European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes february 1945 russian armies 60 Miles inside vanishing Reich continued from Page 1 Ging ahead All Alonga 400mile front fed by fresh reinforcements and a steady flow of it was reported from Moscow by on the Oder 150 Miles South of Zhukov Berlin the 1st ukrainian army under mar Shal Ivan Koniaev was reported pouring across a Bridgehead North of advancing to a position ten Miles West of the River in the area around Luben and while heavy Battles still raged for encircled Konies troops at the Southern end of the 160mile Oder line seized 40 places in a push Southwest of on the East Prussia Ivan d Chernia Kovsky 3rd White russian army stormed into the towns of Heilsberg and important communications centers and Strong Points in the German defense line in the Central part of the More than 50 other most of them about 30 Miles Southwest of besieged also were outside Chernia Kovsky tanks and Armor threw Back three counterattacks by Ger mans trying to recapture a Highway leading to the port seven Miles North of the prussian All routes leading from the City were under artillery in Moscow announced that a bulgarian army of More than is now fighting at the Side of marshal Feodor Tol Hukins 3rd ukrainian army North of Budapest near the austrian in fighting today on All More than 125 German tanks were the Moscow communique two More for the pow Cage Defiance written a Over their sullen these two Young is troopers surrender to a 7th army such As the one on the shown moving up the slush filled streets of Schmuc Dorf after pushing the nazis out in a vigorous counter imbued with fanaticism and these two nazi dead end kids reached the Western front Only recently from 163rd signal photo by Greer Dewey suggests vet plan 31 ans Thomas Dewey yester Day recommended to the Legisla Ture a program for the rehabilitation and reorientation of new York states veterans so that each one May return to a productive and Happy place in his Home upon recommendation of the state veterans Dewey presented a program Esti mated to Cost dollars in the first year to insure adequate care for an estimated vet Erans who possibly will have suffered some disability while serv ing in Tfaye armed the state has men in Dewey War Depar Menf has War crimes Section operating 31 ans War crimes Section has been created the office of the army judge advocate and is now in full operation gathering evidence against German and japanese War it was Learned to the the United press will presumably seek to punish such War criminals As germans who killed american prisoners recently japanese who perpetrated the death March from and executioners of the Doolittle flyers who made the first air attacks on the new Section will compile facts on individuals who perpetrated atrocities on american a including filipinos and civilians As As members of our armed forces say fighting will go on even after berlins fall general gets dec with the 2nd Walter commander of the 2nd received the distinguished service Cross yesterday from Courtney Hodges for heroism in action democratic split looms Over Wallace Wrangle 31 biggest democratic party split since the 1937 supreme court fight appeared to be developing today around Henry wallaces Cabinet the associated press the Battle is fundamentally one Between those who regard them selves As a Liberal element of the headed by and the old line democrats represented by senators Harry Virginia Walter 31 fighting in Germany May not end for Many even though the allies capture Berlin and overrun the military experts Here be the associated press this picture is based on hitlers often expressed determination to fight on to the there Are Indi cations that the nazis May be plan Ning to fall Back to the mountains of Southern Germany and Austria for a final Only the German people them selves or the German general acknowledging its could Avert this bitter end experts in Washington think the germans will try to hold the rus sians along the present line and then throw in a probably from Pomerania in North Eastern designed to Cut off the russian forces threatening if it As military observers Here the German general stall then May Tell Hitler it is use less to and request him to on the basis of hit lers pledge to fight observers expect him to it is expected that after All of Northern Germany has been Over the remnants of the German army and hitlers storm troopers will fall Back into the Circle roughly formed by the Rhine on the report conferees already at scene the Hanz and sudeten mountains on the North South line running through Vienna on the East and Switzerland and the Alps on the this would mean a German withdrawal from and there Are suggestions this move May be in in the inner behind natural defences of mountains and military authorities believe the germans could conceivably hold out for 3 armies drive to German line on 30 mile front continued from Page 1 at least their Alsa Tian forces in the ardennes widened attacks northward into the Monschau Forest lands of Germany As one 9th army Divi Sion joined 1st army forces in a series of attacks toward the Sieg Fried Lane Early six infantry divisions and Armor of the 1st and 3rd antics were moving eastward along a 30 mile assault arc from Kester Nich North of Monschau in Germany to the 3rd army our River Bridgehead at Welchen Hau sen just across the Border River from the Southeast tip of this Bridgehead was expanded today to five Miles along the our and deepened to one and one half southward to Vandyn in two More 3rd army divisions fought toward the German Border and their patrols ranged up to the our along a six mile while the Lull continued in Northern nazi artillery shelled Bis Ohweiler North of Strasbourg and fires were re ported in the town this franc american forces South Strasbourg advanced two kilo meters East on a line Between the towns of Grusse Nheim and Jeb Shell North of this gain brought them to within Yards of the Rhin Rhone canal and three Miles from the once reaching the they would sever the German corridor running North along the Rhine Bank toward Strasbourg from the Colmar South of the French forces closed in on Gernay in the Mulhouse Shes ready mad los 31 ans conductor Francis Van charged with having eight wives and three possibles is due to return to san Francisco by Courtesy of one of his who put up a 75 Dollar Deposit to get him tried on a bigamy Antonini says British betray Italy 31 ans head of the italia american labor asserted Here today that British shortsightedness and american indifference were throwing Italy into the hands of who visited Italy in August and said that both the British and russians were intervening in the and that the latter dont make much noise but they accomplish men sweat out infantry but they show courage by Ralph staff writer with 7th Guys crowded around the bulletin everybody squeezing in staring at the Hunting for his it was the list of air corps Headquarters personnel scheduled for examination to see if they were physically Okay to be transferred to the nobody said anything for a while and then somebody popped looks like they got North and legislative leaders readied com Promise which they hoped would keep pent up animosities from spill ing on the Senate but there was every the associated press that both sides intend to have a say before the Issue of wallaces appointment As Secretary of Commerce is fully Alben the democratic planned to ask that wallaces nomination be sent bade to the Commerce committee where it would await final enact ment and the signing of a Bill divesting the Commerce department of control Over the rec and other lending Claude Pepper and other Wallace supporters have con ceded that Only by giving up the monetary bureaus can the former vice president win the a Byrd that any administration move to delay a show Jackson was a Good looking Buck he didst answer he just kept looking at his wedding unconsciously rub Down should be greeted by a substitute motion to Call up the Nomi nation for a test he fore cast that a Senate majority would demand immediate consideration of the this is the biggest split weve had in the democratic the virginian there is Noth ing in common Between the South Ern democrats and the Cio Wing Wallace Wallace made a threat in a new York City speech tuesday night to go to a third party if the radicals cant control the demo cratic it would be the big Gest blow he could strike against the conservatives if he could win this fight but i dont think he is going to Mcmahon said he thought that Wallace was merely advancing  democratic program for decent jobs at decent wages want to continued from Page 1 agree on postwar treatment of he emphasized that political matters will now take precedence Over military issues at the big three conferences because the allies realized that political prob lems were always arising out of the War and could not be put off until a Reuters report Here said that this underlines the strongly Felt be Lief that president Roosevelt has presented Churchill and Stalin with a series of specific propositions on International the problems of the polish gov the greek civil War and supplies for civilians in Toty were among those expected to be Dis cussed at the a and Reuters dispatches one up report from Washington said that a Call for unconditional surrender by Germany in View of the red army Bing then he tried to was a weak it ill make a helluva he the Only Basic training i had was three Days close order Drill and two Days somebody youd be surprised How fast you learn when you have said one fat Corporal whose name want on the Jackson shrugged his shoulders and then another fellow clerk asked if he had any last he i guess maybe a month from now ill be stretched out in some water filled bitching my head off at you rear Echelon country club bastards Liv ing in Nice Damp this time everybody one Soldier then broke in and if they keep this there probably wont be any rear everybody stopped there was a lot of discussion then about the whole they All admitted it was a swell idea to give in a Clit in w give for All those who i might be made at the conclusion i rear Echelon jobs to wounded i of the that purple heart Joes deserved the Best of but one quizzical clerk wanted to know what the hell All those sol Diers were doing Back in the it was a private who said that they were coming Over As fast As they could and that there just we rent enough ships to bring them All Over at a thin t5 interrupted the discussion if they Send ill but id be a Damn liar if i said i was Happy about Jackson then told the t5 about a switchboard operator who had volunteered because he said that he had been sitting on his Fanny for two years and he was tired of and there was this other Guy who also volunteered without giving any i he he sleeps in my tent we had a Long talk and he told me that Hes scared but he volunteered to prove to him self whether or not he can take he said he might be sorry but thais the Way he Felt four Guys whose names were on the list tried to make a joke out of it one of them barked right and they All stepped out or the marching single awkwardly off the but nobody