European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 Speed work jail War urges Senate 7 officials of the War department yesterday urged Quick Senate action on National or legislation on the grounds that it would stimulate morale on the fighting fronts and increase needed War the United press reported Secretary of War Henry stingo Ion and undersecretary Robert Patterson appeared before a closed session of the Senate military of which is consider ing a Bill that would make every Man Between 18 and 45 subject to draft for the House passed the known As the May last the associated said that it had become apparent the stars Aind strikes 1945 Joes prepare to Welcome ivan9 from the East travels a Jwo Way Victory Road Oliu in the Senate that some legislators had their Eye on european Battle reports and were reluctant to vote stricter controls if Victory seemed Stimson told the according to that the army wanted the legislation As quickly As it could be prepared that the War department was not concerned with the ills but that the Bill was needed to bolster Patterson told the senators that no one is entitled to a free ride in this and that halfhearted mobilization is not the Way to bring about unconditional sur Render at a minimum Cost in demands Home support fighting men Are doing the hard Patterson they should be Given fallout support at the undersecretary said that a limited National service Law would Speed prosecution of the War in these three ways it will enable us to rein Force the army and Navy with the men they and at the same time step up the output of munitions it will hearted the men on the fighting it will give them Assurance that their sup will be abundant it will serve notice on the Axis that they have no Chance of that the momentum against them will be maintained until their final defeat is an accomplished by Jules Grad stars and stripes staff writer with supreme feb Eisenhower yesterday sped eastward on a Bon of Road advancing westbound germans once labelled Der Weg Zum Road Over the Crum bling breakthrough route the Nazif used Between Hoffa he and fifth Omar n 12th army group Eisenhower saw gaping German b the car whizzed by by mile graveyards of mutilated y blasted me109s and Thun c thai Ted nazi troop car american into Bastogne the narrow breakthrough Road through tiny belgian Vil Herbai widened into what was air was shattered men of the 102nd division in Are All set to Greet the ked they sweep on through Germany and meet the allies on the Western c by the crash of mortars and the Boom of Long where Al defends production 7 the executive Council of the Amer ican federation of labor reported last night that it had found the War production picture despite poor planning and Lack of foresight by military labor and Industry had responded in a remarkable Way to furnish War materials under the voluntary manpower controls now in the Council hitting at efforts to enact worker jail Al group charged military authorities with doubling and tripling production schedules Over and said that no Law Short of magic could keep War production in Pace with schedules arrived at on such a of a Onestar general had nuts1 to a German demand for immediate All was in a scarred the supreme commander met George third army com Der As they talked quietly before a the Only sound out Side was the of wooden cartwheels on the Bas tones evacuees were coming Gen Eisenhower Sedan turned sliced through the Center of the bulge and into join ing Point of his first and third armies a month hours the supreme com Mander reached an Advance head his face was his smile Der Weg Zum Zieg a Road to he the Ger mans just forgot it had two direct secret hearings begin 7 the House foreign affairs com Mittee began secret hearings on extensions of lend lease to Russia and the measure expires june there appeared Little doubt it will be but specifications of future assistance Are expected to come in for Sharp third army opens attack continued from Page 1 Northwest of after stiff House House men of the 90th then advanced a mile and a Quarter to Widen their breach in the Siegfried captured the towns of sell Erich and about three West of on the first army tank destroyers and infantry work ing with the 78th moved Yards along the Straug Schmidt Road to a Point 500 Yards from stars and stripes correspondent Russ Jones Hellenthal cleaned out the 78th 309th moved into the outskirts of Kom Yards Northwest of he it in this Rea that the 28th attacked ast captured Schmidt the night of 4 and then was Crown out of the town he Jones said the town of Hellenthal Outh of Schleiden was cleaned out arly yesterday after continuous lighting since sunday night when patrols reported that the town was the enemy speedily coun repair program saves taxpayers Large sum 7 reclamation and repair of worn army equipment and clothing have saved taxpayers approximately during the the army this the War department is exclusive of materials salvaged and repaired overseas by the quartermaster and takes Rome paper to task slap at negroes the stars and stripes Rome Bureau frontage cartoon in socialist was sharply criticized yesterday by the stars and stripes under the we Are not the cartoon a and showed i negro sol Iier to combat boots walking past group of barefooted the negro is saying and to think that who am not used to Wear ing am forced to Wear the stars and stripes called the drawing shocking and offensive to declaring for the possible Benefit of the editor of Pettirossi a few simple facts might be made the thousands of negro soldiers in Italy Are citizens of the United Many of them Are living in the cold and discomfort of the italian front and some Are being wounded and the negro soldiers Are fighting Tike All other americans against fascism and nazism and for peaceful democratic he fighting and dying to help liberate the rest of the Negr Soldier is not a stranger to shoes if the italians dont have shoe its certainly not because an Allied soldiers have big three map Victory drive continued from Page 1 of a permanent International organization to maintain the three it was were meeting continuously to plan for completion of the defeat of the common enemy and for building with their allies the foundations of a lasting in the military discussions which opened the the present situation on All the european fronts was there was a full Exchange of it was the military staffs of the three governments represented at the meeting now Are working out the detailed announcement secretaries also that the foreign were on hand Era tracked after forces the ninth 47th sent patrols into which s 500 Yards West of Genu and on the urfa Jones the 7th army front quiet other infantry advancing from North of reached Kail a tributary of the three Miles fron near the the principal Roer in this Jones infantrymen were held up by the biggest minefield they Ever the seventh army alsatian front was fairly cleared most of doughs the Bois de druse Nheim Southeast of Hagenau in the Only reported operation in this most of which is flooded by thaw swollen South of Allied for Ces drove five Miles below neuf Brisach and captured the Village of coming up from Mulhouse from the the 28th arid French first armoured cleared the West Bank the Rhine Rhone canal As far As the Vauban canal and took three villages South of the Rhine Bank remnant of the Colmar pocket has been squeezed into an area 12 Miles Long and five Miles the severed segment to the West in the Vosges Foothills has been virtually with Only isolated bands of enemy forces still holding and French forces have taken prisoners in this area since indicated that Secretary of state Edward Stettinius was having conversations with his British and soviet opposite Eden and Vyacheslav another communique will be is sued when Stalin and Churchill have concluded their it appeared that until then Little More news would be Forth coming from the Black sea locale of the on the French Tele graph Agency reported that the Allied leaders were conferring at a soviet Black sea port 20 Miles above stains Home province of but there has been no official disclosure of the actual three besides the Border on the Black they Are Bulgaria and in the British plane ten persons were five were ing and believed and five were among the dead were members of the foreign of fice staff including a and army officers from the War air Commodore of the air was among the several Crew members were on the casualty invitation reported declined 7 informed sources said tonight that president Roosevelt had declined an invitation from King George and Queen Elizabeth to be their guest with at Buck Ingham after the big three the sources said Churchill relayed the proposing that Roosevelt Fly to England and that the pair stay four it was pressure of us Domestic and political prob lems As Well As International ques prompted the president to turn Down the yanks mop tip Las ditch japs inside Manila american troops still were mopping up japanese resistance inside Manila while the enemy shelled the Santo Tomas and Bilibio intern where thousands of Allied civilian internees and prisoners of War were being sheltered after their liberation Macarthur visited Philippines capital he drove with an armoured escort through ruined streets in the nor them japanese shells had burst Over that area Only a few minutes before his a race developed Between Amer ican troops trying to clean out the City and japanese troops Bent on destroying american resorting to an extreme measure it had hoped to began Shel Ling areas of the City South of the pasig As troops inside the City dug enemy troops from behind barricaded doors and from roof the american forces that sealed off roads leading to the Bataan Peninsula were probing southward along the in northeastern yanks repulsed a japanese counterattack Northeast of Rio arid inflicted severe lasses on the american bombers Mads their heaviest attack thus far against one Hundred tons of bombs were Tokyo radio reported that had been bombarding Corregidor for two b29s hit Thailand 0 two fleets of flying from bases in Jit tacked targets in Thailand and French Indochina army liberators struck sunday and monday at Hama and iwo japanese bases on the super fortress route from the Marianas to Marino corps planes attacked in the Palau and in the japanese offensive from the Hai forced abandonment of three fighter bases from which american planes had harassed japanese shipping in the Shanghai Thongkong the bases Are Kan Chow and East front continued trom pay 1 All in favor say Aye would allow wives to go overseas 7 James Fulton a Bachelor Navy Man and one of the newest members of came up with the idea to Send wives of fighting men overseas to be with them everywhere but in Advance com Bat Fulton has just taken Over his House seat after serving As deck officer for an aircraft earner in the i dont see Why my idea Fulton declared in an reported by the associated i know it would be a great morale Tunstead of taking a Man from overseas for a 30day furlough and then snipping him Why not let his wife make a one Way trip she could also bring along the children without unduly overburdening now is a Pittsburgh attorney elected while in uniform overseas without making a speech or spending a other Fulton observations men on fighting fronts dont want compulsory manpower legislation enacted at Home because As civilians they dont want to see the life Treyve that the reds had reached Points within 30 Miles of heavy reinforcements lire now engaging Zhukov army in some of the heaviest fighting of the three week old red army Konies army gains in German marshal Ivan Konies first ukrainian army intensifying their Tare Day old drive from a 50mile Bridge head on the West Bank of the wheeled North yesterday to gain 50 inhabited places in a push North West of the Moscow com Munique several German airfields captured almost intact Between Oppeln and plus Pri in East russian troops fought German pockets resisting soviet artillery Ham mered at Koenigsberge the red air attacking enemy shipping in Danzig Sank three German transports and one Oil Tanker and damaged Jin enemy Cabinet crisis arises in Belgium 7 Regent of today accepted the resignation of Premier Hubert pie lots Cabinet and tonight he had a government crisis on his the Prince started a series of presumably seeking advice on whom to designate As head of the this while Tine Ber of deputies was debating whether to overthrow pie lots gov he interrupted the proceedings with the announcement that he was going to the Regent and the announcement not Long before the chamber was scheduled to vote and just after Justice min ister Maurice Vervaet had a fervent defense of his handling of the Justice sense interrupted Repe Stiedly questioners who asked Why he not prosecuted Collabar actors
