Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Oct saw y the weather forecast or Nice a amp Seille area tuesday partly Cloudy to generally overcast in morning possible showers maximum temperature 70. Dally newspaper of b i u e coast the european theater of operation vol. 1�?no. 77 29, 1945 vets w Vanguard of Homecoming americans i greeted a berth at new York Harbor May it at part of the first Convoy guns to Salute girls when troop ship glides into Roach the . Following the Day. Almedy trial expected soon Paris May 28�?military trials of germans involved in offences against us. Troops such As the Almedy massacre last december May begin within a few weeks supreme court Justice Robert h. Jackson said today but dates for trials of the highest ranking nazis cannot be fixed until an International tribunal is formed to hear their cases. Jackson us. War crimes prosecutor said evidence in cases similar to the Almedy massacre is being prepared by the judge advocate general s office and the accused will be brought to trial in a us. Military court since they involve violations of the Laws of War. Nazis charged with offences against citizens of former occupied countries Are to be turned Over to courts of those countries Jackson said but the Topmost stratum of alleged War criminals who face International charges will be tried in the first International criminal court Ever created. Jackson made his intention Clear to try War criminals in court not in the press. His statement followed a restriction by sheaf on the photographing or interviewing of nazi officials. Doughs return new York May 28 ans a a full scale Homecoming Salute Complete with brass bands and booming guns is being prepared for soldiers from the Eto redeploying through this port in the next several Days. Boats containing wac and army bands will sail out to meet All troop ships. Port Hamilton . Guns silent during the War will Roar salutes to the incoming ships with Harbor tugs contributing More noise with whistles and tog horns. Landing piers throughout Brooklyn new Jersey Staten Island and the new York area got a fresh coat of paint fresh flood lights were added to the statue of Liberty and More lights installed in the Harbor area. Here will be no Broadway parades As after world War l Gen. Ratay lifts curfew in Delta marines wedge far into Naha Guam May 28 ans a sixth div. Marines have advanced 800 Yards into Naha capital of Okinawa and of combined naval and air bombardment has broken a japanese attempt to reinforce Shuri fortress City at the Center of the line across the embattled Island adm. Nimitz announced today. Drive into Naha Over a period of several Days a been hampered by rain and mud. Although the swollen Asato River destroyed three Bridges of Naha on Square my. Of Tokyo gone to discloses t Okinawa s West coast at least two other usable Ernes Are in Marine hands. The japanese appeared to to preparing for withdrawal from their Quot Little a Leffrieg line Quot across Okinawa Reuter reported adding that All dispatches from the front indicated the end of the Campaign was in sight although there might Washington. May 28 ans -1 of continued stubborn an estimated 40 Square Miles of resistance crash in . Kills 80 Mission Veteran Dayton Ohio May 28 ans a an experimental army plane flown by a Veteran of 80 combat missions Over Germany crashed into an automobile Herey Ster Day killing the Pilot and injuring five civilians. Dead was capt. Willi amp a Glasgow 28, of Niagara palls n. Y. Marseille May 28�?curfew has been lifted from the entire Delta base Section Quot to give the men a better break Quot Brig. Gen. J. P. Ratay a office disclosed today. The original curfew Law was imposed to Aid in complying with blackout and Security restrictions but the end of the War has eliminated these reasons. Under the present ruling individual unit commanders will use their own discretion As to what hour passes will terminate and they May be issued for overnight if the co feels that such privileges will not be abused or not affect the efficiency of his men nazis Austria Boss a suicide or. Hugo jury nazi Gau Leiter for lower Austria committed suicide the soviet sponsored Vienna radio reported yesterday and Albert Forster former Gau Leiter of Danzig. Was turned Over to British authorities after surrendering himself to Hamburg civilian police. A brother of Himmler was jailed yesterday by the British second army while the . Third army locked up mrs. Paula Wolf and mrs. Angela Ham Mitch Sisters of Adolf Hitler. A Moscow broadcast quoting pravda charged that such German Leadens As Hjalmar Schacht onetime Reich financial wizard and Fritz Thyssen industrialist discarded in the Hitler regimes later years were Quot enjoying Complete or comparative Liberty in the first class hotels of Capri Mediterranean resort. Tokyo an area almost twice As Large As Manhattan Island 22 Square Miles has been wrecked and burned out by super fortress attacks War department officials said today. The japanese news Agency do Mei reported that three b29s and about 30 Mustang fighter planes returned to the fringes of burning Tokyo and attacked airfields. Another enemy broadcast said 27 super forts mined japanese Waters before Dawn yesterday laying explosives in Marine traffic areas from Kyushu to Northwestern Honshu. The Tokyo radio said also that Baron Suzuki 77-year-old Jap Premier had called another emergency session to determine immediate measures against air raid disasters which it admitted were growing Quot very Hoover Truman Confer on food Washington May 28 up a former president Herbert Hoover conferred in the White House today with president Truman for 45 minutes on european Relief needs. The world War i food Czar did not discuss the conference with reporters. Dionne 11 years old Callender ont., May 28 Reuter a the Dionne quintuplets Annette Yvonne Marie be cafe and Emilie observed their 11th birthday today Austria occupation Pian Caits for Clark As chios Paris Mav 28 apis negotiations Are under Way to create a separate occupation set up for Austria with Gen. Mark w. Clark As the american Quot Eisenhower Quot in Vienna. The plan under which Austria would be treated less stringently than Germany and encouraged to build a Strong government of its own would include a four Power occupation Force established along the same general lines As the control Council for Germany. Headquarters for the Council would be set up in Vienna and separate occupation zones would be worked out for France America Russia and Britain. Gen. Mark w. Clark the Jap Force destroyed by a it sea bombardment was caught South of Shuri half surrounded Keystone of the six mile Long enemy Defesa line. Jap artillery weakened on the East coast infantrymen of the army s seventh div. Found Quot very Large stores of food ammunition and equipment in captured Hills South of Yona Afu. Enemy artillery fire has dropped from 15,000 rounds Dally to about 500 rounds nimits Sakl three Hundred sixty japanese Field pieces Havo continued on ppe 8 8 air forces to face japs Washington. May 28 apr bight army air Force will be do played against the japanese when the British based eighth of transfers to the Pacific in addition to it. Gen. James Al Doolittle s Force facing the Jap anese will be toe 14th of in China the tenth in Burma India the far Eastern air Force composed of fifth and 13th in the Southwest Pacific the seventh the 11th, operating from the aleutians and the 20th, whose b29s attack from too Marianas. Clark 50 vets flying to . Paris May 28�?fifty picked veterans of the italian Campaign Are flying to the . With Gen. Mark Wayne Clark 15th army up. Commander to take part in a special memorial Day Celebration 4n Chicago. They Are scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Gen. Clark who left for the . From Paris said he picked the group personally As representative of the fifth army a Best. Quot every Man in the group especially distinguished himself Quot he commented officers and pm Are included with every pm having enough joints to be eligible for discharge. All Are from the Chicago area. A
