Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4 the stars and stripes High award Coes to Cen. Eisenhower Cen. Giraud Cires his own medal to Allied chief by Cpl Clarence j. Bonnell stars and stripes staff writer Allied Force Headquarters. May 30�?removing his own personal decoration won on the held of Battle years ago. Gen. Henri Honore Giraud. Commander of tile French forces in North Africa yesterday morning conferred upon Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower Frances highest Honor the Oran i Cross of the legion of Honor i lie Minnie colourful ceremony was held in the Beautiful courtyard of Gen Giraud s Headquarters. It marked the first such award since the German hordes overran Fiance. The generals meeting jus inside the Well guarded Gates Otth Paia is d Etc and accompanied by their respective aides reviewed the Allied troops Gath red in the courtyard in front of the Palace. Fir get reviewed were the colourful spa his. Astride their White dial ters. Drawn Saber gleaming in the Bright Sun. Dressed in their red and White capes they presented a most striking picture next was a platoon of United states infantry j men then a regiment of zouave most of whom had won Fame i it a France in \ Oriel w a i mrs a i colors of in ted states. France a d great Britain and a comp Uno British grenadiers. Tin veil trained 1st regiment zouave band played during the review and presentation ceremony. Standing with his Back to the massed colors and facing Gen Giraud. Gen Eisenhower command-et-4n-chief of the Adel forces in the North african theater of operations was tapped on Eithe. Shoulder with the Long. Drawn Saber of the former and then Gen Giraud placed the decoration hanging from the Bow end of a Long ribbon about Gen. Eisenhower a neck. He said a a general this is a significant Day in my life. Not Only am i privileged to Confer on you the highest Honor that Fiance can bestow. But More especially As the own. Won on the big moment continued from Page i work this is no time for speeches but for action for France awaits  wrote a Book Degaulle is the noted tank expert v lose Book on Aniced warfare or was a Little known it French median while he Leer with the rank of colonel predicted with startling clarity the a lightning a Yin of warfare which struck France not so Many years later. France was not ready for it but de Gaulle with what he had not Only stopped tile germans in the sector assigned him but actually inflicted a severe beating on the famed panzers. But elsewhere alone the line the allies were giving ground and de Gaulle barely escaped. W Hen the French government capitulate d de Gaulle flew to England and there organised the fighting French. Giraud is a French hero known for his three escapes German prisons and for ins t try Brit Hance m both world i and ii in a press conference late tor a. De Gaulle declared Quot we know that the French and in the Empire share this int that Unity be achieved immediately. The Means we intend to employ is to establish Hue As soon a it to sible. A Central French Power Winch will be in a position to deride everything to be done for administering French at i irs in All parts of the  the tall Hawk nosed cd g mile. Rom pining through an interpreter emphasised these mire Points toward the final Union response Gen. Eisenhower to a insignia Are my Field of  in said a a Gen. Giraud i came Here accept this decoration not As personal tribute to me but As a Symbol of the comradeship and cooperation of the Allied forces under my command and the French North african army under your command. This Honor is rendered even greater by your generous act in bestowing your own personal insignia won on the Field of Battle. A a As you have decided that you will Wear no decorate oils until France is free again so shall i j emulate your example. I Shah i Treasone this decoration unworn j until franc is liberated arid you i and i go together Down the streets 1 of Metz. A to my mind this occasion will a symbolize the determination of the Allied forces to continue Titis Job we have started until it is finished Quot 1. That the Central Power be in a position to decide materially and morally the French Effort in the War. The men in Power must be a representative Sample of the highest French patriotism and of unquestionable character. 2. That the Central Power be based on the sovereignty of prance in All parts of the Empire. 3 that the Central Power be created in Harmony with the French people. He did not wish to build in Algeria a government different or conflicting with my of sirt a of the French people themselves. Quot we believe Gen. Giraud agr is with  de Galle declared a a and we have full Conn Cie Nee that our discussions will be  de Gaulle expressed his belief that the nine member Council proposed by Giraud would resolve As a government of ministries. Both Giraud and de Gaulle would appoint members including themselves. And the appointees would select three. Monday May 31, 1943 streamlined War Board established Byrnes Heads unit which will control entire War Effort the War orphans the party Given them they had a Gay time pa., As he aided Little photo shows the party had their first taste of ice Cream last week at by the american red Cross club in Algiers and so did pvt. John Geshel of Whitehaven Danielle in eating her ice Cream. The other at its height with red Cross workers dough boys and sailors watching their  also shown in the picture is mrs. William Stevenson wife of the lied Cross director who planned the affair for the Happy kids. The War orphans Erlind closed a successful Campaign last week. Washington. May 3>�?an a a office of War mobilization has been created by president Roosevelt to Deal with the streamlining of the nations War machinery. Former supreme court Justice Janus f. Byrnes who resigned a.-, economic stabilization director will head the new department. The War mobilization commit tee will include the secretaries of War and Navy and Donald Nelson chairman of the w in production Board. Their Job will be to unify the work of War agencies concerned with production procurement of transit it rotation and the Cli Oci Bation of military and civilian supplies. In announcing the formation of he office president Roosevelt said Quot we Are entering a phase of the War Effort when vie hum streamline our activities to avoid  and overlapping to eliminate Intel departmental fraction to make decisions with dispatch and keep both our military machine and our vented civilian Economy running in team and at Inch spot  the president indicated he would sit in at some of the War m it filiation boards meetings. Iii body will have Broad is tor it will virtually control the Many agencies engaged in the War Ellen Brynes helped his new diet in Sas those of a higher tribunal to relieve the presid at whose time now must necessarily be Devot i to the strategy of War. Of the to k of arbitrating in inter departmental disputes. Except for certain economic issues and Price considerations which will be Lett to the economic stabilization director. The War mobilization Board will have almost final authority in determining  Frederick m. Vinson a native of Ivou Isa  an associate Justice of the u. S. Court of appeals since 1937. Will succeed Brynes As director of economic stabilization. Yanks Clearing Attu Hawaii command to Cen. Richardson Washington. May 30 american forces in flu face of Strung enemy fire scaled a 60 degree Hill end captured Strong a japanese held position on fishhook Ridge. On the Island of Attu in the aleutians. Practically All of the Island has b in cleared of the enemy with the execution of Strong enemy forces Between the North Wall j of Chicago Valley Holtz Bay pass and Chica got Harbor. One other enemy position is on a ride East of the North end of Lake Cories Yvette a hot records sought by Hannah flying forts continued from Page 1> Force shot Down three enemy planes which approached the tu-1 Nissan coast. The muh bombed b land of  j Tellatin was attacked six times during the weekend. It was the tenth consecutive Day of raids against the italian naval base. The recent Rescue of a p-40 War Hawk Pilot who crashed Iii j the Mediterranean also was re a counted in yesterdays air release. The flyer. La. William r. Hemphill. Of Elbridge Tenn. Managed to get out of the cockpit b a fore the plane Sank but he was without a Lifeboat. Flight officer Richard l. Catlin. Of Ithaca. N. A zoomed Down Over tile struggling Wator and drop died his Lifeboat. Hemphill reached it. Inflated it and was soon floating High and dry. Thirty minutes later the air Rescue service had picked him up. Cairo reported that Middle East based Liberator bombers also were Over Italy attacking the Ai drome at Foggia. Some 150 Miles Southeast of Rome White Plains n. Y. May 39 a the second round of the Dempsey Williams bout ended Over the week end with Jack and Hannah trading Legal blows in a free for All As the Bell sounded. Six witnesses confronted Hannah on Friday attempting to prove that she was unfit to care for their daughters. Joan. 8. And Barbara. 6. Hannah s counter punch against the coast guard lieutenant Coni j Mander was to set the Westchester county sheriff on the Trail of Yvette Colbert. Quot Madame  a French refugee chanteuse whom Hannah wants As a witness. It seems that Yvette who participated in Jack s love life according to Hannah beat it from town leaving behind her hot phonograph records in which she s Sui i posed to confess her ardor for the sex Lvi xer. The Legal Battles Are not confined to Jack and Hannah their attorneys Are winding up for a sing fest when the trial resumes june i. A til vigorously oppose and attempt to have those recordings produced or played in court a Jack s attorney said. They re trying to pin this Colbert woman on  i Hannah s attorney countered with a statement that the records 1 would not Only be played in court. But that Yvette would be in person to hear then charged with adultery with coast guardsman Lew Jenkins sex lightweight Champ and Benny Woodall his sex manager. Hannah is now languishing in a Manhattan hotel in a Quot state of Complete nervous  following jacks introduction of evidence that his w be was unfit to care for their children. Cinch witness for tin coast guard officer was mrs. M try i a pc Tilo. Sex Housek per. Who corroborated the testimony of others when she said that Hannah entertained Jenkins and Woodall in j frequent kissing and drinking bouts. Jacks Star witness revealed Hannah always shoved the guests out the Back door Jack approached the front Hawaii. May 30�?maj. Gen. Robert c. Richardson who succeeds it. Gen. Delos c. Emmons As commander of the army forces hawaiian department on june i. Will automatically become a lieutenant general upon assuming his new command. Introduced at a press conference by in. Emmons. Gen Richardson revealed that Hawaii a Quot biggest problem Security Apt eared to by la in hand at present and that Hawaii was scheduled to expand both As a training base and a. A defense tor Continental u. S a Gen. Emmons whose new assignment was not revealed said he foresaw the development of the Island into a Central Pacific base i rom which american forces can Quot Spring against  that other when door. At several intervals during the testimony Hannah rushed from i the courtroom crying Quot How could Jack do this to me a the sex Hon keeper scored another round for Jack when she said that things were always quiet in the Central Park West apartment when Jack was in town and con eluded by saying that Jack a1 ways telephoned to the two children no matter where he was. As the trial went into recess until june i the cops were Busy there chasing Yvette across Hie Hudson i River to new Jersey. Stalin explains comintern end Moscow May 30�?tile dissolution of the communist International Lias put an end to the lie that Moscow intends to intervene in the life of other nations and Quot bolshevik zen them. Premier to Seph v. Stalin stated in a letter to Harold King. Rue tiv special  Here. Stalin made another it Point when he declared Quot an end is now being put to the calumny that the communist parties in various countries Are allegedly acting not Iii the interests of their people but on orders from the outside. A tile dissolution of the com j Monist International is proper and i timely because it helps the or-1 a animation of tile common on a Slaught of All Freedom Loving nations against the common enemy a Pope rips nazi stand London May 30�? a letter written by Pope Pius Xii. Wa., broadcast to Germany Over tile Vatican radio this week in which the Pope condemned the nazi Atli adv toward religion. The letter assured tile German Bishops of belter times and deplored the fact thai Many people have Sti ived to de Troy that lilith the Christian religion Ila it Given to the German hat ton in flu course of Many centimes in Washington John Vav. Mccormack representative from mass., today declared that tile Cath Dies Iii Europe Are bearing us Brunt it religious persecution now that there Are not enough jews remaining in Germany to kid and torture. The majority floor Leader revealed that reliable Catholic sources had reported that last year alone. 1,500 polish priests a been starved to death in German prison Camps. Zealand chief Dies Wellington. N. A a Joseph c. Coates. Minister of the armed forces of new zealand and Ward coordinator died at his desk lad week he was named War minister of new zealand s five Man War Cabinet in july 1940. Chicago times wants chicagoan names Jim Wellard War correspondent for the Bungo daily times How Vav f m la it goans to Send in. Their full names and Street addresses for publication in the i lines. Ile times is publishing daily an account by a Chicano Soldier of How lie would like to spend >4 hours leave in the Windy City write your account in too words give your full name and Chicano aimless and Send it to James Wellard care of 77 in stars Sirius id blvd. Boudin. Oinp.4, 500 nazis slain London. May Job underground reports from Warsaw jewish Duello indicate that rebels Witti paces on their Heads and armed with smuggled guns. Attacked a German Barracks and slaughtered 500 sleeping soldiers. Led by 200 jews. The rebels now hold ten cite blocks in the ghetto part of which nazi troops had set on fire