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Vol. 1—No. 141 1 Fr. New York—PARIS — London 1 Fr. Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 Hodges Men Move to Outflank Roer; Siam Hit as Japs Gird for Air Siege

Admit Cities Face RocketShipsAidedlnvasion 83rd Div. Launches Blows on Scale Drive Along River WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Rocket ships, one of the most secret of Of Reich naval weapons, played a large part in the shattering of German de- From Monschau fenses along European beaches. NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (ANS) This was disclosed today in a Navy report on the use of rockets in Men of the 83rd Div. in the —As the increasingly powerful the Atlantic and Pacific. It followed the announcement that pro- duction of rockets will be increased nearly 300 percent immediately. First Army yesterday stabbed American aerial attacks on The November output of rockets was 262 percent above June figures, 3,000 yards to the Gerzenich Japan's industrial centers a WPB spokesman said, describing this as "the example of examples" suburb of Duren, ROer River passed the sixth straight day, of ever-changing demands. industrial stronghold, as the Tokyo radio admitted today Large landing ships designed originally to carry tanks to enemy First Army's southern wing, that Nippon's cities were be- beaches were converted secretly last winter into rocket-firing craft, the Navy disclosed. Moving ahead of first waves of landing craft, swinging east of the Roer in ing prepared to face prospects they worked with battleships, cruisers and destroyers in the bombard- the Monschau Forest, where of aerial damage comparable ment which preceded landings. the river curves into Bel- to that of Germany. The Office of War Information reported recently that the Navy gium, hammered the south Even as the Tokyo broadcaster soon will be spending $100,000,000 monthly on rocket ammunition. Each rocket craft carries hundreds of missiles fired electrically. flank of the German lines on the promised the Japanese people that Cologne plain. The rockets speed toward beaches in overlapping salvos and "elim- "the nation would take up the Except for two pockets stubbornly fight" with all dogged courage," a inate virtually all secondary fortifications, including mines, wire, machine-gun nests, shallow pillboxes, and will temporarily stun men holding out at Pier and Marie- sizable formation of superfortres- weiler, north of Dufen, Hodges' men in larger fortifications,"* the Navy said. ses based in India was hammering gripped the Roer's western bank at targets in Thailand (Siam), from the industrial city's suburb keystone of Japan's land-supply five miles northward to Schophoven, lines from Malaya to China and whose defenses caved in yesterday. the homeland. Nazis Hit Camouflage Peak Meanwhile, 21st Bomber Com- Mass South of River mand headquarters on saipan said For weeks, Hodges had forces yesterday's B29, raid on Nagoya, on With 'Manure Pile' Pillbox south of the town of Monschau Honshu Island, was the heaviest below the Roer. The river begins ever hurled against the Jap main- \ By Earl Mazo in Belgium and flows eastward The Stars and Stripes waves land. Stars and Stripes Stall Writer into Germany past Monschau. It again in the Philippines, signi- Many Fires Started turns north, widening as it runs fying the virtual occupation Reconnaissance photos showed WITH THE 90th DIV. IN GERMANY, Dec. 14.—The Ger- past Duren, Jiilich and Linnich, of Leyte insured this week 40 direct hits on Mitsubishi air- mans reached the acme in camouflage on dozens of pillboxes where both First and Ninth Army when American troops captur- craft assembly plants besides evid- in and around the Siegfried Line industrial city of Dillingen. forces hold its west bank. Then ed Ormoc, the Japs' last sup- ence that at least 35 fires had Huge strongpoints, with between three and four stories it curves to the west to join the ply outlet for their forces been started in the area. Hama- River Maas in Holland. trapped on the island. matsu, on Honshu, less than for the comfort of the soldiers who manned them, were set The forces at Monschau waited 50 miles from Tokyo, also was up to look like newsstands, tobacco as the northern elements of the bombed by a small force of B29s. shops, barns, houses and pillboxes. First Army attacked toward the LupeVelez, 30, Meanwhile in the southwest One of those knocked out by men of river in the Duren sector. When Pacific, as Gen. MacArthur's ELAS Resumes the 358th was camouflaged as a the northern forces smashed up ground forces began mopping-up manure pile. to the Roer, the forces in the south Is Found Dead operations on Leyte, Lt. Gen. S/Sgt. Sam Carvalli, of St. Louis, attacked Wednesday. George C. Kenny, Allied air chief Athens Battle had been fighting with his infantry They launched two assaults. company without mishap since D- Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau in that area, announced that Japan One moved northeast of Monschau is losing planes at the rate of ATHENS, Dec. 14 (UP).—EL AS plus-two. On the second day of the on the west bank and took the LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14.—The Dillingen crossing of the Saar he coroner's office here revealed that about 33-1 in aerial combat over forces resumed the shelling of cen- (Continued on Page 8) the Philippine area. tral Athens this afternoon, break- disappeared and the other doughs Lupe Velez, the Mexican motion- of D bemoaned the fact that "Lucky picture actress, was found dead Gen. Kenny called the 49th ing a lull during which reports cir- Sam got it." Three days later he early today in her Beverly Hills Fighter Group in that area "one culated that peace negotiations were of the hottest air units in history." about to end an eleven-day battle. and his machine-gun platoon turn- home. Coroner Prank Nance quoted ed up unscratched. In that time police as saying the actress had A Pearl Harbor dispatch today (Meanwhile, in Washington, Sen- apparently taken1- an overdose of announced that Adm. Chester ator Harley Kilgore (D-W.Va.) they had been hemmed in and cut sleeping powders. Nimitz, American naval com- lashed at the Churchill government off by six German tanks and had The 30-year-old "Mexican Spit- mander in the Pacific had con- policy, according to the Associated lived on captured German jam and pickles. They returned to their fire" was well known for her tem- cluded conferences with Army and Press. He said that EAM represents pestuousness on and off the screen. Navy commanders in Alaska, indi- a coalition, not the Communists. lines with three prisoners. It was revealed that she had cating that the Japs may soon The British people are not fooled Maj. William T. Wallace, of broken off her latest romance—with expect attacks also from the North by Churchill's charges and his anti- Landsdown, Pa., Second Bn., 358th, French actor Harold Ramond—five Pacific. EAM policy, Kilgore said.) (Continued on Page 8) days ago. The United Press reported a note, addressed to her secretary, found beside her body, said, in part, Fort Driant—the 'Gateway to Hell' "You alone know the facts and the reason why I'm taking my own life. Forgive me and don't think By Allan Morrison Before the first unsuccessful attack was mounted badly of me. I love you, mammy, Stars and Stripes Stafl Writer on Sept. 27, little was known of the fort's inner de- so take care of mother. And so WITH THE FIFTH INFANTRY. DIVISION IN- fenses beyond meager data obtained from aerial- goodbye and try to forgive me." SIDE FORT DRIANT, Southwest of Metz, Dec. 14. photos and some reconnaissance. These revealed —At 1545 hours on Thursday the curtain was rung that Driant was surrounded by a double-aproned dawn on the battle drama of this fantastic fortress barbed-wire fence in which were interlaced other S&S Sunday Edition built deep into high ground southwest of Metz, but wire obstacles. Behind this was a moated ditch To Start This Week the 73-day siege Will go down in the campaign re- and then an incline strewn with more barbed wire, cords as a grim, weird, bloody business. leading to the fort itself. Commanding several important approaches to Metz Following the first attack, air and artillery directed Starting tomorrow, The Stars on Driant in an attempt to soften it up for the and Stripes will publish an and overlooking the west bank of the Moselle from an 1,800-foot height, it was once considered the "key infantry. Fighter-bombers dropped 1,000 and 500- eight-page Sunday edition in ad- pounders and artillery hurled in stuff ranging from dition to the regular weekday to Metz." Doughboys who had to storm its yellowed Seventh Army's drive across the battlements cursed it as a "gateway to hell." 105s to 240-hows. The effect of all this was imper- Vosges has virtually sealed off the issues. The Stars and Stripes ceptible. PWs have since stated that the first bom- circulation men are hereby no- When siege operations began, infantry units as- Germans in the Rhineland and bardments merely made them "curious." except for pockets in the Colmar tified to toe on the alert to signed to shaking the defenders from their rocky The thicknesses of Driant's walls and roof defied and southern Vosges sectors has H- '■ collect and distribute the Sun- roost were dug in in the mud of the wooded country the efforts of U.S. artillerymen to blast cracks in the berated all but a narrow strip of day paper in the usual way. to the west, sweating out sporadic artillery barrages from the Metz forts facing their positions. (Continued on Page 2) Eastern France. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 Foe's Railways New Chief of 5th Black-Market One Remedy for an Aching Back Pounded Daily Offenses Draw By Air Forces Stiff Sentences LONDON, Dec. 14 (UP).—Con- Stiff sentences are being handed centrating on Germany's railroad out for black-market offenses, par- ticularly those involving theft of lines leading to the Western Front, army gasoline, Seine Base Judge British-based RAF and Eighth Air Advocate's authorities said yester- Force bombers have dropped an day. French police are co-operating estimated nearly 40,000 tons—an with the Trovost Marshal's office average of over 3,000 tons daily— in its drive against illegal sales of on the Reich in the first 12 days of U.S. goods. December, in keeping with Gen. Theft of gasoline is being con- Eaker's pledge of "increased blows strued as a treasonable act tending this winter." to interfere with the war effort, Heavies have systematically and one life sentence already has hammered key rail points through- been imposed in France, subject to out western Germany, with at least review, authorities in Paris said. 11 26 different places attacked so far Gas sales have drawn 30-year this month. Meanwhile reconnais- terms, and ten-year terms for sales sance showed Fortresses and' Libe- of cigarettes and other goods are rators severely damaged four rail- Lt. Gen. Lugiejj,ijb _ tritsciitt. not improbable. road yards in yesterday's operation has taken over comman3~oTthe Recover U.S. Gasoline and that there was a log-jam of Allied Fifth Army now fighting Over 1,000 gallons of gasoline traffic at all four points. in northwestern Italy, succeed- were returned to army depots dur- Reconnaissance photos, made ing Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, who ing the first week of December, Lt. possible by more favorable weather has been given a higher com- Col. K. G. Pavey, Deputy Provost conditions, were the most concrete mand in the Mediterranean. Marshal, said. A special brigade evidence of the punishment the of Paris police, made more than 100 heavies have been dealing rail tar- Canadians of 8th Strike civilian arrests in one day, picking gets in the recent campaign to up American cigarettes, candy and stop Germany's oil, still high on For Lamone Valley Heart other army goods, Col. Pavey said. the bombers' priority list, and a Last week at Mantes, the colonel number of fuel targets have been ALLIED HQ., Italy, Dec. 14. — said, the CID recovered 41,300 pack- attacked so far this month. Canadian troops of the Eighth ages of cigarettes from a stolen truck. 20,000,000 Lose Homes Army, pushing on in sleet and hail through the breach they made in Black-market operations are It is reliably estimated that some the Germans' Lamone River de- usually of two types—the indi- 20,000,000 persons either are home- fenses tonight were fanning out vidual soldier selling his own goods, less or have been evacuated from over flat farmlands toward the and the gang type operation, the bombed-out areas. heart of the Lamone Valley. provost office reported. In the Stars and Stripes Photo by Riordan The most severe blows have been Supported by tanks, the Cana- latter, four or five soldiers, usually Allied bombing destroyed the Kaiserbath Hotel which once drew directed at Friesland and Westpha- dians met stiff opposition from AWOL and dressed in civvies, work Europeans to Aachen to cure their rheumatism, but enough of the lia, where it is estimated some German positions as they drove to together obtaining and selling sup- hotel's hot sulphur bath-house was left to make Pvt. William Jera- 5,000,000 persons were bombed out Vecchio de Cantrigo. Forward plies. bek, of Chicago, happy. Here the MP who is assigned te police Ger- of their homes. Recapitulation of patrols were reported near Bagna man civilians is shown treating his "aching back" to hot springs luxury. damage to cities shows that Berlin Cavallo. is reported to be about 60 percent Further north at Mezzano the GI Made U.S. Citizen destroyed, with roughly three-and- troops crossed flooded waters of In Paris Ceremony Home GIs Get Air Lift Cleveland Gets New Ore a-half million persons homeless. In the Lamone River and cut the Ra- ATLANTA, Dec. 14 (ANS) .Air- CLEVELAND; Dec. 14 (ANS). -* middle and northern Germany venna-Ferrara highway at a point Nicaraguan-born Pvt. Ramon C. line service for military personnel The freighter Pontiac, with 12,500 cities largely destroyed include northwest of Mezzano. Lacayo, of San Francisco, became to lighten the burden on civilian tons of Canadian iron ore, brought Hamburg, Hanover, Bremen, Kas- a U.S. citizen yesterday in the first travel facilities started last week in the first ore cargo that ever came sel, Wilhelmshaven, Wesrmuende, State to Control French Mines ceremony of its kind to be held in the Fourth Service Command. into Cleveland from anywhere ex- Emden, Brunswick and Oldenburg. The Provisional French Govern- the reopened American Embassy Fifteen passenger planes will fly cept northwestern Great Lakes Partially destroyed cities include ment yesterday drew up procedure in Paris. Vice-Consul Cyrus B. two of eight basic routes in the states. The ore was from the newlyr Magdeburg, Dessau, Menieburg, for running the nation's coal mines Follmer administered the oath. Southeast each week and will be developed Steep Rock district of Osch, Rhleben, Jena, Halberstadt, after adopting decrees which bring Lacayo is an MP, in a 9th AF authorized to make side trips Canada, 140 miles west of Port and Weimar, while severe damage all mines under state control. fighter-bomber group. wherever necessary. Arthur, Ont. has been inflicted to Kiel, Huedeck, Tilsit, Rostock, Stettin. In south- west Germany great destruction has been inflicted on Mannheim, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Stutt- How GIs Tore the Hinges off'Gateway to HelT gart, Ludwigshafen, Darmstadt, Schweinfurt, Offenbach and Frei- (Continued jrom Page 1) flamethrower strapped to his back, trampling over one another trying butchering these troops until we burg, and in southern Germany on became entangled in it and was Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg. casemates large enough for the to get out," he said. have nothing left to hold with. We placing of TNT charges by combat killed by MG fire while he was From Oct. 3 to Oct. 6, attackers cannot get out to get our wounded In addition to these places, there hung up on it. and defenders fought back and forth are also many small towns where engineers and infantrymen. There and there are a hell of a lot of were four casemates, each housing While rifle squads attacked the across the top of the fortress, inside dead and missing." factories are located which have two main artillery shelters that been bombed and heavily damaged. three 105 artillery pieces and their the shelters and in the tunnels. The following day the force in crews, and these were protected by were being used by the Germans as German artillery from Fort Jeanne Driant's ditches and barracks was some 10 feet of concrete sheathed in barracks, one pillbox was stormed d'Arc ando ther forts played on relieved by a battalion of the 10th 320th Regt Joes, an 8-inch steel layer. Direct fire and prisoners were taken. One was the fort erea, causing casualties Regiment. The fight went on. from M10 TDs and Sherman a recent graduate of the Metz OCS. among the attacking force. Several The "battle of the tunnel" was a In Big Push, Grab medium tanks mounting 76s rico- These barracks were two-story af- of the Yanks got down into one of saga in itself. One tunnel was cheted and bounced away like fairs with the top story level with the tunnels and groped their way entered by doughboys feeling their Sleep on the Run tennis balls. the ground. Point-blank 76mm. and along it blindly shouting their way through the blackness. "Bee- When it was found that our 105mm. U.S. fire from 30 yards only names to identify themselves to hive" charges were placed. and 8-inch guns scarcely dented the chipped the concrete. comrades at other entrances. electrically detonated by the en- WITH THE 35TH INF. DIV.— Pfc Robert W. Holmlund, member Mud for mattresses, rain water for casemates, the commander of "Task The serious American situation gineers.. Force Driant" later estimated that of an infantry squad attacking one on the fort was tersely described in sheets and German bullets zinging of the barracks, climbed up on to Live Like Moles lullabies—that's how men of the 15-inch guns would be required. an urgent message sent out by the the roof, shoved Bangalore torpe- company commanders Oct. 5: "The The men in the tunnel lived and 320th Inf. Reg. caught up on their Cut Wire Barrier The biggest attack took place does down a ventilator shaft and situation is critical. We have no worked like moles with modern sleep during the first days of their set them off. They exploded down equipment. Acetylene torches were big, muddy push. Oct. 3. Elements of the 11th Regi- men and our equipment is all shot ment of the Fifth Division jumped in the basement. up. Another counter-attack and we brought into use to cut through "You wouldn't believe it unless could hear them swearing and are sunk. The enemy's artillery is steel doors and piled-up metal de- you saw it," said Lt. Larry D. off at noon with some tank sup- port. The tank, towed "snake" bris in the corridors. Demolition Gilbertson, of Black River Falls, explosions reverberated through the Wis., "but many of our men were demolition charges. The barbed-wire barrier was im- Jeep Mat' Conquers Mud subterranean chambers. Men be- so exhausted that every time the came seriously sick from carbide attack was held up by enemy fire mediately breached by HE direct fumes and had to be taken out. they mould fall asleep in the mud fire from the Shermans and the HE nearest thing to a plush carpet on the Western Front—a "jeep On Oct. 10 the commanding with bullets and shrapnel whining infantry poured through the gap T mat" improvised by U.S. Army Engineers—is being unrolled to- generals of Third Army, XX Corps over them and all around them. under intense enemy fire, bypassed day to keep Allied vehicles rolling through the mud into Nazi Germany. and the Fifth Division halted the When a German strongpoint was several pillboxes in the fort area Designed by Capt. William Jarrett, of Philadelphia, to provide operations against Driant to avoid wiped out, we'd awaken them, and moved toward their goals. new routes through the Siegfried Line, the mats are being staked "unnecessary loss of life" and the push on farther. Pinned down Here the fighting became truly down on old back trails through the heavily-wooded areas of the troops came down from the again, once more they'd go to weird. There were quick, surpris- German border country. fortress. sleep." ing encounters with Germans above The new "jeep mat" roads augment key traffic lanes which are American troops went back into "We were so tired we couldn't and below ground. They popped subject to frequent harassing by enemy mortars and artillery. Their Driant last Thursday and Lt.-Col. keep awake," said Pfc. Paul W. up out of bunkers and holes, fired main use has been for transportation of supplies and evacuation Richter's garrison of 650 officers Wagner, of Bridgeton, N.J. "We at Yanks and scrambled out of of wounded. and men came out. Charred U.S. had hiked all night in the mud sight. The mats, eight feet square, are constructed by interlocking tanks on the fort site and American with full packs to get to the jump- The barbed wire was always a three-inch saplings with No. 10 wire. They are rolled into bundles graves nearby told mutely of the ing-off point." problem. One doughboy with a for easy handling. ^*1ong, hard, costly fight. Page 3 Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 THE STARS AIND STRIPES Dates With GIs Hands Across the Sea and Under the Table Pre-Dawn Trip Across the Saar To Get Holland Girls in Dutch ets 1 Bridge WITH 95th INF. DIV.. Germany, A distinct and growing movement, Dec. 14.—Crossing a major German backed by church officials, to pre- defense river is a slick trick in it- vent Dutch girls from associating self, but when you bag an un- with American troops in the Maes- damaged bridge te boot, without a tricht area of Holland has come to casualty, it's a commander's dream a head with the appearance of un- job. The Victory Division's First signed posters warning that girls Bn., 379th Inf., did just that at seen in the company of GIs would Saarlautern. have their heads shaved as did Beating the sunrise guns by three women who collaborated with the hours, the men, under Lt. Col. Nazis, according to a dispatch from Tobias Philbin, of Clinton. Mass.. John M. Mecklin, Chicago Sun cor- hopped the Saar River and secured respondent of Maestricht. the bridge's northern end before An American Civil Affairs officer the Germans came to at daylight. who found one of the posters on The bridge connected two sections a store tore it off and went inside, of Saarlautern. By forging this pre- the dispatch said. When he came dawn bridgehead, the First Bn. fo- out ten minutes later an identical cused the whole Third Army drive poster had been tacked in its place. into the Saar basin. Others appeared on public bulletin Stealth Complete boards and on walls of buildings at busy corners. Complete surprise and deadly com- mando skill were the chief weapons Xanks Irritated when the first assault wave stormed The campaign, Mecklin reported, across under the leadership of Col. started soon after Maestricht was Philbin. Stealth was so complete taken by the Americans Sept. 14. that the Americans drew no fire It has spread through most of the until they neared the bridge liberated sections populated largely An unarmed Jerry, hands in poc- by Roman Catholic Dutch. It is kets, drooped casually at the street definitely affecting the attitude of A strictly non-GI evening in a strictly GI Belgian beer garden eases side as the column skulked by. He many girls toward Allied soldiers the strain of war for these soldiers on pass "somewhere in Belgium." sputtered some English and was and is creating fierce resentment Reversing Army tradition, a pair of GIs and their Belgian dates taken in hand. A radio operator among Yanks, the Sun reporter (above, right) happily discover that their "club" is off limits to in an armored car was blood-and- said. officers. Inside the cafe, they find that hand-holding mixes well wiih Sutted with a bayonet when he re- Dutch liaison officers attached to Belgian beer (above). Then, of course, at the end of the evening, fused to emerge. A third Heinie Civil Affairs said people are being there are the inevitable goodbyes in the inevitable manner (right). was winged by Col. Philbin himself exhorted almost daily from pulpits ?.s he dashed for the demolition of local churches to keep their rwitch just five feet away. daughters away from Americans. The local newspaper Veritas has Talk in Siegfried Line 'Cafe Overpower Guards published editorials supporting the The assault- men surprised and position. silenced the Nazis guarding the The argument is admittedly based Dwells On Paris Gals' Legs bridge and then ran for the span, on the fear that many girls who fall where they were )omed by the first in love with Yanks will be disap- platoon of C Co., 320th Eng. On pointed when war moves on and By Jimmy Cannon the span they found lour 500-pound they are left behind. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer aerial bombs—calling cards of Amer- The church also claims there INSIDE THE SIEGFRIED LINE WITH FOURTH INF. DIV. ican planes—which the Krauts ap- would be an increase in illegitimacy parently had hoped to throw back and venereal disease if Dutch girls —In Red Top's Cafe all you heard was a shuddering thud at the 95th. yield to "temptations of Americans' when a shell hit close by. The somber cabaret is the CP Machine-gun fire oegan ana sty- chocolate and cigarettes." of a company in the forests of the Schnee Eifel mountains. mied further checks for explosives, It is a dynamite-cracked bunker on a ridge in the Siegfried but the assault force justified itself Line and is named for Capt. Wil- Battle School by preventing German attempts to 'Grenade HilP liam M. Marsden, of Crewe, Va., the catcher's sign and waits lor blow the bridge. Jerry engineers another one. who were captured said that 95th the red-headed company com- For Engineers Div. artillery had kayoed generators mander. 'You bucking for a Purple set for demolition. Hero Honored They were in the orderly room Heart?" asked S/Sgt. Ray Dempsey, It wasn't until two days later that sweating out machine-gun fire. whose nickname is Amphibious. The first U.S. Army Engineer Jerry fire slackened enough to en- WITH THE SECOND ARMORED They talked away the lonesomeness He pulled the pin out. They all Bridge School in the Western Front able a closer check for demolitions. DIV. IN GERMANY, Dec. 14.—In by pretending they were going to a rushed for the narrow bunker door. battle area soon will be in opera- Besides the bombs, they found that a brief ceremony, interrupted by dance in the States. It was Satur-, They waited outside in the cold fog tion in the Oise section, training everybody had been crossing the the scream of Nazi artillery, Capt. day night and they made believe and returned when they didn't hear officers and NCOs from newly- i bridge over 6,400 pounds of egg- Thomas P. Carothers, of Port Mill, there was no war. They wrangled the explosion. arrived combat engineer units. shells—dynamite and TNT. The S.C., the "Hero of Hand Grenade for half an hour about whose turn "What you guys shagging tail out Before being sent to the front, ' Nazis had sunk the demos into the Hill," was awarded the Distinguish- it was to buy the liquor. They of here for?" Sam asked. "All the the engineers will be taught the piers, like a devilish dentist filling ed Service Cross by Maj. Gen. Ernest never named the town but this powder was out of that thing." latest German strategy. a monster's teeth. N. Harmon. dance they were going to was in a The CQ went to the phone and Instructors will include men with Capt. Carothers and his armored lot of towns. It was in the home listened and then he said: "That actual front-line experience, West infantry company, armed with town of every guy there machine-gun fire was ours. A Point graduates and specialists S/Sgt. Who Won sandbags filled with hand grenades, They wore out the talk of the Jerry patrol came up on our left from the engineer school at Fort tossed the grenades from their fox- dance and they talked about the flank and we chased them out." Belvoir, Va. All the instructors will Congress Medal holes for five days and nights to legs of the girls of Paris. They all The shelling went on and the make periodic visits to the front hold a bit of high ground com- agreed they had legs like stake talk and the day came to banish to keep abreast of the latest im- Now a Lieutenant manding a potential German escape horse and their hair was the most the night from the world. It was provements in bridge-building route. beautiful in the world if you liked a quiet night. methods. The company held the hill until hair that way, stiff and gleaming Walter D. Ehlers, of Manhattan, support came up and knocked out and high. They drank hot chocolate Kans., who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions the German threat. from crushed tropical bars and water they heated on a captured Nazis Sacrifice Five Tanks June 9 and 10 in Normandy, has German stove. been promoted from staff sergeant U.S. General Knocks 1/Sgt. Sam Norris, who comes to second lieutenant. Ehlers re- from Greenville, S.C., was jiggling In Suicide Defense of Town ceived his commission December 9 At Namesake's Door a grenade in his hand the way a and presentation of the award was pitcher does when he shakes off WITH THE FOURTH ARMOR-1 boarded another medium and conti- made this week by Lt. Gen. John WITH THE 29th DIVISION ED DIV.—The Germans sacrificed nued the attack, C. H. Lee.. BEFORE JULICH, Dec. 14 (UP). five Panther tanks in a suicide de-1 A German tank identified as a Lt. Ehlers, 23, won his country's —Another Gerhardt stands be- Sizes in Centimeters fense before they gave up Gueblii.g. ; Mark VI Tiger was put out of highest award for assaulting and fore the Roman-founded city of Fog Up Supply Tent The town, softened by a fierce ar- action by the bazooka team of Pfc silencing two machine-guns and two Julich, which was ruled in the mored attack, finally fell to infan-1 Leo R. Hack, c. Chicago, and Pvt. mortars, killing 18 Germans, and tenth century by Duke Ger- try of the Third Army. ' Frank Kujawa, Toledo, who crept carrying a wounded BAR man to WITH THE 90th DIV., FRANCE. The five enemy tanks were cut within 75 yards under cover by Cpl. safety. He is a member of the hardt. —Sgt. Victor Stefaniac, supply He is Maj. Gen. Charles H. sergeant for a regimental head- off by a belt of mines and their | Leslie Swift, of McLeansboro, HI. 18th Inf., First Div. Gerhardt, commander of the only retreat bridge was blown up. Maj. Harold Cohen, of Spartan- quarters company, was getting the burg, S.C., stepped from a halftrack 29th Inf. Div., whose military winter clothing sizes of a newly- Then they were smashed by tanks Goggin Gets Around might woulu have awed his me- under Lt. Col. Arthur West, of Still- and was saved from an exploding assigned second lieutenant The shell when he fell in the mud. One A NINTH HAVOC BASE, Dec. dieval namesake. officer said that he wore 41 shoes, water, Okla. Artillery fire was di- 14.—T/Sgt. Joseph P. Goggin, A20 Said the modern Gerhardt as rected '}y 1/Lt. Harley Merrick, halftrack, driven by S/Sgt. Burton 75 trousers, a 37 shirt and a 75 belt. Barr, of Elizabeth N.J., went 13 gunner, has flown 37 missions. He the 29th kicked off to spearhead The sizes shrunk considerably, Richmond, Cal., Cub observation flew his first 12 with the Italian- the U.S. Ninth Army drive to pilot. miles with a dud shell beneath the however, when the officer, a French- hood. Prying open the hood with based 15th Air Force, his next dozen the Roer River: man attached to the o58th Infantry, 2/Lt. Jdward T. Clarke, of Cliff- with the Eighth and 13 more with "We gotta ge. the hell on side, N.J., and five men were riding an axe they found an 88mm. high gave them in inches instead of explosive. the Ninth. uown there." centimeters. a Sherman when it was hit. They Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 This Was America Yesterday: WD to Check Low Priority Love s Fire Lights a Desire On Discharge Is Blamed for For Cigarettes^ Says Expert Of Celebrities Butt Situation By Joe Fleming Stars and Stripes Stall Writer Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (ANS).—. EW YORK, Dec. 14.—The U.S. Senate can't figure out the smoke WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — Na- The hard-to-discourage Senate war N shortage, but Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, Harvard anthropologist, is tionally-known figures, principally investigating committee puffed dog- the boy who can do it. Here it is: those in professional athletics, may gedly away at the cigarette shortage "The boys in foxholes are nervous and miserable and want girls. have more difficulty gaining today after smoking out little more Since they can't get them, they smoke cigarettes. The girls at home with discharges from the Army In the than a mass of discouraging stat- their virtue unendangered are nervous and miserable and want boys. future, the Associated Press re- istics. Since they can't get them they smoke cigarettes." ported today. In the second day of testimony Criticism over the release of it was told that there will be even So it's not a shortage at all, it's an over-consumption—about like fewer packs for civilians next year, those over-under-sideways production explanations of a few years ago stars in athletics, stage, screen when you still couldn't find two bits for two packs. • and radio has been such that the and yesterday it heard Col. Fred Ernie Pyle, at least, is in the mode. That statue of Ernie by Max War Department has initiated a C. Foy, director of purchases for Kalish, slated for unveiling in Washington's Smithsonian Museum, policy which requires all such cases the army service forces, predict to be given special examination by that the future demand on the shows the columnist wearing combat jacket, standing in the mud cigarette industry will be "in excess with the infantry and—like his favorite doughfeet—rolling his own. the War Department. Previously, a* commanding officer had author- of that being placed upon it cur- Query: Where did the sculptor get the plaster of Paris makings? rently." Or ANY makings? ity to approve the discharge of anyone under his command. Facilities Limited YESTERDAY this department stirred up a threatened meat strike in The War Department said that Trying to find out what has • New York, and today solves it. It was discovered that some criticism which led to the new po- become of history's greatest supply 25,000 lbs. of buffalo meat arrived in New York and CHARLES CHAPLIN licy had been aimed chi;fly at .same role; another trial. of mokes, the committee was told will take the place of Christmas turkey. The ship- sports figures who received dis- by Foy that the scarcity in the ETO ment, sold point free, came from Montana and will charges, principally medical, but "is the direct result" of limited be delivered dressed by S. Schweitzer & Sons. . . . who proved physically able to re- Joan Berry's Lawyer facilities for unloading ships. He which supports a prediction for the smokeless turn to strenuous athletic compe- Calls 'Deal' to Drop explained that food, gas and artill- ETO. . . . maybe we'll be happy this Yuletide with tition. ery take precedence. "Actually," buffalo instead of potato chips. Suit 'Cockeyed9 Foy said, "as of Oct. 31 there were And watch the Fords go by. . . . they'll be little Maj. Jack Holt Discharged 2,000,000,000—100,000,000 packs—in jobs, priced 15 to 20 percent below the lowest CAMP BEALE, Calif., Dec. 14 LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (ANS). various foreign waters awaiting dis- priced pre-war models, according to Henry Ford (ANS). — Maj. Jack Holt, veteran — Neither red-haired Joan Berry charge." II, grandson of Henry. Fords will go over from movie actor who spent the last nor silver-thatched Charles Chap- Officials from the War Manpower bombing planes to autos immediately after. . . . two years in the Army Quarter- lin appeared in court today when Commission, War Food Administra- well, immediately after. master Corps at Ft. Reno, Okla., re- the first round of the new battle tion/and Price Administration were WSTORKERS in non-war jobs are doing more job- ceived an honorable discharge here over the paternity of Miss Berry's called by the committee in the " changing than war workers, according to the Henry Ford II today. Holt said that he planned 14-month-old daughter, Carol Ann, hope of winning support for three War Manpower Commission. In every thousand, 60 to 70 quit non- to resume motion-picture work. began. propositions: war jobs each month; only 40 to 50 per thousand quit war production 1. Better share of manpower necessary A new quarrel over bloodtests to produce more fags. jobs. sprang up between Defense At- 2. Pood order calling for greater produc- rpiHE scheduled blow-off in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee torney Charles Millikan and Jo- tion of long-leaf tobacco. BillWouIdGive 3. Revision of price regulations to per- over Secertary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr's new assistants seph Scott, counsel for Miss Berry. mit better distribution to civilian retail failed to materialize. The committee had returned names of some Scott maintained that the agree- dealers. of them for "study." Nelson Rockefeller, for instance, might be too PresidentRaise ment to drop the case if bloodtests The committe was told that even close to Wall Street and Poet Archibald Macleisn proved Chaplin could not be the if additional manpower was avail- too poetic, too left-wing, they said. One Senator at WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (ANS). father made before he entered the able for making smokes next year, Thursday's hearing frankly said he couldn't get —Congressman Carl Vinson, (D.- case was "cockeyed and unreason- there would be difficulties in getting Archibald's poetry. Ga.) today introduced a bill to in- able and an outrage to the court." new machinery, and to top all other But there were no loud objections as Secretary crease the salary of the President Millikan made a motion, which troubles, manufacturers predicted Stettinius paraded his boys before the senatorial from $75,000 to $100,000 a year and was denied, for a continuance be- there would be an acute shortage COs, led by Joseph C. Grew, ex-ambassador to to give substantial salary increases cause he had subpoenaed Film of leaf tobacco within a year. to Cabinet members and members Writer Hans Ruesch, now in New Japan. Grew, who came home from Tokyo con- of Congress. firmed in his dislike of Japs, will have the most Vinson, chairman of the House York. He offered an affidavit as- RadioArtistsUnion important post—he's next to Stettinius as under- Naval Affairs Committee, said that serting that on various occasions secretary. Other assistant secretaries before the the presidency is the highest and Joan had occupied Ruesch's apart- Seeks DeMille Ban committee were Brig Gen. Julius C. Holmes and most important job in the nation, ment and that sometimes he didn't James C. Dunn. but "the salary is less than the in- remain because "she interfered Senatorial approval of the whole Stettinius TO with his sleep and work." LOS ANGELES, Dec 14 (ANS). Joseph Grew come of Prank Sinatra." —The American Federation of Ra- was expected by week's end. He has declared for a Because of federal taxes, he liberal foreign policy and firm peace along lines already indicated by dio Artists today filed a demurrer the President. said, the President's salary is only Educators Urged to Help to Cecil B. DeMille's suit for in- a net $27,000 at the end of the year. junction to prevent the union from Along the nations Broadways and Main Streets movie houses are Salaries of all high-ranking govern- Set Up Peacetime Draft showing "Hollywood Canteen"^"AU Hollywood's Heart in it and 62 ment officials have been similarly suspending him and forcing him Hollywood Stars." Mickey Rooney is in the saddle, with John Wayne hit, he said. CHICAGO, Dec. 14 (UP).—Thir- off the air. and Ella Raines, in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," with Spencer Tracy. Vinson's bill would increase sala- teen officers of the American The action followed the film The next Andy Hardy picture will be called "Andy Hardy Goes to ries of the Vice-President, Speaker Alumni Council, representing alum- executive's refusal to pay a oner War". ... so at last they got Andy! WACs needn't worry, though. . . of the House of Representatives and ni of 300 colleges and universities dollar levy by the union in behalf by the time it reaches here he'll be back in civvies. Cabinet members from $15,000 to in U.S. and Canada, are urging of an election proposition. De- HE Chicago story: Sgt. George Simon wanted to surprise his wife, $25,000 a year, and salaries of Se- close co-operation between the War Mille contended the union had no T Jewell, so he didn't write her he had won a furlough as a reward nators and House members from Department and higher education right to ask the assessment and for 21 months' service in Africa, Italy and Prance. Mrs. Simon, ap- $10,000 to $15,000. before adoption of any definite plan took the case to superior court, parently convinced she wouldn't see her husband until the end of the for compulsory military training. gaining a restraining order which war, also planned a surprise—she joined the WAC without telling him. In a letter to the Association of permitted him to go on the air Simon arrived home just in time to put her on the train for Fort 700-Mile-Per-Hour American colleges, which will meet with his radio program. DesMoines, Iowa, where she's taking basic. in Atlantic City next week, the Then AFRA countered by filing Planes Predicted alumni officers declared such modi- the demurrer and contending that fication of "our whole educational DeMille, as a member, must abide WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (ANS). philosophy" should represent educ- by union by-laws which include the —Fighter planes with top speeds ators as well as military leaders. right to assess fees. of more than 700 miles an hour— almost the speed of sound—will be in service in the near future, Rear Five Ironical GIs Tell Coeds Admiral Dewitt C. Ramsey, U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics chief, reported1 to the House Naval Affairs To Fill Pipes, Smoke Them Committee today. Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau The highest operational speed of LAWRENCE, Kans., Dec. 14^—Two big packages of pipe tobacco Navy fighter planes is around and a letter from five GIs in France which said, "It's a shame 400 miles an hour although some you must smoke corncob pipes," have been received by Kansas Uni- approached the speed of sound in versity coeds. dives. The letter evidently was in reply to an article printed recently in In a report on Naval aviation The Stars and Stripes concerning complaints of KU girls about the from July, 1940, to October, 1944, shortage of cigarettes—and how they had turned pipe-smokers. Ramsey said it is anticipated that The letter was signed only by "Lucky Joe, Eddie, Johnny and in the near future top speeds of Leo" and stated, "Oh, you poor distressed girls—Gee, just tbink! It fighter aircraft in service will seems a shame you must smoke corncob pipes. If it will make you approach sonic range and be ac- happy, we will halve-up our smokes to keep you and your 4-Fs from companied by further marked in- being dejected. No cigarettes! - We just can't sleep since we read creases in rates of climb and ser- your article." vice ceilings. Miss Marie Miller, acting dean of women, said she thought the He said multi-engined patrol soldiers were misinformed. "The humorous and greatly-imaginative planes now are being developed to article concerning women smoking corncob pipes does not reflect Ration-free buffalo meat snipped from Montana may be served by carry increased loads at nearly the wartime spirit of university women. They are doing many many families back home for Christmas dinner. Here, Sam Schweitzer, twice the speed of present day worthwhile things to aid the war effort that are never given the * a New Jersey marketer, carves a piece from one carcass. patrol boats. wide publicity which the pipe story got," she said. Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 5 Tops Among the Play-for-Pay Boys Once Over Majors Agree Lightly On Unlimited By Andy Rooney Night Baseball ]VEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Football, of course, is a better game than NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—The major baseball. Every one agrees, don't leagues yesterday concluded one of they? If there are any dissenters, their dullest meetings in history, just jot your name, rank and serial especially from a trading viewpoint. number on a slip of paper and Only three trades were consum- forget about it. mated, none of which was calcu- Here is the story: Open warfare lated to shake the baseball world. has broken out between professional Naming of a baseball agreement board, approval of unlimited night football and pro- baseball for 1945 and the ban fessional base- prohibiting pro and college football ball this week, teams from using major loop parks Frankly, the grid until a team had game is begin- been definitely ning to get in eliminated from, baseball's hair. o r concluded, The main topic the World of conversation Series, were the at this week's most important baseball league business deals meetings was The majors to Barrow football, and a decision was reached to put vetoed two pro- football back where it belongs. posals brought from the minor HE diamond magnates officially league meetings Oris Hockett T have barred pro football games in Buffalo last week. They re- in any league stadium before the fused to increase the Double A schedules have been concluded. draft price from $7,500 to $10,000 Baseball would like to have pro and also rejected the minor league footballers meet every Sunday in contention that major league teams sandlot games and choose up sides invading minor territory should re- —that is, if there is no sandlot base- imburse the club of the invaded ball game scheduled. town, plus the remainder of the The big league ruling barring pro invaded league. teams from ball parks until late The majors went on record as fall follows the lead set by the favoring promotion of baseball minor leagues at Buffalo last week among high schools, but tabled the when they called professional foot- motion they put up $5,000 for that ball "unfriendly and unfair com- purpose. They did, however, ap- petition." The specific gripe the propriate $20,000 for promotion minors had was an exhibition foot- of American Legion junior baseball ball game in Baltimore during last leagues, a fertile field for develop- seasori'sLittle World Series. Football ment of professional baseball talent. drew 40,000 people, while the Little The Chicago White Sox were in- World Series drew a blank. volved in all three trades at the 'T'HE step is one Ed Barrow, meetings, sending Southpaw Jake Yankee president, has wanted Wade to the Yankees for Johnny to take for a long while. Barrow Johnson, Infielder Skeeter Webb to specifically referred to a game in the Tigers for Joe Orengo and Philadelphia last September, which Eddie Carnett to the Cleveland had to be postponed for one day Indians for Oris Hockett. after the pro gridders had dug up the diamond in the rain the night STEVE VAN BUREN RILEY MATHESON JOE AGUIRRE before the baseball game. Philadelphia Back Cleveland Guard Washington End Oklahoma Ags This stadium proposition may be tough for pro football. Many pro- fessional sports promoters in the AP All-Pro Team UP All-Pro Team Top NYU Five States today believe the pro grid Hutson Picked game is the future sport of the na- NEW YORK Dec. 14.—The E—Don Hutson, Green Bay. E—Don Hutson, Green Bay. Oklahoma Aggies came from be- tion, and they're willing to back T—Frank Cope, New York. up this contention with money. T—Frank Kinard, Brooklyn. For 7th Time hind to defeat NYU, 44-41, and G—Len Younce, New York. G—Riley Matheson, Cleveland. St John's of Brooklyn tripped Teams like the Packers, Redskins C—Clyde Turner, Chicago. and Giants have built solid pro foot- C—Clyde Turner, Chicago. NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Sports Utah, 39-36, irl a basketball double- G—Riley Ma'.heson, Cleveland. writers of the Associated Press and G—Len Younce, New York. header before 16,000 at Madison ball tradition about which foot- T—Al Wistert, Philadelphia. ball's cold stove leaguers can talk T—Al Wistert, Philadelphia. United Press were in agreement on Square Garden last night. E—Joe Aguirre, Washington. selection of eight players whom E—Joe Aguirre, Washington. Bob Kurland, Oklahoma's seven- during the hot weather while the they named on the 1944 All-Profes- B—Leroy Zimmerman, Phila. baseball season is on. B—Sid Luckman, Chicago. foot center, dropped one in from B—Frank Sinkwich, Detroit. sional football teams, released to- B—Frank Sinkwich, Detroit. under the rim with five minutes B—Steve Van Buren, Phila. day. Don Hutson, Green Bay end, B—Ward Cuff, New York. to go, to break a tie and NYU just Boston's Cowley Holds B—Bill Paschal, New York. is the veteran "All" player of all B—Bill Paschal, New York. couldn't catch up. Weldon Kern, time, for he's made the grade seven Aggie forward, scored 18 points Lead in Hockey League times. and Kurland 14. Leicht Unheralded The AP and UP each cnose Frank Buckeye's Widdoes St. John's gained revenge for MONTREAL, Dec. 14.—Bill Cow- Sinkwich of Detroit and Bill Paschal Utah's championship victory last ley, Boston Bruins, picked up {ive of New York in Coach of the Year year. Arnold Ferrin, only survivor points during the week to increase RandolphFieldAce their backfields. of the Utle-wmning squad, brought his National Hockey League scor- Riley Matheson the Utes within one point of the ing lead over Hector "Toe" Blake NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Randolph o f Cleveland, NEW YORK Dec. 14.--Carroll Redmen three times in the second of Montreal to four points. Cowley Field's undefeated, untied football Clyde Turner of Curtis Widdoes, coach of Ohio half, and led scoring with 17 points. • leads the league in assists with 20 Chicago, Al State's unbeaten, untied Buckeyes, and Elmer Lach of the Canadiens team, which plays the Second AAF Wistert of Phi- here Saturday in the Bond Bowl, won the New York World-Tele- paces the loop in goals with 15. ladelphia, Len gram's annual "Coach of the Year" CAGE -RESULTS Point leaders: has so much power, several All- Younce of New G A Pts Americas of former years are second York and Joe award with 75 of his fellow Bates 51, Union 46. Cowley, Boston 10 20 30 coaches' first place votes. Bucknell 43, ViUanova 42. Blake, Montreal 13 13 26 team men. Aguirre of Concordia (111.) 38, Loyola (Chicago) 19 Smith, Chicago 6 15 21 Washin gton, Earl "Red" Blaik, Army coach, Davidson 40, Wofford 29. Yet, they've unearthed an un- Evansville 56, Indiana State 54. Bodnar, Toronto 4 17 21 along With Hut- Don Hutson was second with 55 votes, and Lach, Montreal 15 5 20 known who has proved to be about Gallaudet 38, Johns Hopkins 35. son, were linemen selected by both Alonzo Stagg, Fritz Crisler, Jim Iowa Fre-Flight 49, Iowa State 39. Jennings, Boston 11 9 20 the best scatback in the Services. Lookabaugh (Oklahoma Aggies), Cain, Boston 12 8 20 press associations. Kalamazoo 44, Junior College 35. Marshall 53, Fairmont Tchrs. 32. Mosienko, Chicago 11 8 19 Jake Leicht, 160-pounder came to The AP put Frank "Bruiser" Ki- Yale's Howard Odell, Jeff Cravath Howe, Detroit 5 14 19 Moorhead (Ky.) 54, La SaUe 47. Randolph Field unheralded, but it nard of Brooklyn in a tackle slot, (Southern Oalif.), Tennessee's Oklahoma Aggies 44. NYU 41. didn't take Coach Frank Tritico the UP naming Frank Cope of New John Barnhill and Dutch Meyer Penn 54, Swarthmore 35. American Hockey League of Texas Christian followed. Penn State 64, Susquehanna 12. long to find out he had played York. They disagreed on two Purdue 47, DePauw 31. Last Night's Scores frosh football at Oregon and had backs, the AP picking Sid Luck- St. Francis 37, Cathedral 36. Buffalo 7, Providence 4. a :09.6 to his credit in the 100- man of the Chicago Bears and Luisetti's Cage Days End St. John's 39, Utah 36. Hershey 4, Pittsburgh 3. Steve Van Buren of Philadelphia, St. Joseph's 62, Washington College 30. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 14—Hank Sampson Naval 68, Hobart 33. EASTERN DIVISION yard dash. as compared to the UP's Leroy Zim- W L T Pts Luisetti, one of the greatest college Texas Aggies 34, Bergstrom Field 30. Leicht can't break into the Wesleyan 44, Quonsett Fliers 39. Buffalo 13 7 2 28 merman of Philadelphia and Ward Ramblers' first team starting back- basketball players in history while Western Kentucky 52, South. Baptist 37. Hershey 11 9 2 24 Cuff of New York. field of Pete Dudley, Dippy Evans, at Stanford, has shot his last goal. Providence 7 13 2 16 Luisetti, now a Navy lieujtenant, Vandy Resumes Football WESTERN DIVISION Elmer Madarik and Ken Holly, but Seattle Catcher Wounded W t T Pts neither can such great players as was stricken recently with spinal NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 14. — Indianapolis 11 7 6 28 Pete Layden of Texas, Roger Smith Eddie Kearse, former Seattle meningitis. Physicians have ordered Vanderbilt will return to big-time Pittsburgh 11 8 2 24 of Texas Tech or Bobby Cifers of catcher, was wounded in France, him to refrain from athletic activ- football next year, University of- Cleveland 10 7 2 22 St. Louis 4 12 2 10 Tennessee. Nov. 22. ity. ficials announced today. Page 6 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 Army-Navy Journal Vs. Uncle Joe

VTESTERDAY we looked at Bri- There is talk of differences be- not for ever, then at least for a tain's record in this war and tween the three Powers on certain long time to come. . . recognition as we give that to our compared it with the latest crop security problems. Differences do Now remains its (the Red Army's) Memo to APO I great Infantry and supporting of rumors. Today let's look at our exist, of course, and they will arise last, final mission: to complete, I am not griping or bitching units; but we do ask that we be other comrades-in-arms, Joe Stalin on a number of other issues as together with the armies of our about the work of the APO, I real- | judged fairly. and the Reds. well. . . The surprising thing is Allies, the defeat of the German ize it has increased in the past few . A few MPs abuse their authority Fascist Army, to finish off the Monday's paper printed a state- not that differences exist, but that weeks. What I want to say is this. but the letters referred to make it Fascist beast in its own den, and ment from the unofficial Army they are so few, and that as a rule Picture the front-line soldier, kind of tough on the thousands in practically every case they are to hoist the flag of victory over who, after sweating out a package, who are doing their job and con- and Navy Journal. "Since D-Day Berlin. in Prance," it said, "greater pre- receives it unfit for use or con- tinually doing everything possible Our Allied leaders either mean sumption. Imagine how he feels. for their fellow soldiers.—Sgt. Phill occupation has been shown by Rus- sia in her Baltic and Balkan cam- what they say, or they don't. We Fellows, I give you my word, it's A. Miron and six others. believe they do—and that Stalin's one of the most discouraging things paigns, intended to insure her se- • * * * record proves him to be the cham- I have had the misfortune to wit- curity. . . than in the achievement pion Nazi-killer of the world. ness. I have handled many pack- Tire Shortage? of the prime objectives of our Reds have killed more Nazis than ages for my battalion which were We in this company think it fine armies—prompt defeat of Ger- | all the rest of us put together. wet through and through, mashed, that Capt. M. Heflin (S and S, many." On the same day there torn open, scattered, etc. Nov. 9). of Grafton, W.Va., is riding was a front-page story headlined So many, the statistics-sharks can't I realize field conditions are very and living in style these days. "Nazis Fleeing Budapest As Soviet add them, human imagination difficult to work under but maybe The shower, heating unit, cooking Arc Closes In." can't envision them, German homes you can improve just a little the stove, bed, desk, wash basin and ' can't ever forget them. Double talk or double dealing in We don't think it matters much service we are receiving. We will even chairs in his one-time German . high places is dangerous business, appreciate anything you fellows bus are understandable. But how where you kill a German. Buda- i Rumor of skullduggery in high pest, Berlin or Boston, he's one can do. the hell our fine-feathered friend I places is dynamite, too. Either If you receive packages which are can use good American wheels, tires less threat today and to the future. I way—the result is the same. Low If it's wrong for the Reds to chase wet and address is illegible, hold and a trailer hitch to add to his ■ growls. Suspicious stares. Then the package over a fire and dry comlort—and, worse still, to boast Krauts across the Danube, then one day a Sunday punch—and maybe it's wrong for us to move it out. The address is then legible. about it, beats us. we're off again. So let's see what —CWO Woodrou Foster, Postal This front-line unit has been try- them across the Meuse. Maybe we Joe Stalin says on the subject. | should have waited and stopped Officer, Tank Bn. ing for months to get tire replace- And let's take a look at the Red ments for its vehicles. Possibly we the Wehrmacht on the Mississippi. * * * war record to date. have found the answer in the U.S. Would Cheer Smile, Smile, Smile example of the captain—Lt. H. M. Stalin Addresses Workers We're not concerned about where I've read many letters, mostly Bullard and two others, Inf. On November 6 Joe Stalin talked the Red Army goes—as long as" it cracks about MPs in B Bag. We've * * * to a celebration meeting of the kills Germans en route. If Hitler got broad shoulders and laugh it^f^' r *i IV C \t\ Moscow Soviet of Working People's MSt fe captured Chicago, we wouldn't off with a smile as razzing th«f*J L-» e i^en. Me Saia^, Deputies. Here are a few pas- spurn Stalin's help in kicking him MPs is a standard gag. I saw a tow-headed lad about nine sages from his speech; years old limping down a muddy out. If Red Army soldiers could I'm not griping but just wonder- The past year has been a year resolved in a spirit of unity and visit America, we wouldn't worry— ing why these Joes, who feel so road and crying. I felt sorry for co-ordination among the three the kid. Maybe it was because I of triumph of the common cause we'd cheer. negative toward us, always when of the anti-German coalition for Great Powers. . Because they'd learn that we in need of help or information, run like kids or maybe it was because I have two or three small brotners; the sake of which the peoples of To win the war against Germany "capitalists" are human beings who to us like long-lost brothers. Just the Soviet Union, Great Britain is to accomplish a great historic covet not a man's fields, but his wondering! Sgt. A. R., M. P. but there I was watching this kid, and I had a lot of different ideas. and the United States of America task. But to win the war does friendship. Not empire, but equal- not in itself mean to insure for ity. Not power, but peace. And The MPs in our newly-formed I tried to visualize my own small have united in fighting alliance. the peoples a lasting peace and we'd learn that Reds aren't the organization are getting mighty brother in any small American town It has been a year of consolidation guaranteed security in the future. black-whiskered, bomb-toting bol- .browned-off from derogatory re- doing the same thing and wondered of the unity of the three main if any German soldier would have Powers and of co-ordination of The task is not only to win the sheviks we read about when we marks cast at them by other were just getting old enough to soldiers. They are called every- any sympathy for him if the tables their actions against Hitler Ger- war, but also to make new aggres- sion and new war impossible—if listen to rumors and learn to hate. thing from 4-F weaklings to SOS were reversed. I was thinking that many. . . sissies by passing GIs, and must had this kid been ten years older exercise extreme self-restraint to he would have been throwing death keep from clamping some of these and destruction at the front-line "wise guys" who on't know the guys. SOMEWHERE facts. As I stood and changed one idea IN The truth is that most of these for another, I gradually lost my MPs on town patrol and PW duty sympathy for the kid, because he EUROPE have experienced more combat was a German and Germans were the cause of this whole darn mess. than many of their sarcastic booers in the cellar of an old French All were stamped at 3:30 PM, ever hope to see. They are in- The kid probably hated me. His Pays to Be Curious Nov. 7, at the Portland, Ind., parents more than likely hated me, house. fantry, armored or artillery men Because S/Sgt. Joe L. Verock, of When he came back upstairs he postoffice and each was from who have been wounded so badly too. a different writer. The letters So I decided for myself that the Lakeside, Ohio, is a curious guy, found that a German artillery bar- in combat that they have been were addressed to Pfc Ceotis only way to make them understand he's still with the 38th Inf., Second rage had piled a lot of stones on marked "limited service." Many are Div. top of his bed. He went back to Bond, 275 Lloyd Boolman and veterans of North Africa, Sicily their inevitable defeat is to treat them cool and stern in the manner Verock selected the living room the cellar—this time to sleep. Cpl. Jim Crow. and Italy, and participated in the laid down by Gen. Ike of a stone house to spend the * * * * * * Normandy landings on D-Day.— night. But before retiring went Lt. Harry Pruzan, Inf. No brutality, but sternness and Uninvited Guest power to show them their proper down in the cellar because you Smart Billies place.—Pvt. Don. C. Ball, Medic. never know what you might find Two goats shared the cellar Pfc Luther Deshazer, of Houston, In recent editions of The Stars - CP of the First Bn., 28th Inf., Tex.; Pfc Nick Onusic, of Barber- and Stripes we noticed letters fromjv Eighth Div. when Jerry opened ton, Ohio, and T/5 Sam Brabson, soldiers complaining of rules and | up his regular evening shelling of MacDonald, Pa., have an extra regulations being enforced by of the German village. reason for disliking the Germans. MPs. The goats followed the men They had managed to find a huge MPs, contrary to popular opinion, when they ran for shelter. steak and an apple pie and were do not make the rules and regula- Yanks figured the non-frater- tions; when towns are off limits, nization rules didn't apply to when helmets must be worn, when the animals so they let them jeep tops must be down, etc. We stay. just enforce the regulations laid * * * down by the commanding generals. We can't question their worth any Yanks' Turnips Safe more than you, and if you don't Two 320th Inf. patrols of the like them write your CG. He may 35th Inf. Div., infiltrating under do something about it, we can't. fire into a Lorraine town were All we do is follow orders, iust as attacked by tanks. Some of the you do. men hid under a load of turnips We are a few of the hundreds of in the cellar, and a couple of taking advantage of a lull to heat members in a combat MP unit. others climbed inside the fireplace them when a Nazi shell landed nearby. Brabson stepped In the We have had, and continue to have chimney on the second floor. The pie, Onusic dropped the steak in our casualties and are proud of Jerries searched all the houses in our record. We claim no glory or the street but couldn't find the the fire and all three went for the nearest hole—a garbage dump, 1'anks. THE STARS AND STRIPES "We just ate turnips and waited, filled with scraps, glass and tin cans. Printed at the New York: Herald with our grenades handy," Lt pi « | Folks at Home Send Tribune plant. 21 rue de Berrl, Paris, Raymond C. Wilson, of Indiana- IlirTn^ The» GIs Swift News for the U.S. armed forces under aus- u" ,IK of Sir Stork's Arrival: pices of the Information and Educa- polis, Ind., a patrol leader, said. tion Division. Special and Informa- * * * AJ. John R. Hill, Worthington, O— tion Services. ETO USA. Tel.: ELYsees M boy, Dec. 10; Pvt. Madison Bay White- 40-58. 41-49. hair, Indianapolis—Thomas Ray, Nov. 26: Contents passed oy the D.S. Army Coincidence Sgt. John E. Harmon, N.Y.O.—John, Dec. and Navv censors Entered as second Three letters with identical 8; Sgt. Edward S. Schram Jr., Los Angeles class matter. Mar. 15. i943. at the postmarks arrived in the same —Peter James, Nov. 24; Pfc Prank J. post ottice. New York. N.Y.. under Weisser, Pittsburgh—Frank J. Jr., Dec. 9; the act of Mar. 3. 1878 mail sack recently for three Pvt. Joseph Lukach, North Bergen, N.J.— Vol. 1, No. 141 "Have you got a pair of pliers?" men of a QM Truck Company. Gerald Richard, Dec. 6. Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 7

Paris-Simile. As pointless as yell- ing "Take It Off" at the Folies- Bergere. • • * Overheard in a Bistro. "I'm con- fused. I can't remember if I'm drinking calvados with a vin blanc | chaser or vin blanc with a calva- dos chaser. • • » We just got a tip from the front on how to quench a thirst. First,

boil the water, then filter it, then add chemicals, then wash in it and drink wine, calvados or mira- bel. • • * The sign in front of the office of a marrying justice of the peace read, "You Furnish the Bride, We'll Do the Rest." This caused a bashful groom to sigh, "That's hardly fair." • * • Pun at the Front. A general sent his helmet to a utility section to have it varnished and polished. The GIs worked like beavers on the steel chapeau but the general

wasn't satisfied—he called for "more polish." "Sir, that's as slick as we can get it," said one GI. At that moment a fly lit on the hel- met—slid and broke four legs. The general accepted the helmet with a smile. • • • T/Sgt. Ray Tiron calls "I'll Walk | Alone" the Garlic Song. * * * This little verse comes from our | spy on the Home Front. To keep our ships on an even keel Takes tons and tons oi corset steel. The die is cast; their fate is written. Now our ladies bulge for Britain. Help Wanted —AND GIVEN Write your question or problem to Help Wanted, Tbe Stars and Stripes, Paris. France. APO 881.

FOUND ICTURES. One to "Uncle Morris" from I P Mary Joann Shaw, 803 Sixth St., | Crockett, Tex. AT, EM's Visor type, near Faremon- H tiers, Nov. 30, Cpl. George Ennen. WANTED USICIANS in or near Paris, for dance I M band one night a week. One alto sax, one tenor sax and one trumpet. Lt. | George H. Fisher. ARMONICA. Freddy & 80th Civ. Ras- H oals. PERSONAL ILL Capt. who promised to pick up I W glass photo of myself taken near j Arc de Triomphe contact me. T/Sgt. K P. Laux. CAMERA EXCHANGE WAP 35mm. Kodak, 3.5 lens, speeds to ] S 1/500, with case, for Rollelflex auto- j matic. Lt. Leon Stoller. ANTED: 8mm. movie camera, Pfc An- W thony F. Galonski; Lica n or Contax n, W. F. Mutschman; 116 camera, Sgt. Benjamin Guberman; Rolleiflex or Rollei- cord, Lt. William Spits and Sgt. Mark Cofif. 19*1 King fimtrt *r*w*- Engleman. Friday, Dec. 15, 1944 Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Heads New Unit Sliakeup Seen Casualty Lists Home for Christmas As Diplomats Flown to States Three Paratroopers Win Wife, Tots and Steak Get New Posts In Twelve Days Bond Lottery Await Soldier WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (ANS;. By Arthur W. White Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau —Two major shifts yesterday in HPHE Christmas holidays at home News of Western Front casual- —wistful dream of every GI in ROOKLYN, Dec. 14. — There'll European diplomatic assignments ties is being rushed to homes in the ETO—will become a reality B be steak, turkey and plenty of indicated a possible extension into the U.S. within 12 to 15 days for three sky-troopers of the 82nd French fried potatoes, with cran- Brig. Gen. R. B. Lovett, ETO Ad- Airborne Div. berry sauce and apple pie a la U.S. Foreign Service of a shakeup mode waiting for Pvt. John Seery now under way in the State Depart- jutant General, said that lists are The three men—T/5 Otto Bar- ment, the Associated Press reported. flown across the Atlantic on top telmehs, of St. Peter, Minn., Pvt. when he comes back to Flatbush The shifts gave impetus to' conjec- priority and the next of kin in- James Sherry, of North Bergen, from his Third Army foxhole on tures whether Secretary of State formed by telegram within 48 hours N.J., and S/Sgt. Wilford Durnford the German border. Stettinius might want to work with of their arrival. of Richmond Center, Wis.—won His wife Alice promised that In the U.S., the War Department the first prize in a War Bond menu today after being informed new men in London and Moscow. her One move pointed to a revision has announced plans to furnish more Super Lottery" which turned thai 33-year-old husband was of the pattern of diplomacy in the detailed information to relatives. more than a million and a quarter among the first of Twelfth Army Balkans. It was the transfer of Effective immediately, the original dollars of a $4,500,000 division Group soldiers to be chosen for a Laurence Steinhardt, Ambassador telegraphed notification will be payroll into bonds. 30-day U.S. furlough. "The last letter we got on Nov. to Turkey, whom President Roose- followed by a letter from the sol- The lottery climaxed a three-day 15 didn't say much," said Mrs. velt nominated to become Ambas- dier's CO or chaplain, giving de- drive, organized by Capt. Fordyce Seery. "He just said he was all sador to the Czech government tails of the circumstances and na- Graham, Division bond officer, to ture of wounds, and in the case of turn as much as possible of two right." operating from London. ' She paused for breath and then The second shift occurred as Carl- death, funeral arrangements and months' back pay into War Bonds. Brig. Gen. Richard E. Nugent, added; "Say—will I cook him a fat ton Hayes resigned as Ambassador other information. 30-Day Furloughs commander of the 29th Tactical juicy steak with French fried pota- to Spain, presumably to resume his Courier Service toes—that is if I can get a fat juicy history professorship at Columbia Air Command, heads the newly- Under the scheme, every man formed Ninth Air Force fighter- Reports on men wounded or seri- of the outfit who bought a $25 steak,with my ration points? And University. Norman Armour, former ously ill will be sent from hospitals of course, we'll also have plenty 6f Ambassador to Argentina, was ap- bomber component supporting bond received a lottery ticket. The in letters containing a brief de- turkey and cranberry sauce, with pointed to the Madrid post. the Ninth Army. three first prizes of the lottery, scription of the wounds in non- held Dec. 13, were 30-day furloughs apple pie and ice cream to top it Winant May Quit UK technical language, the announce- in the U.S. off." • Talk of new ambassadors to Rus- ment added. Second prize in the lottery, a Children Await Return sia and Britain has been in the Austria Next, Lovett said a courier service of phone call to the U.S. on Christ- Also anxiously awaiting Seery's gossip stage for some time, the AP the highest priority has been or- mas Day, went to Pfc Laural M. return home are his two children said. Neither W. Averell Harriman, ganized here especially to rush Lee, of Mayfield, Ky; He will call —John, seven, and Barbara, three. who has been in Moscow 14 months, Russia Warns casualty reports through divisions, his mother, Mrs. Oddie Norman. It was John who answered the nor John G. Winant, on duty in corps and Army headquarters to Prize-winner Sherry, who bought telephone call which brought the London since 1941, is a career man. MOSCOW, Dec. 14 (AP).—Hard- the Casualty Division. Reports are $500 worth of bonds, entitling hiim Seery homestead the good news. There has been speculation that earned advances in Budapest were processed and doublechecked by to 20 chances, said that he "Are you really sure Daddy is Winant might replace Labor Sec- reported as Red Army columns personnel aided by the Machine "couldn't believe" his luck. He coming home?" John asked excited- retary Perkins if he should leave Record Unit's "mechanical brain." added, "I got a letter from my ly. Assured his father was on the began shelling German positions in list compiled by Gen. Patton's London. Harry L. Hopkins is being the suburbs of Rakospalota and He said that, although radio or wife today. She said she's lonely. boomed as a successor to Winant cable speeds the actual transit time, Wow!" headquarters, John sighed and Ujpes p. the north arid east, and added, "Well, then we are going in London if the switch would go dispatches continued >to mention experience has shown that, long Seven other men of the 82nd, in- through. lists of names and serial numbers, cluding T/5 Stanley F. Allard, Cpi. to have a fine Christmas." great fires • sweeping uncontrolled Then Mrs. Seery came on the Figuring in the Steinhardt move through the center of the Hun- all in code, arrived so garbled that John Labre, Pfc William Nauman, was the fact that once-touchy prob- frequently lengthy checks were ne- Pfc Henry Skvara, S/Sgt. Gordon line. Her voice was guarded: "If garian capital. the army says so it must be so, but lems in Turkey have been largely German counter-attacks inside cessary. W. Wahto, Sgt. Raymond F. Deane dissolved. and Sgt. Charles . Hartup, won lt doesn't seem true. I hope there the northeast sector of the city led won't be any slip-up." Russia has exhibited interest in to fierce hand-to-hand clashes with House OKs Citizenship expense-paid trips to Paris. the future of the Czechs, and re- Russian storm troopers, and bloody ports are that Stalin would make house-to-house fighting was raging For Babies of Young GIs Prague the seat of world peace or- along the east bank of the Danube. Nazis Hit Peak Hodges Moves ganization, the AP stated. Stein- North of the city the Russian WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — The hardt was ambassador to the Soviet infantry fought eagerly for roads House passed a bill today to safe- Union before going to Turkey two leading to Slovakia and Austria, guard American citizenship of In Camouflage To Flank Roer years ago. and Izvestia declared here that children born to servicemen of The possible factor in the Hayes "after Budapest the fate of Vienna minor age overseas. The bill pro- (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) "resignation was criticism that he will be decided. Austria was the vides that children born of Amer- CO, who led his men in the assault towns of Simmerath and Kester- had not dealt sternly with the first country to become prey to ican fathers over 18 years old shall nich. The second attack moved to Franco regime. Sir Samuel Hoare, across the Saar, said one of the Hitlerite aggression. Now Austria be U.S. citizens. The present most courageous outfits in the outflank the river along the east now Lord Templewood, British Am- has ceased to be to the rear of the legal minimum is 21 years. bank. Both attacks have averaged bassador to Spain, also is reported Siegfried fight was a smoke-gene- German war—the war is now on Rep. Dickstein (CD-N.Y.) said gains of about two miles. relinquishing his position in Madrid. rating unit of Negro soldiers. Austria's threshold." more than 1,400 servicemen under "They did a beautiful job of cover- Meanwhile, on the "forgotten 21 have married Australian girls. ing our movements—and they did front" of Brittany's south coast, Tire Slogan Contest VP Oath Set Jan. 20 it under the worst German artillery American infantry and artillery re- WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (ANS). London-to-Cairo Mark Set fire," Wallace said. newed heavy attacks on Germans Will Close on Dec. 22 —Vice-President elect Truman will LONDON, Dec. 14. — A record Men in one battalion CP who besieged in Lorient. In a day- take his oath of office at the White non-stop flight from London to captured a Dillingen slaughterhouse break attack, U.S. forces smashed More than 600 Tire Slogan con- House Jan. 20 at ceremonies in- Cairo by a four-motored York air- were last reported supplementing all German positions south of the test entries poured into The Stars augurating President Roosevelt, it craft in ten hours 25 minutes for their K-rations with plenty of good, Etel River and narrowed the dis- and Stripes office yesterday alone, was announced here today. Truman an average speed of 238 miles an fresh meat. tance to the city to artillery range, as Com Z headquarters announced will be sworn in by Henry Wallace, hour was announced by the RAF Ninetieth doughs and engineers according to Associated Press re- that the contest will end Dec. 22. retiring vice-president. Transport Command. on the west, side of Dillingen said ports. The $100 War Bond first prize the Germans ought to read The U.S. Third Army men in the Saar and additional prizes of $50 and Stars and Stripes and take the Valley battled in the Siegfried $25 bonds will be awarded Dec. 23 paper literally. The Army paper, Line, beating back counter-attacks and the prize-winners will be noti- Long Arm of the Army... which has been reaching the fight- all along their front. fied of their "Christmas presents" ing men in this area fairly regular- In northern Alsace, U.S. Seventh immediately afterward. WITH AN INF. DIV.. Dec. 14.—The CO wanted these two guys ly, quoted Army sources one day Army forces began a pincers move- Slogans, emphasizing the need and he wanted them in a hurry. The two guys were out fighting as stating that Dillingen had been ment around the forest of Hague- for tire conservation, should not the war some place, but this was important. taken. nau, west of the captured city. As- exceed ten words. They may be Messengers were sent around to find them. "That was the day we almost got sociated Press front dispatches said mailed to The Stars and Stripes, It wasn't so tough to locate and bring to the railroad tracks," one infan- units advancing up the Sauer Val- APO 887. Com Z Supply, Ordnance back the first one—Pfc John L. Tischer, of trymen said. ley north of Haguenau are almost and Transportation chiefs will Gotebo, Cal. He was crouching in the mud Use of Word 'Frowned' Upon two miles from the German fron- near the forward CP, sweating out the day, judge entries. Among the prisoners taken In tier. when he was tapped on the shoulder and On the First Army front, the told that the Old Man was waiting. Dillingen was a "retired" German Army war correspondent. The 104th Div. cleared Schophoven, as Dale Carnegie Wins, But Pfc Hugh C. Butler, of Helena, Mont., well as several enemy pockets was not so accessible. He was flat on his German writer, who was base enough to call the retreat across around it, advancing to the Roer Influences, Weds belly in an open field, pinned down by east of Pier and Merken. Ninth withering enemy machine-gun fire. Butler France a "rout" in one of his stories, said he was kicked off his writing Inf. Div. troops took Marieweiler TULSA, Okla., Dec. 14 (ANS). had crawled out on a patrol job and was and pressed eastward toward the —Dale Carnegie, lecturer, and assignment and placed in the com- in the middle of nowhere when the Jerries river. Dorothy Price Vanderpool, opened up. bat engineers. Tulsa, were married on the Butler's platoon leader swiftly The spookiest place in the burn- Heads Engineer Command eighth anniversary of the pub- organized a second patrol, which ing city is the locomotive works, which has a huge tin roof over Col. Seaton Schroeder, of Phila- lication of "How to Win Friends filtered into the field, scattered delphia, has been named CO for and Influence People," the book the enemy fire and brought But- great expanses of space. Lt. Rollln Barnard, of Denver, Colo., said that the newly-formed Engineer Com- that made him famous. ler back safely to see the CO. the eerie play of fire from the flash mand, USSTAF. The command is "Even after I wrote that Both men thereupon received charged with maintaining front- book," cracked Carnegie, "It orders directing them to report of guns on the walls of the works at night make him think there are line airstrips on the heels of the took me eight years to influence to the U.S. Military Academy at retreating Nazis. a woman to marry me." West Point for the full course. ghosts around.