Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               He nine columns in its and Navy Section to the d stripes cartoonist who 27 Points has returned to to his pretty wife Jeanie 21-month-old Sony and to a  it amp pm 8bkjh��s8�8�n Gen. Mark w. Clark signs autographs for students of Marjorie Webster or. College Washington d.c., after awarding diplomas at commencement exercises. The general s daughter Ann was among the graduates. Acme tuesday Une 19, 1945the stars and stripes Pap 3 news from Home Bill Mauldin a Willie on times front cover by Phil Bucknell Start and stripes u. S. Bureau new York june 18�?por the first time in the Magazine s history time has put a fictional character on its front cover. Mauldin bashful but forceful suitor of Jeanie fictional but to every Doug foot who Ever cussed mud blood War and Chicken the War s most familiar character Bill Mauldin s Willie. Willie who Quot was born full grown during the italian Campaign. He needed a shave and his clothes Hung in weary folds on his weary Frame. Even on his Day of creation his thick fingers were curved As though from grasping a pick handle or an my. He did not smile then it and he has never smiled since Quot it b it a a a in Mem states time. A Pivk. The Magazine has devoted seven 1 i f out of the nine Quot army and stars and nursing 127 the . And their Fame and wealth. His cartoons which circulate through 138 newspapers Here bring him upwards 200 dollars weekly. His new Book Quot up front Quot ecstatically received All Over the country has brought him a 5,000 dollars Advance and the general build up has been on the lines accorded that other interpreter of the unglamorous Soldier the late Ernie Pyle. Role reveals Mauldin to readers As a bashful though forceful suitor of Jeanie who would t give dates to a Man she had known less than a month. They were married two months after meeting. It tells of his brushes with the brass but it does t mention How Mauldin is being pursued around the country by Home front brass who want him to do this that and the other thing but who would hate to have Willie and Joe on their Doorstep for five minutes. Most of All. The Magazine shows him As a Guy who knows what soldiers really Are and want. It quotes his Book Quot they Are so sick Anil Tirad of having their noses rubbed in a stinking War that their Only ambition win be to forget it they Don t need pity because you Don t pity Bravo men. They returnees simply need Bosses who will give Thorn a Little time to adjust their minds and their hands and woman who Are faithful to them and friends and families who will stay by them until they Ara the same Guys who loft Yoars  Fate dealt Glt a family cruel blow r e family of pfc Herbert e. Swan spent hours waiting at the Buffalo Central terminal for his return after two and a half years in a German prison Camp. But he did not arrive. He was travelling in a coach of the Pennsylvania Railroad s Washington Buffalo flier in which 18 persons were killed when the train was derailed and he was one of the 10. Police and firemen roped off ado Phi Street in now York near the Navy Yard. An object looking like a Gorman potato Masher grenade had been found in a second floor hallway. They cautiously doused the object in Oil while waiting for men from the army bomb disposal depot to arrive. When they did they identified it aet a water pump valve. It was no Washee at suey Long Leong s laundry in Kansas City yesterday. Facing the fact that this is a machine age he ordered a mechanical washing machine to bring his laundry abreast of the times. But As it was being unloaded from a truck it broke Loose from its moorings and pinned the 74-year-old laundry Man to the curb. Police took him to the Hospital but he managed to return to the Job. Tomorrow he opens for business again As a chinese hand laundry. The hat s the thing for this sex wac Flat does a wac do when she gets out of the army she buys a hat As Unmil itary As possible. Furthermore it would be a hat featuring much decorative shrubbery and a veil to Boot. That was exactly the procedure taken by sgt. Shirley Angel of new York one of the first was discharged from the second service command under the Point s Ste m. Shirley enlisted in february 1943 and was released at fort Dix n.j., on May 15. From Washington emanates a Wisecrack about the presidents appointing so Many Missotar-1 ans to big jobs. He makes army planning to Cut 90 put. Of contracts new York june 18�?within 48 hours of the end of the japanese War the army will Cut Back 90 percent of its contracts it was revealed by director of material Howard Bruce. Procurements have already been pared 32 percent from two front War Levels and experience during the last month pro ably will form a pattern for Post a a Day economies. Present Cut backs affect the Sherman tank most. All production the m4 will cease within two months As the army already has a great number of them. Light tank production will be Cut 76 percent but general Pershing medium tank production will be stopped up slightly. Incendiary step up due other items due for a Cut by the of the year Are Garand rifles percent jeeps 76 percent heavy Field artillery 78 percent 105 my. Howitzers 81 percent and Light and heavy trucks 75 percent. On the other hand some items will receive a Large boost. Incendiary bombs which have already burned out a Large part of Many japanese cities Are due for a step up of 172 percent. Cotton shirt production will go up 132 percent 60 my. Mortars 42 percent and ducks 63 percent apart from temporary unemployment problems in some places most manufacturers and workers Greet the Cut backs with pleasure. Major sugar problem seen Washington june 10 ans a distribution problems threaten sugar importing countries with critical shortages this year the department of agriculture said today. An outline of the world s sugar prospects excluding japanese held areas said Quot the difficulty in 1040 is not entirely one of total Supply but o distribution. Those areas that normally produce Export surpluses will have record Large quantities available for local consumption while importing countries will have to tighten their belts. Quot this situation makes for critical shortages in important consuming countries where rations have been in effect throughout the War . Winner of chm is by. Colonel an important Webster or. The Washington june 18 an8 a the creation of a clemency Board to Aid undersecretary of War Robert p. Patterson in reviewing court martial convictions was announced by the War department judge Sherman Minton of the circuit court of appeals former senator from Indiana will be chairman of the new Board. Other members include Austin Maccormick vice chairman former commissioner of correction for new York City Brig. Gen. Rufus 3. Ramey who commanded an armoured task Force which pursued the germans up the italian Peninsula col Hubert d. Hoover recently on the staff of the judge advocate general in the Eto and la col James Hendrick who has been handling clemency cases in the we the Board will devote its attention to the Quot More the announcement Shirley Angel. Pipe the Skimmer appointments from East and West they say the Eastern ones Are. From St Louis and the Western ones from Kansas City. He wanted tax exemptions for two wives Ata paper from Missouri who married again within a year of his first wife s death applied to the Bureau of internal Revenue for two 500 dollars exemptions one for each wife. But the Bureau Wasny to willing to be shown the logic of it and said that As far As tax collectors were concerned a Man has Only one wife in any year the Bureau for some reason or other also ruled that a Man s Mother in Law remains his Mother in Law even if his wife his Mother in Law s daughter Dies. I get it singers organized and unorganised were buying Sheet music of these songs last week Quot Bell Bottom trousers Quot Quot sentimental Stearns ky., june 18 cans a Wilburn Wib Ross Holder of the congressional medal of Honor who killed 58 German in world warn had his first civilian problem settled by the state attorney general As hundreds of residents of this Kentucky Tennessee Border town looked on. Ross met sgt Alvin c. York of world War i Fame and thought it swell then sex private Ross was commissioned a colonel Kentucky style by governor Simeon Willis. Then came the problem As Ross was sworn in As a member of the state Highway patrol. Attorney general Eldon Dummit was Reading the oath 1 have not fought a Duel with deadly weapons within this state nor out of it. Nor have i sent or accepted a Challenge to fight a Duel with deadly  Ross looked puzzled until the attorney general gave the official opinion killing 58 germans does not constitute fighting a Duel. Sailor Victor in death race Waterloo la., june 18 ans a Seaman 1-c Richard j. Peel 32, Victor in an 8,000-mile dash against death returned from the Marianas to a tearful father s Day reunion with his three year old leukaemia stricken daughter Diana Lou. The thin Pale Blue eyed Girt who has talked about virtually nothing but daddy s Homecoming since the red Cross located him june 8 in a Field Hospital burst into tears when the wounded Sailor stepped on crutches from a plane. Quot i came a Long Way just to hear you cry Quot Peel told Diana he left Saipan june 11 on emergency furlough to see his daughter who was then Given just a week or two to live by physicians. Her condition has improved since he was located. Wasni Nuiloa june 18 ans a attorney general Francis Biddle As informed Philip Murray president of the Cio that the Justice department has completed streamlining the Mas sedition Case for retrial. Biddle said in reply to a letter from Murray urging the Case be tried a Alp that the number 01 defendants had been reduced and other adjustments made in order to shorten the proceedings though he did not indicate number of defendants the Murcur ment intended to prosecute Biddle recently said the number had been reduced to Quot about a  originally there were 38 defendants but this number had been reduced to 26 when the original proceedings were declared a mistrial upon the death last Winter of chief Justice Edward o. Etcher. The government charged the defendants with conspiracy to undermine morale of the armed Force army now Hunts poultry Gyps Washington june 18 ans a the army has joined in a drive against poultry Black markets. The War department announced army representatives will be stationed at Highway Check posts in eight states to make spot purchases and requisitions of any poultry found to be moving into illicit channels. Miners wages goal prices up Washington june 18 ans a Stabiliser William he Davis has approved a new Anthracite miners wage boost and has authorized an average Price increase of 78 Cento a ton As compensation. The wage pact approved previously by the War labor Board gives 68,000 United mine workers an additional 81.375 daily and 4,000 others slightly smaller increases. A major portion of the wage increase results from pay to miners under the Portal to Portal contract other adjustments include a 870 vacation allowance four and six sent hourly premiums for working second and third shifts time and a half to work beyond the traditional seven hour Day and a so hour week. 22 freight cart derailed Marshalltown Iowa june 18 ans a Twenty two cars of a Chicago and Northwestern freight train were derailed at state Center fifteen Miles West of Here blocking the right of Way and forcing passenger trains to Detour. Dream just a prayer away Quot Quot there i said it again Quot Quot you belong the my heart Quot Quot i should care Quot Quot the More i see your and Quot there must be a  in radio circles they Are saying that Lawrence Tibbett who took Over the hit Parade from Frank Sinatra at the beginning of the year will soon be replaced by either  Todd Andy Russell or Phil Brito with Todd the favorite. Tibbett has been doing a swell Job but when he wraps chords around Quot accentuate the positive Quot he makes it sound like Quot shortening bread Quot among other things. Slate Pyle bust for Indiana u. Indianapolis june 18 cans a Indiana University Alma mater of Ernie Pyle will get a life sized bust of the correspondent. The presentation will be made july 0, at the Premier of the Pyle film Quot Story of i  the bust was executed by to Davidson while Pyle was in the . Resting before taking off for the Pacific where he was killed. _ my Nam no. Be m on peddle sex i picked wrong cop sex i hero new York june 18 cans a fruit peddle Stanley Meola was outraged when patrolman Leon Janpol ordered him to move his Wagon from a Busy intersection in Brooklyn. Meola refused shouting Quot i fought the War for the likes of you Quot. Janpol brought Meola before magistrate j. Roland Sala on a disorderly conduct charge. The judge inquired into the military records of both learning Janpol enlisted in the army As a private fought in four Pacific campaigns including Guam and Guadalcanal Rose to Captain and had been Back with the police department Only a few Days. Meola told the judge he was drafted served As Cook and was discharged because of a leg injury received in the rear of the Battle Quot you Little people who do a utile and talk so much Quot said the magistrate. Quot i never heard a hero brag about  Meola a suspended sentence