European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lace undies to baby b by Hyman Goldberg yank staff writer some detail or other came up while the pfc was deeply involved in the adventures of Magdalene Corver in a Story in True sex adventures and when he came Back to his oar Racks the Magazine was in the pfc wound up on an Island in the he had plenty of time to thinly he brooded All he  sleep did Magdalene Corver disregard the advice of All her friends and continue to run around with the distinguished looking Milkman who had a five Little ones with running and a punctured eardrum did she lose her Honor How was she sorry finally he wrote to the service mens service at 8 East 61st new and asked for after an intensive search one of the ser vices shoppers came across the copy of the Maga Zine the pfc was pining bought it and sent it to it Cost 9 that about the least expensive commission the service has Ever undertaken in a Serviceman for nearly three years now the Organiza Tion has been handling the of men and women in All the armed forces and the merchant Marine who find themselves far from shopping the Boss and founder of the service is Truman wife of an army officer with overseas since the operating costs of her organization Are met by the new York City War the service Doest have to charge gis More than regular retail bid Wells patrons seem to think Well of the Way the service she keeps getting letters addressed to dear Angel and dear fairy tops on the list of requests Are Black lace underwear and Black and gis Arent the Only ones who want their girls and wives in Black service mens service once bought a Negligee set on a generals heres a typical letter from a Man ordering a gift for his on the he wrote from the she measures 5 feet 1 from top to weighs about 105 has dark hair Beautiful and Light skin and is assembled in  such a manner As to make Lana Turner look like a sack of old i suspect Shes always had a suppressed desire to be Slinky and sophisticated like Marlene so id like very much to get her one of them there Negligee or whatever they you All glamorous and Frothy and the sort that will Shock her Mother and convince her that her future Sonin Law has a lewd and depraved one i sent the service an excerpt from a let Ter his wife had written him to say thank you for a when you come she in going to go out and buy some Black paint and paint the windows so i can Wear this Black Negligee for you All Day then there the officer in the Pacific who wanted to get an assortment of things for his he said she was 5 feet 1 and weighed 108 and he wanted her to have a pair of White Satin Rayon panties with lace trimming Waist size 22 and a White net evening Bra size 32 and a set of George Washington Salt and Pepper the most expensive article the service has bought for a i so far was a Diamond engage ment it Cost Well Over the shoppers have also bought a an automobile and mate rial for wedding they devote just As much to buying the less expensive things like childrens one of the Muriel took two weeks to spend for a Man overseas who just wanted i had to go around from store to she be cause no store would sell me More than one Box at a and each Box Cost Only 10 the Volunteer shoppers Are All and like All women they have spent a Good part of their lives looking for Good and through their experience with the service they have made contacts with All sorts of merchants and have discovered countless places to get its rare when service mens service cant carry out a one of the few occasions was when the men of some outfit in a Western state wanted a Young deodorized Skunk As a Mas they didst explain Why they had settled on a but the shoppers went out looking for one they discovered there we rent any yank the army weekly 1945 Young skunks around because it was Long past mating season and All skunks were big another disappointed customer was a i in England who sent to be spent entirely on for use in trading with the his Money had to be returned be cause the kind of stockings he wanted we rent being made any a Mother who had received a gift from her son in Italy through the service wanted to do some thing special for him in she wrote the service that her son had asked her to bake him a chocolate cake but since she was afraid a cake from the states might get stale in shed like for the service to to have the cake made right in the request had to be turned Down because italian bakeries just cant get the ingredients for making chocolate during the last Christmas orders for merchandise ranged from to every Day Over a six week Christmas is always the services busiest but gifts Are purchased for uniform wearers the year the service keeps lists of All the anniversaries that gis want remembered and makes sure that a specified gift reaches the person its meant for on the right heres what the shoppers did for one Soldier overseas who wanted to remember his parents on their or wedding anniversary went to Bank and got 50 Silver dollars bought two Silver boxes and put 25 of the dollars in each one wrapped each Box in silvered paper and enclosed congratulatory messages written in Silver As when gis order the shop pers come up against the rationing regulations of the office of Price when there was a Good the opa has Given the shoppers ration Points to make Pur a i who landed on Guam was touched by the sartorial plight of the who haunt been Able to get new clothing All the time Guam was in the hands of the he sent the service to buy shoes for women and As Well As material for luckily his order came just after the opa had released a Large Quantity of shoes for Sale without everything that communicative gis Tell the service is held in strictest one Man overseas forwarded the service to buy six for his wife and five others for five other he was a and the shoppers could Tell right off the places where his ship had docked while he was in the because each of the girls lived in a different the service was pleased to note that hed ordered a present for his wife but specified that the presents for the other girls were not to Cost More than