Man Spricht Deutsch Wo ist der Schutze versteckt? THESES RIPES lei On Parle Frangais Vo ist der Shewtse fershtect? II faut que je rentre chez moi. Where is the sniper hiding? Dally Newspaper of O.S. Armed Forces Eel fo kuh juh RENtr chez moa. in the European Theater of Operation, I must go home now. Vol. 1—No. 85 New Yerk — PARIS — London Wednesday, Oct. 11,1944 Aachen Gi venUltimatum Glad Sacks for the Sad Sacks in the ETO Yanks Warn City V...,.:; ■ ■ .: -... , Must Yield Today Or Be Wiped Out " 1 V With all roads running to Aachen cut and all terrain surrounding it commanded by American guns, the city was warned yesterday to surrender unconditionally within 24 hours or be destroyed. In an ultimatum' brought into the besieged city at 10:45 AM by two lieutenants escorted by a private bearing a white flag, the commander of the isolated Nazi garrison- was told: "The city of Aachen now is completely surrounded bj American forces who are sufficiently equipped with both airpower and artillery to destroy , the city if necessary. We shall take the city either by receiving its un- But Bed Check? Ah, Yes conditional surrender or by attack- ing and destroying it." Leaflets showered on -the city, the WAC Decides Associated Press reported, informed civilians and troops within the city that "on our airfields bombers are Demerit List awaiting final orders to taks off. Our artillery surrounding the city is ready. Our troops are alerted for Had No Merit the final advance." Still a Bitter Defense Noting that WAC bed check wat Last night the Nazis-still were instituted "primarily for the pro- bitterly defending Aachen and the tection of enlisted women, not as a Nazi commander had not answered mere disciplinary action," Capt. the U.S. ultimatum. However, the Joan C. Marshall, commanding of- commander of one enemy company ficer of the WAC battalion in Paris, northwest of the city had asked yesterday ordered a "demerit sys- mm L .mm for safe conduct passes for himself tem" sign rem' ved from the bulletin and his troops, a United Press dis- board of one WAC company. Associated Press Photo. - patch said. The action followed a story in This is the first batch of Christmas packages and mail headed for the ETO from the Army's new APO While the First Army massed be- The Stars and Stripes of yesterday at Long Island City, N.Y. This.huge APO was built especially to handle the Christmas load. fore Aachen and, according to morning listing a "sorority house"- front-line reports, narrowed the type list of demerits which, accord- city's escape gap to one mile, ing to the now extinct sign, would Americans and French of the Sixth have brought court-martial of the Army Group were engaged in sharp offending GI Jane when they total- clashes with Germans protecting ed 10. Russians Shelling Memel the southern approaches to the Capt. Marshall said the notice Reich. had .been posted on one company Around Le Thillot, where a num- bulletin board through a misunder- ber of enemy strongpoints were standing. She added that any overcome, and heavy losses inflict- other notices of the same type also Reds Cut Off ed on the Nazis, the French report- would be taken, down. Barrel House Blues ed stiffer opposition than en- The original notice listed deme- countered in Tunisia, Italy or rits for five rule violation-, ranging Port and Trap south of France. East of Epinal from missing bed check -to failure Cold and Hungry—But Not Thirsty—GI Hides the Germans were forced from to stand personal inspection. CapU 150,D00 Nazis Laveline and Herpelmont. Marshall said the bedcheck offense In Wine Vat 2 Days It was announced yesterday that was the only one considered parti- the First French Army was holding cularly serious, adding that each As a storm of Russian artillery down the southern sector of the such case would be judged on it* broke on the besieged Lithuanian By Jules B. Grad (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) port of "Memel, Moscow reported Stars and Stripes Stafi Writer. .yesterday that Red Army vanguards WITH THE U.S. THIRD ARMY, Oct. 10—An anti-tank squad had reached the Baltic Sea 20 miles leader, John Lee Hill, 22, of Cincinnati, shacked up in an empty wine Nazi Refrain: Oh, My Aachen Back farther south, near the border of barrel 48 hours in a Nazi headquarters behind enemy lines and' es- East Prussia, cutting the last land- caped with nothing more than a hangover. ward escape route for an estimated 1 Hill volunteered with one of his men to find a suitable place for 150,000 Germans in Latvia and Li- anti-tank guns in "Arry, small French town through the German thuania. lines. But when the two reached Arry, a German machine-gun com- The Russians were reported to pany spotted them and opened up. « have reached the sea somewhere in Hill's pal, racing back, heard the explosion of a grenade and the so-called "Memel territory," sadly reported Hill missing in action. taken from Germany in the Treaty But the squad leader, scared but alive, had darted into the of Versailles and grabbed by Hitler cellar 'of a lonely-looking house,* where he popped into a huge, in 1939. The pre-war East Prus- wine barrel. He heard German-voices upstairs. Three hours sian border was about 11 miles later, Hill heard a group of Nazis leave the house, so he made south. .lis Way up some rickety steps. The OP was empty of Germans The new two-fisted Soviet punch and food, but there was plenty of wine. Spotting Jerries re- against Hitler's eastern front con- turning, Hill gulped a mouthful of vin rouge and scrambled back tinued in force both to the north down into his hideout. and south. In Jugoslavia, Russian "I was cold and so damn hungry the wood of the barrel troops swung westward in an ad- started'looking good," he said. "That night, when I thought the vance which far outflanked Bel- Germans must be asleep, I crept upstairs again. They must have grade and endangered Subotica, on been drinking and they snored while I walked between them. the main Belgrade-Budapest rail- I still couldn't find anything to eat, so I had a few more slugs, road. then went back to my barrel." Another prong of the Red war All next day, Hill lay hunched in his damp vat. That night machine, smashing through Hun- he ventured up again to drink some more wine. While he was gary toward Budapest, was reported upstairs, U.S. howitzers started shelling the town, and U.S. by United Press within 53 miles of bombers came over. the capital. • "At dawn," Hill said, "the Germans started moving out, but Tass, the Russian news agency, not until my patrol blasted its way into the city. When I re- reported the Hungarian govern- ported in they looked sort of worried and told me I was supposed ment had decided to evacuate the to be missing in action. Then I nailed a couple of fleeing Nazis STARS AND SJB'f?S.^*E3 civilian population from Budapest. with my rifle. They perked up and said I must be alive after all." Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday* Oct. 11, 1944 An Editorial B 8*6 BLOW \T Are You a Parochial Xenophobe? OUT He&e. This clever verse comes from the pen of Capt. Burt Sims. It's called N a recent editorial, Life "Special Request." I magazine expressed the "Ask for something," she wrote; fear that the American A Casual Question "Candy, cigarettes ... ot sox ..." (Thanks, baby, but what I want soldier may return from the It's common knowledge to all of Won't fit a five-pound box.) war a parochial xenophobe. as (72) casuals that good air me- * * * * * * We understand the girls over here chanics are needed in several We didn't know what branches of the Ninth Air Force. have coined a new rank for the parochial xenophobe meant Of these 72, several have excellent either—so we looked it up. records of service ranging from 3 What it means, roughly, is to 12 years of experience. a guy who hates foreign Why can't we he put to work to peoples. the advantage of the government, rather than ship recruits here from * * * the States while we pull KP, guard, We've been listening to a etc?—Put. W. A. Smith. lot of Joes sound off about the British, the jTench, the # * # Belgians and other folks from other lands in which Does the Shoe Fit? this Army has trained and How would you like it if an Allied ebldier, stationed in your home fought. town, were to ring your wife's bell U.S. Army. The new rank is WFC —Wolf First Class. * * * come evening, and make a suggest- Some of these birds would ive request. • * • I recently escorted a French And then there was the sage GI make you think Life's fear woman to her door. On the way, who commented, "Dames? I treat was fact. These guys see no ehe was accosted by no less than 'em like War Bonds. I get a new good in anybody and no We think they talk the strong, young country is a dozen GIs. Most of their remarks one every month!" beauty anywhere. They hate loudest, but we don't think married to the rest of the were unprintable, and not neces- .• • « world—for better or worse.