European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes july 1946 army plan designed to meet future atomic assault War profits committee hears reports of deaths from faulty mortar shells july 25 army looking to the Day when a future invader try to paralyse the nations defense with a Surprise atom bomb attack on High command has broken itself up into six self sufficient reliable War department sources said the pattern for defense in the atomic age is aimed at combating warfare such As has been envisaged by wartime chief of the army air Arnold has said that any future blow again the United states would come by air at supersonic speeds across the Polar and that the aggressor undoubtedly would use atomic bombs 1000 times As destructive As those exploded Over s the army reorganized defences provides six army units which can function independently if any one or More is knocked out by Surprise each of the six areas will be a Complete combat military unit within separate air forces planned the War department is strength ening this defense setup by placing More and More control in the Hancu of the commanders of these eventually they will have their own air Force to repel any airborne or seaborne invaders and will be empowered to Call into instant is save action any National guard forces in their in the country will have two other major defense unite one will be a Long Range strategic bombing Force which will stand Ever ready to combat any attacker with atomic weapons directed a me enemy cities and launching the other will be composed 01 air sme combat divisions with rockets and prepared to make a counter evasion of any enemy unit commanders name the six armies and their com Manders Are the handed by new m eluding new Massachusetts Rhode is land new Jersey and new the second commanded by William Simp in Baltimore m july 25 Story of american soldiers killed by their own defective mortar shells yesterday capped the Senate War investigating committees inquiry into the profits of munitions it was supplied by testimony from Alden chief of the chemical warfare and two letters from unidentified Reserve they agreed there were deaths among gis in Europe due to the premature explosion of chemical mortar shells on Battle Waitt said he did not know How Many men died from the defective but estimated at least 10 or the War he had been unable to Trace the defective shells to any particular company although an Effort was made to do telling the committee he had sweat blood Over the Waitt expressed the belief the trouble was due to specifications and May to testify he acknowledged it might have been due to defective manufacture but declared i Don t think really it is possible this thing on any replying to Waitt said the Erie Basin Metal products was Only one of a number of manufacturers of the Shell the Erie Basin was a member of the munitions group which Mem Bers of the Senate committee have come to Call the Garsson with Waitts the com Mittee temporarily recessed hearings pending word from Andrew May As to when he will James Mead y read reports of Shell defects after Waitt had acknowledged being one of a group of High officers who for Avo is chairman of the House military after travelling from Washington at government a Gay wedding party on Given in new York at the Swank hotel Pierre by Murray Garsson in Honor of his daughter and Sonin Waitt testified he attended the part on sunday evening and said he did an honest Days work in Atlanta voting ends in 2 claims for demo nomination to House handed by Jonathan Wam Wright san Antonio Stu Oklahoma new Arkansas and fifth Walton Wyoming Coto san Nevada and Call lights guide pilots so safer night landings july 25 is with the tremendous weight of Slot Tab Safe landings at night new York the next which justified his use of official travel Waitt said he had nothing to do at that time with the letting of War and said he had become acquainted with Garsson because the latter was a frequent visitor offices of the chemical warfare i pets pungent polecat pretty problem july 25 ins and Edward of have a pungent problem on their their dog a lost us litter of seven then consoled itself by adopting an orphaned right the Little polecat is but its future is Farrell found guilty of attack on Boston girl july 25 Thomas decorated was convicted of branding in year old Helen Stavrou with lighted cigarettes and a razor Blade during a 17hour orgy in a Boston hotel standing erect in the Farrell displayed no emotion As a Suffolk Superior court jury announced the he walked out smoking a Garette under Cash bail to await sentencing miss a former Airfield typist who bared her breasts during the five week trial to show an All male jury her watched the final proceedings from the doorway of an attorneys anteroom at the Side of the just after the ver dict was announced she burst into tears and slumped into a chair Wita her head on a Farrell a Veteran of 35 missions in the was convicted specifically on three counts of assault and Battery with a cigarette and razor Blade with intent to cripple and he was acquitted on two other indecent assault and com mitting unnatural the convictions on the assault counts make him liable for up to 40 years in a state court officials Doolittle asks air unification above the Helen Douglas Mankin faces a unique political struggle in the forthcoming at Lanta Douglas won the popular vote in the demo cratic but one of her two judge James won the unit term of Veteran Robert rams Peck who quit Congress to take a More lucrative Job in the aviation she won in a Roughan Tumble Battle against 18 last week Mankin came up for renomination in the democratic she won the popular vote by a comfortable but the unit vote went to judge James one of Mankins two the nomination is claimed by both Mankin and the dispute May not be settled for months it May result in both candidates running in the november general election As the unusual dispute came about in this manner for a dozen years popular vote has prevailed in the fifth the unit vote system was mandatory in statewide races and optional with District democratic executive com a lame Duck committee decreed the unit system would prevail in this aps de Kennedy reinstated by Ike july 25 War correspondent Edward Ken Nedy who was Dis accredited by supreme Headquarters after he re leased for the associated press the first Story of the unconditional surrender of is again free to work with the United states armed Sheridan told the Senate that Dwight d United states army chief of had removed any bar against the return of Kennedy As a War he that sheaf still considered its disciplinary action Harvard professor Dies july 25 Edward Godfrey professor of Public health practice and s Sci ate Dean of the Harvard school of Public died new july 25 charging that carefully planned Navy propaganda confused the Public on unification of the armed said the immediate military future of the United states lies in land based air under a single holding a news conference As president of the air Force As the Leader of the 1942 air attack on Tokyo said the single air Agency should be run by the experienced army air and charged not Only with operation of a weapons of the but with development of the air weapons of the asserting the Navy realized now that the enemy must be met in the air before he reaches Shore and that without Long Range planes it will be relegated to a secondary Doo Little said the Navy had asked the army for b29s for Long Range patrol purposes and had specified that a new Navy patrol plane would be Able to carry a bomb the Navy is As they state simply trying to maintain its presently operated land bases he they Hope to augment it and establish a naval counterpart of Tho strategic air by Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune permanent wac proposed in Bill by senator Thomas july 25 legislation to create a permanent wac was introduced by chairman Elbert Thomas Dutah of the Senate military affairs the wac now is part of the army the United a temporary wartime the regular wac would be headed by a and personnel would he limited to two per cent of the authorized personnel of the regular by Chester Gould House unanimously passes Guam fortification measure july 25 Afa As the first step fortification of was passed by the House and sent to the White House the passed would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to acquire title to certain lands and rights of Way on Dick Tracy dont opener so this is dont say your of a theme song t1llwe get a whats it to talk  mouthpiece