Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                February 1945 stars Senate shelves Wallace Issue Senate Lias delayed action on the nomination of Henry Wallace As secy of com Merce until March after voting 7 to 12 to strip the Post of its vast financial Empire of govern ment lending proposed after wallaces Nomi the Hill authored by George of Georgia separates the Commerce from a financial lending kingdom formerly managed by Jesse action on the Hill came after Alben of Kentucky read a message from president saying that he would approve such a the Bill was passed and sent to the the House banking committee unanimously approved the George Bill very shortly after its arrival in the lower House and it is now ready for floor Over Strong opposition wallaces champions have already won a preliminary Victory in the where gop opposition was in passing the democratic Cornit teemed frustrated Republican attempts to repeal some of president Roose belts War Powers under which he could assign duties beyond the jurisdiction of the sliced Commerce to a spokesman said that they would fight on the House floor Foi this and other restrictive As an executive order shifted the lending agencies to Commerce three years House Lea Der Joseph Martin of Massachusetts alleges that under the present the president could still assign Wallace control Over 25 to 30 lending agencies not now covered by the Commerce he would thus repeal part of the War Powers act and restrict the presidents wartime Power to re shuffle Federal Senato action on the George Bill marked still another Victory for Wallace As his foes had attempted to Force a vote on the nomination prior to action of the Wallace champions had conceded that he would certainly the nomination if the com Merce retained the lending from record cold fuel f amme rail lines remain the transportation and fuel caused toy two months o record breaking snowfall and icy Winter is continuing in the northeastern but Relief is in sight As slightly moderated temperatures Aid the Northeast to emerge from last embargoes on the consumption of Gas and As Well As on rail freight were again Keith Miller takes time out from the wars to Pinch hit As a brakeman on the Buffalo Creek and several Hundred other Cis with previous Railroad were pressed into service by the army to get storm bound freight trains to their press House okays service Ham stringing riders lose houses lights As fuel saving measure Washington theater mar Neon shop windows and All huge illuminated outdoor signs were darkened throughout most of the last week As a National was ordered by the War production it is calculated to save annually tons of formerly used to produce the necessary elec As Well As other scarce r compliance with the new Brownout regulation has better than 95 per cent reports Edward director of webs War utilities although the deadline was officially Many cities put the Brownout into effect on a voluntary basis As Early As Midian Many Western and southwestern states were exempted from the or Der since electricity in those areas is obtained entirely from Hydro Power or surplus gag and not produced by use of Oil and other scarce Bill needed into seme 11th hour attempt to save condemned go Boston sentenced to die for slaying a London taxi ame rican paratrooper Karl Hulten has written letters Home from London grim old Bailey the counsel f i Signe i making a final Effort to save tie Osiier from the Charles indies of Boston has also appealed to the stale and the British pm Bass v in an Effort to learn the and address of the soldiers my lawyers to determine the or not a mental examination Ohmi was made1 before his the House passed and sent to the Sena controversial work or jail which would bring every Man Between is and 45 phase of War the Senate military affairs com to hold closed hearings on the Bill and first witnesses will be War Patterson and Navy this will delay action by at least a week on the Bill whose Speed Pas Sage is urged by administrative As passed by the the Bill empowers draft boards to ask find then order a Man of in to to change from his present Job to a Joh in which he is la a Tan he can then be Dratt d into the Arnin or Fini five ther in letter to his the wrote makes Ziraks in this one was but it will be the mistake i will make if i our paratroopers declared that isl both Iii her last get Rita is still red Cross drive Washington March Bas president r As the bed Cross in a proclamation issues White the i ailed for contributions for at Leas said thai lie that americans would to the utmost their wimpy special or sent to jail for some fight left to a limited the fight clause was thus reinstated in Tho Bill before it left the the Bill provides that a Board must give the Man a reasonable Choice of jobs and authorizes tra Vel expenses if he is taken away from there is no provision to compensate the moving of fam Ilies hut in such a Man would receive the same benefits As servicemen under the soldiers and sailors civil Relief Farmers Are practically exempt d from the there seems to be difference of Pinion in the House and Senate pm who should administer the or jail the House vested full authority in local draft boards and the Bills chairman May of the House military affairs that he is opposed to any to would make Byrnes chief As a matter of the Senate has done just immediately upon its arrival in the up per it was tentatively amended to give War mobilize James Byrnes full acting in cooperation with other War including the army and a reports that the two houses May collide in dispute Over this All efforts o impede the passage of the Bill save been successfully sidetrack darkening to pleas by the Barber promises Clark the works new Mark Clark has the Best free shave and haircut in the world waiting for him in Jackson Joseph who served As a private under Lark when the general was Only a lieutenant in Texas 25 years will perform the last Capuana wrote asking for help in finding his another Rosario whom he had Heen trying futilely to locate for three the general saying Rosa Rio had Heen located in leghorn and he enclosed a mess ago from tankers 18 die new York eighteen persons were known 22 missing and 121 injured when two tankers collided in now York Bay setting and a third a government owned Tanker loaded with High octane was rammed at Anchor v a panamanian Tanker and sex a norwegian Tanker caught ire As it tried to escape the Vici the coast picked up a lumber of survivors blown Over Man or forced to Alit rican red he helping in Lii wild a world peace and brother to i the Humble hamburger gets a front line role with its inclusion in the army 10 in 1 packed two to a can with Salt and Pepper the new delicacy is reported to have a charcoal broiled Here is Eyre giving the hamburger his in a Chicago pre View Acme photo president the Bill with and ride ind other leaders that legislation is very major attempt to Load the crippling amendments was of Ickov abolishes pol tax Atlanta governor Ellis a signed a poll tax Repealer it Law leaving Only seven poll tax in the South ten miss Texas and South today Georgia spoke for de Arnall Johnson Dies Pussy foot who for years aged a Battle against Demon rum in every port of the world sex in and South Ameri died Here at age of he re tired in 2u but continued to rep reseat the anti Saloon league and was a government web called a 72hour embargo in All or part of seven northeastern states and the District of Colum Banning use of natural or mixed Gas in amusement this was lifted on monday night except in Ohio and a fou Day embargo on freight shipments of most civilian goods Coal went into effect in new Pennsylvania West Kentucky and parts of Maryland and Virginia on this action was accompanied by an Appeal to schools and institutions to conserve danger Point food and feed stocks were reduced to the danger Point in Many new York commit cities last weekend although the rail congestion was Dewey ordered All state buildings in Albany closed in for the weekend and longer if be residents throughout the state were asked to conserve Coal by closing rooms arid doubling up mayor Laguardia warned new yorkers that Many would feel the rold and food shortage keenly by this weeks the situation also remained acute in but Relief seemed near As tons of Coal were mined saturday when per cent of Anthracite miners worked overtime without pay to help alleviate the ice in the Monongahela River acc Pittsburgh and in the Delaware at Philadelphia interfered with Coal dwindling Coal piles one of the hardest hit states is dwindling Coal piles and reduced Gas supplies threaten cold Homes for More serious is the effect on War All Ohio taverns and Light clubs have closed in Liangco with launches proclamation asking a statewide five Day fuel he also ordered state offices closed for three starting and asked county jul municipal authorities to take similar Ohio schools were closed from Chicago this has been the snowiest and blow est Winter new York has reported a new Snow re Cord for this season 112 inches As compared with a previous aver age of drifts As High As 15 feet have been South feels Winter blasts Kven sunny South has received a Chilly Sample of the terrific Winter which beset the North temperature lows at various Southern cities Are 17 17 a 12 18 Louis 2 2 13 and in the where residents have been shivering under weeks of subzero the lows Are Cloud and 20 below Mason 10 below Careen 10 below h below Chicago and 4 below 5 Solon questions go death sentence the sentence is Camp Henry Weber has been sentenced to be hanged by a general courts martial after Beau it convicted under the Gith article of which concerns assaulting or wilfully disobeying a Superior three Days after the Case was made Bert Wheeler of Montana demanded a Senate investigation of the army courts martial death who said he understood that Weber had been sentenced 10 death for refusal to join a squad at asserted that under such inconceivable1 Grace the condemned soldiers declared to the press this week that political convictions against War impelled her husband to disobey officers at Camj thus bringing about the she stated that the army was aware of webers beliefs against killing before his induction last univ and that one officer advised him to object whenever died to carry a