Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Thursday May 17, 1945 the stars and stripes Page 3 news from Home states egg shortage adds to wives woes by William r. Spear stars and stripes a a. S. Bureau new York May 16�?despite the meat shortage cigarette shortage butter shortage liquor shortage and other scarcities America so far has had plenty of fresh eggs. Now eggs Are getting scarce. Nobody a been eating dried eggs Back Here so far but the situation might come to that if matters get worse some stores already Are limiting housewives to half a dozen at a time and there have been Quot egg lines at some Chain stores in the last few Days. War Pood administration reports that National egg production since january 1 is seven percent below the same period last year. But in new York new England new Jersey and Pennsylvania egg production is off 30 to 40 percent. I the new York times attributes the shortage to the poultry Black Market which has become More profitable than the egg business. Farmers reportedly find it More profitable to raise poultry than eggs and Are even killing laying hens for food. In Many cases Farmers Are getting 75 cents a Pound for live Birds at their door. And housewives pay butchers 90 cents a Pound for chickens a when they can find them. Mayor Laguardia said in his broadcast sunday that the entire enforcement of new York poultry Price ceilings had broken Down and that the Kosher Price had gone As High As a Dollar and a Quarter a Pound. The new York newspaper pm is urging editorially that housewives Boycott poultry in order to kill the Black Market. Want state measures aiding vets department of Commerce reports that of the 42 states whose Legislatures met in january governors of 34 have made 84 recommendations stressing the need of state measures to supplement the Federal program for aiding veterans. Among them were proposals for Overall veterans service offices tax exemption for veterans Hospital Izar Tion employment loan privileges preference in hiring education War memorials and work mensa compensation. Recounting his Rescue in 8an mamas finding chickens plenty scarce a the i be Francisco after his Liberty ship was torpedoed i Anthony Moyes said the first night that they floated around the Ocean Large turtles surrounded the Lifeboat Quot we did no to try to catch any though. We were too exhausted Quot he declared when Dawn broke the Quot turtles Quot turned out to be floating Minea the Lifeboat had bobbed through the whole Field without striking one. Seeing is believing and Homer Eddy a policeman in Greeley colo., says he saw it. An automobile unoccupied and securely locked suddenly backed out of its parking space after the motor had mysteriously started and travelled 110 feet Down the Street smack into another car. Eddy a explanation of this Quot invisible Driver Quot business was that the owner had left the car in reverse and a Short circuit in the starter set it into action Miami s mayor world War ii vet a 35-year-old Veteran of world warn Perrine Palmer. ., an Oil company executive has been elected mayor of Miami. The widow of Frank priest Nea and Acme photographer killed during the landings on Leyte Island in the Philippines last november is collecting 6,000 dollars compensation from the state of California. The state Industrial Accident commission ruled that it had jurisdiction where a worker is employed in California and then leaves the state on business for an employer. Plenty of sixty four Dollar answers have Boon uncorked in the past but miss Jane Lamotte of Newton mass., had a peach that she gave the police after being flagged Down by a cop. She was arrested for speeding after a five mile Chase. This was her answer to the judge when she was hauled into court Quot daddy told me never to Stop for strange , the astonished judge just about left himself Bald after pulling at his hair. He fined Jane fifteen coast Coal delivery ban ordered Washington May 16 ans a fuel administrator Harold l. Ickes yesterday banned deliveries of hard Coal to East coast Consumers with More than a five Day Supply on hand because of a critical shortage resulting from the Anthracite miners two week old strike. The order covers Maine new Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut new York new Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware the District of Columbia and two counties in Virginia. Consumers with a five Day Supply or less will be permitted to receive one ton or enough to meet minimum requirements. Hospital priority preference in deliveries must be Given to hospitals Homes for the aged dairies bakeries laundries poultry Brooder and hatcheries and utilities and buildings Liat manufacture their own Power. A Ickes issued the order after conferring with president Truman at the White House. Some 72,000 miners Are Idle despite the fact that a the government seized the mines two weeks ago. They quit work when the United mine workers and the Anthracite operators failed to agree on a new wage contract. Seven wins web enlarges tire ration Washington. May 16 cans a a 50 percent increase in the May passenger tire ration for civilians was authorized yesterday. The web released 500,000 More tires for opa rationing bringing the months total distribution to 1,500,000. Spokesmen for both agencies indicated another increase about As Large May be expected for june. However even the expected june increase would be insufficient to provide new tires for Quot a card motorists officials said in View of the big backlog of unsatisfied demands from More essential users. The army made Day when it directed Ford company will halt jeep output Small War work. Its biggest War contract cancellation since be the Ford motor company to Stop the production of jeeps. The last jeep will probably come off the Ford line by july 31. Ford has. Been making about 5,000 jeeps a month in its plants at Detroit Dallas Texas and Richmond Calif. With cutbacks in its production of Pratt and Whitney engines and bombers at Willow run this leaves Ford with Only tank engine and robot bomb engine contracts except for miscellaneous Boston discards old censorship Toni seven whole face and nifty figure it Well known to film fans despite never appearing in a movie gets it her fist film role in Quot miss seventeen Quot booked to be Quot shot Quot in june. Bingo Jersey seeks gome s legalization Trenton n. J., May 16 ans a gov. Walter e. Edge has called a special session of the legislature for next monday when 12 amendments to new Jersey s 100-year-old Constitution will be submitted for adoption preliminary to state referendum in 1946. The amendments include legalization of Bingo playing by charitable and religious organisations and the expenditure of Public funds for transportation of pupils to parochial schools and other educational . Studying reds military Supply needs Washington May 16�?the United states is studying the Milt tary Supply needs of Russia before resuming the shipment of lend lease goods to the soviet Union on a sharply reduced basis. More reductions of lend lease shipments including amp Cut of nearly percent to great Britain were in Prospect United Presb said. Acting Secretary of state Joseph c. Grew said yesterday that the amount of lend lease sent to Russia for the duration of the vast United nations Mutual Aid program would depend Quot upon the essential nature of soviet military Supply requirements and competing demands Quot of other lend lease recipients. May ask payment in this connection grew said the deployment of american troops in Europe Quot almost certainly Quot would require lend lease shipments commenting that president Truman can Rule that lend lease Quot must continue to move to Europe for an additional period because the prosecution of the War requires he also pointed out that the president could not authorize an a Extension of lend lease for rehabilitation or postwar reconstruction. Recently concluded agreements with France Belgium and the Netherlands provide that the United states May require payment for supplies furnished to those countries deemed Quot no longer necessary to the prosecution of the Russia had been getting about 300 millions of lend lease a month. Grew said that the basis upon which the United kingdom India Australia and other British colonies will receive lend lease in the future already had been agreed classified 1a los gatos Calif., May 16 up a violinist Yehudi Menuhin 29, was classified 1a today by his draft Board but was Given a 90-Day Extension of his former 2a status to allow him to make a european concert tour. A Teariki Audien Boston May 16 ans a gov. Maurice j. Tobin yesterday signed into Law a legislative measure designed to abolish the old unofficial censorship Quot which placed the Quot banned in Boston Quot Label on Many popular novels. The act provides that any Book of questionable decency or doubtful character May be brought before Superior court by the District attorney or attorney general. After inspection the court May Issue an immediate temporary finding that a Book is obscene thus making its Sale illegal in Massachusetts. Then a Public hearing will follow. Pfc Donald Jerome Dost or of St. Paul minn., 25-year-old Marine. Had a 30 calibre Bullet lodged Between his heart and diaphragm for seven months but he a breathing easier now. It was removed at Farragut naval Hospital Idaho. Dos ter stopped the Bullet on be Lelky Island last october but doctors could t do anything about it until he had a Long rest. A Jap sniper shot him with a captured american Rifle. Put for tag in archives Atlanta ga., May 16 ans a the late Franklin d. Roosevelt a application for a 1945 License tag for the specially built automobile he used at warm Springs will be placed in the state archives. In the application received several weeks ago or. Roosevelt listed his occupation As he paid one Dollar and a half for the tag asked no special number and was issued no a-12610 Emmett Kelly Star Down Piekow up three year old Richard Caglione during new Yorkus first circus Parade in 19 years. Richard did no to think Kelly s face funny but the Clown turned deaf a Art on the lad s tears. Map photo a a
