Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1943, Oran, Oran Pee 4 the i stars and stripes 20, 1943gen. Arnold 6ets Collier award for air achievement Washington dec. 19�?gen. Henry h. Arnold commanding general of the United states army air forces last weekend was awarded the Collier trophy for the outstanding achievement in american aviation in 1942. Presentation was made at an anniversary dinner honouring Orville Wright on the 40th anniversary of the Pioneer air plane flight made by the inventor and his late Brotter Wilbur at Kitty Hawk n. C. On dec. 17, 1903. General Arnold accepted the trophy he fetid not As a Token of personal achievement but Quot As one member of the army air Force in a special message president Roosevelt said that it was particularly fitting that the Collier trophy awarded annually since till for the greatest achievement in american aviation should go to one of the Wright brother a Earl pupils. General Arnold. Quot no worthier selection could have been made or. Roosevelt declared. Quot history will reveal general Arnold a True Worth when it withdraws the cloak which now surrounds his activities. The Jur ism of those who serve with my is written in the skies Day and just returned from the Cairo and Teheran conferences. General he spent much time inspecting air Force installations and Quot talking with our men and determining preparations for t me and events even More momentous than those we have seen Marshall will return to capital Washington dec. 19�?gen. George c. Marshall will return is Washington to continue As chief of staff the army and Navy Register quoted Quot Well informed circles Quot As stating today. General Marshall it was Sam is to remain As chief of staff and member of or. Roosevelt s personal staff and of the combined chiefs of staff. He will net go to London. Chinese defeat japs in Rice bawl area chunking dec. 19�?mai. Gen. Claire Chennault commander of the 14th Saafi announced yesterday that the japanese had been decisively Defeated in the Quot Rice bowl Quot area of China near Changten and that they were attempting to extricate. 10,000 troops from the Tung Ting Lake. Area where. Heavy fighting continues. A chinese government spokesman meanwhile reported that chinese forces pursuing the japs West of the Lake had averaged ten Miles daily in the last live Days and that not a single enemy Soldier remained within 90 Miles of recaptured Changten. A chinese High command communique said that the japanese troops attacking to the Northwest from the Quot Rice bowl Quot town of i routed land forces with More than 400 men killed. Chinese troops Are now trying to drive the japs from Lin i which would restore to China about one half of her Quot Rice bowl Section of Ike Home hot gig ext armintes sicilian subversives Newark n. Fri agent told a court Here that he had heard a through a listening device installed in a neighbouring apartment a Fritz Schroeder declare that the German government had forwarded 12,000 dollars to the Gera an american vocational league to finance spy activities. Schroeder and three others Are charged with being Nasi agents. Washington a the. Army a specialized training program in which 140,000 soldiers Are now participating will be reduced Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson announced. New York new York divorcees were on Edge after a state court ruling that a Reno divorce is not valid if residence was established there Only for that purpose. The of s. Supreme court has ruled that All states must recognize Nevada divorces but the opinion of a state judge said that states May refuse to do soil evidence shows Quot fraudulent Chicago the order of african redemption highest award of the Republic of Liberia was presented to Marian Anderson famous negro Singer. Washington a investigation of japanese relocation and detention Camps in the United states by Spanish authorities has been ported Here before Japan will permit repatriation of More americans from the far East. The move halted negotiations on further exchanges intended to bring several thousand citizens Home from Jap territories. Leroy n. Y. A psychiatrists were called in when Edwin a amp bin ski 24-year-old former Sailor said he shot his Mother because Quot a voice out of the air told me to Quot no charge was filed immediately against him. Woodbine unidentified Soldier was killed and a score of persons were injured in a derailment of the Quot Sun Queen Quot crack Miami bound passenger train near Here. Many of the injured soldiers were said to be from fort Jackson s. C. Washington Adolph stand i amp the win stay in the army in. Spite of alleged Quot arbitrary and capricious Quot action by its. Local draft Board the u. S. Supreme court ruled. Stanziale s wife. Charged that he had been classified 3-a in january 1942, because he was married and Abo a supported his parents. After a child was born to he couple Stanziale was reclassified i a and inducted. A Federal District court ordered his discharge the third circuit court of appeals reversed the decision and the supreme court refused to review the verdict. Atlanta. Oil the Federal food and drug administration asked to take action in Georgia against the owners of whiskey alleged to be unfit to drink because had not been properly aged said it would prosecute the owners if the state furnished evidence that the liquor had been moved in interstate Commerce. State officials replied that Quot almost All liquor in Georgia Quot was shipped in from other states. Allied Force Headquarters dec. 19�?extermination of a Sillian subversive organization financed by a daughter of one of the islands wealthiest families was announced today by a spokesman of the u. S. Army counter intelligence corps. Fifteen Young men and the girl were reported under arrest at Trapani following a two month Cic investigation. Self confessed Leader of the group All less than 30 a ars old was Cataldo Grammatico 20, Sec Ond year Palermo University student and former Section chief of the Gioventu Italiano Littorio italian youth organization which once claimed 7,000,000 members. The organization called itself Quot Fede Missimi Del Cascimo Quot or the committee of those faithful to fascism. It was planned the Cic official a Aid. As the first cell of a group designed ultimately to spread throughout Sicily and the italian Mainland. Quot Only one of those under arrest indicated any regret at having joined two admitted acts of wealthy Quot Angel Quot of the society was. Maria d am 22, Law student at the University of Rome member of All the italian youth organisations and daughter of the a tee federate of the province of Trapani. One of the highest a it re visions j positions of the fascist party. She signed a san Futon participation in a wow i Fri fut on october 14 Cio agents found posted on various Trapani buildings Small mimeographed bulletins protesting against prevailing conditions denouncing president Roosevelt and claiming Lack of bread Oil clothes shoes and work. The manifesto ended with the words Quot Long Uve revolution Stic 635,000 discharged Washington Between dec. 1, 1941 and sept. 30,1943, the army granted 635,000 honorable discharges not including men discharged from enlisted grades to accept commissions Secretary Stimson said. Some 200,000 were not More than 38-years old and 10,000 were Battle casualties. He said the majority of the remainder was discharged for physical and mental disability. The army is planning to release All officers More than 45-years old for whom suitable assignments Are not available. Secretary Stimson said. Chaplains till itto red Cross Moo scrapping of a continued from Page 3. Senate had voted to do so a year ago with the 1942 Law but machinery proved too complicated. Many states give that Opportunity by Law but they also Are too complicated. Quot the right and Opportunity to vote is More than a privilege to be granted or refused As the Senate prefers. It is a fundamental right of american Cut teens the principal right which distinguishes our citizens from those in totalitarian the substitute Bill has been referred to the mouse elections committee where rep. John Rankin a. Miss is leading the Effort to get it to the House floor unchanged and passed by the House. Yank Mcintyre Dies in nations capital Washington Marvin h. Mcintyre. 65, member of the White House secretariat since 1932 and one of president Roosevelt a closest friends died yesterday after a recurrence of an old illness. He had not been in his office for several weeks. Or. Mcintyre0 service with the president dated Back to the last War and to or. Roosevelt a unsuccessful bid for the vice presidency a native of la Grange ky., be served during the first world War As a special assistant to the Secretary 4 the Navy in Public relations work he became business manager Ard publicity representative of or Roosevelt a 1932 Campaign. A Tomt triad front Page to it Ness. And the Sis inside the Tomb threw Down their cards. Never were the guards relieved so speedily. But four hours later after they in turn had been relieved sergeant Christensen and his Crew were Back in the Tomb in the italian cemetery. They were cold and wet and tired and had forgot All about ghosts. Anyone who has been in the army a week knows the Standard advice to any i who is griped gloomy or worried is Quot Tell it to the chaplain Quot and untold thousands in this far Flung army have heeded the suggestion and Quot told it Quot but now the Man has been discovered to whom the chaplains Tell it. He is. A 30-year-old Man from water Bury conn., named Edward a Readel or. Readel is an assistant Field director for the american red Cross with an office in Algiers and the Way it works is like this a Soldier comes to the chaplain beset by a problem concerning the Home folks and the chaplain tells or. Readel All about it so that the Soldier s family May be reached by the red Cross in an Effort to straighten the matter out. Quot it is one of the functions of the red Cross Quot said or. Readel. Quot to relieve the army of the problems arising Between the Soldier overseas and his Home. Naturally Many troubles Are poured into the chaplains ears and when communication with the soldiers Home becomes necessary the chaplain contacts some of the Soldier worries which the arc Man tries to solve Are allotment mix ups girl troubles and family problems. Failure to receive letters from Home by prospective fathers who receive no news when their babies Are due to be bom Are frequently reassured by arc message service and the Field director handles Many cases of destitution in Soldier s families. Quot the problems Are Many and varied Quot said or. Quot that a what makes this Job 69 dead 100 injured in n. C. Rail smash Rennert. N. Cd a dec. 19�?the death toll in the colosian Between Twe Atlantic Seaboard item mined trains last week now stands at 69, with 4s of the victims servicemen. Workmen Are still searching for the bodies of six other servicemen believed to be in the wreckage. Fifteen of the More than 108 persons injured a re in serious condition. The Accident occurred North of Rule and a few Miles South of Rennert Early last thursday when he northbound to Miami East coast Champion crashed into the wreckage of. A southbound train which had been partially derailed a few minutes pilots Fly first Mission or Side of allies Allied Force Headquarters dec. 19�?during a week end of bad weather which grounded heavy bombers 15th Aap b-26 marauders bombed two rail targets in Southern France and italian pilots flew their first Mission on the Side of the allies. The marauders attacked the Bridge Over the Var River West of Nice and the viaduct at anther near Cannes which Are Ltd a much travelled coastal rail line into Northern Italy. Several hits were reported on the Var River Bridge. A week after italian ground forces fought their first Battle As allies italian pilots flying their own planes order Naaf direction bombed the Podgorica Airfield in Yugoslavia yesterday and the Day before. Several aircraft were damaged on the ground spitfires of the coastal air Force shot Down four me 1098 Over Albania and other army air forces fighters shot Down three near ply Ca Yugoslavia. Enemy Supply dumps on the beaches at Terracina 25 Miles up the italian West coast from the Battle line were bombed by american a-36 York becoming safer says mayor new York dec. 19 a new Yorkus becoming at least a Little safer and this you have from mayor la Guardia who spent much time at the beginning of the War pointing out its dangers. He announced yesterday that 82 portraits by famous american artists removed from the City Hall immediately after Pearl Harbor would be returned. H have decided Quot said the mayor a a that they can be returned As x believe we can take the Chance. I won t say hitter s not coining Over but in a sure he can to come Over with enough skill to aim at the pictures and hit his reporter from Page 2 a a Mars flying boat shatters records Washington dec. 19�?the naval air transport services huge new flying boat Quot Mars Quot largest aircraft in the world recently shattered existing records tor cargo transportation and Over water flight. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announce Don its first we a be Mars made a 4,375 mite nonstop hop Over the Atlantic from the a Tuxen River in Maryland to Natal Brazil carrying 13000 pounds i Christmas mall for the armed forces. Or. Knox said. From Natal the it returned to voter Yard with 35000 pounds of priority War material. Or. Knox revealed that he to covered the round trip aunt in 5 hours and 31 minutes flying time. Thus he said a total of 48.00c pounds of Prio Ity War material of much As ten Standard oars planes could carry and Well Over the capacity of a regular freight cargo was co ried from and brought the u s. In a Little Over four Days. Shortage of Domestic help is dire. Prices Are High but nothing compared to what the French and italians charge us Over Here. Train travel is sometimes difficult but certainly not impossible. Quot because of the War Effort you can t get a new Telephone installed and foundry takes a Long time. People Are starting to Hoard cigarettes. You can to Send a Telegram saying a Happy birthday or a sorry about your but you can Send one saying a god bless you. In a praying for Quot you can still Telephone Long distances and talk As Long and non essentially As you like. The famed Pentagon building Isnit hard to get around in. And is actually very pretty. Taxis wont Home to your House anymore on Call but if you re downtown you can still pick them up. Everyone has Money and entertainment of All kinds a goes full blast Quot ninety percent of the people i meet say a i think we re too complacent Here at people Are talking a lot of Republican talk but from what i can see of the Tenor of the people the president will stay in next year. I found absolutely no criticism of the grand strategy conduct of the War although plenty of the conduct of the Home and i wind up by telling mar overseas questioners this Quot the country Hasni to changed As much As you dream it has. Go ahead and go Home if you Ever get the Chance. You la have the time of your life. I certainly Abner Only a Genius like Gat could of figured out this one gats pal., dig a ant six be Istomin Mere. R hums afr Orr aha collect that million Dollar insurance so Gat changes clothes with m is Dpi Irule that hokum Gomel and Galt hides by Al Carp it t
