European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Yank the army weekly july 1945 a 4 3 Day dependents and Points dear yank i have read your article on demobilization but nowhere did i find an answer to my i know that i will get a Point a month for each month of service plus an extra Point for each month since i never even got one Battle i have very few what i would like to know where do my dependents rate so far As Points Are concerned will i be allowed Points for my twin Sisters aged my my wife and my Twoy Earold sort All of them get allotments so there is no question but that they Are dependent upon Britain Thomas Crown Only your son will get you any children Are the Only dependents who May be counted toward the Point score under the each up to a maximum of counts for 12 playwrights dear yank before entering the army i was just beginning to get going As a i had sold a couple of Short stories an was working on a full length whats your problem letters to this department Bear writers full serial number and military i even discussed the play with a Well known producer who indicated that he might be inter ested in buying As things stand i would need at least three months after i am discharged to Complete the what i would like to know is whether a playwright would be considered a Man in business for himself so As to rate unemployment Italy Richard Kramer As you probably know a self employed Veteran is entitled to unemployment compensation under the go Bill of rights if he earns less than a month from his Busi in such a Case he receives the difference Between what he earns which in your Case would be Zero and a month for up to a maximum of 52 the veterans administration says that if you Are fully engaged As a playwright there is no reason that you could not be considered in business so As to receive the Unzem 14 ploy ment to be sure of receiving the Money a Veteran must be fully engaged As a writer and could not be a writer one week and fill in As a clerk in a store the next insurance beneficiaries dear yank my father who is 87 years old and very ill is the beneficiary of my i insurance his tells me that he cannot be expected to last very if he should pass away what happens to my insurance if i am killed in action Assum ing that he May die before anything happens to who would get the Benefit of the insurance in such a Case Marianas Joseph Bell if you do not name a secondary beneficiary your insurance will be paid to the following in the order named j to your if living 2 if no to your child or children including adopted children in equal shares 3 if no widow or to your other Parent 4 if no children or to your Brothers and Sisters including those of the in equal soldiers debts dear yank my wife and five children receive a total family allotment of a month from the office of dependency you can guess How Tough it is for the six of them to live on that to add to our our local furniture company has been heckling my wife for the Money due on our living room we owe so Little on the total Bill that i feel sure they will not try to grab the but they have been High pressuring my their latest move was to threaten to get a court order and attach the family allotment from the can they get away with that France s Len Brownlee they family allotments paid by the Odb May not be claimed or attached by any person or Agency to collect a if the furniture company should try to get rough and grab the furniture your wife can ask the court to hold up its action until you get out of As a go you Are entitled to that Protection under the soldiers and sailors civil Relief former Bookie dear yank in connection with a loan under the i Bill of rights what Chance do i have with the following background prior to my entry into the army in 1939 i was employed As a a Little Deal which the Public of those Days considered a bit Shady and though i received a substantial in come i came into the army dead broke As a re sult of bad during my entire time in the army i have lost no time under a though i have had a Little difficulty retaining i have been All the Way up the ladder up to technical and at the present time am optimistically looking Forward to my third do you think i would be denied the privilege of a loan in View of my prewar occupation i am married to a former member of the Anc and we would like to know if we can Pool our rights to the loan for the Purchase of a Home or the financing of a legitimate business Hawaii withheld yank cannot Tell you whether or not your Bank or financial institution will consider you a Good How Ever we can Tell you that the business loan regulations state that a Veteran must be Able to satisfy his Bank and the veterans administration that he has a reasonable likelihood of Success in the business he is since the government guarantees Only 50 percent of a loan of up to for each the Bank still has to be convinced that the Money is in Good there Are no restrictions against two or More vets going into business or buying a Home together and with the help of your wife Guaran tee you May be Able to swing the Odonnell Calls his shots hts said Tommy Odonnell As a i sudden gust of desert Vind blew dust in our is never going i reached for another bottle of Schlitz and Tommy rolled Down the Side of our pyramidal you he weve been too Long in the Goddam with All this dust in us we aint fit for i stretched out on my cot and Tommy there Gonna use us Here for experimental we pull a Man Euver one week and then they use the same thing in la rope the that Why All our mail will soon be and there Gonna keep us three Day passes Are it s Gonna be Goddam after we had left the desert and neared the completion of our ninth month on Tommy Odonnell said to me As we downed the Rem Nants of the contents of a bottle of 99 South Pacific my weve been so Long on this Rock that a Little More heat would kill every Man in this outfit would keel Over dead in that hot to what we All need is a Dis the Rumor was current that we were going to Leyte but Tommy Odonnell be Lieve you he said to Nuas we sat in the hold of our this is going to be a dry 111 Lav two to one that they land us on after four weeks of steady Tommy Odonnell scratched his wrinkled were making a he said watch and making a we circled in Leyte Harbor for awhile until the Beac master signalled us to pull Tommy mounted his Duffel which was Over half his on his two weeks the islands been he two weeks and they land us in finding a big Hole to sleep there s no telling what might after four weeks on weeks m which we had not heard a shot fired or a bomb fall after four glorious weeks of drinking tuba and Corn Tommy Odonnell said to me As we walked Down a Muddy Taloban they dont have any use for tanks in the there making maps out of several Days later we were briefed about an the told us it Lay somewhere Between the Philippines and the people were of mixed ancestry the China sea bordered it on the and we weren t going to learn the real name of the Island until we were on the Tommy who knows his geography Well that sounds like it might be in the Ryukyu i dont think Well go there because Treyve made it too he Are going to hit although an originator of Many a re is himself not Gullible to those inspired by other when we boarded the i i ki1 miss la to what do you attribute your Success up Hoyd j Camp Crowther to break it off on the Frank n j everyone believed we were going to an Island in the but Tommy was busily studying his chinese american language Book which he had purchased in los on Day minus one As our Convoy neared the okinawan Tommy his Chin resting on the decks we re going to this outfit is so fusty that Well never get to fire a that night we took a final sip of Ethyl alcohol thanks to the accommodating chief pharmacists mate aboard ship and later we Sang Tommy didst he after we surmounted the Coral reef the Fol lowing Tommy said to me Over the in ill bet theres a million dead japs in those tombs up All Day we didst fire a shot and Tommy s pre diction would have been right if a Jap had t looked Down the barrel of our 75mm gun about who had been sleeping in the tank spotted him and fired a round of a into his the Shell did not go All the Way through but it was enough to kill the during the next Tommy o Donnell didst say a word about what was going to Hap pen he was too scared and too Busy when finally we did get to rest and total our score we had accounted for seven nip artillery pieces and 150 were just goddamned Tommy o Don Nell but we aint going Back to the he told me As we drank from a Jap Sake bottle which much to our dismay contained because were Battle i know 1 aint one to go in All its been a great rest i said to the Crew As we moved up to the Only wish it could have lasted Tommy Odonnell spotted a Jap mortar position near Shuri Castle and had his gunner fire a few rounds into the mortar was knocked out and Tommy its a damned Good thing they didst blow our Heads when Tommy saw a wounded doughboy near the he got out and gave him first Aid while Jap shrapnel fell close then he brought him up through the escape Natch of the for this they gave Tommy 11 a making ate big a muttered when his name was but five Points is five Points in anybody 1 can go Back to the you know what that if do Road lament 1 must go Down to Delhi again to see All the was and the waifs and All i ask is a ten Day leave and some perhaps and the wind will blow and the scotch will flow and the Chow will be not and the sack will be soft and the floor not if in who gives a Damn 1 must go Down to Delhi again where theres no such thing As where the streets Are paved and the men Are shaved and the girls Are As Many As and All i ask is a Cool drink and a pretty girl by my Side and a Long Goodby and a drawn out sigh As i take the Road in Irv warder were out of Hope you dont mind taking pot n m change of address Okinawa Dan Golb incident Earth will outlive tier pockmarked on some dim far from All 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