Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1944, Cairo, Egypt December capital City while heavy to artillery stalemated the russian drive Day from the a Miriovsky swung an out Nof Arm Northwest of Buda pest into Southern and to Lukmin pushed up from Balaton Southern de a noose of unceasing artillery and tank fire was tied around the of Buda and site German and hungarian men of to Bukhin s army completed the encirclement by closing the Taring Sefc Bergom theg nedral City on the As the germans burned military stores and dynamited soviet tanks Ana troops charged upon Buda 3 snowy Hilk above the Point Ank tank and a filled the streets and forc Redearth and demolitions stoked the Furnace like described Budapest As a living hell with so let Gums belching fire from Taftt wehrmacht Batty Ries reporting from the hear of the and russian planes plunging and roaring above the smoking rums a Battle of annihilation rages us German hungarian troops Are penned a dying their de sense system split in two by a map Vaskys Danube Crossings and the accuracy of soviet Cannon Eracli Street enemy dead or prisoners were chalked up by the red on gains 5th sector enemy attacks on the West coast sector of the fifth army tuesday caused Allied troops to withdraw slightly in the Region of the Serchio River Valley North of Kesselring threw in infantry East of the town of Gallicano in the some Milea from the German artillery also opened up on the Central sector South of but enemy attempts to Gam ground there were repulsed by on the Eastern Side of the Ita Lian Canadian troops fighting above the Bologna Rimini Highway have captured Rossetta and Magnacavallo while polish patrols crossed the Senio River and engaged the germans near Cuffia three Miles below the main the eighth now holds a front practically 20 Miles Long on the Senio from Rossett to the Appen nine civil service continued from Page 1 Odnoor Unity to compete for a maximum number of positions in civil i am issuing this order upon recommendation of the civil service the president explained that Many persons were Given civil service jobs on a temporary basis before the 19i2 regulations for War were this was to take care of the enor Mous expansion of Federal depart under civil service practice Many of those temporary appointees ordinarily would be Given manent civil service status when their names were reached on civil service this weeks or Der suspends such practices on temporary jobs in order to give War veterans preference for permanent positions at a later refugee children year As personnel of Hue step celebrated Christmas Day by gang a party for refugee children who Are in Middle climaxing mov Berhl Sifred and Wal Knori gentleman alias Steg Ziga of the yugoslav Camp arrived at the Post service Santa presents to Tutlo gel her from and officers at huckster by Wilmer Moore to a yugoslav Veseli Bozic Means merry to 725 yugoslav ranging in age from 5 to 12 december 1944 was just 61s at Camp Hue step again opened their hearts and their christinas packages in the True yuletide spirit and showed the youngsters a real it will be remembered that last year a group of polish and greek child Ren were entertained at the the Youthful guests arrived in a Convoy of big army trucks and were divided into then escorted by gis to the various organization messes where they were served a whopping big Turkey Complete with All the trim old country dances following the dinner the various groups of children and their escorts assembled it the Post Thea Ter where they were shown an All cartoon gales of Piu hed laughter greeted the an tics of the full length Walt Disney upon the after the show the party moved into the service club where they enjoyed an hour of games in the game a stage and floor was presented which consisted of Cost Purnil yugoslav Folk dances and songs by the visitors and a magician who presented a repertoire of handkerchief Clyde Post commander was on hand As was Milan yugoslav minister t american minister to and Mao chief of the yugoslav military Mission in refresh ments consisted of and hot coca served in the cafeteria of the service the big event of the Day came when they met Santa Claus in the person of Steg Ziga of the yugoslav Camp and received and Many other useful the bought from the pm surplus plus those donated by All the Guys and were wrapped by Volunteer workers of the red following distribution of i yugoslav Tot dons colourful us anime and red Cross shoulder patches with the Aid of pfc left and Poidl of the wac Cis and Janes of Huckstep who have a working know ledge of croat or serbian As for following Christmas where Bimbi was i Fountain by Robert Mest gifts the party were bundled in the party Misc special ended and the aboard trucks to Mieir was arranged service under left kids for by tin r6 Rte children were a Given Aid at the to tall drinking and Kathenne signal corps photos by the direction of Joel and Edward j red Cross contributed to the of air by supervising decoration of the service packaging the and arranging the entertain ment Joe tinker taken ill Joe famous Chicago cub shortstop of generations ago and a member of the famous be double play combination was admitted to Orange general Hospital suffering from diabetes and High blood pressure and is described As in fair he is negro killed Over Austria Wil Liam one of the first negroes to receive a commis Sion in the army air forces was killed in action his parents were informed this Faulkner has completed 5o mis Sions As a fighter Pilot and had been awarded the air medal with four Oak Leaf a message from commanding officer of the 15th said his record com pares favourably with those of our finest new York Charles Dana artist and creator of the famous Gibson girl of the died with leads yank fighter aces Washington an Honor role of american fighter each of whom has destroyed More than 15 in combat has been issued by the Topping the list is Richard Bong who has 40 to his the 8th Saaf in Europe has 13 aces on the list for the highest number in any air while the 5th in the Southwest a is next with including Bong and second highest scorer Thomas b of san Mcguire has bagged 30 other air forces ranked this Way 15th Mediterranean 9th Europe 13th South Paci and
