European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes september 195ft Kilda defends mental tests for draftees 13 Paul Kilday said fewer draftees Are being turned Down for failing pc meet intelligence standards than some people but added that there is an unusually High rate of mental turn due largely to stiffer intelligence tests and the fact that Many of those called up first have been processed before for possible Mili tary a member of the House armed services attacked what he called conflicting and alarming statements that mental tests for draftees Are too rejects he said selective service chief maj Gen Lewis Hershey has been quoted As saying As Many As 60 per cent have been turned Down by the army for failing to meet mental Hershey has said that 60 per cent of draft eligible Are being turned Down for All physical and be maintained that High army Stan Dards Are partly Kilday said Only per cent vere rejected in july for failing mental he said the surgeon general listed these other reasons for july rejections administrative 0 per cent 6 per cent per cent multiple per he said the rejection rate is now unusually High because the first to be tested were in upper age Brack ets which already had been twice subjected to induction during world War ii and in outmoded9 slogans get new meaning writer line Gillespie Dies 13 Abraham Lincoln a longtime Friend and fellow writer of James Joyce and Gertrude died in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital after a Long Gillespie signed his untitled published in limited circular Tion line with the 25tm 13 an unsentimental age which Sci the higher Virtues unless they Are sweetly cellophane in a soap opera or a popular the task of communicating the eld fashioned emotions of War be Corot formidable for a hardly a Day which does not underline the Validity of the ancient slogans once cherished in High esteem but now attacked and outmoded in a generation bemused by to own Sophis to explain the events on the Southern sector of the korean front other than in terms of fight to the last dont give up the stand or thus far and no and the other maxims which the american laughs at As corny heroism listed How Elst to detail the words of capt Robert Dillerd a company although Given permission to because his men had run of radioed this message Back to his battalion com manic were fixing bayonets and Well still be Here when you get that ammunition up to As How else to explain the deliberate action of sgt Julius who took charge of his outfit when his company Comman Der and Plato lieutenant were and led it to safety How else to Salute posthumously the valor of those same two officers who ordered air artillery by Frank Conniff army Calls up reservist already Battle casualty 13 a the army said in a letter to David he had been called from the enlisted Reserve to Active word went Back to the army yesterday that Dave Hast been Home was wounded in Korea in july As he fought with the 24th since then he has recovered and returned to the dedicated to peace the conflict in Korea focuses attention More than Ever on huge United nations building in new this View shows the foreground in Midtown and mortar fire into their own positions because it would Hurt the communist More than it would Hurt us How else to Analyse the conduct of Cpl Hideo who Lay lob Bing hand grenades into the enemy for three hours a position fully exposed to the retaliatory fire never has there been a Battle which permitted the observer to see More poignantly How the bravery of individual Soldier and of his smash unit ramified its effects throw Gill the loftier echelons and right into the August councils of the maj Gen William b 25th cd and one of the most thought Ful Soldier in frankly states that the indomitable stand of one company saved the position of the whole division in o be Savage week end not that the other companies in that regiment did not fight just As staunchly Ana but the freakish pulse of War dictated that for a few crucial hours the Blunt of the pressure should rest upon the one Only two of whose five officers Are alive today to share in the 50 Hurt in collapse of tent at Texas revival meeting 13 the final toll in the collapse of a huge revival meeting tent during a thunderstorm stood at 50 persons two of them Twenty three persons had been listed As missing but were accounted for later by police who Learned that they had gone Home after the tent the tent was split Down the Cen Ter and came tumbling Down in a welter of poles and ropes on some Many of them crippled and some crawled under the pulpit and benches to escape Many of the injured were thought to have been when the crowd scram bled in panic for Twenty persons were two Sisters from Bill and Mary were listed in critical the tent was used by the Rev Oral of who advertised that he had Power to heal Many ill and crippled the tent came Loose at one Corner three nights ago during a Small and a Man died of a heart while Rushing to get bedtime Story fort 13 31yearold fort Worth woman sought a divorce because her husband awakes her in the Middle of the night and says you would make a Beautiful 4th largest Harvest forecast in states sept 13 Harvest this year will be the fourth largest in Topping every year prior to the Agri culture department estimates appeared to Bear out earlier predictions that Price controls and rationing should not be necessary in the foreseeable a depart ment spokesman coupled with near record Reserve stocks of for More pay in three cities 13 ers went on strike for More pay in scattered sections of the nation despite president tru mans plea for no new wage de at some Mem Bers of the Cio electrical workers Union walked out at 18 general electric units to enforce contract joining other Mem Bers on strike at be plants else where in the bus Drivers at went on strike and forced an estimated daily riders to walk or take taxis to Drivers were seeking a 15 cent hourly wage about commuters were affected in a Detroit walkout of 250 suburban bus Drivers also seeking higher the Auto seemed assured of Lon term labor peace with the signing of the last major a five year contract granting wage boosts and adjustments geared to the Cost of about of the Industry workers now draw fatter pay with Nash the Only sizable Binaggio associate jailed on tax fraud Kansas 13 up close associate of the late Charles bin Aggio and Charles Gar gotta in at tempting to open up Missouri to organized pleaded guilty to a five count Federal income tax evasion he was sentenced to two years and a Day in nastily said Only two words in his brie appearance before Federal judge Albert when Ridge asked if he pleaded guilty he re Lococo was the first big timer in the local underworld to stand before a judge after the Binaggio Gargotta underworld slayings april spy ring hearing delayed new 13 first hearing in the trial of Abraham Brothman and Miriam Moskowitz on charges of obstructing Justice in the investigation of the Klaus Fuchs atom spy ring was postponed yes Terra until the departments latest 1950 crop estimates indicate there will be plenty of food in the year the Harvest be smaller than last years when fewer crops were under government Plant ing restrictions and weather was generally the new based on 1 growing included a Corn Harvest of 000 the fourth largest int there was a boost of bushels in the Spring wheat fore the crop now is estimated at there also will be a record production of soybeans and sugar Grain sorghum will be near while the korean conflict has eased official concern about Over the report foreshadowed at least one Price support headache potato a Harvest of bushels is in that is More than last months estimate and More than the 1949 of which the govern ment had to buy up a surplus of More than bushels for Price Johnson notes jewish Holiday 13 Secretary of defense Louis Johnson sent new year greetings to members of the jewish Faith in the armed his message said i wish to extend my Heartiest Good wishes to military and civilian personnel of the jewish Faith in the armed forces on the occasion of the feast of Rosh ushering in the religious year mindful of the heritage of an illustrious past and worthy in Deavors in a trying Mem Bers of every Creed join those of the hebrew Faith in prayer for a better and a happier on this commemoration i am especially mindful of those men and women who Are currently engaged in conflict to arrest the spread of modern just As their forebears Long ago fought and overthrew the tyranny of the Gibson Dies headed new York Bank 12 internationally known new York died Here yester Day after a Brief he had been president of the manufacturers Trust of new since and was a director of numerous big ladies turn cold shoulder on pyjamas old fashioned nighties preferred by wives Asbury sept 13 overwhelming majority of the nations most delectable wives have denounced pyjamas As sure Poison to married they said the old fashioned night gown was As important As their Good looks in keeping their husbands speaking for 75 per cent of her sister entrants in the 1950 America contest held Loretta of said i went for pyjamas in the second or third year of my married life but i Cut it out when my husband started to turn backing her Lillian do Petite entry from port said out West women pants and Slacks so much in the Day time they have no other Chance to be womanly except when there going to a Nightie keeps a wife on the right wifely abilities the Survey was taken As 31 candidates for the America title paraded before the judges in the final earlier contests tested their wifely abilities to sweep rugs and prepare what the judges committee called a mans break it included Ham and and critically examined Coffee officials said this years finalists were a striking contrast to those competing immediately after world Wax they were flashier and Gayer one judge now there just As pretty but a lot More that was the spirit in which married Pride of new York Beverley explained her preference for Cambric night our mothers produced Glamor instead of talking about and they didst go to a tailor for their she Irma of Miami argued personal Comfort was the real test and confessed she tumbled into bed in the leave it to things like make up and perfume for the she a Nightgown simply throttles