European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes feb Hwy Chute club by Bill Mauldin advertising for members w Ashington Ca two new club is an exclusive outfit nobody to hut who m pm l c r s Are a tend i hey made All you Tvr to do to qualify is to pm Fht Short in an air plane and make an emergency jump so my answer the rot they in uric sow distinguished like Char Les Lindbergh and generals Jimmy boo ton and Ira Raker they in clude a lot of Guys you dont know so like Juliard Cooey who was to Sinift a push lightning fighter plane in a Power Cooey was unable to null out of the so he bailed out and soon was in the Caterpillar his application said a Spectator who pick std me up claimed that my Chute opened 30 feet from the it was unusual that my Chute opened at my right Arm was torn off As i left the plane Headquarters is in and if you Send in an a air Force re member Only emergency jumps count just for fun Doest members stories run the Gamut of tall and poignant a colonel bailed out Only to hear a sergeant hey everything All right after a b24 Tail gunner tried to guide his Ehule into a wooded area but landed on a Airport William Lordi was injured and helpless in a Mission Over his Crew mates opened his Chute within a Burn ing by and dropped him through a bomb the plane blew killing All the years 1943 Wilhel shaven receives its third Taid by Allied planes within a 1944 Frankfurt and Stuttgart Are attacked by and British 1945 marines use flame throw ers to liquidate Cave and other positions on iwo Lite supreme court ruled 4hat martial Law does not give military courts the right to to Tarp the functions of civil 1947 eleven marooned on a Greenland ice were res cued by the at Pilot of a drink the rest of your we  waste Grain with All those people starving in reporter finds attitude changed in by Wes Gallagher Sofia in soviet dominated Eastern Europe policy toward Western Corres particularly has apparently been made after of refusal to Grant the bulgarian for Vasil suddenly informed american Donald Heath he would be delighted to have some Amer ican correspondents visit to get the correspondents there the yugoslav government granted the first clearances for an Amer ican plane to Fly Over its territory since two american were shot Down by the yugoslavs almost two years in a Long speech to the Amer ican correspondents visiting Deputy foreign minister Vladimir Tope Charov took pains to Point Scotland invites Sibelius Edinburgh sibe the finnish has been invited As guest of the City of Edinburgh for the second International music which will be held in the scottish Cap total from 22 to Bear cant get House either Warsaw you think its hard to find a Flat in Europe consider the beasts of the Field there Are 15 monkeys in Amster two kangaroos in a 5n Mexico City and various Fauna in Paris and Bas washing for the Warsaw City fathers to find them living the animals have been promised to the director of the Warsaw after he accepted the gifts and talked to the minister navigation into providing ship Tho municipal coun cil refused to appropriate funds to build them suitable Zabinski said Only a one an Otter and two foxes inhabit the War damaged zoo some of other remaining animals stay in the gardens of the presidential Palace at near six elks recently brought from Sweden now live at the polish National Park in but for there just int room in Zabinski said he was even allowing some of Tho smaller animate to share Iii oat that the so called Iron cur Tain was a As american correspondents were free to come and go in the guests were polite in not out some visa applications for such visits had been pending for seven or More every Effort was made to make the visit the visiting correspondents were quartered in the Best hotel and special menus offered with a perfect deluge of cocktail luncheons and when a time and life Man wag stopped by a state policeman militia while trying to take pictures in the apologies were profuse were made this would not happen it did when a functionary at a ban Quet replied to a request by a correspondent who wanted to offer a with the words that he could make it Only if it were in the right Deputy for eign minister Tope Charov publicly on the debit Side it could be pointed out that despite the Effort to requests for press conferences with prime minister Georgi foreign min ister Kolarov and the woman communist minister dra Goi Cheva were up to the time the bulk of the correspondents left these key officials were too Busy to have such con after months of negative Atti if not outright the sudden switch in press relations Between Eastern Europe and the Western press could Only be interpreted As a change in japs to build Observatory Tokyo was reported in Tokyo today that the largest Observatory in the far East will be constructed at Matsushiro in the prefecture of the Observatory will utilize the underground Bead quarters that the 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thas Way it will be to secure office s will to to do their jobs and in whom the men will have of major importance reducing the mime of Grute cers to their right relationship n comparison to Stee of Tho Annie As a Reserve officer on Active duty i Volunteer to be the first to Trio such Paul editors note a copy of letter teas referred to the director of personnel and for comment following is his the drive which the Captain mentions to Elim note  enlisted men not Slop with enlisted personnel but also to officer every Effort is being made to rid the ser tract of there officers who Are of limited value to the postwar the importance of this Campaign is being constantly stressed in cow Mand directives to the Field at the present Neucom understands that the depart ment of the army is studying methods of making fours of Active More mos tests for commissioned officers Are not partial arly effective or adequate As a basis for retention or As a basis far the officer in the postwar army is not a technician Whf must be capable of adapting himself to the multitudinous  of the Post oar although it May appear to the casual that there a t disproportionate number of Field Grade this View is not shared by the department of the Neucom has in the and will continue to stress importance of proper leadership and in the Long then two factors Uhll do More to improve of our corp than any attempt to establish arbitrary unauthorized wearing of patches and decorations Here at the 97th general Hospital i approached a visitor who Wai wearing a 34th division insignia on his right shoulder i through a bit of where did you serve with the Soldier the reply was pitiful or in the Battle of the i May be mistaken but i doubt if anyone can deny the fact that the 34th division served with the 5th army in Sicily and in the european there Are Many gis wearing unauthorized Campaign divisional in there system by which a Soldier can stand to prove to any authority the spot1 that his ribbons and insignia or patches Are authorized i doubt whether this is negligence on the part of in not Long a i was accosted and asked about Thi Patch which he was wearing on his it so happened the curio Soldier fought with the same outfit in the Soldier who a wearing the Patch illegally Here in the Hospital with me i can he cant it is the duty of maps to spot Check the wearers of ribbons and com Bat division it is also the duty of each and every Soldier to in full uniform at Ali times both on and off the Post some Guys Fig of they cannot go out without a Bronze Star ribbon or some division Patch on his right they making fools out of combat whom i have the greatest respect by displaying awards and unit citations which they Are far from being entitled to enforce these primary principles of a soldiers desire to continue in one of the finest professions in the i and officer alike should have on his person an authorization card of some sort certifying Bis authority to Wear any offenders should be booked Foi 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