Word: phenix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 24, rugged, rusty-haired "one man army," Congressional Medal of Honor winner (for killing 40 Nazis with assorted weapons in a single engagement); and plump brunette May Frances Boish, 19, whom he met last year when their home town Pittsburgh celebrated his homecoming; in Phenix City...
...problem was most acute in small towns near military posts. Local health services were often impoverished, lackadaisical; so were local police, with whom Army police must cooperate. At two extremes were respectable, aseptic Battle Creek, Mich, ("the cereal city") and dreary Phenix City, Ala. Prompted by the wealthy First Congregational Church's outspoken, realistic Rev. Carleton Brooks Miller, Battle Creek officials decided to establish segregated, supervised zones for prostitutes who swarmed in after the 20,000 soldiers at nearby Camp Custer. Unchecked, unsupervised honky-tonks in Phenix City shot up the venereal rate at Fort Benning, Ga., nine miles...
...Miss., S.B. Mississippi '40; Frederic W. Anderson, of Richmond Hill, N. Y., S. B. Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn '40; Harry A. Atwater, of W. Medford, S.B. Tutfs '40; William S. Barrett, of Austin, Tex., S.B. Texas '37; Martin E. Barzelay, of Malden, S.B. Northeastern '39; William J. Brennan, of Phenix City, Ala., S.B. Alabama Polytechnic Institute...
...this new Army acted pretty much as sol diers always have. On their nights off they sought liquor and girls in the dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling in the South for maneuvers at Fort Benning this month, in Louisiana and Texas...
They were fleeing because mustachioed Brigadier General Asa L. Singleton noted an alarming increase of venereal disease at Fort Benning. Forthwith he laid down the law to Columbus and Phenix City: run out the tarts, or both towns would be declared "out of bounds" for Fort Benning troops...