Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Experiencing on6 afr tie greatest thrills of his in the Aiea to the Ibex from which the 1 the 0tm be the Back signal corps photo by continued from Page 1 next Battle the the was Wen the presidents Means escorted by a flight of z4ojaflng appeared in the distance roared a Landing on desert air which is flanked by a fringe of everything went off As planned excluding one Small presuming that president Roosevelt would sit in the rear Job the opened the whereas the president sat up front with said that the president Anc uhis passengers William the presidents chief of stall johnb Nettir and Pinckney Egypt seemed to be in Fine mood and were laughing and the president was wearing a Grey suit and a Grey hat and he stepped into the front he How Are Yogi room to spare i Corporal admits that he did one nagging worry concern ing the on the narrow there was about three inches of clearance on each Side of the Large car and he it consider Ilie possibility of an embarrassing Baileys second conference i i the ride from the airbase to the where the presidential party boarded gigs for the Cruiser off was All too As the president left the he thank and that was but it was not the end of Baileys next he drove another important this it was King who was accompanied by commanding general of and Pinckney and after he had As his the emperor of ethic Piar Haile Sak Issie Bailey had that it would be his Job to drive King ten Sand to the but the King of saudi Arabia fooled lie arrived by for other i Drivers and Camp life was on the Fiill the Camp was under heavy guard at All times and you could Only leave by official authority for official the boys lived in Neissen huts and there was Little to do at food was for Tho open air ranked second in popular Ity to first i to get Biloan Deal in Tbone steaks this was i Ftp Baileys first famous during the Mena he drove Fox out several times and got a glimpse of president Roosevelt from but at that he never dreamed that some 15 months he would have the famous Man sitting beside Bailey is a husky 23year he is married and although his Home is at Colorado his wife and child reside in Cool after further consideration and Bailey now admits Awe it was thrilling above everything my life except getting married Aad becoming a father i of of Washington paving the Way for his Brothers in Jack Charles Breeden of Calls is the first Dischar ged War Veteran to get a business loan Urther the i Bill of Breeden is beginning his civilian life optimistically lies going into the meat a loan of was made the Hamilton National Bank with 50 cent it guaranteed by the government under the veterans whose business will consist of Selling and delivering meat to retail plans to buy a refrigerator truck with the without degrees in the har Vard Law school announced thai it plans to admit War veterans to the Law College without Tho nor mall required College admission of veterans without de Grees of be contingent upon their having study and experience equal to the College Dean who the also Dis closed the Law school intends to operate on its present wartime making a Tew degree available in two years Aad 15 weeks instead of the three years formerly this a sketchy but Over All picture of what the veterans who have returned to civilian life Are doing was revealed in an a one thing they Are doing is dig ing deeply int unemployment benefits and taking such benefits from Uncle Sam much faster than there taking his education for of the soldiers in Are now drawing unemployment checks each this is a Complete reversal Over the Situa Tion As reported less than month at that less than one per cent of the same number had drawn unemployment benefits in any one week since the legislation went into operation last september the number of checks drawn each week is increasing about has been paid the ceiling on unemployment Money is a Veteran can draw a four weeks allowance based on each month of service for a total of 52 but during this it is imperative that he either be employed or making than a week and if partly employed As in the latter he must report regularly to the unemployment office to be Avail Able press comments on de Gaul Les to meet Roosevelt Paris Charles de Gaul Les refusal to meet with president Roosevelt in Algiers was officially revealed to the French people thu despite the presidents refusal to come to the French press reported that some ministers had urged de Gaul be to forget National Pride and meet with president it was not denied that the tuition stemmed from France disappointment at being excluded from the Crimea a foreign office spokesman Sta that France will de finitely participate in the unite nations conference which is t0 b held at san Francisco on april 25 improved pack gives i backs a break Washington of a new Al purpose Field pack which soldiers themselves helped design was announced by the War fifty soldiers of different sizes and weights marched ten Miles for Davs carry incr various combinations of pucks and equip ment before the new design was is a combis nution of a combat pack and cargo the combat Nack containing toilet mess and two Days rations is normally carried into the cargo pack Winch carries an extra tenting equipment and similar articles is left in the rear area until the Caro pack alone resembles an Ordinary can Vas weekend v1jo tar germans hurled hard Cottle attacks at the russians this momentarily glowing marshal Juko Nieves Swift two prong Otien Sive toward Berlin and the nazi blows marshal Konies 1st ukrainian army punched out new in the defensive Triangle of three i Cottbus and which the Southern approaches to forging ahead troops advanced nine reaching the Confluence of the Oder and Niesse 49 Mil As below Che German was outflanked seven Miles North of the while troops within it Miles thus strengthening the russian hold in Brandenburg pro despite heavy Allied he germans have been Aole to ush reinforcements to this Kiev Are heavily reinforce nor Guen and there Are indic that the soviets bypass both cities Moscow St Pforr that Konies forces Are sticking to positions and warding Oil blows m strategic Promise shortly to pay dividends when the drive on the capital is on Koni pvt Ift the and to Dresden Hoe been re nowed details of do in Inda Caie whether n s a full scale attack or a tactics heavy Rains and Swol in streams in this area have impeded Koniaev was Las at which lies 12 Miles East of the germans say that they Are falling Back on which is 28 Miles from Dresden 34 Miles from Berlin marshal Rokos Sovsky s advancing across the polish Cor apparently for an Eastern a Vashon of porn Erania inn Tion with the forces of marshal to Kossovsky troops Lave pushed within 20 Miles of he hoi Daiv of Pansier free state and have captured 45 Miles Southeast 01 the City of Danzig after a Long silence on action f marshal Zhukov 1st White russian which stands firmly entrenched on an Oder River line he facing to Frank the  newspaper Prauda stated this week that Zhu Kovs forces Are 34 Miles from Ber this is the shortest distance from Berlin announced by the russians and indicates that Zhu Kov has pushed across the at the same the germans announced that Frankfurt communications with Berlin have slashed and that the City is taking a constant hammering from besieging red artillery and Berlin Lias predicted that the russians will soon begin a stupendous and decisive frontal As Sault on Berlin but most military observers believe that the final operation will take the shape of huge still requiring Many weeks to Battles in bypassed cities far Back of the front there Are Many cities which were encircled and left behind in the Onrush of the russian drives and it is Here that the fiercest Battles of the week suicide Garri sons left in the cities Are heeding hitlers order to Trade blood for particularly is this True at capital of East Prus and where two of the wars costliest Battles have been German held territory in has now been reduced to 600 Square in the germans admit that the russians have broken into Tolje suburbs of Bree Lau admitting also that another encircled Oder River fort has been red rooms have also battled into the polish City of Cut off for and its fall seems the russians lost one of their most Brilliant officers this week when Ivan Chernyakhovskiy of wounds suffered in the Battle for East he was commanding 3rd White rus Sian army and was direct Iner Tho frontal assault Ori just he was russian youngest since Day Washington total of 000 germans have been captured since Tho Normandy revealed of Pyle takes frail Frame into Battle with Pacific germs Detroit Detroit University will place u football team on the Field next fall for the first time in i two new York americas favor Ite War Ernie pie has gone Back to pies first column in four months appeared in the new York Telegram in he diminutive writer an too he on his Way to the Pacific to Jover the for probably two r three then Back ashore again with my Noble souls the although the Advance column Vas san Francisco the world Telegram noted that he was with the Pacific naval it was apparent that Pyle was not exuberant Over his journey a few months he had returned from the european theater for a Well deserved rest after some 30 months at that that he was sick of War and  Takt it any his duty and  his return to War lie wrote anybody who has been in War and wants to go Back is a Plain fool in my in going simply because theres a War on and in part of in going simply because have to and i hate he indicated that hed prefer to return to All my friends and associations and sentiments Are on that he but Ernie Pyle Back to dough foots lit decided in go on to the Pacific a planned since there Are a io1 of Guys in that who is an inveterate Wor Rier and wrote that he had been warned about Pacific diseases and added i am Good gift to he thai Lione thing would make life Bear Able and that one thing is that out in the Pacific ill be damned Good and a Winkins hot of boy