European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Straits of Dover w 308 daily Kwh paper of armed for today Riviera 65 Germany 60 european theater of May 1945 America honors her fatten allies on memorial Day ambassador Jefferson assisted by lays a Wreath on the Tomb of Frances unknown during memorial Day exercises yesterday morning at the arc de at right is military attache at the american embassy in Pute flares Ito fight being by Syria Lebanon to retain their inde1 of France became a Battle and planes yesterday As fas one of United press said that French tars had plastered that French troops had fought Way into the syrian Parlia House after blasting the build front Gate with a French plane dropped a couple i bombs and strafed the up fighting was in to at near  syr were reported to have a had Strong against French killing at least troops and capturing nine the French commander a demand that he sur the Derma source reported that Istran jordanian Consul to curia been wounded during the fight his car was raked by fire As it sped along a High the diplomatic the syr and lebanese legation in on warned that if France did the two nations of this crisis is bound increase in tension and become amenable to Ich foreign minister Georges in countered with tement that France was ready withdraw her troops from the at after settling a number of iding chief among he was Frances desire ice sure that her cultural and interests were Cov to represent net on Reich Board May 30 commander first White russian sent the soviet Union on l control commission for radio Moscow announced and s Magazine stars and stripes eight Page weekly supple f the daily will be for the first time containing feature articles stations by staff succeed War week and to which have Bee Discon memorial 1945 services throughout world Honor Soldier dead f by David l Gordon stars and stripes staff writer americans throughout the world paused yesterday to pay memorial Day homage to the thousands of servicemen who have fallen in two world conflicts in the in the the Pacific and cd test and hamlets throughout the servicemen and civilians gathered in memory of the nations sailors and marines who have been killed fighting the largest military cemetery of world War honoured the memory of americans buried on a High plateau near the Northeast French seek changes san May 30 United nations con Ference ended its fifth week of work yesterday with the big five representatives meeting again at the request of the French Dele gation to consider Amend ments to the United nations France was trying to reopen and broaden the Section of the charter allowing nations to act immediately in defense against aggression by dropping the limitation imposed by the phrase enemy states of this War and make the bilateral de sense treaties applicable to any no decision was forthcoming immediately from the big five aside from the reported willingness of the delegation to Back a norwegian request that Denmark be admitted As the 50th nation at the Only committee meet Ings marked the Days 7 More Jap admirals killed May 30 radio reported today that seven More japanese admirals had been killed in queens9 to Dock at Southampton May 30 Queen and Queen with several former French will begin using Southampton in mid july As their chief port for transport ing american troops Back to the soldiers will be dispatched from be Havre to Southampton in smaller vessels in the beginning will sail from Here at the rate of a Frontier separating Belgium and Dwight Eisenhower and Charles ambassador to Belgium and minister to Luxem attended services along with More than belgians who had journeyed from nearby towns and the supreme commander placed a Wreath Ai the foot of the Flag the Center of the at near am continued on Page marines capture breach Shuris defences May 30 entire Western Side of the Jap lines on Okinawa collapsed yesterday As marines took All of Naha and broke through Shuris formidable defences to reach Shuri a climactic american assault to crush completely South Ern Okinawa Little Siegfried stretching from Naha on the West coast to Yona Baru on the appeared to be under North and Northeast of Shari two infantry divisions and one Marine division were heavily engaged against Tan supported who t apparently were fighting to cover by older ports 1 an enemy withdrawal from half of Tokyo left in ashes May 30 ans heart of Tokyo has been burned out by six b29 Curtis 21st bomber command said today after All Day japanese vehicles and troops moved southward from their routes blasted by american sixth marines seize Naha the Cap Tarof the Ryukyu studying reconnaissance photos of fell to sixth marines the ruined who previously had brought under confirming japanese reports that control All the City North of Juhe capital has virtually revealed that 51 Square miles46 percent of the cites buildup been reduced to his disclosure came As 18 Miles South of burning after yesterdays super fort tons dropped enemy broadcasts said Homes had been destroyed and persons made homeless in was described As virtually isolated from the rest of i in six which stretched from 25 to May More than Superior to dropped tons of explosives on Tokyo and destroyed All the target area we had set out to Lemay at least damage was inflicted All major in f continued on Page 8 Tokyo claims b34shotdown san May 30 radio announced today that a new american super bomber mad its combat debut wednesday Over Southern the enemy broadcast identified the plane As a b34 super Liberator and said it had been shot Down by antiaircraft two months ago the War production Board disclosed that the b32 nominator was in the Dominator was described As a big Ger version of the b24 just As the b29 super fort larger version of the b17 flying As if we didst know wants gis overseas assured there Are girls at too May 30 i want to Tell every american sol Dier and Sailor that we live Fine american girls Here waiting for him to come Hubert told the House yes v declaring he was disturbed by a report that the state department was trying to make easier for girls engaged to american service men to enter the Ellis declared this might have grave con Europe has four or five women to every three he and everybody is clamouring to come to if the Entrance of girls betrothed to servicemen is made Ellis went there is the possibility Well open the door for wholesale with the families of the brides wanting to and the prob Lem american girls Are Beautiful and Ellis and they want to marry american men and raise let our boys come Home from1 the Strain and drama of War and they will want a just like the girl dear old dad i Ellis stressed that he didst mean american girls  hold their our girls dont need a he just do not Handicap blood hotter in South May 30 and Farmers marry younger than northerners and City the census Bureau said to Day after a study of the Ages at which americans in the the Bureau men marry at the median age of and women at while to the states the age for men is and for women on the medians Are for men and 21 for women As com pared with and in in the nation As men marry at the median age of and women at which was cluttered with sunken William assistant commander of the sixth Marine said Naha population was the largest City Ever invested by marines in the corps 169year naval gunfire and artillery fire had reduced the City to Complete not one building was standing and a few dead civilians were the Only Trace of the capitals pre invasion drive surprises japs the first Marine drive u Shuri Castle was so Swift that surprised japs swimming the Moat surrounding the it was not know whether the leathernecks actually had entered the which formerly was Jap anese military japanese attacks on american shipping off Okinawa on saturday night and monday Cost the enemy 115 suicide Nimitz announced the previous estimated total had been Navy search planes Sank three Small vessels which sought to Supply the Jap Garrison on 2 divisions join in drive on Luzon May 30 ans american divisions have joined forces to drive into Northern Luzon Bagayan where the Lor Jap Garrison in the Philippines the 25th and 32nd linked up along Villa verde which flanks the main Highway into the after smashing the last organized enemy resistance to the mountains to the to the the 38th took Wawa dam and completed Ameri can control of Manila vast water Supply capture of the which lies Northwest of the smashed the last Jap Strong Point on the enemy Chimbu to the Sierra Madre on the southernmost philippine the 31st div made deep penetration into Interior enemy positions East of and the 24th pressed in on three sides against a Jap pocket the Davao and Talomo sailors missing on Okinawa May 30 Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal revealed today that Navy casualties in the Okinawa operations from March 15 to May 23 included killed or he said skilled workers were needed on the West coast to repair warships suffering damage in Pacific describing the intensity of japanese Okinawa plane he said that at one time 150 including suicide attacked the destroyers Hadley and the Hadley downed 23 planes and the Evans but both ships suffered