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B-29s Blast Tokyo Again Yank, Kraut OP's in Ration's Troops Same Place Same Time Win Soar Span; Little Left but Ashes WITH THE 7TH ARMY, Dec. 4— Weather Favors The second-floor room of the farm- 9th Takes Julich house was the best mortar OP that Sgt. Robert Weister, 45th Division The western part of Saarlautern, doughfoot from Pittsburgh, Pa., had Fortress Fleet; Germany's great coal and iron center, had in a long time. From its widows was firmly held this morning by he could watch his 81s explode'smack on the Kraut positions. troops of the U. S. 3rd Army after Target Smashed Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tanks and After the fire mission was over, men stormed across the Saar River Weister started to explore the rest of into the city. Striking Saturday morn- WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—B-29s of the the house, found two Krauts using ing by surprise, they seized both ends 20th Bomber Command yesterday the room next to his as an OP for of the concrete bridge connecting the bombed Tokyo for the fourth time In 88s firing on the Pittsburgh soldier's eastern and western parts of the city. little more than a week, General own company. Street fighting was raging in the Henry H. Arnold, commander of the Weister captured the pair of Ger- eastern sector of Saarlautern last USAAF, announced here. mans, closed both OPs. The giant Super Fortresses, coming night, and correspondents reported the city was a mass of flames. from Saipan bases, were over the Japanese capital In clear weather and Saturday's was the first crossing of >in substantial force.* Four enemy the Saar at Saarlautern itself. While fighter planes were downed for the Resistance Stiller one spearhead clamped down on the eastern end of the bridge, another loss of one bomber. One B-29 crew reported that 75 percent of their bmob crossed the river in assault boats and load had hit the target, an aircraft In Lower Vosges struck at the western end. The at- factory. tack was carried out so swiftly that not a shot was fired. The two iorces On Leyte Island in the Philippines, And Alsace Plain met in the center of the bridge and air and land fighting was slowed by tore" out the demolition charges be- a typhoon. fore the startled German defenders Vice Admiral Mitscher, commander ADVANCED 6TH ARMY GROUP could set them off. of Task Force 58, yesterday revealed HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 4 — The With entry into the city assured, that U. S. naval planes have shot down Franco-American honeymoon which Patton's advance forces were fighting more than 4,000 Jap naval planes In followed the breakthrough over the this morning in the Siegfried Line de- . Little is left that can burn, either, afloat or In shore installations here in a the past year and a half, »practlcally Vosges to the Rhine came to an end fenses on the eastern side of the river. harbor of the Ryukyu Islands, the chain extending between Formosa and the eliminating Jap navan aviation.* He today as the U. S. 7th Army returned Above Saarlautern, the 3rd Army Japanese homeland, after a stinging sweep by V. S. Navy carrier planes. This added that Jap plane production is to the slow business of driving the held a 16-mile stretch of the Saar will serve to give an idea of what Tokyo probably looks like after today's not as great »as they would have us enemy from prepared positions in the opposite the German strongpoint of fourth B-29 raid. believe,* and that their material is nower Vosges and co-operating with Merzig. inferior to ours. the French 1st Army in a dean-up Meanwhile the fighting for the Co- of the Alsatian Plain. Joseph C Grew, former ambassador logne Plain near the northern end of Allies Prepared to Meet German resistance has stiffened most to Japan, recently returned from a mis- Touring Reps Say the 450-mile western front opened up sion in the Pacific theater, said that noticeably in the Lower Vosges south as Lt Gen. William H. Simpson's U. S. the Pacific war may be >long and Threats Inside Belgium of the Saar frontier, with the enemy 9th Army won complete control of a costly before we are through. Ad- using SP guns and tanks to strengthen five-mile stretch of the Roehr River Low Value of Buck their hold on this rugged and forested miral Nimitz knows there is a long, BRUSSELS, Dec. 4—Allied authori- with the capture of toe big ports of 4errain. while they appear equally de- h?rd road ahead and- wants the full tietrare-jprepared' to giva^ rnilit;fryp as- Julich- and Linnichi, five- miles apart. termined not to quit the Selestat-Mul- support of our people in bringing the sistance in response to any Belgian Fighting on the right flank of the house area south of Strasbourg without job to a successful conclusion.* Is Overseas Government request to meet the 9th, the U. S. 1st Army took three a fight to the finish. more towns on the way to Duren, the Grew said that on his recent trip threat of new disturbances, Mej. Gen At the northern end of this winding strongpoint on .the Aachen-Cologne he found Nimitz and his officers radi- By JOSEPH B. FLEMING George Ersktne, head of the SHAEF and extremely irregular front, the highway. ating confidence, eager, determined" Stars and Stripes Staff Writer mission to Belgium, said last week. Americans scored limited gains just The battle waged by toe 1st and and highly gratified over results so ■We are not here for political rea- PARIS, Dec. 4—The dollar's exchange southeast of Sarre-Union, capturing 9th ranked with toe war's fiercest, far—but indulging in no wishful sons,* he said, »or to prevent political value was characterized as a »crime« the towns of Machwilier and Wald- since the Aachen gap is protected by thinking and no false optimism.* expression so long as it does not this week by two members of the House hambach after a tough scrap. a web of towns and villages which are interfere with our communications. We Military Affairs Committee now tour- On the western slope of the Lower connected with an intricate system of are here to fight the Germans.* ing the western front. Vosges, in toe heavily-defended Hage- interlocking defenses backed by ar- Rep. J. Pamell Thomas (R., N. J.), nau area, other doughfeet overcame tillery. Hungary Rail Huh and Rep. Ivor D. Fenton (R., Pa.), both equally stiff resistance to capture the Allied bombers Saturday and yes- veterans of World War L said the first villages of Engwiller and Mietesheim. terday plastered German communica- and foremost gripe they had heard from Thomas Says His South of Strasbourg, now considered tions lines behind toe Wehrmacht's Falls tc Russ ans troops was the limited value of their relatively clear of enemy after the lines. RAF heavies, in direct tactical dollars in francs. German destruction of the three support of toe 1st and 9th Armies, MOSCOW, Dec. 4—Capture of the Hinting that the committee would in- Party Ss 'Dead' bridges which offered the only es- hit toe roads leading out of Cologne great Hungarian bastion of Miskolc, vestigate the exchange rate, Thomas cape route to the Reich in this sector, toward the battlefront, about 20 miles armored elements continued to slug west. Eight hundred U. S. Flying Fort- 90 miles northeast of Budapest, was said the American public had received NEW YORK, Dec. 4—Norman Thomas, forward despite enemy road blocks, resses and Liberators went after Co- announced last night by Marshal Jo- no indication of the soldiers' monetary Socialist leader and five times an unsuc- minefields and highway bridge demo- blenz, in western Germany. The gun- seph Stalin in an Order of the Day. problem in France. cesful presidential candidate, said last litions. ners and escorting fighters shot down Earlier in the day toe Berlin radio A combat soldier in Paris on pass, he week that the Socialist party was dead The town of Friesenheim, near the 28 Nazi planes. Dortmund was also admitted losing the road and rail cen- said, apparently goes broke soon after as a national political entity. Rhine south of Strasbourg, has been attacked during the day by RAF Lan- ter after four weeks of bitter fight- he arrives. He added that the Congress- »It's strength lies in a coalition with captured in the tank advance, as well casters. ing, but the Nazis explained it away men would »be broke soon, too.* progressive elements,* he said, ♦provid- as the nearby village of Herbsheim. by saying they had withdrawn »to Thomas and Fenton, whose committee ing that a coalition is formed.* The Germans hav,e launched several strengthen a dangerous salient* arrived here on Friday, said cigarettes Thomas, speaking at a press inter- counterattacks in toe Selestat area, To the north, General Petrov's Red and ammunition were also high on the view, said he did not expect to be the around the towns of Hlppolyte and Henderson Slated Army forces driving on the Czeohoslo- list of things they would probe. Socialist Presidential nominee in the Auberes, but all were repulsed with vakian communications center of Col- »At home,« said Thomas, »they told us next election, because of his advanced heavy losses to the enemy. dice, on the Czech-Hungarian border, we couldn't get cigarettes because they age. He is 60. For Post in Reich scored major gains during the day, were going overseas. »And over here, »I look for new and younger leaders,« including the capture of a railway we find there's a cigarette shortage, he added. »I believe there will be such 3rd Division Vets Cited station 37 miles to toe east too.* a crop in all parties after the war. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Leon Hen- Ie southern Hungary, Marshal Tol- Thomas attributed the ammunition Those now in service will want to be derson, whose 49 years have embraced buhln's 3rd Ukrainian Command forged shortage, which he said would infuri- heard.* For Old Battles in Italy such diversified labors as soldier, pro- northward from its great Danube ate the American public, to home front He said he didn't believe President fessor, economist and government of- River bridgehead to within 45 miles production problems. Roosevelt would run again. By MACY L BROIDE ficial, is due now to apply his talents of Budapest after taking numerous Special to the Stars and Stripes to defeated Germany, the AP reported towns along the river. Other Red this weekend. WITH THE 7TH ARMY, Dec. 4 The former Price Administrator will Army forces driving on the Hungar- There was a break in the daily battle leave next week for London and even- ian capital from the east are within here yesterday as a small and select Spain Quiet; but Revolt Seen tually for Germany, with an assign- 12 miles of the city. group of 40 veterans of the 3rd In- ment to handle economic affairs in fantry Division received a Presidential that part of Germany toe U. S. con- By. GEORGE DORSET citation "with Oak Leaf Cluster for trols now and after toe war. Special to the Stars and Stripes battles fought and finished long ago Government Accused of Henderson left toe OPA two years in Italy. ST. GAUDENS, Near the Spanish publicans and toe soldiers of Premier ago after a stormy time in office, They were the old men of I Com- Border—(Delayed)—Reports coming out Francisco Franco—the one which ap- during a period when toe public Muzzling French Press pany of the 30th Infantry Regiment of the French-Spanish border region peared in the news more than a hadn't yet got accustomed to the irri- who cleared a numerically superior to the effect that Spanish government month ago. Boiling down the state- tations of rationing. Previously he PARIS, Dec. 4—A full-scale attack force of paratroopers from Mt. Ro- troops recently met' and defeated a ments of all sources, the story of that had been an economist for the old on the French Provisional Government tonde near Cassino last fall and held force of 4,000 Spanish Republicans ap- action goes like this: Works Projects Adminstration and toe over its press policy flared up last the strategic slopes until the enemy pear to be completely groundless. National Recovery Administration, and week in the National Assembly as the k.bout October 19, a force of Repub- called quits. a member of the Securities and Ex- government was accused of trying to In the past several days I have licans who had been fighting beside They were also the old men of I change Commission. imitate Vichy methods in muzzling the talked with dozens of informed per- the FFI crossed into the Valle de Company who held the German coun In World War I he entered toe sons in Toulouse, St. Gaudens and Aran region of Spain from the De- terattacks at Anzio, and in a day and army as a private and emerged a cap- Opposition leaders also charged toe other French towns near the Spanish partment of Haute Garonne, France. a half attack against a reinforced com tain. Later he taught economics at government with endangering France's frontier, and all have disclaimed any A fight ensued with Spanish Govern- pany took all their objectives near toe University of Pennsylvania and international position by depriving the knowledge of such large scale battle ment troops. Casualty reports vary Cisterna di Littoria. They killed, cap- other schools. press of one of its most Imperatively The men whom I questioned to- widely, but there were probably 60 tured and wounded more Germans needed assets — paper required for eluded officers of the FFI, whose or- to 100 Republicans wounded, while than there were men in their own printing. ganization guards the border; officials 200 Francoists were made prisoner, outfit. Georges Copniot, Communist dele- of the Catholic Church, and leaders and an unknown number were killed In recognition, Maj. Gen. John W. Holiday for Dutch Kids gate, drew cheers from all parts of the of the Spanish National Union, which and wounded. O'Daniel, CG of the 3rd Division, added LONDON, Dec. 4 — Dutch children chamber when he demanded that is the name foi the Republican re- French sources say that the Repub- two* streamers to the I Company will soon be coming to stay in Brit- French newspapers be converted from sistance movement. licans, infiltrating through the highest guidon and tacked one streamer to ain for vacations to regain their state-subsidized organizations into a The facts seem to be that there and least guarded passes of the Py those of the other companies of the strength, the government announced free press association. has been only one fight between Re- (■Continued on Page 4J SOth's Third Battalion. today- THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Des. i, 1944 Monday Morning Bracer UP FRONT . by Mauldin ROLL OF HONOR

Crouching in his observation post in a shell-pocked building, Lt. Pa- draig M. O'Dea looked out over Mon- trevel and shook his head dubiously. Things were not going so well. Ameri- cans held the little French town, but in the distance he could glimpse a big force of German armor and infantry closing in. He relayed his information, and the Americans started to with- draw, rapidly but orderly. Suddenly, the escape road exploded in a blaze of enemy fire. O'Dea sighted quickly on the German bat- teries and ripped out their location points in a crisp, efficient voice. American machine guns chattered fiercely and the shelling stopped abruptly. The lieutenant took a deep breath. »Score one,« he thought. Again the shelling started, this time on the town. In the face of intense fire, O'Dea ran from his building, sum- moned a mortar crew and rushed back to his upper floor observation post. The enemy was much closer, trying to infiltrate tanks and infantry. O'Dea's mortar crew opened up and the enemy withdrew, but now his po- sition was spotted. Enemy tanks and artillery zeroed in and systematically started to destroy his building. He held fast, skillfully returning the fire with his mortar, delaying the attackers until the "Them infantry guys is chucklin, like fiends. We blew up a supply American troops could withdraw He train haulin' overcoats an' blankets to th' Krauts." ignored his own chance to withdraw safely. The building was rocking and |J lllllf [■Illlllllflf III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIlllllllijllllfllllllllllllillllMlllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllHIIIIMHIIIIIIIIllHllllllll. shaking around him. The shells were coming nearer. One made a direct hit. »For his heroic actions and com- plete disregard for personal safety« on Sept. 3, 1944, Padraig M. O'Dea, 01030181, 1st Lt., Troop B, Cav. Recon. Sqd. (Meca.), of Garwood, N. J., has been awarded the Distinguished Serv- -|llllllllllIllflllIll]|ftllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lltIllllll!tlIlll!IlillllllltlllllIIIllIllllillllllllllllllIllIllllllIISMI4IIIIIHIIlli^ ice Cross. Lt. O'Dea is missing in action. ENLISTED MEN'S REST with a shell burst. How the hell could Dusty Anderson is in the new American picture, »Tonight and Every Night.« we know . . . What is it that you CLUSTER TO THE BRONZE STAR Here is a true story of what hap- want? To know that we are sweating Maj. James D. Hilleke, Birmingham. pened in an enlisted men's rest cen- to back you up? When you needed a BRONZE STARS ter. Once upon a time there was gun, you got it, didn t you? You are 1st Lt. William J. Bauman, Cincinnati; Lt. a rest center for tired GIs—hotel 'n the best equipped fighting force in Col. Philip W. Bierman, Akron, Ohio; Pfc. everything. For the first five days Richard Blanchard, Lynn, Mass.; Pfc. Fre Pearsons Hartford,, Conn,; 2nd Lt.* Daniel ,W. half. The officers occupied the half arrows you could do more toward winning That you have placed uporu our head. Pettengill, Hartford, Conn.; M-Sgt. Jesse E. which was beflowered and the tables Though heavens rave with pain Powell, Shreveport, La.; T-Sgt. Louis J. the war that way, or because you But—Did you ever stop to think bedecked with snow white linen, and Though earth has reached its end, Sanders, Aurora, 111.; Maj. Everett C. Smith, could make more money and you liked Before you raise an awful stink, Stuttgart, Ark.; Maj. Harold C. Wafler, set for a 15 course meal. We under- If you should call— . the prestige of being an officer? How often we must needs re-do Ithaca, N. Y.; Lt. Col. William H. Wald- went a slight decrease in proteins and schmidt, Cannelton, Ind. »You see? We are making the best If I be dead! A package that's addressed to you? carbohydrates. The guests were treat- If you should need me when I am How, at its point of origination ed royally with chicken, cutlets and of what we have and you are, too. gone, They could have avoided this deflation; steak. Champagne flowed like water. You are maybe not in the service When eyes no longer search the skies Could have improved our morale, too, We listened to the delightful gurgle through choice but it is a part of be- When pain has lost all feeling Might even possibly have pleased you FLA! —enraptured. Boy what a feast! ing a young man and a member of the human race whose way of life When I reside 'neath fallen dirt By tying it with stouter string, A special service show was held up seems to include periodic wars. Nothing will keep me from you, Packing it right—that sort of thing. from the 30 minutes while brass and C. O. in- If you should beckon I'll bet it never occurred to you dulged in some coffee. Ah, the sweet »You have had esprit de corps like I will come! That many a package does come thru, aroma drifted into us as we waited a 1 shot in the arm for so long it's So be it my love, never fear But at the point of its beginning for the show. Sometime, I think I like dope to you. Those now being That I will not appear; Someone did the original sinning. shall visit an officers' rest camp. It discharged are lost without it. They Though liquids come in bottles proper will be nice to have a table saved feel misunderstood. You come home If you but whisper my name There's a current shortage of that Someone forgot to insert the stopper. for me. from hell and find us full of lassitude Upon a summer's breeze »cre"am in their coffee or salt in their With contents spilled, the resulting goo —S-Sgt. E. A. Yaconetti and complacency and want to kick Upon autumn's red fringed leaves stew« but plenty of salt in their soup Is scooped up by us and sent on to you. our teeth in. Or call upon a snow stained morn for Service Battery of the 133rd FA I'll be there— —Pfc. H. Nelson Linder, APO WANTS INFANTRY SERVICE »Can you see our point. We were Battalion in eastern France. Mess Sgt. originally made of the same fabric. And our shadows will merge as one. Laddie Morisak, Halletsville, Texas, I read recently where a general of —A. G. an infantry division over here asked Yours is a little tattered. But it can OUR ANNIE had been salting the soup and staring be mended. We can meet on a com- at two Red Cross girls as they passed for the name, serial number and or- (At the height of a too exciting air raid mon plane if you will understand us, HERE'S THE MUDI... the kitchen. He stared too long. ganization of a soldier who wished at Anzio, consisting of rumbling personnels to transfer to a frontline outfit. I too. We are the reality. The scene of much in need of Li'I Abner's pills, and an battle is an obscure past. We are the The time I've spent overseas Fast driving at the front has a lot am now with an ack-ack unit, and Has done a lot of things to me. overdose of cannibalistic shells, I wrote this future, your future. You had better poem. I know that at least one other indi- of good features. For a new one, ask for sometime I have tried to get into It's raised the pressure of my blood the infantry, but with no results. accept us and our frailities and out; vidual is appreciative of my efforts.) Pvts. Frank Grinimet and John Lear, good intentions.—Jean P. Haydon.« Because of all this G—d—mud. * 36th Division ambulance drivers. The I wish that you would publisti this In order not to check in late Annie goes by my dugout door front wheels of their ambulance letter and offer my name, rank and —WO Donald C. McClenaham I've had to lose a lot of weight Each morning, noon and night, touched off a mine, but because of the serial number to anyone wishing to To make the rounds of Anzio bring my transfer about. Fram wading through a fair-sized speed at which they were traveling, WHERE ARE THEY? flood, And my tiny beachhead site. the blast caught the rear of the vehi- —Pvt. Pedro Aguila A confounded stream of G—d—mud. cle, missed Grinimet and Lear. What has happened to the regular Her daily meals are stone and wood; 7th Army Radio Station programs? Her drink the salty sea. PROBLEM OF It's in my system so that when Ordered to keep a Kraut company Since about Nov. 20, the regular I cut my finger now and then ... Sometimes though, she hungers quick RETURNING VETS American programs of good music se- Instead of bleeding just plain blood And stops to eat by me. tied down in their holes on a strategic hill in eastern France, S-Sgjt. James I am returning a clipping from lections and news commentary from Out comes a stream of G—d—mud. the States has been missing and A coat of steel is all she wears S. (Superman) Koizumi and the five Time Magazine in which one of our —L. P. remaining men in his 442nd Combat much criticized civilians speaks. I seems to have been replaced by more When on her daily spree, British music and news. To that battered little town Team heavy weapons section »simu- think that it deserves a space in your ODE TO AN 'ELEPHANT' So very close to me. lated« a battalion for six hours by paper. It is not that we do not want to »I have a gripe. Its crux is the prob- listen to the British programs for Dear »Elephant,« May I pen a note to rushing all over the slope shouting Now, to meet this steely gal lem of the returning service men. they have always been available else- you? and firing. With the assistance of a Of such great renown; rifle platoon, they then routed the »They scream we don't understand where on the dial, but we prefer by; (Imagine anyone troubling to!) far the good old American programs, When you received this parcel flat, Just stand upon a roof top Germans, killing over 50, wounding them when they come home. We don't know what it's like to see our buddy we used to have. No doubt you dropped your GI hat And flag old Annie down. many more and capturing an officer shot down in flames or ripped apart And all the GI words you know, —J. W. Miller and ten EM. —Nelson C. Bell, Capt. M. C Li'f Abner By Al Capp THE STARS AND STRIPES New York—STRASBOURG—Paris Daily newspaper for U. S. Armed Forces in France, published! Mondays through Saturdays. Acknowledgement is made of the editorial services supplied by the United Nations News Service, the Army News Service an4 illustrations by Army Pictorial Service. Lt. John 0. Kearney, officer in charge, Strasbourg. Strasbourg Offices: Editorial, 17-19 Rue de la Nuee Bleue (Blaur wolkengasse); Circulation, 17-19 Jtue de la NuSe" Bleue. The Stars and Stripes of Strasbourg is printed in the plant of Les Dernieres Nouvelles de Strasbourg, 17-19 Rue de la Nuee Bleue (Blauwolkengasse).

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Editorial Staff: Vic Dallaire, managing editor; Robert B. Mc- Intyre, Ed Clark, Bill Estoff, Ralph Martin, Wade Jones, John Radosta. Mechanical: Les Mulligan, Myer Goldstein, Roscoe E. Day, Wil- liam Bender, Joseph Konkel, Frank McMulIen, Edward Benson. Circulation: Joseph Confortti, John Ouiie, Harold Kalish, Mike, Peppard. V

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Soys Jive Music Shiits Become Tendei (Illegal) in Leyte Deals Army Pastes Gobs, 23-7

Abels Psychosis LEYTE, Dec. 4—As rear echeloners will the world over, GIs back of the Giid Leap-Fiog 80,000 Watch Cadets War Factories lines here are doing well on fried In chicken, James Hutcheson, AP war Bob Zeck, Washington quarter- Beat Navy First Time correspondent, reported last week in back, hurdles two fallen players ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4-Workers >n in- a dispatch on Philippine life. Since 39; Davis Stars dustrial plants have also become war- »But,« he added, »the boys do have after catching a forward pass time neuropsychiatric casualties, Dr to give their shirts sometimes to get from Halfback Bob Gilmore. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 4—Army's Robert V. Seliger, Baltimore psychia- it.« When tacklers closed in on trist, reported here this week. Shirts and undershirts, the troops powerful Cadets opened and closed him, Zeck pitched a lateral to »Individuals who in peacetime have found, are excellent for trading, with a burst of speed to defeat Navy, would choose different employment, or snd generally bring in ample stocks Center Gordon Berlin, who 23-7, here Saturday, finishing their , who could .seldom be hired by indus- of chickens, eggs or bananas. Officers, scored without being touched. 1944 schedule without a loss. This is try, could not become adjusted to their anxious to preserve military material, However, that was the only Army's first unblemished season since jobs, and needed to be shifted to dif- have posted an order reading: 1916 and marks the first time they've time Washington threatened ferent work.* »There shall be no trade or barter beaten Navy since 1939. He explained that some men couldn't of government issue or equipment for and the Trojans of Southern A throng of 80,000 jammed Munici- work in large places surrounded by any purpose whatever.* i California won, 38-7, in a game pal Stadium and watched Glenn Davis, thousands of people and others were Says Hutcheson: »That limits the that had plenty to do with the Army's All-America halfback candi- irritated to raw-edged nervousness by date, crash his way through the Navy GIs' purchasing power somewhat, but Trojans being picked as Rose plant noises, which sometimes included business is by no means at a stand- line in the first period to put his boogie-woogie music. still.« Bowl host. The game was teammates out in front, 6-0. The con- Dr. Seliger also listed these factors played at night. version- was good. as contributing to nervous symptoms: Late in the second quarter Navy's Sudden changes, from being on relief Bobby Jenkins attempted to kick from rolls to working up to 68 hours week- behind his own goal line but the punt ly; differences in peacetime living, in Cat Lover Insists was blocked and Army fell on the small, sleepy towns, and wartime liv- bounding pigskin for another two ing in crowded big towns, with three points. The half ended with the Mid- hours of commuting to and from work; Fala Have Kittens dies on the short end of a 9-0 tally. switches between day and night sleep- In the third frame Navy pushed ing, and domestic discord resulting NEW YORK, Dec. 4—If a cat can over after a tough battle down the from poor living conditions. look at a king, it can also look at a field but Army came right back with president. So says Robert L. Kendall, another touchdown and conversion to executive secretary of the American make the score 16-7. Feline Society. The frantic midshipmen opened a' Actor Jon Hall Kendall this week asked President passing attack in the final period and Roosevelt to accept two British kit- almost clicked but an Army intercep- tens born in Buckingham Palace, as tion on its own 10-yard stripe brought Muffs Testimony playmates for the Presidential Scottie, the Navy threat to a dead end. On a Fala. series of line plunges, runs and passes, HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 4 —Actor Jon The kittens, Jane and Belinda, were the Cadets turned the interception into Hall got himself rather balled up last declared surplus requirements to the the final touchdown and won the 45th week at the Tommy Dorsey trial, first Palace staff, and were languishing in service classic, 23-7. testifying that his beautiful nose had a shelter when the London Daily Mir- Offensive operations of the Middies been slashed by Allen Smiley, a neigh- ror conceived the notion of offering were handled by Bobby Jenkins, run- attributing it to Pat Dane, Dorsey's them to the White House as a sort ning star, and pint-sized Hal Ham- wife. The Dorseys and Smiley, a neigh- of reverse lend-lease, or paws-across- So Our Present Day Football berg, one of the finest passers in the bor, are accused of beating up Hall dur- the-sea gesture. college ranks this season. ing a free-for-all last August in the Dor- A White House secretary quickly The usual array of Cadet talent sey apartment. begged off, explaining that Fala Is Too Rough on a Guy, Eh? paid off with Felix Blanchard and Hall, who's graced many a South Sea doesn't like cats. But Kendall, who Glenn Davis turning in outstanding says he speaks for all of America's film wearing a sarong, sported a plastic An article we've just dug up by the late John W. Heisman, a player of a performances. cat-lovers, argued: gadget over his nose as he testified. He long gone era, later a coach for 36. years and after that an athletic director »The White House refusal has noth- said the brawl started when Dorsey ob- until his death in 1936, provides a pretty graphic description of the mayhem ing to do with Fala's dislikes. It's just jected to his putting his arm around that used to pass for football on America's gridirons. In part, the article Miss Dane and patting her somewhere an old superstition that a cat in the Four Cadets on White House is bad luck. McKinley reads: else beside her shapely shoulders. After »The time of the playing halves of a game in the old days was 45 minutes, had a cat when he was assassinated, Hall testified that Smiley, a neighbor not 30 minutes, as now. Furthermore, the game was not divided into quarters, and there hasn't been a cat there of the Dorsey's, knifed him, Jerry Gies- so today there is a rest period we never had then. Players of my time had to UP All-America since, to give comfort and companion- ler, Smiley's attorney, cross-examined be real iron men because we played* ship to a Chief Executives him. two games each week, Wednesdays and »The flying wedge was invented in Kendall also cabled Queen Eliza- NEW YORK, Dec. 4 — Army and Giesler confronted Hall with the tes- 1893, and first brought out by Har- beth, asking her to ignore the secre- Saturdays. Navy dominated the 1944 United Press timony he earlier gave the grand jury, vard. In this play, nine of the play- tariat channels and go directly to the »Once a game started, a player All-America team, winning seven posi- ' in which he said Miss Dane had slashed ers of the team withdrew about 20 could not leave unless he actually tions on the honored list between his nose with a knife or a broken bottle. President with the offer. As for Fala's yards from midfieldf and at a signal dislike for cats, Kendall said any ex- was hurt, or, at least, pleaded injury. them. Hall said his memory was fuzzy at the these nine, in two lanes, started perienced animal lover could intro- Accordingly, whenever the captain The Cadets snagged four places and time he testified before the grand jury simultaneously and at full speed con- duce the kittens to Fala with proper wanted to put a fresh player into the Middies took three, according to because it was so soon after the fiasco. verged on a point indicated by the ceremony. action he whispered, »get your arm the nation's sportswriters. Ohio State Jane Churchill, blonde singer who ball. By the time they arrived at the hurt, or something.« garnered three positions, while John says she's a third cousin of the Prime ball, they had worked up a stupend- Tavener, Indiana center, rounded out Minister, said she couldn't remember »We wore jerseys and shorts of ous mass momentum. the first team. everything that happened at the party Sergeant Fights Again great variety. We had no helmets The voting produced three stand- because she was too busy in a side bat- or pads of any kind; in fact anyone outs, Felix Blanchard, Army's hard^ tle of her own with Mrs. Dorsey, pull- Over 1918 Vosges Hills "who wore home-made pads was re- Baksi Knocks Out Knox charging plebe fullback; Les Horvath, ieg hair and clothes. garded as a sissy. Hair was the only WITH THE 7TH ARMY, Dec. 4— head protection we knew, and in In Fourth at Fort Dix who led Ohio State to an undefeated Fighting in the Vosges and eastern preparation for football we would let season, and Don Whitmire, Navy France is old stuff to T-Sgt. James it grow from the first of June. tackle who also was named to the All- Bonomi Invited Back PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 4—Joe F. Troutman, Reading, Pa., 42-year-old »We didn't have any sweaters in America last year. , ROME, Dec. 4 — Prince Umberto, Baksi, the heavyweight coalminer from reconnaissance troop motor sergeant those days, but we all wore snug- Blanchard attracted the most votes, Lieutenant General of the Realm, Kulpmont, Pa., rocked Cpl. Buddy with the 100th Division. fitting canvas jackets over our jer- collecting 813 out of a possible 1,056, asked Ivanoe Bonomi this week to at- Knox, Fort Dix, N. J., to sleep in the He made his first battle tour of this seys. You see, the tackling in that day while Horvath polled 787 and Whit- tempt to form a new government. fourth round of their scheduled ten- sector during World War I with a wasn't clean-cut and around the legs. mire 741. Bonomi, who resigned last week with- rounder over the weekend. machine gun battalion commanded by ^Falling on the ball was deemed a Bobby Jenkins, Navy's backfield held his answer pending the outcome Baksi opened with a flurry - of jolt- Gen. Douglas MacArthur and attached very important essential of a player's star nosed out Claude »Buddy« Young, of current six-party conferences. Mem- ing leather in the first round and to the famous 42nd Rainbow Division, education. We had little concentrated fleet Illinois Negro runner, for the re- bers of the Christian Democrat, Labor caught his foe repeatedly with dam- and was wounded more than a quar- work on practical tackling, nor in- maining backfield spot to join Blan- and Liberal parties announced they aging blows. He dropped Knox twice ter of a century ago in the Bois des struction in its technique. But with chard, Horvath and Glenn Davis, would support a new Bonomi govern- for nine-counts in the second round Haies. or without special instruction we were Army's triple-threat artist who led the ment. and once for eight in the third. In the opinion of the sergeant, there past masters at tackling around the nation's scorers with 114 points. is little difference in the fighting of neck. Young was joined on the second the two wars, except for the present- »Nearly all linemen lined up squarely team by three other brilliant backfield Urges Palestine Accord day greater use of land mines. Stra- against those who played the same Land? s Successor Hinted performers—Bob Kelly of Notre Dame, LONDON, Dec. 4—A joint agreement tegic battles, he said, have been fought positions on the opposing team. They PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4—The Board Tom McWilliams of Mississippi State on Palestine policy between Britain in the same area. didn't crouch or squat or play iow— of Directors of the Philadelphia Phillies and Boris Dimancheff of Purdue. and the U. S. was advocated in Com- Troutman was only 15 at the time no, they mostly stood bolt upright and recommended here that J. Edgar The 1944 aggregation is unusual in mons Saturday by Hamilton Kerr, of his first enlistment, although his fought it out with each other hammer Hoover, FBI chief, be selected to re- two respects. It is the first time in prominent Conservative Party author- records stated that he was two years and tongs, tooth and nail, fist and place the late Kenesaw Mountain Lan- more than a decade that the east has ity on eastern affairs. older. feet. dis as baseball's high commissioner. dominated the selections,

Glenn Davis' Touchdown Scamper That Stunned Notre Dame

The magic-eye camera catches Glenn Davis in action as the bril- into the open for a 64-yard touchdown romp against the Fighting shifty hipwork by himself. This was one of three touchdowns liant Army plebe crashes through the Notre Dame line and breaks Irish. Davis' path was paved by near-perfect blocking, plus some registered by Davis as Army pummelled the Irish.

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Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Dec. 4, 1944 Homefront Battles GIs in Action on Pillbox and Package AFL Picks Green Rage over Future As New Orleans Military Training Convention Ends

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Compulsory NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 4—William military training in peacetime was de- L. Green was reelected president of Tended last week as a bulwark to the the American Federation of Labor as nation's future safety and denounced the organization ended its 64th Annual as the start of a worldwide armament Convention here over the weekend. iace. Chicago was chosen as the site of Rep. James W. Wadsworth (R., N. the Federation's 1945 convention.. Y), co-author of the Selective Service There was no opposition to the Act and sponsor of peacetime training, reelection of Green or any of the and Capt. Lowell "Limpus, New York 13 vice presidents. Daily News military analyst, supported The convention also reaffirmed its the plan during an American Forum unqualified support of cooperative of the Air debate with Sen. Edwin measures with international labor, C. Johnson (D., Col.) and Dr. Alonzo and went on record against any »hasty, F. Myers, professor of education at ill-considered plan« for universal mi- New York University. litary-conscription of the nation's Wadsworth said his recommendations youth. were based on »the sound and demo- A resolution was adopted requesting cratic principle that a man owes it to President Roosevelt to appoint a na- his country to undergo training which Searing flame squirts over the gun portals of this German tional committee representing the ar- will enable him to defend it in a ma- . . . nor mud and fire of the front stayed the APO from pillbox on the 1st Army front as two chemical warfare sol- med forces, labor, management, and jor emergency.« Such a system, he getting Christmas packages to men of the 85th Cav. Recon. diers fire their flame-throwers at point' blank range, to educational groups to study the mo- added, would assure at least a year's Sq., somewhere in Belgium. The lucky guys are believed fry the Krauts out. bilization problem and recommend a training for every recruit—»an advan- first to get them this year. plan of action. tage we have never before enjoyed.« The convention also voted to appbint Limpus said tihe U. S. in every one a special committee on veterans affairs of its wars had »sent untrained kids Snow, High Winds to consult with the chief of the Vete- nto battle against professional sol- rans Administration as often as neces- Jiers« and that »a lot of them were Spain Quiet; but Revolt Seen sary regarding the problems of sol- - diers. butchered needlessly because they had Lash AH America; (Continued from Page 1) to learn in war what we hadn't taught Earlier a wide range of controversial them in peacetime.* renees, penetrated the Valle de Aran doubt, however, that the Republicans issues had been discussed, mcluding Johnson, member of the Senate 5 Killed In N. Y. to a distance of about 30 kilometers. would like to see the Franco regime racial discrimination, the Little Steel Military Affairs Committee, argued They took several small towns and fall ri^ht now. Seeing the end of the formula, the National Labor Relations that peacetime service was sponsored generally defeated their enemies war in E >pe fast approaching, they Board and »olive branch« peace pro- WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Almost all •by »disciples of defeatism* who would wherever they met them. abhor the thought of having Spain, posals to the CIO and the United Mine quarters of the nation were counting Workers. steach Americans to cook, brush their Cold weather and a poor supply which they hope someday to make a the toll in damages and loss of life teeth, rattle sabers and to learn de- situation, not pressure from Franco democratic and progressive nation, rep- A total of 166 resolutions was con- today as high winds along both coasts sidered by the convention. They mocracy from screwball masters.* forces, are said to have caused most resented at the peace conference by swept onward, and as almost all north- included demands for »adequate labor >They would launch a new world- of the Republicans to draw back into what they regard as Franco's fascist ern states eastward of the Rockies representation at the peace table and wide armament race,* he added. »That France again. Some of their comrades, government. finally got themselves dug out of proposals to declare »unfair« the pro- sounds like Adolf Hitler to me.* breaking up into small bands, stayed If the Franco Government is to be snowfalls which disrupted communica- duction of goods in states which ap- Myers, chairman of the National Ed- in the Valle de Aran. overthrown, all agree that the force tions and took several lives last week. proved anti-labor amendments. ucation Association's Committee for What these Republican fighters, which destroys it will come from with- The New England states unnoffici- At one point in the convention Presi- the Defense of Democracy through known as guerrillas, hoped to accom- in, not from the outside. But what the ally estimated their property losses in dent Green offered to resign if the Education, contended that peacetime plish, is hard to say. Military leaders situation is inside Spain today is any- millions of dollars, and in upper New delegates thought it would help pro- training as a national policy would of the Spanish National Union are re- one's guess. Republican leaders say York state at least five deaths were mote unity between the AFL, the CIO be a »cynical admission to the rest of that 90 percent of Spain's people are reported as snowfalls measured up to luctant to discuss the operation at all, and the United Mine Workers. the world that we have abandoned saying that the men who participated against Franco; that there are great 19 inches. A committee was appointed to call any idea of a just and durable peace.« in it did so without orders, and were defections even in the army, especially The weather bureau still reported on President Roosevelt at once urging not carrying out a mission for the in the lower ranks. no relief from freezing conditions over him to lift the ceiling of wages to meet the weekend, and said that ice was SNU. Spokesmen for the hierarchy of the living costs. forming in areas of the deep south. One young lieutenant colonel in Catholic Church, on the other hand, New British Ship The cold wave throughout the north- command of an FFI regiment which say that all is tranquil in Spain. eastern regions was accompanied by patrols the border, voiced the opinion The truth lies somewhere in between, high winds, and where it did not snow that the guerrillas wanted to show in the opinion of FFI leaders In the Athens' Cops World's Largest it rained heavily. the people inside Spain that they border departments. Although openly The New York\ City area and the were humane fighters, who, contrary sympathetic with the Republicans, re- New Jersey coast were hardest hit to Franco propaganda, did not murder garding them as being in the same LONDON, Dec. 4—Launching of a 15 Demonstrators as power and communications lines nuns and burn down churches. The uncomfortable position as that held by new British battleship, outmatching all came down. Some New England com- FFI officer said that the Republicans, the French underground before the of the world's other capital ships, was munities described the storm as worse when they took a Valle de Aran town, liberation, most FFI officers seem ATHENS, Dec. 4—Fifteen persons announced last week by the Admir- than the September hurricane. At generally appointed as mayor some- capable of looking at the situation were killed and another 148 were in- alty. The size, design, armament and some points along the coast the whip- one who was not too revolutionary— very objectively. Their attitude was jured yesterday when police fired on even the name of the vessel were kept ping wind drove in a tidal wave that the existing notary public, perhaps, or well expressed by one intelligent a crowd demonstrating in behalf of secret, but the announcement said she rose 13.8 feet Boston had the second- the village priest. The idea was that young French officer here in St. Gau- the National Liberation Front Greek would be, when completed, the big- highest tide ever recorded. Fishing descriptions of their actions and prac- dens. authorities immediately ordered a 7 gest and most powerful naval unit PM-6 AM curfew. craft and equipment suffered heavy tices would carry through Spain by »I think Franco is too strong for afloat. The demonstration climaxed a new damage. Winds brought sign3 and word of mouth, making favorable the Republicans right now,* he said. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Cabinet crisis following the refusal of building cornices crashing to the propaganda for the Republican cause. »The situation in Spain seems to me Admiralty, speaking at the launching the left wing National Liberation streets in New York. When the Republicans came back to be something like this: Ten, percent at a northern British port, said the Front, which includes guerrilla forces, to France, they posed a knotty prob- of the Spanish believe in Franco and ship would sail in tropical waters to sign an agreement providing for lem for the FFI. Here are our com- would fight for him. Forty percent »against an enemy we particularly the demobilization of its »Free Corps.* rades, said the Frenchmen, our com- hate him and will fight against him. want to beat.* Nazis Risk Best Armies Under the agreement, which the NLF rades who fought side by side with The remaining 50 percent will wait »This ship is a challenge,* he added, had earlier accepted, a mountain bri- us against the Germans. Yet we are and watch and go with the winning »to the minds of those who have In Ruhr Area Defense gade and a Greek regiment which charged with patroling the border, side. thought and who still think the role had fought at El Alaroein and Rimini with preserving neutrality between •Right now, however, Franco con- and the day of battleships have ended.« WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The Nazis are were to have been maintained as part France and Spain. trols the guns. But when Hitler and The battleship, sixth launched since throwing the best of everything they of a new national army. Mussolini, the men who put Franco have into the defense of the rich Ruhr Another French government, eight As Greek leaders strove to fashion the beginning of the war, was chris- in power, are brought down once and tened by Princess Elizabeth. When Valley because German industry so years ago, had interned these same a unified government despite the op- for all, when all Europe becomes heavily depends upon its output, Secre- Spanish Republicans, placed them in position of the left wing, five new completed, it will bring the total of democratic and free, I don't see how concentration camps. Not so the new Cabinet members were chosen yester- Britain's capital ships to 16. tary of War Henry L. Stimson told his Franco's dictatorship can carry on. French leaders of the Maquis, though. day. They took the posts vacated by press conference last week. Something must happen to sweep In order to maintain neutrality, they the withdrawing NLF members. Stimson said the Germans were de- away the last big fascist.* fending the Cologne Plain equally hard disarmed the returning Republicans Teheran Results Show because the most direct route to Berlin and assigned them to FFI posts away ROME, Dec. 4—Royalists who were runs through it. from the border, in accordance with holding a street' meeting here yester- Mw, Moscow Reports »For these reasons,* the Secretary agreements reached with the Spanish day were attacked by a group of said, »Nazi leaders have decided that National Union. There was some talk Remote-control 50 youths who, police said, were mainly MOSCOW, Dec. 4 —Victories of the whatever the cost to German soldiers, of placing the guerrillas in centers of Republicans and Communists. Mounted past year are the »brilliant realization* no ground shall be yielded.* surveillance, but this idea was appar- police dispersed the crowds. of the United Nations strategy drawn ently abandoned early in the proceed- Pleases B-29 Men up at Teheran a year ago, the Soviet ings. newspaper Izvestia said this week. There is no reason to suppose that SAIPAN, Marianas, Dec. 4—It may New Polish Premier »Differences existed at the Teheran Death Ends Trial Spanish Republicans as a whole held be in the mind, but the men who fire conference^ the paper said, »but they WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The bizarre any hope that the entry of the guer- the 50 caliber guns on the B-29s bomb- were resolved in a spirit of complete seven-month sedition trial, whose up- rillas into the Valle de Aran would Plans No Policy Change ing Tokyo from Marianas' bases feel accord, as must be all differences be- roarious proceedings had set new rec- touch off a widespread popular revo- safer because they operate them by ords for courtroom hijinks, came to lution. The Valle de Aran is> an iso- LONDON, Dec 4 —Prime Minister tween peaceful peoples. remote control. The guns are mounted »No one can deny how the Teheran an abrupt end Thursday when Judge lated and politically insignificant part Tomas Arciszewski, head of the newly outside the fuselage many feet from conference has shortened the war, has Echer, of the U. S. District Court here, of Spain and, besides, the Spanish Na- organized Polish government here, an- the gunners' positions, and the clatter brought victory nearer, has benefited died of a heart attack. Judge Echer tional Union disclaimed any responsi- nounced this weekend that his cabineOg of the gone is hardly audible within the great and small nations of Europe. had presided over the trial since its bility for the move. There is Bttle policy would be the same as his pre- beginning on April 17. the cabin. decessor's Stanislaw Mikolajczyk — »to »Our enemies have lost in their hope This, the gunners have found, is a of splitting the alliance of the Soviet achieve lasting understanding with So- welcome contrast to the B-24s and viet Russia.* Union, Great Britain and the U. S.« MUSTANG'S SPEED 450 MPH Nazis Killed Children other heavies, in which the noise, Renter's diplomatic correspondent re- INGLEWOOD, Calif., Dec. 4—The smoke and steady hail of discharged ported, however, that the new govern- P-51 Mustang fighter plane, rated by At Maidanek Camp cartridges makes a bedlam of the ment by its composition »does not strike the War Department as the world's gunners' compartments. impartial observers as qualified to fa- Italy-Based Bombers fastest propeller-driven aircraft, can MOSCOW, Dec. 4—Children and in- Brig. Gen. Emmet OTDonneR, Jr., cilitate a speedy solution of the Polish- travel 450 miles an hour in level flight, fants were among the tens of thou- leader of one of the recent Superfort- Russian question* Blast Wide Enemy Area it was officially revealed today. sands killed by the Germans in the ress attacks on the Jap capital, says The Mustang, holder of the transcon- gas chambers at the Maidanek death the B-29 is *e damn hard plane to ROME, Dec 4—Allied bombers based tinental speed record, baa a celling of cainp hi Poland, Moscow radio said attack, with its system of gmsuesy in Italy flew 2JM0 sorties yesterday more than 40,000 feet and • range of Has week. worked through a central computer.* Norden Honored against enemy targets all along the 2,000 miles. Reporting the trial of atx camp of- »The gunner,* he said, »looka Into a NEW YORK, Deo. 4 — The BoUey Italian battlefront and up into Ger- ficials charged with torturing and sight which he adjusts with a couple Medal, awarded ananafiy by the man territory, including Silesia and murdering prisoners, the radio said of knobs, keeps his target framed in American Society of Mechanical En- the Vienna area. De Gaulle Meets Stalin one defendant saw children brought the sight, tracks it and Ares by press- gineering for some »great and unique- Allied fighter bombers attacked Nazi to the death chambers in lorries. ing a button. engineering feat, was presented hero columns in the Brenner Pass while MOSCOW, Dec. 4—General Charles de Gaulle, president of the French Pro- Sensing that something was wrong, All corrections are taken care of by Thursday night at the society's an other planes harassed German co- the children refused to enter the a sighting computer. Each gunner has nual dinner to Carl L. Norden, a sul lumns withdrawing from Yugoslavia. visional Government, began conferences here yesterday with Premier Joseph death rooms and had to be forced or primary control of certain gun turrets, ject of the Netherlands, for his in British 8th Army troops meanwhile Stalin on joint Franco-Russian prob cajoled into them on the pretext that but can relinquish it to secondary con- vention of the Norden bombsight and occupied strategic German hill posi- the Norden automatic pilot. lems. it was abetter inside.* trol of other gunners.* tions west of Faenza.