Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Ill 24 Cairo four cents june 5945 Joiy release Point figure critical score for discharge of enlisted men will be announced in while some reduction below the present 65 total is it will not be in Paris it was announced that some soldiers in will be returned to civilian including ground and service Force men and air Force these will be part of the two million men discharged in the next a total that includes those discharged for age and other specific reasons a Well As those let out under the Point War also announced recognition of three morn campaigns in Europe and one in the Pacific for which participants May Wear Bronze Battle stars and count five Points toward these Are Central italian North italian ipod Valley and the Pacific Ryu 3vyu the a said it understood that at some future Date a new time be fixed and soldiers who have reached the critical score since May 12 will then become Anteater test proves up Pacific veterans Truman of who for three years fought As a guerilla in the is acclimating Lii self to the vagaries of looking Back on his erstwhile Hemingway offers the Fol lowing yardstick for measuring How Long a person has been in Bush warfare the first six if ants get in the the american throws the food second six picks out the ants but eats the third six eats the ants and fourth six months any ants try to he recaptures them and puts them Back in the food whore Thev be espionage ring smashed by Fri Washington six including a naval Reserve Lieut two employees of the state department and two creditors of the new York Amera were arrested on espionage charges by the Federal Bureau of investigation in connection with the of confidential do the Fri said the documents re covered included originals and co pies of War and Navy others from the office of strategic own and Fede ral communications the Security classification of the papers ranged from restricted to top undersecretary of state Joseph grew said in a formal state ment that it became apparent a few months ago that state and Navy information of a be character was reaching unauthorized after consultations with the Navy the Fri was requested to conduct a thorough Vestiga the matter is now in the hands of the of Justice for he Fri chief Edgar Hoover said the data removed usually was turned Over to Philipp Jacob Jaf Russia born creditor with Kate Louise Mitchell of the new York Magazine am Rasia which printed articles containing stolen others in custody include Andrew formerly As signed to the office of naval intelligence Ehu Nanual espionage on Page 8 Radley named vet administrator new Bill would liberalize go Loans yanks died in troop ship sinking Washington in the 41 months of War against Germany and soldiers died in the sinking or damaging of this was a loss of four for every men embark the army reveals that this was a record nearly twice As Good As that for of troops embarked from the United were lost on outbound almost every sol Dier made at least two sea trips due to Inte theater and Intra theater the greatest american person Nel loss was when the British troop ship Rohna was attacked from the air 1m3 off Al it Sank within 30 minutes with a loss of in 3 meet set Washington president tru Man announced wednesday that a meeting has been Cut said that he could not announce the time or place until his arrival Mission accomplished president tru Man has announced the appoint ment of Omar Bradley As veterans replacing Frank Brad Ley will assume his duties within 60 the president disclosed that lines would be asked to take an other Post of Public importance in the near the president stated that he wanted a veterans administration modernized to conform to conditions stemming from world War the veterans he needed reorganization since it was set up for the last by Way of he pointed out that As a world War i be would not have liked for a Spanish american War Veteran to handle his go Loans May be extended for some there has been talk on Capitol Hill of liberalizing loan provisions of the go Bill of and which would make the loan provisions of the go Bill operate More efficiently in the interests of Vete was introduced in Congress this week upon the request of the american proposed amendments to the go Bill would extend the time limit wit Jim which an exse Viceman May apply for a loan provide farm joans for Purchase of feed seed and fertilizer provide business Loans for the purpose of inventories needed to operate a Busi see Bradley on Page 8 this cd said he would kiss the first american Girt he saw on his arrival from but to did Tsee one until a bus to boarded after disembarking at a new York pier was just he grabbed the Gas any Way and planted one smack on the tar the Gal is Eileen red Cross but the cos identity is a paratroops Aid Trio forced Down in wilds dutch new Guinea filipino refreshed by Chute Laboured to build a glider Landing strip in the marshy ground of isolated Shangrila Volley so that two american air men and a wac survivors of an army plane crash in which were can be res but the three survivors must first hike ten Miles Over difficult terrain from a mount Din where they Are to Tho floor of the scheduled to begin the difficult hike was postponed a few Days to Al Low wac Margaret Hastings of new York to further recover from Burns she received in the a glider is expected to land when the strip is take aboard the be snatched into the air by a transport plane with a rope and Afler which rescuers will go out the same 12 die in West Africa crash of aah bomber fwd twelve officers and enlisted men of the army air Force were killed in the crash of a b24 plane in this French West Africa area on june names Are being withheld Pend ing notification of cause of the Accident is unknown and an investigation is in 2 More destroyers lost in Okinawa Waters Washington loss of two an auxiliary trans port and a Landing ship off Oki Nawa has Cost the Navy 469 men wounded or the Navy has the losses of the destroyers Long Shaw with 179 and with 200 these four Craft raise to 314 the total number of ships lost during the tenth army troops opened a heavy assault on the japanese Yaeju Dake escarpment of the last two pot Kote which shield Okinawa Southern flame throwing tanks and demolition charges which enabled the seize Heights out flanking the this Brilliant Man Euver of marines and Doug feet in the campaigns ninth week posed threat the japanese acknowledged by heavy counterattacks and intense fire from the caves stretching across the Uphill gains were made in of Largo firing almost Pointblank into the yank it has also been closed that painfully lethal phosphorous shells have been used As an antipersonnel weapon which i causes Burns that quickly produce other elements of the first Marine division together with leather necks of the sixth which captured Naha Airfield increased pressure on the second pocket of stiff fighting Here was saying on Oroku of the Cap tured capital City of where the enemy is entrenched in the Center of the heavy naval Field Artille rockets and bombs crashed across the entire Southern front As the final Battle for Okinawa was launched and japanese returned to fallout attacks by suicide pilots against Fleet units off Jap planes monday lashed at american losing ten fight a bombers but succeeding in nit Ting a Light surface 54th damaged in the area by air face annihilation Buckner demanded that the Jap commander on Okinawa unconditionally surrender the surviving remnants of his Garrison the tenth army commander pointed out that the japs were trapped in two Only about two Square Miles in the other about 15 Square and annihilation was certain unless they Tokyo radio began a propaganda buildup to off the Island by broadcasting Oki Nawa fighting was never intended to decide the Fate of our the Jap Domei news Agency re ported an imminent end of Japa Nese strength on adding with a flourish of understatement the War situation is gradually becoming More disadvantageous to our paying a visit to the torn Battle Field on tiny stil chief of the army ground declared that the United see Okinawa on Page 2 aussies drive on Borneo Oil Fields troops Are pushing toward the Rich seria Oil Field storage tanks after simultaneous landings sunday at Labaun and on the Brunei these Are on the West coast of 800 Miles North of Singapore and g00 Miles East of undo As the allies had done years the japanese Are now firing their Oil evidently realizing that they cannot hold the is land but determined to leave be Hind As Little As the aussies of the ninth Divi Sion have made Small scale amphibious landings on the Brunei 15 Miles from their original invasion cutting behind the who were protecting the town of air sea bombardment Macarthur has made two inspection Tours with the austra Lian infantrymen in the Oil coated he declared that rarely is such strategic Surprise obtained at such Low Cost of sundays invasion was preceded by nine Days of heavy bombard ment by warships of the seventh Fleet and the Royal aus see aussies on Page 2 marines give Okinawa japs the phosphorus treatment the first marines Waif on i he Crest of a slope a barrage of phosphorus shells among Jap port town another the picture we taken during tie southward drive on own
