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Camp Howze Howitzer
VOLUME 2
NUMBER 24
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Gen. Walker Gets GI Party Will
A real GI party will be on the
a $300
payment
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maximum
work the general did while still
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pany having the highest total
Bn.,
three piano solos..
gun drill given artillery soldiers.
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Battalion totals:
First, $5,650;
Boxers of 410th Start Bouts
As Warmup for Golden Gloves
five-second buzzer sounded.
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Two-Thirds of Army to be
Overseas by End of 1944
Cactus Six-Stripers
Really Get Around
Income Tax
Blanks Here
Be Background
Of Radio Show
Furlough Hating
Private Found
Washington News
Letter Now Here
No More Money
From AER For
Furloughs
New USO Camp
Show to Be
Here Next Week
411th Infantry Troopers Pledge
$14,725 For More War Bonds
of $500, the House $300.
Birthday Ball
At Fair Park
Anti-tank man, and Pvt. Robert
Sickler of Hq. Co., 3rd battalion.
Both men were so anxious to tear
each other, apart they bounced
Radio listeners will be invited
to “step right inside” for a floor
show and dance music by the
not come within the provisions of
the War Department directive.
Air conditioned railroad cars
were in service in the last cen-
tury.
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Co. B, 411th Infantry Regiment,
has a Believe It or Not item for
Pvt. Louis M. Rafaidus.
The Kiplinger Washington
News Letter, “inside” publication
which many business men read
with great interest, is now avail-
able at the libraries of both Serv-
ice Clubs.
The letter is there for the con-
venience of all soldiers who have
been used to following the letter
in civilian life and all those who
wish to keep up with the news in
a condensed version.
ization was here.
The award was presented for
Washington.
The citation reads:
Service Pay
Compromise
Is Reached
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GI BOND RALLY—Men and officers of the 411th Infantry Regiment really got on the ball for
the 4th War Loan Drive when they staged their big bond rally last Saturday in the rec hall and sold
$14,725 worth of bonds.—(Signal Corps Photo).
A WAC IS BORN—Miss Marie Andrews, of the Camp Intelligence Office, puts her Joan Henry
on the dotted line last Saturday to become a prospective Wac. Lt. Ann Markusich and T-5 Sally
Wasson, of Dallas Recruiting Service in the Eighth Service Command, look on and plot to follow up
this to make Miss Andrews Pvt. Marie Andrews, WAC, USA.—(Signal Corps photo.)
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Published Weekly By And For the Mill tary Personnel of Camp Howze, Texas.
CAMP HOWZE,“TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1944. ~
103d Division dance orchestra,
conducted by Warrant Officer
William Boehle.
Last Wednesday’s program was
a salute to the 103d Division ar-
tillery. The 103d Division band,
conducted by Chief Warrant Offi-
cer Hans Wigeland, provided the
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The Regimental quota is based
on one $25 bond per man for a
total of $81,400.
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better to have a nest egg of our
own when the time for peaceful
pursuits begins again? Remem-
ber, money makes money. Your
$18.75 spent now means $25 in
the future.”
Col. Donovan P. Yeuell, Regi-
mental commander, said he would
present a.War Bond to the com-
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you going to do with all of your
money? Do you think that' you
A GI version of the President’s
Birthday Ball is planned for to-
morrow night at Fair Park USO
club.
The dance will be the only ob-
servance of the day in Cooke
county outside of dances in camp,
club directors believe.
Dancing will start at 8 p. m.,
and the grand march will start at
10:30 p. m., with the “March of
Dimes.” Service men, hostesses,
sponsors, and club staff will get
in the parade and drop their
dimes into Uncle Sam’s hat at the
stage.
The funds go to National Foun-
dation for Infantile aralysis, to
be used in research and treatment
of the disease.
—Loose Talk Kills Men—
Army Emergency Relief funds
are no longer available for fur-
lough loans, unless a grave em-
ergency exists, according to ord-
ers received here from The Ad-
jutant General in Washington.
Funds will be granted only
when there is “sickness or death
in the soldier’s family or some
other condition of equal import-
ance to the. individual soldier.”
The telegram further states
that even these loans will be
.given only when the situation is
established to the satisfaction of
the commanding officer concern-
ed and when American Red Cross
or private funds are not avail-
able.
It had been the policy to give
loans to all military personnel
going on furlough or leaves who
aplied for aid because of a short-
age of personal funds.
The new policy went into ef-
fect immediately.
Slow Leak Is Bad
Medicine for Him
Legion of Merit
The Legion of Merit medal has ‘
been presented to Brig. Gen. Nel-!
son M. Walker, who was stationed I
at Camp Howze as assistant com-
Bond Meter Mash
A “Bond Meter” is being placed
in the rec hall to mark the day
by day progress of the drive,
which will continue until Feb.
29.
Co. F, with a purchase of $2,-
250, led the Regiment. Co. C,
with $2,150 was second as seven
companies passed the $1,000
mark.
was guest artist,
Senate and House conferees
agreed Monday on a compromise
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There had been several plans
for paying discharged veterans
various sums upon their return
to civilian life, ranging as high
as $700. The Senate voted a top
outstanding service while serving
as executive officer and assistant
to the Chief of the Training
Branch, G-3 Division, War De-
partment General Staff, from 2
September 1940 to 10 February
1942. His keen foresight and able
grasp of the problems at hand
made him an invaluable aid dur-
ing those days when the all-im-
portant work of directing the es-
tablishment and operation of the
replacement training system, the
expansion and operation of the
school system, the modernization
of both tactical and technical doc-
trine of our armed forces, the
development of winter training,
including doctrine and equip-
ment, and the supervision of the
distribution of funds and ammu-
nition to accomplish the training
of our Army.”
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perience to keep Lopez guessing. I Eighth Service Command. The
Lopez couldn’t figure out King’s ’ quartermaster will claim it and
style. King is a foot artist, able 'pay the charges due.
to dodge head blows and equally । Most of this unclaimed clothing
good at getting out of corners and is abandoned by men who are
away from ropes, leaving Lopez I transferred suddenly from one
pounding the air. | station to another. Replacements
But Lopez was still fresh as a are issued to the men, and the
daisy in the third round, and Army Service Forces recover the
King couldn’t keep up the speed clothing for reissue. Officers’
that long. Lopez brought up an clothing, since it is personal and
armada of punches to outpoint not government property, does
By Pvt. Ralph Riske
Cactus Division boxers from
the 410th Infantry Regiment aim-
ing at the Golden Glove tourna-
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conduct in the performance of
A blue ribbon event in enter-
tainment will occur when the
new USO-Camp Shows produc-
tion Around the Corner will be
presented here without admission
charge to servicemen.
The show will be at Theater
Four on Feb. 1 and Theater Two
on Feb. 2. Both shows will start
at 7 p. m.
The show is a fast-paced “joy
ride” with a stellar cast of head-
line performers. Songs, dances,
farce and thrills abound in
Around the Corner. Three of the
acts in this streamlined stage
frolic enjoy an'international rep-
utation for cleverness and abil-
ity that has taken them to many
countries. To these standard acts
the production department has
added clever newcomers to
Broadway who have, in a short
time, earned the praise of the
seasoned New York critics.
Following is the cast who'will
appear here:
Barbara Champeon—peppy toe
and acrobatic dancer.
Eddie Manson—Famous master
of the Harmonica.
Yorke & Tracy—“Hoke Com-
edy at its Zaniest."
Hap Hazard & Co.—“The Care-
less Comedian”—high perch act.
Marjorie Manson—Pianist and
Musical conductor.
Konradi Leitner—Hypnotist.
3 Calli Sisters — “Singing
Sweethearts.”
Program to Aid
Veterans Find
Jobs Under Way
Applications Run Into
Scores in Some of the
Seven Cities Wednesday
War veterans, some of them
wounded and leaning on canes,
made their way into offices in
seven cities across the nation to-
day to take advantage of the fed-
eral government’s new expanded
program to find them work.
Some were in uniform, others
back in civilian garb. Many were
accompanied by their wives or
sweethearts.
The number of applicants ran
into scores in some cities as the
program got underway yester-
day. A large number obtained
jobs before the day ended.
The demonstration offices, as
they were descrioed by Federal
Security Administrator Paul V.
McNutt, are located in Denver,
Colo.; New Haven, Conn.; St.
Louis, Mo.; Houston, Tex.; Los
Angeles, Calif.; Minneapolis,
Minn., and Philadelphia, Pa.
Directors of the offices said
the new program represented a
considerable expansion over
services hitherto provided.
The new set-up included larger
placement staffs, greater coor-
dination with employer repre-
sentatives and increased empha-
sis on finding suitable jobs for
disabled men.
Burr Pearson, manager of the
U. S. Employment service in
Houston,’ said there was no back-
log of unemployed veterans in
that section because all dis-
charged service men had been
placed.
The Houston office reported
that Texas employers were vol-
unteering in large numbers to
find work for returning service
men. Plans were proceeding for
perfecting new ’ plans of reem-
ployment and rehabilitation for
the huge numbers expected to be
cared for eventually. ।
men of the 411th Infantry Regi-
ment singing out their pledges to
purchase War Bonds at a rally
last Saturday in the Regimental
Recreation hall.
A total of. $14,725 was sold at
the two-hour gathering.
The kickoff for the Fourth War
Bond drive met an enthusiasm
unparalleled in the Regiment’s
history. The men bought and
then bought again as the figures
on the blackboard were changed
over and over.
The rally started with the Reg-
imental drum and bugle corps
parading down the aisle and up
onto the stage. Some of the corps
members had laid aside their in-
struments for large posters in-
scribed with War Bond slogans.
Lt. Edward A. Johnson, orien-
tation officer, introduced Capt.
Kenneth M. Bennett, regimental
personnel officer, who explained
the new Class B allotment plan
and pointed out how War Bonds
are a good savings plan. Then
pledge sheets were passed out to
the company bond officers.
Lt. Johnson MC’d the rest of
the rally, explaining it is the
duty of men on this side to buy
bonds and support the men on
the active war fronts in the same .
manner we expect to be support-
ed when it becomes our turn to
face the enemy.
Back the Attack
“After all,” he said, “what are
four years in Hawaii, and 18
months in Iceland before his as-
signment to the 409th. He likes
Hawaii over any other foreign
station at which he has served.
The sergeant had the honor of
serving in the 8th Infantry in
1932 under Lt. Col. George C.
Marshall, now General Marshall,
chief of staff.
Sgt. Williford has been doing
communications work for a long
time and remembers the day
when communications were really
a problem.
When assigned to the 409th,
Sgt. Williford met an old friend
•—Capt. Samuel H. Smith, regi-
mental communications officer—■
with whom he had served in Ha-
waii. Sgt. Williford is a native
of Anderson, S. C.
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himself into shape—for he was up sonable length of time, approxi-
against a tough boy and he knew j mately 90 days.
it. i Laundries and dry-cleaning es-
tablishments should report the
Lopez , unclaimed clothing to the quar-
a total of more than 12 months
service at fixed stations or “over-
head activities” in the United
States to be reassigned to combat
units “or mobile activities ulti-
mately destined for overseas serv-
ice.”
Enlisted men under 30 will be
reassigned first according to their
length of service in the United
States, and they will be followed
by those over 30, in order of age
—youngest first. These reassign-
ment orders will not apply to men
who have served overseas at
some time since Pearl Harbor, or
to men with highly specialized
skills which cannot be utilized
overseas.
Replacement Plan
“Replacements for reassigned
enlisted men,” said Stimson,
“when necessary, will be made
first from civilians, next by
Women’s Army Corps personnel,
then, in order, by men perma-
nently disqualified for overseas
service, men who have served
overseas, recently inducted men
with physical handicaps, enlisted
men with less than 12 months
service in fixed installations in
the United States.”
The department has not made
public the list of camps which it
proposes to close.
As present’ plans
shape up, two-thirds of Amer-
ica’s steadily growing army
will be at overseas stations by
the end of this year.
That was the word today from
War Secretary Stimson as he an-
nounced plans for closing a num-
• ber of domestic army camps dur-
ing the next few months and the
transfer to combat units of a sub-
stantial proportion of the soldiers
now assigned to administrative
duties.
The overseas expansion pro-
gram will double our forces
abroad. As of the end of 1943,
only about a third of the army
had been sent outside the coun-
try.
To Replace Older Officers
In addition, a number of offi-
cers over 38, particularly those
commissioned directly from civil
life or in the National Guard and
Reserve Corps, will be placed on
the inactive list because “no suit-
able assignments are available or
in prospect either at domestic or
overseas installations or estab-
lishments.”
“The readjustments were dic-
tated generally by the progres-
sive shift of army operations
from the defensive to the offen-
The referee sent them back to
their corners and when the bell
rang it left both fighters with
their backs facing each other. All
the commotion didn’t help 135-
pound Sickler, who was punched,
battered and almost smashed out
of the ring until he was knocked
out in 1 minute and 33 seconds.
Sickler is feeling fine now.
After he was toted out of the
ring swinging on the shoulders of
his seconds, a strong, hearty boy
named Lopez of Co. I stepped
into the ring. The crowd was
now so gleeful the referee had to
yell “at ease” before he could
make his announcement.
In the opposite corner another
Anti-tank boy, Cpl. Ray King,
: MOSCOW (CNS).—"“Where is
your division?” Red army intelli-
1 gence officers asked a captured
German soldier. “Right here,” the
captive replied sadly “I’m it!”
throughout the first and second, termaster at Camp Howze,
rounds, using his amateur ex- i cording to authority from the
was bouncing and shadow-boxing ers by enlisted men within a rea-
, manding general of the 84th In-
mustering-out pay bill provid- fantry Division when that organ-
King the rest of the way and win
the decision.
Half the crowd booed the deci-
sion, but quieted when King
walked over and put his arm
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ment at Fort Worth slugged it j out of their corners when the
out among themselves in the five-second buzzer sounded.
Men of Co. B, 411th Infantry
Regiment, thought T-Sgt. Ches-
ter Obdinski had started work-
ing on Section VIII when they
saw him flying through the
company area.
Round and round he snorted
as if half the Jap army was at
his heels. He bellowed like a
bull.
Finally the sergeant ran him-
self out and was heard to pant:
“I was using some Sloan’s lini-
ment as a back rub and it ran
down too far.”
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Army Wants GI
Clothing Back
The Army wants to recover
quantities of clothing issued to
soldiers and lost or abandoned at
| commercial and dry-cleaning es-
! tablishments.
The Camp Howze Quartermas-
ter said today the War Depart-
ment had established a procedure
for the recovery of clothing not
claimed from laundries and clean-
For globe-trotting in the serv-
ice Sergeant Eichman and Ser-
geant Williford will stack up
against anybody else in the Cac-
tus Division. These 409th Infan-
try first graders—F-Sgt. Harry
H. Eichman of Regimental Head-
quarters Company and M-Sgt.
Robert F. Williford (communica-
tions)—have really been around.
And to make his life a bit more
unusual, Sgt. Eichman only re-
cently had his first furlough in
16 years!
He joined the Army in 1921
and has been a non-com for 18
years. He has been at Ft. Snelling
Minn., Ft. Lewis, Wash., Ft.
Cooke, Neb. He has been out of
the country and back again many
times—35 months in Hawaii, over
eight years in the Philippines,
two years in China, 10 months in
Panama. And he came to the
409th Infantry last fall after 18
months’ service with U. S. troops
in Iceland.
Sgt. Eichman spent a month
studying the Great Wall of
China. He prefers the Philip-
pines to any other station. Once
he spent 90 days on the open sea
when a boat from the Philippines
to China developed engine trou-
ble. He has made 14 transoceanic
trips.
A man’s man, Sgt. Eichman
likes hunting and fishing. But
his work comes first. His com-
pany at Ft. Custer was adjudged
as having the best mess hall. He
shared the same honor in Panama
and his supply room in his Phil-
ippines station was also consider-
ed tops. He is a native of Frank-
fort, Wis.
Sgt. Williford was once a navy
man. He entered that service in
1920 at Hampton Roads, Va., and
for six years was with the scout-
ing fleet in Caribbean waters,
spending his shore time in the U.
S., Haiti and Santo Domingo.
He joined the Army in 1927
and has since served at Ft. Moul-
trie, S. C., Ft. Custer, Mich., over
two years in Panama, more than
Private Rafaidus doesn’t like i Second, $4,950; Special Troops'
furloughs. He turned his down, $3,175; Third, $950.
sive and by the growth of air
power,” said Stimson. “As of Dec.
31, 1943, approximately one-third
of the army’s strength was over-
seas. By the end of this year it
is contemplated that two-thirds
of the army will be overseas.”
With the peak of the training
program past, the army already
has placed a number of its facili-
ties on a stand-by basis, or an-
nounced that it intends to do so.
The air forces have relinquished
69 or more establishments, and
the ground forces have begun to
close up some of their training
camps and other facilities, includ-
ing Camp Atterbury, Ind., Pine
Camp, N. Y., and the induction
center at Fort Hayes, Ohio.
Not to Need All Housing
Stimson did not mention these
specific instances, but asserted
that “the army will no longer
need all its present troop housing
facilities and it will be necessary
to place a number of camps,
posts, stations and other installa-
tions on a caretaker basis, and to
return many of the civilian in-
stallations and facilities which
previously had been taken over
by the army.”
He announced that the War
Department has ordered physi-
cally qualified men in all
branches of the army who have
Blank forms used to calm down
some of the headaches that in-
come tax returns amount to are
on hand in the Camp Judge Ad-
vocate’s office.
These may be obtained from
S-Sgt. W. E. Brevick or Mrs.
Doris Parker.
Sgt. Brevick will also assist
Camp Howze personnel in mak-
ing their income tax returns. He
points out that all persons who
made returns in 1942 must do so
again this year, whether they
have to pay any tax or not.
Boyington Missing
OKANOGAN, Wash. (CNS).—
Marine Maj. Gregory Boyington,
who downed 26 Japanese planes
in the Pacific to tie the current
war ace record of Maj. Joe Foss
and the World War I record of
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker is
missing in the Southwest Pacific,
his mother has been informed.
members of the armed forces
with overseas or Alaskan ser-
vice.
The final version of blended
proposals allows:
One hundred dollars to men
and women of the armed forces
serving less than 60 days in the
continental United States.
Two hundred dollars to those
serving more than 60 days in the
continental United States.
Three hundred dolars to those
with service overseas or Alaska.
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MacArthur Turns
64, Keeps Working
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, 64
Wednesday but looking years
younger, spent his birthday visit-
ing veterans of the Papuan, New
Guinea, campaign and his old
friend, Lt. Gen. Robert Eichel-
berger.
Reaching the age when normal-
ly American Army Officers re-
tire, General MacArthur contin-
ues his work policy under which
he has not had a day off since
the Japanese attacked the Philip-
pines.
There is no question of retire-
ment, however. General Mac-
Arthur retired from the Army
following service as chief of staff
in 1937 and became military ad-
visor to the Philippines. He was
recalled to active service in 1941.
musical background. Lt. Oliver sales during the present drive.
Manning, 383d Field Aritllery I Capt. Samuel M. Cromwell,
_ playing commander of Co. F, started his
Sgt. Ralph company’s drive with the pur-
Messmore‘3 howitzer squad, from chase of a $1,000 bond and told
Battery B, 382nd Field Artillery his men he would match, dollar
Bn., added a real artillery touch | for dollar, the purchase total of
with the “cannoneer’s hop” basic the company. _
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King Smart
King outsmarted
regiment’s recreation hall.
First mayhem was between
Pfc. Lawrence S. Cook of Co. I
and Pfc. Doyle R. Albright from
Co. K. Because of the stool
which Cook’s seconds forgot to
lift out of the ring, Albright won
by a technical knockout. In the
early seconds of the first round,
Albright laced Cooke with a ter-
rific right hook. , Cook twirled
around and make a one-point
landing on the stool in his own
corner, cutting his lip and flat-
tening his nose.
Pfc. Cook is now in fine shape,
except that his nose is still slight-
ly red.
Second bout brought forth
southpaw Pfc. Amos Smith, an
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saying: “I have a job to do.”
Private Rafaidus set a unique
record at Camp Claiborne in Late
Lamented, La. He spent a six-
month period there in which he
left.his company area only once.
Buddies are quick to point out
they don’t share theeamp-loving
private’s opinion and will take a
| furlough at the drop of a hat.
Rally Last
Saturday Sees
Big Response
Mark $1,000 for Co. F . . . $200
more for Co. C . . . put us down
for another $75.
It’s no stock market. It’s the
air next Wednesday night, when
the Camp Howze radio program
will be presented during a dance
sponsored by 103d Division head- . . ------------
a .quarters company at Service Club W1 4 De able to jump out of your
colonel in the War Department at One. j oxholes and,80 to the PX
n The program will be aired byShoWat 6 o clock once you’re
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“For exceptionally meritorious 8:00 p. m, at 910 on your dial. the"overments bpin rtoading S
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