U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo Four American soldiers lie dead, face down in the slush of a crossroads on the Western Front, (left), and a predatory Nazi on the right adjusting his newly-acquired boots. The photograph casualties in the German counter-offensive launched Dec. 16 in the Belgian sector. The was made by a German Army cameraman whose film was later captured by American forces. Americans are already stripped of equipment. The circles show the bare feet of the American, (See page four for other photos taken from captured films.) 3. New York London Edition Paris Churchill Daily French Lesson S'il vans plait, montrex moi In Athens to Seel you play, maim tray mwa THE ST 1.. ' 'TRIPES 4, Please show me Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations Seek a Peace +if-- ATHENS. Dec. 26 (AP)—Prime VOL 5 No. 46-1d. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27, 1944 Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived in Athens yesterday to take a personal hand in attempting to end the undeclared civil war which has battered Greece and strained United Nations relations for three weeks. Churchill was scheduled to address the Nazis 4 Mi. From Meuse opening session of a Greek all-party con- ference this afternoon. Under the chair- manship of Archbishop Damaskinos, proposed regent to run an interim Greek government until a general election could be held, the conference's avowed aims 50 Mi. Into Belgium were "to put an end to fratricidal strife in Greece and to enable her to resume her place among the United Nations." Representatives of the ELAS (resist- On a 40-Mile Front ance) -central commiuca %%ere invited to attend and safe conduct was promised them. Reports from SHAEF last night indicated that Iwo German armies and The S. ambassador, W. J. McVeigh. possibly a third had succeeded in forcing a bulge in the American line in was reported planning to attend the Belgium that by Christmas Eve, last Sunday night, had reached to within conference. four miles of the Meuse. Fighting continued in and around The Germans were reported to be rolling ahead on a 40-mile front which Athens throttahout Christmas Day. To- day an alleged plot to blow up the Grande they have pushed some 50 miles into Belgium on their way to the Meuse. Britagne Hotel—headquarters of Maj. It was thought that the Meuse was the Gen. Ronald M. Scobie. British com- first major objective of Field Marshal mander—was thwarted when a ton of Gerd von Rundstedt's. Christmas offen- dynamite was discovered under the street- 150 Heavies Hit sive. car tracks and in a sewer just outside the SHAEF's news blackout of the Western building. Front delayed reports of activities there Nazi Rail Lilies by 48 hours. Last night's reports covered Escorted by more than 300 P47s and actions up to Sunday night. At that time, Leyte Battle P5ls, approximately 150 Fortresses and reports said, the German offensive had Liberators of the Eighth Air Force carried to Celle, four miles southeast of pounded two rail yards in the Coblenz Dinant on the Meuse, and to Cinay, eight miles northwest of Dinant, on the Over-M'Arthur area and rail bridges between Coblenz Liege road. Dinant isabout two-thirds The Leyte campaign was described and Bonn yesterday. Most of the bomb- of the way across Belgium from east to officially as "closed except for minor ing was done visually. west. mopping-tip" by Gen. MacArthur's (For a complete account of the week- The Germans were reported to have in headquarters yesterday, soon after 77th end air activity, see page 2.) action the 7th Infantry Army. which Division troops, after an amphibious Meanwhile. 15th Air Force Forts and evidently has been rebuilt since it was landing on Leyte's west coast, took the Libs struck at German synthetic-oil pounded to bits in the Normandy fighting last Jap stronghold of Palompan. plants at Oswiecim, in Poland, and in the summer, and the 5th Panzer Army The nine-week-old campaign resulted Blechhammcr and Odertal, in Silesia. —as well as a second panzer army which in 11.217 American casualties, the com- Also in daylight yesterday, RAF Lan- reports have not yet identified. munique disclosed. Of this total, 2,624 casters and Halifaxes attacked German German Wedges Join were deaths. The rest were wounded and Aircraft Fowl Up troop and armor concentrations in the missing. Budapest Ring St. Vith area. The Germans had joined two wedges to Jap casualties were listed as totaling Yule Dinner in Burma form a single bulge straining into the 113,221. From Oct. 20, Jap planes de- American line. Their advance on Sun- stroyed in the Philippines totaled 2,748. MYITKYINA, Dec. 25 (delayed) day, which evidently gained 11 miles Closed by Reds during the day, was reported to have been Forty-one enemy transports and 27 war- (AP))—Live ducks and chickens were 25 Nazi PI Ws ships wore aunt: in the same period. BULLETIN made by two armored columns followed dropped by plane for the Christmas Superlorts raided I woiima in the Bonin Capture of Esztergom, 20 miles by infantry. Islands 'Saturday, while American war- dinner of American infantry and artil- northwest of Budapest, thus cutting off Escape in U.S. With U.S. forces holding both the ships shelled shore positions, Adm. lerymen lighting in the jungle of north the German-Hungarian garrison in the northern and southern flanks of the Ger- ' Chester W. Nimitz announced yesterday. Burma. capital from escape in any direction, was PHOENIX. Ariz., Dec. 26 (ANS)— man counter-offensive, the Germans evi- A Christmas Eve break by 25 German dently had canalized their strength in the Meanwhile, a U.S. 10th Air Force announced late last night by Moscow. Michigan Ex-Chief Dies prisoners from an internment camp near center, .changing the direction of their pilot flew his P47. named Santa Claus, DETROIT, Dec. 26 (ANS)--Former Russian forces on the west bank of the here resulted today in the disclosure by push from heading for Liege to heading Lt. Gov. Frank Murphy, 46, who had over a Jap concentration and dropped a Danube last night battled forward to close the FBI that Guenther Prien, one of Ger- for the Meuse in the Namur sector. confessed to charges of graft brought 500-pound bomb as a Christmas the German garrison's last escape gap many's foremost U-boat skippers, was a Namur is at a bend in the Meuse some against him by a grand-jury indictment, present. from Budapest as the Nazis dug in for a prisoner at the camp. 20 miles directly north of Dinant. died lust night of a heart ailment. suicidal defense of a hopeless position. The news of Prien, whose submarine On the southern flank U.S. troops had The fate of the German-Hungarian sank the British battleship Royal Oak at taken Martelange in a move to relieve defenders of the capital city apparently Scapa Flow early in the war, was given forces be'eaguered at Bastogne, some It) was sealed, however, as the only corridor by the FBI in denying that he was among miles directly north. On the northern Glenn Miller Is Missing out of the city was raked by Red planes by those who escaped. Nineteen of the men flank American forces had been with- day and pounded by Soviet artillery. arc still at large. drawn from St. Vith to keep them from Heavy tank battles preceded the Soviet Apparently all 25 scaled an eight-f-ot- being nipped off by the advancing high barbed-wire fence. On Hop From U.K. to Paris breakthrough across German communi- German drive. 'Maj. Glenn Miler, whose hot licks on favorite—volunteered for duty with the cation lines west of the city. At one point The German drive toward the Meuse the trombone brought him fame and for- AAF in 1942. despite the fact he was more than 300 tanks, including big King Stettinius Warns U.S. on Sunday came after a lull of 48 hours tune as one of America's top-flight band over age, and was commissioned a cap- Tigers, were thrown into the battle but and evidently took place while U.S. heavy bombers were pounding the communica- leaders, was officially listed as missing tain in Special Services. were beaten off. Of Future Robot-Threat tions lines supplying and reinforcing the in action since After arriving in the U.K. with a 45- From northwest of Budapest down to CHICAGO. Dec. 26 (AP)—Robot the eastern shore of Lake Balaton, troops bombing within 15 or 20 years is "almost enemy push with the heaviest bomber Dee_ 15. SHAEF man hand of GIs, including such former force ever thrown into a single miss‘on. announced yester- swing luminaries as Ray McKinley, Mel under Marshal Malinowsky and Marshal certain to befall this country and all other Tolbukhin were being merged into a countries" unless we are able to establish The weight of this air aqack. however, day in Paris. Miller Powell and Bobby Nichols, Miller would not be felt by the Garmais for at immediately began a series of one-night single striking force aimed toward an "efficient" peace organization, Secre- had been flying to Austria. No confirmation was forth- tary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (Contained an page 4) Paris from England, stands up and down England. "Gen. Doolittle put it best," the band coming from Moscow on the reported new wrote today in Kiwanis Magazine. it was stated. No offensive in Prussia and Poland. Stettinius said the Dumbarton Oaks Orders Cut, M'Arthur members of his leader told The Stars and Stripes Aug. 20, "when he told us that every soldier proposals were important because they band were with him. pointed an alternative to "unspeakable Puts Up His 5 Stars Previously. Mil- over here is bucking for one thing—to get home. He can't do that until the Horse, Dog Tracks disaster." LEYTE, Dec. 26 (ANS)—Gen. Mac- ler's mother-in- Arthur began wearing today his five stars law. Mrs. Fred job's done, so the next best thing is to bring a little hit of home to him. That's Ordered Closed by Jan.3 Yule P/W Parcels Enroule as a General of the Army. The insignia Burger, at her home authorized by the War Department for in Duarte, Calif., our mission." NEW YORK. Dec. 26—All horse GOTHENBURG, Dec. 26 (AP)—The the new rank—five silver five-pointed had disclosed that Miller's group—which he thought was and dog racing tracks in the U.S. Swedish motorship Saivo arrived here the best he ever led—was officially known have been ordered dosed by Jan. from Philadelphia yesterday with a cargo stars fastened together in a circle with the the band leader was GLENN Fitt I.ER missing. as the American band of the Allied 3 as the result of a White House of Christmas parcels for Allied prisoners inner points touching, the whole about Expeditionary Force. In the U.S. it was edict by War Mobilization Director of war in Germany. The Red Cross hoped the size of a lieutenant colonel's oak leaf, The Iowa-born musician—whose called the band of the AAF Training James F. Byrnes Saturday. to trans-ship the packets to Germany were made for MacArthur by a Filipino "Moonlight Serenade" was a nation's Command. (For complete details see Paso 33 within a few days, silversmith out of silver coins, Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1944

TIE STARS AND STRIPES Printed at The Times Publishing Company, Lid.. (for U.S. Armed forces. under auspices of The -{{ash MaAkz Record Bomb Blow 8th AF's Yule Gift to Nazis nformatlon and Education D: ision. Special nod Information Services. ET'OUSA.► ' Contents passed by the U.S. Army and Navy Over 2,000 Heavies—Biggest Single Mission—Unload on Christmas 'Eve censors; subscription 26 shillings per peat Plus' Pottage. ETO edition. Entered ax second class Tokyo Radio Report "We are pleased While the weather closed in again yes- the- 1st Army line. The heavies dropped matter Mar. 15, 1943. at the pot: office. New to announce the destruction of an Ameri- 100-, 250- and 500-pound bombs on York, N.Y., under the Act of Mar. I. 1879, All terday to curtail air activity against the material appearing to Mir publication has been can torpedo by one of our largest enemy the Eighth Air Force was still hangars and fields. written and edited by uniformed members al the cruisers." Army and Navy except where stated that a counting up the results of its Christmas Most of the targets the heavies went rlrJlinn nr other outside source Is beim: quoted. present to the Nazis, delivered Sunday by for were tiny road junctions. railroad gdaarial office—Tao Times. PrintInc House Ser., crossings, bridges. Clear weather enabled London, F.Gt (Tel. Cen. 2000), Business and Today's Daffynition. Alimoney: The more than 2.000 heavy bombers and 900 circulation offices-37 Upper Brook St.. London. high cost of leaving. fighters, the largest force of heavies ever crews to see the targets and to bomb Wt (Tel. ETOUSA 5416). District Wines: visually. Reports were that the bombing Bedford 2184: Swindon 3424: Sutton Coldfield * * flown on a single mission. —Font Oaks 268. Overheard in the Blackout. "My girl Sunday's big air attack was part of a was all "good." The fighters had a good day Sunday, Vol. 5, No. 46, December 27, 1944 weekend pattern, which continued yes- terday, designed to pound the hell out of too, taking on the Luftwaffe in a s-ries all communication lines supplying and of dogfights from which 76 of the Nazi reinforcing the German armies in their fighters failed to return. TN current counter-offensive, It was in direct Luftwaffe Weaken's B BAG support of the U.S. First Army forces BLOW IT which have been rolled back into Bel- On Monday, the Eighth sent 400 gium by the weight of the German drive. heavies and 400 fighters into the attack, OUT Cielkf. Taking advantage of clear weather, the The Luftwaffe failed to put up quite as big Dec. 24 mission started for Germany in a show of resistance and came out of the the morning and the first bombers were lighting with 46 of its planes shot down. entering Germany as the tail of the tre- In addition to the Luftwaffe, however, the Nom: Lack of space forces us to limit mendous column was leaving England. attacking force ran throueh some moder- ate ack-ack. all letters published taunt more than 200 Airdromes Hit - The Ninth Air Force took part in .the words.—Ed. The Eighth started its Christmas blow Christmas show, too, its fighters flying A Goldfish for Rooton last Saturday, when a force of more than 1,172 sorties Sunday in support of the 400 heavies, protected by some 700 1st Army. Its activities resulted in the Dec. 13, 1944. fighters, struck at airdromes in the Frank- destroying or damaging of 116 Nazi tanks To the B-Bag: fort area from which the Germans had and armored vehicles, 778 motor vehicles, One Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, Harvard has a seven-day kiss. It makes one 56 railroad cars and 28 horse-drawn weak." been operating tactical aircraft in support Col. David C. Schilling anthropologist, seems to think that it of their offensive. At least eight of the vehicles. In addition, a fuel dump was blown up, rail lines were cut at 20 places, might be a good idea to use men over 11 airdromes attacked were rendered become the Eighth's highest-scoring pilot 45 for the army of occupation. We of Another unsigned verse left in our type- and two bridges were destroyed and two writer: unserviceable. now on active duty. His. kill of five damaged. this section of the army think that perhaps Marshalling yards at Coblenz and rail Saturday was the biggest individual score the Doctor must be taking more ideas Mary had a little limb. The RAF, too, was out over the week- In fact, she sported two. centers near Trier, close to the Luxem- of the day, and brought his total to 341. end, hitting at V2 launching sites in from the well-known Harvard fish bowl. burg border, Kaiserlautern and Homburg "My major trouble," Schilling said, We cannot figure out just what sort And every time she took a swim, Holland on Sunday in addition to bomb- The soldiers cried, Woo-W000. were also hit. The Luftwaffe came up after the attack:, "was to get my fighters ing airfields at Essen. Dusseldorf and of family life the Doctor enjoyed, or is * * * to meet the attackers and lost 77 planes back into formation to come home when Bonn and the Cologne marshalling yards. enjoying, but it must be pretty terrible if in the resulting dogfights. we were running low on gas. They just The Eighth Air Force's three-day total he thinks that a man or woman's life is A recreation center hostess introducing Col. David C. Schilling, of Traverse wouldn't quit fighting." a GI to his WAC date remarked, "Your of enemy planes knocked out was 218, practically completed at the age of 45. City, Mich., 26-year-old commander of Sunday'S big attack continued the Its losses for that time were 38 bombers We would certainly hate to be going home date is the Corps' best pistol shot and the 56th Fighter Group, top-scoring pounding of the airdromes at Frankfort. teaches ju-jitsu. Now go ahead and have and 40 fighters, some of which are be- and pass a boat carrying Mom and Pop group in the Eighth Air Force, came out These lie across the Rhine just opposite lieved to have landed safely in friendly this way as GI Joe and Jane. a good time." of Saturday's fights with a kill of five to the bulge the Germans have driven into territory. Such articles should not be printed in * * * our estimation, even though some c‘ack- Food for Thought. A Joe who signs pots might entertain such thoughts. Now his letter "A permanent fixture in the An Echo From St. Paul's about feeding the Doctor another gold- ETO" has an interesting idea. According fish and forget the whole thing.—Three to the demobilization plan, he sez, a WAC U.S. Santa Amused GIs, Overseas Issue Section, may apply for a discharge upon her Ordnance. husband's release from the service. His Gloomy Dean Prognosticates wife has just been honorably discharged Flies to Paris Our German Readers from the air WACs. Now his $64 question is: "Does the plan work both An Uncheerful Little Earful By George Maskin Dec. 12, 1944. ways and where do I line up for the dis- To the B-Bag: By Irvin S. Taubkin referring to the British, "but they've lost Stars and Stripe? Stall Writer charge?" their power in the world. The domin- The boys in this ward want you to know * * Stars and Stripes Staff Writer PARIS, Dec. 26—Santa Claus in the BRIGHTWELL, Berkshire, England, ance of the Atlantic nations is at an end. person of T/Sgt, Reuben Brockway, how we feel about the things you write After weeks of K-rations in Normandy, Russia will be the great power in Europe of about the ammunition and tire shortage. Cpl. Ward Carheat got a package from Dec. 26—The Gloomy Dean, at 84. is New York, a French-speaking 824 radio still batting 1.000. And if you let him after this war. Don't you know every German the his mother with a note saying, "This is -The future of the world will belong operator, brought a teal Christmas— way to Berlin reads The Stars and Stripes. something new. just out. They are grand the Very Rev. Dr. something they didn't have under the W. R. Inge, former not to the high-standard nations, like and how do you think it makes him led? in your coffee and full of vitamins." The Britain and America—you know British German occupation—to several hundred Put yourself in his place and see what you "something new" was a case of 500 dean of .St. Paul's, and American workmen are never wel- Paris youngsters, ranging from babes-in- would think. "They can't win ; they malted milk tablets. wilt convince you comed as immigrants by other nations; arms to ten-year-olds, at the American don't have ammunition and tires." * * * that there should be they want too much—but to those in- Red Cross Rainbow Corner here. If all you can do is build up their Front-line hit parade. Pfc Al Capasso no joy in this Mild- dustrious nations whose people work hard Brockway passed out gifts and candy- morale, they might as well fire Goebbels. has new words for the song "Mairzy ville of a world. and long for very little." filled stockings on behalf of American I'd like to know what a military secret Doa ts" : Because, as he tells Russia and the U.S., the Dean said, it, Casey — that soldiers of the 453rd Bomb Group. GIs is. It sure isn't Dick Tracy and Little 88s and hand grenades and lotsa are the world's two invulnerable nations. supplied the candy from their PX rations. Abner. We think the war would be over screaming mimis, I dive for my hole, too mighty Casey that But he raised an eyebrow over Russia. Brockway and the crew were really much quicker if you would just stick to —wouldn't you? is mankind —,,*vas "Democracy," he defined, -is Only an struck out only the go-betweens on this "mission." Dick Tracy end Little Abner. Don't let * * * experiment in government that has been The real Santos were the hundreds of those Heinics know anything about the And then there was the woman who It has been ten moderately successful in the English- years since the youngsters—who live in the neighbor- situation.—Sgr. H. D. Ferguson and the got mad because her husband never talked speaking nations. You don't have de- hood where the 453rd is based somewhere Patients of Ward 9D, U,K., H. Plant. in his sleep he only smiled. Dean quit his post mocracy in Russia. You don't have at St. Paul's after in the U.K.—who built the toys which * * DR 51' R. INGE Communism either. One of Russia's were flown to Paris. They originated the 23 scars in the mas- most brilliant writers said the other day Recommendations on Russia Our spy on the Home Front sez, "The :.ive gray cathedral as head of the Angli- idea, broached it to Lt. Col. Lawrence M. that today for the first time Russia has Thomas, of Cooper, Tex„ the CO. who Dec. 15, 1944 can Diocese of London. They were a bourgeoisie." To the B-Bag: turbulent years. The bitter-coated barbs liked it so well he agreed to supply a In Britain, he said, organized labor will carrier for Santa's bag—u Lib with 74 Frequently on the front lines or here the Dean let loose from there were hard become the privileged class. and there will in the hospitals, I hear GIs worrying pills of truth for the world to swallow. missions. Flying on the mission, this be a "slum class" proletariat. "And when reporter can testify that the appearance about having to fight Russia next. Why That's how come he got dubbed the they've run through the loot," he don't these guys go and read some books Gloomy Dean, a monicker he never liked of Santa and his seven reindeer couldn't chuckled, "there won't be anything." have produced greater joy. by Americans who were in Russia in the and one his family thinks quite un- The world's moral laxity brought on by past few years and discover how ridicu- deserved. the war—illegitimacy, divorce, sexual For the occasion, the plane wits christ- lous that fear is. I get disgusted listening There was nothing gloomy about him looseness—worry the Dean. He wasn't ened "Liberty Run" by 11-year-old to people talk about war against Russia today. lie was a pleasant old man hug- Judith McDavid, who tossed a jug of hot sure what the outcome of it all would be coffee onto the ship. when both nations are fighting a common ging a pleasant tire in a pleasant study —nor what could he done about it. He enemy, Germany. looking out on a pleasant garden. His was sure that the church, as a church, The youthful toy makers, who after Some books I recommend to enlighten smile, more of the eyes than the lips, was shotild have no part in the peace con- tossing their handiwork into Santa's huge those "Russia Haters" are Mother easy and often. His chuckle, especially ference. duffle bag, were in turn feted—with plenty Russia by Maurice Hindus, Moscow when he got off one of his quips, was "The church," he chuckled again. "is of ice cream and cake, by the station per- Dateline by Henry Cassidy, Moscow deep and sly. One of his eyebrows points only a secular institution in which the sonnel. Diary by Joseph E. Davies, former north, the other south, and the effect — half-educated speak to the half-con- The all-French-speaking crew of the Ambassador to Russia, a wealthy business on one of the world's great ecclesiastical verted." He said it ought to stay out Lib included: man, certainly not a communist.—Pt•t. intellects—was strangely rakish. of anything "political," like trying to help Mal. Thomas I. O'Dwyer, liashrctick Heights, Fred Kohn, hospital patient, formerly No, there was nothing gloomy about shape a lasting peace. N.J ; Lt. Robert Van Flerlingen. Orange. N.J.: with Amid. Div. scarcity of men has made many girls good him at all—except what he said. Lt. Marc P. Maldower, Philadelphia ; Sgt. Edgar and lonely." "I'm a Victorian," he said. "and I Domingue, Onelowsa, La.: and Sat. Rollers W. Europe. he said, will see a lot of revo- hope for a reaction that will bring the Nicholson, San Gabriel. Cola. lution before it sees a little peace. "You world back to some of the moral stan- l8-Year.Olds Who said Om? A second lieutenant can't trust these foreigners," he chuckled. starts at. the bottom and works up. A dards of that age which had the highest Dec. 4, 1944 And what the outcome of it all will be standards of morality. AFN Radio Progratn private starts at the bottom and works. To the B-Bag: he didn't say. "But nothing is ever as bad as it seems. I'm not much of a guy to go around J. C. W. "Our people aren't rotten," he said, The body politic generates toxins and American Forces Network—With the AEF telling people what to do, and I don't antitoxins within itself. The Greeks used Oa the Road to Berlin like bitching in public, but -when a guy to speak of the deeds of the young, the On Your Dial like this Pfc Gordon K. Stark gives his councils of the aged and the prayers of 1375 kc. 1402 ke. ' 1411 kc. 1420 kc. 1447 ke. opinion about 18-year-old kids—that they the old. At 84, 1 can only pray." 218.1m. 213,9m, 212.6m. 211.3m. 207.3m. should be put in uniform, and after the Wednesday, Dec. 27 war send 'em over here to "police up"—it 1200—world News. Vignette of War 1 205—Duffle Bag, burns me up, and plenty of other GI Joes 130D—HeadlIncs—Sports News. feel the same way as me. 1305—This is the Star,'. There are 12 million men in the ser- 1335—Yank Swing Session. Greater Love 1400—Headlines—Visiting limit. vices, seven million overseas. After the 1500—Headlines--German Lesson. war, why not send that other five million 1505—Strike up the Band. over here and let them do the "policing }lath No M an 1f30—On the Record_ 1- 1630--Great Moments In Music. up." I have a younger brother at home, i700—Headlines.—Meltv3s Roundup. and I don't want to see him in uniform.— By Harry J. McLaughlin 1715—Amos 'n' ANY Stars and Stripes Special Writer 1740--Mtutie In Tbrec-ciunner Time. Pvt. George Hatrock, Inf. 1755—American Sports News. WITH 94rtt INF. DIV. Dec. 26—The 1800—World News. 1805—Mark up the Map. Dec. 7, 1944 small figure crawled forward, edged 1810—G1 Supper Club. To the B-Bag: close to a hedgerow and started digging 1900—Headlines—Take the Air (Eighth Air Fora). in. At his side was the telephone with 1930—Bandwagon. Perhaps i should keep my big mouth 1945—Strings with Wines. shut, as 1 wasn't asked my opinion for which he was to observe the enemy's 2000—Headlines—Combat Diary_ your Vox Pop-off column, but I'd like to artillery lire and report back to his 2015—Johnny Mercer's Music Shop 2030--British Band of the AEF. disagree with Pfc Stark's statement of company. 2100—World News, Dec. 4. Suddenly the Jerries opened up with 2105—Eddie Condon's tear Session. 2130—Bob Hope with Frances Langford, Jerry Maybe he thinks it's O.K. for the kids 88s and mortars. A piece of shrapnel hit Colonna and Skinnny Ennis. of 18 to police Germany, but damn if 1 him in the abdomen_ 2200—Headlines—Home News from the U.S.A. can see it. 1 wonder i.f he or anyone else 2205—Listen Characters. Gritting his teeth, he called back to the 2300—Final Edition. would like to see their son or brother sent CP: "Sarge, there is someone wounded overseas to some hole like Germany for up here. Send an aid man quickly." Thursday. Dec. 28 training. Half an hour later he interrupted his 0755--Sign On—Program Resume Maybe he didn't grow up like the rest 0800—Headlines—Combat Diary. of us, but I know when I was 18 that I observations to repeat; "Sarge, 0815—Personal Album, dying, please hurry." 0830—Light Music. had a hell of a good time and I sure 0900—World News. Wish that I was that age now. The aid man arrived, but the observer 0905—Music in the Modern Manner refused to stop work, while aid was being 0925—Waltz Time with Abe Lyman's Orchestra. Can you or anyone else imagine taking t000—Headlines—Morning After (Bob Hope). a high school kid from his Model A's and given. He was credited with neutralizing 1030—Strike up the Band. drug stores and sending him to Germany seven 88s and saving many lives. His 1100—HeadUncs—Home News from the U.S.A. for (raining. Hell, no, and neither can J. own, though, could not be saved. I105—DuMe Bag. On the Continent lima to your favorite AFN We should have training, but let's wail snsuirul The posthumous recommendation for programs over the till the kids are 21. Don't spoil those the DSC for Pfc Dale T. Proctor, of Allied Expeditionary Forces Program: 583 ke. 5t4m. glorious teen ages.—;S/Sgt. W. Hill, Sub Bruno, Neb., reads: "He was a credit Also shortwave: 6.195mg. (49m. band) between Depot. "Just take in' word for it, fads, that's Bucking'am Palace!" to his outfit and his country." 0800 and 1900 Liman.

Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1944 SPORTS THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Behind the Sports Headlines Byrnes Orders Ban on Racing

WASHINGTON—Another outstanding the course of the contest found himself in Annapolis athlete is prepared to go the unfortunate position of being between Violet. Veteran By Pap Pro Athletes down to the sea in a ship. Cdr. Frank Felix Blanchard, Army fallback carrying Wiekhorst, tackle and captain of the the ball, and two Irish tacklers bent on You great 1926 football team, will go to the stopping Blanchard. The Notre Dame BACK Pacific for carrier duty shortly after the men. stopped Blanchard and Reese, too, A r5A/A./_} To Undergo Is ON ---reeE" first of the year. Wickhorst has been in who left the game with a broken arm. •COL927- Wr7W charge of the Navy's aviation physical Overlooked was Ernie Lombardi's sen- NEW YORK aviVERsI7Y Strict Exams fitness program for the past 18 months sational feat of beating out an infield hit V/01-ETS" at Boston. 711.72 A c. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26- -With only and under him the carrier flight decks YEA/R. started to look like ball fields and gym- 1.41 one week left before all horse ;' ul dog nasiums. Cmdr. Tom Hamilton. Wick- WASHINGTON—Secretary of the SERVICE tracks in America will be closed tinder Navy James Forrestal awarded the horst's teammmate at Annapolis, organ- one of the most drastic manpower acts order of the Purple Heart yester- of the war, professional sports promoters ized and headed the program until '43, day to two sports writers, one when he went to sea. and fans prepared to cooperate and hoped posthumously. Jack Singer, former an early end of the war in Europe 'could baseball writer of the New York solve their problems. NEW YORK—Branch Rickey, who Journal-American and International AL /MS sprouted baseball's farm system, ad- LOSTNON The move to close all U.S. tracks by News Service, died in 1942 when the car- 07.- .1/1S- Jan. 3 was made Saturday by James F. mitted today that_ he is interested in rier Wasp went down iu the Pacific and S'PEELD arre-,a, ZT/E v.e,4,e IN 771E- Byrnes, War Mobilization Director, with professional football. Not from a spec- his medal and certificates will be given MAR/71E5 //AS President Roosevelt's approval. Simul- tator's standpoint, understand. Anyone his nest of kin. 'The other sports scribe, G/1/...ciP OM GREATER. who knows the Joe James Custer of the United Press, ,news taneously, Byrnes asked Maj. Gen. Lewis Brooklyn Dodgers', was aboard the cruiser Astoria at the B. Hershey, Selective Service director, to boss realizes his naval battle of Savo Island and lost his ALL review the qualifications for military ser- interest is cen- ast.4..e/a/E..s vice of all men known to be engaged in left -eye when a shell exploded on the ARE SHARP- tered on the click- ship's deck just before she sank. He SI1007ERS professional sports. ing turnstiles, and dictated his dispatches from a hospital I/ The ban on racing was ascribed to the that means he ship and after recovery returned to the need to conserve manpower, transport would like to own New York sports staff of United Press. and critical materials. Though Byrnes a pro fessional * * * called his action a "request." it was, in team. Rickey has WASHINGTON — Cmdr. Gene effect, an ultimatum to close up :a- face already engaged in Tunney, retired undefeated heavy- action by the War Manpower Conwnis- consultations with weight chump, has son, Office of Defense Transportation John "Chick" Meehan, president been assigned to and the War Production Board. These agencies could deny the tracks manpower. of the Trans- spend more time with the fleet in motor and rail facilities and critical BRANCH RICKEY America League, NE r"S' and the only thing Navy's physical fit- materials. ness program. The AAf ONE thought to be holding the shrewd former rNE 1/10GE7 Swope, Winn Pledge Support owner of the St. Louis Cardinals from Navy yesterday an- Almost immediately after Byrnes issued nounced Tunney's plunging headlong into the football busi- his order, racing officials SW11110 in behind ness is assurance from Meehan that new assignment as the ruling. Herbert Bayard Swope, other members of the new league are special assistant to chairman of the New York State Racing financially equipped to withstand the Vice Admiral Ran- AI Hews/444414T Commission, and Col. Matt Winn. head occasional reverses bound to crop up. dall Jacobs, chief of of Chtirchill. Downs, Empire City and Rickey has had a hand in the formation Navy personnel. Lincoln Fields, said they were "ready .to of many minor leagues and well knows wit h complete comply instantly with regulations." that financial instability in one or two charge of physical AL Batting Title to Boudreau; While promoters of most professional teams can draw the whole bunch under. training. Lt. Cmdr. GENE TUNNEY sports lOoked into the future with mis- At present the Brooklyn Tigers are C. M. Farrington, approximately 60 grand in the red on former athletic director at George Wash- givings, club owners and league officials Musial Cops Slugging Honors showed no undue concern about major their hooks, and Brother Rickey un- ington University, will succeed Tunney league baseball carrying on in 1945, doubtedly feels he could improve things. when the former champ goes out with the CHICAGO, Dec. 26—Lou Boudreau, 27-year-old manager of the Cleve- land Indians, survived all sorts of trouble with his athletes during 1944 and though there was a possibility that the fleet. new year would see a shortened season. ITHACA, N.Y.—Henry Frnka, coach of * * * still found time to win the American League batting championship with an BOSTON—Ray "Sugar" Robinson, Clark Griffith, owner of the Washing- the Orange Bowl-hound Tulsa Uni- average of .327, official figures released today revealed. varsity football team, is rumored here as Harlem welterweight, scored a TKO vic- ton Senators, said: "Whatever Uncle the likely successor here to Carl Snavely, tory over Sailor George Martin, of Bos- At the same time, the National League announced that Stan Musial of Sam says, baseball goes 100 per cent." former Cornell coach who signed last ton, in the eighth round of a scheduled the St. Louis Cardinals, who was beaten for the elder loop's batting crown He said he was accustomed to having his week to coach at North Carolina Univer- ten-rounder here. Martin puzzled Sugar by Dixie Walker of Brooklyn, had paced players reclassified, drafted or reviewed sity. Like Snavely, Frnka is a single in the early stages of the bout with his by Selective Service. crouching style, but the uncrowned his league's sluggers with an average of wing disciple and has had marked success Ford Frick, National League president, welter king straightened him out with .549 on the basis of 312 total bases in with the Golden Huricanes, who are Wings Conquer said, he was not surprised by By' ne's uppercuts to the head and a bad cut 568 times at bat. Bill Nicholson won order. He recalled that "three years ago headed for their third bowl game in the over Sailor's left eye convinced the last five years. Among the stars Frnka the NL's runs-batted-in crown with 122 we said we would play baseball as long referee that the fight should end. Ralph and was second to Musial in the heavy Toronto, 6-4 as we could get nine men on the field— has developed are Glenn Dobbs and Zarielli. of Providence, won a ten-round Clyde LeForce. slugging depart- and that still goes.- * * * decision from Izzy Jannazzo, of New ment with a .545 DETROIT. Dec. 26—The Detroit Red There was less optimism among the York, in the semi-final. average. Wings edged the Toronto Maple Leafs, minor leagtie leaders and directors of ORLANDO, Fla.—Joe Tinker, the 6-4. to take a firmer grip on second former great Chicago Cubs shortstop, DES MOINES. Iowa—The annual In winning the professional football, hockey and golf, American League place in the National Hockey League. all of which have a large percentage of who was brought to the Orange General search for football's "Man of the The Motor City six moved into the Hospital last week suffering from nasal Year" narrowed to five men following batting crown, physically deferred athletes. hemorrhages, high blood pressure and Boudreau participa- lead early in the opening period on goals conclusion of preliminary voting in a poll by Joe Carveth and Carl Liscombe with Will Hit Ringmen diabetes, is reported to he "out of conducted by the Football Writers' Asso- ted in 150 games Boxing also expects to be hit pretty danger unless complications develop." ciation of America. The nominees are and made 191 hits hard, but promoters and state commis- * * * Carrot Widdoes, acting head coach at in 584 trips to the Hockey League Standings sioners voiced no regrets. Abe Greene, dish. His average NEW YORK—Dr. Davis Reese of Day- Ohio State: the late Maj. John Griffith. W L T Pis. W L. T Pis. NBA president, stated: "No activity in ton, Ohio, and Snison College. was Big Ten commissioner ; Gen. "Hap" was the lowest to Montreal . 14 4 2 311 Boston . R 11 I 17 the country. leastwise sporting activity, victim of the oddest happening in the cop the title since Detroit .. 13 5 3 29 New York 3 II 5 Arnold, Army Air Force commander ; Toronto . 10 8 2 22 Chicago . 3 12 3 9 transcends in importance anything which sports world in '44 according to 88 sports Les Horvath, Ohio State's All-America Ty Cobb's .324 in has a direct influence on the progress of 1908. writers voting in the Associated Press hack, and Earl "Red" Blaik, head coach Nick Metz getting the lone Leaf first- the war. When men are willing to die, poll. He was head linesman in the Army- at West Point. Final balloting will be Bobby Doerr of LOU BOUDREAU certainly a matter of temporal pleasure the Boston Red period tally on a thrust from Lorne Carr. Notre Dame football game and during completed Dec. 31. Ed Bruneteau netted one for the Wings or excitement cannot be of considera- Sox amassed a .325 mark before he was tion." And Nat Ropers, Madison Square grabbed by Uncle Sam to take second in the second period and Art Jackson followed with one for the Leafs. Garden matchmaker, said : " fhe war place in the race, Boston's Bob Johnson comes first. If enough boxers remain was third with .323, George Stirnweiss Atter Steve Wochy and Don Grosso Trojans Are Strong Favorites scored for Detroit in the third, the Leafs after that, then we will continue.- of the Yanks was fourth with .319, and When the gales of the country's 80 Pete Fox of Boston rounded out the big made an attempt to go ahead when Carr and Metz were successful but Wochy tracks close, at least 16 states will lose live with .315. more than 50 million dollars in revenue. Over Rose Bowl-Bound Vols The Red Sox grabbed team batting scored his 101st tally of the season to end the evening's scoring, Horse racing also contributed 16 Million LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26—The Southern California Trojans, who honors with a .270 mark while Stirnweiss dollars to charity during the past year. of the Yankees won the most specialized acquired the habit of winning Rose Bowl games back in 1923, will be In his request to Hershey for re- batting honors, his 205 hits, 125 runs and examination of athletes, Byrnes said he favorites to come through for the eighth time when they tackle Tennessee 16 triples leading the loop. His team- American Hockey League "understood" some professional athletes mate. Johnny Lindell, also got 16 triples EASTERN DIVISION in the Pasadena classic this year. The unbeaten but twice-tied Trojans L T Pis. W L T were 4Fs and others had medical dis- and he heat Snuffy out for the total bases - he said, "they are generally regarded as the top service or collegiate team on the Coast, Buffalo ., 15 10 3 33 Providence 8 16 2 18 charges. "In either event, lead with 297 to 296. Hershey . 13 10 3 29 prove to thousands, by their great phy- and even Coach Jeff Cravath admits that if the Trojan T-formation is The American League home-run crown, WESTERN DIVISION sical feats in football and baseball, that W L T Pis. W L T Pts. they are physically tit and as able to per- clicking Tennessee's young, inexperienced, the cheapest in years, went to Nick Etten Ind'n'olis 14 7 7 35 Cleveland 12 8 5 29 all-civilian squad should he in for a rough of the Yankees, who hit only 22. Pittsburgh 13 12 3 29 St. Louis 5 16 3 13 form military services as are II million time. men in uniform." Quarterbacking the Trojans will be Capt. Jim Hardy, regarded by Cali- fornians as one of the best collegians ever Tea Bowl Tilt for U.K. Crown CAGE RESULTS to handle the job. He is a good passer, By John Wentworth The Raders tangled Christmas Day with standout punter and dangerous runner. the Big Reds, Second Bomb Division FRIDAY'S GAMES SIAM and Strings Staff Write, Bainbridge Naval.61, Camp Bradford 50 Hardy has given his coach heart failure champs, and were held scoreless for three Eastern Illinois 46. Miami (Ohio) 311 many times this year by his unorlbodox The undefeated Eighth Air Force periods before coming through with two Great Lakes 60. Purdue 47 play calling. He passes on first down, Shuttle-Raders, who rolled to their tenth Indiana Teachers 67, Concordia 49 touchdowns in the final chapter for a Kansas 63, Kansas State 40 runs on fourth down, punts on second straight victory of the season Monday, 13-0 victory. Minnesota 55, Nebraska 54 down and generally confuses everyone. and the Air Service Command Warriors, Morehead Teachers 65, Central Normal 42 In the first half Big Red Halfback Murray State 39. Lures 311 Folks out here think he will confuse the who also have ten victories against no George Cheroke, former Ohio State star. NYU 57. Brooklyn College 48 Vols, too. losses or ties, will be playing for the U.K. plowed through the Rader line for size- Norman Naval 53, Enid Airfield 32 Base title when they meet in the second SATURDAY'S GAMES Whitehead Standout on Defense able gains and Lt. Joseph King, of Orono. CCNY 74. Trinity 49 Tea Bowl game at White City Stadium Me., skirted the ends for first downs, but At fullback, Duane Whitehead has been DePaul 74, LILT 47 in London on New Year's Day. when the chips were down the Raders Holy Cross 41, DePauw t5 a standout defensive player and key The two powerful and colorful grid Iowa 63, Notre Dame 46 blacker, but strangely enough he ht.s had it. In the final session Jim Hamilton Kansas State 41, Nebraska 46 teams, who arc expected to draw upwards 53. Ohio State 48 seldom been used as a ball carrier. The snatched the ball out of the hands of Lt. Kenateliy of 50.000 people, were given that "some- Cheroke and dashed 18 yards for the Michigan 38, WYorrlIng 33 team's real problem is a pair of halfbacks. Murray College 54, Morehead (Ky.) 34 Gordon Gray, ace leather toter,, was thing definite" to shoot at yesterday when game's first score, and a few moments Norman Naval 53, TCU 22 Capt. Ralph Ifft, U.K. Base athletics later ex-Purdue Star Earl Doscy sliced Northwestern 68. Western MiChigan 54 transferred by the Navy, and George St. John's 41, Puerto Rico 35 Callanaii, a late season standout. may officer, announced that his office, in view off tackle for 48 yards and another touch- Sampson Naval 43, Cornell 29 he out of the Bowl game with an injury. of the especially outstanding records of down. Pvt. Ed Snow, Berwick, Me., Wisconsin 46, Marquette 39 the two teams, would recognize the Tea quarterback, accounted for the Rader Yale 45, Dartmouth 42 So Coach Cravath has borrowed two men MONDAY'S GAMES from the track team and is working two Bowl game winners as out and out cham- extra point after his team's first touch- Brooklyn College 49. Western Kentucky 45 Help Wanted freshmen—Don Burnside and Bob Morris pions of the United Kingdom. down. Tennessee 50, NYU 48 —AND GIVEN —into the backfield. There is nothing to worry about in the By Courtesy of United Features By Al Capp Write your question or problem In Help Li'l Abner Wanred, The Stars and Stripes, 37, Upper Trojan line. It is big and tough from end Brook SI., London, WI, or APO 413. U.S. to end, with 235-pound Tackle John Fer- I KILLED PROFESSOR MACHIAVELLI IT COULDN'T BE THET AH'D DIE Army. Telephone U.K. Base HO, Ext. 2131. IN COLD BLOOD - TO PREvENT FUM NATCHERAL CAUSES! raro, named on many All-American ANYONE 'SEEING THAT PIECE. JUST Fo' A LFL INNERCENT NEVAH FELT 'TOUGHER IN ALL APOs Wanted elevens, just about the toughest. OF PAPER -AND NOW AMOOZEMENT AH CONJURED MAK LIFE!F ' RECKON IT'LL. LT- MINGAN. Inf., AAA-0; S/Sgt. John FLOATING AWAY LIP A VISION T'SEE wHAR AWD BE FUr4 OPINATCHERAL FROM ME - - SPEND NEX' SuMMER(CAILPA.). CAUSES -LIKE SOME NARMINT MAZZI. North Adams, Mass.: T/Sal. Wafter DOWN All SEEN tTfe AK IS GONNA A-KILLIN' ME IN COLE BLOOD. PIEPER: Lt. Raleigh RAGSDALE; hi. Rouen DOWN - SPEND TN' HOT SUMMER IN .4 - - ?-WitUT5 This - R. RYAN. 39471449; Lt. Charles J. ROSINI: Dick Tracy Runs NtCE C004. GRAVEYARC)1' Pit %Valiant G. RUNDBLAD, Fifield, Wise.: Fred REICH.ERT, Bourbon. Ind.; T/Sgt. William S. SHEPHERD. Fall River, Mass.; Lt. Dale M. into Priority Trouble SPERRY; S/Sat. Stanley SOKOLOVVSKI. Clcve- kind, Ohio; T/4 Gaston VALCOURT. 39025138; Jolly old St. Nicholas Was so busy Paul J. WALKER: Pic George WRIGHT. rump-- toting packages from the home folks river, Wise. on Christmas day that he overlooked Greeting. Cards Wanted Dick Tracy in the rush of things. The PLEASE save your old greeting cards for the comic strip will be resumed as soon as -'. benefit of children and wounded in hospital.— Send them to Help Wanted (or distribution. and the plane space is found for the famous mark the packet "Greeting Cade' detective. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 27. 1944 Captured ii;ns Show the War Through German Eyes

U.S. Any Signed Corps Photos German infantrymen pass burning captured American vehicles somewhere on the Western were captured during the Nazi counter-offensive. Right—German troops rush across a Bel- Front during the German drive into American lines. Center—Columns of American pri- I gian road, blocked with vehicles and armor. These photographs were made by a German sorters being marched to the rear are passed by German tanks moving up. These Americans Army cameraman whose film was captured by American forces. Life in Those United States M'Arthur in Gotham? Paris Combed West Fronts - Just a sLeyte Hoax (Continued front page 1) NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (ANS)— Army Heads May Roll Gotham hotel owners, night-club mana- For Nazi Spies least 48 hours, a SHAEF expert was re- gers and newspapermen were still in a PARIS. Dec. 26 (UP)—After lying low ported to have explained. whirl today after a man who said he since September, German spies in Paris In Wake of Nazi Push Although the weather yesterday began was an Army captain made reservations are beginning a full-scale plan of cam- to turn unfavorable for air activity, the for Gen. MacArthur last week at several paign. Edgard Pisani, assistant chief of WASHINGTON. Dec, 26 (ANS)—Sources close to the War Depart- Ninth Air Force flew several hundred spots in town. Paris Police, revealed yesterday. A band of about 30 was arrested recently. ment expressed belief today that the heads of some American and British sorties in support of the ground forces "Capt. Dennenberg" first called the and up to noon yesterday had shot down Astor Hotel, where he asked for a The large-scale spy hunt, which has military chiefs would roll because of recent reverses on the Western Front, 22 enemy aircraft and destroyed six tanks "suite of six rooms for Gen, Mac- been going on in Paris for some time, is with the primary responsibility for the German breakthrough apparently and 237 motor transports. Arthur." Later the same voice reserved difficult. The Gestapo forced Paris police being laid at the door of the intelligence service, The Associated Press a table for six at the Copacabana and to hand over several thousand blank In their drive westward, the Germans identity cards. reported. occupied Rochefort, about 20 miles south- six tickets for the musical "Oklahoma." Then "Dennenberg" phoned every Last week, one German wearing a U.S. Meanwhile. in Philadelphia, J. A, Krug. War Production Board chairman, said east of Dinant. They also sent parachute officer's uniform was recognized and WPB was operating now on the theory that the war in Europe would go on troops over the American lines, dropping newspaper in town, saying the Gen- arrested by a former member of the FFI indefinitely. He pointed out that new factories to make trench mortars could not small groups of fewer than 50 each in eral's presence was top secret. That at a night club. Two Nazis were found go into production until August. If the war ended before August a good deal of the Stavelot area -and, southwest of started a flurry of calls from newsmen in a house where a French girl supplied money would he lost, but if it didn't end by then, "as probably it won't," said Krug, Dinant, neareGivet. Both groups were to Army Public Relations. When a them with food. the new plants—costing $200,000.000—would save many American lives. reported to have been wiped out. PRO attempted to reach "Capt. Den- Although it was indicated that a com- American forces were reported to be ncnberg" at the telephone number he plete report of the circumstances leading of the enemy." fighting bitterly all along the line. Those left, it turned out to be a delicatessen Eighth Army Resumes to the German winter drive had not yet Two other columnists commented on holding out at the Stavelot-St. Vith wedge, store. Advance in. Italy America's use of military manpower. reached here. the finger was pointed at before they were withdrawn, were credited Eighth Army -troops in Italy, after a the intelligence division by the Washing- Hanson W. Baldwin, of the New York with possibly slowing up the German Times, said the U.S. was "luxurious and brief holiday respite from war—all opera- ton Post and by two U.S. correspondents, advance to such an extent that Von tions Christmas Day stopped because of William L. Shirer, of the Columbia wasteful" in using its men and called for Rundstedt's original timetable may have Three 8th AF Chiefs Broadcasting System, and Charles A. heavy snows—were reported by the United a more thorough "comb-out" of the been upset. Promoted to Brigadier Press on the move yesterday, closing in on Michie, of the Chicago Sun. Army and home front for replacements A report from the U.S. forces in for the ground forces—"the arm of ulti- Three Eighth Air Force combat leaders, Alfonsine, eastern anchor of the German Said The Post: "The disquieting thing Belgium indicated that Von Rundstedt defense line. to the people is that our command was mate decision." might be running short of gasoline, saying pioneers in heavy bombardment in the caught napping. Blame is attached to Drew Pearson charged that the War that 13 German self-propelled guns had ETO, have been promoted to brigadier Quiet Yule for Quints the intelligence service. For the mistake, Department itself was responsible for -a been captured because they ran out of fuel general, it was announced yesterday. The CALLANDER, Ont., Dec. 26 (ANS) both the British and ourselves must lot of favorable news which gave the west of Bastogne. Von Rundstedt has new one-stars: Archie J. Old, of —The Dionne quintuplets, now ten years accept joint responsibility, for at SHAEF public a general feeling of overconfi- been able to capture only one substantial Atlanta, Tex., and Frederick W. Castle, old, celebrated their usual quiet Christ- the chief intelligence officer is a Briton dence." fuel dump in his counter-drive, contain- of Washington. D.C., wing commanders, mas yesterday, attending two masses in with an American as his deputy. The One item, he said, was that some ing about 85,000 gallons, enough to keep and Jack W. Wood, of Riverside, Calif., their nursery chapel, eating a big turkey deficiency will no doubt be remedied." 800,000 German troops were killed or one armored division rolling for two days. chief of staff of the 14th Bomb Wing. dinner and opening a few gifts. Shirer, who returned Friday from a captured in the cleanup in France. "Of six-week tour of the front., said the 1st these, however, about 400,000 constituted Army commanders were ar.,' are of a Ger- Russian Ukrainian labor battalions." Vile Plot, Vial Mission man attack three weeks before it began Pearson said. "Thus the American public and guessed ,correctly where it might mistakenly believed that a large slice of come, but that. events indicated G-2 had Germany's army was decimated." Nazi Chutists Hunt U.S. Chiefs With Acid failed to apprise the high command of Pearson contrasted German and Ameri- the strength of the projected Nazi attack. can methods of employing troops in the By Stars and Stripes StaR Writer,: in this skeleton city of rubble were back to normal today. after Michie said military analysts in Washing- front line. U.S. troops are kept on the WITH T.J.S. FORCES, Belgium, Dec. 21 (delayed)--German quaking with fear of reprisals from Von Rundstedt himself. ton believed the Allied commanders did front line, with fresh men being brought parachutists dropped behind U.S. lines to sabotage communica- The "traitors''—so called because they refused to evacuate not know enough about the preparations up only as replacements. Pearson said. tions and kill high,-ranking officers constitute a well-organized into the Reich with 60,000 others last October—were panic- for the German counter-thrust to ready whereas the Germans took out their first- task force especially trained and equipped, a U.S. spokesman stricken last week when Von Rundstedt announced that Aachen adequate defenses, adding his own con- line troops after Normandy and sent them disclosed today, had been selected as Hitler's Christmas present to the Father- clusion: "What they mean is that our to rest camps. "Experienced Germans, They carry small vials of sulphuric acid which fit into match land. military intelligence service failed in its refreshed after a long rest, are now taking boxes and can be thrown in the faces of any who try to inter- Goebbels screamed over the radio that the Aachen civilians job of reporting accurately the movements the offensive against us," Pearson asserted. cept them. were doomed and on Christmas morning they would be shot. Their American uniforms were taken weeks ago from cap- For the next few days they listened wild-eyed to British and tured U.S. officers and men who were forced to strip to their German radio reports telling of the Wehrmacht's advance. House Group to Probe 'News Blackout' to Troops underwear and then shot. They rushed through their bomb-pocked streets to the city's WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—Rep. Overton Brooks (D.-La.) said today the The parachutist force, equivalent to two battalions in military governor. House Military Affairs Committee would investigate what he called "a com- strength, was specially organized to operate with the Nazi drive "They were terrorized and their burgomaster was badly plete blackout" of news to American soldiers abroad. whenever it should start. shaken," said Maj. Jack Bradford, of St. Paul, Minn. ''We Brooks, a member of a committee which recently completed a four-week in- talked to them quietly and soothingly of the might of the spection of the European fronts, said American troops complained that they were WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN BELGIUM, Dec. 26— American armies, They calmed down and walked back to their not getting enough news about the rest of the world and that most of what they Seven members of the SS—Hitler's elite--today signed sworn shattered homes.- got was old. statements that they had participated in the Dec. 18 massacre Brooks added that troops "craved" news from the U.S. and that failure to of more than 20 civilians in the Belgian town of Parfondruy, WITH SEVENTH ARMORED. DIV., HOLLAND, Dec. provide it was "unfair" and injurious to .morale. Whether the blame for "the south of Stavelot. 26—A group of "Lucky. Seventh" infantrymen, just out of the news blackout" lay in this country or abroad, Brooks could not say, but he The men were among nine prisoners captured from the line, were patiently waiting for the truck that was to take them said the committee intended to find out us soon as the new Congress convened engineer platoon of an SS armored reconnaissance battalion. to a rear-area movie. A six-by-six came rumbling down the next month. They freely admitted their part in the slaughter and added road. that members of the same unit were responsible for the slaying "Hey, buddy," yelled one of the men, "headed for the show?" `Philanthropist' Kills Self New Chapter, Same Book of 23 old men, women and children at Stavelot on Dcc. 19. "Yup," said the driver. "Hop in," NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (ANS)—Oscar NEW YORK, Dec. 26—New York The statements, which were witnessed by an SS officer, offered The truck roiled on—and on some more. as the GIs ex- Gropper. 57, a leather-goods merchant. cops assigned to rounding up handbook only the explenation that the platoon commander'-also cap- changed speculative but not too inquisitive comments. leaped to death from his hotel room operators will not have their duties cur- tured. but so severc:y wounded that he died in an American After the big vehicle had lia!ted at last, a eruff-looking first today, leaving a note saying his book- tailed because of the government's ban on hospital before he could make a statement—had given the sergeant, appearing from noiAhere, whammed down the tailgate keeper had ruined him financially. The horse racing. announced Saturday. order that the soldiers should shoot anyone who got in their and l).:tan to bellow a list of names. book-keeper, Mrs. Madeline Dunnigan, Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, chortling over way. The moviegoers listened, fascinated but unresponsive. confessed on Dec. 8 she had been finan- the "good news" of the red light on The only crime of the 23 murdered at Stavelot had been that Suddenly the topkick whirled on the truck driver. cing personal philanthropies with racing, said today he had ordered police they were in the basement of a house'which the Germans had "Look here," he bawled. "What-n hell d'you mean by bring- Gropper's money—S40,000 worth. to concentrate on policy operators. captured and the crying of five small children annoyed the ing up a bunch of guys I never heard of? These ain't the Nazis. Joes going into the line." New Midwest Cold Wave New Combat Award -- The driver chewed his gum in unaffected tempo. "Heck," tie CHICAGO. Dec. 26 (ANS)—With one WASHINGTON. Dec. 26 IANS)—A AACHEN, Dec, 26—Fifteen thousand German "traitors" yawned, "they said they were going to the show, didn't they?" cold wave following close upon another new service award for Army personnel the Midwest shivered again today in sub- who have participated in a combat para- Terry and the Pirates By Milton Caniff zero temperatures. No relief was pro- chute jump, combat glider landing or an mised for the next two days. It was two initial assault landing on a hostile shore MEANWHILE, IN THE DARR PASSAGE WHAT 15111157... A r AA) A MAN OF PEACE degrees below zero in Chicago today, but was announced today by the War Depart- LEADING TO THE EANWING IN WHICH OAP SUCH AS IS %URN BUT I MUST SAY, THE elsewhere in Illinois, Minnesota, Wis- ment. It will be a bronze Indian arrow- HERE UE5 WILLOW BELINDA, WISHING WILLOW IS IMPRISONED... BY THE MILITARY... 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