European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes april 1948 experts pare big Diamond for Elizabeth 1 Ondon a Small in l pretentious room in the Center of Hal ton Garden four men Are cutting and polishing a Diamond the value of which one Day will top that of the Hope Diamond the a wedding present to Princess Elizabeth from John Tho Burn Canadian doctor and owner of african was 54 carats when it reached this a third of the Way through the cutting the Brilliant is 35 carats in dirty and unimpressive to the casual of but to the Stone unique in size and per receives Check cutting of a Diamond the size of Princess Elizabeths is a highly skilled one slip in the Angle of cutting would re sult in a loss of thousands of nobody knows what the Prin Cess will do with her whether she will use it in a Pendant or piece of personal or Park it in of Buckingham palaces starting May the precious Stone will be on View to the Public the British industries pair in gets Large estate n Philadelphia John Gellert left almost All of his estate to the common wealth of his at Torney said the Only reason he gave was that he thought the state could use the the filed for set aside for care of his grave and for a Granite it added the residue of my estate 1 leave to the common wealth of Pennsylvania for Gen eral attorney Channing who Drew ii the will in said the 60yearold a killed he lived alone and Ellery said his chief interest was his flock of Navy vehicles of after year it Snow Washington Navy department has reported that motorized equipment purposely abandoned in the Arctic showed no signs of deterioration or appreciable damage after a 12 month the engines of the equipment started without the Navy cited a report from Ensign Mallory who recently returned from a visit to Little America saying a weasel Snow dug out of a ten foot Snowdrift was started up on lubrication and the storage Battery which had remained in it one Jap scrip held valid Philip Pines supreme court has ruled that payment of debts in japanese military currency Dur ing the occupation was the court also held the japanese Mili tary was within International Law in liquidating All no filipino such Banks should try to collect from the japanese govern the opinion television plans expand As Industry spurts ahead ni11 my warm inf Irinne it  television is growing up fast Back Home and manufacturers look hopefully of the Day where youll have one like of your Acme new developments have Given new impetus to the rapid growth of americas television All along the television facilities have been stepped up beyond general even Matching the optimistic predictions of a few months Here Are some of the factors which have increased the rate of television expansion lifting of James los ban on live music for Tele rapid increase in the number of sets in the hands of the making advertisers More willing to do heavy spend ing for first rate television approach of the National party the Louis Walcott the season and other events that be naturals for in expansion of television network facilities that will make better programs Avail Able Over wider Here Are some of the results of the Vitamin shots there Are 23 stations on the air with two More due to Start regular programs at the end of the War Only eight were on the the total is due to go up sharply to 50 or 60 by the end of the seventy other stations have been Given construction permits and More than 180 applications Are on britishers designs bicycle to eliminate muscle aches i Ondon armchair bicycle designed to banish Saddle l soreness and muscle aches is Britain latest gift to Cycle fans designed by 23yearold Russell the Cycle is guaranteed to make cycling As comfortable As the cyclist rides in a resilient Slung seat with an adjustable Backrest which gives Comfort in almost armchair science reports penicillin aids he sits in a Semi recumbent position with the full weight of his body taken off the handle this novel seating arrange ment enables the braking opera Tion to be carried out by a Down Ward twist of the British bicycles do not use the american Type sprocket a Point of the new invention is the Batter fed rear the Light with its Long flex can be easily removed from its con Tainer at night to provide Light for punctures and other who spent 18 months designing and building the Cycle because he and his wife were tired of incessant muscle Hopes to have his invention on the Export Market years april 1945 president Truman and Dwight Eisenhower deny a press report that Germany has surrendered unconditionally to the allies april 1946 simultaneously the in Security Council meets in new York the big four foreign ministers in Paris and the Allied control Council meets in april 1947 Ana the woman in red who figured in the Bis shooting of gangster John dil linger in Dies in the roman Ian Village of q Amel o research director of the Bristol laboratories in has described a new form of the wonder drug penicillin which he says May mean a for Many types of Menotti said the penicillin As yet is a refinement of Flo Cillin is a suspension of penicillin in a new liquid combi nation that Breaks up the penicillin particles so that it is delivered to physicians in a thick White the improved Flo Civilin retains effectiveness for 36 hours necessitating injections Only twice a giant Sunspot d discovered at Western Observatory los Angeles giant Sunspot with a diameter twice that of the Earth has been observed at Griffith Dinsmore Observatory said the spot was one of the biggest on he estimated it was Miles across the with an outer rim Miles it rep resents a Gigantic disturbance High Energy on the sur he such spots have absolutely no effect on he but this one might very Well disturb radio reception and telegraphic writer wins soup slogan prize Detroit 27yearold unsuccessful freelance writer who was Down to his last Nickel was awarded for writing the Best Limerick in a contest sponsored by a soup a month All Joseph Waitz of Detroit had was a battered typewriter and the Faith of 21yearold in their Kitchen was 30 pounds of Coffee he had bought trying to win another Waitz splurged of his Money to buy a Case of Lipton Noodle soup and entered 40 Limer icks in the Noodle soup began to appear frequently on the Waitz House hold highly skilled business recently president Robert Smallwood of the Thomas lip ton company handed Waitz a s it was the second such contest that Waitz had last year he received a washing machine in a similar Carolyn said that her husband never has received any Money for his writ ing but got plenty of very Good rejection the couple said they plan to buy a House with their prize Black topsoil wearing thin conservationist has warned Uncle Sam that his skin is wearing the skin he was talking about is the Black topsoil from which Spring the grains and grasses that have fed a sizable chunk of the world these past few Kenneth executive Secretary of the Izaak Walton league of said that and Snow have ground away three inches of soil since our country was and there Are Only six inches at the rate were he our descendants wont have enough dirt to Plant and that would be curtains for scientists new Poison Chicago he most poisonous simple compound known in the world has been produced by a group of american University research fifty times More potent than sodium a Quarter of a Pound would kill everyone in a City of it was the bag address All letters to b bag Edi 7714th stars and stripes Aio include name and address names Are deleted on due to spare letters May be Cut for provided such editing does not alter the meaning of the desires Transfer to medics i would like to know Why the army tells a Man one thing and does on May i was transferred from Korea to the for reassignment to the it under provisions of we circular this circular listed the Moss that were critically needed in the i was being reassigned As a medical technician when i arrived in the i was put into an infantry company to take Basic training this was in october and As yet i am unable to get a about a week ago i was called into the orderly room to sign for my primary mos 409 in my service i was interviewed and reassigned this mos by a Board of officers in november what i want to know is there some Way i can be transferred Back into my original Branch of enlistment i enlisted for three years in the medical corps on March i would like very much to continue my medical the Type of work i am doing now is in no Way connected with my primary editors Kote the above with signature was referred to the director of personnel and for his reply follows the provisions of department of the army circular 1947 require that All enlisted men except those holding primary mos 521 or in Grade seven or six be assigned to duty in either their primary a related second Ary or in school or on the Job training for a new mos falling within the same group As their primary action to comply with this directive is currently being taken in the european command and is scheduled for completion on or before May providing downhearted is not included in one of the several categories excepted from readjustment proceedings he May anticipate that his current Mal assignment will be corrected in the near the writer indicates that Dur ing the past six months he has been endeavouring to obtain an assignment in accordance with his qualifications and Branch of service for which but does not state the method resorted under the circumstances he a request for Transfer initiated tinder the provisions of a 615200 should have accomplished the desired Transfer or ultimately would have reached Neucom Headquarters for action the files do not contain a record of such a Case having been received during the past six 145 april 1948 editor chief Summers managing editor sports executive manager chief of distribution Maurice Kirkwood Bernard Mcguira news bureaus Frankfurt 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