Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1944, Cairo, Egypt The old adage that loves a is that pro to disappear in this at least in the army where ame rican Are making a new name for and part of that new reputation is being made right Here in the Middle East in one of the busiest and most unique organizations in this command the investigation Section of the Provost marshals tinged with Glamor and most often of a confidential nature their work includes investigation of everything from Petty larceny to not to mention Gold prostitution and pre venting the enemy from obtaining american their role is one of help and Protection for the rather than trying to pin something on him in one month alone they Reco Vered Worth of goods stolen or illegally transferred from Mili tary recovering property for soldiers is one of their Bier Gest pickpocket Irb Tecton working with egyptian and Gutish they have Cut prostitution to a minimum and thus greatly reduced the venereal whenever a Man receives treat ment venereal disease he is interviewed investigators to determine where and from whom the disease was thus sources of venereal and Diamond Hunters de the pen is need and Are another nazis and which Are i consequently it a fit n other soldiers protected the it in the Middle East is also prot cod against the Well known egyptian Clifty by my invest when reports come of by the def handed Little watched can be reported to a All cases of stolen items should be reported to the As Well As instances of assault and other in most soldiers dont bother to report such things and Complete investigation May thus be one of the most popular items with Cliftie is Fountain since they Are not Only Tut also contain this is a product badly needed by the ene smuggled from country to coun try at profit to the smuggler if he can get away with the investigation Section has agents working on possible cases of illegal Diamond and Gold As Well As the Exchange of Money m an extralegal close watch is kept on sales of pm especially such As Fountain which might Aid the investigators also make surveys As to relations Between Allied and investigate restaurants and bars As to fair Pri Ces and fair to see that the i gets what he pays languages no obstacle in cases where military person Nel Are every Effort is made warn the Soldier before his name is taken or he is arrested for any breach of the it is the maps Job to help the and not to get him in the army investigators Here Are highly and among the Ori Ginal eight handpicked men who were the nucleus of the present or languages were few of the men had been investigators most having been such average americans As teachers and Bank the investigation Section Ope rates a school for its men and has held seven each lasting a teaching the investigator to take care of his pal i Middle yanks get at ancient stars and Middle East rings tribal horse show i tribal on arabian pass in review before their King in the heart of the Hoite trappings Date Back 300 years and More to the time of the red Cross chief Dies hot own Norman chairman of the american red Cross and for Mer died Here at the age of by Kenneth Abbott Central Africa High in the of Central Africa near Lake Chad lies a Small town called for 11 months and 15 Days of each year a is in scarcely More than a Cluster of mud and grass huts surrounded by a High unbaked the natives who live behind the Earthern Walls and in the adjacent territory Are ruled Over by a King whom they Call the but once a time for yer was annual moslem festival of Al Maud Rolls into the tiny Village crowd1 hundreds of natives and thousands of prize Arab horses for the Celebration which culminates in a vast pageant in homage to their on hand this year were i Joes from a Central african air trans port station who piled on army trucks and bounced Over a Sandy Road cutting through the african Bush the american sol Diers were invited special guests the desert bleachers the afternoon was hot and Sun gis sat Cross legged on thick rugs beneath a sprawling red and White striped tent while natives stared at their White and screamed happily Paturi Man Paturi Man White Man amidst the Din of raucous and chanting the wierd concussion of native Drums and the first contingent of native Spearman swept onto the Field in regal approach ing the Royal seat of the the natives Rode sleek Arab Hor beautifully groomed and Wear Cloud Chariot for the emperor of Ethiopia ing elaborate trappings of Chain the natives themselves wore colourful costumes of ancient they carried aged Flint lock rifles and native each clan chief Rode in the Cen Ter of his group and when the Tody reached the the headman saluted by raising and shaking his Long after presenting them selves to the King to signify their each tribal party then wheeled southward and formed before the bomb provinces British who was sitting with the Waldier Barnum and Bailey touch for the american soldiers it was comparable Only to tribal rituals dreamed up in the celluloid confines of the gis camera shuttles clicked continuously As wave after wave of tribal processions the Sun was hot and Clouds of stirred up by hundreds of prancing Hor above the african rut for All its the spectacle reminded of circuses and county fairs Back Homo s Joseph Swidersky said the affair made him for Thuc big Clam bakes near his Detroit in a value sort of of course for Calvin red the fun and reminiscent of county fairs Hack in and Stanley Fletcher from swore that the festival was next Host to the old 101 wild West ranch show he had attended As a Hay burners Munney told gis of the great Antiquity of the costumes Rind there is reason to he that the Chain mail on the horses trappings Are genuine relics dating from the the ceremony itself has handed Down from Genera Tion to generation for at least one Hundred years and possibly three when the ceremony gis speculated that they seen at least horses and Al Kiess of Philly exclaimed this was just like a horse show Back Home with All the american display of hot dog stands and Side shows As the trucks nosed Back into the Road for the Jorng Luride to the air soldiers hear the very thumping of Tom Toms in the distance and see Small peppering the darkening country most could imagine the events which would on this last night of the festival of Al native Palm wine would he flow ing there would be native great feasts was a far cry from Gene Krupa cleared san Francisco Gene famous hot was technic cleared on charges of posses Sion of narcotics when the state supreme court refused to review and Appeal a court decision set Ting aside a Lowe court conviction on the felony count Krupa served a jail sentence last year on the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor by Send ing his teenage Valet out for marijuana he has since scored a musical comeback with Benny Goodman of j at air depot Are assembling two planes for delivery under lend lease to Haile e Annaert pfc it delivery to the Abys Mian left to right d a Phua us tsp r Ana co los own Musafi adds 46 new courses to i self study program Musafi is adding 4o new courses to its already announced list of correspondence military personnel May now by for courses in the sub divided into six Fields building construction Basic construction work details of Concrete structures Concrete construction and estimating masonry construction Metal construction operations preliminary to building Esti mating and drafting electrical drawing mapping air plane drawing elementary architectural drawing Clements of Timber drawing Eye souls of Concrete drawing ship drawing practical projection Sheet Metal drafting perspective and composition commercial Art pen and Brush lettering design ing show electricity and radio electrical measuring instruments applied electricity theory and construction of electrical Machi engineering internal com Bustion engines steam boilers steam turbines and pumps i and Metal working pattern making foundry practice i and ii machine shop lathe milling machines Boring metallurgy and heat treatment Metal forging tool railways the steam locomotive steam locomotive repair work locomotive firing and accessories air locomotives Railroad car loading mechanical Railroad car repair i and ii Railroad signalling railway track Maine saved in sinking san Francisco it has been revealed that 1joo soldiers were rescued when the troop ship Santa formerly operated by the Grace was sunk the Mediterranean Neap Sicily last no the flip was sunk by ene my planes at buy mor6 War Bonos
