London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1945, London, Middlesex 11 tomorrow 1945 to set meets West in Hoosier classroom by Michael Seaman f tomorrow staff writer like shy schoolboys slipping notes to pigtailed a group of chinese army officers at South Are learning How to keep pm rolling by passing notes to their american some 25 of them Are studying the making and care of vehicles at the Studebaker truck am of them read and understand but they dont speak it so by passing notes to their instructors they Are learning How to eliminate bugs that redline Hal tracks and these handpicked members of a Mission taking advantage of lend lease learning Are graduates if technical colleges in they know what Field conditions can do to each one fought the japs under when they return they will teach their embattled countrymen How to keep vehicles ranging in be from 23 to All Are captains or their commanding graduated from Massachusetts Institute of amazed fad Iory whose Only association with anything chinese was an occasional of chop found themselves to be to the Brilliant the through the Plant so that practically every Mechanic has an Opportunity to be a South Bend opened its doors to the a few live in the but the majority Are guests in private what Little Leisure they have is Well occupied in social events or most of the time they Are too Busy for the Butterfly life too Busy passing notes to French air Force fledgling of the French air Force earning their wings at various air Fields in the have a similar language Barrier to the is tray want to speak English Ito hurry their training program they Are taught in american officers teaching them to or to Lay a stick of bombs across a get lessons across by writing in French it was no problem to get officers who spoke from Good to fair Home of bilingual supplied some lend lease aviation the Young wearing the Tricolour insignia and Golden wings of the French air admitted the need to learn in their own language in a foreign off when they take a Book and an Apple to the room of an american aviation they insist on speaking our War cooperating with the French military recruited students from youths who fought the germans for four years As Many had flown As civilians before the dressed in smart Blue uniforms that identify the con of the French air Force is rapidly learning How to keep pm while doing this they Are learning to speak English and teaching their teachers and fellow students How to speak states plan to Aid vets programs to help veterans of world War ii Are still largely in the blueprint but Many Legisla Tures have Aid Bills before them and some action is expected this the United press proposed veterans legislation by the which should not be with the Federal i Bill of ranges from free tuition at state universities to bonuses and huge Public works the new Jersey legislature passed a Bill last year granting service men Loans up to to establish themselves in state guarantees or stands Back of 90 cent of the loan to the lending Banki the Ohio Fegi Lafure has before it a appropriation Bill to give veterans a Bonus of for each month of service and for each month served in the United Illinois is studying Bonus Bills ranging from s300 to in the Pacific a proposal before the Washington legislature would create a postwar Reserve fund for a Public works program to pro vide work during Slack another idea under consideration is to give veterans free tuition at the University of Arkansas has a similar which would give veterans annually to continue their Educa and also May set up a vocational education fund to aids disabled the Texas studied a proposal to permit soldiers and sailors to vote without paying any poll in a legislator has recommended that the soldiers who formerly worked for the state be guaranteed their jobs and another has introduced a Bill giving veterans preference in state Many Legislatures have no con Crete plans for aiding returning but have named committees to study the Wallde talkie slated for civvies role radio Hon e f for isolated Rural communities and widespread commercial use of the Walkie talkie Are among postwar develop ments foreseen by Federal communications the commission said the possible uses of Walkie Taupe service Are As Broad As the imagination the Public and the ingenuity of equipment manufacturers can Fec system can be used to con tact urgently needed doctors in or who Are or Serwise not available by Tele it 8in be used on farms and and to communicate with men in Harbor and Driver Craft and Remote land spo4tsmen and explorers can use it to maintain Contact with their new proposals were also made for police and fire department one proposal would permit transmission of photographs of criminals Between police departments and Fri Headquarters in broadcasting space has tentatively been assigned radio elec Gas acid water motion picture Crews on location and to press associations and the acc said that it will consider International broadcasting the proposes when the War is to double the present amount of frequency modulation leaving present television standards practically the commission made Public its plans after a five week hearing in Washington during which re quests for frequency were received from 231 the first Public demonstration was Given of a service proposed by subscription it plans to offer no advertising and popular music and for five cents a a Squealer filtering mechanism furnished sub scribers would permit them to get these a squeal would discourage those who had not obtained the Joseph counsel for subscription said it hoped to operate units or stations in new Chicago and either Washington or los patents would be made available so other companies could operate he wide world photo two Way voice system sounds ahoy Over battleship forerunner of postwar inter Plant International news o we photo chinese army nicknamed Mac and Eddy after i French speaking army air Force officer details flying Pat Studebaker Plant examine motor i Tern to French cadets learning combat flying at worldwide War slope fortresses bomb Jap Indus in the earlier Days of the Aerial War against the japanese Home base it was possible to keep track of the bomb these headlines like that appear pretty the statistical minded will be interested in a recent Tabu general aah commander and chief of the 20th global air said that 41 such missions not counting harassing and reconnaissance flights had been flown since last june against Industrial targets of the nip ponese priority objectives Are aircraft Power plants and steel the 21st bomber command revealed that the great Tokuki plane Plant at Nagoya is about 40 per cent out of commission because bombs from b29s had found the general Arnold said that As to the curtain has yet to go up on the first he predicted a bitter United states naval ability to hurl been in creased to five times what it was in and the tonnage of combatant ships has been in this announcement of its punching Power the Navy explained that Radical changes in the armament of modern fighting ships Lay behind the uss for commissioned in 1943j packs a Wallop 92 per cent greater than the pre Pearl Harbor the Iowa is armed with nine 16inch guns in 20 five Inch double purpose guns in twin and Many smaller antiaircraft in a 15second firing run under Normal conditions the Iowa can hurl More than 15 tons of warehouses and docks classed As the largest in the army air corps Are being completed at by thousands of civilian for use in the stepped up War against on land that was mostly swamp before last february two of six Large buildings Are already in use the others probably will be ready in two army requirements for Small arms ammunition in 1945 have been hiked to rounds and More workers Are needed in a War department spokesman the War manpower commission announced it would attempt to get the new workers mainly through employment of tie 1945 War production needs also involve thousands of a Type of mentioned by the president in a message to in citing the needs for this new the president said that it has a gun More powerful than any yet mounted on a fast moving the european division of air trans port command could Roll some Tower ing statistics off its wingtips As it rounded out two years of operations the other in that period aircraft under the control of Earl Divi Sion flew or the equivalent of about round trips around the in 1944 the Divi Sion logged Miles without fatal a few More figures that Tell the Story of acts two years in the Eto passengers pounds of cargo pounds of email representing almost 2 billion individual rocks necessary to keep Wolf from poll says the Man behind the desk or plow at figures a weekly income is necessary to keep the Wolf Efforn the door of a family of a Gallup poll Dis closed this median which is higher than the Standard of set by and America in economists corrugating their foreheads social problems have their sights aimed at an american highest Standard of living in american to pull the Standard to the average arrived at by the poll would mean pegging the National income at the highest level Ever and Basing tax plans on the the people at Home were asked to set the the poll was take among a carefully picked Cross Section of Ameri the Survey revealed that the average ranged from a top of on the West coast to a Low of s40 in the Agri cultural Farmers in general figured it takes less Money for them to live on than City professional for the highest sectional differences were discovered in the same strata of Midwest for think s42 a week is necessary to keep a family of four Happy and with a bit left Over to be set aside for a Rainy Southern Farmers were willing to Settle on s40 a a comparison of the estimates by the various classes put the professional men on top of the Heap at followed by White Collar skilled Semi skilled unskilled and Farmers trailed with regardless of the figure arrived at some families will manage to live beyond their income while others will manage to Bank which is just As much the american Way of life As insisting on the highest Standard of living in the demand for ships revives Craft j7rom logs Chuting Down the turbulent Saco River to wooden ships that go Down to the sea As tugs or mine sweepers is a transition in which forgotten craftsmen of Maine Are playing big along Maines rugged coastline ship Yards that would be dwarfed by the huge Kaiser plants Are turning out these before they Slid Down greased to join our might the downcast coast had to be combed out for builders of wooden not since the Days of world War i had wooden ships aside from Dinghy and Dorys been the ancient and weather grizzled Yankees who had added Oak and Pine timbers into wooden ships had retired or turned to other Washington gave operators of Small Marine ways in new England the priorities on and specifications for these wooden auxiliaries to our but the shipyard owners could not find men who knew How to adze a keel or stave from an Oaken wooden ship had been shunted into the past by the Era of steel boats with welded in Fine combing the nooks of Maine one shipyard owner scraped together about on Hundred real old time the youngest of these was the oldest boasted of being around this nucleus of skilled and grizzled artisans the shipbuilder organized a school of wooden ship House Fisher lobster pot Granite and other assorted workers com prised the Medley of men who Learned to make wooden now bows of what will be Gray painted wooden warships Are assuming shape with production line Speed in the revived new England the shaping of Keels and Sterns Are going on at apace that puts the Skeleton of one ship into a Way almost As soon As a finished ship slides into the sheltered Cove of some supervising the work and imparting a lifetime of knowledge to the younger Fry Are the ancient who left their rocking or lobster or farms when the nation called for their almost forgotten International Newt photo two Brawny loggers perched precariously on the Edge of White water Jab at lop jammed in Maines Saco rive men work risk death from slips that had them among swirling and Are As nimble and sure footed As Mountain fee Cofo owl Booc Wotko by de Wilcox tomorrow s Taff writer authoress Marguerite Bayliss and publisher Holt cast furtive glances toward Boston hopeful that miss Bayliss period the would banned in bean City Bookstall and thus immediately become a the which enjoyed a promotion Campaign before it Cane threatens to outstrip forever Amber and Green Dolphin smash 1944 it has everything it takes and Clever it concerns two cousins who Are expert and it runs the Gamut of thing from Hunting Fox in England to Hunting the females in and miss Bayliss Doest spare the j Bondsman Artie Back As a civilian with a 17plece band after two years j in the Laid his clarinet aside for a moment last week and sounded a few Blue said Shaw in tired of this Down Hexose attitude longhaired musicians have toward modern its and Stop pointed out that jazz is in its infancy and that when modern music achieves the tone color of symphonic put Cole Porter in a class with Barb and Surprise All of the Nastiest who cant see beyond the ends of their Best new play on Broadway is the comedy dear directed and cast by Moss the plot concerns an adolescent girl who writes letters to a flier Over seas under her older Sisters name plus complications when the hero Lauren Warner Brothers sultry find who is currently co starred Humphry Bogart in to have and have for our the greatest since Metal Shoelace write her name next to Ingrid bergmans and Bette Daw Shes tabbed for future National velvet is another of come Home Vintage of childrens done in technicolor and Well played 9 a fetching Little girl named Elizabeth velvet is mostly about horses is largely made believable at times and rather entertaining if you the Moss Hart show winged As done in How Wood with most of the original still seems More like a boy scout Mees Fly than anything though you might like on Ilse classical Side of the counter is the new release of Belshazzar recorded on ten sides by the Huddersfield Chi or and the Liverpool orchestra under the direction of the William it has been1 termed by critics As the most important British score in Best of the six sides please victors memorial album of Bunny fee fyn masterpieces wont please ardent fans of the late great trumpet though f cant get started and russian Lullaby Are worthwhile additions to m7 and Are Berigan at his
