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...idea of the widely publicized money-raising was to help lonely soldiers get some good clean fun near the Army camps, but four months after the ceremonial ground-breaking for the first clubhouse at Fort Dix nothing more has been done there...
Last week the Army was busy making its lists of soldiers to be discharged as soon as possible after their twelve months' service is up. At Fort Dix, where the 44th Division celebrated its first anniversary in Federal service this week, it was announced that 1,800 one-year enlisted men would be discharged by Sept. 25. Other outfits heard similar news. Throughout the U.S., emergency soldiers suddenly lost their skepticism about the announcement that, barring a shooting war, the Army would let 200,000 one-year men go home by Christmas...
...Although there were rumors of a wave of suicides at Fort Dix, N.J., only one soldier killed himself. Before 1940, the Army suicide rate was 35 per 100,000; since the draft it is 13, a rate lower than that of the general population...
...Army has more young musicians than anyone can shake a baton at. The best white swing band yet formed in an Army camp set out last week from Fort Dix, N.J. to go on a tour of other camps...
Herbie Fields and his boys have been playing at Fort Dix every night. For dances at the Officers' Club they were glad to pocket what they would once have considered "black" money-$1.43 apiece. On their tour, by special permission of the Second Army Corps Command, they are part of U.S. Motor Camp Shows, sponsored by the Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy...