European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Speicht Deutsch Wear Gehnert Dies Gehert Deess whose is this the Sta armed 185 tripes new York Paris London the european theater of operations id on Parle Francais Depe Cheivous Maypes Haywoo hurry up 1945 azi losses reaches Germany s bulge is wiped out Holland Snow blots out View for truck Pilot armoured opens attacks at third army patrols the German Border Northern Luxembourg yes site Day and the ardennes six weeks ago poised the gravest threat the Western allies since firs Parmys seventh armoured div Vai tacked East and Southeast of s advancing up Yards and stripes correspondent Regan from the front sphere in first army sector patrolling was ninth and British second ies North of Linnich lines up to the Western Bank the Roer and Wurm River Western Germany Indus the Allied breach in Siegfried line was widened by five additional Miles in this or the ninth army attack when forces cleared Over Myder half Frozen 79th doughs through a howling alsatian Izzard and Snow Chest deep in threw nazis Back Weston a crack German troops in sector made no further attempt yesterday South of Anc id troops advanced East o Iii River and the Strasbourg r Northeast Rof Colmar forces four East of the Road arid five Northeast of the of the Colmar salient troops were battling stiff resistance in the Mulhouse y French were through the alsatian Potash i District in the Bois de non they cleared mine villages is and slag heaps which enemy were using As defense Posi fighting near Colmar s advances South of the col bulge were fighting Over a wide and Indus important Northeast the franc american ick has pushed germans Back re the salient Center and the in about four i the third army front in the 17th airborne ced two Miles and pushed s to the duchy Northern tip Miles South of Vith i of the 90th took West of the patrols 90th then reached the our continued on Page 8 de1 he Tom Pendergast Kansas City is dead 3as big Tom who was Boss of Kansas City demo machine until he went to in 1939 for income tax Eva died last night of a heart he had served nearly a of a 15month Tergast took Over the North machine ruled by his keeper brother and 1911 to 1930s enlarged not Only in Clit is but in Missouri and Ial politics As furloughed men soon 27 of american troops pc the continent granted seven aves or furloughs in acted to arrive soon after army Headquarters for said army signal corps photo in yanks must contend with As Well Neige piles up on the Hood an Sticks to the Windshield of a truck driven by Gordon of Yakima James of new gives offers to first russian in Berlin new new York business Man who offered a War Bond to the first american Soldier to reach announced today that he would give to the first russian Soldier or unit to enter Kays Paris prize was not awarded according to army authorities were unable to determine the right Ful but the russian Consul generals office in new York said that the would be accepted As a Token of army Ward seizure Chicago Federal judge rules the stars and Bureau Chic army seizure of Montgomery Ward properties by order of president Roosevelt was illegal today by Federal judge Philip judge Sullivan said he though that disputants in labor controversies should every Effort to abide by the recommend japs in stiffen defence before Manila the shadowed portion shows american held territory on yank troops on Luzon have encountered the first organized resistance on the Road to my super fortresses have attacked Tokyo and Saigon in French indo Macarthur comm risque rom Luzon yesterday noted enemy resistance South of the Bamban fiver and said that the japanese had moved up artillery and brought american held Clark Field under then was nothing in he communique to indicate that he japanese finally had established a Battle Southwest f the town of yanks were Clearing japanese out of the the United press reported hat american patrols reached joints 40 Miles from on the of the american troops secured High ground of to be other yanks swept through the town of san Manuel and destroyed 10 enemy airmen continued at tacks throughout install continued on Page 8 tons of government established tribunals such As the War labor Board he pointed were failing he Congress alone is the Only Brancho government which compel them to do the decision in the which the government said the nations entire wartime labor Dis Pute settlement Dis i missed the government petition for j an order to restrain Ward officials j from interfering with army opera on the disputed subject of whether Ward operations Are i production within the meaning of the War labor disputes the judge upheld the company con Tention that was declaring it a retail establishment engaged solely in the decision was regarded As Only the first round in the Legal controversy because attorney Gen eral Francis Biddle had said previously that the government would Appeal an Adverse 10 years Given officer theft a Oise Section court martial yesterday sentenced Martin of to ten years at hard labor and dismissal from the service for Blac Market act the army Clem of grand accused Davis of stealing government property and of help ing a frenchwoman carry a Case of american cigarettes from the woman garage to her where it was trial of the first railway Batta lion officer in the army mass cigarette theft Case was postponed yesterday by the Paris court Mai tial the delayed at the request of the a first is now scheduled for shifted from com z by Arthur White and Stripe staff writer More than com z soldiers already have left their outfits for training As the first step in the army drive for the proper and full utilization of Ben newly appoint de Eto Deputy revealed Lear disclosed that an oct has been established Here which will be turning out More than new officers a month within 70 speaking at a Paris press con Lear said that the stepping up of the program to Transfer general service soldiers to combat outfits was under he High assertions that the transfers would involve 80 percent of fit com z not All to be taken he said technicians and other highly trained personnel not be taken that there would be an intensive Survey before it was decided who would the rate of the transfers would be deter mined largely by the number of limited service troops some of the vacancies May be filled by French Lear said the new oct was established Here because of the Large number of combat men on the Western front who should be Given the Opportunity of becoming the program also will be continued on Page 8 dump yields Radium 27 for three Days after it was mistakenly thrown into a waste Basket at a local a brass Case containing vials of Radium valued at has been found in refuse from the City the refuse had been carted to a heated garage because a Radium Detector  function in prevailing subzero soviets put foes dead at russian armoured striking at the outer defense ring protecting fought Battles in Germany Brandenburg province yesterday while in Moscow mar Shal Josef Stalin refuted suggestions that the Wehr nacht was making a masterly Retreat in the East by announcing that his armies had killed German soldiers in the two Eskold hailing the Severance of East Prussia from the Reich proper As the smashing of one of the worlds strongest Stalin also announced that two red armies had tightened the noose around 20 German divisions trapped in the Junker province by Captur ing five More defense bastions encircling 7 Battles inside Germany official secrecy hid the exact location marshal Gregory Zhu Kovs first 1 ukrainian army units West of but Moscow observers placed them just inside the German Border approximately 100 Miles from Berlin and Berlin reports said heavy armoured Battles were being fought near 95 Miles from Berlin radio revealed that the Ric Al Industrial province of upper Silesia had been written off the broadcast said that workers who had stayed in factories to the very last moment now were dropping their tools to fight with the army against marshal in Bres Kiti outskirts Moscow reported Battles in upper Silesia were raging along the Oder River on a with the Battle for Breslau in the latest dispatches on the Breslau fighting said that tanks of Konies first ukrainian army had succeeded in penetrating the Eastern outskirts of the City against Des Perate German the entire City has been turned into a Moscow radio in East Ivan hernia Kovsky third White rus Sian army was reported closing in on Koenigsberg from the reaching a Point within nine Miles of the City on the North Bank of the Pregel while marshal Konstantin Rokos Sovsky shifted he left flank of his second White russian army Westward in prepare Ion for a drive on bitter fighting was reported in he Southern areas of the East prussian where the bulk of he trapped German divisions were trying to pull out to the North and continued on Page 8 Al heavy Winner 27 ans a nationwide collective bar gaining election among Western Union the Al has won by big margins in six of seven Vot ing Cio was Victor ious in the metropolitan new York it was the most wide spread Norb election Ever russians idea fraud in a reds fur hat by Howard Byrne stars and stripes stall writer with 44th of been rumours about and now comes a Story of a huge soviet wearing Scarlet fur hat and striking red who strode into a battalion be Heff captured All Dees he hits generous hand sweeping the map of in dramatic and be need a then he requested billets for his the place went wild with sex not bothering to ask whether the officer was from Konies or Malinov boys the co admitted that he want expecting a yank russian meet ing quite so but that be would see what he could hed have done i the russian haunt turned out to be Leonard of As coached and costumed by Daniel of the battalion commander was so tickled with the gag that he sent Fooshkill up to regimental Headquarters where they nearly held a Victory