Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, Cairo, Egypt Of printed by Paul Vav k u to 16 1045 h i c Gine t editor u awol cute editor Peter production United Public in the e raised Over courts j v death sentences army news service Washington just Back from serving As a deck lieutenant on a Carrier the Republican from has been Dis closing the views of mainly service who asked him to express to i i v2fis in ventral Africa Wing get overweight through arrangement by the at special service men in of bases comprising the Central african division can now receive gifts which hitherto have been Ponsi Devepy too heavy for Ordinary mail these overweight gifts must be musical instruments or any other item of special service explained Jim bean special Sergiev officer for the in a statement to the Accra it bean informed that All such packages should be routed through Harold of the special ser vice Washington procedure for shipping this new category of Soldier gifts in this any read Man desiring recreational equipment will Send a letter of request to family and a duplicate to Moor in Wash the after having purchased the will mail it to Moor who will in turn for Ward to Beans adding a footnote to the acts parcel Post bean wired stars and stripes the Fol lowing explanation As far As this office the palaver article applies Only to the it May be possible for a similar agreement to be worked out with other Atcas the situation now it is a personal favor from Fulton says that servicemen Are concerned with the Many recent court martial verdicts assessing the death the boys Over there keep com menting on the number of very severe penalties being handed out by service he Fulton pointed out that the drastic sentences seem Over severe when compared with civilian be he cited the example of a civilian who can Dodge the draft and get Only from three to five years in jail As i dont mean that men be punished if they do he but All circumstances i should be considered and penalties should be no More severe than those administered by civilian abnormal circumstances military he should consider the extremely ha4 going on fighting fronts which causes a lot of Mem overseas to do things they ordinarily think of Fulton then referred to the highly controversial Case of Henry Weber who has been convicted of refusing to obey an order to Drill at Camp the death penalty in that Case was entirely too declared and the later action com muting the penalty to life imprisonment left the sentence still too since Fulton return to the he has suggested that the wives and families of servicemen be permitted to join their husbands he stressed that this is strictly his own judge threw Book at her new York Verna Mae 32yearold Bank has been sentenced to a Federal reformatory for a year and a Day for stealing ration coupons from a this is the heaviest rationing violation sentence Ever imposed in new the re marked that she deserved snafu older f a certain i fort has Wott Ted his Oil of Nie fifa in Loup into r to Tsieh he inadvertently therol wrote a Longs Page sugar report to his reaffirming his faithfulness and her How much he adored at the same he wrote his explaining that girls birthday was approach ing an that a Little Deloose would be very we didst answered note from his girl How Long since Ive been girls something Sun know you really the the was also acidly is she financing other sound off and fury John Coleman is firmly con Vinced that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and he is amx ious to get Back to the War where hell be when the Louis sergeant returned to Shan Gri la after three years in austra Lia and the Pacific he made a published statement alleging that american Femme Are too artificial and that the aussie girls Are just As Beautiful and far More Natu that set off a barrage of letters and Telephone Calls worse than any flak or machine bullets my b25 has Ever said Cole the gentle sex Rose up in defense of their one wrote it made me so mad i could have bitten a Nail in you Haven been around some suggested that he go Back to bolts from the bldg tapers Here there 1 to Lei lard Field in his Accra station above the picture queries after a for Dlf Iti told by inmates of a narrow escape from horrible when Dressel arrived at his re my dont care what Security you loan Basic training Marine Arthur Knighton is the papa of a Twoy Earold daughter Hes never with rotation coming Knighton got cold feet he was not sure that he was Well versed in the role of so he borrowed a Little girl from a Honolulu Orpha took her window to dinner and showed her the he writes his wife in Salt Lake Hes ready for the real for service rendered for no particular reason at James civilian Volunteer of the Security saluted a Young naval Ensign in new or this was followed by a sur prising the Ensign halted immediately and handed colomb a Dollar it was the first Salute the Ensign had received that the spirit theres no denying the Navy gels in your youre a Seaman Ray Chambless of returned to the states to marry his childhood Norma Ray is a Navy Veteran and was at Pearl came the ceremony and the question do you take this woman for your lawful without batting a Ray replied replied eagerly sir when you gotta go and there was the i who recently arrived at the separation Center at fort although wait ing for his discharge from the this eager Beaver awol and for All we he Hast turned up caption reports Worlo he had to undergo several formalities before he could scram he stepped into a room where physical was going seeing two the first like an old got on the Shorter suddenly a sergeant in the room called out class this Dressel sidestepped out of the column it was an induct Ion group get an eyeful of this Roseland Rule Book As produced by the pm Council of the Payne Field service and As reproduced by sky master if you wish to choose your Gal before you hit the line and do Mot stand about in the Way of other the last Guy who did that was carried away bleeding from every if you Are leave the floor skip that Hurt those protestations of affect dont cutback in on a fellow who has tagged As Lorig As he has the lady he got from How do you know she int Happy about the whole thing if you invite a girl to whirl her through All three select ions in the unless you Are of this excuse i gotta make a phone Call Routi if you Cut dance until the group is Over unless you Are swat ted1 on the it take the girl Back to her place after the band Means her place in the service not dont feel responsible for her for the remainder of the give her Chance to look Over the count your youre not so an impish column filler in Eri treas Zero beat is Seewall Tell All that All there is to the and if you dont get ask the Man who owns a hash Tartu sketches a familiar scene in his Over the Hill says perhaps the most humorous yet complicated Day in the army is the Day the Eagle the strange trans Fer of accounts could baffle the shrewdest for lets use 0 and c As three 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amusing thing about these Blacks is the pidgin English they the gis reply right Back in the same word Jumble that sounds like a Cross Between Jive talk and Walter Akers was recently sent Home on and his 17yearold Kobnah wrote him a letter which contains the fruits of his night school Edu cation paid for by Akers and Maurice palaver published it in All How about he go Back two months i no see everybody him write if he got paper and Send for i want to Send for american so How much it in stay ing in in write in the in read savvy spelling multiplication and subtraction take savvy my Mother and father All my brother and sister i stand the work now in be head Man for new plenty he come work left Small be he Dey if you got writing paper write to King and Tell King in be in standing the Isaac is standing the work Suin Bosky be too Dey he be Fine new he savvy work i write this paper november 19 station Gold Kansas he he be Fine he too to Fine past everybody sgt no hair be he got whiskey fever today for saturday night be if you want something for Gold coast Tell and Send it to your faithful obedient Kojina receiving a letter from a rotated buddy in the states is usually because the Reader learns All about the niceties and clean ties and the Many amenities of Bob Snapp of Camp Huckstep opened a v note from an old Suez chum of and a great kick out of his friends according to Sam the stateside Soldier wrote not a Tarbush or a filigree but a Parker Fountain pen Aind a leather Wallet War Bui goes up to 238 billion new York Treasury Morgenthau said in a radio add sponsored by the that the Cost of the War to the United states up to june 1944 has been billion seven tunes the Cost of world War Morgenthau revealed that 46 per cent of the Cost is being paid through taxes with the number of taxpayers increasing from four million to 50 he added never before has democracy taxed itself on such abroad More than 85 million persons have bought government Bonds during the buy More War Bonds
