Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                April 6 v ref t f f i Casablanca engineers try for they Defeated by Benghazi dark thursday after tournament l at Camp f 5 v i a and the to decfded4 t an in vim pm next of two teams St Flor in tace running Are Payne if Ltd Casablanca air and this week Tew few engineers Cairo Ben Hasl Huckstep Tripoli tuesday air depot Asmara Ben Hasl engineers 21 Field Cairo wednesday Tripoli Asmara Cairo Benghazi Huckstep air depot Pep oi80harqed again Willie featherweight Champion in several has received a medical discharge at Lovell Genera army officials Antouri Pep is still in the Hospital will toe released in a few he entered top army at Devens 14 after having previously served nine months in the Navy from which he was also Given a medical 8tilley is Irish line coach South notre Dame athletic officials announced that Kenneth tackle at notre Dame in 34 and 35 signed a contract to coach the Irish linemen for the coming sea the hats Chapeau new who is often called the the hat because of his unique will give the american red Cross which one of his shape aus brought on a raffle was held at a Labrador at base with one of the mayors hats As Jack Havener of was dodgers sold Pitcher Felt now Wyatt to the Phillies for who has suffered a sore Arm for the past two is a Casablanca air depot White jerseys gave Asmara a heres one of those just As it was signal corps by Navy Captain carries dying Marine son aboard own ship Washington a Small Navy in which Lay a Young Marine sergeant desperately wounded on Drew up to a transport lying off that Pacific he was to have been taken aboard the transport but another Small boat came carrying a Navy Captain who asked that the sergeant be Given into his the Marine was passed gently and Charles Carter carried his Only Charles Carter to his own ship anchored i Anderson was he had lost both legs and an Arm and suffered other wounds from the explosion of a mortar or a land mind on in feeling pretty he told his wonder How Mother will take All those were his last later in a Navy chaplain came to the Home of is it my husband or my son she the chaplain could Tell Here Only that her son had died of wounds suffered on Anderson turned to two unopened letters from her she had been saving them to read after she had dressed for her Volunteer Job at Bethesda naval hos a Force stronger than ours has taken charge and our beloved son is with us on Earth no Anderson donned her uni form and went to work at the hos this Story of a fighting family was pieced together from a delayed dispatch 6f a coast guard Corres Andersons letters and Andersons combat discs to be aired will soon hear weekly broadcasts of recordings made during Aerial com the recordings will be made by reporter teams in every War announced the army air these reports from fighting planes will bring Home All the sound and flavor of Battle As fliers know War Graves to be surveyed com Mander Edward scheiberling has announced that the american legion plans to begin the registration of Graves of world War ii servicemen on All fighting r the de Jet heavy weight Damp of the world dome from the armed that is pre Dit Tion of Mickey former now tour it Kcf the Tetso Loop in the War the present darn How in the armed will be replaced toy new to most of whom have never been heard of said Joe Billy Ous Les Revitch and other Topnotch fight Erfe have on considerable weight in Khaki and Blue and will regain their old time Joe Louis was considerably Afke the death of his Jack and there is a possibility that he might decide not to return to the added gob is Likely Prospect possibly the most outstanding Prospect i have Ever seen is a Navy Man by the name of Bill hailing from the kid is always in perfect weights 190 pounds and is a whale of a you May expect to hear a lot about this Walker was welterweight Cham Pion of the world during the Polden Era of he attributes part of his Success rat that time to the fact that he was managed by Jack the Man who piloted Jack Dempsey to the in offering his opinion on the old question of which was the better Dempsey or he my would be for Jack was always a fighter who could take everything his opponent threw at him and1 keep Boring Louis is a counter puncher who lets his opponent Lead first before he cuts nor has Louis the sustain ing Power of although he is now 45 years old Hast a Gray hair in head and looks nearly As Young and fit As in his Walker show has been abroad for nearly four caving toured Smiith America and Central Africa before their arrival in the Cairo their next too will be the persian Gulf Back from the grave to arms of parents Marvel who was nearly buried by his fellow captives when they thought he was was Back Home this week hoping to forget the Nightmare of three years imprisonment at the Jap prison Oarn at Cabanatuan in the 1 never thought id get Back exclaimed Ross with tear filled eyes As he was greeted hysterically by his and Louis As his sobbing Mother embraced him his White haired father stood by calling his sons name Over and Over come with Ross fainted and her Soldier son car ried her to a first Aid whose Normal weight is about 150 said he dwindled to go pounds while a suffering from double pneumonia and reduced to blindness and near he was saved from burial Only when he started to moan and began to said seven blood plasma trans administered by an ame rican medical saved his has Tea tilt of full a Ewers Lii Atory th6 Senate has th6 no rink Tion of Ali Sittg to 11 the num Ber of Fourst Ftp now on Active Faye the net generals hold the permanent rank of major Gen eral in the regular they Are Brehon army service forces commander Joseph Deputy supreme Allied commander in Mediterranean Omar commander of the 12th army in Europe Walter commander of the sixth army i the Southwest Pacific and commander of strategic air forces in who hold permanent rank As brigadier Are George commander of far East air forces Mark commander of the 15th army group in Italy Jacob de commander of the sixth army group in Europe and Tho Mas Deputy chief of generals of the army Macarthur and Arnold hold five Star ats announces big Job program Lor vets discharged Veteran of the army air forces can have a if he wants with the technical service under a plan announced this week at Wright Field by William Over types of jobs in installations will be As Long As vacancies veterans will be placed in jobs which Best utilize their skills and Veteran employees will be entitled to the same privileges As any Federal employee and will hold the veterans preference of 10 Points in and examination for an ats under the some veterans will be eligible for specialized 8th army moves up Comacchio isthmus Rome eighth army striking behind German lines at the extreme Eastern end of the Ita Lian drove half Way up isthmus Between the Adriatic and Lake Comacchio and captured More than of the Allied pianos have severed enemy rail line fac ing the eighth army in Central and northeastern major companies continued from Page 1 now about their chances to get work when the War is Simpson a plan has been worked out with the a inv and Navy to inform servicemen about the incorporator included Simpson Charles chairman of the Hoard of City Bank and Trust of Chicago Robert Hoard chairman of Sears Roebuck and Albert Spra chairman of the Sprague War Ner Kenny Joseph president of Bell and Howell executive Ivice presi Dent of the Wescott valve of East and George general manager of stand Ard brands in mountains of Xmas parcels unclaimed Washington representative Fulton said millions of unclaimed and undelivered Christ Mas packages for members of the armed forces wore stacked in Pacific military a he told reporters he would re commend that Congress suggest turning the packages Over to the red Cross to be distributed to gis forgotten at the packages Haven been de Fulton because of Battle transfers and various other there Are mail bags at one Pacific base said who recently returned from Navy duty in the at another i counted mail sacks stacked right out in the rain Iii buy More War Bonds