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Vol. 1—No. 115 lFr. —PARIS — London lFr. Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 Metz Battle Nears Climax

Eisenhower in Whirlwind Tour of Front JTQ|J|« FoftS Fclll* Patch Speeds Up Attack on Flank

BULLETIN The Metz escape gap was narrowed to nine miles last night as Fifth Infantry Division elements moved to within two miles of Metz, according to a late dispatch from the front. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's assault on Met^, whose for- bidding battlements never in history have been seized by storm, neared its climax yesterday as U.S. Third Army infantry units occupied four forts on the south of the city's mighty defense system and launched a frontal attack from the west. Meanwhile, the U.S. Seventh Army stepped up attacks south of Nazis Use 88s Chateau-Salins, on the right flank of Patton's smash into Lorraine. In Point-Blank Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch's troops seized Leintrey, 11 miles east of Luneville. This brought Seventh Fire at Houses Army elements within 16 miles southwest of Sarrebourg, which is By Earl Mazo Stopping at art infantry division on his whirlwind tour of the front, threatened by Third Army troops Stars and Stripes Staff Writer^ %o the west and northwest. Gen. Eisenhower talks to T/Sgt. John L. McDavid, of Kingsport, 111. WITH THE 26th DIVISION, Nov. Listeners are T/Sgt. Raymond G Johnson, of Crew, Va. (left), and 14.—The see-saw fighting in and New British Attack Front Visited T/Sgt. George H. Tyler, of Crossfield, Md. (right). around Rodalbe, a small village 27 In Western Holland, British miles northeast of Nancy, is typical forces opened a new attack on a By Churchill of how bitterly the doughboys have German pocket on the east flank Ike, Gls Hold War Parley... to battle for comparatively small of the Dutch salient at Neder- gains in the present Third Army weert. The new assault in this By Dan Began advances. sector began with a 400-gun Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. On Chow, PX, Mail, Shoes Yanks drove the Germans out In barrage. WITH THE FIRST FRENCH the afternoon, beat off a light North of Metz, the 90th Infantry ARMY IN THE VOSGES, Nov. 14. counter-attack, and set themselves Division expanded its bridgehead —Prime Minister Churchill and By Jules B. Grad up for the night. across the Moselle nerr Koenigs- Gen. De Gaulle visited the First Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. It was pitch black and a light macher. Tramping through snow French. Army front near Belfort ADVANCE SUPREME HQ., Nov. 14. — An OD blanket snow plus some wind and rain reported six inches deep in some on Monday. made things miserable for the out- places, elements of the division Churchill and De Gaulle drove thrown loosely around his legs, Gen. Eisenhower bounced posts. They didnt know German drove two and one-half miles and with their party to the CP of Gen. around the battlefields of Western Germany in a frost-bitten tanks were in the town until the came within a mile and one-half Jean De Lattre de Tassigny, First jeep on the final lap of a 1,000-mile inspection trip. shooting began, and then it was too of the German border. French Army commander, and from late. At the same time, 95th Division there to a French divisional CP, In the dim gray of early morning, the jeep, with the four The Germans, who could see no troops improved their Moselle only a few miles from the German silver stars on the bumpers and the better than the "Americans, set bridgehead near Ukange, to the lines. seven silver stars inside, wheezed several houses afire, to provide south. With Churchill and De Gaulle on up a steep hill. It coughed to a 4 Stars But No Pass, light, then they and their tanks Southeast of two-thirds en- the front-line tour ware Field Mar- halt on ttfe top. The Supreme went systematically from house to (Continued on. Page 3) shall Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Commander looked down. So MP Halts General house, firing 88s at point-blank Staff of the British Army; Gen. Gen. Eisenhower and Lt.-Gen. range. Tank Battles in Hungary Alfonse Juin, Chief of Staff of the Omar N. Bradley stared long at the TWELFTH ARMY GROUP, When they couldn't silence Amer- MOSCOW, Nov. 14 (AP).—Heavy French Army; French War Minister charred and silent buildings and Nov. 14.—An MP private wouldn't icans in some of the barns and tank battles raged over the Hun- Andre Diethelm; and Capt. Mary the heaps of rubble. The quiet of let Gen. Eisenhower into this houses, the Germans crashed their garian plains east of Budapest to- Churchill, of the ATS, daughter of the ghost-town was deafening. headquarters. The Supreme tanks through them, burying every- day as German and Hungarian the Prime Minister. S/Sgt. Newton J. Harrison, of Commander didn't have a pass. thing inside. troops sought to prevent Russian Mary Churchill expresed a desire Atlanta, turned the jeep around The four-star general started Pfc Rufus Newcomb, of Rich- armor from breaking through their to visit American combat troops. and the long American convoy into the CP for a conference mond, Va., a company runner, said front and outflanking the capital rolled down the hill, around hair- with Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley. (Continued on Page 3) from the north. SEES EISENHOWER pin curves and through shell-torn Pvt. Robert P. Escohedo, of Special to the Stars and Stripes. (Continued on Page 3) Brooklyn, halted him. SHAEF ADVANCE CP, Nov. 14. The general cooled his heels Nazi Bastion Reels Under Blows —Prime Minister Churchill con- U.S. Sub Sunk by Crew while the private called the OD, ferred with Gen. Eisenhower and WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (AP). 2/Lt. James P. Bishop, of Tegas, Allied military leaders here this —The Navy today announced the Ky. afternoon. It was his first visit loss of the submarine Darter. It The second lieutenant said it to this advance command post and was destroyed by its crew to pre- was all right, and they let the the second meeting with the vent its capture after it had run general in. supreme commander since early aground. All 65 officers and men (Continued on Page 3) were rescued. 5 Superfort Factories Blast Hurls Pilot from Plane; Are Closed by Strike NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Reuter).— 'Chute Opens After 2-Mile Fall Five Wright Aircraft Corp. factories making Superfortress engines were LONDON, Nov. 14 (AP).—Lt. closed today when a strike of 1,900 Sgt. Michael J. Kuzel, Strowood, supervisory workers made opera- Daniel F. Gilmore, bombardier of Mich., tail gunner, went spinning tions impossible. The other 32,000 Luling, Tex., had first picked up down in the detached tail section. workers were sent home. His parachute opened while he was his parachute when his Fortress The supervisory employes sought still inside, so he gathered the flow- union recognition. The War Labor exploded on a mission over Europe. ing silk in his arms and jumped Board called upon them to return He was blown through the nose clear. to work but it seemed likely that Of the plane and fell 10,000 feet, Sgt. Arthur E. Weiss, of , they would remain out unless the holding the 'chute in his hands, be- radio operator, crawled to the edge Army takes over the plants. fore recovering enough to snap the of his part of the tumbling wreck- books and pull the rip cord. He age and rolled off. U.S. 'Gets' Eiffel Tower landed three miles from the Ger- Sgt. Samuel M. Lontine, of Mar- The Eiffel Tower, famous Paris man lines. quette, Mich., climbed out of the landmark, is an item of France's The pilot and co-pilot were killed ball turret after reaching out of reverse lend-lease to the U.S., it The battle for Metz nears it climax as Patton's Army takes the fort- and three other members of the what was left of the fuselage and was disclosed yesterday. It has ress groups of L'Yser (1) and L'Aisne (2) and rings two-thirds of crew^injured, but this is what hap- rescuing his 'chute—one foot from been requisitioned by the' Air the city. Powerful Forts Driant (3), Saint-Quentin (4) and Verdun (5) pened to the others: the edge. Forces for use as a radio station. still hold out. Page 2 THE JTARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944

4hsh fflanJit Tale of Two Wars

Modern youth is still doing okay. WORLD WAR I WORLD WAR II A Baltimore high school paper loch Symbol Equals $10,000,000,000' polled girls at the school with this Cost No 'Milder War' we feed him and find a nice warm question: "How do you get a boy home for him and his family. It has been a long time coming, friend to date you; these days?" m Our type of education for a post- Most popular answer: "I borrow my $21,850,000,000 000} $222,000,000,000 but .ve've had it again! For some war Germany will be a failure. I'll father's gas-ration card." time after it stormed ashore here. make a suggestion. Let Russia and • • • $18,500,000,000 i F^e War loans \ ,^, The S & S was my pride and joy. the oppressed countries educate It Happened at Aberdeen Prov- $ S200000Q Its biting, forceful, straight-from- Germany. We have a million and ing Ground. The CO needed 40 a half subversives in the States, the-shoulder stuff, sometimes mis- men for a detail and was inspect- to h who need a special type of educa- ing rifles. "Did you clean this rifle Manpower In Uniform | '^^^ taken, but always honest, was a tion. These are not acclimated to today?" he asked one GI. "No," wholesome pick-up after continued the democratic way of life—nor the GI answered. "No, what?" exposure to the innocuous, luke- will they ever be. If, in your home Hiliiltiiii tttffttttwtttttttttitttltilt barked the CO sternly. "No 4,800,000 you had bed bugs, lice or rodents, patches," the GI shrugged. warm platitudes of the sheet back what would you do? in the UK. We suddenly got a • • • Let's start at home and really Just why a woman goes for a IIHIffiH soldiers' newspaper; it gave us police up! America really needs something to bitch about; we could man with a moustache, we don't it Let's make America 100 percent know—but they do. And we even Manpowemi r Overseas agree and disagree over what it democratic—Sgt. G. M. Merritt, said. Ord. Evac. Co. But in the last few weeks, Pol- nitrr lyanna has come back. We get * * * 2,086,000 More than 5,500,000 warmed-over milk again. Today, Food for Thought Iftfrt MiliitHHiii we really get the crusher. Did Uncle Sam sure must be in a anyone read "Flak City Forgotten bad way if he can't provide rea- War Plods On" before it was sonable restaurant facilities for Killed Or Died printed? The story about the his French civilian employes. It "milder war." The one which coyly may not be our business that 126,000 | I J 108,897 told how all was delightfully cozy they pay exorbitant prices for know a major who has touched up around St. Nazaire, the place where their lunches. It is our business his moustache with luminous paint Nazi shells flitted about hither and when they have to knock off so he gets rushed in the blackout. Wounded, Missing, Prisoners yon, but "there is no evidence that a couple of hours for lunch to • • • the Germans are firing their shells take the Metro or ride a bicycle Life is Like That. Lt. Donald 238,800 jjj I jj| 378,795 in anger." to where they live. Wouldn't it Karr, of Wisconsin, home from the Any day, we could expect a be good business for the Army ETO, burst into his parents' bed- shower of cream puffs from the to take over some conveniently- room and yelled "Surprise!" Awak- German positions, which, while an- located restaurants and let ened by the outburst were a couple 19 months ^± 35 month: noying, wouldn't interfere with us these workers eat there at afair of strangers who had rented Karr's as we played "potsy" among the price?—Chow Hound. former home a week before.- FIGURES APPLY only to this country's participation in the two wars, • • • fox-holes. The Nazis were too, too do not include over-all length of conflicts. They cover our 1917- co-operative and a swell bunch of * * * A guy on the Home Front we 1918 role completely, the present war only up to recent official data. Joes, nice to do business with, as Furlough Plan admire is the Washington citizen who did the following: Irked when witness their willingness, though Why not use the men that have a waiter persistently ignored his grudging, to give back our litters. been overseas the longest as guards Of course, some Nazis play rough; order, he knocked the waiter down, on P.O.W. ships that are taking dragged him into the kitchen and the article implies that we did all those Krauts to the Land of SOMEWHERE need the litters ourselves. dunked his head into a pot of Our Dreams? They would be per- noodle soup. I wonder what the dead or bleed- forming a necessary duty and at • • • tog Joes who were carried on those the same time it would give them Conversation of the Week. Dur- litters thought? Also the FFIs a chance to take 'a furlough at ing an ordnance company discus- EUROPE barefoot and in rags, fighting their home. sion about turning in organiza- hearts out, what did they think? At the end of the furlough they tional equipment, Mess Sgt. Oliver Fun on the Farm unit censor, OKd a very special Are you trying to say that Amer- package which the soldier—a Pfc— would return with a new lease on Garrity commented, "You mean I Three times Lt. Francis Schleifer, icans don't know how to fight a haB taken much pains to wrap. life. I know for sure it would do am going to have to turn in my of St. Louis, gave the fire order to war against Nazis who hate, tor- Two days later it bounced back me a lot of good. I served 22 egg-beater?" Sgt. Garrity is known Pvt. John Etter, of Manchester, Pa., ture and kill, or that we don't want from the base censor with the in- months in Iceland, one month in to the company as a "Powdered and three times Seventh Army mor- to fight them? You certainly scription: "No agricultural products England and on the Continent Egg Technician." tars lobbed their shells through the haven't been too kind to the Joe since D-Day+1. • • • may be shipped out of France." who was careless enough to get barn roof, blasting Open the door. I have a daughter two years and War Nerves Department. The And every time a Jerry closed it. Reason: The soldier had wrapped himself killed at St. Nazaire be- three months old whom I have group of GIs were groggily sweat- the innocent souvenir in straw. cause he thought we were playing "If this is some kind of game," never seen. I've got plenty to fight ing out a report on half-a-dozen the lieutenant said, "I don't feel * * * for keeps.—W/O J. Schneider, Sig. for and I'm more than willing to Sec. versions of VI, V2, V3, etc., ob- like playing today. Bring up mor- Annihilators Roll On fight for it. There are other guys tained from FWs they had inter- tar platoon." On its 300th mission, the An- * * * just like me. rogated, when one of the boys heard A few minutes later there was nihilators, pioneer B26 group, Man's Best Friend How about giving us two weeks a noise in the twilight. Dashing knocked out the Kons-Karthau» » at home! We need it. That goes no more barn, no more door and out to have a look, he called, "Here no more Jerries. railway bridge near Trier, Ger- You can count on one hand for the boys that don't have wives it is. V3 flying over the lines!" the number of outfits in France many. Photographs revealed and kids as much as for the ones When the other Joes filed out, they * * * that the span—a link to the which don't have one or more that do. We won't delay the war saw thousands of geese flying in dogs. We love our pooches. Bazooka Maestro rear of the Siegfried Line—had any in our short absence. Can perfect V-Formation. been left partially hanging in These little muts are real pals. you blame me? Take a look at the • * • • His buddies claim the Army's Now, why is it that nearly the Moselle River. enclosed photo. I'm praying this To GIs in France. Just in case best bazooka man is Sgt. Alfred every day some GI has to plan will bring results.—Pvt. J. K. Wat- M. Maffei, of Clinton, Mass., The group, commanded by for the return of his dog which you had forgotten, "Absinthe makes kins, Sig. Co. the heart grow fonder." first Fifth Armored Division Col. John S. Samuel, of Hins- some other GI has "picked up"? soldier to be cited twice for the dale, III., has carried more than Put good identification on Silver Star. The medal and 65,000 men into battle. Rover and keep an eye.out for Oak Leaf Cluster were awarded * * * dog thieves. Up Front with Mauldin by Maj. Gen. Lunsford £. Oli- If anyone ever fancies "pick- ver, division commander. No Two Ways About It ing up" my Scottie, they'll find When the seve tanks at- Cpl. Richard Halemeyer, of a superb set of canine dentures tacked his' platoon's outpost Golden Eagle, 111., and another banging on to their epidermis. Aug. 18 at Chaignes, in the nar- Seventh Army soldier were sitting —Lt. G. P. V., QM. Trk. Co. row gap between the Eure and in a jeep when 44 Germans rushed

* * * Seine, Maffei, then a corporal, went into action alone on foot. Police Up at Home He kayoed three tanks, then In recent issues of The Stars & raced 200 yards through heavy fire, manned and evacuated an Btripes you stress the education empty halftrack. of a post-war Germany. Again on Sept. 10, when con- I refer particularly to a recent cealed enemy tanks held up the photo of a German family stand- advance at Neudorf, five rounds ing in a doorway. To quote you: from Maffei's bazooka forced "See that young child in his moth- the Jerry armor into the open, er's arms? We must orient him where it was an easy target for out of the woods and surrounded to the democratic way of life." artillery and fighter planes. Yes, yes, I see that child in his them. mother's arms. Do you see- that * * * "We had no choice," Halemeyer Moronic Superman, with the look Water, Water Everywhere said. "They said that if we didnt of criminality on his face? He capture them they'd take us pri* S/Sgt. Raymond Vilar, of soner." .is standing on the left. Twenty- New York, a 26th Division five years ago he was the same as doughboy, sat in his foxhole * * * that child in his mother's arms. cursing the mud and rain and Snack Shack Snafu I well remember the situation in swearing he'd never voluntarily Men of the 47th Infantry had a 1918. Do you? We were going to look at another drop of water, working agreement with the Ger- orient him to the democratic way when a runner said the CO had mans opposing them, and everybody of life. The scene did not change. an honorable discharge waiting was happy until the Jerries double- Take another look at that superior for him at the company CP. crossed the doggies. Between the Aryan. He would not hesitate to Still dripping wet and cursing lines there was a house with a kill you or your buddies, even after all rain and water generally, cellar full of cheese and beer. he dashed back to the CP, American patrols drew their ra- THE STARS AND STRIPES grabbed the papers, then came tions during the daytime and the Printed at the New York Herald across an attached note—he Jerries at night. Since there was Tribune plant, 21 rue de Berri, Paris, was being discharged to join enough to go around, neither side for the U.S. armed forces under aus- tired on the other until the Ger- pices of the Special Service Division. the Merchant Marine. ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYSEES 85-00. mans showered the Yanks with Contents passed by the O.S. Army * * * mortar-fire one day. The Ameri- and Navy censors. Entered as second cans, furious with the display of class matter Mar. IS, 19*3, at the That Back-Breaking Straw post office. New York. N.Y., under poor sportsmanship, rearranged the Have you censor trouble? Then furniture and that night, the house, the act of Mar. 3. 1878. shed a sympathetic tear for a 90th Vol. I. Ne. US cheese, beer and Jerries went SP "jLtet Ink in, I wanna see a cotter I kin feel sorry, far,* Division field artilleryman. His in smoke. Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 3 House Winners Listed; Jef"8ee Iot Leyte Invasion Started Ahead 11 Races Still in Doubt Of Timetable By Ben F. Price WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (AP),-» Stars and Stripes TJ.3, Bureau. A last-minute change in plan* WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Exact composition ol the new moved up the Leyte invasion many days. House of Representatives, in which the Democrats gained at An army corps was at sea, headed least 21 seats from the Republicans, while losing two of their for the Isle of Yap, when Adm. own, was still in doubt tonight, one week after election day, William F. Halsey, with informa- as a result of close contests in five states. tion that the Japanese had suffer- ed heavy fleet and air losses, re- Eleven races Were still doubtful. commended that the island be by- Of these, four were in Missouri and 15. John D. Dingen (D). 1«. John Lesln- passed for the vital Philippine* four in Pennsylvania, and absentee ski (D), 17. George A. Dondero. (R). Minnesota: 1. August H. Andresen (R), target. ballots cast by servicemen could be 2 Joseph P. O'Lara (R), 3. William J. This was related at a news con- a large factor in deciding their out- Gallagher (D-FL), 4. Frank T. Starkey ference yesterday by Col. Alfred S. come. The other contests were in (D-FL), 5. Walter H. Judd (R), 6. Harold Knutson (R), 7. H. Carl Anderson (R), Kasther, of Nevada City, Calif, the Fourth , Third Mas- 8. William A. Pittinger (R), 9. Harold O. first officer to return from Leyte. sachusetts and Third Washington Hagen (R). The corps embarked at Honolulu districts. Mississippi: 1. John E. Rankin (D). 2. Jamie L. Whitter (D), 3. William M. Whit- Refugee children evacuated Sept. 15 and next day the objective The complete list cf Congressmen tington ID), 4. Thomas G. Abernethy (D), from the besieged port of Saint- was changed. Leyte was hit Oct. 2% elected, by states and districts, fol- 5. W. A. Winstead (D), 6. William M. Nazaire meet their first Yank. lows: Colmer (D), 7. Dan R. McSchee (D). Missouri: First, second, third and eighth He is Pvt. Walter E. Hall, of JAPS USING 5 DIVISIONS Alabama: 1. Frank W. Boykin (D), 2. districts in doubt; 4. C. Jasper Bell (D), Pueblo, Colo. The evacuees were Gen. MacArthur's headquarter! George M. Grant (D), 3. George W. An- 5. Roger C. Slaughter (D), «. Martin T. drews (D), 4. Sam Hobbs (D), 5. Albert Benne,tt (R), 7. Dewey Short (R), 8. Clar- among nine thousand persons yesterday said that the Japanese Rains (D), 6. Pete Jarman (D), 7. Carter ence Cannon (D), 10. Orville Zimmerman taken from the vicinity of Saint- on Leyte Island were using five Manasco (D), 8. John J. Sparkman (D), (D), 11. John B. Sullivan (D), 12. Walter Nazaire last month during a 9. Luther Patrick (D). C. Ploeser (R), 13. John O. Cochran (D). divisions in an attempt to break Harless, Murdock Win Montana : 1. Mike Mansfield (D), 2. military truce instigated by the the American encirclement of Or- James F. O'Connor (D). French Red Cross. They were moc, west coast port. U.S. cavalry Arizona: At-large, Richard P. Harless Nebraska : 1. Carl T. Curtis (D), 2. taken to Nantes in French (D) and John R. Murdock ID). Howard H. Buffett (R), S. Kmrl Stefan elements consolidated their positions Arkansas: 1. E. C. Gathings (D), 2. Wil- (R), 4. A. L. Miller (R). trains operated by U.S. soldiers. on heights overlooking the road to bur D. Mills (D), 3. J. W. Trimble (D), 4. Padjo Cravens (D), 5. Brooks Hays Bunker in Nevada Orrnoc. (D), 6. W. F. Norrell (D), 7. Oren Har- Tokyo radio claimed that Japanese ris (D). Nevada: At-large, Berkeley L» Bunker "suicide fliers" had sunk an Allied California: 1. Clarence F. Lea (D). 2. (D). General, Joes Claire Engle '.D), ^3. J. Leroy Johnson New Hampshire: 1. Chester X. Merrow battleship east of Luzon Island in iR). 4. undecided, Frank R. Havenner (R), 2. Sherman Adams (R). the Philippines. (D) leading Thomas Rolph (R). 5. Richard New Jersey: 1. Charlei A. Wolvertoo (R), 2. T. Millet Hand (R), 3. James O. In War Parley J. Welch (Rl. 6. George P. filler (D), 7. John H. Tolan (D), 8. John Z. Ander- Auchincloss (R), 4. D. Lane Powers (R), 5. Charles A. Eaton (R). •. Clifford P. son (Rl. 9. Bertrand W. Gearhart (R), 10. Alfred J. Elliott (D), 11. George E. Case (R), 7. J. Parnell Thomas (R). 8. (Continued from Page 1) Gordon Canfield (R), ». Harry L. Towe West Front... Outland ID), 12. Jerry Voorhis ID), 13. R), 10. Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R), 11. Frank streets It gathered speed and Ned R. Healy (D), 14. Helen Gahagan (Continued from Page 1) Douglas (D), 15. Gordon L. McDonough L. Sundstrom (R), 12. Robert W. Kean headed deeper into Germany. (R), 13. Mrs. Mary T. Norton (D), 14. (R), 16. Ellis E. Patterson (D). 17. Cecil Gen. Eisenhower had much to Edward J. Hart (D). circled Metz, the 26th Division re- R, King (D). 18. Clyde G. Doyle (D). see, plenty to ask. For the next New Mexico: At-large, OUnton P. An- pelled a counter-attack, resumed 19. Chet Holifield (D), 20. Carl Hinshaw derson (D) and Antonio M. Fernandei (R). 21. Harry R. Sheppard (D), 22. John five hours his questions shot out to (D). Joes and generals with machine- the offensive and advanced two Phillips (R). 23. Ed. V. Izac (D). New York: 1. Edgar A. Sharp (R). X. miles on a six-mile line north of Colorado: 1. Dean M. Gillespie (R), 2. Leonard W. Hall (R), 3. Henry J. Latham gun swiftness. They stressed one Wiiliam S. Hill (R), 3. J. Edgar Cheno- (R). 4. William B. Barry (D). 5. James Dieuze. Elements were 15 miles ' weth (R), 4. Robert F. Rockwell (R). paramount issue: his troops' mo- A. Roe (D), 6. James J. Delaney (D), rale. from the German frontier city of Connecticut: At-large, Joseph F. Ryer 7. John J. Delaney (D),- 8. Joseph L. (D), t Herman P. Kopplemann (D). 2. He asked about food, mail, PX Saarbrucken. Pfeifer (D), 9. Eugene J. Keogh (D), 10. Elements of the American 379th Mrs. Chase G. Woodhouse (D), 3. James Andrew L. Somers (D), 11. James J. Hef- supplies. He mentioned shoes, and, P. Geelan ID), 4. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce fcrnan (D), 12. John J. Rooney (D), 13. Infantry Regiment launched the (R), 5. Joseph E. Talbot (R). when a division commander told Donald L. O'Toole (D), 14. Leo F. Ray- him his men had plenty of over- attack due west of Metz yesterday Delaware Result field (D), 15. Emanuel L. Celler (D), 18. Germans Fire morning in the vicinity of Chatel Ellsworth B. Buck (R), IT. Joseph O. shoes but wrong sizes, the General Delaware: At-large, Philip L. Traynor Baldwin (R), 18. Vito Marcantonio (AL), immediately ordered more sizes. St. Germain, front reports said. (D). 19. Samuel Dickstein (D), 20. Sol Bloom Florida: 1. J. Hardin Peterson (D). 2. Fifth Infantry Division units (D), 21. James H. Torrens (D), 22. Adam 88s at Houses At another division, in step with Emory H. Price (D), 3. Robert Sikes (D), a band's "Roll Out the Barrel," he which front dispatches said seized 4. Pat Cannon (D), 5. Joe Hendricks (D), C. Powell Jr. (D), 23. Walter A. Lynch (D), 24. Benjamin J. Rabin (D), 25. (Continued from Page 1) Fort L'Aisne, at Vernjiy, and two -6. Dwight Rogers (D). walked briskly up to a formation Georgia: 1. Hugh Peterson

3rd Armored Div. WITH THE 3rd ARMORED DIVISION.— The recon patrol had proceeded well beyond German outposts when Lt. William D. Hill, of Corning, Ohio, and Sgt. Phillip Sulli- van, of Chelsea, Mass., discovered that their get-away man bad disappeared. They held a whispered conver- 1st Inf. Div. sation. The man's name was Gietz. "The man probably is out of place.'' Hill whispered. "Try It happened near Aachen. Three calling him, but don't make it too men of the 1st Infantry Division, loud." Pvt. Clarence Andrews, of Pimkard, "GIETZ I" Sullivan cried, in a Ala.; Pvt. John Sadler, Elkton, Md.. Stage whisper. and Pvt. Darrell Blunk, Watson, ' A clump of bushes to the left Mo., were sitting in a foxhole. They front rustled slightly, and a dis- were on patrol, some 300 yards out tinctly teutonic voice declared: "Ja, into "no-man's land." Their nerves hier! Was is los?" were on edge. It was dark, murky, The recon patrol lost no time in moonless. performing that strategic maneuver A crash was heard in the brush known as 'getting the hell out of lining a field. Then all was quiet. there.'' Gietz was back at the CP. The trio strained their eyes and He'd been lost early in the game ears. Then they saw a figure ap- and returned to his own lines. proaching their position. Closer Gietz Number Two probably died and closer it came, while Blunk a hero s death when his machine- drew a bead with his BAR. gun nest was mortared on the "Halt," he cried. "Halt, give the following morning. On the other password." hand ne still may be wondering There was no reply, so Blunk ■who called him that night. emptied a whole clip of BAR ojnmo into the figure. There was a dull Smoke pours from the breech of a Tank Destroyer gun as the crew prepares to fire another round at T/5 Prank M. Ottons, of Scranton, thud, then all was quiet. At first light next morning a an enemy stronghold in Holland. They "kick 'em out fast" in this outfit. One casing is shown partly, Pa., and the 3rd Armored Division, in mid-air. has his own methods of maintain- patrol was organized to investigate. They found a bullet-riddled cow. ing morale. When enemy shells The company had steak that night. whistle through the air, Ottons 3rd Army Ord. 2nd Armored Div. 2nd Inf. Div. reassures his friends; "It won't It was on outpost duty that Pvt. hurt you, it's HE, not shrapnel!" John S. Hilderbrand, Oakmoht, Pa., Sgt. Floyd R. Knutson, of Thief WITH 3rd ARMY ORDNANCE, Pvt. Leonard Ratcliffe, of Biloxi, Everything was tense in the out- had a chance to play the part of FRANCE.—Two Ordnance Staff River Falls, Minn., and the 3rd a German soldier. Miss., put on a variation of the fan post as nine men and an officer Armored Division, thinks that the sergeants stationed at a mainte- strained to hear an approaching When the lines sprang into action dance in full view of the Germans Jerry troopers he has run up just before midnight, Hilderbrand nance shop near the Third Army enemy patrol. against are great sportsmen. found himself in the middle of the and so intrigued the Jerries that Capt. Ralph C. Winstead listened 'They're always thinking about front saved the life of an American on the telephone in his dugout. enemy positions and he decided to soldier recently by manufacturing sport," he says, "I've never found become a Nazi soldier. As some of Eagerly he heard each report and a straight highway in Germany the Jerries were without helmets, in fifteen minutes an intricate part there was a hush as the noises that they weren't using as a the Yank hid his in some bushes for an electrical surgical instrument came nearer and nearer. Suddenly bowling alley for 88s." which had broken down in the nine guns blasted the silence. midst of a brain operation. The "It was the best deer meat I ever S/Sgt Raymond Delorey, of Wey- two sergeants are Rudolph Mat- tasted," said Winstead. mouth, Mass., who is with an anti- thews, Placerville, Calif., and Wal- aircraft unit, attached to the 3rd lace W. Jensen, Omaha, Neb. S/Sgt. William Braley, Lexing- A sergeant from the Medics Armored Division, has recovered they didn't fire a shot. Ratcliffe ton, Ky.. took a patrol into Ger- rushed in one day with the instru- many and was gone three hours from a bad case of hedge-rowitis. ment and explained that it had to was on a body-collecting mission But he now says he is suffering when a gust of wind caught the without a shot being fired at him. be repaired at once as an American Just as he reached his own lines, with pill-boxitis. soldier's life was at stake. No parts open stretcher he was carrying and Delorey's hedge-rowitis was cured along with his BAR, which had ran were available, but the two men spun him wildly across the open the patrol had tc hit the dirt, but when he saw movement in a hedge- out of ammunition. manufactured a complete new one. ground in front of the German fast, as a barrage of Ml shells went row. Three rifle grenades brought "Ja, Ja," he replied to a German positions. His unwilling dance flying about. forth five live Germans. Just to non-com who grunted something Spark Plug Adjustments lasted for several seconds before he The men who fired said, later, make sure, Delorey threw a burst in German at him. Recently, armored units were was able to bring the stretcher that they had seen a deer running of 3? mm high explosive into the Hilderbrand thought he was pretty faced with a critical tank spark under control. around, and were trying to im- hedge. well cut off when American plug shortage. The pair made ad- prove the dinner menu. Out came 50 Germans. machine guns and artillery started justments on 40,000 captured Ger- Members of one platoon of an to blanket the area and the Nazis man spark plugs which were then armored infantry unit, which set Pfc William H. Brown, of Leigh- retreated, permitting him a safe successfully used in our tanks. up headquarters in a second class ton, Ala., is the prisoner-catching- 5th Inf. Div. return to the American lines. In a recent visit to the shop, Lt. hotel near the Siegfried Line, have est telephone lineman in the First Gen. George S. Patton declared: discouraged the midnight rides cf U.S. Army. One day he was busy WITH FIFTH INF. DIV.—Spe- XII's September Awards "By your outstanding work you a self-appointed Paul Revere. working on a wire when he felt culation ranging from an 800mm Ordnance Maintenance mechanics Sleeping in the basement, the a tap on the shoulder and heard In September, 371 medals were not merely contributed to the suc- soldiers were awakened by a Yank mortar to a you-name-it howitzer presented troops of the Xllth Corps. cess of our drive across France, but greeted the discovery of a huge who dashed down the stairs shout- They included 167 Silver Stars and you were directly responsible for ing that the place was filled with piece of "shrapnel" by Capt. Hargus five Oak Leaf Clusters, 655 Bronze Brown. the outcome. The work of you men Germans. He claimed that a Nazi Stars and ten Oak Leaf Clusters, will also be responsible for the suc- had shouted "Halt" at him on the Brown, who brought the piece of 19 Air Medals and 13 Oak Leaf cess of our pending drive through floor above. evidence in with a simple: "Do you Clusters and two Soldiers Medals. Germany." An expedition sent upstairs found know what this is?" stood silently a sheep wandering about. by while ballistic experts debated You Keep Low in the Lowlands a voice say in English: "Pardon 'Mangeree Manor' Spells me, Comrade, I'd like to surrender.** Another time he was sitting at Chow to Many Yanks his telephone and saw two Jerries coming his way. He waved his WITH U.S. ARMY IN FRANCE. telephone at them and told them —"Mangeree Manor, Bill Mayhugh, to come on over. They did proprietor," reads a sign tacked over the door of an ordnance bat- Add close calls: A "polite" bullet talion mess hall here. The origin went through two pockets of Pfo of the sign goes back to Egypt, William Brown's field jacket and at length as they examined unusual 1942, and a sentimental whim about bent his dog tags, but failed to contours and charted the intricate the placard that caused T/Sgt. Wil- wound him or mar the appearance pattern of grooves. of his clothing. Brown is from When the authorities had reached Leighton, Ala. the "this is the V12" stage, Brown suggested they examine the local church bell—from which the "shrap- Blame PRO, Censor nel" had been chipped during an If Stories Aren't Used artillery barrage. For the most part, the stories The daring of a platoon sergeant on this page, which will be a In leading a "blind" tank through regular feature of The Stars and the German line at Bieville com- Stripes, are printed as they are pletely disorganized enemy ele- received from your public rela- ments which held up two Fifth ham L. Mayhugh to take it with tions office. If stories about Infantry platoons. your outfit aren't as interesting Facing heavy fire, the tank com- him to England and then to France. Synonymous with the words or newsworthy as articles by mander was unable to clear his staff members or those sent in hatches sufficiently to determine "meal" or "lunch,'* mangeree is just one of many Arabic expressions the by other units, blame it on your where the main Nazi forces were. own PROs. T/Sgt. Uoyd N. Peterson, evalu- men adopted in Africa. In England, the sergeant hung And if, over a period of weeks, ating the situation, rushed over to no mention is made of your out- the tank to signal that he would his shingle in the shadow of the lead the way. grandstand of one of the world's fit, complain to your PRO or famous horse racing tracks. Now the censor. Such a lack of news With four of his buddies, Peter- indicates that either the censor son plunged through 400 yards of in France, and still under his fami- Here's how it is on the front in the Lowlands. A U.S. Medical corps- liar sign, he is concocting new re- has redlined your activities or cross fire. Soon after, two platoons other units have sc in more of infantry made a major break- man worms along with American infantrymen advancing on a town cipes with C-rations and trying to and better stories. through. in Holland while under fire from Nazi machine guns and mortars. camouflage tinned meat dishes. Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 5 28th Inf. Div. Ghost Towns Are Milestones on Road to Rhine 80th Inf. Div.

WITH THE 28th INF. DIV., j Since the 80th Infantry Division FRANCE (Delayed).—Anyone who j arrived in France. 323 men and of- looks hard enough can see Ger- j ficers have been decorated for mans, but few men have the ex- i valor. Maj. Gen. Horace L Mc- perience of 1/Lt. Otto K. Georgi, Bride, 80th commander, has pre- Louisville, Ky. Georgi, an armored sented 87 Silver Stars, three Soldier division liaison officer attached to Medals, 220 Bropze Stars and 11 this division, for four hours oc- Air Medals. cupied a balcony seat looking down Gen. George C. Marshall pre- on a streetful of Germans who sented the DSC to 2/Lt. Joseph x. were nervously setting up defenses Moore, of Lewisburg, West Va., who for Craon, France. single-handedly knocked out an Georgi met a Frenchmen who enemy machine-gun nest which was said he could lead him into Craon, blocking the advance of his rifle then about five kilometers away, platoon. Although seriously wound- and show him its defenses. The ed, Moore continued to lead his two took off across field and stream, platoon forward, enabling his out- and finally wound up on the second fit to destroy the enemy strong- floor of a corner hotel. j point. Below him Georgi could see two Another DSC was awarded to Jerry machine-gun nests at an in- T/5 Hoyt T. Roweli, of Buchanan, tersection with crews alerted for Ga., a member of a medical detach- action. Others were walking sentry ment, for his courage in rendering posts in the area. first aid to wounded while under He sent the Frenchman back to fire. He also detected the ap-, his platoon with a message, out- proach of an enemy machine-gun squad ana his warning enabled U.S. lining the city's defenses. After a troops to wipe it out. long absence, the Frenchman re- Awards have been made to of- turned with a message from the Infantrymen who moved in to search for snipers in Maizieres les-M?tz, on the Third Army front in ficers and men of the 80th from \ Eastern France, didn't find much of the town left. Maizieres lies within the Metz area for which the every one of the 48 States, Pana- Germans have been putting- up such a bitter struggle. ma and the Hawaiian Islands. 26th Inf. Div. 4th Armored Div. 35th Inf. Div. GPs Rig Lands WITH 35th INF. DIV. FRANCE WITH 26TH INF. DIV., France. WITH FOURTH ARMORED DI- —1/Lt. William P. Sheehy, oi Kastings, Neb., was awarded the —The moral to this yarn is, don't VISION.—Although wounded by a go around tapping strangers on the Crippled Plane Silver Star for distinguished service shoulder in the dark. Sgt. Richard chance enemy shot, Sgt. Pasquale while fighting as a platoon leader T. Gariepey, Attleboro, Mass.. NINTH AIR FORCE HQ., Renzi, reconnaissance scout ser- with the 35th Infantry Division. learned it the hard way. France.—When flak damaged the geant from Corry, Pa., ordered his . In an engagement August 26, his offensive leadership was responsible On a combat patrol one dark machine-gun squad to hold fire nose wheel on the B26 "Heaven for the capture of 360 prisoners. night, Gariepey was sent ahead to until an advancing German patrol Can Wait." returning from a bomb- While on reconnaissance he ob- investigate a light. Returning, he came into lethal range. platoon sergeant. It read: 'Tor served enemy troops in a distant lost his way but spotted a form on ing mission When he finally gave the order, Christ's sake, lieutenant, come on field and directed artillery fire, the ground in front of him. Think- in Germany, the patrol was dispersed and the back." forcing them to retreat into the ing it was one of the men of his Sgt. Arlar.d Nazis made no more attempts Georgi chose to remain, however, woods. He then organized and led patrol, he leaned over and tapped E. DuVall, of to take Renzi's position. and he sent the Frenchman on an- a patrol into the vicinity and cap- the man on the shoulder. Brigham City, other mission. He gave him a note tured 42 Germans and marched Just then the patrol leader, Lt. Utah, rigged up to deliver to the German non-com Unarmed, a former Yonkers. them back to his unit and ordered Daniel J. Foley, Laural, Mont., re- a device to put on the street, demanding the Jer- N.Y., lawyer walked down main more fire upon the woods. He again cognized the sergeant's silhouette the wheel back street in Pont-Gilbert, France, call- returned to the woods with his pa- ries surrender in an hour. The and called softly to him from about into place. ing in German for the enemy to trol and rounded up another batch Frenchman didn't come back. The 24-year- of prisoners. This procedure was When infantry and armored o 1 d sergeant troops entered the city, Georgi came repeated several times until' 360 hacked a hole had been bagged. The only re- out of the hotel and ran smack in the bom- into a Yank private. sgt. A. E. Duvaii > com- maining Nazis were dead ones. bardier s A month earlier, when Lt. Sheehy "What the hell are you doing partment ana attached the bomb- received his battlefield promotion, here—sir?" the infantryman said. hoist cable to the wheel. 20 yards away. Gariepey realized he had led a patrol whose mission Georgi figured that if he told the With other crewmen he was able he was tapping a member of a Ger- resulted in an enemy rout, and the infantryman the truth, he wouldn't to crank the wheel down and the man machine-gun crew on the capture of 87,000 francs from a believe it anyway. So as he walked Marauder landed safely after circl- shoulder. He broke all known German who attempted to escape. away he explained to the amazed cross-country records in departing. ing the field two hours. surrender. Exactly 508 Nazis Joe: Foley tossed a hand grenade into DuVall has been recommended responded. "I'm just waiting for a streetcar." the German nest, but before the for a decoration. The incident oc- The Germans gave themselves 9 patrol could investigate further curred on Sgt. DuVall's second mis- up when 1/Lt. Samuel E. Spitzer 'Civilian Bags other German machine guns open- sion with the veteran "Annihila- gave them the choice of surrender 99Ist FA ed up. The patrol, rejoined by tors" group. or death at the hands of advanc- Gariepey, detoured and continued1 ing columns of the Fourth Armor- 8 Nazi Planes ed Division on July 31. WITH 3rd ARMORED DIVI- on its mission SION, Nov. 13—Battery A 991st 9th Inf. Div. Field Artillery battalion, fired 100 During an attack on enemy posi- Two guns of a Tank Destroyer tions, T/5 Harold Lang, medical battalion served as an outpost at rounds of captured German ammu- WITH 9th INFANTRY DIV.— aid man from Philadelphia, was Luneville Sept. 18 and held off an nition recently in ordnance tests Frankie should really swoon when preparing a splint for an injured enemy force composed of four Mark to build up a firing table that will he gets the message Pfc Lewis J. permit the use of these projectiles officer's leg. He looked up and saw V tanks, an infantry platoon and Carroll, Brooklyn, sent him. The two large caliber mortars. against the enemy. The projectiles four armed Germans approaching fan note is written on a plank, 15 One U.S. gun advanced to with- were armed with German fuses, on the double, looking for trouble. by eight inches and a quarter of in 50 feet of the German infantry but American propelling charges Unarmed, Lang continued his an inch thick. Punctuating the entrenched on a railroad embank- and primers were used The work. Suddenly the Germans threw message are four bullet holes. ment, surprised and burned one impact area for the tests was Carroll explains: "In every letter tank and scored a hit on another. behind German lines. I get from my wife, she tells me When the driver and car com- During the Allied drive through about Sinatra and how she listens to mander of one gun were wounded, France, thousands of rounds of this his broadcasts and sees his movies. the remaining three men continued ammunition were captured. Ex- She's not one of those bobby sox to function as a crew and held perimental firing by the 991st, dames; she just likes the guy's their position. which is attached to the 3rd Ar- voice. Maybe it's because she hasn't In the crews were Sgt. Alexander mored, proved that these shells heard mine in 25 months. I don't *Romek, Tarentum, Pa.; Sgt. Joseph could be fired satisfactorily from know. A. Tetreault, Southbridge, Mass.; American guns. It was the first down their arms and shouted: "Anyway, our 12th wedding an- Cpl. Dayle S. Cullins, Philo, Ohio; time in this war that German am- "Don't shoot!" niversary is coming up Feb. 23 and Cpl Faldo Mazzola, Berkley, Mass.; munition was used against the Yank riflemen, who came for- I figure that since she always T/5 Walter Bumbulis, Lakewood, enemy in American weapons. ward and took the prisoners in- listens to this guy Sinatra maybe Ohio;. T/5 John D. R. Brabham, The 991st is equipped with the sisted that the splint convinced the I can get him to sing a song for Gay, West Va.; Pfc Joseph G. self-propelled, 155mm g u n — t h e Nazis it was useless to fight. me. Like a wedding present or Bieniasz, Ralphton, Pa.; Pfc Paul M12. It consists of a G.P.F. tube something. We both liked 'This Baneky, Dover, N.J.; Pfc Henry O. mounted on an M3 tank chassis. WITH THE XX CORPS IN Bruce W. Cai. Love of Mine,' so I picked that. Mengler, Brooklyn, and Pvt. Charles The French World War 155mm FRANCE.—For liberating Chateau- From what I hear, Sinatra gets a E. Schultz, Edgemont, West Va. Recommended for promotion after gun has been designated the G.P.F. Thierry and Verdun, the XX lot of mail and I figure that an shooting down eight German planes, by American artillerymen in defe- Corps' colors have been decorated five of them in one day, Bruce W. rence to its designer, Col. Filloux, with the Chateau-Thierry Medal ordinary letter won't do any good, Carr, of Union Springs, N.Y., a French ordnance expert. The ini- and Battle Streamer and the Ver- so I picked up this plank and 5th Armored Div. Ninth Air Force Mustang pilot, tials stand for "Grand Puissance dun Medal and Battle Streamer. sent it." discove ed he wasn't even in the A Fifth Armored Division combat Filloux," which is translated lite- Army. rally as "Great Power ■ Filloux." command had been ordered to Originally flight officer in the When the Germans overran cross the Our River, on Germany's Ike Made 'Pop' a Sarge in '18 Pioneer Mustang group, he resigned France in 1940, they captured many border. A Sherman tank roared 1 from the Air Forces to taie a direct French 15.5 cm guns as well as up to the bank of the river and Of course, it's a sort of pipe dream, but— commission as a 2/Lt. Not knowing large quantities of projectiles for stopped. The tank commander On August 1, 1918, at Camp Colt, Pa., 31-year-old Harry J. Vin- that a lapse of several weeks had them. Besides classifying and re- previously warned of a deep spot cent a volunteer, was handed a warrant naming him sergeant. It occurred between resignation and marking this ammunition, the Ger- in the river, leaned out of his turret was signed by his commanding officer, a tank corps major. commissioning, Carr continued to mans produced more. U.S. Army Today-once again a volunteer, and stUl snappy, erect and com- and called to the dim figure of a fly, shooting down eight enemy ordnance officers sanction the use road guide, standing knee-deep in bat-minded-Harry Vincent, artilleryman in the "Lucky Seventh" planes and increasing his total to only of those shells manufactured Armored Division, has again become a sergeant. In a special bat- the ford: "Say, buddy, Where's 11 1/2 Nazis destroyed. prior to the fall of France. talion ceremony, timed to coincide with his fifty-seventh birthday, that hole?" When Col. George R. Bickell, "Don't know," replied the figure Ground crews at the Thunderbolt "Pop" Vincent received a warrant elevating him from Pfc to sergeant. Nutley, N.J., group CO, asked that in mid-stream. base commanded by Col. Carroll W Maybe—some flay, somehow, thinks Pop—he can get that new promotion papers be dram up, it "Well, you're a hell of a guide," McColpin. of Buffalo, were more warrant countersigned by his old CO, the one-time American major was discovered Carr's papers had than 99 percent perfect in their of World War I. Meanwhile he's coddling that first warrant, along- declared the tanker. been lost and he was technically maintenance of fighter-bombers in side pocketbook snapshots of his wife and grown children. It's "I guess I am," admitted the a civilian. October. The group had only eight feathery and frayed, now, but it still shows the firm signature, chastened road guide. He's back in the Army now, a aborts out of 1,224 sorties—a main- "Dwight D. Eisenhower," and— The "guide" was the colonel com- second looie, still awaiting that pro tenance mark of 99.5 percent. You can't keep Pop from dreaming. manding the combat command. motion. Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 Page <> SPORTS THE STARS AND STRIPES Sugar Aims Sweet Blow Fans Pointing Toward eninc |The Importg( Army-Navy Grid Show Headlines j

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—The next two Saturdays will ACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When serve merely as a prelude to whet appetites of football fans J. North Carolina Pre-Flight made its trip to play Jacksonville Naval, . all over the world for this third wartime season's main Lt. Baby Ray, ex-Chicago Bear, event, which will come off Saturday, Dec. 2, in the com- dropped into the uniform shop to parative seclusion of Annapolis, Md. buy a new set of aviation greens. That game, of course, is the an- The shop manager hauled out a 44, nual meeting between Army's Ex-Olympics Star then a 46, then the biggest in the mighty gridiron machine and Navy's house, size 48. Ray walked out constantly improving eleven. Each Killed in Action without a uniform, and the shop team will have its final warmup manager remained with a new un- this Saturday, when the Cadets BALTIMORE, NOV. 14.—Lt. derstanding of why the Chicago bump into Penn and the Middies Col. John Turnbull, captain of Bears were the terror of the pro tackle Purdue. the U.S. lacrosse team in the league before the war PHILA- In the south, Mississippi State 1932 Olympics, and member of DELPHIA—Steve Van Bui-en the tosses its unblemished slate up for the U.S. Olympics hockey team red-headed Phih' delphia Eagle grabs against its toughest foe to four years later, has been killed flyer who was All-American at date, Alabama, while Tennessee in action, his mother, Mrs. Louisiana State, finally has been entertains unheralded Temple, and Douglas Turnbull, was informed talked into wearing socks. A native North Carolina threatens Yale's un- by the War Department. of Honduras, Van Buren never wore beaten string. Previously listed as missing, socks with his civilian or football Turnbull was declared killed in I shoes until the Eagles insisted this Midwest attention will be focused a raid over Germany, Oct. 18. on the clash between Ohio State's year because of-a possible infection talented collection of civilians and .... CHICAGO—Gabby Hartneit, the fleet kids of Illinois. A victory Ray "Sugar" Robinson, dusky puncher recently discharged from the great Cub catcher, caught plenty Army, winds up for another attack on Sgt. Lou Woods in their of men stealing bases during his for the Buckeyes would just about Army Throws long career, but he's not so hot at sew up the Big Ten crown and bout at Chicago Stadium. Robinson was TKO victor in the ninth round. finding the guy Who stole his auto- stamp them as the best all-civilian Book at Gould mobile WASHINGTON — Lt. eleven in the country. Notre Dame Horton Smith, the old Joplin Ghost rebounds from Army against weak NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Capt. Joe of links fame, is newly-assigned to Northwestern, and Iowa Pre-Plighc 16 GI Football Squads the Army Special Service branch confronts Missouri. Gould, 48-year-old peacetime mana- ger of ex-heavyweight ruler Jim and will help ■ organize athletic Texas opposes Texas Christian Braddock, was dismissed from the projects for overseas. in the confused Southwest Confer- service, fined $12,000 and sentenced Bid For Normandy Honors | AWRENCE, Kan. — Dr. Guy ence and the winner of this game to three years at hard labor by a Smith, mathematics prof at has a good chance of bagging the general court martial. Gould was By Paul Horowitz Kansas University, hasn't missed a circuit pennant. Rice, which was convicted late yesterday of conspi- home football game in 40 years as a knocked from the lead by Arkansas, Stars and Stripes Stalf Writer. racy to accept bribes for award of They're still mouse-trapping the "enemy" in Normandy, college teacher. His card shows per- meets Texas A & M, and Randolph Army contracts. fect attendance in nine years at Field's powerhouse faces South- Gould also was convicted of punching holes in his lines and daring him to come out in Colorado University, four at Illinois, western. having sought to influence Stephen the open. one at Beloit College, two at Ken- Patrick "Tex" Sullivan, an associate The battles, however, are good-natured though rough; tucky and 24 at Kansas. . . . NEW in boxing business, to testify falsely they're the weekly schedule of eight YORK.—Ed Barrow, president of for him before the court martial. . games in the Normandy Football the Yankees, says there will be no Pro Grid Boom He was charged specifically with League, comprised of two eight- immediate sale of the club. "It having accepted more than $1,600 team circuits, which provide enter- Cards to Build looks as though all the would-be SeenbyTunney in connection with the award of tainment for thousands of GI fans buyers have dropped out of the contracts to the Cornwall Ship- and 560-players each week. The picture," Ed explained. . . . LOUIS- building Company. season began Oct. 28 and ends Dec. New Ball Park VILLE.—They've revived the story NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—A boom Gould, who pleaded innocent to ST. LOUIS, Nov. 14. — Sam about Jake Pincus, old-time race- 26, with winners of each division Breadon, president of the World in professional football after de- all charges, accepted without any meeting in a championship final track trainer and starter who was mobilization was predicted by show of emotion the verdict handed Champion Cardinals, announced to- having trouble one day .with the in Cherbourg Stadium on New day the purchase of land for the Cmdr. Gene Tunney, ex-heavy- down by the 13-man court, which Year's Day. start, especially with a horse rid- weight king deliberated for two hours and 25 construction of a new ball park to den by an amateur English rider. minutes before reaching a verdict. The eventual champion already have a larger now in charge has received a challenge from the Pincus finally got the field away of the Navy's playing surface but the Englishman was left at Eighth Air Force "All-Stars," who and'seating physical fitness Clemson Tackle Gets plan to fly from England if their the post. Hoping it would be called program. capacity than a false start, the rider said, "Is it Tunney said Silver Star Award bid is accepted. Sportsman's a go, Mr. Pincus ?" Jake r edded, potential pro- The squads are comprised main- Park, where the "Yes," pointed down the track and fessional stars HQS., 8TH INF. DIV. —Capt. ly of enlisted men. League rules Cards and said, "I think they went that would graduate William A. Hall, of Atlanta, Ga., permit one officer to play on a Browns have way." from Army and outstanding tackle at Clemson Col- team, though as many as four may played home Navy gridirons lege, has been awarded the Silver be alternated in a game. Capt. games. and battlefronts Star for gallantry in action by Maj. "Sugar" Jordan, former backfield The new lay- without pre- Donald A. Stroh, divisional com- coach at Auburn, and Capt. Paul out, which will East to Return vious varsity ex- mander. Simpson, ex-Purdue end, are offi- be known as Gene Tunney perience. cials.' Ex-collegians who coach in "Cardinal Park," the league are Maj. Mayo Silvey will be on the To Rose Bowl "Many youths who had no Lefty Brandt Killed Sam Breadon chance to go to college and display SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 14.—Ed of Michigan and Capt. Hugh southwest side athletic talent have demonstrated "Lefty" Brandt, 39, who once pitch- Webb, Clemson fullback. of St. Louis, far removed from the LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14.— The ability in Army and Navy athletic ed for Pittsburgh and the Boston The league was organized by scene of the first all-St. Louis World Rose Bowl grid classic on New programs, enough to stand up Braves, was killed here in an auto 1/Lt. Sal Commisa, ex-Notre Dame Series last month, which was on Year's Day will be between the against the best," Tunney said. crash. guard. the northwest side. Pacific Coast Conference champion and an Eastern college team, of- ficials announced today. Last New Year's Day an all-Pa- Past Performances of Leading Football Teams cific Coast game was played, South- ern California beating Washing- GA. TECH AT LSU ton, 29-0. EAST MIDWEST SOUTH 51 Clemson 0 S7 Alabama AT TENNESSEE ARMT AT PENN ILLINOIS AT OHIO STATE TEMPLE 28 No. Car. 0 IS Rice Eastern teams being considered 34 Swarthmore 12 26 Kentucky 0 0 Texas Ags. No. Carolina 0 18 Duke 7 26 . Indiana 1* 84 Missouri • 27 Auburn include: Alabama, Army, Georgia 46 0 Holy Cross 30 20 Mississippi IS 6 Miss. St. 7 20 Dartmouth 6 26 Great Lakes 26 ** Iowa • 17 Nary 59 Brown 0 40 Florida Tech, Holy Cross, Iotfa State, Mi- Pitt 7 Wm. & Mary 1} It Purdue 38 20 Wisconsin 1 SS NYU 13 Ga. Pre-F. 7 15 Georgia 69 46 7 Syracuse 7 0 Alabama 13 Duke 19 0 Tennessee chigan, Mississippi State, Michigan 76 Coast Guard ft 0 Navy 26 40 Iowa « 26 Great Lakes < Michigan 41 39 Pitt 5 34 Minnesota 14 7 Bucknell 7 26 Clemson 34 Tulane 7 State, Navy, Notre Dame, Ohio 27 Duke 7 1» « IS LSU 0 Columbia 7 7 Notre Dame IS 21 Indiana 7 0 W.Va. 83 Villanova 35 « ' Penn State 7 SOUTHWEST State, Oklahoma Aggies, Tennessee, 59 Notre Dame 0 0 Michigan 14 54 Pitt 1* ARKANSAS AT SO. METHODIST Texas, Tulane and Yale. Missouri 6 49 No. Tex. Ags. 0 117 243 53 70 69 125 7 419 21 138 87 157 19 15 Officials said they had little ALABAMA 0 Okla. Ags. 16 Southwestern NORTHWESTERN AT NOTRE DAME MISS. STATE AT TCU 6 Randolph F. 41 COLGATE AT SYRACUSE LSU 6 « hope of luring Yale, Notre Dame, 6 Wisconsin 7 58 Pitf 0 40 Jackson AB ft 27 16 Rice 21 20 e Cornell 39 Howard 7 Norman Navy 27 Navy, Army, Ohio State or Michi- 13 Rochester 0 Great Lakes 25 26 Tulane 0 63 Mill saps 0 OS 19 27 7 0 Columbia 26 0 Texas 7 Tulane 11 Cornell 0 Michigan 27 64 Dartmouth 0 40 Ark. Aggies 20 55 MUIsaps 18 S4 gan, the last two being restricted Lafayette 7 26 Mississippi 7 Texas 0 Fenn State 6 32 7 Indiana 14 28 Wisconsin IS IS LSU « 0 Tennessee Texas Ags. « 6 Texas Ags. 39 from playing a post-season game Temple 7 Kentucky 7 6 Columbia 0 7 14 Minnesota 14 18 lUlnota 7 20 Kentucky 0 41 lt Rice 7 by a Big Ten ruling. 0 Holy Cross 19 13 Boston College 19 Nary 32 26 Auburn 21 7 Geogria 41 7 Purdue 27 U TEXAS AGGIES AT RICE 0 Penn State 6 Army 59 34 Mississippi 39 Bryan AAF 0 57 Galveston AAF 0 14 59 r\' . | folks at Home Send 33 5! 83 113 Ul 210 47 227 54 27 Texas Tech. 0 Randolph F. 34 114 202 14 Oklahoma 21 14 LSU IS u AUBURN AT GEORGIA births ™j" *"*?s DARTMOUTH AT CORNELL WISCONSIN AT MICHIGAN 14 LSU 0 0 Tulane 21 of Sir Stork's Arrival: Marquette 0 30 Howard 0 7 Wake Forest 14 6 Holy Cross 6 39 Syracuse 7 Northwestern 6 14 Presbyterian 0 7 TCU 18 tl SMU 10 6 Penn 20 26 Bucknell 21 Marquette 2 • Indiana , 24 7 Ft. Benning 0 67 61 No. Tex. Ags- 0 7 Texas 6 T. Walter J. Horan—Geraldine, Oct. 26: 0 Ga. Tech. 27 11 Kentucky It 0 Notre Dame 64 J Yale 7 Ohio State 20 2S Minnesota IS 0 Arkansas - 7 7 Texas Tech. 13 Capt. W. D. Hodge, Columbia, S.O. IS Tulane 10 53 Daniel Field 0 L 14 Brown 13 7 Colgate 13 Notre Dame 28 27 Northwestern 0 SO SMU 6 7 Arkansas 12 — (boy), Oct. 27; Sgt. Richard Herrltz, 57 Presbyterian 0 7 LSU 1* 0 Yale 6 Purdue 14 FSJ —: 13 Sampson NaT. 12 Great Lakes 40 40 Alabama 7 Memphis—Linda Gay, Oct. 28; Pvt. How- 0 Coast Guard 19 25 Columbia 0 Purdue S6 41 Penn It 21 Miss. State M 14 207 01 11S its ard W. Kelland, South Wymouth, Mass.=3 OS Florida 0 Navy 26 Iowa 7 14 Illinois • TEXAS AT TEXAS CHRIST. Jon Howard, Oct. 25; Lt. Philip Lepanto, 0 Kansas 0 Anchorage, Ky.—Philip Herbert. Oct. 9; 130 60 ISO 54 23 Southwestern 7 138 117 86 138 164 « 6 Randolph F. 42 34 So. Plains AAF I Pfc Robert Levine, Los Angeles—Ronald 'IOWA CLEMSON AT TULANE 20 Oklahoma 0 Arkansas I Lee. Oct. 27; Pic Gerald A. McMahon, PURDUE AT NAVY MINNESOTA AT Notre Dame 20 « Ohio State 34 34 Presbyterian 0 0 Arkansas 0 IS Texas Ags. 7 N.Y.—(girl), Oct. 25 ; Pvt. Leo Meyer, 18 Great Lakes 27 14 N. Car. Pre-F. 21 15 Iowa Pre-F. 1» 0 Rice • 19 Illinois 40 0 Ga. Tech. 51 21 Rice 7 19 Oklahoma 34 Bronx—Gary Kenneth, Oct. 28. Marquette Penn State 39 Nebraska 0 6 0 No. Car. St. IS 16 Auburn IS - 0 Purdue 26 34 SMU » 7 14 Texas Tech. 0 PL. W. J. McNaughton, Saratoga Springs, Ilinols Duke 13 Michigan 2* 7 20 So. Car. 13 27 SMTJ 7 Iowa Pre-F. Ga. Tech. 39 Missouri 27 0 Indiana 32 Ga. Tech. "34 8 Okla. Ags. IS 19 Chatham F. 7' C N.Y.—(girl), Oct. 30; Lt. R. P. Mc- Nebraska 0 7 Tennessee 26 7 Oney. N.Y.—Patricia Ann. Oct. 7; Cpl. Iowa Penn 14 Ohio Stato *4 27 7 Wake Forest IS ' Wisconsin 2* 167 69 112 54 John J. Phelan, L.I.—(boy), Oct. 29; Lt. Michigan Notre Dame 14 Northwestern 14 7 57 VMI 12 Wisconsin Cornell 19 Indiana 1* FAR WEST Benjamin D. Raub, Brooklyn—(boy), Oct. Northwestern 30; Lt. Thomas H. Rush, Waco, Texas— n 80 SO. CALIFORNIA AT CALIFORNIA 151 136 47 164 125 I** Pamala Jane, Oct. 27; Lt. Donald S. Sev- 13 UCLA 13 31 St. Mary's 205 120 149 113 SO. CAROLINA AT DUKE erance, Syracuse—Donna, Oct. 27; T/Sgt. PITTSBURGH AT INDIANA 18 Pacific 6 6 UCLA 26 48 Newberry 0 61 Richmond 7 Henry T. Smith, Memphis—Henry T. Jr., NO. CAROLINA AT YALE 26 W Virginia 13 18 Illinois Penn IS 6 California 6 So. Calif. Michigan 0 14 Ga. Pre-F. 20 Oct. 24. 0 Wake Forest 7 3 Coast Guard 3 0 Notre Dame 58 20 6 No. Car. P.-F. 13 6 St. Mary NaT. 0 Pacific Nebraska 0 0 Miami 0 T. OOL. Celso C. Stapp, Dallas—Carl 0 Army 46 16 Cornell 7 50 Bethany 0 54 0 Nary 7 38 Washington 7 Fleet City Northwestern 7 15 Clemson 20 0 Ga. Tech. 28 27 Columbia 10 7 Army 60 14 7 Army 27 34 St. Mary's 7 Washington L Celso, Oct. 9; Coxswain John Van 20 Cherry Point 14 32 Iowa 0 6 Coast Guard ® Declaphe, Bellmore, N.Y.—Christine, Sept Rochester 0 5 Illinois 39 32 6 No. Car. 0 19 Ga. Tech. 13 28 San Diego N. 21 Coast Guard ; 0 So. Carolina 6 a Dartmouth 0 Ohio State 21 7; Cpl. Alvin Williamson, Blackshear. Ga. 19 Ohio State 54 7 Presbyterian 7 34 Wake Forest 0 UCLA 0 Wm. & Mary 0 13 Brown 0 14 Minnesota 10 —Alvin Victor, Sept. 18; Sgt. Charles Wolf, Brooklyn—Charles James, Oct. 22. 53 134 85 I 143 60 12 29 101 97 26 101 233 150 73 115 Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 7 Once Over Tug-O-War Payoff and Play That Failed Army Gets^ Lightly By Gene Graff 935 Votes Sports Editor -i^HEN m'lady starts writing In AP Poll about sports events, anything can happen. And when m'lady is a British lass writing about an NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—The American football game, that formidable Cadets Of West "anything" usually does happen Point, by virtue of their over- Such was the case last Saturday whelming victory over Notre when an Army eleven defeated a Dame, remained the top foot- Navy SeaBee squad, 20-0, on Lon- don's White City gridiron. The ball team in the nation, according to 106 experts who voted m this London Daily Express editor, no week's Associated Press poll. doubt with tongue in cheek, as- signed Vivien Batchelor, a girl re- Not only did Army improve its porter, to cover the game. It was own position in the standings, but her first game, but the story she it shunted Notre Dame out of the wrote qualifies her to apply for a first ten for the first time since Job as Bob Hope's script writer. Donald Lunch crosses goal line October, 1942. The Irish skidded to the 11th slot this week. * * * (above) and drags Penn's Ed •CTUIE object seems to be to pass Lawless along as he registers Ohio State, which trailed Army the ball to some unfortunate in second place last week, dropped player and then for everyone else first 'Michigan touchdown in to fourth place, despite its impres- to fall on him," the Express foot- game at Franklin Field The sive triumph over Pitt, Saturday. ball expert informed her 3,000,000 Wolverines romped over Penn, Randolph Field's star-laden band of gridders from Texas soared to readers. "The only thing that 49-19. At left, Notre Dame's moves the play toward the goal the runner-up position, wile Navy's Angsman tries to plow through posts seems to- be the instinct of twice-beaten eleven moved back to self-preservation of the man with a host of Navy tacklers, but third. the ball. He runs as far as he can finds his path barred and top- Army received 77 first-place before he is killed or maimed by ples to the turf for no gain. votes. 25 for second and two each the, other players." Game was played in Baltimore's for third and fourth. Vivien was baffled by what she Municipal Stadium - and the The first ten, listed with first described as the "little man with place votes and total points : the bucket, who kept running onto Middies removed Notre Dame ARM x (77) : 935 the field." But some kind gentle- from the unbeaten-untied ranks RANDOLPH FIELD 113)... 77J man in the press box finally by winning, 32-13. Army du- volunteered an explanation. "I NAVY (5) 759 learned he was the 'waterboy'," she plicated the feat last Saturday, OHIO STATE 13) 741 wrote, "who was not, as I thought, 59-0, at New York. MICHIGAN (0) 458 BAINBRIDGE NAVAL (4).. 454 interested in injured victims, but merely was trying to keep alive IOWA PRE-FLIGIIT (0)... 344 those who still were able to move." MARCH FIELD (2) 195 The uncomfortable afternoon Service Site McKeever Takes Full Blame GEORGIA TECH (0) 105 began for Vivien when she arrived DUKE (0) 108 at the stadium and was handed one of the handsome printed programs, Tiff Flares Up For Notre Dame's Setback "You shudder," she informed her* Cadets, Bucks public, "at the sinister program. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—A final It lists 11 men on each team and last-ditch personal appeal to Presi- SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 14.—Smiling Ed McKeever, 15 substitutes, who didn't have long dent Roosevelt to shift the annual Head Win List to wait for their call to battle." Notre Dame football coach, is still smiling today despite *he Army-Navy football game from An- NEW Y~R>4, Nov. 14.—Army and *k napolis to a large eastern city is frightful hosing his Irish took from Army last Saturday at Ohio State continued to set a merry "f/TVIEN'S bewilderment was fur- being planned by grid-conscious Yankee Stadium. Not only is he smiling, but he is accepting pace for undefeated elevens by turning in avalanche victories over » thered by the sight of a stret- congressmen, it was learned today cher bearer and doctor with his full blame for the 59-0 score Army Notre Dame and Pitt, respectively. proverbial black bag on the side- The game, which became a home- rolled up against his once-proud Harvard and Wake Forest led the lines. "The ' only time you see and-home affair after Pearl Harbor, Fighting Irish. list of casualties a doctor scampering with a black is scheduled for Annapolis, home of "I knew we didn't have much The unbeaten-untied list, with bag in England," she reported, the' Navy eleven, this year, with chance against Army so I told the games played, points for and points boys to play dangerous football in against: "is when he is off on a maternity ticket sales limited to residents of EAST the hope that we might score TEAM G Pts OP case." the area immediately surrounding Army at Penn. enough points to win," McKeever Miami (Ohio) 8 179 61 The huddle fascinated Vivien. the Naval Academy. . Brown at Columbia. Army 7 419 31 'It's wonderful," she said. "The The renewed appeal for transfer Syracuse at Colgate. said today. "Instead, our plays, Drake 7 208 35 Dartmouth at Cornell. . like passing from behind the goal Maryville Tchrs 7 206 21 players bend over and put their of the site apparently was touched Maryland at Penn State. and running on fourth down from Ohio State 7 243 53 heads together. Then the captain off yesterday when Presidential Purdue at Navy. St. Thomas 7 123 25 selects his victim for the subsequent Swarthmore at Princeton. punt formation in our own terri- Miss. State 6 211 47 Secretary Stephen Early, replying North Carolina at Yale. violent assault." to a reporter's question, said he was tory, backfired, and Army's total Yale 6 101 20 MIDWEST Bemidji Tchrs 4 78 26 Summing up her refreshing after- certain the President would keep just grew and grew.' Pittsburgh at Indiana. McKeever admitted that Bob California ..Tech 4 159 0 noon—not in London's healthy the game on "a community re- Illinois at Ohio State. SERVICE TEAMS sunshine but in White City's swanky stricted basis," because of transpor- Minnesota at Iowa. Kelly, his star ball carrier, was not Wisconsin at Michigan. in very good shape. Kelly was on O Pts OP restaurant-bar—Vivien concluded, tation problems. Iowa Pre-Flight at Missouri. Bainbridge Naval 7 266 48 "Sixty-thousand Yankees and Rep. Joseph Martin (Mass.-R. ■, Northwestern at Notre Dame the receiving end of some rough Randolph Field 5 321 6 their girls had a wonderful time. House minority leader, said he was Oklahoma at Kansas. treatment at the hands of Navy's Norman Naval 6 144 40 Marquette at Great Lakes. rugged line and did not work out Fort Pierce 5 275 7 I had a wonderful time. But what in favor of tying the annual game Camp C npbell 4 105 7 I still cannot realize is that the in with the Sixth War Loan drive. SOUTH with the team during the entire Temple at Tennessee. week preceding the Army game. players had a wonderful time, too." West Virginia at Kentucky. And have we ever told you about Mississippi State at Alabama McKeever wouldn't venture any Auburn at Georgia. prediction on the Army-Navy game Army's Davis the cricket match we covered while Clemson at Tulane. in England? LaGuardiaHits South Carolina at Duke. Dec. 2, but said he thought the Georgia Tech at LSU. Navy line was "a little better but Daniel Field at George Pre-Flight Army had it in the backfield." Heads Scorers Horse Racing Camp Davis at No. Carolina Pre-Flight. Help Wanted SOUTHWEST NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Glenn —AND GIVEN NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Mayor Arkansas at Southern Methodist. Menichelli Looks Bad Davis, versatile Army halfback, Fiorello H LaGuardia, New York's Texas Aggies at Rice. ripped off three touchdowns against Write your question or problem to Texas at Texas Christian. In First U.S. Fight Help Wanted, The Stars and Stripes, No. 1 fireman, is in favor of banning New Mexico at Texas Tech. Notre Dame, Saturday, to grab the * Paris. France, APO 887. horse racing for the duration of the Southwestern at Randolph Field. national collegiate football scoring war, he said in his weekly "fireside FAR WEST NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 14.—Fer- lead APOs WANTED chat" radio broadcast So. California at California. nando Menichelli, Argentine heavy- His 16 touchdowns—96 points- RANK Harzheim Jr., 36784510; Opl. Con- "The authorities tell us in one UCLA at College of the Pacific. weight, launched his United States place Davis 12 points ahead of his F rad S. Head, A.O.; Harvey Healy. Su- Washington at Spokane AAB. ring career successfully last night perior, Wis.; Eugene Herlocker, Portland; breath that we must not travel and March Field at San Diego Navy. nearest rival, Tom McWilliams. of Lt. Janice Hougham, Cedar Rapids; Pfc that we must work and then they Fleet City at St. Mary's Navy. with a ten-round decision'over Lau- Mississippi State. Dean Kromer, Colorado: Pvt. Cyril E. Lee- permit horse racing," LaGuardia rient rouchard, of Montreal. The leaders, with touchdowns, man, Bath, Me.; Oliver Richard Lively, The fight took place in Laurel extra points, field goals and total Baltimore; S/Sgt. Lloyd E, Lunkkonen, said "It is up to Washington, and Haegg Asks Deferment Cloquet, Minn.; Pvt. William Martindale, I am going to keep on saying that.' Garden, the same arena in which points: S1453759; Lt. John A. Matthews. Camp The mayor cited figures which As Swedish Army Calls Luis Angelo Firpo, original Wild T EP FG TP Upton; Pfc Nat Mazer, N.Y.; Norman Bull of the Pampas, started 22 Davis (Army) 16, • 0 96 Murphy. Minersville. Pa.; Lt. Harry Neu- showed the absentee rate rose 15 McWilliams (Miss. St ) 14 0 0 84 mann, Union City, N.J.; T/3 David Newirth; percent at a California war plant STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14.—Gundar years ago. Tressel (Bald Wallace) 13 2 0 80 Lt. Eleanor Nicholas; Opl. Peter M. Nie- when a nearby track opened, and Menichelli is no Joe Louis or Cockayne (Drake) 13 0 0 78 meyer; Joseph Edward O'Brien, Brooklyn. Haegg, Swedish distance runner, Young (Illinois) 11 0 0 66 GT. Richard O'Mahoney. Mercer, Pa.; climbed to 27 percent on the second revealed today he has been called Billy Conn by any means. He spent Dimancheff (Purdue) 11 0 0 66 S Lt. Anna Pitts; Lt. Jane K. Rachor; day of the meeting. for military service Dec. 20, but the greater part of the evening DeCourcey (Wash.) 11 0 0 66 Patrick Joseph Reddington. Youngstown; had requested a month's deferment fanning the breeze, but blows that Brinkley (W. Forest) 11 0 0 66 Pfc Raymond Reed, 35603308; Sgt. Ruth Cromer (Ark. A * M) _ 11 0 0 66 Ritchmyre, Montclair, N.J.; George Sar- because he expected a heavy Yule- did land had so much force that Strzykalski (2d AAF) 9 1 0 55 gent, Youngstown, O.; Lt. Lester Schipper, Pro Football Franchise tide business at the Malmoe haber- his taller and heavier opponent Collins (Missouri) 9 0 6 54 Santa Cruz; Winston Sherman, New Bed- dashery where he is employed. was in bad shape several times. Yates (Texas A & M) 8 0 0 4fS» ford, Mass.; Lt. LeRoy J. Skaith; Sgt. Sought by Honolulu Howard Slaten, Los Angeles; Cpl. Nestor Haegg said he didn't think he Sybilrud, Albert Lea, Minn.; Pvt. Steve could run in the States this winter. Connie Mack Reveals S. Szambelan, 36772008; John E. Taylor, NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Ralph Hockey Standings 39850639; Lt. Col. S. Earl Tromley, Md.; Olson, Honolulu sportsman, is de- AMERICAN LEAGUE Millers Deal Is Off Pfc Virgil Vawter, 39127821; J. A. Ward, termined to have the Hawaiian Bronze Star to Athlete EASTERN DIVISION Dothan, Ala.; Lt. Col. E. E. Woldman, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14.— Cleveland; Cpl. Davis O. Woodie, Winston Islands represented in professional A Bronze Star has been awarded W L T Pts. G OG Hershey 3 3 1 7 18 19 Connie Mack said today that ne- Salem; Mai. John Wyper, Toledo; Pfc football in 1945. 1/Lt. Grady E. Jackson, former Buffalo 3 4 1 7 18 19 Jordan E. Zier, 3653210; Pvt. James G. . He conferred today with "Chick" Oklahoma TJ. star athlete and gotiations for the purchase of Smith Jr., East Orange, N.J.; Sgt. Prank Providence 1 4 1 3 18 !6 Minneapolis of the American Asso- Stoner, Pa.; Pvt. James D. Sargent; Pfc Meehan, president of the Trans- captain of the Sooners' football and WESTERN DIVISION Winifred Thomson; Lt. Horace J. Laug- America League, and is also in- ciation by the Athletics had fallen * basketball teams in 1934. He was W L X Pts. G OG head, Philadelphia; Cpl. John D. Van vestigating the possibilities of cited for meritorious service under Pittsburgh 7 2 through. Mack didn't say why, but Syckle; Sgt. Johnnie E. Wood, Wibaux; 1 15 39 25 obtaining a franchise in the All- fire with the 735th Light Mainte- Indianapolis 3 8 S 9 17 20 said, "For the time being well co- Prank Young, Philadelphia; M. F. Landry; Cleveland ...... i..^; S 6 S/Sgt. Clifford Lewis, Mllbank, S.D. America Football Conference, nance Ordnance Co. S 8 19 19 operate with Toronto under a work- St, Louis wiaA I I 1 S 13 14 ing agreement" Fage 8 THE STAKS AINU STRIFES Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 News from Home U.S. Transport Problem Acute As Autos Fail

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—The Office of Defense Transporta- tion estimates" that 5,000 automo- biles a'day are going off the streets because they are worn out and will run no longer. At the same time the American Automobile Association predicted that by spring there will be only as many passenger cars in use as there were in 1929, when 23,129,589 were registered. Doing a 1945 job with 1929 regis- trations will be extremely difficult,, the AAA said, because four out of five workers depend on passenger cars to reach their jobs. Transit lines already are overtaxed. v Repairs Difficult The problem is expected to be- come more acute as time passes, because one our of every four cars now in use is estimated to be 11 "I said vooly-voos-promcna.dc-aw-vec-mwa, and she said w cc-wec. Sir, I suspect that little guy's one of our own men, tryin' to get years - old, tires for the most part Now what do I do?" shipped to America!" are more than four years old, and shortages of labor, equipment and By Courtesy of United Features. Bv 41 Capp materials make repairs difficult. Li'l Abner Even after the war ends in Eu- BOYSf- SINCE: NONE a YO HAS AH DECLARES T'CvW SAME I'LL MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE rope the average man will not get BEEN MAN ENOUGH T' HAWKINS DAY -WHEN AH I CAN'T LOSE?F- I'LL TAKE. A [MMARRi Y MAH DOTTER-AH GOTTA, FIRES - ALL O' TO' KIN START a new car soon, officials said. New HAWKINS TAKE FIRM MEASURES.'.' A-RUNNIN'.'-WHEN AH FIRES POLL OF EVERYONE IN DOGFATCHl DAY *- AGIN -AFTER GIVIN' YO A AND I'LL BET THE DEAD-SURE car production probably would not FAIR START-SADIE STARTS A-RUNNIN'.TH'ONE SHE WAY.V-YOKUM HAS COT begin till four to eight months after- _ OR 15 YEARS TO LOSE - NOT ONLY THE BET wards. The potential demand for SADIE HAWKINS -BUT ( HAffHArD HIS HOMELY SCOUNDRELLY LIFE." new cars in the U.S. alone is es- DAUGHTER OF DOGPATCHE timated at 10,000,000, while the EARLIEST most optimistic predictions do not SETTLER, HAL FAILED TO ' allow for the making of more than CATCH A HUSBAND- 4,000,000 in the first year of produc- if^ER PAPPY IN tion DESPERATION ONE DAY. CALLED TO- Vet Loan Offices Open GETHER ALL THE ELIGIBLE WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (ANS). BACHELORS OF —The Veterans Administration to- DO&PATCH. - day announced the opening of of- fices in New York, Washington, Chi- cago and San Francisco to process home loans to veterans. The offices will have no direct contact with veterans but will deal with banks and other prospective lenders seek- ing a guarantee of proposed loans. Oldest Governor-Elect MADISON, Wis., Nov. 14.—Re- publican Walter S. Goodland, 82 years old Dec. 22, will be the oldest governor ever to serve in the U.S. when he takes office in January, researchers discovered today. Luren Dickenson previously held the rec- ord as governor of Michigan at 79 a few years ago. Grounded by Own Rules SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 14 (ANS). —Capt. Dan Hutchins, who has charge of regional air priorities covering all air travel in the San Francisco area, is stranded in Spo- kane, unable to get a seat on a plane back to his headquarters. The air, he says, is full of travelers who outrank him. Transport Sets New Mark HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Nov. 14 (ANS).—A Consolidated Vultee Liberator transport set a new re- cord recently for a flight from Ho- nolulu to Hamilton Field, company officials announced. The plane, piloted by Capt. Richard Probert, made the flight in eight hours 54 minutes, breaking by five minutes the old mark set last March. Would Ease Border Bans BELLINGHAM, Wash., Nov. 14 (ANS).—Abolition of some border restrictions between the U.S. and Canada to insure a closer relation- ship between the two nations will be the postwar aim of Congressmen from the Pacific Northwest states, Rep. Warren G. Magnuson (D.- Wash.) has declared. Lugosis Reconciled HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 14 (ANS).— Actor Bela Lugosi reported today that he and his wife, who left him several months ago after 11 years of marriage, have become recon- ciled and she is dropping her - divorce suit. Lugosi said: "I've been shaving regularly—that was one of our troubles." Back to the Camps WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Existing Army camps will be used as redis- tribution centers for soldiers re- turning from overseas, the Army has announced, adding that i may Ibe possible to release "a few '61 the hotels now used for this