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     Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Page 8the stars and stripes 1 Friday Une 1, 1945 Russia objection snags Frisco vote formula a 1 r a a 1 san Francisco May 31�?the United nations conference into fresh snags yesterday on the trusteeship Issue and the formula for electing the top administrative officer of the proposed world organization while making Progress toward seating Denmark As the 60th nation at the conference. A single paragraph in the trusteeship plan caused the differences. Russia objected to a Section previously agreed upon by the four other major Powers which reads that a nothing in the trusteeship formula for the dependent Peoples shall be construed As changing Quot in any manner the rights of any state or any Peoples in any  improve their status Russia interprets this to mean the dependents would be prevented from improving their status while the other major nations think it preserves existing rights. Want return Italy bases ban Francisco May 31 up a a Yugoslavia Delegate to the United nations conference Stojan Gavrilovic said today Italy would have no holdings East of Trieste. He said by occupying bases along the coastlines of Dalmatia and Albania. Yugoslavia has taken from Italy the naval Sites that helped the fascists dominate the Adriatic. Britain enters continued from Page 1 the Day the third in 34 hours for Churchill s ministers. An armistice was arranged with French military authorities yesterday afternoon Reuter said and the British and . Colonies were evacuated from Damascus capital of Syria. After that the Center of the City was subjected to its heaviest and most concentrated shelling the report added. British officer killed fighting was reported throughout most of Syria. Apparently there were no recent incidents in deban on but a general strike was called there yesterday As a protest against the French. United press said one British officer was killed and another wounded during the French shelling of Damascus. Bombers Pound Luzon log Manila May 31 ans>�?. Fifth air Force bombers have dropped 510 tons of bombs on the last japanese pockets on Luzon in one of the heaviest air attacks of the Philippines Campaign Gen. Mac Arthur announced today. Planes of All types struck monday against 30,000 enemy troops holding out in the Rich agricultural Bagayan Valley of northeastern Luzon and the Markina watershed East of Manila. 25th, 32nd in action the air blows were in support of three us. Divisions driving into the main cores of enemy resistance in those two sectors. At the same on the Island of Mindanao re the Churchill Speaks monday a London May 31 apr prime minister Churchill will make his first election Campaign broadcast next monday following the bbl 9 pm news. He plans to outline the general election issues the Southeast other american troops advancing along the i Wabe Taloma Trail at a Point about $6 Miles Northwest of Davao were attempting to Cut off the last Jap escape route from that City. Okinawa continued from Page 1 were Only a mile and a Quarter from Okinawa a West coast. United press said these forces probably would link up within 24 hours. The Island other seventh were pushing a three pronged drive to split the Southern japanese pocket. Weather blows Advance Adverse weather made Tough going for ground troops but it also limited enemy air attacks against Pacific Fleet ships lying off the Island. Furious fighting was reported still going on inside Shurl Castle former japanese army Headquarters where the enemy apparently is entrenched in buildings underground rooms and a Maze of tunnels. Mission to the .h. Biggest Convoy arrives in . Memorial Day in the .a. Washington May 31 ans a War mobilization director Fred m. Vinson told americans yesterday Quot once and for ally to Root out of their thinking the idea that wars and depressions Are beyond their control. In a memorial Day address at Arlington National cemetery he declared these great catastrophes Are caused by the Way in which Man has organized his society. What Man has made Man can  Truman Wreath for for Hyde Park n.y., May 31 ans a ten West Point military Academy officers and men and the widow of Franklin d. Roosevelt gathered in a quiet shaded Garden Here yesterday for a simple memorial Day ceremony in Honor of late president. A Wreath from president Truman was placed on the grave. 750,000 at Coney Island new York May 31 ans a Coney Island officially opened its summer season yesterday with a Holiday crowd of 750,000 persons. Only a few ventured into the water. Taft raps peace draft Gettysburg May 31 ans a sen. Robert a. Taft a Ohio criticizing proposals for immediate enactment of a peacetime draft Law said yesterday at a memorial Day Observance at Gettysburg National cemetery that Quot we Are indeed bankrupt of ideas if we cannot provide necessary military forces by an american voluntary  bands serenade Duck Milwaukee May 31 ans a a publicity Wise Mother Duck who has been incubating six eggs atop a rotted Bridge piling waited until a memorial Day Parade had passed and then hatched the first egg. Bands were silenced while crossing the Bridge. Just after crossing one musical unit gave Forth with Quot Rock a Bye  cheerful i of by eyeful june Bright worked for a couple of years As a Secretary for the Federal Bureau of invest Gatlon in Washington. The United 8ervfce organization did some investigating of its own however found out she of out sing and dance and signed her up for an overseas entertainment tour. She comes from Denver. Fliers look out from bomber Field Windsor locks conn., after a flight from Europe. These Happy men Are among personnel of the eighth and 15th a it who will get furloughs in the u.8. Before possible assignment to the Pacific War. From loft they Are front rows sgt. Lou Singer Brooklyn a sgt Henry 8pears, Harmony Octal to sgt. Charles 8mith, St Louisville Ohio a sgt Paul Borde vie i Long Beach Calif. Second rows sgt. Joseph Carl Altoona a. To sol Charles Leach Maroa. Ill. Capt. Elmer Schindler Cleveland it. Edward Fronko Pittsburgh it. Orville Burda Dickens h. D., and la John Cooley Chicago. Railroader carries on old 106 s May 30 rile Redfield s.  May 31 ans a thirty passengers were curious yesterday when Quot old 106,�?� a Chicago and Northwestern train stopped at a lonely spot on the Prairie two Miles West of Elrod s.  They wondered still More when conductor v. J. Ford stepped from a coach walked to an embankment and placed a Wreath of Flowers on 17 Camps Here to ship troops seventeen redeployment Camps a All named after . Cities will be established in France to Speed approximately 300,000 soldiers on their Way Home or to the Pacific each month sheaf disclosed yesterday. Camp Baltimore first of the Camps Waltl Start receiving soldiers within the next two weeks. The other centers Are Camps Boston new York Brooklyn Philadelphia Cleveland Pittsburgh Atlanta Norfolk Miami Detroit Chicago Oklahoma City Washington san Antonio St. Louis and new Orleans. All will be operated by the newly created Assembly area command. Persia asks troops to love Teheran May 31 Reuter a the persian government has requested evacuation of British american and russian troops from Persia foreign minister Selah Bodi said today a As hostilities in Europe have  a Little Mound marked by a simple Stone Cross. They had no Way of knowing the ceremony had been repeated every memorial Day for Over half a Century. And then conductor Ford told them the Story just As he has told it for 14 years since the death of his father in Law w. F. Chambers. Fifty years ago Chambers was conductor of Quot old 106.�?� one Day be saw a Little boy wave at him from the top of an embankment. Chambers waved Back and thereby struck up a Friendship. Every Day for two years Chambers and the boy exchanged salutes. One Day the familiar figure was missing. Chambers ordered the train stopped. He saw Only a Mound on the right of Way exactly on the spot where the boy had stood each Day. Later he Learned the boy had died and that his last request was Quot please Mommy Bury me out there where the Man Waves to me from the  for 40 years Chambers stopped at the graveside each memorial Day to place Flowers there. When he died he requested Ford to carry on the tradition. New York May 31�?five ships loaded with 10,000 gis 62 British wives of american soldiers and u Young children largest single Days arrival of the War sailed into new York Harbor amid a Din of tugboat whistles and liner foghorn. As the ships moved into gaily bedecked docks army bands played welcomes March tunes and swing. Red Cross girls was and women were offered dates As the up but the men really howled when girls working around docks appeared in sweaters Slacks. The soldiers had fun with the men Dock workers too throwing them cigarettes. Good food on ship the trip had been a Good one. Most of 2,623 liberated prisoners fearing there  be enough food smuggled cans of c rations aboard but when they answered the first Chow Call and saw heaping tables hundreds of cans were thrown into the sea. On the last night Convoy restrictions were lifted and every ship was a Blaze of Light. The British girls came to new York with strange feelings. Many had to travel Miles across a new country to Homes of in Laws they had never seen. But Joy Eastman of great Yarmouth England wife of fifth div. It. Lester Eastman said Quot wherever my husband wants me to go that a where i want to  she was in route to Kewanee in. French plagued by werewolves he first French army May 31 up a shootings werewolves and is Maquis plague authorities daily in the French occupation zone. A few Days ago a French officer was shot Here allegedly by a German youth who escaped. Twenty Miles from Here German Maquis ambushed a French patrol and two Poilu were killed before the is attackers could be wiped out. French officers complain that the . Policy of discharging German prisoners has led to trouble since Many return to their Homes in the French zone. Suspected trouble makers have been arrested by French military police despite discharge papers signed by . Officers. Mahanoy City fire Mahanoy City pa., May 31 ans a fire levelled nearly two blocks in the business District of this town of 13,000 persons yesterday  
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