Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Page 8 the stars and strikes Friday May 25, 1945 Danes cheer British As leave leave Italy official says i a Paris May 24-Rfrance does not intend to give up a 1,800j Square mile strip of italian Soh j which French troops have been i occupying without Benefit of j United nations agreement tor month a French government spokesman said yesterday. The strip is from ten to 12 nines wide and 160 Miles Long running from the Swiss Frontier to the Mediterranean units of French Alpine forces moved into the area five weeks ago. Despite italian protest and unconcealed displeasure on the part of Britain they have not moved out evidence they do not intend to leave was seen recently in a French military government manifesto urging italian subjects in the area to become citizens of France France net convinced Allied governments which have intervened in marshal Tito s attempted seizure of Trieste for Yugoslavia have so far not yet succeeded in convincing the French that occupation a reas should be left to joint United matrons agreement French official circles made it Plain that France will occupy the zone indefinitely As a Quot defensive  control of the strip gives the French the italian slopes of the Alps which the spokesman pointed out could be Well fortified against a another Stab in the . The occupation is in line with French ambitions to pad her fron Copenhagen crowds cheer and wave British flags As beaten capital s town Hall Square on their Way tape Camps. Their going the five years at occupation. British weather reports Given to taxis by a robots London May 24 an8 a a ring of secret automatic meteorological stations submerged in the seas around Britain flashed daily weather tiers against future aggression. The reports to Germany through the entire european War. Lifting of censorship restrictions in Eire disclosed. The germane used the reports to plan air raids on Britain and French have made no secret of their wish to occupy Western Ger Many from Cologne to the austrian a boat attacks on Allied shipping. Frontier for both Security and economic reasons. A touch Pacific i training set the robot weather stations were about 300 feet Long and gyroscopic ally controlled. They were moored to the Ocean bed and Rose to the surface daily through an automatic timing arrangement an Aerial would appear automatically from the Center of the station and Flash a message Over the Ether. Short wave radio beams Washington May 34�?units i transmitted trom mated to go to the Pacific from Aerman stations and Hen Europe will be Given maximum a ter de be surfaced it would training permitted by redeployment i break the Okaoa. Timetables the Ward moment atmospheric reactions upon a announced today. Unite awaiting shipment will Beuf to trained to the Eto others will be a Teeth. Thus. Hard weather extra toed to the u.8. And some win would learn of atmospheric big 5 trustee solution near Complete their training in the Pacific. As far As possible instructors with combat experience against japanese will be used. Divisions scheduled to leave the Eto first the 86th, 95th, 97th and 104th inf.  receive Quot Tough and realistic Quot training in the us. Wags in Nice under new co capt. Katheryn l. Mcwilliams of South St. Paul minn., has taken charge of Wao Restees in Nice succeeding 1-lt. Ruth Shew of Seattle Wash. Waca in Nice Are billeted in the Alhambra and Londres hotels. Capt. Mcwilliams first sergeant 1s Alice l. Mccloskey of Dillon Mont. Capt. Mcwilliams formerly operated the rookery an new rest Center at Oxford England. It Shew and 1-sgt. Marian Fields of Chicago now supervise the general officer s rest Center at Eden Rock a Beach resort near Antibes. Changes German a boats Are believed to have recharged dry batteries. 110 War brides reach America Boston mass., May 24 ans a one Hundred ten european War brides of . Soldiers carrying 22 babies got their first glimpse of America yesterday when they arrived Here aboard a naval transport. There were 84. Army and 26 Navy wives. Many of their husbands still Are in the Eto. Three resign from Cabinet continued from Pope 1 Ury Secretary Henry Morgenthau or. Had attempted to resign since then and added that Morgenthau s resignation would not be accepted if it were offered. Schwellenbac once an attorney for labor unions entered the Senate in 1935 and was a Strong supporter of the Roosevelt administration. Clark has been with the Justice department since 1937. He has headed the anti Trust division and the criminal division. Anderson held various posts in state and Federal service before he entered Congress in 1943. He has been chairman of the House committee investigating food shortages which has been critical of the government s food policy. In addition to heading the agriculture depart men Anderson wih become War food administrator when Marvin Jones Steps out of that position on june 30 to resume his Job As judge of the court of claims. San Francisco May 24 up a representatives of the big five Powers wrangling Over the thorny trusteeship problem facing the United nations conference Here made Quot excellent Progress Quot last night by approving five sections of a Quot working paper Quot an authoritative source said today. T chief accomplishment was dropping a russian suggestion that trusteeship Over strategic areas be made on recommendation of the Security Council the source said. The major remaining problem facing the trusteeship committee is whether Independence for All dependent Peoples should be written into the final agreement on world Security objectives.9th of bagged 4,228 planes in 19 months ninth of advanced he May 24�?in the 19 months it operated in Eto this air Force flew nearly 400,000 sorties according to revised and final figures released today by it. Gen. Hoyt s. Vand Funberg commanding officer. The figures cover operations from the time the first plane took off in England in october 1943, until the last flight in Germany May 8. Ninth fighter bombers took a toll of 45,151 motor transports and horse drawn vehicles 36,440 of them motor vehicles. Kos a 7,237 locomotives fighter bombers knocked out 7,237 locomotives and destroyed or damaged 59,843 railway cars. These figures do not include the thousands of additional railway Cam and locomotives destroyed and damaged in attacks on rail Yards by medium and Light bombers of the ninth. Low level fighter bomber attacks Cost the enemy 6,464 armoured vehicle and tanks destroyed or damaged and 16,738 gun positions and fortified buildings knocked out. Of the latter 3,492 were definitely classed As major Caliper gun emplacements. Fighters and bomber gunners destroyed 4,228 enemy planes in the air and on the ground with an additional 3,104 probably destroyed or damaged. Flew 383,083 sorties the final figures show 383,063 sorties flown 119,145 of them by medium and Light bombers. They dropped 201,272 tons of bombs. Of the latter figure 135,785 tons were dropped by ninth bombardment div. In scoring this destruction against the enemy 1,529 ninth of pilots Bombardier navigators gunners and ground personnel were killed in action. Another 1,910 Are missing. Truckers end Chicago strike Chicago. May 34 ans a Chi ago s week old truck strike involving 6,500 Drivers was called off last night after president Truman s authorized seizure of the Unes. An attorney for the Independent Chicago truck Drivers Union notified the police labor detail that Union members were being instructed to return to work this morning. The strike started in protest Over an web award of a wage increase that fell Short of Union demands. Gasoline ration increased in . Washington. May 24 ans a the first la creases 4n gasoline rations for civilian motorists since rationing started in july 1941, a were announced last night by the opa and the Petroleum administration for War on june 22 the value of a you Pons will be increased from. Four Gallons to six and b card ceilings will be raised to 650 Miles a month throughout the country june 11. Harold l. Ickes Petroleum and ministry tor credited Victory in a Europe and Quot the amazing performance of the Petroleum Industry with making the increases possible. Opa chief Chester Bowles said. Many b card motorists will Quot have All the gasoline they  was Hitler Given a mercy death vow flans Ernie Pyle Post Indianapolis May 24 Ansi a an Indianapolis Post of veterans of foreign wars will be named for the late Ernie Pyle vow officers announced Here. Yes Flensburg May 24�?adolf Hitler paralysed and insane with pain May have died May 1 of a Quot mercy Quot injection a High sheaf official disclosed. The account of Hitler s death was Given sheaf intelligence by a russian general who based it on interrogation of three persons close to Hitler. A Quot or. Morel Quot put Hitler out of misery with Quot an injection of some sort Quot in Berlin the russian with seventh us. Army May 24�?dr. Theodore Morrell who was Adolf Hitler s physician for nine years claims to have left Berlin while the fuehrer was still alive and does not believe that Hitler committed suicide. Morrell himself dying of a stroke suffered in the face of Hitler s blazing rage left Berlin april 22, he says. He declares that suicide would be Quot inconsistent Quot with Hitler s makeup. The 59 year old Media of said Hitler took hypodermic injections of caffeine and glucose to. Supply a or. Brandt arrested Here when the German the Demoniac Energy with which he goaded his government was dissolved claimed to have been armies to fight. Hitler s physician for a time and declared he knew Morrell denied that Hitler Ever resorted to nothing of or. Morel s injection. Narcotics. Am organized in Austria zone Rome May 24 Reuter a Field marshal sir Harold Alexander Allied commander in the Mediterranean has established a military government 4a Montosi that part of Austria oooo pied by the eighth army. Alexander said the Allied overthrew the nazi Rede to a it ave the Way for a free sad Independent . 8hi of unit in . Boston May 34 ans a the 453rd heavy bomb.  first Complete eighth of unit to return to the us., arrived Here yesterday on a ship bringing 1.127 liberated american pcs