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GI'S DESTINED FOR CONTINENT EAT BEST Special Menus Prepared For Soldiers Before Moving Into Battle Lines. By Dudley Ann Harmon United Press Correspondent London (U.R) If your butch er is short of steak these days it may be because troops waiting here to embark for Europe are treated to four-day feasts in their marshaling areas. The U. S. Quartermaster Serv ice has revealed to the United Press that special menus are pre pared for these men featuring extra tasty items before they switch to operational rations. They get chicken every four days, pork chops every four days, smoked ham every other day and roast beef or steak every other day. Fruit is served at every meal. Hot cakes, bacon, French toast and pork sausage are on the breakfast menus. . Fruit and candy are included. Paratroopers Fed Diet Paratroopers were fed on a special diet for nine days before D-day in order to prevent stom ach cramps following high pres sure of high-altitude flight. Recentt feeding problems out side the ' marshaling area con cern Moslem-French allies, our own casualties, Italian volunteer labor battalions and German prisoners of war. Some of the French-Moslem units supplied by the U. S. army required meals entirely without pork. Menus had to be translated into French. Spaghetti for Italian! Volunteer Italian labor bat talions serving with Allied forces in Europe enjoy the same meal as American soldiers with an increased spaghetti ration. German prisoners are fed by the same standard as Allied forces in Britain, with the issue of bread and potatoes increased to conform with their national eating habits. Foodstuffs shipped to the Nor mandy beaches are marked in luminous paint with the proper menu number so that they can be rapidly unloaded in the dark ness and served at the proper meal. commander at Camp Grant, will be transferred to Fort Lewis as commander of the medical re placement training center there. The prisoner of war camp at Camp Grant will be retained, Auranc said, but added that the status of the Illinois camp after the transfer "would be difficult to say because of the present state, of the war." Capt. Robt. Crews B-17 Pilot, Wins Flying Citation An Eighth AAF Bomber Sta tion, England Capt. Robert W. Crews of Medford, pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress, has been decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for "extraordinary achievement" on bombing at tacks on installations in enemy Europe. The citation accompanying the award read in part: "The cour age, coolness and skill' displayed by this officer upon these occa sions reflect the highest credit upon himself and the armed forces of the United States." . ' VETS ELIGIBLE FDR FARM BUYING AID Washington, Aug. 3 (U.R) The War Food Administration announced today that war vet erans, under the "GI bill of rights" are eligible to take out farm purchase loans from a $15, 000,000 fund authorized for allo cation this year by the Farm Se curity Administration under the farm tenant act. Veterans will be permitted to share in a program designed to make farm ownership possible to tenants, sharecroppers and farm laborers. FSA loans are re payable over a 40-year period at three per cent interest and were designed by congress to permit eligible borrowers to ac quire family-size farms. WFA said this year's appro priation would make it possible to start about 2700 families on the road to farm ownership. Since 1937, when the program began, approximately 37.000 families have been approved for loans, the agency reported. Capt. Crews, 25 years old, vet eran of more than a score of combat missions, also wears the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. He was a salesman here for the Bates Candy company before entering the army March 17, 1942 He is the son of Mrs. Lucy Crews, 737 West Four teenth street. Posthumous Honor For J. McDonough Mr. and Mrs. George McDon ough of Sams Valley yesterday received the Purple Heart awarded to their son, James, lost at sea in March of 1943 while on Atlantic convoy duty. Mc Donough was a signal man secJ ond class and had been in the navy since February of 1942. His parents received notice this spring that the navy had de clared their son to be officially dead. TO FORT LEWIS Chicago, Aug. 3. (U.R) Ma, Gen. Henry S. Aurand, com manding general of the sixth service command, said today that army service forces at Camp Grant, III., would be transferred to Fort Lewis, Wash, by Oct. 15. Aurand said some preliminary movements in the transfer al read had been started but that the movement was not sched uled to be completed until fall. . Brig. Gen. James E. Bayliss, MURDER OF CANADIANS OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED With Allied Forces In Nor mandy, Aug. 3 (U.R) Germans of the 12th SS panzer division murdered 19 Canadian prisoners from the Third division on June 8, it was announced officially to day after a court of inquiry had completed an exhaustive inves tigation. The evidence was described as proving beyond doubt that the prisoners were shot in cold blood for no apparent reason. MARY WALKER RITES FRIDAY IN PHOENIX Funeral services for Mary L. Walker of Phoenix who passed away August 1 at a local hos pital, will be conducted Friday at 3 p. m. from the Christian church in Phoenix, the Rev. W. G. Shearburn officiating. Inter ment will take place In the Phoenix cemetery. Perl Funeral Home is in charge of the ar rangements. TOO LATE With the Fifth Army, Italy, Aug. 3. (U.R) Private Alvin John Buckinger, 38, of Seattle, Wash., who was inducted Into the army on Nov. 13, 1942, and is now a member of the 88th in fantry division, recently learned his draft board had deferred him. The card, forwarded to the fifth army front, informed him that he had been placed in 1C (H) classification, as of June 19, 1944. SCOTCH STOLEN Hollywood, Aug. 3. (U.R) Mrs. Pat O'Brien, wife of the actor, reported today that six cases of scotch, seven pairs of nylon hose and clothing valued at $1000 were taken from her West Los Angeles home last April. She explained that she was reporting the robbery now at the request of her insurance company. i SUGAR STAMPS ! GOOD INDEFINITELY Your Grocer NOW Has KRUSTEAZ (Limited Quantities) If your grocer does not have Krutttai at the time of your call aik him to order for you and try him again. "No Failures with Krutteax" CONTINENTAL MILLS, Inc. S BEHIND SCHEDULE QUOTA Washington, Aug. 3. (U.R) War Production Chairman Don ald M. Nelson reported today that only 48 per cent of the $69,000,000,000 1944 munitions program was completed at the mid-year mark and warned against "deluding ourselves that the war production job is al ready finished." Nelson's report was issued as top production and military of-i liciuis emeicu imu men num. i "These, by and large, Include' the verv Droerams for which re-' day of discussions with War! quirements have been the most I steeply increased as a result of. combat experience in Italy and Normandy," Nelson said. MODUlzauon uirecior James r. Byrnes on met nods oi solving manpower shortages in certain war plants. The WPB chief explained that the 48 per cent figure tends to give "an overly optimistic im pression" because it does not in dicate the boost In production required for the balance of the year in such items as heavy trucks, big guns, bombs, heavy artillery, and tractors. All major munitions groups have completed more than 46 per cent of their program, he said, but a "realistic valuation" of the prodution program must take into account that there are many individual programs in "very serious difficulties." LIONS QUARTET Chicago, Aug. 3. (U.R) The Minneapolis Lions club quartet is the winner of the Lions Inter national male quartet contest for the second consecutive year, it was announced today at the Lions International convention. The Spokane, Wash., quartet was second, and the Pittsburgh, Pa., quartet third. Contests were held yesterday, with prizes of $400 for first place winner, $300 for second place and $200 for third. News of 4-H CLUBS Roxy Ann Four-H Club By Carmen Chase Roxy Ann Four-H club Is planning a community fair to be held August U at the Lehman home on the Crcstbrook road. Clo&lng time for Claaslfied ads 9 m. Too Late to Classify, 13:30 MONEY TO LOAN On JEWELRY. CAMERAS and MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS. See our un-redeem ed Jewelry lavingi. 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