New York London Edition Paris I Yard Birds Daily French Lesson THE sr„Rs Est-ce direct pour ['Opera? STRIPES Ess deerekt poor lopayra? Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces "- in the European Theater of Operations Is it a thru' train to the Opera? VOL, 5 No. 30—Id. 4itto. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 6, 1944 Berlin Raided by Heavies Civil War Time to Retire at the Double. Luftwaffe And Hunger Loses 80 in Tear Greece Air Battles Threats of civil war and starvation Eighth Air Force fighter pilots hung over Greece last night amicfeon- slugged it out with the Luftwaffe in flieting reports that Premier Georges (he skies over Berlin yesterday and Papandreou had offered to quit and shot down more than 80 enemy that King George of the Hellenes had fighters. refused the resignation. More than 800 Mustangs and Thunder- Athens and its port, Piraeus, remained bolts covered more than 55(t Fortresses largely paralyzed by the Communist- and Liberators of the Eighth in attacks called general strike which since Sunday on industrial targets in the Berlin area had suspended all power and transport and railway yards at Munster. and closed shops and newspapers. Berlin was last attacked by Eighth British troops were guarding the prin- heavies CM Oct. 6. The capital was once cipal buildings and occupying police the most heavily-defended atea in the stations, while disorders which had raged Reich. throughout the afternoon began to The 357th Fighter Group, a P5I outfit subside. led by Maj. Joseph E. Broadhead, of Associated Press reported that British U.S. :Imo' Signal Can p. Ptp,it Rupert, Ida.. bagged 20 Nazi craft. while crews manned Piraeus dock equipment. Arms partly raised, and shouting "Kamerad," this Jerry rushes across the field on the 479th Fighter Group, another P5I tugs antIldighters, unloading hundreds of the double to surrender to a couple of doughfeet waiting at an embankment some- unit led by Lt. Col. Kyle L. Riddle; of tons of relief supplies. Greek dock- where in Germany. More than 40.000 prisoners have been taken by the Allies in the Decatur. Tex., knocked down 16. workers halted work when the strike was first two weeks of the current offensive. Maj. William Hove, PSI squadron OSAAF Photo called. commander from Crookston, Minn., in Bombs falling on Germany is an old Last night's lull followed a day of fresh the 355th Fighter Group, reported shoot- story with Eighth AF crews by now. For shootings between the EAM (National hie down 5-§ Jerries, the record. here's a dramatic shot of the Resistance Front) and government police Second Bridgehead Pound Tegl Munitions Plant ' raid on the Friedburg marshalling yards forces. The EAM seized a number of police stations. One of the city's prisons Fortresses, comprising the bulk of the Dec. 4. The yards can be seen directly bombing force, pounded the Tegl muni- under the nose of the largest bomb. was stormed by the resistance men, and Objectives of this and similar Allied the inmates were reported freed. tions plant in the suburbs northwest of Over Saar Won by 3rd Berlin and other objectives in the capital raids, together with a map of the Nazi Greece in Desperate Straits railway system, are told on page 4. Advance elements of the Third Army's 95th Division, having cut through itself. Several formations bombed visually In London, Prime Minister Churchill the embattled eastern area of Saarlautern, were reported yesterday to be told the House of Commons: "Greece through breaks in clouds. is faced with the most desperate economic fighting in the outer defenses of the Siegfried Line after a 1§-mile gain RAF Lancasters in daylight yesterday FDR Says and financial problems, aside from civil beyond the Saar, while south of the city troops of this same outfit threw a blasted the railway yards at Hamm. war, which we are trying to stop. We second bridgehead across the water barrier to the Saar area. Losses From Monday's large-scale and our American Allies are doing our Dispatches said Germans were still operations by the Eighth were 12 bombers UNRRA Can utmost to give assistance, and our troops contesting Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's and three fighters. are acting to prevent bloodshed. forces in. Saarlautern, where the dough- Monday night RAF heavies dropped Sometimes it is necessary to use force to Nazis Ready boys met the Volkssturm on its more than 3,500 tons of bombs on the Check Famine prevent greater bloodshed. own ground for the first time. important railway and industrial centers "Our own position . . . is extremely Patton's threat to the Saar Basin, next of Karlsruhe. in the upper Rhineland, and WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—President clear. Whether the Greek people Corns Austria Stand in importance to the Ruhr as a war- Heilbronn, 40 miles east. RAF heavy Roosevelt. in a report to Congress on bombers sent over Germany starting in theniselves into a monarchy or republic Russian forces last night were reported industrial area in western Germany, in- U.S. participation in UNRRA operations, is for their decision. Whether they form creased steadily as both the. Fifth and the afternoon numbered 1,150. less thatt 50 miles from the Austrian said tonight that without an effective a government of the Right or Left is their 80th Divisions moved toward the Saar Ninth Air Force Marauders, Havocs, relief and rehabilitation program "there decision. border and moving swiftly toward the River above and below Saarbruecken, Invaders and 'fighter-bombers flew more would be every reason to expect famine "Until they are in a position to decide, rail arid road junction of Nagykaniesa, which continued to be pounded by artil- than 15,500 sorties in November, attack- and pestilence to sweep across large areas, we shall not hesitate to use the consider- leas than 30 miles from the highway con- lery at the rate of 36 shells hourly from ing over 100 of the fortified towns and villages which constitute the German de- taking millions of lives and endangering able British Army now in Greece and necting Zagreb and Vienna. Long Toms, 8-inchers and 40-mm. being reinforced to see that law and order howitzers. More than 6,000 shells fensive system east of Aachen. Eleven victory." The Germans admitted the evacuation With an effective program carried out are maintained." already have been poured into the border bombers and 119 tighter-bombers were of Siolok, on the eastern shore of Lake by the United Nations, "liberated Europe On the basis of incomplete reports city, according to report. lost. received thus far, this is the background Balaton. and were reported rushing in can ride through the crisis in the coming Gain 41 Miles months," Mr. Roosevelt declared. (Continued on page 4) :-einforcements, indicating preparations UNRRA representatives already are in, The Fifth, pushing into the Reich on for an all-out stand along the line hinging a nine-mile front, advanced 41 miles and or on their way to, liberated areas in on Lake Balaton. Gen. Ike Warns was about two miles from the Saar about Europe and are preparing to go to the The Nazis also appeared to be prepar- midway between Saabruecken and Saar- Pacific and Far East, the President told No, It Can't ing defenses along the border of Austria Congress. Supply operations by UNRRA lautern, to the north. Of a Tire Crisis which probably will be defended as Troops of the 80th, pushing up toward have not yet begun but are likely to "sacred soil of the Reich." S}IAEF, Paris, Dec. 5 (Reuter) start soon in some areas, he explained. Saarbruecken, were about two miles —There is a danger of the Ameri- Happen Here! All along the line, Nazi forces were southwest of the French town of Forbach, can armies, fighting along the German Flee From Their Homes retreating, with Tolbukhin's army chop- five miles south of the German city. DOVER, N.J., Dec. 5—The Army to- ping the German-Hungarian units to border, losing a tenth of all their vehicles Mr. Roosevelt estimated that more than day APPEALED to soldiers to quit the Another two-mile gain by 35th Division 2000,000 men, women and children in pieces, taking prisoners by the hundreds forces brought them to within five miles by the first week in February, because Army and take war plant jobs as of the threat of a tire shortage. Gen. Europe have been driven or have fled civilians! and seizing great quantities of material. of Sarreguemines, below Saarbruecken. At the other end of the Hungarian Eisenhower disclosed today. Drastic from their homes and have been sepa- Col. William E. Lamed, commanding SHAEF dispatches said it was estimated rated from their families front, collapse of the Nazi northeastern there that the Allied onslaught had conservation steps have had to be intro- officer at Picatinny arsenal here, asked duced. "The greatest migration in modern limited-service men whose homes are in forces was believed beginning as the drained an average of more than 4.000 times will he involved in the return of Russians surged forward on a front, ex- men daily in dead and wounded from the The seriousness of the situation was this vicinity to apply for transfers to the brought to light when Eisenhower these people," the President stated. Enlisted Reserve Corps so they could tending from Czechoslovakia to north- Germans. Although no casualty figures Severe shortages of food will exist this east of Budapest. were released, the dispatches said that the addressed a letter to the armies urging accept specialized jobs at the arsenal. them "to extract every possible mile from winter in parts of France, Belgium, Lamed said arsenal officials had burden of the attack indicated Allied Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Norway ; 154 More Merchant Ships losses might be heavy. our tires and to use them only as we find appealed to employes to urge friends and necessary to do so." millions of people will need clothes; there relatives on limited service—those in the WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (UP)—U.S. On the First and Ninth Army sectors, is a seriously lowered resistance to disease where the doughboys are already well into The Supreme Commander warned the U.S.—to seek transfers as part of a cam- shipbuilders in November delivered 154 troops that he was not exaggerating and in countries overrun by the Nazis, the paign to obtain manpower for a 35 per merchant ships, bringing the year's pro- the Siegfried belt, no major ground gains President explained. were reported, though the First made that the war would be prolonged unless cent increase in artillery ammunition duction thus far to 1,532 ships, totaling such steps were taken. "The philosophy underlying UNRRA's production. 14,986,538 tons. (Continued on page 4) structure and operations is to help people to help themselves. UNRRA does not intend to treat the liberated peoples as if They Shelled Out they were international wards, dependent for existence upon the charity of the Every Town, Every House a Battle world," Mr. Roosevelt said. Saarlautern Burns in Rain Inden Falls in Bitter Fight Something for the Boys By Jimmy Cannon By Russ Jones Stars and Stripes, Staff Writer Stars and Stripes Staff Writer IN SAARLAUTERN, Germany, with the 95th Div.. Dec. 5 INDEN, Germany, Dec. 4 (delayed)—This little town of a WACs to Be Sent --Saarlautern, great center of Nazi industry which formerly few hundred Muses and three bridge sites across the Inde housed a population of 30,000, today burned despite a con- River is firmly in American hands today after almost a week To Reich to Keep tinual rain. Organized resistance ceased in the artillery-broken of some of the heaviest fighting since Normandy. section of the ruined city that lay in shambles on the west Although the first troops entered the city late Tuesday, it GI Minds GI bank of the Saar River. wasn't until this morning that they succeeded in driving the In assault boats manned by the 320th Engineer Battalion, Germans from the west side and had crossed the stream. Some 21sT ARMY GROUP HQ, Dec. 5 men of the 379th Infantry Regiment crossed the 300-foot-wide Nazis of the Third Paratroop Division are still making a last- (INS)—Allied military leaders, it was re- river and captured a steel-enforced concrete bridge. The cross- ditch stand in the factories on the east side. ported yesterday. plan to assign Ameri- ing was made in the foggy darkness before dawn and battled The attacking unit found the town defended by troops . can WACs and British ATS girls to jobs the enemy with its daring surprise. Not a shot was fired at emplaced in a trench and dugout system of unprecedented in Germany as soon as a sufficiently large them until they had ranched the cast bank. The captured depth and strength. Panther and Tiger tanks were stationed in area of the Reich has been conquered— bridge had been wired, but the swift stealth of the crossing trenches big enough to allow them to maneuver one of the main reasons being to prevent prevented demolition. Infantry commanded by Lt. Col. John W. White, of Cleve- the men of both armies from fraternizing However. Germans blew another bridge across the river. The land Heights, Ohio. made its way into the outskirts of the with German women. doughboys dodged in and out of the buildings as heavy artil- village. From there it was house-to-house fighting, with the It is expected that the presence of the lery and mortar fire came into their blasted section in a heavy Americans doing well until the Nazi tanks moved up. American and British women, aside from torrent. I f Lt. Jerry M. Page. of Rockland, Mich., who had joined their military value, would be particularly "It was a nice day for a crossing," said Capt. Elias Tblbert, the company two weeks before as a•replacement, led a group advantageous in the rear areas of con- of Culpepper, Va., of the 300th Engineer Battalion: "Soon across a bridge, cutting the German demolition wires. quered Germany where the temptation to as we got them across we started to build an infantry support A counter-attack cut them off from escape over the bridge. mingle with enemy women might prove bridge. it was a breeze until it got light enough for them to The men pulled pieces of wire from a fence, splicing them stronger than in the front zone. draw a bead on us. After the first few shots they zeroed in on together, and Pvt. Robert B. Thompson swam the river, The view prevails strongly that the sight us and then they started knocking the stuff out faster than we carrying the cable in his teeth. He fastened the end and the other of British and American girls in German could put it together. We were under fire for around three- men followed hand-over-hand. One good reason for the shell shortage. cities and towns undoubtedly would act quarters of an hour. When they're knocking it out faster than Something had to be done. Late last night they did it. While Sgt. William K. Odis, of Miami, Fla., as a deterrent to fraternization. Officials you put it out you do one thing. You wait a while." the men in the town cleared the west bank, units north and holds the casing of the 100,000th shell doubt that a British or American soldier Col. Robert Bacon, regimental commander of the 379th, said south of the village crossed the river in assault boats. tired by his outfit—the 87th Field would take to a German girl if he could the Germans left five or six men in each defendable building Jeeps armed with anti-tank guns were ferried across and Artillery Battalion—since D plus 3. chat with an American or British woman when they fell back across the river. Our troops brought up forced the tanks to withdraw. The remaining Nazi infantry The boys want more rounds from home or attend social functions with them. 90mm. guns and (55s and tired point blank at the defenders. was trapped. to hurl at the Nazis. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 6, I 944

THE STARS AND STRIPES An Editorial Printed at The Times Publishing Company. Lid.. for U.S. Armed rorces. udder auspices of The Special Servleg Division ETOUSA. routentx passed by the U.S. Army and Navy CCILSOI1 subscription 26 shilling.% per year alas partavr. E.10 edition. Entered as retard slaw A Letter From Luxemburg 'water Mar 15, 1943. al the Mal aOicc. New Believe it or not, Capt. Harry Jacobson, York. N.Y.. under the Act of Mar. 3. 1879. All eye specialist at a base here, pilots a Dear Editor, material onnearing in this publication has peen bicycle that bears the U.S. number 20/20. written and edited by uniformed inetnhe.r% the At a small dinner, given in the Army and Nov,- except where violet( that a *_ civilian or Allier antarle source is Nana quoted. Incidental information. On a certain city of Luxemburg, the hostess office—The Times. Printing Mule Sq.. - London.London. ii(7.4 (Tel, Ceti. 20001. HUNII1C}19 and highway in France are the towns of gave a short speech in English circulation Mikes-17 Upper Brook SI.. London, Foreffe and Eto-ville. WI MI. F.TDOSA 5416% District Offices: on the feelings of the people of Bedford 2184: Swindon 3424: Sutton Coldflal —Four Oaks 268. Blimey! Tea consumption among Luxemburg at the liberation Vol. 5, No. 30, December 6, 1944 mechanics at an Air Force depot has of their city and the coming of grown to such proportions that the by- American troops. laws of the Red Cross Acro Club have $ince her tribute is an expres- BAG been amended. Members in good.stand- sion of gratitude to all American B ing are now permitted to wear one sten- cilled ten-bag for each month of Aero soldiers in whatever way they SLOW 17' Club missions successfully completed. serve, and since we would like OUT liege The cherished Tea Bag Cluster goes to the American soldier to know those attending four consecutive Sault- of another instance where his day night meetings. * * duly and service have the heart- Life and Ruben Two mosquitoes were sitting at a beach felt appreciation and thankful- watching the bathing beauties. Said the ness of the populace. I am en- Nov. 24, 1944 Dear Stars and Stripes, closing her speech with. the hope Any noncombatant GI with the down- that you will consider it worthy right nerve and the unmitigated stupidity of publication. to blow off in this column over his own C. B. STACK. petty tragedies after having digested Wingeri's "Hubert" in the Thanksgiving Captain, CAC. Day edition of Stars and .Stripes ought * * * to retake his pre-induction sanity tests. )Tiir our friends and libera- —.4 cluarborne sergeant with no illusions .tors! concerning what he has to be than&fal Four years of bitter sor- for. row and restless daily fight have Freedom of Religion vanished in that one moment we • Nov. 24, 1944 'saw the first of you smiling boys. Dear Stars and Stripes. An orchid to the paratrooper who had Our hearts stood still and then guts enough to protest compulsion in old one to the young one. "You're leaped up with our flags, our flags church attendance! May his tribe in- lucky. In my day 1 could only bite girls and your flags, in one grand ,sym- crease! on the hands and face." phony of red, white and blue. Before the lad was even horn (1912) * * * Here you are! the. Judge Advocate General ruled that Cpl. Murry Waldman tells us this one. "a post commander has no authority. A GI on KP all day stopped by the Red We have given you the sunshine under the 52nd Article of War, to require Cross that evening and gave blood to the from our hills, the flowers from soldiers to march to church and partici- blood bank. The next day it was returned our gardens. We have given you pate in divine worship as a part of a with a note. "We wanted blood--not the smiles of our men, the happy perspiration." Here you are! our hearts the remembrance of military formation." Yet instances such * tears of our women, the hearts as that which -griped this trooper still * * Let us tell you how proud we those who died for the world's occur in this year, 1944. A wolf we know is too broke to buy and -hands of our children, the Where does the blaitie lie? To my etchings—so he asks his girl friends or, blessing of our martyrs and our are to be your ally, be •it the freedom. . . Let our lives be mind, it rests squarely on the chaplain. to see the.handwriting on the wall. mad songs of joy. Why can't we smallest one. To have fought with worthy of their death, the thousand Either he's a timid soul, afraid to defend you the same enemy. To have And then there was the absent-minded tell you our gratitude just as we never-to-be-forgotten deaths of the rights of his men, or else he's polish- contributed our feeble part to ing his brass by drumming up a packed censor who glanced at some outgoing feel it? Why is the human tongue those who gave us these glorious house. (Both instances presuppose, of mail designated for the States and said: -such a wretched, helpless thing to make life worth living again. days. course, that he is aware of the compul- "Hmm, guess I'll have to put this aside a heart drunken with happiness'? .And now, let's deeply set into ANNIE MICHEL. sion.) for awhile. It says, 'Do not open until Personally. 1 can go your browned-off Christmas. " trooper one better. I've known of baser * forms of compulsion. e.g., when wounded Read this and be .glad you're in the Field Hospital Routine men, tied down by casts and clamps and ETO. A guy writes from Bougainville, —B-Bagatelles— pulleys, are compelled to listen to a chap- "We have seen only one white woman lain pray and, sing hymns and preach a faith not shared by all the. patients pre- They Brought In a Corpse, Stinger and a Stinker, or, sent. Real religion gains nothing from such had-mannered zeal. Incidentally. 1 part company with my But the Medics Found Life What a Bloody Mess trooper friend when he claims to believe. "there are no atheists in fox-holes." By G. K. Hodenfield Conn.. hospital two years ago to join the Irvin S. Taubkin, Prop.— Stars and Stripes Stall' Writer Army, knew the answer. You do what There are!—A Chaplain (cituirborne, hut must be done Then you wait, and pray. not by preference!) WITH A FIELD HOSPITAL IN GERMANY'S internal situation being GERMANY, Dec. 5—They brought him Nobody expected the boy to live- -but — what the papers tell us it is, and the The Chairborne Case into the squat schoolhouse being used as he did. Five days later, he said. "Doc, Germans. being what the lads up front Nov. 22, 1944 a hospital at 19.10 hours. A blood- I've been here five days how. Is it going discover every day they are, only more so, Dear Stars and Stripes, stained tag identified him as an infantry to be much longer?" maybe Pfc Jeannette M. Zelik. an Eighth This letter is written directly to our sergeant from Michigan. In one corner He wasn't a pretty sight, lying there— Fighter Command WAC, has dreamed combatant troops. of the tag were a chaplain's initials. The a tube in one nostril that fed him oxygen. up the answer. It's a little girl mosquito We "chairborne operators" understand chaplain had administered last rites at the another in his arm for intravenous injec- named Spike-Ella, Spike for short. what the score really IS in this war. We division clearing station. tions. Every once in a while he tossed his Spike, Jeannette tells us, was a restles%, know very well who is "carrying the ball," This was the first field hospital set up head in irritation at the tubes and splints in nine months—and that is Lois, the little }kink with a thirst for blood who:) and probably will continue to do so when in Germany. It was the only one for and bandages that kept his body pinned got restlesser and restlesser as Nazi blood', the fight shifts to the Pacific, We know nude, tattooed on the chest of Pvt. Albert more than two months. to the white sheets that. covered the litter. Herron." The town was captured Sept. 12. The got thinner and thinner. On the make' when we're well oft, we know that the There arc 17 beds to one ward in this for a good meal, Spike buzzed her was', feeling of "being alive tomorrow" is hospital moved in Sept. 16. It was also hospital and there is generally one nurse Two Joes, bouncing along in a jeep. the first field hospital to operate in to Berlin and into Hitler's inner sanctum.! worth all the medals in the world. We to a ward. The nurses landed on D Hitler was sitting by a roaring fire, deep were trying to figure out what the road France, but that was long ago and feel that when this mess is finally over plus 6. All of them have been given in study of his secret victory plans. Spike .you "fighting men" deserve every possible signs in French meant. At one spot the hospital personnel don't talk about long battlefield promotions to first looey with jeep skidded, went into a terrific spin. ago—they're too involved in the life and dive-bombed his neck and drank her fill I break and every advantage over us in no T/O vacancies. of what in de Fuehrer passes for blood. getting back home. Bat— As the driver pulled the „jeep back on the death of the present. road he muttered, "That sign over there They worked on him all that night, Ryder was looking at the soldier's chart The sting goosed the little man into a When we gripe about getting borne, wild flail of his arms which threw the must mean 'Road Slippery When Wet.' " There were three major injuries. He was —looking again to see if there might be boys, always remember -this—no matter anything that would help. A nurse came plans—and evidently his victory—in the how many battles you've fought in, no in no condition for an operation. They Aftirthought. If all the jokes in the gave him live transfusions. At 0830 he in and told him he was wanted in the fire. Spike beat it, of course, vomiting matter how many times a day you may shock room. A new case had been en the way out. When last heard from, risk your lives, no matter anything for Reader's Digest were laid end to end— was still unconscious. they'd make ten columns of Hashmarks. But at that time the decision had to brought in. They wanted him to look at she was planning, a Red Cross blood that matter, we'Nie left wives, mothers, it. He walked over to the bed and leaned hank feast in mind. to surrender to GIs. sweethearts, fathers, &c., hack borne, too, * * * be made. If they operated, he didn't have Observation. A sergeant is a large, much of a chance. If they didn't, he had down. "You'll be okay, fella,- he said. * * * that we love just as much as you boys • do.—T /Sgt. S. Brown, QM Co. forceful person of few words—but often. no chance at all. Maj. B. R. Ryder, Next time you leer at somebody's pin- J. C. W. who quit as surgeon in a Bridgeport, up gal, leer easy, lad. She may be some- AFN Radio Program body's mother. She may. indeed, be Transfers to Paratroops Paratrooper Charlie Miller's mother. Nov. 18, 1944 On your Dial Charlie was somewhere tip front when 'Dear Stars and Stripes, 1375 Cc. 14(12 Cc, 1411 ke. 1420 kc. 1447 ke, last heard from, hut just before making We should appreciate any information HUBERT by SO:DICle WINGERT 218.1m. 213.9m. 212.6m. 211.3m. 2.07.3m. the leap into Holland he sent us a picture as to what action to take for transfer to 111ednesday, Dec. 6 of Morn, which we have made our the paratroops.—Three Would-be Para- 12011—Warld News. Number One Pin-up. "imagine my rroopers. 1205—Dultle Bug. 1300--lienatines--snorts Newt. • Nov. 23. 1944 1305—They Call Me Joe. • Dear Stars and Stripes, 1330—Downbeat. with Harry James. 1400—Headlines—Visiting Hour. On Sept. 17, 1944, an Army' Circular 1500—Headlincs—Germun Lesson. -was distributed to all units stating that 1505—Strike up the Bard. volunteers to join the paratroops were 1530—On the Record. 1630—Great Moments in Music. desired. 1700--Headlines—Johnny Mercer's Musk, Shop. We passed our examinations with the 1715—Music by Freddie Mania. recommendation of the examining doctor 17411- Starlinht. 1755—American Sports News. for entry into the paratroops and, with 1800—World News. the request for transfer in accordance with 1805—Mark up the Map. AR 615-200. as amended, submitted them 1810—G1 Supper Club, 1900-1-leadlincs—l'alic the Air (Eighth Air Force). through channels for approval. Our com- 1930—Bandwagon. pany commander approved them by 1945—Strings With Wings. indorsement but, upon reaching our 2000—Headlines—Combat Diary, 2015—Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. Battalion Headquarters, were disapproved 2n3u—British Band of the AEF. for no apparent reason and returned to us. 2100—World News.- In the ten months we have been 2105—Allen Jones Show, 2130—Bob Hone. with Frances Langford. Jerry stationed in the United Kingdom we have Colonna and Skinnay Ennis, operated as Depot Troops only, doing 2200—Headlines—Home News Gun the U.S.A. work that could easily have -been handled 2205—thorn Characters, by men who are at present in replacement 2300—Final Edition. NIilIer's Mama depots and are not physically qualified for Thursday, Dec. 7 surprise," he wrote, "when I walked into combat duty, 0755—Sign On—Program Resume. a tent in our company and there on the We arc not interested in "Purple 0800—HeaditneS—Comkett Diary. 0815—Personal Album with Lois' Butter. wall I saw a picture of my mother. She's Hearts." but would like to do our part 11530—TrOise and his Mandoliers. a singer in good old Pennsylvania. 'The and take our chances with the rest of 0.9.01)—World News. guys wouldn't believe me when I claimed them. What we want to know is. "Does 0905—Music by Russ Morgan. 0925—Waltz 'time with Abe Lyman's Orchestra.. her as mine. Made me feel Ilke an the Army actually need more combat men 1000—Headlines—Morning After (Bob Hope). orphan, but a proud one. Mom's pet Or are the circulars merely being distri- 1030—Strike ao the Band. gag is 'Pin up and see me sometime.' " buted for the fun of 1100—Headlines—Home News (torn the U.S.A. it?"—Sgt. Francis J. 1105—DuMe Bay, * * * Petry, Sgt. Robert J. Lessard, T/5 Emery It's too bad to have to leave so pleasant E. Higginbotham, Sgr. John R. School,- a note suspended in mid-air and fall to maker, Sgt. Nelson W. Yost, P/c Paul R. Daily German Lesson our end on a solo. one- But the "Boys Roberts, Engr. GS. Regt. in Hut 25" ask, "How about starting the [lig. ETOUSA has ruled that no more Wer ist ihr Fuehrer? ball rolling to get Frankie Sinatra over applications for the paratroops can be here to sing for us?- With that frog in accepted at present. There's a possibility Vere i4 eer Fewrer? his throat, The Voice may start hopping the ruling may be changed, but no estimate over any time. Wonder if we can still as to how soon.—Ed.] "Feelthy Pictures'?" Who is. your leader? dash that 50 in a shave under ten? Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1944 SPORTS THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3

Once Over Going Down Army, Navy, Buckeyes S/Sgt, Joe Louis steps back as Dan Merritt, of Cleveland. heads for the Lightly canvas for a count of nine in the third -By Andy Rooney . round of their exhibition bout at Chicago. DominateINSAll-America NEW YORK, Dec. 5—The boys of NgW YORK, Dec. 5—Seldom have the nation's gridiron experts been so Ward 26-A get a pearl-handled unanimous in their choice of All-American elevens as they are this year. The. sterling silver canteen cup and a morocco- scribes who do the picking have gone overlYoard for the country's "Big bound volume of Army regulations for their question. Three"—Army, Navy and Ohio State—rand one of the two latest all teams "Ibis column has been getting a flood to hit the presses, that selected by International News Service, goes according of sports ,questions, and many of them to form. are simpers, but the letter signed by But Bill Stern, who picks an "All" the "Boys of Ward 26-A" beat us. team annually for Look. Magazine, has "Who," these be-purple-hearted char- brought back a Sunday Slate acters want to know, "was the welter- breath of yesterday weightchamp of the United States Army by naming at least on the Hawaiian Islands in the year one player from Will Decide 1929?" every -section of the It heats the hell out of us, Mae. We country, and can't answer the question, but we whereas INS gives East Pro Title strongly suspect that if you'll send us seven places to the NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Confusion your name we'll have the answer. Cadets. Middies and dominates the Eastern Division of the But they aren't all like that. Most Buckeyes. Stern National Football League today, and questions arc the obvious result of good gives only one spot with only two tames remaining to be healthy arguments among the boys and -to each of the ser- played any one of three teams may wind we are glad to help when possible. vice teams and two up as the ahamp, or there may be a two- It is not hard to see from the questiOns to Ohio State. way tic. asked where the sports interest is. Stern agrees with "HI ERN If the Giants win at Washington Sun- Fifteen or 20 questions last, week cOn- INS pickers on Indiana's Center Tavener, day they will cop the division title. If rented. Notre Dame and it is obvious Navy's Tackle Don Whitmire, Georgia that Notre Dame's football teams have they lose and the Philadelphia Eagles trip Tech's End Phil Tinsley, Ohio State's the Cleveland Rams at Philadelphia, the a grip On the imagination of the gridiron Quarterback Les Horvath, and Army's public like no other team in the nation. Eagles will walk off with the gravy. It Felts Blanchard. Among other The scores of the Southern Cal-Notre Fullback the Giants and Eagles both lose there will . Dame series for the last 15 years will things, Stern disagrees with the choice of he a tie between the Giants and Redskins. answer a lot of questions and settle a' Glenn Davis, who raced to 20 touchdowns for first place. Rock of arguments for people like Pvt. for Army to lead the country's scorers, The Giants achieved their present favor-. Dick Gibbons and Sgt. Joe Salazar. Here are the learns: able position in the league standings by INS STERN coming froth behind Sunday to defeat the. Starting with '26, here they are: Dogger, Ohio State End Walker, Yale Irish 13. Trojans 12 Irish 20, Trojans 13 Tinsley Ga. 'tech End Tinsley. Ga. Tech Washington Redskins. 16-13. helped by frith 7, Troians 6 Irish 11 Trojans IT- Whitmire. Navy Tackle Whitmire, Navy an alert pass interception by Howard Trott IC Fromm 27 ft ish 13.isTrolans Feiraro, So. Gut Tackle Willis. Ohio State Livingston late in the game. Irish It. Trojans 12 Irish 0. Trojans 7 Stannwice, Army Guard Hai:Mon. Cal Irish Trojans 0 Irish 12. Trojans 20 CheSe. Nat's' Guard fonts. Tulsa Weather Hampered Baugh's Receivers Irish 14. Tioians 16 lush 10, Trojans 6 Bobby Volk TKOs Pint aro Taventr, Indiana Cell er Tavener. Indlut.a Irish 0. Trojans 13 Irish 20, Trojans IR Horvath, Ohio Ste OR Horvath, Ohio S'tc -Sammy Baugh put on a fine aerial dis- Irish 0. Trojans. 19 Irish 13, Trojans 0 Davis, Army HU Young, Illinois play for the Skins, completing 25 passes Irish 14. Trojans 0 DimanchetT, Purdue, HB Girard, Wisconsin In Rainbow Corner Feature Blanchard, Arms FR Blanchard. Army for 273 yards, and four more of his tosses The teams didn't play in '43 and '44. hit receivers, but cold weather made the Here are answers to some more By Mark E. Senigo tall hard to handle. Joe Aguirre dropped questions, To Lt. Ralston Russell— Stars and Stripes Sports Editor one. Bob Seymour dropped two and Army never has played in the Rose Eighth Air Force and USSTAF senior welterweight champion Cpl. Bobby Bresnahan Wilbur Moore muffed one. Bowl, although both the Naval Academy The -Eagles tuned up for their finale and Marine Corps teams have. . . To Yolk added another Rainbow Corner triumph to his victory skein last night against the Rams by defeating Brooklyn's Cpl. George B. Heltzed—Red Rolfe when he TKO'cl Pvt. Frank Pintaro. of Milwaukee, Wis., in 1.20 of the Dead at 64 Tigers. who finished their season -with an is coaching both basketball and base- second round of the feature event of an abbreviated four-bout card. unsullied record—ten straight defeats. ball at Yale. . . To 'Leslie Yeast— TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 5—Roger Bres The tally on this one was 34-0, You're right. Frankie Sinkwieh played Volk, a 160-pounder from Portland. nahan, ,who caught Christy Mathewson Meanwhile, the Green Bay Packers, with the University of Georgia not Ore., emptied his whole bag of tricks in from 1902 to 1908 while a member of the their year's regular play concluded a week Georgia Tech. . . . To Pfc Matthew stopping Piritaro, who had won 33 of 34 New 'York Giants, died here yesterday at ago, are silting hack to await the out- Femino—In '42 Notre Dame beat Iowa contests while in the Army. With a flick- Nelson Annexes the age of 64. come of next Sunday's games at Washing- Pre-Flight, 14-13, and lost to Georgia ing left which smashed to Pintaro's head, Bresnahan, who• went to the Giants ton and Philadelphia to see 'who they'll Tech, 13-6; Volk slammed through the first stanza with John McGraw and was known as meet for the league championship. with little effort. Soon after the open- Frisco Open the "Duke of Tralee" in honor of his ing of the second, he maneuvered Pintaro birthplace in Ireland, was credited with Point's Cadet Corps into a corner and slapped him hard with SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5—Byron inventing catchers' shin guards in 1907 Bainbridge Naval Ends a powerful left-right sequence CO the head. Nelson, Toledo, Ohio, professional, came and was one of the few catchers ever to Second Unbeaten Season Went Down to Sea Dazed, Pintaro took a vicious left hook from behind in the final nine holes to edge hit in the leadoff spot. to the head as he slipped out of the M /Sgt. JiM Ferrier The "Duke" wound up his active major BAINBRIDGE, Md., Dec. 5—The corner. Volk followed this up with a and take first prize league career as player-manager of the never beaten Bainbridge Naval football For Navy Contest right to the head and Pintaro went down in the $14,500 San Cubs in 1915. From '16 through '18 he team completed a ten-game schedule for nine, but he obviously was in no con- Francisco Open was player-manager and owner of the yesterday with a 13-3 victory over the NEW YORK, Dec. 5—The entire corps Golf Tournament Maxwell Field Marauders, the triumph Of 2,300 men including all officers and dition to survive any more of Volk's Toledo Mud liens in the American yesterday with a' 69 marking the second unbeaten season in instructors at the United States Military pounding and Referee Cpl. Frank Mar- Association. on the final round a row for the locals. Academy travelled to Baltimore for cella interceded. He returned to the Giants as a coach in In the heavyweight, feature that and a 72-hole total '25 and remained three years, and his The powerful Bainbridge eleven was Saturday's Navy game by troopship, it score of 281 strokes. tied tip for two periods and the Marauders was revealed here last night. The unpre- followed, Pvt. Bliss Croft. 190-pounder last connection with baseball was in '30 from Newark, NJ., dropped Pvt. John It was the accoad and '31 as Detroit Tiger coach, took a 3-0 lead in the third period on cedented move was kept secret and it straight victory in Joe Stringfellow's field goal from the 11- was not until 12 hours after the cadets Pearson, of Los Angeles, also 19t), with a right to the head at 25 seconds of the thes Frisco go I t yard stripe. In the final quarter Harry returned to West. Point that the news was classic for Nelson. Unbeaten Elevens "Hippity" Hopp, a brother of the St. announced. second after a slow opening frame. Swarthy Pyt. Vince Padillo, of, San Ferrier was one Louis Cardinals' Johnny Hopp, grabbed The corps left Friday morning on a stroke up on Nelson the leather and galloped 58 yards for a former Atlantic luxury liner and arrived Bernardino, Cal., was too clever for Pvt. Whittled Down to 10 Cliff Wagner, of Milwaukee, Wis., in the as they started the touchdown, and a few minutes later at Baltimore Saturday morning. (Whether BYRON NELSON second nine, but NEW YORK. Dec. 5—Ten teams re- Charlie Justice salted the game away by our future looies wore Mae Wests is not opener, taking a unanimous decision in Byron evened the match with a par four mained in the unbeaten and untied class sprinting 13 yards to pay territory with stated.) After the game they marched their featherweight tiff. II was Padillo's on the 15th hOle, took a two-stroke lead as the 1944 football season drew to its an intercepted pass. four miles back to the docks and left for third straight victory at the Corner. close Saturday, with Bainbridge Naval's home Saturday night. The Navy made an inauspicious Rain- on the 16th and finished up one stroke to the good to take first prize of $2,666. ten victories heading the six teams repre- Withhold Action on Grigas bow debut as S/2c Lee Walker, Balti- senting servjce schools. more Seabee, was outpointed by Pfc PITTSBURGH, Dec. 5 — Commis- The leaders: sioner Elmer Layden said no action GleunDavisCaptures Harry Conroy, Cleveland 150-pounder. TEAM G P OP TEAM G OP Conroy, runner-up for the Eighth Air Iowa State, Villanova Batumidge . 10 333 70 Mai-0111e Trs. 7 206 21 would be taken by his office against Full- Army . 0 504 35 St. Thomas ... 7 123 25 back Johnny Grigas, who failed to show Force welterweight title, found his only Ohio State .. 9 287 79 DeKalh Telt. 7 118 48 College Scoring Title barrier to he Walker's continual clinching Win Basketball Openers up for the Card-Pitts' finale against the NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Guard Orlin Randolph Ed.' 9 4(15 6 Cn. Campbell 6 203 7 NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Army plebe and holding in the last two rounds. Ft. Pierce .. 8 351 15 Norman Nay. 6 144 40 Chicago Bears Sunday, until a report was In an all GI pro wrestling match. Cpl. Feurhachs' one-handed pivot shot gave • Randolph field has two games left to play received from club officials. Glenn Davis walked off with the 1944 Iowa State a 42-41 victory over Minne collegiate scoring title without anyone Frank Paskowski, of Baltimore, defeated T/5 Dan Morris, of Columbus, Ohio. sow in the Cyclones' basketball opeeet close. His 50-yard rim against Navy last night at Ames, while in another major •Saturday was his 20th touchdown romp MaulersPaired Against Hellcats of the year and brought his total in points hoop opener Villanova swept to a 49-28 Ohio Betting Total victory over Loyola College of Baltimore. to 120, which is 36 more than his nearest Joe Walters, Villanova captain, tallied 19 rival. Double 1943 Figure ' The final tabulation shows Davis nine points. In First of 3 White City Tilts COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec. 5—Horse Other court scores: points short of the mark hung up last players in Ohio went for more than twice DePaul 61, Chicago Navy 41 By Ray Lee will be a game Sunday, Dec. 17. year by Bob Steuber of DePaoy, former as much money this year than they did Drake At, Detroit 38 Stars and Stripes Staff Writer The Maulers, , one of the most active Missouri star. Ft. Bragg 43, N. Carolina Sync 27 grid teams operating in the ETO. have last year, tigures released today revealed. Ft. Riley 53 Kansas State 35 The- ETO football season will reach its The leaders: Chalk eaters and long shot players poured ValparaiSo 52, Bunker Hill 46 rolled to nine victories in 11 games this PLAYER TEAM TD EP TP climax this month with three White City season and have featured a passing com- Davis Army 20 0 120 $21,024.546 into the windows on sure Stadium tilts scheduled. the highlight McWilliams Miss. State .. 14 0 54 things in '44, and there's no way of Late at the Post bination of Cpl. Nicholas Troilo, 170- CockaYne Drake . ,. 14 0 84 knowing how much more they laid with STOCKHOLM. Dec. 5 (API—For the looming as the second "Tea Bowl" game pound halfback from Vandergrift, Tressell Baldwin-Wallace 13 2 80 Dec. 31. and T/5 Vincent Domino, 175-pound Young 13 0 75 the bookies. first time. Gunder Haegg's speed has Brinkley Wake Forest .. 13 0 78 The bulk of ibis year's increase was been found wanting. The miler has been First of the three contests comes off halfback from Clifton, N.J. When they Underwood Murray Teachers 12 2 74 due to the fact there were 358 days of ordered to appear before a court-martial Sunday when the Eighth Air Force right- need to pick up a few yards through the Evans Second AF II 5 71 line they usually call on S/Sgt. Orman DeCourcey Washington .. 11 0 66 running and harness racing this year com- for arriving a day late for military ing Eagles take on Moore's Maulers of Collins Missouri .. 11 0 66 pared to 261 in '43. service. the 12th Replacement Depot. There also Fortier, 190-pound fullback from Cromer Ark. Aggies II 0 66 Guilford, Me. Yates Texas Aggies .. 9 0 54 The Fighting Eagles, champs of the Dick Tracy BY Comtesv of Chicago Tribune By Chester Gould - Third Bombardment Division by virtue Help Wanted of a 3-0 victory over Helton's Hellcats MAYBE THE BOYS ARE RIGHT WELL, I LIOP YOU'RE LET'S Sunday on a last-period field goal by —AND GIVEN I CAN ALWAYS F1140 THAT SATISFIED, YOU MAKE IT Cpl. Dick Deems of Cleveland, have won write your Question or problem to Help OKAY—WE'VE CAT SNOWFLAKE DAME AND WANTED HER NAME A MILLION. AMONG US. GO OUT AND BUMP HER OFF,' MAYBE IN LIGHTS. IF TUIS I FEEL three and were previously tied by the Wonted. Stars and Stripes. 37. Upper Brook GET SOME GROCERIES. WE TO CONCENTRATE SNOWFLAKE DAME GOOD Hellcats. The team averages 185 pounds st., London. ti/.1. or APO 887, U.S. Army. OUGHT WHILE I DOA LITTLE ON GETTING SOME DOUGH IS A FLOP, TRACY, TODAY, rejakkOIK, ETOUSA. Ext. and features a set of speedy backs. 2131. E THINK???? I'LL SUE YOU FOR MR. W020. THINKING, y - - FIRST. L 2 .4 Sunday's game and the two following 1111 HALF A MILLION White City battles will be sponsored by APOs 'Wanted DOLLARS ,,•\ LENARD PIPER. Charles ENGLISH, Detroit : lftl ))))) «11( 1V5' Special Services and the American Red 1/Sgt. Frederick W. MUTTER, T/Sgt, 101 ell Cross. ,Sleepy t)WENS: Psi, Robert J. EVANS, Chicago: Cpl. Louis R, FRITZ. Philadelphia: Edwin YOUNG, Joseph MANNING, Boston: Pvt. Milton LATIMER WAC Mary CALA- VERNE, Cortland, N.Y : David :NADEL ; Pvt. Princeton to Return Michael JACCARINO, Brooklyn, Reunions 74, To Grid Wars in '45 EUNION dinners for the following towns and R districts will be held at 7,15 PM at the ARC PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 5 — Mostyn Club, Edgware Rd Li'l Abner By Courtesy of United Features By Al Capp Princeton University will return to the MONDAY. Dec. 11—Nashville, Memphis— Tennessee. formal gridiron wars next fall with LEIS NOT WASTE VALDOBLE Gi./ZP.07- Yo' IS STILL STAND114',1 Yo' JEST NATCHERLV TUESDAY, Dec, 12—Long Island—New York, i-n-rcHap - Charlie Caldwell, former Princeton WEDNESDAY. Dec. 13—P.assaic County—N.J. THE WIF TH' MERE JOAN ILLIVAN WAL, AN rHET WERE MAH FORMALITIES 0' ESASHIN' 4z. ACif - orPP / IS LICKED /7 THET WERE NEM PETTRY-FrN • athlete and more recently Williams THURSDAY, Dec. 14—Cortland, Homer EACH OTHER BLACK AN' • • / AH Ithaca. Syracuse—New York. FINEST PUNCH IN MAH NAND- PUNCH rr- College mentor, as head coach. BLUE- DEFO' WE REACHES \*I REPPY-TwAFt AN' SHE DONE WON Pr FRIDAY. Dec. 15—Hakim:ire—Maryland, TH' CLIMAX, DEARIE • BOTH KEELED vo, is MINE AGiN, Dean Christian Gauss has an- College Reunion TNET DIDN'T PETTILY-FY TO; LE'S SIMPLY SQUARE wRoNcri NoTHine WILL!! TO' IS A OVER AP- PA,PPY - MINE -" REUNION dinner will be held at No. 3 Grosvenor OFF, WIND UP AN' RIP SHE'S BODY nounced that Elton 'Tad' Wiemen, head IT'S -114' rae/L BETTER NIAN Square Club on Dec, 9, 1944, for former oat- WIF OUR END 0' H-HARD AN' SOUL rr- Tiger coach for live years who took a students of New 'York U. and Columbia LI., to "FINISHIN" PUNCHES' THAN AM IS, DEARIE - AS A TN' SHAKE leave of absence in '43 to enter the 6.30 PM,—Reservations should be sent to The FIRST!, WORLD ROCK!, ASTP physical training section, had Siam .and Stripes, Collette Registration Service. pr SHE'S Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. FETTRy- resigned. (Wiemen is now Columbia Found FI SO !le backfield coach.) Gauss added that the . T. SIMMONS, 0.900463—An identification kk3% "-'•B bracelet belonging to you has been found. Tigers would have an eight-game foot- Ring Capt. Corcoran, U.K.. Base 1458, \\1 Ii ball schedule next fall with traditional MUSETTE Bag belonging to Air Corps officer rivals again being contested. This year who left it in a private car after he had had Ir a lift from Stilton to London. Write to Help hi Princeton played only three informal Wanted Dept. gamei. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1944 Life in Those United States Allied Bombs Seek to Sever Torpedo Cuts Berle Out of State Dept.; Nazi Rail-to-Ruhr Arteries U.S. Destroyer Grew Gets No. 2 Post In Half at Leyte ABOARD SEAPLANE TENDER IN WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—President Roosevelt yesterday nominated LEYTE GULF, Dec. 5 (AP)—An aerial William Clayton, Archibald 'MacLeish and Nelson Rockefeller to be assist- torpedo broke an American destroyer in ant secretaries of state, tilling the vacancies created by the resignations of two early Sunday in a night engagement Adolf Berle, G. Howland Shaw and Breckenridge Long, in Ormoc Bay between U.S. destroyers The President previously had nominated Joseph 'Grew, former ambas- and Japanese naval forces, shore batteries sador to Japan, to be undersecretary. and aircraft. Clayton, who was head of the Surplus War Property Administration, will handle (Gen. MacArthur's communique yes- U.S. foreign economic affairs ; Rockefeller will be in charge of inter-American terday reported the U.S. ships had sunk relations, continuing his work as co-ordinator of inter-American affairs : MacLeish, one enemy destroyer and damaged a librarian of Congress, will handle public and cultural relations. second of three engaged in Ormoc Gulf. Berle, head of the U.S. delegation to the Civil Air Conference in Chicago, will On Leyte itself, though hampered -by rain, retain that post until completion of the conference, but Clayton will handle air ground troops mopped up previously by- affairs in the future. passed enemy positions.) Berle said in Chicago that Mr. Roosevelt had offered hint an "important" post The destroyer shuddered as the missile but that he had not made up his mind whether to accept. The position was under- struck amidships. There was no explo- stood to be that of ambassador to Brazil. sion. The ship keeled over and went down in two pieces. Wants U.S. to Keep Air Rases NO Laughing Matter Within 55 seconds after being hit site Heart of the Reich railway system, target of sustained Allied bombing, is shown "literally sank from under us," the Cap- NEW YORK, Dec: 5 (AP)—Capt. DENVER, Dec. 5 (ANSI—Mrs. Wire on this map, It links the German Western Front with the nearby Ruhr war- tain said. The crew tumbled into the Eddie Rickenhacker, World War I fighter Hartke was granted a divorce yesterday industry area, Figures indicate normal freight traffic carried in the direction water as the destroyer went under—a ace and now pre- after she testified that her husband kept shown by the arrows. single 20mm. gun still firing until silenced sident of Eastern tickling her feet. by the sea. Airlines, said today Isolation of the Germans on the Western Front from their maifi industrial the U.S. should About 3 AM. several hundred men show her "backbone Forethought centers was revealed by the British Air Ministry yesterday as the object of found themselves floating three miles and guts in retaining the sustained bombing of enemy railways by the Allied Air Forces. front enemy guns with only a heavy oil FORT LEWIS. Wash., Dec. 5 (ANS) slick and debris remaining of their ship. air bases built by —In the midst of attending a class on In addition, the Ministry said, bombing of large industrial areas "may this country Twelve hours later two Navy flying-boats studying treatment for shock. Pvt. Joseph be expected to cause the maximum confusion from dislocation and delay were able to penetrate the heavy weather throughout t h c Turkowski. of Chicago, was handed a behind the front line." world." and drop down beside the clusters of oil- telegram which read: "You are the proud Dist upting the German railway system, blackened survivors. "Britain doesn't father of twins." however, presents a greater problem than want America to Civil Strife did disruption of the French and Belgian have anything but a systems, the Ministry declared, explain- 50-50 opportunity Off Again HOLLYWOOD, Dec, 5 (ANS)—The ing that "the- railways of western Ger- Raveima Falls with them," he said, Tears Greece many form a more- elaborate network "hut I disagree Humphrey Bogarts have separated again (Continued from page 1) than those of France . . and are now 1r-NBACK" violently. I don't —the second time within a month. Mrs. 111" of the current Greek, and recent Belgian, less dependent on the larger marshalling see how air transport can be regulated Bogart's mother said the couple found yards and depots." To 8th Army it difficult to live together because each political and economic crises: like that when 70 per cent of the world Vulnerable to Bombing Eighth Army troops yesterday captured traveling comes from America. "is a high-strung, sensitive- person." On the heels of the liberating Allied the key Po Valley town of Ravenna after armies, Premier Hubert Pierlot went back "The nerve center of the whole railway system of greater Germany," the Ministry an outflanking movement by Canadian Bullets and Death Prove Gun No Phony to Brussels and Premier Georges Papan- forces had forced the Germans to with- dreou took the reins in Athens. said, "lies within a comparatively small area consisting of little more than the draw from the city to avoid being- trapped. NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (UP)—Vignettes of youth at play: These two governments, in exile during On Manhattan's Lower East Side, Mario Sapienza called his pal's gun a Ruhr and middle Rhineland districts." Ravenna is nine miles northeast of the Nazi occupation, were elected by This makes the system vulnerable to Russi, the capture of which was an- phony . The aroused friend showed Mario it wasn't. He loaded the weapon, -war. tired three times. The last bullet hit Mario in the chest and killed him. constitutional processes before the bombing, a form of warfare not envisaged nounced earlier in the day, and lies five Meantime, in Columbus, Ga., a game of cowboys and Indians ended in tragedy However, Pierlot and Papandreou by Bismarck, under whom the German miles inland from the Adriatic. when Ernest Bell, 9. was burned to death at the stake. Bell had been tied up returned to vastly changed nations. They railway system was planned with emphasis Nazi rearguard units were reported and left by his "pals" after they lit a match to his clothes. found themselves in the midst of peoples on war efficiency. If bombing had been falling back to the Lamone River and A passer-by eventually beat out the flames, but the boy died shortly afterward. who, for years, covertly had hcen battling envisaged, the statement suggested, the -forward elements of the Eighth were the Nazis—and constantly facing death system would have been dispersed, as the believed to he well beyond Ravenna, Miller Out of Army or concentration camps. Reich's new industrial system is. moving toward Bologna, 40 miles due Cigars Short. Too The people were cold and hungry. .NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (ANS)--Civilian NEW CANAAN, Conn., Dec. 5— "Nearly every main stream of war %ves.t There was no immediate panacea for their traffic has originated or passed through cigar smokers, like their cigarette pals, Henry J. F. Miller. 54, West. Pointer who wants. There was an inevitable outburst were informed today by the Cig:tr Insti- one or more junctions in this area." the was busted from major-general to lieu- of political dissension. Ministry pointed out. "Freight traffic tute of America that "no immediate re- tenant-colonel after The armed men who belonged to the density in the Ruhr is more than double lief is in sight." October consumption at he blabbed about Resistance Army charged the govern- West Front - home was reported to have dropped three the average for the whole of Germany." the invasion date, ments with being reactionary and too Two routes carry the main 'weight of (Continued from page 1) percent from that for the same period was retired from the lenient in treatment of collaborators. supply for the Western Front. Both join in 1943. The Institute added that Army Nov. 30, it The governments, saying they were up with the Ruhr district. Between come progress after crossing the Inde 59.000.000 cigars were being shipped was revealed today. acting as rapidly as conditions would Wesel and Bremen, through Munster and River, west of the main German defenses overseas monthly for troops. He now has an permit. accused the resistance leaders of Osnabruck, 35,000 torts are carried east- along the Roer. advisory job in a "irresponsibility." and ordered the ward daily. From Hamm to Hanover, The Ninth was still fighting in the Last Son Going ll:Otne war plant: partisans disarmed. another 35,000 tons are carried eastward western outskirts of Julich, the main por- Miller was com- daily—these being normal figures. of tion of which is on the east bank of the PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5 (ANS)— mander of the Ninth Mrs. Mary Di Gertitaro's son Sammy is course. Roer. Artillery broke up two enemy tank Air Force Service US. Planes Bomb Tonnage Thy Carry and troop concentrations near Beeck coming home front the wars. Her Iwo Command w h e n other sons, Dominic and Angelo Jr„ Trunk lines paralleling the front run before the Germans could launch an G e n . Eisenhower Belgrade by Error north to south—carrying 10,700 tons attack. were killed in action. Her husband com- ordered him reduced mitted suicide upon hearing of the second ROME, Dec. 5 (UP)—U.S. 15th Air south and 6,400 tons north on the left In Alsace,. the Seventh Army cleared the and shipped home. bank of the Rhine ; and 34,500 tons south town of Selestat. about 30 miles south of son's death. The War Department noti- Wits reported to HENRY MILLER Force bombers, on a mission over Jugo- fied her today that Sammy, a private He and 16,000 tons north on the right bank. Strasbourg, after 3- days of fighting. The have told Li woman in a London bar: slavia Apr. 16, dropped 130 quarter-tort recuperating from wounds in England, bombs by error over Belgrade after the Waterways supplementing these rail advance down the Alsatian plain has been would he given a permanent assignment "On my honor, the invasion will take formation's leader was shot down, Lt. line —the Dortmund-Ems and Mittelland hindered by both floods and mines. is the U.S. place before June 15." General Ira C. Eaker. Mediterranean air canals—have been "effectively blocked" Seventh Army units driving north in chief, disclosed last night. by RAE and Eighth U.S. Air Force Alsace captured half a dozen towns in a bon s. general gain of about a mile. Siegfried 'Beautiful Dumb-bell' Comes Back From Dead ALLIED HQ. Italy, Dec. 5 (UP)— "Railways organized to take such ahuge guns beyond the Rhine were lobbing NEW YORK, Dee. 5 (ANS)—Actress JoaiRydell, 27, who in 1940 was selected British Coastal Command planes, acting volume of goods are a highly complicated shells into this area. by James Montgomery Flagg as "the world's most beautiful dumbbell," was on garbled instructions, sartk. the German machine," the Ministry said. "It is im- With Europe experiencing its worst found lying unconscious in the bathtub of her West End Ave. apartment "today. hospital ship Tubingen in the Medi- possible to destroy all the parts, but they floods in many years, the Germans have While police, using nine oxygen tanks, attempted to revive her, Dr. Laslo terranean Nov. 18, but there were no can readily be put out of gear." worsened the situation for the British Chillags pronounced her dead. But the police continued their efforts and brought wounded aboard and casualties were and Canadians in Holland by breaching her to. Late last night she was reported in good condition. slight, Allied HQ announced today, add- Death for Cigarette Request the dams along the lower Rhine above "It's a miracle she's still alive," Dr. Chillags said. ing that Britain's regrets had been sent NEW YORK, Dec. 5 (AP)—An Nijmegen. A Reuter dispatch from Meanwhile, the mystery of what happened in the apartment perplexed the to the German government. unidentified man shot and killed another SHAEF said the Canadians rearranged police. The place was in disorder with whisky bottles and clothes strewn about. who asked him for a cigarette in New their positions in one place and drove Furniture was overturned. "It looks like there was a terrific struggle, a detec- York's Bowery today. The victim was back a German paratroop attack in tive said. Japs May Be Yielding Michael Condon. another, which had not been inundated. Miss Rydell refused to say what happened. according to hospital authorities who quoted her as saying: "Just say I fell in the bathtub and let it go at that." All of North Burma ADVANCED HQ, Burma, Dec. 5 His CO and the Nazis are Both Unhopi Slim Fare Fed Up (UP)—North Burma. and possibly all PITTSBURGH, Doc. 5 (ANS) — BOSTON. Deo. 5 (ANSI—Contending Burma, may be in Allied hands sooner that just about every bookstore in the and with less opposition than was at first Because the city is $7,500 behind on its thought. A Vanishing American Stalks feed bill the hefty hips of Mary. the State had been tined in the last 30 years hippo in the Highland Park Zoo, are for dealing in books which courts have The Japanese have abandoned large shrinking away. The oats man refuses ruled obscene, the Massachusetts Library areas recently without offering determined to make any more deliveries and borrow- Association proposed today a bill in the resistance. Reports show there are few The Germans With His Corn Legislature which would modify present Japanese now left in north Burma. ing enough to satisfy Mary is out of the Chinese troops pushing south of Corn comes in various forms: Chukima, who's 38, answers to the question. censorship laws. Musically, as in a long-haired trio : very apt name of "Chief", and hails from Bhamo have had only brushes with the a reservation near Flagstaff, Aria„ where Japanese in the last three weeks. spiritually, as in a jug audibly, as on the cob—and sometimes, as happeeed yester- he got a big sendoff after answering the day, it shows up in the maze of Reuter greetings of the Great White Father. lie Ya Gotta Bend an Eah to Heah dispatches from the front. received a feather headdress then, but Superfort Proves It's Being spiritually inclined at times, we now he wears only two -feathers• in his By William E. Taylor questions and the bad acoustics—these arc -credulous enough to admit that it helmet when he goes into action. were the things that stuck. Super and a Fort could happen, because corn can play Every once in a while the Chief gets Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Many of the attendants, who were else did it, he'd probably SAIPAN, Dec. 3 (delayed) CAP)— some rather peculiar tricks, but, anyhow, himself into a ticklish situation, but his If anybody dressed formally in black, with white here's the yarn: CO is an understanding bloke. Not long be an awkward spectacle, but when B29s are tough. One returned here starched shirt fronts, wing collars and safely on three engines after collid- Silhouetted daily against the Lorraine ago the Chief went on a four-day "hunt- Anthony Eden leans back comfortably white bow ties, seemed far more severe ing over Tokyo with a Japanese plane landscape on the Third Army's front in ing trip," as he called it, to avenge a on the red leather front bench and rests than the members in the well below, where which then fell into the path of a second France, says Reuter, is the sturdy figure friend wounded by a sniper, and was two his shining black shoes on the edge of occasional laughter greeted quips in the Japanese craft. Both Japs fell in of Pvt. Carl Chukima—sowing Indian days with a tank battalion in Germany. the Speaker's table, crossing one nattily- Parliamentary give and take. Approving flames. corn. The dawn ritual is his petition to We don't know whether he got his man, creased pin-striped "Heah, heahs," cries of "Quit! Quit!" his Hopi gods to bless the 90th Infantry but we think the CO's comment is a awe- -Mr. The Superfort. attacked later by ten trouser leg over the to members jumping the verbal gun, fighters, got three "prohables" on the Division, with whiCh he serves. The honey: other in elegant ease, Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" and "A point way home. 90th apparently has more kernels than "I-le comes and goes," the captain he looks just as of order!"—these were audible enough. the I/O calls for. sighed. "It's very difficult sometimes." you'd expect a Mr. Speaker's voice was cool and un- Foreign Secretary to ruffled as he straightened out the Chamber look when the on an issue, and Churchill, who is still Terry and the Pirates By Courtesy of News Syndicate By Milton Caniff House of Commons in his prime judging from the quick way rus is in session. he was up and down to answer questions, SHE WAS JUST GOING rrIASN'T IT, motion.. ? hisanwaise INCEED. KEREP OF TO see ROOM ...WHAT MEETING YotioN eaokoa. 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EDEN and the Greek The question sheet listed 116 items. situation were serious topics and caused but time ran out somewhere in the 50s, no little rumpus), but Eden's poise. the and many of the members, including the halo made by the fringe on Prime Minister PM and Eden, who had conferred together Churchill's thinning pate, the agility during the discussion of the Greek revolt, needed by ministers in answering took off, Printed in England hi The 7 Pubitthird: Company. Litt fled. Printing liuttse Square. London, E.C.4 and Published by the United Sta mied Furces—ti-12-44,