London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 4 the stars life in those United states heres Wheatie you9ii change year now Hope seen for Wallace George Bill passes 1 Senate today voted favor of the measure sponsored by Walter George and already endorsed by president Roosevelt to separate the reconstruction finance corporation from the department of Senate earlier had voted to delay consideration of the of Evic president Henry Wallace to be Secretary of com Merce Wallace supporters had urged consideration of the George Bill ahead of believing that his Only Hope for confirmation rested in the divorce of the rec from its present the 4ote on whether to delay action on president Roosevelt Cabinet Choice or to Send the Senate into a secret executive session to consider the nomination immediately Fras a neck and neck affair until Robert of a Republican switched his ballot to the delay Wallace submitted a 16page statement to the Senate Commerce comm Spe which previously had voted against his m which he that his administrative task As former Secretary of agriculture was vastly greater than that of the reconstruction finance 2nd fire in Cleveland 1 the second time in 24 hours fire hit the Benzyl Plant of the Corrigan works of the Republic steel list boosting the estimated damage to Over flames were confined to a single tank of highly in flammable no one was reported to droplets dad Kia 1 Charles father of quadruplets Bora islet was killed in action during Tot recent nazi the War tipi Arment has informed his two Oil the quadruplets died within two Days ois the other two Are still at Hall Ounsy memorial Lee left for overseas shortly after the children were honeymooners wanted Jefferson 1 Bill to repeal Missouri two year old ban on Gin marriages was put before the legislature couples Here must Wail three Days for marriage Bill sponsors said Border counties have complained that the Law drives people into where they get married and spend their Money for drink and plaque from plaque 1 Bronze plaque paying tribute to american and British theatrical personnel who carried on through the London Blitz was presented today to lord British by actress Janet Blair representing the variety clubs of the plaque eventually will be sent to Todys the Day to watch that 5 Oclock Shadow 1 Snow five to eight feet devotees of the famed Punxsutawney groundhog today considered using Snow plows led by a Bulldozer to help the Little animal emerge tomorrow for his traditional groundhog Day weather if groundhog sees his Shadow when he crawls from his the will have six Miliore weeks of but if he does not see Summers just that is the Faith of groundhog head of the scorned a report that a Quarryville groundhog also was expecting to make a forecast he referred to it As a pole Lang syne Nev York Brown Derby Imade famous by the late Alfred Smith now is on display at the Smith memorial exhibit being held at the museum of the City of new guard Herman Thies cleans the that nuts works new i gently taking her Cue from Anthony hero of Grace yesterday shouted nuts and screamed for help when two thugs pointed a gun at her and demanded the payroll she was the would be robbers dashed away As help War airlines Girdle Globe simultaneous announcements yester Day by the european Saaf air transport and by Raf transport command revealed growing wartime flight services probing to All Corners of the Earth and port ending a global air network equal to anything on the blueprints of and postwar aviation at announced Extension of flight routes into Corsica and which Means that its mail and passenger lines now stretch from the North of the to Southern one daily flight goes As far As North african division having been placed under the european the Raf revealed that its transport routes now Span the Globe with the regu Larity of peacetime surface transport main routes Cross the North and South and run from the to Egypt and the Middle to Calcutta and aircraft also operate from Canada to the Pacific coast and thence to Australia Carlson adds a medal san 1 Marine Evans of Leader of the famed Gung to yesterday was awarded his 21st decoration of the the legion of action on Saipan where he was wounded live crack 1 that comedian Bob Hope had been killed in an Accident while Enro Ute Here for a broadcast brought derisive Guffaw from the Star wait till 1 look in a this dog has had his Day 1 the fat Fox terrier who was the richest dog in Detroit for a became just another Pooch today when probate judge Joseph Murphy ruled that the late Margaret Myers bequeathing Jack her estate including two houses and an automobile and her son was is properly Myers obtained the dog from the City Pound four years before she died last the estate reverted to Joseph of Myers son by a previous Maggie Waves her Drivers 1 when i woman testified that her whom she married in threw Kitchen utensils at her and fired one shot at her but judge Louis Burge asked is your husband from the woman said he was from the judge nodded understandingly that explains men from Cheyenne usually Are better Sarge wins Croix de Guerre Battle 1 Lloyd convalescing from wounds suffered in was awarded the Croix de Guerre today on behalf of the French Peterson guessed the medal must have been for the action in which he led a platoon across a Field near to and knocked out three tanks and two machine gun Pacific continued from Page 1 along with some filipino puppet govern ment while the americans were erasing Jap pockets West of fort Stotsenburg similar operations hereunder Way on Leyte and nearby where 758 japs were fighters and it boats sought targets among the including the Cavite naval As liberators ranged Over the South China sea to attack destroying 20 planes on the and to Pound shipping in the Takishima 150 Miles West of sink ing four and damaging two freighters from super forts struck for the third time at but details were not immediately available at washing Tokyo said 90 planes took Nimitz advanced Pacific he re ported new Liberator raids on iwo in the Volcano islands Southeast of and on Solei and in the in China 14th air Force liberators which struck at once a strongly defended Jap met no fighter opposition and Only moderate cuts quite a figure 1 Barber Clarence Hagen who during 19 wrote 866 letters to servicemen and sold in War Bonds has been voted the towns outstanding if you can heres a proposed Airport terminal where you can land your private helicopter in it features individual airline an Al weather Highway to protected plane generous space for sightseers on intermediate and upper and the helicopter Cairo says big 3 Are already meeting new 1 Cairo radio broadcast today that the three Power conference anticipated by the whole world started the in was monitored by the Federal communications no indication was Given As to the site of the Russia continued from Page 1 toward marshal Koniaev was re ported across the Oder South of German radio also mentioned fighting South of indicating another crossing had been made von Hammer said a Gigantic Battle was being waged for 35 Miles North West of both sides throwing in he claimed soviet Bridgehead across the Oder at Ratibor and Capsel had been wiped the against surrounded Breslau has been German news Agency Moscow has been silent about develop ments in Konies there was some speculation that while the Wehr Macht marshalls its strength to protect Berlin from the East Koniaev May make a full scale attack from the in East Prussia the Battle was in its last and most bitter trapped German armoured divisions fighting desperately but unsuccessfully Northeast of soviet forces have Cut All escape roads West from Konigsberg and marshal Cherniachovs keys troops were fighting in the flaming cites Northern outskirts As russian artillery shelled captives said confusion reigned in the Junker capital where about refugees have at the Southern end of the line in Slovakia snowstorms were holding up Petrovs troops pursuing the Ger mans Westward toward the czech capital on the Road to inside marshal Malinovsky forces were destroying encircled nazi groups battling fiercely to hold the few blocks still in their Lublin committee gets czech recognition the czechoslovak government has unanimously decided to recognize the provisional polish government in War saw the Lublin it a officially announced his line som her girl complains her Lover wanted Only the profits stars and stripes Bureau new tragedy of a Scarlet fell in love learn Fier beloved was a told in general sessions court yesterday by unidentified blonde from testifying against Mark Steele on trial for sending girls out to solicit Magazine subscriptions and then then into the girl told How she answered Steeles advertisement for sales then found out she was to sell she admitted falling for a Ronald Lanton Only after Steeles attorney read a letter which she had to Send to Lanton from Lansing where she escaped on the pretext of to get away from to she i would give any thing to be in new York when 1 come you will not have to coax me to stay with you As Long As you would returning to new she she lived with Lanton three Days and found wanted me to do some things Mark Steele did and so i left Ronnie then gave her letter to she the girl calmly described her intimate while Steele took her clothes to to pressed after had been caught in the asked Why she didst break away from Steeles the girl explained that the 46yearold defendant kept the girls a financial Thra Dom with hotel fines for Small irregularities and i dont know what you have done clothing everybody up front wants to know How far Are they now by Ralph Martin Siars and so rips staff writer with 7th when a jeep pulled into the up of the 83rd chemical mortar inv Cornelius of How far Are they that the question popping from the Mouths of frontline Joes in every outfit in the american army and nobody asks How far who is from everyone knows that everybody else is asking about the russians and if  Only keep said a jeep Driver with the 40th pfc Raymond of san Ive got a Little girl Back Home Ive been writing to for 20 months and id to Ive got the last laugh said bearded pfc Peter of Phila the boys always used to kid me because my family came from Russia they dont kid me any you know what the Guys Are saying every time some shells land in our said Herby company air Man from they say the russians Are overshooting Ive got a Date in Berlin with brother who is fighting in said Earl Tarr of a Field Artilles but i would rather spend it in let the russians have that All the Guys talk said Robert of Terre haute but in just scared to Hope of too i just love those Damn said John of an ambulance Driver with the 103rd berlins fall wont end War 1 in Germany May not end Foti Many even though Berlin is Cape ured and much of the Reich military experts Here the Asso rated press this picture of the War is based on hitlers of expressed determination to ight to the last and indications that the Janis May be planning to fall Back into he mountains of Southern Germany and 3 Austria for a final j Only the battered German j people or the German general staff acknowledging could Avert this bitter end even hat May not be enough to Force the nazi Ligh command to surrender experts in Washington said they bought the germans will try to hold the russian offensive somewhere along the present line and then throw in a counter offensive probably from Pomerania in northeastern to Cut off the russian forces threatening vday will arrive Only when the Allied military command decides that organized resistance in Germany has that Day May or May not be the Day on d formal German surrender is Ligh sources Hopkins bad peace drilling new president Roosevelt came out strongly today for compulsory military training in peacetime in an article in the american this is the Only alternative to maintaining an army of occupation in Germany and Japan for he Hopkins wrote that with a carefully trained nation no aggressor or group of aggressors could Ever aspire to conquer the United Hopkins said Only a perpetual army of occupation would be Able to prevent Germany and Japan rearming and implied that full prepared United states a fully prepared United nations was the Only effective Way to preserve those who labor for peace must implement their desires with the strength of the peace Lover must of greater than that of the he West front continued from Page 1 according to an associated press report from which said that French troops had taken 11 Miles above after Tow germans gave up this Bride head Poa established in a frustrated attempt j to seize Strasbourg for political effect the German corridor northward along the Rhine from Colmar was Al pierced by French troops at two and and French forces were than a mile from Colmar the germans were said to be pulling Baa across the crossing of the Moder by the 7th the except for patrol the 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