New York London Edition Paris Daily German Lesson Daily French. Lesson Flier oben, dort unten L'Ascenseur ne marche pas Here oben. dohrt oonten TMr U v.,:ti,.„_ . RIPES Lass-on-sir nub marsh pah Up here, down there Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed forces in the European Theater of Operations The elevator is out of order VOL. 5 No. 27-1d. SATURDAY, Dec. 2, 1944 3rd Reaches Saar in the North The Sky Was-Filled With Flak and Death Holds 8-Mile Line On Water Barrier To Industrial Basin Third Army tanks and doughboys yesterday reached the Saar River along ad eight-mile front north and south of Merzig—which is on the east bank— as the 10th Armored and the 90th Divisions pushed forward to the water barrier defending the War-industrial Saar Basin. Tanks of the 10th, after clearing three villages on-the-way. got to the river opposite 'Mehzig just in time to see the bridge exploded by the retreating foe. Other units of this division reached the Saar three miles northwest of Merzig. Two miles to the south of Merzig. 90th doughboys fought their way into the town of Fremersdorf. Dispatches said that German fire-power around Merzig, greater than any met in the assaults on Metz, was believed to come from mobile artillery and Siegfried forts. Troops of the 95th Division. moving on a two-mile front, gained more than a Nazi Artnies mile and took up positions two miles west of Saarlautern. At several places Yanks on the seven-mile hill line arced around Now in West Saarlautern could look down into the city. Dispatches previously have reported Top D-Day's Third Army crossings of the Saar at a point about 26 miles south of Saar- By Roger Greene brueeken, well below the sector where Associated Press Corr6nendent the other Third Army doughboys now 2IST ARMY GROUP 'HEAD- stand. A report last Sunday said the QUARTERS. Dec. I—The Germans now Fourth Armored Division had gone as have more troops massed on the Western far as seven miles beyond the Saar, with- Front against the British and Americans out specifying the exact location. Out of the Woods at Hurtgen than they had on D-Day, an Army On the Seventh Army front, south of spokesman declared today, but the enemy the Third Army zone. Lt. Gen. Alexander hopes of stopping the Allied drive are M. Patch's troops were reported to have pinned on the "inexpendable panzer divisions." The Forest Was Grim, German forces facing the Allied armies Miles now are of far inferior quality than five 10 months ago, even though more numerous. Merzig And So Was the Battle Enemy strategy appears to be based on this threefold plan : 2..\P'`‘" By Russell Jones 1—Rigid economy of troop expendi- riou Lebach Stars and Strips Staff Writer ture. 2—To hold a tough screen against any Nerkirchea HURTGEN FOREST, Germany, Dec. 1—The battle of the Hurtgen Allied move which would imperil the sr). et7 Forest is just about over. GIs who have struggled for days in the darkness great industrial Ruhr. ogoatt of the impenetrable thicket of trees and undergrowth are emerging at last 3—To block the Allied assault farther into the open where they cr see the enemy they have pried from some of the south. t •:( strongest defenses of this line. Panzers Key to German Fate V;;;;; % '-'- Yesterday nue unit eleatvd the edge of the forest i.c-ai ficrhardt. southeast The ensmy bus a series of "expend- vt Derichweilcr, and on the south ocher able" divisions strong along the vast val units swung below above and into Western Front which the Nazi command 1, Crossati. is prepal.ed to sacrifice. Then in close Remerin Another Jap reserve there are the inexpendable pan- Behind these outfits there lies More zers, on whom "depends the ultimate fate ,Sarregu than 50 square miles of land solidly of Germany." ophahge covered with pine and fir. It is in these Convoy Blasted Disclosing that the Germans had been Sarre woods that the most direct route to the organizing Volk Grenadier divisions since Union Roer River lies. GEN. MoicARTHUR'S HQ. Philip- Sept. I. the spokesman predicted that The forest was sewn with thousands of pines. Dec. 1 tAP)—A Japanese convoy these probably would increase in number - anti-tank and anti-personnel mines criss- of four ships, presumably loaded with during the winter and early spring. They ,11ieuze V.A. Arlin Air Force Photos crossed with wire and tangled with booby supplies and reinforcements for the lap were described as a mixture of grceh and • LWR U.S. heavies which hit Nazi oil plants traps. garrison on Leyte, was destroyed Wednes- experienced veterans, including many ex- Thursday met a terrific barrage of flak The Americans fought under the worst day night. a communique announced soldiers called from German war indus- broken through the German defenses in which accounted for.56 bombers and 30 conditions of the campaign, conditions today. tries, plus convalescents and foreigners. the woods southwest of Hagenau, ten escorting fighters. Top photo shows the which World War I veterans said made The convoy. bound for Ormoc, was the They fight hard to begin with. but miles from the Reich border, and were intensity of the ack-ack tire, with Forts, the Argonne Forest seem a picnic. k second knocked out this week. It included eventually break down through lack of battling in the town's outskirts. contrails streaming behind, surrounded was exclusively an infantry affair. Tanks a 9,000-ton transport and three small training. Designed chiefly for static use, German reports said the Americans by smudgy flak bursts. One bomber and TDs and direct-fire weapons just freighters which • were all sunk_ A their transport consists only of bicycles were still striking south of Strasbourg in goes tip in a cloud of white smoke. couldn't get through. Supply was freighter and a destroyer were set ou fire. and horse-drawn vehicles. a move to link up with French pushing Below, another Fort goes down with fuel such that front-line troops of one Headquarters estimated the total of It was estimated that Hitler now had northward From Mulhouse. tanks blazing. battalion spent six days in waterlogged enemy casualties in seven reinforcement probably -about 6,000,000 troops to fight On the extreme southern front French holes without bedrolls. Casualties were attempts at more than 26,000. the battle for the Reich, including about troops moved into the Rhine town of heavy because of shoe mines so sensitive 1,400,000 really fit men between 19 and Hueningen after the Germans withdrew Release Data that probing with bayonets sets them off. Torn mies Paid a Yisit by Ike 46. across the river Thursday night. Against these tremendous odds the WITH BRITISH SECOND ARMY, Although Germany has been "manu- The slugging match continued on the U.S. "Keystone" or 211th Division pitted Nov. 30 (delayed) (AP)—Driving and facturing" divisions continuously for First and Ninth Army fronts, where the On New P51 its infantry weapons and superior sloshing through the clinging mud of the nearly six months, it is clear that she is Germans were building up their defenses artillery, its superb physical condition— British front in Holland. Gen. Eisen- losing more than she is providing in the along the east bank of the Roer to hold INGLEWOOD, Cal., Dec. 1 ,;(UP)— which kept immersion and pneumonia bower chatted and joked with Tommies suicidal campaign to savF the Reich. The up (he Americans' eastward advance. Performance .figures of a new Mustang casualties at a minimum—and its un- today. it was the Supreme Commander's Germans have been losing six divisions While the First concentrated on erasing fighter plane were disclosed today by the matched spirit. The division went through first visit with the British troops since a week on all fronts in recent operations, resistance in Inden, and drove toward North 'American Aircraft Corp. The because it would not be stopped. before D-Day. it was revealed. Gcy and Brandenberg, southwest of company revealed that its fighter was Duren, the Ninth was clearing up in capable of 450 mph in level flight, had Lindem and Weitz and strengthening a ceiling exceeding 40,000 feet and a positions on. the Roer's west bank. The range of 2,000 miles. Food• for the Maw of• • War Piles Into Antwerp I Germans counter-attacked at Flossdorf, Alleged to he the world's fastest- ANTWERP. Dec. 1—This place was swarming today farther south. propeled tighter. the new P51 holds the In Holland, where Gen. Eisenhower U.S. transcontinental record, having flown with GIs, in steel helmets and Belgians in wooden shoes. conferred Thursday night with Gen. Miles from Los Angeles to Ncw York in six They were working side by side, soldiers and civilians, Dempsey, British Second Army chief, the hours 31 minutes. unloading convoys of U.S. and British merchant ships. Tommies cleared up a small enemy pocket west of the Maas, blowing up a castle Bomber Loss Cut by 16 All along the 30 miles of concrete- docks that make Antwerp the world's third largest port—Europe's second •in which some fanatical Nazis had held White adverse weather grounded Eighth out. Air. Force aircraft yesterday, later reports —they were piling up supplies. Antwerp was free again. 'of Thursday's large-scale operation an. Antwerp was busy. Pounced that 16 bombers and 17 fighters, Antwerp has been in full use as an Allied port for previously reported lost, were safe. This several days—censorship has only now let the story be Reds 90 Miles leaves 40 heavies'and 13 pursuits missing, told. Capt. J. C. Van de Carr. of Norman, Okla., rank- which eight fighters were believed safe in friendly territory. ing U.S. naval officer here, explained today how ,Froin Austria Meanwhile, it was disclosed that the important an Allied victory its capture was. Brenner Pass—the Germans' main route "This cuts a 500-mile truck haul to a 100-mile train MOSCOW, Dec. I (API—Combihed from Italy to Germany—was cut a month ride," he said. The supplies piling up on the docks don't Russian and Jugoslav forces today drove ago by Allied bombers and that continu- stay there long. They move quickly onto U.S. Army their salient on the west bank of the ing raids had kept it impassible by trains. Danube forward, a little more than 90 Transportation Corps freight trains. They move quickly miles from Austria. And the fierce battle toward the front. Antwerp is closer to the front than fa! Miskolc, anchor of the German de- Fall Dies; Was Involved any other Allied port. The fighting is only same 60 fenses in northeastern Hungary, was. In Teapot Dome Scandal miles from here. resumed. First U.S. Liberty ship to sail into the port—with the Gen. Tolbukhin's vanguards tilot stif- EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 1—Albert B. fened German resistance west of Pecs, in Fall, 83, secretary of interior in President first convoy to clear it. once the 75 miles of the Scheldt southern Hungary, but prospects appeared Harding's administration, died here River that winds its way into the horseshoe waterway bright for relatively rapid progress as far yesterday. that forms the port had been swept free of mines—was as Lake Balaton, which the Germans are He lost his fortune after the Teapot relying upon as a defense barrier before the James B. Weaver, with Capt. Jim Sweeney, of Dutch folk welcome first minesweeper sailing Scheldt estuary. Dome exposure and in 1929 served ten Drexel, Pa., at the helm. It was a great day for. him. Austria. months in New Mexico State peniten- greeted it. Two sailors in a rain-soaked jeep greeted Tolbukhin's offensive seemed likely to tiary after being convicted of 'accepting One of his three sons was fighting on the northern front, provide the earliest fulfilment of Russian a $100,000 bribe while in the Cabinet and the captain was eager to get supplies to him. the Weaver. But all along the river bank were smiling, predictions that Germany's vital centers for leasing Elk Hills (Cal.) naval oil re- First freighter actually to clear the docks was the British waving Belgians. They greeted the whole convoy. would be attacked from another direction serve to a one-time prospecting partner. FortCataraqui. It brokeouta big Belgian flag. The Mayor • (Continued on page 4) than East Prussia, Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, Dec. 2, 1944

TILE STARS AND STRIPES Printed at The Times Publfshine Coansanv, Ltd. for U.S.: Armed forces, order austriva of The Special Service Dllislon ETOUSA, --Wash 01644 QM Major Traces Some of the Smokes Contents passed by the U.S. Army and Navy I censors: subscription 26 skillings per year plus s The cigarette shortage has aroused a and the "brass" are responsible for it.- already described the added cost of lives DM tame. ETO edition. Entered as second clas Conversation in the ETO. "Say, matter Mar. 15 1943. at the port OffUTe, New storm of controversy among GM in the A non-smoker, Maj., QMC. at the lack of munitions. York, N.Y„ under the Art of Mar, 3, 1379. All Sarge, did you file any income tax this material appearing In 11,14 pnblication has been U.K. Here are some representative What encouragement to the 'Germans written and edited by uniformed members 01 the year?" "No! How can they tell how Nov. 23, 1944 to hear us raise a greater drive for Army and Na VP except where swteti mat a the crap games are going?" letters received by The Stars and Stripes; Dear Stars and Stripes, civilian or other outside source Lc being quoted. cigarettes than the metal to beat them Editorial office-The Time, Printing House Su., space limitations prevent printing any Three months ago this hospital changed with.-T/5 Barnet Jaffe, Gen. Hosp. London EC4 (Tel. Ceo. 20003. Business and A battalion commander received a more here. over from taking care of Yanks to circulation offices-17 [limey Brook St., London, report that two of his men who had gone WI (Tel. ETOUSA 5416). Distract Offices: wounded Krauts. Next the prisoners Nov. 21. 1944 on pass to an on-limits town had missed Bedford 21134: Swindon 3424; Sutton Coldfleid Nov. 22, 1944 were given the same rations that we Dear-Stars and Stripes, -Four Oaks 268. the track for the return ride. The report Dear Stars and Stripes, receive. Next came the banning of It seems there are a lot of complaints:1 Vol. 5, No. 27, December 2, 1944 asked what would the punishment be. cigarette sales. When told that it was "Where are the cigarettes?" I know about the shortage of cigarettes. Why in L "What should I do;" was the reply, "take for the fighters, not a gripe 'was heard. the hell shouldn't there he? The popula- the caramels out of their K-rations?" where some of them go. But this is the pay-off. Almost half tion is nearly the same! We produce R BAG • * * First, we know British dock laborers the men on this post are out of smokes, plenty of tobaccb! We really can't Six dogfaces somewhere in Germany are stealing us blind, and nothing is done and on the wards there are cigarettes blame it on labor shortage! issue this special invitation to GIs who to stop it. Second, many cigarettes galore-but for Nazis, not for Americans. Just where the bell are the cigarettes? SLOW tr don't know where to go for New Year's donated to troops are distributed through On no ward is there less than 15 cartons Or should we have them explain the sugar 1 OUT HERE- Special Service officers and chaplains, and Now I have no cigarettes; my buddies, shortage of 1917-1918?-.4 GI from the we know they give them to friends or my wife, and my daddy have none. But front lines, hospitalized. ‘kcol VAR! 7\-.. keep them. Third, there are innumerable the Nazis? Pardon me while I grind civilians working for U.S. forces, and my teeth.-A Disgusted Medic, Sih. Hosp. Nov. 24, 1944 we know they buy our cigarettes. Fourth, Dear Stars and Stripes, NOTE: Lack of space forces us to limit Nov. 23, 1944 all letters published to not more than 200 many 'British troops stationed at or near After arriving from France, and badly Dear Stars and Stripes, in need of smokes, I was confronted in words.-Ed. U.S. camps are allowed to buy U.S. cigarettes and their own British allow- While waiting to debark from a hospital the PX with two gentlemen-one a major, Robots Against Germany ance, too. Fifth, we know the Army sup- train in France I 'watched the Kraut PWs U.S., and the other a captain, English. loading cars. 1 was informed by one of Nov. 23, 1944 plies the Red Cross, the . Navy, other U.S. The major was buying one month's rations the medical officers in charge that the for the captain.-Cpl. Herber( if.. Cpl. Dear Stars and Stripes, agencies, including the Embassy and War Shipping Administration ships, whose Huns get their complete cigarette ration Frank E. In your publication of Nov. 23 there every week, only they don't have to pay appeared two articles, on page 8., that. in slop chests -bulge with cigarettes all be- cause ELM. Customs won't open them up. for them. Nov. 28, 1944 a sense contradicted themselves. The first And to top it all, one of the guards tells Dear Stars and Stripes, As a supply officer, having seen what one stated that our Army Has a Robot ijEll45t us that they haven't had rations for two We've learned how to get around this. has been "frozen" in depots, I believe the Bomb to Use If Needed. The second weeks. That, my friend, smells bad! cigarette situation that seems to he slow- claimed that a plea for shells was made "Muss" has hit the GI below the belt. eve. "Wine and dine on the Siegfried -Pvt. R. L. Birge, ing down operations in the ETO.. In the ' by the President and informed us that If we are short of tobacco, it is because center of our ward there is a cardboard American soldiers' lives were being lost Line. Visit the Club Cologne on the we have bad supply officers-at the top- beautiful Rhine. Big '88' piece band and Nov. 21, 1944 box, containing our cigarette and cigar due to an inadequate supply of shells. poor planning, or better, bad logistics. Dear Stars and Stripes, that famous singer 'Screaming Mimi.' butts, with the following inscription on. , Since our boys are dying in France As a noncombat officer, I resent the Come one, come all-the mortar merrier." When Gen. Eisenhower cries "More its side. "Patients Please Notice-Deposit because of improper artillery support, it * * * discrimination shown toward my troops shells," certain individuals cry "More Butts 'for Ward Boys and Nurses Here." seems that at this crucial period we Things are still crowded on the home and officers, not only in cigarettes. Such cigarettes." It won't kill any of us to Yours for fewer gripes in the B Bag.- should utilize all of the lethal mechanical front. As one guy quipped, "I finally discrimination is a bad morale builder, curtail smoking, but Eisenhower has Patients of Ward 15, Gen. Hosp.. devices at our disposal to pulverize the got a room at the hotel. I won't tell you enemy and grind him to dust, The where I slept-but the clerk gave me a buzz-bomb is merely a form of artillery, nickel instead of a key." ' It requires liftlasimagination to visualize * * the devastating effect of thousands of A sadsack who had been without Printer s Ink First Love of Rogers, Jr. buzz-bombs being launched against Hun- cigarettes for days and days and days land from France or England, and con- stopped by a joint to cure his misery with ventional bombers who, after disposing a few beers-but had to leave when the Humorist's Son, Now With 7th Armored, Hopes to Return to Congress, Too of their flying bomb, can proceed to orchestra kept playing "Smoke gets in sized. Young Will stepped down off the another distant target. Sometimes By Edward Roberts sold on this war. We gotta win. we your eyes." bed abruptly and 'put on his pants. He gotta beat them over the head.". American lives are lost because we are • * • * Untied Press Correspondent too humane for our own good. The is still the same- gangly, earnest young It's a tough job to find Rogers these Observation. The original gold diggers WITH THE SEVENTH ARMORED days. He leads an armored reconnais- present situation in France is an outstand- man as when he came to Washington- were forty-niners. Most of the modern DIVISION, Dec. 1 (UP)-Lt. Will sance platoon that was in the foreground ing example. We now have a need for ones are thirty-sixes. the little-known son of a famous such a weapon. so let's use it to the best Rogers Jr. stood upright on a broken- of a tank advance through France, across * humorist-fathei: Brit five months of war Belgium, finally winding up in Holland of our ability.-M15g1. William Post Food facts. The Arab really gets into, doWn -bed, his shirt tail hung down over Kerigan, Fighter Sq. his khaki long johns, his pants in One out- haven't changed him much, except that on the right flank of the Nijmegen salient. a lather about American field rations, if a "Up there we had quite a job of hold- scene witnessed by Lt. C. A. McEver is stretched hand. ing a little stretch of a canal while a Flying Mail to the U.K. typical. "In French Morocco," McEver "You know, I think maybe I'd like to Nov. 25, 1944 German outfit held the other side." he reports, "I watched an Arab on a back to Congress sothe day," he said. said. "It was wet, cold and miserable, Stars and Stripes, go - Dear • street car eating a K-ration biscuit sand- but otherwise it wasn't too bad, Our That- idea of flying the mail into the wich-with a tube of American shaving "But I know for sure I'm going back to U.K. by "old civilian pilots" sure is super. my paper-The Beverly Hills Citizen, machine-gunners shot at some. Germans cream as the spread." and they positively got one cow and one Hats off to the boys in the infantry who * * * "That's what I want really," he empha- horse." made the suggestion. There are others, Incidental information. The driver of Now his job is mostly conveying too, who may not be ace combat pilots, a garbage truck at a naval base over here, colonels to the front and back. but sure can "carry the mail." Many with a nice sense of propriety, has named good boys with slight defects have been his vehicle -Thinky.'' 8th AF Music Night While we talked about his brier career made ground-hogs, and TM sure this in Congress, he looked up from lacing his would brighten up their opportunities. A pridate was taking a nap in the back Nets 100 for. PWS shoes to remark, "That was a stinking I'm not an oldtimcr by a long shot, but of an .officer's club at an ETO airfield soldier-vote bill we passed, 1 used to tell John Rankin ( I think my previous training may lend one afternoon when he was awakened More than £100 in voluntary contribu- -Democrat from these boys a hand in doing a fine job. by a none too gentle shove. tions for the Allied prisoners of war Mississippi) that soldiers from Mississippi fund was raised at Eighth Air Force wouldn't be able to vote. He wouldn't so you can count me in.-A Pk AC, Service Command's carnival of music believe me. I was soldier-vote officer in Brass Tacks on. Griping recently held at the Granada theater in my outfit and I had to tell two Mississippi Bedford, Beds. boys they couldn't vote. Less than ten Nov. 24, 1944 Maj. Glenn Miller was guest leader per cent of my outfit voted, in fact." Dear Stars and Stripes, of four GI dance bands. Comedy Gripe! Gripe! and Gripe! That's all we hear from guys who found a home sketches by enlisted personnel were pre- in the Army. Guys who are wise don't sented. Cpl. Ruby Newell, acclaimed Jets Make Fort a Sieve, say much, so let's keep some of this "the prettiest WAC in the U.K." in a foolish griping to ourselves and not let contest spoosored by The Stars and But It Bombs. Returns the world know about it. Stripes, was introduced. 305TH BOMB GROUP, Dec. 1- People from all countries read our While on a mission to Leipzig. the Stars and Stripes, and this griping makes Fortress flown by Lt. Charles J. Lavei- some of us feel pretty small. If you War Paint Is the Name Lt. Will Rogers Jr. diere was attacked by Nazi jet planes. come right down to brass tacks, an By the time the enemy fighters had American soldier has nothing to gripe For U.S. Lipsticks his face is not so young looking. it is pulled away, the BI7's speed had been about in times like these, so let's be a cut to 135 miles an hour, the ball- broader and grimmer. real . Amerieaa • soldier and do less Still in a daze, lie demanded, "Who are CHICAGO. Dec. 1 (AP)-The U.S. turret gunner knocked from his turret griping!-Eddie,and the boys in Bar- you?" "I'm the lieutenant in charge of is shipping lipsticks to Britain under .He looks more like his father now. without a parachute by cannon fire. racks Nine. T.C:'Group. this-club." was the answer. "Well, sir, Lend-Lease, Lord Halifax revealed. . particularly when 'he smiles. 1 asked him the radio operator's oxygen supply cut "This sounds very shocking," the Nov. 21, 1944 that's dhelluva way to get new members," if he missed Congress and he screwed his off, and the tail section so badly shot said the GI, popping to attention_ British Ambassador said, addressing the mouth and pondered before answering. up that the tail gunner bailed out. Dear Stars and Stripes, Investment Bankers Association. "It It's obvious that when a guy has got a * * * "You knots': it all seems so far away. Laverdiere told the crew they could also happens to be absolutely true." gripe the last thing in the world he wants Quip of the week. "The boys have Sometimes I read about it -but it doesn't all .bull out, but they stayed with the is to be told to be reasonable, but it got their barrels in an uproar again.'' But the whole truth. he.added, is that seem 1 was ever part of it. plane, dropped their bombs on the target, and returned successfully to the surely isn't too much to ask that every- exclaimed Lt. Richard Kutsch as Sixth lipstick is the hest means of marking "I like it fine here," he continued. "1 body pay a little more attention to the Armored Division artillery laid down a the nature of wounds on battle casual- like these guys. I like my worm's-eye group's base in England. ancient and hallowed Queensberry Griping particularly heavy concentration. ties and was sent for that reason. view of the war. Maybe it's because I'm J. C. W. Rules: 1-Don't he so damn cocksure: 2- Make sure you're really sore about the PRIVATE BREGER issue and not suffering from a hangover, American Forces- Network an aching back or a belly ache; 3-Don't be so damn cocksure : 4-Speak for your- 2130-Suspense. self, John-who are you to speak for all American Forces Network-With the AEF 2300-Final Edition. the GIs in the army? ; 5-No rabbit on the Road to Berlin 2.305-Sign off until 0755 hours, Monday, Dcc. 4. punches; 6-Don't he so damn cocksure. On Your Dial -Yours for a good clean argument, 1375 te. 1402 kc. 1411 kc'1420 kc. 1447 ke. Monday, Dec. 4 218.i . 213.9m. 212.6m. 211.3m. 207.3m. 0755-Sign On-Program Resume, SISgt. Robert Carlson. ASC. 0800-Heatilincs-Combat Diary. Sunday. Dec. 3 0815-Personal Album with Date grans. Cpl. Ruby Clears Things t1p '0755-Sign On-Program Resume. 0830-Music by Rankle Carle. 0800-Headlines-Music for Sunday- 0900-News-Songs by the Andrew Sisters. Nov. 25, 1944 0830--Hour of Charm with Phil Snitalney's All- (1925-Music from America. 1000-Headlines.-Moming Alter (.Mad Ca0). Dear Stars and Stripes, Girl Orchestra. 0900-Wcirld News. 1030--Strike up the Band. In regards to my article in the Noy. 14 0905-Music by Lionel 13aannon, too-tteasittnes-Home News from the issue, I am afraid a few people took me 1105-Duffie Bag. 0925-Family Hour. 1200-World News. wrong on the subject 'of my becoming a 1000-licadlines-Radio claret 1205-Duffle Bag. reporter for The Stars and Stripes. Even 1030-AEF Radio Weekly. 1300-Headlines-Sports News, 1100-Headline-Home News rrom the U S.A. 1305-Dunninger. tho being chosen the most beautiful WAC 1105-Morning After (Jubilee). 1330-James Melton Show. in the U.K.' I still have to pull my K.P. 1135-Combined Orchestrations. 1400-Headlines-Visiting Hour. and latrine duty, and present medals to 1200-News. 1500-Headlines--German Lesson. 1205-WAC',, Works. 1505-Strike up the Bond. the fellows who have earned them. There- 1225-Sports, 1530-On the Record, fore I am afraid (much to my sorrow) I 1230--Canadian Varieties. 1630-Fiesta. 1300-Headlines-Atlantic Spotlight, 1700-Headlines-Showdrne with Gloria dc Haven. really wouldn't have time to be a re- 1330-Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade. 1715-Village Store with Joan Davis and Jack porter. 1400-Headlines-Music from the Pacific. H.a/eY. I would like to thank Dave and the 1425-Anne Shelton. 1740-AEP Extra. 1455-Football Scores. 1755-American Sports News. gang in M-4 for the nice letter they wrote 1500-Headlinw-National Barn Dance. 1800-World Nevig. in regards to my being modest about 1530-Carnival of Music. 1805-Mark UP the Mat., winning the contest. It was a thrill I'll 1600-Headlines-New York Philharmonic Or- 1810-G1 Supper Club. chestra. 1900—Headlines—Songs by Sgt. Johnny Desmond. admit, and still is, but if anyone gets 1700 -Headlines-Melody Roundup. 1915-Strings with Wings. the idea that it has gone to my head, ask 1715-AEF Special. 1930--Amos 'rt' Andy. 1750-American Sports News. 2000-Headlines-Combat Diary. my Supply Sgt. She. had to issue me 1800--World News. 2015-Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. a smaller hat (having lost mine at the 1805-Mark up the Map. 2030-Canada Show. Army and Navy game). 1815-Andre Kostelanetai. 21.00--World News, 1345-Johnny menser's Music Shop. 2105-Top Tcn with the RAF Orchestra and I think. any WAC. I don't care how 1900-Headlints-Comedy Caravan with Jimmy Beryl Davis. beautifuror ugly she may be, would like Durance and Gary -Moore. 2135-DtriTy's Tavern. 1.930-1111 Parade with Mark- Minnow's Orchestra 2200--Headliner-Horne News from the U.S.A. to have the title as the most beautiful and Frank Sinatra. 2205-Ten O'Clock Special. WAC' in the U.K., therefore any remarks • 20110-Headlines-Battle 'tenon. 2300-Final Edition. from GIs 'or WACs I shall ignore. I 20I5-Recreation of Army vs. Navy Football 2305-Sign off until 0755 bouts Tuesday. Dec. 5. sts-reaeS sitstacsrs. i.,- woni.ta Rotors yESERVEIL- feel that everyone had a chance to enter 4PR.193.1. *ZING On the Continent ilsten to Your favorite APN 2100 -WG3omrleci News Programs over the the contest the same as I, and I feel lucky 2105-Mail Call with -Norma Shearer. Allied Expeditionary Forces Program: and honored to have been chosen.-Cpl. "All I know is that he gets through the enemy Tines and sells them surreader 2135-Guy Lombardo's Musical Autographs. 583 kc. 514m. Ruby Newell. 2200-Headlines-Home New?, from the U.S.A. Also shortwave: 6.195mg. (49m. band) between flags!" 2205--Melody Hour. 0800 and 1in hours. Saturday, Dec. 2, 1944 SPORTS THE 'STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Cadets Favored to Beat Navy NavyWill Have to Do BetterThanTh is Once Over Jenkins'ReturntoLineup Lightly By Andy Rooney Boosts Middle Hopes BALTIMORE, Dec. 1—No good radio BALTIMORE, Dec. 1—Not since Knute Rockne's colorful Notre Dame quiz program just pops off and lets grid teams were at their peak has there been as much suspense over a foot- _anybody ask the questions. They have a script writer who writes the question ball game as there is in America tonight as fans await the kickoff in the and thinks up the answer too. It is a "game of the year" tomorrow afternoon betvieen Army and Navy in Balti- fool-proof idea. So, following are some more's Municipal Stadium. Certainly no game between the service schools questions we asked ourselves about the has had this one's universal appeal. Army and Navy game. We have been Even though bookies have installed the careful to ask questions to which we undefeated, untied Cadet powerhouse as know the answers. Now listen to us win 14-point favorites. Navy partisans, bank- Layne Paces all the Encyclopedia Britannicas and ing on the sailors' line, called by many silver dollars on this .program. the greatest in the school's history, and Question: Just how good is this the fleet Middie backs, think the future Texas in 6-0 . vaunted Navy line we hear so much admirals can more than hold their own. about? And those who like the Blues got a great Answer: Lt. Cmdr. Rip Miller, Navy boost today when it was announced that Nod Over Ags line coach, says it's better than Notre Bobby Jenkins, ace 200-pound prospec- Dame's famous Seven Mules. He ought AUSTIN, Tex„ Dec. I—Bobby Layne tive All-American halfback, definitely passed and ran the Texas Longhorns to to know. He was one of those linemen in would be able to play against the Cadets. front of Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen. a 6-0 triumph over the Texas Aggies in Bobby went into the Academy infirmary a Texas Thanksgiving Day football Question: Who is this guy Whitmire Tuesday night with a foot infection. that people are putting on heir All- thriller here yesterday. The Longhorns Navy Coach Oscar Hagberg has posted scored after one Americas? a sign in the -Middle dressing room read- r- Answer: He is' minute and 25 9 ing, "Get the ball. Keep the ball." Hag- ?tconds of play as Donald B. Whit- berg firmly believes that Navy will have mire, 215 pounds Layne skirted right to score at least three touchdowns to end nine yards for and tough, a Navy defeat Army. "I know darn well that tackle. He played the only touchdown Army will score—possibly twice." the of the game, which two years for Navy skipper said today. Alabama before he developed into, a came to Navy and Offensive Game Predicted vicious encounter of they were mention- "It's gating to be a scoring game and goal line stands that jog' him for, All- an offensive game,- Rip Miller, Navy line thrilled 43,000 ; America then. He coach, said. "and I think that the 14 spectators. could step into any points bettors are supposed to be giving Harlan Wclz• line that ever played is ridiculous. No game like this figures ponderous Texas and be outstanding, to be won by more than one touchdown4" tackle, kicked off and then tackled and that includes the Both Navy coaches dispute the theory BOBBY LAYNE DON WHITMIRE pro-Giant team of a that it will be Navy's line against Army's Paul Yates, Aggie receiver, on the A and M .12-yard line. few years back. He is also the team. wit, backs. They consider their backfield, coxswain and jockey. The boys call him man for man, just as good as the Cadets. That play was too close for the comfort "The Rock." The day before the Penn- Hagberg and Miller were not the only of the Aggies and they kicked out, with Navy game a Phiily paper said •Penn's coaches throwing bouquets at Navy. Bobby Goff punting 48 yards to Roger George Sovitsky, a 250-pound tackle Army Coach Red Blaik—who will throw Evans, who went behind nice blocking to "could take care of this Whitmire.- The a lot more than sentiment at them to- the Ags' six. answer to that one is easy. They carried morrow—chimed in with. "This is the Layne promptly took charge. Fading George otf the field on a stretcher. far back, he passed to Watson for a first greatest Navy team I've seen in 25 years down on the nine. On the next play he Question: Who is going to be there? of coaching hereabouts. I can't tell you Any brass? faded for another pass, but finding no whether my boys are up for the game, one open he ran around right end and Answer: Plenty of •brass will be there but we'll know shortly after play starts." with bells on. With cow bells. They are dove acress for the touchdown, Billy The probable starting lineups: Andrews missed the conversion. reserving a box seat for the President, Army and if he comes, Gen. Marshall, Adm. POS. PLAYER WT. HOME King and Secretaries Stimson and Left end Muer t95 Connellysville. Pa. Morgenthau are expected. Left tackle Arnold 195 Ft. Lewis. Wash. W and M Overwhelms Question: Who will be the fastest Left guard Green 190 Shelbyville, Ky. Canter St. Onge 180 Forest Hills. N.Y. Richmond Eleven, 40-0 man on the field? Right guard Stanowicz 215 Hackettstown, N.J Answer: Navy's Jim Pettit ran the 100 Right tackle Nemetx 195 Prince George,Va. RICHMOND. Va., Dec. I—With in 9.6, Clyde Scott. interscholastic low Right end Rafalko 195 Stoughton, Mass. Halfbacks Stanley Magdziak and Jack Quarterback Kenna IRO Jackson, Miss. Bruce each scoring three touchdowns, hurdles champ was clocked in 9.9, and Halfback Hall 185 Parsons, Kam Barron, Walton and. Ellsworth arc all on Halfback Minor ISO Tahoka. Tex. William and Mary swamped Richmond the Navy track team as sprinters. But Fullback Blanchard 210 Bishopville, S.C. University, 40-0, here yesterday. sports writers claim Army's Glenn Davis Navy The strong William and Mary line out- is as fast in football clothes as Illinois' POS. PLAYER WT. HOME charged the Richmond forward wall all Left end Bramlett 185 Clarksdak. Miss. afternoon and made things easy for their Buddy Young, who is the intercollegiate Left trickle Whitmire 215 Decatur. Ala. sprint champ. To complicate the matter. Left guard Carrington _ backfield aces. Army Coach Red Blaik says Max Minor Center Martin 205 Toledo. Ohio Right guard Chase 195 San Diego. Cal. is his fastest man. Right tackle Gilliam 200 Eastland. Tex. Maryland Safety Defeats Question: Now please tell us about Right end Martin 190 Prospect Park. Pa, ' the Army backfield. Vol. hear so much Quarterback Duden 190 Englewood, r4.3, Virginia Military, 8-6 about ten men it is hard to tell who the Halfback Jenkins 200 Talladega. Ala. Halfback Hamburg ISO Lonolce. Ark. ROANOKE. Va., Dec. I—A safety in .first-stringers are. Fullback Scott 175 Smackover, Ark. Answer: The starting backfield pro- the second period gave Maryland an 8-6 bably will be Doug Kenna, Dale 1-lall, Army-Navy Tilt on AFN victory over Virginia Military Institute Max Minor and Doc Blanchard, while- Today's Army-Navy game will be here yesterday. the second backfield consists of Dean broadcast at 6.45 PM on the American Maryland pushed over a touchdown Sensenbaugher, Capt. Tom Lombardo, Forces network g ith Ted Busing at the early in the first period and held the Glenn Davis and Bobby Dobbs. If the mike. Cadets scoreless until the final quarter, going gets too rough. Davis. Kenna, then checked a threat after the losers Minor and Blanchard are the best scored their touchdown. posSible Army backfield. Blaik likes to mix them up. Blind Marines, Sailors Question: What kind of a TO does the Army coaching staff have? Outstroke Army Veterans Answer: It is difficult to say. Blaik Maryland 8, VMI 6 Texas 6, Texas Agates 0 PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1—A afar has been promoted to full colonel and Wiley 16, Texas College 12 made tip of blind and partially blind Andy Gustafen to lieutenant colonel, but William and Mary 40. IticIrnond 0 marines and sailors defeated a similar End Coach Stu Holcomb is still a private. Basketball Results crew of soldiers on Schuykill River yes- Maybe if Army wins and the generals terday in the first race of its kind in his- and the President are pleased with the DeP.atil 62. Illinois Tech 45 tory. Only the coxswains and tillers of Army wings' performance- he may be a Drake 72, Central 39 Indiana 43, Wabash 39 the war vet crews had their sight. pfc on the new TO. SHORT SHOTS: Pvt. Gus Lom- bardo, a Marine wounded on Guam. will Rangers Upset Canadiens, 7-5 I be in Baltimore Municipal Stadium Saturday to watch his brother Tom Lom- MONTREAL, Dec. I—The lowly New ' Butch Bouchard, sent a knee-high shot bardo, captain of the Army eleven. . . York Rangers scored the biggest upset of past Goslie Bill Duman, Army will wear white shirts and Navy the National Hockey League season here will wear light blue for the game.. . . last night by defeating the champion Bobby Dobbs of Army is a brother of the Montreal Canadiens, 7-5. The victory Bruins Subdue Hawks famous Glenn Dobbs, former Tulsa All- American now playing with the Second For 3rd Time in Row, 7-1 Air Force team. . . Joe Stanowicz, Hockey League Standings CHICAGO, Dec. 1 — The Boston Army lineman, is the intercollegiate WLT P W L T Bruins notched their third straight victory Montreal 9 4 1 19 Boston 5 7 I 11 heavyweight wrestling. champion, and Toronto .. 9 4 0 18 New York 2 6 3 7 over the Chicago Black Hawks last night, his substitute, Bob Land, was the 175-, Detroit .. 7 4 2 16 Chicago .. 2 9 1 .5 7—I. The Boston pucksters spotted the pound wrestling runner-up. Hawks a 1-0 lead in the first period and was the second of the season for the then outplayed them the remainder of the Rangers. game. Help Wanted Playing inspired hockey, the New —AND GIVEN Yorkers hit the Canadiens with every- Write .your question or problem' to Help thing they had in the last period to pour American Hockey League Wanted. Stars and Stripes. 37, Upper Brook four goals into the net and hurt the feel- Hershey I, Cleveland I St., London, W.1, or .4P0 887, U.S. Arnty. ings of the home folks worse than Indianapolis 2. St. Louis 0 Canada's first biz blizzard of the year, . Other teams not scheduled. Telephone, ETOUSA. Ext. 2131. EASTERN DIVISION which hit the city with the• Rangers. WL T P WL T P The first penalty shot of the season Buffalo .. 9 6 2 20 Providence .4 S 2 1' Found proved the turning point early in the Hershey .. 8 5 2 18 TIA/SGT. EARL F. SMITH, 38407550.—Your third period, breaking a 3-3 tie and WESTERN DIVISION bracelet has been found.—Lt. FL C. Oliver. W L T P V/ I. T P pima. J. HERNANDEZ. 36014264.—Your giving the Rangers a lead they never lost. Ind'n'polis 8 6 5 21 Cleveland . X 6 2 bracelet has been found. Charlie Scherza, who was tripped by Pittsburgh 9 8 1 19 St. Louis 2

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Glenn Davis. Army's plebe halfback, off for a 64-yard touchdown run against Notre Dame. Photos (reading from top) show Davis, having received the ball from Lombardo, begin his run, picking up Foldberg and Webb as interference. As Fold- berg and Webb clear the path, Nemeth of Notre Dame tries to halt Davis. Nemeth eludes Foldberg's tackle, but Davis stiff-arms Nemeth and goes on. Last picture shows Nemeth down and Davis on his way to a score a second later. ii WARWEEK Saturday, Dec. 2, 1944 Hitler Has Doomed These German Towns

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MUNICH, NAZI SHRINE, was often the scene of ceremonial parades like this, in 1938. Hitler shows the city to Mussolini after he bluffed the rest of Europe to carve up Czechoslovakia.

REOCCUPATION of the Rhineland, demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles, was one of the Fuhrer's first coups. His troops rumbled through Cologne to take up stations.

Aachen was the first of Hitler's doomed cities to be blasted into rubble —then occupied by our troops—in spite of anything the "Master Race" rep- resentative there could do about it. Aachen was the first. There are others. Some of them are pictured on this page. These photographs, taken when the Nazis were riding high, give an indication of what the German cities looked like then. By the time the last Wehrmacht soldier in each one is either dead or captured, they'll probably look like the picture of Aachen, in the lower right hand corner of the page. Hitler knows what's coming. He's had his warning—in bombed, shelled and captured Aachen. Now a great offensive is getting under way. A look at the map reveals that Cologne, big rail and industrial center, may be the next objective. After Cologne will come other cities of the Nazi Reich. In their fire-swept streets and bomb-gutted buildings Germany's NAZI 'CAPITAL is the final objective of all Allied drives. This shot of REPRESSIVE LAWS against German Jews, were named after the city of latest bid for world domination is con- Berlin's famous Lustgarten shows a May Day celebration. Holiday has Nuremberg. Here's a typical Nazi celebration there, with all the tricks demned to die. lost its labor character in the Reich. of combined Hollywood-Circus presentation in use. r ...... irrieri

FIFTH COLUMN of Nazis, which aided in the capture of Holland and DEATH of Nazi hopes is typified by this shot of a street in Aachen. other countries, had its origin in "Union of Germans Abroad." Here the Forlorn Nazi prisoners, their flags and bands missing, make their exit organization parades through ancient Trier. from the Greater Reich, en route to prison camp. •

Nazi Troops in GI Clothes, Latest Trick The Cities Hitler's Armies Have Doomed • Warweek House-to-House Fighting, How to Do It Saturday, Dec. 2, 1944

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Jerry Troops Wear Stolen GI Garb To Trap Unwary Joes as Big Attack Starts

OUR great American armies, the persons" which flows into our lines, never seen again. Presumably it was First, Third, Ninth and Seventh, German soldiers in civilian clothes are driven into the German lines via back Ftogether with the British_ Second sometimes able to escaee long math. and the French First, have started enough to secure the information they are The way to avoid such traps is, of their winter drives to crush the outer seeking. course, to suspect all "civilians" and to defenses and force the door to Hitler's Sometimes they even disguise them- ignore their signals. If they think a home grounds. From Holland south selves as American soldiers, wearing outer driver is going to run them down they'll to the Belfort Gap our men are on the clothing taken from dead or captured. jump for the ditch. move and, as this is written, are fight- GIs. ing on German territory at many The disappearance of.lone jeeps became The Baited Trap points. almost commonplace during the stale- mate before the big attacks started. This Not so easy to detect—and therefore These simultaneous attacks. came more dangerous—are traps set by German after a wailing period in which we looked, at first, like ordinary ambushing or surprise road block%—something troops in GI uniforms. That's the method uilt up reserves of food, ammunition which the pictures on this page serve to nd clothing and duririg which re- to be expected in thinly-held sectors of the line. illustrate. Those aren't GIs—they're lacements poured in to bring combat Germans wearing our uniforms which they Then the evidence began to pile up, nits up to fighting strength. All took from the bodies of a captain and a much of it coming from civilian sources, hrough this build-up period the Ger- tech sergeant they had previously am- that the Germans were using carefully mans sought frantically for informa- bushed and killed. thought out systems of deception and tion. They were so hungry for facts The officer and the non-com belonged along the whole 400-mile battle front to an engineer battalion attached to an that rewards in cash and furlough outfit near Metz. They left their CP, time were offered to German troops with two privates, for a jeep trip to who could bring in American another headquarters. Just how the four prisoners. By men were waylaid and killed only the Krauts Worried Germans who did it can explain. One John Christie hour later, wearing the clothing of the The regrouping of our forces and Warweek Combat Correspondent men they had killed, the Germans tried other evidences of preparation for a their second ambush. large-scale attack had the Krauts Group Round a Jeep :plenty worried. They had a pretty good idea of what was coming but subterfuge to capture or kill small groups This time they 'parked their captured they didn't know when or where the of American troops. jeep on the side of the road and stood blow would fall. _ One of the favorite tricks, which will grouped around it, when another car of The result of this condition was a con- be encountered more and more frequently ours came down the road. In the stant series of ambushes, guerrilla attacks the further into Germany we go, is to second jeep were two 'lieutenant colonels ,and undercover activity along, in and use civilians as decoys. Here's how they of an 8th Division outfit and an ,even sometimes behind our own front do it: enlisted driver. lines. One or two civilians, standing in,- the As they rounded a turn in the road No army could have had more favor- road at a point where motor traffic is they came upon what looked like a able conditions for this kind of informa- forced to slow down for; say, a sharp typical roadside scene, an American jeep, tion-gathering than did the Wehrmacht, curve or a bridge, will wave down an in the days just before the signal for an officer and some enlisted men, lost advancing jeep on some pretext or the multi-pronged attack. They were and in need of directions. The "Cap- another. If the driver stops, German 'fighting on ground they knew like a tain," who was standing beside the stalled troops, hiding in the bushes, open fire book—and with the help of local car, waved at the oncoming jeep. Its with light automatic arms. The scheme driver slowed down and stopped. The civilians. has variations. Here's one of them, which Germans, in GI clothing, stepped Civilians are Dangerous ' recently resulted in the loss of a two-and- forward. a-half ton truck, its crew and its cargo. It was, perhaps, one of the strangest These enemy civilians harbor German on a road in Luxembourg. of many strange scenes this war has pro- patrols, provide them with information Civilians waved the truck to a stop. duced. The , American officers were { and serve as decoys to lure unwary GIs Armed German 'soldiers forced the driver friendly, curious and anxious to help. lines. The were wearing the uniform the car after him. He fired on them into the hands of small enemy kidnapping to turn up a side road and then took over. The Germans, striding forward, must of our troops. That, in itself, constituted again, moved and fired a third time. The gangs. Amid the confused and disorga- One of our men escaped, during a gun- have been jittery. They were in a military crime. Germans, momentarily confused, were nized stream of civilians and "displaced fight which developed, but the truck was enemy territory—behind our advance The first part of their deception had unable to reply without hitting one worked. Would the rest go as well? another. Their moment of hesitation They must have been very conscious enabled the American officer to scramble of their grey-green trousers and black into some cover at the side of the road. boots. At any second the Americans Working his way carefully through the might detect the masquerade—and open bushes, he changed position by a dozen fire. yards so that' when the first grenades Then came one of those unexplained and the first burst of automatic fire and inexplicable things. Perhaps it was lashed the underbrush he was out of the nervousness, perhaps just Nazi bravado. beaten zone. • Whatever it was, one of the Ger- ' GERMANY mans made the fatal error of saying Moral: Trust No One something to one of his companions He. too, might have been killed, except YOU ARE ENTERING in German. for the appearance of another American With a lightning-fast reflex, one of the AN ENEMY C.OUP41'R vehicle. With the scales tipped against American officers in the second car drew them, the Germans gave up the fight and his pistol and opened fire. Germans con- fled, leaving behind them some of their KEEP ALERT cealed in the brush at the side of the road own men. They are the ones whose tossed a hand grenade. In the general pictures accompany this story as incontro- gun-fight which followed one of fhe American officers was killed. The driver vertible evidence of another trick in the was captured but the second officer Germarf bag. escaped. It's an easy one to trump, though, for Rolling out of the jeep, the officer men who just remember that it isn't hurled himself into the ditch, keeping the healthy to stop for civilians, even jeep between himself and the Germans. "American" troops. They may be They started around opposite ends of phonies—Germans in GI clothing. Saturday, Dee. 2, 1944 WARWEEK These Yanks Know About floase-ro- 148A

That's What They Call It When The Objective Is Smoking Rubble Hiding Nests of Machine-Gun Fire; - Then the Joes Really Go to Town

By Ralph Harwood Warweek Staff Writer

F the Germans are determined to fight moved up to bring the Krauts further the only way we could make it across this war out through the houses and grief in their own backyard. that open space was by using smoke streets of every town and city all the It's a shame all the green soldiers in grenades. • ay across the Reich, that's the way they the army couldn't have been present, for "We must have bored-our way through n have it. If they wish to see a suc- here, mixed in with the razzing and at least 14 of 15 straight houses," he 6ssiori of smoldering ruins in the image laughs, was the sum and substance of real continued. "We used dynamite charges r Aachen, the American Army is ready battle wisdom. the engineers prepgred for us part of the o oblige them. It all- started when a buck sergeant time, and if that wasn't possible; • we'd There isn't any department of war in looked up from the tattered newspaper knock a hole in the wall of the next hich American troops have improved he was trying to read by the feeble house with bazoOkas. I'd have half the iore than.in street fighting since the days glimmer of a small candle and wondered squad set and ready, and the second of of Carentan and Sainte-Mere-l'Eglise, aloud. "I can't understand why they the explosion they'd be on their way, behind the beaches. They have learned always refer to fighting in towns as hellbent with tommy guns and grenades. the Boche's tricks—and he has a hatful— street fighting. Hell, the street's the one and they have developed counter-tech- place where you very often don't do any From Top Down hiques of their own through trial and fighting. We'd have been duck soup for "The rest of the squad, including the error, commonsense and military in- those corner pillboxes in Brest if we had BAR man, covered them, and if the open genuity. tried to work right down the street, not space to be crossed was very great and to mention the damned riflemen and House, Not Street, Fight there was danger of fire from the flanks, machine-guns they had in every upstairs we would lay smoke ahead with grenades. Whenever and wherever veteran Yanks and basement with a window in it." It pays to follow in quick on the blast. get together now to shoot the breeze, the "That's right," agreed a Staff who was My assault team pulled 'five Krauts out onversation almost invariably turns at stretched out in the blankets over in the of one house while they were still so me point to the business of chasing corner. "It ought to be called house-to- dizzy from the shock that they weren't he Heinies out of town—any town. Just house fighting rather than street fighting, able to put up any resistance. A couple uch a bull session took place recently all right. On one stretch there in Brest of minutes' delay on our part and it might t the CP of a 2nd Infantry Division bat- my squad moved up two blocks without have been different. They had machine- alion which had a big hand in the vicious ever setting foot in the•street except to pistols and plenty of grenades of their !met fighting at Brest, and has since cross from one square into the next, and own." A corporal in the room who had been in on the same action mentioned that it was often best to enter a building through CLOSE QUARTERS is the way to describe fighting in Hitler's cities. the roof, or a hole or window in the top Every window hides a sniper, machine guns chatter from half-ruined floor and then to clean it out room by dwellings. Quick, accurate fire, plenty of movement and the use of all room from the top down. cover is the success formula- "Scaling ladders are very handy in house-to-house fighting," lie insisted. through the bore of an M-1 rifle for some "They can mean the difference sometimes very high and close together. They can between cracking into a place the easy minutes, "you've got to admit that that play hell, though, with targets some dis- little 60-mm. job is a honey in town. The way through a high window, or having to tance ahead of you, really messing up heauty"?f it is that you can use it on such the enemy's movements. take bigger chances by some other en- trance." close-in targets. There's nothing like it "Tank destroyers and 155mm. self- for keeping snipers off the rooftops and A platoon tech sergeant spoke up propelled guns," the sergeant continued, with out of the upper-story windows just "are a word of praise for white phosphorous tops in my estimation for taking out ahead of where you're working. It's a enemy strong points in town—pillboxes, as an aid in "house-cleaning." great little weapon. heavily defended buildings or anything There's No 'Best Weapon' "Of course," he added, "if you really else that may be holding the infantry want to take a building clear out, and down. For my dough, there's nothing "You can't beat it for driving the enemy you can't get at it with direct artillery better than a couple of TDs to open up out of basements or,t for that matter, fire, then the 81-mm. and 4.2 mortars are walls or other avenues of advance for an whole buildings. We had some 4.2 the ticket. They can sure make the joint infantry platoon. I know, - because we chemical mortars in support and. several unfit for human habitation in an awful had them doing it for us at Brest, and it times called for WP. They could lay it hurry." saved a lot of time and trouble for the in as close as 100 yards ahead of us, and "What1s the beit weapon of all for this doughs. They're more than worth the it usually brought some Germans out fighting through towns?" asked a young protection you have to give them against where we could get at them with rifle and kid who had been taking it all in. enemy anti-tank stuff." BAR fire." "There isn't any single weapon which "Speaking of mortars, though," said a you can say is best, kid," answered the Consolidate at Night Joe who had been ramming an oily patch platoon serge. "It all depends on the situation or the job that's to be done at "They draw a lot of fire, though, don't the moment. For instance, if you spot a they?" the kid inquired. slightly exposed sniper 200 yards away, "Some, sure," replied the sergeant, the best weapon in the world to use on "because they arc noisy. But a lot can him is a carefully aimed rifle. If, on the be done to conceal their movements with other hand, you saw half a dozen Heinies artillery and mortar fire. Incidentally, trying to sneak across an opening between everybody working in the neighborhood two buildings a good distance away, the should be told about it when the TDs or BAR would be the ideal weapon with SP 155s are going to fire, if at all possible. which to make things.hot for them. Saves confusion." "For assaulting through a break in a "I'll tell you one mistake our outfit building," the sergeant explained further, made one time." said the corporal who "it's best to have a lot of fast, spraying had spoken earlier. "We were moving fire. The Jhompson gun Old the car- forward pretty steadily in. the group of bine that's been modified -tar automatic buildings assigned to us, and I guess the fire arc good for this kind of close, speedy squads on our flanks were moving in on work. Everybody knows, too, how im- their objectives the same way. Everything portant grenades are in town, both frag- was OK except that we kept going right mentation and smoke hand grenades, as up to dark, and then we couldn't make well .as rifle grenades. There are plenty contact with these other guys to the sides. of times when you cannot bring• direct The Jerries must have sensed the situation, fire to bear on an enemy pest when a because they drifted back in between us little squirt of flame will bring him out in the night, and we had a hell of a time tearing his hair. routing them out all over again in the morning. You've got to consolidate TDs for Strong Points toward night, or they'll infiltrate you every time." "True," the sergeant concluded, "some weapons are not particularly suited to Here are a list of assorted tips from operations in towns. Heavy machine- experienced town fighters, men who've guns, for example, Usually do better in learned their lesson the hard way. the open where they have a longer, un- They're repeated in the dot-dash style in obstructed field of fire. That doesn't which they were jotted down, under fire, mean that they are a dead loss in town, by Warweek reporters at the front. IV' though. Where they can be set up in Pfc Martin 0. Merrill, an extraordinary ,..o.- -ow.", 1-- Ctfe'• good positions they can give a lot of BAR man from. Miltonvale, Kansas: - -...... „ .ago. -----arr i protection to your flanks: Or if you . • ' gclr:j •"-".‘- --"." .. 2,'",,,er...... "Dusk is the best time to start a street rt can bring an MG to bear on a stretch fight—if you feel you have a good chance of street, you can cut the cross-traffic a of getting through by dark. The Ger- . .... way down." .z. mans don't like to fight at dusk or in b ..31111. ..1•12,R .... "The same thing is true of the heavier darkness stuff," still another sergeant chimed in MACHINE GUNS and artillery provide fire power, in house-to-house combat but, more. often than not, the "You can see a man's form very well "The howitzers are not so much help on the skyline at dusk. The Germans who assault platoons have to rely on the weapons they carry in their hands. Grenades, bazookas and the ever-usefid where you- are in close contact with the Tommy guns are the answers. enemy, especially if -the buildings are Continued on page iv

i.v WARWEEK Saturday, Dec. 2, 1944

•GI JERRY by Lt. Dave Breger

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More About Lt. Marshall L. Gordon, Los Angeles. Cal.: "Jerry is piaying hit and run game. Ile wants to pl.gy nine innings. We'll THE OLD SERG House-to-House slug it out and get it over in first inning. Jerry doesn't. like fire power, in or out of street. He'll run like hell. ‘4, Combat "BARs, tommy guns, white phos- CORNER Continued from page iii phorus, bazookas, anti-tank grenades are VERY amateur gunsmith in the ETO best weapons for street fighting. Hand grenades are some help. Eseems to be dreaming up new dodges "There are nine BAR men to a cc:I-l- - for improving the Carbines, Cal. .30, oony. Each one is wo:th a million bucks MI and MIAI. Many of these ideas in a street tight. Put your best BAR siphon through the Old Sergeant's mail man up front. TE doesn't call for box for a check with Ordnance before tommy guns but we have 'em. Beg, street, That's why Old Sergeant thought publication here. best to turn to the Joe in the mudhole for borrow, or steal them. Get 'em from One of the most recent—although it's tankers. They're invaluable in this kind answers to his pet gripe. "What to do of warfare." old stuff to the jumpers of the 82nd Air- about mud?" The damned stuff is a hell- S/Sgt. Robt. L. Hoffman, Green Bay, 'borne, who claim to have invented k— uva sight more effective in slowing down Wis.: is to tape, solder or spot-weld two car- the Allied steamroller drive on Berlin "Dongtauck behind buildings unless it's bine clips together in such a way that the than Adolf's best secret'weapon. lower or closed ends overlap a couple of absolutely necessary. Keep going. Keep One Joe in particular with an anxious tiring." inches. • eye on an earlier trip back home came "Yanks are not hard enough. This is a Both clips can be loaded and one end forth with a suggestion for improvising dirty business. Some 'civilians' are of the two-way magazine is inserted in actually German soldiers in disguise." half-tracks on dual-wheeled vehicles up the weapon, the other pointing down- to and including the 2-1-ton 6 x 6. Old S/ Sgt. Paul L. Baldassare. Wishram, ward. When a man has fired six or eight Wash.: Sergeant thinks it's well worth passing on "Some guys aren't bold and aggressive. to you guys bogged down up front. enough. "When you get into a spot where your "Others aren't thorough enough in wheels won't Lake hold," writes T/5 searching rooms. You've got to be rough with civilians who won't let you search Allen A. Alldridge of an Ordnance their rooms. Put a gun in their bellies H.A.M. Co., "take two chains (three if and they'll open up—even il' the German necessary) and hook them together to were not in buildings hugged the sides of come out with his hands,.behind his soldier in the room has told them he'll wake one track chain. Put this around them. Sometimes I had to slow down head." shoot them." both right rear wheels. Then do the and do the same. S/Sgt. Melvin K. Behnke, Waco, .Pfc Alf. 0, Sitar. 20-year-old medic same for the left rear wheels, The chains "Be careful of Krauts who 'blow their Texas: from Bottineau, N. Dakota, hasn't fired should be real loose. If they are too tops' and come running out of houses for "Company should operate by platoons any weapons in the street fights his com- tight they will break." pany has been in, hut he's been right in suicide fight. I've seen them do damage covering both sides of the street. BAR The resourceful Alldridge said he's seen before they were eliminated." man is best placed at the head of the the thick of things helping out the column. Automatic weapons must be wounded. He has an observing eye. Says 6 x 6 pull ten-ton wreckers from axle- S/ Sgt. Ralph W. Hartinger, Dickin- All, who looks more like a boy of 14 deep ooze by this method—and ten tons son. N. Dakota: forward. 1210e 'grenade launchers should follow, split up on either side of Street. than his 20 years: of vehicle plus its weight in goo is plenty "It's hard to keep from bunching up Bazooka men are sprinkled throughout load to pull. in this kind of fight—but you can't afford "Bazooka is plenty helpful in street of the column. Machine-guns are in the fight. Just hit the wall if you can't get The Alldridge plan was put before Maj. to do it. Another thing, leaders must yell rear throwing out a protective cover. instructions. The men who need advice it through the window. The concussion Gen. Henry B. Saylor, ETO chief Sometinies this order gets scrambled— •will wind up Jerry's desire to fight. He'll look for it in a wild scrap. Above all, then you've got to use your head. Some- come out yelling 'Kamerad' (and whim- Ordnance. His office said the idea is a keep your head about you." times we move down the street at a fast pering if he's wounded) or he won't come good emergency measure. GI track S/Sgt. Hollis H. Jordan, Mayville, pace (when the enemy is defending from out at .all." chains for this very purpose are now being Georgia: every house): other times we go more Pfc Harold D. Hill. 19-year-old used in the ETO, but if you drivers ever "Heinies will have machine-gun at the slowly (when the job is one of cleaning out snipers and rearguard defenders"). walkie-talkie man from Marysville, 0. (F. of the 15 rounds in the clip he can then do find yourselves bogged down without cnd,of the street if they have time to put Co., 2nd Battalion): the GI wherewithal, it may be wise to Pfc Charles A. Davis, Youngstown, relbad •fully by simply pressing the re- it there. A BAR man can usually get "German soldiers have been retreat- keep the emergency idea in mind. the gun unless it has exceptional cover. Ohio: lease catch and turning his double clip ing, leaving guns in the hands of civilians Incidentally, in the event two chains Then you use a rifle grenade, a bazooka, "Yanks are the fightingest bunch of who are sniping at ust We picked up two end for end. or send men through backyards to out- guys you ever saw in a street fight. civilian snipers the other day. This gag looked very good to this de- aren't long enough to get around the two flank it. Get machine-guns out of there Heinies don't like this kind of fight-- "Civilians should be issued proclama- partment but the Ordnance technicians wheels, don't cuss and give up. Okay to in a hurry. Sweeping the street they can because they don't come out alive." weren't impressed. They said that mud, cuss, sure enough, but get a third chain cause many casualties. tion to stay the hell ofT street. It isn't in T/Set. Leo F. Kaniecki, Chicago. III. an American to shoot a civilian, a woman dirt or snow could easily get into the open to do the job. Two chains from a larger "Germans have been fighting like hell ("I" Co.): or a child. Consequently German soldiers end of the lower clip and that the vibra- tit; they felt that there was too much fire vehicle may also prove sufficient. "White phosphorus is excellent fot run around in civilian clothes." tion of tiring might cause the reserve power for them—that's why we have cartridges to jar out. Perhaps some of you other mud- poured a helluva lot of lead at them in a street fighting, it screens you, burns Pfc Dorsey G. Davis, Washington, conscious drivers have other suggestions Jerry, scares tte hell out of him, too." D.C.: Old Sergeant's solution:, .helluva hurry. The psychological reac- for keeping those heavy vehicles rolling Sgt. Edward M. Tighe, Dallas, Tex.; "Street fighting takes a lot of men. In Cover the open clip-end with a piece of tion on the Krauts was obvious. Noise and the foot soldier slogging through has made some of them quit. Some wait "Mop-up squad should hit every house, the fighting we've done recently we've tape in any but good weather. until their ammo is exhausted then veil every room. If a I, rant wants to sur- needed men in the street and more men Hitler's soupy hinterland. Let's not keep 'Kamer:Id.' Be careful when a Hun yells render, take him if he comes out un- in buildings. We've been digging the Back home we'd ask the man in th3 . it a secret. Let the Old Sergeant know, 'Kamerad.' He may still fire. Make him armed, if not shoot him." Krauts out—or laying them out." street for info about the guy in the so he can pass the tips on to others.

Primed in Englund by The times Publishing Company, Limited. Printing House Square. London. E.C.4, and Published by the United States Armed Forces-2-12-44. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, Dec. 2, 1944 Life in Those United States New Flame-Thrower Will Make Things Hot for Nazis Judge's Death Snafues Mass Sedition Trial WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (ANS)—The seven-month-old sedition trial in which 37 defendants are accused of conspiring to disaffect the loyalty of the American armed forces and to set up a Nazi form of government in the U.S. likely will be started all over again because of the death Wednesday of .Federal Judge Edward C. Eicher, it was reported today. A Justice Department official, who declined to be quoted, said Eicher's death would mean the current trial would have to be terminated. Despite the trial's length and the masses of testimony already offered, numerous witnesses remained to be heard before the government would have been prepared to rest its case. The trial has been marked by uproar and confusions. Courtroom clamor grew to such a pitch that Eicher several times was forced to resort to numerous con- tempt fines to keep defense lawyers in line. Even the government's counsel was formally. reprimanded. CAPITAL..SIDESHOW:. Assistant Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson told a Congressional foreign trade committee that restrictions' should be lifted on Ameri- can loans to foreign governments which are debtors to the U.S. The House voted overwhelmingly to renew the Administration's broad war powers. hut put a string on its approval. In a measure sent to the Senate. the Represenp- lives agreed to extend through 1945 the life of the Second. War Powers Act. which is the legislative basis for WPB,.OPA and other war-time agencies. However, in an amendment, the House voted to empower federal courts with the right to review and enjoin WPB orders suspending individual allocations of critical materials.

AFL Re-elects Green Cold Wave General in U.S. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1 (ANS)—The NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (ANS)—Snow AFL concluded its annual convention here and cold weather spread across the upper yesterday by re- half of the U.S. yesterday while a cold electing William wave penetrated the South. The day's Green as president lowest temperature was recorded in for the 21st conse- Sanish, N.D., where the thermometer hit 19 below zero. U.S. tankmen demonstrate a new flame-thrower in Luxemburg. Flame, which cutive year. At the seems to be spewing over field beyond, is actually shooting up the hill in fore- same time, the AFL ground, high over heads of onlookers. delegates reaffirmed Peace Draft'Detay Asked the group's no-strike PITTSBURGH, Dec. I—Deferment Antwerp - - pledge "to show until after the war of legislation for post- No Brook, and No Delay (Continued front page 1) the world how we war military conscription was urged to- stand." Highlight of the day by the Federal Council of Churches Maybe they knew that it had brought of Christ in America, holding its bien- grain and other foodstuffs for them and convention was an nial session here. Nazi Guns Swept the Saar, invitation by Green for the neighboring Dutch. to John L. Lewis Although the port and its facilities and and • the United St. Louis Ex-Mayor Dies But GIs Got a Bridge Across the city's power station at Marksan were GREEN Mine Workers .to ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1 (ANS)—Rolla taken intact from the Germans—who are rejoin the AFL's fold. Green said he was Wells, former niayor and business and By Ralph Martin thought to have withheld destruction out willing "to resign as president if neces- civic leader for half a century, died yes- Stars and Stripes Staff Writer of some idea they might be back—get- sary" for the good of labor's interests, terday. • ting into Antwerp to use it was no easy WITH 150TH ENGINEER COMBAT BATTALION, Dec, 1—This job. The Germans had laid plenty of just-completed Bailey bridge—the first one thrown over the swollen Saar mines in the Scheldt. British mine- She Calls Cop a Wolf, but He Gets the Last Howl River—may look like just another bridge to a jeep-riding Joe, but it's going sweepers worked for weeks to gather DETROIT, Dec. I (ANS)—Mrs. Thelma L. Willson is guile certain the Only down into 12th Corps Engineering history books as one of the toughest them up. In one day one sweeper got reason she was arrested for a traffic violation was because the cop was a "wolf," bridges to build of the campaign thus far. 60.- One ship sunk by one of those mines would have bottled up the port for weeks. she declared in court today. There was the extremely difficult The patrolman had testified that she had made an illegal left turn against a Antwerp is a city of some 285,000. In traffic light. "That's not true," Mrs. Willson asserted. "I've been driving for technical problem of a very sharply peace-time its port handled up to 80,000 27 years. 1 made an entirely correct left turn. The only reason I got a ticket is curving approach to the bridge—a tough tons of cargo a day. War-time tonnage because a very attractive young woman was-riding with me and this cop wanted to engineering poser. 'It was the toughest U.S. Fliers cannot be told. of course. It has 178 talk with her. She wouldn't talk to him, so he got mad and wrote out a ticket., Bailey job I've es.er seen," said I / Lt. berths for big ships in its docks. Its He's nothing but a wolf." cranes—more than 540 of them—are 90 "Maybe he's a wolf, and maybe Ise isn't." countered the judge. "But as for Joseph McGlinchey, of Pittsburgh. 'See' V-2 per cent intact some of them can lift When McGlinchey's men arrived they you, I think you're guilty." A Fortress gunner and a P38 photo up to 150 tons. Its tugs have Ueen had to throw something across the Saar brought buck from England. to where Explains which would connect a vital supply line reconnaissance pilot each saw a German - Benched Sonter vell V-2 rocket in flight during recent mis- they escaped when the Germans occupied NEW YORK. Dec. I (ANS)—Lt. Gen. .on the main road. Twelve hours previ- the port, and its 250 Belgian pilots are ST. LOUIS. Mo., Dec. 1 (ANS) - ously a short treadway bridge had been sions, it was revealed yesterday. Shortly after the opening of a murder Bretton B. Somervell, head of the Army S/Sgt. John M. McDowell, 1317 waist back at work. Service Forces, told built—but that wasn'tcapable of handling Aboard the Weaver when it docked at case, CircUit Judge James E. McLaughlin the tremendous flow of supplies. gunner from Wisdom, Mont., and declared a mistrial because of a "mental industrialists today member of the 100th Bomb Group, was Antwerp were several hundred GIs of a hazard." After a heavy chandelier had that "if all the shift• As a straight approach is 'absolutely flying ov'er Germany when he saw a port company commanded by Lt. Rayne fallen on an empty bench, the court ing requirements of essential to constructing a Bailey bridge, bluish-white vapor trail 10,000 feet below W. Labre. of Escanaba, Mich. They announced that the four other chandeliers the war could have and there wasn't any, 80 600-pound his plane. He said it was about the size had loaded barges for D-Day. Now they hadn't been inspected—so he ordered a been foreseen, the panels had to be fitted into place and of the contrail from a single Fort engine, piled in to unload the convoys. mistrial. war would be over extended across the river intact. And but going straight up. Aboard the Weaver also was a lone by now." Somer.- to do this they had to blast away buildings "Before I could bat an eye," McDowell• Christmas tree. It was destined for the • sitting on the river's bank. Bulldozers United Seamen's Service Club- in John Wayne Divorced yell attacked per- said, "the rocket was flashing by us and sons who "had con- had to remove the rubble, while a tank we were up at 24,000 feet." He added Antwerp. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1—Actor John cluded" that the had to be used to pull a crane out of the Wayne. star of Western films, and his the rocket seemed to be about 40 feet U.S. was building mud. long, cylindrical, with a pointed nose and wife, the former Josephine Saenz, were up stockpiles. And all this in 36 hours, while Germans divorced today. bulging belly. FDR Fires "I can assure sitting on high ground kept sweeping the I /Lt. Charles M. Crane Jr., of you, if you have whole area with a barrage of artillery Methuen, Mass., was flying a PRU mis- Can Can, Too thought these fire at least every half-hour_ SUNIERYELL sion when a rocket hurtled within 100 Biddle Aide LOS ANGELES, Dec. I (A/CIS)—High- things." he said. "I wish the doughfoots would know yards of his plane. Crane managed to school hero Jim Mason, outstanding "that you are wrong." He cited "greater the amount of blood and heartache that snap a picture of the vapor trail. WASHINGTON, Dec. I (UP)—In one athlete and orator, won the S100 prize for than expected- troop expenditures for vent into that bridge," said S/ Sgt. George "We were flying at about 20.000 feet. of his-sternest actions, President Roose- being the best home, canner in his class. present shortages. McBrien. of Springfield, Mass., who It streaked past and took about four velt yesterday fired one of his own boiid the second platoon. seconds to disappear," he said, appointees, Assistant Attorney General Norman M. Littell, for "insubordination" Army Pitches a Fork Into 'Mexican Hayride' to Attorney General Francis Biddle. NEW YORK, Dec. I (ANS)—There'll be a slight delay in servicemen overseas The President's action was disclosed seeing the USO-Camp Shows version of the Broadway musical hit "Mexican IWarners Quit Hays Office by the Justice Department. Hayride." The Littell-Biddle feud, smoldering According to Producer Michael Todd, who put together the show which stars HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 1 (ANS)— while other studios have," Warner since May, 1942, came to a head yester- Bobby Clark, somebody in the Army decided after trial showings of the musical Warner Brothers studios announced today officials said. "We've also disagreed on day when the Senate War ,Investigating in camps in the States that there were a few lines and a situation or two which they had withdrawn from voluntary countless matters, ranging' from what is Committee made public a document in would make the boys' minds stray too far from work. Hence, the whole thing good taste and what isn't and how we which Littell, head of the Public Lands is in the process 'of being toned down and the east rehearsed. membership iii the Hays office, film morals should handle ow- wage negotiations. Division of the Justice Department, "I don't quite get it," Todd said. "It isn't a case of the girls being scantily censors, and henceforth would put a "We wouldn't put anything in our charged - Biddle with subservience to dressed. After all, they let the boys have pinup pictures." sweater on any actress they thought pictures that wouldn't pass the censorship Thomas Corcoran, former New Deal would look good in one. rules of every state and we will continue "inner-circle" figure, at the expense of No Junior Miss Marriage in Ashes Studio spokesmen said its executives to co-operate with the League of the taxpayers. LAS VEGAS, Dec. I (ANS)-- LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (API—Forty- had been titling for several months with Decency." Rep. Jerry Voorhis (D.-Cal.) intro- The 'an Joseph junior high school burned seven years of married life ended in representatives from the Hays office. The only difference, spokesmen con- duced a resolution for investigation of down, but there was no childish jubila- divorce yesterday for May and Andrew known officially as the Motion Picture tinued, would be that from now on the case by the House Judiciary Commit- tion, for authorities immediately hired Clines. She objected to his smoking Producers and Distributors of America. "Warner Brothers will interpret what is tee. Voorhis took issue with the Presi- four rooms in private homes as tempor- cigarettes. "We haven't been getting co-operation, good taste and what isn't." dent's grounds for dismissal. ary classrooms. Bomb Pioneer Dies On Schedule WASHINGTON. Dec. I (API—Rear Dick Tracy By Courtesy o Chicago Tribune By Chester Gould LOS ANGELES. Dec.. 1 (ANS)— Adm. Andrew Pickens, who was credited Burglars who broke into a textile com- with being the first man to design and I HOPE THIS Ti-11140 YES, MR TRACY PATTON OKAY, TAKE DOESN'T GO TOO FAR. PHONED ME an' I DON'T YOUR NEW pany today carried off, among other drop a bomb in the U.S.. died today OKAY, TAKE EXCUSE ME, VITAMIN, IT'S PART OF A SCHEME UNDERSTAND?? YOU SAy "DISCOVERY" things, the firm's card-punch time clock. at 62. THOSE LINES WANT TO HAVE I'VE WORKED OUT AND TH 5 IS ALL PART °PA FOR ALL I AGAIN. A PEW WORDS WITH I HOPE I WORKS. PLOT To CATCH A CARE. I'M SNOWFLAKE, MR. WOOD. THE CRIMINAL? THROUGH. T1415 Now It's Her Move DuCER IS TUE EN27 774 • • ) `ill mimmt .1 di GI Joe Comes Home With Gift' 111111E11111 1 1. For Wife: A Baby by Another ray loliipiili Stars "Id Stripes U.S. Bureau Mrs. Rose Whitehouse, whotn he married PHILADELPHIA, Dec. l—This city of nine years ago. By Counesy of News Syndicate By Milton Canif "brotherly love- today found itself de- However, Mrs. Whitehouse's brother, Terry and the Pirates who admitted his sister was "upset. ' had bating the question: -"Should the child- this to say: SAWS—pa c5ANI6 LEE, n415 less wife of a soldier accept a baby boils Hopit oF/THE ENYELoPe WAS LEFT "If I had done a thing like that I PINNER— BY 711E SARIS • as a result of her husband's overseas wouldn't expect my wife to take me buck. FfNisHED... LIEUTENANTGNAInfe; romance?" but Whitehouse will have to see Rose WHEN HE DEPARTED WITH THE 0714E1;5— Pfc Arthur Whitehouse, a former in- about that." Whitehousc's mother accepted the terior decorator stationed in Ne)vfound- baby, temporarily, exclaiming: "I didn't land since April, 1942, has been given a expect this kind of Christmas Present." 32-day furlough to deliver his 10-months- Army sources reported that White- old child—unwanted by its mother, a house had written his wife telling her of civilian nurse—to his family. the baby and expressing hope she would Whitehouse took baby Geraldine to his like to have the child, since they are mother because he wasn't sure just what childless. But Mrs. Whitehouse wouldn't kind of reception she would get from confirm this yesterday. rAir- ".7" matl - Printed In England by The Times Pnbli$17In8 Company, Linited, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4 and Publbhed b; she United Stales Armed Forces-2-12-44.