Show I USO U WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 1947 1941 I Demobilization Set et for or December 1947 Features HE USO usa will continue through T THE 1946 and until the last day in hi 1947 when it will complete its wartime wartime wartime war war- time demobilization and sion services 31 1947 Official announcement that USO usa will conduct its own raising fund campaign next September and October October Octo Octo- ber her with a n goal to cover minimum service requirements through 1947 was made by President Lindsley F F. F Kimball at USO usa New York head head- quarters USO usa came into being on February February February ary 4 1941 when six member agencies agencies agencies agen agen- cies joined hands to create one organization organization or or- organization to care for the needs of the men and women of the armed forces So far the American public has hns contributed million dollars to toP the organization Still Needed Says Ike In a message to President Kimball Gen Dwight D. D EiseI Eisenhower lower stated May I earnestly count on your organization and your host of ot volunteers volunteers volun volun- to stay with us through the dangerous and difficult period of ot transition to final peace We still have a n pressing need for the services of USO usa and will be deeply grateful for your our continued help in the future as in the past Fleet Adm Chester W. W Nimitz chief of naval operations also sent senta a message of congratulation For Wounded Veterans The need for raising a terminal fund in the fall of ot 1946 is due to the fact that the National War fund will finance USO usa only through 1946 Tentative purely tentative plans for tor 1947 call for the operation of some to USO usa clubs in the continental United States largely in connection with but convalescent veterans Operation of ot station lounges for troops transit men on leave and families of service servIce service ice people must continue Overseas clubs will carry carryon on in Alaska Canal zone Hawaii Philippines etc Camp shows will still be seen and heard in 1947 by men in hospitals and men overseas I Coincident with the announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment of the USO usa fall campaign President Kimball made public his annual report in which he says USO USa finds that at its peak of activity it was serving people a day in one capacity or another another another an an- other running up to more than 1000 the total served since the organization was created Units at Peak The number of ot operations such as clubs lounges and similar activities activities ties tics r reached ached a high point back in March of 1944 a total of ot As training camps closed and the men went overseas this number declined but the over-all over volume of work in In- In creased The year five-year peak of ot activity and cost came after peace in Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope and before the surrender of ot Japan Redeployment of ot troops reopened reopened reopened re- re re re- opened many camps doubled or vastly increased loads of ot various seaport cities Expenditures climbed to a month New Postwar Problems Referring to the future of USO usa Mr Kimball says in his report The successful conclusion of the war does not cannot and will not return the United States to its prewar prewar prewar pre pre- war status It is clear even now that our armed forces in the II postwar period must be numbered in the millions USO USa will complete its wartime I demobilization and I services December 31 1947 r. r N C ww AT CHOW ChIOW Franklin P. P Adams John Kieran and Clifton Fadiman of ot Information Please went GI and washed their own mess kits while on a USO-Camp USO Shows tour overseas |