Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Frankfurt Germany june 7 a sixty us. Divisions�?42 of them infantry 15 armoured and three airborne were facing the germans when the War in Europe ended sheaf discloses , ground units in Eto included five armies and 16 corps. Other Allied units were British one army four corps eight infantry divisions four an Mored divisions and two airborne divisions Canada one army two corps three infantry divisions and two armoured divisions. A Rance one army one corps eight infantry divisions and three armoured divisions. Poland one armoured division. The . Infantry divisions were first second thin fourth fifth eighth ninth 26th, 28th, 29th. 30th, 35th, 36th, 42nd, 44th, 45th, 63rd, 65th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 7lst, 75th, 76th. 78th, 79th, 80th, 83rd, 84th, 86th, 87th, 89th, 90th, 94th, 95th, 97th, 99th, 100th, 102nd, 103rd, 104th and 106th.the us. Armoured divisions were second third fourth fifth sixth 1 seventh eighth ninth tenth 11th, j2th, 13th, 14th, 16th and 20th. A it the airborne divisions were 17th, 82nd and 101stmargie Stewart encourages letter i Tousa listed War end total of 60 division Frankfurt German a sixty us. Divisions�?42 infantry 15 armoured and by me were facing when the War in sheaf discloses us. In Eto included five corps. Other Allied British one inspiration eight and girls test Stewart departs to a a tour in and Stripe redeploy Camp 8amp ramp no 1, june 7�?this Camp which has processed thousands of recovered american pcs since Early april will become a great redeployment Center by the end of this week and eventually will be Able to process three divisions at a time. F control will be transferred from the 15tb major port to the 89th inf. Div. The 89th began taking Over ramp recovered Allied military personnel activities this week. The Camp probably win be turned Over to it formally sunday. More than 67.000 of 90,000 freed pcs already have returned Home through Camp ramp. Officials said most of the remainder would leave by saturday. Some 2,000 stragglers will be processed by june 16. Liberated prisoners began to trickle into the Camp Early in april and in May they arrived in Waves. The Camp handled 8,420 on May 12 alone.41 arc clubs open in Reich More planned Heidelberg Germany june 7 ins a the Strain of non fraternization is being eased by the increasing presence of american red Cross girls in Germany. 1 gis Here now can talk to american girls listen to swing music and have a a Coffee Only squawk is there Arentt enough american girls. Forty one red Cross clubs have been opened in the Reich and within the next few weeks 20 More will be to units nearly All the clubs Are attached to units which until recently were in the line. The 101st airborne div has a club in Berchtesgaden once hitlers Mountain Retreat. There is another in Heidelberg. In Weiden an Aero club is in what once was the modernistic Hermann Goering school. # staffs in addition to american personnel Are a mixture of everything. Some clubs moving from France Holland and Belgium brought along their local staffs. Other clubs use displaced persons and German pcs. In no instance Are germans permitted to work in any capacity where they might meet gis. This is to eliminate any temptation toward fraternization. Longhorn to 250 word and pos requirement is that letter writers have a class b War Bond allotment or Purchase a Bond after june 1. Prizes include 15 automobiles or trucks 15 refrigerators and 20 radio phonographs. Laval not a criminal London june 7 apr Pierre Laval has not been classified off Cia Llly As a War criminal Richard Law a foreign office spokesman told commons yesterday. A to be that a Law declared. A he would have to be nominated by the French government. And so far he has not been so penicillin speeds gonorrhoea cure Washington june 7 ins a sir Alexander Fleming discoverer of penicillin says the drug is making gonorrhoea a a trifling infection much less than a cold in the but at the same time the British scientist warns against Quot abuse of the drug As a cure All for ailments other than those for which it is now indicated. Visiting the . To observe the use of penicillin in hospitals or. Fleming declared at a news conference that the drug had Quot far exceeded Hopes held for it when he discovered it by Chance in 1929. In addition to its effectiveness against gonorrhoea the drug Quot looks As though its going to be far and away the Best thing against syphilis a Fleming Broadens Deposit Choice Rosen Man retained Washington june 3 ins a president Truman has named Samuel Rosenman As special presidential counsel work House style Paris june 7�?a discharged Soldier could receive immediately and in a Lump sum All Money he had put into the soldiers Deposit program under the Bill introduced in Congress by rep. Albert m. Cole . J. H. Fulton Eto savings officer said in Clearing up misconceptions of the proposed legislation. Col. Fulton said the Bill would not compel a Soldier to take his deposits in monthly instalments but would give him that privilege if he elected it. The Bill yet not passed would not change the operation of the Deposit program in any Way except to broaden the choices Given a Soldier at the time of repayment of his go reunions on . Piers . Wives told new York june 7 ans a soldiers returning from the Eto were advised today to forget any dreams of meeting their wives or sweethearts on the debarking pier and the army asked families of Home bound veterans not to come to new York to meet -l.l,-. A flood of Telephone Calls in the past three weeks from parents wives relatives and friends asking assistance in meeting servicemen was reported by the red Cross traveler said society and authorities at Camp Shanks ., and Camp Kilmer njt., the two principal processing centers in the port area. Maj. Gen. Homer m. Groninger Poe commander warned families that visitors were not permitted on piers. He said soldiers were Given every Opportunity to Telephone or Telegraph Home upon their arrival first negroes Home new York june 7. Ans a forty six negro soldiers first to return Home since be Day arrived Here with a shipload of liberated murder verdict fixed texans in Eto asked Amelia Cross and of St. Petersburg fla., for a new pin up pose. The cover girl came up with guerrilla leaders nabbed London. June 7 Reuter a Heinrich Himmler a hand picked staff of is experts who were to have master minded a Long underground War against the allies have been taken into custody it was announced today by second British army officials. They hiding in Flensburg where they had been sheltered by grand adm. Karl Doenitz. Other key nazis members of the German High command and of the Doenitz government were captured at the same declares War on Japan Rio de Janeiro june 7 apr Brazil which contributed a sizeable expeditionary Force to the Allied Campaign in Italy yesterday declared War on Japan. A the . Is now transferring itself to the theater of operations i in the Pacific a the declaration explained and Quot the United nations objectives of peace demand participation of All states on this continent in the final fight for the Liberty of oppressed military government in Germany is putting pcs and civilian my Vadakan to Wark cleaning up destruction. Hare they shovel nibble an kit Wyngen As doughs of 99th 394th inf. Stand Job to air Pioneer Washington. June 7 ans a William Pawley 48, of Miami who j organized the flying tigers american Volunteer group in China has been nominated by president Truman to be ambassador to Peru. It was the first diplomatic appointment for Pawley who founded the company that built the first air plane factory in China in 1934. V2 secrets told on Reich stamp London june 7 ins a every German who bought a 25-pfennig stamp in the autumn of 1943 Learned the secret of v2, although few of them realized it. One of a series of Stamps issued on German army Day illustrating weapons used by the army the 25 pfennig stamp showed five v2s being released simultaneously from an open Field. A norwegian Konrad re Dedal who was liberated in Germany by French troops brought one of the Stamps to London. Quot nobody in Germany seemed to understand this stamp a he said Quot but it was generally accepted As a symbolic representation of the secret weapon Goebbels was always Ahrweiler Germany june 7 up a an eight member . Milli tary Board trying three German civilians charged with killing an unidentified american flier last aug. 15 has reached a verdict but its findings will not be announced until the Case is reviewed by it Gen. Leonard t. Gerow . 15th army commander. The usual procedure in military trials is to announce the verdict immediately in Case of acquittal the three accused Are one armed Peter Kohn 32-year-old Crane operator Matthias Gierens "37-year-old Railroad worker and Matthias Krein 44-year-old former nazi Rural policeman. The flier was shot then beat to death near Trier after he had parachuted from his flaming Forest unit works in Italy Cut study journal ism sixth army gp., Germany june 7�?forty gis Are studying journalism in a school sponsored by the 56th aaa brigade at Heidelberg believed to be the first such school in 2 can Etain Shadlu Columbia mo., june 7 ans a the University of Missouri will offer a three month course in Linotype operation for veterans beginning july 1. Allied he Italy june 7 apr army Lumberjacks of the Peninsular base 800th Engineer forestry co. Are cutting and milling 6,000,000 Board feet of lumber monthly for construction purposes and to crate War material for shipment to the Pacific. In Italy since december 1943, the forestry unit has produced 89,000,-000 Board feet of lumber and 8,000 pieces of piling with the help of 50 italian civilians piling used to Bridge the of River in the last fifth army push was Cut by the doughboy Lumberjacks Gen. Lindemann moved to jail Copenhagen june 7 apr Gen. George Lindemann commander of German forces in Denmark during the occupation has been transferred from Jutland to a Copenhagen jail he is in the same prison As or. Werner Best Reich to occupied Denmark. Fingerprints to identity Soldier amnesia victim Paris june 7�?pfc William Walker if that a his name the go who fought his Way into Berlin with i troop of cossacks but does no to remember much about himself before that will not know for sure who he is until he reaches the states. Authorities at first Gen. Hosp. Near Paris where Walker is sweating out that trip Home said there was no Way to Trace his service record except through Finger printing which will be done when he reaches a Hospital in America. Meanwhile from the states came numerous queries about the amnesia victim who escaped from a German pm Camp and joined the russians. Associated press picked up the stars and stripes Story on Walker and wired pictures of the Soldier to America but thus far no one has claimed him As a son or husband or brother. Hospital records list walkers Case As a a amnesia anaemia and he said one doctor had told him he was 20 years old. A he figured that out by my rage 4 t the stars and stripes Friday june 8, 1945
