Medic Private Saves Dying GI with Knife and Pen Surgery
By Earl Mazo he saw another drop close by and thresh the earth with Carefully missing the jugular vein, Kinman cut into the Stars and Stripes Staff Writer his arms and legs as though choking to death. wounded man's throat. Feeling for the windpipe as blood WITH THE FIFTH DIV., Nov. 29.—Using a GI knife and Quickly he went over and examined the wounded man. squirted out and dripped onto the mud which was the operating table, the young medic found what he thought fountain pen, Pvt. Duane N. Kinman, 19-year-old medic who was turning blue in the face because a shrapnel wound in his throat prevented breathing. Remembering a lecture was the right spot and made a one-and-a-half-inch incision from College Place, Washington, D.O., accomplished what in basic training months before, Kinman calmly opened just below the point where the shrapnel went in. might be the most remarkable piece of battlefield surgery his GI knife and began probing for shrapnel in the Then to keep the "breather hole" open, Kinman slipped of this war when he performed a windpipe operation to save a wounded man's throat. nis fountain-pen into the hole. The wounded man, now dying man during a concentrated mortar barrage. The injured man, almost in his last breath, continued breathing more freely, was moved to a clearing station. It was during the drive on Metz. An aid man in B Co., threshing his arms and legs. Platoon Leader Lt. Edwin Doctors all the way up to the evacuation hospital mar- Second Regt., Kinman was finishing the job of bandaging Eberling, of Lincoln, Neb., crawled over to hold him while velled at his skill and said medical schools in the States chest wounds , and the shattered ankle of one soldier when Kinman worked. migh; offer him a surgical scholarship.
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Vol. 1—No. 128 lFr. Mew York — PARIS — London lFr. Thursday, Nov. 30, 1944 Here Is Robot Bomb With 4Made in America' Label 7th Army, French Widen Corridors To A lsatian Rhine
Elements of five Allied armies battled on Reich soil last night as units of the First Canadian Army, which has been unreported since the start of the offensive, were dis- closed in action in Germany east of Dutch Nijmegen. In the south, meanwhile, the U.S. Seventh and First French Here is the first picture of tae launching of the American version of armies widened their corridors to the Alsatian Rhine. the Germans' VI robot bomb at a proving ground in the U.S. It was Fighting inside the Reich, in addition to Gen. H.D.G. copied from unexploded but badly-battered sections of the bomb found in England and flown to the States. Crerar's Canadians, were units of the British Second and Leclerc Warns U.S. Ninth, First and Third Armies. These comprised the first expeditionary force to invade the Reich since the Nazi Snipers of Napoleonic conquest of Prussia. Besieged Yanks Are Rescued While the U.S. First and Ninth Armies drove a steel wedge into 5-to-l Reprisal 2,000 Planes the tenaciously defended Nazi Roer After Holding Town 2 Days River line before the Cologne Plain, STRASBOURG, Nov. 29 (UP).— Batter Largest U.S. Third Army's 95th Division Brig. Gen. Jacques Leclerc, com- By Franklin Banker smashed across the German fron- mander of the French Second Associated Press Correspondent tier east of Metz an extended Lt. Armored Div., announced today in ENGELSDORF, GERMANY, Nov. 29. — Drinking rain- Nazi Oil Plant Gen. George S. Pattons front in a proclamation posted throughout water and treating their wounded with blood plasma the Reich to 26 miles. the city that five German hostages Unopposed by the Luftwaffe, Closing In on Julich will be executed here for every dropped by Cubs, two Ninth Army infantry companies, cut 2,000 Eighth Air Force Fortresses, In Holland, RAF fighter bombers French soldier killed by snipers or off from the rest of their battalion for two days and two Liberators and escorting fighters joined British Second Army artil- guerrillas. smashed Germany's largest oil re- Leclerc said the edict would be nights, held out heroically against superior German forces lery in the attack on the German until rescued Monday night. finery at Misburg and the 30-mile pocket in Geistern Castle, north of effective at 5 PM Saturday and set In the absence of medical aid long railyards at Hamm yesterday. that time for the surrender to the Venlo, as other units probed- the men, GIs suffering from painful The swarms of Nazi interceptors FFI of all weapons held by "un- defenses of the Dutch frontier city. trench foot bandaged each other's which rose to defend Misburg Sun- Southward, front reports said, authorized persons." After that Soviets Swarm wounds with first-aid kits and ad- day at a cost of 110 fighters failed time, the death penalty will be in- American Ninth Army forces closed ministered plasma to the wounded. to make an appearance, according voked for illegal possession of arms, in on Julich, Nazi stronghold in the Across Danube Lt. Col. Sidney Bingham, of Dal- to returning pilots. defense of Cologne. Within a mile and every German soldier found las, Tex., the battalion commander The 1,000 heavy bomber fleet, es- west of the town, Ninth Army rr.en In civilian clothes will be shot as MOSCOW, Nov. 29—The Red said the companies attacked Koslar, corted by more than a thousand crushed resistance in Koslar and a deserter, Leclerc said. Army has launched a new offensive 15 miles northeast of Aachen, early Eighth and Ninth Air Force fight- crossed the River Inde to the south, ers, followed an RAF heavy bomber Will Shoot Prisoners below Budapest, establishing a Saturday, despite tremendous odds. over a bridge they captured in- pre-dawn attack on targets at Es- Hostages who will be shot, if it "They had trench foot from tact bridgehead across the Danube sen and Neuss in the Ruhr. becomes necessary, will be taken (Continued on Page 4) Reports from the U.S. First River 90 miles wide and 20 miles from among the prisoners taken Blast Supply Dumps Army front said infantry with tank by his division. He also asserted deep, Marshal Stalin announced In five 30-bomber waves, 150 (Continued on Page 4) that snipers or anyone sheltering tonight in an order of the day. Antwerp Open, Ninth A.F. Marauders yesterday or aiding them will be killed im- The new drive, first reported by morning bombed German troops de- Henri Bonnet Gets Post mediately. the Germans on Monday, already fending three villages on the Ninth Dispatches, however, indicated has overrun the Hungarian com- Says Churchill and First Army fronts, while in As* Ambassador to U.S. that there was some . doubt as to munication centers of Mohacs and the afternoon 125 B26s and A20s whether the execution of hostages Batasvek on the west bank of the LONDON, Nov. 29—Prime Min- smashed simultaneously at three Henri Bonnet, Gen. de Gaulle's would be carried out, since the U.S. Danube 80 to 90 miles south of ister Churchill said today that the German supply dumps further press chief in Algiers and former Army has taken over the garrison- Budapest, and captured the coal Belgian port of Antwerp "is now south at a reported cost of one member of the League of Nations ing of Strasbourg. It is expected mining center of Pecs, 23 miles receiving large convoys of ocean- Havoc. Secretariat, has been named French that the French military governor west of the Danube, along with going ships" carrying supplies for In five hours of flyable weather, Ambassador to the U.S., the Pro- of the city, Gen. Jacques Schwarz, more than 330 inhabited localities. the Allied Armies. 500 Ninth Thunderbolts and Light- visional French Government an- and the U.S. commander would His disclosure that the port is nings yesterday concentrated their nounced today. insist new proclamations be issued 12 Die as U.S. Hospital now in use was made, without dive-'oombing attacks on German The 56-year-old World War I of- under their names. amplification, in a speech to the troop positir 3 along a 30-mile ficer, teacher and diplomat will as- Is Hit by VI in Belgium House of Commons warning against stretch of the First and Ninth sume his post, shortly, a govern- 19 Yanks Are Released any letdown in the war effort at Army fronts. ment spokesman said. SOMEWHERE IN BELGIUM, this stage. In Exchange of PWs Nov. 29 (AP). — A German buzz Recalling his previous forecast bomb struck a U.S. Army general that the war with Germany might Films Reveal Califo r n ia Flier NEAR GERMAN-HELD PORNIC, hospital several days ago, killing last until early summer, the Prime FRANCE, Nov. 29.—Brittany's be- 12 persons and injuring 50. Minister declared: sieged ports of St. Nazaire and The bomb hit the laboratory and "The truth is that no one knows May Have Shot Lp Rommel Lorient were cleared of the last pharmacy section, and the weak- when the German war will be Allied prisoners of war today when ened condition of the walls caused finished and still less how long the On July 24 Miller was flying with 53 German officers and men were the evacuation of 1,150 patients. interval will be between the defeat SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 29 two other fighters of the Eighth exchanged for 19 Americans, three Fifteen nurses were sent to a rest of the Germans and the defeat of (UP).—Lt. Harold O. Miller, Eighth fighter comrnanc". About 20 miles English and 32 French soldiers. area suffering from shock. the Japanese." AF fighter pilot of Santa Rosa, behind the lines he noticed an Calif., now at a convalescent center automobile moving toward the front Saipan Forts Bomb here may have been the man who and dropped out of formation on a Bust Teeth to Save Necks Tokyo for Third Time killed Field Marshal Rommel. A hunch. camera on his plane, synchronized "I just thought I would look it By Jimmy Cannon WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Super- with machir»e-guns, brought back over," he said today. With four .50 cal. machine-gKins firing he Stars and Stripes Staff Writer fortresses from Saipan Island in proof he shot up a German staff swept closer and closer. A tire WITH THE THIRD ARMY, Nov. 29.—Hitler is having trouble the Marianas bombed Tokyo today car 20 miles behind the front on blew out and the car swerved. He with his "Old Folk's Army." for the third time in less than a July 24. Shivering infantrymen of the Third Army, making new crossings week, the War Department an- Films from Miller's camera were kept pouring in bullets. "I was lucky and my first burst into Germany, captured a Panzer regiment's order dealing with nounced tonight. thoroughly- checked by Army Public The raid followed previous at- Relations officers, but they- -and scored direct hits. It left a trail the Volkssturm. of blazing gasoline for about 200 The order urged a rigid examination by medical officers tp dis- tacks on Friday and Monday by Miller emphasized an official claim yards and then it bounced into a cover "shirkers" who tried to evade duty by breaking their false the big B29s of the new 21st Bomber could not be made unless someone field and I watched it burn," Miller teeth and smaehing their glass eyes. It ended with a wrathful sen- Command flying from their new saw Rommel die from the wounds said. tence that men must not take out their false teeth except for cleaning. Saipan base. he suffered. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES
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810W IT Toy Time in Germany Signs of the Times. The follow- OOT W£RE ing advertisement appeared in the HIS is a true story. It classified columns of an Indiana happened just inside daily. Wanted : "Good, clean hus- T band who gets a pension and the German border on the SOP on POWs doesn't drink." way to Aachen. * I think a great deal of the fuss • * * * * * about our over-kindly treatment of Most unappreciated man in the A convoy of replacements prisoners of war would be eliminat- army—a table waiter. When the ed if the Army would let us Joes chow's bad he gets the blame. was tearing toward the in on what the "correct" procedure When it's good, the mess officer front. Opposition had been for handling these customers really eats there too. cleaned up weeks before by is. The Geneva Convention and • • * things like that?—Sgt. J. F. Crow- And then-there was the fellow^ the infantry that had hit Icy, Inf. no kidding—whose girl sent him a the Siegfried Line and (Read all about it in the Dec. 2 can of spam and one of Vienna which was now engaged in issue of Army Talks.—Ed.) sausages. And this is his second year reducing Nazi cities to ar- * * * able land. Xmas * * * We have started a Christmas box The convoy came to a for the children of our area. The crossroad where two Ger- boys contribute whatever they can spare—a stick of gum, a roll of life man kids were playing. They savers, candy, etc. By Christmas, were fat, red-cheeked farm we expect to have enough for kids—not more than six several hundred children. years old. If each outfit would do likewise, what a marvellous Christmas it in the ETO, too. He's now looking * * * would be, this, the first Christmas for a new girl friend, and has one One of them had a piece of the liberation of Europe!—Pvt. picked out in a mail order cata- of cardboard about two feet R. E. Shaw, Sig. Cons. Bn. logue. square. The other had a • » » * * * Some GIs in Belgium were hud- broom handle. The broom Mail Call dled around a radio listening to handle was pushed through Hit tune of the ETO: "I'm Frank Sinatra sing "Stardust." a hole in the middle of the the convoy rolled by, one of But one of them who Gonna Sit Right Down And Just as the crooner let go with the cardboard. It was a home- the kids yelled "Boomr* wasn't altogether asleep Write Myself a Letter and words, "Sometimes I wonder why made toy anti-tank gun. reached into his overcoat I spend the lonely nights dreaming * * * Make Believe It Came from The broom handle was the pocket and pulled out a You!"—W/O Knowmail. of a song" a realistic GI blurted The GIs in the convoy package of Life Savers and * * * out "It's because of that blankety- barrel. The cardboard was blank draft board" the shield. They set it up had been riding all night pitched it over the side to Lost Battalion • * * right off the crossroad. and most of them were doz- the kids. I am one of the officers in a Incidental Information. The ing and probably never even # * * 4.2 Chemical Mortar Bn. I want driver of a garbage truck at a naval * * * base over here has, with a nice Then these two youngsters knew they were being "at- Then he went back to nothing for myself, but I'd like to sleep. put in a plug for a great bunch of sense of propriety, named his ve- squatted down behind it. As tacked." hicle "Tinky." guys doing a terrific job in the • * • front lines. Another unsigned verse left in In checking their records, you'll our'typewriter: find presidential citations, superior performance ratings by artillery He asked for burning kisses, SOMEWHERE groups, and innumerable commen- She answered low and cool, dations for missions accomplished. "I may be a red-hot mama, Will the day come during this But I ain't nobody's fuel." EUROPE • « * war when these men will be re- would be turned over to the cognized as combat troops and Pvt. Bill Blood and other GIs in on his outfit position—but to get a range-finder section of an AA Handy for Rain, Too to the ditch he had to make iiis Russians and sent to rebuild given the ratings they have earned Stalingrad. That did the trick. —or will they emerge from the battalion claim they've found an For 12 days and nights a machine- way through a thick hedge. When battlefield a part of a forgotten almost-guaranteed way of getting gun platoon of the 26th Inf. Div. the shelling was over, he tried to * * * battalion? Lt. W. R. W. had been dug in under almost con- go back the same way, but couldn't tinuous fire. One afternoon 1/Sgt find a place where he could squeeze Pardon My Glove * Francis T. Aylward, acting platoon his six-foot-two, 240-pound body It was pitch dark and Cpl. Jessie leader, received a telephone mes- through. He had to walk 50 yards M.' Pierce, of Monette, Ark., and Press Agent in Woodpile Pvt. James C. Hardey, of Seven We have heard of many sage from an excited non-com at down the road to get back to his battalion headquarters: "Make sure original position. Springs, Ark., 36th Div. artillery- amazing things in this war, but all your men have their helmets on. men, were in the motor pool shooting the news in the Nov. 10th issue The general has just arrived here." * about the mortar shell falling Aylward's reply is reported to have in a Pvt. Campbell's pocket is short circuited the entire com- It Wasn't Suicide too steep for even our (broad) munications system. A German major who couldn't minds.—T/4 Don Plank and the make up his mind whether or Dirty Dozen, AAA. Bn. home quicker than other guys in * * not he wanted to surrender, the ETO after Germany is whipped. Gift from Goebbels paid with his life for his inde- * * * They are going to seek readmission cision—and was shot with his Off Limits to the States under the immigra- Lt. Elmer D. Depew, of Dal- own pistol. After being over here since D+20 tion quota. las, Tex., a member of the Third Pfc Ora Brown, of Kittan- • * • Armored Div., thanks Goeb- the breeze when someone walked and in operation all that time, we bels for a shell which landed ning, Pa., was moving through finally got to a rest area. We just Fun on the home front. A hen- a French town near the Ger- up and without speaking shook started to have a half-way decent pecked husband was quarreling less than ten feet away from man border when a Nazi medic hands. Pierce snapped on his him. It was full of propaganda flashlight in time to catch a glimpse time in town when some Green with the missus. "Haven't you leaflets. informed him there was a Ger- Horned Brig. Gen. from an Armored anything nice to say about my man in a building who wished of a soldier in a gray-green uni- Div., who has been over here just mother?" sobbed the wifie. "Yes," * * to surrender. When Brown en- form taking off in the night. two measly weeks, has to put the snapped hubby, "she objected to Self-'-Filling Hole? tered, a German major dropped * * * town off limits. our marriage." his pistol and fled down a cor- Modern Inconveniences With fellows like that they should • * * The original man who found the ridor. Just as the 26th Inf. Among other comforts, B Bat- give them a dose of the front lines T/5 Hal Golden asks the $64 hole that wasn't there is Sgt. Div. soldier picked up the gun •for about a week. We doubt if he question: "If an American soldier Richard E. Fultz, of Gainsville, Tex,, the major reappeared, brandish- tery of the 29th Inf. Div.'s would last that long. If he does, is a Gl-Joe, is a Japanese soldier and the Second Inf. Div. ing another gun. Brown got his 227th FA, has a fo)ir-man fox- sring him back and see if he would a TO-Joe?" Fultz hit for a ditch one night shot off first. hole equipped with heat, elec- J. C. W. when German mortars opened up tric lights, bunks, wooden floors ?ut a town off limits.—Pfc A. S» * * * Uedic. and ceiling mirrors. Architect is Pfc Daniel Deem, of Beaver, * * # Battle-Toughened Turkey Pa. Line Tamers The Thanksgiving Day turkey eaten by a group of men in the * * * So the 29th cracked the Siegfried Sure Road Home Line! Fourth Inf. Div.'s 22nd Reg. was Well, put this on your front page. a tough old bird. As Ray Honey- There are plenty of Nazi soldiers cutt, mess sergeant from Barnes- who are convinced the best way to It so happens that the 29th rode ville, N.C., was preparing dinner, a thru that line two days after our get back to the Fatherland is via a 30th Div. did the job.—Sgt. S. Bear, shell burst close by, slashing a huge U.S. Army POW camp. But few Inf. hole in the mess tent and splitting are as frank about it as the one the gobbler in two. Unwilling to encountered by Pvt. Siegbert Straus, * admit defeat, T/4 John W. Ross, of New York. Witness for Bing of Haddon Heights, N.J., and Cpl. Straus was hiding in a fringe of Bing Crosby's statement was quite Florenzo Riazzi, of Erie, Pa., went trees when a German came racing true about "the nearer you go to to work on the scarred bird. In up the hill. As he ran he threw the front the snappier the salute." a little while they had him in the his rifle away and cried, "Dont oven and that afternoon they had shoot." When he reached the hill- At least that applies for this front their turkey. and I'm quite sure it's the same on top, he flopped on the ground, other fronts. I've been on-the * * leaned back against a tree, and front just about as long as Pfc sighed. "Thank God. Now I know Bergeron who disagrees with Crosby, The Right Psychology I'll see my wife and kids again," A burst of machine-gun fire and I should know.—Pvt. T. P., Inf. r% • A i Folks at Home Send was the only answer Pfc Arnold These Gil Swift News «-rifl Ifa fni UoS , iTal: THE STARS* AND STRIPES Kaplan, of New York, received of Sjr stork s Arr when he shouted to the Ger- Printed at the New York Herald C Carol Jame, Los Angeles—Raymond Tribune plant, 21 rue de Berri. Paris, mans that they were sur- FAnthony, Nov. 11; Cpl. Sal Marino. for the U.S. armed forces under aus- rounded. His promise that they Jackson Hts., N.Y.—hoy, Nov. 22; Pvt. pices ol the Special Service Division, would get good food and medi- Odysses Young—girl, Nov. 23; Pvt. Wilbur ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYsees 85-00. C. Edens, Charleston, W.Va.—James Allen, Contents passed by the U.S. Army cal attention prompted another Nov. 18'; SWO Nathan Sandler, Brook- and Navy censors. Entered as second burst Then the 26th Inf. Div. lyn—Allen Haydon, Nov. 14; Sgt. Charles class matter. Mar. 15, 1943. at the soldier really used psychology. M. Drake, Fairbanks, Ind.—Bernard Lee. post office, New York, N.Y„ under Nov. V, Cpl. Wm. Haughey, Norfolk, Mass. the act of Mar. 3, 1878. He told the Germans that un- —Paisley Anne, Nov. 25; Lt. David W.Han- Vol. 1, No. 128 less they surrendered they Ion, Cincinnati—David Patrick, Nov; 23. Thursday, IVov. 30, IV44. THE STARS AND STRIFES SPURTS Page 3 Most Valuable Postwar ETO Sports Plan Revealed
Newhouser Wins AL Award GI Olympics Will Be Staged Beats Trout The Private and the Brass In Paris Area CHICAGO, Nov. 29 (ANS).—Al- For 'Valuable' lied occupation armies will partici- pate in a series of Olympic Games after Germany is defeated, Big Ten Player Prize athletic officials disclosed here to- day when they announced that sev- NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Hal New- eral coaches have agreed to go houser, 23-year-old Detroit Tiger overseas to assist. The competition left-hander, today was named by will be held in Paris, the Big Ten the Baseball Writers' Association said. ?s the most valuable player in the Big Ten athletic directors ap- American League during 1944. proved the Army's request for 2( Newhouser nosed out his team- coaches to participate in the pro- mate, Dizzy Trout, by four points gram when they met here last in ballots marked by 24 writers, night. Harry Stuhldreher, football three from each city in the league. coach and athletic director at Wis- consin, is one of those selected and Hal Newhouser It was the second time a south- paw pitcher ever was chosen for already has been granted leave with the honor, and the first time since pay to come overseas. Besides entertaining servicemen Jimmy Foxx of the Red Sox won it When Army's coaching stall meets, Pvt. Stuart Holcomb (second in 1938 that the award went to a awaiting shipment back to the from left) ranks on a par with others on the board of strategy. Also States, the games will serve to give Once Over member of a team other than the shown are (left to right) Herman Hickman, a civilian; Capt. George athletes in service an opportunity pennant winner. Woodruff and Lt. Col. Earl "Red" Blaik, the boss. for international recognition. Lightly Newhouser Polls 236 Votes '"We are committed to do any- Newhouser, a native of Detroit, thing at any time to help the war By Gene Graff won 29 games during the Tigers' /Vary's Jenkins Hospitalized; effort and this is one of the ways Sports Editor breathtaking, but futile, chase for in which we can assist," explained the American League flag. He Maj. John Griffith, Big Ten com- ORSE players in the ETO— polled 236 votes to Trout's 232. May Miss Army Tilt Saturday missioner. H those who tore up tickets Dizzy, however, corralled ten first A Western Conference spokes- when platers like Mucho Gusto, places to Hal's seven. man said the competition would be who might still be running at the Vern Stephens, St. Louis Browns By Andy Rooney directed by Army athletic officeir ripe old age of 11 for all we know, shortstop, was third with 193 points. Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau. now in Paris. and Joe Schenk failed to lead the Far behind the leaders were NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Fancy-stepping Bobby Jenkins. field under the wire—may bump George Stirnweiss of the Yankees No Word Here into Bobby Vedder, the jockey who 200-pound Navy backfield star and All-America candidate, who led the circuit in hits and entered the Annapolis infirmary last night with a foot Col. Esky Clark, former Harvard chugged around the nation's ovals stolen bases, and Dick Wakefield, athlete and now athletic supervisor aboard those glue factory refugees, Detroit outfielder, who hit .359 in 78 infection and he may miss Satur- day's football game with Army at in Paris, who presumably would one of these days. Now Pfc Ved- games. Pirate Boss Suggests direct the GI Olympics, could not der, he's stationed at a hospital Lefty Grove of the Athletics was Baltimore's Municipal Stadium. Jenkins worked out with the be reached last night for a state- in England. the only other southpaw to win the Memorial for Landis ment of his plans. Not that Bobby has to fear re- award, being chosen in 1931. Other squad Monday and ran well, accord- prisal for the "bum rides" because pitchers were Walter Johnson, PITTSBURGH, Nov. 29.—William ing to Cmdr. he had a long and colorful riding twice, and Spud Chandler last year. Benswanger, president of the Pitts- Oscar " Swede " career before Uncle Sammy called Newhouser is the fifth Tiger thus burgh Pirates, today called upon Hagberg, Middle Detroit Routs for his services. He ranked among honored, the others being Ty Cobb the major leagues to establish a coach. But Hag- the ten best jockeys in the country in '11, Mickey Cochrane in '34, "suitable memorial" to the late be r g admitted during the last two years of his rac- Charley Gehringer in "37, and Hank Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. tonight the doc- Boston Bruins ing life. Greenberg twice, in "35 and '40. Meanwhile, announcement came tors' report Marty Marion, St. Louis Cards' from Frick's office that the annual makes it doubt- BOSTON, Nov. 29.—The Detroit LTHOUGH he booted home ful that his tri- Red Wings scored twice in each A Whirlaway several times, he is shortstop, was named the National major league baseball meetings will be held in New York instead ple-threat half- period to defeat the Boston Bruins, better known to racing patrons League's most valuable player last 6-3, in a National Hockey Leogue week. of Chicago, as originally planned. back will be avail- as the youngster who set the tracks able against the game here last night. Flash Hol- afire with Alsab, Al Sabath's $700 Cadets. lett, ex-Bruin, sneaked home two "Cinderella" horse. Alsab was un- From Diamond to Foxholes With the an- nobby Jenkins unassisted goals, while Bill Jen- known to everybody except the fel- nou n c e ment, nings, formerly of Detroit, scored low who files thoroughbred data Army stock soared despite the fact twi;e for Boston. for the Racing Form, until he was Navy has won the last five games Ted Lindsey, Joe Carveth, Dom introduced formally to Vedder. played by the service elevens. In Grosso and Jud McAtee scored the The two got on from the start 44 meetings—the first in 1890— other Wing points while Bruin and before long Alsab was the out- Army holds a slim edge, however, counters, all made in the second standing 4yvo-year-old in harness. having won 22, lost 19 and played period, were racked up by Jennings That was in 1941, the year Vedder three ties. and Pat Eagan. and Alsab showed their heels to The last unbeaten Army squad other combinations in 12 of 14 played in 1916, with Biff Jones National Hockey League races, including the Washington and Bob Neyland in the backfield. W L T Pts G OG Montreal 9 3 1 I More than 70,000 customers are 19 48 29 Park Futurity, the Waldron Stakes j Toronto 9 3 0 18 52 48 at Pimlico and a match race with expected, including 3,000 Midship- Detroit 7 3 2 16 62 42 Requested at Belmont Park. Ved- men who had to cancel dates for Boston 3 7 1 7 46 56 New York 15 3 J a dance when the game was shifted 5 32 53 der also was up on Inscolassie when Chicago 18 1 i 46 65 that bright young miss won the from Annapolis to Baltimore. '40 Kentucky Oaks. Many others would like to be Leading Scorers present but none more than Andy 44 ARMY chow hasn't done my G A Pts March, now on the Continent with streamlined figure any good," 8 16 24 the 82nd Airborne. March, who was 9 11 20 the 24-year-old jockey laughed. nominated last week for a boost to 6 14 20 "I've picked up 30 pounds since 5 14 19 brigadier general, was public rela- 4 15 19 coming into the Army, but a couple tions officer at the Point before Mosienko, Chieago... 11 7 18 of months of conditioning will get taking to the field. 11 6 17 me back to my best riding weight." Carr, Toronto 8 9 17 Richard, Montreal... 12 3 15 Vedder was hesitant about nam- 6 9 15 ing the greatest horse he ever rode, Ohio's Horse Players 3 12 15 but said it was a toss-up between Whiriaway and Alsab. Shelled Out 21 Million Seek GI Teams for Bowl "It's difficult to compare horses WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—A de- of different ages unless you go by COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 29.— cision is expected soon from Army their times," Vedder explained. Horse players in Ohio went for and Navy officials on the request "But that doesnt always settle it. Stars and Stripes Pjotoa more than twice as much, money from promoters that Bainbridge One day Alsab would be the bet- Touring major leaguers prepare for their junket through combat this year as in '43, figures released Naval and Randolph Field meet ter; the next day nothing could areas. Here Pfc Joseph Wiktor, of Buffalo, N.Y., demonstrates how today reveal. for charity in a New Year's Day beat Whirly. Horses are tempera- to put together a bed roll for (left to right) Bucky Walters, Frankie Players poured $21,024,546 into Oil Bowl football game at Houston, mental, just like humans. And Frisch, Boy Stockton, Mel Ott and Dutch Leonard. the mutuels machines. Texas. when one doesn't feel like running, not even his boosters in the grand- By Courtesy of United Features. By Al Capp stand can get him to run by yelling Li'l Abner IS STANDIN: VO -(EST NATCHERLY Ft and moaning." LE*5 NOT WASTE V*\LOOr3LE OUi-ffr- Yo' STILL JOAN L_ SULLIVAN .T WAL, AH TtrrcHED THET WERE MAH \ How true, how true! TIME WIF TM' MERE IS LICKED A** THET WERE TM HER PETTRY-FYIN' FORMALITIES O* ©ACSHIN' HANO- J FINEST PUNCH IN MAH 3 PUNCH .V- AH fl BACH OTHER BLACK AN' \ SWEETS AN'SHE DONE WON BLUE-BERD'WE REACHES l , REPRY-TWAR .'.'.'-EF ft Help Wanted KEELED VO' IS MINE AGIN TM'CLIMAX, DEARIE. ' - THET DIDN'T PETTRY-FY VO.' 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