Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1945, Cairo, Egypt August lease is t i t Tuo Cales backers in 6f a baseball Ysuf Daf Ion Payne service club Miller earned himself an eternal but we Hope not Long eternal place Paynes Hall of Fame with his Gam winning drive in the last the cads had hits to the sack 4rs errors to the batting wad pretty evenly Dis tribe tiled the cads Pinter Krall each get Ting two raps for the Kanpa and Cross connected safely starting twirler lasted the Hess relieved Clark in the 2nd for the sackers and Ewan Eki dubbed for Stanko in the 7tb for the Ewanski copped the Hess idling a heart critical score continued from Page 1 assistant chief of staff for explained that a screening plan in the states has been avoid wasting shipping space by moving men who might soon be returned Home and to avoid blocking a mans Early the Aalf is no longer Send ing men overseas with 75 Points or who Are 37 years he reiterated that those who choose to remain in service will be picked for their efficiency Index based on performance and the also indicated to the House committee its support of president proposal to continue the although no specific mention was made of his suggestion to take Only men from 18 to Only for terms of two As for levelling off army size it reaches next it seems Safe to said the War that the per manent peacetime army will be hell below that Navy system of the Navy Forrestal said that the Navy is revising its Point system to provide credit for Over seas service and Hopes to reduce its strength to men and officers within a he said Points needed for discharge will not be increased nor will the value of other factors he decrease the present Navy system allows credit for length of service and with 44 Points required for discharge of enlisted while the service chiefs were giving these indications of How their official orders would eventually there was Sharp criticism of both systems in both houses of James Mead insisted that the army should emphasize speedy discharge of All men Over especially those with dependents and that there is no excuse for retaining any Man Over 35 now that the War has congressional criticism As chairman of the Senate War investigating he was bitter in his criticism of both army and Navy of the Navy he said certainly men in their thirties should not be obliged to remain in service merely because of the fortuitous circumstances that he is in the Navy rather than for redeployment to the he said there certainly should be available sufficient men without dependents who have Only seen a Short period of Domestic duty to replace those overseas too Little thought has been Given this in All too Many he great hardships have been caused for a Long time now by the absence of the husband and for those in the older age brackets this has been an extreme hardship which Only the exigencies of War could not this was the last word of he co Tim not believe that the would proceed in such a rough and harsh manner to hamper a faithful ally who held the fort White their own american Arma ments were being he declared that Attlee state ment regarding Britain serious financial position was very crave find in the consensus of opinion among congressmen is that the will evolve for Britain sortie substitute in lieu of the can celled lend lease at there Are two ave Nues of credit open to great Bri one is the expanded Export and import the other lies in a provision of the lend lease allowing nations to continue receiving goods contracted for after Day on pledges to pay for them within 30 years at two and three eighths percent congressional comments Emanul new York said that the proper substitute will be found if eng land opens markets for goods in foreign expressing belief that England is keeping India and other Sterling bloc areas from purchasing u s he said we want to help England out of her unfortunate debt position but she is not play ing both Vandenburg and of the expressed mystification at Britain Surprise Over the sol Bloom said that from the american British complaints Are especially in View of the fact that the act made it perfectly Plain what was going to cards and nats continued from Page 7 Merullo sixth inning error on a throw to Phil Cavarretta put Whitey Kurowski on first with two out and he scored on Ray sanders1 red schoendienst tripled with the bases loaded saturday to give Ken Burkhardt Victory Over Ray Charley red Barrett won his 19th Ganie sunday when the cards tas in the first cub displays helped the for Merullo err ored again at critical Dewey Williams eighth inn intr Homer gave the cubs their second run in the 27 the cards have now beaten the cubs 10 games out of new York started the cubs on their for the giants stopped their flank on homers by Ernie Johnny Hucker and Mike and repeated the next with Ace Adams making his 53rd Mound appear Ance of the edging Claude the far out of the of sparkled with three straight wins Over ran their winning Streak to six and then fell victim to the Boston braves twice before they Rould win again on sunday Hugh Mak ing his first since returning from the was by Tommy Holmes three run g Raziano continued from Page 7 and sixth the fight came to an official end in 36 seconds of the but it was an for earlier Moore was Down for nine and 10 counts in the second round and twice for nine in the in the second Bivins landed right on Moores jaw and Archie went to his Bivins swung an unstoppable uppercut that lifted Moore in the air and deposited him on a deck cooler than a Mack but the judges gave Moore five minutes took the round from Bivins on four and decided the Moores must go it did until the sixth i pets Ririe egg beater aircraft in Mission is Rescue work a a Jet 10 helicopters in mercy Fleet by John Asch c Asaf flan French Morocco the men of the air of the first air pc service area com Are Aill excited Over the be Centy assembled the first of this Type of aircraft to arrive in this from the moment it was first seen in the engineering hangar unto placed on the flight line to be curious members of the depot have crowded about looking it Over and asking any number of ques this is the first of ten helicopters which win be assembled and made operational by the expert and test pilots of the auth and 37th depot repair squadrons of the lazes air commanded by Char Les East Point Georgia this Weir looking plane which reminds one of the celebrated poem Darius Green and his flying machine is the Rtia manufactured by the Kashkel Viator corporation of Michigan it is 38 feet and its three rotary Blades have a diameter of at its tailed there is a three Blade stabilizing this aircraft which resembles the body of a Bird with its head and wings Cut off is Able to take off right on the this is due to the fact that the plane or level of the prop can be altered and controlled and that the Blades have pitch control in a 40foot area is can evacuate three men it is built to seat the Pilot and one Well up in of for dog a Clear protected View for careful search and Rescue work this is its two special when thus will be attached to the main Wizee sup thus the evacuation of two or three wounded or injured men can be effected from otherwise inaccessible Mountain and desert its cruising Speed is Miles per hour and it has a Range of three to Lour hours carry my about 65 Gallons of Gas for the one u is scheduled to be test flown he depot test Gilbert James curl Larson and William o the cases air depot misdirected by the first air service area com an air technical service command organization with head quarters at Richard Okeefn is commanding officer of the first air area com Basic officer in charge publications on Type with George no in charge of the engineering and 1st test cases or pm army transportation chief praises record of pc Iran pc rail Dock workers and truck Drivers received the plaudits of the army chief of transportation this week in a report released by the army service in reviewing the command activities the a Job Well said in part one of the most successful and colourful that of the persian Gulf was announced As completing its Mission 1 june approximately Long tons of War material were delivered to the russians by the additional tonnage was delivered through the corridor by other a of this tie 3rd Mili tary Rai Avny service delivered nearly ions and the to transport service delivered More than As a Gen eral Rule cargo was transported from persian Gulf ports to the where the russians accepted planes and trucks were and delivered at port areas to the rus who utilized the cargo capacity of trucks for transporting additional army port battalions established enviable discharge records Des Pite intense the army rail in traditional in creased carrying capacity of the rail line and delivered the intelligent and vigorous leadership coordinated the various activities into a and effective Organ for a
