Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                31ak3 ainu no thumb outlet m by Gene tit Ralph september 1045 Matt sources Amy signal and tidier the Force scare seeking to encourage Volt meter with a pro Gram of and at the time went Down the line for continuation for the draft to launch 1 a de recruiting Job v Marne corps officers Tow the Bouse military committee that those services do not believe alone will keep them up t6 the needed service witnesses suggested however that if volunteering exceeds expect Calls could be the program of inducements was offered by joint army Navy Board to the House Sev eral of whose members had indic ated a desire to go on a straight Volunteer Toafe for occupation armies and eliminate the draft in there was within the committee of asking president Truman to explain to the nation Why he thinks the draft is still As the Navy set in motion a fall scale recruitment the joint report urged these benefits for volunteers pay for overseas duty beginning with 20 percent and solons will measure plus six1 plus six m that familiar and meaningful phrase duration and i8 a moot question at the moment and us up to Congress to decide just when those additional six months that what selective service who got you into the army in the first to selective spokesman has stated that All draftees Are entitled to release by the end of the duration and six months but he warned that Only Congress can say when the duration is finished and the six months Congress will be urged to clarify the Issue As soon As so no legislation to define the duration has been the spokesman added that when Congress declares the duration Fin some provision for occupation troops will have to be they All be scurrying Home within six increasing five percent yearly to a maximum of 35 percent above Continental duty number of noncommissioned grades and of free of mustering out pay for men discharged for Pur pose of option for army men Reg arding payment to them of Money in lieu of costs for reenlistment guarantee of most benefits now accorded to the House military committee also heard that the nations Short age of civilian doctors is to be alleviated somewhat soon with of the army physicians slated to be discharged by february out of the Navy during that same period will come of the in the As for the army added that it Hopes to Cut its Force from to in the next four As the Navy expects to release nurses in three Corn Hopper Fleet plague Dakota swarming Down from the arid hordes of hungry outsize Grasshoppers that appear during the Corn descended upon and enveloped the Small town of Wasta last within a Day and a the insects had devoured practically All vegetation within the some of them two and a half inches gob wed up Green tree Kloweit and vegetable they even ate drying laundry off the hoppers covered the town two or three feet making walking most of Zas tas 500 citizens barricaded them selves inside their Homes during the siege but some hoppers crawled through chinks in ten tons of powerful Poison is being spread to kill the u by Miff Mcdade social menace a Young Sailor was the Only occupant left in a cafe the other Day when he casually puked out a hand grenade and offered to pass it around to the 30 Odd a and the after my the frenzied placed the grenade on a table and did a Houdini the unhappy called up army Arsenal experts who came around to pick up what Thev thought would be a harmless the How was not Only a live but packed enough explosives to just about atomize the the manager says the whole affair took quite a lot out of grudge Fri men have arrested a 39yearold draft dodger Al Fred who has been giving them the runaround since is not a bit repentant of his evasion a he says angrily that he was once rejected and Hes been mad at the army Ever since something for the boys for All of you sentimental Guys Wholl soon be wanting something to remember the army heres just the thing a Sterling Silver Money clip with a place to insert one of your dog the advertising apparently written by a 4f says that the dog tag is so important a part of life in the service that most men will want to keep it As a Lucky pocket As a lifelong As a permanent and for its Utility and what a one at the Hook rank Yinko go me Temple of interns Oan Tew great Bell of emergency with a glance Back at the Days of frenzy which followed Pearl ans recalls a stunned nation rallying to the in it remembers that harried Young 18yearold James who lost no time in wiring the following frantic a peal to our president i would Pike very much to join the marines but have never grown any please wire collect if you can help final gesture the Burma India Roundup tells of a i who hag a quaint wrinkle on an old army fact Horace a quays Little idea May Dev Elop into a new army As Fuquay left his to for a separation Center and he said tradition has it that a commissioned officer presents a Dollar to the first enlisted Man who salutes in going to change that around and give a Buck to the last officer i bolts from the Blue k k weekly Roii Dup of items from Camp newspapers Here there for some reason you guess one unfortunately irrelevant subject has been cropping into Many of the Camp papers hucksters Sand script with the idea in a Page one Guy looking smugly at himself in what a new with a razor Edge press and Wear ing a striped the Marrakech spotlight takes Over the subject for its Watfa a know Joe which finds that to the question what kind of a suit will you buy first one is agreed in one that it wont look like government if the Usa tailors Are listen ing and of course they Here Are some pointers on what to have for Howard Farrow of macs something single Light Green and made of Gabordi for William of engineering hard to but it wont be of or i i live in Southern so ill stick with sports Stephen at seems to me something like a Light Blue Serge if i had the i would like to do it up right a dark Blue hat with a Light Blue band around it to i match the de of engineering Doest make much difference How in dressed so Long As i am but ill get something in sports William engineering i dont a Good not that i but something in a dark the Cazes depo dopes Allen my in his column out of the sad Sac finds that the Only Way to properly express his thoughts on the subject is in the Noble Pero rations of the poetic Muse when i get it is my dream to dress in a Siwash color scheme in tweeds with the Jaunty Esquire Sloppy and Debonair Wing tip oxfords with fancy toes polished up like a Brandy nose socks As Gay As a French Parade and neckties louder than a Tokyo when i step out with my Best girl my studs will be of Ocean my Broadcloth shirts will gleam so Bright the summer Clouds will not look Fin Gonna have clothes before Fin done of every color under the sunt Newmoon yellow and Blowtorch Blue and Green like the Tail of a cock for Ive worn of since the War began and pm sick and tired of the army y and 1 Long to in f just which suit shall i Wear to someone with Good hearing has been writing prop Wash out of the Wash column of bits and pie Hes heard that the Naff til close stoop by All men with wives will be ship Ped Home soon All men with two wives will be shipped Home on the Benny Goodman will play in Italy Square to officially close the Ramadan the at will occupy he puts it All under the head of Rumor speaking of it would be hard to top the one sky master noted As conversational pickup from the 31str is according to somebody in whose aunt dreamed it three nights in a Row gis in this area will receive ame rican Money instead of the usual dilapidated egyptian that per ambulation gentleman of ten Trean Irv to is Back on his Post As editor of Zero beat after a Jaunt to the luxurious purlie us of lower Egypt and the heart of to Man aint under a head ing five raves to he holds Forth on staff bumps and discount discourtesy gets the hard est Knock As he its so unnecessary if i sound please Stop Marling right the War is Over hut discourtesy goes on and How i hate to rap the at of the personnel were but the truth always the Payne Field fax is the very breath was atomized out of me when i approached the Toile article what the Hejl do you want the pretty thing behind the counter lightning flashes that nifty editorial in buc slip with the heading War and under it a big White space on which someone had written no com own Point system critical score 100 ten for a Hare ten for being an half a Point for each set of khakis 15 for each court 20 for each eight Day furlough stretched into a month 50 for insulting a general ten for Reading this 100 for living in new Jersey and hav ing a three Earold named Bruce John Pardon the personal Nice mentions of a wac party in the Bengali desert of the girls sure Miff got a has the Welcome mat out for an ice Cream Plant in  get the stuff soon so had Geen using locally leased picture and captions in i transit titled redeployment by Little Page one Box in backlog headed fresh meat that 200 White sacrificial lambs arrived at Oran to a assigned throughout Naff after a 14day crossing from Hampton to replace purple project arid overage legion throws hat into political ring sait Lake City indication that the american legion seeks to operate openly As a political organization has been made by National commander Edward scheiberling announced that he will seek congressional release from the article in the legion Constitution forbidding officers of the organization from holding pub Lic asserting that the legion has developed potent political Power which it now intends to Wield he said the article thwarts the organization Gosport War de Burton of Gosport bought a Gas station and sold it five minutes later to his first no