Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1945, Cairo, Egypt By army it Kucon Douw Mallet Al the port of tet at the act of a rated by map pan september 1045 r Frank Richard Ednot staff malt Dean Broome and Ralph and picture sources i and Soldier Ulster of Oss aided greek resistance an american directed splinter of supplied greek resistance forces literally under Ger Man guns for year ending last v Oss men sailed tiny or native Coastwise vessels ranging from two to 80 shipping was made from among the fleets achievements were the delivery of More than tons of material Andi into and out of Greece More than 700 saboteurs and resistance of More than nautical largely through Ojiem controlled Waters were completed with total casualties of four greek seamen killed and Only two of the 36 when the mostly powered toy ancient swedish diesel engines began to need their Crews kept them in operating condition by boarding Nad controlled acquired in explosives and High octane the latter needed occasionally for planes flying into Greece on secret missions were a specially danger Ous cargo on the splinter Fleet often vessels would be under Small arms fire from both sides As they negotiated the Samos less than a thousand Yards wide Between Turkey and the greek is land of stops across from Egypt the Fleet Headquarters were in Cairo usually making a were usually mad eat thence to the dodecanese islands and the greek two Clandestine commanded by were maintained virtually under Ger Man noses the Aegean a Sis intelligence service urged for peacetime role the office of strategic has submitted o the White House and congressional committeemen a plan for a permanent Central intelligence ser vice designed to keep government officials who formulate National policy fully informed on what is happening in the recommendation is for a permanent peacetime intelligence service organized directly under the in contrast to Oss operations in wartime under the joint chiefs of if such a service is organized it could take advantage of the specialized techno equipment and information acquired by Oss during the of state Byrnes has remarked that he wanted to see a unified intelligence service Navy and he said that the Oss bad Manv people who might Welt be salient features of the plan in clude the various government agencies which gather information for their particular purposes particularly the Treasury and Justice departments continue their own Intelli gence activities As the product of their efforts would be available to the Central intelligence service for coordination and Eva mutation by experts in various before the intelligence was exchanged haphazardly and incompletely through direct Contact be tween various frequently information gathered by one department and useful to others was never it would be the function of the Central Agency to redistribute in formation gathered by one depart ment to All others As Well As to assemble this information into a Complete from the stars and stripes after listening to the Many ideas of these Home front warriors con Gressmen to let All married men out regardless of their Point it makes us single men feel As though we fought this War Only for married these married men have really had a very Tough time living away from wives and having to these French and German i i do not know How Many single men there air now in the army in but they should now rally to defend their status and write their Congress local Home town families and friends to protest the proposed discrimination of us younger Sigerle when men volunteered Fop this army or wre majority of those first called were single men while mar ried men were mostly since everybody is lobbying for married men what do you say us single men Start the Ball rolling a disgusted single and 18 senior amet Navy officer returning to the states after two years As senior naval officer in Tho Mas Thornton is be intr re assigned to the states where he will work with the Navy demobilization prior to his departure he was bestowed with the Golden Cross of brigadier with swords in the Royal order of George i by Arch Bishop Regent of for his development of with the greek government in King Peter of Yugoslavia had conferred upon Thornton the order of the Crown of 3rd and wings of the Royal yugoslav air lift vie of add f dinners in getting out lobbying on Capitol Hill get out the of the have complained to Congress that at least once a a whole battalion is ordered to Cut grass with bayonets to keep our minds at the same 70 air corps vets now in a Southern have wired Edward Robinson that ready to go Over the Mil be cause of the delay in releasing them although they All have Points to spare and most Are Over Job Protection test Case Detroit intervening in one of the first test cases by a Section under i vow vote Altti George Droste contends that Nash Kelvin Tor gave him two unsatisfactory jobs upon discharge and asks restoration of his prewar sob on grounds that he has preference Over All Law says granting super seniority would impair the rights of return ing veterans who Are Law Mem Only one in 15 Washington Only one in 15 discharged veterans has converted his army life insurance to available peacetime with the result that some additional inducements Are Likely to be offered in the near future Brad veterans flew to new York this week to discus the matter with an advisory group of insurance illegally inducted Chicago a suit to get Louis Podewels of out of the army because he was Ille Gally inducted last week has been filed in the Young Man had an agricultural deferment which allegedly should have been in a writ of Hareas Corpus against John cd of fort Sheridan where Podewels is has been filed by the boys Blind vets Midnight Joyride a Blind War veterans Midnight drive in an automobile from downtown bos ton to on directions furnished solely by a paralysed sex i was described in a Superior court this the sex both drove from Park Square through heavy traffic to Harvard Bridge and across Charles River where the Blind Driver made a wrong turn and crashed into a the defendant in the Case is a Young stenographer who had rented the car to take the boys she appealed a Fine imposed in a lower court for allowing unlicensed persons to operate the whole said the is positively wanted veterans Washington the Treasury plans to new preferably to support its drive against tax Evad qualifications have been liberalized to allow More servicemen to Revenue agents will get from to yearly de pending on education and exp an accounting course will qualify an applicant for the lowest men who cant qualify As agents Are eligible As Kanuty starting at nazi agent impersonated go new York Karl Horst Max the William Walker who hoodwinked officers in Berlin into believing that he was a Shell shocked pleaded guilty in Brooklyn this week of impersonating a member of the his sentence is Derid Fri men described Wacker As a trained espionage the Blue weekly Roundup of items from v Camp newspapers Here there listen to this from old Man so slipped the boys Mickey finn this week and had them gasping for breath when he rang in record breaking 119 de Gree Day August no sooner had the recovered from that one when came tuesday with a Brand new record air temperature for the week averaged a new weekly High for the the Anglo iranian Oil company reported new records for the year in As weeks High Suh Tempe nature was registered at 171 de three Short of the season nigh of Hung up during the first week of but the weekly Sun temperature was High for the to further aggravate the As this went to Abadan was being subjected to another dreaded humid while temperatures drop during the Shar the humidity takes a Sharp making the weather Well Nigto unbearable water is of for Short periods of but it Dant go on for Verv Long without tearing hell out of same thing happens to the mind in the emotional sense that happens to the body in the physical Wash granted your morale is lower than a crippled granted you want the answer if youve got drop around and we 11 give it a no we Haven the but weve got a few one keep interested in every in play in the people around two while youre sweating it learn some thing either out of books or three keep beefing about the May till get bet four keep watching those five keep heres Tho sort of Story for the about time from sky masters Page one corporals and Buck sergeants Are now eligible for membership in the senior non coms initiation fee is one Pound and a Hal monthly dues Are 50 there will be a its a snobby int it prop Wash out of the Wash always has some Aneldo there not always by what the laundry ordered for this family heres a dry cleaned paragraph when chatting with de coca Colas gift to a kibitzer mentioned the possibility the sians might bottle their National Mcclave our drink is the pause that refreshes Vodka is the pause Thall Knock you Flat on your theres an editorial in backlog headed How Long editor pvt Dave Finley says that the question begins to fill the minds of every individually it can become a big question it can become so big it fills All Johnny Jones then he begins to tread treading theres a Battle waging Between two members of Dep dope on the existence of veterans the first stand came one week when Abe Kramer in his comment column came out Flat foot edly against mainly As a pressure thus a political a backward looking next week comes an presumably by editor Herbert going at great length to say that kramers Appeal for their nonexistence is first reason for according to Schil is veterans organizations will continue to exist and will even become larger and More powerful in Vears to which seems to us to be getting thoroughly away from the then the editorial goes on to suggest that pressure groups Are a Good or at that to assume that being a political pressure group is an evil thing is to condemn All existing political this particular Corner agrees thoroughly with speaking purely a an individual Soldier we think veterans organizations Are Plain bunk and that the Energy used to keep them going should be diverted into organizations with less Atti that one mans any the Wolf by Sansone ims i were
