Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Wed weeds May 30, 193 the stars and Striks by Phil stars and gripes us. Bureau new York May 29�?the weather As always makes news gifts after much barometer tapping and thermometer have decided that the country a weather is changing. For this year they found that april was almost june like in temperature and dryness and that May has been As Chilly As March and As wet As april. Weather experts say that the year As a whole is getting warmer showing an increase in the annual mean temperature of �.7 degrees in the course of More than a Century with Winter getting most of the increase. In Washington the War department the country a transportation systems Are Ting together on the biggest trek in moving 3,100.000 soldiers from Europe to Pacific via the us. The problem briefly is to shift a maximum of 500,000 men from the East to the West coast each month but the position is made More Complex by the fact that men will also be using the railroads on their 30-Day furloughs. Railroads set for history a biggest trek new from Home Jeven weather wont be the same in . Fontana s dam Good Tva project Appeal issued to vacationers in addition to the men the railroads will have to Cope with the shipment it of Materiel and according to1 logistics for every Man shipped overseas seven and a half tons of equipment must go too. Understandably the office of defense transportation is issuing an Appeal a my. Vacationers should not travel. As a matter of fact it is practically impossible to buy a coast to coast reservation for even weeks in advanced except from the inevitable Black marketeer. In connection with the big shift eight members of the House military affairs committee Are leaving for Europe tuesday the look Ever the army surplus disposal program and troop deployment operation. They Are democrats Carl t. Durham off North Carolina Robert Sikes of Florida Chet holi Ffield off California Melvin Price of Illinois and e. L. Bartlett of Alaska. Republicano Charles r. Clasen of Massachusetts Thomas e. Martin of Iowa and j. Leroy Johnson of to answer congressmen s mail some of the Burden of congressmen s duties Are to be taken off their backs if an offer of the own is accepted. Testifying before a joint committee on the reorganization of Congress Malcolm Morrow chief of the Public inquiry division suggested that if expanded his division could undertake the answering of each congressman s mail. 8wmt Are the uses of adversity and Stone Walls a not a prison make and All that kind of thing May to just required rending in second year at High school to you but Whan Jamos Millor of grand rapids was Given a life term 24 years ago on a statutory rape conviction he figured he would put the time to Good use. For 24 years to has Boon studying Law behind bars and yesterday to stood up in court and argued for a reversal off that verdict made Toro decades ago and got it g8t everyone has gotten a wrong Telephone number at one time or another but How would you like to get a wrong one in 44 a different languages at san Francisco special Telephone facilities enable m representatives of the 44 nations at the world Security conference to communicate with their Home lands. In the picture special operators place Calls mushrooming to All parts of the world. Incidental information the hunk of flesh tied in a Burlap bag. That was floating in the Hudson River during the weekend was net Humen remains. It was beef. This Breaks the sequence. Recently parts of three human bodies were found in the Winner of Honor medal Dies one of the few men. To win two congressional medals of Honor it. John Mccloy died at Leonia nj., at the age of 70. He won his first chm in 1900 while serving As chief Boatswain m a Relief expedition in the chinese Boxer rebellion and the second in 1914 against the mexicans. Divorce note John a. Kamenski of Stamford conn., is out for a divorce but Quick. He says that Sophie his wife Only allows him a dime weekly out of the 50 dollars he brings Home. Quot to married Man needs More than that is Sophie a Contention Fontana Oam in Western North Carolina the Tennessee Valley authority s latest engineering Job is nearing is 4m feet High fourth largest dam in the world and will create a take 29 thee Long with a 274-mite Shoreline. The project will provide water sports and beating far the thousands expected the visit Fontana dam Cut urged for Little Man Washington May 29 ams a a Secretary of cd meroe Henry a. Wallace has made Public a report of his Small business advisory committee which he termed Quot a cuts of thu business he said be considered the report which carries recommendations on tata tinn management Aid and finance an action program which the Commerce department will put into effect to the utmost extent that our finances the report said Quot it is believed that business taxes rest with disproportionate weight Quot on Sims business and recommended that Steps to be taken to effect reductions. Tax recommendations in the report include an increase in excess profits exemption from 10,000 dollars to 25,000 dollars effective next january it and repeal of the excess profits tax following the end of the War with More Bonds Stimson advises Washington May 29 cans a Secretary of War Henry l. Stim son yesterday urged All military personnel to equal or exceed civilian quotas in the seventh War loan drive As a Wise provision for their own future he urged officers particularly to put at least 19 percent of their base pay into War Bonds during the drive. Puts pay Back into Bonds Washington May 29 ans it sgt. Euclid Johnson of Paducah ky., walked up to a War Bond trailer Here yesterday and said Quot ill take 5,300 dollars he said the Money included All the Back pay that accrued while he was a prisoner of the japanese. Sex Cit award set aside new York May 29 ans a a jury s award of 122,000 dollars to former Serviceman Abraham Calderon 22, for injuries he said prevented him from serving his country has been set aside by the state supreme court. Justice Edward e. Koch declaring the award excessive and contrary to the weight of credible evidence ordered a new Winner weds Blind Date Gir , miss., May 29 cans a America s sweethearts of the hour. Chm Winner to sgt. Jake Lindsey and miss Beverly Hargreaves were married Here in a simple ceremony that climaxed a Romance began on a wind hate four yearn ago. Lindsey who received the nation s highest military award from president Truman last monday said he had proposed to Beverly in Washington lest week. He said he plans to ask a discharge As a chm Winner. Actor to seek Aid for Dames new York May 29 a it a Jean Hersholt danish american Maereen and radio actor said today he plans to leave next week for Copenhagen to set up a Relief Vonu Pittee for a mediate needs he said Are medi underwear and woolens of All kinds. He urged new Trade agreements for Denmark and recognition at the san Francisco conference by the United nations. He pointed out that the country had a very Active underground resistance during the German insurance asked for All Washington May 29 apr president Truman asked Congress yesterday to pass an emergency act granting maximum weekly unemployment compensation payments of not less than s2� to tide the nation Over Quot transition from War to the president said Quot every eligible worker Quot should be entitled to 26 weekly Benefit payments in any year if unemployment continued that Long. Quot basically this can be too Oak a wished Only by amending the social Security act so As to include state Laws Quot the president said. He added that 20,000000 of the nation s 43,000.000 non agricultural workers Are protected by unemployment insurance under existing state Laws. Inn Mero Talt Cines layettes crisis in current air plane cutbacks with probable curtailment in tank output Promise initial tests of preparation for labor shifts from War to peacetime production. Labog leaders contend the task of providing 00,000,000 jobs when the War is Over hinges on the Stic oese of destroys rubber stocks Woonsocket by May 2� ans a valuable rubber stocks were lost when a five alarm fire raged for several hours in . Rugger co. Storehouse. A machine shop in the building a huge Quantity of Wool waste and trucks and accessories were destroyed in the Blaze which caused damage estimated at 500,000 dollars. Sixteen families living nearby were driven from their Homes. . Faces Sharp smash in cokes and Ginger ate Washington. May 29 ans or a and coca cola will be just a popular song this summer because of the acute sugar shortage american bottlers of carbonated beverages predicted yesterday. As solutions the bottlers suggested mixing whatever soft drinks Are available with other liquids it s going to be Tough to wet a whistle. Cola drinkers will be hardest hit because of the popularity of the drink that and what goes with it. Ginger ale will be scarcer. Bottlers expect to be out to 45 percent of their 1941 production base by july when they say the average National consumption of 138 bottles per person will be Down to perhaps 60
