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Vol. 1, No. 33.
Farce Comedy
To Play Adair
Sentry
Camp
4 weekly journal devoted
,0 m»>ntaining morale,
with the responsibility of\
rirculating post informa­
tion and news at Camp
Adair, Oregon.
Mounting Guard in
"No man ean suffer too
much nor fall too soon, if
he suffers or if he fall in
the defense of the liberties
and constitution of his
country.”—Daniel Webster
Camp .Adair, Oregon
Camp Adair. Oregon, Thursday, December 10, 1942.
I
Wives of OHiceis at Camp Adair Fix Up Clubhou_.
$1.50 a Year by Mail
Salvage Drive
Nets 2 Cannon
Fio Rito Band Wows
'em; Show Acclaimed
Dallas Amer. Legion
Donates Pair of Guns
From Courthouse Lawn
To Add to Scrap Push
'The First Year/
Big New York Hit
Booked for Camp
Showing Dec. 17th
That greatest and funniest com­
edy of young married life, “The
First Year,” by Frank Craven, not­
ed author, actor and director,
will be presented by USO-Camp
Shows at Camp Adair on Decem­
ber 17, next Thursday.
One of the record breaking
plays of the American theater,
fifth on the list of comedies which
have had the longest runs on
Broadway, “The First Year” is a
comedy which shows real human
beings in an everday sort of story
that is so well handled that it
makes entertainment of the highest
quality.
It is the story of Tommy Tucker
and Grace Livingstone who are in
their first year of married life.
Tommy is prosaic and practical,
while Grace thinks she has out­
grown the small town of her birth.
Tommy takes Grace to a new city
and sets about building up a new
business, while Grace has greater
opportunities for the indulgence of
her social ambitions. The family
.
x-c- rr c. Daily Mrs. J. B. Hamilton, little Martha Ham-
ficert clubhouse fcr their menfolk. Mrs. McClenaghan is the
i n i.i front, Mrs. Reed G. Bills, Mrs. Robert C. Ingalls end
life of the two is shown, together
wife of Lieutenant-Colonel McClenaghan, Mrs. Hamilton's
/
.
F..
b.
McClenaghan.
wives
of
artillery
officers
of
the
Tim.
and Mrs. Ingalls' are captains and Mrs. Bills' and Mrs. DaUy's
with their friends and associates,
■ V/clf division, have been sewing and upholstering the of-
husbands are lieutenants.
and there are many intimate
glimpses of domestic and social
Don't Give These Girls the Bird
life which cause conflicting emo­
tions in the hearts of the onlook­
ers, always eventually resolved
into laughs and guffaws.
All Hollywood Cast
Acted by an especially selected
Governor, Col. McCoy
Fuller Facts Follow
Hollywood cast and directed by
And Major, Speakers
Fog of Fancy Rumor
Ferdinand Munier, the action of
the play moves smoothly and swift­
Governor C. A. Sprague, Col.
The Camp Commander likes sun­
ly with each succeeding comical
Gordon If. McCoy, camp command­
situation building up to an hilari­ shine. As a son of the Shenandoah
er, and Major Ed. Allworth spoke
Valley, in Virginia, and not long
ous climax.
at a Pearl Harbor memorial serv­
The roles of Tommy Tucker and ago a military attache at Mexico,
ice Monday at Mayflower Chapel,
Grace Livingstone are enacted by D. F., he is less than enthusiastic
Corvallis, all warning their au­
Irving Mitchell, and
Pamela about “Oregon mist.”
dience that th»> war will be hard
If he could, therefore, Col. Gor­
Wright. The supporting cast in­
and probably long.
don
H.
McCoy
would
blow
the
clouds
eludes Kathryn Sheldon, Leonard
Air and sea power are needed
Lord, Johanna Douglas, Douglas away, but he can’t. About the fog
to beat the Japanese, who must
that
closes
in
on
this
camp
so
Rutherford, John Marston, Madora
be given no chance to consolidate
often, he is powerless. All he can
Keene and Howard Watson.
their great gains, said Governor
do is to let the light of truth shine
The play is presented by USO-
Sprague, adding that th«» Pacific
through the vaporous rumors that
Camp Shows through the courtesy
coast properly feels that the Euro­
have been spreading over the camp
pean aspect of the war is over­
of the author, John Golden, who
and into nearby towns.
has waived his royalties for the
emphasized.
So he is doing that, through the
Major Allworth, war veteran, who
USO-Camp Shows tour. As is
Camp Adair Sentry. He wants
I has the Congressional Medal of
customary with all USO-Camp everybody around here to know that
Honor, said that half of the stu-
Shows productions admission is the camp hospital is sheltering a
dents of Oregon State College are
free.
good many patients who would not
enlisted in some form of service,
think of going to a hospital if they
Col McCoy spoke as follows:
AH. CHRISTMAS
were civilians with jobs.
“On Dec. 7, 1941, I was in Mex­
If Christmas cards you'd like to
In civilian life, men with bad
ico City. There the news of the
make
colds usually doctor themselves
thejiselves and
Japan» e attack at Pearl Harbor
Here's the dope on a darned go right on working, nr at most
came to th»' American Embassy by
swell break,
take a day off. Here, because it
short wave rail 10. Despite the dis­
For on Thursday night ,at Serv­ has become an army tradition, men
tance, and despite considerable
with ailments immediately seek'
ice Club 2
static, we knew, in a general way,
Just
a
preview
of
a
(
amp
Adair
‘
•oldier
’
a
dream
of
a
White
treatment
and
ordinarily
they
would
r
Pvt. Laboneau will meet with
how erious the situation was and
be admitted to the hospital, as a { Christmas with white meat. The poor turkeys are courtesy of th»'
you.
post commissary and the two »-harming girls (if you've noticed
we
knew that we were fully in the
In
fact
precautionary
measure,
For he's gifted in that type of
them) are courteous hosts at I’X near Post Headquarters. 'I heir
war.
many of them have been admitted
names, by the way. are Mary Habermann and Marg) Barlow. This
art.
“Even the meager information
is an exclusive Public Relations photo.
And you can make cards con­ and are being treated.
¡of that day shocked us. We were
Still only 45 per cent of all in
sidered “right smart,”
sure that the losses must be grave,
the hospital are respiratory CAMS,
So meet him there at 7:30
and the damage great. But not un­
If you want your's cute, or Col. McCoy would have us know.
til
a year later were we to know
Out
of
all
the
respiratory
caRes,
even dirty!
(Cont. Page 7, Col. 4)
the full extent of l«ws and damage.
Not until yesterday, when at last
the details were made public, over
th«' air and through the newspa­
pers, did the American people be­
come aware of the appalling truth
- that only through the providence
i
of Almighty God were the Japan­
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By Pvt Wallace Rasies
♦
ese able to press home their ad­
Mail your Christmas packages There parcel post distribution is
“What kind of met, come to Major Fielder Greer
vantage and put us badly on the
this week, soldier, if they must handled for officers and men in Camp Adair? What did they «io
«lefcnsive on the very day they
the
service.
before entering the Army, and Promoted to Lt. Col.
cross any large part of the Unit­
| struck.
Seal parcel post packages only from whence came they?”
| "Now it eema that the disclos­
ed States. Otherwise they may not
if they have a 4th class label on
Answering these questions of
ure of th< full facta on that day of
The
104th
a
get there in time.
them, giving permission to open
and r*4‘W
e<»k. {disaster should alter, somewhat,
This warning comes -liract from them in the postoffice. All air Capt. Julius Hale, Battalion Com:
wa* the character of this memorial
Postmaster Victor P. Moaes. of mail packages (not letter»), mast mander of the Military Police, Hr e's Fielder
Col. service. It is still a service of
from
Corvallis, who explains that mili­ be opened for inspection before Post Guard, Post Prison Stockade,
and Post Provost Mar-hal, a re­ Greer is a W
trraduate I mourning and remembrance. Pri-
tary traffic has precedence over they go on a plane.
' manly we are here to think about
Address clearly and have return porter for the CAMP ADAIR class < r>f 1931
all else. Soldiers have the right of
I the 2,343 ■f fleers and men who
SENTRY
found
an
interesting
pre*
At
way. Thei. mail ia of secondary address on all parcels. Althtugh
«ere killed arid the 960 listed at
everything of much value should cross-section of militant America
importance.
The postmaster makes these an­ be insured, this cannot apply to in Barrack» 6.
ka. T. still missing. We are here to ex­
The new soldiers. ■ majority of H Ft Benn ng,
packages less than four inches
Camp press our sorrow that they were
nouncements:
lost and t»i ex pres» our deep regret
whom
arrived
Nov.
¡0
are:
square.
They
cant
be
insured.
They
postoffice
at
Camp
Col
Clailoroe.
Ia
Greer
The main
for the conditions that made that
John A. Hili». 38. Loe Angeles tive of Chari«
W. V
Adair will be open daily, except are too easily lost and there is not
tragedy
possible. Also, we lament
gayag-
owner
and
executive;
An
­
room
on
them
for
the
necessary
8
p.m.
This
holds
Sunday, until
the material loaaes and damage of
thony J. Arnench. 27. ace bartend
good up to Christmas Day and pos­ stamps and marks.
HE SHINES ’EM UP FINE
that day.
I
As indicating the service that er at the Top o' the Mark. San
sibly longer.
I ' "But today, because of our new
Tomorrow (Frida)» a branch the p«stoffiee tries to give men in FmnciKo hotel; Jack H. Woed.
F A
knowledge, grief and gratitude
poetoffice opens at the hospital, the service, it is customary to send Huntington Park. Cal., bowlir.g al­
are merged While we grieve for '
a
personal
letter
to
the
writer
of
ley
manager;
Allen
L.
Gingrich.
the hours being from 8 am. to
I those who are gone, we cannot
every letter that is addressed to a Spokane. Wash., lumberjack; Har
6 p m-
'er Gen- j help being grateful for the oppor- !
An Arrnv base unit waa opened soldier who can't he located re. old Johnson. 18, Glendale. CaL. re-
(4 nt Page 4,' Col 2)
(Cont. Page 7, CoL I)
al the ( urvatlio gaateffio* M«mda> questing more uifuruMlioa.
Memorial Speakers
Predict Bitter War
Camp Commander
Cautions on Colds
It Takes All Kinds of
People to Make an M.P
Mail Gilts This Week, Soldier, and
Be Sure They Arrive by Christmas Day
Reporter Does Prove This Despite
Average Opinion to The Contrary
The neighboring city of Dallas
joined in on Camp Adair’s scrap
drive yesterday—and how.
Shortly before noon yesterday.
Camp Tony Frank, head of the
scrap salvage campaign, and Lt.
George H. Godfrey, Public Rela­
tions officer, together with a motor
caravan including hoists, derricks
and so forth left camp. Before dark
they returned with:
One trench mortar weighing in
excess of two tons.
One Krupp, 88 mil. howitzer
weighing one and one-half tons.
These two German made guns,
relics of the other war have adorn­
ed the Dallas Courthouse lawn
since the early twenties. (Natives
argued over the exact date, discus­
sion ranging from 1919 to 1924.)
All agreed, however, that the
cannon were mementos brought to
this country by the 162ml Infantry
which was recruited in and around
Dallas in 1917.
The presentation was made by
the Carl B. Fenton Post No. 20 of
the American Legion with appro­
priate words by John Cerney, post
adjutant and O. E. Anderson, post
commander.
Also in at the death were Leif
S. Finseth, Mayor of Dallas, and
Mrs. Andrew Irwin, Jr., daughter
of Col. Conrad Stafrin, who com­
manded the 162nd on its 1918 mis­
sion to Europe.
Two Adair Generals
Speak at Luncheon
Gens. C>ok, Kramer
Relate Experiences
Two Camp Adair generals who
saw the opening battles of the war
in Hawaii and Poland were honored
speakers in Portland last Monday
at a Chamber of Commerce lun.h-
eon.
Major General Gilbert R. Cook,
commanding general of the 104th,
told of his experiences at Oahu
when the Japanese struck at Pearl
Harbor a year ago. Brigadier Gen­
eral H. F. Kramer, assistant di­
vision commander of the 104th,
gave a vivid description of Ger­
many’s smash through Poland He
was in Berlin from 1937 to 1939
atending the German General Staff
academy.
Four other Adair officers were
guests at the luncheon Brigadier
General William C. Dunckel, artil­
lery commander; Lieut. Col. C. D.
McNary, special troops co-ordina­
tor, and Capt. W. J. Boydstum and
Lt. J. E. Cook, Jr., General Cook's
aides-de-camp.
ELKS CHARITY BALL
The annual Elks Christmas char­
ity ball in Corvallis will be held at
the Elks Temple Saturday night
from 8 to 12 o'clock. The proceeds
go to the Elka charity fund Every­
one is invited this year, the com­
mittee announces. Tickets are 41
a couple.
DON’T IM» IT!
A soldier who goes AWOL, be
it for only one or a few days,
may henceforth be punished by
any sentence a court martial
may direct, except death.
For absence a soldier can lie
sentenced to Dishonorable Dis­
charge, total forfeiture of pay
and allowances and confinement
at hard labor for a term up to
life.
Hereafter sentences at Camp
Adair for absences without
leave can be expected to be
quite severe.
This was the context of mem­
orandum 96. issued via order of
Col. Gordon H. McCoy, post
commander and referring to
Executive Order 9867 of Nov.
9, whereby President Roosevelt
suspended the limitation upon
punishments for absence with­
out leave. Order ia effective
since Dec. 1.
3000 Raise Field House Roof
At First Big-Time Gym Debut
By Pvt. Bob Ru.skauff
The old music master, Ted Fio Rito, and his band can
dish it out. Field House can take it. And the EM of this
Post like it.
That was proved Monday evening. Three thousand pairs
of G1 shoes, and a few feminine bootees, beat time to synco­
pation a la mode as the Fio Rito aggregation gave Field
House its first big-time work-out since building and the EM
of Camp Adair one of the best treats coming this way to date,
with an hour of music and specialty presentations that had
the house rocking.
The band was brought here through combined efforts
of Post Special Services and the 96th division, via the co­
operation of Salem USO, directed by Robert Boardman, with
Roy F. Kunz associate director.
a matter of fact, as Capt.
Bill Ross of the 96th pointe«! out,
Fio Rito and his aggregation made
an extra 60-mile trip to give the
Post its musical hour, for they re­
turned immediately afterward to
play a dance at Salem Armory.
Then it was on to Los Angeles,
whence the band is enroute from
Portland, for four weeks of play­
ing; followed by New Orleans and
an engagement at th«- Roosevelt
hotel.
Fio Rito ij»l»s
,
y
After 20 years in/ wie bìlàiiwrf,
10 of it in the big-liitie, Fio F*°
h 4 lost noni kf
demonstrated he ha:
the piano artistry ihat first llld
him toward fame as accompal I!
for Sophi»- Tucker. The maey
didn’t solo, but turned thaU
A l -Z
I over to his three Grade
entertainers and his 10 Class
“hep cats.”
led Fio Rito, who led his own
band of entertainers in Field
Things moved fast. Fio Rito
House Mopday.
— — /■ -... —- probably mads but one tactical
error. Acknowledging M. C. Pvt."
Salem Legion Dance
Les Baier’s introduction, and un--
derstanding that this Post seems
Is Jitterbug Contest
to be just simply full of troopers
Jitterbugs from Camp Adair and who used to live in Newark, N. J.,
elsewhere are invited to partici­ and seem to still think of it as
home, Ted said:
pate in a Jitterbug contest to be
“I, too, was born in Newark.”
held Saturday night, December 12,
The ovation was pretty fair until
in the Armory at Salem, beginning I
the lone guy here from the Bronx
at 9 o’clock. Music is by the “Top i
put in his two-bits worth. And
Hatters."
then the show opened.
Regular Saturday night dances
Service Songs Mrdley
are conducted by th»* Salem post of
the American Legion and profits
It was warme»i at the onset with
go into the entertainment fund for Fio Rito's medley arrangement of
men in service. Th«- Salem Legion songs dedicated to the armed forces
post has dedicated its year’s effort —the “Caisson” song, "Anchors
to “Service for Service Men."
Aweigh,” the "Marine Song," “Air
Corps Song” and the song of the
TWIN HONS FOR SOLDIER
Coast Guard.
One of the men stationed at Camp
Then up steppeii Jimmy Baxter,
Aiiair is the father of twins born
a young tenor with promise, to
on Thanksgiving day, November 26.
offer two well-received hits, "My
Immediately upon learning of his
good fortune the new father, I). E. Devotion” and “White Christmas.’*
The “Hep Cats" (or the IA boys)
Coons, left on his furlough for
Klamath Falls to be with Mrs. then rolled out a super hidy-«lee
Coons and the two sons, in a Klam­ version of “Swing I^>w, Sweet
ath Falls hospital. The Coons are Chariot.”
Followed the vivacious and au­
residents of Dorris, California, and
th«» two llttli- Coons weighed four burn-tressed feminine influence
pounds and 13 ounces and five bolstering the band. She is lovely
pounds and 12'y ounces, respective­ Lynn Stevens, a Gary, Ind., product
ly. They are said to be lusty boys without a phone number, who gave
and they and their mother are in the boys "Mr. 5 by 5,” “He’s My
(Cont. Page 7, Col. 2)
good condition.
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Wows 'em
96th Will Dramatize
English Blitz on Air
Enlisted Men Write, Direct and
Act in 4th of Radio Broadcasts
By Pvt. Paul R. Kalman. Jr.
England, blitzed and battered by
Nazi bombs but still unconquerable,
will be the subject of the fourth
rad io dramatization of the orienta-
| tion course being presented cur-
| rently by the Special Services Of-
( fice of the With Infantry Division
at Camp Adair.
| The program, scheduled for 11
I a. m. Saturday over radio station
KOAC, begins with the miraculous
| retreat of the British Expeditionary
i Forces from Dunkirk in June of
| 1940 By far one of the most dra-
, malic and historic incidents of
World War 11, the opening scene
will see British Tommies heroically
I fighting back at swarms of low-
‘ flying Stuka dive bombers, while
German Panzer units literally
I breathe on their ix-cks
Despite the total loss of lieach-
heads on the Continental coast,
British casualties at Dunkirk were
comparaitvely small anil the whole
Incident had a remarkable effect on
the morale of both the civilian and
military populations. On the other
hand. Hitler suffered a complete
defeat as far as his original pur­
poses and designs for the total an­
. nihilation of the BEE were con­
cerned.
: Vowing retribution for the hu­
miliation that the Nazis received,
i the Bavarian paper-hanger threw
the full force of his greatest and
most potent weapon, namely, the
Luftwaffe, against the islanders.
On June 18, 1940, shortly after
he had been appointed Prime Min­
ister of the British Empire, Wins-
(font. Patfe 7, Col. fi)
i