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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, March 9, 1945

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Work Jailani in Senate Washington after More than a week of the senates Only positive accomplishment on enacting the work or jail legis lation is the adoption of an Amend ment tightening restrictions against the drafting of the amendment stipulates that selective service which classify Farmers for base their decision solely on whether the registrant is producing essential farm products and whether or not a satisfactory substitute for him can be in the amendment prohibits the drafting of essential agriculture the Bill is still Caus ing much controversy in a Strong bipartisan Senate which includes the chair Man of the naval is backing a substitute for the work of fight Bill urgently requested by the president and the army and this group would do away with sort of National service legislation would solve the manpower problem toy giving the War manpower commission authority to place employment Ceil Ings in the individual the sting was taken of the substitute proposal when 1he Senate voted 44 to 35 to erase penalties against uncooperative employers who violate the Man Power one of the leading objectors to such action is Josiah North Carolina who Holpert author the May Bailey work or fight Bill which was in the House a month ago and subsequently stalled in the March 1945 the sergeant and the major stasis and Middle was move to Avert Coil Theroi Nesgood ear hears decision Hes still in 4f Jersey City As far As the was launching a Uso tour of ser press and palpitating Bobby boxers were Only one Man in the whole of the was about to be drafted last he of the voice and he had Jersey draft officials is you is or is you aint a 4f1 for All practical he Sinatra was first classified a 4f Back in but was Back from Hollywood for reexamination last month to de Termine if he is now acceptable for the Frankie was subsequently exam doctors discovered that his drum is still punctured and he was still a Likely candidate for while distract swoon had dived into Snow Banks through sheer shrieked with the Case was reviewed and okayed in something new was added but his Jersey draft upon further decided that his singing is so they placed him in an entirely new service classification called which had been speedily set up when it seemed Likely that the work or jail Bill might be passed by having a slight Shade of difference from the this classification includes those men who have been rejected1 and Are regularly engaged in activity in support of National safety or it does Noti relegate one to an ironclad War in making this How the draft Board pointed out that Frankie future statue de pends on the work or jail Bill pending in Frankie had1 returned to when informed of his 2af he declined to comment but added in sure i have experienced 1he same emotions As millions of other but i certainly envy them their the waspish crooner was of referring to military Pri but to the fact that his Phy Sical attributes were receiving such a Public then revealed that he so the sergeant wears the pants in the there is no doubt about who ranks the missus is a wac Ruth and Irving Mershon of the Are pictured cutting their wedding cake after the nuptial ceremony in the Bride is an executive officer of the 20th air ins Seaman held in Hammer slaying a 22 guitar playing Edward has been arrested and charged with the Ham Mer slaying of Leona Pierce of the slain woman nude body was found two Days previously in a room of a fashion Able Gulf coast Bosarge told police that he had met the Young who was also on a bus As she was in route to wed her Soldier the Seaman struck Pierce twice with a Hammer during an argument Over who would have a Bath shortly after they registered at the hotel As Man and production has been resumed in six Chrysler which produce vital bomber and tank after approximately strikers returned to work on the workers voted to return to work tie previous Day after hear ing a broadcast by War Stimson who if this strike the paralysis that now grips part of Detroit great arse Nal will make its effects Felt on every Field of thousands of other for ced into idleness by parts Short were also Able to resume several other Chrysler plants arc still Idle while employees of Briggs manufacturing plants in Detroit and continue their strike in pro test to the dismissal of Small groups for alleged denounced by Union the Chrysler bitterly condemned by United automobile worker officials of the began when eight workers were dismissed for purportedly loafing on the it was that while the strike flamed up from this one particular wide spread dissatisfaction and unrest i among workers in All Chr Sysler plants were already Union officials gave president of the Cio of stated that Chrysler had the bituminous Coal began negotiating a new contract with John Lewie and the United mine workers last with Feitli sides hopeful that a agreement can be reached without 4 strike Coal operators urged Trtat the usual differences and charges and be Laid aside As Long As a single life among our fighting forces is at demands of John Lewis they added that it is the duty of themselves and labor to give our country in this most critical hour the greatest possible production of Coal without Lewis opened negotiations with a demand that his Union be paid ten cents Royalty for every ton of bituminous Coal mined in the the Royalty would be used to build up a medical and rehabilitation fund for other contract demands include proposals that the agreement subject to Cancella Tion on 20 Days notice a Premium pay of 10 cents per hour to second shift with 15 cents for third shift workers increase in vacation pay from to improvement in miners housing facilities seniority rights for War or else Lewis has promised a bituminous Coal strike if the demands Are not v v f Kyj j it y a t t a w waged a deliberate Campaign met the operators who j i j i Iliff an 1 vice hospitals this to be Fol Lowed by appearances at army and Navy overseas Back in new his Fate was still executive officer of new draft indicated doubt concerning the local boards 2af decision and announced that an investigation would be it would be he whether or not Frankie is entitled to his As it he four members of his draft Board got together and made this new Deci after the entire Frankie is right Back where he started m the Point seemed to be is the voices warbling essential Essen tial or it paid off about 000 in taxes last year wife Dies Atlanta wife of John Sla georgias former jobs for disabled workers total of 000 physically handicapped work ers were assigned jobs by the War manpower commission last chairman Paul Mcnutt stated that a great Many veterans of this War were among those receiving but there is no exact record of the number of veterans in the against the while he blamed Chrysler directly for the he did not excuse the say ing that despite All it would still he a mistake for workers to strike until Complete Victory is the unions vice Richard also stated that Union leaders Are unalterably opposed to the strike but he alleged that the company had spent thousands of dollars on labor spies and flagrantly caused strikes to obstruct plans for maintenance of Union in a Chrysler spokes Man said that the company could justify the dismissal of the eight he also charged that Union employees Are trying to lower production rates and to pro Duce at a lower Speed during the War than they did during peace this strike is an excellent example of the unions Lack of discipline and the eight Day strike ended when Law officials reached the follow ing agreement with Chrysler 1 workers would return to the Ben Ches monday morning 2 no com Pany reprisals against strikers 3 grievance machinery set up to de cide the Fate of the eight fired employees 4 that the controversial production rate which the eight men had purportedly failed to be submitted that his contract demands would make him a labor Czar unparalleled in american Lewis strike threat has been assailed in a Resolution by Cio shop representing terming it a plot against the they have called on president Roosevelt to proclaim the nations emergency and take Over the Coal mines of this labor group admitted that miners have grievances like but added that their solution can not be achieved by disarming our fighting forces of the weapons of crash into hangar kills 8 servicemen were killed and 15 injured when an army transport plane on a test flight veered into the Side of Wright Field it exploded and burst into Fla setting the hangar afire and destroying seven other planes in Side the damage was estimated at Minnesota senator Dies John 59yearold democratic senator from North died last week while undergoing pos Toper action who Defeated isolationist Gerald Nye for reelection last was also the 4 liar f 1 i i 1 a kudu to web for arbitration and judg first Democrat Ever elected to re present his state in 12 curfew gives rebirth to Joe Sente joints 1 Kraii 4 i new although the mid night curfew on All amusement places sounded like a death Nell to the habitual night owls and Al it generally rang As the opening Bell of a Shorter but just As Lively round of Public its just a week since War Mobilizer James Byrnes turned the wee hours Back to sleepers and savings hikers but All reports Indi Cate that stateside revellers Ore bearing up beautifully under the quickened Zero new York was hardest hit and took it with More reluctance than most cities but last saturday even ing saw the biggest crowds in times Square since new years servicemen and civilians packed tand jammed night clubs at an almost indecent yearly hour to see the floor show and grab a few Quick it was the same in Chicago where one of the biggest crowds an estimated Ever seen on the Loop assembled for saturday night customers by hundreds stood in bars waiting for tables and lined up for the movies but All wended the Way homeward at conflicting reports the curfews Overall effect on night spot Cash registers was jumbled and in most major proprietors hedged on the Cash effect since they we rent sure themselves Boston which always closed at one any shrugged off the curfew business As which formerly enforced a Midnight curfew on was similarly affected although some club owners new which was kicking up its heels in the famed French Quarter when the rest of the was chasing was unperturbed by the curfew As was hol Lywood and los Elbow benders in those three cities purportedly just set about it earlier to counterbalance the lat hour noted for its after Midnight found its gambling reve nue off As much As 30 per Baltimore clubs noted losses from 25 to 40 per Newark and at lactic City cheerfully observed the order and noted that profits were not noticeably As most people a few Joe sent me joints have been spawned in new the daily news printed a Story by David Charnay who went an a prowl and found in Manhattan five Speake Asies where liquor was flow Charnay reported exorbitant prices ranging from a Buck a shot to for a bottle of first arrests were made Early sunday morning when 15 including five women were Nab bed in a raid and fined each on disorderly conduct charges for congregating in a speakeasy with the intent to break the proprietors of the joint were released on a bail arid the trial set a few Days the police magistrate said he was to Start right Here in enforcing the provisions of the cur few there Are unmistakable indications that the police plan to wage a rigid unlike the lax one of prohibition with patrons As Well As the operators liable to arrest and up mayor whose efforts to have the new York curfew extended an Speaks and joints cannot operate at any time before or after of course the police will take All cab Drivers throughout the nation have been Askell particularly to cooperate with the spirit of curfew and the Odt has tested that any cabbies caught making hauls to Speaks lose their Gas Odt has also suggested that actors afternoon and end at 1 suggestion reportedly favored by taxi t the last shift of cab oper begin at 4 Oclock in the  
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