Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur The stars and stripes monday june 25, 1945 Shanghai Ryukyu China a see Richard Lewis to stripes staff write june 34�?neither shape Man High command has i Conel Ihre pro rot that a Feu Saemg been by t a that while Conlu lacking there in Good fuehrer is dead he Ille Ripi policeman a saw the bodies a Chi and his mistress Eva if at the Reich Schan a exit May 1 tied in reports Bhae had a Vav a �?Tj1 Imit it a Elf or lnr$tahp0tt$ death q a cedi a Goebbels late possi4u Meak through into East China sea Quot staging area Quot for u. S. Troops deposits grow in Rhine Banks 12th army gp., june 24�?More than 600 million reichsmark a 60 million dollars at the occupation rate have been discovered in Banks of the Rhine province and adjoining Saar total is for Banks now open Joder . Supervision. Credit requirements Are limited today by the fact that Only a Small percentage of Rhineland Industry is in opera Tion. Much has been destroyed while Lack of transportation and raw materials has crippled Many other factories. Before an Industry can reopen it must have approval of army production control officers. Even under occupation 16th army officials said Bank deposits have fairly regularly exceeded wit drawls indicating a Confidence in the banking Structure despite the governmental collapse. It Aleo indicates there Are few m items excepting the carefully rationed Basic necessities for which germans can spend their Money today. It a most of the credit recently extended has been to local governments borrowing fund to meet their pay Rolls and to reestablish water systems and other Emenual pubic works. This is expected to decrease As local tax systems Are put Back into operation. 5austria gis get Danube cruise Norway gis plan glorious 4th fete Linz Austria june 24�?men of the 66th inf. And 11th a Rafa dive. Are getting a Chance to cruise the Quot blues Danube in real style. Two Modem diesel passenger boats the City of Passau and the pity of Vienna operated by the 337th Harbor graft �,0. Make daily eight hour cruises up the Danube. The boats Complete with of Ches tras and Steak dinners Are operated by austrian Crews under i Skippers. 1 Oblo Norway june 24�?Norway will celebrate americans Independence Day for the first time this year with a group of Rujel officers and men. / Brig Gen. Owen Summers task Force a commander in Norway said his plans which included a Mammoth Ball lasting into Dawn of the fourth. In Oslo the Sun shines brightly at 4 am at this time of year. London june 24 Reuter a the is. Army civil censorship department has. Announced that germans whose duties will be to open letters and listen in on phone Converser to fms Are being recruited daily in most applicants Are German refugees from Nasi oppression. In Germany this corps of linguists will Wear and will be subjected to military discipline while retaining civilian status. Senator sick after eco trip Washington june n up a the us. Has onto tracked to Supply Fidel Oil to Argentina from Garth bean source in re Tim for vegetable oils needed by the United nations acting Secretary of slate Joseph Washington june 24 Ansi a sen. Burton k. \ Wheeler Ltd Mont is at the naval Hospital Bethesda md., with dysentery. Wheeler head of a senatorial committee that toured parts of Europe returned to Washington last week Quesada named to of g2 Post Washington june 24 ans a maj. Gen. Charles o. Chauncey has been appointed Deputy chief of air staff for the aah the War department announced. He formerly was. Chief of staff of the Mediterranean of maj. Gen. Elwood r. Quesada former chief of the ninth tactical air command has been named assistant chief of air staff intelligence Section succeeding maj. Gen. It James p. Hodges. More Nail going Home London june 24 up a four Hundred members of the staff the German legation in St Kolm have been taken into custody and will be sent Back to Germany Stockholm radio said. New York june 24 an8the whole to be set on a Marble the grave of the late Franklin d. Base extending two feet out from Roosevelt in the Garden of his the Monument All around but said Hyde Park Homo will be marked by base to be no More than six inches a Monument which he himself from the ground. Planned. Quot i Hope that my dear wife will Basil t. O Connor executor of on her death be buried there also the late president s estate said the and that the Monument will con Tombstone will follow exactly the town no device or inscription except description set Down by or. Roose the following on the South Side velt in a note dated dec. 26, 1637. Quot Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882-Whfch read 19- a Plain White Marble Monument Quot Anna Eleanor Roosevelt 1894-�?�?�o carving or decoration to be 19�? placed Over my grave East and. O Connor said the Monument West go follows. Length 8 feet weighing about 16 tons is being Todah four feet height three feet quarried at Proctor. It niedermend1ng, Germany june 24 apr three Hundred us. Soldiers of the 86th div s 135th inf. Staged a Surprise in this nazi hotbed when they gave it real i Shakedown. Military government believed this Rhine River town of 3,000 was the source of repeated trouble including the looting of a train and the stealing of government property. At 4 am one recent morning everyone was ordered to the stat. Houses were searched and Resi dents were Check d for their identification cards. Result discovery of 25 cases of Good from the looted train a Large amount of horde food and More than 190 instance of failure to obtain identity cards. The Job was done with a the planning of a combat action. The town was decided into ten sectors one for each platoon the townspeople reaction it was better under the Nash it would be no worse under the russians and these americans really Washington. June 24 ans rear adm. Forrest b. Royal 62, died monday of natural causes the Navy announced adm. Royal was in command of amphibious operations la toe Brunei Bay of Borneo june 10 and 11
