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     Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Monday May 7, 1945the stars and stripes Pago news from Home six a ten americans expect another War by William r. Spear stars and stripes . Bureau new York May 6�?despite what America has been Reading and hearing this week of Progress being made by the United nations conference at san Francisco a poll conducted by Denver University s National opinion research Center revealed that six out of every ten americans believe the . Will have to fight another War within 50 years. And More than half of these expect another War within 25 years. Aside from that the general reaction of the nation learning of Hitler s death was typified by the comment of mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt writing in her newspaper column former first lady sceptical Quot until i actually see a photograph of Hitler dead i shall feel rather septic amp la the former first lady explained her suspicions thus Quot the horror of i Mussolini a death would i think make any of the German officials do everything possible to escape a like Fate. It has often been said that Hitler had a double. Unless one really saw his body and it was identified by people who knew him but who were not his close associates i think one would be justified in wondering if he had not killed his substitute and tried to escape himself. A it May be that escape is impossible but one cannot help feeling that these men made their plans Long in Advance. That they will make every Effort to escape seems a foregone  Flash with a Flash tos was a week of so Many sensations that one excited radio announcer interrupted a Flash with a Flash. He broke into a musical program to Tell of a report by a captured nazi officer that adm. Doe Nitz had instructed the German armed forces not to fight the americans and the British. Halfway through that bulletin he interrupted himself to Flash the fall of Berlin. One of new York s cuter models it a last answering to the name of Gloria Whalen who is quite a hand at fashioning bathing suits with almost any sort of material at hand. Next door Gloria demonstrate her latest creation a bathing suit made from a captured Gorman Parachute sent her from the Eto by la John r. Broun ing. Among the business president a Truman cleared up during the week was to displace Maurice m. Milligan . Attorney for Western Missouri who prosecuted the late Thomas j. Pendergast Kansas City democratic Boss. Sam Wear Springfield mo., attorney and state democratic chairman who was never associated with the Pendergast machine was appointed to the Post. As both senator and vice president Truman had opposed the reappointment of Milligan whose term expired last september but who continued on in the Job. Otis m. Ballsy of Bristol r. I., 89-y ear old Grandfather building inspector sunday school superintendent and retired slip but Der plans to make a Good living for himself with no visible Means of support in other words Bailey has invented a wive Gadget that Halda up strap ass bathing suits svening gowns aprons ate. After the War is intends to put it into mass production70 percent favor compulsory training r e week s Gallup poll indicated that the current debate Over the question of postwar Universal training has not changed Public sentiment nearly five months ago a Survey just completed finds the idea still favored by 70 percent Uso Camp 8hows, ins. Is planning an  program in the Eto for six months after be  which will Oost Oil Over two million dollars monthly for All overseas activities to wording so variety theatrical Trade weekly. This sum represents the Cash outlay far six is sight musical shows 20 to so legitimate plays and Tan additional a Ongert  atrocity newsreels released shocking signal Corpa films of nazi prison Camps at Buchenwald j Ohr drug a amp dam amp a and Nordhausen were released by major news red films this week and shown in All their horror to movie audiences throughout the country. In new York All first run houses exhibited the films except the radio City must Hall whose manager explained that he considered the shots unfit for audiences of women and children. As the grisly record of nazi brutality and inhumanity unfolded there were audible exclamations of horror and Shock from audiences in the darkened Heaters. It seemed unlikely that any of the millions who saw the films Here would later advocate a soft peace for the nazis. A special showing was held in Washington for congressmen and government officials. Reports of u.8. Editors who visited the prison Camps at Gen Eisenhower a invitation Woro widely published in America. Typical was a Story by Joseph pulitzer editor of the 8l Louis poot ois Pateh. Quot it is my grim duty to report Quot to wrote Quot that the descriptions of the horrors of this Camp Brohe Nwaki one of Many which have Boon and will to uncovered by Allied armies have Given lost than the whole truth. The brutal Flendir Shenos of these operations defies  thumb pointed ear identify Hitler Lansdowne pa., May 6 ans a or. Robert m. W. Kempner chief Legal advisor of the pre Hitler German police revealed yesterday that Adolf Hitler had certain physical characteristics which would establish positive identification of his body Kempner now an american citizen. Said that he had studied hitlers physical peculiarities while investigating the Feuhrer following his arrest in the famous Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler had an abnormal Long right thumb. Or. Kempner said and his right ear was much More pointed then his left. He said the nazi dictators shoulders habitually stooped and that although Hitler tried to Correct this condition in Public appearances his Bone Structure would reveal the stoop. Or. Kempner said that a Complete identification file including fingerprints was kept on Hitler in the Landsberg fortress in Bavaria during his imprisonment there in 1924. He said that he had turned Over to Federal authorities the name of a Berlin physician who could make positive identification. Since his arrival in this country to escape nazi ism in 1939, or. Kempner has been engaged in scientific police work in Philadelphia. Dave rates cute Chute Sui ship building budget Cut Washington. May 6 ans a the House took its first slash at War spending yesterday by cutting More than four billion dollars out of the nation s ship building program. A a this is an historic Bill Quot said rep. Clarence Cannon do chairman of the appropriations committee. Quot this is Only the beginning a Cannon said. He cautioned the House however that the end of the european War would not mean that All War appropriations could be halved immediately. Quot the Pacific War is going to continue to impose a severe tax on All of our resources a he said. A we will take no step which will interfere with the Pacific War  hails racial Bill Albany n.y., May 6 ans a gov. Thomas e. Dewey yesterday called new York states ant discrimination Bill the Quot very essence of free society a asserting it would result in better understanding Between people of different races and religions. A we Are amp nation of minorities a Dewey said. Quot if we allow discrimination against one group we open the door to discrimination against others until the whole nation is poisoned by dissensions and  marketers new York May 8 Ansi City and War food administration meat inspectors blocked 32 entrances to new York in a Black Market search seizing six trucks containing carcasses without the required government inspection Stamps. Trucks were stopped at the new York exit of the Holland Tunnel at Lincoln Tunnel and at George Washington Bridge when sgt. Ira Morton went overseas he left tits 3-year old softer Dave at an Albuquerque Kennel and arranged for a Bank to tend a monthly Sheok the Oover the Beard Bill Kennel owner George Geake with Dave looks Ever on of who  rejected atrocity film producer says new York May 8 ans a Irvin Shapiro producer of the documentary film Quot atrocities Quot yesterday said that the motion picture producers and distributors office headed by will Hays had banned the film from its Heaters. A Hays office spokesman denied that the film had been banned but said the Hays office withheld the film s code Seal because it Quot repeated too Many gruesome  Shapiro said he would distribute the film to the country s 20,800 Independent Heaters. A souls entitled to facts Quot american people Are entitled to the fact about War Quot Shapiro said. Quot the objections by the Hays office that the film is 97 percent atrocities appear insincere in View of the Newa daily pouring out of Europe exposing German War crimes. This is a very extraordinary code of  the Hays spokesman said Quot we have not banned the picture at All. We suggested the elimination of repetitious scenes that were repeated just for gruesome Ness. We said that if these were eliminated we would reconsider. We Are As interested in having the atrocities exposed As  Quot atrocities is based on documentary material and on captured German newsreels. Truman Heads for memorial new York May 8 ans a at the request of mrs. Franklin  Roosevelt president Truman will be honorary chairman of the group which will select / an appropriate memorial to Honor the late president. Basil o Connor temporary chairman the Quot Roosevelt National memo Al committee a said the group would recommend an Active project such As a study or health foundation rather than a statue or a similarly inactive  censured in Square act Boston May 8 ans a the Pilot weekly publication of the Boston Catholic archdiocese today editorially condemned the Quot revolting abuse Quot of Benito Mussolini a body in a Milan Square. The editorial added that esteem belongs to those who opposed the living Mussolini saying Quot it takes no great courage to kick a dead  dime proposed Washington May 8 ans a coining of a dime bearing the likeness of president Roosevelt was proposed in a Bill introduced yesterday by rep. James h. Morrison d., la pm win most Honor medals Washington May 8 ans a the average Winner of the Cong res. Signal medal of Honor is an enlisted Man about 24 years old with two years of High school education. Secretary of War Henry l. Stim son said As he announced award of the medal to sgt. Jake w. Lindsey of Lucid ample miss. The 100th infantryman to receive the nation s highest award since the outbreak of War Lindsey won the medal posthumously for action last november in Germany. He killed 20 germans wounded Many More knocked out two machine guns and captured two others in a hand to Luj Ltd . S. Plans huge postwar red Aid new York. May 6 Reuter a. Far reaching plans for use of american goods credits and services for postwar development and reconstruction of the soviet Union were disclosed yesterday at a meeting of american businessmen and soviet representatives. . Ropes head of the russian Section of the1 department of Commerce said Congress probably would approve a plan to open Large credits to Russia in the form 08 Long term Loans to help finance soviet purchases in the United states. To Ain 7 swear in dammit Jackson miss., May 6 ans a use of the expression Quot Damn Yankees is not profanity judge George Noble ruled in dismissing charges of disorderly conduct mrs. Theodore Bilbo divorced wife of sen. Bilbo a miss Howard owne lodged the charges against mrs. Bilbo after she Hud called him Quot a Damn  mrs. Bilbo to turn charged that owne was disorderly in breaking a Glass door at the Entrance to her apartment. Judge Noble fined owne 18 dollars and then said Quot apart from the joke we have Down Here about calling a person a Damn Yankees i think we have a precedent for our assertion that the use of the word a Damn is not   
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