Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Thursday August 19, 1943the stars and stripes dai1a rage j Devotion to duty eee for flying in the paratroops in the sicilian invasion three pilots recently received the air medal from Brig. Gen. Robert e. Kauch. Commanding the Mediterranean air transport service. Left to right they Are 1st los. Robert l Murray grand rapids Mich. William f. Kruse la Habra al., and Kenneth s. Parson Tulsa okla. A a ditto by Sot. Gilbert Suee Nep u.s., British nurses cooperate in Field chief Matron relates Allied Force Headquarters aug 18 a British nurses May not realize it but they Are responsible for a Radical Chance in the drinking habits of some american soldiers it seems the first yanks wounded in Sicily were treated by British nurses. Naturally the invalids were served Tea instead of Coffee and after a while the boys developed a taste for Tea and asked for it regularly. That is one very minor result of the close conjuration Between the British and american nursing services. Although both organizations Are Independent of each other Many British nurses work in american hospitals and British nurses Are being trained to serve with american air evacuation groups. Quite a few British soldiers Are cared for in american hospitals. The Story about British nurses was related to press correspondents today by their chief Dame Katharine Jones d. B. E., r. R. C. Matron in chief of Queen Alexandra a Imperial nursing service. That a quite a Mouthful but the bearer of the title turned out to be a trim efficient. India born englishwoman who is justly proud of the magnificent work her charges Are doing. Dame Katharine the first chief Matron to leave England on an pre War fathers serve in army officials admit Washington pre Pearl Harbor fathers ale in the armed forces now. It was admitted by selective service Headquarters in ii lowering a question frequently asked since the announcement that such fathers would no longer be exempt As a class after oct. I Iii a recent Federal court Case in Baltimore a judge ruled that two married men. Inducted while single men wire still available should be released. The married men who liar no children. The National draft authorities emphasized that All men who were fathers before the War started and we re inducted did the following ill volunteered <2> were drafted from non Referable jobs <3 lid not maintain a Bona Irie family relationship <4> were taken by a local draft Board through n misunderstanding �?~5> were members of the National guard before Pearl Harbor or <6> had wives and children with Independent Means and were inducted prior to june 23, 1942. When the dependent s allowances act took effect. Army Beer ration Washington by Ewers May be required to allocate a portion of their  to military p i Cinel because army Camps report a Beer shortage it was announced by officials. The order leg considered would cull for earmark my Only Beer of 3 2 percent or less inspection tour emphasized that All British nurses Are highly Trai Neci with Many years of service in civilian hospitals like the nurses in the american medical corps. In addition Many of them Are especially qualified to treat tropical  cases. The British nursing organization has mushroomed from a a it each time group of 624 to a far Flung total of More than 7. Kkt. Serving All Over the world including such out of the Way Lilaces As Ethiopia. Following the humanitarian Jilin Caples of the Pioneer War nurse the revered Florence Nightingale they make no distinction Between the wounded and serve Friend and foe and men of every conceivable race color Creed and nationality. The chief nurse mentioned there was believed to be a Cannibal from the papuan islands in a bos Wiital in India. Nurses in France ten Days after the British declared War on Germany four years ago Dame Katharine related British nurses began arriving in France until 1.300 of them had come Over. Miraculously every single one of them escaped and none was wounded. They were not As Lucky in the far East where several have been killed and Hurt and about 44 believed to be prisoners of the japanese in Singa Jagt re and hone Kong. All in All. British nurses have treated 20.000 men in North Africa and Sicily since last november soldiers could take time out to rest after the tunisian Campaign. But nurses kept on working because there Are always More sick than wounded. Right now they Are Busy around the clock in Sicily where they arrived during the first Days of the fighting. The inevitable feminine touch creeps in with tile problem of clothing. Those White uniforms you be seen them in they re giving those up As Well As their traditional Gray and Scarlet to go into their Quot total warfare uniform Khaki in summer and Battle dress in Winter. Insurance coverage shows increase port Falcons take new dodger Sparks easy Victory win 0ver cardinals in do face coverage of National service life insurance increased approximately 30 percent during the past three months according to an announcement by it. Charles e Kirkpatrick of the special service Section of Naaf. It Kirkpatrick also disclosed Why the Lump sum is not paid immediately to the beneficiary of this were done he said it would be Imp Gissible to secure insurance at the current Low premiums. Because the Serviceman pays the Premium monthly the government is Able to use that Money As working capital. In this Way the Soldier gets adequate insurance at a modest Premium rate. In addition to its insurance activities the same office is doing a big War Bond business with sales averaging 250,000 dollars monthly. Stanford indians beat commanders _ .  Grid sport for 12th Triumph _ to hold top place the Falcons coasted to their 12h Sha Kolot league Victory by smothering the commanders. 17-0 sgt Augie Bess and sgt Newton shared Mound duties for the Falcons and held the commanders to two hits. To sgt. I of about led the Falcon hitters with i in for live set swede John ohs big tint contributed a Home run and a Tuple. The latter with the bases Iii i commander errors helped boost i he i Falcons 12 Pill rollers 9 til a loosely slaved game a Johnson Field a or Falcon downed the Phi to lers 13-9. The Falcon committed seven errors to j keen them Elev in hot water most of tile time set swede John on is three hit for foil spanked the Falcon a 13-hit attack of Quot t Joe t Seitz powered one out of the lot in the eight to notch his Fust Home run of tvs a is son a Rudolph Greso Vitron unit correspondent runners 5 has beens 4 in a shewing us i am cae. J the Road runners Defeated the Lins teens by the score of .�?T-4 of. Ken i to Rios bored another Fine earn for the runners giving up univ five hits and striking out it batters. Hts Battery mate was per Pete Quot gds Nrma Hildebrand pvt. Mason turned in a Good Mound performance for the has Brens. A it set. Amdahl unit correspondent Falo Alto.  University will not play football this year. It was announced by Al masters graduate m inner of athletics. Stanford becomes the second Pacific Oast conference team to drop the game on account of War conditions Montana University having abandoned it lat week. There Are now Riblet teams left in the conference. Terranova new Champ new Orleans in the fit it championship bom i id Hen Iii 26 years. Pin ten Anova wrested the Aba featherweight Crown from Jackie Callura with an eighth i wind Kayo in a scheduled 15 Rounder to fore 9,000 fans at Pelican stadium. Callura. Although fighting hard was no match for tin 23-Yea i old Bronx boy whose Short left and lights to the face and head gave him a Clear advantage throughout Callura was drop ted by a Shoat left for a nine count Early in tile eighth. He arose to be slapped Down again this time for the full count. It was the second time within two months that Terranova key oed the Hamilton. Ontario Feath it weight. On june 30. Terranova. After boing Knox keel Down for the nine count twice Arase to Kayo Callura in the third round at Hartford conn., in a non title bout. Hawks i circuits 0 the night Hawks continued their Ninn Ift reak by bino1 bv1 j Jap pm it Ort circuits 1-0 col or be and Turner both allowed on a three he of Norens. To Rod for the Hawk inc Iii clinching file Remc. Pvt it zen. Next Hawks third baseman. Incensed i hotline average to 404 to Lead the ten rns sgt. Harfi v. U. Ostrander or i nit correspondent beavers. 12 linemen la pared bus Quot to Tony Broeck and pvt Johnnie Chen Kosov w Ith Thror to it its each the Little Beaver Fork the t inborn in 19-11. In a reside show b Vot t f nor connect at motion carve stadium. The hardhat tin Quot Beaver touched sink cd Damon. T Ine Ien chucker. For 16 Tnp Bioni. I eve Boer a allowed 15 hit for th1 on notion. Softball challengers the unbeaten Navy vulture Boro extended a Challenge to inv softball team in Virgin it for run Neyme Quot to it Rny a Fnu Ken Pelham. To Edom 260. Casual co. Quot a Quot at the Palm pm Ach Contaj it or int Beme is a i or Toov nor for in shall opponent Cid paper at fortress Exchange is to he contacted. Kirkwood in Huff resigns from pc Philadelphia trick shot golfer Joe Kirkwood resigned from the professional golfers association in a Huff. Kirkwood claimed he was invited to Detroit to play on Walter Hagen a Challenge Tram in the recent Ryder cup matches and left out of the lineup. Hagen explained that Kirkwood was left of i the team because he was unable to beat Hagen in a practice round. In a letter to pc resident de Dudley Kirkwood Aid. A a absolutely no explanation was Given by either Fred Corcoran Walter Hagen or anyone else Why i was left out of the  new manager tile Little yanks baseball team has a new managers sgt Bob Lance the team has Bien playing hard Luek Ball and is now out to regain its old winning Bab to. Pvt. Kenneth tut unit correspondent Oklahoma ranks High of 238 former University of Oklahoma sports Letterman now in the armed forces 91 5 percent Are lither commissioned or non commissioned officers a Survey shows More than 77.7 a surent of Hie total Are commissioned officers with at least the rank of 2nd it. In the army or an Ensign in the Navy. The Survey did not include 35 additional Quot of a winners who Are now living cadets and soon will be commissioned. Bums Chase Cooper reds hand giants their 68th loss Howard Schultz the dodgers new first baseman from St. Baul made his debut with the bums an auspicious one by collecting a double and a single to drive in three runs and Lead the Brooks to a 7-3 Victory Over the cardinals. Brooklyn chased Mort Cooper in the sixth and continued their As Aillet on Murry Dickson and Ernie White. Whitlow Wyatt went the unite allowing the redbirds eight hits to Chalk up his sixth Victory. The giants added Concrete to their firm foundation at the Bottom of tile National league standings. Dropping their 68th game of the season to the Cincinnati rills 5-2 Cincy won the game in the let inning with a three run outburst at the expense of Johnny Wittig Johnny Vandermeer went All the Way for the reds to notch ins Lith win. Buus sink braves Pittsburgh thrashed the braves. 5-1 Bostons one run Lead in Hie i irs t inning disappeared Over the Fence in the third with Jim russells Homer with no one pm base big Johnny gee tile bugs six kit eight Inch Lethander spine ii hits to gain his third Victory since rejoining the Pittsburgh c Lub. Tile Phillies Defeated tile Chicago cubs 4-3, in a night game at club Park. Schoolboy Rowe gaming his Lith Victory had one bad inning the sixth when tile Bruins scored three runs on three lists and an error by second baseman Danny Murtaugh. Paul Erickson and loll Warneke divided hic Mound work for Chicago with Erickson being tagged for ins second loss. Washington regained second place in the american league beating the indians 6-3. With a three run outburst off Jim Bagby in the eighth inning. Veteran Wilfred Lefebvre recently brought Back to the majors from the Amel lean association hurl e d nine hit Ball to achieve his first win As a senator. Yankees Blank Chison new York set Back the White sox 7-0, in a night game in co make y Paik. Hank Borowy blanked Chicago with four hits and was troubled Only once in the first Frame when Wally Moses singled and stole his 37th base. That was As far As a Chison player got from there on in. Bill Dietrich was the victim of the yanks 14-hit batting spree and absorbed his eighth Deli at. Bobby Doerr presented Mike Ryba with his sixth Victory As Doerr banged out his 15th Home run of the year in the first inning with two men aboard and the red sox whitewashed the Browns 9-0. Old Mike allowed but four hits and had the Brownie batters eating out of his hand. Bobo Newsom unable to win a game in the american league since being traded to St. Louis in the Brooklyn House cleaning lost his tenth game of the year. I boxing Prospect boxing experts believe that a sgt Tommy Gomez of Camp Van Dom miss., has prospects of turning into a big time fighter in tin heavyweight ranks. Gomez Knock id out 39 foes in 50 bouts his latest victim was Tony Musto in 49 seconds of the first round. It took Champion to it a a Louis nine rounds to Kayo Musto. Rickey announces another Exchange Branch Rickey went on yesterday with his rebuilding of the Brooklyn dodgers announcing Anomer to Ade. This time he traded Southpaw Max Macon outright to Montreal and sent infielder John Barkley on option there in Exchange for two Young pitchers Harold Gregg and Rex Barney. Rickey indicated he would have More Lade news tomorrow. Major Leacue standings National league american league St Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia Chicago new yoi1�?T w 69 59 58 56 48 51 49 39 l. 36 49 50 53 55 60 58 68 pet i .657 new York .546 Washington 537 Cleveland 514 Detroit 4gg Chicago .459 Boston .458 St. Louis .363 Philadelphia w. L pct 66 40 .623 59 52 .532 55 50 524 54 50 .519 54 51 .514 53 55 491 45 60 .429 40 68 .370 Jeff Dickson missing Natchez . Jefter son Davis Dickson is Rex arted missing Over Germany. Jeff Dickson is a Veteran of world War i and was a famous sports promoter of the palais Des sports in Paris now occupied by German troops. An intelligence officer attached to a bombardment Squadron Dickson discovered Sonja Henie Tommy