Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Clouds of smoke still Over the City made it difficult for american reconnaissance planes to assess the damage. Pilots Back from the offt of the twin Good visibility made that attack Highby successful one Crew said they saw three b29s shot Down but headquarter has not reported any losses yet on Formosa 300 tons of bombs were dropped on airbases. Rail Yards and factories. Te8gaden, May 30 Leric amp a officers studying shorthand notes reveal notes Are taking shape a i indictment of War Gnutti the Long bitter boat to Naha b29s fire Tokyo 2nd Day in Row leathernecks on Okinawa met fanatical Jap snipers in Naha Island capital entered thursday. Marine and army doughs Ara Road to tip. Social Security step up sought Washington May 25 it apr a Broad new social Security program which includes National health insurance and quadruples the social Security tax was introduced in Congress yesterday. Sen. Robert f. Wagner in. A f fatties of the wage hour Law introduced the measure in the Senate and rep. John Dingell a Macb proposed it in the House. Wagner in a speech in the Senate listed these main proposals 1�?social Security contributions would be increased from one to four percent. Employers would pay a continued on Page 8 Franco flayed in Italy France demands to sever diplomatic relations with Spain were voiced yesterday in France and Italy. In parts the foreign affairs committee of the French Assembly charged that Gen. Francisco Franco had imposed his regime forcibly on the Spanish people. The committee urged France to propose that other Allied governments Force his resignation. Unita communist newspaper in Rome called upon Italy to recall its ambassador and hand a passport to the Franco ambassador. Losses nearing million Mark Washington. May 25 apis american casualties of world War ii have almost reached the million Mark. Army losses through May 14 were 886,535 and Navy losses were 109,564 a a total of 996,089. Guam May 25 ans drive Hundred super fortresses today showered thousands of tons of incendiaries onto Tokyo where fires still raged in the Wake of a record 550-plane raid Only 24 hours earlier. A 20th air Force communique said today a Force from Mariana bases dropped fire bombs on South and Centra Tokyo including a three mile area stretching from South of the Imperial Palace to the Northern Edge of the Shinagawa District. The Shinagawa area was heavily bombed thursday Tokyo radio reported thousands of Homes were de a stroked in thursday s raid and said the mansions of three memo to medics forget about Points tor now Washington mar 25�?no army medical department personnel will be released immediately but some May be discharged by the end of the year maj. Gen. Norman t. Kirk army surgeon announced today. He pointed out that the Peak Load for army medics would come this fall. Special training is being Given army doctors to combat tropical diseases in the Pacific Kirk said. A some 14,000 to 15,000 army doctors now in the states will eventually be shipped overseas he added. Meanwhile acting Secretary of War Robert p. Patterson said All sick and wounded  soldiers in the european and Mediterranean Heaters would be returned to America in three months. Eto Headquarters said 19,500 sick and wounded would be it Home by the end of May with 20,500 More scheduled to leave in june Patterson said 44,000 patients were to be returned from All Heaters each month 8,000 by air. Three quarters of the plane patients will come from the Eto. Three new Hospital ships Are in operation and four More will be commissioned soon Patterson said. Sheaf soviets to Trade pcs sheaf May 25�?details of what was described As the Quot greatest mass repatriation program in history have been worked out Between sheaf and soviet military authorities. The plan affects More than 1, 500.000 russians in Western Europe and an estimated 750,000 to 1.000.-000 Western europeans and americans. This includes 15,000 to 20,-000 american pcs and 25,000 to 30.000 British War captives. Ike to receive London Honor Gen Eisenhower will be made an honorary citizen of London and will receive the City s sword of Honor London officials said yesterday. No Date has been set for the ceremony but unless Eisenhower requests otherwise it will be one of pomp and pageantry in keeping with tradition. Mindanao Cut yanks pinching 30,000 on Shuri Manila May 25 ans a three american divisions have split the Island of Mindanao from North to South and reduced the Campaign on that southernmost philippine Island to a mopping up operation Gen. Mac Arthur announced today. A juncture above Mala Balay in Central Mindanao of the americal and 31st a was. Clinched the american hold on the islands vital Central Road network. Japs strike on Okinawa Guam. May 25 ans a american infantry and marines edged southward at either end of the Okinawa Battelline today and were fighting toward a Junction in the Center behind the embattled fortress City of Shuri where an estimated 30,000 japanese Are holding out. In an attempt to relieve growing american pressure on their dwindling hold on Okinawa the enemy struck Back in night air attacks wednesday and thursday. Von Ribbentrop is last hitter Henchman at Large Dapper Joac Jim von Ribbentrop hitlers expert on diplomatic intrigue was the last of the old line nazis entirely unaccounted for last night following the suicide of Heinrich Himmler. Ribbentrop a hiding place has not been established and there have been no reports of his death. Also among the few top nazis still at Large is Julius Dor Mueller minister of communications in the dissolved Quot government of grand adm. Karl Doenitz.  line to open Stockholm. May 25 Reuter a a  at airline was scheduled to be inaugurated today. Two weekly flights Are planned. Hon Anler still unburied second British army hq., Germany May 25 apr a thirty six hours after death Heinrich Himm Lerus body today still was stretched out on the Bare Stone floor of the Villa at Luneburg where he committed suicide by swallowing Poison. Second Anny officers Are undecided whether to stage the funeral Joachim von i Oventrop of the former Gestapo chief in the presence of German military and civilian bigwigs now in Allied hands. Imperial princes were gutted or partly burned out French and italian embassies and the mexican Misti a also suffered. Tokyo 4��& it added that part of the Imperial Garden also was set ablaze. Tokyo radio reported Quot thousand of Homes Quot were destroyed in thursdays raid and said the mansions of three Imperial princes were gutted or partly burned out French and italian embassies not to the mexican legation also suffered Tokyo sail a one Crew b298 shot has not Hill reveal iter National use. Toward Berchtesgaden Cap German that the i a definite they report the most deliberate manipulations of int events to steer a course War. The notes Are charred remain of documents which Hitler sent Here from Berlin in the expectation of using them for nazi interpretations of historical events. Tiey Are being transcribed by the Send Grapher who made them. Pirate a boats prowl Baltic Copenhagen May 25 Reuter a pirate German a boats still Are prowling the Baltic and refusing to surrender it was reported Here to Day. I russian planes Are Hunting the raiders and several Battles Between aircraft and subs have taken place Churchill opens Campaign London. May 25 a Winston Churchill you open his election Battle tomorrow by visiting his Essex constituency and addressing eight meetings in five hours. J soft pipe Chicago a arraigned be a fore judge Gibson e. Gorman Ignats Habich said he hit John boy Nan with the soft end of a Iron pipe vol. 1�?no. 74 _ the weather forecast for Nice Marseige area saturday Cloudy Youh showers maximum Tempero Ture 85. I one franc the european theater of operations