Checker Board (Newspaper) - June 2, 1943, Hampton Roads, Virginia THE ARMYS BEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED DIVISION NEWSPAPER VOL 1 99TE INFANTRY CAMP VAN JUNE 1943 21 Baseball League Starts Saturday Lawrence Welcomes WAACs Colored Stage Stars To Give Show For Troops i You might not know them by name but youll certainly their talents when you j see at least seven colored stage j screen stars now soldiers j of the 453d Quartermaster dry Company present three free variety shows in 99th Division recreation halls this For youll see one of the two Nicholas Brothers i do several tap The j olas Brothers were featured Sn j Sun Tin Pan i Orchestra and other Thompson Lawrence wife of the Commanding I or the Infantry welcomes Marjorie Another star is Elihu a Conover left and Eleanor the first WAAC player of Cabin in The cers to bs assigned lo Camp Van Halldin The first show will be Twelve Teams Enter Race For Handsome 99th Trophy f I sented in T TO TI 1 sented in tne Madcap Recreation BUM T A si i iSoTi the Special Troops ing at second show will the slapstick musical comedy revue will into camp for two peri at Theatre i i next Tuesday at and I Heading this production is Benny wellknown i band expert nimble and fourstar a headliner in show not only leads his tenj piece orchestra but doubles as master of He red in the original production of and before that Rim a Mile After Walking 25 Just to prove to themselves and their buddies that the 25mile hike did not leave them Jo seph Willey and George of Headquarters Division ran an extra miles at the completion of the lery Recreation I and a third show at 2 Sun day in the 394th Recreation j I The headliners of the show will be projected against a baek drop of true Dixieland jive mu i sic concocted by the 453ds own j A choir of fine voice i voices that do justice to south ern airs will provide the sweet mellow side of the 99ths First Lady Chats with Queen Thompson attractive wife of the Com manding General of the 99th Infantry returned recently from New York where she had a delightful chat with Miss Estelle who was selectee two months ago as Queen of the 99th Infantry Division in a photo contest sponsored by The CHECKER first lady of the spoke very high ly of Miss stating that she the judges of the photo contest made a very as Miss Eisenberg fs intelli and has a vivacious per 67 the Division will be pleased to Isarn that Lawrence has tha thoughtful courtesy to pay her respects to the girl they selected as their Each Unit Plays Average Of Two Games A Week played leading variety circuits and appeared on many radio including a season as Ed die Cantors orchestra is a zany produc tion from start to with anything likely to The action takes place all over the Winner of Best Day Room On June 21st The skill ofthe 99th Division soldiers is being put to the test as the judges make their inspections in the Best Day Room sponsored the Division Special Service Speech Teachers I To Meet Thursday There will be a special meet 4ng Thursday night at in the Special Troops Recreation at 13th and 4th ave of all those enlisted men of the 99th Division who are in either in teaching or foreign The languages under consider ation are Ital and There have been a number of responses in answer to the Divi on the The place is june will take into Special Service Sections ed with stooges and the air is the general request for but packed with aace of the dav the num few more are for the The rest of the cast of 25 ier of small ping pong classes which will be held sev topflight musical pool cur eral during the and nightclub perform and original decora The language phono ers includes Whitey Roberts in j uons lend to the rah records recently received Laffs Jack the b the Division Special Service and Company in The Master The will Section will be used to aid the of Mage and Karr honored party given by teachers with their as Sophisticated Al th Division Special Service S De in The Kings Kitty McLaughlin in Aero Bob Craig in The FLIRTATION WALK Long of Rita De Vere as the up j and down the occasionally Ths which will The American Wonder j West Point with its Flirta Professor Cheer in Ripley i tion Walk has nothing on Com Believe Betty Lee i pany 395th A dec RS the Charming J arbor of clinging vines Sophie Parker in A Ton of j has just been built the and Charles in The Short of walk leading from the street to Orderly LOVERS HEAR CLASSICS A program of recorded classi cal music is being presented Tuesday evenings at in the Division Artillery Recreational Dont Kill Ticks Save Them For Division Surgeon The next time you are on bivouac and find a tick clinging affectionately to your dont kill the little It may be just an itch to but science is calling for All fooling Richard Division has issued a request that soldiers removing ticks from their bodies deliver them alive to their regimental and battalion so that they may be sent to his office and forwarded to the Labora Service for scientific The men are further instruct not to bring these i ticks in attached to their bodies j but to remove them 395th Infantry upon discovery and deliver Tops Regiments them inside a box or other conj JR TeStS i I The umpires cry of Play I the thumping of I the crack of bat j will be in the air this ween end ac ihe Buse ball League gets Battling for honor and pos session of the beautiful trophy will be twelve representing nil the mu 1 jor units of the Thes nre the 393d 395th 5th Division 99 i Division Headquarters 199th Reconnaissance 324th Medical Engineer i 99th and 7991 h Opening play this 11 be three ill at The 394th Infantry wil pbv i host or its own field to the 95th field the Divi i sion Artillery nine will mak stand against the 99th Division Headquarters The 5th Infantry will initial league play on its home fiell against the 395th On Sunday afternoon at six more teams will oppose each other in three The 99th Reconnaissance Troop and the 324th Medical will journey out to the Infantry field to stage their tus Playing their second game two the 393d Infantry men will take on the 324th En gineer Battalion on the latter teams On the 395th field the 99th Signal Company will cross bats with the 799th Ordnance Com Each team will play on an av Continued on Page 3 Memorial Day Observed in 5th The men of the 395th Infan commanded by proved their physi cal fitness as they topped the In a fitting Memorial Day scores turned in by the other ice at the Fifth Infantry Dust j infantry regimente in the recent of the dead wh i ones wore the form of the Representative companies of Turning out in large i the 395th Infantry scored as til I LA J i i las May men j Corps with the Firth infantry honored highwater mark of per The program last night inI Catholic members of the Fifth follows eluded the Overture to bowed their heads in solemn Magic by Mozart Piano j prayer for the Fifths as Concerto by and i Chaplain Gervase Michael Burke j the Siegfried Idyll by offered the i Company per cent Company per cent 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