Sentry
Camp
4 weekly jouraal devoted
to maintaining morale,
with the responsibility of
circulating post informa­
tion and news at Camp
Adair, Oregon.
Camp Adair, Oregon
Mounting Guard in
Vol. 1., No. 34.
“No man can 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
$1.50 a Year by Mail
Camp Adair, Oregon, Thursday. December 17.1942%
Mrs. Roosevelt Sells
Poem of 96th Officer
Camp Adair's Cannon — for Scrap
Lt. Caughman Wrote Verse While
Walking Post on Christmas Eve
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has acted as an unpaid
literary agent for 2nd Lt. John E. Caughman, of Hdq Co ,
3rd Bn., 381st Inf., the 96th Division.
Through her interest a poem which he wrote while a
sentinel at ( amp Roberts, Calif., last Christmas Eve, appears
in the current, or Christmas number, of the Ladies’ Home
Journal.
It was another soldier who called it to the attention of
the wife of the President of the United States. He wrote
to her:
“This poem was written Chri^-
ABOUT PASSES
mas Eve by a fellow member of
Passes issued by the Provost
this regiment as we sat around a
Marshall’s office during the
little fire between turns at guard
year 1942 will not be honored
duty. It touched the feelings of all
after Feb. 1st, 1943. New passes
of us who were away from home
for 1943 may be secured any
for the first time, at Christmas.
It is our poem. If you feel that it
time after Jan. 1. at the Provost
is for the American people to see,
Marshall’s office.
then surely you can get it to them.
BUT—bring your old pass
But, most of all, I hope that you
with you and turn it in to the
enjoy it. Maybe one of your sons
Identification department and
‘walked the midnight watch.’ ”
bring 25c too, to cover mater­
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Letter
ials cost. These rules apply to
both civilian and military pass­
To the present lieutenant, then
es. But in the case of military
a private, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote:
passes, only those issued by the
“By chance your verses, A Christ­
mas Silhouette—1941, have fallen
Provost Marshall’s office are
into my hands. I wonder if you
affected. The soldiers pass is­
would let me have them printed?
sued by his own company, etc.,
I may, of course, be able to sell
is not affected.
them, but aside from that I would
like to see them printed in a num­
ber of publications because of the
last verse, which I think the youth
of the country will particularly er|-
joy and- applaud. I will wait per­
mission. however. In the meantime
may I send you and your regiment
Songs by Pvt. Mo rea
my very best wishes. Very sincere­
Also Aired on Bill’
ly yours, Eleazar Roosevelt.”
In response, the then Pvt. Caugh­
man said that he would be glad to
Pvt. Douglas Johnson, fam d
have Mrs. Roosevelt do as she concert pianist, who graduated
pleased with his poem. He added:
from the Havana Conservatory of
“If there should be any com­ Music at the age of 14, will be fea­
pensation I would like for you to tured on tonight’s Timber Wolf
accept payment in Defense Bonds, Division broadcast over KOAC at
and then in turn send the bonds to • 7:30. Pvt. Johnson will play an 8-
my mother. It would greatly please minute arrangement of Straus
her.”
waltzes.
Lieutenant Has Novel
Others on the broadcast, the third
Lt. Caughman comes from Crip­ in the Timber Wolf series, will in­
ple Creek, Colo., and was a credit clude Pvt. David Morea Singing
man for a jeweler, but .now he has “White Christmas,” the continua­
done a novel, as well as short tion of the “Private Jones” skit and
stories, and he hopes to write for a musical selections by the Timber
living when the war is over. He is Wolf orchestra. The program is in
a University of California grad­
charge of Lt. Francis Bowen.
uate.
The Christmas Eve poem is as
NOVA, K.O.’D, “THROUGH”
follows:
After his six-round K.O. Friday
Tonight a sentry’s rifld' is my
by Tami Mauriello, New York
Christmas tree,
The night wind sighing is my heavyweight; Lou Nova, the liter­
ate California yogi-man-so-callcd
Yuletidc cry.
With lonely step I watch the silent says he is through with the ring
(Continued on page 7, column 4) for a while.
i Timber Wolf Air Show
Features Pvt. Johnson
Lt. Waite, War Veteran, Is New Camp
Adjutant, and Succeeds Major Miller
The new Camp Adjutant, 1st Lt.
Post Adj.
Gilbert A. Waite, is a Yankee by
birth, “and proud of it.” He suc­
ceeds Major Victor N. Miller, the
camp’s first adjutant, recently
transferred.
World War No. 1 made Lt. Waite
a man of the West. He had grown
up in Springfield, Mass., was grad­
uated at high school there, and in
1916 had answered the call of
President Wilson and gone to the
Mexican border as an enlisted man
in the 2nd Infantry of the Massa­
chusetts National Guard. After that
he had joined the regulars for the
other war, serving in the 39th In-
fantry of the Fourth Division.
But he was discharged from the
Army at Ft. Lewis. Wash., and he
remained in that state, becoming
sales manager for the Northwest­
ern W'ooden Ware Co., at Tacoma.
LL Gilbert A. Waité. who
He was commissioned in the re­
serves in 1934 and was made a 1st «ucreeds Major V. N. Miller.
lieutenant in 1937. He has been
president of the Reserves Officer»’ building, hangs a sign reading as
Assn , of Washington and he went follows: "Motto, Adjutant’s Dept.
into active duty in this war on —The difficult we do immediately
May I. 1942. m the Second Military — the impossible takes a little
Area Then he attended the ad­ ioager”
One noteworthy fact about the
jutant general’» school at F l
Washington. Md He has been an headquarters personnel is that it
assistant adjutant ta the Third Di­ consists nsainiy of eastern men,
vision and has made active tours from the New York area, who were
of duty He came to this camp as picked for technical qualifications.
| knowledge of military correspond­
assistant adjutant.
Behind hia desk here, in a cor­ ence and procedure Yet the master
ner >«f the Post Headquarter* sergeant.« are from t’alifornia.
Big Talent Broadcast
Scheduled for Monday
LINK FORMS ON THE RIO HT
For the two performances of
“The First Year” tonight in The.
atre No. 3, tickets will be is­
sued by thé Special Service of­
fices of the 96th and 104th Di­
visions and SCU 1911. This will
also prevail for seats to the ra­
dio broadcast show next Mon­
day. So see the SSO of your
command for tickets.
Radio Station KOIN to Produce
Air Program in Post Theatre
Camp Adair is on the air!
With a galaxy of pretty girls, singers, comedians, mu­
sicians and even a double portion of masters of ceremony,
this post will usher in the first of a series of weekly radio
shows at Theatre No. 3 next Monday (Dec. 21).
This show and subsequent ones on following Mondays
will I h > presented and produced for men in the service by ra­
dio station KOIN, Portland outlet for the Columbia Broad­
casting System. It will be a complete one-hour show starting
Dramatic Skits on Air at nine o’clock with the final half hour released to the net­
Tell Dunkerque Story work.
96th Broadcast
Praises British
And Remind American
Of Rugged Resistance
Art Kirkham and John Carpen­
ter, two of the best known radio
personalities in the northwest will
emcee. Joseph Sampietro and his
augmented KOIN orchestra will be
featured.
Victory Girl
Among other top notch perform­
ers scheduled to be seen (and
heard) are petite Suzanne Burce,
Oregon's Victory Girl; Carrol
Worth, the one and only Miss Ore­
gon, and the celebrated KOIN
chorus of twelve under the leader­
ship of Jimmy Riddell.
Then there will Le Red Dunning,
the Hermit of Hermiston, Norman
Anderson, in his side-splitting
comedy dance routine, and Andy
Clausen, tenor. This by the way
will be Andy’s last appearance be­
fore the mike as a civilian. He
joins you and you and you next
week.
More Girls
There will be songs by Marvel
Riddell and Katheryn Porter, too
according to the script written by
Bill Mears.
Ted Cooke is the producer and
Earl Denham is the sound engin­
eer. Arrangements for this series
of entertainment were made by
Henry Swartwood, head of KOIN’a
program department and Lt.
George H. Godfrey, post special
services officer.
♦
Radio Boss
Britain's stubborn refusal to be
defeated was a subject of a recent
96th Division broadcast, in the cur­
rent series intended to convey a
true impression of the war situa­
tion as it developed.
The broadcast cnsisted of infor-
| mation given directly and through
dramatic skits, the first being the
This camp’s scrap drive has gathered in the German trench mortar which has adorned the . story of the evacuation at Dun­
Dallas courthouse lawn. Left to right: O. E. \nderson. American Legion post commander; Mrs.
kerque, as told by officers and
Andrew Irwin. Jr.; Capt. Tony Frank; Mayor Leif S. Finseth.—Statesman cut.
boatmen taking part in it. The ac­
count ended with a fancied dia­
logue between a wife and a boat-
man, on his return home. It wen t
as follows;
“And just where have you been
lalligagging till this hoar of the
morning, Mr. Neeland— if I may
Field House Said Best ask?"
Post Floor in Country
“I knew it—well, for your infor­
mation, I’m a bloomin’ hero—been
director of KOIN.
sailin’ over to Dunquerque to have
The date, December 23rd,
a talk with his nibs Hitler—and
The time, 8:00 p. m.
I told him a thing or two.”
The place, the Field House.
Drama will move
. - into
___ Camp
___ p subject called married life. It rates
Keep
all
of
the
above
in
mind,
“Do you mean to say that you ■
stage of
Adair tonight on t_„_
__ Wat
___ fifth in* length of run shows that
soldier. They are vital statistics were in that fight in Dun­
have
run
on
Broadway.
It
is
three
Department theater No. 3, when
acts of uproarious, fast-moving ac­ in connection with what promises to querque—.”
Frank Craven’s three-act smash
“Just like a woman—to faint at
tion and a preview of the cast be the real gala social event of a
comedy, “The First Year,” is pre­ which will handle it indicates top gay holiday season — (’amp Adair's a time like this—and me with no
Dinners, Trimmin's
pre-Christmas dance.
sented EM of the Post, as the sec­ presentation.
tea for 28 hours.”
ond unit of USO-Camp Shows
California-born Pamela Wright
Feature in All Outfits
The second skit consisted of talk
The dance — by far the most pre­
brought here.
will play Grace Livingstone, fem­ tentious planned to date — will be by civilian defenders of London fol­
Presentations will be at 6 and inine lead who struggles through held in the post Field House, hither­ lowing an air raid and the third
Christmas dinner will be a grand,
8:15 p. m. it was announced last the first year of married life with to devoted to wrestling, lioxing, was made up of the talk of Brit­ festive and sumptuous occasion in
night. The No. 3 theater is located her spouse, Tommy Tucker, played basketball, volley ball and other ish fliers bombing Berlin.
me.ss halls all over this camp. De­
at Av. D and N. 7th St.
by Irving Mitchell. Mitchell, who such uncouth, albeit healthy, sports.
“Churchill has st»‘ed that Jhe tails will be incompleto until next
There will be no admission is a native of Portland, started When the dancing gets under way danger of British invasion of Brit- week, when they will be published
charge, per the good old USO cus- acting professionally in a repetoire it will prove an assertion made aia is not past,’’ said the speaker in full, hut now it may be said
tom, but tickets will be necessary company touring the northwest.
months ago by Col. R. E. M. Des who reviewed the war against that every dinner wil be as home­
Wires, Mails Bring Big
Supporting players are Kathryn Islets, the engineer who built Camp Britain since Dunkerque. “We like as careful preparation and good
and may be obtained by EM via
your special services officers, to Sheldon, Leonard Lord, Johanna . Adair, that the field house has the know it never will he past, until fellowship can make it.
Pile Season's Greetings
whom they will be apportioned in Douglas, Douglas Rutherford, John j best dance floor of any army post Hitler and his gang of interna­
In many cases commanding offi­
Marston, Madora Keene, Howard in the country.
ratio for the Post complement.
tional hoodlums have been beaten cers will preside and ther<will be
By wire, airmail und special de­
Tonight’s show will be the first Watson.
The Hostess League will provide once and for all. We must all re­ special guests and, in some cases,
of three dramatic presentations
The play deals with a wife who hundreds of feminine dancing part­
Anda
I
though
,,ver
y- Governors of many statea
speeches
igid
song.
<
_
______
member that the British Empire
coming to Camp Adair as part of gets uptown airs while husband, ners from Corvallis, Albany, Sa­
could not concentrate all its efforts the menu will vary, it will consist are sending greetings to Camp
the USO-Camp Shows cycle. On remains prosiac and practical, the lem, Dallas, Independence, Mon-
on the Battle of Britain. A far- mainly of the traditional Christmas Adair soldiers from these states.
Jan. 6 the noted stage play, “Ar­ complete rookie, y’know. They riot ■ mouth and no doubt other places as
dishes, with an abundance of ev­
I These greetings and messages of
senic and Old Lace” will show here. through scads of trouble, just like [ yet undisclosed. Attractive num- flung empire such as the British erything.
Empire
must
of
necessity
have
its
good will and Interest have come
Jan. 20 will bring “Flyir.g Colors." good soldiers and it all ends very tiers have been listed as intermis­
In
addition,
the
quantity
and
va
­
“The First Year” deals with a happily, just like everything else. ión features. Music will be fur- armed forces spread over the face riety of gift boxes already coming to the Defense Recrcution Office,
of the earth.
Corvallis, which has been giving
I nished by S Sgt. Bob Black’s aug­
“We will not know, until future in is such that soldiers will be well "Neighborhood Parties" in honor
mented St’U orchestra.
fed even if they stay in barracks-
historians record the facts, just
of soldiers from particular states
Although complete arrangements
provided they don’t open those
why the Hitlers and the Goerings
or sections of the country.
have not all been announced as yet,
packages until Christinas. Inspect­
and the people of their ilk earn«-
So far messages have come from
take our word for it
or take
ing officers are expected to be
into being. But it will be recorded
It’s nice work if you can get it, and you can. All soldiers
Governors
Saltonstall, of Massa­
the word of the Special Services
lenient about the appearance of
that the tight little island had a
who wish to make some Christmas change $5-37 the day—
Officer if you'd rather — that this
barracks during Christmas week. chusetts; Lehmsn, of New York;
brave people and a brave fighting
may do so by pulling carrots this coming Sunday.
dance the night before the night
Day rooms as well as mess halls Bricker, of Ohio; Schricker, of In­
force of which its government
Telephone 2941, Special Service officer, or notify your com­
before Christmas will be one to re-
will be decorated ingeniously and diana; Van Wagoner, of Michigan;
could be proud, for in battle they elaborately through the holidays, Griswold, of Nebraska; Moses, of
manding officer. You will be told where and when te report.
: member.
did not falter and in the darkest with greens and colored paper, and North Dakota; Ford, of Montana;
At present the plan is for buses to pick you up here at camp,
hour of the German Blitz they were there will lie informal entertain­ Clark, of Idaho; Maw, of Utah;
Sunday at 8 a. m„ and carry you to the California Packing Co.
IS IT WOOfNNMNl?
not found wanting
at Salem, where farmers will call with their conveyances and
ment in addition to the radio pro­ Miles, of New Mexico; Olson, of
The Timber Wolves have a howl.
"The people of Britain, sailors, grams received everywhere.
take you to nearby farms. Food and hot drinks will be supplied.
California.
She knew that. She just wondered soldiers and air force, ht«yc set a
It is reported that 30,000 tons of carrots wil) be lost unless
how to spell it.
great example for us of America
they are pulled and taken from the damp ground, where they
would rot, and placed in sacks on platforms in the field. To
She Sings, Too
repeat—it’s nice, clean work and all the carrots you can eat.
They make your hair curb
Play "First Year"
To Be Here Tonight
Big All-Camp Dance
Is Holiday Feature
Smash Comedy Is USO Show at
Theatre 3; Two Presentations
Christmas in Camp
Will Be Festive Day
Many State Governors
Felicitate Camp Adair
Want $$ for Christmas?
New Mobile Laundry Requests Privilege
Of Cleaning Fatigues Without Charging
Six New Tailor Shops
Opened in Camp Area
Have you noticed that well-tai­
lored appearance so prevalent in
Camp Adair?—Under GI raincoats
that is.
Well, investigation revealed that
there are six new tailor shops in
operation in camp, all under the
supervision of Frank L. Sberman,
Eugene tailor who came to camp
and made good in a big way.
They are located as follow*:
PX No. 3, D ave. and 1st st
North; No. 6, D ave. and 9th I st.
I
North; No. 8, C ave. and Sth at.
North; No. 11. C ave. and 7th 1 st
i
South; No. 13. D ave. and 7th st
Sooth, and No. 17 Hospital area.
The original tailor «hop in the
Officers’ Exchange is still svsil-
<Mv h> both officers arid EM.
Morris Stavsky Finds
2nd Stripe on Return
CpI Morris Stavsky of the Medics
returned this week from a visit to
his home in New York City. He
ws« with his family six days.
Cpl. Stavsky was a Me when
he left, the promotion going
through during his absence.
Corvallis Elks Hold
Bridge Dinner Tonight
The Elk* w> Corvallis are staging
a «upper for you and your wife to- >
night at 8:30. Or if not your wife,
your sweetheart, just m long as
you’re an Elk, you're welcome.
A short lodge miiot and an in I
teresting Chnilma« program will 1
follow th*
Music by Delbert
Moore and Mr». W. F Gn«kinx of j
t urvallu high sxh*»l
kalhryn Porter—Kay ss she is tagged by her fellow radio-
ile*—is KOIN'S star soprano and «ill he fralared at the mike in
the initial program to he broadcast by KOIN la a regular Monday
Serie« from < amp tdair te Northweat dialers.
Your dirty fatigue uniforms will
I be cleaned witnout charge hy that
mobile laundry which appears to be
stuck in the mud at Av. D and 1st
St. South, but is really going
places.
First it was a sergeant that said
that, over the telephone. Then an­
other sergeant, face to face. Then
a lieutenant, in the presence of
I other mobile laundry soldiers, who
I all »mile«! and nodded their heads.
It was more than an invitation.
' They seemed eager about it. They
said It would be all right to put it
in the paper.
But what if all the men in camp
try to take advantage of the offer?
The lieutenant's smile merely wid­
ened. Quite all right, he insisted.
I
The mobile laundry is prepared to
take care of the laundry of 16,000
men in the field, and this is a
c«mp, with plenty of water and
other facilities.
The personnel of the mobile
laundry belong to Co. B, of the
691st Q.M Bn , and thia is only the
second fully organized mobile
laundry in the army. It consists of
16 units and there are four units
to h platoon. The commanding of­
ficer is Capt Charles D. McCollis.
ter and the other officera are 2nd
Lts. J. E. Rubenstein. Theron Kim.
brick, Leo Davis, and Harry Prev­
an. The company has a strength of
347 men. Engineers and mechaniea
were picked for their experience,
the others started from scratch
and if you send your fatigues in
they’ll get more training.
Each unit on wheel* weighs more
than 10 tons and is drawn by trac­
tor. Water for the washing cornea
by pump and hose from any con­
venient source. Here it la the camp
water supply. In the field it might
be lake or stream. The mobile
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