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Publication: Southern France Stars and Stripes Saturday, June 30, 1945

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     Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Stan Day me 30, 1945 the stars and stripes Page i new from Home vet bodies springing of daily in a Anterica in a a a William r. Spear go stripes us. Bureau29�?More than 300 organizations have been formed if tar or for War veterans and new ones Are a winging up daily. Both new and old organizations Are bidding actively for members and most admit veterans As members even before they Are discharged. A a Survey of these organisations made by the Chicago times found that they were of a Hinds Quot from those with legit mate read a went and rehabilitation programs to the which Are spawned to Foster racial and religious hatreds and those which Are Plain  seme Are big organisations already having nation wide membership while ethers Are Small Grot termed by a few Veteran the just get together and decided to organise for something or Ether the bigger and older ones a re the american legion veterans of foreign wars and disabled american veterans two outstanding crack veterans also have c. V a it ,.��?� St a -et9m an organisation ones exclusively tor world War n veterans Are the american veterans committee and the american veterans of world War h. Under the  head Are the Catholic War veterans and jewish War veterans National groups include the greek veterans Phalanx and the National Council of negro veterans is the Story of Bozoo a Little dog of no particular Breed who apparently made a seven month 1300-mile journey afoot from California to Knoxville Tenn. To get Back Home. Mia s. C. Flan Nigan and her two children Carl 13, Andi Patricia eight shipped Bozoo last june from Knoxville to Glendale calif., where they planned to live with another son Paul aged 17, Bosco a owner. When they called at the Glen Fri agents in Phila Delphiia Dale express office for Bosco they found a big Hole gnawed in the top of his crate and the dog gone. Later the Flannigan returned to Knoxville to live in a new Home. Mrs. Flanagan happened to drive past their old House and there was Bosco sitting on the Steps so weak he could hardly move. A neighbor said he first appeared around feb. 1. The neighbors fed him occasionally. Huge postwar Public works being planned Chicago june 29 Ansis a 5 billions annual postwar Public works program to provide employment for millions As they Marge from armed services and War plants is being planned by administration leaders Burton p. Miller of the american Road builders association revealed in an address before the Illinois Road builders association. Miller said that he had been advised of the proposed Public works projects by various governmental departments Heads. The program. Miller stated includes roads River and Harbor projects Public buildings poet offices and Many other Public improvements construction officials he declared Are urging the government to get the program going As quickly As possible now he predicted that a substantial share of the Federal funds will be allotted to Highway construction. Takes 8�?million Cut in her suit lob Angeles june 29 ans a mrs. Dorothy Fleet 96, took an a millions plus comedown and settled for an estate of 1,680,000 dollars in her divorce action against maj. Reuben h. Fleet former president of consolidated aircraft she won custody of their three children. She is seeking a divorce on allegations of cruelty. Mrs. Fleet originally asked for 10 million arrested a girl the charge of wearing a wac uniform although she was discharged last january. She explained she wore it so she Yeold get into the movies at re duped rates. Top ranking Cen Arais visited Denver Denver had a Chance to see what the much publicized Gen. George subpoenas go to lawmakers Patton or. Left looked like when he and amt. Via. Gen. James Madison wish a june 39 ans a the entire Wisconsin legislature will be subpoenaed to testify in hearings on a reported gambling lobby the attorney general s office announced subpoenas were in the mail for 33 state senators and subpoenas for the state s 100 assemblymen will be issued later. The senators will be called to the circuit court in Madison to testify on july 2, 3, 9 and 1l the assemblymen s hearings will Start july 12. Heir examination will be part of a John Down investigation which the legislators themselves ordered the attorney general to conduct after reports were circulated that 100,000 dollars had been raised by gambling interests to fight anti gambling legislation. Washington. Jun. 29 ans a the american meat diet will be five per cent better in july thaw it was id june the opa announced. At the same time the opa raised the. Ration Point values of canned fish and Margarine. According to opa the average weekly Supply of meat will be up slightly during the next month but present Point values a for All cute must be maintained to insure a fair distribution. Meanwhile the War food administration announced there will be no More shipments of potatoes to Europe because of inability to obtain suitable shipping and the danger of spoilage. 2,025,000 Days of to mayor talk8-cets arrester Washington june 39 Cap a since Juan i there have been 42b strikes and lock outs in America involving 310,000 workers and the lose of 2,095,000 Man Days according to the Bureau of labor St a to St to a. Today an estimated 03,000 Woof ers were Idle More than half of them in Detroit. Elsewhere a few Small strikes ended and a few fresh walk outs loomed. In Chicago a new stoppage broke out at the Continental foundry and machine co. Where 2.500 american federation of Fabor workers protested what they Elm the company s refusal to discharge member of a bricklayer s Union. Huomo Strum stat tet meanwhile Michigan s gov Harry f. Idly appealed to de trait s labor unions to mid jurisdictional disputes affecting workers while the Hudson motor car strike in which 11300 had been Idle was settled. The production of parts for super forts and hell diver bombers had been halted by the walk out which grew out  a dispute Over Job  disputes affecting employees of the Foro Packard and Budd wheel companies involve conflicting demands of Cio Fin Al unions for Job preference on reconversion work. In three Ford plants nearly 13,000 did not report for work a company spokesman s a i d fewer than half of 2,700 night shift workers at the River Rouget Plank picket lines set up last Doolittle attended a press radio conference in that City recently. The generals a their parties remained in Denver for a night and then proceeded by plane for los Angeles. A Survey of feed scarcities by Bureau off labor statistics among  Siami to Eithea shewed the meat Eit Matiea is growing worse with four out it ten stores lacking even Bologna of 6mwb0iw9tfl� a food shortage was feared in Mumm Bui a Tiris by my ibid in amp a ii Ildi a mmiiilisselmtt1 Many Vielt Ert for its big Redse july 1 to a but four Buffalo were donated is the Elty to be sen averted into Quot  for visit Era. A a a no Al convention this year fir the first time in its 65-year history the american federation of labor will have no annual convention this year. The of Floe of defense transportation turned Down the afle a application to hold its convention in Chicago in october. Tycer Cio has not yet set a Date for its convention and it is Likely font its leaders meeting in Washington july 13, would decide not to apply for permission to hold one. Odt has banned All meetings which require 50 or More persons to travel except those directly come acted with the prosecution of the War but it was thought that an exception might be made for the two labor organizations. A joint policy adopted by Tho army and Navy provides that any woman in the aimed a enriches Here will got a leave or furlough up the 6s Days if her husband returns from overseas. Mrs. Kay Maloney attractive 32-year-old Brunette of new York arrested for turning in a false fire alarm explained she was just lonely. Her husband is in an army Camp in Texas. To Hope i get 90 Days for this a she said Quot and then at least full have company in Jall Quot army officers fee Ceil of gifts Triol reveals new York june 29 ans a a Story of High ranking army officers being lavished with gifts and taken on expensive parties in Broadway night clubs was read into the record As the general court martial of maj Walter v. Rado Vich opened at Mitchell Field la he is charged with having accepted 7.000 dollars to keep two enlisted men from being sent overseas. Radovich 24-year-old former Cut Pilot from new York mum a voluntary Lepage statement last August in which he allegedly listed entertainment and gifts of uniforms Nylon stockings automobile tires and other articles bestowed on him a colonel a it. Colonel and other officers by two new York thread manufacturers Samuel and Elias Bayer. The Brothers Are awaiting trial in Federal court on bribery charges. Detroit june 29 ans a mayor Orville l. Hubbard of Dearborn was arrested after addressing two groups of inductees leaving for the armed forces. He thus was assured of a court test of the Dearborn City Council s new Law forbidding the mayor to have any Contact with the Public except through the Public relations Bureau established by the Council. The Law specifies a 500 dollars Fine or 90 Days in jail for Al dlr Tom of the edict. The mayor was arrested at his office by patrolman Frank Reich who sawed a warrant signed by councilman Ray p Parker. Lindy sponsor is dead at is Reno nev., june 29 an8 a Lora Josephine Knight 81, weal thy former Chicago philanthropist who financed the 1927 flight to Paris by Charles under go died wednesday at her Lake Tahoe estate. 4. One of her three surviving Stepsons is Harry Hall Knight of Chicago in whose name Lindbergh flight contributions work Washington june 29 an8t Quot America s determination % o smooth the path of the Dischn Rebd Veteran from War to peace is off to a bad Start Quot the . Chamber of Commerce declared in a publication calling for a clarification of the veterans rights to reemployment in a pamphlet Quot Jobe for v�6 Erans Quot the chamber declared that there is no Clear definition of Wharfi an employer is to do in cases where two or move veterans apply few reinstatement in the same position. Diverse and contradictory interpretations of Legal rights of vet Eros have led to confusion the publication declared my to Borneo a. Quot hoax Wood june 29 signed by Preston Sturges for two pictures. Production on the first will Start about aug h a a a / War a Quot a y a my would try japs to pay 7 wives Hollywood june 29�?david Hardy 46-year-old dance hah Casanova who married seven times before he Quot lost Faith in women Quot  he make it up to his a divorced wives if he can get himself killed fighting the japs. Hardy who faces a prodigious bigamy charge told detectives he would Tike to plead guilty if the judge would sentence him to join the army. He said he would make the 10,000 Dollar army Insu rants policy payable to the judge who could then Quot turn the Money Over to my  Quot that ought to Detroit hubbies May get a Kong eds Philly is again main air Center a Philadelphia june 29 cans a dedication of the 3.500.000 dollars Northeast Airport restored Philadelphia to the major airways from which it was removed in de ppm her i Fly a philadelphian Are also awaiting reopening of the municipal Airport closed for military Security and because of its proximity to the hog Island port of embarkation. . Fays dating estate Washington june 29 ans a the internal Revenue Bureau has refunded 417384 dollars to the estate of Edith hag Gin de Long of new York for Over payment of 1941-41. Washington june 29 cans a housewives in Detroit were urged to solve their City s acute meat shortage by Quot taking rolling pins or frying pans in hand and laying Down the Law to their striking  the advice came from rep. Clare Hoffman Carmich a who referring to news stories from Detroit last week told the House Quot the Cio was marching on the City Hall protesting the Lack of meat while in other parts of the City a slaughtering House Union was on  Cyclone injures 70 cd Liberal kan., june 29 cans a seventy enlisted men stationed at Liberal army air Field wer a injured when a Cyclone ripped across a portion of the Field and destroyed More than 25 buildings. Most of the men were figured Only w0 e it their who John Agobian onetime Elrecus Angeles Pollos after lie tried to flee from Agobian threw a girl Inte a Lake then of esd a to the Tim to  
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