European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Home abroad Post started Back in when a i piled some souvenirs on an empty Oil drum and set up today its a 28booth where wristwatches sell at and Fountain pens Start at and cigarette lighters at Howard Whitaker of is a typical his average weekly Gross take is about some months he takes in he buys merchandise from sailors and and also receives some from the states these Are then retailed for anywhere from two to three times their Whitaker is planning to build a House near Providence after the another Booth is operated by three gis from new York state t5 Edward Francis of the t5 John Brenz of Albany and John head of their counter features Alum Winum picture with two american Caliper cartridges and two Jap mounted on chinese if youre in no get a water As Raymond Cross has in their they collect for each since june Treyve made a collective profit of a Nice addition to Gila Verne Schure of who runs another bought a Jap Flag from a native who was wearing it for a he put it up for but the bids didst run High enough to suit up to so he put the Flag away for another time when the customers be so some of the such As War Are bought from the we can buy most any thing from them with said Dopierala mm3c of one of the opera but what they like Best is it dyes their hair a Reddish the happiest Man at the Bazaar is Jimmy Cooper of he gets a week from each of the operators to police the area around the he works just 45 minutes a Day at his pay comes to something More than a gob yank staff correspondent laundry while you wait a ninth air Force service command unit Range your laundry dried and returned within an hour is a service this unit thanks to a homemade washing machine designed by t5 Fred Brown of and t5 Benjamin Warner of Kisco n y parts for the machine Are of both enemy and Allied a reclaimed German Oil drum had a gaping Hole in just the right place for the ing a Poi arid four Blades were welded inside to help beat out the French a motor to whirl moff 4 the drum was obtained in More or less Skeleton form from a Salvage and reclamation and salvaged parts made it the Radiator was taken from a German staff the Gas tank from a French exhaust pipes and Muffler from an abandoned German fuel lines from a nazi Light tank and Axle and gears from an old French cider the drier consists of Small wooden Shack and a 5kw a fan on the Generator draws hot air off the motor and blows it out the Radiator through a Small wooden conduit into the wet clothes Hung in the Shack then dry like prunes in the yank Field correspondent lonesome wire Crew Italy people who groan about officers and Chicken will appreciate the setup of one unit of a negro signal construction battalion its 10 members live by themselves in a Small italian town and see an officer Only once a but the Job itself is no Gravy the men maintain All the phone wires running to the near by fifteenth air Force bomber plus the wire lines that run above the gasoline and what with Farmers knocking Over the Low line poles with their carts and b24s taking off with half a mile or so of wire they the men have their hands Roy Pryor of is Boss of the Levi Whitehead of drives the line and some of the trouble shooters Are Curtis Bizzer of Len Wells of Ohio Marvin Harris of and David an Derson of Over the door of their quarters they have a sign through these portals pass the Best Damn signalman in the Len Zinberg yank Field correspondent homemade Bowling Alley Bowling Alley is the last thing you would expect to find at this Way station be tween civilization and the end of the but Jimmy Garrow of had a brainstorm and civilian Oscar Diemmi had and the result is the Only set of alleys in helped by Nester Dourlet of the i and the local civilian rented a building and then scoured the african country Side for Wood and craftsmen to build the Many painful experiments and disappointments were necessary before the project was Olive Wood was found to be Best for the pins and and the flooring was of african now everybody is Bemmis is coming Back in Large doses and the gis stuck out Here have something to do in their spare Sid Kraftsow Start a stripes correspondent Reward with a Carrier task Force in the destroyers dont need an incentive to pick up flyers whose Carrier planes have been forced Down at but they have one just the same after they ship the rescued Pilot or crewman Back to the Carrier via breeches the Canvas Container usually comes Back with enough ice Cream for the entire destroyer destroyers Don t have ice Cream plants and carriers do so everybody is even if the Carrier Crew has to do without the precious commodity for a staff correspondent who who Iran desert probably no truth to this which is fortunate since basically there is nothing funny about life at the isolated outposts of anyhow this is one o those youll be sorry yarns they Spring on All it seems that three soldiers were assigned to an isolated Stop on the military railway and left there for Many Many at last they were brought Back to what passes for civilization oddly they appeared unchanged by their extended and lonely they looked Okay physically and they spoke All went Well until Roll when they an swered to one another Surat Evans yank staff correspondent sweating Eskimo the army should ship an Eskimo to Panama is something t4 Kenneth Minano cannot especially since he is the who was born in some 80 Miles above the Arctic is now get Ting the hot foot Down Here on the isthmus and is still bewildered by it i never dreamed id land Down he with pardonable Minano tried to join the paratroops but was disqualified because of a Lack of he has a brother in the paratroops in France and two others in the infantry at fort Minano is not impressed by either the Sunshine or the mosquitoes around claiming that there Are More of both in in he the mosquitoes Are so thick around an chorale that they filter the suns making it impossible for an Eskimo to get a Richard Douglass yank staff correspondent comics on the air new Here Dre kept posted on everything each sunday they get All the latest comics read Over station the Pride of Markham Al Cohen of does the read with Art Richards of holding the watch to see he Doest run Over and Hamilton Ohara to Supply the sound effect of Dick Tracy getting his Skull Cohen really throws himself into his snarling when he reads the firm and Manly when Hes Tracy and pure falsetto for the the Only thing that bothers him is that next weeks instalment May not arrive and he will have to get Flash Gordon off the planet Mongo All by yank correspondent superfluous worry with the 26th division in c3p tured German officer was watching the american battalion commander examine his per Sonal suddenly the German leaned Over and pointed at one if you dont he id like to have that Back when you get through with Why the american officer i happen to be a regular army the German that paper is the Only proof i have that my present rank is permanent if i dont have that after the ill have to go Down two grades in Field correspondent Home t5 Felecisimo landed in town of Santa after 20 years absence in the and found his
