Yanks 23 ML Past Metz Warhinges Ref Use on Battle at Rhine—Ike to Yield
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Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Francois Wo 1st der Weg nach der StadtT THE St^ TRIPES Nous n'avons pas d'argent. VoistderVayk nahkhder Stabdt? Neu navon paw darjan. Where is the road 'r town? Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed fortes the European theater of Operations We don't have money. Vol. 1—No. 121 lFr. New York — PARIS — London lFr. Wednesday, Nov. 22, 1944 Yanks 23 ML Past Metz WarHinges Ref use On Battle at Rhine—Ike To Yield By Jules B. Grad Stars and Stripes Staft Writer. Bastion The Battle of Germany is likely to be fought out west of the Rhine—where the Ruhr BULLETIN is threatened, Gen. Eisen- French forces slashing hower disclosed yesterday In northward through Alsace his first press conference . by-passed Mulhouse and since a whirlwind tour of the Colmar and stabbed into fighting fronts. Strasbourg, Swiss Radio He said he saw no signs reported last night. Mean- that the Germans were re- while, U.S. Seventh Army treating across the Rhine east of troops drove northeast to Aachen. With a large force com- take Sarrebourg. mitted west of such a great natural barrier as the Rhine against an army whose massive aerial super- U.S. Third Army element* iority has power to blast retreat of the 80th Division, driving bridges, the Germans, he said, had no alternative but to stand and 23 miles beyond Metz, reached fight. Muffled against the chill of a bleak winter, a First Army rifleman stares east from the Siegfried Line. the center of the Maginot Reviewing the war situation as He stands a lonely guard over the winding scar of dragons' teeth, their angles dulled by the snow. tine yesterday while the Ger- he found it along miles of the mans, with their south flank Western Front, Gen. Eisenhower also declared that supplies were turned by the French blitz to needed in greater amounts than Thanksgiving Rolling Tank Gathers Hands Dig Way the Rhine, began to retreat ever before. No Moss—Just Grain at points along a 125-milo Blueprint for Future Rites Planned line in Alsace and Lorraino, "I want more supplies than we're WITH SECOND ARMORED For Tank Push getting, and I think the soldier Hold Out on Metz Islands Thanksgiving, which used to be DIV.—In France, T/4 James C. By Wes Gallagher Refusing an American surrender wants more than he's getting—both Shiver, of Brundidge, Ala., and strictly an American holiday, will Associated Press Staff Writer. demand, Nazis still held out last now and in the future," he said. be celebrated internationally to- Pvt. Russell Webb, of Deaver, In disclosing his blueprint for fu- SETTERICH, GERMANY.— night at two points in Metz, west morrow, with turkey and all the Wyo., camouflaged their me- Because GI engineers cleared a ture operations—to increase press- dium tank with wheat sheaves side in the He de Saulcy and in the trimmings decorating the festive path through minefields by hand, southwest section of the He de ure steadily all along the West- boards in GI mess halls from the and started in the long drive the Ninth Army's attack breached ern Front until the Germans are through the Low Countries into Chambiere. Both islands are South Pacific to the Siegfried Line. one of Hitler's famed "community bounded by branches of the Mo- crushed—the general warned against For the ETO alone, 1,604 tons of Germany. defences" here In less than two a growing sense of complacency on The other day the tank hit selle River which runs through turkey have arrived in France in a hours, advancing ten miles deep the town. the home front. He said he could refrigerated ship for distribution to a rest area and for the first into Germany in violent armored not conceive that anyone at home time in weeks the men gave Six forts, surrounded and weaken- troops throughout England, France, fighting. ing, also kept fighting outside the would say that American troops Belgium, Holland and Germany. their 28-ton baby a bath. When Rains and low hanging clouds city. The Stars and Stripes Cor- should take more losses and do less For the men in the front lines, they came to the turret ring they halted Allied air support for the work. respondent, Earl Mazo, -sported there will be turkey, Com Z head- said they found a fine young Ninth Army offensive, now In the from the front that 600 German* "Unless everyone—those at the quarters announced—but other' stand of winter wheat. fifth day, but tanks pushed for- were fighting in Fort Driant, but front and those at home—keep on wise Thanksgiving will be no dif- ward at two miles an hour in heavy food and ammunition were running (Continued on Page 3) ferent from any other day. Where going. short. possible, however, every soldier will U.S. May Act The entire area captured by tne In Paris, Gen. Eisenhower told have an opportunity to attend Ninth, amounting to some 50 200 war correspondents that the Air Fleet Hits church services. square miles, was heavily mined. French First Army's dash to the In many cases, these services will In PhoneTieup Engineers in this completely wreck- Rhine and capture of Belfort be held in some of Europe's most ed town moved up and down the marked a milestone in the ac- streets digging up mines one by Nazi Oil Plants famous cathedrals, including Notre WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—Drastic complishments of the French Dame in Paris, the Cathedral iri one. Forces, while Gen. de Gaulle an- government action to end a general Worked All Night A record escort of more than (Continued on Page 3) midwestern telephone strike was (Continued on Page 3) 1,100 Eight and Ninth A.F. Mus- expected today as plant and main- Working all night under fire, the tangs, Thunderbolts and Lightnings Provost Marshal Denies tenance workers joined women engineers paved the way for the guarding an Eighth fleet of better operators on strike in 27 Ohio cities breaching of the Germans' most Push on the Rhine than 1,250 Fortresses and Liberators Nazis Get Better Food and the walkout threatened to formidable man-made obstacle yet smashing at oil plants at Merseburg spread to Michigan, Indiana, Illi- encountered on this front. and Hamburg-Harburg yesterday, Maj. Gen. Milton Reckord, ETO nois and Pennsylvania. It was an antitank ditch 15 feet shot down 52 Nazi fighters, pre- provost marshal, reported yesterday The strikes started in Dayton wide and ten miles long, protected by minefields and covered by artil- liminary TJSSTAF reports show. that German prisoners are getting Friday when operators quit in pro- lery fire. By dawn the engineers At the same time, fighter-escort- the same food supplied to Allied test against an alleged policy of im- had lanes marked. Before noon ed Lancasters bombed the synthetic garrison troops, except for more porting out-of-town operators and oil plant at Homberg—the third sauerkraut—and no cigarettes, at paying them the regular wage plus the tanks were moving across the daylight raid by the RAF during present.. $18 a week living allowances. ditch into the German secondary the month. defenses. Ninth Marauders dropped 160 "This town was lousy with tons of bombs on three small Ger- mines," said Major Richard Mc- man villages which had been con- Somervell Lashes Workers Cabe. "In fact it still Is—but the verted to defense positions oppos- engineers are cleaning them out. ing First Army troops advancing (Continued on Page 3) east of Eschweiler. Other B26s Seeking Sojt Post- War Jobs bombed two bridges spanning the Rhine between Cologne and Co- President Nominates blenz. CHICAGO, Nov. 21. —Lt. Gen. Somervell asserted that produc- Brehon B. Somervell told the an- tion of some items was 40 percent Two Chaplain Generals Reds Nearing Slovakian nual CIO convention today that below what was needed and that "the doughboy has fought his way the deficiency "can mean the dif- WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (ANS).— Border; Reach Miskolc ahead of schedule and we have to ference between victory and a long- The Army Chaplain Corps for the catch up with him," and appealed drawn stalemate." firs'- time will have two generals if Sharp tank clashes took place for 100,000 more workers in war nominations submitted today by northeast of Budapest yesterday as plants. President Roosevelt are approved Soviet forces edged closer to the "I know that you men and women AFL Hears Green by the Senate. They are Brig. Gen. rail and highway centers of Hatvan are sticking to your war jobs," said NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 21.— William R. Arnold, chief of chap- and Miskolc. The Red Army reach- the Army Service Forces chief, "but President William Green told the lains, nominated to be a major ed the outskirts of Miskolc, 25 there are a lot of Americans who annual AFL convention today that general, and his deputy, Col. George miles from the Slovakian border, are not. They are turning to other on the home front there were F. Rixey, to be a brigadier general. in its drive from the east. employment in quest of greater "7,000,000 members of the army of There still was no word from post-war security. Our men aren't production who also have been Chevalier Cleared Moscow on the new Latvian of- dying in Germany and in the Phi- sharing the sacrifices of war be- Maurice Chevalier, the actor and fensive reported from Berlin. The lippines simply to give someone the cause more men have been injured singer, was cleared by the Music Germans said that Russian break- right to work at a soft job before and killed in the workshops, mills, Hall Artists Union in Paris yester- through attempts southeast of Li- the war is over or to get an ad- mines and factories than on the day of charges that he collaborated From Holland to Switzerland, bau were smashed vantage over his competitors." battlefields." with the Nazis.