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Happy Thanksgi"ing?

WELL, it's Thanksgiving again. Maybe we won't have the flavorful turkeys we are accus-tomed to thinking of when Thanksgiving comes around, but the chances are we'll all getalong pretty well and get up from the table feeling fine

In a thousand different localities the world over, however, the boys on Our fightingfronts are not going to have so happy a Thanksgiving. Some of these boys have been awayfor only a few months; many have missed one Thanksgiving and quite a few have missedtwo or more. They sit around their radios (when they have one) and listen to the heart-warming speeches .of the morale builders back home. who pay their respects at this festiveholiday period.

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One good thing about it is that the boys are getting enough to eat, but that's about asmuch as you can say for it. What they want and what they deserve is a chance to get backhome again and enioy the fruits of peacetime. They are out there giving everything they1,ave, at darned little pay, to get this thing over with. .

It isn't going to be a happy Thanksgiving for several million boyS and men (and girls, _too) in service. Let's give th~nks at this Thal'lksgiviftg time for the fact that they are all in •there pitching to preserve a decent way of life for us. And let's resolve, while we're at it,that this will be the last Thanksgiving that these fighters will have to be away from home.

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In This Issue:

PREPARINC OR·EFOR THE I. Q. TEST__4

When ore is shipped into the Smelter atAnaconda, it's important to know justwhat metals are hidden in it. So samplesare taken of the ore from departments allover the Hill and brought into the Labora-tory Sample Mill. There fhe ore is pre-pared for the laboratory; where a com-plete analysis is made of it.

UNDERCROUND L1CHTS 6

It's up to the Lamp Repair Shop in Butteto keep "lights on" for the boys workingunderground, mining the vital ore forUncle Sam. Every miner must have anelectric cap lamp before going under-ground. When the shift is finished, thelamps are turned in at the lamp house tobe charged. But if there's anythingwrong, to the Lamp Repair Shop they aresent for a complete going-over.

PEOPLES AND PLACES 8

George Hackett, general foreman of theCottrell Treaters, has an office on thehighest point of the Hill at Anaconda.His office is right up there by the bigstack. He has a hobby that to us wasbrand new-it is raising champion grey-hounds. If you want to know how to winat the dog races, read this story ofGeorge's, which gives the dope on how toraise a champion.

TIMEKEEPERS AT GREAT FALLS 10

The boys in the Low Line Time Office inGreat Falls are a satisfied group. Theyhave good "time" records of their own ..O. J. Maguire, chief timekeeper, has beenfiguring pay rolls for the past thi rty years.Then there's a twenty-three years' record,as well as a twelve-year one. That's in anoffice of four men. Here's the story tell-ing what they do and how they do it.

BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS 12

The annual call in the drive to stamp outtuberculosis is now being made. In Butte,in Anaconda, at Great Falls and in EastHelena, workers in this vast industry areasked to help. Your dollars, contributedto this great cause, will save lives.

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"SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC" war dogs are used to guard the shores of the out-posts. The natural instincts have shown them to be able to detect unusual thingsbefore.human beings sense anything out of the ordinary. Trainers and keepers ofthe war dogs assert that a well-trained dog has in many instances done a better jobof guarding than a human sentry. There are two kinds of vicious watch dogs. At-tack dogs, taught to disarm men, and warning dogs. taught to give the alarm bybarking loudly and growling at anything unusual. Eleven war dogs do the work for-merly done by fifteen beach patrolmen. Ivan Hamilton, well-known Butte Marine,recently left the States for the South Pacific Islands with twenty-four trained dogssimilar to the one in the above photograph.

COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaper of the Victory Labor-ManagementProduction Committees of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and its UnionRepresentatives at Butte, Anaconda, East Helena and Great Falls, Montana. It isissued every two weeks ... COPPER COMMANDO is headed by a joint committeefrom Labor and Management; its policies are shaped by both sides and are ,dictatedby neither ... COPPER COMMANDO was established at the recommendation ofthe War Department with the concurrence of the War Production Board. Its edi-tors are Bob Newcomb and Marg Sammons; its safety editor is John L. Boardman;its chief photographer is AI Gusdorf; its staff photographer is Les Bishop ... ItsEditorial Board consists of: Denis McCarthy. CIO; John F. Bird, AFL; Ed Renouard,ACM, from Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO; Joe Marick, AFL; C. A. Lemmon, ACM, fromAnaconda; Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL, and E. S. Bardwell, ACM. fromGreat Falls ... COPPER COMMANDO is mailed to the home of every employe ofACM in the four locations--if you are not receiving your copy advise COPPER COM-MANDO at 112 Hamilton Street, Butte, or, better still, drop in and tell us. This isVolume 2, No.7.

THE FRONT COVER: Ensign Rosemary Davis, thefront cover Butte pin-up Navy nurse, is the daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Selwyn Davis of 2301 Maple Street, Butte. Rose-mary's father is a miner at the Anselmo. Rosemary gradu-ated from the Butte High School and had her nurse's train-ing at the Columbus Hospital, Creat Falls. Upon finish-ing her training, she joined the staff at the Murray Hospital,

Butte. So maybe you've not only seen her, but perhapsshe has been the One to give you the shot in the arm when youneeded it. Rosemary enlisted as :i Navy nurse eighteen monthsago, but was not called until November 4, 1942. After eightmonths' training in California. she sailed for the South Pacificand has been there since July, 1943. She's doing her share forUncle Sam.

Preparing Ore for the I. Q. TestBefore the samples of ore can be sent to the Laboratory, samples from all over theHill are brought into the Laboratory Sample Mill. Th~re the ore is weighed, dried,ground. screened, rolled and bagged. Tb e bagged sample is then sent to the Labo- ...ratory for analysis. Duplicate samples are stored at the Sample Mill, for there'smany a time that additional samples are needed.

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SAMPLES of ore are brought in from anover the Hill to the Laboratory SampleMill at Anaconda. They come from thezinc and copper concentrators, the millroasters No. 1 and 2, manganese flota-tion, zinc leach, phosphate, reverberatoryand converter furnaces, arsenic roaster.slag disposal, and from all custom mate-rial which comes into the Smelter from.small mines and metal reserve ore. Theboys from the Sample Mill collect thesamples and bring them in in pails ..

That's George Spurlock in the oppo-site p~ upper left shot. bringing in col-lected samples from zinc cars with theaid of a "neck yoke." In the oppositepage lower picture Gus Peterson, fore-man, is checking in samples deliveredby Pat Skelton, a truck driver at thegarage. Pat had collected samples ofphosphate, lime rock. some zinc and acidplant samples. Gus, who has been in theMill since 1903, checks the samples forthe lot numbers for it's up to him to keepthe books straight as to the lot numberand the source of the sample. Those pansto the left of Gus are used for drying thesamples in the steam dryer. First, though,before they are dried, they are weighedas shown in the upper right picture oppo-site page with Jimmie Sanders and TedTrerise. Ted is weighing in the sample bygrams for moisture. If you look closely,you can see the pan into which the orehas been emptied. After weighing it isdried in a steam dryer before it is ground.Some samples contain fifty per cent mois-ture and it requires from twenty-four toforty-eight hours to dry it out. Ted helpsin the office with the records, but alwayscomes out for the weighing, for he fig-ures the moisture weight of all samples.

After the ore has been dried, it isground fine enough to go through a screenfrom sixty to two hundred mesh, depend-ing upon the sample. That's GeorgeSpurlock at the grinder in the upper pic-ture. There's a- cone inside the bellgrinder and the ground sample dropsdown to the pan in the bottom and isremoved. This ground ore is then putthrough a screen by shaking it by handand is rolled on the rolling cloth as HansHansen is doing in the middle picture so~s to make the sample uniform.· Whenthe assayer takes out any part for a sam-p:e, it 'will be uniform throughout.

After it is thoroughly mixed, it is putinto a sample bag and is ready for theLaboratory. Each bag contains approxi-mately 300 grams-there are approxi-mately 452 grams to a pound. The sam-ple bag shows the lot number to simplifygetting additional samples from the store-room for future use. Then the date ismarked, the car number from which thesample came, the section, moisture andinstructions to assay and analyze for aspecified department for gold, silver, zinc.copper, etc. One sample bag is then sentto the Laboratory and the other samplesare stored.

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Any of the boys working undergroundcan tell you how important it is to havetheir lamps working at all times. FaG_tisthey would!, 't be able to do much byway of keeping the vital ore rolling to-ward the Firing Line without light fur-nished by the lamps. Credit goes to theLamp Repair Shop, which is down in onecorner of the Butte Mines' Electric Shop,for keeping the lamps burning and theore rolling. /'

•WITH the boys worki ng undergroundit's a must that the light on their protec-tive hats be in working order at all times.How do they keep "lights on" under-ground? It's fairly simple. The lampfits into a socket on the hat and thenthere is a cord which connects the lampwith the battery, which is strapped tothe miner's belt. In the lower picture

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teries are charged for six and a half hoursand give the best possible lighting forunderground work.

Every miner must have an electriccap lamp before - going underground.There are charging racks in the lamphouse at each mine. When the shift isfinished, the lamps are turned in at thelamp house and the crew at the lamphouse puts them in the charging rack.After the SIX and one-half hours which itrequires to charge the batteries, they aretaken off the rack and put on benches sothe miners can pick them up as they goby the bench on thei r way underground.There are between seven and eight thou-sand lamps and batteries used in themines around Butte. A battery will lastyears, usually. ·But every now and thensomething goes haywire either with thebattery or the lamp and then's when theyare sent into the Lamp Repair Shop.

Walter Backus. shown in the upperpicture opposite page with a partly dis-sembled head lamp without a cover, show-ing the watch-like parts, usually does allthe lamp repair work himself. Occasion-ally, though, he has a helper if they startpiling up on him. Between two and threehundred lamps are brought in each monthfor repair and it takes from one to twohours for each. There are seventeenparts in the head piece and it must becompletely dismantled and each part ex-amined: worn or broken parts replaced;cleaned and reassembled before it can bereturned with the cords to the mine.

In the upper picture Walter Backusis repairing the battery used to> furnishthe power for the· light which enablesthe miner to mine the ore. The battery ischecked to see if cells need to be re-placed or any parts are broken. The cellis taken out of the container and a man-drel (that's a tool used for straighteningbent containers) is put in the container.Of course, if the container isn't bent itisn't used. Each container has three cellsin it. The unit slips inside the steel casewhich holds the three cells. In the pic-ture Walter is taking the connection offthe cell so that the cell can be removedfrom the case. The coffee pot showncontains a compound for covering thewires in the cover of the container afterit has been repaired. which more or lesscements it and protects it from moistureand solution of the battery.

After the cells have been complete-ly repaired it is necessary to charge andtest them. The cords connecting thehead piece and the battery are connectedto the battery and in the lower pictureWalter is making a connection on theclips at the back of the charging rack, forcharging.

All parts are checked. replaced orrepaired. When everything is· in goodworking order, they are returned to themines ready again to furnish the lightwith which to get out the vital ore,

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LET'S KEEP GOING

A LTHOUGH some of the skeptics arelooking down their noses at the prospectof international co-operation, the fact ofthe matter is that the Moscow conferenceconferred upon the American people aright and privilege to share with some ofour fighting Allies the responsibility ofshaping an enduring peace. We sort offumbled the ball th~ last time through ourfailure to tidy up the battlefields after'the fracas was over. We were so busy;ebuilding our own little sideshow thatwe paid little heed to the fact that a pa-per hanger named Hitler was hatching aplot which, a generation later, wouldthrow the world into another war.

We let this whole business developright under our eyes, and the result ofthat folly has been that many of our boyshave' already died on battlefronts, andmany more will die before this thing is allsettled. A school boy should be able toread into this whole business the moralthat it must never happen again.

Meanwhile we have a job to do.Meanwhile, although the signs look a'lit-tie better in Continental Europe, we havea terrible foe to beat in the Pacific. Weare taking him step by step, not leap byleap. We are recapturing territory whichthe Japs took from us. We are not yeton the full offensive. Nobody can callthe Pacific scene serene until we haver.etaken all the islands which they wrestedfrom us with lightning-like strokes. Wewon't have won anything until we batterthe little slant-eyed boys back to theirhome grounds and then put a ring aroundthem so tight that they can never escapefrom it again.

We sing to ourselves lullabies ofcontentment. We indulge in the happythought that, because of recent events,this war is in the bag. It isn't.

Winning the war imposes upon allof us ~he obligation to work, side by side,without doubt or suspicion, with our Al-lies. The greatest favor we can do Hitlerand Tojo is to permit ourselves to doubtthe mot.ves of the people who are fight-ing the same cause that we are. And,after it is all over, we are going to haveto carry our fal'r share of the burden inseeing that the peace is maintained.That's post-war planning..8.

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THAT'S George Hackett, general fore-man of the Cottrell Treaters, in the pic-ture below. His office is located on thehighest point of the Hill at Anaconda-right up there by the big stack. At timesthe wind blows 88 miles an hour at this5,870 foot above sea level spot. Allweather reports are taken at the bigstack, so George can tell you about theweather most any time. He says, "Some-times it will be six degrees warmer atthis high' spot than down below."

You can't talk to George long with-out hearing about hi~ dogs. He raisedthe champion greyhound of the U. S. forfour successive years. These four dogsraced in Boston, Miami, Chicago. SanFrancisco in 1936. 1937, 1938 and 1939.He had dogs racing-in Portland; Oregon,the day we were up to see him. Rightnow-he owns a dozen, but he has ownedas high as twenty-five. He says: "Whenthe dogs started racing in Butte, I be-came interested, but the war has slowedme down."

George says, "You feed a racer twopounds of beef a day. And they don'trun as good on horse ;;-eat, either. Racersget one quart of pasteurized milk and twofresh 'raw eggs for breakfast. The dogsare given the beef at seven o'clock in theevening. unless they are racing, and thenthey are fed after the race."

George was born in New York City,and worked in the East for Westi nghouseElectric and Manufacturing Company fornine years prior to 1916, but in that yearhe stopped off in Butte on his way to at-tend an Elks' convention. He came over

to Anaconda to see a friend 'and heard ofa job opening at the Cottrell Treaters. Hesays, "So I've stayed with it ever since."The Cottrell Treaters extract the metalsand arsenic from the gas as it goes outthe stack. There are sixty-nine menworking at the Cottrell Treaters on theHill and they all have a good word forGeorge.

THANKS, ·MR. DANIELS

The other day we had a letter from R. J.Daniels at Anaconda, in which he statedthat R. C. Daniels, 1st class P. O. U. S.Navy, arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, fromCasablanca and two copies of COPPER.COMMANDO were waiting for him. Mr.Daniels stated: "He got quite a kick outof them and passed them on to his ship-mates to look through. He would havethanked you himself, but had to leaveag~in almost immediately. Thank you."And we thank you, Mr. Daniels, for writ-ing us.

WE'RE PLUGGING FOR HIM, TOOThe other day Mrs. Adeline Butori ofMeaderville came in with a song entitled"He's a Copper Commando." The songhas been published, so listen for it overthe air. It goes like this: "What wouldUncle Sam do if the COPPER COMMAN-DO fell through? For the rock he drillssupplies the war with everything fromnuts to trucks. He's a COPPER COM-MANDO who drills, drills, drills, deepdown in the ground. He wears no eecD-.rative rigs, but to watch his stride isquite all right, He's the guy behind thefiring line. He's the COPPER COM-MANDO."

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Butte, November 22SHORTLY after the attack on Pearl Har-bor. the President, along with a lot ofother people. sensed the urgent need forlabor and management puning togetherin the interest of war production. He .assigned to Donald M. Nelson, head ofthe War Production Board, the heavy re-sponsibility of enlisting the co-operationof these two factions in the interest ofgetting the war won.

It was a terrific. assignment, because..we were not ready for war production.The automobile factory w,hich yesterdaywas turning out streamlined, chrome-plated sports models, was suddenlycharged with the staggering responsibil-ity of turning out planes and tanks andguns. The automobile dies were putaside. New machinery was wheeled in.New buildings sprang up. The wholeproduction tempo of the country wasvastly increased.

Where production was effective,labor and management had joined togeth-er in a common resolve to win this warand to bring back the boys-sons of man-agement and Sons of labor alike.

At War Production Drive Headquar-ters in Washington, which is the placefrom which the activities of nearly 3.000Labor-Management Committees are di-rected. there is now an interesting stir.It has become apparent that many organ-izations which have tried and proven thevalue of Labor-Management Committeeswish to have them continue after the waris over. As one labor man remarked, "Ifthis whole idea of'labor and managementpulling together works in a time of war,there isn't any reason why it should", 'twork in a time of peace!' In other words,if we can understand each other a littlebetter and make a conscientious effort tosee the other fellow's side, everybodystands to benefit.

One thing is mighty sure: The endof the war is going to pose problems as .great as this country has ever faced.Cranted that the war itself posed stag-gering problems. but they are pretty smallcompared to what must be done after the

/ war is won.

If labor and management dissolvethe unity that in so many cases has exist-ed for the period of the war, then therecan be little hope for anybody on eitherside.

The principle of labor-managementco-operation is helping to win the war. Itcan also help secure the peace.

BOB NEWCO~B

NOVEMBER 26. 1943

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RelD.eDlberPearl Harbor!I T WILL be two years ago on December 7 that Japan pulled its great sneak punchon Pearl Harbor. Most of us were sitting around our houses or off hunting or other-wise enjoying peacetime pursuits, when hundreds and hundreds of our -boys wereneedlessly slaughtered in the greatest stab-in-the-back operation in the world'shistory.

Every once in a while we are inclined to forget that bloody event. In the pic-ture at the top, one of the greatest taken in the period of the war, the magazine ofthe U. S. S. Shaw is seen at the very second it exploded, following an attack by a Japdive bomber. It took months and months for this country to pull itself together butwe started, fortunately. right away. In the picture below we get some evidence ofthe fact that Japan will never be able to pull a sneak punch on the Hawaiians again.That's a four-inch railway gun in action taken a year and a half later when Pearl Har-bor had been set in repair and most of the ships there had been recommissioned andsent off to do battle with the Japs. Altho ugh figures are a military secret, todayPearl Harbor and the Hawaiians are ready for the little yellow men.

You producers of copper and other essential metals didn't have anything to dowith the picture at the top. But you had a whole lot to do with the picture at thebottom because the copper and other metals you have produced are in every singlefortification at Pearl Harbor today.

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TIMEKEEPERSAT

GREAT FALLS

•il"here's something about the TimeOffice at ereat Falls that the boysseem to like. O. J. Maguire, chieftimekeeper, has been figuring outpay rolls for the past thirty years.Claude Chenoweth has been assist-ant chief timekeeper for the pastten years and was in the office twoyears prior to his promotion. ArtLandgren holds a twenty.three yearrecord.

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THE Time Office at Great Falls con-sists of three offices: Tlie Low line Of-fice, the Refinery Time Office and theZinc Plant Time Office. Thirteen menare employed to keep track of the timefor the men on the Hill. Weekly timecards are prepared for the daily workerswho check in and out on the time clocksdaily. The time worked and the dailywage are recorded on each card.

Distribution sheets are made outdaily, too, for the various departmentsand these show what account numbersare to be charged with the workers' time.

At the end of each week these cardsare footed, extended and balanced withthe figures as recorded on the distribu-tion sheets. The workers" ca rds a re thenturned over to the Machine Room forpayroll make-up and payroll checks cover-ing the period of time worked.

In the Time Office a service card isprepared for each individual who is em-ployed. This card records informationtaken from his application for employ-ment and is kept on file until the indi-vidual leaves the employment of theCompany. After the leaving date is en-tered, the card is filed with the "out-of-service" records. That's the way' thetime on the Hill at Great Falls is handled.Some errors are made by the boys butthey are to be complimented for the finejob they do. It requires a lot of figuringto keep track of the different rates ofpay, overtime, and hours worked forsome sixteen hundred individuals.

Let's take a look at the boys in theLow line Time Office in the pictureabove. It's the main time office and therecords from the other two offices arebrought over for consolidation. That'sArt Landgren using the phone. GeorgeMontgomery, the moving picture star, isArt's brother-in-law. You'd never knowit from Art though for he's too modestto talk about it. When we pinned himdown, he did tell us that Mr. Montgom-ery has a ranch in Montana which Artenjoys visiting. Fact is, managing thatranch is probably the one thing thatwould be sufficient inducement to getArt to leave the Timekeepers' Office.

Claude Chenoweth, operating theadding machine to the right in the pictureabove, has been around the Great Fallsplant fQr eighteen years. Claude has fourchildren, two boys and two girls. He likesto golf. garden. bowl and fish. He says"anything to be outdoors."

Chief timekeeper, O. J. Maguire, isthe father of five--one of his daughtersis a Navy nurse and his only son is in theNavy-so Mr. Maguire is mighty anxiousto get this war won, so he can get his fam-ily together again. That's Mr. Maguireseated on the table checking an addingmachine tape. .

Eddie Hanson, operating the electricadding machine to the left, is the newestman in the office. Eddie joined the tim""-keepers in August. 1942, but is quick totell you how much he likes the ~/ork andwhat a "swell" bunch the fellows are .

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NEWS FRONTSOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTHWESTPACIFIC - (Delayed) - Private FirstClass Lowell Vanstane Frye, 26, of 2003Argyle Street, Butte. Montana, a Marinemachine-gunner on Cuadalcanal, becamea bridegroom today.#/' The former Anaconda Min ing Com-

pany employe, who worked for the con-·cern at Butte, married Miss Joan Baldwin.after a romance that began shortly afterMarines arrived here to rest after thestrenuous Solomons campaign.

"We decided to get married now,"said Private First Class Frye, "because I'mdue to be sent back to the United Statessoon for advanced malaria treatments."

The tropical disease' was the onlymisfortune the Marine experienced be-tween August and February while servingat Tulagi and Guadalcanal.

"I'm going to be all right," he said,"and as soon as the :-var's over, Joan iscoming to the States and I'm going backto work at Anaconda. It

Before he enlisted, eight days afterPearl Harbor, Private First Class Frye re-paired track, mined. and ran a motor atAnaconda. His father, A. C. Frye, for-merly an Anaconda steam engineer, hismother. and a brother, Harold, 13, liveat home, while his sister is the wife ofanother Anaconda man, Sidney Hoar, ofColorado Street, Butte.

The Marine tersely summed up hismost vivid Guadalcanal impression by de-claring:

"The nights were too long. Every-body would just sit around and wait fordaylight. Then we'd start blasting theJaps to a fare-thee-well with everythingwe had:'

In the past when Private First ClassFrye hasn't been away from the camp on"liberty" courting his new bride, he hasattended "all the movies" shown here.

"You have to be a serviceman to ap-preciate what they can do for your mo-rale," he says.

A graduate, in 1936, of Butte HighSchool, Private First Class Frye reportedthat he had come across only three for-mer home town buddies since he left theStates for the Solomons.

"They were Ray O'Neil and Earl Cal-lahan, both one-time Anaconda men, andanother fellow, Joe Marshall." he said."They're all Marines. Callahan and Mar-shal! are back home now."

•A lapel button originally conceived byGeneral John J. Pershing as a means ofidentifying the wearer as having had mi li-tary service is being produced by theQuartermaster Corps for distribution tohonorably discharged soldiers throughheadquarters of the nine Army Service.Cor.nmands. It is a small button fabri-cated in plastic with a gold plating, sur-mounted by a dexter eagle, perched with-in a circle, with spread wings extendingover the edge of the circle.

NOVEMBER 26, 1943

W FRE wandering a little afield thistime to show you two of the ~en fromthe Office of War Information in Wash-ingtorr who really make the news hum.The man at the left is Sutherland Denlin-ger, affectionately known as "Speed"-he is rated one of the greatest living news-paper men. When the war started, hegave up a high-salaried post on the news-paper P. M. in New York--he had previ-ously been a special writer for the World-Telegram there-:-and hustled to Wash-ington to do what he could to help winthe war. He took a salary about one-fifthof what he had been making in privateindustry and went to work to set up aneffective news bureau. '~Speed" has nowleft the Washington office of OWl to gointo the Overseas Service-when we lastheard from him he was in North Africa,weeding out the straiaht news from thepropaganda ..

Over there at the right is Phil Stitt,chief of the Business Press Section of theOffice of War Information. Phil, wholike "Speed" gave up a lucrative job inNew York as the editor-in-chief of theAmerican Printer. went down to Wash-ington and soon became known as one ofthe 'most ski IIful and deoendable pro-ducers at the capital. COPPER COM-MANDO turns often to Phil Stitt forchecking facts in war stories, for provid-ing us with photographs. for engineeringus to the proper peonle when we returnto Washington to obtain stories for ourlabor-management newspaper.

There is a good deal of talk about thegross waste by the Office of War Infor-mation and the stories occasionally flitabout that the boys .there don't knowtheir jobs. Take it from an old-line news-paper man, the OWl by and large has thefinest gathering of trained newspapermen ever assembled under one roof.

NAVY CRUMMAN "HELLCAT"THE Navy has "unveiled" its newest com-bat plane. Product of lessons learned inthe Pacific war, the Grumman "Hellcat"fighter went into action for the first timein the Naval task force raid on [ap-heldMarcus island on September 1.

In a sense, the "Hellcat" is the Na-val Aviator's own airplane, inasmuch asit incorporates the combined experienceof Navy flyers gained in the Pacific war.After the Japanese assault on Pearl Har-bor, the Navy's pilots were faced withthe necessity of fighting the superior Jap-anese air strength with what they had,namely, the Grumman "Wildcat." Thevaunted Jap Zero held the advantage ofclimb and maneuverability. The "Wild-cat," however, had heavier firepower,was better armored and had leakproofgas tanks. .

Utilizil")g the advantages they had,Navy flyers developed tactics which havepermitted them to build up a solid five-to-one victory ratio over the Jap. Never-theless, they wanted and needed a big-ger, faster. harder-hitting plane. As lieu-tenant Commander Edward H. (Butch)O'Hare, USN, hero of the Coral Sea bat-tle, put it when President Roosevelt afterpresenting him with the CongressionalMedal of Honor, asked what kind offighter plane was needed to beat the Jap:

"Something that will go upstairsfaster."

The "Hellcat" inherits all of thegood qualities of its predecessor, the"Wildcat," and adds many more-in-creased range. speed, climb. maneuver-ability and altitude capacity.

•ENOUGH equipment on time can helpcut down battlefront casualties! To datetotal casualties-killed, wounded, miss-ing and prisoners of war-l 05,205. Thatis almost 5,000 casualties each month, orabout 165 casualties every day.

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B ECINNINC on Thanksgiving Day and extending through Christmas, the 'drive forChristmas Seal sales will be carried on. All of us know that this fight against the greatestkiller of all communicable diseases-tuberculosis-must go on, year in and year'out, if pre-cious lives are to be saved. In Butte, Anaconda and Creat Falls, we hope this drive will pro-ceed with greater vigor than ever before. When you stop to think that Selective Servicehas turned up 383 cases of tuberculosis among drafted boys in Montana who' have been re-jected, you begin to get an idea of how grave this problem is.

The various Tuberculosis~Associations a re co-operating with the thirty-seventh an-nual Christmas Seal sale. These groups need your support, f,orthey perform a fine servicein the community without charge. Every dollar you invest in Christmas Seals is turnedback into the effort to stamp out this dread disease. In the past year, for example, the Sil-ver Bow Tuberculosis Association made 810 X-rays, of which 677 were adults and 133children. It gave 961 Mantoux tests, 638 for adults and 323 for children. The society'snurse made 1,137 home visits. Every penny of the cost of this work was paid for out of thelocal Seal sale fund.

It is up to all of us to get behind this drive. Many lives have been saved through thefree services of our county association, and th is fine work must be carried on next year. Buyas many stamps as you can.

If you are in Silver Bow County, make your check payable to Frank L. Harrington,treasurer, Silv~r Bow Tuberculosis Association, Silver BowCounty Courthouse, Butte. DeerLodge County residents should make their checks payable to Mrs. John E. McBride, Ladies'Auxiliary, American Legion, Anaconda. If you are a resident of Cascade. County send yo~rcheck, for whatever you can spare, to Don Cibson, Cascade County Tuberculosis SealDrive, Creat Falls.

Some day you yourself, or a frie,nd or a member of your family, may need this great,free service which these associations provide. By investing in Christmas Seals now, you ar.econtributing to the welfare of someone you may know. Montana has never failed to sup-port this fine work. Let's make 1943 a banner year!

BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS!