Camp Adair Sentry
Page Thnea
Friday, July 21, 1944.
War I Vet Launched Sentry; First
Issue Off Press on April 23, 1942
If You Know Ex-Post
Employees with Bonds,
1
Money
Due, Read on
On April 23. 1942, the first Camp Adair Sentry rolled
•
If you know any employees.
off the press, the brainchild of a World War I veteran.
listed in recent Sentry stories,
He is Don Wilson, presently Rent Administrator in Cor 1 who
were employed at Adair in
First Sentry Editor "Fabulous
Sgt. Brown"; Those Gone Before
J
On May 8. 1943, T Sgt. Edwin Anthony Brown went to
OCS. Thus the Sentry, in losing its first editor, lost a fabul-
ous character.
vallis, who was mustered out of
j 1942 and were mentioned as hav-
the army as a first lieutenant
i ing War Bonds or money await-
First
Publisher
April 2, 1919, after serving for
! ing them, contact Virginia
three years. Except for 60 days,
Brown at extension 2888 in Post
W ilson served continuously after
Headquarters.
starting with Mexican Border serv
This number was changed
ice in 1916.
from the one previously listed.
17 Months Overseas
More than 70 «x-eniployees
Overseas 17 months, first with
are represented on this list.
a machine gun outfit in the 41st
Division and later in the tank
corps. Wilson saw 60 days front
line action in both the St. Miehiel
and Argonne shows.
His CO—whose name is on his of
ficer record book and on his dis
charge papers—was now-I.ieuten-
ant General George S. Patton.
Napoleon is in jail! News in New
Returned from the wars. Wilson
York over 224 years ago is authen
matriculated at Oregon State col
tically reported by Carl Jirel. Prin
lege, earning his way through by
cipal Engineer, cf Post Engineers.
proceeds from a small print shop
Reason: Jirel claims to hold a first
which “did” dance programs and
edition of the first newspaper in
house stationery.
America. It has been the basis of
He was with the Oregon City
many stories and articles in news
Banner Courier, later purchased
papers throughout the country. The
and operated for seven years the
paper is very well preserved and,
Corvallis weekly newspaper.
according to the owner, is made of
When Camp Adair construction
the finest rags and could probably
began, thought of a paper came
i not be reproduced today.
uppermost in Wilson’s mind. Hence
Signal Corps Photf-
The paper helps to draw a com
forth, the Sentry was born, "mount
DON WILSON of Corvallis. parison between present day liv
ing guard in and about Camp World War I veteran who pub
ing and American colonies of 1720
Adair, Oregon.” In the first days, lished Sentry first as a civilian
by its stories of European upheav-
ads from Corvallis, Albany. Salem, enterprise.
i al, as well as the size of New York
Dallas, Independence and Mon
I City and the modes of travel.
mouth supported the periodical.
It took, for instance. 25 days to
On March 4. 1943. advertising
travel
from New York to Phila
was suspended, and on August 13,
delphia. Two deaths were reported
1943. the Sentry became the strict
in New York that day. An ad
ly GI newspaper which it has since
It was 70th night Wednesday at
wanted "one negro wench to nurse
remained.
Service Club 1, as a special GI
I two young picanninies”.”
loor show was presented by men
Worth $5000
if the divisional special services
i
Jirel says that the paper has
iff ice.
j man* times been object of col
Leading off and emceeing the lectors' eyes. He was offered
-how was Tec5 Bob Rivers, tap $5000 by Frank Morgan, radio
dancer, whose professional antics and screen star, who allegedly
Praise for the drive which put have made him popular at all Post
| has a relative in the listing of one
the civilian employees over the top entertainments.
I of the stock companies then play-
in the bond campaign, building
Feminine addition to the program i ing New York.
from a 90 percent participation and
was Pat Krewson of Dallas, who ; Jirel also has a fine collection of
10 percent deduction on June 1 to
gave out with the blue in her 'first editions of many other books,
100 percent participation and 15
typical fashion.
i newspapers and magazines dating
percent deduction, was given in a
Others rounding out the show | as far back as 1530. He says that
visit last week by John B. Hodg
kins, representative of the U. S. included Sgt. Howaro Townsend, 'his Carolina ancestors were the in-
pianist, who helped arrange many I ¡tigators of the collecting hobby
Treasury department.
In comment to Major Earl F. of the musical »numbers for the and that his wife is the chief care-
Armstrong, post War Bond qfficer; division show, “As You Were”; j taker of the collection now.
Capt. Gilbert A. Waite, director of Cpl. Hugh Smith, vocalist, and ex
personnel; and E. L. Cramblitt, I announcer on ;:ie "Oregon’s Own” DODGER PITCHES FOR
chief of civilian personnel. Hodg radio show; Pfc. Clifford Berge, TEAM AT ATTERBURY
t AMP ATTERBURY. Ind.
kins stated the accomplishment on violinist par excellence, and Pvt.
the Post in the drive and the sys Ed Golden, whose "golden” tenor is (ALNS)—Van Lingle Mungo, for
tem adopted the best he had known. well known to division music fans. mer Brooklyn Dodger, is now mak
ing a new mound mark as pitcher
He extended appreciation to
Camouflage blinds the enemy! If for the Camp Atterbury baseball
those making investments in the
he can’t see you, he can’t hit you. team.
Sth War Loan.
Paper, Dated 1720
America's First,
Owned by Engr.
70th Men Perform
Club 1 Wednesday
Representative of
Treasury Praises
War Loan Progress
’
Genial "Brownie,” forty-ish and
a War I veteran who had been on
the city desk of newspapers from
Paris to New York to Los Angeles
to Portland, was honorably dis
charged. and later ruefully wrote
in an Oregonian feature called
"One War Too Many”:
Calm Anayisis
“Now that I am back in the
impressed tweeds some writer*
are pleased to call mufti, a calm
analysis has convinced me that
■ it wasn't war. not World War I
nor World War II. that got me
down, but the lush and happy
years between.”
Author of two books, “Border
Town” and “Queer People,” and
countless other items, part of Sgt.
Brown’s extensive Hollywood ca
reer was with Jimmy Fidler.
As a matter of fact, the Sentry
WHEN HE WAS T/Sgt. Ed in its brief span, has had a color
win A. Brown—the first editor of ful galaxy of Fourth- Estaters.
the Sentry.
Chronologically:
The Galaxy
There was T/Sgt. Bob Black,
now a lieutenant overseas, for
merly production manager for
Station KIT, Yakima; Sgt. Henry
Beckett. New York Post; Sgt.
Ray Johnson and Cpl. John Gu-
American casualties during 31 belman.
of global fighting in World
There was Cpl. Wallace X.
War II have surpassed total Amer
ican casualties in War I, accord Rawles, former King Features edi-
ing to official Washington re I tor; Pfc. Jim O’Connell, now u
lieutenant serving overseas; Pfc.
ports.
| Joe Love, Pvt. Glenn Peterson, Pvt.
Casualties to date are 261,541, • Harry Klissner.
as compared to 259,735 during the
Of the later staff, there was Cpl.
19 months of U. S. participation ii
Lionel Kay, now at CCS; Cpl. Ben
the 1917-18 war.
Hirschkowitz, lately of Camp
By breakdown, the figures show: Beale, und Cpl. Paul Rosenberg,
This war—56.772 dead; 107,938 currently at Fort Lewis.
wounded; 55,903 missing; 40,928
prisoners.
Last war—53,878 dead; 201,377
wounded; 4,480 priseners.
Casualties of War II
Surpass War I Total
Japs Seen Suckers
For 'Change of Pace'
'Oregonian' Will
Feature Adair's
Sentry, July 30th
Southwest Pacific(CNS)
The
Jap is “a sucker for a change of
pace,” according to Lt. Gen. George
C. Kenney, who has seen the enemy
in action both here and in the South
Pacific.
Writing in the magazine "Air
Forces," Gen Kenney said that the
Allies have discovered that the
enemy is baffled by any new type
of attack. "Finally, he figures it
out and is ready for it,” the gen
eral wrote. “But by that time we
have it changed.”
A feature article, titled “Army
Editor.” reciting the woes, weals
and ad infinitum relevant to the
publication of an Army newspaper
(the Sentry, that is), ia scheduled
to appear in the July 30 issue of
the Portland Oregonian.
The article, written by Tec3 Bob
Ruskauff, managing editor, will
appear in the Oregonian Sunday
magazine section, edited by Don
McLeod.
A bond bought is $$ saved.
Camouflage blinds the enemy!
Conceal black shadows under nets.
TIDE OF WORLD EVENTS HAS CHANGED SINCE 'WORLDTHIS WEEK' BEGAN IN SENTRY
j ish 8th crossed the straits and land
By Tec4 John Stamp
A year ago this month “The ed on the toe of Italy. Mussolini
World thia Week” was launched in resigned and Badoglio took over.
an attempt to keep the enlisted Italy surrendered and joined the
man informed at a glance of the Allies. In the months that followed,
significant events in an ever British and Americans made slow
changing world. The first issoe and rapid gains northward from
marked a turning point of the war, the Tyrrhenian to the Adriatic,
for the Allies began offensives on leaving Salerno. Naples, Anzio
all of the major battlefionts of the and Cassino in their wake.
world.
Fall of Rome
How War Was Waged
With summer came the fall of
tn western Earwpe. the battle
. Rome and the Wecond front inva-
field was in the skies; la Rus
sia. there was a clash ef armies; , rion. Meanwhile, the greatest
in the Pacific, the first parely aerial bombardments the world has >
offensive campaign was wader- ever seen descended upon the tan-
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taken; while in the Mediterraa itinent. Day and night. Allied bomb
ean. combined wperatiens Im roared across the English ehan-
achieved the mwst brilliant tri- nel. smashed industrial inatalia-
j trans. railways and highways in
■ mph for the Allies.
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Juiy 1943 saw the Allied air force Germany and the occupied coun-
come of age as it flung itself into tries, reduced Germany's principal
the battle of Sicily. Combined cities to shambles, az4 softened up
operations of land, see and air con- the invasion coast. Allied troupe,
tr:buted to the Allied triumph as under cover of terrific air and sea !
the 38-day battle ended with the bombardment, landed oa the coast
fall of Messina Terrific aerial bom- of France between Cherbourg and
bardment of southern Italy followed Le Havre and pushed inland The
as a prelude to the long swatted m- conquest of the ( herbourg penin-
at the continent. Aa the I aula and the first lap of the nsarrh
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'World This Week'
onrushing Soviet armies. The island bopping. Moving in an are,
Germans no longer looked for U.S. naval, air and ground force«
territory bet for escape routes forged ahead, striking at New
and by the end of the year the Guinea. New Georgia, New Brit
Rursians carried the comeback ain in the Solomons—on to the
trail to Poland. Latvia and the Marshalls and the Gilbert*. Allied
Romanian borders.
¡4 airmen blasted Jap
_ bases
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from the _
Attacking on a 500-mile front Bismark sea to the Carolines is-
from old Poland to the Black sea. lands. By sea and air, the U. S.
the Nazi* were hurled back a* r.avy now controls the last reaches
Stalin’* armies »wept through the from the Kurile islands on to the
Kerch peninsula, the Crimea, the Marianas on the south.
Romanian center of Iasi and fought >
,
over the Czech border to the Hun-
,
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garian plain. Th. »ummer offer.-' . ,n
Wor,d ‘«‘•X. »«*
dread
of
two fronts has become *
live rolled around again with the
eastern front blazing into action throe front reality. Tho Puxaian
from the Arctic to the White sea offensive ha* swept the German«
and the Gulf of Finland. Red to the reich itself in on« of tho
armies capture*! Vilpuri. Finnish worst defeats since Stalingrad. In
gateway city; Minsk, capital of Italy, there is no longer any Gor
White Russia and drove to the man hope for another great offen
East Prussia border and on to the sive. The American offensive clos
road to Warsaw and Berlin.
ing on Japan has swept through
Japs On Defense
10,000 mile* of the Pacific nearly
year ago the battle of the to enemy shores The invasion of
. south Pacific assumed its final Saipan gives America
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a spring.
| stage. Japan was oo the defen» ive.. board on Japan's most strategic is-
. The Americans attained tuperrari- 1 land group and a stepping «tone to
J ty in sea *nd air power, and though Tokyo lane than lfQO mi|an >«..