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■■RHHHj V \.' ' ■ • : ' : ' ' ■ - '■ ' r*K« F cmmt THK PAMSADKS JT uim * 1C, 1944 Glittering Galaxy of Stars To Dazzle Post Diamond With three of the nation ’ s most popular torch singers • acting as cheerleaders for our side, eighteen of the entertain- ! ment world ’ s brightest stars will cross bats with a picked Camp Shanks softball team on the new Post Diamond at the j foot of Area 6, Monday . ^ ... .. afternoon at 2:30 p. m., Lt. S Louis J. Krem, Poet Athletic of ficer. announced today. The wealth of theatrical talent I _______ Lyons.\ ___ Hosing, noted sportecaster, will an- i nounce the game. Spurring the Shanksters to vie- I • ■will include topnotch radio come- 1 tory against this million-dollar ball dians Fred Allen and Phji Baker; | team wHl be songstresses Ethel | stage and screen headliners Jimmy Merman, Gertrude Niesen, and Savo, Louis Calhern, Victor Jory, Mary Martin. In addition to the ! Chico Marx, Peter Lorre, George assortment of hits, runs, and errors Givot, Coby Ruskin, J. Edgar which will feature the ball game, Bromberg, Jackie Gleason, John j Phil Baker will entertain the audi- Boles, Jose Ferrer, Harvey Steph- cnee with selections on his ac- ens. Elliot Nugent and Bobby i cordion. Watery Bier T/Sgt. Charles Glnkel, on furlough in Ridgewood, Queens, was telling friends of his ex periences in New Guinea. He recounted one particularly grue some night when battle-scarred veterans wept as Jap planes blew up a supply ship off- : shore. i “ It carried beer, ” Sgt. Ginkel Sighed. Shanks Sarge ______ _ __________ , Wins Prize at Gl-Style Summer Coiffure Slocum Class Brings Trouble to TC Dog (Coniitnted from Fage One') Playful, prancing, plodding, pure mutt Blossom, massive mascot of thg- ’ Tfl row of the TC Detachment, hr a canine sad sack to behold these days. Bumbling Blossom had been proudly strutting around in camp last week, boasting to the doggy fraternity about the excellent Sum- ' mer GI haircut which stripped him a barber got through course at Fort Slocum. « | “ It's a very thorough coursei ” he said. “ IPs a wonderful course for 'anybody. They really keep you on your toes. I feel like a-20-year-old kid. ' i “ Every man up there is a po tential drill master,\ .the sergeant i-wer.t bn. “ The-vthole course is ex traordinary. They take a kid who ! has been in the Army two or three ! weeks and in eight weeks ’ work they make him a finished soldier,\ Sgt. Moskowitz knows what a finished soldier is, He saw plenty ; of soldiering in France during the last war. Enlisting in the Army, April 8, 1917, Sgt. Moskowitz was overseas in two months, in France by ■ June 26. He was in the first action with American troops in October, 1917. In Six Engagements The sergeant can wear six cam paign ribbons for his soldiering m France, but he doesn ’ t wear them because he ’ s a modest guy. He was in action in six different places, but he can t pronounce the places or spell them. One of the places, he Sjftid, soUnded .like “ Montidier. ” Another something like \Noin. ” And then there was the Aisnt- Marne, Cantigny, 1 St. Mihiel and dhe Meuse-Argonne. When he returned from France, Sgt. Moskowitz re-enlisted in the jAimy and served a complete hitch. The high-spot of this hitch, Sgt. Moskowitz recalls, was a hike his outfit made from Camp Taylor, now Fort Knox,' Kentucky, to Camp, now Fort Dix, New Jersey. “ It was some hike,\ the sergeant said. . S gt. Moskowitz knows- all about soldiering and he knows that the course at Slocum is a good one. They teach you how to fire six weapons, the pistol, carbine, the ON THE HOUSE — The two charmers pictured above will pass out cigarettes in Victory Hall, Monday, June 19, when the Camel Cara van makes a one-night stand in Camp Shanks. A topnotch variety show with girls, music, gags, and a magician, the Camel Caravan begins its jaunt across the Victory Hall stage at 8 p. in. sharp. Vets' Re-Employment Rights To Pre-War Jobs Stressed In u former |>osil)oii vrl- iniiNt lie Iiuallfleil to liHintle tlio you after with you!\ - Thi s r e part ee ended when Blos som ’ s antagonist forgot to snap hack — verbally. He just snapped. Blossom ’ s fractured left foreleg was placed in a cast by a Spring „ „ Valley specialist after the imbro-i® pr . i . ngfl ® ‘ d the Browning auto-; glto: Sgts. Bill Borak and Jack 1 matic r ! fle ' the Browning machine Dunwoodie were caught in the gun an ***■ , * 0, an hour each IHV.l* 0X4 I Pf/e-vj Alim 1 .7111 I W Wirtl I TV TT I ^ • C m .1IX, , • . of his hirsute adornment from above picture with Blossom at the R °| nin8 ' you calisthenics and neck to tailtip. Suddenly he ran afoul of an envious cur, who sna i led : “ What a frcaky-lootoing. mutt you are!\ Sensitive about this reference to his GI haircut, Blossom snapped back; “ Humph! I'd like to see Operating table, and escorted -he ^ aVe ^!!' forlorn pooch back to camp. And so now. as Blossom hobbles about on three legs performing his sundry and. assorted duties, he can be heard to grate between clenched teeth: \A GI haircut did it!\ (Cominmed from Faye One) ----------- - [drive was describedv by Captain tion quotas in the Fifth War Is>an Marcus as being “ plvtty good. Drive halved from the amounts Duiin 8: * he previous wa\r loan drive established for the previous drive, '\tst Winter, Camp ShVnks over- Then classes and then more drill. Several times a week, after sup per. you go on a hike with a full pack. Get to KJUe It “ Nobody likes the first few weeks,\ Sgt. Moskowitz said. At the end of the eight weeks, though, no one wants to leave, he added. “ Everyone gripes a lot, hut every one likes it. ” Sgt Moskowitz doesn ’ t know. j ■ ------ - ------ exactly how they came to pick him (the first five days of the current 43 the third best in the class. Per haps the marks of 92 and 94 that he received on the two' written Veteran's rights to re-employ- | staleinent ment in their former jobs have * ‘ ,,lus l \ u been provided in rulings issued shinnnrli. If ihere Is any ilnuiit, this week by Director of Selective r'\: ‘ s » ‘ \ “ '•••o Service Hershev i \ ! \\\ ,l, ‘ > york ’ One provision prevents agree Provwiona protecting employers ; provision prevents agiee- 3t ate that veterans who left tern- tLSSX. S'. ! Wti-* no: -othM l„| binding it v\„ ,TTt !° ’ .T ’ d'ZTZi' ??, T: provision states 1 ^ determined on individual ••If u|Min a veteran ’ s ret,in, fr„a, ^cts and circumstances with the iii H ilary lie flndK Unit Ills rni- ^ ,na ' ciGeision up to the courts n |)loy*r lias eniereil Into eniploymeut rvent of disagreement. uirreeinentN with otherK .setting nji eon- A private employer is not re- illtions of emiiloyineiit ilifferent from quired to reinstate a veteran if his those Which existed nt the time the circumstances have changed , to veteran left, the veteran cannot he de- make it \unreasonable or impossi- |.rlvcd of his re-eniploy-ment rights hy b]e foi . him ^ d .. ruanui q| llu*so .H^r«*enif*iHs. “ Other important poinLs set forth In this guide to veterans ’ re-em- 1 Hadassah Service Club ployment rights are: That a veteran entitled to reinstate- j Included among the entertain ment ran go to court to recover hack merit facilities offered to service pay even after reinstatement if it was men by the New York Junior Improperly delayed hy Ihe employer. Hadassah ’ s Service Club 204 Weat That Jf a re ter an Is not qualifi ed t»r j ay Sr (Room 7041, are dahemg LtSTs.TSSw ’ ii, mssr. «r~ p «i« stains and pur to the one he left. ” pleasant conversation with the That qualified reterans are en- ^ “ teases Or with other members of titled to reinstatement, eren though It Ihe armed forces, necessitates the discharge of non-ret- erans with greater seniority. BKfTIMH GIHI.S GET HKI ” I hat during a reteran ’ s period of T ,r<isrci o. ..i active seertee Ws seniority rights ac- ^ <C N S) Clasaos ln ’ basic enuiulatc In the same manner they American _ are being conducted would if he had remained conttnnnns ty on hi* rJvUlan Joh. ....... That In order to qualify for rein here for Englisii brides <yf Ameri can soldiers, the ' Daily Mail re- poriit. GI Bond on Sale at $7.50 examinations had something to do with it. Perhaps, it was his all- 2nd Anniversary maneq ror tne previous auve-. — ............. veex.-. — ----- , — , the goal of the present drive in subscribed its quota off $300,000 by around soldiering. Perhaps, the Camp Shanks Us to have the e n- ' Purchasing $004,912 width of bonds : f «ct that he shot expert, scoring tire civilian personnel and as many Captain Marcus requested all with the 03. Or maybe; ” the of the military' personnel as pos- persons buying bonds by check to Was ^because brined mrT'^th ' sihle authorize the deduction of ten mak<> the che L payable to eithe, ' ^ ^ percent of then- salaries for war j „ ca<|h „ (>| . tQ upo » ^ a ,. Bord of . ; . ,Way .................. huh < hi mon . fleer.\ and to endorse the check \7' n __ I, | t ± Captain Marcus this week ap „n the reverse side. I ttllK ,1s eleDrClteS pealed, particularly to the civilian employees who have not yet made i ' . ^ their ten percent pay reservations ! |ni«kr > 4' Klow I “ It may - be difficult,\ he said, I I ^ C W l_M C \with the present high coat of liv- | _ i.the Army Weekly, will ing and present high taxes, but lilTO l▼leQlCS ' mark the completion of its second • ' ' ' j year as the official voice of the The Medical Administration > ma h in the U. S. , armed Corps OGS at Carlisle Barracks, j f orces with a special anniversary Pa . will reopen on June 26, it was ,:!aue < >n June 30. available at PX announced this week. The school | ’ ’ •'wsstands June 23. had been closed for the past 1C I “ , lts inception two years months. ® | Yank has, expanded from one . • -- | edition printed in “ New York to scribing ten percent of their sat- ; Attending the school will be 250 • j 4 editions printed in 11 locations ten of them overseas, and it has compared to the sacrifices of the men on the. beachheads, it Is in deed a .small sacrifice to make.\ Majority Subscribe The Post War Bond officer point- ed out that the majority^ of the civilian employees are already sul>- reihajned a strictly GI publication, with ail its material prepared and ai i?s to the purchase df War bonds: !«hlisted men. the 14th class to take If the few who are don-subscribers [the 17 week course at Carlisle Bar- or who are not yet making ten per- [racks cent reservations cooperate, the Reopening of the MAC DCS will j edited by enlisted men. Fifth War Loan Drive will reach [bring hack to 12 the number of 4 — ___ — ........................... .............. - its goal of 100 percent participa- ! Officer Candidate Schools left open GI ’ s GET GUILDER PAY tion and 12 percent of the Camp after reductions past, present and NEW GUINEA, (CNS) GI ’ s at Shanks civilian payroll, Captain planned. Four other .schools were ! Hollandia, Wakde and Biak are Marcus said. [either closed recently or will be in ! being paid in Netherland guilders The cash , sale of • bonds during the near future • ! instead of American-dollars. TILL WE MEET TOMORROW! It ’ s “ Goodnight. Sweetheart\ with smiling, spark ling-eyed Ruth Terry at movie Theaters No. i and J tomorrow night. 1 Fifteen eenta gets you a sent. vyi -m' * w i » , , s« > i yi a