Camp Adair Sentry
Who Done It?
Who done it. Sgt. Paul S. McCormick, Hdq. Co., SCU, can’t say,
but from the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Lakin, Kans.,
to which he does not belong, the sergeant has received a mimeographed
sheet entitled "Buzz,” which contains an up-to-date parody of Clement
Moore’s famous poem, “ Twas the Night Before Christmas.’’ It goes:
"Pwas the night before Christmas and all round the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse,
For Grandma was welding an airplane frame
M hile Mother was riveting wings on the same.
Big Brother was driving a tank east of Sfax
And Sister was drilling a new squad of WAACs.
Poor Father, dear Father, was out of a job
Because of his gender, you know. The poor slob!
So he wasn't at home and ’twill shock you, I know,
To learn he was down in a girlie-girl show.
So he wasn t at home to observe any mouse
That wanted to stir in the old manor house.
The house was quite quiet and not a thing stirred
For the mortgage compounded it’s interest unheard.
And no one expected Old Santa to come;
He couldn’t because transportation was bum.
Priorities prevented his making his toys,
His reindeer were slaughtered for meat for the boys.
His whiskers were shaved to make stuffing for seats
His belly was empty—due to rationing of meats.
His sled had been caught in the drive for old scrap
To be melted and shot at the Nazi or Jap.
So the mouse couldn’t stir. He was barely alive
For OPA cut the heat to a bare sixty-five.”
Thursday. December 24.1942.
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Fight Night Go
One Lusty Show
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2 Knock Outs Enliven
7-Bout Card; TKO's
Prolific; Bettina and
DeGrasse in Rare Form
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League Gets Hot
As Miranda Kiss
Good Response For
Handball Tourney
Response has been enthusias­
tic for the Camp Adair open
handball singles tournament
which starts Jan. 11 it was re­
vealed yesterday by Fire Chief
A. L. Sherk, veteran player of­
ficial who has taken a sort of
ex-officio role in helping round
out the details of play, and
would-be entrants are urged to
get their entry blanks filled in
early, at either Field House,
Fire Station No. 1 or at Sentry
Sports Desk, Public Relations
office.
Purpose of the good-fellow­
ship tournament, open to all, is
to uncover latent handball tal­
ent to later develop a strong
Post team this spring. All play­
ers of previous experience, par­
ticularly on four-wall courts,
are requested to “get out and
get into the tourney.”
Full details may be obtained
by phoning 3131.
Boxing is now “on the map” at
this post. With Wednesday
night’s seven Field House bouts
providing a beautiful “historic
background” for events to come,
the monthly series of boxing (ami
possibly wrestling)) programs was
launched. It will be climaxed with
an all-post tournament in early
spring.
Two KOS, three TKOs and two
draws were the net in the first
official bouts, witnessed by some
600 bloodthirsty EM, refereed by
matchmaker Cpl. Jim Shackleton,
“timed and announced by Pfc. Moe
Tankc and sized up as follow* by
arch-reporter Pvt. Glen (Pvt. Pete)
Peterson:
Beebc-Rilejr Draw
In spite of lusty cries of “come
These Men of 96th Go
on, mix it up” heavyweights Pfc.
Earl Beebe of the Post QM and
100 Per Cent in Drive
Pvt. Art Riley of the 246 QMs just
couldn’t seem to find each other
In its first indication of the
and moved around the ring to a
“
spirit
” of things to come the 381st
slow draw.
Came another fairly-called draw, Infantry Regiment of the 96th
after Pvt. Emmet Jackson of 246 Division announces the successful
QMs and Pct. Sam Longert of the completion of a 100 percent War
1st Bn. Hdqs. Co., 381st Inf., had Bond Drive.
The entire command swung be­
belted each other around for three
rounds. And then (sezour scribe), hind the example of its command­
came the fun:
ing officer, Col. M. E. Halloran,
Pvt. Pete DeGrasse, who once with a mass effort unique in such
stayed eight rounds with perpetual a youthful organization, to prove
motion man, Henry Armstrong, that record-breaking bond drives
stepped into the. old squared cir­ aren’t reserved for civilian groups.
cle and proceeded to drum an eight­
The drive produced many ex-
brat boogie on Pvt. Rudy Silva of Bmpleg of sacrifice and of the
the 336th KM. After 1 min. 20 sec. 1 personal patriotism of men who
of the third round Pete caught „Ve unti| it actUally hurt. There
Rudy with a wicked left-handed j are storjes of men who followed
haymaker, which dropped him. ■ their buddies to hospital cots iji
Despite a Dempsey-slow-count by|order
inRure their participation
Halloran’s Regiment
Is All-Out on Bonds
Battling Boneheads in
Drive Ahead as Timber
Wolf Cage Teams
Round Vi-Way Mark
Two teams strengthened their
lead as the Timber Wolf league
basketball schedule blasted past
half-way mark this week but in
one league—the Artillery—the driv­
ing Boneheads conquered the Bees,
29-17, and broke their leadership
deadlock with the idle Redlegs.
All teams are rounding into mid­
season form and the entire sched­
ule is running hotter than a Car­
men Miranda kiss, especially among
the top quintets.
There were three particularly
corking games played during the
week in the Field House gym. The
Mountaineers hoisted their Infant­
ry league supremacy to 5 wins, 0
losses, when they climbed over the
Second-place Gulls, 30-21; Head-
quarters Company vaulted higher
atop the Special Troops ladder,
with a 24-17 win over QM.
The Artillery Bees managed to
get stung all around, losing not
only to the Boneheads, but drop­
ping a tilt to the Falcons, though
they still hung onto third place in
their league.
Thompson, with 13 points, was
high-man for the winning Moun­
taineers, while 6 foot 10 inch Cpl.
Dinsmore, the high peak of the
range, scored 8 and Sgt. Brown, 6.
Polivchek (11), high-pointed for
the Gulls. In the Bonehead-Bee
battle, Trammel (8) and Cpl. Kuk-
lin (6), were high-point players
on the winning team.
Games are to be arranged on
this week’s schedule Tuesday, Wed­
nesday, Thursday and Friday ove-
Tiings, at Field House. The Tues-
day double will see the Engineers
tackling the Geysers of Infantry
league, at 1900 and the Snoopers
locking horns with QM of the Spec­
ial Troops at 2030. Standings
date as given by Lt. Jos. Quin:
INFANTRY LEAGUE
Team
Mountaineers (414th)
Gulls (413th)
Geysers (415th)
Engineers (329th)
Pill Rollers (med)
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outfits in the news columns of
The Sentry. Turn your stuff in
to the Camp Public Relations
office, where it goes through
censorship and is prepared for
publication.
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Admission: 50c, plus 5c tax.
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Boneheads (889th)
Redlegs (387th)
Bees (385th)
Generals (Div. Art)
Falcons (929th)
Insurance
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FOR RENT
York, to appear in the show.
The Great Prof.
The great Prof. Atlas, securely
bound and trussed and then placed
in a strait jacket, reputedly has
ten thousand ollars which says he
can get out of the jacket and untie
himself in 30 seconds.
Since it’s smack-dab after pay­
day and, considering the pay-day
attitude some of the troopers have
Three Hour Frolic
about their long-green, somebody
On- New Year's Eve
may take the professor.
He'll be there to be taken—if
(Continued Trom rage 1)
he doesn’t forget his special pass
experience with Cuban music to and try to make it through the
help in the formation of a rhumba west gate on conversation.
band. Principally wanted are those
I
who play Spanish guitars, maracas.
Marcine Drushella
claves, trumpets, bongos, drums,
bass—or any other rhumba instru­ To Be New Sergeant
ments.
In Galloway's Life
S Sgt. Bob Black’s SCU Band,
augmented and smoother aggrega­
Maybe she had a taste of his
tion than ever, will furnish musical cooking and maybe his rugged
(Grayling, Michigan) ways bowled
score for the entire program.
Talent in the jamboree, GI or her over, but anyway Marcine
otherwise, represents top-line per­ Drushella, of Albany, has an­
formers who have had professional nounced that she will wed Cpl.
experience in the civilian entertain­ Clarence Galloway “very soon.”
Cpl. Galloway is a cook with
ment world. Many are known to
soldiers of Camp Adair, some will SCU Hq. company. He got what­
be appearing for the first time ever start was necessary by boiling
here. Soldier performers will rep­ GI coffee over an open fire way
back in the days of Tent City. That
resent all divisions.
was before coffee was even ra­
Amazing Amazons
tioned, remember.
the referee, interrupted by a re- (¡n their unit8. quota- Onc man
One feature of the show which
Miss Marcine, young and pretty, morse-stricken
Pvt.
DeGrassc, ba(,k
wjfK.onsin on an elnerKen.
Pvt. Sharritt pointed out nobody is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudy lasted out the count of ten
I cy furlough hear(1 of the (lrivc
should miss, will be the climactic, Paula Drushella of Albany.
Pvt. Henry Ballard, also 246th • and mailed
.. . , his nnn1inot
, ,, for
. , the
hn
application
down-curtain performance of the
QMs, made short work of Pvt. Bob
Class A allotment.
“Amazing Amazons.’’ The ten Am­
Derikson of 383nd. Inf., taking 1
Chaplain Cleland Transferred
Pvt. W. H. Haht, Service Com­
azons are creatures of superb
Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Gail Cleland, min. 10 sec. to convince the referee
pany,
just sold his farm prior to
form arid loveliness, unassailable divisional chaplain of the 96th Div­ that Bob wasn’t the boy to whip
entering the service and with the
virtue and “not the least of all” ision, has been transferred to the him.
proceeds he bought the maximum
possessed of dancing ability.
The next bout was stopped after
Port of Embarkation, New Orleans.
in bonds permitted under the Class
Pvt. Sharritt and Sgt. Angelo
58
seconds
of
the
third
round,
but
Chaplain Cleland has contributed
Calebrese, the well-known m.c. a number of his poems to this in it Pvt. Joe Bettina of 156 F.A., E series and then signed the Class
from Medics, will collaborate as camp newspaper and he will be 44th Div. showed why he is con­ A allotment to continue the growth
“Jesters at Ceremony.”
sidered a prixe younger edition of of his bond fund.
greatly missed.
Pvt. Fred Radwick, of Regi­
A featured vocalist will be John I
his brother Melio, former light
mental
Headquarters, received a
Walsh, operatic baritone who, be­
heavyweight champion.
HIT .838 SEZ SCHACHT
service man’s bonus from his civ­
fore coming to Army service, sang
The
ex-Trenton,
New
Joisey
World’s greatest natural ball­
with th? Mexican Opera Company. player, according to Al Schacht, Golden Glover, 175-pounder, ilian employer just in time to add
One need add nothing to the was a Cuban at Nuevo Laredo, squared off wjth Pvt. “Sandy” $700 in bonds to the regimental to­
statement that Cpl. Nick Sansonia, Mcx. The Cuban, said Schacht, hit Lehrhoff of the Post Guard De­ tal and then, thinking that not
SCU 1911, will be there with piano .838 for 100 games; played every tachment and former New York enough, signed the allotment for
and accordion, his best New York position on a ball-nine, Schacht university boxing team member. one bond a month for the rest of
hot spot licks and a fresh GI hair­ swears and, in Schacht's opinion, The boys showed a lot of class for his army service. Officers and men
cut. There are two whistling ar­ is the world’s greatest all-round two action-packed rounds but final­ answered the plea of the War Bond
ly Sandy’s battered nose indicated Officer by voluntarily giving their
tists, Cpl. Lawrence Perez of QM player.—Quoting Al Schacht.
few leisure hours to insure the suc­
a TKO for Bettina.
and Cpl. Francis Hinkel of IXth
cess of the drive.
Forgot to Duck
Corps Signal troops. Cpl. Hinkel
Smartest saluters among the of.
In the final beut. Pvt. Dominick
will also work out with S Sgt. fleers of a certain T.W. headquar­
WOMAN GOLFER SERVES
DeAmbrosia
of Post QMs volun­
Black's band.
ters battery i* Lt. Miller, it’s re­ teered to substitute as an opponent
Grey-haired Mary K. Browne,
Three Singing Sisters
ported by N.L.S. The wives of 1st for Pvt. Johnny Wood» and then
great woman golfer, is a “most
There will be the Three Lewis Sgt. Pavillard. T/Sgt. Caudron and proceeded to carve out a decisive popular” Red Cross director, scrv-
Sisters, charming and talented vo­ S,Sgt. Novotny are thanked for victory. Though downed twice in
ing “somewhere in Australia” with
cal trio who arc, incidentally, helping make the day room home­ the first. Pvt. Woods held out until
forces of General MacArthur.
daughters of Lt. Col. Robert L. like. But Pfc. Meyers sewed the he forgot to duck in the middle of
Lewis, commanding officer. 3«lst < curtains. Barrack 1102 quartet the third and caught a left that left
TWICE BAT CHAMP
F.A. of the 96th Div. The trio will I consists of S Sgt. Hellwig, and him so staggered the fight was
For
his se<-oml year, Ted Wil­
l>c featured in several numbers. I Pvts. Champion, Dempsey and stopped.
liams
of
the Boston Revis, now of
Pvt. Edwin Jacobson. hand bal­ Muse. T/Sgt. Ocltjcn wants to
Those were the fights, but the
Navy air force, won the American
ancer and acrobat, of the 9«th sig­ j know how to spell “illiterate.’’
chap deserving credit for excep­
tional pre-fight entertainment is league batting championship with
nal corps, who toured the world as I
.35«, still far off his .40« of 1941.
“European Master of Equilibrium, I Pvt. Lucero, Btry. B, in a T.W. Pvt. Ed. J*cobscn, formerly of
will give one of hi* strictly top­ t battalion, pays his expense« with Copenhagen, though curcntly seen
Both in the Army Now
cream performances.
prize money won at dances, Pvt. around 9«th Signal Co. Pvt. Jacob­
PVt.
Tordy, for 20 yean a vio­
As a final,, smashing treat in Szcmersky reveals, as correspond- son put on some amazing acts of
linist in Paul Whiteman’s orches­
“
self-CTmtrol
”
and
balancing.
He
the program thus far revealed, the i ent.
balance* on anything — rocking tra, and also in the Columbia Sym­
noted e«cape artist. Prof. Atlas, is
chairs,
tables, wheels or what have phony Orchestra, forgot his violin
making a special trip from New
MAJ. GALER. 13; JAPS. O.
when he was inducted and had to
I you.
Once a hero in sport«, now a
go to camp. He had time to go to
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hero of war, Maj. Robert Galcr
the home of a friend in Los An­
’<4 the U.S. marine corps cam« i Post Football Experts
gelas and try to get one. The
back for a time, Saturday to his I Pick Georgian Peaches
friend was oat. When would he ba
in? Oh, his wife didn't know. The
hum.-, town. Seattle.
The »-year-old flyer, who 12 .To W in Rose Bowl Game guy was in the army, somewhere.
years ago was the basketball
So it goes. Tordy’s a Timber Wolf
Georgia's football party of «*,
infantryman
hero who set. a scoring confer­
which ha* been rolling eroe* coun­
ence record at play with Univer­
try to their New Year*« tete-a-tete
Cpl. P. V. Guise ha rd of Camp
sity >if Weebtagtoo. has come
with University of - California at Edwards, Mass., keeps automo­
hack with anothrr record It’s
Los Angel«*, ia the Pasadena bile* as a hobby. He has three Roils
Jap bombers and aero fighter-
Rose Bowl proclaim to be twice- Royces and four other can.
vs. Maj. Galar. shot down over
weaned:
Guadalcanal. It stands:
Kiet, by war-time travel; sec­
WHO IS E. H. L.?
Maj.
Galer
1$;
Jap
flyer*.
0.
ALTO
AC<7RE,t
ond. according to C ea rb Wallace
Three times Maj. Qatar •wr-
Maybe
ho had his love U> keep
fire
life
Butts, by the fact they’ve h«en in­
vived dot» of tlte plane ha w*a
him warm. Anyway the Albany
bikg la m
stalled st l«-3 favorite* over the
Chamber of Commerce has had
pitotfn»
• *nd >11 others
Ueiana. la ia psyebotogwally bad.
The
Jap«,
he
said,
have
proved
•a GJ. overeoat turned m which
Reliable Stork
The Camp Adair expert*. who
to be good flyer*, ready to die
they understand was lost in Al­
are legion, aeem to be picking the
rather than surrender “wnMl
bany at a danee. The owner is a
Peer he» end grviog away aix T/f; the eoat size is 34 Reg.
pci-oners found out bow well
INSURANCE A
f>«iwt* an an men-money basis.
the
American-
tre-it
them
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and hears the initials E. H. L.
Elks Mdg.
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Battery A Wins Two Awards
Battery A of Col. W. P. Sam-
met’s battalion has won the lat­
est T.W. artillery awards for
both best mess hall and best
supply room, run respectively,
by S/Sgt. Dunn and S Sgt.
Blazin.
HOGG BROS
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Mountain <S(d(e> -Power Co.
rax-Paying. Private
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re, the cities and rural
I 'unding ( amp Adair.