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Saturday, December 11, 1943 ABBOT ENGINEER Cosmetics Now Used by Army Page Three M otor Vehicles, Bikes Usage Cut 25 Per Cent by N S C Rule The work of saving soldiers’ lives and making fighting men more efficient is being done in every theater of operations through the use of cosmetics. These cosmetics are used for camouflage, for preventing skin chapping and sunburn, and are reaching Allied soldiers in over seas theaters of operation in large quantities, the W ar De partment announced this week. The basic object for using cos metics to camouflage is to elimi nate the bright reflection quali ty of the white skin and to ob scure the pattern of the face. Paint for face and hand camou flage has been standardized in V ic .* .* . nine colors. Tubes containing these shades are issued to sol '" i s she your beneficiary diers in appropriate areas to gether with small booklets set ting forth methods of use. The research and development —classification. The speed with branch of the Quartermaster which we were forced to create Corps is now experimenting to a large army didn’t exactly allow» provide a chap stick which will , us to sit around and start at the be efficient at z e r o tempera ceiling and twiddle our thumbs tures, at 25,000 feet altitude, and and say to each other, "Well, still be firm enough to use at Jake, how do you think his bird desert temperatures. would fit into that latrine order Other important aids for the ly job?” soldier are insect repellents and It all had to be done quickly. The second edition of “ Khaki creams to prevent sunburn. The And, to say the least, it WAS latter filters ou the sun’s burn done. Of course, all the soldiers Capers,” the regular Thursday ing rays but allows tanning of didn’t agree with the decision night Service Club variety show, the skin. Hundreds of thousands that w’as tossed to them, and con emerged this week with several of two-ounce tubes of this prepa sequently, there has been a lot new selections by old favorites, ration are in use by allied troops of talk about it. But it must be enlivened considerably by the music of S/Sgt. Jack Hayes’ on fronts all over the world. conceded that the classification Camp Abbot dance band. boys have done and are still do Largely devoted to vocals, the ing a fine, although thankless, show featured songs by Sgt. ' job. Harold Friedman of Company To recall two excellent cases A, 51st Bn., Cpl. Fern Shepherd of mis-classification, however, a of the Wac Company, Pvt. man was a Los Angeles police George Kruto, former profes By Sgt. Curt Foreman . . . "We, the president of the man for fifteen years. He had a sional opera singer, and Pvt. United States, the prime min friend, a taxi driver whose ex Buddy Hyde, former Hollyw'ood ister of Great Britain, and the perience covered a like period. emcee who doubled as master of premier of the soviet union have The two men were inducted the ceremonies. very same day, took their two met these four days . . . ” One of the top attractions to See anything unusual about weeks together, then came into the large audience witnessing the way that paragraph started? the army together. the performance was a series of Maybe you’ve already guessed several skits by Cpl. William It was the Big Three story by INS, appearing in a Portland it. The taxi driver wound up in Hesse of the Medical Detach paper. Is there any real reason the M P’s, and the copper became ment. Cpl. Hesse all but maimed why the Soviet Union shouldn’t a truck driver. himself giving impressions of a be spelled with capitol letters? novice ice skater his first time Just wondered .that’s all. One never knows, does one, out but managed to come back what latent talents simmer to for an encore in which he mim Well, thi soldier ,to use the the surface under the influence icked a moonstruck astronomy term in its more liberal sense, of certain forms of mild stimula professor with a tendency to has finally squared himself with tion. Who, for instance, would wander from the academic the world. Now he owes as many ever guess that our chief L. O. phases of his subject. people in Camp Abbot as he was an orchestra leader? Lt. Robert Herring, Service * locsn’t owe. That’s even, isn't it? Yes sir, the land can really Club program director, announc H i ------------— • sell it. And he proved to the at- ed that the “Capers” will be pre Wonder how far this man isfaction of all concerned t’other sented before patients of the power shortage thing can go night down to Carrol Acres that Station Hospital beginning next without something busting loose. he can direct a dance band like week. Poor old Joe- Pvt. Joseph Dan anything. gelo, of the Police and Prison The boys say it was an inspir staff, was this week by company ing sight: baton in hand, hair order made acting gadget, which tousled, the various movements is about time. The poor guy, a executed with all the grace and buck private until now, and until dignity of a professional. they thaw out those rating, has The Christmas spirit will be been running in nine simultan gin to assert ¡’self at a Christ eous directions daily, doing a mas tree party at the USO in job of supervising the work of Bend tomorrow and tighten its some 75 or 80 trainees who are sometimes not in the least inter Either Camp Abbot soldiers hold during a series of song re ested in being supervised by any want to display their own dainty hearsals to be held at the club body. handiwork in wrapping Christ rooms in preparation for a carol And this provosting job of mas, packages or it’s liable to lx? program at Camp Abbot Christ ours is like a piece of fly-paper. a lean Christmas back home, a mas eve, Miss Ann McLaughlin, Try and put it down somewhere check with volunteers participat associate director, announced —even at night. ing in the Service Club's Christ this week. Included in the program for mas wrapping program indicat One of the toughest jobs in ed this week. Fewer than a score the party will be decoration of a the army, we think, is the actual of soldiers have taken advantage large Christmas tape donated by stipulation of who will do what of the club’s offer to wrap gifts the Lions Club of Bend, a pop- . corn stringing session and the for mailing home. Officers wives who volunteer playing of games. ANSWER TO PUZZLE Carol rehearsals will be held ed their services believe that Sunday afternoons and Tuesday business business will pick up evenings beginning tomorrow, next week, however, and are ad equately equipped with Christ under the direction of Miss Eliz mas paper, ribbons, stickers and abeth Boeckli. Carolers will be good advice. Wrapping sessions drawn from Camp Abbot person nel and USO Junior Hostesses. are held from 2 to 4 p. m. daily. AM soldiers interested in partici pating are invited to attend. Tentative plans provide for a Washington <CNSi — A local department store has applied for carol program at the Station license to establish a helicopter Hospital and possibly other shuttle service between the local Camp Abbot installations Christ airport and the roof of the store. mas eve. Club Presents Second Edition Of ’Capers' Show Notes From the Bull Pen Some 6,000 motor vehicles are going out of action in the eight Western states of the Ninth Ser vice Command under an order from Major General David Mc- Coach, Jr., Commanding Gen eral of the Command, A r m y Service F o r c e s , to all posts, camps, and stations for a 25 per cent reduction of administrative automotive equipment. “Motor” vehicle does not en tirely describe the reduction or der which is sweeping enough to include bicycles. Tremendous savings in criti cal tires, gasoline, and parts will result from the order. In addi tion, there will be less drain on diminishing completed automo bile stocks. Vehicles withdrawn f r o m posts, camps, and stations will, in some cases, be turned over to other governmental agencies, saving the need of issuing a new vehicle. Some wilt replace those worn out in training where re* duetions can NOT be made with out jeopardizing important oper ations. Others will go into stor age until needed: some will fu r nish necessary parts for other equipment. To further conserve automo tive equipment, vehicles which have outlived their usefulness in training with tactical units are being converted into equipment which will have many hundred useful miles in administrative or maintenance work. For example, command cars are being converted into pickup trucks without the use of a sin gle item of new raw material. Acetylene torches cut away por tions of the command car body, then this same steel goes back into the pickup truck. Three “ pilot models” of these conver sions have been completed at key Ordnance Shops in the Com mand. enter this area after a certain hour. Well, the sergeant soon got him straightened out and ex plained that the acting corporal had given him the wrong set of By T/4 Eugene Plank instructions. Have you heard the story That’s the kind of a guard to about the guard who halted the have around the place, eh girls!! Wacs and their escorts the other He’ll keep the wolves away. evening? Well—Company C was on guard duty and the acting Then there’s a cute story wo corporal had posted the guard heard about Sgt. Harry Mac- in their area and gave him his Sweeney. The other evening wo instructions. It wasn’t long until were out on a night problem and the Wacs started to return to coming back along one of tho their quarters and they were main streets the sergeant was halted by the alert soldier. They counting cadence as they march tried to explain to him just who ed along. Suddenly, all was silent they were, but his instructions no counting was heard by the were to stop everyone who enter marching men. The platoon kept ed his post. By and by the M. right on down the street and a P.’s came along and saw what few seconds later the sergeant was taking place, pleaded with was beside his men once more. him to let them pass. Irritated, It seems that it was quite dark the M. P. sergeant shouted: “ You near one of those culverts, and better let them pass or I ’ll take the sergeant just toppled into it. that rifle from you and wrap it around your damn neck.” The We of C-54 think that the Ab guard had already slipped the bot Engineer is really gone to empty rounds from the chamber town. Who could ask for any and had put in the live ammuni more reading material. Eight tion. “ And if seven of you come pages is fine, let’s keep it the towards nte only one of you will best Engineer paper in the coun reach me,” he answered. He try. trembled courageously in his po sition as he fumbled with the Jacksonville, 111. (CNSl — A rifle to see if he were ready for young girl jumped up in the mid any emergency. dle of a movie and shouted Finally the sergeant of the “ Gleeps, I left my baby on the guard. Jack Cowan, was sum bus.” It was just a gag to prove moned and after quieting the she could act well enough to get Wacs in their barracks who were a role in a play, she revealed shouting to the ones in the later. street, the guard explained that he was instructed to let no one iuy National War Bonds Now! USO Announces Yuletide Plans G ift W rapping H as Slew Start \U o m l I h it is of/ you le n rn itl fr o n t the Marine:,—jn%t I'm lty (la k e—r a l l y Ijake'f*’ ' n m u me. im > Reprinted from the December iuue of E»quire.
