European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse So Bra Story walking to the police station to report theft of his Robert Kolb was robbed of 320 the s doily new Spoor of fonts one franc ripes in he fur Opra of Man Speicht Deal sch wer is Fuhrer Vare tit who is your Leader one franc volume a Timber 58 new Yordi Vonparis february 1945 reds 60 Miles inside Reich 3 armies drive to German line on front by Richard staff writer of three american driving hard toward the West advanced along a 30mile Snow drifted front in Bel Gium and Luxembourg today As front reports said two Divi Sions pierced the Border and american artillery hammered the Siegfried stars and stripes correspondent Russell Jones with 1st army said that the 82nd airborne crossed Tjie Reich Border near 12 Miles Northeast of while 1st doughs smashed eastward Yards to Cross the Border near artillery of both divisions was pouring shells on the first Sieg Fried line Jones As 9th troops to try moved Yards closer the great fortifications a front reports the 1st crossed the German Border one Kilometre West of Gudenrath in the Siegfried line in today farthest Advance while men of the 82rid airborne pierced the Frontier East of Lan Zaratha whih is 12 Miles North East of dub quoted a military spokes Man As saying that american at tacks on the Western front might be regarded As Allied preparations to gain new offensive bases but that fighting near Monschau has not yet reached the scale of a far reaching offensive in Northern the Lull along the 7th army front went into its fifth this heightened speculation that de mands for German reinforcements on the stuttered Eastern front had forced the nazis to Call continued on Page 4 Luce rejects radio offer 31 ans Clare Boothe disclosed today that she Toad turned Down for the time be ing an offer to become a commentator on a sponsored Broad while the sponsor was not it was understood the offer was one of the most Lucra Tive of its one goal Germany germans claim soviets 45 Miles from Berlin giant strides across the Frozen approaches to red army tank spearheads were reported today by German radio to have reached the Oder River North of Frankfurt at a Point not More than 45 Miles from the Reich although the German High command was barfing powerful counter blows at the onrushing soviet Armor in a desperate Las ditch to hold the Frontier on to Tokio lightning boasts bomb Load Burbank 31 newest Model of the lightning known As the p48 l or on to Tokio can carry a bomb Load of the heed aircraft corporation Dis closed with army approval bomb capacity gives the new lightning greater striking Power than the Early flying fort Lockheed steadily mounting pressure alone the snowbound Western front has Hitler in the Middle of a Gargantuan squeeze As the russians Advance in the East from the Maas in to Allied armies Are pressing in the the Canadian 1st army 1 is on the Maas to threaten and the British 2nd armr 2 is pounding Nasi Strong Points in the Vicinity of 1st army infantrymen s Are hammering at Siegfried line defences on a wide front from Vith to while 9th and 3rd army troops 4 and 5 have forced the our River after pan caking the ardennes 8th army smashes japs Hopes of Bataan Haven Allied Pacific 8th army troops who made a new Landing on Western Luzon were advancing swiftly Inland blasting any Hopes the japanese May have held for a Large scale withdrawal to the Bataan announcement of the carried out monday from 150 was the first mention of the new 8th it is commanded by Cleveland fire under control 31 flames which followed a triple explosion tuesday night at Ttoe Benzyl division of the Corriga Mckinney works of the Republic steel were con trolled Early today and 400 fam Ilies who were evacuated from the 14block area near the fire began returning to their company officials said that the damage would reach several Hun dred thousand no one was families were moved out As burning naphthalene on the ground threatened to carry the flames into the Coke oven Bat steam was turned into the fire batteries to Lessen the fire Plant manager Highland Robert who led the Campaign on new not a a ship or a plane was lost As the 38th division and a com Bat team of the which had nowhere in the Berlin bulge did die red army appear to be Berlin and Moscow dispatches reported that marshal Gregory Zhukov 1st White russian army had crashed 60 Miles inside the provinces o f Brandenburg and forming an almost solid front from 30 Miles South of the great Baltic port of through communication Strong Point of the Ber Linda Zig to the town of on the Berli Warsaw Highway 15 Miles from official Kremlin reports placed Zhukov forces less than 63 Miles from Berlin in a sector West of near marshal Josef Stalin announced in an order of the Day that the reds had Cap tured Meseritz and three other towns which formed the powerful bastion covering approaches to Frankfurt on a Reuters dispatch from Moscow announced that Zhukov was using new superheavy breakthrough tanks to shatter the Frontier lines and pave the Way for the main push to the German news Agency said the soviets were bringing up heavy equipment to Ford the Oder and open the frontal assault on the German the appearance of More and More Volks Sturm troops emphasized the desperate plight of the German High trying to round up reserves for the 20th Day of the Winter offensive found the reds still slug continued on Page 4 few take hitlers talk As veiled bid for peace some congressional leaders Here regarded Adolf hitlers 12th anniversary address As a veiled bid for there was general agreement according to army news service that Only unconditional surren Der now would save Germany from further Senate Mittee chairman relations com Tom Connally Texas voiced the opinion of saying unconditional sur Render to the allies will be More tolerable to the German people than to go Down into the dark and cold and bloody Valley of death with reports from Neutral capitals and from Allied occupied Germany indicated today that Adolf Hitler haunt done so Well in his Appeal for up thelast support from the German underlining the reported apathy of the German people to their dictators Appeal was the continued Stream of dispatches that huge num Bers of refugees were clogging the roads in the path of the retreating nazi army and that were under Way to evacuate Berlin while the nazi radio denounced those who Are ready to reports from the russian front said that vast crowds of White faced refugees attempting to flee Westward were trapped by the Speed of the red army panic which gripped the people in East Prussia and Silesia has now spread farther Reuters the Berlin radio admitted that some germans were ready to sur but said their number was comparatively few and Germany will fight on no matter where or under what London reports said that the Ger mans were planning a last Desper ate House by House defense of Ber Lin with Joseph Goebbels named As supreme commander to direct the last quoted a Stockholm dispatch which said that a German military spokes Man had asserted that the situation on the Eastern front is critical by will not become desperate until German soldiers ride to their Battle areas in the ought on Leyte in the Central were put ashore in Zomba Les the Landing was made 60 Miles Northwest of along a 10 mile stretch of coast above the 3ataan and Between the Mouth of the Santo Thomas River and san there was no japanese oppose and the sight of a crowd of cheering filipinos brought cancel lation of plans for a preparatory naval filipinos said that no japanese had been stationed in the Landing area since the 8th army men went 11 Miles Inland on the first driving for the juncture with the 6th army that would Seal off and threatening the Olon Gapo naval base on Subic 6th army who control the Eastern end of the continued their Advance on Manila from the they were within 30 Miles of the approach ing on the Northern end of the Luzon the yanks who captured Rosario inflicted heavy losses on the japanese in mopping up opera these americans Are less than 15 Miles from the summer said that the cause of the explosions was pure apparatus from All parts of downtown Cleveland and a coast guard fireboat on Lake Erie were called to the three Maas blasts wide area 31 Craft of map flew More than sorties today attacking Ger Man communications in the to Valley and rail junctions in the Zagreb and Maibor areas of Standard Jones and nine aircraft Are miss Lin and Republic ing from these on the chemicals to Battle 5th and 8th army activity the again was limited to report some conferees at scene of conference big three conference is imminent and some of the conferees May have already arrived at the scene of the Reuters reported yesterday Eleanor Roosevelt spoke for her husband at his birthday party in the Agency pointed while in Parlia ment Deputy prime minister Clement Atlee answered questions for and today minister of answered three Parley May be of Short Dura Chicago slum clearance three year postwar cd Imago program to Clear the providing new Homes and land for More at a Cost of Dol Lars was announced this weekend by mayor Edward questions for foreign Secretary Anthony it was officially disclosed in Rome that Secretary of state Edward Stettinius had been in an associated press dispatch said that he and Harry presi Dent Roosevelt departed from Rome today in separate planes for undisclosed both Stettinius and Hopkins visited Allied Force Headquarters in but officials pointed out that this had nothing to do with International the a Hopkins also was received by the Pope and visited Alcide italian foreign minister and Alex Ander u ambassador to i Hopkins revealed Taftt the big he told newspapermen in Rome that since marshal Stalin was actually the director of All russian strategy he might not be Able to absent himself Long from the Russ Ian he said the russians were obviously anxious to finish off the but that the British and Ameri cans did not know How powerful the russian offensive is or if the germans can halt Hopkins said that after talks with Churchill and he believed that Complete agreement could be reached on the plans for War against Japan and also in Clearing up some undecided Points of the Dumbarton Oaks he said All three Powers would surely continued on Page 4
