ARMY SELLS SURPLUS PROPERTY IN BURMA; GIANT SPAN IS GIFT Roundup Staff Writer Tonnage and book value of property were expressed as "considerably less" than the estimated 600,000 long tons and $500,000,000 involved in the recent bulk sale of surplus property in India to the Government of India. An absolutely accurate inventory of Burma material was held impossible due to combat conditions under which much of it arrived and was employed. A 400-mile pipeline, Butler bridges, trucks, bulldozers, tractors, graders, horses, mules, tenting and tens of thousands of other items were included in the sales. MANY CASH SALES The 1,627-foot Irrawaddy Bridge at Myitkyina was given to the Government of Burma in an international goodwill gesture by the Army. This world-renowned structure - called the longest ponton military bridge in the world - has six floating, four movable and three fixed spans. Length of spans vary from 87 to approximately 137 feet. The bridge has two fixed piers, two adjustable piers, one fender piling and is built on seven barges. The Burma surplus property disposal differs in several respects from the sale of United States Army surplus in India. Besides consisting of many separate sales, the project involves actual cash payment in rupees and property went to private interests through negotiations by local FLC officers under guidance of FLC officials at New Delhi. EXCESS REMAINS "Most contracts transferring the Burma surplus call for the purchasers to take over the property within 'a short time,'" declared local FLC officials. However, some United States Army property classed as "excess" - as differentiated from "surplus" - remains in Burma to be shipped out. Indian private interests conducting negotiations in Calcutta and Delhi were declared to have dominated the Burma purchases, although there were buyers from Burma and even China. The entire United States Army pipelines in Burma were sold to an individual, an Indian. This bonanza incorporates 401.5-mile and 333.5-mile stretches of four inch pipe, 219.5 miles of six inch pipe and 39 pumping stations containing up to six pumps each. Tankage capacity is 10,200,000 gallons, according to records. |
Vol. IV No. 18 Delhi, Thursday, Jan. 10, 1946 Reg. No. L5015 |
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Be ‘Unknown’ Sought For Hollywood Test Next stop: Hollywood? Three WAC officers in Washington's Pentagon Building thumb through a Hollywood magazine and wonder if one of them may yet wind up in movies. Left to right: Lts. Betty J. Venerable, Irene Kelley (formerly stationed in India) and Ann Murphy. A WAC formerly stationed in Delhi and Ceylon loomed today as the beautiful unidentified girl described in the Roundup recently who has only to identify herself and get out of the service to be given a Hollywood screen test. According to Dave Richardson, Time-Life correspondent in India, the description of the lovely girl ties in completely with a T/3 Irene Kelley, whom he photographed in Ceylon for a photo layout in Yank magazine, while he was working on that publication about a year ago. The WAC whose identification is sought is working in an office in the Pentagon Building, Washington, where a movie producer, Jules Levey, saw her and asked her for directions to an office. Levey, late for his conference, dashed off and has since been trying to find the WAC in the huge building to give her the screen test. "Yes," said Richardson, as he read about it in the Roundup, "I am sure Sgt. Kelley is the girl he is looking for. A brunette with a gorgeous smile, blue eyes, about five-foot-three. The description fits and I am even more positive because I saw her in the Pentagon Building myself when I was there two months ago." Richardson said Sgt. Kelley was a T/3 with SEAC in New Delhi, and then was transferred to Ceylon to work as a secretary. Then, he said, she qualified for OCS and returned to the States a year ago just about at the time her photo and those of other WAC's appeared in Yank. |
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