Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Sunny Side up Portland  Carton of coat was Fried in a store display window after Sun Shin tag through the window set fire to the Box. The St Nice-ma1tscn.ll edit tort daily newspaper of to. I. Armad forets vol. 1�?flo. 70 is tit european theater of operations the weather to tease for Nuse Morse fee area monday fair arid warmer maximum temperature to. Tuesday May 22, 1945 one fran unit censoring of pm letters halted in Eto Paris May 21�?censorship of enlisted men s mail by their unit officers has been discontinued effective immediately it. Col. James a Arnold theater censor announced today. The move was in line with the Bermu Salon of Security regulations since be Day. Baso censors will continue to censor officers and enlisted menus mail however in accordance with Security requirements and it May be necessary to impose unit censorship on some units for Short periods unde r special circumstances. Soldiers now May Seal their envelopes before mailing letters and officers Are no longer required to sign their own envelopes. The use of Blue envelopes has been discontinued. Some restrictions a vow ��vpspsp1 re we wre rep it was stressed however that pertain Security regulations still remain in effect. Men and officers May not mention troop movements of oncoming army air Force or Navy personnel from the Eto or any movements within this theater that would indicate that such troops might move to another theater. Also on the prohibited list is mention of classified military equipment the strength morale efficiency or detailed organization of Uzi its details of undisclosed tactical methods conditions of ports Harbor transportation and communication facilities and casualties. Other banned topics Are enemy espionage sabotage or subversive continued on Page 8 1,009 doughs visit us daily Paris May 21�?one thousand soldiers a Day Are leaving the continent for seven Day furloughs in us and the number of furloughs will be increased As rapidly As transportation facilities permit com z announced today. Furlough ing soldiers travel at government expense to any Point in England. Scotland and Wales. Red Cross and army facilities assure men of regular meals a place to stay and a full entertainment program. Permission to visit Eire for urgent reasons or to see blood relatives will be granted on application to commanding general us  pm a Shalt . Beer Sale Sale of bottled and a amp med american Beer has been halted by pcs in Nice because of shortage of containers and shipping space it was announced yesterday by maj m. H. Myerson of Detroit new Surra pm officer. Myerson said american Type Beer locally brewed from us. Malt Anc hops would he sold on Draugh at the As yet unopened i Sass Mugue Center 90 Boulevard Victor  and was of 40 can ask discharge Washington May 21�?enlisted men and enlisted was May apply for discharge if they Are 40 years old. The War department announced today. Previously applications had been accepted Only from men 42 or older. The department promised further reduction in the age limit Quot when the military situation  the 40-year-Olds May not be held in service longer than 90 Days after Date of their discharge application. The department estimated there Are 30,000 pm in the 40 and 41 age group and figured 8,000 was Are eligible for age  plan stops May 31 Paris May 21�?thirty-Day a rotation Quot furloughs to the uj3. Will be suspended indefinitely on May 31, Eto he. Announced transportation person Fer and other factors from redeployment were reasons for dropping rotation. Men who already have been sent Back to Thoeub. Under the furlough plan or on other temporary duty will not return to Eto and will be transferred from their former units unless they Are specifically requested by name. Roar echelons get Points in anticipation of the Point plan redeployment officials said men who were most recently sent Home were those who would obviously have High Point scores and therefore be candidates for discharge. In explaining the award of Battle stars Eto he. Said that stars and Points awarded to units credited with combat activity also would be Given to rear Echelon troops of those units on duty status. Under this provision some troops who never left the us but who belonged to units which served on or Over the continent get Battle stars. This includes for example non flying personnel of an air Force group stationed in Britain. However the Mere presence of an advanced unit formed for a Mission but not operating under an approved table of organization in a combat zone would not entitle the rest of the organization to credit. Men in the Mission would be accorded credit individually. . Ships approach Home Isle japs say Okinawa foe cracks Guam May 21 a three american divisions enveloped the japanese Citadel of Shuri today making advances against fierce resistance while an american general said there were signs the japanese Garrison was  adm. Chester w. Nimitz communique said the first Marine div. Advanced 800 Yards to i thing 200 Yards Northwest of the main bulwark of the japanese line. The 77th inf. Div. Gained 900 Yards in face of three counter attacks in the Northeast while the 98th inf. Div. Advanced a mile in the East. A decrease in japanese shelling caused. Maj. Gen. John r. Hodge of xxiv corps to ter correspondents there was Quot some indication 4 japanese Are disintegrating Asmi. Overall fighting unit Lilis gothic Lins a Reuter correspondent described the situation As an arc of american troops around an elliptical zone of fortifications surrounding Shuri. He said that by Complete envelopment of the Shuri defense system a plug is pulled from the japanese bottleneck across a four mile defense front rivalling the gothic Lipen Italy. Elements of 88th div. Held the crests of sugar loaf Hill and a conical Hill in the East commanding the approaches to Naha capital of Okinawa big Jap Cruiser sunk by British Southeast Asia command he May 21 Reuter a a japanese heavy Cruiser of the Nachi class one of the most powerful cruisers afloat has been sunk by five British destroyers of the East indies Fleet a special naval communique announced today. An enemy destroyer was damaged in the action which took place May 18 in the Straits of Malacca at the tip of the malay Peninsula near Singapore. No. British losses were sustained m next target Kyushu the southernmost of Japan a Boms islands has Many airports natural hackers and tits great import of 379,000 asps lost Manila May 21 ans Jap anese losses in the Philippines Campaign total 370,000 killed and captured since american landings on Leyte last october Gen. Mac Arthur announced today. His communique said nearly 14,000 enemy dead have been counted and 602 prisoners taken in the past two  Materiel shift started Washington May 21�?�even to percent of the army a equipment in Eto can be reconditioned for use again in Pacific War department announced today in revealing the program of. Ordnance shipments to the Pacific already is Quot Well  the remaining 30 percent of equipment in Eto represents Materiel worn beyond possible combat use and Materiel to be used by occupation forces. The packaging Job for shipments to the Pacific is a Tough one we said pointing out that climatic conditions there Call for standards of preservation which were unnecessary in the original shipment to Eto. Censors reflect Yio film because Joes say it Damn 9 new York May 21 Ansi Salty language used by the late Ernie Pyle a pals in service and quoted verbatim from his columns has caused the Hays office to withhold approval from his picture. Director Lester Cowan charged today. Cowan said he had received word from the coast that such words As Quot Damn it Quot and Quot Lousy Quot quoted in the picture Quot Story of i Joe Quot had been objected to by the censors. Tie movie had been scheduled to be released immediately for showings overseas first to the boys on Okinawa and 80 Days later to civilians in this country. Quot Ernie Pyle a columns were widely  commented Cowan Quot and it looks As if millions of the Public had already Given a Seal of approval. Now the Hays office objects to these same quotations from the columns. Quot if i had written anything into the picture myself it would have been different but when you Are lining the actual material and then Are asked to change it Well i think the Public will see the  in los Angeles Joseph Breen administrator of the motion picture production code confirmed that the movie had been held up because of violation of the Industry s code. Quot Cowan has been making pictures for 20 years and is fully aware of the  said Breen. Quot a producer can t put into a picture All language that is  Breen declared that Cowan had told him he knew the language of the picture would not pass but Quot intended to try it anyway As the publicity from it would be Worth a great Deal Quot i Guam May 2 cars an Allied naval task fore today was heading toward Kyushu southernmost Island of the japanese Home Marx radio Tokyo reported while there was no con-4 formation of the report Here it was recalled that last week s Carrier strike in the Northern Ryukyu was first disclosed in Tokyo broadcasts. The enemy also reported today that 20 super fortresses had Lai it mines in Kansom Strait Between Kyushu and Honshu to the North Navy he. Here announced that single Mariner bomber cleaned up a five ship japanese Convoy lit Miles North of Formosa in a the minute action. The Convoy totalled 17,000 tons. Of Quot one ship Sot afire one ship went Down in flame when machine gun bullets fired gasoline do the vessel s deck and the other four were sunk by Bomba and strafing attacks other Fleet search planes Kali a medium freighter and eve evil Small Craft to strikes off Korea Gen Macarthur sent medium and heavy bombers to attack air Fields on Formosa where japanese planes attacking Okinawa Orer based. # a a Navy planes struck a naval boxes on the Kuril islands North of  invasion seen i autumn Washington May 21 ins a within three or four months the us. Win have a Quot sizeable Torce Oft army troops in the Pacific but is probably will be Early autumn before sufficient Power is mobilized to1 Ipoung. A decisive offensive rear adm. Clark h. Woodward  predicted today. Some 0.000 combat tested heavy bombers and to Jook fighters and Light and medium bombers will be sent from Europe he declared id a copyrighted article. House military committee members have disclosed he said that the army tentatively plans to Send 6.000,000 men against Japan while the combined Allied Fleet flu be augmented to 2,000 warships adm. Woodward who said his opinions were not official estimate de that Japan has 4,800,000 soldiers under arms while Allied troops id the Pacific excluding the chinese a have never been greater than their present strength of 000,000 men. Nasi Rabal captured Paris May 21 a it a Field marshal Ferdinand Schoemer commander o f German Force which continued to fight the russians in Czechoslovakia after the formal German surrender had been captured in Austria