Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Vol i 41 Cairo Arrighi Iddle Ashe Sun four cents october 1945 93 million arme world War ii Washington world War which brought an estimated total of men and women of the Axis and United nations into Urr Ned was More costly to the United states than any other War i which it has been general George United states army chief of re ported his biennial report to these Creary of War showed that ame rican army deaths in Battle in world War ii totalled this was about four times the total of world War i and greater than the combined Battle deaths in five ear Lier american enemy deaths in Battles against the French and chinese forces totalled the same Allied forces permanently disabled of the enemy and captured and disarmed tribute to medics while Battlefield deaths deaths in the american army from other causes dropped to a new improvement of Battle surgery and medical care reduced the rate of death from wounds to less than on half the rate in world War the work of the army medical new medicines and preventatives improved techniques permitted More than percent of men wounded in this War to return to the total Allied mobilization exceeded the total enemy mobilization the United states was second among the allies in the mobilization of men and women for military service and third among Ali the Marshall listed the5e mobilization totals soviet Union Germany United states the British Empire China the technique for the mobilization of american manpower in this War was Marshall the special nature of the War introduced Many new perhaps greater than any other single advantage of the United nations was the productive of american it was there fore necessary not of Cut too deeply into the manpower of the nation in the process of acquiring men urgently needed by the even with two thirds of the German army engaged by Russia said it took every Man the nation saw fit to mobilize do our part of the Job in Europe and at the same time Keji the japanese enemy under control in the what would have been the had the tied army been Defeated and the British is lands invaded we can Only a summary of marshalls report will be found on Page 4 one More week ship moosh Henna youll have to kiss the girls goodbye because they Haven contrary to a Story in last weeks stars and appeared before the unforeseen circumstances the was have not departed the was will remain at their jobs until the at which time the Cairo girls will join their comrades at Huckstep for pro they Hope to sail soon Hal Newhouser of the tigers the first pitch of the 1945 to Batter Stan cub third Hack at 5t out on the ump is Bill a Middle East us visitor in 1944 Assn Detroit wins world series As cubs drop 7th 93 Chicago Detroit tigers captured the worlds baseball championship wednesday As they six Chicago pitchers for a 93 score and took the seventh and final gone of the up world series the tigers got off to five run Lead in the first inning As they knocked Hank Borowy of the cubs out of the Box with three straight hits and one Paul Derringer came in to Salvage the situation but was clipped for four More runs strikers boo new Yorik the army began unloading the Queen Elizabeth this week As a crippling Portwine strike up to longshoremen left the worlds busiest Harbor virtually crowds of Idle who walked out Over a contract booed troops As they started work on the vital troop and cargo carrying British since to tie up is delaying the return of thousands of 17 Liberty Silins were ordered to leave cargoes and sail immediately for Europe to pick up be Turnini the War shipping administration meanwhile prepared to reroute o other Mon carrying vessels now scheduled to bring thousands of redeployed gis to new with new Yorks jammed with 300 unloaded was is faced with the greatest maritime tie up in in England British troops have begun unloading precious food car from about 300 ships tied up by similar paralysing Dock americans the population of the United Stales has increased by three Mil lion in the Nast five Accord ing to official total population was estimated at 000 on july when lie walked outlaw with the bases loaded and allowed Paul Richards a double which scored Cra Richards got another double in the seventh to take hitting honors for the Day along with Phil Ca Varretta of the cubs who had three for four at the by Paui Claude Passeau and Hank Wyse followed Borowy and Derringer on lie Mound for the cubs but were unable to Stem the Tiger Hal Newhouser was the Winner and Only Pitcher for he gave up 10 hits but struck out 10 men to top the series in strikeouts with a three game total of his dizzy Trout was second in strikeouts with nine in two the cult pitchers gave up nine hits is against to for Newhouser of the tigers but they were Derringer walked five two of them while the bases were thus in the first see Detroit on Page 9 Billings quarantined As polio toll rises the entire Rity of where the number of infantile paralysis victims has risen to seven Lias been place i under quarantine by the Hoard of All churches and Public meeting places Are mayor Biddinger announced thai All no sons of 18 and in am restricted to their All enlisted men with two years service will be eligible for Dis charge in the War department revealed this by then enough High Point by a progressive lowering of the Point will have been released to allow discharges on length of Iser vice in this despite several in amet Headquarters official said that last week the situation Hast release and transportation problems have Oris but they Are being worked and news of their solution is hoped for in the next two on the transportation Cristobel sailing remains a near the big question now seems to be where is the Cristo Bel since she was scheduled to leave the states from Hampton amet sets record in turkish meet by Ralph Cohen a triumphant Amie it track and Field team returned wednesday from the International athletic meet in a whirlwind two Seymour Cohen broke he american javelin record with 35 3 and won the decathlon with 5171 besides the re a new stimulus was Given to americas growing prestige in invitation of the turkish government and the turkish Athle tic ten enlisted men and two officers were sent to Istanbul by special to compete against teams of Turkey and the arrival of these first americans to enter a track and Field meet in Turkey was heralded with such of All newspapers of Istanbul and an that Walter Sculthorpe remarked to reporters we feel like Lindbergh landed in audience response to the visit ing american athletes was As Over whelming As the press attendance records were broken As Over spectators jammed the Istanbul Over including the turkish prime i the stands in other Vanke score in addition to the dozen Amer there were 38 members of the turkish team and 12 members of the greek squad flown from of the in the Istanbul half of the Cohen ran away wit first place Iri the javelin shattering the turkish record of 197 and the american record of 234 Peter Wege followed in the javelin with a 1 2 and Ernest chit Wood won second honors in the scoring 43 7 Cohens performance caused a see a met on Page 10 she is not tied up by the Longshoreman which As yet has not spread to up to word had not reached Headquarters the ship yet the states for the Middle Congress still Discatio fief transportation officer Sandusky has notified the War of the Heaters shipping requirements through the end of december and now awaits replies from he is keeping tabs on ships passing through the Middle East with an Eye to squeezing Odd lots of returnees the news of the March discharge policy Hope Vei pressed several critical scores will be reduced progressively beyond the 60point scale ordered for Robert the War spokesman for the elaborated further on the hew policy of re leasing surplus two year personnel in the he a merely a safety escape mechanism to allow the discharge of a few men sitting around doing it to operating posts within the United in recent weeks the separation technique has accelerated the army claims that by the end of it will be sending a million persons a month Back into civilian in the week Endig Over were released during total according to War were Well Over the original goal of since be Day up to the see two year on Page 10 assistant of w a m assistant Secretary of War John Mccoy was a Brief visitor in amet this week in the course of a global inspection above he is shown with Benjamin commanding in earlier in the he said that he recommends one years military training for american part of which could be carried out in thereby helping solve the of occupation he also hoped that by next Spring occupation in Europe might have their families billeted with signal
