Camp Adair Sentry Thursday, October 22,1942. tern of the daily lives of Australian men and women. An outdoor, porting people, Australians used i., take to the roads each week-end. The gasoline ration has long since driven all pleasure cars off the roads. Australians are also doing without most of the clothing, patiscali household goods, and domestic comforts they used to import. The people are working as they have never worked before, and they TRIED to enlist In 1 ave always been a hard-working the Intelligence Service, but they people. didn't have what I wanted, and I didn't have what they wanted. So What Is Australia? ’ Freight Bill Six Feet Long Arrives; Must List Every C.C. Pill Individually Six feet long it was—the long­ est railroad way-bill that any of the railroad people in this camp ever saw and the longest they ever heard of anywhere. The have sent it on to the office of the Southern Pacific at San Francisco. “It is for a L.C.L. (less than a carload shipment,” said Mrs. G. L. Ravin, cashier at the Southern Pa­ cific office at the east side of camp. “It was for medical supplies, all at different rates, and the car made up by the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, and the goods came from a place near Chi­ cago.” E. D. Hayden, assistant cashier, who will be in the 18-19 draft, worked for two hours typing the way-bill with all of ita red checks denoting revised rates. J. J. McGovern, the freight and ticket agent in thia office, is a veteran of World War I. He was in a signal battalion and thinks of attending a school here, if the army will let him. I I Bomb Demonstration Thrills Camp Soldiers Dues He Bring Babich, Too? Out of the darkness of the night and into the light of the Public Relations office, where men work every evening, be­ cause they love their work, walked an intellectually curious soldier. “What is an adjutant?" he wanted to know, “J mean, what is it, really, the definition, that (Continued From Page 1) Earlier in the war the British be­ lieved that it was wise to spray a magnesium bomb lightly, instead of turning a full stream of water on it. Today, the colonel said, there is no set rule on that. It depends on circumstances. He urged that military camps, with their many wooden structures, have Sgt. Robert Black knew, of ample supplies of water available course, but to be precise about at nil times. It must be kept in it, he looked in the dictionary. mind, though, he added, that water “Adjutant,” he said. “An East is ineffective in dealing with a Indian stork.” thermite bomb. That's what his eyes took in Aiding, the colonel in tonight’s first. The word also is applied demonstration were I.t. Jack S. Bar­ to a staff officer who assists a rows, widely known in the west Designers of off-duty fashion- commander. But the picture, il­ ar an authority on fighting for­ came up with these bathing suits lustrating the definition, was of est fires, and Lt. Ray W. Ken­ for women workers. They han a stork and the bird wore no worthy, who has been professor of blouses that transform them into uniform or insignia of any kind. physi< nt the University of Wash­ play suits and were shown by a ington, was in the murines during Los Angeles manufacturer. World W.ir I, and is un expert on Roosevelt Indicates blackouts and the wartime lighting Brief History Oldsters May Go Home of cities. Of Australia Most of the group of seven en­ (Continued From Page 1) listed men, two of whom have been (Continued From Page I) Men of 53—T/Sgt. Herbert Ring, recommended for commissions, are suggest that you nut only read Regular Army, QM; (pl. Henry from the east, and Colonel Thomp­ them but keep a complete file f"i Hockett, Army of the Uniteli son himself was born on Staten future reference. The atori, , will Island, a part of New York City, run in alphabetical order. First: States, I »ML. Men of 52 Pfc. Winfrey N. and he is the first in three genera­ AUSTRALIA tions not to be a newspaper man. 'Wvatt, Regular Army, QM. Like Britain, Australia ha be For about 20 years Col. Thomp- Men of 51—M 'Sgt. Lawrence son Ims been professor of chemix- come a fortress of th<- United Na Sinnott, Regular Army, QM; (' try and director of the oemno- tions, a springboard for attack Joseph E. Dwyer. A.U.S., of graphic laboratory at the Univer- aguinst the Axis. In her bort Men of 50—T/4 Jun Kapei, sity of Washington and has con­ history Australia has never bef, S„ of QM. ducted surveys around the Aleu­ been threatened by invasion. Nou Mvn of 49 S Sgt. Jack S. Vin- tian islands and the Arctic and for the first tune enemy b.....lx r son, A.U.S., of QM; Pvt. Henry S. the Berin Sea. He is a veteran of are over her homes, enemy hips Muldoon, Regulur Army, of CMP. World War I and was one of the are skulking in neighboring wat, i Men of 18 — Pfc. Francis M. Australia is a young and viril, first gioup of men in the original O'Connor, Regular Army, QM; chemical warfare office. In June, nation. For 154 years tile Aua- Pvt. James A. Curl, Regular Army, 1918, he was made a captain. He tralians fought again. I lh< hard QM has published pamphlets on chem­ facts of their own geography. I’h< v Men of 47 S Sgt. Lester W. ical agents such ns mustard gas conquered a continent, and the <■<•! Bowman, Nut'l. Guard, DML; 8gt. ami chlorpicrin. tineiit nude a tough and i min ■ • Otto Schanzer, Regular Army. QM.; The students at the Civilian Pro- ful people. T I Gun Kuiath, Regular Army, tion school at Seattle consist of Whan Au trail» d clai QM; Pfc. Cecil R. Glidden, Regular some 50 key men and Women, se­ Germany on September ”, I!’" Io Army, QM. lected from civilian defense work­ had o regular army but a skeleton Men of 40—CpI, William F. Em- ers of Oregon, Washington, Mon­ force of about I .not» conun iom d bich, Nat'l. Guard, QM: Cpl. Peter tana and Idaho, and ulso officers and noncommissioned officer II, r Mitchel, Nat'l Guard, QM; Pvt. and men of army, navy and coast sevim million people, , at1. red ovi i Eleam II. Farance, Sei. Svc., DML. guard. For ten day* th«y go to a continent the size of the Unit'd Men of 45 Sgt. Joseph ('. Bur- school at Seattle then are in field States, Were bu-y lai u i- wheal dak. Regular Army, QM; T Sgt. demonstrations for four <. d ing the setup, including the three- and efficiency. Conscription o( Manpower story “Hotel Benton," aa Col. All mi'll bet Wv. 1 Is Thompson dubbed it, in prepara­ tion fm the demonstration. Every­ aild 85 are now eligible < ith, I' for g"i thing was built according to speci­ military service or for labor eoi p . fications, even certain types of at­ work The armed fore, Inn, lion built lip tn about 55ti,too , i of a The C.C. l ’.’ ii tics. Then Col. Ilopelane was trans- fem'll south and ('apt. E. F A population of about seven million <»f thr Wur De­ I je in ¿MM)*),000 Armstrong, pest chemical ptopeity AuHtiaban mi ipiadt r ' New Chemical Warfare office. Zealand forces in Gi«,,. , < Among civilian guests nt the Libya, Malax a, Syria. un i long prominent in the Anwman Ships of the Royal Aust rail.', ■ ' Legion and now director of the have served with di-tmc ■ Funeral Home (Formerly llollingKnorlh) Oregon State Defense council and the Atlantic to the lnd> Corvallis a graduate of the school nt Seattle; The dram of mnni>ow<'i lias Madison St. al Nth. I'h. 45 mid James Olsen mid Jack Hayes, caused ap acute lab'll -I rt age. defense council officers from Sal­ As a result man of em; and Prof. George II Peavey, women and over age men havi president Emeritus of Oregon into factoYivs, offaes and civilian State college. defense forces Although before the w . i . • “ Inn'll" is an ancient Hebrew one Australian in five dvp, ml, d on word meaning true, or faithful. ------- — .. -, ———— industry for his livrlibm .1, Au Sales and Service tralia is now producing quantRi, - M,»dern Shop — Best of weapons. Her -toel w, k* at Mechanics Newcastle ami I'n t b a arc among the largest in the mpirr and turn out m»re than I. Phone 13, 2nd A Jackson tons a year llut the munni W 1 DDINGS s dustry had to la- -t,rt,s < OKS WKN n scratch. Plants shot up. v : learned new skills, and, w I FI.F.GR ll’BFD help of some Lend Lease n : FLOWERS : tools from the United State AUTO ACCIDENT • tralia is making bombers, fi EIRE LIFE Í FI'NRRAI. antiaircraft guns, machine HI'RC.LARY AHR ANCF.MRNTS shells and ammunition of al »nd »II others mines, torpedoes, ami Meets Reliable Stock Companies strumerits Tanks are al’« : mng to roll off the as»» mhly liwas Upper Monroe Street ! Warships have been b It u li Beside the < nmnui INSURANCE * BONDS Lika Bldg Phone 142 Phone 213 I tralian shipyard*. Cervalit*. Oregon The war h” rbinr»’,! >8 »,t Like the people of the United Stat. . the Australians tamed a ■ ntinent but a continent far less friendly than our own. Our periods uf colonization are roughly paral­ lel. Au tralia has a federal sys­ tem ' f government like our own, i, inpn ■ <1 of six states and two ter­ ritories; -he has a written consti­ tution patterned on ours, a Parlia- i .-nt of two houses, the Senate and Hou-e of Representatives, whose members are elected on the same principle as our Congress. Her date and local governments run their own affairs much as ours do. But the prime minister and his i al 'n t follow the British pattern of ittirig as elected members of P li li i in nt, w ith responsibility to that body. The governor-general of Australia, appointed by the king on the advice of his Australian ministi i -. is the personal repre- i dive of the British crown, and , the king has prestige rather than political power. I'lie English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish pioneers who settled the new continent and whose descendants I make up 98 per cent of the p. pillation had to travel 12,000 from home. They found hos- pil ■Lie harbors and fertile coastal i'rs land-; but behind these, they I Flowers Insurance Elmer Patrick came up against a vast plateau, hot, dry, and seemingly without end. Forty per cent of Australia is so hot and so dry that it cannot support settlement. On the fringes of this forbidding wasteland, the settiers went to work and made Australia the greatest wool pro­ ducer, the fifth largest wheat pro­ ducer, and one of the largest meat, butter, and cheese producers in the world. These riches pouring from Aus­ tralia’s fine harbors have fed and Next week, Belgium. Pittsburgh Gals Give Linens to Chapel No. 1 I 'at the kids who spattered tomat' ex Anyway He Can Reach Stuff on Top Shelf against the walls of h’s filling sta­ tion last Hallowe’en. Ton-ata vines are springing up in Hi» tetion’s parkway and it looks like a butr.p- “That's another tall story,” pro­ er crop. tested Supply Sgt. Warren W. Swearingen, who is t> feet, 7 inches Afghanistan lias a general eleva­ in height, when asked if he wangled tion of nearly a mile. the job because in no other way could he get clothes to fit. But \SK l’OR he admitted that if the Army ever puts out any clothes of his size, he will get them. Now with Hdq. Co., the supply sergeant recently arrived from Ft. Bl H ER and Lewis, where he had a post in the prisoner-of-war enclosure. He has ICE CREAM been in artillery and infantry and (Biggest Variety in various camps, but his favorite of Frozen Bars) job, until it grew too strenuous, Distrib­ was that of escort to troops on utors for trains. He has had six years' service and first enlisted at 18, when he was only 6 feet, 5. Having grown to his present stature, he had to sign a « waiver to get in this last time. Five Pittsburgh girls, one being a sister of Pfc. Charles P. Fabich, Chemical Warfare. SCU No. 1911, have given Camp Adair some linens I which will be used in connection with the celebration of the mass, Corvallis I at Roman Catholic services, in BELLEFLOWER, Calif. - Ar­ 3rd & Adams. Phone 3(53 Chapel No. 1. thur Steinman isn't sore any more The girls belong to Maria Mis­ sion Circle and attend St. Augus­ tin’s church at Pittsburgh, and all of the linens are sewed by hand. It was no small job. They worked for a month or so, meeting in the evenings, several times a week. They are the Misses Ann Chat, Rise Chat. Ann Fabich. Margaret Kauslcr and Carrie McCready. Anil Pfc. Fabich knows them all. Per Roll of S Pictures Green Valley Creamery in g 3 One-Bay Service Free Enlargement PAWHUSKA. Okla < .mimand- in gofficers of Osage Indian sol­ diers are receiving numerous re­ quests to let their troops come home for the Osage Victory dance, now being held for the first time since World War I. I « I BERMAN'S DRUG STORE Opposite The Banks Corvallis, Oregon Niagara Falls is receding at the averag. rat ' . \x Camp Adair Service Men ■¿I For Off - Duty Relaxation Come to MONMOUTH NEW SERVICE CENTER Dances — Games -- Refreshments -- Reading --Writing — Play The whole community helped to provide this center .... Now the whole community invites YOU to to come and use it! YOU ARE WELCOME IN MONMOUTH The First MONMOUTH Service Features National Bank FURNITURE COMPANY Nationally Advertised Lines “Live and Help Live” Babies' Boudoir Department of Monmouth Service and Satisfaction a ( omplete Ranking Service "Anything for Your Home" Graduate Uorsetiere Salespeople are trained and courteous and will assist you in our gift department for men and women. / l or your insttranscc need>, see u.*. Phone 170 — 2.|.T-277 Main For FOUNTAIN SERVICE FAMOUS and LUNCHES I For Its Home-Cooked Meals Catering Dinner Parties Meals at All Ilnur- Special ( hicken Dinners Wednesday Nights MORLAN'S • Stage Terminal Monmouth I CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Invites You I Quality in Women's Wear To Make Use Of Monmouth's Facilities The Vogue Welcome Soldiers 1 If we can make your stay in our vicinity more pleasant — ask us. In our limited way we will do our part. BARNEY'S GROCERY Smiling-, Courteous Service Monmouth Hotel Monmouth, Oregon and Restaurant Railway Express Agency — Western Union Feeds Seeds Flour Fuller Paints and We Specialise in Fine lj»wn Seeds • Monmouth Co-operative Creamery and Warehouse Monmouth. Oregon • • MONMOUTH HARDWARE & FURNITURE CO. 1 Monmouth Chamber of Commerce Invites Inquiries I s Í Monmouth is only 10 miles north of Camp Adair--on 99-W DeMoss- Britt Wilson Motors the Air Corps told me to see what I could do with a beautiful little atream-lined job. I did . . . but she »lapped me. I asked the pilot how come he was wearing a parachute and I wasn’t. He said, “They NEED ME!" When the plane took off, I clutched the pilot so tight, they thought I was plastered there. I LOOKED plastered, too. He yelled, "Are you afraid of fogs?” I yelled back, “Naw! that’s why I’m cov­ ered with warts!" He yelled, “I said ‘FOGS,’ not •FROGS’!” But I’ve always been afraid up in the air. In fact, when I was born I made the stork deliver me in a wheelbarrow. As the apple of the Air Corps’ eye, I was rotten to the Corps. Well, anyhow, we at home are buying bonds so our heroes can bring down their Zeroes. I’m goin’ back to the wagon. These shoes are killin’ me! —Whitey Ford, Duke of Paducah. clothed millions of people in all parts of the world. Six out of every ten Australians live in the harbor cities, handling the great export trade and working Australia's in­ dustries. Today these cities are utterly changed. Their pavements echo to the tramp of United Nations troops. Their airports hum with the traffic of United Nations planes. The cities are “browned” out at night, but the war factories and shipyards roar on through the darkness.