Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace January 1948 go eyes 5 Star plasma exemptions for Farmers hold up work fight Bill Washington the work or fight under serious discussion in House military affairs is still local Point of attention on Capitol but several snags in provi Sions have impeded its chairman Andrew May announced that the trill will not to the House floor before the of this the chief hitch in getting the ready for consideration appears to unwillingness of farm congressmen to go along with the Bill As a whole unless the nations farm workers Are excluded from the at least three farm groups Are prepared to demand that Farmers under 30 be exempted from the work or fight James Byr Lewis Hershey and Marvin War food and were asked to appear the committee on monday morning and testify As to the Farmers importance and essential Ity in the War the tentatively approved Mea sure so far does not specify Agri culture As essential War Industry Tydings amendment to the special service act exempts farm labourers from military ser vice if they Are producing Essen tial food and can note replaced already drastic the protests of farm factions that the Tydings amendment is being ignored by draft boards apparently this Lewis b her Shev reminded state draft officials that essential farm workers be tween 18 and 25 Are deferred if Thev meet the amendments chief among the farm champions were representatives Lempke of North Hope of Kansas see exemptions on Page 8 Luce champions frontline gis quoted Clare Boothe Luce As the House this week that the army should work out a re Lief system to give weary front line soldiers periodic respite from reporting on her recent tour of battlefields said that in Addi Tion to rotation and furlough plans there must soon be added a fixed tour of duty under fire for the individual after which he should to Given a substantial re Lief period of service in a non combatant Slie called attention to the re of the 34th division of the fifth army which has served Ovici 400 Days in too often lie individual front line Luce feels that his Only future is to lie replaced which i generally killed or sheaf responding to an Appeal to soldiers assigned to sheaf to give blood needed at the one officer walked briskly into the clinic and took his place in line with other he gave a pint of drank a cup of and started to leave when one noticing it was remarked that would be the blood to the general overheard him and replied if you i Hope Yon dont inherit my bad dispose big 3 was meet see Tinius the pending will include for the first time the foreign ministers of in it was announced that secy of state Edward Stetti Nius will president Roosevelt t time and place is minister Churchill had previously announced that foreign minister Eden would a assumed that foreign commissar Moo toy will attend with Stettinius confirmed that the meeting will be held soon and revealed that the question of Mak ing it a big four conference with Charles de Gaulle included is under yanks near Clark Field following the capture of tar important Road am rail june fast rolling american infantrymen have driven to within five of claim whose 13 airstrips make it one of Luzon nig Gost military this gain was chalked in by the 37tli and Lith divisions of the 14th after silencing Jap artillery positions to take the Cap lure of Clark 44 Miles North of the philippine will put forces in Pam Nanga Gateway to other fanning out from swung 19 Miles West through Hill country and occupied deserted Camp which Tho japs had put to the Dis patches said that the japs apparently removed whatever prisoners survived the infamous death but doughboy came upon plots overrun with wild grass con Taining the Graves of at least filipinos and scores of near on the extreme Northeast position of the each the 158th regiment and 43id division Are waging a Ridge to Ridge fight that Lias practically Cut the enemy in severing his forces in Northern Luzon from those in Southern american guns had smashed concealed tank and artillery concentrations to see yanks on Page 2 in on Breslau three mama both russian a whose advances Are still Roll Forward this in moves directed at the Gorman Berlin itself an East under capable of marshals troops on three main fronts plunged to River in the Silesia they surged across Central Poland Lato 140 past of the polish have also virtually isolated1 e Tot Prussia by cutting wedge v straight to the the Many sectored russian which stretches some Best clarified by commanders Oppeln seized in the red army tanks and infantry of Thev vast seized the prize River new victories arc imminent on the russian late communiques from Moscow report that Konies tanks and storm troops have penetrated Bres Laus outskirts in their bid to envelop the German canucks Tau powder at Poe Ottawa a mass awol occurred in Canada last week when Canadian Homo defense ordered overseas under the governments new compulsory went Over the Hill from ports of overseas bound number ing wore Given the custom Arv final Home leaves from embarkation Points and failed to a few have straggled Back and a few have been apprehended but approximately half Ore 1 defense minister my Mangion said hat disciplinary measures would be taken in most the men can be desertion if they Are awol for More than 21 despite the mass a full comp Lemma of Canadian soldiers sailed overseas on authorities had anticipated trouble since provided sufficient replacements at the ports to insure the embarkation of is full Azis Retreat on 2 but gain near Strasbourg German troops plodded Back to Ward the Siegfried line in Retreat from two of their three recent Bridgehead last week in Bel Giu Luxembourg and Southern the wehrmacht third on the Alsace Corner of northeastern was a swelling sore in Allied lines As Panzer drives toward Strasbourg forced the seventh army to fall Back from its Maginot line von Rundstedt bulge Bel Gium is now a deflated pocket of resistance with first and third armies closing in of the German strategic last Gennan stronghold in was captured after a Battle against rear guards covering von Rundstedt the retreating nazis under a rain of bombs and rockets that knocked out Long rows of vehicles in the greatest on Day Aerial Blitz of the pilots sighted two big columns on the about vehicles death penalty for five gis american soldiers have been sentenced to death by a general court martial for de ser lion and conspiring to steal Niv gasoline to sell on the Black according to Cla rence the five names Are in style in Paris As civilians after flu of All types bumper to find in spite of bad weather it was a target too Good to the convoys with All they the pilots destroyed and damaged More than trucks and tanks As Well As Over 100 rail they had a perfect target when enemy traffic piled in before a bombed Vith in Allied hands capture of Vith came a month and two Days after Runov Stedt the City along with thousands of americans soon after the Start of his Surprise also seized in the crumbling salient were which virtually completed the second liberation of and the Southern Anchor of the German in the free intr Sec Tor North of the belgian Battle British second army troops Are now fighting on Reich soil 10 Miles inside the driving toward the Large factory Center of general Dempsey forces pierced the Sieg Fried occupied and also shot an Arm northward to the suburbs of below the firm ans arc attacking North and Northeast of the alsatian capital of Stras Bourg against seventh army de american frontline units whip pal lock bark in the face of see nazis on Page 2 a bid t6 envelop the fuehrer steel tanks and infantry Are reported by Moscow to have smashed into the outskirts of Southeast of the the red army is already on 50 Miles of the Oder and Berlin reports that the River has been other of Konies troops have increased the Ger mans desperate situation in tile Silesia by taking a Kiwicz and Border towns North East of and cutting Bres last major rail line of the following of aircraft and tank Are marching night and to keep Pace and consolidate territory overrun by the his is the Central offensive in driving toward the heart of oh1 the Road to is reported unofficially to be under assault by troops of Zhukov White rus Sian his right flank after capturing Bromberg the see red steamroller on 8 december losses on West War Stimson has revealed that ame rican casualties on the West Ern front Are for the month of of this were wounded and Are missing in he particularly lauded the 106th division which alone suffered including 4ib wounded and in their Gallant stand against the German Stimson also estimated that German casualties for the same period december totalled Between and than on third heavier than american concerning the return of the 1st and armies to the com Mand of Stimson said decision is entire yup to
