Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               York june 1� ans a $ in presidential seizure the office of defense transit today took control of a aft 1,700 trucking lines in went Effort to Avert a Sec Ike by Union Drivers. There sports troops were moving seizure stemmed from a Ersy Over wages and hours no bus Drivers an Mechan eight Southern states were by the War labor Board in to their jobs by monday. A i a Jfe Quot Quot new York most City buses de Joni ask Ovra Quot a Traas a Ricot Union As a protest a inst Over is be to exert coercion on the r labor dispute develop k a a a a or a a i Quot a strike of an estimated 2,000 mine workers closed the id Alai toot Plant at fair Hio for the second Day. Steel Hants closed three plants of the great steel voip. In Detroit were it last night after walkouts some 7,500 workers Idle. A spokesman to the car Illinois steel Cor in Fitts said workers who walked out mesday have voted to ret their jobs employees of the Scranton transit co. Ended their the stars and stripes sunday june 17, 1945 of in Union strike. A me want production Falle is second lakes closed made came Gie in Pittsburgh wed to Scranton a. Their 27-Day bananas purchased for yanks in Eto Marshall it Down  a. V a. It. A. A it Madrid. June 16�?the us. Army has contracted for 6,000 tons of bananas to be exported from the Canary islands to its forces in the Eto causing rejoicing in the canaries where banana exports had virtually halted during the War. The army is also buying 2,000 tons of tomatoes. . Subjected to weather i new York june the nation s weather picture was a Hodgepodge yesterday from Snow and temperature Down to 21 in the Rockies to heat Waves on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The Mercury ducked to an All time june 15 Low of 40 in Denver. Boston sweated in 96 degree heat one degree higher than the old record set in 1691. New York City with 90, stewed through the hottest Day of the year. Re. Prayer tor rain an right Inch Snow fell on red Feather lakes Colo. In new Mexico Lack of moisture was so acute that archbishop Edwin v. Byrne called on catholics in the Santa be diocese to Pray for rain. In Northern California the Mercury inched close to 100. At Kansas City rain and Hail further delayed discouraged far five Star Gen. George c. Marshall top . Sold of ills these year of grandson Jimmie Winn to circus Jimmie shakes hands with Immitt Kelly Down. Left la coi h. M. Patoo and ton Junior.  wife wed to Best Friend Spokane june 16 ans �?1fwo soldiers lifelong friends who in schooldays courted the same girl today found themselves both married to Hep after one of them previously reported killed in the Philippines a returned Home after being liberated from a Jap prison Camp. They talked the matter Over Anc decided to let the girl who has a three month old child by the second marriage choose Between them As she did once before Quot More than a two years ago. Her decision has not trial killing been revealed. The Story was disclosed by the. Rev. D. A. Russell presbyterian mers already More than a month a tor and director of the Spokane behind in planting. Inter Church servicemen s Center to whom it was told by the second Soldier. The pastor said he did not know the names of the soldiers or the girl. The Soldier liberated from the japanese is convalescing at the fort Lewis army Hospital where the second Soldier and the girl have Paris june 10�?several , i been visiting him. At the patients army officers have been court mar request fort Lewis authorities de it. Col. Guilty in fund Trade Germany june 16 crime trial of Peter Leader of a mob of civilians who murdered a us airman at priest last August ended almost As quickly As it began today. Before a seven Man commission of 15th Jub. Army officers the crippled Bach without a display of a notion openly confessed to the crime saying he did it Quot in my excitement and Quot without thinking a. The verdict will be announced after it has been reviewed by it. Gen. Leonard t. Perow 15th of who also is studying the verdicts resumed in the Case of three other germans tried for the same crime two weeks ago / before Bach conf after bearded Matthias Krein a Blacksmith and two other villagers from Preist testified that Bach arrived at a Field where the unarmed airman had been taken in custody jumped off his motorcycle with a pistol in his hand and fired two shots wounding the american in the head and neck. Titled and found guilty of foreign currency transactions Seine Section revealed. Trials resulted in dismissal of four officers including a lieutenant colonel who was fined 1,999 dollars. All four dismissed were charged with importing holding and exchanging British currency for francs. The other three received prison sentences two captains for three years and a Fine of 1,090 dollars each and a second lieutenant two years and a 509 dollars Fine. A Captain charged with the Exchange of american currency for French currency was fined 500 Dol lined to disclose any names. Town to Mark invasion Beach Truk attacked japs say Guam june 16 ans a Truk naval base in the Central Pacific was bombarded yesterday by an Allied naval task Force believed to be British a Tokyo broadcast said. Carrier planes raided the base for the third straight Day. Citizens of St. Raphael yesterday announced plans to erect a Monument More than 100 feet High on the Beach of dram ont where the invasion of Southern France began on the night of aug. 14-15, 1944. The Monument depicting an list with ramp open and a tank emerging will be of Blue porphyry from Lars and a first lieutenant held i dra Montt quarries. It will be built to possessing uj3. And British on the Beach with the tank a Little nations lose in Effort to win review san Francisco june 16-Small nations have lost in their Effort to win a review of the chapter of the proposed United a tides peace keeping organization within five to ten years. The Small nations plan died in a conference committee when it failed to win a two thirds majority. The big five�?., Britain Russia China and France had opposed the plan introduced by the Canadian and brazilian delegations. The smaller Powers sponsored it to guarantee a review of the charter provision giving any of to amp a big five almost Complete veto Powers. Counter plan pending the conference committee still has to act on the major Powers counter proposal providing to a review of the charter later without specifying a time limit and with the right a reserved for any of the big five to reject changes. 7 the commission on judicial organization approved a statute providing for the new world court which will sit at the Hague. Pearing to smash Down a Concrete Wall the germans built along the Mediterranean a stairway 29 feet wide will link the Monument with the National Road along the coast. Washington june a a Cap -1 Ttoe a  i american troops arts be withdrawn pf1 ��?op5�j� a Nfn in by june 21 from the German currency was fined 259 dollars. It. Yanks to quit russian zone wife May visit go mate later Washington june 16 ans the War department has promised to allow families and Fiancee of servicemen id occupied Europe to join them Quot when conditions  in a letter to rep. Margaret Chase Smith a Mej John w. Martyn. Administrative assistant to Secretary of War Stimson said Quot you May be confident that the War department is fully aware of the desirability of dependents and Fiancee when conditions permit. Fiancee proceeding to Europe and will Cert airily relax present restrictions when conditions  mrs. Smith had Quot suggested that wives be permitted to join husbands who Are assigned to indefinite stay or for a year or More. Her proposal included Fiancee who would go to Europe to the purpose of marrying and remaining with their husbands. Martyn said the shortage of transportation want of food and Lack of housing facilities in occupied areas prohibits civilian travel to Europe How. Reporters Bee gain new York june 16 ans a newspaper correspondents at the san Francisco conference Are confident that the charter drawn for the world Security organization will be More effective than the of league of nations covenant Newsweek Magazine reported today. Newsweek polling 37 correspondents said the majority was confident the discussions had promoted the cause of american British russian cooperation. Air div. Chief big 3 discard 2 precedents London. June 16�?two firsts emerged today from plans for the big three conference scheduled for Berlin Between july 5 and 26 it will be the first time that the Heads Quot of the uj5., Britain and Russia Confer on enemy territory and the first time that the scene has been disclosed in Advance. The office of prime minister Churchill confirmed last night that the meeting would be held in Berlin and in Washington Charles g. Ross president Truman a press Sec. Rotary announced that the president Churchill and marshal Stalin would meet a in the Vicinity of  or. Truman will travel 16,500 Miles in the next few weeks going to the closing session of the san Francisco conference to his Home in Missouri and then to Berlin. Cup amp Tom zones assigned to Russia acting Secretary of state Joseph c grew said. Asked if the final lines of demarcation among the russian British american and French zones had been drawn grew said the question was still being negotiated. Ment the name of every american Soldier who died on the dram ont beaches. Conferees fix Trieste zones Cly woe die in wreck Milton a. June 1� ans it four soldiers and a wac were among 18 persons killed in yesterday s Pennsylvania Railroad passenger freight crash Here. 12 Spanish Bines billed in riot at Lvon station Rome june 16 Reuter a Allied and Jugoslav delegations conferring near Trieste today decided on boundaries to Divide their respective zones of occupation but the lines were not disclosed. A quoted the Moscow newspaper red Star As saying a general election had been ordered for Yugoslavia Quot in the near  for the first time women will vote and All soldiers regardless of age will be allowed to cast ballots Lyon France june 16 apr twelve persons were killed and nearly 100 wounded today when a mob stormed a train carrying 1,909 mentors of the Spanish Blue dive a who were returning to Spain after  on the Side of the Ger on the Eastern front train also carried a. Few Vichy militia men. It was whether any of idled. Or about to leave the station tracks were blown up and a crowd maddened by the sight of German uniforms swarmed into the cars. When the unarmed spaniards resisted the mob began to handle them roughly the deaths resulting from beatings. The train was rerouted to Swit Aerland when it became known that mobs lined the tracks for Miles through Southern  scores at 50,000 feet Chicago june 16 ans a an attachment to the Norden bomb sight making it Quot deadly effective from Heights around 59,009 feet was disclosed today by ool Robert l. Finkenstaedt commanding officer of the Central District of the air technical service command. Brig. Gun. Richard c. Banders 29, of balt Lake City youngest general in the u.8. Army has been appointed the commend the ninth air div., formerly the ninth bomb. Div. Of ninth a p. He now Oom Tande the largest tactical bomber Force in the Eto succeeding Mej. Men. E. Andersen of bore n. C. Veteran sues to get olb Job Philadelphia june 16 ans Harry Goodman 34-year-old War Veteran has begun suit in Federal court to get Back his old Job As a plumber. The Case is the first of its kind in Pennsylvania. Goodman a attorney Gordon Forster said the veterans reemployment had been blocked by an Al local because it objected to Goodman a restoration at the same see Nio Rity rating a Forster said veterans former employer l. E. Winter and co., was willing to rehire him but feared a strike if he returned without the unions approval. Vets losing out on jobs Rankin Washington june 16 ans a veterans seeking their old jobs Are finding there is a a tendency to squeeze them out and keep people on the payroll who have been there All the time a rep. John e. Rankin sex miss asserted today. Rankin chairman of the House veterans committee is pressing for Early action on a Bill to exempt returning servicemen from closed shop provisions of Union contracts