European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pase 8 the stars scripts 1945 yanks nearing Manila Nab 4 airfields american troops on Luzon have pushed through the Road Junction town of Angeles and Are approach ing san capital of Pam Panga province and a Gateway to Manila 36 Miles to the Macarthur reported yesterday that four japanese airfields had fallen with yank patrols reached the town of three Miles Northeast of san Fer on the Northern front in u s troops captured Rosario and pushed to within half a mile of a Road Junction from which a Branch twists through the mountains to the japanese in Rosario division and a been practically Macarthur planes Start landslides hard fighting continued on the san Manuel also on the Northern where americans were reducing Strong japanese to yank airmen attacked Corregidor Subic Bay and and m northeastern Luzon started landslides in the Balete pass Gate Way to the Layagan Mariana based super forts struck by Cay Light yesterday at japanese military installations Midway Between the Marianas and the japanese Tokyo radio reported weekend super fort raids on the Tokyo rocket guns were used Lor the first time in the North Pacific when Navy Venturas hit a radio station and a Lighthouse Fon Mushu in the led Bunna route open the led Burma land Supply route to China is and 100 vehicles loaded with supplies have arrived at the chinese Border City of the Supply Convoy is headed for the chinese High command ported that the japanese had fur ther expanded their holdings in the South China coastal where they have been setting up a defense a Tokyo broadcast said that Jap anese submarines had penetrated to the West coast of the United sinking three transport Sand a Berlin in germans say continued from Page 1 Ern Danzig from Germany Robert hitlers labor i told berliners we shall fight before Berlin for Berlin behind this is the moment for every one to hold out at his in German marshal Ivan Konies first ukrainian army was reported pouring across the Oder River on a Broad front in the Vicinity of All Long the 150mile Oder River line heavy Battles were reported by with the siege of Breslau in the Koenigsburg shelled in East soviet tanks and infantrymen opened the Battle of annihilation against the German Garrison inside the capital of All routes from the City except two rail lines Lead ing Northwest to the Baltic have been Cut by the but inside the fortress the Ger mans Are fighting not giving the slightest indication Tettat they intend to at the Western end of the East prussian marshal Konstantin to Kossovsky second White rus Sian army was poised for the push across the Broad Vistula Estuary into a Moscow report along the at the Southern end of the 400mile Ivan Petrovs fourth ukrainian army captured novy 40 Miles South of Moscow observers called this Vic tory one of the most significant of the with Petrovs army West at a Pace almost equal to that of the provinces of Bohe Mia and Slovakia were in imminent after reaching Poprad Petrovs army now is in a broader Valley with better roads than any it has yet experienced in the tedious Advance through the car barriers lie Between Petrov and the City of 150 Miles Brimag parents Bat s Rosalia Mother of Joe i became a citizen recently when she passed naturalization and will have to try again in 3 Silesia an Arsenal for reds Silesia Ilfra another treasure House of Indus trial and agricultural wealth has been taken from the germans by the russian a year ago the Ukraine was last summer Rich Balkan territories were seized by the red and in the last few Days mar Shal Stalin announced in orders of the Day that the first ukrainian army had taken by Breslau has been to most american soldiers these names mean Little but to the germans it Means that prob ably the most highly productive German Indus trial Center is German Silesia was More important to the germans than even the Ruhr Valley factories crippled during the relentless air blows of the Raf and Saaf during the last two Hitler was reported to have moved most of his big Ruhr factories to the leading centers of War Industry in Ger Man Silesia Are Breslau the chief Industrial Center of Eastern Ger it possesses a rail marshalling system which spreads like a spider it is Able to handle rail cars daily and has repair facilities to care for there Are also 12 arms and machinery including sub Marine and Tan engine the largest builder of Railroad cars is also located in the outside the tremendous Metal and steel Industry of the area there Are seven other plants turning out such metals As aluminium and Beuthen this Center and the villages surrounding it House seven tremendous Coke and Coal process ing plants As Well As Iron and steel four Lead and Zinc works and Large rail Yards round out the manufacturing picture Geiwitz an important Coal transshipment Point with rail Yards having a capacity of cars there Are seven machinery and arms plants which produce such specialities As barbed wire among other the City is also a leading producer of Coke and Hindenburg the newest and most it supplies the wehrmacht with coalmines and eight Large Coke it has Large rail Yards and repair shops heavy weapons Are forged at a Kin size Iron and steel Silesia lies partly in partly in Poland and partly in the Plains Are covered with Rich soil and produce Allva wieties of its Industrial regions Are built on deposits of Iron and before the War this Rich land was owned by three the nazis have borrowed it since officer denies theft chares a plea of not guilty was entered yesterday by the first officer to be tried on charges of complicity in the 716th railway cigarette and ration Blac Market the John was accused of being involved in a general conspiracy to loot and sell the contents of Box he was specifically charged with having wrongfully disposed of packs of of having wrongfully received 500 packs As Well As razor Blades and other pm and of hav ing accepted from one of his although knowing the Money was in he was accused of neglect of despite his the Paris court martial heard a confession in which Springer admitted that he had been neglectful of his vet entitled to old claims Nam Legal a returning Veteran is entitled to his old even if he displaces a Man of greater ability or More the Legal department of the National association of manufacturers Lan Guage of the selected service act clearly supports that the Nam lawyers London suffers Cal Lack 29 Lon doners experiencing one of the coldest Winters in a were told tonight by the government that they must get along on a Quarter ton of and possibly per family during film land to help for celebrate 63rd birthday 29 of screen and radio began trooping into Washington today to help celebrate president Roosevelt 63rd birthday  also appear in with the 13th annual drive for funds to fight infantile the first lady and John wife of the presidents youngest will make numerous personal appearances at Washington Washington ticket purchasers not Only will Dine and dance but will see Myrna Veronica Alan Linda Monty Wool Danny Kaye and Little Margaret the film players will attend a luncheon at the White proceeds this As Iri the be divided Between the National foundation for infantile paralysis and the local communities for treatment of polio Federal charges filed inst world Cartel Agai new 29 nine foreign corporations and seven individuals have been named defendants in a injunction suit filed by the government in Federal Wendell assistant attorney called the group a world Cartel in Gem and Industrial diamonds which allegedly slowed up Amer ican War the government also clamped a freeze order against accounts estimated at millions of dollars in 26 Manhattan heavies Pound six rail Yards in West Reich the Battle of the railroads con inked at a deadly Pace through sunday night and yesterday As and English heavies and mediums drilled explosives into the angled rail system of the following a night in which a Strong Force Lancaster and Hal faxes splattered the largest Railroad Yards in Stuttgart with tons of forts and Libs of the eighth of blasted six marshalling Yards in Western Dennany and a factory manufacturing Tiger and Panther tanks in this team assault on German rail communications came hard on the heels of a us staf announce ment since its the eighth of had flown More than bomber sort ice and fighter and had dropped More than tons of bombs and destroyed approximately enemy bail centers blasted adding to this record the american escorted by 700 Mustangs and Thun unloaded destruction on rail centers at Hamm and Munster in Northwest Germany Northeast of and Nieder Lahnstein just South of co Lancaster hit a freight Yard at Krefeld in the the fighters added to the snarl ing of German rail rang ing the tracks to damage or destroy 21 locomotives and i9 and wreaking other the ninth of seat More than 400 medium and Light bombers against tactical including railway Bridges at Rinn Thal and escorted by marauders also hurtled their loads into German communication centers at sheinbach and for the second invaders ripped Ahrweiler and havoc struck German defences at fighter bombers of the ninth on 784 also took heavy destroying or damaging motor 20 armoured vehicles and 291 jitters continued from Page 1 third crosses our at 2 Points continued from Page 1 Fried third army troops drove toward the outer fringes of the formidable fortifications East of the our infantry attacking South of the new first army drive have moved Yards since they cleared the Woods Northeast of St and took the town of Herres Bach on the forests Eastern Edge germans were fighting a rear guard action which consisted of groups of 30 men More or less delaying the american Advance along roads and no enemy tanks or antitank gunfire were service troops taken the american Advance captured a number of service troops and one nazi walked up to first outpost and surrendered with 30 of his these Inci were not interpreted officially to indicate any general weakening of enemy Resis Tance on this in men of the 17th airborne with third army cleared the towns of Dorscheid and while fifth doughs cleaned out Kutscheid after smearing a nazi counterattack which came in company southward in third army forces which cleared Butz Dorf smashed an enemy counter of four tanks and an undetermined number of minor action in Italy 29 army troops attacking in deep Snow South of Bologna knocked out two machine gun posts and killed a Large number of technique consistently has utilized false alarms to Foster Over optimism among its Moscow radio said Hitler was on an inspection tour of the Eastern there was no confirmation of the report from any nazi the authoritative Cologne news paper Koe Nische Zeitung asked will these five years of Fulea with bloodshed and wrecked property have been suffered and battled through in vain the next eight Days will de a question of life or the paper no Quarter will be these Days will our the London daily express quoted a Stockholm report that Ger Many May crack and under no circumstances can German front hold out More than ten believing Berlin already tens of thousands were reported while other thous ands trekked in from the travelling i crudest conveyances and suffering from cold anxious Joe every on the the stars and stripes business office phone George of Duj would answer Ana the voice would inquire How Many Miles Are the rus sians from Berlin now Are they doing All right Petrakis would proceed Antt fully upstairs to the wire get available information ana1 Tell the who seemed and More probably some orderly calling for some Petrakis i with All the caution politeness due such an he asked his faithful customer which general he might re no the Man no in just calling you to in com in a pm one of the slated for the Wolf recruits was name of the officer in wag recruiting Here its Louis