Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Oct 31 m r the weather forecast for note Marseille area saturday continued fair and marm Matt mum tempera Ture 85. N1ce-Marseille edition vol 1�?�?no. 88 the Best daily paper of . Forces in the european theater of operations saturday one 9, 1945 one franc a it Bradley to head vet care Washington june 8 ans a Gen. Ottiar n. Bradley directed the 1, 0,-000 men of 12th army up. In Europe has been Given the id of watching out for "12,000.000 veterans in  f presi Derit Truman yesterday appointed a a brads by to be veterans. Administrator. Succeeding Brig. Gen. Pat pfc t. Hines who resigned after 23 years in the Post. By Radley who recently returned to the ., will take office within 60 Days. Bindley will supervise care of ill and bounded veterans and the benefits such As additional schooling which Are due them. Or. Truman said that Hines had accepted another government Post. Forecasts of a shakeup in the veterans administration have been numerous in recent months. The president said some time ago that it needed modernizing and news per and Magazine articles criticizing Hospital care for veterans started an inquiry by the House veterans committee to successor named Paris june 8�?shaef had a no information today As to who would succeed Gen. Omar n. Bradley As commander of the 12th army up. At present Gen. Jacob i. Devers a is acting commander of the 12th 20 yanks Hurt in Lyon wreck Lyon. June 8�?at least 20 �oj3. Soldiers were injured Quot some seriously when a railway train left the rails and its boiler exploded on the main line Between Lyon and mar seize yesterday. Military railway service in Paris said the Engineer and firemen both French were severely scalded. A dozen cars of the 41-car train piled up and blocked both lines for More than ten hours. Mrs officers said the train consisted of 23 cars of . Troops Enro Ute to Marseille eight of pcs and 10 of army signal equipment. Marseille port fight kills five Barbel a. June 8 a five French civilians were killed and 18 wounded Here tuesday night in a knife and gun Battle Between senegalese and arabic soldiers of the French army in the bombed out old port Section maj. Walter p. Snyder of Excelsior Springs mo., Marseille District Provost marshal said today. Snyder said no american troops were involved but a ten Man my patrol cleared All . Personnel out of the area during the 15-minute fight. British occupy Cologne sunday stars bars and stripes to Home Russia i Elvis Onevelo san Francisco june 8 a Russia has agreed to the .-Britlsh  6f the Yalta agreement on veto Powers in the Security of unit Only 254,000 Eto veterans top 84 Points by Robert j. Donovan stars and stripes staff writer Paris. June 8�?barely More than a Quarter of a Mizumi soldiers in Eto have an adu8ted service rating score of 85 to Toter or higher Imd of those More than 36.00 1 Art cheers Greet Gen. Courtney h. Hodges and �0 Ottier officers and men top As Lioy Parade along Atlanta s Peao Trot 8t below 7,000 soldiers Jam rails of transport arriving at Staten Island Pior it. Decorated a armed Patton shuns credit at Boston Boston june 8 it ans it men. George s. Pattern jr., wearing his four stars Battle jacket a Lucli 30 decorations Gold buckled Belt with pistol on the right hip and carrying a Riding crop made his first Home coming speech to cheering thousands Here today. This Welcome is not for me but for the veterans of the third  he said. Patton and 46 officers and men arrived from Paris in three Tran a it it planes which were escorted to Bedford Airport by six flying fortresses. Met by a cheering throng which included his wife and two daughters. Patton made a nine minute talk on the Charles River Esplanade reminding his audience that the War was Only half won. In closing he said t want to thank you and remind you that the great Honor belongs to those men i now  then he snapped to attention and saluted 250 wounded third army officers and men who had preceded him Home. Cologne. June 8 ins a three months of us. Army administration of Cologne will end sunday when the great Rhine City is turned Over to the British. It. Col John Patterson will hand Over the keys to Cologne to col. John Adams of the British army. Hopkins leaves Moscow Moscow june 8�?presidential adviser hairy Hopkins has left Moscow after a series of conferences with marshal Stalin to make arrangements for the forthcoming big three meeting. Members of the air Force Brig. Gen. Ralph b. Lovett theater adjutant general disclosed today. While the surprisingly Low total was computed before award of Points tor the ardennes and Central Europe campaigns it was seen As an indication the final critical score expected to be announced in three weeks would be lower than 85 Points in order to fill the discharge quota. However setting of the final critical score must await computation of figures from All Heater boost will St Lam Teil exact figures for Etc were 254, 539 men with 86 or More Points 36j61 of them in the air Force. These figures will be reviewed upward with award of the separate ardennes and Central Europe campaigns. Eto was eligible for discharge with a critical score of 44 or higher numbered 2,296. The ardennes Central emote additions cannot exceed 175j000 men since that is the number who june 8�?four airborne Jive Between 75 and 85 Points now five i7fh air Borders hereto sheaf convict seeks Churchill seat j London. June 8 a it a William Douglas Home 32, who was Dis honorable discharged from the British army and sentenced to one year s imprisonment by a court i martial for failure to obey a command announced today that he would oppose prime minister Churchill in the Woodford Essex of Natl Tanoy in the general election. No other candidates to oppose Churchill have appeared. Paris. Divisions instead of the three originally announced were in the Eto during the War. Shape discovered today. The 13th airborne div. Was attached to 12th army up. Raising the total of u.8. Inf attry. Annoyed and airborne divisions Here to 61. Airborne divisions hated yesterday were the 17th, 82nd and 101st. And campaigns Are Worth Points each. The army plans to release from continued on Page 8 Popo agr of to rest Rome june 8 ins a Pope Pius Xii today agreed to the decision of his physicians that he take a rest. Filipinos grab Jap Ramirai with fleets secret Staats Washington. June 8 ans it a How filipino patriots last Fau captured a High ranking japanese act viral who had in his Possessky Nisei Back in . New York june 8 up so veral members of the japanese american 106th div. Were among during the height of the Bathe for secret plans for the deployment of the. Entire enemy meet was revealed yesterday by sen. Millard e. Dings . Tydings. Chairman of the Senate. Territories committee reported the incident in describing his recent trip to the Philippines. He said that 1,802 Africa and Italy veterans who arrived today aboard the army Tran a it it Gen. W. P Richardson. Members of the 15th of and first army. Div. Also arrived. Leyte the Quot chief japanese and Mizar so plane was forced Down in the Visayan Island group. When it landed natives captured the Admiral philippine Independence now sit and discovered that valuable papers by statue for july 1945. On his person showed the location of every ship in the japanese Navy at that time. The Admiral was flying to Confer with those. Who would shortly Alghi to in great naval Bathe of the plea. The papers were immediately sent to our own military forces by the flip inti Tydings said. Tydings. Emi i sizing the filipinos loyalty to the uj3. Proposed a four Point program for the Philllp Pines including Independence Loans an outright gift of 10,000,000 dollars and a Liberal Tariff policy. He made no mention of a Date for 0� the proposed world peace league thus breaking an a a a tended deadlock and removing the find stumbling Doc in the path of the United nations conference Here. The principal a nations a a now Are in agreement that no me Mizar of the Security Council a Almly. Velci even discussion of any International  the tote rp9retauon of Tom o Yalta agreement How accepted All around is that the veto applies mily to action proposed in Case o a dispute not to the nearing of evidence in the dispute. Evalds fms 0t Tim Salty there was no evidence that the soviet Retreat Fromi its previous stand was the result of comm Lem of any kind. The or mlle yielded on being told that the former russian attitude on the veto of Manula was embarrassing to the �oj9. A russian spoke Timaan  a that soviet policy never had been inflexible and that the new agreement is proof of russian store titty in support Ling Fonna Tlam of a world Security Organ Melon breaking of the deadlock on the veto quiet ten was announced last continued on 8 Anglo Righy pact claimed Paris. June 8�?exlslence of a Long suspected secret treaty Between Bri Tain. A and. France negotiated after the fall of prance was Elal med Here today by marshal Henri Philippe Petain former chief of toe. Vichy French state awaiting trial for treason. The aging marshal gave Degli of the pact which he said he bad negotiated with prime ii Lliter Churchill to Henri Payen head of the French bar Asso Claflin. Petain said Negola Layons were started oct 24, 1940, and that the treaty was ratified nov. 21.1940. It provided for tufting the Brit Lah blockade to permit some food and supplies to reach Vichy France Troin French african ports and defined French colonial rights according to Payen. It provided specifically that the French had the right to repulse British encroachment into it Ich colonial territory lest such a British move provoke outright German occupation of the Colony he said. Other details were not revealed. 700 nazi u-b0at8 sunk in Atlantic London. June 8 Reuter a More Titan 700 German a boats were sunk in the Atlantic during the War a final joint statement by prime minister Churchill and president Truman said today. Many of Lieis were destroyed by the germans themselves in the final stages of the War the statement added. Trieste treaty a Porteo made u noon june 8 Dos a an agreement on Trieste a been signed by marshal Otto of Yugoslavia. And Field marshal sir har old Alexander Allied me dilemna Ean commander Jugoslav circles said Here today. Terms of the reported agree Moit were unknown. The British foreign office gave no Confirma Kodl