Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                The nation took up the exciting Job adjusting itself to peacetime living week As Many wartime restrictions passed into Here Are some of the develop ments housewives were happiest Over of agriculture Andersons announcement that meat rationing will probably be terminated in the very near As Early an examination of arid Supply prospects indicate that supplies not needed for the military and other non Civian requirements Are rising stateside order under which the government requisitioned pork and Ham for the Mili tary in a sweeping move to Speed reconversion and divert con Sumer goods into civilian dropped 210 individual wartime controls Over result unlimited production of re Fri not Only were production restrictions lifted but most materials were feed for first takes Gas 54 spree lives new York americans by the Tho disands took their newfound Freedom of the Road Over the first weekend since the abolition of Gas rationing and us a tragic result 54 were killed in traffic All but four states also lifted their 35 Speed limit in accordance with Federal combined with the general loosening up of Gas Jam med the highways far and All roads leading to Mountain and Beach resorts carried a heavy flow of traffic and upstate and Gas stations did three times the Normal business of a wartime on the Pacific coast Gas stations had to close Down simply because the refineries  deliver to the stations fast Long boarded up Roadside re freshment stands were Many tires still rationed and hard to get were not equal to the enthusiasm of their this left the roadsides spotted with stalled vehicles and in one seven mile stretch of Highway North of Manhattan 27 Flats were at least one at was Laid to a tire the victim was Charles of Kansas Virginia bad seven Ohio and four Texas and two each and Utah and one lend lease ends Washington president tru Man has ordered an immediate halt in the United states Multi billion Dollar lend lease Britain and the other Allied a facing the end of this probably will seek vast credits from the to obtain needed supplies in the immediate postwar London indicated no sur having expected the Cessa Tion since the end of the japanese begun in March lend lease has broken Down into the follow ing categories about 50 per cent finished Muni such As aircraft and guns 5 per Petroleum 21 per Industrial equipment medical chemicals and metals 14 per food stuffs and agricultural produce 10 per ship Pilot train ing and War approximately 98 per cent went to France and making Jon needed consumer v 1 remaining controls under review also revealed that the mailing 125 controls Are under View and a Large number of additional revocations will be made within a few probably including restrictions on the number of automobiles that May be produced this opa suspended Price controls Over imported wines and not including ban on production of High test i gasoline for civilian motorists All restrictions on sports sack permitting football and racing to return to peacetime footing and making the 1945 world series a ban on Greet ing and even singing telegrams Odt announced that the 35 mile Speed limit for automobiles would be some restrictions on group travel and Sale of tickets to travel agencies All wartime bans went off and regional and state controls Over Sale of plumb heating and cooking equip ment National housing Agency or dered regional offices to review Low rent projects interrupted by War and to Speed plans for their new Homes in 48 All restrictions on housing Industry expected to be by Hugh the nations new construction said it would be possible to build at least new Homes in 1946 and yearly thereafter for the rest of tax authorities said it seems that americans will get a moderate Cut in their income taxes by opa announced plans to make available to civilians Large quantities of Cotton and Rayon piece previously slated for the armed the army Cut its orders for leather and lumber by More than 70 per its steel and Alu Minum by 100 army declared 000 Worth of goods due to hit the civilian Market from the army Are vast quantities of razors and Blades paper bed More Coal military cutbacks in Coal within the next 12 months will make an estimated tons available for Homes and president Truman said that he would ask Congress to set up a peacetime military training pro Gram which will be Petroleum administrator Davies predicted that the Oil Industry will be unshackled of government control by the end of the the aah cancelled production of planes the maritime com Mission terminated mar chant ship August 1945 stars times Square and a prayer 1 t t Pearl Harbor wants findings aired new York husband Kimmel said this week of the Senate request for details of the Pearl Harbor attack that the sooner the proceedings of this naval court of inquiry Are the better ill like he declined to comment David chairman of the Senate naval affairs asked the Navy to give Congress the reports of its investigation of the Jap sneak los Earl War Ren has appointed major Wil Liam Knowland to succeed the late Hiram Johnson As senator from re is a former state Sena t t f n week j j its thoroughfare blazing with Yorks fabulous times Square plays Host to thousands of people romping through the streets and sidewalks of the great White Way to celebrate news of japans it was Hie greatest crowd in times Square Frisco wild West revelry kills 7 san Francisco on Vij Day minus san Francisco let Down its hair and embarked on one of its wildest sprees since Barbary coast Days on Vij the proper time for Frisco was really steamed up and on the night of Vij Day plus the Golden Gate City was still going on Vij plus things were beginning to taper prob ably due to the fact that police and spa had been called out the evening before to disperse mobs which were busily engaged in riot in the Wake of the celeb exploded before the actual were seven these deaths were attributed i or indirectly to the More than 700 persons were injured during the three full nights of the destructive moods of some boisterous crowds left Market in nearly every plate Glass window in lower Market was shattered and the contents of those windows had display shelves were especially in liquor Overall property damaged mounted to Many thousands of Frisco hangover it Hast been Victory prayers in White House Washington president and Truman Jed the nation in prayers of thanksgiving for Victory and peace on a half hour conducted by Luther Miller and rear William chief of Chap Lains of the army and was held in the East room of the White Over 200 High ranking military and government leaders and Sev Era special guests attended the White House they included Woodrow widow of the world War i presi and Frank widow of the late Secretary of the Franklin Roosevelt was unable to i Withim ering the stability of the eco toward the removal of Pace other  Wera but the president ordered is inflation he symbolizing the entire prayerful thanksgiving for Little Bily threeyearold1 son of major and William before the altar of Patricks Cathedral in Miami Beach and says a prayer for the Quick return of this daddy from Over girl murdered by Victory revellers Haddon police have removed the pathetic re sults of an fallout Victory celeb ration from a 20foot Well the naked and mutilated body of a slain Young woman who bad been beaten and presumably by revellers who had helped her celebrate the although there were practically no clues to her she has been tentatively identified As Ida Elizabeth of col Mother of had disappeared from Iber Home on july the victims body is so badly that the father of Sotack refused to make a definite identification until be has obtained a study of the victims Teeth from the Coroner Edward Gardner Sta Ted that the victim iwas apparently Beautiful with Silky Brown hair and perfect she was about five feet one arid weighed 100 at the web was Given ipe Mii to wipe out the Little steel Mulas ceiling on Wageah Wolffi Price increases do not result he asked management an4 labor to renew their wartime no strike pledge until Congress reassembles m but while hews 5wngie re3ueav Cio president Phillip Murray served notice that practicably All major to unions would Start at once to reopen con tracts for higher wages under the new guiding policies Down these guiding policies for agencies concerned with problems of reconversion assure help in making Avail Able materials and supplies for the production of goods and ser provide assistance for conver Sion and utilization of War plants and facilities privately and publicly hundreds of govern men owned War plants will foe taken Over by private Industry during the next few provide effective place ment assistance to War workers True Turing War use All Powers under Price All other lawful Means to prevent inflation or v make whatever modifications m controls Over a Are tin Louis without papers Louis the per sons of greater Louis were without newspapers this week As the two evening and one morning papers suspended publication be cause of a carriers no settlement of the dispute has been reached Washington internal re venue spokesmen have asked con Gress to cancel 1941 tax obligations of ant sub net removed san Francisco the navys 3jrinile anti submarine net has been removed from Frisco the giant which had silently guarded the Harbor from enemy submarines since had snared wha derelict boats and a Mountain Ous Quantity of floating Timber and use soldiers deposits Wii whole program of controls will be coordinated by recover a Way Teut a special advisory committee headed by former governor of it con Agate of of organized Tamsi labor and farm i president Truman stated that his m ing in must legis lation arid would enable the Jov eminent to set up a yearly Gram envisioning foil employ ment even if the government Haa has to provide i the president also sounded the death Knell f0r web which he says would continue for a very limited he added that he knew of no plans for making web into a peacetime instrument for handling labor teat Cage on the Industrial the Auto Industry cast off its wartime shackles this week and began a speedy return to passenger car a test Case Between management and labor has already cropped under Truman new wage policy permitting wage gains if they do not Price Cio immediately shot a wage increase demand of 30 percent at general motors which employs some both sides admit that its a test Case and the Union has suggested that general motors Call an Industry conference to take up the Union men say the jump in Basic wages is necessary to meet War time prices when their weekly working hours Are lowered to All but close doors i Washington All to Siena services in the armed forces have bulled recruiting with the exception of the Are not accepting further