Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Ill 29 Cairo four cents july 1945 critical score1 go victim of japs who refuses die Washington while the Cri tical score replacing the temporary 85 Points for army discharge is not expected to be announced much before the end of the the War announces that it will be based Only on Points earned up to May it is that a new compilation of credits to include those accumulated since May 12 will be made later this the score will be lower than but the reduction is not expected to be Battles and campaigns covering actions which took place before May Jug which were not added to the official list of Battle honors until after that Date will he counted in the combat credit thereby accounting for the addition of considerable new there have been some instances whore soldiers who lacked the required 86 on May 12 have since become since the combat awards were now there Are 34 Battles and campaigns of world War to for each of which five Points Are counted toward Dis the four factors for computing combat and remain the no release for some the we also stated that All men with 85 Points who Are now Back in the states or returning from overseas will be discharged As soon As qualified replacements Are available to fill essential the announcement added that All gis with sufficient Points for would be out of the army by june except in 19 specialized some skills Are temporarily Short and men must be retained until replacements possessing these skills Are but the list of scarce categories Lias dropped by four from the original 33 specified and will change monthly Asra idly As Lowpoint men Are fun see critical on Page 8 air Force Day Washington has designated August 1 As air Force Day in commemoration the 3sfh anniversary of James Veteran of holds the hand of his Mother shortly after arriving at his fort Worth corporals Battle for life inspires Pacific fighters fort Texas Newman was ground after a restless his reported his Only nourishment came from a Glass of milk at the evening fort Texus a few weeks army doctors sent Newman Home to victim of three years of starvation in a japanese prison Camp in the Philip the 95pound Corporal was dying from tuberculosis Ajuis his was completely rut despite the fact that doctors gave him Only a Days to the boy was filled with Ati indomitable spirit and determination to a lot of Gas Are concerned about so to let him know about that his Brothers in service Are pulling for the Honolulu edition of stars and print italian orphan climbs out of 61 duffle bag to take by storm Blu eyed a Chris a nine year old italian orphan who was smuggled aboard a troop ship in a its duffle stowed away during the crossing and was smuggled in to Boston in the same duffle himself something of a celebrity this immigration who Are in charge of reported that he was rather tired after a Hec tic whirl which included inter picture posing and a shop Ping during which he was mobbed by shoppers and sales i Chris is in a Tough How having gained illegal entry to but his pals in company of the 121st infantry to which i the Little boy had attached himself in Are doing their Best to prevent deportation of their honorary the Little italian Speaks nine languages and is using All of them to persuade immigration officials to let him he says wants More than airy thing to become a real he is also pleading for Permis Sion to go live with the Mother of a Soldier i he is momentarily awaiting word from this his Best Bud an unidentified 23yearold new Jersey after arriving with the Soldier is believed to been route having been processed at Tain Myles Standish in Between 50 and go including gis of the 12jst have offered a Home to the according to Earl be co of the Lerette added that Many snarls have to be ironed out before any adoption action can be in Thomas Massachusetts has introduced a Bill to legalize the Milan born orphans de a special edition of the the Newman circulation one heres the text of the headline Story in the on copy edition which Ive Man received a note to Jim this copy of the paper is for Jim its a special edition and its All the circulation is one you count and cant count the number of gis out Here in the Pacific who Are watch ing and cheering the Battle you am putting1 its an inspiration to same kind of inspiration you for ivc us in those Early Davs of a lot of us were still civilians we didst know the army and the japs worried some of the japs were far away and Well prepared and were talking about a ten year some of us thought it might take that Long or longer to give them what Treyve got you and a few thou Sand Guys like you held off the japs on Bataan and that changed everything for Hope for Many we if just a few americans can do that to those just wait till we get or Well murder this is what you Are doing to if Jim Newman can make it in spite of what All those big shot doctors what have i got to worry about that about All we wanted t0 except that we know youll make Good boy and say of killed at journeys end new York almost an undisclosed army Corporal return ing from Eto for discharge was killed last week when the Liberty ship on which he was travelling collided with an outbound British freighter in fog in lower new York three other gis were Fleet guns Pound Jap targets into mass of rubble the big three Are meeting at with the american president As chairman of the first of the meetings was on tuesday when the British prime minister and the Bussian Premier asked the president to guide the Progress of their at the second of their it was under stood that the leaders were still limiting their conversations to preparing the order in which they would take up the issues confronting As had been announced Well in the big three Are keening the Progress of their talks to they have v agreed to make official statements at intervals but Only they feel that have reached agreement on specific Allied correspondents within the closely guarded compound have protested rigidity of control but so far the three War leaders have released Only communiques that they have been together for a certain of that the president has taken the reins of presiding officer and that an Agenda is their first first objective Japan it is understood that Truman has told his Collea gues that the United states first objective is the Early defeat Olja after it was announced appointed marshal Generalis Simo according1 to a recent soviet the lost to arrive at the meeting he came from up to the last he was occupied with a series of six with the chinese Moscow announced that Soong has re turned to chunking but that he is expected Back in the soviet Ca Pital Washington reaction was that since the Potsdam talks will Lack the compelling drive for the Mili tary defeat of the big three must go further than they did at Teheran and face specific settlements of perplexing issues which previously had been dealt with Only on the broadest see secrecy on Page 8 of japans vulnerable coastal cities and airfields quaked under a four Day Hail of bombs and shells from Halsey third Fleet task Force whose naval guns virtually demolished two enemy Industrial centers and Whoso Carrier planes burned a third City to the ground last beginning at Dawn on of Carrier were hurled against the Northeast of a heavy fog to cover the approach ing Battle wagons and Hunt for the vanished japanese air at noontime the Navy new est cruisers and destroyers brazenly steamed in close to Shore with guns and shells ranging from five to 16 inches crashed into the vital steel producing Center of 275 Miles North of the following other War ships of this audacious task Force nosed northward toward the Home Island of hokkaido and a loosed o shattering bombardment on the another important steel Industrial on the same was set ablaze by Carrier 10ton broadsides radio correspondent Joe Hain reported from tha third Fleet the three great battleships Missouri and after one practice never see Fleet on Page 2 House votes Bonus for Bay state vets Boston a state soldiers to ranging from for men with less than 60 Days of service to for servicemen with a maximum of overseas has been approved by the Massachusetts the measure now goes to the state Senate for action and to the governor for his ways and Means committee chairman Roy Smith declared that the Bonus payment of the amount called for in the Bill would coat at least by tar the highest single appropriation Ever approved by the since there is no method of financing the Bonus at the present Robert who sponsored the stated that he would offer an immediate Amend ment to set up a system of reve Nues to cover the Murphy proposes additional one cent tax on each package of a 25cent on each gallon of alcoholic beverages and a per tax on corporation incomes exceeding Zarwit heaps Washington Italy declared War on its former Axis july announced the foreign the War declaration released the fact that a Fleet of italian submarines have teen against japanese shipping in far Eastern Waters for More than a sent to the Indian Ocean a few months after Italy the subs have operated As an Al most Independent they were accompanied to the far East by Mother ships and other italian a Washington the Navy reported a heavy increase in casualties last bringing the total losses of the armed since the beginning of the to this represents a weeks increase of Losa efe the listing total casual ties of accounted of the new the Larmy based on names received by the War through july showed a Rise of
