European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1946, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 1 once Busy at base at Cairo reverts to Frontier Post status by having a Juard and Peter Hart staff the stars and stripes August proposed As Rescue Gar built in desert East of still has excellent for the swing which Are held the Breeze swept open under yellow Nile Valley Beauty and Jive Talent Are assembled from All Over the Middle East an informal which undoubtedly missed Many representatives showed on one Satur Day night dancing companions included not Only americans Ana British but natives of Palestine v and other arabian there were also a blonde from the White russians and a Brunette who spoke the French of hamburger stand adjacent to the dancing Pavilion is probably the Best hamburger stand outside the that takes to a lot of but then the Chee scarred who answer to the Call of do a remarkable Job on the Watss unhesitatingly agree that they Are the Best they have eaten in air schedules and redeployment have greatly reduced the in the Days when planes circled the Field awaiting a turn on the Ems and 500 officers handled 560 passengers and pounds of cargo for the far East every today at is closed out in the Only base East of Payne Field is at saudi on the persian about six to seven air hours once a scheduled plane goes out there and comes go stay As civilians not a few of the Fields former army fliers and maintenance men have hired themselves at High rates to air lines flying from Cairo to such Remote places Len a lot of american Hoys just Arent going Back to the they have tasted the old world a Romance and Charm and have gotten their hands on some of Money and like them the late president Roosevelt former prime minister Churchill and Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Waishek All used at in and out of Many months after the historic Cairo Payne Field is still a watering place for notables who drop Down out of the recently the base was Host at the same time to four special Rounth world planes carrying american these included Secretary of the Navy James postmaster general Robert assistant Secretary of 1943 at the Edge of of War Stuart Urra director Fiorelo assistant director of the budget Weldon and a congressional the latter consisted of Millard Tydings of Allen Emend or of and Hugh Butler of and Fred Craw Ford of George Miller of and Robinson of repel Rommel before Payne Field was built at headquartered in a Shack at Raim Furby hello Polis assisted the 8th British army when help was sorely lend lease had provided the British with general Grant tanks to push Rommel bad along the North african but the tanks were useless without fuses for the tank ammo which were loaded on a anchored off the situation was so desperate that Theatch Liaison officer was advised by the British that unless the 15 tons of fuses were obtained in three Days Cairo and the Suez canal would probably be the evacuation of Cairo was already in but the at brought the fuses from the Gold coast across the vast expanse of Africa in 38 hours and the tanks were put in the British lines held and then the in the critical War year of Payne Fields major operations included the transport of us staf personnel to be used in the shuttle bombing Mission movement of Al Crait Ana supplies and personnel assigned to the 20th bomber command through to and movement of vital aircraft equipment air units in the Chi establish air routes in the same air routes were established to such countries As Cyprus and saudi transport of International personages and person Nel and equipment for such meetings As the conference became Payne Field has been the base for the handling of medical personnel and supplies to combat typhus and other diseases in Belgrade and elsewhere in Southern Europe and the Middle East the history of world War could not be written without the great record of the at and the history of the at hat notable place for the Payne Payne Field was by no flying but it was a key Point on americas War in an attempt to find new methods i of crash Rescue two medium tanks Are being converted into emergency vehicles by the a weather division of the air material the purpose of this at is to enable rescuers to reach the scene of a crash More quickly in weather and to establish new methods for keeping trapped victims alive until they can be stripped of All armament the tanks will be capable of speeds around 50 Mph and will be Able to take direct routes Over rough terrain to the scene of the six Rescue workers will Man each in which there will be tools designed to Cut quickly into a the vehicles will be fire roofed and will carry firefighting equip ment the crash Rescue equipment is still in the experimental it has a been american exiles find favo Wilh German readers that tales by Hoffman by lures staff Wriler is the element in Ger Many Reading these Days director of the United states information centers in Ger a Branch of the information control division of military gov has most of the answers for the american Konrad Veidens Der the stateside bestselling expose of hitlers nebulous beginnings and Rise to Heads the More serious Reading while William Berlin diary and numbers like Howard Smiths last train from Berlin Are on the popular nonfiction list t its not necessarily the officially banned books that germans Headrick but Many of the wartime published Allied books Are sought realistic authors favored for a German translation of any Cronin novel is a Good bet american which Are being produced in Germany after a 12year and the More realistic american authors such As hem inf and Steinbeck favorite Reading Thomas wolfes look homeward first translated into German during the Early of the Nail then is now experiencing a curious Tolstoy War and several Pushkin novels and the works of Franz Werfel and Stefan two of Germany exiled Are in favor the Joseph series of Thomas Mann and that authors Lotte in Weimar Are in the Semi popular list Ernst Wlech Erti Forest of the written about and during the authors stay in a concentration is strangely enough a Best seller despite the German claim that they have been fed to the Teeth with atrocity one is As Hendrick be cause the Reading Public trusts the writers literary thousands of technical and scientific Are Bellg avidly read by the medical books and the advances of medical science have impressed the germans Treen Headrick consequently have inspired a greater respect for the United pictorial magazines Are popular but serious political periodicals Aye few Swiss published books and newsprint Are More in demand than american possibly because of the common the us1c chief but More probably because the germans respect the Swiss View Point in selecting literary nine usic libraries to Date there Are nine usic libraries open in the zone in Frank or and Augsburg with the Frankfurt Bureau acting As the zonal distribution Ulm and Karls Ruhe will open the Middle of this month and Kassal and Darmstadt Are expected to have centers by the end of the Fly the years end there will be 24 such outposts of american culture in the allocated War department budget for the 1947 will be which will enable the centers to be supplied books on every conceivable subject an average of 78 to 100 German civilians use the Frankfurt Taurus anlage Center Library entitling the bearer to withdraw one Book and one Magazine a can be secured by any German who can get two card bearers to vouch for an letters my rhe Stan and Ami include Abii and names Are deleted on one to space letters May be Cut for provided alter the of Leanne of toe religious radio programs when i first came Over i read in Baba that the old fashioned revival hour would soon be on still there is no such we have religious programs on the but lets get something the majority of the listeners Tike a program from which we can get Spiru Tual spiritual and spiritual surely the old fashioned re Vival hour a just for it int a Little but to from coast 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