A unanimous vote of confidence was given the administration of Camp Leader Frank Paules at the Camp Control Meeting, Tuesday April 18. Instructed by the vote within individual barracks during the past week, room leaders voted complete confidence in present camp officials... Thus the Emergency Group set up by the first 80 Americans to arrive in this Lager receives a definite mandate of authority backed by the entire camp.
Saturday April 22, 1944 BWN
Fast Camp Progress:
Efficient Lager machinery has been set up here, in a very short time andmany mistakes avoided through the advice and counsel of RAF men in other Lagers. This camp has worked smoothly from the start by using a proved pattern of operations. Less than two and a half months after the first Americans came to this Lager, more than 2200 men are housed in barracks and fed daily.
Wednesday April 26,1944 BWN
Food on Way:
A telegram has been received from Geneva stating that 5 Box cars were dispatched April 4 containing 10,000 Canadian RC food parcels and 150 cigarette parcels...Argentine goods will be issued this week per man: 3/4 chocolate bar, 1/2 tin milk, 1/2/ tin butter, 4/10 box boot grease, 3/4 can jam, 1 pkg biscuits, soap, sugar and the big cheese issue. Sad Sack Award: To the Moron Privy Decorator in Block GH...nice IQ...Add to Moron list as runners up... bright boys who tore up stage to get firewood.
Tuesday May 2,1944 BWN
Field Burial:
In a little burial plot on the edge of a grove of young Birch trees, six of his comrades laid to rest the body of T/Sgt George B. Walker. Thousands of miles away from his native Carolina, the only touch of home was the simple American flag that draped his bier; and the sharp notes of Taps, that drifted across his grave in a chill wind, under the clear blue Baltic sky.... just a stones throw from one of the guard towers of Stalag Luft 6.
Wednesday, May 31,1944 BWN
Taps:
Tuesday afternoon our second funeral party marched out of E lager. This time to bury S/Sgt Walter Nies, who died late Sunday afternoon ...At 2:00 pm a party of 22 comrades left the gate. Led by Camp Leader Frank Paules... the procession marched between the barbed wire of A and K lagers to the vorlagar, where it was augmented by the three camp padres...the hospital staff... A lager leader Sgt. Deans and K lager leader Sgt Clarke...A Red Cross cart was pulled... out the main gate and down the wire past the guard towers to the camp burial plot...the entire party stood at attention as the sharp notes of taps again disturbed the silence of Beech Grove. The sky darkened overhead and thunder rumbled in the distance...
What Odds?:
What are the chances of " the Bearded Marvel" against Kriege welter champ Jno Tracey? ...both sides of the wire are trying to get the real low down as interest rises in the big bout scheduled for next Tuesday...It looks like a big smoke cleanup for the wise money boys who guess right. Heavyweight: Like Harry Greb, he does a lot of things wrong, but he always has his mittsin the other fellows face He is big ( 6ft. 2 in. ), tough (full back at Patterson HS of his native Columbus).An Ohio boy, Don Kirby played Class D baseball in the Kitty league... 3rd base, Johnson city, Tenn. a St. Louis Card farm team...Scott field Radio helps explain the Greb Deal. He came through via Patterson, Keesler and Moses Lake to the G.T.O.... Never boxed before he joined the stable, but he has really come along fast since he started to shadow box and work out in the Pratt Gym. Watch out!
Thursday June 8,1944 BWN
INVASION:
German Radio: June 6,1944... During last night the long prepared offensive against Western Europe which has long been awaited by us. Accompanied by heavy airborne attacks against our coastal defenses, he dropped airborne troops on the French Coast between LeHarvre and Cherbourge and under cover of strong Naval Forces, set troops ashore at several places along the Coast. In the area of action, bitter fighting is in progress...NOTE: Radio Reports copied from broadcasts received in A Lager Cookhouse. We present these reports verbatim as announced by Reporter from the German Broadcasts.
