Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d�?TAzur                               The weather forecast for Nice Marseiles area Friday showers Maxim mum temperature 84. Forecast toy marry none Airport weather station vol 1�?no. 143 gaily Man Piper of  one year ago today us forces pushed South at Brittany took a Ehrin soft the Road to Brest More than 70 Miles from the Point of the Start of the drive. 1 one franc like ducks on a pond700,00owmi adm. Hal8ey�?T8 third Fleet plane roared in for a strike at the Jap port of Hao Moho in North am Honshu and caught Tiea nip ship sitting like so Many Duck on a Pond. On ship in Center is sinking from a direct Hil the ship in the foreground survived a near miss in Early stages of the attack. A a Quot a Fleet strikes Island off Japan foe says Guam. Aug. 2�?o Island in Segami sea about 70 Miles South of Tokyo was bombarded today by cruisers and destroyers and raked by Carrier planes Tokyo radio reported. No details of the o Isle strike were Given and there was no Oon Firmatu car from . A meanwhile adm. Nimitz announced . Battleships end carriers had attacked Jap held Wake Island a yesterday incurring no casualties. The naval forces met Only slight opposition from Shore batteries. Wake about Midway Between Guam and Hawaii has been in enemy hands since the first month of the car. It has been of Little strategic value to the japs however since it was by passed in the u. 8. Island hopping Campaign. R Black widows strike other Pacific War announce Black widow night fighters and other planes of the far East air forces carried out Day and night raids against Kyushu southernmost Jap Home Island monday and tuesday. They a amp no or severely damaged 35 vessels and set Large fires Izi three War Plant cities. Two Navy search planes penetrated Korea to within 80 Miles of the manchurian Border. They blew up a Bridge across the Mouth of the Seissen River on the Manchuria Southern Korea Railroad and strafed and bombed other installations. Tokyo radio said 13 super forts raided Makassar on celebes Island Between Nestr Guinea and  awaiting Pacific bases Washington aug. 2 apr Raf planes will be flying Side by Side with . Aircraft Over Japan As soon As airfields can be arranged British air marshal Douglas Golyer said today. He told the Aero club that the Raf will use american facilities in the  super lost in biggest raid Guam aug. 2 an8 a one super fort was lost out of the record Force of 820 which dropped 6,632 tons of bombs on Japan Early today. The raid greatest single air attack in history required the direct efforts of 54,000 men. Nine thousand were air crewmen the remainder ground crewmen. The attack was the first to be carried out by Gen. Carl Spaatz . Strategic air forces which soon will include Okinawa based eighth of supers. Today a raid was planned by maj. Gen. Curtis e. Lemay As his last act before relinquishing command of the 20th to become Spaatz chief of  Buretea i into summer Washington aug. 2 ans a a revised Federal budget of 85 billion dollars was issued yesterday on the. Assumption budget director Harold a Smith said Quot that the Pacific War will continue throughout the fiscal year 1946 or  the year ends May 31. The new estimate which includes 2.900,000,000 dollars in veterans pensions and benefits compares to the 83-billion-Dollar estimate sent to Congress last january. Smith said the blueprint takes into account an expected net decrease of 1,300,000 in the armed forces by the end of the year. The army payroll Cut will be More than offset by mustering out pay and similar contingencies. During the demobilization and immediate postwar periods veterans programs principally educational and readjustment allowances Are expected to increase veterans expenditures to about four billion dollars annually. Washington aug. 2�?-the discharge score will remain at 85 paints Quot for some months but by next june All men now eligible for release plus 100,000not now eligible Wili be out of the army the War department announced today. After 800,000 men who now have 85 or More Points Heve been discharged scores will be revised to give some credit i for service after May 12, Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson announced. He said 700,000 men a a substantial part 1 of them from the Pacific would get out under the revised score a the discharge score for was will remain at 44 a for the present Stimson said. Five thousand was currently Are eligible for release and 1,100 already Are out. By next june another 6,000 will be discharged under the provision which permits married was to get out if their husbands leave the service. System for officers Stimson said that although there would be no critical score for officers their individual scores likewise would be recomputed later. He said the army would give special consideration to officers with lengthy overseas and hazardous service. A he estimated 100,000 officers would be out by june x. Since be Day 13,000 have been discharged. Stimson said the 800,000 men with 85 or More Points a a Are All military necessity and the exigencies of transportation will enable us to discharge for some  by july 31, 235,000 had been released. Previously the War department continued on Pape 8 army oversize by 5 million senator Saysan opens in Berlin Berlin aug. 2�?this former capital of the Reich has become the newest link in the rapidly expanding radio Chain of the american forces network. An today went on the air at 1420 kilo cycles. Washington aug. 2 ans a a demand that the army discharge five million men came yesterday he to sen Edwin c. Johnson a Colo who declared that the army of seven million or eight million never can be used against Japan. Johnson said the War departments a a Lack of cooperation in returning surplus troops to civilian life is Quot Blind stupid and  Johnson s statement came a Short time after War mobilization director John w. Snyder said the War department would furlough 4,000 men temporarily to take Railroad jobs. Early discharge of More than 3.000 men with Railroad and shop experience was forecast by the army yesterday. Quot three million enough declaring Quot the maximum number of men we can transport Supply and use on the japanese front by the end of 1946 cannot be More than three million men Quot Johnson asked a a then Why in the name of common sense must we maintain an army of eight million men Quot Johnson said selective service director Lewis b. Hershey recently asserted that even after a a Day 100.000 men a month will be drafted. Quot Gen. Hershey should be awarded the congressional medal for letting the cat out of the bag Quot the coloradans said. Quot Congress has created a monster Frankenstein that will crush this nation unless Congress itself Calls a  army p80 Jet 550 my in 62 minutes new York aug. 2 ans a a p80 shooting Star new Jet propelled army plane made a 550-mile flight from Wright Field Dayton Ohio to Laguardia Field n. Y., in 62 minutes yesterday. The plane averaged 526 . Almost nine Miles a minute flying through overcast and at 20.000 feet most of the time. Piloted by col. William h. Council former commander of a p38 fighter group in the Pacific and now Deputy for operations of the air technical service command took off from Wright Field at 11 35 am and passed Over Laguardia Field at 12 37 pm. It has been officially disclosed the shooting stars maximum Speed is in excess of 550 . Council described the plane As Quot the finest in be Ever  Beach at Nice opened to gis Surra officials in Nice yesterday lifted the ban on swimming in the Waters Between the american red Cross and the hotel Negrescu. Special services div. Announced that although medics tested the water and found it free of sewage the swimming would be centralized around the Surra s Bathhouse. The Bathhouse will open at 9 am  a ready to strike san Francisco aug 2 ans a Tokyo papers today carried an Imperial Headquarters communique boasting that Japan was fully prepared to Quot Deal the enemy a fatal blow in the anticipated showdown Battle on our Homeland Quot the japanese dome Agency reported. As division sail by aug. 12 Paris aug. 2�?�?~three divisions now in Assembly area command Camps near Rheims the 36th and 45 the inf. And 13th airborne Are scheduled to depart by aug. 12 for be Havre where they for the us., theater announced today. These Are the last three Eto divisions known to have alerted for redeployment. Already Home Are the fourth fifth eighth. 44th 87th, 95th, 97th and 104th inf. On the High seas Bourn Are the 13th and 28th inf. Dive. The 30th inf. Div. Is of embarking. One scheduled to sail from the rest of the division a a moved to Scotland to sail Queen Mary. First army Headquarters 3s in the u3. And ninth army Headquarters is on the High St  brew4hg halts 11 Reich Paris aug. 2�?except for the breweries in Bavaria which Are operating on orders for gis Beer producers in the american zone of Germany have been directed to close shop according to an announcement yesterday by Tho economics Branch g-5 division us fat. The closure was ordered because of the shortage of bread grains for direct consumption in Germany