New York London. Edition Paris Daily German Lesson Daily French Lesson _Mende uus der Hosentasche sr Avez-voies mitre chose? Henda owss der Hossentashe THE TRIPES AvAY voo otr shows? Have you anything else? Hands out of the pockets Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations VOL. S No. 34-1d. MONDAY, Dec. 11, 1944 1st Army Opens Drive for Roer Plant Needs Prisoner Swap Makes 'Em Smile Third Army RenewDraft Repels More Of Men26-37 NaziThrusts While Third Army troops threw WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (ANS)— back four German tank and infantry Drafting of men aged 26-37 who are assaults on their Saar bridgeheads not conttibuting to the war effort was yesterday, troops of Lt. Gen. ordered renewed today to provide Courtney H. Hodges's First Army, replacements for soldiers and sailors launching an attack on the snowy released in recent months to manpower- northern sector of the Western Front, short war plants. stabbed toward the Roer River to build War Mobilization Director James F. up a solid line of attack along that barrier Byrnes asked the step be taken as the into Germany's industrial Ruhr. government drove to get 300,000 needed Moving in a concerted drive for the workers into war industries and brine first time in a week, the First doughboys lagging production of critical materials reached Pier. 15 miles northeast of up to schedule. Aachen, and Gey and Schafbcrg, 15 miles Byrnes said the Army and Navy "had southeast of Aachen. Another unit, with released several thouSand" men to war tank support, was driving on Geich, three plants and the demands for such releases miles below Pier, were increasing. 9th Clears Julich Stadium "In order that these men may be re- The First Army was striking for the placed," he said, "it is deemed necessary Roer on the sector below the riverside to increase the numbers of calls by Selec- positions already gained by the Ninth tive Service for men between 26 and 37 Army, which was engaged yesterday only who are not doing their part to contribute in patrolling activity after having finally to the war effort." Corms Photo erased two stubborn enemy pockets at U.S. Army Stencil the Julich sports stadium and at a fortified Consequently. Byrnes said, he asked Their faces alight with relief at the sight of American MPs, these Allied soldiers the induction of such men and the re- march brick from a Nazi prisoner-of-war stockade in an exchange of prisoners in the farmhouse north of the town. The First classification of others in the same age Heavies Renew St. Nazaire sector. France. Nineteen Americans, 30 French and three British warriors Army sector was under six inches of group who now have cweupatiottal defer- were released in return for 54 of the enemy. snow. ments and who have left essential On the Third Army front, men of the industry. Attack on Rails 90th Division in hand-to-hand encounters While draft boards never have been regained pillboxes near Dillingen which ordered formally to halt induction of men German rail centers were the principal All-Out RAF Offensive they had lost to German counter-attacks over 26, few have drafted any since last aturctives over the weekend when Eighth the day before. Dillingen is 21 miles September. when Maj. Gcn. Lewis B. Air Force heavy bombers carried out two north of Saarlautern, where 95th dough- Hershey, head of Selective Service. boys cleared the railway station and operations in sub-zero weather. captured a fortified hotel on the eastern advised boards that it appeared armed More than 500 Fortresses and Opened Against Greeks forces needs for the rest of the year could fringe of the town. Liberators, escorted by upward of 650 be met from men under 26. ATHENS, Dec. 10 (Reuter)—The RAF today opened what it called "a Dispatches from the Sarreguemines Mustangs and Thunderbolts, bombed area, where the 35th Division beat off Neither the Army nor Navy was able definite air offensive against the rebels" as the undeclared Greek civil war to give exact figures on the number of military rail targets on the Rhine at assaults by tanks and tank-riding infantry entered its second week with no signs of slackening. men released to war industries. About Coblenz and Bingen Sunday, after a day against two Saar bridgeheads in this It was authoritatively stated that no peace approach had been made area, said that troops of the German 800 recently were dropped by the Army in which more than 400 Fortresses, to the tire industry and releases also to Maj. Gen. Ronald M• Scobie, British commander in Greece, by repre- 17th SS Panzer Division. dressed in civi- covered by approximately 275 Mustangs have been made to logging and lumbering. ntanves of the ELAS (Resistance) lian clothes, had been caught sniping— foundries and forges, aircraft and ammu- and Thunderbolts. attacked railyards at forces. a violation of international law. nition plants. and, earlier in the war. Stuttgart and an Jirficid near Solingen. Rock Wellingtons and Spitfires were in Well behind the front. Fort Driant, one to non-ferrous mining. southwest of Somean, action. while British ground troops coped 1 Rail Line Left of the Metz chain. gave up, leaving only Itoenes* actioa appeared ..2,L-naited Elwee U.S. twAnhets .irld one fighter with aniptrs and mine. one stronghold still to be reduced in this stern the growing movement by workers were lost Sunday, while Saturday's losses Early today. ELAS men launched their area. to leave war jobs and seek employment were four heavies and no pursuits. There strongest attack yet from the great white From Budapest• Nazis Forced Back in Alsace where they could be assured jobs after which they are German broadcasts told of a flare-up was no enemy fighter opposition either marble stadium in Russian troops literally were at the peace, The movement has been one of intrcnchcd. Their objectives were British of lighting on the Alsace front and ad- day. gates of Budapest last night and only the principal worries of manpower The temperature at bombing altitude and Greek government headquarters in mitted that the Nazi line had been forced officials, ranged down to 50 degrees below zero the center of Athens, one railroad, the main line to Vienna, back. Allied dispatches said the Seventh Meantime, it also was announced that over the weekend. Premier Georges Papandreou said: remained open to the Germans to save Army drove into the southwestern part of the Army asked and secured an agree- U.S. Thunderbolts and Kittyhawks and "The civil war will end at whatever their garrison by retreat.. Haguenau, above Strasbourg. while other ment for a seven-day work week for four moment the leaders of the extreme left troops a dozen miles farther northwest RAF Spitfires of the Mediterranean The puppet government of Ferenc months in plants manufacturing truck declare they are ready to keep their word gained to within four miles of the Reich tires and tubes. Tire industry workers. Allied Air Force yesterday cut the Szalasi already had fled to. Sopron. 110 Brenner Line, Germany's supply link with in regard to the common program for the border. now paid time and a half for the sixth disbandment and disarmament of the miles to the west, to escape the forces the Po Valley front, in more than a score SHAEF dispatches said it was esti- day, will collect double time for Sunday. partisan forces." of Marshal Malinowsky, advancing on mated there that the German Western it was said. of places. Mitchells swept up and down the line blasting bridges and tunnels. the capital from three directions. South Front losses from Nov. 8 to Nov. 30 were of the city, Malinowsky's army was 152.000. Prisoners accounted for 74,000 Ninth Air Force Marauders, Havocs 8th Retakes Ground in Daly ELAS Vulcanizes Rip beyond Dunaharaszti, six miles from the of the total. and Invaders flew about 475 sorties outskirts of Budapest, while other A Reuter dispatch disclosed that ROME. Dee. 10 (AP)—Eighth Army Saturday. attacking a German barracks In U.S.-Greek Relations troops yesterday beat off several strong elements stood at Azod, 16 miles north- Thunderbolt planes had dropped blanket- at Baumholder, 30 miles northeast of ATHENS. Dec. 10—The ELAS is German counter-attacks against their east, and Vac, 15 miles north. wrapped bottles of blood plasma for Saarbritecken, as well as fortified villages, not firing on Americans deliberately, newly-won Lamone River bridgehead. two West of the Danube, Malinowsky's wounded and shock cases on the Saar military camps and a railhead behind but occasionally some Yanks find them- miles west of the outflanked enemy strong- troops, already linked up with Marshal front. German troops facing the U.S. Third selves in a hot spot. hold of Faenza. Army. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army, were An NBC. correspondent told of a driving north to sever the last escape burst of fire which blew out the tire route to Austria. Russia, France Sign of an American jeep. The Yanks had GIs Dig In to INg Out London to stop. When the ELAS saw the In southwest Hungary Tolbukhin's A Mutual-Aid Pact riders were American, they left their armored columns pushed ahead toward guns and helped change the tire. Austria between Lake Balaton and the MOSCOW, Dec. 10 1AP)—France and Drava River. According to Paris Radio, Russia have concluded a new treaty of Cossack patrols, which infiltrated through alliance and mutual assistance, the terms A government source announced last the enemy lines, had approached to within of which were drawn up during Gen.