Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur                                The and stripes May 1945 Many Joes aim to buy letters show As soon As they can plow ods a great number of Eto troops Are planning to head straight a owning letters in the stars and stripes Bond contest some figure on settling in the a surprising number would pet to try Alaska and a few think America or South Africa inight prove but they All agreed on one thing owning their farms with the Aid of both Soldier savings and govern to rental contest letters on my savings postwar plans show dearly that soldiers Are giving a lot of heavy thinking to financial Security War there has been a noticeable absence of vague get Rich Quick schemes advocated in the tetters Range of professions education and aviation also appear to hold top interest in Soldier v the contest is open to All Eto military prizes include ten new automobiles or trucks and refrigerators tetters must run Between 50 to 250 and should be addressed to War b0nd pc american of Mother of six children and  of has Botn so Lotf Tif by ooh on Bute foun Dation As american Mother of she is attending the san Frano Isoo conference As an unofficial her husband is there As a French airman helps Nab spy statue of Wilson by Howard Byrne May the of the nazis irritated by crowds of czechs who gathered at a statue of the r late president Woodrow Wilson the German commander ordered the statue pulled while czechs a wrecking Crew jerked the statue from its that would shatter on the but Wilson was made of sterner stuff than the nazis he landed squarely on his feet and regained his to the accompaniment of loud cheers from the czechs the nazis loaded the statue in tact into a truck and took it Hitler planned Gibraltar blow May 26 hit Ler planned an Axis attack on Gibraltar in 1941 but the germans tailed to carry it out because Benito Mussolini did not support the communist newspaper Unita declared yesterday the newspaper published what it claimed was hitlers last letter to Mussolini in which the fuehrer asserted the War might have taken a different course had the Duce concurred in the new May 26 Clever counter espionage by Dieu Donne Trench world War i led to the arrest Here yesterday of another Frenchman on charges of spying on Indus trial secrets for the German gov Paul Jean Marie former French air Force was taken into custody by Fri who said he intended to continue his espionage despite Germany the Fri revealed that costes joined the German intelligence service in came to America in 1943 and reported to Federal authorities that Cavailles was to Fol Low him when Cavailles arrived at new Orleans last october the Fri followed him to where he posed As an inventor in an at tempt to gain Access to government Cavailles attempted to get inside plants producing secret electronic he tried to radio a message to the Fri Cavailles is being held on bail for formal hearing june Davis report on press in Reich denied May announce ment two weeks ago in Washington by own chief Elmer Davis that no foreign periodical or newspaper would be permitted in american occupied Germany was denied Here by Brig Robert Macclure shape psychological warfare in fairness to Mcclure we discussed Many possibilities and he probably went Back with some erroneous ideas As soon As importation machinery is functioning and distribution facilities Are Mcclure regular Allied and Neutral publications can come into be no boo burning said there will be no boo burning in Germany to get rid of the nazi but not until the nazi and Militarist influence has been eliminated will germans be permitted to publish periodicals or operate radio Sta pending restoration of a free press in the group control Council will publish news show decide what kind of music is to be and distribute a select list of 125 books in furloughs to May have been made to accommodate troops from the continent who desire to take furloughs in the United kingdom special service us announced that plans have been completed for seven Day Tours of the including one Day in mercy flights moved million May 26 air transport command has evacuated More than sick and wounded members of and Allied forces from All Heaters in 32 the War department said almost All casualties evacuated from East of the Rhine in the final phases of the european War were transported by More than patients were evacuated from Forward to rear areas of the Eto Between Day and be Battle casualties comprised about 35 percent of evacuees in with the figures jumping to 50 percent in the Early months of failing out May 26 the Abbott and costello team is the Bud Abbott and Lou announced that after 15 years of partnership they Are no longer even friends and each will go his own Way at expiration of their the dispute started when Abbott refused to sign a now agreement with bomb disposal is secret yet May for neutralizing bombs was streamlined from a five ton truckload to a 40 Pound kit during the european but details of the revolutionary technique must remain Eto ordnance bomb disposal personnel removed an average of three and a half tons of munitions and unexploded bombs per Man per month about tons of explosives were removed from Paris casualties among disposal men jumped to a High of six percent during the prance but Many resulted from other causes than bomb since the by men often worked in Advance of the m i ssh 1mm jew Iff i doughs on Way but sceptical a stars and stripes reporter with three years overseas and Beaucoup Points has drawn the i dream he will step by the discharge of the first Eto be Dis charged Here is his by Ben Price stars and stripes staff writer be May what potential discharges on their Way to the Are called by service troops who run the staging Camp near most of the men came from 12th army they began pouring into Twenty huge staging area outside be to get a final processing before boarding pfc Don 106 infantry Man of the 83rd commented 1 guess were going Home All but i wont believe in out until i get this uniform three Day processing processing probably will take three it is divided into six main phases a inspection of Issue of customs declaration of captured enemy military sex captured souvenirs May be taken Home men going Home for redeploy ment May take captured enemy weapons it they have an officers certification that the items do not include any explosives and that each items value As a souvenir exceeds any value it might have to the redeployment mail headache May 26 ans army postal officers say their big Gest Job yet will be keeping track of soldiers transferred from Europe to the when divisions or corps move in tact Apo numbers move with them and forwarding of mail is redeployment will mean that thousands of individuals will go to outfits with different Apo new snack bar for Marseille May Amer ican red Cross snack bar has been opened at Marseille railway station to serve Coffee and snacks to transient gis from 6 am to 8 pm the operation is under the direction of Tom of Winston director of the times Square arc in Fellowship for Hawley May Paul who served As chief theater surgeon during the european Cam has been awarded a fellow ship to the Royal College of physicians in com z changing currency and marking of while in men have in sleep on Canvas cots and eat a they Are restricted to the there will be no work no reveille and men can go to bed when they each staging built to handle has its dispense hot showers for 75 men at a time and a tent theater which presents four shows a Day with 300 men a a Amphitheater for tour ing Camp shows is partially Walker to Dallas May 26 Walton Walker of whose so called ghost corps spearheaded the third army drive across prance into has been named chief of eighth service command at Hermann Loerinc was interviewed by newsmen after his capture by the 36th this is what he said i said Why dont we a peace he said i must i got away truth so help