Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               The weather forecast for Nice Marslette area monday continued fair Windy maximum temperature 8l Nice Marseille edition to 1 no 90 the Best daily paper of . Forces a riot the european theater of operation monday june 11, 1945 b l i u e coast final one franc super torts tidied up utter Mission around Drews at a Marianas base movie a Fleet of be just returned i japanese Homeland. The my Stiver bomber get a thorough going Over Between missions. A lilt Jas b29s hit 5 targets in precision attack Guam june 10 ans a super fortresses today attacked five Industrial plants and repair bases in Japan in the second successive Day of precision Daylight bombing and adm. William f. Halsey disclosed that his Carrier based aircraft destroyed 30 enemy planes and damaged a Pilot training Center in Southern Japan Friday. Today a b29 Mission involved a a  about 150 Marianas based planes j q visits Okinawa and 100 iwo Jima based fighters As escort. Targets were aircraft factories at Chiba 20 Miles Southeast of Tokyo Aid at Tomiko five Miles South of Yokohama an air depot 24 Miles West of Tokyo and engineering works at Fukagawa 115 Miles Northeast of Tokyo and a seaplane base 35 Miles Northeast of the capital. The super forts carried no incendiary bombs. Third recent Carrier strike Friday s attack on Kyushu was the third  against the japanese Home land in eight Days. Target was the Kayo a Airfield. In addition to planes and the Pilot school a Supply depot was damaged. In Washington the 20th of said All b29s gent against Japan yesterday returned to their bases. Two plane factories at Nagoya were heavily damaged and another at Kobe was slightly damaged. Tokyo radio today said one out of every 15 japanese is homeless As a result of bus. Bombing attacks. Dome news Agency said in a broadcast that the 21st bomber command had Between 700 and 800 firs line aircraft in the Marianas. The broadcast added that the . Had ten airfields in operation on Okinawa and adjacent islands. Rheims station added to an Paris june 10�?a new station in the system being built by the american forces network from London deep into Germany will open at Rheims on tuesday morning. It will service the thousands of troops assembling for redeployment in the Rheims area As Well As personnel of Oise base Section. The station can be found on the medium wave band at 1231 kilo cycles or at 243.7 meters. An Rheims will open at 350 Watts and will reach 2.000-Watt operation within a week. Diet will yield Power to Suzuki Okinawa june 10 ans a Gen. Joseph w. Vinegar Joe Stilwell commander of army ground forces showed up on this bloody Island last week and visited the seventh inf. Div., which he activated in 1940. A Stilwell lunched with the division s commander maj. Gen. Archibald v. Arnold and Tycen hiked along Muddy roads to an of to take a look at the Battle for the Southeastern tip of the Island. He met cols. Francis t. Pachler of Tampa fla., and John m. Finn of Portland ore., eff mental commanders who were with the division when it was a Ulwell a. The seventh campaigned across the Pacific Attu Kwajalein Leyte and Okinawa. Said Stilwell Quot personally i think they re the finest Bunch that Ever came Down the Pike yank toll listed in Bremen blast Paris june 10�?-four americans were killed or Are missing and four others were severely injured last monday in two explosions which almost levelled the Allied military government s Bremen police Headquarters sheaf announced today. An official account of the blast said virtually All persons in the building were germans but did not disclose How Many of them had been killed. San Francisco june 10 apr the japanese diet now in emergency session will approve an unprecedented Bill transferring practically All its Powers to the government of Premier Kan Taro Suzuki Tokyo radio predicted today. The drastic measure described As an Quot urgent necessity a would Grant the government dictatorial Powers to prepare for Quot the Battle for Japan Quot Tokyo said. Speedy adoption of the new setup and five other special wartime Bills was predicted. 1-t.igg,i., 3rd, 7th armies to police Reich 15th he a leaving x re. A by erne8t Leiser Start and stripes staff writer Wiesbaden Germany june 10 a the third arid seventh . Armies have been assigned the Job of occupying Germany Gen. Jacob l Devers Headquarters disclosed today. It. Gen. Leonard t. Gerowe a 15th army originally named for the occupation role is expected to cease operations shortly after official announcement of boundaries of the four Power 4 occupation zones 12th army canadians cast ballots today Marseille riot report denied Marseille june 10�?col. John b. Rocs a lbs Provost marshal tonight denied a report in the London daily express that american troops broke up an Arab senegalese riot Here Friday night. Roosma said maps went to the scene of a riot tuesday night to Clear out american troops but there was no us. Participation and no gis were Hurt. Live persons including a French policeman were killed and if wounded before French police quelled the dist4irh�nre Ottawa june 10 apr tomorrow s general election in Canada is being watched closely As the first to be held by any of the victorious democracies since the defeat of Germany. It wifi be studied particularly for indications toward the right of left which might provide a clue to the outcome of the pending British  delay Okinawa yanks Guam june 10 ans a Strong japanese resistance which slowed the heavy us. Assault on the Southern tip of Okinawa was emphasized today in adm. Nimitz s communique and maj. Gen. John r. Hodge xxiv corps commander warned his troops that the remaining 15,000 japs May begin Banzai charges As a last gesture of Defiance. Enemy casualties through Friday totalled 87,703, an increase of More than 1,400 in two Days. The communique also revealed that on Fri Day Jap suicide planes unsuccessfully attacked american shipping. Twelve raiders Werg shot Down. The first and sixth Marine diva met heavy resistance from the three Square mile Oruku pocket on Okinawa a Southwest coast. A Tokyo broadcast said a uj9l Force spearheaded by 20 tanks had continued on Pope 8 Tutsi no criminal London june 10 apr Frits Quot Putzig Hanfstaengl Harvard graduate and one time press chief for Hitler is not listed As a War criminal sir Donald Somervill told commons. Interned in England at the outbreak of War Quot Putzi Quot will be repatriated to  Poe has 3 annexes by Johnnie Brown stars and stripes staff writer Marseille jul n e 10�?three separate areas with a total capacity of 200,000 men will outs amp be troops destined for movement through Marseille Poe to the Pacific War col Roye p. Gerfen of san Antonio tex., Deputy commander of Delta base Section disclosed. Calas staging area also known As staging area no. 1, a score of Miles North of Marseille is already in operation. Approximately 30.000 men Are now being processed there and 3,000 additional troops Are being called in Dally. This area commanded by col  T. Miesegaes of Jersey City can handle 80.000 organizational troops and 10,000 casuals within a week when construction is completed. To operate Boon staging area no. % in the St Victorey area and Aries and Stag ing area 8, in the Arles area expected to be in operation before the end of june. Col Austin d. Higgins of Buffalo and new Rochelle n.y., will command no 2, and col Charles b Poe of Boulder cola will comm and a l no. 2. Originally planned for a German pm Camp will handle a maximum of 20,000 organizational troops. No. 8. About 80 Miles Northwest of Marseille has a capacity for 100.000. Casuals at staging area no. 1 will include homeward bound gis found to be non essential overseas continued on Page 8 sack Dep Limski to Pacific War Honolulu june 10 ans a pvt sad sack whose difficulties in the Eto made his creator sgt George Baker one of the Best known wartime cartoonists has been redeployed to the Pacific where he soon will be battling the japanese As Well As first sergeants. Baker has arrived Here with sgt Marion Hargrove author of Quot see Here pvt Hargrove Quot they Are on their Way to the Manila office of yank the army weekly. Up. Said. The fact that third and seventh army Headquarters have been Des a a gated for the annies of occupation does not mean troops now in those armies necessarily Are do it tined for occupation. The redeployment system win provide an almost Complete revamping of personnel on the basis of Point scores. Moat gis stay Ham fifteenth army soldiers other than Headquarters units will be absorbed by the third and seventh armies. Under present plans the uj3. Occupation zone will be divided into Western and Eastern military districts. Seventh army boundaries will coincide with the Aretter amps strict third army of a a hold the Eastern District there has been a Swift redeployment of american soldiers from North Central Germany into the general  occupation area in the southwestern Reich. Many knits already have been switched into the armies of occupant Iolj 18th my. To Pacific the expected Relief of the Ift tic army whose formation was announced Early this year will make its Headquarters available for the Pacific snit there has been no official announcement of its new assignment the first army already is on its Way to the fur Bast it was Learned yesterday that the ninth army would suspend. 810 operations about Juneth Quot wins five awards Oakland calif., june 10 apr it. H. G. Box of Morrisville mo., Veteran of 92 missions in the Pacific received five awards in one ceremony at the Oakland naval Hospital. He received the dec the Navy and Marine corps medals air medal commendation ribbon and a purple heart. 12ih a discharge group Roaches Dix from Kilmer by Bem Price stars and stripes staff writer port Dix. N j., june 10�?one Hundred fifty six potential discharges from the 12th army up. A part of the first 600 highpoint Eto combat men sent Home arrived Here today by train from the new York port of debarkation. It had been just a Little More than 30 hours since these men whose Homes Are in new Jersey and new York got off the boat at Staten Island. Yesterday at Camp Kilmer nil these gis had their first meal on us. Soil. The menu Steak whip Ped potatoes Gravy Corn peas salad tomatoes Rolls butter cake Coffee and All the milk they wanted. A swing band played dinner music which was interrupted twice once to give the men the latest news Over a Loudspeaker and again by a briefing officer who told the men the schedule of the Day s activities. Each Man was issued a set of sultans however he keeps his full set of Odb. Last night the men slept on mattresses after drinking Beer at the canteen and dancing reps Tea Vinc Austria zone Rome june 10�?areas East of Klagenfurt Austria originally plan Ned to be occupied by Tibe Arm eighth army but reached first by soviet troops Are being gradually evacuated by red army cording to a n. Y. Herald Tribune correspondent this was taken to mean the correspondent said that the red army is preparing to move out and turn the area Over to the British. British and american forces with Drew this week from sectors in Germany which were scheduled to come under soviet occupation. A heavy Cruiser enters Waters Quincy mass., june 10 ans a the new heavy Cruiser Oregon City was launched yesterday at the Bethlehem steel co. Shipyard Here with Bing Crosby and members of the House naval affairs committee attending. Crosby was Here to support the seventh War loan while the representatives were in route to Maine to inspect naval establishments. With american girls in dresses not uniforms. Selling All ramps Paris june 10�?All of. Ramps except those on 80-Day leaves were urged by go com a today to report to Lucky strike Camp or us base As soon As possible. Shipping is available and evacuation to the . Depends upon the ramps immediate return to their stations