European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars a stripes july allies reduce military stockpiles in North Africa by Edwin Dowell staff writer a Gigantic military stockpile that fuelled the Allied War machine on its unrelenting drive against the Axis throughout North Southern trance and on into Germany today is gradually being reduced by a handful of officers and men comprising the West african District of with Headquarters at Casa French is us fets last and Figura the recently activated military District is statute Miles from the main usfi5t Headquarters of Joseph european theater in Frankfurt ifs a today drip to Casablanca via the european air transport service route aboard a or Type aircraft four engine can make the run in approximately eight hours flying judge says forget advice is impractical july 12 generally a waste of time to try to reconcile couples who have Separ ated because one of them was in a Reno divorce judge said District judge Maestretti said that he Seldom attempted to bring together couples charging adultery because the percentage of those who will forgive and forget is far too who has been happily married for 45 yet has heard some 3jooo divorce cases this year said a Cleveland divorce judges advice to returning gis to condone unfaithfulness in erring wives was but attempts to reconcile estranged couples where unfaithfulness is involved is sometimes he but its been impression that be done Only in a limited commanding West african District is col James a soft spoken artillery officer who has been in the regular army since Brown and his staff have been As signed the Mission of custody of and disposing through the office of foreign liquidation com missioner and other outlets some Worth of surplus United states property scattered Over an area of hundreds of thousands of Square Miles in West and North when North Africa was invaded by the allies in it was with the thought of using that country As an eventual springboard As England for the Normandy the attack against the Southern bastions of the Axis As a and Well in and Vance of the overwhelming Allied Victory in on May when Jurgin von Arnim and other High ranking Africa corps staff officers surrendered on Cape Bon with More than troops to the ii North Africa rapidly became a huge storage depot for War the bulging with in Quarter master and other dwindled alarmingly with the sicilian in Vasion and the subsequent Naples Foggia and rom Earno wad today operates in peaceful contrast to the hectic Days of 194344 when North Africa isolated centers of population were swelled to the bursting Point by combat and service gone is the Bustle of feverish pre invasion activity and the eve constant threat of air attack from across the roughly half of the fifty million Dollar stockpile yet remaining in Africa is entered in the balance is lumped at strategic Points a jmj armm j number of to the chances for successful reconciliations in divorces proposed for other nine out of 10 men will seek a divorce if they find their wife has faulty brakes plentiful july 12 thirty six per cent of passenger automobiles checked by Oregon police recently had defective brakes or other safety it was re this is full Low powered flying Model of Wood and fabric construction which is being developed info a full grown experimental lighter for the the ship was designed by the Chance Vought aircraft for extreme Low Navy experiments with plane thai hovers in air at standstill july 12 experimental fighter shaped like a Pancake but expected to be Able to hover at a standstill or skim along at speeds up to 550 Miles an was disclosed today by the y the plane i unlike anything disclosed anywhere else in the known privately As the its official designation is it was built by Chance Vought air Craft at and while the present Model will not Fly before labor the design already has been tested with a full scale flying Model the known As or the has two 75horsepower engines and is built of fabric and tests have the Navy that the original design is useable and the Navy withheld dimensions and performance of the Skimmer j Over Here by Clarke other than to say that it is expected to have a Speed Range of 40 to 425 Miles an hour with the present horsepower this would be extended to 20 to 460 Miles an hour by using water injection for emergency and from 0 or hovering at a standstill to 550 Miles an hour by using Gas turbines when they become the combination of extreme Low and High speeds is a Radical Depar Ture from the Normal the High Speed potential apparently results from the clean while the Low Speed presumably is made possible by flaps which can be used in combination with High the theory is not new but it had not previously been developed so that hovering appeared possible in a fixed Wing helicopters hover by rotating the Blades at High the engines Are buried in the Middle Section of the flanking the cockpit Power is transmitted to counter rotating propellers at each end of the leading Edge by Means of Shaft sin event of an engine the remaining engine can be made to turn both the Navy said that the design Lent itself to such structural permitting Sharp turns and that the possibility of having the Pilot in a prone rather than upright position was being the Navy the xf5u1 is the fastest propeller driven aircraft built design tests were made As far Back As 1933 by Charles Zimmer consulting Engineer for Chance Vought Cigar of Cautte Cic Aret Butts keeps july ims the Burro eat edition t Etibo whee near Baw Erta or the u s armed under Icso ices of the information education Tel cambers so theft Alcor Flat to be addressed to Apo lit u s mall to the new York office should be sent to my Washington St this the not an official publication of the d s army entered As second class matter March the Post Offlee new under the act of elsewhere throughout the North Western bulge of Africa that includes roughly the area from Tripoli South on a straight due West to circumvent the Gold and then Back around the according to distances Are our biggest headache you can not simply jump into a jeep and drive the Miles to rail service leaves much to be de sired in North with the result that virtually All travel and Supply functions Are accomplished by it col Warren of at is director of property for All surplus property destined the United states has been returned on Davis approximately tons of Quad ordnance and Engineer property has been shipped to the european theater for use in military installations famed painting returned to Harvard july 12 painting believed to be the descent from the Cross which an american woman purchased in Antwerp in 1821 in the belief it was a been returned to Harvard University after a six year the Boston Globe said in a copyrighted the Jean bullitt had submitted the paint ing to Harvard authorities to deter mine its in a suit filed against the univer sity last Darlington charged that the University museum gave the painting to a Man who mis represented himself As her the Man who obtained the paint ing from the the suit de placed it in a Boston gallery and when that went Oziri of business the picture was not accounted within a week of publication of the the newspaper the painting was turned Over to Harvard lawyers by a representative of a Man who bought it presumably from the no defunct Art gallery for increases use of Suez canal july 12 states shipping in the Suez canal has jumped from tenth place in 1939 to a position second to great a Board of directors report to the general shareholders Assembly revealed the report for the years and 1945 said canal traffic Rose in years to 34 be 55 per cent and 76 per of for the past year almost tons of British traffic accounted for per cent of the As against about half the total in prewar states ship which had varied Between one and per Rose to 223 per cent with More than relaxed syntax address to b bag Stan and Apo Dame and address 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your Gya of Fleer will be More than glad to see Albert Gino Slot romances i have just been Reading Yan Fraulein romances seen ruining it is my estimation that this army chaplain is not looking for an everlasting but wants to keep in the minds of the american soldiers and germans the lateness of and to remember Why this War was fought it is my belief that this War was fought in order to have an everlasting and we surely will never have peace if we consider the american race Superior to the German i judge people by the and not As a race now that the individuals Are being tried and lets show the rest of the German population a new life and it them started on the right my solution to this fraternization problem is to permit marriage of americans to and then you will see american soldiers go with German girls and not just to play i am in love a German and dammit if it Means i have to stay Over Here five Vears in order to marry t will do love is and Vou find it 60th a wants film distributed it is All in my that we All see the film this is Germany every so it gives a i who lust came Over Here an idea of what of people the germans before they turned into Nice Friendly people on or about May i suggest that the parts of the film showing the brutalities of the concentration be made into a Short to be distributed to every German theater in the american have it shown in those Heaters every so often before the main lets not have them forget Why we occupy their have a tendency to