Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur The w eat her today Paris Vicinity partly Cloudy Max temp 81 Straits of Dover partly Cloudy Max. Temp 78 i \r1s edition the Star san tripes daily new paper of . Armed for to the european theater of operate 1 for. 1 for. Vol. 1 no. 334 in Iffie european theater of opera toot 1 for. The weather today Riviera partly Cloudy oct. Showers Max. Temp 85 Germany Cloudy oct. Show Max. Temp 78 tuesday june 26, 1945 . Sends lend lease to Siberia Washington june 2 5 up a the . Is supplying lend lease Aid to bolster russian Power in Siberia where the red army is pinning Down Strong Jap forces on the manchurian Border it was disclosed today. Lend lease shipments to european Russia have been halted. Foreign economic administrator Leo t. Crowley revealed be new details about the shift in lend lease emphasis for Russia in testimony made Public by the House a appropriations com m it tee. The committee recommended appropriations totalling $3.134.ocx 000, More than 99 percent for War purposes for the 1944-45 and �?T46 fiscal years. This figure represents a Cut of $17.000,000 from the budget Bureau estimates. Lend lease program shrinks Crowley said that no funds would be needed during the 1946 fiscal year for lend lease Aid to latin America North Africa and Eastern Europe including the Balkans. He added that lend lease Aid to France Belgium and the Netherlands in connection with redeployment would end in about a year. Explaining the a program for Russia Crowley told the committee Quot although the soviets have not declared War against Japan lend lease Aid is being continued to the extent that in the opinion of the president and his highest military strategic advisers it is a military advantage to the United Large Force pinned Down the possibility of russians entry into the War loomed As soviet troops pin Down Large numbers of Jap troops in Northern Manchuria which might otherwise be diverted against the allies in the Asiatic theater Crowley asserted. He added that the russian entry into the War would undoubtedly help shorten the Pacific Campaign and save thousands of Allied lives. He said that shipments to Russia Are intended to furnish supplies and services necessary to support the program of essential soviet requirements in the far East approved by . Military authorities. The committee recommended in its report that Fea be Given the requested $1.975.000.000 new funds for the 1946 fiscal year and that $1.982.000.000 in unexpended funds be re appropriated Crowley said that Fea also wants continued on Page s Gen. Clark to command yanks in austrian zone Rome. June 25 . Mark w. Clark has been chosen to command occupation forces in the . Austrian zone it was disclosed today. With the creation of Clarks new organization it is believed the 15th army up. Composing the 5th and 8th armies will soon formally dissolve. Black Hatch flock to Home roosts before heading to Pacific i ninth of split part to Pacific bad Kissinger upper \ Bavaria june 25. A the t world s largest tactical air Force the . Ninth is a being broken up part of it i to go to the Pacific and part to remain in Europe ninth air Force Headquarters Here announced today. Thirteen thousand men both flying and ground personnel j Are scheduled to leave the Eto by july 1. Headquarters said. A involved in the movement Are three fighter bomber and two Light groups six recon j Naissance squadrons a recon Ais sauce group Headquarters and 44. Auxiliary units. Redeployment via . These units which will be re a deployed via the . Are now being processed through the As a Sembly area command at Rheims i and in the coming month other j units will follow until Only an oct Cupat Onul air Force remains. This will stay in Germany As Long a3 american ground forces remain. A first tactical units to be moved or menus draft j lie vers answers brat cities a first Eto division to be returned to the states As a unit. It sch a Black Hawk l v. Arrived in new York aboard three transports one of which carried a Large i inner to let americ a know who was coming. After furloughs in the states Black hawkers will be re deployed to the Pacific theater. Leased to Speed i says changes May he made ski _ _ i o a i Nyrl 4im redeployment Washington june 25 ans. A in a move to Speed the redeployment of troops to the Pacific. Selective service today ordered special consideration of detergent requests for Western Railroad employees. Instructions to local draft boards said this consideration had been urged by the army and Navy and office of defense transportation for men on certain jobs with railroads operating West of Lake Michigan Illinois the Indiana state line and the Mississippi River. Critical occupations Are trainmen engineers firemen conductors brakeman switchman foremen yardman dispatchers Yardmaster Teleg Raphers Tower men. Blacksmiths boilermakers car inspectors electricians machinists molders Sheet Metal workers and signalman selective service Headquarters told local boards that the Impact of redeployment Quot will fall most severely upon Western railroads and traffic will steadily increase to an All time Peak in december 1945.�?� selective service also noted special recruitment drives for Western Railroad workers and authorized draft boards to give a full consideration to the requests of registrants for permission to make such troops 6on Loon to hit Home on w a to Pacific new York june 25 ans a seven troop ships steamed into new York Harbor yesterday bringing Home from Europe 8.180 Happy yanks including 6,520 members of the 97th inf. Div. Brig. Gen. My ton b. Halsey continue a on Page if new York june 25 . Jacob l. Devers said today that Quot something will be done Quot about the . Army a no fraternization Rule in Germany after a senator told the Home front on his return from the Eto that the ban was As Quot unenforceable As prohibition and should be repealed. Quot the average i is not breaking this rules there is a Small percentage of men who a break any Rule Quot the sixth army group commander told a press conference. He asserted nevertheless that Quot something must be done about it and something will be the general added that the ban t soon would be relaxed in Austria \ Patton i res n preparedness Vienna to Greet gis joyously reporter tells of life in Gity by Howard by get stars and stripes stall writer Vienna. June 25�?when american troops March into Vienna in the near future to assist the russians in occupying the City they will receive the greatest ovation since Paris or Rome it will be difficult for them to realize that austrians who will be pelting them with Flowers were fighting them until a Short time ago. Announcement that British american and French troop s would soon take Over their respective viennese thought the yanks had left for Good. Another event which thrilled Vienna today was the rectum of Karl Seitz who governed Vienna before the War. All around Vienna a Rathaus throngs waited to catch sight of the Burgo meisters a automobile. Seitz who is 78. And who was kicked out of his Job by the nazis after the anschluss was not arrested until after the bomb attempt on hitlers life last july after which he was sent to the Thurin zones in Vienna was greeted with Ren concentration Camp from which great enthusiasm Here today. Vien he was freed by americans. He is Nese hearts Sank Early this month respected by everyone because Dur when it was observed that the ing the entire occupation period he Small Anglo american military mis never capitulated to the nazis Sion which had visited the Vienna Seitz looked around at Vienna a Headquarters of russian it. Gen. Gutted buildings and streets filled Alagad amp Toff had left town. The continued on Page 4 where a free election would be held so that Austria could function As an Independent state. Sen. Homer Capehart Rind earlier had said that Quot love is Blind. You can to change human nature Quot other senators who let Umed from Europe with him generally agreed pointing out that Quot the poor boys Are lonely Quot and that German girls Are Quot quite attractive and sen. John l. Mcclellan dark although saying he thought the policy was Wise for the present admitted that Quot if a girl is pretty american soldiers done to care if she happens to be developing the same idea sen. Chan Gurney . Noted that during the civil War Federal soldiers were marrying Southern girls when feeling Between the North and South was at its worst. Others pointed out that a similar ban in world War i was reve ked in 1919 when it proved unworkable and thousands of doughboy brought German wives and sgt me babies Home with them. However sen Homer Ferguson a Mich said the non fraternization order needs More time to be tested. The senators remarks on the widely discussed ban came on y a few Days after Gen. Eisenhower said non fraternization would remain in effect until the last elements of nazism Are destroyed. Date of Allied entry into nazi capital set Brunswick. June 25 it apr the Date of the British March into Berlin to take up positions in the j occupational zone has been be and a unit of the famed seventh armoured Quot desert rats a div. Is awaiting the signal to Start the 120-cmlt� trip to the German capital. Brigadier j. M. K. Spurting commander of the Leicestershire Reg. Who will Lead the 131st infantry brigade into Berlin said the Date when american British and Canadian troops would take up posts allotted by the Allied control commission has been fixed but was a top Hamilton mass., june 25 ans a a this will be the last War if we Are Gen. George s. Patton or. Told 5,000 cheering neighbors Here today. Speaking at a reception on the Hamilton High school Lawn he said that the a War is not ended. It will take blood sweat and honest labor to win lecturing civilians he added Quot if the Fath division had taken a Day off to go to the races when it was at the Rhine what would have happened when you do things like that you Are gambling with the life blood of americans who died because they were not court reporters added to list of essentials command which Fiew with the seventh army the 373rd fighter 19th tac which worked third army the 409th and 410th bombardment groups which saw service Over the entire Western front before and throughout the Continental Campaign the 39th and 31st squadrons of the 363d reconnaissance group the 162nd and 15th squadrons of the 10th reconnaissance group 10th and 22nd squadrons Ancl Headquarters of the 61th tactical reconnaissance group. The fighter groups All of which flew thunderbolts and the reconnaissance squadrons will return to the . By boat. Combat Crews of the bombardment groups will Fly their a26 invaders across the Atlantic. Units going by boat personnel travelling by water will include 72nd and 167lh Liaison squadrons second 16th and 86th air depot grou Ife 22nd. 23rd and 98th depot repair squadrons 90th, 95th 98th and 312th depot Supply squadrons 468th and 47tth air service groups 886th and 895 the air Engineer squadrons 710th and 719th air material squadrons 86th and 87th transport squadrons 21st weather Squadron detachments. Also 768th chemical depot co aviation 34th medical Supply platoon 24th medical veterinarian Section 118th, 1222nd and l-27th my cos. 1915th, 1925th, 1927th ordnance ammunition cos. 1966th ordnance depot co. 1936th. 1946th. 2044th. 2048th, 2049th, 2062nd and 2086th pm truck cos 429th and 430th pm platoons 459th signal construction bn., and the 877th. 896th and 919th signal depot Coa court reporters with the military occupational specially number 280 Fri Trenta two spaniard have been added to the list of Philadelphia june 25 ans critical specialists in the Eto com a the Fri arrested two Spanish z Headquarters disclosed yes ter seamen on chaises of smuggling Day. As a result hey May not be messages to Naz it agents in Spain released from this theater under j when the freighter Manuel Calvo the Points system regardless of a docked Here today. They will be their adjusted service rating score. 1 Given a hearing thursday. Arms seen As needless soon for some occupation troops new York june 25 it apr the situation in euro is becoming so orderly that Quot we Are thinking of taking arms away from the majority of those in the army of occupation Quot Gen. Jacob l. Devers sixth army group commander said at a press conference yesterday. Quot germans will obey when they know they be met their master and they know we Are their master a he said Devers foreseeing no trouble with Germany said that the Reich Quot has been knocked out for 100 years and All we have to do now is to see that she does t get out of he did emphasize however that Germany had been in the hands of criminals and that her professional army leaders were Quot just As bad As the nazis Quot Gen. Joseph c. Mcnarney commander of the us. Mediterranean forces and it. Gen. William h. Simpson. Ninth army commander agreed with Devers that Hitler is dead and that Germany has been Defeated so utterly that there is no Chance of her starting a War for a Long time 2 a weft it \ it a a at y a a a ill in e City uppity new or
