Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Wednesday May 9, 1945 the stars and stripes news from Home americans a Brown out a lifted with Victory by William Al Spear stars and stripes us. Bureau new York May Ftp official word that America s Quot Brown out Quot would be lifted pm. Be Day and that shop windows land the Capitol dome could Light up has brought predictions from Washington that other restrictions will be lifted too. Specifically americans generally Are expecting the Midnight curfew and the horse racing ban to be removed. 1 horse racing is ail set to Start the moment Washington Viires the Green Light. Horses have been kept in training tracks Are All groomed and ready and the parimutuel machines Are oiled. Many Persona noted regretfully that last saturday would have been Kentucky Derby Day. Now turkmen Hope to run the Derby june x As for the curfew the country still Hasni to got used to quitting night spots at Midnight although it is generally abiding by the curfew request. Most citizens who have never been convinced that the curfew added anything to the War Effort will be glad to see its end. Be my itself will mean a Groat Deal to the automobile Industry but companies Are completing plans for resuming production when possible with ail their old time Rempet Itic spirit each hoping to get the jump on the Ether. However distribution of new cars for the first year after production is resumed probably win be under Federal government allotment bated on the record of sales before the. War. Ford expects the put ears on Assembly lines 80 to 90 Days after getting government s go ahead. Hash says its shift from War production of automobiles can be accomplished in 90 Days. Civilians Eye redeployment effects reaction Here on the War departments announcement of redeployment plans was mostly on the effect it would have on civilians. The press and radio noted the army a statement that draft Calls a would remain at a level higher than that needed merely for combat replacements and would affect Many who have been deferred so far for essential work. Some of the two million soldiers to be discharged Are expected to fill those jobs. The employment of War veterans including men with disabilities is showing a Sharp Rise in new England. The . Employment service got jobs for 43,529 veterans in six new England states in 1944 and 5,779 were veterans with disabilities. Many plants have installed veterans Counselor and refresher courses. Down i Ocala Fla a Man of Quot stealing a House Quot was discovered by a Deputy sheriff in the act of tearing up the floor of a four room dwelling. The Quot House stealer had already carried off the Walls and Saf the Deputy a Ahl Nice stealing if you a an get away with it no rewrite for Illinois Constitution the Illinois House killed a measure backed by both Republican gov. Dwight h. Green and democratic mayor Edward  Kelly of Chicago to provide for a referendum on the question of calling a convention to rewrite the state s 75-year-old Constitution. The Resolution was Defeated 81 to 95. Rough spot for Guys late for supper wary motorists who keep a roving Eye cocked for the traditional Green and White of new York City s police prowl cars must now contend with a disturbing variation of the Olf in sheep s clothing act. A shortage of paint and labor has precluded repainting the vehicles and patrol cars May now be spotted in Standard manufacturers Brown Block. Blue Green and even red. Some Are polite enough to have Quot police Quot stencilled on the sides of the cars some Are in stencilled. And All Are dangerous and very much on the Alert. Police at Central Bridge n. Y. Are looking for a husky thief. He stole a 75-Pound Bronze locomotive Bell and its 150-Pound Iron bracket from the scene of a train wreck. Court ruling gives miners travel wages Washington May 8 cans a president John l. Lewis of the United mine workers yesterday won his Long fight for Legal recognition for Portal to Portal pay when the supreme court ruled 5-4, that soft Coal producers Are required by the wage and hour Law to pay miners for underground travel time. The decision is expected to establish the same compulsion in the Anthracite Industry and probably will Speed a settlement of the contract dispute which resulted in government seizure last week of 389 strike bound hard Coal mines. Meanwhile 72,000 hard Coal miners were Idle in Defiance of the order from solid fuels administrator Harold l. Mckee that work at the government seized mines be resumed yesterday. Ump uphold the courts decision came in the Case of the Jewell Ridge Coal corp., a Virginia firm. The company contended that compulsory travel pay would wreck War time wage structures and urged that the matter be left to collective bargaining. The majority opinion delivered by Justice Frank Murphy upheld the us we a Contention that the court had established travel pay As a statutory right when it held last year that the wage hour act covered travel time for Iron Ore Minera Page ii. S. Returned to work after slight be pause new York May 8 ans it a americans paused for a few minute yesterday morning to hear what they already knew that the War in Europe was Over. An Quot unofficial Quot Celebration with All the trimming was held yesterday. Then everybody went Back to work. Ferries and factories dutifully tooted their whistles once move and some people gleefully took advantage of the Opportunity to wet a a theirs for the most part Ameri cans heard president Harry Al. Itus 60 Days Home vote citizenship for go babies Washington May 8 ans it a legislation to preserve the american citizenship of children bom abroad to alien wives of u. S. Servicemen under 21 won unanimous House approval today and was sent Back to the Senate. The measure amends a Law which now provides that a child bom abroad under such circumstances becomes a u. S. Citizen Only if the citizen father had lived in the states at least five years after his 18th birthday. Since Many american soldiers overseas Are under 21 they could not have lived in the country the necessary number of years. Camp Kilmer n j., May 8 cans a granted special 89-Day furloughs. Most of the 5,900 u. S. Soldiers who returned from Germany yesterday made rapid plans yesterday to Streak for Home As fast or possible by train plane or bus. They debarked sunday at Staten Island n. Y. From two army transports and entrained immediately for Camp Kilmer where the announcement of 80-Day furloughs was greeted with wild cheers. Aboard the two ships were 1,890 former prisoners of War in German Camps at bad orb and Zeigen amp in. Men freed from the nazi internment comps echoed stories Given by another group last saturday that German pm food was terrible that sanitation conditions were inhuman and that nazi guards mistreated them. Pvt. Harold Brummer of fair View n. J., who spent four months at bad orb thought the suggestion that returned prisoners take charge of German Camps in this country amp wonderful idea. He added however Quot they better give us Blank  8 one Man Gar meeting Springfield mass., May ans a the last of the Massachusetts civil War veterans 97-year-old Charlies g. Burt elected himself state commander of the grand army of the Republic at a one Man Gar Encampment. Quot who am i going to command Quot the invalid Veteran Wise cracked. Man announce the news Over the radio and then they resumed their daily tasks. Perhaps the tone for the nations Observance of be Day was set in Seattle wash., where aircraft workers in their regularly scheduled ten minute rest period gathered around a new super fort named Quot of to Tokyo Quot and cheered. The Pacific was in everyone s thoughts in those of americans with sons already fighting the japs and in those of people whose sons had just conquered Germany. Capital quiet in rain swept Washington there were no signs of a Celebration in the City a wet streets. Thousands of government workers went about their jobs As usual but some downtown churches and Heaters opened to receive a few people. New York greeted the official proclamation with its customary Shower of paper and streamers of confetti which fluttered Down from skyscraper windows through a Grey drizzle onto pavements which had just been cleared of yesterday s litter. The nations morning newspapers which still used the associated press surrender Story that broke the news yesterday made the official announcement even More of an anti Climax. Today is v  the Herald Tribune mannered with a subhead Quot Truman Churchill Stalin to proclaim War s  the new York daily Mirror agreed with the Tribune and. Added Quot japs to fight on War leaders  the daily news headline in White Type against a background of a times Square crowd said it s Over in  across the Bottom of the Page was a Streamer Quot proclamation due at 9 am. Wac returns to Campus cps. William  Beecher former assistant zoologist at the Chicago museum of natural history did double duty in the Pae Ifie War zones. When he Wasny to exchanging fire with the japs Beecher collected several Hundred specimens of Birds animals heards snakes and frogs for the museum. Potent enough to get him Hospital bed something new in wartime cocktails was dreamed up by de Cleary of Seattle. Wash. It was a potent drink the Deputy sheriff said the local gendarme adding that de was in Good condition in a local Hospital despite these lethal contests a Pinch of Lye dash of Chloride of Lime squirt of iodine some headache tablets and a splash of Antiseptic. The patient disclosed the sheriff used two drinks of whisky a a Chasser. Ouch the kiwanis club of twins Falls Idaho sought a 108 percent record in the Allied clothing drive so when Jamee c. Reynolds woke up to the fact that he was the Only member who came without bundle he removed his trousers and attended the club s luncheon in his shorts. Kissed pm then left with dough Seattle. Wash. May 8 ans a did you Ever see a dream walking these gals did. Two Young women reported to police they dreamed a Young Man entered their bedrooms uncovered the feet of one and kissed the other. They woke to find it was True. S miss Claire rotering said she opened her eyes after her dream to find her toes sticking out from under the bed covers. Miss Frances Keller said she awoke after the kiss to see a Man in the room. After the Man finished his cigarette he left taking 117 dollars with him. Regains eyesight asks army service new York May 8 ans a William Sheppard 29, Queens who recovered his sight Only a few months ago after being Blind for 21 years wants to join the army tomorrow afternoon Shep Pard 4f and the father of a 3-year old son will ask the draft Board about it. Kymm a a a a ii a a a i _ Teddy Kay War Plant supervisor assists so wac Wilburta Nant in learning part time War work. She la the Eniy returned ice woman enrolled thus far at Northwestern University. A wide we \