Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Poje the stars and stripes wednesday december 22, 1943 the stars and stripes daily newspaper by arid for the . Armed forces published monday through fridays inclusive for troops in the Oran and Casablanca areas. A editorial department 5 Rue hotel de Ville Telephone 25957. Circulation and subscription department 8 Rue hotel de Ville Telephone 23971. The stars and stripes daily has been established by the stars and stripes of the North african theater of operations the Headquarters of which is at 12 Boulevard Bardln Algiers. Acknowledgement is made of the cartoons comic strips feature stories and general editorial service supplied by yank the army weekly the Western newspaper Union the Camp newspaper service and of news by the office of War information and army news service. Entered As second class matter at the Post office at new York n. Y., under act of March 3, 1879 contents passed by the u. S. Army censors not mailable to the u. S. By individuals yank about town Mah Call vol. 1 no. 188 a a a wednesday to december 22, 1913 staff publication officer Nat Ousa editor business manager officer in charge managing editor it. Col. Egbert White capt. Robert Neville capt. Robert j. Christenson it. William h. Lister i sgt. Harry Watson a sgt. Robert b. Mcintyre. Sgt. Jim Harrigan Chi. Harry she Shew sgt. Ray Reynolds Rue Georges Mertie Casablanca Telephone Beacon 82, Elf Foffi Rimpfl jul Udet by Ernie Pyle Algiers a the army mess where i used to eat on my infrequent visits to Algiers used to be staffed with Soldier waiters and then later we had French girls and now upon my return our waiters Are All italian prisoners. And they Are in fact the Best ones we be had yet. They re terribly attentive and they Grin All the time because they re apparent. By so damned Happy with their jobs. They done to speak English and very few of us speak italian so a very neat system of dining table communication has been devised. Each place has a Little printed menu with each dish numbered. With it is a tiny slip of paper with numbers running up to about fifteen. So you simply take a Pencil Circle the numbers of whatever you want and hand it to the waiter. Pretty soon he comes Back with exactly what you ordered no matter How illogical your appetite May have been. They simply never make a mistake that Way. I think we caught to try it at Home. Pvt. George Mccoy used to do a daily buttonhole broadcast for Wear on the Steps of the As tor hotel in new York called a the real  now he son the staff of the stars and stripes and doing the same kind of thing by Button holing soldiers on the streets of Algiers and having them talk into the microphone. A cells his present program a the sidewalks of North  just before i went Home last fall George buttonhole me and got me to a studio and made some kind of x record for broadcasting to the soldiers. I done to know what i said for it was the second time in my life id Eyer done it and i was so scared i can to remember. But anyhow i got through it and it was later broadcast on the troops program Over Here. I ran into private Mccoy again yesterday and he Sall aflutter. He had read in a clipping from the states that i had turned Down an offer of 1,500 dollars for one broadcast so he a been running around All Over Algiers telling people what a wonderful person i am because i turned Down 1,500 the chomps. Down Fedala Way these Days a Bunch of ordnance men Are sweating out an invitation to Oran for new years Day. They re the Rab chasers a six Man football team which High powered its Way to an undefeated season to win the Casablanca laurels last sunday. The Rab chasers know that being invited up there Means a crack at the football championship of North Africa for american soldiers and a Nice trip in the bargain. Yesterday s journal featured the first details of the Arab bowl game. It looks like a Day that will make grower Whalen and Billy Rose look silly. This department is in on some of the information about the Arab bowl and frankly we take ten minutes. Off before retiring each night to say a Small prayer that the Rab chasers will be picked to go up there. In Case you missed the Story in yesterdays Issue scout around and get acquainted with the Arab bowl a subject which is going to absorb a lot of i attention within the next two weeks. Xmas  be a Good Mea to clip this paragraph Here Are the highlights of the Christmas program offered by the army sex pm tonary station and also no Butts but dear editor the author of this letter is 8 French Soldier who wants to answer the letter of pvt. A. Pendris published in the stars and stripes Issue of december 17, please be Good enough to read it through and excuse my bad English. Yes there Are a lot of our boys smoking american cigarettes but you must know How we get them. Sometimes they come from a Good hearted i who gives them to us out of his own rations but nine times out of ten we get american cigarettes at the Black Market. If a i wants to get surplus cigarettes let me Tell him How to proceed 1. Go to Oran. 2. Ask for the Rue de la revolution. There Are living there a crowd of jewish traders. You can get from them everything you want and As much As you want at the following prices cigarette Luckiest camels Etc. 20 francs per pack i socket knife. 100 francs i Fountain pen. 300 francs automatic lighter Ronsona 300 francs and so on for other items a As for myself i cannot afford paying for cigarettes at such 8 Price for i am a boy from France and i get no other Money than my pay of a French Soldier which is not very big you know. But the of Pup tout poets blueprint a i find that these Are things i now desire a gabled House a Forest and a behind a Wall and near at hand a Bill. Swept by wind and Sunshine with a View or undulating valleys rolling in the Haze. Of Blue remoteness and there to live a country use with family books. And friends. There to know the changing season familiar magic. There to drink my ale. In autumn passing nights of holidays within the Ember glow and fragrant Pine Aroma of a Sohd Bastio Ned fire place. To know of Brown Woods wet and chastened by october and fitful starts of showers 0 Windy skies driving Cloud shreds like the steeds of gales and mild All hallows and All souls and phantom squirrels racing on a Rocky ledge. A pit. John d. Barry rightfully ours rightfully ours Are these moments that Are lost. Dollars at Home but did one for nothing Over Here. Its Nice that George thinks in a wonderful but the real truth is that i m just Plain silly. On my second Day backing Algiers i went up to Allied Headquarters to give one of my books to general Eisenhower. In the outer lobby you have to show your credentials to a Soldier behind a desk and get a special entry pass for the building. After the Soldier had looked at my card and made out the pass he said to a almost from your Home  Quot whereas that a i said. A a Montezuma Indiana a he answered. Quot Well 111 be darned a i said. Montezuma is smack on the Banks of the Wabash just five Miles from my Home town of Dana. This soldiers name was Luther c. Manwaring a quiet and gentlemanly Young Man of 25. He Hasni to been Back Home for nearly two years. He is from a family quite Well known in our part of Indiana because there Are triplets in it. Jack Manwaring the Only boy of the Trio was on Guadalcanal and is still somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. I was through Montezuma about a month ago so was Able to Tell private Manwaring that our respective Home towns were still there and thriving and hardly missed him and me atall. W 4c mother9 i Sim re United in Naples Many a heart sick Mother Back in the states alone because her son is in the army overseas wondering Why she Hasni to heard from him. Worried by Black headlines of incessant warfare fearfully Reading the casualty lists Many such a Monther has said �?�11 i could Only be with him if i could Only be with my  Theresa Bailey is with her son. By a Long and devious route that began in san Francisco and ended in Naples she reached him. She Hadnot seen him since a year ago thanksgiving time. That s an awfully Long time. How other mothers would envy her but mrs. Bailey is a private in the Waco and Waco a Are getting around these Days. They had been sworn in together he was Only 17 at the time and she made a Quick decision to join with him. _ t thought if he should go to War i should too a she said. A maybe that would help to get him Home quicker. That a Why i  All she had was an Apo address when she landed on the italian Shore and she did no to know where it her son might be. But she found out fast enough. Persist it questioning got results. He Wes in the area in fact Here was his Telephone number a hurried can an incoherent conversation then stymied again he could t get away. He had no pass. But there was a dance at the red Chas that night Waco a invited. Could he get permission to attend. What officer would stand in the Way of that Quot he did no to dance with  she recalled later. A he a Only 18 xxi know. And with those Hundred of Vallina. Was around him and All that. So they let us stay in a private i other Yale data to internet you i 1 on Christmas eve. From 7 15 to i i 7 30 there be a special Fred i i Waring show. From 2 30 to 9 001 h youll hoar1 a Star studded com a a a program Fea  Allen i i Jack Benny Frances fan Ford j Dinah Shore a funny Simms. A of Diffey a tavern and a hair others. From 9 00 to 3 151 mfg a Crosby will croon Yon his a i Christmas cheer. On Christ Imis Dav at 7 30 pm a program a Christmas package is Fea trod which proc its the army a Navy chaplains in chief Many other stars. A 7 30 to 8 00 Fri Basil Rathbone will take Over Lionel Barrymore a favorite role of Scrooge in Charles Dickens Christmas carols. Every afternoon during the week the radio station presents carols from 5 15 to 5 30 and As other programs arrive they will he aired for Yon. Bond Church a. The Abs band will be busier than Ever beginning immediately. On the 24th the hand will play at a nonsectarian Christmas Observance Prog Rapi from 6 15 to 7 15 pm at the Vox theater presented by the Abs chaplain Section. The program will also feature the Abs chorus the overseas serenades and group Carol singing from 8 15 to 8 45 pm christinas eve. The band directed by sgt. Sam Kurtz plays at the sixth general Hospital at 9 it joins a group of Carol lers to tour the City a service clubs and installation on Christmas Day. The band plays a concert at the enlisted men s club at 3 pm. Besides the nonsectarian program noted above there will be two special Christmas Church programs on Christmas morning at 10 am. Roman Catholic High Mars will be celebrated with the St. Francois choir and orchestra assisting. At ii am protestant holy communion will be held. Fincers cos and the boys who have their Homes in North Africa can afford it and May profit by it. I think this state of things a very shameful one. Done to you but really who is to blame where do the jews get their goods it is my opinion that some people of your police wearing civilian clothes and speaking French without accent should go there As a customer and make a Little inquiry. Let me add also that i have seen packages of american cigarettes with a Blue White and red stamp. Were these cigarettes intended for the boys of the French army its quite a Puzzle Lor me for neither i nor any of my buddies have Ever been Given i cigarettes in our outfits. A so lat Georges Mancel does anyone know what happened to these Blue White and. Red. Marked american cigarettes a editor. For the Cost cruel War exacts in woe and separation Billing a fierce love. A sadder sensation. Life a sweetest gift dear about to be tasted lashed apart by Many a militant whip wasted. Rightfully burs by reason and judge higher  these precious hours co resumed in Mars fire pvt. Arthur e. Standard hesitancy i Shane to say i do not care to let you go. To leave me there a alone. Your going is a final thing your love i did not bring so unlike you knowing Why you hesitate so. Daring not admit what time and i forgot. Of of Dong Wallace Casablanca Datebook  Irvin s. Cobb cheats mortician new York dec. 21�?denying reports he is seriously ill Irvin s. Cobb humorist wrote o. Kent Cooper executive director of the Asia nativity scene which has been constructed in commemoration of the meaning of Christmas will be held tonight at 8 30 in Park Lyantey. The scene was Desi fied and executed by Jap. Victor Kabul noted american sculptor who will be present at the ceremony. The ar6 hand will give a concert and motion pictures will be taken. Also scheduled for this evening is a dancing and singing show by senegalese soldiers at the arc Liberty club at 7 pm. Soc lated press declaring he was do ing a a much better than originally jottings. Was expected by the accommodating and affable undertaker Down the blocks he promised to keep newspapers advised a if As and when i get ready to depart  for those who enjoy morbid particulars a he continued a a the doctors Are still tapping me Quot for impulsive Little freshest of dropsy but the results of this aquatic sport will 2 believe diminish As time pastos. For a while though they tried too hard to be cheerful if you get what i mean. As for me i Content myself with the refrain a a merry symptoms and a Tappy new yeat1.�?� the Empire theater on la Gare is showing the film Stalingrad. Whatever happened to the Abs insignia which was chosen one letter asks if Joe Louis Ever fought in new Orleans another a is How Many states there Are in the Union and a dirty me skit t he i who called up to find out How a old the War orphans run for whom the Vox is throwing a Xmas show. Incidentally the show starts at 1 45 pm. Ask your civilian friends to the Christmas am Church programs at the Vox. Does Myone know where we can find the Messiah on re cads a Eft. Ray Reynolds red Cross clubs enlisted menus club blvd. 4th zouave open from 9 am 10 9 pm. Snack bar showers Barber shop wednesday 3 00 pm italian lessons 4 00 pm dancing class 7 00 pm Bridge club 7 45 pm italian lessons 8 00 pm song fest thursday 2 00 pm dancing class 3 00 pm italian lessons 400 pm French lessons 7 30 pm recorded Xmas carols Liberty club Mae it Levandier de Vandrome open from 3 am to 9 pm. Snack bar game rooms wrapping service showers seamen s club american merchant seamen a club 32 blvd. De a Liberto Telephone a-3544. Meals my sleeping facilities available to american merchant seamen. Daily from v am to 10 pm. Movies Vox arc Thea Tab re Chevan Dier de Vandrome shows for officers and enlisted men 1 45. 3 30. Enlisted men Only 5 15 7 00. Officer Only 9 00. Wednesday a a Wile takes a flyer with Joan Bennett und Franchot tone. Thursday Quot Hoyeler Holiday starring the Hoosier hot shots. A delightfully corny picture. Lux theater blvd. De Marseilles Quot dans be Fol no done to let this one fool you. In French or English its still a hilarious Abbot costello laugh frolic English speaking. Triumph e Rue Blaise Pascal the lady  one of Britain a Best played spy thrillers with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. Empire Rue de la Gare Quot Stalingrad a documentary film of the russians heroic history making stand against the Nasi plague. Col1see Rue de la liberte a a Pittsburgh starring Marlene tags a Dietrich. A real he Many a picture. 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