European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Franklin Delano Roosevelt began his fourth term with a Clear statement that his main Hope in the Jour years ahead to to bring the United states into a world organization to preserve a just peace while the president made ready for a meeting with prime minister Churchill and marshal Stalin on War and postwar Congress wrestled with proposals to overcome a Home front manpower shortage and so increase the nations part in Allied some people thought that a main Barrier to Quick passage of a manpower Bill was a new wave of Domestic optimism following victories in a Blanket of wet Snow Lay Over the Lawn facing the South portico of the White the Snow was trampled by a crowd of women and children who had been invited to see Franklin Roosevelt fourth in the scene they had come to witness did not last in the space of 15 minutes Roosevelt and former Harry tru Man of Missouri had been sworn into office and the costless and bareheaded in wintry had made a 551 word inaugural the shortest in inauguration among them 50 wounded veterans from Walter Reed and Glen Forest agreed that the speech was a simple Appeal for the nation to extend the Good neigh Bor policy to the whole postwar these words seemed the keynote we have Learned that we cannot live at peace that our own Well being is dependent upon the Well being of other far we have Learned that we must live As and not As nor As dogs in the of purely Domestic War or the president said that observers made his fourth inaugural address quite different from those of 1937 and War and War created problems seemed to have channelled his thinking into new War also affected the inaugural never before had it been so Brief or never be fore had it been held on the White House portico instead of the never before had it been a semiprivate the president had decided weeks before that fuss and feathers be in keeping with so solemn a time in the president began the Day solemnly with family prayers in the big East room of the White Many including 13 grand were on but of the presidents four Only Marine James Roosevelt was Able to attend the after he took the oath of office the president had a Gayer he was Host at a at which guests got dabs of Chicken and later at a that evening he was toasted though not in person by the one thousand made up of some 300 americans who each gave or More to his 1944 the president is a member in Good standing he put up a grand although he shivered visibly in the cold Dur ing the inauguration As did everybody else physicians said Roosevelt health at 62 was Washington reporters have noted that recently the president has seemed unusually confident about All at his final thirdterm press conference he laughingly said he thought his first 12 years in office would prove to have been the Lewis selective service testifies on draft and deferment the president repeats the oath of office before chief Justice Stone hand raised to right of the presidents James is at men the High Eilinger hearing room of the House military committee has been a Busy army and Navy officers and representatives of labor and Industry have been going there in a steady Stream to speak for and against a National service the army and which favor such a got their innings in they said the services had to get additional of them to go overseas As army july they would need More workers to turn out essential War to assure this Man Power they some sort of labor draft was Union labor and which dont Al ways were As one in opposing National service in any their spokesmen held that manpower shortages were largely local that nobody could foresee How Many workers would be needed six months hence and that forced labor would have a demoralizing effect on the the course of the War also seemed to be affect ing the discussion of manpower the Wall Street journal put it like this the pendulum of both government and Public which swung from highest optimism Early last fall to deepest pessimism in is begin Ning to swing Here in it is almost axiomatic that army Navy influence Over the governments civilian agencies is in reverse ratio to Progress on the fighting when the going is Tough and the Outlook no one is disposed to Challenge the word of the military the army and Navy get what they but when the War picture looks the military has a hard time making itself whatever the outcome of the manpower de Bate in the country noted a marked Drift of men into War in and there were 135 percent More applications for War jobs in january than in applications in jumped 40 percent and in 80 meanwhile the nations draft boards went ahead with the Job of getting More men for the to guide the War manpower com Mission got up a revised list of essential occur on the list Are 35 trades and classified As essential and men aged 2629 now deferred As essential should be drafted before those in the same age group in jobs listed As the Agency from the 2629 age group the army and Navy Hope to get they also expect to take farm workers under 26 these had been deferred As 18yearolds volunteers under 18 and men now in 1a but not yet possibly the services will also get a number of men now listed As 4f who Are being re yank the army weekly 1945 professional sports a hard hit by this now awaiting induction is Willie worlds featherweight who got a medical discharge from the Navy last year be cause of a punctured called up for an army he Jesse Jones disclosed that at the presidents request he was surrendering the Post of Secre tary of he also revealed that he had declined the offer of a diplomatic the 70 year old a Cabinet member since made Public a letter from the president saying that former vice president Henry Wallace would be the new head of the Commerce depart the expressing himself As very proud of Jones said that Wallace had requested the Post and deserves almost any service which he believes he could satisfactorily Jones in reply wrote that he considered the former vice president a Man inexperienced in business and Beardsley chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of new York and father of the Payas Yugo in com tax predicted in that the american Standard of living after the War would be 40 percent higher than it had been before Pearl death took two Mem Bers of James Oconnor and fronds Mooney the author of the Frank Merriwell George died in san under the pen name of Burl stand he wrote More than 26 million words about a Peerless Yale athlete who was a leading hero of juvenile fiction a generation quite a rumpus was raised when an Antioch Leon charged that while in route Home from new York City he and two other servicemen had been bumped off an army cargo plane at while an English Bull mastiff named belonging to Elliott had continued on to Holly Wood on an a the War admitting the dog belonged to Roosevelt and promising an said somebody had made an to save a dwindling Coal sup the War production Board ordered All lights in show signboards and theater entrances throughout the country turned off till further the Brownout is expected to save tons of Coal a fire of suspicious origin broke out in Bostons Coconut scene of a Blaze in which took 492 this time nobody was May 2 was set As the Date for the retrial of the Chaplin paternity the presbyterian Church in the United states of America announced it would spend million in the next five years for reconstruction of churches abroad and postwar Aid to veterans at the National planning a nonpartisan group representing manage ment and recommended that the pay of the members of Congress be hiked from to a camera Rita Hayworth baby makes a first her name is Rebecca and she was born on her father is Orson Welles prof 15
