Nightroom Jamboree Rocks Sheppard Field Broadcast
Soldiers at Sheppard Field pack Service Club No 2 every Friday night for a 9 30 broadcast in the Nine hundred ninety ninth Dayroom. Pvt Ralph Fats Watson a Dixieland trumpet man wows the crowd while Pvt John Seiberling delivers Brahms and boogie alongside a small studio audience of GI listeners.
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Rogert Balzer
Hangar Number One
Service Club No. 2
Dragnet
Ralph “Fats” Watson
Fats
Teagarden Brothers
Jack and
Cub
John Seiberling
Seiberling
Indiana
Army
Sheppard Field
Cpl
Harry
Red” Ryan
Pea Patch
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
New Mexico
I Texacts
Joe O'Donnell
Allan Willman
Germany
New Calédonia
Westmoreland Pool bus service inaugurated with schedule
The Special Service Office announces the Westmoreland Pool bus will start today. Downtown terminal is Miller Drug Store at Eighth and Ohio with trips from 1 30 p m to 9 30 p m every 30 minutes to the pool and returns hourly to 10 p m. Weekend and Sunday schedules differ slightly and fares total 15 cents each way with a 5 cent transfer. Man Mountain Dean returns to the army for a fourth time.
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Westmoreland Swimming Pool
Miller Drug Store
Eighth and
Ohio
Eighth Street
Brook
Ninth Street
Grant
Southern Railroad
Westmoreland Pool
Field
Westmoreland
Major Hill Reverts To Inactive Status At End Of June
Maj. Carl D. Hill commanding officer of Section S leaves Sheppard Field on terminal leave ahead of his inactivation on June 30 under War Department policy. A World War I veteran, he served in the Philippines Constabulary and with the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, later commanding a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. He was a Stanton Military Academy cadet commandant in civilian life.
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Carl D. Hill
Sheppard Field
Major Hill
War Department
Philippines Constabulary
Siberia
Vladivostok
Civilian Conservation Corps
Stanton Military Academy
Stanton, Va
Artist Pvt. W P M Sykes Exhibits Works at Mint Museum
An oil portrait and two lithographs by Pvt. William P. M. Sykes, Section I, are shown in the National Jury Exhibition at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte. Sykes, a former assistant professor of applied art at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, had paintings accepted for the Southern States Art League juried show in Dallas.
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William P. M. Sykes
Mint Museum of Art
Charlotte
N. C
Private Sykes
Alabama Polytechnic Instiute
Southern States Art League
Dallas
Texas
Chapel and church service schedule for multiple buildings
A dense listing of worship times across several faiths and buildings. Baptist services at Building 344 and Building 546 at various hours, Catholic masses in Building 546 and 1241 as well as hospital sites, Episcopal service at Building 540 with Holy Communion, and weekday mass and study room notes.
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Episcopal
Religious Services and Bible Studies Schedule Framing Section F
A dense listing of weekly religious meetings across multiple buildings including Latter Day Saints Lutheran and general Bible study sessions. Times range from morning 8:45 to evening 8:45 with activities in buildings 344 672 792 632 345 212 172 and others. Special Section F Learn and Live notes accompany the schedule.
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Liz
Here's To The Boys to Play Fort Sill
USC Special Services musical revue Here's to the Boys will be taken to Fort Sill Oklahoma on June 7 to be performed in the Bowery. The show closed its Sheppard Field run Thursday night drawing attention from the field artillery training center. Camp Howze Texas inquired about a future performance. Most cast members are pledged to participate in the Fifth War Loan drive.
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USC Special Services
Fort Sill
Okla
Sheppard Field
Field Artillery Training Center
Camp Howze
Texas
New Cockpit Adds All-Around View to P-51 Mustang
The newest P-51 Mustang version features a teardrop cockpit enclosure that offers 360 degree vision. It mounts six 50 caliber machineguns and has a tactical radius exceeding 600 miles.
Off-Duty Dress For War Wear Authorized
The War Department approves a new off-duty dress for the Women’s Army Corps designed by the Quartermaster Corps. The cream Military Beige rayon dress, worn by officers and enlisted alike, features beige insignia and gold buttons. Accessories include a matching shantung cap, brown handbag, brown closed-toe shoes, and gloves.
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WAC
Mary Freeman
Niles
Mich
Robin Elliott
Elgin
Women's Army Corps
War Department
Quartermaster Corps
Pentagon
Washington
Women’s Military Services Club
New York
E. B. Gregory
U. S. Army Quartermaster General
Oveta Culp Hobby
Dorothy Shaver
Lord and Taylor
Cora Webb Bass
Second Service Command
Jane Donlon
Transportation Corps
Elizabeth Gilbert
Army Air Force
Cpl
Margaret Snyder
Duluth
Minn
U. S. Army
U.S
Shantung
The 3d Seal Column Parodies Regs On Thinking
The piece mocks rigid regulations by describing an enlisted man trapped in a cycle of thinking and distraction. He fails to meet a deadline and ends up in the dispensary as hot water runs wild, while the author questions the existence of written rules on the subject.
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Acro
Ruscharg
Fats” Watson
Man Mountain Dean
Baptist
Christian
Christian Science
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