Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur News from Home Large stores held out regular ads America a on the Bali in 7th Bond drive a a a a by William r. Spear stars and stripes cd. S. Bureau new York May 15�?with the slogan a finish the fight America set in motion yesterday vast machinery for Selling 14 billion dollars Worth of War Bonds in the seventh War loan drive before june 30. In new York City which alone has a quota of More than 3 billions retail stores undertook one of the most remarkable Selling campaigns Ever seen to Back the drive. The stores devoted their show windows entirely to displays promoting Bond sales. And in sundays new York times which is usually fat with advertisements on jewelry fur Coats household furnishings etc., there was not a single item of clothing or other merchandise offered for Sale. Instead big department stores and specially shops took their usual advertising space and devoted it entirely to War Bonds which All Are offering at their counters. Even undertakers ads on the obituary Page advertised Bonds. That a a new wrinkle. In the sunken Garden of Rockefeller Center a 103-foot Long Model of an aircraft Carrier named the fighting lady was a Oom Mission eds in connection with the drive. Anyone buying a Bond there will be Alwood to go through and inspect the ship. The entertainment Industry also got behind the drive and plugged Bond sales. There were lobby displays and Booths in Heaters throughout the country As Well As Many novel promotion schemes. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau or. Opened the Campaign with a nation wide broadcast warning that Quot the War is but half stormed objective and took it r there was a big Battle in Chicago when a 64-Pound Carton of bulk i butter fell from a truck onto North California Street. A Young woman sighted the treasure first and jumped astride the Container shouting that her children had lacked butter for two months and that she would sit there until she got some of it. Other women quickly pounced upon it and started whittling off Large chunks. A tem men even joined the scramble. The woman who originally found the butter ended up with a chunk of about ten or 15 pounds which she Hap carried off. Divorce notes in Richmond Al mrs. Paulino Conlon a dancing teacher filed suit for divorce from her fifteenth husband charging he hit her Over the head with his Artificia log. In Spokane Wasluk mrs. Bernice Peters testified in her divorce suit that her Huff and refused to build a bathroom in their heme because he thought Quot sanitary facilities were something newfangled and a last senators inspect instead of voicing beef of Hole senators have been known to beef loud and Long on various we matters the business of meeting a beef face to face was the experience of senators Milton r. Young of North Dakota Raymond f. Willis of Indiana and Burton k. Wheeler of Montana sporting White Coats left to right in this Quot meaty Quot photo. The senators,.�?members of a sub committee inspected meat which a Pittsburgh reporter testified he brought on the Black Market. The new York daily news says it has received surprising response to its suggestion that Jimmy Walker run for mayor again this fall and is starting a Straw poll to see just How much popular support Walker would have. Jimmy who can talk with the Best of them has said nothing so far. The gambling Casino of col. E. R. Bradley at Palm Beach built 42 years ago is being torn Down. The property will be Given to the City of Palm Beach for a Public Park. A Freak Accident at Glen Wood Springs colo., killed fireman 1c Larry f. White of Tontitown arks 31-year-old Sailor. A was Riding in a train when a Rock tumbling off a Canyon Wall of rafted through the window and killed him instantly. Six other passengers were injured. Two Little boys in Minneapolis belted a huge Brown Hawk in hand Tif Etalon combat the Hawk dived on Richard Dally five. Brother Gerald six came to the Rescue and grasped the Bird but suffered a two Inch Gash in the wrist undaunted the boys sat on the Bird while their sister ran for their father who killed it with an axe. New York paper tolling Jimmy Walker ii. S. Appeals lower courts Ward finding Chicago May 15 ans a the government went into the Jub. Circuit court of appeals yesterday with arguments seeking to reverse a lower court decision holding As a illegal the Federal seizure of 10 properties of Montgomery Ward and co chief Issue in the Case which the government lost in Federal court was presidential Power under the Constitution and the War Labes disputes act to take Over private business during wartime. Properties in seven cities were seized dec. 28, the government immediately asking the Federal court for a judgement of the legality of the presidential action and for an injunction restraining Ward officials from interfering with army operation. Judge Philip l. Sullivan ruled on Jan. 27 that the president lacked authority either under the Constitution or labor act to seize the plants. Ruled a retell firm the government contended the word Quot production As used in the act covered All Steps in preparation construction. Assembly maintenance storage and distribution required for the War Effort. Judge Sullivan however ruled the company was solely a retail firm. Ward attorneys argued to at the seized plants were net engaged in War production and were Dot in War zones and therefore the government lacked seizure Powers. The government Appeal asserted judge Sullivan erred on 12 Quot findings of fact Quot and 17 Quot conclusions of Law a among them the judges finding that the labor dispute did not threaten the War Effort and presidential Power was inadequate. Building Cash now available Washington May 15 ans a the government is ready to distribute 17 millions 500.000 dollars among states to finance blueprints for huge postwar Public construction. Maj. Gen. Philip b. Fleming Federal works administrator disclosed that the Money can be used for architectural plans for such projects As schools hospitals City Halls court houses police and fire stations armoires Community buildings and Parks. Fleming said the Money would be administered by the Bureau of Community facilities of which George h. Field is commissioner. Applications for Money Are to be made through eight division officers of the Bureau located in new York City Washington do. Atlanta a. Chicago 111. St. Paul Minn. It. Worth Tex. Berkeley calif., and Seattle Wash. Praises 50-foot . Iwo statue new York May 15 cans a Gen. Alexander a. Vandergrift Marine corps commander said yesterday that the times Square statue of the iwo Jima Flag raising represented a meaning which Quot encompasses the whole Effort of the people of our nation. The 50-foot statue is a reproduction of the famed photo. Vandergrift said the five Marine and Navy corpsmen who placed the Flag atop it. Suribachi a typify the unsurpassed gallantry of All the men of our armed forces who Are fighting and winning our mrs. Alvera in an Aula Accident but Attiat oar and winning a Caa pilots Llos Nso after Coal strike May end soon Wilkes Barne pa., May 15 ans a the strike of 72,000 hard Coal miners in Pennsylvania entered its third week with reporte indicating that the growing Anthracite shortage May Speed settlements of the strike. The Wilkes Barre chamber of Commerce has requested president Truman to help Settle the dispute while civic groups throughout the hard Coal Region have directed similar pleas to Congress and several Federal agencies. Although 363 mines have been taken Over by the Federal government the miners refused to enter the pits pending orders from John l Lewis president of the United mine workers. Fuel coordinator Harold l. Ickes has the authority to write a new contract in cooperation with the tri District scale committee of the ump but observers believed he would be reluctant to initiate such a step except As a last resort to prevent a breakdown in War production. To resume african Trade Washington May 15 up a Many items will be restored to commercial Trade channels Between the u. S. And French North and West Africa starting july 1, the state department declared today. The list includes foods rubber goods building materials agricultural and automotive equipment chemicals fertilizer glassware refrigerators and air Supples acc Washington May is Anuk a the aeronautical chamber i Commerce asked that the Manta if a strategic Reserve of military aircraft equipment possibly a years Supply As a safeguard against future emergencies and As a partial solution of the War surplus problem. The organizations report recommended that not less than 25 percent of such reserves of aircraft engines propellors instruments etc., should be replaced by new models each year. Quot this is necessary Quot it said Quot to maintain the Reserve capacity of m Strong Industry and to make Sura that this country does not lose itself in a false sense of Security which would arise from a Largo stockpile of obsolete the ago estimated that Kex new and unused engines May be on hand when War contracts end and warned that postwar commercial demands would use up but a Small portion of them. Plant will halt b17 engine work South Bend ind., mat 19 ins a the War department yesterday notified the Studebaker corp. Plant Here that production of b17 engines will terminate by the end of july. The contract termination was attributed to the need to switch the nations production to heavier and longer Range bombers and Pursuit planes for use against the japanese. Boy 16, murder suspect Chicago May 15 ans a police yesterday continued searching for a 16-year-old Chicago boy for questioning in the slaying of Morton Stein 17, whose stabbed and bludgeoned body was found in a Stevens hotel room last Friday. Held at the juvenile Home is a 16-year-old girl who visited the youths thursday at the hotel police capt. Thomas Duffy said that the two youths registered at the hotel under assumed names last sunday after staying at the Rex hotel in new York City for a week. Results of a lie Detector test Given the Gill were inconclusive. Steins Mother testified at the inquest yesterday that the boy had been absent from Home about three months. Wednesday May 16, 1945 the stars and stripes Paga 1
