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...Marine hero of the Tarawa battle was Siwash, an artillery battalion's mascot. Siwash is a duck. Landing with his outfit, Siwash spent 36 hours under fire, in the first 15 minutes of his invasion beat the stuffing out of a Jap rooster, attacked and routed a shell-shocked Jap pig. Siwash showed no battle strain...
Arpad is the last word in newspaper birds. He cavorts in the New York World-Telegram's weather stories, has become one of the big town's richest chuckles. A happy combination of oaf and genius, he is a blithe and silly little rooster, and the stories in which he appears have a cock eyed quality and an underlying mood of ennui. Samples...
Animal Kingdom. In Dallas, Mrs. J. E. Britton discovered a wolf asleep on her porch swing. In Los Angeles, Councilman Harold Harby invented a device to keep roosters from crowing by making it impossible for them to stretch their necks; when he tried it on a rooster, he found that it changed the crowing into a wail. In Clarendon, Tex., Mrs. Don Grady, fixing a chicken for dinner, discovered inside it a diamond she had lost four months be fore...
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King won a major political victory in Canada last week. The Liberal Party in Ontario, Canada's richest and most populous province, designated rooster-beaked Harry Corwin Nixon, an all-out King man, as Party leader and the next Premier of Ontario...
Dead Bird. In Portland, Ore., Harold M. Flick removed 27 brass cartridges from a rooster, sat down to a chicken dinner...