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Vol. 1—No. 96 lFr. New York—PARIS London lFr. Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1944 Robots Hurled at Yan Combat Joes Assail Prohibition Move V-Bombs Aimed At First Army to Halt Rhine Drive Allies Turn British Launch France Over New Push in To de Gaulle Holland The Nazis are using flying' The U.S., Britain and Russia bombs against American simultaneously extended complete troops invading Germany, it recognition, to the administration was announced officially yes- of Gen. Charles de Gaulle yester- terday. day as the "provisional government Observers said that the of the French Republic." Others Nazis' introduction of the of the United Nations promptly "V-l" robot bomb was aimed took similar action. - at disrupting any U.S. pre- Recognition was granted after a parations for an attack across conference between Gen. Eisen- the Cologne plain. hower and de Gaulle authorities There was no indication as to which led to the Allied military the intensity of the flying- bomb authorities designating most of attacks, which Edward Murray, France, including Paris, as an 'In- United Press correspondent, said terior zone" in which French au- were aimed at First U.S. Army In thorities will have complete govern- the Aaclten sector. He said the mental responsibility. The interior attacks accented the German be- zone includes all territory except lief that the Aachen gateway combat areas and points essential through which the historical inva- to combat supply, which remain sions from Germany always came, under military control. is the most dangerous sector of the Says FDR Is 'Gratified' Western front. Acting Secretary of State Edward Meanwhile, the British Second Work Is Begun Don't Dry-Up Nebraska, R. Stettinius Jr., in announcing the Army launched its third infantry U.S. action, said that Jefferson assault in 24 hours in south-central Caffery, who recently moved into Holland. On Great Base Her Sons Plead from Front the American Embassy in Paris as Lunging to within three miles of diplomatic envoy to the de Gaulle the German communication center at Hertogenbosch, the British as- OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 23.—The war's first crusade to administration, would assume the In Philippines duties of a regular ambassador. sault was designed to lessen pres- restore prohibition in one of the United States is rapidly Caffery issued a statement in sure on Lt. Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's approaching a climax in Nebraska, stirring up a political Paris last night saying he had no- First Canadian Army. His force MacARTHUR'S HQ, LEYTE, took another stitch in the Scheldt Oct. 23.—Work began here today on battle which has spread to the battlefields of Fiance. tified M. Bidault, French Foreign Minister, of the recognition "with pocket With the reported 6apture what Gen. Douglas MacArthur This new Wet-Dry battle will be decided. Nov. 7, when of Schoondijke in the drive to Neb'raskans vote on a proposed satisfaction and pride" and had called "a great base for use of all "told him of the gratification with open the port of Antwerp to Allied amendment to the state constitu- shipping. arms in future operations," -as tion to outlaw liquor and beer and which President Roosevelt received Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third the news that an agreement had American ground forces steadily ex- Cleveland Fire return- it to the legal dryness the U.S. Army, pressing its new attack been reached between the French panded their positions on all fronts state knew before repeal of the on a six-mile front east of Nancy, 18th Amendment in 1933. authorities and the Supreme Allied reached Montcourt, one mile beyond on the Island of Leyte. Commander for the transfer to ToU Hits 112 The Dry attempt has been greeted captured Besange La Petite. In- "Pie Americans drove the Japs with violent reaction from men and French administration of full re- from Palo, their last stronghold on fantry units plodded through the CLEVELAND, Oct. 23.—The women in the armed services, and sponsibility for the government of the east coast highway, and the en- the larger part of France." muddy terrain about a mile beyond some drys in the midwest state the town of Coinvout. emy was retreating into the inland death "toll in Cleveland's worst fire have even refused to go along in frills and jungles under a hail of rose to 112 today as searchers arm- Paris Dooms Quisling The British Second Army's new what they charge' a sly attempt to attack to strengthen the western shells and bombs. MacArthur als& ed with acetylene torches and picks put over prohibition as they did Georges Suarez, veteran journal- announced capture of Hill 522, side of the Dutch salient and thus and shovels uncovered 29 more during World War I while 100,000 ist, was convicted of collaborating contribute to throwing the Germans dominating the northern beaches Nebraska men were away • from with the Germans and sentenced Jap resistance continued to be bodies in the smoldering 50-block out of the Scheldt estuary, moved area over which the gas-fed flame home. to death, yesterday as the first of along the west bank of the Zuid- jnoderate, with no important The "Wet forces" charge was bol- a series of civil purge trials opened counter-attacks. The enemy at- settled Friday. willemsvaart Canal. Police said the final toll might stered recently by a petition from in Paris. -His hearing took just six tempted several small-scale raids 312 Nebraska men of the 134th In- hours. U.S. Duplicates Buzz Bomb against U.S. shipping off Leyte, reach 150. Only 24 of the victims have been identified. One hundred fantry Division now fighting with Within the next six months the DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 23 (ANS).— but these attacks were ineffective. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U.S. government expects to try thous- With two Army corps already and sixty-five homes, industrial Germany's robot bomb was dupli- plants and ' businesses were des- Third Army. The petition appeared ands of other alleged quislings at cated at Wright Field 60 days after ■ inland an average of at least five troyed. (Continued on Page 4) the Palais de Justice. miles all along the front, engineer parts collected from duds which units rushed repairs on the captured fell in England arrived here, the Air Technical Service Command airfields at Tacloban and Dulag reported today. and began work on the great new base. The Americans continued Army VD Rises 300% in France their infiltration tactics, in an ef- fort to envelop enemy supply lines S & S Reporter By Charles W. White According to Col. Padget, the Ger- the same way the Japs broke U.S. Medicine, Office of the Chief Sur- Stars and Stripes Stall Writer. geon, ETOUSJt, who coupled his man set-up was this: resistance three years ago. The U.S.; Army's venereal disease The German medics, suspecting American bombers were active statement with a plea to soldiers Killed in Action rate in France has jumped to three to keep away from professional that the French were sabotaging during the day, hitting enemy bases times what it was in the United them with women, set up 42 stream- ROME, Oct. 23.—A second staff throughout the Philippines. Ninety- prostitutes and to take all precau- Kingdom arid is steadily increasing, lined Army brothels in Paris, charg- member of The Stars and Stripes four tons of explosives were drooped tions against contracting VD. but the Germans had a higher VD The figures for the German gar- ing 40 francs a girl. The girls were Mediterranean Edition has been cn Mindanao, with Tagayan, prin- figure than the Americans despite rison of about 40,000 troops in Paris inspected twice a week. There was killed in action, it was announced cipal communications center on the the enemy's elaborate and well- were contained in a secret enemy a pro station in or near each, house, over the weekend. north of the island, the main targei, controlled system of Wehrmacht document, captured Aug. 27, shortly and German prophylaxis procedures He was S/Sgt. Alfred M. Kohn, brothels. after liberation of the French were almost identical with those of 23, of Miami, Fla., victim of a TWO U.S. SUBS LOST In Paris alone, the Nazis had an capital. the American Army. German machine gun. Kohn, a ^WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (Reuter) infection rate of 124 per 1,000 men "They did prove one thing most Before a soldier could get a ticket reporter, was well known to troops •Prhe loss of the submarine Herr- annually. definitely," Col. Padget said, "and to one of the brothels he had to in the front line in Italy. ing and Golet in the Pacific was /These figures were revealed yes- that is that licensed prostitution turn in his dog tag at the pro sta- S/Sgt. Gregor Duncan, an artist announced tonight. Each carried a terday by Lt. Col. Paul V. Padget, serves to increase rather than to tion. Before he could get his dog on the newspaper, was killed last crew of 65. of the Division of Preventative prevent venereal infection." (Continued on Page 4). May. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1944 An Editorial BkG

our Hcae From the pen of some unknown Muddy, Bloody Men of the Line poet comes this new version of an Every American ought to old rhyme: My Bonnie lies over the ocean, do at least one hour of Hospital Critic My Bonnie lies over the sea. combat duty—infantry style. When she V-Mails Unswerving de- We in a general hospital in * *■ * votion, i France are jiot allowed to go out- My Bonnie lies obviously. That's not a practical 'side the hospital even for fresh *. • • s air. Only relatives may visit us. idea and we know it. But Security Measure. At an officers' until a man has done a A GI friend of ours asked a mess somewhere over here a very couple of his French girl friends attractive operator runs the switch- doggie's job he si*mply . to come visit us to try to cheer us board. Her little office is located doesn't know the score. ■ up a little. The hospital author- ities objected because we were not * * * related. He doesn't know how What are the wounded GIs go- ing to do? Just sit and twiddle danger punishes the human their thumbs? We have often read nervous system. He can't about the wounded GIs getting the imagine what it's like to ,cream of this and that. Gee! where creep down a street of empty is it?—P/c. C. R. and Three Others. houses wondering if they're v * * * really as empty as they Consumer Research look. Hearing window where officers are passing back and Why encourage us to use V-mail shades flap and doors creak forth all the time; so officials have and then give us paper like I am wisely posted a sign on the door and expecting the crack of writing on now? reading: "Contact the Operator by a Karbiner or the burp of ! No one can write on it with ink without using a one-way stroke Telephone ONLY." a Jerry MG—the last sound • «\ • on earth. after night after night after enough importance to com- with his pen, then the ink runs all Perish-the-Thought Department. over from one side to the other. * " ' * * night. bat duty in administering Why take up such a large portion Lt. A. H. McAtee tells us about a GI who had a terrific nightmare. He doesn't know how 3£ & its demobilization plan. Nor of our limited writing space with can they know the inequal- this baby talk all over the bottom He dreamed he approached the much guts it takes to move Until then, a worker can't of this sheet, that we naturally shores of New York and found the understand what a crime it ity of the present system of Statue of Lffierty holding aloft a forward a yard, a foot, an . : know anyway? I like to use V-mail special pay and privilege huge sign reading, "This Town Is inch. How a second can is to let production slow j because I can see the advantage of Off-Limits To All Troops." seem a year and a minute down. for some—with just a few .it to everyone concerned, but I am » *-,. s extra dollars a month for ; becoming discouraged.—Pfc Don L. an eternity. • * * . * ■Burt, Ord. Quip of the Week. When a Nazi the man in the mud. . . officer proudly informed his Yank * * * Until then, a soldier can't * * * * * # captor that he was an "Ober-Lieu- Until he's lived and fought understand what a murder- Until then, the nation tenant," the GI muttered grimly, ous thing he does when he can't realize—as it cheers Hotels About Movies "Brother, to me you're just Ober- in the mud and blood, he Does the Special Service Division rated." can't realize what an all- peddles, supplies needed up the greatest backfield of the send movies overseas for entertain- • • •. time miracle a doughboy Is. front. greatest team in history-- ment of soldiers? The group to • Sign of the Times: A classified To stick in there day after * .* * the job being done by the which our unit is attached has been ad in a U.S. daily read: "Cultured showing movies in something like day after day after day after Until then, War Depart- muddy, bloody men of the a barn in which as many as 500 day. And night after night ment officials can't attach line soldiers enjoy the pictures. Last Sunday night an officer an- nounced an overcoat had walked off from the back of the barn and that the overcoat was going to walk back, else there would be no more movies except for the person- nel of Group Hq. Monday night soldiers gathered mine detonators, was a pretty Super-Dooper Men around the barn. A Group ser- Lovely Killer blonde girl—German, but beautiful. geant announced there would be gentleman with bottle of catsup Searching a house in a small The girl had apparently been the A soldier with a wooden arm no movie except for members of would like to meet educated woman town where they believed German sole occupant of the house and she and an officer who is blind in Group Hq., adding: "Our hospital- with a can of beans." artillery spotters had been working, had been working for the Germans one eye and unable to see well ity has been imposed on " The * * * a Seventh Armored Division patrol as an artillery spotter from the out of the other have been cap- movie started with 90 or so from A psychologist on the home heard a slight stir in the basement. windows in the top of the house. tured by U.S. units at the Sieg- Group Hq. as the audience. front reports that most college girls Tho leader of the patrol, S/Sgt. fried Line, according to 1/Lt. A group of soldiers stayed around don't believe in petting. Which Emest D. Lucadamo Jr., of New- . * * *' William E. Byers, Portland, hoping they might be allowed to just goes to show that you don't ark, N.J., promptly pulled the pin Good Time Chalet Ore., Ninth Air Force Lightning see the movie, but a M/Sgt. said: always have to believe in what you on a grenade and tossed it down pilot, who recently served ten the cellar stairs. Fourth Division infantrymen "If you guys are entertaining any are doing. defeated former German avia- days as air-ground controller * * * Following the explosion, they with a tank outfit. Byers said _ idea of sneaking in, you'd better tors now fighting as infantry be on your way before you get your The*Russian drive into Czecho- heard a girl's scream and Luca- the captain wore thick glasses slovakia was just like a big-time damo, followed by the others, in a stubborn scrap at a Ger- rear shot off!" So on the movie man village. It was worth it. . and displayed a scroll excusing went, and a lot of soldiers were de- crap game. The Reds came through rushed downstairs. Cowering in a him from failure to salute a on seven passes. corner, surrounded by a pile of Ger- One building they captured was prived of entertainment the U.S. a spacious old ranch house, superior. The soldier surren- J. C. W. man ammunition, dynamite and Government went to a lot of trou- along Wild West lines, with the dered with only one arm up- ble to get for them, simply because title "Chalet Buffalo Bill, 1902," raised, and narrowly missed be- some GI's overcoat was missing.— over the main entrance. The ing shot, Byers said. Front with Mauldin JU. Vfc C. D. E.t FA Bn. interior was decorated with tro- -IF -ft- -ir- phies and hunting photographs. One More 'First' * * * In a few years, a little Belgiaa How'll Vermin Feel? kid in Neufchateau is going to be* Now I've had it Saturday's is- Signalling Schnauzer gin to wonder how in hell is nania sue of the S & S again referred to A First Division medical out- got to be James E. Goforth Halter, a Nazi as Herman the German. fit swears by one German pri- instead of Francois or Albert like Along with numerous other long- soner, "Achtung," a captured his little friends. suffering American Hermans. I Jerry dog. He's so used to bom- The story is that just as the stork have wondered why that particular bardment that 30 minutes be- brought him, an American Tank name typifies the German counter- fore an enemy barrage comes Destroyer battalion passed through part of our Sad Sack. Surely, in he retreats to the cellar the town. those loyal Americans named Her- sjielter, giving everybody plenty A jeep with an American lieute- man, of German extraction, must of time to take cover. nant—James E. Goforth, of Middles- boro, Ky.—stopped outside the Hal- cringe when they see their name * * * linked so frequently to our enemies. ter house and three excited women Why not Vermin the German? No Armchair General rushed ou¥£and insisted that the Or Ratzi the Nazi? Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes, who lieutenant^iome in. I appeal to you—n o t i c e, no 'revealed Allied plans for the mili- There was a priest in the room bluster, no threats, no intimidation. tary government of Germany, ap- and he made it clear that they On the contrary, I approach you wanted the new-born, baby to be proaches the task with a long back- named after the first American even as my 200-pbund, 6-ft. friend ground of army and administrative they saw. James E. Goforth was it. Sidney petitioned my one-year old experience. But he has also taken Len years ago. Len could not say personal risks,, Holmes was one of * * * Sidney, but managed "Ninny" quite the handful of daring officera*|who Brewery Outpost audibly. One day I overheaTd this undertook the hazardous submarine , When the City of Luxemburg big bruiser wheedle: "Len, dear, mission prior to the occupation of was outposted by Fifth Armored please don't call me Ninny. Say North, Africa to negotiate with the Division men, who had liberated SSssidney, SSssidney." Please Mr. French in Algeria; the city earlier in the day, three Editor, don't call him Herman the * * * infantry squads and a tank sec- German.—Herman, M.C. tion commanded by 1/Lt. Robert Scent Was 'Left' E. Lundigan, of Los Angeles, THE STARS AND STRIPES "Damn those Engineers!" established a road block on the Primed at the New York Herald said 1st Lt. Thomas D. Rod- outskirts of the city. Tribune plant. 21 rue de Bern. Paris man, Sprata, 111., who got back That night they envied their for tne U S armed forces under aus-' to battalion CP about 2200 pices ot the Special Services Division friends who had been posted ETOUSA. Tel.. Editorial. Elysees 73-44 hours from front-line recon- inside the still-festive city. Their Circulation. Elysees 84-28. naissance. "They buried that disappointment vanished in the Contents passed by the U.S. Army . dead cow and smoothed out the morning, though, when they and Navy censors. Entered as second class matter Mar. 15. 1943. at the road where I've been turning learned that a big building post office. New York. N.Y.. under left, and I didn't smell him and right near them was a brewery. the act ot Mar. 3. 1878. wandered all over the place be- They got the key from friendly Vol. 1, No. 90 "I'm gonna-send this home an' scare my gal outta foolin' around wit' garrison sojers . ♦ .* fore I could find you.'' civilians. jr.

Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Once Over Pack ers Subdue Rams, 30-21 Lightly

I—— By Charlie Kiley — Blackout Makes Too Many 'Cats in This Play T^EW YORK, Oct._23.—It's a good Laws,Conip J-' thing our navy afloat hasn't Grid Pilot See Red been plagued with the luck of its football team ashore or our guys BIGLERVILLE, Pa., Oct. 23 in the Pacific probably would be — Some unprincipled rascal Spearhead no more. The experts; who haven't short-circuited the lighting sys- been too expert lately—Yankees to tem here with two minutes to win the pennant, Browns to cop go in the first half of a high the World Series—put the kiss of school game and now there's Green Bay death on Cmdr. Oscar Hagberg's hell to pay. midshipmen by stamping Navy as Red Lion high was leading Big- GREEN BAY, Wis., Oct. 23. their pre-season choice for national lerville, 6-0, when everything grid honors. went black. Coach Henry Bream —The Green Bay Packers The Middies may have ■ oelieved of Biglerville claims foul play cast aside the Cleveland their press clippings, but North and wants to play it over, but Rams' challenge for first place in 'Carolina Pre-Flighc and Georgia Charlie Spangler, Red Lion the western division of the National Tech didn't and both heaved coach, says the game is official Football League by defeating the broadsides into Navy hopes. Mean- because gate receipts were not Rams, 30-21, here yesterday in a while, .Army, Notre Dame, Randolph refunded. bitterly contested game. Field and Ohio State, closely fol- The Rams wasted no time grab- lowed by Georgia Tech and Penn, bing a lead in the first period when roared unbeaten through all their Tom Colello recovered a fumble oy- opponents to date to lead the pig- Ramblers Tip Don Hutson after the great Packer skin parade. ' But we started off by mentioning Navy's luck, and hell probably would Soldiers, 67-0 Pro Grid Standings freeze over before you'd find any- EASTERN DIVISION FT. WORTH, Texas, Oct. 23. W, L. T. Pts. OP thing to match the misfortune New York 3 0 0 3D 17 ^ which tripped the sailors Saturday —The mighty Randolph Field Philadelphia.. 2 0 1 97 :ts Jim Mello (36), Great Lakes fullback, is checked for no gain as Washington.,. 2 0 1 69 59 when Georgia Tech won, 17-15. Ramblers, generally regarded Boston 0 4 0 31 109 Reading from left to right, this is as the greatest football team in Northwestern players, Guard Ray Justak (77), Tackle Earl Crum (71), Brooklyn 0 4 0 42 64 what happened to the Middies: the country, ran wild for the fifth Quarterback Himmy Powers (68$.; and Halfback Jack Doyle (37), WESTERN DIVISION (1) A questionable holding deci- straight week when they bewildered close in for the kill. The sailors won, 25-0, but they weren't so lucky W L. T. Pts. OP last Saturday, when Ohio State dumped them from the unbeaten Green Bay. .. 5 0 147 <;;> sion thwarted 'em on the seven- Camp Polk, 67-0, here yesterday. 0 90 82 " ranks, Cleveland ..... 3 yard line after a 78-yard downfield Bill Dudley, Pete Layden, Jack 26-6. Detroit 1 1 63 »i march; (2) time ran out in the Chicago Bears 1 1 80 89 Russell and their Cohorts thrilled a 0 43 121 first half with Navy on Tech's two- crowd of 10,000 by gaining 419 yards Pitt-Cards ... 0 yard stripe; (3) the Middies fumbled on the ground, while Camp Polk Bears Tie Detroit, 21-21, on Tech's three in the third gained ten through the air and lost end had caught a long pass. Two quarter to muff a scoring opportun- 28 on the ground. plays later, Colello galloped 75 yards ity;- (4) the clock stopped Navy The fliers never lost the bail on On GeneRonzanVs Passes behind a squad of blockers to score. on Tech's one-inch line at the end downs in the first half and sported The inevitable struck a moment of the game, and (5) the Middies a 54-0 margin at the intermission. later, however, when Irv Comp shot outrushed Tech on the ground, 221 They scored almost at will every ' CHICAGO, Oct. 23. — Gene Ronzani's 38-yard payoff an 11-yard pass to Hutson, who was yards to minus-six. downed one yard from the goal. time they gained possession of the pass to Ray McLean in closing minutes earned a 21-21 stand- Ben Starrett plowed over on th& ' ^tc J^C 1.V ball. CHOBT SHOTS: Tlwfinside story, The Ramblers had previously off for the Chicago Bears with the Detroit Lions here yes- next play and the first quarter ^ as reported by Bob Considine, knocked off Abilene AAF, Rice, terday before 23,000 fans at Wrigley Field. ended in a 7-7 tie, with Hutson add- of why the Swedish track stars. Texas and Southern Methodist. ing the first of four extra points" Ronzani's aerial wizardry was re- for the Packers and Lou Zontini mi sponsible for all three Chicago Paschal, Leads Giants the first of three for the Rams. Iowa Sealiawks Drub touchdowns. He hit McLean with Joe Laws' touchdown for the a 28-yard pitch in the second To Easy 23-0 Triumph Packers early in the second quarter Fort Warren, 30-0 was canceled when Halfback Mike perid for another counter, and NEW YORK, Oct. 23, — Halfback Billy Paschal, devoting his free Kabealo scampered 25 yards to score IOWA CITY, Oct. 23.—The high- tossed a 20-yard strike to Bill Moo- ! geared Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks. time from the Maritime Service to for the Rams. The Packers surged smashed their way to a 30-0 vic- ney, who churned the remaining 40 fcotball, scored three touchdowns I ahead to stay, however, when Lou yards without being molested, in the as the New York Giants white- I Brock snared a pass from Comp tory over Fort Warren nere yes- just before the halt ended terday. third quarter. washed the Pitt-Cards, 23-0, here yesterday before 40,000 fans at the A two-yard buck by Ted Fritsch The longest run of the game With Fireball Frankie SinkWich w^s fashioned by Bob Smith, who Polo Grounds." accounted for the fourth Green Bay sprinted 72 yards to score in the and Bob Westfall setting the pace, Two of his touchdown jaunts were touchdown, while a safety was added third quarter after catching a Fort the Lions marched 73 yards to score short thrusts through the middle when Albie 'Reiz stepped out the Warren punt. ■ in the second quarter, Westfall of the line, but the third was a 45- back end of the end zone trying to climaxing the , drive with a two yard broken-field run. elude a pack of tacklers. Colello's DIMAGGIO BACK HOME yard plunge. Westfall tallied again' perfect strike to Jim Benton re- sulted in Cleveland's final six- Haakan Lidman SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23. — on a 75-yard excursion, while Sink- S/Sgt. Joe* DiMaggio, former Yan- wich's pass to Jack Natheson com- Hilltoppers Lose, 13-12 pointer. Gunder Haegg, Arne Anaersscn kee outfielder, has been returned pleted the day's point production. MILWAUKEE, Oct. 23.—Dick and Haakan Lidman, are not to the States from Hawaii for '• me- Sinkwich booted the three De- DeShazo scored one touchdown Eaglte s Pummel \ aiiKS coming to America this winter to dical observation and treatment," troit conversions, while Pete Gu- and booted the necessary extra PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23— The aid the Sixth War Loan Bond the Fourth AAF "has disclosed. dauskas did likewise for the Bears. point to carry his Lincoln AAF Philadelphia Eagles handed the Drive is that each of the trio had eleven to*a 13-12 - photo-finish vic- Boston Yanks their fourth straight a personal problem. Andersson tory over Marquette here yester- league defeat, scoring" in every pe- wanted to bring his wife, have all day. Fullback Lou Mayne chugged riod to run up a 38-0 triumph be- expenses paid and travel by air; 'Skins Topple Tigers, 17-14 two yards for the other AAF tally, fore 24,000 fans here yesterday. Lidman demanded nonstop plane while End Bob Wuinsey scored Mel Bleeker headed the scoring passage: from Sweden without a WASHINGTON; Oct. 23.—A 32- both Hilltopper touchdowns. parade with two touchdowns, while stopover in England, while Haegg's yard field goal in the fourth Ernie Steele, Steve Van Buren and boss, who operates a haberdashery quarter by Joe Aguirre brought Johnny Durko each contributed one. home a 17-14 triumph for the Fliers Top Marines in Malmo, asked for $1,200 indem- RIVERSIDE, Cal., Oct. 23.—The Roy Zimmerman booted five con- nity to offset the shirts, neckties Washington Redskins over the versions and a 49-yard field goal. and suspenders he wouldn't sell Brooklyn-Tigers before 34,000 cus- rugged Fourth AAF football mac- while Gunder was absent. The tomers at Griffith Stadium here hine from March Field ground out Treasury and State Departments, yesterday. a 20-14 decision over the Eltoro FOCTBALL J. ^evidently unaccustomed to the ways Frank Filchock and Slingin' Marines here yesterday. The Ma- *tf some amateur athletes, reportedly Sammy Baugh, who flew from his rines closed fast to score on a pass SCORKjfl were "ever so shocked." Texas ranch for the game, com- in the third period and on a blocked F r e s h#i a n Claude "Buddy- pleted 22 of 41 passes to pick up . punt in the fourth. A pass from Saturday's Games 234 yards. Filchock connected with | Sam Nelson to Woody Strode pro- Delaware State 7, Howard 6. Young, Illinois' NCAA sprint cham- duced the winning touchdown. Southern 19, Arkansas State 13 pion, is being called the swiftest Aguirre for one touchdown, while . Virginia St.' 32, Hampton Institute player ever to wear cleated grid another of his pitches to the same BAINBRIDGE DUMPS GIs Sunday's Games shoes. . . Positive proof that the gent paved the way for Wilbur | San Diego Naval 69, F. MacArthur 0. WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Oct. 23.— Bainbridge Naval 7, Camp Peary 0. Civil War is over is shown, by Moore to knife through from the Harry Hopp, former Detroit Lions Iowa Pre-Flight 30, Fort Warren 0. Georgia Tech, whicll uses Grant two. ace, dashed 66 yards with a punt Tonopah 40, Compton Junior College 7. Field in Atlanta for its football St. Thomas 2o, St. Mary's 7. Pug Manders plowed two yards in the fourth quarter here yester- March Field 20, Eltoro Marines 14. games. But maybe it's because for Brooklyn's first sixpointer, and day to give Bainbridge Naval a 7-0 Randolph Field 67, Camp Polk 0. those southern boys trample 'on' it. a pass from Cecil Johnson to Bob I victory over the Camp Peary Pi- Morris Field 29. Cherry Pt. Marines 1h Lubbock AAF 13,.Marquette 12. Masterson accounted for the other rates. It was the sailers' 11th Ottumwa Naval 33, Camp Ellis 0. Help Wanted Flatbush touchdown. straight win in two years. Camp Campbell 19, Bowman Field 0. —AND GIVEN LiTl Abner By Courtesy ot United Features. By Al Capp Write yonr question or problem to Help Wanted. The Stars and Stripes, r r BUT AH DIDN'T WARN'T IT Y-YO* <5HECKS NO.'/' BUT - PAMSY. . - YO' ooirrr Paris, France. / WHO DONE IT WHOI5 WHO BASHED THIS NEVAH SEEN THET IS TH'ONLY HOOMIN F ?r TH' ON BELIEVABLE/ SOOPER- TREMENJUS LATE BEAST BEFO' IN ALL BEAN IN ALL APOs WANTED HOOMIN FANTA&TIOX-AL.LY PANTHER OUTA TH' MAH NATCHERAL CREATION WHO'S MU5KLEP CRITTER IN PL. Francis McAlister, Tex.; Pvt. James WOODS JEST LIFE - IN FACK, MAN ENUFF TO OF 0 THEM WOODS WHO IS Nussey, Brooklyn; Sgt. Kenneth O'- N-TNOW r AH JEST COME WHOMPED OUT A C AS STRONG A6> ME - Connell, Roslindale; Carmen Pecora, Syra- FUM T'OTHER PUNCH LIKE M-MEBBE. ( GtSLPr.") cuse; Sgt. Andrew G Putch, Pittsburgh; WAY/V, THET rr Sgt. Kenneth Roberts, Salem, Mass.; Lt. S-STRONGER ; Andrew Sibick, Seranton; Capt. John D. Striegel, Ft. Worth. VT. Donald J. Hempe, 42120422; Lt P David A. Hiilfines; Pvt. James Irwin, Cal ; Sgt. Edward Kaifner. Cincinnati; Alex Kusmanavitch; Sgt. Daniel J. Lawler; Lt. Earl ft. Lazear, Delaware; Cpl. Gerald Ajiank; Lt. Charles W. Lambert, 01578738; FW5 Martin, Groton, Mass.; Lt. Joel S Mattison, Interlaken; Lt. Charles P. Mc- Haffey, Philadelphia; Lt. Fred Pheiffer, ft Union City, N.J.; Lt. G. B. Palm, Chint; Pvt. Victor Papa, Providence Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1944 1'HJs. STAKS A*\L> STRIPES World Police Makes Big Splash in Pacific 8 Penicillin May Not Work All the Time Quota for U.S. t Key s Despite the fact VD no longer means a pay stoppage for GIs, Faces Solons i, ssia and despite "consoling" talk about medical marvels such as WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (AP). — penicillin, soldiers last week The Rsd Army hammered rnUr The allocation of quotas of troops, were warned by Lt. Col. Paul warships and planes to be used as East Prussia along three of the V. Padget not to become care- U.S. security forces is expected to main rail lines leading to Insterburg less about exposure to infection. be proposed to Congress'under Pre- and the great supply fortress of The U.S. Army in France now sident Roosevelt's call for arrange- is treating syphilis with peni- Koenigsberg, capturing the strate- ments to act quickly with other na- cillin instead of the arsenic tions to suppress future Hitlers. gic town of Goldap, southeast of drugs, mainly because it requires This is understood by officials Insterburg, the Germans admitted less hospitalization, but there is here to be the plan behind Presi- yesterday. no scientific proof as yet that dent Roosevelt's declaration in his Marshal Stalin, breaking his long the new method is better than foreign policy speech in New York silence on the East Prussian battle, the old, Col. Padget said. Saturday. He urged that the U.S. ' announced in an order of the day About 95 percent of gonorrhea delegate to the proposed world sec- last night that the Red Army was cases are curable within one day urity council have advance author- 18 miles inside the Junker land on by use of penicillin, the control ity from Congress to act. each time an 84-mile front. He said 400 in- officer said, adding: "But the a breach of peace developed. habited localities in - East Prussia other five percent are just as The issue of how to provide had been occupied, serious and complicated as American forces if and when the Berlin announced that members gonorrhea can be." United States decides to participate of the Luftwaffe as well as the new in a world organization is not part People's Army had been thrown of the Dumbarton Oaks plan, but into the line to combat the Russian Army's VD a domestic question. invasion. As outlined by authorities here^ Just to the north, in Lithuania, first approach to the problem, as- the Reds were reported closing in Up in France suming United Nations' approval of on the Germans in the Memel area, the organization, would be Senate while Soviet warships were said To (Continued from Page 1} action on a treaty guaranteeing. be plying the Baltic Sea freely, United States' use of torses when- tag back he had to take a pro and ever the world security council de- threatening German sea lanes ti fill in a detailed record. Sweden. cided it was necessary. Later, an- Despite this almost foolproof sys- other treaty would provide that Reds at Norwegian Border tem. Col. Padget stated, the cap- the United States furnish certain tured records show that from Jan. Moscow Radio announced that numbers of ships, planes and men 1, 1944, to Aug. 16, the Germans which would always be available , Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, who has fulfilled his dramatic two-year Marshal Stalin, m an order of the had 3,106 new cases of venereal dis- day, declared the entire Petsamo for quick use. vow to return to the Philippines, slogs knee-deep in water to return ease among the Paris garrison— to his barge after visiting troops on Morotai Island in the Halmahe- area had been cleared of enemy and 84 percent of the infections ras. Man on the left is a Navy doctor. troops and that the Soviet forces came from licensed professional had reached the Norwegian fron- prostitutes in the official houses. Aegean Island tier. Ten percent of the men were in- To the south, Czechoslovak fected by "girl friends," and 6 per- 2 Latin States partisans were- reported ready and cent by casual pickups. Falls to Allies Petition.... waiting for the Russians, who are Though the Germans sentenced (Continued from Page 1) advancing into that country 3,560 streetwalkers to concentration ROME, Oct. 23.—The German Depose Chiefs through passes of the Carpathians. camps, their own army brothels garrison of Evvoia, large .fEgean in Nebraska's leading newspaper, The Russian drive northeast of MEXICO CITY, Oct. 23 (Reuter) continued to spread a stream of island adjacent to the Greek main- the Omaha World Herald, as a Debreczen threatened to surround —Presidents were overthrown in infection. The VD figures did not land, surrendered today to British full-page political advertisement. Budapest, cutting communications drop. soldiers and Greek patriots as Ger- The petition, as set forth in the two Central American republics, between the Hungarian^capital and "Somebody higher up," Col. Pad- man forces on the mainland con- ad, was "soiled and grimed by bat- Guatemala and Salvador, over the Vienna. get surmised, "must have decided tinued their retreat through North- tle" and signed during the battle weekend, and disorders were re- Marshal Tito, Jugoslav Partisan to continue the houses in operation ern Greece. for St. L6. It was sent to former ported continuing last night. leader, said his men on the western despite their bad record." It showed Lonos, another JEgean island, has Gov. Keith Neville, leader of move Boy Scouts were reported direct- coast of the country had liberated about 18 percent syphilis and 82 been occupied by British forces in against dry law, by Col. Butler B. ing traffic in Guatemala City after Omis, important Adriatic harbor percent gonorrhea, a normal ratio, the clean-up of German-held islands Miltonberger of the 134th. police had been interned in their southeast of Split. he said. lying off the coast of Greece. The Drys are campaigning on the barracks. Gen. Ponce, provisional Discussing licensed streetwalkers Meanwhile, the British land drive theory that prohibition failed be- president since July, was deposed in France, (disorderly houses have to clear the Germans from the fore because it was not properly but there was no indication what Rain and Mud Impede been put off-limits to Allied sol- mainland continued with RAF at- enforced and that servicemen and form of government, if any, had Allied Armies in Italy diers), Col. Padget said 15, percent tacks on rail transportation in the women are not being discriminated been established. of the girls have gonorrhea when midcoastal area. against because they have a vote In Salvador, a military dictator- licensed. He added that all have it ROME, Oct. 23 (AP)—The Eighth in the election. ship was reported established under within three months, and within Col. Osmin Aguirre, ex-police chief Army inched up the Adriatic coast The Wet forces claim prohibition nine months they all have syphilis. had its chance and flopped; that of Salina, who threw out President today, occupying Cervia, four mi'es Ball Switches FIRE DAMAGES N.Y. CHURCH it isn't fair to bring up the question Andres Ignacio Menendez. north of Cesena, on the coastal while fighting men are overseas, road, NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (ANS).— Fire caused extensive damage yes- To Roosevelt and that Nebraska would lose Mightiest RAF Force In the muddy hills where the $4,000,000 in liquor and beer taxes Fifth Army is slogging slowly for- terday in the imported Hastings WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (Renter). and fees. ward toward Bologna, additional marble steeple of Marble Colle- Follows Up U.S. Raids giate Church on Fifth Ave., oldest —Sen. Joseph H. Ball (R.-Minn.} The proposal, placed on the ballot rain again hampered operations, announced today that he would after a petition signed by 70,000 but positions recently captured Evangelical Church in the U.S. The largest force of RAF heavy "vote for and support President voters advocated amending the Pro- bombers ever seen in the air was were consolidated despite arrival of before firemen with 85-foot aerial Roosevelt:" v hibition Act, carries no penalty for reported en route to continental enemy reinforcements> The Amer- ladders extinguished the blaze. Two hundred servicemen were at- Ball, one of the foremost GOP liquor sales. This would have to be targets yesterday evening following icans are now about eight miles internationalists, said he believed provided by the legislature, which up Sunday's lossless attacks by from the southern outskirts of tending services in the basement but no one was injured. that Mr. Roosevelt was in a better meets irt\ January. 2,500 American and British planes. Bologna. position to get public backing for Determined to turn this Nebraska Sunday's three assaults on six a strong peace organization and test into crushing defeat for pro- targets in eastern Germany were that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's "man- hibitionists that will discourage the first mass raids to escape ca- 2 Orphaned Sons of Yanks date from the people would be con- similar dry crusades in other states, sualties. fused and weak and his leadership the anti-Dry forces are spending In Southern Europe, Italy-based would be hampered by a serious a reported $250,000 to defeat the U.S. heavy bombers attacked mili- Flown to New Homes in U.S. division between his own support- amendment. Breweries and distil- tary objectives in western Czecho- ers." X leries have provided most of the slovakia and in the Munich, NEW YORK, Oct. 23 — The Eng- identity of the soldier or the grand- fund. . Regansterg and Augsburg areas. parents who will bring him up. lish-born sons of two Americans President Roosevelt knows, and a Gen. McNarney Takes who were killed in action arrived few big-wigs in the British passport Aircraft Workers Back Labor Secretary Wprns here today to live with their Amer- office know, but they will never tell. Post in Mediterranean ican grandparents. The English They figure the son of an American After GIs Rout Pickets On Cutting Minimums mothers of both babies died in ALLIED MEDITERRANEAN.HQ., fighting man who gave his life for KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 23 childbirth. his country is entitled to a little Oct. 23—Lt. Gen. Joseph McNar- BOSTON, Oct. 23 (UP).—Secre- The first to arrive was seven- ney1, newly-arrived from Washing- (AP).—The day shift of 8,000 men tary of Labor Frances Perkins month-old "Little Boy Blue," son privacy. returned to work at North Ameri- Ken Maloney's child will be cared ton, took up his duties today as warned today that efforts will be of an American infantryman killed deputy supreme Allied commander can's bomber plant this morning, made to lower labor standards dur- in France before he married his for by Maloney's father and mother. ending a work stoppage which be- Mr. ahd Mrs. William Maloney, of in the Mediterranean theater .and ing the reconversion period. She English sweetheart and before his commanding general of the U.S. gan Thursday. Forty soldiers and Grand Rapids, Mich. The baby ar- sailors staged a demonstration at said in an address that standards child was born. Army in the North Africa theater. now provided in various minimum The second baby was Kenneth rived here m the arms of Army the factory's gates Saturday, dis- Nurse Lt. Evelyn Anderson, who He succeeds Lt. Gen. Jacob K De- wage laws must be maintained after Barry Maloney, the six-month-old vers, now commanding the Sixth persing pickets and ripping down said the flier's son made the 3,000- the war. son of Kenneth Maloney, of Grand Army Group in France. strike posters. Rapids, Mich., a fighter pilot killed mile journey as a flier's son should. on nis 101st combat mission. Ken- By Courtesy of News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff neth Jr. was the youngest passen- Terry And The Pirates ger ever to fly the Atlantic in an >J. WHY. THATS STOWOe... Army Transport Command plane. I ASKED MISS CNEDPO. Agour In both cases the Army winked Teee> AND SHE SAID SHE at priority and passport boards to KNEW NOTHING AT ALU OP HIS 6ACfc6EOUND... SHE get the babies aboard the trans- WAS KlDDtNO ONE" OF US atlantic planes. The identity of "Little Blue Boy," who arrived at LaGuardia Field cooing happily in his knit blue wool suit, remains -a secret. The child's paternal grandparents made a plea to President Roosevelt, ask- >ing that they be given immediate custody of the child after his ma- ternal granaparents, who were car- ing for him, were killed several MR FQflCSS months ago by a flying bomb. Only a dozen persons know the