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Friday, February 4, 1944. Page Two Camp Adair Sentry Camp Adair Sentryj irs¿GreatLife Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon PI HI ISHED EVERY FRIDAY --------- .__ _ ___ __ :_ il I ByT-5LynchC VCHAN6E ■ch Book |j ^CERPTS I Notes From a Soldier's Sketch l l J “I have a perfect news story for the paper.” “Yeah, what is it, man bite dog?” "No better than that, bull throws sergeant.” A weekly riewspaper published by and for the military personnel of Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” Ail articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless specifically credited to the War Department. News material furnished by the Public Relations Office is available for general release. Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. 81 — Year $1.50. Reports from Algiers say that Yanks down that way are learning Italian. Two of the first phrases they pick up are: “In civilian life I was an houest millionaire" and “I have no fiancee in America." The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of- Camp Newspaper Service. Capt. J. D. McKay Director of Training Branch Lt. William H. Ross Post Exchange Officer T/3 I’fc. 'pl. T/5 Rob Ruskauff Lionel Kay Benjamin Hirsihknvitz. I’vt. W in. 8a IUl Don Lynch.......................................... He who courts and does not wed Often into court is led. Managing Editor News Editor Sluff Reporters Staff Artist When women drop their eyes you should always pick them up. Forget Your Ideals of Sportsmanship : tiemember That in War. It’s ’Kill or He Killed’ P£6bably one of the most tragic stories growing out of this war will be woven out of the American ideal of sports manship. A crowning virtue when it comes to dealing harmonious ly with your fellow-man and a priceless asset in all human relationships, sportsmanship becomes a ticket to oblivion in combat. Ever since the first Jap sneak bomb shook the Kansas du t out of the GI khaki at Pearl Harbor, hundreds of stories have filtered back from the every-man-for-himself battle front telling of the many Yankee soldiers who have met death >r who have stopped bullets but lived to tell about scalp inkling’ experiences just because they wanted to give the ither fellow an even break. Trusting souls, they had forgotten .or “forgot to remem- ANSWER BOX >er” that no rules exist for dirty playing in the life-and-deirth ontest on the battlefield. By Q. When I entered the Army last BOB HAWK Unlike the football field, on the battlefield no rules exist, year I took out $10.000 insurance Quitmatter but penalties do, and the penalties aren't chalked up to the naming my wife as beneficiary. side that does the dirty fighting. The enemy doesn’t lose any "THANKS Since then she divorced me and i TO THE YANKS" now I want to make the policy yardage. But Uncle Sam’s gullible GI often loses his life. payable to my mother. Is it per- If he doesn't lose that precious but naive hide of his, Saturdays, CIS 1 mfasable to do this? he quickly forgets his love of sportsmanyrfuii apd his respect ’or the fair play of the man—or men—on the other team. 1. Must of the crops in this A. Yes, a service man may Then he begins to fight—and win—on even terms country are planted in the spring in change his insurance beneficiary at any time without the knowledge Don’t wait until your first brush with tfie ruthless I the spring, but some cereal crops or consent of the beneficiary. You Know of i ma > lK ' P ,an,etl in the fall. Name enemy. Forget your sense of fair play now. lootball and basketball games in which the sneak play has two. Q. What fatter base'pay of 'an 2. There are several typ4s of won the game. The enemy’s sneak plays can win this bigger laughter; what's the difference l>e- aviation cadet? ' ' gatqe, too, and cost you your life and millions of others. tween a giggle, a chuckle and a A. An aviation cadet gets $75 a Don't think that he’s dead with one bullet wound, make guffaw? | month and $1 a day for subsist sure with another bullet. Don’t trust the living enemy; the 3. If a dollar bill is permanently ence during training. Upon the suc lead ones are much easier to handle. Don't let your guard destroyed, is this a loss or a gain cessful completion of his prescribed to the U. S. Government? ' course of instruction he is com down at any time; one sneak punch can be fatal. 4. Cabbage prepared in different missioned a second lieutenant or Only the alert soldier will be alive when the score is ways has different names. Men i appointed a flight officer. minted.—(S Sgt. Edw. J. Connors. 70th Inf. Div.) tion two of these. Y A N K « 1 1 Every lassie loves a laddie com ing through with rye. “Tell me,” gushed the inquisitive and doting matron, “do you ever do anything in the nude?” “Well, madam." retorted the fam ous artist, “occasionally I take a bath.” Said the gal at the PX counter to the fresh GI: “I’m sorry, sol dier, but the notions counter is over there, not here.” Worried Mama: What are his in tentions ? Daughter: I don’t know, mania; he keeps me in the dark. Marriage is like a card game. You start with a pair; he shows a diamond; she shows a flush, and they end up with a full house. A yawn fa about the only time some husljjnds go| ¿a open their mouth. < " . ’. * The yard bird says: “Our mess sergeant can really dish it out. but he can’t cook it.” The doctor was questioning the nurse about her patient. “Have you lifept a,chart on his progress?” he asked. “No,” she biushingiy replied, “but I can show yod my diary.” The dear vicar’s wife had just died. and. in consequence, he wished to be relieved of his duties for the weekend, so he sent the following message to his bishop: “I regret te 5. Who was the only cabinet inform you that my wife has just Q. Is it permissable for a soldier member to ever address Congress ? died, ami I should lie obliged if you fl. Hull. Eden and Molotov are * to wear a Veterans of Foreign could send me a substitute for the considered the Big Three of the Wars ribbon on his uniform? weekend . . .” Today. USO is celebrating its third birthday. The vast army of Moscow conference, Name two of I A. It is nut. The VFW is a civil- contributor« who have subscribed more than $10t).000.(Mk> to USO the Big Four of the Versailles ian organization and its ribbons lirougb the National War Fund and local War Ghest campaign might conference. are not recognized by the War De like to knew what their money has accomplished. (Answers-on page 12) partment as decorations. Just tT days after USO was incorporated in 1941. the first chib was opened in a rented building in Anniston, Ala. — «« borrowed money, at that. Three years later USO has nearly 3.000 operations m this country and at bases elsewhere in this hemisphere. The figure (Continued from Page 1) Joes not include the scores of theatrical and musical units operated inder the banner of USO-Camp Shows. warships threw tons of explosives against the islands in support of Catholic, Protestant and Jews are joiricd together in USO in landing forces which captured ten islet beachheads. American Marines ommon service. Six great organisations are represented in USO captured strategic Roi IMand and airfield—the first piece of pre-war The roll of member agencies enlists the Young Men's Christian Associ Japanese empire to fall in the fast-breaking offensive. The Marines ations, the Young Women's Cnrlstian Associations. the National Catholic are mopping up on Namur Island which is expected to fall momentarily. Actmn is reported to lie progressing favorably at all points. American 1 ommunity Service, the Salvation Army, the Jewish Welfare Board and Action fliers were reported to have destroyed 5 Japanese planes at Rabaul the National Travelers Aid Association. in the first month of the new year.... IN THE AIR WAR OVER EUROPE. American warplanes pounded anti-invasion target on the north c 1st of Fiance and airfields *n Holland. Eight hundred heavy bom raided the German city of "The Great Nebula of Andromeda appears to the naked eye as but Frankfurt on the heels of a British >ers as: sault on Berlin and northern a ‘niisty spot of light.’ None of the millions of suns is distinguishable Germany, raising to fl.OO 1 or- the weight of bombs heaped on Berlin n itself, but all put together make only a blur, but if seen in its true in the last 75 hours. The capital itself is believed to have been knocked die. each sun would dwarf our own. So it is in the matter of our two-thirds out of the war. I Other American bombers raided W.il- daily living That habit, that attitude, that decision, that word may helmshaven. larg ' base in Germany .. appear of little consequence, but when added to an accumulating IN ITALY. BRITISH AND AMERICAN tr. >ps made new advances nuniher of similar words and deeds may becdtne the controlling influence on Albert beachheads below R« Utting enemy opposition and pushing of our lives. ■per inland. In central Italy Ar lerican tanks and infantry practically “T|ie present global war is but a galaxy of ’little’ sins—yours the crumbling Nazi Gustav line and The objective is won and mine ami others—‘little’ greedinesses, bits of selfishness, a touch fought to the outskirts of . IB miles southeast of Rome, •nd legs and lives have I of covetousness, of hatred, of prejudice. The peace will lie what we The Geimans were reported w ng garrisons fr inside Cassino. These litter earners are make it in the same way a galaxy of individual forgivenesses. to American infantry ar.l d ahead within half a mile of wounded Americans to aaeea. co-operation, multiplied by millions t'-mnt no act ’little.’ for •hips in Italy. Are you ss Vi a ___ War I -4 miles from Rome. Allied anything in order to buy m-ov hidden in it are the issues of life and death fur generations to come." at supply centers in northeastern Roads to help them? "I Let * 1U >’ U King, in THE UPPER ROOM. Italy USO Has Third Birthday The World This Week Count, Then, No Act as 'Little' ■ Back the Attack "
