Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              I out of every veterans enter disability claims Denver Frank chief of the veterans and revealed this week that 32 out of every 100 discharged War veterans Are applying for Dis ability two thirds of the claims have Heen he speaking before a National convention of disabled american be Hines disclosed that euro psychiatric disabilities comprise 40 per cent of claims Hines revealed that veterans of world avar ii were on tile pension Rolls at the end of other Vete raft news of he week came from where War manpower commissioner Mcnutt disclosed that Ameri can Industry is gearing itself to government program for classifying jobs according to physical demands so that disabled veterans will be Given jobs they can the movement is rapidly he com ing some employees in Pennsyl California and Michigan am analysing jobs in re lation to disabled one jump they waited Long make new legislation hikes education Grants for vets find City owned colleges got a his i Wiick the veterans administration announced that it will in crease Ite tuition for veterans attending College under the  provisions of the i Rill of Wie government will any tuition of at least s10 a Sho a Quarter of a semester and in universities which charge n non the government will Lay he extra foe regardless of wharf the exit is the pict in of re renin to charge to is 00 More for Iii of slate the  will also Rover ilit1 vets Library Ami  Phis books and a Thor not How is provided an for room find at the 422 Dischar ged veterans Are attending College under the i Bill of rights and others have been ruled Elig i is believed that almost a million vets will take advantage of benefits yanks hang socks on Siegfried line press Cor respondent Henry Gorrell re ported from the Siegfried line that alongside the picturesque streams East of i no Ricell some Fellows washing their socks and underwear and hang ing their laundry on the like that song once they were really hang ing their washing on the Sieg Fried Kennedy Soninlaw dead London tie Marquis of who May married Kathleen daughter of former ambassador Joseph has been killed in action in the was heir to the duchy of Devonshire and a Captain in the Coldstream sheaf the Battle of the Bridges Over the Waal at Nijm Ogen and Over the Lek at eased slightly yester Day after hours of anxious the airborne an Island surrounded by holds its own Ante the Battle to outflank the Siegfried line nears its sunday morning the heavens opened on the German flooded dutch prom the skies tumbled thousands of troops of Brereton Allied airborne army in a a rift Man Euver to link with the British second drop a toehold across the Rhino and outflank the manmade barriers of the Siegfried line and the natural Moat of the sheaf announced the plan was going that within 24 hours the sky train army had made Contact with the land patrols and that the next few Days would be that the germans thought so too me with the revelation Ler himself taken command of the of which brightened Many Allied hearts that remembered How Hitler had once taken charge of the Battle of it led Field marshal three american flyers scramble to Allied soil at an air base in Egypt after being evacuated from the pow Camp at Shumen where they were held for months after being shot Down in top to Raymond Loancy of Gerald of and John left Wicz of All three were Aerial gunners on pro photo by Becker and see 4 and or Slort and additional 24 overseas veterans die in Indiana train crash to Hinio head on collision of the Dixie Fly crack passenger train of Chicago and Eastern and a mail express train North of Torre Lla ulc Cost the lives 28 including 21 overseas veterans of the army air forces who had completed their furloughs and were in route to a redistribution Center in two Cre Wiren of the flyer Ami two other unidentified persons were also the toll to at i5 others were most of the Soldier victims had completed 50 Aerial combat mis Sions and had recently returned to states for 30dny furloughs vhf fire in route to they occupying the first three cars of fhe southbound Dixie the chicag bound mail rain was sent through on the same track occupied by the fiver and the trains collided three Miles North of Terre haute in a Victory lemonade women Christian Temperance unions 70th convention went on record As ask ing americans to voluntarily abstain from alcoholic drinks when Victory comes in the convention recommended that All bars and taverns he closed for 48 hours when the hip moment when he crash the locomotive and three cars occupied by he were hired from tar pinning Many in their a murky fog complicated Rescue Crews turned in of air medals and purple if Eari flex orations which were strewn along the two Navy sailors and Oast guardsmen were killed and tick other persons injured Friday in an explosion which rocked the Hastings naval ordnance the Ducr a Crater 550 feel Loik and 25 feet deep it was heard 12 Miles Macarthur wins Island base 300 Miles from a Carrier task Force of the Allied Eastern Fleet levelled Dawn attack at Sumatra largest railway repair Center on at weeks end Macarthur triple pronged Jab toward the Philippines has been firmly anchored with the capture of two of three primary enemy resist Ance has completely crumbled on the Island of the North Ern tip of the and a Gaur southernmost Island in the Palau bloody fighting rages on Pel Eliu just North of where marines Are slugging it out with Jap who Are shackled to their gems in the Coral and Limestone frontline dispatches said that the crisis Point of the Battle on Pele Liu passed after the invading lame Picans smashed three enemy coun the japs prize Field on Pel Eliu is already in Aine Ifim latest invasion of the Island defense ring Marks the eighth major offensive by Ameri can Central Pacific forces which in ten months since the Battle of Tarawa have pushed the Battle Lino Miles japs caught napping at Moro Fai Macarthur forces caught the japs by the enemy had heavy reinforced their garrisons Oil the main Island of which Macarthur by passed land on after going ashore on Morotti with his Macarthur later told you have done you now dominate the last stronghold which barred you from the Philip see Philippines on Page Washington casualties in All branches of the armed forces reached a total of through announced Stimson Las army casualties for All Thea ters Are including the Navy reports including 12th corps in France Paris the 12th army corps participated in the drive across it has been officially other corps recently identified in North France were the 8th and Montgomery to rejoice that the enemy is commanded by a Luna but if the allies planned with bold the germans fought with reckless for the first time in weeks they attempted Hui my their Bock to the american first Larany of Ges at terminal of first rate Roadway from the Border through Duren to Over Rhine after the Iai Horne army landed the British second army accelerated its Pace and advanced into trying to Force the Rhine a widening Spear head through the body of the be Eisenhower told the dutch to protect their factories and Bridges As Well As they could they would be veterans who had raced through France re ported that the Joy of the liberated parisians paled beside tie ecstatic abandon with which the dutch were receiving their now the second after by passing in Jinchen on both sides has sent one to the North across the Rhine and another East Ward into Germany at both Beada great Battles rage for the two Rhine Bridges which guard the approaches to Berlin and the in the arnhem the air borne army holds a Bridgehead North of Nijm Egen and is fighting Strong counterattacks for which the have been reinforced the second army Rhine crossing is thought to be see airborne army Page from the brer Etorly Allied airborne Joti empty link with the British second and outflank the Rhine and Siegfried