Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Tuesday May 8, 1945the stars and stripes. Page news from Home anxious . Awaits official if a nosh by William r. Spear web approves 103 millions for Industry la Guardia won t seek fourth term Bond contest Imail receives special care go Psi Rose Lee Art has a rep it it a win Lara and there in tha Quot strip act am not Feught a turf my tha untied Wall am clothing Artas Topa clue Cabig Gypsy Quot Tomt hitch Quot to Tony Wayne on Ger a Acme stars Ami stripes us. Boreas new York May 7�?-As tin 1 piecemeal surrender on the european battlefields progressed. Americans wailed expectantly today for toe or. Announcements the signal that the War in. Europe was off Dally Over. They sensed that it could not be Long now. Although it is bound to be slightly anti climatic after the sensational developments of last week the announcement will touch off celebrations of one sort or another All Over the in Nodi a a a a. Krug chairman of Quot the War production Board said it would be the signal for the Neon signs of Joe a bar and Grill and the lights of theater marquees to Shine again. A radio stations will air special programs the instant be Day is proclaimed. The National broadcasting co. Has at least seven hours of special programs ready one of which will be a. Grand Victory concert by the Abc orchestra led by Arturo tuscan inf thanksgiving will be the theme of Mutual a programs featuring addresses by religious leaders. Columbian a theme will be Triumph dramatizing the triumphs of Allied forces against the Axis. Cd Bih of rights expansion proposed the mouse veterans committee expects to Start hearings this week 1 on a series of Bills to expand the i Bill of rights. One by chair Man John. E. Rankin cd miss would extend medical and. Related care to any honorable discharged Veteran who needs it. Regardless whether or not his disability occurred in the service. Others would give the veterans administration manpower and supplies and clarify and liberalise provisions of the Laws on Veteran education training and insurance. Many criticisms have been made of the i Bill of rights on the ground it is too Complex and does not go far enough. The seventh army Scaptura off Berchtesgaden was a Little to Mutli for non germanic tongues in Portland Ora. It Tod la a Fate that a be Kimhia River Bridge had collapsed. A Man heard Over the Radie that Berchtesgaden had fallen and Friend Quot Deroche Sodden fell the Friend told another Quot Brithe Sodden Fust fell he passed an Tho Ward Quot Brichu Futha gods fall ��?�own/�?T1 switchboards at Pere Headquarters and news paper offices Hagan bashing of people called to inquire if it Ware True that the Quot Bridge of the Gads Fem into the had time for fight talk9 the Type of Quot guts Quot that makes our fighting men tops was demonstrated when Cape Quot Dixie Quot Kiefer skipper of an Essex class aircraft Carrier stalled off the medics Long enough to give his Crew a Farewell Washington May 7 ans a seeking to prevent any Industrial lag or extended unemployment while the nation swings gradually from a War Economy to a peace Economy the War production Board announced yesterday that it has approved Well Over 103 millions for machine tools and Plant construction few 72 major industries. At the same time High manpower officials said that the Clamp on industrially deferred men would soon be eased. Under present regulations men 18 through 37 in War plants May change jobs Only with the consent of their draft boards. The web action sharply affects the automobile Industry where big Lay offs have been expected with cessation of the european War. The action Grants priority Aid for the re Toong and re equipping Job which is the first step in reconversion. A favouritism Shawn the major share of 85 millions will go to the automobile Industry with 50 millions Worth of tools and 35 millions for Plant expansion. The stress on the automobile Industry does not represent discrimination against other industries the web said asserting that their allotments will cover smaller needs with equal adequacy. The present View of draft Board officials on Job importance does not hold that workers who suffer a Lay off Are free to accept any new Job to hold their deferment the workers must go into an occupation listed by the government As essential and critical a listing that does not include automobile and refrigerator production at present. Manpower officials agree that unless these restrictions Are eased they could contribute to joblessness in areas where work drops or vanishes with the european War Over. However in labor shortage centers draft Board officials probably will continue the present restrictions. Hangs up fire hat new York May 7�?fiorello h. Laguardia announced today that he would not seek a fourth term in mayoral election this fall Quot in a not going to run for mayor Quot Laguardia said during his weekly radio address. He gave no indication of his future plans. William p. Dwyer of Brooklyn former u. S. District attorney has been mentioned As a possible democratic nominee. Who the republicans will offer is Uncertain. Home patients get a Rich soup Yaphank n. May 7 ans a a pot of Chicken soup made from 2,500 dollars Worth of ingredients was served to patients at the Suffolk county Home yesterday. Seventeen game Cocks confiscated in a police raid on a cock fight went into the soup. Experts valued the Birds at As much As 200 dollars each. Sign rubber agreement Buenos Aires May 7 Ansi a Argentina signed agreements with the United states and Brasil yesterday under which Argentina a urgent tire and rubber needs Are to be supplied in the near future it was officially announced Here. Letters entered in the stars and stripes War Bond of test Are receiving special treatment at Apo 887 in order to expedite their delivery to contest committee Headquarters. Quot gis who enter this contest need have no fear that their letter wont reach it Quot said t-5 Walter e. Lawing of Fayetteville in charge of operations at Apo 887. Quot we handle hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail Here each Day bub with the special receiving Box set aside for the contest there is absolutely no Chance of a letter of entry going Lawing estimates that of tha hundreds of contest letters that have passed through the Post off Ico thus far 65 percent were from combat and Forward Echelon troops while the remainder were from army personnel in Porto. 3 pm Holm to Lottey a three enlisted men have been assigned to handle contest , they Are t-4 John Roche of Monmouth i t-4 n. D. Chew of Evanston. 111, and pfc Walter Groth of Chicago. It. Edward Adamay also of Chicago is officer in charge of floor operations. Apo officers offered two pointers to contestants 1 in compliance with army regulations make sure your name and serial number in the return address and the word Quot free Quot in the upper right hand Corner of the envelope appear in your own handwriting and 2 done to waste your Money on airmail envelopes since there is no airmail service on the continent. The contest is open to All army personnel male and female in Tho Etc who have a class b allotment or have purchased a War Bond since May 1, when the Competition began. All that is required is a letter of from 56 to 258 words on the subject Quot my savings and Post War ten first prizes of automobiles or trucks Are being offered with refrigerators As the award for the 10 next Best letters. Not enough Gypsy Washington May 7 ans a the u. S. Employment service will open 696 new local offices to help veterans and others find peacetime jobs. Manpower commissioner Paul v. Mcnutt said today. Revealing that 800,000 veterans were placed in non farm jobs during 1944, Mcnutt said the Quot rapidly increasing number of returning veterans Quot indicated the need for More employment offices. Ight talk before being transferred to a Hospital ship. Kiefer sustained �5 shrapnel wounds in a Battle with the j aps off Formosa. April at s busiest month to Phil was the business month in at history exceeding March operations by 13 percent. The army planes carried More than 2.000 on of cargo to Europe and returned More than 10.000 passengers any of them wounded soldiers. M. B. Hannon Seattle grocer. Had been robbed ii times before lie my police the thieves Hod stolen the Safe itself with 3,508 dollars. Apparently they newer Board of tha great that lays Tho Golden new York policeman Frank Curran lost his right Arm fighting on tie Bohan front but he a Back on the Force now. Working As a Plain lot Hesman with the juvenile Aid Bureau a new Yorkus Only one armed op., _ Frank. Canso it a Cleveland War Veteran charged with grand irony. Escaped a prison sentence in. Sandusky Ohio on his. Record As n army litter bearer in the Pacific. Judge r. He Savord suspended entente in the Case after Consolo had pleaded that his. Honorable Dis Harge Hod Quot paid his debt to he was placed on probation and ranted permission to fed a War Job. In new toe meat shortage. New England authorities Ore taking Tepe to increase fish production the Massachusetts House initiating committee found the fish catch could be increased and that rices of ski be lowered but. That the . And Imam angles present . A dead Man returns finds wife re wed Portsmouth. Ohio. May 7 apr six months after the War department declared him dead and four months after his Wile complied with his Farewell wish that she remarry it. Harold w. Goad has been found alive in a Rangoon Hospital. His Stepmother reported the 17-Yeor-okl airman had. Been listed As dead oct. 31. 1944, a year after his bomber went Down in flames. 65 Miles from the Bur Mese capital. Before he went overseas his Stepmother said he told his wife Quot if anything1 happens to me go ahead and get his wife married Ensign Robert a. Mcdowell who is on duty at Pearl Haiti or. 696 Job offices to open in u. S
