European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August photo school of graduate 54 gis As top trouble shooters in it official bulletin by Allan Dee fuss staff writer 54 gis at constabulary head quarters will be issued i and every adjunct except a Stetson hat with a press pass in its to equip them for their Job As top trouble shooters of the As the first class in the newly organized Provost marshals photo graphic the 54 were chosen by their unit officers from 27 squad Rons of the zonal police Force to go through a four weeks course which trains them to be the photographic of almost in cameras alone after being taught How to Load film and focus the students Are transported in Masse a selected they travel a half mile by truck to a tank depot where the prospective cameramen take shots of the rusting and battered Iron War some of them selected for the course have never held anything More Complex than a Box camera in their amateurish a very few worked professionally in portrait studios and on minor newspaper As a this amalgam of bulletin column is published in conformity with letter a a set 22 sept subject official bulletin column in the to assure rapid and Complete dissemination of oficial announce ments to All Usset pfc Leonard of Brooklyn y explains the Amer coins of a Speed graphic of eager students at the 51st con Steb he in the students Are under Gong a four weeks course to prepare them to take special of special investigating members under the guidance of chief instructor Robert of the neophytes Start from scratch the first item my for the course is the Speed graphic news before the potential Edward Steichen and Joe Rosenthals Are allowed to Lay a heavy Finger on the expensive a they Are Given a thorough briefing in the nomenclature of the equipment when the chief instructor and his five i All of whom Are signal corps believe their charges ready for the a camera is issued to each student As though prize equipment were spam out of surplus figured at roughly for each the new school has an endowment relaxed syntax varying Talent produces shots of the same object which run the Gamut from the most graphically exact delineation of the subject to blurred horrors shot from such weird angles that the result Best approximates a surrealistic impression of a Spaghetti eater flying through a heavy is the keynote of the instructors have found that men who appeared almost sadly hopeless As photographers during the first stages of the practical lessons improved amazingly through the use of constructive criticism and com Parison of their printed achievements with the works of their fellow during the succeeding weeks of the students Are taught Basic Darkroom and use of the filter and Flash no Hooky but Homework playing Hooky from the school is virtually As the course students Are Given individual test such As shooting buildings in the old City of special events or candid of people on the such assign ments Are designed to give the new photographer Confidence in handling his animate and and to teach him to develop the split second action that will play a great part in his later constabulary As Homework is strangely popular in the As students Are allowed to borrow cameras for their of duty hours to Brush up with studies of anything from a Sunset Over the Regnitz River to a because of their future Liaison work with my students Are taught in the last Days of the snap course How to take properly identifiable pictures of dead smashed and contraband Dis shipment of pets from the s to the european theater shipment of pets dogs and cats Only belonging to members of the u army and we or their de on duty in the occupied from the to zones of occupation in Germany and Austria is pets May be carried without charge for Ocean transportation on cargo vessels owned on bar boat charter or wholly allocated to the but May not be carried on Pas Senger vessels so chartered or All shipments will be at owners the general procedure to be followed is outlined below personnel who desire shipment of authorized pets to the u occupied zones May submit application by letter substantially As indicated in Annex applications will be forwarded through the unit commanders to the Community who will in turn Forward them direct to this Headquarters at Tention a no priority system will be established for the ship ment of pets and applications May be forwarded to this Headquarters at any by Community commanders will for Ward a typed consolidated list per Annex b to accompany any application for the shipment of pets from the the original and one copy of this list will he forwarded with the original copy of the application direct to this Headquarters attention a the theater adjutant general will Forward to the new York port of embarkation consolidated information required for the shipment of this will constitute the necessary theater approval for the entry of the listed pets into the occupied transportation from the Point of origin in the u to the new York port of embarkation will be the owners responsibility and at his sex e owners or authorized representatives will apply direct to the new York port of embarkation for shipping at the time of making such application the owner will be required to furnish the new York port of embarkation a certificate of an army or registered indicating 1 the animal has been vaccinated for rabies with approved vaccine not less than 30 Days and not More than 5 months prior to the Date of application 2 the if less than two years has been immunized permanently against this immunization is not required for it is essential that necessary inoculations be administered prior to delivery of the animal to the new York of embarkation since permanent inoculations against distemper require to six weeks and can not accomplished at the vaccination certificates will be attached to the crate and will accompany the animal from the shipping Point of Orl Gin to its destination in the european i the pet owner will also be required to prior to shipment from the a suitable Chain and pan for feeding the animal while the crate provided by the owner will be commensurate with the size of the g payment will be made in Advance to the new York port of embarkation by the owner or his authorized representative to cover the following 1 1 food for 31 Days this food covers the period from the time the animal is accepted by the new York port of embarkation until it la delivered to 2 attendants fee during sea f3 Cost of any veterinarian supplies or service if the new York port of embarkation will advise the owner or his authorized representative of Cost of items 2 and military Community commanders will take such action As is deemed necessary to in sure that Bills Are paid 2 17th major port will turn the Money orders received Over the disbursing of her on Standard form 1044 with the following breakdown Rosa 7 b miscellaneous services including veterinarian and miscellaneous receipts general fund a other services or c miscellaneous services including veterinarian and same account As b 3 the use of dependents train for the purpose of transporting pets from the port to their destination in Germany and Austria is authorized Only because there is As yet no German civil express Agency in and because at the present time these trains May be used for the purpose without undue inconvenience to the at some future express service becomes available direct arrangements with the German railway will become the owners if at some future dependent trains Are or for other reasons the transportation of pets within the theater from the port to the owner places an undue Burden upon military the service will be discontinued and it will become the owners responsibility to arrange for transportation to 4 in View of varied National restrictions on importation of animals into other the shipment of pets from the destined for delivery outside the zones of occupation of Germany and Austria is not authorized under the pro visions of this personnel desiring to import their pets outside of the zones of Austria and Germany will be responsible for making All necessary arrangements with appropriate National governments and commercial agencies for direct importation to the country con 5 in the Case of applications for per Mission to bring pets to the occupied zones from european a form letter As in Annex a will be accompanied by a certificate of an army or registered official veterinarian to the effect that the animal has been vaccinated for rabies with approved vaccine not less than so Days nor More than 5 months previous to the Date of the theater adjutant general will refer the application to the office of the theater chief surgeon attention veterinary Branch for upon receipt of that approval he will Send a letter of instruction to the individual named in Par 4 of letter Annex which will constitute authority for the shipment of the pet into the occupied transportation of the pet will be the owners responsibility and at his a 454 gds ago by command of Mcnarney a chief of staff official George Herbert adjutant general Date Annex subject application for transportation of pet to unit commander 1fts under the provision of circular this 13 july i hereby make application for the transportation to the occupied zone of pet described of pet dog or Patlon to which my tar destination of the pet is military responsible for handling shipping arrangements full or the conditions and instructions contained to circular 105 which will to esp ment of pets to the i understand sit shipment of is is entirely at owners risk and i am Ruth Keene Bremerhaven military Community cafe Illinois 1946 the european edition u Publ Sheo at near Bavaria for the armed forces under the auspices of the information Educa Tion Nurnberg civilian Altdorf 180 correspondence to this edition should be addressed to Apo mall to the new York office should be sent to 841 Washington this to not an official publication of the entered As second class matter March at the Post Offlee new n v under act of March 1879 h in addition to the charges collected by the new York port of embarkation ithe owner will be required to pay charges necessary to defray expenses within the theater As follows d 00 to cover Cost of food required from the time the pet arrives in the theater until it is delivered to the owners military army veterinarian and handling ser 2 to cover transportation from the port in those cases where the Desti nation is outside the Bremen collection of the foregoing theater charges will be As indicated in Par 1 immediately after the new York port of embarkation will notify the 17th major port of the animals on each giving the name of the owner and the military Community to which the owner is upon arrival at the pets we be processed at the Bremerhaven pet staging area and held until a dependent train leaves the the 17th major port initiate alive Stock which will be securely fastened to the crate of each pet this will contain the following information name of time and last Date fed and initials of attendant who fed the pets will be loaded in baggage cars of dependents trains the 17th port will furnish sufficient food and water for the trip and will designate an Atten Dant who will be responsible for taking care of the pets in transit and for obtaining receipts for same at this individual May have other duties on the train As circumstances the 17th major port will notify major which will in Turret notify the the unloading of ont to which the pet will be consigned and the the major will sible for designating a representative to meet the Sten a receipt for the and make final delivery to the of theater charges will made in the following manner 1 upon dispatch of the animal to the my tary the 17th major por will Send a Bill for the appropriate amount to the owner of the pet through his military Community the owner will pay the Bill by postal which will be made out in favor of the treasurer of the states and will be mailed through the commanding attention finance 142nd disbursing finance Sec 17th major Apo timed late signature of unit of apply p cat pets to show name of military Sty and Date we Breed of weight an Grade of applicant name of agent shipping address of agent shipping rocket plane to be tested 3 army air forces predicted to Day that its new rocket propelled the Bell will be Able to zoom through the strato sphere at an Altitude of feet and a rate of Miles an aah said the first test flights will be made at maroc army air in the near it emphasized that the plane will not try for a Speed record during its initial test the Mph it will probably not be reached until late next the developed by the aah in conjunction with the Bell aircraft is not a military it is strictly a Hying test aah experts have designed and in stalled in it numerous instruments to record data needed to further their study of supersonic Speed and its attendant address All letters Tot b bag the stars and Apo include name and names Are deleted on due to space letters May be Cut for provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the marriage ban officer was quoted on an As having said that Large numbers of once they were Back Home with Amer ican had indicated their pleasure that the marriage ban had prevented their entanglement with German the moral of the report seemed to be that the marriage ban is a Good because it saves occupation soldiers from the Wiles of German thereby get Ting them Home safely to the Superior Type of american those whose interests in German women went no further than the can very Well report after redeployment How Happy they Are at being Back with american its much simpler to find american women in the and they speak much better the radio report didst mention the thousands of soldiers and who Are remaining in the it in order to be with the girls we the will be the of to lift the marriage its politically much easier to discourage and delay the marriage of a few thousand men in love than to risk the fury of a greater number at who never got closer to the War than the weekly wants open collars Why does Tusket Issue an appropriate order allowing All personnel to go without ties during duty it is done on most army posts in the states during the summer and also in the Pacific since we must Wear ods All year the very least that could be done would be to allow the i to go it Doest detract from the appearance of the or it would never be allowed to go on Back Why not give us a break Over Here editors note go paragraph a provides that the Necktie will be worn except the Field and under simulated Field con it to considered that the wearing of a tie makes the uniform look much and is bound to affect the opinion of the German people it is an Aid to our occupation plugs for pinups a notice appeared on our bulletin Board instructing everyone to take Down All pinup pictures from the pinup pictures make a room look 100 per cent and also help keep up a soldiers when a picture like 0600 hours is declared a prize winning and then officers Bitch about which no one sees except men he is lust Plain that is the Way we my a regular army if we Are going to have a regular Why not have one like the old timers most old timers think we Are beginning to have a civilian if officers Are going to have no More privileges than enlisted and Stop Salut we cant have discipline and Pride in the it the army were like it was 10 years lots of soldiers would have More Pride in their lets get All the three year and build a real 686tb a