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iVol. 1—No. 97 1 Fr. New York — PARIS lFr. Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1944 Gangsters A Pair of Brooding Supermen

: ■ First Snow Falls

; Loot Army : Gas, Food As British Peril

By Fred Mertinke Btars and Stripes Staff Writer. Antwerp Lifeline 'CHERBOURG, Oct. 24. — ^ 0.S. Army pipelines in France jare being looted of thousands Snow fell on the western front yesterday and at several points along the 500-mile battle lines Allied fighting Of gallons of gasoline by black men looked at the bleak sky and knew that the war on the ^market racketeers tapping the German border had become a winter war. lines on the Normandy The first signs of approaching winter saw British Sec- peninsula, Lt. Col. Earl R. ond Army troops smashing into the streets of Hertogen- Chase, chief of petrol, oil and bosch, railway town astride the communications line between lubricants for Normandy the German forces in central Holland and the Nazis Base Section, revealed today. blockading the Antwerp port at Flushing. In addition, front-bound ;ood Fighting to open that vital port for Allied shipping Convoys are being robbed of rations raged from the Channel deep into by gangsters who unload their booty central Holland as Canadians mop- On the black market as far inland Two moody Nazis sit down on opposite sides of a barrow and think ped up inside Breskens on the as Paris, according to Lt. col. James things over. Seized in Aachen, they await removal to' a PW camp Yanks Repulse Scheldt estuary and British and P. Smith, chief of military police as a watchful First Army Yank holds his rifle ready. Canadian units battled toward Nazi in Cherbourg. coast artillery positions on the JThese statements, the first pub- First Jap Blow north bank of the estuary. licized announcement of widespread 9 Dispatches reporting the first snow looting of American supplies in Reich 'Home Guard Flops did not specify at what points it France, were given today as Army In Philippines fell. However RAF bombers which service units strained to rush food attacked Essen on Monday night and gasoline to the combat outfits In First Test Against Reds MacARTHUR'S HQ. On LEYTE, encountered it in the Ruhr area. is Germany. Oct. 24 (UP).—With 11 cities and Rail Guns Shell Third Troops Guard Full Routes towns on Leyte and three adjacent MOSCOW, Oct. 24 (AP).—Hitler's new "home guard" islands already in their hands, Meantime, German long-range Chase said that as a result of army failed to support sagging German lines in East Prussia American troops plunged seven railway guns began shelling Third Repeated tapping of the Army U.S. Army positions before Metz, gasoline pipelines, special guards today as the Red Army intensified its attack from the east miles inland today on Leyte and widened their offensive front to at while the German radio announced had been assigned to patrol the and north. Latest estimates put the Russians in possession least 23 miles. They pursued the yesterday that grim fighting will lines, while troops bivouaced along of at least 500 German towns and villages. retreating Japanese at the north- flare up soon in the Aachen area the fuel routes had been instructed The armies of Marshals Cher- ern end of the Leyte front, three on whicjj the Germans have hurled to keep a vigilant watch for racket- niakhovsky and Bagramian cut miles beyond the capital of Taclo- flying bombs. At Armanvillers, five miles north- f' eers. into the land of the Junkers at 90- ban, to a point within ten miles of Smith said raids against Amer- Hawaii's Army west of Metz, fanatic German de- degree angles, Cherniakhovsky at- the tip of the island. ican food convoys were being made tacking directly westward while fenders of the fortress city showed The X Corps also bloodily re- both in the daytime and at night Bagramian appeared heading due signs of weakening, according to Rule Is Ended south through Tilsit. pulsed the first organized counter- United Press, when officer candi- •H? told how black market racket- attack, which came north of the eers wait on winding, uphill .-oads date troops who had fought savage- WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (Reuter). The westward drive tore into the town of Palo. Then this corps Until a heavily-laden truck comes Reich to a depth of 20 miles or ly in the sector surrendered after —President Roosevelt today lifted struck inland toward Santa Fe being bombarded only with, pro- along. They then climb aboard, more on a rapidly expanding front against stubborn resistance from throwing off* crates to conspirators martial law in Hawaii, which had There was little definite informa- paganda leaflets entrenched Japanese. The German radio, DNB, reported jvaiting in roadsides ditches. been in force since the attack on tion on Bagramian's cc_ipaign, About 23 miles south of the X To combat the food raids. Smith Pearl Harbor, and restored the right which has pocketed Memel by land that at Aachen, Lt. Col. Court- Corps action, the XXIV Corps with ney B. Hodges' First U.S. Army said, special military police patrols of habeas corpus. Frontline dispatches told for the The action reflected the Amer- tanks pounded into the outskirts of was massing men and tanks for have been established at strategic first time of the killing and cap- San Pablo. This town is seven points along the supply routes, ican government's belief that all turing of members of the German what the Nazis predicted would be danger of a Japanese attack on the miles inland from the coastal city an all-out smash across the Cologne while civil police and Counter-in- home guard. of Dulag. telligence Corps agents make fre- islands is now past. (The United Press reported trom plain to the Rhineland. • quent raids on the homes of sus- The administration of martial Moscow that enormous masses of Force River in Fog See Direct Japan Invasion picious persons. law by the Army in Honolulu has artillery were supporting the in- On the southern front, Lt. Gen. led to numerous legal clashes be- fantry in the East Prussian battles CHUNGKING, Oct. 24 (UP).— Alexander Patch's Seventh D S. tween the authorities and local re- The Russians were concentrating Informed quarters here today fore Army forced the flooded Morta sidents, who have sought for some as many as 300 guns to a mile and saw the possibility that the U.S. River at several points northeast of Enemy Battles time to have it lifted. as many as 20,000 guns have oeeu might by-pass China and strike Brouvelieru in mist so thick that employed in individual operations.* directly at the Japanese homeland drivers had to turn on their head- RAF at Essen British Capture Lamai, At the far northern edge of the after the liberation of the Philip lights during the day. Russian front, dispatches from '.he pines, pointing out that landings Other gains were reported in the or. the China coast would commit Vosges. German tank counter-at- Strong forces of enemy night Push North in Greece Norwegian border said the >nly westward road open to the Ger- the Allies to a long, costly cam- tacks near Luneville were repelled lighters, reserved for the defense paign. The British drive into Hertogen- ROME, Oct. 24.—British forces in mans was a scene of mass destruc- of prize targets. Monday night bat- (Continued on Page 4) Greece have occupied Lamai, 93 tion with wrecked German tanks tled more than 1,000 RAF heavy Invasion Force Overestimated bombers, attacking the armament miles northwest of Athens, and and trucks scattered along both and railway center of Essen. Eight pushed on northward," it was of- sides of the highway. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (ANS). heavies were reported missing from ficially announced today. Mean- The newspaper Red Star reportr-d —The American force which landed Mystery Lights the attack which encountered heavy while Allied planes continued tc at- the Germans had failed to con- on Leyte Island on the Philippines' ■jp flak and blinding snowstorms. tack German troops withdrawing in solidate on the Norwegian frontier D-Day probably was between 100,000 Yesterday, strong forces of 15th the north. and it appeared that the way was and 150,000, it was indicated today, In Rhine Cities Air Force Forts and Liberators at- Virtually half of Greece has now open for the Red Army to en'er instead of the 250.000 originally been reoccupied. Norway. estimated. WITH U.S. FIRST ARMY, Oct. tacked targets in Germany, Czecho- 24 (Reuter)—Four Rhineland cities slovakia and northern Italy. Italy- —Cologne, Dusseldorf, Duisbourg based fighter bombers attacked en- and one not identified—have been emy transportation, destroying 19 mysteriously lighted during the locomotives, motor vehicles, rail- Flak City Forgotten War Plods On blackout period for four nights re- road cars and barges. From these cently. operations, involving approximately Allied pilots first observed the 1,450 sorties, 14 heavy bombers and By Andy Rooney Casualties have been light, almost making a few regular contacts lights on Oct. 11. They were seen 14 other aircraft were reported Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. negligible, on the American side with the French and some of the again on Oct. 12 and 13. Then jnissing. NEAR SAINT-NAZAIRE, Oct. 24. despite fairly regular German shell- boys have had weekend guests at they went off for several nights Bad weather yesterday grounded ing. their foxhole homes. but. went on again about Oct. 16. Ninth Air Force fighter bombers. —Five hundred miles behind the bitter battle for the Siegfried Line The shelling generally comes at a The Loire River runs between In Cologne they stretched the and the plains of the Rhine, there comfortable hour in the morning two gently rolling hills in one sec- whole length of the city and were Gen. McLain of 90th is a milder war, a war almost for- too, after the officers' breakfast tor separating the German and the accompanied by unexplained flashes gotten. dishes and the enlisted men's kits American forces. The Germans in the streets. Gets Corps Command The two major German pockets have been washed up. There is no have been running gunboats up "It was just like flying over an left in France are the port towns evidence that the Germans are fir- the river there and, taking ad- American city with the whole town SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR- of Saint-Nazaire and Lorient. In ing their shells in anger. vantage of the islands in the standing out," said one pilot who TERS, Oct. 24.—Maj. Gen. Raymond those two U-boat lairs on the south The Germans normally cut loose stream, sniping with guns up to saw the lights. "You could even S. McLain, 90th Infantry Division coast of the Brittany Peninsula, daily with their 88s but they have four inches in bore at the French. see people in the streets moving commander, whose troops helped there is a total of possibly 50,000 on tap a 240mm. gun mounted on After a few pot shots the light, about in the middle of the night." defeat the German Seventh Army German fighters. They are Army a railway car. They fire it without fast gunboats take off down the at the Falaise Gap, has been given men and Navy men and the men observation and apparently at the river again, ducking from island PAPA DOESN'T PAY command of an Army corps, Lt. who manned the anti-aircraft bat- whim of maybe a corporal or a to island. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (ANS).— Gen. Omai N. Bradley, 12th U.S. teries which gained for Saint-Na- colonel. , One battalion on the left flank Service men s wives and babies foi Army Group commander, an- zaire the name of "Flak City." Men on the line are well dug in of the American forces where they whom the Federal Government has nounced today Those same flak batteries today and the FFI soldiers have even join with the FFI, commanded by paid hospital and doctor bills now ^ {The corps which Gen. McLain have simply depressed their pieces. drawn back a few miles at one a philosophical Lt. Col., O.C. Martin, number 530.000 The program may h«ad was not specified and no A lone American unit, sup- point into what they call "winter of Hindsville, Ga., was particularly be expanded even more in the next successor at the 90th Division has ported by organized FFI troops, quarters." On the American sec- annoyed by the sniping German few months to include medical care been named as yet. loosely encircles the ports. tions of the front the soldiers are (Continued on Page i). to keep the babies well. Page 2 THE STARS AMD STRIPES Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1944

An Editorial

BLOW \T OUT Heat Observation: Everybody in the A Medal for the Army Cook ETO is counting his points these VERYBODY talks about this medal wjll cut it out days—and we don't mean ration points. E morale. But nobody and hand it to the cook, the That Nazi Kid . • * • does as much for it—or cook would know where he A professor recently made the against it—as the guy for stands with his outfit. Lots (Readers' comment on "What to scientific prediction that the wo- do With This Kid" editorial.) men on Mars had six legs. Which whom this medal was de- of medals means he's on the To the third question, GI Jerry caused the little moron to com- signed. The cook. ball. No medals, well—he said he and his pals would win if ment, "What a wonderful place to * * * can draw his own con- the civilians back in the fatherland see a burlesque show!" It's a lovely medal, we clusions. We'll gladly print stay on the ball. The Huns push- • • • ing the firearms have been tol9 To keep soldiers from recognizing think. A crossed spoon and the picture of the cook with the blame is to go to the populace their diagnoses army psychiatrists fork with C rations, messkit the most chow medals. May- if they are defeated. If this he and cup against a platter of be General Ike will swap works Jerry would again be ready beans. It's coined out of the comic kudos for a Legion to fight, for to him the State is first. paper but it carries a lot of of Merit. Or an extra stripe. Now let us all be damn sure Jerry weight. It comes from the (No guarantee). knows it was GI Joe who put him sergeant's heart. Only to full heart—and stomach— ** * * into a PW pen and not the home of the Army. have a whistle blow, a line folks. form, and at the end—hot Talking about Ike Eisen- What to do with him? We'll give * * * chow. Coffee, hash, beans, hower—the Army's morale him the chance he didn't give my We've trudged miles in also depends on having a dad. Work Jerry day in, day out mud and stood around in bread, jam and maybe des- and feed him democracy. Make sert, slapped on by the big, great general like him to him help build the cities he has often substitute "brickibus aurea- the rain while some 2nd tus" for "goldbricking" in their open, hairy hand of the command it. ruined and, if he doesn't'want the lieutenant made up his medical reports. * * * chance to live as others, kill the mind whether to give us a company cook—the greatest son of a , and let us GIs go morale builder of them all. | Mess Sgt. Robert Bobino at an shave show-down or a But on whom does Gen- home and raise some kids.—Sgt. W. * * * eral Ike's morale depend— Bailey, Q.M. air service command depot is a short-arm. Our morale has man with imagination. He occa- been blacker than a supply If every soldier who sees if not an Army cook? * * ■ * sionally serves a salad which con- He comes very close to a guy tains nothing but lettuce. He lists responsible for me and a million it on the menu as "Honeymoon others being over here. He also Salad" (fcettuce Alone). comes close to a guy who put many * * • a flaxen-haired American boy in a Oddities in the News. Cpl. mounded field with white, wooden Prank Cady says that right over crosses! the welcome mat at a boarding You keep catching these fair- house he stopped at is a brass plate reading "B. Gawne." Tower Tamer mustache on the Western Front. is low. Two paratroopers crawl headed kids and send them to me. • • • Hathaway stands six feet four out under fire to get supplies.'' I know what to do with them.— And then there was the Irish- The Germans had what they fig- Pfc W. J. Mazzoehi. inches high in his GI socks, But about this time orders ar- man who wanted to join the Rus- ured was a pretty fair observation and has raised a mustache to rived to abandon the place just tower in the Siegfried Line until * * * sian Army so he could fight under fit—it stretches seven inches as one force of Germans at- Tim O'Shenko. S/Sgt. John T. Tamweher, of the from tip to tip. Moreover, it's With a boy that is as intelligent * * * Bronx, came along with his 155mm tacked from one side and an- red. Hathaway and the mus- as this young fellow is, one could Overheard at the Front. After guh. An American armored divi- other from the opposite side. tache went into action together work miracles by placing him in reading forecasts of ETO men sion occupied part of that country- So the last the paratroopers with the 1st Infantry Division. custody of a GI. Let him work, going to the Pacific, a Pfc yawned, side, and the observation tower was knew the Germans were still fighting among themselves over sleep and eat (and I don't mean "Ho, hum, here today—Guam to- somewhat of a nuisance. Air power * * * under a gun) with said GI. It morrow." didn't help. Bombs bounced off possession of the "Alamo." • * * They'll Remember This would be short work to show him like tennis balls. The artillery * * * the advantages of democracy and, There was once a family over wasn't any better. The 82nd Airborne Division above everything else, give him a here who wouldn't let their daugh- Capt. Michael Quaremba, an ar- has a new "Alamo" for the re- 31 More 'Kamerads* ter go out without a chaperon un- Bible* and entice him into discus- tillery battery commander, called cords. "There are five German soldiers sions about the stories he reads less the escort were a long-time for Tamweher and his gun. They It's a former German Hq. in it. friend. Recently they let daughter in my house," reported a French- moved up to 3,300 yards, in full captured and held for two days man to Pvt. William B. Arthur, If such a situation were made view of the tower, and blasted by Lt. Joseph F. Forestal, Arkansas City, Kansas, while he possible, I, for one, would gladly away. After four shots, down came former Philadelphia newspaper- was helping a Second Armored Di- take this boy, who is almost young Jerry, OP, machine guns and all. man, and his platoon. vision tank platoon mop up a small enough to be my son, under my The entire action took only 10 min- A round-by-round story goes front-line town. tutelage. Just a little applied psy- utes. like this, according to Ray Lee, With no American soldiers close chology would do the job—Put. Other members in Tamweher's Stars and Stripes reporter: "To by, Pvt. Arthur made a quick can- Henry J. Westphal, Port Co. crew were: T/4 Anthony Ditko, of start things off, Lt. Forestal vass of the town, rounded up six * * * Seymour, Conn.; Cpl. George H. and his men raise hell, shoot buddies and approached the house. We don't exactly know what your Goebel, of The Bronx, N.Y.; Cpl. up the German staff and cap- They inched up in the face of stand is about the Nazi younger Patrick Morris, of Mora, Minn.; ture their company commander. machine-gun fire until Pvt. Arthur generation, but ours is one of deep go out with a Yank officer sans Pvt. Ross E. Lord, of Commerce, Later they return, reinforced tossed a grenade in one of the hatred. chaperon because they thought—by Ga.; Pvt. Charles Black, of Clover by three machine guns and two windows. Cries of "Kamerad"— Your picture of the peach-and- his insignia—that he was a chap- Splint, Ky.; Pvt. Lloyd E. Pearcy, BARs. They capture and hold and out came 31 Nazi prisoners, cream-skin kid was O.K., but that lain. It didnt take daughter long of Hutchinson, Kans.; Pvt. Paul R. the place. Still later, three including one officer. guy is a Nazi. There is not any- to discover that those castles on Gunther, of New York; Pvt. Jack Mark II tanks approach, fol- * * thing in the books that says he the guy's blouse weren't churches. Weiss, of Brooklyn; Pvt. Clarence lowed by infantry. The infan- can't be the one to pull the trigger • * • Lankford, of Tryon, N.C.; and Pfc try is wiped off, but the tanks Rapid Rise that hits us.—Pvt. E. Bracht, Sig. Signs of the Times. They were Arthur Stevens, of Yankton, S.D. hover around the house all day, When 2/Lt. George V. Bus- showing a movie in a marshalling set fire to the back end and * * * * * * sey, of Jasper, Ga., joined the area and a bunch of nurses were knock out communications. In- 3rd Armored Division 42 months What are we supposed to do, feel in the audience. Some jokester in Red Handlebars sorry for that prisoner? You say side things are tense with the ago he was made division mes- the back had this notice flashed he is a nice youngster. Perhaps he Until a bigger and better one paratroopers. Both BARs and sage center officer. Now he's on the screen, "Ladies Will Please comes along, Sgt. Jack Hath- one machine gun have jammed. Lt. Col. George Bussey, division is, but he represents the thing we Remove Their Helmets." most despise. He and his kind have away, of Carmiehael, Pa., can Food has run out. Ammunition signal officer. J. C. W. caused the world anguish and suf- lay claim to the most elaborate fering beyond comparison to any- thing in history. Private Breger Stop and think: He and millions These Joes Owe Cigars | of others like him are responsible for the loss of loyal Americans, tor Here's the newest Stars and sept, s; cpl. Edward M. insky, Mount VERNON the suffering of innocent children Stripes list of Cigar-Owing papas I ^ N.Y.—Barbara Carol, Oct. 12 who know their daddy is never com- received from our New York bureau. Sgt. Larry James, Nashville—Sarah Diane, Sept. 20: M/Sgt. J. J. Johnson, Akron—i ing home, for the broken-hearted Each mother and child is well. James Lyman, Oct. 14. mothers, wives and sweethearts of T/3 Wm. A. Komula, Mt. Arlington, S/Sgt. Luther Atkins, St. Louis—Linda the men who sacrificed their lives Elizabeth, Oct. 7; Lt. John D. Alford La- N.J.—Renne Patrick, Sept. 10; Cpl. Virgil N. Kohlbeck, De Pere, Wis.—James Vir- for the right way of life. ramie, Wyo.—Robin Joy (daughter), Oct. 13; 1/Lt. Herbert Abramson. Brooklyn- gil, Sept. 22; Chaplain Samuel G. Lovell Should he be given special con- Jr. Ocula, Pla.—Grace Llewellyn, Oct. 5; Abbey Beryl, Sept. 27; Cpl. Charles Beck- sideration? No. He is one of a man, Danville, 111.—daughter, Oct. 6; Lt Pvt. Anthony J. Luciano, New York—< Anthony Henry. Sept. 6; Capt. John D. group: A prisoner of war. What- e W ert n0 Ur ey Wis Charlesn^Jl, 'Octo^ . ^15; ^2'/Lt. JameJ ' s E-. 5Burke"°»ert, Lynch! Media, 111 -Laurence Dixson, Oct ever treatment he may receive from 6; Pvt. Clarence Lindstedt, Richmond, New York—Michael, Oct. 17; Cpl. W. G. C. Americans is better than he de- Brawner, Louisville—Carol Susan, Oct 1; Calif.—Keak Raymond, Sept. 21; Sgt. Leo serves.— T/5 Homer E. Cook, Jr Pfc F. W. Beamish, North Bradley, Mich' E Leonard. Dodge City, Kan.—Leo Jr.. Oct. 15; Lt. John R. Leahy, Baltimore—1 * * * —Joan Kay, Sept. 27; Sgt. Rex Brooks, Lewisville, Ind.—Jerry Rex, Sept. 29; Lt. John Patrick, Oct. 3; T/Sgt. William R. Actually, we are fighting to stop H. J. Borchers, Freeport, 111.—Jerrene Lookabill, Pulaski, Va.—Julia Ellen, Sept. the things the Jerrys have been 28; Capt. Leonard Maidman—Ruth Joan, Leah, Aug. 19: T/5 Martin J. Boland, Oct. 15; Ptc Leo C. Martin, Kingston guilty of for so long and yet we Santa Clara, Calif.—Irma Ann, Sept 25- S/Sgt. Lindsay M. Church, Illmo, Mo.— Springs, Tenn.—Leo C. Jr., Sept. 9; Sgt. should in reality do unto them what Victoria Elizabeth, Oct. 8; Pfc Murl M. D. J. O'Connell, s.amford—Marie Diane, Sept. 21; Sgt. Gregory A. O'Neill, St. they have done unto others. Clark, Columbus, Ind.—Edgar Morley, Oct. Louis—Stephen Thomas, Oct. 17; Lt. Ray We are, for some reason, still the 2; Sgt. Sion Harry Campbell, Chatta- nooga—Virginia Lynn, Oct. 2; Pvt. Amos | Peterson—Joel Raymond, Aug. 14; Yeo- "soft-hearted" Yanks and I doubt man 2/C Michael Privitesa, Ithaca—John L Corbitt, Memphis, Tenn.—son, Oct. 2; Thomas, Oct. 7; Cpl. Stanley Pavelcsyk, that we could carry it out.—John Pvt. Gerald L. Campbell, Port Huron' Haydenville, Mass.—Patricia Ann, Oct. 3; Mich.—Gerald Jr., Oct. 7; p t. Sylvio A! H. Haakenson, 1/Lt. T. D. Bn. v Capt. V. H. Schultes, Detroit—Richard Cote, Nashua, N.H.—Marc Philip, Aug. 12- Cpl. Sam Douglas, Chester, S.C.—Arbulah] Carter, Sept. 21; Lt. Arnold C. Shaw, Sept. 21; Maj. M. C. Dittman Jr Bryri Tyler, Texas—Sandra Sue, Sept. 6; Cpl. THE STARS AND STRIPES Wm. A. Scott, Hinsdale, 111.—Glen Wil- Printed at the New York Herald Mawr, Pa.— Oct. 10; Lt. Carlos liam, Oct. S ; Capt. John B. Shennan, Tribune plant. 21 de Bern. Paris A. Ennis, Pullman, Wash—Donald Ken- rue Lexington, Ky.—son, Sept. 20; Lt. George for the U.S. armed forces under aus- neth, Sept. 7; 1/Lt. Charles E. Fisher, Columbus, O.—Carol Louise, Sept. 19 ;' A. Stone, Utica. N.Y.—Dawn Renee, Sept. pices or the Special Services Division 28; 1/Sgt. Albert Trimigliozzi, Newark. ErOUSA. Tel Editorial. Elysees 73-44 T/Sgt. Maurice E. Fongers, Grand Rapids', Mich. —Maurice Jr., Oct. 5; Sgt. M. M. N.J.—Jo Anne. Oct. 16; 1/Lt. Henry J. Circulation. Elysees 84-28. Udouj, Port Smith, Ark.—Henry Jr., Oct. Contents passed by the O S Army Guevara—Jerry Manuel, Sept. 19; T/4 3; Pfc James Vanore, Philadelphia—James and Navy censors Entered as second Jerome G. Green, Chicago—Richard' Lyle, Jr., Oct. 16; S/Sgt. Russell Weaver, Gales- class matter Mar. 15. 1943. at the Sept. 15; T/4 Samuel Goodman, Philadel- burg, 111.—Joyce Ann Oct U Sgt. Ray- post office. New York. N Y.. under phia—daughter, Oct. 11 ; S/Sgt. Lewis mond L. Wilson, Vandalia, Mo.—Ricky the act of Mar 3. 1878 "I hear he's beginning to worry about the post-war pe- Heins, Belleville. N.J.—Marjorie Joy, Sept Ray, Sept. 23; Pfc David Webster. West Vol. 1, No. VI 30; Capt. Willis A. Hasty, Grand Rapids Terre Haute 'ind —David Jr., Aug. 20: — —Janet Ann, Sept. 29; T/5 Jack L. Hether- S/Sgt. Elwood G Zerr—Ken Martin, riod when he'll be taking orders from his _wi£eJ5 ton, Richmond, Calif.—Mary Jeanette, Sept 1 Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Once Over Field Goal Makes Grid 'Comeback Lightly

I By Charlie Kiley — EW YORK, Oct. 24. —It may Pincers Movement at Its Best 3-Point Boot N have been Confucius or One Eyed Connolly, we aren't quite sure, who said, "If you're looking for Upsets Navy, trouble, try telling someone else how to run his business." Which is to say that Mike Jacobs, Wins for Fliers who doesn't often make a bad move, committed a serious faux pas NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—The past yesterday by saying he expected weekend saw a resurgence of a Joe Louis and Billy Conn to be re- weapon almost entirely ignored the leased from the Army after the past few years in college football— European war ends and that they the field goal. might meet for the heavyweight In fact, the three-point boot pro- title as civilians in Yankee Stadium duced the week's outstanding upset next summer. when Georgia Tech surprised Navy, *k Mike didn't say where he got his :md accounted for all the points as information in stating he believed North Carolina Pre-Flight shaded "unquestionably that Louis and i Georgia Pre-Flight, 3-0. Allen "Dinky" Bo wen's field goal i brought Tech from behind to lick ! Navy, 17-15; Buell St. John kicked an eight-yard field goal with International News Photo. seconds remaining to give the Tommy Lombardo (10) and Cloudbursters their victory, and Glenn Davis (41), Army back- Billy Jones booted one to cement Tulane's 16-13 win over Auburn. fielders, throw a bruising "road Bowen Scuttles Navy block" at Pittsburgh End Albert Bowen's effort probably was one Zellman, while pass intended of the season's most important, for Zellman bounds out of and certainly must have been a reach. Clark Shaughnessy's hap- mild shock to Coach Bill Alexander, who had quaked all week at the Billy Conn Joe Louis less Panthers absorbed a 69-7 prospect of his pupils being anni- Conn will be released" and that lacing at the hands of the un- hilated by diminutive Hal Hamberg "they deserve it. They've been in beaten and untied Cadets. Army and the other Middies. the Army three years." But it's a First off, the field goal provided held a 35-0 lead at the half. cinch somebody is going to be a victory that should prove once more than a little peeved at Mike and for all that the experts were for voicing beliefs on plans the way off when they picked Navy for Army has for its soldiers, especial- Shrewd 'Lady in Red' Ex-Coach Bares System the top spot in the nation. Second- ly a pair as prominent as Sgts. Joe Clips Mutuels Again ly, it brought out the importance and Billy, who know as little about of the field goal in that it won for when they'll be civilians as any GI To Make Gamblers Rich a team which gained a- minus-six SALEM, N.H., Oct. 24.— The yards on the ground while the op- father with similar length of ser- mysterious "lady in red" has vice. COLUMBUS, Ohio. Oct. 24.—Harold Olsen, Ohio State position ate up 221. come up with another hit to Irish, Army, Bucks Win W | * * bring her horse betting record basketball coach and chairman of the NCAA tournament CHORT SHOTS: College presi- to 15 straight winners. committee, today refuted charges made by Kansas Coach Straight power football .worked ^ dents, coaches, players and She appeared at Rockingham Phog Allen that the integrity of collegiate sports was being splendidly, however, for Army, writers all are putting the blast on Park Saturday and wagered threatened by gamblers, but a former pro team manager Notre Dame and Ohio State to ^Phog Allen, Kansas coach, for $7,000 on Petes Bet, a 2-5 favor- bring each its fourth straight substantiated part of Allen's ^questioning the honesty of college ite, to show. Pete finished triumph. j claim. basketball players . .. The Dodgers', second so the lady pocketed Pitt-Cards Ask Waivers Tulsa remained unbeaten and in> However, Sgt. Lou Greenberg, .Pete Reiser is the latest big leaguer $700 and left the track. Her tied by bowling over Mississippi. former manager of the Syracuse 47-0, and so did Mississippi State, reported on his way out of the, wager created a "minus" pool On Former Penn Ace s play-for-play quintet now stationsd Army because of ulcers and severe ! and nicked the track for $2,900. 13-6 master of Louisiana State. But here, said he had been told by PITTSBURGH, Oct. 24. — The Tennessee's perfect slate was headaches . . . Eleven years ago' eastern collegiate players that they Pitt-Cards of the National Foot- marred by a scoreless deadlock Gene Ronzani couldn't make the had "co-Operated" with gamblers by ball League today asked for waivers with Alabama. grade with the Chicago Bears. Now ' having the score come out "to the on Quarterback Walter Masters, In the southwest, Second AAF 35, he starred Sunday for the Bears gamblers' satisfaction." former Penn star. Masters played shellacked North Texas Aggies and against the Detroit Lions by pitch- What Greenberg meant, ap- only one game this season, seeing Oklahoma smeared Kansas State, ing three touchdown passes. parently, was that players co- action against the Philadelphia each by a score of 68-0. Randolph The Cardinals and Dodgers art ' SATURDAY'S GAMES operated to have scores come cut Eagles. | Field's powerhouse, meanwhile, had said to be leading National League EAST Duke at Army. "in the middle," which would insure Before coming to the combined an off-day Sunday and ran up a opposition to 77-year-old Judge Dartmouth at Brown. a gambler's investment no matter club. Masters played with the mere 67 points while whitewash-)- Colgate at Columbia. Landis getting a new contract on whom he bet. Eagles and Chicago Bears. I ing Camp Polk. when his present one expires in Navy at Penn. West Virginia at Penn State. Basketball gambling, for the most 1946. The American League is MIDWEST part, is carried out on a point unanimous in supoprt of Landis' Notre Dame at Illinois. Today's Sports Puzzle Iowa at Indiana. system whereby the gambler installs continuance in office . . . The out- Purdue at Michigan. one team, for example, as 13 and 15 standing backs, with the grid sea- Minnesota at Ohio State. points favorite. If a sucker takes son half over, are Bob Kelly of Great Lakes at Wisconsin. the favored team, he gives the Notre Dame, Claude "Buddy" Young SOUTH Clemson at Tennessee. gambler 15 points, and if a chump of Illinois, Earl "Jug" Girard of Daniel Field at Bainbridge Naval takes the underdog, the gambler Wisconsin, Hal Hamberg of Navy, Louisiana State at Georgia. spots him 13 points. Glenn Davis of Army and Roger Georgia Pre-Fllght at Georgia Tech. Kentucky at Alabama. So if the favored team wins by Barksdale of Yale. At least they Southern Methodist at Tulane. 14 points, the gambler "sweeps the are getting most of the sports page SOUTHWEST Arkansas at Mississippi. board." headlines. Charlotte AAF at Randolph Pleld * * * Texas at Rice. Texas Christian at Oklahoma. Arkansas' Cromer rpHE QUESTION BOX: To Pvt. Oklahoma Aggies at Tulsa. Ellis Carlson—Card Outfielder N. Texas Aggies at Texas Aggies. Heads Grid Scorers FAR WEST Johnny Hopp has several brothers Washington at California. who are, or were, outstanding ath- St. Mary's at Southern Cal. NEW YORK, Oct. 24.— Bill :&Xes. Harry "Hippity" Hopp is now Alameda Coast Guard at UCLA. Cromer, of the Arkansas Aggies, playing with undefeated Bainbridge March Field at St. Mary's Pre-Fllght passed Les Tressel, of Baldwin- Naval eleven ... To Lt. Max Holt— Wallace, this week to become the Hank Gowdy was the first major NBA Chief Cancels nation's leading collegiate football league ball player to enlist in World Zurita's Offer to Pep scorer. Cromer, whose team has War 1, while boxing records list completed its schedule, made 11 touchdowns in six games for 66 Middleweight Mike O'Dowd as the PATERSON, N.J., Oct. 24—Abe points, four more than Tressel has first world champion to enlist. But J. Greene, president of the NBA, scored. there probably were other boxers declared today that there are Other leaders: who enlisted before him . . .To T/3 plenty of legitimate lightweights J. Benedict Fleming—In three foot- Conference Player Pts. around who have a prior claim to Southeastern McWilliams (Miss. St.) 60 Here are five jockeys lined up after riding in the fourth race at Bel- ball games this year, CCNY has meeting Champion Juan Zurita Big Ten Young (Illinois) 60 mont Park recently—on a muddy track. Can you pick the winner? scored 00 points to 91 for its oppo- before Willie Pep, featherweight Pacific Coast DeCourcey (Wash.) 54 They are (left to right) Pitarelli, Woodhouse, Meade, Mills and nents. I Eastern Davis (Army) 54 ruler, gets a crack at the title. Southern Bruce (Wm. & Mary) 48 Jones. The winner was, of course, spotless Meade.

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Wilbert Wallace, Elizabeth, N.J.; Pvt. Joseph L. Padilla, Madera; Sgt. Don Gervasio, Sgt. Louis D'Ascoli, Yonkers; Pfc Davia Cal- kum, Matheson ; Pvt. Ernest Lammon, *jfc°n; Capt. Luther M. Boyers, Berke- '•s Capt. Harold P. Thareson. San Ber- nardino; Lt Kathleen Nichols, Lt. Mary L. Leonard, Taunton: Lt. George L. John- son. Lt. C. G. Shull, Hugo: Lt. Paul R. ft Miller, Sgt. Merrill Smith, Fayetteville. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES .Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1944 U.S. Airline Salome Flying Bombs The '40&8' Goes Back to the Wars Plans Post-War Attack Wide Credit Flights Belgian Area WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (ANS).— BRUSSELS, Oct. 24 (Reuter).— Americans will be able to fly around Widespread areas of Belgium left the world on credit if routes pro- behind in the wake of advancing posed by Transcontinental and Allied armies are now being sub- Western Air, Inc., are granted, Jack jected to German flying bomb at- Frye, the airline's president, said today. He testified at the Civil tacks, it was disclosed here today. Aeronautics board hearing on the U.S. Calcutta portion of TWA's While no details of the attacks proposed around-the-world routes. were given, the robots sent against Frye said the airline planned to Belgium and against the U.S. First | Bell tickets for tours that might be Army sector presumably were paid for over a year in 12 monthly launched from Heinkel bombers installments. He said TWA also which carry them pick-a-back. would offer in co-operation with The Germans have been carrying steamship companies one way by out occasional flying bomb attacks sea and one way by air. Plane fares against southern England and Lon- would be five and one-half cents a don by this method since their mile. launching sites on the English At the current hearing, TWA is Channel coast were captured. Brit- seeking permission to fly from ish night fighters have bagged a Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Phi- large proportion of both the robots ladelphia, New York and Boston to and the launching planes. Europe and as far as Calcutta. Frye Bombs launched by this method said TWA would establish its in- cannot be aimed with any great ternational headquarters in Wash- degree of accuracy and have caused ington and link it with other world no important damage, but the Nazis Capitals by air apparently seek to bolster home- Meanwhile Donald Douglas, pre- front morale by this means. The sident of Douglas Aircraft Co., an- German communique never fails to' nounced his firm is to build a fleet report that "VI fire was main- One of the legends of the last war—the now famous 40 & 8 French of 26 four-engined Superclippers tained against England." railroad cars—returns to the limelight. The cars have taken over for Pan American Airways at a the major share of bringing troops from rear areas to the front cos*: of $40,000,000. The giant craft Twenty thousand beauties were Yank-made Robots on Japan? lines. Here are six GIs on their way to the front in a car still Will operate at substratosphere al- considered for the movie role of Meanwhile, the New York Times stamped with the memorable "40 Hommes, 8 Chevaux." titude on world routes carrying 108 "Salome, Where She Danced." quoted Maj. Gen. Bennet Meyers passengers and a crew of 13. But Yvonnj de Carlo, 20-year- as saying that American-made fly- old unknown bit player from JAIL PRIORITIES VIOLATORS ing bombs—replicas of the type 9,000 Rolls of Film Wait Vancouver, B.C., won the nod. which have smashed at the London CHICAGO, Oct. 24 (ANS).—Three Any objections, Joe? partners in a manufacturing firm area—soon may be used on Ja- were sentenced to 30 days in jail panese cities. For Owners at A rmy Lab today for making lighting fixtures The newspaper said that ten without priorities—and ordered to 9 th Engineers major plants in the U.S. have been take turns in serving their terms engaged for months in turning out Nine thousand rolls of developed, printed and censored one at a time so the manufacture exact reproductions of German film—snapshots forgetful GIs have sent in for processing of bombsights at their plant will Builtl08Fields VI robots. without giving return addresses—are being held for iden- not be hindered. The Times said Gen. Meyers WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. — Ap- emphasized that the bombs being tification and distribution, Army Pictorial Service disclosed D.C. SUBWAY PROPOSED proximately 108 airfields have been produced now were for experi- yesterday. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (ANS) constructed in France by the Ninth mentation only and that mass The ownerless photographs have been piling up^for A $56,000,800 subway system for Engineer Command from D-Day production would begin later after almost a year. Washington after the war was pro- until Oct. 12, it was disclosed yes- tests—with the robots launched APS requests that GIs who have posed today by consulting engineers from Chinese bases—have been terday by the U.S. Army Air For- m failed to pet back their pictures In a report made public by the Dis- ces. made "on Jap cities. write to Amy Pictorial Service, Harmon Back trict commissioners. The report An Air Force official, revealing Amateur Film Dept., APO 413, calls for seven miles of subways that more than 25 were built each giving their name, rank, ASN and With 2d Tanks U.S. INVITE BUSINESS CHIEFS month, said that a new type of address. They should describe, if WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (Reuter). prefabricated landing netting was West Front.... possible, the type and size of film WITH THE U.S. SECOND AR- employed (Continued from Page 1) and identify their pictures with MORED DIVISION, Oct. 23.—Maj. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce The matting, resembling thick reference to the subject photo- Gen. Ernest N, Harmon, known to has invited representatives of 37 tar paper, is much lighter and countries to an international busi- bosch was reported by Reuters to graphed. American tankmen as '"Hard Boiled easier to transport than the old ness conference at Rye. N.Y., Nov be developing into the kind of Under the new system of personal Harmon" and "Old Gravel Voice," 10-20, to discuss measures to facili- style steel-mash landing strips. street-by-street struggle the First film processing which went into is back in the saddle as boss of this tate international trade U.S. Army concluded at Aachen effect Aug. 1, soldiers now turn "Hell on Wheels" division which he 50 MILLION VOTERS SEEN and Third Army troops are engaged film over to rS officers, who for- has led through the Siegfried Line. RICHARD BENNETT DIES NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Ship- in at Maizieres-les-Metz. ward them to a civilian processing Last July. 50-year-old Harmon, as- " LOS ANGELES. Oct. 24 — Richard builder Henry J. Kaiser predicted Canadian and British troops who plant working under contract. signed to command the 23rd Corps Bennett, 72-year-old character actor today ne expected 50,000,000 persons have crossed the Dutch border Film developing is no longer free, ' at Camp Bowie, Texas, after leading and father of Constance, Joan to vote in the November elections. north of Antwerp have linked their since processing is not done by | the Second Armored through Afri- and Barbara Bennett, film stars, 'This vote," he said, "will be at left flank in the Woendrecht area Army personn'1,. VVhen pictures are and Italian campaigns asked died yesterday. printed, they are_ censored and re- can action in a letter to General least equal to that of 1940." with Canadian forces who are tigh- j lor tening their grip on the south turned through PX channe' Omar N. Bradley. Beveland causeway. When Maj. Gen Edward Ache Flak City's 'Forgotten War' Reuters reported evidence that 5th Army Edges Ahead , Brookes was transferred from the Germans were retreating toward T T. Tt * T» l i Second Division to a higher post, Bergen Op Zoom to avoid entrap- In Its Drive On Bologna Bradley gave Harmon command of Plods On 500 Mi. From Reich ment. Approximately 11,000 Ger- his old outiit. mans are isolated on the Dutch ROME, Oct. 24.—American Fifth (Continued from Page 1) same time, same place, next day, islands of Beveland and Walcheren Army troops in Italy have captured a number of" small communities Army's Pearl Harbor they would return the litters. where coast artillery guns block the gunboat. Martin and the FFI got passage of Allied ships up the north of Monte Grande,, although fed up so Maj. John R. Dossen- Next day the U.S. medic return estuary to Antwerp. bad weather continued to hamper Report Is Also Secret bach, of Mt. Airy, N.C. was des- ed but the German officer didn't show up Instead he sent a man the Yank drive toward Bologna, an : WASHINGTON Oct. 24. — The patched with two halftracks, three Allied headquarters communique y the Pearl Harbor with a note: He was very sorry he Final Death Toll of 200 announced today. Arm s phase of 57mm. guns and an ambush had not showed up with the litters inquiry was completed today—and. Heaviest fighting continued y i ified "top party to man them. but could he please, because of the Seen in Cleveland Blaze like tne Nav s> was c ass aground the key fortress of Monte .. .. » clal For three days the party waited acut* litter shortage on the Ger- secret and secret A spe Belmonte while on the left flank t ry of at the side of the river for the man side, keep the two U.S. CLEVELAND, Oct. 24.—The final board submltted t0 Secre a South African troops o the Fifth ; War R L gti ltfl 5 000_ German gunboat to show up again litters? death toll in Cleveland's worst fire seizepai rrnrdi ao nv-> importani wi r\M~+ nyitt- hilVillli northeasTI ni-t V-> nn r-tf ^ The American, annoyed at being will reach 200, Coroner Samuel Ger- page report containing testimony BO that they could knock it off and of Vergato, Which dominates one of put an end to the nautical sniping. stood up in his rendezvous with the ber predicted today, as salvage ex- the important routes to Bologna. taken during the last three months. The gunboat never did show up so German medic, returned an in- perts searched the debris for some Military authorities will review Dossenbach and his party packed dignant note. Certainly the Ger- clue to the cause of the initial ex- DAVID LARDNER KILLED the need for secrecy classifications plosion. up and left. Someone, they figured, mans could not keep the two" lit- David Lardner, 25, war correspon made by the board. It was be- tipped the Germans to the ambush. ters. Who did the German officer A total of 112 bodies already had dent for the New Yorker magazine | lieved the task of review would not It didn't really matter. think the U.S. quartermaster was been brought to the Cleveland and son of the late humorist. Ring j be completed until well after elec- morgue, but 110 persons still were In St. Nazaire itself there are supplying anyway? Lardner, was killed last Thursday , tion day. Republicans in and out reported missing. Gerber declared almost daily arrivals and sailings The following day the German when his jeep hit a mine in the of Congress have been demanding of good-sized freighters. There officer humbly returned with the many of them would be found in Aachen sector, it was announced ■, that the facts be disclosed before scores of demolished buildings. have been muffled explosions com- two borrowed litters. yesterday. I election day. ing from the city and some of the American boys figure the Germans Terry And The Pirates By Oourtest ot News Syndicate. Bv Milton Caniff are blowing up the port in prepara- tion for a surrender. Others like WHO'S to think that some uninformed German was tampering with one wcw! r Hir THE JISCK.-' of the thousands of mines in St. POT WITH A SLU6! BURMA Nazaire. (S THE NAME OF A NOTORIOUS DAME I HEARP ABOUT ALL During a small scrap oetween OVER INPIA-AND I MEANT two patrols last week several Ger- 3UEMA, THE COUNTRY, JUST- mans and a few Americans were THEN... , wounded. After the battle, medics WHO* NOT HEARD Df both armies came to the battle- OP BURMA?.. ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME *IB field. German medics had more CROPPEP THAT "MISS wounded than they had bargained CUEPPO "BUSINESS? on and were short two litters The Nazi medical officer talked the American officer, into the loan of two litters with the stipulation that