Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Work or fight inductees train at Camp Ellis March 1945 stars and a group of inducted into the regular army by selective service under the work or fight order Are shown stepping it off at Camp after four weeks of Basic they will have the Choice of getting into tial or assignment with the Laguardia flaunt Stan St few yom first kick in the pants this week when mayor b flatly that the curfew would not work in new extended ing hour to 1 effective Wuu Tsai this was the first open Defiance of War manpower chief of amps Byrnes rigid request and the Little Flower was both criticized and upheld for his in making the Laguardia had said that the mid night closing had resulted in nightly transportation jams and vices such As the illegal Sale of liquor and spawning of movie walkout tapering off Outlook on Coal strike dark Hollywood approximately studio including Story analysts office returned to their jobs this week As the vast movie strike went into its second although movie producers asserted that All production was going Herbert president of the conference of studio said that the partial re turn to work had not impaired the strikes effectiveness and that workers were still at one time last about studio employees were Idle and production slowed As result of jurisdictional dispute Between the International Alliance of theatrical state employees and the local painters Union for bargaining control Over 70 set threatened nationwide strike Patse warned other unions connected with the organization to stand by for an order to Stop handling or exhibiting any motion pictures made by West coast no a nationwide movie strike did not As the strike influential screen writers and directors guilds to the three groups directly involved in the condemning each of them i the producers for refusing to abide by wifi arbitration and Usinger the threat of an illegal strike by one group an excuse to ignore the legitimate demands of his precipitating the strike 2 the strikers for violating a National no strike pledge 3 Piatsk for threatening a nation wide strike rather than submit to Adverse ruling by the Coal strike pending the threat of a com plete bituminous Coal strike hangs More heavily Over the nations the Coal operators report that negotiations for a new con tract with the United mine cars have made no the old contract expires next at which time John Lewis will Call the walkout if operators have not met his new contract operators have rejected Lewis extensive including a 10 cents Royalty on every ton of Coal for civic made a counterproposal which they estimated would add to miners Basic the in rejected the counterproposal but directed negotiations to continue in Hope that an agreement can be reached by March jury convicts 2 labor big wigs new York two Al offi Joseph Fay and James were convicted by the state supreme court last week of extortion and they were Char ged with trying to extort Money from contractors on new York cites Delaware water the who Are described As two of the nations most Power Ful labor face prison terms of up to three years for conspiracy and from seven and a half to 15 years for they were acquitted on five other penicillin goes on Public Sale in Chicago the Miracle has become available for general prescription use and has gone on Public retail Sale after the web relinquished control Over penicillin at the same Thomas surgeon general of the Public health report ing in the journal of the american medical noted the High of the cure of through use of the Parran predicted that through release of penicillin for general use the venereal plague will be removed from the list of major health problems by uniform marriage Laws Washington Kansas has proposed a constitutional amendment which would make divorce and child custody statutes throughout the uniform another motive which the mayor gave was that servicemen have no place to go after but two Days after Laguardius an the War or dered All army personnel in the to abide by the Midnight curfew and leave entertainment places at Midnight irregardless of any extensions fixed local a that maps Sud Denly appeared in night spots All Over new York City at 12 Ami ordered both soldiers and sail ors to a Day the followed the army Lead in what is interpreted As the governments first move against Laguardius Viola tin of the curfew colleagues condemn him the Little Flower was taking a verbal lashing from his own some of whom said he had put new York to shame and one City coun Cilman even suggested his removal from the reaction of who is faced with either taking action or possibly seeing the Liole curfew plan was one of he was also Barnes stated that he could not enforce new York to comply Al though we cannot set one stand Ard for new York and another for the rest of the he indicated the curfew would continue throughout the most expected no favors new York had kicked the it was to be expected that cities would do but los san Chi Miami and Philadelphia officials said they would stick to the Boston was considering a but the curfew was promptly shoved to 1 the government cant make a fish out of new York and a fowl out of said the rendezvous of the United nations Senate launches food checkup As nation again tightens Belt Washington the semite voted unanimously this week for a thorough investigation of the nations food at the same War production chief Krug announced that he would ask the army and to their food these development closely Fol Lowed events of the weekend when it Auno unused that meat ship ments to England had been sharply Mit ailed since a pending pm in Juntas for american citizens would bring meat supplies to the lowest level in ten a in found that the worst meat shortage since the War begun had cleaned butchers one end of the coun me nearly All better grades of meat veal and Lamb have disappeared in most sect the House voted to investigate the drafting of Young some charged that a food shortage is pending but Al said it was emphasized elsewhere that there is no actual Prospect of a civilian Economy in discussing goods other than Krug said for the first increase in army and Navy production Are coming right out of the civilian have intensified our efforts to see that military requirements do not encroach on Rock Bottom civilian the eyes of the world Wui be entered on the group of san Francisco civic Center buildings enclosed in the White Box in this Aerial View of the Golden Cate beginning april on that Day the United conference will open in the opera left the Mercury bubbles in Softli new York Spring came to the states this accompanied toy Clear unusually Tigh Forest fires and generally throughout the unseasonably warm particularly along the Eastern there were High temperatures of 80 in 87 in and 87 in where the famous Cherry Trees were Al ready a mass of their earliest flowering in 18 it was a strange p North carolinians were swelter ing under their hottest March weather in at the Mercury bubbled merrily at 9t while in Greensboro and it reached the Sun was also melting snows in new York state causing Ible flood crisis at Binghamton where the Susquehanna overflowed into the lowlands after rising More than two feet above flood the Mohawk Valley was in imme Diate danger of fire but Winter still held Forth in Kansas where the Mercury nose dived to 19 at Goodland As Well As in Colorado where a wintry Bliz Zard raged during the weekend in the Vicinity of Skleres Ati a Mountain resort Southeast of Salt Lake City were marooned Strong winds and occasional thunderstorms prevailed from Texas northeastward to West Ern at four persons were injured toy a 105 Mph still another Freak of Springs strange debut were 100 separate Forest fires which raged in the Ozark resort Region of Central Missouri Over an 800squaremile h was puzzling How so Many scattered fires could have started simultaneously in the mild weather there were even ikes on islands in the Middle of a wind ing a heavy rain Early this week extinguished the but not before thousands of acres of Oak Timber had been Chicago hoodlum Token for ride9 Chicago one of the smooth est safecracker the town has seen in years was eliminated from the Louis underworld last week in a killing done in the historic and neat style of he was Wincel one of five men sought in connection with a vault who was one Bette known mobsters and whose police record extends to was found in a ditch near he had been Strang led to his lips were sealed with adhesive arid his body was tightly a states attorney said that Urban had been sought As the brains of the Rumbold realty vault robbery of House s lend lease House passed and seat to Senate a new lend lease act for the year begin Ning june the new How has an important change from the previous this Mea sur contains a provision stipulating that lend lease hereafter shall be used Only for military purposes and that materials will not go abroad for postwar rehabilitation or