European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tin a fms and Snuras Lear named to Post As commander born in Canada in he is one of the oldest Active generals Andone of the few Spanish Ameri can War veterans participating in the present in he was a first sergeant in a Colorado in he was commissioned a lieutenant in the cavalry in As commander of the 2nd army in 1941 and Lear played a Vit Al in the training of troops now fighting on All american known As a Stern he wide publicity in 1941 for his punishment of american sol Diers who to shooed at girls on a Memphis Golf course As they were passing he ordered the troops to return to the and make a Long forced March As a penalty for he considered their unsold Erly con besides his specific Respo Sibil in his new Post Lear will perform other special duties delegated hint by reports from Accord ing to the associated Indi Cate Joseph i Stilwell will be named the age succeeding Stilwell recently was recalled from the Chi bids Congress in on big three 24 Joseph Martin House minority suggested today that president Roosevelt take members of Congress to the conference with Churchill and Stalin Congress should be represented by unofficial observers at this con Martin he suggested that the president be accompanied by Tom Connay d chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and senator Arthur h Vandenburg Martin said that after con Gress must eventually act on the peace treaty if included in the Early will be Able to act More quickly and Intelli Ben Lear has been appointed Deputy theater commander of Eto and has arrived Here to assume his new Eisenhower announced Urlile recently commander of the army ground will Aid Ike in the administration of american at he will have no part in the direction of the Allied sheaf among his new Lear will supervise the allocation of american Power in the will be in charge of the stepped up program shifting rear Echelon personnel to reinforcement depots am thence to combat in Lear will be in charge of All matters having to do with the morale and welfare of troops in the he will also a final review of recommendations for awards and decorations of behalf of the supreme two escaped from debacle Tell of courage continued from Page 1 after firing into an enemy machine gun nest with the tanks big gun he sprayed the enemy with More than rounds from the vehicles machine while the tank Crew maintained a covering he jumped out and with the Aid of an unidentified sergeant hoisted three wounded atop the tank and escaped Down the Mountain under artillery a Day 2nd it Willis made it up the Mountain in a Light tank with rations and ammo tied to the capt Leroy battalion chaplain from three times made the trip up the Mountain on foot despite an order from the battalion executive officer that he not make the late on 20 two shaky gis staggered Down through the Snow from the Mountain they were the Only ones who did and the Only ones of their number who Ever Wilt they were waiter and pvt Benjamin golds they told of How the remainder of the companies who first went up assembled to try to break out there were 90 men unfounded and Well Over a Hundred wounded the rest had been when the break was made the walking wounded were helped from their holes while the More seriously injured were left behind after White flags had been placed on Rifle Jarrels and stuck in the ground to signify that those left were no longer combatant just As the Rush was made the Jerries a loosed a terrific barrage which caught nearly everyone be fore he could get to Melton said he was knocked Oft us feet four times by men were being hit directly by artillery and rockets All around he legs and arms were flying it was a god awful somehow we ran and stumbled through the Snow and nothing hit dispenser of mercy 6th army patrols continued from Page 1 on sunday for the fourth time this at Allied Southeast Asia com Mand mount Batten issued an order of the Day saying that the Advance of Ameri British and chinese forces had driven the japanese from Northern Burma and that the enemy had suffered a crushing seac Headquarters also announced new advances on several sectors in and reported another Landing by British they went ashore on the Northeast Ern part of the Yevon Southeast of of the Mars task Force established a Block on the old Burma about 80 mites above and in an artillery ambush killed More than 350 men of a japanese Force South enemy were in the japanese gained in Init of the Asp Dis dated that to the month ended it Sank tons of japanese shipping along the China Aad downed 152 enemy Hannegan stays with democrats 24 democrats added a few new faces to their party organization today and heard Robert Hannegan say he will stay on As National chairman instead of becoming postmaster general George san was named finance director Sam Washington and St Louis director of a program of betwee elections educational and Money raising activities will be maintained and increased instead of waiting until shortly before the 1946 Hannegan dollars Worth of Radium Down in dumps9 34 ans lowly municipal Dumo was a heavily guarded today any of the 20 proud factories in that Warbuys its squalid expanses hid Dailard Worth of the Radium was thrown into it waste Container at Josephs Hospital by an inexperienced who mistook it for refuse Depaur treat Orews Are always Beady with a smile and a word of Comfort for the Cpl Lew Ayrea right former Hollywood is one of the most popular men on Leyte he Cave of a staff sergeants rating in the Medleau corps to take an assignment a chaplains uniting allies for peace seen As frs big Job 24 an the task of transforming the War time Alliance of the United nations into a powerful Force for world peace is the greatest single Job confronting president Roosevelt in his associated press commented it presents him with unparalleled need for dovetailing this nations foreign and Domestic policies and for fitting together into a single pattern of world relationships american economic As Well As political in unless this Job can be Well say some of Roosevelt and there is Little Chance that the hard won victories of this War can actually be converted into Long years of world broadly the presidents 4th term problems May be grouped into three categories the prosecution of War to the unconditional surrender of Ger Many and Japan is Well developed and official Washington has every conviction our will to win will last through the final the Only big question is whether Russia As top american military men to join the War against Roosevelt a greatest task will be to maintain Indus trial production and manpower Al locations for the maximum Home front support of the Battle he also must arrange for a smooth switchover from the War in Europe to the War in the Pacific when Ger Many is finally there Are two plans for both of these plans have been completed beginning with the adoption of the unconditional stand Roose velt and Churchill took More than two years there Are three plans for permanent the american government in support of Dumbarton Oaks faces two great the first is the United nations conference probably in this country Early in March for the creation of a world Security the second will be Wallace Jones Issue remains on sidetrack 24 president Roosevelt nomination of Henry Wallace As Secretary of replacing Jesse remained on a Senate Side track today As critics of the nomination sought to strip the Cabinet Post of its Federal loan the Senate Commerce Oom Miu tee was to open hearings this afternoon on legislation introduced by waiter George Gay which would take the govern ments big lending agencies out of the province of the Commerce the committee decided to take up the George Bill ahead of the Wallace nomination both Wallace and As Weli As were invited to testify before the Jones a but there was no immedi ate As to whether Wallace would committee chairman Josiah w Bailey said tie com Mittee bad no intention of delay tag action on the Wallace Nomina but other senators openly opposed to letting Wallace have the loan Powers made no secret of their Hope that the nomination would be pigeonholed until a decision had been reached on the George sen Claude Pepper a warm supporter of the Wallace described the George Bill As another Way of undercut Ting the president and glorifying Jesse Jones As if he were the Only Man in the world qualified to hold the direction of the depression born reconstruction finance Corpora Tion and its newer subsidiaries is the big Issue in the Jones Wallace nest to the it will be the most import ant postwar Job in the the rec and its subsidiaries constitute a financial Industrial not Only is the rec the biggest ranking organization of All but some of its agencies Are in the colossus these include reached asks the Senate to defense supplies the asks the Senate to approve Ameri can participation in such a league and seeks congressional authorization for the use of american forces in support of world peace wherever it is in addition to these great Over All there is the pressing question of current european poli tical Church ills speech to commons last week made it Clear that Stalin and he have already agreed at least on the Basic policies in those areas of Europe where they have common War damage corporation and the rubber Reserve company proposes new 24 chairman sol Bloom of the House foreign affairs com Mittee proposed today that the seat of the future world peace organization be established in this hemisphere and recommended Montreal As the Geneva of the United because it is More accessible for All 1st armoured continued from Page 1 Maldinger in the Village of Aid North of the Luxembourg fron 84th troops took a town on the Ourthe sixth armoured forces took trois verges and advanced a half Mue beyond the third army forces advanced to the Clerf River along a seven mile front running from bin Felt on the four Miles from the Reich Frontier in Northern to draw Felt in the to the 3rd army forces made somewhat slower Progress be tween Wiltz and but were gaining they took Mer a town three Miles East of typical slim note idea new 24 or Ella president of the National woman Christian Tern Perance nation for hours after Germany to Avert a National former prisoner of japs returns to old hels Hole this Story of the military prison Camp eth Tufi the japs turned into a mass graveyard w the first Story written by Russell Brines after his Romp where he was 1 two years in a concen by Russell Brines Camp Odonnell prison 23 delayed 0donnell Are a that remain of of the Matt notorious pest holes where the japs held prisoners of who survived the Camps horrors estimated that of the had died of malnutrition and mistreatment in the Early Days after the of several Hundred died the touch of those despairing men hangs heavily Over this tall grass overgrown the Graves of some scores of american bodies lie in the Ameri can cemetery about 700 Yards Northeast of the main deep in the thickets of grass i found Small crosses made of untainted dog tags of the dead were fixed to the crosses backs that was in the Center of the cemetery stands Large White wooden Cross in remembrance of the who died her erected by the Perial japanese thick White ashes on rolling ironed North of the cemetery Kre ail that remain of prisoners one of the rums is still fresh automobile tracks told of the flight of the Jap walking across blackened empty Fields i found three badly rusted helmets of the style used at the outbreak of the a few canteen army flashlights and bits of in this barbed wire enclosure covered perhaps 30 there was no evidence that prisoners were allowed to maintain their own i found Only a couple of water one Shower and primitive sanitary facilities among the from the prisoners area a Trail led West a couple of Miles to a Small Hill with in the Center As if utilized As a Quarry and possibly a work project for the japs left Little Trace of of some tune previously they apparently had removed the that survived the 30 ordeal there was no evidence of a Tor