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About Camp Adair sentry. (Camp Adair, Or.) 1942-1944 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1944)
0prrr)M '""ATC L!3oÄRY An undetermined number includ ing three performer», were burned to death yesterday nt Hartford. Conn., when fire broke out in the Ringling Bros, circus and the big ton collapsed . . . addressing the Chinese Army Wednesday. Gen- erallisimo Chiang hai Shek said (11 Jans realize general Chinese counteroffensive is imminent and (2) he expects European war may be over soon . . . with IC0-I50 ro bot (or buzz) bombers arriving dnilv. London is <>n blit’ basis acain: more have been killed by them than in the invasion . . . the military, including General Mar shall. honor arrive! of the French general. Charles deGaulle, in this FOR SUNDAY NIG-. Entertainers from Portland’s Swan Island Shipyard will enter tain GIs of _\da’r at Service Club 1. The time—2009. V 01. 3. .vo. 12. Canin Adair. Orrwon. .Friday. Jmv 7. >9'1 j i .ou a 'i » ar y .Mail Combat Spirit of Yank War I !ve In I ta I y Bests Ge rma n Moves Forward F I Stale Over Too 'Weapons Superior Can Use Therr, ' Says Returned Trailblazer G-2 ----------------------------- “The combat spirit of the American infantryman in Italy today is higher than that of his German opponent,” says Major James W. Walters Jr., G-2 of the 70th Division, With total sales for the end of June hitting $96,701.60 in the Fifth War Ix>an drive, the 70th Division anticipates making its quota of i $200,000 in Class 1! allotments and I cash sales before the month of July I is over. i who has just returned to the Trail blazers after service in the Ital 'Yank Spirit High' ian sector. He vyisn’t speaking about pro Lt. Shelby D. Dukes, war bond fessional, regular Army soldiers either; he meant doughboys who officer, expects the new GI bond to , entered the Infantry through se become a favorite of enlisted men I lective service just as did most of and to boo«t tiie bond deductions i the 7Cth Division. grea'lv. He also repotted* that a'l Were Taught Right units hav ■ shov-n this bond to be “I had the opportunity to be very popular all i adv. with one of the first selective Tho 271th cnee more h dds the service divisions to see overseas record of having the highest s. les battle service." the major re of th- week with a total uf $.4,- lates. “They soon proved them 173.65, with the 275th runners-up. selves equal to true veterans. I t. Dekes also reported that there i Their training here in the States is to be a big bend rally at the had been right.” v Division officers’ club Saturii .y Major Walters'- spent ’three ■right, where he-^ynpiji tJ to boost months in Italy and siei^iie start the total« for the divi’ion in beta of the current campaign that is deductions and cash sales. sweeping Vie Roman Boot. He gives The civilian bond drive for the the foot soldier credit for the suc state of Oregon surpassed its quota cess of the drive. After they had with a total of $134.030.395, dislodged the Nazis fiom prepared ( Ph«»tr ¡cording to the Fed-ml Reseive positions, they kept the enemy ¡MAJOR JAMES WALTERS i Jf j returned from Italy, laud- I ank of San Francisco. tinually off-bal.nce and in | «fl /nmirat spirit of the American The total for the state-being $125 stant retreat. I mfhntryman. ' million, the people of Oregon are Coordination Beautiful They went once to a no-deciaion anti Sunday, in the 'very proud of their aceoniplish- “Nothing w. uld stop the in- MEDAL OF HONOR HERO i mint, but hasten to point out that year’s “game of games.” ( amp Adair’s potent hard ball fantryman—mountains, swamps the war has cost the United States team of the 883rd FA, representing Divarty of the 70th Divi- 'JUST DID MY BEST' (Continued on Page 9. Col. 4) I nearly $200 billion since July 1, »ion, will dash again with the Sa Italy (CMS) — “I jurt did my 1940, or $140 million per day. lim Grays, at George E. Waters HERE'S THE DOPE ON best.” Cpl. Janies Slaton, of Gulf- DIG SUNDAY BALL GAME 1 Park, Salem. •port. Miss., explained after he had The probable time, according to Place — George E. Waters | been awarded the Congres ional Stadium, Salem, Downtown i Capt. David M. Garrison, managing the Divartymen, will be 1400. Like buses go right to the Park which Dedicated to the United States i Medal of Honor for destroying wise, too. Brigadier General Peter street, is situated on 25th Army Medical Corp-. “Paging Pvt. three Nazi machine gun nests in a P. Rhodes will be on hand to throw Starting time — tentative ’ y Jones,” club l’a radio show over single action near Oilveto. out the first ball if the pressure 1400. Station KWIL, last night featured I Slaton's heroism also w<gi for I The Glorious Fourth was a half uf military duties permits. Admissii n — reduced price of I holiday for the Truiloiazi r Divi- the smooth music of Tec3 Joe Sieff's V> hatever, it bids to I m - one of the i him the Russian Order of Patriotic ; icn, whose training schedule ended 25 cents a head for Cis; civilians, Musical Medics. best hardball games seen in this 50 cents. The 15-minute show, which is War, Second Class, which entitled!at 11'00 that day. There Were no pait of Oregon this year. The aired weekly on Thursday nights him to ride on railroads free in i formal celebrations staged but the i Pivartymen have had only one de at 1945, is announced by Club the Soviet Union. He is the first ( S-rvice Club and post theqtres re- War Costs Almost ft nt, this when the Marine Base Hostess Ann Caddy, assisted by American enlisted man so honored laorted good crowds for regular i t ine sli| ped up on them, 9-3. $2CO,000 a Minute | .jregrnms. Pvt. Dave Stevens. 276th Infantry, by the Ru-sians. Olheiwi-e, their career has been Wnr coats to the United St iten I-an to *170,2.’.5 «15 h inirute in the -pectacular. They successively de Ifis-aj year ended Jun* 30, flated the Albany lag.on 12-3 and Scream Pierces Air; Cutie Runs! Who Chased Her? Who Else — , In round numbers, this country 9-1 in a double header, and tuiked I spent $**9.721,000.000 in the fiscal , away the Salem all stars 15-4. ! vear. This was at the rate of " as 2 and 2 | $245.139444.20 for each of the 366 Their bsst game, Ibott-h. was ' day«, a leap year accounting for | with the Grays. The score was 2 day. It was 1430 Tuesday. Merriment at the ’49ers celebration at Station Hospital was I. i the On extra the basis of seconds, the war I aid 2 at the rad of the ninth, at its height. There was no thought at 1430 uf any menace. It was a carefree day. But cost $2437.26 plus for each secund when the "pen men” were forced (Continued on Page 6, Col. 1) of the year. suddenly— • ------------------------------------- — ------- A shrill feminine scream pierced •* Divarty vs. 'Grays' in Big Ball Game Sunday Air Show Features Joe Sieff's Band July 4 Nels Half Holiday for 70th By Gosh, It WAS Frankenstein! the very confusion. As one. hun- i dreds looked across the highway toward an old abandoned house half-way up the slope of a hill. A Shrieking She A shrieking woman had streak ed from tke house. She ran to ward the throng. Her terror -s. manifest. What had happened? The World ♦ Inis Week ♦ From the veranda, salking with uncurtain ambling step*, at e-roteoaue powerful £^TbeXpe Faint figure brarU started fmm . ed a&d strong men atmnglod Who waa U? What was it? i | ' "anigosb—it’s Franken«tein'" MINSK FALLS TO RUSS So it was- Cpl. Ernest (Frank . lit i * NORMANDY BATTLE BEGINS enstein) Johnson, Co. L. 275th Inf. j SAIPAN NEARS CLIMAX Rrg't The loudspeaker took up the chant, and the Gia and their guests Monitored by Tec4 John Stump weren’t frightened anymore For i everyone knows the legvrdermsine i rarrvunding Cpl. Johnson, whose I SWEEPING ALLIED GAINS AND ENEMY LOSSES on tho j feats with makeup are well-known battlefronts of the world this week brought the Allies ever closer st Adair. to the roads leading to Tokyo and Berlin . . . But the poor motoring public i VICTORIOUS RUSSIAN TROOPS captured Polotsk and the an before didn’t know that FrankensArin was i cient White Russian capital of Minsk, one of the greatest _ prizes ________ __ CpL Johnson And not knowing (Warsaw and Berlin Moscow announced that tbs Germans, retreating why. It was enough to frighten a in disorder toward their homeland, had last more than 213400 men latrine orderly, let alone the poor killed and captured in the Red army's 11-day offensive Three Russian I motoring public. (Continued on Page 2, Columns 3 and 4)