European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                              January 20 1945 me stars and scripts Page 3 mail protests flood Congress opposing farm youths draft 19 ans a mounting flow of protesting mail from Back Home stirred complaints from both senators and House members today against the Selec Tive service order two weeks directing local draft boards to re examine All deferred farm youths Between 18 and As an William Lemke said an unofficial committee of 11 representatives will meet thursday with Lewis selective service to seek Clarifina Lemke said the committee will ask Hershey to direct state selective service directors and local draft boards to give full consideration to the Tydings which permits deferring of essential farm workers before sending additional farm youths into the armed Hershey yesterday told a meeting of representatives that recent order specifically pointed out that the Tydings amendment was to be it took All available farm workers to produce last years Clifford Hope Leader of the Republican farm told the we cant produce More As the War food administration demands this if these Farmers Are called in the inauguration at the White House today Jewell Avery says wards singled out 19 Board chairman of Mont Gomery Ward and yesterday accused president Roosevelt of having singled out the company for unequal treatment in seizing proper and in a 500word Telegram asked the president to forbid any army actions which would affect the Union status of the Ward pm Avery repeated the arguments consistently advanced by company officials and attorneys to justify wards resistance to the seizure order of under which the army moved in on 16 of wards properties in seven cities until the Case has been Deci decl in courts As required by the he reiterated in his Telegram that wards respectfully Calls upon you to order the army to withhold Tak ing of action which would deprive the Ward employees of their the reference was to the government petition for an injunction to ban company interference with army operation of seized which is now under judicial and 20 a president Roosevelt fourth term inauguration today will be As simple As it is a Mere few com pared with the mobs which have packed the Capitol Plaza and lined historic Pennsylvania ave nue along the route to the White House in past will attend the Swearingin which will be held on the Back porch of the White pictured members of Congress and of the diplomatic corps will make up a Large group who will crowd the White House a Large landscape contrasting sharply with prewar the ceremony will last Only 20 minutes and president Roosevelt has Cut his speech to 500 the Public has been discouraged from coming to Washington be cause of the crowded wartime conditions and sharply curtailed after the ceremony the president will be Host at a Buffet reception and cold wave persists in Northeast states Stettinius turns actor in Dumbarton Oaks film 19 ans of state Edward will play the Lead ing role in the soon Obero diced documentary on the Dumbarton Oaks conference it was disclosed the United press reported that the War activities unit of the motion picture Industry recently approached Stettinius with the idea of dramatizing United states participation in world Security through the medium of motion the Secretary has been in new York the past six Days and it is understood that it was for the Pur pose of making screen tests at the twentieth Century Fox studios at Long new 19 northeastern part of the United states was icy cold today but the skies had cleared after a setup in the persistent heavy Snow that made a shift in train schedules and kept men working on clogged streets in new York the cold wave plummeted read Ings As Low As 16 degrees below Zero in upper new York state this morn ing with Syracuse reporting an additional nine Inch in the new England Nantucket is land was still Cut off from the main land by High seas but offshore decreased As the weather continued cold temperatures in the Middle West were generally mild in com Parison with the freezing regions Snow fell in parts of Wisconsin Iowa and upper Michi the South was enjoying nor Mal 21 persons Are injured in Norfolk Navy Braze fix limit on time foot soldiers face foe1luce navys firepower raised five times Over that of 1940 19 within the past five years the United states has increased its naval fire Power exactly five times Over that of while the tonnage of combatant ships has Oceen two thousand tons of steel can be hurled by the guns of combatant auxiliaries and coastguard vessels in 15 the Navy said today in the first disclosure of its punching it is the equivalent of 50 freight carloads of steel and does not include the powder used to hurl the the the Navy sex behind the increased fire Power Lay in the Radical changes in the armament of modern fighting the uss Iowa commissioned in packs a Wallop 92 percent greater than the pre Pearl Harbor uss the Iowa is described As being armed with nine 16inch guns in 20 five Inch double purpose guns in twin mounts and Many smaller anti aircraft the commissioned in 1914 had ten 14inch rifles in twin 16 five Inch calipers and 12 three Inch anti aircraft the uss Iowa in a 15second fir ing run under Normal conditions can fire More than 15 tons of the uss a heavy Cruiser commissioned in 1943 car Ries nine eight Inch guns in 12 five Inch antiaircraft guns in pairs and numerous smaller a she packs 123 percent More firepower than the commissioned in 1930 with 12 six Inch 12 five inches and Many smaller a and could out shoot the uss Omaha before her modernization by 110 the greatest increase in firepower has been shown by the the Sumner class can Lay Down a barrage 216 percent greater than the old of 1918 such As All com the Navy were based on gunfire alone and did not include additional firepower of Tor depth charges and ship based 19 on the floor of he House that Many Are bitter because they Are kept too Long in Clare Toothe Luce yesterday asked for a fixed limit on the time a Man is required to serve under fire without in a resume of her tour of the War Luce de that the 34th division in Italy has had Over 400 actual she continued there is no Overall or fixed policy which will get the individual Soldier out of Battle or when he shall have reached the Imit of human endurance which s actually the limit of his Indi philippine Freedom Date May be moved new 19 the foreign policy association said in a bulletin today that the Date of philippine Independence May be advanced from july 1946 to no 1945 As a result of the Luzon the philippine exist ent when Japan invade the would still be legally Able to fun the bulletin More important than the Early Grant of Independence would 19 ans i be a formal acknowledgement of persons were the Loyal support which filipino people have Given this relationship has had no parallel in the history of colonial the association said there is reason to believe the number of american military prisoners still in the Philippines is less than officers of the Grade of colonel and above were Long ago transferred from the islands and it is credibly reported that Many lower ranks and enlisted men have since been re moved or have it one late yesterday in a fire at the Norfolk Navy Yard Annex at which dam aged pier three and two or three Small naval vessels at the the unofficially reported As started by Sparks from a Weld ers swept so quickly from a Small pier to the main pier that ships tied up at the latter  be a tall column of smoke billowed High in the attracting visual she said of the combat too often he comes to feel that he cant win if his division fights on a front which will be bitterly contested for he feels that his Only future is to be which generally Means killed or billion and Hall Bill 79th houses first 19 the House of representatives stole the jump on the Senate yesterday by passing the first Bill of the 79th measure authorizing the Navy to construct new bases and facilities costing the measure which was approved by voice vote and referred to the Senate authorized expenditures of dollars for construction of advanced naval dollars for ship repair dollars for ordnance works and dollars for Fleet train ing and aviation the House Republican committee on committees named two members to the foreign affairs committee and three to the new committee on Una Merican Lawrence Smith and Chester Merrow were appointed to the foreign affairs group while two former Dies committee members Pamell Thomas and Earl Mundt were named to the Una Merican committee along with Gerald Landis Bob Hope honoured despite Boston 19 ans i minstrel boys and girls of the War Soni fied by comedian Bob were honoured Here last night when the radio and screen Star was awarded the poor Richards clubs 1945 Gold medal of messages commending the work done by Hope and other professional entertainers in the War zones were read from generals George Marshall and Henry and Admiral Chester praising the acting profession for saving the sense of humor of servicemen and bringing them a touch of the occasion was the annual Ben Jamin Franklins birthday dinner of the an organization of adver1 Tising the beaming Bob Hope introduced his fellow trousers Vera Jerry Colonna and Tony and said he had Only one complaint against them they Are wonderful companions on our trips but they Are so tight they insist on doing their own laundry they  even pay my 19 legislative investigation was called for today to find out Why state senator George Stanton is unable to buy tickets to the Bob Hope show at Boston Garden next the Massachusetts Senate adopted Stanton order for investigation by a vote of 11 to four after the Fitchburg Democrat declared he had been unable to buy tickets tuesday two hours after the Sale the order now goes to the report on front As a member of the House Mili tary affairs committee that visited the european War zones in Decem Luce reported that the group discovered Battle lacks and and she blamed the Home front for the Battlefront shortage of from o or the Universal she said this was a shameful like the Short age of which results in the loss of our sons her greatest criticism of the War policy dealt with the Lack of Relief for the the time has she for the War department to adopt a policy which will give the combat Soldier a fixed tour of duty under Battle in the time has come to apply to the ground troops the same policy now in effect for the air no other Way any other policy or Lack of she tends to demoralize i at Enro Ute to Phoe she recognized the Relief Nix for the army shot from problems As difficult and said the the sky Secretary of War and chief of a train Load of sailors staff no doing every the gobs overran the Lone Railroad thing in their Power to devise Means j sent guarding the plane and of relieving individual soldiers too j stripped the planes cockpit of m gobs make Short work of army display Zero 19 ans army told the Navy today that it wanted the rest of its Jap Zero fighter plane the plane was on a sidetracked Flatcar Long wearied by instruments Lor one Sailor tickets Are Bein bought up by she devoted a Large part of her j even produced a Hacksaw to Cut Stanton j speech to the description of the j off then Iney Pune scalpers Ana told the valor of the american 5th army Bing better 19 ans the Boston record and Amer sin Italy which she described As the can which Are sponsoring the show j bitterest As Well As the proudest As a Benefit their hospitalized army in service mens said that report men of the 5th arc she in a tour of ticket offices and scalpers had been unable to Purchase a single the task they have performed and of danger threat of strangely it was in bos which still remains before i pneumonia pm rants ton the and his show As and because Many people at Home have Bing the former Dixie Able either forgotten or underestimated Lee of the was declared out cult Lily it in that the 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