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They Wouldn't Lei Him Bring Back Jap ScalpJ* ' *».* *.* • ■ * jOI 4f ' lt;vvtvX1’■v’.'.^wKCARL A. RUSSELL, JR., USMCThe WeatherAmarillo and Vicinity: Slightly warmer this afternoon, little change tonight.West Texas: Mild today, moderate tonight.New Mexico: No important change in temperature.Temperatures 24 hours ending 6:30 A. M.: High 74, low 46, noon today 77....—V...~ 'Reshingle and Repair l/ow. See John Maynard Lbr. Co., 800 W. 5th.nary and dangerous, Preside farm prices by excludinglias.foodstuffs is forced up, he said, and the national war labor board Increases wages as a result, “no one can tell where increases will start or what those increased wages will ultimately cost the farmers and all people of the nation.”If food prices and .wages rise, the chief executive continued, the cost of armament, ships and planes necessarily would mount and the government would have to borrow even greater sums to meet the cost of the war.It is impossible, Mr. Roosevelt declared, to control the cost of living unless all its vital plpir.pnfc ar**:“Sure I had a souvenir from Guadalcanal, but they wouldn't let me bring it back,’' Carl A. Russell Jr., Amarillo Marine, de-clarpd today as he visited friends. He is in Amarillo on sick-leave. He broke an arm on the South Pacific Island.The souvenir was • a Japanese scalp. Furthermore it was taken by the United States Marines in cleaning the yellow, slant-eye men from Guadalcanal, the Amarillo fighter said, adding, “I still think that scalp would have helped boost fighting morale in the States.”Russell, who was on Guadalcanal from last November until March, was a sniper. He had been having good luck as were the other leathernecks, he recalls, declaring they shot Japs like rabbits. You see,” he explains, “tho.y Japs can’t see 300 yards in the day time so we ,ust hide out a fid pick ’em off like Panhandle hunters shoot cotton-tails.But at night it is different, the Marine admits. “The little men see like owls at night and, Mister, that’s when we do some cautious hunting.” „It was at night when Russell was injured. He was hiding in a tree, picking off Japs every time one of them moved in the brush. Suddenly the Japs spotted the Amarilloan and started “slinging lead” in his direction. “The leaves around my face were going in every direction. Lead was certainly getting close. I started to back up on a limb of this tree and fell sprawling to the ground, breaking my arm. Those Japs thought they had killed me and I aided their belief by remaining still as possible,” Russell said.Fellow marines soon crawled to the tree where the Amarilloan was “playing ’possum” and rescued the sniper, taking him back to the base and .safety.Russell, was then flown to a hospital m New Zealand to have the arm set and treated. He was placed aboard a ship there and taken to the Naval Hospital in San Diego before coming to Amarillo to visit his mother, Mrs. Bertha King, and his grandmother Mrs. T. S. Torrance, 410-B East Seventeenth Avenue.Russell has been a resident of Amarillo practically all of his life although he graduated from high school in Eunice, N. M. He enlisted in the U. S. Marines in Amarillo in March, 1942, arid almost immediately was shipped to Guadalcanal for combat duty.The marine returns to duty April 26, destination unknown. “But,” hopes the Amarilloan, “I sure would like to get back to that tree at Guadalcanal. It was one of the best hunting posts I ever found. I’ll know Just how far I can back up on that linrtb next time. Of course,” he added, “if the marines have found some better shooting since then, I’ll try to find a better tree wherever theysend me.”(lt;(if1l
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 02, 1943
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