Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur T h f f a for n Southern France edition p 134 Iru 10 one franc Hibb or i he Vii Himi my in sub starves Fiji off boat Crew off Ufa spam Jap feelers enter debate july 24 the question of japanese peace overtures was Flung into the Senate debate on the United nations world Security charter today after Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg had called for Swift Kenneth Wherry declared a compilation of purported enemy peace feelers had been made by a High military source and for warded to president Truman at and that he would ask the state department whether it had received any Jap peace chairman of the Senate foreign relations which has approved the charter by a vote of said overwhelming support of the plan in the Senate would dissipate european doubts of americas desire to participate in a world or ratification probable staving off possible criticism of the charter provision for furnishing troops to be used by the world Security Council without prior approval of Connally asked cant we show the same sort of courage toward the obligations of peace As we have toward those of War a member of the delegation at san cited the repeated crises successfully surmounted by the conference which drafted the charter As proof that the world Powers could work to Gether super air boat in first flight Crew members of a crippled by forced flown in enemy Waters scramble into a rubber life raft above while an american submarine stands by to take them afterwards the sub set the flying boat afire with its guns below to keep it from falling into the hands of a japanese Navy record b29 flattops in assaults july estimated including a record Force of super fortresses and More than battered japans capital Island of Hon Shu in Daylight the Carrie planes struck major West coast naval and the b29s dropped tons of demolition bombs on the East coast Industrial cities of Nagoya and to cording to Tokyo radio iwo and Okinawa based Mustangs supported the Fleet Chester Nimitz disclosed warships had steamed up to chivas invasion Chekian province belong sink or damage several ships on surface unite bombarded Parana in the Kurile islands North of British big 3 in recess Ridley Nice port july 24 ans the 72ton Hawaii worlds largest flying boat and first of 20 super cargo carriers for the War against took off yesterday on her first Public the new ship has a Wingspread of 200 feet and eight thousand horse Power a famous ship with a famous the Veteran of the Pacific War from Pearl har Bor to anchored off Nice late yesterday for a ten Day no sooner had the destroyer Hove to at port he de France than her John of and invited i Restees to pay the ship a we Are Here for a rest our the commander we Are seeing the and Well be glad to show our ship to army show off ship he said that Between 15 and 20 gis could visit the ship at one giving each group a half hour to an hour the Gallant Little one of the smaller was commissioned in june she was at Pearl Harbor and Kiska and in the Battles for the iwo Jima and the the Gridley also bombarded Formosa and Vinson in Cabinet Stimson next to go july 24 Fred Vinson took the oath As Secretary of the Treasury yester Day amid increasing speculation that 78yearold Henry Stimson would retire As Secretary of War after his return from the Potsdam replacement of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes is also widely mentioned for Stimso tas Post Are undersecretary Robert Patterson and assistant Secre tary John Mccloy by Ernest Leiser stars and stripes staff writer july British Dele gation statement said today there was no possibility the big three conference would be Over by when prime minister Churchill and Clement Attlee return to England for election re the statement indicated the con Ference would resume on Friday after a on Day Holiday to give the prime minister a Chance to go Home and find out whether his party will retain Attlee and foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will leave Potsdam late wednesday and Are expected to return Friday there will be no scheduled meeting for Truman and Generalissimo Stalin but staffs will continue their Restee hotels to get pumps Booster pumps will be installed in i rest hotels in Nice to alleviate the water the District Engineer office announced last larger hotels Are less affected by the water brought on by an abnormal smaller hostelries Are without Booster pumps to obtain a result of lowered water pressures brought on by the water rationing Fleet blasts Kurzie Island july 22 delayed a single Jap anese ship was seen when Light warships of the North Pacific Fleet bombarded the enemy Island of at the Northern end of the Buriles Chain this afternoon the warships penetrated through the Island Chain into the sea of okhotsk in search of japanese but had to abandon the Hunt for instead they shelled targets on Paramus Hiros Southwest where two important japanese Severa and other installations Are the warships met five single struck at Dawn William Halsey launched More than planes against one of japans main naval at week carriers hit enemy ships aft Yokosuka naval in associated press reported some warships were caught at kurd and that at least one was hit with a the Japa finally sent up at least one of 12 Jap planes was the super fortress Fleet officially numbered More than but All dispatches agreed it was the greatest of the the b29s came in at Ligh and medium altitudes at dropping their he into lunchtime crowds already badly damaged Osaka and japans second and third largest already were badly Osaka had 17 Square or 25 burned Nagoya had 12 Square or 31 the estimate of planet made by Tokyo the enemy also reported three submarine bombarded chichi in the boning North of iwo following up a previous bombardment by surface Ine Wais ups hid live Nigie engined japanese bombers which relations started a halfhearted attack but soon cleared off when the ships guns put up a fierce antiaircraft i3fh arrives in new july 24 Ansi some men of the 13th Black cat of the third army were among More than vet Erans of european service who arrived in new York today aboard six Robert division sees Beach pea races Marseille staff to move office the Marseille circulation and news Bureau office of the stars and stripes will move saturday from its present location to 5 place which is Al most adjacent to the sixth port Headquarters building july 24 american nudist Enthus predicted today that swim Ming suits will ultimately reach the vanishing he said the abbreviated two piece affair now worn by Many women will be followed by the removal of the we Are not far from that said who is president of the american sunbathing they Are getting so Little that it is ridiculous for anyone to claim that they Are they Are almost in the same class As although a Kaapp is not an advocate of general nude swimming he said he and his fellow Dis Robers go to great lengths to find seclusion and believes that the body should be unadorned Only among people who Are mentally conditioned to who believes there Are at least nudists in tiie has evolved the philosophy that nudism is the ultimate in he maintains that even in a society where clothes never have been a chief has u put something on to distinguish himself from the for when clothes Are All superiority and inferiority Digap bars Bare Midriff new july 24 ans Central Park is no place to Bare a m i d r i f magistrate Abraham Block ruled he fined attractive Elise of two dollars for appearing in the Park in a Halter despite her protest that what she was wearing was Ordinary attire in i am from Florida and i know they Dout allow that Type of i attire the judge told said it would be the first armoured division redeployed to the overseas for six the 13th captured germans and 000 hungarians and took Adolf hitlers Birthplace at off la awarded fallen hero july 24 ans a sergeant from a Pennsylvania farm who died while spearheading a series of assaults on German has been awarded the congressional medal of the War department announce ment today told How of fought through German emplacements last 3 in the alsatian town of Wiiilie mowing Down enemy machine he killed by a artillery
