Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               Fuge 4 the stars and stripes amp wednesday july 25, 1945 m fishermen busiest of All Washington july 24 ins the tightening american sea air blockade is threatening to wipe out Japan s vital fishing Industry once the world s largest with a catch of 8,000,000.000 pounds per year almost twice the production of the u.8. And Alaska. In Japan fish consumption was about 55 pounds per capita annually aft compared to about 13 pounds in  Jap whaling Industry ranked third in the world with Norway and Britain in the Lead. A Haw Industry shrank pie shrinkage of japanese Indus since Pearl Harbor May be of bated by the following devel a men tsp Ltd. A a it it 1 / 7 1�?the japanese whaling Industry disappeared because the enemy no longer is Able to move a its ships into the Antarctic. 1�?nipponese fishing Craft before the War obtained great catches from the aleutians area and the Bering sea now closed to them. A 3. V 3�?the american ninth Fleet operating in the North Pacific made japanese fishing hazardous in the sea of okhotsk. A Ftp nip ponese fishermen used to Send Large catches to the Homeland from Marianas and Okinawa areas now under american control. Ftp even in Home Waters japanese fishermen now Are limited in operation because of the activity of America s Pacific Fleet Ison drink kills 196 Clos it Paris july 24�?one Hundred ninety six american soldiers in the Eto have died of Methyl alcohol poisoning resulting from harmful drinks since last oct. 13, the chief surgeon s office disclosed Here this fatality rate is higher than that caused in the Eto by All com a Nim Cable  by Quot Wood alcohol is contracted from beverages sold by bootleggers or unscrupulous barkeeper under such labels As Quot whisky a Brandy a i Cognac or Quot scotch nazi werewolves ? there ainu to Bank fort july 24�?if there is any howling in Germany this Winter it wont be by werewolves. Col Thomas k. Sands Usset Cio chief says Quot there ainu to  a. Sands said a there is no such thing As Werewolf. At the Start they were a badly organized poorly led element. I Hope the american press never signifies this criminal element by calling them  8th of keeping 10 groups Here London july 24�?although no Large scale movement has begun As yet eighth air Force made known hero that ten of its operational groups consisting of some 25,000 men and More than 750 aircraft were on their Way to the continent for duty there. Seven of the groups Are heavy bombardment outfits equipped with flying fortresses. They include the 82nd, 94th, 100th, 105th, 306th and 314th. Three Mustang fighter groups the 55th, 355th and 357th a Are also included. Advance parties from some of the groups Are already at their Continental bases it was disclosed. Approximately 55 per cent of the be Day total of eighth air Force personnel has been redeployed to the ., leaving. Slightly More than 75,000 in the Eto. Bomb groups which have recently completed their movements to the  Are the 44th, 91st, 93rd, 351st, 381st, 389th, 392nd, 398th, 401st, 445th, 448th, 448th, 453rd, 457th, 458th, 466th, 487th, 482nd, 489th, and 491st. Every dog has his of Day nazis worked Gigantic Bluff during 1939-40 London july 24 Reuter a the nazi regime got away with a Gigantic Bluff at the time of the Munich crisis and during the first two years of the War Allied commissions have discovered investigating German archives. First Job drop in seven years a Washington july 24 ans a the labor department yesterday said employment in non agricultural establishments last month experienced its first june decline in seven years. 1 total number persons employed in non agricultural establishments in june was 37,495,000, a decline of 137,000 from May. Manufacturing cutbacks More than wiped out the usual seasonal employment gains the department said. A a a a a a a a a Holland hits frat ban lift 047 unit occupies tamp Ohof Berlin july 24�?the 301st troop Carrier sq., formerly of ninth troop Carrier command and a Veteran of seven Eto campaigns was credited today with being the first american air unit to occupy templehof Ai drome in the american sector of Berlin. Under capt. Robert g. Dean new Milford pa., elements of the Squadron began moving into templehof at Dawn on july 4. Thirty minutes after the first 047 had landed the squadrons communications Section had set up a control Tower. . Sub Fleet sinks ii japs Washington july 24 Reuter a eleven More japanese ships have been sunk by  Submarines in far Eastern Waters the Navy announced Here. They included two minesweepers two patrol escorts two freighters one Barge one medium cargo transport and three Small merchant ships. Jap ships sunk by american subs now total 1,147 ships including 144 combatant ships. Soldier wasted no time getting himself and Pup off the sea Pike when the Troope hip docked in new York Harbor. Go brought Europe. Veteran Bat he ship Idaho mires 109oooth dip Shell Guam. July 24 ans a the Idaho one of the Navy sold Battle wagons fired her 10,000th 14-Inch Shell of the War at Okinawa and kept up her record of participation in All Central and North Pacific invasions Pacific Fleet Headquarters credited the 28-year-old modernized battleship with firing 1,500 tons of shells at japanese positions on 4-Okinawa, shooting Down nine japanese planes destroying several torpedo or suicide boats and sinking a cargo ship attempting to flee from Naha Harbor. The Idaho was at Hval fjord Iceland when the War started. She joined the Pacific Fleet in january 1942. After a year of patrol operations she steamed North in april 1943, to support the Attu invasion. She returned to the Central Pacific for action at Makin Kwajalein Kavi eng on new Ireland Saipan Guam Pel Eliu angular iwo Jima and Okinawa. She bombarded 13 islands while participating in the first eight operations. Cop leaders ask polish Aid London july 24 Reuter a lifting of the non fraternization ban in Germany aroused bitter criticism in Holland according to a dutch broadcast which quoted a Holland newspaper As saying Quot the English do not know the fear of a people who have been hunted for years. It must be incomprehensible to martyred Peoples of Europe that anyone Bould Al ready desire fraternization with  acorns replace Jap Rice san Francisco july 24 ans a Tokyo radio urged japs to use acorns As food in place of Rice. The National technology Board expects to process 153,000,000 bushels for Public consumption this year own heard the radio say. Flag Given to Truman Berlin july 24�?the first american Flag to be raised Over Berlin was presented to president Truman by maj. Gen. Floyd l. Parks Berlin american District chief. The Flag was hoisted Over the Adolf Hitler Barracks july 4. New York july 24 Cap a forty four americans including former president Herbert Hoover and one time presidential candidate Alf m. Landon have urged president Truman to use the Quot diplomatic and economic Power of the .�?� at Potsdam in support of the Yalta Promise of Quot free and unfettered elections Quot in Poland. They signed an Appeal to or. Truman asserting that the polish question had not been settled and that the new Warsaw government consisted of 17 Quot leftovers from the Lublin regime and Only three from the London  Appeal said that Quot if Russia succeeds in imposing her will to this extent despite the Yalta agreement she will be encouraged to apply the same imperialistic methods to All of Central  these facts plus revelations by or. Albert Speer hitlers last minister of production indicate that Germany a total available War strength in 1938 was hardly More than that of Czechoslovakia. Captured German Battle orders revealed that when Hitler was threatening War unless the sudetenland was ceded the germans had Only three divisions to Man the incomplete defences of the Western front and that in aircraft they actually were inferior to the czechoslovak air Force. Output below Britain a during 1939-1940 a nazi aircraft production Rose substantially but remained constantly below that of Britain. The vaunted efficiency of the entire German armament Industry existed largely on paper and it Wasny to until 1942 that production Rose to the scale demanded by Modem War. Speer disclosed that in the Winter of 1941 Hitler was convinced the War was won despite what he considered Only a Quot slight setback before Moscow Quot and that All War production except air a defense weapons and fighter planes could be curtailed. Consequently German War output reached its lowest level in february and March of 1942. Speer said the nazi government and particularly German industrialists were taken completely by Surprise by the Quality of russian weapons especially soviet tanks and artillery. Is holdouts disorganized list survives hits off iwo greatest feat of a i coming Washington july 24 ans a maj. Gen. Alen Turnage director of Marine corps personnel says Quot the greatest of All amphibious operations Are in the making in the Pacific Quot Turnage asserted in a broadcast that Quot nothing the enemy can do Short of surrender can Stop the amphibious operation now in the  Washington july 24 ans a in spite of simultaneous hits from japanese bomb and suicide planes off iwo Jima the list 477 landed a Marine tank battalion and its tanks on the volcanic Ash Beach the Navy disclosed today. Casualties were seven dead and one wounded. New War fuel found London july 24 up a a new fuel which might have a Quot pronounced influence Over every form of warfare Quot has been discovered by a German scientist the sunday times reported. The fuel called in Golin is simply a High concentration of Hydrogen peroxide in water. Fraulein a kiss from ground up9 Paris july 24�?this is a Story for men Only and Only for certain groups of men at that. Fellows Back from prolonged duty in woman less parts would do Well to leave the thing alone. Its about How the German Fraulein kisses. An International news service reporter asked a i just Back from Germany what goes with the German kissing situation. This is what the i said Quot you see the american girl is used to driving in a car with the boy Friend and she site on his right so for kissing she turns her head to the left. Quot now the German Fraulein she s different. She smiles and turns sideways like she Means to say no. But a re throws her head Back with her Chin up and looke starry eyed in the air then when you put your Arm around her Waist for a kiss she bends from the Knees and does a fade. Quot that a when you close in and put your other hand behind her Back. Shed fall if you did no to then she puts her Arm around your 1 shoulder and gets her balance. All of a sudden she goes into reverse her head comes up and she Steps out of it. Its a regular Hollywood Job. I Don t know where they Learned  whew. .1 with third army Germany july 24 up a existence of is troops still holding out in the bavarian Alps was confirmed by third army intelligence authorities. They Are scattered individuals and not units it was pointed out in response to questions about the persistent reports of continued resistance. There is no resistance to mention the officials said and violence and sabotage Are negative. Some of the troopers have been captured armed with pistols or grenades. Only a few surrender voluntarily and it is unknown to what extent the is remnants Are using German doctors to remove their telltale is Tattoo Marks. Stalin reported set to Aid China Moscow july 24 apr conversations Between marshal Stalin and chinese Premier t. V. Soong have already Laid the basis for an understanding never before realized in soviet chinese relations Well informed sources said Here. If All goes Well one informant said the two nations May find Accord on a wide scale program of cooperation. Navy gets new ice Cream ship. Washington july 24 ans a a 1,000,000-Dollar Concrete ice Cream Barge is ready in the Western Pacific to serve ships smaller than a destroyer which do not carry their own ice Cream making facilities. Lent to the Navy by the army transportation corps the floating ice Cream parlor is equipped with a commercial Type 40-quart Freezer which can manufacture ten Gallons of ice Cream every seven minutes