Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                December 1945 stars Sunshine or contorting but there the latest by air from the under the pal Trees at the left a Batch of University of Miami students Are celebrating the hurricanes bid for the Orange bowl Holiday minded us talks of eclipse and housing Chicago these few Days be fore Christmas find the country As Busy As with shipping hitting a new High arid weather a new last weekend the first bitter cold wave the season blanketed most of the upper half of the nation under Snow from coast to coldest spot was big where a Canad Anborn storm sent the thermometer Down to 27 below icy highways brought death to a score in motor even Southern California Felt the cold with Citrus damage fortunately limited thanks to a Type of Oil burning Heater to Ward off damage was reported Only from isolated a California Highway Accident resulted from the smoke of these with 44 cars piled up at san Bernardino after spilled gasoline started to housing shortage comment added to the trick weather was a total eclipse of the visible in the the first in Over three the earths Shadow started across the Moon at to s and disappeared at Christmas cast its spell into con Gressmen offices in where legislators Compia Imd that baby shoes and booties Are arriving by the score with Picas to Send my daddy Home by its a lobby to get fathers out of the army said Elbert Thomas and i dont know what to do about the housing shortage has provoked Sharp of both labor and clearest Cut was the complaint from the american association of University whose director Kathryn Mchale said that building materials Are being earmarked for Homes Cost ing instead of or surveys said my hat Only five to 16 percent of discharged veterans expect to be Able to pay As much As a month for rent or House names there were a lot of minor items in the news an unassuming Man entered a York Hospital and asked to see a 12yearold paralysis victim the visitor unreduced him self to patient Michael Levin of As Bing Crosby and they talked about fort Monmouth army criticized by the Cio for working on chemical warfare As a Means of replied that chemical attacks Are pan of uie regular army out of office on the signed to write a weekly co Lumn or another for do a weekly broadcast for june Dairy of Wisconsin and another fur to 6k inches suspended production at the steel company Lacka and the Buffalo area expected More after five Days troubles a flu epidemic in Glens has closed schools a week Hudson and Manhattan tube train crashed into the Center Span of a lift Bridge Over the Pas said killing Motorman Michael Mullen arid injuring at least 49 Silver crash express of the Seaboard air line railway to crashed at into the North bound Sun killing seven and injuring mostly servicemen were spectacular fire blazed through the Blo Klong Wil Cox building in downtown destroying five business crime toughest crime Story of the week was the indication that the disappearance of six Montgold Ronald of sup Posedly has been traced to the Childs now charged with the baby Fathor just got Back from the Pacific never saw the thin faced Bank robber made off with in Cash by disguising five waxed candles As dynamite Francisco is try intr to find out Why eight elderly widows have died after association with Alfred 57 year old to whom they All willed their Pearl Harbor inquiry Legal staff resigns Washington the entire be Gal staff of the Pearl Harbor investigation committee bos resigned and chairman Alben Barke levs resignation is not chief comic Al William Mitchell said 1 am depressed at the in quirks that no new Evi Dence had appeared and that the duration of the inquiry seems in Roosevelt nominated for United nations Assembly Washington president tru Man has nominated the following United states delegates to the United nations general Assembly former of state Stettinius Franklin Roosevelt Tom Coji Nally and Arthur the president also announced that Hartley san fran Cisco lawyer is former North Carolina Gardiner on Anglo american Palestine Fala takes another Blu blooded Bride Fala has taken a Bride this time Shes a Lively Fiven Mont hold Scottie named fran Shes fit companion for famous presidential her a shillings was named Best of the show by last february Westminster Kennel the Bride has been delivered to Roosevelt in new amended go Bill storm Center of Congress Battle Washington striving for adjournment yesterday Congress greased the skids for action on an amended go Bill of a Compromise measure after weeks of bitter Senate House con vet legislation faces one More fight in the House where it Cornes up the subject of future Bonus chairman John Al Rankin of the House veterans com at a Compro Mise recommendation that no pay ments under either the original or amended go Bill be deductible from any future the original Bill set Down a future deduction Allun employment or de faults on but not Loans the House left this pro vision in the proposed new Law but the Senate removed these ease present stringent control wielded by the Vaovai go Loans and raise the maximum govern ment loan guarantee from to on real this would permit maximum real estate Loans to be arranged by recognized lend ing the Veteran and a a local business Loans still would require administration approval As is now required for All other Senate House recommendations include to make Loans make reasonable value11 of property the Basic consideration rather than Normal reasonable broaden the purposes for which joans May be made arid increase the period of raise the subsistence allowance for go students from to for unmarried from to for those permit vets to take correspondence courses and Short period technical courses at government eliminate the present 25year limit at which it is presumed a veterans education interrupted by to meet holy Coss new years Between the a of pig Sador walking through a Winter storm on the Bottom Ina me Truman asks army Navy Washington merger of the army and Navy into a single department of National with air forces on an equal has been proposed by president tru Man in a message to our military the presi Dent should be designed to support and our ments to the and he urged the armed forces merger As a Means of helping to Kep world Congress on tuesday heard the navys plans for Universal military outlining the navys Oro Powals vice Admiral Louis Denfield told the House military committee they want a years training for each months in a Boot Camp to learn fundamentals of Navy three to specialized three to team training and the final three aboard a train ing ship to give him a Chance to try at sen what he Learned on sup Eross the state has about completed its master plan to Blanket the world with a super intelligence intended to strengthen this country foreign policy and provide sources of information for policy it will be presented to the president for his approval Wnm ten the plan Calls for creation of a National intelligence authority with a top layer made up of secretaries of War and with state Secretary Byrnes As chairman in Security they would be joined by Heads of the Treasury and Fitl this system would be an out growth of the office of strategic credited with giving the excellent intelligence Protection during the on september the president abolished Transfer nor jts research and analytical Branch and its presentation Branch to the state and other units to the if orce Sears has the old yuletide spirit again new York May expects to spend Christmas in the tenth this time she is charged with violating the jaw which prohibits known pickpockets from loitering in Public her attorney pleaded for leniency on the ground she had already spent too Many christmases in jail but magistrate Raphael Murphy of the Bronx imposed the maximum sentence of one Hundred Days police said Sears was in jail yuletide in 19il and 1942 on charges ranging from Petty Lar Cey o grand mindful of at5mic age ties the and working out joint plans to North against an att Filc from Asia or  North Polar one of first Steps has been the k6f six observers to accompany Mica Nadian army air forces expedition on an 81 Day Arctic exploration Law Nixesford asks Attlee Aid Detroit Fords proposal of a 15cents an hour pay increase for its uawx3o employees and the Auto unions plea to the British labor government As a general motors stockholder to intercede to the a maw wage dispute were leading developments on Detroit troubled labor Ford motor suggested the increase for All employees re presented by the Union and said serious consideration is being Given foil general increases for allem the Union promptly rejected Tae offer which would have become effective at the beginning of the Calendar month during which production of the company reaches or exceeds including and would be effective two years and would Cost Ford an estimated 33 million Law made Public a letter sent to la borate prime minister Clement Attlee suggesting the British gov eminent make known to general motors that profits Are indeed the concern of workers and owners of any Oil settlement Thomas said he was reliably in formed the British government owned shares of pm rom Mon Stock and pointed out that pm plants Idle 25 Days by a strike had refused to discuss profits in bargaining with the Attlee said he haunt seen the at Michigan 600 pickets circled three plants of Gas spark Lub division As negotiations in new York the Navy prepared to relinquish control of eleven sin Clair Oil plants seized last pc Tober with 42 other refineries and Oil during a Cio Oil workers president Harry Sinclair announced the strike was settled and Sinclair employees will receive an 18 pay raise for the sic 40 hour the contract Witt contain clauses barring strikes a Ltd