Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote D Azur                                Nice Marseille edition monday july 9, 1945 one franc a Altai i pm Aid Down Umi Mai inf new the weather forecast for Nice Marseige Arew monday Fop maximum to amp pm Ziy 0< h forecast by mar inane Airport weather station vol i no. 118 the european theater of operations one year ago today Coen was taken by British and Canadian troops As . Forces to the South succeeded in fourth attempt to Soidla Haydn  july 8 it ans a Tokyo reported a mighty american air Fleet of or ire than 2,200 planes massed Var the fully on her Doorstep at the recently won Island bases to the South today and at the same time acknowledged still another fighter plane assault against her Mainland. Japan a obvious inability to Stem effectively the growing , offensive was graphically revealed by Allied communiques listing very few enemy aircraft encountered in the past 48 hours. The latest attack As yet not confirmed by . Sources was said by Tokyo to have been mounted by 150 Mustangs led by three super fortresses which hit a variety of targets in the kanto District of the Homeland. Third straight Day Macarthur Headquarters meanwhile confirmed that Okinawa based Mustangs had blasted objectives an Kyushu for the third straight Day meeting Only six Jap planes and shooting Down four of them. Other Macarthur planes joining with aircraft of adm. Nimitz a command and Marine bombers scoured Japan a vital inner sea lanes destroying or damaging 14 More enemy ships a that strike by too against five Japa-0,1 Honshu Island was accomplished without loss of a Tingle by. Four thousand tons of die and explosive bombs were dropped. Henday prance july 8 up a prime minister Churchill arrived today in this picturesque Franco Spanish Frontier town for a a a badly needed rest after his election Casa pain in Britain he will be the guest of Canadian Brig. Gen. Raymond Brutinel Ai do Daberry Castle. A in London sunday times dispatch from Berlin said an Advance party of russians had arrived for the big three conference in route to Bend Aye from Bordeaux Churchill was cheered vociferously As he passed through villages along the corniche Highway. He halted his car at one Point to look at a Basque cart drawn by a pair of oxen. Bach animal wore a Large Straw hat As Protection against the flies which greatly amused Churchill. At Biarritz  of liberation presented Churchill a Small medallion of Queen Victoria. It was reproduced from the Queens portrait on a Monument at Biarritz destroyed by the germans prims minister Churchill. Zoos greatly amuse Borneo drive Cains 6 Miles Manila july 8 ans a i a Swift Advance from their new beachhead at Penadjas Point. Just across the Bay from Borneo soil port of Bali Pap amp a Veteran he Rallan seventh div. Troops pushed alg Inland yester Day in a northeastward direction. Other elements of the aussie seventh were driving northward from now secured Balikpapan area toward the Sam Bodja and Samarinda Oil Fields. 38 and 66 mites respectively from the port. The enemy was mining roads and using artillery As he withdrew to defend these last two important japanese Hekl Oil areas. Allied planes supporting the ground offensive roamed at will Over Borneo a single enemy plane Ridden the Balikpapan sector without result. President helps i see ill son Manchester be july 8 ans a with what he said was the personal Aid of president Truman sgt. John r. Merrill came Home today from new Guinea to the bedside of his dangerously ill two month old son. Merrill Saki he was refused a furlough after his wife notified him the baby had been operated on for a spinal tumor. He then appealed directly to the president and obtained a 88-Day furlough to see his child a tor die first and perhaps last  poles win new friends London july 8�?italy and Denmark today recognized the new Bough  Unity government in  3tr Imit Stop b29s Washington. July 8 ans a thunderbolts and super forts May have to be pulled out of the attack on Japan unless full production is resumed immediately in strike affected rubber plants Gen. Henry by Arnold. Army air forces Coos Mander declared today. Some aircraft in America Are grounded for Jack of tires and air Force inventories Are at a a a minimum level a Gen. Arnold said adding that shipment of tires to fighting fronts a is seriously in  Only 123 tires Are on hand for thunderbolts he declared Arf Hing a a that obviously is an inventory of Zero level split develop son Berlin food in a Iii a. Vows a a. So Eto Akron Ohio july 8 ans a strike leaders at the Firestone tire and rubber co were subpoenaed today by the War labor Board to appear at a hearing in Washington tuesday to show cause Why a week old walkout of 16,500 Cio United rubber workers has not ended. Firestone officials estimate that the strike is costing 16,000 tires daily. Kamikazes hit British carriers quam july 8 ans a three British task Force carriers were hit by japanese suicide planes in recent strikes against the Sak Shima islands Pacific Fleet advanced Headquarters announced today. The carriers however were Able to continue operations. Two of the carriers were identified As the h.mj3. Indefatigable and elms. Victorious while the name of the third was not Given. British casualties were to men killed and 34 seriously wounded. Ships accused of meat waste Norfolk july 8 ans a a charge that ships entering Hampton roads were throwing thousand of pounds of Good meat overboard so they could obtain full quotas of fresh Stock in port was made today by luf. Mith Wick Secretary of the Tidewater wholesale grocer and feed association. Edens son missing London july 8 Reuter sgt. Simon Eden 30, son of foreign Secretary Anthony Eden i missing on a flight in Burma. Berlin july 8 apr a deadlock Between Anglo american and russian occupation authorities Over How to feed Berlin s civilian population reached such serious proportions today that it was thought Only the big three could solve the problem. Some quarters went so far a to predict that vib. And British forces might withdraw from the nazi capital if occupational difference were Abt settled. / Reuter said the occupying Powers were also in disagreement on the formation of political parties in Berlin which the russians Sanction and which the americans forbid although the american and British military governments originally were scheduled to be operating by last thursday neither has yet taken Over any District from the soviet command. An order issued by marshal Gregori Zhukov forbade his District officers to withdraw. Quot the highest tri Partite officials in Berlin failed to reach an agreement on the food question in a lengthy conference last night. 5 a understood the Anglo want Russia to help from stockpiles in the red army zone which is predominantly agricultural while the soviet wants us. And British officials to import foodstuffs. Patch chosen 4th army head v a. My Washington july 8 ans a Here is the War departments schedule of divisional embarkation for the next five months. I for reasons of military Security the department said no in formation could be Given As to whether these units would be redeployed to the Pacific assigned to Reserve in the us. Or disbanded. August 85th, 28th, 30th of 30th avoid. September 14th, fifth sixth and seventh army 17th airborne and 88th, 91st, 36th, 45th and 103rd inf. Div. Onto sri ninth army 92nd, 28th, 79th, and 99th inf. Div. November tenth army tenth Mountain 13th airborne and 83rd, 63rd, and 106th inf diva. December second and Lith army 34th, 90th, 80th, and 78th inf. Dive. The second armoured div., booked to san in december recently entered Berlin is eighteen divisions scheduled to remain in the Eto throughout 1945 Are the third eighth 12th and 16th army 161st airborne the 42nd, 66th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 75th, 78th, 89th, 94th, 160th and 102nd inf. Diva. Washington july 8�?lt. Gen. Alexander m Patch former seventh army commander has been named commanding general of the fourth army with Headquarters at fort Sam Houston Tex. He succeeds maj. Gen. John p.  Ishii London july 6 up a redeployment of twin engined bombers and transport and troop Carrier planes directly to the far East has begun the air transport command announced today. L. La the first week 168 planes of the ninth and 12th air forces and the ninth troop Carrier command. Including a36s and c47s, were dispatched from Marseille. Ato said 3,600 planes with 81,-184 men aboard had returned to the us. Since the third week i May with Only two planes lost on this Side. Plans were to return 1850 More twin engined planes and 4115 with four engines. All four engined planes win be redeployed by july 15, while the twin engined Craft to be sent will be dispatched within a month later. Fronch enter sear with 23rd us. Corps july 3 up a preach occupation troops today entered the vital Coal producing Saar Basin sector. Sun eclipse visible today to pass 50 Peil in France an eclipse of the Sun will be visible throughout most of Europe and the us. Today. Fin France the phenomenon will be partial and will be visible late in the afternoon if the sky is Clear. The maximum eclipse will occur about 4 pm when More than half the suns surface will be obscured by the new Moon. The path of totality about 50 Miles wide will begin in Idaho and then will Cross Central and Eastern Canada Greenland Scandinavia Finland Mai rus Sia Sud ending in turkestan scientific expeditions will make observations during the 100-Odd seconds when Quot the Sun will be totally obscured. In the us., outside of Idaho and Montana the degree of totality will vary from 49 percent in new Orleans to 73 percent in Chicago. The eclipse will be total in Idaho at Sunrise and total for about 7b seconds in Montana. An eclipse last Jan. 13 was visible Only in Southeastern Africa Madagascar and Australia Washington i to i v 8 ans a forty two of 68 div Slons Theu. Rope an a n d Mediterranean Heaters wit be Back in the . Before the end of the1 year the War department Dis closed today. Shifting of the 42 divisions involves movement of More than 500,000. The department also identified eight divisions currently scheduled to remain in the Eto As occupying forces they Are first and of hurtle armd., 82nd airborne and first third ninth 39th and 86th tot diva three outfits not iwo three infantry divisions Haw turned the 88th, 97th and both. Most of the 104th i also Back. Advance detachments of the j owl fourth eighth 44th int. And the 13th / have reached the us of these unite will arrive the la divisions whist Rived or Are expected soon axe ticketed for the pertinent said. In i Complete Headquarters army has returned in route tor Tbs Orient. Amp. M screened in Point system the department us All an personnel is being screened under the Point system and As a men cd All 4vlaltai Ara Quot in the turnover d the Best authority tor dual a status is the loft a Alf a v a. A fruit a Al fir a Quot Arar iia most men with Point scores Hilt release either have re a amp a amp Isis Walt passage to the department said. I now Princeton joins carriers Philadelphia july 8 ans a the heavy aircraft ton the Light Cruiser the submarine Tusk ways Here strength to americans massed naval might. I a the Princeton More powerful and nearly twice the size of Ila namesake which was sunk last october in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Is of 28,000 tons. She is a sister ship of the ant atom commissioned last january and the Valley forge now in construction. Many get Aid in red amnesty Moscow july map a the presidium of the supreme soviet today ordered a widespread amnesty for thousands of prisoners of the soviet Union in a gesture of Confidence following Victory Over Germany. With certain exceptions the sentences of All persons condemned to imprisonment for More than three years were out in half. Those imprisoned for periods not exceeding one year however had their sentences cancelled