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Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Frangais Waff en niederlegen! THE ST3SRLA RIPES Mon pere est en haut. VA-fen nee-der-Iay-gen! Mown pair ay ton O. Throw down your arms! Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces ^ tSt^y in the European Theater of Operations My father is upstairs. Vol. 1—No. 74 New York—PARIS — London Thursday, Sept. 28, 1944 Balkans Invaded by Allies U.S. Medics Caring for the Wounded Under Fire Land ings ■1311! In Albania, Jugoslavia Allied invasion forces hav« struck across the Adriatic by sea and air into the coastal islands of Jugoslavia and the mainland of Albania to knock another hole in the southern rim of the sieve that one© was Fortress Europe. German broadcasts said powerful Allied forces had swept ashore along a broad stretch of the Adriatic extending from tho northern part of Albania up the entire Dalmatian coast. Allied advices indicated the latest invasion—made largely by British troops—was on a large scale, in contrast to the long series of harass- ing raids by "commando" forces. Medical corpsmen treat an American captain wounded by German The new blow obviously was aimed machine-gun bullets fired from across the Moselle River as U.S. at closing the gap between troops moved through Madieres, France. Other soldiers in the back- Marshal Tito's Jugoslav Partisans GI Ballots May ground are firing at Nazi positions across the river. 1,100 Heavies along the Adriatic and the Red Army, massed on the eastern Juge- Batter Targets slav border. Delay Results There were no immediate details Skyhorne Remnants Escape; regarding Allied losses or tha In Rhine Area extent of resistance. German rer In Fall Election ports said heavy fighting was British Stab Threatens Reich More than 1,100 Fortresses and going on. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. — The Liberators, escorted by strong forces Air support for the landing wide variety of deadlines set up by After a push eastward across Holland, the Allies drove of .Mustangs, Thunderbolts and operations was given by the Allied individual states specifying when Lightnings, yesterday attacked rail Balkan Air Force, while units of to the northern anchor points of the Siegfried Line yester- the British Royal Navy participated their soldier ballots must be in yards and war industries along the day as the gallant stand of the trapped British skytroops Rhine and other targets in western in the assault. The landings could delay final results of the pre- on the north bank of the Lek came to an end with the Germany. climaxed softening-up aerial at- sidential election until Christmas escape of their remnants across the river. Although some groups encoun- tacks over a period of months Day, according to an INS survey, if tered no fighter opposition, others which destroyed the enemy garri- Withdrawal of the British Second son at Himra, Albania, and forced the contest between President met determined attacks. One form- Airborne Division from the Nether- ation of eight Libs was jumped by the Nazis to give up the Albanian Roosevelt and Thomas E. Dewey, Warns of Nazi lands' Arnhem area terminated a more than 100 ME109s and FW190s. coast road and send supplies to Republican nominee, were at all direct threat to Germany's northern- Thirty-one German planes were other garrisons by sea. most defenses, but even more mena*- close. destroyed by escorting fighters, five One prime effect the naw Bal- The fact that the important Secret Weapon cing was a British advance below were shot down by bomber gunners, kans blow may achieve would be states of Pennsylvania, California Nijmegen toward the Reich's fron- and five destroyed on the ground. the blocking of German efforts to tier. and Missouri all have postponed WITH FIRST U.S. ARMY, Ger- Forty-two bombers and seven fight- evacuate Greece and southern Ju- While elements of the British ers were lost. goslavia. A report from Bari^ the Nov. 7 soldier-ballot deadlines many, Sept. 27 (UP).—A warning Second Army stood on the south may give the U.S. one of its most not to underestimate Germany's RAF heavies cascaded more than Italy, last night, said that Nazi bank of the Lek, presumably pre- troops fleeing north from southern sustained suspense stories in its capacity to use secret weapons was paring &,n offensive to outflank the 1,500 tons of bombs on Calais yes- terday, while another force with Greece had been stopped in south- election history. given today' by Ilii Sobadyieff, 26, enemy's border bastions, to the Ten states have soldier-vote re- captured Bulgarian science student fighter cover attacked the Bottrop ern Albania by Albanian partisans. south, other British forces wheeled The report said the enemy force gulations which permit overseas who claimed to have been an as- toward Germany and took a five- Wilheim synthetic-oil plant near Essen and other targets in the had been driven back six miles and absentee ballots to be returned sistant working on Nazi secret mile stretch of the west ban"; of anywhere from Nov. 8, one day weapons in the Elektro Technische Ruhr. The oil plant, one of ten before being able to stop for a the Meuse. similar ones attacked recently by stand. after election, until as late as Institut in Stuttgart. Across the river were two of Dec. 25. "Work has been progressing along the RAF, was left in flames. the West Wall's anchor points— A strong force of Lancasters •One candidate, for example, three main lines known to me, and Kleve and Gorch. Paris Radio an- Tuesday night smashed at Karls- Ties With Hungary might carry California, with its 25 success might have been achieved nounced the capture of Kleve, but electoral votes. He might be the in one or more fields. The objective there was no confirmation' of this ruhe, important Ruhr rail center, Broken by Bulgaria apparent winner on Nov. 7, only of all experiments has been a nulli- report. and objectives at Frankfurt, while to find himself unseated on Nov. fication of Allied air power, for Mitchells of the Second Tactical On the Moselle front, Ninth Air Air Force bombed railways and An official Hungarian announce- 23, if these votes were the decid- Germany realizes the war is lost Force fighter-bombers, striking in ment that Bulgaria had broken ing ones, when overseas ballots unless this overwhelming force is support of a U.S. Third Army at- roads at Cleve, in Germany, near the Dutch border. ' diplomatic relations with Hungary came in. obliterated completely and at once," tack, pounded three strong Ger- Sobadyieff said. was reported yesterday by the Hun- man fortresses in the Metz area. AS:iS CITIZENSHIP garian News Agency. Preliminary reports indicated that HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 27. -r- Tiny In the Baltics, the battle for Riga VI INVENTOR HELD? 25 percent of the forts had been actress Heather Angel, native of continued unabated. N.Y. May Hear LONDON, Sept. 27. — Georges destroyed. Oxford, England, today applied for There was no announcement on Claude, French scientist, has been Ten miles east of the city of US. citizenship here. the fighting around Warsaw. arrested at Naney and charged Luxemburg, the Yanks captured 2 FDR Talks with being the inventor of the VI Greweldange, one mile from the flying bomb, according to a story German frontier. North of Epinal, Another Crease in Hitler's Brow NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—The pos- printed by the Daily Mail. other Seventh Army troops crossed sibility that President Roosevelt the Moselle in strength and occu- may make two campaign addresses pied Chatel-sur-Moselle and a num- in New York State put new em- Hundreds of Dentists ber of other, towns. phasis today on a drive by both Retreat of the British airborne major parties for New York's 47 Being Freed by Army army to the south bank of the Lek, electoral votes. (Continued on Page 4) Democratic National Chairman WASHINGTON, Sept. 27. — Robert E. Hannegan said that in The Army soon will release se- all probability President Roosevelt veral hundred dental officers Morgenthau Sees Hope would speak in New York City in from active duty to permit them the last week of the campaign. He to return to private practice, Of Cut in Income Taxes added that "the President may the War Department announced make more than one speech in the yesterday. BOSTON, Sept. 27 (UP). — state." The announcement said the Secretary of the Treasury Henry The New York County Repub- release was possible because the Morgenthau jr., said today that lican organization, has engaged peak load of dental work had there .was "a hope for some lower- Madison Square Garden for Nov. passed. Since Pearl Harbor, ing" of income taxes on individuals 4 for its usual Saturday-night-be- more than one million men have and corporations after the defeat fore-election rally. Gov. Thomas E. been made dentally fit for gene- of Germany because of the de- Dewey, Republican Presidential ral military service. crease in war expenditures. He j nominee, is expected to speak. declined to elaborate. Allies strike across Adriatic to sever Nazi escape routes north. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Sept. 1944 <jf An Editorial etow \T It's Not As Easy As It Reads OUT HeRfc Afterthought. Money doesnt al- ways mean happiness. Come to HEN you read about think of it, a guy with ten million bucks isn't much happier than a W town after town fall- Let's Be Tolerant, Bud guy with nine million. ing into our hands, you Can you imagine the M/Sgt. • « • sooner or later get into the (who wrote to B-Bag for the fig- Some of the lads have returned frame of mind that it's easy.