European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1945 the stars Aind stripes a vejs Page 3 family with three sons in service evicted from Home bomb toting balloons launched from Japan t May 30 bom ferrying bal loons Are being launched against the from the japanese Home Lyle Watts chief of the Forest Salo in a radio interview last the unmanned Watts travel up to 125 Miles an hour and take from80 to sit beside their household goods outside the House in they had been unable to find another place to live american scene labors restlessness reflects Bleak employment prospects 1 by William Spear the stars and stripes Bureau May prediction of War production Board chair inane Krug that War production will require so Moon fewer workers in july and August and that some of them will be unable to find jobs was pointed up by Tabor unrest in Many parts of the workers have been manifesting increasing uneasiness Over the twin of decreasing employment opportunities and decreasing pay in overtime work Slacks off with cutbacks in War one Lemand being made More and More is for 48 hours pay for a 40hour Oare than at the Ford Willow run bomber it face layoffs with the closing of the Plant june but officials reducing the output there gradually in order to Cushion the at the Bell aircraft plants in Buffalo and Niagara 70 000 Are scheduled to be Laid off this workers Are staging be stayin remaining in the plants after work As a traction against the company the time there Are strikes Over pay rates and other at the Dodge Chicago Plant of the Chrysler where is for super fortresses Are 560 Al unionists in the forge Ion quit work demanding a general wage which had been so by the War labor on the other Side of the rident Truman ordered the army to seize and operate the Cotton of Gaffney manufacturing at where the company s refusal to comply with a web order Lej to a there were at me Donnel aircraft in and american at Jersey City but the question of whether labor or was at fault was a Complex in Harvest time May clash Jav Junor John Dempsey of new Mexico May or May not Call a special election to fill the seat of representative Large which will he becomes Secretary of agriculture july i Haven made up my Demp sey he pointed out that any special elec Tion called around july would come right at Harvest time when it would inconvenience a Good Many at Sheri dans s m Rock her ranch near Star Ann Sheri Dan has turned to Dairying for wartime rear Tea theres no fun like she said when snap Ped milking directly into one 77 of he personal Hanoi Square no sub convoys ended May 30 the end of i boat menace in the merchant ships operating in noncombat areas Are sailing fully lighted and without naval suspension of Convoy regulations effective last monday was announced simultaneously by the and the and the Convoy suspension indicated either that the few German subs still unaccounted for Are presumed sunk or did not constitute a serious enough threat to warrant continuation of a naval spokesman said 11 boats Are believed to be Stih at they All May have been the estimate is based on the number of subs a6 sea at the1 time of Germany there have been no cases of offensive action by German subs since Hometown honors Shanghai editor May 30 was Powell Day Here and Hannibal most illustrious son since Mark Twain hobbled Back to the county of his birth minus much of both which he lost in a japanese prison i want to resume my work where i left off just As soon As Powell he indicated he in tended to reestablish famed China weekly review published i Shanghai for Many years prior to the editing of which won him the hatred of the Japan Ese forces and nearly Cost him Bis Powell was returned to on the first grip Holm trip nearly three years More dead than alive after five months of torture at the hands of the he still needs crutches and a wheel but has Hopes of a full re although his feet Are Only land prices threaten farm disaster Kansas May 30 farm profits Are leading Many a dirt Fanner Down the path to just As they did in that the opinion of dug governor of the farm credit who warned that National disaster is coming unless the ballooning Price of farm land can be he said farm land prices Are soar ing at an even faster clip than they did during world War despite the fact that prices of farm pro ducts Are far below the Bushel wheat Era of then the Small landowner who had hockey everything to make a Down payment on an adjoining farm found the Pinch too tight ten years later when he had to meet his notes from Sale of 25cent Over the entire Duggan there has been a 53 percent jump in farm land prices from the 1935 1939 in Kentucky and South Carolina Sale prices have doubled and in 18 other states the figure has risen 60 in the Paci fic coast area 24 percent of the farms sold in late 1944 had been held less than two Duggan is encouraging Farmers to pay off to put sur plus Cash into War Bonds and operate on their own capital for production to stay out of debt and above All not to speculate on its Hedy la mama now Ann Dairy mad fun Jike officials of the Petro Leum adm Nistra War say people just wont believe fuel Oil still will he scarce the ending of the War in so there planning an in picture Book to explain the situation but they dont have re it they reported an alarming increase in the of applications to convert from Coal to Oil for Home in few months 36 percent More applications were filed than in the iding period of Gillen of the ninth of came Home from the with 121 Points after 64 missions and was sent to fort my to be but Gillen left his records in his and his automobile was stolen from in front of his Home As far As i Gillen in stick Here until turn i Wibby sox coed of 1945 is go info to be perpetuated in Bronze College for eighty four graduated left in War Bonds to erect the statue future students of the Bobby Boxer in Sloppy sweater and Hershey for Aid where its needed May 30 Lewis selective service said yesterday he believed the returning Veteran should do every thin possible for himself before asking government Aid in i preach the theory the Federal government can provide Only limited amounts of he lets use it where it is speaking before the eleventh an Nual conference of veterans employment out lined the following program for employment of a servicemen allow the Veteran to do As much As possible for himself before ask ing government j encourage Community and state efforts for a program of Veteran give free rein to the govern ment operation of its veterans pro i army Way is the Long Way May 30 bus Token and a Fer would have taken Bob Davis the six Miles from Kirtland where he is to his Home in Albuquerque when he was the army sent him on a 600mile train trip the separation Center at Al Texas Davis went along for the 120 hours to reach this a spokesman for the Forest ser which has been assisting the army in preventing damage from the enemy added that uie japs Are using the attacks for Domestic and frontline propaganda they take a couple of balloons to a War make a lot of stir up the workers to a launch the balloons from the War Plant for their trip to the he the attacks were disclosed last week in a joint Armand Navy statement which called them a fantastic attempt at Long Range no property damage has occur thus it is believed the primary objective is to Start Forest Watts said the Hydrogen filled balloons attain Heights of to where they Reich air currents which travel constantly from West to each time they descend to feet from loss of Gas a barometric pressure switch automatically drops a he and the balloon rises again to about air patrol increased if the japs have figured Watts the last sandbag has been dropped Only after the balloon has reached this a second automatic switch which controls the bombs then takes he when the balloon drops to feet a bomb is the bal Loon goes Back then Down again and another incendiary is released and so on As it travels across the when the last incendiary is a fuse is ignited automatically and sets off a demolition charge which destroys the Watts said the unorthodox weapons consist of five layers of silk paper 34 feet in the Only balloons to reach Earth with out exploding Are defective ones in which the demolition charges have failed to go the Forest he has increased its air patrol to sight As Many As possible in the air and shoot them it also has in creased the number of there is a Point id like to the forestry chief we Are less worried about this Jap anese balloon attack then we Are with matches and smokes in the hands of Good americans hiking and camping in the 2 Curtiss right plants to close at end of july new May 38 president o the Curtiss Wright announced today that army cutback production schedules would close the com pants plants in Louis and Louisville by the end of production schedules for the co Lumbus Ohio Plant in Vaughan while two plants in will reduce their output gradually to about of their present Peak the company output of com Mando transport planes will be concentrated at Theca Lumbus Plant manufactures hell diver dive bombers and other Navy two old Bucks in Congress tangle one of pm says May 30 girl weighing seven and a Hau pounds was born yesterday to Hedy Cedars of Lebanon the child was the first Bora to miss who wed actor John Loder two Yean May 30  John Taber reported he had a fist fight yesterday with Cla rence Cannon who is 66 and chairman of the House appropriations can non said its All news Taber had a slight lip Cut to Back up his a blow blow description of the Battle he said occurred in the committee evidently there were no Cannon was but Taber explained i  hit id kill him if i because in so much stronger than he Taber said the fight started after he made a speech on the House floor attacking the appropriations committee method in giving House members an extra a rear for sex him into the committee he and started to say that we rent he called me Taber obviously trying to get me to hit i refused to do of and started to walk but of his he called me Back and said Are you running away i said and then he proceeded to try to hit he landed Only one punch when i grabbed him and Bent him Back Overa he kicked and frothed at the Mouth like a wild after awhile he calmed Down a bit and i Cannon professed to know Noth ing about the fist there is no reason Why Taber and i should have any Dis agreement Over this expense he we both voted the same Way when it waa