Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                April stars and Barney Giles Iri command of aah in Pacific area the appoint ment of Barney Giles As commanding general of the army air forces in the Pacific area was announced this week toy the Var it was also announced that Giles will be succeeded As chief of air staff and Deputy commander of the aah by Ira who formerly commanded the Allied air forces in the Mediterranean Giles replaced Mil lard Tharmon who was reported missing on a Pacific flight several weeks Bakers successor is John former commanding general of the 12th aah in the both the Pacific air which Giles and the far Eastern commanded Tov George Are under control of Douglas How the 20th super fortress aah is operated hinder the direct com Mand of aah native of Texas who is the twin Bro ther of com manding general of 4s 52 and a native of Barney has been an army flyer Sinee he was named chief of air staff and Deputy aah commander in after serving As commanding general of the 4th aah at san Eaker was one of the Lead ers who built up the tremendous air strength in he headed the 8th aah in Britain prior to Mediterranean and Steak Russell Baton literally dives into it tender Steak at his first meal on soil after escape from a German prison Willie was among yanks who arrived1 at Camp Miles woman lived with Corpse of Mother for 32 years in three sons father pleads for return of fourth Kansas City having lost three Soldier sons in less than a 64yearold Harry Lewis has requested the War to said his fourth John Leback to the John is now fighting somewhere in Ger the father emphasized that he was not asking the army to release his mits enough if  just Send John Back to the he the news that the youngest of his four servicemen 21year old was killed in Germany on March 25 was received by the father last William was killed in France last june and George le1 was also killed in France three months Washington the wierd ghoulish Hollywood stalked a respectable Washington neighbourhood last week when the death of 79yearold Mary Wood card unearthed a number of sur prising including the mum my of her 114yearold the real life mystery chiller of the old lady Mummy will be closed week when the daughter is buried Side by Side with her mothers embalmed which she kept in a Coppe lined mahogany casket in her for 32 when the body was in a Good state of preservation with the face clearly visible through a Glass top in the old fashioned Square As pieced together by police from records and the gossip of neigh it appeared that the also named Mary died in either in Louis or one record shows that she died in Wilkinsburg of pneumonia on March at the age of the body vanished promised her Mother on the letters death bed that she would never leave her alone in this she purportedly kept a lonely Vigil by her sitting and rocking in a chair which had belonged to the on spiritualism and mysticism were found scattered about the As if to give the uncanny Story its polished five live Oats and a dead one were found in the the dead cat was carefully bound in a it was tucked away in a trunk in the another Louis woman since the embalmed woman Possi elective service act has been pro Ible hailed from that posed by Brewster of we would Clamp a ban on the drafting of men above 31 years of City the Bell with two mum Mies in one shortly after the capital Case came to a Louis undertaker revealed that the embalmed body of a woman known Only As Maud has been lingering in his funeral parlor for i 40 because relatives would at any it is known that the put out the Money to Bury j t 9 i a it body was shipped to Washington in and after funeral services at a private was interred in a vault in Oakhill Ceme on october the following the vault was opened at the daughters request and the body was presumably to to sent to an embalming school at Lewis said that his one ambition now is to Settle Down on a j farm with his three remaining there the Trail sons John 17 and Olio was medically discharged from the the father has already made a Down payment on a farm near the times quoted the undertaker As saying he first saw Maud when he was a Little adding she Hast changed much in 40 would relieve gis of March 15 jitters Washington a Bill which would exempt members and former num Foers of the armed forces from payment of income taxes during a specified period has been introduced into the House by Pennsylvania the legislation would wipe out a Serviceman income taxes for the period extending from one year before he entered the throughout his entire period of duty until one year after his Hono Rable discharge or release from the armed floods Bill also exempts from taxation veterans who Are totally and permanently disabled in the Venice either from injury or Florida twister injures 20 winds sweeping in from the North struck near Here in the form of a twist destroying or damaging 16 Homes and injury my More than 20 persons there is no record that the body Ever reached the school nor is it known How the cadaver got into the bedroom where it was found two Days after the daughters from police gathered interesting bits of some said the body had been embalmed ten times by an egyptian and was other said the daughter had High court reverses treason conviction Washington ruling for the first time in its history on a trea son the supreme court Mon Day set aside the conviction of an Thony Cramer in a five four Deci a German born citizen of new had been sentenced to in years in prison and fined by the new York Federal District court and appealed to the supreme court after the second circuit court of appeals Hud affirmed the the accused was said to have Given Aid to nazi saboteurs wer Ner Thiel and Edward who landed on a Florida Beach in the summer of the supreme court found that overt acts charged by the government against Cramer were not suffice edit to support his conviction for super Carrier new York the uss Coral second in a class of super aircraft will be launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard april will Rogers wounded Washington will to Gers son of the Cowboy Humo Rist and a former has been wounded in first signs of Ajner Kas period Between War and peace App lured last Mutik men and women were dropped Iroff payrolls 6t Fords giant run bomber it was also revealed that the plants production of Rator bombers will cease by not later than t speculation concerning future use of the Plant continued tout neither company nor the army air Force made any definite the tremendous size of the which employs 20tooo employees and covers 67 is one of the difficulties in assigning it to other Peak reached in november connection with the develop of labor Toane Espe Kins told new Meti Todt Stry has definitely entered the Warto transitory the Peizik of War employment was reached last while cutbacks Are in War Perkins emphasized that mass unemployment is not an immediate with our agencies and Laws Pable of handling such a employ that there is plenty of other pm plot rent for workers thrown out of jobs toy cutbacks such As that announced for Willow run and for Shtul Mildiner in the san fran Cisco Bay she Perkins revealed that non agricultural employment was about in an in of Over she indicated during the press conference that she retain her Cabinet Post for some now president Truman Secretary of Perkins had appointed Missouri state director of the employment ser vice in web okays Coal contract in the War labor Board unanimously approved wage provisions of the soft Coal contract on the agreed upon by miners and actors after weeks of deadlocked be must now be approved y economic Stafelli Zer William operators assert that the new increase miners pay an average of on the strike the govern ment seized the cities service refinery at Lake and pickets have the work stoppage was caused by a dispute Over increased rental costs in a nearby housing in the Kelsey Hayes wheel company strike ended As employees returned to work but the dispute lie management has refused to com ply with the regional web directive ordering reinstatement of five Dis charged Union the five discharged men actually returned to although the management declared that they would not be in another web ordered an hourly wage increase of five cents for Over skilled maintenance employees in of five automobile selective service extended Battle to airing clause toeing assured by Marshall that As soon As military conditions Perm the army will adopt a policy of sending overseas no Soldier under the Senate Defeated a proposal to require 12 months training before combat duty for All draftees under a less extensive proposal to bar the Lise of 18year Olds in combat until Thev have received at least six months of train was passed by Senate a few Days later despite heavy opposition by the War and Navy the measure was passed As an amendment to the selective ser vice act which at the same extended for another the combat amendment pro Vides that training must be of such character and to the extent necessary to prepare a Young draftee for combat it does prohibit the assignment of 18yearold Navy and coast guard personnel to combat vessels for it was argued in Senate that americas Young fighting men were suffering disproportion ate to those incurred by the youth of other Allied nations the had no statutory minimum training another amendment to these Winter Orange blossoms Mark and commander of the grand army of the re pub Californi Nevada has taken a 68yearold the former Aimee in the Luckiest boy in the Mingan told reporters in explaining that he had known his Bride 12 Hes the Only living member of the Banks Post of the Gar in Glendale and Mingay is an officer of the Glendale Daugh ters of Union veterans of the civil exo Regon senator Dies Idaho Robert Stan former senator from is court taps Chaplin sock for child Hollywood the Chaplin Berry Case theme is you is or is you aint the daddy received at least a Legal answer last week when a jury of 11 women and one Man decided that Charles Spencer Chaplin is the father of Joan barrys Carol thus ended the second paternity trial and a court Battle which has continued for two during which time the child was born and reached the age of 18 a week after the highly dubious paternity of Carol Ann was legally a Superior court ordered the 54yearold Silver haired actor to dip Down into his for tune and Fork Over 875 weekly for support of the child until she is Chaplin was also ordered to pay miss Barry to cover attorneys fee for her two year plus Ordinary court costs for the two paternity first of which ended in a jury neither the Victor nor the Van i Jursher were in court when the Charles Chaplin Hie vanquished order was read but their attorneys were properly dramatic As the cur Tain rang Down on the third chaplins attorney announced immediately that his sceptical client would Appeal the just As pleased was Joseph miss barrys 77yearold at who had demanded monthly for support and for lawyers when he heard the judge pro claim Scotts eyes Filleul with tears and he turned i cant believe he Mur i just cant believe new press Secretary 59yearold Washington correspond has been appointed press Secretary by president Ross succeed Leonard whose former employer req Esteil his return to civilian state senator dead state Senate Stephen at his