above is shown the correct way to stand at a bench and do yonr bit for the war effort. The straight back, high chest and equal distribution of weight on the feet will keep this girl working long after others who as sume wrong positions are tired. Leads in Iceland Maj. Gen. Charles Bonesteel of the U. S. army, who has assumed com mand of all American and British forces in Iceland. Most of the troops stationed in Iceland are | American. 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