Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                October wkly by patted by army it icon claw matter to the Pott office it a fitted by pal october 1944 Knowlton Gene editor rid Widl attic Date Arthur photographer Matt Mcdade and Dean and picture sources United array Public signal British Public rela Reuters and Soldier Corset Ponden in the record Cora Rote is rations new yobk1ans with elec Tion Day Only ten Days hence and the campaigns Tempo hitting a new registration returns from various cities and states indicate that a record breaking turnout of voters Inay flood the polls on political experts have predicted that the total popular vote will have a greater influence on the result of the presidential election than Ever thirteen cities which cast More than on fifth of the nations vote in the 1940 presidential election have completed record breaking registrations More than including the service mens the cities included new r los san Milwaukee and All except Louis reported a greater number of registrations than in new High in Massachusetts a record registration of in Massachusetts is reported and Bostons individual figure is above the 1940 in connect new voters have been registered while the Overall in crease in new Jersey is placed at per Pennsylvania a seven per cent drop from the 1940 figures despite recent jumps at Pittsburgh while statewide figures not been released in Balti More registered More than new about new voters have registered in and Large in creases in the Detroit Industrial area made certain that Michigan Urra Mission postponed Herbet leh director of has announced that the Urra Mission to Moscow has Heen temporarily delayed at the suggestion of the soviet which has invited Urra to Send a expected As go Over top As a whole will exceed All previous on the West Washington is running slightly ahead of the 1940 total and which normally casts two thirds of its entire state vote signed new slight declines were noted in Missouri and refuting claims that soldiers voting ballots had been erroneously opened by army censors in a few the War expressed be Lief that the ballots were opened not by censors but by the soldiers themselves prior to the army has requested that gis make notations on the ballot envelopes if they have to Force them open in cases where the gunned flaps became stuck due to climatic volume of pigs for overseas pcs doubled new York for overseas servicemen who have 1 smoking shipments of tax free cigarettes will total this compared to last the natio Nal association of tobacco Dis the shortage at Home will continue since americans Are smok ing at the fastest rate in history and soldiers and sailors overseas have first manufacturers expect this years production figures to equal last years but warn civilians that the popular brands will be grand old passes whose 19 years at Tho of Nebraska As track and Field supervisor won him the title grand old Man of the schools track died last blessed Are the Meek los Angeles local shop joint displayed recently a Large sign announcing for Flis Washer sir this will probably Hurt like hell can you top this new it comes to the marines have the situation Well inf so says a certain newspaper reporter who made a private Survey of ing servicemen High voltage kisses after watching a Sailor Plant a Long one on his Chick Ait grand Central armed with a Stop watch and his own the reporter spent eight hours in the station and came up with the following com Bat broke the Clinch after five minutes be Afore and shave Tail tied at five ill9 seconds a West poin ter demonstrated his Worth by adding up seven 56 be but a husky Marine took top honors Only after 8 minutes and 56 seconds of solid sending did our Leatherneck come up for Emall Marga re Mae Morgan of los Angeles has no prejudices against any bran Ches of the service or she was engaged to a mar ried Ai honeymooned with a civilian and now is living with a coast but dont get Margaret Mae wrong because it All adds up to one when she became engaged to he was in the Navy but his Navy hitch expired and he was drafted into the during which time they were shortly after he was released from the army and the newlyweds Honey mooned until Bill enlisted in the coast guard we were in the air coif s that was a great the tag to Ift the air corps and now that we have to Wood Type to get hear the air corps or Jinx Falker Iberg we still think it must be great were getting at is that Jinx heu self did pop up in air corps territory not so Long bolts from the Blue of items from Here there take lessons from the lives of great and follow their hed Cross gals Are Marjorie Fostle of col Elizabeth Van Cleve of Mary ram sey of Ohio and Mary Lawrence of san you know until coming across an item in the Zep times we thought the Kiwi was Byrd that not the Homo Sapiens Kiwi with which variety a have shared Many a convivial but we did think the Flig fitness Bird from which the no Tio Diers got their nickname was a thing of the but the times reports that a welled one is causing considerable interest among Orni it seems to have been brought from the North Island Bush As a Chick and is being cared for in a Friendly woman its got slavish Grey mottled with so next time they Tell you there Arent anymore kiwis Tell pm about this on her Way somewhere to be but Long enough to linger with her pals Pat Betty Ruth Carroll and Harry Brown to put on a sky Mas ter reports the sur prize the unrehearsed perform Ance and the banter at the service club until the lights went out for the that Glamor for your sprouting those wings at the shoulder oiling up a plane for an Early Takeoff finding yourself splitting a Coke with Jinx great Little and we  mind having our old Job As shipping editor on a paper like sky Mas it works Kansas on a of club Harley Paul Collins Felt bound to show the eve Loving wife How the boys at Camp made Booby traps so Harley hooked up a brass a a Nail and a piece of while standing Over he tripped and the darn thing went the Shell Tona Hole in his trousers and injured his left leg the wife suffered Only from coals to Newcastle Al Mallory says she has filled the re quest of her two wac Dorothy and Eileent who Are stationed in they asked that Spaghetti be included in their yuletide boxes from the changing world new truck famous for his appreciative whistle and earthy has apparently streamlined the Courtesy of the seen rumbling along West Side was a lumbering truck whose usual Tail signal instructing motorists when and when not to pass by yes and had been altered to read 1a and now its a birthday Zero beat has to a while ago it was a blood this particular birthday begins the second year on its current printing a device Zub describes As made in the year 1646 and still rim by its inventor who also sets the acting editor Macmillan regrets the absence of editor Sam Foster for the be but he reports things Well under control with Good duct overseas bars and All the Trimmins on the list to Honor the eritrean palaver want Sloop when the philippine landings came in it had Boon pre paring its readers for something of the sort for some weeks we no this daily printed tabloid pays a Good Deal of attention to whats going on in the wide Beautiful world beyond its circulation boundaries and the Pacific War has been one of its stronger in Back on a ecu pie of weeks before Macarthur a editor Bernard Deller ran a feature article headed Philippines enter the world spotlight As probable Field of Pacific a right on How Are your lec Tures coming along not All Camps Are so Lucky to have such a group As Huckstep to draw but those weekly talks appear to be nicely spiked out there by big name commentators who May happen to be in the Sand script notes that the Moat rec fint Satur Day speaker was Marcel of who been writing about tha Balkans for 25 his articles appeared in the states Long before he began his regular column for the Chicago others the Huc steppers have heard include times Harry Zinder and Colliers Frank who Dat not Only Calls Atten Tion of the arrival of a new quartet of red Cross girls to arrive in its it also on the right Date today is columns Columbus was an explorer in the course of his sailings visited the Gold he then turned Westward and landed in Columbus was a great prop has a profile on a Guy who should always get a break so Long As Hes doing his Job mess this one is Leo a Lan lad who worked on the Railroad until he went into the in the army they dropped him into cooking according to prop he Learned the Art of feeding the multitude spam in seven different All his the army immediately placed him in the Engineer overseas 18 months Leo found the red Cross needing a mess sergeant for a new club he also found some thing red Cross girl Helen who shed like to he Leo Leos not sticking to the kitchens after the wars Hes getting a College education and he wont Prophesy whats on the cards after Navy will cease enrolling trainees for its col lege training program after March these american troop shows Are aired by egyptian state broadcasting on the Long wave dial meters or 6w pcs mondays and on meters or 13i8 tuesday through Sun shortwave band at or 57s3 Cairo time october 27 Roundup of the music of lower Basin Street society that with Paul Laval and the october 28 Hopes show Gene Tierney Yucai Nival of music with Alec october 29 news let ter snatches of borne with Tito october 30 performance Dinah music and Violi nist Yehudi october 31 to scratch danc ing in the november i with Din 0 Shore Dinah line Ham for with Barbara Jack Benny Basil Rath Bone and Jean november 2 Cugat and his suspense the dark Tower with Orson