Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Mui it fatty prior Liml. A a id. Quot Many of the arrests were for minor infringements of the Law my failure to Cany Correct identity Carde he said Quot but they also picked up 88 officers posing As wehrmacht pcs and other germans and displaced persons illegally possessing i rations and equipment searches of every House in the american sector resulted in aet sure of radio transmitters a re As a twi  under the military government decree illegal Possession of Anna and ammunition Calls for the death penalty. Total assessment of the raids has not been completed Sibert Saint. The Shakedown had been planned for three weeks and came just at the end of a week of grf Myrga British sector. During that Tutto civilians there were told to turn in contraband without fear of Puni Rte the weather forecast for Nice Star seizes area monday fair maximum temperature 90. Forecast by Mart Nane Airport weather station a a a Law i Quot. Ii. One year ago today Allied planes bombed Berlin and Stuttgart. Clouds and had i mme Irwi f Ria  a Mist cause on increase us robot plane flight Over the greater London area owe franc men from Marseille at Manila Manila july 23 ans some 5,000 Engineer and other service troops and combat veterans from France and Germany landed Here yesterday in the first direct redeployment of americans from the Eto to the Philippines. Some service troops from Italy arrived last week. The Eto troops embarked at Marseille and spent weeks at sea on a coast guard transport in the longest Over water troop haul in american history one 97-Pointer included the majority had served six months to a year overseas though there were some veterans with three years service. The average had 50 discharge Points they ran from a Low of eight to a High of 97. First ashore was an Engineer parts Supply company. Officers said morale was High despite the Lack of us. Furlough and that spirits soared at the sight of was Here. Quot no wonder we did no to see any was in Europe said one i Quot they must All be Over  Engineer battalion aboard the troops included an engineering construction battalion which built an 1,800-foot Bridge across the Rhine at Duisburg in six Days 15 hours and 20 minutes. Other units were a of Etc construction repair unit which worked at be Havre continued on Page 8 big 3 Beu eved Elk inc Parley by Ernest lei8er stars and stripes staff writer Berlin july 23�?the fact that president Truman a devout Baptist consented to continue sessions of the big three on sunday gave some credence to persistent rumours today All strictly unofficial that the chiefs of state Are trying to wind up the conference in the next couple of Days. It is known that the president is anxious to return to the states to report to the nation and continue his direction of the War against Japan. It is known also that both prime minister Churchill and Clement Attlee desire to return to England thursday when the British election results will be announced. The principals have met for seven straight Days averaging at least three hours per meeting. This would make the sessions to Date about As Long As the Yalta conference. A a. Fingers before Forks pfc Maltha wow with the nth of Detroit ohm. 2,600 planes Fly for i Point change Bol ease delay frets cos Quot Quot a  Washington july 23 ans the promised revision of the Vestica score for discharge under the army s Point system will be made before the end of the month a War department spokesman tonight thus opening the Way for release of men with slightly Leas than 85 Points. Meanwhile Many veterans with More than 86 Points who have returned to this country expecting to be discharged Are it Imp in Intino bitterly because the army won Fri a release them the United press reported. Some Are resentful because they have not been discharged even though they Are rated non essential. The news Agency said while other High pointers believe their commanding officers have declared them essential because of personal prejudices or because they Hope to keep a big army. The army s answer the army a answer to the charges is that five barriers Are in Way the time required to Transfer men from one service to another to Supply replacements to train them to give furloughs and Lack of shipping space. Chairman Edwin c. Johnson a Colo of the Senate veterans subcommittee charged however that the army is Quot leisurely about granting discharges. Quot the army is taking its own Sweet time a he said. S t. T a men languish morale sinks sen. Albert b. Chandler Day said he was deeply sympathetic to veterans whose a a morale sinks while they languish in Camps Over Here a sen. Lister Hill a Ala said that if men from his state were dissatisfied it Haven to heard much about  Bare wins bet Tizie further details of com z Tennis tournament on sports pages Chi los Hare chicagoan who before the War was a member of Tho British Davis cup team it of heated Richard Mckee of Miami Boath fla., 5-7, 7-5, 6-2 to win Tho com z Tennis singles Crown and then teamed up with William Blalock to hand the Loam of James l. Hobart and Sumner Rodman a 6-2, 6-1 a Straek for door bios honors last night at the Nice Tennis club. In capturing the first set the diminutive Mckee of Oise base Section looked like he might turn in the upset of the three Day tourney. The us s Haro proved too much for the Gallant floridian. In Reich by fat Mitchell stars and stripes staff writer Frankfurt july 23�?More than 80,000 germans Wero arrested and Quot targe amounts of contraband arms ammunition and i equipment were seized in the american occupation zone during a Gigantic weekend Shakedown inspection which covered every House and every individual in the sector a with the twin objectives of rounding up illegal Materiel and exposing disguised nazi leaders the sector wide shake Down opened at Dawn saturday and continued until this inv ing. Five Hundred thousand . Soldiers were in the raids Brig Gen. Edwin 11 Sibert assistant chief of staff g2 Usset said the Shakedown netted a Quot Good haul. Water ration in effect Here water la to scarce on the Riviera suffering from an abnormal drought that . Army and French civilian authorities have taken drastic conservation measures to insure a sufficient Supply until the fall Rains. Col. Warren e. Pugh Surra commanding officer said last Paris july 23 apis an air Force of 2�06 planes backed by 106,000 officers and men win police the skies Over the american vote of occupation in Germany Austria. Fighters medium and heavy bomber units will compose the occupational air Force oaf with the ninth air Force As the organization to which will be added units of the eighth. 12th and 15th air forces. The present personnel of the ninth exceeds 200,000 men but Moro than half of these will be sent Home or to the Pacific. To add big bombers maj. Gen. Oliver p. Wyland commanding ninth air Force has big 3 reported studying debt London july 23 Cap a a Brit ish foreign office spokesman said today the question of collection of reparations by Russia in Advance of the final agreement Quot no doubt was under discussion by the big three at the Potsdam conference according to the european edition of the new York Herald Tribune yesterday Russia will receive the lion s share of the 20.000,000.000 dollars reparations debt to be paid by Germany under the terms of a Quot secret agreement made by the big three at Yalta six months ago the British official declined to comment on a report that the total reparations to be exacted from Germany had been fixed at the Yalta conference at 20,000.000,000 dollars. Cruiser joins Fleet Philadelphia july 23 ans the heavy Cruiser Dos Angeles today officially became a unit of the us. Fleet at commissioning exercises Here. Headquarters at bad Kissinger and they will be oaf Headquarters. The major difference in the new set up will be the addition of heavy bombers. Oaf will comprise ten fighter and fighter bomber groups of three squadrons each three medium and 10 heavy bomber groups of four squadrons each one reconnaissance group three night fighter squadrons five Liaison squadrons two transport groups and two troop Carrier groups. There will be about 50 different supporting and auxiliary units including four bands and 15 military police companies. Airfields will be so located that no Point in the american occupation zone will be More than 30 minutes flight time away. Night that the army is giving to Ery possible Aid and added Quot we Are notifying All Restea Fay Means possible to restrict their use of water to a minimum officials said the serious water shortage threatens All of Southern from the italian but in the Nice area thousands of . Troops 200,000  Nice a strict rationing program has been put into effect. Water is turned off during certain periods of the Day in res Lee hotels army encampments and Homes. Lack of rainfall was listed As the continued on Page 8 for and failure Uty cards picked up wehrmacht mans and by possessing the Eto w0unbed mostly Home Washington july 23 cans a almost every wounded or sick american Soldier in Europe who can be moved will have been brought Home by the end of this week the War department said today. Thus the army will better its goal of returning All transportable cases within 90 Days after be Day said Brig. Gen. Raymond w. Bliss assistant surgeon general. The major portion of the task of evacuating 102,000 disabled soldiers was completed in 60 Days Gen. Bliss said. In May More than 43.000 sick and wounded men were returned from the e european theater in june slightly less than 32.000 and july a total is estimated at 27,000. There was some violence during the Shakedown. At least one German was shot and killed while attempting to evade a Road Block. Berlin crackdown Bogins Berlin july 23-joint american russian and British Maiuro Ajo crack Down on the Reich capitals flourishing Black Market went into effect today. Under an agreement reached by the three armies Provost marshal patrols from each army May enter zones of the other Powers to arrest their own army personnel trading illegally with the germans. Patrols also have the right to arrest civilian Black marketeers. Seventh he. Moves Heidelberg july 23�?Headquarters for the seventh Jub. Army has moved from Augsburg to Heidelberg it was announced today policy on japs unaltered owe state Bureau Washington july 23 ans a no fundamental change in what constitutes unconditional surrender was embodied in the latest of a series of american broadcasts to Japan the state department and the own agreed today. But there was no disavowal of the recent broadcast by Navy capt. . Zacharias. Who for the first time officially linked unconditional surrender with Atlantic charter principles. Stimulating conjecture about Zacharias broadcast was the procedure adopted by the own in making Public the text of the message to the enemy. Although own director Elmer Davis insisted there was nothing unusual about it reporters could recall to previous general press release on other broadcasts in Zacharias series. Zacharias told japanese leaders they face the alternatives of Quot virtual destruction of Japan or Quot unconditional surrender with the attendant benefits of the Atlantic charter 21,000 walk off jobs in Detroit Detroit july 23 ans a this turbulent motor City was the nations strike Center today with More than 21,000 of the country a 50.000 Idle within its limits. Twenty nine Hundred employees of the Graham Paige motor corp. Voted to return to work but five other major labor disputes continued with Little sign of settlement. The five strikes affected 14,000 lumber workers in nearly 200 Yards 6.000 at the . Rubber co., 1,200 at Midland steel 500 at american Metal products co. And 62 bus driven. Other settlements announced Over the weekend included a week old strike at Loose Wiley biscuit co. At Kansas City involving 1,200 workers. Bradley Home to take Post Washington july 23 ans a Gen. Omar n. Bradley arrived unexpectedly from the Eto yesterday to take Over the direction of the veterans administration. The general is reported to have talked Over his new Job with it emf Dent Truman in Potsdam