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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1943)
Leaders in New and Important Roles Shown at left is Lient. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, new commander of the U. 8. forces in the European theater, successor to Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews, who was killed in a plane crash in Iceland. Center: Leon Henderson, former price administrator, who has returned to Washington as editor-in-chief of Research Organisation Serv ice Business. Right: MaJ. Gen. Omar Bradley, who has replaced Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton as com mander of the American 2nd Corps in Tunisia. General Bradley is an infantry expert, and assumed command when Infantry could serve best in the Tunisian theater of war. Guns That Speak With Full Authority w——ww———www—mi hi i m wwwmiihm ■ • ■■mi i v-. • Shown at left Is our new 240 mm. howitzer, the M-l, as described In the Field Artillery Journal. It Is more mobile and more powerful, and even more accurate than its 1918 counterpart. It travels in two loads on high speed trailers. Less digging is required for its emplacement, and this is speeded by a clamshell buck et. Right: Naval gun crew shown during training in the operation of a three-inch anti-aircraft gun at the U. S. navy anti-aircraft gunnery training center In Point Montara, Calif. Guns fire at sleeve targets towed from planes over the water. Deadly Trio With High Combat Record This is the "big three*' of one of the busiest American Spitfire outfits fat North Africa. Primarily assigned to protect bombers raiding Axis bases, these pilots have a high combat record. Together they have ac counted for 14 of the 38 enemy planes bagged by the squadron. They are, left to right, Lieut. S. Field, Lynn, Mass.; Capt. Norman McDonald, Framingham, Mass.; and Sergt. James Butler of Grass Valley, Calif. No Smiles and Heils for Der Fuehrer Wounded Germans sit helpless in wheelchairs while Hitler congratu lates them during a Nazi celebration at a hospital in Berlin. Not long ago he promised them a glorious victory, and by the expression on their faces these men are probably wondering If this is what he meant. Photo was copied from a German magazine. Plain ‘Uncle Joe’ Back home for a visit following Important conferences in Washing ton, and before returning to the job of commanding U. S. forces In China, Burma and India, Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell (Uncle Joe to you) posed for this picture. American Mother, ’43 Mrs. Alexander Thomson of New York, who was chosen by the Golden Role foundation as the “American Mother of 1943.’* She has four sons; three are serving with the U. S. over seas. A*s Axis Troops Surrendered to Allies .. .. MmtwsnmugmiS’ ' Covered by a Sherman tank, German prisoners prepare to move on after surrendering themselves to Allied forces in North Africa. A short time later all organized enemy resistance had ceased in all sectors, and an estimated total of 150,000 German and Italian troops had been taken prisoner, together with their commander, Col. Gen. Juergcn Von Arnlm. Vast quantities of guns and war material of all kinds were captured. Wash Day on Amchitka Island The only washing machine on Amchitka Island—our newly acquired Aleutian island base—gets a rush of work, and not only on Monday. Gathered around, washing, helping and kibitzing are, left to right, Paul Duale, Warrensville, Ohio; Albert Kordyak, Chicago, III.; John Wilson, Baltimore, Md.; Emerson Eagleton, Cleveland, Ohio; and Anthony Sal vatorieldo, Newark, N. J. F. D. R., Churchill, Plan Final Victory With the trumpets of the great Allied victory in Tunisia still rever berating around the world, Winston Churchill, Great Britain’s prime min* ister, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, met once more in Washington U further plan the “unconditional surrender" mapped out for the enemy. This was the first meeting of the two leaders since the historic conference at Casablanca. Shown at left Is the President, and, at right, Winston Churchill, with his inevitable black cigar. Quints Hold Center of Stage in Launching Eighty thousand spectators packed the huge Butler shipyards at Su perior, Wis., to witness the floating of five brand-new Allied vessels—and also the Dionne Quints* first appearance on American soil. The Quints, who acted as sponsors, are shown before a V. S. immigration officer. Best of Care Primary concern of medical corps men aboard every navy ship is the life and health of shipmates. From the instant a man fails until he is borne ashore he gets the best of care that science can provide. This ma rine, wounded in a raid, is being carefully removed from a subma rine hatch. Vitamins for Victory Bobby Zavattaro. five - year - old husky who was crowned "child health king" in New York, has taken to farming. Here he Is shown work ing on his plot (in soil box) on the roof of the Children’s Aid Society building, where some 20 children are raising vegetables for vitamins and victory. Joan Culeton, four, lends a helping hand. It Will Be ‘Cooler’ Fear of cooling ofT in the “cooler" fills the face of cight-year-old Eddie Conlan as he looks up into the im posing figure of the law. A temper ature of 85 in New York prompted Eddie to cool off in the East river, but alas, the law put an end to that cooling thought. T. R. Wins Honors Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt makes his way through a slit trench, somewhere in North Africa. The general and his son were both cited for gallantry by the war de partment. i I 1 Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE Margaret sulla VAN’S willingness to re-' turn to the screen in order to kplay “Smitty” in “Cry Ha voc” indicates that the pic ture will really be something special. Absent from pic tures since she made “Back Street," in 1841, she's resisted all efforts to lure her in front of the cameras. Merle Oberon gave illness as a reason for resigning from the MARGARET SULLA VAN role. Joan Crawford left the cast because this would have been her third successive war picture, and she felt that the role assigned her wasn't satisfactory. -* Hollywood’s best oriental actors flatly refused to portray Japanese soldiers, so Director Richard Wal lace got the Japs for major and minor roles in "Bombardier” out of the make-up box. RKO faces the same problem in "Behind the Ris ing Sun.” -* Fred Giermann, character actor, has an odd reason for wanting the war to end. "I haven't been out of a Nazi uniform as an actor for the last seven months,” he explains. "Five Graves to Cairo,” with Fran chot Tone and Anne Baxter, is his latest. \t/ You’ll see most of the cast of that swell picture, “Casablanca,” la “The Conspirators”; Humphrey Bo gart, Paul Henreld, Sydney Greeu street and Helmut Dantlne all have leading roles. Ann Sheridan has the leading feminine role. -* Bill Stern, whose "News of the Day” newsreel is a favorite with moviegoers, is happy because now he can make predictions on the air. His NBC Sports Newsreel has been a Saturday feature, and he felt that even an expert couldn’t predict the outcome of the following Saturday’s games without sticking his chin out. Now he's broadcasting on Friday evenings, which is better. • ■ % Albert Parker was a noted direc tor, until he lost his eyesight seven years ago as a result of an auto mobile accident. Recently Director Frank Tuttle, shooting a street scene in Prague for “Hostages,’’ decided to use a blind man with a seeing-eye dog. He thought of his friend Park er, who thus, for a brief time, will once more take part in the making of a motion picture. Black-haired Mona Berle was the first extra hired by Producers Wil liams Pine and Thomas when they began making pictures for Para mount nearly three years ago. They’ve found a spot for her In every picture they’ve made since— currently she’s in “Tornado,” which stars Chester Morris and Nancy Kelly. “She’s good luck to us,” say the two Bills. -* Private Harry Keaton of Fort Greely, Alaska, thought that the pretty girl he asked to dance with him was one of the civilian nurses. Some time afterward he learned that she was Marjorie Reynolds, who’d danced with Fred Astaire in "Holly wood Inn” and teamed with Bing Crosby in “Dixie.” By that time Marjorie had moved on to the next camp in her Alaskan tour. _ii_ Sol Lesser, producer of "Stage Door Canteen," feels that the pub lic ought not to pay an extra pre mium for quality picture entertain ment, at least for the duration, ac cording to a recent announcement. So, although “Stage Door Canteen" could undoubtedly run on and on at advanced prices, if released only in key cities at first, and shown twice a day, it will be made available for general runs as soon as it is re leased. “This is a soldier’s love story,” says Mr. Lesser, “and it belongs to the public.” .■II -jM ODDS AND ENDS—Claudette Col bert spent her No. 17 shoe stamp on a pair of luggage tan pumps—said she chose them because they'd harmonize with any other color ... Dennis Day ex pects to leave on an overseas entertain ment lour the middle of June . . . "Those We Love” will move into the air spot vacated by Jack Benny’s pro gram for the summer; the last Benny broadcast will be May 30 . . . When Marguerite Chapman mo* a telephone operator, in her pre-movie days, her “employment number” teas 206; now I hat she’s starring in Columbia’s "Ap pointment in Berlin’’ u’ith George San der*, her dressing room is—206!
