Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur The stars and stripes sunday Jane 24, 1945 Awa springbok r next invasion 23 u fest m pave Witler Ai 1 conferred any poll tick it minis affairs of labor retained As affairs. V by Ftp. .-0 Quot i to left said a a. A mme tymm Tawil. Like rising sunbeams . Threats to Japan and Jap Hek territory fan out in 1s0-Tfegree Are from Okinawa with Alt but final pockets cleared on the Island the enemy awaits neat american invasion. A stars and stripes map by Baird 1 a a r .�?�1 m today his be consider than the or Belr of Tot ws8 a a week old Drivers City a 1,600 seized to be drawing were re their of Detroit sidle Packard motor oar employees halted aircraft and it boat Wren the norther lumber and have voted to vote on july 15 for a 20-cent an draw 12th army gp., june 13�?under the agreement to withdraw from the russian Rone of occupation american troops Are scheduled to puh Back More 100 Miles it a was indicated today. Seven us. Divisions scheduled for withdrawal will vacate a 10.000 a Square mile chunk of using new crui8er8 London Juno 23 apr the British Navy is using a new class Cruiser known As the Swift sure a the admiralty announced today. Two ships of the class have been commissioned one is in the Pacific. The new cruisers have Speed of 31 knots. Their armament includes nine six Inch guns. Plane built for Ike Santa Monica calif., june 23 ans a a four engine plane for use by Oen. Eisenhower has been to the army to Douglas co. Interior of the plane with that of the plane by the late president Boose a ill a re rip Manila june 23 cans a ninth div. Australians have captured Miri Ai drome on the Northwest coast of Borneo Geh. Macarthur announced today As philippine based bombers unloaded 350 tons of explosives on enemy bases in Northern Bomea and in the Batik Papan sector on the Eastern coast. Hie 3,000-foot Airport is a mile South of eap hired Luton. After taking it patrols pushed South toward the town of Miri 80 Miles from Brunei Bay. In Brunei Ray yesterday american engineers and Navy personnel smashed a Jim Banzai attack on Labuan Island. The raiders sneaked into a service forces Camp by dark 068s. I jeep Guillotine found in Reich i2th army gp., june 23�?a Cable stretched across the Road at a height which would decapitate b jeep Driver has been found at Neuhaus North of Trier intelligence officials reported today. The Cable. Was believed Strong enough to break the wire Cutter often attached to the bumper of a jeep. Cases of wire across roads numerous during hostilities and shortly after be Day have decline it was passes code Bill Washington june 23 ans a a Bill to make wilful disclosure of secret coded government information punishable by 10,000-Dollar Fine and ten years imprisonment was passed by the Senate yesterday it awaits House action. _ Quot y 40 percent of Eto was rated essential clerks i Quot Quot a Quot Quot Paris june 2�?nineteen percent of the was serving with All major commands in the Eto Are stenographers with the military occupational specially number of 213, and 20 percent Are clerk typists with mos number 405, says maj. Susan b. Weems Wao theater personnel officer. Eto officials recently announced that army personnel with mos 213 or 405 Are essential and not eligible for discharge regardless of their Point standing. Clerical workers who Are not typists total 22.5 percent of the was in the Eto with 15.5 percent serving in communications jobs. Was who formerly were classified As typists with mos 247, now Are considered in the same Job skill category As caste typists 405. A. Negro flier gets command Washington june 23 apr Gol Benjamin o. Davis jr., crack negro flier has taken command of the 477th composite up. At god Man Field ky., replacing col. Robert r. Selway jr., who was the Center of a recent racial controversy at Freeman Field ind. The racial dispute flared up at freemen Field when negro officer students sought to visit a club which Selway had set aside for White personnel. A separate club was maintained or negro officers. As a result of a dispute 101 officers were confined to quarters. All were released except three w to were charged with jostling maps. Carrier fire quenched new York. June 23 ans a fire broke out in a boiler room of the uj3j3. Franklin in new York Navy Yard yesterday As awards were being presented to 139 officers and men of the Carrier. The fire was extinguished tube rumours fill Paris Paris june 23�?rumors that a Century old plan to link England and France by a Tunnel under the English Channel had been revived circulated in financial circles today. Such a tube As one of Napoleons earliest dreams and he hoped to invade England in that leaving Rennes District Paris june 23�?the uj3 army establishment in the Rennes District once site of the Brittany base Section is being reduced to 50 men. Com z announced. Rennes becomes the first u.3. Military District in France to be practically eliminated. Others will be closed Down from time to time. The 50 american soldiers in Rennes will handle the Transfer of 63,000 German prisoners to French jurisdiction. World news Roundup Wei cant opened a wounded vets Rome London. A the Kiel canal linking the North and Baltic seas a is open for shipping but some obstacles remain in the deeper sections. of ail farms and corporations owned by germans hungarians traitors or was ordered by president Eduard Bunsa. Quot a 4 s a Rosenheim Germany a 75-Muhon-Dollar Cache of hungarian treasures was discovered 13 Miles Northeast of Salzburg. Letter implies tee Franco Berchtesgaden a evidence that Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain offered to join the War against England in 1941 was found in a letter addressed to former nazi foreign minister Joachim von rib Bentrop. Germany and Italy were to Supply Spain with food arms and munitions said the letter from von Weizsacker then German ambassador to Rome. A new York the army transport of Tomas h. Barry returned from Europe with 2,643 troops aboard nearly 66 percent of Thorn wounded. Four Hundred Twenty one passengers Aro termer fwd. ,. A a Cluster for general Washington maj. Gen. Virgil Peterson received an Oak Leaf Cluster for his d6m the Cluster was Given for work As army inspector general. He now is personnel director of the aah. 4c 4c 4c wa8hinqton�?rep. George a. Grant Daia told the password to Good to Orono the Elbo River into russian occupied ton Ettory when he was in Europe to Survey the food situation. Grant said. A a Roosevelt soviets. Russian guards lowered their guns immediately. Degree for Roosevelt Brussels Louvain uni Verstay conferred posthumously an honorary doctors degree on the late president Roosevelt. Pfc Jpn Oslo a red Cross for . Troops was opened Here by Crown Prince Olai and Princess votes to strip opa Pood Powers Washington june 23 Ansi a in a bitter uprising against meat sugar and other shortages the House yesterday voted 145 to 142 to strip the office of Price administration of jurisdiction Over food pricing and to place this responsibility with the agriculture depart ment y the action was taken by Teller vote however and is subject to a later Roll Call vote. With Many democrats absent the republicans found themselves with More members and in virtually straight party line voting pressed through this broadened version of a recent recommendation by Herbert Hoover for an a a administrative revolution Quot t o solve the Muat problem. Anderson dislikes Job under the measure offered by rep. Thomas a. Jenkins a Ohio chairman of the Republican House food study committee the opa would retain control Over details of food rationing but lose All other authority Over the nation s Larder. Rep. Clinton p. Anderson i it a. Who becomes Secretary of agriculture july 1, voted against the Transfer of authority Frog the opa to his own hands. He said he did not want to be a quo policeman. Governors rap food policy new York june 23 Ansi thirteen governors from what gov. Thomas e. Dewey described As the a food deficit Quot area have agreed that critical meat and other food shortages were aggravated by Federal regulations which failed to allow for individual state writer stresses Unity Moscow june 23 a one off the soviet Union s leading commentators on world affairs yer mashed of red Star called on the big three yesterday to continue in Berlin the collaboration in peace they had established in War. The article prominently printed in the red army Organ and Broadr cast Over the nations radio network gave a Clear picture of the importance with which russians View the coming meeting of Premier Stalin president Truman and prime minister Churchill noting that Gen. Eisenhower in his Washington speech emphasized the importance of Unity of the great Powers Yerme Shev said that it is expected that in the future they Quot Arm in Arm would build this peace for which humanity has suffered so . Power for peace grew Washington june 23 apr warning that Quot we cannot surrender to what prime minister Churchill called a the Craven fear of being great Quot acting Secretary of state Joseph grew today said America s Power Quot must be recognized by ourselves As it is recognized by the rest of the Quot our friends abroad fear not that we will recognize that fact but that we shall fail to recognize it Quot grew said Quot we will use our military Power As we have used it in two world wars in the service of Law Justice human Freedom in other words in the service of peace on . Red group raps Browder new York june 23 ans a the communist political association committed for the last year to a policy of cooperation with free Enterprise will Convene Here july 26 to 26 to adopt a new Quot political the spa National committee indicted Earl Browder the associations president As Quot chief architect Quot of Quot opportunist errors and mistakes of the
