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VOLUME 2
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READY TO ROLL—Pfc. Raymond Wendt, 410th Infantry, and
Vina Lowry, Gainesville, eagerly are lacing their shoes for a roll
around the roller skating floor. The music box is blaring and the
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camp howze, texas’ Friday, may16, 1944.
PUTTING FOR PAR—To three members of the 410th Infartry,
a good way to relax and have fun is to play miniature golf. Pvt.
Joseph Zimage, wearer of the Purple Heart, is ready to fire the
next hole while Pvt. Carl Lystad, left, and Pfc. Leon Kipping look
on.—-(Signal Corps Photo.)
Field Expedient
There was plenty of corn
meal in the kitchen truck—
and plenty of fish in the lake.
But nary a hook, pole or line
in Headquarters Co., 411th In-
fantry regiment.
The cooks were equal to the
task on a bivouac last week.
Poles were cut from the forest.
A ball of twine furnished the
lines. Bent pins became hooks.
Kitchen scraps were bait.
The nimrods went to work,
and there was fish for dinner.
battalion is used for shock action, pies prefer dates with frontline
The 778th Tank Battalion is' combat soldiers to those with
now attached to the 103d Infan- 1 rear echelon men; some of them
try for Infantry, Artillery and confided to a war correspondent
Tank Team training. 1 here. ,
WALKING BABY—There are many different ways to spend
Sunday as every GI knows. In this case, F-Sgt. Page Brown, 410th
anranury, and Mrs. Brown take advantage of the late afternoon
sun to air their heir. They were approaching the Fair Park USO
when the photographer spied them.— (Signal Corps Photo.)
and the other for extra curricu-
lar activities.
He is willing to spare practi-
cally no expenditure of time or
effort to avoid making a mistake.
Therefore, his reference library
consists of several hundred vol-
umes, ranging from the Bible to
a Sears Roebuck catalogue.
Recently, Caniff read or con-
sulted 38 books before he under-
took the preparation of a se-
quence in which Pat Ryan was
involved in a large-scale amphi-
bious operation.
In order to keep Taffy Tucker,
an Army Nurse, accurate he keeps
in touch with an Army nurse
who furnishes him with details
as to their slang, how they feel
about dates with soldiers and
Then draw two heavy horizon-
tal lines above the address and
print between these lines follow-
ins':
“OFFICIAL ELECTION WAR
BALLOT
—VIA AIR MAIL.”
If you neglect to mark the
postcards and envelopes plainly
to let the post office know they
are ballot mail, they may get
buried in the regular mail and
HI-HO SILVER’—This fancy-stepping Palamino, pride of the
Fair Park stables, actually is Silver—although not of the movies
fame. S-Sgt. Warner Lear of the 411th Infantry and also of Big
Lake, Texas, puts the horse through its paces. The stables were as
busy as a beehive Sunday.—(Signal Corps Photo.)
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Plans are being completed this
week for the participation of
Camp Howze military and civilian
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more of nothing, a seat in the park with your legs propped up on
the rim of the lily pool is just the ticket. Anyway, that’s the idea
of T-3 Dick Vilmure and T-5 Roy Godin, both of the Medical De-
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PAPERS FROM HOME—The USO well deserves the slogan of"
being “a home away from home.” However, there’s nothing like
reading your home town paper, either. That’s the idea of Pvt.
Brownell Landes, left, and Pvt. Wilbert Marks, both of Head-
quarters battalion, 382nd FA, anyway.—(Signal Corps Photo.)
of the teams, as of May 25:
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NEW YORK—A group of Ma-
rine combat correspondents were
lunching together on leave.
“I went to the movies last
night,” one of them said.
“I went to a dance,” said an-
other.
“I sat all night in the parlor
with my girl,” a third recalled.
“What did you do,” they all
asked Sgt. Jack Vincent, who was
eating silently.
“Got married,” he said between
mouthsful of food.
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Game for MP Team
A strong-armed, keen-eyed MP
by the name of Klimczak is the
best single reason why the
; Headquarters Detachment, 1885th
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, feated record in the softball de-
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Second Contest
For Playwrights
Now Is Underway
Having concluded its inital
competition for playwrights in
uniform, the National Theatre
Conference announces a second
contest. All ranks and branches
of the service are invited to com-
pete.
The deadline for servicemen
within the U. S. is Nov. 1, 1944.
Overseas personnel will be grant-
ed an extra month. The contest
offers cash prizes totailng $1,500
and the opportunity to be recom-
mended for valuable post-war
scholarships.
As in the frist contest, classes
of competitive writing are: Long
plays, one-acts, skits and black-
outs, musical comedies and radio
plays.
Terms which govern the con-
test may be obtained by writing
the National Theatre Conference,
Western Reserve university, Cle-
veland, 6, Ohio.
778th Tank Bn -
Arrives Here To
Train With 103d
Newly arrived at Camp Howze
(is the 778th Tank Battalion, com-
manded by Lt. Col. Frank J.
men. Military and civilian per-
sonnel on this post are again
asked to put their extra cash into
the purchase of war bonds and to
also make further increases in
their Class B allotments and
Class A pay reservations.
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“Male Animal’ Hit
The appearance of an all-pro-
fessional cast to stage the crack
comedy hit, “The Male Animal,”
will highlight entertainment at
Camp Howze next Tuesday and
Wednesday, May 30, 31,
A USO-Camp Shows presenta-
tion, the play is being brought
here by Camp Special Service.
The show will be staged at Thea-
ter Three beginning at 2000 Tues-
day, while there will be two per-
formances, starting at 1900 and
2030 Wednesday at Theater Four.
A matintee for hospital patients
will begin at 1430 at the Red
Cross Auditorium on Wednesday.
Written by James Thurber and
Elliott Nugent, the play depicts
the trials and tribulations con-
fronting a young college profes-
so., when on the eve of the big
football game of the year, a for-
mer grid hero and swain of his
wife, returns to renew old ac-
quaintances.
Bitten by the jealousy bug, the
meek - mannered professor
changes into a raging bull. To
add to the confusion, the campus
editor holds him up as a danger-
ous radical.
But the professor refuses to
change his course, much to the
amazement of all and he eventu-
ally becomes the hero of his stu-
dents—and his wife.
The cast sparkles with top-
notch performers. Hope Bulkeley,
wno plays the female lead, for-
merly appeared with Katherine
Hepburn in “Philadelphia Story.”
Clay Flagg, who will portray the
professor, played in "Stage Door,”
with Joan Bennett.
Ralph Matson, the stage man-
ager, holds a honorable discharge
from the army as do several oth-
er members of the cst.
Where does he go? What does he do?
The breakdown showis that he pulls KP and guard. He takes a
weekend pass to Dallas, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Texarkana,
Sherman, Denton. He even goes (count ’em) to Gainesville.
And he goes to the park—Sunday in the park.
The Howitzer’s photographer and reporter put themselves in
their own GI shoes last Sunday and went in quest of Joe, and in
some cases, his Jane.
A soaking rain kept Joe sheltered most of the afternoon, but he
came out with the sun and seemingly made up for lost time.
And, Sunday in the park produced the accompanying pictures on
this page. There were countless more shots, but a shortage of film
and space doesn’t permit.
But there were few limitations on GI Joe. He “puttered” about
the miniature golf course, he roller skated, picnicked, stared at
squirnels, walked the baby, sat down and stared into space, sat
down and stared into someone’s eyes, rode horses, wrote letters,
ate ice cream and drank pop.
He did a lot of things.
Camp life is pretty much routine. The course of training may
change, but the pattern never varies. GI Joe likes to break up
that picture now and then whenever the opportunity presents
itself.
He was doing just that Sunday—Sunday in the park.
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steady hum of the skates is increasing as they prepare to take the, approximately $4,000,000,000.
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opening date for the national
drive is June 12.
“Camp Howze made a fine rec-
ord in the Fourth War Loan
drive, when we raised a total of
$332,171 in War Band cash pur- |
chases and pay deductions. We
expect to do even better in this
new campaign,” said Lt. Francis
B. Tracy, post war bond officer,
who is in charge of the campaign
locally.
With the tempo of the war def-
initely stepped up and the need
for equipment greater than ever
before, the national goal for the
Fifth War Loan drive is the high-
est in history — sixteen billion
dollars, or an increase of two
billion over the goal of the
Fourth War Loan drive.
War costs approaching an av-
erage of eight billion dollars a
month constitute a challenge to
the nation to recognize the life-
or-death importance of adequate,
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structions to admit no car unless
it carried a special tag.
Along came a tagless car car-
Not only did Klimczak hurl' rying a high ranking officer. The
himself a fine ball game as the guard stopped it. The officer or-
MP’s edged the Headquarters dered his driver to proceed,
gang, 2 to 1, Wednesday evening, “I’m sorry, sir,” said the guard,
but he also boomed out a home “I’m new at this. Who do I shoot
run and scored the other tally. —you or the driver?”
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When a small, wiry artist re-
cently received an award for his
contribution to the morale of the
armed forces, there probably
there thousands of GI Joes who
were in comprete accord.
For the artist in this case was
Milton Caniff, not only creator
of “Terry and the Pirates,” but
the originator of “Male Call.”
Arid no GI needs to be told what
the strip, “Male Call,” is all
about, particularly when it comes
to Miss Lace.
To Miss Lace, an exotic stream-
lined dqjight, all enlisted army
personnel are “generals.” The
navy boys are most appropriate-
ly “admirals.” Brass literally is
brass in her book.
The accompanying drawing is
just what it says: “A bit of lace
for the gang at Camp Howze.”
This came about when Caniff
learned of The Howitzer’s plans
for an anniversary issue last
August. On the one day a week
that the creator sets aside for in-
cidental tasks, Miss Lace “posed”
for Howzemen.
As for Caniff, he is a meticu-
lous, occurate workman. And if
you don’t think he labors, get a
load of this schedule: He puts in
roughly 15 hours a day, using
three days a week for the daily
War Costs $307
Million Per Day '
WASHINGTON—Fifty days of
the present war, at the average
rate of spending, costs the United
States an amount equal to the to-
tal costs of the Civil War, includ-
ing pension outlay up to 1938.
One day’s average cost is three
times that of the whole amount
spent in the War of 1812, and
twice the cost of the Mexican.
In six months of the fiscal year
ending June 30th last the cost of
the present war was slightly
more than the total cost of World
War I.
For the current fiscal year war
costs will be roughly $87,668,000,-
000, the highest for any fiscal
year in history, and some $15,-
uuu,000,000 more than the $72,-
109,000,000 spent in the last fis-
cal year.
The average daily war spend-
ing has been running recently
about $307,300,000. The $74,000,-
000,000 mark of war cost was
crossed on May 9th. On Ap-
ril 24, 13 working days earlier, it
had been $70,000,000,000. So that
in the 13-day period the spending
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their special problems.
How Caniff has mastered the
“feel” of the average GI is any-
one’s guess. Anyway, he puts GI
Joe down with all the accuracy
of a bomb-sight over the target
and then tosses in Miss Lace for
good measure, The only thing
he could do that the armed serv-
ices would like better is to draw
more pictures of “generals” and
Lace.
MACs Still Lead
Officer’s League
The hard-hitting Medical Ad-
ministrative Sanitary Corp-Vet-
erinary Corps combination of the
Station Complement officer’s
softball league continue to hold
the lead, with headquarters run-
ning a close second. Standings
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Applications
By Air Mail
By Camp Newspaper Service
GIs who are going to vote in
the presidential elections this
fall may get some of the infor-
mation they need on absentee
balloting by reading WD Circu-
lar 155, just issued by the War
Department.
This circular recommends dis-
tinctive markings on postcard
applications from absentee bal-
lots to servicemen and back again
to their home states. The pur-
pose of their recommendation is
to enable ballot applications to
be sent by free air mail.
These new markings already
are being printed on the new
postcard applications and on the
ballot envelopes which the War
Ballot Commission has ordered
for distribution to the Army,
Navy and War Shipping Admin-
istration. It may be several
months before these new forms
are available, however.
Many states are sending out
ballots on their own hook com-
plete with envelopes that do not
bear the official markings and
many GIs are still applying for
ballots with the old-style post-
cards (WD AGO Form 560)
which do not bear the air mail
markings either. Soldiers are
urged to mark these old style
postcards and envelopes in the
following manner:
“FREE OF POSTAGE IN-
CLUDING AIR MAIL (WAR
BALLOT).”
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Makes High Mark
For Fitness Test
What is believed to be the
highest score, attained by any
XXIII Corps unit for the AGF
physical fitness test was turned
in last week by the Headquar-
ters Company, 18th Tank De-
stroyer Group.
Under the command of Capt.
William M. Rinehart, the com-
pany accounted for a 99.2 per
cent score over the gruelling
course. Just as outstanding as
the score was the fact that all
contestants made the four-mile
hike within the maximum time
limit of 50 minutes.
Designed to eliminate those not
physically fit, the test consists of
calisthenics, a 300-yard dash in
45 seconds, a 75-yard piggy-
back run in 20 seconds, a 70-yard
zig-zag agility run in 30 seconds
and the four mile hike.
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Free Movies
You can’t get eggs with your
PX beer in the 411th Infantry
regiment, but you can get
movies.
As a special hot weather
treat, free movies will be
shown evenings in the regi-
ment’s PX square by the Spe-
cial Service office. Showing
starts as soon as darkness per-
mits.
Don’t expect the latest Hol-
lywood hits—after all, they’re
free—but if you want an
hour’s relaxation get there
early to get a seat. See bul-
letin board for daily details.
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