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...Buffalo Bill," starring Maureen O'Hara, Joel McCrea, and Linda Darnell is the feature this week. It traces the life of "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a frontiersman, trapper, and Indian scout, and depicts his final rise to fame as the Buffalo Bill of the wild west show. There will be shows today at 1800 for the Naval Training Schools and at 2030 for the staff; also tomorrow and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The movies are not continuous...
Last week, near their cabin on Deadman's Creek, the bodies of two trapper-partners, Eugene Messmer, 33, and Hans Pfeuffer, 43, were found, lying in slushy surface ice. Both had been shot in the back. Guns, supplies and an estimated $4,000 worth of furs were missing...
...Draft. In Chicago, Dishwasher John Atkinson, picked up for being without a draft card, told the judge that he used to be a trapper, had once caught a skunk in one of his traps, had to burn his draft card as well as his clothes. In Detroit, Perry James Carter explained to the judge that he had ignored his induction notice because he felt it no longer concerned him, since he was "a different man" after receiving...
...picks his men for one chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands so that he is unable to strike...
...Rule 4. His wife, who was his college sweetheart, is handsome, alert, good-humored. She dresses smartly without inspiring envy, dabbles at painting and playing the piano, works earnestly as nurse's-aide chairman. Their twelve-year-old son is a personable youngster who yearns to be a trapper...