Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur 4 the stars and stripes May 1945 Pacific to get Eto Gas masks be the Eto has become a vast Supply set up to Speed War Materiel to the Morris revealed will be filed for motor pieces of Gas radios and countless other civilian labor and pcs will Aid american Supply troops to Patching d loading Materiel for the and full use made of captured Ger atom Law As lumber and pack aging Gilland said practically no Ger mechanical equipment include much As captured guns and motor be sent tothe Pacific because of Lack repair facilities and he indicated that a much of it is use Atole win be kept Here for occupation before be the Deputy g4 Stop shipment orders been Given for some Eto a and upon announcement of All this was redirected to the he said 621 ships were either stopped at new turned Back at or reloaded and sent Back to the Olve Gilland said stocks of Here that might be necessary i the Pacific included Small Light artillery and Automa tic he disclosed i locomotives and rail and three pipe lines covering Miles were now i operation he indicated such heavy equipment would remain Here Lor the occupation will destroy some in Gilland tons of ammunition were in the theater Abb the time of the much of this will be shipped to a but considerable amounts of Mai Vatable ammo will toe Griland said troops being sent to either for potential or for transshipment to would Only carry minimum Persona equipment and that no operational equipment would be sent with personnel will go out at be upon orders from the War de cargo from plans Call for operational equipment to be sent direct to Pacific to meet troops when they newsmen rap sheaf ouster Paris May War Cor respondents have protested the army disciplinary action against four civilian War correspondents who went on an unauthorized trip to Dis accredited and ordered to return to the were Seymour new York Herald Tribune John american legion monthly artist Margaret Louis pos dispatch and an Drew Boston tally and miss Irwin already have left the and Groth Are still shape Public relations division said the trips violated of regulations prohibiting correspondents from leaving army areas without Monty in London May 16 Field marshal sir Bernard Mont Gomery arrived Here yesterday by when he appeared on the Street with William h commander of the ninth he was cheered by the hard Rule of Reich seen May 16 the Stern measures with which the military government plans to administer its area of occupation in Germany is indicated i the penalties provided for in Mote than a dozen instances the death sentence May be cases Long terms of imprisonment and heavy fines Are Eisenhower Drew up a list of ordinances and penalties As his armies moved into and it is assumed that these Are codes under which the american occupation is like court smart Jal three types of military govern ment courts were set up May impose any sentence including death May impose imprisonment up to ten years or fines up to dollars and impose sentences up to one year and fines up to offences for which death or such other penalty May be imposed include espionage of communications or information of the Allied forces acting in Defiance or contravention of terms imposed upon support or Aid of the Nassi party killing or assaulting any member of the Allied forces unlawful Possession of firearms and ammunition aiding the escape or concealment of any person detained by Allied authority sabotage and looting and other heavy sentences await those who disobey offer bribes to members of the Allied spread rumours calculated to alarm or excite people or under mine morale of Allied forces or who lie to or refuse to give information required by military go collective fines May be imposed against a Community when Mem Bers Are collectively responsible for a death sentences cannot be executed until confirmed by Eisen swedish sea lanes open May 16 Sweden sea lanes were reopened to world shipping yesterday after five years of German pour swedish ships left Rotenburg 8aipan construction Force moves Coral in wholesale quantities to make bases for super Bulldozer at left shoves Loose Coral into Section of a three Lane Highway for construction trucks is visible at upper right Road was built in five red tape snares checks bean Blossom trek Charley Veteran staffer and former trooper in the Canadian thought he was getting out of the army on Points and optimistically wrote a Story which was supposed to be the first of a daily series on How it his Home is bean thereafter nothing was heard for a Days until the Telephone rang in the new York Bureau and a tired voice dictated that by Charles White stars arid stripes staff writer fort May correspondent who has been at the port Dix separation Center for three is not yet out of the in fact it begins to look As if hell never get out of the mess up was caused by the fact that although he arrived Here on somebody in some orderly room somewhere had overlooked the matter of sending on his service this has happened to about men from various overseas outfits who Are sitting around most of the the Lucky around behind Vari Ous play shot crap and talk about while occasionally an officer comes out and reads a few these names Are then screened for they go to the shipping Center where they Are Given tickets for their Home judging from confraternity failure seen by troops in Reich May 16 army officers and enlisted men now occupying Germany appear to agree that the non fraternization policy can not be strictly enforced one lieutenant pictured the difficulties this Way our who fought on the tunisian the Normandy beaches and in the never wasted any love on the Dachau and other Hor ror Camps have served to stiffen the american but now that those places have been cleaned up they no longer make the same terrific on i two things our soldiers cant resist Are kids and a glimpse of Friendly family the officer these two things the germans Are sure to tempt us with kids Here look almost like Young sters Back the old folks seem their houses Are Nice and Dean and they appear to live about the same we we Are going to have a terrific Job keeping the line Sharp Between friends As occupation stretches out unending by month after As an there is the Case of a Young German girl taken into custody for violating the claiming that her father was an american she described herself As a souvenir of their High morale and their determination to spend lots of Money i doubt if More than half of them will get past the first bar in Trenton is the nearest personally Ive spent All my Ive also spent most of my patience but intend to stick around Here until i get that Little White piece of i have just As much time As these Guys meantime one can have lots of fun at the no operated by Jim Murphy and a warrant officer who used to be a when a reporter and a Printer get to father release to be proposed May in a move to Force the army to discharge All men with More than three children began on Capitol Hill Albert Engel said that As a member of the appropriations subcommittee handling army he would ask the committee to write into the War department appropriations Bill a ban against payment of funds to any service Man who has More than three its he would Force the army to discharge such a since no one can be compelled to serve without compel should the committee turn him Engel he will submit his amendment to the Normandy posts Vmay 16 commander of the army us has also assumed command of the Normandy base Section in prance As part of the general policy of scaling Down Feldo Normandy base Section includes a Large Section of Northwestern and Central France and Points at which Allied forces invaded the continent last 800 b29s nest on single Isle May 16 Ansi air forces now can put a Fleet of 800 super fortresses into the air from a single Island in the Marianas pour each capable of mounting 200 of the big planes which have been dropping fire and explosive bombs on japans major Industrial centers and on her air have now been completed on the a delayed Navy reveal ing that Seabee had turned the fourth completed Field Over to the did not identify the but it was presumed to be Tinian or b29s Are known to have operated from each of those the fourth Field was in use by the Navy Saipan and nearby Tinian were invaded last their capture was completed in july and seizure of Guam followed Remagen gis awarded discs with ninth Ger May men received distinguished service crosses for heroism in the seizure of the Remagen Bridge across the the awards were presented by John Leonard cd of ninth in a Field be Side Tine those who received discs were George Iowa Charles John grim William Karl Timme Marin West Micael Rochelle Joseph Joseph Ohio Alex Ander first Hugh Nash John Rey an Thony new and Eugene Manhattan Molotov in Moscow May 16 foreign commissar Molotov has returned to
