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INDIAN LANGUAGE TO BAFFLE ENEMYTama, Iowa. Spl. CFl photo to The Independent by Harold Benzing.— Mesquakie Indians from the Tama reservation have joined Uncle Sam’s fighting forces and will employ their native language to confound enemy forces when they signal from front line positions to general headquarters. Above, Capt. John Potty is copying down a message from the front lines as translated by Dewey Youngbear. Theoretically, Youngbcar has received a Mesquakie message via the army’s new “walkie-talkie units from another Indian assigned to an officer in the front position. Army officers are certain that foreign powers will not bo conversant with the Mesquakie tongue and that the use of Indian broadcast*** will eliminate ohances of intercepted messages being deciphered.
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Hawarden Independent
Hawarden, Iowa, US
Thu, Apr 03, 1941
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