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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1942)
At Barrage Balloon Training Center Barrage training center. Camp Tyson, Tcnn., where crews are trained to handle, sail and re pair the huge gas bags. Upper left: Trainees seated around their instructor. Lower left: Gas filtered through the purification plant being forced through the high pressure manifold to be stored for re-use. Right: Sewing a seam in a bar rage balloon—“a stitch in time.” Flock for Service on Navy’s PT-Boats The successes of our motor torpedo fleet in Philippine waters have brought a flood of applications to the navy from young officers who want to serve aboard the boats. Special schools have been set up for this purpose. At the left a group of officers is receiving instructions in the use of depth bombs. Picture at right shows a group of them gathered about an Orlikon automatic anti-aircraft cannon. Salvage Work in Desert Battle Zone t ••• \ '■'> This pile of shell cases is part of the huge collection of material salvaged from the battlefields of the Libyan desert by the British. The cases will be used again, for they are of valuable brass and copper. In many instances the British have taken Italian guns and ammunition and have used them against their former owners. New War Bonnet Arnold Headley, seaman, second class, is a full-blooded Arapahoe In dian from Ethete, Wyo. Here he is demonstrating with machine gun bullets at the U. S. naval air station at Corpus Christi, Texas, just how his ancestors looked with a head dress of war feathers. Headley is the station boxing champ. To Manage All-Star Service Team Lieut. Gordon (“Mickey") Cochrane has been appointed manager of the all-star service baseball team composed of former minor and major league players now in the navy. Shown above are (left to right) Comdr. Gene Tunney, in charge of sports activities for the navy; Col. John Thomas Taylor, assistant director, bureau of public relations (war department), and “Mickey" Cochrane, Gal in Every Port? “Just one gal Is enough for me," says an old song, but this sailor seems to be of a different turn of mind. While his arms are quite full, his wink speaks volumes. Gas Mask Drill on Pacific Coast Above is a general view of a gas mask drill which was held in Oak* land, Calif., after civilian defense officials began distributing more than 30,000 gas masks to 10 Alameda county communities, as well as parts of three other counties. Masks will go to volunteer defense workers sped* fled by the Office of Civilian Defense. Hitler and II Duce Talk It Over This historic picture just received In the U. S. shows the meeting at Salzburg, Austria. General Jodel, second from left, explains to Mussolini and Hitler a difficult point on the map. Japan was not represented. Tank-Borne Troops on Russian Front Red army infantrymen are shown In marching formation after they had been unloaded from the tanks that carried them to the deployment point near the front line, somewhere on the long battle line that reaches from the Baltic to the Black sea. Russians claim that these tanks have proved superior to the German Juggernauts that crashed through France two years ago. Mexico Enters War on Axis Mexico has now entered the war against the Axis. This action makes ber a belligerent ally of the 26 other United Nations. Picture shows Manuel Camacho (extreme right) and his cabinet which voted to Join the United Nations at war, following the sinking of the two Mexican tankers in the Gulf of Mexico. Formal protest by Mexico was rejected by , the Axis. Part of AEF Lieut. Betty Egad (left) of Boston, and Lieut. Helen Rocque of Lexing ton, Mass., shown as they landed at a North Ireland port with an army nursing unit. Note the slacks. The girls were part of a huge AEF. ‘Honor Man’ Gen. George Marshall congratu lates Cadet James Hottenrolh of New York, honor man of the gradu ating class at West Point, after pre senting him with his diploma. Jeep in Ireland The Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Ireland (front seat) wear ing her women’s voluntary service uniform, Is given a ride in a Jeep daring a visit to U. 8. troops in Northern Deland. In the rear seat are Pauline Fenno (left) of Boston and Lady Stronge, chairman of the women’s voluntary service in North, era Ireland. ‘Gun Moll’—for U. S. ..» Many women are employed by the U. S. as artificers, and have proved to be expert gunsmiths. Above, Mary Barkes, 22, goes about her business of rebuilding an automatic rifle. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT _CREMATION_ FARMS FOR SALE 10 SELEC TED FARMS For immediate sale. Write today for full details, prices and special terms. M. A. Larson Agency, Central City, Neb. BOXES AND BASKETS BERKY BOXES fruit and vegetable packages. PHILLIPS BASKET CO., Omaha, Nebr. TRAILERS TRAILERS—Alma Silvermoon—TRAILERS For sale or rent. Will buy used trailers. HARRY HENDER *311 Barney - - - - - Omaha, Nebr. While There Is Life Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.—Henry Ward Beecher. ...,.in-.mil .~ GAS STATION ■ MAN GETS HIS SMOKING JQY! Mildest, yet tastiest " matin V’ smokes yet t YpZ;««y In recent laboratory "smoking bowl” tests. Prince Albert burned 86 DEGREES COOLER than the average of the 3t other of the largest selling brands tested... coolest of allt fine roll-your-own cigarettaa in every bandy pocket can of Prince Albert