Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Ill 31 Cairo four cents August 1945 delayed Washington announcement of the new critical score by the War Lias again been Post in regard to its forthcoming announcement of the total number of Points needed for army the department spokesman said there will be some reduction from it is not expected to be very the army says that the delay in 1 making the which originally was set for sometime in will in no Way result in the slackening of the present rate of no Soldier who might otherwise leave the army will have to stay in As a result of the temporary postponement of the an already men have been released under the the army plans to release approximately by june the House military affairs com Mittee was told that an army poll shows that 70 per cent of the troops questioned favored the Point 25 per cent were opposed and five per cent were the committee also understands that the new score will credit Points earned through Midnight of May with no credit allowed after that Elliott Roosevelt requests discharge War announced it had agreed to re lease Elliott Roosevelt from the effective the we said it reached this Deci Sion on Roosevelt request made May 11 before the appearance of recent publicity with respect t0 cer Tain financial transactions and that no information in regard to these matters was in Possession of the we at the time the released was an inquiry into the financial affairs of Roosevelt has been underway for originating from report lie received a loan from John presi Dent of the a p Tea which was settled for a reported up said Roosevelt has 278 Dis charge maltreatment acquittal an army after deliberating 40 cleared Anthony Parisi of changes of having permitted mistreatment of guardhouse prisoners while he was Provost marshal at Lincoln army the plan for Tempo Rary duty in the states has been revised to affect enlisted personnel whose current overseas time is Over 30 these men with Over 30 months service but with less than the Cri tical score arid whose return for duty in this theater deemed is May apply for to state Side for 45 the quota re Mains the men or enlisted personnel of apportioned throughout amet each in the Case of officers Only those will whose current overseas assignment is Over 30 months and where return to duty Here is deemed the clause still stands affecting enlisted personnel who have the critical score or but who Volunteer to remain in service and whose further service is they May apply for a change also has been made in to returns to the states for emergency such applicants must have served Over 18 months overseas and be surplus or can be army chaplains find Berlin City of vice is the most immoral City in the world according to army with thousands in Allied prison Camps and countless thousands Berlin has become a City of old people and among the troops in Ber Lin the women have become known As easy but the venereal disease rate in the City and throughout most of Ger Many is very High and the Chap Ains Lay this to the nazi held Doc Trine that women Only duty was to Bear years of living under this Doc Trine plus the hardships of War have left these people without Moas the food situation dete the morals declined and women became acquainted with troops and is men to get enough to the army chaplains contend the same situation exists under Allied advertised firewall on All too Washington in addition to in the spent abroad from july through March although hit by the gunners of the this Jap a Mikado continues on run on the uss Santa shot up and the bomber crashed Aero St the Santa fas Foro Tsitle deck and dousing the ship with burning eight gunners were none thus protecting her perfect record of not having lost a Man in action during 25 months of Navy report expected soon a joint report on their discus Sions at Potsdam is expected imminently from the erg president Truman is expected to Fly to on England Channel where King George will meet him prior to the Ameri can War leaders departure for the states on the Cruiser prime minister Attlee will return with his foreign minis Ernest to Complete his Generalissimo Stalin returns to where it was previously announced chivas prime minister Soong will be Back shortly amet men ineligible for diplomatic jobs the War has announced that in regard to the state plan to recruit 400 commissioned foreign service officers from personnel of the armed with army discharges for those Wajo Are amet personnel Are not to resume the talks interrupted by the Potsdam the thick Wall of official silence continued at where the correspondents sent a Las minute circular to the big three asking that they receive the press before their president talks to Gia two pubic acts of president tru Man highlighted the past acting with prime minister Churchill before the letters retire ment from the am with Chiangi he joined in a proclamation calling on Japan to cease resistance or be destroy the three cited terms o the Cako Dolp making i Clear that the unconditional sur Render of All japanese armed for proper and adequate ass ran gee Bio three on Page 8 mad Asfa Hen crashed Empire state building 14 dead new York William a Veteran of Over a thousand hours of combat in european was the Pilot of the b25 bomber which crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire state building saturday fourteen Are known dead and 24 injured in uie hair raising Acci Dent occurred in the fog shrouded upper reaches of the worlds tallest building on Satur Day morning about ten gasoline poured into the gaping Hole the ship had smashed into the 34th Street Side of the setting fire to the 78th and floors and raining showers of broken Glass and masonry into the streets nearly a Quarter of a mile Throe elevators plunged t0 the ground from the 80th floor and and emergency equipment Ever assembled in now York sped to the business As usual the crash caused about Worth of damage to the building which it is expected to take about six months to a Complete inspection reveals that there has been no structural damage to the which opened As usual for workers on monday Only the observation Tower on the 86th floor will remain closed for a with Smith in the bomber were Christopher Domitro of Granite his Crew and a Navy enlisted Man who had hitched a ride in the machines mate Anthony the array of five fighting Perna of Mich and Domitrovich were at the aah redeployment Center at Sioux pending Transfer to the a they had taken off from Sioux Falls thursday morning on a ref urine training Mission to new Cleveland and bed the colonels Home the army has revealed that Smith made Thep fatal flight to pre serve his flying status and flight pay and that it was also part of the training program for pilots with combat experience prior to their reassignment to the latest of the victims reported to have died is Joseph of the a worker in the National Catholic welfare Council office on the 79th the coun see Empire on Page 8 battered enemy fighting Force the mounting fury of naval and air bombardments on raised another notch last week As Cannon fire and Carrier planes blasted the Tokyo area ind broken remnants of the Jap As Curtis be May initiated a new tactic of forewarning japanese civilians that their City i chalked As a target for next Day warning pamphlets were show ered on eleven bluntly announcing that these targets on the b29 firebombing list and strongly advising japanese civilians to flee to safety and restore peace by demanding new and Good leaders Wili end the the next Day a powerful Force of super forts at six of the cities listed Amon the eleven in the bold without loss of a single plane the b28a Leila smoke and opposition was described mal11 despite one Days Advance warning of the airmen said Jap fighter opposition was to a second warning followed As leaflets were scattered Over 12 Jap four1 of which were included among the first evacuate these a Popula Tion of was within 24 hours the threats were carried the greatest number of super forts Ever sent out at a single de fire bombs and explosives on four Jap cities shortly after mid All cities hit were important transportation Rock ing under a record Load of tons of bombs which overshadowed see super forts on Page 2 the White and Blue corpuscles of pretty Patsy a Uso Junior hostess of Santa Are boiling at this particular the heat was she after she was told by army officials at Camp Roberts to dance with italian pos while unable to obtain had to stand outside the dance Hall looking ans Urra pump needs Oil Washington russian re quest for Worth of Urra Aid met a mixed reception in but without to russian a an Urra official said the Agency funds Are Low and that j the nations in its re Lief and rehabilitation operations might be asked to increase contrib Bradley group dissolved Germany Omar Bradley 12th army group was dissolved numbering it had fought across the Low Luxembourg and deep into it was last August in Washington the nations War casualties Rose to this an increase of Over the army figures Are wounded or Iru crease of Over last the Navy reported total casualties since Pearl an increase from the previous week of
