European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Man Speicht Jet die Strassl Gesperry St Dee Strausse Gaspe hot la the Road blocked the 181 on Porte Francois be la Lance Nob la Lonsay dont throw door newspaper of armed european theater of new reds Battle inside Posen Koniaev drives on Breslau advancing to Oder River nazi Speed Retreat fast in Vith bulletin the key communications Center of Vith fell to first army Reuter reported from the front last germans stepped up their Retreat out of Belgium yester Day As first army troops smashed into Vith and third army paced by the four mile Advance of the 17th air borne Drova the enemy out 6f All belgian territory Between Houff Alize and the Luxembourg american artillery joined fighter bombers in blasting fleeing Ger Man convoys which choked the Snow packed roads toward Ger the remaining salient in Luxembourg was tottering under third army blows North of die while the Retreat of German ground forces was reported As being the flight of Armor and transport gave evidence that mount ing Allied pressure had forced nazis West of the Siegfried line into a critical troops enter Vith seventh armoured tanks Ana armoured infantry pushed into communications key for the belgian sector still held by Ger and fought House House for control of the town which troops lost a month Over the smoulder ing junk heaps of wrecked enemy transport and Armor marked the ardennes graveyard where were buried in the last two weeks the striking Force of three powerful German armies and the Hopes of German High command for a t stalemate in the Armoreda attack on Tith began at 1400 with continued on Page 8 t Bill lord by group v 23 i House military affairs to twee tentatively approved Legisla c fion designed to Force men Between Kufa cages of 18 and 45 into essential Tor a Las minute change gave draft boards the option of ordering the induction of a non worker or certifying him for pro and who ignore draft Board i to take essential jobs would to five years imprison ant and the committee approved by a 14 to vote in closed session an dment declaring that men As aed to by boards shall not required to join the amendment was fought bitterly by members who contended it ived unions of their Legal rights 4er existing legislation and de it would permit draft boards Pendly to labor to Load Union with nonunion ninth raked fleeing nazis More than rounds of ammunition from airborne average of 94 bullets for each pumped into fleeing nazi con Voys during mondays ninth Affield this concentration of ninth of statisticians Emp has did not include the multiple weapons of the 412 medium and Light bombers which set up some of the transport targets for fighter bombers by smash ing Bridges and bottle Hecking fleeing Armor again riddled by ninth of remnants of nazi convoys battered in mondays record ninth of attacks were riddled anew yester Day by Waves of ninth fighter flying More than 850 the ninth pilots slipped through a Cloud cover for dec level strafing of the depleted German motor by the destruction of 986 vehicles had been re ported and the damage of 933 yesterdays toll brought to the number of nazi motor trans port reported destroyed or damaged during the 36hour though German traffic yester Day was far scarcer than on Mon ninth fighter bombers still found Long convoys on the move northward and eastward or seeking hiding places in leafless Woods along the Roadside roads jammed some roads were still jammed with German reported one Squadron Vernon of at one intersection we found 100 trucks trying to crowd into a Small in addition to motor the fighters reported the destruction or damage 9f 80 tanks and 520 rail six planes were reported Small forces of a26 invaders and a20 havoc joined the fighter bombers and bombed and strafed motor columns at Treetop level for the first time in their the invaders hit vehicles in the Vicinity of Berk and while the havoc struck Northeast of British jurors convict Soldier of murder British jury today convicted Karl swedish born american of Cam of the murder of George London Justice sir Ernest Bruce Charles sentenced him to death by also sentenced to death was Hulsens onetime girl Elizabeth 18yearold striptease under British Law Justice Charles was obligated to sentence her though the jury recommended stars and stripes map by Baird heavy Black the extent of the Allied lines on the Western and Eastern the reds reached Posen and smashed toward the Baltic in sweeping gains on All furloughs to great Britain planned for soldiers Here by Arthur White stars and stripes staff writer american troops on the Western front Are scheduled to get furloughs to great starting in or possibly Eto Headquarters disclosed planned on the same general lines As the recently announced furloughs to the French they will be for a exclusive of travel although quotas for the twelfth a land sixth army the air 2 awol get life sentences two american soldiers convicted on awol charges were Given life terms last week in general courts martial in the Seine it was disclosed three other awol got 25 one two 15 and one others received lesser there was one John Seine Section trial judge said that records of men apprehended in the Paris area for awol showed that such violations frequently led to other waxwork ultimatum Given Newark tenants 23 Newark housing which controls rentals of three government War housing projects said today tenants were being notified they must either engage in War work or leave the the order was expected to affect families living in 828 housing notices posted in the apartments pointed out that essential War work was an original condition of the rental and sixth army forces and com z have not yet been officials said the maximum number of men from the continent who would be in Britain at one time under the plan would be about travel will be by soldiers will be selected for furloughs by local As in the Case of the Riviera officials pointed out that those chosen will still be eligible for return to the on temporary duty for recupera Tion and men arriving in Britain will get free rail transportation to a place chosen by them and will be provided with rations for the they May visit civilian friends or travel anywhere in the country be fore returning to a Central recep Tion Camp for transportation Back to the p61 has four Cannon the p61 Black widow night fighter is armed with four belly the ninth of revealed the Cannon Are oper ated by the the Crew includes a radar observer or a radar armament on the Black which have been flying night intruder missions for two of the ninth ass has previously been sliding in on a nose and a prayer push toward sea threatens to Cut off Prussia marshal stains Winter Blitzkrieg thundered on yesterday As four red armies stabbed East Prussia to within 20 Miles of the bal tic across the Western polish Plains to the outskirts of Posen and into the heart of German Silesia within ten Miles of nowhere did the russians beating Back every German attempt to make a most spectacular of the Days Victory announcements from the Kremlin was that of marshal Ivan Konies thrust into German an order of the Day said that Konies first ukrainian army had captured five important communications towns protecting then gained a 36mile front on the River Oder South of Berlin says reds in Posen German radio last night said that Konies patrols were West of 13 Miles East of Bres Karls Markt and All towns surrounding Breslau yesterday to Konies rolling Down the Warsaw Berlin marshal Zhukov first White russian army was reported fighting inside Industrial and communications capital of Western this report came from Berlin sources quoted by Stockholm radio and picked up by the stars and stripes Bureau in new smashing North through shattered German lines in Southwest East the second White russian army was less than 20 Miles from cutting off East Prussia from the rest of thus Impe Rilling the German armies fighting in the East against the third White russian capturing 20 Miles from Elbing on the and Mokhrun 15 Miles to the these cond White russian army also was within 40 Miles of capital of the East prussian on the Western sector the East prussian Cher Nia Kovsky third White russian army made steady occupying the towns of Whelan and Labiau on the Banks of the Rivers Deime and on the Northern prong of Zhukov first White russian army Bromberg fell to tank units mov continued on Page 8 nos wheel stops just in leave m these most weather snowstorms As Well As Battle fog and i greased with and pictured Here is a b26 marauder iretnrni6jg Frap fee wolfs and plunge through gales and the last Hazard is a runway operations and barely avoiding a mashup because of a Slippery Landing