First Gains on Roer Line

Home , Bill Hackett, Don Whitmire, John Ferraro

fits

SaveTires—ShortenWar Tire Care Cuts Wear . .The war will be need- "Exercise of reasonable care lessly extended unless we ex- by U.S. Army drivers will pro- tract every possible mile from THE siws long the life of tires by at least 40 per cent." Statement by ETO our tires." Gen. Eisenhower, to m tne all troops in the ETO. ^Oly Newspaper of UJ. Armed Forces zzz0fi*sjr European Theater of Operations Ordnance and Transp. Chiefs.

Vol. 1—No. 135 lFr. New York — PARIS — o n Friday, Dec. 8, 1944 First Gains on Roer Line

Superforts Tank Destroyers Slosh Through Mud of Hurtgen Forest Third Army 1 Hit Tokyo, 3 l2Mi.from Manchuria SaaH'idpital Lt.Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 men smashed into German (ANS).—China-based Super- defenses of the swollen River forts ushered in the third an- Roer ..at three points yester- niversary of Pearl Harbor today in triple assaults launched from the northern and souWi- day with a raid on Japanese ern sectors of the U.S. First war factories in southern Army front in the last 48 Manchuria and enemy broad- hours. casts said another Superfort Southward, in the Saar, U.S. formation had started fires Third Army forces smashed to three and one-half miles west of in an attack on Tokyo itself. Saarbrucken, biggest city -in the War Department, in announcing Saar basin, front reports said, the Manchurian raid, said a "large while other units consolidated six , task force" o,f B29s of the 20th Saar River crossings into three Bomber Command had raided im- sizable bridgeheads. portant industrial objectives by daylight. Tokyo asserted that more Gained 400 Yards than 100 bombers took part in the Two armored vehicles of an American tank destroyer unit move slowly over a muddy, narrow winding Hodges' initial assault on the Manchurian raid. roadway through the Hurtgen Forest, spearheading the advance of the First Army toward the Cologne plain. German Roer River defenses of the Coiogne Plain kicked off at 1500 No Mention of Tokyo Raid Wednesday from Inden on the Washington late today still had northern sector and gained 400 made no mention of any raid on Rhine May Be "The' River - yards by nightfall. Patrols thrust Japan proper. The Japs described Violent 'Quake to the outskirts of Pier, two miles the Tokyo raiders as a "small force" east Of Inden on a mission of "war of nerves." But Roer Is No Mill Stream This was followed by attacks at Tokyo claimed that Jap bombers Jolts Far East, 2100 Wednesday and sft 0300 yester- had bombed Saipan bases of the day from the Bergstein area south 21st Bomber Command while B29s Possibly Japan By Morrow Davis of Duren. Both assaults gained. were awaiting takeoff. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Northwest ot the village, First In South Pacific land operations, An earthquake comparable in WITH THE NINTH U.S. ARMY, Dec. 7.—Doughfeet of Army men were less than a mile 32nd Div. tightened its ring on from the river, whose waters are Japanese troops hemmed against violence to the one which virtually Gen. Simpson's army have read there is "one more river to destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama in rising. the Ormoc Harbor area. cross"—the Rhine. Right now they are poised on the west Southward, m Alsace, enemy Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. Carlos 1923 was recorded by scientists yes troops squeezed into a 28-mile terday as having occurred in the Romulo, Resident Commissioner of bank of a thing called the Roer. The doughfeet predict pocket by allies driving south from vicinity of Japan. Philippines, who recently visited it will take some work to cross this swollen stream. Strasbourg and north from Mul- Leyte, said the campaign was pro- The seismograph in England's house, were reported withdrawing West Bromwich observatory "placed gressing "excellently." On the other side of this barrier across the Rhine River at Colmar the quake's center "possibly In to the Ruhr Valley (and the Rhine) and Neufbrisach, Associated Press Japan, the Kuriles (north of front dispatches said. Jap Air Strength Grows Japan) or the Aleutians," and a are skilled, battle-hardened German PattonTankers WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (ANS).— Bombay observatory reported its troops, including Hitler's crack Fifth Nazi Patrols Cr Maas Increasingly strong opposition to epicenter as in Honshu, largest if Panzer and SS units. They nave KO 26, Lose 13 In Holland, where the British American advances in the Pacific the islands which form Japan good armor, plenty of artillery and Second Army -was ranged along the may be expected from Japanese Tokyo and Yokohama are in River Maas, Germai. patrols slipped ammunition. They nave the ad- across the river from the east be- ■ land-based aviation, Navy Secretary Honshu. vantage of high ground and obser- In LorraineTilt tween Venlo an Nijmegen, ap- Forrestal reported today, calling Pordham's seismograph in New vation. Japan's land aviation stronger than York recorded twe shocks approxi- parently in jarch of prisoners. No Dykes Already Open By Jimmy Cannon at any time in history. mately 7,500 miles away in the Stars and Stripes Staff Writer major ground action was reported, He said that in the battle for direction of southern Japan. Both In addition, the enemy may be IN VOELLERDINGER, WITH however. the Philippines, American carrier were extremely violent. able to carry out a "drowned earth" FOURTH ARMORED DIV., Dec 7. Along the Roer River to the policy of controlled flooding of south of the British, U.S. Ninth planes and aircraft-carriers met Japan Is Silent —After weeks of trying to maneuver major forces of land-bassd Japan- streams" on the watershed between the enemy into armor action, the Army reported no change in its ese bombers and fighters for the Neither Japanese nor other enemy the Rhine and Meuse. Already he tanks of this division today moved sector. Nazis still held out in the first time. news sources mentioned the qtiake, has opened dykes on the First across tne hills of Lorraine like Julich sports stadium. but if it was anything resembling Canadian Army front in Holland. fierce predatory animals refreshed Stars and Stripes Correspondent the 1923 catastrophe it would be a Even with air superiority and bet- by their siesta in the mud. Ralph Martin from the front said 8th Captures Mezzano, mighty blow against Japan's war ter equipment, the Boer job looks In an all-day battle, fought be- Fifth Division's Tenth Regiment Reaches Lamone River effort, coming coincidentally on "he to be no picnic. Veteran correspon- tween the towns of Singling and (Continued on Page 4) third anniversary of Pearl Harbor dents predict it will be tougher Bining, seven miles southeast of The shocks were recorded with than the Vire or Moselle; and we ALLIED HQ, Italy, Dec. 7.— Sarreguemines, Lt. Gen. Patton's such fury in England that parts were kicked off at least two Moselle men went through positions in front Eighth Army infantrymen, closely of the recording mechanism were bridgeheads. One correspondent Nazis Stiffen, pursuing the Germans up the main of the Siegfried Line that the Nazis thrown from their bearings and goes so far as to predict the Roer have stubbornly held for three Adriatic coastal highway, captured only by constantly being replaced battle will be the decisive battle Mezzano today, bringing the Allies weeks. They knocked out 26 tanks (Continued on Page 4) of the war. But Reds Gain to the south bank of the Lamone while losing 13 to the enemy. Although no breakthrough la River. MOSCOW, Dec. 7 (AP).—German In one sector British troops claimed for this thrust, which be- resistance stiffened noticeably gained a bridgehead over the La- Sergeant Wins Highest Honor gan yesterday morning, at one point, north of Lake Balaton with the mone but elsewhere on the north the forward element swept eight arrival of numerous reserves from bank the Germans were resisting miles to the Maginot Line, but the Vienna area, but the Red Army strongly, today's communique said. For Heroism in Beachhead withdrew because lt travelled too nevertheless made steady progress fast for artillery support. In its envelopment movement Blast Way Into Singling Send In Tire Slogan; By Russell Jones seven, permitting his squad to around Budapest. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer advance. At dusk tonight Americans had "The Soviets remained silent on blasted their way into the town oJ German claims that Gen. Mali- Win $100 War Bond WITH THE FIRST INF. DIV., The men then encountered heavy mortar fire from positions covered Singling. novsky was making headway in his Germany, Dec. 7.—S/Sgt. Walter D. Capture of a bridge over the Eicni assault on the capital, but there A $100 War Bond for the best ty machine-guns. Ehlers again ad- Ehlers, of Manhattan, Kan., won vanced alone, killing three German River, tributary of the Saar at was reason to believe the battle was slogan submitted as a "keynote" the Congressional Medal for his ac- gunner., and driving the others off. Domfessel, made the swift pilgrim- in its final phases. To the south. for the current tire conservation tions during June 9 and 10 in Nor- age of the tanks possible. German Gen. Tolbukhin's army, advancing campaign was offered yesterday The squad then knocked out both mandy, it was announced' here yes- mortar -positions and Ehler got a engineers were trapped and ma- along the Danube, reached a point toy 64 and Ordnance and Trans- terday. Ehlers, 23, won his coun- second machine-gun. chine-gunned as they tried to de- 31 miles south of the Hungarian portation. Fighting the next day -till was molish the bridge. capital. Slogans must-be limited to ten try's highest award for assaulting and silencing two machine-guns heavy when Ehlers was shot in the The tanks roared into Voeller- Finding better weather, the So- words or less and are to be sub- back by a sniper. Although pain- dinger after our artillery had spilled viet air force pounded German mitted within two weeks. Win- and wo mortars, killing 18 Ger- mans, including a sniper who shot fully wounded, he killed the sniper most of its houses into the streets lines forming northwest of Lake slogans will be printed in "njrig him' in the back, and carrying a with an Ml at 100 yards. It wasn't with 800 rounds in three minutes. Balaton. Reds now hold virtually The Stars and Stripes. until a BAR gunner was wounded ! all the south shore of the long fionds.of $25 and $50 will be wounded BAR man to safety. On June 9 Ehler, leading an-as- and Ehler had carried him to the j New Synthetic Rubber shallow lake and fighting in this giyen to second and third prize ! sault squad, encountered extremely rear that Ehler himself submitted NEW YORK, Dec. 7. — A new district was fierce as the Russians winners.- Ma:' entries to "Tire to medical attention. Refusing; synthetic rubber from met strohg resistance from Ger- Slogan Contest," c/o The Stars heavy fire, He advanced alone and made sand met a strong German force. Using hospitalization, he received only! and called silicone was announced mans guarding the pathway to and Stripes, APO 887. rifle and bayonet, he killed at least first aid. \ today by General Electric Co. Austria. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Dec. 8, 1944 An Editorial etow vr S-T-R-E-T-C-H that Rubber OUT H£Rt T/3 Willard Weiling has come through with one of the sagest ob- EN. EISENHOWER has given us the servations 6f the war: "Points are G pitch on the rubber situation. things a civilian must use every day Save rubber, he says, or 10% of all Army 'Hubert' Has T/O Woes to live—and which I must damn To the cartoonist that draws near get killed to get enough of to vehicles in this theater will be tied up by "Hubert," we of the maintenance be a civilian again." February 1, 1945. section of the 603rd TD Bn. would • • • That means a 10% cut in ammo, chow, like to make an appeal that "Hu- Today's Daffynition (from Lt. bert" be made a staff sergeant. Charles Taylor). Neck is something supplies and everything else needed at the Our reason is that the "Staffer" that if your girl doesn't want to front. That means deadlining 10% of the in our section is the double for you feel like ringing hers. Army's mobility just when it's needed "Hubert." He and "Hubert" have • * * most. It means a longer war, longer casu- everything in common. They look On the Home Front: Two wives alike and act alike. So we make of Navy men stationed at Fort alty lists, longer faces here and at home. an urgent plea that "Hubert" be Lauderdale, Fla., went fishing re- Luckily, it ain't necessarily so. Rubber made staff in his next cartoon — cently and each caught a sailfish can and will be saved if drivers will do ten CpL James D. Whittaker and 18 simple things: •thers. (Sorry, fellows, but my T/O 1. Maintain correct air pressure. won't permit it.—Sgt. Dick , 2. Keep valve caps to finger tightness. Wingert.) * « * * 3. Correct valve stem positioning. Sad, Very Sad 4. Match tires correctly. I'm not looking for sympathy— 5. Correct mounting of directional type nor do I want a TS slip. I only 6. Correct rotation of spare tires. want to bring to the attention of all armchair strategists how a silly 7. Adjjust chains properly. order of theirs affects the morale of soldiers. I had a beautiful 8. Correct mechanical maladjustments moustache with one-inch curlers on causing uneven wear. both ends. at precisely the same time. The 9. Remove tires in time for retreading, and Came an order, all men styling fish were "twins," each weighing repair injuries promtply. eccentric sideburns, moustaches and 44 pounds and measuring exactly 10. Avoid improper operation, including beards, will immediately rectify seven feet one inch long. speeding over 35 miles per hours, over- same. » • . • loading, improper use of brakes, strik- So, OK, my moustache looked A colonel once asked his corporal, ing of curbs, rocks, road-holes, and driv- like hell to you, dfd it hamper my "Where did you file those dis- with flat tires. efficiency as a soldier? Did it charges? They aren't under the violate a physical hygiene direc- Ds." The corporal replied suavely, It's little to ask, but it adds up to plenty. tive? Why can't you allow us to "Sir, I filed them under the Cs— To an estimated 50% cut in tire replace- enjoy one of our personal privi- for Congratulations." ments between now and January 1. leges?—OK, AAA. Bn. • • • (AR 4205 says: ". . .the hair And then there was the pooch, in It means we'll stretch that rubber. To will be kept short and the beard the K-9 corps who asked for a Tree- Berlin. To Tokyo. To the U.S.A. neatly trimmed"—that's all we Day pass. know.—Ed.) • • • * * * GI Philosophy. A wooden anni- Funny Bowl versary makes a man realize what With football definitely in the air a blockhead he was. SOMEWHERE and the bowl games not far away, • • * we would like to offer our, repre- From the "Civil Affairs Seven" sentative for the classic ETO Bowl comes this note. "Believe it or not, Game. we have a civilian steno who filled EUROPE RE...Joe Palooka LG...Plash Gordon up the wastebaskets every hour on LE...Little Abner C ...Jungle Jim the hour. On investigation we In the Fuehrer's Face the division's red diamond shoul- used tin foil strips dropped RT...The Batman QB...The Spirit der patch. The manufacturer from German planes for gar- found the basket filled with carbon It was a case of missing Thanks- LT...Buck' Rogers HB...Superman paper. She explained, "They get delivered after the Yanks had landing. RG...Smiling Jack HB...Tarzan giving dinner or staring at Hitler's left town. FB...Alley Oop dirty with every letter." mug through the meal, so T/4 # # * Coach: Dick Tracy. Subs: Mr. Mystic, • • • The Fifth is back and the Anthony Ambrosio, of Brooklyn, did Capt. Easy, The Lone Ranger, Mascot, A WAC on a street corner said merchant is doing a land-office /Vice Ride, Anyway Daisy Mae. the latter. business. Looking for a new motor pool, ETO-Happy MRU. to another: "If I don't call you Ambrosio, with the Third Armored Wednesday night about Thursday Lt. Ruben P. Clinkscales, a batta- (Stop the press! This be- Div., had lost his mess kit. In the * * * night, I will call you Thursday lion motor officer of the Eighth longs to the sports page.—Ed.) ruins of a nearby house he found night about Friday night." Things Have Changed Inf. Div., hit a smooth modern * * * a plate bearing a picture of "Der • • • It was dark. Capt. Nicholas P. highway after days of ridinr in Lecture Fuehrer." Asked why a man's hair turns "The cooks sure enjoyed throw- Kafkallis, commander of a company Listen, GI Joe: We came to gray quicker than his moustache, in the 10th Armored Div., seeking Prance as liberators, not as con- ing mashed potatoes in Hitler's a medic observed that the hair has puss," Ambrosio says. to reach his unit's bivouac area, querors of the French people. a twenty-year start on the whiskers. found a jeep blocking his way. Watch what you say or do in public. * #. * • * *' "Get that jeep off the road!" the When you drink, try and hold your GIs in Germany have changed Monessen, Pa., officer shouted. liquor. Try and act like gentlemen, the song hit, "Can't Get Out of Patience Pays "Can you tell me where I can which all of you can be if you This Mood" to "Can't Get Out of A 26-year-old "white elephant" find Sgt. Richard E. Byrd?' some- really want to. This Mud." turned out to be a bonanza one asked from inside the jeep. This does not apply to the clean- • * * for one Luxembourg merchant. "Yes, I'm his commanding officer, cut Joes in our uniform. This is Afterthought. To be sitting on Twenty-six years ago, when but who the hell wants him at this only for the stupid jerks who call top of the world isn't such a hot Fifth Inf. Div. occupation troops hour of the night?" mud. He rolled merrily on, enjoy- themselves men. The guilty ones idea. Consider the Eskimo. entered the Duchy, he ordered "I'm Admiral Byrd, his uncle." know who I mean. There are very ing the feeling of a solid surface, J. C. W. 15,000 souvenirs patterned after After following Capt. Kafkallis to until he was overhauled by a breath- few, but these few disgrace us all. the well-camouflaged bivouac area, Sure, many of you have been in less driver, who told him: "You are the explorer commented: "Captain, now the forward element of the combat and been through hell! tiumr. I found the North Pole and the Sure, you're away from home and b SGT. DICK WMEBT U.S. Army." Clinkscales continued H South Pole without too much dif- his search in the opposite direction. are very lonesome. Does that mean ficulty, but your camp site really you should act like jerks in front had me stymied." * * * of these people* ?—*Jus t *a Casualty. * * * Flying Hangars Needed Mortar Dept. The following conversation Too Big took place between a Ninth Air "Five Casualties and Four Re- A bunch of mortarmen are Force fighter-bomber pilot and placements" suggestion that the sounding off about the item his squadron commander on » ETO be "turned over to the two V which said the story of a GI sweep over Germany: Ss," Switzerland and Sweden, cutting his finger while load- Pilot : "Something is wrong seems to have hit a snag when first ing too fast was either "a close with my engine. I'm bailing proposed. call or a damn lie." One mor- out." Back in the thirties, when "An- tar squad reports a man in its Sq. Comdr.: "What's the mat- schluss" still meant a smart trick regiment lost three fingers that ter with it?" and nobody but the victim squealed, AM way, "and that's no DAMN Pilot: "I don't know, sir. But i big trapped German tourist tried LIE." I sure as hell can't fix it up to convince a Swiss peasant that * * * here. Goodbye." Switzerland was actually nothing but holy German soil, and that a Decorated Doughfeet * * * union between Switzerland and Decorations awarded Fourth Inf. Play Dead, Escape Germany would be the most ad- Div. troops, not including Purple Two American medics escaped vantageous thing in the world. Hearts and Combat Infantryman capture by sprawling on a muddy The peasant listened silently. badges, total 3,709. The breakdown road and pretending to be dead. Then, after a pause, he rubbed his shows one Medal of Honor, one Capt. Forrest A. Rowell, of Bos- chin and said: "Sure, I see your Legion of Merit, 26 DSCs. and 595 ton, Mass., and Pvt. Rex M. Klipp, point, but still. . . I doubt very Silver Stars. of Washington, D.C., were evacuat- much that our president would like * * * ing a wounded German- when to govern such a big country!"— Decorate Xmas Tree enemy troops attacked. The Sgt. W. Ducloux, Third Army. Three men of the 37th FA wounded Nazis shouted directions to Nazi riflemen and the medics THE STARS AND STRIPES have their quarters all set for hit the mud. Printed at the New York Herald Santa's arrival—thanks to the When the firing ceased, a party Tribune plant, 21 rue de Berri, Paris, Germans. S/Sgt. John Giba, for the U.S. armed forces under aus- of Germans came up. They kicked pices o£ the Special Service Division, of Hammond, Ind.; 1/Sgt. Ray- Klipp several times, then went ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYsees 40-58. 41-49. mond Gill, of San Antonio, and away. Contents passed by the U.S. Army Pvt. Bryant B. Burnett, of and Navy censors, altered as second "I must have looked very dead," class matter. Mar. 15, 1943, at the Houston, cut a small pine, de- Capt. Rowell said "My head was post office. New York, N.Y., under corated it with colored glass in the ditch and my legs and back- the act of Mar. 3, 1878. balls and embroidery thread Vol. 1, No. 135 "J am a commissioned officer, driver. Hereafter when you tell me side were considerably exposed, but to do something, say 'Sir*!'* from a Gerrae/n, house and X didn't get kicked" Friday, Dec. 8, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3

1\EW YORK, Dec. 7.—An ominous 11 blast at professional football's encroachments upon the established playing season of baseball was .voiced by International League officials this week as the minor leagues held their annual meetings here.. It is expected to be echoed by the Yankees at the major ieague meetings next week. Ed Bar- row, Yankees' president, had some rather salty remarks to make on the subject late in Ed Barrow toe baseball season when his club, fighting for the pennant, was forced to abandon a game in Phila- delphia because of rain and the torn-up condition of the field after the Eagles had. played a night football game. Prank Shaughnessy, Ints. prexy, renewed the blast at the minor meetings.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. —Ed McKee- ver, head football coach at Notre Dame, will continue in that capacity through 1945. He announced his new contract to quell rumors that he was going to Ford- ham, which abandoned football In '44.

TTTHACA, N.Y.--One of football's * most persistent rumors —that Carl Snavely, Cornell's head coach, will accept a similar position with North Carolina—was revived when he revealed he will visit Chapel Hill to consult with Tarheel athletic officials. Snavely made a good im- mm pression in '34 and '35 as North DON WHITMIRE JOHN FERRARO TEX WARRINGTON HAMILTON NICHOLS BILL HACKETT Carolina coach, and officials there Navy Tackle So. California Tackle Auburn Center Rice Guard Ohio State Guard have had him under consideration ever since they were recently em- powered to offer a new coach AP Second Team Ohio State, Army Land Two AP Third Team $12,000 a year in an effort to get back into the top rung of collegiate E—Henry Walker, Virginia. E—George Poole, Army. football. Snavely will coach the T—Milan Lazetich, Michigan. On AP All-America Eleven T—Monte Moncrief, Texas Ags. North team in the annual Blue-Gray G—John Green, Army. G—Ralph Serpico, Illinois. battle in Birmingham, Ala., New C—Felto Prewitt, Tulsa. C—Bob St. Onge, Army. Year's Day-. G—Bill Hachten, California. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Two 18-year-olds from undefeated, G—Bob Dobelstein, Tennessee. T—Bill Willis, Ohio State. T—Bob McClure, Nevada. NEW YORK.—There's no telling E—Leon Bramlett, Navy. untied Ohio State and Cotton Bowl-bound Oklahoma A. & M., E—Jack Dugger, Ohio State. what will happen in Madison B—Tom McWilliams, Miss. St. together with a pair of seasoned plebes from Army's national B—Hal Hamberg, Navy. Square Garden tonight because Lee B—Claude Young, Illinois. B—Gordon Gray, So. Cal. Oma and Tami Mauriello, principals championship eleven today shared honors on the 20th All- B—Boris Dimancheff, Purdue. B—Tom Davis, Duke. in a ten-round main event there, America football team selected by B—Bob Jenkins, Navy. over the country. Davis, national B—Bob Kelly, Notre Dame. have exposed themselves to poi- the Associated Press. The teen-age gridders, first of scoring champion, and Blanchard, sonous quantities of fresh air in training, for tht their years to be picked on an AP powerful blocker and plunger, first time in the Paschal Takes All-America, are Bob Fenimore, couldn't miss. Neither could Hor- memory of any- high-scoring back of Oklahoma's vath, the only senior on the first GothamCagers one on Jacobs Aggies, ' and Hubert Bechtol, team. But Fenimore had to beat Beach. Oma, Bucking Title brilliant sophomore end from out a flock of good backs for the Win in Garden heretofore, has Texas U. The West Point plebes, fourth backfield post, particularly done all his prominent in the academy's record- Navy's Bullet Bob Jenkins and NEW YORK, Dec. 7—Bill Pas- NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—CCNY de- sparring in breaking scoring machine and al- Purdue's Boris Dimancheff. chal, Maritime Service W/O who feated Detroit, 42-22, and NYU smoke - filled most unanimously selected on Competition in the Line plays football for the New York conquered Rochester, 53-39, as Ma- gyms and h i» every All-America published to There was stiff competition Giants in his spare time, has won dison Square Garden opened its roadwork in date, are Halfback Glenn Davis and among the ends and tackles, too. the National Football League doors to basketball for the 1944-45 night clubs. Fullback Felix "Doc" Blanchard. Jack Dugger, Ohio State's great ground-gaining championship for The 1944 team also includes one season before 16,182 fans last night. Mauriello, pro- wing, and Army's crack plebe, the second straight year. representative from seven other Al G r e n e r t, honorably dis- prietor of a Tami Mauriello George Poole, for example, had to Bullet Bill has gained 682 yards schools in the East, South, South- prosperous spa- be content with third' team end charged Marine who played with in 179 attempts and has one game west and Far West: the Violets two years ago, scored ghetti house and saloon in the left to play, while Johnny Grigas berths. Whitmire, who played a Bronx, is not averse to sampling First Team Lineup 10 points in the second half to of the Card-Pitts and Frankie couple of years at Alabama before his wares. Both have gone out- lead the victors in a surge that Sinkwich of Detroit, nearest com- ENDS.—Betchel and Phil Tins- going to Annapolis, stood alone doors to do their training. Now obliterated a Rochester threat. The petitors, have finished their sea- ley, Georgia Tech; TACKLES.— among the tackles despite the fact that both boys have a good case ^hat Army ran over him last week. score at halftime was 20-all. sons. Don Whitmire, Navy, and John of fresh air poisoning they're likely CCNY led Detroit, 16-12, at the Len Younce, Giant lineman, Perraro, Southern California; Ferraro, 235-pound granite block to outdo the redhot battle they half, then scored 12 straight points gathered in the punting title with GUARDS. — Bill Hackett, Ohio who just about lifted Southern Cal staged a couple of months ago when into the Rose Bowl, however, was as the second half opened, Koro- an average kick of 41.1 yards in State, and Hamilton Nichols, Rice; Mauriello stiffened Oma after be- CENTER.—Cal Warrington, Au- challenged for first team honors vlns setting the scoring pace for 42 tries. Frankie Filchock of ing on the short end most of the burn; BACKS.—Davis, Blanchard, by Ohio State's Bill Willis, burly the Beavers with 14 points. Washington is the ace passer of way. Fenimore and Les Horvath, Ohio Negro star, and Michigan's Milan the league with 78 completions in State. Lazetich. 132 tosses for a gain of 1,107 yards. American Hockey League Davis, Blanchard, Fenimore, Tins- Ham Nichols, who received a CAGE-RESULTS Last Night's ^ Scores ley, Whitmire and Hackett were no first team guard post, may have Red Sox to Train in N.J. CCNY 42. Detroit 22. Indianapolis 3, Hershey 2. surprises but the rest may have been unknown outside of the South- NYU- 53, Rochester 39. Pittsburgh 3, St. Louis 1. BOSTON, Dec. 7.—The Boston caused eyebrows to go up like twin west but opponents of Rice called Muhlenberg 37, Penn State 36. EASTERN DIVISION Red Sox will train next spring at elevators in some sections. All, the 19-year-old junior one of the Purdue 51, Bunker Hill Naval 49. W L T Pts Notre Dame 89, Kellogg Field 28. Pleasantville, N.J., General Man- however, were carefully watched by most 'aggressive guards that sec- Oklahoma Ags. 57, Glennen Hosp. B««- •-• " ager Eddie Collins announced today. AP sports editors and writers all tion of the country ever turned out. Hobart 58, Syracuse AAF 40. Hershey I %» %Zi Providence 5 10 " 13 WESTERN DIVISION By Courtesy ol United Features. By Al Capp W L T Pts Li'l Abner Indianapolis 10 * ? X WAt-LE's err ON WIP rr ff- A 35-CENT Pittsburgh 11 « J f? Cleveland » * * *• WEDOlrV - U9M T HOW ANYBODY COULO BE. SO CHEAP AsVee. wiu-irv T'SXOJNO ALL St. Louis * 10 * 1* TH* INSULTS AN' ABUSE IN THIS 35-CENT * IS BEYOND ME .*".»"— WAL-WAR AH COtS DOES vo'-vo* STOOP1D LOUT - Help Wanted TAKE TMI5 BIG OVERGROWN —AND GIVEN COW VO' YO' LAWFUL —

Write your question or problem to ^^^^ Help Wanted, The Stars and Stripes. Paris. France. AFO 887.

CAMERA EXCHANGES R SALE: Ciro-Plex twin lens camera, rP 3.6 Wailensak lens; case, exposure meter, 3 filters, lens shade,' 10 rolls of tilm. $115.00. PJc John T. Capps Jr. B SALE: 2 rolls 8mm. Kodachrome rfilm, 190fr. each; 1 roll Panchromatic, ^3 125fr, Capt. Harry. A. Suslow. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Dec. 8, 1944 MakingofTires Jap Advance Is Threat to Chungking Supply Highway Train Tonnage Called Nation's To Front Lines Big Bottleneck Is Quadrupled

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (ANS). — Brig. Gen. C. Ii. Burpee's Second The nation's No. 1 production bot- Military Railway Service, which tleneck is the manufacture of took over from Red Ball Express heavy tires, Brig, Gen. J. K. Christ- in November, has quadrupled its mas, deputy chief of the War De- daily haul of war supplies to the partment's Office of Ordnance, said Western Front, i* was announced today. yesterday. Gen Christmas, in an address at Daily hauls Of 10,000 tons, con- the National Association of Manu- sidered good in September, have in- facturers' convention, said stepped- creased to as much as 44,883 tons. up tire production is urgently The railway unit, which has oper- needed. As a result of oombings of rail- ated under fire and hazardous con- roads, trucks have become Vitally ditions since D-Day, now is hand- important for transportation and ling supplies for the First. Third supply of forces on the fighting and Ninth Armies. Thousands of fronts as well as people, of Allied freight cars and locomotives as- sembled in England have been occupied countries, he said. Japanese advances in southeastern China have forced evacuation of U.S. air bases and now poise a grave added to the 27,000 freight cars threat to Kweiyang, >a the main supply highway between Chungking and Kunming. $500,000 for 'Father' and 340 locomotives captured in France, Belgium and Germany. NEW YORK, Dec 7 (ANS).—Jack A month after Red Ball was put L. Warner, executive producer, said Japdnese Seize City into operation the railway service today that Warner Brothers nad Senate Rejects 1st Div. On Go was able to surpass capacity of the purchased the film rights tc "Life 270 Miles From truck route, building up an exten- With Father," the Howard Lindsay- Grew, 3 Others] Chungking sive network in the territory be- Russel Crouse play, now in its sixth Since D-Day tween the Seine and Loire, east of year on Broadway, He said that WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (ANS).— The Japanese, pressing an attack the Seine and behind the moving the arrangements called for pay- WITH THE FIRST INF. DIV., through southeastern China which front. ment of $500,000 against royalties Several New Dealers yesterday Dec. 7.—This Division's part in the already has overrun several bases In a recent two-week period, 80,662 on the picture's gross take and that joined the Senate revolt against six months of fighting since D-Day, of the U.S. 14th Air Force, yester- during which time it was out of soldiers were transported on 40 the final price would set an all- President Roosevelt's nominations day reported the occupation of Tuh- contact with the enemy only five trains, and hospital trains made 57 time high for the purchase of a for State Department under- shan, only 70 miles southeast of days, was reviewed today. trips, carrying 16,879 patients in play: The picture, to be made in secretary and three assistant se- Kweiyang and some 270 miles be- It was revealed that the First steam-heated cars. color, will not be released before cretaries and the names were sent low Chungking. Division, commanded by Maj. Gen. 1947. back to the Foreign Relations Com- The Chinese, without confirming Clarence R. Huebner, had captured mittee for further study. Freed Areas Expected B & O Unable to Meet Debts Tuhshan's fall, acknowledged heavy more than 3,200 prisoners from 18 Sen. Guffey (D.-Pa.), usually an fighting in the area and reported Nazi divisions, had fought in the To Fill 90% of Needs WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UP).— administration supporter, led the that refugees were pouring out of i critical battles of Caumont, Mari- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. fight against immediate confirma- Kweiyang on all available transport | gny, Coutances, Soissons and WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (ANS).— asked the Interstate Commerce tion, which ended in a 37-27 re- and afoot along the highway lead- Aachen and had entered the battle The liberated peoples of Europe Commission today for permission jection vote. The Senators demand- ing north to Chungking and south- of approaches to the Roer River, will be able to supply 90 percent of to refund $500,000,000 of outstand. ed more information about the west of Kunming. called the toughest in the division's their own basic needs this winter, ing securities}- The application said men's political philosophies. The situation was watched anxi- history. the OWI announced today. the company was "unable to meet The action affected the follow- ously in Chungking, for control of The First Division has fired more Earlier thJswee'x President Roose- debts matured or about to mature", ing newly-appointed aides to Se- Kweiyang, capital of Kweichow than 5,000,000 rounds of .30 caliber velt's report on UNRRA activities but that the situation was expected cretary of State stettinius: Province, would put the Japanese ammunition, more than 250,000 disclosed that "emergency-needs in to be only temporary. Joseph O. Grew, former ambassador to only 200 miles from Chungking and rounds of 105mm. and more than liberated areas are still being met Japan -Undersecretary. athwart the main highway between only from military relief supplies." No Favoritism Here 70,000 rounds of 155mm. ammuni- Will L. Clayton, former cotton dealer, the Chinese capital and Kunming, tion for a total of-more than 7,000 WARNETON, La., Dec. 7 (ANS) Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Sur- terminus of the Burma Road tons of metal Engineers have in- plus War Property Administrator—Assis- — Mrs. Jerome Walker increase tant Secretary of State. The Associated Press reported spected and cleared' of mines 1,800 ■^Tst Gains... the population of both Louisiana from Chungking yesterday that Maj. miles of road, constructed 25 Nelson A. Rockefeller, Co-ordinator of I and Mississippi over the wt>fk- Inter-American Affairs—Assistant Secre- Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer. command- bridges, removed 25 mine-fields, laid (Continued from Page 1) tary. 3nd by giving birth to twins, ing U.S. forces in China, acknow- down 15,000 anti-tank mines, erect- one in each state, while racing the Archibald MacLeish. poet and Librarian ledged the seriousness of the mili- ed 1,000 yards of barbed wire and gained two and one-half miles to of Congress-^-Assistant Secretary.. stork to the hospital at Tylertown. tary situation but pledged. "The laid more than 8 00G miles of com- enter Furstenhausen, nearest point Miss. A girl was born in the car United States will not abandon her munications wire to its units, with to Saarbrucken the Third Army has before it reached the state border army in China." whom it never lost contact. yet reached. and a second girl was delivered at Earthquake... Martin reported that 42nd Ca- the hospital. valry units, meanwhile, struck four 'Continued from Page It miles to Forbach, which is five ISeu A26 Invader Bomber miles southwest of the Saar in- Weather Slows Up was it possible to ascertain the dustrial city. The Third Battalion center of 'he shock. r 9 of the Fifth Division's 11th Regi- 'Beginning about 6* AM. (British Is 'Dream Ship, Says Pilot ment drove to and beyond the town Allied Air Attacks time), the shocks were continuing of Warndt, seven miles soutlh of hours later. By Earl Mazo Saarlautern, he said. Adverse weather yesterday The 1923 qua Re Completely T/Sgt. Royal S. Events, of South- Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Southwest of Saarguemines, the grounded the Eighth, Ninth and destroyed five Jap cities and killed port, Conn., swears by his new AN A26 INVADER BASE, Dec 7. charge. 320th Regiment of the 35th Division Royal Air Forces which had sent more than 100,000 people. It lasted : —The second new Amercan air- pushed a mile through the Zetting nearly 10,000 bombers and fighters 36 hours and cut off Japan from Several times during the mission craft to become operational in the ' Forest and occupied the town of In three days and nights against the outside world for nearly two -McGlohn twisted something or ETO since D-Day—the Douglas 1 i Siltzheim, three miles south Ot 13 Nazi fuel, munition and rail days. ' — produced another of the A26 tricks, A26 Invader—combines almost all Saarguemines, he reported. Far- targets in western Germany, late An American "help Japan" drive then he would turn around and grin the best features of its predeces- i ther south, the 328th Regiment of reports indicated last night. raised millions of dollars | and say over the intercom, "Wonder- sors. I the 26th Division cleared Hebitz- Germany's largest synthetic oil ful, ain't she?" heim, while the 104th entered Etting. refinery at Merseburg, battered Although most of the "hot dope" The A26, like the other since-D- Twelve miles northeast of Saar- Wednesday afternoon by Eighth on the Invader is still! secret, it I Day plane in the ETO, the P61 Packard,UAWPact | guemines, Martin's report said, the Fortresses . and Liberator- was can be revealed that this new me- Black Widow, Is a war baby born | Fourth Armored Division cleared smashed again in the night jy 500 dium and low altitude bomber, of a lot of bitter lessons learned Aids'Vet'Employes out an enemy pocket of about 30 Lancasters, part of a force of 1,350 powered by two 2,000-horsepower the hard way by Allied airmen square miles in the Foret de Mont- British aircraft which attacked rail Pratt-Whitney engines, c a r r e s since the Battle of Britain. brann. Beyond the forest, he yards at Osnabruck and unspecified DETROIT, Dec. 7 (ANS)—World more bombs more economically over said, the Fourth battled German objectives in Berlin. War II veterans employed by a greater distance and can fire more Personalized Plasma Packard Motor Car Co., since their guns per crew member than any tanks for five hours, knocking out discharge from the service have other American aircraft in the Service Introduced six Nazi light tanks and four me- diums. Two 9th AF WACs First been granted seniority equal to their war against Germany. 10 Miles from Colmar To Wed GIs in France time in the forces under an agree- This week, on a mission to Ger- WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (ANS). ment with Local 190 of United many in Charlie McGlohns In- —Blood donors will be permitted Stars and Stripes Correspondent Automoble Workers. vader, Miss-Sippy, I saw a form- to label their donations and Ed Clark in the south reported the Two couples, on duty with Ninth Louis De Beam, local president, ation of A26s literally whizz in to dedicate them to specific service- Seventh Army's capture of Seles- AF headquarters in France, were estimated that the agreement will their target, bomb, and return in men starting tomorrow, the Red tat Wednesday followed a bitter, married Dec. 2 in the first wed- save the jobs of 500 veterans who a fraction of the time it would Cross announced tonight. three-day battle in the streets dings involvin Army and WAC 0 had been threatened with layoffs take other bombers. The blood plasma labels, which against entrenched German infan- personnel on the Continent. Each None of the 500 were employed by McGlohn, a lieutenant from will be only . symbolic since the try supported by tanks. couple .. ideu the other in cere- Packard at the time of their in- Gulfport, Miss., who did 60 mis- blood loses-its identity in process- Seizure of the town, he said, monies at two churches. duction, and would have been in- sions in A20 Havocs before switch- ing, were devised as a result of brought Seventh. Army forces T/Sgt. Francis P. Flynn, of Sene- cluded in current layoffs affecting ing to Invaders .said "it's a dream numerous requests by relatives and. within 10 miles of Colmar, last ga Falls, N.Y., wed Cpl. Alma approximately 5.000 workers. De plane." friends of servicemen, the Red major Alsatian city held by the Winn, of Galveston, Tex., and Beam said. , Former A20 ground crewmen like Cross said. enemy. S/Sgt. George F. Morris of Al- liance, Ohio, claimed Pfc Emma By Courtesy ot News Syndicate. Lou Smjtbe. of ^snrufieid. Mo., as Terry And The Pirates By Milton Caniff lis brfr"

INDEEP, EXCELLENCY.' 3|l THE SKESTARy TD THE Antwerp's Main Lock \COUONEL THROUGH WHOM \SIICH PLANS ARE CtEAEEPi Destroyed, Nazis Claim ISA WOMAN SER&EANT/'I /...SHE NOW ENJOYS German News Agency reported A FU210UOH IN A yesterday .hat the main lock to CERTAIN HOTEL W Antwerp harbor had been blown THE cm up, paralyzing shipping traffic. - Combat swimmers, the Germans claimed, we--' taken in special ves- sels into the vicinity of the lock gates where they swam past two British sentries patrolling the lock to attach fuses to explosive charges lashed to the gates.