Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Monday May 21, 1945. The stars and stripes age 3 news from Home discharge and meat Points busying . N by Phil Bucknell stars and stripes us. Bureau new York May 20�?this was a week in which news of the Francisco conference faded from front pages of the newspapers even As that of Europe. Further fierce fighting on Okinawa and min Danao has reminded people that the War is still on. Then there was the Newt of Carrier . Franklin limping proudly into the Brooklyn Navy Yard for rehabilitation and reassignment. To was also a week of Point counting. Gis counted them As did wives mothers and sweethearts and Many a childless wife said wistfully of Only housewives counted meat Points but found hot even if they would scrape up enough red Points they could t buy the elusive beef. It s a cinch Salami Spaghetti or weenies constitute this sundays  12,000 pounds of Chicken there s plenty of Chicken in new York. However a third of it is i Black Market poultry 12,000 pounds of which was seized in Hariom and the Bronx on Friday. Supplies of Chicken incidentally Are a Little below Normal but Are expected to increase. Hiz Zoner did his Dufy and retreated then there a a piece about bees forty six million of Mem escaped when two trucks collided on a Highway near Marietta ga., but there were no reports of stings. All of which showed that the bees were much less vicious than three women in Kansas City to. The three ladies were investigators for Jackson county and had been suspended by county court judge George s. Montgomery Fuiz Zoner had to Retreat from the courtroom in the face of their venom Quot you old weasel face a yelled one Quot the Only reason i done to hit you with this vase is that i might get into More trouble a Peter o til vein talented 13-year-eld from Highland Park iii., probably did t realize the Gross injustice he had done toothpick users when he completed construction of his 7-foot Model of the Eiffel Tower familiar 335-foot parts landmark. Anyway Pete turned the trick after three months labor with 36,030 toothpicks. Hie feat won a special purple ribbon at a Hobby show sponsored by the Highland Park rotary club. A horse tied up traffic to Atlanta when he bolted Down Decatur Street weaving like Frankie Sinkwich at his Best. Then he misjudged the space Between a taxicab and a Street car at Butler Street. He. Did himself and the cars no damage and received a gentle reproof from his negro owner. And to Wellsville ., lightning knocked off All four shoes from an otherwise uninjured horse. And at Norfolk Tass Arthur Bowley of East Canterbury n.h., arrived after a 113-mile horse and Wagon ride to help friends with their wiring blowing. In Mansfield. Ohio Deputy sheriffs Are guarding author Louis Bromfi Eki s Malabar farm. The Public and the press Are being kept away. The year s most publicized Romance is about to result in wed Ding Bella monday for Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in an rear atmosphere of modest silence like that of a Block Buster. Another horse tale occurred to Montrose Colo. The Lions club took Steps to see that when adm. William f. Halsey achieves his aim of Quot Riding Hirohito a White ban Tail through the streets of Tokyo he a going to do it right. Montrose county ranch men Are being asked to buy Halsey a True Western Saddle rim trappings a Lubec robeta to the fund will be allowed to bum their brands in the leather after at course Halsey has burned his Rand to  enjoyed the last laugh in Milwaukee Elmer j. Christoph treasurer of the local society of accountants admitted through guffaws from members of the auditing committee that he made a 30-Buck error in his Manti report. Then he reminded them that they had okayed the report. William e. Moyer of Sunbury pa., reports that the army sent him Home because they did t have shoes Small enough to fit him he1 wears size one. From Pocahontas la. A came two Good Samaritan stories. Because of the death of John Bittner a group of his neighbors slowed a 25-acre Field for his widow. Fred Hersom is still in bed with a broken leg received when he fell from a Hay rack last january neighbouring Farmers slowed and harrowed his 55 acres. Boston came up with a murder on an escalator. It happened to a downtown subway station. Witnesses said that John a Bouse 45, fired two shots into the Back of miss Helen Lukas 3$. Who waa on the escalator ahead of him. Then he shot himself in the head. Both were dead when the escalator reached the  meat program Aims to end famine Washington May 20 ans a War mobilization director Fred m. Vinson announced a revised meat program under which the government will  subsidies on High Grade cattle in an Effort to end the nation wide meat famine and break the Black Market. Vinson warned however that Consumers will not begin Bene fitting from the program tar about six months. The subsidy on High Grade cattle is to Cost Between 30 millions and 40 millions a year and is aimed at increasing the production of prime beef which would be fattened in feeder lots. In new York City meanwhile meat and poultry supplies reached the wars lowest Post yesterday. Incoming chickens last thursday totalled Only 6,000 pounds As compared with the previous All time Low of 30,000 pounds last wednesday. Butcher shops closed by the  refuses Drivers award Lions will buy adm. Halsey Tokyo Saddle Washington May 20 ans a the web has refused to reconsider a wage award it made to 5,000 Chicago truckers until they end their strike. The Chicago truck Drivers Union an Independent is protesting a web decision fixing a 51-hour work week with overtime after eight and one half hours daily and an eight cent an hour wage increase. The situation was complicated by a threat from the teamsters Union Al to Call out 5.000 of its members in a sympathy Stojke. Annul marriage to second mate Chattanooga tenn., May 20 and so the second marriage of the woman who discovered that her first husband reported killed in action was still living has been dissolved. A circuit court judge granted an annulment to mrs. Lorraine Busch who married George a. Busch in Hattiesburg miss., in August 1344. A month after she had been notified that her husband Francis Elmore had been killed in action.b17s now swedish liners Washington May 20 ans a swedish Aero transport using converted . Flying fortresses which seat 14 persons will begin transporting mail and passengers from Stockholm to Paris Friday. Three of the b17s were forced Down and interned in Sweden during the War. Takes jail to avoid murderer husband Kansas City kan., May 20 ans a police held mrs. Hazel May Latrasse in protective custody last night lest her husband a murderer and train robber who escaped from Kansas state Penitentiary try to kill her. Her husband. Bill Latrasse 63, climbed Over the state prisons Wall Early thursday. Mrs. Latrasse 47, estranged from her husband told a Kansas City detective that its Only hearsay but i pc heard that Bill said he d kill me if he Ever broke out most Europe censorship restrictions removed Washington May 20 ans a the office of censorship yesterday lifted most of its restrictions on military news of Europe. It issued a new combined press and radio code which defined the Pacific Asiatic theater of operations. The new code removed about 20 restrictions on the publication of news from Europe. -4 news about the military movement of troops in europe�?except6erman staff Heads blamed Jefferson City mo., May 20 ans a Joseph pulitzer jr., editor of the St. Louis Post dispatch said yesterday that most of the guilt for the second world War was upon the shoulders of the German general staff. Pulitzer who spoke before the Missouri legislature was one of 17 american editors and publishers who recently made a War department conducted tour of German concentration Camps. He listed four groups of German War criminals the Gestapo. Is men financiers and industrialists and the general staff. Regarding the major question of erasing German Bellico sity Ehi Litzer said he thought it would require Complete Allied occupation of German by Quot for at least one and possibly two  to the Pacific and about the movements of High officials can no longer be censored. Include Domestic news restrictions against Domestic news were lowered. For instance such items As production Are no longer restricted except when they concern secret weapons. Censorship director Byron Price summed up his views this Way Quot there Are those 1 believe who think censorship in this country should continue in full Force in connection with the policing of the peace in Europe. I happen to be one of those who take the opposite View. Censorship was provided for by Congress and has been endured by the people for the sole purpose of winning the War and the Only War we Are now engaged in is with  sentences 20 pets to death for murder lend lease policy rapped Miami May 20 ans a Twenty pet bulldogs belonging to Joe Munn. Former Orange n.j., Newspaperman were sentenced to death by their master yesterday for killing a neighbor and involving Munn in a manslaughter charge. Munnus pack of dogs clawed and bit to death mrs. Doretta Zinke an eccentric neighbor who hoarded 25.000 dollars Worth of Bonds in her Home but scrubbed floors and waited on tables for a living.641 refugees want  Washington. May 20 ans a the War relocation authority has reported that Only 133 of the 900 european refugees housed at it. Ontario Oswego ., want to return to the homelands. A Wra Survey revealed that 641 want to stay in the United states. Washington. May 20 Ansi a sen. H. Styles Bridges . Charged yesterday that the state department was making a Quot studied attempt to continue lend lease on the pretext of a military situation no longer directly connected with the War in  Bridges in a Senate speech said that recent pronouncements on lend lease had Given him Quot an uneasy  he asserted that a recent statement by acting Secretary of state Joseph c. Grew on future lend lease policy a a is clearly intended to Lay the foundation for interpretation of lend lease just As the state department wishes to interpret it and not As Congress intended the act to he  hat own War los Angeles May 20 ans a film director Roy Del Ruth testify Long in his wife olives suit for of too dollars a month separate maintenance said yesterday that when he asked Olive to economize she replied a to hell with the War i did no to Start it and in a not concerned with it and i will spend All the Money i  this Doc had sock one Way to  a Maal la to Braak Inta a Raa Aurant. Or. Laa a. Stafford s car looked like this after Era Hong through the front Windo of Pago s restaurant Buffalo  No one was injured. The Deo Agid Hie brakes failed to hold. A a photo