Camp Barkeley News (Camp Barkeley, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1944 Page: 1 of 8
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You Can Continue Your Education While You’re In the Army. Page 7
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For All Unit's On The Post
yOL. 3, NO. 5.
CAMP BARKELEY, TEXAS
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1944
Assistance To G. I/s and Families
Funantics" To Wow Soldiers Tuesday At Theater No. 1
These Clowns Will Cut Up In "Funantics" Tuesday Night!
—Photo- by U. S. Army Signal Corps.
Members of the cast of “Funantics,” MRTC Entertainment Section’s hit stage show, give their grin-
ning approval as Cpls. Ralph Kupfer and Egon Sturm sharpen up on the piano for the show's per-
formance Tuesday night at Theater No. 1. From left to right are Pvt. Joe McGranaghan, Cpls. Kupfer
and Sturm, Sgt. Reuben Bowen, Pfc. Morey Woodbury, Cpl. Charles Herveau, Pvt. Bud Sweeney, Pfc.
Amerigo Marino and Cpl. Mike Marotta.
If You Lick Air Mail Sfamps-
First There To Get
Seats For Sparkling
Show By MRTC Men
Theatre No. 1 at Camp is
expected to be jammed to ca-
pacity Tuesday night when
members of the MRTC Enter-
tainment Section present their
brilliant review, “Funantics.”
The performance will start at
8:30 o’clock. First come will be
first served In the way of
seats.
The performance will mark the
first time that an all-soldier show
has been presented in a Camp
Barkeley Theatre and it will be the
initial opportunity for the Camp’s
personnel to see the show that
scored successive smash hits at
Avenger Field, Sweetwater; the
Stamford Flying School; and the
Abilene Army Air Base.
From comments received by Capt.
Moe Mitnick, MRTC Entertainment
Officer and director of the produc-
tion from those three places, “Fun-
antics” may prove to be the greatest
soldier show within the Eighth Serv-
ice Command. The show scored such
successes in its first few perform-
ances that requests for bookings
have been received from Camp Wol-
ters, Beaumont General Hospital,
El Paso; McCioskey General Hos-
pital, Temple; Camp Fannin, Tyler;
Tarrant Field, Fort Worth; and
the Coleman Flying School.
Headlining the show is Pvt. Bud
Sweeney, one of the country’s fore-
most comedians who appeared with
USO-Camp Shows before entering
the Army and was voted the most
popular comedian ever to appear at
Camp Upton, New York, a post that
has been visited by virtually all the
'stars of stage, screen and radio who
are on tour; Pfc. Alexander Pole-
schuk, balalaika player and Slavic
dancer who was featured at New
York’s Casino Russe; and Pfc.
Amerigo Marino, former violinist
with Leopold Stokowski’s Youth Or-
chestra,
Other hits in the show are T-5
Ben Goldsmith, comedian, who does
monologues on Army life; Pvt. Wal-
ter Deeds, fire-eater; Cpl. Charles
Herveau, clarinet player and tap
dancer; Sgt. Reuben Bowen, for-
merly widely' known as “Kajar, the
Magician”; and Cpl. Hollis Craig,
comic whistler and guitar player.
The entertainment section’s fa-
mous “Swingtette,” composed of
Herveau, Cpl. Mike Marotta, accor-
dion; Cpl. Ralph Kupfer, and Cpl.
Egon Sturm, pianists; Pfc. Morey
Woodbury, steel guitar wizard; and
Pvt. Joe McGranaghan, bass fiddle,
adds a variety of catchy tunes to
the review. Pvt. Kenneth Nelson,
former radio artist, handles the ly-
rics on popular and original tunes;
and Sgt. Clyde Kanal appears in
Ahe sketches.
Return Those
Empty Bottles!
After you’ve consumed that bot-
tle of beer see that the bottle gets
back to the PX. Otherwise, the
shipment of beer will be curtailed.
Camp Headquarters calls atten-
tion to the fact that a critical short-
age of beer bottles has developed.
This shortage is due to the fast
that personnel are failing to return
empty beer bottles to their post
exchanges.
It will be necessary for be-er man-
ufacturers to curtail the shipment
of beer to the Armed Forces if such
neglect continues. The co-operation
of personnel in seeing that no beer
bottles leave the post exchanges is
requested. Such co-operation will
assist in maintaining the present
quota of beer at Camp.
April 18 Is
Opening Date!
Tuesday, April 18, has been set
as the date for the opening of
“Hellcat Holiday” — big 12th Armd.
Div. revue — at Theater No. 1.
The show, wnich will be for all
men in Camp, will be presented sev-
eral times in Camp and in Abilene.
A tour of the Eighth Service Com-
mand also is planned.
Members of the 12th Sepcial Ser-
vices staff went to Dallas and ob-
tained final approval of the revue
from the Eighth Service Command.
A tentative itinerary was arranged
with a route that includes most of
the Army posts in the Command.
Arrangements were made for the
staff of Harry Little to provide the
lighting facilities for “Hellcat Holi-
day.” Permission was granted to put
several members of the WAC de-
tachment at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga.,
on detached service for the WAC
sequence in the show.
Especially
For Soldiers!
Don’t forget the “Camp-to-
Camp Concert” which will be
presented tonight at Service
Club No. 1 at 8:15 o’clock. This
USO-Camp Show stars a dy-
namic Spanish dancer and ar-
tists in opera, concert and ra-
dio. The program includes mu-
sic especially designed for G.
l. ’s. Another program will be
presented at Service Club No. 2
on Saturday at 8; 15 p. m. and
a matinee program will be giv-
en in the Red Cross recreation
center of Sta. Hosp. at 2:30 p.
m. Saturday. Two shows were
scheduled for the All-Purpose
Building in Barkeley Heights
last night.
Do your correspondents know
your correct military address?
Keep them informed!
Need a credit for high school
graduation? Let USAFI help you!
Watch that air mail letter, now,
Joe! The six-cent stamp you have
been using won’t be good any more
beginning midnight, March 25,
when the new nationwide postal
rates go into effect.
Domestic air mail rates will be
hiked from six cents to eight cents
per ounce or fraction thereof. Air
mail rates to APO’s (overseas) re-
main the same, six cents per half-
ounce.
The Camp post-office makes the
suggestion that if you have a quan-
tity of six-cent air mail envelopes
on hand, or six-cent air mail
stamps, you simply add two cents
worth of stamps to your letter when
the new rates become effective.
Local first-class letter rates also
will increase one cent, from two
cents to three cents. Thus, a' letter
sent from Abilene to Camp, for ex-
ample, will require a three-cent
stamp on midnight of March 25
and thereafter. The same applies
to letters sent within a city. The
two-cent rate will be completely
rescinded on first-class letters.
First-class letters sent from city
to city will continue with the three-
cent rate.
British OUicer
To Speak Mj^day
Soldiers and their families are
invited to attend the last of a ser-
ies of meetings sponsored by the
Abilene Rotary club to be held Mon-
day, March 20, at the Abilene high
school auditorium at 7:30 p. m. The
speaker will be Lt. Col. Edward F.
Lascelles, British Army, whose sub-
ject will be “The British Common-
wealth of Nations As Contributors
To A New World Order.” Three
other speakers have appeared on
this “Institute of International Un-
derstanding.”
On Monday afternoon the British
money order fees, and COD, regis-
tered, insured and parcel post
mail., These increases become ef-
fective the same time as the new
rates-.
Camp postal employes again
warn soldiers that the privilege
of sending their letters free applies
to servicemen only, and not to their
wives and families. Numerous vio-
lations of the franking privilege
have occurred, it was pointed out,
and in time the free privilege might
be taken away from servicemen, if
the infractions persist in continu-
ing.
Another point stressed by local
postal officials was that govern-
ment money orders require identi-
fication before they can be cashed
by soldiers. This requirement is
plainly printed on the money order
form. Frequent misunderstanding's
have occurred between soldiers and
the postoffice in this respect. The
submittance of identification is
solely for the protection of the sol-
dier, to make sure that no one else
is cashing his money order. Dog
tags are not proper identification.
Bring along your pay book, military
pass, driver’s license, or any offi-
cial paper that bears your signa-
ture.
Give Him A Buzz!
Were you an attorney in civ-
ilian life? Do you want to keepu
up on your “practice” while
you’re in the Army? There’s an
important job for you at Camp.
Enlisted men who were law-
yers before induction are re-
quested to assist the legal aid
office. If you’re interested give
S-Sgt. A. E. Harris a buzz at
’phone No. 3. You can give aid
to your buddies and at the same
time keep up on your legal pro-
fession.
army officer is expected to visit
Camp and give an orientation talk
to soldiers.
Personal Affairs
Unit Has Opened
Its Doors to All
Of interest to all soldiers
and their families is the an-
nouncement that the Personal
Affairs Division established
under the Director of Person-
nel, Army Service Forces, is”
being expanded and all mili.?
tary personnel and their de-
pendents are urged to take
advantage of the opportuni-
ties offered.
The Personal Affairs Division dis-
charges the responsibilities of the
Commanding General, Army Service
Forces, in connection with providing
information and rendering assist-
ance on personal affairs to all
TELL YOUR FAMILIES
Be sure your dependents know
about this service which is be-
ing offered by the Personal Af-
fairs Section. Your family
should know that it is possible
to get information and assist-
ance on personal affairs. We
suggest you clip this article and
send it in your next letter home.
Army personnel and their depend-
ents, including former members of
the Army and their dependents and
dependents of deceased members of
the Army.
Lt. Virgil R. Eustace, who has his
office in the Personnel building at
Camp Headquarters, has been des-
ignated as Chief of the Personal
Affairs Section at Camp and he
should be contacted when personal
problems arise. His ’phone number
is 833.
The Personal Affairs Section will
give all infomation and advice pos-
sible without assuming any of the
administrative or operating func-
tions of the agencies—Army, gov-
ernmental or private—set up for the
purpose of assisting Army personnel
and their dependents.
The Personal Affairs Division is
maintaining liaison with all other
Army, governmental and private
agencies affecting the personal af-
fairs of members and former mem-
bers of the Army and their de-
pendents.
Close liaison will be maintained
with the Army Emergency Relief,
the Red Cross, the Veterans’ Ad-
ministration, General Accounting
Office, Office of Dependency Bene-
fits, the Fiscal Director, ASF, Of-
fice of the Judge Advocate General,
bar associations, legal aid societies,
civil service commission, U. S. Em-
ployment Service, Selective Service,
Federal Social Security and any
other agency set up by the Army,
government or private enterprise.
How's Your Rent?
The Army Housing Bureau in the
Abilene Chamber of Commerce
building on the corner of South
First and Oak Streets, desires that
all military personnel understand
and assist in a program aimed at
leveling of rents to a fair price
which will benefit not only the pres-
ent tenant and landlord but will be
of benefit to the Army families to
follow as well.
The bureau’s activities cover in-
spection and appraisal of a unit
whether it be a room, apartment
or house and then the preparing
of these findings into the proper
form to be presented to the OPA.
Also, the officer in charge explains
in each case the legal rights under
war housing regulations of both the
tenant and the landlord.
Appraisals are based on knowl-
edge gained from nearly 1,000 in-
spections and not from gossip or
heresy. Take your problems to the
Army Housing Bureau ’phone 8941
,:—its job is to serve the serviceman.
Increases also have been made in
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