Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace October 1944 Campaign tactics blow to says Roosevelt ans the second Campaign address of presi Dent Roosevelt Anda spirited reply by Thomas Dewey High lighted the political week As elec Tion Rolls Ever addressing democratic party Campaign workers by the president called for a mass turn out of voters on election repeated charges that Republican opposition has made soldiers voting More and scoffed at his opponent accusation that the administration would demobilization because it is cheaper to keep men in the army than of let them come the president termed these reckless based on a authoritative sources and tending to weaken morale both on the fighting front and at violate congressional Frank to said congressional acts signed by himself ago specifically prohibit demobilization de Roosevelt also commented on reports that 13 republicans in including Clare Booth see Campaign on Page 7 under of american taxi prisoners downhill in following their surrender to troops of the first Marine held capital Park in third slaying Washington a Marine Pri vate has been arrested in connection with the third slaying in Washington Parks within recent Earl of new is being held in connection with the snood strangulation of Dorothy of Chippewa whose ravished body found in East Potomac medical exam Iner reported that the who had come to the capital ii work with the or Dunno bail be in Assan Llyl and 1 to death with own brightly coloured Mcfarland is Marrin Arne in father of two discharged vets get Relief from retakes Washington selective ser vice into action last week to halt the redrafting of veterans who hold honorable discharges from the some who had already done stretches in the service and returned to found themselves medical of Mimi to pro All servicemen so will be kept in is the classification life with receiving n new tons and being vent discharged now class which Given men and in the army Paris lights on again oav1 Paris Dur Onod five years ago when Ger it Iii armies marched into will lie turned in next leaders pay tribute to memory of Wendell Willkie new Yolk Wendell j Hoosier Liberal and Republican candidate for presi Dent in died of coronary at Hill Hospital last sunday in was although ire had been desperately ill for shiveral physicians hoped that he bad passed the crisis and would recover from the ill his condition became critical on saturday evening1 and he wis placed in an oxygen tent about his who had also been was rushed to Tho Hospi Tal and was by his bedside when he died in his two hours his said that to Streptococci a infection affected the Muscles of his the untimely death of brought to the Short but Brilliant career of one of the nations greatest political comparatively unknown before the 1940 Republican he emerged As Standard bearer of his party from one of the most sensational political conventions in ame rican history and in losing the general election to president pilose velt polled the greatest popular vote Ever received by a Republican presidential Irish Rose clipped for illegal entry up 1m i Graton officials Here Are hold no 19yearold Elizabeth Mcleod of Ireland on charges of illegal entry to the aboard a Victory ship and Aje checking on her Story that she has been eng aged to 14 american servicemen in the past three hut never in Ireland she claims to have been engaged successively to eight soldiers and four but her finances were always transferred away before expiration of the required six months waiting two american pilots flew her in coffin aboard bomber fran Belfast to where she Mot the Youngstown merchant Marine her n Cross the she hid in Days Dur him the who smuggled Atlantic Bis i locker for Elizabeth the Lias been cause and marry no i int going to marry Vith Whoso family she stay he a Soldier i like he has o s soon Sims lie Wendell Willkie forthright Homespun statesman the tall dark haired Hoosier continued his Rolett As statesman and was welcomed in dozens of coun tries during his global tour concerning which he wrote the widely read one born in he always see Willkie on Page 10 Anzio hero wiped out 4 Jerry gun positions idiom tar the Furrs signal medal of Honor icon to pfc Tolin single band killed 11 formans or Cannon my Floroe note chive Ianchi Negus at Anzio inv la beefs citation Domko advancer openly the enemy position and used Correi Wulc and automatic Rifle to annihilate All the a inure falling do Iii Over Hodges men Are closing in on Aachen which took a terrific pounding yesterday from air and Eisenhower told correspondents to must fight until Victory la won but pointedly set no time despite bad weather Allied air forces flew two actions mails the news of Iho week along Tho 450mile Siegfried while elsewhere tents and counterattacks Catell that the German army has no intention of giving up the Tath Erkid without ferocious Aachen is now completely but its Defonde rtt have ignored an ultimatum threatening destruction of the Border bombardment has been unleaded by first army artillery and Allied How far Tho germans will permit their City to to destroyed May be prophetic Shadow of just How far they will allow the Bathe of Germany to Lay waste their Home South of the British and Canadian troops of marshal Mont go Nerys 21st army group a daring amphibious la aiding to Cut off about germans in Tho Estuary and to Clear for Allied use of the great belgian the stroke also is aimed at taking from other Canadia forces bitterly of posed in their drive iffy Cross further Nijm Egen the British second in Ched toward Courtney wedges Mon Saj that the shelling of Tho Dubuch breakthrough i in Tho Aachen area was the heaviest and Tho fighting the that they Ever have experienced and u tank commander who had been at declared hat the fighting hero is even tougher Thoat the Battle to break out of the Jifca Lian bracing for onslaught in doomed Aachen Only a Frac Tion popular Tion the Garrison of about two escaped Tiuis has been issued wine and whisky to Brace them for the first army White flying from civilian have Hcan pulled Down within a Fow presumably by military troops to the encircled City have been shot at last yank it was virtually in bios Siulc for the Cic Onins to Retreat ill rough the Lisseth Anainise Gap hew Puii the two Prinis East of the last in Tho first Groat Fank Haftle on German the see Aachen on Page huns against sea soviet troops charged to the bal tic sea this cutting off land ward1 communications for up to nazis trapped in Latvia and Lithuania and opening the Way for a Large scale soviet attack on East Prussia which has been pro acted by u Baltic driving Westward across Lithuania in a spectacular Advance hatching the summer troops of Bagramyan and Chon Vakhovsky spearheaded to Ward two great Memel and and reached Tho sea oth North and South of the Harbor and town if completely with Sociol troops also advancing on both the northeastern and Stitis Borders of East it can to said that la general soviet offensive against Prussia is in pro Al and at the Southern Tif Onsol two German rear guards Are fighting desperately to men and Materiel for Eva runt on from Tho Baltic split nazi forces on he Sun Horn Henssi and rumanian forces in of to smiled second largest City of captured Canial of Huntr Arifin Anno Wocl both Cirios Are vital Vail and rond foil Nulf soviet Armor and cd nov forced Rivkov nil la nissm my cite on fun Nolb t reach v a Milfs South Sec soviets on Page 10 Fath for Cloud Dies Detroit father former president of t University of Detroit died Washington casualties for of branches of the armed forces Arn through of this Are army casualties and Are the the total represents an increase of casualties within two covered Anne dead of with Navy Readi listed at Marina comes Home to cheer Mother who lost four sons Utah this the Story of an american family whom War dealt an Irre parable or ugh Alvin a farming reared five sons of Whin went into the armed when the War in the months that three of the Borgstrom boys kilted in and a fourth reported last the couple Learned trial their fifth Marine is coming for Good under a special Honor Able Ili Scharge ordered the Marine corps they had to washing Ion earlier for his disc wire so he Donld run their farm and help conquer the grief caused by the loss of their other four bold is now at Camp after 18 months in the Smith dangerous journey in the wife of an army officer also heard Happy Robert Wessic Loeft was notified that her air corps husband had been flown to Washington from India after a Harrow ing junket that began in Remote me is now in Walter Reed Wesselhoeft was stricken with infantile paralysis last and kept alive for 15 Days by artificial in order to evacuate him from the rugged coolies built a runway sufficient in receive Small plane which carried him to India wearing a mechanical Respirator improvised by two army he was flown to Washington by army
