Letter transcription:

Jan 18, 1943

Dear Mother,

Yesterday I wrote you of it being hot and windy and sticky and today it is just Hot period. The wind doesn’t blow today so it’s hot and sticky.

We are all in our quarters in trunks and shoes and I feel like taking off my shoes. Fooled you that time you thought I was going to say trunks. The flies crawl a little heavy but you can’t tell if it’s sweat running or flies crawling so it doesn’t make any difference.

Just now there is a political argument going on – mostly Fred just trying to get an argument started but we agree just to keep from putting out the effort to argue.

[page 2] We have arguments just for argument sake to pass the time and relieve the tension.

I’m writing this rather early because I have other letters to write and I must get after them. Boonie Ira, Ed J. etc. I always write yours first so that if anything comes up your will be on its way because it doesn’t make much difference about the others for in a day or two things don’t seem to change much.

We have heard that there is to be something passed that will prohibit the sending of packages, magazines & newspapers outside of the U.S.A. Really that I believe would be a good thing for our mail and after all most packages aren’t too valuable after they get here – So I’m very much in favor if it will speed up the regular mail. Dr. P. got a registered letter this A.M. dated Jan 5. That is pretty

[page 3] good for now. His wife writes registered once each week and I think that is about all for her mother is with her and is sick and his father is sick in a hospital and she has arthritis so I guess she has her troubles also. His registered letters have been coming thru pretty good but hadn’t been much better than regular air. You might try one now and then – with air mail, V-mail and registered mail I should hear something. There was no mail this A.M. but his registered letter.

The show last night was Ann Southern in “Magic of the Ringside” or some such thing. She looks like Gladys – Jim’s first wife only her hair is much more blond. We also had some news the other night – picture news – it was sometime late in Aug. It was good however. We saw a small item about Martha Ray and some others going to Africa to intertain the

[page 4] boys but nothing like that has showed up out here as yet. I suppose the glamor of the gals of the South Sea Islands is supposed to intertain the boys. That is all make believe unless New Caledonia isn’t included in the glamor. Not that we have looked but sooner or later one would see them if they were here – with Syphilis, G.C. and a few other things glamor isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

I took a few pictures yesterday with the new camera and I think we can get them developed here. If so I’ll send some only don’t look to soon as we have to depend on friends to develop them and it might be some time. There is no place for that in town.

Later – Shows over – Wallace Berry in something – No mail this Eve. This A.M. got a Christmas greeting from Helen Salter –

Well The mosquitoes are bad so I’m getting inside my net for tonight

Love Daddy

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