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Camp Adair Sentry Friday, May 5. 1944. Page Two ( anip’-'Ackii^ .-Sentry i ifj AOfewtifé ' •" r Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon Pl BUSHED EVERY FRIDAY » » ■ ■ ------------- ■ ■ etch Bo°k Notes From a Soldier's Sketch I L——------ " i i The boy who wants to make the news ■ Aspires to fill his father’s shoes. His sister aims for something bet Address communications to ‘‘Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” ter. - And hopes to fill her mother ’s All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless SWEATER. 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. $1 — Year $1.50. "Do you objeet to kissing. The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Girlie?” Newspaper Service. “That is something I’ve never dune, Soldi»). »2* ’ CapL J. D. McKay....... Director of Training Branch Lt. William H. Ross. _____ Post Exchange Officer “Kissed, Girlie?” “Objected, Soldier." » ♦ • Tec.3 Bob Ruskauff.. Managing Editor Pvt. Paul Rosenberg Staff Reporter Papa Bear: “Someone has bees Tec5 Don Lynch ........ Staff Artist drinking up my whiskey." Mama Bear: “Someone has beer. drinking up my gin. Baby Bear: “Hi«!” • ♦ ♦ It happened on the drill field. A The campaign against rumor spreading is probably one private, while running around the of the toughest to beat down, probably because we Ameri field, suddenly tripped and fell. A moment later an instructor came cans are a naturally loquacious people. running up asking: Were it not for one thing, it might perhaps be as well “What happened to you?“ Itoliey to spread the rumors high, wide and handsome, let “I broke my leg and,, cant get everyliody get all mixed up about it, and let nature take its up," said the injured GJ.r course. The one essential reason for not doing tiffs, of course, "Well, what are you wasting time for?** the instructor asked ir- is that if rumor-mongering were allowed to go unchecked, it ritatedly, “start doing push-ups!” would be simplicity itself far enemy agents to extend their ♦ » » already multiple methods of gaining and dispensing danger ANSWER BOX Much Ado About a 5c Two ghosts were playing poker ous information. when a knock was heard on the Tip; and, Even Thon, door. Greatest (itsessing Gan« Q. When I went into the Army in Mayor Riley Took Rap I “Who is it?“ the asked. Of coarae, right at th* moment, the entire world, 1942 I had no need for National “Rigor Mortis—may I set in?” Service Life Insurance. Now I’m and that definitely includes the Alia, is at white heat in » » ♦ Among the things which should j married, however, and I’d like to the world's greatest guessing content. This Is the guess take out a policy. I’ve been told enter vitally into the post war | A shipwrecked soldier had drift ing game of trying to determine the data of D-Day. that because I didn’t apply before planning program, it wou|d appear, ed for three weeks and was final ly washed ashore on a tropical isle. Now guessing is only a step removed from rumor-mon- Aug. 10. 1943, I am no longer elig are such as Mayor Earl Riley’s The first thing that met bis starv ^ering. 'rhe only difference is that everybody knows it is ible for insurance. Is this true? government-sponsored trip to Eng ing gaze was a luscious maiden, strictly guess-work. Rut the same principle of telling all and A. No. You have been misin land. with a flower in her hair and an a little more than you know, simply to satisfy the ego com formed. You may still apply for inviting smile on her lips, ’ who A week ago Wednesday, the , »•• ’■■'.•■■a »■ “•*« «'»• National Service Life Insurance plex which is resident within too many of us, applies. but you will have to pass another Portland Mayor’s expense account came drifting lazily down an in an The Army Times this week recapped a few of the wild ¡medical examination was finally approved. It would 1 stream on a beer barrel, before the in stories which have flown over the air waves and around the surance is approved. Aug. 10, 1943, have been approved sooner had not ' “You dear soldier, she c world, been picked up by the press and spread from mouth . was merely the last day on which the State Department seen fit to ,softly, “I've got something or you to mouth on the D-Day guessing contest. To date there have i a serviceman could get insurance hold up the whole caboodle over a | that you’ve been dreaming a ut five cent discrepancy in a 75-cent for months.” •een h "brief flurry of invasion rumors set of*by Canadian ¡without a medical examination. at her M in rapt fare paid for a taxi ride which, The soldier gated - reporta of a German broadcast that ‘an invasion force headed Mayor Riley took last November , astonishment , and cried. 'ou Q. Is it permissible for me to by Canadians' had landed in France south of Calais." London take out a Class "E" allotment for in Washington. mean to say that there is beer in immediately pegged the broadcast as “entirely untrue from the benefit of mi girl friend, or The account was held up while '^at barrel? ( 4 4 lieginning to end." Then this rumor was followed immediate must the beneficiary be a relative? six letters went back and forth be-■ , . „ ,-nnl< . c l . .. I The G1 * wandered onto a tennis ly by one which indicated that the Allied Commanders anti A. Class “E” allotments may be tween his honor and the govern-! ln taken out for the payment of money meat. The Mayor lost. It was de., court and sat m>*'n. cipated some delay and that D-Day had been changed. “Whose game?” he asked. to any individual. The fact that cided that 70 cents be allowed for "Britain,” says the Army Times, “stirred the rumor pot they are not members of your fam the ride. The Mayor himself must A shy young thing looked up ¡hopefully^ “I »a." up to a boil by handing down an edict stating that hence ily does not matter. pay the 5-eent tip. • * * forth no foreign diplomats, except those from the United Hotel clerk: “Of course you will States and Russia, or- their staffs, can go home." want running water in your Invasion Secret—Just That room?” Guest: “Why? Do I look like a It all adds up to th« fact, however, that Allied Com- attack, hit at Nazi bases in Germany, Belgium. France and Italy. trout?” m u «du i s are takiag oo-chances that in v as ion secrets will • • • American bombers. 200« strong, launched attacks on industrial and be disclosed. This leaves the field wide open to the mili “ I know that soldier is the man military targets in Berlin and northwestern Reich, believed to have tary strategists who are now busy pointing out all the for me. mother. Every time he t*en the greatest daylight assault . . . takes me in his arms I can hear hi# ‘possibilities.* BRITAIN BECAME ISOLATED as civilians were forbidden to As it was pointed out, however, the present situation leave the island except for official business. Nazi newspapers warned heart pounding.” “Better be careful, daughter! recalls Prime Minister Churchill's statement: “In order to that the Germans were braced for climactic battles and were on the eve Yeur pa fooled me that way for deceive and baffle the enemy, as well as to exercise the of decisive “military events.” Premier Stalin appealed to satellite almost a year with a dollar watch." * • « (Allied) forces, there will l>e many false moves, many feints countries to get out of the war, stating that deliverance could only be achieved by joint blows from the east and west . . . A police sergeant says a man is and many dress rehearsals.” Rl'SSIA APPEARED TO BE WAITING: the lull on the eastern solter if he is able to say “Susie lu this case, rumor, as rt is being utilized, is a very fine front continued with no important changes on the land after 11 days of sat in the soup." Yes. but how thing. sparring. Heavy shelling of German-Romanian positions in besieged about Susie? Rut as far as we are concerned, the one course which is Sevastopol persisted. Soviets repulsed German counter-attacks on the the course of real intelligence is—whether you know any approaches to Lwow in old Poland while their long-rauge aircraft touched off fires in a mass attack an the town. Other Soviet long-range thing or think you know, or even have enough sense to know bombers smashed at the gateway to central Latvia, hitting railways, that you don’t know—to keep a zipper on the lip.— R R airfields and targets- perhaps a prelude to the Re.! army’s next great offensive'. . . ALLIED PLANES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN brought the air war in Italy to a new high, hammering at Italy's west coast ports of Genoa. Livomo and Spezia. enemy positions and communication lines . . British armored force» broke into the lines of Japanese columns letter returned marked "moved, no invading India's Manipur stat* ami began a strong counter-attack in I WHEN it’s necessery to well on a roefl. “POSTAL PATHBt“- cooperate in the evidence of acc'dents the mountains around Kohiiua. lit upper Burma. Chine«« forces ad-1 by u-alkmg on the side facing oncoming Subject: Change of tddrews Card» two rd.” To: All Enlisted Personnel Gl» ar« «spec«ally lax in regard vanced farther d"*n the east sid of Mogaung valley to capture two "The secret of success." said the to newspapers and magannw. Com villages in a push towards the Jap base of Kaniatng. Jap sea lanes be- Glue, "» to find a good thing and ing houle to your beat gal only to tween Singapore ami Burma were attacked by British subs, which sunk i stick to (V like an address in Cor- find that A nine d,-.»n'l live tbete a destroyer ami four merchant veasels . . . IN THE SOl'THWEST PACIFIC, the whirlwind co rpaign against I iaUi«'4Cr Salem. That is why all any more la like the guv who finally tils are advised to make uae of the got to the North I'k- only to find Holland» is over, with U. S. invasion forces m control of the New W ai Utjuai i merit change of addrvs* nobody -ittinar en top of the world, Guinea's base's three airfields. American bombers delivered heavy j .■aahkjeftrr going to other destuia- l.et your f nei k F ktio« where you air attacks on New Guinea's coast, while far to the north squadron« i are. V«e the change of addrewa made the war’s first assault by land-based planes .m Guam in the | The Chief Ixx'ater could cry in hia cani» aud net yourwU turatevi.- Mananas. General MacArthur ivports that a total of 231 Japanese bear ’(which he drink» through an The Chwf Loeaser. vamp .Wair plane- were probably destroyed. I th» Jap vessel« destroyed, and 117 j damaged during Apru. ey ixtropper* every time he sees a Fuat Offwe. A weekly newspaper published by and tor the military personnel it Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange, Rumors Endanger Safety of D-Day; Keep a Zipper on the Lip, Soldier : The World This Week 1 |U-- - - - - - - - - - - - - —.-..a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change of Address Cards Vital to Forwarding Mail, PO Locater Warns