"We will remember you with . .It is equally important pride and with humility. . . . that you complete the victory We shall keep on remembering THE TRIPES you." over Nazi ideas." —President Roosevelt. OaHy ffewspapcr of IM. Armed Forces the European Theater of Operations —Gen. Bradley.

Vol. 1—No. 155 lFr. New York — PARIS — London lFr. Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 U.S. Gains on 35-ML Line Churchill Where Americans Hack at Bul^e 3d Army Cracks Nearly Hit By Sniper Bastogne Siege;

ATHENS, Dec. 28.—Prime Min- ister Churchill and Foreign Min- Nazi Flank Reels ister Anthony Eden, after narrowly escaping assassination by a snip- Field Marshal von Rundstedt's south flank appeared ing machine-gunner, left for Lon- to be wobbling last night as official reports showed Amer- don today with a Greek peace formula in their pockets. It cal- ican forces which had driven 10 miles in five days to led for a regency to supplant King relieve Bastogne advancing along a 35-mile front. The George II. siege was raised by a U.S. Third Army armored force. A burst from a hidden machine- As a pea-soup fog descended on the frozen hills ofj gun had zipped past Churchill yesterday as the Prime Minister Eastern Belgium and Luxembourg, the Germans admitted and his party stepped out of the for the first time that their llth-hour blitz is on the British Embassy for an armored defensive between Bastogne and Echternach. car tour of Athens. A Greek girl German radio said last night that American troops had' was killed just 30 yards away recaptured Echternach on the Luxembourg-German border. from him. The party, which 1 included Eden, Field Marshal Sir scars and Stripes Map by Baird Latest official battle reports, still 36 hours behind front Harold Alexander and Maj. Gen. American forces drive ten miles to relieve the Bastogne garrison, developments, showed: Ronald M. Scobie, calmly proceed- besieged for seven days, while German radio reports U.S. recapture ed with the tour. of Echtcrnach, on the Luxembourg-German border. J Americans held their mile-wide corridor to Bastogne Archbishop Likely Regent against the first strong Nazi counter-attack.. A conference of the warring 4 2. German armor patrolling toward the Meuse was Greek political factions, brought Jerries Really Laid It On\ mauled by Allied forces. together by Churchill, reached a Powerful Nazi attacks between Stavelot and March* unanimous decision favoring a 3. regency and it was officially an- Survivors Say of Nazi Push toward Antwerp supply lines were smeared. nounced that Churchill and Eden U.S. forces recaptured Grandmenil and Manhay in would recommend its appointment 4. to the Greek king in London, who By Charles Kiley the west tip of the enemy bulge, according to U.P. heretofore has be?n ooposed to Stars and Stripes Staff Writer The German .Transocean Newsagency Correspondent, The dynamite behind the German counter-offensive one. Guenther Weber, reported last night that the Germans had The regent probabiy would be is gone, according to SHAEF. The advance is slowed down, gone over to. "an elastic defense" on the south flank which Archbishop Damaskinos of the and in some sectors Americans are moving up again with the forms the belly of the bulge. Greek Orthodox Church, an balance of strength they lacked when their lines were forced ardent anti-Fascist who is believed It was the first indication from to be acceptable both to the left- to bend and yield under superior an enemy source that the Christ- enemy power. Soviets Enter wing EAM (resistance front) and Merchants Urged mas blitz had hit a snag. the Rightists. Premier George But Jim Williams and Abe Rich, Channelized by Allied pressure Papandreou offered to resign. Not to Cheat GIs a couple of doughfeet from an out- Buda Streets on its north and south flanks, the The regency then would be faced fit that caught one of the first bulge was being squeezed as its with the task of reconciling the blows of the attack near the MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (AP).—Red western tentacles groped to withm Representatives of the French Luxembourg-Belgian border on the warring political factions. This exporting industries adopted a Army units, under clouds of smoke three miles of the northern bulga Papandreou has failed to do, but morning of Dec. 17, are around from burning buildings, pushed of France north of Charleville. unanimous resolution yesterday to testify that the Jerries really conditions under which the re- urging French merchants to jharge into the streets of Buda on the yanks Cross Sure River gency would operate would be laid it on. Allied soldiers and French custo- western bank of the Danube River Sizable enemy forces in the vici- more favorable than those con- Williams, a communications pla- today but in Pest they found grim mers the same prices. The action nity of Ciney and Celles were fronting the present government. toon chief and staff sergeant from resistance from suicide forces. was taken at a meeting to study Harrisburg, Pa., and Rich, rifle reported. The whole western peri- Big 3 to Review Situation trans-Atlantic business relations (The Berlin communique admit- meter of the bulge was fluid, with company Pfc from Ozone Park, ted that even as the Soviets fought Before his departure, Churchill after the war. "N.Y., came out of the line yester- both U.S. and German tanks mill- told a press conference that he, At the same time the Pans news- to reduce Budapest itself they ing around without making any day with one -f the first reports hurled strong new forces into a President Roosevelt and Marshal paper Combat, commenting on a of the counter-offensive by those strong attacks. Stalin would review the Greek tendency it saw among some mounting offensive beyond the by- In central Luxembourg, Amer- who stood in Its path. passed city, driving westward to- situation at an early meeting and Frenchmen to berate the Americans They told of regimental and bat- icans f crossed the Sure River in that if the Greeks fail to solve for not bringing enough food and ward Austria.) three places. talion commanders, colonels, ma- In Buda several streets already their differences "an international fuel for the civilians, reminded its (Continued on Page 8) Northwest of Echternach, enemy trust might be necessary" to rule readers that the Americans were were in Russian hands. There was troops were withdrawing back inta " the country. giving something more precious— (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 8) To the sound of sniper fire out- their lives. Nazis Retake Barga side the embassy and the thud of Saying that most GIs seen in British artillery shelling ELAS Paris were on their way to bloody In Italy Offensive New Capes for GI Snow-Fighters positions, Churchill declared battles, the newspaper commented: determinedly that British armed "There you have their Christmas 15TH*ARMY GROUP HQ., Dec. intervention would not stop until gift—instead of chocolate." 28 (Reuter).—German troops who the differences were settled "either attacked in force in the mountain- by free negotiation or by the Berchtesgaden Vacated ous west coast sector of the Italian increasing use of military force." MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (UP;.—Adolf front northeast of Leghorn have The British will not withdraw, he Hitler is believed here to have recaptured the small town of Barga, added, without 'guarantees, in abandoned his Berchtesgaden estate two and a half miles east of Gal- which we can believe, that a fair because of the advance of the licano on the Serchio River, and are and decent government will be set Soviet Armies toward Austria, continuing to press back leading up which will not pay oft old bringing the fighting front within Allied elements. scores on either side." 200 miles of his mountain hideout. Springing suddenly from their snowbound mountain defenses, the Germans launched an offensive on Army Again Orders Seizure a seven-mile front down both sides of the Serchio River and around the key road junction town of Gal- Of Montgomery Ward Stores licano, some 40 miles northeast of LA V Leghorn, Fifth Army supply port. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). Jamaica, N.Y.; Kansas City; San Only meager details were released The War Department, acting on Rafael, Calif, and Baltimore. on the German drive, but it was a Presidential edict, today ordered Yesterday in Chicago counters officially admitted that slight with- seizure of Montgomery Ward pro- were broken, fixtures were smashed drawals had been forced and some perties in seven cites after the and goods thrown into aisles when ground relinquished around Barga. nation's largest mail order house a crowd swept through the Dear- This part of the Apennines was had refused to comply with War born Ave. store after strike- last announced as entrusted to the Labor Board directives breakers had attempted to inter- U.S. 92nd Div. It was the second major crack- fere with picketing outside the down this year against the company. store. 32,000 field as Pro-Nazis Last spring Ward Chairman Sewell Ward's Chicago headquarters Frenchmen interned or impri- Avery was physically ejected from said that a court order designed soned on suspicion of pro-Nazi his Chicago office. to sustain the government action activities now total 32,000, Interior Army troops this morning were was expected to be filed in Federal Minister Tixier reported yester- X/4 Marvin C. Eans, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates .^e snow moving to take over Ward pro- district courts in areas of the cities day. Of these, 5,000 cases have cape now being: issued First Army, troops on the Western Front. perties in Chicago; St. Paul, Minn.; (Continued on Page 8) not yet been investigated. White rags camouflage the rifle. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 An Editorial ^ H £ Pi ^ Notes on the Holiday Mail HE holiday mail includes pix of the Struthof Pans Cheesecake the area still stinks. The outcome T of such an inspection results in an concentration camp at Natz- Our answer to the two "Pin Up" argument headed by one question: gals, in S & S, Dec. 11, who asked Which is more important, picking weiler. Here's a sample— "Are GIs tired of us?" is yes! We up a piece of muddy paper or a high temperature oven for •re more than fed up with this issuing food to the front-line Idiotic, simple-minded, so called troops' roasting the victims. Note "morale booster." Another reason for this little the steel litter for easy in- The only pic a GI needs is one that bitch Is to let the GIs know that, Is personal to him and him alone. 1/Sgts are not responsible for all sertion of the corpses. Do you believe one look at a half- the dirty details dished out.—1/Sgt. "Another example of Nazi dressed girl will spur the individual Clyde Cumberland, Rhd. Co. 'to greater glory? We think not. thoroughness in death," Three years is too long without * * * says the tag line of this the real McCoy. — Cpl. Bill Forley, Holds That Line U.S. Signal Corps photo, FA, and 4J others. "is the dental forceps used (We counted 'em.—Ed.) I have an idea for stringing up communication wires. Use an en- to extract gold from the * * * larged picture hook—the kind that teeth of the human fuel." Feet First takes one nail and holds lots of * * * weight— to hold the wire up off Here's an old Russian pre- the ground. It would be easy to put Atrocity tales are hard ventative for frostbite on trench up a line of hooks and extra wires to believe. Even a photo feet. Wrap your feet with toilet could be easily added or removed doesn't carry conviction. paper, then some wax paper, —Pvt. J. Garson, T.D. Bn. over which you put the sock.— You don't actually see the Cpl. J. J. Atuk, Hosp. Plant. • * * * Nazis and their victims. * * * Deplorable Example You don't hear the shriek. faces, jjressed in uniforms 25th headed "SS men confess Movements I wish to report the most pathe- You don't smell the flesh. taken from captured Amer- to butchery of Belgian wo- tically laughable incident of my 4ff icans who were stripped to men and children"—near This is beyond doubt one for the stay in this man's army. books. We are a 24 AM Howitzer their underwear and shot. Stavelot. "Seven members Today, in the quest for fuel for Yet some of us who could outfit that has been seen pulling the battery, we ventured back and, never get fertootzed about * * * of Hitler's elite signed sworn Into positions still occupied by the my jeep driver and I espied a Lublin and Lidice, Oradour- statements that they had Infantry After making three oc- Or the item in last Fri- pile of coal bricks. Before we had sur-Glane and Natzweiler day's paper about the film participated in the massacre cupations of positions in as many a chance to ask for some a lanky days, our cannoneers, truck drivers get goose flesh about them of more than 20 civilians." red-haired Lt. Col. exploded with found on the official pho- and crane operator were bleary- now. tographer of an SS Panzer * » * tjrec1 from lack of sleep. They were "What the hell are you doing, Misters?" then hastily continued: Division. They showed Hardness, not hate—cool- \4 "This is my CP., MY CP!" He Like the colonel telling American dead stretched asked me what my right hand was n e s s, not passion—are for. about his exec. His body out in even rows. "They needed to throw back this I was too stunned by the whole was found stripped in a had no GI equipment," the German drive. But if any- ridiculous situation to reply. ditch, he said, a bullet in story said, "an indication one still thinks he's playing This incident is difficult to com- his back. Or the acid- that they did not die in for marbles—and, believe it prehend except the idea behind the throwing Nazi 'chutists car- battle, but were massacred." whole thing. Here was this Lt. Col. or not, some do—maybe knocking himself out in effort to rying small phials of sul- *p — "v* the holiday mail has a spe- assert authority. I have never phuric acid to throw in our Or that item of December cial message. seen a more deplorable example told that that night they would of what happens to authority when have to move the guns—move No. 4 it is vested in the wrong man.— —500 yards from town because this Lt. F. H. O, FA. town was being taken over by a * * * SOMEWHERE Div. HQ Joe Pro We've been up to our hips in mud vtv since we landed, so the first time Our Bn. CO came up to the front that we can get our fannies out of lines yesterday and spotted two to mud for a day or two, someone large holes, one a shell crater, the comes along, outranks our captain other an abandoned mortar posi- tion, which he ordered filled. To and battalion commander (who, in- Tanks for the Ride little house in the Siegfried at them and the Germans me a hole is a hole and I feel pretty cidentally, is a majorrand orders us T Line. The Jerry sail "Kame- raised their hands. The.- were damned silly standing on the front Sgt. erome Degenhardt, of Mil- out of town, claiming the billets rad!" and as the flabbergasted turned over to two radiomen line heaving a shovel and trying to waukee and 30th Inf. Div., was lor his nard-working (?) and mud- Mayus held the door open, six who came along later. tidy up some Dutch apple orchard riding on a light tank when Ger- weary (?) Div Hq. troops mans started shooting with bazoo- more Germans filed in to sur- • * * * There was sufficient room for by day and pulling guard half the render. night. kas and an anti-tank gun from a practically two divisions in the roadblock. ft A * French Medal town yet our battery was ordered Orders is orders, so we fills 'er up When two men of his cannon 'cause the big operator done spoke Degenhardt vaulted off the, tank out—like Liza—into the cold. and firing hi Ml as he ran, charg- Hand-to-Hand section in the 94th Div. cleaned We arent bitching about moving the law. Are some of these opera- Pvt. Benny Malinski, of the 83rd out a German mine field so the tors ever going to smarten up and ed the flank. After the barricade forward or moving when it means and dead bodies were removed, the Inf. Div., speaks German fluently. guns could move in, Sgt.- Stephen pushing the Germans back, but treat us as men?—The Rheumatic Deacons. Para. Inf. sergeant climber' back on his perch In a recent night attack on an Arty, of Philadelphia, thought the thi, unnecessary move to suit the and the tank continued. enemy town, Benny shouted to two soldiers should be decorated. Later whim of a short-sighted officer is * * * Germans to come over to him ^f* i^fr ^ too much.—Cpl. E. F. Perdos, FA When they got in range, he swung Battalion. - They Can't Do That! Polite Nazi his rifle butt twice, knocked out two Why the hell did the AEF sta- 3? There was a knock on the Jerries in his first encounter with tion deprive us of the entire door. Pvt. Peter Mayus, of the enemy. "Saves ammunition." Ammo Shortage broadcast of the army-Navy game, Roebling, N.J., and the 30th Benny says, tersely. the biggest game of the season? I am in a FA unit and when we Inf. Div., opered it and a * * * move into a new position, I notice —The Ack-Ack Boys. smiling Jerry stepped into the all kinds of small arms and tank Vet School Scholarship? ammo laying around. I counted Private Breger 275 Julius Tolney, of Buf- 600 rounds of 30 cal. and 12 hand falo, N.Y., varied the routine grenades at one point. At the front GI - assists -in- childbirth act doughfoots ask us for our grenades. when he acted as midwife to Why can't we have someone pick a cow. Tolney's surgical in- op this ammo left behind by struments were a wheelbarrow infantry and armored units? At and a set of pulleys. that day two Croix de Guerre me- least units like ours could do this * * $ dals were found among rubble of Job if we had some place to turn So Sorry a nearby rouse. Arty pinned them ft in. This also could apply to on Pfcs Robert T. McLaughlin, of clothing and other equipment. How A veteran of the Russian front Struthers, Ohio, and Don R. does that sound to you other GIs? who joined a Wehrmacht unit in Mauck, of Estherville, Ohio, then —T/4 Al. Arrison. Lorraine was disgusted when a kissed each GI soundly on the non-com pulled out a pistol and cheek in traditional manner. * * * threatened the new men during a pep talk. Police the Area foiki u Home SCDQ That night the Jerry volunteered |rfh> Vbest Uls swift Me«» We know an area should be kept for a patrol, then took off to the B »l Sir stor»« arrival: clean and we try to as far as pos- American lines to surrender. r - sible, but when you have to pull n VT. Ernest W. Haigh, Newton Palls, terrogators thought he was stalling P Mass.—boy. Dec. 9; Sgt. Joseph Cerasa, men off a detail that is issuing food when he said he couldn't remember New York—Joseph, Dec. 12; Sgt. Stan It becomes a damned nuisance. Jutca, Abbeville. La.—boy, Dec. 12; Lt the name of his unit, until a couple Robert O. Bollo. Cicero, 111.—Jerry Robert. The detail works for an hour of days later they received a note Dec. 17; T/Sgt. Cherster L. Wolfe, straightening up. Mr. Big Brass from the rear. The message con- Boston—Craig Lawrence, Dec. 17; Lt through. According to him tained the information they wanted, Lawrence D. Stockford, Kalamazoo Michael Lawrence, Dec. 19; Sgt. Andrew along with an apology from the Babish, Sturgeon, Pa.—Andre, Nov. 20; THE STARS AND STRIPES German for not having remember- Pfc Leon Silver, Bronx.—Allen Melvin, ed it sooner. Nov. 25; Lt. Harry T. Rippens, Pasadena- Printed at Che New 7orK Herald boy, Dec. 20; Cpl. Robert R. Tompkins, Tribune plant. 21 rue de BerrL Parti, * * * Bronxville—boy, Dec. 18; Pvt. Herbert (or the U.S. armed forces under aus- Wagner, Bronx.—Barbara Ann, Dec. 21. pices of the Information and Educa- A Nozzle Hosing HTLARD McClure, CSN, Newcastle, tion Division, Special and Informa- P Pa.—girl, Dec. 18; Lt. John C. Sherry, tion Services, ETOUSA. TeL: ELYsees T/Sgt. S. T. Richardson, of Jersey City—girl, Dec. 17; Cpl. Lawrence 40-58, 41-48. Sherman, Tex., and the 36th Cohen, Dorchester, Mass.—Carole and Contents passed by the OB. Army Inf. Div., was gassing up on a Cynthia, Dec. 12; Lt. Bernard S. Rein- and Navy censors. Entered as second berg, Rockaway Park, N.Y.—Madelyn Mass matter. Mar. 15, 1943. at the French road. Ou. of the dusk Regina. Dec. 1; W/O Joseph J. Cangelose, post office. New York, N.Y_ under walked Germans. Caught Orlando, Pla.—Elizabeth Ann, Dec. 231 the act of Mar. s, 1878. 11 "He refuses to put the earphones on, Sir, because of the strong Without a weapon, the Texan Pfc Louis Geanopoulos, Schenectady—girl. Vol. X, No. 155 Dec. 3; Pvt. Sol Gugich, Broax.^-CralB language our flyers use!" pointed the nozzle of the hose Ralph, Nov. 8. a Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIFES U.S. NEWS Page 3 This Was America Yesterdays GI Entertainers Get Awards DoctorsTestify Victory's Up to Joes- Chaplin Is Not Navy Secretary Says So Father of Carol LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (ANSK By Phil BuckneU —A blood test showed that Charlie Stars and Stripes OS. Bureau Chaplin could not possibly be the TvrEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Secretary of the Navy Forrestal's father of Joan Berry's baby 11 speech in Washington today was a salute from the Navy daughter, two physicians testifield to the Army. in the paternity case, which Ja "The man with the rifle and hand grenade," he said, drawing to a close. "is the one who in the final analysis wins victory. Judge Henry M. Willis admitted the evidence, but declared it was "The Navy cannot express itself too strongly in its not conclusive, and one doctor admiration and respect for the deeds of our soldiers in France and admitted there "could be" an error. f^r the military genius of Gen. MacArthur and his troops in the .Philippines," he said. Later curly-haired Carol Ann wa» placed on view within a few feet, And while the speechifying was coming in good, Congressman of Chaplin, who maintained an John E. Sheridan (D.—Pa.) said in Philadelphia that soldiers he impassive mien. visited in Europe do not favor the proposed "rotation system" where- The defense, conducted by by troops would be brought home for rest periods. The Congressman, a For entertaining U.S. soldiers overseas, Helen Parrish, Lorraine Charles Millikan, constituted a member of the Military Affairs Committee which inspected the ETO, Rognan and Patti Thomas proudly display the certificate they denial of any sex relations with was talking at a Shrine dinner where the fare apparently, was fine. received from the USO in Chicago. Joan Berry within a year of the "Out of a million and a half troops," he wagered, "I don't believe time she said Carol Ann was there are a hundred -who want to come home before the job is conceived, and evidence of various finished." General Lays Nazi Advance associations with other men Nation Prepares to Greet 1945 "about that time.'- "I did not. . .No. . .1 did not. . TN Chicago, New Year's Eve celebration in night spots will cost anywhere To'Our Lack of Information* met detailed allegations, one of ■■■ from two dollars to the $17.25 minimum at Camellia House in the which was that the pantomimist Drake Hotel. Despite this Parisian stinger, the Drake management says stood nude before a mirror, flexed 90 percent of reservations have been snapped up. Cheap Johns can go his muscies, and inquired of Joan* to the Palmer House Empire Room for $14.25 minimum. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS).—Gen. Peyton C. March, chief of staff, declared that progress of the "Do I look like Peter Pan?" The fact New Year's Eve falls on Sunday will muffle the popping Millikan, cross-examining Miss of corks in many parts of the , but where laws permit German counter-offensive could be attributed to our lack Berry, sought to elicit testimony the outlook is for a rousing welcome to 1945. New York will be New of information about enemy movements and strength, and connecting her with other men but York, but in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Birmingham and inability to judge from such information as we had from she denied she spent a day and other Sunday-conscious communities Papa will have to do his falling the underground. night in Tulsa with J. Paul Getty, down in the kitchen. In Utah he can't dance, but can drink all he referred to as an oil millionaire. wants to if he brings his own. ~\ In a statement to International News Service on his 80th birthday, She ran sobbing to her attorney's Paging Joe Knorst: arms, after identifynig letters she '/fee' March declared that Von Rund- Is Time's Man of the Year wrote to Chaplin from Tulsa. TTME MAGAZINE announces its selection for Man of the Year is You're a Pop Now stedt's offensive has given the Allied high command direct infor- She denied that she stayed General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, who "took more than "many times" in the Beverly Hills Hitler gave him." Newsweek talks grimly, says they're getting down to CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (ANS).— mation for the first time on the large numbers of the enemy which apartment of Hans Rueseh, writer, business harder than ever. "With almost the urgency and earnestness Mrs. Joseph Ralph Knorst is but admitted she was there one*, of 1941 and '42 the nation, not only the administration, is devoting itself wondering just how long it will still must be defeated in order to reach Berlin. when she donned Ruesch's pajamas. to the problems of manpower and production. Peace jitters and VE Day be until her husband now in preparations are now forgotten." hospital in France, learns that Problem Will Be Solved Everything's all right at home, though. The Bogarts have made his third child was born pre- Now that we know, it is a mili- Job Training Plan up again. Mayo Methot Bogart told reporters today that Humphrey, maturely Oct. 14 at a hospital tary problem that will be solved, he screen toughie, came home Christmas night and "naturally there in Evanston. On Nov. 15, still said. He predicted that the solu- Termed'Explosive' will be no divorce." Naturally. unaware his son Jack was doing tion may be costly and refused to nicely in an incubator, he wrote say the war in Europe could be AND just to prove everybody's happy this season, Samuel G. Hibben, his wife he was with the 16th WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). ended in 1945. —The Armed Forces Committeo Westinghouse engineer, announces the Statue of Liberty will be Inf. in Germany. As to Japan the general said, illuminated with 112 powerful lamps to signify surrender of Germany Yesterday Mrs. Knorst was on Education expressed concern "We have not begun to fight... today that a situation of "quite or Japan. He didn't say when, but promised, after the war, new electric busy at home caring for baby they've got to be killed. No such floodlights on the Old Girl equivalent to 2,500 times the light of the —now five pounds 12 ounces— explosive character" may develop thing as unconditional surrender if a postwar GI educational pro- full moon. On that hypothetical occasion, it may be assumed, she won't when the mail man brought an- is known to them." be the only Old Girl—or Old Boy— all lit up. other letter. It revealed he was gram trains thousands of ex- As the Western Front steadied, New York newspapers carried wounded twic? on Thanksgiving servicemen for jobs which do not optimism into the headlines. There was a tendency in later editions but there wad nothing to indi- HoustonWifeYieidsMatt exist. to tone down this exuberance, and now sober appraisals of the long- cate he had learned of his son's It suggested this problem be time effect of the Nazi push are appearing. birth. ToEnglishUnwedMothei tackled by co-operation among educational institutions with fi- Look Rounds Up 1945 Forecasts HOUSTON, Dec. 28 (ANS).—The nancial aid from the federal Navy Builds New Planes decision of a soldier's wife to grant government. THER newspapermen eyed 1945 "With somewhat more optimism. Look her husband freedom to marry an The committee was appointed O magazine presented a round-up of predictions by 16 news analysts For Use Against Japan English girl, the unwed mother of by President Roosevelt at the time and public figures. Here are some of the forecasts: his daughter, was disclosed here he signed legislation for drafting MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT (NY Herald Trib.)— "We shall WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). when Mrs. Frances E. Smith, of 18 and 19-year-olds Headed by mop up Germany, fight in China, prove the United Nations set-up, and —The Navy is rushing several new Houston, filed suit for divorce from Maj. Gen. F. H. Osborn, the Spain will oust Franco while Russia joins the battle against Japan." types of fighters into production J. B. Smith. Smith is stationed committee has been discharged "somewhere in England." RICHARD WILSON (Look Washington Chief)—"Demobilization will to combat improvements in Jap- at its own request, the President anese aircraft. Miss Ida Willington, of Warring- disclosed today. Its reason was be the big thing in the U.S. and Japan will be fought with less than ton, Lancashire, wrote to Mrs. Rear Adm. D. C. Ramsey, chief that its recommendations were half our land forces and even fewer when Russia joins us." Smith, "I just wanted to tell you of Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, largely realized in the enactment DREW PEARSON (Capital columnist)—"In my opinion the biggest said the new planes will permit what happened. I don't ask you to story of '45 will be the detailed revelation of Hitler's death." get a divorce, but if you should, I of the GI Bill of Rights, in the U.S. to maintain the advantage which schooling for veterans was LEO CHERNE (Research Institute Secretary)—"1945 will see 50 per- in the Pacific. would marry your husband. I'm cent victory, 20 percent of veterans returning, 45 percent of war con- sure he wants to marry me. I didn't provided. tracts cut, eight percent unemployment and 100 percent peace finally know he was married until too In sight." Worst Fire in 30 Years late." Portland's Food Binge EDWARD R. MURROW (CBS European staff)— "Conflict will deve- Suffered by Kansas City lop between Russia and western powers while Italy may disintegrate, Wallace Predicts Peace Ends With OPA Edict and plague and pestilence will peril Europe." KANSAS CITY, Dec. 28 (ANS). 6 ARTHUR KROCK (NY Times, Washington Bureau)—"I predict that —Kansas City's first general alarm Depends on Jobsf or All" PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 28 (ANS>. most, if not all, other predictions in this issue of Look will be wrong." fire since the stockyards burned 30 —Portland's rationed-food free-for- years ago gave firemen an eight- WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). all came to an end today as groo- hour battle yesterday. The blaze — Vice-President Henry Wallace, ers—presented with a formal order destroyed a wax company ware- predicting "jobs for all" will be —began enforcing new OPA regula- ArmyHospitals Navy Reveals house, damaged two adjacent build- the world's economic battle-cry for tions. ings and leaped 60 feet across the the next 20 years, said last night Food buyers swamped stores street to ignite two other buildings. that full U.S. employment is the Tuesday nighf after learning that Get Clean Bill New Transport first stepping stone to lasting peace. grocers were still selling goods He endorsed the principles of the point-free and accepting expired WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). SAN PEDRO, Calif., Dec. 28 Negro Composer Wins full employment bill to be intro- stamps because they had not re- —Army hospitals got a clean bill (ANS).—The U.S. Navy took the duced in the new congress by Sen. ceived the official OPA order issued today from a House Military Com- Prize for Overture James E. Murray (D.-Mont.), which Monday which rationed sale of wraps off its latest vessel for amphi- canned goods and most meats. Po- mittee in a report which said that, CINCINNATI, Dec. 28 (ANS).— would establish an annual job generally speaking, sick and bious troops—a speedy, well-armed, budget intended to 'maintain post- lice were called to two stores te William Grant Still, Los Angeles handle crowds. wounded are receiving the "best of specially-equipped assault transport. Negro composer, today won a war "employment level at 60,000,000. treatment." The new vessel is designed to carry $1,000 war bond in a nation-wide Investigation resulted from "ru- foot soldiers right to the enemy contest for writing a jubilee over- mors of a disquieting nature that shore, unload them quickly and ture celebrating Cincinnati Sym- 'Going My Way' Is Chosen sick and wounded soldiers in many protect them as they fight. phony Orchestra's 50th anniver- instances were being crowded into Previously, invasion troops have sary. crude, uncomfortable, makeshift been carried in cramped quarters of Deems Taylor, composer, critic Rest Film of 1944 by Critics buildings, often inadequately equip- converted passenger ships. The and writer, was one of three ped and insufficiently staffed with new assault transports, small and judges who voted unanimously for NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—The mo- Crosby received two votes for his doctors, nurses and attendants." compact, have specially-constructed Still's work, "The Festive Over- tion picture "Going My Way" was performance in the same film and quarters and modern galleys.* They ture." chosen the best of the year today Alexander Knox received two for U.S. Income 159 Billions are equipped with four-tier bunks by New York film critics, who also "Wilson." Fred MacMurray re- voted it top honors for direction ceived one for his part in "Double WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). and air conditioned to combat sea Everybody's Doing It and best male performance. They Indemnity." —The national income rose to a sickness. Capt. E. P. Abernethy, WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS;. veteran of Pacific landings, said the —America's wartime marriage awarded special recognition to the Tallulah Bankhead was chosen record high of $159,000,000,000 and Army for factual war film "Mem- as the best female performer for production reached the new peak new transports, which are in pro- boom will affect the nation's eco- duction, have been designed to hurl nomy for many years, the Com- phis Belle" and "Attack." her work in "Lifeboat." With ten of $197,000,000,000 in 1944, the Com- On the first ballot, 16 critics cast votes, Ingrid Bergman in "Gas- merce Department announced, add- ground forces ashore so fast and merce Department predicted today, in such great numbers that initial while disclosing that marriages in 11 votes for Barry Fitzgerald's per- light" and Barbara Stanwyck in ing that the nation had now passed formance in "the role of the aged "Double Indemnity" were second its wartime high of economic activ- enemy resistance will be overhelmed the last four years broke all prev- quickly. ious records. priest in "Going My Way." Bing and third respectively. ity Friday, Dec. 14 Page 4 THE STARS \ND STRIPES 29, 19 House Group Maj , Pacific Theater Ace, Germans Raid Says Jap War Paces Air Force With 40 Planes Downed Depot, Find GI

'Just Starting' McGuire in Runner-Up Army Releases List of Duds to Liking WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Reps. With 30; Gabreski's Pilots With 15 Or WITH, U. S. FORCES ON THE Margaret Chase Smith (R.-Me.) More Kills WESTERN FRONT, Dec. 28 (AP). and Walter C. Ploeser (R.-Mo.), 28 Still Third —Nine members of a quartermaster members of a congressional group Victoria, Texas, 14th AF. 18 1/2; company hidden in an old creamery back from a 25,000-mile tour of WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). — Maj. Richard Bong, of Poplar, Capt. John T. Godfrey, Woonsocket, storage vault resentfully watched Pacific naval installations, warned R.I.,. Eighth AF, prisoner in Ger- Nazi tankmen ransack bins of new the nation today that it faces a Wis,, continues to lead the list of American combat clothing "Hke a long and tough fight against the 34 air force fighter aces who have mLtyboL Herschel H. Green, May- bunch of children." Japanese. destroyed 15 or more enemy planes field Ky., 15th AF. 18; Capt Duane "The Jerries were tickled pink to "The Pacific war has just be- in combat. The WD's lastest list W Beeson, Boise, Eighth Af, ia get that clothing," said Pvt. B. c. gun," Mrs. Smith, House Naval Af- prisoner in Germany: Maj. Walter Mallory of Mineral Wells, Tex! fairs Committee member, said. gave the Southwest Pacific ace 38 C Beckham, De Funiak Springs, "They all picked up some, waved ;t "We won t really get started until kills but he has since been credited Pla. Eighth AF, 18, prisoner in Ger- around and kept yelling, 'Amerikan we' get bases close enough to Tokyo with two more, it was revealed. many; Maj. Don M. Beerbower, Hill kaput, Amerikan kaput'—Amer,. to permit land-based bombing by Bong's theater-mate. Maj. Tho- City, Minn.. Ninth AF, 17 1/2. leans finished, Americans finished." medium bombers." mas B. McGuire, of , killed; Capt. James S. Varnell, The nine men hid in the creamery Ploeser, a member of the Navy is runner-up with 30. Lt. CoL Fran- Charleston, Tenn., 15th AF, 17; seven hours before American artil- Appropriations Sub - Committee, cis Gabreski, of Oil City, Pa., now Capt. Cyril Homer, Sacramento, lery drove the Germans from the praised the armed forces for ac- a prisoner in Germany, has 28. Lt. Col. Francis E. Gabreski Fifth AF. 17; Maj. , town complishing miracles, but cau- Maj. Robert S. Johnson, Lawton, Coscob, Conn.. Fifth AF, 17, mis- One of the first Germans into tioned the Pacific war "would be Okla., Eighth AF, follows with 27; M Mahurin, Ft. Wayne, Ind., sing- Capt. Glenn T. Eagleston, a long haul." town leaped out of one of the tanks Maj. George E. Preddy. Greensboro, Eighth AF, 21; Maj. Jay T. Robbins, Alhambra, Calif., Ninth AF, 16 1/2; and called out in good English, "We can't judge economic con- N.C., Eighth AF, 24; Capt. Don S. Coolidge, Texas, Fifth AF, 21; Lt. Lt. CoL William Reed, Marion. "Everything's clear. Come on out" ditions in Japan, but the Japanese Gentile. Piqua, Ohio, Eighth AF, 23; CoL Robert B. Westbrook. Holly- Iowa, 14th AF, 16 1/2. Sounded Like German soldier and sailor never surrender Maj. Gerald T. Johnson, Eugene, wood, 13th AF. 20. Maj. George S. Welch, Wilm- and the civilian has the same at- Ore., 15th AF, 23; Maj. Fred J. Col. Charles H. MacDonald, St. ington, Del., Fifth AF, 16; Lt. Col. ''It certainly sounded like an titude," he said. Chnstenson Jr., Watertown, Mass, Petersburg, Fifth AF, 20; Lt. CoL Richard E. Turner, Bartlesvule American doughboy and one of our Supply Lines Long Eighth AF, 22; Col. Neel E. Kearby, Thomas J. Lynch, Catasaqua, Pa., Okla., Ninth AF, 16; Maj. Samuel men started to yell to him," said Dallas, 22, missing in action. Fifth AF, 20, killed in action; Col. J. Brown, Tulsa, 15th AF. 15 1/2; Mallory. "But some of us could Both stressed transportation as Col. Glenn E. Duncan, Houston, , Missoula. Mont., Maj. Bill Harris, Springville, Calif., see he was a German and we kept the major problem and urged the Eighth AF, 21 1/2, nussing in Eighth AF, 19 1/2; Lt. Col. David 13th AF. 15; Capt. Richard A quiet." education of the public to the dif- action; Capt. John J. Voll, Goshen, C. Schilling, Traverse City, Mich, Peterson, Alexandria, Minn., Eighth Eacn time the Nazis came ficulties in maintaining continually Ohio, 15th AF, 21; Maj. Walker Eighth AF, 19; CoL David L. Hill. AF, 15. through the building to search It, lengthening supply lines. the Americans ducked into the Mrs. Smith reported morale high vault for milk cans and escaped despite difficult conditions and Pilot GetsHole-in-One detection rhey made their way termed the treatment of casualties Rapid Talking Lucky German back to their own positions after "almost miraculous." AsBom bHilsChimney the enemy tanks pulled out. When told of a group of Army The other eight men were: CpL nurses who have worked 18 to 24 Nets 311 Nazis Almost Corpse Benjamin E. Ondrusek, of Yoakom, hours for many days in an island WITH NINTH AF, Dec 28.— WITH 121st INF. REGT.— He doesn't exactly claim it as Tex; Pvt. Smith Taylor, of Corvin, evacuation center, she said: "Men WITH aECOND INF. DIV.— Ky.; Pfc. James Morris, of Leba- Sgt. York, at least, had a gun. precision bombing, but Capt. and women fighting in the Pacific Clayton K. Gross, of Spokane, Drawing a bead on the German non; Pvt. Herschel White, of are too modest." T/5 Theodore K. Haerich, company dove his fighter-bomber at a who was stealthily making his way Wichita Fails, Tex.; Pvt. Mandred Mrs. Smith was enthusiastic in aid man with the Second Bn. Med. building ii_ the battle area towards his covered position. Sgt. 3 Davis, of Pampa" Tex.; CpL E. J. praise" of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Sec, 121st Inf., used only his glib yesterday, and dropped a 500- Russell Ermatinger, of Detroit, Kopecky, of Sweethome, Tex; T/5 Pacific commander. She was one tongue to capture 311 Jerries—more pound bomb right down the Mich., and the Second Inf. Div. Herman Pope, of Knightstown, Ind., of nine Naval Affairs Committee- than 12 times the bag of the chimney. called on him to halt and throw and Pfc Dale Phelps, of Lytle, Tex. men who visited the Pacific dur- World War I hero. "It slipped right down the up his bands. ing a 17-day trip. During the battle for Dinard, in hatch," Cross said. "There was Instead of complying, the Nazi France, Haerich ran into a Ger- either a lot of ammunition or raised his rifle and looked around 'Commando' Kelly Grease Rack Mistaken man outfit whose CO thought the gasoline in there because the for the hidden Yank. The 23rd medic was part of a paratroop unit. whole building explod3d in a Infantryman fired. Gives Injured $500 For Robot Launcher The corporal told the officer his sheet of white flame." It was Ermatinger's turn to be outfit was surrounded and didn't suprised—instead of toppling over dead, the German threw down BUTLER, Pa., Dec. 28 (ANS).— WITH THIRD ARMORED DIV. have a chance. After assurances of good treatment, the Nazi sur- AmmunitioiiGoiie, his rifle and raised his hands in Sgt. Charles (Commando) Kelly >—Sgts. Gerald M. Jennings, of Kan- sent a $508 Christmas gift to a mili- sas City, and James A. Smith, of rendered himself and his 150 men. surrender. Haerich used the same methods TD Crew Fights On "If I hadn't been firing rifle tary hospital near here. Col. D. J. Bidell, 111., supply battalion men of Gentzkow. hospital commandant, the Third Armored (Spearhead) to capture 160 Germans during the grenades just before that, and battle of the Crozon Peninsula. After successfully spanning the forgot to take the blank cartridge revealed. Div., halted their wrecker in front Moselle in support of the 90th Inf. out of the chamber, he'd be six Kelly, placing receipts from the of a house and set about erecting Div., A TD Bn. platoon commanded feet under terra firma right now oook 'One Man's War" and maga- a first class grease rack. Civilians, Awarded by Lt. Kenneth Sutter, of Sioux zine articles on trust in a Pitts- noting the activity, promptly began instead of in a PW camp," Erma- For knocking but a tank with Falls, S.D., was isolated along with tinger said later. burgh bank, said he wanted to share to move out of the house. Upon grenades and securing his com- infantry troops by a counter-atta.-k. his good luck "with other guys." inquiry, it was discovered they be- pany's position, Pvt. Waldemar N. Although the platoon had only one Possessor of the Congressional lieved the grease rack to be a Erlchsen, Fourth Infantry Divi- tank destroyer, Sutter elected to Crew Uses Light Tank , Silver Star and launching platform for U.S. buzz- sion soldier from Savannah, Ga., fight it out. British decorations for exploits in bombs. has been awarded the Silver Star. The TD, commanded by Sgt Jo- To Evacuate Injured Italy. Kelly now is stationed at seph Lalish, of Ford City, PaT, was The Sherman tank had oeen Ft Benning, Ga. Third Eye of the Bombardiers hit seven times but the sergeant knocked out by 88s and still was and his crew continued to fire un- under fire. The light tank crew 22 Nazis Capitulate mm til their ammunition was exhausted. of the 66th Armored Regt., Sec- Wounded, they refused medical aid, ond Armored Div.. saw that enemy and crawled through shellfire to To Empty Flare Gun the infantry firing line to join the infantry made a dismounted rescue fight again with small arms until impossible, so they drove their WITH FOURTH INF. DIV — the attack was beaten off when speedy but lightly armored vehicle r Sgt Oree Howell, of C Co, help arrived. alongside the Sherman. Eighth Inf., was firing on a group The TD crew, in addition' to Sgt. Using the big 'ank as cover, Sgt. >f fleeing Jerries when ms machine Lalish, included Cpl. George Reed, Chauncey Wysenskl, of Lockwood. gun jammed. He spied another of Cleveland, Ohio; T/5 Tommie Ohio, evacuated the wounded, who weapon on the group and used it Lynch, Chickasha, Okla: Pvt. Cri- rode in rear deck with Wysenski to cover 22 Germans, who capitu- thon D. Clayton, of Durham, N.C., holding onto those most severely lated. and Pvt. Frank N. Lajeunesse, of injured. The weapon was an empty flare Red Lake, Minn. Others in the light tank crew gun. but neither the Germans aor were: Pvt. Howard W. Eibling. of Howell seemed to notice it until Medics Duck Bullets Dayton, Ohio; Pvt. John Lesica, of other men from his company came , and Pvt. Oscar along to help bring in the pri- To Rescue Wounded Seastrom. of Rapid City. S.D. soners. WITH FIFTH ARMORED DIV. —Learning that two wounded men lay in a burning building in a Ger- Brooklyn Swede Grabs 88 man town from which American in- fantry troops had just withdrawn, three Fifth Armored Div. medics —In Best Ebbets Field Style volunteered to rescue them. They iLove an ambulance through enemy WITH FOURTH ARMORED DIV. Swede looked at the smoke com- light arms fire, gave the patients —Swede Nelson had just cut the first aid and returned with them, ing from the rear of his Sherman engine on his tank, "Bottle Baby.'' and was debating whether or not still under fire. to get out" when—wham!—another For their work, Pvts. Transito E. Sandoval, of Trinidad, Colo.; Ray- shell hit- And there sat Swede, mond L. Anderson, of Washington, nolding the sizzling piece of metal DC; and Pvt. Stephen Znoj, of in his hands. . New Bedford, Mass., were awarded "I felt like a damn fool," he said, Silver Star medals by Maj. Gen hours later. "There it was, a red Lunsford E. Oliver, division com- hot armor-piercing 88, and I caught mander. it like you'd catch a baseball." The armor plating had taken up Cellar Radio School the force of the shell and by the In a shell-torn cellar just behind time it got through, it was spent ana burning in Cpl. John (Swede) \i American lines in Germany an engineer combat group has opened Nelsen's hands. a radio school. 1/Lt. Louis C. Thinking back on it, this Brook- This is the first released picture of one of the U.S. Air Forces' most so he and the crew could hear lyn tanker figures nothing eyer carefully-guarded secrets—the Norden bombsight. The removable up- Welch, of Rochester, N.Y., is school- incoming shells when -wham!— per half contains a vertical gyroscope and a .range-computing device. master. swatted in Ebbets field could matcn something hit the turret. that catch. Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5

Desperate Nazis Attack American Tanks With Bare Hand s

Foe Is Blasted Argues with General; Newest and Deadliest Battleship Joins U.S. Fleet From the Tops Gets Medal Anyway The genera! sav a soldier race through heavy fire, turn Of Shermans his sub-machine gun on a machine-gun nest an then set By Marshall Morgan up a mortar section and direct Stars and Stripes Special Writer its fire against Germans in a WITH AN ARMORED DIVI- village ahead. SION, Germany.—German troops so Later, t the CP of Maj. desperate or battle-crazed that they James H. Hayes, o' Philadel- attacked American tanks with their phia, commander of the Second bare hands, omy to die under Bn., 317th Inf., 80th Div, the crossfire from the tanks themselves, general said: "Hayes, I want have been encountered by spear- you to decorate one of your heading ankmen of this armored men. I watched ) lm practi- division in Germany. cally run that show and I want The weird, Jap-like onslaught him to receive full credit." occurred this week near a flat- Brushing aside all protesta- tened German village as Shermans tions, the general insisted. of a tank battalion pushed thelr Hayes received the Silver Star. steel snouts hard against the breastbone of the Siegfried Line. Voices on Top of Tank Advanced tarks of A Company Medic Drivers under cover, had buttoned up under intermittent artillery fire. Sgt. James Crisp, tank com- Share Dangers mander, heard voices in excited conversation, then the sound of Of Front Line boots scraping on top of his Sher- man. In perfect English came the By Allan Morrison cry: "Surrender, in the name of Stars and Stripes Start Writer Hitler!' WITH THE THIRD ARMY.— The order was accompanied Dy The boys who drive the Army's imperious but ineffectual pounding. ambulances from collecting stations Fifty yards away in his own near the lines to clearing stations Sherman, Lt. Harold I. Fiedler, in and evac hospitals have had their response to a hurried inquiry from share of shelling, mortaring and Crisp, took a periscopic squint. sniping. "There are Jerries all over your On a mission with the Fourth tank," he told Crisp Armored Div, Pvt. William Jones, "Okay," replied Crisp. "Let 'em of Indianapolis, .Ind, and Pvt. have it from there, will you?" James Jackson, of Dayton, O.. drove As Fiedler swung his .30s, Crisp's their ambulance full of casualties voice came through again. through a town. They were fired "They're all over you. too—I'm upon several times but did not cutting loose at you!" realize until they got back "/ha*; Sixtcen-inch guns of the Iowa, latest and deadliest of the Navy's "Big I" class battleships, belch Held Hatch Down the town was in German hands smoke and flame in a battle drill. At left, the armored leviathan lies at anchor after a shakedown "We try very hard not to repeat cruise. She carries a crew of approximately 2,500, is 900 feet long and has unrivalled fire power. Bottom In a third tank Sgt. Herchel mistakes like that," Jones said. view shows some of the mighty battle wagon's armament, which includes nine 16-inch guns, 20 five- Whitaker, the din of machine-guns inchers, and 148 anti-aircraft weapons. (Japanese papers please copy). In his ears, involuntarily reached With Cavalry Squadron up to hold down his hatch as invi- Many of the drivers are getting sible hands tried to lift it. used to- driving through dubious "Gentlemen, let us in!" came the territory. Right now three am- Lone GI Proves A WOL on Books at Naples, astonishing demand. bulance teams are up with a ca- Whitaker sent his SOS and a valry squadron with which they Stumbling Block hail of American machine-gun bul- have worked for nearly a month, But a Hero.to Unit in France lets raked his turret. picking up and returning wounded. ToAdvaneingFoe Drivers like Pfc Hylon Lucas, of > Two minutes later, when all was By Ed Lawrence quiet, the tankers opened their tur- Gary, Ind, and Pvt. Wm. Mc- By Ed Clark Pheeters. of New Albany. Ind., are Stars and Stripes StafI Writer' rets and had a look at their Stars, and Stripes Stall Writer WITH SECOND ARMORED DIV.—Lt. William W. handiwork. veterans of this ambulance outfit's WITH THE SEVENTH ARMY.— It wasnt pretty, but—C'est la "cavalry troop." Then there are His job is ammo carrier, but Pvt. Stozier, of Stovall, <3a., is still listed AWOL on the morning guerre. men like Pfc Oscar Lynch, of Chat- tanooga, and T/5 Benjamin Hen- George J. Kaminsky, 45th Div. report of an Air Transport Command unit in Naples. derson, ot Detroit, who walked up doughfoot from Pittsburgh, single- His fightings days began in North Africa with the to a Bailey Bridge across the Seille handedly held off a strong German second Armored Div., continued through the Sicilian GIs Seek Venison, counter-attack in eastern France. River under terrific shelling and campaign and stopped when he picked up wounded tankmen. They The sector was thought to be quiet, so Kaminsky was left alone was classified limited service Bag Nazi 'Chutist know that ambulance men often France to Become because of partial deafness. take it where it's rougnest overnight to guard an outpost for Com. G of the 179th Inf. At a desk job in Napies, tie Pfcs L. W Ford, of Detroit, and Members of a Negro amoulance 36th United Nation grew restless when he read ot his Irving Rakoff. of the Bronx, assign- company that has platoons assigned Nothing happened during the night, but at dawn the Germans old outfit pacing the attack in ed to a town major's office, to the Fourth Armored Div., 26th WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS) France last summer. His appli- brought back no venison from their Infantry Div. ana a cavalry squad- moved in on Com. G in strength. France will Become the thirty-sixth Crouched behind his machine- cation for transfer was refused. deer hunt in a nearby forest pre- ron, these men nave carried hun- member of the United Nations on In desperation he wrote to rhe serve, but they did bag more dreds of wounded during the Third gun, Kaminsky opened fire as they New Year's Day when it signs the commanding general of the Norm dangerous prey. Army's drive across B'rance. came into range. He kept firing United Nations declaration here at African theater: Driving a truck through the until the attack had almost smoth- a formal ceremony, the State "I nave great admiration tor woods, they spotted a German pa- ered his position. Then, holding Department today announced. the Second Armored Div. ttie rachutist in the underbrush. Ford U.S. Presents Medals down the trigger of his machine- Ambassador Henri Bonnet will attachment I have for it is ot a stopped the vehicle and Rakoff To French in 1st TAF gun with one hand, the Pittsburgh sign for France in the presence of family nature. I have many ordered the Nazi to drop his wea- doughfoot started lobbing grenades representatives of the United friends among its members and pons and come forward. with his other hand, pulling the Nations. feel impelled to join them to FIRST TACTICAL AIR FORCE pins with his teeth Gen. de Gaulle's Committe of When the parachutist was in the BOMBER BASE, Dec. 28.—The complete the job for which I en- truck and under guard, they resu- Stopped in their tracks, the Nazis Liberation—and in recent weeks tered the service. med their hunt for deer, but so U.S. Distinguished Service Cross Drought up a machine-gun of their his Provisional Government—has many parachutes appeared along has been awarded Gen. Jean L. own and began to zero in on the been considered as associated with, Hitch-Hikes to Front the side of the road that they de- Piollet, French bomber group com- one-man fortress. Kaminsky "slowly but not a t member of the United He sneaked a ride on a plane cided to turn around for reinforce- mander, following entry of Amer- fell back toward an American tank Nations. to southern France By jeep and ments. They met same in a V ican-trained B26 Marauder units about 100 yards to the rear. With The pact, signed in the dark plane he covered the route from Corps patrol, who took over their into the Frei.ch First Air Corps. a little, armor support, the 45th's days immediately following Pearl the Mediterranean to the Dutcn- prisoner and went after the re- Thirty-nine U.S. Air Medals were two-fisted ammo carrier finished Harbor states in its preamble that German border. He explored the maining Jerries. also presented to French officers the German attack off for good. the signatories "subscribe to the Seventh, Third, First and Ninth and enlisted men by Brig. Gen. common program of purposes and Army Sectors for news of his unit. Robert M. Webster, deputy com- 133-Page Letter principles embodied in ... the When at last he found it, CO. L Bombardier Pinch-Hits mander of the 12th USAF, form- Sgt, Waldo S. Bibb, of the 309th Atlantic Charter. 41st Armored Inf. was in com oat erly chief of the Mediterranean Eng Combat Bn., 84th Div. recently without a CO. So he took jver. For Absent Chaplain Marauders, in which the French wrote what he claims is the "long- Luxembourg Becomes "Before we even knew he xas airmen served. est letter in the ETO"—133 pages. back, he was out there checking In the absence of the regular One of United Nations the front-line positions.' recalls chaplain, 2/Lt. James R. Harl, of I'Sgt. Lawrence Marzella, ot Bloomfield, la., a B26 bombardier, Anybody Want a Horse? LUXEMBOURG, Dec. 28.—Tiny DeFuniak Springs, Fla conducted Sunday services at a Luxembourg finally announced that The men liked him oecause at bomber base in France. By George C. Walsh cious of the deal and notify the it is abandoning its neutrality after had plenty of guts. They say he Harl, who had planned to enter stars and Stripes Special Writer French police. In short order it warring armies swept across its soil scorned a pistol and would iead'- the ministry before the war, volun- WITH THE 94th INF. DIV. — was decided that: for the third time i" five years. them on patrol and into attack teered to take over for Capt. Maj. James P. Gwynn, division 1. The requisitioner was French Only 99 square sniles in area and with a tommy gun. Charles J. Fix, of Pulaski,*Ia, who provost marshal, thinks it's get- (what Yank would pay si,300 for with a population currently estim- On Nov. 15 a sniper's ouilet ?ot was called away from' the base. a couple of nags?) ated at 200.000, Luxembourg an- him. They buried him in a hero's ting to be a pretty rugged war grave when you have to buckslip the 2. The horses originally belonged nounced that it would assume all Maintains Outpost whole division to get rid -f two to the Germans and therefore obligations of the United Nations. S/Sgt. Stephen G. Butchko, of horses and $1,300. were captured Nazi material. Battlefield Commission Phillipsburg. N.J., organized a ma- It started several weeks ago 3/ Maj. Gwyhn was the man to MPs Locate Jerricans After going from private to first- when a Frenchman, claiming to dispose.of them according to iegu- Com Z MPs of the 785th Bn. sergeant. Joseph A. Stranahan, of chine gun outpost 500 yards in ; front of his Second Armored Div. be a Yank, requisitioned from a lations. have retrieved 5,709 abandoned Brookline. Mass, and the 331st Inf. company's -line and maintained it farmer twe horses for which he Maj. Gwynn figures he can get jerricans since the start of the of the 83rd Div, received a battie- for seven hours during enemy paid 65.000 francs. It took the rid of the money easy enough but current campaign to • round up field commission as a second lieu- counter-attacks. farmer all that time to get suspi- who the hell wants two horses? AWOL gasoline containers tenant SPOKTS THE STARS AND STRIFES Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 BeauJackGets Once Over Philly Cops Arrest Basketball Gamblers Boxer of Year Lightly PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28.— Ten men, described as "big By Andy Rooney time" gamblers, were arrested Recognition TVEW YORK, Dec. 28.—If you've by city detectives at the basket- ' always meant to read a book ball game in Convention Hall NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Beau —and are interested in sports— last night. Police identified one Jack, Negro lightweight boxer now asK the family to send you "Sports as George Fox, of the Bronx, serving at Ft. Benning, Ga, has Extra," a collection of classic N.Y, allegedly one of the group 1 of gamblers making huge sums been dubbed "Boxer of the Year ' stories from sports pages of various by Nat Fleischer, editor of Ring newspapers put together by Sports- of money on Madison Square writer Stanley Prank of the New Garden's cage games. Magazine, bible of the beak-busting York Post. Police said Fox had $1,305 on profession. The Beau, former light- It's a collection of interesting him when pinched. The other weight champion (New York State stories from Arthur Brisbane's nine men, according to the local version), was picked over 4,381 pro* account of the Sullivan-Mitchell gendarmes, had been active in fessional boxers active in 1944. gambling at Shibe Park baseball In five ma;n events as a civilian 1888 fight at Chantilly, near Paris, games last summer. through the Stanley Woodward at Madison Square Garden, Beau report on Mickey Walker's art attracted $460,000 in gate receipts, exhibit early this year. which includes the year's largest gate, $132,823 against Al "Bummy*' TTERE are a few of the pieces: Frankie Hayes Davis, 3rooklyn welter. In addition^ Heywood Broun's "Ruth will Beau donated his services for a Out," Frank O'Neill's "The Big bout against Champion Bob Mont- Train," 's "The AL 'Iron Man' gomery in August, which drew over Four Horsemen," 's $35,000,000 in war bond purchases. "Handy Sande," O. B. Keeler's CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Four major Fleischer emphasized his maga- "Lmperor Jones," Bill Cunning- league fielding records were broken zine was not ham's "Rock of Ages," Bill Corum's in the American League this year, designating Jack "Derby Day," Dan Parker's "Doyle but Frankie Hayes, A's catcher who as itj candidate the Magnificent" and others by Bilt snapped two of them, got nothing for the light- Leiser, Austen Lake, Ed Burns', Joe better than a tie with Ray Mueller weight cham- Williams, Jack Miley, Bob Consi- of the Reds, who duplicated Hayes' pionship, but dine, Frank Graham, Paul Gallico, feats in the National League. merely naming , Westbrook Pegler, Hayes caught 155 consecutive him the out- and John Kieran. games, thereby blasting the record standing f i s t i- There's also a honey of a story of 151 games in one season held by cuffer of the in the book by PM's Tom O'Reilly Ray Schalk of the White Sox, and year. The light- about Sing Sing's football team. the consecutive weight throne, It seems there was a good reason gajne mark of i n Fleischer's why the Ossining team disbanded 133 held by opinion, is va- George Gibson cant and will after all-victorious 1934 season of the Pirates. Great Lakes, after bowing twice to the "Whiz Kids" of Illinois under Coach Johnny Law. Time earlier this season, placed the first blot on the Champaign cagers' not be filled until Montgomery< Other records the New York champ, meets NBA came for the last game of the were: Lou Bou- record, 52-45. The picture shows Jim Seyler (9) and Don Delaney, campaign, a traditional game with both of Illinois, leaping in an effort to stop a southpaw shot by titleholder Juan Zurita of Mexico dreau, manager City. the Port Jervis (N.Y.) Police of shortstop of McGuire (6) of Great Lakes. eleven, which almost is like an Ivy The outstanding ring performan- the Indians, ces of the year, as listed by Flei- League rivalry to the jailbirds, who participated in were so proud of their record they 134 doubleplays; scher's publication, were the Euro- were willing to bet their striped Rudy York of Bunker Hill Cagers Bow pean tours of Sgt. and shirts on the game. Frankie Hayes Cpl. Billy Conn; 23 bouts declared Detroit took "no contest" for stalling, TamI i~*OACH Law was called away the part in 163 twin killings. To Great Lakes, 48-46 Mauriello's eight-round knockout day of the game and the Sing over Lee Oma (listed as the most Sing players got a couple of fences DiMag to Seashore thrilling fight of the year); defeat working for them and covering all NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Ed Bar- BUNKER HILL, Ind., Dec. 28.—Great Lakes Naval of Freddie Mills by Jack London bets. They gave odds of 21 points row, president of the New York Training Station went to work in the second half last night (biggest upset), and Willie Pep for Fort Jervis before the kickoff. Yankees, has announced Sgt. Joe tp defeat the Bunker Hill Naval Air Station cagers, 48-46. fattening his record to 89 victories They scored 20 points before the DiMaggio, his former star center- The losers set a 25-24 pace at the in 90 fights. half was up and muffed many fielder, reported on Army orders to intermission and never did more score mark of 77 points, and Penn Bobby Giles of Buffalo, N.Y, other opportunities to pile it on. the rehabilitation center at Atlan- than three points separate the and Navy figured last year in the participated in the year's most Then to their amazement, Law tic City yesterday. unusual coincidence. Giles was walked into the lockerroom at the teams in tke first half. previous total points record with DiMaggio recently was brought to Great Lakes led by seven points 124. floored 15 times in ten rounds while half. He realized the first team the mainland from Honolulu for midway in the second half, then Sinkhorn and Huter tallied 17 losing to Benny McCombs of Flint, hadn't cut in the second team on treatment of a stomach condition. Bunker Hill fought back within one points apiece for the winners and Mich, and shortl;' afterwards Giles the deal and switched them in the point, only to fold up under the O'Neill hit the net for 16 for St. dropped Bobby Howard of Wor- last half, the seconds mopping up, pressure. Joseph's. cester, Mass, 15 times before the 50-0, thus double-crossing the South's Eleven Plans Dick McGuire, former St. John's referee awarded Gile a TKO double crossers and that ended To Stress Air Attack player, led the Sailers with Temple Upsets Vols, 33-31 verdict. football at Sing Sing. 15 points, while Stan Miasek made PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28.—Tem- 14 for the home team. ple scored its fourth straight vic- MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 28. tory here last night, defeating the —When word was received here hitherto unbeaten Tennessee Vo- Vines Smashes Toronto Routs that the Northern line would 3 Records at Philadelphia lunteers, 33-31. average 200 pounds in the annual PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28.— Jim Joyce scored the winning 8-2 Blue-Gray football game Saturday, Western Kentucky's basketball field goal with two seconds left to Par on Coast R an gers, the Southern team went to work team set three new Convention Hall preserve the Owls' unblemished re- on plans to outflank the Yankee records in defeating St. Joseph's, cord. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28.—Ells- NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—The To- wall aerially. 81-48, here last night. worth Vines, lanky Denver-Colorado ronto Maple Leafs had an easy time Country Club professional, yester- defeating the New York Rangers, Charley Trippi, former Georgia Thirty-four field goals, 81 points Star in Any Setting ace who played the 1944 season and a*combined total of 129 points Rogers Hornsby, selected on the day shot a record smashing 62, 8-2, last night with Ted Kennedy with the Third AAF Gremlins, eight under par, to lead the Pro- making five points on three goals for both teams were all new marks All-Star major league teams four and Pete Layden, ex-Texas star for the court. The previous field years in a row from 1926-29, was Amateur tuneup for next week's and two assists. who performed with Randolph $13,333 Los Angeles Open golf After Grant Warwick put the goal mark of 31 was set by St. Jo- with a different team each year, Field, did most of the passing in seph's court against TJrsinus last St Louis, New York, Boston and tournament. The former tennis Rangers ahead midway in the first the Dixie outfit's drill. year, the same team held the high Chicago. king racked up eight birdies on the period, Kennedy scored on a pass Lakeside course. from Babe Pratt, then passed to Vines knocked one stroke off the Bob Davidson 19 seconds later to course record, held jointly by put the Leafs in front. Nick Metz Plane Ride Knocked Billy Conn for Loop George Von Elm and Bruce Mc- converted on a pass from Lome Cormick. Carr to make it 3-1 at the end of By Paul Horowitz look at a plane again—if I can Craig Wood made five straight the period. The Stars and Stripes Sports Editor help it," Conn concluded. birdies for a 30 on the outgoing In the second period, Gus Bodnar Cpl. Billy Conn, the Pittsburgh Conn has appeared before Army, nine, but wound up with a 66. Navy and Air Corps units in Italy, and Nel Hill tallied for the Leafs Kid, is in Paris, reeling from and Fred Thurier countered for the a boxing with his sparring partner, Rangers. Metz scored again in the jarring plane trip that made him Leo Matriccianni, of Baltimore, Lesnevich-Muscato Bout third and Kennedy added two more flinch more than any ring op- ETO heavyweight champion. The goals within three minutes of the ponent's punch did. The former ex-champion's present weight is Canceled by Navy Order end. Hill assisted on both Kennedy lightheavyweight champion, who 189 pounds, as compared to 174. goals to run his total for the night fought that memorable 13-round when he fought Louis in New BUFFALO, N.Y, Dec. 28.—A sum to four points. battle with Joe Louis for the heavy- York, June 18, 1941. Another prise order from the Navy Depart- weight title, only to succumb to fighter in the group is 21-year old ment caused the cancellation of the the Brown Bomber's dynainite "Tut" Tabor, Eighth AAF mid- eight-round non-title fight between' Hockey Standings punches after leading on points, dleweight from Oakland, Calif, Gus Lesnevich of the Coast Cuardv arrived here after spending two whom Conn touts as a great the world's lightheavyweight chan*. National League months on a boxing exhibition tour prospect. Tabor had 26 profes- pion, and Phil Muscato of Buffalo; W L T Pts in Corsica and Italy. sional fights before entering the The fight was scheduled last night.- Montreal 14 4 2 30 service. Billy Mitchie, matchmaker, said Detroit is 5 3 29 En route from Rome, where he Toronto 11 8 2 84 entertained troops at the Allied Two Brothers in Service a Naval officer from New York Boston g 11 1 17 Tournament 10 days ago, Conn and Overseas seven months, Conn City had advised him of the order, New York 3 12 5 11 but would give no reason for re- , Chicago 3 12 3 » the troupe, which is sponsored by learned today that Nat Fleischer, the Air Service Command, found editor of Ring Magazine, had fusing Lesnevich permission to go American League themselves in a plane that couldn't named him, along with Sgt. Joe through with the fight. Rather Tuesday Night's Score land above Marseilles. Louis, as giving the "outstanding than sign a last-minute substitute, performances of the year" on their Mitchie canceled the whole card. Cleveland S, Hershey 0. "I was riding up front with the Billy Conn EASTERN DIVISION pilot when he discovered the locks European tours. W L T Pts hadn't been taken off the elevators, Billy has two brothers in uniform. Buffalo 15 10 3 3$ Maury Schwarz (1/Lt. in charge of He's 27 years old and a corporal, Ct\GE -RESULTS Hershey 13 11 3 29 and he couldn't put the nose down," Conn relates. "In fact, we the troupe) and I, a bomber pilot which he doesn't mind; Frank, 24, Providence 8 16 2 18 from Brooklyn and an RAF pilot, is with the 28th Inf. Div. and he Arkansas 50, Denver 36 > WESTERN DIVISION couldn't go up or down, but some- Nebraska 54, Pentathlon (Mexico) 40 once was a S/Sgt. and now is a Oklahoma Aggies 63, Baylor 16 W L T Pts body suggested that the shifting of did our roadwork up and down Indianapolis 15 7■ 1 37 weight from one end of the plane that plane's interior. We ran for Pfc, which he does mind; the Rice 60, West Texas 44 Cleveland 13 8 5 81 two hours and finally the pilot other Is S/Sgt. Jack, 20-years old, Temple 33, Tennessee 31 Pittsburgh 13 12 3 ,29 to the other would settle the plane, Great Lakes 48, Bunker Hill 46 a paratrooper who outranks both. Western Kentucky 81, St. Joseph's 4S St. Ijouis , g 17 3 u and possibly release the locks. So landed, and you can bet IH never Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Pa«e 7 Terry And The Pirates By Ooarteay ot News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff

HE* HOWUNO SOMETHING TO WE ONLV WANT THE CAP^ THE MOB IN HK OWN LANGUAGE i see,SPORT... JUST UKK.,wmor... SHOULDN'T Who said that? The map of *wvw : WEVE COT TO FIND OUT WHERE HE COUPLE OF SUCKERSi' ,4 THE MAC CAP THAT HAVE TACKLED THIS Europe is like a woman's mind- NATIVE V»« WEARING SNA66EP WILLOW'S CAP BEFORE CATOWM PLEKTV RUPEES always ready lor a battle and [TOOTHY SMOOTHIE, ^IVE'EE TOO) DOWN LIKE QOALPOflS/ » MARK£D 'SEKOEANT TERRYm « gubject to change without notice. ' JANf ALLEN'/ IT MUST -> FRIENDS DO NT I 0UESS WE'D • • • »t THE ONE WILLOW SEEM TD APPROVE BETTER SPREAD BELINDA WORE WHEN THE DECISION ! Our spy on the home front SHE DlSAPPEARf-p LITTLE CASH heard this remark in a PX. "It's THE TROUBLED nice we're still living In a free 7 SQUATTERS • country and a man can do v hat the first sergeant wants him to."

And then there was the Lieutenant who phoned his i wife and said, "Sorry, dear, I won't be home until late. I have a form here I have to Jane look over." ... By Courtesy of The.London Daily Mirror Norman Pett "My girl's sure carrying the THANK GOODNESS IT'S torch for me." Sighed a GI.— ONLY YOU, GEORGIE ■— "She's a welder at Lockheed." NO, i CAN'T POSSIBLY COME JtoUND TO SEE Your Afterthought. The most popu- > BUSY

lar GI corsage is still four roses. • « . Catty remark. "To that girl, dating is just like a drug—she takes one dope after another." ... And then there was the dis- charged GI who landed a soft job. He's in a pantie factory now, pul- Dick Tracy ts? Jourtesy Jt Jtucago irioune Syndicate ajc By Chester Gould ling down about two thousand a year. M.L LIGHT HAS FLED HE TOLD HER I WAS TOO THROUGH THESE VEINS • • • (OM MY LIFE. ALL HOPET, OLD — THAT IT WOULD BE WE WERE MAD ABOUT/ YES- 1 1 PASS THE HEALTHIEST HAS FADED FROm THIS A JUNE AND JANUARY CORPUSCLES IN THE Another unsigned verse left in EACH OTHER— WE ( CO ON/I our typewriter: TORTURED SOUL. I MATCH. CAD, MAN, CO I WORLD.' I- I LOVE WERE TD BE MARRIED \ VITAMIN SHALL NEVER RETURN -THEN, IN STEPPED HAVE ICICLES ON MV THAT GIRLf I-I — NO* Little paycheck, by tonight THE THEATRE AGAlN.'y .CHIN? AM I A DEEP- NO— IT!S TOO LATE*. Well be where the lights are TMIS FRIEND/ * FRE E Z E- JOB: bright. -THIS TRAITC In some gaily festive spot 191 I'll return but you will not. ... — PFC Lou Seguin reported in the 4i » Weather Column of his "Daily •3* Cr Dope Sheet" that England had a long dry spell—one morning. x} 7JAJ. » . . My Someone asked a WAC how her Boyfriend in the engineers made love. She replied, "You can def- Abbie an' Slats Jy Courtesy of United Features By Raeburn V an rturen ine it a unskilled labor." SLATS WAS THE PlRST BOY I E\ ER CTHEY ARE ALL ONE-MAN GlRLS- HER EYES-THEV IdiVE THE Signs of the Times. Mistletoe PELL IN LONE WITH, PEPE-AND THE UNTIL A BETTAlRE MAN COMES SWOON LOOK EEN THEM NOW. ONLN ONE. NO MATTE? HOW sales dropped to a new low in the ALONG. BUT FIRST-THE I MAKE WEETH THE LONG I MUST WAIT- SOFTENING-UP PROCESS.) ER- Midwest this season. One puzzled OUEEK KEES AN' NO MATTER WHAT OP MAWSELLE- THERE EES A THEES SLATS HE mistletoe magnate explained, "T HAPPENS-ILL NEVER COURSE.' LEETLE LOVE SONG I "AVE EE5-POUF/." guess they're just no one around LO\ E ANYONE ELSE. JUST LEARNED. I worth kissing any more. We think I\\ JUST A ONE- „ WOULD LIKE TD itAN GAL. I GUESS/// KNOW WHAT YOU he overlooked the fact that service- THINK OF EET- men don't need the stuff. • • • Remark heard on the home front. "Go ahead and telephone, and if a man answers, ask him why the hell he isn't in the army." J. C. W.

Help Wanted —AND GIVEN Male Call By Milton Canifff Write your question M problem to Help Wanted The Stars and Stripes. Paris. France s8»

APOs WANTED OGT. Willard Johnson; Cpl. Arthur Jack- •J son; Pvt A. Jacobson, New Hope, Pa., Pvt. Harry Kaplan, Atlantic City; Sgt. Jim Landers. Tex.; Harold Lacey, Newark Valley, N.Y : George Daniel Lane; Pvt. John J. Moran; Howard C. Maioney, Wil- mington. Del.; Pvt. Amos Martin, Ohio; Neal j Martinson, Passaic. N.Y. |>VT. Albert Morgan, N.Y.C.; John V. * Murphy, Brooklyn; James and Edward Murdock, Pomfret. Conn.; William M. Moody; James H. McCarty. Philaedlphia: Pvt. Ralph Morse, Lancaster, N.H.; Bob McCarthy East Dubuque, 111. fPL. William Olson. Neb.; Duke Perry, Windsor. N.C.; George Pearson, Fargo; S/Sgt. Charles Rooney. Columbus, O.; Robert Ryan, Chicago; Pfc Irving Rubin; Fred Schaeffer, Milwaukee; Robert Smoots, Detroit; Leo Spiegier, Chicago: Lt. Chas. S. Stevens; Lt David Thorn and Lt. George Thorn, Beechhurst, N.Y.; Jack Tucker. Lebanon. Ore.; Bob Tippins, Ro- By Courtesy >t Slug Features Syndicate By Chic Young chelle, Ga.: Sgt. Robert Terry; Cpl. Robert Bloudie S. Wood. Fowler, Mich.; Sgt. Roger R. Waggoner. Nebraska.

Time TODAY •9*5—AEF Ranch House. 1901—Command Performance. 1930—Kate Smith. 2030—Moonlight Serenade. TOMORROW Kollege of Musical Knowledge. Record (Cpl. Geo. Monaghan). 2030—Frank Morgan. 2*07—Jubileo Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 Japs Repulsed Mindoro Springboard Captures 34 Nazis YanksAdvanee With Empty Carbine OnWideFront; In Philippines WITH U.S. SEVENTH ARMY, Dec. 28 (AP).—Lt. James Tower, Air-Sea Attack of Grand Island, N.Y., hurled Save Bastogne several grenades into a machine- The Japanese launched a co-ordin- gun nest in a culvert and 34 (Continued from Page 1) Germans filed out and sur- ated naval and air attack Tuesday Germany. Americans sent artillery rendered. shells after them. against American positions on Min- Covering the Germans with doro Island in the Philippines, Gen. his carbine, Tower was march- On Wednesday Third Army men MacArthur's headquarters announc- ing them down the road when pushing up from the south con- a fellow officer stopped him tacted the Bastogne garrison troops ed yesterday. and whispered in his ear: three miles south of the town. The U.S. planes and PT boats sank "Don't look now, Jim, but yoa garrison had been maintaining a three destroyers and hit a battle- haven't any clip in your car- fairly wide perimeter defense of ship and„ heavy cruiser, MacAr- bine." the city. thur's communique said, and the Sentries of the garrison had been naval force withdrew after "inac- told to expect relief in the middle curate and fruitless" shelling of the of the night and the sudden ex- coastal area. Damage from the 1,200 Heavies change of passwords out of . the simultaneous air attack was de- darkness was the first cue the city's scribed as small. defenders had that they had been Tokyo claimed that the warships Pummel Nazi relieved, according to Reuter at the sank four U.S. transports, a PT front. boat and two smaller vessels in an The garrison had smashed every attack on an American convoy off Rail System German attack thrown against it Mindoro and that the planes sank for seven days. They were sur- four more PT boats and blasted the An armada of 1,200 heavy bomb- rounded by powerful forces. Mindoro airfield. ers of the Eighth AF braved The trapped men were supplied Jap Plane Factory Hit. renewed fog and bitter cold yes- by the largest continuous air sup- Reconnaissance photographs show- terday to hammer again at rail- ply mission ever flown, the First ed, meanwhile, that the Saipan yards, bridges and other critical Allied Airborne Command said. Superfortresses in their fifth raid links in the Wehrmacht's trans- A total of 842 C47 sorties were on Tokyo had scored 12 direct hits portation nets leading into the made to drop medical supplies, on the important Musashino air- Belgian salient. signal equipment and ammunition craft factory, It was their third Roaring out for the sixth in the defense zone. At times? the strike against the plant. The B29s straight day, despite weather that C47s carried 50 or more gliders. strung bombs across an industrial smothered non-stop attacks of The first air supply train arrived area in a pattern a mile long and tactical air forces in the bulge, Dec. 23. Relief planes continued three blocks wide, and in the Tokyo the Fortresses and Liberators were coming Dec. 24, 26 and 27. They dock area, despite the stiffest fight- escorted by more than 700 fighters. didn't come Christmas Day. On er opposition so far encountered They hit at ten rail targets in the that day, the garrison smashed over the Japanese capital. area between Saarbrucken and one of the enemy's most furious Enemy sources reported a sixth Cologne. — attacks. Germans lost 32 tanks raid on Tokyo yesterday by strong Large Philippine Islana Is on btank No Enemy Aircraft Met and 250 prisoners. formations of Superforts but there No enemy aircraft were sighted American columns which re- was no immediate U.S. confirma- ot Jap Lifeline to South Pacific; during the raids, but four oomb- lieved the city started moving tion. ers were missing as enemy flak northward from the area of Arlon 150 Miles from Manila was reported "moderate." on Dec. 22. They advanced against 4 Photo intelligence from Wed- light resistance to the east of Jerry Laid It On,' nesday's bombing revealed that Mortelange, making an average of WfHEN American forces stand firmly on Mindoro, seventh largest of at Fulda, northeast of Frankfurt, " the Philippines Islands, they will be able to spring in a number two miles a day, until they reached Tell Survivors heavy damage was done to yards the garrison. of directions. containing 2,000 freight cars, and Manila and Corregidor will be only 150 miles away, and the Island Associated Press from the front (Continued from Page 1) that at Euskirchen, 40 hits were said the several thousand Ameri- of Luzon, on which Manila is situated, a short jump of ten miles. scored on rail lines. jors, cooks, clerks and radio oper- About 750 miles will separate the Yanks from French Indo-China. cans who held the town kept the ators fighting as riflemen, am- Miadoro lies on the flank of the Japanese Empire's lifeline to the better part of five German divi- munition carriers and machine- oil, rubber, and tin of the Netherlands East Indies and Malaya. Air sions tied up. gunners. power based on any of the island's eight prewar airfields, two of which Chicago Sarge They told of units evading one have been used by the Japanese, can be used against Japanese shipping trap - after another in the face of in the China sea. Cuts Royal Rug U.S. Again Orders Tiger tanks half-tracks and in- Mindoro, with a population of 3,759, has a variable climate, subject Ward Chain Seized fantry. to monsoons, but the Americans have landed during a season which With Princess For nine days, with little sleep normally produces only three inches of rainfall a month. The island's (Continued from page 1) and less food, it was dig in—hold chief industries are lumber, mining and cattle raising. WITH SIXTH ARMY GROUP, —fall back; dig in—hold—fall France (UP). — She was a slick involved simultaneously with order Mountain ranges of 8,000 feet block communication between the of seizure. back. Always tanks bearing down, northern and southern parts of the island, except on the eastern blonde, chick, so it was only natu- The WLB sent the Ward case once in a while supporting armor seaboard. ral that Sgt. James J. Kaporis, 26, to help, but never enough. of Chicago, should make a date last .week to Economic Stabiliza- Williams is one of eight of his to cut up a few rugs—royal ones, tion Director Fred M. Vinson, who platoon of 43 to survive those nine Reds Enter Buda; Belgian Factories at that. was^N understood to have advised days. Rich is one of 35 left from an It happened down on the Riviera the White House to go ahead with under-strength company of 130. Pest Battle - Rages ToMakeJerricans when the blonde happened along seizures. Williams remembered a "couple of while Kaporis was adjusting the Trouble between the government hours" sleep during the nine days. (Continued from'page 1) ADVANCE SUPPLY HQ, Bel- windshield wiper of his jeep. Ihey and Wards grew out of differences If the counter-offensive was a shiping on a large scale, however, gium, Dec. 28.—More than a score struck up an acquaintance and of opinion on whether the WLB surprise to some, it wasn't to Wil- and the Germans had mined every of Belgian plants soon will start the blonde gave him her address. had authority to enforce directives liams block and virtually all buildings. production of 2,000,000 jerricans When Kaporis showed" up that which required "maintenance of "I figured something like that Although Russian big guns have and 25,000 50-gallon steel drums for night he was standing in front of union membership" in the com- was coming sooner or later," the taken up positions on the hills the U.S. Army. the Royal Palace of Monaco in pany. Avery balked at the provision Pennsylvanian said. "Of course, we overlooking Buda, they would have The cans, a critical need since Monte Carlo. used extensively by the board to give didn't expect it to come at that to blast dowji virtually every build- millions went AWOL during the The Royal Guards were expect- union security to labor groups, particular minute. ing to wipe out the resistance. It smash across France, will tfe made ing him, and ushered the sergeant which requires that the management "Their tanks carried 12 to 14 appeared that the Russians were by the Belgians under Reverse in to his date—23*year-old Prin- dismiss a union member who fails Lend-Lease. infantry," he related "And I don't withholding an all-out artillery cess Antoinette, daughter of the to remain in good standing after a Acquisition of the containers in know whether oi not they were barrage and proceeding with the Princess Charlotte. certain date Belgium, rather than in England, drunk or doped up but they sure tedious and often costly task of "She turned out to be a swell Avery contended in a statement will save thousands of tons of -did yell. They kept calling us rooting out anti-tank nests and date," Kaporis said. "We danced to the press that Ward's has shipping space, officials of ad- to Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller always paid well, that it was ^eady 'Yankee sons-a-bitches' and makin' going after snipers individually. vance Section, Com Z point out. some god-awful noise." Upward of 3,000 Germans and records which had been sneaked to adopt wage scales ordered by to her from Switzerland. The the WLB, but that the WLB bad With spearheads coming from Hungarians were reported killed princess picked up American dance no authority to "enforce", any three directions^ Williams organized in yesterday's operations at Buda- Marseilles Port Used his platoon and got some through steps in no time at all. directive because it was merely an pest. Most of them died where "It was almost as good as break- the trap before he reached Rich's the Second and Third Ukrainian To Speed Mail Service "advisory" group. rifle company. ing that Bank at Monte Carlo to Army forged their link-up. Delivery of mail to GIs on the have my date turn" out to be a Small groups were organized and Girard to West Point Western Front has been speeded by real live princess," Kaporis said. consolidated. Stragglers were SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28.—Earl re-routing most of it through the absorbed by units that needed men. Nazis Send PW Mail "Jug" Girard, University of Wis- But the enemy tanks , and half port of Marseilles, Com.Z says. Rubber Expeits Ready consin's 18-year-old halfback who Inside the V-Bomh Now At the northern ports— Antwerp, tracks kept coming, shooting off in LONDON, Dec. 28 (Reuter).—The will play here New Year's Day in Le Havre, Rouen and Cherbourg- several directions with the apparent U.S., Great Britain and The Nether- the East-West charity football LONDON, Dec. 28 (Reuter) .—The priority in unloading had to oe lands have reached an agreement game, revealed today he is headed objectives of encircling however Germans are sending letters from given to ammunition and other to put natural rubber plantations fc - West Point next year. Girard, small or large a force of Americans British prisoners to England in essentials. So the present scheme into immediate production as soon one of the nation's ranking backs, in sight, then closing in on it. V-bombs, officials disclosed tonight. was substituted. Letters are sorted as they are recaptured from the plans to finish th<; current semester To Williams and Rich those were ; After a recent attack on northern nine tough days. on the docks at the Riviera port Japanese. Technicians and equip- at , then enroll at Cornell England leaflets were found in one and sent to the troops by train ment are now en route to the South to finish some courses before enter- town marked "V Prisoners of War through Paris; ing the Academy. British Have Two Fleets Post" on which were printed letters Pacific. from three captured British soldiers Put Out on an Assist Operating in Far East tr> their relatives. Binoculars trained on a Jerry The leaflets carried a request OP across the Rhine River by Cpl. Jerries Answer GI Mess Call LONDON, Dec. 28,-Two new that the finders forward the letters J. M. Furmankiewicz, of Pittsburgh, British fleets now are operating to the addressees and said that the Pa., showed a German peering back WITH 80TH INF. DIV.—The mess sergeant was ordered to have in the Far East, the London Daily original letters were being sent by at him through glasses. Furman- a hot meal ready to bring up as soon as Co. M of the 318th Inf. Mail disclosed. the Red Cross through the usual kiewicz's AA battery got an assist finished cleaning out a German-held town. The British "Pacific Fleet," whose channels. from a 90mm outfit nearby which After fixing it, though, S/Sgt. Rudolph A. Lindberg, of Cadolt, operational limits remain undis- knocked out the enemy OP. Wis., hated to see it get cold so he took it in before the word closed, will be commanded by Chevalier Show Planned came from Capt. Billie L. Kesslcr, of Louisville. Seeing what he Adm. Sir Bruce A Fraser. The Mistinguette and Maurice Cheva- Army Purchases in ETO thought were his buddies, Lindberg yelled to them to come and get fleet of the "East Indies Station," lier, pre-war favorites of the Paris The U. S. Army has ordered $36, it—but when they got closer their uniforms turned out to be grey- under Vice-Adm. Sir Arthur J. music halls, will return to the stage 000,000 worth of goods from French green. . Power, will cover much the same together in a new revue next month factories and $28,000,000 worth from Lindberg rectified his error with his Ml, however, and when area as the original command at the Casino de Paris, Mistinguette Belgian plants, Reuter reported the company did show up they found that Lindberg had two under that name. said yesterday. - from Paris yesterday. Germans. The rest fled.