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PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 11. —Driving deep inside Japan's inner defense circle, a car- rier-based aerial task force Aachen Assault of the American Third Fleet Monday raided the Ryukyu Islands, just 200 miles south of Japan, sinking or damag- ing 58 enemy surface vessels and knocking down 88 Jap Ultimatum planes, it was. announced today by $ J vtm ftr * #"•» J* yfim. Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific T ^fc MM XJr Ifcaval chief. Not a single American plane was Ignored, So lost in the raid;- which Tokyo said was carried out by 400 bombers. Nimitz' announcement said the car- Blow Falls riers remained near the targets and awaited * the planes' return. The attack was unopposed by the Jap Besieged Aachen, first Ger- fleet. man city to be condemned to The Ryukyu Islands stretch in a 600-mile arc from the southern tip death, last night was carpeted of Japan proper to the northeast with shells hurled into the coast of Formosa, off the south encircled target by 200 heavy China coast. The islands guard the' American guns and battered eastern entrance to the China Sea, through which most Japanese ship- by bombs hurled down by ping must pass to maintain com- U.S. airplanes in a 90-minute munications between Japan and her attack. Pacific outposts. The. promised destruction of the city of 165,000 got underway soon after the expiration of the 12 Nazis Swim U.S. First Army's unconditional-sur- render ultimatum. By nightfall a terrific weight of explosives had 18 Mi.To Blast been heaped on the defenders, who chose to obey Hitler's order to stand and die. Waal Bridge Grace Period End The historic city's 24 hours of LONDON, Oct. 11.—Allied troops grace ended at 10.45 AM without a . have captured ten of 12 German reply to the American ultimatum, super-swimmers who, wearing rub- Supreme Allied Headquarters and ber zoot suits with web feet, swam front-line reporters said. . The Ger- 18 miles down the Waal to dyna- man News Agency said the ultima- mite the, bridges at Nijmegen in tum had been rejected formally. Holland the night of Sept. 28. With Aachen covered in a deep They swam six miles back up- pall of smoke from the concentrated stream after much difficulty in set- bombing and shelling, a German re- ting their charges and, tired out, lief force estimated at one division made for the banks, where one was was racing toward the city to relieve killed by a rifle shot and another its hard-pressed garrison of 15.000 mortally wounded. The fantastic SS troops, and a sizable battle was )2-man aquatiG team included two in prospect, Henry Gorrell, United ex-Olympic stars. One prisoner, just Infantrymen of a heavy weapons company "over the top" in the U.S. First Army's smash through the Press correspondent at Firs* Army to show he could take it, vaulted strongly-defended Siegfried Line. Almost invisible in the brush and scrub and meeting heavy fire (top), Headquarters, reported, k the fence into the detention camp. the Americans are striking for the German strongpoints. Fires started by the Allied air bombing which The relief division was approaching Wearing sheath undershirts of preceded the infantry thrust can be seen in the background (bottom). the city in two columns from the black rubber and rubber oversuits east and northeast, the UP dis- with paddle extensions, the men patch said. carried torpedo-like time charges. Doughboys Closing In According to the London News 2 Sergeants Develop Chronicle, which claimed the at- Reds Shelling East Prussia American guns which shelled tempt failed, British naval experts A New Bomb Release Aachen were turned to repel the removed the explosives. Nazi reinforcements and P38s were In Drive Down From North strafing the columns while the NINTH AP HQ., Prance, Oct. doughboys, ignoring the new ene- 11. — Two enlisted electricians my menace, were closing , in on Court Refuses were credited today with de- Russian shells fell on German soil yesterday from the Aachen from all sides. Gorreli said. veloping the new A-2 bomb re- north as Soviet heavy batteries from advanced positions On the U.S. Third Army front, lease on P47 fighter-bombers, near Memel opened up on Tilsit, in East Prussia just across Americans and Germans occupied VoteActRuling giving added accuracy and split- opposite ends of a curving tunnel second precision to low-level , at- the border from Lithuania. underneath Fort Driant and were tacks. r WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. — The Meanwhile, Berlin Radio an- trying to shoot each other out with S/Sgts. Henry Wallace, of nounced the Russians had launched ricochet shots off the tunnel walls, U.S. Supreme Court today refused Baxter, Ky., and Charles E. British Moving to consider a case in which it was great new attacks north of War- according to an Associated Press West, of Konawa, Okla., drew saw, and the German commentator story. asked to define the right of service- up plans and installed the first men under the Soldier Votive Law. said: "The autumn offensive is in Toward Athens Elsewhere, Lt. Gen. George S> Five servicemen had asked the court device, which involves an elec- full swing." Patton's troops beat off enemy to rule that they had the right to tric buttoa on the stick instead ROME. Oct. 11 (UP).—As some counter-attacks near Fresnes-en- of the old manual lever. Hie Germans admitted the loss Saulnois, 15 miles northeast of use a federal ballot in casting Illi- of Tauroggen, in Lithuania, and re- British troops stabbed toward Athens and others pushed north- Nancy, practically swept all Ger- nois votes. ported the Russians had reached The federal ballot—on which ser- ward past the captured Albanian mans from Parroy Forest and the Baltic Sea both north and seaport of Sarande, German-inspir- fought in the streets of Maiziere- vicemen may vote only for federal Goering Calls south of besieged Memel, in the candidates—is legal only in those ed reports tonight said that Nazis les-Metz. vicinity of which fierce fighting were abandoning all Greece in an Canadians last night were moving states which authorize its use. The continued. servicemen contended that the Allies 'Tops' attempt to escape the closing Bal- along a narrow neck of land into denial of use of a federal ballot in At the other end of the Eastern kan trap. Zeeland in a new assault to clear Front Moscow last night announced the approaches to Antwerp. The Illinois would force them to use Hermann Goering, in a speech With all the Peloponnesus In the capture of Cluj, important rail- Allied hands and Soviet troops forces which cut the German escape a more cumbersome state method broadcast by German Radio, yes- and, In effect, would deprive many road junction just inside the border astride all main escape routes in road and railway separating Wal- cheren and South Beveland from of them of their votes. terday admitted that America, Bri- of Transylvania. Other Red Army Jugoslavia and Bulgaria, the rem- tain and Russia were the "three units driving through Hungary to- nants of five German divisions the Dutch mainland wheeled west most powerful nations on this ward Budapest were reported to were reported moving north on (Continued on Page 4) Senator Out to Close have split the Germans into small secondary Greek roads in an effort earth." isolated groups, and the Soviets to escape. , The Reno Divorce Mill Speaking at the state funeral of were combing the forests for enemy Allied Armistice Terms a Nazi, fighter ace, Goering said: "suicide battalions," WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.— Sen. "A very grim time has begun for The Germans reported that Rus- 4,305 Naval Officers Accepted by Bulgaria William Langer (R.-N.D.) said to- the Reich and the German people. sians had landed on the ftibachi Quitting Active Duty day he would press for action im- . . . Even though the material Peninsula, in the far north of LONDON, Oct. 11 (Reuter) .—Mos- mediately after the congressional superiority of our enemies—they Finland. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 —The cow Radio announced tonight that recess "to end Mexican and Reno are, after all, the three most power- Navy has ordered the gradual re- Bulgaria had agreed to preliminary divorce mills." ful nations on this earth—is tre- COLOGNE, COBLENZ HIT turn to inactive status of an estim- armistice terms of Russia, the U.S. Langer said he would attempt to mendous, in the end it is the man Cologne, attacked Tuesday night ated 4.305 officers, called baca and Britain. A condition of the jjtert action oi the long dormant ' and spirit that weighs the balance. by RAP Mosquitoe's, and Coblenz from retirement since 1939, it was preliminary terms is that Bulgaria Capper bill setting up nation-wide, With the spirit of the best among were pounded again today by learned today. Most of the officers withdraw all her troops from uniform laws on marriage and us, we now oppose this material I Eighth Air Force Portresses, escort- to be released have been serving Greece and Jugoslavia within two divorce. I superiority," ed by Thunderbolts and Mustangs. In administrative shore posts. weeks. age
* * * * * Well, we'd like to make a "Let's Set the Post-War Pattern" suggestion. in your Sept. 9 issue cracked a door that we dared not open, lest we face * ■ * * bare facts. How about shipping a Well, fellow Americans, we had the bunch of Red soldiers to guts to face Hitler's 88s at St. L6, England and the States? and the courage to cling to every How about f urloughing tomorrow at the Anzio beachhead. Let's ignore society and face the some- British Tommies and Negro problem. Let's make sure Yanks to Russia? How about that this comrade who shared the putting the same amount of | foxholes with us in France—min- money in each of their gled his blood in death with ours on the immortal shores of Nor- pockets? How about giving j mandy—shares the freedom he now I've got the gum—but let me a flock of Ivans, Tommies' chance to work—enough to understandings"—to Quote died for.—One who believes in the see your ration cards!" While the and GI Joes a chance to eat—a little fun—and all from the same article-- ! Four Freedoms. * kids were silently thinking up an get together and swap the things that a home and "which cloud dealing be- answer, Spera slipped away—with ideas? a family and peace mean to tween Russia and the rest * * * his last three pieces of Spearmint. a man. * * .* * * * * I of the world" just wouldn't Our outfit is composed of boys And then there was the ardent How about letting them occur. from North and South. We have * * * sergeant who cooed to his girl sit down over beer, or often fought the Civil War over friend, "Darling, how can I ever They don't think much and over again in friendly argu- bitters, or vodka, or what- leave you!" To which the sourful about big money. Cartels ments, but on one point we are ever happens to be around, That's why we say—let babe, who was pretty well fed-up, and colonies aren't in their agreed. The Negro soldier in this snapped, "By jeep, taxi, bus or and talk over tomorrow? Ivan, Tommy Atkins and Gl war is getting more-credit than he tube." line. They might not fig- Joe get together. What deserves. * * * * • * ure out a hair-line dicker they'd think—what they'5 He is, in the majority of cases, Flash fronT the Front: The Ordinary folks generally on Danzig or the Darda- say—what they'd do—mignv a rear-echelon cowboy who never Underground reports that a large manage to get along well factory near Berlin is being franti- nelles—but they'd play their give the right pitch to the saw the front lines. We have been with each other. They all on the front line since shortly cally converted over to produce cards face, up on the table. guys with the frock coats, want the same things—a after D-Day. Never have we seen 50,000 "off-limits" signs. "Mutual suspicions and mis- striped pants and silk haus a colored soldier on the front lines. * * .* We, the fighting doughboys, give Fun of the Home Front. A man credit where it is deserved. Even rushed into a bar and asked the the medics get their share of cre- bartender if he knew anything that dit. It makes us mad to see a would^stop hiccoughs. His answer bunch of rear-echeion cowboys was a slap across the face with a grabbing credit where they have wet towel. Surprised and furious, done nothing to deserve it.—S/Sgt. H. A. W., Inf.
* * 'T'HE Third Armored Division has crew were Cpl. Willis Oiler, of Mor- -■- a lanky Texan named Lafayette pilot returned and resumed fly- (Prejudice knows no state or na- risonville, 111., and Sgt. Del Boggs, ing. tional boundaries. Uncle Sam's Pool who may be the world's great- of Lancaster, Ohio. Mai Bryson is credited with men in the forces serve and fight est tank man. * * * the destruction, of five enemy where they're told to. In his Sherman called "In the Mood," Pool has killed more than Here is a real experienced airzraft, and the squadron has (The activity of Negro troops in 1,000 Germans. He has destroyed German soldier. knocked' out approximately 50 this war includes landing with the 258 German vehicles and captured Pfc Vernon Kavenor, with the German tanks and hundreds of first U.S. assault forces to hit the 250 prisoners, according to Third 82nd Airborne Division up near motor vehicles. Normandy beaches on D-Day. Bar- Armored headquarters. Nijmegen, reports that the di- * #' * rage-balloon men, port battalions, On 21 occasions, Pool, a former vision took a 45-year-old pri- The AFO which serves the Duck companies and quartermaster Sinton (Tex.) boxer, rode point for soner and someone started talk- 30th "Old Hickory" Division has truck units were in on the landings. the division. He is a tall, quiet ing to him in German. a unique complaint. There are so (Two of these units were com- guy, with a boxer's nose and a pas- "It's all right to speak Eng- many packages of poorly-wrap- mended by Gen. Eisenhower. One the stranger demanded the reason sion for beating Germans. lish.," the German said. "I was ped peanuts that on some days Negro infantry division, the 93rd, for such action. With a placating The crew of In the Mood has a prisoner of the Americans in as much as 100 pounds of pea- is at present in action on Bougain- grin the bartender replied, "Well, been broken up now except for the last war, too." nuts kick around loose in the ville in the South Pacific. The sec- you haven't got hiccoughs now. redheaded Wilbert Richards, of APO. Must make good pea- ond Negro infantry division to see have you?" "Never did have," was * * * nut butter. Cumberland, Md., and Bert Close, Irwin Kimzey has been re- action in this war, the 92nd, is in the indignant answer, "I wanteu * * * of Portland, Ore. Those two are elected prosecutor for Haber- there fighting right now in north the cure for my wife. She's out driver" and assistant driver of a AMONG German documents cap- In the car." sham County, Ga. Italy. Negro airmen have made a tank still up front. Others of the Ordinarily that news wouldn't tured by an infantry division notable record in Italy (as well as which cracked the Siegfried Line shake the world, but Irwin is North Africa and Sicily), where the north of Aachen was the roster of a Fourth Armored Division 99th Puxsuit Squadron and Col. mntnr the Frauen-Mitglieder des Reichs- lieutenant, so naturally he did verbandes Deutsche'r Off izier,' Ortes- Benjamin Davis' fighter group have it without making a single gruppe, Aachen, or the Aachen club been flying combat missions with speech to the folks of Haber- the 15th Air Force—Ed.) for German officers' wives. Noted sham County. The judge fig- on the margin was the sad news * * * ures it was the easiest electing that 25 of.the 36 members now ever known in Georgia. were widows. M I read "Let's Set the Post-War "All I did was pay my entry Another document was the diary Pattern" and if S & S will print ■ fee and state my intention," he of one, Dr. Carl von Telser Belsen- ' the enclosed clipping from Time said, "and the people of Haber- berg, a German state official who magazine, I'm sure it will give a sham County voted me in." lived in Aachen but had his office lot of other white guys the same * * * in a small town across the Dutch surprise—pleasant—that it gave this T|USTi' tankers of the Second border. Included in his notes' were one. Armored Division got better than complaints of the conduct 'of Ger- The colored troops are in there cognac and kisses when they pushed man troops retreating across the pitching with us now. How about into one area. A coal-mine owner border and his belief that the us pitching in to see that they get came to the division bivouac area American tank crew which took a fair deal in the "Post-War World" 1 and offered hot-shower facilities of time off to go to church was a —at least in the good old U.S.A.?— one of his mines to all. He put a special propaganda unit. Georgia Jonny, Inf. team of stokers on to keep the sup- * * * . (The clipping's below.—Ed.) ply of hot water constant for 50 For evidence that he strafed As a lootnote to the invasion of Saipan. showers. tanks at minimum altitude, rime Correspondent Robert Sherrod wrote * * * 2/Lt. Vere L. Wyckoff, of De- about the first to see action: catur, III, presents the rear- "Negro marines, under fire for the first The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter- time, have rated a universal 4.0* on Sai- bomber squadron commanded ' view mirror of his P47 which pan. S»me landed with the assault waves. by Major William R. Bryson, was smashed when his own bul- All in the four service companies have lets bounced back and hit just been under fire at one time or another of Houston, Tex., is no place above his head. during the battle. Some wounded several for combat-hungry replaceme^ killed in action. ' pilots. * * " * "One Negro jumped Into a foxhole al- rpHE artist responsible for the ready occupied by a wounded white ma- The squadron, one in the rine, who handed him a grenade 'I don't group of Col. George L. Wer- •■- comic strip "Captain Marvel," know how to use this thing.' said the the character who often out-super- tenbaker, of Charlottesville, Va., Negro. The wounded man showed him manned, superman, is a doughfoot how. The Negro—named Jankins—threw has flown well over 200 combat with the 35th Infantry Division. the grenade, knocked out three Japs man missions, and all the original ning a machine gun. The Joe is Pvt. Crtarles Stone, of personnel are still intact. "Said Lieut. Joe Grimes, a white Texan. Brooklyn, and he plans to put the 1 watched those Negro boys carefully On three occasions when pi- They were under intense mortar and ar- Captain through some of the things tillery fire as well as rifle and machine- lots were shot down behind the the 35th has been through when he'"**' gun fire. They all kept pn advancing German lines, changes on the gets back to civilian life "just to until the counterattack was stopped.' squadron rosier appeared im- • Annapolis mark of perfection. "How come I don't get a T/5?" see if Captain Marvei can really minent, but in each case the take it." Thursday, Oct. 12, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Most Valuable Marion, Doer^Top '44 Poll Ah, Peace—It's Wonderful!
ST. LOUIS, Oct. ll.-Marty "Slats" Marion, shortstop of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals, and, Bobby Doerr, second baseman of the Boston Red Sox, today were named the most valuable players of 1944 In the National and American Le respectively, by Sporting News, the national, baseball weekly. agues
Sporting News, often called the "baseball Bible," created a special "merit" class for pitchers, few of whom ever get consideration for the .most-valuable because of the iimited number of games in which they appear. Hal Newhouser of s; the Tigers and Bill Voiselle of thef Giants were the first-time recipients >f the new honor. Marion was the dominant factor n parading the Redbirds to their 3rd straight pennant. Although his World Series performance was not Bobby Doerr considered in making the selection, Marty Marion Slats came up with many brilliant plays in the classic and batted .227 as the Cards regained the world's baseball title in six games with the ( Browns. Doerr didn't finish the season with the Red Sox, leaving for This is the 1S44 World Series scene at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis. Above play shows Danny Eit- the Army in August. At that time he was leading the American League whiler, Cardinal left fielder, hitting into a force play to Mark Christman at third during the opening in batting and, though he didn't finish on top, there is litle doubt in the game. The Browns won, 2-1, but the Cards won the title, 4-2. minds of baseball men that he would have won the batting crown if his draft call hadn't intervened. The merit award for pitchers came as a surprise. Newhouser and 15 World Series Records Broken Voiselle were mentioned as possible recipients of the most-valuable-player prize long before the season ended Newhouser was largely responsible for keeping the Tigers in the pennant fight until the final day with a By Charlie Kiley record of 29 victories and nine defeats, while Voiselle, a rookie right- Garden Lists Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. Terry Denies hander, won 21 and lost 16 for the fifth place Giants. In several of his ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11.—Fifteen rec- defeats, Voiselle didn't allow an earned run. 18 Twin Bills ords were broken and 11 others were tied by the Cardinals and Browns Job Report NEW YORK, Oct. 11— Eighteen in the 41st World Series, which Notre Dame Leads Nation's basketball doubleheaders have been was completed here Monday. Mike MEMPHIS, Oct. 11.—Sweet Wil- booked for Madison Square Garden Kreevich, Browns center fielder, liam Terry, who termed baseball "too cheap a business for me" a this winter, bringing together trains headed the list by setting two marks Gridders After 2 Victories and4ying two others. •year ago, today scoffed at reports from most sections of the country. Kreevich's new records were for that he wili . oin The season will open Dec. 6 when NEW YORK, Oct. li.—Notre Dame, which has polished chances handled, his 22 exceeding Boston Braves CCNY plays Detroit and NYO the total for six-game series and in an executive off Pittsburgh and Tulane by landslide scores, was voted the faces Rochester. his 20 putouts breaking all previous capacity a::d outstanding college football team in the nation, according Other schools slated to appear j marks In addition, his two assists possibly succeed to the first poll of 1944 conducted by the Associated Press. in the Garden include: Western in one game tied the old record for Bob Quinn as Michigan, Valparaiso, Utah, Okla- one game and also for a complete president of ihe The Fighting Irish, who won the homa Aggies, Arkansas, Muhlen- series. National Lea- niii? TlonrViO^ mythical national championship berg, De Paul, Puerto Rico, Ten- LiUUlJ o tXktUlslUZO expected By handling 54 chances and being gue club. last season> but were not nessee, Western Kentucky, Wyom- t0 rate with ttle leaders credited with 54 putouts, Catcher T,h e former StCliQS ' iV'CltYtGS this fall, ing, Hamlin, Colgate, Darthmouth, Walker Cooper erased the former manager and 1 ' * , received 800 points, including 34 Texas Christian, Kentucky, Cor- best in each department, and his star first base- 2i COTl tenders first place' ballots, from the 93 nell, Connecticut, -Rhode Island 15 putouts in the 11-inhing game man of the sports writers who voted. State, Syracuse, West Virginia, tied the previous record. Two errors New York NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—S/Sgt. Joe The North Carolina Pre-Flight Akron, Notre Dame, Canisius. on th£ same play by Nelson Potter Giants declar- Louis, the world's heavyweight ruler, Cloudbusters, who amazed the coun- Oklahoma and Temple. Biil l'erry d: "YOU knOW gave him the dubious distinction of e arrived in the States today after a try-by upsetting Navy in their first shattering one record and tying an- as much as 1 do about, it," after seven-month tour of the ETO, dur- game and topped Duke last Satur- other. he returned from the World Series ing which he appeared in 96 ring ' day, trailed the Irish in second Eniforee Hurls Orioles Ken O'Dea, pinch hitting in three in St. Louis yesterday. exhibitions, j place with 603 points, including 24 To 3-2 Series Margin games, boosted his all-time pinch- Terry made his first appearance After first saying he didn't re- < first place votes. Army was third hitting total to eight games, a new at a baseball gathering when he" member their names, the Bomber wiith 575 points and Randolph showed up for the series since l.e 1 high. And Mort Cooper became identified two "likely postwar con- Field was fourth with 510, although BALTIMORE, Oct. ll.-Charley ; the first hurler in series history to quit as business manager and b^s:s tenders for my title" as Johnny the fliers attracted 22 first place Red" Embree fashioned his second I lose a two-hitter. of the Giant farm system. He shutout of the "Little World Series" Evard, 22-year-old Oakland, Cal., votes. ! joined the press box gentry this as the Baltimore Orioles white- Other records broken: amateur, and George Culbertson, The next six and their points - time; reporting the classic for the. washed the Louisville Colonels, Brooklyn Negro. Both are GIs in were: Great Lakes, 450; Navy, 369; Most strikeouts one Club—49 by Browns; Memphis Commercial Appeal, 10-0, before 19,463 fans here last Mosi Strikeouts Two Clubs—92 (43 by | * ■ Italy. Purdue, 346; Ohio State, 296; Perm, Cards, 49 by Browns); Most Strikeouts Evard, according to the cham- night to assume a 3-2 lead in One Game—22 (10 by Cards, 12 by 275; Georgia Tech, 194. games. pion, weighs 185, is an-excellent Browns); Fewest Stolen Bases Both Clubs Anti-Goalie Faction —None; Most Men Left on Base Both I boxer but needs a stronger punch Clubs—95 (51 by Cards. 44 by Browns); Solves Cage Prob em •'Culbertson" Joe said, "is the hard- Ifs a Universal Trait National League Club Winning Most Series est puncher I've met in years." —5 (Cards); Most Players Participating in 6-Game Series—42 (Browns 22, Cards NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Basket- 20). EARN SHAW COMMENDED ball's anti-goalie mob scored a WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 —Lt. minor victory in the battle to re- Cmdr. George Earnshaw, former Chicago Prep Back duce physical advantages enjoyed Athletics pitcher and World Series by towering centers today when hero, has been commended by Dies From Injuries they adopted a rule preventing a Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific defensive player from touching the naval commander, for his "excep- CHICAGO, Oct. 11. —The first ball on its downward arc toward tional ability and judgment" as gridiron fatality of the season oc- the hoop except when the shot is obviously short. gunnery officer on an aircraft car. curred here when Donald Levin, 17- Other rules changes—whien apply rier. year-old Roosevelt high school half- t—increase only to tne East as ye back, died of injuries suffered personal fouls from four to live, Help Wanted Saturday in a game between Senn j permits unlimited substitutions and and Roosevelt. It was the first fatal the calling of time out by the re- —AND GIVEN griddnjury in Chicago in more than f ee if a player is injured. er Write your question or problem to 15 .years. — Help Wanted, The Stan and Stripes, MIAMI SEEKS FRANCHISE .Paris. France. PITT ACE INJURED MIAMI, Oct. 11.—Local agitation FOUND PITTSBURGH, Oct. 11.- F,rancis to get a franchise in the Southern IDENTITY bracelets belonging to Edgar Mattionlo, star guard of the Pitts- Association next year gained mo- L. Trier, Warren L. Gabhart and Sgt. Joltih' Joe' DiMaggio (left), former Yankees star, and Chief 1 burgh football squad, will be unable mentum today when City Manager Richard A. Geellman. Specialist Harold "Peewee" Reese, ex-Dodger shortstop, autograph 1 to play again this year as the result A. B. Curry and the local chEiilier ALLET belonging to Cpl. Vincent baseballs for Adm. Robert L. Ghormley (second from left) and W Cieiler, 32345111. Lt. Alfred Sud- of a severe back injury suffered' of commerce urged Joe Engel, halter. Brig. Gen. William J. Flood, 7th AAF chief of staff. Reese's Navy Saturday when the Panthers routed , owner of the Chattanooga Look- team nosed out DiMaggio's GI nine, 5-4. ALLET belonging to Joseph P. Baran, Bethany, 5Q-J3. I outs, to move his club to Miami. W Adams, Mass. Lt. Arthur F. Tebbe. LOST Li Abner 44TACKIE," a brown and Mack Welsh 'l By Courtesy of United Features By A! Ga"*B ' J terrier, about Sept. 24, in Home- eourt, Briey area. He is our infantry division masjjot. Chaplain Garland G. Lewis, OG, pedigreed wire-haired fox terrier, D white with brown ears, 5 1/2 months old. name "Yank." Sgt. Steven J. Jano- vich. APOs WANTED T. Edwin Becht, Maywood, m.; MaJ. L Anthony Boccichio, NYC; T/Sgt. John S. Burrows, Indianapolis; Clifton E. Clark. Corpus Christi ", Lt. William Degetaire. Pla.; WAC Claire Dickman, San Francisco; Lt. S. Milton Eichberg Jr., Chicago; Luther Freeman, East Moline; Herman F. John- «on, Minneapolis; Pvt. Robert I. Kaplan, —i.™ Angeles; Cpl. Phil Karp; Pvt.. Harley ""^^V. Kay, Keokuk; Lt.-Beatrice Lashamhre. NYC; Author (Bud) Leonard, QM: Sgt. James Liberti; Cpl. Joe Manning. Chic- kasha: Lt. C. L. Michaud. Milwaukee; Lt. Ellsworth Peck, Merced, Cal.
i Page 4 THE- STARS AND STRIPES Thursday, Oct. 12, 1944 Bricker Wants Polish Leader Mapping New Map Revisions U.S. to Retain To Join Parley Outlying Bases At the Kremlin
BREMERTON, Wash., Oct. 11 LONDON, Oct. 11 (AP)—Stanis- law Mikolajczyk, Polish prime mi- (AP).—Gov. John W. Bricker, Re- nister, has accepted an invitaion publican vice-presidential candi- to join the Churchill-Stalin confe- date, today advocated that America rence in Moscow and is expected maintain a "strong system of out- to leave for Russia at the earliest passible moment. lying military bases" after the war j The invitation, coming a little and blamed President Roosevelt for | more than 24 hours after Prime failure to fortify Guam. I Minister Churchill arrived in Mos- Setting forth what he described I cow, emphasized the importance as the Republican Party's position, j the British government attaches Bricker said that "we cannot afford to solving Russian and Polish dif- to close our eyes to the evidence of j t ferences. Administration policies which would ' ' surrender many of the strategic j Churchill 'Discussing' Balkans military bases for which our sons WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (AP).— died and for which we spent our j Wealth of natural resources." Prime Minister Churchill's meeting Bricker added that retention of with Marshal Stalin is believed here the bases was not an imperialistic to be concerned primarily with matter, but in the interest of world questions of Anglo-Russian interests peace. in the Balkans, and their decisions He charged that President Roose- can have a decisive bearing on velt, "afraid to offend Japan," did I whether central Europe is to have not ask Congress to fortify Guam. i stability for years to come.. Among Bricker added that the proposed ! the situations confronting the con- $5,000,000 Guam appropriation