European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes september 1950 first blood for Korea forces crates marked carrying the first shipment of whole blood to be sent to forces in is loaded on an Airliner at the collected by the red was later flown from san Francisco to the far East on an army Korea air lift entails seat of pants9 flying by Charles Corddry air base in 31 Little publicized korean air lift is More amazing in Many ways than the Berlin air which so captured Public imag Here and at the other end of the line in Japan there Are no longer rows of four engined c54 sky masters Landing and taking off in split second pre nor will you find the Long Concrete runways of the German bases used in the Berlin air lift there Are the old c47 sky trains and c46 100 tons airlifted Batty to far East 31 maj Gen Laurence Kuter said Here that at present the military air transport service is airlifting 100tons of men and cargo to the far East com pared to 70 tons and the commander tonnage is increasing he said that during the first 40 Days of the korean fighting Mats airlifted some High priority service men and tons of critical cargo to the far troop replacements specialists formed the bulk of those flown to the Battle while High priority cargo consisted of blood medical certain types of tank and air Craft parts and other critically needed military Korea sent Home to finish school Charleston 31 Allison Keller fought in Korea for 42 Days then the army found he was Only 16 years old and shipped him this Veteran of the Paktong River line is Back in his big problem right now is trying to de cide whether to go Back to High Odwyer nominated 31 president Truman for Mally nominated mayor William Odwyer of new York City As ambassador to he sent the nomination to the Senate for its the workhorses of world War which were recently written off As practically useless in a future although they use modern bases in the Landing Fields Here Are usually Dusty some of covered with steel Landing col Troy of the 374th to Carrier is making the most of what he has to everything from Graham crackers to Racket another phase of this air lift is called marauder cargo mis which ferry emergency air Craft parts to the supplies get Here from the in 10 equipment lacking in the Berlin air lift the most modern including made it possible for landings and takeoffs of the All the Pilot has to guide him is a radio Beacon which lets him know when he is Over the in Cloudy weather he has to set the plane Down by the Seal of his Myron of who pilots c47 on a typical delivers three tons of cargo to Korea and returns to his Home roundtrip distance of about to there have been accidents on the 24hour air on one typical Day cargo planes made 105 trips moving 106 tons of cargo to korean bases and returning to Japan with 500 passenger this did not include a few flights by c119 flying boxcars to heavy equipment to november Bond drive slated by Treasury a u 31 the Treasury is planning a november saving Bond a major weapon in the administrations fight against but unlike seven War loan drives during world a War ii there will be no fixed goal in the coming the Treasury a pesto get americans started on a systematic program of savings through regular purchases of Bonds at work or at americans already own savings Bonds totalling almost surrender or die9 yields by Quigg with 1st Cav div in 31 the draw in front of our three jeep Loudspeaker Campaign party was a Little Cluster of Earth and Straw huts into which 50 communist soldiers were believed to have we had come to talk them out with promises of Good and lodging if they would capt William of Jop looked across a Rice Paddy Valley to a Hill mass near the Nak Tong weve got a patrol out he someone spotted two men slosh ing and slogging toward us through the mud ooze of the Rice they were the when they got near enough the Captain shouted you know where those 50 gooks went soldiers answer the two men came out before they stomped the filth off their shoes and then one of pfc Joseph of bes said that what we want to talk we were fired on half an hour ago by Light Rifle and antitank it exploded when it bursts about this big he held up his we saw some gooks last they carried Little of Little said his Cpl James of the Captain decided to try our surrender Appeal on the tiny town on the Chance that the communist party might still be we backed our jeeps Over a Little Bridge Over a Rocky Stream the Village was about a Quarter of a mile jeeps kept ready our jeeps were backed in so we could get out in a if 50 enemy soldiers decided to attack instead of surrender three jeep loads would be no match for we Strung the loudspeakers As far ahead As their wires would reach and started a Little gasoline Generator on one of the i jumped Down into the Stream bed beside it Lee teak of the South korean he a handkerchief around the Small hand microphone and intoned Doong Nai in min Mai in Ming enemy in the you hear if you want to live Lay Down your put your hands on your and come into our we will give you Chow and water and clothing and let you live in South the sound boomed against the Hill and echoed Lee talked sweat streamed Down his face and his lips brushed the Metal Between speeches it was so quiet we thought we could catch the Whir of the wings of that played around Captain serious i leaned Over and asked the lieu what was it you said to them in korean was it you said to them in korean the Loudspeaker Thun dered if a Missouri and the Hills echoed the question Back at crouching up on a Roadside with a Rifle in his sgt Ernest of Peak hollered come out wherever you it was no either they were not there or were i climbed out and asked the Captain if anyone had come out Only a he he say anything i said the Captain did he have his front paws Over his head said the some captains Are awfully news from Hollywood Lana Back in Pinzas next lined up by Lou Ell a Parsons Hollywood the first Day of shoot Iii on i m p e r i u Lana Turner walked in wearing a Lana Hast been in Lana Turner i asked Mary Pickford where the Money came from that gave Paul Mcnutt and Frank Mcnamee a one third interest in United i dont Mary but i do know it was bought by a Syndicate which has an option to buy Charlie chaplins and my remain ing Stock in United which would give them Complete Mary said there will be a Board of nine portent men both in and out of the Pickford chosen by Mcnutt and she was paid close for her part of the on third Stock which Mcnutt and Mcnamee a and Charlie received the same in told the Money came from a Philadelphia saw Bob Walker coming out of one of Beverly hills1 big stores with Nancy and carrying her greater love hath no Man Louis Here for his annual visit and to see his new didst look like grandpa at the Hernando Courtright birthday he had pretty Monica Lewis on his Doris Duke says even Mark trains death is less True than her investment of in a new Las vegas it was printed somewhere in new Olivia de who has read a Mountain of movie scripts and has been offered Many stage May Settle for Romeo and jul she is now talking with Ker Mit who produced death of a sales Man and com Mand i was partic i ulary interested because i know de Havilland when Olivia was in new Lawrence Lang Ner had offered her Romeo and Juliet for the theater and i also know she turned it so the Bloomgarten Deal will prob ably be quite a Surprise to the theater but Livvie is a girl who knows what she wants to maybe that Why Shes such a top a sweater since the Hays office Tabooed i believe there is no a ban on a lady wearing this revealing it would be too bad if there any All Lanas old time Glamor is much in i asked Dore schary about strictly which i wrote sometime ago had been bought from Preston Sturges by Mem for Ezio he says it will be Pinzas but there is also a Story in which Ezio and Mario Lanza Are they will play father and so secret is the preparation that not even a title is Given the its called the Pinza Lanza that Fine negro actor James who was so Good in Home of the has been signed by Mark Robson for lights James has just returned from a personal appearance tour through the Midwest and the South where he talked to negro audiences on behalf of the motion i Artie Shaw denies that he made any transatlantic Calls to Ava Gard but he Doest deny that she telephoned Gregory Peck wont be Able to appear in a single play at his la Jolla hell be tied up in Barbara Stanwyck got a big kick out of the Surprise party Given on her birthday by the William hoi Dens and other close a tree Stanwyck Shaw of orchids with a card signed Span Gler Arlington Brugh Bob Taylor made the evening Gene Tunney has turned novelist and is writing a who do you think is advising him mar no who been his House guest for two talk u that Mike the and Bis manager Are interested in buying the Bolly Wood palladium from its 16 Stock most of whom Are movie Allan Jones and Irene Hervey Are taking Over Bebe Daniels to show in London for four weeks while Bebe takes a Bebe has been plugging the fact that Allan will introduce his new song called Margaret dedicated to the on the first Homo rotund comedy is coming Here to talk to Columbia about a series to be called the fat Jack Cher to k assigned Douglas Kennedy As his new Cowboy Star films and if Mary Broadway is answering playwright Pete Ber Neis in double talk every time he Aslou her to marry
