Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Jared Majot h the famed amusement Park Over looking Hudson Bay Lay in ruins this week after the fourth big weekend fire in the new York area swept Over 85 per cent of the Park and left it in smoking Deso flames in the Palisades stampeded More than Visi ions and sent approximately 350 injured to hospitals or first Aid firemen rushed from 14 communities to Battle the ablaze which caused an estimated loss of the Palisades fire followed at Coney Island saturday afternoon and two simultaneous blazes on Friday evening which horned a Hoboken pier and caused damage at three men Are missing after a fire almost completely Des troyed a foot pier on the Hudson River last causing damage at and seeing 14 persons the fifty including received minor injuries while battling the Blaze and were Given first Axis defeat wont half inductions nations army is built and the Navy is Well along but maintenance is still a Lewis National selective service despite the present satisfactory Hershey got to Brace yourself for the Prospect of seeing men sent into service month after month even after the War has this will be necessary to effect an orderly postwar demobilization which he said should be directed at relieving first those who a rave longest Hershey pointed out that present selective service act expires next May and added that new legislation and determination of americas military policy must precede determination of draft or enlistment shout for Joy and theres something to shout about Nancy Southern of  wait to try on those precious nylons she copped when pairs were put on Sale in Greensboro As result of the conviction of three Black Market government officials offered the entire Nylon Cache to Happy Southern ladies who lined four City blocks to Purchase the dream stockings Acme As series of its area Aid at the the touched off by an explosion aboard a Barge loading Oil Drums on two Liberty lasted four destroyed one of the largest and most famous docks on the entire Eastern coast and threatened to raze the entire Hoboken waterfront across from thousands of tons of valuable War Materiel ready for overseas ship were Laid in waste the the fire was brought under control by firemen from new York Jersey Union 900 coast guardsmen and the Crews of All available fire victim of the fire was pier debarkation Point for thousands of world War i it also formerly housed the Levia at Coney 30 persons were injured when about half of the 16 acre Luna one of Coney is lands two amusement was swept by fire last wiping out an estimated Worth of the alarm fire raged an hour and a and was witnessed by about persons who had crowded on the Beach to escape the heat the fire is believed to have started from an overloaded electric the minor Blaze which flared up in one Concession suddenly raced through the wooden structures and1 brought 42 fire 14 trucks and several auxiliary pieces Rush ing to the flying embers also ignited a nearby trolley car requiring additional Fife apparatus to combat that in 10 persons were Hurt and a Block of buildings destroyed by the first of the week end damage was estimated at August 1944 stars and Middle East in the Good old summertime across inst of Chr this leaving the Bouncil Fig merrily abound Many i Neapolis and Chicago each one death from the intense neat the citizens of hardest hit with 22 straight Days of temperatures hover of around the new York sheltered in a week Long heat wave with the tire remaining in the Middle among the sufferers was 70 year old former Alfred Smith who was ordered to the hos Pital Fly his a Dent feel so Well because of the other cities which reported unrelenting temperatures were Bly with 107 degrees and Wichita the Mercury was the 90 degree Mark when Little Michael Fenza Rook his to the Cherry Street Park in new York City to Cool Marie has done a Quick strip and Michael is fast losing what is left of his when youre its cod International Willkie confab on foreign policy hinted Washington All was quiet on the political front during the past few Days with the weeks activities spotlighted by various party items from hither and Wendell who for the moment is politics leading mys Tery has been invited by president Roosevelt to Confer with him on said the new York times this will Kic refused to aside from his criticism of the Republic an platform foreign policy Plank my is congratulatory message to Tho inns Willkie has remained on the sidelines of the presidential Campaign from which he withdrew in Vic president Henry Walla whose political career Reachel a Milestone last has been assured that the president wants him for an important government Mist if present administration l returned to office in elsewhere on the demo three labor groups gave Roosevelt the the american party convention held in new nominated president Roose velt As their candidate for reelection the Chicago federation of representing work endorsed Roosevelt and a convention of a Cio american news paper Guild in Milwaukee likewise okayed Roosevelt and his running Gammer gals it has been revealed that mar Garet Connors of has by the democrats of the fourth Congress ional District to oppose Clare Booth Luce for reelection to her Post in miss Connors is a 29yearold practising last Newsweek Magazine canvassed 50 leading washing thu political writers for their election thirty three predict president Roosevelt the White when asked which candidates election would be in the Best interests of the 21 selected six were undecided and 23 picked Thomas Dewey conferred in Albany with Herbert his National party neither Dewey nor Brownell had any comment on Roosevelt Pacific the new York times explained that Republican leaders Are expected to at tack in that Field Only when they believe the president is employing his Cournan Perinchief role for political who recently returned from a swing through 11 Midwest was extremely enthusiastic in his report to predicting victories even in tru mans Home Brownell said the democrats Are torn by Dissen Sion and we cant speak of them As a party any More because they have been so split by he Addid optimistically that Kentucky democrats Are so disgruntled by their National convention that Treyve joined ranks arid a similar sentiment exists in other borderline 10 years in Clink for aiding the nips new y6rkta ten year prison term and Fine were imposed on Velvalee Dickinson 50 year old doll shop proprietor who was described in court As a woman who sold her country to the japs for she pleaded guilty to violation of the Federal censorship code in sending restricted information to Tokyo by Way of Navy loses two ships Washington the Navy has announced briefly that two Ameri can naval vessels have been lost in european one was a mine sweeper and the a sub Marine More Jap executions of yanks revealed Washington the execution of two american Marine noncom and a Navy seamen by japanese authorities was revealed last week by the news of their deaths was Learned through Tokyo by the red the three Seaman Frank Joe Chas Tain and Victor were alleged to have escaped from a Pri son Camp in Manchuria in their killed a japanese police the men were Recap tried and executed on july 31 of last according to the court martial stops fling fort Benning 5hhe latest exploits of Charles com Mando Kelly i vastly different results from hid i heroic feats in Italy which won j him the congressional medal Oij Honor and nationwide Fame and i ctommaridbv1 just re turned from his furlough six Days a Small matter of a court martial now he finds himself poorer and confined to the company Areia for 90 the 23yearold Pittsburgh hero blames Well wishers for his tardy return to fort Gas for furlough is Washington furloughs now have a High octane the opa announced that service personnel will foe gallon of gasoline for each Days furlough up to a maximum of 30 on military no gasoline will be granted for leaves under three 11 die in fatal blast eleven persons Are dead and two others missing following an explosion which destroyed a gasoline tank at the Wabash Val Ley a farm cooperative storage when the explosion occur the tank was being filled from Ohio River barges and workmen were repairing a leak in the filler the blast victims were Joseph a Faff service Man Seaman Wayne Home on and six unknown children and three Midwest trucks Roll again when takes Over lines Chicago one Hundred and three strike bound Midwest truck ing firms were seized this week by tiie office of defense trans acting on order of president in the third such action within ten the governments action ended an eight Day tie up during which truck Drivers and freight handlers eight states protested the managements refusal to give them a wage increase ordered by although the strikers returned to work after the officials said that government operation would continue until the owners complied with the web directive and gave Drivers and freight hand lers the seven cent hourly government seizure had been re commended by web chief William Davis who wrote the president that the dispute threatened to interrupt the flow of goods essential to the effective prosecution of the in san the govern ment took Over operation of five Frisco machine shops where Al machine unionists refused to lift the ban on More than 48 hours of work each shops were involved Only the although 109 in the unions five most important shops were effected by the presidential investigation begins All army guards have been re moved from Philadelphia subways and l trains in the first step toward restoration of the lines to Normal vehicles will operate without guards from 8 Oclock in the morn ing Emtil 6 in the Philly transportation lines were seized when a Wildcat walkout in protest to the upping of Groes to trolley operators the cites transportation a specially convened grand jury has begun its of the strike to determine the True cause behind the com Pany officials were subpoenaed to appear before the Federal judge George Welsh instructed the jury to investigate every possible Angle since he does not believe racial intolerance prompted the the strike at the general motors Plant in Detroit ended when United Auto workers voted to return to work on monday in compliance with the order of sane tied up for six Federal buy More War Bonds