Third Army Crosses Saar in Vanguard As Yanks Keep Rolling Ahead Nazis, in Retreat, Scorchownland; 9Th Takes Julich

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Winter and Trench-foot Winter and Trench-foot ".. . Sixty trench-foot casual- . .Wriggling the toes, even ties were admitted to U.S. Army inside the shoes, helps to keep hospitals in one area for every. the blood flowing normally. ." 100 battle casualties. . .'* From Col. J. E. Gordon, Chief of The Stars and Stripes, Nov. 29, DaOfite¥fspaperef U.S ggSCyin the European Theater rf Oj»ratlon$ Preventive Medicine, ETO. Vol. 1—No. 131 if* New York—PARIS—London lFr. Monday, Dec. 4, 1944 Third Army Crosses Saar In Vanguard as Yanks Keep Rolling Ahead Nazis, In Retreat, ScorchOwnLand; 9th Takes Julich

U.S. Third Army troops smashed across the Saar River yesterday, hurdling their last major water barrier to the Rhineland at Saarlauten, Nazis retreating from the river's west bank burned a village in their wake—first evidence of a scorched earth policy inside Germany. > In the south, Germans blew the three great river U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo bridges east of Strasbourg as they pulled back across the American tanks open fire and the assault is on. This unusual panorama shot of Yank tanks in action Rhine from French Alsace to Baden, in the Reich. North- was made by a Signal Corps photographer somewhere along the front in Germany. ward, U.S. Ninth Army forces on the Roer River crushed : ; the last enemy pockets in Julich, main German strongpoint on the Smokes Tieup Forts Batter Tokyo Anew road to Cologne, United Press said 2nd Armored from the front. On their right flank, U.S. First Is Lifting, Say Yokohama Hit, Japs Report Army troops launched two new at- KOsllOTanks tacks toward the Roer, 5,000 yards ahead of them, and early front re- House Visitors Superfortresses from Saipan Island struck at Tokyo In 6-Day Battle ports said they captured Luchem, yesterday for the fourth time in little more than a week. west of Duren. Normal cigarette distribution may 'Biggest Tank Battle' be resumed next week in ETO areas A "substantial force," Washington announced, rained bombs By Morrow Davis In Holland, British Second Army where there are no transportation on industrial targets, blasted previously, in the Japanese Stars and Stripes StafI Writer problems, visiting members of the WITH THE SECOND ARMORED troops swept across a 25-foot anti- House Military Committee reported capital and also, by enemy account, raided Yokohama. DIV., Nov. 22 (Delayed).—What the tank ditch to within 1,000 yards of yesterday, according to the Asso- German radio called the "biggest the destroyed Maas River bridge At the same time, Pearl Harbor at Venlo, in a local attack launched ciated Press. They said high Amer- announced that in five raids last tank battle on the Western Front" ican officers told them there are ended at dusk today with the coun- early yesterday, Reuter reported. month Liberators heavily damaged Stars and Stripes Cprrespondent plenty of cigarettes at European Japanese airfields on Iwojima Is- Pearl Harbor ter-attacking Ninth German Panzer storage depots, but that lack ol Div. and the 15th Panzer Grenadier Morrow Davis with Ninth Army land, about midway between Saipan disclosed that a tank battle, which transportation, due to the need to and Japan. The Japanese had been Div. in a fighting retreat toward keep supplies flowing to the front, Trials Vetoed the Roer river crossings after a six- the Germans described as the big- launching raids from there against gest ever waged on the Western caused the famine in rear areas. U.S. Saipan bases. day battle in which more than "The question came down to one WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (AP).— 400 American and German tanks Front, ended Nov. 22 with the Ninth of whether it should be bullets or Japs Occupy Kichang Army and Navy inquiry boards found clashed on a three-mile front. German Panzer Division and the butts," Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R.- Pacific news was noo all favorable, that errors of judgment in Hawaii The two German divisions left 15th Panzer Grenadier Division in Conn.) said, "and, of course, priority however. A Chungking announce- and Washington contributed to the behind charred hulls of 21 Tigers, fighting retreat toward the Roer. went to bullets." ment that U.S. planes had attacked Pearl Harbor disaster. Secretaries Royal and regular models, 23 More than 400 German and Amer- Henry L Stimson and James V. Panthers and 25 Mark IVs in the ican tanks were locked in the six- Will Raise Peacetime Force Kichang revealed that the Ja- panese had occupied the city, some Forrestal said in simultaneous state- marshlike flatlands leading to the day struggle, which surged back and An ETO PX official reserved com- 400 miles below Chungking. ments yesterday, but discovered no river. The 69 tanks officially de- forth on a three-mile front, he said. ment on the statement that normal Kichang is 90 miles southeast of grounds for any court-martial pro- stroyed by the Second Armored were South of Julich, where Ninth distribution may be resumed shortly Kweiyang and is an important step- ceedings. among the 110 knocked out by all Army troops mopped up the west and said he hoped to clarify the ping-stone toward the latter city. The Secretaries of War and the units of the XIX Corps bank of the Roer yesterday, First Situation at the end of this week. Kweiyang is the principal city on Navy summed up the boards' con- 2nd Losses Heavy Army launched an attack at mid- Discussing overseas service. Rep. the highway between Kumming and clusions in their statements and night and a second assault at dawn Overton Brooks (D.-La.) said all said that the reports themselves Second Armored tank losses also west of the Roer. The two thrusts Chungking and its loss would nullify were heavy because the Shermans combat soldiers and men who have the new Ledo-Burma road, imperil could not be made public until after (Continued on Page 4) been in Europe more than two years the war, for security reasons. were unable to engage Tigers and additional U.S. air bases and men- Panthers frontally with effective- should go home after the war ends. ace Chungking itself. The Secretaries said they Would He added that Congress, at its next continue presonal investigations and, ness. Heavy tropical rains still mired Outgunned, their maneuverability session, must consider legislation to the ground offensive against Ormoc when all the evidence was in, would Gestapo Trial review their present tentative deci- hampered by mud thigh-deep in (Continued on Page 4) on Leyte Island in the Philippines places, Sherman crews resorted to but U.S. planes continued pounding sions against disciplinary action. The Stimson and Forrestal state- all sorts of stratagems to destroy Bares Torture Japanese installations elsewhere in the Jerry heavyweights. the Islands. ments wiped out the proposed court- DelegatesOpen martial trials of Maj. Gen. Walter Outstanding was the feat of Cpl. Trial of the Paris Gestapo gang, C. Short and Rear Adm. Husband Guy K. Bean, of West Burk, Vt. charged with robbing, torturing and California GIs Voted E. Kimmel, in command at Pearl (Continued on Page 4) murdering French patriots during Global Skyway Harbor at the time of the attack. the occupation, waS scheduled to To Ban Closed Shop Kimmel's lawyer said that Forres- resume today with the Government CHICAGO, Dec. 3 (ANS).—Dele- tal's statement "means that Adm. 9 Towns Dive-Bombed asking 12 defendants about the gates of the 54 nations at the Inter- SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 3 Kimmel has been cleared." torture and deportation of Gene- national Civil Aviation Conference (ANS).—Californians in the armed In Linnich-Duren Area vieve De Gaulle, 20-year-old niece voted unanimously yesterday to forces voted two to one in favor of of Gen. Charles De Gaulle. open the world's skyways to global a proposed state constitutional Henderson Gets ETO Job Nine towns in the Linnich-Duren The presiding judge read the airlines without restriction as far amendment which would have WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (AP). — area on the First and Ninth Army statement of Henri Chamberlin, as actual flight is concerned. ' banned the closed shop in union Leon Henderson, former price ad- front were dive-bombed yesterday alleged gang chief, admitting the Bypassing controversial economic contracts, partial survey of absentee ministrator, leaves for London morning when 120 Ninth AF fighter organization of an espionage ring issues, the delegates agreed to sign ballots disclosed today. The civilian shortly and eventually will go to bombers, at a reported cost of one in Algiers for the Nazis. Police said a separate document setting up two electorate defeated the proposal Germany to handle economic affairs plane, struck at enemy concentra- Chamberlin made 17,000,000 francs "freedoms of the air" as the basis three to two in the Nov'. 7 election in that part of the Reich which will tions and fortifications. Eighth AF out of silverware stolen from the of international policy—the privi- and the absentee vote was not large be controlled by the Americans fighters reconnoitered over Ger- American Embassy. lege of flying over any nation with- enough to change the result. during occupation. many. out landing and the privilege of landing anywhere for non-traffic Army, N. Dame Win purposes, such as repairs or because of bad weather. Med School Invites 'Foxhole Doc9 Weekend Grid Games By Robert Richards College Place, Wash., truck driver exams. Kinman performed a wind- Army's undefeated, untied 8th Army Troops Gain United Press War Correspondent. and auto mechanic whose battle- pipe operation, saving the life of football team defeated Navy, WITH FIFTH DIV. NEAR METZ, field operation astounded medical a dying GI during a heavy mortar 23-7, in the annual service game In Push Toward Russi Dec. 3.—T/4 Duane N. Kinman, the men- "I wanted to go to college barrage. A shrapnel wound in the Saturday before 69,000 at Bal- "foxhole surgeon" who performed a and learn to be a surgeon, but I throat had cut off the soldier's timore. Dole Hall, Felix Blan- ROME, Dec. 3. — Eighth Army delicate throat operation with a always told myself it's no use—I'll breathing. chard and Glenn Davis led troops continued their advance be- rusty jackknife and a fountain pen, never get together enough money. . Kinman, the only son of his Army's first victory in six years tween the Montone and Lamone sat down quickly as if weak in the Now it looks as I've got the chance widowed mother, said: "My mother over the midshipmen. Rivers, moving to within less than knees today. He had just been of- I've always wanted." and three sisters will be really In the No. 2 game of the day two miles of the town of Russi, fered a free medical education at The offer was made to Kinman, proud of me now. I want to study Notre Dame overpowered Great Allied headquarters announced to- Western Reserve University, Cleve- who had just been elevated from and become a first-class surgeon Lakes, 28-7, at South Bend. day. West of Faenza, Eighth and land. O. private to T/4, by President W F. rather than just a physician. They Other football results are on Fifth Army forces captured hill "Golly, that's just what I wanted Lautner of Western Reserve, pro- do some mighty wonderful things page 3. features. to do all my life," said the former vided he could pass pre-medical every day here." Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Dec. 4, 1944 When Winter Comes to Europe OUT Heat Signs of the Times. (Reported by Pfc Andrew Bernas) Over the entrance to a fighter base headquarters are the words, "Get Used How to Act in the U.S. To Civilian Habits—Close The Upon entering this paradise, I Door." • • • would suggest firstly, a deep, deep Overheard in the Blackout. "She's breath; secondly, gulp and swallow the quiet type—she lives on hush hard; thirdly, let your eyes moisten, money.'' sparkle or laugh. It's optional. • • • You must be absolutely extrava- If all the GIs were laid end to gant about the whole thing. In end in a mess hall, they'd reach. fact, I know you will. • • • After momentarily glimpsing a Who said that? With all the dock full of vague, but nice people WACs in the Army the war should who seem to be screaming and shouting their hea'ds off, do like- wise. As you step down upon the ground, you will, of course, kiss same. Above all, do not become upset if these American people think you strange in your ways and customs. Their ways of living are indeed stranger. They sleep—in beds! They eat the strangest foods. And the clothes they wear: such varia- tion, such finesse. A most pains- taking people. But we shall have no alternative. In due time we must adopt their ways.—Pvt. AL end soon—no lady will stand for Stann. wearing the same hat two years in succession. * * * • • • Demob's No Problem It happened to Lt. Francis Cleary. He was riding in his tank through ' Hearing over the news broadcast a liberated city amidst cheers and last night that Belgium, Holland shouting of the populace, when a and Luxembourg have already asked whitehaired, bearded Frenchman that they be included in the police- hopped alongside the tank and up of Germany, brings a new ray shouted at him. Cleary tried to of hope. dismiss the old man with shouts It all boils down to this: They of "No compree—no compree Fran- will be more than glad to share in cais." At th:.t moment' the tank the occupation of Germany. And stopped and in the dead silence the then, too, we have a bunch, of boys old man stood half-exhausted from who plan on staying in "after it's his running and made this plea, over." "But, monsieur, I am speaking All told, here's one GI who isn't English!" losing any hair worrying over the • • • demobilization problem.—Pvt. G. F. Overheard on the Home Front. Danik, AAA. "Dearie, why don't you join the

* * * WAVES and release a man." "It's more fun holding on ^o one." One Team To coin a phrase, many guys Just a few front line will probably celebrate V-Day by men who are sick and tired of getting "Plastered in Paris." reading about those IA guys • • • bitching about being in 4F out- Then there w£.s the cannibal's fits. We think that they have daughter who liked the boys best a job to do and without their when they were stewed. help we wouldn't be up as far • • • as we are now. So, please tell A sailor's wife once complained, Winter means different things in different parts half inches in December and January. Northern these guys to stop bitching and "Why are you so indifferent? of Europe. Poland and northeastern Germany are fairly do their job and we'll all get When we were first married you In the north, the Allies have passed the worst warm. home sooner.—Pfc "Mole" Toth said I-had a figure like a beautiful Heavy snow is common in the Czechoslovakian and four others, AAA AW Bn. ship." Hubby replied, "Yeah, but belt of gooey soil. In Holland begin the swampy highlands and ice interrupts Elbe and Danube your cargo has shifted." soils which stretch on through Denmark. traffic six to eight weeks. "Sunny Italy" becomes * J. C. W. Snowfall is fairly heavy on the Western Front, icy in the Alps regions and rain and melting snow ranging from one and one-half to two and one- will make the going tough for the Allies. Never Satisfied Folks at Home Send Can you explain to us haw it Is, Births These GIs Swift News or why it is, that on our PX days, of Sir Stork's Arrival: which incidentally are few and far jpFO Norman D. • Davis, Schenectady— SOMEWHERE between, we are offered captured Philip Steven, Nov. 9; Pvt. Howard AEF-Proirlm-AFN Y. Fredlund, Roosevelt, N.Y.—girl, Nov. German cigars and German ciga- 17; Lt. Irving J. Taylor, Pasadena, Calif. rette lighters. Yet these articles, —Laurence Joseph. Nov. 21; Pvt. Virgil Johnson, Pauls Valley, Okla.—Denise Eve- EUROPE TOMORROW when purchased by us, are checked 0730—Sgt. Ray McKinley. off our ration cards.—Sgt. C. A. B., lyn (born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, Eng- land), Nov. 6; Sgt. Norman L. Browne, Well, It Gets Through he received it a few days ago in 0925—Music America Loves Best (AFN). Gen. Hosp. N.Y.—boy, Nov. 24; 1/Sgt. Robert S. Con- Luxembourg, he remailed it to 'lis 1410—Melody Roundup (AFN). (These supplies are Government nell, Scranton—Robert Aloysius, Nov.. 4; 1715—The Canada Guest Show. Pfc Irving Jaffe, Brooklyn—David Jerome, 2/Lt. Jay C. Swisher has found wife, who lives in Vermilion, S.D 2015—Fred Waring (AFN). property—a toothbrush or pipe Nov. 3; Pvt. Prankie McCormick, Verona, out how the APO turns a wedding He hopes it gets there in time for 2030—Maj. Glenn Miller. serves the same purpose no matter Pa.—Mary Kathleen. Nov. 24; M/Sgt. Mar- gift to a Christmas present. Last Christmas. 2105—Charlie McCarthy (AFN). where it was made. If Uncle Sam tin M. Harbison, Alton. Mo.T-Sandra Dar- 2135—Dinah Shore (AFN). lene, Nov. 24; Lt. H. P. Warshour, New March, when Swisher was married, But if you've lost confidence in 2205—Hit Parade (AFN). gets more than the "overhead" out a friend mailed him the gift. When York—Arlene Helen, Nov. 23. the APO listen to this story. Pfc WED., DEC 6 of the German stuff, the profit Harry A. Hofler, of the 80th [nf 0830—Music by Sammy Kaye (AFN). goes to the Company Fund—Ed.) Div., received a letter from his 1215—James Melton Show (AFN). 1300—Cpl. Saddlebags (AFN). * * * Private Breger seven-year-old nephew addressed 1545—On the Record (AFN)'. to: 1715—Music by Freddie Martin (AFN). Harry 35618553 1830— GI Journal (AFN). Casting Trouble 2030—British Band of AEF. Postmaster-N.Y. 2105—Mildred Bailey Show (AFN). While in England we operated an 2130—Bob Hope Show (AFN). Ordnance Supply Depot that had * * * THURS., DEC. 7 the highest percentage of issues of Success Story 1105—Duffle Bag. any in the UK. 1230—Chamber Music of Lower Basin St. Since landing in France we have Shells were landing so close 1300—BBC Symphony (AFN). been furnishing the bull gang for to the foxhole of Pvt. James 1715—Canada Swing Show. L. Haney, of Oolagah, Okla., 8115—Swing Sextet. a Base Depot and have acquired 2130—Music for All. and the Second Inf. Div., that 2205— Eddie Condon's Jazz Session (AFN). the company motoo, "NULLO BAS- 2235—Reminiscing, TARDU CARBORUNDUM." We Haney decided he ought to get out of there. Three times he FRI., DEC. 8 are not too good for this type of tried it, and three times he was 0830—Music by Vincent Lopez (AFN). work, but why isn't there an appro- 0925—The AEF Ranch House. priate assignment for us? Is our blown back into his foxhole by 1105—Duffle Bag (AFN). shells that landed within 15 feet 1305—John Charles Thomas (AFN). skill, ability and experience in of him. The fourth time, he 1630—RAF Symphony Orchestra. supplying vitally-needed Ordnance 1900—Command Performance (AFN). Supplies no longer needed? made it, tired but undamaged. 1930—Double Feature (AFN). 2030— Moonlight Serenade (AEF Band). Our past is filled with words of * * * 2206— Xavier Cngat (AFN). praise and letters of commendation. 2230—Here's t« Romance (AFN). Our present is filled with heart- Could Use Relief Hurler SAT., DEC. » 0830—Music from America (AFN). aches and prayers that in the near Pvt. Gene C. Sloan's, of Vonore, 1410—Downbeat (AFN). . future we shall be assigned to the Tex., was 'the only casualty in his 1500—Amer. dance band (Sgt. R. McKinley) task for which we were trained.— Second Inf. Div. platoon when the 1545—On the Record. Sgt. S. H. Simpson, Ord. Field Dep. Germans counter-attacked. Vonore's 1830—Vera Lynn. 1915—Music from the Movies. arm gave out on the 18th grenade. 2030—Frank Morgan (AFN). THE STARS AND STRIPES Following instructions, Sloan 2205—Jubilee (AFN). 2235—Latin-American Serenade. Printed at the New fork Herald threw a grenade when he heard a Tribune plant. 21 rue de Berrl. Parts, SCN., DEC. 10 noise during the night. Then he 0830—Hour of Charm (AFN). for the D.S armed forces under aus- heard another noise and threw an- 1000—Religious Service. pices of the Special Service Division, other grenade. When the German 1330—Sammy Kaye's Sun. Serenade (AFN). KTOUSA. Tel.: ELYsees 85-00. 1425—Anne Shelton. Contents passed by the VS. Arm? attack began he really hurled them. 1500—National Barn Dance (AFN). and Navy censors. Entered as second On No. 18 he was so tired that he 1715—AEF Special. class matter. Mar. IS. 1943. at the barely tossed it out of his foxhole. 1815—Andre Kostelanetz (AFN). post oifice. New York. N Y. under 1900—Comedy Caravan (AFN). the act ot Mar. 3. 1878. "Whatcha complain in' about? Yon never had breakfast in bed In It fell so close that a splinter 2105—Mail Call (AFN). Vol. 1, No. 131 civilian life, did yon?" pierced his arm. 2135—Guy Lombardo's Autographs (AFN). Monday, Dec. 4, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Army Routs Navy, 23-7, in Service Classic

Kaydet Hero Cadets Finish IrishSwat Great Lakes, 28- 7 1944 Season Dancewicz tilden Trips Weber Georgia Tech WithoutDefeat In 'Kelly Bowl' Tilt By Andy Rooney Parades ND Races Through Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—Tilden's BALTIMORE, Dec. 3.—The Blue Devils gave the public To Easy Win high school league its first vic- Georgia, 44-0 Kaydets of West Point swept tory in four years by shading to a decisive 23-7 victory over SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 3.— Weber of the Catholic loop, 13-7, ATHENS, Ga., Dec. 3.—Georgia Navy before 69,000 fans at Notre Dame, beaten this year only before 65,000 shivering fans at Tech's Yellowjackets, slated to op- Municipal Stadium here yes- by Army and Navy, trounced Great Soldier Field yesterday in the pose Tulsa in Miami's Orange Bowl terday to conquer the Middies for Lakes, 28-7, here yesterday to gain annual "Kelly Bowl" charity game, captured the Southeastern Conference football title by whipp- the first time in six years and partial revenge for its 1943 last- football game. finish their '44 schedule unbeaten second defeat that dislodged the Tilden broke a 7-7 deadlock ing Georgia, 44-0, here yesterday in "the 39th renewal of one of and untied. Irish from the in the third period when Bill By winning, the men from the Gay scored on a pass from Ed Dixie's greatest gridiron feuds. u n defeated More than 28,000 fans watched Point captured the mythical na- ranks. Kriwiel. the Yellowjackets triumph at tional championship and estab- That defeat Athens for the first time since lished themselves as the greatest rankled the 1893. Army football Irish for a full So. Methodist Tech turned on the steam early team in history. year and there and it was no contest after Fresh- Glenn Davis, was no doubt man George Mathews tossed a 19- Los Angeles about their in- Flattens TCU yard touchdown pass to End Toronto Leafs plebe sensation tentions yester- Charlie Murdock and Frank Broyles who increased day when they DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 3—Southern passed another over the goal line his season's took the field Methodist flattened the Southwest to Mathews in the first quarter. Regain Lead scoring total to before 38,000 Conference champions, Texas Tex Ritter passed to Murdock to 120 points for customers. The Christian, 9-6, here yesterday, there- the n a t i o n's set up Broyles' four-yard payoff TORONTO, Dec. 3—The Toronto best mark, and Bob Kelly B1 u e j a c k ets, by stripping some luster from the buck, and Broyles connected with Maple Leafs climbed back into first who outweighed Notre Dame six Cotton Bowl game here New Year's Mathews shortly thereafter to give place in the National Hockey Felix "Doc" pounds per man, enjoyed a slight Day when TCU meets the Okla Tech a 26-0 margin at the inter- Blanchard, All- noma Aggies. League last night by defeating the America f u 11- edge in the first half, but Prank mission. New York Rangers, 4-3. The victory Glenn Davis Dancewicz rallied his cohorts, who Pete Kotlarich's 22-yard field gave the Leafs a one-point margin back from Bis- averaged 18 years of age, and they goal gave SMU a 3-0 lead, but over the Montreal Canadiens, who hopville, S.C., led offensive opera Randy Dogers took a lateral from tions for Army. But it was the outran and outfought the sailors John Hadaway on the next kickoff orvath to Get were idle. Cadet line that told the real story in the second half. Jack McLean netted the deciding and ran 80 yards for a touchdown goal midway in the third period on of the game. The sailors broke the ice on the just before the half ended. Army's line was a question maiK first play of the second quarter Early in the third period, Bobby Heisman Cup an assist by Jack Kennedy. Nick in all pre-game arguments. Navy's when Jim Youel sneaked over from Metz scored twice and Wally Sta- Folsom scored from the six-yard nowski once for other Toronto forward wall was no question mark the one after Great Lakes had cov- mark, culminating a 60-yard march. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Les Hor- in any one's mind—except that of ered 23 yards in four plays. How- vath, Ohio State's All-America back, goals. Army. But Navy's line, touted as ever, the Irish rebounded to knot today was named the winner of Ranger tallies were made by the strongest in the country, was the count before Tittle's Passes Feature Walter Atanas, Fred Thurier and the Heisman Ab DeMarco. pushed around and badly mauled the half, scor- 1 LSU VictoryOverTuIane Memorial Tro- by both Army lines as Coach Col. ing on a 15- phy as the out- Earl "Red" Blaik continued his yard pass from BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 3.— standing college Hockey Standings two-team wholesale substituting. w L I Pts (i OG Dancewicz Jack Tittle filled Tiger Stadium football player 4 0 20 56 45 Dale Hall Scores to . Bob Kelly. with passes yesterday to lead Loui-1 of 1944. He will 4 1 19 53 36 After a scoreless first period. D a n c e w icz' receive the 4 ■i 16 m 42 siana State to a 25-6 victory over 7 1 11 S3 58 Davis, Blanchard and Dale Hall booming punt Tulane. Tittle heaved touchdown award at the « 3 7 43 62 went to work, hammering out 56 that rolled out passes to Charley Webb and Paul annual banquet 9 i 5 48 72 yards before Hall took the ball on Great Lakes' McCarson and set up a score oy at the Down- from Capt. Tom Lombardo and six resulted in Elwyn Rowan. Gene Knight's S0- town A t h le t i c Ninth 'Thunderbolts' scooted 25 yards to score. Blan- another Irish yard run, following an interception, Club Tuesday chard was the heavy-man during tally in the completed the LSU scoring. night. Score 3rd Victory, 7-6 the drive, crashing through Navy's third period. Frank Dancewicz H o rva t h re- Les Horvath tackle position manned by All- Ed Saenz, sailor Phils Want Hoover ceived 412 votes Dick Tewksbury, of Wabash, Ind., America Don Whitmire time after halfback, fumbled on the next play PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3. — The to 287 for Glenn Davis, Army back former Purdue fullback, scored a time. when hit by Guard Johnny Mas- Board of Directors of the Phila- who leads the nation's scorers. first-period touchdown and con- Blaik's first stringers forced a trangelo and End Doug Waybright delphia Phillies recommended to- Felix "Doc" Blanchard, Army full- version that gave the Ninth AAF safety two minutes into the second recovered in the end zone for the day that J. Edgar Hoover. FBI back and blocker de luxe, was third, 2nd AADA football team a 7-6 vic- half. Navy was shoved back to its Irish. chief, be selected to replace the with 237. tory over the Ninth AAF Defense own 14 on three running plays. The South Benders collected two late Kenesaw Mountain Landis as Angelo Bertelli of Notre Dame Command yesterday at Pershing Then John "Swede" Hansen, Navy more touchdowns in the final pe- baseball's high commissionner. was the winner last year. Field, Paris. It was the Thunder- end, dropped riod. After a drive bogged down bolts' third straight victory. back to kick, but on the three, Dancewicz reeled John Kornoff, of Los Angeles, ex- his punt was back and lobbed a payoff pass to Ferrier Leads Coast Golf Washington Stater, scored on a blocked by Arch Bob Skoglund. Eight minutes short plunge for the losers in the Arnold, whose later, Kelly intercepted Youel's SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3. — three straight 20-footers on the second period. father, Maj. pass on the Irish 29 and ran it M/Sgt. Jim Ferrier, former Aus- way out. He flubbed a two-footer Gen. Archibald to Great Lakes' 48. Dancewicz tralian golf champion now in the on the ninth, however, thereby SHAEF Gridmen Win, 19-0 Arnold, com- raced across on the next play. U.S. Army, fired a 66 yesterday to missing a course record. The SHAEF football team de mands the Sev- ND GL grab the halfway lead in the $14,- The big name golfers, Sam feated Fourth Service Group Blue enth Division on First Downs 11 11 500 San Franeisco Open Golf Snead, Harry Cooper, Mike Tur- Devils, 19-0 at Versailles yesterday ! Leyte. Hansen Yards Gained, rushing 148 151 nesa, Denny Shute, Ky Lafoon Passes Attempted 19 20 Tournament with a 36-hole total Wilson Brooks, Pete LaTona and chased the Passes Completed 8 5 of 141. and Bob Hamilton, were well in Johnny Bauers scored SHAEF bounding ball Yards Gained, passing 72 62 Mark Fry, winner of the first the rear. touchdowns. into the end. Yards Penalized 15 35 round, added a 73 to his opening Hal Hamberg zone and fell on 69 to trail Ferrier by one stroke. GIs in Scoreless Tie it just ahead of Army's End Ed CAGE -RESULTS Byron Nelson's 71 put him in a m The 442nd Engineers and First Rafalko. three-way tie for third place with General Hospital football teams The Middies came to life late in NYU 62, Ft. Hancock 30. George Fazio and John Geersten. scoResjMt Lung Island 72, Camp Shanks 26. played to a scoreless tie yesterday the third period, starting on their Carnegie Tech 27, Slippery Bock 25. each with 143. FRIDAY NIGHT'S SCORES at Municipal Stadium, Paris. own 26-yard stripe and parading Detroit 56, Fort Wayne 29. Ferrier, one of golf's longest Tulsa 48, Miami 2. downfield on the good right arm Sedalia AAF 41, Westminster 26. Daniel Field 28, Newberry 7. Wayne 37, 728th Battalion 29. drivers, added putting accuracy to SATURDAY'S SCORES Menichelli Held to Draw of little Hal Hamberg, their pass- Michigan State 44, Drake 36. his repertoire yesterday, dropping Army 23, Navy 7. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Fernando ing specialist. Hamberg ran the Indiana 44, Camp Atterbury 22. Notre Dame 28, Great Lakes 7 Columbia Midshipmen 70, Columbia U. 54. Georgia Tech 44, Georgia 0. "The Mighty" Menichelli, Argentine ball three times and completed two Cornell 59, Rider 35. 7 Bouts in Paris Tonight Oklahoma 31, Nebraska 12. heavyweight, added substance to a of three passes before an Army Brooklyn College 52, Yeshiva 41. Seven GI boxing matches will be Arkansas 41, Arkansas Aggies O growing suspicion he is not a very penalty carried the ball to the one- Illinois 64, Chanute Field 25. Virginia 26, North Carolina 7. good boxer by fighting a ten-round CCNY 53, Montclair Tchrs. 46. staged tonight at the Palais de Southern Methodist 9, TCU 6. yard line. Clyde Scott plunged Kentucky 56, Ft. Knox 23. Glace, Paris, under auspices of the Louisiana State 25, Tulane 6. draw with Johnny White, of Jersey across on two tries and Vic Finos Texas Tech 7, South Plains AAF 6. Minnesota 50, South Dakota 28. ARC. The first bout will start at City, at the St. Nicholas Arena last converted. Augsburg 45, Carleton 36. Rice 18, Southwestern 0. Loyola of South 59, Big Springs AAF 38. 7:30 PM. Denver 27, Colorado College 13. night. When the fourth quarter opened, Davis intercepted a pass and re- Li'l Abner By Oourtesy of United Features. By 41 Capp turned to his 48. Blanchard carried three times and Davis once to

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O'INSULTS TO BOTH BRIDE AN'GROOM THET lOO HAFTA 9AT"AN'A SOT-SHOE TM WORKS.'?') CUPPIN'YO'TOE- I SHOES — HATETHGALV©' 'S MARR.YIN' T'PUT HER THROUGH IT ? BUCK AN* WING FINISH ?. AM'LI TAKE J NAILS OR SH1NINV CLIP HIS Davis and Blanchard collaborated VO SHOES. —y TOE-NAILS to move from their 31 to midfield. FI VE- 1—V WHtCHEVAH J ( AH'GIT OH WlF TH On a quick-opening play, Davis X FANCY.?* ^ i CERE— .WEDDINV^/ cruised 50 yards behind sparkling ^MONvrr blocking by Blanchard and End Barney. Poole to a touchdown. ARMY NAVY First Downs 12 8 Yards Gained, rushing 209 83 Passes Attempted 8 22 Passes Completed 4 7 Yards Gained, passing 30 81 Yards Penalized 45 55 • Monday, Dec. 4, 1944 Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Rolling to Rhine, Not Through It SmokersTanic Nasi Diaper Sniper, Third Crosses Aged 11, Is Captured Saar As Nazis In U.S. Blamed WITH THE 5th INF. DIV., FRANCE.—An 11-year-old Ger- Scorch Earth For Scarcity man sniper with a man-sized, /1 telescopically-sighte rifle was (Continued from Page 1) NEW YORK, Dec. 3 (AP). — A pulled out of a tree in France by Co. B, 2nd Inf. Regt. converged from the north and nationwide survey disclosed today south on the Nazi superhighway that panic buying by smokers is He wore a child-size helmet and camouflag J cape. Identifica- to Cologne. ' about as much' to blame for the United Press said Third Army civilian cigarette shortage as an tion papers gave his age. Im- mediately after he was taken, forces drove across the Saar using estimated 20 to 50 percent reduction a bridge captured intact at Saar- m supplies to wholesalers. Co. B captured 47 Germans who, according to Pfc Harry Gordon, lautern, where the river divides Cigarette manufacturers, distri- the town. Earlier reports said they butors and retailers and many of Chicago, wer mostly "in their teens or late forties." were battling in the west side of regional OPA officials said that the city, and to the north had buying of extra packs by famine- drawn up along the river's west scared millions threatens to make bank for 16 miles. the situation progressively worse. In the south, U.S. Seventh Army All over the country, smokers Greek Police troops battled 300 Germans in a keep tab on tobacco delivery hours section of Strasbourg near the big and rush from one line to another Slay 15 Reds Rhine bridges, Stars and Stripes or repeat in the same line until the Correspondent Wade Jones said. clerk spots them. U.S. Army signal Corps Photo Greek government police opened Battle on Rhine Banks THICKS of the Third Army plow through hub-deep water on a flooded Boys Resell for Profit fire on thousands of Communist As artillery shells' zoomed over- Many communities report that demonstrators marching past the Lorraine road, under weather conditions typical of those encountered in Gen. Patton's current smash toward the Rhine River. head, American and German infan- boys empty cigarette vending ma- Royal Palace in Athens yesterday trymen battled in a seven-story chines as soon as supply men fill in defiance of a government ban. apartment building on the city's them and resell the cigarettes at The Communists said that 15 were east side, he said. a profit. killed and 148 wounded, including A Ullage Lies Still in Death Germans still fought east of Some harassed retailers say they some women and children. Strasbourg on the Rhine banks may not renew their cigarette In Rome, at the same time, after destroying the bridges. licenses when they expire because groups of young Communists at- After War Hurtles Through The Rhine bridges east of Stras- ot unreasonable customers. One tacked Royalists emerging from bourg include a six-span, double- dealer in New York State said that their first big mass meeting since tracked railroad bridge with lat- "men and women accuse me of the liberation. By Jimmy Cannon tice girder superstructure and lying when I say I haven't any Stars and Stripes Staff Writer masonry piers and abutments, cigarettes. One woman picked up The Athens demonstration brought to a head differences be- WITH 80th INF. DIV., Dec. 3.—The dead hold Farbers- and a three-span road and street- a heavy cardboard 'No Cigarettes' car bridge of similar construction. sign from the counter and threw tween the EAM, leftist resistance villers now. Once the enemy did and then we came. But organization, and Premier Papen- Southeast of the city, a double- it at me." they returned and so did jve. Today only the dead are tracked railroad bridge of steel Reports by cities included these: dreous's government. The EAM had proclaimed a general strike for to- there. The fish in the shallow creek are the only living construction spans the river. Des Moines, la.—A tobacco truck day and the government countered 1 things in the town, which lies prostrate in the basin between driver reported that he saw the by forbidding demonstrations. the disfigured hills. same women follow him into four A Reuter dispatch said Greek "We got into town at 10:30 AM Smokes Tieup stores. and by dark we had driven them Albuquerque, N.M. — A young police opened fire with machine guns and tommy guns. When ussians score out," said Lt. Col. William J. Bors- married woman, her five-year-old more' demonstrators arrived, the ton, of Ft. Worth, commanding the Is Seen Lifting son and her white-haired mother Third Bn. of the 317th Inf. Regt. dispatch continued, "the police in- 30-Mile Gain joined a cigarette shopping line. "I was in my CP when it happen- (Continued from Page If Fiped the kid: "What are you buy- creased the intensity of their, fire, probably using mortars and light Important Soviet successes on the ed," Borston said, "The tanks came raise a peace-time force of 1,000,000 ing those cigarettes for. Grandma? through the fog that had sprung men to help police Europe. You don't smoke." anti-tank guns." Hungarian fronts both south and north of Budapest were admitted up like a suddenly recruited Ger- Soldiers here, he pointed out, "are Had Dozen Packs by the Germans yesterday. man ally. The infantry followed wondering whether they will have Buffalo, N.Y.—A retailer reported In the area west of the Danube spraying fire like insane gardeners to do guard duty in Europe after that a young woman asked him if WD Coops Up River below Budapest, Marshal with deadly hoses. the shooting ends." He said a law be had any cigarettes. "No," he Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army Returned With Tanks drafting men $o replace soldiers now replied, "I wish I had some to smashed at least 30 miles west- in the ETO would be a logical solu- U.S. Chickens "I didn't have a runner, so I took tion to the problem. After a short smoke myself." "I'll sell you some," ward from Pecs to capture the off for the regiment and came back Bhe said, and reached into her highway center of Kaspovar on the training period in the U.S., he said, WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (ANS).— with the tanks," Borston said. handbag where she had a least a road to the Austrian frontier, by new draftees could be assigned po- The government ruled today that German account, and also pene- In the streets, the voices of the lice jobs in Europe. cozen packs. She explained she after Dec. 11 virtually all chickens bad been going from store to store trated northward toward Budapest. enemy shouted. "CoL Smith says Since arriving in France, the produced and processed in the Del- it's okay to surrender, Yanks." collecting them. Moscow reported that Red troops committee has visited Le Havre Mar-Va Peninsula and Shenandoah in this new campaign were ad- "Col. Borston came back riding and Cherbourg ports and inspected Portland, Ore.—An. old lady ob- Valley must be set aside for Army tained a pack of cigarettes from a vancing across Hungary at the rate on a tank and shot the first three other Army installations. Members purchase. This region normally grocery that sold only to regular of ten and 20 miles a day. Germans he saw with his Tommy indicated they ,jlan an extensive customers with the plea, "I need supplies from 60 to 80 percent of Miskloc, important road and rail gun," said Maj. E. o. Barszaz, of tour to study soldier needs and ETO them so badly. My son is in pain the needs of East Coast civilians junction 80 miles northeast of Bu- Pittsfield, Mass., executive officer. facilities. and wants a cigarette." As the The embargo is expected to stay dapest, was evacuated by the Ger- In a barn across from the CP, The visitors left Paris yesterday clerk handed them over he caught in effect for at least the first three mans ahead of Marshal Melinov- S/Sgt. Graydon A. Rief, of Cin- for forward areas. sight of some 30 packs in her shop- months of 1945. ksy's westward advance toward the cinnati, sat working at his radio as ping bag. War Food Administration Chief Danube River above the capital. Germans battered a the door and Reno, Nev.—Stores here have in- Marvin Jones and Quartermaster The capture of Miskolc was an- called for him to surrender. "They Savings in ETO augurated a system by which a General Edmund B. Gregory asked nounced officially last night by made it bend, but they couldn't customer must return an empty civilians to remember, if poultry Marshal Stalin in an order of the break it. The funny thing was that cigarette package bearing the name supplies grow short, that "chicken day which described it as a chief the door wasn't even locked:" said Hit New High of the store and the date of pur- is for fighters first." Eastern enemy defense bastion and center Rief. chase to get a fresh pack. One markets still may expect the usual of the Hungarian arms industry. .Despite early Christmas and sou- woman returned the ashes of part 20 to 40 percent of their chicken Another order announced the venir shopping by soldiers through- o; her package, saying she had in- supplies which are produced in seizure of Satoraljaujhely north of out the ETO, savings hit a new advertently thrown it into the fire- areas outside the embargo region, Miskolc, junction of railroads con- Tank Battle... high during October, according to place. however. necting Hungary, Czechoslovakia (Continued from Page 1) Brig. Gen. H. N. Cobbs, theater and southern Poland. fiscal officer. Only 16 per cent of the soldiers' Attempt to Swim Roer River His tank was knocked out by a pay was spent through civilian out- Loses 2 Sons, Husband; Royal Tiger. The crew "bailed out," lets. The remainder went into in- but the Sherman didn't burn. Bean surance, allotments, war bonds, sav- 3rd Boy Will Go Home crawled back, and when the Tiger Wins Scout a Pass to Paris ings, or was spent at post exchanges padded by on its 34-inch treads, or QM sales stores. Stars and Stripes D.S. Bureau Bean fired the last armor-piercing WITH U.S. NINTH ARMY, Dec. Here the river was too wide and PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3.— Mrs. shell, hitting the Tiger in the en- 3.—"A damn good try" to cross the too deep, but Beeler started taking Mary Di Gennaro's son Sammy is gine compartment and setting it Tank Destroyers Find Roer river may prompt the folks off his equipment. coming home from the wars. afire. 32,000 Jerricans back home to wonder "how ya It was between 2100 and 2200 Her two other sons, Dominico Another Sherman gunner, Sgt. gonna keep" Pfc L. D. Beeler down and the moon was out. Beeler and Angelo Jr. were killed in Michael Fritzman, of Salem, Ohio, WITH U.S. SUPPLY FORCES in the mountains 'round Cumber- waded to midstream, then disap- action, and her husband committed kayoed four Mark IVs and one self- IN FRANCE.—In a concentrated peared over his head. suicide after hearing of the second propelled gun, but couldn't get a land, Ky., "after he's seen Paree." jerrican-recovery drive, one tank Lt. Col. Glover S. Johns, bat- But he made considerable noise son's death. She was notified by Panther or Tiger, although he bounced shells off half a dozen. destroyer outfit in Advance Sec- talion commander from Corpus 'and, fearing he would attract too War Department today that Pvt. much Nazi attention, he returned. Samuel T. Di Gennaro, recuperat- But by ganging up on the Jerries, tion, Com Z, has brought in more Christi, Tex., sent a six-man infan- than 32,000 cans, Maj. Robert W. Said the colonel: ing from wounds in an English tricking them into range of the try patrol out Tuesday night to TDs and by guts and luck, the Rummele, executive officer, an- (a) beat the woods for Germans "Damn good try. Give him a hospital, would be given permanent counter-offensive was smashed. nounced. supposed to have crossed the Roer; pass to Paris anyway." duty in the U.S. (b) find out the width and depth By Oourtesy of News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff of the river, and (c) reconnoiter Terry And The Pirates for a likely spot to effect a cross- ing. KuHrr.cMAKLK.yoo \ \ KPCTAIL,TAIN-SHUN.' FORWARP "The first man to cross the river KNOW WE CANY* HAVE 'S I TO-A-TABLC-eoID- A -TARE - FOE-SIC-^-lX -M IN -TMA- THAT-BlS-BU5T T gets a pass to Paris," Col. Johns DATES WITH VO0.' WE'RE RESTAURANT-ON-THE-CORNER* ENLISTED WACS-ANP WITH -CAFTAIN-TUMBON -AND- WILLOW- promised. YOU'RE AMERICAN BELINDA- WHILE -I-TRy-fO-eEr-IN- Sgt. William F. Cannon, patrol OFFICERS. _ rTOUCH-WITH-TERRy-LEE-ON-THE- leader from Frederick, Md., set out VEZ JiELEPHONE - MARCH .' with Beeler, Pfc Edward W. Abbe, THEy of Cleveland; Pvt. Lawrence V. Mason, of Rosebank, N.Y.; Pfc Floyd R. Bryan, of Gladwin, Mich., and Pfc Joseph E. Abbatiellb, of Syracuse, N.Y. With them went T/5 Albert T. White, public rela- tions man from Rutherford, N.J. The patrol reached the river, but heard German voices directly across, so it moved to another spot.