Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               My by Del Les Grao stars Ami stripes a . Bureau Isi june 8�?eighty-five pointers who Are dreaming of find the first two. But brother forget offices of the smaller War plants California will he ready july 1 to Tell this latest a jeep a preference it the regulation a to inf rat a at of Flktti rent rather than 01 Joe get a a business or a times today Ament officials As Quot another in tempt to fulfil Sork my a retell shop the stars and stripes saturday june 9, 1945 King jeep has yet been made the Veteran with a m jeep Are Baa to look up i smaller War plants corporation office. .v.?�?Tv$e� 9# a sri Camp Herbert Tareyton hear be Havre june 8�?the first . Division headed Pacific Ward to be staged at this redeployment Camp now under construction will move into a miniature military town in Mongeon Forest. Typical of a series of redeploy men Camps being built in this Region Herbert Tareyton was Mittal seven weeks ago and is nearly 40 percent completed. At present it is housing liberated pcs and reinforcements. Pcs do most at work the Camp will have facilities for men in 3,500 pyramidal and t tents with Concrete slab or ill is sled Wood floors. Also being erected Are 340 Nissen huts that will by used As and recreation rooms. Aspman pcs Supply a major portion of the labor. The work is supervised by the 1343th Engineer 05 regt., a negro unit \ the Agency inquires of the de _ t of Commerce if it Quot has a Afore than 113 acres have been in surplus and where they caled. The office then gives Joe a note to the Man in charge of the warehouse or storage Yard. The Veteran meat acquire the jeep within 13 Days of its declaration As otherwise he a out of Luck of the surplus pro says it May be six before jeeps will be available. Quot the army is keeping everything it has on wheels until after the War Quot he explains. Set aside for athletic Fields. Present ranks Washington june 8 ans the War department in an Effort to build up a Strong Reserve corps after the War has announced that the highest temporary rank held in release from Active duty will be offered for a period of five years in the officers1 Reserve corps to All quiz to la a. Commissioned officers. Be provision does not apply to Dar army officers Many of whom now hold temporary ranks much higher than their permanent ranks. Re a a a a a Quot Reserve officers represent 25 percent of the officer strength in this War and it k expected that the strength of the postwar organised Reserve corps Quot will be several times greater than it has been in the past the War department said. Department officials noted however that Quot some temporary adjustment in rank will have to be made particularly in cases of younger Reserve  details of these adjustments have not been determined yet. Cripple seized in flier murder iff� go. With 15th army Germany june 8�?a German infantile Para Bais cripple accused of being Leader of a four Man gang which shot and beat an american flier to death near Preist last August was arrested yesterday at Motsch. Three men already tried for the murder implicated the cripple Peter Bach. Bach a Rural nazi party Leader was constantly mentioned at the trial held by a military commission last week. The three defendants said Bach shot the aviator and they attributed their part in the subsequent Hammer beating to fear of the cripples party connections sentences of the three will be announced after it Gen. Leonard t. Gerow 15th army commander reviews the Case. Two cats in a tub Rock ins the boat Are Norma Croger Toft and Batty Wiand of Loo Angel. Why they rocked it to done to know but the option mid the boat was mad Tram Tolt Over air plane parts. Mark milk fraternization by Paul Breen stars and stripes staff writer holding Denmark june 8�?Denmark is a land of milk and honeys cold pure delicious milk and laughing Golden Brown honeys. The Danes offer Allied soldiers milk As other nations offer Vino or Vodka. As for the honeys Denmark is an ally with whom it is a pleasure to fraternize. There Are Only several thousand British and danish soldiers in Copenhagen and fewer still inf the rest of the country. Although occupied five years. Denmark suffered least of All the belligerents. Germany took out tons of food but that still left plenty for the Danes. Dairy products Good Beer meat and other food of All kinds Are plentiful and available at any restaurant at reasonable prices. Only items lacking Are Coffee Tea and cigarettes. A pack of Butts draws up to ten kroner�?2.50 dollars one British Soldier bought an excellent wrist watch for 10  two Day drive through Denmark left the impression the Little nation is like a Well kept Dairy farm. Only reminders of the War were germans marching Down the Road to surrender. Poles arrest Maidanek Boss Moscow june 8 apr arrest of Paul Hoffman head of the notorious Maidanek Quot death factory Quot concentration Camp in Poland was reported today by Tass news Agency. Tass said Hoffman was taken into custody by polish police. Navy to Speed casualty news Hershey stripes plentiful in with third army june 8 a this is getting to be a habit a said to Franklin Doughl Detroit attached to Headquarters of the 5th inf. Div., As he sewed on his seventh overseas Stripe 42 months after Pearl Harbor from which Day overseas stripes Are reckoned. The 5th div., the army s oldest overseas outfit first garrisoned Iceland before beginning its european campaigns. Bombers drop billion papers us staf he France june 8�? the 408th heavy bomber Squadron of the eighth of has in the last 20 months dropped Well Over 1,000.000,000 pieces of printed matter on More than 7,000 targets. The Squadron now is delivering Speed Novi location of special Forel a language news go or general Neutral Swiss bar the Gates by erne8t lei8er stars and stripes staff writer almost in Switzerland june 8�?peace May reign triumphant elsewhere in Europe today but at the Swiss Border a sentry stops gis ans asks sternly Quot done to you know there a a War on a the Little country which remained aloof from two world wars is still closed to Allied military personnel the sentry at the Border town of Basel explained a a after All your country is at War therefore to can to allow your soldiers in Switzerland which is Neutral youth have to wait until the War with Japan is  a phone Call to the american military attache at Berne brought Only confirmation and the admonition that Vottie Swiss Are a very stubborn people and their neutrality is one of the things they re stubborn  at the rate of one Swiss franc to 100 French francs the Call coat the equivalent of $1.80. We would have Felt discouraged at our failure to crash the Border if we Hadnot Learned a better Man had tried three Days before and been turned Back too. The guard on the French Side said it. Gen. Alexander m. Patch had come to Basel and asked if he could visit Switzerland before returning to the . The Swiss guards refused the request. Washington june 8 ans a the Navy is inaugurating new system for reporting casualties designed to Speed now a sheets to Germany. Holland and next of Kin and provide More de of will maintain tailed reports. J service until newspaper presses casualty report officers will j on the. Continent Are rolling again provide amplifying reports on dead and missing personnel forwarding details to Washington by air mail within one week of the Brief initial reports which will continue to be transmitted by radio when possible. Spirited production Washington june 8 cans a com will be available to produce 42 million Gallons of Bourbon whisky in Frisco Dolo fates know a pm woe president backs fast War trials Washington june 8 ans a supreme court Justice Robert h. Jackson s War crimes report which Calls for Swift punishment of every guilty German from the top Down yesterday received Complete endorsement from president Truman. Or Truman predicted representatives of Russia and France would join an International tribunal to try War criminals. Doughs Riding German horses Vaalburg Germany june 8�? onetime wehrmacht cavalry horses Are working for the . Army at a i Riding Academy operated by the 87 the inf. Div. Pfc Joe w. Brandt Cleveland and pfc Pete Kozachenko Benedict  conduct the a table. Rulers must direct the Hor fee in German. San Francisco june 8 ins a like the doughboy when he first hits a foreign country delegates to the United nations conference do most of their Bill paying by holding out a fist full of Money and inviting the Quot merchant to take his due. The thousands of delegates their staffs and families can bring along their own guilders francs or whatever by the Box full but they Are required to change it into dollars and cents before doing any spending the Only nation the . Has no a monetary Exchange with is Russia j for about 25 years now our Banks Haven t had any idea what to a Ruble was Worth. Special arrange a dts Ore understood to have be a j made to provide the russians Here with enough american currency. Franc gets two cants frenchmen found their franc Here is Worth what it is in France �?2 cents. The belgians get 2.28 for their francs and the dutch Guilder is 37.75 cents As solid As it was before Holland was invaded. Hie Guatemala quetzal comes out even one for a Buck the British Pound is Worth either 4.025 a not satisfied vet Doc admits Washington june 8 ans col John h. Baird medical director of the veterans administration admitted yesterday he was a a not completely satisfied with the Standard doctors in veterans hospitals Baird was a Day Long witness before the House veterans committee investigating published reports that the hospitals were giving sub Standard treatment. Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers a mass asked if he would concede much of the criticism written by Albert Deutsch pm reporter was Correct a yes a said Baird Quot but those articles struck us at our weakest  he said some attendants were a a not the Type wed like to have some Day Quot and that veterans doctors complained of too much paper work. Quot but done to you feel put in rep. Charles Vursell a Illa that these articles have greatly overplayed the real conditions that exist a Quot that a very much so a Baird replied. He testified All veterans hospitals were classified a a standards by the american College of surgeons and that All accepted Modem treatment was used for mental patients. Luftwaffe now works for . C47 Crews of col Donald j. French a 437th troop Carrier gp., flying key Allied personnel to Denmark and Norway Are using Luftwaffe weather reports before Clearing scandinavian airfields for their Home base. Luftwaffe members under Allied supervision handle weather stations Ai drome switchboards and other ground jobs serving planes which a few weeks ago they would have fired on. Dollars or 4.035 dollars depending on j whether you re turning it into j american Money or buying it Back. J bolivians bring in wads of Boli Viani brazilians tote their Milreis chileans carry pesos and so do colombians cubans and mexicans Costa Picans haul in colons ecu oreans Sucre hondurans Lempiras. Nicaraguans co Edobas. Panamanians Balboa peruvians venezuelans bolivars and persians dinars. Mystery cleared up one mystery was cleared up when the uruguayan consulate explained Why the official hot of nations described Uruguay As a a the Oriental Republic of  Quot Uruguay is located on the East Side of the River plate a he said. The East. See a canadians going Home utrecht june 8 apr volunteers from the Canadian army in Holland and Germany for service in the Pacific have begun leaving for 30-Day furloughs at Home they will receive training probably in Canada before beginning Pacific duty. Spaatz gets City key alexandra., june 8 ans a Gen. Car Spaatz commander of Jub strategic air forces in Europe returned to his adopted Hometown yesterday and was presented a chromium key to the City