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A BOLT T/SGT. COVAlt
He's a 43-year-old T/Sg<
the 70th. He's been around —in
three branches of the service —
seen enough combat to know w here
of he speaks. Turn to Page 12 for
T/Sgt. Rudolph Covar's story.
Vol. 3, No. 4.
LIFE IN RHYME
like poetry? Well, poetry with
the GI slant on it all. Depicting th.
little intimate things in a soldier «
life (todav it's Foxholes) is Sgt.
Schaefer’s new- feature.
See Page 5.
$1.50 a Year by Mail
tamp Adair. Oregon, Friday, May 12, 1944
Portland Preview of Benny Cast Principals Here Sunday
Chief of Staff Visits Camp Adair
TYPICAL OF THEIR RADIO SET-l'P. Rochester (left) seems to have snared one of the
cicars which Jack Benny (right )seems to have somehow procured, as principals of the famed air
-how which appears Sunday at Theater 2 and at Field House, po-e for their picture in Portland, where
plans for the big \dair show were completed on Monday. Needless to say. the center characters are
Don Wilson. Phil Harris and .Mary Livingston. The show at Adair completes Benny's Pacific North
west tour, which has embraced more than 70 separate appearances during a five-week period.
Jack Benny Cast to Give
2 Shows Sunday at Adair
By Tec3 Bob Ruskauff
In a parting gesture to the great Northwest,” climaxing a five-week tour in which
more than 70 shows have been presented, Jack Benny. Waukegan’s king of buffoonery,
and
famous troupe,
will
.. his ....
,
, . n'ake two «PPearances Sunday. Mother’s Dav, at Camp Adair
GENERAL GEORGE C. M ARSH ALL. < hief of Staff of the
tutted States Army, "who visited tamp Adair last week.
General Marshall in
Visit to Camp Adair
ho* admission, which will be by
ticket only, may be obtained to
By Tec 5 Edmund Arnold
witness either of the shows.)
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A
soldier,
crouched
behind a fallen log during a bat
The regular national broadcast
I Those wanting to attend either
for General Foods will be made at
of the Jack Benny performances at talion firing problem, looked up casually as a group of offi
1600 Sunday in Theater 2. It will
Camp Adair Sunday are advised by cers walked by, then he looked again, blinked in wide-eyed
Fifty Orogen mother* who have i Po«t and Division Special Service
be released via remote control over
♦astonishment, finally turned to his
KEX-KGW outlet, Portland. GIs three or more sons in service will
buddies.
and officers only may attend the be "proxy mothers” of Post GI«.
"Hey," he muttered, still unbe-
1 i Ticket distribution will be 90
broadcast All attending must be as honor guest* Sunday at Service percent for EM, 10 pen ent for of-l_
.
_ _
_ .
iieving, “was that General MAR-
seated by 1530. when the doors will Club 1. They will afterward attend, fivers.
SHALL?”
be dosed. This does not mean, as Post guests, the Jack Benny p:o-
2) Tickets, Both in the Division |
It was.
though, that there will be a half- , gram. (Story page 8.)
■ and on the Post, will be distributed ■
General George C. Marshall,
hour of “enforced inactivity,” as
| proportionately to unit COs and in , Another USO variety »how ,s ¡Chief of Staff of the United States
most cases distribution will be made Scheduled May 24-25, when “Say Army and one of the leading mili
Directly to Field House
| through company orderly room-, j | When,” a musical comedy and dance tary minds of the world.
.Moving directly from their
, Inquire at your orderly room.
|
But it wu not until yesterday
broadcast, the troupe will go to
travesty combined, hits Camp
Washington (CNS)—The 500
that the soldier’* question was of
Field House, where they will millionth Series “E" war bond was l 3) Tickets may be obtained for
> eith« r the broadcast or the Field Adair.
ficially answered.
pick up the reins of entertain purchased by an American some
The program will be made up of
H mm - 1 ■■
hit not hir
Y eeterday. a* the Sentry was
ment already started by the 70th where in the U. S. on the last day
BOTH.
the Musical Johnstons, two broth going to pre««, the War Depart
'Infantry band and special artist* in March, Secretary of the Trea--
4> At the broadcast. Theater 2,
of the Trailblazer division. The ury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., re i only officers and soldiers may at ers whose dexterity on the xylo ment at Washington lifted the
total Field House show will last port*. “That is roughly equivalent I
phone have earned them top billing -ecrecy «Meh had surrounded
tend.
General Marahail'a visit for se
approximately one and one-half I to 50 ‘E’ bonds for every member
5* At Field House, only GI«, of in pictures as well as clubs and ho curity reaxsM!*, and permitted
j
of
the
U.
S.
armed
forces,"
Mr.
hoars.
ficers and their immediate families tels; a "gorgeous array of femin mention of the fact that had been
Among the entertainers will be Morgenthau said.
may attend.
inity” known as the Garri Girls buzzing around Camp Adair since
Monde Penny Martin, ex-Rudy Val
61 Doors of Field House will be
w ho put new life into a dance line; last Thursday.
lee singer, now wife of Lt. George
thrown open to GIs or civilian*
The Chief of Staff arrived here
Field House Dance JOCO tonight; without tickets, providing the 8RO Emmet Oldfield and Co., comedy
L. Zimmer of the 70th Division
acrobatic act, the smooth ioh, Wednesday evening. Next morn
‘
Class
B
uniform
permitted
(Standing
Room
Only*
sign
is
not
(Continuel on page 3 column 4)
verily!) Eve Matthew*, acro- ing he saw the 2nd Bn., 274th, fit«
! out at 1630. If you get a ticket,
«Continued on Page 11, Col. 1) |
dancer.
[ be an time!
How Io Get Tickets For Two Benny Programs
FETE MOTHERS
Next USO Show Comes
To Adair May 24,25
Half-Billion E Bonds
Trailblazers Plan Big
Mother's Day Program
I
Army Casualties
Mount to 148,425
• .—
Í This Week
The World
♦ AIR RATTLE GROWS
♦ SEVASTOPOL FALLS
♦ W AR STIRS IN ITALY
Monitored by Teel John Stump
Total Army casualties through
A new note will be added to the OD uniforms of the
U
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—
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April 15. a- reported hy Secretary
Twailhlaztr
Division Sunday as the 70th joins in observance ©f Wrr Stimson. have reached 14*,-
CONTINUED
BLASTING
of the air invarion forces tn occupied
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r? r\.Li__ •»_____ »_»_
of Mother« ha.
Dav.
Major
G«er*l
’
c-mnnmnd.-.
given
^ermiarion*
------------------ Dahktui.it
^WKjUtst. dtyiawn
Europe reverberated aero«« the «raters to the waiting Allied fereea,
for nwn to wear carnation« <>n their. ¡t ..
' Bi
bhmeK »nd flower*, tn.pprooriate | hi, m>ln
„ * ** **** “P
K
eoiors. will be given oat at all f(>rm>l .
’ ■J**^ou« »-' W
Hm^l s^ww Sunday.
4^.
— I M
Lt Col. Lore T Jerk«. Di. .non fro„
“ rizarar.teest
p,
vimpUm, has ridrred 140
(C-thmed ». p«-. .
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01
°° *** « Column 1) ¡turn
while renewed action stirred on the battlefronta of the world this
THE GREAT ALUEIi AIR OFFENSIVE waa nearing a month of
eonaeevtive day* with attack« on northern France, the Paa Da Calais
arsa, Belgium and Germany—smaahing at airfields, factories, railway
yards and ammunition dumps.
Thousand* of American bam h sis
(Cootmued on Page 2, C olumns 3 and 4)