Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              V March 1945 ill 10 returning Vete rans Are to in Given first Chance government jobs after the and Agency Heads who refuse to hire them be subjected to the Glare of unpleasant this was revealed in it broadcast made by Arthur civil Flemming stated there will not Only he plenty of jobs Able bodied veterans but for those who Are disabled in the Jit asserted hint former employ yes Are guaranteed their old jobs Bank hint any Veteran who wishes a government Job will be Given All possible help in getting although he has never been employed by the army Survey Well timed with Flemmings broadcast was the War announcement that approximately five per cent of the men in the army intend to get government jobs Fler the with an additional five per cent contemplating this in format Ion was based on a Survey of soldiers postwar plans made by ass Fifon nation i education but two thirds of the men Desir ing government employment were in civil service prior to the indicating no great trend or pre Ference for government half the five per cent wish clerical posit ions about 30 per cent desire jobs in Semi skilled or unskilled occupations and approximately one out of five wish positions postal would give vets years base pay at discharge senator Joseph Guffey proposed legislation in the Senate to give each number of the armed Force a years base any on his Guffey Tohl reporters it not a Bonus asserting thai the objective was to provide veterans with funds for transition from military to civilian life after the War of Esth Nakeil the eos til annually during the demobilization Eisenhower March on the Rhine has been spurred to an accelerated Pace by the third army Ludden lunge toward meanwhile first army troops clean up the Western half of Cologne and storm Bonn in a linkup drive third the ninth army is dosing in on Dut i Oldorf while the Canadian 1st army the foes Bridgehead at human bomb defused Han Francisco a Success Ful operation Lias been performed the naval Hospital to remove fused 20 projectile from the body of Seaman Dewey chief danger was unit Tho sensitive Typo projectile might explode on Contact with the one rat Iii instrument but bomb disposal experts consulted with physicians find the operation was a  mines statement on de mobilizing Washington the news last week soldiers would be released from the armed for Ces monthly after Ibn defeat of Germany in too Good be a speedy refutation was made by of War Stim Frnnk 1 Vete rans had appeared before the House appropriations Enmin Illee lust week and a noun that the aforesaid Quoin would be released monthly once the european War Stimson officially slated that limes report is both unauthorized and without he also indicated hat the gis who Are Nelu ally Dis charged will Ibe a Lucky Basic elements in the War  plan which were made Public last be remain unchanged and when the hostilities ease in thu every Soldier and evry item if equipment Tinl can be effectively to Speed our final Vic tory will to Means that shipping priority will he Given to the movement of men and Materiel to the this will be a tremendous under taking and if must be carried out Wilh nil possible Speed and vigor or we will pay n heavy Price i higher casualties or a longer anese he All consistent with the military will be applied in i timing men who can be re leased from the army from Over hit Siuy suggestion thai Large Nuin Beis will be coming Home for immediately Ops in i trope cruel Dis App Afier Ean the foot torn go mourns end of Jitterbug Days dough boy whose right foot had just been blown off by a mine Lay on a Stretcher in Tho air station and and i used to he a Jitter he had just been carried from the worst nest of mines the americans have had to Cross on the front in two his unit had the Job of knocking on the last town in hitlers West and did it in twelve hut this afternoon the bottomlands vast of Here were littered with wrecked american and the lir cd medic fit ill bring Ingia a seemingly endless Stream f several medics wore wounded and one was blown to but when the Sun came up this morning Only fax mine casual ties remained to be brought and these were removed the engineers cleared inking Ihl Forth was no East those mines the officer who led the said in sick from seeing Hoys with Olvir feel and arms blown first was Manila the of consisting on fir Luzon six i officer and 3 enlisted have reached Tolliv were t the army far befit Aiki her l7 will anime in a Bowles Way info outskirts of Dusseldorf general Eisenhower delivered u sensational one two punch to Gorman armies holding the Rhine defences inst week the Day after army troops captured Cologne in to the news blackout was listed on the third army and revealed a spectacular drive to the Central on this ninth anniversary of hitlers demilitarization of the Allied armies Are spread along 90 Miles of the West Bank of the River from below All the the dutch Border Rines Only from iwo North tip after a today Lull in fierce marines have launched in fallout push against an estimated Jap defenders still entrenched on the Rocky Northern end of blood soaked iwo the assault was aided by tre artillery support and army fighter planes which took off from the Southern Airfield for the ups fought Back ferociously with Small arms and mortar fire and Tho communique local these were achieved on the East Side of Tho Island by the 5th Ami East of Center by the the 3rd division moved up slightly in leathernecks Are still some 600 Yards from the Northeast Shoreline but now hold slightly More than two thirds of the tiny Marine dead naw returning to Washington from his visit to disclosed that marines been killed in the fighting to take the Island but said this loss not out of proportion to the strategic importance of which would put american fighter planes and Liberator bombers within Range of he gave no figures for american wounded or but said the enemy on iwo stronger than had been expected and had made Good use of its Jap dead see marines on Page 2 except Bridgehead at Lorth to or a German while Hodges and Simpson pressing their armies closer to the rhinos West Ink from Cologne to Patlon was securing the bit Bur Trier Road and Prum tons on German soil facing the Luxembourg then the third army commander a loosed the same tank Zmyev de attack which brought him Fame at to before the sweep through in a Milean Hiir and his troops charged through rugged Eifel mountains into Tho Moselle Valley spread before wrote that this breakthrough outpaced 4n7 thing Patton did in the tank men took the completely their air mail curtailed Washington army postal service said the volume of air in to troops overseas lifts been because of insufficient space in aircraft and use of nil infill Stamps in linger will that letters go via Only email will assured Nir transportation acquitted for mercy killing of sergeant China a 31year old lieutenant commander of a fighter group and Veteran of to air was acquitted by a Genera court martial of charges that be committed voluntary Man Slaughter by firing two pistol shots to end Theogony of a sergeant gunner pinioned in the burning wreckage of a h29 the court of seven colonels de liberated a half hour before return ing the defense counsel contended the defendant acted irrationally under great emotional ninth son rejected Marcus ninth son of Russell be had been rejected for military service after i seductive service examination ins Kight if Muus arc Al read in service and residents of he Iwu appealed to tin1 draft Hoard to spare Marcus for m in and save his Nio Lher fun in so Chick that the not Able to organize really effective replying Only with Sty Rig and Road l take town after town the troops overran town Stream after Stream without worrying about they just pm aged tanks into the streams and forded at one place they barged right into a corps and captured a Gen eral and his so fair prisoner bag a but the main Roundup is left to the in Fantav mopping zip in the tanks plutons steel lipped spearhead ban reached the inline above cob Lena and1 is approaching the out skirts of the ancient roman Liis leaves a huge can pay arc be tween patrons position on the Rhino and Hodges position at Cologne indications that the flanks will soon be brought up to present an unbroken solid front along upper half of the River in american forces entered Cologne against the Mea Ger resistance of snipers and Sui cide squads on the waterfront using flak guns against ground when gis clambered Over the debris blocking the Entrance to colognes world famous Cathe dral and stepped they expressed amazement that the slender and roof remained in tact under the rain of Allied bombs and the Civ Lias had no water sup see third army on page5 Washington Arney and naw casualties since Pearl har Bor have mounted to of War Stimson reported that army losses now total the Navy placed casualties at tin aggregate represents an in crease of from last weeks of which the army a for All but