European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Its More blessed to Camp Call him training Here to become a member of an anti Tan gun and his name int As important As the fact that he had the Christmas harrys worry was that he didst Havethe Money to buy his wife a Christmas to Correct the he participated in unmentionable games of Chance in dark Corners of unmentionable spots in but invariably he his credit at the Pawn shop in nearby Mineral Wells was he was then one Day at mail Call he got a printed slip that sent him hurrying to the Post office for a Christmas package from it was wrapped prettily and the Marks of his wife lips firmly imprinted on the Seal touched him he finally forced himself to open the it was a Carton of favorite to his Rescue came the amazing Christmas sprite who solves All i this Gremlin whispered into harrys and Harry leaped up and dashed to the Exchange these Luckiest for a Carton of and wrap it As a he told the my wife likes Herbert Brin literal minded army Stockton Bert former Headquarters Supply was doing All right Here until he collaborated with a Stockton Oscar on a Stockton Field lets get the song was introduced at the War orientation classes and two weeks after 3v2 years at this Rosenthal was on his Way to a new station in it looks As if i prompted my own shipping orders when i named the Field said Rosen thai before he shot heard round the world Camp Earl a 27 year old a Farmer from thinks he might have fired the first shot of the North african Mcwhorter was Down in the hold of a troop ship off awaiting hour at ten Sion was and he and his buddies checked and rechecked their glancing every few seconds at their the minute hand on his watch had just reached 0100 when Mcwhor ters pistol went it was an he i had yanked Back the pistol slide to Check and had unwittingly Slid a Bullet into the when i pulled the Boom the Bullet hit the cell ing and ricocheted around the hold of the it scared hell out of me and my Mcwhorter co rushed Down to the what happened he when an explanation was Given he grinned and said i guess youve fired the first shot of the the according to broke the tension after the first he the Guys All a few minutes later we were heading for the Power of the press Finney general night at the Post Bill editor of the Finney slipped out his lower the Way women at the movies take their shoes off in the interests of Complete when the lights came on he  find next morning the following and appeared in his paper one lower finder please notify Finney two hours later Fox got his Teeth i is shipbuilder Admore John Bartholo a shipbuilder on a Small has just completed a replica of the uss North Carolina to Send Home to his wife in an exact scale 20 inches Long and four inches it is considered by Bartholomew to be his Best work to he estimates he spent about 400 spar time hours carving and Assem bling the 800odd pieces of Wood needed for Mak ing the miniature the Hull is of Balsa and the superstructure of Sheet since coming to Ardmore a Little More than a year Bartholomew has turned out three other scale of the has Bounty of Bligh and one of the destroyer pres ton of the first world during the 10 years he has been following his he has made at least 10 Model ranging from a Square rigger christened the uss Republic to a super he uses Only the tools of a Model which in wartime Are limited to pocket razor Blades and Model air planes first interested but he switched to boats while he was recovering from an appendectomy in the Santa Monica in civilian he was a sufi Assembly inspector for Douglas at hol Lywood High school he majored in drafting and then studied mechanical engineering in los an Geles City Junior Decora Ted for Jungle signal construction Camp Fiji Island natives to help build Telephone lines across Miles of mountainous area one of the jobs that brought Stanley Kresina the legion of Kresina used As Many As 80 fijians at a time to supplement his 15man Crew in building a 130mile part of which ran Over a the said presented some thing new in Labo relations problems but they were problems that were easily for in the Village looking out for their often would refuse to let us go through the villages unless we hired their As it the manpower situation was such that we wanted to hire their so no troubles resulted from those natives were hardened beyond they pick up a 100pound Ball of wire and walk Down a Jungle Trail with singing As though it were nothing at the natives taught Kresina Many Little things about construction in the one was the value of Vivi Wood As a substitute for the mahogany usually used for Telephone Vivi he hardened in the Sun so that when it was Cut and put in a Post Hole it was durable As it was so hard we  get our spurs into said but the natives could climb it with their Bare and if one of the signalman needed to get to the the natives could fashion a ladder in two minutes from tied with they also showed Kresina How to get water by sinking a hollow Bamboo pole into the ground or by cutting a Section of Wai a waterlogged when their signal construct Tion chores were most of these natives went into native combat units and performed As scouts against the while serving on Kresina joined other signalman in fighting As an infantryman during Jap but it was his work As a signalman in organizing native labor that his superiors cited As the basis for the legion of Merit Arthur Johnsey Arnold awards medal to t j i toot 111 i 18