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Publication: Southern France Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 20, 1945

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     Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Sunday May 20, 1945the stars and stripes Paga i news from Home Rainbow Corner planned for Berlin raps a isms for Cis returned to states by William r. Spear stars and stripes uj5 Bureau new York May 19�?latest testimony that no special psychology or Quot isms Are necessary in dealing with returned gis comes from mrs. Harvey d. Gibson 75, who has returned Home after three years of directing red Cross Rainbow Corner clubs in London and Paris. She said she was a Little appalled to learn that women Here have been Given so Many does and done to in preparation for the soldiers Homecoming. Her experience in watching gis on leave abroad convinced her that they will have no trouble taking up Normal life again. Those men just want to come Back to what they left she said. They 11 want their wives and mothers to act exactly As they acted before they went overseas. The thing they Hope for most is that nothing will be  mrs. Gibson said the red Cross plans to open another Rainbow Corner in Berlin probably in the Haus waterland and she thinks there May have to be some relaxation of the non fraternization Rule to allow us. Soldiers to dance with German girls unless american or French girls can be imported. A a unexpectedly enough quite a few of our French girl volunteers in Paris have expressed a desire to move into Germany a she reported. Quot and More american girls Are arriving overseas All the time. One Hundred arrived in Paris shortly before i left. A Power s keeping up theater work one of Hollywood Stop actors before he entered the service it. Tyrone Power now doing  act for Uncle Sam As a Marine transport Pilot manages to keep tabs pm the theater. Power hug designed an open air theater at a base in the Marianas islands in the Pacific. The theater was built by pilots and crewmen in a space of four Days. It has been named the Roosevelt memorial theater. West Virginia congressmen report that widespread work stoppages in Coal mines Are threatened unless an acute meat shortage is relieved. Reps. E. H. Hedrick Cleveland m. Bailey and John Kee All democrats conferred with opa officials on the situation. Hedrick reported 300 or More miners at the town of Earling already had stopped work in protest. He said one Man. Told me he had had no meat butter lard or sugar for 14 or 15 Days and that he was losing  strength and could not possibly Pacific a Power Oak under 01066 conditions. Opa. Pacific s Power has promised an investigation. In Case the girl Friend did no to get the souvenir you sent irs probably in Uncle Sam s hands along with 12,900 or so other items. Tho new York poet office and the a appraisers stores Are overflowing with stuff that gis sent Home but which was undelivered because of wrong address broken wrappings or other reasons. Postmaster Albert Goldman dozen t know what a s going to do with it an. A sgt. Joseph Watt of Burbank calif., is another i whose discharge was saved by the Stork. He was sweating it out at la Junta goto., Airfield with 74 Points and  wife expecting a baby and the clocking ticking away toward mid night May 12, deadline for claiming credits. But the Stork got there at three minutes to Midnight with 12 Points putting  Over the 85-Point Barrier with one to spare. Women in de tie hi., Are calling 8gt. Robert Kruchinski their pinup boy. Kruchinski heard about the shortage of Bobby pins. So when  unit came across a Bobby pin factory in Germany he boxed up a Quantity of them and sent them to  Mother mrs. Peter Kruchinski. She a passing them around to her friends. A a Las valor overcomes obstacle mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is having her troubles with Pala. She related in her newspaper column that she built what she thought was a perfect pen for  by run Ning a Fence across a Point of land ww7 get a projecting out into a Brook along ?4 which he liked to run and poke \  nose. Ten minutes later i found  walking around the Lawn he had calmly swum out into of la the Brook and walked up on thex for other Side of the a nce. His sex pro a so a it a. Sion was on. Of Complete Triumph Quot mrs. Roosevelt guessed shed have to build the Fence out into the. Water fool remember John Edward Lawton of Everett mass.? to was the first men in kicked under the selective service act. A former Quot pm umber a Helper end assistant sign Painter he was inducted nov. Is 1949. Mustered out in nov. 1941, and later re drafted. Welt pro Lawton has been state evened in Titie country Ever since and now at it Lewis wash., All he can find Are 48 Points toward discharge. Airlines May use postwar Jet planes Billings mont., May 19 ans a huge Jet propelled planes flying with hardly a sound May be included in the postwar plans of commercial airlines. Propeller less planes will cruise at 600 Miles per hour three times As fast As present Day types airline officials predict. A c. R. Hunter president of Northwest airlines said  company May replace motors on regular four engine planes with Jet tubes As Early As three years after Vij Day. Propellers will be removed he said and two Jet tubes placed under planes fuselages. A Jet planes will be much cheaper to build and operate than the ships we now use a Hunter said. There will be no complicated and expensive motor parts nor need for High octane gasoline. Sato travel a Jet planes will Rise Swifty to High altitudes saving fuel but passengers will not be aware of the rapid climb As Cabins will be super charged so that the air pressure in them will remain constant. A Jet planes will be safer than any commercial plane in history. Tubes which bum fuel and shoot out exhaust gases to push the plane along will be the Only complicated mechanism on the planes. Radio beams will be easier to follow be cause All motor interference will be eliminated and there will be no delicately integrated motor parts to fail suddenly Hunter added. Dimes to have for likeness Stork brought 12 Points and 85 total Washington May 19 ans a the likeness of the late president Franklin d. Roosevelt is going to be on new dimes which eventually will replace All . 10-cent pieces in circulation. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau also announced that or. Roosevelt a picture and a a a suitable quotations will be on War Bonds to be issued later this year for the eighth War loan drive. He said that the dimes will be mined Quot just As promptly As we can and will be ready for distribution around the end of the year. Split banana split damages three ways a Chicago May 19 ans a three women who charged they were skinned on three banana splits in a Loop tearoom a year ago emerged from municipal court yesterday with 150 dollars to split three ways. Fay Wainer Edith Miller and mrs. Naomi Kamorowski sued the tearoom for treble damages on the ground that it had violated the emergency Price control act. They said that they had paid 5fl cents each for banana splits advertised at 36 cents each on the menu. Judge Leon Edelman thought so too. He entered a judgement of 275 dollars against the tearoom 50 dollars each for the plaint if is and 75 dollars for their attorney. Cancel eggs for us Washington May 19 <an8>�? the War food administration yesterday cancelled the lend leave allocation of 1,000,000 cases of eggs to the us because of a shortage in the us. Re double duty cuties Uncle 8am gets a big helping hand from these girls who do War work for a radio company four How switch Over to office work for an incur aha company for under a unique manpower sharing plan. A wide world photo rain hampered 1945 planting new York May 19 ans a the 1945 planting season has been one of the Rai Niest on record throughout most of the mid West and parts of the South and East. Crop experts said yesterday that Only time and nature can determine whether the nation s Quot food for Victory Quot program was seriously affected. Some sections have been plagued by unseasonal frosts As Well As rain. There was one exception. Parts of the far West received heavy Rains with thanksgiving because they had been threatened by drought while experts declined to say How much the crops were affected they said that there could be a Good recovery if the blessed Sunshine appears again. Converted b2998 now recon ships Dayton Ohio May 19 Ansi converted b29s Are now being used in the Pacific As photo reconnaissance planes the aah am minced yesterday. The huge photo ships in addition to carrying synchronized cameras and technicians can transport almost As heavy a bomb Load As the b29 and match its Range and Speed. Bit off Mechanic s ear Houston Texas. May 19 ans j. W. Long was indicted by the county grand jury yesterday on charge of Quot maliciously depriving Mechanic Herbert Randall of  ear by biting off said  Long said that he had lost  temper when Randall refused to repair  automobile. Truman Heads Lmh ceremony Washington May 19 cans president Truman will appear before a joint session of Congress monday to present the 100th congressional medal of Honor. The award win go to an infantryman. Senate majority Leader Alben Barkley Day who announced arrangements for the joint session said that monday s ceremonies will Quot do Honor to an those who have been awarded the medal of Honor in this  the recipient of the 100th medal win be to sgt Jake w. Lindsey of Lucedale miss., a platoon Leader in the 19th Reg. Of the first army a first div. The War department recently announced that he was being returned to the us. To receive the award for gallantry in action near Hamick Germany. Lindsey and All other medal of Honor men May be discharged at their request. Sex Sailor sues general motors Chicago May 19 cans a a discharged Serviceman sued the general motors corporation and the general motors acceptance corporation yesterday for More than a million dollars on the ground that their alleged monopolistic practices had forced  out of business. The suit was filed in Federal court by William Smason recently discharged from the Navy after three years service. His suit actually asked for 394 thousand dollars but under Federal anti Trust Laws the requested damages Are automatically trebled. Rind 3 7-year-old sos 1 reed6port, ore., May 19 ans a coast guardsmen revealed yesterday finding a bottle carrying an apparently authentic message of distress written by a ship wrecked Sailor More than 37 years ago. The message found in an old fashioned Medicine bottle on the Beach near Reedsport was scrawled in Ink and dated nov. 7, 1997. It was signed by t. B. Snow of Louisa by. A former coast guard Captain. P. M Clark recalled that two ships went Down in the area in the lattes Nart at 1007  
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