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Army Artists Here Will Create Posters For Training PurposesTo make the CH’k Army tintntiiR]known for his pointing, Spring In more interesting, more vivid, more] Alu bam a, which Ls an exhibit ntcomprehensive and more realistic, five former students of nrt, including two professionals, have formed an avl group under the auspices of {lie Special Service Office, svlth Corp. Harold I’omeraht?, of Die Plans and Training Office in cl i urge.It is the purpose of this orgnnlmi-Hon lo develop a series of posters, murals and paintings Illustrating techniques of first old, camouflages control, malaria cdntrol and others. These pasters, according to Corporal Pomemnlz, will supplement the lectures and drills used in 1 raining men here,'rise group has converted the old 701th Orderly Hoorn Into a studio where regular meetings arc held and where the members spend most of their spate time.Meetings are informal and any of the military personnel of the Field who have talent or who arc Interested In art are urged to drop In on these get-togethers, It Is planned lo schedule classes and assist those who wish help to bring out Ideas and to express them with pencil and brush.Any department which has need for posters, signs or other Illustrative material may contact the group at Its headquarters for advice and suggestions.An exhibit of the work which has beets, and Is being done will be set ti]) In thu enlisted- men's Service Glut). This exhibit will be changed frequently as more subjects are developed.The charter members of the group have all studied under professional artists or distinction. 'Plmy include;Corp. Harold. Pomerania was formerly a commercial artist with the Fuller, Smith and Ross Advertising Co., of New York Oily, tflo studied at the Art students1 League of New York under the supervision of Messrs. Bridgman and Brack-man, well known nit teachers..Staff Scrgt. Hull Hurbage studied with Hon Brown, a classmate of Grant Wood, also an American art 1st of distinction.Staff Sergt. Jacob Scmlatln,the Brooklyn Museum Art Gallery, obtained his B. A. degree In art at Brooklyn College,Pfc. Al Biaustieu studied under -Morris Cantor and Byron Thomas at Cooper Union In New York and lias exhibited work at the Raymond and Raymond Galleries in New York city.Cor]i. Karl Hlchtcr studied under the direct ton, of his father, a portrait painter, among whoso last commissions was an order to paint n portrait m oil of the: wife of Mr. Rudolph H. Wurlltzcr, internationally known manufacturer of N, Tonawaiutu, N. Y. Corporal Richter did much of Ids work at Dutch Harbor In tho Aleutian Islands.IMF ‘COPS’ RULEFAlert Men in Conlrpl Towers Help Prevent Accidents, Save Lives-fThe visionary of 20 years ago who Jules Vcrned about heavy air traffic of, of the future had more than an Idle dream when he pictured Aerial Traffic Coups. For the dream has come true, in n glus-eiiclosed booth atop the spidery control tower at the Ulylhcvllle Army Ah Field, a group of Army Air Forces traffic cops flash the signals which prevent confusion and accidents on the runways, and in the air within three miles of the Imul-i»K field.. These policemen of the airways presided over and directed by Tech' Sgt. Frank R. Roycrofl, are members o Jlhe Army Airways Com-WE FILL ALL DOCTORS1PRESCRIPTIONSAND SAVE YOTI MDNrv
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Blytheville Army Air Corps News
Blytheville, Arkansas, US
Thu, Dec 30, 1943
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