Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Kobe kindled while the makeup of the polish provisional government will not be announced for a few Days Moscow radio said that Stanislaw Mikolajczyk former Premier of the London exile regime would take part in toe Goven Omeitt of Quot National poles in exile generally hailed the Moscow agreement Quot As a Happy solution of the problem a Accord ing to press reports. The polish question Long had been one of the chief Points of friction Between toe us., Britain and Russia. A the weather forecast for Nice mar Settle area sunday continued fair and warmer maximum temperature 95. V forecast by Marlin Ane Ati Pom weather station daily Hows paper if a. Armed forces vol. I two. 103 m the i theater of operation one Yea ago today Berlin mid Allied destroyer tighter sunk in Chan Eek bomb Berlin Truman Onnolly confident san Francisco june 23 ans a As United nations conference delegates studied the world charter which they will sign next monday and tuesday Tom Connaly a Texas Senate foreign relations committe chairman and Britain a lord Halifax gave assurances that their governments would ratify the document. Will Fly to Washington in Olympia wash., president Truman was reported to have counted less than a dozen potential votes against ratification of the charter which he expects to submit to the Senate july 2. His forecast was based on conversations with almost every member of the Senate nonnally predicting that the Senate will ratify the charter Quot with a comfortable Edge Over the necessary two thirds a added Quot this will be True because of the non political support of the charter. Republicans and democrats will support it Quot Connally and sen. Arthur h. Vandenberg a Mich Are flying Back to Washington after the conference closes. Britain s chief Delegate Halifax said the charter represents Quot a really great historic the coming British elections he added will leave unchanged Quot the main line of British organization sunday june 24, 1945 one fran 8 and s faces loss of printing Plant this May to Tho last Nico Marsillo edition of Tito 8tore and 8tripes for some time. Administrators of the Nice printing establishment in which this edition is printed last night informed the stars and 8tripes that orders had been received from the local representative of the French ministry of information that after last night this a paper will no longer to be printed in no no reason was Given. Talk resolves the 10,998-word charter Estar blushes a world organization in which All save Axis nations Ahl their satellites May participate Quot to maintain International peace and it provides for a general Assembly of a 50 United nations and a Security Council of 11 members the big five Powers having permanent seats pm the Council also provided Are an 18-nation economic and social = Council an International trusteeship Council a new International court and various subordinate organs. Where s Hitler Hamburg asks Hamburg june 23 apr Adolf Hitler was rumoured to be alive and in the Hamburg area today. Most people Here do not believe the Story of Hitler s death. In Copenhagen the wife of Joachim. Von Ribbentrop former nazi Diplomat was found hiding aboard a refugee ship in Kiel she readily admitted her identify air Force vet has 276 Points new York june 23 ans to sgt. Harry t. Brundidge Iii Veteran of More than five years flying with the Raf and Saaf in Europe. Arrived Here yesterday with 276 Points. Brundidge was shot Down july 4, 1943, on his sixth Mission with the americans after or mining Fig raids with the Raf. Captured by the germans he was released last april by the russians. Settlement of the thorny polish government Issue has been reached during a series of talks among ., British and russian diplomats Moscow radio announced today. The broadcast said Quot full agree Menfo on formation of a provisional polish government As discussed at last Winters big three conference at Yalta had been attained at the Moscow meeting of Ambassador w. Averell Harrim an British ambassador sir Archibald claim Kerr and soviet foreign commissar v. M. Molotov. British Hall flan in London a British foreign office spokesman called the agreement Quot very satisfactory Quot and predicted that when toe new polish government was formally constituted it would bring about Quot free hailed As a Happy Quot Accord rules eased Paris june 23�?Eto soldiers now May Send Home by Money order and other authorised me Jana Quot reasonable amounts of Money without first obtaining permission of their commanding officers. Com z said today. However in cases where exceptionally Large sums Are involved it still will be the duty of finance officers to obtain a statement from the sender s co. Com z added. The requirement that records be kept of All Money sent Home by soldiers and officers below Field Grade was put into effect last Winter As a Means of checking on sums illegally acquired. Russian army ians release of older men millions of russians in 13 senior age groups May be discharged from the red army under a suggested demobilization plan providing Cash bonuses food clothing and reconstruction Loans and guaranteeing jobs Moscow radio announced. The plan which would be effective the second half of 1945, would provide a Bonus of 300 to 900 rubles 52 to 156 dollars for enlisted men and More for officers according to length of service. Alexei1 Antonov chief of staff said it was incumbent upon officials from the Peoples commissar Down to the managers of factories and other institutions to provide employment for demobilized veterans Quot not More than one month after their provides local leans Antonov said Farmer soldiers would be assisted by managers of collective farms who would provide employment and help the veterans establish their own farmsteads. In areas destroyed by the germans local soviets which will be Given building Sites and Timber would be entitled to reconstruction housing Loans Between 6,000 and 10,000 rubles 875 and 1,750 dollars repayable in five to 10 years. Antonov tool the supreme soviet Assembly Russia s demobilization plan was a necessity to restore Normal economic conditions. He pointed out however that demobilization of millions of men did not minimize the country s defences. Antonov said the senior age group demobilization would be completed by the end of 1945. Demobilization would be gradual so As not to impose a Strain on railway transportation and to insure veterans immediate employment Antonov said. So Soldier hanged be mans France june 23�?a us. Soldier was hanged Here thursday after being convicted of murder. Mika00 seen As dictator san Francisco june 23 apr Hie possibility that emperor Hirohito might go Over his Cabinet s head and assume personal dictatorship Over Japan was raised today by an unidentified Tokyo radio commentator. The commentator observed that 8 recent emergency Bill which gave the Cabinet the right to Rule by decree would not prevent the emperor from taking Power since his Imperial authority Quot overrides All Laws other Jap broadcasts Laid preparations for the defense of Tokyo virtually were completed. Domei said 20 chinese divisions had moved into provinces on the Southeastern chinese Seaboard and that the americans were building new air bases near that coast smoke hi8e8 from installations hit in previous raids As super forts drop firs bombs to finish off Kobe Dock area. Reich supplies Speed Shift with 15th army Germany. June 23�?More than 30,000 tons of German Engineer supplies needed to further us. Redeployment plans were shipped in one month from one us. Corps area to Advance Section com z. 7,010 Ohnoki japs Cive of Guam june 23 ans a the total of japanese captured on Nawa was reported More Mark today but other apr on to death. F ? split into five pockets 41� u closed number of japs armed machine guns and rifles to be cleaned up. Hundreds others blew themselves grenades in sight of the tenth us army. Adm. Fat Mincz sported today that Jap raids thursday and Friday Sank two Light naval units heavily damaged an auxiliary vessel Fla slightly damaged two others. Importance of the 70-mile Long Island 325 Miles from Japan was emphasized by announcement that six airfields already were functioning there. Iw0 fighters hit Tokyo area Guam june 23�?one Hundred iwo based american fighters attacked airfields North and South of Tokyo today enemy broadcasts reported As b29 Crews called yesterday s High explosive assault on the Jap naval Arsenal at kure and five aircraft plants Quot one of the most successful blows of toe Rainbow coloured Oak greeted the raiders Over kure which has been nicknamed Quot flak Alley in a four b29s were lost. Manila june 23 ans a the japanese Garrison in Northern Luzon was trapper today when sixth army unit and filipino guerrillas Ftp tured the escape port o Aparri last Jap held port or the Island v Twenty thousand to 30f0oc japs were aught in two Bagayan Vallar pockets. One enemy group was Sumnr along a 60-mile stretch Between infantrymen pushing South my Aparri and guerrillas who hav it taken tug Garao capital i Bagayan province. Another was further South in a 30-mile sector or the Bagayan Valley Between Tot captors of tug Garao and 37tt div. Soldiers who overran ban Juan. Japs Bayonet their Bleb the bodice of 120 Jap soldiers Bayon eted or shot by their comrades As they Lay in bed Wen discovered in a Field Hospital on Northern Luzon. The jape with j1�o of Jeph not going to Rome Biddle Washington june 23 up a Francis j. Biddle who will retire As attorney general july 1, said report he would go to Rome As ambassador were Quot entirely newspaper Yan Valley along Lusen net yet Psi a Start Tod stripes map by Efremi. Won # enter politics Gen Ike serf a finance oct opens Paris june 23�?applications of Eto soldiers for attendance at the finance officer candidate school in the us. Now Are being accepted of 1 Headquarters announced today n is is toe thirteenth oct open 1 it Eto troops. Stars and stripes us. Bureau Abilene kans., june 23�? i slated to return to Washington monday and to Europe Early next month Gen. Eisenhower spent today quietly surrounded by his family. The supreme commander cheered and praised As few men have been emphatically denied he intended to capitalize on his popularity by entering politics As had been suggested in some quarters. Saying he wanted to Settle the question once and for All the general declared Quot i am in the Federal service and i take the orders of my commander in Clinef. Ail i want is to be a citizen of the ., and when the War department turns me out to pasture that s All i want to asked if he would go to the Pacific Eisenhower said Quot in a going Back to Europe and that s one Long Way from to his townsmen the general insisted he was not a hero but merely the Symbol of Quot All the heroic men you sent to speaking yesterday to 10,000 wildly cheering neighbors in Eisenhower Park the old City Park renamed six months ago the general said the real thing Abilene was celebrating was the end of the european War. "in1 Drew before a they could set the Hospital ablaze. A. A Gen. A Matta tour said nearly a the 82,000 japs wounded to toe Philippines died or were put to death by their own troops. % one captured document ordered All sick or wounded men to suicide. Of Churchill lauds Okinawa Victory Washington june 23�?the Victory is Quot another Long toward defeat Quot of president Truman said loin reply to a message from prime minister Churchill congratulating America on winning one of the Quot most intense and famous Battles Quot to military history. In new York undersecretary of Navy Ralph a. Bard said the Pacific War might end earlier than our pessimists have farm machinery priority to vets Washington june a ans a world War n veterans will be Given top priority Over nearly All other prospective purchasers of new farm machinery the War food administration announced today. A Ufa order effective june 25 provides that veterans who on show either need or inability to obtain farm machinery will receive preference certificates requiring dealers to give them priority a per Pite prior commitments. I
