European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Slot hew web uncovered the other Day a Iyow Black Market this one deals in this Dotty of i 1 army one franc volume of Timber 52 new York Dijon Paris a Curow of Toto pro Tina Ohl franc Ood and asked if he teat a crooner january 1945 1st armoured in St Vith Hammer Ardemus bulge 3rd army troops closed up along the Clerf River in Northern four Miles from the German Border today while 1st army troops to the North in Belgium beat off an enemy counterattack in the South Side of St which officially was reported captured at 1745 tuesday by the 7th armoured the ardennes which at Christmas time extended 50 Miles into has been hammered in a month into a Flat bump four to ten Miles wide and 40 Miles Long at its base along the Siegfried in Northern the 7th army made a limited withdrawal to what officially were described As More advantageous positions East and North of no Large towns were yielded As the germans continue to press along the Plain toward Frances traditional bastion on the Rhine and Symbol of French Power in the alsatian attacking North of French troops advanced several Kilometres to Cross the 111 which parallels the cot Mastras Bourg they were gaining the initiative in that sector where Ger mans have Thust a narrow Corri Dor toward in British troops were fighting on the outskirts of Mont four Miles Southwest of Roer action was stiff along their front As the mommies drove toward North of the Bri Tish extended their hold on the River Maas and took the town of to the they cleared St Joost on the North of the flattening ardennes 7th armoured troops threw Back several counter attacks after occupying St one attack came at the Southwest part of the town with 100 infantry and seven the capture of St Vith netted 250 nazi Southwest of the the 30th straightened its taking the towns of Crumbach and on their 75th troops drove eastward to Clear Braun Lauf and there was heavy fighting a mile South of continued on Page 4 Convoy remains catch hell again remains of shattered German still limping out of the collapsing bulge after a today pasting that Cost them More than destroyed and damaged were bombed and strafed again today by 9th a despite miserable fight a bombers flew More than 350 destroying s37 nazi vehicles and German traffic was generally Light on the wreckage uttered but considerable were Dis covered Aad blasted South of bus and m the Der Bauxar in 43 tanks and Arm ored can were and an other 36 damaged two fighter were reported and pilots claimed the Una of three me1996 in Aerial fighter of the 1st tag hew More than Iso sorties without few Toddjr to hit German common and supplies in the s 7th by ooch 1st army take Opp i All Lead to Manila Tell Senate Luce plan wont work 24 Luces proposal that combat soldiers be limited to a fixed tour of duty was called impractical today by Vic president Truman and two senators just returned from the Truman said he had considerable army experience but 1 still cant presume to Tell the army what to senators James Tunnell and Harold Burton members of the Senate War investigating committee who just returned from agreed with saying Only the army could decide the question of troop assignment and Luce made her proposal after a recent trip to the european she noted that air Force personnel Are withdrawn from combat after a fixed number of missions and urged that the same be done for fifth scatters krauts 24 army artillery dispersed Strong German troop concentrations Southwest of near West Era sixth Abms spearheads yesterday were approaching Bam ban and american patrols were reported near Clark six Miles Mac Aithur also announced to capture of so rapid is the american Advance on Luzon that this drawn yesterday was outdated when it returned from the engraver last legion commander sees Serviceman next president new National commander of the american predicted during a speech to the annual meeting of the new York state publishers that the next president would be a Veteran of the first world War or the present he said that the through proper could be the bal Ance of Power in jointing out that while the Legio frs Ter prohibits Active support of any candidate or nothing in the charter or bylaws prevents us from working to defeat a Candi scheiberling urged Universal Mil itary training and an International association of with police Powers to enforce its von Papen in mad ride according to Ankara 24 Kara quoting a reliable said today that a Ger Man peace Mission headed by Franz von Papen had arrived in von it had the Confidence of the German army and was going to sound out the possibilities for the Best Possi ble peace terms for similar unconfirmed reports have come from Neutral capitals whenever nazi War fortunes have taken a turn for the 6th army patrols near Clark Field Otway Tomanica Allied Pacific head Quad 6th army patrols on Luzon were operating near Clark Field the with its 13 lies less than 10 Miles beyond the front lines of the Manila bound Macarthur announced today that his troops had advanced five Miles to the Southwest on the Cen trial Luzon had captured Camp Odonnell in Southern Tarlac province and the town of Concep and had won new positions 54 Miles North of yank spearheads were approach ing the bombed and shelled town of six Miles from Clark american planes continued to Batter enemy airfields and lines of communications on and shot up gun positions and Barracks on in other Pacific air Sai pan based super fortresses flew to Japan on tuesday and attacked the aircraft Center of the b29s destroyed or damaged 62 Jap one super fortress was super forts based on the Marianas also attacked two islands in the 600 Miles South of Navy bombers from the philippine area attacked the he Ito air base on Formosa and patrol planes ranged into the Ryukyu these strikes augmented action by 3rd Fleet Carrier planes which hit the enemy Okinawa in the continued on Page 4 germans report soviets 5 Miles from Breslau Spear leads of marshal Ivan Kanevs 1st ukrainian brushing aside desperate German Home guard re yesterday stormed into capital of upper Silesia and the communications Keystone of southwestern then gained a Bridgehead across the Oder River and smashed North toward marshal Stalin announced hawaiian was arrive fort 24 first contingent of hawaiian wacs57 of arrived Here for Basic of Fili hawaiian and in is hawaiian they collectively speak 15 different two escaped from ordeal Tell tale by Wade staff writer with the 7th yanks clawed their Way up the North Alsace Mountain Crest and when they reached the Summit they dug dog they were glad there were few Ger mans to oppose Olien the sly shifting German infiltrations then came the Snow and then the mighty bail of nazi artillery whose Crescendo was to reach a pitch these veterans had never before endured to 19 months of combat by the end of the first three Days some 100 of the men on the Ridge had been evacuated or had with during those Days attempt after attempt was made to reach isolated companies Oft the Crest casualties were and battalion regi mental battalion up mortar men and truck Drivers were called up to carry rations and ammo and to Bear rifles on the an estimated 150 enemy artillery from 75 thundered their zeroed fire into the Fox holes along the Long frontal line on the Crest and onto roads and Crossroads leading up the the fire was incredibly time after time it nailed trucks and armoured vehicles As they shot by a time after time it bored cleanly into the men huddled in simply the germans began throwing in salves of rockets which it col Felix battalion estimated at from eight to ton inches in diameter they came in salves of ten to they were deadly accurate and their blast effect was the worst thing i Ever went he by the end of the third Day the devastating enemy artillery and their repeated which a reached several Kilometres behind our had prevented further reinforcement or supplying of the marooned on the russians at their farthest Point were 137 Miles from the Northern prong of Kanevs fanning out to the North of captured two important communications towns inside the German Border to menace the entire German defense line protecting Germany second capital some were re ported by the germans within five Miles of to the marshal Gregory Zhukov 1st White russian meeting the toughest German resistance since the giant Winter offensive began 11 Days drove into to Cut the Breslau Posen rail Kalisz is so Miles due West of Little news of fighting around Posen was available last night Al though enemy reports claimed that panzers had regrouped and smashed Back at Zhukov Forward units re ported yesterday inside the on the 2nd ukrainian army front in Southern marshal Mauno Vaskys troops went Over to the gaining 12 Miles on a 25mile this army yesterday seized Konz Iava and Jeslava in the heavy forested country North of to the North troops of marshal to Kossovsky Tod White russian army captured 21 Miles West of and two other bastions of the German defense line covering the East prussian Lake District no news was available on fight ing in the other East prussian Sec the Western prong of to Kossovsky army had driven across Western East Prussia to within 20 Miles of the two soldiers get life sentences american soldiers last week received sentences of life imprisonment on awol charges in a general court martial la Seine it was disclosed 15 of the 35 cases which came before the court were for in addition to the life three men got 25 one two one five and others received lesser there was one acquittal awol offences Are regarded As equal in seriousness to those of stealing and Selling government property on the Biak the trial judge advocate be added that records of awol apprehended in the Paris area showed absence without leave frequently leads to other col Riding in a medium hammered his Way up the Mountain and continued on Pooe slav breach widens 24 a the Jugoslav crisis took a new turn today when King Peter requested prime minister Ivan Subasic to Jugoslav Cabinet in this action widened toe breach Between the great Britain and the soviet