Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace November 1944 yank keeps Winter watch on the Siegfried line bundled up in winterized a Lono american walks his Post along a Section of the line to Germany after the first heavy snowfall of the own releases Lor fathers Washington of War Harry Stimson ruled this week that military considerations forbid the withdrawing of prep Earl har Bor fathers from overseas service in reply to a proposal made by Edward Hebert of he suggested that such fathers be included in the present policy of returning from overseas the sole surviving son of a family which has lost two or More sons in i very keenly appreciate the of your Appeal in behalf of these men and consider it a most unpleasant duty to decline your said in As in Many other situations with great human the extent to which Tho army can conform is severely limited by military considerations so song As winning the War is our Maior 1 should prefer of course not to Send any Man into but successful War cannot be waged in and other tie stressed that extending the sole son policy to families with an Only son or to a repeal Harbor fathers would Verv quickly involve such As to inter fee seriously with combat oper to the weary months of waiting following Many see no releases on Page 8 flyers 13o before by Larry Leonard launching defense of their Pyra mid football conference Cham the Payne Field flyers ran into a big assignment on thanksgiving afternoon and came out on the Short end of a 13 to 0 score against the potent base hos Pital who produced an amazing defensive before a Holiday crowd of a recovered Fumble set the stage for the initial tally and a bad snap Center with a fast charging firewall gave the advantage to the rebels for their final counter in the waning minutes of the fourth Duane Reese picked up a Loose Ball on the flyers 13yard line towards the end of the opening one play arid big Bill Ostoski picked up seven Yards off tackle As the period two plays later Ossie hammered his Way Over for the Lara conies through with the shadows falling on a hard fought the rebels rushed hard when the flyers found themselves with fourth Down and 21 Yards a had snap helped the cause Bev tossed the air took the Ball on the 11 and on the first Antelope Albert see res on Page 8 beats Gums while air freight rushes choppers e i d 1 t j d i Trench Rush toward Keich in spectacular Advance the Laindre Nolier West front yesterday the third and seventh armies linked in the Vicinity of the first army neared Wei Sweikar on the and Duren tile British second took six mites from patrols of the first reached six Allied armies this week storm the 400mile German front from Holland to crashing into a giant offensive whose foreboding preparations and ultimate attack on a magnified Summers triumphal breakthrough from i in Many such As the american troops of the British second army push to the daily Advance had to be measured in hundreds of in such As the american third army taking of vital this is a Story you can sink your Teeth bombers Hammer Reich on single Day with the greatest escort Force Ever put into the ame rican bombers tuesday struck at synthetic Oil production facilities in Merseburg and Hamburg tues the fighter escort was a combined Force of eighth and ninth Saaf the same Day Raf bpm bars dumped Somo tons of bombs on Ruhr Oil targets and rail centers for the second shattering assault on the enemy Oil sup plies in 12 the us oafs assault counted 79 nazi planes destroyed to loss of 40 bombers and 17 Al though some of our men were Able to land at Friendly the Armada had flown through temperatures As Low As 43 below Zero to drop its tons of from the 15th Saaf thrust into Southern Germany and targeting the Munich and Salzburg rail centers in a move coordinating with the French first and american seventh armies in Southeastern strength had to be expended in the taking of City Advance in Large scale mar most spectacular of these was the first French army surge through the vital Belfort de Toa signs recce forces climaxed a fou Day bypassed Belfort itself and took the Industrial City of this City of lies 61 Miles want West of Strasbourg arid its taking Pete the stage for a crossing of the Rhine at a narrow Point and a tank drive along Flat Ter rain patton8 third Colmar and Strasbourg he but the French now Force Vori Rundstedt to defend the area at the very time when he is most concerned with the other trip ditto Nal gateways to co Logne Plain and the Saar forming the upper pincer of the two pronged threat to Strasbourg is the american seventh it took now is less than 15 Miles from the German Border and the vital saas River and commands the Saverne North of patrons third army Haa sealed its hold on Metz after insistent Street now it see third army on Page 2 85 million Xmas poc Koges overseas socks Washington the last of Christmas packages for overseas servicemen and women have been cleared from the states and be tween 82 and 85 million gift Par cels Are on the announced postmaster general Frank delivery of the packages will be made by every Type of army ranging from dog teams in the Arctic to camels in Africa and front special Para chutes to jeeps and this is perhaps the greatest individual undertaking in the his tory of the United states postal said in recalling that Somr officials had regarded As fantastic Early estimates of a 70rnillion army Perso Imel will receive about 62 million parcels and Navy men somewhere Between 20 and 25 in Only 20 Mil lion gifts were mailed the Nav York Post which bore the Brunt of the stupendous bandied gifts designated for men and women in Mediterranean and african this required and an undetermined number of Tho aunts Long Island postal Center handled More than mail sacks of it seems that Milton former army Post Exchange officer in the Cairo did his due turn in the Middle East and was scheduled for return to Shang i like Amy i or of Schwarz was More than anxious to see again his eve Loving the statue of i his tread again that Hal Lowed he was so excited during his exodus that he left a vital part of himself at his but it was not until sch War had safely boarded the plane and it was winging its Way across that he suddenly realized this awful thing had his Teeth we rent in his they we rent in his they certainly were not in his without he there Back in from the distract officer cabled friends by first available air transport Send and by easygoing he sent word Back to a Safte that he was delayed in Casa for afew clays and Force Osaka Send Teeth on the deserted top of his by friends found the plate and soon had them follow in their Here the Story whether or not co Herd his to Fath is not vet new York John United press War correspondent is is listed As plays Santa Claus in november for doomed Tot was Christmas Day for three Earold Forest nubbin Santa came and brought with him the gifts of a nation that had opened its heart to share in the tender deception for who is doomed by an incurable bladder ailment and cannot live until its Christmas were nubbin first words As he awakened and saw a big Blue Spruce glittering Wilh lights and and surrounded by More than 300 gifts from almost every state in the Santa Claus alias Charles dil Beck of Cheyenne was standing beside his Small Lavender his arms loaded with said Santa could Only the tension was broken when a Frisky Black Cocker gift of a rail Road worker romped Over to the crib and the Tot theres my Puppy he immediately named him slippers be cause of his four White in his the Brown eyed boy did not realize the significance of his november Holiday but his warned by Doc tors that 25 if the moved up the Day so their son could actually know the meaning of a very tired but Happy Kittle boy was put in his Riband As his Mother told him the Story of he went to clutching a new Teddy As everyone had it was one of his Good of the Days when he can sit up and watch the Snow sifting past his More he is writhing in nubbin is resting now from the most Day in his life and becoming acquainted with the my Riad of gifts received from his Railroad workers of the Union Pacific lines for which his father my kind hearted persons throughout the prior to the big Bill president of Union personally instructed members of the Railroad organization to nubbin a big his gift to the boy was a Large red Chicago fire kills seven men and Lour women were killed this week Ashen fire swept o Southside apartment House
