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   Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              January 1945 any servicemen among 65 killed in train crash Utah sixty five per sons mostly were estimated killed and More than 150 injured Early sunday when the second Section of the westbound Southern Pacific passenger train Pacific limited1 crashed into the first Section u Miles West of eyewitnesses to the wreck which took place along the marshy shores great Salt Lake said four were derailed and others Teles first known dead Engineer Mcdonald and Duer both of sailors and it is believed suffered the highest death and the bodies of u soldiers were brought to general hospital4 holiest Hospital com and three More soldiers wore taken to Ogden the naval Supply depot at reported that 11 sailors and marines were in the first count of under debris most of those killed were Pas sengers in an old Model wooden the third car from the Jear of 18car first it was shattered and Only seven Pas sengers were believed to have is Zapert from it As its occupants wore buried under debris which High Road bed into the Salt lakes Relief trains brought 48 bodies to Ogden and sheriffs officers estimated the final death toll might read Sycamore of Ogden who was among the first to reach the said that the list of injured will reach Many of these Beins in critical Many of the injured be moved in two Forward cars of the wrecked first or Cimon which Al ready had been occupied by wounded soldiers under army see train crash on Page 3 planes in 44 Washington the produced a record total of plants Las year despite a fall in the december desolation along Fie Western front the body at a Naii Soldier lies partial in covered with Snow before a War torn Homo along hip Cemart Chaplin is called a with instincts of a sex is dragged out of its Shell again As affaire Chaplin once the of the but this time theres Des Perat eness in the theres no ceiling on suggestive theres things Beine said which even have the Bailiff Blush blues nil and probably you thought that Tulve Chaplin paternity suit was a dead a neat bit of escapism that for a while erased War worries of the civilians Back Home and gave newspapers a Chance to use exclamation Points in their head but Here it is again and throw away that copy of stories and read what Joan bar Rys mouthpiece blurted about in court he Callert Char lie a master at the Art of Educ runt of a Svengali with Byrnes tells Congress need for worker fight Laws Washington War mobilization director James Byrnes has urged in a report to the incoming Congress that it set Bijj Laws designed to put the a Lions full Effort behind the War production and that the broader Powers sought included permission to draft 4fs not now engaged in essential War Byrnes cited the recent German revealing the mobilization of americas Industrial and manpower he emphasized that the government is now doing Al it can with its present need to achieve com Bat casualties have reached for an increase of Over a two week period casualties included for the and for the Marine corps and coast the we said the army figure covered Only those through u and none of those suffered in the German of a Young a great Genius who has a bad me Mory for Liis a cheap Cockney Man ild enough to be joans and it his age think he had something better to Charlie Chaplin Joan Berry new greek assumes office up general Nicholas ant monarchist hero of the greek revolution in formed a government wednesday with his Collea took the oath of office to the archbishop Damas the american full scale Offen Sive which was threatening to burst Over the German bulge All week was unleashed on wednes As the first army teamed with the third in a great squeeze drive against the Ger Man defenders of the Courtney Hodges first and George buttons third stood than 16 Miles apart when first went Back Over the offensive for the it was jolted Loose from its belgian Luxembourg line by Field marshal Gerd Vok funds tots drive on december up to Rundstedt was on the defensive against gnaw ing advances that a ignored rim of Lient and seize control towns and the Strong Points of Rochefort and anticipating an american attack in great Yon kept pouring infantry men into his ardennes Plastiras assumed the prime ministry and three other port folios with six fellow ministers and five working Athens radio said that Plastiras had assumed the prime ministry plus the posts of air and merchant a Yrnes declared in his report that it would a happier new year for him if Congress enacted the National service legislation that he was not making such a request because i am too prac tical to continue butting Niy head against a Brick ride horse instead of mule the United press some of the Laws he had suggested to Congress were viewed Only just Short of a National service to get the full strength of Thi Home front behind the Allied armies to enable the american War Effort to ride on a horse instead of a Byrnes recommended the following legislation an making possible the drafting of 4 million ifs for assignment to combat service or to Essen tial War give the War labor Board the authority to enforce its decision in courts without seizure of pro Perty and thus permit the govern ment to treat the Petrinos and averys give the War manpower com see work or fight on 8 reason Why ibis a blushing trial was reopened is that Hollywood Superior judge it cry Willis ruled against an agreement claim ant Joan made with defendant Charlie last february three doctors compared the blood of 14monthold Carol Ann and Chaplin and decided he could not have been the miss Barry and Chaplin had agreed beforehand that they would abide by the judge Willis now claims inc is not to a predominantly feminine miss barrys Joseph Scott reviewed the wronged girls testimony regarding the night of december when she con tends baby was Scott the next Chan Lens Butler the co median wont to her closed the floor and stayed Hern two or three what do you sup pose the Chaplin was see Chaplin on Page 3 huns Send sky troops to kill officers London stars and stripes this week said that Well organized German Clad in american uniforms had been dropped behind the Allied lines on the Western front with Well Laid plans to kill High ranking officers at various army head quarters and commit the article revealed that Ger mans took uniforms from Cap tured american soldiers who later were the nazis were equipped with Small vials of sulphuric acid filled inside match boxes and designed to be thrown in the face of any person Stop Ping them for it was rebel Hurricane game base Hospital rebels will meet the Hurricane of Payne Field at sunday afternoon at gezira in their game origin ally scheduled for last sunday at the Alamein club but postponed because of remainder of the Pyramid league schedule for this season is now being southwestern nuts la answer to ultimatum Meam him he did not give up Hope of retaking the Southern that Skeleton of a town is where Cut of and replied to the German surrender ultimatum nuts the defying gis withstood Luftwaffe and artillery pounding until patrons Brilliant Relief drive blasted Cor Ridor to third army tanks and Battle hardened Dougli feet pushed 22 Miles in five Pat ton made a serious Dent in von Rundstedt holdings and the germans rallied around both sides fit to puncture what was called the balloon on a american troops jabbed Forward stubbornly and kept up the momentum of the reaching within five Niles of Houf Faltze see offensives on Page 2 files mass murder protest Washington is forwarding through Neutral Swit Zerland the strongest possible protest to Germany for the mass murder by nazi forces in Belgium of All but 15 of a group of 130 american soldiers and officers captured in the recent enemy the men were lined up and shot i Complete violation of Basic accepted rules of officials were not optimistic Aimont accomplishing anything with the protest to Berlin but pointed put it will become part of a formal International record of the War and will stand As a matter for which germans will be held to account after the 90 yanks fight off panzers in today Battle on the pc list army own How 90 men from a headquartered group held off a determined German Panzer attack on a Village East of the mouse for two was described by Richard Hottelet thought the germans were 20 Miles away but mortar fire told them the enemy was a Short time two German tanks approached the group of 90 americans with four part of a signal company and a mortar set exit to hold that two German tanks nosed into the main Street and a couple of soldiers leaned out of a window with bazookas and knocked one of the tanks burst into flames and soldiers were surprised As someone in an form got out and started1 to Thev shot him he see 90 yanks on Page 2  
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