Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Toft i the stars and stripes wednesday May 23, 1945  a May 22 a pull Coal production was expected today in Pennsylvania Anthracite Fields As Moat of the areas 70,000 miners started their second Day of work following the ending of their ten Day strike yesterday. An official of the solid fuels administration reported that 336 of flit 333 ool series in the area item operating yesterday with approximately 93 percent of All miners v at work. The sees resulted in the loss of an estimated 3,400,000 tons of hard Coal the United press said. The new wage hour contract approved saturday by mine operators and president John l. Lewis of the Ulfo.  Ziaja a  increase of f 1a7 per Days for every ump member whether employed in the mines or outside. The increase includes Portal to Portal  approved for the Una time in the history of the Anthracite Coal Industry. 25 year sergeant to stick it out Okinawa May 23 ans a Quot Why should i go Home the War ainu to Over is it \ that a Why 1-sgt. Charles j. Morey High Man on a list of 30 soldiers selected at Okinawa for discharge under the Point system is staying on until the Pacific War is finished. Morey a seventh div artillerymen from Monterey Calif., has served 26 years in the army. He is married and has three  builds up staging staff Marseille May 22�?six bed Cross girls arrived Here Over the week end to supplement area supervisor Hubert r. Risinger a staging area staff and 10 More Are expected within the next few Days it was announced today. In addition to the red Cross staging area personnel. 10 workers will be assigned to distribute do a touts and Coffee to troops at various railway and loading Star tons throughout this area and at the Marseille Poe. The red Cross already has six prefabricated buildings in the staging area and More building space is anticipated in the near future. Katherine Schelbe of Detroit is acting director in the area. Including the six new arrivals Ruth Lynott Madison wis. Margaret Helm Carnegie a. Rosemary Stanton new York City Lillian Critchet Richmond a. Florence Thrift san fran Cisco Calif., and Coquille Ore. Eileen hmm new York pity Genevieve Friedenthal Sacramento Calif. And Maxine to continued from Page in japanese Force trapped in the ipod dam am of Manila a watershed have been wiped out by troops of the 43d inf. Div and guerrilla forces. Farther South on Mindanao 31st div. Units were at an Airfield on the outskirts of Maia Balay capital of Central Buk Dnon and were but 26 Miles from a Junction with the 31st to the Southeast doughboy of the 24th div gained two Miles along the coast near Davao.  tar amp Kan Island just East of Borneo australian and dutch forces drove to within three Miles of the North coast mothers Day in capital mrs. Martha Truman 92-year-old Mother of president Truman leaves plans on the Arm of the chief executive after her arrival at a Washington Airport. Accompanying mrs. Truman from her Missouri Homo to the capital for a mothers Day visit was miso Mary Truman loft sister of the president Petridge Birmingham Ala. Marcel Neyen of Buffalo n. Y is assigned As Field director in the staging area. The no. 1 Job of the six Field directors eventually to be assigned there will be handling Home service communications with the states for gis in the area.  the spot Field service is promised every minute from the time the Soldier enters the area by train or truck until he marches up the gangplank. With increased quotas of res tees on the Riviera and the fact that Marseille will be the Poe for Pacific bound gis. This red Cross area which includes everything South of Lyon is being called upon to administer what May be the hardest task in arcs Eto history. 1st army goes to Pacific War continued from Page 1 the Allied expeditionary forces,1 a formal War department statement said. Quot although the army itself did not enters combat until the invasion of Normandy several of its units took part in its original landings in North Africa Sicily and Italy. Quot troops of the first army parachuted into prance before a hour on a Day ted the Way across the German Frontier broke through the Siegfried line seized and established the Remagen Bridgehead and were the first to make a Junction with the russians at the  the statement concluded Quot under the Point system for release of men with extended and arduous combat services Many of the present personnel of units to be sent into the Pacific with the first army will be separated from their organizations before they leave Europe and replaced by men who do not have enough Points to qualify for . Subs used in Europe seas Washington May 22 ans a a hastily organized Squadron of . Submarines was part of the american naval 4orce operating in european Waters during the War the Navy disclosed. Based in the British Isles and operating under control of the British admiralty the submarine Squadron sap an Quot important amount Quot of German shipping and destroyed at least one a boat along with an anti submarine Barge. Officers of the Squadron have been commended by adm. Harold Stark commander of the uj3. Naval forces in Europe. The Squadron consisted mostly of older submarines which could be spared from the Pacific Campaign. Tender and repair ship Lor the Squadron was the .s. Beaver Veteran of the first world  Powell Heads Nice arc Blackpool England May 23 miss Mary Powell of Tarboro n. O., yesterday became acting director of the american red Cross Casino club in Nice. Miss Alice Yonkman former director of the club now is area arc supervisor for Nice and Cannes with an office to the Negr eco hotel Nice. Before coming to Nice miss Powell was an Aro worker with the Fath inf div in Brittany. Japanese Prince Dies Prince Field marshal Koto into Kant one of Japan s Foremost army leaders died of an illness a Tokyo broadcast  knew death near briton s a s ban Francisco. May 22 apr miss Ellen Wilkinson member of the British delegation to the san Francisco conference said today that former president Roosevelt had called the conference for april because he had a premonition of his death. Speaking at the British labor party a National conference miss Wilkinson asserted that Quot even before the final meeting at Yalta said he knew his Days were numbered. Fixing the Date of april 25 he threw the Dice with  casket of Charlemagne going bark to its crypt with 15th army May 22�? the Bones of Charlemagne who ruled Europe 700 years before Columbus made his a first discovery. Are going Home after six uneasy years of wandering. The hold and jewel studded casket of one of the masters of Western Europe will be moved from its hiding place in a Copper mine at Siegen to a crypt in the roman Catholic Cathedral at Aachen. Charlemagne who ruled Over the Low countries and most of what is now France and Germany in the ninth Century is the Patron Saint of Aachen where his remains were kept through the centuries. In 1936, when the possibility of Allied bombings arose the casket was sent to Kruckenburg and during the next few years was moved to half a dozen other cities finally ending up at Siegen. American troops did no to know they had liberated the casket until told of the vaults location by the most Rev. Johannes Joseph Nan Der Velden Bishop of Arches. He negotiated arrangements for its return Wilth a amp a. Gen. Ernest Harmon. 22d corps commander. Troops break up crowd at Cologne twelfth army up. Hq., May 22 apr an unauthorized meeting of 5,000 germans at Cologne last sunday was broken up by american troops who fired Over the Heads of the crowd it was announced today. The meeting was organized to Welcome germans returning Home from Buchenwald prison. The crowd was dispersed after the appearance of signs expressing dissatisfaction with the mildness with which americans were treating the nazis. The meeting broke up without  bomb plans wrecked London May 22 up a norwegian patriots and Raf fliers worked together during the last 30 months of the european War to frustrate nazi i ports to develop an atom bomb with the most explosive Force in the world a dispatch to t h e daily express from Oslo revealed today. The secret Battle was waged a it Rukan across the storm swept hard Angeir plateau where the norwegians had been producing Large quantities of a substance known As Quot heavy water Quot which contains twice As much1 Hydrogen As Ordinary water. Scientists believed that by treating heavy water with Metal uranium under great Force they could split the atom. Lief trans Tad a norwegian chemistry professor burned All records at Rukan when the germans came and fled to Scotland. In november 1942, the allies began a painstaking Campaign of bombing and sabotage to prevent the nazis from making any headway in their  puzzled when pcs get . Discharge by Allan david80n stars and stripes staff writer Darmstadt May 22 a the Burgmeister was bewildered when 225 former wehrmacht and Luftwaffe troops with fresh discharge papers signed by the . Army were dumped into his Lap. But the Burgmeister was no More puzzled by the civilian status of the nazis than pfc Doyle l. Allen 29, of Austin Texas and the 38th inf. Regt., a 94-Point Man who had fought Jerries since a Day. Allen was one of five Drivers who hauled the sex German troops 250 Miles from Pilsen Czechoslovakia where 70,000 More wehrmacht pcs await discharge. Screwy situation Quot it beats the hell out of me Quot Allen said. Quot Here i am playing nursemaid to a Bunch of Guys i was once fighting. And now in a taking them Home. In be got. More than enough Points for discharge and still in be got to sweat out getting Home to see my wife and  another Driver pfc Ralph w. Mcgaughy 27.  Day Tonia pa., an 86-Point Man said Quot while in a sweating out the Point Deal these Jerries Are made civilians by to a Grace of the . Army. Its  at 12th army up. Hq., it was asserted that pcs were discharged by the . Army on a strict priority basis after Gestapo and is men Are sifted out. Those discharged Are critically needed to restore Germany a mining agriculture and transportation  got dope on Pwns band to Playa Marseille Marseille May 22�?the us. Army band will play a Public concert for american military personnel and the French military and civilian thursday at 5 30 pm at the velodrome stadium on Boulevard Michelet Marseille. In addition to its regularly scheduled concerts for gis in the Marseille area the band will Flay at the Delta base staging area at 7 of clock Friday night. Paris May 22�?Allied airborne reconnaissance teams were parachuted near a German concentration Camp to obtain information on food and medical requirements of us. Prisoners even before the area was overrun by advancing yank forces. Six teams were chopped near Al ten Grabow sheaf disclosed after a recovered prisoner had reported that it was being used As a Center for prisoners from five other Camps. Two of the teams were captured but the senior officer of one persuaded the nazi Camp commandant to allow him to radio certain desired information to his Headquarters within six Days arrangements were made to evacuate All British us. And French prisoners to places within the american  Hazard for my Hanover May 22�?a 35th inf. Div. My tells off a Well rounded Chesty Fraulein who ambles past verb0t�n his Post daily flaunting the not fraternization regulations. When she passes the my miss Germany shakes a Well proportioned derriere taps it lightly and says Quot Verbo