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   London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 4 the stars and stripes 1945 life in those United states United air lines plans to employ aah veterans 14 air lines announced a plan today to employ air Force veterans As commercial pilots and crewmen in expanded wartime and postwar veterans who formerly worked for United would be resumed to the payroll at their former salaries and Given training at United Denver Pilot training Center in new traffic control Airway aids and other improvements made a their the company unite said it would likewise train military pilots who never had flown commercial the airline expects soon to add 19 converted military transports to its present Fleet of it also has entered a order for 50 four engine Douglas than 350 pilots have been trained at United Denver school since Pearl the line there would be a considerable expansion of the school to meet postwar capital ramblings exports in 1944 hit a record total of the Commerce department eighty per cent total waa in disease the army disclosed that work done by prisoners of War in the last year was Worth at the same time announced that eight murders and 43 suicides had occurred at pm Camps in the technique Honor Ace Gabreski Oil dec with seven Oak Leaf the Silver Star and the air medal were presented last night to Stanley Jabr Szew ski on behalf of has Francis sex 8th of fighter Ace who shot Down 28 nazi planes and now is in a Germon prison in making the John Clark said that Gabreski has written history in a Blaze of glory Gabreski across Europe hundreds attended the Salt Lake maybe its the Valentine a 13yearold boy was taken into custody by police today after numerous women reported he had kissed them and run explaining his the lad said he just walked up to a woman waiting for a Street asked a sneaked a kiss and Stassen named for world Parley 14 eight member delegation named by president Roosevelt to attend the United nations san Francisco conference on april 25 will be headed by Secretary of slate Edward Stettinius and will include former Secretary Cordell Hull As senior it was announced other members of the delegation in clude Tom Connally Senate foreign relations committee chairman Michigan Arthur the senates i Republican spokesman on foreign policy sol Bloom Anc Charles a Eaton members of the House foreign affairs committee Harold former Republican governor of Anc Dean Virginia of Barnard new by naming congressmen in the observers saw the president avoiding one of Woodrow Wilsons major mistakes in a futile attempt to put the into the league of by passed Congress until it came time for the Senate to ratify the then a Senate bloc turned him defeat ascribed largely to Wilsons failure to take Congress into his members of the group Are All avowed i Stassens How was considered something of a Wichita Rolls b29 14 Superior manufactured at beings Wichita Plant was delivered to the army today plastered with about s in coins and the Money was a spontaneous contribution by Boeing employees to the infantile paralysis actions speak louder than words police women on juvenile Eleanor head of the woman division of the police found herself in youngsters in the Alley were throwing stones through the miss Hutzel said she would be More valuable outside than talking to the women coppers took the hint and stormed into the a few moments three youths were rounded up for tiny baby baby weighing Only one Pound and 15 ounces was born to and Thomas Bergamini doctors gave the child a fair Chance to Mischa Auer Breaks leg 14 comedian Mischa Auer broke his right leg when he chased a prowler Over a backyard age Steps in youth 14 William 48yearold Veteran of world War volunteered today to take the place of Marcus in the armed forces and allow Russel Mcfarland to keep her ninth son at eight of her sons already in Mcfarland wrote president Roosevelt asking special deferment for Collins made his offer to the mayor of this who said he did not believe it could be if you rate one of you rate los Star Frances Langford helps open the silent partner Campaign of the veterans of foreign wars by pinning a member ship ribbon on Sailor Dean of los the Campaign urges civilians to help returning servicemen adjust to civilian spy helpers jailed Marie Case and Shirley Jean drive yesterday were sentenced to jail terms of a year and three months and a year and a Day after being convicted of aiding two German prisoners of War to escape from a nearby Arent we All Camp because he was allergic to Albert Van der Scheuren yesterday received an honorable discharge from the doctors discovered through a series of tests that each time Van der Scheuren put on he developed a severe reds threaten to split Reich continued from Page 1 silent about Zhukov front facing Berlin and neither confirmed nor denied reports that he had established Bridgehead across the Oder and was holding positions As much As a mile deep on the Western the germans said fighting in the Frank fur Kustrin area was still Only of a local Zhukov right was slugging on the approaches to and some reports from the front said the guns of this 1st White russian army could be heard inside the Baltic in a second announced that Zhukov forces had stormed and captured the nazi hedgehog position of far behind the a big railway Junction just Over the Reich Border and 60 Miles West of has been encircled for More than two Posen still held but the russians were stepping up their drive of Ann Hila to the Northeast a new soviet drive toward Danzig was and Berlin reported that russian troops had reached the area of 65 Miles Southwest of the free a new drive also was reported devel Oping in Hungary where the armies of marshals Malinovsky and with Budapest behind were said to be sweeping Westward along the Danube toward Bratislava and air continued from Page 1 her Man is Safe Mother awaits Safe return of missing Man of the year o Mill Little Ella harness Waits hopefully for information from the War department that her John missing in action in Luxemburg since is so hard of hearing that she wears a hearing harness looks Over collections of clippings and pictures of John which have been mailed to her from papers All Over the United after his picture was used by the London edition of the stars and stripes to represent every frontline i Joe As its Man of the Johns younger Lester now serving As a gunnery instructor at an aah station near Gulf served with the 8th air Force winning the dec and air medal with three John Parks is he never was much for his Mother after attending High he worked with an ordnance Plant near he joined the army Mother first husband died and she mighty proud of John and Lester and prays it wont be Long before her sons will be returned to trial has been reported to be housing thousands of evacuees from bombed out some of them even from Only 35 Miles Southwest of also was pounded by fortresses through this City has four rail Way one Large marshalling Yard and Railroad repair it is a machine tool and armaments turning out such War items As gear turbines and steam liberators in Strong Force concentrated on we battered which also suffered from Raf blows the night two hours before the three pronged air which took place shortly after a Small Force of heavies attacked a six Span Road Bridge across the Rhine at in the Northwest Corner of the the bombers went out with a shield of More than 900 Mustangs and Thunder some of which carried out strafing attacks on communications targets in Southwest and Western Early reports last night gave the fighters 64 locomotives and 139 railway cars As their toll for the the 15th air Force Lent More Force to the Allied air blow when fortresses and liberators based in Italy blasted Oil targets and communications in Vienna and other formations of heavies ranged Over Yugoslavia to Hammer rail for the second consecutive coiling up for the mighty strike scores of p39 fighter planes ferried across Canada and Alaska Enro Ute to Russia under line an Airfield at soviet with whom the p39 is a await final inspections by russian mechanics and the orders which will Send them winging their Way across Siberia and the War against Germany on the Eastern evidence of cooperative Allied take care or take a walk9 vehicles piling up in lots because of parts shortages stars and stripes staff writer with the 3rd ordnance outfits dont get parts pretty soon we will be foot slogging the roads like said Veteran Joseph of chief clerk of the 3447th ordnance com 41yearold Veteran who served As a Rifleman with the 2nd division during the Argonne Campaign in the last surveyed a vast parking lot littered with the hulks of deadline be cause of collisions and premature old and said we didst have Many vehicles then but those we did have we took care unless we get parts to repair the 30 vehicles a Day brought in Here and unless Drivers pay More Atten Tion to first and second Echelon main the litter bearers will really have a Long haul with their Joseph Auto repair Section we have a critical shortage of engine sub assemblies and ambulance the latter is a special grease packed Spring which has saved a lot of lives because it gives a soft working up to 18 hours stripping some vehicles to obtain parts for others not so badly Fornelli outfit nevertheless manages to Patch up about 25 vehicles Lester of and Robert of most vehicles we get for repairs average about dying of old if Drivers cared a Little More about their trucks they could easily get we Are rear but we appreciate their Long hours in Tough till pay off for them in the Long you see a Jerry without any an Raf Western belgian spitfire Pilot returned yesterday from a attack at Rheine with a Wing torn by and most of a pair of German Field ser vice pants hanging from the Hole in the apparently blown there by some Freak of weve caught the huns with their pants Down commented the Tut this is the first time weve come Home with Blind pianist gets Aid 14 ans Perkins institution for the Blind offered today to sponsor the career of Jimmy Niney Earold Blind English pianist for whose training a group of 8th air Force officers and men have raised Gabriel Farr director of the said the school was logical place for the boy to begin his he said he would at tempt to Contact John Ocon of special service officer at the air font base in England which announced the plan for the boys the British government has imposed the condition that someone vouch for jimmys welfare while in the until his parents could join who began his playing at the age of two and never has taken a piano learning All music by listening to the radio and has entertained servicemen with everything Froff Bach to Boogie r 5 May ease Italy terms 14 Jorif Anglo american declaration which a Fol ease the armistice signed in september is expected the will probably Promise greater Meas up of economic Aid and Lessen controls flip italian administrative Jit Jimmy 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