London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1945, London, Middlesex 1945 the stars and stripes Page 3 com z men now by Arthur White Stan and strikes staff writer than com z soldiers already have left their f outfits for infantry training As the first step in the army drive for the proper and full utilization Olben newly appoint Eti Eto Deputy revealed Lear disclosed that an oct has been established Here which will be turning out Trimore than new officer a month a soldiers gotta fight j within 70 i speaking at a Paris press conference Lear said that the stepping up 01 program to Transfer general service t soldiers to combat outfits was Well under i he termed tremendously High assertions that the transfers would involve 80 per cent of fit com z person not All to be taken he said technicians and other highly trained personnel would not be taken Anc that there would be an intensive Survey before it was decided who would the the transfers would be determined gely by the number of limited service is som of the vacancies be filled by French Lear said the new oct was Stab d Here because of the Large number if combat men on the Western who should be Given the Opportunity of becoming the program also will be open to men in general service the Deputy commander said he was not alarmed Over the number of awol american soldiers listed by the theater Provost marshal As there is no doubt that a few thousand have gone off Lear but i think Many have simply overstayed their passes because of Lack of transport or other and will get Back to their outfits within six or seven seek to suffering Lear said that special efforts would be made during the remainder of the Winter to Lessen suffering due to the including Mot oily the furnishing of soldiers with the warmest possible clothes arid buit also a Campaign to teach them How to care for clothing and avoid Trench everything possible would be done to the discomforts men at the front were he adding that some of them were because of Lack of transportation facilities at the general Eisenhower is interested in everything from shoestrings to the last articles of claims yanks loot Bastogne by Pugh Moore associated press correspondent this Village where three weeks ago american soldiers were for their heroic looting by troops has now caused american prestige to acting burgomaster Leon Jacqmain told Hubert Pierlot Here to get a firsthand report on the 4pught of the Pierlot was told Jeff was no no trucks with which get not enough not enough n4 no Wood even for from the wrecked Jacqmain soldiers had taken Blan stoves and even after succeeded in boarding up and doors a few soldiers entered and he adding that from a few watches were taken and stripped of their the soldiers keeping the Gold or Silver according tothe Maxwell commander of the Polst airborne and the civil headed by Sher Man did everything possible to Stop but were not entirely Succes partly because some military police i themselves were Jacqmain it is with sadness that p recite those incidents and i am ashamed to talk about it because the americans fought so heroically and the people like the american but we Are and not we want to be treated As not As because the soldiers have All he Pacific continued from Gage 1 tvs yanks captured the towns of Sagat and against stiff resistance Fugas they headed into the Foothills of the Nguet where the summer capital of Baguio is i a Jap counterattack at san Manuel was with ten Nippon tanks and of Keld guns Allied ranging Over Corregidor pand Jap targets in the also fat it out against Formosa and hit a Ltd Scroyer off South China from b29s raided Tokyo and rom India other super forts carried out first raid on French indo the Tokyo described As a substantial were reported to have pies troyed 31 Jap probably few destroyed ten More and damaged five Piaf this Force were no India b29s hires frenchmen i1 28 Twentyfive thousand French civilians Are now work for fhe american Communia m tons officials reported says he said Gas do want to go Home 28 John Sheridan said last night he was misquoted when he was reported to have declared recently on a return from a tour of Battle fronts that troops were Noj concerned about going Home under the rotation nothing could further from the he j his Correct he was that of about Ameri cans fighting Germany i didst find 100 who give up their Rota Tion or furlough Home if they Felt it would end the one Day red army gals real fighters continued from Page 1 ing in enemy suddenly mazy Kina heard a burst from a German machine gun and saw a red army Man but the machine gun was Well hid then she saw a Stream of fire coining from behind a Hillock about 100 Steps making sure that she had several grenades in her the girl crawled toward the Ranchi begun and raised the grenade Over her another minute and she would have thrown but two frightened germans came Over the Hillock with hands in another Battle she and four soldiers were fighting off attacks of several score of the at the critical moment Malykina gave tie command battalion this command stopped the in that skirmish she killed three Russia continued from Page 1 around to the North to Complete the encirclement of the offshore units of the soviet Fleet were reported read Deal with German transports i Case an evacuation is j the germans in this at Between and apparently decided it was useless to try to withdraw and yesterday attempted to break out through marshal wedge driven through to the All breakout attempts were beaten How and the two armies tightened their rip around Mie nazi while right spearhead drove West Tea within 20 Miles of Danzig other elements of his army joined up with Zhukov columns operating North of Bromberg 4nd were in position for a Trust they also were in Posi Tion for a drive toward the big Jort at the Mouth of the such a Trust isolate Pomerania from the Reich in the same Way that East Prussia was other units of Zhukov far behind the spearheads reported at the girder of assaulted Zhukov forces were reported fighting their Way through poses blazing streets stains third order announced that Petra yesterday captured Large administrative Center in Czecho in marshal Malinovsky army made further Progress toward Bratislava while Southwest of Budapest marshal Stol Bukhina troops improved heir positions after beating off German tank inside Budapest the russians chipped another ten blocks off the German held area in the see nazi pcs As Contact for peace talks that provisional governments had been set up under soviet auspices in both Poland and the army and Navy journal commented in yesterdays edition the possibility that the German generals captured by the russians May be developed into a provisional German government is not overlooked in washing recognition by both Russia and the allies of such a government might erase one difficulty in connection with the defeat of absence of an authority with which negotiations for unconditional surrender could be the Magazine doubtless the members of this pm Mittee have been in underground Contact with the generals of hitlers general it with the whose fear of Hitler has been intensified by his Swift punishment of their colleagues involved in the assassination plot of some months there May have been developed an under standing whereby weak resistance would be offered to the russian armies in Exchange for guarantees of personal our officials Are not placing much credence in this interpretation of the German but the prospective value of a provisional government such Asi May develop from the Moscow committee is and moreover it worm be useful in spreading confusion throughout unconditional terms clarified 28 Luxem Burg declared today that the allies have dropped leaflets Over the Western front dealing with capitulation and explain ing the Allied stand on unconditional i unconditional surrender is being insisted the leaflets Are said 10 it could always be said after Ward that Germany had been betrayed by an individual capitulation does not mean that germans who surrendered will be at the mercy of the victorious they Are under the Protection of the Geneva convention and will be treated with fair that also Means individual germans who had nothing to do with the crimes committed by War criminals will not be taken to account for those it is the wish of the allies to give the German people possibility for a peaceful development As Mem Bers of the european family of army signal corps photos this is War on the cold Western men of an infantry Cannon com Pany pause on a Snow covered Field in Germany for Twilight 5th infantry division troops file out of a Luxemburg lugging their ammo and with a tank in the distance to provide them with heavy a 7tbarmored division reconnaissance patrol moves into Shell torn thumbs stay Down on Wallace 28 Senate confirmation of Henry Wallace As Commerce Secretary appeared today to be improbable regardless of whether the office is permitted to retain the vast lend ing Powers exercised by Jesse Kenneth Mckellar president pro tempore of the took the Lea against wallaces joining with Harry Byrd Josiah Bailey and others in mapping strategy they Hope will result in rejection of the former vice Robert Taft said he thought republicans would vote against Wallace even if Congress moves to separate the government lending agencies from the Commerce the Wallace voted 14 to by the Senate Commerce com goes to the Senate tomorrow along with a favourable committee report on the Nero Wolfe coming Over Rex Stout wants a hard peace to kill German master Complex by Victor Lasky stars and stripes staff writer Nero his massive Frame covered by a specially Cut flight in Budd alike before a red hot i stove in a Nissen hut at a lonely installation of the 8th air Why did i allow Archie to talk me into coming to this climate he asked him and thinking of his untended Hothouse orchids and non pro curable american it had been three weeks since his former now Archie Goodwin of army had appealed to his patriotism to leave immediately for the to look into what the sensational London press called the Case of the missing Rex Nero wolfes said yesterday it was the corpulent combating new Yorks underworld have brought Stout Fame As a leading whodunit probably coming to the it All depends on what sort of material 111 pick touring air bases Stout its about time Nero Goi his fat behind out of his Comfort Able Home to see what this War is All the bearded Heads the writers War Board and the committee for prevention of world War Iii among v other arrived Here along with several other freelance writers at the invitation of the army air without literary commitments of any Stout expects to Knock about the continents air bases and Hopes especially to see doughboy in Stout a Foremost protagonist of a hard peace a la Van a verbal cat and dog fight with Dorothy whom he referred to As Over what Todo my he said is that weve got to handle the germans in such a manner that they will never Start another weve got to find out what they really Are before we can do anything 1 am that the much they May hate the nazis for having lost the Are still obsessed with a master race now Ditsy has the ridiculous Stout since she thinks the germans were hoodwinked into the War by their nazi it will be possible to re educate them to a demo cratic Way of which is a member of the Board of trustees of new Yorks Freedom to which miss Thompson also Stout resigned in protest Over what he Side red miss Thompsons placating George Bill to reestablish reconstruction finance corporation and Kiri dred agencies under a separate Federal loan Senate sentiment against confirmation was shaping up As a Small group of demo cratic senators mane Vered behind the scenes to persuade Wallace to take some step to placate his these senators have no intention of voting for his confirmation unless they Are assured that the rec will be divorced from the Commerce if it they they vote for that is the Way they would like it to be because it would be embarrassing for them to have to vote against their own party leaders Choice for the a reliable source revealed that Wallace some time ago had rejected a proposal by president Roosevelt that he take the Commerce Post without the lending when Wallace held the president sent the nomination to the Senate without any Hopkins reported in Paris Harry special assistant to president arrived in Paris Satur Paris radio said hot Over Blase this the Boxer owned by Elliott Roosevelt which recently shared headlines with the russian offensive a the american the dog was sent to Roosevelt actress Faye Emerson and was said to have bad an a priority and to have caused the removal of three servicemen travelling on a plane the the discreet Blaze kept room daring the
