The ORD news [August 18, 1944]

              1060TH AAF
BASE UNIT THE ORD HE WS FORMERLY
BTC 10-SHUN
VOL. NO. 3. NO. 15. Greensboro, N. C, Friday, August 18, 1944. FREE DISTRIBUTION
Just Before They Took Off For Wichita
THE TECH-HAWKS' COACH, Capt. Ralph W.
Erickson, receives the best wishes of Col. John K.
Nissiey, commanding officer, as players mill around.
Athletes, left to right, are 1st Lt. Jim Castiglia, Pfc.
Jim Halperin, S/Sgt. Joe Monahan, Sgt. Grady Hat-ton,
Pfc. Barney DeForge, S/Sgt. Tee Frye, Sgt.
Charley Herrel, Pvt. Lee Gamble, S/Sgt. Gene Kess-ler
and S/Sgt. Hal Grosman.
Tech-Haivks Win Easily In Opener
Of Wichita Semi-Pro Tournament
Victory Over Grand Island Team
Puts ORD Outfit I n Favored Bracket
Off to a good begining in the national semi-pro base­ball
tournament at Wichita, Kans., the ORD Tech-Hawks,
post team representing the state of North Carolina, were
in a position to move into the upper brackets with one
more impressive victory in this 25-team derby.
The Hawks opened up Wednes- and Charley merely mopped up for
day afternoon with an easy 7-2 de­cision
over the Nebraska Army Air
Ease team at Grand Island.
Last night as ORD News went to
press they were slated to meet a
second opponent, Fdrt Custer, Mich.,
and if they could win this one, they
were to move up against the Eni-dairs
of Enid, Okla., Army Air Base,
runners-up in the 1943 tournament
next Sunday at 9 p. m., (EWT), in
one of the feature games of the
much-involved festivities.
The Hawks' debut at Wichita was
made on a soggy field that had
caused two postponements, and
meager reports trckling back from
the scene of the tournament said,
"Highly touted Tech-Hawks, consid­ered
among title contenders in pre-tournament
speculation, showed
little pep today."
That seems like an unfair obser­vation.
The Ha"wks couldn't have
won much more easily; the long
train ride and the repeated delays
must have taken some of the edge
off their play. Yet they came
through with an errorless game and
had it won, for all practical pur­poses,
by the end of the fifth in­ning,
when they were leading, 5-0.
Pfc. Barney DeForge, who has
been the Hawks' leading pitcher
this season a former rightnanded
curve bailer from Montreal, pitched
the first seven inings before retir­ing.
He gave up only five hits and
walked one batter.
The score was 7-1 when he gave
way to Sgt. Charley (Snow White)
Herrell, a veteran of 38 summers,
Travel Risk
Over 'Hump'
Is Reduced
ov g
Once the most dangerous airway
in the world, the ATC's air route
•aver the Hump between Assam and
~"ibina has become as safe as any
Bitary airline anywhere.
Eight months ago for a limited
_ eriod of time, a plane a day was
being lost over the Hump. Losses
now are but la fraction of the for­mer
total and; during May, only one
ATC transport was lost in actual
flight over the route.
. Several factors enter into the new
safety records. An elaborate radio
communications system has been
completed to aid planes; greater pi­lot
experience has been gained and
an improved weather warning and
forecasting system has been in­stalled.
Further elimination of bugs
from new transport planes has also
helped.
a couple of frames.
No reason was given for De-
Forge's retirement. Presumably, he
was being saved for later in the
tournament. Barney is actually a
relief specialist, and he may come
in useful in such a role in the more
intensive competition just ahead.
Frye Fans In First.
The Tech-Hawks almost had*the
first game put away in the first in­ning.
They had scored one run on
a walk to Pvt. Lee Gamble, S/Sgt.
Hal Grosman's sacrifice and 1st Lt.
Jim Castiglia's single with two out.
Sgt. Grady Hatton walked to fill
the bases, but S/Sgt. Tee Frye
fanned.
They made it 2-0 in the fourth.
Hatton again walked, and l\/e
forced him, racing to second on a
bad infield throw. From there, he
scored on DeForge's single.
Three more runs came across in
the fifth. Grosman led off with-a
single and Pvt. Buster Maynard, the
old Giant reinforcing the outfield,
walked. Then Sgt. Taft Wright, ex-
White Sox flychaser, doubled in a
run and Hatton—a veteran and
All-America selection in these
tournament games—singled in May­nard
and Wright.
Grand Island broke through for
its only run off DeForge in the
sixth, on a walk and two hits, but
the Tech-Hawks surged right back
with two more runs in the seventh
on hits by Frye and Monahan be­hind
a pair of walks. Monahan was
playing first base in place of S/Sgt.
Gene Keesler.
While the Hawks were winning
so decisively, the Kearns, Utah,
ORD, sister station to this installa­tion,
was absorbing a 10-7 licking
from the Sherman Field Flyers of
Fort Leavenworth, Kans. However
one defeat does not mean elimina­tion.
GREENSBORO. GRAND ISLAND
ab r h a ab r h a
Bowman,3b 4 1 3 1
Ortiz,2b 2 0 0 2
Groome.cf 4 0 10
Schletz^s 4 0 11
Carolan.lb 4 0 11
Charles,'h,c 4 0 11
Jones,lf 3 0 0 0
5 0 2 0 Nunam.'cr.rf 2 1 0 0
3 0 1 2 Triesch'n.p 3 0 12
10 0 1
10 0
3 1 14
2 1 10
4 2 2 0
4 111
2 0 12
5 1 12
Gamble,cf
Grosman, 2b
Maynard.rf
Wright.lf
Castiglia, c
Hatton,3b
Frye.ss
Monahan,lb
DeForge ,p
Herrel.p
Totals 33 7 10 12 Totals 30 2 8 8
Score by innings; R
Greensboro 100 130 200— 7
Grand Island 000 001 010— 2
E—Ortiz, Charlesworth. RBI—Hatton,
2: Castiglia, Wright, DeForge, Groome,
Frye, Monahan. 2B—Carolan, Wright,
SB—Grosman, 2; Bowman, Wright, Frye.
S—Grosman, Ortiz. DP—Frye and Mona­han;
Grosman and Frye. LOB—Greens­boro,
11; Grand Island, 5. BB—Off De-
Forge, 1; Trieschman, 9; Herrel, 4. SO
—By Trieschman, 4; Herrel, 1. H—Off
DeForge, 5 in 7; Herrel, 3 in 2. WP—
DeForge. LP—Trieschman. U—Fryback
and Montray,
Post Civilians
Orientated On
Efforts In War
Series one of ORD's recently ac­tivated
civilian personnel orien­tation
program is scheduled for
completion this afternoon.
Classes covering eight hours in
two one-half day periods are de­signed
to acquaint new employees
with the job they have to do and
just where their work as an in­dividual
fits into the war effort,
said G. M. Condit, training coordin-tor
of the Civilian Personnel
Office.
Those completing classes today
include all workers who have been
placed on governmental payrolls be­tween
July 1, 1944 and August *5.
Employees hired subsequently will
attend a series to begin near the
end of the month. The course will
be repeated at monthly intervals
for the benefit of those hired dur­ing
subsequent months. Those em­ployed
on the post before July 1
will not be required to attend the
classes.
Topics covered in the series in­clude
Organization and Explana­tion
of the Army and AFPDC and
Its Mission, Safeguarding Military
Information, Propaganda Analysis,
Safety Precautions, Civil Service
Policies, Civil Service Regulations,
Employee Relations and Nazism in
Action.
Japan Winning War
—Jap Soldiers Say
GUAM, — (CNS; — Civilian resi­dents
of Guam got a peculiar pic­ture
of the war from the Japs dur­ing
the Nipponese occupation of this
island.
One liberated Guam civilian told
Marines that the Japs said they had
captured the Hawaiian Islands,
sailed through the Panama Canal,
destroyed the U. S. Fleet and billet­ed
in Washington.
Ballot Applications
Go Out Wednesday
Voting Officers To See T h a t All Men
On Post Receive F o rm For Mailing
The first organized step to get ballots for all soldiers,
eligible to vote in the 1944 Presidential election, will be
taken on the post next week.
The official postcard application
United States War Ballot Commis-
Tonight At 9
VSO Tabloid
Revue Hits
Service Club
A talented miniature USO-camp
show troupe, which is on the blue
circuit, No. 74, comes to the post
for two performances tonight. It
plays the station hospital at 7:30
p. m., and the service club at 9.
Master of ceremonies is Harvey
Dunne, who not only does tricks
with billard balls, handkerchiefs
and eggs but is billed as the
kind of guy who will take off your
necktie and shirt when you least
expect it
The blues singer with this minia­ture
company is Trudy Chandler,
tall, slender, auburn-haired, who
has a nice voice, too. She has
played night clubs all over the
country.
Billie Duncan is the terspi-chorean,
a tap dancer who started
on the RKO theater circuit and
was far enough advanced to have
made a movie short for Warners.
George Schreck, who is self-styled
as a fugitive from a sym­phony
orchestra, is the eccentric
musician and pantomime comedian
—a la Harpo Marx—of the com­pany.
George has been in show
business for 35 years. In World
War I, he entertained servicemen
in Paris and witnessed the first
daylight raid over England.
The musical background — by
piano and accordian—will be fur­nished
by Anna DeLuca.
Approve 189 Mags
For Distribution
To Armed Forces
Washington.—(CNS)—The Army's
latest list of magazines approved
for sale in PXs and for distribu­tion
in the Army under the pro­vision
of the Soldier Vote Law has
just been released.
The list includes 189 magazines,
among them 39 comic books. Among
the publications absent from the list
are The New Republic, The Nation
and three Army publications—Hit
Kip, Overseas Comics and Intelli­gence
Bulletin.
Col. Robert Cutler, the Secre­tary
of War's administrator of all
matters arising from the Soldier
Vote Law, has .stated that publi­cations
excluded from the list were
not dropped because of their edi­torial
content but because the
troops expressed no preference for
them.
Flash! Nazis Give Up
Invasion Of England
France (CNS) — The Germans
no longer plan to invade England,
if that's news to anyone
Maps of England 'have been found
German Command posts here. I
On the backs of the maps are
printed fresh maps of the territory!
the Germans are now trying to de­fend
in France.
The Colonel's Column
Last Monday night I had the pleasure of attending the ball
game at Memorial Stadium and saw Section "C" win the Greens­boro
Invitational Softball tournament championship. It was the
neatest bit of ball playing that I have seen in many a day. It
had the old zing. They had the will to win. My sincerest congra­tulations
to Major Kane and every member of his command.
I had the honor of sitting in our team's dugout and watching
these men at close range. The thought that kept running through
my mind was that they are a cross section of Greensboro ORD
and that Greensboro ORD is a cross section of the AAF. Is it any
wonder then that the AAF is bad news to our enemies.
John K. ffissky
COLONEL, AIR CORPS,
COMMANDING.
sion Form No. 1—for state absentee
ballots will be distributed to each
officer and EM on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. ', V
Distribution will be made by the
voting officer and non-commis­sioned
officer in each Section. Men
on furlough or leave next week
will receive applications upon re­turn
to the post.
To make certain that all personnel
in each section—officer and EM, at­tached
and assigned — receive the
forms, voting officers are required
to check off names on the roster
as the applications are distributed.
The distribution record must then
be certified in triplicate by the of­ficer,
i.
Send Cards 'Air-Mail Free.'
Soldiers should fill out the forma
promptly, have them sworn to be­fore
the section voting officer or
any non-com above the rank of cor­poral,
and mail them not later than
August 31. They go to the secre­taries
of the soldiers' home states.
The postcard applications will be
given postal priority and will be
sent "air-mail free." It is up to the
individual to mail his own applica­tion.
USWBC Form No. 1 is the of­ficial
application for ballots in all
states except South Carolina where
a special letter must be used. How­ever,
there are 16 states, including
South Carolina, where additional
steps must be taken to insure re­ceipt
of the ballot. These 16 states
(listed below) require soldiers to
register for the election before the
ballots are sent out.
The special registration states are
Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisi­ana,
Maine, Mississippi, Montana,
New Jersey, North and South Da­kota,
South Carolina, West Vir­ginia
and Wisconsin.
If you resided in one of these
states before entering the service,
consult your unit voting officer on
the steps necessary to acquire a
ballot.
Eligibility Up To States.
In all other states, the USWBC
form will bring a ballot, provided
you are eligible to vote. Whether
you are eligible or not is for the in­dividual
states to decide. The Army
has no jurisdiction there. Its re­sponsibility
is to furnish the appli­cation.
State absentee ballots will be the
only ballots used this year by sol­diers
stationed inside the United
States. The Federal ballot has been
rejected by all states for use with­in
the country. Twenty states,
however, will accept the Federal
ballot from GIs overseas, who ap­plied
for but did not get a state
ballot by October 1.
Following is a list of the unit vot­ing
officers: Section A A, Lt. W. J.
Taylor, Jr.; Section A, 2nd Lt. Alick
Mitchell; Section B, Lt. E. C. Morin;
Section C, Maj. E. A. Kane; Section
D, Lt. M. L. Porter; Section E, Capt.
J. A. Heatherly; Section F, 2nd Lt.
E. J. DiGiovanni; Section H, Lt.
B. A. Wei-be; Section I Capt. H. L.
Lawson; Section K, Capt. W. A.
Jones; Section L, Capt. W. M.
Hampton; Section M, Capt. M. W.
Jacobson; Section N, Lt. C. Mc-
Geehan; Section O, Lt. H. E. Nor­man;
Section P, Capt. R. C. Adams;
Section Q, 2nd Lt. R. H. Loher; Sec­tion
R, Lt. M M. Radomsi; Section
T, Capt. T. D. Korte; Section U, 2nd
Lt. W. W. Hitchcock; Section V, Lt.
A. J. Sapecky; Section W, Capt. W.
C. Sowers; Section X, Capt. C. O.
Hackley; Bands, WOJGs F. E. Smith
and T. J. Nichols; Nurse detachment,
Capt. E. N. Johnson and Rifle Range,
Capt. Paine.
That Plane In Sky
Was Filming Post
GIs who craned their necks last
Saturday and wondered at the
gyrations of an airplane which per­sisted
in zooming hither and
thither over the post might be re­lieved
to know that its crew was
performing an official mission.
Through the courtesy of Seymour
Johnson Field authorities, 1st Lt.
B. B. Bright, pilot, and Cpl. John
Degnall, photographer, paid an of­ficial
aerial visit to the post to ob­tain
vertical and oblique aerial
photographs of the post. The
photos, made at the request of
ORD officials, are believed to be
the first aerial photographs over
taken of this post.