Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Am the stars and stripes. Sunday May 20, 1945 glued airmen flogged army sleuths learn Parl Mazo of Start and stripes stall writer wot 30th we May 10�?there is Concrete evidence now concern inf atrocities committed during the past years against american and British airmen by German civilians and officials. It Exigence men of this have dug up numer types of atrocities that have run to pattern it Germany. A member of captured in Magde its having flogged an Amertz a it airman with a rubber Hose. A a a an american captured after parachuting from a flaming plane was dragged through Magdeburg streets to a police station a Here he was Bea in almost to death by Gestapo. After the Bea Ting r the airman was thrown into a cell. No one admits knowing what happened to him after that. Id 14 a is Vijayam near Barleben several wounded american airmen were caught on the ground and beaten. Their valuables where taken and they were left to die. A polish girl one of a group of slave labourers reported this incident and pointed out the nazi to pick Winner 1-lt Deane Lewis intelligence moving into a German House to convert h Inta a  a British Parachute and flying gear. The owner of the House admitted having beaten a wounded British flier to death with a club Ani stealing the equipment ,r7v, neat no we Fet Sleben a flier was shot with s to while in mid air. Although seriously wounded when he hit the ground a German civilian beat him until he was unconscious then the civilian turned the american Over to soldiers. 8tripped and beaten another airman who was downed in a Small town near Brunswick last january was brought before the Nasi Burgo Melster. This official made him strip before the townspeople and remain naked in the bitter cold outside the City Hall. After being exposed two hours they allowed him to dress and then led him to a garage where he was beaten. Two German women questioned about the killing of two american fliers said they shot the. Men through the head because a a they were so badly.,  the women described their act As mercy killing a i counter intelligence men investigating these atrocities Are trying to ascertain names of dead Allied airmen and attempting to find their Graves guilty nazis Are being sent through pm channels with cases marked Quot attention War Crimea Quot jeeps of mail two jeep loads of letters in the stars and stripes War Bond contest Are pouring in from the Field every Day. The entries letters from 50 to 250 words on Quot my savings and postwar plans Quot a Are being delivered to army finance Headquarters in Paris. There a staff under the direction of col. J. H. Pulton the contest chairman is carefully sorting and numbering every entry. Prises Are automobiles trucks and refrigerators. Until selection of the judging committee is completed the letters will be kept under lock and key. The judges will be chosen from All anus of the service in Etc and one�?1-lt Deane Lewis army nurse of Pike fit old ky., and the 100th evac. Hosp was selected. Quot the Early response to the  col. Pulton said Quot and the soundness of thought expressed in the letters indicates the men Are taking it seriously. We in turn Are taking our end of the contest just As . Reich policy to be Tough Patterson Washington May 19 cans a undersecretary of War Robert p. Patterson told his news conference today that Many problems remain to be solved in the Etc and the army a Job there will not be finished for Many months to come. Quot among our problems Quot he said Quot Are the consolidation of our occupation of Germany the institution of policies of Overall Allied control and the administration of a Stern government of Germany that will provide a program of  he emphasized that the army was determined to pursue a Quot Tough Quot policy in its occupation zone. Germans Well clothed chaplain chief visits Gen. Ike r h Bim 8, May 1�?maj. Oen. William r. Arnold assistant inspector general and former chief of army chaplains began a tour of inspection of chaplains activities in the european and Mediterranean Heaters yesterday by visiting Gen Eisenhower Here. Royal news Ben lifted London May 19 Reuter a news papers now May publish news of the whereabouts residences and future movements of the Royal family and prime minister Churchill a Patterson who recently returned from a tour of the Etc said German civilians in areas he visited appeared Well clothed. He expressed the opinion that removal of land mines still remaining in liberated countries would be a Good Job for German pm the undersecretary said he believed every us. Commander in Europe without exception wants to go to the Pacific but that it was too Early to say which commanders and which units will fight the japanese. Redeployment plans Are Well advanced however and the army plans to use a major part Quot of Etc Materiel in the Pacific he said. 200,000 cars ready in �?T45 Washington May 19 a is a some 000,000 1946 Model automobiles Are expected to Roll of f Assembly lines by next april 1, it was revealed officially yesterday after the first big reconversion conference Between government and Industry officials. Henry p. Nelson War production Board s Auto reconversion chief told reporters present indications Are that about 200,000 cars can be produced this year and another 400.-000 in the first Quarter of 1946. Nelson also announced that All restrictions on manufacture of Small parts will be lifted this week to help keep old cars going until new models Are available in Quantity. Rheims greets a citizen Gen. Eisenhower shakes hands with monsignor Marmot ten Catholic archbishop of Rhooms during a ceremony at Wiloh the supreme commander was made a citizen of Honor of the pity which was the Sito of the German surrender to Allied armies. . Army signal corps photo Kirk aides get medals Paris May 19�?the Croix de Guerre with Palm was awarded to vice adm. Alan o. Kirk commander of . Naval forces in prance r. A. J. English his Deputy chief of staff and it. P. S. Brine Liaison officer. Separated lovers snare a tag work in Germany a a j by a stars and stripes staff writer Hanover May -19�?some frenchmen poles Aud others at the Camp for displaced persons put on a dance and throughout the party at least one bouncer a dutch girl was kept Busy throwing out German girls who sneaked in to join the fun. That party and its resulting bouncing is one of the hundreds of problems faced by Allied Mill-4 tary government daily. In the Hanover area where almost 100,600 displaced persons and former pcs have congregated military government has already managed to Send Home 25,000 French and belgians. Those still being processed include lithuanians italians Bulgari and even one chinese. But most Are russians and poles who have Little love for each other. I lovers Are problem. German women who had to do with Quot a slanders a foreigners a were subject to the death penalty under nazi Law yet hardly a track Load of displaced persons leaves without its continent of German women begging to be allowed to go along with lovers. One officer trying to get a Load of Home bound frenchmen on its Way had to Chase German women off with a gun. Many displaced families have up to eight or ten children and Many of the children Are still nursing. Babies Are born at displaced persons Camps almost daily. Anth Ovist feeling German propaganda evidently had been directed against russians More than any other crowd. The result is that everything that happens is blamed on the russians. Many displaced poles having heard anti soviet propaganda for Many years beg my people not to Send them Back to Poland. Many russians too fear return to their native land because the germans told them Stalin would kill them. By and Large germans Are obeying my regulations to the letter. British duped Riviera nazis London May 19 apr How a British Light Cruiser disguised As the French Cruiser Leopard mined leghorn Harbor in Italy under the noses of germans and italians in 1941 was told today. Rear adm. R. K. Dickson shipper of the British Cruiser Manxman said that a false superstructure had been built on his ship which also had a reshaped Bow and Stem much like that of the Leopard. Tie Manxman sailed along the Riviera coast in Daylight unmolested by German pilots patrolling the area who evident ally believed the Cruiser was part of the French Fleet taken Over by the Axis the British ship entered leghorn Harbor at night sowed the mines and escaped in a fog without detection. Belgian King delays return Brussels May 19-King Leo Pold of Belgium will not return immediately to his country it was disclosed last night by members of the Cabinet who made a flying visit to the liberated Monarch in Salzburg Austria. The King said he was in poor health and asked Prince Regent Charles his brother to carry on under prime minister Achille Van. A k er.p5i Pioneer survives mei09 crash escapes by Andy Rooney stars and stripes staff writer Paris May 19�?col. Kenneth r. Martin original commander of the first Fri group in Britain whose plane went Down in flames after cradling head on into an me109 when both Martin and the German refused to give Way As they screamed toward each other with guns blazing escaped before the German surrender is now at us Stap Headquarters awaiting return Home. Both pilots miraculously were thrown free of their planes and both escaped alive. Martin suffered a broken leg and foot and a crushed left Arm. He was taken with the Luftwaffe Pilot to a German Hospital where they Lay in Beds a Short distance apart As commander of a group of new Type planes operating against Germany Martin had information enemy intelligence officers needed. He was put in solitary confinement Lor five weeks in an interrogation Hospital where prisoners were treated and questioned simultaneously. It was 12 Days before they set Martin s badly mangled left Arm. He was Given a Small dose of an aesthetic not enough to kill the pain but enough to make him groggy. While the German doctor worked an interrogator hammered away with questions Quot How far can the plane Fly. How Many groups will there be in England. Where Quot the germans used threats and promises of better treatment As the chief Means of attempting to get information Martin said. They did no to get the information. Afer six weeks in the interrogation Hospital Martin was moved to a Hospital completely staffed by captured British doctors and medics who Quot did an outstanding Job with the equipment the germans gave  after ten months in prison Camps Martin was moved with 2,000 others from Rumburg in the direction of Moos Burg to escape the approaching  the end of the first Days March Martin and it. Ool Paul t. Burton of new York worked toward the end of the column and when the prisoners passed a Patch of Woods they made a break. German guards broke with them and Martin and Burton found the Woods Only 206 Yards deep. When they broke into the open the guards were pm their flank so they fell to the ground. The guards returned them to the column however contenting themselves with one Rifle butt blow to Burton a head. That night after the column stopped the two americans waited quietly until everyone else had settled Down. Then they edged away in the dark with guards less than ten feet away. They entered american lines 12 nights later having walked 76 Miles through German territory