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Vol. 1—No. 79 New York—PARIS — London Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1944 West Wall Broken Anew Two-Way Traffic Across the Moselle 1st Army Seizes A Fortress Town In Siegfried Line

American troops made their third breach in the Sieg- fried Line yesterday as they captured the German frontier fortress of Ubach in their two-day-old bid to break through to the Rhine and the industrial Ruhr. Fighting at close quarters, the First U.S. Army units were reported to have broken halfway through the Reich's border defenses north of besieged Aachen. The Germans admitted the Yanks drove a wedge into Nazi defenses 10 1/2 miles wide and nine miles deep. Main weight of the assault appeared to be directed against the six to seven-mile sector , of the West Wall before Herzoen- rath, Merkstein and Geilenkirchen, about ten miles north of Aachen, 3 Nazi Towns but other U.S. force* also lashed 50 miles north of Aachen and I occupied the Dutch town of Over- In South by loon. U.S. Army Signal Corps photo. Third Army Gains As jeep and doughboys of the U.S. Third Army ford Moselle River in their drive toward Germany, a l,000JHeavies medical jeep churns through the water taking wounded to the rear. At the same time, the Third VS. Army, after taking high ground SUPREME ALLIED HQ, Oct. 1 five miles northwest of Metz, was (AP).—More than 1,000 American storming the inner defenses of Fort heavy bombers, escorted by 700 All-St. Louis Probable Lineups U.S. Worried Driant, a few miles from Metz on fighters, roared over Germany the west bank of the Moselle. again today, blasting the southern CARDS BROWNS And the Seventh U.S. Army liber- cities of Nurnberg, Gaggenau and Hopp, cf Gutteridge, 2b For Future of ated Ronchamp, ten miles west of Giebeistadt. Sanders, lb Kreevtch, cf Beifort at the entrance to the 15- Targets included Nurnberg tank Musial, it Zarilla, If mile gap. works, the Daimler-Benz truck fac- W. Cooper, o Stephens, ss Opens Today Kurowski, 3b McQuinn, lb Unity of Allies Along the Siegfried Line, the tory at Gaggenau and a big Luft- Litwhiler. If Laabs, rf Germans were fighting bitterly. waffe base at Giebeistadt. Verban, 2b Christman, 3b By Charlie Kiley WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (AP).— Prisoners captured in the initial The American blows followed a Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. Marion, ss Mancuso, c M. Cooper, p Potter American officials are becoming drive said they had been warned moonlight night in which RAF ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.—The third or Kramer, p mildly apprehensive lest there be that if any man retreated he would Mosquitoes went train-busting over war-time . World Series will get Umpires: John "Ziggy" Sears and Tom a general weakening of Allied co- be shot and if a company fell back wide areas in Germany and Hollands under "way here tomorrow afternoon Dunn, NL; Bill McGowan and George every tenth man would be executed. Meanwhile, a strong force of RAF at Sportsman's Park with the St. Pipgras, AL. operation—particularly in relations between Britain and Russia—when Some of the most savage fighting heavies today hammered the sea Louis . Cardinals representing the raged In the town of Rimberger, wall on the west side of Walcheren National^ League for the third the European war concludes. The Polish situation is being studied in just inside the German border east Island, southwest of Rotterdam, fol- straight year and their neighbor- of Groenstraat, where doughboys lowing a warning by Gen. Eisen- hood rivals,' the Browns, carrying Nazis Flying this light. hower for civihans to evacuate. At the moment, the highest aim cleared the enemy room by room American, League hopes for the from a heavily defended moated Huge gaps were torn by 12,000- first time In history. Seized P51s of TJ.S. diplomacy may be described castle, an integral part of the West pound bombs in the isle's diket Although t^flkets were snapped i:p as designed to preserve this unity Wall. Walcheren had been used to harbor almost hefore Ifie ink on them was during the critical period now be- German heavy guns. NINTH Am FORCE HQ, Prance, ginning in which post-war economic Two Previous Breakthroughs dry, the players' pools will be the Oct. 3.—Fighter-bomber pilots fly- Ninth Air Force fighters and me- poorest in recent years because and political policies must be formed Yesterday's breakthrough at diums continued to give close; sup- ing yesterday in support of the throughout Europe. Ubach, 1 1/2 miles across the Ger- Sportsman's Park, fee home of both First US. Army's offensive en- port to the First Army today' and clubs? houses only 34,000 customers. On the shaping of these policies, man frontier south of Geilenkir- it was revealed that more than countered what was believed to be it Is believed, depends the ultimate chen, was the third made in the The . Cardinals will rule as home a jet-propelled Me868 and two Nazi- 2,500 planes participated in yester- team for the first two games and success of whatever world peace West Wall. The previous two were day's curtain-raiser to the Firs* piloted PSts. league may be set up. (Continued en Page 4) the sixth and seventh, if necessary. The jet plane was destroyed In Army breakthrough. * The Bfbwns win bat last, Friday, combat near Minister by l'Lt. Vala- Core of the diplomatic problem Saturday and Sunday. . is regarded as being the mutual sus- more J. Beaudarault, of White Billy^Sdutihwartti, Cardinal mana- Plains, N.Y., who said it had a picions and misunderstandings New Assault Gains Momentum ger, still refused to name his start- tail fin, swept-back wings which cloud dealings between Ing as late a* tonight, but and one nacelle under each wing, Russia and the rest of the world. observers expect , right- with white vapor trails pouring By far the most serious clash of handed ace with a season record out of the jets. Anglo-Russian Interests is in the of 22 victories and seven defeats, At the same time, front-line re- Balkans because of the expansion will dravir the assignment. Ted ports said that Ninth P47s were westward of Soviet influence and Wilks (17-4), Harry Breoheen (16-W attacked by two Mustangs with Britain's concern over the Turkish and Southpaw Max Laaier (17-12) Luftwaffe markings. The P51s ap- Dardanelles—flank of the Empire are likety to follow Cooper as Car- parently were brought down in good lifeline to India. Probably less vital, dinal ^starters. condition in Germany or occupied but more spectacular, is the con- When the Browns were battling territory. The German Mustangs flict over Poland. the Tigers down the stretch to the fired a few bursts and then,broke (Continued on Page i) off the engagement. Maj. Gen. W. H. Brooks Roosevelt and Dewey Giant 9th AF Now All Now Commands V Corps Will Speak This Week Based on Continent FIRST VS. ARMY HQ., Oct. 3. —Maj. Gen. W. H. Brooks has WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Presi- NINTH AF ADV. HQ, France, taken over command of V Corps. dent Roosevelt will make his second Oct. 3 (AP).—All planes of the The former commander of the campaign speech Thursday from Ninth VS. Air Force, world's corps which came in on the Nor- Washington and his Republican largest tactical air force, are mandy beaches D-Day, Maj. Geh. opponent, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, now operating from bases on Leonard T. Gerow, has returned will broadcast Saturday from the Continent, well within range to the States as a witness In the Charleston, W.Va. of Germany, it was revealed to- Pearl Harbor investigation trial. Dewey then will tour the Mid- dayv west; Including Marauders, Havocs, GRANT-HUTTON SPLIT OFF Lightnings, Mustangs, Thunder- HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 3.— Movie ARMY NEEDS CHAPLAINS bolts and Black Widows, the Actor Cary Grant and his wife, Bar- BOSTON, Oct. 3.—Brig. Gen. Wil- moving job for the huge air bara Hutton Grant, dime-store heir- liam R. Arnold, chief of the Army force was probably the biggest ess, have announced their reconcilia- Chaplain Corps, said today there undertaking of its kind in the tion after six weeks' separation. was need for more chaplains of all history of warfare. They said they were leaving town First U.S. Army troops made their third breakthrough in the Sieg- denominations in the Army. for several days. fried Line, capturing the fortress town of Ubach, north of Aachen, Page 2 IHJh. STARS AMD STRIPES Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1944 An Editorial

BLOW IT Wake Up, You Sleeping Fritz OUT HCRt Is it true that an 8th Air Force KP has been awarded The Silver T'S said a picture is worth Spoon with Oatmeal Cluster. • » • I 10,000 words. This one Bad Time=Minus Points "And then," said the GI, explain- may be worth 10,000 lives. It ing baseball to a pretty WREN, Will you have to make up "bad shows a group of German "there is the squeeze play!" time" after Pearl Harbor? How will * • • officers. At their feet a that apply to this present point Today's verse is passed on to you German private sleeps. ■ystem?—Sgt. A. A., Inf. with apologies to Dorothy Parker, (The 107th Article of War says who once wrote those epic lines * * * B.T. has to be made up, and it's our guess that makes for some What a difference be- *ininus pointage."—Ed.) tween officers and men in * * * the German Army!

Infantry Plug for Medics * * * We want to know why the Me- dicos who follow the Infantry in These officers look wor- combat can't get this $10.00 raise ried and thoughtful. The •long with the Infantrymen in this one at the left scowls at the Ilew bill for Expert Infantrymen camera. The medic stares pay? We think they are as well en- titled to it as we are. They go with dreamily into space as if us, they are in as much as we are seeing a vision. Beside him and what do they get? We think it sits an officer with the rue- is our part to bring out the danger of Medicos who go into combat with ful, angry air of a disap- the Infantry. They are doing a "Men seldom make passes at girls pointed but unbeaten man •well job on the lines and we think who wear glasses": And at the right, an officer they should come in on this raise Despite those stories you may hear, shields his face as if to hide as well.—The Boys of Hosp. Ward, Of dolls who must wear glasses, ZO-S-4. The wolves wili give a second leer something from the world. * * * If she's got a well-turned chassis. * * * * • f Paging Littlejohn Several people, including S/Sgt. Meanwhile, the German Leonard Shultz, spotted this gag Borne guys don't write you for in* a British magazine and sent it private sleeps. Meanwhile, the German Sooner or later, the call the right things. Some outfit wants on to us: An Englishman asked private sleeps. will come. "Get moving, mere publicity. All we want is to * * * a smiling Yank, "Wl do all Amer- * * * Fritz. Pick up your gun. tell you about C rations. Guys in icans look so blooming cheerful?" What are these Junker the foxholes think they are swell, If we could change this The Fuehrer is calling." The CI answered, "Well, you see, officers thinking? Of four but we can't understand why they we go back to the United States picture, it might ten Include lemon. We polled one regi- after this war is over. You have to years of power and glory? times 10,000 lives. If only * * * ment of our infantry about lemon stay here." Of sweet-smelling mistresses we could scrap the clever, "Where to, mein Fueh- and five out of all of them use it. * • "* and corona coronas and iced Conversation in a Bistro: "They educated, privileged Junkers rer?" Please tell the chief quarter- champagne? Of the near- master either to put coffee or cocoa say that brunel'-s have sweeter who dream the dreams and * * * In its place or save the money to dispositions than blondes." "Well, ness of total victory? Of scheme the schemes. If only buy War Bonds.—The Foxhole Boys, my 'vife has been both and I can't the little errors that piled we could wake up that "To living space, Fritz. Walt, Charlie and John. see the difference." up into big defeats? Of dumb, obedient clod who To a place in the sun. To P.S.—Put cheese in any type C * • * With "Off Limits" signs becom- the lessons to be remember- rations and you have a meal for sleeps until the next call to Germany's destiny. To rule ing as familiar to GIs in France as a king. ed when they try again? arms. the world." Burma Shave signs back home, Lt. * * * Warren L. Enders reports that T/5 2 GIs—Only 1 Credit Paukstis has come through with a solution as to how the signs get Two GIs are working in the placed to the entrances to towns eame office, the same shop or the same hangar. They work same hours, receive same pay, share same dangers, if there is any danger. . In the ETO same length of time. 6o the guy with the title of "fighter •quadron" gets two or three bronze T T. MARK CORNELL, Air Trans- nell, after a gallant and imnressive "TVEHRTY-EIGHT crew chiefs in stars along with the thing that J port Command PRO from Fra- verbal struggle, politely let the •*■ the "Black Death" Marauder really counts, more points toward mingham, Mass., got pretty hot un- Frenchman settle. Group, of the Ninth Air Force, going back home. der the collar the night Marlene commanded by Col. Gerald E. Wil- We fellows in service groups don't Dietrich arrived in Paris to begin * * liams, of Presque, Me., have been give a damn about the decorations, her tour of the Western Front— Chaplain Daniel J. Murphy awarded the Bronze Star for but we feel we are just as entitled but the reason was rather novel. has joined the ranks of the de- superior aircraft maintenance. In to the points as those birds are!— Blonde Marlene was so glad to be corated clergy attached to the seven months of operations, the Cpl. G. R. Morrow. back in France that die Imme- 90th Infantry Division. For diately took off to visit some of group has seen action in more than heroic action in combat, Mur- * * * her old haunts and Cornell was 50 bombing missions, constituting phy has been awarded the 3rd Rate Burlesque chosen as escort. approximately 7,500 air hours, with- Bronze Star. out any mechanical failures. Today I came from my company, Everything went along fine until, which is up in the lines fighting, In her favorite caf6, the star or- When his battalion attempted * * * back to the regimental rear echelon dered champagne for the 80-odd to bridge a river on a forward on company business. While here, Parisians inside. Then Cornell be- movement, two companies were Add Things-We-Can't-Under- I saw a TJSO show, "Bumpsy Daisy," so rapidly after they fall. Says gan to sweat. Marlene had ordered temporarily pinned down by stand Dept.: W/O A. L. Eirich, one of the lousiest shows. . . re- Paukstis in his Pennsylvania style: the drinks but he was the chosen heavy machine gun fire. The a postal officer in the Fourth minded me very much of a third- •Must be that the last German sol- squire. After a quick look at his situation was so acute that it Armored Division, got a letter rate burlesque show. dier leaving a town is issued the available cash, Cornell began think- was impossible for litter bearers i from his brother in the Air I would like to know... why •Off Limits' sign by his unit supply ing of the champagne In terms of to reach the wounded. The Corps who said he was glad don't we get decent entertainment, and very carefully hangs it on the dirty dishes. chaplain called for volunteers he'd been transferred to another and why the rear units and boys most convenient sign post just as But there was a happy ending. A and organised two litter squads unit. The brother was a life back on the beach see all the USO the Krauts complete their'strategic Frenchman, one of Marlene's old to rescue the men. guard at a WAC swimming 6hows? My unit, in France shortly withdrawal.'" friends, asked for the bill and Cor- pool in Los Vegas, Nev. after D-day, has not seen one * * * * * * show since we landed (USO). Our *TVSGT. Walter Marsh, of Cam- only entertainment was a company Private Breger x bridge, N.Y., and his engineer- A NAZI munition dump and a of Special Service troops that played ing crew lay claim to the fastest bombing record were set re- one show for us, and although it airplane engine change on record. cently when "Beaty's Raiders," a was made up of GIs completely, it In just under five hours they chan- Ninth AF Havoc group, rounded had this USO show so far out- ged the engine of the P47 "You've out its 100th combat mission in classed it was pitiful. Had It." less than four months in the ETO. Having had five years' experience Commanding the group is Lt. CoL The men in Marsh's crew: S/Sgts. In the radio and show business, I Sherman R. Beaty, of Hoquiam, Charles W. Embury Jr., of Willi- «ee the following things wrong: The Wash., who was flying his 51st manserr, Mass., John E. Massie, of •hows are third-rate entertainment; combined Marauder-Havoc mission. they have no direction or manage- Owensboro, Ky.; Leslie D. Stanfield, ment, probably never rehearse, and of Miller, Ark., and Edward J. Ro- they don't get to the front-line gocki, of Detroit. Pvt. Charles V. Krajewski, of troops, even In rest periods. What Littleton, Conn., an infantry- about itl—S/Sgt. Pete Upton, Inf. * * * man with the Second Infantry Silver Stars for gallantry in Division, knows how it feels to THE STARS AND STRIPES action 'were recently awarded have "cold sweat trickle down Printed at the New York Herald 44 officers and enlisted men of his face." Armed with a tommy- Tribune printing establishment, 21 rue Forirthj^AWJpred Division de Berri, Paris, for the U.S. armed the gun, he jumped into a pillbox forces, under auspices of the Special by its cWaasHrSer, Maj. Gen. containing eight Germans. He Services Division, ETOUSA. Not for John S. W5t& pulled the trigger and the gun distribution to civilians. Telephone : Elysees 73-44. The divisfSn, which made jammed. But the Germans sur- Contents passed by the U.S. Army the spectacular dash across rendered, eight in all, just the and Navy censors; subscription, 260 the Brittany Peninsula, has francs per year njm^postage. ETO same. awarded a total of 127 Silver edition entered as tmipA class matter * * * Mar. 15, 1943, at tnlMBst office, New Stars, 247 Bronze Stars, 10 Air York, N.Y., under t6ft act of Mar. 3, Medals, four Bronze Oak Leaf VT. Jack Sauter. of Kimberly, 1818. All material appearing in this publication has been written and clusters to the Air Medal, six P Wis., a Ninth AF man, met edited by member* of the Army and Bronze Oak Leaf clusters to the his sister Marie, a lieutenant in Navy except where stated that a Purple Heart, one Bronze Oak the Army Nurse Corps, for ,the civilian or other outside source is second time overseas recently in being quoted. Leaf cluster to the Silver Star, Vol. 1, No. TO and one Bronze Oak Leaf cluster France. The first reunion oc- to the Bronze Star. curred in England. Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Once Over Lightly Series Opens in St. Louis Today

— By Gene Graff — sluggers who show an aggregate of Cooper to Oppose 48 home runs and 346 runs batted T>ASEBALL fans who don't know in during the season. And there all there is to know about Nelson Potter are also and Whitey jovial , Or Kramer Kurowski to worry about. of the Cardinals, just haven't been On the other hand, the Browns have only one .300 hitter, Mike - paying attention the last few years. (Continued from Page 1) Kreevich, who 'st topped the figure But , who will be whe, Manager Luke Sewell saved with .301. Of course, , masterminding from the opposite (17-13) in case a George McQuinn and Mark Christ- dugout at Sportsman's Park this man rank high in the rur»s-batted- afternoon, is more of an unknown playoff game was necessary and in department, but somebody will factor. named Nelson Potter (19-7) for the have to get on base.before they can For the benefit of those who : first Series game. However, no drive him home. don't remember, Southworth broke i Among the missing will be Kene- playoff game was needec1, so Sewell Into baseball with Portsmouth ol saw M. Landis, 76-year-old high the Ohio State League in 1912 as now Is mentally flipping coins to , who is an and later roamed the decide who should oppose Cooper. i too ill to make the trip from Chi- garden for Toledo, Cleveland, Port- If Kramer takes the mound to- ; cago. The nature of his illness was land, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, morrow, Potter will tw' 1 for the not disclosed and attaches at Chi- Boston (Braves), New York Browns in the second game Thurs- cago's St. Luke's Hospital said he .(Giants), St. Louis (Cards), Ro- day. Denny Galehov.se (9-10) will wasnt registered there although his chester, Columbus and Asheville. toil the third game and Sigmund i residence said he was. IHe played in the World Series of Jakucki (13-9), who pitched Sun- I Landis has appointed Ford Frick, **24 with the Giants and '26 with day's -clinching game president; Will the Cards, and managed Asheville. against the Yankees, will start the Harridge, prexy, Memphis and Rochester before suc- fourth. and Leslie O'Connor, the commis- ceeding Ray Blades at the Cardinal By virtue of their easy romp Mort Cooper helm in 1940. Nelson Potter sioner's secretary, to represent him through the National League field, at the fall classic. They will OEVVKLL, although not as widely the Cardinals have been established tractive odds on future games. the '44 Redbirds nevertheless have supervise the conduct of the games ^ traveled as Southworth, has as 2-1 favorites to win the Series Sewell's pitching corps will have power to burn at the plate. and "determine all questions that been around enough to qualify as and 11-20 to win each game. If the its hands full contending with the In , , may arise except those to which a well-versed student of baseball. Browns win the opener, though, Cardinal fencebusters. Not as for- and , decisions can be deferred until the After 17 games with Columbus in gamblers won't be laying such at- midable as the old Gas House Gang, the Cardinals have four long-ball end of the Series." 1921, Luke jumped to Cleveland and he developed into one of base- ball's better during 12 semesters with the Indians. From Cleveland Signs Boudreau Cleveland Luke migrated to Wash- How They Compare ington, Chicago (White Sox), Brook- lyn, back to Cleveland and then to To New Three-Year Contract Following are the season averages for World Series eligibles St. Louis, where he became man- CARDINALS BROWNS ager in 1941. CLEVELAND, Oct. 3. — , youthful man- BA. HR. RBI. BA. HR. RBI. During his pre-managerial career, .347 12 95 Kreevich 301 5 44 Sewell played in 1,630 games and ager of the Indians who surged to the American League .335 11 69 Zarilla 295 6 44 W. Cooper... .317 13 73 compiled a batting average of .259 batting crown during the final week of the season, has been Stephens 293 20 105 and a fielding mark of .977. In his Sanders .297 12 102 Byrnes 2S3 4 49 .286 2 18 one World Series, with the Sena- signed to a new three-year player-manager contract, club Christman ... .267 6 81 Martin .279 2 4 tors in 1933, Luke batted a puny Clary 265 0 4 President Alva Bradley announced today. , .270 20 87 .176 in five games, but his fielding McQuinn 250 11 71 .269 6 64 from behind the plate was flawless. Boudreau, who replaced Steve O'Neill at the helm in Turner 246 1 13 .264 15 80 Gutteridge...... 245 3 36 A graduate of the University of 1942, had another year to go on | — .257 0 45 Alabama, Sewell was married in Moore 236 6 58 his old pact when Bradley tore up .250 6 39 Laabs 236 5 22 1926. Born at Titus, Ala., 43 years .201 0 5 Chartak 236 1 7 ago, he had two brothers in the the old contract and offered a Tigers Batter Fallon .199 1 7 Hayworth 222 1 26 major leagues: 3oe an "more attractive r Mancuso 205 1 24 With Cleveland and the Yankees, figure." and Tom, an infielder with the The Tribe, af- Stars, 48-14 PITCHERS ter floundering w. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Cubs. 4 .810 Potter 19 7 .731 in the lower re- T>ERHAPS the best testimonial of BROOKLYN, Oct. 3.—The Brook- 16 5 .762 Muncrief 13 8 .619 gions of the Sewell's ability is that professed lyn Tigers of the National Football M. Cooper.... 22 7 .759 JakucKi 13 9 .591 American League routed a team of Service by Marse Joe McCarthy, leader ot Schmidt . 7 3 .700 Kramer 17 13 .567 League pack this All-Stars, 48-14, here last night the dethroned Yankees and one of Donnelly 6 3 .667 Shirley 5 4 .556 year, finally got before 31,000 fans who bought $3,- the foremost judges of talent in the . 17 12 .586 Caster 6 6 .500 started in Sep- 500,000 in War Bonds to witness business. Marse Joe had this to 6 6 .500 Galehouse .... 9 10 .474 tember and just say after his Bombers were set the game. 9 9 .500 Hollingsworth 5 7 .417 failed to pass Sid Luckman, former Chicago back on their pantaloons by Sewell's Hudlin 0 1 .000 the fourth place tutelages: Bears field general now in the Red Sox. Maritime Service, was the whole "Luke did a fine job," McCarthy As usual, the show. He threw 49 passes for the declared. "His judgment was excel- Loo Boudreau terms of the Stars and completed 24 to pick up lent, his handling of pitchers could Grid Experts Lick Wounds, contract were not divulged. How- 276 yards. not have been better andne never ever, Boudreau is believed to have Pug Manders scored two touch- lost his head, although all the been getting $27,000 per year. downs for the Tigers while others But Get Ready for 'Comeback' games were very close. If Sewell At the same time, the Indians an- were turned in by Joe Carter, Ken gets the same pitching he has been nounced the resignation of Fryer, Ray Hare, Don McDonald getting the past two weeks, the NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—Football worry—they'll be back smiling and Del Baker, former pilot of the and Charlie McGibboney. Bill Pas- Cardinals are in for a bitter sur- experts were driven to cover from confident again this week. chal, former Giant star and Na- prise." Tigers. General Manager Roger one end of the country to the Chagrin ran rampant among Peckinpaugh stressed that Baker tional League champion ground With a man like Sewell guiding other last weekend and are still those who picked Navy to beat had resigned of his own free will gainer, and Johnny Edmonds scored the Browns, Southworth and his licking the wounds inflicted by North Carolina Pre-Flight just as and had not been asked to do so. for the servicemen. high riding Cardinals will at least Saturday's upsets. But don't a matter of form. Last Saturday, know they've been in a battle you see, the Middies were headed before the World Series runs its for a perfect season and probably course. GIs Beat a Hasty Retreat—on Gridiron for a national championship but Otto Graham, former Northwest- ern All-American, took care of Help Wanted that in a right smart way. 111 Duke's Southern Conference —AND GIVEN champions were supposed to walk Write your question or problem to all over youthful Pennsylvania, Help Wanted, The Stars and Stripes, However, the Quakers forgot to Paris, France. read the papers Friday night and ripped Duke , apart. 18-7. LOST EEP No. 20340731 taken by mistake (?) J from de Gaulle Park at Cherbourg, THIS WEEK'S Bept. 10. Capt. Andrew J. Poirier. EIOA CAMERA given to wrong soldier CRiPsCsAMES ^ L by mistake at cafe in Fontaine, Sept. 14. Reward. Pvt. Israel Hirsch, 12150081.

FOUND . .„.u av Army. W*M» ILLFOLD belonging to P. J. Clambeau, Syracuse at Columbia. B 32254452. Lt. Richard L. Uhrich. Cornell at Yaie. Dartmouth at Penn. VfrILL the fellows who left Cieir mascot Penn State at Navy. " Churchill with me when they went Sampson Naval at Villanova. to France get in touch with me so that I can return him, as I am 'located here, MIDWEST ^oo? Pvt. Dale Pollock. Purdue at Illinois. Iowa at Ohio State LASSES belonging to Lt. Herbert O. Kansas at Tulsa " Poppe. Lt. Carl Hclmetag Jr. Marquette at Wisconsin. ALLET and papers belonging to Pvt. Michigan at Minnesota. W Cyril M. Wozniak. W/O Tony Vi- Great Lakes at Northwestern. cente. Tulane at Notre Dame. FILM MIXUP Texas A & M at Oklahoma. |-iAPT. Buttke, pilot of P38, contact Sgt. SOUTH >-« Leroy Schueller, c/o Help Wanted: Howard at Alabama the Sgt. received your pictures by mistake. Chapel Hill Naval at Duke. N. Carolina at Georgia Tech, APOs WANTED LSU at Rice. GT. Brown Clonninger, Billls Caldwell, Mississippi at Tennessee S Gastonia, N.C.; Delbert Looker, Chas. SOUTHWEST Hall, Jacksonville, 111.; Lt. Hubert Miller, Arkansas at Texas Christian. Ft. Bragg, N.C.; Sgt. Jeff Bagwell, Jasper, Randolph Field at Texas. Ala.; Pvt. Vernon E. Bickley, Seattle; Southwestern at SMU. Jvt. Albin P. Eckberg, St. Anthony, Idaho; Ollie Vogt (35), Great Lakes Naval back who formerly played for Marquette, starts around right end ^Maj. Richard M. Osgood, S.C.; Ma]. and doesn't stop until he has picked up ten yards as Bluejackets sink Fort Sheridan. Blockers for FAR WEST Straughn D. Kelsey; Lt. Robert Sokol, Vogt are Maj Files (56), ex-TuIsa center, and Harold Duddridge (33), quarterback. Fort Sheridan players California at USC. Sgt. Richard Paley, St. Louis. Mo.; Tracy San Diego Naval at UCLA. Stroupe, Arthur Humble. shown are Carl Dorbin (17), Dick Wesche (31), John Phipps (30) and Ed Watkins (13). Washington at Willamette. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES -- —— Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1944 Patriot Army Some of Us Will Make Up Front With Mauldin U.S. Shortage Inside Warsaw That 1st Face-Lifting CHICAGO, Oct. 3.— Here's Of Cigarettes Is good news for the GIs who won- Gives Up Fight der if their girl friends back home will look the same when Due to Worsen Marshal Stalin's supreme com- they get back: mand admitted yesterday for the According to Dr. G. Alexan- WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—The na- first time since the summer offen- der Ward, the youthful beauty tion's current cigarette shortage sive was launched last June that of American women now lasts may get worse, federal experts in- the Eastern Front had passed into longer than it did a decade ago. dicated today, pointing out that in- a temporary comparative lull, while The average age of an applicant creased purchases by the armed the Polish News Agency reported for face-lifting is 45 or older, forces would make the supply of that Gen. Bor's army inside War- compared with 38 some ten or smokes even shorter in the fourth saw had surrendered to the Ger- 15 years ago. quarter of this year. mans. Better grooming lotions and However, federal officials see no However, some Pol) detach- more attention to exercise and need for tobacco rationing at the ments, repudiating Gen. Bor's deci- diet are helping the girls, Dr. present time. sion, were said to have broken out Ward thinks. The Army and Navy now are tak- of the city and reached the Soviet ing about 15 percent of the coun- lines across the Vistula. try's cigarette production and their Dispatches from Moscow said the purchases are scheduled to go up Red Army was gathering strength Industry Fight s in October, November and Decem- from the Balkans to the Baltic for ber. Too, civilian smoking has * new onslaughts and that the Ger- doubled since 1934. mans were deporting Latvians for Wagelncreases Experts attributed the increased forced labor in the Reich as the use of cigarettes in the last decade Russians pushed toward Riga, the WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—The pre- to the fact that many men have Latvian capital, from north, east shifted to milder tobacco, the fae^ and south. sident of the National Association that many women now smoke, ana of Manufacturers called on the War to war-time nervous strain. Hull Prods Bulgaria Labor Board yesterday to "be fan- DETROIT VOTERS KEYED CP WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Secre- to those who fight, as well as those tary of State Cordell Hull prodded DETROIT, Oct. 3.—Detroit ex* who work for victory," by standing pects a record vote this year, ao» Bulgaria today to speed the with- firm on the "Little Steel" wage drawal of Bulgarian troops from formula. cording to Oakley E. Distin, city Greece and Jugoslavia. director of elections, Registration Asserting that neither a general already has passed the record of "We can't help but notice reports wage increase nor a general price that Bulgaria doesn't seem in any the same date four years ago. increase would be in the public in- Distin predicts a total of 740,000 hurry to get the troops out," he told terest now, Robert M. Gaylord said Syndicate. Inc. a news conference. votes as compared to 722,000 in in a statement prepared for sub- 1940. Bulgaria asked for an armistice mission to the board: "1 lost fifty bucks. I got here safe." Sept. 8, immediately after Russia 'Tt is unfortunate that a decision PLAN ON NAZI PROPERTY. had declared war on her. The Eu- on this issue has been postponed WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — The ropean Advisory Commission is still until this time when circumstances Outfit Without Names Carves Committee on International Eco- working on armistice terms. make it a political football." nomic policy today recommended Gaylord appeared as an industry that the United Nations permit spokesman at hearings the board Some Out on German Hides individual European governments Nelson May Be is conducting on labor's demand to assume trusteeship of industrial that the "little Steel" formula be property confiscated by Germany, scrapped. By John Wilhelm for later redistribution to pre-war Roosevelt Aide Reuter Correspondent. owners. Jackie Cooper Cleared THIRD ARMY HQ, Oct. 3. — The "platoon without WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (AP). — names" crawled stiffly out of the trenches atop Hill 386 GI FRAT HOUSE Donald M. Nelson, who quit his job In Hotel-Party Case after three weeks of mud, chilling rain and withering one- COLUMBIA, Mo., Oct. 3. — The as chairman of the War Production University of Missouri has pur- Board Saturday, appears due for sided fighting which now is credited with saving the whole chased the residence, property and SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 3.— vacant lots adjacent to the campus adoption into President Roosevelt's Jackie Cooper, 22-year-old former bridgehead near Metz. "family of personal aides and These infantrymen, who haven't had much rest since to provide for a post-war housing motion picture star, and three co- of veterans who wish to attend the emissaries," charged with helping to defendants were acquitted today on restore the ravaged economies of July, made a midnight crossing of university. The property was valued charges of contributing to th; de- the Moselle in assault boats when at $150,000. other countries and enlisting them linquency of two teen-aged South as customers for American goods Bend girls. Gain in Drive other units turned back. They after the war. AL SMITH HOLDING OWN Those accused with Cooper were gained the top of Hi41 386, which When Mr. Roosevelt accepted NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—The con- George Bender, 24, of Sheffield, 111., was something like attaching the dition of former Gov. Alfred E. Nelson's resignation from the WPB Paul E. Frederick, of South Bend, For Bologna U.S. artillery school at Fort Ben- he asked him to take a "high post Smith, seriously ill in Rockefeller and Olie Lowery, a waiter at a ning, Ga., for the Boohe had a gun- Institute Hospital, remained un- of major importance," paving the South Bend hotel. The charges Fighting their way against stub- way for "post-war economic co- born resistance and mud up the nery school at the neignboririg city changed today, a family spokes- grew out of a police investigation of of Arry. man said. operation with other nations." It Is a party at a South Bend hotel last main Florence-Bologna road, Fifth generally believed the President Army troops in Italy yesterday cap- The enemy threw shells from 88s July. Cooper and Bender are Naval until the screarning whistle became intends for Nelson to work on his V-12 trainees at the University of tured the crossroads town of Mort- own outside the framework of exist- Notre Dame. ghidore, due south of Bologna. almost a constant moan. He set Siegfried Line ing agencies dealing with foreign East of Monghidore, Fifth Army Hp machine-gun crossfire that trade—the State and Commerce De- men were striking toward Imola, seared the foliage from a wooded partments and the Foreign Eco- Mickey Rooney Woos and bitter fighting Was going on htHside. Then he seat up his in- Broken Anew nomic Administration. around Monte Battaglia and Monte fantry in an insane, old-fashioned And Weds in a Week Capella, heights dominating the upright charge and the "platoon (Continued from Page 1) highway to the town. without names" slaughtered them made at Schneeifei and in the vici- 14th Air Force Pounds BIRMINGHAM, Ala.,Oct 3 (AP). at 25 yards. nity of Stoiberg. Jap Advance in China —Pvt. Mickey Rooney married BEEF COPS A RIBBON Finally the Nazis brought .up six Progress was slowed by continued Betty Jane Rase Saturday after a ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 3.—A gold tanks—five Mark Vs and one Mark bad weather which obscured whirlwind week's courtship. The ribbon for the tiniest flower at II—and these were turned away targets for bombers and artillery, American fighters and bombers film star met Miss Rase, who was with bazooka fire. are continuing to pound Japanese the annual Dahlia and Flower but the Yanks scored a total pen&i picked as Miss Birmingham of 1944, Show here was won by a 280-pound When the besieged men finally trataon of from three to four miles. columns advancing toward the east at a movie preview. It was Rooney's were relieved for a trip to the rear China air bases, a 14th U.S. Air policeman, who exhibited three "Progress is very satisfactory," a second marriage. quarter-inch dahlias. and for their first shower and Force communique reported yes- First Army spokesman said. "We change of clothes in a month, they feel we have definitely broken terday. suddenly acquired their tag of the Eleven towns held by the Japs through the Siegfried Line in the House That Todt Built "platoon without names." The out- vicinity of Ubach." were attacked and six river craft, fit had been so completely pinned some of them troop carriers, were Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's down that they no longer knew troops, attacking after a night-long destroyed and 28 damaged. Air- each other when they met, un- fields at Canton also were raided. bombing assault and a thunderous 4 shaven and mud-caked and with a artillery barrage, slashed through No enemy aircraft were encoun- considerable sprinkling of replace- barbed-wire fields, pillboxes and tered, and only one U.S. plane was ments. lost. bunkers and stormed the inner "I couldn't recognize them, but defenses of Fort Driant, key bastion some of the things they did during guarding Metz. Report Norman Thomas our little time I'll never forget," The First Canadian Array occu- said 1/Lt. Donald Phillips, of Ca- pied Merxem, northern suburb of Plans to Quit Politics dillac, Mich., now acting as execu- Antwerp, after the Germans had tive officer for his company. withdrawn during the aight and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 (AP).— "They're good boys." the British Second Army widened The Los Angeles Examiner said to- There was S/Sgt. Harry Francis, its Dutch salient in a six-mile east- day that Norman Thomas, five who made his men stick to their ward advance to the town of MeileL times a candidate for President on trenches when tanks were only 7S eight miles from the Meuse. the Socialist ticket, would with- yards away. "We've got no posi- draw from politics after the pre- tions whatsoever, but we're sticking sent campaign. to them," Francis is reported to Three More Face Trial "This is my last campaign," the have told his men. In Hitler Bomb Plot c newspaper quoted Thomas as There was Sgt. Walter Jeneki, saying to a Socialist gathering of Zanesville, Ohio, who ran along- here. "At a meeting of the party side another tank and shot rifle LONDON, Oct. 3 (AP).—Three prominent Germans will be tried in Chicago in January I shall grenades at the tread from five formally retire from active politics." yards. for treason, possibly before Himnn All of the men were heroes of a ler's People Court, for alleged com- ENOUGH PILOTS grilling and courageous stand. It plicity in the bomb plot against doesn't seem very spectacular just Hitler, according to reliable in- WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. —Gen. to lay in a foxhole for days that formation from the German border.- Henry H. Arnold, commander of seem an eternity. The three are Count Schwerin, the Army Air Forces, announced editor of Goering's Essener National today that the Army now had suf- But it takes a hero to keep his head down in icy water while an Zeitung; Dr. Gessler, war minister ficient pilots for present combat UJS. Army Signal Corps Photo. needs and that the training period ! entire school of artillery blasts in the Weimar Republic, and Geiu A deafening blast, a mountain of smoke and splattered bits of steel j away and your flanks slowly are Wagner, who is charged with re- for the present class of student and concrete are all that remain after U.S. engineers blast captured pilots would be increased five weeks. | pushed back until only your own fusing to fortify certain sectors of German pillbox on Siegfried Line in Reich. platoon remains on the hill. Bavaria.