Camp Abbot, Ore., April 15, 1944 ABBOT ENGINEER Page Two Chapel Services For Week Listed The Post Chaplain has an nounced Chapel services for the coming week. The schedule fol lows: Jewish Service: Post Chapel, 7:45 p. m. Friday. Catholic Services: Daily Mass in the 12th. Group Chapel as fol lows: Monday, 7:00 a. m. for the 56th. (Bn. only.) T u e s d a y , Distributed free to camp personnel. Subscription rate to public, by m ail: 60 Wednesday and Saturday, 5:15 cents for three months; six months, $1.00; one year, $1.60. p. m. Thursday and Friday, 7:00 p. m. Tuesday. Post Chapel, 7:00 “ W E ’V E A L M O S T G O T ’E M L IC K E D , J O E ” For the benefit of the guy who goes around with a p. m. Choir Rehearsal. Saturday, great, big smile on his face, talking in loud, cheery tones 7:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m., Post about how soon the w ar w ill be over, and what a push C h a p e i , Confessions. Sunday, over the Germans and Japs are, and how we are kicking ” :30 a. m. Mass, Hospital (Red the pants o ff ’em with hardly any trouble at all, a few de- Cross Rec. Hall). Open to others tails were released this week by the W a r Department which beside Medical Personnel. (Con- might serve to set our loquacious friend straight on what fessions b e f o r e Mass.) Post the boys in Italy and elsewhere are up against. J Chapel, 9:00 a. m. Mass, and 6:30 Lt. Col. A lfred K. DuMoulin, GSC, who has returned Post Chapel, Mass, to this country after an observation tour with the 34th Protestant Services: Sunday, Infantry Division in Italy has revealed in a report to Lt. 8:45 a- m- Guardhouse Service, Gen. Leslie J. M cN air, commanding general of Arm y 10:00 a- m- Service at Red Cross Ground Forces, additional information concerning the new Rec. Hall in Hospital. (Open to German portable pillboxes and the development of other others besides Medical Person nel.) 10:30 a. m. 12th. Group weapons. The report says, in part: “ The prefabricated, kettle-type pillbox is turned up Chapel (fo r 56th. Bn. only.) side down, set on two wheels and drawn by a tractor. It 10:45 a. m. Morning Service at is one of the most astonishing defenses the Germans have _ Post Chapel. _ 7:30 _ _ p. m. Evening Official camp newspaper, published weekly in the interests of the personnel of Cainp Abbot, Oregon, under supervision of the Special Service Officer. News matter pertaining to Camp Abbot is furnished by the Public Relations Branch and is available for general release. Written contributions, art work and photographs are solicited and should be directed to the Public Relations Blanch, Poet Hdgs. Annex, Bldg. 202. Telephone Ext-8. The ABBOT ENGINEER receive« material supplied by Camp Newspaper Service. War Dep't, 206 E. 42nd St.. New York, N. Y. Credited material may not be republished without permisión of Camp Newspaper Service. It's impossible to whistei in print, so we’ll have to be content with merely saying that NBC's Charlotte Manson, who's heard in "Back- stage Wife,” studied law before entering radio. She says there's no law tliat GI’s can't love brunettes. If there was, we’d be a criminal. the Deschutes river to cool. Then go out and buy War Bonds, so all the boys can share the cook ing. Findings From the 51st appropriate nickname. Come on, fellows, let’s not tarry any longer. The corporal can't go through life without a name. Turn in your entries to Cpl. Post. He’ll clean the rifle of the man who submits the best sug gestion. Qoats Join Up With Artillery BV F. PATRICK R YAN As a gentle suggestion to the developed. It’s about five feet wide and almost six feet f ervii^ Post CJ?ai?e „yVednef high, but only the six-inch concrete dome and machine- ;?°1_p'. ni', Post C h a P el rest of the company, why not Choir Rehearsal give the boys in the fourth pla gun snouts are visible; visible, that is, within ten yards, Denominational S e r v i c e s : toon a little competition on the because it’s generally well camouflaged and the gun fires A small goat family, con a smokless powder. A bellows cools the gun after it is W e d n es d a y , 7:00 p. m. 11th. ¿ ^ ‘acle' course The first squad sisting of papa goat, mania Group Chapel, L.D.S. Service. gaining on time and cutting the fired. T h u r s d a y , 10:00 p. m. 12th. winning tape at the last meet. goat, and their half - grown “ A steel lid can be drawn over its port,” Col. DuMoulin daughter, lias ambled amiably Group Chapel, Christian Science. The recent fisticuffs session into the 97tli Division Artil continued, “and when this is done, its eyes are a pair of Recorded music is heard every „ .• , „ « jo .. ___ ______ , n.,____ brought out some timely sugges periscopes jutting out of the top Only two men occupy | Mond'aTT^esdly an d^u rsday lery area, and if their owner tions. It appears the boys would happens to read this, they’re it and they are warmed by a small stove. Our men can de- (>V (,nin' s anH evenings and SlinHav Sunday nftornmn, afternoons stroy it with ‘Molotov cocktails’ after outflanking it, but at the Post Chapel (Bldg. 208). like to have Pvts. John and his for the collecting. Stolen meet in a ring other than the hills are so studded with them that there always seems A l t h o u g h no one knows the physical destruction ring, as where they came from or to be another one behind the pillbox just smashed.” the dogfaces call it. W hat the colonel termed “the worst curse of all” is the who’s responsible for them the Comes the eleventh week, and three have made themselves new German “ wooden shoe” mine. It is cased in plywood the thirty-hour problem. Nothing or plastic instead o f metal, thereby eluding our mine de perfectly at h o m e , nibbling amazing about that. But when tectors. unconcernedly on what few men view that ramble with in BY SGT. M. BECK “ The Germans know everything there is to know about patches of grass they have delaying action,” the observer went on. “A t Cassino they Away marched Company C on terest, that is something. After found in the artillery area dur diverted streams to flood the flatlands. They booby- a 30-hour problem. The boys hearing s e v e r a l discussions ing the past week. trapped every building. Every house bristled with ma 'were in a m e r r y mood and ahout exacting care on this prob- The reporter was no goat chine-guns and every fortified area was surrounded with everything went according to em the shock was so great I expert, but said they are the barbed wire. ] plan. Then came bivouac and had to have a shot in the other type of goat that wears horns “ I can best illustrate their stubborness,” he said, “by posting of the g u a r d s . Pvt. arm. Thanks, Doc. I ’ll do as and is inclined to be fragrant, something done by the Hochunddeutschmeister— the 134th Payne of the second platoon much for you, some day. if that m a k e s identification As far as this writer has dis Infantry whose history goes back to its defense of Vienna drew guard in the wee small easier. covered, Cpl. Zopf is the only against the Turks. They engaged elements of our 34th hours and was to be relieved at The Fort Wood News. Division just before the Rapido River w as crossed. They 030°- He waited anxiously but NCO in “B'1 company without an threw in every man— quartermasters, bakers, teamsters ,llc appointed relief did not ar and cooks. And then at Colleabatte, when an entire com- r*ve at *he appointed time. In panjf was wiped out, the lone survivors— one officer and fact- tho relief did not arrive at all. Pvt. Payne explained the rea ______________________(Clip and Save) four non-coms— counterattacked.” son in his own inimitable way. TONIGHT — SATURDAY The soldier, his relief, was nothing but a darn good gold- Hit No. 1 Hit No. 2 brick of the first water. These Tom Conway— Barbara Hale gold bricks, he suggested, never nearn anything, but when it in Entertainment On and O ff the Post for the Coming Week ocmes to concealment they are T E R R Y masters of the art. This particu O IO R O I BYRON SATURDAY Paul M A i v i r lar man, it appeared, was no ex •■a » » n o *»»•» *» » MNPt Service Club. M * DON W IIS O N ception. He had camouflaged Station Hospital Popular Platter Paradc.- -Games in Auditorium. I • • I I ( » i « « * » » himself so perfectly the Cor SUNDAY poral of the Guard couldn't even Service Club—Open House. SUNDAY— MONDAY TUESDAY find him and our hero had to Station Hospital Open House. Make a record. walk two hours more. Payne re- M O N D A Y Betty Rhodes Service Club- GI Movies. 8:30 p. m. marked that this was one time Johnnie Johnson Station Hospital -Open Forum conducted by Bend Kiwanis Club when the d----- goldbricks had and Everybody Sing. gotten full benefit of one phase TUESDAY of their basic training—camou Service Club- Bingo, 8:30 p. m. Station Hospital-"They Got Me Covered,” Patients only, flage! Rod Cross Auditorium, 6:30 p. nt. Here’s a little r e c e i p t we W E D N E S D A Y Station Hospital Craft Night. Also— MAIN STREET TODAY picked up which we cheerfully Service Club Formal Dance. THE STORM pass on. We feel sure it will de T II U R S D A Y light the heart of any GI and Station Hospital -Classical Music Hour. you don’t have to be a cook or Service Club -Bingo, 8 p. ni. Music Appreciation, 9 d m. WEDNESDAY FRIDAY a mess sergeant to whip up a Service Club—"Record Your Voice” session; Bridge Lessons Douglas Fairbanks Jr. batch. Station Hospital "Star-Spangled Rhythm.” Notes From C-59_____ CAMP ABBOT THEATRE PROGRAM Abbot ’n A round "The Falcon Out West" top *x "You Can't Ration Love" Paulette Goddard ¡n Receipt for Freedom MORE ABOUT WACs (Continued From Page One) permitting recruits to select the station of their choice. With that eventuality in mind, this report er visited the W AC unit, the No Man’s Land on which GI's sol- dom trod unless accompanying one of the members home from a movie or a dance, to see how the distaff side lives. Hie \\ ACs, w ho live the mill- Ingredients: 2 cups Hitler, tary life as far as their regular duties permit, occupy modern cup Mussolini. 1 tablespoon Ma two-story barracks boasting sev nila, ... . 6 cups Japs, I tablespoon oral items not likely to be found H Sift Hitler three times through in other quarters on the post barbed wire; chop Mussolini, such as a full-length mirror, a sewing machine, and bathtubs. then crack and shell Japs. Add The girls claim they have the Rising Sun and beat like hell. Then add Manila. The more you best mess on the post. beat, the better. Grease pan and pour in mixture. Put in oven and St. Louis <CNS>— Doris Marie slam Corregidor. _ H Turn : on _____ gas to Spring, young and pretty, walk- 95.000 degrees, and then go out od Into police headquarters and and see "Gone With the Wind " asked for protection. 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