Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                F b lies toward the eternal City 4k i j an american infantry have Here w above Gaea and now Well behind the shies in the there part of an Advance h ouf evenly four German carry a wounded fellow Soldier through in in toward an Allied Hospital the three americans in the background Are supervising the our forces already on in Pur Fuir of the work was Newsweek Boner sends Hecl Lor lost Pazo Ozas this German coastal gun was at former troop Barracks Are in the encased in steel and the gun gives some idea of the formidable line our troops had to photos by by Matt Mcdade if a certain picture of Henry chief of had not appeared in 28th issuer of Newsweek Magazine this Story would not have and Kenneth weave would not have received a personal letter from the managing editor of the but it did and Story had its real beginning a few months ago when the Brainy boys of us Fimes fiscal office became involved in an one our fiscal friends were brushing up on the military enumerating the fourstar Mac Marshall every thing was in Complete Harmony until Robert Jewitt added Arnold to the Arnold is not a fourstar general said Weaver with the dignity of a Arnold is a fourstar Gen yelled car mme Bencivengo and John she Veety in but the master sergeant was Adamant and he pointed out that usually referred to As Gen eral for simplicity was really a lieutenant the argument was climaxed by ten Piaster false cold before conclusive proof was presented by either of the two Weaver received his 28th Issue of Newsweek and As pretty As you was a picture of Arnold attending a skeet there was no mis the caption definitely read Hap confident and Well gis raise 4 for books for Blind gratitude for the unsolicited contribution of made by Mili tary personnel of Cipully units stationed at Alexan this week from the readers to whom the Money went for braille editions of the Magazine to be distributed to the in a letter to Fred Thompson digest bit siness expressed special appreciation to Wallace who was principally responsible for the collection of the funds in Thompson also sent a Sample edition of the braille readers i it takes three rather Bulky volumes in braille to make a com plete Issue of the it is published by a printing House for the Blind in and distributed to needy sightless 11o ple throughout the buy More War Bonds Kenneth pleased with his own veracity sounded out the other three he found them More Asser Tive than Ever concerning Arnolds to craftily tipped the Ante to a Pound reared Back and waited confidently for the Clink of plasters and pounds of his but alack Day both Newsweek and our master sergeant were off the beam arid before Weaver could say lieutenant general three pounds did ing act from his Bencivengo and Sheety had found definite proof that Arnold received his fourstar appointment on March the Story might have ended thereof Weaver had not Felt vindictive towards re i eying that should be set right on the hed soon posted a letter to the states in your 28 Issue appeared a Pic Ture of beneath the picture the caption spoke of gent Hap Arnold at a skeet no by this time youve been informed of your in Case you the Date of his appointment As a full general was March losses made Good relating the gruesome Weaver threw in his final punch i d been operating under the illusion that Newsweek was impeccable and would not err in such a it  mat but my undying Confidence in Newsweek Cost me three pounds converted in Caso youve Weaver forgot the incident until last week when mail Call brought Forth a letter from diet Newsweek managing this is the letter in its entirety i am wry sorry to hear that your loyalty to Newsweek caused you to lose in bets and i am Happy to Send you our Check for that i agree with you that Newsweek should never have erred on so Well a known figure As Arnold but such things do creep in once in a while and this was one of the unfortunate Occa i Hope you continue to read and to like Weaver had the last his Beautiful Faith in news Witk has been but each time his partners see him per using u they accuse him of auditing it with ulterior to ancient newspapers unwanted by gis Washington in a recent information an Over seas Soldier is quoted As writing by the time a Home town news paper reaches us out its two or three months old and we Al ready know their we just look for local items that we dont hit from the radio or army news the article Points out that other letters from overseas in a similar vein have reached the slates Ana that a drive is on for friends families to Send clippings of particular interest from soldiers local press rather than the full news papers or daily this trend is save shipping space for Oiler items the gis have asked for from be sides saving the space and weight the Bulky papers the dipping method cuts Down the time element and allows the army postal service to Speed up delivery its other woman slain in Detroit Church Detroit Jean 40 year old ministerial was found stabbed to death in the Nave of the evangelical in which she had been 17 years her estranged Hus Kenneth and a Alex have been held for questioning although no charges have been made against Long was last seen at 7 Oclock on tuesday evening by her husband when he left her at the Church where she stopped to pre pare a Church police that Long and her husband were on Good on the next morning her slashed and battered body was discovered in the Nave by Newell the when he entered the build the victims clothes had been torn from the upper half of her body but her Money and jewels sedition trial finally reaches witness stage Washington the turbulent Sci Jioji went into its seventh week As the government called up the first witnesses to testily against the 27 men and two women accused of sharing a nazi plot to overthrow the after seven weeks of objections and ruses on the part of the de tens judge Edward Eicher instituted a series of fines for contempt of court in an Effort to get on with the As the trial the govern ment charged that the defendants distributed books and pain lets which reflected nazi party lines and were designed to demoralize the armed prosecutor John Hogge declared that the govern ment was to show that this defendants were linked in a nazi conspiracy to destroy democracy Here and throughout the world and to show that they desired to run this country on a fuehrer Prin Ciple and a nazi concept of Arva j the governments first witness was a German american bund or Peter who at one tune led bunds in outlined the organizations development As an american Wing of the nazi party in to declared that bund members wore nazi patterned themselves after Germany police and carried on party activities similar to those in the 5th army heroes win decorations Washington two enlisted men were awarded the congressional medal of Honor last week for heroic action in Alton 10yearold from Spring received his award for holding a platoon of germans at Bay for two hours at Anzio beachhead in the citation read that Knappenberger knocked out two machine guns of an attacking Ger Man platoon and killed two Gre Nade throwers who tried to sneak up on with All the Automa tic weapons he could he fired at the enemy until am munition was although nazi troops were Only 50 Yards he inched Forward 15 Yards and found extra ammunition on a when that he his com James of Gulf was awarded Thech for killing six enemy soldiers and knocking out three machine gun nests in fighting Nav buy More War Bonds j Hometown whoops if up for Ace Ohio America loves a hero and Ohio is no her inhabitants turned out in Masse last week to give a rousing irl orious Welcome to the returning Don who is one of eos Reading fighter other ohioans were on hand also at least persons overflowed Roosevelt stadium and went wild when the master of Arthur introduced Tho Hometown Gentile said i do not consider this magnificent demonstration As a personal rather it belongs to All the boys fighting on All the War fronts for the cause of even the rain which began fall ing As Gentile placed a Wreath of the Miami county memorial to its War dead failed to Dampen the throngs Gin Pool Halls Chicago Brehon chief of verbally slapped the attitude of nightclub operators and entertainers last week in a speech before executives and Indus somervell first asserted that the manpower problem is definitely critical and be sol v e toward thai Isug tested lets c close the night somervell dubs them up and the poolroom and Bowling alleys with somervell told How night club operators and workers had been complaining of new heavy taxes on such he then indicated if the profession found such taxes they would find no difficulty in find ing work in War there Are plenty of jobs for them in your plants or on the railroads and steamships that Are carrying guns and ammunition to our lets put these crooners to work at something useful declared death took this Holiday new York traffic accidents and other causes took lib lives during the first three Days of the fou Day memorial Dav to traffic fatalities accounted for 72 of the total while 60 people were As the nation celebrated its third wartime memorial soaring temperatures sent thousands scurrying to the sea shores and