Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace December 1944 Senate approves War i pensions Washington although widows of veterans of world War ii received Legal benefits through congressional legislation last the first pension Bill for the widows and orphans of world War i Ever to reach the floor of the Senate was passed this week without debate 2g years after the termination of that the Bill now returns to the where it was for action on extensive Amend ments added by the the Tipay exclusively limited to widows and children of War i authorizes benefits ranging up to 871 monthly and will in estimated in its first year of the Hill sets Forth a Basic rate of 83i monthly for widows and 8i5 for a widow with one a substantial increase Over the amount provided by 1he the Senate also approved Benefit scale allowing 85 for each additional in the Case of benefits see Senate on Pago 2 go c Casanova cuts Royal Rug in Monaco with the 6th army group in France a i Casanova was adjusting the Windshield wiper on his jeep somewhere if France when a Slick blonde Chick happened this James Kaporis of not one to let Golden opportunities slide through his and Kaporis had an a Date and the Happy anticipation of a pleasant rut when Kaporis arrived at the address that he thought surely hed been snowed he found himself be fore Royal Palace of Monaco Al Monte Royal guards were expecting the american and took him before the 211year blonde Princess daughter of Princess said the sergeant of the Prin Cess she turned out to be a swell he said they danced to Artie Shaw and Glenn and the Princess picked up american dance Steps in no time at All Snow on the Siegfried line 4 chaplains give life belts to go Down with ship Athens torn by bloody fighting As factions clash with the air full of swirling yank artillerymen of the seventh army keep their 105mm howitzer slimming shells into a German emplacement somewhere along the Western own scholarship for Jackknife Cleveland Duane n a 19yearold Battlefield surgeon who courageously per formed u delicate Throat operation with an Ordinary Jackknife and Fountain pen top while under fire in has been offered a com plete postwar medical education at Western Reserve University by Ile a Kinman performed the miraculous operation with medical knowledge be Learned at Basic hut emergency surgery saved the life of an ame rican in offering Kinman a Chance to follow Medicine Leutner said that under the i Hill of Kinman can Complete premedical training and two years of advanced study and if he passes this successfully Western Reserve will see him through the Vest of the first launches new attack third fights across Saar Saaf batters targets the War has conferred the distinguished service Cross posthumously on four army who in give in their lives to save men aboard sinking troop transport lust performed one of the most Noble deeds of the the four who were linked in were of different Cark Poling of sche and George Fox of clip copes wore protes Tant John Washington of Newark was Catholic and Alexander Good of was All were it happened when the troop ship Dorchester was torpedoed and sunk in the icy off Green land without regard for their own the four Chap Lains moved quietly among the frightened distributing life belts from a and when the Box was empty each re moved his own priceless Liebelt and gave it to another Dorchester survivors said the chaplains also saved other lives by calming the confused and unit were afraid to jump from th6 deck into the rough the chaplains persuaded them to abandon the sinking ship and to pc n Chance on being Lasi survivors to leave the ship said the four with arms link were still on deck proving together when he ship made her final in speaking of the William chief of said the extraordinary heroism and Devotion of these men of god has been an unwavering Beacon for thousands of Chap Lains in the the presentation of decorations to the next of Kin will be made Brehon ask commanding at a special ceremony at fort on Athens British troops been killed in opposing Elas for Ces Advance into government quarters in i Scobie yesterday reported there is Denim the evidence that a number of soldiers Are being employed in Elas pre Mier Papandreou said we Are defending Liberty against there is that the left Wing was attempting a coup four freedoms Are indispensable to the greek the outbreak came saturday when the Eam left Wing parti sans proclaimed a general strike in answer to a disbandment its representatives left the Cabinet of ire Roger who offered to resign but 1ater withdrew the offer in the face of support from King George ii of Greece and the British the Cabinet now represents All factions except the left Aud is at tempting to restore Edes Eam is the National liberation which was formed within Greece shortly after the count rvs fall in Klas is eams the Griek Peoples army of bet Ter known us we fought the nazis and fascists and effectively Hamstrung the germans during their its Origi Nal has grown opposing Eam and its army is the greek democratic n Tiona headed by Napoleon Zemry at the formation if turned Down the of Fer to Lead Elas because he said he didst want to have to nothing to do with october lie headed guerillas who saw their Job As much Elas u against the occupying now the inn de last is for the greeks to elect their own six months after the liberation of the next the Eam attempting to defend Georgr n nil the re presenting the extreme Rig first army Haa launched a new reaching the outskirts of pier on the Linden a secondary Highway Between the fortresses of jul Icli and the ninth yesterday cleared the third a do another crossing of the Saar and Are now fighting in Berlin was put tons third army is closing a two pronged grip on having crossed the Saur it least six Points North East of Suai lantern and crashed into about eight Miles to the Liis week Trio third earned Brunt of the Winter offensive in weather so cold that the retreating germans have burned All buildings to keep our troops from using them As but five other armies along the 450mile front have not been the ninth and the first american armies concentrate on the Cologne massing for a crossing of the Boer after Clearing All resistance West of infantry probing and artillery duels prepare for the Rush to the Reich s third City and the Industrial to the the seventh ame rican and first French armies threaten the German a octet in the alsatian Patch men took Miles Southeast of Strasbourg after an hons Othouse Battle and also advanced to within seven Miles of Eisenhower Speaks at the far the first Ca Nadian and second British armies were threatened with inundation after the germans up the dikes along the lower Rhine in but they survived to beat off a parachuted counterattack at in Southeast the British have destroyed the German Bridgehead West of thus Clearing the enemy West of the with the Saar fighting raging at what the germans called undiminished fury Over what the pre feeding week had been termed the most terrible in the history of All Eisenhower broadcast another message to the German people Germany and the world Are to be rid of National socialism once and for the party and All its organizations will be party the Gestapo and All suspected of complicity in War crimes will be arrested and put on if found Guilly after a fair All will be subjected to severe including the supreme Allied command ers statement came after Leclerc proclaimed that for each Allied Soldier killed by five German prisoners of War would be although the Geneva convention forbids reprisals on prisoners of sheaf said the French Ernne rals proclamation see first on Page 2 n for the first time in two Saaf hammered Berlin tuesday in a Daylight mid employing More than the germans lost 91 planes Ilg american bombers and 22 fighters failed to the same Day the Raf scorched rail Yards at a nun the mount ing air offensive coordinating with the Winter ground the proceeding Day ame rican fighters and heavies and mediums plastered rail and trial centers of Kassel and Bebra to Little last thursday Ami Friday heavy bomber attacks by both Raf and Saaf on the Ruhr duis and were heavily thursdays Daylight sweep was the costliest for the americans last in at tacks 56 of our heavies and fighters were record month London announced that novem Ber was the record breaking month in bomb tonnage dropped on the tons chiefly on the enemy dwindling fuel sources and rail centers sup plying the Western of that us a at British based bombers accounted for tons and the ital based 15th Saaf Allied fleets Des troyed 79t enemy planes against american losses of heavies and 107 the Raf lost 155 bom Bers and 1g7 lighter 11 men vanish in blast an explosion of torpedo a airheads at macalester naval de pot ibis week rocked a wide area left no traces of u Xmas holy land trip now ambitions of lifetime May la1 achieved this year under made by a Sakimk whereby personnel May 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