Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Rage 8 thi stars and stripes saturday May 19, 1945 test your eyes 1 fluid fatal 10 31 doughs Paris May 18--a new High in death from drinking Wood alcohol has been reported since american troops invaded Germany Eto chief surgeon s office disclosed today. Fin the last week said ool John a. Gordon preventative Medicine to of it Soldier deaths in the Thea ter were traced to Wood alcohol a toning. Sight of these came when skuers stationed in each Wege Germany opened a tank car and sampled the contents. After they were stricken it was discovered they had drunk fluid used in charging Buss him Ivy another two deaths resulted Hen soldiers drank heat lie said. A Don t Taka change so j to single specific area in Germany has been a Center of the poisoning he said adding that deaths have resulted wherever soldiers drank liquor of which they weren t sure. He indicated an increase in the number of alcohol deaths among com z troops has also been recorded recently. I warning against drinking in unauthorized taverns Small bars and brother and from refilled bottles with contents not checked Gordon officers and pm be of what they were drink they Quot take chances with advised drinking Only recognised brands of bottled and sealed liquor. Food shortage strikes . K a continued from Pogg 1 Tours predicted that More than 300 restaurants would dose by june 1 and that the number will be tripled in a month unless there is More food. Federal agents and food dealers blamed the Black Market for part of the shortage but City Market department inspectors stopping inbound poultry trucks reported no violations. Eggs new York s mainstay on meatless tuesdays and fridays have become scarce though there is a fair Supply of cheese and plenty of fish. \ meat stores that stayed open introduced a wartime innovation the Quot Surprise they invited their steady customers to leave orders for anything that might come in Over the weekend. A Greenwich Village grocer summed up the situation like this As he locked his front door and prepared to go Home Quot we have no meat no eggs no butter no Ole Margarine and no paper hags to put them in if we did have them. France to occupation Job Washington May 18 ans a president Truman conferred today with Georges Bidault French foreign minister and told him the . Was willing to relinquish to France part of the american occupation zone in Germany. The president said details of the relinquishment were Quot in the process of being pm toll tops 3 million sheaf May 18�?twelfth army group units have taken and processed 3,011,836 German prisoners since a Day sheaf disclosed yesterdays Haef places interview ban on High nazis sheaf has decreed that there will be no More press interviews with Hermann Goering Hurt Dott mar Herd von Rundstedt and other High ranking German captives Reuter reported yesterday. No official reason was advanced for the ban but it was indicated there had been unfavourable reaction to interviews in Allied countries. A general official inclination to follow the russian policy of keeping their prisoners under Oover was cited. Meanwhile the 101st airborne div. Captured or. Robert Ley German labor front Leader in a Mountain hideaway 45 Miles South of Berci amp Tes Gaden. Captured with him was Frank Schwarts nazi party treasurer. The third us. Army took Ernest Kaltenbrunne Himmler s right hand Man after an All night climb up a Snow capped Peak in South Germany. United press from London said Ftaras von Papen Germany s no. 1 Diplomat is under investigation by the United nations War crimes commission. Queen Mary crash 31 months ago told London May 18�?the 81,235-ton Ocean liner Queen Mary collided with a British Cruiser at top Speed 31 months ago shearing the escorting vessel in half like match Wood and sending it to the Bottom the British admiralty revealed today the disaster occurred the afternoon of oct 2, 1942, when a a boat attempted to sink the transport in the North a it Atlantic in route from the Okinawa Batty re a a in final stage continued from Page 1 Mitsubishi works and the entire Southern third of Nagoya. Not one super fort was lost in these attacks. Pliers of the fourth army air Fores selected Rhonda Fleming As their "10-20 girl Quot to improve vision. 8he s s budding army probing fake claims of rape in Reich by Earl Mazo stars and stripes staff writer with ninth army ., May 18�?the question of whether some German girls Are attempting Subtle sabotage by accusing american soldiers of rape is being discussed seriously by army officials. Officers of one division cite As a typical Case the three German girls who charged rape selecting three . Soldiers at random As their attackers. All three girls said they had been virgins before being Quot attacked Quot but examination by medical officers showed that two were still virgins while the third doctors said apparently had not been a Virgin for Many years. It was pointed out that Many German girls seduced willingly shout Quot rape Quot to save face when they Are found out by neighbors. Some Fraulein who charged rape did not know what the word implied. In several cases girls admitted thinking rape meant serious fraternization. One girl who had been with an american Soldier three Days and nights had an argument with him and accused him of rape. When informed what her charges meant she became alarmed and repentant. A trooper can tet discharge continued from Page in Many act Well As Paris but Here at it. Dix i find that i am returned to co. 13 to tie shipped to Camp Atterbury Lnda for furlough and reassignment. The reason for this is that somebody at personnel sos Tousa failed to enter anything on my service record which confirms an a opinion i have Long had concerning personnel experts generally. I have three years eight months overseas service with i think two combat stars which should be Worth 98 Points but it was assayed in screening office Here that my record shows Only 32 months overseas for 64 Points which is somewhat less than the 85 required for discharge. Well anyway its a trip to Indiana. After Camp Atterbury they can look in the Woods of Brown county but have to bum Down the Trees and sift the ashes. They wont find yours very truly trooper White. Jap Foros enveloped Manila May 18 cans a traps were closing today on sizable japanese garrisons on Luzon and min Dinar. In Central Luzon the biggest enemy Force yet enveloped in the archipelago was hemmed in by the 43rd div. Near ipod dam Manila a chief water source. In the Central sector of Mindanao the 40th and 31st dive. Made further advances toward a juncture squeezing Between them a sizable Jap Force. There was no news of another isolated Jap Force Cut off by the 24th div. Between Davao and Talomo Rivers. The biggest air Force operation was a 185-ton raid by liberators on Shinchiyu major Jap base on Northwestern modifies an on writers sheaf May 18�?modification of disciplinary action against two civilian War correspondents who wrote. Eyewitness stories of the Battle for Berlin was announced yesterday. The correspondents Seymour Friedin of the new York Herald Tribune and John Groth of american legion Magazine were to have been Dis accredited and returned to the . On allegations that they violated orders in circulating behind russian lines. The modified punishment consists of suspension until june 6 and banishment to the United kingdom. A Little bit of Day Light the Cruiser the 8.700-ton Curacao went Down within five minutes with 338 casualties. The Queen Mary crowded with 15,090 american troops suffered Only a big Dent in her prow and continued safely to Clyde Scotland. It was impossible for her to pick up survivors since the disaster occurred a in the Middle of the a boat zone. At the time the Queen Mary was racing under forced draft escorted by two cruisers. A Lookout reported a submarine on the port Bow. As the liner swerved to starboard the Curacao started for the a boat cutting directly in front of the Queen Mary it was believed. Broke i two the transport travelling at nearly 30 knots knifed squarely into the Side of the smaller vessel. The Curacao broke in two and was carried along for a considerable distance with one half clinging to each Side of the liner. Shaking Clear of the two pieces the Queen Mary Tore ahead at top Speed temporary repairs were made when she reached Clyde and a new Bow was fitted when she returned to new York. There was no interruption in her sailing schedule. As an aftermath of the Accident it was reported yesterday claims totalling 750,000 pounds Sterling have been filed against the Cunard co., owners of the Queen by dependents of the men who lost their lives on the Curacao. Start june if Hie Law suit one of the most unusual in maritime history is scheduled for trial june 12 and May last several months As witnesses will have to travel from All Over the world. In announcing the sinking of the Curacao the admiralty also disclosed loss of a number of other British ships whose sinking had been withheld until the end of the War because Germany was unaware of their destruction. The list included an escort Carrier ten destroyers eight submarines tw<5 armed merchant cruisers one Sloop one frigate three auxiliary vessels 13 mine sweepers and 61 trawlers. Lighting effect8, or maybe its the sparkling earring teem to be the excuse for distribution of this picture of Lovely Lorain Day one of the brighter starlets in the Hollywood s fault. Half Swiate says Calcutta May 16 ans a it. Harold w. Goad said he was a Quot very Happy Guy when he Learned that his pretty wife who remarried after he was reported killed in action planned Legal action to end her second marriage. Quot the thought of getting Back to my wife was the biggest thing that kept me going All the time i was imprisoned Quot said goad who was held 18 months in a Rangoon jail. To am still pretty confused about it All but there is one thing for sure and that is that nobody is to marne.�?T1 his wife Helen of Portsmouth Ohio married Ensign r. A. Mac Dowell now on duty in the Pacific six months after the War department declared Road dead. He was freed after the fall of Rangoon
