National Defense: Private Bushface Goes to Town

It took the draft to drag 30-year-old Carlton N. Krause from his home at Ogdensburg, Wis. (pop. 207). Before last spring Homebody Krause had never wandered far from his dairy farm, the woods, the tools he used to bore his own gun barrels. Only once had he seen the State's metropolis, Milwaukee, 115 miles from home.

At Camp Wolters, near Mineral Wells, Tex. (pop. 6,303), where he was nicknamed "Bushface" (because of the mustache he took to camp), he still kept his homebody habits. Few weeks ago Mineral Wells's Chamber of Commerce, proud...

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