European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Short Story new and Jacob Hittler won supreme court permission recently to change their name to my new Spur of fonts one franc ripes number m a euro too to tatar one Are the almost Well a whiny her soviets 165 Miles from Berlin Jones requested to quit Job in favor of Wallace Dent Roosevelt has asked Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones to re Linquish his Cabinet Post and his duties As head of government financial agencies so that they May be turned Over to Henry a who bowed out As vice president on Mak ing Public an Exchange of letters Between himself and the last night that he would leave the Cabinet As Jones strongly protested Roosevelt in a let Ter to the president had expressed the Hope that Jones would consider a new government Post and had mentioned several vacant but in his Jones said i can Best be helpful in the line of my lifes Ness and i seek no jobs Jones also questioned wallaces qualification for the Cabinet Post and the Allied he told the you to turn Over All these assets and responsibilities to a Man inexperienced in business and finance i be be hard for the business and financial world to the Senate does not interfere with the presidents Cabi net but plans for a full fledged Senate fight Over the confirmation of Wallace have begun to take it appeared that Tom Connolly Texas would be in the forefront of the he called at the White House last week to urge Roose velt to take the reconstruction finance corporation and other financial agencies out from under toe Commerce with Jones As be fore bringing Wallace into the cab inet Connally termed the resignation of who also is a very several other continued on Page 4 Ela seam peace confab meet in Athens new 22 John greek foreign announced in Athens to Day that peace negotiations be tween the government of Premier Nicholas Plastiras and left Wing Elas forces would begin thurs International red Cross officials announced that the Eam National liberation party had selected a peace delegation and asked the government to set the time and place for the rendezvous wifi death in Holland racing Forward in a half an infantry Man of the 82nd airborne division left leaves his foxhole to help intercept a German patrol near he is covered to a companion right with a cat machine veterans of and the 82nd was one of the crack that helped hurl Back the recent German 6th army troops capture Tarlac Allied philippine head Ameri can 6th army spearhead ing South in the Advance on have captured the City of Tarlac one of the most important High Way and railway centers on the philippine Macarthur announced Tarlac and its two airfields fell on Friday night saturday Dijon time to tank units which enveloped the City from two then joined up and drove East to capture Victoria and Navy and airmen continued u give the ground troops Strong smashing at Japa Nese communication five Supply dumps and High ways were strafed and 15 Jap planes shot Macarthur also disclosed the first casualty report on the Luzon he said that More than japs had been killed and More than 600 captured in the three week there was no confirmation from Washington of the Tokio report that american Carrie based air Craft were again striking at Mosa and the Ryukyu in other parts of the vast a civic Asiatic Battle the japanese also were losing seac Headquarters announced that British troops had invaded a strategic Island off Western while in the northeastern part of chinese troops were on the verge of opening the land Supply route into embattled Home Terri Back from the a bomber Wing Northern 22 the first survivor of the in cameos March of death from Bateau to reach the lines on Laura joined free Ferow americans today after roaming Luzon enemy occupied lowlands and Jungle  for two Yean and nine As a fugitive from toe the Soldier is Cpl Gerald he arrived in the Philippines with the 19th bombardment group just before the outbreak of the death March was the name riven by those who saw the sick and starred  of Bateau As they were marched to imprisonment train Bataan by the triumphant was so Haffard and Shuffs that he appeared 15 years he told of the surrender in the subsequent mis treatment he Ami other prisoners received until he finally its too food to be the idahoans said As be stepped from the plane which brought him from the front this be limped from Stone bruises and because of the sofness of his borrowed and while his face was pasty he Eon Lont help fran Runtti iter to food american and ill Tell ail krauts giving Way in Eastern Hall of bulge Eastern half of the ardennes bulge began to collapse today As germans retreated toward the Siegfried 3rd army pursuing the drove to within seven Miles of the Reich fighter bombers pounded concentrations of German Armor and trucks totalling vehicles which were moving out of the salient North of die Kirch and behind the Siegfried by mid afternoon 19th tag reported it had shattered All previous records in the destruction of enemy motor transport the Cavern began in the salient with the germans continuing to hold the flanks at Vianden and As they did when the first phase of their Retreat began two weeks ago West of the Ourthe on men of the 3rd army 26th and 6th cavalry drove into the Luxembourg nazi aggression curb demanded 22 mediate action to quarantine Ger Man aggression As a step toward lasting peace was demanded today by Arthur Vandenberg Vandenberg asserted that the basis of Allied discord was Europe justified fear of another rebirth of German military Tyran he stated in a radio broadcast that removal of this fear through honest Candor with our our own and even our foes would eliminate the major menace to Allied he said that we do not want an instants hesitation or doubt about our military cooperation in the peremptory use of if needed to keep Germany and Japan Roundup of awol in Canada 22 ans military and civil police today continued the Roundup of approximately Canadian Home defense troops drafted for overseas duty who went awol when they were about to be sent the mass absenteeism was Dis closed saturday by my Home defense min in an announcement of the arrival in Britain of Canadas first town of Wiltz while 5th infantrymen ploughed five Miles Northwest of die Kirch acid other 3rd army forces entered Stocken and 10 to 12 Miles North East of and neared in French 1st army troops were pressing their attack in the Vosges in snowstorms which Cut Down communications to the Point where details of the Moun Tain assault could not be transmitted to British forces launched a new at tack East of Bre Beren in the dutch Panhandle and gained widening the base of the 2nd army attack to 12 on the West Bank of the Rhine in germans were moving their Armor around and probing for weak spots in 7th army lines near Herl Isheim and Drusen North of there was stiff fighting on the Southern Edge of the Bitch Gnu Zeno Falls in Zhukov drive towards Reich 22 scoring sweeping new gains on All fronts and crushing every German attempt Ito stabilize their shattered defense the red army plunged to within 165 Miles of Berlin yesterday after capturing two important enemy defense bastions one in Central Poland and the other on the Southern approaches to the polish driving West so Miles in two one tank spearhead of marshal Zhukov 1st White russian army stormed Down the main Warsaw Highway to seize 44 Miles Northeast of the great Industrial City of while on the right other Zhukov tanks captured the City of 150 Miles Northwest of in a push along the Southern Bank of the upper aiming for the East prussian capital of Koenigsberg in two drives across the 2nd and 3rd White russian armies captured the cities of Oster ode and cutting the enemy these cities Are the Hub of the East Prus Sian rail system and control All German Supply lines to the marshal Stalin announced these sweeping victories five orders of the Day Foril the Kremlin to on the Southern polish the German news Agency reported that marshal Konev had resumed his offensive into Southern patrols were reported 18 Miles East of capital of upper Kanevs army readied the is Kuseian Frontier in this sector four Days ago since Moscow has Bee silent on his along the Carpathian Moun the 4th ukrainian army drove through blizzards to make fresh gains i the push West to Ward Cracow to link up with Kanevs the most important gains of the were on the Central polish front Between Bromberg and the capture of 28 Miles Northwest of and 50 Miles Northwest of indicated that Zhukov army is drawing together for a push to the continued on Page 4 defense rips officers of 716th railway unit scathing indictment of 716th railway operating battalion officers who treated their men As stepchildren was Flung at the court today by major George defending a group of ten pm accused of the theft and Sale of cigarettes in the army mass Black Market despite an emotional closing argument by the ten men were and Given sentences o ranging from 20 to 30 the trial of another six men by a second Section of the which split up to Speed the was continued until the 16 men tried today made up the largest group to be brought before the Paris courts martial in a single Day since the Case in his Dickson said that the gis were victims of Cir no one will Ever convince he that this Many men from the Are it would have been a Miracle if they bad failed to get in this for stinking ill put this against anything Ive Ever he of the treatment the men had been Given in their he described the mens necessity of foraging for and said that with nobody to Tell them no one to discourage it inevitable that they get in in a 1st Stephen trial judge admitted that the mens leadership was not All it might have but said that that did not justify their he said they might be excused for taking rations for their own but said the government owes these men food and but not dollars to Send Home for the Sale of today verdicts brought to 37 the Cumber of men convicted thus one Man has been