Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur 1f�e stars and stripes sunday june 3, 1945 a at sea compare notes on Eto fights of Ben Price stars and stripes staff writer aboard transport in Atlantic May 28 Del a a a France is Many Miles away now but the 1,000 �?�8&pcintplus�?� soldiers on this ship bound for Home and possible discharge can to seem to forget a the Etc r 5> it 7 most of them Are rehashing the War comparing potes on the hedgerows Metz Hurtgen Forest and the Roer. A. T a Quot i Haven to thought seriously about a Job Quot said pvt Anthony Mascio Vecchio 24-year-old Rifleman from the eighth div. T11 wait until i get that a White paper and finish my s a / s _ Masciovecchi has 112 Points and wears a purple heart and Cluster. He has a wife and two year old girl in the Bronx. He a amps never seen his daughter. 8mpttelsn� Dias hard Many men still Are sceptical common Are remarks like that of t-6 Amadeo Faro of Brooklyn a father artillerymen of the 825th Jarrod. A bn., 91 Points Quot this Point system seems too easy on us Guys it ainu to like the army. T a. _. A medic t-4 Rudolf Walter eighth div., 108 Points of Baltimore had a beef. He had read that medics be getting out immediately 1 knew something would happen. My outfit never did get issued our combat medic insignia and now we re so damned essential that they wont let us out a he said. The ship is loaded Down with loot but As the crap games get hotter the loot changes hands. When the 85-pointers first boarded a Luger was Worth 75 dollars. Quot that s too much. Wait till someone gets in a spot to get it for 20 Dallan a said one of the transport s staff 10 Points. 1 i v i Niiha Ami n 1 Ike frightens 108-Mission vet Buffalo n.y., june 2 ams a capt. Charles b. Hall first negro Pilot to receive the distinguished Hying Cross said at a War Bond rally that Gen. Eisenhower a personal congratulations scared him into a Quot braces that continued after the supreme commander had left. To was to nervous i was still standing at attention ten minutes after he left the Veteran of 108 combat missions Over Africa and Europe said. She wants to get married May Mann wrote an article for a National Magazine and called it want to got married and now she is averaging three proposals a Day. Well keep you potted if and when she decides to take the big step. Wallace warns Small business Zhukov red chief in Reich Moscow june 2 up a marshal Gregory Zhukov commander of the first White russian army will represent the soviet Union on the Allied control commission for Germany radio Moscow announced. Month Miter surrender by Ernie lei8er stars and stripes staff writer Weimar Germany june 3�?central Germany almost a month after capitulation is a forlorn land of strange contradictions. A trip from Magdeburg across the Flat Fertile land West of the Elbe Over a Corner of the forested Hertz mountains and Down to the Hills of Weimar and Jena is like a voyage through a phantom realm. Nothing seems quite real. German soldiers unarmed but in full uniform walk tiredly Down the desolate roads alone oar in groups of two. With no one paying heed. A for Miles no Allied soldiers Are in sight. Then suddenly a Small fire shows up along the Roadside. Its a two Man american Check Point and they be halted a German civilian to see his travel authorize amp a Tion papers. Many of the Rich Fields have been slowed and planted but mile after mile of others Are untended and deserted. But in villages and towns you see Many Young men in civilian clothes but still with their wehrmacht Caps. You forget that this is an occupied land. And then you see a tent City a City of pyramidal and Pup tents wet in the rain set up in neat rows but forlorn looking Between comfortable towns on either Side. Belgians Lynch exist Brussels. June 2 it apr a mob of More than 1.000 persons hanged a exist named Van Scheytt enwere when the Collaborator returned to less Ines his Home town from Germany. Hitter same As others to pm tourists by jame8 Cannon stars and stripes staff writer Berchtesgaden june 2�? Berchtesgaden today is like a zoo without animals. But soldiers come hers from All Over the third and seventh army areas to look at the ruins of hitlers Mountain Retreat they journey Here in trucks and Bre shown around the debris by 13 guides from the 327th glider inf., 191st airborne div. Their lectures Jive a scornful Quality that is unintentional but extremely effective. Quot most of them want to know who the first troops were to get Here and i Tell them the French a said Opl. Herbert be Linen of owne wis. It seems As if every i visitor to this shrine of evil has a camera. So did Robert Lovett under Secretary of War for air and a two Star general. But it does no to take the soldiers Long to realize these ruins resemble All the others they have seen. Washington june 2 ans a there will be room for veterans to Start Only 500,000 to 700,000 new Small businesses and Quot it will be unfortunate if More try to set up new postwar enterprises Secretary of Commerce Henry a. Wallace warned yesterday. It had been estimated that two to three million servicemen intended to go into business for themselves. Wallace told the House Small business committee business Loans to veterans should not be made too freely. Quot the same precautions must be observed in making Loans to servicemen As to civilians he said. He favored Complete repeal of the wartime excess profits tax a As soon As the danger of inflation has passed a claiming such a move would a a definitely help Small business and help prevent atrocity views Spike nazi Braes protest a it Ludvi shaven june 2�? seventy German officers protested to it col 8. E. Iverson of grand Forks n. D., about the treatment they were receiving at his Continental Advance Section pm Camp. They complained they had no orderlies had to live to Pup tests and pulled up when they finished col. Iverson a reply was to show them 36 photos of american soldiers in German pm Camps at Buchenwald Vaihinger and Dachau v the officers still have no orderlies Jive in Pup tents and pull up. Trucks remove germans Hoard by Joe Wes stars and stripes staff writer Frankfurt on main june 2 a a Modem a Wells Fargo composed of trucks of the 3268th, 3832nd, 3887th and 3888th transportation corps. Truck companies hauled More than half of Germany a wealth both Legal and stolen from the Salt mines and buildings at markers to Weh inside american territory. Most of the Gold and currency was taken from a bricked vault 1,500 feet below the mine opening. Jeeps with trailers were lowered Down a Shaft and shuttled treasure to two elevators which lifted the trailers to the surface. Crews transferred the loads to larger trailers ten ton Semi trailers were loaded with cargo ranging from 12 to 90 million dollars in value. Mustang fighters and Piper cubs roared overhead As the trucks rolled away and armed guards patrolled the roads. Mph a in armoured cars were spaced Between the trucks. Doughboy from the 474th inf. Regt. Rode the trucks with Tommy guns and mis. In five hours the treasure arrived at Frankfurt Allied failure to fix Jim rip Palm with Allied forces Ruhr june 2 Cap a delay in formulating an economic policy for occupied Germany has paralysed the vast Industrial Power of. The Ruhr to a far greater extent than All the War damage inflicted by the allies a checkup of factories till t h e Dusseldorf Wuppertal Rema Che id Solingen area by the 95th div. Disclosed that production of 70 to 80 percent of Normal capacity could be reached within a month. In the Essen Dortmund area inquiry indicated an approximate similar potentiality. Seek patterns u.8. And British experts have been combing German War plants for patterns and samples of products As Superior in design to those produced in their respective homelands. A fear plants making such civilian necessities As soap have been allowed to go Back to work but for others no decision is in sight led by i. G. Farben industries the huge chemical monopoly various firms Are feeding and housing Idle employees to make certain of having a labor Supply. Eighth of men will Fly b29s two nazi boys blow up train with third us. Army june 2 Reuter a two members of the Hitler youth 14 and ten years old blew up an abandoned German ammunition train near Bamberg Bavaria. When caught the boys said they had been instructed to Start As Many fires and explosions As possible. Washington june 2 ans a the eighth of is going to add super fortresses to its striking Power when it joins the War against Japan Gen. H. H. Arnold of chief announced. With the 20thh and 21st bomber commands already in the Pacific assignment of b29s to the eighth aft which already has More than 3,000 flying fortresses liberators and fighters will place three super fortress groups in action. Gen. Arnold As head of the 20th of which includes the present super fortress commands probably will direct the b29s of the eighth which is to be commanded by it. Gen. James h. Doolittle Antwerp Square named for for / Antwerp Juno 2 a Victor a plaats one of the principal squares in Antwerp has been renamed Franklin Roosevelt plaats in Honor of the late . President Burgo Meister Camille Huysman announced. Britain forms far East army London june 2 up a formation of a new British army the 12th�?was reported yesterday from Southeast Asia command he. The new Force includes ., British chinese and Indian troops who participated in the Burma Campaign. The 12th will be commanded by it. Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford who led an Indian corps which cleared 32,000 Square Miles of Burma and captured Mandalay. Nazi bomb becomes taxi putting a nazi a a Goliath through its Pace is t-5 Jerry Brown of Akron Ohio at the base of the 10th photo group ninth air Foroe. Men of the group found this Remote Contro Quot Doodlebug in Germany removed its explosives and now use it for joyriding. Utah steel Plant shut Geneva Utah june 2 ans a the 2,000,000 Dollar government owned Geneva steel Plant closed today for Lack of government orders
