Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Spend Ferous in Victory Light is new York by night. Period of Brownout gloom ended with Lefeat of Germany. This is mid town area As seen to the Southwest from radio City building. The Quot great White Way Quot is at right15,000 Eto vets going by june 1 More than 15,000 veterans the first group of men with an interim critical score of 85 Points will be released from the Eto by june 1, etto Headquarters announced yesterday. Officers make up less than two percent of the total. The group composed almost entirely of men with combat experience is made up of 12,000 from the 12th army gp., 3,000 from the sixth army up. And 500 from the air Force. Restricted this month because of Lack of transportation the quota will be substantially increased next month it was stated. The next group will include men from the army service forces and More men from the air Force. The men will Start pouring into a staging area near be Havre next sunday. Within six Days the entire 15,500 will be gathered and organized into groups according to the reception stations to which they Are to be sent in the states. Shipments will be made however so that All members of a unit arrive in the states aboard the same  nearly killed in cub last april London May 16 a Gen. George s. Patton or. Third army commander narrowly escaped death last april it was revealed today. Patton was aloft Over the Nur Emburg area in a Small Liaison plane observing the territory which the third army was about to take Over from the seventh. A enemy aircraft spotted the plane and dived with machine guns blazing. The general a Pilot flew As close to the ground As possible and the German Pilot unable to pull out of his dive crashed in flames. Patton returned to his base safely. 1,200 second army. Vets cot that High Point trip with second armo. Div., May 18-r-protolefbly the largest con Haef agents guide d0ekitz by Earl Hayo t s tars and stripes staff writer probably Tingent of homeward bound men from one outfit in Etowah to leave the second army. Today for Assembly at the third reinforcement depot then Home and a possible discharge. The group of 24 officers and 1,176 men was headed by artillery observer capt. James e. Mahon a who has 173 Points via 14 decorations four Campaign stars and More than two years overseas and 56 months of army service. It. Col. Harry Hillyard executive officer of the divisions combat command by has 178 Points but wont go Home. He a regular army. All Quot hell Chi wheels men going Home have been in the army at least four years and most of them have been through this crack divisions campaigns in Africa Sicily Normandy France Belgium Holland and Germany. A sgt. Harrelson Blackwell of Hamilton ga., who went into action with the division at Casablanca expressed the sentiments of most of the departing men Quot i m Gonna take a 45-Day furlough for Good Southern sunning and cooking. Then in a Gonna sweat out that  among the other High scorers leaving were sgt Ralph b. Johnson of Colombus a whose three children six decorations and 31 cum May 16 Ansis at Leas 357 japanese aircraft were destroyed or damaged and 22 Small enemy vessels were sunk or damaged in a week end of blazing attacks by . Carrier planes on the enemy Homeland adm. Nimitz announced today. At least 176 of the enemy planes were certainly destroyed. The . Blows struck at 18 airfields and other objectives of the Southern japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku a a involved More than 1,500 planes according to a Tokyo account. Me to months overseas helped pile up 153  gets ten Inch Snow Denver May 16 ans a a postseason cold spell accompanied by Snow frigid rain and suggestions of Frost nipped the Rocky Mountain states and the Plains country to the East yesterday. Snowfall varied from Light flurries to a maximum of 10 inches reported at Ruxton Park Midway up Colorado Spike speak. The mining towns of cripple Creek and Lead Ville colo., received six and two inches of Snow respectively with temperatures As Low As 26. A sheaf Mission has assumed control of the German government headed by nazi adm. Karl Roenitz United press reported last night on the basis of information from Quot an official source at Rheims. Whereabouts of Doenitz and disposition of his ministers was not disclosed. The regime had been in flen8burg. Meanwhile a soviet communique reported that the a a rounding up of captured German officers and men on All fronts has been  marshal Titos Jugoslav army disarmed 15,600 More  japs strike in vain Guam May 10�?ub. Marines today were reported across the Asato River and within 1,000 Yards of the Center of Naha after turning Back one of the strongest japanese counter attacks of the Okinawa Campaign. Reuter quoted a a new York radio As saying Naha had been captured front dispatches said murderous Jap fire was cutting Down Leatherneck reinforcements trying to Cross the Asato which bisects the Oki Nawa capital also under siege were the Inland Citadel of Shuri and the East coast port of Yona Baru. Chocolate Hill a Strong Point shielding Shuri was taken at Bayonet Point by the 77th inf. Div. 400 Jap dead counted a regiment of the sixth Marine div. Was driven Back 200 Yards by the japanese in Naha before the tide turned. The Marineo called on Cooks Bakers and other rear Echelon troops to help Stop the enemy. During the Battle a Small Force of the enemy tried to land behind Marine lines but artillery smashed the attackers. Fau of chocolate Hill broke it five Day stalemate Northeast of Shuri Okinawa a second largest City. On the East coast of the Island the 96th div. Consolidated positions around captured conical Hill in preparation for an assault on Yona Baru. Ford and chevre plan lighter Che Aper models Detroit May in ans a two major automobile manufacturers promised today to give the american Motorist a lighter and cheaper car but added that it would take from ten to 15 months before the cars can be produced in Quantity general motors president c. E. Wilson said that Chevrolet would manufacture for distribution through regular Chevrolet dealers a car of lighter weight and cheaper operation which will Cost less than prewar models. Ford motor company officials declared that they would produce a car costing 15 to 20 percent less than the pre War v-8. The cars will not be miniature. The lighter weight will be secured through Sharp conservation of space and bulk in engineering and design. A meanwhile in Washington chairman j. A. Krug of the War production Board said that there is no Outlook for Early lifting of rigid controls from the automobile Industry because of the demand for War vital steel. The Board lifted its ban on the manufacture of Golf clubs for civilians but said that it probably would not mean an immediate flow of clubs. The Board pointed out that the recreation needs of american forces in the Eto while awaiting redeployment May increase the present service demands for Golf clubs but preliminary reports indicated american losses were Only about ten planes. Adm. Nimitz said that american airmen shot Down 83 enemy planes saturday night and by Daylight monday had destroyed 93 More aground. An additional 108 were destroyed or damaged aground and 73 More were brought under machine gun and rocket attacks suicide pilots lairs the 18 target airfields were those from which Jap suicide pilots have been flying against uj3. Fleet units off Okinawa. Two Jap motor boats and two loggers were sunk and a repair ship seven torpedo boats four loggers a Small cargo ship four Small Craft and a tug damaged. The assault opened saturday night with attacks on airfields at Kokubu Konya Iran and Kagoshima on Kyushu. Sunday and monday the raiders worked Over other Kyushu bases at Jaekl Oita Kofuji Usa Miyako Tojo Kikuchi continued on Page 8 2 subs yield in . Waters the second German submarine to surrender at a us. Port was escorted into Portsmouth n. H. Harbor yesterday 24 hours after the first capitulated off Cape mar n. J. Washington naval spokesmen said that Allied vessels were escorting 13 nazi submarines to surrender ports. Approximately two thirds of the a boats believed to have been in the Atlantic when the War ended have been accounted for. Between 10 and 28 not yet contacted probably will be Given a surrender deadline then hunted As pirates. The British admiralty and air ministry announced that 81 midget a boats were either sunk probably sunk or captured during the air activities in the English Channel in the closing months of the War. About 100 midget a boats have  to receive plaque new York May 18 ans a town Halls Board of trustees will present a plaque to yank an army Magazine next monday for Quot Superb accomplishments in dissemination of news and information. Could be. During the earliest centuries of recorded history legitimate marriage us not a human Birthright but a special privilege of the ruling classes. Vol. 1 a a no. 65 the weather forecast for Nice Marseille area thursday Clear in morning some Clouds in afternoon maximum temperature 86. % one franc 357jap planes Ibi asted in raid from carriers theft daily newspaper of 11.3. Armed