Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Page 6the stars and stripes weekly saturday july 24, 1943 the stars and stripes weekly sift of us u. S. Armed Force fwu Oahu la in Wert am a theater Al operation. The stay mad Stripe la Airt i edited and published he and for the per Bennel Al the 0. 8. Armed frees in the North african theater of operation. It i printed he la Che do Alf or Sirna de la Liber to. Algiers. Mailing address 12. Boulevard Sandia Algiers. Telephone bs6.66�?ll Christenson lit 64 la Neville Bat. 66 circulation to set. William d. Setoff ext. 66 la. Col. White ext. 67. Casablanca Bureau Rue Georges morale 8-6ft. Edward m. Duse her or. Oran Bureau of Rue Betel de Villet to Glenn Hedges telephone�?a867l Constantine Bureau by eclat service Constantine 8-Bffl Leonard Emmer entered As see end Elass matter at the Post office at new Tork n. Y., under aet of March to 1676. Subscription rate to the United states too francs a Pear contents passed he the u. 8. Army censers. Vet i no. Is july St 1943 staff officer la charge editor business manager managing editor sports editor Art editor editorial staff 2nd la James a. Burchardt sgt. Milton Lehman to sgt. John m. Will if a but. Ralph g. Martins sgt. George Hakim a sgt. Phil Stern sgt. Richard Bruner sol Jack Felsie Cpl. Clarence Bonnet Cpl Stanley melt Boff pal Paul 8. Green pvt. Edward Vebell it. Col. Egbert White 1st it. Robert Neville isl la Robert j. Christenson to sgt. Dave Golding sgt. Herbert Mitgang sgt. Gilbert Sweeney Nice going there Are some of us Here in North Africa who Are saying that rather we done to say it maybe we re just thinking it and reluctant to express our thoughts for fear that Well be accused of being sentimental or Over patriotic. Most of All we done to want to sound As if it s the old Pep talk. We in Africa just think you fellas Over in Sicily ire pretty Good. That Sall. And while we re speaking about that we just want to repeat fhe same things to you Fellows in our own army who Are fighting the japs in Munda and kicking the living daylights out of them to you men in the soviet army who blocked the nazi drive and took matters into your own hands around Ore a to you in the chinese army who Battle endlessly to All of you who Are fighting the same enemy. It a been a pretty Good week because Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini Beld another meeting in Northern Italy they weren to discussing the weather. Perhaps the Best ind Ciaffon of our coordinated progression can be found in Axis propaganda. There a been a Lack of boasting of optimism and instead a Frank Appeal to wavering Peoples to a a resist resist without going overboard or sounding overconfident its been a Fine week All Over. Those Are the facts and that is the news. All Over the world its been a coordinated progression. We re going plan and there a a reason we hate cruelty. We hate it so much that Well ostracize from our lives All those who live by it we hate injustice. And we hate it enough to fight for the cause of Freedom and fair play anywhere. We hate discrimination. We hate it so vehemently that we will demand equal rights for All people. We hate intolerance. So intensely that we try to stamp it out wherever it exists in the world. We were brought up on that. It was t a lesson we were taught in classrooms. We got it naturally we people in free countries As we lived a Day to Day Normal routine. Some of us Learned it in the streets and some of us Learned it on farms. But even though at times the War in Russia and China and the other fronts have seemed very Remote this week somehow they were All tied together by a series of successful events. We done to know each other Well. All we know is that our ideas Are pretty much the same where one Guy in particular is concerned. All roads Lead to Berlin and we can talk some More about these things when we get there. And maybe Well have a Beer together. A sgt. Herbert Mitgang so Many men have swamped Headquarters of the Northwest african training command with applications for non existent air corps training that a review of the entire situation is in order. This column itself erred in one Case by reporting that plans for a Bombardier school were approved. And some confusion still exists on aviation Cadet training and gunnery school two subjects discussed Here before. Briefly Here is the latest x. There is no provision for aviation Cadet training in this theater and no applications for such can be made. 2. There is no Bombardier school planned for this theater As erroneously reported some weeks ago. 3. There is a gunnery school established at the training command. Right now however More applications Are on file than can possibly be taken care of for months to come. So your Chance Tor getting into the school now is almost nil if you Haven to already applied. 4. Ground Force personnel meaning All enlisted men not in the air corps Are not eligible or gunnery school. The censor says they say. President Franklin d Roosevelt we know that ii was Washington s steadfast Faith that kept him to the essential principles of first things first Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox Quot we done to know what sacrifice is but we shall before this War is Over Herb Luhn 49, proprietor of the san Francisco camera Exchange Quot the customer is always wrong. La the merchandise is right the customer is wrong. Its sir Harry Luke great Britain s High commissioner for the Western Pacific offers Axis leaders a Post War Refuge the Ideal place of residence for them after the War would be Falcon Island in the Pacific which is of volcanic Type and sinks into the sea for a period of years and rises again George Bernard Shaw 86, a founder of the International labor party invited to attend comedian Joe e. Brown after his recent return from the Pacific theater of War Quot am staying in Hollywood Long enough to earn a few dollars so i can go out again to do my Small bit for the boys in lamps senator Scott Lucas a 111.observing that servicemen and women Are going to have something to say about whom is elected in november 1944 i had my Way about it the officers military Ifould be instructed on election Day to line these boys up hand them a ballot and let them decide whether they want to vote or not Adolfe a. Berle Jil assistant Secretary of state this great Structure of a reorganized and peaceful world must next largest City has 240,000 in inevitably rest on the four great habitats. The average sicilian a mail safety valve since reporting last week that the Apo Snow have plenty of a mail forms some men have sent along strongly worded letters wanting to know Why if forms Are plentiful the Apo in their respective areas is rationing them out. Well the postmaster says there Isnit any thought of rationing the Blanks. Rather its a Case of insuring that every Soldier will get his quota of at least four forms per week every week. The restriction order is nothing More a less than a safety valve to avoid the situation that occurred Early this Spring when some units had no forms for months because of indiscriminate distribution. Quoting figures the postmaster says there Are now about eight million Blanks available with a shipment of eight More million due any moment. Some forms have already been dispatched to Sicily. Pre invasion note none of the correspondents with the sicilian invasion mentioned it in passing but two Days be inv the landings the inevitable a soldiers guide appeared for distribution among the troops. Called simply Quot soldiers guide to Sicily a this one was put out by the British and was much More Down to Earth than the american edited a a pocket guide to nor til Africa Quot for instance. General Eisenhower wrote a full Page foreword for the Book. Sixteen pages Are devoted to background facts and figures on the so find with the last six pages con bathing plates of various cities and an insert map. In his message to the troops Gen. Quot Ike wrote in part Quot we Are about to engage in the second phase of the operations which began with the invasion of North Africa. And As this Book Falls into your hands we Are about to pursue the invasion and occupation of enemy continuing. He warned the men that this invasion would be the real thing As far As enemy resistance was concerned and to expect some Tough fighting. Here Are a few other quotes from the Book a a Sicily would bring our bombers within two hours Range of Rome three and one half hours of Genoa and four hours of Milan and Turin. Forty percent of the people Are still illiterate compared with 20 percent on the Mainland. Sicily in summer is decidedly hot. More so in the South than in the North. Palermo is the capita with a population of 340,000 Catania the gigs brag about secret codes by pvt. Al Kohn stars and stripes staff writer the fancy Home made codes noticed that the Quot player had devised by soldiers to Tell the folks i made a glaringly wrong move. He where they Are done to come out As i checked the direction of the move foolproof As most of their invent on a Large map and found the tors think according to those Man had moved to Oran. Tile Eagle eyed military watch dogs a mail order chess game stopped on the base censors. Its almost a the spot. Common Rule that pvt. Joe not i satisfied with legally informing ,. A a. A mom and pop that he s Quot some in a recent Terry and the plates the unique code used where in North Africa tries to lode Tow a a complicated Tell them lies in Algiers. Casa Lor Rne a att a ply was Blanca or Tunis by Means of reported i that Story an amen hidden code. And usually the base censor spots the code immediately and deftly eliminates it from the letter. So pvt. Joe goes blithely about his business assuming that the family and girl Friend know exactly where he is. Base censors More guilty of using codes than enlisted men and surprisingly enough they Are much easier to catch in most cases. Probably More codes would be can Pilot captured by the japanese was Able to warn his friends of an ambush by letting the Cross bars of the a to a represent dashes and the dots Over the Quot is represent dots. One Man tried to signal he was in Al Baiod is sheikh but he misspelled a word and his letter brought Forth the startling news that he was in the South Pacific. Numerous references to movies with an african locale Are perhaps the most amusing to the censors. Writers in Casablanca will Tell their folks a i Haven to found Rick s place yet a referring to the Bistro run by Stem faced Humphrey Bogart in the picture or they will be More Subtle and say How much they like a a As time goes by a musical theme of the same film. Charles Boyers exploits with Hedy Lamarr in the Nasbah also draw much attention from local soldiers. Many men use Bob Hope and his Zany picture a a Road to Morocco a to inform the Home say officers Artemey Are or Aren t 111 new trouble it wont be Long either before probably be getting refer successful if the Soldier appear enc Juthe boys Sara entry assuming that All censers Are / Quot cd a Blank Heads did no to come right out in his letter and say he was using a code in some cases even going so far As to explain it. If he does no to do that its almost a cinch that in his third or fourth letter Home he wont be Able to resist doing a Little bragging with a no l3�u�?� Hows course to keep letters on the up and up. Crossing out a word Here ruse and a a a met a Gal named Etna today. Boy is she volcanic a a when the soldiers Start wanting Home from Sicily be prepared for that too. But if soldiers can go to some lengths to slip forbidden information past the censors those worthies have a much simpler re Freedom Loving Powers the United states great Britain Russia and unnamed Soldier in new York City to Henry j. Kaiser 1 Hope that you Are one of those who a see to it that none lives on pasta of the Spaghetti Macaroni family with Tomato sauce and a Little meat sardines fish cheese or Olive Oil to add a variety of flavors. Wine especially Marsala is the popular drink. Sanitation is primitive normally a pit at the Bottom of the code working by now catch Captain one Captain wrote his wife that his exact location would be revealed by the third letter of the first word in the first paragraph of successive letters. But another Man almost got by the keen watchdogs of army mail. He changed the Middle initial of the addressee in each successive letter until it spelled out the City he was stationed in. He made Only one error he told his wife in the first letter of the series that he would be using this method. The permission granted recently to mention that you had visited a specific North african locality brought a flock of letters Reading something like this Quot you remember that i wrote i had visited n certain City. Well ill be in that City from now the censor merely grins and wields his Ink Brush. A Long haired intellectual tried i i i Bast censor i and there Iii ruin a Dot and dash cipher and elimination of even me paragraph will ruin a a novel Way of divulging his Loca-1 on position of Rerp a Tion. He played a game of chess a 4i Jetters by mail with the chess Board representing a map and his moves of course telling where he was moving. The 50th anniversary Runfors a p i Quot re my r1�?T4 Garden while in the towns. My. Am anniversary coherence. Of u9 he 9euml j apples on the Only half the houses have la i the censor also knew something i would never figure i to too Samv id non this War is Toone Trine Quot a j m. W. About the game. However and real location. It should be easy however to simply say �?�1 am in Algiers in just one letter. In his intent quest for hidden Neal nos the censor Algiers was a
