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Publication: London Stars and Stripes Thursday, January 25, 1945

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   London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Ii tomorrow 1945  May affect 4fs 0emands for manpower come from the the Navy and from about Are being inducted monthly for military forces under present draft in the cases of inductees taken from essential War replacements must be found for the Home workers in munitions plants dropped to from the wartime High of in and Turr Jover in most War plants has been Many workers Are on deferred because they Are in full time pro auction of about of these Are under and would be desirable replacements for combat those in Industry who Are under 26 and deferred for essential War work total about largest Pool of manpower is in class rejected for military ser vice because of physical or mental close to age 18 through Are this and the government has no control Over where they work this would apparently indicate that a 4f draft would be the most effective single Congress May not be to pass a compulsory service Law for while leaving other segments of the population free to work where they Campus Calls yets Uncle Sam footing expenses under the i Bill of Honor ably discharged veterans of world War ii Are appearing on College campuses All Over the United preparing them selves for peacetime one example is the program under Way at new York where More than 700 veterans Are enrolled this a unique plan of sem tutorial classes starts every monday morning and permits in coming former servicemen to begin without waiting for a regular term to special Counselor and social programs ease the process of re adapting to civilian most popular courses for veterans at Nyu Are those in sciences and business Many students Are entering Fields in which they worked while in the under the i a veterans gets a month for plus an additional if he has one or More do the government pays tuition supplies and instruments up to for an Ordinary school if Over 25 when he entered service the Teran is entitled to refresher or retrain ing not to exceed one to obtain further education at government experts he must show that his education actually was interrupted by the those who were under 25 when they j entered May obtain free schooling based on length of a report by the army service based on a Cross Section Survey of troops both in the and in overseas shows that of approximately enlisted men now in the army have definite plans to return to full time school or an additional Are seriously considering resuming their education on a full time but Are undecided for or else have conflicting planes and shells cargo of ten vessels launched in record time lie along a Pacific coast at workers put finishing touches on a Cyclone big Carload of heavy ammunition to meet urgent army order has been shipped from this Pennsylvania workers Are checking 8inch Industry at the top americas War Arsenal 1944 was a record than air planes were delivered by the aviation this equals number of planes built in states from when Orville Wright tested his flying until when american plane factories moved into High l the air planes built in 1944 to be heavier and carried More hitting Power than planes built measured in Airframe production last year Over a billion americas Airi crippled so badly in the Pearl Harbor is close to its Peak and Cap be measured by the number of aircraft produced since the nation began close to 231000 air planes have been built since this year More than Are scheduled for while last years production figures looked there was be optimism inthe aircraft record for the delivered that Jno nth were two per cent under what the schedule the delivery of altered to meet changed military was even further behind behind schedule were the Corsair Navy fighter and twin engine Navy patrol Jeason for planes called Joes shoes the shoe fittes measured an infantry mans feet let go with a Low his size was 20eeeee five but the army forked Over the j those Are the widest size on record there is a 1 worn by which probably is the medium or the army is paying off in Correct shoe despite the walloping quips levelled at Uncle Sams uniforms those in the Busi Ness say that in nothing the Soldier gets More than an even a total of 25q varying sizes Are maintained in Stock they begin at the 3aaa Mark and go As wide As in cases of foot As the infantryman Boston pm Dermot custom hand makes them to shoes of this Type run into thousands and Are delivered monthly to service men and women the world a Host of Prcz bless greets the army groaning shoe among them fallen Flat Hammer toes numerous methods Are lick these including that of feet wounded in thus no one is col Shou each Case is paid off with shoes that fit the for adaptation to an Odd size foot a standardize shoe easily May be adjusted by cutting away or shaving the or by adding other really Tough require special individual Las cured Maple at the or dispel models the deformed foot of soaked when the plaster removed and fresh plaster i the rejoined Only three quarters of the corsairs called for were because of parts shortages and changes in Assembly lines of subcontracting of army air Force Only the c46 commando and the a26 invader were much behind a c46 Plant had to be closed for inventory and some of the Assembly lines of invader subcontractors also had to be american shipyards in 1944 turned out close to totalling dead weight in 1940 All the ships of the United states merchant Fleet amounted to less than 1944s produced shipping the number of merchant ships built since Pearl Harbor now stands at Over similar records have been set in the production of ordnance and motor equip around pieces of and have been built for doughboy since americas entry into Over 35 billion rounds of Small arms ammunition have been produced More than rifles and carbines and around the army has received close to some motor carriers for self propelled guns and scout and armoured cars and personnel As 1945 american workers Are getting set for the biggest production always at the Bottom made from a doctor with wrapped i plaster of gardens it is poured into no a replica of the at the Boston pm defy expert shoe mechanics make the Model into a on which shoes for the deformed feet Are the models final resting place is in a store awaiting future by this process even the oddest shaped feet can be fitting alone is not the army sole must be unfortunate cows who gave their hides so that doughboy could slog in Comfort deserve decorations other than the butchers no two tone suedes or fancy toe designs Are found in the army Stock i brogans Are built strictly to stand up under Wear and tear and mud and the Are As comfortable As bedroom almost As orthopaedic experts study Model of Odd sized from which shoe is made Meyer 6 feet who sports 14a a Man in Centre is Nyu issues books to world War ii still another they plan to attend Par time school or All estimates Are based on White enlisted personnel Al slightly smaller percentage of negro men intend to take full time Over 90 per cent of the men definitely planning to return to full tune school Are less than 25 years of and a slightly higher percentage Are of these men with full time two thirds say they will go to the remainder Are mainly interested in Trade and business for vet proposals to Aid veterans of world wait ii in still More ways predominated among More than 500 Bills most of sounding the which were tossed into the legislative hoppers on the first Day of the 79th the sought after spot of House Resolution 1 went to a proposal submitted by in representative Ludlow others along the same line included by representative Lesinski provide for adjusted service pay for those in armed forces by Vorhis to provide for Dollar for Dollar Matching by the government of enlisted mens hydroponics Ferdinands not these Guys tall them Ferdinands Flower youre asking for a punch on the Tell them they Are whizzes at hydroponics and their answer would take it easy with the fifty franc i Call Beni what they chemist and their eyes they see themselves in the postwar world raising plants without As self supporting citizens raising vegetables or Flowers with twitches brew sin off seasons when paces Are the exclusive miam Biltmore hotel in Coral is the setting where servicemen Are learning a streamlined Way to truck j men of the j army air forces convalescing from wounds Are learning to grow plants of All kinds in Sand or gravel by juicing the mediums instead of drawing rabbits from their stage props the grounded sky Farmers Are plucking luscious Toma toes and tender peas from vegetables can be grown on a Commer Cial scale by the hydroponic and without the hard work required by Ordinary farm veterans whose rehabilitation will require a longtime in the outdoors or those disabled for harder work can become self supporting through this the army is teaching them the inside of this with Loans backed by the vets with a inclination to farm on a modest scale can become self supporting by operating commercials Zeid plants either in Green Bouses or Small plots out of hydroponics is nothing when first the claims made for it were too it is a Way to feed crops a balanced diet of chemicals to prod the plants into growing fast and at any of the Quali ties of size and texture can be by mixing certain chemicals in his Labora tory the chemist Farmer can Force plants to yield deeper larger and More delicious edible or larger and hardier groundwork for this Way of Small scale farming without soil is being Laid at the rehabilitation project at the aah Hospital at Coral the Basic and scientific education is being Given to the former sky men by the Man with whiskers so they can walk into the confident of making their Way on their Dave disabled fortress and chemically grown fee cab awl by Joseph Wechsberg tomorrow correspondent there seems to be something like a new Brooklyn and Brooklyn Bridge literary of Betty Smiths a tree grows in Brooklyn started it Albert Idell has written new novel Bridge to which concerns the building of the Bridge in the 1870s and another Harold coffin Syrette the City of reports on the intrigues which originated around the Bridge and Brace have announced for Spring publication a biography of the chief John Vive Brooklyn Mark Hellinger prepares the life of will Rogers for Warners and Lauren Warners terrific currently making the big sleep with Humphrey they say that no one is going to fall asleep when they seeker on the and not in profile  Sonja just declared by thes Hollywood women press club the most uncooperative actress is still one of the 1 towns great other runners up include such i favourites As Betty 3 Veronica Lake arid Lana How come that the press women Hollywood seem to disagree so completely with the gis special note How about making up a Roll of names of All soldiers who Are beginning to be fed up with Hollywood product of the such As Hollywood showing a Corporal wounded in the who comes to Hollywood and is Given there the most pompous and Boring with All credit to Hollywood Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne in a Brilliant together with Boyer for the first time relaxing from too much amour Paramount winding up Duffy tavern with de and Bob terrific As in the Princess and the Best movie of the week is Fritz langs new the woman in the a psycho logical melodrama that will make you forget the girl Goure holding hands with if there exists such a mayor Laguardius new York City symphony which plays Good at very Low has entered its second season with a Good the symphony plays at the City Center under Leopold who has again pro his Genius in getting out the maximum of Success with relatively modest look at the opening which would have been not too easy even foi1 philharmonic a Bach choral prelude orchestrated by of coi Beethoven and travels daphnis and Chloe  
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