Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               The weather forecast for Nice Marte fue urea saturday fair warms  mum temperature 86. Of by Mari mane Airport weather station vol. In no. 109 one year ago Tod to Aries captured w aim Ewt Throe to Niree tijbbdsnp1 6066jpwitifbijp 060� 8�rw a a wow Whf. Olla pm we of of jul War releases seeded by to personnel Cut Paris. June 29�?return of was Lem for 3,000 High Point women in to the uj3. Under the Point system win be seeded up by several months As a result of War department action cutting the Eto wac quota from 10400 to 6,000. This was announced today by maj. Mary c. Weems theater personnel officer for the wac. She said the quota Cut and expected arrival within two months of 1.000 was now staging i the states would solve the replacement prob this theater. However the number of was sent Home is expected to remain about 50 per month until november. A sliding Point scale which will change each month has been established for sending was Home. Currently it is 70. To be eligible for overseas discharge a wac must qualify for that months Home bound quota. Chunking june 2� apr the japanese Are. Putting up fierce resistance for Luchow but the chinese have captured allot the Airfield there As Well As a railway station. With the cleaning out of remnants West and South of Keichow virtually ail of the Keichow Kwangil Railroad has reverted to chinese control. Bong tests it plane lo0 Angeles june 20 cans a maj. Richard Bong american air Ace. Has been assigned Here to test docked p80 shooting Star Jet fighter planes . # Strait Between Borneo and celebes Waters ence strongly bold by the japanese. The venture brings them Elegeer the the Leet Brltz naval base at Singapore 1,000 Mes away. Tbs a Ratsa to bitter d opined no 4 cities Strait invaded by 7th Fleet Manila june 20 ans a the presence of the uj3. Seventh Fleet in the hostile macassar Straits Between celebes and Southeast Borneo was officially disclosed today As Tokyo radio warning against an attack on the Homeland from the North said the . Ninth Fleet was prowling the North Pacific. Gen. Macarthur a announcement revealing the whereabouts of the seventh Fleet said merely that three enemy planes had been shot Down monday by surface units in the. Straits. Balikpapan reported shelled he gave no confirmation of Jap reports that an Allied Fleet has been bombarding the port of Balikpapan on Borneo s Southeast coast since tahe 15. The japanese have reported Allied Landing attempts in that Region. A Tokyo reported that 600 Miles East of macassar Straits american forces landed on tiny to rate Island just off the West coast of Jap held Halmahera in t h o moluccas. Tokyo radio said a powerful ninth Fleet Force Quot is awaiting its Opportunity Quot to invade in the North. The broadcast added that a us. Mountain division was awaiting action on agatto an Aleutian Island Between Kaska and Attu and that american paratroopers were stationed throughout that Region North of Japan. This warning came As Tokyo reported Japan was producing a tremendous volume of secret suicide weapons for use when american forces land on the Homeland. Mitscher driven off 2 flagships Coronado calif., june 29 apr vice adm. Marc a Mitscher despite the fact that japanese suicide planes blasted his Flag off two of his task Force 58 warships told a press conference today that such attacks Are not More than two percent effective. Mitscher declined to identify the warship to which he transferred his Flag after the Carrier Bunker Hill was crippled by Quot Baka Quot bombs but he acknowledged the second ship was hit Only three Days after he left the Bunker Hill. He discounted reports that the japanese Are using inferior planes and inexperienced pilots. Quot they Send number one equipment against us Quot he said. 23 vessels near Ryukyu off Korea bulletin Guam Dune it fifty be struck the k la Beme tin refinery in hens in refers Midnight Guam jun�t29 ans a super fortresses in e pre Dawn assault today spread incendiary destruction to four More enemy cities bringing to 18 the number of japanese cities hit. Between 450 and 500 b29i rained More than 3,000 tons of fire bombs on the Kyushu Porto of Casebo  and  and the Honshu Industrial Center of Okayama. The four pronged attack cams As adm. Nimitz announced Here tha other us. Warplanes Sank or damaged 88 enemy vessels wednesday and thursday in strikes a korean Waters #�4 foe Southern Ryukyu islands most of the victims were Small vessels. Only one rtt lest one b86 was lost in the Mission by Marianas based Craft it was the first Large scale incendiary raid since june 20. Casebo population 106,000 ranks with Kobe and Kim As a Natal base. Its Harbor can accommodate the entire Jap Fleet and has a naval continued on pm of 8-i�-.-Jug pack Mph by Washington june 29 Ansi a sen. Arthur Vandenberg Ltd Mic who was a Delegate to the san Francisco conference called on the Senate today for prompt endorsement of the world Char Lar declaring Foat failure to do so would Quot cheat the world of tie Chance for peace. Vandenberg declared that he supported the charter in the Quot deep conviction that the alternative is physical and moral oboes in Many weary places of the  Asen. Robert Taft of Ohio said he was contemplating resolutions to limit the authority Al Edward r. Stettinius jr., As the american Delegate on the proposed world Security Council. Perla metro still Preo Paris june 86�?Allied military personnel will not pay to ride the Paris subway after All. The new decision reverses a previous order. Cutting into Jap Cai Swar untie urged to. New York june 29 nans a prompt unification of Tho Navy and War department into a Quot department of Tho armed services Quot was urged today by James f. Byrnes of South Carolina generally predicted As the next Secretary of state. Byrnes former War mobilization director and chief assistant to the late president Roosevelt said in the american Maga sine Quot the lesson of this War is that military Success depends upon prompt action and prompt action Oan come Only when there is Unity of command. It would be criminal if we did not profit from our experience in this  four subdivisions in urging the unified command Byrnes suggested there be a Quot Secretary for armed services Quot with four under secretaries a one each for land sea and air forces and one for Supply. Byrnes asserted the army and Navy had competed in buying supplies munitions food and Hospital treatment Quot they compete for physicians Quot he went on Quot they have separate hospitals. Certainly there is no Good reason Why soldiers and sailors should not be treated at the same  this Competition and duplication of efforts Byrnes declared is not the fault of any administration Quot it is the Felt of the Law that split our military into two separate  Byrnes also recommended that president Truman be Given Quot sweeping Power Quot to reorganise the 101 agencies in the executive Branch of government which Quot overlap interline and often compete. And Are wasteful in manpower and  fliers slayers handed in Reich with 15th army Germany june 26�?three German civilians were hanged by american army executioners at Dawn today for murdering an unidentified american flier after he parachuted his burning bomber last aug. 15. Hanged were Peter Back crippled Nati party Leader Peter Kohn one armed Crane operator and Matthias Gierens a Railroad worker. Matthias Krein a Blacksmith and area Constable had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment at hard labor. Krein had no physical part in the beating and shooting of the flier but failed to protect the american testimony showed. The executions climaxed the first prosecution of civilian War criminals inside Germany. Windsors due in Paris Paris june 29�?the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Are expected in Paris in a Short time the British embassy said today. Saturday Juna 30, 1945 Shangrila Queen text of Frisco pact in s amp s tomorrow the stars and stripes Magazine Section normally eight pages will contain 12 pages tomorrow and will carry the Complete text of the charter of the United nations which historians May class with the great documents of All. Time. The charter is being printed As a stars and stripes Public service feature. Also in the Magazine will be a discussion of peacetime conscription a Roundup of the Pacific War fronts an analysis of the san Francisco conference and Many other articles and cartoon features place an order with your new dealer today. Don t miss tomorrows sunday stars and striped. Hull to sign Frisco charter Washington june 29 ans a former Secretary of state Cordell Hull who established foundations for the world peace organization will add his signature to the san Francisco charter Early next week. Protracted illness prevented the aged Quot father of the United nations Quot from joining in the ceremonial signing at san Fraacisco tuesday. Hull a patient at the naval Hospital at Bethesda md., left his Hospital room wednesday for the first time in nearly nine months returning Home for a few hours to Purchase the first Block of Franklin d Roosevelt memorial stamps.c47 May Rescue Shangrila wac Hou Ndia dutch new Guinea june 26�?plans to use a glider to Rescue a wac and 14 soldiers marooned in hidden Valley 150 Miles Southwest of Here have been abandoned in favor of extending the glider pickup strip to accommodate a c47 transport. Present plans Call for loading a Bulldozer into an expendable glider and dropping it into the almost inaccessible Quot Shangl  then the stranded party using native labor could extend the Landing strip. Those marooned include wac Cpl. Margaret Hastings of Oswego ny., it. John b. Mccollom of Trenton mo., and sgt. Kenneth Decker of Kelso wash., sole sur 1 Vivara of a May 13 plane crash. The other 18 men parachuted into Shangl la in an unsuccessful Rescue attempt a wite for four a hails Walkie talkie reports said the party had run out of seashells sole a a currency of the natives since australians opened the Region 15 years ago. A plane flew 300 Mes to obtain More shells which were dropped to the americans to Purchase extra food. Some fear has been expressed that this influx of new Quot Money Quot will create inflation. Currently five Gold lipped Mother of Pearl shells will buy a pig a native wife costs Only four. Next in value is the Giri Shell egg size and mottled. Ten or 12 will Purchase 50 pounds of food japs in Luchow resist fiercely fourteen joe8 and a wac inset Are a trended in hidden Shangl u Valley in dutch new Guinea. Tha Weot Cpl. Margaret heating of Oswego , dubbed Queen of the Valley Quot Oil a in Pora Chuto Aifa Beuder. Party amp in cats parachuted Load with items purchased from natives with sea Shehe