Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1945, Cairo, Egypt Major fires hit Oregon forests after Over a weeks giant Forest fires that have burned out 140 Square Miles acres of Oregon Timberland appear to be under con Over lire of them servicemen were aided somewhat by although it is feared these will Stop before the dry Timber is sufficiently saturated to halt the spreading the fires Are concentrated in three one along a 70mile front on the Wilson another further South in Williamette Valley where an acre tract is nearly hemmed in by the fighters and a third in the Whitman National where scores of families live had to evacuate their wednesdays report said that the Wilson fire zone appears to have Foteen checked except along the Northwest in the Tillamook the fire fighters turned Bridge builders in an attempt to restore abandoned logging railways to move Bull dozers and Khaki Clad Kraut and Peytie flyer unmasked by Fri new German esp Ion agent and an officer of the air Force Nvere found this week to be serving As members of the United states army and getting paid for William Walker arrived Jere As a Battle shocked Veteran of he accepted press and radio publicity As a hero in Hopes someone might Clear up his Iden someone which says his True name is Karl Horst Max a trained nazi Hes held at Camp while a United states attorney studies to see if any criminal action exists in his in Boston Enrico is unmasked As a former italian flyer who had first come to Boston in he left in joined the italian air Force and when Italy flew on escort mis Sions for Allied he was shot Down Over assumed the identity of an american staff sergeant and was repatriated As a member of the Fri arrested him on the eve of his wedding his Fiance said she had met him while they were pupils in a Boston thumbs Down on coach travel july 1945 stars and Africa Middle East veterans of overseas combat who created a furore by their revelation of dirty and unsanitary travel conditions in trains across the country Are shown As they arrived in los from after being transferred from the objectionable railway coaches at Salt Lake registering their objection by the old Zephus sign Are members of the 95th division and 8th in Ca Seyou Needa proof thais is unlucky bears Brunt of record floods new York while most of the nation sheltered in Midsummer record floods swept Over East Ern new new Jersey and causing damage running into Bergen and Passaic counties in new Jersey were among the hard est with War Homes and summer crops suffering from overflow of the Peckman and Saddle its the locales worst flood since in Western Massachusetts and upstate new York the storm started at noon sunday to last nearly 24 at George and Roy were believed drowned when the House belonging to diaries Gary toppled into the Hancock at Lanesboro and new Ash Ford cars were marooned and the Bosto Albany route was closed Between and new new Yorks highways 43 and 295 were closed in Rensselaer and Columbia counties be cause of washouts and the Nassau Lake District was badly Rains of the past week have caused1 fears that further especially in Fine would cause serious Pennsylvania and Vir Ginia also Felt some of the storms though Wilbert Fleury of port father of 13 Mist have Points to he is Stin in Khaki and lays claim to the title of Champion dad of the armed Here is a family portrait of the Fleury left to front Row 7 6 3 18 months Fleury 3 6 4 Back same order 3 and two other and were visiting relatives when the picture was this time it was a Happy Landing buy More War Bonos wac Margaret Hastings who was rescued from new guineas hidden Valley of Shang i was tired1 but Happy As she buddies up on a divan shortly after arriving at Hamilton near san the pretty Corporal and two air corps men were rescued after spending 47 Days in the Valley ing a plane press army gets sleepy gis put up big Washington when cooped in be less train at Denver squawked at marching Mcafee of Waves to wed Mildred president of Wellesley College and director of the will be mar ried to the Douglas Hor ton of new it was a noun no Date has been set for the Joy weeds jail musicians new musicians and entertainers of 52nd streets swing Lane were arrested when agents of the Bureau of narcotics raided four night the Treasury charged them with Possession or Sale of their rage reached Washington us of Ouw o our caulk 11 to veterans of Europe on their Way to Pullman officials say that owned by Pullman and by the govern accommodating military an additional on regularly scheduled trains Are served for governmental the office of defense transportation has discontinued so Heimur car service on trips of less than 450 some 895 cars been transferred to military making cars available for troops sleeping shifts the ban is also on group civilian forbidding Sale of train space and tickets to travel Agen this came after publicity broke on a trip from Kansas City to sponsored by a travel the army says it is going to try sleep shifts on cars in order to relieve the shortage bed space for redeployed this will be similar to the troop ship Arran gement whereby a Soldier get a berth for eight to 12 hours and then gives it up to someone Congress has turned thereat on the problem by Starling hearings on the matter in the Senate War investigation has suggested that transport might be eased by replacing the Miami air base with reception stations in Georgia and thus saving overnight rail trips and in routing men from the North Atlan tic route direct to Chicago Rattler than new the senator also charged that the government agencies most vitally concerned with the redeploy ment problem were generally not consulted and were apparently even in ignorance of som of the plans made by the at Des Brig chief of staff of the service com says that redeployment up far ahead of sched Althous the first combat division from r rope will not face the japs almost the first of Coal for Europe 1 distress at home1 six Mil won tons of american Coal will foe shipped to Europe for civilian use Between now and january of the Interior Ickes announced this warning of further distress at Home unless the army releases at least the race is Between Coal and asserted Europe must have Coal with no loss of time if serious political and social upheavals Are to be do you want the life of any american Soldier in our army of occupation to be endangered by the frenzied efforts of the people of Europe to keep from freezing this Winter he he declared he wanted the ame rican people to know that this decision involves the risk that we May have to suffer a shortage of Coal in this country next Winter More acute than heretofore pre allotments for Home con sumption May have to be Philly baby born in Black Maria Marie Glauber did it the hard she get a she called a police patrol the Wagon get to general Hospital Quick enough so it made an emergency Landing at Northern liberties a doctor and nurse dashed madly out to the a be Ven Pound girl was born in the patrol the Mother get a oed at Northern she get one at she had to return new of labor reminds unions of no strike pledge up Washington charges and counter charges flew Between government and labor this week As Lewis of in a radio warned that organized labor would lose Public favor if it did not avoid conflicts in the reconversion period and labor leaders counter charged that a proposed govern ment Bill the executive Board of the Cio United automobile workers adopted a Resolution denouncing the Hallburton Hatch Bill in Congress and condemning those who initiated it As tools of Una Merican employ Schwellenbac told the nations labor officials that president tru Man and other Federal officers Are fully aware of workers misgivings about the then he asked labor to respect its no strike some results were immediately in 13o striking new England transportation bus Drivers called off their Wildcat walkout after the company agreed to inactivate 15 new Drivers pending a Concilia Tion some a ratio lists and War workers were stranded by the walkout which started when regular workers opposed the hiring of new workers go Back in Pittsburgh the cites incinerator Plant went Back into operation when Crane men reported for ending their second work stoppage this the original walkout occurred when 60 Furnace workers protested dismissal of a Union shop Steward who countermanded orders according to the Plant in other sections of the country workmen were stir at Stam 500 Shick razor employees remained away from work in a dispute which a Union Leader said arose Over use of cer Tain workers for cutting lawns on the estates of company Telephone operators in and Newton who closed Down their switchboards last Mon have wired the web they will not return work under the conditions which led to the but negotiations continued and there were indications a Compro Mise might be president Truman directed Petroleum administrator Ickes to seize and operate the Sinclair rub Ber Plant at where workers voted to stunt flying kills 2 while his horrified parents looked on from the John Burke swooped his two seater plane Low Over his Home struck a tree and crashed in flames with is a ice got fee Side she had waited More than a year for him to return Burke was due for a discharge next w
