Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                March 1945 stars and Cincinnati fed by pouring Rains the Ohio River and its but Aries swirled Over their Banks at Many Points this result ing in seven deaths and rendering thousands of homeless in the worst flood disaster since throughout the flood there is no indication that the situation is flood Waters have swirled through the streets of hundreds of cities of which have been there Are plans to evacuate nearly residents of although damage to property and losses incurred by work Stop pages in mines and War plants cannot be estimated at it is know that the figure has Al ready soared into As thousands scurried toward ground from the Ohio Val Ley the flood Waters Are reaching a level passed Only twice in 300 years of recorded virtually All War production in the Lowling Industrial centers of the Valley came to a Many mines have been shut Down and thousands of schools Are the red Cross estimates that about families have been evacuated from their Homes in the Cincinnati area where the River wac expected to reach and possibly pass the 70foot Mark by a few Days army engineers had thrown up a new bar Rier dam at designed to hold up to 65 feet of flood warning widespread the Way from Pittsburg to flood warnings Are transportation is paralysed on both sides of the River in West Kentucky and in Western Pennsylvania faced its worst flood danger since 19s2 As the Alleghany and Monongahela Rivers Rose Oliree feet beyond the danger in the Mississippi Valley of a Kansas the lower White River threatens to burst from its army Engineer troops from Camp have been working feverishly to strengthen the threat ened All army posts in or near flooded areas have cancelled passes for soldiers and the ats dispatched trucks to evacuate material from aah depots in River the steady and insidious rising of the Rivers halted on sunday and it was believed that the flood damage would not be too severe unless a great Deal of rain a few Days a Sinjour Cloud burst swept the Send intr the Rivers swirling Over Banks at scores of 3rd army Powers toward Coblenz Bush towers ride their at Only overseas tinker shop continued from Page 1 ply for More than three and electricity was Cut off through the Winter until the end of last last weeks air at tack upset the Supply Allied Prola nations were civil ians confined to their Hou three Miles from the As ninth army troops closed in ii below and entered the outskirts of above the Canadian first army farther up the Rhine was meeting stiff German resistance in a House House Battle about three Miles from the at the Southern on the seventh army men of the 17th division liberated Allied prisoners of War from a taxi one Strong heave will do it prime minister Churchill made a weekend tour of the Western front during which he stepped on German soil acid told american and British troops one Good Strong heave by both the Eastern and Western allies would bring an end to the european after conferring with Allied military Churchill visited ninth by Richard Johnson on moist Day last de Cember the Accra Hobby shop opened its doors for the first time to the Many interested personnel of this Central african the Hobby believed by the ame rican red Cross to the Only one of its kind and known to be the Only one in the Middle Arras the result of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of miss Jecter of in her capacity As an girl Sally had Long had to answer the queries of i Joes and Janes As to what to do in their spare last miss Jeter decided that something ought to be done about and immediately set to work gathering material and and battling the Ever present red tape to open a Hoppy Shon including and leather Art Model air plane and photo equipping the shop and having a continual Supply of material is this ambitious Youngr Ladys main she manages a weekly trip to the various shops on the Field where the men save her Odds and ends of Plexie the leather is bought from the natives up Kano Way n the form of and Goat the Model air plane kits from the army special and raffia and Cane from the local the equip situation was handled largely by the men of the who made the various tools and from old Salvage parts the and Jov of them All Benir a lathe made by an enlisted a former garage Model planes popular leather Wood work Model air plane building All Pach in lieutenant colonels and privates Brush elbows and work Side by Hep inst one another making Model planes a popular Hobby with the pilots and Crews be Woodwork is a Complete Success due to the Abun dance of that rare Maho and a plentiful Supply of Sally teaches leather and Lier latest brainchild is and Cine weaving which Shes from two natives loaned to her by the Accra prison Complete with Art classes Are held twice instructors a i and a a recent exhibit of the Many articles completed by frequented of the Hobby shop included a camera photo albums from leather picture frames and a travelling clock from plexiglass a lot of excellent Mode a Eddie car and a Lam from mahogany and Ebony am a Tabletop or Nanon from Metal All these seem to prove that miss Sally has indeed Success full fulfilled her Mission in Providinci a place the women can spend their off duty hours constructively and happily Wood Man and riva1 new Uso unit is Here a bran new so has arrived in Accra and will tour the hated As Superior the show should de Light lovers of classical the Spanish Arn Paris Heads the list of per she is sister of Jose Iturbi and Iho two often perform together in other members of the unit include a baritone violinist Ami a Soprano army troops and pleaded in vain with Simpson for permission to ride a tank to the Rhine for a look at Dusseldorf Eisenhower Headquarters appealed to German army officers radio to reconsider the Situa Tion of Germany and of their men and surrender to the the broadcast pointed out that Germany has lost the West her most Jwj Wuerful defense in the and Allied armies have reached the Rhine and the Sally arc aide and founder of the Hobby watches Shirley Parson putting the finishing touches on a purse made from Crocodile troops re Bologna of Allied the attack netted a it uni dominating peaks and the town of wasted 20 Miles from Bolo Gna in the closest approach to that City West of any a tactical air Prce announcement also disclosed that Allied bombings have kept the entire 128mile Ner pass rail line front Southern Germany into Italy closed for a whittling away the hours on a Model of a plane m Bonomi Goth shaky after rata getaway Rymel escape of italian pro fascist Mario Roatta during his trial on War crimes charges produced an italian political crisis this which a said May topple the government of Premier Bonomi and open the premiership to count Carlo Sforza who declined the italian ambassador ship to France Only this whose appointment As foreign minister in the Bonomi Cabinet was vetoed by Britain last is unlikely be opposed again by London because the new x Allied program in Italy involves Allied control Only Over the ministries of Senate confirmation ends Wallace tussle Washington the Senate confirmed Henry wallaces Nomi nation As Secretary of Commerce last week by a comfortable Marg climaxing the fiercest Battle Ever waged against a Roosevelt the Only after Congress has enacted legislation stripping the Commerce from its lending shortly after the senates a Wallace issued a statement asserting that the aim of his department is to Aid the War Effort and help develop fullest use of All to ingenuity and science to produce even More for peace than we have Learned to produce for War so that the peacetime Standard of living May be continually Jones other successor the president Nomin ated economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson to head the governments vast Empire of lending agencies which divorced from the com Merce when Wallace was nominated to fill Jesse Jones for Mer Job As both Commerce head and Federal loan Vinsons nomination immediately received verbal approval in con Gress and the Senate has made the both wai1 Ace and Jones endorsed the the Zinemon Thoyd son of Back in Shang i has a Surprise in its a de luxe kiddie fashioned of solid mahogany and miss Sally does a bit of photos by give laurels to the Joe sincere tribute to the Doug foot was made last by Joseph new chief of the array ground at a Cleye Jand ordnance Assoc a vinegar Joe declared that More attention should be paid to he lads who Are carrying the Ball the slugging foot these Are the sluggers who Are at it All the Day and in All these Are the troops that get the if he gets we win arid if he is forced we the fourstar general also said the average i is intelligent and a which explains his daily prayer of distribute bullets As you do the let officers get of them1 airline has jobs for disabled vets capt Eddie told Soldier patients at the Lav son general Hospital that not less than a thousand jobs for veterans with amputations Are available immediately in Eastern air of which Rickenbacker is president and general he explained to the hospitalized men that the loss of a hair Ann or leg or even two limbs would be no bar for disabled men interested in there Are countless jobs in the company open for Vou men jobs As reservation ticket weather instrument accountants and and even flight in he nazi pos to the War announced that More Lei Man War prisoners will be brought to the to ease the of Allied forces in Europe to relieve the Scarcity of labor in wins