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     Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Page 8 the stars and . Expected Molotov stay to be Short san Francisco May 2�?swift changes in the european War have resulted in a decision by soviet foreign commissar Vyacheslav Molotov to leave the United nations conference Here and return to Moscow it was disclosed today. Informed observers stressed that Molotov a decision was made strictly in the Light of european developments and did not indicate dissatisfaction with conference proceedings. A u. S. Secretary of state Edward r. Stettinius or. Told reporters the u s. Had not anticipated Molotov would be Able to stay Long and that the soviet commissar already had tarried longer than intended. Harmonious conversation Stettinius Molotov and British foreign Secretary Anthony Eden yesterday chatted harmoniously in the plenary session Hall smiling end slapping each other on the Hack. There was no disposition to believe Molotov a departure was due to Chagrin Over failure of the conference to admit delegates of the polish provisional government in Warsaw or to defeat in his move to delay admission of Argentine delegates. Field marshal Jan Christiaan of a muts head of the South african delegation., yesterday accepted the chairmanship of the commission which will outline rules for the general Assembly of the world Security league proposed in the Dumbarton Oaks plan which is the basis of conference discussions. Amendments offered Friday is the deadline for delegations to submit comments and amendments to the Dumbarton Oaks formula. More than 700 pages of these have been submitted. The u. S. Delegation has at least 16 amendments to offer among them guarantees of Justice in enforcement of peace and provision for allowing the Security Council to recommend treaty changes necessary to preserve  jeep continued from Page 1> Harmony in two tongues first picture of the link up Between american and russian army forces on Tho Elbe River in the heart of enemy Germany shows yank and red Star does toasting the Job in Cognac and Vodka. With orders to go As far As possible. They said All the italian coastal towns through which they passed were held by italian partisans most of whom had never seen an american. A we just shouted a we re americans and that seemed to be Good enough for the partisans a burling said. Quot they offered us wine and wanted us to stay and  the patrol swung along the Mediterranean coast to Marina then to Cali Azanow where they had their second and third Flats. Must explain to co wednesday morning the patrol continued to san remo where they first met French units. They were again Able to replenish their gasoline Supply at san remo but not before they convinced the sceptical French that americans really had arrived. Driving into Nice the patrol carried a Small Arsenal including a German machine pistol Tommy gun. My two p38s and a carbine. Delta base maps stopped the formidable appearing jeep several times before the patrol found Surra he a a where the tourists met Brig. Gen. J. P. Ratay lbs commander. When the patrol was All set to Start Back burling took a Wistful look around then said Quot wed like to stick around for a while but we might have plenty of trouble explaining to the co if we re too late getting  left adds to Cain Paris May 2�?a leftist sweep in French municipal elections became More apparent today. With most Rural returns still missing results so far announced indicated socialists might nose out communists on a nation wide basis although communists were leading in most Large cities. The latest count gave socialists almost 30 percent of the total vote communists 25 percent and radicals less than 15 percent. Ten of France a a 11 largest cities went to communist Orient flights for Twa sought Washington May 2 a Public counsel Merle p. Lyon recommended today that the civil aeronautics Board authorize transcontinental and Western air inc., to provide air service Between Chicago and Manila with intermediate stops at St. Paul Minneapolis Anchorage Alaska the Kurile islands Tokyo Shanghai and Hon Kong or Canton. Lyon qualified his recommendation to the extent that if Twa were granted the route across the North Atlantic the North Pacific Carrier should be Northwest airlines. Lavai reported barred from Spain by Franco Pierre Laval last Vichy Premier and four other Vichy collaborators were reported yesterday to have be ordered personally by Gen. Francisco Franco ruler of a pain to leave Spain immediately. Earlier Mosca radio broadcast a contradictory report that Laval Marcel deat Vichy minister of education and Jean. Lechaire another ---4.Vichy Leader had been captured by dad unveils b29 Quot a to i Seffl a named for Pyle Wichita. Kan. May a Bot tie of water from the old family Well crashed across the nose of a huge super fortress today to Speed a the Ernie Pyle Quot to the War in the Pacific. In a Brief and simple ceremony at the Boeing Plant the glistening b29 was named for the War correspondent killed last month on in Jima. Tjie plane was unveiled by Ernie a 77-year-old father William c. Pyle of Dana ind. The Rev. H. L. Mcbride pastor of the Dana methodist Church christened the ship before thousands of  command changes Reykjavik Iceland May 2 up a Brig. Gen. Martin Stenseth of Heiberg. Minn., today replaced Brig. Gen. Early Duncan As commander of the Iceland base. 7th captures Rundstedt in to Spital near Munich Field marshal Gerd von Rund Stedt Dean of Junker generals and the Man on whom Adolf Hitler pinned his Hopes of beating the allies on the continent was captured tuesday night at bad Tolz 23 Miles South of Munich by seventh army a 36 the inf. Div. T7ie 69-year-old prussian had not been heard of since february when he was removed As wehrmacht commander in the West reputedly after advising Hitler to surrender to the allies. Von Rundstedt. Undergoing treatment in a Hospital was dining with his wife and son it. Hans Ord von Rundstedt when an american tank arrived at 10 pm tuesday. The tank Crew commanded by it. Joseph Burke of co. A 141st inf. Regfc., placed the group under arrest and pfc Herman Jose of Warrensburg ind., drove the general and his son to a pm Cage. Von Rundstedt who said he was a a in retirement Quot when captured was Germany Stop military strategist. Chief of staff of a prussian army corps in the last War he became a guiding Genius in building the secret Reichs Wehr for this one and when the War came it was he who supplied both the grand strategy and the initial punch. He directed the Swift invasion of Poland in 1030, executed the breakthrough at Sedan in 1940 and led the lightning drive that conquered the Ukraine in 1941. The associated said that Laval and the others Arff Ved at the Barcelona Airport at noon yesterday in a German plane. Foi Ioe arrested All five. American ambassador Norman Armour lodged a protest with the Spanish foreign office As soon As he had Learned of the plane s arrival. Franco then ordered authorities at the Airport to give the five enough gasoline to take their plane to the nearest Frontier. With the five who included Deal and Abel Bonnard another Vichy official was an unidentified woman believed to be Laval a wife. She was authorized to remain in Spain on a a humanitarian grounds Quot the a  life continued from Page i 6,400,000 votes. Hitler obtained German citizenship so that he might run for president against the gang Gen. Von Hindenburg in 1932. He was Defeated despite 11 million votes accorded him in a run off election nearly 40 percent of the total. Aligning himself at once with the powerful nationalist party hit Ler helped Engineer the fall of three successive Republican cabinets and forced Hindenburg to name him Chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933. Only when his forces in Russia were beaten Back when Der fuehrer took personal command in december 1941, did the Peoples Confidence show signs of tottering. On july 19, 1944, a group of Junker generals attempted to assassinate Hitler As he stood in the inner Circle of official Headquarters. A bomb exploded Only six feet away from him. Nine months later death ended his career when he was 56 and after he had ruled Germany for in  Veteran australian troops has landed on Borneo. Acting pro minister Joseph Chifley told the Dominion s people yesterday other reports indicated that a troops May have a part in the Ira Vasion of the East indies Island in Manila Gen. Macarthur announced that american planes had blasted enemy gun positions in the Tarakan area pm the Northeast coast where the first landings were made according to Tokyo Broad casts. A while Macarthur made no announcement of the Borneo invasion his communiques usually lag 48 hours behind operations and his troops have been in position for an amphibious operation to Borneo from Tawi Tawi Island near Tara kit ii Wor cps third Island Chifley said the australian division which landed on Borneo previously had fought in the mid die East. Borneo third a largest Island in the world and an important source of Oil rubber and other tropical products has been in japanese control since Early 1942. One portion of it is dutch owned the other British. In the Philippines Macarthur infantry drove to a Point six Miles South of Davao big port on Mindanao Island and overran two air  Job half Dene Guam May 2 cans a half of the original japanese Garrison of 60,000 on Okinawa has been killed wounded or captured it Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner declared today.900,000 nazis quit m Italy continued from Page 1 any f Urther orders issued by Alexander. Alexander told Allied troops of their Victory in a special order of the Day which Sanft fat part Quot after nearly Tsao years of hard and continuous fighting which started in Sicily in the summer of 1943, you stand today As victors of the italian Campaign. Quot you May Well be proud of this great and victorious Campaign which will live in history As one of the greatest and most successful Ever waged. No Praise can be High enough for you sailors soldiers airmen and workers of the United forces in  the surrender came when men of the fifth army had linked with French forces on the Ligurian coast and troops of the eighth were fighting alongside Jugoslav troops above Trieste. Despite the breakaway of their comrades to the South Gern a troops defending the so called bavarian redoubt yesterday stiffened their resistance to seventh us. And first French army troops attacking the bastion. Seventh army troops fighting i Alpine country made Small advances and did French troops was of Lake Constance. Seventh Arm units were Only <3x Miles from to inn Valley Railroad that a through Innsbruck to the Birnn Brunau quaint austrian bar town where Adolph Hitler was m years ago. Was american third army a a the the German radio was world that the Little in  
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