European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday april 24, 1949 army air officers go to College 2,500 Dof uniform for study As specialists by  a ?7 correspondent Kiew Yorks a a major 1" and Captain of the u. S. Arney Are studying the How what and Why of news and newspapers at the Columbia University Grad uate school of journalism. A lieu Tonnini colonel is studying physics at the same University. These men Are not veterans studying under the go Bill of rights. They Are members of the army and air Force and they Are among 2.500 officers sent by the army and air Force to 140 universities colleges and Indus trial schools they Range from second lieu tenants to colonels. They Wear no uniforms while they Are scattered among the students and coeds. And although they continue to draw their pay and allow ances they have practically no military duties while they Are in school. Kept Busy however if you think this leaves them lots of. Time for extra curricular affairs then you Haven t been keeping up with the latest in nuclear affairs and some of  officer Are doing just that. Some Are doing More than just keeping up. Some Are leading their classes. Or. A. B. Butts civilian educational adviser for the army said one officer at the engineering school of the Cali fornia Institute of technology led his class of 21. Most of the officer students he said were making excellent records and at the end of last year there were Only six academic failures oui of a group of 287 students. So Don t get the idea that life on the Campus is a Joe College existence of cokes and coeds. It difficult enough to go Back to school after you be been out of it for a Good Many years. Besides it s downright difficult to get anywhere on or a near a Campus. There s that housing problem you be heard about. To fill shortages the officers now going to school Are being trained to fill the critical shortage of specialists left when i Joe reconverted to civilian life. The armed forces have Learned a number of Les sons from the last two wars and among those lessons is the fad that War is now a specialist s Job. More than 100 of the officers Are studying aeronautical engineering. More than 200 Are enrolled in business administration courses. Others Are studying chemistry civil engineering and meteorology. Three Hundred Are studying guided missiles Auto motive engineering physics International relation and Public. Administration. The medical department has the largest quota of officers at schools and its trainees Are Tak ing advanced work in Medicine sanitation and Allied Fields. The military intelligence division has 28 officers studying unusual languages and the areas where they Are used. The personnel and administration division has 35 officers in advanced courses in personnel management and the troop information and education division has seven officers doing specialized work in adult Educa Tion audio visual aids discussion techniques social psychology journalism and political science. 1920 plan expanded most of the student officer Are taking graduate courses and the courses Range up to two years m length. In general officers up to 32 years of age Are. Accepted for undergraduate work 37 for work leading to a master s degree and the age limit is 42 for those seeking a doctor s degree. The services of course have their own schools and the officers Are m civilian schools Only because there in t enough room at the service schools or because the service schools Don t give the required courses. The civilian program is an expanded version of a plan the army adopted in 1920. The National defense act. Of that year authorized the War department to detail up to 2 per cent of its regular officer strength of r specialised training in civilian institutions. In 1943, the 2 per cent limitation was suspended by con Gress and the figure raised to s per cent. Legislation has been proposed to lift the 2 per cent quota indefinitely. Pm included incidentally amendments to the act. Set up a similar program for enlisted men and some enlisted men Are now taking courses also. These however Are mainly in Industrial schools. Applicants for such educational training must be volunteers and Are chosen on the basis of tests or examination of past academic records. The officers Myiow a Good Deal when they see it and com petition is pretty keen. There were More than 900 applicants for a recent quota of 107 officers. The services Are making cer Tain they will get the Benefit of this training. Although Reserve officers Are taking part in the program plans for the future indicate Only regular officers will be considered. This of course is to insure the continued Avail ability of officers who receive such training. Heart disease eliminated Scarf Blouse 317,000 from War draft a Ashington up maj. Gen. William j. Donovan has Dis closed that heart and circulatory diseases kept More men out of world War ii than were killed in Battle. The wartime chief of the office of strategic services testified be fore a Senate labor subcommittee Wlinich is considering a National heart disease research program. He said 317.000 men were rejected by selective service in the last War because of diseases of the heart and circulatory system More than the total Battle Cas  Donovan said failure to co ordinate medical and scientific Tal i Tat to combat heart disease has left 9,000,000 persons permanently disabled. Our failure to take action against this National menace is tantamount to creating a huge array of displaced persons within our National confines Donovan said. Congress juts not hesitated to Aid foreign displaced persons. How much longer will we wait before we give Aid and Succour to our own he Saiti heart ailments Are the Coal production talks will be held in us i  up representatives from the main Coal producing countries in Europe end from the u. S. Will attend conference in Scarborough England june 2-4. The conference will discuss ways and Means Lor speeding up Coal production and the develop ment of new methods. Dex Jop ment of underground haulage. Methods will figure prominently in the talks. Leading fatal diseases among Chil Dren from the Ages of 5 to 10. Rheumatic fever and heart disease cause the deaths of five times As Many children As infantile Paral Ysis whooping cough diphtheria Scarlet fever measles and Menin gitis combined he said. A by a Ehtle ingenuity is All that is necessary to transform a Scarf into an attractive Blouse like this one with decollete neckline. Just wrap the Scarf folded on the Bias around your bodice pin in Back with a pair of jewelled clips then drape the Scarf ends into Brief sleeves Over the shoulders and secure to the bodice in front with matched clips. Uranium 233 added to list of a group Washington up the atomic Energy commission has formally added a new Mem Ber to the team of materials out of which atomic bombs can be made. It is uranium 233, which now officially takes its place beside uranium 235 and plutonium among elements whose atoms explode violently under certain provocation. Uranium 233 is made Alchemy Cally from the Metal thorium under Neutron bombardment in an atomic pile. Plutonium is made in the same Way from non explosive uranium 238. The atomic Energy commission is required by Law to keep close track of All so called fissionable materials which can be used in bombs. Its ruling that u233 is fissionable material within the meaning of the act constitutes a formal recognition the com Mission said of a previously known scientific  disclosure was made s o a weeks ago that thorium is being transmuted into u233 at the Han Ford wash., plutonium works. Thorium is three to four times As plentiful As uranium the Only other natural raw material of atomic Energy. If an efficient process can be developed for changing thorium into u233, the world s atomic Energy resources vill be greatly augmented. Europe sees bumper crop Daris ins reports from eur rope an countries outside the Iron curtain indicate a Sharp improvement in Grain crop prospects this year Over the unfavourable 1947 yield. Observers see this bumper crop As another bulwark against communist pressure especially in France Italy and Greece. The Grain situation still is subject to the uncertainties of weather conditions Between now and har Vest time but with Normal weather Europe s wheat and Rye crop will exceed last year s yield and May even surpass the 1946 yield of 47.8 million tons. Self sufficiency and p r e a a r averages however Are still in the future. The 1935-39 average sex eluding Russia was 61.6 million tons. Preliminary forecasts Are that crops and pastures Are in Good condition. Grain swings report edly increased last fall in France the Netherlands Sweden and Denmark. Declines in sowing areas were noted in Greece and Belgium. The b bag address All letters to b bag . 7744th stars and stripes unit. Apo 173, v. S. Army. Include naia tand address names Are deleted on request. Due to space limitation letters May be Cut for publication provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the original Advance leave authorized i will be returning to the u. A for discharge in the near Kutvirt \ and have intentions of re enlisting 1 in the zone of the Interior immediately after discharge. I used up All my accrued leave in the. Dec. Is there some Way i could spend some time with my family and relatives say for 20 or 30 Days without staying out of he service for this amount of time i would be willing to make up for i this time on my next enlistment i if. I could take some leave without having to make a break in my i service. Sgt., Apo 1?z editor s note a maximum. Of 30 Days leave in Advance of accrual Man be granted at tint of re enlistment for a period Athree years. Such leave is charge. \ Able to Ordinary leave which would accrue in that period of i enlistment. See a 600-115. Asks return of lost camera i have tried other ways of advertisement in order to have my camera returned to me but to no Avail. It is possible that the person who presently has that item did not read the lost and i found column of the occupation chronicle or hear it on an. I j Hope that the officer in whose car i left it will return my lost i to me. It is a Retina ii gamers s serial number 102700 with b Schneider xenon Lens. At time of loss it had no cover. Phone Rhine main 676 or 744 or writer pfc f g. Lemaire 708th air Materiel so Apo 57years ago. April 24, 1944 i the Swiss announce. 12 us. Bombers have made forced land Ings in Switzerland. April 24, 1945 in Italy 5th and 8th army troops reach the to River. Soviet troops Are fighting 10 Miles inside Berlin. April 24, 1946 the Senate military affair committee endorses the plan to j unify the War and Navy depart \ ments into a single unit. J april 24, 1947 i a czech court sentences to death j former Gestapo chief Harald wies Man and five nazi henchmen i for the destruction of Lidice. I i divorces fewer in 1947 i new York ins i surant j company statisticians have Esti i mated that divorces in the u.  during 1947 dropped by about 35 per cent from the 1946 All time High. Pres Fol you re dressed for evening formalities. Imp the stars and stripes vol. A no. To saturday. April 24, j94j editor in chief it. Cou William m. Summers managing editor Ken Zumwalt sports editor Jack Ellis executive manager ,. Maurice r. Kirkwoo chief of distribution. Bernard j. Mag Nigat news bureaus Frankfurt �2813-22814 Stuttgart 93104-7ri56 Berlin 84-6681 84-66110bremen  48146 Breine Haven 22280-22202 Vienna b 47184wiesbaden 8341 ext. 388 -810 Munich 481520 the european edition is published daily at pfc Nostadt Hesse Germany for thex. S. Occupation forces under the auspices of the troop information and education division Neucom. Tel. Frankfurt21151-21152, the stars and stripes or Ungstad. Correspondence should be addressed to 7744th stars and stripes unit. Pc 175. U. 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