Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              February 1945 Many Stales plan additional Aid for War veterans although the veterans Aid pro on the part of the individual Are still More or less in the blueprint a Large number of states have plans afoot and expect to pass Concrete Vete rans legislation this Many stale Legislatures have actually proposed and Are discussing in such legislation is still in the committee but the fact remains that something is being proposals Are ranging from free tuition at state universities to bonuses and huge Public works for in the Ohio legis a pending Bill proposes a appropriation to give each returning overseas Veteran for each month he spent in foreign for those who never left the Ante is still another Bill before the Ohio legislature would permit service men to Hunt game without Licen Dewey draws up plan in new Thomas Dewey has recommended to the legislature a abroad 12point Gram for rehabilitation and re Fienia Tiomi of the veterans of new which has some men in some features of the program submitted by Dewey Are 1 appropriation of the first year for the Overall program 2 a state division of veterans affairs to carry out an assistance pro Gram 3 rest Camps 4 Job assistance and occupational Orien tation 5 a psychiatric consulting service on Job and apprenticeship training 6 dec plate educational facilities 7 Alipat Ion and assistance 8 the biggest item would be a general counselling ser vice with a yearly Cost of its purpose would be to assist veterans right in their Home town or county in various problems that arise in Job Hunting and in event of Purchase of a Home or see states Page 8 troop ship 765 yanks lost a troop trans port carrying personnel was sunk recently in european Waters As result of enemy announced the War last american losses Are 248 killed and 51 War Stimson said that the remainder of More than troops aboard were hut he gave no other Fate of Budapest haunts nazi capital f5 i j j this map of Berlin shows Many of Hio Mam Points of the Long battered German of the tremendous russian offensive sweeping in from the own thars men up thar in the Klondyke new York to Home Side a helpful tip on the Man shortage comes from Hope Uso club director who has just returned from Whitney asserts that any Wallflower who is out to a should unpack her snowshoes and strike out for Alaska As fast As seems that the number of ame rican soldiers and the number of women just dont add Whitney told of a recent dance she counted Only five girls shared by 250 of course the girls get completely observed but Yon cant flame them with men trailing Hern All the first and third armies strike across Reich Border having smothered All German initiative along the ice muted Western first and third armies maintained the up per hand last week As american artillery opened up against West and infantrymen punched through German lines in the East of Belgium and Northeast of dispatches said ten or More american divisions edged steadily Forward into a 40mile pillboxes zone at the Center of the Western while men struck across the Border above and below Monschau patrons third army gunners attacked five and a half Miles Southeast of Eto paper swathes Wolers army news service Paris the army newspaper stars and lashed out this week against soldiers awol in the european theater of oper we dont know the awol rate in the red army but our guess is that its the editorial a bitter fact can also go on there Are ame rican soldiers in Eto who Haven the faintest idea of what this War is who seemingly know no thing about its causes and care less about its who make it a business murder their pals by engaging in Black Market Skull who deny the great Over Loyal americans the amount of food and fuel they need to finish their Ben Deputy com Mander of american troops in said lie was not alarmed at the High figure of awol since it was Likely Only a few thousand were wilfully he said most of the others probably wore simply overstaying their passes or were accidentally delayed in Gol fing Back to their officer found guilty Paris John first officer tried in a series of railway battalion Black Market was convicted tuesday of conspiracy to defraud the whelming mass of thin government and was sentenced to 35 years at hard labor and Given a dishonourable Edward Kelley and Edward Palmero testified they paid a Springer and respectively which they had received from the Sale of stolen cig Springer admitted in a signed statement that to received stolen goods hut not he added that his superiors did nothing about fees ahead in count Washington population of the United including armed forces overseas was As of last july the census Bureau estimated last week that women outnumbered men by about Vith and toward the Sieg Fried line bulwark of it is emphasized at Saef that while some German armoured ele ments Are engaged in attacks by the first and tji ird this cannot yet be called an 1t is regarded As a preliminary probing following up the German Retreat from the Vith sector to determine the strength of the Siegfried line Between Vith and Ryer River sector cleared the attack in the Monschau Forest began at in a howling blizzard that turned noon into Midnight Snow lows worked doggedly around the clock to keep the roads and infantrymen Rode into Battle of half Field dispatches said that the germans were pulling Back All but n few rearguard and massing strength behind the Siegfried line in apparent belief that a major Allied offensive is on the Northern end of the Western american ninth and British second armies cleared the entire Bank of the Roer River for 40 airline Miles from Holland see first on Page 8 yank lineup Washington the we has revealed that the american armies Are distributed As follows 1st he 7th 8th other red forces drive on Altic stronghold pounding Down the Toad to troops of marshal Zhu Kovs 1st White russian army have officially rolled within 63 Miles Northwest of the capital but Berlin reports that soviet tank spearheads have thrust somewhere North of Frankfurt in the Oder River Valley and Are 45 Miles from their after taking the important bastion of 68 Miles Northeast of the soviets then advanced five Miles Byersdorf in the closest officially announced approach to the Ger Man the russians Are thus 29 Miles inside the Reich at their deepest eyewitnesses reaching Stock Assort that flashes from rus Sian guns can be been by night in driving through deep so Viet troops also reached and Cap tured 24 Miles Southeast of simultaneously other powerful Points on teral defense Belt running South Ward from Landsberg wore Cap they were Schweibus and bastions which covered the approaches to Frankfurt on the Oder drive to Stettin while Zhukov Southern flank is heading due West toward Ber his Northern flank extends into the pomeranian province is aimed at Stettin on the Baltic in this russian troops advanced 18 Miles North of Schnet capturing Jastrow and carrying the Battelline to within 61 Miles of the Baltic but the germans alleged russian gains before their confirmation from the nazis say the russians have passed 58 Miles from and have smashed within 36 of they also claim that the russians have plunged to Zielen which is 25 Miles Northeast of Zhukov powerful and Swift drive into the heart of Germany was made on a route runner Kcf straight from Warsaw to spurting Westward from surrounded Zhukov follow see Berlin on Page 2 Stilwe i predicts Long Pacific War Washington Joseph Stilwell told a press conference monday he thinks the War in the will last Long after Ger Many is the new army ground forces chief said the japanese can put at least men in the Field and can replace with ease their so the bulk of the Jap anese army Mav have to Bee i aged on the Asiatic prize for a Lucky soviet new new York Busi David Kuy Haas olt Rcd a to the Soldier who enters russian Consul generals office Abbu Vij o said that it Woi ild be accepted As a Token of