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Vol. 1—No. 76 New York — PARIS — London Saturday, Sept. 30, 1944 U.S.Troops In Belf ort FDR Says Hitting the Reich's Defenses Blow Perils No Rift On Defenses of Peace Plan SW Reich

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 The south anc: central (UP).—Declaring reports of a sectors of the 450-mile west- .split within the Cabinet re- ern front flared into action garding plans for post-war yesterday as Seventh U.S. treatment of Germany were Army troops stormed into ^'essentially untrue," Presi- Belfort Gap, historic gateway dent Roosevelt today gave his to southwestern Germany, press conference an eight- and Americans of the Third point program for handling Arm; pressed their advance the Reich which, he said, had toward the Reich over 82 approval of the State, War and The three-inch gun of an American tank destroyer hurls shells at Nazi troops holding out along the smashed German tanks. Treasury Departments. German border, where enemy defenses were over-run by troops of the First U.S. Army, who pushed into In battles marked by increased In the form of a letter to Leo the Reich, Sept. 12. ^ enemy aggressiveness, Lt. Gen. T. Crowley, foreign economic ad- Alexander M. Patch's U.S. and ministrator, the proposed plan French infantry, despite fierce would see to it "that Germany does Army Says Franc counter-attacks backed by heavy hot become a menace again to suc- FDR Assails Bombers Sink artillery fire, captured Clairegoutte ceeding generations," Mr. Roosevelt Is Not Changing; and a number of other villages on said. the approaches to the pass and Meanwhile, Secretary of Treas- Axis Influence Mark's Value Set 65 Jap Ships then rolled on into the vital gap ury Henry Morgenthau, Secretaiy itself. of War Henry L. Stimson and Braving determined tank, mortar In Argentina No change is imminent in the In Philippines and small arms opposition, Yanks Secretary of State Cordell Hull re- official rate of exchange of francs, mained silent, neither denying nor of the Third Army yesterday confirming the earlier reports of WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Presi- Brig. Gen. N. H. Cobbs, ETO Fiscal Sixty-five Japanese ships were pushed 1 1/2 miles into the Foret a policy split. Morgenthau and dent Roosevelt, in his press con- Director, announced yesterday. de Parroy after a day in Which Lt. ference today, denounced Argentina sunk in two new air attacks on Gen. George S. Patton's forces Stimson canceled their press con- "It is understood that there are ferences today, while Hull shrugged for submitting to an "increasing the Philippines, it was announced knocked out 82 Nazi tanks. Most off reporters' questions. application of Nazi and Fascist many rumors that the official rate yesterday. Two other vessels were of the tanks were turned into Morgenthau purportedly had methods" and charged that "the of exchange of francs applicable damaged. masses of burning steel as they at- Nazi press and a few irresponsible tempted to flee from*a trap sprung favored a plan to strip post-war to U.S." forces is about to be Land-based bombers under Gen. Germany of all its industry and individuals in this and certain other in the forest. changed," his statement said. "I Douglas MacArthur hit two large reduce it to a state of small farms. republics" were seeking "to under- Record 1-Day Tank Bag can authoritatively state that they vessels off the southern islands mine the position of the American The huge number of kills, prob- republics." are- without foundation. The of- ficial rate of exchange is 49.5663 Wednesday, while carrier-based ably the greatest mark ever scored B 26s, Havocs Hit Terming the situation in Argen- francs to the dollar and 200 to the aircraft sank 65 ships and attacked in one day by Patton's armor, tina "an extraordinary paradox," Targets 35 Miles pound, and transactions at other airfields on Luzon in the north last boosted the number of enemy tanks the President referred to "a growth Friday. destroyed by the Third Army since of Nazi and Fascist influence" de- rates are forbidden. West of Frankfort "In particular, the use of dollar In China, west of Canton, the Aug. 1 to 1,184. spite the fact that "a vast ma- Fourteenth Air Force was giving On the British Second Army's jority of people in the Argentine and sterling currency in commercial transactions by members of the active support to hard-pressed Chin- front in Holland, the Germans tried Plying their deepest penetrations have remained steadfast in their ese troops who were fighting off with undiminished fury to smash of the war, Ninth Air Force Marau- U.S. forces will be strictly dealt faith in their own free democratic new Japanese attacks. the increasing threat to their ders and Havocs yesterday after- traditions." with." noon bombed troop concentrations northern defenses. West of Arn- Mr. Roosevelt said: "I subscribe Chinese Outlook Glum hem, the Nazis recrossed the Rmne and supply depots at Bingen, 60 wholeheartedly to the words of Mark Worth Ten Cents CHUNGKING, Sept. 29 (AP).— in boats during the night, but a miles inside the German-Luxem- Churchill ... . when he declared: WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Presi- considerable portion of their bridge- burg border and 35 miles west of 'This is unlike some small wars in dent Roosevelt told his press con- Recent Chinese defeats and the possibility that the American Air head was wiped out in fighting Frankfort. Other Ninth AF forma- the past, where all could be forgot- ference today that the value of the which still was continuing yester- tions bombed enemy targets at Force may lose more air bases in ten and forgiven. Nations must be German mark had been set at ten day. There were no new attempts Julich, 10 miles inside the German- judged by the part they play.' " China is producing an atmosphere cents in U.S. currency or six pence of gloom here unmatched since the to cut the Eindhoven-Nijmegen cor- Holland border and 25 miles west in English money. ridor and Gen. Dempsey's troops of Cologne. dark days when China was fighting In replying to a correspondent's the war alone. The Chinese don't widened their salient to about ten Great clouds of smoke were re- miles. ported by the returning pilots, who query, the President showed aston- doubt the Allies will defeat Japan, SthArmyTakes In contrast to the stiff fighting said that heavy damage was in- ishment that this information had but the opinion of both Chinese flicted on Genrfan supply depots, not been published previously. and Americans seems to be that elsewhere, there was a comparative troop barracks and'railroads trans- Mountain Sites the war has already been prolonged lull on the First U.S. Army sector, porting men and supplies to the several months as the result of where doughboys made a small ad- Siegfried Line. Heavy flak was en- Fifth Army troops in Italy yes- N.Y. Stickup Men Get these reverses. vance in a wooded area six miles countered, with five aircraft re- terday had one of their most suc- northeast of the Dutch town of Sit- $43,000 in 4 Holdups tard. Artillery fire on both sides ported missing. cessful days, capturing three moun- ANOTHER DOOR OPENS tain peaks dominating the vital was decreasing and the Germans Earlier in the day, nearly 250 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 29.— France-based Marauders and Havocs Florence-Bologna road. Further east, NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Two hours made fewer probing expeditions American troops made important after four daring robberies in Man- The Harvard Board of Overseers into the Yank lines. dropped more than 350 tons of approved today a faculty recom- bombs in the Trier-Aachen sector. gains on the Forenzuola-Imola highr hattan and Brooklyn netted stick- up men $43,000, police booked two mendation i-.at women students be Nazi Communications Blasted Anti-aircraft defenses ranged from way, and reports from the extreme Advances in the Moselle sector, western sector said Brazilians had suspects in connection with the eligible for admission to the Har- moderate to intense. Two bombers holding-up of a brokerage firm in vard Medical School in September, held down by the Third Army, were reported missing. advanced against determined op- the Equitable Building, Manhattan. 1945. In the school's 162-year his- came after a near-record offensive position, supported by U.S.' Negro against German communications troops. Since the start of the of- The stickup wave resulted in a tory, the enrollment had been con- fensive, Sept. 13, the Fifth Army city-wide hunt in bars and night- fined "to men of high scholaristic and fortifications by the Nineteenth 82nd, 101st Airborne Tactical Air Command. Flying has captured more than 3,400 pri- clubs for "free-spenders." standing." Landed in Netherlands soners. more than 570 sorties, the U.S. fighter-bombers destroyed 58 loco- In the Adriatic sector, Eighth SUPREME ALLIED HQ, Sept. 29 Army troops were engaged in fierce motives, damaged nine more, de- (AP).—The American 82nd and fighting, with the Germans throw- One Yank and a Tall Story stroyed 147 railroad cars and 101st Airborne Divisions, veterans ing in frequent counter-attacks (Continued cn Page 4) of the D-Day landings in Normandy, north of the Rubicon. End the War for 61 Germans were a part of the great Allied air Bad weather hampered air opera- tions. Class Brr-r-r Duds army dropped into Holland, it was FOURTH ARMORED DIV. HQ., 25th Cavalry Reconnaissance Sqd., disclosed last night. Sept. 29.—Although he knew there Mechanized. For Foxhole Gls The divisions landed in the Eind- Fear the Germans Took While on a patrol mission, Hern- hoven and Nijmegen areas, but it were only nine other Americans don spied the column retreating WITH U.S. FIRST ARMY, was not revealed which one got World War I Treaty within ten miles, Sgt. Douglas from Montargis, and knocked out Germany, Sept. 29 (AP).— across the Maas River and swept Herndon stepped out in front of a the first two German vehicles with American troops are getting down upon the Nijmegen bridge PARIS, Sept: 29 (UP).—Paris >is German column, convinced a Nazi the machine gun mounted on his their first issue of winter cloth- from the north, ripping out demoli- asking whether the Germans have major that his troops were surroun- peep. ing—heavy underwear, overcoats tion charges before the Germans taken the original Treaty of Ver- ded and forced the surrender of 61 Then he stepped out of his peep and extra blankets. could destroy the span. sailles. men and 25 vehicles. and told the major commanding Rainy weather has already set It was kept in the strong room The action, which took place in the detachment that if he did not in and chill and frosty nights EMERGENCY IN DENMARK of the French Foreign Office, but surrender his whole unit would be and mornings make heavier LONDON, Sept. 29.—The German the only key to the door is missing the vicinity of Douchy, France, was destroyed. revealed today with announcement clothing welcome to frontline News Agency reported today that and nobody will be able to get into Thoroughly convinced of his peril troops who have been shivering I a state of emergency had been the room until the door is opened of the award of the Silver Star to by Herndon's audacity, the major in their light clothing. declared in Denmark. by a locksmith. the Hamilton (Ohio) soldier of the surrendered. Face 2 THE STARS AJVD STRIPES Saturday. Sept. 30. 1944. An Editorial -Wash (flanks World's Worst Sunday Driver OUT H£RE "Why can't they assign me to do something useful?" griped a WAC, ERMAN the German is "a man could do this job!" • • * H the world's worst Sun- Another Point Maybe it's war nerves. In Phila- day driver. Here he is, Special to S/Sgt. Lewis H. Heinin- delphia there's a joint with a special walking away from the ac- /ger: We became the parents of juke box for war-weary customers. cident. Leaving the burnt- 91bs loz Lewis Harold Jr. on Sept. out, beat-up wreck beside 13.—Mrs. Lewis Heininger. the road. >3U fl^^k >J£*v* 'Hats Off to the Cavalry! * * * We all know oi one particular He bought the car in 1933. cavalry unit that has been doing It was advertised as the a splendid job along the Brittany Volkswagen—the car of the coast, and never once have you made mention in your paper of Germa'n people. So much these hard driving, hard fighting down—and so much a • (CENSORED) Cavalry.—Sgt. Ed- month. Month after month ner Datz, Recon. Co. and year after year. (*That's why —Ed.) JU * * # -fV -fV Welcome, Brother! Finally it was delivered— The newspapers have been con- FOB Berlin. It was a rear- tinuously publishing articles on the ing, tearing, flame-spitting GI Bill of Rights. What about the tour. It sure was a honey. a Sunday driver. But what chariot. It broke all records. First Europe—then the rest about a punishment to fit men that are planning to stay in It ran down or smashed up the Army? Have any provisions of the world. the crime? or brushed off everything been made for them as pertains to * * * pay and allowances after the war, on the road. It was the 1939 * * * You can insert your nickel in a Well, here's the end of the We hope the traffic court etc. Just curious.—"Stevie." special slot and get five minutes Nazi super-duper version of (Nothing now but we are sure of silence. Volkswagen. Here's the end won't forget this bird is a * • * that old 1914 jalopy that that those of us who want out will just barely failed to make of the tour. Herman bowled fifth offender. That he's tee to it that you are well taken It's still a bit crowded in Wash- along down the middle of left a heap of wreckage in care of.—EdJ ington, we understand. A Pfc we the grade. know writes that he went to the the road once too often. his path. That he never * * * big city on leave and was lucky— * * * Now the cops have him— carries any insurance. And GI Crooks he got a room with adjoining towel. * • * The Fuehrer designed it. and he's headed for the that the highways and by- Our B bag's just arrived from Lt. D. G. Fisher reports that He taught Herman how to clink. ways of the world won't be London with much of the stuff while returning from a mission drive. He spread out the * * * safe until he loses his license missing, including personal articles, over the Continent his plane ran maps and laid out the grand That's a proper finale for —for good. Buch as shoes, handkerchiefs, gloves, into the most dense fog he had cigarettes, etc. I don't know where ever encountered. After a few the bags were burglarized, but I do minutes flying in the soup, the know that this has happened many waist gunner livened up the situa- times. I have suffered from these tion by calling over the inter-phone: GI robbers six different times. "Submarine at 4 o'clock high!" I guess it's a waste of time to * • • report this incident to my CO, Daffynition : Poker—A game since the last time I made a similar where a good deal depends on a report I was told to get the missing good deal. stuff and pay for it. Fun on the Home Front: Many NE of the few armored jeep out- Havoc "Static Chaser" operat- I think fellows who steal from the best Hopalong Cassidy manner, announcers had been auditioned for O fits in the ETO is operating ing on one engine and with the their buddies are about the lowest made the rescue. the opening broadcast sponsored by with American airborne troops in bomb bay gas line severed, re- type of vermin and that we should The girl, who apparently had Rupperts Beer. Finally the perfect Holland and the mission of the turned his ship to friendly ter- seen a few horse operas herself, have some protection from them.— jeepers is reconnaissance patrol Sgt. Roy E. Patrick. ritory and prepared to make an cooperated fully, even to the work. emergency landing at a Ninth enthusiastic administration of the * * * Armed with 50cal. machine guns Air Force field. traditional reward—a kiss. Credit for 'Old Fogies' and protected by thick sheets of As he ivas about to land, Mer- * * * armor, the jeeps often go, in the chant saw a B26 Marauder pull It took 26 years and the for- A complete analysis and dis- words of Lt. Joseph De Masis, of out on the runway in prepara- tune of war, but M/Sgt. Rus- cussion of the Demobilization Plan New Village, N.J., "where wise men tion for a takeoff. Rather than sell Frost, an ordnance man published by the War Department fear to tread." hit the Marauder, Merchant with the Fifth Infantry Divi- would take a great deal of time and Be that as it may, a lot of smart gunned his limping Havoc, sion, visited the same French space. However, the enlisted per- soldiers have gone places in the cleared several telephone wires farmhouse in which, as a pri- sonnel should make known their armored jeeps and have produced and crash landed in a wheat vate in the Signal Corps, he ate dissatisfaction with the plan in results. Lt. Richard Pendergast, of chow which hastily-departing view of the fact that it was stated Nyack, N.Y., captured 50 prisoners field without further injury to that the men in the service were while on patrol near . Goresbeck. himself or his crew, S/Sgts. Germans of World War I had Interviewed prior to the promulga- Lt. Ernest Smith, of Glen Rock, Kenneth P. Brown, of Evans- left cooking. tion of the plan. It would be en- Wyo., beat off a strafing Stuka port, Ohio, and Clifford J. Harp, * * * lightening to know who these men while riding one of the armored of Evansville, Ind. O NE enemy vehicle and four Ger- were. jeeps. ju ... A. man officers with one shot -ty -if 3£ Policy should be based on com- The outfit is not exclusively mo- was the score of a tank destroyer mon sense and logic. I fail to find voice was picked and the stage was bile, however. Often jeeps are With the roar of battle still crew of an armored division while any cominen sense or logic in keep- set. The orchestra gave out with draped with soldiers who, dismount- ringing in their ears, citizens guarding a bridge over the Seine. ing men over 38 years of age in a flowing fanfare and the an- ing, patrol on foot over hillcrests. of the small town of Florenviile The firing was at night, but the the Army when officers of like age nouncer boomed: "Booperts Rear * * * were treated to what was prob- men held their fire until the target are being released. Furthermore, is on the Air." ably the first GI jive concert was 25 yards away, and their 76mm. With his face hit and bleed- in Belgium when CWO Edward gun demolished the car and killed men over 38 have not been drafted ing from a flak wound received Overheard in the U. K. Dimout: A. Roncone, of Pittsburgh, and the four German officers who were since the latter part of 1942 and "I think Mr. Churchill went to during a mission over France, many of that age have since been his "Invaders" got hot on Jer- occupants. Quebec mainly because he was 1/Lt. William A. Merchant, of ry's heels with such tunes as The crew, commanded by 2/Lt. released. So far as I know the running short of good cigars." Wichita, Kan., with his A-20 policy of the War Department was to "Pistol Packin' Mama" and Edwin T. Leirer, of Indianapolis, "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles included Sgt. Stephen Krewsky, of get younger men, and it has given Quiet." these younger men greater oppor- Private Breger Bradford, Conn., gun commander;. tunity than the men in the higher In an apple orchard west of Cpl. Floyd Eaton, of Dana, Ind, age brackets. I cannot be con- the town, the 56-piece band anti-tank gunner; T/5 Mike R vinced that to release men over 38 warmed up with a few marches, Emineth, of Menoken, N.D., driver; would in any way endanger our war mm then broke down to ballroom and Pfc James Martino and Pvt. effort. At least the age factor size for a swing session, while Paul Colangelo, both of Middle Vil- Belgian girls and GI hcpcats should be given greatsr considera- lage, N.Y., cannoneers. cut a few quick ones on the tion when large scale demobiliza- deS- turf. * * * tion begins. "Card Index Commandos" and * * * The method of drafting men was et "Personnel Roster Rangers" is severely criticized because of the PARISIAN pedestrians in the what they are calling members lack of co-ordination—young men I vicinity of the Arc de Triom" of a corps machine records unit, were still in civvies when older men ! phe witnessed a movie-style "rodeo' who have been turning up with were being drafted. The same I the other day when T/Sgt. Stuart more men than they can ac- weakness is apparent in the Demo- G. Jensen, of Natick, Mass ba- count for in their files. The bilization Plan—younger men will lanced himself n the running other morning they brought in 0 be out much sooner than the old board of a speeding ambulance to their second batch of prisoners fogies—S/Sgt. Hyman H. Hammer, pluck a pretty, 16-year-old French in three days, bringing their AAF Sta. girl from the back of runaway total of captured Germans to 17. horse. a ife ^ THE STARS AND STRIPES The girl lost control of her mount ASSEMBLED in a bivouac area near Mars La Tour, a Negro Printed at the New York Herald to the Bois de Boulogne and the Tribune printing establishment. 21 rue frightened animal dashed into the quartermaster service company at- de Berri. Paris, for the U.S armed ; Avenue de la Grande Armee and tached to the XX Corps was com- torces. under auspice* ol the Special | past a Ninth Air Force Enginee- mended by the corps commander Services Division. ETOUSA Not for in a citation read by Lt. Col. Jack distribution to civilians. Telephone: Command ambulance driven bv Pfc Elysees 73-44. Harry T. Cunningham, of Balti- B. Baker, of Portland, Ore., "for Contents passed by the OS. Army more. Cunningham, a former ama- outstanding service in connection ana Navy censors; subscription, 260 with military operations against francs per year plus postage. ETO teur jockey, immediately gave chase •the enemy in France between edition entered as second class matter as bystanders and cyclists scurried Mar. 15. 1943. at the post office. New for cover. Aug. 1 and Sept. 15." York. N.Y.. under the act of Mar. S. Men of the unit, since arriving 1878 All material appearing in this After a race along almost the in France, have handled rations publication has been written and entire length of the avenue the edited by members of the Army and and gasoline for front-line troops, Savy except where stated that a civi- ambulance overtook the horse. First the collection and burying of U.S. lian or other outside source la being Jensen tried to seize the reins, and enemy dead, and loading ana quoted. without success. Then he climbed Val. 1. No. 76 "Oh, oh! You shouldn't have asked for cream!" unloading of rail and truck ship- out on the running board and, in ments. Saturday. Sept- 30. 1944 THE STARS \NU STRIPES SPORTS Pa?« 3 lightly Base Path Larceny Rain Stops AL Games; Once Over — By Gene Graff —-J Tigers Benefit by Lull Ballots in the annual poll among sports writers to name the most NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The weatherman conspired with valuable player in each major league have been dropped into mail- the Tigers yesterday when he washed the entire American boxes and it is just a question of League schedule off the slate, forcing the contending clubs time until the lucky individuals to play doubleheaders today. are revealed. Hal Newhouser and Dizzy Trout, Steve O'Neill's durable Perhaps the most glaring slap hurlers, have proved their ability to pitch out of turn with- occurred in 1942 when Ted Wil- out undue hardship, but the post- liams, Boston's youthful refugee ponement makes it necessary for from a fire station, ran- a badly Luke Sewell of the Browns and Joe outdistanced second to Jolting Joe McCarthy, Yankee pilot, to shuffle DiMaggio. That was the year Ted Lippy Signs tortured rival pitchers for a fancy their riddled pitching staffs with- .356 average to head the American out giving the pitchers ample rest. 'League. Unfortunately, it also was To Manage O'Neill, still one game in front the year he fell cut with the base- with four more to play, said he ball scribes, so when the time came would send Ruffus Gentry to the to make their choice they lowered Bums in '45 hill in today's opener against the the boom right smack on Williams' Senators and Trout after his 28th naive head. BROOKLYN, Sept. 29.—Who do victory in the nightcap. Newhouser may have to go again tomorrow This year, unless Bill Nicholson you suppose signed a contract today Wallv Moses, White Sox outfielder, is safe as he steals home in to return for another year as man- after two days' rest because Stubby ■*>f the Cubs is chosen for his home Overmire, D e t r o i t's diminutive run hitting or Bucky Walters of the recent game against the Browns. Catcher Tom Turner of the Browns ager of Brooklyn's (beloved) Bums? Reds or Rip Sewell of the Pirates tries to put the ball on the Sox' leading base stealer, while Hal That's right, Leo southpaw, has come up with a for their pitching, the National Trosky (7) steps out of batter's box to watch play. "The Lippy touch of bursitis, but that still League's most-valuable rightfully One" Durocher leaves Trout for Sunday's finale, if belongs to St. Louis. is coming back. necessary. Branch Ric- The Yankees, trailing by thre^ ft * Cadets Tackle N. Carolina; key lured his games, will depend on Ernie Bon- There is Stan idusial, the hard- pilot into a con- ham and Hank Borowy in today's bitting: outfielder who ranks second Navy Opens Against Flyers ference today last-stand twin feature with the only to Dixie Walker of the Dodgers and prevailed Browns, being opposed by Nelson tn the individual batting derby; Ray upon Leo to Potter and Jack Kramer. Potter Sanders, the slender first baseman NEW YORK, Sept. 29. — College football shares the keep the job for was slated to twirl yesterday; now who seldom leaves runners stranded sports spotlight with the tight American League baseball another year. it's doubtful that he'll be ready on the bases; Walker Cooper, whose This brings to to return Sunday if the title de- dependable work behind the plate race tomorrow when the nation's Campus gridders do-or- four the total pends on that final game. of big league Although the Cardinals chalked has steadied youthful pitchers, and Leo Durocher die in the first full complement of games on the 1944 managers fired up their 104th triumph yesterday calendar. by newspapermen this year only to by blanking the Giants, 2-0, be- be rehired by their bosses. Jimmy The afternoon promises to be woeful for natives of Dykes, Bill McKechnie and Freddie North Carolina. Not only do the Fitzsimmons were all rumored on Hotc the AL Race Tarheels face the prospect of the skids but were signed for an- getting their ears pinned back by Jack Dempsey other semester—and now Lippy's Shapes Up Today the Cadets of West Point, but North back. If the Tigers sweep their four Carolina Pre-Flight bumps into one Durocher came to the Dodgers games with the Senators, they'll of the strongest Navy elevens in Comes to ETO from the Cardinals as a short- win the pennant regardless of Annapolis history. stop in 1937 under Manager Bur- what happens in St. Louis where In two other eastern attractions, By Tony Cordaro leigh Grimes and was appointed the Browns are entertaining the Notre Dame confronts Clark Stan and Stripes Staff Writer. manager in '39. He brought the Yankees. Three victories over the Shaughnessy's Pittsburgh squad LONDON, Sept. 29. — Lt. Cmdr. club from seventh to third that and Duke invades Penn's lair. These Jack Dempsey of the Coast Guard year, second in 1940, and guided Browns by the Yanks and four four contests are expected to give the Bums to their first pennant in defeats for the Tigers would was just another guy in uniform to create a triple-tie. au early line on the eventual Londoners yesterday. The former 21 years the next year. national champion. heavyweight champion of the world Draft boards have stripped the Shifting to the south, LSU en- Dodgers in recent years and Rickey hind five-hit pitching by Blix Don- arrived unexpectedly and made the nelly, the National League cham- tertains Alabama at night, Wake sight-seeing rounds unnoticed, far commented today, "Leo has done different from a good job .with the material on pions suffered a jolt when it was Forest visits Georgia, Tennessee learned that Max Lanier might miss Joe Louis' ar- hand and can't be blamed for the hosts Kentucky and Georgia Tech team's failure to finish higher." the World Series. The star southpaw plays Clemson. Southwest head- rival to the ETO. This is Jack's Any National League umpire of the Redbirds has a sore arm, Johnny Hopp liners are Randolph Field at Rice, who believed what he read in the sore back and stiff neck and un- Southwestern at Texas and Texas second trip to England. When papers about Lippy being fired less he responds to treatment will antiquated Pepper Martin, the last A & M at Texas Tech. would do well to keep in mind be unable to play. of the original Gas House Gang In the midwest, Great Lakes he was heavy- Brooklyn's fighting slogan: "Wait Danny Litwhiler's 18th homer weight cham- whose fighting spirit is second to Naval, which drubbed Purdue a till next year." was the telling blow as the Cards none. week ago, tackles Illinois, 26-18 pion of the pinned the defeat on Ewald Pyle; But ahead of these stars we'd world, he stop- who yielded seven hits. master of Indiana last Saturday. ped off while en place Johnny Hopp, the sandy- In other games, Indiana duels Pacific Coast Teams In the only other game played haired handyman of the Redbirds. route to France yesterday, the Reds defeated the Michigan, Purdue faces Marquette, to visit with box- Win Softball Crowns Hopp currently is slugging at the Minnesota jousts with Nebraska. Dodgers, 10-6, by belting three Flat- merry pace of .335, has scored 105 ing friends and bush "pitchers" for nine runs on Missouri battles Ohio State and cronies. This CLEVELAND, Sept. 29. — West runs and his case history compares Northwestern meets Wisconsin. Jack Dempsey coast entrants took both world nine hits in the fourth inning. time Dempsey Frank McCormbk clubbed his 20th to that of Hank Greenberg,. who On the Pacific Coast, the Trojans will remain for a short period in amateur Softball titles here yester- took a transfer from first base to day when Hammerlield, Cal., re- home run with two on to spark of Southern California, held to a connection with the Coast Guard the blast against Art Herring, the outfield in perfect stride. 13-13 deadlock last week by UCLA, physical fitness program. peated in the men's division and Johnny broke into baseball in the Lind and Pomeroy squad from Freddie Wells and Al Zachary, return to the wars against Pop The Manassa Mauler won the while Clyde Shoun checked the 1936 with Norfolk as an outfielder title July 4, 1919, when he knocked Portland, Ore., annexed the women's and continued to patrol the pas- Stagg's College of Pacific team. The Bums. out Jess Willard in the fourth crown. tures for two years with Rochester. Uclans play California and Wasn- ington enjoys a breezer against round. Some say it was the third, Both clubs went extra innings to In '39 he occupied first base for but to avoid argi ' -ts on the sub- win by identical 1-0 scores. Ham- Houston, came to the Cardinals as Whitman. HOUTHQT * ject we will say that Willard failed merfield beat the Ft. Wayne,' Ind., an initial sacker, but was dislodged to answer the bell in the fourth. Zollners, while the Portland gals from first base last year to make 2,359,910 Fans Saw He held it until 1926 when Gene turned back the Phoenix, Ariz., STRND. room for Sanders. Tunney scored a ten-round decision Ramblers. Pacific Coast Games at Philadelphia. American League All games postponed, rain. In eight years under the banner Playoff Plans W. L. Pet. G.B. of organized baseball, Hopp amassed LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29. — The Detroit Lions Face Detroit 86 64 .573 ... the puny batting average of .271. Pacific Coast League hit the jack- If the Tigers and Browns fin- St. Louis 85 65 .567 I pot this year when 2,359,910 cus- New York 83 67 .553 3 Considering his current mark, he Packers Tomorrow ish tied for the American League Boston 76 74 .507 10 not only has adapted himself to the tomers paid to see the minor league pennant, the title will be de- Cleveland 72 78 .480 14 in action. Chicago 69 81 .460 17 outfield but also has added a NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Curly cided in a playoff game at De- Philadelphia ... 68 82 .453 18 heretofore hidden power at the The figure doubles 1943 attend- Lambeau's formidable Green Bay troit next Monday, the Amer- Washington .... 62 88 413 24 plate. ance and exceeds the former re- Packers, having already won two ican League office in Chicago Washington at Detroit (2>. cord, set in 1924, by 124,000 paid New York at St. Louis (2). No doubt the best way to solve the National Football League games, announced yesterday. Boston at Chicago 'nightI. American League dilemma would admissions. will play host to the Detroit Lions A coin was flipped yesterday Philadelphia at Cleveland <2). be to ignore Vern Stephens, George Sunday when the Motor City eleven and Don Barnes, Browns presi- National League Stirnweiss, Johnny Lindell, Bobby BREWERS PEDDLE PRUETT inaugurates its 1944 schedule. dent, cried "Heads" over the W. L. Pet. G.B. Doerr, Rudy York, Dick Wakefield MILWAUKEE, Sept. 29. — The In the only other game on Sun- St Louis 104 47 .689 ... phone from St. Louis, but it Pittsburgh 89 61 .593 —and designate Hal Newhouser and Brewers of the American Associa- day's league slate, the Cleveland came up tails. This was the Cincinnati 88 63 .583 16 Dizzy Trout as co-winners. tion today sold Catcher Jim Pruett Rams, who shaded the Pitt-Cards, first case in the league's his- Chicago 74 76 .493 29 to the Athletics, making a full team 30-28, last Sunday, will oppose the New York 65 86 .430 37 tory where such plans were Boston 62 88 .413 41 that Milwaukee has sold to the first-starting Brooklyn Tigers at drafted. Brooklyn 61 90 .404 43 Help Wanted majors this season. Buffalo. Philadelphia ... 59 91 .593 44^ —AND GIVEN Write your question or problem to Help Wanted, The Stars and Stripes, Paris, France.

LOST AMERA KODAK 120, folding type. Ie« C In vehicle driven by officer on Septem- ber 7 on road near Vincennes. Cpl. George D. Thompson, ASN 35294903. ED CROSS BAG containing exposed 616 R film left in jeep in which I was given a lift by an officer on September 18. Pvt Dale C. Sloan. JT1\ FOUND ALLET belonging to Edward E. Thomp- W son, 35208567. Lt. Henry P. Kieman. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, Sept. 30, 1944 All Restrictions Lifted A Lull in the Pacific HungaryReady On Vets Seeking Jobs Trains Crash To Desert Axis, WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Paul In Iowa Yards; V. McNutt, War Manpower Com- missioner, announced today that Soviets Believe all restrictions have been lifted for 9 Die,75 Hurt veterans seeking jobs. Previously, MOSCOW, Sept. 29 (AP).—While veterans of this war were exempt MISSOURI VALLEY, la., Sept. for only 60 days from the controls 29.—Nine persons were killed and the military situation around Riga which seek to channel workers more than 75 injured, many and Warsaw remained unchanged, into essential industries. seriously, when a fast Chicago there were indications today that The order has an immediate and Northwestern railroad freight Hungary might be on the verge of effect on 1,500,000 men who have train sideswiped a passenger train been discharged already and will in the Northwestern yards on the deserting Hitler. affect all men who are discharged outskirts of Missouri Valley last As the Red Army pressed for- in the future. Hitherto, all work- night. ward toward Hungary on a 100- ers have had to clear through the The passenger train was pulling mile front, the Russians appealed United States Employment Ser- through the yards when "Calumet," to Hungarians to save their inde- vice. The new order will affect a meat train from Omaha to Chi- pendence by joining the cause of veterans of the women's services cago, plunged into the side of the the United Nations. Observers said as well as men. fifth coach, turning over five there would be little surprise if coaches. Hungary followed the example of B. W. Wilson, of Omaha, a wit- Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland. ness, said "the train was traveling Hungarian generals have been U.S. Troops slowly when the grinding crash ' reported extending peace feelers as occurred that seemed to last for " their country's defensive position several seconds and then the train becomes worse. In Belfort Gap turned over with a great crash... - ' Meanwhile, there was still no (Continued from Page ij The confusion was terrible and > Moscow confirmation of both Hun- moans and cries of the injured^ garian and German reports That damaged 224, destroyed 45 motor arose amid the noise of the pileup. the Soviets had crossed the border transports, shot up eight marshal- It was a miracle more people were from western Rumania. ing yards, cut rail tracks in 72 not killed." places, destroyed seven barges, The known civilian dead includ- closed two tunnels and knocked out ed Ben White, of Council Bluffs Here's One Way six gun positions. la.; Edward Mayer, ot Ashland, Of 60 enemy planes sent against Neb.; Paul G. Storaasli, ot Lu- To Obtain I hose the Third Army, 16 were shot down. verne, Minn.; Mrs. Ben White, of Throwing back four counter-at- i Council Bluffs, and Mrs. Ida Mc- German Pistols tacks, the Third Army recaptured j Larnin, of Moville, la. Chateau-Salins, 17 miles northwest ! 19th TACTICAL AIR COMMAND of Nancy and 25 miles from the ! SEES AIRCRAFT SLUMP HQ, Sept. 29 (AP).—Each comman- German border. NEW YORK, Sept. 29. — The der whose outfit participated in the In southeastern Luxemburg, Re- American aircraft industry, now aerial round-up of 20,000 Germans mich was freed and further to the the world's largest, employing near- , who surrendered en mass Sept. 16 south Port-sur-Seille was liberated. ly 2,000,000 persons, faces a drastic has been presented with a German After a ten-hour cease-fire order plunge into a normal level when asked for by the German comman- Acme photo automatic pistol as a souvenir. The While other leathernecks await their turn, a Marine cuts a rug; with the demand for military planes pistols were selected from hundreds der at surrounded Calais to discuss ends after war, William A. Burden, the position of civilians, Canadians Patty Thomas, dancer with Bob Hope's USO troupe in the South Assistant Secretary of Commerce, turned in by the Germans when Pacific. Best dancer got a kiss from Patty they surrendered at three points yesterday morning launched" an at- said tonight. Burden cited the along the Loire River. tack on Cap Gris Nez, last strong- estimate of J. A. Krug, of the Y'zv Those receiving pistols included point defending the Channel port. Production Board, that the in- Cols. George S. Bickell, Nutley, N.J.; Other Canadian units were steadi- V3 Secret Out, 2 Unions Agree dustry may be cut to one-tenth Cecil L. Wells, Edwardsville, 111.; ly expanding their bridgehead over to one-twentieth of its present rate William Curry, Raleigh, N.C.; An- the Antwerp-Turnhout canal. of operations. thony V. Grossetta, Tucson, Ariz.; Weapon Is Not OnPriceFixing Robert L. Delashaw, San Antonio, Highest Honor Awarded EX-SEAMAN HELD AS SPY Tex.; Bingham T. Kleine, Gonzales, SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Sept. WASHINGTON, cept. 29.—In a NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (Reuter) Tex., and Lt. Cols Joseph L. Laugh- Cook Who Died a Hero 29 (AP).—Germany's third secret joint statement, the AFL and CIO —FBI agents today arrested Lau- lin, Omaha, Neb., and William weapon—V3—is a 14-ton projectile today proposed that prices on civi- rent Brackx, a former Merchant Schwartz, Houston, Tex. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. — T/5 with an explosive radius of almost lian goods whose production is re- Marine captain and a lieutenant Eric Gunner Gibson, of Chicago, two miles, according to information sumed when reconversion begins in the Navy Reserve from 1931-42, Swedish immigrant who was such obtained by American Third Army should be no higher than they were on charges of attempting to con- a good cook he had to beg for the troops in Germany. in 1941 and 1942. vey radar plans to Axis agents, Demands Raise chance to win renown as "the V3 is 18 meters long, 1.65 meters William Green, president of the Brackx pleaded not guilty to the fightingest man" in the Third In- in diameter, with take-off propelled AFL, said that the price controls espionage charge which carries a fantry Division, has been awarded by a mixture of liquid air and al- must not be abandoned with victory death penalty. For Steel Men posthumously the Congressional cohol. It is shot into the air ver- lest "we be pushed into a destruc- Medal of Honor. tically and controlled by radio. tive booby trap planted on the very PRAIRIE PARADISE WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Philip The 24-year-old cook was killed Apparently, the Germans have threshold of post-war prosperity." KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 29.— Murray today demanded action on on the Anzio beachhead last Jan- not got V3 into operation as yet. Meantime, the CIO's Cost of A drinkers' oasis opened here yes- a 10-month-old wage demand of uary after he single-handedly Living Committee said that "the terday when 4,000 cases of 4 1/2- the United Steel Workers (CIO) and charged and captured four Ger- responsibility of the Office of Price year-old bourbon whisky went on said an unpublicized OPA study man machine-gun positions despite 1,083,880 Tons of Jap Administration in reconversion pri- sale to any and all customers in an showed that a general 17 percent artillery fire that knocked him cing is to protect the standard of old storeroom, leased for a month. increase, as sought by the union, down." He had made a deal with Shipping Sunk Since'43 living of American people against The whisky may be bought by the could be granted without making a his CO whereby he could go into further increases and to provide a case and the four promoters of the As Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger post-war price level which is con- price increasa imperative. action with his company, as long declared yesterday at Sixth Army sale said they didn't expect to be Murray, president cf the CIO as he reverted to his kitchen duties ducive to full employment." in business a full month. when the outfit was relieved. headquarters, Southwest Pacific, and of the steel workers, began the that "the Japs are licked and in a union's final argument before the BALLOTS FOR PENNSY MEN ARC OFFICIAL HERE position which any sensible nation Army Sets Up a School War Labor Board in one of several would regard as hopeless," a Wash- HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 26.— Richard F. Allen, national Amer- Governor Edward Martin said to- cases on which a possible change ington announcement said planes For Helicopter Training in government's wage policy may ican Red Cross vice-chairman in day that Pennsylvania had mailed hinge. charge of insular and foreign oper- of the U.S. 14th Air Force had sunk FREEMAN FIELD, Ind., Sept. 29. 550,000 voting applications to mem- ations, has arrived in Paris with or damaged 1,083,880 tons of Jap —Establishment here of the na- bers of the armed forces and other ARC Commissioner Harvey D. Gib- shipping since Mar. 10, 1943. B-24s tion's first military helicopter voters out of the state. This figure Accord Is Reached son to meet representatives of the accounted for most of it in sweeps training school was disclosed to- is more than one-eighth of the total French Red Cross and the League over the Formosa Straits and along day by the Seventh Army Air Force. voting strength of Pennsylvania. In Security Parley of Red Cross Sc.ieties and inspect the south and southeast China Personnel are officer instruc- ARC installations in France. coast. tors rated as pilots and enlisted NEVER SAY DIE WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The field mechanics. JEFFERSON CITY, Me., Sept. 29. Dumbarton Oaks post-war security GI Ferry Crosses the Oise Col. E. T. Rundquist, command- —Maurice Lee Coleman, 22, is in 'Qjt conferences have led to a "large ing officer of Freeman Field, said the Army after fighting a long pre- measure of agreement on the re- two officers from the field recently induction battle. He was rejected commendation for the general made aviation history when they eight times by the Army and Navy framework of organization," the flew two helicopters 725 miles on because of a heart condition. The chairmen of the U.S., Russian and the longest formation flight ever ninth time, he succeeded at Jeffer- British delegations said today in a made by rotary-type planes in son City Barracks. America. joint communique. ONE MAN'S OPINION The communique said: Social Security Credit SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 29.—Tes- "The conversations between the timony by Mrs. Gladys Shanbeck U.S., United Kingdom and Soviet For Troops Aim of Bill that her husband, who has been Union delegations regarding estab- married four times, once told her lishment of a world security organ- WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—A bill that "six years is long enough to ization have been completed. These providing social security credit for live with any woman," has just conversations have been useful and personnel in the armed forces based won her divorce in an uncon- led to a large measure of agree- ! on the assumed salary rate of $160 tested hearing before presiding ment for the recommendation for monthly was introduced in the Judge James T. Lawler. the general framework of organiza- House by Rep. B. W. Gearhart (R.- tion and, in particular, for the ma- Cal.). The measure follows sug- A *BUG' ON FLEAS chinery required to maintain peace gestions of Chairman Arthur J. FOREST GROVE, Ore., Sept. 29. and security." Altmeyer of the Social Security —Dr. C. Andressen Hubbard, pro-. Board and would prevent loss of fessor of biology at Pacific Uni- FREAKY CRAB HAUL social security credit. versity for 22 years, will retire to MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 29.—A freak devote his whole time to the study of nature provided Mobile residents FREAK MISHAP KILLS and research on his specialty- with thousands of crabs and shrimp ALBANY, Ore., Sept. 29>—Unin- fleas. which were found on the eastern jured when the car they were shore of Mobile Bay. Natives said riding in struck a power pole, Sgt. DORIS DUKE GOING OVER a sudden mixture of fresh water Louis J. Querirolo, Jr., and Pfc NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 29.—Doris from the Tensas River with salt Walter A. Rourke, both of Camp Duke Cromwell, the tobacco heiress, water of the Gulf forced the crebs American jeerT crosses the Oise River near Compiegne, France, on Adair, died when they stepped out has left for overseas duty in tne«„ ashore. Three youths picked up raft propelled by ropes from opposite shore. In background is main onto a high voltage wire brought United Seamen's Service, it was dis/^" $68 worth of fish. bridge, wrecked by Germans before they fled town. down by the crash. closed today.