1St Army Opens New Drive Below Hurtgen; Pre-Hitler Border in Saar

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Vol. 1—No. 140 1W& New York — PARIS—London lFr. Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944

ASF, AAF Jap Fought in Florida —//is CO Told Him So 1st Army Opens New Drive

WITH 41s« INF. DIV., South- ToTransfer west Pacific, Dec. 13 (AP).—A security patrol combing an island in the Southwest Pacific for Below Hurtgen; Pre-Hitler 65,000 Men enemy stragglers recently captured a Japanese soldier who thought he was in Florida. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 During the questioning the (ANS).—Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, prisoner was quite emphatic— Border in Saar Is Pierced he knew he was in Florida be- chief of Army Ground Forces, cause his commanding officer said today that a radical had told him so. He said he change in the mission of the didn't like the place and thought Armor to Artillerv to Air Force Last Metz Bastion AGF is resulting in the trans- it wasn't worth much. fer of 65,000 soldiers from Captured After the air and service forces, Nagoya, Tokyo 3-Week Siege with the possibility that more will be shifted. In addition, the change means Bombed; Leyte Three American Armies that whole units are being switched smashed ahead yesterday from assignments no longer ne- Convoy Cut Up along a 250-mile battle arc cessary to fighting duties. from the Aachen Gap to the "By no means," he said, "is this a sudden manpower shift to bal- WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (ANS). Rhine. First Army launched ance the scales. Instead, it is an —Japan's third largest city—Na- a pre-dawn attack toward the Index that the usefulness of these goya—was blasted today by B29s Ruhr, Third Army pierced the soldiers in their previous services from Saipan, while in the Philippine pre-Hitler German border in has ceased and now exists to a area other U.S. planes sank three great degree in the ground forces. destroyers and three transports off the eastern Saar and the May Shift More the north coast of Leyte. Seventh Army pushed up the Tokyo radio said that more than Bhineland toward the frontier as "It is estimated that, as the need 100 Superforts had taken part in the Germans retreated from north- and the unavoidable casualties in- the raid on the Honshu Island in- ern Alsace toward the west wall. crease, additional men may be dustrial city while single B29s At the northern end of the arc, shifted from air force surpluses to made hit-and-run raids on Tokyo. First Army's new attack gained the ground forces. The changing Headquarters fo- the 2fst Bomber about a mile to the town of Rolles- picture of the war has terminated Command said it was one of the the usefulness of some units and broich, 14 miles southwest of largest formations ever sent out Duren. they have therefore been reconsti- from Saipan. First Army troops closed up to tuted for new missions." Meanwhile, Gen. MacArthur's Illustrating the results of this the west bank of the Roer along a Hq. told of another Philippine five-mile front as attacking forces policy shift, Lear said that "almost naval victory. Planes of the 13th U.S. troops in Germany execute a triple play. At the request of an south east of the Hurtgen Forest 100 coast artillery battalions either AF caught the ninth Jap convoy armored unit, this mobile gun crew fires smoke shells to- mark a seized three villages, according to have been directly converted to field in six weeks off Leyte yesterday, target for Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers hovering overhead. late Associated Press reports. artillery units or their personnel has destroying ships totalling 23,000 35th Div. Crosses Border been used to fill up existing field tons. Besides sinking nearly every battalions. ship in the convoy between 50 and Southward in the Saar, men m "No intelligent person ever at- 55 planes were claimed as destroyed. Dillingen Tough Nut to Crack the Third Army's 35th Division tempts to say the Navy does more In land fighting, the seventh and crossed the old German border at than the Air Force or that the Air 77th Divisions were poised on the Habkirchen, four miles east of Force does more than the ground northern segment of the Yamashita -But Men of 90th Div. Do It Sarreguemines, and smeared a force," Lear says. "The action of line. counter attack which tried to throw all three is an integrated and co- By Earl Mazo them back Westward at conquered Metz, Ft. ordinated whole with one joint mis- Japs Reported Quitting Stars and Stripes Staff Writer sion—total defeat of the enemy. WITH THE 90th DIV. IN DILLINGEN, Dec. 13. — The Jeanne D'Arc fell. It was the last But," he continued, "it is a military Tokyo in Fear of Bombs bastion of Europe's strongest forti- fact that the final action of all doughboys and combat engineers fighting for this Siegfried fied city and had held, out three wars is infantry action—that is, NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UP). — ■Line town are pushing ahead despite all the obstacles the weeks against Lt. Gen. George ground force action. Japanese reports, relayed through German military mind can conceive. Patton Jr's besiegers after Metz Berlin, state that Tokyo's 7,000,000 Since crossing the Saar River at this point one week itself was captured. population is being stripped to es- Eastward in Alsace, Seventh Army sential defense personnel in anti- ago, these men of the 90th Div. troops fought into Seltz after an ELAS Scorns cipation of a full-dress American have actually cleared only the por- 'Five-Star' Officers eight-mile sweep up the Rhineland tion of this 50,000-population city from captured Haguenau. This ad- aerial siege. between the many-tracked railroad Now Up to Roosevelt British Terms Following a Superfort raid last (Continued on Page 2) week which fired the city, 20,000 and the river, but that small sector represents for one regiment alone WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (ANS). ATHENS, Dec. 13.—Scorning the persons were said to have left the Jap capital on Tuesday. —the 358th—54 pillboxes, 39 city —The Senate today passed and sent British peace terms issued yester- blocks, a cemetery battlefield and to the White House a bill to create Ninth AF Aids day, ELAS forces opened a full- British Wives Seek U.S. Visas a locomotive works which the Ger- four five-star "admirals of the scale attack from all directions on mans hurriedly converted into a fleet" and four five-star "generals the shrinking British pocket in the LONDON, Dec. 13 (AP). — The Hodges' Drive American Embassy has reported fortress. of the army." heart of the city. The rebellious The fighting has been such that Adms. Chester Nimitz, William P. Greek forces had gained control that an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Approximately 250 medium British wives of U.S. servicemen one doughfoot, Pfc Donald Sar- Halsey, Ernest King and William of the Athens water supply but geant flattened against the wall of D. Leahy and Gens. Marshall, Eisen- bombers of the Ninth AF, support- the British refused to consider this have applied for visas to enter the ing First Army infantry drives, U.S. Visas already have been a fortified house while a German hower, Arnold and MacArthur are as serious. (Continued on Page 2) slated for the new ranks. hammered at Duren, Schleiden and (In Washington, American offi- granted to another 1,000. Euskirchen yesterday, striking at cials expressed the hope that the Nazi troop concentrations, ware- British would make an early peace houses and railyards. with resistance forces. The US. U.S.-Bound Joes Sweat Out Paris Flying more than 140 sorties, attitude is that it has no military fighter-bombers dumped 61 tons responsibility, a surprise to Greeks of bombs on Nazi defenses behind ■ who believed that the U.S. was By Ernest Leiser given passes and partial pay and leader of the 823rd TDs, with the the First Army sector at Zulpich backing the British.) Stars and Stripes Staff Writer told to see the town until notified 30th Div., he thought they were go- and smashed at railyards in Saar- ing to send him out on "reconnais- lautern on the Third Army front. A threatened one-day protest More than 1,800 American sol- their planes are ready. diers on their way home from the Sgt. T. S. Overton, of Ahoskie, sance or something. I just didn't The winter cloud cover over Ger- strike by 150,000 Scottish shipyard believe it when they told me I was many closed down again yesterday, and factory workers was reported front lines were celebrating with N.C., and the 311th FA Bn., 79th 48-hour passes in Paris last night, Div., grinned as he relaxed in an going home instead. I'm still not grounding the Eighth's Forts and in Britain as Labor Minister Ernest sure it's true. Libs. Photographs taken during Bevin flatly told a Labor "arty sweating out planes scheduled to easy chair. "Boy, they can't call take them to England and to boats me T. S. any longer," he said. "When I hit Georgia," he said, Tuesday's 1,300-bomber attack in- convention, "The steps taken in "I'm just gonna rest and shoot quail dicated the Eighth had used the Greece are not the decisions of headed for the U.S., where they Pvt. Adam J. Sadowski, of Chi- will revel in a 30-day rest and recu- —y'know, it'll be nice to shoot at brief break in the weather to sever Winston Churchill. I took part in cago, a 35th Div. doughboy, said he all main rail lines at Darmstadt, peration furlough. A hundred of was going to get engaged as soon something that can't shoot back." these decisions with my labor col- S/Sgt. Joseph E. Lamberson, of Hanau, Aschaffenburg and Freund- leagues—I cannot bring it to my their comrades already have left as he hit home. by transport plane for the U.K. When they called 1/Lt. Leon C. Carson City, Nev., member of an berg and paralyze German com- conscience that any one of the (Continued on Page 2) munication in the area. decisions was wrong." Billeted in hotels, they have been Neel, of Thomasville, Ga., platoon Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Nazisto Fight from Alps How to Make a Local of Enemy's Red Ball Express After Fall, Reports Say

By Jules Grad Stars and Stripes Stall Writer WITH THE NINTH U.S. ARMY, Dec. 13.—The brains of the Nazi party, realizing they have lost the war, but un- willing to stop their fight for world domination, are pre- paring to continue the battle from Alpine mountain forests after Germany's military collapse. Reports reaching Allied sources indicated preparations have been continuing for several months. The Yard-by-Yard picture they give is this: The nerve centers in the Bavar- ian, Austrian and Italian moun- Battle Rages tains will have radio stations, un- derground roads and hospitals, and For Budapest possibly a chemical laboratory. It will also have huge depots of food, Enemy troop positions protecting this two-lane road near Eschweiler, the Nazi version of the Red Ball arms and ammunition. A quantity Express highway, are blasted. Performing the blasting- operations were Ninth Air Force Marauders, MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (Reuter). — of war materiel was reported to part of a 5,000-plane armada which hammered at enemy troops, field artillery, batteries and defensive The yard-by-yard battle for Buda- have already arrived in the Ba- positions east and north of Aachen in support of First Army. pest was raging on the northeast- varian Alps. em approaches of the city tonight as the Red Army stabbed deeper Special Troops Recruited into the fortified zone. The movement for open-warfare Dillingen Tough Nut to Crack Hodges' Army Fresh downpours of rain made will group itself around Hitler's the going even tougher for the Red headquarters. Its troops will be Army, meeting some of the tough- recruited from special formations Starts Attack est German opposition since of SS leaders who have been spot- —But Men of 90th Div. Do It battles in the Ukraine. ted combing the entire region re- (Continued from Page 1) MoscowTV AAVnewspaper. TV OLSU. LSI** sU OUltladmittel VIVdU I .... . , » - tv,„<. .1, »„,„„ „f »,» n™«,«™ Hliiisitioning houses, farms and (Continued from Page 1) At one point they startled a Ger- vance brought them to within four that the capture of the Hungarian 2 ^ ^ ^ headquarters, man sentry awaiting a German abins used tank inside fired over his head. miles of the border of the Pala- capital, which a few days ago Allied sources disclosed. f patrol due to return from across Sargeant, with only one bazooka tinate, one of the richest of, the seemed almost within grasp; now The best of the SS troops later the river at the same time. medieval German states. may take some time. rocket left, was sneaking around will be joined by party officers the wall to knock out the tank In the first hours of the cross- Reuter reported from Seventh Hitler's Supplies Threatened called individually from the front when he saw two more rumble up | ^?._th^..su^rised. F*!^?8 J^?*, Army that enemy Panzer reinforce- Meanwhile, clashes some 40 miles when the breaking point approaches, the street in his direction. "I never comparatively quiet their small ments swung into the battle line to the reports indicate. The remainder arms and artillery; then on the due north of Budapest were merg- damned anything in my life so meet Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch's ing into a battle to free the east- of the Waffen SS, the Volks Gre- much as the fact that I had only second night they sprang to life troops pushing toward the Siegfried ern half of Czechoslovakia. Red nadier and the Volkssturm will be one bazooka round left," he said. with perhaps the biggest artillery defenses between Sarreguemines and Star said, "The Red Army's of- left on the front to hold on as long concentration on the Third Army Karlsruhe, 16 miles from Seltz. fensive is not only threatening Bu- as possible. Special Teams Do Job front. One Reuter dispatch said U.S. dapest but also those regions of With a partisan movement of Special pillbox-busting teams Americans with tank destroyers, troops are now operating on the Austria and Czechoslovakia now guerrilla bands, the Nazi party will from the 315th Combat Eng. Bn. tanks, ack-ack guns and special Rhine's west bank a mile from producing a main part of the sup- revert to the illegal activities of its worked with each doughboy platoon purpose guns poised on hills on the Seltz, reported under heavy Ger- plies for Hitler's command. first years. This mission is expected in town. Sgt. Joseph Williams, of other side of the river immediately man artillery fire. On the Baltic front, Soviet forces to be broad in scope, to operate Kansas City, Kan., found that his swung into action against pillboxes Meanwhile, the German Overseas now are being supplied by sea, fol- from many dispersed bases and to unit usually killed at least three and fortified houses. News Agency correspondent at Field lowing opening of sea lanes through have as its objective a "reign of German occupants with every pill- Into the Reich Marshal von Rundstedt's headquar- German-planned minefields along terror " box blown, captured the rest. Cpl. Despite artillery concentrations, ters reported, according to Reuter, the coast. From their hideouts the bands are Bernard Keith, of Long Island, that Wehrmacht forces between expected to sally forth to harass elements of the 359th Regiment operating with Capt. Charlie Bry- crossed, and the concentrated push Sarreguemines and the Upper Rhine Allied supply lines, cut communica- ants, of L Co. of the 358th, ac- are systematically retreating into tions, attack rear echelons, commit into Germany beyond the river counted for three pillboxes. He said, began. the approaches of the west wall. Paris 1st Stop acts of violence and sabotage. They "The toughest job is working your The correspondent said that Patch will also attempt to assassinate The river crossings were such way into them to do the blowing." that the first American heavy was throwing 15 divisions into a high Allied officers and Germans Infantrymen have been firing to drive toward the west wall defenses. On Trip to U.S. who actively collaborate with the weapon, a ,57mm. gun towed by a button up the boxes while the en- jeep, had not crossed until the North of the great Ruhr-Saar- occupying powers. gineers operate. Rhineland arc, there were no (Continued from Page 1) - third night. Tanks and tank des- Yesterday, for the first time, the troyers crossed, but some of the major changes. engineer battalion attached to the French Convict Civilians situation in Dillingen began to ease tanks mired and had to be pulled Patton's Third Army men fought Seventh Army, was filling shell as elements of the 357th and 358th out. stubbornly-entrenched enemy forces holes on a front-line road when he In AEF Supplies Theft linked up after men of the 357th Not until the fifth night did the in Saarlautern, where 95th Div. heard the news. "I kinda hated had beaten off a vicious counter- men made gains in the suburbs of ADVANCED SIXTH ARMY situation begin to ease, with the to leave—but I wasn't going to make attack by German tanks, self-pro- Americans crossing more and more Rodin, Fraulautern and Endorf. GROUP HQ., Dec. 13.—French mili- a damned liar out of myself and pelled guns and infantry. heavy equipment. Small German forces, supported say I didn't want to go." tary courts in southern France It Began Easily by one or two tanks, jabbed the are acting on offenses committed 'Couldn't Even Talk' The beginning of the fight for Redecorating Is in Order 90th Division's Saar River bridge- against the Allied Armies, the Civil head at Dillingen. These counter- "I couldn't even talk when I Affairs Headquarters for this area this vital Saar crossing was com- CAMDEN, N.J., Dec. 13 (ANS). heard the news, I was so glad," ad- paratively easy. At 4:15 on the Mrs. Stanley Chonentowski testified thrusts were stopped by artillery disclosed today. fire. - v;i mitted Pfc Merrill Schwanke, of In Lyons, several persons con- morning of Dec. 7 elements of the that for the nine years of her mar- Dent, Minn., switchboard operator victed of stealing American Army 358th and 357th Regiments, without ried life she never knew what it was in a 36th Div. battalion headquar- gasoline" were sentenced to two artillery preparation, made a dash like to be without a black eye. The Senator Says U.S.PeopIe judge granted a divorce. ters. vears' imprisonment. across the river in assault boats. Capt. Charles E. Hake, of North Not Sure of War Goal Platte, Neb., CO of a 35th Div. weapons company, fighting in the WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (AP).— Saar, thought the "Old Man was CD's Bullets Pin Yank in Nazi Nest Senator Guy Gillette (D.-Iowa), calling me in on the carpet," when said today the American people he was ordered to report to Regt. are no longer sure of the goal for Hq. *T thought he was joking when Many a junior officer has sweated out a verbal which they are fighting. he told me I was going home," barrage from his CO, but Lt. Joseph F. Dougherty, Gillette, who was defeated for re- Hake said. "I've still got my of Baltimore, underwent the experience of ducking election, urged "A new and un- fingers crossed." a barrage of bullets from the "old man's" carbine equivocal statement" on the Amer- ican "war goal" and asserted that for an hour and a half. Lt. Dougherty, a platoon leader In an infantry unless America maintains "some Nazis Counter-Attack division, became separated from his men while out strength of position" many coun-- Against Fifth in Italy on a patrol and was pinned down by enemy fire. tries "will emerge from the struggle In desperation, he made for the nearest cover— saddled with totalitarian regimes against their will and contrary to which, as it so happened, was a German machine- ALLIED HQ., Italy, Dec. 13 their desires." gun nest.

Stars and Stripes Photos by Riordan "Home" for this family of seven is this cellar, all that is left after the building above was leveled This German refugee child, returning to Aachen to find her home during the fierce fighting for Aachen. Better off than many ot her families, they have a food destroyed, here draws her family's supper ration of soup under the reserve sufficient for several weeks stored behind an adjacent partition. supervision of a U.S. Military Government official.

36th Inf. Div. Order Returns to Aachen 'Pvt.' General Bucks Indian Warrior Out of the Chaos of Defeat For Second Stripe TakesWarpath Ties Mark for The commanding general of the Fifth Inf. Div. is bucking Time in Line By Charles White for corporal. ToTrail Sniper Stars and Stripes Staff Writer The famous "Blue Devils," AACHEN, Dec. 13.—This is a cold, gloomy, depressing France's most-decorated military WITH THE THIRD U.S. ARMY, By Clinton Conger Dec. 13. — Before sunrise every place, all shot up and entirely given over to mud and jeeps unit, made him an honorary WITH SIXTH ARMY GROUP private in a heavy weapons morning, Pvt. Carl "Chief" Chuki- IN ALSACE, Dec. 13 (UP).—The and trucks and MPs that constitute for German inhabitants squad in recognition of the ma, 38-year-old Indian from the 36th Inf. Div. today equalled and the American military occupation. If anybody is getting Fifth Division's successes. Oraibi Reservation near Flagstaff, possibly broke the modern U.S. "coddled" here he must be cod- "If you and your troops reach Ari., sows a few grains of corn in Army endurance record by fighting dling himself. Berlin," the squad leader told French soil as a petition to the 108 days without relief and didn't ployes, burgomeisters, etc., out of him, "we'll make you a corporal." gods to look with favor on the ac- even pause to mark the occasion Most of the 160,000 civilians have jail." tivities of the 90th Division. Pvt. as it went right on smashing Ger- vanished over the Rhine but about There is no such thing as demo- Chukima, of Co. "B," 315th Engi- 10,000 have come back and are cratic self-government in Aachen, pay for some supplies. In Aachen neers, is a member of the Hopi mans through the 109th day. the burgomeisters working with Now under French command, being administered by city and despite newspaper stories and talk Tribe. county military government of- military counterparts have divided the outfit has become "La Trente- to the contrary. The Military Gov- Capt. Clarence Symes of Lub- ficers. ernment goes out and—at some duties among themselves, such as bock, Texas, company commander, Sixieme Division, Infanterie.Texas," utilities, supply, schools and if you want the real French phrase There aren't more than two or pains—lines up native burgomeis- was about to list Chukima as churches. for it, and Texans josh each other three whole houses left. It isn't ters to represent the people, and "missing in action" on the unit a shambles like St-L6, but every- the burgomeisters take orders from Clothing is hard to get, and un- morning report the day the Indian about it in what they think is doubtedly there will be suffering French accent or GI French. thing has been hit in some way the military. Aachen itself has a stoically resumed his place on the or other—bombs, shellf ire, or small- crew of nine burgomeisters. If a from cold this winter. Civilians Engineer road gang. Few Texans Left arms. Very little food, inadequate citizen can't get anything to eat, wearing discarded German army boots, ragged green fatigues, old Made Him Mad Although Texas flavor permeates clothing, utilities just going and needs clothing or has other trouble The last time Capt. Symes saw the unit, it is estimated to have no more. It furnishes a good exam- he goes to his burgomeister. But overcoats—general trashpile pickings—are a common sight. Only Chukima was in the German town had 90 percent replacements since ple of the military government the burgomeisters aren't elected, of Butzdorf, which the 3E8th In- it landed in southern France and problems which Americans must don't represent the Army and the lucky have good warm civilian clothes. And the wealthy. fantry and Engineers were attempt- there aren't many men from Texas solve in Germany. haven't any real civil authority. ing to clean up. A sniper winged lift in frontline rifle companies. Parts of Aachen are forbidden to The system has worked fairly Shortly after occupation ol Aachen it was necessary to open a man standing next to the "Chief" Some rifle companies have had civilians, but you see a few trying well, according to Major Jack as the two were leaving a house. as many as 12 company corn- to put the pieces back together. Bradford, St. Paul, Minn., deputy up a large barracks at the edge of town for displaced persons and "It start making me mad," ex- danders. Not Fed by U.S. MGO for the City of Aachen. His plained the Hopi. "I go house—. Today's combat will not be burgomeisters lined up 160 civilian refugees. At one time, under Major Royal S. Copeland, Suffern, N.Y., one from one. That evening I still mftrigjd by such milestones of the Civilians definitely are not being policemen, who co-operate with the in town looking for sniper. Next past *S Salerno, Rapido, Anzio, fed and clothed by the U.S. Army. MPs, patrolling the streets, acting and other MG officers, it harbored as many as 6,000 German civilians evening I joined the tanks. .VeUetri, Grenoble, Montelimar and They eat what German food they as guides and keeping order. They "After three days I ask boya Lyons but there is little doubt it can get—mainly potatoes—brought wear "polizei" armbands, but do Camp Moved into Aachen where infantry is. I told one tank clinches the record continuous in from the surrounding country- not carry arms. As people were sent back to their going out of town I go with him. side by their own food committees. contact with the enemy. Tax System Still Exists homes, the camp population dwind- I hitch-hike to where I find 90th The matter of combat records Is Slim pickings. led, and the camp was moved to There have been no cases of Division MP. He tell me where fiard to pin down. The 79th claims They are on a curfew, which its present site in Aachen. It in- headquarters are I come bacK." starts at 5:30 PM, and the MPs provable sabotage or violence, al- 107 days of contact in its drive cludes a former school, children's For relaxation curing pre-war across France toward Luneville and will pick up anybody who looks out though some people have been hurt clinic and houses—in all about 25 by booby traps left by the Germans. days, the Indian chased horses. It'a the 45th claims 109 from Salemo of place. buildings, all damaged. "The Germans can t go anywnere Offenses are handled by summary easy according to Chukima. l£ Venafro in Italy. The veteran Altogether, it couldn't be regarded "Just chase 'em all day over they like," says 1/Lt. Jerome Wolf- courts, where one or two officers "Hiird Div. also officially has been as a pleasant life—just a few hills," he explained, "they lay down in contact with the enemy 109 days son, Springfield, HI., who came here hear evidence and pass sentences. degrees worse than being in the According to Lt. Wolfison the when they get tired You start but it spent three days in leapfrog to work in the county MG after county poorhouse, but maybe better doing similar jobs in Italy and civilians still have a sort of tax early in the morning. They give out action near Remiremont in Oc- than jail. The civilians are not sometime in afterno^ ■■ France. "In fact, one of our trou- system—a revolving fund which is mistreated, and they aren't coddled. tober. " bles is keeping our civilian em- used to help ciestitute persons and The army just holds them there ! Can't Locate Medics, Too Young and Too Old, until it can get rid of them. Meantime, they probably get I GI Calls Nazi Aidmen But Both Are Fighters War Halts to Save Cake pretty tired of potato soup. WITH FOURTP ARMORED Quite a Busy Night Pvt. Dan Wat as, Jr., 16, of HEY had to hold off firing the 100,000th artillery round in the DIV.—Unable to find U.S. me- Leading a night patrol, Lt. Con- Smithtown, Ky„ is on his way home T 87th FA Bn. of the 104th Div. on account of T/5 Tom ToreUo, i dies to treat a wounded soldier stantine Mims, of San Antonio, after fighting in Normandy since Tom had baked a cake for the occasion, and war or no war, he i he had rescued from a burning £> plus 4. Too young for the Army, wasn't going to have his cake fall from the concussion. Tex., surprised two Nazis at an out- ; tank, Sgt. Joseph H. Johnson, post. The two jumped into a cover- Waters was wounded at Saint-Ld So the artillerymen waited until it was ready for the frosting, of Bronx, N.Y., a Cavalry then they let loose. ed dugout and refused to come out. ( Recon. Sq. tank commander, and received the Purple Heart. He Mims, a 35th Infantry officer, e|tiUsted at 14 by registering as an The fellows admitted the cake tasted swell and looked good, i returned to the battlefield, cap- too, with "100,000 Rounds—87th FA" in pink letters on top—but jumped into the dugout, tried to ' tured two German medics, and l&year-old and then volunteering. drag them out, finally had to shoot With him goes M/Sgt. Oskar L. they said the frosting had a funny flavor. brought them to his wounded So ToreUo had to admit he'd used Squibb's tooth paste—the only one, used Judo on the other to take comrade. JJoeOTCh, 54, of Fayetteville, N.C., him prisoner. who naa 32 years in the Army, stuff he could find. Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Precious Cargo Which He Ain't Got Locator Fdes I Toot^Zeet Forced Peace On PWs Keep Is Necessary, Kin Informed Says Patterson Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.— NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Allied mi- When a soldier is reported cap- litary power great enough to tured by the enemy or missing in enforce peace in Europe was de- action, he is not forgotten by the manded today by Undersecretary Army, whose records follow him of War Robert P. Patterson. Total from the moment of induction. A dismemberment of the German war file system keeps track of every machine is not enough, he said. one of the more than 55,000 soldiers, Emphasizing the need for an sailors and marines so far known effective Allied postwar organiza- to be prisoners of war and another tion, he said, "We know Germans 58,000 reported missing in action. are planning a third World War, In a wing of the old munitions and nothing short of defeat so building of World War I in Wash- complete that it will live in the ington, DC, a Prisoner of War In- memories of their people for hund- formation Bureau has been set up reds of years will stop them from A tobacco store proprietor in San Francisco points to the sign which again forcing the world into war. tells the sad tale of the cigarette situation which has hit the home- in accordance with provisions of the Geneva Convention. Here the Army front. He tells customers that he knows just as much about what Must Defeat Smugness happened to the smokes as the GIs in France and that is "nothing!" handles the work for all branches "Peace-loying nations cannot of the service. again let their armies become impo- Follow-up Process tent, their arsenals rusty nor their This Wits America Yesterday: A soldier isn't counted as a pri- peoples smug and complacent. Ex- soner of war until he is so reported perience shows that peace can be by the nation which captured him, kept only by force," he said. or until a capture card is received He outlined three principles Cigarette Shortage Togs Up' by the next of kin from the soldier whicli he said were necessary in himself. planning for a peacetime military First information on captured organization: Universal military Best Brains in Washington personnel is sent by the enemy to training; industrial resources ca- the International Red Cross at pable of mobilization to furnish By Joe Fleming Geneva, which then notifies the necessary weapons, and scientific Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau War Department by cable. The and engineering developments. list goes to the Prisoner of War NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—A lot of expensive brains are Information Bureau. Telegrams working on that cigarette business, but it's the same old sent to the next of kin, by the Student Vet Poll Bureau are followed up with a story—more you put in, less you get out. Internal Revenue letter, explaining how mail may be Lists Free Press geniuses, for instance, count 29,000,000,000 smokes produced sent to the prisoner. Later, in from 30 to 90 days, the Needed tor Peace in September, some sort of a record, but they get no further Red Cross at Geneva will specify explanation of the shortage, no matter how hard they pull the PW camp to which each man EVANSTON, 111., Dec. 13 (ANS). has been sent. This new informa- —Men who fought in World War the chain. tion is relayed to the next of kin EC regard military might and a in a second letter, with instructions universal free press as important The big snow-storm extended east from central Illinois and Mich- and enclosed labels for mailing igan Into Pennsylvania and western New York. Snow from Canada elements in keeping the future packages. to Georgia. . . 36 inches in West Virginia. • peace. These are the findings in a Northwestern University pool of The storm inflicted severe hardships to thousands and brought 175 veterans enrolled as students. curtailment of production at numerous war plants due to absen- Billion Spent Of those polled, 84 percent ex- teeism caused by impaired transport. The death toll was 58 in pressed belief that world peace America and 18 in Canada. could be maintained only through For GI Bonds the use of armed force. rpHE second most popular tune right now, understandably, is Berlin's The most overwhelming majority dream about a White Christmas. It's Number Two according to NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (ANS).— —95 percent—agreed a free press sheet music and juke box statisticians, but something called the "Trolley Servicemen have bought more than in every nation could be a potent Song"—a Judy Garland film hit—seems to be sending a billion dollars worth of war factor in averting war. them faster. Another one you'll hear from the re- bonds, Maj. Gen. Howard K. placements: Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me jn." . . Loughrie, finance chief, told a sixth Suggested French translation: "Don't Dig Me Under. war loan rally here today. As sub- Striding a California beach is Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt disclosed yesterday that scriptions rose past the 14-billion- Draft Revamp she plans to take down and burn the large portrait Frances Home, a Hollywood dollar goal by nearly a whole bil- lass. The World Almanac states of herself that hangs in the President's study. lion, he said GI Joe is not only The First Lady, pointing out the painting to news- that California's motto is "Eu- Movesjwiftly fighting this war, but from his reka," meaning "I have found paperwomen covering her weekly news conference, re- meager pay he's assisting in financ- vealed the portrait was painted fifteen years ago from it." The book also says that WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (ANS).— ing it. California's "topography is most Under new draft regulations an a photograph. , Meanwhile, the Treasury Depart- She said, "I am going to take it down and burn it." varied . . . every phase of average of 50 men past 26 years of ment reported a heavy demand surface character is presented." age soon may be inducted from When asked why, she replied with a laugh: "It is far for V-mail war bond certificates as Mrs. Roosevelt too pretty." each of the nation's draft boards, Christmas gifts for men overseas. Plan Veterans' Home Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey estim- Detroit is still Detroit, with CIO picketers plodding through snow The certificates printed on regular CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa., Dec. 13 ated yesterday as Selective Service at Montgomery Ward's. . . The trouble started Saturday over the V-mail stationery contain a repro- (ANS).—The American Legion post acted swiftly to put into effect the company's refusal to accept a 1942 pay check-off for union dues. duction of a war bond and inform here has taken initial steps toward government's "produce or fight" soldiers that bonds have been construction of a $250,000 veterans directive. Draft Director Hershey NOTHER strike threatened closing of New York's butcher shops. The bought for them at home. home. A Office of Price Administration again proposed a ceiling price on said regulations are being amended cattle to remove price squeezes on meat retailers and slaughterers. Lack to channel to military service all registrants under 38 who drift from of ceiling prices for cattle on the hoof is the chief grievance of butchers, essential jobs. These revisions will whose shut-down plan was reported spreading to Albany, Philadelphia Chaplin-Berry Baby Suit, be announced by the end of the and Baltimore. week. Tommy Manville, too, was giving the OPA a headache. How can New Round, Ready to Begin A spokesman for the agency said you determine ceiling prices on nude pictures? The price agents new regulations do not change the draft directives now in force. Her- showed up at the big auction sale of Tommy's 29-room house in New LOS ANGELES Dec. 13 (ANS). While denying paternity, the 55- Rochelle, and found lots of things not on the list, like nudes, electric shey explained in Cleveland that —Lawyers were ready today to be- year-old comic submitted to blood they merely tell draft boards what trains, a phonograph record cutter and other fancies of Citizen Man- gin Joan Berry'" paternity suit ville and his seven wives. tests last spring which were con- the objectives of the war effort are against Comedian Charlie Chaplin, ducted by three physicians. They and leave it up to the boards to with both sides prepared for a ETRONT pages of the papers were dominated by weather and war news, announced that the findings indi- carry them out under existing *■ new draft regulations and quizzing of Edward Stettinius' prospective possibly long, hard-fought legal cated he could not be the father. regulations. six assistants. battle to determine if he is the father of Miss Berry's 14-month- Despite these findings, the state Walter Winchell, that old warhorse, described people who leave old daughter. district court of appeals ruled the Gypsy Becomes Mother war jobs as "Quitlings" . . . but the draft folk aren't kidding; they But whether they will be able to paternity suit must go to trial. request power to "induce or compel" small numbers of young deferred find a courtroom for the case im- The appeal court upheld a superior As Ex-Mate Weds Again men to take unattractive war jobs for which workers cannot be re- mediately was the question raised court ruling that the child was cruited. And Jerry Kluttz, Washington Post, reports the War Depart- by Presiding Judge Ruben Schmidt, entitled to a "day in court," al- NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (ANS).— ment hereafter will clamp down on release from Army of big-shot of Superior Court. The jurist said though these had been an agree- Gypsy Rose Lee Monday night be- athletes, movie stars, writers and playboys. They have to get the that with a crowded court calendar ment that there would be no came the mother of a seven-pound WD's okay, besides that of the CO. the case will have to await its turn further claims against Chaplin if four-ounce boy born prematurely along with many others. the blood tests indicated he could on the eve of the day the baby's |T will be a White Christmas, and a Tough Christmas, if Macy's New not be the father. * York ads mean anything. For $1.29, Mom can buy Junior a commando A blood test is expected to be father, Alexander Kirkland, was to be married to Phyliss Anne Adams, helmet, holster, gun, bullets and whistle. Hell buckle on the helmet, one of the crucial Issues of the The white-haired comedian was acquitted last April on Mann Act which is adjustable in size and light-weight plastic , . . . and hell suit, brought on behalf of Carol 20-year-old debutante. strap on the split, leather belt and holster, ready for action with two Ann, child of Chaplin's one-time charges, in which Miss Berry was Miss Lee divorced Kirkland the complaining witness. wooden bullets. protege. Oct. 7. Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 5 Johnny Greco Gets Rough With Ruff in Once Over 10-Man Board Lightly To Submit New ' By Andy Rooney Baseball Pact ™EW YORK, Dec. 13.—Port u- NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Appoint- n guese brandies are having a ment of ten men to formulate and small sale in the East this year— submit a new major league agree- and very little Mexican gin is being ment to the joint meeting of Amer- sold—all of which leads to the ican and National Leagues in story of the 38-year old gentleman February was announced at the with store teeth who is playing pro baseball conclave here today. The football with the New York Giants new committee will augment the and doing a grand job. advisory board consisting of Leslie The guy with crockery choppers O'Connor, Ford Frick and Will is one Kenneth Strong, who back Harridge. in 1926 carried the mail for New National League members of the York University. ten-man board are Sam Breadon, CEEMS KEN, after five years of president of the St. Louis Cards; ^ retirement, during which he Horace Stoneham president of the sold liquor for a concern dealing in New York Giants; Warren C. Giles, Mexican gin, Portuguese brandies, general manager of the Cincinnati Cuban rum and other goodies, de- Reds; Phil Wrigley, Chicago Cubs' cided he still had parts of a good prexy, and Branch Rickey, presi- ball game in him. Anyway, busi- dent of Brooklyn's Dodgers. Amer- ness was bad, and when Steve Owen ican Leaguers are Jack Zeller, geiw. offered him a job to do the Giants' eral manager of the Detroit Tigers; place-kicking, he grabbed it. Don Barnes, St. Louis Browns' pre- It was a treat to see the old sident; Alva Bradley, Cleveland master with the pendulum foot boss; Tom Yawkey, head of the boot the ball through the cross- Boston Red Sox, s and Joseph C. bars, but there always was some Hostetler, legal representative of body in the stands who couldn't INS Photo the American League. understand why he never ran with Bobby Ruffin tugs on ropes after being knocked down by Johnny Greco in ten-rounder won by Greco at There is a strong indication the the ball. That somebody was Ken Madison Square Garden. Greco seems peeved because Referee Fullam won't let him go in for the kill. baseball committees, when they Strong, Jr., his 12-year-old son. do submit the name of a successor CTRONG'S greatest day in foot- to the late Judge Landis, will pick ^ ball, even greater than those Ray Robinson Bond Bowl Ducats Boston Bruins no handshaker. The moguls are Saturdays in his senior year at almost unanimously in favor of a N.Y.U. when he scored 162 points, Released to Public man with abso- was in 1934 in the Chicago Bears- TKOs^angel Down Rangers lute powers over New York Giants playoff. On a NEW YORK, Dec. 13. —The baseball—w i t h frozen field, the Giants came out PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13.—Ray public will be allowed to pur- BOSTON, Dec. 13.—The Boston certain reserva- in sneakers and Strong scored two chase tickets to Saturday's Bond Bruins trimmed the New York tions. "Sugar" Robinson, Harlem welter- A clear defi- touchdowns, two extra points and a weight, scored a technical knockout Bowl football game at the Polo Rangers, 7-5, last night in a hockey field goal. over Richard "Sheik" Rangel, of Grounds between Randolph battle that saw the Rangers tie n i t i o n of the Owen may figure Strong as better Fresno, Cal., in the second round Field and the Second AAF the score three times in the second new commis- than a one-play player when the of a scheduled ten-rounder at Con- without having to buy war period. sioner's poweivj^ Giants meet the Green Bay Packers vention Hall last night. It was bonds, it was announced today Ken Smith and Herbie Cain in contrast to Sunday for the pro championship. Robinson's fourth straight victory by the War Finance Committee. tallied for the Bruins in the first the arbitrary Owen may put him in the back- since getting an honorable dis- New York banks and business period and goals by Phil Watson authority in all field, hand him the ball, and say, charge from the Army. houses have underwritten the and Grant Warwick knotted the matters held by entire $79,750,000 quota put on score early in the next stanza. Landis, is ex- "Here, Ken, run with it." And if A crowd of 10,000 saw Robinson Sam Breadon he does, old toothless Kenneth drop Rangel for two nine counts in the game by the Treasury De- Dit Clapper and Frank Mario for pected. It's be- probably will run with it. the first round. The Californian partment, thus releasing tickets the Bruins and Fred Thurier and lieved the new agreement will have was taking an unmerciful beating for general sale. Ab DeMarco for the Rangers a clause comparable to the 96th when Referee Charley Daggert made it 4-all at the close of the Article of War, dealing with punish- Cochran Captures halted proceedings with 10 seconds session. ment of individuals who may bring left in the second. East Team's Roster In the final period goals by discredit to baseball. 3-Cushion Crown Joe Cuplo, Smith and Cain settled Stove League Gossip — The Released by Kerr the issue, Warwick scoring for the White Sox continued active in the Rangers. trading mart, concluding straight NEW YORK, Dec. 13.— Welker Question Box player swaps with Detroit and Cochran won the world three- NEW YORK, Dec. 13. —Andy Hockey Standings Cleveland. Jimmy "Skeeter" Webb cushion billiard championship here To Pvt. Ben Shadrick.—Max Kerr, Colgate football coach, today was sent to Detroit for Joe last night ' by defeating Willie Schmeling won on fourth-round announced completion of the squad National League Orengo and Eddie Carnett went Hoppe, 50-44, in 31 innings. Coch- foul from Jack Sharkey in New which will represent the East in W L T Pts to Cleveland for Oris Hockett ran ran up nine straight victories York City, July 12th, 1930, to gain the annual Montreal 11 4 1 23 Shrine football Toronto 10 6 0 20 There was no cash involved. in the round-robin tournament. heavy title vacated by retired Detroit 9 4 2 20 game -against Opposition from Clark Griffith Hoppe, who had lost a previous champion, Gene Tunney. Succeed- Boston 8 9 1 17 president of the Washington Se- match to Arthur Rubin, had a the West at New York 2 9 4 8 ing champions were Sharkey, who Chicago 2 10 2 6 nators, is seen in the proposed chance to throw the tournament regained title beating Schmeling, San Francisco New Year's ban on pro footballers using big into a tie by defeating Cochran. July 21, 1932; Primo Camera, Max American League league ball parks, but Griffith Cochran's high run was seven. Baer, Jim Braddock, Joe Louis. Day. EASTERN DIVISION probably will be brought into line He collected $2,500 first-prize To Pvt. Joel Blum.—Dick Wake- Bernie Bier- W L T Pts man, ex-Minne- Buffalo 12 7 2 26 by clubowners who will threaten money, plus a $500 war bond field never was property of Boston Hershey 10 9 2 22 to vote against unlimited night donated by an anonymous billiard Red Sox. Signed with Detroit Ti- sota coach, and Providence 7 11 2 16 George Hauser, baseball, for which Griffith has fan. gers for 50-grand bonus and got WESTERN DIVISION fought the last two years. Packard car from Owner Briggs as current Gopher Indianapolis 11 7 6 28 coach, will as- Pittsburgh 11 7 2 24 Leonard Gets Neil Award personal gift. Frank Dancewicz Cleveland 10 7 2 22 Desson Gets Green Light NEW YORK, Dec. 13. — Lt. sist Kerr in St. Louis 4 12 2 10 Pfc Jack Parquette and Cpl. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13. — Joe Cmdr. Bennie Leonard, USMS, Arthur Ellis.—Arne Anderson set handling the team. retired lightweight champion, was Favor Duke Over 'Bama Desson, defenseman for the Phila- world mile record of 4:01.6 last The roster: delphia Eagles of the Eastern Hoc- awarded the Edward J. Neil Me- July. Hundred yard mark of 9.4 Ends: Harrison, South Carolina; Mar- DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 13.—Al- cotte, Minnesota; Mead, Wisconsin; Brog- though Duke never has won a bowl key League, who was suspended morial Trophy by the New York seconds held jointly by Jesse ger, Michigan State. Tackles: Sixich, Min- boxing writers for outstanding con- football game, gamblers are mak- Nov. 23 for punching a referee, Owens, Frank Wyckoff, Clyde nesota; Hughes, Purdue; Savitsky, Penn; was reinstated at a meeting of tributions to the sport in 1944. Jeffrey, George Simpson and Ha- Podorski, Lafayette. Guards : Serpico, ing the Blue Devils a 7-5 favorite Leonard is in charge of recreation Illinois; Hackett, Ohio State; Ciolli, In- over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl league officials today. He will be rold Davis. diana; Ranni, Pitt. Centers: Bujan, 1111- allowed to play again Saturday. and morale at Sheepshead Bay, S/Sgt. H. LaBoda.—Rutgers 19, nois ; Syzmanski, Notre Dame. Backs : game. New York maritime base. Lehigh 6 in October, 1940. Dancewicz, Notre Dame ; Cannady, In- diana; Walthalf, W. Virginia; Kelly, Notre Cpl S. S. Blitzbeau.—Jim Jeffries Dame; Brugge, Ohio State; Girard, Wis- was 35 when he was knocked out consin; Flanagan, Ohio State; Kulnitski, See Olympics Aiding Peace 93,000 Fans Put by Jack Johnson at Reno in 1910. Minnesota; Breslin, Michigan State; Hor- vath, Ohio State. SRO in Rose Bowl Sgt. Johnny Nelson. — Sammy CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Two pro- prominence with Axis athletes Snead is from White Sulphur minent American athletic officials taking an active part when peace Springs, West Virginia. K rations CAGE -RESULTS LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13—The suggested today that international returns. and water for the editor who said athletics based on principles of England will be the scene of the New Year's Day Rose Bowl he was a Virginian. Albright 48, Kutztown Tchrs. 28. game between Southern Cali- Dubuque 68, Upper Iowa 34. Olympic competition probably will first post-war revival of Olympic 12th AAA Boys.—Leo Durocher Floyd Bennett Field 48, Brooklyn Army games, they thought, with Finlan fornia and Tennessee already is Base 46. play a prominent part in the re- was with Cincinnati in 1930-31-32 establishment of global peace. They a possibility. a sellout, Arnold Eddy, U.S.C. and part of '33. Kansas 47, Rockhurst 23. business manager, announced New Mexico 58, Hardin Simmons 18. added that German and Japanese The AAU officials predicted a Lt. Col. Leon O. Clayton.—Humble Notre Dame 71, Alma 30. athletes should be welcomed when sports boom greater than any the today. Ohio University 60, Lockburne AAF 32. apologies, suh, for sullying the Olympic games are revived. world had ever seen and pointed Ticket sales were limited to Tigers' record. Correct result as Oklahoma 39, Norman Navy 38. Toledo 45, Wayne 39. Herman J. Fischer, president of out such forerunners of the great persons living within a 50-mile you stated: Clemson 13, North Olathe Clippers 53, Pratt-Whitney 51. radius of Pasadena Bowl (capa- the Central Association of. the AAU, upswing in sports activities as the Carolina State O. And a deep bow Louisville Medics 59, Georgetown 32. and Avery Brundage, head of the Central American and Far Eastern city, 93,000) in accordance with to that record number of Clemson Wartburg 57, Penn (Iowa) 34. Pacific Coast Conference war- Simpson 67, Des Moines Boys 43. AAU Olympic Committee, agreed Games and the contemplated Pan- men in service. We've got two of Waco AAF 62, Baylor 23. Olympics would return to pre-war American Games. time policy. 'em. Washington 47, Johns Hopkins 35. Page 6 THE STARS AINU STRIPES Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 An Editorial Let's Look At the Record (TOUT WfftE T^HAT was a lulu of a statement 1 57,298 civilian dead and - in the Army and Navy Journal wounded. fare"—if there is such a designa- Won't Let Yon Down reported in The Stars and Stripes Britain has lost two-thirds of the tion—can be two-sided. And more of Dec. 11. "Since D-Day in We are fighting in that "Flak importantly, it would hasten the shipping she had at the start pi City" that "Forgotten War," hold- France," the Army and Navy Jour- the war—11,500,000 gross tons. She ing in some Germans who don't end of this mess.—Pvt. Max Miller, nal said, "greater preoccupation Signal Corps. has built 102,609 planes since 1939 want to fight any more. has been shown ... by Great Bri- and has used those planes pretty; Here we stay, hoping for a little * * * tain in Italy, Greece and Albania well. A total of 25,116 tanks arid news, praying that we'll be taken i to protect her lifeline through the over 50,000 gun carriers and ar- f^umoer Please up on "the line." Mediterranean to India than in mored vehicles have poured from Other outfits have landed long Much is said concerning mo- achievement of the prime objective her assembly lines. She did it on rale. Now what would raise after we did and gone on up to i of our armies—prompt defeat of reduced rations, in blacked-out fight. I'm not bragging—but I Joe's morale more than a lot- Germany." cities, in homes and factories never want to say that we are a good tery ticket with first prize be- Contrast that statement with far from the sick smell of death. outfit, morale is high, leadership I ing a furlough to the states? Winston Churchill's Thanksgiving For two years, to repeat, the good, men unbeatable. Say a lottery was held once a Day speech in London: ". . . It is British fought Hitler almost alone. We want to fight; we want to month in each division with a British and American Thanksgiv- There was a time when the RAF, fight in Germany, to be there when ! one man winning a trip home. ing that we celebrate today. We the British Navy and the eighth the chips are down. And when 1 The American is a gambler and are joined together shedding our Army were America's toast. There newer, younger outfits pass us up, everyone would have a chance, blood side by side, struggling for was a time when British-American it isn't good. So please, " Gen. even if it is a long shot, Joe the same ideals. We are moving unity was in full stride and going Bradley, please, Gen. Eisenhower, would get a lift from the idea forward surely, steadily, irresist- places. give us our chance. We won't let of even a possibility of going ibly, and perhaps, with God's aia, The facts taken from Churchill's >'you down.—Lt. A. R. B., Inf. home for a short time. swiftly, toward victorious peace. White Paper to the British people The division Special Service But a greater Thanksgiving Day almost two years thereafter, don't quite gee up with the Army officer could handle the de- shines ahead; and that is when Britain fought the Germans almost and Navy Journal's slant on Bri- Mail Aid tails and work out a fair draw- this union of action forced upon alone. One out of every three tain's war role. Yet even these As my wife and I write to ing.—Sgt. J. L. K. us by war against tyranny shall houses in England, Scotland and facts have been interpreted by each other every day we de- Sgt. J. L. K. become a lasting union of sym- some John Bullbaiters as a slap pathy and feeling and loyalty and Wales has felt the blast of Ger- cided to enclose the letters for * * * at America's war production and hope. Then, indeed, there will be man bombs. One out of every two days in one envelope, America's contribution to lend- Blood Containers a day of Thanksgiving and one in three Britishers between the ages thereby reducing by 50 percent lease. It's part of the rumor rat- which all the world will share." of 14 and 64—4,500,000 of them— the number of letters the APO There is no excuse for the care- race. Anything goes that throws lessness and negligence of drivers In a war as big as this, with as are in the armed services. There mud on the integrity, the loyalty, must handle for us. many people involved and with It is not the envelopes that who insist on depositing empty are 225,000 more on full time ci- the intentions of our British ally. gasoline cans along the road, into the whole business pasted together vilian defense duties, while 3,210,- We don't know enough about count, but the contents. I by the thin, messy glue of human never did get the letters in ditches, some to be run over and 000 are employed in direct war the inside picture to say whether flattened. nature, it is hard to tell heads date order any way. — Sgt. R. industry. The ratio of Britishers the Army and Navy Journal is On a recent trip to a gasoline from tails and truth from wishful H. Bruce. in the services is higher than ours. right or wrong. But we'll say the depot, I was told to pick up all thinking. The statements above are record so far is on the side of * * * Battle casualties were recently re- cans on the way. In a radius of a case in point. So it may be good Winnie Churchill and the British. to review some facts. ported at 563,000—12%, of her Sucker 20 miles, I picked up 200 cans— We're fighting this war beside Winston Churchill became Prime 50 in one pile—along a sparsely strength as against, 5% of ours. them. We'd like to fight the peace When Barnum issued his famed Minister on May 11, 1940. For statement he must have had great traveled road. Think of how many In addition, Britain has suffered beside them, too. foresight for I'm sure it was di- cans must be lying Idle throughout rected toward the American soldiers the ETO. Those cans are containers for the life blood of the in Belgium where I spent three army machine. days at a rest camp. SOME WHERE Can you picture yourself back in Bring them back.—Pvt. J. Sesto. the States shelling out $18.00 lor * * * a bottle of diluted cognac? Or Shoved Around $37,00 for a $10.00 silk scarf? Is there any logical explana- EUROPE The stores, bars and other tion for reserved seats for of- Slight Interruption polished off the Jerry and delivered Fired on by a machine gun money-grabbing establishments wel- ficers in theaters, including his message. recently. Bill had slugs put come us as "their liberators" and During the battle for the Nijme- through each of his trouser legs, free performances? It seems to gen Bridge, Cpl. Jean Le Boufe, an ' * * * after giving us the well-known me that they, of all people, but wasn't touched himself. hook, proceed to rifle us worse than 82nd Airborne paratrooper, was en No Speed Limit should be willing to take their * * * any slot-machine ever dared to. route to the CP to deliver a mes- Fast driving at the front has chances with the EMs and let sage. On the way, the Germans Raid Put Down I can understand the Belgians "first come, first served" be the a lot of good features. Pvts. appreciating us for their release started shooting and the corporal order of the day. It somehow Frank Grimmet and John Men of the 30th Reconnaissance from tyranny; but please let's see hit the nearest foxhole. The hole Lear, 36th Div. ambulance Troop of the 30th Inf. Div. have if we can do something to halt spoils a show for me to go and was occupied by a muddy groan- be shoved around because the drivers, touched off a mine learned to think fast and shoot them from making us the object ing soldier. Le Boufe told him to with their vehicle's front faster in this man's war but this of their release from depression— best seats in the house are re- 6hut up served for officers, and as often wheels, but they were going so time it was a matter of talking Cpl. E. G. Perero F. A. The man paid him no heed. fast. as not the seats are vacant all fast that the blast caught only ••• * * When the firing died down Le Boufe the rear of the ambulance. While having a clandestine feast evening. — T/3 Clement Mort- took a second look. His companion on southern fried chicken in a Round Trip ford, WAC. Was a Storm Trooper. Le Boufe * * * If we have a flying bomb Yule Party Was on Adolf that's better than Hitler's, Private Breger Christmas came early for men what are we waiting for?— around Strasbourg. Supplies taken Sgt. E. L. Whelan, Inf. from abandoned enemy warehouses *■ # . . ■■ included fur-lined sleeping bags, blankets, sardines, cheese, candy According to Hitler and liquor. If the Germans want to fight un- * * * fairly by using diabolical weapons, I say let's fight them at their own Clothes Horse game. The Allied forces maintain The Second Inf. Div. picked that they must adhere to the rules up an AWOL German soldier dugout, "recon" men were surprised of the Geneva Conference, but the who had stolen an overcoat by their captain who walked in rules for the conduct of war as- Jrom a buddy and surrendered and asked ominously; "Chicken?" sume that war would be waged to the Yanks rather than face Hastily remembering a warning against human beings. a court martial. First thing about making free and easy with Fair play has its place, but when he asked 'for after surrender- strange chickens, S/Sgt. Joe Robin- the enemy conceals a horseshoe in ing was an American overcoat. son, of Leeksville, N.C., came his glove, let's do the same thing. smartly to attention and reported: Future generations will not con- "Nine Rhode Island chickens at- demn the Allied forces, if that's Cute Capsule tacked this position at P500 this what is worrying our leaders. In Margie Hipler, of Johnstown, Pa., morning and I am happy to report fact, it will bring a sobering effect has been chosen by members of the that the raiding party was wiped upon future would-be aggressors 28th Inf. Div. as the "Sweetheart out." and teach mankind that "illegal war- of the Bloody Bucket Div." Margie, DI —4- L. Folks at Home Send who was chosen '"Miss Pennsylva- Tnes DlrTlIS e GIs Swift News THE STARS AND STRIPES nia of 1944," was sponsored by Pvt. of Sir Stork's Arrival: Printed at the New y/ork Herald Francis T. Zatalava, also of Johns- Tribune plant. 21 rue de Bern, Paris, town. Beside being the sweet- T. Karl Preyer, Valdosta, Ga.—Karl for the U.S. armed forces under aus- L Christopher and Karl Martin, Dec. 8; pices of the Information and Educa- heart of the division, Miss Hipler Lt. Jack S. Parris, Little Rock—Martha tion Division. Special and tntorma- was voted "the capsule we'd most Magness, Nov. 11; Sgt. Irwin Flaum, New tion Services. ETOUSA: Tel.: ELYsees like to keep in our pillbox." York—Leslie Brian. Nov. 22; Cpl. Carl 40-58. 41-49. Pinkheimer, Coopersville, Mich.—James Contents passed DV tne U.S. Army Edward, Nov. 30; 1/Sgt. Charles L. Fowler. and Navy censors Entered as second Louisville—Charles Jr., Nov. 14; S/Sgt. class matter. Mar. 15. 1943. at the 5am, the Pants Are OK Edward Gabel, Toledo—Irwana Bernice, post office. New York. N.Y„ under Oct. 13; Pvt. Wilfred I*. Grand, Mattapan, the act of Mar. 3. 1878 Pfc Bill Breth, an infantry Mass.—Peter Jude, Nov. 21; Pvt. Ohauncey Vol. 1, No. 140 runner, is one GI who's not com- L. Green. Meridian, Idaho—girl, Nov. 11; "He was lighting the Colonel's cigarette when a shell exploded nearby! Cpl. George P. Hinckley, Jamaica, N.Y.= plaining about ©utsized pants. Karen, NOT. 14. Thursday, Dec: 14, 1944 THE STARS AND 'STRIPES Page 7

Li'l Abner tjy Courtesy of Onited Peatures By Al Capp

JEST T' AM OOZE. SHE ALREADY AH SEEN WHAR AH SOU IN'S LIKE 1F YOU WEREN'T ONE OF US FO' TH' EVEMIN', KNOWS WHAR SHE'S| IS GONNA SPEND TH A FLYIN* THE WORLD'S GREAT MAMMY IS CONJURIN' GONNA SPEND TH SUMMER. BUT AH MACHINE CHEMISTS, PROFESSOR. < UP A VISION O'WMAR SUMMER. SCON'S HAIN'T TAUKIN'. UP THAR- MACHIAVELL4. I WOULD 1 SHE'S CONN A SPEND SHE COMES LE-'S ALL GO TBED. NEVER HAVE CONSENTED TH* SUMMER. SHE'S OUTA IT — TH' EVENIN 'Sf GiSt-f^rr) TO THIS FANTASTIC INTERVIEW^! Sgt. Norman Kobren tells tne STIFF AN' COLD. ? SHE'LL TELL. AM002EMENT IS JUST THE TWO OF US — SHE'S A-SEEIN" usrr OWKH.TO 10,000 FEET OVER one about the GI who applied for (,TH* VISION NOWHERE,^NOW TALK, the position of chaplain's asistant PROFESSOR-MY TIME IS and asked: "Can I be Cadre VALUABLE fjT— MAKE Padre?" • • • -4% IT BRIEF//" A guy who signs his letter "Wee- gie" muses: "Maybe the absence of mail over here is due to the pre- IN sence of male over there." • • • Daffynition. Shot^-that which, if some people have more than one, they're half. lerry And The Pirates ay Courtesy of News Syndicate By Milton Caniff • * * Men of the 39th Sig. Co. are still AND THE SK2, WE FOUND THE JEWELER. AND Y01) SAV THAT VL AM CRUSHED J 1 trying to cross carrier pigeons with BLONDE WHO MADE TWO IDENTIFICATION . NO' UNAUTHORIZED |THAT THE SAHIB ^ 61 EL WHO BRACELETS ON MISS BELINDA'S PERSON ENTERED J SHOULD THINK WAS wrm ORDER...HE IDENTIFIED THE THE HOTEL ON THE "SR-OR. A MOMENT BELINDA ONE BEAR.IN6 CORP. JANE DAY OFMISS BELINDA'S) THAT I WOULD HAS ALSO AVGILLkrUDY'S NAME WHICH DISAPPEARANCE ? J ALLOW SUCH A FADED WAS FOUND IN MISS BELINDA'S OUT.1 ROOM...THE JANE ALLEN ONE HASN'T TURNED UP...

Dick Tracy By Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Syndicate Inc. By Chester Gould

woodpeckers so the birds can knock AGAIN, A.WOOD LISTEN TO DON'T YOU SEEfNOT on doors when delivering mes- BRINGS TO THE WHO'S ONLY CAN WE GET sages. CONGRATULATIONS, AMERICAN STAGE TALKING.' REVENGE ON • • * SPJOWFLAKE/YOU A NEW FIND.' A COUPLE SNOWFLAKE, BUT YOU Another unsigned verse left in WERE WONDERFUL.] A NEW— OP DAYS AGO CAN SHAKE DOWN our typewriter: HE WANTED THE ACTOR FLINTHEARTj Breathes there a man with soul so dead. mm TO SUE ME AT THE SAME TIME — Who never to himself hath said: BIRDS WITH ONE "I'd like to knock a knot on our 1st Sgt's head!" • • • mm Ain't it the truth? A colonel was lecturing a class of embryonic officers. "A 40-foot flagpole has fal- len down," he said. "You have a sergeant and a* squad of men. How would you erect the ^flagpole again?" The candidates thought; By Courtesy of. United Features. By Raeburn Van Buren then offered suggestions about a Abbie an' Slates block and tackle, and so on. WHAT A iVt'^NIPICENT VERY WELL THEN, BLIND ONE).'/ "You're all wrong," replied the VOICE.'.'.' WHe _ THAT YOU'AVE FOUND ME.'.'.'-??? OH- PARDON.MAW'SEUEf.'.'EET WAS ' colonel, "You'd say: 'Sergeant, get MAN rS-COULD BE A that flagpole up.'" GUEAT <=TTAS! WHAT rS you- • * * A GLCctous voice: Worst pun of the Decade. And LIKE THAT DOING: HIDDEN IN AN OBSCURE then there was the ghost who UTTLE HOTEL IN f?M?rS? finally got assigned to combat duty. "Hooray," he enthused, "Strict- ly apparitional at last!" (Ouch!) • * * Life is like That. Prances Booker, an ASC WAC, spent her day off tramping all over Paris in search of a flacon of "Evening de Paris" as a Christmas present for her mother. Returning to camp, weary and . footsore she found a Christ- mas package from her mama— containing "Evening In Paris." J. C. W. Help Wanted —AND GIVEN Write your question « problem to Help Wanted. The Stars and Stripes. Paris. France. APO 887.

PERSONAL ILL officer who borrowed Parker pen- W cil in lobby of Seine Base Section Bldg., Nov. 18, mail lt to Lt. Anthony Valente. LOST MILY Bible, 77 years old. Inside ln- r. scription: "To Mr. and Mrs. John E. Johnson." Pvt. John E. Johnson. FOUND ALLETS belonging to: Bernard Miller, W 32795714, by Sgt. Chester L. Thomas; Charles E. Copley, by Capt. H. E. Cotton. INOCULARS No. 158659. Pvt. James B M. Keeler. ACKAGE sent to "Sgt. Earnest"? by P his aunt Sarah Mulligan, Topeka. Kan. APOs WANTED /SGT. Howard L. Bonewiti, Wooster, O.; S W/O John A. Butler, Newton. Mass.; Sgt. James O. Campbell, Newton, Mass.; Cpl. August Caprefollie, Kansas City; Lt. Warren Clark, Iowa City: Pfc Alfred L. Davidowlti, Bronx; Lt. Alfred P. Evans. Providence; Lt. Thomas Gay Jr., Muskow- gee, Okla.; Pvt. William Greer, Medora, 111.; Lt. -R. S. Catherine Haysle, ANC; Oapt. Johny H. Hoefker. 0-442148 VT. Phillip J. Avalon, 16145163; Pvt. P Joe Dagman, 31236749; Oscar Fewina, Mason City, la.; Pvt. Walter E. Hall, Pueblo, Colo.; Pvt. Mariano Mendes, 390- 13854; Donald E. Whedon, Chicago. Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 Destination—Germ any Opening Christmas Packages in a Hurtgen Forest 'Parlor*

GIs of a U.S. infantry d i v 1- sion fighting in the Hurtgen Forest open the first batch of Christmas packages which arrived at their unit APO near ZweilfaU, Ger- many. Signal Corps Photo

Where It Belongs A Queen in Any Man's League

Nestled atop a bunch of oranges and footballs is 19- year-old Ver- nell Bush, who has been chosen queen of the 1945 Orange Bowl game to be played in Miami on New Year's Day.

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Signal Corps Photo. A French soldier drags the No jeeps, no trucks, no nothing—just feet take German flag across the street these Ninth Army infantrymen across muddy, after it had been torn from slippery French roads toward a forward position a building of a liberated near Geilenkirchen, Germany. village in southern France.

Vu titn of «*. a "aming Iterator of Maj. Gen. Nathan Twining's 15th Air | Blechhammer Germany Monday the 15th ffJ^^^f^J^^^Z V U ttm to begin the death plunge to the ground. The picture tions to give the Reich tts heav,estJ^tmgol ^ war. On that toy more than 6,000 was taken by aForc TJSAAe turnF cameramas ovcr n as the B24 formation went in for a bomb run over | tons of explosive were rained over the railroad network m the area a round Frankfurt.