Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Furloughs out in new ask sited Washington soldiers and workers of the army ser vice forces were affected last week an urgent order which disrupted furloughs and leaves in sonic instituted a 54hour about officers and enlisted men of the ask and employees were Brehon chief of issued the order and asked for work acceleration to alleviate the critical situation arising from the accumulation of unfinished chief objective of the new move is to increase the production big guns and powder in army arsenals operated by new York times commented that the May also by this to set an example for Civi Lian War Industry which is facing Many vets head Back to College Washington Home from 1he discharged veterans Are entering Industrial jobs and a by Zuur for educational Aid under the Bill of rights to Aid disabled veterans who Are returning to civvies Veteran administrator lines has asked Industry to make disabled gis jobs permanent by giving the men work they Are Ca Pable of he said a Veteran so placed can hold his Job in Competition with persons who Are not disabled and is at no Dis thus his readjustment in Hines said a Survey of War plants already shows if placed disabled soldiers Are Defi Nite assets with lower Accident less absenteeism and a labor he also revealed that the Vete rans administration is mov incr rapidly to set into motion provisions of Tho 01 Bill of Arnol incr to More than pm  have an plied for educational foot Phi is educators come to Aid of yank pos Chicago streamlining War time Depaul University has reached the ultimate with its inauguration of a new correspondence course extended to american gis who Are interned in Pri Soner of War materials Haive been shipped overseas for distribution by the american red Cross in pow under the students will be guided and their papiers will be corrected by faculty members of the of Geneva to save time and prevent the overseas shuttling of work when students Complete their work it will be certified by the Swiss University and the i students will be granted col lege credits by liquor makers go on 3oday spree Washington liquor distil lers in the this will produce about As much whisky and Gin As Are ordinarily made in a full distilleries All Over the nation will go on 24hour shifts to pro Duce some 40 millions Gallons of High Grade spirits for blending with stocks already on a recent government order gave distillers a 30day Holiday from their War contracts to make up the growing shortages in bottled goods available to thirsty frs Dies Washington miss Margue rite Missy who has been president Roosevelt Perso Nal Secretary for More than 20 died of cerebral embolism this week in the death of miss Leland was very will at tend the funeral in the presidents absence from stars and Middle East damage scenes in port Chicago after fatal blast Pagac a station Cut about fhe face Ami stands amid the debris of a shattered Southern Pacific station while a fellow worker looks in through a pane less the toll of the explosion stands at 322 and More than two Hundred patrons in this theater at Hie time of the fat Siracu Yaisly escaped save for a few minor when the Walls buckled and showered the audience with plaster and a blast was being pictured at the same moment of the press Dewey puts Ham fish on Hook for racial Issue ans a political split stirred Republican ranks last week when Thomas Dewey announced his Strong opposition o the renomination of isolationist Ham fish for gop congressional representative from new Yorks 29th based his opposition on grounds that pish has been quoted As raising racial and religious issues in his bitterly contested Campaign for re Nomina the presidential nominee had remained silent after Many pre Vious requests for his disposition towards but when fish raised a racial Issue in his Dewey acted his press Secretary dictated the following statement to newsmen 4two years i publicly oppo sed the nomination and election of congressman the statements attributed to him confirm my judg ment expressed at that one who injects a racial or refi pious Issue into a political Campaign is guilty of a disgraceful in american i have fought that kind of thing All my life and Al ways will regardless of partisan i have never accepted the support of any such individual and 1 never fish explains the statement which prompted such a Quick and forceful reply from Dewey was likewise quoted his press Secretary who said that fish told a new York Post reporter that jews Are More or less for the new Deal info run then he is alleged to have said if you want More on that they jews Are for Roosevelt and the new i think it would be much better for them if they split their votes Between the two major i dont think a single group should go All out one Way or the other and i note from the votes of jewish districts in new York City that the big majority of jews Are for the when Dewey censure of this statement reached he Back tracked the Plain truth when i referred to the fact that people of jewish origin Are largely in favor of the new i stated the fact that everybody knows i made no attacks what Soever and never have on the jew is i have never been anti what i stated was just the Plain truth that jewish voters Are largely for the new Deal and president nor was that piss Lone play in the press last a Milton fish is suing Robert Cutler for for an ant fish and which appeared in the Nyack journal news an and signed by a Good government committee including playwright Maxwell an actress Helen cartoonist Milt Caniff and composer Kurt fish is also threatening a libe1 suit against Maxwell Anderson for reprinting the of note is the fact that Wendell Willkie has volunteered to represent Maxwell Anderson should fish press the in Willkie called for the defeat of fish not alone be cause of his raising racial issues but fundamentally because his narrow nationalistic View and associations Are inevitable producers of antisemitism and a dozen other perils to seeded first storm kills 13 at army base although heavy storms brought death and destruction in Rains ended the Long drought in the Delta probably saving millions of dollars Worth of soy Beans and Home Victory Strong winds accompanying the rain demolished four buildings at army air causing the death of 13 falling lumber killed a Clarence in h urn Ane in Atlanta a Hurricane has struck North Carolina 60 Miles be Low Wilmington and is raging in driving before it thousands of Beach residents and vacation lists who fled As Gigantic Waves rolled in from the although the storm had threatened for More than it struck with sudden radio stations in that area went out of order As the tropical Hur Riliane roared mercy ship Home with Day yanks More than 600 Day casualties were Home this week on the Navy hos Pital formerly the president Garfield of the Dollar five Hundred were naval personnel and went to the Norfolk naval Hospital while 105 army casualties were taken off at Newport news for Transfer by rail to the Mcguire general Hospital at Rich of was the first to put through a Call Home from his Hospital his wife answered the it was announced that not a single american Soldier aboard an army vessel was lost in the English Channel invasion Homer commander of new port of embarkation said one transport Sank after striking an enemy mine tit All on Board were rescued and safely put gnawing her Way through a Quarter of Watermelon in 23 seconds pretty Irmgard is the new Watermelon Queen of Here the is in her juice proof swim suit wearing her new Crown of Watermelon International voters rejected Smith at primaries Washington tic state primaries last week re moved from Senate cottoned Smith of South oldest member in length of and Hattie Caraway of its Only woman currently rounding out his 36th Conser outlive year in these cottoned Smith was trounced by Olibri Johnston who won a decisive Victory Over one of the souths leading and assertive a caustic critic of the adminis has Long opposed the new Deal while Johnston based his first senatorial Campaign on sup port of Roosevelt foreign he terms himself a mid dle roader on the Domestic policy Caraway was likewise ousted in a Iclea Reut Victory by William who is now serving his first term in con for the final Fulbright must meet for Mer Homer Adkins on 8 in a Runoff the Pend ing equivalent to an elec Tion in democratic assumes interest since it was Adkins who removed Fulbright As presi Dent of the of Arkansas three Vears Flattie Caraway has served two Senate terms in her own right since succeeding her late husband in Senate in Fulbright is author of the houses cooperative peace Resolution which advocates an International postwar organization to keep world deep in the heart Down Texas where a demo cratic nomination also assures another ant new Deal Richard Kle was Defeated in House Pri Maries by army John now serving in ten Texas including speaker Sam survived fierce Campaign Battles and won their others face the seat vacated by Martin Dies was won by judge Combs an overwhelming democratic vote retains Hoke Stevens jul in office for another in Texas democratic party county democratic organizations met last week to pick delegations who will decide whether Gular or pro Roosevelt slate of electors shall go on the november buy More War Bonos