Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Vets seniority m first test Case new Yore Slahor unions and vet organizations have let out a cry for congressional clarification of the Job portions of the selective service act As a test Case brought before the Federal court in Brooklyn resulted in the decision toy judge Matthew Abruzzo that vets have preference for jobs Over no veterans despite seniority rights established under collective bargaining Veteran Abraham Fishgold took the Sullivan dry Dock and repair company to court claiming that he had been Laid off for nine Days because a no Veteran Yard employee with higher seniority had been Given judge Abruzzo ruled Congress intended that during the period of Remenap Layment the Veteran is entitled to work on any Day there is work to be Given and no non Veteran shall do that work when any such work can be done by a the Union involved in the Deci Sion giving super seniority to returning gis advised its locals to ignore the ruling and promised an immediate supreme court president John Green of the Cio Marine and shipbuilding workers Union told reporters his Union would take the Case directly to the highest court in an Effort to Avert further confusion Over the status of even the Fox left this ghost Camp Iran when one of their ducks took a header Down the Drain pipe in the Shower room and was never seen the Skeleton Crew guarding Road Camp i on the once vital motor transport service route to Russia saw the first of a series of tragedies that was to almost annihilate their size Able shortly afterwards the five Large self appointed watchdogs of the Camp and custodians of the Gar Bage can decided to supplement their diet with fresh Duck then there were no whether the pet Fox who had been purchased from nearby natives Felt the Call of the wild or grew sceptical about the hitherto passive he did not say be fore leaving a few Days after the Fox the owner of three of the dogs was transferee to another Camp and he took his dogs with now the Security guard at this northernmost of 13 its ghost Camps face the future with but two and their future and that of millions of dollars of american installations in Iran is awaiting disposition by the army Navy liquidation popular chorus in last two concerts the most popular singing organization in the Middle East gives the last two concerts of its career saturday and sunday evenings in music for All at under the direction of their Long time Clifford har the ladies and services choral with the Middle East Light symphony will give a program of songs and oratorio baritone Arthur reckless will be the chorus is breaking with most of its personnel due for re after pleasing Allied forces audiences for the past four the groups final offering together will be at Evensong in All saints per sons were injured last week when the westbound red Arrow limited of Pennsylvania railroads struck a stalled automobile and was seven several of which were left the 1 september 1945 stars and of Cromme Fly signal service platoon chalks up honors in Long Middle East Exil one Hollit yes tossing out messages at 60 words per something new has been added to the sleeves of the men and women in the 3135th signal service platoon at to the radio Mecha was on the one of the oldest units in the Middle awarded the meritorious service unit the directed to the units six officers and eighty two men serving Between february 45 and june reads in re cognition of Superior performance of duty and outstanding Devotion to duty in the performance of exceptionally difficult awards and citations Are no strangers to the signal boys like the maps and the car company perform 24houraday there Are six legion of Merit hold ers in the and of All the services on duty at the Cairo con the signal service detach included personnel from Hue step As Well As from singled out for the Only commendation Given by the of the american All gis 30month vets the legend is that Cairns signal gis have been Here so Long they beat the Bazaar merchants at their own Price approximately 25 percent of the men have been overseas 36 the rest have been trotting the sharia for Many arrived in Cairo during the hectic Davs when Rommel was Licking his chops outside Alexan Dria and dreaming of Steak dinner at at that communications were not Only established in Cairo but also farther South in the army played it set up its most powerful station in the snug Mountain City because the Odds were for the fall of Egypt lieutenants Clair Mclaughlin and Vincent Johnson copped signals first two legion of merits Margie Moore and Calvin for their work in installing Thuc Asmara a at the and a Felt the pangs of Usa Fimes Pristine Days As they lived on creations and reverse lend 1 eased bully beef and their Asmara the Doug Las aircraft and the Drake and Piper kept exclusive their stocks of american Cigar ice and fresh Cairo conference during the Cairo conference the third legion of Merit went to Alfred although a teletype maintenance Kindred installed special radio equipment in Cairo to facilitate conference he had never seen the newly develop de machinery but with the Aid of manuals and an officer who arrived with the equipment from the the installation was completed by the set deadline after u week of Dayan night in the conference among the communications set up under the supervision of William present of the were two Telephone exchanges a special for the presidential Field communications for All the guard posts surround ing the a new High in message delivery was also from the moment the message came into the radio then broken Down the code routed through the signal corps message and rushed by Spe Cial courier to the Mena House sector for Interoffice took one following the Cairo the temporarily installed radio machinery for which Kindred was awarded the legion of Merit be came Standard equipment in the crates of parts arrived in Cairo for a permanent Lda Diane by and Louis Jensen coupled his expert knowledge with kind doped out an efficient instal and was later presented with an of Frank Wurst installed the code room equipment which arrived with the radio and became the fifth of signals legion of last of the recipients is Cla rence he and Edward Nordby were sent abroad to install a radio among the letters of commendation in the units the letter citing Ralph Lohmann and Charles Gregory for their 18day journey with a truck Convoy to the persian Gulf com Mand recalls the most amusing Field while maintaining radio Contact from the first of the 100 trucks to the last As they rolled through an urgent message came through to the boys to Call Cairo the direct line with Cairo was temporarily and while swing ing the dial the operator tuned into the signal Tower at Lydda air he heard the i there Call ing in a plane for a waited until the conversation ended and then broke in with can you get a message for me to Payne Field the sudden Ghostlike outburst scared hell out of the Tower he  believe that a Mobile radio a Quad be somewhere in the arid it took some dragged out explanations to finally establish the con Voys identity and relay the Mes Sage to Payne from there to it is believed that the Tower men at Lydda until pass on the Story of Tho ghost station to their re lonely parents offer Home to two War vets and Arthur whose two Soldier sons died As prisoners of the Are looking for two homeless War veterans to share their farm Home and take the place of their they wrote to a Buffalo news paper asking for help in locating one or two homeless or crippled returned service they prefer boys who have no folks or Home and who Are unable to support stateside Skyway to be expanded Chicago Robert de 23yearold Veteran of the 15th has been appointed director of Illinois new department of a the department will develop aviation opportunities for Young men who have Learned aeronautics in various services and will also assist in promoting a system of statewide a nationwide program of Gigan tic airways designed to do for air planes what great High ways did for is Unchur stoned Young child to death a coroners jury has declared that nine year old James Lloyd Edwards is responsible for the death of three year old Phyllis Jean but the jury asked the county court to consider the tender age of the boy in any subsequent a the Hoy confessed that he struck the Baity on the head with stones five limes on herring dead Des Moines Clyde her ring died Here this week after a Short first wont receives legion of the first woman of curve the legion of Merit ored with the award we she is Willie the army nurse director of nurses in amet and also head of the personnel Section of the med Al department Calls Princess Hoina has been in Middle East years yesterday and iwas  nurse m this theater finer to whom her associates seem sincerely in Shell be off for a deserved rest in the other legions of Merit awarded this recipients were t Janiel of Nal who served Here from March 43 to col Donald air for services from to july who headed g2 from August 44 to sell t 111 h of the h m sept 46 oct 43 to Richard okeefe air first pc port unit Hopes this was last dance 34th Ogden Reed hopi was a Farewell the port now in it8 month in recently held shindig at this blistering Porton the persian the 378th showed up in strength and the resulting ratio of 2ct hand trucks to every Chick five red girls and 26 polish refugee damsels was a bit but the port men managed to in their particularly during the the dance was held to the Eaton still with its con Crete floors and basketball Mark the 301st Asp band the 378th is now shipping excess command it is the Only remaining port battalion in pc and was the first to the veterans will always remember when they first looked at Chorro Mshar mud Flats and began their struggle to meet the eve rising tonnage state sets up info Section Washington under the newly appointed assistant Secre tary of William Benton the state will establish a per manent Agency to Tell the Amer ican Story abroad and to promote world Freedom of the new division will absorb parts of the office of War inform to be known in the interim As United states information ser appearing on newspaper Cre Dit lines As director of this interim service until the first of the year will be Ferdinand former new York times Man and Deputy director of j former educator w be tons Advent into the state department places both Heads of the National advertising Agency of Benton and Bowles in government service opa administrator Chester Bowles in the other half of the the 45yearold Benton succeeds Archibald who resigned a few weeks after James became Secretary of other new faces in the stale department Are Donald South Carolina lawyer is3 longtime associate of who is to handle Congressi Jia and Benjamin one of the original new who is to be state coun