Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Saturday Only h 1945the stars and stripes wet amp a Joes had a Good reason two 8lightly bearded veteran8 of a train Load of 500 travelling from Boston to the Pacific coast in 15 Ohar cars provided with two washrooms Point to sign on Side of one of the oars explaining Why they had t shaved. News from Home foreign Polis give . Top spot in world by Phil Byj Knell stars and stripes . Bureau new York july 13�?public opinion samples in prance. Canada Sweden and Denmark show that Large segments of the population in each country expect the us. To have the most influence in postwar world affairs the Gallup poll reported today. Russia is a close competitor however in prance and Denmark. People of the four nations were asked Quot which nation will have the most influence in world affairs after the War the . Or Russia Quot in France 43 percent voted for the , 41 percent for Russia f percent for England. In Canada is percent listed the if.8., 24 percent voted for Russia and 19 percent for England. In Sweden the u.8. Polled �0 percent Russia 21 percent and England s percent the Danes gave the . 21 percent Russia 1s and England s. Allentown pa., was the first City in the nation where workers were transferred from less essential to vital War industries. Next week Allentown will be the first City to begin the reverse process. The War manpower commission asserting that the emergency for which male workers were transferred has now been reconversion begins in Allentown Fec s Gra Agency saved Washington july 13 an8 a the Senate last night approved by a voice vote the House amendment to the 771.000,000 Dollar War agencies appropriations bin. Giving the pair employment practices committee 50,000 dollars for the current fiscal year. The action saved the much disputed Agency from extinction in the Battle Between Southern democrats and Northern liberals whose wrangling has held up approval of the vital War agencies Bill a the southerners had charged that Pepo was a communistic and would turn negroes a against the Best friends they Ever had. Those in favor Ai the committee claim by a that it assured minority groups the a right to work. Throughout the War the Pepo has investigated conditions in War plants where it was charged that persons were not employed because of a race or it has no Power to enforce its decisions but recommends action to the president. The Senate s action cleared the Way for Early House approval of the appropriation Bill. The House passed its amendment after rejecting a proposal by rep. William m. Colmer a miss to limit Pep funds. Overcome has agreed to permit men to return to old jobs. Only two stipulations Are made the worker must desire to return to his original employers and the wac must readjust the employment ceiling of his initial employer. Authorities in Kings county Washington Aro investigating the marriage of 17-Yearold Robert Barton and hit 14-year-old wife Jacqueline. Parents of both approve but the sheriff is not of sure that Fie Dees. Only parental comment so far came from Jacqueline s father who said he hoped her 12-year-old sister Shirley would Gat married Mitscher overruled. 1iice adm. Marc a. Mitscher May be a great tactician in the w Pacific but he cant put anything Over in Hillsboro wis. When the town heard that the task Force commander and his wife were due thursday to visit his Mother it formed a committee of Welcome. When Mitscher heard about it he protested. He wanted no fanfare. All he wanted was a quiet visit. But Hillsboro knows what should be done about things like this. They overruled Mitscher and announced flatly they were going to present a suitable gift anyway. Rod faced department Oklahoma City oops wont on a three Day search for a missing woman. They failed to find her. When they returned for further instructions they discovered her in Jall this from Louis Sobel Broadway columnist the other afternoon at Penn station a Young sergeant with three rows of Chest ribbons came hobbling akm with the Aid of a Cane and waited for one of the cabs to pull up a woman made a dive for the cab screaming a i have been waiting Long before this the Driver Snappe Ltd Quot lady you ainu to got enough Points to be before him get in Soldier a a lost out incl insurance action Pom Detroit comes news of a clause in i insurance policies that will probably Surprise a lot of people. Luea Ross whose son was killed in action in the Philippines three Days after Pearl Harbor lost out in an action to collect his son s 5.000-Dollar National service life insurance. An attorney for the War risk litigation Bureau said there was a provision that servicemen killed before april 1943. When the National service life insurance Law came into effect would be presumed to have applied for their 5,000-Dollar policy. However in such cases a person seeking to be made beneficiary would have to prove he was fully dependent upon the Serviceman. Buffalo n.y., claims a now Speed of its local lightning. Within 44 minutes during the weekend Aee Erding the figures just published 354 flashes were recorded an average of eight a minute. One Hundred and ninety one in 43 minutes was the previous Best Cleveland reports a strange crime. A Blind Man was found guilty off robbing Peter William 79, who is deaf after a deaf mute testified in writing he had witnessed the crime. Movie Export troubles loom Hollywood july 13 apis this film capital looking Forward to reopening its european Market is confronted with amp growing list of foreign governmental restrictions which threaten to take a big slice out of net profits�?70 percent of which were realized from foreign Revenue last year. In 1944, Gross receipts abroad from Hollywood films totalled More than 170.000,000 dollars. The Hays office says 58 foreign governments have established quotas or otherwise restricted Hollywood films in their lands. In prance movie sources report Gen. De Gaulle will limit american films to 40 annually about one Quarter of the prewar number. Spain threatens an extra tax and several . Executives have abandoned efforts to do business there. Record yield Meehin . Washington july 13 is it a crop Prospect for 1948 Ira a a not quite in the bumper class off the record years off 1943 and 1943 Blit that should not Darken the general civilian food Outlook an agricultural department report said. 1 making the seasons first official estimate of com production the a crop reporting Board predicted a Jersey politicos losing Cusp Dors a a a Trenton n.j., july 13 Ansi a to Mark a new Eta in new Jersey government 100 Cusp Dors were removed from state House rooms. Only the Senate add Assembly Chambers were allowed to keep their spi Toons. The department of Purchase and property said the action was a sanitation and labor saving measure. A department spokesman said that Many off the vessels had known 100 years off political spittle. A sh00tin�?T wives annoy Jurist Chicago july 13 cans a too Many women Are a shooting their husbands and expecting judges to be judge William Daly told a 36-year-old Mother charged with assault with intent to kill. A no wonder husbands Are getting scarce Quot judge Daly commented after George Leenheer 26, a War worker testified that an june 12 his wife shot him in the Chest with a revolver. Leenheer said he borrowed 90 dollars from his wife prances to arrange for a divorce. Quot instead he took the Money and got drunk Quot mrs Leenheer told the court a when he came Home he started to beat and choke me. I shot him to protect the Leenheers have four children. Crop of 2,585,338.000 Bushel. >560.-000,000 bushels less than the record production in 1944. A a delayed and Rainy u Spring harmed crop prospects in a almost All important a. Producing areas stalks throughout the Oor Belt averaged Shorter than the Farmer s time honoured gauge a knee High a by the fourth of july. A what the drop needs most the warm growing t weather to enable it to catch up Quot the Board said a in addition there the the menace off an Early Frost hovering in the oat production the expected to be the largest Gino 1920 while the wheat crop promises to be the largest in history with 1,120,090-000 bushels compared with previous records off to hmm bushels in 1944. Petals production was forecast at 408,034,000 bushels compared with 379.436.000 bushels test year. The output off commercial vegetables in 1948 was placed at 20 percent higher than 1944. Y Domestic sugar production from beets and Cane promises to be 25 percent greater than test year the Board said. M free doctors army deaf mute kills wife and baby a a a Peabody. Mass., july 13 Ansi a a deaf mute gesturing wildly walked into police Headquarters today and wrote the just killed my wife and the mute David Horblit 36, then led police to his Home where his wife Catherine 22, also a deaf mute and his 20-month-old baby Lay battered to death with a claw Hammer. A my wife did t love me anymore Quot police said he told them Quot i could t stand it Quot is baby heir suit to Tell Santa Monica. Calif. July 13 ans a mrs. Grace Thomas is suing to have her Bataan Soldier son s name removed from the birth certify Cate of a baby bom to her daughter in Law two years after War parted the couple. Mrs. Thomas Mother of the missing capt. Frederick p. Thomas asked the court to make the certificate read a father unknown Quot to prevent her daughter in Tew s two year old son from inheriting the Thomas estate. Liquor Holiday won t continue Washington. July 18 ans a Secretary of agriculture Clinton p. Anderson dashed the Hopes for an extended liquor Holiday by ruling that no feed grains May be used in the manufacture off beverage alcohol after the july Holiday. Uncertainty of the Corn crop Outlook and the critical Market Supply situation for feed grains makes the restriction advisable be told chairman j. A. King of the War production Board. Sex major wins Job test Case Boise Idaho july 13 ans a in one of the first test suite under the i Bill of rights the Ford motor co. Was ordered to fulfil a contract with aj5. Stockton off Emmett Idaho. Federal judge Chase e. Clark ordered the Ford co. To restore Stockton a retired major All his rights and privileges under his sales agreement contract with the company As it existed at the time Stockton left for the army. Washington july 18 ans a sen. Edwin o. Johnson a Colo accused the army of taking a leisurely attitude Quot toward releasing doctors who he said Are urgently needed to minister to civilians. Other members off the military affairs subcommittee declared that the army has a surplus of doctors. Brig Gen Robert w. Berry representing the War department disclosed plans to release 5,000 doctors by next May but he insisted that he was unable to guarantee earlier demobilization. Schwelle Bodh pledges change Washington july 18 up a Secretary of labor Lewis a sch a Enenbach completing conferences with the top labor Learefa the labor departments. Bureau of statistics must be reorganise the Bureau hag been under fire As inaccurate and inadequate met t president Green of the american federation of labor president Philip Murray of Tnp Cio and president John l. Lewis of the United mine workers. Discrimination Law is tested Hartford Conn. July u cans a John Martoch was held la 100 Dollar band for appearance in polio court next wednesday on charges of refusing hotel Coomo. Tiona to Throe negroes in Hartford a first test of a ugly statute forbid. Ding race of int discrimination. I advertises i a r a a a v t a a it re a a a a gets one a tor a wide Chicago july 13 ans a a 34-year-old combat Veteran who spent 11 months in a German Arteon Camp advertised for a wife in Chicago Papen teat saturday. Yesterday he and a 23-y ear old Blu eyed Kyul discussed plan for their wedding Tomor b Rad Ley okayed 100 pet Washington july 13�?the Senate finance committee Teeter Day unanimously approved nomination off Gen. Omar Bradley As veterans administrator. Pvt Clifford Poe Hong off Lacrosse wis said mrs. Marie Nassay Mother off two children was the Only one off 41 applicants for his hand to Call in person at Gardiner general Hospital where he the recovering from flak wounds. Quot a Beautiful blonde walked into my room and into my life forever Quot said the former Aerial gunner. Quot so i burned the other the couple plan to marry in her Home where she lives with her it Liuti a Mickey 4 and Sharleen x she was divorced in april poehling has 96 Points the purple heart and 1,009 doll Ais coming to him in Bock
