Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1943, Algiers, Algiers A go Iother stars Ano stripes weekly saturday june 19, 1943 fyn off it Yoff Fyt Yvo Fyt by i happened Khaki kapers a magician in a Miami theater put a Beautiful blonde into a trance and said a i will donate the mind of this gorgeous creature to medical society the rest i la throw to the from tie top Balcony of the theater a Marine shouted a Bow wow a. The newest Bill to allow Waves overseas Boa this stipulation Quot husbands of Waves shall not consider themselves dependents.�?�. One fond army Mother was heard to say Quot when my Johnny and Mary were Young Dolinny was crazy about soldiers and Mary was wild about dolls. How time has changed the East coast. A at Cranston r. I., Arthur Weremay la was acquitted of manslaughter charges when the judge refused to believe his Story that he had pushed a chum to his death under a train. Mrs. Nellie w. Fortier of Chocorua n. H., Mother of six sons in the armed forces sponsored the uss Batfish fifth submarine launched at Portsmouth a Thio year. Three Payette county pa., commissioners and the controller were found guilty of having bought gasoline for four years without written contracts or bids. The Massachusetts legislature repealed the Law against 18-Inch hatpins and gov. Salto stau signed a Mil making Beano illegal. Forty one projects costing 400.000,000 dollars including a National stadium at the end of East capital Street Are part of a Post War program to beautify Washington d. George Carey and mrs. Lima Griffin of Salisbury were suffocated by illuminating Gas in a tourist Cabin near Belmar Del. At Bethel conn., state police arrested mrs. Catherine Engesser of new Rochelle. N. Y., charging that her 14-room summer Home was used for six years As the Headquarters of a three state abortion ring. The mid West. A Bill to create a Southern Illinois state University at Carbondale was Defeated. Two elementary schools costing 148.000 dollars will be built at Odon ind. Fire destroyed the Messner department store at Oxford ind. Black Diamond. King and spot. Topeka. Kan., playground ponies were killed by a Bolt of lightning in a pasture in Gage Park. Minneapolis Banks reported safety Deposit boxes at a Premium because of War Bond sales /. Miss Barbara Sheppard 18, will conduct the summer band concerts at Clarin neb. Chattanooga University fraternities closed because so Many Mea had entered the armed forces. At Tulsa. Oak Ruth Faerie we Lowell school s Marble tournament Over so boys. Gas rationing in Utah cancelled the annual state teachers convention and caused Salt Lake City to drop plans for a a major league softball. The wisc on min state fair aug. 21 to 27. Will he simplified and streamlined. The West coast. A disputed water Hole in the lost horse Valley Region was the cause of a gun Battle in which Worth Bagley retired Las Angeles county sheriff was killed. Some ?.�qq Rio Grande Valley Tomato packers were Frauen in their jobs. When Cai. John Guthro. Of Vancouver b. C., fell asleep his halibut Schooner rammed the puget sound naval Academy pier and Bear lied itself without Awakening the Caf it Ain and his Crew of four. Albuquerque. N. M., was Host to film stars of Brien and Margie Stewart for the world premiere of a a Bombardier a which was filmed at Kirtland Field. Baylor College of Medicine and dentistry at Dallas will be moved to Houston to become part of the new Anderson medical Center. This delicious delightful piece of Sweet stuff is Alexis Smith shown Usu Ai her Recto picture Quot thank your Lucky stars. We do. Resting after Cample memo to the United states All soldiers talk about everywhere is women women women and Etc. Broadway to Hollywood. Two years ago britishers Edward Alec Snelson for a divorce from Academy award Winner Greer Garcon because she refused to accompany him to India. The divorce was recently granted. However All Hollywood knew that Greer had been engaged to Richard Ney Ever since he played her son in the film Quot mrs. soon As stripper Gypsy Rose Lee completes her role in the current Broadway hit. Quot Star and Garter a she win retire from the stage and write write and write. Rumours Are flying thick and fast Between Broadway and Hollywood a to the marital standings Between Bette Davis and husband Arthur Farnsworth. The rumours began when Bette was plotted with her former husband Harmon Nelson several times. Husband Farnsworth insists that everything is All right and revealed that he is heading East to meet Bette in new York. Gene Tierney. Brenda Marshall and Gobi a Wright. Or. Are All standing by for a Meataxe from the Stork. Alice five threatens to retire from the flickers and keep House for her husband and bandleader Phil Harri Barbara Stanwyck and Bob tailor just celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary. Barbara gave Bob some Navy Luggage and he gave her a Fox jacket. Comic Milton Berle was seen recently wandering around Broadway with a Toothbrush in his Lapel. When Fred Waring ran into Milt and tasked him what it meant. Milt answered a its my class Pink i went to colgate.�?�. Betty Grable in new York for a Holiday was ordered by her doctor not to continue with her Jitterbug lessons. But this order a not prevented Betty i rom accept in the a a lessons she a been taking from trumpeter Harry James. Tile people Back Home Are very interested Iti hearing what soldiers talk about and when i came Over Here i resolved to Send Back accurate Reid its on what the army says in bivouac on leave and in tile front lines. In a not i so sure that that a entirely possible any More. I be been at All the airfields Between Miami and Cairo and i be talked to hundreds of soldiers on the Long Road Between Egypt and Algiers. I done to think you a want to print tile Ordinary conversations among gigs. Aside from the Richness of the language army conversation has a Beautiful simplicity and directness. It is All on the solid everlasting subject. Women. This makes it different from the talk about women and baseball. Occasionally a Soldier will de it i ate a Little and his control will leave him. Like a Pitcher tiring in the late innings and he will talk about frivolous things like what lie did when his Coni in by was Cut off by the Jerries and what he thinks ought to lie done with Germany after the War. But very soon he will suddenly catch him by Irwin Shaw special to the stars and stripes self and Start talking about the blonde girl lie knew Back at Purdue who measured thirty seven and three Quarter inches around the Chest so help him god. In puerto Rico where my plane stopped for a few hours the first thing i was told was that the food was Good and there were plenty of girls if you knew Spanish. In Khartoum where i slept on 1 the same porch with a Liberator Crew the Tail gunner was talking about his wife who was in Chicago. A a Chicago a tile radio operator said. A that s a hell of a place to leave a a the great lakes naval training station is in Chicago a the top Turret gunner said dreamily. There Are 5.000.000 sailors in Quot that Sall the Tail gunner said grimly. A a every couple of weeks i Send Home a fifty calibre machine gun Bullet. wife puts them on tile mantelpiece to remind those sailors her husband s a gunner. She ainu to had no trouble in Cairo a Young British Hurricane Pilot who had lived in America talked for a whole night about How he was going to buy a House on top of Lookout Mountain in Hollywood after the War i and live there with his wife and produce five children. After a Long while i got him to admit that he had personally sunk a tour thousand ton freighter in the i English Channel. A French private who travelled with me for a whole Day returning to his unit which had granted him ten Days leave in which to get married in Constantine merely said a Jesuis tres fatigue a and nothing More. In Algiers the conversation about fair sex has a severely practical turn. Time men watch the pretty girls going by in their pretty dresses and they sigh and turn to the newcomer and say a it is necessary to know i suppose there Are a few Fellows somewhere who spend All their spare time talking about von Clausewitz a theories and the War Aims of the allies but i Haven to found them yet. Does anybody want to hear about the swedish girl t met in Madison Wisconsin in 1939. Inquiring photographer pictures by stars and stripes sgt. Phil Stern staff Pitiot Grapher a a judging by the girls you went out with would you say they Are being True to their men in the service masked of five seamen who had a final Ding in new York City last month before shipping out Fred Ennis of Philadelphia a did say they re Good girls darn it. I and a Friend of mine once got a Date by waving at two girls looking out of a window on the seventh floor of an apartment House. But what happened was that one kept talking about her Hubby in the coast guard and the other about her boy Friend in the Navy. Why we even kiss them a Walter Carter of Burlington n. A a in a a married Man and taking care of one woman is enough for me. But in be seen practically All new York girls wearing some kind of service pin. Swarms of girls walk the streets without escorts. As far As i eau figure out most of them Are waiting for the boys to get balk Home from Over Bud Garty of new Orleans a i done to know How these other boys operate but my women came through for me. They always talked about somebody in a uniform but i told them to pipe Down that to the Guy they re supposed to concentrate on. After that i did no to have Mach trouble. But i did find some girls i could t get to first base Luther Fryer of Miami a a in a a married Man too and done to mess around. But i can Tell you about a fellow i know who went so far As to offer to marry a girl he met in new Jersey. Would she accept hell no. She said she was waiting for her Soldier. I think the girls generally Are True to their boy friends who Are away. Louis Poole of Albany Gay except for a couple of pleasant exceptions i had a Good time on my dates but that a about All. Like the time my and i picked up two girls in Coney Island and took them Riding on the Cyclone. They screamed in the usual fashion and Hung on to us tight like but that was the closest they
