Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Washington july is cans a the Washington Post in a Page one editorial urges a naval Academy on san Francisco Bay. Quot let half of our nary boys get their training on the Pacific coast the Post said. Quot perhaps better let our nary boys get half of their training on the Atlantic coast and of it on the Pacific coast Quot the great port of san Frane Ipi is the natural Gateway to and from the Pacific. It is the great Railroad terminal of the Pacific coast it has a vast Harbor and every kind of shipping facility. Quot Washington has always underrated the importance of the Pacific coast the Navy has sometimes shown a Lack of imagination let it not delay in becoming Pacific minded. Let it have a naval Academy on san Francisco Bay. A wednesday August 1, 1945 the stars and stripes news from Home first Pennsylvania sait restores Veteran to of m Philadelphia the first Pennsylvania Veteran to Institute court proceedings to recover his old Job was reinstated unconditionally in that Job the Pennsylvania state selective service Headquarters announced. Harry Goodman 34, who received a medical discharge in december 1943, returned to work As a Journeyman plumber for the l. E. Winter co., contractors. Goodman had been inducted in june 1341. Goodman filed suit in Federal court charging the firm refused him old Job. The company contended it was willing to rehire Goodman that local 690, United association of journeymen plumbers and protested. The Union made no statement. Coast guard saved 1,658 bos Yohy the coast guard rescind Yue the Atlantic coast Gulf of e ight Hundred and Tea the  and the safety i the English Channel during victims a  i of Honfi our Columbia  John Wilson accepted a stranger s offer to steer his stalled car while Wilson pushed. With one mighty heave the car started a a and the stranger kept it going while trusting John stared glumly. Police Are looking for the car and the stranger who stole it. A Clare Boothe Luce to Bridgeport  fare Bee is Luce playwright author end Republican representative in Congress will Mahe her Profeti Ilcyn Al debut at an a tree in Quot Candida at Stamford aug. S. Unabashed by the idea of a dignified lawmaker san Francisco a the manpower shortage has produced a new Breed of Quot White  eight women now Wield seven and one half Pound brooms through the City s thoroughfares. Although somewhat different from their Domestic chores the Job nets the gals 95 cents an hour. Another Trade Detroit july 31 cans a army troops today seized the Detroit Plant of the us. Rubber company where a 14-Day strike has curtailed production of tires for army nah a i troops toe Over when workers on the regular 3 pm shift refused to Cross picket lines established by the mechanics educational society. A army air forces officials had warned that the strike imperilled intensified b29 super fortress raids on key japanese targets. In com Jamand of the troops and the special office Force which moved into the a s. Rubber company grounds was it. Col Harvey hum my com manding officer of the Detroit Reg ton of the air service technical command. A Tope also took Over a Small building of the Hup Mobile motor company operated by . Rubber under lease. It employs 360 persons. A the White House announcement a ssh a the seizure had been recommended by the office of economic stabilization following a message a to Washington from maj. Gen. I Curtis Lemay directing super fort attacks in the Pacific in which he a warned against a Quot prolongation of the War Quot if the tire Supply were curtailed. Four agencies ito fight Mart Washington. July 31 cans a the government has announced new plans to Cope with Black Market operators and income tax this elem threatening heavy fines and stiff jail sentences for those caught in illicit death Najfi. Details of a stepped up Drugg by were Vinson Clark Secretary of agriculture Clinton p. Anderson and and strategy. To Black Market esses Clark announced he had appointed special prosecutor t. Vince Quinn assistant uj3. Attorney for the Eastern dark dict of new York who helped direct the prosecution if two a i spies jew Lapof dby us Morine in my Toast Fml it Syrk Elfon has inf he Kcf a a i irtely ttj5. It Torney in the nation to give top priority to Black Market cases. 31 san by age inv so Sam the successful and hilarious appearance and senator Albea Barkley Crane Senate Leader in three in a  Quot and what Abe id John e. Rankin in unde Toms Cabin As Simen Legre or perhaps Henry Wallace As Hamlet Yew knew to Beer not to be president with Sidney Hillman playing Pelen ins. O news Best when read Railroad policy lashed new York a Large majority Cleveland manpower Short of the Public is convinced there is Ages on americans railroads have  Yuan. Lor is 5 Vamp re Quot Quot a a a newspaper deliveryman. Two sur suit Ai it be wave working Condi Veys taken by fact finders Asa Oci Toms a f. Whitney president of a ted revealed 89 percent of new spa the brotherhood of Railroad train per readers replied Quot no Quot to the men declared question Quot you Are probably getting the railroads Hope to delay a most of your news from he Radia air a qution of their employees prob showed 76 percent replying Quot no key Haj e lamp Bor will be plentiful but after a week the percentage and willing to accept jobs on Era Rose to 89. Players  he said # # a Portland Oral two Navy Hospital ships the Solace and Samaritan whose crosses of mercy stood off the beaches of iwo Jirava and Okinawa have returned Here for overhauling after 19 months in the Pacific. Eight Hundred Okinawa Battle casualties were aboard the ships m i lumber for Jap War Washington. July 31 cans a the War production Board has revised its third Quarter lumber allotments to give the army and Navy an additional 208 million Board feet. A special military Reserve created last May was shifted to the army service forces while the Navy received an additional 70 million feet from other reserves. The web said military demands required Large amounts of lumber for building docks wharves warehouses and other base facilities in the Pacific. Boss deferment riles strikers Detroit july 31 ans a strikers in a War Plant who said they walked out because of a Foreman a draft deferment agreed yesterday to return to work but disclaimed responsibility for the Foreman s  members of local 174 of the United automobile workers Cio said in a Back to work Resolution Quot the Union shall assume no responsibility for the safety of this Foreman if he enters the  . Rubber co. Detroit Plant seized by army Page a it a 1 a a i 2 Youngg unit Lien i net 100,000 haul Washington july 31 ans a Carrier based anti submarine squadrons stood guard off the us. East coast Early this year to Ward off possible robot bomb attacks on american cities the Navy disclosed yesterday. For two months while Germany was making its last desperate assault on British cities with Buzz bombs planes and pilots stood in readiness to repel any attempt to extends a the flying bomb offensive to Ameri threat became serious All can shores As German propagandists predicted they would be. Revelation of the Navy a Security measure came with an announcement that composite Squadron 56, one of the units alerted against submarines capable of launching Buzz bombs had been disbanded. Its special Job of combating a boats completed the Veteran anti submarine Squadron s officers and men will fight against Japan the Navy said. Leaves were cancel led in recounting Squadron 55�?Ts Story the Navy revealed it had been on leave when the Buzz bomb Wane suddenly cancelled to return the Squadron to duty. Squadron 66 was aboard the uj3b. Block when that escort car Rier was sunk by a a boat another violent action occurred on Christmas eve of 1943, when the Squadron had embarked on the us. Card famed anti submarine escort Carrier. The task group ran through the Middle of a pack of German submarines during a raging storm. In the ensuing storm driven action Between destroyer escorts and a boats the . Leary was lost and the task group scored several probable kills. A Burbank calif., july 31 ans a two Youthful gunmen one dressed As a Soldier and wearing an my armband robbed two Hollywood Stati Bank messengers today of 180,00 dollars in Cash which they were deliver ing to a Check cashing Agency near the Lockheed aircraft corp. Plants the messengers were within a Block of their destination when the were stopped by bandits ass forced into a Back seat of their Coupe. To Ltd gunmen then drove into the Hilk whiskey still found in Missouri prison Jefferson City. To. July 31 ans a a ten Gal. Whiskey still and 750-Gal. Barrels of Mash have been found behind a secret Selling panel in the Missouri Penitentiary bakery Warden t. E. Whitecotton reported today. At two old Coffee urns taken from the former officers dining room three or four years ago were used for distillation. Doors from the prison bakery concealed the smell of fermentation and heat from bakery ovens kept the Mash working. Oregon Forest fi3e checked Portland ore., july 31 ans a a civilian and military army of 300,000 fighters aided by favourable weather held Northwestern Oregon a great Forest fire within Bounds today the Blaze had covered an estimated 100,000 acres although its perimeter encircled some 2ooj0oo acres. It was a series of Burns started by wind borne embers hurled by the original Wilson River and Salmon River tires. A Patchwork of Small spot tires which could be whipped into a major conflagration with proper weather conditions was giving the most trouble. Meanwhile 50 sailors from the Farra gut naval Center were fighting a 3.000 acre tire on the state owned Brush and Young Timber land Between spirit Lake and Clagstone in North Idaho they expected to control it tonight. Discharged Gat More gasoline Washington july 31 ans a sen. Hugh a Mitchell a Wash said today he had Learned that after aug. 3 enlisted men will be allowed thirty Gallons of gasoline at the time of their discharge. Mitchell told the associated press he had been advised that opa will Issue such an order Friday. In a letter to opa july 10 Mitchell had urged that gasoline rations be equalized saying officers were allowed one gallon a Day up to thirty Gallons during terminal leave but no similar provision had been made for enlisted men. Mitchell contended enlisted men were entitled to gasoline for recreation and to Aid them in locating jobs. Bound them and escaped with or i bags of currency fleeing in a coup which carried a California License a plate. Thurston m. A Patterson Anc a a Victor h. Lohn the messenger said they worked themselves Loos a a from their Bonds and walked a i the san Fernando Valley polio station where they arrived an Houx and a half after the Holdup. There they said they were told the Case was under jurisdiction Al the Burbank police and they would have to go there to repent it. That took another half hour and the a bandits made Good their escape. Burglars raid police Static Chicago july 31 ans a Bur Glare broke into the custodian a office of the detective Bureau on the seventh floor of police Headquarters Over the weekend lingered for a few smokes then made of with Cash and jewelry valued at 10.000 dollars. Otto Voigt assistant custodian reported the intruders left the floor uttered with some 76 cig Aret and match stubs but they missed 900400 dollars additional Cash in a vault Wavy Academe the one Des Moines a now redeploy wags v few / 7t. It. Des Moines. A july 31 ans a this Post first Home of the women a army corps is the staging area for an was going overseas the Arney disclosed four thousand was hard keen trained at it Dee my inns a overseas Dur since the replacement depot was moved Here feb. 1 from Al Oglethorpe a. A a a in a a a a a a a a 1 a a a a Iii a a i in in    a Mew by amp of Buzz bomb Throat a a Navy Board Ujj Jbv re