European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1945 Juba troops  a year ago the stars and stripes Page 5 by de Clark and stripes staff writer and Utah was memorial Day a memorial for the ican dead of Normandy d one year the memorial Days of our Back it was full rites and had its carnival and sad Ike same test threatening weather Ray of sunlight frequently through Low w there no Roar of i wanes nor crashing of artillery nor wounded and the today were whistle or f tiie wind from the wreckage and Pillbox filled Sand and Ore surf breaking on the in addition to the martial music of the few soldiers honouring the Teton and three groups of americans who landed fifth and sixth special in Ginger the Only i official ceremony on these beaches fro which americans and their allies fought on to the defeat soldiers come Back there were other americans a handful of paratroops and infantrymen of the 30th and other div v Arnost a place they once both feared and one of these was first Varad of Veteran of v Lieth 29th Ttoe dunes and he looked Back toward the looked Back at the Pill boxes and their interlocking Fields i dont see How we did he said now that in Here i i haunt v there were others like Varadian who also were Here on a sort of Busman they visited the cemetery along the and some found their when Icey they took off their Caps and Knelt beside the Graves i Croix de Guerre awarded then there were those who the engineers ceremony the and saw them j dedicate monuments built atop Pill they stayed to the French give the Croix de Guerre k to each of the Engineer i watch the and Evento i listen to the Many among the infantrymen hoped that the rest of the world would remember that in addition to the engineers there were also sailors and Nany other troops on these just Inland from Utah Little Village of Mere which called itself the first French town to be liberated i was Gay with Bunting and and banners saying Honor tet toe and in the Vil Lesage was a carnival making the a snort of the Day try the French and the Amer 2cans the remained on the a children running and Down the Sand and playing in the Soho Shehie advises second honeymoon9 Sonja skating Star and Morfe who arrived in Paris last yesterday advocated a second honeymoon Lor All gis when they return from this would erase in anyone she the misapprehension the i has been unduly influenced by Brit Iii or european a few Days with their Amer ican wives and sweethearts will dispel any ideas servicemen May have that things have changed at said the who is american hospitals in opens Alk trunk line needs no Donkey engine railway uses elephants instead of shunting june rebuking prime minister Churchill for his linking of socialism with the Ges Clement labor party opened his party election Campaign last night with an outline of its Churchill was also criticized by sir Archibald Liberal party who spoke in support of Liberal candidates in the counties of Bedfordshire and he declared that a government formed ten years ago was not suited to Cope with the problem of reconstruction now fac ing in a radio pointed out that new zealand and the scandinavian countries have demonstrated the effectiveness of socialism for the Benefit of their peace descends but its Battle scars still show continued from Page 1 to get across that narrow inter Section than it a six by Attlee foreign policy Attlee argued that to have car ried on the British coalition government for another year would have meant a conservative parliamentary majority during the crucial period of we believe it vital to world peace that close cooperation of the Brit ish the and Russia should continue and that with other peace Loving Powers they should take to prevent any aggressor from disturbing the peace of the Attlee said in discussing his party foreign discussing Attlee urged that a government be chosen with the will and Powers to a the industries of no one supposes that All industries should be socialized Forth Attlee but there Are certain great Basic industries which from their nature Are Ripe for con version into Public mismanagement charged Attlee listed Inland transport and Iron and steel As those industries which should be he charged that a great number of in this country have always been badly fed and and very the Opportunity of while agriculture has finances been mis directed Many of our most been inefficiently and wastefully the voice we heard last night was that of but the mind was that of lord Attlee c a rent the town with a is a Busy Market place these Days and the main Square is full of those sleek Normandy the traffic still has to de tour every which Way in getting through town and the roads Are in pretty sad Haven been Able to maintain the streets and roads the Way the army engineers once and the holes just get bigger and one landmark in care Tan has unexploded mine alongside the Road on the West Edge of you can Whiz right Over the place Between Caren Tarrand Cherbourg you never see any of the wrecked gliders that skidded to a Stop in the Fields along the Road last june 6 and the rendering works just West of care Tan is out of business few soldiers who Ever passed that rendering works in its key Day will Ever forget that horrible sin Many of the Fields Between care Tan and Signy the Farmers have removed the anti glider stakes that were planted like rows of Trees from one Side of the Fields to the with horses and cows grazing there the Fields look More like they who fought with cossacks i sweats out Check on identity William the i fought Bis Way into Berlin i a troop of cossacks but Doest member much about himself be will not know for sure to he is until he reaches the thorough Check at the first dieral Hospital near talker is sweating out that trip that since Walker a pm so Long and Doest re or a thing about his american there is no Way to Trace record except through and that will be when he reaches a Hospital in from the states came Rous queries about this am Pic Tom who had escaped from pm Camp and joined russians in their assault on capital associated press reprinted a digest of the stars stripes Story on Walker which had appeared about a week ago and also had wired pictures of the Soldier to but yesterday it could not be determined in Paris whether someone in Amer Ica had seen the picture and claimed Walker As a son or husband or Walker figures that is name because that the name that has been running through my and i had pfc stripes on my uni for when i woke up the Kraut Hospital the soldiers Hospital which originate with his return to the american lines last list his Case As anaemia and and Walker said one doctor told him he was 20 years he figured that out by my Walker said still Pale and but obviously considerably healthier than he was a month Walker said somebody ought to know who i Signy Little changed that garage just outside vier Ville which became the Home of the first Apo set up on the continent is still its still a and its still just As it was the Day the Apo men came Signy Hast changed maps still stand on the main Corn and kids still hang onto the arms of the clearance of rubble Here seems to be a bit slower than in other but maybe it Only looks that Way because Signy had so much to the resort town Between Omaha and Utah is Back to grand Camp want beat up maybe a House knocked Down a Shell Hole and the natives didst have much of a reconversion prob the beaches have been cleared of mines and the kiddies play right out to the Waters following the further out the Fishe Folk of the Village can be seen plying their Petiers patches up in As in the other Vil there Patching up the town As Best they again As in other they seem to be leaving the Church to the the you might Are As pious As they Ever but they Are and they have not Only their wartime population to feed and but the returned prisoners of War who Are coming Back in a men of the second who fought for the town will never forget one of the first towns of any size to fall to the in Trevier the hotel Avignon still stands facing the triangular Park which was left when the buildings which use to stand there were burned the genial Pierre Aust formerly Pierre of the Ritz Carlton in new York has a sign on the door that says English spoken that sign  be needed for any of the men who came into the town the it was captured from the Ger mans and saw Pierre at the door the germans have gone for a jump in the come on in and have one on the inside the hotel Avignon Pierre has built a bulletin tacked to the Board Are 1 a clipping of a Story written by the late Bill Stringer of Reuters and published in and a clipping of a Story from the stars and both describing the liberation of Trevier 2 a picture from yank showing Pierre giving out with the free and 3 a pass to Lon Don autographed on the Back by three men Thomas san Texas Everett and Donald still holds open House Adanie Rene Libin is still hold ing open House to the few americans who Little Home near be and still insisting that you cup of Coffee spiked with a spoonful of not Many americans come this Way its off the beaten but she has a huge autograph album signed by soldiers of every rank and de Cerise is changed beyond along the Road to the Road that used to be so dark and the Trees have been Cut Down for on either at the intersection where the Road Forks to the right for those wrecked tanks been re moved and a traffic tory been Coutanche is like All the other digging itself out of the Here and where the work has been you can see grass and weeds growing out of the the which was practically still stands guard Over the rest of the a circus is in full swing in the Plaza facing the treed cow still there just outside Coutanche is a Iano Mark of the la breakthrough that will be there appear because no Orie knows what to do about it that the Skeleton of a cow that was blown dead but intact High into the air where it lodged in the Fork of a tree 70 feet there is nothing left but the and they Glisten Whitely i the if you drive from Coutanche to St to you can still see the Hole in the Steeple of the Church at it was put there by a Tanker in cab of the second to take care of a further along pull come to that Crossroads where six horses were killed by one american artillery they were there for nearly two and no one who passed the intersection will Ever forget it the horses have been removed acid the grass and Are fresh and Sweet while there is no there is the memory of a and you expect it so hard you Are almost sick at your stomach just thinking about Countryside returns to Normal throughout Normandy Are impressed by How quickly the if not the towns and have returned to cattle Laze along the Dusty roads Between the hedgerows and the Fields that were torn by the treads of tanks and trucks have a new covering provided by nature to hid the scars of the potato the Jerry the broken save gone to the junk Heap a Long time with the army that used hitlers body soviet source says by Joseph Grigg on Ted press staff correspondent june Hitler v body has Bee found and identified with fair it was Learned from a High russian military source Here the smoke blackened and was one of four discovered in the ruins of the underground fortress beneath the new Reichs these four bodies All of which answered pretty Well to hitlers were examined by russian army All were badly burned by flamethrowers with which the red finally cleared out the underground com Mand Post where Hitler and his leading nazis made their last one singled out after careful examination of the Teeth and other the russians singled out one body they believe almost certainly is that of asked Why no official announce ment had been made yet by mos this russian source said that As Long As any element of uncertainty exists the russians do not wish to state definitely that hitlers body has been the source that there seems Little doubt that this actually is the Corpse of examination of the body showed that Hitler almost certainly died of whether administered or whether Hitler was killed by one of his there is no sure Means of it will be that rus Sian sources recently reported that Hitler died of an injection Given by his phys Wician after he had been insane and half paralysed for Sev eral according to a Telegram sent by propaganda minister Paul Josef Goebbels to Karl Hitler died at on May 1 Goebbels Corpse also found Goebbels himself apparently committed suicide shortly just before the last stronghold of nazi Dom in Berlin fell to the rus sians his body was discovered by the russians in the same under ground together with those of his and All had died of the russians have Given no runt As to How the bodies of Goebbels and other nazis founding Berlin have been disposed this probably will remain a secret Tor All to guard against the possibility of nazi fanatics trying to recover the gop triumphs in Montana Helena june 6 ans democratic Mon Tanas second District chose Republican Wesley in the congressional election during president Truman a state senator and rancher of Defeated Democrat Leo great Falls to fill the vacancy left by the death last James Livingston two other Robert of Lodge a full blooded Crow inde and socialist of trailed far Bill conceded defeat on the face of unofficial tabulations in 380 of the 154 precincts gave Dwart Graybill Yellowtail and Spriggs the election was viewed As or National significance by party Lead and the National organizations of both major parties had sent speakers into the it was the first time since the late president Roosevelt 1932 land slide that Eastern Montana voters sent a Republican to the Victory increased to Iso the number of republicans us the Dwart campaigned against what he termed the concentration of Power in Federal hands As opposed to government of people Ana by i Graybull asserted his would be a vote of Confidence to president Truman in these Cri tical 112 ships in May june 6 maritime commission said yes vierday that 112 ship of dead weight tons were slivered during May for use to merchant West coast Yards delivered 52 the East coast the Gulf coast 20 and great lakes a cards