Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace Four cents november 1944 veterans Loans available soon Washington application Blanks for veterans Home Loans under the Bill of rights have 4een sent to regional offices of the veterans administration and to All lending such As and loan associations and authorized government government guarantees up to 50 per cent of the Loans Are made eligible to veterans providing this percentage is not Over sex service men May apply for the Loans up to two years after Dis War manpower com missioner Paur Mennitt ced that veterans who enrol in wac apprentice ser Nice will be 850 to monthly under he it in addition to wages they earn while learning a some 600 veterans have enrolled and accommodations have been provided for As Many As court okays Schlitz for alcoholic hound Chicago mans Best Friend dog has every right to a quiet drink of Beer in a Saloon if he so ruled a sym pathetic judge recently in Dis missing charges against Margaret a female truck the Case came when Platt and her stopped in n tavern for a couple of drinks after a Days tie fact that amused customers taunted Queenie is she set on a chair Imd lapped Beer infuriated her mistress to such an extent that she was subsequently hooked for disorderly the Juden recognized that Plant is loins a mans freed her and when you cot give quranic a big howl of booi1 for Lay thai Cleaver sergeant he want kidding Dallas of answering questions about the condition of his heart in divorce was strike with a heart attack and died in the court had sued for divorce charging his wife with mental cruelty and Caus Iii hip heart Hodges Effort Irso lashes out wait a Gith that an egyptian Turkey and sch be strutting Long after american Cis in the Middle East celebrate thanksgiving Day with Turkey and trimmings shipped from but its All in mess Rachel Taylor left and Frances another wac Aro merely getting into the spirit of the Holiday Tor the feast soon be cooking at the wac Billet in signal corps photo by Mideast fowls through when you say your thanks giving Over you 22 ounces of tur Kev next thursday you can say it for the traditional spirit of what it Means and again for the fact that it want in hold on the trip from the states tur keys shipped to us anime travelled in hold in hold four reposed the festive Board for the persian Gulf some thing bold fours cargo was spoiled and this thanksgiving gis in the pc May be having special dinners they wont in clude to revs from the sue Tost battalion a circled by foe for week 13ij associated press with american troops East of France delayed trapped Ger Man line in the Vosges Foothills for a 270 american infantrymen of the 7th army were res cued by other who fought their Way through the nazi encirclement the battalion was trapped get 23 when German troops Cut in behind the who fought their Way through the encircled men said the surrounding Woods were full of dead germans and that the enemy paid ten for every american a dispatch from Headquarters the 9th Saaf in France said the incident occur cd in a Forest seven Miles Southeast of die and that the troops were isolated More than Bong gets two More Leyte Richard Bong yank has bagged two More enemy planes to raise his total to Yards from the main 7lh army no food for five Days during the week they were encircled the americans huddled in cold Foxholes and fought off numerous German but apparently the germans did not realize the desperate plight of the because they made Only one determined assault and that on the last Day just before rescuers reached the the americans were five Days without rations and medi Cal supplies finally wore parachuted to hem from Low flying thunderbolts and fired in by artillery to form cover for their Foxholes the men Cut Down Ivein Chttick Trees with pocket the germans did not re Alize the Success of their they never were quite Martin Higgins of Jersey the first night we had a see lost battalion of 5 that Chance shipping order by which this command got its Birds and the neighbouring one did not is the outstanding Story of Usa third thanksgiving turks take off tuesday getting the turkeys to the com mands mess sergeants is one of Ems More spectacular assign ments in a Job that custom has made miracles of Supply seem the Birds for the us anime command arrived in cold storage two weeks took a rest period in Ems col Turkey tavern and arc set for air travel tuesday to various parts of this its Here that at and its priorities take a role in a scheme that been under Way since last june when the pm people gave a thought to our thanksgiving me Turkey gels top 28 ounces 22 strip nixed for action go to each i Joe and but please dont bring your Scales to the mess line with Cranberry pump Kin pie and All the dont forgot to Send to an extra thanks for putting Usa firms Birds in hold three while youre think inst of Wafi a rave see Mideast on Page 5 first army yesterday attacked from the Aachen area adding its Force to assaults already under Way by the second and third weather favored air the third advanced into less than two Iti Iles from whose escape routes Are All under american artillery Western front action this week proved the proof in the pudding of the Allied leaders statements that there will Beno Winter Lull in Eroin Metz to the Allied armies attacked through Snow and mire to push the Wehrer Baclit into slow Tho push on last German fortress in had begun a week but with seven infantry the the the 90th and the at least two armoured divisions in action now has assumed a Mjor Geri Moo taken five of the nine forts on Tho cites inner defense Peri slashing through then the fourth and sixth armoured divisions forged a three Quarter Circle around Leafy ing a seven mile wide Gap through which the announced they Are evacuating civilians by unlike Aachen popu these Are French and apparently they Aro being sent into the Saar Valley or deeper into the Eoo tanks in action the germans estimated bad thrown six Hundred tanks into action South of the City and that he May to planning of the City in generations of has never yet taken by Patton didst say what his plans in Field marshal Mont Gomegys second British army launched tin attack in the classic Montgomery a Toogun artillery barrage heralded the attack through muggy by the first infantry attack was in another came four hours meeting somewhat heavier the mommies Are headed toward the mouse along the dutch Gorman Frontier South West of Needer Weert they have enlarged their Brig head Over the canal do Nord and forced two1 Nore Over the Wesson elbowing process correspondents with Demp Seys he cautioned that apparent Early Success must not he Magni that this push is More an elbowing out with the main wehrmacht manned by paratroopers further still to be the second expects to meet a solid bastion Between its Gateway and the Rhine and Gen Hodges first army in the see 3 armies on Page 8 9 die in wreck of Streamliner persons were killed and 83 injured last week when the Southern Pacific bound from Chicago to san jumped the tracks on a curve three Miles West of col eight of ten cars Over turned when the engine slowed into a dirt As investigations have revealed no cause for the two sailors and one unidentified Soldier were among the yanks invade Isle off new Advance on Leyte amphibious troops wednes Day Lai Ulea on Maria m5 Miles Northwest of Hick on Trio Northern new Guinea push ing ashore under cover of heavy naval they met Only slight the Landing was made to Knock out Jap coast watchers who had reporting flights of planes third Fleet Carrier scouring Manila Bay shipping and facilities have sunk or damaged la ships and destroyed a floating at least 28 enemy planes were also Ono ship of the Carrier task Force was reported damaged by Jap Aerial Nimitz reported that enemy destroyers in Manila Day exploded under the air attack while a third a was left badly Airm Nii also ripped docks in Manila Bay and in the Cavite naval Yard and strafed Manila and Clark damaging 130 to 140 Jap planes on the 13 Jap destroyers sunk on Ley to Island where the Billet Campaign is now in its 30lh enemy forces have reached strength of five the japs succeeded in sending in some troops to replace a like num Ber of casualties but paid heavily for their bold at least enemy destroyers and seven transports were sunk during the operation by planes and it Macarthur How Tusit the steady american has broken the Jap plan for a counter drive by be to premature and piece see yanks land on Page 8 Joe Gould gets three years Joe former manager of Jimmy Brad a heavyweight was by a general courts martial of conspiracy in accepting bribes in connection with the award of army contracts Worth a million dollars to the Cornwell shipbuilding he was also convicted of seek ing to have Tex Sullivan testify falsely in his Gould was dismissed from ser fined and sentenced to three cars at hard Smith Brookhart Dies Smith former senator from died Washington Battle casualties for All branches of the service went Over the half million Mark with the announce ment by Stimson that our casualties total through october army casualties Are with the army figure represents a in but Stimson explained that this is due to revised re the navys including Marine and coast guard person is with Cheves advanced chunking Gil Bert formerly of time has been com manding services of i for forces in
