Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Pay Mississippi which had Anft inundated of few a million acts of farm land continued to subside Between Louis and the Mississippi had dropped a foot irom its record Crest of Over 39 feet but was still eight feta above the flood despite the vast area red Cross reported that the dam age to property was an Al time modern warning systems and efficient evacuation resulted in the removal of 90 per cent of the families from the danger zones along with most of their in a latter series painless tax went plan Washington income tax Long the headache of the american May be a lot simpler when the next top Dune Rolls the House of representatives this week unanimously passed a new income tax measure designed to free the of the nations income taxpayers from the necessity of sweating out complicated tax under the proposed taxpayers will make out no tax at All if they make less than a year and the liability is deducted at the another also making less than some of which is not taxed at the will make Oul extremely simple tax a Flat 10 per cent deduction will be made for interest and the remainder of the nations whose incomes either exceed or come from a source other than will fill out a longer form but one far More simple than those currently in Eye Bank is newest in Medicine new up the first Bank in the United possibly in the whole has been established in new York for the purpose of storing human Cor Neas to become available for later use in treating certain types of under a newly developed eyes or Corneas May be stored for six the Corneas would to used for transplantation where blindness was the result of the loss of the transparent outer covering of the Eye due to infections and some other the Cornea must foe removed from the dead person within four hours of his several Lars Worth Demaare to crops and the Fine and Brazos Rivers pushed beyond their Banks in East and Central Texas to make Lake of Over a million acres of farmlands toilet will have to he us inches of tailed by High winds and tornadoes added to the heavy in the storm a million dollars Worth of Road repairs will necessary and at least a dozen Brid Ges were swept Sun directly above the flood a flurry of Snow left a sparse Blan Ket of White Over Northwest Illi Central and Eastern Minnesota and Northern wisc on since Spring work on the farms was the danger was expected to toe Light and blossoms on fruit Trees bore the Brunt of the cold while the midwesterner were while the Mercury drop while Spring seemed surely jinxed their Eastern neighbors were sweltering under a heat wave new York City had its warmest May 4 m 74 the Mercury crept up to and was still Hov ering at 80 when the week n stars and Middle East Spring showed hit strike plague again silences motor City War factories flare up of strikes and labor disturbances in Detroit already affecting 17 vital War has spread to the Packard motor where it is believed that nearly 900 foremen Are strikes m 11 plants have been staged by the foremen association of the american Independent Union All prompted by the co Nanys refusal to recognize thee to p when employees of the re Public aircraft were ordered Back to work by president of the Cio Auto Nev ended the tie up and resumed their but they struck again on the next despite Union and army air corps the in workers of four Ford War plants struck the second time within two fair warning As the labor controversy involving machinists and steel workers continued in san web warned officials of tooth major labor unions that president Roose velt May be Given the dispute for such action As he sees the warning resulted from the refusal of both Cio and Al officiate to attend the web hearing concern ing the controversy which stemmed from the difference Between hourly rates for repair and new in the United mine workers request for readmission to ails fold was again refused by Al chief William the Union was unwilling to Grant ump readmission on terms demanded by John Al this week praised its affiliates for doggedly to ails theme Victory is ame Ricas first order of business and keeping a clean no strike re Cord since Al appealed three months ago for a vastly increased output of offensive of babies and benefits one of the busiest War agencies is the office of dependency benefits which announced recently that babies born to wives of servicemen have been added to family allo Wance since the Agency began operations two years there have been nearly changes of status in family Al Lowance More than a million of these were changes in gets receipt for boy but its girl los an emits and Harry Hardwi Eplan to sue the South Hoover Hospital for for an alleged and costly when Hardwig brought his wife and 6dayold son Home from the maternity Hospital the proud parents to their that the child in their Possession was a girl1 the on discovering the rushed Back to the Hospital since the certificate clearly identified the child Richard and was signed by Andrews who attended the in Hardwig had already paid a Bill for his Childs circumcision attendants at the How assured the distraught parents that the difference in sex was a mistake in registering the child that the operation was just a bookkeeping the family fears that someone else was Given their boy while they in turn received someone else Little girl texan confesses o trunk murder Crystal Texas 1 Texas police say that 26yearold Szylo Villegas has confessed to murder ing his Louise in her Chicago apartment arid snip Ping the body to los Angeles in a theatrical s the crime was discovered last week when the of an unidentified woman was  in Salt in a trunk which beef shipped from the Corpse had its hair wrapped in curlers and was Clad Only in a Pink brassiere and Short it was not revealed whether Vil Legas gave himself up voluntarily or was pictured n Jwj gome the a pictured located to the work of the women Reserve of the a w be studios it will Star Betty hut Tan and y its Chase Man Van like a had mid of her own and fumed the Dowie it com Here we have Hie Tauau the Shutterbug Cirii a great big Fiji male of Point free sirloin chasing the after a wild Chase through City Acme demo head hints predicts Dewey nomination new York the first Semi official prediction linking presi Dent Roosevelt name with the democratic National convention to be held in july came indirectly this week from Robert democratic he predicted that the republicans will inmate Thomas Dewey but said that the people will reelect Roose velt to Complete the assignment which destiny has Given according to delegates to the two major party conventions were being chosen in state preferential in two Southern Pri where the strength of administration democrats has been Roosevelt received almost unanimous Florida put into the Roosevelt column 14 of its 18 delegates to the democratic National a that Florida slate will vote As a unit for the fourth term since state party rules stipulate that the entire delegation will vote for the candidate favored by two thirds of its favors fourth in North the state democratic convention unanimously endorsed a fourth term and voted to sup Ort Melville Brough ton for Vic presidential Nomin the president garnered All of the eight votes in the South Dakota bringing a total ii to pledged or a democratic candidate needs 589 votes in All for the no in there was almost unanimous approval of a fourth term for president Roosevelt in county democratic the state convention on j5 will vote on a Resolution endorsing b Dewey still leads his Republican aspirants by a healthy Maior Tyi he picked up eight More Delegate votes for the presidential nomination in South thus boost ing his total up to 239 of the 676 already Ohio Bricker still remains m the race but must demonstrate strength to Challenge Dewey by winning the bloc of 383 delegates yet to be chosen As Well As some of the delegates already chosen but still Bricker will officially enter the convention with 257 votes although he has ii of publicly claimed Stassen forme nor of has 24 and Dwig Wold of Nebraska and rett Salto stau of share Pine