Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                And Eon nne atom to be Fig exploded a probable Jurss it almost of the cargo when a sudden blast Shook the 132foot thirteen officers and men Many missing in sinking while on duty in North Atlantic Waters the Valley a Canadian by an enemy in five persons Are known 5tobe 121 arc missing and smothers were no Ameri were listed the Herndon Heads new Cairo military area establishment of the Cairo Mili tary which includes Tho area bounded by the City limits of Cairo and was announced this the commanding officer of the new District is Hern who will have jurisdiction Over All United states army troops in the among the activities transferred from the Middle East service command to the Cairo military District Are real estate disbursing finance military police and area pro Vost army maintenance of offices and billets and quartermaster sales Herndon comes to Cairo from Roberts where he was stationed for 14 months and was executive officer just prior to his Transfer to in that Post he associated with Gen who is now Deputy commander of col Herndon graduated from West Point in i aah flier gets millions Wil Liam 24yearold army Bryn has re 4 a legacy of nearly the sole beneficiary of his to r i Smith is still Sta tamed in the attorneys said wat taxes would reduce the Sinoun to or buy More War Bonds i Ken r b Shumate and Dillon Anderson Reft Tonglor at the Payne Field legion of Merit six decorated at Payne Field fee iving the legion of Merit award from Benjamin Payne flew Phillips was honoured for his work with British 8th army during its Mareth line pro photos by Becker six members of Samme were presented the legion of Merit toy Benjamin Giles in a ceremony held saturday morning at Payne the award were made to Dillon major Norris John warrant officer Jug Ken Neth Slack and John Anderson received his award for outstanding service while de tailed1 As representative from the army to the Petroleum mis Sion to the Middle from no vember 1943 to january now stationed at Gamp received his award for his work As Engineer officer in charge of construction of the Gura air depot from january 1942 to March vast territory represented a member of the army transportation received his award for service in Egypt and Libya As officer in charge of the Capuzzo Obruk railway from november 1942 to March and the Similla Obruk railway from april to August the award to air was for his designing and construction of an aiming device for checking the work of antitank gunners under to Slack was rewarded for his work in locating and supervising the drilling of Wells to provide water for various at stations on the route from the Sudan East to the South arabian Phillips received his award for service in charge of a Road re covery detail rendering Aid to the British eighth army during its As Sault on the Mareth line in april and May in he perfected a Carburettor device for Wea Pons carriers which increased their melt in new play goodbye Albert Hack etts comedy warhorse of the now extinct barn theater circuit in the is being revived by the Middle East Little theater group at Camp Huckstep Post theater to tomorrow and Uso girls Bette Lufe ther Stori and Peggy noorian join gis red Jimmy nay Bob Louis Karl Milton Diamond and Harry a Bumeister in the directed by Carolyn Ganv of the presidential favourites keep mum on candidacy Washington with National convention time Little More than a month the two men expected to tie named for the presi Dency Are still Una vowed Candi dates a situation almost without parallel in our Thomas Dewey has consistently stated that heis not seeking yet his backers Are become ugly increasingly confident of his nomination As a Survey of elected delegates give Dewey Apro Bable 779 this figure exceeds by 249 the number of votes needed for the the gop National convention opens at with delegates Kadi states is based on the number of representatives in the House plus the number of be californian Earl mos named for has been selected to deliver the key note speech at the Republican con Warren steadfastly denies any aspirations for either office and frankly Ace shoots the in own Home town ing the pending election that the the War is going aboard As Well As on the Home front weigh More in the november elec Tion candidates or test in the West More voting predictions were made by John Bricker who has a tally of 55 pledged votes the great test will come m the Central these Are the states that Are the key to the whole of we win we must win said on july the democratic National convention will open in the Windy City with delegates in 589 of whom Are required to a difference in number of democratic delegates stems from their practice of giving a Bonus to political doubtful states which sup ported the party candidate in the previous presidential fourth term support ers Are swinging into action Des Pite the silence of their Bob demo made the first sem official prediction concerning Tho democratic an unofficial a tabulations list 551 delegates now pledged to leaving him it deficiency of 38 for the nomination but Only eight delegates us ready elected Are Lui pledged to tie pre labor endorses for two pro mini labor Lea uts in i Dorset the president this Philip Cio told a convention of United steel workers that Roosevelt must be a candidate for reelection to maintain National Unity for an Early Victory and just Sidney Hillman put the Cio political action committee on record As sup porting a fourth Hill Nan delivered a rousing political speech before a convention in asserting that the Oon troll Iii forces of the Ken Volkan Narty Are labor the common Manne Richard Bong fat american flier to better Eddie Rickenbacker world War i record by of a Small country store in Hometown tees the proud Hom Emlet How he bagged Jap planes in the South after picture was Bong returned to ran up his total to 27 upstairs received us majors Gold leaves and was groped a deserved this the 23year old hero arrived in Othis Undy scud has produced planes own factories july 1940 to january of this year turned out air other production records As of the first of this year included machine rounds of Small arms pieces of self propelled Artil Liberty 746 naval combat subsidiary naval and military