Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Nice Marseille edition the weather forecast for a ice Marseille area sunday partly Cloudy to fair maximum temperature 84. Forecast by Maria inane Airport weather station the St in the european theater of operation vol. 1�?no. 96 one franc sunday june 17, 1945okinawa three mile front under attack by yank Osaka in flames from b29 attack. Guam june 16�?fires ignited by 8,000 tons of jellied gasoline bombs dropped yesterday by 620 super forts on Osaka still were burning today. Maj. Gen. Curtis e. Lemay 21st bomber command chief refused to comment on the attack but Tokyo radio indicated Japan s second City May have received a knockout wow. One super fort was lost. Guam june 16�? Ansi a the bitter Campaign to conquer the japanese outpost of Okinawa Wilt be ended within a week a it. Cen. Simon Buckner predicted today As his tenth army and Marine troops hammered out go ins of several Hundred Yards in assaults on the enemy a three mile final front. Buckner announced that the yanks had killed 12 japs for every american dead. After capturing 506-foot Yaeju Hill which dominates the eight Square mile area into which the remnants of the japanese Garrison have been herded. The 96th div. Was attacking Yuza Hill from which the japs were harassing the flank of the first Marine div. To the West. F Nakaza almost cleared to it the East the seventh amp a. Div., advancing. 706 Yards drove against the last two Hills still in enemy hands. The 32nd inf. Regt. Scored gains of almost half a mile and nearly completed occupation of Nakaza maj. Gen. Andrew d. Bruce 77th div. Commander said the japanese defences on Okinawa were so powerfully built he thought Quot there was a German officer Back there in  waving surrender leaflet Jap gives himself up in Northern Luzon s Balotto Post. In Germany this Toons was common but when a Jap quits it s an event this one s first words Quot Tojo no Good. Americans very  a Acme photo general a chauffeur on Way to discharge Manila june 16 apr japanese forces today were streaming southward into Western Borneo As australian troops captured Timbal Airstrip and reduced the last known enemy positions on Labuan Island. Occupation of timbale the third Field taken since invasion of Borneo was announced by Gen Malar thur As Tokyo radio reported a powerful Allied Fleet was nearing Balikpapan Oil refinery Center on the East Central coast of Borneo. 300 Miles sooth of Tarakan. Or a a a a a Balikpapan was raided by 50 liberators of the 13th a in what May have been a softening up at tack. Yanks in Luzon Valley % meanwhile on Luzon in the Philippines troops of the 37 the inf. Div. Gained 22 Miles in 24 hours and reached the Bagayan Valley to began a race against the typhoon season for apparel Jap stronghold 150 Miles farther North. West of bag amp bag the sixth div. Resumed its push northward along Highway four gaining four Miles while East of Manila the 38th inf. Div., with the first Cav. Div. And the 112th Cav. Regt. Mopped up in mountainous terrain. On Mindanao the 33rd inf. Seized numerous pillboxes near Davao and captured a rocket depot. Liberators of the fifth of today spread fire bombs on southwestern Formosa and seventh Fleet bombers hit rail targets in indo China. Navy liberators hit coastal shipping off Malaya. Paris june 16�?m-sgt. Michael j. Mickey Mckeogh 29-year-old orderly chauffeur and general Utility Man for Gen. Eisenhower since july 1941, left Here today on his last trip with Quot the . Mckeogh has 115 Points. When the celebrations in Washington new York West Point Kansas City and Abilene kan., Are Over Mickey will report to fort Dix n.j., to be discharged from the army. Eisenhower had to declare Mckeogh Quot non essential Quot to make him eligible for discharge. Washington june 16 ins a the War department today outlined to Congress a four Point program for the postwar army based on peacetime Universal military training. The program Given to the House postwar military policy committee by maj. Gen. William Tompkins director of the we special train ing division includes 1.�?regular army National guard and organized reserves. 2.�?universal military training for youths 18 to 20 by a training organization other than the army. 3.�?a program of Industrial mobilization. 4�?military research during peacetime. May keep plants the army suggests he said that military training be Given youths Between 18 and 20, with the trainees inducted on a quarterly basis. Graduate trainees would become members of the army enlisted Reserve for a period of five years. Tompkins said the we is studying the feasibility of having gov emment built War plants made part of the army s Quot permanent Arsenal  compulsory peacetime military training was endorsed today by adms. Chester w. Nimitz and William f. Halsey who submitted their views to the committee by it Vejl. It Paris june 16�?Gen. Eisenhower departed for a two or three week visit to the . In president Truman a personal c54 transport at 1 30 pm Toda after telling discharge eligible a a combat veterans accompanying him tha Quot you men Nave seen what War is like and we done to want to fight any  fifty three army and Navy officers and enlisted men were in the supreme commanders party which took off from orly Airfield near Paris in six army transport planes. The group representing virtually every Branch of the army and several of the Navy will attend a joint session of Congress on monday with the general and also will take part in new Yorkus reception on tuesday. Travelling in Eisenhower a own 054, Quot Sunflower Quot was it. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith the general s chief of staff. Among those in the plane carrying Eisenhower were capt. Harry c. Butcher of Washington the general s naval aide it. Col Ernest r. Lee of san Antonio tex., his military aide and his son 1-lt. John Eisenhower of the first  queries ribbentr0i Frankfurt june 16 apr Joachim von Ribbentrop was flown today to supreme Headquarters tor questioning. Arrested by a British lieutenant in Hamburg yesterday the Nasi bigwig was sharing an apartment with a pretty 85-yeaiw>kl Divorcee who also was arrested. Ribbentrop said he saw Hitler last in Berlin late in april when the fuehrer expressed his Petergd nation to fight to the last american troops in the Limburg area captured Julius Lippert former lord mayor of Berlin who reportedly originated the Star of David to be worn by German jews. Washington june 16 ans while the army has suspended the rotation plan in All Heaters the War department has provided that military personnel stationed in Active Heaters May be returned to this country on temporary duty for recuperation. This was disclosed yesterday in a letter from maj. Gen. J. A. Ulio adjutant general to rep. Joseph j. Philbin . Ulio said theater commanders May return any individual they can spare for 45-Day visits plus travel time involved. .66th to staff Marseille port Northrop wins huge contract Hawthorne Calif june 18 chinese take Paris. June 16�?members of the 66th Quot Black Panther Quot inf div., have been assigned to staff three staging areas and the port of Marseille com z said today. Activated in april 1043, at Camp binding fla., the division arrived in Europe last Christmas Day and was assigned the Job of containing the 50,000 germans penned in the Atlantic coast pockets at St. Nazaire and Lorient. The division is commanded by maj. Gen. H. F.  Parley fails to open London june 18�?the Moscow tri Power discussions aimed at settling the polish provisional government question scheduled t o begin yesterday now Are expected to get underway tomorrow or monday. A second invitation was extended by the allies to Wincenty Witos peasant party Leader to attend. He refused an earlier  Baton Given Truman Washington. June 16 ans a a Diamond studded Baton that once belonged to Hermann Goering was presented to president Truman yesterday by it. Gen. Alexander m. Patch commander of the seventh army who arrived in the . Thursday night. Patch went to the White House with it. Gen. Lucian k. Truscott jr., fifth army co and maj. Gen. James m. Gavin commander of the 82nd airborne div. Patch does not plan to return to Europe according to the associated press soviet demands Materiel Berlin june 16 Reuter a marshal Gregory Zhukov today ordered All War Materiel in soviet occupied Germany handed Over to the russians during the next few weeks. 1,525 Cis reach . New York june 16 Ansi four troop ships yesterday brought 1,525 liberated american prisoners and reassignment troops from Europe. San Francisco june 16 ans a Battle scarred and weather worn Quot thumped Quot the first b29 to Fly Over Tokyo and Only survivor of an original flock of 30 based at Saipan has returned to the u.8. The one time experimental ship was piloted Home after 40 sorties by it. Col. Robert e. Haynes Hermosa Beach calif., Veteran of 102 combat my Asfe to. Aboard the ship was the first super fort Crew to return to the states on rotation after the required 30 missions a Crew that has ans a Northrop aircraft inc., received a $25,000,000 War plane contract today. The company has been turning out p61 Black widow night fighters for the army. Northrop said the contract will require Peak output through 1946. Remained intact with the exception of its Pilot from Start to finish. The Crew griped that somebody had ordered All insignia off air planes Walt Disney drawings pictures of near nudes and others. Now they have to Call their planes by numbers. Quot but we be got a few names to Call the Guy who protested because of our insignia Quot said sgt. John a a. Rompers Uniontown Ala. Thumped was hit More than 100 times by fighter and anti aircraft fire but never missed a flight from its Saipan  town chunking. June 16 Reuter a operating behind japanese lines East of the Canton Hankow railway chinese troops have recaptured Pinfeng on the Quot invasion coast Quot of Chekian province and hoping 150 Miles Northeast of Hong Kong. They Are moving toward we Chow 225 Miles South of Shanghai in the Southwest chinese recaptured Isham outer do tense bastion of the american air base at Uu-chow.16,500 yanks in Jap hands a Manila june 16 apr Only 1,447 of the More than 1&000 american army and Navy personnel captured by the japanese on Bataan and Corregidor have been liberated Gen. Macarthur disclosed today. Of this number 3,260 have been reported dead offi Couf first b29 Over Tokyo returns mit40 raids