Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1943, Oran, Oran Tim any dec Emott 9, 1943 the stars and strikes Page 3 to the editor a Model 1918-19 sport to the editor of Hie stars and stripes i have read in the coltus of your most excellent paper the Samatas exploits in the Art of Quantity hot cake baking. 4 but there is an exception without peer. He is a certain mess sergeant in the army of occupation doing duty somewhere Between the Argonne Forest and the Rhine. I am sorry that his name cannot be mentioned but this modest sergeant did some real Flap Jack baking. A number of fighting divisions were the Rhine when a general order comes flying through the Eomme of marching troop that a rest of of a week would be granted and a mess sergeant was wanted to erect and i doughboy out of several outfits dug a Trench 1,000 feet wide and a mile Long in about 15 minutes to dump the eggshells in which were carried away by a series of 100 or less belts each 2,000 Yards Long and travelling at the rate of 270 Miles an hour. Every ten minutes a 90-car train Load of flour was a unloaded into the mixers and a very Large River a few Miles away was literally taken out of its course and run through a giant flume in order to Supply a sufi Denv Quantity of water for the mixers and the 9,750 i cans of Coffee required each meal. An air plane of the Hindley Page Type travelling at the rate of 960 Miles an hour would make regular half minute trips Over the whole length of the Range dragging a huge perforated drum con Blackhawk rally in final to defeat red the consolidation of the Many Tail ing when fill about 50,000 Gal kitchens in the 2nd division Anco ions of grease feed the hungry tired and foot sore soldiers. So like a Good Patriot the very modest mess sergeant volunteered his services and by the Aid of a Spad was hastened to the head of the column and at a place selected beforehand set in at once. The Spad made such Good time that the sergeant gained the rest Camp two Days ahead of the first Devi ers arrived by the same no and soon after. He wired the Headquarters of the medical Supply department to Forward a train Load of Field Hospital War tents which came a few hours later. Fourteen Hundred of these Large tents were put up end to end in a series of 14 rows each Row consisting of 196 Tente which made a mess Hall under Canvas 20 feet wide and 6,000 feet Long something Over a mile in length the 14 rows in All about 19 Miles of Hae space. Twenty six Miles of tables were erected and in front of the 14 rows 1,570 Field kitchens were lined up Side by Side so close they formed one Long Range about a mile end a half in length. Twenty Miles of tight railway was Laid in front and Back of this Range and through the 14 Canvas mess Halls with a five mile double track Spur running to the ration the Batter was shot upon the griddles by a Battery of 9,000 machine guns of a special Type especially suited for this work and they were operated by the 7,140 Cooks and helpers employed in the Kitchen. The cakes were turned by a device resembling a Hay turning machine which was fastened on the rear of a Ford and made to travel up and Down the Range Ai Speed. While this was being done which took about ten minutes the pm eroded a huge Sawmill nearby with a capacity of cutting 1,700 cords of firewood every hour which would be needed to keep the griddles hot. The engineers erected a series of 150 steam trip hammers to Mash potatoes. A circular ditch was dug having a circumference of about half a mile 20 feet wide and about four feet deep and this was lined on the Bottom and each Side with steel. A a Battery of four tanks was employed to grind the 20 carloads of Coffee dumped therein for each meal. Hie stevedores in a Pioneer regiment uned up a Battery of 500 Concrete mixers to stir the Batter. The As the cakes were finished they were loaded on Flat cars and hauled by 16 Light steam locomotives into the 14 great mess tents where a whole division on k. P. Duty served them. Syrup was supplied from a Large tank suspended 60 feet in the air in the Center of the Camp. Ply a lines leading into each of the 1,400 tents from this tank which held when fun about 150,000 Gallons of pure Maple syrup gave every Soldier ample sweetness forms stack of hots. Now you will agree with me that to direct such a huge Enterprise required brains so the signal corps erected a Telephone Exchange system requiring 500 operators and by this system the entire feeding of a body of soldiers equal to the population of Pittsburgh was intelligently directed by this most modest mess sergeant while suspended in a Basket beneath an observation balloon some 1,000 Yards above the Earth. Everything was accomplished in a few hours and As Many As 200,000 soldiers could be fed every eight minutes and each receive As Many As 20 Flap jacks if wanted Wimch was often done of a morning during their week s rest i have omitted Many facts about this great feeding Camp but will say no More for fear of embarrassing the sergeant in charge. Maybe he will accept an invitation to participate in a Flap Jack baking contest but owing to his modesty i am afraid he May decline so with that will close this Little citation. Elmer k. Patterson . . Stars and stripes. Jan. 31 1919 Broncos outscore Flat tires 19-6 in final tonne Mckenna Lowry Lang Tinsley Chalk up Points Canasta la a Strong second half Aerial attack Wimch netted two touchdowns gave the Broncos a 19 to 6 Victory Over the Flat tires of a tire repair outfit in an Oran touch football league Empire sponsors Ping Pong contest inc America red Croas Empire dab fax fingering an a pen Ping Pong tournament for All servicemen in this locality. Flans Call for the initial matches to be staged this saturday evening at 7 o clock in the Empire club s game room. Additional matches will be played off on sunday evening at Theallen sinks Geo i in Fino i seconds one for Adolph game played Here sunday. The Broncos scored Early in the first Quarter on a Long pass from Cpl. Jack Mckenna team Captain to Phil Weir. But the Flat tires came Back in the second period to score on a pass play and tie up the contest 6-6 at half time. The second Hall opened with the Broncos receiving and marching on consecutive pass plays to a touchdown. Hie score came on a heave from Mckenna to Tom Lowry. Later in the third Quarter miss Peggy Dent who the directing the tournament expects a record breaking entry list of approximately 500 contestants. Entries most be filed with her today and tomorrow up that pairings ran be established in time for the tournament s first matches. Torday evening. Friday nights the deadline for All Prises will be awarded at the conclusion of the Down Raf in soccer an american soccer team com _ posed of players from two re place Charley Lange intercepted a Flat Anent depots travelled to Laia Oulu tire Aerial and ran 20 Yards to this week and Defeated a Strong Chalk up the Broncos third touch Royal air Force team 2-1. Two a.f�5l�fn. 40 Quot i Quot at the end of the first half the Hajey was Good for the extra Point Bli Ushers ted 1-0 due to a spleen and ended the scoring for the after by l. A. C. Goddard. The noon yanks tied it up shortly after when outstanding for the Flat tires Finsterwald drove Home the teeing were Larry Hook and Jim Galla goal from the 20-Yard Mark Gher. Hie Broncos ended the Lea the final goal came As the result gue schedule with a record of four of a Corner kick neatly rooted by Finsterwald to Alex who drove it Flat tires Between the posts for the score. New York a two goals in the last two and one half minutes robbed the new York rangers of Theip a first Victory of he season As the Chicago Blackhawk came from behind to get a 7-6 win. A Bryan Hextall scored for the rangers unassisted two minutes after the game had begun. The Lead was Sciort lived however As Doug Bentley and Bill Mosienko the league s leading scorers counted for Chicago. But Jack Mcdonald tied up for the rangers 15 seconds before the period ended. Hextall got his second goal five minutes after the second period started and less than a minute later a Demarco made a Solo dash Down the ice to give the rangers a two goal Lead. Two Purpur tied it up the Hawks by scoring the first of his three goals for the nigh within 50 seconds. Babe put the Hawks ahead at 18 06 end the second period scoring. The rangers got two goals Way in the final period As Aubuchon and Bill Warwick unassisted. Then with but two minutes mailing Purpur completed the trick to tie the score and Allen Sank the winning goal final seconds. Seibert to in wins and one loss. Broncos Weir be Palmer la Eagen c Solazzo re Lowry re Mckenna a a Tinsley la Sullivan re Lange feb Gallagher substitutes Broncos a Hall Nagle Dybas. Plat tires milanese Johnson. Referee Paul Snowden. Tory Welling Flack Newman Hook reds Pound dodgers for 1 -0 win run Row the american team was organized two weeks ago but displayed Good teamwork and showed the passing ability of a professional outfit. The def Ense was also Good. The yanks Challenge any Andall teams in this area and would herring expressly like to play games against Mckenna English French and italian clubs. Quot arrangements May be made by phoning it. Maras at mimic 20. The rap team will play a return game against the yanks saturday. December 12, at lion Mountain. Lineup for the yanks Thiel goal Fry Rob Dimas lab Forster. Rob Alex. Chi manarte lab Meams Captain. Or Vougioukles. In Finsterwald of Perlman. In Schwab. Of. Sterilizers Blonk wild cots Hie reds invaded the dodgers Home Field this week and a loosed a Grid powerhouse that rolled up three touchdowns which was Good for an 18-0 win. In the second Quarter Rizer or Sass amp is sufi at bicycle stadium the try for extra Point failed. The. Reds scored again when Wade Williams intercepted a pass on Bis in a fast moving game the Steril-20 and threaded his Way through Izeris a mapped the wild cats 12-0,novy Vikings get first win by toking army rangers 12-6 an undermanned and injury riddled Navy Viking team Hung up its first win of the Oran football league this week by whipping an army Ranger unit 12-6. Before a Large crowd. The Vikings first score came in the second period when Hallock intercepted a Ranger pass on the mid Field Stripe and ran it Back 20 Yards from where mar passed to Ehramjian in the end zone. The attempted extra Point was blocked by Lew of the rangers. The sailors scored again in the second half by marching Down the Field 70 Yards to a touchdown. The scoring play resulted when White snagged Ehramjian a pass in the end Zon \ Lewis again blocked the place kick for extra Point. In the final Quarter the rangers sorted when Lange blocked a Navy punt and recovered the Ball on the Bluejacket two Yard line from where Bender passed to Burk for the six Pointer. The attempted Cor. Sion failed. The Viking line of Stefanov Hallock. Billings Muon and Cohen outplayed the rangers Forward Wall All through the game to make it possible for their Back Field composed of Hart Day is Ehramjian and White to operate for scores. A broken Field for 80 Yards and a before a Large crowd tvs week at touchdown. The conversion missed. Bicycle stadium. Stabulis gave the reds their third the Sterilisers put on a drive score when he completed a 25 that carried them from their own a Podeis score 7-0 Yard pass to ver Chect behind the 20-Yard line Down to the wild goal line. Stabulis end skirt for cats seven from where Bud Hom the extra Point was checked. Tossed to Jap Allen for the a touchdown. The pass for extra boxing results put another score was tallied in the fifth army artillerymen in Setien against Nate the or shells Inte a 105 mat. Howitzer after the Herman Retreat agrees River. Taunton mass. A Oscar a Une Quarter when Thompson of Suggs 145, Newport r. A decks the sterilizers snagged a pass intoned Joey Lemieux 140, new bed 4ended for the wild cat left end Ford mass., in eight rounds and ran it Bank from the mid Stripe Frankey Bennett �40, Hempstead to the cats 20-Yard line. Two l. I., out pointed Joe Jackson 140, plays later Horner faded Back and Providence r. A in six rounds spiralled an Aerial into the waiting Tony ferry 121, fan River mass., arms of Allen in the end zone for knocked out George Dresser 124, the second touchdown. The try South Boston in the first round for extra Point failed. Oscar St. Pierre 132, fan River highlighting the third Quarter mass Kafoed Jimmy Pinckney was the interception of a wild cat 129, Boston in the fourth round. Pass by Washington who raced 20 a a a a a Yards before being nailed on the pm Camp wins at soccer / cats four Yard line. Here the sunday afternoon the pm Camp Rea displayed some no. 135. Defeated a Ney-4wwn�s stubborn of a Ense work getting in soccer learn from a Ress mers to a near every sterilizer play and depot by a 2-1 score it game preventing a third was colourful throughout with the standouts for the sterilizers were pm s coming through with both of Allen and Thompson at the ends their whte in. The first half. The add Howard Harris and Hamp replacement depot is seeking ton on the Une. Lat amour and games with other soccer teams. Jennings were the Bert players Contact Lac. Music Medley 106. For the wild Over rangers the Engineer graders invaded the Home grounds of the Medico rangers this week and captured their third straight Victory in the Oran touch football league. Winning 7-0. After a scoreless first half the graders put on a sustained drive for 45 Yards in four Piave to push Over the touchdown. The scoring play resulted on a 20-Yard pass from Welch to Godfrey in the end zone. Smith kicked the , 2 gremlins q la Senia a an undergo red sex Tette whipped a highly favored Gremlin team. 2-0, this week in a game that saw both teams stage great defensive play. Ashley of the reds broke through in the second Quarter to Nail Cornelia for a safety in the end zone for the Only score of the game. The reds completed 6 passes for 100 Yards and the Gremens completed four a nals for 80 Yards
