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Publication: Southern France Stars and Stripes Friday, May 11, 1945

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     Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Friday May 11, 1945the stars and strikes Paga 3 news from Home afew Smen urge harsh for germans by William r. So ear stars and stripes us. New York May 10�?a harsh peace for Germany was advocated by 15 newspaper and Magazine editors who be turned yesterday from a tour of German prison Camps with a report that the atrocity stories from Dachau and Buche Nwart were understatement rather thaw exaggerations. E. Z. Dimitman executive editor of the Chicago Sun declared that 200 prisoners died at Dachau in the five or six hours of the editors inspection tour. The he Mew off Gen. Eisenhower Home town of Abilene rim i As his neighbors put on a riotous be Day demonstration. Dressed m her Best Bine polka Dot the generate 83-year-old Mother. My. Ida 8tover Eisenhower was the Center of attention. Quot i am glad it s Over and 1 Hope Dwight will be Home soon a she said As she greeted Well wishers who kept the door Bell ringing. To proud that my son did his Best. New York what be Day meant on the Home front aside from the obvious fact that there would be no More european casualty Bata was this brownouts the ban on lights for shop windows theater marquees and outdoor signs which had been in effect since feb. 1 to save fuel was lifted immediately. A Midnight curfew and Home racing Bank these restrictions woe generally expected to be removed soon. Director Fred m. Vinson of the office of War mobilization and reconversion called a press conference for 11 am Ewt yesterday to announce his plans. Officials had expressed the View that these restrictions could be lifted after be Day. Curbs on motorists Harold g. Boesch Henstein Deputy vice chairman of the War production Board said the army notified web that a big cutback in tire needs and civilian tire production should increase from one million to two million in about three weeks. Petroleum administrator Harold l. Ickes estimated that gasoline rations we a be increased 50 percent with the cutback in military requirements. Food rationing May become tighter it civilian goods web chairman j. A. Krug said that such items w As radios refrigerators and vacuum cleaners should be Back on the Market within 12 months. Shoes officials predict that a 11 toning will continue for a couple of years because production trails m so far behind the demand. Pood rationing May become even tighter As the United states Quot provides Relief for Europe. A Quot Quot. Quot Quot i to lists were Tome of the Side by a n Quot Zeb a Ligett an be Day in the United -1 x. L to i i Kaiser plans nation wide Home building san Francisco May 10 ans a Henry j. Kaiser who has gained Fame building ships in record time announced yesterday that he had formed a five million Dollar corporation which will begin building entire communities of Homes at once. The Home building will be done on a nation wide Assembly line basis. The houses will be two bedroom affairs the ship builder said and the Cost will run from four thousand to five thousand dollars apiece. Further the buildings will be financed with Cha insured Banks and the Price would include 50 to 60-foot Lota. Be said that the new Kaiser Community Homes corp. Was ready Philadelphia a Middle a amp waged woman lighted a holy Candle Quot 7 is by at 8l Rita Catholic Church by no own a gave thanks fur the Victory in a a a of % Europe and prayed for the Safe 5 w we Glss. 11 return of her son. From an air Craft Carrier in the Pacific. As she m ended her prayers there came a Quot a Jug voice from behind her Quot hello met Babkm a is my Quot it was her son Seaman first my we Lam class Anthony Caputi kneeling a Quot a Bend her. A a Mirado Quot the sgt Mother whispered Ami faints in her Tan s arms. A a web a Kawg now Yorkus Harbor whistles scream knew York while Harbor whistles screamed for be Day 2,0 2 i German prisoners disembarked at a Hudson River pier and teamed what the noise was about. They were shown pictures of emaciated United states prisoners liberated in Germany and told that the freed americans would be their Guarda Here. They stiffened said nothing. Los Angeles in the i laryngitis. He said with Nej and Virginia Elizabeth Day they be splattered my name All Ever the front Washington a general of the army John j. Pershing the sick 1st on the great Day. An aide old that a was qide Waller Reed Hospital and not available for interview a Chicago an. Woman Telephone caller shed police sgt red Buerger if he wanted a Good idea on How to Stop disorder in the Victory Celebration. Quot All Yon. Have to Day she said., Quot is raise All the Bridges in the Loop and keep them relied All  strange nobs robot bomb in Gnu a Dearborn  roaring heard by residents were not if part of the Victory oct Bratton. Police traced them to the Tad Rouge Plant where robot bomb engines Are tested. Danville . Lottie Whipple spent be Day working in her Victory Garden mrs. Whipple a 88._ Minneapolis the Little restraint Oeta rating be Day. Ether Gad Days earning of this wish it May tit mothers Ray May lit Straw Nat Ray May it i am an a Marthaw Ray May i mar Timo Day May tit Pappy Ray May let an memorial if syn May it in add tor to theae one Day affairs there Are All kinds of weeks this Lamwth. Next week is in do week a Aritz week and hit rant week presumably it Ana Hast to handled by having the fam try eat eat together in a restaurant whish has an Utt Tafra. May or week. The week starting May m is Cotton week All of which leaves one am to Start constructing 8,000 unite in the san Francisco Bey area los angles and Portland Ore. Other rites will be determined at a later Date. Kaiser emphasised that he plans building not Only single houses but whole communities Complete with a recreation health and school Center separate business sections and even Landing Fields to accommodate private planes the Landing Fields for the planes will depend on available space he said. Quot up to now our nation has talked in terms of building one million new Homes in the first year after the War Quot he declared. Quot now i am convinced we should plan for two million new  selective service act extended another year a May ship pm s Back to Europe Washington May 18 ans a the shipment of German prisoners of War from Europe to the United states ended monday and the War department has asked Gen. Dwight in Eisenhower to make arrangements for returning Axis captives from the u. S. To Europe. I. Gen. Brehon Al. Somervell reverted yesterday. Somervell commanding general of the army service forces said that the army wanted to get German prisoners in the United states Back to Europe As soon is possible. But he pointed out that a number of them were employed on farms and that some arrangement would have to be made m this connection. Quot we Don t want to keep any germans on any jobs that american workmen want same Veu said. Washington May 10 ans a Congress yesterday faced a ho6t of pressing problems coming on the heels of the end of the european War. Mindful of the fact that Victory in Europe meant the end of Only one phase of the global War Congress now faces the task of a gradual transition from a War Economy to a peace Economy and also redoubling its efforts for the successful prosecution of the Pacific War. The signing yesterday by president Truman of legislation extending the selective service act for year from May 15 or until the a a of Quot the  president Truman said continuance of the draft was a Quot compelling necessity in continuance of military operations against  he indicated displeasure with the amendment to the act restricting the use of 18-year-Olds. The amendment provides that 18-year-Olds May not be sent into combat until they have had six months training. Stamped feared rep. Robert ramspeck a a. House democratic whip and other congressmen fear that Germany s collapse open a Stampede to abandon necessary Home front controls too quickly thus impeding the military machine needed to thrash Japan among the problems tossed into the Lap of Congress Are a drive to get a Bonus of Twenty dollars a week for a year for veterans the to merge the army and whether there shall be compulsory military training in peace the size of the peacetime reconversion of the nation s Economy and proposals to liberalize Security and to revise the tax program. International problems include legislation to carry out the Bret ton Woods monetary agreements lowering tariffs continuing the reciprocal Trade agreements program and Senate consideration of the proposed world Security organization and peace treaties. Other matters which May require congressional action Are Quot the occupation of Germany and the feeding and clothing of people in devastated areas of Europe. Jersey City keeps Frank Hague amp co. Jersey City. May 10 cup a mayor Frank Hague Hudson county political Boss won re election to his ninth successive term As Jersey City commissioner yesterday and presumably wih be named mayor in the usual reorganization of the City Oom Missim. His democratic ticket of City commissioners also won re election by a wide margin Over the a liberation ticket headed by Paul e Doherty. Hague forces carried All of the City s 311 election districts. Chaplin asks Berry retrial lob Angeles May 10 ans a Charlie Chaplin filed notice yesterday in Superior court asking for a new trial of the paternity suit that resulted in his being adjudged the father of Carol am Berry. On april it a jury declared the 56 year Oil actor the father of the ii Moffith no daughter of Joan deny Chapin s former drama Pupil he was ordered to pay 75 Douai a week for support of the five thousand for attorney fees. Selects mate called a dead Long Beach cal., May 10 ans a Helen Mac Dowell 22-year-old blonde who found herself a Modem Quot mrs. Enoch Arden Quot said yesterday that she wants her first husband the Man she Quot truly  she will ask annulment of marriage in december 1944, to Ensign Robert a Mac do we it she wed believing her husband. Army Ltd Harold goad 27, dead. She was Tom by the War department that Good was killed in a plane crash in Burma but last week she Learned that he was in an army Hospital to know now which one i love it is Harold Quot she said. A Rattlesnake in the bag today that it gtd been  by the British air mgt Quot by to Institute a regular commercial Trane a Antic air a riot effective May 11. Oulu Leroial passenger a win be Ontjo when pase is not by Tiro Bartuah Guve tement 1 work the Boa said. Ranters taken have  
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