Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Pit z the stars and stripes Twet Doy Avgust 31, 1943 the stars and stripes of Nan newspaper of the 0. S. Ans footes poll Tref Leafs i que ugh maps la derive for troops la the Oram Acta. The stars sad stripes Orsa Dally is edited Aad published by Aad for the personnel of the u. S. Armed forces. It is printed by Lescho a Oran f Roe hotel de Tille Oran. Editorial and Dren Latke office f Roo hotel do title. Telephone it wid Faua he Lister 23i7l Cir Alaton dept soft. Idea Hedges 23071. Editorial dept., 25s57.  is made of the cartoons comic strips feature stories and general editorial service supplied by tank the army Wertly the Western newspaper Union and of news by the office of War information and special services division War dept entered As second class matter at the Post office at hew York h. F. Act of of Limach Slit. Contests passed by the u. A army censers hot new Fiahlo w the u. S. By individuals. A Jeff a a i mall Gall final reply dear editor voting dead editor vol. 1, to. P9 Dagost ims i Bibl Chon officer Hatouna a col officer in charge a editor ,6-sgt. Harry Watson editorial staff sgt. Robert Mcintyre sgt. James Harrygan Cpl Himiter and Yon. The Quot brother meets brother Quot Anft took a new twist Here wheat fit. Richard Maytock of of in adj state ibo wend 01% imbue in the red a final reply to our Good Friend a after Reading mail Cali of aug. 1st sergeant Clinton Howard con 27, i pee that there Are still some Cearing his return rebuke Quot reply to hard headed people screaming just rookies. It seems As if sgt. How to hear the sound of their own Ard was undoubtedly Way past the voice using the slogan of Quot our in boiling Point when he stifled a tear alterable rights As citizens Etc Quot to and wrote his last thesis for he get their voices heard. L  i in i my  a. A. Is Mem the roving reporter a. A a. In Sicily at one time in Cen startling orchestra of weird and trial Sicily we correspondents were ghoulish noises Ever put. Together camped in a peach Orchard be Guinea hens would cackle ducks Hind the county Home of an ital would quack calves would bawl Ian Baron. Babies would cry men would shout apparently the Baron had ska m1 j jabber peacocks would explode doodled before the fighting Start a shells and turkeys would gob Edas German and italian troops had been occupying the place before we came. As Royalty is wont to do the ble. And to Cap it All a Lone Donkey at just the right moment in the hideous cacophony would Loose a Long sardonic Hee Haw that Baron had built himself a. Trig Stone turned your exasperation into outhouse that was Pink and palatial Jan dish laughter. A with a marvelous View Over Miles the Baron s servants were a of rolling country. Poor looking lot and yet they it bad the usual Royal peacocks seemed very Nice. Their kids Hung strutting around but not a Bath Aromas the Camp All Day very in the place. The dining room cell quiet and Meek and looked at us staircase was Gigantic yet the Roy hag them cans of food. We tried Al bad porcelain was bowls to teach them to say Quot Gratia Quot and a fashioned Thunder mugs. It thanks in italian but with no the perfect shabby Rocque Success. Met for the first tee la Mere Tea Tew Yean a. Aad yester Day s roared was that Bob Hope was la town mad staying at the hotel Continental. Bat the wet la in it. Shook the for beads. Those in the know say he was Here for an hear or two in tale Way Back to the states ,. A hese is the latest he a Parade Flash with the  of sgt. Clarence Knapp l a Quot Yew la never know Quot 2. Quot coming in on a Wing and a prayer Quot 3. To the Bine of the evening Quot 4. Quot All or nothing at a a 5. Quot let s get Lei Quot 6. Quot in my arms Quot 7. Quot As time goes by a a Quot people will say we re in love Quot 9. Quot it can t be wrong Quot 10. Quot Johnny Zero Quot a. And from Sicily comes yol 1, no. 1 of the Quot Nab snafu Quot the mimeographed newspaper of naval. Base. That a stage of the first on the conquered Bland will be presented before the end of the week and headlining performance he a strip tease the management b m come pow cd lashes out with an entirely sew Issue. The True Issue was contained in a statement made by the sergeant in he first condemning article to the effect that he had become in regard to the election How can men overseas for six months or Meto the qualified to vote fairly. Of Quot be qualified to vote fairly cast read the daily reports of the disgusted with those men who had candidates on their achievements returned from recent campaigns with tales of heroism yet in his second article he says quote Quot i have talked to men from the fronts maybe men of your outfit he can to hear their Campaign speeches and platforms on the radio. He just does t know. Unless he is one of those Nar Row my Jed party members who they did t debunk service  votes strictly Democrat or re pub i say what is the sergeant Dis lican regardless of who the Candi gusted with the world in general Date is he is not qualified to vote i and my buddies do not condemn fairly. If he Vot a straight party the Supply outfits but Only those ticket he is being narrow minded individuals in them who All and that is one of the elements of front line men with some loud the Nati party that we Are trying mouthed fellow who proclaims that to overcome. An american should he has practically won the War always try to pick the test Man single handed. 1 quote from my for the Job and not vote blindly last article Quot men at the front did no to seriously complain about their food for the knew that the men behind the front were doing their Best and that without them our Best would have teen very poor. As to the gasoline Supply units we All know that their Job is a Dull and boric one and we re for them but confidentially sergeant you did stick out your Chin a bit on the gasoline Issue. Approximately three fourths. Of the Gas relying him. On a party to think for a it. A. W. Shumate frontline Waco a dear editor of what h. R. Knickerbocker Calls Quot the wretched aristocracy fit Europe while the Baron lived in compare Lee. Well Quot Gyp Quot a win by a gee string Aad Shell probably write a Bosk while dab k. Suggested title a i gee string Memder Quot. I am a daily Reader of the stars Ard stripes and find it very interesting on various subjects. It so happens that the boys in my tent wandered into the subject of whether or not the wac a per stot Tom Umed by or Curt a cd Fonn May of Romr duty. My perhaps Many Why. Sicilian. Nat Hay. One Day some of us correspondents were doing our washing live luxury his employees lived in when one of the sicilian women this column wants to know Why # a res in the big a a up took it away from us certain quartermaster sales store and did it herself. When she finished we fitted ter How much and she said nothing at All we said Well then we d give ter some food and she said she Rocky tel just Back of the House. They looked he gypsies. A my we a sited. Tfaye Interior of m Sells a gametes plainly marked Quot complimentary Quot. It is things he tide that Lead to investigations. And Why does t the Navy in Niino handled by the British. Honest injun sergeant just How Many Glass Quot a Quot and British Quot Cox no Quot rations have you actually eaten _ �?t5 Richard Kiefer in per Gas dear editor in reply to t-4 Robert Quot Dew s letter of tuesday August 34, i under army supervision they must perform certain duties whenever necessary. I will appreciate it if you can sri Iwer this for me and at the same time Tell me just what their duties Are. A fac. Bernard Holmes the was themselves will his one. How about it girls a editor Nan expect food that she Wutz a finance department Issue Gold Seal would like to Call attention to a no maps Tarta. Was knee deep in de we gave her some Rood anyway the enemy thoroughly stories like that Are countless. With Blue be disposed of legally letter dated August 30, 1mb, suite if Ernector my. Own. Dear editor Many of it Lofgre Bemmy that there a Oriel past and present we shall looted the place bet Ore fleeing it. Engineers Tell a Bow the have the Bane Seal Money i i Nhy so Ian a Iii Krin. Be glad to nay the edit of them. Shameful news that most of the they re working and grab shovels any Good use for them. One Jaq surely be Atfah a you could through the service our distribute them Ghat yw4iiy and destruction was done and Start digging themselves and hesitates to Guem what to eff civil by italian soldiers rather than by 2� taste for to. Ians do with american Money thus w As see bees we have much in germans. 21 them obtained but it is pretty Safe to common with the army and have they had gone through the jj1 8eem i. A guess that the Black Market and �sl�2 most of their problems and drawer. Expensive dishes were wine Saia Zuur living to m06t of it.,. What say. Navy lets thrown on the tile floor antique a a a. The Araos the get an the Ball. And if you come across any Banque of France were shattered pictures get Someon working voluntary Down Medicine cab it rely a almost too much to  Ineta dashed against the Walls broken up deliberately wine bottles dashed on the floor their of orients turning the trash Heap into a gooey mess As it dried. It was truly the work of beasts. We tip toed into the place gingerly. Suspecting Booby traps but Fin airy decided it had not teen fixed up. Then some of us rummaged around through the debris seeing if there was anything left Worth taking As souvenirs. Americans Deal lost. As far As i have Ever seen. Americans have teen Good about not looting. Usually they take Only what is left after German italian destruction or what the inhabitants voluntarily give them. All i could Salvage were a few pieces of lace from the Baroness sewing room floor. Then we decided the dining room was the least Messy place in the building so we set to with grass brooms shovels and water and cleaned it out thus it became our press room. The signal oops ran wires from the portable Generator and fights to worst by night one Day i was writing while the and a stray avoid tar peered Inte the having wandered in through the matted t Quot what to to Sta place Quot Rar. _ u. A. E. S program. Tuesday August 31 morning 11 00�?african swing 11 30�?personal album 11 45�?Al and Lee Reiser afternoon 12 00�?yank swing session 12 30�?news a 12 45�?gi Jive 1 00�?duke Luke Wela 1 15�?novelty quintet 1 30�?yarns for yanks 1 45�?lawrence Welk 2 00�?symphony concert 2 80�?Are you a Genius 2 45�?denver Darling 3 00�?bbc news 3 15�?military band concert 3 30�?melody matinee 4 30�?dinah Shore 4 45�?sound off Hundred franc notes that have been superimposed by Banque of Algeria and raised in value to 1, 000 francs steer Clear of the stuff. This was the nazis Way of making Money fast and it in t Worth the paper it s printed on. To see the in and discuss with him a matter of such vital importance to the happiness of so Many. Particularly does he owe a duty to enlisted men to whom discrimination has theretofore been unknown. �?t-5 George Reid of their certainly take our hats off to our big brother. A Wudl f. Hanlon eme a we would certainly like to comply with your request and feel that your idea has Merit but unfortunately maps Are scarce As Hen s Teeth. In fact we Are still Quot sweating out our own  Mascot that Little kid in a sailors uniform stepped traffic at the Empire dub the Ether Day. He is the Mascot of a local sea Bee outfit but that Wasny to what interested everyone. There Are lots of mascots around but this lad could speak English with a Verajr Fine Brooklyn accent. Jean Touboul is his name Aad the boy a quite a Saga behind him. He left France in 1234 with his Mother and father Aad spent the next seven years in the United states. Then in 1m1 the Tabony returned to France and disaster. Jean s mutter was killed by the Katie and Fath fun a Pup tent poets to the shores of Italy if you Lea be us Here Motet wounds fat the in the leg hat the thing is that they got an if in 5 85�?dick Jurgena evening 6 00�?ralph Otos Burg Tolani Tetel Haj rip a  to Hub my in feud a top to my a Dot or Oro fart Faro Aad said with m Meh aeons As tee 14 vow we ppm. It is they me tads Jug Mghiter for Al practical avoid tech Hal t 5�?harry Ehmet 7 36�?year Broadway and i did a bit of fighting in Tunisia this time we ask you riot to Send Over Here the map and had no trouble keeping in the to Range the crosses orderly Best of cheer. Above for we drove the dirty Axis from our Heads paint each one White off a North africans Shore. Leave Flowers then and As to boosting morale who take off self satisfied. If you could ask for anything More. Still love but that now seems so Long ago us and we ask it while you do five been chafing at the bit before this wafting waiting Day by Day the Calls of Cash and politics Are i do not like a bit. Strong pm sorry in a now left behind in a again done to Strain yourselves to missing All the fun. Win this War i d rather be right in the fray with u then you leave us Hete. We my Bayonet Aad gun. Will be Long but i was Happy a  in a dead. But theae ban Mound pc new  chair Earth Are your now a Hen i read about our Victory and if you do not hold no a ate in Sicily Wpm there. Our Cune now x can Zee Law Hitler saying Yea take it with you till the. Quot Dot Las not Goot. Roosters Crow and Werez Uyeta tee Bot foot to m that oort dawning when your Italy s worn out Boot. Empty purse be its our same old general still buys no Mote peace kicking the Axis pacts time and ours ?ladveea1itol a Dix u a  Ahw 666 us a general Advance. Save the Flowers. Pvt John h a Shn Dukk a my w. A. A. Your Only not 80 native recommended 6 16 request program my pm Only a. And As Pat my a visit to the Allied of formation the Yetran an a Etta a Eccles  of Ami  my of i i a taxer sent the Why. Guns Una whole Voles Pieroe the to Soldier. In t Day Taase is guns that Ymme throughout the night. The reason Guam that Santali. An Lothat Anoel guns that he hearts with fright. Pastie we Fine except ter one thing. That was the barnyard collection which flume added us. About an hour before Daylight we were always awakened by the most 8 16�?pted Axon 16 66�?otam Miller 16 n news summary 10 20�?slumber music 10. So1�?sign off Distant guns muttering rambo pfc guns that we Bear with bated Nepa be a a Dens an the War. The Yon Aee 1 have friends who Are Manta teach near an Al Tia Refco be trans Peao cup music Peg Pong and they Tell of their great deed wonderful swimming it. The Tew Many at Joe a joint. A letter from but me. Pm Only a gangplank guns that set hearts fluttering Home win tattle some More Soldier guns that May end our tears in tomorrow. And feel like the Long lost Penny death. A Cpl Bob Leisker a pfc. Thomas f. White a sgt Herbert j. Ralston