Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Saturday june 9, 1945 f the stars and stripes Page s news from Home sex pro blasts army cold Rieks in article by Phil Bucknell stars and stripes . Bureau 1 t new York june 8�?a former Public relations lieutenant in the Artie of the Interior in this War and a Veteran of the last let his hair Down in an article in this week s Liberty Magazine. His beef is that too Many soldiers Don t fight. The author out of uniform Only a few weeks is Herbert o. Moore. Moore was once stationed at Wright Field Ohio. He says that some pro officers stationed there begged for releases to combat duty but that the station fused most requests. When a request was granted he claims Quot two officers usually replaced each one released even if it meant that the jobs had to be tailor made. A referring to the time he arrived at an air technical service command base he says 1 was assigned to the Public relations Section whose staff at the time consisted of one other officer a a major and two stenographers. In november 1944, the staff included six officers and four girls. I can state without fear of con that there was no corresponding increase in necessary ten on staff but work r did not increase m tradition  concerning duty hours the sex officer says Quot for Days at a time our program consisted of Coffee at ten in the morning lunch possibly followed by an hour of Pool or pingpong at the officers club and Coffee again at three in the  Gore enlisted in the last War from Princeton University was in the 11th Field artillery and fought at Toul and the Meuse Argonne. He was managing editor of the Ardmore pa., chronicle when tie was inducted into the army in september 1942. Two Illinois mothers each of whom has six servicemen sons Wlsh act of co sponsors of Tho ii.8a Momodon a submarine to relaunched tuesday at the Portsmouth . Navy Yard hero. They Are mrs. Guy Yates of a Inanc and mrs. Lorona Neff of Cisna Leslie Gardner Navy Yard employee and himself the father of six sons in Tho services will present the traditional Silver bowls the each of Tho sponsors. Bears killed cattle and he killed rangers a wizened Barefoot Little Waycross ga., swampland Farmer Abo harboured resentment against the government because bears on a Federal game Reserve destroyed his cattle was charged with slaying two us. Rangers assigned to protect the wild animals. The Farmer 60-year-old Oliver Thrift confessed the Shotgun slayings of Andrew b. Crews 36, and Joe d. Martin 40. He said 1 was sore at the government because the government protected the bears and the bears killed my cattle Quot Congress the hotel comes lip with greeter ettes i Cagot a 1,000-room Congress hotel closed since its Quot honorable discharge from the aah will soon throw open its doors to the Public. One of the Congress new features will be Quot Gree Terette  it May be because of the Power r and it that pretty such As Judith priest better greeting a such As William Galvin shown double take spots Lovely Dith and those shapely pins in the scene right. The agent and Ever believed one denied that he thought up Judith priest s name. The tub thumped did say _ that waa a per. Eyes feast on Judith priest Tinnent name because that s what every Serviceman says when he sees her. Neighbors Are pretty much folks wherever you find them. In 1943 Oliver Clark s friends in South Bond incl pitched in and helped him build a now Bam when his old one burned Down. That Bam was also destroyed by Fotre and Clarks neighbors Are Alrea ctr on the Job helping him build a third Here is How the Home town of one of our fighting officers in ten to Greet him saturday Moberly mb., Home town of Gen Omar Bradley intends to make a fuss but it will be the same kind of fuss his town would give any other Soldier. There will be a dinner of his High school graduating class and nobody figures Bradley a four stars on each shoulder will make him less Happy at meeting his school friends. There will be governors and mayors and other folks around but they figure he is going to be happiest talking about the Days he was a sandlot baseball hero. The House has approved and tent to the Senate a Simn dollars supplemental appropriation for emergency material and infant care for families of Torvie Omen during Tho current fiscal year. Honor memory of Wendell Winkle a gift of 100,000 dollars in Honor of the late Wendell Wilde to Tullid a new negro Community Center building in Des Moines la., was announced of the Gardner Cowles foundation. The two strikes with which a negro baby started life Jan. 24 at Greenville 8.c., have been eliminated. Hit parents had Tojo Hitler my Elf name changed to just Plain Odell Mills. Incidental information for the seventh Day running weathermen have put out statements that Quot today is the coldest june first second third Etc. On  Joe Dimaggio sex new York Yankees Star finally was divorced by actress Dorothy Arnold despite Many Rumore of make . Sen. William danger in a who is always coming Forward with something for the boys has introduced a Bill requiring at least ten percent of the players of each major league baseball team be persons who have lost one or More legs arms or hot few. T three German pcs Hare been sentenced to 20 years at hard labor for ransacking private Homes in Virginia. Postwar draft attacked again by churchmen a Washington june 8 cans a More educational and religious organizations spoke out yesterday against peacetime military training generally agreeing such legislation should not be enacted now if at All. The National Congress of parents and teachers which claims 3,500,-000 members told the House postwar military policy committee talk of peacetime conscription was Quot Inopportune Quot the very Rev. Msgr. Carroll general Secretary of National Catholic welfare conference wrote the committee the View of Catholic archbishops and Bishops was that Quot a matter so important should await decision until the end of the War Quot those in the army and Navy would be Given an Opportunity to express their views the letter added. Or. Herbert j. Burgstahler speaking for the Federal Council of churches of Christ in America with a membership of 25,000,000 protestants said Quot the peace should establish procedures for controlling military establishments everywhere Quot instead of building new armed forces. Or. Burgstahler told committee members that efforts should be concentrated on building forces for peace instead of forces for War. Her hero dad s chm Brig. G Man placet two year old move Giffi. Joan received j. Mcveigh wage control bid refused Washington june 8 ans requests by labor leaders for immediate relaxation of wage controls met a Flat refusal by president Truman. The president said the Little steal formula would stand at least until a thorough study of wage and commodity Price schedules is completed. Or. Truman s announcement made at a press conference came Only a Short time after Al president William Green and Cio president Philip Murray called at the White House to press for a Quick revision of the Little steel formula. Under the formula Basic  raises Are held generally to 15 percent above Levels of january 1941. Murray and Green both urged the president to Grant a 20 percent increase in Basic wages to absorb the loss in Quot take Home  Quot when War plants shift from a 48 to a 40-hour week. Nation s fruit crops hit by Freak cold weather i�1washington june 8 cans a Hie recent Freak cold spell Baa caused fruit crop damages ranging from 40 to 75 percent Over the Eastern mid West and North Central Parta of the nation the department of agriculture disclosed. The nation s Apple crop will be slashed to 76,009,000 bushels As compared with 1944 s 125,000,000, reports to the department showed. Peaches will also be hand hit the department added. New York Ohio a nil Michigan expect their full crop while Pete 50 and Maryland 26 the damage reckoned in. Will be Quot tremendous a the department predicted. Meanwhile the us. Weather Bureau explained that the extended cold spell was due to stranger than usual southward How of Polar air Quot . Won t allow Railroad Jam Bradley a town hot going to fuss Over him escaped convict to die in chair Washington. June 8 an8 a a District court decreed death in the electric chair for Joseph d. Medley escaped Michigan convict charged with the brutal slaying of mrs. Nancy Boyer his red haired poker playing hostess. Medley who escaped from the Michigan state Penitentiary where he was serving a 00-year term for Ken adding was arrested by Fri agents in a St Louis hotel two weeks after mrs. Boyer s Bullet riddled body was found in her apartment. The jury of nine men and three women also found Medley guilty of stealing mrs Boyer s 1,000 Dollar Diamond Sapphire ring an expensive Silver Fox jacket and 350 dollars. . Camp Steak vets first Laet o am p Myles Standish. Mass., june 8 cans a an army personnel officer welcoming Home a group of veterans from the Eto told them Quot we re having Steak and ice Cream for dinner tonight and to want you a to eat your fill Quot for Many of you it will be the first Good dinner you be had in weeks and for those who Are returning to civilian life shortly it will be the last you la have for months Quot Truman backs Congress raise retrial denied to movie comic Washington june 8 ans a congressmen Are Quot grossly underpaid a president Truman declared yesterday but they should ask for a straight increase in salary rather than vote themselves a tax free expense account the president said he would not veto current House legislation for 2,500 Dollar expense allowance annually for each member but he made it Plain he preferred an outright increase. He said congressmen a salaries should be somewhere Between 15.000 and 25,000 dollars annually. Washington june 8 ans a the government will not hesitate to put Federal controls on travel if Railroad facilities become too strained during the redeployment period president Truman said yesterday adding that he hoped would not be necessary. The president said the nation must Complete the Job Quot la ten  he warned that civilian traffic must be greatly reduced. King receives degree Brunswick me. June 8 cans a adm. Ernest j. King commander in chief of us. Naval forces received an honorary degree of doctor of science yesterday at Bowdoin College commencement los Angeles june 8 ans a Charlie Chaplin recently declared by a jury to be the father of Joan Berry s baby Carol Ann has been denied a new trial in the paternity suit Superior judge Clarence l. Kincaid held that Quot while there was highly conflicting testimony in the Case it was sufficiently substantial if the jury chose to believe it Quot utilities get signal Washington june 8 ans a the War production Board yesterday lifted nearly All restrictions on the construction of equipment for electric  a to water Natii Tift and promised similar action soon for Telephone and Telegraph companies. Linguistic dough wishes he had t mentioned it lean. Get me out of Here a beamed Derfer yelled. Hie lieutenant apparently had known germans to pose As americans and walked coldly out of the Ward. From the Field Hospital the scene shifted to a pm Camp in England where Beamesderfer was squeezed in Between his muttering Quot buddies Quot in desperation he turned to a Philadelphia nurse and poured out such a wealth of lore about Pennsylvania that she took his Case to army authorities. His fingerprints were rushed Back to Washington. On the 30th Day of his imprisonment an officer breezed in beaming. Quot i am Happy to inform you Quot a announced Quot that you Are an american at last Quot Bald the Corporal today Quot the most harrowing Dag of my  Framingham mass., june 8 ans a Cpl Gilbert Beamesderfer of Ephrata pa., a patient at Cushing general Hospital is getting along Fine and life is very simple and uncomplicated. But it was not always so. The trouble began on a european Battlefield while opt Beamesderfer was leading a 36th div. Squad Fig Kiriat a German maj Etna gun position. He was shot in the Arm and lost a Marira Nam he awoke in an american Field Hospital surrounded by wounded germans. Then an american lieutenant addressed him in German. Opl Beamesderfer Speaks the language and to be agreeable he replied in German. The lieutenant nodded and said Quot you re All right a you re with your  Quot buddies hell i am tax saner