Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                E in the 4crazy quilt r i pc v rank Doest mean a thing to Gene Chloupek of who writes to 450 servicemen and women and plays to uniformed visitors ranging from privates to Chloupek maintains a room in washing tons for the sole purpose of sleeping quarters for servicemen who cant find dubbed the crazy the room is cluttered with this Nightcap scene shows a Cap Tain sharing the accommodations with a private and a Marshall defends use of 18yearolders in combat w v w j Assai j v to lion acres of upper Louisiana Are inundated and persons while the swollen Missi fed by scores of flooding threatens new Sevasta Are Tremley Light with Only four deaths reported in Louisiana and three in thousands of i students and German pos Are working on levees to prevent new Breaks and further disaster along the spreading Waters of the ouachita and Little Rivers in North and Cen trial the rampaging red River is nearing a Crest in Central Loui Siana where overlapping and crumbling levees Are worsening the flood new levee Breaks Are reported at Natch to chs and near coif the red reached at Alexandria where flood stage is 32 the ouachita River is sex for u 10 Risu we Tiff urn before leveling it reached flood stage of 66 feet Early this although the Mississippi Lias Noti overflow its the Muddy Waters Are four feet above flood stage at the menacing but still under is being patrolled Day and night by air along a half of Louisiana 64 parishes counties Are already under flood estimated at by the red Are being housed in 27 tent As Well As churches and municipal buildings on higher Field kitchens and refugee Camps Dot the Safe armed forces in action to help Rescue marooned Fame army assault boats and naval amphibious coast guard cutters and helicopters Are being army planes Are continuing to skim tree tops Washington new congressional demands to have 18year Olds kept out of combat were mounting last As the Allied Advance across Germany height ened Hopes for an Early Many congressmen have been receiving letters from a Jiro testing the use of 18year Olds ago infantry replacements after Only 13 to 17 weeks of Basic an amendment to the selective service act was drawn up and rebuffed by a six to three vote in the military affairs Revercomb of West Champion of the has rallied Strong bipartisan Senate support of the which he will again offer when the Senate takes up the Housea prov Marshall asks Home front support for troop redeployment appealing f5r Public understanding and support during redeployment of american forces from Europe to the said people Here at Home must be brought to under stand the urgent requirements of the Thev must be persuaded to sup port us in the last great Effort to hasten the end of this he once european hostilities he every Man in that Areca will have an overwhelming urge to go Back to his wife or family or but at that very moment it is imperative that we Start the move ment through the Suez and Panama canals of the units needed in highest priority for acceleration of the Campaign in the any any loss of Momen Tum in that Means the unnecessary loss or mutilation of More Young de for Extension of the in answer to a letter concerning the use of the youngest soldiers in army chief of had written Hope of Kansas that the army1 must use 18yearolds As combat replacements or run the risk of prolonging the War in both Europe and the Marshall outlined his reasons for the i am firmly of conviction that never before in our history have our soldiers been so carefully prepared for Battle As in the Case of the present some will be demobilized Revercomb said that he sees no reason Why Victory in Europe should not eliminate the need for using inductees with minimum we Are not going to need All of the men we now Haive to fight the Pacific a substantial number of them will be demobilize the army is going to have to reorganize a lot of units and it wont need these youngsters in combat until they have been Given ample he Revercomb also pointed out that the is the Only Allied nation to use Lesa than years Olds in there was some support of the army Hill of Ala Bama said he opposed at the present the rules under which the army operates and Maybank of South Carolina Reite rated that the Navy takes Volun Teers who Are Only Hill that the end of the european War might make a material difference in the Atti tude of the nation seizes after Washington of the Interior Harold Ickes has taken Over 235 strike bound soft Coal mines As result of the walkout of approximately soft Coal the governments seizure was ordered by president Roosevelt to prevent further curtailment of Coal shortly after the mine the soft Coal producers and United mine workers unanimously approved a new breaking the Long negotiations Shirley and sergeant plan postwar plunge engagement of Shirley Temple to John Agar has been announced but the 16yearold former child Star says the marriage wont take place for two or three now Beautiful and Well Shirley started in Pic Tures when she was became one of Hollywood most fabulous stars and retired at she came Back a year at a salary of Over her Fiance is a six foot two physical instructor at March Shell be a Cut up lady new York the Torch of the statue of Liberty will Blaze with electric in All its former when be Day the present flame was dimmed during the Bro Van Wie receives 30year stretch san Francisco Ding Dong daddy lifelong search for Hap piness and a real pal was abruptly ended last week when the judge sentenced him to 30 years in san with a Fine thrown in for Good Francis Van Wie the Moon faced Little Street car Casanova will have plenty of time in which to regret his unfortunate habit of marrying to without interrupting the non Stop matrimonial journey with divorce his wives were 13 the balding Evlion Tamer had pleaded not guilty of his bigamy convictions by reason of but his vivid accounts of various accidents which impaired his brain left the court Knudsen gets new Post Washington Wil Liam Knudsen will retire As director of the air technical ser vice Wright to become chief of All army product 235 mines walkout All provisions Are retroactive to april As earlier agreed operators estimated that the contract would mean an average daily wage of for vacation pay was upped to yearly from but miners Are to receive the vacation with out the this year in in Terest of the War the contract must now be approved by the War labor Board and economic stabilization Norb to review movie strike in the Mont hold movie strike both unions conference of studio unions and International Alliance of theatrical will pre sent their cases before the nation Al labor relations Board in Washington on april each demands jurisdiction Over 77 set producers of major studios have sent dismissal notes to the Indus try workers who refused to heed the backs work Multi violence again flared saturday on the picket lines outside the on other strike a dispute Over the discharges of minor Union officials in Detroit prompted the walkout of workers at the Packard and Continental motor companies and employees at the Kelsey ayes wheel the motor company employees have returned to work Al though the strike at Kelsey Hayes in workers returned to their jobs at the Good year company after a six Day rafts to persons stranded 6 v the flood situation Shreveport in the the still rial starts in southward to join the is causing Moat of a thousand German Powe Are helping sandbag levees m River in Many the entire divil Ian population is shovels and sacks to v Homes nearly All of peo ple of fought to save the troops from Camp Livingston were sent to  River while  troops who fought against the White River in Arkan Sas were transferred to flood duty along the utilizing their War combat it under a Veteran of italian threw a 110 foot steel Bridge across the cold Bavei to reopen vital Highway traffic to the entire operation recruited less than six hours and Gav Stem Horary Relief the traffic obstacle which has existed off and on since Early hampering the main Road artery Between Mem Phis and new May blast flood Way the work was under the direction of army Joseph Hoff Man the Bridge similar to those used by army troops Span Rivers in Early this preparations were being made by army neers to blast open the unused Morganza flood Way to 000 cubic feet of water per Secondi from the lower Mississippi through the Atchafalaya Basin into the Gulf of prior to the about families had to be evacuated and a ten foot levee built to protect Morgan City with its population of flood Way will not be opened if it can be Okay lend lease r for Doug foot meets Lifesaver one of the first persons Richard Harvey of looked up on return to Shangrila was Audrey of whom he credits on saving his when Harvey was wounded by 9 Ger Man mortar a pint of whole donated by was injected into his he is shown Here holding the blood Container tag which identifies the Washington the Senate passed and sent to White House legislation continuing lend lease operations until june republicans failed in an Effort to strip from the measure a House provision permitting foreign liquidations of War supplies after hostilities vice president Truman broke a 39to39 defeating the Amend by senator Taft to strike out language which Taft contends mits disposal of lend lease pro Perty for postwar purposes despite a specific provision against such just before the Senate rejected an amendment which would have barred lend lease Export of farm actress Dies in fire Hollywood blonde Gloria Dickson of the films is the suffocation victim of a fire which swept her Hillside Home Overlook ing the film the half Clad body of the 27yearold actress was found in the second floor fire men theorized that flames broke out on the first swept through the forcing the actress into the bathroom where she was caught toy the her most recent pictures were lady of burlesque 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