Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur Southern France edition the weather forecast for Nice Marseiles area sunday continued fair maximum temperature 88. Or. A a forecast by Baart inane Airport weather station one year ago today american a purred Foro crashed through shattered be Man Unes by kit Poutane after capturing that Stron hold from the . In no. 1381,500 Carrier renew raid pilots say bottles ii Guam july 28--fifteen Hundred . And British Carrier planes renewed their assaults on the japanese Homeland at Dawn today and pilots reported an enemy battleship had been sunk and several other warships left blazing fiercely and a probably out of action for the the attack the third this week marked a resumption of Carrier strikes after two Days of bad weather. Reporting on results from tuesday s and wednesday s blows Adra. Nimitz said that at least 26 Asp anese warships were hit and a Punk Ishing damage Quot was inflicted in the Kobe kure area of Japan. First pilots Over that same area today encountered utile opposition 30400-Tonntf sunk three Navy hellcats landed 1,000-Pound bombs of warships already heavily damaged in previous raids on kure. The battleship which airmen said was lying on the sea Bottom was the 80,000-ton Hyuga. Her decks were awash an associated press correspondent reported the japanese Fleet without a single heavy warship it for action is Quot now so paralysed that a single destroyer Force would vanquish it Quot president Truman returns the Salute of the color guard of the second bn., 508th Parachute inf. Regt passing in review at an air Field at Frankfurt flanking the president Are Gen. H. D. G. Crerar munitions train blows up Empire state wreck kills 19 Tokyo s Domestic radio yesterday trimmed earlier Semi official rejection of the Allied demand that Japan surrender now or be destroyed so far japanese listeners have not heard any official rejection of the surrender terms. Home broadcasts said merely that the Empire would Quot adopt a policy to strive toward completion of the greater East Asia War in conformity to the hitherto established Basic principles Quot a a Milder phrasing than Domein a assertion that Japan would Quot fight to the bitter end Quot whether the Domestic version left the door open for later acceptance of the Allied surrender offer was not Clear. From chunking chinese military spokesmen quoted japanese Gen. Okamura a commander in South China As telling his own peo continued on Page 8 new York july 28�?at least 19 persons were killed and scores were injured today when an army bomber flying through heavy fog crashed into be 88th floor of the Empire state it gilding worlds tallest Structure. The dead included Sis members of the plane s Crew. The Type of plane has not yet been identified but witnesses reported it resembled a b25. The Accident occurred about 10 am. The plane struck pm the 34th St. Side just West of fifth ave. Witnesses said they heard three distinct explosions and saw flames shoot up the building s Tower and pieces of the burning plane fall to the Street building swayed one witness said the 102-Story building Quot swayed As though hit by a while a Man working on the 70th floor said the Structure Quot moved about two two elevators crashed from the 88th floor to the basement about 1,000 feet when the plane struck. Two bodies were taken from the wreckage. A number of elevator attendants were reported missing. Two reported injured were Hay Oliver a elevator operator and John mate. They were on the 78th floor and were said to be badly burned. Police reported that 11 floors above and below the place of Impact were in flames and every ambulance from Manhattan Hospital was called. Firemen reached the 88th floor about 10 35 am and found 11 women seriously burned. Huge crowds gathered about the Utt foot Structure As flame and smoke poured from its High reaches. Mayor Laguardia arrived on the scene soon after the first alarm. Manila july 28 ans a fighters and bombers of the far Eastern of bombed and strafed 12 airfields in attacks on Borneo celebes and South China sea islands tuesday and wednesday Gen. Macarthur announced today. Pimmie no a Honolulu. July 38 ans a the a comm Quot lit Marti a my eventual. 2y bomb Japan out of the War u. Gen. Barney Giles new Deputy commander of the us. Strategic ass in the Pacific said today. Japan is Quot As isolated As Truk. It is hard to visualize How the japanese will be Able to font the form it Tny More months Quot Giles Sakl new York july 28 ans a numbers of b32s, sister ship of the super fortress Are now in action against Japan the War department disclosed today. The new bombers with a Speed of better than 300 Miles an hour Are Quot re Fdl i amp Ray rocking the enemy Quot along with 20th a7 b29s, the announcement said. A a n.1 the b32 is the first Large land plane equipped with four Blade reversible propellers which Brake the ship in emergency landings. Powered by four 18-Cylinder Wright engines the b82 has a ceiling comparable to that of the b29�?around 30,000 feet. The b32 is about ,000 pounds lighter than the super fort. Yah so seized base per led chunking july 28 ans a chinese troops have captured Yang so and Are fighting in the streets of Weilin the High command announced today. Both towns were former is. 14th a bases. The Advance into Weilin largest air base City in Southeast China climaxed a four week drive from Luchow 90 Miles to the Southwest. Enemy troops in Yang so 45 Miles below Weilin were wiped out after a 48-hour Battle. 4-Way control Bogins in Vienna enn8, Austria july 28 api joint occupation of Vienna by America Britain France and Russia was begun today when Small British and american army units entered the austrian capital final deployment of the occupying garrisons must await a meeting of the four Allied commanders with the civilian population continuing to be fed by the russians. Pm can t sea Jap capitulation Manila july 28 ins a captured japanese officer said today that nip ponese civilians would fight endlessly unless the am a Fri cans convinced them Surrey Ftp would not mean death or degradation the officer said an official surrender would constitute a betrayal of Tbs japanese people who had been sold on the idea of a holy was and that it might Lead to a revolt. The prisoner a second lieutenant in the veterinary corps surrendered in the Sime Madre mountains a week ago. Tow nor scares goer big Mondor Fles Bains Luxembourg july 28 Cap a Hermann Goering former Luftwaffe Book suffered a heart attack during an electrical storm Here thursday it was revealed today. Sas file Given president Truman Moscow july 3� apr train ing under conditions simulating Battle was described today in red Star army newspaper in an article from the siberian military District. The Story reported use of tanks tnnj4iin.fi guns anti tank guns barbed wire mine Fiette hand grenades and 78 fad 46 my guns against an attacking Potsdam july 28�?president Truman was presented today at the Quot Little White House Quot with a file of the first american newspaper to be published on conquered German soil the German edition of the stars and stripes. The file bound in leather and embossed with his name was presented to or Truman by a sgt Paul Elk oct managing editor. Accompanying Elliott was opt. Max Gilstrap officer in charge. The president told Gilstrap and Guiott he intended to add the Book to the White House Library. Death ends Mol is flight on crowded Paris Square Paris july 28�?an american pee awol since Jan. 2, was fatally wounded Friday in the place de la opera while fleeing from a sergeant escorting him Back to his unit at be Havre the uj9. Army Public relations office disclosed today. One Bullet fired by the sergeant seriously wounded Henry Schneider 47-year-old parisian. The announcement did not identify the dead Soldier or the sergeant. The shooting occurred inside the subway station after the pfc leaped from a truck and dashed through the crowded Square. According to the pro the sergeant. Durs Jinjr the pfc run thu metro called to my to Hail Whitt the pfc raced on the sergeant fired. The first shot struck Schneider. Two More shots felled the prisoner. The pfc it was Learned was a member of the 904th reinforcement in. Tag receipts up 3.6 billion Berlin residence Rule set Berlin july 28 apr to prevent overcrowding in Berlin marshal Gregory Zhukov today ordered that nobody May enter the capital to establish permanent residence unless in Possession of a special permit from the Berlin command by. Washington july is cans a the government income from taxes reached a new high�?�j00,-009408 dollars in the 12 months ended june 80. The internal Revenue Bureau reported. Thus compared with tax receipts of 49�12ar 000,080 dollars last year
