Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Fhe stars and stripes Washington aug. 1 ans a Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt today took full responsibility for his tangled business affairs and branded As a Quot deliberate infamous lie Quot reports that his father the late president assisted him in obtaining Loans which Are being investigated by congressional committees and the Treasury. He charged i a statement issued through attorney random do Paul former Treasury general counsel that a Small segment of the press is waging a Quot hating Campaign Quot against him and his father who is unable to Quot talk  Quot Franklin d. Roosevelt never promoted or assisted my personal  Ness affairs. Any statement that be did so is a deliberate infamous lie. I conducted my own business dealings responsibility for them was and still is. If Tine alone Quot he said. Headed for discharge Elliott who will be discharged from army aug. 15 after five years service said he had nothing to conceal and called on the government Quot to make Public All the facts Young Roosevelt a financial affairs have been under congressional study for several weeks As the result of reports that he received amp 200,000-Dollar loan from John Hartford president of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company which was settled for 4,000 dollars. Washington aug. 1 ans a the army a new Jet propelled fighter plane the p8q shooting Star can Fly More than might Miles above the Earth at More than 550 Miles an hour nearly ten Miles a minute. The  Star was put on display Here today the first Jet propelled plane to be accepted by the army for combat. The propel Kritt plane my do its first flight in january 1044 but Hai been kept secret until today when it was unveiled in Honor of the 38th birthday of the air Force. M $ the shooting Star has not yet seen action although some p80s have been sent to overseas War toe atm. It is designed for strafing a a fast Aerial reconnaissance and for interception and attack at High Altitude. It can be converted into a fighter bomber by substituting bombs for die twin fuel tanks \. A faster than German jets i the army a fastest conventional fighter bomber the improved Mustang is rated at 480 Miles an hour while the Navy s latest Corsair is rated at 425 Miles an hour. The Star is faster than any Crinan Jet Pirnes. Built by Lockheed the new Jet plane is powered by a general electric Gas Turbine Motoy with wingspan of 39 feet the p80 is Only h feet Fob teaches High from the ground to the tip of the rudder Ftak 34 feet Long and its weight empty is about 8,000 pounds. Maximum of tel Load for Long Range operation boosts the weight to 14,000 pounds two tons less than the lightning. Its armament six to a Caliper machine guns is located in the nose. The Section can he removed and a camera installed for reconnaissance. A a Paris aug. 1�?Only 10� american wounded soldiers Are still in hospitals in Europe the chief surgeons office  remaining Are men suffering from such serious wounds that they cannot be moved. A other american wounded Eitner Nave been returned to duty or transferred to hospitals in the . For further treatment. T a ? a a or�3 during july More than 18,000 army Hospital patients were returned to the . By sea and air. The greatest reduction in hospitalisation cases was in German institutions staffed by German medical personnel but supervised by the . Army. In these institutions on june i were 418,000 German pcs ramps and civilians. The total has been reduced to 174,005. Of the seven 1,000-bed army general hospitals planned for the american occupation zone a Germany five the 98th, 101st, 115th, 116th and 121st�?already have been established. Two others the 97th and 316th, Are in the process of moving to Germany. Eleven station hospitals four of which already Are in operation will serve the occupation  a outs to be seeded Paris aug. 1�?a theater Tda directive has been issued by  it was Learned today instructing unit commanders not to delay for Quot obviously immaterial Quot technicalities the discharge applications of men who have been offered jobs in Europe by the United nations Relief and rehabilitation admin us traction. On july 26 it was Learned that up to that time Only three men had received discharges in die Eto to accept Urra jobs. Three More were on the verge of being discharged and in the Case of about 40 other applicants papers had been sent to their unit commanders notifying them of the pending discharges. Urra which has an urgent need of qualified personnel had offered jobs to 497 soldiers. It. Col. R.8. Hahn of Usset who issued the new directive said yesterday he believed that the number of soldiers receiving discharges to accept Urra jobs had increased in the last ten Days but Urra officials declined to give out any new figures. Meanwhile it was Learned that the state department which had announced last month that it had 400 jobs in the foreign service available for discharged soldiers is not yet ready to hold competitive examinations for these jobs. Aircraft remain secret. Producing which limited German Jet planes to flights of g few minutes duration have been solved by the Economy of the Jet and aerodynamic Linee that Are the cleanest of any air plane in the Selea with its jetty Honable tanks the shooting Star is capable of carrying out my Mumm now handled by Long Range  claim deadline nov. 8army switching lib men to b32 by Joseph Fleming stars and stripes staff writer Paris aug. In the deadline for claiming personal property which for one reason or another has been shipped to the pm personal effects and baggage depot pm the continent is nov. 8, it was announced today by col . Ramsey depot commander. After that Date All personal belongings which have been lost or separated from their owners and stored in four huge Wareh doses at Fol Embray. Prance will be sent to the army effects Bureau at Kcf Tnya City to in storage at the depot Are approximately 130.000 pieces of property belonging to soldiers Many of whom Are believed to be still in Europe. Ramsey asked All soldiers who might have property at the depot to request its return through their unit commanders. Requests should be made to depot q290, apr 513, giving Complete identification of the owner and property. Property then will be shipped to the claimant within 48 hours or. If the owner desires will be sent to his Home or to the new York port of embarkation where it will be held for further disposition. Underground saved z,500 Paris aug. 1�?More than 2,500 american airmen shot Down Over Europe were saved by the French underground it. Gen. John k. Cannon cd of u68taf, declared in dedicating a . Air exposition under the Eiffel Tower to the Quot heroic men and women of the reds  it. Worth tex., aug. 1 cans a Liberator bomber Crews Are being converted into b32 Crews Here. After two months in a special course on the b32. The Crew is ready for overseas assignment most of the training is at the it Worth army air Field near the consolidated Vultee Plant which produces the b32. Gieseking checked Wiesbaden aug. I up a occupation authorities Are checking the activities during the nazi regime of Walter Gieseking internationally known pianist. Gieseking has played concerts before american Soldier audiences.942 yanks lost on pm vessel Washington aug. 1 ans a Japan has informed the War department that 942 american pcs were killed when a japanese prison ship was torpedoed in Subic Bay in december 1944. Fifty nine died later two survived and evaded capture and 618 survived and presumably were moved to Japan. New York aug. 1 Cap a mayor Fiorello h. Laguardia predicted that Britain s new labor government would have repercussions in other countries. Quot three Young men who had better Start looking for other  the mayor said Quot Are Prince Humbert of Italy Young Peter of Yugo Slavia and King Michael of  Camp Shanks n.y., aug. 1 ans a eighty four women civilians from single girls to grandmothers beyond 80 whose duties and destiny have tor two weeks mystified was gis and Camp authorities alike blossomed Forth today in Brand new uniforms and officials guessed they would engage in a phase of intelligence work in the american occupation zone in Germany. A the first women civilians Ever to be staged in Camp Shanks they axe employee of the War department. Although they Aren t in the army they will have the assimilated rank of commissioned officers the rank varying with their pay. No one at the Camp could say he knew exactly what the women s work would be. More than half of the women Are natives of foreign countries and the relatives of some were persecuted or killed in Germany or occupied countries. A the women have been issued foot lockers defile bags first Aid kits and canteen t belts the outfit is nameless but its uniform is called"1 by the personnel at Camp Shanks the Nastiest in the service. Denver cok aug. 1 ans it sgt. Charles m. Paddock 21. Of Lowry Field has 243 Points 52 months overseas in All Heaters and 27 combat decorations. Last week he turned Down a discharge. Astonished officers assigned paddock to train with a superiors group going to the a amp Tkv Maas command dissolved Rome aug. 1 apr Mediterranean Allied air forces the Overall command which directed the air War in Southern Europe since december 1943�?dissolved at Midnight monday