Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4the liars and stripes daily monday August 23, 1941 army control threatened a ska be Zed Over Wright engine Plant continued Nom / Eye it Cincinnati aug. 22�?the Wright aeronautical corporation has been ordered to improve the management of its huge Plant at Lockland Ohio or hand it Over to the army it was announced by sen. Harry s to Union chains n of the Senate committee investigating the War Effort. A the Lockland Plant is one of the worst managed we have Lis covered Quot Truman said following a hearing a on recent committee charges that the company had sold a number of defective aircraft engines to the army. Currently pending Are department of Justice Federal court suits seeking to recover damages from the Compo no. A curl Law Wright subsidiary. Neither the com Nettee nor the department charged the company with pecuniary fraud. The accusations were based mainly on lax manufacturing practices faulty insinuations and attempts to cover up these fauns production at the Lockland Plant was get Back fell to one sixth of its May Pace i after publication on Juno la of the i committee s charges acc ording to testimony at the hearing by maj. Gen. Oliver p. Echols chief of procurement of the army air for is. He attributed the decreased Pio auction to a drop in Emodio Eesi morale and to the fact that their work has become Quot super critical Quot in knowledge that their previous work had received criticism. Curtiss Wright president Guy w Vaughn told the comm fee that company officials were doing every Bing possible to Correct lax renditions which he conceded bal existed at the Lockheed Plant prior to the investigation. He repeated that Tho c Menf had never knowingly shipped defective aircraft engines or parts. The production lag has been due to inauguration of new inspection methods which went even further than the army required Vaughn Laid. Pay Frau covering seeks safety in Zurich women to receive Campaign ribbons most was in North Africa today Are looking Forward to a fat try Titan usual pay envelop which bombs. They will get one of these Days because the War department decided that their extra 20 percent overseas pay should be retroactive to Chi. 26, 1042. Since was have been getting their foreign pay boost Only since april i most of the gals in Khaki in these parts will be getting what is due them from mid january when they arrived Here to March 31. Meanwhile the War department has announced that Campaign ribbons will be Given to the women in the wac who re enlisted after it was changed to the women a army corps and Given full army status. The ribbons will be replaced by service medals after the War. Zurich. Switzerland a emmy Goering. Wile of Reich marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering the head of the German air Force has arrived u the German consulate Here. Diplomatic observers in London. Commenting on her arrival in Switzerland said Quot if Goering s own wife is not Safe from Allied that s the Best sign yet of the Luftwaffe a a defeat laughter Marks As you were a Trio of comedians make the i red Cross show Quot As you were a it Worth seeing at the opera House this week. Six skits featuring Mike i jew is t-3 William Marks and pvt Irving Bernstein Are top notch and you la have to listen closely the forces in the North Pacific. It was the second time in his Ory that an Inland was captured by air and naval bombardment alone the first was the capture of Paniel Leria last june. The Navy estimated that the japs had at least 10,000 men on Kiska before bombardment from the air and sea made positions untenable. The occupation of Kiska Trees the last vestige of North american territory of Jap forces. Tile Navy announced that 106 air bombardments were carried out on Kiska in the first 14 Days of August. Naval units also shelled enemy positions 15 times. I the capture of the Island gives the allies an unbroken Chain of air and naval bases across the aleutians to Attu which is Only 724 Miles from Jap Home bases in the Kurile Island group. I the Jap invasion of Kiska and Attu was revealed by the Navy on june 12. 1942. By invading the aleutians the japs hoped to create a diversion from their main attack on Midway Island some 1,600 Miles to the South. The Jap diversion failed and the us Navy moved to the principal Battle area and scored a decisive Victory in the Battle of Midway. American forces then undertook to liquidate the Jap Aleutian foothold and first occupied the Andreanos islands and Amchitka. Cast of Kiska. From which air attacks were stepped up on May la of this year. American troops invaded Attu directly flanking Al a a from the West. By May 30, All Jap resistance on Attu had been crushed which led to the japanese evacuation this is the first major base the japs have Given up without a land engagement. At Attu. Guadalcanal and Munda they fought almost to the last Man Kiska in the United nations hands is a first rate naval base and Harbor. And serves As an Advance bombing base for attacks on Japan a Northern islands. Legion of Merit awards arc presented to Allied officers a i ii la forc e h h a do u a r in kits aug. 22 tile legion of Merit has been awarded to 32 British officers and 31 French officers Olio were Active in Hie North african landings and the tunisian Campaign. The awards were mad by president Roosevelt citing an order issued by Gen. George Washington at Newburgh n. A a a on aug. 7, 1782. Oil the recommendation of Gen Dwight i. Eisenhower. To tip Al chief commander Wen of Gen sir h Irold la l g Al x no r gee. Sir Benn ii l Mon a Mitry a chief marshal sir Arthur Tedd a. Air marshal sir Arthur Connagham. In on. Sir Humphrey Gale it Gen. S r Kenneth a n. Anderson and to one it tier British officer not Nam a and to French generals Henri o r a lid and Alphonse Pierre  the decree of commander Given to it Gen Frank n mass a Pat Lane. Governor general of Gibraltar ted t a it o unnamed British officer and to Fren la generals i runs Marie k a a Ltd min Joseph edouard w Vert posthumous. Paul arse be 0�rd Devynck and Francois Leclerc. Australia vote gives labovites i Large majority following m a. Gen. Cecil h the a  John l m Crery. Air i e Hobo. Brigadier Erie e. Man air comm Vio c brigadier Arthur t do men were Nam a John g w. It j Harcourt maj f. M Wui Feley. A join u a a Naid marshal j. M Moc k Lei Fen a f Sinclair re Philo Commodore John a. V Morse ail a a marshal Hep wiggles and ii other  ish officers whose n in a is were not r leased. Also darned onsets were French Gene als Mari pm i . Charles Kiron a Mel Mast a j r a Mont a but. Georges Barre Maurice mat Benet and Joseph Abraham a ii a to tie desire of Legionnaire was a aided to tile forewing French officers g a a a reals it ingots sever Pierre fix conn., rots r Al Landrt i Eyer j a que s Schwarts Altin do v igl a. Colonels Louis Bari Post hum is i Jem Hector Cahier Chretien. Clement Blanc. Louis cot St int Moliere. Michel a by Berne. L us Joseph roared de Bishire k pc. Radi net de is Nastala. Marcel rime Bruneau or colonels Raymond i k Bailiff. Pierre j e mane Aux. Bernard cred Nin de Rosiere. Paul h p. Cherriese. Camille e a Monnot Sud chef does aprons Roger a Coq sicilians get Legal rights Sydney aug 22 prune Munster John Curtin s labor party has been returned to pow a with increased strength in  a a first general e Section in nearly three years nearly Complete returns showed last night. Curtin a government held 44 seats in tile House of representatives. Again t 20 for the opposition parties two independents and eight doubt fills. The preen Section labor and opposition parties each held 36 seats but the independents gave the government a majority. The election was a vindication of Curtin a War policies against the charges of his Opi it Onens that he had neglected to treat the japanese threat with enough seriousness after the Guadalcanal Victory . Messina bombing continued from Page la after the bombings began in Earnest. Sometimes we had warnings sometimes not. I remember one time i heard planes looked up and saw bombs falling above the Street. I dived in a door and just then one hit about a Block away. Everything around me Shook and three or four houses blew up but i was Only scratched. Nearly All who stayed behind moved to the Vicinity of air raid shelters. The largest of these is 60 feet under Rock near the Center of Messina and could hold 8,000 it was really the Only Home hundreds of people had. Reviewing the whole against Messina. I can you made Only one big you let the germans they All seemed to go place Faro at the Island. They took the Campaign see where mistake get away from one tip of the biggest boats and left the rest to the italians i heard about 40,000 got across. The last one went the night before your troops came in. That a the Only thing the people of Messina hold against you. If you d killed every German who tried to get to Italy we would t care what you did to the City. To catch the lines through laughter of the audience. Mike is a red Cross worker who acts As m c. And appears in All but one skit ranging from tile Wolf toughest Bandi to in All to i i co who kills his victims with love to a Superb slaps link characterization of Madame president. Marks showed real ability As a i Monolo Guist though one of his Hest scenes was marred when arc girl Helen Beko  keep a i straight face on the stage and i burst into laughter. As a Quot sad i sack a character Bernstein is unequalled. Three of the skits Are new the rest holdovers from Hie lust edition of Quot As you were which was performed two months 1 ago. The other High class acts in the show were Ivan by Kofla a Din ing with Colette and with Gina combi j  was Pavlova a partner in the Ballet russe. Andre Boche a Juggler find the Richards a tumbling team rounded out the creditable acts unfortunately the singing by Cpl. John Stein and pvt. Jerome Boga inure could hardly be called Good. They both were stiff and never reached a level where their original songs were Well received. Outs id of Rykoff and his partners the dancing scenes in the show were poorly done and detracted from the excellent comedy acts. Introductory and accompanying music by the Griffins was Well done under the leadership of warrant officer Baird. Produced by Martin b. Jones. A a As you were will play in Algiers until aug 29 before going to area for a series of per a pm Al Kohn a flashes the from e Fie id Allied Force Headquarters. Aug 22�?tile 6 i Fin a it Ipie have already been treed of the c it a tribute ions they were forced to make to the support of i u in it w is announced by Rem it d Ive of the Allied military government i Egal rights that were e Imin it a by the italian rulers have been restored and the hat Al o v p a jibe secret police has been broken As a piece of ooh be machinery a recent am proclamation provides that no person sin i he me prisoner by an italian official unless he is charged with the commission of a specified crime. Prompt trials also were  cd a so granted the Peoro e were the re rat to ret counsel to have defendant s witnesses a Pic ear in court and the right of a defendant to Refuge to take Tho witness a and futons a Nve cited of Crimea by a military government court Rome anneal f it a a review of tie of upon of in re Al Security benefits a id to  benefits will he in hrs us cd but it r Lle flt on mid by the workers to this fund will be safeguarded against diversion to fascist uses you get some idea of the hash or nationalities Sicily has seen by listening to Sal Val Ai e Lamattina. Guide to the Santa Maria Nova Church in Monreale near Palermo. Lamut Tuia is More than just another sicilian who considers himself part american he was educated in Boston mass., and sat a lie served with Hie american army in Fiance in 1917�. While the germans were in Monre aies he spoke German now that the americans require ins service lie has attempted to switch Back to his Boston English. During the first i week of guiding Amel leans through his Church his language was a mixture of English German italian and a Little French he had picked up while taking French tourists through the shrine in the p acetal do is before the War. A a a Sot John Stromoski of Pittsburgh a medical Man of the Skyway says that the toughest situation lie Ever had to handle involved a severe neurosis Case the patient violently expressed a Strong desire to jump out of the plane in mid flight. A another Guy and i had to sit on him for the re get of the  Stromoski relates. A a a members of a medical outfit which claims to have been the first to set up on the Island thought that Sicily was men Nemesis when they lost  their three months old lox terrier Mascot in a move at Agrigento. Quot Ace Quot had been with the boys since they had been in French Morocco and was beloved because he was strictly i. Did no to like a cd rations  have anything to do j with officers. All is Well again however. A aces caught up with his j outfit after an american Pilot brought Hun Clear across the Island in the cockpit of a spitfire o a a always on the move in its efforts to keep up with the list moving american 7th army a medical company in Northern Scriv it s As its up an old italian ambulance which saw service during i Mussolini a first adventure in foreign meddling the ethiopian ram pain. Litvinov f continued from Page la been dropped from the Cabinet As commissar of foreign affairs and replaced by vice Premier v. M Molotov. When the soviet foreign policy returned to Normal after the germans declared War on june 22, 1941, Litvinov emerged from the comparative obscurity in which he had been placed during that period. And took Over the Post of ambassador to the United states replacing con stain Ine Oumansky now ambassador to Mexico. He had been in Washington Many times previously and his talks with president Roosevelt were directly instrumental in gaining United states recognition for the soviet government in 1933. Traffic Cut continued from Page of the Tunis formalizes. Number one on the first division hit Parade is a Catchy Tun written by pfc. Carmen Maz Fella Worcester. Mass and Cpl Eill Sutcliffe Jersey City n j the song is All about the division writ enduring the heavy fighting at Kat eur. Col Robert Kyler new York City did the arranging and the boys Hope to have it published soon. Lit Abner by Al Capp while to was y then Beum married j a married lip anotnc9 june fault couple come \ Jones of along adopted i nothing Ltd Abner i an Quot took min away of a Well Bei Happy t get Ner -51 dear j Shore to will to amp Vanooy s Happy evry body but them cussed strange  they bin  thar fool maids off All Gurin the Wex Din 7 so of sob i exc ooze us r Bobbin our fool maids Oft All cd Jojn the Weddon we is Allos Aff Eck ted thet Way at All o dear a one faults wedding to. A n a re aft. Fighters and destroyed four of them. Timed right Atter last thursdays devastating fortress Liberator Wellington attacks on Foggia the raids seemed calculated to Complete the severing of All rail communications to Southern Italy. Aerial reconnaissance has shown that Foggia the Hub of Eastern transportation lines has received the heaviest sort of damage to its marshalling Yards. All three main railroads leading out of the City have been Cut. Naples and Foggia hold correspondingly vital positions As the West and East centers of rail traffic. Respectively. The wrecking of Railroad installations which surround them Means a virtual standstill for All North South rail communication. War risk reduced Ottawa. Canada All Canadian War risk insurance rates will be reduced 20 percent alter August because Quot the position of the Allied nations has very much improved in recent months a the finance Mui Lster announced