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   Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote D Azur                                Friday May la i�?~>1-5 Wmk stars and s i ripes is. S pane 3 this happened in America ome front will see film on redeployment by William r. Spear the Star it Tad Stripe . Bureau whew York May  army a technicolor movie describing its redeployment plans How some men in the Eto will be discharged and others will be sent to the Pacific will be shown to yearning wives and anxious parents in the . Starting today As Well As to the soldiers themselves. The film will be shown at movie houses All Over the country. Titled a a two Down and one to go Quot it was completed last fall and held until be Day. Letters to the editor columns of newspapers All Oyer the country have been printing demands from soldiers relatives that All men in the Eto should be discharged after the european War that All men going to the Pacific should get furloughs Quot in the . And other proposals impossible for the army to fulfil. Officials Hope the movie will help promote better understanding by the Public of the army a redeployment problems. German pcs in Camps throughout the . Got the bad news in a proclamation posted on All Camp bulletin boards. It told them a organized resistance of All German armed forces has ceased. The National socialist government of Germany no longer exists. Allied occupying authorities exercise All Power in Germany. Member of the German armed forces Are released from any obligation entered into with a government which no longer exists. As prisoners of War you will continue to be subject to american Laws and regulations and must obey orders of persons placed Over  the proclamation told the pcs that because of the diversion of Chipping to the Pacific and the redeployment of . Troops it might not be possible to Start their repatriation immediately and that they would continue to work Here. Presidents of Alf locals of the Cio. United Auto workers in the Detroit area were called to meet tonight in an a emergency be Day meeting. They a Rill Lay plans the leaders said. To a smash the utile steel for. My i a and win 48 hours pay for a 48-hour week abolish All manpower controls w i n recon vers Ion pay Quot i o supp i e to e n t in a rapt o y m e rot compensation and bring about a speedy recoil vers i o n to civilian production. A it h u r a. Schwartz. An Engineer for the Bell aircraft corporation has perfected a new Gadget. Fabricated at a Cost of $12. Tie original Model combination Sno plow i a w a Mower grew out of an electric Mot o a a garbage pail a frying pan. A stovepipe. Two Pulley wheels and a few assorted nuts and bolts. Easy to Bindle and a co a a a a. Nominal to operate the Gadget will remove Snow or. By Means of an attachment Cut the grass. Inventor Schwartz plans a Model with a j  motor for use where electricity is not available. Newspapers in Nashville tenn., will have their own v e Days. The Banner wont publish on saturday and the tennessean won t publish on monday. A joint statement explained that the papers employees had to work be Day and were unable to a relax with the rest of the joyous and  makes be Day address learns son is dead of. Howard Clark commander of it. Oglethorpe ga., finished a delivering his v-8 Day address at the Post and was handed a Telegram. It was from the War department informing him that his son it. William a. Clark had been kill a in action on Luzon in the Philippines. He has another son it. Col. Howard w. Clark with the third army. Douglas Crooks proprietor of a Candy store in Wauconda Iii., added up big profits from a v e Day stunt. He placed on the floor of his shop a 13-foot Nail Flag that a Friend had sent from Germany and invited customers to wipe their feet on it. Business boomed All Day. D1 Hess whom the new York daily news wants for mayor Jimmy Var Walker. A news editorial complained that Laguardia wh3 re Cen Fly announced he would not run for a fourth term was a Killjoy i and said a Jimmy was mayor from 1926-32, and those were the years when new York was a pleasant place to live in. It was a wide open town in Defiance of the prohibitionists. There May have been some graft changing hands a honest graft As it was called but not Many people cared. What did matter to the bulk of the citizens and glows mole brightly in memory As time goes by was that it was fun to in new York in Jimmy walkers time. For the last few be amp is it has been no More fun to be in new York than anywhere  seeks 4,500,000 army Houseni Likely to gel voice Iii treaty making Washington May to ans. A the House looked not too optimistically today to the Senate hoping it would heed its request for a share in the treaty making Power. But unless the Senate changes its mind the answer will be an emphatic no. Backed by a 288 to is Roll Call vote the constitutional amendment proposal to Cut the House in on the treaty Power held by the Senate since the nation s birth headed toward the Senate judiciary committee already on record As not thinking much of it. The committee recently announced tha it would not even consider constitutional amendment proposals until after the War. Even if the Senate approved the Resolution by the necessary two thirds vote the amendment would not become operative until Legislatures of at least 36 states ratified it. By that time Many of the House members feel treaties growing out of the War May have been disposed of. For four Days House members assailed the present treaty making machinery As undemocratic unfair and archaic. It i not they insisted give a the people proper recognition through their elected representatives in shaping the nations International course. Opponents of the plan cautioned a aug changing the constitute Ion. To give to the majority of the Senate and House Power to ratify treaties they said would be to give too much Power to the executive Branch of the government. For they argued the White House normally could exert sufficient influence to Sway the majority of lawmakers but would have to present amp stronger Case to win Over two thirds. Some republicans acknowledged privately the associated press said that they were opposed because their party minority in both houses is still Strong enough in the Senate to exert powerful influence in International affairs under the two thirds Rule. Fills the Rill Arthur a. Schwartz and Sno plow Lawnmower everything in it but the Kitchen sink. Wife who Reed will return to 1st mate Back from a dead Long Beach Cal., May to ans a Helen Macdowell 22-year-Okt blonde who Reed after she had been told her husband had Liemeo killed Only to find that he lives said that she wanted her first husband the Man she a truly  she will ask annulment of her Mart Lage in december 1944, to Navy Ensign Robert a. Macdowell. So had been told by the War department that her husband it Harold goad 27, had been killed its. A plane crash in Burma but last week she Learned that he was in an army Hospital Quot i know Cut a which one i love it is Harold a she said. A i thought for a while that it would be Only fair to wait and talk to both but now i have made up my mind of course if i had know that Harold was still alive All this would not have  wife sues novelist los Angeles. May to ans. A James Hilton British author of a lost horizon a a goodbye or. Chips a and other novels was sued for divorce today by mrs Galina Hilton his second wife she charged extreme crusty. . Bank cleared of Federal charge new York. May to apr a Federal court jury which deliberated almost 12 hours yesterday found the Chase National Bank innocent on All counts of tvo indictments charging it with violation of the presidential order freezing the funds of foreign nations. The Bank was accused of violating the presidential freeze order of May to 1049, blocking accounts of dutch and belgian nationals in connection with the Transfer of funds of Leonard j. A. Smith an Industrial Diamond dealer and a dutch National from the Chase Bank Iii new York to its Panama Branch. In his charge to the jury Federal judge Simon h. Rifted said there was no Issue or question of the j Bank s lat Notise sen. George urges a i Bill revision Washington May to ans a Walter f. George a a chairman of the Senate finance committee yesterday urged revision of the git Bill of rights for exemption of All military pay from taxes on a rep Active basis and an immediate reduction in income and corporation taxes. Recently returned from a trip to Europe George made his proposals at a news conference. He said that the special joint congressional com Mittee now in session will Chart a course. T the senator said that the loan provisions of the i Bill of rights designed to re establish veterans in i business should be changed. A we have got to provide a better loan or a larger guarantee. A he declared Cigar ets for Bond buyer new York May to ans a smokers who have sweated out Block Long cig Aret lines stared hungrily yesterday at 210,000 Cigar ets in car tors and cases piled eight feet High on the Steps of the sub Treasury building. The Cigar ets could be had if a smoker bought enough Bonds in the seventh War loan drive. Like the demobilization plan Audrey totter has her Good Points. She a a movie Starlet. Kaiser to build communities san Francisco May to ans  j. Kaiser said yesterday he had formed a $5,000.-000 corporation to Start buil Frig entire communities of Homes at once on a nationwide Assembly line basis. The two bed room houses the shipbuilder said will Cost from $4,000 to $5,000 and will be financed with Cha insured Bank Loans. The Price would include 50 to 60-foot lots. He said the new Kaiser Community Homes corp. Was ready to Start building 6.000 units in the san Francisco Bay area los Angeles and Portland Ore. Other sies will be selected later. Kaiser emphasized that he planned to build not single Homes but whole communities Complete Aith a recreation heal h and school Center separate business sections and even Landing Fields for private planes where space permits. A up to now our nation has talked in terms of building i 000,000 new Homes in the first year after the War a he said. Quot Low i am convinced we should plan for 2,000,000 new  Active Reserve would form bulk of Force Washington May to ans. A a peacetime standing army of 4.000.000 Active reservists plus 500.000 regulars is sought by the War department members of tile House military at i a irs committee disclosed today. A to Al of 4,500,000 trained men would be always available for he nation s defense arid could be thrown into the Field in approximately 120 Days under a plan outlined to the committee by Brig. Gen. Edward a. Evans of the army general Stafl committee for Reserve policy. The actual size of a postwar army must be fixed by Congress and the army s plan. The United press said is based on the Assumption that Congress will authorize compulsory peacetime military train 4 ing. The 4,500.000 men asked for by the army would include besides the regulars four to five Hundred thousand in training at any Given time Active reserves who had finished training and probably National guard. Committee members said the 4.000.000 Reserve would include an estimated 400.000 to 500.000 National guardsmen and officer Reserve corp members and 3,500 -000 men trained forgone year in the regular army and then assigned to Reserve status. House committee seeks i to Avert sugar shortage Washington May to ans a the House food investigating committee summoned government sugar experts into secret session yesterdays it strove to Ward off a threaten ing mid summer sugar shortage. After it completes its sugar s udy.1 perhaps this week the Houser roup will turn its inquiry to eggs wheres members say they fear another j major Black Market operation. Sol ohs urge harsh peace Washington May to ans a some of the members of a 12-Man congressional delegation which has just returned from a tour of Eto Battle areas and German concentration Camps Are recommending a harsh peace for Germany and death to Gestapo agents and nazi storm troopers. The group which made the tour at the invitation of Gen. Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson and chief of staff Gen. George c. Marshall for an hour and a half today. Sen. Ai Ben Barkley Day told reporters the group would soon make a report to Congress but several members expressed their personal feelings. Rep de. V Izac a Cal. A prisoner of Germany and Winner of tile Kwh in the first world War said he is convinced that the German people inst be subjected to harsh peace terms or they May decide that a War is a Good thing after All Quot . To eat a Italy Baun Washington May to  the Treasury is preparing to lift certain economic restrictions affecting recently liberated areas of Northern Italy. Mom and the kid brother Welcome a Marine in route to the Navy rehabilitation Center Al Philadelphia Marine pvt. Clifford bar Rater of Rockford ii wounded on two Jim leans from his up nor berth to Greet his younger brother David and pfc Mother who boarded his train whet it stopped Iii Chicago  
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