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Saturday, Oct. 2, 1943 Page Three ABBOT ENGINEER NEITHER HELL NOR HIGH WATER Jewish Services Underway Here Soldiers of the Jewish faith at Camp Abbot and in the Central Oregon maneuver area began their observance of the Jewish High Holy Days at sundown Wednesday at the Post Chapel. Services, which will continue until October 9, are being con ducted by Chaplain Norman H. Coldberg. The High Holy Days opened with the observance of Rosh ha Shonah, the Jewish New Year, Wednesday, Thursday and ^yes terday. This observance marked the start of the year 5704 in the Hebrew calendar. Services will end with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, on October 9. Dur ing the week, Jews throughout the world are offering prayers for peace and seeking divine penitence. Yom Kippur services will bo held at 7:30 p. m. Friday and 10 a. m. Saturday. Special dispensation has been made by Col. Frank S. Besson, ERTC commander, for Jewish men on maneuvers to attend ser vices here, in view of the fact Chaplain Goldberg is the only — Photo By Vincent. Post Photopraphei chaplain of tire faith in the area. This picture showing trainees and cadre of the Engineer Replacement Training Center here at least Jewish soldiers are permitted to half proves the saying that “ neither hell nor high water can stop the Army Engineers.” To escape the attend all sendees providing dust, these Engineer soldiers working in the fixed bridge aiea, ate their lunch standing in the cool waters of the Deschutes or dangling their legs from an improvised pier. their attendance does not inter fere with their training sched which have changed from mass ules or maneuver problems. formations to preliminary guer illa fighting by parties who de pend only on the ammunition they carry. URCH RITES ” k K ; A T IO N Fost Chapel. OF CHAPELS B id *. 208 ; 11th C,p. BMv-. 754 : H ospital Chapel in Red Cro!»s Chapel, Bldsr. 1255 ; 12th Gp. Chapel, I A rc Problems Friend or Not, Fail to Stop Time Comes to Theatre Crew Draw the Line Camp Abbot moviegoers were having their film diet served up Yom Kippur Services, Friday, by new projectors and sound 7:30 p. m. and Saturday, 10 a. m., j equipment on a par with that Post Chapel. in use at the Roxy theater in New York this week but there C A T H O L IC S E R V IC E S Confessions Saturday, Post were difficulties. Pending the arrival of high Chapel. Masses at 9 a. m. and G:30 p. m. Sunday at Post Chapel. intensity carbon arcs designed Masses daily, except Thursday, for the equipment, operators at 5:10 p. m. at Post Chapel. were forced to use arcs made for Choir rehearsal 7 p. m. Tuesday. the less powerful machines form erly in use in the theater. During P R O T E S T A N T S E R V IC E S Services at 10 a. m. and 7:30 a couple of showings, the smaller Sunday at Post Chapel. Service arcs burned down before the end >2nd Battalion (quarantine) of a reel. The screen became th Group Chapel at 6 p. m. blank, and patrons could only Sunday. Bible Study Class at hear 7 what was taking place. Op p. m. Monday at Post Chapel. erators solved the problem by Choir rehearsal at 7 p. m. Wed cutting down the amperage. The new equipment was in nesday at Post Chapel. stalled last week without closing H O S P IT A L S E R V IC E S the theater. Working day and Catholic confessions at Red night, technicians put in wiring Cross Recreation Hall at 7 a.m. for the new machines and used Sunday. Mass (visitors invited) the old until everything was in at Red Cross Recreation Hall at readiness for substituting t h e 7:30 a. m. Sunday. Protestant larger system. service at Red Cross Recreation j Hall at 10 a. m. Sunday. Recreation hall. J E W IS H S E R V IC E S • D E N O M IN A T IO N A L S E R V IC E S Warrant Officers to Wear Own Branch Insignia L. D. S. service at 7 p. m. Wed Army warrant officers have nesday at 11th Group Chapel. again been authorized to wear Christian Science service at 7 p. the distinctive warrant officer m. Thursday at Post Chapel. insignia, as was originally done, instead of the insignia of the Baltimore (CNS) — Marshall branch to which they are as Spearman thought he could avoid signed. induction into the army by eat ing his draft card. It didn't work. Save for Security! Save with He was fined $10 in police court Security!— Buy B O N D S ! for disturbing the peace. Male Call If you don't believe holt led beverages are a precious item in these parts, es|>eeiali.v on Sunday, here’s evidence to sup port the fact. Governors of each of the -)8 states have been called upon by Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, to direct the recruiting within their boundaries of in All-States Training Division of the Women's Army Corps, the War Department has announc* d. Women volunteers for the div ision are being accepted now a ><l recruiting will continue through December 7, second anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Gov ernors were asked to recruit vol unteers to equal the total batite casualties of the army to date and were told that the Army must replace all soldiers p e r forming jobs which women ran do. Recruits in the division will be formed into state companies or units for training togeth* i at a Wac training center and tin n individually assigned in accor dance with their qualifications. They are being inducted through regular army recruiting and in duction stations. radio - operator - gunner in (he Mediterranean area came one day when he stepped out «>1 an open air shower into an en trenchment occupied by a t» vy of Army nurses, who had been driven then’ by an air raid. S'rk- oiitsky grabbed a towel and b< at a strategic retreat. Recently bo returned to this base as an in structor. Charlotte, N. C. (CNS) A girl had a date with a young man a rl Air Base, Salt Lake City, he failed to show up. The nt t Utah (CNS) Low point in Cpl. day he called and explained. He Call Sokolitsky’s career as a got married instead. IN S T R U C T O R IN W H A T? A Camp Abbot soldier pat ronizing one of Bend's better night spots last Sunday no ticed a sergeant friend of his enjoying a eoektail at an ad joining table. Not wishing to intrude but at the same time hoping to quench his thirst, the soldier penned a note on a napkin and passed it to the sergeant. "D o you have anything to drink?” the soldier asked, and signed the note "Y o u r old friend, D------ .” The note w as returned promptly with two simple de letions which more than told the story. "Y o u r” and "friend” had been scratched out, and the note now ended with "Old CAUTION! WAC AT WORK N E W A M M U N IT IO N New type ammunition, which has been used by United States soldiers in the Aleutians and Sicily, is less than half the weight and only one-quarter the volume of regular .35-caliber am munition, but has dealy accuracy at 300 yards. A half-dozen or more clips of 15 cartridges fit easily into soldier’s pocket. It is used in the new .30-caliber car Here’s a sample of what a WAC can do if she puts her heart into it and studies the right subjects. Sgt. Anna K. Benson of Port la ail. bine and is designed to meet the Ore., gives a 175-pound man the business to demonstrate jujitsu requirements of new tactics training to a Seattle class of WACS. by Milton Caniff, creator of Terry and the Pirates LON6, ) Aid of States Asked in Drive T o G e tW a c s ' I KEEP VO U eV 5UCtaiH ! ) ----K.SMKT ON, \ G5EEZST] EEROEANT/y Magnetic Azim uth