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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, October 26, 1945

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                J i p Fuff trainees the or i Smau Regier a Navy and general Reserve composed citizens of the have received v Truman asked that mal6fciti26nsrehter their years period either at the Matthw graduation from Isla Terl in event he the training Young Man had High would be eligible to Start training at that age parents no exemption All Young Truman should be included in the train ing program whether physically qualified for actual combat ser vice or he urged no exemptions on dependency or for any other reason except total physical the year of he could Well be used to raise the physical standards of the nations to lower its illiteracy rate and to develop in our Young men the ideals of responsible ame rican reactions vary on conscription plan Washington Congress met the presidents recommendation of a years military training for Young men with mixed ranging from full endorsement to outright Here Are representative comments Mccarran Lude to militarism in the Wadsworth forthright and no congressmen would commit himself As to the programs Chan Ces for but a Large num Ber of Republican legislators share opinion of House Leader Joseph Martin who suggests an International agreement to abolish peacetime conscription As a policy among for women too in an interesting and coincidental said she believed the nation would be refit More from a period of service for both men and women than from strictly military service for a period of said would make concerned with his res to his pointed out that she did not a fact president Truman was h the subject since his was being delivered to at tie time she for i desert v of network demands in on according to lines of Lati their findings Are then transferred to flight maps to j serve As another link in a Chain of or perhaps a guide to a lost sweating out a Landing in strange have prepared aeronautical maps of vast regions m North Africa and saudi Arabia extending northward from the Equator to the Bart Oary and eastward from Dakar to the per Sian Gulf officers and men of this group part of the 311th reconnaissance Wing operating directly under the chief of have two methods of f recovering Points by and 2 setting up astronomical stations on the trick positions the first Type of mapping is done when the lines of latitude and Longitude Are already thus eliminating necessity for astronomical computations on the photographer requires four Aerial photos taken from an oblique Posi one from the Verti shot is the Tough baby to while strapped to the inside of a plane and straining Halfway out the Cabin door As the Pilot flips his c47 into a vertical Bank the flying Geode trips his x a pc to my of afr ijv1 food Camel and Elt Toey Leb dets have contender against Footie it Tremea of  sickness dreaded Dridi tides of those stations Jure usually Pla ced near Cross roads or other cations easily distinguished from tufted in the most r inaccessible of Feas known to Becay e stars i Are More accurate 4hime keepers than the append tedious hours Wai Fonfe stars to a Point in so can clock them on High precision in carry ing our this work amet geodes have Many Misco Pula tons previous Gin from Ibn Saud Gedets working out of Cairo Nave set up nearly 1000 Astron stations established More than2000 recovery in Central Arabia where incidentally Ibn Saiid presented one Geoff new with ceremonial Robes in appreciation for their work in his Astron stations can toe found at such places As Hoff and All in its an expansive and global Tim Bucton Babylon and Carthage Are now re presented on Aero maps prepared by amet oldest continually inhabited City on Isnow As ostentatiously diff payed on Fli Erht charts As that Vicinity where Noah tub was reputedly erected also has an Astron Points have even been charted on where Moses also got a few Points although stateside magazines have characterized geodetic work As amet be Odets now working out of Cairo in torrid Sones have also mapped land for Aero charts in frigid bundled in a ski troopers Parka is George tied of 7th aah geodetic control shortly after the Grumman amphibian was forced Down along the shores of the Hudson Straits where lagged rocks punched a Jiorle in its said an Patch wid Seal skin and glue Queen before jeep a c47 at Payne Fidd for trip to Aden where it will be driven Over Miles of rough terrain to set up numerous astronomical aft to night me Haggard Cpl Milton Andrew and Herber f Jagger aah just in time to save the geodes will have no part of Adim of so called explorers whose Domain they have invaded and whose published exploits Are More often the product of imagination than of actual be this As it amet geodes have encountered Many experiences with peo Ples of strange very nature excite ones imagine to Tom comm system heres an example on geodetic safari near the Mouth of the Gam Bia Crew chief Virgil Morrow jokingly told a superstitious native that his party had captured their River the following Day the Crew set up astronomical instruments sixty Miles further Inland where natives had already heard that White men had shackled their Heathen this news had been drummed thru sixty Miles of Jungle via when the party returned again to its former base at the Mouth of the River native resentment ran at High the geodes were queasy about the deep grumblings of the Black masses of who had supposed Devil to he an evil spirit Well Dis posed later Learned that the Booty boo he had professedly bound in Irons had been used for centuries by tribesmen to hold their wives in with the ill doings of the Frankenstein no longer Over their fuzzy they began they got in dependent As hell and since they do much of the heavy work any nearly screwed up the Basic Economy of the no wonder the males were exclaimed and that was the last time he Ever used the Heathen deities of Jungles As a butt for his Western sense of he want born in Leab either a in 1 i i a i v m heros a Teheran believe it or not Foi John a liquidation clerk has lived three and Only had Venty two How come Johnny on the Way fourteen Days out of two Days off the coast new our de the International this happened during Cluj when i awoke the Foj Lowin Frisco and of Welling ship Cross Date u morn births and deaths Down Washington fewer babies were born and fewer people died in the in 1944 than in the census Bureau registered births declined by to while deaths dropped to ing expecting to celebrate my birth it want there this Date Irtie hypothetical along the Iner Idan of 180 degrees from Greenwich was fixed by International agreement As the place where each Calendar Dav first a boat crossing the line Westward sets the Calendar for Ward one a ship crossing eastward sets its log Back a complicated int it Shaw takes Bride again beak Rev Leader Artie and Ava Mickey Rooney sex married Here by Supe rior judge Stanley Mosk with a few close friends acid relatives pre Shaw divorced last week from composer Jerome Kerns Panama airways sets transatlantic rates new York pan american world has announced reduced passenger rates for transatlantic the fare from new York to Ber will be one Way and round the new which will Start when the company gets its new land plane service to London under Way this a reduction from to for new York to Lisbon from to from new York to the fare from new York to Lon Don is san Francisco Leonard commander of the 43rd is a patient at let Terman general he has pneumonia Marshall told cd regress nation have single of the armed  National Security is a single which cannot be met on a piecemeal basis the army chief of staff told a Senate military affair committee that the joint chiefs of staff machinery could not Ibe effective in the National Security is measured toy the sum or rather the combination of the three great air and naval Marshall the urgent need is for an not a piece meal appraisal of what is1 required to solve the single problem of National with the greatest Economy compatible with require Forrestal disagrees i am strongly convinced that unless there is a single department for the armed forces within which the difficult and numerous complexities Ean be ironed out prior to presentation of requirements to the president and the there can be Little Hope that we win be Able to maintain through the years a military position that will secure for us a lasting marshalls stand was countered that of Navy James Forrestal blur declared later that the proposed of War and Navy is and he offered the Senate committee a substitute plan calling for continuation of these Parade departments tout the Crea Tion of a National Security presided Over by the Points continued on Page 1 about the 15th of All these ships take about two Days to unload and an even break All but the Evarte should reach the states by Christ these schedules Are tentative but at the moment they Are what head quarters is counting on for dispersal of the transportation office also is keeping its eyes open for ame rican Liberty and Victory ships passing through and whenever them is stance for any no matter How this will utilized for returning Berrys statement Berrys statement was made to a congressional group still Cri trial of the army efforts to bring Home overseas he said that during october would be a figure twice Large As the num Ber the army took into service in Ziy one month while it was build ing up its the personnel chief also said hut to strength today by August i the army will be Down the army on 1 there were with Over two years service on March 1946 All two year regardless of Point will be eligible for Over men aged 38 or have been of men returned from overseas Onjo had not been discharged on there Are still men in uniform with 85 Points or of these Are in Europe in Burma or India in Pacific elsewhere overseas and in october will be returned from overseas in november and in december the will ships welcomes Navy York saturday will Day a Armada of Navy planes will Roar Over City and president Truman review a Parade of 50 Wor anchored in the Hudson  
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