Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, May 6, 1943.
Fage Twelve
Come In Sergeant, The Door Isn't Locked
Roy Herbeck and Band Will Play at Adair
Ray Herbeck and his nationally known band will be the next L SO-( amp Shows
presentation at this Army cantonment.
Iierbeck and his men. together with a troupe of featured performers are slated
to appear at Camp Adair for three days, starting May 29. Nature ol the performance,
and whether or not they will provide a little plain and tancy dance music, is up to
the next info, from ISO's publicity department.
The dance maestro reportedly has a revue somewhat similar to that presented
by Ada Leonard and her all-American gals some time back.
Lucille Fall. RKO Radio star, may not be a GI’s idea of heaven in this picture, but it should do 'til heaven comes alorg.
' motion picture is one of the best
Drum Major Needed!
i of the recreation facilities avail­
If you are in limited service
able to the armed forces,” Mr.
and
in SCU, you are eligible to
Lewis said, “and first reports of |
apply
for the job of drum major
this new Red Cross service to men !
l
with the SCU band.
confined to their wards indicate
For further information, con­
Red Cross Obtains
that the movies are a great benefit
tact
Cpl. Bill Duncan at the
in helping them forget their ail­
16 m m Films for E M ments
Band
Barracks located at 1st
and thpir troubles.” Under
an agreement with Hollywood stu- | street N. and E„ Bldg. No. 414.
Movies while you lie in bed—for dies, 16 mm. copies of regular fea- |
hospital patients only—are in pros­ ture pictures would be available to —not recommended as a handbook
pect at Camp Adair. Inaugurating the hospital wards from 60 to 90 for Uncle Sam's new girl Marines.
a new Red Cross movie program days after their general release In it Lucy tells of her narrowest
for patients confined to Army date. He noted that the American escape.
hospital wards, 16 mm. sound Red Cross is now operating one of
During a battle off the coast of
equipment and films have been the world’s most extensive film ex­
Brazil she fel loverboard and was
made available to three California hibiting projects—and all provided
Station Hospitals it was announced free to Uncle Sam’s fighting men. rescued in a state of unconscious­
ness. As she lay on the deck her
today by Veil Lewis, Red Cross
i clothes were being removed by
Field Director for Camp Adair.
Served Years
some of her shipmates to make
Equipment will be installed at the
way for a dry uniform. Detection
Camp Adair Station Hospital as
But
of the brave girl's ruse seemed
soon as the Red Cross can obtain it.
imminent but according to Lucy:
By the end of June, Director This
“
They had nearly divested me of
Fred Kislingbury of the Red Cross
(By
Camp
Newspaper
Service)
my
outer garments when I mus­
Hospital Motion Picture Service
Female Marine Lucy Brewer, a tered enough strength to tell them
expects that approximately fifty-
five Army hospitals at posts spirited lass w>ho served three years I felt able to change clothes my­
throughout eight western states during the War of 1812, might be self.”
will be provided with the portable a patron saint for the women’s
Being a female Marine in 1812
movie equipment which will pro­ section of the Leathernecks.
was far more complicated than it
There wasn’t any auxiliary ser­ is today.
vide relaxation and entertainment
for patients who are unable to vice in those day so Lucy had to
| don male apparel and somehow
leave their wards.
Dog Tags!
This new program supplements pass a physical examination as a
Newly inducted soldiers often
the regular Red Cross 35 mm. pro­ boy. No one discovered her de­
wonder just w’hat use is made of
gram now operating regularly in ception for under the name “Pvt.
their dog tags in case of death.
the Station Hospital on a twice-a- George Baker” she was enrolled as
According to a recent War De­
week basis. The same 16 mm. ser­ a fighting leatherneck and served
partment circular, in all inter­
vice is being provided Army hospi­ aboard the frigate “Constitution.”
ments of deceased military per­
Years later after she had been
tals in other sections of the country
sonnel one identification tag is
under a plan worked out by Ameri­ honorably discharged and settled
buried with the remains and the
can National Red Cross headquar­ dowm as a New York housewife
other tag fastened to the grave
| Lucy told of her experiences in a
ters in Washington, D. C.
marker.
“It is generally agreed that the book called, “The Female Marine”
Hospital Patients
Will Have Movies
She
3
With Marines;
Was In 1812
' by Milton Caniff, Creator of
of that type. The oven is built of
dried mud. In the interior a series
of pipes cross the fire. The dough
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is set on these and baked.
The advantage of this new type
available a slit trench is dug; the is in thoroughness.
bottom covered with a shelter half. ,
Another trench is dug in which the
Dumb
baker kneels while kneading the .
dough. This particular method was ! Than a Dead
developed during the Civil War.
If some guy saying he’s from
Our company, under the com­
Gallup
Poll gets you by the lapel
mand of Lt. Edwin C. Toxen and j
acting 1st Sgt. James Livingston, , and starts wanting to know’ what
is simultaneously taking basic and i you think about this and that, don’t
answer, soldier, start asking.
technical training.
Unless he’s been officially okayed
Despite the fact that they work
they don’t want you to give. War
seven days per w’eek, morale is sky
department warns that, ‘Polls, bal­
high; due, no doubt, to the surplus
lots. or straw votes, other than
vitamins contained in the bread;
those authorized by the War De­
which they both bake and eat.
partment, will not be permitted
Southern Morale
among members of the Army.”
I think that one reason for the I
Reason why is that it’d be easy
excellent morale of the “Fighting' for enemy agents to scoop up valu­
Bakers” is the fact that most of able information behind a poll-tak­
the fellow’s are Southerners, and ing front.
their acting 1st Sgt. is a native of I
Tennessee. This undoubtedly makes
Dance in Dallas
; for a common denominator in hu­
Free transportation to Dallas
man ard social relations; a bond
for a gala USO Dance there
of uniting sympathy.
next Saturday night, May 8. will
| Co. C of our ^m. Bakers con­
be furnished for the first 25
tains the same general set-up. How­
enlisted men who sign the roster
ever, one startling innovation is
in Service Club 1. First come,
being made by Lt. Stanley Fried­
first served is the motto.
man of that unit.
The affair is being sponsored
The lieutenant has invented a
by the local Knights of Pythias
new type baking oven. Though
organization and a dance band
still in the stage of experimenta­
from Adair will be on hand for
tion and still unadopted completely
the music. Sign with Mrs. Blod­
to field baking this oven promises
gett or Miss Caddy at Club 1
to revolutionize this particular
and be ready to leave on Satur­
branch of the Army.
day night from the club at
The basic principal is, of course,
6:30 p. m.
the same as in other constructions
Scribe "New" Tent
City—Tells of Bread
Terry and the Pirates"
Better a
Cluck
Duck
/ Television Snafu