Vr)

Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Francois Bceilen Sie sich. TRIPES C'est dans mes moyens. Buh-ailen Zee sikK. Say don may mwah-YAN. fiturry up. dally Newspaper of U.S.-Armtd for, the European Tfteitef of Opmtjons I can afford it.

Vol. 1—No. 146 lFr. JVewYort—PARIS—Londoji lFr. Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944 Nazis 20 Mi. Into Belgium

Tiny Unit Delays Tank Column 6 Hours No Great Damage By Hal Boyle eight o'clock—and lost it again at nine. It was burn- Associated Press Correspondent ing when we finally pulled back at noon. A BELGIAN VILLAGE UNDER GERMAN ATTACK, "At ten o'clock, I got another of my guns up," Dec. 19 (AP).—One lieutenant and two anti-tank Doherty continued. "Pour Royal Tiger tanks came InDriveThusFar, gun crews knocked out four German Tiger "Royal" moving down the street. With their first shots each tanks yesterday in a flaming street battle which held of my guns set one Tiger ablaze. up a Nazi armored column for six hours until Amer- "Nobody came out of one tank, and only two crew ican reinforcements arrived. The column was spear- men got out of the' other. They ran into a house heading the counter offensive in that sector. and climbed to the roof—so we shot the roof right Washington Says But for the battle wisdom of Lt. Jack Doherty, 27, out from under them." of Latrobe, Pa., and the valor of his gun crews, this Another German tank was hit by both guns simul- fight would have been lost before it was well started, taneously, and a fourth Tiger backed along the road like a blind, trapped beetle. During the fight, an- Field Marshal von Rundstedt's mighty counter-offensive and the speedy German column might have been in the Ardennes, seemingly designed to split the Allied front miles inside the American lines shooting up rear area other Tiger had moved out and found a better corner. outfits. "It had a better firing angle than we did—it could in two, swept on yesterday under a news eclipse from which shoot at us, but we couldn't get back at it very well," filtered only the fact that German armor had plunged 20 Doherty and his men, supported only by a single Doherty said. company of doughboys who would have been power- The Nazi monster tank knocked out Doherty's half- miles into Belgium. less to take on the tanks alone, bore the brunt of track and set his jeep on fire. Doherty ordered his As Nazis smashed through war-razed Belgian villages, the sledgehammer thrusts by the vanguard of the men back. He managed to pull back one of the guns other German forces defending the Saar and the Rhineland Gentian armored smash. with the help of Sgt. Louis Celanto, New Haven, Conn., fought the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies to a standstill. "It was still dark when I sent one of my three-inch Cpl. Roy Abies, Cleveland, Tenn., the gunner, and Frontline reports pictured bias- anti-tank guns across the stream at the edge of the the rest of the crew. ing tank battles, exploding V- town to try to hold the wooden bridge there," Doherty To protect them, the leading gun, commanded by bombs and artillery and fleeing re- recalled. "We did hold it until daybreak, when Sgt. Martin Hauser, of Los Angeles, Calif., and Gun- fugees, but the massive air battles machine-gunners drove us away, but we retook it by 5 Packs for All (Continued on Page 8) of the first two days died away, yesterday as swirling fog hampered Is Butt Ration Lulftwaffe and Allied planes. B29s Keep Up Before the fog rolled in, however. Armed Stag Line Greets GIs Ninth Air Force planes smashed For Next Week 95 enemy tanks and damaged ai Attacks on Jap least 26 more in support of Amer- In Battle-Scarred Ballroom Com Z headquarters announced ican ground troops who lashed yesterday that the cigarette ration back to halt the breakthrough. Plane Industry next week for all soldiers supplied By Allan Morrison by PXs would be five packs, pro- 20 Miles from German Border Stars and Stripes Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (ANS) viding "a uniform ration for all The news blackout on ground ^-^China-based superforts bombed WITH THE 95th DIV. IN SAARLAUTERN, Dec. 19.— personnel in the ETO." The an- operations was lifted momentarily industrial targets on Kyushu Island Doughfeet of one platoon of the First Battalion 377th Inf. nouncement added: "When stocks by reports of British Typhoon again today in another blow at the arranged and kept a bloody tryst in the long, shell-scarred have reached the necessary level attacks on 20 German armored roots of Japan's air power, the War the normal ration of seven packs vehicles "west of St. Avelot." This Department announced in Washing- ballroom of a hotel facing on the Goebbelsplatz in mid- will be resumed." Belgian town is 20 miles from the ton today. Fraulautern, just across the river. Rear echelon troops here were German border and due west of The big bombers of the 20th Air The infantry knew they had cut from seven to five packs Nov. Malmedy. Force attacked Oura, whose big Pocket Ships Hit reached the outer ring of the Sieg- 6, and got none in the two weeks It is eight miles south of Spa plane factory has been the target fried Line when they crossed the following Nov. 13. The ration for and 22 miles east southeast of Liege. of three previous raids, less than By RAF at Gdynia Saar after cleaning out this Nazi the last three weeks has been two American lines appeared to be 24 hours after the same air force industrial center. And the deeper packs, although PXs in the UK re- stabilizing along the front in Bel- turned to five two weeks ago. gium, United Press front reports had blasted factories at Hankow, LONDON, Dec. 19.—An estimated into the city the Americans pushed, China, and 21st Air Force bombers the harder the fight became. No official amplification has been said, but in Luxembourg the situa- 500 RAF Lancasters last night made of the original statement tion was reported still fluid. Grim- from Saipan had blasted the The tempo became red hot when struck at the German-held Baltic that the cut was to allow combat fa ^ed doughboys took up positions Mitsubishi aircraft plants at Na- the Yanks neared the Goebbelsplatz goya, on Honshu Island. port of Gdynia, with 2,500 tons of men "their full ration." Members in areas which only a few days and the hotel adjoining it. The of the House Military Affairs Com- before had been considered well in Photographs showed that "dam- bombs. Chief targets were the hotel was a large building and the age was clearly extensive to the German pocket battleships Scheer mittee said in Paris Dec. 3 that the rear. fire that came from it told of troops high American officers told them At Washington, War Department factory area with the precision and Lutzen, and a number of Nazi inside with a fanatical conception bomb pattern sweeping from the there were plenty of cigarettes at authorities said the counter-offen- i submarines and destroyers. of Fatherland defense. European storage depots, but that sive against the U.S. First Army edge of Nagoya Bay harbor directly The battleship Gneisenau, shat- The observers sent back fire direc- across the plant district," a com- lack of transportation, due to the had done no great damage yet and tered into uselessness by-previous tions to the artillery and several need to keep supplies flowing to was designed primarily to boost munique from Brig. Gen. Hansen's missions were called. Concentra- Saipan headquarters revealed. air attacks, is also believed to be the front, caused the famine in German morale, United Press said. In the Philippines, the retaking docked in the Polish port. (Continued on Page 8) rear areas. Officials were confident the Ger- of Mindoro Island went ahead at (Continued on Page 8) full tilt .without the slightest ground resistance from the Japs. U. S. com- Word Goes Round 'n' Round—Town Goes manders announced that at least Nazi Air Activity 742 Jap planes had been put out Of action in the last week. WITH THE FIFTH INF. DIV. next floor who passed it on to a soldier told the man in the kitchen Hampered by Fog IN GERMANY.—Sgt. Patrick Yank in another room who re- who yelled it down to a GI in the Henry, of the third platoon of the basement who told the recon liaison layed it to a man on the ground Fog, blanketing most of the Senio River Crossed Fifth Recon. Troop and Alderson, floor who shouted it to a man at officer who got on the telephone W. Va-i co-oper- Western Front yesterday, sharp- By Indian Patrols the door who and told division artillery. ly reduced Luftwaffe activity ated with the rest passed it on to Div. arty gave the mission over and held the tactical air war down ROME, Dec. 19 (UP).—Indian of the Fifth Div. a soldier in the the phone to the 46th FA Bn. The to a minimum. patrols which crossed the Senio recently to adjust street who walk- 46th loosed a couple of rounds and Approximately 200 sorties had River today, three miles southwest artillery fire on a ed over to the Sgt. Henry adjusted it and gave been flown by Ninth AF fighter- of Route Nine, presumably with- company of Ger- recon car and "fire for effect," which passed back bombers as night fell, ending the drew: after brief contact with the mans and raze told the radio the same route as the original re- first day in which counter- Germans in the day's only major the town of Fre- operator. The quest. Germans started running attacking German forces have action on the Italian front. The derichweiler, near radio operator out of the woods toward -Frederich- not been provided with strong Germans counter-attacked on a Saarbrucken. sent it back weiler as the guns zeroed in on Luftwaffe support. small scale in the Naviglio bridge- It started when to the liaison them. So Henry, starting the chain A single' sizable Nazi forma- head, but were repulsed. Henry, from his recon car at of command again, adjusted the tion — 70 planes — was hurled North of Faenza, fierce counter- observation post in. the attic of a division headquarters, The radio fire and killed Jerries as they ran against a force of fighter-escorted attacks with tank support forced tall house in a town 2,000 meters operator in the recon at division Into the town. Then, fearing he RAF Lancasters smashing at the British back to the main Bo- from Frederichweiler, observed a glanced disagreeably at the rain out- might have mi-ssed somebody, the Trier area. In fierce dog- logna highway, but northwest of company of Jerries in the woods side and yelled his information to a Henry called for a couple of con- fights, 11 Nazi planes were shot Faenza the British continued to between the towns. Henry shouted soldier at the door of the command centrations on the town which left down with a loss of four Ninth gain. a fire direction to a GI on the post of the liaison section. ^This not a'house unblasted. AF Thunderbolts. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944 An Editorial eiow it- 'The Final Hour'—Rundstedt OUT Heat GI Philosophy. An old maid is a girl who said "No" once too "Everything is now at often. • * * stake and you knotb it"— Stench About Trench Who said that? When a hus- Von Rundstedt. From the amount of agitation on band starts playing with fire it's the prevention of trench foot it the wife that burns. * * * seems to me that there must be a • *' * omorrow is taking a lot of guys who don't believe that Draft joke (repeated by request): T mauling from the Wehr- it can be prevented. For those who "I got my classification today," macht. The Luftwaffe is in think that, let me say that the 30th said a middleaged businessman. the skies. The Panzers are Inf. Div. has always made a "I'm in Class 5B.: Baldness, Bridge- practice of seeing that everyone work, Bifocals, Bay window and rolling again. The Valer- has plenty of changes of socks and Bunions." iana- is reaching into its last the officers see that everyone does • * ♦ A Pfc we knew sez that there hidden reservoirs for the keep dry socks just as much as blood, the sinew, the will to possible. are two kinds of people in the Those suggestions in The Stars ward off the blows that rain and Stripes aren't deep medical upon it from every side. secrets, they're just plain common The hope that wells within sense. They're the thing that any the German people as they GI should have been doing ever since he hit basic. pick up their papers is Trouble is some of us forget the easily guessed. Can fate be things that look like little things fended off? Can retribution when we get in a hot spot. But be delayed? Can Rundstedt for our part we look at a trench foot or anything else like it as just succeed where Ludendorff as much of an enemy as a Jerry failed? Can the march of shooting at us. Army—enlisted men and the people events be turned back—can And we take a lot of precautions with clothes that fit. the nightmare end and the when it comes to people shooting * ♦ * at us, too. Any soldier will keep Tokyo radio report: "We are 1940 fantasy be dreamed his rifle clean enough to shoot. He pleased to announce the destruc- again? has to protect himseli. Seems like tion of an American torpedo by The answers are being just common sense to keep your one of our largest cruisers." ♦ • * given on the battlefield. the last vicious strike. The feet in good working order. We sent chance of damage and Today's daf f ynition. Alimony: They and we will know the darting of fangs. The snap- death. The fierce resistance haven't had a man out of our out- The high cost of leaving. answers soon. fit with trench foot so far and * * ♦ ping of the tail. The bleed- —the clinging to life. Until We're not supermen. If the 30th Another unsigned verse left in If you have ever killed a ing mouth. The horrible the sun goes down and the tan do it any outfit can do the our typewriter: snake, today's events must tossing and turning of the lame thing.—Pvt. G. E. Ford, Inf. carcass lies quiet. Mary had a little limb. bring back old memories. hacked and battered body. In fact, she sported two. Not until then—Tomor- . * * * And every time she took a swim, The twisting, the writhing, The danger—the ever-pre- row. M You would accomplish more, The soldiers • cried• ,• Woo-wooo!" we are sure, by telling us how The scene is a court-martial con- to cure—not prevent it. It's ducted by the Nazis. "You have too late, for prevention now. called our Fuehrer an idiot. You SOMEWH We are sure, had we been are thereby guilty of three crimes. told earlier about trench foot, You have indulged in enemy pro- we'd have done our best to paganda; you have libelled the prevent it. Take it from us, head of the Reich, and you have EUROPE it's no picnic to have it. betrayed a military secret." , is going to see me. And when he Many times we've wanted to There s That Man Again Pfc Delbert Jackins, of LaCrosse, does, he's going to say: 'To hell Wis., were pretty proud their remove our wet shoes and rub Overheard in the blackout. "My When the "Bridge Busters," B26 of with the T/O, make that man a little pet. But one day a division and wiggle our sore aching toes, girl has a seven-day kiss. It makes group commanded by Col. Richard Pfc.'" but Jerry had other ideas—and one weak." T. Coiner, of San Antonio, Tex., mortar section opened up with a we'd have to wiggle something • • » approach their home base after a * * * barrage and, at the first blast, Her-? else. Afterthought. Courtship makes mission, Pvt. James W. Deane al- No Date With Betty mann tucked his flea-bitten, fuzzy We're not bucking for a a man spoon and matrimony makes ways is standing at the head of the tail between his legs and ran—to- him fork over. Engineers of 35th Div. gulped ward the rear. Purple Heart. That remark runway to salute the colonel's ship. wTiea Lt. Ira Austin, of Seneca, * # * Was uncalled for, and we don't J. C. W. "Some day," he says, "the old man Kan-, emerged from a field he'd like to be called careless. just crossed with his patrol. Bath-House Mystery Many a doggie has had to Front With Mauldin He had led 12 men through When a platoon of Third Armored discard his food rations, and an area containing 289 Nazi Div. infantrymen cleaned the Nazis such items as dry socks, over- "Bouncing Betty" mines. out of a factory district in Germanyi shoes, sleeping bags, etc., are the men discovered that one of the things we've read about, but * * * factories had hot and cold running have not seen. We feel it was Battle Commissions water. Lt. Arthur A. Prieskorn, of quite asinine of you to print Wayne, Mich., called a break and such an article.—'Four "Careless Battlefield commissions have been awarded to three former staff Doggies," Inf. sergeants in combat engineer bat- * * * talions. They are 2/Lts. James F. Postlewate, of Hot Springs, Ark., An article in a recent Stars and and Carl W. Keeter, of Weldon, Stripes regarding trench foot sug- N.C., both of the 237th Eng. Bn. gests the following remedy based on experience: Who supervised clearing of obstacles on Normandy invasion beaches. There were eight of us in a small 2/Lt. Herman L. Berken, of Rayne, area without overhead shelter of La., received the first battlefield any kind. It poured for two days commission in the history of his and nights and we were unable Eng. Bn. move from this spot. We all were loaded down with all * * * sorts of equipment, but one of the Happy Birthday fellows had a roll of—let us say Birthdays are a three-way tissue paper—one towel and a can family affair for T/4 Johnny of foot powder. M, Barrows, of Mesquite, Tex., ths men started cleaning several Under a raincoat each fellow in and1 the 102nd Inf. Div. Both days' dirt off their bodies. turn took off his shoes and socks he and his wife were born on It was while the looey was wiping and had his feet dried with the Nov. 12. Johnny recently re- the lather off his face that he began paper, rubbed .with the towel and ceived word from home of the to wonder why the hot water re- powdered. This was done to each birth of his daughter, Beverly mained constant. He made a flying man once each day and it really on Nov. 12. trip to the basement and found six felt swell.—Pfc B. J. Locin, MPEG. husky German soldiers still shovel- * * * ling in coal. THE STARS AND STKIl'KS Once a Nazi... Nobody told them the Yanks had taken over. Printed at the New York Herald Hermann was a black and homely Tribune plant, 21 rue de Berrl, Pari*, German dog which caught onto the O' *L Folks at Home Send for the 0.S. armed forces under ami English language readily enough— Pices of the Information and Educa- Dirtris These GisSwm News tion Division. Special and Informa- but he was Nazi through and of Sir Stork's Arrival: tion Services. ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYsees through. 40-58, 41-49. fiPh. Leonard Roberts, N.Y.O.—Norma, Three men worked out a system Dee 10; Oapt Anthony A. Guzowskf, Contents passed by the U.S. Army Bay Shore. N.Y.—girl, Dec. 8; Mai. J08 and Navy censors. Entered as second of education for Hermann and even Piper, Greenville, .O. girl, Dec. 12; Lt. class matter, Mar. 15, 1943, at the taught him to chase livestock out s — Howard S. Oleck, Brooklyn—Annabell, Dec. post office. New York, N.Y., under of the area. And S/Sgt. Joe Ren- 3; Capt. John Power Jr.. Nashville—Joh» the act of Mar. 3. 1878. O., Nov. 15; T/3 Glenn M. Carson, Fowler* Vol. 1, No. 14fl don, of Salt Lake City; Opt Ken- "It's either enemy or off limits.' neth Miller, of Canton, 111., anda vine, Mich.—boy, Oct. 3; Pfc Clarence % unyon, Marion, Ind.—girl, Oct. 4. .sir:- .. When we assumed the role of soldier NEWS SHORTS we did nof lay aside the role of citizen." OFF THE WIRE George Washington.

WASHINGTON (AP).—H a 1 f-a-b i 11 i o n dollars worth of new plant construction is planned to boost production of shells for o infantry mortars, it was disclosed by W morrow «r Production Board Chairman J. A. Krug. He observed at the same time that the armament task of the Home Front may Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Vol. 1—No. 2 Page 3 retard reconversion for some time after Germany collapses. The drive to get production programs of other war implements up to the pace needed for all-out war on two major fronts is showing "excellent progress," the WPB JOBS-WHEN WAR IS WON chairman told a news conference. New workers are entering war plants in "en- A week ago today, the first issue couraging numbers," he pointed out. of this new supplement TOMOR- By Jack Caldwell Efforts to recruit labor, and step up ROW was carried. Something was Tomorrow Staft Writer production of vital weapons and supplies said in an editorial that will hold Increased fierceness of fighting on the flaming Western Front emphasizes anew today's are beginning to pay off, and "the whole good until the last shot is fired on No. 1 job on both the battle and home fronts—that of kayoing the enemy. Reports from the spirit seems much better," Krug com- all the fronts where our side is fight- States reveal no let-up in the nation's determination to meet growing war demands from mented. ing: "Tomorrow is a long way off. botlx the European and Pacific theaters. Munitions and more munitions is the battle cry "Encouraging reports have come in from When it will come, no man knows.'' back home today, and will be tomorrow and every day until the final shot has been fired. Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Phila- Now the front lines are blazing Back of all this all-out production effort—but without interference whatsoever with delphia, where machine tools, foundry pro- more than ever. That's the war today's urgent needs—government, business and labor leaders are planning for the day ducts, heavy tires and other urgently today— grim and furious and tough. when peace returns—and jobs will be uppermost in the minds of the guys now doing the needed materials are made." But tomorrow is what we're fighting fighting. for—that day when we can return to Many companies already have started the the job of being Joe Citizen. Mean- ball rolling by re-hiring their old employes A recent War Production Board survey while, this new supplement TOMOR- honorably discharged from the services. shows that Americans today are ready to ROW will cover your Home Front— One of these, International Harvester Com- buy 3,900,000 washing machines; 3.500,000 as it is today, how it's forming the pany, has offered a job as good as or better refrigerators; 1,800,000 sewing machines future as it carries on its share of than the one he left to each of its 1,316 and a like number of vacuum cleaners; the present fight. former workers—including many disabled 2,400,000 toasters and 12,500,000 alarm men—already released by the armed forces clocks. who have applied for re-employment. Add this to the hundred-and-one other Large and Small things the guys now sporting khaki and Gals Swap Pans Both large and small industries, includ- blue will want when they get home and ing the giant Bethlehem Steel Corporation, you get some idea of the magnitude of are taking steps now for the rehiring of post-war production prospects—and jobs. For Postwar Job all their old employes and many new ones The nation's inoustrial and business to meet post-war demands for goods and leaders have taken all this into considera- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP) .—Another commodities. Hundreds of cities and towns tion when they say that private enterprise angle was* pitched at the lively question throughout the country also are pitching is ready to meet the demand for a high of "Will women work after the war?" when in to have jobs ready for their returning level of employment as well as productivity the Northwestern Life Insurance Company citizens. when the millions of Johnnies go marching revealed that seven out of ten gals now The guys we'll be working for when we home. employed may want to retain their jobs return our ODs to Uncle Sam aren't going . Cupid and the stork will account for a Acme because of current circumstances that did into the future with their eyes closed and large portion of the post-war market, NEW YORK. — It takes no Atlas to not exist in 1918-20. blindly handing out campaign promises of especially in the construction industry. The balance the new-type aluminum gasoline The company's survey disclosed that "jobs for everyone." For the first time nation's builders look forward to the con- drum developed for the Air Transport Com- this high percentage of women may stay in history, they're gearing their war-to- struction of 900,000 dwellings a year for mand's Chine-Burma-India run. Tipping on their jobs primarily because they are peace change over on careful, advance several post-war years. This, along with the scales at 21 pounds, the lightweight voters—whereas they were not immediately planning to avoid any post-war production industrial construction, will call for direct drum is 30 pounds lighter than the con- after the last war. The survey points out and job hitches. employment of some 2,100,000 men, they say. ventional type. It will make possible the that since the women are voters, and will Economists agree the demand for civilian carrying of hundreds of thousands of ad- probably demand more political attention ditional gallons by the Army Air Forces. for their economic needs, their interest \r MEXICO—Mexico is now at work on working will pick up. a ten-year program to bring electricity It is estimated that at the end of the war lines to every Mexican town with a 200,000 women will have undergone from population of 1,500 or more. The full six to 12 months' technical training at project is expected to cost at least college levels. These women, the survey $60,000,000. At present 12 million of points out, are unlikely to cast aside thei; Mexico's 22 million inhabitants are training and go back home. beyond the reach of electricity. Another probability is that veterans WASHINGTON—Most curbs on food sales attending college will leave jobs open to in" the States will end with Germany's women. defeat in Europe, according to Lee Mar- shall, director of distribution of the War Food Distribution. He warns that govern- ment war-food buying will continue to be 'Kids' Demand Vote heavy. To meet the government's needs food-production goals for 1945 will be NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 19—"If' we re about the same as for 1944. ' old enough to fight, we're old enough to NEW YORK—Army yets with ad- vote" was the statement rnade by 43 vertising and merchandising experience thousand high-school students in a recent who are home are getting help in find- nation-wide poll to determine the feelings ind a job from Tide, the ad industry's of the youngsters on the question of lower trade magazine. Tide conducts a free- ing the legal voting age from 21 to 18. of-charge classified-ad section for The poll, conducted among 83,000 stu- service people, and sends forms for dents in 1,200 high schools by the Insti- stating background and abilities from tute of Student Opinion, showed that many its office at 232 Madison Ave. more favor a lowering of the voting age now than at this time last year. In New England, both boys and girls, still oppose the proposal, while in the Look Magazine middle Atlantic and Pacific Coast States Some Plants Already Are Re-employing Returning Vets boys favor the plan while girls oppose a change. goods and commodities after the war wiu This in turn will create jobs for an be enormous, and naturally enough. For estimated 4,000,000 more workers in supply- several years now Mars has had top priority, ing the necessary materials and services, with the result the family jalopy in most while countless other workers will be Free Press War Cure cases has either passed into the beyond needed for the resultant demand for fur- or is creaking with old age; home repairs niture, rugs, textiles and other household needs. EVANSTON, 111., Dec. 19. — Military have been neglected and household and personal needs have been shelved for the To help supply the construction needs, might and a universal free press will keep the forest industries look forward eagerly peace in the world after the war, according duration. 'Deferred Demand' to re-hiring their loggers and mill mechanics NEW YORK—The sky jalopy of to- to the findings of a poll among 175 World The same economists say the backlog of now serving Uncle Sam. morrow may be a commercial version War II veterans, now enrolled at North- "deferred demand"—things folks back home The auto industry alone, says Alfred P. of the jet-propelled plane, according to western University. would like to buy but can't—will top the Sloan Jr., chairman of General Motors Mechanix Illustrated Magazine. Today's More than 80 percent of the veterans 25-billion-dollar mark by the end of this Corporation, is gearing itself to meet an military models have set the pattern believed that peace can be maintained only year. Were all these wants to be spread expected demand for 6,000,000 cars a year for this advanced aircraft, which will through the use of armed force, the survey for the first several years after the war. showed, while an overwhelming 95 percent over a ten-year period, they add, this accommodate four and baggage, and demand alone would prove a strong stim- That's about twice the pre-war average travel at four times the speed of to- agreed that a free press in every nation ulant to the employment field. (Continued on Page 6) day's family car. would be a factor in averting future wars. Page 4 TOMORROW—THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944 Huntin' Ve VUl Go!

■ * AMPHIBIOUS WEASEL licks swamps of Soumwest Pacific. Duck hunters with sufficient $$ will lik- the tread and propeller craft for duck hunting.

LIGHT, PLYWOOD PACKS and camouflaged suits are in the war. In postwar period packs will please go-light hunters. Blotched suits are correct dress for duck blinds. When We Trade M-ls For Shotguns

TN A forest a gang of doughboys started weapons which will have been converted out to hunt boar during their stay at a to sporters, camouflaged suits for sneaking rest camp. They ended their sport junket up on a browsing buck deer or hiding m by picking off counter-attacking Germans. a duck blind, all to be had for the asking, Even in the face of determined enemy and a- few dollars. It is expected to sell assaults to crack our line the GI thinks of at low prices. postwar hunting. Joe knows he will fall Hunting and fishing licenses increased heir to a lot of war-tested equipment to by forty percent after the last war because make hunting even greater pleasure than so many GIs learned to like the outdoors. before. Hunting will have a great boost after this Joe, like his Dad of World War I, aims war. When the lads swap khaki for hunt- at Jerry but be sights a lot of pleasure in ers' plaids, the swales, upland woods, and the thought of hunting when he stacks tidal marshes will resound to a greatly his carbine or crawls from his tank for increased booming of guns. the last time. He has in mind deer, bear,, grouse, pheasants and other big and small game at home. The Joe who learned to like outdoor life, the zest of living by wits, will find some mighty familiar gadgets awaiting him— gadgets such as rifles and shotguns, and Nylon pup tents, down-filled sleeping bags, waterproof suits, and combat boots. Stuff that he knows by second nature because it is helping him beat off the fanatical - Huns. He will find that a semi-automatic car- bine is a terrific gun for deer hunting. ARMY CAMP STOVE will be mighty handy. It's light, easily packed and will burn And when it comes to strapping on a light during heavy downpours. No blackout worries, cither. plywood pack for a three-day outing in the deer woods, Joe will assemble the pack with eyes closed and with one hand while wife and family gape in proud surprise. The amphibious "duck" will live up to its name, and those who have the long green will discover it a sweet deal for duck hunting along marshy bottomlands. After the war it is a cinch that a great deal of GI equipment will be sold on the market for outdoor enthusiasts. The Army stove and flashlight, Nylon pup tent,

Photos by Time, Inc. Acme JNYLON PUP TENT and feather sleeping bags replace foxholes. Postwar nimrods will use GERMANS are in his sights now but Joe pictures this in his mind a flushed «rouse light tent and down-filled sleeping bags while bivouacked in deer areas. aligned with his gun barrel. Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944 TOMORROW—THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5

By Igor Cassini Tomorrow Staff Writer Believe it or not but American forests will No Football He Include Me Out be the sources of everything from tooth To prevent the bonus issue from becoming A Sgt. speaks for married Why all the bitching about the demo- paste to ink, in the post-war world, so said a political football I wish to offer the bilization plan. It's all right by me—and Yale University"s Prof. Robert Aries of following suggestion: I won't be going home for a long whi'e. NEW HAVEN, Conn., adding that the Upon receiving an honorable discnavge guys... A Pfc has plans for No, I don't want a career in the Army. forests can also produce dyes, baking from the service, the GI would have his I'm now 29 and would like to be home try- powder, medicines, paints, chewing gum, life-insurance policy converted by the schools... Four Joes take ing to make a name for myself in my perfumes, plastics, sugar and, oh yes, government into a "Bonus Annuity Policy." profession. Yes, I made more money in rubber. . . . JEFFERSON CITY'S MO., 175 off on vets... A T/5 has civilian life than as a GI (even with the local ;draft boards are already on the task 20% overseas oay) of returning war veterans to their former tax worries... A T/3 likes No. I'm not exactlv jobs pr of obtaining new jobs for them. a rookie after 98 Aboutl 30,000 veterans have already returned months. to Missouri through various types of mili- demob plan... And a Pvt. But every one tary discharges. . . can't go home first. harps on bonus issue. It seems fair to me • GJI Joe -vill wear "pasteurized- " that men who ve shirts and undies when he returns been the longest in the Eroiii home. In fact the entire family "wash" This would enable the GI to receive 50 Der- lines, with children to sup- from leather pillows to feminine frip- cent of the face value of his policy, oay- port, and who have more peries will be pasteurized, said the One Small Voice able to him by the government in five months, of service than I have nation's laundry-industry leaders in I've got some ideas about getting yearly instalments. The soldier would should be released before Tie CHICAGO, announcing their plan to men back into civvy life after the war's continue to pay the same low, monthly The WD demobilization make "the cleanest people in the world" over. I say let's ship combat-experi- premium "rate until death. At the time ot plan was based on interviews even cleaner. . A biilion dollars will enced men back to the States first, and his death the full amount of the policy with EM to see what the.v be spent in irrigating ARIZONA when would be paid to his beneficiary, minus give them a chance to see their homes thought would be the oes; the war ends. . . . the amount received during the five years and families, etc., by means of fur- system. I'm just one of the Former dens of social lions are oeing Supervision of this policy should be loughs and passes. But so far as actual 90% in the Army who think the scheme discharges go, I think married men, transformed into buildings of tomorrow. In government-controlled and worked out tc is O.K. Under the provisions of the plan, with or without children, should get PHILADELPHIA, Whitemarsh, the palatial, make the insurance rate attractive enough I'll be around a long time until Germany discharged first. 150-room mansion, which cost the late to encourage the ex-serviceman to continue and Japan are licked and occupied. But Edward T. Stotesbury $5,000,000 to build his payments even after he has received I can't think of a Fair system of choosing and $7,000,000 to furnish, is now a center the 50 percent from his policy. men to be released from service Soon that of scientific research. . . and in WASH- Pvt. Ira Brady, Inf. Div. v ould include me. INGTON the Edward B. McLean property, T/3 C. D. F. once the meeting place of the Capital elite, and recently changed to a parking Army Schools lot, will be metamorphosed into a two- Tens of thousands of unneeded troops wlil Vet to Vet thousand-seat motion-picture theater. be stranded in Europe and Africa after We heard that a post commander of t"he The "Kalcium Kids" of CHAMPAIGN V-Day. To keep them occupied, the Army Why? Because they are the guys American Legion thinks it would be fine and URBANA, 111., are back on reg- is rapidly completing plans for an elective who will start buying homes, ice boxes, if we would throw our chips in with them ular diets, after having loaned their educational program or a choice of super- furniture, etc., right off the bat—there- after this war is over, as we r.-culu oe tc. appetites to the Univ. of Illinois for vised recreation for the less serious-minded by helping to move the wheels of in- inexperienced to organize an outfit of our studies to determine calcium require- GIs. Many of the details will depend on dustry, and helping to hire more men own. Who is he trying to kid? ments for boys of high-school age. . . . where U.S. forces end up, what duties they as they come out of the Army. We've spent more time overseas than will still have to perform. But the program Maybe it's because he ate so many Very frankly, most of us single guys most of those guys did in the Army—not is sufficiently set to indicate that it will wheaties, but the GI in this war is two- aren't going to give a hoot about a job, wishing to take any credit away from thirds of an inch taller than the be much vaster in size and scope than any We'll probably take" a vacation first, them. In the first place, how did they doughboy of-World War I, according to ever established by a and we can do that just as well on get their start? Are W3 a bunch of kids a survey by Met. Life Ins. Co. post-armistice army. furlough. No plan on earth will satisfy who haven't gotten by the "wet pants" Included are four everybody, but I think the above will LIMA, O., believes it has "cornered the stage that we shouldn't have just as much types of schools: satisfy us as a nation. market" on twin births. A seventh pair of brain as they had 1. Basic unit Sgt. Hiram E. Forbes, Engr. 25 years ago? •wins—the seventh in 24 days—was born schools, attached to -n the Memorial Hospital; the other day. . . We will form a battalions, will range very formidable To give labor a regular radio voice, the from sixth grade Who'll Pay for It? block which could nation's major networks have decided to through second year contribute free air time to the various decide a hell of college. The curri- A suggestion to the people back home, a lot of issues in labor organizations after the first of the culum will include courses in mechanical who are trying to help the GIs. A law the future of our year. ... A goose, and not a duck, this crafts, agriculture, business administra- fixing the income-tax rate for all service time has broken into the news. Citizens country. Why tion, etc. men and women at the 1939 level (except should we have to of AVA, Mo., are very proud that a new 2. Centralized on the job, technical during any year when the tax rate should listen to some old record for goose longevity has been estab- schools will help GIs for future positions. "fogies," when we're going to be the "birds" lished in their town. The goose, the last 3. University study centers where liberal who'll be around fifty years after their of a flock raised by Misses Margaret and arts and pre-professional courses are ob- organization, as it stands now, will have Dora Smith, died at the age of 30. tained. The University of Paris has turned died out? There are ten million or so of The cigarette shortage in the States over twenty-five buildings. Another will us. Surely there must be a helmet full is not only hitting Attorney General be in London. of brains there, some place 4. Civilian universities will take in ad- Francis Biddle, who had to bum ciga- Four "Inexperienced" Joes rettes from Senators and reporters at vanced students on army scholarships. 5. - Except for the civilian universities, a recent Senate meeting, but even chil- go below that figure) is necessary. It all the schools will be Army-staffed with dren. In NEW YORK two-year-old would be the height of injustice to expect Tough Guy officers and EM who have pre-war teaching Linda Lanham was asked what she those who fought this war to have to pay experience. . This stuff about women at work after wanted most from Santa. "Cigarettes," for it when they return. We do not be- For home-sick GIs the Army emphasized the war gives me a pain. They'll do what was her solemn answer. . . . Plans to grudge the prosperity enjoyed by the peo- one point: the program will not delay any we men say—and I say that my wife is establish a post-war helicopter com- ple at home during these years of war, muting service serving WESTCHESTER, soldier from getting home. As soon as coming home with me. and no arguments. but feel that we deserve a little help 'o southern CONNECTICUT, LONG IS- their travel orders arrive the GIs can leave If we all take this viewpoint, there'll be establish ourselves. LAND and NEW JERSEY are now school. lots of jobs. T/5 Julian Friedman, Port. Bn. being formulated. . "Pfc James C. Mavridis. "Caveman."

10' Page G TOMORROW—THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944

Mail Via Rockets Some Crafty Ideas

HE fellows who fool ►I1 G League guessers T around with glass B predict thousands of tubing, mathematical doughfeet and tars will laws and high-priced take to water like ducks microscopes are doing after the war. These things with science top-flight business ex- nowadays that make perts figure a lot of Buck Rogers look like GIs will become Pop- past tense. eyes; that many cox- So, if someone happens swains will skipper their to tell you that car wheels are made from own pleasure craft and have a good time salt water and that the morning mail out doing it. of Omaha came via rocket express, don't Seaworthy Boats blink and gape. That—to a letter—Is GI interest is focused on seaworthy as- what's cooking. sault boats. These light, plywood craft, Down in Preeport, Tex., a Dr. Dutcn roughly 13 feet long with 5-foot beam, Beutel operates a plant where they swish weigh just 165 pounds. Light enough to plain old sea water around with cooked paddle or power with outboard motor, oyster shells. When the swishing around these shallow-draft boats can be carried is finished, pure magnesium metal comes on a car top or towed on a trailer to and out the other end of the pipes. from the water. And, they will be just the Lightest Metal thing for fishing, duck hunting, paddling around to build biceps or to pitch woo to Magnesium, the lightest structural metal the heart throb on a moon-drenched lake. known to man—and a good 50 percent The U.S. Maritime Commission fias lighter than aluminum—should play a big International News Photo already offered 2,936 of these obsolete but • role in a post-war manufacturing and build- LUCKY GEORGE KOWALCHUCK is first World War II vet in Chicago area—and unused assault boats at $75 each. Some ing program. Because of its strength it second in U.S.—to receive a GI home loan. Here he is with his wife and baby, choosing 1,800 used ones were made available to will probably be used to make car wheels, a bungalow, thanks to the GI Bill of Rights. boat dealers willing to buy them in bunches as other automobile parts. of 25 at a cost of $52.50 each. They will tell you down in Preeport that in each cubic mile of sea water there are firmly-anchored grassland. As long as the nine billion pounds of magnesium metal, Trees vs. Dust rainfall was, adequate, the strong winds of and science aims to do something about the* region could do little damage. At converting it into purposes more useful last, however, the dry years came, and the O anyone whom the plains' winds picked the withered earth than providing swimming space. T term "Dust Bowl" Rocket Mail clean. suggests a post-season Congress appropriated more than half-a- In the rocket world, astounding develop- football game, let it be billion dollars for drought relief that year, ments are foreseen. Dr. P. K Teichmann, recalled that this name and there was talk in the newspapers of chairman of the Aeronautical Engineering but a few years ago planting a 1,500 mile strip of forest 100- Dept. of New York University, predicts that described a vast area miles wide that would serve to break the mail will be delivered by rockets, and that of the United States. fierceness of the plains' winds. Such a it will take only three minutes for the That was when the gigantic strip did not materialize, but some- robots to travel from Chicago to New York wind was picking up thing better did. Today windbreaking trees Engine builders will market outboard, in- —a distance of 711 air-miles. millions of tons of powdery black soil from stretch for a total of 17,698 miles on 28,961 Just where these rocket mail couriers the flat, sun-parched farms of the Great board and power-boat engines that deliver individual farms through the Dakotas, more horsepower per pound than pre-war will land seems to pose the biggest head- Plains and ominous black clouds made it Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. ache at nresent, but Dr. Teichmann claims dark in cities far away. models. The small boat owner will be able Some 220,000,000 trees have been planted to carry his outboard without need to take j.iat this diificmty will be overcome by A lot of sad, bewildered people tied u under the Prairie States forestry project. a dozen easy lessons to become an Atlas means of expertly-designed launching plat- handkerchiefs over their mouths and In addition to keeping crops from being forms, spiffy automatic pilots and radio- watched helplessly as the rich top dirt of or a Samson. blown out of the ground or being smothered Prices probably will be jacked up 25 to beam controls. their homelands swirled away day after by dust, the shelter belts effectively curb Dr. Teichmann claims also that the day until little gullies and ridges of yellow 35 percent on boats, engines and accessories soil erosion from the too-rapid drainage due to higher labor and material costs. rocket bomb will prove useless as a weapon and rock showed through. Then they went of water and conserve ground moisture of war in future years, because of the The boost in initial cost will be whittled away, too. by checking evaporation. down in more economical operational cost. defense measures which can be worked out But long before the nation as a whole Thousands of farmers are working their to stop it. recognized the seriousness of the Dust Bowl, lands in the erstwhile Dust Bowl today be- the government was hard at work on the cause the shelter-belt trees have saved the Less Waiting Now problem. Agricultural men knew that the land. Instead of the seared and barren trouble all started back during the first miles of ten years ago, there is once again U.S. PLANS World War- when high prices for wheat led the fertile plain, producing much for the — — , . - I AMERICAN railroads (Continued from Page 3) to the plowing up. of too many miles of nation at a critical time. ^Tl*£liflS ' are carrvmS more | J^J goods and people this ! year than ever before, and means many more workers on the in- and are doing it in face dustry's payrolls. of shortages in men and This ties in with the country's advance equipment. They have planning for new highway construction. Of- Hepcoto ami Bovhiotm gotten a big lift in set- ficial studies suggest that after the war ting records for freight private-car traffic will increase 10 percent it seems. For the opening concert of and traffic from a gad- from the pre-war level, with corresponding By Joseph Wechsberg get that would make Casey Jones' eyes, sharp increases in truck and bus traffic. Tomorrow Correspondent the orchestra's 103rd season in Car- negie Hall, Arthur Rodzinski conducted blink, and which may erase some of the Inventions America's current No. 1 best seller is a heavy diet of Bach and Beethoven more painful aspects of railroading for the War-time inventions -and discoveries, Kathleen Winsor's "Forever Amber," a train rider of the future. luscious, one-thousand-page, Restoration and wound up with an encore—George especially in air travel, communications Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm". . . . If you've sat for hours on a railroad and the field of applied science generally, England novel, with a hot bedroom scene siding, waiting for a fast freight to bolt The wax rush is on, fellers. Now that will open new job opportunities for return- on every other page. The movies have through a single-track line, you'll appreciate already paid $200,000 for the screen rights, Music-boss James C. Petrillo's 27-month ban the potentialities of this new device. ing vets. The end of World War II, says on record-making is over, Victor and Lt. Gen. James G. Harbord, chairman of and Macmillan, the publishers, declare to Centralized traffic control, or CTC, as have another "Gone with the Wind" on Columbia are back in business again. Victor railroad men call it, allows the locomotive Radio Corporation of America, will mark will have the Boston Symphony under the start of the age of television. their hands. . . . The reading public still engineer and the conductor to operate goes all out for historical "escape" fiction. Serge Koussevitzky and the BNC Sym- trains without written orders. It's all done The Airways W. Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's phony under Toscanini, and also Dinah by electrical impulses, by signals from a And on sky travel, Donald Douglas, presi- Edge" and Lloyd C. Douglas' "The Robe" Shore, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw, Tommy control station that automatically change dent of Douglas Aircraft Co., has this to are still well toward the top of the best- Dorsey, Freddy Martin. Columbia's war passing-track switches and signals along say: "Never before in the history of avia- seller list. Both are religious books. . . . aim No. 1 is to get out The Voice, Frank the way. It sounds like magic, but under tion has there been such need for air The theme of the returning veteran Sinatra, for the enchantment of bobby socks this system two trains going in opposite transportation as exists today in time of gets more and more space on the non- and hep cats. Other Columbia stars: Harry directions on a single-track line can pass war and will be present tomorrow when fiction market. After Dixon Wecter James, Benny Goodman, Kate Smith—and each other without slowing down. peace comes." treated the whole problem, from the the New York Philharmony. Decca offers CTC is a train dispatcher's dream. At Government Work days of the Revolution to the end of the some new Bing Crosby, and such odd items strategic points along a rail line an last war, in his "When Johnny Comes as the Los Angeles Philharmony playing operator sits at an electrically-illuminated Legislation guaranteeing returning serv- "Holiday for Strings" and "Oklahoma," and icemen their old jobs will solve the re- Marching Home," Niven Busch has diagram desk which shows the movement written "They Dream of Home"—the Jascha Heifetz giving out with "White of trains along the line. By the movement employment problem for many. Many other Christmas." GIs may prefer to enter government work, story of five Johnnies marching home of knobs and levers, he controls wayside particularly because of recent legislation from foxholes and beachheads into the Life-in-Hollywood-as-usual depart- signals and switches at the passing tracks. which waives age, height and weight re- grim realities of civilian life. . . . Book ment: Charles Boyer and Irene in a With an eye on the panel showing the posi- quirements, besides giving other breaks to of the Month Club selection for Novem- new, brilliant comedy, "Together Again," tion of the trains, he throws these switches, the ex-GI who will seek some of the 870,000 ber was D. W. Brogan's "The American with Boyer for the first time relaxing and at the same time sets the signal to civil service jobs to be filled during the Character." Brogan, a British profes- from too much amour; Paramount tell the locomotive engineer what to do— first five years after the war. sor, tries to explain America and the winding up "Duffy's Tavern" with Ed stop, proceed, enter a siding, or leave a Loan provisions of the GI Bill of Rights Americans to Britain. Typical state- Gardner, and Bob Hope, terrific as ever siding and m( re to the next control point. will enable many discharged servicemen ment: "The U.S. . was made by in "The Princess and the Pirate." Best The whole business is handled on separate to realize a lifetime ambition of bossing matter-of-fact men with a clear head movie of the week is Fritz Lang's new wires, without interfering with the reg- their own small businesses—a sharp for bookkeeping." chiller-diller, "The Woman in the ular automatic safety-block signals. And decline in the number of retail stores and Come the Revolution, and the New Window," a psychological melodrama if anything gets snafued with either service trades since the war's start heigh- York Philharmonic Symphony will play that will make you forget the girl you're system, the lights go red to halt all traffic tens this opportunity. "encores." Well, The Day has come, holding hands with. until the trouble can be located. Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page V Hal Gregg of Dodgers Walters Paced Once Over Nelson Best Athlete Gets M's TS Slip Lightly NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Hal National's Arc NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Byron Gregg, Brooklyn pitcher, won " By Paul Horowitz Nelson, Toledo golf professional, the National League's TS Light Hurlers Sports Editor was voted the "athlete of the year" honors, according to baseball by 79 sportswriters, polled by the PACIFIC Coast baseball execu- figures just released today. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—William A tive, in a recent letter to Sport- Associated Press, votes being scat- The Dodger flinger hit nine tered among 40 different athletes. "Bucky" Walters, Cincinnati Reds' ing News, advocates teaching the batsmen, walked 137, made ten righthanded pitcher, was regarded thousands of PWs in the States Nelson won $45,000 in war bonds wild pitches, allowed 142 runs, during '44 and averaged slightly through the last baseball season as the game of baseball, so that when 120 of which were earned, and the best nightball twirler in the the war is over they may go back under 70 in 78 rounds of golf for had a nine-game losing streak. the season. He polled 75 votes. business. In fact, figures released to Germany and make the sport Each of these performances set today by the National League show- a national pastime there. Thus Each first place ballot was worth a league standard for the year. three points, second two and third ed he was about the best pitcher he says, baseball can become a by day or night. means of promoting post-war peace one. Slats Marion, St. Louis Cardinal Second only to Ed Heusser's 2.38 and a powerful propaganda in earned runs with a mark of 2.40, weapon in our behalf. To which, shortstop and National League's Pro Loop Plans "most valuable" player, was second Walters led the league in games we suspect, millions of GIs will won with 23 say, "Boche!" with 70 votes. Gunder Haegg, Swedish runner, took top honors Players' Pool against eight Not many years ago, Babe Ruth, last year. defeats, one a Lou Gehrig; Frankie Frisch and Others named in the poll and AKRON, O, Dec. 19.—An entirely three-hitter. other noted ballplayers toured their votes: Les Horvath, Ohio new procedure will be followed by Ace Adams Japan playing exhibition games to State gridder, 59; Hal Newhouser, the United States Football League won "Iron Man" the delight of thousands of Nips. Detroit pitcher, 44; Buddy Young, in the distribution of talent to honors pitching Baseball soon became vastly po- Illinois back, 31; Felix Blanchard, member teams. Harold "Red" in 65 games and pular in Japon, where they formed Grange, league president, said the another Giant Army fullback, 28; Arne Anderson, hurler, Bill Voi- leagues comparable to our major Swedish runner. 26; Don Hutson, league itself would maintain a circuits and games drew as many scouting staff and all newly-signed selle, started the Green Bay end, 18; Glenn Davis. players would go into a pool' for most games, 41; as 50,000 fans. But baseball in the Army back, 15; and Bill Dudley, Bucky Walters Byron Nelson distribution to different member pitched the Randolph Field back, 9. teams. most innings, 213; faced the most "We propose to establish a central batters, 1,327, and fanned the scouting system with the main most, 161. TCV's '3F' Football Team thought of keeping a balance of Ken Raffensberger, All-Star game power," the famous ex-Galloping winner, lost the most games, 20, Ghost of Illinois declared. with the Phillies; Mort Cooper of May Surprise Oklahomans Members agreed not to tamper the Cards pitched the most shut- with any player under contract in outs, seven, and Jim Tobin, of Bos- the National Football League, but ton, hurled the most no-hitters, two. DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 19.—The "FFF" or Fifteen Fighting said they considered the National Clyde Shoun. Reds' southpaw, League's reserve list "open terri- pitched a no-hitter against Tobin. Frogs will carry the hopes of Texas Christian's football team tory." Ted Wilks of the Cards won 11 for an upset victory over Oklahoma Aggies in the Cotton The six-team league will play straight and 17 against four losses Bowl game here New Year's Day. home-and-home series with the to top the league in percentages. They are the boys who carried the championship decidfd by percen- Besides Walters, other 20-game load through most of the season on Barnhill, Vols' Coach, tages. ' New York, Chicago, Phila- winners were Cooper, ,22-7; Voiselle, TCU's lightly-manned team and Signs 5-Year Contract delphia, Baltimore, Akron and 21-16; Truett "Rip" Sewell of Pitts- Orient didn't prevent Pearl Harbor. were dubbed the "FFF" by campus Honolulu are league members. burgh, 21-12. And it isn't likely Germans in cohorts who think they may be KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 19 — Honolulu will represent Buffalo or The Chicago Cubs and New Yer"; peacetime will care to substitute a good for one more surprise victory. John Barnhill, coach of the Ten- Cincinnati until the war ends. Giants broke a record by using 14 Louisville Slugger for a Mauser. Seven players are 17-year-olds, nessee football team, now en route pitchers in a game, July 23rd. six are ex-service men with medical to Pasadena to play Southern Ca- Phillies Sell Cieslak npHERE WAS a basketball game discharges, one is a 4F and one lifornia in the Rose Bowl, has PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.—Herb Rizzuto Now Catching at the Palais des Sports in Paris is a Navy V12 student. Jimmy signed a contract to coach the Pennpck, Phillies' general manager, When Phil Rizzuto's Navy team the other night, the usual pick-up Cooper, center, has the unique Vols for another five years, N.W. announced today the sale of Ted played in Australia, the Yankee game between GI teams, but one distinction of holding CEOs from Dougherty, head of the Athletic Cieslak, a third baseman, to Atlanta shortstop caught 13 innings with- smooth performer stood out pro- both the Army and Navy. Council, announced today. of the Southern Association. out making an error. minently. Inquiry revealed the Clyde Flowers, captain and player was Capt. Bill Hapac, of tackle, is the key man in the line Cicero, III., All-America eager at and Norman Cox, fullback, is the the University of Illinois is 1940. most dependable ground gainer. Old Men in Moleskin. Talk of Retiring The record book shows Bill set a Big Ten scoring mark when he By Andy Rooney during the game were Strong, 38, he had stolen the ball, but the netted 34 points against Minnesota Detroit Lions Sign The Stars and Stripes New York Bureau. and Abe Schwammel, Green Bay object he tucked under his arm that year. The six-foot-two-and- NEW YORK, Dec. 19 —The wise tackle, who is 36. and ran a few yards with turned one-half-inch eager played pro old men of the pro football firma- Game sidelights.—Johnny Weiss, out to be Ted Fritsch's helmet... basketball with the Chicago Bruins Cifers andMadarik Coach Steve Owen, Giant coach, for one season, then signed a De- ment, not altogether infirm, were used Lt. Al Blozis on defense only. troit baseball contract. He played DETROIT, Dec. 19.—The Detroit discussing plans to quit the game Every time the Giants got the ball, the outfield with Evansville in the Lions of the National League today as they wearily doffed their mole- Owen sent Tackle Vic Carroll in Three-Eye League and in '41 went announced signed post-war con- skins in the Polo Grounds dressing for Blozis. through spring training with Beau- tracts had been received from rooms Sunday. The Green Bay Ward Cuff played the best of- mont in the Texas League before Bobby Cifers and Elmer Madarik, Packers had just defeated the fensive game on the field, despite entering the service in June, '41. backs on Randolph Field's unbeaten New York Giants, 14-7, for the Fritsch's noteworthy performance... National Football League cham- T>AY LEE, Stars and Stripes Ramblers. Hutson had* the Giants worried all Cifers is a former Tennessee ace, pionship and Don Hutson was the during the game. One Packer London edition staffer, reports first to say he was through. there's a basketball team in UK while Madarik played for Detroit touchdown was due to the Giant the University under Gus Dorais, pre- While the former Alabama line- fears of Hutson. They put so many right now that could give the 29th man, now 33, was talking retire- Division's "Blues" a tough battle, sent Lions' coach. men on him, none left to cover were they to meet. The "Blues" ment in the Green Bay lockerroom, Fritsch, who caught a 27-yard pass burned the courts in the ETO last Walsh Goes Back to ND others declared they were hang- from Irv Comp, who ran in the op- year, but Lee says Col. George A. BRUNSWICK, Me., Dec. 19 — ing up their suits for good. Mel posite direction. Adam Walsh, head football coach Hein, in his 14th year as center in Curly Lambeau, Packers' coach, Moore's "Maulers" are the smooth- pro ranks; Amie Herber, who just est performers he's seen. at Bowdoin, said.today he would Curly Lambcau got the laugh last over Steve Owen go to Notre Dame to act as assis- ended his 12th season; Ken Strong, He Got Last Laugh on that pass play, for it com- The "Maulers," who have scored tant line coach in '45, but will concluding his 11th were Giants Jersey City kid who played a great pletely fooled the best pass defense 994 points in winning 17 straight who voiced their desire to quit. this season, include Sgt. Bob Pra- return to Bowdoin as soon as the game for the Giants at end, was team the Giants have had in ttler, of Baldwyn, Miss., former war ends. The two oldest men in uniform truly disgusted when he thought years. Alabama All-Conference star; Maj. Gil Dailey, of Harrisburg, Pa.; Maj. Li'l Abner By Courtesy ol United Features. By Al Capp Giles Batchelor, ex-Presbyterian ace from Augusta, Ga.; Pvt. Bob Kane, lanky NYU star from Brooklyn; T/5 Ernie Scribner, of Auburn, Me., and Sgt. Henry Skurnick, of Chi- cago, who played pro ball for 16 years before Uncle Sam took over. CAGE-RESULTS Bowling Green 65, Romulus Air Base 50. Bunker Hill 43, Loras 40. Concordia 27, Wahepton 23. DePaul G6, Chicago Navy Radio 28. Drake 63, Carleton 23. Hamline 66, River Falls Tchrs. 29. "averford 55, Johns Hopkins 37. Kansas State 65, Rockhurst 35. Missouri 50, Westminster 35. Ohio State 64, Utah 36. =>*. George 43, Joliet 33. Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1944 This Was America Yesterday: As Soviets Slug Across New Borders FDR Vacation Nazi Counter-Offensive Ends; Prepares Booms Stock Market For Big 3 Meet WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UP).-* By Joe Fleming President Roosevelt returned today, Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau after a three-week vacation at Warm EW YORK, Dec. 19.—The tough German defense of the Springs, Ga., to clean up diplomatic, N Fatherland, spiked by yesterday's Monschau counter- military and domestic problems be-- offensive, sent the stock markets soaring again, this time fore making plans for the probable to record peaks. Observers said as long as the Nazis look meeting next month with Churchill as though they will last through the winter, thus delaying and Stalin. industry's reconversion, stocks will go on soaring. This noon The U.S. declaration on Poland, the market, paced by aircraft and other war babies, stood at a seven- in effect encouraging Poland to ac- year high. cept the Curzon Line demanded by, Christmas trade was reaching peak levels, too, all over the country. Russia as its eastern frontier, clari- Luxury goods particularly were in strong demand. Heaviest sales were fied the most difficult problem con- on jewelry, handbags, perfume and fur coats. One commodity that's fronting the Big Three, according not being bought is that easy-way-out Christmas gift—a carton of to diplomatic experts. Stars and-Stripes Map by Baird cigarettes The immediate reaction of Poles Two new Russian drives carry across the Slovak border near EN. Homer Ferguson (R.-Mich.) now blames the administration's in exile indicated the U.S. state- Putnok and Lucenc, while other columns, already on Slovak soil, ment could become the basis for S crop control program for the smoke shortage. "We are only approach Presov. Fighting for Budapest continues as the siege renewed negotiations among the reaping what we sowed," the senator said, claiming tobacco growers passed the second week. couldn't plant all they could grow. Polish government in London, the Polish National Committee in Lub- THER shortages: HOUSING—Following is a classified ad which lin and the latter's Soviet backers. O appeared in The Indianapolis Star: "Three cartons 15c. cigarettes Nazis 20 Miles Weather Slows (In a dispatch from London yes- for information leading to rental of furnished one, two or three-room terday, New York Times Correspon- apartment by quiet couple..." RESULT: two phone offers. 9 dent Raymond Daniell asserted, on Into Belgium Reds Advance authority of diplomatic sources Cars Not New, But the Plates Are "with no axe to grind," that the MOSCOW, Dec. 19 (UP). — question of Poland's eastern bound- TVEW license plates are beginning to show up (Continued from Page 1) on the old cars, but most of them are last Fighting slowed down today on the ary was settled at the Roosevelt- mans have not the necessary re- Stalin-Churchill conference in Te- year's with a small tag bolted over the date. Russian fronts with exception of sources to break through American heran one year ago.) That's New York, anyway. California found a way, the sector north and northeast of however, to manufacture new plates. They will lines despite the 20-mile advance, The President came back to the be black and white and will be limited one to a the dispatch said. Miskolc where the Soviets now are capital fit from his rest and ready customer. Washington authorities, the dis- within striking distance of Kos- to tackle the reorganization of a patch continued, expected Gen. hitsa. new Congress. During his absence, Man-who-did-most-for-Brooklyn-in-1944 — Mayor Eisenhower to divert only as many he signed more than 75 bills and Fiorello LaGuardia. The honor was bestowed troops as are necessary to halt the Bad weather played an important vetoed a few. upon him by the Society for the Prevention of counter-thrust, while continuing the part in retarding operations in the Disparaging Remarks about Brooklyn, for what Allied advance on other fronts. three Budapest sectors and in the the society called the mayor's "spontaneous The Washington dispatch said an sectors of southeastern Hungary Armed Stag Line action in rising gallantly to defend our boys airborne division and three Panzer along the German fortified' line bn the service, attacked so viciously by an divisions have been identified in between Lake Balaton and the Drawa River. Waits in Ballroom alleged British author." the new offensive, indicating the Germans had drawn heavily on re- After a long advance, the Rus- "C'lLMLAND notes—Hollywood's women's press club today announced (Continued from Page 1) nomination for the best and least-liked movie personalities: serve strength. sians now are up against the prin- Golden apples went to: Maria Montez, Betty Hut ton, Lucille Ball, From Brussels, United Press re- cipal defense lines where the Ger- tions fell dead on the roof and Humphrey Bogart and Alan Ladd. Brushoffs: Betty Grable, Veronica ported the German drive spread mans are reportedly prepared to crashed into the walls. Lake, Sonja Henie, Lena Turner, Fred MacMurray, Errol Flyhh and alarm through Belgium as con- make considerable sacrifices to The German defenders, positioned Walter Pidgeon. tinuing robot bomb attacks added prevent Soviet eruption into in a section of the ballroom on the tension. Austria. ground floor, replied with bazookas, Story of the week. The home front will decorate its war heroes Americans who tried to calm the rifle fire and machine guns. When tomorrow in a ceremony at Grand Central Palace, N.Y. Fifty-three the TDs and self-propelled guns soldiers and WACs will receive Good Conduct ribbons. Belgians were told: "Dont forget that we lived with these people Greek Situation failed to bring out the Nazis, one company commander sent in a pla- wJ D may begin splashing off a Los Angeles courtroom's walls very for four years—we don't want toon. soon now. Attorneys late yesterday finally picked a jury of seven them back," United Press reported. Stirs U.S. Senate When they got inside and reached women and five men to hear Joan .Berry's charges Meanwhile, north of the break- the ballroom, the doughs found that that her baby daughter, Carol Ann, was bom out of through, patrols of the 320th Reg. the sheen had left the once-gleam- a love affair with Charlie Chaplin. All jurors be- WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (ANS; of First Army's 83d Div. were —The Senate held a torrid discus- ing floor and an armed stag line lieved in blood tests and haven't formed any opinion, reported to have crossed the Roer had formed on the other side. they said. sion today on America's interna- River and penetrated Duren, Asso- tional policies, with one member Across the large rectangle sprinkled TPHE columnists: The Herald Trib's Lippmann ciated Press front reports said. expressing bitterness over Britain's with the dust of destruction, the There was no indication, however, charged that wounded American servicemen were policy in Greece and other foreign Yanks stalked their partners in a suffering because the "Army can't find enough women that this was more than patrol questions. grim dance of death done to the to nurse them." He said that it's well known to the activity. Announcing he would call a night scream of mortar shells landing Army and medical profession that "in hospitals, at On the Ninth Army front, the session if necessary, Chairman outside and the staccato beat of home and abroad, our men aren't receiving the ground situation remained un- Connally, (D.-Tex.), of the Foreign machine guns. nurses' care they must have." Danton Walker pre- changed. South of the offensive, Relations Committee, called on his While it lasted the fight was dicted today that Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, ASF resistance stiffened along the committee to choke off what he furious. Where German officers chief, is due for a four-star rating soon; that the whole U.S. Third Army front, called an "obvious filibuster" and to formerly waltzed stiffly with local president is "willing to accept Miss Perkins' resigna- reported Stars and Stripes Corres- postpone discussions until the next frauleins, MGs and bazookas cut tion as labor secretary." pondent Earl Mazo. He said that Congressional session. fiery swaths. Very few of the ball- Luftwaffe bombing and strafing (In Greece, ELAS troops drove room tenants were able to get out rpHE Herald Trib said editorially that touring con- was greater than anything Third British and Greek government the back way, for it was plenty hot gressmen's "own reading habits, rather than news- Army had experienced since troops from Averon prison, an out in the alley. Most of them fell papers, are to blame for whatever discrepancies they Avranches. important stronghold, in Athens where they fought—in a ballroom found between their preconceived notion from the In the Rhineland, U.S. Seventh and also claimed" a siege ring in Fraulautern. battle area and reality." Answering the House Mili- Army troops found the enemy around RAF headquarters outside When the doughs passed on to tary Affairs sub-committee's charge that the press resisting strongly in the Pala- the city, catting off its supplies the next block, the rhythm did not had failed to give the complete picture of the Italian tinate's West Wall. Southward in except by air. Leaders of both stop. war, the Tribune said, "The whole Italian story had been told day after Alsace, the French made slight sides still were meeting to discuss day." gains in the vicinity of Colmar. peace.) Unit Delays Armor Terry And The Pirates By Courtesy at News Syndicate. By Milton Canif f Column Six Hours

ARE vou KiPWNfi, top?*»'HAVE OH.BURMA^ JAPANESE FEATURES, BUT fvE HEARS I'M RUNNING (Continued from Page 1) HOW LOYAL AMERICANS OF JAPANESE OUT Of SUNS! ner Cpl. Paul Lanzi, of Newark, ANCESTRY ARE WORKING FOR, THE -IF THESE 1 N.J., continued to engage the well- UNITEP NATIONS. OH,NO, MISTER, MEN SEE HOW placed Tiger, Hauser and Lenzo YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TAKfi Mg FRKSHTfNEP then destroyed their own gun with IN WITH AN OLD WHEEZE. tlKg t AM. I'LL an incendiary burst and made their THAT! NEVER MAKS IT J1 way back afoot six miles to our headquarters. The platoon sergeant, Kester O. Lowe, of Sarasota, Fla., remarked, Hitler would be damned unhappy if he knew that the two guns which caused so much trouble were com- manded by an Italian and a Gerr man—Celano and Hauser."