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Tit 03IG0XT STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon. Thursday Morning. November 11. 1313 PAGE TEN 4 ' i. - Johnny Doughboy Will Forget All But Unholy Sounds of War By KENNETH DIXON WITH THE AEF IN ITALY, Nov. 4 (Delayed) (JP) Long alter Johnny Doughboy has partially forgotten the bloody, bitter sights and filthy smells of war he'll wake up nights in a cold sweat when some stray backfire or siren snaps his subconscious mim back to a foxhole on the front. He doesn't write much about war's nasty noises in his letters home. It would worry the folks and besides it's hard to find words to describe the terrifying sounds f battle; they are just what he expected only ten million times worse. They have separate individual voices, these sounds the "screem- ing meemie, the shell whistle, the dive bomber's savage-whistle, .the mortars' muffled "whump,1 the machine guns' ripping rattle but they all speak the same dia lect of death. It's a language easy to learn and impossible to forget One of the most paralysing Is thm risinr pitch and crescendo of screaming thunder as the divebomber peels out of forma tion and bores down right at yea. Another In the same act is . the shrill scream of. the nn - leashed boaab itself. Ton may ever have heard it before bat, like the vicious bass of the rat tle snake, when it comes yon , know it the first time, nifht or day, and yoa throw yourself flat oa the ground or floor waiting tenselessly, endlessly, for the " blast. Then it blows and you're still okay. You're ashamed not of sour fear but of your relief for you know that, if it was close by. someone else probably got it. I have yet to meet the man who doesn't admit his guts get sick at the- scream of a bomb when it's close. ' The explosion itself is a jolting terrific impact that seems to suck up the ground and slap it in your face. The shell whistle is another sound that needs no introduction. You hit the dirt the first time you hear it. After the whistle ends, there's a split second pause un less it's timed to explode in the air and the deathly silence then is one of the nastiest noises of all. The Bhell pierces deeper than the lobbed mortar projectile and has a tighter blast than the lat ter's mushrooming "whump." The "screaming meemie" is a German mortar with four to six barrels fired simultaneously by electricity. They multiply the . high pitched scream of a single missile, tear the air apart as they go by and churn the dirt into black froth. Machine guns rattle and chat ter with a "brrt-brrt" like paper , m an electric fan, and the Ger man runs fire mncb faster than ears. Their tommy gun, though less accurate, spits so much swifter than ours ' that the sol diers have invented a graphic .. hygenic unprintable word to de scribe its rippling racket. Those bullets whip by with a psst-psst-psst," like a hundred little voices sharply whispering while the rifle slugs buzz like angry bees. The rifle's crack is one of the most innocuous sounds of all but it snaps the alert the quickest for it means the front is elose by. Mines have a spreading blast somewhat like mortars but more muffled. Your own artillery un looses perhaps the loudest din of all because it's closest, right be hind you, but it becomes a friend ly protective thunder. Through it all, the. most gentle distant purr of an airplane motor will pull every one to the sky un til its outline brands it as "Ours or Jerries." There are countless other sounds of war which '. Johnnie won't easily forget the cry of baby maimed by a mine, the dull clamp of dirt on a soldier's lonely grave, the clang of a hel met hang on the wooden cross at its head, the "aaaahh" as a slag drives the breath from a baddy in one belching burp, the sob of a frightened boy in a fox bole. That is the fighting man's mar tial music the grim symphony of strife and all the clear high notes from afar, of glory and purpose and ' crusades and victory can't drown out its constant undertones of horror. All Orders $2.00 and Over Entire city South of Chemelceta St Mondcry-Wednes-day-Friday. V .... - .. .... Entiro dry North of Chemeketa St. Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday. All orders received beforo 12 o'clock noon on these delivery days will be doBvered same day. ' i T 1 West Salem Delivery Mornings Only on Monday- 1 Wednesday-Friday. AH orders must be received by 9:30 A-M. on these delivery days, r' : " i ! DuSESiltmriKETS Court St. Salem Marion St. Oregon Dairy Subsidies Thought Coming This Week CORVALLIS, Ore., Nov. 10-VP) Initial subsidy payments to Ore gon dairy farmers for increased feed costs are expected to be made this week, N. C. Donaldson, state AAA executive assistant, said to day. 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The November call will be filled with between 50 and 60 per cent family men, although the num ber in December may not run as high because deferment of large numbers of young farm workers will expire, he said. - Cranberry Production Declines 15 per Cent WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-(;p)- Cranberries will not be as plenti ful as usual for the holiday sea son, the agriculture department reports, with 1943 production showing a 15 per cent decline from 1942. Production is estimated at 691, 400 barrels against 813,200 bar rels last year. Only five states, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wis consin, Washington and Oregon, produce large quantities. Oregon Allocated $114,000 by WFA WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 JP)- Approximately $30,000,000 was al located today by the war food administration for tenant purchase loans this year. Oregon received $114,627; Wash ington $146,375. PROGRAM WARTIME CONDITIONS have af fected the nation's feed supply. 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