Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Cairo, Egypt February Start and is edited and published weekly by service Ataily in the Middle mailing address t and passed by Zitny 92 and entered at second clan matter at the Post office at by lamp part february 1945 Knowlton publications Gene editor staff Richard associate editor Peter production Matt and Dean Broome picture sources United Public relations of signal British rela Reuters and Soldier in the mouthpiece sounds off globetrotting solons give theater the Brushoff army news service Chi newspaper of lonely american soldiers fighting the War in the isolated Jungles of Burma and India has gently but sharply chided it meeting con who omitted that front from their Tup staff writer Dyolf Retlaw wrote the roundups sarcastic lament under the heading its a rough War for us had a special word for beauteous Clare Boothe Luce who made a special trip to the italian front despite the exquisite Tor Ture of an the Obi writer then suggested postwar re says As follows we wonder whether junk eting congressmen have Ever thought of their postwar he True there will be the american veterans of foreign wars and similar but what of the 1950 pressure group a vast powerful vocal bloc of sex to be known As the legion of them that never got called upon a Force dedicated to removing from office by orderly of All legislators who gave them the May be a Day of less bitter than recent digs at movie stars who shunned the Dis comforts of Chi or Cut their visits Short on discovering just How uncomfortable the country the Roundup writers Jab at junk eting congressmen added surrendered All Hope have knocked at our Humble doors and Roundup has now sadly surrendered the last flickering Hope that they mind this is not a com we can picture globetrotting legislators fretting because they drop into our neck of the War for a spot of but after All their time is strictly Halls of con Gress Are bulging with new ret Law reminded congressmen not to miss the Opportunity for speech making before soldiers who have heard nothing but these Condrate oratory of army brass that the Taj mahal is More Beautiful than the leaning Tower of he commented on hardships in the outside Chance that by Matt Mcdade private property the old South seas feminine custom of wearing a Flower Over the left ear if youve already come to an understanding with a Well meaning seems to have its 1945 counterpart on streets of we hear that some new York whose eve Loving husbands b or sweethearts Are in the have taken to wearing protective Armor in the form of a Lapel de it is designed to Ward off Home Side a Small Sil ver figure of a Soldier or Sailor Points to a heart on which is inscribed the word effective we the representatives might have to ride on an Indian then be unheard from for a period of weeks or in attempting to phone lose their minds or damage their stomachs on Lily Gin and other Chi when formerly a to full bodied territory unreached by Eleanor his jibe think of the marvelous Opportunity afforded a touring imagine exploring territory unreached yet toy up pointed out that Dyolf Retlaw spelled backwards reads Floyd of the Chi round up is Floyd Bucky reaction to the editorial chiding was immediate Back in two members of a House military affairs subcommittee which toured the Battle fronts agreed that Burma and China War Heaters had been they promised to see if something could be done to rectify the omission As quickly As Overton Brooks said that when the legislative program lets lip the committee should see to it that a congressional delegation visits John Sparkman said he hoped such a visit could be made within the beauteous Luce replies from new the Beaute Ous Clare Boothe Luce gently scored the Chi Roundup for for getting up said i was in the area Long before you were in 41 and 42 and i even wrote for your paper remember until i was fired by the administration for being too Contro Luce she had sat in a burmese foxhole with Fred Aldridge and discussed the birth of the newspaper that was later to be called the Chi Roundup while the Jap bombs fell around following her 19ij trip she asked for permission to return but was that Clare was what made her Congress worn if id gotten ont to Chi that year t would never have had time to run for she Roundup of items from Camp newspapers Here dtspatoh6 squib a Peg legged porker is one of those go closeups which reveals the True dimensions of the american a pet boar was adopted Byi Edward an ordnance Man of egg in one Day the Squealer lost its left Nam leg when a guard at Quarry thinking the pig was a native try ing to pilfer shot at since Little Flat nose hobbled around the Camp on three arousing every gis it got to a where daddy Dolinsky could no longer stand the sight of his crippled so he put a request through to engineers for a wooden the requisition went before Arderi Bates who not Only approved tout added a suggestion that the Peg leg have an aluminium now the Little Piggie can go to Market or anywhere he and is proving a very grateful there up and walks Back to hid he answers his superiors he the strictly big says he take care of this will Jones in Busy right have to make sure those finance Guys Palm out the right per of fice thinks the local female help has eyes Only for thus is More concerned about the wave in his hair than the wave of his growling in mentioning it would be a journalistic crime to omit re Ference to the which Obi men passing Payne Field and Flowers dept i in route to Shangrila love to gag what with Valentine Day coming our thoughts lightly turn to verse and hearts and flow ers and All the ramifications of cupids this Valentines Are purportedly sentimental the Goober the and As our contribution to the we offer Here with some sentimental tout top ical morsels dreamed up by ans scribes heres one the boys under Ike might Send to the folks at Home wed looped to make our Valentine to the land beyond the Rhine but if were slow to see the its no Cooks tour to a note of cheer from the Home front accent the pal would find Titi rating Carole Landis saying my affections i Dangle for Valentine Joy and 1 Dangle naught but the real Mccoy and heres one from marshal Stalin to his generals Malinovsky to Kossovsky when the War is we betcha Yoff Dame would like to this dionian creature is the proud property of an India air Force Hurricane and its Pilot Pappas claim the animal takes the cake although it prefers old newspapers on go half this off Spring of a Bohemian Romance diets on Oiga rets and waste its a sure thing it thrive Long in the Andre former lbs announcer and now director of a North african go radio saved the Day for a broadcasting of his reports Baruch sent the following letter through channels w it is requested that an upper plate of Teeth be made for who is on duty with this this dental work is necessary to hello motor Pool one Way to get pm it was Early morning in a Sante new thur Inan who Lias the weary Job of army was bust Ling about arranging breakfast for the apathetic group of prospective inductees waiting at the hotel lob Barker had a great Deal of trouble with one inductee who grumbled at having to grumbled at the idea of such an Early breakfast and was downright in and when Barker pushed him on the truck hound for Induc Tion when the physical exams were induction papers were demanded from the reluctant what papers he i was just waiting in the hotel for the bus to he didst pass his dec in the summing up from her sergeant husband who is some where in Angelo Deluda of received a description squib on the Situa wrote the sergeant it looks like Christmas but it sounds like the fourth of july enable the above named enlisted Man to perform his duties As u radio in which a full set of Teeth is what spurred this Rush order was the of complaints from radio listeners who wrote that whistling and clicking sounds emanated from their loud speakers whenever the to announcer addressed the Hes Here again the Leer eyed satirist of Payne Fields ski not Content with Reniero the theater audience pests and the lords of the he now cautions theres in every the typewriter addict a one la is 1 on his newest hate Bangs away usually a Hun Type puts emotion behind his plus his clock quits promptly when the Cannon awakes shows his officer Hes strictly on the result is As follows private first class Rodney rhetoric yes that s us i not at he hangs another scribe Worth his wit in Gold is the weekly contributor to Camp hucksters Sand calling his Corner my the author modesty signs of but a Little g2 toxoid chopped the Lowdown to and it Toins out that the Woi Slinger is none other than James Winters is a sad sack eulogized in writes like he Speaks and he Speaks like he came from the Borough where the tree last weeks sad Soliloquy concerned his adventures at a go dance wifi his Igi to trim the column is like Livingsto Kowski a but we we dance Good that when i get the the Are Cutten in like this is absolutely the last dance Thev Are Ever Gonna i do about three Steps and then i feel some apes heavy hand Pattin me the after a Little while they play some of that old Dancisin Hecor Ner music so i put the Clinch on Gladys and we Start for a we Start Over i feel the breath of a Gray old Timber Wolf on the Back of me i feel like a criminal Bein hunted i try not to pay any attention to this Type in the Hope that he will perhaps go but he follows us All the Way across the we Duck and join and twist avoid in that hand on me it is no As the hand hits me i wince and join around to see who is try in to break up me to it is the foist him and his brass i let in do about four or five Toins then i Cut am about to Start whispering Sweet no thins in her Shell like ear when 1 get tagged by the time 1 recover from the blow the foist is Dancin away with its a Good thing that he is foist Sar otherwise he pull his rank on the Supply Sargent to get those two left shoes he is Gladys asks me Why i dont Tell him to go aint that like a woman they will never understand the army if they arc in it from now lie comes Gladys looks like she is going to blow her i guess Slit dont like the foist this is probably the Bond Between that dance finishes a set and they come the foist Doest say a he walks the dance i am Walkin Gladys i mention this to she giggles a Little bit and then she tells me that i dont Tell the foist to go away and quit bothering us so she tells him that i wish he will go soak his head or words to that she also tells him that she feels the same and she wants no further conversation about i moan a couple of times and Tell her that she has probably ruined me army next Day i look at the bulletin Board and find just what i i guess its no wonder i got dish water Valley forge was soft Fred head of the in Fantry school at fort stated in a civilian club meeting that me hardships suffered by Washington army at Valley Are minor compared with what troops Are enduring 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