VOLUME 4
MONDAY, 7 JANUARY, 1946
MORE THAN 50,000 ,MARINES PASS THROUGH CAMPEN ON WAY BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE
MAN WHO LED 28TH ,MARINES 'tlETURNS HERE
First Marine Regime~tal Commender of World War II to command his unit from the date of its inception until it was deactivated. is the unique honor held by Colonel Harry Liversedge )f Pine Grove. Calitornia, who ~rned to the states Saturday 'th elements of the 28th Marine Regiment. Colonel Liversedge, colorfully known among Marines as HHar_ ry the Horse," was recently re~ '. rurned from overseas where he had been in command of the First Provisional Raider Regiment, when he was glvel\ the job , of molding the 28th as part of the Fighting Fifth Division. For seven months at CamPen Colonel Liversedge supervised a bgid, thorough and practical training schedule within his new co m.rn and, and turned out a smooth-functioning rifle regiment. In October 1944, the 28th Marines embarked for further training at an overseas base, ith Colonel Liversedge still in mmand. Continued on Page 5
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.More than 50,000 Marines havo passed through the portals of CamPen's Redistribution Regiment since it went into opera~ tion, it was reported. Of that number, 15,000 1l9.V~ been discharged from separation company here an'd 35,000 havo Mr. and Mrs. John Folk of Riv- been transferred to other centers erside, California left CamPen for separation. CamPen has been last Saturday with their son, CpJ. handling this great number of Joseph Folk, recently returned men because all organized units from overseas with the 28th Mar- returning from the Paci4"ic war ines, 5th Division. Mr. and Mrs. zones arrive here for screening, Folk take with them memories ot processing, discharge (IT transfer. an eventful 24 hours spent here At the present tim ...., members due to the efforts ot Lt. Clark, of the Fifth Division arc being billeting officer at Tent Camp No. transported front hel at tbe 2. rate of nearly 700 per day while Parents of the serviceman arriv- some are being discharged f;rOUl ed at CamPen Friday evening to facilities in CamPen. Dischargesee Cpl. Folk, newly arrived a- rate is reported to be more than board the S. S. Goshen. On a'!:rival 200 per day. here they learned their son was Units of the Third and Fifth still on duty aboard ship. Maiuly Divisions make up most of Rethrough the efforts of Lt. Clark, distribution Regiment's customquarters were found for them in ers at the present time, with a. a Quonset hut in T.C.2 area in great number of the Second Diwhich they spent a "very com· vision arriving here under thefortable night," their first such r"ifth Division banner. This 0<>' experience on a military base. A curred when the divisions traded happy reunion was effected Sat- high and low point men overurday morning when CpI. Folk seas, allowing the high-pointers arrived to find his parents wait- of the Second til return for dising for him. charge. Capt. Ferguson, Commandiug Redistribution Regiment has Officer, Hqs. Co., 28th Marines, been able to turn loose its clerfurther ce:nented the good rela- ical help that was eligible for tions between the public and the discharge, but frozen and held as Marine Corps by granting the ser- essential. Arrivat of organized viceman holiday leave. units here for processing which greatly reduced the amount of paper work necessa.!'Y, made this possible. More officers than ever before . are being processed for discharge The U. S. Employment ServIce here, it was reported, with nearreported a record total of 9,000,ly 900 passing through redistri000 visits for jobs, unemplo;,,rment bution facilities. compensation and employment inMore than 800 Negro troops, formation during OctOber. Placelnem bel'S of service an<i depot ments of veterans increased, companies, as well as a few from reaching 119,100 in nonagriculantiaircraft units, were discharged tural jobs. Approximately half of the recently. CamPen's separation company placements of World War II veterans were in unskilled occupa- came to the aid of Marine Corps tions with more than one-third Base, San Diego, shortly before in skilled and semi-skilled jobs. Christmas, discharging 400 men One-tenth were for clerical and who overflowed separation J'Ilt8.. sales jobs. chinery there.
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BUS HACKNEY RETURNS AFTER PACIFIC JAUNT Corp. Walter F. "Buster" Hackney of Houston, Tex., who is a fonner sports writer for the Pendleton Scout, has returned from a tour of overseas duty and is preparing for discharge.
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Hackney, who served as combat correspondent with the Second Division, viewed and reported on the atom bomb damage of Nagasaki. An eye-Witness story of the devastated Jap city appears Representatives from the Au- elsewhere in this issue of the tomobile Asso"ciation of Souther.n Scout. . California will sell 1946 license He also took part in the initial plates at 12-G-1, provost marlanding and invasion of Okinawa shal's office, on Tuesday, Jan. and wrote n~merous stories on the ~5, it was revealed. Manne actlvlty there. In all, Hours for the sale of plates Hackney churned out 402 stories will be: 1900 to 1130 and from On his overseas jaunt. 1230 to 1630. California renewals will be ,andled at the provost marshal's office. Outof-state renewals or out-of-state licensees desiring Cal)fornia plates must transact their Effective 31 December 1945 the business with our Department of Combat Swimming Company, Motor Vehicles, Third and Cedar Staging Regiment, was disbandstreets, . San Diego. ed. It is requested that all persons availing themselves of this Effective 1 January 1946 a service have the correct change Combat Swimming Platoon was 'n cash, together with their Teg- activated as a unit of Head. r~~ion slip before approaching quarters and Service Company, lSSU1~g desk. . Staging Regiment.
,·rO BE ISSUED )HERE JAN. 15
COMBAT SWIMMING COMPANY DISBANDS
VET PLACEMENT ISHOWS INCREASE
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ed States Marines stationed at Camp .Joseph H. Pendleton, world's largest Leatherneck Base at Oceanside. CaIltornla. Area Special Service Funds finance publication. The Scout does not necesS3.rily express otticial opinion. Published In compl iance with Letter or Instruction 1100. Address: Building 24-A-3 Ext. Phone 703.
SWINDLERS OUT TO GET MONEY FROM EX-GI'S
Playing for record high stakes, swindlers from coast to coast are using every known scheme and lure to make a killing from the 170 billions of savings laid up by Americans during the war. To LtCol Levi W. Smith help them they have about 750 Publisher pto Peter V. McCoy Ed i tor old but effective tricks, warns the Corp John P. Keany .. Sporta Editor of Better Corp. Jack MllIick Photo~raphy National Association Sgt. PhyJlla Lytle Society Business Bureaus. The SCOUT receives material preReturning veterans sporting pared by the CamPen Orrice or Public Information, in addition to material more loose money than they ever lwepared by the start. had before offer the greenest pastures for ''blue-sky'' schemers, but housewives and John Public Roster Of Scientists in general are not being overFor Postwar Jobs looked either, says the associaNames of 400,000 scientists and tion's president, Victor H. Nyborg, Already the number ot victims technicians, including discharged servicemen, are being brought up screaming tor help to Better Busto date on the National Roster iness Bureaus in 86 cities is reof Scientific and Specialized Per- minescent of the epidemic of sonnel for referrals to industrial frauds after the last war, he declared, Then. according to best reconversion jobs. estimates, the public was swindlThe roster, established In 1940, referred 140,000 persons to vital ed out of 400 millions in Liberty war jobs, including the atomic bonds alone. bomb project. One of the imporThe commonest fraud, and one tant tasks ahead, according to the aimed particularly at veterans, inU. S. Employment Service, which volves the selling ot "exclusive" maintains the rosters, is to help territorial rights to many people qualifIed veterans find openings for the same district. said Nyborg. in Industry, colleges and research lIe added that this is done otten laboratories. without the knowledge ot the manufacturer and that It should not deter anyone from seeking such rights trom legitimate sellROMAN CATHOLIC ers. Poat Chapel: Among the other "e&1s being Sunday ?daM, 0800, 1115. pulled on the unwary are the t ..Da.lly Ma.es, IU5. 1615. ConteMlons before each 1\1&88. mlliar "get-rich-quick" mlnlnll Novena each Monday. 1930. Ranch Hou~e Chapel; stoCM ott.n sold through the Sunday Ma8l!1, OUS. malls trom Canada; and down Tuesday and Frida.y Mass, 1615. ConteesJons before each Ma.8s. payments tor househol" appliancPROTESTANT es paid to salesmen who ne.-er PoSt Chapel: Sunday, Dll'inG Wonhlp, 0900, 1001). reappear.
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MUSTACHE HAD AVIATION JOBS TO GO, TOOK TOO TO BE GOOD, Bm MUCH FOOD·· NOT EXCEPTION Wjth tbe Filth Marin. Divieion, Izuhara, T & U 8 him .-(Delayed).-Atter two weeks in lapan, Marine Private Fir.t Cia•• John L, Brown, 28, of Escondido, Calif., was convinced that hie prized Hhandlebar" muat&eb. must be discarded. Brown, who weighs more than 200 pounds, was telling of hi. experiences with the Fifth Marine Division laet September. "Until they set up the me.. halls, we at. cold 'K' and '10 in one' rations. The mustache " •• absorbing too much food," the California Leatherenck declared, "so I just shaved it off." Brown apparently convinced his audience for when h. appeared in the chow line a heaping plate Of food awaited him. "r take back ev.erything I said about the Navy," he laughed. Th. C.lifornia Leatherneck was with in i t i a 1 occupation tore.. on the iealnd ot K;ru.ltn. He i8 no... with the 27th li.rin. Reciment here. Bro...,,'. wit., lir.. l"rancu Brown, ."d tlo.ir two ehildren, Dixi., 7. and D.ntoll, 4, .-id. at E8eondido.
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FORMER SCOUT WRITER TELLS OF ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI By Bos Hackney
(Former Scout Writer) NAGASAKI, Japan (Delayed) -The devastation of a single atomic bomb is so complete tbat it is beyond tbe power of the mlind to imllgine it, I was able to inspect the rulns of what was once Japan's sixth largest city and saw the complete desolation of the scene. A French-Canadian nun, five miles from the center of the blast, who had the lenses blown out of her glasses but the rims were undamaged. Workmen in the nearby fields were horribly burned. Nagasaki, you'll recall, was e recipient of the second atomic omb, and though 'tis said that the imagination is one of the strongest of the human faculties, it is still not quite strong enough to picture this shambles, this complete fury of devastation as the result of ,a single explosion. Our Marine Corps and Navy ~ prepared textbooks point to Nagasaki as Japan's sixth largest city, famed for its natural harbor, iron and steel production, shipyards, docks, marine engine output, etc., hut it is evident that even before the war the place, intact and undamaged still would not make a decent "yard" for the Bethlehem or the U. S. Steel corporations. With this in mind, plus first hand evidence of their compara~ve machinery and equipment, it is difficult to believe that these are the same people who gave us such a "rough time" all the way across the Pacific. ALL IN PATH DESTROYED The city and the harbor are nestled in the hollow of a ring of mountains, neatly terraced for farm production. The atomic bomb struck on a mountainside on the east side of the harbor, where a barren patch of scarred earth some two miles square remains as mute testimony to the force of the blast. The force then swept down the mountainside where in an area some five miles long it obliterated thousands of homes, factories. shipyards, supply depots, municipal buildings, hospitals, schools and all else in its path. Continuing on across the bay to the west • side of the harbor, the blast leveled several more miles of the city. It not only knocked down or burned concrete and metal substance, bnt actually disintegrated several miles of factory area so that not a single piece. of rubble remains larger than a man's fist.
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This particular area re:mains like a field of boulders or stones rolled flat by steamrollers or crushed down like the roadbed of a modern highway as though under a giant's heel. The area devastated measures some five or six miles square, but structures within a radius of 12 miles show evidence of the blast in the form of broken windows, sections of roofing torn free, in collapsed timbers, or cracked and sagging walls. More than 100,000 people were either killed or injured, there remaining no evidence of thousands of them, just blackened bones of many more thousands, and torn and Ill'Utilated heaps of clothing of many more, depending on how near or distant they were <to the center of the bomb's fury. The flame, smoke and dust particles which our aviators reported so m'any thousands of feet in the air for days after the bomb's explosion. might well have been the pulverized remains of so many thobsands of tons of earth, timber, steel, concrete and yes, even buman wreckage, all broken into such tiny particles that no evidence of any of it can, or shall ever be found.
LENS TORN FROM RIMS The stories of survivors-some of whom were looking that way when the blast came-are pretty much alike. A French-Canadian nun sitting in a concrete retreat where she and 18 other nuns and 12 mronks, along with 42 Allied civilians had been interned for three years, and located a good five miles across the bay from where the bomb exploded, had the lenses torn frotl\ her spectacles and smashed against the far wall of the room. Paradoxically, the frame of her spectacles remained poised on her nose and didn't move a fraction of an inch. Other nuns in the concrete and tile retreat miraculously escaped injury when slivers of smashed window panes slashed through their garments and inbedded themselves two lind three inches in the far wall. Several others in the garden were blinded for a number of hours, but later recovered without ill effect. Jap gardeners, working beside them in loin cloth were (and again we have the strange working of the bomb) horribly burned. The nuns attributed this to the fact that ths flesh of the J aps was bared, wh~le they, the nuns, were beav.ily clothed in their long black robes.
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USO SHOW DUE 9·10 WITH TWO NOTED COMICS Just for the Ride, another USO-Camp Shows attraction, heading this way, is due here on the date of Jan. 9-10. There will be no admission charg,e. Vaudeville favorites that have graced many a stage throughout the United States, contribute their experienced talents to the smooth, streamlined show. Getting together in a new combo of A-I acts, these topnotch perfororers offer a fast paced joy ride through a program of fun and sock entertainment. Just For the Ride cast ineludes: Collins & Peterson, Comedy, M.C.; Six Lovely Ladies, Dance Line; The Schuberts, Contortian Act; Patti Chapman, Singer; The Mirths, Comedy knockabout act; John Glasper, Pianist and mnsical conductor. Eve ryon e wi th in twelve miles of the blast was thrown to the ground by the shock which was accompanied by a flash powerfully brilliant, followed by strange, mingling colors which one of the nuns said gave it the appearance of "a hell on earth." The city is truly a shambles, and the stench which greeted us along \vith millions of flies and assorted insects was horrible and all enveloping. Garbage and refuse was piled everywhere. The people take the least line of resistance in any convenient gutter when nature calls-they use human fecal matter to fertilize their fields; and this combined with the rotting dead in the ruins made it all an &wesome thing.
--Another footnote was added to J ap":"ese history by two youthful M.armes an~ a Navy C0'f'~~an WIth the Fifth Manne DIVISIon occupation forces here recently. On an intelligence patrol to determine the extent. of milita;y defenses on F1ukushuna, a falI'sized island northwest of the la~ge naval base ?f Sas,:bo, the trio became the flI'st white men in Japanese history to set foot fon the hitherto unvisited isle. Senior member of the patrol was Marine Platoon Sergeant Robert R. Cress, 24, of Fayetteville, Ark. W:;th Platoon Sergeant Cress were Marine Corporal Kennelli J. Washburn, Jr., 21, of Silverdale, Wash., and Navy Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Stanley E. Letcher, 21, of Carthage, Mo. On the ninth day of November, 1945, the three men, accompanied by two Japanese civil p0licemen, made the two and onehalf hour trip by motor launch to the island, which lies about 20 miles off the mainland. Upon arrival, they were accorded a formal welcome by the mayor and lesser dignitaries. After a short speech by the mayor and a conducted tour of the capital city, the Marines were guest of honor at a banquet given at the city hall. It was during this banquet that the mayor informed them that theirs was the first visit by white men in the island'. 's . tory.
CLASSES DUE IN JOURNALISM Ar OFF PUB INF Modern News Reporting-a c1!\3S in journalism-will be offered shortly by camp PendletOJ..·s Office of Public Information. The class, which will be held one night weekly unless demand is too heavy, will include the basic facts about newspapers and what goes into the making ot them; the fundamentals of writing and editing news stories; and practice in news writing. Lt. Richard Hodgson, public information officer, will teach the class which is under the sanction of the education office ot Area Special Services. Those interested may get addltional detalls by phoning Ex. '2333. There are no prerequisites for the tralnlng. ,.
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The results of their hard training were dramatically brought before the- eyes of the public when they planted the Stars and Stripes atop the 550-foot peak of Mount Suribachi after four days of hitter fighting on Iwo Jima. Following their 3-<1ay Iwo Jim;' conquest. and " period of rest at a Hawaiian base, the proud colors of the 28th Marines led the way into Sasebo, the former Japanese naval base, where Colonel Liversedge took his troops for occupation duty. Now, their mission accomplished, the veterans are returning to CamPen from which they will be sent to separation centers. Colonel Liversedge was com-
He was given his discharge, and the Ilttle golden eagle on his blouse had hardly time to flap its wings when he had re-enlisted and shoved off ona 90-day furlough before reporting to his new dut.y station.
He served with both the First and Fifth Divisions after enlisting !n 1939 in New Orleans. . According to the recruiting' of· fice in 15-1-8, the choosing of duty station is a benefit granted men enIlsting or re·enlisting in the Marine Corps at this time.
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It took Marine Sgt. Richard F. Wolforth of Chicago just 20 min· utes to decide to re-enlist in the Marine COrPs!
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Other special benefits are: (1) a $50 bonus for every year of active duty since last enlistment allowance was received. (2) a 90'day furlough with full pay plUS ·65 cents a day ration allowance, "May the Ne"r Year reveal many (3) a travel allowance of 5 cents per mile to' the point where fur- good things for ''au all."-Helen lough is spent and 5 cents per Highwater. mile from furlough address to new , duty stetion. National 'Service ance is a sure bet. • For additional information on Keep Y9ur NSI. re-enlistments, interested persons are asked to call at 15-1-8. Durango, Colo. - When Amy Donaldson saw a big bobcat raiding her turkey flock she became so nervous she chased him up a tree, knocked him out with one blow of a cedar stick.
missioned a second Iieute~an( in the Marine Corps at Quatnilo, Virginia, on .August 14. 1918. During hi. lareer as a Leatherneck, the Colonel has se1"Ved in Haiti, Nicara&,ua, China, the Philippines, the Solomons, New Georgia, the Volcano Islands, teh Hawaiian Islands, Japan, and on ships of the fleet. After lea'ding the' successful attacks on J ap strongholds at Enogai and Baroko in the New Georgian fighting, he was awarded the Navy Cross. During the New Georgia Campaig'll ,Colonel Liversedge nearly lost his life when a hidden Jap machine gunner suddenly opened up on his small group. He was saved when a junior officer pushed him to the ground. Colonel Liversedge was born September 21, 1894, at Volcano, California. Unmarried, he maintains residence with his sis'tel', Miss Ruetta Fessel, at Pine Grove. California. I
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SAN FRANCISCO.-Break.up the giant supply machine 'which operated at the heels of j,eathernecks in their drive across the Pacific now is under way in full gear, in line with Marine Corps reversion to peacetime needs, Brigadier General Merritt A. Edson said here today, upon his arrival from a tour of supply installations in the Pacific, Japan and China. General Edson, whose "Edson's Raiders" 'became world-famous, lias just been relieved as Commanding General of the Service Command, Fleet Marine Force, and is on his way to Washington, .D. C., to become Senior Marine Officer in the office of Chief of ·Naval Operations. The end of. the war, General Edson said, found six major Ma.rine supply bases in operation in the Pacltlc, and ot these, only two, one at Pearl Harbor, the lof
New York-Macy's Department Store is offering mink coats for dogs. For puppl-!,s or little darlings like dachshunds, they're only $199; for larger mutts, they run $246. Woodgate, N. Y,-Mrs. Elizabeth Turk sued for damages in an automobile accident which she claimed prevented her from dancing. Mrs. Turk Is 95. other at Guam" will be retained. The Guam base, he said,' will supply Marines in the western Pacific and in Japan and Chian. Most equipment now overlieas, he said, will be disposed of there, .old if there is a market and destroyed· if there i. none.' No pro per t y, De added, will be ."ipped. to the statea if upon arri....l here it would be li.ted .s ·surPlus. -
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Our Marine of the Week is the lad who will look over your record book to be sure you are. eligible for discharge, We thought it might not, be a bad idea to bang ears with him just a little bit. He !'l Mastel' Technical Sergeant L. E. Standort and he holda' forth in 13-U-l,' the place where Redistribution Regiment begina its work. He'. been at CamPen 18 months and, naturally, is known well around these environs. Before that, he was with the First Raider Battalion and was on Guadalcanal, Tulagi and New Georgia. Hi. wite, Kathryne, formerly a WR, and now a happy civilian, plans to attend the University of Minnesota with her Marine hubby . when he gets his discharge. The discharge, by the way, i. supposed to be coming up very 'shortly. MT/Sgt. L. E. Standort Standort says that his work is "ery interesting. stUff, but that a off a few discharge credits now lot of Gyrenes get unhappy with and then that by some oversight him just because he has to knock snuck into the' record books.
VETERANS FORCED TO DOUBLE UP DUE TO 1946 HOUSING SHORTAGE Housing is one of America's In addition around 14,000 family biggest headaches today. In units will materialize through spite of varied projects and plans, conversion existing barracks the situation looks pessimistic and othel' structures now under for returning veterans who are contral of the al1ncd services. seeking new hOlllCS. Many will Reports from leading cities inhave to. "double up" ~nti1 new dicate that municipal authorities, constructl~n eases the picture. I prodded by clamoring vets and As a l'esult of a report on' associations, are making attempts ~1l0using made by Reconversion to solve the problem. Recom.Director John Wi, Snyder, Presi- mendations have been made that dellt Truml'n ol:dercd the release New York City spend ;;26,000,000 ()f surplus hOUSing and materials on' 5,000 Quonset huts to accom.held by tI,e Federal Government modate 10,000 familics; that a\'and the granting of priorities for mories and perhaps some abanlower-priced dwellings. He also dOlled public schools be utilized ~sked for legislative price ceil- for quarters for 15,000 unmar~ngs on both new and old dwell- ried vets; and that dwelling laws mgs and appointed Wilson Wyatt be liberalized to foster quick reas hOUSing expedIter to carry fnr- habilitation of 10,000 dwelling ward the new program. units in old-law tenements. ~feanwhiie, C'ongress speeded Chicago is buying temporary actIOn on the Mead resolution houses to take care of its emerto provid~ 100,000 temporary gency housing. There is also h!,?~lng umts from wartime fa-/ talk about pre-flibricated homes .cI~lties that can be released, This on a larges cale utilizing munimil lOclude an appropriation of cipal sites, proposals for mak$160,000,000 to supplement $35,- ing over factories, storerooms and 620,000 already provided for use ,simialr places. Detroit is 'Conof ve.temns through the Lanham sidering a $600,000 G1-sponsored housing project under which HouslOg Act. . ~nder the . program, 75,000 ex- veterans would pool- ther 'Ioan lStmg famIly accom:modations resources to seeure apartment are t.o ,be moved from their pres- building. collectin],.. ent ~Ite~ to new one. on approved 'Yet, with all these e:rpedients app]~~tions from: ~tates, com- and plans, the program: is lagn.'umties and educatIonal in.titu- ging. It take. time tor projects. tion.. and 11,000 othe~s will be. to 'be passed, for contraets to be prOVIded b,. convertlOg about let, tor' material. to 'be obtained 60,000 existing dormitory units. for houses and apartments to t>~
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NOTED ATHLETE NOW SERVES RC Realignment ot Red Cross field supervisors" territory in Southern Calitornia was announced b,. Verne Simmons,. Pacific area manager of American ~ed Cross. Relieving Victor Davenport of his periodic visits to the RC otfice' at CamPen, Norman Paul, field supervisor on the staft of the area offite for the past two' years, made his first official visit here last week, A graduate of the University of Southern Calltornia, Paul was captain of the track team and held the world's record in the low hurdles from 1933 to 1936. Paul has been with Red Cross since 1942. For two year. he was field director at the Santa Ana AAF Base when it was a training station for aviation cadets. In his supervisory capacity Paul visits, in' addition to' CamPen, Camp Anza, Camp Haan, March Field, San Bernardino Army Air Field, all in Southern Calitornia, and William Field in' Arizona.
"It. Clemens, Mich.-Benny Korzinski told a divorce court that a $2,800 'pot 0' gOld" prize he won six years ago had ruined his life, as his wite got delusions of grandeur, spent the $2,800 and left him. He got the divorce. Chicag<>-Shelby Jean Davis, 18-year-old backwoods radio singer, claims that 9&1 babies of her listeners have been named after her, establishing a record of ~ome sort. I
Hollywood-Police are holding, a Marietta, Ohio, attorney who broke into Carole Landis' dressing room and allegedly obeyed a fairly understandable impulse to un-zip her black tights. ',
New York-A magistrate was·. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _-;_ asked to decide whether Mabel, a poodle, is really Whitey, a Pomer., anian in disguise. Mrs. Edna Kahn claim~ that Mabel doesn't 100]> lil<e Whitey any more because acquisitive neighbors gave Upon the detchment of Cap- the dog a permanent wav~, _• tain Martin L. Marquette, USN, Indianapolis - Trolley riders MC, Captain Jobn T. O'Connell, USN, MC, will assume the duties were presented with loaves of of area surgeon, Marine Train- bread along with their transfers ing and Replacement Command, one day. The motorman had found the bread in the street afSan Diego area. ter a bakery truck accident,
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Effective 27 December, 1945, Gunnison, Utah-When two cars Lieutenant Colonel William_ F. collided and irate drivers stepped Lantz, USMC, is assigned duty out they found they were brothers as Assisstant Al'ea Inspector. -Deward Jensen, driving his bro· ther-in-Iaw's car, and Boyd JenEffective 2 January, 1946, First sen, driving their father's car. Lieutenant Louise IVr. Logan, USMCWn, is assigned duty as Hyde Park, N. Y.-Blaze, Elstaff secretary with additionai liott Roosevelt's mastif that duty as assistsnt G-1, this head- "bumped off" three servic~men quarters. from an Army transport plane • • • last spring, was "bumped off" Atlantic City _ The National himself for che,ving up FaIa, Bridge Tournament was almost world's No. 1 Scottie. Fala will broken up by fights between play- recover. ers, which ended with Bridge • League Executive Secretary William McKenny resigning in protest against the squabbles and alThe atomic bomb is nothing to so against betting which' he said worry ahout, after all! Father took place at the tournament. Divine has admitted that it was Keep up your premium pay- his creation arid that he has it ments and benefit from this in- under 'control. "I am the author and the finexpensiTe protection. Keep you isher ot the atomic energy," he ml1! has proclaimed to hi. an..el•. "I have harnessed it! I say, I erected. There are also attend- have harnessed it! I am bringant ....oe. and difficulties, .uch inil' all the atarnlc energy into 33 eeilings on eost of materials, subjection and hy it I am -'bringon returna trom in,..estm~nts, ing out many' inventions! That .hortage of materials and short- i.....hat r am doing on eartb and ago of labor. in beann today!"
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MAJOI CHAPMAN GIVEI LEnER OF COMMENDATION FOR SERVICE A letter of commendation. has -been received by Major Hugh James Chapman, commanding officer of Camp De Luz, from the commander, amphibious forces, Pacific fleet, citing the former officer-member of the old First Marine Brigade, as follows: MAN McCOY, he of Round"For excellent service in the line of his profession as assistup fame, dropped in last week ant gunnery officer and logistics in the midst of his furlough to the staff of the comofficer on see if all was going welI in the mander of a division of -battleInner sanctum of the Scout, and 25 to May 14, ships, from March after seeing that the damage had 1945, during the assault and capall been of a minor nature, shovture of Okinawa Shima. ed off once more. "Demonstrating outstsnding Re's been batting around up organizational and administrative north and says the weather has been colder than an old maid's past ability, he ably assisted ill planning and executing the intricate and will be glad to get back to sunny Caiifornia even if It \en't. fire support missions for the ships • • of the division. FELLOWS, you weren't forgotten over the holidays. "He proved to be of valuable Two Christmas cards found their way into the Scout office that assistance in coordinating gunwere addressed to all of you. One of them, I'd like very much to 8ee fire, evaluating target damage and handling many complex 10some ot you answer. It was addressed: '''fo the boys In Camp Pendleton". And It said, in the handwriting of a little girl: "I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and an Oh so happy new Year, from Janie." The address on It was Miss Janie Oliver, RFD #3, West Fourth, Ontario, Cail!. Drop her a note, willya? After the first thrill of wearThe other came to the men of CamPen and wished alI of us a ing sports clothes, sleeping bejoyful holiday season. It was signed "Girl Reserve of Escondido, tween sheets on an inner-spring Calif." bed and eating home cooking, you may be in for quite a jolt, • RUMMAGING through the desk the other day, we ran across a D\lIte. Civilian livings, in spite little folder containing 60 "c" gasoline coupons. Remember of all those fabulous war-plant wages you've Deen hearing about when that would have been a veritable gold mine? are pretty tough to make. There was a. time when a man with 60 gasoline coupons could It's not that the job themselves have been the most popular man In CamPen. are too hard to get. The' big • • slump in jons that was supposed :NEW WORD DEPARTMENT to be setting in now isn't turning EVERY once in a while, a new word is tossed into the vocabulary out to be so serious as has been of a generation and after a while it becomes a permanent fix- expected. Some oconomists beture. We've had flub, jerk, snafu, guff, toots, and fubar. Now lieve now that it will be only 5.000,000 at the peak, which will there Is a new one. It·s garf! be reached next March. ThIs new word is as flexible as a limp dish rag and as versatile On the other hand, even though as a tinker toy set. You can use it for everything.' The situation you may find a job almost imcan be alI garfed up. Your food can taste like garf. Your first mediately after quitting uniform, sergeant can give you a lot of garf. getting along on what you earn It's a very useful little word and a marvelous addition to any- may be a different thing altoone's vocabulary. We recommend it. gether. The Department of Labor says if you're a wage earner • • • RIVING through' the tent camps late one night last week. we in an average city, you'll have to make at least $1.05 an hour, came upon a stranded Gyrene wandering along the road. 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a After having stopped and invited him into the auto, he gazed year, to support a wife and one around In a rather unsure manner while we asked him if he had child. Then the same departjust gotten back to camPen from overseas. ment comes up with the finding that this fall the average gross "Is this camp Pendleton ?" he queried staring Into acres of boonpay in manufacturing throughout dpqks. "I thought they'd made a mistake and taken us back into the country has dropped to '99 Saipan!" cents, which "'is six cents an hour • •• • • the <'herak-even'" point. .less than . . ., QIDCKIE ·DEPARTMENT In 1944, although American s my dear old mother used to say~ :trtues are learned at mother's family incomes -were the higehst . knee, and vices at some other jomt. _ In ihstory, half Of all families And then there was the ram 'who. said as he plung¢ over the made less than $2,700 and onecliff: "Well, bless my wool, I never saw that ewe turn." fifth niAde less than $1,500. Liv-J. W. PAUL ing expenses had mounted from
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Furthermore. the Labor Department said, this family income was generally made by more than one member of the family working. One of the reasons given for the favorable employment picture now is the withdrawal of women/from industry. In other words, there may be a job for a man because his 'Wife leaves the office or war plant and goes back to making a home for him, but if she does that, the family income could drop below the point where there would be any home for her to adorn. The $1,950 standard' of living averaged in 1944 didn't allow for any mink coats or p I a tin u m lunch~pails, as some cartoonists would have you think, either. It just covered the necessities of a family of three, who would spend barely 22 cents per person per meal, $30 per month for housing, light and fuel, and $119 a year for income, personal property and poll taxes.
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WR POINTS DROP Effective January 1, the credit requirement for discharge of Marine Corps women perso_nnel was dropped to 18 points. Rosters of eilgible personnel submitted after that date will include those WR's. with 18. 'or more points.
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Holding the distinctio.'1 of being one of the few enlisted men's clubs that mix beer and dancing five nights a week is the Crossroads Club at CamPen. ·Pvt. Jean Haldeman, steward. and his crew are doing everything possible to make it an enjoyable place to spend the ('vening, either with or without a female friend. For beer, sandwiches, popcorn and coke, the club is. open Tuesday through Saturday, inclusive from 1800 to 2300 with dancing starting at 2000 and lasting until 2230. If yout blouse doesn't fit, don't worry because undress greens at the club is the uniform. ~~.:...s....-
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TWO RED CROSS WORKERS JOIN CAMPEN STAFF By Pfc. Bea A. Heeney "GEl11ING GERTIE'S GARTER"-Nice trick if you can do it, 'specially with Marie (the body) McDonald being "Gertie" In person . . . They tell me it's a :very snappy story . . . and at a Hollywook theatre this week-end the boys were standing in line to see this one ...Sound good Enuf? "TELL IT TO A STAR"Comedy with music . . . Rags to riches story (yea, again) . . . . Cute little Ruth Terry becomes top radio singer after a lot of bungling efforts by her uncle . . . what the heck, you used _to like Horatio Algel' stories, didn't you? "ONE WAY TO LOVE"-and in this case it's by battling! ... It's a screwy joyride when these characters, and.we do mean charae· ters, get together on a one way glamour trip to Hollywood . . . Hugh Herbert's In this one too! ''BLACK MARKET BAB1ES"Story of the "semi-legal" adoption racket. Original ..tory came from Reader's Digest who digested It from Woman's Home Companion . . . It has It's thrills, with alcoholics, the law and shady M.D's mixing It up . . . If you're thinkIng of adopting a baby ... Don't miss It! "MASQUERADE IN MEXICO" -LamOUl'! . . . .Lamour . . . Lamour! . . . and Patrie Knowles, whom you saw in "KIl I i plus Arturo De Cordova . . . Story of International romance and adventure south of the border, complete ~th jewel thief, bullfighter, and Lamour]ovliness ! ! or should we say Lamourlusciousness? "FLAME OF THE WEST"starrlrig Johnny Mack Brown,. former football great from Alabama .. . . It's a western, and Johnny was a great football star • . . and Alabama had a great Rose Bowl Champ team' and, Oh, the picture? ... Not quite up to the team! . "HARVEY GIRLS" ...In Technicolor! . . . with top names like Judy Garland-she sings; John Hodlak-He doesn't . . . Ray Bolger-he dances . . . Virginia 0'Brien-she doesn't! Picture gets its title from the saga of the famouS Fred Harvey eating houses established along the Santa Fe in the 1890's . . . We think you'll like Judy and John and Virginia! U
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$1,000,000 to Johns Hopkins Uni versity and Hospital, part of which is to go for a lecture hall to be decorated with portraits of fam ous beauties of the early 1900s.
Additions to the Red Cross field staff at CamPen include Miss Elizabeth H. Johnson and Miss Catherine L. Hoover as field assistants according to an announcement made by J. C. Burnell, American Red Cross field director here. Both have been assigned to duty at 15-B-13 under Charles H. Benesh, assistant field director. Miss Johnson and Miss Hoover will assist veterans in filing applications for benefits, getting needed in"formation to aid veterans in. completing forms, and giving guidance and advice on personal and family problems, a few of the many services given by the Red Cross at army and navy separation centers: Prior to her new assignment at CamPen Miss Johnson was engaged in the same work. a.t the Army Separation Center, Camp Haan, Riverside, and at the Navy Operations Base, Terminal Island, San Pedro. Miss Johnson, known as Betsie to her associates, is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of Phi Mu. Her home Is In Los Angeles. Miss Hoover attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa., where she majored in Commerce and Finance. Prior to her new as· sigrunent Miss Hoover completed several weeks of specialized training at the American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, D. C. Her first assignment was at March Field, Army Air Force Base, Riverside. Miss Hoover was employed as accountant with the Merchants Mutual Bonding Company in Des Moines. A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Miss Hoover makes her home in Des Moines.
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Nisei Girls' GI Garb Envy Of lap Maiden~ Thirteen Nisei girls assigned to Tokyo's civil censorship detachment are the envy of local Japs and create minor riots wherever they go. Their Army-green uniforms and bright U. S. insignia provide a startling contrast to the kimona-c1ad Nip women. • Jap women, accustomed to eating little and remaining obscure in the presence of men, are amazed at the Nisei girls who live in a fine Army hotel and eat the same food served to American GIs. Tokyo Japanese claim the Nisei girls don't look like Japs. "I didn't know what they were," exclaimed a Nip newspaperman. . III thought perhaps they were cpinese.
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1. mTCHHIKE TO HAPPINESS (Rep) AI Pierce. Dale Evans 2. VACATION FROM MARRIAGE (MGM) Robert Donat, Deborra Kerr.
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NAVAJO KID (PRC) Bob Steele. THE HOUSE OF DRACULA (UNIV) Lon Chaney. RIVER BOAT RHYTHM (RKO) Leon Errol, Frankie Carle. BELL'S OF ST. MARY'S (RKO) Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman.
7. TOKYO ROSE (Par.) Osa Massen, Byron Barr. 8. DING DONG WILLIAMS (RKO) Glenn Vernon, Marcia McGUire. 9. THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (MGM) 'Rob't Montgomery, John Wayne.
10. DALTONS RIDE AGAIN (UNIV) Alan Curtis, Kent Taylor. 11. HO\V DO YOU DO? (PRC) Bert Gordon, Harry Von ZeU.
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TELL IT TO A STAR (Rep.) Rob't Livingston, Ruth Terry. ONE WAY TO LOVE (Col.) Marguerite Chapman, Chester Morris. BLACK. :MARKET BABIES (Mono.) Ralph Morgan. K. Richmond. MASQUERADE IN MEXICO (Par.) Dorothy Lamour, Arturo DeCordova. FLA..'IE OF THE WEST (Mono.) Johnny Mack Brown, Joan Woodbur)·. HARVEY GIRLS (MG:\'O Judy Garland, John Hodiak. MOaT.
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CLASSIFIED FOR SALE: '39 Dodge deluxe sedan, new motor, tour new tires, radio, heater. S/SgL B. C. Leinweber, warehouse 12SX2, phone 615.
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H3.rbert, Ext. 321. FOR SALE: '34 Ford. See Lt. Smith,
16-A-l. LOST: Elgin wristwatch, snver with canvas strap in vicinity of 15-B-9. l! found, notify Pl/ Sgt. GorTen,
EJ't" 832. FOR SALE: Motorola Automobile Radio; ElectrIc Razor; set of 5.50 x16 pre-war tires and tubes. ·ptc. Ben. Young, Ex. 701. FOR SALE: Sewing Machine; Cov. ered Wagon HOWIe Trailer. "Chuck" at Ext. 577. FOR SALE: '35 La Salle, sedan. Has (ive new 750x16 tires and good
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good tires. Lt Smith 767. FOR SALE: One sturdy youngster's high chair, good condo 181 A, Main Gate.
Salem, Mass.-Mrs. Constance Wallace sued for divorce on grounds that her husband "stayed home too much and was too affectionate." A protected veteran is a happy veteran., You ahve that protection in NSI.
MARINE DISCHARGES AHEAD OF QUOTA ,Demobilization of Marines is running six weeks ahead of schedule, Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, ". Co ps CoIlllJNlndant an.I,Uarlne r , . nounced. Ov~r 150,000 Mannes have been discharged since tbe wars end.
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On V -J Day. the strength of . the Corps was 484,631. By 7 bec. a total' of 1.51,146 had ·been released. To expedite discharges Marine replacements are being sent overseas in increasing numbers to relieve high-point men. I
VA· PAYS OFF 'Mout one vetearn in every 25 was drawing unempalyment readjustment allowances in midNovember, according to the Veterans Adrhinistration. During the week ending 10 November 207,342 veterans were paid $4,799,439 and p&ym.ents during the first 14 months of the program totalled $48,367,129. Approximately 14,000' "self-ertlPloyed" veterans are being paid alolwances up to $100 a month, less'· their net earnings.
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