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The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-14
Shooting the Breeze =
With the S9srd QM. Truck Co. *
BY PVT. JAMES E. PAYNE *

say, Payne, what's the matter?
You look all down and out, as if you
hadn't had a good feed for a long
time" Nope. Morrison, it's moth
ing like that. it's just that it is time
for this weeks copy to go to the
press and I can't think of a thing
to write about. BY the way, you get
about quite a bit, so let me in on
some of the latest DOPE
We'll, let's see now, why not write
on how well we are progressing in
our truck driving training. You
know, some of the fellows who
couldn't even steer a scooter when
they came here are handling 21a
ton trucks like old hands now. They
have learned the nomenclature of
the trucks, the different gears and
when to use each one, the correct
distance between trucks on and off
the post when on convoy. In fact.
with a lot more training we'll really
be on the ball."
Why, Morrison, think that's a
good idea. I think will write about
our progress. Wait a minute, here
comes tall, dark, and far from being
handsome Whyte, maybe he has an
idea I could use.
Hey! Whyte, come here a min
ute. Listen, Ace, Pm in a heluva rut
and need little assistance on the
brain side. Tell me something to
write about in this weeks edition. !"
(After much burning of rubbery
brain matter Whyte became preg-
nant with a thought and it's prompt
ly delivered.)
Say, you dope. Why don't you
tell the folks about the new ratings
passed out in the company?"
Yeah, that's fine, but who were
the lucky stiffs that got them?"
Well, let's see now? Oh yes, S/Sgt.
Samuel o. Butler made Technical
Sergeant, T/5's Willie Jackson and
Ulysses L. Logan were elevated to
T74th, Pvt. Thurman C. Harris got
T/5, and Pvt. Jesse Ussery made
corporal. That's all so far"
"Whyte, you are the Tooth wonder
Of the undiscovered world, but still
need some more news. think I'll
look UP Cpl. Pritchett for some
sports news. He's probably gold
around the Motor Pool so
guess I'll dig on over there and see
what is asleep beside him.
"Pritchett, Hey Pritchett! come
out from behind that mass of paper.
You can stop pretending to be work
ing now, it's only me, you old ace
looking for some breeze to shoot"
Hi, Snoop, you dupe, what ill
wind blew you this way?'
"Well, Pritchett, need some sport
news for my colrnn and you're just
the guy to give it to me. So give
brother, givel" ~
"Well Payne, there isn't much
happening at present as our basket
ball and boxing equipment hasn't ar
rived yet, But, you know that boxing
team we organized? Well, three of
the fellows are going to box in the
Golden Gloves Tournament here on
the Post. The three are Pvt. Robert !
Grogan, William Maben, and Alton
McSween all of the lat pound class.
They'll be in there pitching with all
they've got SO give them a little note
in your column -;.-...s :.
Thanks a million, Pritchett, now
I can go to the barracks and strug-
gle through the job of writing my
column.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-14
Speaking Of Special
Unit No. |, Sou 1922
By CPL. LONO JOHNSON
81 81 g

From the California Gold Coast
and the glittering lights of Central
Ave, the 733rd MP. Bn. made it's
final troop ride under the green and
yellow standards and crossed pistols.
December Is, 1943, marked the first
time that the 733rd had been quar-
tered in the Military Reservation of
Fort Huachuoa, Ariz., and in the
short space of four days it was shelv-
ed into inactivation by orders of the
War Department In its stead was
born Special Unit No. 1, SOU 1922,
December 81, 1943.
In the memory of each officer and
enlisted man is indelibly stamped
the history of the 733rd from it's be-
ginning in Camp Williams, Utah,
with few officers and enlisted men
it climbed rapidly and steadily to
the peak of efficiency under the
guiding hand of the present Com
manding Officer, 1t Col william M.
Vance.
We moved from Camp Williams to
Camp Siebert at Boulder City, New,
for a tour of duty guarding Boulder
Dam and the highway crossing the
Arizona and California state line.
On the move again, the first stop
was Spokane, Wash, then covering
Ephrata and Great Falls, Mont.
From Washington to Phoenix and
Tucson, Ariz. The 733rd remained
in Arizona long enough to expert
ence some of its sand storms. In
the latter part of April, 1943, the call
of duty at Burbank, Calf, was an
swered and once again the old 733rd
was on the move.
To many who rode the Douglas to
Nogales Patrol and the bulk of the
battalion, formerly with the 25th
Infantry, the terrain Of F't. Huachu-
ca is familiar.
Leading the parade in exploring
the fine things that the Post has to
offer in the form of entertainment
are headquarters Playboys," M/Sgt.
Walter R. Reynolds, T/Sgt. Hudson
N. Newberry, SISgt. Lacey j. Chap
pie) Thomas, Sgt. William H. tBilD
Thomas, and Pfc. Robert Paisley.
T/Sgt. Leroy (Ding-Dong) Crosby
o1Au OSJ. 1I1OLIldo L. NDlSJ OIlOW611,i
radio chiefs, may soon find the
@Roger Five Sugar Five beam. To
Cpl. Edward W. Smith all roads lead
to Tucson.
This scribe is wondering why TIA
Nathaniel o. Mosely likes the Post
Headquarters. Quite number of
officers are meeting old friends and
former associates of OCS. Must look
into the Service Club situation to
find out why SlSgt. Major p. Joynes
and Cpl. Alonza G. Patterson find it
SO interesting. The good Sgt. Willie
Gordon, the "Booby Trap King is
now getting on the beam. A brokers'
tip: bodies good not to know are
Cpls. Joseph I. (Joke) White and Jo-
seph O. (Joe) Morris.
A million thanks to Col Hardy,
ut. Col. G. F. E. Nelson and his
Special Service group for the grand
welcome given us.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-14

~ = 4 X X y *
Hello, everybody! Curley Ton
greets you again with news and
views OF the men Of 15Oth ON Truck
Co.
welcome May I apologize for
committing the sin of omission for
not mentioning this bit of news
earlier in my column. The personnel
OF thls company is proud to an
nounce and welcome an addition to
the staff of officers in the person of
Royce D. Tooley, End lieutenant. a
native OF Charlottesville, Va. and a
graduate of the o. c. S. of -Camn
Lee, Va. Although 1t. Toolev has
been with us for a short time only
ne has shown a keen interest in all
OF the men and he seems very de-
serious that we get the most out of
our training program. 1t. Tooley.
we shall give you our cooperation
and hope that by our combined ef-
forts we shall go a long way toward
ending this conflict which is
menace to civilization.
Meet the boys For the next few
weeks your writer will be introduc-
ing to his readers a few members
OF this company who put aside their
various civilian occupations to take
up arms for Uncle Sam.
Readers, meet Pvt. Marvin l.. Al
ston, of Durham, N. c., who at
tended Hillside High School of Dur
ham and the Juanita Welding and
Burning School of Upland, Pa. Pvt.
Aston was a welder at the Sun Shin
and Dry Dock company in Chester.
ia. before he was inducted into the
Army in June, 1943, and after the
completion of Infantry basic at
Camp Croft he was assigned to the
l5Oth QM truck company.
We have another fine member of
our company in the person of Pvt.
John Gose, of st, Paul, Va. Pvt.
Gose, who lived near West Virginia
worked for number of years as a
coal breaker for the Clinchfield
Coal Company after completing his
course OF study at the Harney Lee
High School of Dante, Va. His IN
fantry basic training, taken at
Camp Croft, S. C. has served as an
aid toward making him qualified for
the branch of service he is now in.
The baby of our company is Pfc.
Robert O.. Stafford of Mountville.
N. J. Because of his size, the little
soldier who is still in the growing
stage, likes to be called bad Man
Stafford" Pfc. Stafford was grad
uated from Boonton High School IN
Marion County, NJ j. and before en-
terlng TuSkegee Institute he was
employed by his father as a land
scape engineer. Although now in
the ON Truck Company as an auto
Stafford has airplane fly
ing hours to his credit, which he
achieved while at Tuskegee.
COnvOys- AS a truck unit, you
are no doubt aware that we shall
do convoy work. While we must adj
NIT that for time our motor SER
geant, T/Sgt. Darlington was a
little worried about early destruc-
ton" of his trucks, he now has no
fear for the soldiers are learning to
operate the vehicles in a fine man
ner. We have been on conveys, both
short and long and the perform
ances are beginning to look like old
and experienced outfits. Keep it up
boys, for we really want to be look
ing good when we drive through the
streets of Berlin.
I, In closing, Curley Top invites you
to be with him again next week
when he hopes to introduce you to
more of his friends Until next
week, Adieu.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-14
Retired Sergeant Honored

Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Evans enter
tanned with dinner party recently
honoring the retired M/Sgt. Joe
Black, Sou, at their quarters in
Bonnie Blink.
Among the guests were Sgt. Oc-
tavius Dixon, 92nd Division Quar-
termaster and S/Sgt. Richard Mas
sey, 406 Ordnance Company.
An attractive and delicious menu
was served.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-14
Hunters aon The BaIlY

st. Anthony, Ida. tCNS1 Three
hunters took a bead on q flock Of
geese. All fired at once. One. goose
dropped-tfle one at which all had
aimed.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-14

Whis is worse. A wife who can
cook and won't or a wife who can't
cook and will? -
The Apache sentinel., 1944-01-14
"cURLEY TOPo
SPEAKS FOR ON.

+ News from 15oth ON. Truck Co. !.
= By PFC. CHARLES H. CURL *
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
"A Bit OF Ribbon
Bronze"

It doesn't make sense, but we understand that Congress has re
ceived a complaint about the excessive" number of decorations and
medals being given American fighting men. According to a Washington
dispatch, one Congressman has remarked" about what he termed a ten
dency to increase the number of decorations awarded. =N
Defending the pratice of bestowing medals on deserving service
men, General George c. Marshall, Army chief of staff, explained that
since the start of the war about 10000 combat decorations have been
awarded, and about 5000 decorations for distinguished Or exceptionally
nertorious service. Besides these, 135, 90 decorations have been awar-
ded members of the Army Air Forces. Said Gen. Marshall: mo one who
understands the morale effect to the prompt bestowal of a bit of ribbon
and bronze would ever feel that our awards of combat and air decora-
tons have been excessive" 8E4a# 81
til IS a surprise to learn that there are folks in this country who be-
grudge a fighting maj the award his bravery merits. Such awards are
not given for inconsequenta1 things; they are earned under murderous
enemy fire at such places as Tarawa, Anzio, and the Normandy beach
heads, to cite but three of the battle places haIowed by American
heroes blood. They are earned in the fak-filed air over enemy terri
tory. And many of those who received these Excessive" decorations
received them posthumously-their never lived to wear them.
Our nations fighting men-and particularly those who are doing
the actual fghting-are getting little enough out of life, these days, as
it is. We hope they never hear of this attempt to make a political foot
ball out of the "bt of ribbon and bronze" they wear sc proudly and
have sc gloriously arned-The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
They're Calling Leland Olds a RED"

Don't confirm that Communist Leland Olds" That plea is floating
into Senator's offices from many parts of the country If is insnirad 1hv
the Power Trust and its allies.
There was a time when the same interests called George Norris q
FED" Well, Olds is that kind of a Communist.
President Roosevelt has had the good sense to name him for a
second term a IS a member of the Federal Power Commission. Prior to
coming to Washington, Olds was pushing public ownership of power as
: eno OF the New York Power Authority He has never been unfair
to he power interests, but he has endeavored to safeguard consumers
and heaven knows, consumers need a little aid these DAYS.
AS al example: Recently Justice Sam Brauon of the u s Circut
Court OF Appeals wrote a decision sustaining the Federal Power Com
missions ruling that pipeline companies, owned by the Standard Oil
Company of New Jersey and Cities Service, must cut their rate by
about $3,75O,OOO a year. That benefited consumers in Denver and other
Colorado cities.
MI pipeline concern confessed before the Federal Trade Commits
sion ma 1t had given a Denver newspaper publisher a bride of $3.50 600
III rae 10 e MS help IN putting over its gas franchise in Denver. After
italization.
The Federal Power Commission squeezed out the water" and
sashed thu rates, but, of course, had no authority to send to prison te
dlsungulshed lawyers who claimed the delivered the huge bribe.
hi is the sort of work that causes the Power Trust to denounce
Odds a a Communist" The fact that the trust use such eptbets is
pretty good evidence that it hasn't anything on Od-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
L.ubors PoIiticu al Action

We want it understood that we have n O sympathy with frightened
politicians who II seeking some way of preventing Organized Labors
Political Action Committee from using money and energy to influence
this years election results. Socialists have long since urged workers to
out each others votes.
II tt is important to II that we be understood O that point because
While We gladly recognize the right OF. workers to use their organ
lied strength in politics, w ire just as definitely at odds with whom
soever would deliver workers votes to any political party that aims to
perpetuate the capitalist private profit racket.
Both the Republican and the Democratic parties aim to do just
that Neither will offer a platform that promises to give workers the
full product of their labor and free mankind from the master nd-slave
relationship that necessarily exists, and that a government must main
tain, when a few people own the wealth producing resources that the
many must use.
That the leaders of organized labor are, for the most part, bent upon
supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt for a fourth term in the White House
is already an established fact. That al attempt in that direction will
carry over into blanket support for the entire Democratic party machine
= which is equally as corrupt and antilabor as the Republcan-has
been demonstrated in recent elections.
OF this Socialists will have their say from time to time. We are in
competition for the votes of workers. And we will appeal to the rank
and file of American labor, organized and unorganized, to vote for
justice instead of for favors.
A selfrespectng worker who sees how corporations are continuing
to pile up SURPRISES, who notes how lopsided is the enforcement of price
and labor control, who recognized the RECOMMENDATION which binds him,
will not vote for more of the same. He will and should! cast his
ballot for al end of labor exploitation and for that complete economic
to work does not depend upon the ability of another man to make profit
from the workers toll.
We propose to tell workers who will hear us-and especially organ
lied wOrkers!-that a lesser evil is still an evil.
And that the workers of this o any other nation need not depend
upon the kindness of any president or any fuehrer when they will to
be free.
The Socialist program offers the only avenue out of the bondage in
which workers of the past and present have been held. The aim of both
capitalist parties, like the aim of the masters of chattel-savery days.
can never be higher than to regulate class exploitation and, by making
it toleratble, preserve a fundamental misunderstanding Labor AdL#
vocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05

administering the system.
Then Reed made the astounding
statement that from the money thus
retained the Treasury has accumu-
lated a surplus of more than $780,
100000 above its expenses"
Cost Government Nothing
$50" Reed said, "there is no ques-
ton of this operation costing the
Federal government nothing"
La Toilette was in complete
agreement with that statement. He
insisted the money belongs to the
workers and should not be with
hold when to do so would cause
widespread suffering.
The Senate was in accord with
that sound view and restored the
appropriation to the budget estim-
ate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
SCIENCE CONQUERlNG
WAR HORRORS
Deaths From Disease Reduced
TO Less Than Half The
Civilian Rate

Wan list still frightful business,
but some of its terrors are being
overcome by medical science. The
extent to which lives are being
saved vas divulged by Major Gen.
Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general
ofsthe army.
Out of every 100 soldiers woun-
ded in battle, he said, the lives of
81 are saved, and the mortality rate
from disiase in the army has been
reduced to the remarkable low fig
ure of 6 in 10000, or less than half
the civilian disease rate.
Man of the diseases which in
other wars caused more deaths than
wounds have been almost conquer
ed. General Kirk declared. In this
war the health of the men has been
SO well protected that deaths from
disease are now a minor factor.
and for this result Kirk gave credit
to doctors in the armed services.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
AMERICANS ARE
NOT IGNORANT

At Haverford College recently
Hugh Gibson, once our ambassador
to Japan, said this country will be
seriously handicapped in dealing
with other nations and in trying to
formulate a sound foreign policy
unless its citizens are equipped with
a better knowledge of history"
In that particular, Americans are
in just about the same fix as the
peoples of other countries. We
know as much about England as the
English people know about the
United States. We are willing to
agree with Mr.. Gibson, however,
that both should know more about
each other.
They should know a lot of other
things, too, which means they
should have a better educational
system open to all, rich and poor
alike. England is moving rather
vigorously along that line and there
is much we should do.
The point we wish to make, how
ever, is that those who attempt to
picture the American people as
Ignorant" of history or other sub
jects are not quite fair. Our aver
age is not as high as it should be,
but it is as high, and in many cases
much higher, than that of citizens
of other countries.-Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
NEW DISEASE HELD
MENACE TO WORKERS

Sudden Attacks of Exhaustion
Disable Victims for More Than
Year, Doctor Says
CHICAGO.-sT The high pressure
of war production is subjecting
workers to a new disease due to ex-
haustion that develops serious COM
plications.
DR.. j. M. Nelson of Los Angeles
reported recently to the American
Medical Association that attacks
come on suddenly, with exhaustion
S deep that the victim becomes
virtually helpless. There may be
temporary paralysis and loss of
weight, and months of rest are re-
quired for recovery, DIR. Nelson
said.
He cited the case of an overwork-
eel bus driver who was striken in
February and was helpless until
May of the following year. Other
cases required more than two years
to effect recovery, he declared.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
Low-Pricer Cigars
Out For The Durotion

a trade unionist entered a Wash
ington drug store this week, hoping
to get a good cigar at a reasonable
price-and was disappointed.
The nan behind the counter told
him that when cigar statesmen call
now they offer only Is and 90 cent
cigars, all under strange names, in
dicating that cigars that once sold
for a nickel are now in the high
price range, disguised to meet OPA
regulations.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
Bonomi Government
Sanctioned

a political crisis in Italy ended when the sanction of the Big I1pa
was granted to Premier Bonomis new government, demanded that Pa
dogLo be given a place in the Cabinet and that the traditional oath a.
loyalty to the King be taken.
Herbert Matthews wrote in the Times that "a continuation Of ho
trend OF recent errors in Italy will result in dissipation of the genmn
democratic fervor, accompanied by an antagonism toward
6rnan n United States" He reports that the offer of the Roman Com
mittee of National Liberation to give advice in the ousting of fasciste os
the selection of democrats to replace them was ignored, and hence fas
cstsa ana colaborationistsa ire confirmed in power. Initiation also adds -
the complaints; also the preference of Roman women for American and
British soldiers.
matthew's opnes that the King is so shreWd, has sc much political
acumen, that he will be hard to beat when, after the a a plebiscao
decides the fate of the monarchy.
London evidently persists in trying to force Badoglio into thu
government, and to uphold the monarchy. Secretary of State Hull denied
nj ~ US-A, has ever opposed the formation of a new government II
Italy, or to force the Bonomi Cabinet to accept Badoglio-Liston M Gal
in The New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05

The Saskatchewan elections which
have resulted in such an over
whelming victory for Cooperative
Commonwealth Federation, are the
outcome of twelve years of educa-
ton in democratic socialist princi-
pies. The movement is based on the
same fundamentals as the labor
parties throughout the British Com
mOnwealth. 1t is not d0ctriaire; it
believes in specialization where So
~cialization will liberate the people
from the control of monopoly or
promote greater efficiency and the
common welfare. In common with
socialist parties in Sweden, Austria
and other countries, where there
are relatively small farms, the G..
C. #. believes in the family farm,
with security of possession for those
who labor upon land. 1t has stood
sOlidly against the consolidation of
large land holdings by financial in
situations, through foreclosure and
eviction. 1t has a program for the
promotion and development of both
producer and consumer cooperative
societies.
The Saskatchewan victory is a
peoples victory for democratic So
cialism. 1t was achieved by thou
sands of willing and unpaid work
r who, for twelve years, with
gathering support and strength,
have worked for the common cause.
The effect of the sweep in Saskat-
chewan, together with the tremen-
dOus gain in Ontario last Summer,
where, starting with no seats, we Sc
cured thirty-fOur of the eighty in
the Provincial House, means that
Canada will have a democratic So
cialist government within a meas
urable period of time.
My hope is that, i'm spite of the
differences in our constitutional as
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-05
Medical Needs end Costs

A recent study by the Social Security Board on the need for medical
hsufanc gives a somewhat different slant from the SNUG diatribes of
the American Medical Association against political medicine. the
propaganda word for medical insurance.
The study demonstrates what fairminded people have long recoo
nlzed: that at present the need for medical care is not correlated with
the ability to pay for it, Medical expenses naturally tend to fall heavily
on family budget at times of illness, whether O not the budget san stand
it. That is why w need a system of spreading each familv,s mehc.l
costs over a longer period.
Medical expenses also fall heaviest. in many cases where thew ION
least conveniently be borne. Families with incomes under 81 0O . va.r
aVe twice as ~ line a S those over $4,000. That is why w e need
a system IT spreading the risks over the population as a whole, so that
everybody pays a contribution commensurate with his income and ra
ceives a basic minimum medical service.
Facts like these cannot be abolished by the ,vishful thinking of the
most reactionary wing of the medical profession. Instead IF advising
members to spend two hours a day educating" the public against the
Wagner-DngeH bill, the physicians would do well to helm establish
q more equitable system of carrying the costs of medical care. The
Chicago Sun.