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...band which speaks for itself with the most authority is one at Fort Ontario, in Oswego, N. Y. There the 369th anti-aircraft regiment, a Negro National Guard unit from Harlem, is having a year's training. The men of the 369th get more from their band than most regiments do. Almost every night they hear a jam session, almost hot enough to melt the icicles on the recreation barracks. The band's leaders are Sergeant Reuben B. Reeves and Private Otis Johnson-onetime trumpeters in Cab Galloway's and Don Redman's orchestras...
...Europe and his manager, Noble Sissle (Shuffle Along), joined the 15th Regiment. The colonel made Europe band leader, raised $10,000 for instruments -30 reeds, a dozen or so brasses, two bull fiddles (for concerts). Leader Europe became a lieutenant, Sissle his drum major and top sergeant. The two of them were soon putting riffs in conventional marches, had the band blare blues to a fare-thee-well. When the 15th reached France, Europe's band was detailed to play for U. S. soldiers just back from the front lines...
...they were such sky-hardened athletes it was said you could pack all the roasting meat of any one of them into the hollow of one of those horns. A Longhorn bull was known to gore the life out of a grizzly; another scattered a U. S. regiment that had stood against Santa Anna. James Bowie used to ride amongst them, knifing them down...
Thanks to his superiors' protests to Washington, Private Earl last week got cheering news: within another week, he was advised, he might collect five months' pay, return to the rolls of the New Jersey regiment...
...Jersey regiment finally accepted him, but not for long. Army men recalled a law that forbade the transfer of National Guardsmen from one State to another. Private Earl was put under technical arrest. He stayed on at Fort Dix for five months without pay, picked up small change from kindly officers who hired him as their dog robber...