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A seen ON 0- TME 5CHOOL5 vv op -rue State INEPINfNT American Waste Of ARE RAFMM.Y jsglMr AAAV Z6. 194-6 SUNDAY JJTHI STATU LOS I Mr, THEIR. Their. ELbERS FlNb LITTLE REPUBLIC World's Mightiest Army Cut To Bone, Yanks Are Curiosity (By Associated Tret) THE MIGHTIEST army that ever had to cross oceans to rcacty its, objectives has dwindled to a point where "Yanks" in khaki arc objects of curiosity in world capitals where once they outnumbered even the soldiers of the hast countries. The United States Army in the 45 months between RASS HHEN HOST Books Food Hit CHEER in RECENT FOLKS THINK OF crass, rnay iT uti-ru i maa Mrinxl HUTIjOWKS, IVASinNGTON.

Mav 2 VV (AP) While the rest BUT TH' KltS FACE -o' course vM(i of the world hungers, Ameri KNOW THAT COW cans waste 125. 000, 000 fcrti in TUrr THIS "LOCK -OUT" Branjely- pounds of food every day. THAT'S ABOUT AS MUCH i his adds up to about 25 per is i cent of the nation's total food sup ZuehtlV ply every year. Of this, 100 pounds December, 1941, and Scptmnber, 1915. shipped soldiers overseas and backed.

them up with toas ME SPCHT of edible food per person is wasted right In the home. The rest is Iot between the farm and the '4W of equipment. Today there are .150.000 officers and GIs in STlibYlNtS Mm home. CRASS wrrt ItiO.OOO In Japan and a mere hand 4 ful. possibly 250.000.

scattered T0NT0 FOREST The department of agriculture estimates that by watchfulness in through outposts over the rest of the gione. SUPERVISOR LEE KIRBV The war department says Its aitit to have by July 1 an army of ArJb LEARNb CRASS IS USEfr FOR SOMETHtN' 1.550.000 men 797,000 of them overseas. BlSlbES LAWNS Troops Out Deeply Because the presence of American disposing of surplus armv property almost as rapidly as it can be rlasslfied. As of April 26. more than worth of proper-ty had been sold, of which mote than S70.0(K),(VK: hm tranferrrd to UNRRA for ue In Cecho-slovokia, Poland and the Balkans.

Another worth hh shipped to Belgium against that country's rrvere lend lease credits. Italy and the Mediterranean theater: The U. S. forces In the Mediter-ranean theater, who numbered at peak strength In Augutt. 1944.

have dwindled "tn the point where It hurts." Lt. Gen. John HJ3RAIUfTlOr4 EXERCISES WILL BE HELb inI MANV SCHOOLS THIS troops enhances American prestige 5 4h)RiVE ALONG Ay WEEK- PLEASURE ANb SAbNESS MINGLE A the home we ran save up to one-fourth to one-third of the food we daily waste. This is even making allowance for unavoidable waste. Figures of the Stanford University Food Research Institute indicate Americans waste enough food to add 3f calories a dav to the rtiet of each of the earth's starving persons.

Cheter Davis, chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee, urges: "Beginning now, let's starve our garbage can." While food Is wasted by each of us each day in the home, it is also wasted on the farm, tn transit, in storage, in the processing plant, at wholesale markets and establishments, in retail stores and in public eating places. Many Items Wasted I TH CUTS. y0 C5RAD5 Bib FAREWELL TO, and serves psychologically to maintain orderly populaces and moderate governments, the amazing exodus of overseas forces In the last few months has reached a point, says one U. S. overseas general, "where it hurts." Combat forces abroad are few In number.

The American GI now is maintaining communications, shepherding soldiers "brides" who are en route to their demobilized husbands, guarding and attending to the 1,001 business details involved in disposing of army property, H. I-e said recently. THE OC5CH00L. 0, Because of the delicate Vnela Giulia situation, the American of. IT IS SELDOM fleer declined, however, to disclose the actual size of the American force left in Italy.

Troops Needed In Ilaly fAQRE THAN A FvV watching over displaced persons INCHES DEEP- Sr. and serving in other routine peace time occupations. In England and Scotland for In THE "SKIN- OF THE ZARTH- stance, where 1.530,000 tils once FouACe stood poised on Day. there now are 4.500 American soldiers. By June 1 there will be virtually none.

'HAIR War Days Are Gone Gone are the war days. Gone 11 The department of agriculture etimates an overall Iosjj tinclud-ing both avoidable and unavoidable wate between the point of harvest and the point of retail sale, ef as much as 30 per cent for tomatoes, lettuce, cauliflower; 25 per eent for cabbage, spinach, celery: 20 per cent for fruits such as apples, pears, peaches: 13 per cent lor oranges and grapefruit. For less perishable commodities rjrh as potatoes, peas and beets, the estimated overall loss is from live to 10 per cent. These estimates relate to average conditions and actual losses. They vary from year to year, and from area to area.

are the days when tne army shrinking pains were most acute. The booing "We want to go home," demonstrations that spread from TAKES Berlin to Tokyo last winter are hardly remembered. The U. S. soldiery abroad now Is chiefly of a ONE INCH OF TOP SOIL UITHOUT professional or semi-permanenv status.

It. was estimated previously thjt redeployment would cut the i ans down to 20,000 men by April I. comprising one division oh occupation duty in Veneia Giulia 10,000 air force and 10.0-W s-rvlce troops. It Is believed generally that British troops far outnumber the Americans In Italy. Lee said that In addition to the 88th "Blue Devil" Division assigned to Venezia Giulia, American troop would be needed In Italy until installations are handed back to the Italians and to guard surplus property.

A surplus property source estimated in April that "well over half" of the American equipment put up for sale already has been sold to the Italians for" more than $100.000,000 about 60 per cent of the original value. The Americans, as they pull out of Italy, have handed hack many installations to the Italians. The biggest of these. Naples, which grew to be one of the world's largest seaports at the peak of the Italian campaign, was turned back by stages starting last fall. Leghorn, however, still remains in American hands.

Rainbow Unit To Leave Austria: U. S. military forces In Ati'lri have been reduced from a neak Most of the great U. S. instal grass a single stora may Scalp lations in the foreign theatersxhave been abandoned.

In Great Britain W6H School OFF SEVERAL INCHS OF SoiL) one of 73 American wartime hospi Waste on the farm includes dam-are done by insects and rodents. Hats alone destroy each year as! tals is now in use; one of ui air fields remains: 28 of the 30 supply UMEN TOP56IU 15 6M. THE Students achieve a remarkable TRANSFORMATION AT at a depots are closed. tANt IS PRACTlCUUV USEUJJ Equipment worth billions of dol VOTNC WORTH WHILE U)ILL lars has been scattered. Some has been returned to the United States; some has been transferred EYT TIME yodRE TRAVELIN6 I TIME to welfare agencies, such as United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation ARoUMb, FKb A BUNCH OP UJiLb much food as 240.000 farmers can produce.

Waste occurs, from breakage and spoilage in transit, from improper packing, loading, handling and ventilating especially in the shipment of perishables. Travel Losses Heavy Some 23.000.0iX) pounds of meat Is lost annually through rougn handling in transportation. There is additional loss in retail Aaministration, for distribution in needv countries: some has been GRASS ANb sruiy rr- THS BUAjCHS HAS QUITE A "THE LAST mM sold in outright business deals in lands where the material lay; and H0TE THE CIRCLE FROSIQN AC err some, rusted or rotten or unprof OF DEAD TUFTS itable to move, was scrapped or BARING THE handling. Reports of some of the abandoned. THIS SH0US THE KlbS VHO HAVE SCORNEb ANY i ATTIRE BUT EENlrA JQIS; AT C0vwNC- DEAD ROOTS This is what has happened to our CLUVit OF CRASS most carefully managed stores, the department of agriculture says, have shown spoilage losses of three army in the various theaters as i WAS ONCE OUITE LARC, COMPOSE THIS to 10 per cent on fresh fruits and ef three to 15 per cent on fresh reported by Associated Press cor respondents on the ground: Europe Cut Told The general Europen theater: ONE LONE vegetables.

Limited studies made MEWT SUDbENLY OF SEVERAL BUNCHES, JOlNEb By "VINE" SPRIG FIGHTS When Germany surrendered a "TtNTACLEST, FLOWER INTO ON FOR UtE! year ago there were 3.069.000 American soldiers in this theater FASuioNi piftTes: strength of approximately 200 nod men a year ego to about 20.000. Th American government has proposed that the occupation of Austria be cut to a bare minimum as soon as possible. The 42nd "Rainbow" Division, last division remaining In th roun-try, is scheduled to be replaced by some armored units ana regular army garrison troops. The African-Middle East theater: Remnants nf the American artnv lie scattered In tiny bands totallnf 1.700 men in desert out potts and villages from Iran to Liberia. The great- African-Middle Eart theater now Is manned by eg than half a combat regiment of American officers and men.

Their commanding officer. MaJ. Gen. Henry S. Aurand.

must keep the thin lines Today there are fewer than LEFT 400.000. AT C0HfAeNCMtHTJ 0 ALONE. IT UJILL (t In 1942 suggest that such waste alone totaled about $450,000,000 that year. Other studies disclose that waste in restaurants and cafeterias has averaged about nine to 14 per cent of the total wastage of the nation. Three to eight per cent of this was attributed to management, about six per cent to food left on plates by patrons.

There have been many protests SPREAD AGAIN IN TlAAE THEV The U. S. Army In Europe at Its Day peak had 17,000 aircraft, occupied 127,000 pieces of real estate, including 150 airfields, 200 CONKEHC a few yEARS but if IS CHEiNEb OFF, IT TOO uiiuL GIVE UP THE 11 hospitals and hundreds of military (, TO LOOkl HUVAMf camps. It operated Its own railroads, telephone networks and pipe lines, "Reaching mickey LEADING ever food wastage in army camps even carried its own bridges. Its ana commissaries.

The war department this month of communications operating be GHOST SJhemyhe GRASS BlES, HEEbS MOVE IN huge stock piles, which required 160 depots, were estimated at more ou Iv7fla CAM GET aid it has ordered that the strict tween pinpoints through the western coast bases of Africa, from Liberia across the desert to Algiers. WITH fAfc iTk than 8.000.000 long tons. VoOR FREE CHEST y-RAV Now the U. S. Army In Europe has shrunk to less than 6,000 A QUESTION through Libya, Egypt and Sudan, thence across to Turkey and the Asiatic countries of Iran.

Irs a and OF pOSTUft! ojrtl THl HAT5 fb, WHICH CATTLE VON'T RELISH AT ALL- WEEbS HELP STAVE OFF Arabia. Thus, holding the smallest com planes. 25,000 plots or buildings, including only six ports. 25 airfields and 50 hospitals. Its depots hold only 5,000.000 long tons of stocks.

Railroads and telephones are back in civilian hands. A million long tons of surplus stocks In Europe were shipped out to the United States or other the mand In numbers of any major general. A rand's troops cover the this week at CHAMbLER, HICK SCHOOLDAYS AHbLMNMcs TUESDAY thru SOME EROSION, widest area of any single command. But not Materiel Is Guarded The troops are guarding $250. 1 est economy be observed.

Army Takes Steps The army has instituted the following corrective measures: Elimination of rations issued for men absent from meals; reduction of bread from 15 to 12 pounds per 100 men per meal: the production of fresh fruits and vegetables in truck gardens; the conservation of sugar. The army estimates that the elimination of sugar in stewed nines, for instance, "has saved 5.000 pounds a month in the United States alone. The reduction in the consumption of bread, the army says, will save 720,000 pounds monthly. The President's Famine Emergency Committee says the world food supply is not adequate. Anything we draw from the stockpile 000.000 worth of army materiel un LIKE GRASS til it is disposed of by sale, gift or i-KiOAY O0VT VI tSS 'OUR.

demolition. QPPo tun i ry Some $60,000,000 to $70,000,000 In stocks, principally In military In saw stallations used during the North OUP. M.lCHB0R.,vARTiKlJULIAM. African campaign, have been written off as unrecoverable." The surplus trucks, radio and whether stations, airports, planes, buildings and heavy machinery for sale. LlSCOVeREb K'NB OF GLOW HJORfA wt'D NtfR.

Seem Lir.nrrT hp THOOSANbS OF ACRS of once-rkh crass LANb THAT ARC NOW PNaber0rx SPARSELY coveREii with WORTHLESS FOR GRAZINC aters, with another 500,000 tons yet to follow. This redeployment of goods represents $2,500,000,000. Surplus Stork Handled To handle surplus stocks having possible resale value in Europe, the foreign liquidation commission was set up. Already 2.248,000 long tons of stock worth $1,518,300,000 have been turned over to the commission, with 731,000 additional tons worth $743,200,000 marked for future delivery. However, there were at least 500,000 tons of surplus stocks no one wanted to buy, such as ammunition and obsolete planes.

The army scrapped it. Among the cost-! ly armaments sent to the scrap piles were 7.000 planes worth more than $1,000,000,000. i I he China-Uurma-lnnia theater: There were approximately BRCiajH. 3U4. iHCH LONG.

JOiNTeti. THE 000 American soldiers, most of them air force personnel, in this theater at the peak period at the wars end. WOfOA LOOKS UKEA TiNY STREAWLINEb Tv ANb a Source of silt Of these 175.000 were In India and Burma and 75.000 in China. All but 400 now have been sent more than we need is taking just that much away from the inadequate heap. That extra unneeded amount," say FEC.

-if left in the pile, can be drawn upon by people to whom the meager ration means the dif-lerence between death and life." In the war department's Pentagon building, where workers eat a total of SO.OuO meals per day. curtailment in flour has resulted in the saving of pounds of bread each week; 1.3-53 pounds of flour which have gone into the tops of home or to other theaters. The TO WASH INTO OUR. RESERVOIRS ujHAT'S TO BE DONE? WHAT IS BUNC DONE 400 will remain for a considerable QLOu THE JOINTS Shin mC CtME ThC "WtfDou tFFCCT" period to close out business details United Kingdom: United States commanders plan to close their remaining army in PASTE THIS ARIZONA CftEETlMC ON TH' LETTER. y'aRITE rox a VZfXT UJLEK WE'LL TELL YOU MORE SCCSTt ANIMAL SYMBOLS FCFk.

PHOENIX TECH HE'LL TELL VOU MORe A 6 OUT THAT NEXT WEEK. he said he finds the abundance of granted by an educational institution. At about the same time a board College Offers stallations in the United Kingdom by the end of June. France: Where once huge Sherman tanks rumbled over the cobble stones of French streets on their way to Germany, drayman's carts and occasional automobiles have the roads to themselves. In the year that has passed since of experts will be studying exam ination papers to select a new chief pies; 60 pounds of hot and 30 pounds of dry cereal a week.

This, the FEC says, gives a rough Idea of what could be accomplished if similar savings were made over the 6ipO.000.00O meals served daily in American homes. Fat Conservation Urged Also, if every man. woman and rhool child in the United States saved a teaspoon of fat a day, it would mean a total of at least 50.UO tons of fat for those starv Police Degree PULLMAN. May 25 of no ice lor Seattle, lirst metro Many GIs Discard Australian Dreams By AXGtfi SMALL SYDNEY, Australia, May 25 (AP) Many American servicemen ho took their discharges here have found their hopes in Australia politan city in the nation to choose the Germans capitulated, the U. a police chior by national competi live examination.

in oi.sposing or army equipment ana to handle claims against the army. Private sales of army goods to Indians were halted when the preim and the public complained of hlgn prices, so an arrangement was made to turn over all stocks to the Indian government. China Goods Sold The China theater command, as such, went out of existence, May 1. leaving no American army ombat units in the country. The marine, however, still have air and ground units In North China.

The army estimates that 3,000 soldiers remain In Chin.i. Everything the army owned In West China was sold to the Chinese some months ago for $67,000,000 about 50 per cent of its estimated value. Korea American forces landed In Korea September 8, 1945, with three divisions and now occupy the island south of the 38th parallel with two divisions, the 40th havug been Inactivated and sent home. Armv has concentrated on Its this continent astonisning. Classes Differ Morris M.

Pollock of New York City, who married a Melbourne girl and has resumed his interrupted university course at Melbourne University, considers that the chief differences between American and Australian universities are central heating and the way Australian students are left to their own initiative. He declared: "Here, nobody seems to care whether you turn up for lectures or not. (AP A young Chinese studying in this little college town Is scheduled to receive in June the first French goal of "close out and get These two seemingly unrelated events are linked by a man and a out." Ports Are Cloned program. master of arts degree in police science and administration ever ing for it. This would be a big aid The man is V.

A. Leonard, head At one time there were 60,000 mirages, and they will return home, according to present of the police science and adminis troops stationed in the area sur in helping us meet our pledge to'w mira send 356.000 tons of fats and oils! indications. toi were roundinz Paris. Now there are They like the Australians, the bright sunshine, the long and happy broad in the first half of 1946, formerly of Lebanon, plans to build a summer resort at Dicky Beach, Caloundra, about 60 miles north of Brisbane, "right next door less than 10.000. leisure time of Australian workers, After Day 18 camps, each tration department at Washington State College, associate editor of the authoritative Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology published by Northwestern University, and author of leading works in the Ktifr fhav mice tfa hacfihall hnrtov with a capacity or ts.uuu troops to the governor.

Sir Leslie Wilson. Spangler. who took his discharge and football, and many have found that what appeared to be great opportunities during the war have men in one week, and Australian employers like having Americans in their firms. U. S.

Aid Given Americans here, of course, still come under the U. S. Bill of were established in France to speed soldiers to the United States or to the Pacific theater. All have in the United states in August "It seems to be sink or swim on the final examination. At home, you pass or fail on your classroom work, weekly tests and semester exams." James B.

More, also of New York City, said American servicemen 1945, and came back to Australia, disappeared with the peace. been closed down. now is a civilian armv clerk. The department of agriculture stresses the fact that the home-maker can do more than any other individual toward conserving our food supply. Here are some specific actions she can take: Save left-overs make them appetizing.

Buy perishables according to your needs. Flan meals by the ueek. The Western Base Section Itself. The exact number of S. Iroorm Rights.

known as the "close-out Donald R. Foltz, a former army postal service captain now in Brisbane, still is trying to decide what now in Korea has not b.en diclo- Robert E. McKinney of Los who came here as an sergeant and remained as of the American-Australasian now has less than 38,000 under its The secretary of the memorial club. Hubert H. Waldon.

of Bloom- police field. The program is the broad field of study which made Washington State the only college in the nation to offer a master's degreee in police science and won for its police curriculum the description, "the best, in the world." Mei Ko-Wang, busy with hU master's thesis on a proposed reor ed. studying assisted courses at Australian universities undef the GI command. The total at one time country is to be his future home. ington, who was a technical Exservicemen's Memorial Club, says Bill of Rights are better off than ran well into six figures.

The troops will remain until a Korean government is set up In accordance with the terms drafted Married to a Brisbane girl, Foltz says the Australian idea of knock sergeant in the air forces, says he believes 90 per cent of the The norts of Cherbourg and Australian soldier students. Americans discharged In Australia Buy seasonal and plentiful Marseilles, through which hundreds ing off work at midday on Satur The United States government is at the three-power Moscow conference. I about 100 of them are going to universities approved under the bill. So far no trade schools have of thousands of combat troops not only paying for their fees, books eventually will return to the states. He says the average GI, unused day and not going back to the office or factory until Monday is loods.

Store perishables with care. once poured, have been closed out ganization of the Chungking nolict department, is one of eight highly- and supplies, he saia, but the anot Japan and the Pacific: U. S. Armv strengthen the Pa been approved, although Waldon to the control over workers exer Prepare food without unneces ment to married men of $90 a month and $65 to single men is The Eiffel tower, which served as a radio station for the American army for 18 months, has been said the majority of men resuming their education would rather go to trained young uninese ponce oi-ficers selected by their government sary aite about 30 per cent above the Aus through competitive examinations Encourage family members to cised by the Australian government and labor unions, is finding it difficult to work for Australian employers and that they are being discouraged from starting enter ror advanced stuay at wasnimiion tralian scale. To date all the veterans dis-chnrced In Australia have retained cific last October totaled l.fiW.OOO men.

Today, says Brlgf Gen. M. J. Gunner. Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff In chargo of personnel, there are 393.OO0 men scattered throughout the area. Including the Japanese occupying force. returned to the renrn. I ne ren school house In Rheims. where I he unconditional surrender of the State.

He will receive the worlds "clean the plate." Share or pre.serve victory garden surplus. Use all portions of foods. Peel first master's degree in the field because he arrived here first. German army was signed, was re-turned to the French January 25 pretty good." May Return To IT. S.

Though he has not decided what he wants to do ultimately, he is inquiring about courses at the university. But he still kepps an eye cocked toward Rapid City. S. D. Robert G.

Aylsworth. 27, an ex-master sergeant who formerly lived in Oklahoma City, took his discharge in his home town, but migrated to Australia because he married an Australian girl and felt there was a "better opportunity to go into business" in the their U. S. citizenship because, as VVeyman Belle Isle, formerly of Atlanta, explained, they have found it "no handicap to doing bus prises of their own. Though the Australian government framed legislation to rehabilitate Australian servicemen and Western Base Section officer ing potatoes results In discard of Services In Demand The department was established at Washington State only five trade schools than take professional courses at universities.

The only member of the U. S. Navy to take his discharge In Australia for no other reason than that he wanted to see the country is stocky Peyton H. Hibbitt, 20 years old, whose mother, Mrs. Mildred Hibbitt lives in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Hibbitt, a tenor whose voice has been praised by the director of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, was nuttine on Christmns concerts Japan ut Is Told The air force, which once had say there never will be a complete close-down of American army per said that Allied servicemen who 196.000 men and 5.500 planes In years ago. since men, it nas oeen the Pacific, now has men. iness in Australia." He also pointed out that giving up American citizenship would mean forfeiting benefits under the GI Bill of asked to suggest a similar depart sonnel in France so long as there is an American army of occupation One officer pointed out that the ment at Nagpur university in In Eighth Army Judge advocate sec Rights. dia, to reorganize the Los Angeles County Probation Department, to tion, which has the task of bilnglng to trial hundreds of minor Jspanew. war criminal suiqtectt, nov has help inaugurate a now era in Se wished to settle In the commonwealth would receive comparable treatment.

Americans are finding it "impossible to obtain loans to buy tools, or books, or to set themselves up In businesses," declared McKinney. Nevertheless, quite a number are beginning to "settle down." There has been no difficulty In placed GIs with private firms when Enters Business Isle, who has settled in with his Australian wife, said some Americans already had returned to with his buddy, Douglas E. Reed, 27. a violinist, at Manila when they decided to get their discharges in only five legally-trained officer. some or me mo.M nuirmous pari.

Beet tops are more nutritious than the roots, yet are seldom used. The he.t leaves of cabbage and lettuce are the outer leaves, seldom used. Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, says: "One of the essential foundation-iinnn for a lasting democratic prace is freedom from wunt. "By conserving every possible ounce of food and so support greater shipments to feed the starving-American women in their kitchens ra help build towards tha lasting Mar-Arthur once said the army Wilh his wife's help, he plans to start a business retailing paper and paper bags.

But for a lot of the guys, Mc in Germany. Some To Remain Units which will remain In Fiance for an Indefinite period Include the nlr force personnel at Orly Airfield in Paris, graves reg-istration command, criminal investigation division, several quartermaster corps depots and various air force commands. Meanwhile the rffice of the foreign liquidation commissioner would have only men In the United States disappointed in Australia, but he felt they were at Australia. Reed, who lived at Winthrop, attle's police administration, to train leaders of China's future police and to grade examinations fot high ranking positions with the New York City and Los Angeles police departments. The man who directs this unique educational unit was trained in (Continued On Next Page) Kinney says: present in the minority.

Isle has visiled Auslralia many times Japan by June 1. The duration of the occupation and the conduct of the Japanese are two factors which "The opportunities they thought with the United States Navy, and existed here when they were here will determine how long ana in gone into the refrigeration business with his brother-in-law. When Australian building restrictions lift, Donald Spangler, they could not be employed American government offices or with American firms, McKinney said. General Motors put on 15 still emails the country, a southern Utopia." Particularly fond of gardening, Continued On Nexf Tsgt) as servicemen have disappeared like a mirage in the desert.".