Pacific Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1948, Tokyo, Japan                                A Page two Pacific stars and Stripe k oct. 19 sex servicemen ballots sought Washington oct. 18 up the republicans and democrats Aren t overlooking any discharge buttons in their efforts to capture the votes of some 15,000,000 veterans. Unlike the 1944 presidential Campaign they Are making few appeals to the 1,500,000 men now in uniform because they Vita wat Clay shipments will continue Scap transportation vials stated saturday assume the Soldier vote this year will be negligible. The democratic and gop National committees and especially the republicans have studded their ranks with for Mer Heads of veterans organizations who Hope to lure sex servicemen into the right political  republicans have work ing for them no less than 11 past National commanders of the american legion three forms am vets command ers six past Heads of the veterans of foreign wars and representatives of several Oiher veterans groups. Their director of veterans  is Parry v. Colmery of Topeka kans., a former is Lon  democratic counterpart is Martin v. Coffey another f  legion head who operates out of new York with r. Small staff but has some 8,-200 Volunteer workers scattered throughout the country. But Whan it comes to the in in now in uniform the poli tacos Are hardly be stirring themselves. The consensus is that present servicemen Are either too Young or too old too Young to vote or too old to have their political convictions  services have once again made available in All military units application Blanks for Absentee ballots. Periodic circulars also Are sent out to in form soldiers and sailors away from Home. Sometime ago the army notified All presidential Candi dates that As  past they could use the armed forces radio for political broadcasts. The army said All the candidates showed interest at the time but that thus far Only one socialist Norman Thomas has broadcast to the troops. Wac opens to Fec former servicewomen civilian women  far East command who have had prior service  army Navy Marine corps or coast guard May now apply for enlistment . Women s army corps. Applicants who attain the High mental and physical standards established May be enlisted  far East com Mand for service . Tokyo Yokohama area. United states army recruit ing officers throughout the command Are prepared to interview applicants and initiate necessary administrative action toward enlistment  wac for periods of from two to six years. Applicants who were  ably discharged from the women s army corps after May 20, 1945, Are afforded the Opportunity to enlist  wac  Grade held at time of discharge provided enlistment is accomplished on or before january 4, 1949. Other qualified applicants will be enlisted in a Grade commensurate with their training and experience. The enlistment of civilian women  United states air Force is not authorized  far East command at the present time. Yokosuka base one of Navy s Large Pearl Harbor oct. 18 a the . Navy has acquired one of the world s larg est Navy cards at Yokosuka Japan vice adm. Francis s. Low service Force s com Mander of the Pacific Fleet said  said Only a Small part of the vast Yokosuka Yard is be ing used by the Navy and he knew of no plans for using the rest of it. Consequently he said Pearl Harbor remains the Only major offshore . Shipyard  Pacific. Offi despite the handicaps of rail and Highway washouts move ments of vitally needed Iwate refractory Clay Are continuing. This has been accomplished by the emergency mobilization of 15 four ton trucks and the use of new routes for the shipment of the Day. Iwate Clay is normally ship Ped from the mine by rail to destinations on Honshu and Kyushu not convenient to port facilities and by rail Tomiyamo and thence by water to destinations convenient to port facilities. As rerouted Clay now moves by truck Over the Mountain Ous Omoto Road to the no Makunas and Kazuya freight depots on the main Tohoru rail line. From these Points trains carry the Clay North to hokkaido and South to the Tokyo area. In order to transport the Industrial requirement of a minimum of 8,000 tons by the end of the Calendar year the truck caravan is expected to be increased to 34 four ton trucks by next week. Iwate Clay is considered an important element  re habilitation of the japanese Economy. Because of its High heat resistance the Iwate Clay is an essential raw material  manufacture of refractory Brick fied  production of ferrous metals. Speaks on station thousands crowd station in route to Nikko fiesta crafts contest winners picked . Air Force photo pretty Carol Nelson stenographer from the far East air forces personnel Section Tokyo finds it easy to talk to her brother Hal in Austin tex., by Means of the Ham radio station j2aao, which is an off time Enterprise of far East air forces airmen. At the controls next to miss Nelson is a sgt. Bonn Weirick 16h communications Squadron fear one of the airmen operating j2aao on the top floor of the new Keijo building. Radio station j2aa o services described  station j2aao, operated by fear airmen on top of the new Keijo building Tokyo is More than a Ham station. It is serving the occupation in an unofficial Way. Operated by a sgt. Donn Weirick 16th communications winners  Fec Hobby crafts contest were announced Friday at the Bankers club a Tokyo. Prizes  Wood class went o pvt. George m. Brines 501st ordnance Ham company Korea a sgt. George k. Giakovmis fourth air repair squad Ron Jama fab Japan and to. Leonard m. Havens 552nd signal base maintenance com Pany Marbo. Private Brines entered a Model car. Sergeant Giakovmis a p-47-n and lieutenant havens a wooden Belt. Lieutenant havens took first prize  Metal Competition with a hammered Copper plate pvt. Richard Mesa head Quad North Korea radio attacks ., red education Center term to open. Osaka oct. 18the fall term for the 25th division s Osaka education Center is scheduled to open october 25, with a variety of courses offer Seoul oct. 18 up the russian fostered radio Pyong Yang broadcasting from the capital of the puppet government of North. Korea is stepping up its propaganda to the korean Community in Japan As the Date of or. Syng Man Rhee s visit to Tokyo draws near. Translations of the Pyong Yang propaganda broadcasts beamed to South Korea and Japan released Here today contained some of the Broad est misstatements of fact and some of the bitterest attacks on the United states and president Rhee which have been recorded to Date. Exam spokesman denies War threat new York oct. 18 up a former official spokesman for the american military government in Berlin Mitlon Pratt disagreed sharply with a report by Louis Glaser for Mer am official who said that the russians might be willing to. Stariat shooting War to gain their objectives in Berlin. Pratt said in a radio inter Squadron fear and his co operator seventh air and airways communication service the station is gaining recognition for the service Given. In response to an urgent a peal on behalf of a Little japanese girl who was dying in a Tokyo orphanage j2aao flashed a request for a rare serum to Walter Reed Hospi Tal in Washington . Wal Ter Reed was one of the few hospitals  . Having a Supply of the serum immediately after receiving the message officials of the hos a sgt Walt Buhr View War is not  offing in Germany. There Are two chief Rea sons a general Clay is doing everything to avoid War and incidents that might Lead to War. 2the soviets have nothing to gain  he added you need transportation for a modern War and we know that the russians stripped All double track rail roads in Eastern Germany of their equipment and much of their  de. For those wishing to com plete their High school work classes in English arithmetic algebra geometry physics and history will be held. Higher mathematics chemistry and psychology will be offered on a College level typing and shorthand classes will again be sponsored at the education Center. Additional classes in foreign languages will be held with Spanish French japanese and russian offered. Registration for the v new term will begin today and will continue for the week. The offices will be open until 8 ., except on wednesday and saturday evenings. Exchange plan group returns _ ii five men from the first cavalry division have returned from Yokota air Force base where they were the first group to participate in a new army personnel Exchange plan. Purpose of the project is to enable soldiers of various units to become More familiar with the work of other units. The five cavalrymen were guests of the air base for a three hour flight the first for quartet contest to be conducted Yokohama oct. 18a contest for the selection of the Best Barbershop quartet in Japan will be conducted  Tokyo Yokohama area nov Ember 26-28, it was announced today by eighth army special services. All . Military and naval personnel on duty in Japan Are eligible to compete. Valuable prizes will be awarded the three outstanding quartets. These will in turn compete with quartets selected from the Philippines Oki Nawa Korea and Guam in order to select the winning quartet for the far East com Mand. The following Are some of the Points which will be used in making the selection for the All Japan contests adherence to tradition clearness of enu citation accuracy in pitch at tack and release effectiveness of expression showmanship and stage presence. It is expected that contests will be conducted on All Levels us delegates meet with Eire officials London oct. 18 ins British prime minister Cle ment Atlee and common wealth representatives met yesterday with officials of Eire on Eire s declared intention to repeal its external re lations act. Repeal of the act would make Eire a foreign country British subsequent complications in Trade and other Fields in relation to the Commonwealth with company battalion or service club in order to select the All Japan winners. For detailed information interested persons should Contact their unit Spe Cial services officer. Three men  group. They also watched a Low level skip bombing Mission and had their first close up of a shoot ing Star. Members of the cavalry group were Cpl Richard Johnson sgt. Herbert Runer Cpl Lee Vosburg Haddock. Hooper pfc John and pfc Dewitt airline Pilot makes emergency Landing Kyoto oct. 18william a. Wallace commercial airline Pilot was forced to make an emergency Landing september 29, when he became critically ill while on flight from Shang Hai to Manila. Wallace changed his course and landed on Kyushu where he was rushed to the 118th medical station Hospital at Fukuoka. Jewish Arab reds ready to Combine Haifa oct. 18 ins jewish and Arab communist parties in Palestine were re president c ported yesterday to be plan corporation Ning to formally join together in Haifa october 22. The aim of the United party reportedly will be to fight for a Biz onal state of Palestine. Passengers Beer misses the boat Southampton England oct. 18 up there May be Many a thirsty passenger on the Queen Elizabeth which left Southampton saturday for new  200 crates of Beer were delayed in shipment from London to Southampton. And the Elizabeth had to sail without them. A special gangplank was held at the Pital placed the serum aboard a commercial plane bound for Tokyo. The Good will engendered in times of human emergency was further demonstrated when some Ham operators in Australia heard about the Appeal and As a result they sent serum of the same Type to Japan. When Texas City tex., was demolished by a terrific explosion the boys operated j2aao steadily for 48 hours in res Ponse to appeals from occupation personnel worried about the Fate of relatives caught  disaster. J2aao plays a part in life and happiness As Well Asem regencies. A lot of Fellows have proposed to their girls Back Home Over this station. One even went Back to the . To get  Weirick said with a smile. " once the sergeant recalled an individual went so far As to attempt a divorce by Short wave. It was t done so easily. The judge on the receiving end indignantly refused to Grant a Short wave divorce. Weirick estimated that Dur ing the last two years j2aao has been in Contact with approximately 5,000 Short wave stations throughout the United  sergeants invite you to visit j2aao come emergencies or blessed events that Call for fast communications. Ship construction totals 158,000 tons baby Home pair May get ref rid the Tokyo procurator a office has taken the Caso of mrs. Miyuki Ishikawa and her husband Takashi 55 to the. Tokyo higher District court for Public trial Kyodo news Agency reported. They were sentenced to eight and four years imprisonment respectively by the Tokyo District court. Both mrs. Ishikawa and her husband were found guilty o killing through undernourishment 27 infants under thei care at the Kotobuki mater nity Hospital in Yanagi Machi ushigome Shin Juke Kun to Kyo. By Hazel Shore loaded Down with cameras of lunches and comfortable talking shoes several thou and occupation Aires and japanese packed Asakura Sta yesterday morning at Awn in a final desperate of Ort to attend the annual autumn festival of the tos Hogu shrine at Nikko. Within 15 minutes the Spe Ial electric train was filled to apacity., but understanding Ailway employees continued to bring chairs from the station n order that As Many tourists As possible might be a Comoda ers company command was Marbo base awarded Sec Ond prize with a Star Sapphire ring and ret. Raymond f. Martineau 516th signal ser vice battalion Marbo took third prize with a modern de sign Silver ring. Sergeant Giakovmis was awarded first place in plastics with his entry of a Small Plas tic lamp it. Charles d. Low Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron 317th air base group Tachikawa fab Japan was second with a set of bookends pfc Carmen Dibruno Headquarters com Pany Marbo base command took third prize with a carved and painted plastic locket. First prize in All classes was an 8-mm Cine Kodak movie camera second prize was a Kodak developing i and third was a Remington electric razor. War criminals sentenced Yokohama oct. .18 up an eighth army military commission Friday sentenced four More members of the japanese army s Kempesta gendarmerie to prison term of from three and one Hal years to life for mistreating some 250 captured american airmen during the War. De. Thanks to eighth army sgt. Howe honoured by Farewell party Seoul oct. 18a Farewell party in Honor of 1st sgt. Fames w. Howe Headquarters company xxiv corps who is returning to the United states after completing a tour of duty in Korea was held at the Nail apartments tuesday night october 12. Among More than 100 guests present were capt. Charles i. Tollefson commanding officer of Headquarters company and special services and the Japan travel Bureau train bus and Able car schedules were coordinated to such an extent hat it was possible for the sightseer to View the festival our the shrine photograph he mountains see the water All have dinner and make the train for return to Tokyo at 6 30  In order that the inexperienced travellers would not go angry the Kanaya and Nikko Micanko hotels stretched rations or less than 100 people sum a gently to feed at least 300. Photographers had a Field Day. The festival procession included More than 1,000 shinto priests dressed in color Ful and varied costumes. Some of them were afoot and others Rode horses. Some wore masks and others wore ancient Armor. The japanese posed for the americans. Then the americas donned the helmets and posed for japanese photographers. When the Parade had been photographed to the last Man the mob boarded Cable cars to photograph the fabulous Gold and Scarlet mountains. At 9 30  A beat up crowd saturated with japanese culture clutched hundreds of color pictures poured from the train and made a wild dash for ghz buses. It. A. Quarters officer. Yakimovicz company head guard editor avers greek reds killed Polk Athens oct. 18 up the chief editor of the news paper Embros said yesterday greek communists killed lbs correspondent George Polk. He added that an official government announcement to this effect would be made Tomor Row in Salonika. For greek nearly police two have months held for Tunnel work resumed work on a Highway Tunnel running Between Shimono Seki Southern Edge of Honshu and Moji Northern Edge of Kyu Shu under the Shimono Seki Straits was resumed by some 60 workers who began work ing from a construction Point in Moji japanese press report questioning without charges an avowed leftist newspaper Man Gregory Sta Topoulos and his Mother. Sta Topoulos was known to have met Polk be fore the radio Man s disappear Ance. The editor said the communist party decided last february to kill Polk and Lay the blame on the Athens govern ment so the world would be shown the government is fas Cist and would even kill for eign correspondents who dared criticize it. According to his Story tha communists offered1 to take Polk to Vafiades blindfolded him in a boat on the pretext they did not want him to sea the route to the guerrillas and shot him through the head. De. Atomic Power not ready Albany . 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