Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Ill 25 Cairo four cents june 1945 is by storm new but in the midst of his tumultuous receptions in new York and Eisenhower repeated that these hours of Triumph belong to the american soldiers who fashioned the manhattans traditional Cliffs of cheering faces were minus the storm in which returning heroes arts Wel but that was because people Haven forgotten theres War on and the Telephone company pleas not to tear the phone books were almost scrupulously and Brooklyn gave the keys to the Eisenhower landed at Washington National Airport after a c54 had him from Paris in 21 from president Truman Down to the tiniest school Washington turned out to give probably the greatest Wel this capital has Given any of the states Maimie As he leaped from the he exclaimed with a its swell to be a moment1 later he spied his favorite pinup Eisen he dashed Over to her and again Maimie scarcely an hour after stepping from the Eisenhower went to Capitol where he addressed a cheering he told it the problems of peace can must be the combat Soldier of this War passionately believes it be done and expects the United nations leaders to preserve the peace he is i am the he of the three million Ameri see Ike on Page 3 Washington Many service men who rate a discharge under he Point system cannot be released before next the War Tod Congress adding that is has no intention of lower ing the age for automatic Dischar the War also announced suspension of its rotation plan in All Heaters of operations now that Germany has it has that military personnel stationed in Active Heaters May be returned to the United states on temporary duty for this was disclosed this week in a letter from adjutant to Philip Philbin Ulio said that theater com Manders May return any individual they can spare for 45day visits at Home plus the travel time operating smoothly the House military affairs com Mittee asked for a detailed sex of the Point system operation from Stephen assistant chief of considering All such As available replacements and transportation Henry the program for rapid discharges is operating smooth with indications that men will be separated from ser vice this he set these goals for future discharges and through each releases to he have been governed by the interim score see discharge on Page 8 infidelity Bill killed Sacramento service men who feared a proposed Cali fornia Law would permit infidelity among soldiers wives to flourish May rest a California judiciary at the request of the Bills killed it after the Assembly had passed the measure was designed to enable mothers of illegitimate children to have children adopted without the husband knowing about the states welfare had urged its passage to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from hovering Over the Battlefront on Oki the Pilot of a Marina plane observe the White of Wupke from yank artillery fire and directs the firing by radio Truman on West coast president tru Man took off by plane from Washington for a West coast visit which he will Climax by attending the final session of the san fran Cisco he planned to visit for a veer housing measure passed Washington with summer recess special efforts Are being made toy Congress to Speed up unfinished Veteran a Bill making temporary War housing facilities available to families of War veterans and service men at Low rents was passed by both houses of Congress this week and sent to the president for final the measure is an outgrowth of the great demand for housing and complaints from discharged Vete rans who had returned to find their families living with relatives or in undesirable the american legion is urging immediate action by the House veterans committee on the follow ing measure which would liberalize National service life insurance to Benefit More return ing 2w liberalize educational provi Sions of the i Bill of improve loan provisions of the i equalize compensation awards for the veterans of both world wars two separate retain permanently on com sensation Rolls any Veteran who has been on the Rolls for ten give veterans full compensation for disabilities caused by War even when direct proof or cause of disability is difficult to i m if z announces Isle not fully secured after three months of fierce Giveand take the marines and Doug feet slugging flux Mph the Yaeju Aake fortifications Okinawa Southern tip the closing stage of the Campaign coming into View this Nimitz in re ported the capture of Okinawa As lae the death of Buckner on the Day of Victory when he gallantly met a soldiers with japanese pockets frantically resisting in the last Miles of the the Nimitz communique was careful to omit that Oki rung of the ladder reaching1 across the Pacific from the United states to the Doorstep of militarily be the final lunge to Clear the Island successfully smashed the precipitous Yaeju escarpment after a bitter nine Day Battle in which the first Marine and the seventh infantry divisions pressed Back both flanks As the ninety sixth Marine division crashed through wild night melees advances were As the japs made a death stand which included Banzai in one wild and eerie stroke 300 screaming japs counterattacked an infantry position in the dead of night with a barrage of machine gun and Rifle and a pelting of grenades and Satchel see Okinawa on Page 2 frays in the raw stymie Bridge rain Privett family moves into dream Home that amet personnel helped to build the widow and children of a Serviceman who was killed in action have moved a new Home made pos sible largely by kindhearted servicemen in All parts of the dedicated As the Privett me the comfortable tearoom House was erected for the wife and eight children of killed in Luxembourg last the pushed along by the the Africa Middle East edition of stars and stripes and taken up by veterans in North Pacific Iceland and other Heaters of was happily fulfilled when Pri Vett and tier children moved a Short time after was killed in a Blytheville Jodie had found the widow and eight Young children crowded into a fou room since the Privetts had never owned a Home and now could never the grocer suggested to friends and neighbors that they Chip Luck was with they could raise enough Money to buy the Privetts a modest but stars and stripes read of the plan and carried the Sugges Tion far beyond the Bounds of Bly news of the fund travel de and servicemen All Over the Globe were soon contributing their francs and contributions were also Pouri Irgin f romthe48 when the total ranging from Large individual donations to the pennies of school was counted there were excluding some Given in material and labor by car Penters and its fruit Alion is the i or Privett outside the Lovely neighbors have planted a Garden and others have con hens and precious friers for the poultry the new Home was dedicated by the family Jer on before fathers was and officers of German gins with a professional interest in Romance and others unworldly charms Are wreaking havoc with the Allied non Rater Niza Tion Russell former Fri and Treasury intelligence agent and now Public safety officer of this says that the German military setup before the allies took Bremen made his Job of enforcing the order particularly under the he there were 28 houses averaging 15 girls each under strict medical the German doctors used to examine them now because the houses Are off limits to military the girls have taken to the streets and Are running completely in Street walkers Arent the Only problem Kennedy at one place engineers were building a Bridge Over the they just didst seem Able to get on with tie it seems that Young girls dressed in shorts and narrow halters would Sun themselves on the River Bank and then Tase Ott the halters to do Simon Bolivar Buckner the Navy has revealed the from natural Forrest Botton Royal commander of recent amphibious operations off Brunei fighting on Okinawa this week exacted a High Price in the ame rican High command As Jap shells killed Simon Bolivar Buck tenth army and Claudius was assistant commander of the 96th infantry the we gave no details on the death of Easley who had recently stated that with kind of Luck the fighting on Okinawa would end this was killed by enemy artillery fire As he watched marines of the eighth regimental combat team lunge southward against retreating japs in a final assault on the dwindling tip of the the first Jap anese Shell to that Vicinity All Day burst directly on the Rock where he was several More shells crashed into the position and Marine officers had to carry him behind a Cliff before first Aid and plasma could be the Silver haired who at 58 had won a reputation for was the highest ranking american offi cer killed in the Pacific and was the thirty third general lost from All causes in action thus far in world War command of the tenth army and of ground forces in the Ryukyu devolved immediately upon Roy recently nominated for commander of the Marine third amphibious part of the tenth who set the Ball rolling for Over contributed memorial their mind on their Washington american Battle casualties have reached a total of the army has suffered casualties the including the Marine corps and coast a breakdown of Pijie reported through june 7 and reflecting fighting through the Middle of killed wounded mining us