Metz Falling to 3Rd Army — First Pictures O F Doughs Inside Toppling Nazi Bastion French Rip Into Belfort

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Vol. 1—No. 120 lFr. New York—PARIS — London lFr. Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1944 Metz Falling to 3rd Army — First Pictures o f Doughs Inside Toppling Nazi Bastion French Rip Into Belfort

The mighty fortress city of Metz was falling last night to U.S. Third Army infantry, while in the south the reborn French Army reached the Rhine after smashing 30 miles in two days through the Bel- fort gap and into the fortified bastion of Belfort itself. All organized resistance inside Metz ceased last night, but sporadic fighting and sniping continued in Battalion Pulls the city, which is officiaUy consi- dered three-quarters captured, Stars Night Attack; and Stripes Correspondent Earl Mazo reported from the city. Mazo said that E Company of All Men Safe the Fifth Division's Tenth Regi- ment, rounding up Germans on the By Russell Jones outskirts of the city, took General Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. Anton Dunckern, Storm Troop Com- WITH A FIRST U.S ARMY IN- mander of all Lorraine and the FANTRY BATTALION Nov. 20.— Saar. The German commandant of This outft pulled the first night at- the city also was captured, Mazo tack on this front last night and reported. caught the Germans so fast asleep Along the western front from that the battalion moved through Holland to the Swiss frontier, the Siegfried defenses and heavy woods German line was bending before vithout losing a man. the push of six Allied armies. After battering the dug-in Nazis North of Lt. Gen. George Patton's left flank, where Tenth Armored U.S. Arm; Signal Corps photo. for two days, the infantrymen jumped off at 1800 hours last night While the fighting goes on in Metz, the first pictures out of the old fortress city in eastern France show and by midnight advanced 1,000 members of the Fifth Infantry Divi sion as they inched their way into the town. Top left, doughs smash yards. They passed through Ger- Fifth, 95th—and Metz in a front door to clear out enemy stragglers. Another Joe, (top right) looks over a German 20mm. gun mans in concrete pillboxes and blasted to pieces by American 60mm. mortar fire. Infantrymen crouch behind a wall (bottom),where they field fortifications and today they An error in transcription of a were pinned down by German 20mm. gunfire. mopped them up at leisure. cabled story by Staff Writer Col. Robert R. Clark, of St. Joseph, Earl Mazo telling of the taking Mo., battalion commander. His of Metz listed the 95th Division 760 Bombers Nazis Threw All They Had attack was preceded by an assault but failed to mention the Fifth on HUT 287, which dominates the Division in The Stars and Stripes entire ""area and which has been Monday. As Ma?o said in his Hit OHPlants In Path of Fifth and 95th compared to famous Hill 609 in Tu- story, it was the "blood and nisia. guts of the Fifth and 95th Divi- Heavy bomber blows at Nazi fuel Storm Vital Hill sions" that won at Metz. production, halted Armistice Day, By Earl Mazo began again yesterday with a The battalion, led by Lt. Col. Division units neared the German Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. double punch from 160 Eighth Air Leon Rouge, Los Angeles, and border already crossed by the slash- Force Fortresses, smashing with- About the only obstacle the Germans didn't throw into backed by tanks commanded by ing Third Cavalry, Lt. Gen. Court- out loss at the Scholven-Buer syn- the path of the Metz attackers was an ocean, and flood Lt Col. John A. White, stormed the ney H. Hodges' U.S. First Army thetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen, hUl yesterday. units stood astride the Adolph Hit- waters from the Moselle almost produced that. Americans With HUT 287 occupied the can- and 600 Italy-based 15th Air Force pushing into the fortress city had to face rivers, barbed ler Reichsautobahn (super-highway i heavies bombing unspecified oil non company of Capt. Manuell from Aachen to Cologne. plants in Upper Silesia. wire, enemy artillery of every size (including depressed flak Christal. of San Francisco, held the The Stars and JStripes correspon- Many fighters of the 700-plus guns), trees across roads, snow, Germans in position and prevented dent G K. Hodenfield reported escort to the Eighth bomber forma mud, mines, booby traps and any- them from mining the area At from Germany tbat First Arm} tions, which also attacked Munster thing else the Nazi military mind Metz GIs Bag dusk. "B" Company, under Capt. units gained along the entire front rail yards, strafed and bombed could think up. Charles Glotzbach, of Kansas, and infantry moved into the south- objectives in the Coblenz, Wles- moved forward. ern and western edges of Esch- baden, and Bonn areas, USSTAF Several members of the Ger- An SS General Later "A" Company, under 1/Lt. weiler. east of Aachen. announced. Eighteen fighters were man military police were cap- Paul Radlinski, of Newark, came First Army units in this area along the same route. Capt Bernard reported missing. tured on the outskirts of Metz WITH FIFTH DIV. IN METZ, were 25 miles from Cologne. Ele- by elements of the 11th Regi- Barker, Colorado Springs, and "C" ments pushed 1,500 yards early in Nov. 20.—Some Joes of E Company, Company followed. Two Third Bat- Phone Strike in Ohio ment. One of the doughboys Tenth Regiment, Fifth Division, the day in a driving rainstorm and talion companies were also there by COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 20 (ANS). in on the capture said happily, rounding up Germans in the out- crossed the Wurselen-Stolberg — A telephone operators' strike, "We got 'em before they could midnight. railroad five miles east of Aachen. skirts of Metz last night, took a Seventy prisoners were taken and which spread to 26 Ohio towns in put up off limits signs." batch who were cringing behind Southwest of Eschweiler, Hodges three days, will be extended to many Germans killed as the men reached the northern edge of beer barrels in a brewery. Americans spread over the hilL other cities, a union spokesman A doughboy evacuated for trench This morning one of them turned the Propspierwald Forest and in said today, Associated Press re- feet was asked by a doctor, "Did Other Nazis were still in tunnels out to be Gen. Anton Dunckern, and trenches without hope of es- (Continued on Page 4) ported. (Continued on Page 4) Storm Trooper, commander of the cape Lorraine and Saar area and the first SS German of general rank Rhine Reached to be taken since D-Day. New Jeep Can Follow I Yea, tho I walk in the valley... Other doughboys captured Col. By G. K. Hodenfield Constantine Meyer, commandant of Its Driver, Like Horse Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. the city, who was trying to swim G«wdm

Famous last words: "Lend me 500 Keep 'Off Limits' Off francs and you will get the whole thousand back payday." •pARIS is a swell town. We X Marks the Spot speaking only for myself, but • - • • K hope every Joe will for all the rest of the FBI. Shortage Note. Bennie Fields, the have a chance to see it. I concur with most of the sen- Well, I feel a little better now Minstrel Man, sez, "The next time timents expressed under "Does the that I haye blown off a little you're in the dump, try and find a Maybe he will—if he's allow- tire for me." Shoe Fit?" and "Are You a Paro- steam, but I still have a lot left. . • • ed to. chial Xenophobe?" in the Oct. 11 Ill save that for the next boat * * * I miss!— Pvt. J. Welchel, Engr. GI Philosophy. Fun is like life S & S. Possibly the GIs who show (Ann) Bn. insurance—the older you are the Army authorities are extremely bad manners toward the more it costs. * * * • • • making plans to throw the peoples whose land they are in are Signs of the Times. And then city's gates wide open as the minority. . . a most conspicu- Purple Heart Aches there was the man who invented a soon as facilities and opera- | ous lot. I fear the English, French, Not long ago we Medics had oc- crystal eight-ball for people who tions permit. But there's! Belgians, etc., may think that all casion to pick up survivors of a like to look ahead. Americans are that way. truck and jeep accident. One man • • • one guy who won't allow it. j If we could disregard the ques- in the jeep was killed. Two in the Fun on the Home Front. "Din- A joker who, if he has his | tion of manners and morals, there truck were injured. These two men ner's ready, dear," . a Montana way, will shut Paris tighter is still a very serious practical prob- received the Purple Heart. Their woman called to her husband who than King Tut's tomb. lem involved. For our future peace citations read: "For wounds re- the good will of the people of other ceived in action against the enemy." * nations is priceless. With blood What's this, the Civil War? Since and materials we won that good when is the American Army fight- He's the bad boy in every , will as liberators. Bad behavior of ing the American Army? And if outfit. The one stinker in individuals can lose much of that you can get the Purple Heart and the company who gets lik- good will. five points towards home for sprain- kered up and goes crazy as The Parochial Xenophobe, or dis- ing a finger. . .—Pvt. J. O. M. like for foreigners, problem is re- a goat. He's the rotten apple lated to the bad manners problem * * in the barrel, who spoils —both in origin and in effect. Bad Shanghied was repairing the roof. Hubby things for everyone else. | manners are partly a result of We read with interest both responded rapidly. He fell through early training, but both are pro- the roof and ceiling, landing in his * * * moted by lack of understanding of Pvt. Malin's letter and General Gerhardt's, recently printed in regular place at the dining-room Ninety-nine out of every eight-ball can ruin the deal other peoples' ways and why we table. fight. The S & S. ... 100 men coming to Paris for all. In effect, bad manners may cost We have deep admiration for Afterthought. Some pin-up girls right now are strictly on the Unless he's policed up by us the good will of others and the the general's challenge to Al are neat little packages—others are men in 4F outfits. In fact, it ball. They're a credit to his own buddies, he'll tack dislike for foreigners may cause us just barracks bags. did our hearts good to know that their outfits, the Army and an "off limits" sign on the to let petty differences obscure the • * * there are officers over us who Fun in the Forces. A WAC cap- the nation. But the one Eiffel Tower. fundamentals that we have in com- feel as we do. mon—the things which, at a dan- tain stepped into an office to make We would like to see if a phone call. As usual, ttye connec- gerously late date, caused us to join there is a man like the general tions were extremely poor—well, with Britain and the others against in the para troop infantry who Germany and Japan. Had we not you know what we mean. This SOMEWHERE will challenge us! We are in prompted the captain to make allowed the petty differences to so perfect health and have had long confuse us, we might have some colorful comments about our hearts set on the paratroops 'phone service on the Continent. checked the aggressors earlier and ever since we were inducted. easier. At the height of her tirade a meek- EUROPE* We have tried through channels mannered T/5 (male) chided her, Extremely opinionated statements only to get SHANGHIED to our "Careful, ma'am, there are gents Bored ISo Longer ammo, food, medical supplies about our allies are repeated until present outfit. — Pvts. John present." An 80th Division medical officer, and personnel through the they are accepted as proven facts. inundated lowlands. At some Parente, William C. Harris Jr., Capt. Harold L. Fruitman, of San Soldiers who know better should Then there was the woman who points the "tractor navy" had Chas. Striper, QM. Francisco, Calif., was bored with use every opportunity to set things wanted a divorce merely because to navigate shallow water for his job of division sanitation of- straight. * * every time she sat on her husband's more than half-a-mile. ficer, so he took off for the front. An organized attack on the prob- lap he started dictating letters. Commodore of the fleet was When he reached a company CP, lem is needed before men are dis- Film SNAFU • * • . M/Sgt. Edward A. Ernst, of Fruitman heard that one member charged. The effort would have I have never before felt the urge This one comes from Sicily. Sici- Cresco, Iowa, who said that his been less and the results better if to write to a newspaper editor to lians keep a close eye on their of a patrol had. not returned. "skippers" christened their Taking two French volunteers as more had been done earlier.—Pvt. express my pet gripe, but having daughters and a GI calling for a "navy tracks" after their home V. K. B., QM. noticed the quick action that has gal to take to a dance found he stretcher bearers, and 'waving a States. often resulted from such an ex- was expected to escort her mama white flag, he walked toward the * * * pression in your column, I am German lines. He spotted the I'm forced to disagree with your and four aunts a- well. "What's Letdown editorial as to whether or not the prompted to do so in this instance. the big idea?" he asked. His girl wounded soldier, Pfc Charles J. Americans will apparently hate the Early in September the PX ad- friend cooed sweetly, "Americans Thompson, and ten German snipers The mortar men of a Second at the same time. The snipers ap- foreigners. I and many more Amer- vertised that they would develop are trustworthy—five chaperones Inf. Div. company had one unex- icans don't hate the foreigners be- and print films, so I sent them off. are enough." proached him and Fruitman handed pended round left after the division Over a month and a half has elaps- • • • . cause we really feel as human their leader the white flag to hold, took Hill 192 in the "heights west of ed without any reply. I wonder The Infantry is still the Queen beings among the foreigners. They while he attended the wounded sol- St. Lo. They saved that one round whether the fases of my friends of Battle, A GI on ski maneuvers dier. treat us as humans should be through the Normandy break- are regarded as secret weapons in the Rockies, reporting to his CP During the return trip they were treated. They are fair, rational and through, not even firing it in the that cannot be divulged or whether on the walkie-talkie, was surprised pinned down by -artillery fire. Brest campaign. sociable beings, except for Hitler the photographic service simply is to hear a strange voice cut in: and his gang. Fruitman was wounded in the hand. When they entered Belgium they not operating.—Maj. F. S., QMC. "This is a B17 at 5,000 feet calling His brief sortie from sanitation re- took the precious round out and We colored Americans like the its base. Get off the air." (Army Exchange Service states sulted in his gaining the Bronze foreigners and get along with them "This is the infantry at 10,000 Star and the Purple Heart. in every respect. There are no that film is being sent within three feet," retorted the doughboy. "Get quarrels and segregation among us. weeks of its receipt. The work is the hell up where you belong." * * * We work together in harmony as being done by a large commercial • * * Reunion in Hospital comrades should in peace and war. firm here. You sent your film be- Overheard. "She prefers the The stretcher bearers were Let's not create a dislike taste fore these arrangements were made classics—Moonlight Sinatra being about to lift a wounded officer for the foreigners. They are hu- and it must have been sent to Lon- her favorite." onto a hospital cot. "We're mans and as all races have their don for processing.—Ed.) J. C. W.. sorry, but this bed is reserved own customs.—"The De-privileged." for Lt. Letendre," said a sec- * * * ond pair of medics who also rubbed their hands. With great Hu&nr hif SOT.VICK WMERT had a wounded man on a ceremony the sights of the mortar Safety Valve? stretcher. "This is Lt. Leten- were set while onlookers crowded dre," the first pair insisted. I am one of the old FBI guys about. The assistant gunner dropped And then both wounded the shell in and off it went. Every- that spent 29 months overseas Yanks raised their heads to in Iceland, seven in England one strained to hear the ensuing look at each other. They were and two in France. explosion. But no sound came. It brothers—Lts. Milton A. and was a dud. For the second time in the Douglas Letendre. last two months, I have stood * * * back and watched some of my * * * ImPROper Remark? old pals go home. Some didn't Curiosity Saves the Day In the scramble of setting up have as much service overseas A Second Division Company moved as myself, our headquarters says into a German house which had headquarters in a newly-liber- - ated French town, Public Re- that those who are court-mar- just been vacated by another U.S. lations Officer 1/Lt. Bernard tialed since coming to the ETO unit. One of the men noticed a are just out of luck. I was strange object, about eight inches Didinsky, of the 80th Division, court-martialed for speeding in long, five inches in diameter, and managed to be among the first a Gl truck, for which I was tapered like a bazooka shell. to get desk space in a building fined 15 bucks and given one The CO, Capt. Ralph C. Win- and to nail up his shingle on month restriction. Should they stead, of Semora, N.C., figured it the door, "Division PRO." In a hold me back for a little thing couldn't be much of anything or the few minutes a French major like that, which happened al- Yanks who had been living there dashed into the office and re- most a year ago? ■ would have removed it. Out of marked: '"Ah, zee Americans Why should I pay for a crime curiosity, he picked it up and no- are so efficient. Zee town is twice? It wasn't so bad to see ticed that the pin bad been re- scarcely in our hands, and al- the first bunch go, but when moved. Quicker than you can say ready say have zee PRO Sta- the second bunch left, well, ' Purple Heart," he heaved it through tion!" brother, that did it. I am not the door. The blast shook the build- * * * ing, but no one was injured. Bingo—And How! THIl STARS AMD STRIPES * * * Printed at the New York Herald A lengthy teletype message from Tribune plant. 21 rue de Bern. Paris, 90th's 'ISaval Unit' higher headquarters told an air for the O S armed forces under aus- The 90th Division now has a depot group's special service officer pices of the Special Service Division. "Naval Unit." When the Mo- ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYSEES 85-00. to pick up some supplies. A weapons Contents passed oy the O S Army selle River overflowed its banks carrier would be needed to carry and Navy censors. Entered as second and was slowing the crossing the equipment, the message said. class matter Mar 15. 1943. at the of the 90th, the Field Artillery The officer returned from a 160- post office. New York. NY- under launched its fleet. the act of Mar 3. 1878 mile trip with his load—two sets of "We'll have to keep him in the Army—he's no longer lit for They were M5 tractors which Vol. 1, No. 120 dominoes, two packs of playing civilian life." hauled bridging materials, guns, cards and two bingo sets. Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 3 Once Over Lightly Eagles Tip 'Skins; Green Bay Loses —^— By Gene Graff Field Day in the Bastille Sports Editor Baugh & Co. Pack Clinches RITISH drama critics, who B hesitate before lauding even Shakespeare, apparently intend an Suffer Initial Western Flag invasion into the realm of sports. If not an invasion, perhaps it's just SetbacM7-7 a commando raid, bu that doesn't Despite Upset make the target—big, strong, honest WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The bruisers of the wrestling profession NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The —any happier. Philadelphia Eagles, their T-forma- Green Bay Packers clinched the The grunt 'n' groan artists, whose tion clicking with precision, pound- western division title of the National timing in the ring is more precise ed the Washington Redskins, 37-7, | Football League, despite a stunning than a zany Marx Brothers movie, before 35,000 fans here yesterday 24-0 defeat absorbed at the hands suddenly ~re being lambasted by to jump over the Redskins and j the staid British press. Some New York Giants into the National of th- New York iiants before 56,- quarters have g,me so far as to Football League eastern division 481 fans yesterday. campaign for legislation outlawing lead. The Pack was able to back Into the groaners. Tha: would be a The Eagles discovered how to the championship because the Chi- tragedy because there's nothing stop Sammy JBf-ugh and Frank cago Bears, last remaining chal- funnier than a professional wrest- Filchock at the same time, some- lenger, stumbled against the De- ling match. thing no other club has been able troit Lions. By winning, the Giants OWEVER, London papers start- to do all season. After Wilbur moved into a second-pla:e deadlock H ed beating their gums this Moore caught a pass from Filchock with the Washington Redskins in weekend to abolish "all-in" wrest- on the second play of the game and the eastern division. ling, whatever that means. Perhaps raced 35 yards to score, the 'Skins Livingston Sets Pace it means that the spectators get so didn't have a chance. Speedy Steve Van Buren tied Howie Livingston, playing his wrought up they are "all-in" before first pro season, starred for the the evening ends. It certainly the score with a neat 20-yard dash through the right side of the line. 1 Giants, leading the way in plays couldn't pertain to the contestants, that bottled up Don Hutson and unless wrestling has been revamped Roy Zimmerman, who kicked a ' field goal and four extra points, breaking up other Packer threats. since Pearl Harbor. He also scored the first touch- One paper declared, "It is in the then ignited another touchdo'vn drive with a 35-yard toss to Van down, intercepting Irv Comp's pass cards that all-in wrestling, the on the 35 and running to the pay- most fantastic, stupid and non- Buren, after which Mel Bleeker knifed over from the four. off stripe. sporting sport to insult us (the Arnie Herber's long pitch to Just before the intermission, Jack British), will be officially banished Frank Liebel accounted for the ... .It is a degrading and unhealthy Hinkle intercepted Baugh's pass and raced 40 yards to score. Zim- second six-pointer and gave tne form of entertainment." j New Yorkers a 14-0 lead at the So much anti-wrestling propa- merman passed to Don McDonald for another counter in the third half. Ken Strong increased the ganda has been stirred up by cru- Two participants in the obstacle race come out of it with their faces margin early in the third quarter quarter, and Ernie Steele rang the sading factions that the governing j covered with flour in the 31st annual track and field meet at San when he split the uprights with a bell for the fifth time on a 21-yard Quentin Prison. There was no pole vault or cross-country competition. board will convene today to de- junket around end. 15-yard field goal after a long drive bate whether it "would be for the Statistics: had bogged down. national welfare to abolish wrest- Livingston, who tops the league 'SKINS EAGLES ling on Jan. 1." First Downs io 12 in interceptions, snatched another Yards Gained, rushing 21 192 Four Ram 'Blocks' TorontoRallies Green Bay heave just before the rpOE-TWISTING officials in the Passes Attempted 38 10 third period ended and ran it back land of mild and bitter will be Passes Completed 24 6 Still Play Football 32 yards to the Packer eight. Bill chagrined to learn, from no less Yards Gained, passing 26* 114 To Edge Hawks Penalties 90 50 Paschal smashed over in four NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—Four an authority than a London news- thrusts. paper, that "the plain truth is, of Fordham's famed "Seven CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—Rallying for three goals in the second period, the Statistics: .wrestling sets out to attract the Rams Beat Pitt-Cards Blocks of Granite" still are play- GIANTS PACKERS sadist by an exhibition of pseudo- CHICAGO, Nov. 20.—The Cleve- ing football, all in professional Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the First Downs 9 18 barbarism, and the only thing to land Rams climbed into a second ranks. Chicago Blackhawks, 4-3, last night. Yards Gained, rushing 221 131 Ed Franco is with the Boston Babe Pratt led the Leafs with two Passes Attempted 6 34 be pleaded in its favor is that place tie with the Bears and Lions Passes Completed 1 14 everyone knows it's a fake." by trouncing the combined Pitt- Yanks, Alex Wojciechowicz with goals, his first breaking a 2-2 tie Yards Gained, passing 36 152 We'll admit that wrestling and Cards, 33-6, ! ere yesterday before the Detroit Lions, Al Barbartsky in the second period and his last Penalties 67 38 cricket are not in the same league. a slim crowd of 3,000 customers. with the Chicago Bears and clinching the game in the final But you'll have to take it from Led i. y Lou Zontini, former Notre Harry Jacunski with the Green stanza. there. Anglo-American friendship Dame ace, the Rams scored in every Bay Packers. The Hawks took a 2-0 lead on must be preserved. period. Zontini spored one touch- goals by Clint Smith and Earl Sie- Lions Pummel bert in the first period, but Red * * * down himself, set up_two others March Field Wins and booted three conversions. The Hamilton and Lome Carr tied it CHORT SHOTS : Pfc Vincent Utz, SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 20. — in the second. After Pratt's first Champs, 41-21 *P of. Bridgeport, Conn., who re- Pitt-Cards tallied on a pass "from Johnny Grigas to Tony Bova in the Outplayed most of the way, the goal, Bill Mosienko knotted the cently was awarded the Silver Star third quarter. score again a minute later, but DETROIT. Nov. 20. — Flatf oot for gallantry in action on the Con- Fourth AAF Fliers of March Field Statistics: Pratt feinted Goalie Mike Karakas Frankie Sinkwich may be 4F on tinent, is the same fellow who defeated San Diego Naval Training military rosters, but he definitely i. P-C RAMS out of the net for the decisive starred as fullback on the strong First Downs 12 Center, 7-0, here yesterday. The tally. was 1A on the football field yester- 1939 Rutgers eleven. Utz is in a Yards Gained, rushing 90 135 lone touchdown was scored in the day as he paraded the Detroit Lions Passes Attempted 31 12 to a 41-21 triumph over the de- paratroop outfit ... Army classifi- Passes Completed 10 second period when Leo Cantor, Canadiens Top Rangers fending champion Chicago Bears, cation scores again. T/Sgt. Tony Yards Gained, passing 120 196 former UCLA fullback, plunged over NEW YORK, Nov. 20 — The Kramer, of Cincinnati, was a pro-, Penalties 44 79 from the one-yard line. Rangers were hot for two periods handing the bracket crown to the fessional middleweight boxer before last night, but the Montreal Cana- Green Bay Packers. induction. Now hs's baking bread diens got hotter and scored five Sinkwich connected with four touchdown passes, completing seven and cake for GIs in Franco Yanks Stop Tigers Again, 13-6 goals in the last period to beat the 1/Lt. Ralph Kiefer, who was killed New Yorkers, 6-2. Dutch Hiller and of 19 throws for 170 yards. Sid on a bombing mission over Ger- Chuck Scherza scored Ranger goals Luckman of the Bears, meanwhile, BOSTON, Nov. 20.—The Boston hit his target with 11 of 17 for 143 many, was a brother of Adolph, in the first and Maurice Richard the world's backstroke swimming Yankees scored their second victory yards and his club's three touch- of the season at the expense of the got one for the Canadiens in the downs. champion. As a prepster, Ralph second. won the Illinois .state 100-yard Brooklyn Tigers by clubbing the Statistics: free-style event. Flatbush eleven, 13-6, here yester- BEARS LIONS day. Detroit Nips Boston First Downs 19 10 Pug Manders, who scored their DETROIT, Nov. 20.—The Detroit Yards Gained, rushing 147 154 Melville Navy Team Passes Attempted 23 20 lone touchdown performed bril- Red Wings scored three goals in Passes Completed 14 7 liantly all the way for the Tigers, the first period and went on to Yards Gained, passing' 167 170 Repeats Over Holy Cross but his mates were unable to lend nose out the Boston Bruins 4-3. in Penalties 76 25 WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 20. - sufficient help. Bob Davis skirted a game marked by only two penal- The Melville (R.I.) Naval Station his right end for one Yankee touch- ties. Murray Armstrong, Flash Hol- Pro Grid Standings football team defeated Holy Cross down after Augie Lie had pounced lett, Don Grosso and Joe Carveth EASTERN DIVISION for the second time this season, on a fumble in the first period, and scored for the Wings. Bill Jennings, w Pts OP nosing out the Crusaders, 13-12, yes- the winning marker came in the Ken Smith and Armand Gardreault Philadelphia . 5 400 96 terday in a game featured by long scored for the Bruins. New York 5 154 64 fourth period on a 24-yard pass Washington... 5 144 146 touchdown runs from George Cafege to Keith Ran- Boston 2 68 181 spot. Hockey Standings Brooklyn 0 69 145 TIGERS YANKS W L T Pts G OG WESTERN DIVISION First Downs 13 6 Toronto 8 0 16 48 33 W Pts OP Yards Gained, rushing 154 134 ! Montreal 7 0 14 37 42 Green Bay.... 7 403 121 Pug Minders Passes Attempted 18 10 Detroit 5 1 11 41 26 Chicago Bears 4 181 158 Passes Completed 8 6 Boston 2 1 5 29 41 Detroit 4 152 130 Jtfafes Set Him Down Yards Gained, passing 72 87 New York 1 3 5 24 41 Cleveland .... 4 161 172 SUNDAY'S GAMES Penalties ' 45 15 Chicago 1 0 2 32 49 Pitt-Cards .... 0 81 244 Melville Naval 13, Holy Cross 14.' March Field 7, San Diego Naval 0. St. Mary's Pre-Flight 3, Fleet City 0. 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The Stars and Stripes. THOSE EVE. DANCE.TMORRY NIGHT— NIGHT s His Paris, France, APO 887. SKOMKS — THEY'D Al_l_ JUMP OFF rTIME W6 HAVF. EASIER.''.^ SUEV-CIDE CLIFF O' TRAPPIN' LOST HUS&NS r> ILL the officer who picked up our dog NOT A , ""d W "Laday" please return her at once? HAWCS-- We have had her since June and she is CHANCE rr missed by all the members of this Laun- dry Platoon. Ed. S. Killar. ILL the person who drove off with W our Co. Truck No. 4543568 please return the photo in the glove compartment? m Pvt Nicholas Palmier. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1944

Vinson Bars 'Antis' Are Gleeful, Blakeslee Gets U.S. Desk Job Vosges lines Present Rise No Ifs, Ands or Butts After 1 300 Combat Hours Crack Before WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. 9 (ANS). — While smokers be- In U.S. Wages moaned the cigarette scarcity, AN EIGHTH FIGHTER BASE, Patch Advance the Anti-Cigarette Alliance came England, Nov. 20.—After almost along today and said the short- four years of combat flying, in By Ed Clark WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (ANS). Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. age was a fine thir-'-. that it which he has piled up 1,300 com- —Labor's hopes of an immediate ADVANCED 6TH ARMY GROUP general upward revision of the would be better if it were worse bat hours—perhaps more than any and still better if it lasted until other American fighter pilot in the HQ., Nov. 20.—The entire German Little Steel formula limiting wage defense line in the Vosges foothills increases suffered a setback last 1947. ETO—Col. Don J. M. Blakeslee, night when Fred M. Vinson, econo- The Alliance said the shortage against his will, has been ordered appeared crumbling today as the Seventh U.S. Army offensive gained mic stabilization director, called for Is "a golden opportunity for to a desk job in the States. millions of smokers to drop the "We can't afford to go on offer- momentum toward the Rhine after continuation of the present wage a three-day, non-stop "softening" of and price policies. useless, healt --destroying, ex- ing such a valuable target to the in a statement endorsing the pensive cigarette habit." And Germans," air force officials ex- enemy forward positions by Amer- ican medium and fighter-bombers. recent report of William H. Davis, those who do "e—> buy War plained, but the 27-year-old group Bonds /with the money they commander from Fairpoint, Ohio, At the northern end of the front, chairman of the War Labor Board where advance elements were fewer Vinson hinted that any general save." says he can't see it that way. wage increase authorization must "How can they do this to me?" than 40 miles due west of the great Rhineland city of Strasbourg, Ger- wait until Germany is beaten. he said with misty eyes at the thought of leaving the Fourth man resistance was officially termed Davis had reported that the cost "broken" and American troops have of living rose 30 percent between General Warns Fighter Group, which he has commanded since January. taken the important road hub of Jan. 1, 1941, and Sept. 15, 1944, and Blamont, east of Luneville. Vinson said this finding was sup- Of Ammo Lag Vet of 3 Air Forces Rechicourt, five miles north of ported "by the overwhelming weight Blamont, and Badonviller, about of impartial and expert evidence." A veteran of three Allied air the same distance to the south, Labor leaders have challenged WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (ANS). forces—the RCAF, the RAF and the Eighth USAAF, Blakesiee have also fallen to Lt. Gen. these figures as too low, contending —Lt. Geh. Brehon B. Somervell, Col, Don J. M. Blakeslee ' leaves beind him an impressive Alexander M. Patch's forces during that the living cost rise had been Army Service Forces commander, record as a pilot, leader and or- Air Force and became the Fourth the past 24 hours. 44 percent. said in his annual report today that ganizer. After joining the RCAF, Fighter Group's first commander Repel Counter-Attack he went to Britain early in 1941, In January, 1944. Firemen Burn Infected House military goods procurement has The Germans staged a brief been generally successful but warn- flew 200 operational hours with the For the Russian mission he was counter-attack in the vicinity of CINCINNATI, Nov. 20 (ANS).— RAF, commanded one of the famed awarded the DSC, which he wears Rechicourt only to be beaten back Firemen helped burn a five-room ed of shortages of heavy artillery, Eagle squadrons for a while and with the Silver Star and one house in nearby Glendale yesterday. ammunition, trucks, tractors and won recognition for his support of cluster, the DFC and six clusters, as the Americans continued to drive east. Resistance was even lighter The tenant, who is in the hospital, tires. the Dieppe landing in 1942. After the Air Medal and three clusters Dieppe he transferred to the Eighth at Badonviller, where ■ approxim- and four of his children have tu- Deliveries from U.S. industry for and the British DFC. ately 200 of the defending unit berculosis. Dr. E. H. Schoenling. the fiscal year ending June 30, were taken prisoner. Forward county health commissioner, said 1944, he said, totalled $23,500,000,000 elements also caught up with an he obtained permission to have the compared with $20,000,000,000 in Germans Went enemy horse-drawn artillery column building destroyed because "it was 1943. ASF shipped 40,000,000 tons West Front... In full retreat, captured six 150mm so full of germs that burning is of cargo overseas compared with (Continued from Page I) guns and many supply columns and the only way to protect the public." 19,000,000 tons in 1943, while cargo All Outat Metz inflicted heavy losses on the crews. he Glendale will pay * owner $700. and troopships in Army service in- All these enemy withdrawals have creased from 717 to 1,500. the Hurtgen Forest southeast of Aachen they entered Wenau, six (Continued from Page 1) been made in the teeth of cease- GIs to Get Free Turkey With nearly 5,000,000 troops now less pounding from artillery and overseas, Somervell said 70 percent miles from Duren. you have a change of socks along?" NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 20.—Sam assault by tactical bombers, which of all soldiers and 60 percent of North of Hodges' left flank, "I had them," the soldier answered, Teiger announced today that no Ninth Army troops expanded their have been hammering at bridges, cargo supply crossed the Atlantic, "but I've been standing up to n-.y livilians nor Army officers will be bridgehead in Germany, as ar- and rail and highway communi- and 30 and 40 percent, respectively, hips in water for 18 hours and in cations in the German rear as allowed in his restaurant on Thanks- were dispatched to Pacific theaters. mored units slashed eastward. giving Day. But he will serve a Front dispatches said the Ninth that position there is no sense in well as at combat positions on their front. 12.50 turkey dinner free to all en- elements scored a 2,000-yard ad- changing socks." listed men or women who come in, vance and took several hundred In the central sector, where the and has made plans to feed .2.500. prisoners. Seventh Army is farther east in 2 Million Allies Americans who manned the western Europe than any other His 90 employes will donate their On the northern handle of the big guns in the Metz assault, services and no tipping will be Allied crowbar, wedged tightly Allied forces ranged along the Ger- with almost unlimited ammo to man frontier, advances have been allowed. Cross Beaches against the Rhine by the French shoot, kept everything they had in the south and prying relentlessly equally steady although less spec- hot. In one typical operation, tacular. Extend P. Harbor Trial Date While the Germans held every eastward, British Second Army artillery with the Fifth Divi- WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (API.— major French port except Cher- troops repulsed two German coun- sion shot in one day about The Senate Judiciary Committee bourg, the Allies landed more than ter-attacks beyond Geilenkirchen 5,000 rounds. Special Autos Sought today unanimously approved a pro- 2,200,000 men, four million tons of and neared the frontier city of For Handicapped Vets posal to extend for another six stores and more than 450.000 ve- Venlo. While the records show no direct Southward, Seventh U.S. Army months beyond Dec. 7 the ttme, «*• *■« participation in the Metz offensive INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 20 (ANS). within which court martial pro- B. H Ramsay of the British Navy, troops advanced in the Vosges foot- by the 90th and. 80th Divisions, Allied Expeditionary Force Naval hills between the American Third —The American Legion Auxiliary ceedings may be started against these two outfits played star roles Commander, disclosed at SHAEF and the French, The Stars and will attempt to provide training the Army and Navy commanders as blocking backs for the ball car- yesterday. Stripes Correspondent Ed. Clark cars at each of the nation's am- at Pearl Harbor at the time of the riers, the Fifth and 95th Divisions. putation centers to aid crippled The men and material were put said. In the North, the 90th's bridge- Japanese attack. Good Flying Weather veterans overcome handicaps in ashore on invasion beaches as well head across the Moselle at Koenigs- as unloaded at the pre-fabricated driving, Mrs. Charles Gilbert, na- He reported that good flying macher drew off a lot of German Sinatra 'Harmful' floating port of Arromanches and tional president, announced today. weather enabled 12th Tactical Air opposition that otherwise might NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (AP).— four small coastal harbors, he said. Command P-47 Thunderbolts to The cars will be equipped with Frank Sinatra "would doing a Attacks by human torpedoes and have opposed the 95th. South of special appliances. hammer enemy battlelines along Metz, the 80th, by dashing north, public service to parents and explosive motor boats were thrown the entire Seventh front. Fighter- She said the effort would be the children if he would stop singing," against anchorages, Admiral Ram- then east, from the Nancy area, Auxiliary's special project for next bombers shuttled back and forth drew off hordes of Germans who says Dr. Angelo Patri, psychologist say revealed, but less than 0.6 per from dawn to dusk bombing and year and estimated the project and educator. "Hysteria to the cent of the total stores landed over thought that here was the major would cost $22,000. strafing German troops, some of Metz attack. point of swooning is definitely the beaches was lost through enemy which, he said, were moving toward harmful," he explained. action. v When the Germans went to meet Germany. the 80th's threat, elements of the Reds Open New Attack In some places on the Third Fifth caught them in a flank move- Army front resistance slackened. ment between the 80th's sector and In Latvia, Nazis Report The Stars and Stripes correspon- the Moselle River. , Armchair Boys Move Pins dent Jimmy Cannon reported 35th The German news agency re- Division infantrymen hiked five ported yesterday that the Red miles without opposition. Jap Casualties Mount Army had opened a new major But GIs Hurl the Grenades The 12th Battalion of the Fifth attack against the southern flank Division's Second Regiment, rein- To 45,000 on Leyte of the Latvian front where German forced with Sherman tanks of the troops have been virtually hemmed WITH U.S. FIRST ARMY IN- is a medical aid man. He doesn't in The Nazis admitted that the FANTRY TROOPS NEAR ESCH- know a lot about the "big picture" 735th Tank Battalion, was rushing Japanese casualties on Leyte to close the gap outside the city, Island in the Philippines now Russians made "a few minor WEILER, Germany, Nov. 20.—The except that "big pictures" mean breaches" but said they were later armchair strategists can figure this that the war will be over when (1) Mazo reported, when the force ran exceed 45,000 against U.S. casualties smack into a road clogged with of 5,691, Gen. MacArthur's head- closed by counter-attacks. war out just by looking at a map. the Germans give up, or (2) when busloads, truckloads and staff car- quarters announced yesterday. They can say: "I'm no military all the Germans are dead. loads of Germans rushing to get Eight thousand of the enemy ca- Missing Twice, Safe Twice expert, but it's plain as day. All Today he was more interested away. sualties were caused by the sinking DENVER, Colo., NOV. 20 (ANS). we have to do is break through in crawling up to tend the man of a convoy in Ormoc Bay on —In one month Mrs. Loula B. this line here, capture these three whose arm was pierced by a piece 21 Vichy Militia Men Shot Nov. 10. Smith has receive'' telegrams from towns here and then just roll right of shell fragment. Shooting of 21 members of the The Japanese moved up artillery the War Department that her son. over the Germans all the way to Up here you take care of your- Vichy militia in a purge of colla- and tanks in an attempt to break Pvt. Gerald L. Bolen, was missing Berlin." self and the men fighting with you. borationists was reported by Tou- through the U.S. encirclement north in action in France on Sept. 24, That's the easy way to fight a You leave the map-marking and louse radio yesterday. More than of Ormoc. An enemy counter- that he was safe, that he was war. Up here they fight it the the armchair battles to the men 700 alleged collaborators have been attack west of the Ormoc highway missing in action on Oct. 18, and hard way. Up here you think in who have the time for it. interned in the Toulouse area. was repulsed. that he was safe again. terms of pockets of men, of dug-in positions, of mines and booby traps and snipers. Sgt. Tom Walsh, of New York, wasn't thinking particularly today that his outfit was part of a plan. Walsh was worried about that ma- chine-gun position that had been abandoned in the face of a counter- attack. You could see it sitting there pointing its snout toward the German lines, seeming almost im- patient to get back to work again. Pvt. Emeral Dietz, of Detroit, and Pfc Herbert Wheeler, of Whiteman, Mass., were making plans to get that Jerry sniper behind the rock pile. He was causing trouble and he had to be removed. Cpl. Charles Rosen, of Brooklyn,