Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                July 1945 staffs and Atlanta bins a at an at Lanta cafeteria lost interest in their own food this week when an army a Mere 121 entered the eateries and demonstrated what real Chow hound can accomplish eyes popped and Mouths gaped As the Chester stowed away seven orders of Fried ten of French nine glasses of Orange two quarts of ten five egg two orders of Oli two glasses of iced two slices of five of Rolls and five slices of Apple pie a la Salvatori then wiped his lips with a explained to Start Jap prison survivor faces hardest fight fort Jim who was brought Home to die after three years in a Jap prison Camp his has been Given a slight Chance for survival by five civil Ian but taking exception to the verdict of army Doc gave him Only a slight Chance in a the doctors believe that the corporals indomitable spirit could conceivably Triumph Over his wrecked and ruined it is also their belief that if Newman can last four or five More he has an excellent Newman was returned to his Home monday when army physicians concluded that he would die within a few seeks postwar Job briefing for vets new York orientation of servicemen and women As to actual conditions of wages and employ ment to be expected after Dis charge is advocated by Jean commander of the Vete rans of foreign in a Spe Cial article for Brunner has on a tour of Eto since mid june and says that soldiers everywhere have asked whats waiting for me Back Homo Brunner thinks Industry and veterans organizations should team to inform the Soldier and dispel the myth of led spectators that Saady bars and a quart of i5e Cream just fore dinner had taken the Edge off his appetite and he he eating diners the downtown cafe Teria we rent the Only persons amazed by the insatiable appetite of much consternation Iliad been exhibited at fort Mcpherson where the Soldier with the bottomless stomach was about to eat the army out of House and the army had experienced Chow not one who Consi dered 60 a Pound of cheese and 76 hotcakes a Light breakfast or who could Stow away 36 pork chops at lunch without batting an the medics pondered so Salvatori was turned Over to the medical for three army physicians and psychiatrists kept the i under close surveillance and arrived at the following verdict Salvatori nothing More than an exhibit in a statement on the voracious eating habits of Post said that the i is an exhibitionist who puts on eating shows for the Benefit of his fellow Hie added that the Soldier had been segregated that taken away from his it is my opinion that he should be offered a added i dont believe he is of much use to the army under present Headquarters Guys and told of paychecks being drawn by defense thus saving him later he further said that government agencies shorn see that veterans get preference when sure s War material is Export licenses and such like arc at wings refugees Home the Headquarters company of the Cairo military District hit a new High in festivities sunday with v and picnic that was not Only a Flashback to civilian but was highly nostalgic of frolicking school gis in was in More than 200 picnickers streamed toward the Green stuff known in the stages at it was a two hour pleasure cruise up the Nile on the egyptian government Lent pleasure was provided by Large stocks of Beer and open deck and ice Cream and cake served by commanding officer of the who was in a chefs White hat and of course the return trip was by the Light of the gave something to Gripe j continued from Page 1 no longer have a Home at Lorient on the Breton it was Des troyed completely along with most of the seacoast in the Savage sea and air warfare which raged for Long weary but she has a an engineering specialist in the French Fleet Lair Arm in whom she has not seen for More than a she also has friends in Brittany who want her and her Little Brood to live with new Hope came to her when the at announced that refugees would be flown to converted b17s which had brought american soldiers Down from dispersal centers in Southern France and Italy to the huge redeployment base at Casa Blanca where tens of thousands of gis each month Are being routed she applied for passage Home for herself and her three children through French her names came no recently and soon Madame Herpe arid her three Chil Dren held the necessary air Force sleuths Bare phoney discharge Racket bought charges May York the first air Force Hus revealed a Complex or Brinizer Racket whereby soldiers fraudulent medical Dis and transfers from hot on fits slated for combat the fee for discharge was several thousand dollars and considerably less for Transfer to a More secure Branch of the stated the Public relations investigations begun last april when irregularities were noted at Mitchell the Dis closure did not give the number of men who had obtained fake Dis charges but said that most of them were from units in Distant parts the United states and not connected with the first air evidence indicates that when unscrupulous civilians in the metropolitan area received Large sums of they passed Tolje soldiers on to military Mem Bers of the conspiracy at Mitchell Field then effected completion of fraudulent the conspirators managed to avoid detection by mixing the fraudulent discharges with the constant flow of legitimate ones obtained by wounded veterans who were flown for processing and treatment to Mitchell an Aerial debarkation p6rt which receives wounded from Europe each the slip up occurred when authorities discovered that certain enlisted men had obtained fraudulent furlough false official sent to the sol Diers organization alleged that the men were there were no records that any of these men had received medical since the resultant investigations Are not no names were revealed by the first air two officers and several men who obtained false How Are being detained at Mit Chell buy More War Bonds on americas fourth of july Holiday Madame Herve and her three children boarded their Little clutching a toy b17 which an american officer had Given was singled out for special she held the 1000th ticket issued to a refugee since the flights were started on june took it in her stride while cameras clicked newsreel cameras whirred and Flash bulbs Helene took it All like a just before the Cabin doors were the Tot obeyed her mothers instructions and blew a kiss to Les Bons sold ats ame Rica Madame Herve could Only except Bon it is wonderful my family and i will never forget this minutes later the a Vete ran of 80 missions Over was in the air and headed for six hours arid 29 minutes water the plane set Down at the at base in most of the refugees aboard the like Madame Herve and her fled France in 1940 shortly before it was engulfed in the nazi they travelled in refugee packed trains to Southern France where they boarded Freigh ters and All manner of boats for the hazardous voyage across the Mediterranean to French in those Days Morocco represented their last Hope and final the boats saw that some boats never reached Madame Herve reached Casablanca in three George Norman of the command ing officer at port said that All Ages and All classes of French refugees have been returned to the Mother he said that Many thousands More would returned in the near refugee passenger lists Are made up by French ame rican military personnel have charge of the weighing in and checking of passengers boarding passengers Are allowed to bring with them 100 pounds of Sanction to the project of flying refugees Back to France was driven by the state department when it was found that the former comb at ships were flying Back to european bases empty after Deposit ing their loads of homeward bound gis in North Between of the pause hut these up a pose that they Back Row Mary Yerta Charles Caffey cd Mary Carter and Wilburn front Row Chester Emily Kiolbasa and Annie credit for this Pace setting Suc Cess rightly goes to John military Wil Liam company and the program committee Gott Lieb Orlando Aaron Ralph Peter Fred George Peter Edward Mario Augustus Leon Volan and Fred corps by son killed on eve of sergeant dads return the funeral of two year old Jimmy Affholder has been delayed in Hopes that his sergeant who never saw his son May arrive Home from the Pacific in time for the the Little boy was killed by bus after family was notified that James was Corning Home on a rotation furl Ough from the the soldiers father has wired president asking him to expedite his sons similar appeals were made to the adjutant generals office in Washington and the red the exact whereabouts of the sergeant Are not Hie red Cross reported that Affholder was on a rotation furl Ough while the co of his former Joe to slog through flickers Hollywood and Joe have gone to but their famous Bill is sticking around to see that film oms makeup experts Are no More successful than Patton in trying to pretty up his be whiskered screen rights to the i artists up front with Maul were sold to producer Bill Goetz for a film based on Willie and whose gripes and quips and general disenchantment made them the most entertaining infantrymen of this v company reported him detached the x sergeants last s from Luzon on june Indi Eai that he was in a casual Cen awaiting transportation