Page Four
Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, January 7,1943.
Gray Ladies Make Day
At Hospital Cheerful
N’York ain’t evah even seen a
live tree.”
"You guy* is right, only der is
Prospect park where dey grow dem
—big bunches of dem, millions of
dem.”
Things oyu can see in Company
33 Women of Polk, Linn, Benton
Counties, Red Cross Volunteers
HOW ABOUT VALLE OF
M. P. PROTECTION?
Some Yardbird figures that
a buck private really makes
$267.50 a month instead of $50.
First, the $50 itself is ju« a
gift. He has shelter and the
barrack accomodations, with
bed, light and water and heat
bills, would amount to $40 a
month. Army meals are figured
at $90. Expert dental and medi­
cal care, $5. Legal advice when
wanted, $5. Army training and
schooling, $50 a month. Clothes,
$7.50. Entertainment, about $10
a month, with library and ser­
vice club facilities and free
worship.
Buck Sgt. Walls leading long-
drawers brigade to Medics, who
have no respect for anybody’s pri­
vacy, and Watts bellowing orders
with the sharpest prise-winning,
Have you ever done your turn at an Army hospital?
hog-calling
lungs you even en­
Then you’ll remember the Gray Ladies. As one remembers
if
k I
countered.
1
a friendly smile, and courtesies and thoughtful little kind­
Thirty-four goldbricks disap­
nesses.
pearing in cracks of the barrack
There are now 33 “Gray Ladies” at Station Hospital here.
wall when Sgt. Gasetti appears
with that “I-want-any-six-of-you
Who are they? Explicitly, the "Gray Ladies” are volun­
guys” look in his eyep.
teer Red Cross workers. They are civilians who have com­
Sudden disappearance, into thin
pleted a required course of 18 lecture« presented by the
air, of 100 lighted cigarettes, when
hoxpital staff, finished 24 “probationary” hours and now
it is announced that attention is ful consideration, Lt. Grander has
work regularly in the wards and rooms of Station Hospital.
about to be called. Not done with decided that what soldiers want in
films is simply girls, girls, and
mirrors.
Their work? At Christmas time, I
more girls.
Lt.
Lacy
demonstrating
six
ways
A
SOLDIER
SPEAKS
for instance, the Yule was made |
not to salute, including the In­
“They cheer loud and lustily,”
more festive for hospitalized men.
Th* following letter written
dian salute, “Hi* Joe” salute, timid- he said, when asked as to the basis
through help of the Gray Lady to "Yank,” the Army Weekly,
curved salute, uncertain, jerky for this conclusion. “They seem to
Corps, They purchased and
wan printed in their Mail Call
salute, droopy, tired boy salute, like it most when the girls do not
wrapped gifts, decorated the audi- column.
and the non-salutc of the soldier wear too much clothing.”
torium, I made Christmas candles
"It is an oddity as far ax
who ducks when an officer appears.
Superman is not a popular film
for men i to send home. They practical religion goes that the
Pvt. “Williamsburg” O’Brien on character here, but Donald Duck
brought out from neighboring com-
chaplain for the common soldier
K.P., getting chance to even and Popeye are favorites. Comics
munities — and accompanied — is a commissioned officer. Psy­
scores, by telling Top Kick where are widely relished. Altogether the
groups of carolers who sang in the chologically, this puts him apart
to sit in mess hall and pointing attendance holds up in a way to
wards. They sponsored a Christ­ from Home of the men and pos­
finger in no uncertain terms—"Sit indicate that camp movies are
Sir, Id lik* to put in for OCS.'
mas pageant and a play. And these
sibly makes it harder for him­
th-re!”
about tops, as morale entertain­
were all things extra-curricular.
self. The original “Fisher of
Entire company scrambling into ment.
At Station Hoxpital, supplement­ Men” would probably have taken
living tableau of stone statues in
Incidentally, Lt. Grander would
ing regular work of the hospital
the grade of first class private
the mist when Capt. Nelson pulls
like
it understood that the 11 men
recreations staff, they act as li­ as the most effective place for
reveille in the cold, gray dawn all
who handle the films and ran them
brarians, play games with patients,] a chaplain."
of a sudden.
arc working as hard as any men
sponsor programs, conduct classes
Pvt. Carl E. Peterson,
—Pvt. Charles M. Soroka.
in camp. He says they do a heap
in English, assist generally in ac­ I
Fort Sill, Okla.
of
work that the rest of the camp
tivities during their hours at Red !______________________________
Sgt. Gerald A. Griffin, who | reconnaissance duty somewhere.I Sergeant's Heroism
doesn't know about, not being
Cross center. In wards, to which
passed nine* months at delivering I When he awakened he looked from
familiar with movie technique. For
Lauded by Many
they have been assigned, they talk
American soldiers to war ports in the window an saw, to his amaze­
example, every foot of film has to .
and read to men, maintain a “shop,
ment, that the train was at the
Europe, Asia, Africa and Austral­
(Contmotd
Trom
Page
1)
be inspected before the film is ,
ping service,” answer the requests
125th St. station in New York Vity.
for magazines, books and games by
ia, is now picking up recruits at
» » >
——. •
Within a few hours Sgt. Griffin cock and Russell Parker, farmers shown, to fix responsibility in case
of scratches or flaws of any kind.
bed-ridden patients.
rail terminals in Oregon and de­ was on a transport. He learned of the vicinity.
Testament Served in
Carl Guntert, with Corporal This takes hours, every day.
For that is their work. The work
livering them at this camp.
that the Navy did not yet have
One War; Sent Again
Because of the flood, there was
of patriotism; or of love, if you
lie’s in the artillery of the Tim- enough men to handle the guns on Evatt and Private Bozza, witnessed
will. Financially, there is no re­
I I her Wolf Division and this account all the ships. So he was taught all Franklin’s feat. Guntert himself difficulty in getting scheduled films
I
“...'.and I pray that you may
muneration for them. Yet the Gray
of his military service may be the about a Navy gun and did not find started to aid Franklin and Smith and it took much time and effort
bring it back."
Ladies work regular, assigned
J first information received by re­ it difficult. He was at guns on when be saw Mrg. Guntert clinging to make substitutions and keep the
The words are in u letter written I cruits he has shepherded- the first transports carrying American to a . alf submerged tree and swam shows going. According to Lt.
hours each week.
Christmas day by an Oregon moth­ knowledge that he is not quite the troops to Australia, New Caledon­ with her to safety.
Grander, the movie men are work­
“Gray Ladies" is the name that
er. They are directed to a soldier
"Franklin dived into the river so ing seven days a week, all day and
usual sergeant.
ia. Iceland, England, Scotland,
patients conferred upon these wom­
perhaps to you.
Sgt. Griffin grew up in New Egypt, Suez, Russia, Aden and fast we didn’t know what was hap­ well into the night.
en. It was suggested by their uni.
They
are
enclosed
in
a
worn,
York City, attending the Sacred Freetown, Durban and Capetown, pening," said Evatt. "We did not see
form; perhaps u little, too, by the
him for several long seconds. We
comforting cheerinesx that is patched copy of the New Testa­ Heart school and High School of in South Africa.
thought he was a gone goose until
Get Hep, Hep!
ment.
A
soldier
carried
it
with
Commerce. For awhile he was a
brought along when one of them
Americans Eager for Trip
he shouted. Our truck lights pointed
Here it is cats ... a column dedi­
him through one war. A soldier mechanic and then he got himself
comes into a ward.
“All of them were trained men,” to both men and car bobbing along
now nt Camp Adair perhaps you u job as a guard at the Manhattan he says, "and full of spirit.” “They
cated to all you gates who niiss
The corps had its inception dur­
on the main current. Franklin
‘—may have it to carry along to the State Hospital, a hospital for the wanted to go, they were eager
ing World War I. It is an out­
hauled the man to a tree and both their jive and want to keep up on
battlefields of this war.
insane. He also enlisted in the about it and from the way they got up into it and stayed until two what is going on in the music
growth of work rendered by the
258th
F.A., New York National acted you’d have thought they were men in a boat took them off. The
With
it
will
go
the
prayers
mid
American Red Cross, to hospital­
world . . . as you know, the music
Guard, whose home armory is re- on a pleasure trip.”
rescued man was hysterical. He
ized veterans and service men. the faith of thia mother.
situation out here is slightly on
The Little Book is in custody of puted to be the large«t in the
Women of the Gray Ladies Corps
There were plenty of thrills in realized his wife and baby were the square side, so we'll do our
world.
at ('amp Adair are civilians resi­ Mias Carrie Reedy at Service Club
it for Sgt. Griffin. He saw bombs gone. It’s a wonder that he (Smith)
In 1940 he w»» calieri into Feder- drop from planes, saw barrage and Franklin didn’t catch double doggondest to keep you informed
dent in either Linn, Polk or Benton No. 1, awaiting some soldier who
ax to what is going on on the out­
al service and went to Pine Camp, balloons iwer the Red Sea, heard pneumonia.”
really wanta it.
counties.
side . . . you, know . . . civilization
N.Y.. for training with thè 155 firing at the front, in Egypt, and
Bozza related substantially the . . . The Special Services Office is
Th* letter, from Rhoda I). (Hud­
Ax further preliminary to their
m.m.
gun
thè rifle, not thè how- himself fired at submarines and same eye-witness story.
work they were required to attend dleston) Cobb of WiHamink^tlre-
working like mad. and maybe one
itzer. Then he was in maneuvers planes. No men were lost.
Franklin refused to talk.
a course of lectures designed to in­ gon, reads:
of these days we will have some
down South and later in a motor
He traveled some 64,000 miles
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. good solid jump out here . . .
struct them in work of the various
"Doar soldier boy, whoever you convoy to Madison Barracks, N.Y.,
and during four months received William Lee Franklin of 1103 Ore­
hospital departments. They have may be- thia Testament went with
and after that he was guarding no mail at all from the girl he had gon street, Bakersfield, Calif., and here's hoping ... It will probably
all passed a written examination. my boy to France and back and 1
make some of you Jersey boys
bridges at Buffalo.
hoped to marry, because no mail was employed by the Southern Cali­ homesick ... or should we say
Attached now to the Station pray that you may bring it back.
I could reach him. But when th* fornia Telephone company before
M ar Interrupts Romance
Hospital on regular duty here are: If so, let me know, will you please?
“Jivesick" ... to know that the
Then he got a 10 day furlough Navy had men available for the Joining the army two years ago. He
From Corvallis — Mesdames If God is for us, who can stand
Count is playing at the Adams in
Esther L. Arpke, Jeanne L. Auld, against us, and I believe that He and hurried to New ) ork ( ity to work he and others were doing, he is a star baseball player.
Newark, so .we'll just let it go . . .
Perry Stellmacher, Police Chief
marry Miss Betty Mc( arthy, whom was put ashore and sent to Camp
L. R. Breithaupt, Walter T. Dur- is with us.
Better late than never . . . didja
he had met at the hospital, where Upton, L.I., and from there he at Albany, said; “Everyone here
gim. Harry W. Holroyd, Albert E.
know that “CORKY” CORCOR­
"May He ever bless and keep she was a nurse. But on New Year's came
calls
Franklin
a
hero.
There
’
s
no
- ------ to Oregon, far from Miss
Joynson, W. L. Powers, Ilione you and bring you safely home, is
eve, 1941. before they could be McCarthy, but with regular mail doubt he tried to save three lives AN, Harry James’ terrific 17-year-
Schenck, Harry A. Schoth, A. A. the prayer of Sgt. Vernon
old tenor man tied the fatal knot
llud- married, Sgt. Griffin received
and did save one.”
a I service.
Schramm, Roscoe E. Stephenson, dleston'a mother.”
last month . . . November 28th to
wire to report back to Madison
In his battery he is chief of sec­
Mildred Woods, Ralph O. Coleman,
be exact. Mrs. C. is the former
Barracks. He was cautioned not to tion and he teaches new men about War Dept. Film Makes
A. 1. Keeney, C. W. l-abhart, Lona
Betty Pastore of Newark, N. ,1.
1st Sgt. Fletcher
talk about it and not to write. At field fortifications, camouflage,
Ixa-ke. Frank McWhorter, Ben IL
. .. Corky met her LAST year when
Hit
With
Men
of
Adair
Watertown,
N.Y.,
he
anil
others
rifle nomenclature and much more.
Nichol- Sigurd IL Peterson, Grace Now Proud Father
he was playing with Trumpet Man
boarded a train and he fell asleep He likes his outfit and has a high
Dalton, Norina Potter. Gayle Krea-
Sonny Dunham at Frank Dailey's
(Continued From rage 1)
in the ladief that he was off on opinion of the division.
II D. Peterson, Winifred
The picture was made with the Meadowbrook . . . And I thought
First Sergeant ami Mrs. Leonard
Phclp-. Marie Woods.
cooperation of the Motion Picture musicians were fast workers . . .
T. Fletcher announce the birth of
Mesdames llrr- a seven pound 12 ounce son, Lcon- Battery A Is Run by
Academy of Arts and Sciences and Notes to a Cindy City cat . . .
From Albany
th a M Elliott, Marcia faimherty. T. Fletcher, Jr., born December 16. Officers Named 'Smith'
it is based on Vice President Wal­ The Cab is playing at Regal the­
Mesdames 1942, at Memorial hospital, Alban)
lace's statement last spring, that atre, but you're in Camp Adair,
From Monmouth
A. F Duntsch, Stella Taylor.
this war is to decide whether we txk. tsk. tsk . . . Bob Platner. who
Sgt. Fletcher is a veteran of the
The Smith family is fast getting I
are to live in a free world or a wrote “The Jersey You-Know-
From Dallas Mesdames I I.aura army having served 11 years and
control of Btry. A, Major Stangl's ;
slave world. Narration by Walter What,” was bounced into the
has seen service in the Philippines
Cleveland, Grace Dalton, Gayle
I
At the big opening of a Com-
Huston. The film comes here from Army last week at good ole Fort
He was a member of the old battalion, T U artillery The com.
Kreason, IL D. Peterson, I Marie
pany I mess hall. recently in th* Universal Film Exchange in Port­ Dix . . . Pvt, Bob was playing with
mander
is
Lt.
W.
C.
Smith
and
Woods
3lst Infantry which was organized
for foreign service and which has with him arc two lieutenants Timber Wolf infantry, you had to land. being authorised by the Tiny Bradshaw when his Uncle
never been on American soil, named Smith Lt. Mark Darney. I look twice to make sure that every­ United States Army Motion Pic­ called . . . doing a mighty fine job
Tragedy of the Week!
Fletcher left thia organisation in recon naiasa nee officer was married thing was copasetic with G. I. reg­ ture Service, operated by the Chief on tenor and making some bang-up
of Special Service* Branch, War arrangements, too .. . Three stripes
K P in Wrong Place
1936 to return to the United States
ulations Everything was it whit*-
at Salem.
to • mighty terrific gal . . . vocal­
Department.
Many of his former buddies are
curtained window* are in line, if
ist Martha Mears ... in a nice,
What this camp needs, says Pvt. still with the .'list and some prob­
Despite sentiment for the George
The
series
ia
to
be
shown
at
all
china sirup pitchers hung across
throaty way, Martha puts out some
Augu«t T. Genese, is more land- ably were captured with the fall Petty style of decoration, head- I
posts,
camps,
stations
and
over
­
the -riving counter in a Greek
beautiful vocals . e. give her a liz
marks, omething to go by when a of Bataan. Sergeant Fletcher io quarters battery artists are doing I
motif are regulation, V shiny, new seas units and to all military per­
fellow must turn out at dawn for with the Timber Wolf division.
day room mural* about battery ac- ] aesthetic ash cans will do, and sonnel. by order of the Secretary some Monday afternooji about
K.P oi some detail Now, in New
tivities. Sgt. Lloyd Hesse is a . bright, new trays laden with heap­ of War. It is an orientation film 4:30 over KOIN ... Joe Lippman,
York City, where he came from,
meat grinder victim. The barber ing fruit.
and it is of interest here that the ex-J. Dorsey ivory tickler and ar­
didn't do it. That's merely Hesse's '
there's the Empire State build­ Man Rating Machine
arrangements
for showing the ranger for “This is the Army”
From lumberjack to mess ser-!
ing With that looming on the hori­ Maker Is Mail Man
story.
series are in the hands of Lt. May­ has gone off to O.C.S. . . . lucky
geant is the story of John Ferri*,
boy . . . Captain Glenn Miller.
zon, you don't need a compass.
Sgt. M illiam Hare has been so I
"Ole King John." It'» said he was nard 8. Grander. Theatre Officer,
You know where you're going
Pvt. Kieselhorst. hailing from busy handling the mail that he has ! the best cant hia'k swinger in the who wa* the first to attempt ori­ Special Services officer in the
Rut you don't here. Genese in- St. Louis, and now mail man for had no chance to mail Christmas I lumberjack business until a log entation discussion*. last summer Sixth Service Command at Omaha
I " ar gifts. So he's getting out a form 1 eased up on him one day and in the tent area, when he waa in has a bad cold . . . ha, ha. ha, he
s. and the consequences can be ILIq »nd ILIq Hu i
. The other day, for example, tillery, is the inventoi of a bu-i- letter telling everyobdy he is just ! dipped him in the legs for an in­ command of one "company” of the should be here.
Notes to you . . .
stumbled sleepily into a com- nets machine which classifies back from maneuvers.
jury which prohibits the tight-rop­ first men to reach this camp.
—Pvt. Pete.
T Sgt C. C. Pogerzelski, supply, ing act on logs.
War Pietare* on War Time
y street, bound for the kitchen men. He-* a graduate of Andover
Lt. Grander says that in general
that desired his services as K P and Yale, where he was a track Major Stangl's battalion. went to I Did you evvi gear a Georgia
IL looked around, trying to get man, holding the intercollegiate ihftroit, a 14 day furlough paper» cracker too words with a Brooklyn soldiers dislike commercial pictures Whaddya Read, Boys?
in hand, to marry Miss Catherine
oriented, and couldn't. It was the low hurdle championship
suit-suiter* Pvt. Frankie Massaro, about the war and he feels that it Books Coming in Fast
Sgt. Stromley is the father of a Ebling, that beautiful blonde ' Brooklyn" to the boys, didn't even ia all the mor* important to make I
same in every direction and there
girl baby born at Des Moines. Sgt. whose picture is on his desk.
was no star. Just Oregon mist.
unj>a> k his bags before he got into attendance compulsory in the case
The first shipment of new books
of these authoritative film*. He ia
As he wondered what to do, Hedmgcr expects to marry in Jan
a cross-fire of talk.
arrived this week for the two post
along came some soldier, and when uary. Pfc Richardson went to
Btry. "A. in a T W. battalion, re­
thie blond, lean, drawlin’ young­ sure that the men are glad to see libraries from Library Headquar­
Genese asked the way to the mesa church three times, Sunday morn ports that Mi»s Noana Branch and ster from the south was on th* such films, if they are good enough ters, Fort Douglas. Utah. The title»
hall, the soldier pointeci. It was a ing, as a talent scout, listening to Ifc Harther were marnisi st Chap­ hot seat when “Brooklyn” de­ films and if they are shown within include mysteries, sea adventures,
mess ball, all right, and Genese choir*. Pvt Hermann had his pic­ el 19. with Sgt. Eugene Nella as manded he describe a subway, the regular training time, rather and western stories as well as the
set to work. He was busy turning colo oiled. 8 Sgt. is an acrobat and beat man and Pvt T. L. Hanna as Broadway traffic, a night club and than after hours.
current novela. Gray's Anatomy.
"They seem to be fond of leg Glover's Compound Interest and
out clean and shining pots and one* wa* in burl*»que, according bridesmaid, if you can imagine a turnstile. Party broke up later
pans for Company H, when his ab­ to rumour.
that . . Pvt James Giordano, site when “Georgia" said he once asked shows and I like them myself." Insurance Table*. Compton's Pic­
4 E, is said to have the battalion's a New Yorker to draw a picture said the lieutenant when asked tured Encyclopedia, and Who's
sence from the mesa hall for Com­
Pvt Jim Curri* ia in the hospital smallest and widest feet . . , It's ■f a cow and the sketch he got wa* about the pictures that the men Who in Art, are some of th* mani
pany M his own company — was
really do enjoy seeing on their reference books to arrive.
with pleurisy. W* hope that he will said that Sgt Triesch opened his a milk bottle with horns on it
noticed. Tragic, wasn't it?
I w imlew mxl in flu rnia
Telephone hooks of local a
Pvt William N Beldorf be back with us soon.
n a Ihoukeu' you boys from own time. After research and rare
'M
■r 1
J
principal areas of the country are lowing: S Sgt. Edmond J.
being added and are now available Sgt. Frank Williamson; T 4 GeanJ
W. Alden; T/5 Leonard Flieger
for use.
.
Sgt. Jerry Zak, Btry. A, last
Tables have been set up in the
upper floors of the libraries which attended at Eureka, Calif.,
funeral of a brother killed iif w
are now open for writing rooms.
A record atendance last Sun- automobile accident. Pvt. Benjwajg
dav reached over 450. Each library Rappaport went to Clarksdale, HL
has recorded over 2.000 soldiers following the death of his mother
—By 2nd Lt. Wm, L. Dune»n
for the month of November.
CALL 1ST SGT. "MOM”
—IMAGINE
When men start calling their 1st
sgt.
sgt. names
name* —
— well,
---- - considering
—
.. ., that
he puts them on details, that s to
be expected. But they call S Sgt.
Chandler "Mom.” He’s of Group D
in the Timber Wolf Arty. Bn. un­
der Major Joseph H. Stangle. and is
so motherly that the men almost
forget to be homesick.
Capt. Richard J. Bestor, Bn.
plans and training officer, is pro­
moted to major. He came here in
August, with officer cadre from
Camp Barkeley, Texas, and was
Btry. A commander . . • Roger
Cram, Service Btry., is now T 4 . . . ,
Otto Liebermann and M m. A. W in­
stead are Pfc.
C Btry promotions make the fol-
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