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September 1942         Vol. 1 No. 8               20 pages

Cover: Badge Of Honor… The Purple Martin

Articles Inside:

People Are His Problem
Daniel W. Siemon. Director of Personnel

A Matter of Minutes
(A Guest Editorial by Ken Ebel, Vice-President in Charge of Engineering)

Mareng Cell In Box Car . . . May Solve Oil Problem
(Reid Gray, Joseph B. Eastman, Joe DeWeese, Bob Drake, Chauffeur John Murphy, Al Kasser and Jerry Chlumsky)

Martin Laboratory Offers Answer to Shortage
(Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce; Joseph B. Eastman, Ernest Holzburne, W. E. Cooper, Glenn L. Martin, Reid B. Gray, Dr. J. C. Patrick, Howard J. Klossner, Harold L. Ickes)

Plant 2 Second Shift Crews Win Praise for Air-Raid Drill Efficiency
(E. H. Burhorst, Mrs. Ruth Price Winkler, Simon Jarosinski, Joseph Perzelle, Oliver Jordan)

Sunlamps Burn, Too
(Lee Koutz)

Apropos

Badge Of Honor… The Purple Martin

Dining For Victory

It’s A Small World
(Don Wagner, John Moale)

Patent Plan Opens Door To Profits
Seven Martin Men Among Company Inventors
(George Douglas Jones, Reid B. Gray, Edward Zivi, Herman Viet, Douglas H. Kenny, James A. Porter,  Paul H. Merriman,  Howard T. Critchlow, Jr., and Joseph Marecki, Anthony J. Verdechia)

They Say Of Us
(Dr. J. T. Thompson)

Letter From A Soldier
(John F. McLain, Jr.)

100% Fire Crew
(Edward T. Moore)

Young An Instructor
(Ralph Young)

New Double Play: Trash Can to Foe

Minute Biographies
(Capt. Newton Harris White, Jr., Capt. Hadley V. Saehlenou)

The Speed of Air Cargo — In 1923

“Plant Protection”—By Our Own Expert
(E. A. Schurman)

News From the War Fronts
     Mars Model Wins Maker a New Job
     (George Hartman)
     (Capt. Clifton P. Oleson, shown above with Mrs. Oleson)
     Diary of Glory
     How B-26’s Smote Japs in Aleutians
     (Keith Wheeler)
     New Club Forms

We Had With Us Yesterday
(Alva Johnston, Miss Lois Pugh, Messrs. Martin and Hartson, R. E. Wells, Norman Armour, Avery McBee)

Hunger Struck
(J. C. DeWeese)

QST to Radio Hams
(Thomas F. McNulty, Charles Earp)

Gift B-26 in Action

Photo Section
(Harry Baker, Harry Faragher, George Hartman, Simon Jarasinski, Robert Kriegs, H. A. Nevel, John Lease, James Dunn, Wallace, Sovington, Harvey, Hennesy, Bailey, Dawson, Becker, Burke, Tranis, Lehigh, D’Paola, Rader, Carter, Jeannette Simpson, Col. C. E. Ridenour, Mrs. Ruth Winkler, Mrs. Helen Peters, Vera Johnson, Margaret Kennedy, Virginia Drummond, Mrs.Tommy Joseph and Marjory Kurtz, Dorothy Kracht, Marguerite Claypool, Betty Milwee, Margaret Donohue, Helen Zuk, Ruth Teets, Edwin Schwoebli, Earl Zalanka, Frank lannuzzi, Mrs. Geraldine Burns, Lester Schirmer, Henry Adams, Rita Fell, Helen Chart, William Hewing, Leonard Wohlfort, Anne Chart, Loretta Woll, Madie Sessoms, Cliff Presser, Major D. I. Perry, Mrs. Perry, Henry Adams, Glenn Martin Foster)

Posters Spur Production
(Walter R. Weyer, Bill Struben, Eugene J. Davis, Avery McBee, Howard McCallister, Neal Siebold, A. S. Hoffman, G. W. Locke, Ford Banes, Morris Williams, Mel R. Bolden, M. E. Schaeffer)

Capsule Editorial

Pinch-Hitter
(Bess Lynch, M. R. Schermerhorn, Mrs. Marguerite Ruttig Riha, Bill Ruttig, Mrs. Riha)

Box Kites to Bombers
Multi-Passenger Plane and First Free-Fall ’Chute
Chapter VII
(Barney Oldfield, Roald Amundsen, Glenn L. Martin, Tiny Broadwick, Charles Broadwick, Floyd Smith, Miss Glessner, Brig. Gen. Robert Wankowski, )

Heard Here and There
     Long Range Fighting
     (Dr. Shao Wen Yuan)
     One Front to Another
     (Owen McKenna and James L. Biddle)
     Up The Ladder
     (Laurence Donahoo, David Wirsing, P. W. Slifker, John Michel, Carl Majeczky, Michael Lee, John Van Hamersveld, Jim Scott)
     Knit & Roll Dept.
     (Mrs. Henry Gehret)
     Our Curious Photographer
     (Wilma Spruill, Joe O’Donnell, Cammie Wimmer, Earle Fisher, Lillian Mackall)
     Gilding the Lily
     Fun Off The Job
     A Welcome for Pat
     (Mrs. Madge (Pat) Patterson, J. Whitley)

Orange Blossom Department
Evelyn Priber to Francis J. Mueller, Juanita VanHorn to Paul Gebhard, Helen Meyers to Wilbur Vanfossen, Betty Neale to Robert Johnson, Christine Arrington to Emmett Goodby, Alice Frank to Corp. Harold Hart, Opal Cutright to Sgt. Andrew Corathers, Helen Niken to Pvt. William Pulviki, Elizabeth Sherman to George Schaffner, Grace Mitchell to Daniel Austin, Wanda Lewis to Harry Norman, Evelyn Knight to Edgar Edwards, Jr., Geneva Beach to Joseph Carter, Ruth Moreley to John Leeds, Mary Bielat to Edward Ulanowicz, Eva Hudson to Joseph Ernest, Pauline Cox to Buford Manners, Amanda Bresnick to Chester Hanna, Mary Bosse to Wilmar Pipino, Helen Kline to Pvt. John Wettstein, Frances Toppel to Russell Brooks, Regina Price to Capt. Daniel Eidman, Dorothy Heflin to Bartel Harrison, Dorothy Hoffman to Henry Campbell, Susan Phillips to Woodrum Woolwine, Frances Steiff to Clifton Stevens, Frances Campbell to Melvin Winson, Doris McComas to James Donohue, Willa McKIveen to Henry Krus, Dorothy Crawford to Sgt. Lawrence Cross, Wilma Lawrence to George Ignozzi, Florence Avery to Sterling Johnson, U.S.N., Theresa Bures to Robert Austin, Lula Folks to William Sheldon, Jr., Starr Oehr to Robert Hogenson, Florence Hansen to Arnold C. Moeller, Lois Geen to William S. Keeline, Joyce Petersen to Raymond Strong, Anne Brinjak to Eddie Prohaska, Imogene Williams, R.N. to Robert C. Thomas, Eunice Champlin to Warren Farber, Mary Kellogg to Harry Wissing, Alice Hopkins to Kieth Griffith, Mildred Hampie to Subby Arceri, Vera Knutson to Joe Lindholm, Elizabeth Dawson to Leland B. Zahalka, Dorothy Stevens to Robert T. Hull, Mary Churchill to James Abbadusky, Thelma Norman to Joseph D. McKarthy, Dorothy E. Larson to Robert K. Rowley, Florence Werk to Robert A. Jones)

Around the Martin Plants
     (Harold Leisey)
     Beaumont Is Elected Glenmar Post Commander
     (William R. L. Beaumont, Martin J. Madison, Louis Barrett, Warren Hoffman, Stanley Kostos, Governor O’Conor)
     The New York Story
     (George Henry Egbert, Carlton E. Johnson)
     Stardust
     (Col. R. M. Jones, Miss Baechle)
     Get ’Em Flying. Jr.
     (John Hammond)
     A Chance to Help
     (Col. Alonzo M. Drake)
     The War Bond Corner
     (Edward Weglein, William C. Schaefer, John F. Grupp)

Stork Department
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bieller, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin C. Tennant, To Mr. and Mrs. Paul Piper, Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mack, To Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Alter, To Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Swanson, To Mr. and Mrs. John Flack, To Mr. and Mrs. George Beatty, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Knoll, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lohr, Mr. and Mrs. William Minkey, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Ridgley, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bogdan, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Luber, Mr. and Mrs. Peyton McGruder, Mr. and Mrs. John Kotrason, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scavuzzo, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Corbin, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Halverson, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kearney, Mr. and Mrs. Hobart Dewey, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sharp, Mr. and Mrs. John Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Dale Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. Earl T. Moore)

News From Nebraska
Every Picture Tells A Story
(Horace Shipley, Willis Bagby, Lincoln Scafe, G. K. Hammer, Ray Hansen)

Follow Up Follows Up

Well, It Could Be . . .
(Fred N. Ward, T. H. Taylor)

Gen. Arnold on the Topic of Your B-26
Too Tough for Japs to Handle, He Says
(Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold)

All for Production
(Carl Snavely)

Sports and Recreation
     Stewart Wins Golf Tourney Over Fowler
     2nd-3rd Shift Champion Takes Crown, 2 and 1
     (George S. Stewart, Earl S. Fowler, Eddie Semmler, Jack Muend, Scotty Wood, Rax Gherardini, Chuck Beehler, Bill Jenkins, Ray Gherardini, John Deaton, A. E. Fouch, C. D. Barnhardt, J. Mackey, Robert Stewart, Donald Drennan, Joe Phillips, Ralph Stelzer, Murray Rhodes, Jack Hallstrom, Leo Riley, George Stewart, Chuck Beehler, Ed Gunn, Ernest Wolfe, Howard Thomas, J. B. Hoffman, Jack Feldman, Woodrow Walker, Thomas Buckley, Joseph Karl, Ed Vinroe, Calvin Porter)
     Third Shift Production Baseball Winners
     (Merlin Harnly, Fred Clements, Gene Neault, Don Lopez, Nig O’Neill, and Charlie Pugh, Earl Bellow, Mike Byrne, Leo Messenger, Red Betz, Mike Heise, Sammy Dalfonzo, Ollie Brown, Joe Strah, Kenneth Snyder, Charley Swan)
     Duckpin League Starts
     Ten Pin Leagues
     (Leon Fisher, Edwin C. Loughlin, James Schaeffer, Edward Schwoebli, August F. Oberender)

Upgrading: Education Comes of Age . . . .
Pioneer Beginnings Bring a Gigantic Training Plan
(Daniel W, Siemon, John P. Troxell, T. H. Wilson, W. B. Kouwenhoven)