Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               The stars and stripes monday july 23, 1945 a w a a it 3 week ends my a exby a stars and stripes writer Berlin july 23�? the first week of the big three gathering closed with the world in Ormed of Little except that there was a conference. The first indication of Progress came Only yesterday in a state the Potsdam compound by the american delegation a couple of phrases. Other than this All information world shaping ses Jugi Truman prime Churchill and Premier As Well As their military and tical advisors has been picked from a a a identifiable sources been unvarnished Specula of the chief events re from last sunday when the president and the prime minister arrived in Potsdam through yesterday showed a sunday big two arrive accompanied by Toff military men and the foreign secretaries a a a a monday a Churchill Calls a a on tour the wrecked heart of Berlin ritalin arrives. A it tuesday a St Din Colls onto Man first full scale meeting of dog three last 90 minutes Truman elected to preside Over ses wednesday a big three meets Lor the second time after Truman visits Churchill and a utahn separately thursday a face big three Are now hiding regular meetings at unspecified intervals foreign secretaries meeting daily Truman gives the first state dinner of the conference Friday the president at tends Flag raising British foreign minister Anthony Eden returns to work after slight Jenesa it a l saturday pint Progress report on the conference issued Churchill through Athens july 22 a it a the United nations belief and rehabilitation administration a a will always Welcome a careful study of its operations director Herbert Lehman said in reply to recent demands by rep. E. M. Dirksen a he for a congressional investigation of the Relief Agency. Dirksen had cited instances of the alleged mismanagement of Una Ray a affairs specifying among other charges that Urra supplies had appeared of the Athens Black Market. A in countries i have visited a Lehman said Quot Urra is on the souvenirs for a Bio oui i whole doing excellent work and has already brought much Relief to the people . Bears Load Washington july 22 up a the us. Has supplied 72 percent of the funds used by the United nations Relief and rehabilitation administration the joint congressional Economy committee was told As two congressional committees prepared to investigate a Berra and lend lease in stricken a a a a countries. Eleven representatives six democrats and five republicans already have left toy plane today for a 40-Day tour. A second committee of four will go to Europe in september. Sen. Harry p. Byrd a a chairman of the Economy committee said duly nine of the 44 nations associated in Urra were living up to their agreement to Supply one percent of their National income to Urra. Broken Burbank calif., july 22 cans p38 fighter with a new Type pressure oxygen mask has flown to m height of 44,040 feet unofficially breaking the american Altitude record. The Lockheed aircraft corporation said today. The plane was flown by chief test Pilot Joe Towle with col Randolph Lovelace chief of the Aero medical Laboratory a Field Ohio in the piggyback seat. Towle said they wanted to test the new mask at 4$,009 feet but 60 feet a the Goa trouble developed in outside temperature gauge. The was made in april 1043, but la egret until today. B17 flying fortress test plane two weeks ago flew to 43,409 feet. The official american Altitude Mark is 43,165 feet reached by a special italian Caproni in 1938. Disposal unit prepares to blow up big Hack of nazi 116mm. Shells cleared from Fields. Heap represents about two tons of explosives and Many acres made Safe. Army Navy merger eyed jews in Russia to get . Aid new York july 22 up a a Gram to Aid 225,000 Semi starved polish jews now living in Southwest Asiatic Russia has been disclosed by the american jewish joint distribution committee. Charles Passman director of the committee s Middle Eastern program said that in the last two years parcels valued at 5,000,000 dollars have been sent to Aid them and added that pie refugees had been permitted employment in Russia but Many were unable to work because it of weakened physical condition. Germans to be fingerprinted Washington july 22 cans a an estimated 3,000,000 persons in the american occupation zone in Germany Are going to be . Orlando w. Wilson of Berkeley cf., chief of Public safety in the internal affairs division of the . Group said the . Would undertake within its occupation zone the fingerprinting Quot of every German who in our eyes is a  this will include Quot officers and non commissioned officers of the German armed  cd Hospital in dual Bole births Causo Bero version Rome july 22 apr Burly it. William c. Thom 35, a Supply officer scratched his head in puzzlement As he read the requisition and muttered Quot nipples baby�?12. What the hell a reconversion from military Medicine to maternity wards had hit the 34th Sta. Hosp. The maternity Ward of the Hospital itself reconverted from an italian naval Barracks came into being to minister to the wives of gis who found time for Matrimony amid the martial scenes of wartime Italy. Shortly before the first birth in the hospitals improvised maternity Ward t-4 Emerson p. Weatherholt 29, of Inkster mich., arrived breathless at an american hotel Billet in Rome and told staffers that his wife was about to have a baby. The Hospital was called and an ambulance whisked his wife to the delivery room once an operating room a in the Nick of time. A few hours later a second child another boy was bom to the wife of Pic . Bronzo my from Brooklyn. This sudden demand for services far removed from wartime surgery placed an unexpected Strain on the hospitals facilities but the staff is meeting it. Japs exhaust aviation fuel Mitscher says Washington july 22 ans a vice adm. Marc a. Mitscher former commander of task Force 58, discounts reports Japan is saving its air Force to fight off invasion believing Quot a Lack of something probably gasoline a prevents Jap airmen from challenging the current blows against their Homeland. Mitscher a statement was made at a joint press conference with Navy Secretary James v. Forrestal assistant Secretary for air John j. Sullivan and vice adm. Aubrey pitch a whom Mitscher will replace soon As Deputy chief of naval operations for air. Jape shot works a 9 a pitch supported the View of the famed task Force commander saying the japanese had Quot very largely shot the works in their perimeter defense that failed to keep . Forces away from their Home islands. He belittled Tokyo claims of great underground factories and storehouses. Quot the japanese had such implicit Faith in our inability to invade their Homeland that they waited too Long and it is now too late for them to go underground Quot pitch said. Washington july 22 ins a the question of merging the War and Navy departments into a single department of National defense May be tackled by Congress this fall chairman Clifton Woodrum Rva of the House postwar military policy committee said the Issue was still Quot very much  indications were the committee might reopen the entire question in the fall when Congress reconvenes after a summer recess if the War against Japan appears to be entering its final stages. Latest proposal for an army Navy merger came from Gen. Eisenhower. Similar proposals also have been endorsed by Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson under Secretary of War Robert p. Patterson and Secretary of state James p. Byrnes. New Post for Bitting Wright Field Ohio july 22 ans a col. Kenneth h. Bitting until recently director of personnel for . Strategic air forces in Europe has been named chief of administration for air technical service command. It strikes in and weather of abolishes foreign Bureau a a a i Washington july 22 ans a the office of War information has abolished its foreign news Bureau which supplied the american press with news from foreign broadcasts principally japanese. Nell Dalton director of own do Chennault quit a by plan claim Washington july 22 ans a the change in air f orces command in China which led to the resignation of Gen Claire i. Chennault 14th a chief was Quot wholly military and according to plan a undersecretary Robert p. Patterson said. Patterson testified informally before a closed session of the Senate military affairs committee which is considering a Resolution by sen. Allen j. Ellender a la to investigate the shakeup. Chairman Elbert d. Thomas a Utah said Chennault would be called before the committee upon his return to this country. Committee members said opposition to Chennault by chinese communists had nothing to do with the change in commands. Patterson is reported to have said that on recommendation of it Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer theater commander Chennault was placed under it. Gen. George c. Stratemeyer because Wedemeyer wanted a Man trained in logistics to command the combined tenth and 14th a rather than a tactical expert like Chennault. Mystic operations said the decision i resulted from recent action by Congress in reducing the Agency appropriation. Hitler Gas banned Rcd n d x Luneberg july 22 up a Adolf Hitler instructed the German High command not to use Gas against Britain because he was gassed in the last War and never forgot the experience some of the Reich a chemical experts captured by the British said Here. . Asks Britain for Suez rebate Washington july 22 apr the  is pressing Britain again to absorb under reverse lend lease Suez canal tolls on american ships it was disclosed in correspondence Between rep. Charles r. Robertson . And the foreign economic administration. The us. Paid 11,345,390 dollars for passage of american ships through the Suez from the Start of the War up to Jan. 1, 1945, and paid out 9,000,000 dollars in tolls through lend lease on British ships passing through the Panama canal in the same period. British and american experts studying German chemical secrets at the 33-Square-mile Gas warfare experimental station near Luneberg disclosed there was enough Poison Gas stored there to destroy the populations of new York and London. Royalty praises map Luxembourg july 22�?brass polishing paid off in Royal Praise for members of the 380th my in. When they received a commendation on their appearance from grand Duchess Charlotte of  signs removed to save lumber Berlin july 22 Reuter a British authorities have explained Why squads of their soldiers have removed six foot High russian proclamations in German which once were posted along main roads in the British occupation zone. The official reason Quot conservation of lumber.�?�600ng says War May end in 1945 chunking july 22 apr the War with Japan will be finished by the end of 1945 or the beginning of 1948, Premier . Soong fresh from talks in Moscow told the chinese Peoples political Council. He added that nothing positive had been decided by his talk in Moscow which Are now completed. Soong declared however that the chinese government would be reorganized immediately. In Long n08e of this modified Lockheed lightning enables it to pin Point enemy targets through fog darkness or any Ether had weather. The ship nicknamed Quot Droop Sheet Quot acts As Pathfinder for conventional Craft