Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Jill Middle Andreu stat Buff r j f july 1045 y t r or  Ruph in Var l stars Jam surf flies the information and education Section of amet has been doing excellent work in giving service personnel Premier showings of interesting Battle films and informative talks of educational we have been enlightened on current political competent speakers headlined the problems of Greece and on army service the to again pressing Britain to absorb the Suez Janal Tous of american ships and equipment to the Pacific reports the associated Presa while Britain Bas received under lend lease Worth of Panama canal charges from the Start of the War to last l she has Char ged the in Suez tolls during the same troops pour toward the Pacific from shipping through the vital Suez Gateway will negotiations on the Suez charges were revealed in an Exchange of letters Between the foreign economic administration and Charles North Dakota the Agency told Robertson that after formal talks in the autumn of 194tl had refused to charge Suez tolls to reverse lend lease and that the matter had been brought up again several new discussions Are underway in while the dispute has been going considerable Congress ional annoyance has shown up in the sea according to the Suez canal is owned by a British organized under French and the British As major owns 44 percent of the the British is that tolls must be paid in egyptian the British argued that they already owed Egypt too much for material they bought there during the european War and that they could not afford to incur any further debts to Alaska gi8 Dan phone Home an Aleutian base gis in the aleutians May now Call Home by radio a similar ser vice was established in last fall but this is the first step by any Aleutian Island bases to permit servicemen direct voice Contact with Mil in order to have a clearer picture of the whole Middle East situation we must know something about the biggest poli tical minefield of them we should be informed on the Justice of the jewish return to re7 build their Homeland in and presented with the Arab views regarding those who have visited pales Tiri Effaye been duly impressed by the tremendous development of that country by jewish i have Lizard Many servicemen say Thia i believe it would be commend Able if the i e Section could secure aun Aufa Ortive person to lec Ture in the we need Only tiie nothing but the so that we can de rive our own conclusions and then help the folks Back Home to Clear up confusion on this vital our virtue is fair play so we in play ma1lvin Wilson Apo army Law Mojo you know what hit safari of deposits system is fort by tattletale a Gressman has an urgent sos from a Manin his District was recently the new Rookie wrote a burning complaining that his coi poral made entirely too much fuss in his efforts to arouse the squad room for reveille each the letter like to have someone do something about shoe yank a few weeks this column reported further developments in the War Bond contest a certain Squadron at Biggs dreamed now for the James Finlay of plunked Down in the final heat to win first for that patriotic he was served breakfast in bed by the Squadron but Finlay had promised to bed ant Shine the shoes of the squadrons second ranking Bond so when breakfast was the top kick rolled out of bed1 and shined 13 pairs of shoes for the Max Siegal of new York v thiets too bad it seems that a certain movie Arthur sick to death of the army and in he cant get out of Accord ing to the Mem studio publicity the poor boy our hearts Are bleeding with sym Pathy has had seven straight roles As a Soldier or sign of the times come hell or High a certain fort Worth Mother is not one to lightly break As soon As the blessed event was successfully written the Mother passed out cigars on behalf of the proud papa who Hes with the army on Pup pass at the separation Center at fort a go rushed in to Russel the to who dishes out the and just talked with my Mother and 1ive got to have a fur Lough or Asche was genuinely moved and he enquired an Mother sick Camu the but she told me that my Bird is going to have Shes never had a litter without me what Asche then said is too gruesome to at any the answer was Nega cupid Copper police chief Clyde Hibbens of has slipped if ind into the role of Daniel cupid for a i some months the explaining that he knew of no one else in the City whom he could ask to carry out his requested the police chief to buy a birthday Quet for his comes again an other Hibbens re executed the delivering the Flowers in Jurson for his unknown bolts from the Blue of items from Cam newspapers there every once in a especially in the Somic name 5rops up out of the past and you say to Well ii it int old just such a name is Pojl commanding officer of the second we let it whizz by when we saw it in but that stands for Wilmer and american sports fan of the past 15 years could forget Wilmer Allison backlog has a Good yarn recall ing the Days when Allison and Van Ryn Wiere the top doubles stars at Wimbledon and Forest on his own he ranked As americas number one player in 1934 and a reporter managed to get him away from his chores As a responsible army officer with an Eagle on his shoulder Back to Tennis the other Day 40 yearn the colourful texans Sand red hair is thinning and he has put on some weight since his tap flight playing but he is still in Good after watching him work out around third base in a Friendly a officers Ball one of his men said Hes smooth As a cat around the i sure would like to see him play this baseball skill is not sur prising inasmuch As it was one of Allison favorite games before he took up Tennis at the advanced of in he never hit a Tennis before he graduated from High school and it is his Heterodox opinion that youngsters groomed to be Tennis players from More tender May Burn oui after he got hold of a Allison Progress was phenomenal when he was at the of Texas in he won the inter collegiate singles from Johnny Van now a lieutenant commander in the who became not onh7 this doubles partner but also one of his closest friends and partner in a securities brokerage business the duo started in Laustin after their looking Back he gives Tilden top place among the Tennis great and Helen wills Moody Over Alice Marble and the other gals of the of the newcomers be considers Kramer and Schroeder threats of the future and has a High opinion of Seymour Green Berg formerly of Northwestern and now an macs Looey in colonels other peacetime 3 him a natural for macs in uni Sand moved to a new office in the Camp Huckstep theater building to it in vites its readers for a has two extra pages on the Camps pm service and the statistics Are enough to Blind sales for the last eight months of 43 hit us All 99 and the first six months of 45 have totalled Pic Tures and masses of statistics give you no doubt that the Huckstep Exchange system is great certainly a far cry from the Days the place was known As kilo 13 or Darb Al then a full Sofce bottle would have netted All the ritas of an auction Sale and ice nuff head Man out there now is Van who been in the Exchange business for 20 your idea on compulsory military training for our youths in peacetime asked Herman Bonjour inquiring he got a splattering of answers ranging from one end of the argument to Albert of new has Strong emphasis for his but Joseph of m eel comes out equally strongly with William of adds another while Paul Calder feels for a kits time it would be a pretty Good Nerven approval comes from Don c of Idaho who says i dont imagine it would Hurt any army provides a heal thy life for the giving them habits that Are in Many cases an improvement Over their former the government will Benefit in that the individual learns a Trade and the chances Are that hell be out of when he finishes his training also we will have trained men to be sent out at once in Case of an mostly the reasoning seem to Dodge the notion that military training Means training for All the reasoning in favor Are Longi on the social and psychological factors and sidestep the real reasons for having that a Tough assignment House has Given the staff of we Hes nay even suggested that if turn out a readable history off the 10th weather squad All stations Are being asked to help the poor eds with stories and anecdotes As Weill As the traditional series of dates and Statis we once had a similar chore with a fighter Squadron and if theres anything Tricky to its a Squadron that qualification of the colonels readable is the real trick to the so Good Luck to 19s staff and help pm with what youd like to see in it your a couple of weeks Agio we re galed you with some of the Gla Morous doings of Walter etheral trib present macs while Home on spymaster now winds my the with Walter and Bob Posey about to return to Payne comes be Day and All orders Are the boys next step seemed to be reassign ment Anid not the egyptian waste things looked brighter at Patrick Henry where one Day Ithen the to head quarters was frantically sweeping itself out for an inspection i offered to help by wielding a but an officer it fatigues said of course youre our the picture at where i went was to tally a Buck sergeant seeing who caught up with me rubbed his hands to Gether gleefully and said boy heres where we get a 1st ser Geant and a master on at Sweet the fact that you had served Over seas seemed to be entree for o spell of the my a furlough in America is a wonderful thing and u hard thing to bring to an but to cure any Case of resultant homesickness just Igo to Hamil ton and within 15 minutes i Wager you will be begging for summer duty at Aba to the boys made it Back to the Middle trunk Call watches a few boys getting out of uniform and comes up with Somo lines suggested by punch who Calls whom sir before were vastly older Well cease to have to try to get a glimpse of someones Cap or we ii look him m the