Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Monday May 14, 1945 the stars and stripes Pago news from Home War work Cut Posos huge labor problem by William r. Spear stars and stripes us Bureau new York May 13�?v-e Day this week brought America some headaches and they were not All caused by the lifting of the Midnight curfew and by figuring out sons and husbands discharge Points. Some were caused by the tapering Down of War production to the reduced requirements of a one front War. One of these headaches was the labor situation. Hie administration has estimated that 1,500,000 workers would lose their present jobs within the next six months and that another 3,000,000 would be Laid off in the following six months. Also the army will release 2,000,000 men during the year. This does not mean that All of these 6,500,000 will be unemployed. But tie shift of these men and women to different jots will bring complications in housing transportation wages or it a other Fields. Women Are included. The Magazine Quot business week Quot finds that a Large majority of women holding non agricultural jobs maybe 70 percent of them intend to keep on working and campaigns Are under Way to make their jobs More secure. The women s Bureau of the department of labor is endorsing a proposal to give working women maternity leaves in which their seniority would accumulate. After the baby is born they would be guaranteed their old Job Back As War plants in some cases reduce working hours cutting into overtime for which workers received extra pay the Cio United Auto workers has started a drive to break the Little steel formula which curbs wage increase. Wac lifts its control july 1 re War manpower commission is lifting its controls july 1 in areas where there is adequate manpower places like new York Memphis Scranton Cincinnati and Many other cities. This Means the 48-hour week is no longer mandatory and that workers can change jobs freely and employers can hire As Many people As they wish. At the Little town of Elpaso i the american legion Post plans to form a corporation called Quot veterans industries to give jobs to the towns 364 servicemen and women. The company will manufacture building materials and May also undertake certain services such As farm surveying and crop harvesting. Congress and the Treasury departments tax experts have recommended sweeping revisions of business taxes to Aid in Tho reconversion from War to peacoat no production. Congress is expects to not on the matter soon. But there will be no to Commonda tons for any Oti Anges in individual or corporation income taxes until Japan is Defeated. . Franklin d. Roosevelt newest Carrier latest United states Navy aircraft Carrier is the 45,000-ton . Franklin d. Roosevelt. The launching of the new Carrier Means another formidable weapon the Navy will have to fling against the shipyard Accident took toll of 6 lives japanese. The giant Carrier originally scheduled to be named the u.sj3. Coral sea was sponsored by mrs. John h. Towers of Coronado calif., wife of vice Admiral towers. Cd fill s a delightful thrill Quot Del Jill Quot meaning a Lovely voice and Good music to servicemen All m Over the world receives and answers More than 3,000 letters from her audience each month. In private life she a Martha Wilkerson of Chicago the wife of a Soldier and the Mother of a three year old girl in the absence of television it might be pointed out that Jill is blonde and attractive with a personality As smooth As her voice. The cigarette shortage gave birth to a flock of new brands most of which Are Selling for the same Price As the better known popular makes. Hie situation has brought complaints from smokers and the opa has announced it would investigate to see if they Are Worth the Price. Under opa regulations manufacturers of the new cigarettes May use the ceiling prices placed on the most similar Brand of smokes by their competitors. Comedian Phil silvers says that he and Frank Sinatra Are flying to Europe next month to entertain gis and apparently he s not kidding. Silvers says Quot Frank is a regular Guy Quot and predicts there will be no doubt about Sinatra s reception in Europe Quot once the boys get to know hint Quot songs Rose Faye Mackenzie will accompany them. This mass off twisted steel resulted when the upper Boon on a conveyor Oran in a Seattle Wash shipyard broke Loose leaving a second Orano to support Tho weight Al a ship s Bow. Then tax men plummeted to death As the second Crane overturned a a meet pcs get red Cross Aid Washington Meg is cans a the next of Kin of Amer Lusn soldiers recently released from european prison Camps will be notified by the american red Gross it was announced yesterday. Families in the u. S. Have been asked to make no Effort to meet liberated men on their arrival in the United states nor to make inquiries of the red Cross. Liberated prisoners waiting for transportation Home also will be Able to Send messages about their health and welfare to relatives through the red Cross. While replies of relatives will be accepted delivery will not be guaranteed As Many men already will be on their Way Home the red Cross  Truman Tariff Power Washington May 13 apr a representative of the powerful National association of manufacturers asked Congress yesterday to deny the president Power to make further Tariff reductions. The Nam representative was f. L. Hopkinson who testified before a House committee discussing a three year Extension of the reciprocal Trade act and authorizing the president to make a 50 percent additional reduction in tariffs prevailing last january. Hopkinson said that the Nam favored the Extension of the reciprocal. Trade act one year inflation danger bars Early end of ceilings v a m n no Washington May 13 cans a Price administrator Chester w. Bowles promised yesterday that Price ceiling will lie cancelled As rapidly As conditions permit but until then they must remain As a guard against inflation. Quot we should never lose sight of the fact that nearly half of the inflationary Price rises of the last War occurred after the armistice Quot a he said. The government announced thegl�?T8 heart Wal yields nazi slug Cambridge Ohio May 13 ans a pvt. Eugene f. Boes 30. Of Tiffin Ohio was recovering yesterday from a delicate opera Tion in which a German Luger slug was removed from the Wall of his heart. The operation was performed at Fletcher general Hospital by col. Claude 8. Beck surgical consultant for the fifth service command at Columbus. Twenty seven other army doctors watched colonel Beck expose Boes heart and remove the Bullet. Wed 6 years Ida divorces in 6 minutes police find Man beaten to death Chicago May 13 ans a Hie body of a handsome Young Man apparently stabbed and slugged to death with a lamp and Blackjack was found yesterday in the closet of his room at the 8tevens hotel police said two men registered for the room As Robert Levitas and Harold Gordon new York. Los Angeles May 13 ans a a six minute divorce hearing yesterday ended the six year marriage of actress Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward film actor and former Marine Captain. Miss Lupino testified that when Hayward returned from two years in the South Pacific he told her the marriage had been a mistake. He did not contest the suit. First modifications of wartime wage controls thursday. They will affect Only industries converting to peace time production. Bowles outlined the reconversion Price policy and said that the opa will do its utmost to Start a record flow of High Quality go ods hitherto scarce or unobtainable. At the same time he made it Clear that the opa will be an Quot untiring watchdog Quot against inflation which would repeal the a i Bill of  8esk 1942 Levels As Long absent consumer goods return to retailers shelves he promised that prices would be kept to 1942 Levels As far As possible. Bowies emphasized that opals problem was to set pal Flea High enough to stimulate High production and employment and at the same time make controls flexible so that adjustments May easily be made As the nation moves closer toward a peacetime Economy. Want to fight for . Fort Sheridan he May 13 apr a number of germans at the prisoner of War base Camp Here have asked to join the United states army and fight the japanese. After that they want to return to pm status for five years and become american  Davis ban probed Washington May 13 apr a rep. Paul w. Shafer a Mich yesterday demanded an investigation on the ban of foreign business Enterprise in Germany As announced by Elmer Davis ow2 director. Davis said three Days ago that Allied newspapers and magazines would be barred from Germany indefinitely on the ground that the germans were strangers to a free press Shafer said Quot the Davis announcement has All the earmarks of being the usual Clever new Deal method of highlighting the ban on the free press in Germany