Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Perfect pastry strike cuts War wishers pan Detroit it happened i a crowded pastry shop in the shop was Small and it was easy to hear the conversations of a woman near the head of the Tine turned to her companion and i Hope this War lasts awhile longer so we can pay off the without glancing the woman at the a cat of the line said to the forgot ill take that Lemon me Ringue Pio and dont wrap she paid the picked up the pie and the War wishing woman squarely in the then with the air o a Job Well she up he purse and stalked from the dream Christmas comes True now you have a 3month option on your old Job Washington fifty Days of Grace have been added to to period of time in which discharged Gils must apply for their civilian jobs or forfeit reinstate sex servicemen were allowed Only 40 Days but a just approved by the Senate military raises the interim to to Days in another new aspect is included if Hapit Aliption follows discharge from the armed forces and does not last More than a applications for the old Job May be made within 90 Days after release from the something new last this column reported that a vast overseas educational designed to while away the weary weeks of awaiting transportation after was under to riling Rith something now has been an extensive athletic program is organized by the army for troops awaiting transportation Homeland for those serving As occupational most impressive feature of the sports program includes an Allied forces olympics i in which All Allied servicemen and women with sports backgrounds Are it works More than 100 american College coaches and Athle together with professional sportsmen in Eto have pledged support to the army now comes a first Anthony Ca an Earmy has see old Job on Page 8 the heart of a nation has Gono out to Tot suffering from a bladder ailment to Tho arms of his nubbin pane with Santa bus who brought synthetic Christmas press films credit Rommel kill to yank flyer Santa Auer piecing together bits of inform authorities agreed Liis week that it was u american Harold Miller of Santa strafed a German staff car on july fatally wounding Field marshal Edwin aah films showed bullets from Millers machine gun spewing into a German staff car about 20 Miles behind Normandy lines Millers target was the Only nazi staff car destroyed by the aah on that Day radio Berlin admitted that the first burst of fire from the plane had scored direct hits and the fuel tank exploded and Hurst into Miller had no idea he had bagged the famed desert nubbin Cheyenne which May prove fatal before in shown looking through the door Somo gifts to the Little Fellows nubbin parents get Ray of Hope nubbin the three Earold to whom Santa Glaus paid a pre mature visit on has been Given a whistling Chance to get Well by a Denver his Holiday nubbin is now in mercy Hospital for although it was earlier thought the youngster would die before doctors now believe that if his strength can be sufficiently built an operation can be he is suffering from a bladder ailment which has destroyed one kidney and the at he is undergoing blood on thanksgiving nation wide prayers were held by the Sal vation army for his first and ninth armies f raffle of Cologne Simpsons new attach Northwest of 30 Miles from yesterday formed the ninth and first ame Roan armies along a 20mile front presaging the Battle of the Cologne Frost is making Tho ground More suitable for the seventh advanced four Miles South of in what the nazis have called Tho most terrible Ami Fero Cious Battle in Tho history of jul american tanks Ami infantry have pushed Buck the German defences to28 mile from Housto House Buttle for by first army troops and a bloody push by Tho ninth army to gain a two mile front along the Boer before set the stage for what appears to to Eisenhower strongest earlier in a lightning the French forces of Leclerc captured Strasbourg and yester Day came unconfirmed reports us Fimi announces policies for Emer two new circulars have just been issued by us anime Reg arding temporary return to the Tho first number 85 con Cerns emergencies arising in the states the second number 87 regards temporary return for re recuperation and re covery of personnel whose work is such Liat Thev could not readily be replaced within the circular 85 covers this category if there is no one in the states who can represent you in a Cri tical emergency arising from illness or business this might be considered an extreme it is that Only extreme conditions will each individual Case will have to be judged on its own merits since no list of examples could possibly include applications must to made through your will handle getting of the cose through the red Cross representative so you need not concern yourself wit i that feature of once these furloughs or leaves of be granted for 21 excluding travel if you have been Over eight you May be ordered As emergency returned to the after your you will receive another assign your wants you to return to your he so slate it in his endorsement your  and you May to circular 87 is for the indispensable Man the i whose duties Are such that he cannot be satisfactorily this boils Down to a 30day rest period at Home and return to your overseas without loss of leave or fur Lough but it is for those who need recuperation Aad applications for this temporary duty in the for recuperation must also lie made through Chan your will have some Tough decisions to make on As replacements for those in the states on temporary duty not he available and hell have to get along without the indispensable the unit quotas for this plan Are pal Forth in the Azis lose 238 planes to Saaf in 2day foray after 500 Saaf fighter planes had ranged Northwest Germany in attacks lasting Over two the total of enemy planes lost was tills in hides 138 destroyed Sun Day and an additional 94 downed i combat the next the other six were destroyed on the mondays Saaf action also included an attack toy 500 heavies on front bound roil traffic at Ringen and Offenburg the same Day the Raf attacked Berlin and at night hit Freiburg and rail centers and Vance Supply the Raif also announced an on the Dortmund Ems and Mitt Elland one of the greatest forces of British Moe Quilos ctr concentrated on a single target hit the Krupp works at Essen tuesday night to cause what the German news Agency admitted As heavy dam the death according to the was Large and dam age to another important Ruhr also was the v2 figured in communiques from both Britain and the germans silent terror weapon continued to fall in South Ern England and both Saaf and Raf forces attacked their launch ing Sites in negro Seabee cited for heroic action on Pele Biu Washington the Volunteer services and valiant action of a negro Seabee construction Batta lion during the first hours of the Marine landings on Pel Eliu Island have won the unit the coveted commendation Well done the negro the Ltd special naval construction by Moses Berry struck the beaches two hours after the first Marine division had made the initial land while the Seabee were part of a Shore they responded As volunteers on the first night of fighting when an ammunition shortage was reported in Forward practically the whole battalion inched Forward to front lines with he precious ammunition on re turn Thev brought Back wounded in one when the marines became Short the negro Seabee to Man 37 my guns and do whatever else was re ported the came from Switzerland that american paratroops had landed 30 to 50 Miles East of the in the in Menningen and  areas to Cut the Stuttgart Basel the armies facing Tho Gorman defense line before Cologne now Are widening Texeir gains made from Kosinar and push to Ward West of beyond Dueven lies a 20mile Plain leading to Cologne and Tho ninth and the first ing together to the patrons third army hammers toward key to a ainu a shia is spread across a26mile one column has reached 25 Miles Southeast of the City another is reported within right Miles of Saar Bru Berlin hag admit Leaf that patrons left flank has penetrated the Siegfried line inside the ripped magi nor line this Advance Camo after Pau tons men ripped through the reversed Maginot smashing nine former French forts in the first resistance the germans have offered from the ill fated patrons men had some of their busiest hours on the Day most troops were observing thanks giving Andone company Comman Der reported that it want until sunday his men had Lime to get their traditional in the Tho British second army advanced up to the mama and Are now in Contact the Western defences of Eisenhower visited marshal Mont Gomery for their first conference in some weeks and the Canadian first army joined Battle inside Germany in the Reichwald South of All this presaged Large scale action to be imminent in the 2lst army group the infantry bloodiest Battle climaxed with Bayonet fighting in open ground in the Vicinity of our first army men and Vaj iced Handt hand fighting without the usual prior artillery then As the germans sallied out from the Woods before the open our artillery mowed them Down in this came after a ten Day Battle in which thousands of men have fallen on both sides As the Ger see first on Page 8 and Navy casualties Are now including army casualties through 7 totalled Pyramid league thursdays came rambling wrecks bombers for jobs Washington launching the Effort to Supply postwar jobs president Roosevelt has to Congress a appropriation to encourage the planning of no Federal Public works pro