Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Friday May 25, 1945 the stars and stripes i Page 3 . Has transition bios writer says by William r. Spear stars and stripes . Bureau hew York May 24 what a happening in America Best answer to that was written yesterday by Samuel Grafton new York Post columnist. Here it is Quot you can talk As if we Are at peace you can talk As if we Are at War you can talk out either Side of your Mouth. It s that kind of a period. Quot we Are Selling War Bonds As hard As we can but Auto dealers Are taking orders for new cars. Some dealers Are asking 200 dollars Down payment says a the Wall Street journal so the More anxious would be purchaser wont be tempted to leave orders with every dealer to town. Quot you can walk Down the War Road or peace Alley. Take your pick. There Isnit any. Meat that a War. There Isnit any curfew that a peace. The Price of steel scrap is going Down and you Cao buy steel scrap now pretty cheap. That a peace. Try and get sugar. There a a War on. These Are transition blues. There never has been such a confused and mingled period in american life.�?�. Eight legless or armless veterans at Lawson general Hospital Atlanta ga., passed a passenger bus driving test so skilfully that results May Lead to the repeal of Laws against amputees operating commercial vehicles n. L. Young safety Engineer says. Steel scrap available but not sugar Bant on Auto fart making lifted by we news from Home demos Gopas War in Truman Tariff rig1 Washington May 24 a democrats tangled with republicans yesterday in an old fight Over legislation designed to give president Truman the right to slash tariffs m reciprocal Trade agreements with other nations. Democrats declared the Tariff vote will test whether Congress wants world co operation or isolationism. Republicans traditional supporters of a High Tariff held that administration proposals Are a a imbecilic and  rep. Robert l. Dough ton. In. Chairman of the House ways and Means committee led the fight for the democrats. He declared that the vote on the Bill a a will be the first real test As to whether or not we Are willing to participate in International co operation or revert to a policy of economic and political  rep. Harold Knutson a min said that this a a Tumbleweed variety of reciprocity makes a Uncle Sam a glorified Santa clause and a a Uncle sap to the rest of the world. Ration Points Daze sex i Hartford conn., May 24 ans a the transition from Soldier to civilian apparently was too much for to sgt. Daniel m. Killoran 30, discharged from the army under the Point system. Killoran who served in Australia Hollandia and the Philippines was Quot bewildered by the routine of the civilian and suggested a a Basic training before we become  �?�1 still am bewildered a he said. �?�1 have to go to the ration Board draft Board and tailors. Have to get meat Points canned food Points and gasoline Points. I have to get a new draft classification for discharged veterans and i have to get All my civilian clothes altered. �?�1 have to take a test for my Drivers License because1 they Are scared i might be nervous. I done to recognize Hartford streets without trolley tracks. I have to get acquainted with two new nephews and a  group backs bar women Detroit May 24 ans a the Detroit Council of churches defended yesterday the right of women to take up bar tending but emphasized that it did not approve of women being either in front of bars or behind them. The councils statement issued by t. T. In Imbaugh the executive Secretary stemmed from an attempt by the bartenders Union to prevent women from invading their  purchases near 2 billions Washington May 24 ans individuals bought $1,746,000,000 Worth of War Bonds during the first week of the seventh War loan drive. Individuals Are expected to provide half of the $14,000.000,000 Campaign quota. Corporation investments wont enter the picture june Book vets Job Parley Washington May 24 ans a the annual conference of state veterans employment representatives will be held in Chicago May 28 31. Soldiers kept boy alive with secret blood Bank Hometown Kitchen invaded by of a . Army air forces plane crashed into the Kitchen of the great Barrington. Mass., Home of pfc William m. Graham who had returned to the . After release from a German prison Camp. Graham escaped injury because he was at the other end of the Kitchen. The War production Board has removed All restrictions on the manufacture of repair and replacement parts for automobiles and trucks. Priority Aid is provided for production of necessary functional parts. Web also announced it would permit the production of about 700,000 popular priced washing machines in the last half of the year. These will be the first washing machines made since May 1942. A 90-year-old covered Bridge across the Delaware River Between Lumberville.  and rave Rock ., has been closed because it is unsafe. In Jackson miss., the Hinds county court ruled that the discharge of 2s members of the Jackson City Polios last summer for failure to withdraw from an Al Union was illegal. The court Hekt that Eity policemen May hold membership in a Union. In Jamestown n.y., Norman Robinson tried to give a pint of blood simultaneously from each Arm but authorities at the blood Bank refused to let him. So he gave his 23rd single pint. Three year old Roger Michael Golden had men at the Westover Field mass. Shaking their Heads in disbelief. He called off correctly the names of 121 different ., British a and German air planes in the aircraft identification classroom at the airbase. Roger is the son of it. And mrs. Daniel l. Golden of South River  New Yore 5 20 am to Jesup ga., May 24 ans a a two year old boy fighting a usually fatal blood disease was Given a Chance to live yesterday because of secret blood Bank supplied by seven enlisted soldiers. The men. Stationed at Camp Stewart ga., had sworn theron Garrison the child a father to secrecy about their plan to Supply the boy with their own blood but their plan was discovered when Jesup wants another this one on House Denver May 34 ans a a Corporal wearing overseas ribbons with stars asked a woman at the housing desk of the servicemen s Center yesterday for a House for himself wife and three year old son. The excited woman told the Corporal a landlord had offered a desirable vacancy but the family must have two children. Quot Tell him Well take it a the Corporal said. Quot if he insists on two children Well have  marines offer men Protection Washington May 24 ans a a the Marine corps lined up with the army and Navy yesterday in protecting the remaining service members of families which have lost two or More sons in combat Gen. A. A. Vandergrift Marine corps commandant announced that the remaining members will be assigned non hazardous duties upon request of the Serviceman concerned or of a member of his immediate family. A sole surviving son will be retained in or returned to the us. For permanent assignment. Hospital called. Post authorities after one of the soldiers failed to show up for his regular blood donation. The Day he was to have Given the transfusion was be Day when All Camp Stewart personnel were restricted to the Post. Gave is transfusions in the last year the seven Mem have Given Little Raymond Garrison 118 transfusions of approximately one pint each. Without transfusions he cannot live. When the soldiers Learned of Raymond critical illness they went to his father in a group and offered their blood on condition that he would say nothing about it. To am proud to have you under my command a col. William v. Ochs Camp stewarts commanding told the men. Special medal voted for for Washington Muty 34 ans a a the House of representatives voted unanimously yesterday to award a special medal of Honor posthumously to Franklin d. Roosevelt. The action came after a Jong discussion in which rep. John m. Robsion Ray vigorously objected to the award of the chm to the late president a Young group of la tin americans calling themselves Quot Hitler gang a was rounded up by police in Houston tex., and turned Over to the Fri. Eight members had nazi swastikas tattooed on their arms. Marva Trotter said in Chicago that she and Joe Louis May remarry but added Quot its All in the  she obtained a divorce March 27.looking for a corny Chicken  in Springfield 111., stray chickens were eating seeds As fast As Holay Gott of the attorney general a office could Plant them. He attached thin strings to Corn kernels and to the other end tied cards Reading a i have been a bad Bird. Please keep me Home before i get  some newspaper readers have protested against the use of the crude term amputees for disabled veterans. A new York time writer Points out that the French Call them Quot grand blesses great wounded and suggests the term Quot wounded  Cable returns to films Clark Gathe Hollywood May 24 ans a looking a Little older but possessing the same forcefulness that has made him a top flight actor Clarke Gable donned make up and took his place in front of the cameras yesterday after an absence of three and a half years. In his first picture an adventure Story Gable plays a merchant Mariner opposite Greer Garson. Gable enlisted As a private soon after the death of his wife. Carole Lombard in an air plane crash in 1941. He served in the air Force in the u.8. And in the us until his recent discharge with the rank of i major