Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Pace Iother stars and stripes weekly somebody hoes your letters after sweating out that letter All you get is just a mess of hieroglyphics saturday june 12, 1943 it is four weeks Aern since you be received any mall from Terne. Even that finance company has Atren up writing to you about that old Bill. You imagine the worst. The family is sick your sweetie has married some decease worker the family is starving to death without a whimper besides in Are nursing the in Speakma suspicion aint Tbs mail orderly it your enemy Sod is burning 11 of your Moil. I you were certain of it on two previous mail Cobb. You had t i been there when to Nill was called out. But you had asked one a of the boys who Hod been there. Were there any letters for me Quot i ,0ij by Kama a Beamm Rob. I Quot huh for your to scratched his head. Quot yeah. I think maybe there was one for you. In a Natl posture but in a sues i heard your name a you cornered thamil orderly give ase or tatting Quot you soul in a commanding tone., you Al ways use the plural when refer re to to Ama. Hut Way you Areg certain of get Tang at least one let a Ter. A a a ,. By Quot Well. Iti see of Yew got any. I j dont think so. Me thumbed through his pile. Time teemed toll be letters for everybody. Mcdon Ald. That insignificant imitation of i a sad sack who in practically Al permanent latrine Erderly. Got a eight Pink letters. That Guyol Braitsch who you know has t goals a Friend in the world Tat seven. H Quot nope. Nothing for the la mail Jerk said. I Quot Ray said there was a letter Forh me. He heard say it called Quot we you know darn weft he s lying. A probably did bum four letter and h you looked at him Accod Egiy. H Quot if there was one for you Quot a he was breaking a Down i did no to be Efful it. Maybe somebody look it for Hitty cd. Harry s hers How special to the Start and stripes seven did no to know. Later you obtained some slight but questionable satisfaction from Nat your tent mate who read you Choice bits from his several letters. Then one Happy Day two mail bags loaded with papers and let Iamb Cau gotten. The writing is very Small and smudged. This is going to be a Tough one to read. A this lace Isnit wat it used to be with everyone you manage to decipher this much. I be just Laid a million dollars to Hare my 4-f classification con Hes Hying to be funny. Quot the ration is getting Slicer. My wife is Only allowed three Lair of panties a so what. Some of tile gang was Down to the House last night for a Frank utter and Beer remember Joe the kid who used to see papers on the Corner he a in the Ormy now somewhere in Africa. If you see him say hello or hello Joe an hour to decipher that. A my wife would like a souvenir of Africa. If you can find anything Send it along and i will a cd you the Money for Send him a Mark i tank collect timer is eight months Cid tatty and he already says a a you should see your lips curl apr announces in order to handle the sudden splurge of letter writing in North Africa Apo officials have set up two centrally located printing plants Bere to print a mail forms. During the last two weeks Over 350,009 of them have been distributed to unit Post offices and a full months Supply of the forms is now on the Way from the states. Right now however there Are not enough forms to satisfy the demand and the Only answer at the moment is patience. A mail according to Apo authorities is now the fastest Way to Send mail to the states As two a mail stations Are in full operation in Africa. A mail travels exclusively by air while other letters whether they Bear an airmail stamp or not go by boat to their destination. If you use an airmail stamp on the v form it will not be microfilmed but it will be sent by air to the states and of course continue by air to its mailing address. If you re planning to Send packages Home now the Apo advises you that Only packages weighing up to the 70 Pound limit and of such shape and size As will permit them to be placed in a mail bag will be accepted by the Apo for mailing. Packages should be censored before being wrapped and the contents and value listed on the outside. The following signed by the sender and including his name. Rank serial number and unit must be enclosed a a i certify that the enclosed articles Are Bona fide gifts from a member of the armed forces of the United states on duty outside the Continental limits of the United states and under Public Law be. 700 Are entitled to free what Coes on after you mail that letter tars arrived. Your Hopes shot sky a bit i Quot that a about All the news i can Quot mail Call Quot i get in this Vettar. When i find the boys crawl out of their holes tone 1 will write a real Long by a staff writer it Casablanca a consider the sad Case of these it girls. In this City of warm Sunshine and bicycle taxis they receive 11,000 letters practically every Day of their life to take Down addresses for future gym me mint a pretty poor imitation of deceitful sympathy you thought. Then you started Awe of the greatest mail Hunts this Side of the Atlantic. You questioned everybody. Three hours later you reeled into your Pup Tant with these figures to Ponder Over ten of the Fellows thought you had a letter. Two were sure you had a letter. One fellow swore there had been three letters at least. And out of their tents. You see some Guys you Haven to seen in Days and were listed As prisoners two weeks ago this Batch is really heavy. At least 500 letters and As Many newspapers. The names reel off Quot Lynch Mcdonald Remington Riley Durkee Blanchard Cornell Schrader Shershow Quot Here a you shout almost rupturing a vocal chord. Quot no mall a he says. Quot but the first Serge wants to see you after this everybody laughs so you join in with a harsh metallic sound. Pot a half hour you hang around while everybody a name is called except yours. And then the orderly reaches the end of the mail and he hands you the very last letter an insignificant a let Ter. Quot that Sall a he shakes the mail bag upside Down nothing dropping out. You shake the mail bag yourself and again nothing Falls out. Five Hundred letters at least five for every Man in the company and your solitary measly a mall scrub has to be at the Bottom. Probably put there purpose a by Liat mail orderly too. The letter you have had better be Good you Are in a bad mood. You crawl savagely into your tent. You ight a cigarette clean your fingernails and after you have flashed your cigarette you Uke the Etter out and rip open the Corner to 9ee who ifs from. You do All these things very slowly and methodically because you be got Only one letter and it has gotta last a Long time. If you have figured your timing correctly then by the time you open your letter everybody will have letter. Keep punching and bring us i Terne hitlers what ale hell does this Guy want you to do win the War All by yourself j you fold the Vettar up and put it into your watch pocket where you have been carrying hundreds of old letters similar to and they can to read a word of them. If they could they still have time to read them their Job is to sit at Small tables facing enough mail to make the collected letters of Voltaire took like picture postcard acid Cut them apart with a Small keen paper Cutter. They do it with the detachment of a Hub Cap fitter on a Ford Assembly line chewing american gum and chatting rapid Rire French to the rhythm of their chopping. These local French girls work at the largest a mail processing station outside the United states. Their Job is the last step in the preparation of letters for gigs in Africa. When they be finished their Job the separated letters Are sent to tile Apo and next Day voila your name is called at mall Call. A mail is an invention of East the letters reach the record a machine by Way of the Apo which numbers them in sequence bundles them and sends them out to the station. Recently the ablation recommended that Pencil letters be baled separately from Ink and typewritten letters. Quot when you write in Pencil Quot saw it sgt. W c. Warren of Atlanta a enlisted Man in charge of the operation Quot we be got to give the a film a longer exposure. Typewriting and Ink shows up Best. If a fellow uses Pencil he ought to use a Good Black one and make tile writing Clear and after the film leaves the rec or Dak. It goes to the developing room the head Man of which is sgt. A. J. Hruska. Of Cleveland who a been in the postal business so Long thai the Only letter that Ever surprised him was the one that began with its sgt. Hruskac daily Job to run the exposed film through a Developer Bath in a Long this one. You Are disgusted and fed up. Tile world at this moment can fight its own wars. You re finished. You done to know that tomorrow a Small Batell of 17 letters will arrive for your company. Fifteen them will be for you. Sure. Man Kodak company who i of experts i n Rochester n. Y., Quot Quot trained the first give mail operators in their work. The brain of the outfit or you might Call it the seeing even is a device As the re Cordak. Whose Job is to Ujj for it is it a red in for air de a to livery to the states. When the letters come to the station. 1800 of winding it up to another Cylinder and then turn it Over to the inspector. All a mail is thoroughly insisted. Boh when it comes in and four were positive your name finished his. The letter is from an had t even been called. Old Friend you a just about for cd s stage Art show in War torn Amateur Amateur june Ion the Renoir the Picasso the Goya and the Grants of american expeditionary forces Are putting on an exhibition in water Colon crayons Ink Aud just Plain mud to the Palace theater of this War torn town this coming week. Cartoons stills portraits caricatures. Figures and landscapes have big through the wreckage of Amateur. Have been enlisting the sympathies of Mph a in a search for brushes paints and for anything with a surface enough to take the likeness of a Donkey s hindquarters. A maybe something should be done about it a said Solomon. His eyes washed Over the Walls of the Palace Cinema. He quoted a latin come in by the score delicately sex j proverb a part is Long life is Eluted stuff pin pointed daubed and smeared Over wrapping paper letterheads cardboard in a soldiers Art Competition for which an my private named Murray Solomon has contributed a grand prize of one thousand francs. Ebs special services is still accepting entries whether by mail. By horseback or carried in on foot. The contest which doses on the 15tli, is open to All North Africa. The contest got underway hastily last week after my Solomon appealed to special services for Art materials. He said unending streams of fighting men Arith time on their hands have been rummage Short a he said. A a in la put up a prize out of his Goatskin Wallet he filled a thousand franc note. The special services officer cocked an Eye. A a that a said Solomon. A Tye got a pin Ball Concession Back in the that s How it started. And now they say there Are colonels scrambling to be on the Board of judges a ail anxious to get an uncrowded look at a full length eyes front portrait of dirty Gertie from Bizerte. Sties entirely nude except ideals for Victory Washington the War department has announced the inauguration of an a ideas for Victory program for the purpose of stimulating Over a million of its civilian employees to submit prac tical suggestions for improving departmental operations. Awards will Range from five to 250 dollars and sometimes even More for suggestions adopted. The amount of tile award will be determined by the degree in which the suggestion betters operating efficiency and Economy within the department. New War costs Washington a Congress last week appropriated a record 71,898,-400.700 dollars for the army in 1944 and 20.463.s07,198 dollars for the Navy As the War department announced plans for aircraft production exceeding the combined production of All the rest of the world. One thousand heavy bombers alone Are planned to Roll off the Assembly Hies each month. At the same time the Navy department announced that the total number of ships launched since a Pearl Harbor now numbers 1.469. Of which almost half Slid into the water since january 1943. Photograph your letter on 16 Nim. Film. Working the re Cordak of Thisa a station Are three privates first 01 Vav ro11 of 16 my and class Mike Kahrimanian. Of no Ber than m r Philadelphia Myron Tususian of eve first go to tile Era of new York and Francis Rinser of ,arln5 machine. The enlarger is Athens Tenn. These three High \ it 7 u Ich creaks and grunts ranking privates sit in front of ? of of a null tatters from their Recor Daks and spend a fine1 me on ule fat Rolls of process working Dav feeding your letters paper the Rolls Are then developed to the Lens of a camera Ven the in a re room run through the in a Sass s52s�jes. A feed a full stack of 1.700 letters to their machine in 50 minutes. Quot read the letters a says pfc. Rinser. We done to even have time promptly delivered to the Mademoiselle. Who Are still chattering in French chewing their chewing gum and swinging the paper Cutter. Anybody got a letter lately a loiter from borne brought a Vij Quot a Uca i u it it la it in Quot am i it reminds b a his i leu i Quot Quot of that trip we made Home of is Ltd year old Mother several from new York when Vou were Wees ago which we printed. This tight and tried to Tell the director week he brought another one. We of the Cleveland symphony or pass it along As an open letter to1 Chestra How to Lead the band and you from a very Lively Mother you kept singing that song in the to a very devoted ton Cleveland Ohio dear Jim i am practically exhausted when i get All this address written twice i breathe a profound sigh of Relief when i can really begin to write. Tonight i am going to give you a Little verse which is a bit Ribald but i do think it is funny. To save space ill write it across. A the lives of bees Are very droll they do not practice birth control. British reports indicate that bombings rarely produce neurological symptoms in civilian population according to or. Foster Kennedy in charge of neurology at Bellevue Hospital. Or. Kennedy told the american neurological association during its annual meeting at the Waldorf Astoria that neuroses for a nicely executed tightly isms j Han a sir m,�?~n6 a Quot with a it a a Petty a Clenta to tincture Grace. I a disturbed life. Effect of bombing. New York. N. �?recent. That u Why one always sees a so very Many sons of Doc like it news is scarce. Catherine planted a lot of Little seeds in Flats yesterday several kinds of tomatoes Nutrias a j snap wonder where you Are Anctil you 1 do Hope that by the have Rommel Monito vet rep ants a Quot a enough to member your a stg Woumn lower birth Opi it Osite mine and woke me with it. That was tile night when your lighter broke and you pulled the Spring Way out taking All the zip out of it and tried to stuff it Back in. Gee did i Ever laugh i heard about a motor driven Digger Complete with Man. Which will dig up a Garden and pulverize me ground for the purely nominal rate of three dollars per hour. I m going to try to get him to come dig up part of our Back Yard so we can have somewhere to Plant All the pretty Little plants that Are coming up like anything. I wish you were Here to be an Able assistant in getting things cleaned up for summer. My dear boy i think of you All Day and put out of doors someone will have dug up a goodly plot kit sifted ashes peat Moss and Vigoro on same and raked it ail in nicely. On the radio just now a band and expects a lot from you. Give my love to the boys and be a Good boy anyway fairly Good. Fondest love. V Mother
