Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Pm of a z the stars and St re Pis wednesday Avent ii 1s43 the stars and stripes Ona daily newspaper a i Ike u. S. Armed Parces Phi shed mondays through Friday Tael a sire for imps in us Oran area. The stars and stripes Oran daily to edited and part shed by and for the personnel of the i. S. Armed Fortes. It is printed h la Echo a Oran 6 rur Motel de Ville Oran. Editorial and circulation office i Rue Motel de Vale. Telephone it William a. Lister 23671. Circulation dept., is to. Of a men Hedges 23071. Editorial dept., 25951.  is made of the cartoons Cenric strips feature stories and general editorial service supplied by tank the army weekly and of Ness by the office of War information and special services division War dept. Entered is second class matter at the Post office at new York n. Y. Act of March 3, 1878. Contenta passed by the i. S. Army censors not mailable to the u. 8. By  Boutto withe by Ernie Fyle a a vet 3, no. 73 11, 1643 officer Nat Ousa off Teer in charge staff staff a sgt. Harry Watson James Harrigan Cpl Dob neither. U col Egbert White u Willuam h. Lister get Herbert Mitgang sgt. Robert Mcintyre but fair Price Campaign photograph. In that the third article to appear in the stars and stripes Start High prices the sni Jeet of Phot it Mph a Tinea. For Many months a ase or an Shahera have been Pav tog prices that a not to so emd Anee with those fixed by Taw. In compiling a fair Price list we went directly to 2d. Moris president of the Oran photographer s Syndicate he is most anxious to rid his profession of All uns Crudu Taus photographers and to curb the unfair prices he Quot a Aid that the French go Vern Meifu sets the Price level and until they Sej lit to alter it one Way or the other the prices remain in i ranged these prices Are published in a Magazine entitled a official journal of  it was from this official publication of the French government dated july 10, 1m2 that m. Moris quoted the following Price list photograph prices this list shows prices on photographs of sizes most practical for mailing to the states. Prices Are higher for larger photographs fancy frames and retouching identification photo �4 17 for. 22 for. Identification the Toof a 27 for. 41 for. Full length postal a Aid stae mfr. Elfr. Head shoulders postal card Sise �1 for. 122 for. Head photo postal card size 102 for. 140 fir. While the above prices were established by the French government More than a year ago and Are normally subject to change in keeping with certain economic changes brought about by the in flu of soldiers the government has not issued a More recent list. M. Moris gave us these prices As being the fair Price Standard at the present time. Once again soldiers Are urged not Only by the stars and stripes but by m. Moris As Well to report All violations to an my or to the French police. At the conclusion of the Price articles. The stars and stripes will publish All the Price lists in French arid in English. In addition we will see that full publicity is Given in the French newspapers. With this article we reach the mid Point in our Campaign. Before progressing any further lets pause and sort of consolidate our positions. Since this series started on monday we be had several hither Ond Yon this a a mail from Home business is always Good for a few comments and now that. The United states has released the fact that flying fortresses sail merrily along at an Altitude of 42,000 feet i guess it is Safe for this column to release the latest figures on the world s Altitude record for letters from Home. Bud a. Rutherford a six foot. Job looked pretty Good until yesterdays mail revealed the astounding fact that a gentleman named Herman Kaufman a North Carolina boy received an epistle so Long that he had to Don a oxygen ? mask to read the dateline ,. Herman according to a strictly impartial source has in his Possession a letter so extraordinarily loft that it took the writers 2 months to rivet it together. It tips the Mercury at no less than 300 feet. The boys Are sure of this figure because the authors who live in North Carolina took a special trip to the Yale bowl and made sure that it reached from goal line to goal line. I. Then they commissioned Henry Keiser to dash off an envelope Large enough to hold it. Pvt. Del suggestions from soldiers and civilians alike who mentioned that a few facts Here and there were not Clear. This is your Campaign and if we can do anything to present it in a clearer Light let us know. A warning to begin with we have an excellent warning regarding the washing of Woolen of uniforms. It comes from m. Bonnet an interpreter from base Headquarters who says �?�1 have lived in Oran for 25 years and am familiar with Many things. If the american soldiers use Oran water to Wash their Woolen of uniforms they will find that the Salt water will leave their woolens stiff As a bord i strongly advise the men to Only use dry cleaning on these uniforms. Or fresh water if they can find  in reference to the laundry Price list we printed Many soldiers have asked us if the prices include ironing. The answer is definitely yes. Those prices Ato for the Complete Job. The taxi prices we listed Are obviously for the horse drawn carriages you see All Over town. There Are few automobiles for hire. To Morrow a Price article will Deal with grocery and Barber shop prices. �?8ft. Robert b. Mcintyre mall Gall Ripe smoking dear editor would someone please inform me Why its such a terrible crime punishable by Fine for a Soldier to smoke a pipe on the streets of Oran for 14 years the smoked a pipe in this army and never once have 1 been court Martiale for it. Some of my former company command ers now colonels and generals Are pipe smokers Aid to the Best  knowledge Gentie to be confusing to the average person due to their being somewhat similar in Many instances the Chevron is Well known to every Foffi Tif Anh woman. It might interest your readers to know that civilian defense volunteers Are being awarded attract ribbons of different _ on the hours of service they have go sep. Sgt l Steinberg books in the news i Youngblood who volunteers thar astounding bit of news modestly adds that he himself has often received letters eight feet Long. Time marches on. Arrew plays Host sunday to songwriter it. Fob troupe author of  a a dear mom a and those Catchy tunes from a a Icecap Ades of 1943�?�. That a a pretty swell Little mimeographed newspaper they re putting out at canes tel. Its called the a a depot news and it. C. E. Fin key is the officer in charge Cpl r. Pamer does the editing and pvt. R. Desmarais handles the Art work. The North african Baton wavers Union Section eight has announced the following lads As the top three in their recent contest Messieurs Kelly Wila and Voak. Take a two Fang Bow boys. La Senia Way. Of we can t do it h cant be done Quot is the motto of a local repair Squadron who have Penty of Facto to Back up their boast. Takes sol Haskell Manley of Union City tenn., for instance. Haskell is the inventor of a Shower Bath that has Waldorf Astoria hotel officials making bloc prints. Its finishing touch is an old French Oil tank which the goed Sarge has converted for water  an assist to sgt. John Roga Torci who car entered the Job a. And that subterranean water heating system which works i the blow Torch principle is the hottest thing this Side of the Sahara. The machine shop under sgt Clarence Leclair of Milwaukee is equipped to do almost anything and usually does. Their most in usual Job to Date is that Gold and Silver Bridge they made for a toothless Arab. Which just goes to Shew Yon that when Yon get a Bunch of its together  do their Job and just a Little Tot with the u. S. Navy in the Mediterranean a in invasion parlance the Day you strike a new country is called a Day and the time you hit a Beach is a hour. So in the invasion contingent of which i was a very biased rooter a hour was set for 2 45 a. M. On july 10. This was when the first of the mass assault on the Beach was to begin. Actually paratroopers and rangers were there hours before that. The other two Large american Fotoes which had travelled from North Africa As separate units hit their beaches far Down to our right at about the same time we did. You could Tell when they landed by the. Shooting. During the first hour or so of the assault it seemed to me out on the ship that All hell was breaking Loose ashore but now that 1 look Back upon it from the firmer foundation of actually knowing ? what happened it does no to seem so very dramatic. As in be said before most of our Especial Section was fairly easy to take and our  did no to Send any fireworks ashore until after Daylight. Our assault troops did All the preliminary work with Rifle grenades and Machir guns. Out on the ship we could hear the Bop Bop Bop of machine guns first in Short bursts and then in Long ones. I done to know whether we heard  italian ones or not. In Tunisia we could always Tell German machine guns because they liked so. Much faster than ours id seen our troops do Back in Algeria. The More spectacular show was in the sector to our right some 12 or 15 Miles Down the Beach. There the first infantry division was having stiff opposition and their naval escort stood off Miles for Tom Shore and threw steel at the enemy artillery in the  it to the first time i had Ever seen tracer shells used at night from big guns and it was fascinating. From where we sat it was like watching a Tennis game played with red baits except All the balls went in it my direction. _. Ltd you would see a Golden Flash Way off in the darkness and out of the Flash would go shooting the tiny red Dot that was the big Shell. It covered the first Quarter of its total distance almost instant try and then it would uncannily begin a much slower Speed As though Yon had put a Brake on it. There did t seem to. Be any tapering Down Between its High and its Low Speed it just went from High into Low instantly. You would think it would Start arching downward in the slower Speed but instead it just amazingly kept on and on almost in a Flat trajectory As though it were on wheels and being propelled along a level Road. Finally after a flight so Jong that you stood in unbelief that the thing could still actually be in the air it would disappear into a Little Flash As it hit the Shore. Long Oft Erward you would hear the heavy but that night All the shooting seemed to be of okie Tempo and one Quality. Now and then we could see a red tracer Bullet arc through the darkness and i remember one that must have ricocheted from a Rock for it suddenly turned and went straight up into the sky for a Long Way. Now and then there was a Quick Flash of hand grenades. There was no Aerial combat during the night and Only a few flares shot up from the Beach. To be factual our portion of ilm night assault upon Sicily was far less spectacular than practice landings explosions come rolling across the water. Our portion of american assaults went the Best of All. The first division to our right had some bitter opposition the 45th division on beyond them had some rough seas and. Bad beaches but with us everything was about perfect. The Navy Catt be Given too much credit for putting our troops ashore the Way it did. You can realize what a nearly impossible task it is to arrive in the dead of night at exactly the right spot with your Convoy feel your Way a it 0 continued on Page 4 my Mem -r�?~mm�tnruvirln.-Vvvi,>nan Oran Date Boole american red Cross arc Empire club Offero How ers information Booth roof Gauen rung Library writing room snack bar tousle room with instruments. Location it Rue Alsace Lorraine open daily Tram 10 a. In to 8 45 p. If. Program Ping Pong. Badminton chess and checker four Amenta every monday evening to the game room Quot at 7. Sign up now by contacting the program director. Spanish lessons for beginners in the music room every monday and thursday Tram 1 to 8 a. M. Advanced classes on tuesday and Protay at the Sama time. French Lemons for beginners every wednesday and saturday from 7 to 8 p. M. Advanced cd Sheet aame Days dancing 1190 i. A reformed Quot Church French Rue Alsace Lorraine and Rue de la Victore. Methodist Church a sunday services to French and in wait in at 10 15 a. M. Evangelical meeting at 0 p. M. Communion service first sunday of each , m. Bar det at Home to mailers every Ison. Wed., and Friday from 10 a. M to 1130 a. M. Location 2 blvd. Dea Chasseur. A episcopal communion service held every thursday at 8 15 p. M. In tin chaplains office at Boole Pasteur Catholic Masse Dally to Church of the Hole. Spirit place de a Bastille a Leroen from grand hotel at 0008, 0700, �?�7fi 0800 and 0830 hour if when there is Only Lively coloured us late tether loved Hie pipe. Dear Miter  one on of  end still pm respected by everyone. I n m about Tad i cant ten him about this Fitl tort order it would five broken his heart. A sgt William e. Henning 0vpha8 chevrons dear Miter m Pace to take ode Opportunity of add of or Teto cents Worth in repair to run stating pm of the Otachi service Chevron. It hardly seems fair to Many of us that have been overseas for ouch a Long time now to see men freshly arrived from the states sporting the same it Campaign ribbon that we be earned and worked so hard for. True they As Well a we Are entitled to the Dee Rattan but i stiff feel that those who have served from six months to Over a year overseas should receive something in the Way of recognition. Nothing is move appropriate thai the Well known overseas Chevron. Where Campaign ribbons Are Apt 1 suggest that some Good books be published to serial form in your Sheet even though readers miss getting the paper every Day some Good Points could be Quot brought to their attention. Examples of such a Hook would he a the valor of ignorance a by Homer Lyhl ius Book is one which every Soldier should read and in Viva Oktem a a tempeh a hmm imumus�1 demand when the War ceases them who know theft a of fits of Thig Hook will he Row i Ntim it it i in our future National achievement. Homer Lea joints out that a. Quot the knowledge of commanders and a the involuntary  and Hedi Encoe to orders is what deter toe sue issues of Battles. A a this Book though written prior to 1900 is a Book of years lie fact will never die. Good Reading Iff the tote to it. C.9. V. Mclaughlin de stars sad stripes tries to pro a cart the news As fully and a crate by As Pom tic without Tattan Pitog to teach or proach. Because the newspaper k Sana s would be difficult to run a serial. A . S. A. Dept. From Hollywood comes this bit of breathtaking news in divorcing Jackie Oogan Flower Torry a former George White scandals girl had this to say Quot Jackie a behaviour made me so nervous at times that i was paralysed from the hips Down for ten to fifteen minutes that Sok we be got lots of time. A prominent Politico finally saw his dream come True a car in every garage. Now maybe he can figure out a Way to get them out. And the current rationing. Gag. Running about is that explanation of the Quot Point system you Point to what you want and the Butcher tells you that you can to hate it. From Washington Oomes the report that Germany has taken Castalia. Government officials however doubt that they can hold it. Bally nazi that Philadelphia socialite turned traitor has a new line on her Berlin propaganda broadcasts. Quot american women she says Quot Are to the prime of life just waiting to be plucked. Why Don t you go Home boys a we will Sady. But we be a Little plucking to do to Berlin frs and you re on the Pluck list with that not so hotly nazi Adolf. Will tattle some mors tomorrow. Cpl Bob fui8hsramerican red Cross Empire c9ub dances for enlisted men Only held every Mon., tues., Frt Day and saturday from 4 30 pm to 9 30 p. M. At Lysse la an order on Rue Mungar opposite Bank of Algiers. For further information Contact dub dance  Navy night a every wednesday Evn log the outdoor dancing is cities at Lychee la Amori Cier will be reserved for the enlistees of the u. Amp Navy Only. Arc servicemen s club la Benia Airport. Open to ail men of Allied forces from noon to 10 p. M. Often earns faculties As other Abo Smiy masses also to the Cathedral place Jeanne a arc it 0808, 0845. 0730 and 0600 Bora. Cub a contains snack bar game room Reading room Library writing room lounge Odd Ahja location Corner of blvd. Clemenceau and Roe Ilse Lorraine open Dally Tram. 19 a Quot m. To .10 p. M. Foreign. Language i Yesai held in our dub from .7 to 830 or German every Mon. And Ftp French every tue tbuxs., Bun. Spanish wed. And Abc at Lam it club a offers snack bar games Puary lounge Ait Road my room to att members of the Allied Taraea ideation 8 blvd. Of Allenl pen Dally from 19 a m. To 10 p. M. Program Horn 1c a. M. To 10 p. M. Complete use of All dub faculties. Snack bar always open Tram it m. To s p. Maison de Colon officers club open to american officers and nurses members Only Dally from 2 p. M. To 10 30 p. M. Pack bar open from 2 p. An. To 10 p. M. Liquor bar open from 5,p. M. To 10 p. M. Churches services to Flench at the protest it it Temple every sunday morning at d a m. With comm Union service met Hin Day of each month location Rue Nerre couture pbote8tant 0880 or. A Rohr Ooms Nunom. Chap Iain a office it blvd. Mem Emeneau Christian science a and Sun 1900 . Dally blvd. Joffre and Rue Magenta. A Ammete Mevie English speaking Abc Casino theater now open for All servicemen. Three showings of american films daly�?2, 3 45 and 7.1x1 p. M. Location one Block part Allied duh on blvd. Of Allenl. Bata my to be rvs for offi Oera Regent theater after 6 p. 1c. A very evening except sunday ring Lith speaking move Fly. Consult arc for current film. Location 82 rus d anew arc Empire theater b tent so at 18 Roe Alsace Lona Atoe. A american enlistees and merchant Are welcomed to the showings of Hollywood productions. Hour of showings Are As follows a Quot 4 and t p. M. Dally. For name of Pio mrs a tautog consult the Empire club s bulletin Hoard. 3 entertain Iren. Daily Mogador Rio to Heaters a until we meet again Eft amp in Dally aft 630 p. M. Throw ugh August 22nd. Oca new n s Dowicz american merchant seamen s club and restaurant a the United seamen a berries inc., to so operation with the War shipping administration operates a dub at 3 Tus Ramler for american seamen Only which offer sleeping faculties at 75 cents a night and Sells do argues. Open Dally from 7 a. M. To 11 p. M. The restaurant located at 30 Rue Ai Saoe Lorraine serves Complete meals daily for american seamen Only Bond concert i the 2nd zouave a a nto Ety piece orchestra win play a concert Tom american tunes and sown we deed total 730 toe Petite to Vic