New York — PARIS — London All Men on Continent To Get Sleeping Bags THE Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces ' in the European Theater of Operation* Combat Soldiers \New Clothing Vol. 1—No. 105 Friday, JNov. 3, 1944 Get Them First Going to Front By Arthur W. White By G. K. Hodenfield Stars and Stripes > Writer. Stars and Stripes Statt Writer. Every American soldier WITH THE FIRST ARMY on the continent is to be IN GERMANY, Nov. 2.—Its issued a wool sleeping bag, going to be cold in Germany Hodges Opens Quartermaster Corps officials this winter but the Wehr- said yesterday. The bags will macht is going to do most of be complete with a water- the suffering. The Quarter- repellent case, and every man master Corps of the First U.S. should have one by Jan. 15. Army announced today that Front line troops will get clothing and equipment is Drive in West them first. being issued to the front Proportional distribution began by plane and truck at the rate of Wednesday to the First, Third and 225 tons daily. Balkan Battle Scene Lights Up Ninth Armies, and Ninth Air This new issue is not just more Gains 2 Miles; Force units in Army areas. of the same—the frontline Joes are To start with, only 50 percent ot being issued galoshes, new type the men in the Army areas will get sweater combat boots and sleeping Allies Set for sleeping bags, for which each will bags to go with previous issues of turn in one of his three blankets, overcoats, mackinaws, knit caps, KO, Nazis Say according to Capt. D. A. Rose, of gloves and heavy underwear. the QM Supply Division. Newest item of the issue is the The Western- Front ex- But until distribution of the re- sleeping bag. Made of blanket maining 50 percent begins about material it weighs only four and a ploded at Aachen yesterday Nov. 15, combat men without bags half pounds and replaces two of when Lt. Gen. Courtney H. will receive an additional blanket four blankets which frontline sol- Hodges' First U.S. Army so that each will have either two diers usually carry. The bag is smashed forward nearly two blankets and a bag, or four blankets. form-fitting and will fit adequate Distribution to other troops will slit trenches. It has a zipper for miles in a new attack begin when combat men have been ordinary use plus quick release launched from the deepest equipped. mechanism for hurried emergency point the Allies now hold in Weighing approximately four exits. The bag fits into a water- Germany. Meanwhile, the pounds, the sleeping bag and case proof canvas cover. is lighter and warmer than two Already the temperature in Ger- German Forces Radio broad- blankets, and was developed after many has dropped to one degree cast a warning to every German lengthy research in battle areas. above freezing and weather experts soldier that the Allies were ready It can be turned inside out for air- predict days in which the tempera- to deliver the knockout blow to the ing and cleaning. fContinued itPage 4) Reich! The new assault, which the Ger- mans predicted ten days ago, came as the Allies to the north neared A20 Pilot Unhurt Gl-Invented the end of their drive to clear the In 250-Foot Jump Germans out of the approaches to Auto-Carbine Antwerp and as the German 15th SHAEF, Nov. 2 (AP).—1/Lt. Army pulled the last of its re- Charles A. Hunter, Jr., of Blythe- treating columns out of Western ville, Ark., an A20 pilot, fell 250 Tn Production Holland in a heavy fog. feet from his disabled plane 3 Towns Seized with his parachute only partly The U.S. Army cal.-30 carbine, Fighting all day in the gloomy, open and landed unhurt in a equipped with a device enabling it fir forest of Hutgen, about 14 miles tree, Ninth Air Force disclosed to became fully automatic with a southeast of Aachen. First Army today. rate of fire of 900 rounds per infantry captured the towns of Hunter jumped last. The rest minute merely by the twist of a Germeter and Vossenack and a* of the crew, all of whom landed lever, is being turned out by an last reports had broken out of the safely, were: 2/Lt. Lyle N. Prock- army ordnance shop in Belgium. Russian forces driving on Budapest from the south and southeast woods into fairly open country. new, of Exeland, Wis., and Five hundred have been issued Attacking infantry got heavy sup- S/Sgts. Roy R. Grimes, of to combat troops and production have advanced to within 30 miles of the Hungarian capital. Its port from U.S. artillery which cut Lodgepole, Neb., and Carl S. of the new device is expected soon capture would open another gateway into Germany. the forest trees to bits, but close Hart, of Frisco, Tex. to reach 100 a week. air support was not possible, dis- Hedgeraw fighting in Brittany patches said, due to weather con- prompted T/Sgt. Isaac H. Walker, ditions. of Winkle, Ohio, and Sgt. Walter Panic Reported in Budapest To the south, Lt. Gen. George S. New Record G. Wolff, of Folcroft, Pa., to search Patton's Third Army infantry for another fully automatic small threw the Germans out of Abau- arm. As 2 Red Drives Close In court and Letricourt, two small Set As Yanks Although several other designs towns about 14 miles northeast of for the carbine had been suggested, Soviet tank forces closing in on Budapest from the east Nancy, in limited-scale attacks. they didn't get past the experi- Near Vosges Passes Bag 117 Planes mental stage because of compli- and southeast were less than 30 miles from the Hungarian On the southern front, Lt. Gen. cated mechanism. The Wolff- capital last night and panic was reported in the city as A new record for German fighters Walker device merely replaces the Alexander Patch's Seventh U.S. destroyed in the air in a single day safety catch. the tide of battle rolled near. Army edged toward the vital Vosges was established yesterday when U.S. One Russian drive, surging northwestward up the plain Mountain passes. Eighth Air Force fighters shot Smokes Scarce in U.S. between the Tisza and Danube On the North Sea Coast, British down more than 117 Nazi fighters Thanksgiving Nov. 23 Rivers, approached Orkeyn, 24 miles Commandos, who invaded the in great air battles over the Reich, WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Govern- south of Budapest and last major Scheldt estuary island of Walcheren it was officially announced. ment officials said today there is WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (ANS).— barrier before the capital in that early Wednesday, last night were Meanwhile, the Luftwaffe rose in little hope of any marked increase President Roosevelt today pro- direction. The town was within reported to have seized nearly half strength to challenge more than in supplies of popular brand ciga- claimed Nov. 23 as Thanksgiving of Flushing, which is just 100 miles rettes for civilians so long as over- Day, but five states—Florida, Idaho, range of heavy artillery. 1,000 Eighth Air Force heavies A second drive pushed on from across the North Sea from Har- which, with 900 escorting fighters, seas military shipments remain at Nebraska, Texas and Virginia— wich, England. present high levels. plan to observe Nov. 30. the east beyond captured Kecske- attacked German industry and met, southeast of Budapest. Mos- SHAEF said that half the Ger- transportation. cow announced the capture of man guns on Walcheren were put A big synthetic oil plant at Mer- Dunavesce, on the Danube, 35 milas out of action by air attacks. Cana- seburg, deep in central Germany, Jew Flees Nazis in Plane; below Budapest, but it was not dian troops, advancing on the is- was the main target of the Fort- clear which arm of Marshal Rodion land from the east over the Beve- resses and Liberators. The planes land causeway, renewed their also hit railroad yards at Bielefeld Malinovsky's army took it.- If it German Pilot Crash-Lands was seized by the southern forces, bridgehead on Walcheren after been and Rheine and another oil plant forced back early yesterday. in the Ruhr area. it would indicate an advance of At the same time fighter-escorted Escaping from Nazi persecution NINTH AIR FORCE HEAD- more than 50 miles up the river; if by the eastern forces, an advance RAF bombers attacked Homburg, of Jews, a young German airplane QUARTERS, Nov. 2.—A German following up RAF night attacks mechanic, piloting for the first 35 miles west of Kecskemet in 24 3 Towns Taken on Oberhausen, 35 miles north of time, flew a new JU-188" from a Focke-Wolfe 190 airplane, fully hours. Cologne, where Mosquitos dropped Luftwaffe base at Leipzig to crash- armed and fueled and functioning To the south, meanwhile, indica- By 7th Army block-busters through a pall of land safely at a Ninth Air Force normally, was wrecked in an at- tions were seen that the Germans smoke and flame rising from Tues- airfield, it was learned yesterday. tempted landing near an uncom- were ready to write off Jugoslavia as lost as they started to evacuate By Ralph G. Martin day's RAF attack. Mosquitos also The carefully planned escape, pleted U.S. Ninth Air Force flight Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. high staff officers by plane from attacked Berlin for the fifth time r miniscentof Rudolph Hess' strip near Brussels on Sunday ADVANCED 6TH ARMY GROUP in six days. famous flight to England, was night, it was revealed yesterday. Sarajevo, the only airport there still in Nazi hands. HQ., Nov. 2.—U.S. 7th Army troops made without maps or paracfiute. No explanation is available as to On the Arctic front, Stockholm today advanced on a broad front U.S. Casualties Grow Anti-aircraft crews spotted the why the pilot, four years in the reports said the Germans were pull- southeast of Luneville and occupied enemy plane as it circled the field. German air force, attempted the ing out of the whole of northern the towns of Buriville, Hablainville 15,000 in Week One multiple 50-calibre gun crew, landing with a plane that seemed and Azerailles. This gain of several Norway before the advancing Rus- miles put our advance troops within headed by Sgt. William Brown, to be in proper working order. sian troops and Norwegian patriots WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. — The Philadelphia, scored many hits on Anti-aircraft gunners held their three miles of Baccarat, where ar- War Department today reported the bi-motored bomber. fire as the pilot, neither firing his tillery fire has been intense several 417,000 Army casualties through After the plane crash-landed, the guns nor trying to avoid being shot, Kesselring Wounded days. Oct. 31. Navy, Marine and Coast young mechanic climbed out unin- made two low passes at the landing SWISS - ITALIAN FRONTIER, In wooded areas east and south- Guard casualties through Nov. 1 jured, grinned and said he was part strip and dropped eight flares in a Nov. 2 (AP).—Field Marshal Albert east of Housseras, Americans have totalled 70,000. Jewish and had fled Germany to single cluster. The pilot miscal- Kesselring, German commander in captured Luftwaffe ground per- The total of 487,000 represented escape Himmler's threatened in- culated on attempting to land and Italy, was reported today to have sonnel who admitted they were an increase of 15,000 over the total tensification of the anti-semitic his craft flipped over on its back, been wounded in an Allied strafing converted to infantrymen due to a week ago. Nuremberg laws. skidding 150 yards. attack. the lack of planes and fuel. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Friday, Nov. 3, 1944 An Editorial BSKG

our HeRt Unique Claims Department. Five Sign on th guys of a Quartermaster Company rpHIS big Red Cross, all say they are the only unit to stand roll call and go into calisthenics pocked with shell'frag- Aunt Emma's Cook Book while 88s kept them on the ball by keeping their rear-ends close to the ments, is a road sign that, Delicious puddings and hotcakes ground on push-ups. tells you what you're going can be made by grinding up the * * • biscuits from C and K rations.— "What picture is playing to- to find along your way in 274 A. Cole. night?" asked Cpl. Eugene C. de Germany. It's like the * * * . Groff of Lt. Vernon Hanson, spe- familiar metal highway Peanut Democracy markers that tell about Our PX rations include a few sharp curves, soft shoulders cans of peanuts, but an ordinary private can't buy them. He is told and grade crossings. that they are reserved for officers * and the first three graders. It isn't * democratic worth a damn!—Put. R. This Red Cross, you see, IS.., Engr. was painted by the Ger- * * * mans on one of their Bou- host Baggage logne blockhouses. It was A few days after landing in Nor- cial service officer at an Eighth Air put there for what it might mandy our duffle bags contain- Force fighter station. '"Mr. Winkle Goes to War,'" be worth to keep attacking ing many personal articles were fire off the fortification. taken from us and sent to the rear. said Hanson. We are now told that the bags " 'Mr. Winkle Goes to War'played The Boche made it an im- were "confiscated" and the fellows here before, lieutenant," de Groff plement of treachery. In would like to know will we ever remarked. the Boche's book, anything "Yes, but as you know," the be among those who'll share The smile and the profess get our stuffy back. What's the goes. If the trick works, score?—Cpl. J'. Barasso, FA. Bn. lieutenant explained, "this is a long the job of policing Ger- sions of friendliness are war." that Justifies it. Neither (The same as for "Lost Property." • • » many. exactly like the Red Cross Request should be sent by your CO honor nor decency enters Reading that Marlene Dietrich's * * * on the blockhouse—utterly to Effects QM, CZ APO 887.—Ed,) legs are insured for a fancy sum, the deal. For those who haven't false, misleading and poten- * * * Lt. P. J. B. sez he wonders how * * * had intimate business with tially dangerous. Any much she collects when a mosquito soldier who lets himself be He's Not Going Anyplace bites one of the lovely gams. Troops that have fought the Boche, it can't be too We are stationed at a P.O.W.E., • * • the Boche at close quarters often stressed that he is a fooled by them is likely to guarding "Hitler's Children." Our Comment at the Front. "Why don't have to be told this. sly number as well as a lose his life. Infinitely uniform consists of ODs, leggings, do I wish I were in my other shoes? In fact it's an imposition to murderous one. In Germany, worse, he will be betraying Because they are back in Iowa in helmet, belt, rifle and combat packs. point it out to them. But American soldiers are find- the men living and dead Now, can you tell us what the my bedroom." • • » hell the packs are for? (Please, plenty of men who never ing plenty of Germans who who have. fought to van- no remarks from the foxholes. We GI Philosophy: When a guy says have met the Boche in have a ready smile and show quish a n a ti o n without have ducked 88's too, and we know battle are doubtless going to a disposition to be amiable. principles—Germany. what you boys are up against. Good luck to you all.)— Pvt. H. E.

* * * - Rear to Front Three cheers for Pvt. E. Phillip /BERLIN I Malin, who described himself as "1A ' - a 4F" outfit. Hurray, hur- ray, hurray! Nazi Apology it up. Then the two rode about selves before they're commissioned. He has the same thought many "It isn't the stripes I want, it's the 100 yards to the other one. The Commissioning them certainly is no fellows have in the rear echelons. money"—it's the stripes. WITH THE FOURTH INFAN- Jerry then returned to the Amer- gamble." As for myself, I was a medic in a * * * TRY DIVISION, GERMANY, Nov. 2. ican lines with the white flag to general hospital and am now on ■ -* * * Innocents on the Home Front. —German troops, who fired on a escort Golby back safely before my way to the front. I believe I Great Tank Team When his outfit resumed good ole medical jeep, sent a messenger for- returning to his own lines. am doing the right thing and I The 745th Tank Battalion, GI chow after subsisting on K and ward with a white flag of truce and Golby was a tech sergeant on believe there are others who want C rations for quite a while, Pfc D-Day when he landed with libera- erased from the censor's secret to do the same. So don't worry an apology for their action. The Melville Levi notified his wife of note also advised .the Yanks they tion forces. He received a battle- list, has been out of the front you GIs who are already up there. the change. In reply she quipped, field commission and is now a bat- lines only a few days since tt We're all with you!—Pvt. E. G. would be unharmed if they went "I'm glad you're getting real food forward to remove the bodies of talion S-4. hit the beaches on D-Day. again instead of all those alpha- Commanded by Lt. Col. Wal- the casualties and recover their * . * * betic rations." (Which reminds us jeep. lace J. Nichols, of Albany, N.Y., This Does' Hurt! —we're even allergic to alphabet Against the advice of some of his Ducky Weather the battalion trained at Camp I see by a recent S & S that soup now.) T/Sgt. Richard Scandreth, of the Bowie, Texas, in Aug:. 1942. It • * • buddies, who suspected a trick, Lt. "hundreds of dentists are being Lloyd R. Golby, of South Orange, Eighth Infantry Division, dug him- saw action at Caumont, St. ho, freed by the Army" because of a Observation at a beach resort. self a foxhole and rigged a shelter Brecy, Mortain, Mayenne, be* The modern feminine bathing suit N.J, removed his weapons and general letdown in the demand for walked back with the Jerry mes- half over it. It rained during the fore wheeling to help close the falls far short of military specifica- Falaise Gap from the south dental attention. tions—very little cover and even senger. Assuming, of course, that this so- The German helped Golby place near La. Ferte-Mace. Front less concealment. there it clanked on to Chartres, called "freedom" will chiefly affect J. C. W. the first body in the jeep and cover those in the States, I suggest their Paris, Meaux, Soissons, Laon tour of duty be extended to the and into Belgium and now the Continent (or even the S. Pacific) 745th is somewhere in Ger- as replacements and let some of us many. dentists go back to enjoy the free- * * * dom of which you speak. If den- tists are no longer in demand in night. When Scandreth awakened Scrambled Eggs the Army (I question that) why the next morning a family of ducks We don't think we'd have taken not give the ones overseas first was swimming around in the puddle cover either. priority at discharge?—Capt. R. P. that had formed on the shelter half. Pvt. Allen G. Smith, of Wahalla, Templin. S.C., was boiling two eggs in a can * * * * * when mortar shells began falling Clerks Please Note in his area. His companions took to Mad and Muddy Armies are much the same We managed to extricate one of the world over. our jeeps from the mire at the "In contradiction to the usual front and headed east to pick up practice, clerks and other mili- parts. On the way we were spat- tary personnel not exposed to tered by passing vehicles and soaked the weather will be equipped by rain. We arrived in Rheims with the least usable items," looking like a Hollywood version a Nasi divisional supply order of a sandhog knocking off for the captured on the Seventh Army day. front reads. An immaculate MP, complete * * * their holes, but Smith kept right with white helmet, white leggings, on preparing his me.-.l. Finally one Imperiously beckoned us with one Battlefield Bars landed so close that its concussion white-gloved hand. His pants were Many Americ i fighting units overturned Smith's can. Only one beautifully pressed, shoes shined. prefer to have men from their own of the eggs was broken and the "Say!" he yapped, "Why don't you ranks replace officer casualties, as soldier continued to cook the other guys wash that jeep before you shown by a random check of bat- one. start out? Whaddaya mean, com- tlefield commissions. One armored * * * ing in here with all that mud?" outfit itt two months has either granted or recommended 48 battle- Nazis' Nemesis Emily Post, please advise.—Mad In less than four months the and Muddy, Engr. L. Pon. Co. field commissions, and battlefield promotions of officers have been on 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion an even greater scale. ■ knocked out 43 German medium THE STARS AND STRIPES Maj. Leslie Wilcox, executive of- tanks, 84 machine-gun nests, Printed at the New York Herald Tribune plant, 21 rue de Berri, Paris, ficer of the veteran 25th Cavalry more than 30 anti-tank guns for the U.S. armed forces under aus- Squadron, points out that "in battle and 54 concrete pillboxes. pices of the Special Service Division, alone men learn the tricks of fight- ETOUSA. Tel.: Editorial, Elysees 73-44. Led by Lt. Col. Maxwell 4- Circulation, Bal. 18-S4. Ext. 20. ing. Sometimes I feel it is unfair Tincher, West Pointer from Contents passed by the U.S. Army to put a brand new officer in a Owatonna, Minn., the outfit and Navy censors. Entered as second veteran's spot." landed in Normandy on D-Day class matter Mar. 15, 1943. at the post office, New York, N.Y., under A colonel, discussing battlefield and smashed its way across the act of Mar. 3, 1878. commissions, put his sentiments France and Belgium into Ger- Vol. 1, No. 105 "Has this fruit been washed?* this way: "Those men prove them- many. Friday, Nov. 3, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 3

Position Is Everything... It's Rough- Pre-Flight MP Newsfeofi/rer On the Home Front Much has teen written about form in various sports. But the least said about the athletes LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2.—Mrs. Tackles pictured here, the better. That fighter, irr ease Isabelle Farnum, 46-year-old wife you don't recognize him in his upside down of William Farnum, the movie actor, is recovering from in- position, is ^champ Joe Louis juries received while attending Bainbridge M a boxing match last night. After Watson Jones had won the California light heavyweight NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—It is high- title by knocking out Fitzy Fitz- ly possible that the only unbeaten patrick, an unidentified spec- service eleven in the country after tator ran down the aisle, leaped Saturday's warfare will be point-a- to the side of the ring, lost his minute Randolph Field, the pride balance—and fell on Mrs. Far- of the southwest. num. The mighty Ramblers today share the unbeaten distinction with Bain- bridge Naval, an eastern power, but victory for the sailors this week Twilight Tear would fall into the upset category. The opposition happens to be North Carolina Fre-Flight, which ranks "Whaf do you think of the foreign situation?' Shows Heels close behind Randolph Field in any Let's, dance.'" league. The Pre-Flighters boast an un- To Devil Diver tarnished slate, although the best they could get against Virginia was BALTIMORE, Nov. 2.—Warren a 13-13 deadlock. That game, inci- Wright's pert young lady of the dentally, which took the gamblers turf, Twilight Tear, virtually clii.ch- by surprise, wasn't played by the ed "horse of the year" honors here Pre-Flight "varsity" because offi- yesterday by galloping to an easy cials had agreed not to use profes- victory over two rivals in the eighth sionals against Virginia. Pimlico Special, a $25,000 winner- With Otto Graham, former North- take-all event. western All-America, setting a The fleet three-year-old filly, merry pace, the Cloudbusters sub- ridden by Doug Dodson, churned dued Navy, 21-14; Duke, 13-6; Jack- the mile and three-sixteenths in sonville Naval, 14-13 and Georgia 1:56.6, one-fifth of a second slower Pre-Flight, 3-0. than the track record set by River- On the other hand, Bainbridge land and matched by Seabiscuit in hasn't encountered any fearsome the famous match race against War competition while racking up five Admiral in 1938. in a row. Playing an all-service Devil Diver, with Eddie Arcaro schedule, the boys in blue have in the saddle, broke first from the thumped Camp Lee, Parris Island barrier, but Twilight Tear took over Marines, Camp Kilmer, Camp Peary in a few strides, led by two lengths and Daniel Field, none of which going past the grandstand the first can be considered a strong club. time, by three in the backstretch, Pete Layden & Co. of Randolph and finished six lengths in front of Field shoot for their sixth straight Devil Diver. H. L. Lunger's Megogo tomorrow when they tackle the trailed Devil Diver to the wire by North Texas Aggies. Last year the ten lengths. Ramblers outlasted the collegians, Twilight Tear, the betting favor- 20-13, but figure to run up a much ite, returned $3.30 to win. There higher score this time. Hawks Thump was no place or show betting. Randolph Field has averaged Once Over Lightly over 45 points per game this year Meade, Atkinson 'Get Hot' in romping over Rice (59-0), Texas By Gene Graff Rangers JAMAICA, N.Y., Nov. 2.—Jockeys (42-6), Southern Methodist (41-0), Stars and Stripes Sports Editor Don Meade and Teddy Atkinson Camp Polk (67-0) and Third AAF HE hawkers, familiar chant, in service on the West Coast and, CHICAGO, Nov. 2.—After play- each scored a triple during yester- (19-0). T "You can't tell the players with- since military authorities frown on ing dull hockey in the first period, day's seven-race Empire-at-Jamaica out a scoreboard," is just so much playing for cash, hence the assum- the Chicago Blackhawks bounced card. Warren Mehrtens broke their Branch Rickey Buys hokum out west this year where ing of names like Smith, Brown, back with six goals in the second spell when he came home first with the American Football League is Jones,etc period to defeat the New York Bold Dan in the sixth. Atkinson Slice of Bums offering a semblance of professional But All-Americans don't torget Rangers, 8-3, before 10,323 fans last swept the first three races. football to the public. It seems how to play just because they adopt night in Chicago Stadium. BROOKLYN, Nov. 2. — Branch there are so many Jones, Smiths new names. If the fans didn't Bucko McDonald dented the net Braves- Sign Bissonette Rickey, president and general man- and Browns in the league, even the blush when they heard the truth, after grabbing a pass from Walt BOSTON, Nov. 2—Del Bissonette, ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and vendors have lost interest in their they certainly should have. Atanas at 7:27 of the first period former Dodger first baseman and two other New Yorkers today pur- work. to give the Rangers a 1-0 lead. But manager of Hartford in the Eastern chased 25 percent of the club from John Q. Public, who claims to that was the only time the Rangers League last year, has been signed Edward McKeever's estate. know all the answers, has been stay- were ahead. as coach of the Boston Braves to Rickey's partners in the trans- ing away from American League Coach Fired, Lude Check beat the New York replace Tom Sheehan, who resigned action were Walter F. O'Malley, a games in droves, complaining that goalie twice in the Hawk scoring yesterday, the Boston front office lawyer, and Andrew J. Schmitz, an the league lacks prestige because spree, while Cling Smith, Billy Mo- revealed. insurance magnate. big-game players are among the Gallery Admits sienko, Pete Horec and Harvey missing. This happens to be far Fraser each added one goal. Earl from the truth, but owners must BROOKLYN, Nov. 2.—Tom Gal- Siebert, Hawk defenseman, drew a Sinkwich Heads Pro Scorers grin and bear it while their bank lery, Brooklyn Tigers' general man- major penalty for fighting with accounts dwindle to defray weekly ager, stopped public conjecture to- Atanas, but returned in time to expenses. Ethics forbid them to day when he flatly admitted that tally Chicago's last two goals. CHICAGO, Nov. 2. — Frankie clarify the situation. Coach Pete Cawthon had been Sinkwich, Detroit Lions backfield fired, after previously saying that star, retained his lead over National a recent league game, the few Football League ground gainers F customers present dozed through Cawthon had resigned. Navy Shifts Wiese "I might just as well let it be this week despite a miserable show- most of the afternoon. When the From Michigan ing against Green Bay last Sunday. game-ending gun awakened them, known that Pete was fired," Gal- lery said. "Furthermore, it was It was thought at that time that they spouted off about "the poor Sinkwich had yielded the lead to caliber of the players." War is hell, done not only with the knowledge ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 2. — and approval of Dan Topping (club Michigan football stock hit the Bill Paschal of the New York they naively agreed, "when we have Giants, but "an audit of the official to watch bums like that get paid owner), but, I might add, at his downward grade today when it was suggestion." revealed that Bob Wiese, captain statistics" gave Sinkwich an extra for trying to play football." 50 yards, according to the league To prove how little grandstand Gallery said he wanted to make and pile-driving fullback, has been it clear that Cawthon was canned ordered to a new post by the Navy. office. experts really know about sports, In five games, Sinkwich has gain- no less than 17 former AU-Amer- because he squawked to newspaper- Before leaving the campus, Wiese named Fullback Don Lund and ed 384 yards, carrying the ball 96 icans had been playing—under as- men about club conditions. times, for an average of four yards sumed names. Most of "the bums Quarterback Joe Ponsetto as co- captains of the Wolverines. per try. Paschal, who has played who don't know how to play" are Soar Lost to Giants in only four games, has covered NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—The New 354 yards in 71 trips for an average Help Wanted York football Giants received a Split Season Dropped of 4.9 yards. severe jolt when it was learned that ATLANTA, Nov. 2.—The Southern Both leaders face comparatively —AND GIVEN Hank Soar, veteran back of eight Association has voted to return to easy opposition Sunday. Sinkwich Write your question or problem to seasons, now in the Army but play- the Shaughnessy playoff system and his mates venture to Pittsburgh Help Wanted, The Stars and Stripes, ing on Sundays, is being trans- next year after two years of playing to tackle the winless Pitt-Cards, Paris, France, ferred and probably will be too far a split season. The league season while the Giants entartain the Bos- ton Yanks at the Pclo Grounds. CAMERA EXCHANGE away to make future games. will open Apr. 27, directors said. Frankie Sinkwich r ANTED: Kodak Bantam f. 4.5, film size 828. Lt. O. Cloughley.. By Courtesy of (Jolted Features. By Al Capp APOs WANTED Li'l Abner PL. Alvin A. Allen, Columbus, Ohio; C Lt. Fred H. Barton, Chelmsford, Mass.; Sgt. Robert Bastress, Williamsport; How- ard Beile, Pittsburgh; Sgt. John Bellamo, Philadelphia; Pvt. James W. Bennett, Day- tona Beach; Pvt. Bruce Blumenthal, Chi- cago; Lt. Robert C. Bonne, Chicago; En- sign Boyan; Capt. Dominick Cervera, Am- sterdam, N.Y.; T/4 Milbourne Christopher, Baltimore; Pvt. Harold E. Cook, Little Rock; T/Sgt. Frank G. Coon; Pvt. Clarence V. Dasch, 35932587; Carmen J. Delgaudio; Pvt. John B. Dunning, Westtown; Melvin Dunton, Dorchester; T/5 Don Ellis, De- troit; S. E. Evans, Hamlin. Tex.; Ptc William Fambro, 34743100; Maxine Farrell. St. Louis; Lt. Steve Fliss, Russellton; Forkner, 0-416956; T/5 Thomas Griffith, Oneida, N.T.; Lt. Robert R. Gritifeld. Scotti Bluff; Fred Grooms, Greenfield, Tenn.; Cpl. James D. Grostiek, 16113444; Capt. Edward Hagerty, Montrose. Cal. rage * THE STAKS AND STRIFES Friday, Nov. 3, 1944

News from Home Flying Newsboys 'Kiddy Car* Railway Havocs Leave Havoc in Pacific Gas Flowing Takes Crew to Field Army Reveals A NINTH AF MUSTANG BASE, PRANCE.—They call it From Longest the •'Impromptu Express" and Strong Effect it runs on schedule—anybody's schedule. It's a mile and a half Pipe in World railway with tracks of the "kid- Of Leaflets dy car" gauge, currently being NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (UP).—The used to make one squadron of WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (ANS).— Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co. the Ninth's Pioneer P51 Mus- Fifty million leaflets dropped in has begun delivery of Texas natural tang fighter group mobile on the France, Belgium and Holland since gas to Pittsburgh through the long- ground. D-Day to persuade German troops est 24-inch pipeline in the world. Men of the armament and Iz will feed the Pittsburgh, Youngs- engineering sections, directed by to surrender and to encourage town and Cleveland industrial areas. 1/Lt. James B. Castonguay, of people of occupied countries have The pipeline traverses seven Washington, D.C., and M/Sgt. been highly effective, the War De- states. It is 1.265 miles long and Carlton A.' Dearman, of Hous- partment revealed yesterday. cost $44,000,000. The first weld in ton, Tex., relaid the twisted Between 40 and 75 per cent of the pipe was made Jan. 10, 1944, trackage, repaired the miniature captured German prisoners pos- and the final weld was made Oc- locomotive and discovered the sessed copies of leaflets and some tober 30. goods wagon made an excellent were quoted as saying they had The line was "packed" with gas bomb carriage. Squadron mem- affected their decision to surrender. at a pressure of 800 pounds per bers pitched their tents near the The leaflets were dropped by Far-ranging U.S. square inch as the construction pro- "yards" and the "Impromptu Ex- "flying newsboys" of the Ninth warplanes in the ceeded, so that gas was delivered press" carries them to their air- Bombardment Division of the Ninth Pacific wrecked from the line almost immediately field in Brittany in a jiffy when Air Force. The division dropped the Japanese after the final tie was made, sav- there's an alert. Crew members 4.400,000 in one day while conduct- landing barge ing two bombing missions. ing the six days which would have are Sgt. Herbert W. Engleman, above at Peleliu, of Cliffside Park, N.J. • Cpl. Eli Special "bombs." cardboard cylin- been required for the gas to travel where Marines through the line from its starting Mihalovich, of Pitcairn, Pa., and drical containers, are used. Each point. Pfc Francis Varcira, of Spring- carries as many as 80,000 leaflets. who boarded the field, Mass. A fuse bursts the container at an -a*t found all Shell Kills Schoolboy altitude determined by barometric the crew '-illcd. pressure. The leaflets are prepared A m e r n DETROIT. Nov. 2 (ANS). — A by the Psychological Warfare Divi- 37mm shell, souvenir of World War 'Phantom Gun' planes also sion of Allied Headquarters. fired enemy oil 1, exploded in Tappan intermediate Gives Up Ghost Frequently the Nazis learn of im- school today, killing Victor Hall, portant events from the leaflets. stores on rJeram 12, who was carrying it to class to Under U.S. Attack Last July 23, German troops were in the Nether- illustrate a public speaking assign- showered with reports of the at- ••-E. Indies, ment. Although the corridor was tempt to kill Hitler. In August, at right. Havoc crowded. Victor alone was struck SHAEF, Nov. 2 (AP) — Gen. leaflets reported that the Russians ch delivered by the fragments. Patton's artillerymen have knocked were fighting on German soil in attack (circle) out one of the giant German East Prussia. Hies through the Free Lots for Vets "ghost gun .'' of Metz, it was dis- Captured enemy documents indi- dense smoke ST. PETERSBURG, Pla., Nov. 2 closed today, and they did the job cate the seriousness with which the (ANS).—The city council has voted with the Germans' own artillery— German command views the leaf- after bombs to give free lots to returning war captured 88s and 105s. lets. landed squarely veterans who guarantee to build However, the Germans have an- ?n the target. homes on them as soon as materials other known to be firing into the are available. The city has 900 lots Nancy area and a few more north which it took in foreclosures. of Metz. New Clothing Lt. Donald R. Lynch, 22, Ninth 'Roosevelt for Dewey' Air Force pilot from Royal Oak, M' Arthur-Chennault Tieup ROOSEVELT, N.Y., Nov. 2 (AP). Mich., aerial spotter for the job, Goes to Front —This Long Island village has a said the guns, taken out of the Ma- big sign: "Roosevelt is for Dewey." ginot Line positions in the Third (Continued from Page 1) In Shuttle Attacks Planned A Republican stronghold, it was Army sector, pumpeO 140 rounds ture will drop to five below zero named for Theodore Roosevelt. squarely into a repair shed in the with snow up to six inches. No- Metz railroad yard where the big vember and December, they say, While Gen. MacArthur's liberation forces made further No Fare! 280mm German railway gun had each will have about 17 days of progress in the Philippines yesterday, Maj. Gen. Claire L. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 2 (ANS). been hidden. Later it was learned rain and fog, and December and Chennault said he looked forward to overlapping his 14th —Mayor John W. Kapp has ordered that the gun had been completely January temperatures will average taxi drivers to quit giving free rides destroyed. 36 to 38 degrees respectively. Air Force with MacArthur's warplanes in the near future on to their girl friends so paying cus- Allied planes had been search- All new clothing and equipment shuttle-bombing missions. tomers will get better service. One ing for days for the wandering Big is distributed first to combat troops Chennault said it should be pos- cabbie got so miffed he quit. Bertha. —infantrymen, cavalrymen, tankers, Gallantry Marks sible soon for his planes in China artillerymen and tank destroyers. 26th Division's to use MacArthur's new bases on High Frequency in Kitchen Priority is divided among these Leyte and Samar Islands in the groups for various items. For in- Philippines after bombing targets stance the doughfoot gets the first Baptism of Fire en route, while MacArthur's planes crack at sleeping bags and the from the Philippines could reach Sole EM Radar Observer tanker is first to get sweaters. The WITH 26TH INFANTRY DIVI- China. sweaters, incidentally, are a new- SION, Nov. 2—Men of the 26th Close in on Carigara "Yankee" division, although in the type pullover with sleeves and three U.S. troops on Leyte closed in on Tunes in on KP Too Often buttons at the throat. A new-type line a comparatively short time, have already begun to have their Carigara, whose fall would open woolen sock also is being issued the coastal road to the town of with a cushion sole consisting of battle "experiences." By Joe Fleming at replacement depot dirt details S/Sgt. Robert Baird, of Somer- Pinaopoan and close the last enemy Stars aoo Stripes Stall Writer. double-thickness wool. and tried to preserve his sanity. ville, Mass., was buried alive in his route across the mountains from A NINTH P61 BASE, Nov. 2.— Even if he had managed to con- foxhole when a German artillery the Japanese reinforcement point The only enlisted radar observer vince some people that he was an Sinatra Speaks for FDR, shell exploded nearby. Other at Ormoc Bay on the southwest on operations in the U.S. Army RO it wouldn't have done much doughboys had to dig for 20 min- coast. Cavalry entered Carigara Air Forces has 16 combat missions good. 'To Hell With Career' utes to release him. T/Sgt. Ray- from the east more than a week chalked up against a background But one day, while he was break- mond C. Nolan, of Attleboro, Mass- ago during a patrol action but had of six months of training and an ing rocks with a sleagehammer—he NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (AP).— got the division's first battlefield to retire. equal time spent in replacement goldbricked off KP that day—he Frank Sinatra, says good govern- commission when he took over Meanwhile Tokyo broadcasters depots, where he tried in vain to heard that a Black Widow squadron ment is more important to him after his platoon commander was decided that the U.S. aircraft convince sceptics that he was both had arrived in Britain, He went than his career. wounded and led the unit through which caused the capital's first an EM and an RO. AWOL from his constructive cons- The idol of the bobby sockers a successful drive. And 1/Lt. Robert alert in the two and a half years truction work and tore around With his application for a com- told a Roosevelt-Truman rally in C. Bridegum, of Hainesport, N.J., since Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle'S mission still kicking around channels camp in search of someone who Madison Square Garden last night: raiders bombed it were reconnais- had information about the P61s. was awarded one of the first Silver with some 30 indorsements, Richard "Some people tell me I may hurt Stars for gallantry during an of- sance planes and not Superfor- L. Heggie Jr. 1 as no c'.ifficul'y in He found a commissioned RO my career by taking sides in a poli- tresses, as they had originally re- who was bound for the outfit, con- fensive patrol in which he led 14 being accepted as a GI, but once tical campaign and I say to them, men 1,000 yards behind the German ported. he leaves his outfit and claims to be vinced him that he was the ETO's to hell with this career—govern- lone EM radar observer and asked lines. an RO all hell breaks loose—with ment is more important." Paris Slayer Nabbed the officer to plead his case with The 26th division, one of the first the East Flat Rock (N.C.) technical to land in France directly from the Dr. Marcel Petiot, alleged "Mur- sergeant on the ' -■ceiving end. the squadron's commander. It was a long shot, but it worked. MONITOR FOR DEWEY States, was released recently as a derer of Paris," was arrested out- Only two months ago Heggie Although he expects that if the BOSTON, Nov. 2 (ANS). —The unit of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's side a subwa. station yesterday in went to a hospital to be treated war lasts long enough he might Christian Science Monitor, in an Third Army. Under direction of the uniform of an FFI captain. He for an eye ulcer. After curing him, wind up as a' flight officer, Heggie editorial today, said it had con- Maj. Gen. Willard S. Paul it con- maintained he was innocent and the hospital sent him to a replace- right now is bucking for master cluded that "the election of Gov. ducted a successful line-straighten- said he had no idea how the re- ment depot. An infantry replace- sergeant. But the T/O doesn't call Thomas E. Dewey would better ing offensive almost immediately mains of bodies allegedly 'ound in his laboratory could have got there. ment depot. They gave him a for another master sergeant. serve the welfare of the U.S." after coming into the line. rifle. Then his own violent protests Terry And The Pirates By Courtesy ot News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff and a letter from his commanding officer got him back into the air forces almost immediately. But it wasn't always that simple. In July, 1943, he broke his leg. •While he was in the hospital his outfit moved to Italy. He didn't see another outfit or a plane or much of anything except replace- ment depot KP for almost a year. His troubles really began while he was in the hospital. At that time ROs—who like the first air force bombardiers were enlisted men, we^e being commissioned. Being away from his outfit Heggie was overlooked. So he took his very regular turn