European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                F Man Speicht Deutsch lie the six 178 daily newspaper of armed forces new stripes in the european theater of operations fee on Parle Francois Naitil plus Froid be soil Fay Teel Plew Fra Suh Swar is it colder Toni fist 1945 reds 30 from Breslau Roosevelt takes 4th term flak got one but another limps Back to Bate the first wartime presidential inauguration since that of Lincoln in the civil Franklin Roosevelt took the oath of office today As the first fourth term president of the United the in history briefest inaugural thrust aside the animosities of the bitter election Campaign and called the nation to total War Effort in the last Lap for Brief ceremony at his own the on the Back porch of the White was Brief and lasting Only 20 in freezing tem hundreds of workmen had cleared paths in the overnight fall of which covered the White House while mechanics with numbed fingers pre pared equipment for the president s thinner and grayer than when he took office 12 years the president warned the specially invited Diplo Mats and other there would be no lasting peace if the victors approach the peace commitments with mistrust and period of supreme test you will understand i be agree with my wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its words we americans of together with our Are passing through a period of supreme test of our our our Wisdon of our essential if we meet that continued on Page 8 ship survivors machine gunned by Navy says san 20 sinking of the american Liberty ship John Johnson last november by a japanese whose Crew danced on the deck and machine gunned helpless was disclosed yesterday by the Navy the ship was torpedoed Between the and the japs cursed the rammed their sub against one life raft and attempted to ram others ten americans were most of them machine gunned while in the along with this disclosure the Navy admitted that convoys sailing from Pacific coast ports have been alerted against roving Jap nazi smashes the aboard two armies sweep into Prussia 3 nazi blows at Alsace Plain blocked by 7th army troops nazi reinforced by Armor brought from across the Rhine hurled three new assaults into the Alsace Plain yesterday to Montog efforts to make von Rundstedt offensive moves in the West pay off with the Reconquest of Strasbourg and the Rhine Plain after the failure of the ardennes while the German assaults were Marlene in Paris Marlene recently Rumor de to Bea captive of the Ger is Safe in Paris rehearsing new show in which the i circuit will see her in de latter de tas signs French first army launched a powerful offensive against the nazi pocket in Southern at the other end of the the French troops attacked along a 25mile front from Amarin to the and reported gains of three in ardennes salient in the dutch British attack gained a mile and a half in weather which changed from thaw to Frost and mommies captured the villages of Bre Beren and establish ing a simile front Between Pei and Bre Beren against stiffening earlier in the the British had taken Ocean Dahal Miles Southeast of and seized the town of North West of in a raid across the River first army forces continued their attack in the weakening North shoulder of the ardennes but no extensive ground gaining continued on Page 8 half of Canada troops at Poe Hoover Therill 20 of Canadian Home defense troops ordered overseas failed to return from embarkation and of them Are still defense minister Mcnaughton announced the absent men were part of a contingent drafted under the Licy of partial conscription adopted in november by the Canadian government despite vigorous pro largely by the French speak ing population of Canada previously sent Only volunteers after 21 Days absence without leave in the Canadian men Are listed As a capital offence in Mcnaughton said a full comple ment of troops arrived in England in the first overseas move ment of Canadian the army authorities he anticipating some might violate embarkation had provided replace ments at the Hitler indicted Forwar crimes United nations War crimes commission has approved War criminal charges preferred against Adolf Hitler and 24 members of the German govern ment by the government of Czecho the charges were based on the establishment of certain nazi military courts responsible for sentencing to death approximately 3 000 czechoslovak follow ing the killing of Reich protector Rheinhart in Hitler is named in a total of ten charges preferred by the Czecho slovak a total of 379 nazi military and civilian officials and personnel were named in the crimes charged against the nazis included deliberate starvation of forced deportation of Bru Tal treatment and massacre of Stu dents and mass extermination of czechoslovak nations sign truce in Moscow 20 Moscow radio announced the provisional government of Hungary Hac signed an armistice negotiations took place in mos cow Between representatives of the soviet Britain and the the name of All the United nations at War with Anc a delegation from the provisions hungarian terms will be announced Thomas Pacific air killed san 20 ans Thomas Mcguire of san Antonio and Ace with 38 japanese planes to his was shot Down and killed in the Philippines 7 George air forces commander in the Pacific informed Mcguire in a letter dated the letter said an Accident had made the Pilot Vul russian drive sends London Hopes soaring the possibility that the astound ing russian advances May crush Germany and end the War in a matter of weeks fills military Cir cles in London with suppressed sex William Frye of the associated press reported in caution born of hard experience led High Amer ican and British military observers to View the reds Progress As due to a sweeping German Retreat rather than a a Horace British official War interpreter said the germans Are malting every Effort to encourage optimism in the Allied though the German armies appear shattered and they May possess the Power and skill to stand the Eastern gateways to wrote aps Kirke Simpson from in London and optimism was no responsible military figure continued on Page 8 three russian armies were fighting last night on the sacred soil of the father inside East Prus Sia and another on the fringes of upper the Wehr Macht defense line on the Eastern front was falling to pieces under the Resolute red army which Berlin described As the Battle which will decide the Fate of Ger Berlin was 200 Miles away and Sec Ond 30 Miles away from tank spearheads of marshal Ivan Konies first ukrainian which German radio said had crossed on to the silesian soil from polish City on the Warsa Breslau 38 Miles Southwest of nazis ask for time claiming that German resist Ance was beginning to Berlin radio commentators pleaded with the Home front last night to be patient and give the German High command time to prepare to hold the red in East Forward elements of marshal Gregory Zhukov first White russian army were reported ten Miles inside the Southern advancing from Mulawa along the main Highway from Warsaw to German news Agency said that patrols of Zhukov army had reached about six Miles Southwest of Tannenberg and 85 Miles Southwest of the City of on the Eastern sector of East Chernia Kovsky third White army captured til sit and Gross thus out flanking the most important communication Center in Northern East Chernia Kovsky continued on Page 8 red army tide surges Onward stars and the red offensive continued unchecked yesterday with Sei Zorc of the main towns of on the silesian and in Northern East highlighting the Days victories which included the capture of More than towns and