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     Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               The stars and strikes Friday May ii ims u. S. Wartime controls relaxed not scrapped Washington May 10 ians a while the horse racing ban and i Midnight curfew have been lifted the nation today was warned there will be no wholesale scrapping of wartime restrictions. In a report to president Truman War mobilization director Fred m. Vinson said limited reconversion to civilian Economy will begin immediately but the War against Japan will require that Many controls be retained. Price and wage ceilings regulation of building transportation production and manpower will continue although limited quantities of new refrigerators washing machines radios and automobiles will be produced for civilians. Civilian goods manufacturers will be Able to get steel Copper and aluminium a supplies. The War production Board has also Given automobile manufacturers permission to exhibit publicly their postwar Model War plants will remain on a 49-hour week. 81mm rationing remains shoe rationing will continue but there will be an eight to is percent increase in civilian gasoline supplies. Production of Railroad equipment Oil and Field machinery trucks farm implements and minor electrical machinery will be increased. At least 250,000 Homes and apartments Are to be built in the next year. Among regulations lifted today were censorship restrictions on whereabouts of the president. Advance information on routes times and methods of travel still will be restricted when or. Truman leaves the White House. Training plan put Iii effect Washington May 10 an8 a the War department yesterday directed All theater commanders to put into effect the new selective service act provision that All 18-year-old draftees have six months training before they Are sent into combat. An Extension of the draft act containing the new provision was signed yesterday by president Truman. The new provision provides that men overseas under is who had not been in combat and who have not had six months of training will immediately begin taking the necessary additional training in their respective Heaters. Men in the u. S. Under 19 who have not had six months training and those under 19 drafted in the future will be Given six months training. Men who Are in ports of embarkation or in transit however will continue overseas. In addition men who Are shipped overseas before completing six months training must be Given the necessary additional training overseas before they enter combat doughs face medical Check the chief surgeons office of Eto announced yesterday that it had undertaken the three fold Job of re examining men to determine their physical fitness for further combat getting wounded Back to the u. 8. As quickly As possible and to provide medical attention for those who remain in Europe with the occupation army. Maj. Gen. Paul r. Hawley explained that men slated for service in the Pacific will face rigid physical examinations at Assembly areas throughout the Eto. Those who qualify will be Given Booster shots and immunization against diseases native to the new combat area. In addition to determining physical condition of combat men All those who leave this theater whether for service in the states or discharge will undergo examinations. This involves the examining of More than 3,500,000 men. At the outset Field hospitals will function in areas where men Are stationed. With assignment of a particular Section to the occupation army it is expected that station hospitals then will serve. Medical care in redeployment areas embarkation Points for men shipping to the Pacific also will be provided for men while awaiting Transfer. Say8 v3 bombs struck Britain the Hague Netherlands May 10 up �?v3, a new Type of rocket bomb with a much higher charge than Vuk was being launched against England in february Ai March a local member of the underground said today. He said v3 was a double rocket in spool projectile of pro polling mechanism and an explosive which continued in its Way alone after the fuel expended propelling rocket dropped off. Hospital notes 2d anniversary Marseille May 10 a third general Hospital which has cared for 30,000 sick and wounded soldiers celebrates its second overseas anniversary at Aix in Provence Southern France this week. The third general sailed from new York May 5. 1943, to Casablanca. From there it moved to Camp Don b. Passage. At Amateur occupying the French Marine Hospital the third cared for 5,000 patients in one month. Jyo Olov adre Sparley Francisco v. M. Is loto at a s. Is rotary of stats Edward a ppr Bettry of at Ivor right is r. Stettinius or. Men behind is Ink Layeni Tieck Italo Godinet changes in the italian Cabinet of Premier Ivanoe Boroomi Are expected this week As a result of conferences Between Patriot leaders from Northern Italy and Cabinet members up said yesterday. Unconfirmed reports indicated that Bonomi might remain but that some ministries would be allotted to representatives of the North. Up said political trends might be gauged by five demands which the Northern group submitted to Bono min purge of fascists from All posts of influence confiscation of profits under fascism the breakup of big estates abandonment of imperialism and nationalisation of Northern factories. The tense situation increased in Trieste claimed by both Yugoslavia Ancl Italy. Eighth army troops Mann Nof completed a Vlf Ming the City a which had been occupied by marshal Tito s forces. Russians to Call signals on Berlin ban Francisco May 10 up a French delegates to the world Security conference yesterday said that four Power occupation of Berlin would begin when Russia gave the word and on delivery of travel orders from the soviet to the u. 8 British and French representatives. The French reported the German capital would be divided into four sections with one of the Powers policing each. Molotov goes Home trustee plans studied san Francisco May 19 cans a soviet foreign commissar Vyacheslav Molotov left the world Security conference yesterday for Moscow and was to be followed by the British and american numbers of the three Power commission on Poland. Observers recalling u. Amp Secretary of state Edward std Hutaf declaration last week that it had been expected the end of the european War would require Matwy return to the russian capital were not inclined to be dismayed by the departure. It was widely believed negotiations toward reorganisation of the polish government would be resumed in Moscow on arrival of u. S. Ambassador ave Refl Harriman and British fast Archi Bald dark Kerr other members of the commission who had been Here. Twe other on Tim in a radio address tuesday night Molotov declared that the ached Victory must be consolidated Quot for he Gnirke of Freedom of the welfare cultural development Mai Progress of Mankind. Two unsettled problems received delegates attention yesterday. One was the question of International trusteeship for certain conquered or liberated areas. The other was incorporation of the late american regional agreement into the pro . Decorates free belgians brd880a May 1��?fifteen Bel Gian soldiers and civilians received the american of Merit and Silver Star Here in recognition of leadership in resistance tons. Ooi. John b. Sherman Deputy head of 6haef Mission to Belgium presented the awards on behalf of Gen. Eisenhower. Nami spy pays supreme penalty i la pm w48iom3ton. May m am grew today of any of am said a Hod not Comdr. Al Sissen an american . Told reporter that nothing in the u. S. Trusteeship proposal would jeopardise american Security after the War. Tbs the Issue types of Telic and non strategic proposed by the u. Amp or on a m Type of administration As proposed by Britain. American delegations reported to be the big four amendment on recognising treaties Between Russia and Britain France Yugoslavia a Czechoslovakia and Poland does not include recognition for the Western hemisphere tax exemption i urged f0d Clos Washington May 19 an8>-Walter p. George cd Gaj. Re sir Tan of Senate finance loan Ashlee yesterday a retd revision of the to it i to of rights far inaction of military pay from taxes on a retroactive basis a a i an. Fossa edme reduction in income and corporation taxes. Recently returned from Europa George made his proposals at a news conference. 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