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New Critical Score Due If Japs Behave
Believe 75 Points Will Be Set Soon WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (ANS) - The Army disclosed that a new and lower critical score for discharge will be put into effect just as soon as it is determined that Japan will abide by surrender terms. Maj. Gen. Stephen M. Henry, assistant chief of staff in charge of personnel, said the score then will be progressively lowered at a rate guaranteeing there will be no empty berths on ships returning to the U.S., the United Press reported. The Army has not made the new score public. But screening of 75 point men from shipments to the Pacific has clearly pointed to 75 as the next critical figure. Gen. Henry also revealed that: All men with 85 points will be out of the Army by the end of November; 85-point men in the European and Mediterranean theaters should be civilians a month before that. Enlisted men with 85 points now in the United States will be sent to separation centers by August 31. Those arriving from overseas will go directly to separation centers. The present 38-year age limit on overseas service will be lowered "as it becomes possible to set a new top age limit for service." Men with less than the minimum score for discharge may still expect to be sent overseas for occupation duty, although the War Department hopes to avoid shipping soldiers with scores near enough the critical limit that they would almost immediately have to be returned for discharge. Wainwright Still Not In Chungking CHUNGKING, Aug. 27 (ANS) - Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright's whereabouts remained a mystery today, eleven days after he was rescued from a Jap prison camp near the Manchurian city of Mukden. Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, China Theater commander, announced that newsmen would be given an opportunity to interview the hero of Corregidor when he arrives in Chungking. Some 55 Pointers Won't Go Overseas HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 27 (ANS) - Ellington Field authorities announced that enlisted men at the field with 55 or more discharge points will not be sent overseas unless they volunteer. Field officers said the order came from the Central Flying Training Command at Randolph Field, that the 55-point limit might be only temporary, and that it did not necessarily apply at other Army installations. |
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Teenagers Lose Essential Rating
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (ANS) - War workers between 18 and 25 years of age will lose their essential draft classification when they are laid off, Selective Service headquarters announced. Headquarters said the draft policy would be the same as always - if a man is no longer essential to the war effort he is eligible for the draft. A spokeman said local boards will handle individual problems and that not all the physically fit in the 18-25 group would necessarily be drafted. "We are continuing our policy of taking single men first," he said. What Is The 'Duration?' WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (ANS) - It is up to Congress to decide what "duration" means in the phrase "duration and six months." That's the word from Selective Service, which handled the mechanics of getting you into the Army in the first place. A Selective Service spokesman told the Associated Press that all drafted men are entitled to release at the end of the "duration and six months," but he added that only Congress can say when the duration is finished and the six months start. He said he presumed that when Congress decides to declare the duration completed, it will make some provision for occupation troops. Otherwise, he pointed out, they'd all be scurrying home within six months. So far, he said, no legislation to define "duration" has been introduced in Congress. But Omar B. Ketchum, legislation representative of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said he will press for a clarification as soon as Congress reconvenes. |
NIPS WESTERN PACIFIC EMPIRE ENDED - Only the home islands (solid black) may be left to Japan of all its
once vast empire. Map shows farthest extent of Jap control during World War II and indicates how some of the parts
of the empire were annexed.
(Click map to enlarge)
A BROOKLYN MISS, member of the first WAC detachment to serve in the China Theater, is carried in a sedan chair
to a party given by enlisted military personnel assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Chungking. She is Corp. Ruth D. Davis,
on duty at Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer's AAF headquarters.
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China Your road, charted by what destiny Will be built. What mortal motive power can you not equal Given time and cause - not need, For need you have in plenty. You always had. Time has no value in your scheme of things. Yet time is your salvation, must be. Time you must have to do the things These need be done. One tiny stone piled upon another And broken with a third Will pave the way. There is no job You cannot fashion. Cause you have. Time Will be given you. Great God in Heaven, These patient hands that chipped this stone And paved a measure with its pieces, That build as by the ancients, But for the future. That know nor seek no recompense Save means to work another day. Need only know Which way the road will go! Maj. A. E. Perkins |
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HISTORICAL MEETING - Pres. Truman and his cabinet confer at the White House to consider the Japanese surrender
offer.
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PEACE, IT'S WONDERFUL - Throughout most of the world, crowds like this, part of an estimated 2,000,000 people in
Times Square, N.Y., celebrated. Some sang, some wept, all were supremely happy.
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ATOMIC BOMB TEST EXPLOSION - A U.S. Army atomic newsreel camera six miles away made this sequence of pictures
on the test atomic bomb explosion.
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HOW HIROSHIMA WAS LEVELED, BLOCK BY BLOCK - What the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan did to Hiroshima is revealed
in this Army Air Forces composite airview of a portion of the city August 7, day after the attack. For block after
block only an occasional building is standing.
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