Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Jap balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon the first re corded victims of Jap balloon at tacks on the Mainland were six picnickers on an Outing in the mountains near Lakeview on May disclosure of the tragic explosion which killed a woman and five children was made by of War Robert Patterson As a warning to the he said that it was the Only caused by the hundreds of Falloon bombs which the japs have dispatched toward the in re cent the Story was re leased to emphasize the need for the tragedy occurred when 11 year old Joan Pat eke spotted the Walloon As she trotted about the Woods with Archie his wife and four other youngsters who were on an Outing from their Home at she called the others and when one of them tugged at the piece of a violent explosion Fol although the incident was kept a strict military secret for tutors set off a wave of fear among Southern Oregon loggers and the army disclosed this week that a japanese balloon bomb has fallen in it is the first disclosure that a Jap balloon has been found so far murderess gets Gas chamber los Angeles an aged but attractive old housekeeper of who twice in her lifetime has Mur dered a Friend and calmly buried the was sentenced death in the san Quentin Gas chamber this the lethal lady is Louise Peete who was convicted this time killing her Rose and carefully burying the cadaver under an tree in her Peete received the sentence without emotion and remarked Ter glad that just 25 years Peete murdered another a wealthy Miner named Jacob and buried him in her sentenced to life she was paroled after 19 years she will be the second woman in californian Gas Cham Ber if the supreme court unfolds the june snowfall in great lakes area the untre which has been unusually erratic this year was up to form last weekend with wind and january in june was a turn about weather picture in the great lakes regions where Snow up to six inches blanketed budding Spring six inches fell at Virgi and three at with traces in Northern up per Michigan and the Duluth for Duluth it was the first june Snow in 60 As a sudden cold wave from Hudson Bay the Mercury from freezing in Northern it reached 34 degrees in Duluth the lowest june 2 temperature in 75 40 de Grees in most of Wisconsin and near freezing in several sections High winds too the cold was accompanied by High wind and vicious Wea ther virtually crippled Harbor movements in the Duluth Michi Gans fruit already Hurt by Date Frost and High were damaged anew by Hail and Louis was similarly lashed by an 80 Mph wind which damaged windows and transmission the Southeastern Sites sheltered As their second heat wave of the season broke an unusual cold reported 9i Naz Socker in Clinch with june 1945 stats and orm new York tast week an enthusiastic1 and Tueful citizenry was hailing turn of its european by plane and ship thousands wet0 they ranged in rank from four stars to no stripes and of them were in new two Mous a movie by Carl Comman Der of the strategic Waif in Europe landed by flying fortress about a half hour before a c54 arrived with Omar Brad Ley chief of the army with Bradley was commander of the 13th each was met by his wife a group of army officers and the newsreel and newspaper came ramen swarmed around spate for about ten minutes before he laughingly boys in Joseph 23yearold overseas is Back Home after his sentence of two years at hard labor was Mcgee was convicted of socking a number of German War prisoners in France who refused to work on a labor a storm of congressional protest set aside the first to Greet him when he arrived at was his sister Eileen press trouble flares Over hiring of nonunion War veterans new Orleans returning who take jobs without joining a became a matter of dispute this week in the walk out of employees at three Higgins invasion Craft the War labor Board issued a backs work order saying that the invasion Craft Are critically needed in the Pacific but the dragged in Issue has loomed in importance and the dispute the Issue is now squarely be fore the american stated industrialist Andrew now the question of what Indus try can do with a servicemen will be while Higgins asserted that the Crux of the problem is his hiring servicemen without forcing them to join Union spokesmen quickly denied Higgins was accused of attempting to muddle the Issue through Riding the backs of our service boys by magnanimously giving them the right to work without becoming members of said a Union spokes most unions have arranged to accept and a servicemen up to prisoners stage riot at fort Ben Indianapolis an army guard was shot to three prisoners were wounded and much property was damaged when army prisoners rioted at fort Benjamin Harrisons disciplinary Barracks last damage was estimated at nine Barracks were burned when fires broke out during the All prisoners were ame rican Many of whom had been ourt Marti fled for serious offences one was wounded seriously hut none the commanding general of fort Harrison said the riot was one year from his discharge with out requiring payment of initiation the walkout of employee from three plants followed termination of a 1940 contract Between Higgins industries and the new Orleans Metal trades Higgins complained that the workers just went out on strike without calling an old job9 proviso hailed into court new York selective service moved this week to test in court the right of a discharged War Veteran to be retained in his old Job even though retention of the Veteran Means the employer must a off workers of greater senior Arthur City selective service said he will ask the attorney in Brooklyn District to Start proceed Ings against the Sullivan dry Dock and repair of Brooklyn to compel the company to restore to full time employment Abraham honorable discharged Fishgold was employed Erma gently As a skilled welder before being inducted in when Dis charged this year he was temporarily reinstated in his old Job at the Mcdermott however Fishgold was Laid off from time to time when local 13 of the Industrial Union of Marine and shipbuilding Cio protested that workers of greater seniority than Fishgold be Given the Union contended that under its contract with the Sullivan com Pany that no veterans with greater seniority must be retained where there is not enough work for All in preference to men with Lessee including pointing their Way out this quartet of was the first to be mustered out of the army on the f Here the Are last lecture prior to their big leap Back into Tell 118 sgt n c a d m charge of the processing Center Irby and Henry press his wife boyhood Der of Ltd the Honie of a Mother to noticed an and his the Streete which formal in the afternoon Frith an Hodges Birmingham he took Tinie v out Fromi format of visit and Shattee the hands 404 wounded first of my vets Honor guest Alabama first army also addressed a huge War Bond m a Pesa stated that he had been besieged 4with letters from wives of All asking when certain units would i could Teu but i dont know Chicago and the i staged a tribute for the arrival n Mark a Sty officers men Clark arrived at the municipal Airport from Paris and re driven the g m of the i chaos observances there More than again of gis and o prisoners of me to be redeployed to the Pacific men to be discharged on in 8hip8 carrying mostly first army steamed into Yorac Harbor on the same Day amid the cheers of thousands and a concert of whistle and of Horn transports men docked everal the rest of a no injuries i which medics p m aboard the were members of Frisco blows Cork when cur few ends san Francisco lift Imp of the Midnight curfew on wa8 the Green Light for dict admission to the emergency hos Pital m the downtown area in creased 250 percent Over the pre Vious weekend As inebriated stood or Lay in line for other hospitals reported increases from to 50 and civilian a Resis for drunkenness jumped from a Normal average of 180 to Montana sets Pace Washington the first state to make its e Bond quota in the fourth fifth and sixth War loan drives Mav be first in the Mississippi has been leading but the previous Leader is now within two percent Points of for so Mississippi has reached Fis per cent of its Montana Fly j Alt Alabama