Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4the stars and stripes weekly saturday August 14, 1943 m e stars and stripes weekly newspaper it Ike 0. 8. Armed forces published in the North african theater of operations the stare and stripes in Africa is edited and published by and for the personnel of the u. 8. Armed forces in the North african theater of operations. It is printed by la Echo a alter 20 me de la liberte Algiers. Mailing address 12 Boulevard Boudin Algiers. Telephone . Christenson ext. 64 capt. Neville ext. 65 circulation. To set. William d. Estoff ext. 6<� it. Col. White ext. 67. Casablanca Bureau Rue Georges mercies sgt. Edward m. Duse her or. Oran Bureau 6 Rue hotel de Ville 8-8gt. Glen Hedges telephone�?23071. Constantine Bureau 17 Rue Seguy a sgt. Jim Evans. Amateur Bureau special service Amateur sgt. Joe confort. Entered As second class matter at the Post office at new York n. Y., under act of March 8, 1879. Subscription rate to the United states too francs a year. Contents passed by the u. 8. Army censors. Or All things Beady Tor delivery in on play contests soldiers mail polluted water and ribbons vol. I no. 36 saturday August la 1943 staff officer in charge editor business manager managing editor Navy correspondent Art editor a editorial staff 2nd it. James a. Bumbard t-8gt. Milton Lehman to sgt. John m. Wllling to sgt. Hilary h. Lyons a sgt. Ralph g. Marlin. A sgt. George Hakim 8-sgt. Phil Stern sgt. Richard Bruner sgt. Jack Foisie sgt. Stanley Maltsoff sgt. Edward Vebell Cpl. Clarence Bonnell pvt. Paul 8.  la. Col. Egbert White capt. Robert Neville capt. Robert j. Christenson a sgt. David Golding it. . Of. R. Kent or. Sgt. Gilbert Sweeney mall Call White Caps dear editor i am one of the Quot White Caps a French foreign legionnaires and i want to put things straight As far As we Quot White Caps Quot Are concerned. I have met quite a few american soldiers and even officers whose inquisitiveness bored me. Quot Why have you enlisted in the legion Quot. Quot have you any criminals in your outfit Quot. Quot is it True that Corporal punishment still exists in the legion had Infin Tum. Such questions should not be put to any of our boys. Yes we Are a Tough outfit and we have proved it in Tunisia. We Are nothing but a part of the Quot fighting French Quot troops and Are handled As such. As to Why any one has signed up Well. Every boy has his own tale to Tell and its mostly a sorrowful one. Done to insist on details. Actually we Are waiting with impatience the new equipment and armament in order to join the rest of the gang for the smashing up of Quot fortress Europe Quot and i personally Hope that our red and Green Fanions legion colors will soon show up in the very first lines. Please excuse me having begun this letter by grumbling. Tell your boys that when they meet a Quot White Cap a be it on a Battlefield in a drinking joint or in any other Tough place like that just holler. Well always be glad to give a hand in killing a Jerry or drinking a Glass or what not. I a pfc. Boris Martinoff Legionnaire wants Hazel Scott dear editor we really enjoyed your recent article on the negro in the War Effort or rather the part he is playing. Very encouraging i should say. It really makes me think that you Are beginning to appreciate us and our part More. But Why not give us a picture of some girls once in a while. I think this will serve As a morale builder More than anything else could do. We have a number of coloured girls of both stage and screen. Such girls As Hazel Scott Lena Home Teressa Harris Nina May Mckenney and hundreds of others i could name whose pictures i think would do Honor to a publication like yours. It would be a great step Forward in the right direction along the Road of our objectives. A pvt. Arthur Wilkenson colonel Darby dear editor it. Col. William o. Darby who recently declined a pair of Quot chickens Quot As Well As the Post of commander of an infantry combat team really made a score of Points with me. Colonel Darby unlike Many other officers considers his loyalty to his boys the rangers of More importance than a promotion. As for me deeds like that boast my morale More than the mass awarding of overseas chevrons service ribbons and Quick look sees at transient movie actresses. A pfc. William j. Prati \ Pup tent poets Quot ripeness is All. A through nights of slanting rain marchers Are planting pain gardeners in boots Plant tender seeds of mines where the dimmed flashlight shines nursing the wire vines hiding the roots. Boys in Green raincoats scamper where grass will soon be Damper with sudden red. Ripe Ripe the pain grows nigh sudden into the sky. New mown the new crops lie Earth a new mown dead. A sri. Peter Plueck High flight of i have slipped the surly Bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings sunward in be climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of Sun split Clouds and done a Hundred things you have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hove ring there in be chased the shouting wind along and Flung my eager Craft through footless Halls of air. Up up the Long delirious burning Blue in be topped the wind swept Heights with easy Grace where never Lark or even Eagle flew and. While with silent lifting mind in be trod the High untre passed Sanctity of space put out my hand and touched the face of god. A John Gillespie Magee. Or. Craf easily Bent yours was the Breed of free and eager things tether nor Check could you endure to feel with earthly Joys of life your spirit went on wings and from festivals of Light your spirit sprung with Zeal. You flew a gulls exulting took into the sky along wild geese streams on journeys Swift and far Ever driven by an eager voice quickly lashing Quot Al Yin for a Road Blue air for milestones a Star evil hates free things and so at last As dust in an no of Bronze you crossed Bright seas. Quot now Quot mocked the jealous Earth. Quot i hold you fast Quot interred to sleep at rest beneath the Trees from whence a amp me wild bees daring autumn singling Brave gliding on darkling wings. Wings wings above your grave is sgt. Carl j. Boomgaard a love amorous Susu rations posses latent Power disseminating Romance at any waking hour. Omnipotent As it is never is it Meek be certain of a love if marriage you seek. Love is like a fire a a a a conflagration which soars out of reach without a destination. It is sturdy Strong but never weak and rather feasible if you be got technique. A sgt. J. Chimelski play contest All you budding Maxwell Anderson Thornton Wilders and Lillian Heilman who have been Cooling your heels waiting for that inevitable Soldier play contest to appear will be interested to learn in the words of the old Walrus that Quot the time has come. Quot a Competition of Soldier written plays sponsored by the National theater conference of the United states has been announced by the special service Section Nat Ousa. Awards Range from two too Dollar prizes to ten 50 Dollar prizes and winning authors will be recommended for postwar fellowships and scholarships contributed by leading american colleges and universities. The contest is open to All men and women in the armed forces of the United states. All entries which must be in duplicate Are to be addressed to special service officer special service Section Nat Ousa Apo 534, . Army. All scripts must be in by sept. 15, 1943. Final awards will be based on the decision of professional theater playwrights and critics to be announced later. Mail Call if you be been complaining about the Caliper of your incoming mail you will be interested to know that the office of War information has decided to do something about it for you. They have com piled a series of letter writing pointers for the folks Back Home based on suggestions gathered in a Survey of servicemen at Home and overseas. Tell him or her says the bulletin 1. How the family is doing everything to help in the War. 2. How anxious the family is for your return. 3. How Well and Busy tile family is. Give details. 4. How the family is getting along financially. 5. What a doing in the Community news about girls single whom you know the doings of friends whose marrying whom exploits of the Home team social doings effects of the War on the Home town. Drinking water american soldiers in Sicily have specific orders not to drink from unapproved water sources due to the High rate of pollution encountered on the Island. Usually most of them follow suit. Army medical and Engineer corps officers in the meantime Are carefully supervising the drinking water supplies of . Troops. Unit Lyster bags containing water disinfected by Calcium hypochlorite Are used by troops in the Field when Engineer approved sources Are not available. Individual soldiers on scouting missions or out of Contact with their outfits disinfect their own drinking water by using issued Halo zone tablets. Many a Wise Soldier finds that extra precaution saves him a lot of grief later on. Campaign ribbons the matter of Campaign ribbons has cropped up again As the subject of a Quot serious argument Quot Between two readers of this newspaper. The writer wants to know if the stars and stripes Ever stated prior to july 21, 1943 that Campaign ribbons received in one theater of operations could be worn in another theater of operations. We did. In the april 16 Issue attention was called to a Nat Ousa circular on the subject. The circular says Quot the american and Asiatic Pacific Campaign ribbons will be issued in this theater to such individuals who have performed duty under competent orders other than in a travel or transient status at a station within the american and Asiatic Pacific areas and outside the Continental limits of the United  the writer went on to say that since there Wasny to anything said about not wearing More than one at a time it was Safe to assume that you could dazzle your friends with As imposing a display of colourful breastworks As you wished. As a matter of fact army regulations specifically allow it. A a. M. In Willkie looms Large on political horizon by Turner Catledge new York times correspondent Indianapolis a among poll. Few if any of the Willkie Back tic Aily minded persons Republic ers in Indiana Are what one would cans and democrats alike in the care to Call old line republicans Middle West the matters most Dis in fact it appears that a a cussed these Days revolve around Jority of the state committee is the problem of Wendell Willkie. Opposed to him. But almost All plans of other candidates and of of the members stand patters and inter party factions depend on the come late lies alike would accept future course of the Man who him gladly and loudly if they stormed the Philadelphia Conven thought that he had the Best Tion three years ago. Now that Chance to win or if necessary to Willkie has thrown his hat into prevent a party split the ring again he is being closed by watched by men who make policy in both parties. Foreign policy the feeling is growing in this in Many respects Willkie a in part of the country that the re fluence on his party today is Simi publicans must take the fight to Lar to that of president Roose or. Roosevelt whose fourth term veltus at this stage in the last bid is assumed and that it must presidential Campaign. Observers be taken to him on the internal Are convinced that Willkie is As tonal front. Republicans appear formidable an  be convinced that they have although Willkie continues to be administration on the run on the pet hate of Many old line front a tithe spread leaders who Are still Licking the my of this opinion Winkles Stock bruises sustained when he ran ii a a Isle a because of j11 rough shod Over them at Phila Fpud a can1#hopef�lsnjjne. J Delphia others show signs of get of untitled himself most completed Ting set to sustain another Jolt Ullh the International Point of even possibly to invite one. I View a movement is already under j second Only in interest As to Way to launch Willkie a candidacy what Willkie will do is Indiana into the 1944 Campaign As a favor politicians unusual notice of Ite son of Indiana. It is under James a. Far a former chair the Active leadership of mrs. Grace i Man of the democratic National b. Reynolds of Cambridge City a Republican National committee committee. Holding in mind that Indiana woman and it. Gov. Charles m. Is to National politics what the Dawson. Homer e. Cape hard of Washington ind., a newcomer to politics who has sought to Stream Aleutian islands Are to weather a this is where political weather is brewed one pays More attention to Long shot political bets. Line the Republican party As he one that has been heard Here is did the Juke boxes he sold so that there will be three and pos successfully before the War is also Sibly four parties in the Field said to favor Willkie. Cape hard next year if Willkie and or farts a member of the important Ley Are humiliated by their own state Central committee. I parties. Sharpshooters the largest toll of enemy aircraft Ever taken by one fortress Crew on one Mission is credited to the above group of sharpshooters who had a Field Day Over Trapani last month when they shot Down 13 German planes. From left to right they Are to sgt. William Campbells sgt. Leo Robin to sgt. Emmet worthy a sgt. Ben Warner and to sgt. Edward Jackson. A Naaf photo