Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace October h 42 four cents voice cracks under Shower of Hen fruit Vladivostok Manchu Rex times swings support to new York ans the sedate Dean of american the new York broke a Mikl Bombshell in the journalistic world this week openly president Roosevelt thus the times reversed its stand of four ago when it opposed Roosevelt and supported Wendell Willkie Cor the its editorial read since be Lieve that the International Issue far overshadows the Domestic Issue in since we believe that unless the United states does actually win peace for which Young men Are fighting we shall have at Best Only a fugitive few years before another War engulfs we arrive ill the conclusion thai the democrats and Roose velt Are a Wiser Choice than the republicans and Down Texas a traditionally democratic Independent the Dallas morn intr come out for Dewey in editorial which said in every nation of democratic Progress there must be As Roosevelt once an occasional new to need one the last Republican Ean Dellale which the Dallas paper support decl William Mckinley in the heats on for the Liu political front wars inactive and few actual speeches were the actual election Little 11 two weeks the becoming increasingly personal with 8itch d and rebuttals building no political were even predicting new Frank Sinatra face was target for eggs As he reached the final bars of dont know Why i love ton like i do to the Jam packed Paramount theater Sinatra scurried from the stage As hundreds of Bobby sox and polka Dot admirers for the 18yearold boy who had thrown three eggs from the loth policemen came to the Bombardier hustled him i7i to a subway Sinatra refused to press lint with More than race was tense and vices As Forth right the re hot observers that this May become the bitterest Campaign since the when ii Irimie Al Smith Opp Stefl 1 in unprecedented flu while House took slops this Weik to refute Flint it charges were ten Omi Hicov a Lineys Riim Mign ii Oklahoma ten House Salatri Niit ran and dealt Winch Cadi see times on Page 3 Murray censures i Bill of rights new Leader Phi lip has criticized the Hill of and selective service act As too restrictive for full Protection and assistance to Velum ing cios president assorted that present statutes tie unemployment benefits to inadequate state Laws so Olvat most veterans will have less Luin the amols Ruml some will get no he said thai provisions for servicemen getting their Civ vie jobs Back Are and inadequate compared to the seniority provi Sions of the labor Union contract and the proposals we have Traxle for veterans Protection on the ballots parachuted to gis in Holland election Ore being dropped by Parachute to american airborne troops in the the army making a strenuous Effort along the entire front to nah la every Soldier in balloting is at foxhole level mini several officers have Al ready been killed while distributing new Metz area Advance 01s5 clothing winterized7 pauon3 third army pushed almost a mile in a new attack North of Metz on the first army five German attempts to break through the line were while yanks renewed attack on the last German position inside while the Allied armies inched steadily tin first army in Mehen and the Advance f men from Nen most telling clue to fight ing in Western Europe came from quartermaster chief in who announced that of the annies on the Western front is inure the la this statement indicated these Verity of combat on the Delman Frontier and that the american prepared for a Winter Campaign in Western Titler had potent indy More hopeful for Mir Early vet reflecting the Willkie Laid to rest neighbors met tuesday to pay final tribute 10 Wendell who t week Ngo services we held at the after the body was take to Ivis Hill cemetery for Ami her Philip arrived after latin is return for Pirn duty in the ferocity with which the ire prepared to resist Muiir capture i a their Nik red Ile up All men torn 10 id Siisi that and girls would Bic filled on to fight and admitted tide Section of our in reported shut the Uritis after Mic Kiiji of has driven to Viires Hie West Ontl on front ii in the Sulu Flat Briske into Thi germs in pocket on the South of the Stuan in their uni emitting bid of key to Allied the Only major Barrier re mailing is the Garrison on Smiith Juv Elaml Cas of fort Friant withdrawal Street fighting in Aachen is he bloodiest with picked combat groups of the German Garrison rallying from their pillboxes with weapons sen them by they have been waiting for Relief from German concentrations see Metz on Page 8 Shanghai w Kyushu Pacific Ocean Bonin is Formosa Tundo China Marianas Saipan Truk of Wake Marshall eniwetok Kwajalein admiralty is Gilbert Solomon w i hebrides the japs great plane Carrier in the South rocket and flamed under a terrific we Klong assault when planes of Tho third 20th and 14h us oafs combined to hit the Isle Manila also heavily pos snowed under by bundles for gis new York Santa clans is on postal authorities spread he cheerful nows thai Chris inns gifts for overseas servicemen and women reached an unprecedented volume lie nations families flooded the nations Post offices i Ileide prior tothe 10 new York reported that packages represent m in tense of Over enl Chicago Rejinor life so Buffalo us with x carloads still indent Kansas ent seriously Hurt in plane crash Colorado Springs Usnel general of the 2nd air Force nil the first attack on Plo wus seriously injured in plane in Pilot Iii m b5 which crash and during i he Hurt when n pro peller Cut through the his and Crew of five ill Listel men were not led big Plesti raid Kormer bomber chief of the Whent nil advisors planned the major bombing if the Plesti oilfields which of Currod we knt him self led Ihn tt8 i to ii act ships 79 planes lost of a new Carrier strike wednesday Manila reveals that the third rivet is Velill roaming the Bine Waters of Tho far Western Pacific Between Formosa and Luzon for seven consecutive to lays pre the powerful task 58 the tips with one of the most crushing defeats of Tho Pacific a now assessment of damage wreaked on the enemy during i his which open of on raised the figures to 934 planes destroyed 341 ships and Small Craft sunk or la american losses were put planes for he same the also revealed hat no american battleship or Carrier had suffered any damage of consequence in the we Klong operations on japans a Jap zone fighter drops a phosphorus bomb wide of the target As liberators return from unloading their bomb on the Island iwo 650 mile from army the japanese news Agency announced yesterday that Ameri can troops have landed Oil Suluan Island in the uen Trai this news has not yet confirmed by either Washington or Pearl although two wars Hyos were hit by Aerial torpedoes were Ablo to retire wider their own swiftly developing events in the Pacific War included a re Cord Sun ii by lot 32te from China bases against the third in four during Tho fighting Between Tho Currier task Force and the enemy air Mph Usayak also in to Aid i lie seaborne air using out Over the South China sea to sink an Cruiser and Jap Fleet turns Tail at the height of the units of the Jap Bligh seas Fleet off Lon Nosa to Parry the crushing american blows but turned and fled when they discovered the third fleets strength unimpaired after the had hurled every plane Ihry could put into the air knew ii build Industrial plants and Supply depots on crumbled under the fury of the air Batuick which came from Bolh East Ami Isle ii targets were see japs on Page 2 yanks occupy Eiffel Tower but pass up Beauty Salon Spellman Back Home from tour of France new Yor archbishop fran Cis vicar of the armed has returned to the states after a trip among go in Kyo and North when asked if ii thought Ilie War would end by spell Man didst say so and i certainly to beyond Jiny think he pah Ilion Iyad Kiffe of faced Pavis is Ilie most Linnual of All the place in Luiis a Liili live been requisitioned the american armed for the Way the american have been around requisition ing1 office buildings other structures has cruised considerable amusement in bit the requisitioning of the Eiffel Tower topped flies Hie us closely identified with Paris As Din statue of Liberty is with new been taken Over by they Are Loath to make pub Lic the uses they will it but in has been released that it will be used for observation Pur probably As a Lookout Post for to to the americans have requisitioned Only the in of the but a thing the Eiffel Tower is not much Nee if somebody else Lias the top of frenchmen shocked since the liberation of a French has flown from the top of the and below it Are Allied in peace an Floc Vittor carried sightseers to the ton of the but that sort of thing will not by resumed the army is up Little activity can be observed from the but last night there a Light up there probably represented some activity when germans were in Riccio potion of Paris they the lower As a Beacon to see Paris on Page 8
