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Show Even Nips Amused With Jam Session Band Plays 75 Yards From Enemy Lines. WITH THE AMERICAN DIVISION AT BOUGAINVILLE. First Lieut. Harry A. Tyl of Philadelphia is hav-ing hav-ing chaplain trouble, and the paradox para-dox is that Lieutenant Tyl himself studied for two years in a seminary. An ex-platoon leader in a veteran Infantry outfit which has distinguished distin-guished itself against the Japanese many times, Tyl has taken over a regimental specialist service job since the fighting died down. He immediately im-mediately set to work devising gags, giggles and groans for his jungle shows and came to grief when some of the chaplains protested protest-ed against Tyl's double entendre brainchildren. One song, for instance, which was going over big with G. I. audiences until a chaplain got Tyl aside and registered a protest, was entitled: "Go Into the Roundhouse Nellie; They Can't Corner You There!" Tyl since has resigned himself to censorship. His jamdance band, "The Front-Liners," is considered one of the hottest bands in the South Pacific. Its personnel is loaded down with talent, including veterans from bands like Artie Shaw's. At one stage during the Bougainville Bougain-ville fighting, Tyl's Front-Liners gave a jam session approximately 75 yards from a Japanese outpost. No shots were exchanged for, as Tyl explains it, "the Nips were getting as much kick out of it as we were." Next day, patrols from his outfit were killing all the enemy they could find. Tyl is probably one of the best-known best-known men in the state of North Dakota. On his own initiative and time, he has written some two dozen news stories in the form of a "Dear Folks" letter, after some of the North Dakota infantrymen came to him and said how much their folks would like to hear from an officer. 1 " |