-",- dfe'Page 4 THE STARS \>l> 51KI PclSU.S. CasualtiesTJouble That of1st World WarWASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (ANS>—US combat losses are morethan two and one half times thetotal number of American casualtiesin the last war, the UP disclosed.The news service reported theArmy s World War II total includes564,351 through Dec. 29, plus40 000 which War SecretaryStimson announced for the Ardennescampaign from Dec. 15 to •>»"•'Stimson said 18,000 of the 40,000 Iwere missing, but did not breakdown the remaining 22,000 killedand wounded.All service casualties in WoricWar II as officially announced,have reached 686,388—including604351 for the Army and 82,059for the JSIavy, Marine Corps anaCoast Guard—as compared with agrand total of 259,735 for WorldLast' wars total included 248,653for the Army and 11,082 for taeother servicesThe totals cover about 36 monthsol US. participation in this warand 19 months in the last.Although casualty totals aremuch higher, the ratio among. Army -roops overseas is the same_12 casualties out of every 100men. Soldiers i vv overseas numberabout. 5.000,000 as compared with2,086.000 at the end of WorldWar 1.Fingers Gone,New Suits of ArmorProtect Air CreivsLONDON, Jan. 18 (AP).—American airmen are now al-most entirely encasea in armorwhen making missions- over Ger-many. The ne-.; flak suit, hasspecially-hardened stee; in theback 'and front. Previouslythere was heavy metal only onthe backing of plane scats.Casualties from flas havebeen reduced by 6G percent bythe arr—r suits, the Air ServiceCommand reports.Foot Care's a Ticklish Problem(Continued Irom page 1)the tommy gun at the firstsound of American relief. Butdarkness c&me and there was norelief The Germans guarding themBritish TroopsCross Border(Continued from Page 1)was on a comparatively small scairit was being steadily extended. Tommies crossed the German fronticitrom Holland east of the town oiSusteren, five miles north of Sittard, UP said from the front. Tin.British were meeting stiff opposi-tion from the German 176th Inf.Div.In the Ardennes, U.S. First Armyforces hammered at the Germanperimeter defense of St. Vith. Lt.Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' men tookthe town of Bartonville, two mileseast of captured Vielsalm, and Pe-tit Thier to the north of it.American infantry reached thetown of Recht, five miles northwestof St. Vith.Counter-Blows ThwartedU.S. Third Army's 90th Div.fought off three enemy counter-attacks delivered by infantry Iromcompany to battalion strength inLuxembourg. These were backed upby from four to 24 tanks, 19 ofwhich were knocked out.Northeast of Bastogne in theThird Army sector, the SixthArmored Div. moved 1,200 yards toNo, they're notU .s Army Signal Corpe E'hctcISO. incyrc , ula>,^ This Little &*&•"*'» * d"almassage that Pvt. S. H. Morales is giving Pvt. J Ventura,Set George Gutowski and Pvt. Harold Reimler of the same combatengineer outfit look on. The rubdown prevents frostbite andtrench foot. Besides, it feels good.Snow. Drifts ^ear BaslogneHeld Bodies of Slain Yanksbrought out a couple of bottles ofcognac As the Germans gothigh ground between Borcy rndBongvilly.^UKliav^. •"»*' -»-«drunker and drunker, Bell easedhimself toward the big SS-specialbayonet with which they had slicedtheir bread and when the op-portunity came he grabbed it andslit the throats of both guards."Our scuffle stirred some of theGermans upstairs. I wheeledaround in time to see a Germanaiming a bazooka at me. Theround burst against the wall rightabove me, blinding my left eye andplaying hell with my hands.Fires With Little Finger"Somehow I got my gun, cradledit under the crook of my left armand with the little linger of myright hand, which was the onlyone I had left, I fired like hellThe German-fell before he couldreload. I kept shooting until Ger-mans stopped trying to come downthose narrow cellar stairs,"How did I feel? Weak, weak ashell and mad. A piece of my leftband was hanging down over the'tommy gun and getting in the way'so I asked a medic to cut it off.iHe whacked away with the Ger-man bayonet for about ten mi-nutes, but I guess I was too tough^for that bayonet. So the medictied together what was left of that,hand with my parachute necker-chief."As the night wore on fightingaround the building grew in in-Butadorf,The 94th Div., east oistill was battling aBy Pat MitchellStars and Stripes St«H WriterWITH 35th INF. DIV., Jan. 18.—The snow-covered bodi.esof six murdered infantrymen were discovered scattered ina 200-yard circle half a mile south of the village of Lutre--0015. XjLL ul. t-KJWAO J.O 1.1V t. m ,OX*.L» Tv>^— members of the ij^tu jjtn,Regt., on patrol through woxisrecently captured from GermanpE.nzer and parachute troops, dis-Friday, Jan. 19, 1945^Russians DriveTo E. Prussia,Silesia Gates(Continued from Page I)nouncea last night in a third Orderof -ho Day.Even as Berlin radio admittedtluu the Rod Army was stormingthe immediate vicinity of Silesia,Moscow radio said that the whols(ierman defense system in the Eastj> "splitting in all its seams andcracking up" under the mighty RedArmy blow thai "will not end ititv.Ktoric path until it has reachedBerlinIn the lighting arouno K-rauowofficial Moscow reports said thatRed Army artillery was shelling thecity and powerful tank units hadprobed the city's outskirts45 Miles in Two Days; According to AP, it appeared thatthe Second White Russian Army-was heading for the capital of _East Prussia—Koenigsberg. rhc Imain spearhead, moving north ofPrasnys/. aloni? the Koenigsoerg- |; Warsaw highway, has gained morei than 45 miles in the last two days,'the AP said. Another column o!jthis army was rcportec racingI across the snow-blanketed plainsj from the Narew River toward tie jlower Vistula River. 65 miles away. 'This column last night seizedModlin, on the north bank of theVistula. 34 miles northwest OfWarsaw.600 Nazi Tanks DestroyedOn the East Prussian front, Da-man reports said that Red Armytroops had opened another dimheoss <*In tne lttst fxve days of said ttiatPolicy Is Set(Continued trom Page I)counter-thrust in which 15 tankswere taking part.Third Army's prisoner bag yester-day totalled 828, a little higher thanthe daily average which has nettedthe Army 16,097 prisoners since itattacked the south flank of thebulge and a total of 156,400 sinceAug. 1, when the Army becameoperational.A German force pocketed byThird Army troops southeast ofRemich, near the Luxembourg-German border, apparently hadbeen mopped up by yesterday, butthere is no indication of how manyGermans had been trapped there.Britain's "hard lot to play the lead-ing role In the Mediterranean." "InItaly," Churchill stated, "British orBritish-controlled divisions underField Marshal Alexander's com-mand—and still more if the wholeMediterranean be included—out-number threefold those of theUnited States."Churchill repeated that Britainhad only one principle about theliberated countries or repentantsatellites, and that was a "govern-ment of the people, by the peopleand for the people, set up on a basisof free and universal election."Servicemen's Place in PlaneTaken by Col. Roosevelt's Dog.covered the partially strippedbodiesAll weto equipment, ammunition,gloves, wool-knit caps scarves,overshoes and shoes had teenremoved, according to 1/Lt. Edde-phons C. Reichel, of Glidden, Wis."The men were murdered. Thosebastards had taken them prisonerand then shot them, with pistols,"Reichel said.In Reichel's patrol were J?fcsAndrew Baumgartner, San J'ose,Calif.; Robert L. Gishoff, Delaware,Ohio; J. P. Brown, Altoona, Pa.,and Erwin C. Choate, Woodsville,N.H.Two of the bodies were foundlying side by Bide, one shot throughthe back of the head, the otherthrough the heart. Neither hadany other wound, but their helmetswere not to be found in an areaof 300 yards, Lt. Reichel said.been disabled.In Budapest, the Red Army wonanother 200 blocks yesterday,according to reports from MoscowPacific . . .(Continued Irom Page IIANTIOCH, Calif., Jan, 18 (ANS).—A Navy gunner called home by hisfather's death and an Army ser-geant hurrying to the side of hissick wife said today they were putoff an Army transport plane atMemphis, Term., last week becausea huge dog consigned to Mrs. El-liott Roosevelt, formerly Faye Emer-son, actress wife oi the President'sson, had a higher priority, the As-sociated Press reported.Albuquerque, New Mex., yesterday,said she had received "Blaze," 130-pound bull mastiff at Hollywood'rom her husband, but. "I assureyou the dog travels as freight andpriority freight; that putting offall hell broke loose.What a NightIt was Bell's tank, in which CpL th wouid not have correctedfee ^ He ^ it waa a freight4.1,  *~ »--— - . , —- - luo^j tne weigiib. nc ^x»iu n, ¥»«*>«• »—o—John Robinson, of Detroit, had carrying ship and passengers arerushed off for help. He had carried on freight ships with thereturned with 12 combat engineers ^^standing they may' have toand they came into the buildingfighting. _"I kept things going as best Icould—what » night I Those en-' gineers fought like tankers. Eleven,of the 12 were killed. The one! that survived had a BAR. I wishI could remember his name, 1never had seen a man fight likethat. I know that he killed atleast 40 Germans."As daylight approached, the Ger-mans set the building on fire, and•that was when the Americans'dashed through a hail of machine--'gun fire for the ambulance half-' track the medic had discovered. y an equ*number, of Mustang fighten,]yesterday raided the marshallW[yards at Kaiserslautern. Airerwof both the Ninth AF and ttie *»TAG AF were grounded. ;A force of RAF bombers ra»,a pre-dawn attack on MagdefrW:yesterday and found the city *»ablaze from Tuesday night's r**They bombed the already-burnSIoil refineries and other industn*targets.Nazis Print Phony HeriddA fake issue of the E u r o p e a nedition of the New York HeraldTribune is being distributed inFrance by the Nazis, the Asso-ciated Press reported yesterday.Articles attacking France arefeatured in the paper, which isprinted in GermanyTerry And the Pirates By Courtesy ot News SyndicateChain Stores ProtestCigarette Ration PlanCHICAGO, Jan. 18  'possibly know transient customs*By Milton CaniflWELL... IT SAYSfHATMUSTAND CENTER.,.NT!CONST-- IMEAN,YE*IJAME , POX3UEVEK THINKOf. WHAT ITWOULD BE LIKEIF WE WERECIVILIANS ?WHOWEOTE THeSOLDIER*; HANC