^0 New York—London Paris—Rennes lei On Parle Francais Monday, Sept. 18, 1944 Ou est votre mere? THE ST^RS Oo ay vohtruh mair? Vol. 1. No. 65 Where is your mother? Dally Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces cj^vin the European Theater of Operations Holland Invaded by Air; Siegfried Line Is JSurst

20,000 Nazis in Mass Surrender to Yanks Yanks Through

By Bud Kane and reconnaissance patrol reaching across Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. the Loire, learned that a large body of Ger- e BEAUGENCY, France, Sept. 17. — More mans coming up from the Spanish border Gap; Giant Fleet than 20,000 German troops, including was attempting to slip through the gap at members of the Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht and Belfort, a gap already being closed by the Nazi marine units, were marched into U.S. Seventh Army from the south and the Third Army prisoner of war camps today after Army from the west and north. Lands 'Chutists their mass surrender had been effected principally by the reconnaissance work of Magill and his men, knowing that the one officer and 24 enlisted men of an 83rd Ninth Air Force and the Maquis were raising Strong forces of the First Allied Airborne Army were Infantry Division platoon. havoc with this army of men, slid into this landed in Holland yesterday by a huge fleet of gliders and In a ceremony marking one of the strangest open territory on September 8 and estab- transports, and last night were reported to have captured mass surrenders in this war, Maj. Gen. Erich lished patrols up and down the Loire. Pfc several cities behind the German lines. Elster formally turned over his pistol James Reilly, of Thomaston; Conn., and Pvt. Inside Germany, the First U.S. Army poured reinforce- to Maj. Gen. Robert C. Macon, 83rd Division James E. Townsend, of Petoskey, Mich., ments through a gap torn in the Siegfried Line south of commander, and then directed his troops slipped over to the other side of the river surrounded Aachen in preparation for a drive toward the as they, too, turned over their weapons and to constitute the entire force of Americans Rhine. U.S. troops were less than 30 miles from Cologne. other tools of war—including 1,900 vehicles on that side. The outfit ran patrols north of all kinds—before crossing the Loire River and south for 40 miles and east and west for U.S. Troops Mass Airborne Army to become prisoners. nearly 30 miles—all with 24 men. The story behind {he surrender goes back Late in the day, Magill was approached by For Rhine Drive Behind Nazi Lines to September 8, when Lt. Samuel W. Magill, two members of the Maquis who stated there Transported in broad daylight by of Ashtabula, Ohio, leader of an intelligence (Continued on Page 4) American troops are through the Siegfried Line, having smashed a gigantic fleet of more than 1,000 aside one of the last bulwarks Adolf gliders, troop-carrying craft and Hitler counted upon to save his towing planes, Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Siegfried Line MPs Round Up Americans tottering regime. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Reinforcements of the First U.S. Army landed yesterday afternoon in Army last night were pouring Holland behind the German lines IsRentWithout Selling Supplies to Parisians through a gap torn in the vaunted and by nightfall had liberated sev- defense line south of Aachen, about eral Dutch towns. 11 miles inside the Reich and less In the words of Air Vice Mar- Loss of a Man Cracking down on the sale of U.S. Army rations and than 30 miles from Cologne, in sh:! Longhurst, air officer com- gasoline, MPs in Paris have arrested a number of American preparation for Lt. Gen. Courtney manding an airborne group, the By Andy Rooney Hodges' next big push toward the vast operation transcended in im- " . Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. soldiers and French civilians and apparently halted a black Rhine. portance even the airborne 'land- WITH A FIRST ARMY INFAN- market that had turned the area around the Arc de Triom- ings on D-Day. Success, he said, TRY DIVISION, Sept. 17. — After British Smash Ahead might mean all the difference be- ten years of talk about the Siegfried phe and the Eiffel Tower into a booming exchange center. Meanwhile, strong armored spear- tween a rapid decision in the west Line, 21-year-old 1/Lt. Bob Kalb, Col. E. G. Buhrmaster, Seine heads of the British Second Army and a protracted winter campaign. of Paducah, Ky., took his company Base Section provost marshal, smashed out from the Beeringeh Swooping down in parachutes through it without a casualty. Since whose police force has been aug- bridgehead over the Escaut canal and gliders, "strong forces" of Kalb and his men forced the first Yanks Invade mented by the arrival of London to drive two miles into Holland, American and British troops landed opening, the armored unit working MP units, declared yesterday that and Canadian troops launched an behind Nazi units fighting bitterly with this crack infantry division "soldier black-market operators ap- all-out attack on the German gar- to liquidate British bridgeheads has been pouring through the gap. 2nd Palau Isle prehended in Paris will be given rison bottled up at Boulogne, key over the Escaut Canal. A linkup The Siegfried Line splits and runs the most extreme penalties within Channel port. with the ground units by the air- on both sides of the German TJ.S. troops have made a third the limitations of the Articles of North of surrounded A-achen, borne army would endanger the border city of Aachen. The first landing on strategic stepping stones War." strong American forces crossed the whole German position in Holland «id lighter section of the line was to the Philippines, storming ashore American MPs, he said, have full Meuse and were reported to be ad- and possibly lead to a new offen- pierced early last week, but it was against relatively light opposition authority to arrest both military vancing toward the German fron- sive toward the Reich. Lt. Kalb and his company who on Anguar in the Palau group, 600 and civilian parties to a sale in- tier on a wide front east of li- Nazis Locate Landings forced the final opening in the last miles due east of the islands. volving gasoline, cigarettes, food berated Maastricht. The Nazis German defense line in front of All initial objectives were secured, or other U.S. Army supplies. launched a counter-attack east of Supreme Allied headquarters did the Rhine River. according to the Navy Department The roundup of GI profiteers Aachen early Sunday, but American not disclose the site of the landings, It was Pfc Alvin O. Kenyon, of at Washington, which identified followed reports In the French planes, artillery and Infantry re- but the German DNB agency said Seattle, Wash., who first got to the assaulting force as the 81st In- press that Yanks were selling pulsed it. they took place at Tilsburg, about and through the vaunted line. fantry Division, under Maj. Gen. Army property to Parisians. It U.S. troops were said to have 40 miles southeast of Rotterdam; Kenyon was first scout for the Paul J. Mueller. The landings were was understood that the prompt made another crossing of the Ger- Eindhoven, 20 miles southeast of Tilsburg and about 30 miles west of company which followed him along. made under heavy covering bom- action terminated the illicit busi- | man frontier, about 19 miles north- the German frontier, and at Nijme- ■ The company went forward with bardment by warships and planes, (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4y V tanks and M10 support. The Sieg- and losses were believed to be com- gen, on the lower Rhine three miles fried Line consisted of a series of paratively small. from the German border. strategically-placed pillboxes. In The assault followed an initial An Ex-Gentleman of No Gentleman A second DNB release claimed the hilly country of the border, landing in the Palaus on the island the landings were made "west of roads run through the valley, and of Peleliu, to the north of Anguar, the Dutch-German frontier on the the Germans placed the fortified which is the southernmost of the northern bank of the Rhine " concrete Igloos in positions which group. Orderly Whom Hitler Fired The Germans claimed that con- commanded the only possible entry Landing under conditions des- siderable contingents of Brereton's for vehicles. On both sides of the cribed in reports from Peleliu as newly-formed army had been wiped roads, concrete "dragon's teeth" ex- almost identical with those at IsCaptured bytheFirstArmy out, but Stanley Woodward, repre- tend for miles, preventing tanks bloody Tarawa, U.S. Marines who senting the combined press, re- assaulted Peleliu smashed inland ported that by Sunday night sev- from rolling over the open country WITH THE FIRST U.S. ARMY, breakfast of arrowroot and milk. between the road networks. with but a fraction of the losses near Aachen, Sept. 17.—A German eral Dutch towns had been freed. incurred in the Gilberts invasion. The prisoner confirmed the report Preceding the airborne landings "We knocked out about 15 or 20 soldier who was Adolf Hitler's dog- that Hitler was a teetotaler, vege- pillboxes, I guess," Kalb said. "Our Tracked landing vehicles were used robber for three years was among was an assault by up to 1,000 for- in the Palau attack. tarian and non-smoker. The Fueh- M-10 fired at some of them from prisoners captured recently. rer's only minor vice, he said, was (Continued' on Page 4) about 20 yards and blasted them He was Der Fuehrer's orderly women. With a leer, he denied the wide open." 25 Veteran ETO Fliers from 1937 to 1940, when he was widespread impression that Hitler One Standard Gasoline Many of the pillboxes were crack- bounced because of a beer-garden was impotent. ed open with grenades tossed into Among Dead in Wreck brawl in which he slapped an of- The orderly said he had been cor- Adopted for Army Use «mall openings in the concrete ficer. Hitler now has a personal Stars and Stripes TJ.S. Bureau responding with one of Hitler's sec- guard of 40 SS and four personal retaries with whom he was friendly WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. — The There was no artillery at all m TERRE HAUTE, Jnd, Sept. 17.— orderlies, the former batman said. for the three years. He claimed that Army has adopted 80-octans gaso- any of the pillboxes Kalb's company The death toll in Thursday's head- The Reich's boss also has a main he was in the Fuehrer's room in line, popularly known as "high-test encountered. Most of the outdated on train collision near here has orderly who cleans his clothes. 1939 when the phone rang. It was quality," for standardized use in all fortifications had gun positions risen to 29, with 65 persons re- "He was very difficult to work five nights before Germany entered Army land and amphibious vehicles built for nothing bigger than the ported injured. for," the prisoner said, "because he Poland. The call was from Foreign Maj. Gen. G. M. Barnes, chief of old German 47-mm. anti-tank gun. The dead include 25 veteran ETO was different every day. Some days Minister Ribbentrop telling Hitler ordnance research, revealed- "The line would have been tough airmen-who had survived the Luft- he was pleasant, on others he was of the Moscow alliance. The standard gas replaces seven to crack if the Germans had enough waffe and were returning to duty vicious." - Hitler shouted, f I didn't think it different types used heretofore and men to man it the way it should after furloughs. A WAC sergeant He said that Hitler went to bed would work—didn't think it would has greatly simplified supply proh **have been," Kalb declared. and three trainmen also were killed at 3 a.m. and arose at 8:30 for a work," the prisoner said. lems, he said. Fage 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Sept. 18, 1944

An Editorial THE STARS AND STRIPES Printed at the New York Herald 4hsh Cflanhs Tribune printing establishment, 21 rue de Berri. Paris, and at L'Ouest Jour- nal, Rennes, for the U.S. armed forces Cheesecake, Watermelon and Corn under auspices of the Special Services Pun on the Home Front. Fleeing Division, ETOTJSA Not for distribu- tion to civilians from police, a Massachusetts man HEESECAKE is news- Contents passed by the O.S. Army ran past a fruit stand. Then he C paper lingo for pic- and Navy censors; subscription, 260 had a bright idea. He buried his francs per year, plus postage. EIO tures like this—gals, legs edition entered as second class matter head in a water-melon as the cops Mar. 15. 1943. at the post office. New approached. The cops weren't and corny stuff like the York. N.Y . under the act of Mar. S. fooled however; they nabbed him watermelon and the ice. 1878. All material appearing In this anyway. publication has been written and * * * edited by members of the Army and • • * Navy, except where stated that a civi- We "don't know whether lian or other outside source is being Two teen-age girls stepped out of or not we could have won quoted. a cinema showing one of the latest Vol. L No. 65 this war without cheese- cake, watermelon and corn. We don't know whether cheesecake short- THt< BAG ened the war by as much as a single day. BLOW IT * * * ' OUT H£RE All we know is that pic- tures like this—of gals with flirty-flirty eyes, 'Hospital—No Noise' toothpaste smiles, snazzy I have a complaint. We have a gams and all the trim- great air force, but why do they mings have given us a lift continually race and dive then- in some pretty grim times. planes over our hospitals? Rumor Hollywood epics. Said one, "What * * * has it they are showing off for a was it this Dr. Wassel did—discover We dont' know who this nurse they know. Do they realize an antidote?" "No," said her friend, particular piece of cheese- that I, with a lot of my bedmates, "I think it was a mairzy doat." contemplate diving under the near- • • • cake is. But she and a lot est bed when this happens? This GI Philosophy. It doesn't take of gals like her have is our time to relax; how can they long before a ring on the table de- adorned the insides of expect us to do so with a bunch velops into a circle under the eye. tanks, the cabs of trucks, of pilots showing off their "wares"? • • * Couldn't you explain this to them? Back-seat drivers claim that the the dashboards of jeeps, Yet the best of luck to them.— war has brought them to the fore. the cockpits of planes. K. S. B., F.A. In Wichita, Kan., 67 women bus Amid the smoke and stink drivers have set a safety record 25 and dead seriousness of * * * percent better than that of 157 To the Home Front men who operate buses for the war, she's linked us with the country we love—the Almost every day now we read of Wichita Transportation Co. • * * people at home leaving war jobs goofy, funny, wise-crack- for something more secure, some ETO Incident. Informed that the ing, happy country that job which will carry them through Flight Surgeon wasn't in at so early can produce the world's will be statues to the War Department may the post-war period. I don't have an hour on Sunday morning, the voice on the telephone persisted: best tanks, the best planes heroes and Memorial Day never award a citation. to tell you how bad GIs feel about "Then where can I reach him?" "At parades. But the record Congress may never con- this. You could expect rats to leave —the best cheesecake. a sinking ship, but why do Ameri- * * * won't be complete unless fer honors. cans on the home front desert When the history of this somehow, some way, we * * * Yanks on the fighting front an war is written, the infan- acknowledge the r61e of Only the guy who has hour before victory? I know these try, the cavalry, the En- cheesecake in winning the lived on Spam knows how people are a small minority, but gineers and all the rest will much he owes to cheese- I'd like to see them crack down on war. these people double quick.—S/Sgt. come in for their full share * * * cake, watermelon and of well-earned glory. There History may forget. The corn. E. Brinkman*. * * The Girls Are At It Have been reading WAC com- ments on the subject of wearing leggings and buying perfume. To the Army Nurse Corps, which ar- his quarters," replied the GI on rived in Paris only a few days after duty, "but if you value your life, the Germans left, such things sound you had better not call him there." very childish. Thanking his informant, the voice We outnumber the WACs by far, thoughtfully added, "I think I will DFC PHILIP WEINTRAUB, shielding him with his own body tion in Normandy's La Haye-du- but you can rest assured we spend risk it." The "Voice" was Col. Eu- Brooklyn regimental aid man, and applying first aid. A moment Puits sector. our time in a much better way. We gene Snavely, the group CO- who died in a fruitless attempt to later he, too, was struck by a bullet, At the time, Helms and his ob- are not seen on the streets because * * • save the life of a general, has been but he continued his efforts until server, 2/Lt. Charles Urbanski, of we are too busy doing a job no one Pardon us for mentioning it, but awarded the Silver Star posthu- other medics arrived. Chicago, were on one of those mis- else can do and because we have Cpl. Joe Paulson wants to know if mously. Weintraub died in a few hours; sions that make the infantry love been restricted to our respective you've heard the song about the On the night of July 9, the the general succumbed the next the Cubs—ferreting out deeply-en- posts until today. Scot truck driver who doesn't care general was critically wounded by day. trenched Jerry gun positions. Sud- There is not a single one of us, what truck he drives—entitled German -machine-gun fire while * * * denly four Mel09s swept out of a who have been working long hours "Annie Lorrie." leading an infantry company in For leading an ammunition cloud bank, shot off a portion of trying to erase the evidence of • • • an assault on a strongly-held ene- train to the front in time to the Cub's left wing and wounded German occupation and taking care A GI seeing his blind-date in the my position concealed in a hedge- repulse a German counter- Helms twice. of our sick and wounded soldiers, light for the first time remarked, row. attack, Col. James S. Luckett, Despite considerable loss of blood who would not be thrilled to just "I never forget a face—but this Weintraub ran across the field commanding the 12th Regiment Helms pullet} the Cub out of a see a perfume shop. We have been time I will make an exception." of fire to the wounded general, of the Fourth Infantry Division, spin, slithered it out of reach of told that Americans are not per- has been awarded the DSC. the Germans and landed the dam- mitted to purchase any merchand- Luckett is from Asheville, N. C. aged ship. ise, thereby preventing inflation. Private Breger * * * * * Being good soldiers, we follow our orders.—Army Nurse. I^HAPLAIN ERNEST SINFIELD, Front-line action for chaplains ^ of Flushing, N.Y., 2nd In- is routine these days, but when * * fantry Division chaplain, passes on they go into no-man's-land, this "Praise the Lord and Keep that's another story. Comment on Bonus Your Shovel Diggin'" story about Saying, "OK, boys, let's go,"* In your issue of Aug. 28, Sgt. a group of doughboys under mortar Chaplain John J. Mullins, of John H. Cox had his dander up on fire a few days ago. "How far Christ the King Catholic the subject of bonuses and thereby have you dug?" one GI asked an- Church, Tampa, Fla., jumped got into all the combat men's hair. other. "So far seven prayers and over hedgerows with a group Who ever told him front-line men I'm still at it," was the fox-hole of medics and collected nine had three square meals a day and a maker's reply casualties despite constant bed? If he calls a foxhole a bed * * * small-arms fire. and C and K rations a square meal, The world's champion tank he might try living on them a few buster, according to his com- months- Maybe he would like to rades in the 83rd Division, is TTERE'S a new angle for making transfer into the infantry. Pvt. Francis C. Mackay, of Los the wounded soldier from the Maybe he is fortunate enough to Angeles, who has five enpmy front a comfortable patient on his come from a .well-off family and tanks to his credit. For destroy- way to a clearing station. 1/Lt won't have anything to worry about ing three in one day he was John S. Calhoun, of Jacksonville. after he gets out. Doesn't he re- awarded the Silver Star. Fla., said he saw an ambulance re- alize a private's pay, by the time cently with a dozen pictures of pin- insurance and allotment are de- * * * up gals tacked on the vehicles in- ducted, is pretty slim? He suggested '-THE boys who fly the putt-putts, side walls. The drivers swear they the deduction of a dollar a month ■■■ as artillery observation Piper never failed to produce a whistle from each man's pay to provide for Cubs have been dubbed, are never or comment from the injured Joes. the bonus, unemployment benefit pictured in quite as spectacular a and educational grants. setting as the boys piloting the * * * I wonder if he were only thinking more glamorous craft, but they put The first time S/Sgt, Gilbert of himself when he said that. True the same amount of courage and E. Young, of Kings Mills, Ohio, enough, we are the government, but savvy into their flying. and Sgt. Austin D. Andrews, of) does he think we shall pay for all That's one reason they're giving Youngstown, Ohio, fired a ba- the war debt in a couple of years? an Air Medal to 1/Lt. Walter B- zooka in combat, they knocked The boys who died in action will Helms, Philadelphia pilot assigned out a Mark V tank—and they, never be repaid, and the ones who to the Eighth Infantry Division. waited patiently until the Get* come out all right deserve every con- *X©U say it keeps following you around since_y$S I* turned from your furlough V Although severely wounded, Helms man tank was just 35 yard* ^ sideration—Sgt. Virgil KM. flew himself out of a nasty situa- away before opening fire. Monday, Sept. 18, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Once Over Lightly Browns Clip Chisox; Tie for 2nd 1 By Charles Kiley —J Shed a Tear for Turfdom's Dethroned Queen (An intra-office "feud" was Tigers Divide ignited two weeks ago when a sports column in the London edi- To Share Spot tion of The Stars and Stripes named the Detroit Tigers to win the American League pennant. With St. Louis Charles Kiley, a staunch eastern booster now fighting the Battle of NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—LuKe Se- Times Square for S&S after two well's Browns climbed back ir.to a years in England and France, has second place tie with the Tigers, jumped aboard the Yankee band- half a game behind the front-run- wagon. "The Tigers," Kiley " says, ning Yankees, in the torrid Amer- "are a bunch of bums; the Yanks ican League stretch duel by trounc- can't miss." The following is Kiley's ing the White Sox, 5-1, last night, latest contribution to the battle of while the Bengals halved a twin- words.) feature with the Indians, taking the windup, 9-1, after the Tribe won the opener, 4-3, in 12 innings. NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—It's too The Yankees, who were idle yes- bad that Connie Mack has reached terday, face the Athletics twice to- ►the end of baseball's line. He was day, then move westward to finish a grand old man while he had it, their season on the road. Single but when he picks the Tigers games at Detroit Tuesday, Wed- to finish on top Horse bettors who depend on winning romps by favorites for their livelihood, went on the dole recently nesday and Thursday open the of the American barnstorming junket, after which ■League scram- when Warren Wright's Twilight Tear trailed Vienna of Belair Stable under the wire in the 65th running of the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga's meeting at Belmont Park, New York. It was the first defeat in 12 the Bombers will venture to Cleve- ble, it proves land, Chicago and St. Louis only one thing starts for the three-year-old miss, who went to the post a 1-20 choice. Vienna, ridden by Jimmy Stout, paid §18.20. Leon Haas was aboard Twilight Tear. Seven-hit pitching by Mickey —he's as addled Haefner at Washington last night as Brother carried the Senators to a 5-2 ver- Gene Graff. Hurricane to Whirl Again dict over the Red Sox and virtually This column Haegg Romps eliminated Boston from the flag always had chase. Clem great respect Dreisewerd was Connie Mack for the opinion 22 Veterans Establish Tulsa To Easy Win the victim as of Mr. McGilli- the Bosox plun- cuddy, but it appears as though STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17.—Gunder ged three and a his task of holding up the Athle- As Nation's No. 1 Grid Team half games in tics so long has taken its toll. His "The Wonder" Haegg, Sweden's fleet fireman, outfooted Viljo Heind arrears of the selection of the Bengals over the Yanks. Yanks was a kiss of death for Steve TULSA, Sept. 17.—Observers already have begun to acclaim Coach of Finland by 200 yards at Malmoe, Sweden, last night in a 3,000-meter Myril Hoag's O'Neill's stumblebums in view of Henry Frnka's Tulsa eleven as the greatest in the school's history. And 12th inning two- Dizzy Trout losing two straight that's saying a lot because the Golden Hurricane has played in three grind, but failed to approach record time. bagger gave since Connie went out on a limb bowl games in as many years—Sun Bowl in 1941, Sugar Bowl in '42 Steve G?omek for Detroit. And when the Bronx and '43. Haegg was clocked in the slow time of 8:09.8. His effort was 8.6 the nod over Bombers get finished with Trout From the amazing 4-F club (all Tulsa's key men are 4-F) that Dizzy Trout in this week, he'll be dizzier than a went through last year's schedule —^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ seconds slower than Gunder's listed world record, established during the Mickey Haefner the e a r i y af- drunken sailor on shore leave. undefeated, only to lose a 20-18 fair at Cleve- bowl thriller to Georgia Tech, summer when he showed his heels If Trout's collapse is keeping to Arne Anderson, his perennial land, but Hal Newhouser saved the Brother Graff awake nights in Gay Frnka has 22 veterans returning. Major League day by cruising to his 25th triumph The holdovers are headed by running opponent. Andersson did Paree, here's more black coffee for iri the finale. The Tigers belted him. Going into their weekend Felto Prewitt, a rugged, wily cen- not compete in last night's event. It was Haegg's first appearance Mel Harder, Ray Poat, Joe Heving series with the futile athletes of ter who is expected to put Tulsa Standings on the Ail-American grid map this on the cinders since a brief vaca- and Paul Calvert for 19 safe blows, •-aforementioned Mr. Mack, the tion had been ordered by his phy- including five by Roger Cramer, in Yanks were breezing on the follow- season. What's more, Tulsa corraled American League the second game. Bobby Jack Stuart, Oklahoma's sician. ing streaks : Cleveland 4-1; Detroit 3-9 (first game, A triple by Mike Kreevich in the Ossie Grimes had hit safely in brilliant prep triple-threater of 12 innings). St. Louis 6; Chicago 1 (night). . first inning ignited a four-run ten straight games, George. "Snuf- 1943, and great things are expected Washington 5; Boston 2 (night). of the youngster even though he'll Minor League splurge and the Browns had little fy" Stirnweiss in nine and Mike New York-Philadelpia, .not scheduled. trouble staying ahead of the Chisox Garbark in seven. Garbark also be traveling in faster company. W. L. Pet. G.B. With a prospective powerhouse New York 76 61 .555 Standings the rest of the way. Denny Gale- has caught the last 26 to boost the Detroit 76 62 .551 'A house was the victor over Orval Gotham stock. Mel Queen had like that, it's little wonder Frnka St. Louis 76 62 .551 'A Grove, who suffered his 13 tn re- pitched four consecutive triumphs, is not. pessimistic about the 1944 Boston 73 65 .529 VA football campaign. However, other Cleveland 66 73 .475 n Playoffs versal. Hank Borowy had fashioned three Philadelphia.... 64 75 .460 13 Cards Shake Slump clubs in the sector, including the Chicago 63 75 .457 and Floyd Bevens two since coming 13% American Association In the National League, the from Newark with a string of 11 in Bix Six teams, don't share Frnka's Washington 59 80 .424 18 Louisville 4, Milwaukee 2. a row. elation—they'll have to trade National League Milwaukee 5*. Louisville 0. Cardinals snapped their losing touchdowns with the Hurricane. (Series tied, 1-1.) streak at five straight by capitaliz- With a spurt like that, who can New York 8-3; Philadelphia 3-7 (first Toledo 7, St. Paul 3. ing on three unearned runs to vic- beat "us"? Certainly not the Tigers. game, completion of July 16 game). Toledo 10, St. Paul 7. Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 3 (night. 10 (Toledo leads series, 2-0.) timize the Cubs, 3-2, after the * • • SONNENBERG DIES innings). Bruins captured the early test, 2-1. ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Gus Chicago 2-2; St. Louis 1-3. International League DID YOU KNOW.—That sports Brooklyn-Boston, postponed. Toronto at Newark and Buffalo at Bal- Errors by Stan Hack and Hy Van- programs at West Point and Anna- Sonnenberg, former Ail-American W. L. Pet. G.B. timore, postponed. denberg and a two-base hit on a polis do not cost taxpayers a flat tackle at Dartmouth and later St. Louis 96 42 .696 ... Southern Association misjudged fly enabled Ted Wilks world's heavyweight wrestling Pittsburgh 81 55 .596 14 franc or plugged sixpence? They Cincinnati 76 59 .563 18% Memphis 9, Nashville 2. to register his 16th victory in the are financed solely through civilian champion, died at the Bethesda Chicago 63 73 .463 32 Memphis 5, Nashville 4. nightcap, while Bob Chipman out- (Md.) Naval Hospital of leukemia. New York 63 73 .463 32 (Memphis leads series, 2-0.) pitched Mort Cooper in the opener. organizations known as the Army Eastern League "Sonny" was credited with in- Brooklyn 56 80 .412 39 Two runs in the tenth by the Athletic Asociation and the Navy Boston 55 80 .407 39% TJtica at Hartford and Albany at Bing- Athletic Association. troducing the flying tackle. Philadelphia.... 53 81 .3.96 41 hampton, postponed. Reds produced a 5-3 decision over the Pirates last night and pre- sented Bucky Walters with his 21st Li'l Abner By Courtesy of United Features. By Al Capp success of the year. Xavier Res- cigno, replacing Nick Strincevich tOt-E MAN MOSE COULD Jg2g NOT TALK ON ACCOUNT HE. OLE MAN MOSE, in the tenth, was the victim. Jim COT TM' LEAPIN' LARYN-JEET-US Russell homered for the Redlegs -BUT HE WRIT IT ALL DOWN in the sixth. ON THrS PIECE O* F*VPE«- ^ rHEM WONDIFUL WORDS O' K The Giants played one inning to ADVICE THET WILL SAVE ME K rack up an _8-3 victory over the I COME SADIE HAWKINS DAY. Phillies in completing their sus- \ 'LEVENTH//- pended game of July 16, but drop- ped the regularly-scheduled tilt, 7-3, as Ken Raffensberger spun a five-hitter. A homer by Buster Adams led Philadelphia's assault on Harry Feldman.

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Lack of Cigarets Chicago Host Fierce Dueling Blamed on Hoarders To Veterans of NEW YORK, Sept. 17. — "Hoardh civilians," who alleg- For Warsaw edly have stocked enough cigar- Last Two Wars ettes to last for the duration, The battle of Warsaw increased were blamed by officials of five CHICAGO, Sept. 17. — Young,, in fury yesterday as Russo-Polish large cigarette firms today for newly-discharged veterans of World the current shortage of smokes and German forces completed their War II mingled with bald and in America. They added that portly World War I veterans here' third day of heavy artillery dueling the shortage probably would end today as the American Legion across the Vistula River, separat- with the war in Europe. prepared for the opening of its ing the Polish capital and suburban Pointing out that cigarette annual convention tomorrow. Praga. production at present was only National Commander Warren H. Rooftop observers on both sides 15 percent below normal "plenty Atherton predicted that a proposal were pinpointing targets and ma- to go around," the officials also to ask Congress to amend the chine guns kept up a steady stream blamed "chain-smoking because Legion's incorporation act to permit of fire on the Aleksandrowski bridge, of alleged war nerves, and not immediate enrollment of men now leading from Praga into the heart smoking cigarettes down to the in service would be "one of the of Warsaw. One of the three main last puff." most closely debated issues." spans connecting the two cities, this Regarding the establishment of bridge was said to be still intact. new groups by current veterans, Polish patriots inside the be- Atherton said: leaguered capital kept up their Scores Dewey "A number of organizations may harrassing activity against the Ger- This German photo, received through a neutral source, purports to be formed. It will be the sentiment jfe mans, and Gen. Bor, leader of the show a Hungarian mortar crew eating on a Dniester bridgehead. of this organization to co-operate * resistance forces, said Soviet planes Since the picture was taken the Russians have swept over the river onDemoblssue with them, but most Legion mem- had dropped arms and food every and crashed into Hungarian-held Transylvania. day since Wednesday. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 17. bers would prefer to see its ideals Other Russian forces were re- —Assailing as "reckless and base- advanced by new blood rather than have it become a last man's club.*^ ported fighting their way toward less" a charge by Gov. Thomas E. Hungary after breaking out into Nazis Holding Out in Ports Delegates are expected to discuss open country from the Transyl- Dewey that the Roosevelt Adminis- universal military training. Ather- vanian Alps. tration did not intend to demobilize ton said he personally favored a Russian troops Saturday entered On Chan n elBlastedbyPlanes the'armed forces as quickly as pos- blending of military instruction Sofia, capital of Bulgaria. sible, Secretary of the Interior with academic subjects in a year Harold L. Ickes said here, that he of compulsory training for youths Typhoons and Spitfires of the Second Tactical Air Force Tito's Men Make Landings found it disturbing that the GOP 18-22. yesterday blasted the Nazi-held Channel ports of Calais, candidate "has stooped to pluck the Landing operations on the central heartstrings of every American $2,000,000 STORM DAMAGE Dalmatian islands have been carried Boulogne, Dunkirk and Cap Gris Nez", while Italian-based mother, wife, sweetheart and NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Damage out by units of the 26th Division heavy bombers hammered rail yards and oil refineries in child... with a charge as false as caused by last week's hurricane was of Marshal Tito's Jugoslavian Par- any ever promulgated by Goebbels." estimated at $2,000,000, while the tisans, Tito's headquarters announ- Budapest in twin attacks on Hitler's dwindling defenses. Ickes said that Dewey quoted still-incomplete death toll was ced yesterday. British planes sent thousands of Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, draft placed at 18. The famous Steel bombs screaming down on the chief, and added: "Whatever Gen. and Million Dollar piers at Atlantic Oklahoma Town Hershey, who is a Republican, may City, N.J., were severely damaged. famed Casino at Dunkirk and one have said, he was not speaking for Yanks Pierce Plans Factory to squadron strafed four merchant the Administration." MEMO FOR JEEP ADDICTS ships in the harbor of Terneuzen, DES MOIN3S, la., Sept. 17.—If Assure Vets Jobs north of Ghent. Naval officials you plan to own a jeep after the Siegfried Line announced at least one ship sunk war, be prepared to pay about $15 BRISTOW, Okla., Sept. 17—This and three left afire. AirborneArmy for a license, buy three flares and (Continued from Page 1) community, determined that its re- More than 500 bombers from equip it with reflectors—that is, east of Luxemburg, at Echternach turning veterans will have jobs, has Italy raided the oil refineries of the if you plan to drive in Iowa. The and Bollendorf. Advances to a started a box factory run entirely Hungarian capital. No enemy air- Invades North state has classified the jeep as a point about one mile insid-3 Ger- by veterans. craft challenged the Allied planes. commercial vehicle, which must many were made in this sector. It was started in March but (Continued from Page 1) comply with rules governing trucks. In the Brittany peninsula, the burned down Aug. 12; however, H. tresses on enemy ack-ack positions battle for Brest was in its final T. Wolfe, chairman of the Bristow and a RAF night attack on Dutch COOPER HEARING SEPT. 29 ^ stages, with U.S. infantrymen en- Re-employment Committee, said it British, Yanks airfields. As a result, the great sky SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 17.—-% gaged in street-to-street fighting. would be rebuilt in October. train encountered practically no Jackie Cooper, 21-year-old movie The Seventh Army in south- When fire struck, the plant had Luftwaffe opposition and very little actor, now in a Navy V12 training eastern France threatened German orders for 50,000 cases for soft PushOn inltaly flak. unit at Notre Dame University, and drinks. The boxes are made from three other defendants will be ar- forces fighting Allied troops in Broadcast to Dutch Italy by capturing Modane, a cottonwood lumber grown in this American troops last night were raigned September 29 on charges French rail junction three miles area. hammering out wide approaches to A member of Gen. Eisenhower's of contributing to the delinquency from the Italian northwest frontier. Futa Pass, 40 miles south of Bo- staff, in a broadcast to the Dutch of minors, Prosecutor Arthur F. Modane is 45 miles from Turin, More Whisky in 1945, logna, while British forces struck people, told Netherlanders south of Scheer announced. one of the communications and within three miles of Rimini, on the rivers Lek and Rlr'ne to exert industrial centers of northern Italy. Less Beer, Says WPB the Adriatic coast, Fifth Army one last supreme effort and give Heading for the Belfort gap, headquarters announced. full assistance to Allied and Dutch MPs Nab Troops Selling' other Seventh Army columns were WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. — Ad- The road to Rimini was still fcrces. Supplies to " Parisians opposing a conglomerate German ditional beverage alcohol will be blocked by massed enemy tanks, A Reuter dispatch yesterday sug- gested that some artillery possibly army, composed of naval units, produced in America soon, although but Eighth Army troops enlarged (Continued from Page 1) labor battalions and miscellaneous the nation's beer supply will be their bridgeheads over the Marano was dropped with the troops. It troops evacuated from the southern smaller next year unless malt pro- River and resistance noticeably was said that it would be no prob- ness before it reached serious pro- coast of France. duction is expanded, WPB an- weakened near Ospedaletto, 4 1/2 lem to drop 75mm. howitzers, portions. Field Marshal Montgomery, 21st nounced yesterday. miles inland. especially if they were dismantled. Reiterating that Paris is off Army Group commander, told his limits to all troops not in the city troops in a special message last on official business, Seine Section night that nearly 400,000 Germans headquarters emphasized that or- had been captured by Allied forces ganization liberty passes to the and that "there are many more to 20,000 Nazis in Mass Surrender to Yanks French capital were not valid. be collected from those ports in Unit commanders issuing such Brittany and the Pas de Calais passes to Paris will be subject to which are still holding out." (Continued from Page 1) even though obviously puzzled at ficer of equal rank be with the disciplinary action, the announce- the paradox. Americans as a hostage. "Our American allies are fighting was a German general willing to ment said. on German soil in many places and Agreement Reached , One of the oddest things in this In addition to preventing un- discuss peace terms if there were amazing setup was the fact that very soon we shall all be there," Americans in the vicinity. Magill authorized entries through use of They drove to Issoudun and there, French, in charge of the German road blocks, MPs are patroling he said. "No human endeavor can met Elster and began negotiations. at the prefecture, an agreement now prevent the complete and utter command post, was treated with Paris streets, checking the identity To preserve his honor, Elster re- was reached, whereby Lt. Col. Jules the courtesy due an officer of defeat of Germany's armed forces." quested of Magill that the latter and papers of all officers and en- K. French, of Merrified, Va., of the higher rank because he was actu- listed men. have two battalions of Americans 83rd Infantry, went to the German ally the commandant. Junior offi- cross the Loire, where a token bat- Although promising that AWOLS