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Vol. 1—No. 98 lFr. New York — PARIS — London lFr. Thursday, Oct. 26, 1944 U.S. Catches Jap Fleet

Gals at Front 40,000 Germans Aim Pot Shot Carrier Is Sunk At Sheridan

^ In Holland Trap By Jimmy Cannon 5 Battleships Hit . Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE, Oct. The Allies' Dutch trap was closing across the snow- 25.—The girls threw Ann Sheridan soaked Holland plain last night as mud-slogging British into the grease with the doughnuts. Tf** Tommies captured Hertogenbosch and pinned an estimated They were in a Red Cross ByJ Nimitz Force 40,000 Nazis against the almost bridgeless River Maas. And clubmobile yesterday close to our over the Reich itself the Eighth Air Force and the RAF front line in these desolate hills. They cooked the doughnuts for the The long-hoarded Japanese fleet has come out of hid- together sent more than 2,200 heavy bombers to pound men of tlris infantry division. They ing at last and American naval forces have brought it to German industries and railroads by daylight. roasted Miss Sheridan for com- action in Philippine waters. In what may be the biggest With the winter's first snow in Holland, the German plaining because :.:ie had to fidget until the men's rooms cleared out naval battle of the war—possibly of history—American blockade of Antwerp began to crumble. Elsewhere along when she had to go while making fleet units yesterday were battling three armadas the Japs the chilled 500-mile, front no significant progress was re- a swift pilgrimage through the CBI had sent against the U.S. landings at Leyte. ported, and Gen. Charles de Gaulle warned that the winter theatre. A special communique from Gen. MacArthur's head- battle for Germany would be "long and hard." "Annie just doesn't know the tricks," drawled Annelle Anderson, quarters said that "the Japanese fleet has suffered the most of Franklin, Tenn. "Any GI will crushing defeat of the war." Allies Breaking 2,200 Heavies dig you a latrine if you need one. Naturally, they can't build you a In preliminary sparring of planes against ships, one Blockade at Port Hammer Reich bath room with a tile floor. Maybe, large Japanese carrier was sunk and two were severely that's what Annie expected." ! ; damaged, five or six battleships British Second Army troops cut The daylight pounding of Ger- The trailer 'quivered with the were hit with bombs or torpedoes, the last big escape bridge across man war industries and railroads constant slam of our artillery. one cruiser was torpedoed and the Maas yesterday, seizing all but mounted to a new pitch yesterday "I'll say Annie doesn't know the Yanks Drive smaller ships were severely strafed. the flooded southwest corner ol when the Eighth Air Force and the tricks," said Miriam Minton, of Approximately 150 enemy planes the rail and communications center RAF together sent more than 2,200 Metuchen, N.J. "Once we were Japs Back to were destroyed. These results were of Hertogenbosch. North of Ant heavy bombers plus escorting fight- riding all day and really had t go. detailed in Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's werp Canadians struggled through ers to hammer targets in the north- We came to an outfit in the woods communique on the basis of incom- bog and marshland into the Beve- western part of the Reich. and told cur troubles to the CO. LeyteFoothills plete reports; the Japanese com- land causeway to silence Nazi Over .1,200 Flying Fortresses and And while all those GIs stood in munique admitted the loss of two formation we did what we had to artillery commanding the Scheldt, Liberators, escorted by more than GEN. MACARTHUR'S HQ., cruisers and one destroyer sunk. According to United Press, the do. They still don't know what the 500 fighters, bombed Germany's LEYTE, Oct. 25 (UP).—U.S. forces U.S. Escort Carrier Sunk 40,000 Nazi troops between the largest railway yard at Hamm, oil call was blown for." on Leyte drove the Japs back into In return, the U.S. lost the 10,000- British-Canadian front and the Lek refineries in the Hamburg-Harburg Over the trailer, snarling, flame- River in Central Holland are be- area, and other objectives. tailed and skimming the trees, two the foothills of the central moun- ton escort carrier Princeton, but robot bombs roared on their blind her captain, 133 other officers and lieved to have been concentrated In the afternoon, more than tain range today, deepening their south of the Maas. (Continued on Page 4) 1,227 enlisted men were rescued. 1,000 RAF heavies, escorted by foothold to a depth of ten miles The only escape gap open to squadrons of Spitfires and Mus- and a length of about 30 miles. these troops are three minor tangs, attacked the armament and With the capture of San Pablo Mightiest Air Smash bridges west of captured Hertogen- railway center at Essen and added airdrome ten miles west of Dulag bosch, but these, United Press more bombs to those the Eighth Yanks Capture said, are incapable of carrying at the southern end of the front, Rocks Jap Homelsles had dropped on synthetic oil plants heavy military traffic and might the Americans now have three good at Hamburg. The attack on Essen have been cut by fighter-bombers. ologna Key airfields for land-based aircraft. The heaviest Superfortress lasted, half an hour and smoke Bulldozer crews are already at work raid carried out thus far against 11.000 More Cut from large fires rose to 10,000 feet. ROME, Oct. 25—American troops rehabilitating the blasted fields. Japan's home islands was re- Capture of Hertogenbosch, which RAF Loses 4 Bombers climaxed weeks of bloody fighting A New York radio report from ported yesterday by Tokyo radio. the Germans deemed important Four RAF bombers were reported yesterday by cracking through Leyte said that more than 3,000 There was no immediate confir- enough in 1940 to take with para- missing from the operations. strong German resistance to capture Japanese had been killed so far. mation from Washington. troops, also severs communications In the only Ninth Air Force Monte Belmonte, key town to (Meanwhile carrier aircraft of the The Japs said that approxi- between the main German force mately 100 Superforts from operation , reported yesterday, ap- Bologna. The town lies eight miles Seventh Fleet executed close sup- in Central Holland and approxi- China carried out a late proximately 60 Thunderbolts at- south of the city. port missions against enemy ground mately 11,000 Nazi defenders now morning raid against Kyushu, tacked enemy transportation in At the same time other Yanks of installations, supply dumps and heart of Japan's steel industry, (Continued on Page 4) western Germany, disabling five lo- the Fifth Army, northeast of there, lines of communications. Carrier and Saishu. comotives and destroying four struck within four miles of the planes attacking enemy airdromes freight cars and two trucks. Bologna-Rimini highway in a drive destroyed or damaged 62 planes on De Gaulle Sees Attacking enemy rail facilities in aimed at cutting the enemy's main the ground.) The two-year-old Princeton was se- support of the First Army, Ninth supply route through the Po Valley Four U.S. submarines have been riously damaged by shore-based Air Force fighter bombers Tuesday The doughboys were strongly sup- transporting arms, ammunitic i and Japanese planes. Hard Struggle severed railroad lines 15 miles south ported by planes. medical supplies to Filipino guer- Subsequently her magazines ex- of Euskirohen, ripped up tracks in British Fifth Army troops con rillas since autumn. 1942, when a ploded "and the ship, badly crip- six places southwest of Coblenz and tinued their advance toward San faint radio signal from the island pled, \ : s sunk," Nimitz announced. Gen. Charles de Gaulle declared attacked a railroad bridge ten miles Pietro, taking a height six and a of Panay indicated their existence, The rescue of most of the crew in- yesterday "we must anticipate a southwest of Mayen. half miles south of there. Mac Arthur disclosed. dicated the carrier probably was fairly long and in any case a very sunk by her escorts to prevent her hard campaign on German soil" falling into enemy hands. this winter. In Washington, Admiral Ernest "We shall need great efforts by J. King announced that practically the troops, especially the infantry, Antwerp Is Key To Reich's Door the entire Japanese fleet was in- and we must expect heavy losses," volved in the current sea-air battle. he said in his first press conference The Japanese claimed to have since his return to Paris. By Richard Lewis sunk four U.S. carriers, Including De Gaulle expressed the view that Stars and Stripes Statt Writer. one of the big Enterprise class, two the German west front had power- While the First U.S. Army is cruisers, one destroyer and at least ful defenses which were beinc poised at Aachen for the drive to (Continued crt Page 4) strengthened daily and that the the Rhine and the Third is besieg- Allied armies would have to conduct ing Metz, two Allied armies in the difficult break-through operations. lowlands are closing hi on one of GIs Sub-Par Physically "France is ready and anxious to the world's most vital military take a much larger part in the war areas, the 50-mile Scheldt River es- May Now Be Discharged efforts," the general said, "but tuary from Antwerp to the sea. pending our ability to re-start our Until the Scheldt is cleared of own armament output we cannot WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—A plan Germans, whose massive coastal for discharge of enlisted men who greatly increase our effort unless we guns at Flushing dominate the es- receive arms from our Allies. Since do not meet minimum physical tuary, the great Antwerp docks are induction standards and for whom the beginning of the Normandy useless to the Allies, who must now Bruges campaign we have not received no appropriate assignment is avail- supply their European armies from able, has been announced by the enough from our Allies to equip Cherbourg and the floating Brit- any large French unit." War Department. ish docks at Arromanches nearly The ruling applies to all person- 400 miles to the south. The British-Canadian attacks north of Antwerp and in south-central nel in the United States or over- The British-Canadian drive over- Nazis Report War Gas Boost Holland are aimed at breaking German control over the Scheldt River seas. Soldiers overseas who fall STOCKHOLM, Oct. 25 (Reuter). ran Belgium so quickly five weeks estuary to open the Antwerp ports to Allied shipping, thus shortening within the category will be reported —The newspaper Aftonblatet quot- ago that Antwerp was taken before Allied supply lines by hundreds of miles. as available for return to the United ing "reports from Germany" said the Germans could demolish port States without replacement. Deter- today that the Nazis have increased installations. The Nazis, however, ago by a Roman army which dis- jective upon which the Nazis be- mination of eligibilty for discharge their production of poison gas In succeeded in blockading that port lodged a Germanic pirate who had lieve the imminent invasion of the is a responsibility of the Medical the last few months and now have by an ancient strategy. seized the estuary to hang tribute Reich depends. Department, while commanding of- 500,000 workers manufacturing it In the city of Antwerp stands a on its traffic. The denial of ports has always ficers are responsible for determin- in 70 factories working 24 hours a statue, commemorating the re- To dislodge the modern German been a primary aspect of German ing whether or not an appropriate day. opening of the port some 2,000 years from the estuary is an Allied ob- (Continued on Page 4) assignment is reasonably available. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Oct. 26, 1944 An Editorial

New Death Dealers A Progress Report The Ordnance Corps has just taken the wraps off some rpHE document over which of the U.S. Army's newest and most devastating weapons these three men are being used to blast the Siegfried Line fortifications. hovering to oblige a press One is the 240mm. Howitzer, the largest American gun photographer is the original overseas in any theater. A recent development of Ordnance technology, this mobile "devastator" copy of the Declaration of can heave a 350-pound projectile over the channel. Shaw and Wa- Independence. The occasion many miles with pin-pomt accuracy gner floated on the wing until for photographing that his- Two other heavy artillery pieces picked up by a British ship. toric treatise on the political announced are the eight-inch Howit- "I got back for another beer, zer and the eight-inch gun. which anyway," said Wagner. rights of freemen was Its has a longer range than the 240mm., restoration to the Library of * * * but fires a lighter projectile. Congress at Washington. Among the new tank destroyers Concrete Stew < * * * are the M-36 mounting a 90mm. There's trouble cooking for gun and the M-18 "Hellcat" with Ever since Pearl Harbor the Nazis in a batch of mobile 76mm. gun. One of these M-18s field kitchens captured recently it has been kept in a secret knocked out a German 88mm. gun by U.S. Army Engineers. They've and bomb-proof crypt. Be at 4.000 yards—more than two miles. been converted into asphalt fore it was returned from heaters for use'in road repair that place of safety the per * * * in—and beyond—the Siegfried Line. mission of the joint chiefs Red Ball Blues of staff was obtained. "Blues in the Night" for * * * drivers on the "Red Bail Ex- One-Man Tank * * * press" is furnished by a 22- We cite all this just in piece orchestra from a Port Sgt. Oliver G. Lydick qualifies for "One-Man Tank," and we mean case you don't quite ap- Battalion. The band has been preciate what has been won. still were relatively feeble. plenty of sacrifice yet to De traveling the Red Ball Circuit this in the nice way. Aboard a However it may look from leading Sherman entering a town 1 It may seem a little unreal, made; but the United States lately, so there has been plenty this distance, on Dec. 7, and its people are secure. of rug cutting in the mud. defended by 100 Germans, Lydick j now, that there ever was a They recently completed a tour stood up in the gun mount with time when the Republic of 1941, it was entirely possible * * * * no protection, manned a machine of hospitals. Previously, they the United States of Amer- that war might come to showed their versatility by gun and in short order killed three, ] The men of the armed ica had to hide its treasures America in the same bloody working 20 hours a day for wounded seven and helped to cap- sense that it already had forces have lifted a grim weeks right after D-Day as ture 30. An hour later Lydick and lest enemies destroy them. threat, and the restoration winch operators, longshoremen his platoon took over the town. come to Europe and Asia. and laborers. He's been awarded a Bronze Star * * * of the Declaration of In- Medal. Less than three years ago, * * * dependence to a place of * * * . * * * that was the case. America The war is by no means public display is the symbol Memo to Gen. Gerhardt: MessengerBoy Makes Good had been attacked by Japan. finished, but there no longer of their accomplishment. Can you use a couple more good Marvin Pearcy's first job In Germany had declared war can be any doubt as to its The tide of war was first men, Gen. Gerhardt? the Army, in June, 1941, was upon it. Both were powerful main course from here on held at bay and then thrust Yesterday Pfc Marvin R Acker- battalion messenger in an ar- con, of Tacoma, Wash., came into war machines. The military in. There is plenty of bitter back so far that it cannot mored infantry regiment of the sinews of the United States fighting still to be done, lap at home thresholds. the office of The Stars and Stripes, Second Armored Division. Dur- while Pvt. Rodney R. Weaver, of ing an artillery battle in Ger- Bridgeport, Neb., waited in the truck outside. m a n y, the regimental com- mander called Pearcy to his They had read the B-Bag blast of the "1-A in a 4-P outfit." And headquarters, took off his first Thp R Rao- Blow lt -\\qsh Cfl0Ak6 looey's bars, and pinned on the they had seen, too, where Maj. Gen. 1 11C J_> Dd.g out Here Charles Gerhardt, CG of the 29th bars of a captain. Infantry Division, wrote to us and Pearcy missed Pfc and buck Note on Anglo-American rela- said he could use a man like that sergeant on his way to a com- Tee-Oh Trouble the promotion of 2d lieutenants!) tions: The British can' count on who really wanted to fight. pany commander's assignment, —2d Lt. D. C, F. A. Bn. American loyalty. We'll stick with but he held all the others. He Promotions of 2d Looies are the them till the Mild and Bitter end. Well, general, can you use these (Which reminds me, boss, how » • » got his commission in Africa rarest thing in the U.S. Army—es- two? Ackerson is 30, looks rough about another stripe?—B Bag Ed.) And then there was the disgusted anu healthy. Weaver is 20, big, and his silver bars after the pecially in the Field Artillery. In * * * WREN who came back to quarters blond and tough. They are both Carentan scuffle. His home almost two years, I have seen one saying, "That's the last me I wear wcrking for the 583d Quartermaster town is Shelton, Wash. Curtain! Sales Store and want to get assigned * * * 2d Looie make 1st. In the replace- "to a regular outfit. A combat out- ment centers. Infantry, A.AA.. and First wedding on the continent: Chicago Story 2/Lt. Elizabeth Wood, of Swansea. fit." Weaver says. all other types of services you see We'll send along their serial CpL Edward L. Holtzrichter, of Mass., and 1/Lt. John Filigenzi, of numbers. Chicago, is envious of his cousin promotions go in every day. In the The Bronx, at Cherbourg, Sept. 2. * * * Heinrich Holtzrichter, late of the British Army six months and a —Pfc G. E. Taylor.. . First mimeo- Wehrmacht. The story is that shavetail makes first. graphed poop sheet:— We did it.— Heinrich has been taken prisoner W/O D'Adamo, 1st Sig. Co., 1st Army Smithy I know many shavies who have A U.S. Army blacksmith shop and moved to a prison camp at Inf. . . . Longest bridge: We did been in plenty of combat, wounded, in France, modern as tomorrow, Camp Grant, 111., only 60 miles from it at Pont-a-Mousson over Moselle, has been built in a captured Chicago. did excellent work and they're still 966ft.—1/Sgt. R. A. Cockcroft, Co Edward realizes, though, that Chi- where they started. (I hope some- F., Eng. Reg. German freight car by Sgts. a uniform when I go out with that Clarence Snyder and John cago has been placed "off limits" one higher up sees this and sets World premiere of "Casanova for all German soldiers. some standard of time governing guy—he doesn't kiss me good night Dsiedzich and CpL Lee Olsen, Brown": Shown by 12 Corps Spe- anymore, he just salutes." of a Railway Operating Batta- cial Service Co. on July 29.—1/Lt. • » • P. V. Farrell. lion. It's complete as well as Up Front with Mauldin We have been told that the girl portable and can be hooked on (If you are firster or built it big- of today is as good as one of 20 a train and taken most any- ger, blow it out some other B Bag! years ago—if she isn't the same where needed. —Ed.) * * * girl. * There's a sergeant in the ETO French Ogden Nashs Regular Army Plea who deserves some sort of medal, We hear a lot now about the Gl we think; and a colonel who like- The French children dp it In Bill of Rights and what will hap- wise deserves commendation on the verse now, according to lit. James pen after the war when GI Joe strength of a magnificent come- F. Watson, a 90th Division liaison leaves the Army. back. The colonel was walking officer, who said they approached Someone will be needed to keep along loaded down with a pipe, him recently, saying in chorus: the "standing" army in training brief case and raincoat, all mani- "Cigarettes pour papa, and abreast of modern warfare Chocolat pour mama, technique. It certainly cant be Et choolng gum pour moi." done by commissioned officers only. * * * What's offered to the guy with pre- war and combat experience-as well, No Dutch Treat as an incentive to stay in the army When Sgt. Conley B. Wagner, after this is over with? 82nd Airborne Division gliderman Very little is written as to how from Beckley, W. Va., started for he will be taken care of if he de- Holland, it took more than "hell cides to stay in the Army after and high water" to stop him. His Tojo and Hitler are taken care of. glider dropped into the North Let's hear something about it'— Sea and he and his pilot, F/O "Maybe. . . Maybe Not," Inf. pulated by his right arm and hand. Lawrence Shaw, of Akron, Ohio, * * * The sergeant saluted and the col- floated on the wing several hours onel confusedly threw a left-handed until rescued. They hitch-hiked Fumigation First highball. The sarge promptly came 300 miles, then wangled another I'd like to remark upon the clos- to attention in front of the officer ride to Holland. Near Nijmegen ing of all schools in Roetgen, Ger- anc" said, "I beg your pardon, sir." their glider again was forced down many. Why? The colonel then shifted all his Keep them open and let those gear, gave a proper salute, said, THE STARS AND STRIPES German exile educators go to work "Thank you, sergeant," and walked Printed at the New Yorlc Herald They should follow our troops on down the street. Tribune plant. 21 rue de Bern. Paris, through Germany, spreading their for the U.S. armed forces under aus- pices ot the Special Services Division. anti-fascist, democratic ideas as And speaking of Hitler, we under- ETOUSA. Tel.: Editorial. Elysees 73-44 soon as possible. We must not stand his title has undergone a Circulation, Elysees 84-28. lose any time in re-educating the slight change. He is now known Contents passed by the D.S. Army as Der Fearer. and Navy censors Entered as second German youth, especially those who • • * class matter Mar. IS. 1943, at the have not grown up enough to have post office. New York. N.Y, under Conversation during a Date. "Do the act of Mar. 3. 1878. the fascist virus penetrate their you mind if I turn out those lights Vol. 1, No. 98 every thought.—Per. J. s. Edelman, Inf. —I freckle easy!" Straighten those shoulders! How long have you been in the Army?'* J. C. W. Thursday, Oct. 26, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Diamond Dust Too Late to Foil Pass Play 3 Homer in All Parks Army Plays

T^EW YORK, Oct. 25.—Jim Tobin figured in all three no-hitters pitched Duke;Navy i-~ during the '44 campaign . . . The Boston Braves' right-hander tossed two of them and was the victim once . . . He beat the Dodgers on April 27 without yielding a safe hit, and repeated his performance in a five-in- Faces Peno ning game against the Phillies on June 22. But, sandwiched between his two hitless efforts, Tobin wound up on the short end of a no-hitter pitched by Clyde Shoun of Cincinnati. NEW YORK, Oct. 25. — Mort Cooper of the Cards and Hal Newhouser, Detroit's workhorse southpaw, led their respective leagues in shutouts with seven each. Observers will be able to draw rpHE presence of considerable "rabbit" in "the baseball used by the major a comparison between Navy leagues last season is shown in figures released today. and Army after Saturday's football No less than three players hit homers in every park in their duel between the Cadets and un- league, after only one did it in 1943 and nobody in '42 . . . Ron predictable Duke at Yankee Sta- Northey of the Phillies completed dium, New York. the cycle at Cincinnati, on Aug. The Middies, still licking their 22, and Whitey Kurowski of the wounds after stumbling against Cardinals made it in Brooklyn, on Georgia Tech. will be gunning for Sept. 27 . . . The lone American revenge when they invade the bai- Leaguer to hit for the circuit in liwick of Penn. Last year Navy thumped the Quakers, 24-7. every park was Yankee Outfielder Indiana's sticky-fingered Ralph Thompson snatches pass just before Johnny Lindell, whose homer at Halfback Ben Schadler of Northwestern closes in to make tackle. No Breather for Army Detroit on Sept. 19 filled him in at Hoosiers won, 14-7. Although this week is the "lull" eight parks. before Army, Navy and Notre Dame Johnny Lindell Nick Etten's is, homers is the Whitey Kurowski , swing into their annual series of Jowest figure to lead the "Yankee League' since Babe Ruth and Tilly ; grid classics, the Cadets will not '•Walker swatted 11 apiece in 1918. McKeever Discards Rockne's j enjoy a breather against Duke. The NE matter that is sure to come up for discussion and may be decided 9 Blue Devils put up a valiant battle O when major league magnates meet in December is the matter of ' before succumbing to Navy, 7-0, naming a successor to Kenesaw Mountain Landis . . . The aged jurist 'Shock Troop Practice Plan j and the lads from the Point won"t has a contract that runs until Jan. 12,1946, but his illness has brought the be able to coast through this test. matter into sharp focus. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 25.—Ed McKeever, Notre Dame Next week Army will get a respite, It is .generally acknowledged that Landis would like to have his secre- grid pilot, disclosed today that war and a heavy schedule matching touchdowns with unaer- tary, Leslie O'Connor, succeed him . .. Club owners can envisage nothing , manned Villanova, while Notre worse than O'Connor in the commissioner's chair. have forced abandonment of the school's traditional two- j Dame will risk its unblemished Their beef at O'Connor stems from the popular Idea that whenever team practice system instituted by the late Knute Rockne, slate—unless, of course, the Irish Landis lowers the boom on club owners for rules infractions, it has been ■ — which gave the Ramblers two bow to Illinois come Saturday— O'Connor's snooping that did it . . Leslie's ability to smell a rat through powerful teams to take turns ham- against Navy. The Middies haven't legal double-talk in contracts between players and owners has resulted mering down the opposition. forgotten last year's 33-6 humilia- in many valuable players being turned loose from their employers. ND Tops Army The' impending transfer of Chick tion at the hands of Notre Dame, Maggioli, first team halfback; but it's doubtful that they pack In Weekly Poll Arthur Statute, enough weapons to sidetrack the second string Ramblers. Once Over Lightly NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Notre center, and ND-Army Tops Slate Dame managed to hold its place George Terlep, What promises to be the head- — By Charlie Kiley atop the nation's football teams in reserve half- liner of the season, and might very EW YORK, Oct. 25.—Mention of , and ran almost the length of a this week's Associated Press polo, back, plus the easily produce the mythical natio- N Claude "Buddy" Young, Negro frozen field for the touchdown that but the Fighting Irish barely nosed fact that Notre nal champion, will be unveiled in Dame meets Ill- NCAA sprint champion from Il- whipped heavily favored Army. out Army by one first place vote. New York on Nov. 11 when the This is the 11th straight week inois, Navy and ■Irish tackle Army. Armistice Day, linois, as the fastest man ever to ■FOOTBALL reindeers, whose main Army on suc- tread the football field is bound to over a two-year period that finds or no, there'll be no peace for either forte is swiftness, belong by Notre Dame in the No. 1 position. cessive Satur- team that afternoon. incite college alumni from Notre themselves among backs who could days, forced his Dame to Oshkosh Teachers, who The first ten teams and their Unbeaten Georgia Tech returns be divided into several categories. action, McKee- have their own candidates for the vote totals: to the wars Friday night against Climax runners like Red Grange, Notre Dame 917 ver said. Georgia Pre-Flight, which dropped —^gridiron's "fastest human." Marchy Schwartz, Albie Booth, Army 909 Maggioli is a a heart-breaking 3-0 verdict to Your fathers, of course, would Randolph Field 853 Bob Kelly Cagle and Tommy Harmon may be" Ohio State "90 Marine and the North Carolina Pre-Flight last come up with Fritz Pollard, another slower afoot, but are the type that Georgia Tech 589 other two are sailors, and all will week. Tulsa, unheralded and un- Negro flash whose track and foot- shake loose at Iowa Pre-Flight 347 be leaving after the Illinois game beaten. Dumps into Oklahoma Ag- ball records hang high in Brown's Tulsa .... 269 * any time from next Saturday. Bob Kelly, sensa- gies Saturday. Tainbridge Naval, haU of fame. The Orangemen from Pennsylvania 269 any point N. Carolina Pre-Flight.... 166 tional halfback who has scored 54 the east's service power, plays Syracuse have Olympians Ray Bar- through a bro- Purdue 153 of Notre Dame's 176 points, is Daniel Field under the arc lights buti and Marty Glickman among ken field for slated to depart soon for navai Friday. track stars who contributed sheer duty. more spectacu- Ned Irish Ridicules speed to gridiron squads. lar runs. McKeever started to sour on the Then there are Notre Dame's mass substitution scheme last Then there Phog Allen's Charges Jack Elder, Princeton's Jack White, Saturday when Wisconsin scored Billy Arnold are powerhouse two touchdowns, the first points North Carolina's George Stirnweiss pile-drivers like NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Ned Irish, and, more recently, Colgate's In- acting president of Madison Square yielded by the Irish this season. Ernie Nevers, "From now on, we will have our KOs Robinson dian Bill Geyer. who whizzed both Bronko Nagur- Garden, today said that charges on the cinder paths and on the strongest possible team on the field ski. Herb Joe- made by Phog Allen. Kansas cage NEW YORK, Oct. 25. —Billy football fields. Elder practically at all times," McKeever declared sting, Johnny coach, concerning gamblers and Arnold, talented Philadelphia high made himself an ND immortal with basketball players are "nothing but today. "Illinois is sure to score on tommy Harmon Kimbrough and us, but we will have to try to out- school welterweight, rapped out his his speed on one play—in 1929 when Andy Farkas, baseless repetition of allegations he 27th knockout in 29 professional he intercepted a Chris Cagle pass picked up by hearsay." score them." who could do many things once That, incidentally, happens to fights when he blasted Ernest they got their hands on the ball, Allen had charged that basketball "Cat" Robinson, of New York, in games had actually been thrown by be the object of football. Or didn't but mainly used their power to you know. 2:42 of the second round last night Football-less College crush the opposition. college boys in the Garden for at the St. Nicholas Arena. gamblers. Irish asked him f^r spe- Outstanding examples of players Robinson, at 146, enjoyed a one- 'Adopts' 2nd AAF Club cific information and Allen sent Wage Dispute Closes and-a-half-pound pull in weights, whose pitching arms led them to him a telegram, naming a player football fame could include Benny but he didn't have a chance when who allegedly sold cut to the gam- 160 Bowling Alleys the youngster began to whirl his PULLMAN. Wash., Oct. 2a.— Friedman, Sammy Baugh, Davey blers. Washington State College, which O'Brien, Sid Luckman, Frankie devastating leather. abandoned football year ago, has "Allen has been doing that sort ST. PAUL, Oct. 25.—Proprietors Arnold belted Robinson through a Sinkwich and Paul Governali, while of thing for years," Irish said. "adopted" the Second AAF eleven others served their coaches and of 160 bowling alleys here have the ropes for nine early in the and plans to make the Washington "What mystifies me is that people bolted their doors for the duration second round. In the next ex- more sensational backfieldbretheren take him seriously in the light of University-Second AAF gt ie at through their blocking qualities. because "we can't afford to pay change, Robinson fell to the ropes, his previous false prophecies." the wages ordered by the War La- Spokane on Nov. 18 its "big game" Grange had Earl Britton to clear helpless from a flurry of lefts and of the year. a path, Cagle had Johnny Murrell bor Board," it was announced today. rights, and was counted out. Their decision put a halt to what t The student body at State College and Harmon had Forrest Evashev- Bisons to Pay Bucky has reser'ed an entire section of ski. would have been St. Paul's greatest Piatt Leads Sailors Gonzaga Stadium for the game and More Than Griffs Did bowling season with 1,586 teams OUT this isn't saying much about slated to play in 190 leagues. GREAT LAKES, 111., Oct. 25.— will bring their band, cheer leaders 13 BUFFALO, Oct. 25.—Bucky Har- Whitey Piatt led the Great Lakes and cougar mascot Buddy Young being the "fast- ris, former boy wonder of the Wash- est man in football history," which Naval baseball team hi hitting this ington Senators and ex-major Cartier Dies year with .428, it was announced is what we started out to talk league manager, has signed a new Tigers Sign Trocolar about. The fact is, however, that TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 25.—George today. Johnny McCarthy, former contract to lead the International Boston Brave first baseman, drove the fleet Illini freshman has been Cartier, member of Notre Dame's BROOKLYN, Oct. 25.—Bob Tro- League Bisons. first football team in 1887 and in 70 runs to head in that depart- colar, former Long Island Univer- zipping past wing guardians so fast ! Bucky's salary will be $15,000, donor of the baseball field on the ment, while Virgil Trucks, ex-Tiger sity and New York Giants halfback, he doesn't even draw a "Who goes more than he received when he was Irish campus, died here today. He hurler, led the pitchers with ten has been signed by Brooklyn's in- there?" challenge. j master-minding the Senators. was 76. straight victories. jury-riddled Tigers of the National Football League, Lil'l Abner By Courtesy of United Features. By Al Capp Help Wanted —AND GIVEN Write your question or problem to Help Wanted. The StaM and Stripes, Paris, France.

APOs WANTED FO Bill "Terry" Agnew; I* John M. P Becht, Lima; OWO Glen U. Bowser: T/5 Prank Brundige; Lt. Gordon Bucha- nan, Bradford. Pa.; Mike Campbell, 4206- 6628; Lester Carney, Camp Jackson: Sarah Cox, ARC, ColUnsville; Lt. Ann Evans, Tex.; MaJ. Homer A. Forsythe, Cambridge; Lt. Col. Richard M. Free. Ooatesville; Richard Freeman, Detroit: Sgt. Jim Hen- . dersonae , Blsbee: Pvt. Edward H Hjorts- rg, 32697069; Lt. Louis M. Howell. Butte Harold P. Uutchins, Cleveland Heights. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Oct. 26, 1?44 6,000,000 GIs Just Before the Battle, Mother Soviets Near Now Overseas, Vital Center Says Patterson Of E. Prussia NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (ANS).— Powerful forces of Russian armor Undersecretary of War Robert P. and infantrymen, supported by Patterson disclosed today that waves of Red warplanes, hammer- . 6.000,000 American men, three times ing on into East Prussia, were re- the number in the first World War ported last night within 15 miles AEP, now are fighting overseas. of Insterburg, key strongpoint be- Patterson, addressing a New York fore the major city of Koenigsburg, Bar Association luncheon, stressed 50 miles to the northwest on the the fact that winning the war is Baltic Sea. "still the number one job." Meanwhile, the Red Army crossed Assailing the home front assump- the Norwegian frontier from Fin* tion of a "quick victory," Patterson land, capturing the strategic Nor- said our advances in Europe in wegian port of Kirkenes on the recent weeks have been measured way, Marshal Stalin announced in in yards and not miles, adding that an order of the day last night. The casualties have been heavy. Germans had said earlier that they Patterson reiterated the War evacuated Kirkenes, their chief Department assurance that soldiers escape point on the Barents Sea, would not be retained in the Army after all military installations had when they are no longer needed. been destroyed. 4T South of the East Prussian bat- Ernie Pyle Gets Degree tleground, the whole of Transyl- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 25. vania was cleared of the Germans —Ernie Pyle, columnist and war following capture of Satu-Mare, 60 correspondent, will receive an hono- miles east of Debreczen, Marshal"*^ rary degree of Doctor of Letters at Stalin said in an order of the day. the University of New Mexico's While Soviet air attacks left In- special commencement exercises to- sterburg in flames and heavy Rus- morrow. Pyle arrived at his home sian artillery shelled the traffic here recently to rest after serving center, the Germans east of the as correspondent with the American city were reported by Associated forces in ^oDe. Press to have thrown four panzer divisions, including the well-known New Pacific Air Link Herman Goering and SS Greater HONOLULU, Oct. 25 (ANS).— Germany, into an all-out struggle Establishment of regular Naval air to prevent a total Red break- transport cargo and passenger ser- through. vice to Peleliu in the Palau Islands German News Agency said the was announced yesterday. This was Russians had resumed a major of- the 25th link in widespread Naval fensive between Warsaw and their air transport service in the Pacific Narew River bridgehead, with the over 27,000 miles of ocean routes. once-free port of Danzig the ultim- ate goal. Berlin admitted the loss New Ballot Request Denied of Modlin, 20 miles northwest of OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 25.— Warsaw and apparently in the path Randell S. Cobb, Oklahoma's attor- of the Danzig push. ney general, has refused a "ulsa soldier's request to cancel his first The bobby-sox brigade sighed, perspiration dripped and eggs were war ballot and rush another. The thrown when Frankie Sinatra put in a recent New York appearance. Airlines Official Claims soldier said he "got to thinking" One disgruntled lad threw out the first egg and several sailors soon and decided he had voted for the Trans - Atlantic Record wrong man. chimed in with tomatoes. The attack didn't reduce the ranks of Frankie's feminine fandom, who threatened to tear the egg-heavers NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (ANS).—A Orson Welles Seriously 111 apart before the cops stepped in. * new trans - Atlantic commercial NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (ANS).— flight record of 14 hours, 17 min- -jw« Actor Orson Welles, who has been 9 utes from LaGuardia Field, New suffering from a throat infection York, to Foynes, Eire, was claimed since Friday, was reported today to Dozer Dodged D-Day Fire today by James M. Eaton, vice-pre- be in a "very serious" but not cri- sident of American Export Airlines. tical condition. The new record, he said, was one Clearing Beach; GIs Get DSC hour 13 minutes faster than the best previous time. It was made by Pacific .... WITH THE SIXTH ENGINEER bulldozer was a specific target of a ship piloted by Capt. Charles L. SPECIAL BRIGADE IN FRANCE, mortar and cannon fire, then, in Blair Jr., carrying 14 passengers (Continued from Page 1) Oct. 25.—Twe bulldozer privates the midst of battle, cleared obstruc- and a full cargo load. and an engineer colonel have been tions from beach exits, smashed four transports and to have dam- awarded the DSC for gallantry on road blocks and filled in anti-tank 40,000 Nazis Princess Beatrice III aged heavily two more carriers, one D-Day, by Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, traps. LONDON, Oct. 25 (Reuter).-* battleship and two cruisers. Little commanding general, Communica- Talley's mission was to report on In Dutch Trap Princess Beatrice, 87, last surviving credence was placed in these claims tions Zone, ETO. They are Pvt. operations progress to the corps child of Queen Victoria, is seriously in view of Tokyo's consistent exag- William J. Shoemaker, Ebensburg, commander. Following closely the (Continued from Page 1) ill, it was announced last night. geration of her timorous fleet's ac- Pa.; Pvt. Vinton W. Dove, Wash- initial wave, he landed his "Ducks'" tivities for home consumption. ington, and Col. Benjamin B. after, three attempts had been re- cut off on the Scheldt north shore These actions between planes and Talley, of Flat Woods, W. Va. pelled with considerable loss, led and the Beveland causeway. ships took place on Monday (ETO Working in shifts, Shoemakei his men into the heaviest fighting Fanatical German paratroopers Pot Shot.... time). On Tuesday "the enemy and Vinton dragged capsized veh- and carried out his mission until were reported fighting for every (Continued from Page 1) forces were brought to action," Ni- icles out of the surf while their corps HQ came ashore. foot of bog southeast of Bergen Op mitz's communique said yesterday, Zoom to slow down Canadians flight. The girls watched them "General action is continuing." trying to get at Nazi artillery posi- their material must go to end the tions on Walcheren. come and go, stumbling through The action started early Monday war. the mud to. a glade so they could when two of the Japanese fleets German coastal batteries on the For two weeks, the RAF has ham- island, at the mouth ot the Scheldt see the pilotless planes going over. were first sighted by planes from Antwerp.... mered the concealed coastal bat- "One night they camouflaged Adm. William F. Halsey's Third (Continued from Page 1) River estuary, have been bombed our straddle trench so well we teries on Walcheren Island at the repeatedly, but at least one battery Fleet in central Philippine waters. mouth of the Scheldt, and has couldn't find it at all," said Helen One force was sighted south of commanding the estuary is still fir- Fries, of Washington, D.C., the good- defensive strategy. The beach land- opened the dykes at Flushing, in- ing, it was reported by United Mindoro moving eastward through ings in Normandy were predicated undating former Nazi positions over looking wife of a tank battalion the Sibyuan Sea on a course which Press. commander. "There were GIs be- on the construction of floating an area two miles inland on both On the south side of the estuary, would have taken it to Leyte fr^m harbors, like the pre-f abricated port sides of the city. hind every hedge row and we hun- the northwest. The other was lo- Germans were reported fighting like ted around until we came to a stone at Arromanches, and a quick seizure On the south bank of the es- maniacs in underground tunnels cated in the Sulu Sea southwest of of Cherbourg. wall we could use for cover. What Negros Island apparently heading tuary, the Canadian First Army and and from pillboxes west of Breskens But lengthening Allied supply British units have trapped a large a luxury a men's room would be. for Leyte from the southwest. to protect coast artillery gun posi- Miss Sheridan was really living. lines and indications that the bat- German force in a pocket around tions which cover the Scheldt from The northern force consisted of tle in Germany may be long and the port of Breskens and have Only she didn't know it." "three or four battleships," tea the south. "Maybe," cooed Miss Anderson, cruisers and 13 destroyers. All the exhausting have demanded a closer nearly all of the south bank of who is definitely not a member of battleships were damaged by bombs, port of supply. Antwerp is that the estuary under control from the 4Fs Still Howl the Ann Sheridan Fan Club. "May- ' at least one was hit by a torpedo port. Channel coast to the Albert Canal. MADISON, Wis., Oct. 25.—Maybe be, Annie should stay in Hollywood and a cruiser of this group was It is the most important harbor Canadians and British are driv- it's the war, but Wisconsin notes where the latrines are steam- torpedoed. between Calais and The Hague, the ing into the north bank of the a wolf shortage. Only 194 were heated." The southern force included two historic sea gateway into Central Scheldt in an attempt to capture killed in the last year. All were By this time Miss Sheridan and battleships, one cruiser and four Europe into which the Allies and the German batteries. quadrupeds. the doughnuts were well done. destroyers. Both battleships were bombed and light units strafed. Terry And The Pirates By Courtesy of News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff British Nearing Yjtal Rail Junction in Greece ROME, Oct. 25.—British troops today advanced north of Dhomokos, 30 miles north of Lamai, and for- ward patrols pushed to within 40 miles of Larissa, the most impor- tant road and rail junction in cen- tral Greece. German troops retreating north- ward suffered heavy casualties at the hands of Greek patriots. Ad- ditional troops were landed at Pi- raeus.