Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Dough wok Cleveland a Joseph sin fur threw a drunk out of his tavern then teamed that Friendly customers gave the Stew Sinjur s Wallet Nice Marse amp a edition vol. I no.�?68 daily newspaper of . Armed forces a amp Szysz amp Fyk la the european theater of operations sunday May 20, 1945 the weather forecast for Nice mar sem area sunday Cloudy maximum temporal axe 8q. One franc Nagoya area Tokyo raided Sysu performs Guam May 19�?smashing b29 raids today on the Tokyo and Nagoya areas brought to a close the greatest week of air assaults on Japan. Some 150 super forts battered Industrial targets on the Western outskirts of the Jap capital while 300 other b29s hammered the Center of Hamamatsu 60 Miles Southeast of Nagoya with More than 2,000 tons of demolition bombs. The Hamamatsu attack the third super fort strike of the week against the Nagoya area came As maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay 21st bomber command chief announced the Nagoya raids had destroyed 11 Square Miles or almost one fourth of the third largest Jap City. Thirty three specific military targets including two Mitsubishi aircraft factories the Mitsubishi electric manufacturing company three Aichi aircraft plants and the Atsuta factory were virtually destroyed or heavily damaged. Lemay also said 59 Square Miles of six of Japan a largest cities including some 17 Square Miles of Tokyo had been bombed out or by b29 attacks a. A a a a a Okinawa gains Smalt Guam May 19 a americans battling on the approaches to 6huri and the Hills covering Okin continued on put be 8 Allied service Points counted Paris May 19�?points toward discharge eligibility will be granted to american soldiers for Active service with the armed forces of other Allied nations and for decorations conferred by those nations Between sept. 18, 1940, and May 12, 1945� a War department directive explained tonight. Com z announced that time served overseas with the american Field service in the same period also would be counted toward discharge eligibility. Credit for foreign decorations must be approved by the theater commander under whose jurisdiction the service was  had shelter next to White House Washington May 19 ans a the relaxation of censorship now permits disclosure that a bomb shelter under the Treasury building adjacent to the White House was built for the late president Roosevelt and his family shortly after americans entry into the War. A reinforced Concrete Tunnel built in Zigzag fashion connected the White House with the Treasury vault. As a further precaution All White House employees and presumably the president and his family were equipped with Gas masks. It s cd Iii in Brenner Given . 15th, sheaf a Bis despite Summers approach on Tho Riviera its not far to a Conos of Winter. Fifth army soldiers gum eng Tho Brennor paso Point to talk to s comr too shovelling a Pim through Tho Snow outside the Vitago of Brt Neret at tha a Tallan and of the past. Stalin backs a big three soviet c h he of shakes stand known Moscow May 19�?premier Joseph Stalin today declared that reconstruction of the polish provisional government As provided in the Yalta agreement can be accomplished Only if the soviet endorsed Warsaw regime is retained As the nucleus of the future coalition Cabinet. Stalin s first Public statement on the problem which has been a Bone of Contention Between Moscow on one Side and London and Washington on the other Ever since the big three meeting in the Crimea last january was in response to a written question submitted by Ralph Parker correspondent Here for the Quot Timea of London. Stalin declared the arrest of 16 polish leaders who flew from London to Warsaw ostensibly to negotiate on the government reorganization had no connection with the regime s reconstruction. He said the arrests were due to diversion test activities which the poles conducted behind the red army a lines. The Premier warned that Russia would not permit in Poland a government which carried out anti soviet policies or which Lent itself to formation of a Buffer Between Russia and Western Europe. Casualty total nears million Washington. May 19 ans a the total of americans killed wounded missing or taken prisoner in this War was nearing the million Mark today. Hie army and Navy announced As of last night the total american casualties in All services was 986,215.London said Likely saftey site London May 19-Diplomauc quarters speculated today that the . And British ambassadors to Moscow soon would inf orm marshal Stalin that their governments consider an Early meeting of the big three necessary to discuss the Quot serious and disquieting issues mentioned in commons by foreign Secretary Anthony Eden two Days ago. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr the British envoy is expected to leave for Moscow within a few Days the projected conversations among president Truman prime minister Churchill and Stalin will take place in London it was predicted since the soviet Leader is free to travel now that his presence in the soviet Union As head of the red army is not required. Top priority at a big three meeting probably would go to discussion of the polish question created by the divergent views held by the uj3. And Britain on one hand and Russia on the other on the makeup of Poland s new government. Sheaf May 19�?lt. Gen Leonard t. Gerowe a 15tht . Army is the army of occupation for the Saar Hines Valley and Western Ruhr sheaf announced today in thi firs a specific statement on tie Post Victory role of a net car a soldiers in Europe. The 14,000 Square Miles of Western Germany whiff the 15th has been policing for six weeks had a prewar population of 11 millions and formerly constituted one of the world richest Industrial areas. Thousands of doughboy supplemented by men from f45 Field artillery battalions Are patrol ing the area and cavalry units Are set up and ready to Deal with any Large scale disorder. Sheaf announcement the veil of secrecy cloaked the 15th since on the Rhine was Anu months ago. Has two corps units of the 15th�?<which now includes two corps and which eventually will have a strength Between 300,000 and 400,000�?helped contain the thur pocket and conducted the seizes of St. Nasaire and Lorient on the French Atlantic coast. The Lotti s two corps Idt the xxii commanded by maj. Gen. Ernest a Harmon former of of second army. Div. And the xxi. Commanded by maj. Gen. Hugh a it gon. Leonard t. Gorow a. Super police Chie Caffey Heads Xxiii corps Xxiii corps hq., May 13�? maj. Gen. Hugh j. Gaffey former of of fourth army div., a been named commander of this Corpse the 15th us. Army in Germany it was announced today. He is the military governor of the Southern Rhine provinces a territory roughly equal in size to new Jersey. Gaffey a command comprises the area through which the fourth army. Div. Made its sweep from Pitburg to Coblenz before coiling for its later strike through Sii Mern and bad Kreuz Nach to Worms. In the ninth of Brig. Gen. Ralph of Stearley Brazil ind., was appointed cd of ninth tac. He succeeds maj. Gen. Elwood r. Quesada whose new assignment was not announced. Battleship Elisabeth sunk by italian midget a boat London May 19�?an italian midget submarine sneaked into Alexandria Harbor and torpedoed and Sank the British battleship Queen Elizabeth in january 1942, the British office of naval affairs disclosed today. The dreadnought later was re floated and taken to dockyards in the . For repair. Meanwhile the admiralty Dis closed for the first time loss of the escort Carrier has Dasher which blew up and Sank in the Firth of Clyde Scotland in March 1943� while hundreds of persons looked on. The Dasher was rocked by violent explosions which were believed to have been touched off by a plane which made a poor Landing on the deck and set off bomb stores. Caffey former of of the fourth army. Div. The 28th, 88th and 94th inf. And the seventh airborne div Are attached to the 15th in addition to numerous non divisional units from All branches of the service. Occupy Saar area the 8aar, one of Europe a most Fertile mining areas produced Large quantities of Brown goal from which the nazis extracted Oil to run heavy automotive equipment. It was understood that american occupation would not jeopardize Frances claim to use of the Saar mines to boost its lagging Coal Supply. North of the Saarland the . Occupational zone extends through the Eifel and Cologne Plains to Wesel and Geld Era. It includes the. Once populous cities of Trier Coblenz Aachen Cologne and Dusseldorf. Includes Westmark German political sub division controlled by the 15th include nearly All of Rhein Provenz in the North All of Westmark in the Center and that part of Hesse lying West and South of the Rhine on the South. _ present population of the area cannot be determined with any degree of accuracy until reshuffling of refugees and repatriation of continued on Page 81 Chi vet in . New York May 19 Ansi sixteen veterans of the China Burma India theater were Back in the u.8. For discharge today under the Point system. Most of them expected to be civilian within 48 hours