Oran Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1943, Oran, Oran September 2, 1943 the stars and strikes the spotlight by Gran Bland Bice let me know if that gut annoys you lady the roving reporter by Ernie Pyle in outside of the occasional peaks of bitter fighting heavy casualties that the military operation i believe the outstanding trait of any Campaign is the terrible weakness that gradually comes Over everybody. Soldiers become exhausted in mind and soul As Well As physically. They acquire a weariness that in mixed up with boredom and a Lack of gaiety. To Lump it All to Gether you just get damned sick of it All. The infantry reaches a stage of exhaustion that is to you folks at Home. The of the first division for in stance were in the toss for 28 straight walking and fight ing All that time Day and night. After a time the pass the Point of known human and from then on go into a sort of second wind Dase. They keep go ing largely because the other Fel Low does and because you cant really do anything else. Have you Ever in your life worked so Bard and do Long that you did t remember How Many Days since you ate last or didst recognize your friends when you saw them exhaustion i never have either. But i the hard fight around Troina a com Pany came slogging up to a Captain and said excitedly i be got to find capt. Blank right away. Important and the Captain said but i am capt. Blank. Don t you recognize and the runner said i be got to find capt. Blank right and went dashing off and they had to run and eaten him. Men in Battle reach that stage and still go on and on. As for the rest of the the Supply troops and the truck Drivers and the hospitals and they too become exhausted yet not inhumanly. Scribblers with them and with us correspondents it s the cease Tessness and endlessness of everything that finally Worms its Way through you and gradually starts to devour you. It s the perpetual dust choking Yon and the hard ground wracking your Muscles and the snatched food setting ill on your stomach and the beat and flies and dirty feet and the constant Roar of engines and the constant moving and new settling Down and the go go go night and Day and on through the night again. Eventually it All works itself into the emotional tapestry of one Dull dead yesterday is tomorrow and is Rendano and when will it Ever Stop and god i m so tired. It to boredom of intensity you never Crew existed. Ife noticed that tote feeling is beginning to overtake Tufe War Respo deals it is True that we have to fight on and on mice the is Fantry that we Are usually under fire Broedy and that indeed we live a to tote better than the average Samuer. Yet our life is a strangely con suming one in that we do Ore primitively Aad at. Tie same time must delve into of selves and do creative writ Faff. That statement May Lay me open to state wife cracks but however it nay seem to you writing to an exhausting and tearing thug. Most of the correspondents act Vork like arcs. Spe Tauy to Toto True it the press Jsoe Totton men. A great part of the one they go from Dawn till Midnight or 2 . I. Am sur. They turn in As much toil in a week As any news Paperman at Home does in two weeks. We Are travelling continuously we move Camp every few Days we eat out sleep out write whenever we can and just never quite get caught up on sleep rest cleaners or any Nigg else Normal. Be fogged the re Sui. Is that All of us who have been with the thing for More that a year have finally grown be fogged. We re Grimy mentally As Well As physically. We be drained our emotions they cringe from being called out from hiding. We look at bravery and death and Battlefield waste and new countries almost As Blind men seeing Only faintly and really not wanting to just in the past month the old timers among the have been tatting for the first time about writing to go Home for awhile. They want a Little change Sonu thing to freshen the Outlook. They feel that they have lost perspective from being too close for too Long. I am not writing this to heroine the correspondents because Only a few look upon themselves in any dramatic fight whatever. I am writing it merely to let you know that War correspondents can get too sick of deathly tired. A. E. S. Program due to present mechanical difficulties and changes the present to Enerle of aes. To not yet determined. However the station nay be found Between 496-600 meters or 600-c76 kilo cycles. Thursday. Sept 2 Moening african swing session personal album Frankie carte afternoon yank swing session i Jive Duke Luke Wela Jerry Sears yarns for yanks Lawrence weft symphony concert Are you a Genius Melody round up bbl mews 3 military band concert Melody matinee Hilo Jack and Dame Rudy Vaunee news summary stratus. Waltzes Fields evening Harry Hortick i bandstand Waring to mews Harry Jamet band Wagon 140-bbo.lfewt request program my Rob Crosby show Mitwell Bouse Ella Fps Gerald hews summary slumber music off Morton ecu Cooper of the cardinals is one of my favorite pitchers. Mort won 22 games last season and he should win that Many or More this year. Mort is a Missouri fellow feet 2, weighs 205, pounds and has in addition to a Fine a pretty fair picture of what is going or. Around him. For example we asked Mort How he recounted for babe Dahlgren s big jump from a 250 hitter to a 350 bitter. The big Cardinal lost no time in giving us the answer. Last he said dash Wren was a Pushover. He was the softest Fel Low i had to pitch but he is All different this season and i la Tell you Why. He has not Only shortened his swing but he has also changed his stance at the elate. Ups feet Nave tied him up before. Now he i More open in a far better position to that Bat. As a result he is one of the toughest hitters in the league to handle. I dont want any part of Hio now. It s the same Way in baseball As in Golf just one or two slight changes can make a big difference especially when it applies to grip or Jones chances stance Cooper is 100 per cent right in his summing up. I recall the time Bobby Jones after Many bad rounds suddenly discovered that he was standing too far from the Ball with his feet too wide apart. When i made this correction Bobby safty i took taut Lour strokes off every round Pew people will believe what a big difference just a few minor changes can i told Mort what Bobby Jones had said. To know if by one Cooper answered with Quick Grin he s right. A change in Crip or in stance maybe a Small can make a look what it s done to Dah been for eau ple. Just a of changes and he turns from a 250 titter to a 350 7. Asked Cooper How he accounted for the big year rip sewer has had. Rip of the pirate pitching staff is no baby in a Cradle. He is 35 years new. He with nine club it before he name to Raleigh de troit Toronto Beaumont Seattle Toledo Louis ulc and Buffalo. To Day he is one of the Best pitchers in either league. Ask prank Frisch. Smart Pitcher ill Tell you about that Cooper said. He s smart. He s one of the smartest pitchers i Ever saw. He knows what you can hit and what you dont like to Swine and he works that Way. He was a big leaguer the Day he broke in but it took them seven Yean to find out. I came up the hard too. 1 had an idea i could Landete big league Job. Maybe i was wrong but Ouy kept me Des Muskogee Springfield Taira Asheville. And Houston before they figured i was ready for the big top. I had Jot As much stuff then As i have Bow. Maybe i Avent got so much stuff now. All i know the that it was Tough getting ahead in those Days. You had to hang around about six years before they d Ever take you seriously. Now they Home along in a year or so you d be surprised How Many Fellows there Are the minors now who belong higher slow starters i asked Mort Why the cardinals were so close around the in place of holding a big Lead. We Are stretch Cosper said. We never seem to Wake up after the fourth. Last year we were ten games Back in late july or August one season where we won we were 12 games Back. I know i never seem to set being until after the fourth. Why i know. I be had trouble with my and it seems to take Stone to get it ready. We be got a pretty Good Ball club. Bow of k will be a better Husu int feb Nehib. But those dodgers Are always Tough pm Tetter you they Are Tough. They didst crack Tost year. How can you at cd and 104 Ball Carideo 1obi8 Navy prank Caldeo Star on Knute Rockne s last team Backfield coach at the state University of Iowa has been ordered to report to the naval aviation training station at que waste Point r. 1 Carideo. A tread hat been sworn into the Navy with the rank of lieutenant Quator Grade. Boxing tournament a number of units have re Quested a boxing award tally special Berniee has asked that All teams Ted min als better cited ssi Wiit in Wii Tiac Static their a mums us Weig to u cart special service Barclay Tai mix Oran before Weiner cry sept. I 1943. Gala fight card scheduled Here hoi Lagrange in main bout the Oran boxing czars have gathered an extraordinary collection of fight Talent and will pre sent them a sunday night 5 pm at the Petain stadium Esplanade St. Philippe. Leading the All Star card is an eight round return match in the lightweight class Between France s battling Hai and Golden Glove Champ Els Lagrange. In their first match Hai won by a to in a bitter bloody Battle. Lagrange Tore a Tendon in this contest and was forced to go to the in Woltal. The second bout of the evening sees two american heavyweights tangle in another eight round scrap. Anderson. Pittsburgh s Champion will toss the leather with North Carolina s Tipton who has fought such notables As Billy Conn and Bobby pastor and is recognized by the Oran boxing commis Sion As the heavyweight Champ of Africa. Hernandez the leading French North african heavyweight meets Western Champ of a hings Montana in a six round scrap in the third fight of this All Star card. And Johnny Mccoy Hale who was beaten by la his last fight win sine it out with Sampson in the final big bout. Tickets May be purchased at the Serra Tobee octet shop 22 blvd. Clemenceau or at the office of the Stan and stripes hotel at la Senia Diamond 1. At pm. The Winner of this game will tangle with the staging pirates who finished third a the standings on wednesday night on the same Field at the same time. The semm tors american. League. Champs Wlsh take of the a biker of the Katl Siml league play Vars in a two out of three series. The first Gate will be played Friday night set. 10th, at the senators Bau Butch peps pm up new Torello la Guardia chided giant and dodger fans for disloyalty in a recent speech. Commenting on recent poor attendances at the Polo and bets Field Butch said what s the matter with you giant fans Don t let them Down the dodgers either they be been unlucky but they la come up again. Now you fans get out there and whoop it up for them. Major league standings National meanwhile the american As Soei Tissi and International league champs will stage a two out of three series for the Miner league Crown. The first Between the orioles and the mud hens was played monday at the orioles Dia mond pm the second game to scheduled for next thursday night with the mud hens playing Best and if a third game to Neces sary a Coin will be tossed to de ride where h will be stayed. Team St. Louit the innate Pitt Burgh Brooklyn Chicago Boston new York w. 78 42 68 in 65 19 64 69 68 c3 53 54 44 77 american league Ream w. New York 76 46 Washington 39 58 Cleveland 65 5? Detroit 63 58 Chicago 64 w Boston n 6s to. Louis j6 66 41 82 .364 pet. .633 jb1 .472 .495 333
