Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Wednesday july 18, 1945 the stabs and stripes  Home i ii ii i a i i i Navy a sked to review n. Y. Labor relations . Navy should undertake a review if  Liliu 1 Ulit of labor relations at the new York Navy Yard a subcommittee of the House naval affairs committee found in a unanimous report after investigating the Yard. The committee stressed that grievance procedure needs a drastic overhaul to permit prompt and impartial settlement of differences. Other Points recommended for study simplification of the efficiency rating system adjustment of pay to reduce differences Between salaries paid by the Yard and by private Enterprise for the same Type of work and improvement of transportation and food services. Despite the critical nature of the report the Yard which now is ten times its peacetime size has done a Good Job of its chief task repairing and building vessels the congressmen found. A the Case of the japanese americans Secretary a of agriculture Clinton p. Anderson said be had received numerous complaints that 8eattle produce firms Are refusing to handle crops grown by japanese americans. Anderson declaring such discrimination is unjustified wired the Northwest produce dealers association urging that the sitar Tion be corrected. S it. Tatsumi Iwate Lomita Calif infantryman who has a shrapnel wound in his brain wrote a Friend continue to fight the enemy of our country. I am an american to the last drop of my Wood the Friend had written Iwate that he had lost Faith in the uj9l be cause persons of japanese extraction faced discrimination fee police likened to crime school los Angeles the pol ice Force was described As a Quot crime school by one of two officers sentenced to one to 15 years in san Quentin prison for burglary. �?�1 would never have done this if i had not been on the police Force a Howard c. Wade 33, told judge Charles Fricks �?�1 suppose i got the habit when other officers who were robbing drunks would take their Money and split it with me police chief c. B. Horrall said the Story was an a a obvious falsehood Quot and a a was told for the purpose of getting him a lighter sentence. Our men do go wrong sometimes but the record shows we Are the ones who Correct them. If he Learned what he said he did he must have been an Apt Pupil. Col. And h Hollywood col. And mrs. Thomas a. Lewis she a Loretta Young of the movies Are the parents of a second son bom monday at the Queen of Angels Hospital. Cal Lewis is commanding officer of the armed forces radio service. The couples other son is 11 months old and they have an adopted daughter nine. 8mland, Ohio Richard Shil Laday 10, passed up baseball games and picnics for three summer vacations to help hard pressed Farmer John Emerick. The boy now owns Emerick a two farms including All equipment and crops. He was named principal Legatee by Emerick who died two weeks ago. Michigan prison scandal charged Detroit the times charged that favored inmates of Jackson state prison Quot Lead the life of  the newspaper said details would be disclosed by attorney general John Dethmers who began an inquiry after John Medley serving a 40-year-sentence, walked out of the prison last november. Medley was permitted to leave on the pretext of going to the Bank with several Hundred dollars entrusted to him by fellow prisoners. He kept on going and was later arrested for murders committed in new Orleans and Chicago. The times said the attorney general would charge that favored prisoners with Money to tip the guards Here virtually free men and allowed 10 visit their wives and sweethearts in Detroit and elsewhere that whiskey was available to anyone willing and Able to pay Bootleg prices. Kaiser seeks . Steel Plant Oakland calif., july 17 cans a Henry j. Kaiser disclosed he has begun negotiations with defense Plant corp. For lease and eventual Purchase of the 200,000,000-Dollar Geneva steel Plant at Provo Utah which is being operated by u.8. Steel Carp. Revealing he plans to form a Syndicate to acquire the Plant. He envisioned expansion of the giant Geneva works by constructing two 25,000,000-Dollar plants one a cok strip Mill and the other a seamless tube and electric welded pipe Mill Navy to take 15,000 cadets Washington july 17 cans a the Navy announced a College training program for boys under 18 wishing to qualify for the naval aviation Cadet program �13. Fifteen thousand youths who have High school diplomas by oct. 1, 1945, will be permitted to enlist. Italian pwt robbed new York july 17 Ansi two italian prisoners of War who escaped from Camp Shanks have been recaptured by army officers it was announced. Vets bureaus new provided in All states Chicago july 17 cans a new legislation has Given ail 48 states an office or Agency to administer veterans affairs the Council of sailors fight fire too state government repeated. New state agencies were established or existing bureaus reorganized by Legislatures of 1ft states this year. Others had acted in 1943 and 1944. I the 16 states were Ala Ham Arkansas Georgia Illinois Indian Kansas Louisiana Montana Nebraska new York North Dakota Oregon Tennessee Washington and West Virginia. The Alabama legislature set up an Agency to help Orient veterans to civilian life and appropriated 850,000 dollars to finance it. Indiana a new department was established especially to Aid discharged veterans in obtaining benefits to which they Are entitled from state and Federal governments hew York approved a series of Laws reorganizing the state Pool Gram of assistance to veterans a permanent state division of veterans affairs was established in the executive department with an initial appropriation of 2,285,000 dollars. Provision was made for a permanent state veterans service Agency and for local agencies. Kansas also provided for local As Well As state administration authorizing county commissioners of any county to employ a Quot veterans agent a the agent to be a Veteran. War Industry in old areas Washington july 17 an8 a the 20,300,000,000-Dollar expansion of War Plant facilities has been concentrated in what were the nation prewar manufacturing areas the War production Board reported and consequently relatively few new manufacturing areas have been developed. M a study of the geographical distribution of the Gigantic wartime Industrial expansion the Board said much of the increased Plant capacity for metals machine tools electrical equipment synthetic rubber chemicals Coal Petroleum and food is expected to stay in opera Tion in the postwar period. 8aflot from Miami a . Natal bats help City fireman Battle a Milton Dollar Maze which destroyed the Franklin Oil company s reclaiming Plant and threatened naval Pedro Leven stocks nearby. Vets pension is 265 dollars Washington july 17 an8 pm sgt Fredric Hensel first Battle casualty of this War to lose parts of both anus and legs will receive a 265 Dollar monthly pension upon his discharge from the army a veterans administration spokesman revealed. Hensel 26, a patient at Percy Jones general Hospital Battle Creek mich., until he is discharged will continue to receive his army pay and an allotment for his wife mrs. Jewell Hensel Martin proposes War id draft ban Washington july 17 ans a an International agreement against peacetime military training was proposed by House Republican Leader Joseph Martin mass. Martin Gate he would. Introduce a Resolution calling on the uj3. Government to negotiate such a pact with other nations. The move Martin said Quot would relieve the us. And All other nations of the necessity to assume this great new Burden at a time when we must build reconstruct and readjust the world to  official asks class ouster Washington. July 17 ans �?87-year-old sen. Garter Glass a who Hasni to attended a Senate session for More than three years May have to prove there is no time limit on senatorial absenteeism. John Locke Green Arlington a county treasurer disclosed yesterday that he would ask the court cd appeals at Richmond to declare Glass seat vacant and to order gov. Colgate w. Dardenjr. To Call an election for a successor. Green said he had the greatest respect for Glass but he added that the time had come for the courts to act so that Virginia Quot can have two  a lass has not appeared in the Senate since june 22, 1942. A Uto gadgets Aid disabled Trenton n.j., july 17�?fourteen War veterans who lost arms or legs in combat drove specially 35lf� i equipped a ars Jiete  the Emelye and motor he made Public a letter to dec vehicle officials from six states that they can meet driving standards. A the veterans All from England general Hospital Atlantic City used push buttons and pedals in place of some of the Standard controls. The cars were equipped with pedal bars that straddle the Brake and clutch levers on steering columns and hand grips adjustable to Hooks or artificial hands. Officials from Connecticut Delaware Maine new Jersey new York and Vermont witnessed the demonstrations. A licensing system for amputees already has been established in some states. Arthur w. Magee new Jersey motor vehicle commissioner told veterans that state Drivers licenses will be issued amputees passing special Hospital tests. One manufacturer has designed a car equipped with a a a one lev control to make driving simple and Safe for disabled veterans. The controls Center in a single lever mounted on the steering column. Through vacuum control one motion engages the clutch and opens the throttle. A flip of the lever Auto for di8a8led Veteran in the opposite direction disengages the clutch and applies the brakes. A special Knob is mounted on the wheel for easier steering and there is an Quot Eye on the emergency Brake for a hand Hook. New Model car Washington july 17 cans a a the automobile situation looked brighter today for both a a essential Drivers and a tips a Ora. Loosened its grip on new Model can Mew 184ft Model automobiles will be sold at first duly to Quot essential Quot Drivers who have been eligible right along for new 1942 cars the last Model produced opa said. Opa removed the remaining 6000 new 1042 can from rationing effective wednesday to Quot ease the problem of at least a Tew thousand motorists who win not be ehg flae for new ears now Cha a Ini Ocious manufacture cd at hit time passenger ear owners who move from one City to another became eligible for new tires. This is the lint time since the beginning of tin rationing that any Quot a card holders have been eligible for new tires. Release asked for anti nazis new York july 17 Ansi one Hundred prominent Dewey Albert Einstein Herbert h. Lehman and mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt petitioned the government to release 982 anti nazi refugees from fort Ontario . And permit them to a live and work wherever they choose in the a pjs a a while americans Are fighting to establish Freedom and human dignity throughout the world it is scarcely to be tolerated that anti nazi refugees should be confined against their win Quot the petition said. Gar veterans of have music Washington Only 17 ans the 11 members who plan to attend the next National Encampment of the grand army of the Republic will hear 6,4ftl dollars Worth of Marine corps band music. President Truman signed legislation appropriating that sum to defray expenses of the band at the Gar Encampment in Columbus Ohk sept. 9-14. Hotoi Job to Firat lady Kansas cot. July 17 an a mrs. Harry Truman  honorary a a organizer Tion which Hopes to collect 1,000,008 books for Russia to replace Vot amet the Naris destroyed