Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Friday june 8, 1945the stars and stripes Page 3 news from Home Mauldin is compared to Pyle by mrs. For a t by Phil Bucknell stars and stripes . Bureau new York june 7�?comjiaring stars and stripes cartoonist Bill Mauldin to Ernie Pyle mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said in her daily column that a Mauldin has passed on to a great Many of us the humor and pathos of the infantry a it referring to his Book Quot up front a which will be published on infantry Day june 15, the widow of the late president says Quot i think this permanent record of a Story which we have enjoyed and laughed Over and sometimes Felt like weeping Over will be a record that most of us will want to have in our libraries. We have to remember that in the future we will want to keep before our children what this War was really like. It is so easy to forget and then for younger generations the heroism and Glamor remain while the dirt the hardships the horror of death and the sorrow fade somewhat from their  some of the infantry that Mauldin never saw or Drew Pacific veterans returned to san Francisco under the Point system. The # Weet coast port greeted them As enthusiastically As new York from Portland ore., comes the other end of the Eastern Seaboard a meat shortage Story. Oregon dairymen Are giving away Day old Bull calves As Fox food without charge because of Low opa hide prices and Slaughter restrictions which discourage raising them for veal. And in the Atlanta journal there is a letter from a Lucille Dimon headed a a another first for  it reads Quot Gen. Hodges is running True to form with his firsts. When i planted my Tomato Patch i put a few select ones in a special Patch naming each Plant for a High ranking official. Believe it or not Gen. Hodges is the first to have a  Book will make its debut on infantry Day �?Tsweet1 Bobby Boxer with a sock a a Lieve it or not the a dolls shown to the right is not a female. A she 0 is patrolman Eugene Davis of no Tley . Patrolman Davis volunteered to cover his beat in Nutley _ disguised As a Bobby Boxer. A local Wolf on the prowl for a female companion found that a Bobby Boxer Davis was t an easy pick up. In fact the local Yokel had to be picked up after Davis let go with a right hand punch. The a Wolf paid a 100-Dollar Fine on a disorderly conduct charge. Another kind of shortage was reported from Jacksonville fla., where the drought has caused considerable Pater shortage. In a number of downtown buildings the water pressure was so Low that no water was available above third floors. Police have been detailed to Check on the outdoor Mage and All citizens have been called upon to conserve water. Jonesville la., has been suffering from just the reverse of a water shortage the town has been under water for nearly two months and residents have just begun the task of Clearing Silt and dirt from their Homes. In Chicago cops dropped the murder charges against a1 Capone a brother Matt because of insufficient evidence. They sought to pin the death of race track Habitude Jens d. Larrison on him. The murder took place in Capone Scicero tavern last april. New York newspaper columnist de Sullivan reports that Treasury men lifted 120.000 dollars from italians and germans shipped out on Eugene Davis Gene s mean Bobby Boxer armed forces meat Supply Cut 9 percent Washington june 7 ans a in a general reshuffling of the nations meat Supply the allotment for the armed forces for the july August september Quarter has been Cut nine percent and All lend lease and foreign Relief shipments suspended for that period. Civilian supplies will be Cut one percent in another move by War food administration to counteract current distribution problems. In addition the opa ordered reduction in the allotments of meat fats sugar canned fruits and vegetables to most hotels and restaurants to put them on the same per meal ration basis As private households. Eating places affected will about 20 percent less meat and 12 to 15 percent less canned goods and from 20 to 25 percent sugar. Opa chief Chester Bowles predicted that Quot most restaurant meals will be  foreign Candy imports greater Chicago june 7 apr the sugar shortage in the . Is causing imports of foreign made Candy to increase greatly according to the president of the National confectioners association. The official Philip p. Gott pointed to Argentina a shipments to this country which he said were 4,000 pounds in 1941 and 3.511,000 pounds last year. Two Oil plants seized by . Winchell a scooped by own daughter a West new York. . June 7 ans a columnist Walter Winchell who has made a reputation scooping the world on elopement divorces and other such personal data was scooped badly by his own daughter Eileen Winchell 18. Eileen eloped to West new York with William Lawless 19. World War ii Veteran from Cam Bridges mass. Enemy tdu6h, middies told Annapolis md., june 7 ans a addressing the United states naval Academy graduating class James for tax Freedom for All vets is George aim Washington june 7 Ansi a tax Freedom for All world War ii veterans up to and including the rank of major who have no taxable income other than their pay is sought by sen. Walter f. George a chairman of the Senate finance committee George also believes some Type of preferential taxation should be devised by Congress to Aid veterans while amortizing i Loans made to buy Homes and farms or to establish businesses. �?�1 believe All men in the services especially enlisted men should be relieved of the necessity of making Allta to returns from 1941 on/1 George said. Tax debt a Handicap Quot an accumulation of taxes May very Well discourage a Veteran from entering vigorously into civilian life. This tax debt can Loon As Large to a lieutenant Captain or major As to an enlisted Man it can hang Over them like a Cloud As they try to Start a new life a he continued. Quot there ought to be some kind of preferential tax program for a Veteran to equalize his Burden the senator said. Washington june 7 ans a president Truman ordered government seizure of to Oil plants experiencing labor disputes and was promptly challenged by court action in one of the cases. The plants involved were those of the Humble Oil company Ingleside Tex. And the pure Oil company Dawes w a. The president instructed Secretary the Interior Harold Ickes to take Over the plants to insure their continued operation for the War Effort. Humble company officials asserting they did not understand the seizure since there had been no stoppage of production immediately obtained from Federal judge . Kennerly in Galveston a temporary injunction against the presidential order. The hearing was set for monday in Houston. James v. Forree Tal. Need fun Power Resta declared Thev nations full strength will be needed to beat Japan. Forres Tal told the 1.046 midshipmen that Quot i expect the japanese will fight with increasing tenacity and fury As our Power begins to concentrate on their Homeland we have seen evidences of that fury at iwo Jima and on Okinawa. A it will take the full Power of the tremendous War potential that we have mustered in the past four years if we Are to secure what i take it to be the will of this country Complete unequivocal and unconditional surrender of japanese militarism a he declared. Truman saves Man from chair gigs jail term stayed by court left at Post she s Odds on the grip Holm. They had failed to pay income tax on it. Acting mayor gets Eye decorated when new Orleans acting mayor Joe Skelly left a party of the old regular democrats Given by the commissioner of Public safety he also left his dignity. In the course of conversations his acting Honor picked in a peach of a Shiner. He told vacationing mayor Maestri that it was an Accident and everyone Quot had a few More drinks and Sang a Sweet Adeline half of one of Trio four bodies recently found floating in the Hudson River has been identified by police As once being part of Blac marketeer Joseph gunboat Mastropole. That was the top half. The lower half fished out Throe weeks age was identified by his wife. Whoops he wears Black Rayon shorts columnist Earl Wilson who usually writes entertaining trivia foresees the time when menus underwear will be As glamorous As women a and says he wears Black Rayon shorts himself gives out with a piece of news of interest to returnees and he could be right at that. Glints from the High brass general Spaatz who said he wanted some Berks county a. Smoked sausage when he arrived in Pennsylvania on monday is going to got him wish. Tho citizens of Reading seat of Berks county and near the general a Birthplace combed Tho Butcher shops in vain for the ingredients. Then a mrs. Harvey Boone Hoard of Tho request and donated her last Pound and a half of Salt new York june 7 ans a pfc Anthony p. Bacchiano 34, who pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter after he was brought Back from the Pacific to be tried for a murder committed 14 years ago will be returned to Active army duty. Judge Thomas Downs first sentenced the Soldier to a term of from seven and half to 15 years. Louisville  june 7 ans a the death sentence of Thomas h. Robinson jr., convicted kidnapper scheduled to die in the electric chair last night was commuted to life imprisonment by president Truman. Ben Delaney department of Justice announced the president s action at the state prison Eddyville where Robinson was in the death House. The 37-year-old former Vanderbilt University Law student convicted of the 1934 kidnapping of mrs. Alice Speed Stoll will be Given a sanity hearing to determine whether he will be sent to an Asylum or to serve his life term at Alcatraz. Department of Justice official said or. Truman acted on the recommendation of attorney general Francis Biddle who had previously recommended no clemency in the Case. Turner gets . Post Albany ., june 7 ans a gov. Thomas e. Dewey yesterday appointed Henry c. Turner former head of the new York state Board of education chairman of the states anti discrimination commission. Pick of judge went a out on a limb Chicago june 7 ans a at a Torney Nicholas Caruso represent j ing mrs. Catherine Lowe in her suit to divorce her husband Wil Liam a jockey told Superior judge John a. Sbarbaro Quot i done to know whether your Honor is acquainted with race track phraseology but mrs. Lowe was left at the  mrs. Lowe charged desertion. Quot Well she san Odds on favorite to win this race a judge Sbarbaro observed As he signed the divorce decree. Cops seek two men in murder feb Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank monthly review foresees the possibility that synthetic fibres after the War May bring big changes in the Cotton textile Industry and that plastics will make inroads on markets now supplied by Cotton and Wool fabrics. A new Plant in Philadelphia manufactures a combined Anthracite and bituminous Coal product called Quot White Glove packaged fuel it consists of three Inch cubes of Coal wrapped in Orange paper and processed in ouch a Way that the company claims it literally can be handled with White gloves without soiling them. Broadw Ayite Louis Sobol reports about it Gen. Lewis Brereton Tuat he is Quot trim and Youthful looking and has been attracting More a Hkin the Glamour  he also reports Gen. Brereton is Back to Europe. New York june 7 ans a a Little Black Book containing names i of a varied assortment of persons a a including some Young artists to whom mrs. Marion Langford reportedly paid Large sums of Money a is being closely examined by detectives seeking clues in the Park Avenue murder of mrs. Langford a husband Albert. One item in the memorandum Book was withheld. Numerous other payments were revealed by detectives. 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