Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur 06v a a the weather forecast for Nice it try eth wednesday parti with showers most temperature 90. Weather it of Marseille edition Rac of 9 8 armed forces curo Jossa vow Milf cop Al Tom no Points by William it. Spear stars and stripes u. S. Bureau Washington june 26�? marriage As a discharge Factor a a demobilization was eliminated by. A vote of the army a single men who out number married men when the War department conducted a Point poll last summer it was Learned today. Similarly age As a Point Factor was voted Down by the younger men surveyed. The majority of older men a however agreed that Young fathers should wednesday june 27, 1945 oni franc Iii laugh s on Hermann v a i it a Jvn a a a a v. So. Met a amp a amp a a less \ a be released before older single men v 1 information on the Annys Survey to arrange demobilisation Quot on die basis of the soldiers own wishes Quot was Given today by the army information and education division Here More than a month after the stars and stripes had requested full information on the Quot subject. Two pails taken a a in addition to the four factors now used As a basis for discharge awards total army service overseas service and dependent children olb proposed marriage age and Possession of critical skills needed in . Civilian Industry. The army conducted a preliminary Survey then took a final poll last summer. It was in the preliminary Survey that soldiers proposed the three additional factors. In the final Survey men were asked Quot do you think married men who have no children should be let out of the army before single men who Are the same age married 01a voted four to one in favor single ois were four to one against it. Marriage lost three to two. The proposal to give special consideration to men who have important civilian skills was favored 0continued on Page 8 storm threat moves North Hermann Goering a Baton Symbol of his authority As Nail Roio marshal winds up on the White House Lawn where it Gen. Alexander m. Path left presents it the president Truman White it Gen. Luo Ian k. Trucott fifth army cd Leeks on. 1. No Traci of say i seized on Okinawa with seventh div Okinawa june m ans a widespread searches Azul a a to Afcin of scores of bodies have failed to reveal a Trace of the estimated hundreds of american Teken prisoner by the japanese of Okinawa military authorise disclosed today. A a ool James Quot Micky finn of Astoria ore., cd Menander of the 82nd dhr., which took he 80, skid that search fag parties had hunted unsuccessfully in eaves and in areas of one of the japanese general Headquarters. The exact number of americans captured is not a a a y 8 \ Frisco comfy tub closes 50 nations sign Chartor Washington june 26 ans a a tropical storm driven up the Atlantic coast by 60-mile-an-hour winds was entered about 75 Miles Northeast of Cape Hatteras n. C., today and was moving northeastward at 18 to 20 Miles an hour the weather Bureau reported. There were no reports of casualties or serious damage along the virginal and North Carolina coast. Storm warnings were hoisted North of Cape Henry a. To Atlantic City n. J., and Small Craft Between Atlantic City and Block Island r. I., were warned the weather Bureau forecast winds of 35 to 45 mile an hour along the coast from Norfolk to Cape Hatteras a and High tide from Atlantic City to Ocean City my. War criminal group meets London june 26 Reuter a a four Power conference to discuss methods of dealing with War criminal convened today. It was expected the conference would announce Date and venues of Many of the upcoming trials. Delegate from the us., great Britain Russia and France expect Swift agreement on most Point. Meo Light inventor ailed Paris june 26�?georges Claude 74-year-old French a dentist who invented the Neon Light and discovered the liquid oxygen propulsion principle the German used in i was condemned to solitary confinement for life in criminal court Here today on charges of treason. San Francisco june 26�?the United nations conference which in weeks of deliberation built the foundation for a world organisation to maintain peace Drew to a close today As Delegate of 00 governments signed the United nations charter. President Truman who flew Here from Olympia wash., addressed the final session of the conference. He praised the accomplishments of the meeting but warned the world must remain vigilant to Quot strike Down the evil spirit which has Hung Over the world for the past am faso a ant net dead the president said Quot All fascism did not die Quot with the overthrow of Mussolini and Hitler because Quot the seeds spread by his hitlers disordered mind have a firm Root on too Many fanatical Quot it is easier to remove tyrants and to destroy concentration Camps than to kill the ideas which gave them birth Quot the president said. Or. Truman said powerful nations had no right to dominate the world saying it was Quot rather the duty of these powerful nations to assume the responsibility of leadership toward a world of the charter of the United a. Continued on Page 8 ship Clearing Marseille Poe Paris june 26�?several thousand service troops already have sailed from Marseille to the far East where they will prepare bases for the combat troops to follow com z announced today. Thousands of soldiers Are pouring into three huge staging areas in the Marseille area Oom z said. Eventually they will accommodate 200,000 men at a time As one of the worlds largest ports of embarkation. Thus far All the soldiers who have sailed from Marseille have been in Engineer quartermaster and medical units. Their Job will be to receive and outfit the masses of men who soon win be pouring in to the worlds last huge Battle zone. Vandenberg to Soofi speedy ratification a. T san Francisco june 20 ans a sen. Arthur h. Vanden Berg a Mich of the . Dele a scion promised he would Quot make every Effort Quot to secure ratification of the United nations charter Quot with reasonable Vandenberg said the document had its infirmities but it was a Quot sound basis for seeking organised indies Landing san Francisco june Tokyo radio said today that shout 360 Allied troops i faded on to mate Island near the Western Shore of hdm Hera Island in the Educ group of the dutch Bast indies. A a Truman May visit King Washington june 26 ins a president Truman i expected to be the guest of King George and Queen Elisabeth in London after the forthcoming big three conference it was Learned today. Truman hails and is hailed san Francisco june 20 ans a president Truman flew to this temporary International capital yesterday to acclaim and be acclaimed by wounded veterans and statesmen about to Seal the charter intended to Stop wars. Por All of them men maimed in the Pacific and delegation chiefs at the United nations conference the chief executive had a warm greeting. A smile and a Friendly handclaps. In a neat Gray suit and hat or. Truman stepped briskly from the glistening presidential plane which had brought him from his vacation spot at Olympia wadi., to nearby Hamilton Field. In san Francisco he retired to his five room suite before a reception for All conference delegates. The Island seven Miles Long and 25 Miles wide was the first dutch Colony in the indies. Also without Allied Confirma Tion was a Tokyo report that 30 units at an Allied Fleet were bombarding a amp like Apia Oil Center on the Borneo East coast where an Allied invasion is expected by the japanese. Vij it worst Crida Bias mongols the japanese Cabinet reported to the nation that Okinawa had fallen to the americans saying the Quot present crisis is the greatest since the mongolian invasion and now is the time to decide the destiny of the japanese he bulletin Washington my m Kmic tar a a medium tors St super Vali Blanki of Ataii Lambb Jap it Al m fat Oahu Toliaf ump a map to Seei Iii pm ski Guam. Juno 26 ans Jln the War s greatest assault a Hje Mahese Industrial targets Between 4j� and 500 super fortresses today uni m �5 a pm Okinawa fwd disappear Okinawa june 26 Ansi minor damage to uj3. Airfield installation was reported today by adm. Nimitz As the result of four Small Jap air raids on Okinawa two of the raiders were shot Down. 3,000 tons of a High of Lowye bombs on ton aircraft and arms factories in four Honshu cities r the massive strike in the b20s were escorted by based min Ang fighters tuned the wars biggest Effort to smash Japan War Industry. Only once before the april 10 raid against 11 Kyushu airfields were More targets hit. To a Quot objectives today were two plants and three ordnance works in the area two plans plants at gah Ara 20 Miles North of the Jap army a greatest and the nations leading factory both at aka Craft Plant at Akash West of Kobe. A targets hit before the planes roared in about noon at medium altitudes. Some targets were hit visually but others required instrument bombing through Clouds. Meanwhile adm. Nimits reported Fleet air Wing 1 had sunk 122,646 tons of Jap shipping and 128.890 other tons Sloe operations Quot Over amp amp amp ten weeks ago. It Berlin japanese slated for . Washington june 28 ans a one Hundred and 32 japanese diplomats and their families who were captured when Germany was Over run will be brought to the . Next month. A they will be lodged at the Bedford Springs hotel Bedford pa., until arrangements for their Exchange Are worked out with americans allies and the japanese government. British to Spital dosing Laid to to Cariie Peeve Paris june 26�?the French government has ordered the disbanding of lady Spears British Mobile Hospital unit which has served the French army since 1941, in Africa Syria Italy and France. In some Quarter the order is interpreted As a sign of French irritation Over British actions in Syria. Official French spokesmen declared the dissolution was a routine demobilization. But lady Spears said that the order handed her by Henri Diethelm French minister of War was the result of Den. Charles de Gaulle a dismay upon seeing the Union Jack on the hospitals automobile in an All French Parade Here june 19. Lady Spears husband maj. Gen. Sir Edward Spears who recently has been British minister to Syria helped Gen. De Gaulle escape to England in 1941. The Hospital included about 50 British and some 200 French personnel French members were ordered to report to the French medical Corpa at Valde a vase and the British were informed their return to England would be fume hurling Detroit june 00 ans a production of a flame throwing incendiary bomb which wih Nebl super fortresses to Loos More 28 million separate torches on a Jap City in a single raid has been ordered at the Chrysler corp. Evansville ind Plant k. T. Keller Chrysler president said a single bomb weighing ten pounds would throw off 40 globules of flaming Oil. The bombs ate combined in dusters of 38. Clusters Are dropped a too Hundred feet from the target each Realises 1,520 Oil torches. Bach super fort can carry 17 dusters or 56,240 torches. Five Hundred b29 could carry 28,120,000 torches. It father release Bill rejected Washington june proposal to compel the army the discharge All fathers of Fernr of More children if they requested release was rejected by the House today by a vote of 110 to 88. The measure was proposed by rep. Albert j. Engel a Mac few As an amendment to the War department Supply my. Engel estimated it would 30,000 soldiers of wheat Only 16,000 win get age or Points unde sir up. It
