Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Since be Day the Eto has become a Speed War Materiel to the Pacific Brig. Deputy theater g4, revealed yesterday. Requisition will be filed for 160,000 pieces of doth 2,000,000 Gao masks 266,000 items. A a civilian labor and pcs will Aid a a a american Supply troops in Patching Usu packing and loading Materiel infill headed for the Pacific and full use we be made of such captured German stocks As lumber and packaging equipment. Guand said practically no Ger than mechanical equipment include was ing such items As captured planes die Ste guns and motor equipment will be . I sent to the Pacific because of Lack adm info a a repair facilities and spare parts. In Ger keep Sonto Mori penal tii he indicated that As much of it Asia useable will be kept Here tor a occupation troops j before be Day the Deputy g4 revealed Quot Stop shipment Quot orders a had been Given for some Eto a Tortol and upon announcement of 01 German capitulation All this was a re directed to the Pacific. He said As 62 ships were either stopped at j�6 1 6w York turned Beck at seas or reloaded and sent Back to the . A Ltd 4the stars and stripes thursday May 17, 1945 t Eto Gas masks become a vast Supply base set up to Gen. Morris w. Guand motor vehicles 04,000.000 radios and countless other he us. Rule of Reich seen i Lack parts. Seas or the Jub. Upon announcement of be Day. Guand said stocks of Materiel Here that might be necessary in the Pacific included 3.000.000 Small ass 400,000 vehicles. 11,000 Light artillery pieces and 350,000 automatic weapons. He disclosed 1,900 i locomotives and 23,000 rail cars and three a Ripe lines covering 1,400 Miles were now in operation Here. However he indicated such heavy equipment would remain Here for the occupation army. Will destroy some in addition Guand said 700,000 tons of ammunition were in the theater to the time of the surrender. Much of this win be shipped to Pacific but considerable amounts of obsolete in salvageable ammo will toe destroyed. N a Guand said troops being sent to ujb., either for potential discharge or. For transshipment to Pacific would Only carry minimum personal equipment and that no operational equipment would toe sent with them. Personnel win go out at be Havre and upon orders from the War department cargo from Antwerp. Present plans Call for operational equipment to be sent direct to Pacific to meet troops when they arrive. Newsmen rap snarf ouster Washington May 16 Cap a die Stem measures with which the . Military government plans to administer its area of occupation in Germany is indicated in the penalties provided to Infra tors. In More than a dozen instances the death sentence May be imposed. In. Other cases Long terms of imprisonment and heavy fines Are provided. Gen. Eisenhower Drew up a list of ordinances and penalties As his armies moved into Germany and it to assumed that these Are codes under which the american occupation is operating. Like courts martial Diree types of military government courts were set up general May impose any sentence including death intermediate May impose imprisonment up to ten years or fines up to 10,000 dollars and summary May impose sentences up to one year and fines up to 1,000 dollars. Offences for which death Quot or such other penalty Quot May toe imposed include espionage of communications or information of the Allied forces acting Quot in Defiance or contravention of terms imposed upon Germany Quot support or Aid of the Nasi party killing or assaulting any member of the Allied forces unlawful Possession of firearms and Ai munition aiding the escape or concealment of any person detained toy Allied authority sabotage and looting and rioting. Other heavy sentences await those who disobey curfews offer bribes to members of the Allied forces spread rumours Quot calculated to alarm or excite people or undermine morale of Allied forces or who lie to or refuse to give information required by military government. Collective fines May be imposed against a Community when members Are Quot collectively responsible Quot for a crime. Death sentences cannot toe executed until confirmed by Eisenhower. Jb29 bases speedily built in Marianas 8aipam construction of Bulldozer at left show Tion trucks is to make bases for super Coral into pit. Section of a three Lane Highway for sons Trio to upper right read was built in five Days. Bed tape snares trooper checks bean Blossom trek Charley White veterans amps staffer and Farmer trooper in the Canadian army thought he was getting out of the army on Points and optimistically wrote a Story which urns supposed to be the first of a daily series on How it works. His Home is bean Blossom ind. Thereafter nothing was heard for a couple of Days until the Telephone rang in the new York Bureau and a disgusted tired voice dictated the following Paris May 16�?Allied War correspondents have protested the army s disciplinary action against four civilian War correspondents who went on an unauthorized trip to Berlin. Dis accredited and ordered to return to the . Were Seymour Reidin new York Herald Tribune John Groth american legion monthly artist Margaret Irwin St Louis Post dispatch and Andrew Tully Boston traveler. Tulip and miss Irwin already have left the theater. Reidin and Groth Are still Here. Sheaf Public relations division said the trips violated of regulations prohibiting correspondents from leaving army areas without orders. Monty in London London May 16 Reuter a Field marshal sir Bernard Montgomery arrived Here yesterday by air. When he appeared on the Street with it. Gen. William h. Simpson commander of the . Ninth army he was cheered by the crowd. Swedish sea lanes open Stockholm May 16 up a Sweden s sea lanes were reopened to world shipping yesterday after five years of German blockade. Four swedish ships left Rotenburg westbound. By Charles w. White stars and stripes staff writer fort Dix Ujj May 16-your correspondent who has been at the fort Dix separation Center tor three Days is not yet out of the army. In fact it begins to look As if hell never get out of the army. Die mess top was caused by the fact that although he arrived Here on time somebody in some orderly room somewhere had overlooked the matter of sending on his service record. This has happened to about 21,500 men from various overseas outfits who Are sitting around Here. Most of the others that is the Lucky ones sit around behind various buildings play cards shot crap and talk about women while occasionally an officer comes out and reads a few names. These names Are then Quot screened Quot for Points. They go to the shipping Center where they Are Given tickets for their Home towns. Judging from non fraternity failure seen by troops in Beich cob Ijen a Germany May 16 a �?. Army officers and enlisted men now occupying Germany appear to agree that the non fraternization Poliey can not be strictly enforced Long. One lieutenant pictured the difficulties this Way Quot our soldiers who fought on the tunisian desert the Normandy beaches and in the ardennes never wasted any love on the krauts. Buchenwald Dachau and other horror Camps have served to stiffen the american attitude but now that those places have been cleaned up they no longer make the same terrific impression on i  two things our soldiers can to resist Are kids and a glimpse of Friendly family life Quot the officer continued. Quot these two things the germans Are sure to tempt us with kids Here look almost like youngsters Back Home. The old folks seem harmless their houses Are  and clean and they appear to live about the same a we do. We Are going to have a terrific Job keeping the line Sharp Between friends As occupation stretches out unending by month after  As an example there is the Case of a Young German girl taken into custody for violating the curfew. Claiming that her father was an american doughboy she described herself As Quot a souvenir of 1919.&Quot their High morale and their determination to spend lots of Money quickly i doubt if More than half of them will get past the first bar in Trenton. Trenton is the nearest town. Personally i be spent All my Money. I be also spent most of my patience but intend to stick around Here until i get that Little White piece of paper. I have just As much time As these Guys have. Meantime one can have lots of fun at the no club operated by sgt Jim Murphy and a warrant officer who used to be a Printer. When a reporter and a Printer get together father release to be proposed Washington May 10 it a it a a move to Force the army to discharge All men with More than three children began on Capitol Hill yesterday. Rep Albert j. Engel . Said that As a member of the appropriations subcommittee handling army funds 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 children. Its acceptance he said would Force the army to discharge such a Man since no one can be compelled to serve without compensation. Should the committee turn him Down Engel added he will submit his amendment to the House. Uk9 Normandy posts merged London May 16 apr Brig. Gen. E. F. Koenig commander of the . Army Suk base has also assumed command of the Normandy base Section in France As part of the general policy of scaling Down Edo operations. Normandy base Section includes a Large Section of Northwestern and Central France and Points at which Allied forces invaded the continent last year. 800 b29s nest on single Isle Washington May 16 Ansi a army air forces now can put Fleet of 800 super fortresses into the air from a single Island in the Marianas group four Fields each capable of mounting 200 of the big planes which have been dropping fire and explosive bombs on Japan s major Industrial centers and on her Airfield have now been completed on the Island. A delayed Navy dispatch revealing that Seabee had turned the fourth completed Field Over to the army did not identify the Island but it was presumed to be Saipan Tinian or Guam. B29s Are known to have operated from each of those islands. The fourth Field was in use by mar. 20, the Navy said. Saipan and nearby Tinian were invaded last june their capture was completed in july and seizure of Guam followed immediately. Remagen gis awarded discs with ninth army. Div., Germany May 16�?thirteen men received distinguished service crosses for heroism in the seizure of the Remagen Bridge across the Rhine. The awards were presented by maj. Gen. John w. Leonard cd of ninth army. Div., in a Field beside the Road. Those who received a Sci a were capt. George p. Zournas Perry Iowa 1-lt. Charles w. Miller Washington d c. 1-lt. John grim Ball Columbia . Sgt. William j. Goodson Rushville ind. 2-lt. Karl w. Timmermann West Point neb. To sgt. Micael Chinchar Rochelle Park . A sgt. Joseph a. Delisio Hartford Conn. A sgt. Joseph 8. Patronski Berea Ohio sgt. Alexander a. Drabik Holland. Ohio. First it. Hugh b. Mott Nashville Tenn. A sgt. John a. Reynolds Lfan Colton n.c., a sgt. Anthony so Mele. New York and sgt. Eugene Dorland Manhattan Kan. Molotov in Moscow Moscow May 16 it apr soviet foreign commissar v. M. Molotov has returned to Moscow