Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Bess f an b week of the of of of Icia army news Vervlee new York the smoke for Ould dear from Frank Sinatra St at Uso and special service efficiency in off went i w 4t met entertain urls i service St Joe comedian of the fam Ous radio How blamed Bunch of jerks in Uso and army special service for housing up performances by touring radio and screen leave us not blame the poor Gardner it is these characters in the Uso and the army officers who should stood in civilian life that is Messing up everything for the Gle and i was overseas around Italy for six weeks and officials loused up Romany shows that our act played to instead of like we were supposed Gardner specifically charged that the Uso in the Mediterranean theater is run by a former Ada dancer who dont know what j doing and acts like Bis head Cut adding actors play to 600 men instead of and the special service officer Doest even notify the gis ahead of time when some Star is head on Wall whose first name he never found is in charge of the Mediterranean special and Gardner described him As a very disinterested character who plays politics so Clarks head quarters and places like that get four shows a the irate comedian told a United press re Porter that he would warn every Hollywood Star to make no Over seas commitments until David is removed from his special ser vice in route Back to Cali fornia after his Shook his attempting to show How his brains were loosened by beating my head against the us army special service Brick i Shoul Dve known before i he they the Uso sent a Telegram to the Italy Spe Cial service on june 11 saying id be available for shows on june do you like that flatter Titan tavern drunk drove eight hours for one show and got a hot wire that there was a so we Start an sight hour drive somewhere in up is that were playing 100 troops in Palermo when Ert were troops of the 10th Mountain division All waiting they had us playing Duffy tavern once to a group 80 per cent British that left our jokes about Mel Ott flatter than a drunk at the Gardner continued his expose citing the cases of fellow ent Allan Jones got booed by troops because he gave a half hour performance instead of a full the Uso and the special service officer told him 30 minutes was the right Jack Benny and Larry Adler and forty of their group were kept waiting in a room for an hour by a Uso official who said he had an important message for they never did get the message or see the David refutes charge meanwhile the Uso Camp shows division replied to Gardners criticism by saying that the comedian was miffed because they didst Roll out the Plush carpet for Myron Uso publicity i said Gardners complaints completely uncalled Gardner was always complaining the whole time he was according to he added that luckily the majority of entertainers who offer their services do so because they want to entertain troops no matter How Many or Leon chief of army special services in the medi declared in rebuttal that de Archie of Duffy is talking through his David asserted it is not True that some outfits didst see a show in two adding that some shows like Gardners and prank Sinatra Are Only in Italy a Short the according to the is that not As Many people saw them As so Linest in Tiffin since the final n Ungs from our vastly different setting we have watched dispatch from its because Railroad men and port motor transport and Supply wizards were the Backbone of this command created to Speed supplies to the paper at wars was filled with Sto Ries of their moved millions of tons of them breaking re week after week one unit would along to better the Mark set by some other in Khor rams Hahr or qum or a Andi Meek or what a piece from Home the Guys had travelled from Idaho and Tennes from new Hampshire and new Mexico there they would week after week As the War went in loneliness and physical Dis Comfort and endless hours on the Road and the rus sians went on with the goods those men sped the editors of dispatch dont make overmuch of these troubles in their Roundup the Price Box on Page one says Back Sheen they Point to the millions of tons of War cargo taken from hundreds of Pound by As Jack Kayser puts it what a terrific and wonderful record that command made so far As we can this last Issue made every Effort in clude mention of All the units which had a role in the pc we  begin to list them but Middle easters would re Argentina lifts bans Buenos Aires the Argen Tine government has lifted All Legal restrictions on Freedom of right of Assembly and political ending a state of siege which had been in effect for three the action is presumably in preparation for which president farrells military regime had promised before the end of the there have been increasing de both inside outside for restoration of a constitutional won sports several of those last 12 pages Are understandably devoted to the swell sports record of pc and old us afters would cringe to see How Many timed the pc teams have nosed out Middle easters in one sport after another Basket boxing and table theres also full Page of me mor provoking pictures for the pc vets by elegant the dispatch came off with the championship in the world wide newspaper contest sponsored by Camp there were a fabulous collection of visitors to the the editors led by president Roosevelt in november 43 for the v s Teheran inference with Churchill the theatrical stars Are a no table headed by Lily Pons and who formed their own i and that greatest of Oil Soldier this is the Donald commanding very rightly sends dispatch and its editors facial congratulations on their consistently splendid of which this final Effort is an enviable symbolically Page one of the final Issue has a striking picture of a 125ton diesel Loco Veteran of Many a Tough run on the iranian state being hoisted aboard a for shipment to another to personnel remaining in the stars and Afri Ca Middle East will be available at final Issue poo memories August military railway service was Backbone of russian Supply line when Reza Shah late emperor of planned the trans iranian railway Back in he did not dream that he had envisioned a transportation line which was Des tined to become a wartime route of vital strategic import Ance in the fight against fascism which was to embrace the whole bad my american railroader Seeff it upon i completion 19 Jretta 1u be would Iron horses helped to do the Job last edition emergency leave conditions cited a new head has appeared de fining to the United states for emergency reasons for return to the states May be for emergency or for compassionate when an extreme emergency arises which can Only be alleviated or remedied by the presence of the this might include settlement of an estate or some such matter in which no other member of the family is present at or near Home to Settle the problem in there is no overseas time limit involved in this Emer gency when serious compassionate reasons Auch As a dying Parent the applicant will be returned if he has been overseas More than 18 months on his current overseas assignment and is either surplus or can be replaced by an individual already surplus from within this the circular then lists information which must be included in the applications to be forwarded through new Deal for Tommy London the appointment of John James Veteran Trade Union As Britain new Secretary of state for War is fore seen by observers As prelude to a sweeping democratization of the British it is believed that the conditions of enlisted men will be improved and promotion from the other ranks made for Lawson has criticized the War a member of commons since he served As financial Secretary to the War of fice under the first labor govern ment in relation furloughs to adjacent Heaters for exceptional cases the rope an theater has been opened to amet personnel in a newly an bounced expansion of temporary duty Ifor rehabilitation and recuperation in adjacent temporary duty for the three is May now be in exception Al to military personnel de siring to visit relatives residing or stationed in the Mediterranean or persian Gulf Thea not Only is the Eto new to this proviso for amet but the phrase or stationed in also 13 an thereby opening the Way for personnel stationed in am sit to visit Sisters and other rela governing the entire scheme is availability of which Means that no particular quota can be promised for a specific period of for this All applications will be considered on their individual Alcatraz escape fails san Francisco John i serving 20 years for a Post office robbery at Salt Lake made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from he stole an army uniform from the prison laundry and boarded an army he was caught when the boat docked at Angel Island army Ramadan slides in on Moonbeam this is month of fast ing sacred to the moslem Ramadan is the ninth month of the moslem lunar year and was instituted by Mohammed in Honor of the first revelations made to him by it begins with the appearance of the Crescent As soon it is a Cannon is through out the night until you can distinguish the White thread from the Black by the Light of the Dawn it is permissible for the faithful to eat and at and until the Sun goes Down the following the True moslem May neither smoke nor the period lasts 29 during which in the native quarters night is turned into for Only then May food and drink be Are open far into the night and the meat restriction is lifted for the entire on the 30th the fast is ended with the great feast of the islamic the lesser lasting three new record new York flying a c69 Lawrence Fritz hurtled across the Atlantic last week in 14 hours and 12 min setting a new nonstop record from new York to his re Cord is nearly four minutes under the previous at Selassie recovers Royal treasures Addis Ababa the United states formally presented emperor Haile Selassie with a Large Cache of Royal Robes and other articles stolen from the ethiopian Royal Palace during the Ita Lian the treasure was retrieved by operatives of the office of Strate Gic services in Northern Italy during the final Roundup of some leading buy More War a cosi