Man Spricht Deutsch Jci On Parle Frangais Sind Sie Lastwagen Chauffeur? THESffe TRIPES Je voudrais des cigarettes. Zlnt Zee Lastvahgen Choffehr? Juh voo-DRAY day tee-ga-RET. Are you a truck driver? Dally Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces ££2?CPin the European Theater of Operations I want some cigarettes. Vol. 1—No. 114 lFr. New York—PARIS — London lFr. Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1944 Patton Seizes Metz Fort No Smokes Col. Zemke, Top ETO Ace, Ring Is Closing For Com Z Missing After Reich Attack AN EIGHTH FIGHTER BASE, England, Nov. 13.—Col. Hubert On Key City; Only Zemke, the Eighth Air Force's fore- This Week most fighter group commander, is missing in action. The boyish, 31-year-old pilot from Communications Zone Missoula, Mont., who turned down troops here will get no ciga- desk jobs with a possible promotion 13-Mile Gap Left rettes this week so that com- to general to keep on flying, was lost over Germany on Oct. 30 while bat men can continue to get leading his Thuderbolt-Mustang- BULLETIN their ration. Lightning group on an escort WITH THE U.S. THIRD ARMY IN LORRAINE, Signs at Paris PXs, which mission, it was disclosed today. Nov. 13 (UP).—U.S. assault forces, storming the ring last week informed Com Z (An Associated Press dispatch said, without amplification, that he of Metz fortifications from the south on a six-mile front, men that their weekly ration was "shot down.") today captured Fort Verny, one of the city's 22 forts. was cut from seven to five At the time he was lost, Zemke packs, yesterday read: *'No was the ETO's leading ace with 28 cigarettes, cigars or tabacco of any kills—22 in the air and six on the By Earl Mazo kind until further notice." ground. That mark was passed Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. The SHAEP PX in the basement Nov. 2 by Maj. George E. Preddy, of Greensboro, N.C. WITH THE U.S. THIRD ARMY IN LORRAINE, Nov. 13.— of the Hotel Scribe, however, con- Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's ring around Metz lacked 13 miles tinued selling rations of cigars and 'Zemke's Murderers' Col. Hubert Zemke cigarettes to SHAEP officers and Zemke became famous when his of being closed today as eight Third Army divisions con- war correspondents who were ra- old P47 group, the "Zemke Outfit," time the crack outfit had 30 aces. tinued advances over ground where a blanket of snow was tioned to five packages of cigarettes sometimes called the "Wolfpack," Flying with Zemke, at a time when turning to slush. apiece. broke all records for German air- the Luftwaffe was in its prime, Striking a half mile due north, the 11th Regiment of the A PX official, who reiterated last craft destroyed in the air. were most of the pilots who made week's statement that the, cut was So many planes did "Zemke's the headlines in America. The Fifth Infantry Division advanced to within five miles of the only temporary, said, "Every effort Murderers"—as the Germans called Luftwaffe confessed its fear of fortified city. Elements of the 26th Infantry Division con- Is being made to alleviate the situa- them—shoot down that the outfit Zemke and his aces and denounced tinued making progress three miles east of Chateau-Salins, tion, but in order to provide com- did not keep track of the number them as murderers. In one sense southeast of Metz, in the Forets de Bride et de Koeking. bat men with cigarettes, others of planes shot up on the ground. the charge was true, for the group (United Press quoted other front must forego theirs at present." Zemke's men inherited their did as much as any other USAAF leader's fighting spirit and at one unit to crush the German air force. dispatches reporting that German Medic Rescues units were beginning to evacuate Crack Down Metz, but there was no official con- firmation. There were numerous On U.S. Racket Where in Heil From U.K. to Reich 44 Wounded signs, however, that the_enemy was withdrawing from some positions WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (ANS). In Less Than Week By John Wilhelm on a 30-mile line south of Metz and —With a nation-wide crackdown in Is Herr Hitler? Reuter Staff Writer. east of Nancy. Paris Radio said the offing, officials yesterday warn- WITH AIRBORNE TROOPS WITH INFANTRY IN HURT- Nazis were evacuating civilians ed cigarette black-market operators Has something happened to Hit- IN HOLLAND, Nov. 13.—2/Lt. GEN FOREST, GERMANY .from Saarbrucken, 20 miles north- that they fa~r stiff penalties on ler? Robert G. Vandemark, of Lima, (Delayed).—Forty-four badly wound- east of the front.) conviction. Sensational rumors which circu- Ohio, has established what is ed American infantrymen, isolated Reported Blowing Up Dams thought to be a new airborne The/ black market has been in- lated in Allied capitals when he in a snowswept Huertgen Foreat Elements of the Fourth Armored creasing throughout the country in failed to speak last Wednesday on speed record for reaching combat ravine, were rescued today by a from a replacement depot. Division rolled forward from Mor- the last several weeks, they said, the anniversary of the Munich medical officer who walked across hange, according to an unconfirmed resulting in draining legitimate re- "beer hall putsch" buzzed with re- He was assigned to an air- a German-held bridge to demand, borne outfit and left a U.K. report, and neared Bermering which tail outlets of many popular brands. newed insistence yesterday follow- face to face, that, the enemy halt replacement depot Monday, is 12 miles northeast of Chateau- An OPA spokesman ascribed the ing the issuance in his name—but artillery fire while American half- Salins. growing black market in cigarettes made his qualifying glider ride track ambulances evacuated the read by somebody else—of a "fight Tuesday, flew to a combat zone Meanwhile, engineers saved one as due mainly to civilian hoarding to the death" proclamation to the wounded. bridge from being blown up yhen and faulty distribution. Saturday and was on a patrol Five times previously rescue Volkssturm Sunday. behind the German lines they snipped the wires leading to "The reason for scarcity of ci- columns were broken up by German demolition charges. The rumors had Hitler variously Sunday night. artillery fire that killed a number garettes is bewildering," the OPA Germans were reported blowing spokesman said, "in view of the dead, seriously ill and fallen from of first-aid men and left the leading fact more cigarettes are now on the power, replaced by Heinrich Himm- New .50 Cal. Bullet ambulances in twisted wreckage. (Continued on Page 4) market than in pre-war years." ler. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—A new The forty-four wounded and a Chicago black marketers were re- They reached such a pitch that .50 cal. bullet fired by Ninth Air few field aid men were cut off from ported selling cigarettes for from the Berlin radio, in its program for Force fighters, combining in- their lines by an American with- RAF Bombers fifty to seventy-five cents a pack- non-German listeners last night, cendiary and armor-piercing quali- drawal from the village of Kommer- age. felt called upon to broadcast: "In ties, has been credited by Under scheidt. OPA warned violators that al- reply to rumors circulating abroad, Secretary of War Robert P. Patter- Without water supplies, they Destroy Tirpitz ready several Pacific Coast con- authoritative circles in Berlin state son with burning out many Ger- drank water scooped from a creek sumers have been given judgments that the Fuehrer is very well." man armored vehicles in France. (Continued on Page 4) LONDON, Nov. 13.—The German of fifty dollars against retailers for battleship Tirpitz, target of re- over-charges. peated RAF attacks ever since February, 1942, has been sunk at Ike and Joe,Soldiers, Meet at Front last, ths Air Ministry announced Air Force Razes tonight. Base at Liuchow A raid by Lancasters in clear By Jules B. Grad , momentarily broke through the clouds, Gen. Dwight weather Sunday morning, in which As Japs Advance Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. D. Eisenhower, for the first time in this war, stepped several hits were scored with 12,000- ADVANCE SUPREME HQ., Nov. 13.—When Gen. onto the soil of Germany. pound "earthquake" bombs, capsized The U.S. 14th Air Force announced Eisenhower wants the straight dope on what GI Joe His face was grim as he walked towards the "dra- the once-mighty warship, British yesterday that Liuchow, its last re- is doing in the foxholes of Europe, he goes up to Joe gons' teeth" of the Siegfried Line. He talked quietly officials said, and sent her to the maining air base in southeastern and asks him. Last week, the with Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 12th bottom of Tromsoe Fjord in Norway. Kwangsi Province of China, had Supreme Commander called on Joe. Army Group Commander, whose The RAF hit the Tirpitz with at been evacuated and destroyed in With a metronomic precision that S & S Writer Covers troops smashed the criss-cross quills least one 12,000-pounder in a raid the face of the Japanese advance. carried him at a 60-mile-an-hour when they hacked their way into in poor weather about two weeks Tokyo earlier had claimed the cap- clip through France, Belgium, Hol- Eisenhower forWorld Hitler's "holey ground." ago at Tromsoe. ture of Liuchow and Kweilin, capi- land and into Germany, the com- Sgt.