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...award of the highest medal in his power to give was announced by General MacArthur: the Distinguished Service Cross to Second Lieutenant Robert M. Wilde of Sioux City, Iowa-posthumously. In the fighting over New Guinea last May, when Japanese Zeros outclimbed, outmaneuvered and outnumbered U.S. Airacobras, Mike Wilde sat in the clouds, preparing to come in. He radioed that he had left only ten minutes' gasoline. Then he looked down, saw three Zeros on the tail of his flight commander. Although he had no gasoline for a fight, although his decision could mean only death, Wilde dived...
Death Rattle. A be-rationed Sioux City, Iowa citizen put his views in verse to the chairman of his ration board...
Three cadets were commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Army of the United States. They are Walther Barry, of Dorchester, Mass.; Ernest A. Jonkinson, of Sioux City, la.; and Robert W. Ryan, of Brookline, Mass...
...Weirdest hanging was that of 38 Sioux Indians, personally selected for hanging by President Lincoln. He believed that they were the most ferocious of 303 braves left alive by U.S. forces sent to catch the murderers of some 490 Minnesota men, women and children. Impassively the Indians listened to the prison chaplain, who "tried to infuse them with courage to hold out bravely and show no sign of fear. While Father Ravoux was speaking to them old Tazoo broke out in a death wail in which one after another joined until the prison room was filled with a wild, unearthly...
...year's sales. The National Automobile Dealers Association made a cross-country check of 9,000 local rationing boards, was shocked to find new-car sales even worse than most dealers figured. In the first 20-25 days of rationing, not a single new car was sold in Sioux Falls, S.D., Lewiston, Idaho, Council Bluffs, Iowa, many other towns. Big-city sales were little better. In New York City they were 9% of March quotas, Buffalo 3%, Omaha 2%, San Diego and Spokane 16%. The average dealer now sells only one or two cars for every 100 he sold...