Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               The stars and stripes Friday Une 1, 1945 Home in Honor medal and a new Wile t-8gt. Jake Lindsey of Lucedale miss., congressional medal of. Honor Winner gets a Hearty greeting left As his Fiancee miss Beverly Hargreaves of Lexington mass., flies in to Washington for their first meeting in four years. Lindsey wears a lipstick smudge right As they leave the plane a few minutes later. Lindsey former first div. Dough was decorated by president Truman for stopping a German tank attack. They announced they were not convinced Hitler was dead and thought he might have flown to Jagtar. A the family consisted of a father a 42-year-old Mechanic who joined the nazi party in 1940 and was promoted to Quot Blo Kleiter a a member who handles nazi interests in his own House or group of houses a 25-year-old daughter who operated a switchboard at a Luftwaffe air raid Center and the Mother who was Content to remain in the Kitchen As Hitler bade her. Hold advisors failed fuehrer they disclosed these beliefs Germany lost the War because hitlers advisors Hadnot informed him about americans great Industrial capacity. Allied occupation troops should remain in Germany about five years to protect germans from russians and to prevent the political parties Catholic centralist social democrats and communists from fighting among them a it selves. A or a Al it the Only reason it was wrong for the nazis to persecute the jews was that it turned the world against Germany. Germans Are suspicious now of everything they hear on the radio and read in the newspapers because they have been told so Many confusing things. The allies Are doing right i releasing German War prisoners and in not sending German men away As forced labourers. War criminal trials pushed London May 31 Reuter a preparations for trial of War criminals Are Quot progressing rapidly Quot Justice Robert Al Jackson chief  War crimes prosecutor announced Here. Jackson in announcing he would return to the . For closing sessions of the supreme court said Quot arrangements have been made so that work of preparing our Case will proceed without interruption under Gen. William  at the same time Britain selected attorney general sir David Maxwell Fyfe to prepare its cases. Russia and France Are expected to name their prosecutors soon. French belgian deaths decline sheaf May 31�?civilian health in France and Belgium is returning to prewar standards maj. Gen. Warren f. Draper 05 Public chief announced. The current estimated mortality rate in France is 15.4 per thousand .1 less than in 1939. The . Rate for 1941 was 10.1 per thousand Draper said. Although nearly 8,000 typhus cases have been found in 200 German communities Reich civilians appear healthier and better fed than Britain a Draper declared. Rhine gets a civil rules with 15th army Germany May 31�?a new civilian administration of the Rhine province under military government will be inaugurated june 7 at Bonn. Nazis harassed by edelweiss Boslar Germany May 31�? Anton Themann like other German kids was forced to join the Hitler youth but he did not like the nazis. So he and half a dozen others in this Ruhr Village became members of the edelweiss movement. Quot the edelweiss Quot explained Themann a husky 19-year-old blacksmiths Helper Quot was for those in the Witiw youth who did not believe As the nazis  existence of the edelweiss has Long been suspected but in this Anc surrounding villages and towns the first actual evidence has been uncovered of its existence. Symbol of Freedom persons outside it believed the edelweiss named after the tyrolean Mountain Flower symbolic of Freedom was a politically conscious anti nazi movement but from descriptions Given by members and villagers it seemed More like a High school secret society. Quot who the hell wants to spend All his time marching drilling doing service and the rest of that Damn foolishness that a not life Quot sums up their attitude. From available proof it did not get beyond the irritating stage. The edelweiss met in secret behind barred doors caught Hitler youth nazis and beat them up slashed tires on nazi cars and stayed away from Hitler youth meetings or when they came refused to take anything seriously and laughed in the wrong places. Travel claims urged for vets Washington May 31 ans a overseas veterans. On furlough would be provided with transportation to their Homes and allowance for quarters and subsistence under a Bill introduced today by sen. George a. Wilson . Allowances for quarters and subsistence would be equal to those to which a Soldier would be entitled if travelling on official business. Boston May 31 ans a with Coffee mugs hand grenades and empty Shell cases the Crew of a . Destroyer escort battled a nazi submarine to death in the Atlantic the Navy disclosed. Victor was the .s. Buckley skippered by it. Comdr. Brent m. Abel former new York lawyer. After a plane spotted the submarine Early on May 6, 1944, the Buckley fired a Salvo from her three Inch guns scoring a direct hit. Then Abel drove his ship up on the submarine. The nazis abandoned their deck guns and tried to climb up the sides of the american vessel. American sailors killed several boarders As their Heads appeared above the rails. Two germans were bowled Over with Coffee mugs snatched from the Galley. Finally Comdr. Abel ordered his86th to train in Oklahoma Washington May 31 ans a the 88th Ini. Div., scheduled to return to the . This month with other divisions to prepare for the Pacific War will train at Camp Gruber okla., the War department disclosed. The 86th was one of the first to Cross the Danube River. Pie 97th div., which landed in Europe last August will train at fort Bragg . The 97th served on the West Bank of the Rhine with the 15th army. Later it was assigned to the first army and participated in the liquidation of the Ruhr pocket. Happy sees red Jap War Cincinnati Ohio May 31 ins a sen. Albert b. Chandler Elky t new baseball commissioner expressed belief that Russia might enter the War against Japan. As a member of the military affairs committee he said to base my belief principally on the fact Russia denounced its non aggression pact with  a a ship backed off the a boat and the nazi submarine swerved against the Buckley a Hull and rolled. The open conning Tower revealed a mass of names. American sailors tossed in hand grenades. Slowly the submarine drifted aft. The Buckley a guns scored three More direct hits. The submarine Jap army movies weren to japanese Manila May 31 ans a philippine guerrillas in a raid behind Jap lines captured five reels of movies which they hoped would contain information on enemy training. Instead the projector flashed on a screen five chapters of Quot Junior  honors 35th div. Head with 35th div. In Germany May 31�?maj. Gen. Paul w. Baade of it. Wayne ind., 35th div. Commander has been awarded the legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with Palm by the government of France for exceptional service in the liberation of France. In making the award the French government honoured the West Pointer tor leading the Quot Santa be Quot div. From Normandy to the German Border in five months of bitter warfare on French soil. Dived but there was no escape. The flaming conning Tower Hatch and the Forward deck Hatch were open. Scarcely had the a boat gone under when there was a heavy explosion followed by several lesser ones. The Buckley counted a single casualty a carpenters mate sex. Hiott of Charleston s.c., whose hand was bruised when he belted a German off the Buckley a rail. Carrier lost year ago Washington May 31 up the Navy revealed that the escort Carrier Block Island Only us. Carrier lost in the Battle of the Atlantic was sunk just one year ago by a German sub. The destroyer Barr Sank the Raider and destroyed More than 950 of the Carrier  disposal work Coes on i with ninth us. Army May 31�?the War May be finished in Europe for most Joes but the bomb disposal people still have going As Tough As Ever. Their War is a Long Way from finished. The Xiii corps reported men from the 110th, 115th and 122nd bomb disposal squads Are digging out and defusing unexploded German shells neutralizing Booby traps and mines and disconnecting charges and time bombs in ammunition dumps. In 10 Days the 110th and 115th men neutralized 200 Booby a raps and 200 wooden shoe mines in 300 buildings All in the town of our Selen. It. Allen e. Snyder of Maplewood mo., and All men of his 110th squad were awarded Silver stars for Clearing a Road of a burning ammo truck and trailer while ammunition in the carriers was exploding All  to China Convoy arrives Washington May 31 ans a service troops have already been shifted from the persian Gulf area to China the army disclosed today. A huge truck Convoy commanded by col. Paul Guthrie of Denver made the 16,000-mile trek from the persian desert where the troops had been helping to Supply the soviet army to Kunming chinese Supply Center in what was called record  find famed Prussia Library with 16th armo div., May 31�?men of this division have discovered part of the historic prussian state Imperial Library More than 500,000 volumes Worth millions of dollars. The books were lying unnoticed in a 748-year-old monastery in Tell  cling to Hitler insist he was misled a a a not Otott of Otto Toto by Paul Queen Start and stripes staff writer Duesse Dorf May 81�?a Quot Hitler legend Quot is beginning to be created among the More nazi fled germans a typical working class nazi family indicated in an interview. They maintained that Hitler is still a hero to germans. He always had the True interests of the nation at heart they insisted but had been betrayed by his advisors. 4-they blamed the junkers for mis a leading him. A boat lost Bare knocks fray