Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Middle East december Cash Knowlton Mittet aet opiate editor Arthur production Matt Mcdade and United signal British Public rela correspond Gnu b the eur troops in a Motif years to Siegfried 1 and it americans Days to to build a Chapel inside the crude log am Jung a number of wooden buildings and structures erected one battalion whose bivouac Are now looks like a american Frontier settlement in Pioneer the simple Spruce log Chapel stands out with a certain dignity in this ramshackle Ancl Catholic services Are Fieth certain percentages of men from each Forward company Are per to leave their Muddy positions in the heavy Evergreen Woods to attend that quota is always smiled chaplain Brest Sinfield of pews for months have been Foxholes and whose Church has been roofed Only by the his present building is the first real Church built by his Khaki Clad it has a Plain wooden Cross mounted on the peaked at Sunset the Cross throws shadows on former nazi Concrete pillboxes Only a few Yards the worshippers sit on Kneel before roughly Hen log at the head of tire room negro enlistments total men Washington negro enlist ment of the United states army As of september 30 totalled of which Are of these were overseas on that Are in the infantry Are in coast and Field artillery 867 in cavalry in engineers in the air corps and 408160 divided among the other branches of is a Long table covered with a shining White altar cloth on which stand Silver Crucifix and vases of Iresh construction of the Church was first by the battalion commander Olinto bar former of Nevada football and boxing Star and one of the toughest and bes liked officers on this his mud stain de men took up idea at once and pitched into v the Job under the instruction of Ernest c Newman of the Only former Carpenter a the on completion of the a half mile from the front Sinfield dedicated with Walter Robertson As guest Olas bombers roared overhead and gunfire rumbled in the Dis the chaplain told the congregation one of your first acts on entering this country of destruction was to construct this Church let it stand As a Monu ment to american is v has Washington a Rise of in the population of the United states since 1940 is Attri buted to an excess of births Over deaths and an excess of immigration Over the census Bureau puts the population As of july 1 at including service men and women june Horne hitched Hollywood Boyish faced actor Jackie now a naval married Brunette actress june Homo who stood by him through his recent trial in South on a morals Jackie was answers Call of sea representative John Rhode Island Democrat at was one of the youngest members of has resigned his seat to enlist in the Navy As Ordinary roaming Romeo among the places a Sailor from Ypsilanti kissed a girl in the last three years Are in the Shadow of an egyptian while Aback a Camel beneath Bigben in the Normandy Beach in the leaning Tower of Pisa and on a Bench in Lafayette Park across from the White c three stripes and out an unidentified sergeant climbed into a trackless found the motor Man Over the Frolley for an unscheduled the Motorman finished his drug store hailed passing Auto and overtook his aw0l his report the Motorman wrote no no no ser from the reservation Here Are laughing at this and in the Tulsa Tribune lets unused engagement and wedding rings want automatic bolts from the Blue Catnip papers for Al Smith used to lets look at the record daily is who which has been published every Day except since no vember oldest in Point of service the monthly which got under Way in belgian Congo november oldest weekly is Sand which began january at appear to be the facts so far As this bedraggled Camp paper Follower ahem can dredge if youre changes to note on any of these particulars please set us As like to Clear this up sos in 15 years time nobody can meet who dats editor Norman Mckenna at remember the sad sack los Angeles Navy Seaman Hayward really throws himself into the other he dreamed he was scraping the Side of a and fell three stories from hotel he told Hospital Atten where he is suffering from Back thai his last assign ment before receiving leave bomb with Alky head Boston John brands ii fined for driving while operating a truck carrying of family Skeleton City Detec Tive and two trying to locate a missing opened a closet door and out walked Joseph of exp Rize that not our said the maps what Are you doing in the clo set asked the in hiding from the keen there Long four years off and so they picked him up but they were really looking for Joes Bro ther who Leathern dec Kwh Pittsburgh when a Bunch of marines arrived Home from the one of the female greeters at Pennsylvania station was surprised when a a total gave her a Hearty kiss and get that Haven you made a mistake she Man aged to sputter said i Haven seen a woman for three a veterans convention and try to Tell the a hint that Joe started the first american Camp paper in the Middle editor Mok Ennia brought up this and very in a letter to this column which had passed along claims that other units had the Dean of Camp he Points out that chief reason for a daily is the demand for War news hot off the dats press time is 1300rand its on company streets by with several weeks haunt been exactly Static As to its locale even if it is is communications outfit which accounts for a few omis Sions in its monthly press but virtually the same Frank Shapiro and Walter it us puts it out and u recent temptation to change its name with the reshuffle of unit Prou orly editor Harris of Sand on the other must rate some kind of an a journalistic As his brightly written weekly has come without every saturday since january whore does stars and stripes stand in this statistical Maze this paper first appeared april taking Over Dinoi circulation and a of the staff although a new from till Middle East and there lies one fateful Day he who Dat and this direct descendant the As who Dat appeared on the the news appeared the so Iven hiring the change in we can have no opposition to editor Mckennas boast for Mirzy Hollywood re haired Lucille Ball and Desi former actor now in the have decided to Call off their i miss Ball received an interlocutory divorce decree last major Langhorne got his secret orders buy War Bonds 0t items from a Here a there the newest of to Camp sheets to reach to elegant ranks of the True print its just come out As a fou Page printed journal the same size As this and if it can manage to hold to the thorough going Field coverage of its first it should become an integral part of or should we say its crammed with items about its at person As All the above mentioned sheets will Point out from the wis Dom of their the hard thing to do is to keep it Issue after sky masters staff Sam John Gillespie pvt Jimmie Reader Kelly Gray eld Ward Henderson Hockett William to All Happy keep pm rolling and Luck with the Printer rotate of palaver tells this one one of the boys from our Day room picked up the phone the other night and called the wag after some and More palaver As to whom he was his face lighted and we heard him say by Marie can i come Over to night the girl come on our hero protested but this int of that All came Back the feminine this int but come on Over anyway Zero beat Lias a new wrinkle in Home state to a series in Art and poetry by our own Joel each week Cohen will create an appropriate pinup Gal representative of a different we adds Zero the Cohen girl to go Down in history with the Petty and Varga so fur new York and Texas have Boon tackled and just to give you notion As to what on reals of the future May Hove to put up we warn you the picture of the Texas girl matches this Vorse our Lone Star hoary of the week packs a terrific pair of on second packs a terrific pair of Senate approves Kirk Washington Senate con firmed the nomination of Alex Ander of As ambassador to 7 before us now a tattered copy of that first with greetings from the then commanding Gen Frank who was to he killed in a plane crash several months As commanding general of the ninth air Brereton joined president Roosevelt in a thanksgiving Day message and on Page four is a background Story on the North african Dwight Tern us has we 19 has a cheerful Little earful in its yarn about weather wog Roy Friend who sometime Back married a Little Gal in the just recently she hauled herself into a we Sta not one where Hubby deciding that the next Best thing to going Home was see ing your the Squadron gallantly shuffled cards a Little bit and now Friend Friend is with Friend Nice about one there is no question sky Mastek is december 15 spotlight bands december 16 Burns a Sid al1 1 n hosting Rita carnival music Fth Alec Templeton december 17 am Kricak news let Ter Fred Foy rays Saul Bloomstein n the personal album with Perry one of the int he december is Alec Templeton is a guest december 19 up to 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