Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Ill h e e ast four cents april 1945 ajar companies enlist in ods Campaign Chicago a Marine Veteran 22 months service in the South Pacific has outlined a plan which he Hopes will end the Job worries men on the fighting James Simpson Chicago attorney recently returned to in Active status As a Marine corps described the work of Industry for incorporated As a nonprofit Organiza Tion in the with a Hoard of directors including Charles former vice president of the seeks pledges from Illi Nois industries that a minimum of 5 per cent of postwar jobs will go to returning servicemen and to to expand nationally whose father is Board Chii Irman of Marshall Ifield and said pledges have already Beun signed which assures postwar jobs for Illinois lie added that Industry for veterans plans to expand nation the plan already covers More than companies which include Walgreen drug and Sears Roebuck Andi their pledges cover their outlets throughout the Navy will Aid Simpson said that a least 40 per cent of american servicemen and women were too Young when they put on uniforms to have had jobs Are not covered by reemployment clauses of the selective service we want them to feel that something definite is being done see on Page 3u the Western front bristles with Armor tipped spearheads As Tho armies under Eisenhower punch Forward to vital enemy troops under marshal Montgomery Are fanning out into Holland and toward Bremen ninth army men Advance on Hanover while other elements arc linked with Tho first army to form a tightening noose on two Gorman armies trapped in the Ruhr the third army entered Cotha in its drive to Leipzig seventh army troops approach White Karlsruhe fell to the Geisha girls to the front Okinawa eleven women dressed in Jap uniforms and part of a Jap Force which attacked a Field artillery Post were in amet Kitty for memorial in Cigar letters and to Ney orders a of Follose poured into Tho office of stars and stripes this week from aimed personnel to Send the i memorial Home fund shooting up to respectable sum officers and pm and the bless pm dug Down into their britches on payday to say it wit i plasters and pounds for Privett and her eight Payne Camp Huckstep and the wac detachment pave the fund substantial but individual laurels went to Headquarters whose orderly Nom coiled ions accounted for nearly half the we will wind up the Campaign Shiw weekend and along to Privet the Nice Little with a wish for Good Fortune from everyone of and for ourselves thank you for putting the Golden lining on Little the Here we go again Hollywood selection of a jury which will make a second at tempt to determine whether Char lie Chaplin is the father of Joan barrys 18monthsold daughter is trial 1 ended in a Hirv Home assured As fund goes Way Over top hoping that it will set a precedent for the rest of the the folks of Blytheville Are proudly pointing to Phi us for what May be americas first world War ii a flood of contributions from kindhearted persons in 26 states has made possible the memorial which will be dedicated Early in it will be a tearoom House Complete with a poultry run and even a play Cen Ter for the family of a 37yearold infantryman who was killed in Luxembourg on the deed to the House will be presented to Privett and her four sons and four the idea for the i memorial was conceived by a grocery owner and Friend of the he thought that it might be possible to raise with which to build a modest Home for the widow and contributions from 2g states came pouring with amounts ranging from the pennies of school children to Large individual donations of the courier a local news paper which collected the announced that a total of in Cash has been this is Iii addition to Worth of materials and labor which was Ike slated for top Berlin Post Washington the White House has revealed that Eisenhower will he the 1 ame rican on military government to control postwar with Lucius Clay As his Deputy to handle civil the announcement stated that clan would take Over when Eias supreme assumes control under an arrange ment agreed for the occupation of the statement added that the president believes Clay to he particularly qualified for the is a native of a Anda West Point Gra he is now attached to the army procurement Section and generally accredited with prompt ing Many of War Mobilizer bar nes recent an Avalanche of Allied tanks is surging through the Reich like stretch out steel fingers pressing Forward the British and canadians toward the North sea and the ninth toward the third toward the toward the French toward first concentrating behind the front on a trap snapped on Ger mans in the Ruhr across the Waist of Germany against scattered patrons cavalry of tanks spearheaded All Allied drives East of the Rhine the third army is racing Advance continues to be the headlining action on the Western unit last Hon ges1 first glory of the swiftest Advance Iri the although Shock units of the first and ninth annies bypassed Cluster of Ruhr cities and moved other units two armies swung around1 the outskirts of the Ruhr to form a Gigantic Simpsons men advanced Hodges men rushed up from the turned to the West where Tho ninth army was Posi both generals made a Dar intr drive to link up near Pader on Tho Eastern Side of the Ruhr in a frantic at tempt to the Junction and to prevent the Ruhr trap from slam the Mand hurled its test Ivan bored units and biggest tanks against the first army a first army armoured division rammed Forward at such a fast Pace in one Day that Contact was lost with its Advance the yanks from the North and South met West of locked locked the trap on two German armies after three Days patrons armoured wedge through Central Germany approaches the Western Frontier of his men reportedly captured go on the Highway to and fought a Hoube Othouse Battle in bypassed Kossel before the Industrial City units of the sixth armoured Divi Sion attached to the third army liberated american prisoners who had been captured during rinds tests Surprise breakthrough 8ee patrons on Page 2 Senate rejects manpower Bill manpower control Bill teetered on the verge of the oblivion this week with opposition against Erven in its Mildest steadily after rejection in Senate by a if to 29 the measure has now been taken up Hui a Senate House conference for new Compromise of endorsed by president Roose Bill would have Given the War mobilization chief authority to freeze workers in War set employment ceilings and regulate or forbid the hiring of Byrnes resignation from this Post apparently dealt the hopeless a clicked Bill its toughest associated press commented that the Senate might have trusted Byrnes with such extensive Power under the Bill hut that his Resig nation seems to doom Colorado de declared that Byrnes weekend made prior to his also clinched oppose Byrnes had stated that the if could he used Only for War production but for the manufacture of essential civil Ian Fraulein Greet yanks with grenade Shower with the 7th army in Ger Many the seventh army ran into organized resistance from civilians in Germany last battling women and girls who at tacked american infantry and Armor with grenades and Yazoo sixteen Earold girls were found dropping grenades from upper floors of scores of women residents of Schwem Heim on the East Hank of the River main sniped from hiding places at the 45th crossing the River to exploit the false alarm Kansas City when an Engineer of a freight locomotive pulled the whistle for a crossing in Southern it stuck and the train screamed its Way 75 Miles across the leaving a Trail of confused citizenry hopefully thinking the War was yanks Cut push North and South Battle casualties Are nearing the with army losses placed at and the navys at total armed forces casualties Are now Stimson also reported that japanese losses in the Philippines Campaign total nazis plan wolfpack8 London formation of Ger Man guerilla bands called were wolfs to continue to fight the allies was announced Moscow radio the Wolf Hunt is Good assault troops of the tenth army and the marines have Cut the Island of Okinawa in two following its invasion sunday and John 24th corps said operations Are going far better than our wildest tenth army troops reached the islands East coast at two Points and twin american drives moved southward toward capital of Only six Miles from for Ward scores of Little towns have been overrun and scattered opposition faced the tenth army firmly in control of the South Central Section of lie and now moving Down the East and West landings on the largest in the Ryukyu were announced sunday morning by Chester Nimitz after Aten Day assault on the Ryukyu Island approaches by the american Navy and a powerful British task the first of the Royal Navy to strike an offensive blow so close to Japan in this the american Landing Force was estimated up to men and is under the Overall command of fifth Fleet with vice Richard Kelly Turner directing its amphibious Simon Bolivar Turner commands the tenth Okinawa is believed to be Garri see Okinawa on Page s
