Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Dire the stars and stripes monday on ,18, 1945 is tank Cuns Ltd a a jts a a Rte la a a a itt 5 my �jfe1 a a min a via a m spread of venereal i a a a troops a mis using grave concern among american health and Public safety officiate. A to a a was alarmingly on the increase although . Soldiers Are technically forbidden to associate with German women. He attributed this largely to the soldiers v heavy fines and penalties fraternizing resulting in failure Travail themselves of army sanitary facilities. Try Una information off Crft and Emorit Tda tial soldiers the situation is the that to least 400 known utes Are �?�0� underground the army crackdown on houses in the red Light a majority of these women were said to be disease carriers m Tipsy capt Arthur n. Who toy of Seara Dalo n.y., a Rad of Whitley a outfit. Emma idlers Are of the. Fact Ware control a a at a a a Craw of m Hada japanese petrol a be p a. 4bishon Apellman Guam june 17 ans a adm. Chester w. Nimitz commander in chief of Pacific Ocean areas called an unprecedented press conference today to defend tactics of the Okinawa Campaign against criticism a Davi Mawrence. Referring specifically to the writer s criticism of Jub. Commanders for not making landings behind japanese lines after the original in a a a evasion april 1, Nimitz said a new legion insists for vet Bills a Ami. Of a Quot to. Re a a Washington june it cans the american legion Quot very much disturbed Quot at the possibility that Congress will recess for the summer without completing veterans legislation today urged the House veterans committee to act immediately on the following measures 1. Bill to liberalize the National service life insurance act to allow More returning servicemen to Benefit bit 2. Bill to liberalise educational provisions of the i Bill of rights. 3. Bill to liberalise loan provisions of the i Bill. 4 and 5. Two Bills to equalize compensation awards for veterans of both world wars. 6. Bill to keep permanently on compensation Rolls any Veteran on the Rolls for ten year Downs 829 As yanks cheer. It a a i iwo Jima june 17-a crippled bomb Laden super fortress was shot Down off this Island to cheers of american troops on the ground. A Black widow poured Lead into the giant bomber to prevent it from crashing with its lethal Load on i to Jima. The b2ts Pilot was killed by flak Over Osaka and the bomb Bay doom were jammed so its bombs could not be dropped. A i i landings would have had to have my Dachau Shari june it cup a a Vatican today the intention Pisa Xuy to elevate the Mazt. Rev Francis j. Spellman archbishop of new York to the rank of Cardinal and Vatican Secretary of state during the consistory to be held this pall. It of archbishop awl Secretary of state the consistory since according to Church Cus by a Cardinal the belief is strengthened by the fast that the archbishop of new York normally is occupied by a Cardinal h the archbishop Spellman was attached to the secretariat of state for ten years before the War. A12tb june 17 the army up. He to Mukden. Hitlers ignorance of air Power the Urelia of the italians the destructive of uj3. Long Range heavy Ira and Over All supremacy of the British Home Fleet were some of the factors that led to Germany a military and political ruin retch a amp Urshal Hermann Goering has admitted to office who have questioned him., a a quo Goering said the failure of the invade Britain after was due to the res inadequate ship ency of Landing of the British Home entered the War cer Tain Goering said because of the numerical superiority of the Allied air forces. A Quot the allies owe their Success of the invasion to their air forces Quot he said. A they made it possible they carried u the key to the Allied air Success was the Range of american fighters. The Man who once boasted no Allied bombers would Cross the Borders of the Reich said he was Quot quite research on v weapons began Long before the War Goering disclosed with the original idea of developing an express mall service Between Germany and the us. Goering said he did no to doubt in the least that the japanese knew All about German Jet fighters because Hitler had Given them the blueprints. Dachau june 17 apr German civilians Are marking the mass Graves of 3,500 Dachau concent Rar Tion Camp victims with an elaborate we Mart / of of directed by military government authorities the germans Are building two Stone columns 50 feet High on a Pine covered Hill North of the City. One column will be topped by a Cross the other by a Star of David the half million Dollar project will he paid for out of German funds. Been made Over very unsatisfactory beaches against an alerted enemy defense. They would have involved heavy casualties and would have created unacceptable Supply he added that tactical decisions on Okinawa were made by it. Gen. Simon b. Buckner tenth army commander and Quot they had my based on dts Patti in Washington Lawrence said the material he used was based on a dispatch from Okinawa by Homer Bigart. New York Herald Tribune correspondent and had been cleared by Navy censors. The columnist charged army commanders had missed minimal on Okinawa hurling them against the Tough Shuri defense line instead of making Quot end run Quot plays with a Landing behind the enemy s lines. Lawrence said this strategy resulted in uj3. Forces afloat suffering casualties unprecedented in proper chinese repel Jap attacks chunking june 17 apr in an Effort to strengthen the flanks of the Canton Hankow railway and generally improve their anti invasion defences in South China the japanese have opened two offensives in the past week it was belatedly announced today to the chinese High command. Admitting the loss of two towns it asserted that the offensives have been stopped and that the initiative has been seized by chinese forces so that they were Able to Advance As much As 25 Miles since Friday. The two offensives were East and South of Zuchow former 14th of base and in the same District where the chinese Friday occupied Ishan and have chased the japanese Garrison ten and a half Miles eastward and 25 Miles to the Southeast Tion to those suffered by ground troops Nimitz replied by saying a casualties ashore were Normal for this Type of operation but i must admit that those afloat were higher than i expected to he went on to say Lawrence article which was syndicated june 4, should not Quot in just lir to the officers and men who have been fighting on Okinawa be permitted to pass without 2 states face flood threats Kansas City june 17 ans a prospects of a recurrence of Early Siulung floods loomed in Missouri and Kansas today As heavy Rains ranging up to five inches in some sections sent streams Over their Banks. The Missouri River was expected to hit 24 feet two feet above flood Stags on the Kansas City Guage tonight the Delaware River at Valley Falls kan., established an All time High and thousands of acres in Missouri were inundated As the grand River Rose nearly 20 feet in less than 24 hours at Chillicothe. Izvestia raps . Fascists production set for 2 year War Washington. June 17 ans �?. Military authorities believe that a a either Japan will surrender within the next 20 Days or the War will be of Long duration a rep Clarence Cannon of the House appropriations committee said. He said Jub. Production experts Are planning on a War of two years duration Moscow june 17 apr some americans were accused by the soviet newspaper Izvestia today of supporting Quot protectors of German naming Quot such open fascists As father Coughlin Gerald amp Nith the pro fascist minded senators Wylie and Taft and the newspaper gangsters Hearst and Fri agent kills army deserter Chicago june 17 ans a an army deserter who succeeded last night in disarming and kidnapping an Fri agent who arrested him was shot to death by tiie agent later during a second struggle for the pistol killed was Russel Stamper 26� alais Woodrow Willie Wilson Chicago truck Driver awol from it. Sheridan i1l, since feb. 10, 1244, and declared a deserter by the Amy. The Fri agent b. Scott Reardon suffered bruises. Inflation bars it farm Loans Kansas City. June 17 ans a one out of every three War veterans who apply for Loans to buy farms is prevented by inflated prices from acquiring the land i. W. Duggan governor of the farm credit administration said Here. Duggan said Fca Loans were based on the lands earning Power Over a period of years rather than on current Market values. Heads of Jill . Services Ilsk compulsory training Washington june 17 ans a All branches of the armed services asked Congress yesterday for a peacetime military training program to safeguard National Security. The army Navy and Marine corps and the air arms of each of services sent spokesmen before the House postwar military policy committee to say that compulsory training is essential the committee was told that no other practical solution had been offered to the problem of National defense. Those who appeared to Climax the armed forces Case for Universal training included Secretary of the Navy Jamos v. Forr Estol Gen. George c. Marshall army chief of staff adm. Ernest j. King chief of naval operations Gen. A. A. Vandegrift Marine corps commandant it. Gen. Ira Eaker Deputy chief of the aah vice adm. Aubrey w. Fitch Deputy chief of naval operations for air and vice adm. Randall Jacobs chief of naval personnel. Quot it is Clear to me that whatever the terms of peace the fundamental basis of our defense must be Universal training a Marshall said. King asserted that Quot this May be the last War in which our own Homeland is not hit directly and first by the ravages of
