OREGON "TATE UBRARY
THE WEEK AHEAD
Some splendid work in the re
pairing of day-room furniture is be
ing done by experts in the Trail
blazer PRTC, through arrangement
with the division Special Service
office. Next week, story tells how
and why.
voi, x No.x
A CH A l‘L AIN’S MESSAGE
In these times there is stimula
tion and courage, we believe, to be
found in the reading of a letter
sent to a chaplain by his uncle a
War I vet. See Page 11.
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Camp Adair. Oregon. Friday. May 5, 1944.
SILHOUETTE: A STUDY IN OREGON
$1.50 a Year by Mail
'Gl Sing’1 Sunday
Fete at Bradley SSOs, Benny Heads to
Bowl, 1430; 17 Complete May 14 Plans
Full details of the big Jack Benny show coming to
Camp Adair on May 14 will be arranged Monday at a meet
ing in Portland between Benny and his right bowers and
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»Post and Division SSO officers, but
Do you like to sing, soldier?
| this much appeared to be pretty
Waukegan
Man
And—
'well determined as the Sentry went
Do you like drum majorettes?
to press last night:
•-»
(Silly question!)
(1) The NBC broadcast of Grape
At any rate, the first all-post
Nuts’ greatest friends and adver
Soldier-Sing in the opert air will
tisers has tentatively been-set to
be held at Bradley Bowl, in the
be released from Theater ,2. At
heart of the 70th Division area,
this performance (1600-ltElO) only
at 1430 Sunday, in an unusual pro
(¡Is and officers’of the Post may
gram arranged by Club Hostess
attend and admission will be by
Xnn Caddy and announced .vester-
ticket.
lav by Capt Russell G. Floss, Post
(2) The main show for Adair
SSO.
will be an augmented edition of the
Appearing in and smoothly abet
regular Benny program, will be
ting the l.ig program will lie 17
presented at Field House, tenta
drum majorettes, winners in a re
tively nt 1715 ami will go on for
cent all-0 regon contest. They will
probably a full hour. Officers, en
be headed b.v the state champion.
listed men, their relatives and
Donna Fields of Portland.
friends may attend thia presenta
tion. There will not be a ticket
The Program
admission, according to present
The program, a- outlined yes
, plans.
terday, will include a 3O.7minute
| 1 his was revealed yesterday by
performance hv the SCU mili - Com te*y Salem Engruvei *.
tary band and 30 minutes of sol
JACK BENNY, famed- come Major Harvey Blythe, SSO of the
dian. who with bis '•ast will ap | 70th Div.
dier singing. Speciality acts be
pear at Adair May It.
It is also hoped that the Benny
ing arranged to intersperse the
troupe may be brought to Adair on
program include tap dancing by
It still isn’t too late to make a Saturday
...
____ __ is good
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and, if so, there
TeeS Bob Rivers. 70th Division
SSO, former professional dancer. voice recording for Mother’s Day, j likelihood that appearances may
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The songfest, in which all GIi ¡S, at Club 1.
officers and friends are welcome
to participate, is Camp Adair’s
AIR INVASION MOVES ON
tribute to National Music Week,
LULL ON RUSS ERONT
which begins Sunday and which
ALLIES TAKE JAP TOLL
has been so proclaimed by our
Commander-in-Chief.
Monitored by Tec4 John Stump
lins week •
The World ♦
Trailhit » ft Phota
SILHOUETTED AGAINST a glowering sky. the red flag
of the firing range and the alert watcher over the infiltration
coarse make a dramatic all-psge photographic study in the new
Trailblazer magazine, which is nearing a record figure in its
first week on sale.
Drum majorettes who will ap
pear—all are Oregon lasses—will
include Donna Fields and Ruth All-
bright. Portland; Alberta Schmau
der and Jean Northrup. McMinn
ville; Joan Skinner and Jean Brad-
ock, Canby; Ruth Greason and
Clara Mae Vanderzandy. Forest
Grove: Sylvia Mitchell and Lucy
Lee Elgin, Molalla; Velma Mead
ows and Mary Gillespie, West
Lynn, and others.
Order 2nd Printing for
Trailblazer Magazine
“The best ever.” is GI comment on the current Trail
blazer Magazine and soldiers of the 70th Division have backed
up their opinion by buying the magazine so quickly that a
reprinting is necessary. This is one»
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of ths few times that any such all
soldier. divisional publication any
where in the United States has en
joyed a near sell-out in the first
two days during which it was on
sale.
It was formally announced yes
The magazine made its debut at
pay-tables throughout the Division terday from Washington, via a
Monday morning and immediate United Press report. that the Navy
response was gratifying. When i has taken over the Army Air Base
outfits that were paid in the field I at Corvallis and that it will be used
had a chance to purchase copies st
• henceforth as a Marine Air Base.
orderly rooms Tuesday. the brisk
It was further learned “that
pace of sales continued and early
ground
crew« already had arrived
that afternoon the order for addi- (
at the base and more were enroute.
tienal printing was given.
PXa have a hmited quantity on It was speculated that if the full
sale now and ths second printing facilities of the field are to be
wiH be available the middle of next used, up to 15VO Marines could be
accommodated at the field.
- Ksldierv, officer« and civilians
"When tinder army control, the
as« joining Mi praising thr quality
of the puhhr -—
1
Another 70th Gl
Marines Take Over Scores
'Possible'
Corvallis Air Base fl One more Trailblazer was re
! vealed this week as having made a
I
possible with the carbine.
He is TSgt Victor Gallio, Co
G. 275th. which gives another dead
eye as well as Pvt. Danny Rogers,
274th Service Co., who was quoted
last week in the Sentry as being
the only G1 in the Division to make
a possible in the recent carbine
familiarization course.
of
HISTORY’S GREATEST AERIAL OFFENSIVE—referred to a*
the “eve of Invasion”—grew in intensity, eclipsing the action on land
and sea, while both the Allies and the enemy specula tad and waited
in the throes of D-Day jitters in the world this week . . .
IN THE VIOLENT AND SUSTAINED CAMPAIGN, Allied air
men since May Day dawn have blasted key targets supplying the
German Atlantic wall barricades and roared inland past the old Maginot
fortifications along the German border. RAF raiders, in a 1000 plane
(Continued on Page 2. Columns 3 and 41
E Pluribus llnum Motto of Buddies Wins
24-Hour Pass lor Kansas City' Slicker
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The Special Troops interior guard that fortunate 24-hour-pasa-wtnner
hese days D without doubt the gets that way la related in thia
>eatest, trimmest, most smartly dipping from The Dull Hatchet,
‘omed-out guard in the 70th Divi- new, weekly publication of the 770th
I Ordnance:
(
•ion.
Naturally, there’s a reason far it
"Kansas City Slick” Day went
all, and a very practical one.
backing for that 24-hour pass
Each night when the guard forms promfaM to the snappiest sentinel
to be inspected, the officer of th# and actually made "Orderly of the
guard selects from it the neatest Guard.” He wishes to.acknowiedge
and most soldierly-appearing man. hi* indebtedness to the following
What happens then is that the men for the articles that made his
■nan selected doesn't go on guard •uccess possible; 'CORWIN—for
at all; he is dismissed from guard I his new leggings. UNGER—fog his
duty, and goes back to the barracks clean pistol belt. (.IPHON —for his
to do whatever he likes.
OD trousers with the raaor-sharp
In addition — he is recommended crease DAILEY—for Ms shoe pol
far a 24-bour pass' But- (Ed.— ish DANSEN—for hi. clean ear-
now, let’s jest take a sample to Din*.
(Ed. note
sea how it works out— sometimes 1:
what w'r» dri»
in» at?»