Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Gets unanimous House Washington the Overall veterans Berte fit known us the go Bill of is now in discussion before a joint Senate House conference committee after the House climaxed its debate by passing the measure with a Roll Call vote of 387 to sic unanimously passed by Senate weeks must now return to the upper House for approx inf of amendments added by the the Broad principles of the Hill were unchanged do its controversial stay in the excluding a giant slash in unemployment and a healthy increase in Loans to the House ripped off the ceiling placed on Loans by senators and raised the Ante to in two successive if approved by an a servicemen May now borrow up to the Narni mum for the Purchase of a a farm or a Small the original 52 week coverage for unemployment plus compensation of a week was lowered to 26 weeks with weekly payments of the president of Princeton uni Harold announced that Princeton will begin a special abbreviated course for returning servicemen leading to an associate of arts a Deeree normally awarded Only in Junior four terms Are necessary for the new which goes into operation on july Allied troops race along in a jeep past 3 dead German and hit gun which were swept aside the allied1 offensive drove relentlessly against the Pivotal Points of the nazi Southern line in own e invasion body of missing Indian girl found the myster disappearance of Valsa Matt wealthy 22yearold of a was solved fast week with the Dis covery of her body in the Hudson the attractive a coed at Columbia Dis appeared two months ago left her apartment near the River during a heavy an a showed that she died by but the circumstances of her death Are ready to strike from states traps 17 g by Reynolds United press staff Naldia army from the Anzio beachhead and the main front to the Joneil forces Early setting a trap for about out flanked German divisions Uncle also paying Tho Way for the assault on military observers in London say that the Junction fore shadows the Early fall of Rome but they admit that the Allied Anarch on Tho capital May be delayed until an attempt can be made to exterminate the nazi divisions to Tho the Genii a evacuation Between Ami announced by the German dub news foreshadows an Early Retreat along Tho whole to North of Homo if Tho stubborn rearguard in the Liri area and also the five divisions massed Hie beachhead and vital Highway 6 Ctm keep Tho is Raf Blitz employs record fighter Force the air War Over Europe reached a new Crescendo during the past with both British and amen an fleets out in great Force in Lay and night in synchronized flows launched from England and at least one record was set a Hon More than one thousand ichters of the 8th and aah Low escort to the heavy bombers m a single h was the Argest fighter Force Ever sent out on one to Start the roaring Somo 000 Allied bombers crossed the Channel last saturday to drop tons of bombs on German Yards and installations Ito Iier he invasion again Ibe huns decided not to Send up fight ers and the allies lost Only two heavies and night fighters in the Davs next Day 250 american heavies a Mujica 7ao tons on railways and Aird Romes in Northern France and the Pas de Calais flak was heavy but again the enemy chose not to risk his during the night 700 British bombers covered Duisburg in Germany with while others attacked Hanno ver and air Fields in thirty British planes were lost in these Berlin quakes in one fou Day period the allies dropped tons of bombs on Germany and Eastern and the total for the week probably exceeded of this total see air War on Page 8 by Harold fort up dozens of american armoured arid infantry fully trained and equipped with everything they can possibly Are waiting in the uni Tod states for the orders to sail right into the Allied Beach Heads to be established in Western the War has taken a group of Allied correspondents on a tour of the South Ern United states where in the Blaz ing heat hundreds and thousands and possibly millions of men Are already trained and Are waiting for their turn to enter the Over hundreds of Square Miles of the the air reverberates Day and night to the sound of Battle As mortars and Che Mical companies out the last Fine Edge on to the and in the Case of some armoured divisions even of immense american forces now in England have behind them the most tremendous reserves of Power that any has Ever in when the beachhead Are secured and the assault forces from England established across the reinforcements to any conceivable extent can flow from these army saw the 9th army engaged in exercises in this As Well As the 100th stationed Irr North Caro both of which we saw in a Are typical of dozens like the men Are impressively fit and their endurance in the fierce heat of the Southern summer is they Lack nothing and ammunition and runs Are so plentiful that hundreds of thousands of rounds of live ammunition Are fired Nativ with everything from howitzers see invasion on Page 8 fire gutted liner Back on troop run Washington the Navy transport former luxury liner manhat is Back at sea again and engaged in transporting Royis to Battle Early in the the liner was heavily bombed while evacuating women and children from the Wakefield was subsequently burned the Hull in the Atlantic while carrying troops to More than troops were res cued from the Wakefield during the fire in she was towed Back to and re construction was now completely renovated and Hie Wakefield carries so Manv Builtin safety features that her coast guard Crew Call her a floating life Cape routes Field marshal faces the possible loss of the majority of Iris ten divisions on the main Battlefront unless he extricate them fast under Tho constant ground pressure and incessant that Joss will mean not Only Rome but a Likely Quick retirement to the poor the Alpine Foothills because Kesselring can expect die Junction Between the two forces was effected by patrols a few Miles Southeast of the Bridgehead on the Amiter Roma coastal the communique added this brings to a Climax the spec Laciar Advance of Tho fifth army of More than go Miles in 14 Oiny afew hours earlier the official nazi dub Agency had admitted that the Axis forces had withdrawn last night from the entire coastal area Between the two forces a Shorter line in the mountains Northeast of the a Pian the actual scene of the Junction was near Lake main Fimi army column advanced nearly twelve Miles along the flooded coastal through the Pontine san Felice at the tip of the be ten Miles Southwest of while the beachhead patrols pushed out three Miles from the linking of the two land fronts in Italy followed swiftly the push by the beachhead forces into the outskirts of Cisterna and also rupture of the App Ian Way and the coastal it also followed the fifth army break see Italy on Page 8 Mark Clark has narrow escape Italy Mark commanding general of the 5th narrowly escaped injury this week when a Well disguised Booby trap sex lode us general Clark and others were Ding in jeep when Booby an Abar Idionet German artillery exploded less than 25 feet jeep in which the general was several soldiers one Clark