Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Tuesday june 5� 1945 the stars and stripes re Frt by Phil Bucknell the stars and stripes us. Bureau new York june 4�?the War shipping administration announced that eight riveted ships and seven welded ships broke into at sea. In san Francisco it was reported that two Iron ships contracted for by the maritime commission at the Bethlehem Alameda shipyards Are to be converted into luxury liners and assigned to the american president line to replace the presidents Hoover and Coolidge both sunk in the Pacific the first wrecked and the second by an american mine. The ships earmarked for Pacific Trade Are 600-footers of 22,390 tons. New York area newspapers Are hailing the lifting of restrictions around the City s Parks and bathing beaches. Coney Island the Rockaway Jacob Riis Park Orchard Beach and South Beach Staten Island Are full of visitors. Shore lights Blaze nightly on the boardwalks at Atlantic City Ocean City. Wildwood and Cape May. Incidentally at Coney Island girls go in for flowered bathing dresses and they re pretty Small Flowers because there s not much room. Fifteen men from the Gox theater with a total of 1,329 Points and thoughts of fancy ties and White shirts arrived at Laguardia Airport. Fourteen were Happy but one was discovered to be two Points Short of 85. Coney s scanty panties feature posies news from Home ships split at sea Pian luxury liners vets will get priority on surplus War goods stars a jmj stripes us. Bureau new York june 4�?War veterans will have priority regarding the Purchase of surplus War materials according to Guy m. Gillette retiring chairman of the surplus property Board. A ruling which goes into effect next month tends to end Many complaints that returning soldiers had no Opportunity to Purchase articles for peacetime use that were6en. Bradley party arrive in new York new York. June 4 ans a a group of american generals headed by Gen. Omar n. Bradley and Gen. Carl a. Spaatz arrived by air yesterday from Paris and told a press conference they were agreed on this Quot Germany has been destroyed utterly and completely. The words were those of Gen. Bradley commander of the 12th army group. Accompanying Spaatz were maj. Gen. Clarence r. Hub Beer v corps co Menander and maj. Gen. Elwood r. Quesada a who headed ninth tactical air command. Quot nuts Mcauliffe Nome another plane brought maj. Gen. Anthony c. Mcauliffe commander of the 103rd inf. Div. Who As acting cd of the 101st airborne div., gave the now famous reply Quot nuts Quot to the German demand for surrender at Bastogne last december. He was accompanied by maj. Gen. Paul l. Williams of ninth troop Carrier command. Bradley said one of the toughest decisions he had to make was whether to pause after the St. To breakthrough for defense or to try to go through when the germans  offered Indiana Plant fort Wayne ind., june 4 ans a Earl a. Munger president of the Durham manufacturing corporation said that the firm recently indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the government in the manufacture of defective War materials has closed its Plant and offered it to the Navy Quot without  in a statement to employees Munger said that because Quot continued investigation Quot had disrupted work at the Plant and Quot made efficient operation almost impossible Quot the Plant and its facilities had been offered to the Navy Quot so that much needed material May be  admit baby  moan Sinatra a moving Hasbrouck Heights n.j., june 4 ans a there was Only sadness in hearts of Jersey Bobby boxers today. Their Frankie Sinatra sold his House and a new tenant is moving into the modest Bungalow. One Young Bobby Oxer scribbled this message on the door of the dwelling Quot please stay in new Jersey. Done to leave us  Bear on tear riles railway Boone la., june 4 Ansi locked in a larger and stronger Cage a 1,200-Pound Polar Bear was Enro Ute to Salt Lake City after a 24-hour halt in Boone. A crowd of 500 roared approval As Ken Sonderleiter Des Moines zoo operator used fish As bait to successfully entice the Bear into his new Cage. Railway express Agency officials said the Bear did More than 1,000 dollars damage in the baggage car eating rabbits fruit cake and pigeons and damaging some  turns Down judgeship Washington. June 4 ans a former democratic senator Guy m. Gillette of Iowa has turned Down a Federal judgeship because he thinks he is not qualified. President Truman offered him a seat on the Federal Bench last week when he resigned As chairman of the surplus property Board. Made for wartime operations. The new ruling permits Home coming servicemen to buy goods and equipment direct from the government 8wpc vets agent the smaller War plants corporation will be the veterans agent in transactions. Sex servicemen desiring trucks gasoline pumps office and store equipment etc., for any comm rial. Industrial medical or Lea Gal business not having More than 50,000 dollars in invested capital Are authorised to file applications with any of the 110 Wpc regional offices. Arrangements Are under Way for War food administration to handle veterans applications for Purchase of surplus farm  to die in Gas chamber Dos Angeles june 4 ans a twice convicted of murder mrs Louise Peete 63-year-old housekeeper said she was Quot glad that s Over Quot when told she would die in the san Quentin prison Gas chamber mrs. Peete was convicted monday of murdering her Friend mrs. Margaret Rose Logan. Twenty five years ago she was convicted of murdering another Friend Jacob c. Denton wealthy Miner and burying him in a basement Tomb. Mrs Peete was paroled after serving 19 years of a life sentence for the Denton slaying. Odt bans state fairs Washington june 4 ans a the office of defense transportation has banned regional and state fairs this year but local and county fairs not requiring intercity travel May be held. . Headache cargo arc wants cals for clubs in Germany continuing a popular subject girls Are badly needed for american red Cross clubs in Germany says mrs s. Sloan Colt Deputy commissioner for great Britain and Western Europe. The red Cross Hopes to recruit women Between 25 and 45 for the jobs and also to replace girls who have been overseas More than Twoy ars. Friendly Contact with the German population being forbidden Quot we need thousands of workers in a great Many recreation centers Quot says mrs. Volt. Double staffs Are being sought in some cases Quot so they can be drawn i for  a Lone Bandit robbed the Grandville Avenue Branch of the Peoples National Bank of grand rapids mich., escaping on foot with $2,000 in Cash. 1948 cigarette crop planting begins a Mong the things to look Forward to Are the cigarettes you la be smoking in 1948 the tobacco crop for that year is now being planted from such strange looking carts As this one covering a North Carolina Field. The cart by the Way is a transplanted. The two men sitting on the cart poke tobacco seedlings into the holes made by the machine As it Rolls along. A tank on the cart Waters the plants which will be ready for tobacco users in three years. A glimpse of America s peacetime army if present conscription plans go through was Given by Gen. Harshey who said that to Oss 18-year-Olds were processed for actual military service each month during 1944. Of 1sm0s who became is each month the group that would be affected by a compulsory peacetime draft Hershey estimated 29,000 were rejected for various reasons including Job essentiality and physical defects. On the basis of his figures draft proposals would yield 852,000 youths for military training annually. A a a seedling poking the remaining two of three japanese prisoners who escaped from the compound at Camp Mccoy wis., were picked up after ten Days of Freedom. Although armed with hatchets and knives the pair offered no resistance to two patrolmen. The office of censorship says censorship for motion pictures for Export and import including newsreels will be placed on a voluntary basis on june 9. Jeff Davis a rules . Hoboes again luckier than some european Royalty Jeff Davis has been reelected King of the hoboes and mrs. Margaret Hemminger of Altoona pa., mounted the throne of the Hobo ettes. King Jeff is annoyed at publicity gained by pretenders in new York who Rode under a Banner declaring them King and Queen of the hoboes in a War Bond Parade. The Hobo Monarch Points out that his subjects have so far sold More than 16,000,000 dollars Worth of Bonds. There a a Chicken known As Quot Altitude Joe Quot in Nevada mo., hell diving a cockerel As Ever lived. Before he was. Hatched transcontinental and Western air inc., gave him a Power dive at the rate of 1,364 Miles per hour in a pressure chamber. The tests were made to determine. The effect of Altitude and rate of descent on the Fertility of hatching eggs. The answer was none. In a location less susceptible to Royalty the Senate members of the committee on Public buildings and grounds voted unanimously to remodel that chamber. Sucker service Broadway columnist Dorothy Kilgallen reports that Gotham a versions of the i Blanket and ivories game Are flourishing around fifth and Park avenues while from the Jersey coast there Are several reports that big time gamblers Are opening up. Taking advantage of transportation difficulties which does no to make Florida Happy. Philadelphia june 4 ans a formal charges of abduction were filed against two Sisters who admitted taking three month old Thomas v. Ripley or. From his Carriage and abandoning him in a vacant lot. His body was found Here later. The girls Irene Jones 15, and Janet 11, said they did not know How the baby died. Death resulted from a broken neck. The baby disappeared thursday from a Carriage in the Yard at the Home of mrs. Barbara Ripley 30, when the Mother was shopping  paternity Bill is passed Sacramento. June 4 ans a wives who commit indiscretions resulting in the birth of illegitimate children will be Able to have the children adopted by others without notifying their husbands under terms of a Bill passed by the California Assembly assemblyman Gardiner Jackson Berkeley Republican who introduced the measure said it would prevent a mothers indiscretion from Quot forever damning and be clouding the future of a helpless  new York received 9898 a asm of eeg Noe from Franco after a lapse of four years. Carton men look Over the bottled happiness a and misery