Camp Lejeune: The Camp Lejeune Globe

<%> CfflTP G L€J€Une Written For Marines By Marines VOL. 1 CAMP LEJEUNE, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1945 NO. 45 Season's Greetings Expressing season’s greetings from Camp Lejeune, women Marines of the MCWR Schools here form the words “Happy New Year” for newsreel photographers from Fox Movietone and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who took this scene here recently. Services Offered By Telegraph Offices Outlined In Memorandum A recent Camp Memorandum outlined the services furnished by the three telegraph offices on this base. These offices are located at: Hadnot Point — Building 233. Rifle Range — Building 11. Tent Camp — Regimental Head¬ quarters Building. These officers offer transmis¬ sion of personal messages, tele¬ graph orders for flowers, and— with the exception of the Rifle Range office — sending, receiving and cashing telegraphic money orders. Outgoing personal messages must be paid in advance unless prior arrangements have been made with the Camp Communications Officer. Authorized charge accounts must be paid at the telegraph office on the last day of each month or upon transfer from the camp. The telegraph office will deliver incoming telegrams in sealed en¬ velopes, via Message Center, to the organization to which the ad¬ dressee is attached. Telegrams received after the last daily Mes¬ sage Center run will be phoned, if possible, to the addressee. Organizational personnel handling telegrams are directed to deliver them as expeditiously as possible. Telegrams that cannot be delivered will be returned to the Camp Message Center together with rea¬ sons for non-delivery. ‘All Fouled Up’ Returns To Le jeune For Four Days “All Fouled Up" is coming back to Camp Lejeune. So many requests have been heard for a return engagement of the sparkling Cherry Point musical revue that the Camp Recreation Department made arrangements to bring it back for four shows next week. The production won high praise in two successful appearances at this base in December. The show will make its first appearance on 7 Jan. at Tent Camp with curtain time set for 2000. On the following night it will be seen at the Rifle Range and on the 9th it will be at Montford Point. On Wednesday, 10 Jan., the comedy will play a' return en¬ gagement at the Camp Thea¬ ter. Curtain time for all shows will be 2000. Written and produced by Lts. Tyrone Power and Ray Heath- erton, the fun - packed show boasts a cast of 60 persons, including male and female Marines. Lt. Powers is no long¬ er at Cherry Point and will not appear with the show. Heatherton is the star of the show, sharing honors with Lt. Carl Dozer, master of cere¬ monies whose fine pacing and comedy keeps the proceedings bowling along at a rapid clip. The show boasts comedy, good music, fine dancing, and in fact just about everything that gives it a professional polish tinge. List Schedule Of Daily Boats Effective 10 January the follow¬ ing boat schedule will be main¬ tained dally except Sunday for transportation of freight and per¬ sonnel: Leave Courthous' Bay - 0830 Arrive Hadnot Point _ 0930 Leave Hadnot Point _ 0950 Arrive Peterfield Point _ 1035 Leave Peterfield Point - 1300 Arrive Hadnot Point _ - _ 1345 Leave Hadnot Point . 1405 Arrive Courthouse Bay _ 1505 Where water transportation is required at times other than when scheduled, request should be made to the Officer in Charge of the Camp Freight Service Office. Firsts For Year 1945 At Lejeune Among Camp Lejeune’s “Firsts for 1945" were: First War Bond Purchaser — Pfc. Irving B. Gibbs, OCA Bn. Pfc. Gibbs practically opened the War Bond Office by walking in a few minutes past 0800 last Monday and asking Sgt. Fern J. Fish for two $25 Bonds. Gibbs ex¬ plained he had just returned from a New Year's liberty and was “going to put my left over money to good use.” First enlisted man to report in— Pfc. Charles M. HaskeU, coming in from Camp Pendle¬ ton, reported in at 0005 on 1 January. First officer to report in— Second Lt. George A. Krohn, reporting from Edgewood Ar¬ senal, Maryland, signed in shortly after midnight on 1 January. At least one man at this base celebrated his birthday on New Year's Day. Pl/Sgt. Leonard J. Kowaleski of the Provost Marshall's Office said his 27th birthday fell exactly two minutes and 48 seconds past midnight of the Old Year. Drama Group Meets A meeting of all personnel interested in the Little Theatre group here will be held Thurs¬ day evening, 4 January, it was announced by Lt. Elizabeth Duff of the Recreation De¬ partment. The meeting will be held at 1900 Thursday at Building 61 in the WR Battalion Area. MARCH ON THE RIGHT A new Camp General Order di¬ rects that troops in formation will march with vehicular traffic, that is, on the right side of the road. Camp’s Total In Sixth War Loan Is $304,700 Camp Lejeune did its share in the nation's ‘Sixth War Loan Drive with purchases of War Bonds which totaled $304,700, maturity value, ac¬ cording to Captain Helen Perrell, Camp War Bond Promotion Of¬ ficer. This is the highest figure at¬ tained by the camp during any of the War Loan drives, said Captain Perrell in extending congratula¬ tions to all personnel, officer's, en¬ listed and civilians, who helped run up this record-breaking sum. The total includes the sale, through the Camp War Bond Of¬ fice. of $50,000 in Series “C" Bonds. The purchase value of War Bonds bought by Camp Lejeune personnel during the Sixth War Loan Drive —20 November through 30 De¬ cember — totaled $244,025. A number of .organizations achieved outstanding results. Cap¬ tain Perrell’s report of unit stand¬ ings (given below) shows that the Service Battalion, with $26,150, ranked first among military or¬ ganizations. Infantry Training Reg¬ iment placed second followed, in order, by the MCWR Schools and the Officer Candidate Applicants Battalion. The civilians came in for special commendation with their grand total of $35,775. The unit standings are listed be¬ low. Figures given represent ma¬ turity value of bonds purchased. UNIT STANDINGS Civilians . . $35,775 Service Bn. _ 26,150 Inf. Trng. Regt. . 22,725 MCWR Schools . . 20,450 OCA Bn., Schls. Regt.— 17,925 Medical Bn. . . 17,725 Naval Hospital _ 15,450 Base Artillery Bn. _ 14,800 WR Bn. . . 12,600 Recreation Dept. (“G'’ Bonds)' - 10,000 Signal Bn. & H&S Co., Spec. Trng. Regt . 9,850 Guard Bn. _ 7,600 Qm Bn. Tr. Com. _ . 6,825 Inf. Schls. Bn., Schls. Regt _ _ ...... 6,150 Coast Guard Detach¬ ment . 4,975. Headquarters Bn. ...... 4,300 H&S Co., Schls. Regt .. 4,200 War Dog. Co. - - ..... 4,175 Headquarters Bn., Tr. Com. . 4,025 Engineer Bn . 3,875 Montford Point Camp .. 3,200 Range Bn. 1,925 Over Million And Half Pieces Of Mail Handled Here During Deluge On Christmas Week By SGT. JACK HARMON Over a million and a half • pieces of first class mail * (letters) and 140,000 packages with record speed were shunted through Camp Lejeune’s Dis¬ tributing Branch Post Office during Christmas week, it was announced by Captain Fred Bove, Officer-in-Charge, last week. The personnel of this hard-working office, located in building 213, worked like bea¬ vers on a 24-hour schedule during that week, said Captain Bove, and by Christmas morn¬ ing there was not a single piece of incoming mail left to be distributed. It is through this office that every bit of mail coming into camp is distributed. In order to meet the gigantic task of handling the truckloads of mail rolling in day and night, all liberty was cancelled for per¬ sonnel from 15 December on, except in case of emergencies. This meant there were no Christmas leaves for any of the force, who worked up ’til Christmas Eve. The night crew reported in Christmas night to again take up their labors. Had the quantity of incoming mail warranted it, the whole office would have worked Christmas day. But their eye on that day as a holiday, the Captain said they worked a little harder and a little longer the preceding week, with the result that Christmas Day saw the office cleared. The Captain further stated that- the personnel headed by M/Tech Sgt. John W. Mulhol- land worked up and delivered on the same day all mail re¬ ceived. This prevailed up to, and including, December 24th, Directly responsible for t$e forwarding of mail addressed to transferred personnel in camp, the Directory Section was immensely busy forwarding mail to correct addresses. Mail for replacement drafts, the Captain said, was shot out right away. As soon as it came in, it was put through the direc¬ tory process and went out again on the next dispatch. Conditions of this holiday mail was fair, he said, esti¬ mating that approximately 300 packages daily were re-wrap¬ ped. He added, smiling, that the laundry would verify the fact because the extraordinary number of packages requiring re-wrapping necessitated draw¬ ing upon them for twine. Thrice they were required to call upon the laundry for string after their supply and that of the Quartermaster had dwindled away. Summing up the record- breaking efforts of M/T Sgt. Holland and his crew, Captain Bove declared that no one particular individual was re¬ sponsible for the efficient way the mail was handled. All hands co-operated to the full¬ est to insure good and correct delivery of all pieces. USO Tabloid Unit To Give Shows On Base Another USO Tabloid Show will make its appearance at Camp Lejeune Thursday and Friday, 4-5 Jan., it has been announced by the Recreation Department. The unit will make four ap¬ pearances at this base, opening at Onslow Beach at 1830 on Thursday night and then mov¬ ing to Mess Hall 1209 in the Industrial Area for its second show of the evening at 2030. On Friday, 5 Jan., the tab¬ loid will appear at the Naval Hospital at 1430 and at 1830 at the War Dog Training Com¬ pany. The show has a cast of five, featuring Harvey Dunn, ma¬ gician and master of ceremon¬ ies. Trudy Chandler, song¬ stress; Anna De Luca, accor¬ dionist and pianist; George Schreck, musical novelty act and Doris Hudson, dancer, complete the personnel of the troupe. 69 DIVISIONS CAPTURED ' FRANCE — (CNS)— At least 691,989 prisoners — the equivalent of 69 German divisions — have been captured by Allied armies on the Western Front since D-Day.