European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 i Spaatz reveals failing Reich Gas production the germans Are producing less gasoline now than at any time in the War and Are believed to be consuming it on a Hanto mount according to Carl commander of us staf in broadcasting to America on the third anniversary of the eighth he traced the eighths history from the reduction of the Luftwaffe by outright kills the blasting of aircraft through the Black smoke of its War on German Gaso line production and up to its pre sent Campaign against the Tanc factories of the tank production Down he said that tank engine and Assembly plants responsible for 80 percent of total production were attacked last the enemy had planned to double tank manufacturing this year but production is estimated at below the 1943 the stars and stripes 1 partially paralysed eighth of had dumped More than half a in lion tons of bombs in Daylight precision attack since that Day 12 plying fortresses bombed the Yards at he com pared with the present bomber operations of the eighth of the flight to Rouen was a puny but it proved that our bombers could the nazi defences in since its birth the eighth of has destroyed approximately Ger Man according to the Gen eral he said that american fighters and Many airmen lives had been russians close Susan film actress Acci dentally shot during a Hunting trip in Southern re turned to her Hollywood Resi Dence her phys Ian said she was paralysed from the Waist but added it was Only a temporary West continued from Page 7 ring continued from Page 1 at the German Border o four places along the Obra official Moscow remained silent on the whereabouts of Zhukov Forward troops but the German radio for three Days has persistently reported that the russians have thrown in a huge armoured Force in an Effort to break through Ger Man defences near just inside the German Border on the Obra another German report said red columns have been thrown Back near 40 Miles to the North on the Netze both Driesen and Bentsche Are approximately 95 Miles from on the East prussian Ivan Chernia Kovsky third russian army reached the outskirts of Koenigsberg after a violent close Quarter infantry germans were fighting fanatically to prevent the reds from breaking through the Western defences of the City to the Baltic open new assault in Western marshal Konstantin to Kossovsky second White russian army opened a new assault on the Vistula River line protecting switching his main forces from the Battle against the rear of German troops encircled around Rokos Sovsky attacked Northwest of by important prussian town controlling canal dikes leading into Danzig from the Vistula at the Southern end of the Petrovs advancing through some of the wildest country in seized Patra and Little 80 Miles South of 296th my recoveries heavy in Black Mart Advance Supply of dollars Worth of Allied equipment and supplies have been recovered from Blac marketeers by the 296th my in a two month assisted by belgian civil police and army Cid the maps recovered in one Day packs of cigarettes stolen from for postwar weapons or Vannevar director of the office of scientific research and yesterday urged the appointment of a top military commander to coordinate the development and use of new after the refugee doughboy Cpl Kurt army Baker in Learned his Trade in Ger Many As an apprentice to his a he came to the in 1937 after spending four months in a nazi concentration the 30mile Skyline drive from die Kirch to British patrols reached the River Roer in the Heinsberg sector just across the German Border from Southern mommies took the town of Odili Enberg on the Heitzberg Roermonde mans were reported pulling Back in that sector to the Roers East but there was no indication they would withdraw any along the seventh army front in Alsace Only patrolling was re ported in the second Day of the Lull which has followed the enemy s failure to Cross the Moder Only reported in the Luil yesterday was the wild attack of 17 German infantrymen who turned out to be they charged into a Woods West of where americans dropped five of them with Small arms fire before the rest engineers restore Miles of rails following closely behind Forward and occasionally slipping into enemy territory to steal needed army engineers have restored Miles of vital euro Pean railroads to provide Allied armies with major Supply com z Headquarters announced the engineers undertook a re construction Job on the Normandy be mans line which the germans had Given up As a hopeless and in the process rebuilt seven railway Laid new main lines in three rail Yards and improvised water towers for Loco within 48 in some Miles of double track and More than Miles of single track have been restored to operational use in France and this includes All the major rail networks in Allied Terri assisted by French civilian work the engineers have reconstructed 172 major railway Bridges destroyed by bombing or enemy they Are now at work on 27 other major much of this work was done in Forward on one when steel girders were required to repair a Bridge near the Nicholas of led a squad of engineers through darkness into territory under Ger Man artillery using a Mobile they picked up the brought Back and built the nazi defense Post goes kaput Angeles continued from Page 1 slower Progress in South South of French troops entered the towns of Holtz w i h Wickers Wihr and jobs Northeast of after stiff they also cleared the Bois Delsi Nheim to the North and knocked out two Panther tanks and two Hal tracks in a Sharp fire fight at a Crossroads South of the near Allied forces mopped up the enemy in the ill Wald while gains North of Colmar added up to More than a Progress was slower South of the where the French cleared a suburb of they also took the cite a Village five North or after House House Mapeli cleared the sixth army group yester Day announced the 12th a Mored under its Roderick Allen is division commanding general Ana Riley Ennis is cd of combat on the borderlands of Luxem Bourg and american forces had not yet contacted defences of the Siegfried line which run Sev eral Miles East of the German the third army sweep into Belgium cleared the town of Mas four Miles South of doughs of the 80th cleared three Miles Southeast of in other targets on Luzon and Admiral Nimitz announced that third Fleet Carrier planes had sunk or damaged tons of Jap anese shipping in the attack against Formosa on three Hundred enemy planes were destroyed or the next third Fleet planes attacked Okinawa in the Ryukyu sinking or damaging 70 japanese ships and accounting for almost As Many enemy a Washington announcement said that 75 japanese planes were shot Down or damaged saturday by the Saipan based super fortresses which attacked five super forts were seac Headquarters reported continued Progress by Allied forces in Allied planes attacked there and in where fighters of the chinese american Wing struck at army signal corps army engineers wow up a German Blockhouse in destruction of Small fortifications found at Road the men in the foreground have just a Doest know the pitch on life at vets find 28 group of foxhole Veteran returned to the capital today from a two month  tour of ammunition factories with Only a few gripes to carry Back to the boys at the most War they Are working Alan Oagot there Are a few Many Are they b workers dont understand life is like at the front and t Ortance of each parties those with relatives Winter clothes continued from Page 1 with Headquarters of a fifth we got a pair of boots that look like maybe new nazi gadgets May be a key to rising sub threat 28 heated warnings of a mounting submarine menace in the Atlantic today focused attention on recent developments which presumably have Given the boat a new lease on life after the allies Campaign apparently had eliminated the undersea Craft As a serious Factor in the germans claim they Are using such devices As a new float ing which enables remain submerged 20 to 30 Days an airborne Eye which rises 300 feet above the subs deck for Scann ing the horizon for prospective victims a Donkey towed on a mile Long Cable and capable of simulating the actions of a disabled  keep out the a sergeant from upstate new Lanas bedroom scene warms ices Street a ninth of service command Joel v who shows movies to the gis in this service group head w is a very obliging recently he was reeling off Lana Turners sexy marriage is a private when the shot of Lush Lana arising in a Flimsy on the morning1 after the nuptials was the Joes groaned Conron stopped the rammed his head through the Hole in the projection and asked his audience if they would like to see that one you know the Joel reversed the film amid the howls of the i tvs Slick with Frozen drool York said i know there weve been wearing pm for years in the North poncho replaces Raincoat red fifth inf his men that two pates of Woollen socks would work Best in the new Sho Epacs but that when their feet become sweaty they should change and dry their feet As soon As circulation of air inside the High rubber bottomed footwear is not enough to dry out sweaty feet ponchos will replace the present Issue of raincoats and Are designed to be used As ground sheets As Well As pulled Over the they protect both packs and cloth a drawstring at the neck keeps the ponchos the new Issue trousers Are made of lightweight water repellent cot ton and Are worn Over the Issue trousers As the gloves Are actually of lined with an extra partition for a trigger they Are similar to gloves worn mechanics and Farmers working Hodges awards dec to 2nd with second Walter Robert son second received the distinguished service Cross yesterday from it Courtney Hodges for during the counteroffensive in Bel according to the braved artillery and tank fire to direct the defense of a vital Road Long stretches due san 28 cans eighteen Towa stretch elastic destined for in the were part o the loot recovered by Fri agents Here when five longshoremen wer arrested and charged with net from overseas work the hardest and eager to hear of what Means to the men at and receiving end of the they the feelings of the 27 veterans were voiced Alva who opened the news by for one shooting those shells i didst it took so much work to picture declared one reason they dont tand the importance of s that they dont get a real of Jankowske said people they they were surprised Whent told them what its thought we slept in tents could go Back from the we had been in the line couple of like working eight hour they want to know what but i dont think the and radio give it to Lay up the saw big headlines about oing into Germany and Way at the Bottom of the Page was a Little headline about yanks being killed in one front faulty Supply a lot of them think has been bombed so there is nothing plenty to throw at they tie Hast any clothes or Ftp of uniforms and Hes the group of veterans Foi toning int nearly As Badaski thought it would the petted to see no that they would have a Harovin getting enough to on an average of ten the ends its Paris after entertaining mostly combat the Griwac re Conza ended its Day produced by s3ri men and women of co who designed scenery and costumes in the show ran