London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 4 the stars and stripes 19451 life in those United states t Senate to find out who i dog had travel priority 25 Tom Stewart promised hed spare neither Man nor beast As chairman of a special sub committee to investigate army travel the a priority flight across country of Elliott Roosevelt dog colonel himself today was nominated by his the for the rank of brigadier the promotion of commanding officer of the reconnaissance Wing of the air Force in went automatically to the Senate military affairs the same group which yesterday ordered an inquiry into the dog incident and the priority practice in if approved by the the nomination will go to the Senate floor for asserting that people throughout the were disturbed about the bumping off of Thiee servicemen from a plane at while the dog Rode on to los steam told reporters something ought to be done about a system that permits such things of columnist Westbrook Pegler demanded that the officers concerned the dogs ride should be if the goes up to general he should be stripped of his insignia in the presence of servicemen in some extremely Public place and carted out in the very crate in which the dog Pegler in family 25 the population including service men overseas totalled on july the census Bureau announced the report showed that women outnumbered men by about casualties 25 casualties Facun Pearl Harbor through 6 totalled the War depart Meul annoy minced Navy casualties totalled Frog Trust Little 25 ans Bill which would bar the exporting of native frogs from the by commercial breeders has been introduced in the proof of the whisky Santa Janis because of protests by shiite Joe Montoya Bascome up with a Bill demanding that All Whf Cocy som in new Mexico be at least 90 Dempe shows Union a Buek is hard to fake 25 judge Emmett tiday sustained Ittie Light of the american federation of radio artists to suspend pro Ducer Demille for the nonpayment of a political assessment the Zifra ill mediately Noih suced it would regard any future appearance by de Hie on Bis radio theater As a violation of his Union attorney said an Appeal would be elsewhere in the Fin Colony actor Gary just returned from entertaining troops in the was ordered to bed because of an amoebic condition bandleader Spike Jones and his married nine agreed on a six month trial actress Venita Varden split for the third tune from her husband Jack Oakie and said she would sue for to clip clippers 25 investigation of night clubs Herey Partick Early those catering to started today after chamber of com Merce officials described conditions in them As Many of the places were said to be in business solely to Gyp Light Falls Niagara 25 one of the largest sources of electric Power in the Niagara Falls will join other cities in the Brownout which starts the Falls will continue to be lighted since electricity for them is produced in hellbent for Hale 25 local residents Are irked at Secretary of War Henry Stimson for ordering the closing of nearby Camp a ski troop training citizens claim the Camp could be used to House prisoners of War or converted into a tourist resort for after the while George Burns 25 Gracie poking her nose into the Secretary of Commerce declared today they ought to give the Job to a she  Rush out and buy a to a project for shed wait for a clearance Sale on dams and pick it up for a trifling rang wedding Bells like they were trolley Bells san 25 today were looking for King Dong daddy a Streetcar to ask him How Many time Hes been the Mink its it May be they also want to know Why he never bothered with getting a Fri agents joined in the search for Francis wan described by them As a be foot three warrants Aheady have been issued charging wan Wie with to explain his queries As to his continued absences from police said Wain Wie posed As an undercover government agent who spent most of his time out Jap wan Wie married three times last police they traced his marital record Lii this City Back to 1932 when he shovelled Coal for the spa and was chased through the streets by a wife named Bank bandits Boom i Ickes Stags in 25 secretory of the Interior Harold Ickes announced tonight that president Roose velt Iliad refused to accept his proffered Cigar eatery 25 has boo ired in Lou Clarkes Coffee shop Siwie she started giving away a cigarette with every 25 director Edgar Hoover disclosed today that Bank robberies had increased during 1944 for the first time in 12 robbed or attempted to Rob 37 Banks last year compared with 22 robberies in Peak year for such crimes was 1932 when there were 606 robberies loot total ing Wallace asks Congress probe rec lending under Jones to testify today before the Senate com Merce committee hearing on the George which strip the reconstruction finance corporation and its huge lending from the Commerce former Vic president Henry Wallace proposed a con Gressional investigation of rec lending under Jesse whom president Roosevelt asked to step Down As com Merce Secretary in wallaces the real issues in the dispute Over his nomination Are whether the Powers of the rec should be used to help big business or to help Little business in our achieve the goal of Wallace it is a question of Wallace and it is childish to think that our objective can be accomplished by a Small segment of even though that segment includes the tycoons of banking magnate supported by conservative Senate said yester Day he did not think Warace was qualified to handle both the Commerce Job and the Post of Federal loan adminis Reading from a prepared Wallace replied today that the Contro Versy Over his nomination was not a question of my alleged Lack of a question of the experience i have he listed Bis former govern ment referring especially to the Loans made by the commodity credit corporation under the department of which he formerly Wallace was fighting to prevent the divorce of the rec and eight other lend ing financial agencies from the Commerce As would be done under the Bill introduced by Walter George one of the group opposing Wallace because of what they consider his Radical ideas on he would be less than Wal lace if he told the committee that his concern Over the Bill sprang merely from the fact that separation of Autho Rity was of even greater Sig wifi Cancelas that my nomination was occasion for this he Joness talk of wallaces Lack of sex the former Vic president does not fool either me or the american Logout dims that toddling Only for a Day held in deaths of 2 yanks 25 tip who ran a bread delivery was arrested by Brisbane police today on charges of having killed an american army lieutenant and a naval Petty Everest was arrested after police Learned that a Man answering the description Given by the who lived Long enough to talk to had been delivering bread in the the lieutenant was shot As he opened the door of the House he rented in answer to a Man who knocked and Are there any yanks living Here the Petty officer was killed during a Bakers Holiday prior to the letters signed the Man in Gray had been sent to Brisbane newspapers we will give the coppers no rest until we put More to japs stiffen near Mandala in the Allied Bridgehead across the Irra Waddy River Southwest of Mandalay faced one of the stiffest artillery bar rages of the Burma fighting but the 14th army held fast and no ground was it or this photograph was made recently at state Randolph streets at 1 fog and smoke combined to give the Loop an appearance reminiscent of some London  Hies equipped Tod Rivea 11outbutneedmore 25 Brehon b army Supply said today that production of Small arms and ammunition in the must be increased 200 per cent Over last novembers total to keep a shortage from developing on the West reviewing the Supply somervell said the greatest pressure would have to be placed on production tack says newsmen deserve diplomatic standing new 25 Kent executive director of the associated yesterday proposed that diplomatic including free Dom from arrest or expulsion by foreign officials whom they Dis be granted to foreign Corre Cooper said newspapermen Are better qualified than diplomats to report foreign trends to compatriots at Home As some diplomats have an exalted ego and an aloofness from common Man in countries to which they Are East Prussia Cut by russians continued from Page i Witz and Chazanow had fallen to Konies Geiwitz is 40 Miles Southeast of which fell Chazanow is 22 Miles Northwest of and is one of the big areas of the Dombrowa Coal on this Oder front the main Battle was for now threatened from three the germans admitted that soviet tanks had gained ground South of the German reinforcements were reported pouring into the Breslau sector As streets were barricaded for a fight to the in his second Oder to Stalin announced that the first ukrainian army had captured the German town of oels and Ostrow in oels is a Road Junction 15 Miles Northeast of while Ostrow is farther North near which fell other elements of Konies army Are much closer to South of the City on the Konies forces along the Oder took the Lead in the race for Berlin yester but Zhukov was a close second and could regain the Lead by storming Zhukov was meeting the toughest opposition of any of the soviet armies in this the nazis said last night that persons had left Breslau in the last few other reports said that millions of homeless germans were trudging along the roads to at the Southern end of the Long line from the Baltic to the germans admitted new withdrawals before Petrovs this according to Moscow set off state of siege alarm in the czech its getting colder in Berlin l on Neme to prevent shortages of at feast a Cozen important items including heavy trucks and Large Aliber production of medium Aliber ammunition must be increased 100 per cent Over november while production of heavy trucks should be advanced 25 to per he despite these feeds to eliminate the possibility of somervell insisted that the allies have enough supplies in this theater to mount an fallout offensive if the russian Advance in the East makes it somervell disclose that several Hundred thousand More French troops Are to be sent into action on the Western and that the will Supply and equip he declined to estimate the required for this but said that the will be assisted in the Job by the British and the French West fronts continued from Page 1 Snow five feet deep at were making it difficult to get food and ammo to the one dispatch Salt on the doughboy of the 90th division crossed the Clerf where the germans were making a guard three Small German town a Southeast of Luxemburg City ire i v tactical air Force sweeping enemy communications they had spotted Many trains crammed with troops travelling East and Othen coming Back the Raf kept do its attacks on rail lines used to shunt weapons to launching French 1st army troops made Progris against the Northern Edge of the Genoa i Comar but were limited on the where resistance was British 2nd army forces were reported to hold two thirds of the pocket Between the Maas and Roer Rivers As they pressed Forward to the Bank of toe soviet envoy Oumansky killed in plane crash Mexico 25 Constantino soviet Ambas Sador to Mexico and formerly Sador to the was killed with his wife today when the mexican air plane in which they were travelling with members of the embassy staff crashed near Mexico City the Fate of the other occupants was not Learned 4 Terry and the pirates by Courtesy of news Syndicate by Caniff Moke Uke when in coed a Croump China before printed in England by the times Purt shins inn Flag House and published by the stat ifs armed