Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               America tightens Belt to keep world eating Washington May 73 an8 a War finally has driven Home to americans that to save the rest of the world from starving they must 90 on a simple  meat stores All Over the nation Are empty. The associated press sound in a Survey Steak lovers Are eating fish. Where butter is available housewives cannot afford Raf Tion Points it in t going to get any better for months. There la be enough to oar but the diet will not be spectacular. That is the unvarnished picture for 1945, at least while this nation pm its a Les Are Otth fighting Japan and helping to Avert starvation to War ravaged Europe. The a Survey to tied that Only a a few sections in the far West have anything like Normal meat supplies. Poultry is disappearing. The Strain on the Felt Many places Don even have Boio gha or luncheon meats. Stores Are dosing. Outlook for six months Germany faces famine next Winter French and Belgium Are solving their problems pretty Well. The Balkans Are i dire Strait. Holland Norway Finland and Italy must have help if they Are to eat Spain Egypt Denmark Sweden and Canada Are eating Well and Many commodities Are not rationed. In this country says the agriculture department this is the Outlook for the next six months there Wittl be enough essential foods to maintain a Good diet but that diet will have to be Plain. Reduced supplies of meats fals Jand 5 sugar will lower the Energy value of that diet from five to ten per Rit we axe eating so Many eggs a substitute for meat that a serious shortage of that protein May develop. Calories available Dally will be Ini compared to s,500 last Max Only very Active men and boys need 3.000 or More. In Many of a Europe the diets is being held to from 1,306 to 1.900 sugar which has been plentiful May n approaching a crisis. A a House committee was reported drafting a report that the government mishandled rationing Ai demanding shipments abroad be Cut. If Fra fila Haldum War mobilisation director Fred my Vinson announced a program for increased subsidies to boost the meat Supply but he  pro Mise any immediate effect. Meantime the governments food experts urged a shift to More of a Grain diet. Here was the Domestic situation at the weekend new England of p a officials notified the Massachusetts state government that the meat situation could be expected to improve in a another month. Boston was without meat or poultry. A serious shortage was hitting hospitals and schools in Connecticut so stringent that police action to take Over these institutions for emergency operation was contemplated. Rhode is and hit its lowest meat Supply Point c East hundreds of Butcher shops closed in new York. Without neat the egg and fish demand was terrific. Balt water fish was plentiful Baltimore s restaurants serv a sea food almost exclusively. A Housand West Virginia miners reused to work because there was no neat in the company stores. Philadelphia Plant officials told web production is being retarded As a result of the meat shortage. Buffalo had no poultry in Albany meat fish and poultry were almost completely missing but there was plenty of fruit and vegetables. Rochester had the same Story adding that new York truckers were paying web Over ceiling prices and making inroads into what poultry would have been available. Pittsburgh was becoming a sausage City. Camden s mayor asked president Truman by Telegram to reach a solution. Lentil Atlanta stores had very Little meat and poultry was almost now Keiit w 1th Supply Frozen for the a Kray. Birmingham packers called it the worst shortage since the War started without much Prospect of change for another year. Two mines in Kentucky shut Down with 750 men Idle at Pikesville. The men said they could t work without meat. Chattanooga reported a Large Black Market in meat. Nashville reported Quot nothing like it before Quot and even sausage was scarce but eggs and cheese were plentiful. It was fish and welders in Memphis freeze order expected Midwest Iowa s leading producer of chickens said that most of the output was going into the Black Market and not even the army was getting its proper share. A freeze order by the army was expected in two weeks. The state May produce ten million fewer chickens than last year. Chicago could t meet the demand for meats and fish and a truck strike did no to help the situation any. By. Louis had to depend on eggs and cheese. Kans City s trouble was sugar meats and even luncheon meats were growing scarce. R Minneapolis had butter Little poultry and expected beef to pick up in two or three months. West Dallas Headquarters fair six state area reported Izeat very scarce in ban Francisco dealers informally started to ration eggs. Montana had a Good beef Supply and apparently enough poultry and eggs one of the few Bright spots. Colorado likewise was t being too pressed but was worrying about a farm labor shortage and asked for More pea to help Utah appeared self sustaining too. Omaha creameries said much butter was spoiling because people Don t have red Points to buy it. Oregon had some meat. New Mexico reported a Quot meat  War criminal hangs self with sixth army. Div., Germany. May 32 a or. Karl Georg Claus wanted by the russians for atrocities committed in the Lublin area of Poland hanged himself May 13 in a pm enclosure at Roch tits some Relief in in the meat shortage in now York is expected of 1mn pounds of Buffalo Moat from Montana of the firm of l Schweitzer and sons slices off off Iho Point Froe det Cocy. Bidden Boom in Cavern yielded More Goering loot by be Lawrence stars and stripes stuff writer with seventh uj3. Army May 23�?not Only did Hermann Goering take great Delight in collecting Art treasures but he used ingenious if not almost fantastic methods of hiding his loot. Here is the latest development in a serach which so far has yielded riches in a Mountain Castle near Puess in sealed caskets on the floor of an Alpine Lake and in and it Island fortress in Chiem Bee a bavarian Lake. A 1 five officers of the seventh . Army found $200,000,000 Xin Art treasures in the bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden but they had to Knock a Wall Down to get at it the treasure was Moufid in a Cave under Goering a Hunting Lodge. Ripped out Wall capt Harry v. Anderson of Ossining n.y., a g 5 officer with 101st airborne div., described How the cafe was found. Quot we explored the Cave and found Only Bare Walls. Then we got hold of the Engineer who had supervised its construction. He showed us where a room should be and when we ripped out the Concrete Wall we found Al this stuff Quot capt. Anderson said. Furo bold objects the Art works Are on exhibition for soldiers at a luxurious Luftwaffe Barracks in the Alps. Walter Andreas House world renowned Art dealer who since 1935, had been buying for Goering acts As guide for the soldiers. He claims every item has been Pak for. Besides centuries old paintings by immortal dutch French German flemish and italian masters the exhibition includes one room entirely filled with objects of Art made of pure Gold. Among them Are huge jewel crusted medieval goblets Golden there s no like Houston Texas May 22 an8 a reconversion of Frank Garcia 21-year-old discharged Veteran of campaigns in North Africa Italy and France from Soldier to civilian is a gradual process. A four nights a week he sleeps beneath sheets in a civilian bed. The other three nights he spends in a backyard foxhole. The foxhole has the Battlefield appointments grass lining and camouflage but Garcia misses the whine of shells a fid crash of bombs. Quot this soft civilian life Feather Beds pillows fancy food and every swords finely wrought boxes studded with gems candelabra statuettes and Gold Bullion. Other rooms Are crowded with Silver plate Gold and Silver Art treasures tapestries. Of fabulous value. One Gobelin s tapestry is believed Worth a million dollars. Some painting Are hardly the Type you d hand in the Nursery two of these works of the great French Painter Boucher were turned out at the request of mar Dame Pompadour who reputedly thought that properly displayed in her bedroom they might rejuvenate the dying ardor of her Lover King Louis Xiv. It is estimated the value of the looted paintings in Goering s collection and others throughout Germany May run As High As $550,000,-000. German Salute status fixed Paris May 22�?although German soldiers Are forbidden to Salute Allied officers As a form of greeting or recognition they will Salute United nations officers in acknowledgement of receipt of orders and such salutes will be returned it was announced today in an official directive. When reporting to a member of the United nations military forces for instructions germans of military status must uncover and stand at attention. Germans in the a military service May continue to give appropriate courtesies to their own officers by rendering the military Salute in effect prior to 1933. The nazi Salute and the Quot hell Hitler Salute Are forbidden the directive added. Front reports rushed to ghz by phantoms sheaf May 22�?the Quot phantoms Quot joined the growing list of now it can be told secrets of the european War. Their role As a super Liaison regiment widely dispersed through British and american armies to transmit Flash Battle situation and enemy movement reports directly. From frontline to High Headquarters was revealed for the first time at a sheaf press conference by it. Col. A. H. Mcintosh Quot phantom commander. The Quot phantoms Are known officially As the ghz lib Ison regt. Of 21st army of. The Organiza tin is British with some u.8. Army technicians. Since 1939, their operations have been veiled in a secrecy almost As profound As that which perpetually cloaks the movement of Allied agents in enemy territory. Linguists cods exports Quot phantoms Quot highly trained As linguists code experts wireless operators and Battle reporters filtered quietly through the entire Allied Structure. Germans who picked up their High Speed radio suspected their existence but never were Able to pin the organization Dow a Meintosh said. Patrols were spotted with infantry and armoured divisions. Working with codes which Mcintosh said were unbreakable they gent sit artion reports Back to army cp., and in Sime bases. Supreme he the patrols went in. With Forward troops in armoured cars and periodically detailed the situation Back to the army. In Many cases they operated in Advance of Allied troops especially after a Day when a a phantoms and their radios were parachuted into Normandy Brittany Vosges parts area and ardennes. They sent the first reports Back to England during the Early hours of the invasion. They reported the position of Allied formations a losing the Falahee pocket and warned where the germans were trying to break out. In belgian bulge. They operated in the arnhem airborne landings ardennes Battle Rhine Crossings and russian linkup. The organization consisted of 150 officers and about 1,250 men at maximum strength Mcintosh said. Its casualties in nor Westem Europe were Between 40 to 50 percent. A similar . Organization has been formed on a larger scale Mcintosh said. It began functioning Only a Short time before the German. Surrender and up to that time was taking Over the work of the British Quot phantom patrols with . Corps and divisions. Things is the nuts brother said. Quot i can t get used to  he jumps 1,622 times Moscow May 22 up a Moscow radio said it. Col. Ame Utayev was Russia s most successful parachutist having made 1,922 jumps one of them from 22,835 feet for a world s record. Plaques score nazi a kills Bremen May 22�?wood plaques in a building formerly occupied by a German flak regiment testify to the number of american and British bombers lost during air operations which levelled this City. For every bomber shot Down there is a shield like plaque giving the time of the shooting Type bomber and German units participating most plaques Mark destruction of British planes but a number list Quot Boeing  the most successful Day for the germane apparently was june 25, 1943. Plaques list 10 fortresses in less than one hour of shooting that Day. A Page 4 the stars and strikes wednesday May 23, 1945