European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 Swan song Santa Ana cadets had gone and the camouflage area was being torn personnel from the training aids depart responsible for Many of the cleverly concealed were helping destroy their own Cre they bleeped a tree onto a go truck and signalled the Driver to take it the heavy truck crunched to their amaze the whole front of the vehicle nosedive out of Only the rear end stuck up for the world to the camouflage area was having its last moment of a tank trap had fooled the Driver As Well As the Man who had helped dig and cover the Lem Rubw around the Camps fort Sumner and officers stared when a group of 15 was arrived to join the wac detachment All 15 had red Camp sergeants in one unit Here served overseas together in the first world Frank Gemale and 1st Floyd Knox of the 1570th service unit Are veterans of the Meus Argonne Truax Truax Field i who was being shipped to fort for a medical finished examining his travel orders and looked up in genuine he said plaintively to the Corporal in dont i get a delay in route fort i Here who has just returned from furlough is wondering whether there is anything prophetic in his at the Union Pacific depot he was informed that his reservations had gone what berth do i have asked the Section was the Camp Gordon James formerly of the Harbor crafts and now Back with the would like to get on somebody pay he has stopped worrying about All his accumulated Back he says his wife the Way Here to straighten out the and he assures everybody Shes quite capable of doing Camp band with a couple of acts came into Ward 32 of the ask regional Hospital Here to entertain the most of whom were strapped in bed or on As the show went on the band got hotter and finally when they broke into the one Oclock George Secrest jumped out of threw away his crutches and did a Solo Jitterbug for the amazed performers and his fellow army arts contest army personnel in this country will get a Chance to demonstrate their artistic ability in a nationwide army arts con test sponsored by the War the con conducted by the special services will culminate in july with an exhibition at the National gallery of Art in awards will be made to winners in eight classes of purpose of the contest is to stimulate interest in Art As an Oil duty recreational activity for army ingenuity act craftsmanship will be the standards of the final winners will be determined by a series of elimination every army Post and Hospital in the country will choose work to be forwarded to the proper service command where it will be shown in series of regional from each of the service 30 entries will be chosen by a combined military and civil Ian jury for forwarding to where a National jury will make the final selections in an exhibit which will run from july 4 to the eight classes in which entries will be accepted make up three groups As follows group minimum arts of design class Oil painting and in Peru water colors and class mural designs j color sketch is lass rendering City Inu Iun landscape doing and posted group graphic arts drawings any Media i 7 prints lithograph etch ing silk screen and other ont Media group photography class maximum puppets return to states from overseas duty fort Sam Robert Longfield toured the 15 years under the stage name of Andre but before he got in the army he never dreamed hed take his puppet show As far As North then when he became assigned to a red Cross unit Over he sent Home for some of his puppets and put on shows almost every Day for soldiers wounded during the Tuni Sian he played in hospitals that were merely tents As Well As Large station now Back in the states with their Are frequently seen in performances at fort where Longfield is in the Cial services office of the a and of redistribution Longfield comes from and is a graduate of the Tony Sarg school of puppetry in Greenwich new he owns 150 All of which he right now Hes working on another leading he expects her to be his greatest the lady will perform a striptease Down to a Longfield Joe Deitch v y Catherine he flip ats a look at the super Wallet collection of Melvyn Gas makes was bag look Emp y mourned on Stock Boca Raton listened to the Battle of the sexes for the staff of the base newspaper conducted an Experiment which proved that the typical Gas Wallet makes a was Utility bag look like a yawning for the role of the representative the transmitter selected Melvyn if he didst insist on spelling Melvyn with a would be the most typical anything any in so he that in Al most Friendly works in the base claims where he is known As the Cor poral who never throws anything in his native California he was called the san fran Cisco in the opposite Corner was Catherine Heaslip of who works in the administrative inspectors the contest was completely Nei ther party knew what was coming off until a few seconds before to actual the two were brought together and told to Start unload Heaslip was through in about 30 Sec Friendly took considerably the result was conclusive enough for the transmitter to publish the following detailed he slips Utility one one a package of two packets of a pair of Sun a an address a a stick of chewing a shopping three Bobby pins and in a Blank in a social Security a class a pass from Etc 6 no club membership cards for the last three pictures of his wife and baby a marriage a Good conduct a Marksman papers from his last special orders for his promotion to a treatise on Why wives should stay away from their Hus bands while there in the a mimeographed Sheet Oil welfare rental a printed card on what to do in Case of a a physical training attendance slip from 15 which he for got to turn a business card from the Pershing hotel in two prescriptions from a card from the Nice town realty company of Phila a chemical warfare reference a card keep a nazi a jewellers a Drivers a medical excuse from sweeping and sleeping based on an allergy to leathers and other miscellaneous after the contest Friendly vowed from now on he was going to travel he said he would Start by throwing away the card from the Nice town realty after he de i May never get to Page 18