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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, May 19, 1944

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                T Vij had the of race horses to an who got Nora Mic of invasion Prepa rations speedboat piloted by a army who now is superintendent of ports and pier cruising along this i saw a formidable number of in Vasion Craft of All the Cor respondent As we churned outward i saw an Psi Landing ship infantry blowing along with a belly full of soldiers shoulder to Shoul in full Battle with their weapons in their diver keeps in shape the correspondent said he passed tremendous spools of cables about the Stee of houses waiting to to uncoiled on Day to provide communications the he observed also Many types of assault Landing ships their Racks in pick Aback Gigantic invasion tiny Power barges that go Over their formidable types of floating and amphibious vehicles including the famous Many invasion ships Are Mark ing time in sheltered the american correspondent re we saw men in swimming suits diving from booms and car go we pulled up one of these lads who to our the correspondent said that though the lad did not Neve any idea whether the invasion would be tomorrow or the next he there is noting like keeping in shape for the main left the spans make Cairo debut Thornt ii Wildes winning play last skin of our Teeth is getting i first Middle Bast perform Nasuf with a cast of thai week and the Cairo areal the which raised a Stormi of controversy in the Cerns a and Antro Fous of new Jersey and their five thousand years of family despite the ice world High taxes and Atlantic City Beauty contest the Antrobus fam ily never failed to face the future yanks in the company include Fred us Fimes voice on the egyptian state broadcast who plays the husband wag Yonny Frank Hatfield and director de Wood Denise Levy has the role created by Tallulah Bankhead and Sybil Fraser and Peter Myers Aro among the others in the the play opened last night and will be repeated tonight and to Morrow in the Maadi and will play next week wednes Day through Satur Dov nights at the Ritz music for All a Complete record ing of the Leoncavallo opera with Gigli heading the a Litalian is programmed for sunday evening at music for All at 9 Mon Day the sixth in a series of Mozart and Beethoven violin and piano so Nata recitals will be Given by Sil Vestre Catacchio and Rosette Ely at the same Robert Thunder Rock will be acted on tuesday and wednesday night at by the proscenium club Friday another in the music of the Ballet recorded series will be heard and on saturday Alexander Plotnikoff will stars and stripes Oice of radio City v your army credits May get you a High school diploma this sounds so it also Urius but it it taut May not think you be graduated Iroku lugh jul you May you May Nave Grauu Atea from Rouege Ana not know Tiova come heres what Uip Cileu with Harry of Airame he Fri shut the nth year of High school and was one year Short of ins diploma when he quit to go to came the greetings11 and he went through Basic training from there he went to army then he met a Chap who told him about some improbable sounding army unit that might be Able to get his army schooling Cre dits transferred to his High school then Harry got out a few forms and forgot about some months at another he got a diploma from his old High this sounded pretty so we looked into heres what happened that improbable sounding army outfit was the United states armed forces Institute Harry had written it for an accreditation when he got it from Middle East hed filled in questions about his civil Ian and army and sent them two he was in would entitle him to All services of the including courses should he decide to take the Institute then got to described All the training courses the army had Given Harry and sent the data to his school this onetime ogre gave Harry a Hal year credit for his Basic Tram Mer and a Hal year credit for Kis radio result one full year credit and a High school the Musafi people say that har Rys Case has been duplicated by gis who almost completed the dirt College training but they make no promises As to How much credit each individual institution will give for Basic or any other army they emphasize their Job is More that of the mid dle Man who Sells an army but the fact Many an applicant has been Able to get a High school diploma or a College degree As a result of work completed in the not a bad we so were passing it if you fall into one of these two classifications nearly finished either High school or College and want o know whether your old school will give you a sheepskin As a dividend on your life in the Why not look into it fill out this form mail it and see what it Doest mean you have to take a correspondence or h simply Means youll find out whether what youve already done in the army will apply to your unfinished school please Send me a report of educational form Grade or rate Nam printed serial no organisation or ship Apo or Navy mail this to Middle East us anime Picicco clicked on Glass Chin again that what this Only the radio City is a cd in Harts of san at the Mike with Francis of Perth readying a strictly not a radio station its a a system wired throughout an air Barracks and recreation on the air from 11 to and from 4 until 11 programs include play play descriptions of local and states talks by officers and chaplains Ami variety show with 2nd George these signal corps men built the outfit supplying cd inventions for missing Witz vows Hes got enough material for a thousand Hows without a single repetition which is Good for any staff photo by rescues trapped gis Liberty ship Crew new own the Crew of the Liberty Marion was cited for heroism in rescuing army troops trap Ped below deck while unloading shells after the ship had been hit and set the germans scored a direct hit with a Shell in the hold of the Crawford where 14 soldiers were unloading 75 Mil Limiter the entire merchant Crew fought the fire which ensued and through thick smoke led the soldiers to Khaki loses out in Skeeter test mosquitoes Are they definitely nibbling at the Bare flesh in preference to sinking their fangs through shirt mosquitoes Are also if worse comes to worse and it is absolutely necessary to Dine through a they Are pretty choose As to the color of the this interesting information concerning the mores of mosquitoes was revealed by the California Mosquito control which has been conducting a series of researchers reported that a group of soldiers in Alaska volunteered As Guinea pigs in an Experiment to determine whether or not mosquitoes Are influenced by changing from White to Black to Khaki shirts and then to no shirts at the gis established this bite inthe flesh soldiers provided a Field Day for mosquitoes with an average of 9g an average of 37 though Khaki shirts indicated that the insects were less interested but still going the record was eight bites for Black and when the gis donned White they were practically ignored with Only two bites 40 Penis an infinitely great Only i of entire total will the chief executive revealed thai remains of in appropriated for army this fiscal to fee in the projected strength of Ithra a substantial costs resulting from the production and a Sharp slash in shipping in if the toil line still have you the billion Dollar Lippire is consider Able from the provided con Gress for the current fiscal president Roosevelt expects the new appropriation to the Cost of maintaining an Nam and through june smile York Pat of the who been in the news before because of extracurricular conceded this hed taken a blow of the Chin in an Exchange with a mysterious texan at the Copacabana i husband of heiress Gloria said he is on sick leave after a stay in an army Hospital and that to sorry it All happened especially so because in in newspaper columnist Lee mor timer said Dicicco had come to his table and begun to berate him for an item Mortimer had written about him three years during the Exchange of the unknown texan had tried to push through the Dicicco threatened him and the Haymaker re buy More War Bonds s Stop one my who must leva the world and All Hie people in it to Ben Ajo of South now Tea honed in the other Day mail Ben opened a itt two which informed him that he is the beneficiary of an inheritance of left him by it hell receive the cabbage to it 30 of four from Acme Joan Sheds Hubby Hollywood screen actress loan Fontaine has announced that she is filing suit for divorce from Brian 42yearold actor whom she married in miss who is will charge Washington the phenomenal growth of the army in three years was recently disclosed by the War army personnel has zoomed from a Low of on november 1940 to a total of troops on january this represents a 15fold gain and a total of inductions during that Over two Mil lion men have been yank  
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