London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Jage 4 the stars and stripes 1945 around the 48 yesterday Midnight curfew scored speakeasy revival feared Mobilizer James Byrnes threw a bomb into the entertainment world last night when he announced he was requesting All places private and close by Midnight each effective enforcement would be a com Byrnes by having the wac deny manpower to any establish ment ignoring the curfew Byrnes said his which would affect night sports dance Halls Road bars and other such was issued to Saye transportation and Only restaurants engaged solely in serving food would be excluded from the Byrnes first to squawk was the National tavern which charged prohibition advocates with instigating the it is very obviously a dry a spokesman congressman Joseph Clark Baldwin who represents manhattans silk stocking decried Byrnes latest edict Asmo such curfew has been sounded in London or Baldwin pointed return of the roaring Days when gang hijacking Speake Asies and Chorine dominated the National predicted by new York nightclub weeping in their watered Stock and thinking of the costly overbid and entertainment they believed it wont take people Long to locate a speakeasy or two where drinks Are available at All predicted also was the mushrooming of bottle those intimate Little gathering places with exclusive membership Bunio Ned weary of trudging the length Ofa seemed to feel the curfew is a pm Ladelphia president William Hopkins of the cafe owners association said hed refuse to close his or no hundreds of his of War Maciones in the West coast were reported to have denounced new request because it would make recruiting of workers for the late shift More Lay that pistol Down and no Butts about it cigarette shortage is getting George Lawson be t a pistol in his ribs and automatically reached for his but the thief didst want any lets have those he he Sot them and walked Helena Mon Larry Busch has found some use for his big feet yesterday he planked his number thirteen on the desk with this note a ascribed on his in White Chalk vote for House Bill it Broadt Vays lights make this preacher blink Mew John Sutherland Bonnell of the fifth Avenue presbyterian Church charged yesterday promiscuity in Broadway shows attack moral standards and such entertain he would have dangerous effects on present Day youngsters m the postwar George Cook has received an invitation from Robert her old boy Friend now in to meet him when he returns to san apparently he didst get my letter saying that 1 was she she talked too much in her Patrick Cairnes was in jail today on a disorderly conduct whats it was her husband who had her she kept him from sleep hunted a six foot 180pound texan As the key to the mysterious death of Blanche simmer whose nude body was found submerged in a Bathtub in a Loop Jersey Exchange liner grip Holm with repatriates including 463 american service men from German prison is scheduled to arrive Here at noon wed warehouses were destroyed and damage estimated at was caused yesterday when fire swept the heart of the Industrial department of Street railways turned Over to the opa today red ration any meat or butter transactions taking the tokens had been dropped into Street car and bus registers by Detroi ters who had mistakenly used them to pay their Hollywood certainly Starlet Barbara Bates cant be accused of using up too much material in her swim miss Bates was selected from among to appear in a forthcoming where she the color of this bipod is White and Blue Boston Bookman want courts to decide obscene and booksellers appealed to the state legislative com Mittee on Legal affairs to support a Bill which would leave it up to a court to decide whether a Book was they claimed it want right for a Book to be banned just on the says of a prosecutor or an agent of any anti vice who was officially designated the youngest world War i died last prarie enlisted when he was Only 12 by faking his age As a wac is a judge says judge Harold Burke ruled yesterday that a member of the wac is a Soldier in denying a motion to set aside the conviction of Jake Williams for harbouring and concealing wac Irene Alice the defense contended that the Law specified soldiers and that a Soldier is a fighting while a wac is a noncombatant who bears arms Only under special written authorization for a special the court agreed that whereas the term Soldier ordinarily indicated the line of demarcation Between combatant and noncombatant May not be sharply the judge upheld the government Contention that the statute trans forming the wac into the wac made the organization a component part of the army and members thus become subject to All Laws and regulations applicable to enlisted asks take exile poles 20 Clare Boothe Luce today asked Congress to offset the unique hardship which the crimean conference agreements will cause soldiers and families by them Asylum in the Kef demand was in the a Resolution to change immigration quotas to admit after the War All men and women who served in the a plish armed forces in Allied she said the crimean conference pro Gram partition Poland jeopardized members of the polish armed if these poles prefer to remain Loyal to a government pledged to polish territorial she they Are faced with being treated As traitors when they return old blood and guts saved pm for this go Camp 20 George Patton commanding general of the 3rd was Only a frontline legend to Carrol of Cedar until Patton personally helped save his now convalescing related today How a machine gun Bullet smashed into his shoulder during the 3rd army breakthrough last an officer rushed Over and straightened jewells Arm pinned under Neath he pitched right in As though he were a medic and applied pressure to the artery to halt the i think i owe my life to Jewell then he escorted me to a jeep and told dont everything will come out All the of was House group oks draft nurses draft Bill applicable to All unmarried graduate nurses Between 20 and 45 was approved by the House military affairs com Mittee today at the same time As the Senate planned a voluntary manpower Bill to replace the House approved work or jail the nurse legislation was intended to meet president Roosevelt request for a Law which would provide additional nurses for the army and the Senate submitted by Joseph would give War Mobilizer James Byrnes authority to Channel War contracts from areas where labor was scarce to surplus labor Lewis chief of selective announced that inductions of men Over 30 would be tripled before the end of the his office also pointed out that approximately men under 30 now deferred probably would remain so under the new program which allows deferments of 30 per cent of All registrants classified 2a and 2b As of Williams hit Back yesterday at senators trying to pin the communist tag on him As hearings concluded on his nomination As Rural electrification administrator by disavowing any connection with communist a Tipoff that the Confirma Tion of Henry Wallace As Secretary of Commerce was still in for some fire works in the despite passage of the George was registered by Robert Taft commenting on president Roosevelt letter that Wallace was Given the Post because of his work in the said if this is a Good reason for the appoint ment of Wallace As Secretary of com we might As Well have Frank Sinatra As postmaster he also gave of his made speeches and even lend lease Aid tops 35 billion 20 lend lease Aid to the United nations reached an Al time High during the first half of 1944 in preparation for Day in Normandy and the great soviet Winter Congress was officially in formed today by foreign economic administrator Leo though such Aid has reached its bearing on civilian shortages at Home has been greatly overstated numerous false Crowley Aid fell off sharply after Day because of the Lack of shipping and the great quantities of munitions sent to troops at the Western Crowley Congress was informed that the three main factors for civilian shortages include actual War induced shortages of plants or Man Power requirements of the armed forces and the abnormal civilian demand occasioned by greatly increased consumer army signal corps photo for one who spilled blood in the biggest fight of All comes blood from one who most appreciates a Job Well Kenneth of Clear gets a transfusion front a bottle labelled simply Dwight talks in Egypt planned blow against Japan the White House announced last night that president Roosevelt and prime minister on their Way Home from the Crimea had met again at the egyptian port of Alexandria for a four hour discussion on at least one subject they could not take up before Japan and the War in the where soviet Russia is a Neutral the announcement said big guns slam Mayulas Walls 20 mopping up operations continued on doughboy of the 37th Divi Sion wheeled up howitzers yesterday and breached the 40footthick defences of Manila walled preparing the Way for tanks and infantrymen determined to wipe out the last major Jap Strong Point in the philippine capital and free civilian at Manila Southern units of the Lith airborne and 1st cavalry divisions entered fort William Mckinley and occupied most of the old military officers were hesitant to claim Complete capture of the fort until the adjacent area was Mckinley and fort inside the walled Are tie two main fortifications in the Manila convention travel rides 50 May attend 18 War committee on conventions ruled today that local conventions May be attended by up to 50 persons from out of town without obtaining previously out of town attendance had been limited to this resulted in applications pouring in at such a rate that the committee decided to increase the announcement Churchill told the president in Blunt words that his government was determined to throw everything it had at the japanese As soon As Germany had been Defeated it would do All it could to strengthen its forces already engaged in that at the Alexandria conference were Secretary of state Edward Stettinius and ambassador to London John who flew to Washington dispatches said both the envoys to Paris and Rome had been at which was the presidents last stopping place Enro Ute prior to the Washington announce Cairo dispatches had revealed president Roosevelt had conferred aboard a Cruiser in the Suez canal area with s King Farouk of emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and King Ibn Saud of Arabia about the same time that with who also saw the three Middle East j in a summary of the presidents activities since he left the White House said Roosevelt invited Charles Degaulle to meet him at Degaulle replied that official business prevented him from of Mutual interest and importance to France and United states Are the president was quoted As i wanted very much to see Degaulle before leaving for soldiers who sit Wanna know where Hells this War by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer with the 9th army in Ger just live on our said the chief of Section 1 of dog Battery of the 48th All Day Long we just sit Here and sweat it out and All night Long the six guards just walk around and and nobody Ever sees nobody Ever hears said the the sergeant is Daniel of Hes the father and Mother and co of 14 Joes of two gun positions parked on a open Field somewhere in the Middle of one gun position is made up of four 50s mounted on a Sixby six the other is a its been a quiet month full of miserable wet weather and the boys Haven done much shooting because they Haven seen our memory Book is still pretty said Kirkovich almost the sections Only been overseas since september and they we rent attached to the Xiii corps until several months it was Back in december when they saw enemy planes coming in Low and straight at dropping four bombs Only 250 Yards from their both planes got but the next so Days some Jerry planes came in in a strafing and the boys got one with their seventh 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